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Update III: A Day In The Life Of White South Africa (In The Good Old Days)

Africa, Crime, IlanaMercer.com, Race, Racism, Science, South-Africa

The calm, detachment of the voice of a member of the forensic team negates the scene being surveyed: a slaughtered, white South African family, one among many like it. For the edification of racism spotters in the West, in Mandela’s South Africa, the assailants are as ethnically distinct as their victims. (I am waiting on a translation from our Afrikaans readers.)

Regular readers and visitors: Send others to Barely a Blog and to www.IlanaMercer.com (archived under “South Africa”). The blog and the main site are repositories for facts and analysis about what’s underway in the once glorious South Africa.

For our South African readers, this weekend I will post on activism and resistance.

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“War On White South Africa”

APRIL APPEAL: READ IT, heed it.

Update: George, a regular on BAB, asks hereunder:

Ms. Mercer,
Are those committing and condoning these atrocities, as well as those wholly apathetic to the mass serial murders, a purely racial entity crossing all, most, or many tribes? Or is this mainly the result of just the ANC’s strict devotion to the Communist modus operandi?
I’m looking forward to your book on S.A.

What you see unfold in SA is more the former than the latter. Since Westerners, for the most, are without racial hatred and are all racial liberals, they cannot fathom—or defend against—such white, hot hatred. Afrikaners tried, but were sold down the Orange River for their crude attempts.

What stares back at you from these mutilated remains? Racial hatred, of course. The South African Institute for Race Relations, in all its sanctimony, is awaiting “scientific evidence; research” to prove the point. I’m a pretty level-headed rational writer, but sometimes the truth is there in the handiwork of the devils who do the deeds, not in double-blind studies or “well-controlled” surveys.”

(I’ve been drawing on some of their factual work for my own book, but overall, they have been deniers of the racial aspect of Boer murders. That is criminal negligence. Unjust. And worse.)

Update II (April 25): To Myron’s comment on SA gaining acceptance with the Left. The Left and what goes for conservatism in the USA have always backed the barbarism that the New SA entails.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS.Anonymous’ comments have been illuminating (although, please see posting instructions; email must be provided; it stays anon) as he understands Afrikaans. The narration, anon has pointed out, is from July 1986. I should have known that the thorough police work we heard narrated over the visual was suspect as it is no longer likely in the New improved SA.
What we are hearing over the tape is the kind of forensic work you see on TV (CSI), a feature of the Old SA. These old timer policemen have been given the pink slip. The fact that the bodies evince no mutilation—and this is reasonable conjecture, I believed—goes to the fact that punishment was very likely under the old SA, or the regime, as Americans would call it. The murderer/s would have been caught and HUNG (unless an American or Swedish human rights organization intervened on their behalf). That’s a deterrent. The death penalty has been abolished in the New Barbaric South Africa.

Update III (April 26): Thanks to Phil for his translation. He writes:

Here is the translation of the voice on the Video clip. First of all this is an official Police Video. It appears from the background voice that two policemen are present. I do not know who first raised the alarm but suspect that these two arrived after the police who were initially called, handed it over to them. It is an emotionless description of the crime scene, so there are no guesses or opinions offered by them. My Afrikaans is not great, but here goes:

It is a murder scene. In front of you is the body of a white man with a tire on his chest and a bed cover thrown over him. He has multiple stab wounds to the chest. It looks as if this is the spot where he was murdered. According to a doctor it occurred about four hours ago Here we see the face. The stab wounds in his chest can be clearly seen. (Now takes hand) You see the left hand of the man with stab wounds from the attack. The thumb is almost cut off. The right hand shows similar injuries. (camera closes in on torso) There is also a stab wound on the right side of his chest.
(Now moves to following morning!) It is July 03 1986 at 10:20 am This door (a backroom in on the property) was broken open (presumably by the police) at 09:20am where we discover the body of a woman and two schoolchildren. The child is hanging from a rafter. The woman is also hanging from a rafter. Her clothes are disorderly as a result of the attack. You can see that the belt used with her trousers is broken and she is bruised on her side and also badly on her face. (Camera points to thin rope with loop on the floor) This rope was used to strangle them before hanging them up.
The schoolboy has rope between his chin and front bottom teeth, but on closer examination you can see the main part of the rope embedded in his neck.
(Camera turns to schoolbag lying on the floor next to murdered young girl) The school bag suggests that she had just returned from school when this occurred. (Camera now turns on to schoolgirl) The mark that we can see on her neck was caused by the thinner rope. The neck shows the rope bruises.
(The camera now goes to the room occupied by the live in domestic servant. They notice the tie may have belonged to murderer) and the general untidiness of the bed. The woman may have been initially tied up here. (the camera pans the premises and shows the back door close to where the man was murdered and says so)
The camera now goes back to the woman who is being taken out on a mortuary gurney.) The detective shows the short thinner piece of rope used to strangle her, still on her neck, saying the same. (The camera now pans the back area of the house) Here we see the back area of the house. There is a bar and a snooker room there.

