Today began the Tour of Spain, one of the three major races of the professional cycling calendar with some Afrikaner participants, something that is rare. They are: Louis Meintjes, Jaco Venter and Jacques Van Rensburg janse and they will represent the South African team – MTN–Qhubeka.
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This news talks about the support of the South African government to the Palestine cause and the call to a boycott against Israel comparing the politics of that state to the old South African Apartheid regime.
We must comment this news because we think this is a big mistake in international politics that South Africa is making. Israel is a democratic and modern state that respects the international law. In the palestinian side, more specifically in Gaza, we have an islamic, anti-semitic and terrorist organization, the Hamas. So when the South African politicians support the Palestinian cause is important to think about this because indirectly it is supporting the Hamas. In this recent conflict the Hamas used hospitals, schools, houses and stores to store weapons and to fire rockets against Israel putting civilians deliberately in danger. They also used palestinians as human-shields. Hamas has received in the past few years millions of dollars from Iran and Qatar. But instead of help the population in Gaza they prefer to buy rockets and to dig tunnels to do terrorist attacks in Israel. Israel was also made mistakes in this conflict with attacks against UN-schools and the quality of life in Gaza is far from good in part also because of the Hamas. However who started this conflict was the terrorist attacks from Hamas and Israel as a sovereign state has the right to defend itself from the attacks to it’s people. So in this conflict Israel has the moral uperhand, with no doubt.
Another important thing to refer is the support given to the Palestinians because of a comparison between the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the Israeli regime that many call Israeli Apartheid. The truth is that there isn’t an Israeli Apartheid. The palestinians have the same rights that the Jews have in contrast to what it happened in Apartheid South Africa. They go to the same restaurants, hospitals , shops, use the same transports etc. There are some limitations in movement but that’s just protective measures because of the high terrorist level that exists there. There are no racial segregation in Israel, the ethnic of many Jews and Palestinians is quite similar and there are Jews of different racial backgrounds that live in harmony in the country. The Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank are govern by elected governments. We are against the settlements in the West Bank but that has nothing to do with Apartheid. Almost since the creation of Israel, the country was target of numerous terrorist attacks by several organizations, Black September, OLP and more recently the Hamas. Hondreds of inocent israelis were kill in these attacks.
Here you can see the fatalities of terrorism in Israel by year:
Note that in every single year Israel suffers fatal terrorist attacks and in many years it also surpasses the 50 victims a year. In no other ocidental country this happen which shows the danger in which the Israeli society lives even with all the protective measures.
So the country is under attack and so has right to defend itself from those attacks as is happening nowadays with the rocket attacks by Hamas.
Some people as the spokesman of EFF, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, the opposition to Israel should also be done because Israel supply weapons to the South African Apartheid regime: ”The apartheid government was killing our people with the armaments it got from Israel,” he says. “It’s very simple.” Unlike Ndlozi say is not that simple. Is true that an alliance between Israel and South Africa happen during the 70’s and the 80’s. However this alliance was more militar and economic than political. South Africa was almost isolated and Israel had difficult relations with many states so by opportunity and not by ideology the two states became allies. The African state that offer more trade opportunities was South Africa. Also Israel had the objective of fighting the communism in Africa and helping the Apartheid regime was an effective way to do that. And a racist organization as the EFF has not the legitimity to do this kind of remarks.
However we think that this critics of South Africa to Israel are not innocent because the South African government are trying to be seen as a guardian of the people that suffers, what they call, the same thing that happened to us and that also improves it’s image in some countries and leftist circles. It is a great hypocrisy because as we know South Africa is a society that discriminates in certain situations who is not black and don’t help them in poverty.
For us there should be an alliance between Boer-Afrikaner organizations and Jewish and Israeli organizations because the two people have much in common. Both suffer persecutions because of their faith, both suffered a genocide, both live in a region where they are outnumbered by other people (Arabs in Middle East, Blacks in Southern Africa) and both have an important religious connection. The experience of the Israelis with the self-determination and the creation of a new state could be important to the creation and development of a future Volkstaat. There are a big Jewish community in South Africa, many of them Boere Jode, and so the majority of Boer-Afrikaners has a good image of israel and the Jewish people which helps further relations.
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At the end of the month of July we received some news that is worth being analyzed here:
The group Boer-Afrikaner Volksraad, announced that it has initiated talks with the South African government with the aim of creating an independent Boer–Afrikaner state.
This is probably the best news that the Boers-Afrikaner had in recent times, however, must be carefully analyzed.
Firstly, this is good news because our assumptions about the self-determination have been heard. How Andries Breytenbach said: ‘“Germans want to be Governed by Germans. Japanese people want to be Governed by Japanese. “We the Boer–Afrikaner people want to be Governed by our people in a democratic way, we have the power to elect someone who represents us and this currently doesn’t happen because the other South African people’s in parliament because they’re more numerous, vote for their parties and take us this ability of political representation.