And that is it!

It may seem brutal but this is really quite tame compared to what is now going on here now. At this moment, a one year old toddler is lying in the Sunninghill Clinic in a critical state with a fractured skull. She was at home with her minder (also attacked) when they were home during a “House Robbery” Yeah, that’s what it is called and it! It happens all the time. To get an up to date perspective on the current situation visit www.AfricanCrisis.com . The story of the toddler features there. To see the names of the murdered farmers go to the Dutch site www.censorbugbears.com.
It looks like this place is in serious trouble. The problem with a genocide is that people only seem to notice it once it has happened!
Regards,
Phil

Update II: The Carnage Continues; So Does Mandela’s Silence

Africa, Crime, IlanaMercer.com, Journalism, Media, Race, Racism, South-Africa

“Only 70 miles from a 2010 World Cup football stadium, a farmer’s wife and a boy aged 13 learn to defend themselves with lethal weapons. They say thousands of white landowners have been killed by Zimbabwe-style marauders; their black rulers accuse them of belligerence and right-wing tendencies. Aidan Hartley reports on the war of words you won’t read about in your World Cup holiday brochure.”

And only a handful of journalists have been willing to report on the fate of white, rural folks in Mandela’s South Africa. Aidan Hartley of the British Daily Mail joins a select few. Read his report:

“Bella wakes. She hears a strangled, gurgling sound. It’s the dog, she thinks.

‘Peter, there’s something wrong,’ she says to her husband. Noises emerge from the room of her mother-in-law, who’s 98 and confined to a wheelchair.

It’s 1am. Bella gets up and walks out of the bedroom. In the hall she sees a young man who at first she thinks is her son. Except he’s black, wears a balaclava and is pointing a gun at her.

‘He comes for me,’ says Bella, her hand before her tear-stained face.

‘He’s going to shoot me! I trip as I run back to the bedroom. Peter comes to the door but he has nothing in his hand, no pistol. I hear a gun go off. I hear my mother-in-law screaming. I lock the door and telephone my son. I tell him: “I think they shot Pa!”’

Two men are outside the bedroom window with a rifle. She loads the pistol Peter keeps by the bed.

‘I take the gun and say, “Come on! I’ll shoot you!”’

Back in the hall she finds Peter dead, a trail of blood across the kitchen floor. Her mother-in-law Gerda is bruised and beaten.

‘I can’t tell you how hopeless I felt,’ Bella says. ‘I will see it in front of me for weeks, months, years.’ …

Days after Peter is cremated, the attackers return. The survivors are sleeping elsewhere by now, so the gang finds only the dogs in the house. They torture the animals with boiling water before soaking them in petrol and setting them on fire. [A fate that is not reserved for dogs and would have befallen their owners had they been in residence.–IM]

I ask Bella for a motive and she says a group of black South Africans who are squatting on their farmland have repeatedly threatened them.

After the family find the dogs, Bella’s son Piet calls the police. Weeks later the attackers are still at large; police arrested one man in connection with the killing but he was later released.

I am in her home. The bullet holes are still clearly visible. I ask her what she is going to do.

‘If we stay here they will kill us. You can’t say this was a dream, or rewind what happened. They want our land.’ …

…. Driving around Mpumalanga Province, east of Johannesburg, in what used to be the Transvaal, I found myself called by the farmers to a string of grisly murder scenes. In some the blood was still drying on the furniture or the street. In others, witnesses gave me accounts of killings involving rituals of extreme brutality: of victims boiled alive, forced to kneel and shot execution style and tortured in ways so unimaginable they are too horrendous to print. The same goes for the many pictures I have been shown of the barely identifiable corpses and horrific crime scenes.” …

Read the rest of Hartley’s report.

Update: WHAT WOULD GLENN SAY? I wonder what Beck the Boer basher say, in his histrionics, about KK (Kommando Korps) “formed to provide self-defence training for Afrikaner communities who feel under threat in today’s South Africa. Most of them came from the capital, Pretoria, which the government wants to rename Tshwane to reflect its pre-colonial, African history: an example of what the Afrikaners regard as the dilution of their historic identity.” [Boers built the place, so of course it should be renamed for the Bantu.]

Glenn: “OMIGOD, KK is short for KKK.” (As if everything begins and ends with the American perspective.)

And what would Glenn Beck, who sees fascists where there are only desperation and a legitimate quest for separation from evil incarnate, say of “Franz Jooste, who likes to be referred to using the old Boer paramilitary rank of ‘Kommandant”’?

The Telegraph:

“The KK was set up 20 years ago but has struggled to bring in new blood or funding in recent years. It runs training camps across the country to provide a pool of potential combatants if a war is declared against the Afrikaner people. In the meantime, unpaid KK operatives in military-style uniforms defend vulnerable white communities against what they describe as ‘a guerilla war’ and ‘genocide.'”

Before the KK, “Boer farmers were organised into farm militias known as Commandos. These defended rural communities from assault and, just over a century ago, they formed the vanguard of the rebellion against the hated British Empire. … In recent years the government has moved to disband the Commando units as part of a security plan to improve policing nationwide.”

Update II (April 16): About the link provided by our South African readers to images of the killings. I have seen the pictures. In my heart I have hoped hard that what I saw has not been inflicted on humans (or animals) and that these were forgeries (it’s hard to come by sourcing). Sadly, I fear I am wrong. What I have seen in the mangled flesh is the handiwork of pure evil. Again, I have not used these images out of respect for the victims, but also, mainly, becasue they are not sourced. I will allow them on the blog.

Moreover, as readers of this space know, I keep three lead blog posts open at any given time for comment. Of the three that propagate to the IlanaMercer.com’s front page, I will try and make one about South Africa, my homeland and my homies. We will keep the topic alive.

Regular readers and visitors, I hope, will send others to Barely a Blog and to www.IlanaMercer.com (archived under “South Africa”). So that blog and main site become a repository for facts and analysis about what’s underway in the once glorious South Africa.

Update II: The Carnage Continues; So Does Mandela's Silence

Africa, Crime, IlanaMercer.com, Journalism, Media, Race, Racism, South-Africa

“Bella wakes. She hears a strangled, gurgling sound. It’s the dog, she thinks.

‘Peter, there’s something wrong,’ she says to her husband. Noises emerge from the room of her mother-in-law, who’s 98 and confined to a wheelchair.

It’s 1am. Bella gets up and walks out of the bedroom. In the hall she sees a young man who at first she thinks is her son. Except he’s black, wears a balaclava and is pointing a gun at her.

‘He comes for me,’ says Bella, her hand before her tear-stained face.

Two men are outside the bedroom window with a rifle. She loads the pistol Peter keeps by the bed.

‘I take the gun and say, “Come on! I’ll shoot you!”’

Back in the hall she finds Peter dead, a trail of blood across the kitchen floor. Her mother-in-law Gerda is bruised and beaten.

‘I can’t tell you how hopeless I felt,’ Bella says. ‘I will see it in front of me for weeks, months, years.’ …

I ask Bella for a motive and she says a group of black South Africans who are squatting on their farmland have repeatedly threatened them.

After the family find the dogs, Bella’s son Piet calls the police. Weeks later the attackers are still at large; police arrested one man in connection with the killing but he was later released.

I am in her home. The bullet holes are still clearly visible. I ask her what she is going to do.

‘If we stay here they will kill us. You can’t say this was a dream, or rewind what happened. They want our land.’ …

Read the rest of Hartley’s report.

Glenn: “OMIGOD, KK is short for KKK.” (As if everything begins and ends with the American perspective.)