So, a independent state will solve this problems.
but we must be careful with this news. The question here is: The ANC and its President really have this intention? We think not, President Zuma said recently. ‘‘ You can not create an Orania, you must be part of South Africa and share in what we all share “These words do not deserve comments but tell us that South Rulers Africans are not eager to create an independent state. In fact, who would later create wealth in South Africa without Boer–Afrikaners ?!
We hope this ‘intention’ of the South African government is not to silence us, saying that they are dealing with the matter and this is never going to solve and perpetually delaying our desire of a Free State.
We also do not want the elite of the ANC and the government think they will send to a miniscule piece of land across the Afrikaner population. We have to be careful because their intent may be to put an entire people in a ghetto, as the Nazis were getting into Jews. The state must be big enough and have enough living resources for our people.
South Africa is a big country with enough resources and be sure get a land serving to agriculture and has few natural resources.
Either way it is important that these discussions begin, because there are important issues to discuss the future independent state. For example, where would be located since the Boer–Afrikaners are dispersed everywhere.
Another important discussion is whether this dispersion due to the Afrikaners should do more than one state, potentially smaller but that add more people. This hypothesis has the disadvantage of being worse for coordinating the military and security forces.
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The battle of Blood River was a very important battle that the Voortrekker (pioneers) fought against the Zulu troops led by king Dingane.
In this period the Voortrekkers, ancestors of the Boers, were heading northeast and along the way they found several African tribes. One of those were the Zulu. The Voortrekker leader Piet Retief and the Zulu King Dingane signed a deal for establishment of a Voortrekker settlement in uMgungundlovu where is now KwaZulu Natal. However two days after in a cerimony in Dingane’s royal residence Piet Retief was killed being clubbed to death as well several of his men. After that Dingane ordered an attack to various Voortrekkers encampments at night killing 500 men, women and children. The most famous attack was in Blaukraans, which was named the Weenen massacre. Andries Pretorius was named as sucessor of Piet Retief. Pretorius looked to revenge the death of Retief by killed king Dingane. Pretorius had the collaboration of Prince Mpande and 17000 of his followers because Dingane wanted to kill Mpande. The Voortrekkers came in position in the following days. On 15 December the Trekker wagons crossed the Buffalo River. Pretorius built a fortified ox-Wagon Laager on terrain of his own choosing, in the hope that general Ndela would attack it as at Veglaer. On 16 of December the battle begin. The difference in numbers was enormous. Pretorius counted with 464 soldiers and 200 servents. In comparison the Zulu troops were compous by between 15000 to 21000 men but according to Pretorius scribe and secretary, Jan Gerritze Bantjes, the Zulu warriors were over 30000. The Zulu troops attack first but their charge was mown down by the single-shot Voortrekker muskets. Due to the power of their firearms, their ox-wagons in a laager formation and some brilliant tactics the Voortrekkers fought off the Zulu. After just three hours the Voortrekkers killed over 3000 Zulus and their had just 3 wounded men, with Pretorius being one of them. The Zulu soldiers withdreaw and crossed the river that was now red because of the death Zulu’s soldiers blood. Because of the numerical disproportion many Boer-Afrikaners credit this victory to God and it was a sign that God wanted to Boer-Afrikaners to be independent.
After the battle Prince Mpande joined in an alliance with Pretorius and the Zulu began a civil war. In the Battle of Maqongqe the forces of Mpande helped by the Voortrekkers inflicted a severe defeat to Dingane’s troops. Dingane’s soldiers which were not killed fled from the battlesite leaving Dingane with no army. Mapnde was proclamed the new Zulu king and Dingane was killed after fleeing to Swaziland. The Voortrekkers continued to colaborate with Mpande and they agreed that the Tugela river should be the border between Zululand and the recently-founded Republic of Natalia. However this republic was short-lived because in 1843 the republic was conquered by Britain. Most of the Voortrekkers trekked to North and back to West founding then the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) and the Oranje Vrijstaat. Andries Pretorius helped to found the ZAR (Transvaal) which happen in 1857 by his son Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.
A memorial was built to honour the victory of the Voortrekkers that was decisive to the establishment of the two Boer republics. The Ncome monument is on the other side of the river and honours the Zulu warriors that died in this battle. The Voortrekker monument remembering the history of the Voortrekkers was built in Pretoria in 1949.This day is remember as the Day of the Vow or Geloftedag in afrikaans, a religious public holiday in South Africa, but since the end of Apartheid the name was change to Day of the Reconciliation.
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Afrikaner Way 