The Telegraph:

Update VI: War On White South Africa (Beck Boer Bashing)

Africa, Crime, Glenn Beck, Media, Propaganda, Race, Racism, South-Africa, The West

The following is an excerpt from my new WND.COM column, “War On White South Africa”:

“Eugene Terre’Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) that seeks the establishment of a homeland for the Afrikaners of South Africa, was alone at his homestead over the Easter period, when two farmhands bludgeoned the sixty-nine-year-old separatist to a pulp with pangas and pipes. Based on hearsay—and their abiding sympathy for savages—news media across the West are insisting that the motive for the murder was a “labor dispute.” …

… The brutality of the racially motivated murders of white farmers in South Africa, and, increasingly, of whites in general, is one aspect of these crimes. Mr. Terre’Blanche was unrecognizable. Two weeks before he was slaughtered, seventeen-year-old Anika Smit was raped, her throat slashed sixteen times and her hands hacked off and removed from the scene.

Both acts of butchery were unremarkable in Mandela’s South Africa.

The dehumanization of the victim—Crimen injuria in South African law—is another feature of these feral acts. When they were finished with him, Terre’Blanche’s killers pulled down the old man’s pants, exposing his privates. Slain white farmers are often displayed like trophies by their black killers.

Mr. Terre’Blanche was a victim of a farm murder, plain and simple.” …

The complete column, now on WND.COM, is “War On White South Africa.”

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Update I (April 9): The malpracticing media I discuss in “War On White South Africa” is discovering (painfully slowly) what the prototypical Black Strongman is all about. Read the Guardian’s “ANC’s Julius Malema lashes out at ‘misbehaving’ BBC journalist.”

Malama “threw a BBC journalist out of a press conference, accusing him of ‘white tendency’ and calling him a ‘bastard,’ ‘bloody agent’ and ‘small boy.'”

The BBC, chief obfuscator on matters South African, is made to eat dirt by a Frankenstein that is of its own creation. The West pushed for raw democracy in South Africa, and is now recoiling in horror at its former proteges and at what they’re, predictably, doing to the place.

Update I (April 10): The Funeral.

To our reader in the Comments Section: I did not see the Nazi salute in the footage I watched of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s funeral. However, I have never claimed the AWB was a savory organization. What I said is that as volatile as Terre’Blanche was, he and his cause (self-determination for whites) had come to appear civilized—civilized and prophetic—as compared to the people of whom he had warned, now running the country.

In the interviews I’ve watched, I saw gleeful black folks in Ventersdorp; and dignified resigned Afrikaners. That’s all I saw.

Now, is the AWB multicultural and non-racial; no. They believed that were South Africa—a country built by Boer and British—to fall into the hands of a black majority, it would go the way of the rest of Africa. That’s why they were separatists. Theirs was not a racial war but a war of self-preservation and survival.

Americans who’ve long since forgotten what it is to fight for their national life—and life—think that such South Africans were having fun fooling around with Nazi-looking insignia. Yes, there is unsavory stuff about the AWB. I did not understand nor sympathize with them back in the day. But I recognize now that the drive behind such an organization was a desperate attempt to forestall black majority rule, as it was believed that should that come to pass, the country they loved would be lost.

Were they right? You tell me.

Update III: I have very little patience for the South African Institute for Race Relations in all its sanctimony. I’ve been drawing on some of their factual work for my own book, but overall, they have been deniers of the racial aspect of Boer murders. That is criminal negligence. Unjust. And worse.

As you can image, the farm murder of a man known to—and hated by—blacks countrywide put them in an awkward position, scrambling to catch up. This is how I see the press release, “South African Institute of Race Relations on the ramifications of the killing of Eugène Terre’Blanche – 6th April 2010,” in which the Institute finally admits that it is quite possible that not “all murders in the country are a function of simple criminal banditry.”

Nevertheless, the SAIRR teases apart some of the dynamics behind the uptick in the ANC’s racial incitement against whites (using barbarian front man, Malema):

the party is acutely aware that its support base of poor black South Africans has begun to turn against it. Violent protest action against the ruling party is now commonplace around the country.
In order to shore up support in the black community the ANC increasingly appears to be seeking to shift the blame for its delivery failures onto the small white ethnic minority, which today comprises well under 10% of the total population of South Africa. Here parallels may be read to the behaviour of Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe when that party realised that its political future was in peril. The ANC Youth League’s recent visit to Zanu-PF which saw it endorse that party’s ruinous polices are pertinent here.

Note: You can incite racial violence all you want in my neck of the woods, or among most white South Africans; murder will not be resorted to. Boer are being killed en masse because there are a lot of blacks who want to kill them.

From hereon in the much-anticipated press release descends into the same liberal clichés and solecisms.

“… a resurgent right wing will be numerous. It is most unlikely that this right wing will take the form of camouflage clad henchmen on horses in shows of force.”

OMIGOD. Would that such a resurgence took such a form; why would putting the fear of God into men with murder on their minds be so bad? How is a show of force from an attacked minority a bad thing when the alternative is to put your faith in a fat, functionally illiterate, corrupt constabulary that roots for Malema?

These people (SAIRR) make me sick.

More useful facts:

• the ANC depends greatly on the tax income paid by white South Africans to balance South Africa’s books.
• it depends entirely on the food produced by a small number of white farmers to feed the country.
• white South Africans still dominate the skills base of the country.
• and most importantly, much white opinion since the early 1990s has been moderate. White South Africa has been willing and often eager to cooperate with the Government in building an open, non-racial, and prosperous South Africa

Update IV (April 11): The British Daily Mail has decided that the raised arms at Terre’Blanche’s funeral are Nazi salutes. Is it so, or is it the interpretation of media that have not bothered to inquire what the raised arm means? I myself do not know. The flag emblem, as explained on the AWB website, isn’t intended as Nazi insignia.

Here’s what we know which belies the stupid, malevolent fixation of a hostile, ignorant media: This tiny minority is being systematically killed off; this tiny minority doesn’t wish to exterminate, a la Nazis, the 38 million blacks surrounding it; all the AWB wants is a place they can call their own, in the country they founded, away from those who want to kill them.

Have I distilled the facts without the fanciful? I think so.

Update V: To geniqu4u, thanks for writing:

• I hope you get my book when it’s out. I compare the number of deaths in detention under 40 years of apartheid with the number of murders in the New South Africa. More people die in ten weeks under Mandela’s SA than died in detention over 40 years of white rule. Ordinary blacks are missing the old SA. That’s how bad it is.
• Africa was immeasurably improved under colonialism; before that it was a morass of tribal internecine warfare of unimaginable cruelty; there were no roads, no infrastructure, education, health care, security. As I’ve written in “Blaming Colonialism Invalid, Even In Academe,” “Colonialism, dependency and racism—all highly politicized constructs—are beginning to be seen as humbugs, untrue and unhelpful, in explaining—and hence, helping—the Third World. What was once ‘conventional wisdom that brooked no dissent,’ in the words of Lawrence E. Harrison, is rarely mentioned today in intellectually respectable quarters. South Africa’s black population’s longevity, education, and numbers were markedly increased under white minority rule. Naturally, to describe reality is not to condone apartheid.”
• I don’t know where you get your data on African farming methods, but not one point you make is factual. South African blacks were never anything but subsistence farmers who had often done untold damage to the land, stripping it via indiscriminate grazing. The Afrikaner has been, in general, a good custodian of the land and the natural environment. There is no commercial, large-scale farmer in the world like the Afrikaners, who’ve turned an arid, impossible-to-farm land into oases with technology, innovation, dedication, and hard work. There isn’t a farmer who loves his live stock more than the Afrikaner. Most of the white-farmed land being seized under the land distribution policies of the ANC and given over to blacks has gone to seed. Beautiful, high tech installations taken from their owners (who feed the country, nay, the continent) and given to blacks have been reduced to rubble. The cruelty to the live stock is beyond belief; cattle dying of thirst, hunger and disease. I tell it in my book.

Dr. Philip Du Toit: “In scenes reminiscent of the 1960s Mau Mau in Kenya, cattle on farms in Kwa Zulu Natal are mutilated and killed for no other purpose than attempting to drive the farmers off their land.” [A selection of pictures from the farm of Mr. Serfie Serfontein, Newcastle, KwaZulu/Natal.]

TimesOnLine: “South Africa’s white-dominated farming unions have greeted the threat of nationalisation with alarm. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, when multi-racial elections were held, 15m acres of farmland have been transferred to black ownership. Much of it is now lying idle, creating no economic benefit for the nation nor its new owners. Last year South Africa became a net importer of food for the first time in its history.

Update VI (April 12): Glenn Beck joined the ignoramus media by referring dramatically to the rise of extremism in South Africa, gleaned at a glance from the so-called Nazi-like salute at the funeral of Eugene Terreblanche. Thus, in order to conclude that the non-violent gathering of people at the funeral was the party deserving of condemnation—Glenn required nothing more than a symbolic gesture from them. Ignorance is bliss.

The insularity of American headline makers is alarming.