printThe excerpt is from my column, “‘Kill The F—–g Whites’ In South Africa—Courtesy of FaceBook,” at VDARE.COM.
“In the ‘New South Africa,’ there is apparently a renewed appreciation for the old slogan ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,’ chanted at political rallies and funerals during “The Struggle” (against apartheid).
Peter Mokaba, a youth leader in the ruling African National Congress party, is credited with originating the catch phrase. Mokaba went on to become a parliamentarian and a deputy minister in the Mandela cabinet.
By the time he expired in 2002 at the age of forty three (rumor has it of AIDS), Mokaba had revived the riff, using it liberally, in defiance of laws against incitement to commit murder. Given the mesmerizing, often murderous, power of the chant—any chant—in African life, many blame Mokaba for the current homicidal onslaught against the country’s white farmers.
Mokaba’s legacy lives on. Late in February of 2010, a senior member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)—a competing socialist, racialist political party whose motto is “Africa for the Africans”—set-up a page on the social networking site Facebook. For all to see were comments such as the following, written by one Ahmed El Saud:
“Kill the f—–g whites now!!!'” …
Read the complete column, “‘Kill The F—–g Whites’ In South Africa—Courtesy of FaceBook” at VDARE.COM.
Update I (April 3): Whatever Eugene Terre’Blanche was he did not do unto anyone what was done to him—and thousands of other Boer farmers like him: beaten with pipes and hacked with machetes at his farm, I presume, this week. The Observer is too slack or dismissive to bother with details or background to Mr. Terre’Blanche’s grisly demise.
The same source concentrates on the Nazi-like emblem of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, or AWB, which Terre’Blanche led, claiming the AWB drew on the ideology of Nazism. I have not studied their cause, but the conclusion to which I’ve arrived in the course of writing my upcoming my book comports with the work of the Afrikaner’s historian of record, Hermann Giliomee. Apartheid was more a strategy for survival than a racial theory. Distractions aside, the AWB for all its blather, believed that with black rule would come all-out savagery, the kind that killed Terre’Blanche and 300,000 other victims since freedom (1994).
Have they been vindicated? You be the judge.
Update II: The indomitable Adriana Stuijt—other than folks at WND and me, she is the only other journalist in the “free world” who has been documenting the carnage—keeps an Alphabetical list of the names of the dead.
Ms. Stuijt quotes Terre’Blanche’s family: “‘My dad sometimes went to sleep on the farm to look after the livestock. We are tremendously shocked. The family suspects that he was murdered by two or more people.'”
Even though the court decided to ban songs that incite racism, the ANC and its supporters think they are above the law.
This is what some supporters had to say regarding this. Take note of the subject line by the ANC admin:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9ZiKFqEd94LYjkyMDM4NGQtNDc2OS00YmQxLTg3MGYtNjFlOTA0MjI1OGY3&hl=en
Dear Ilana,
I spent about 1/2 hour to look for links to provide in my comment. I intended to show the similarities between what happened in Rwanda and what is happening in SA. All of this before I read your complete column in VDARE. Stupid of me, I see you did precisely that, with links. Great research.
All I can add is the following.
Hate against the minority Tutsis were further feulled by lies about their supposed brutality – compare the daily comments about the evils of Apartheid, either as a subject of discussion itself or as a justification of/background to something done or to be done (eg BEE etc).
http://www.idrc.ca/rwandagenocide/ev-108178-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Furthermore the Hutus were still not satisfied more that 30 years after the revolution, because the Tusti minority were still proportionately wealthier – compare Malema’s constant calls that the revolution is not complete, calls for nationalising mines and farms.
When Malema receives negative publicity he demonises one particular group by stating that it is “white boer reporters that are out to get him”.
The liberal media likes to dismiss Malema and his views as being a “fringe case”, not a true reflection of black people’s views. My question to them is the following: when he recently sang “kill the boer, they are rapists” before an audiance of Johannesburg students, why did not one of them get up and walk out or voiced their objection? They are supposed to be the more educated section of society.
Ps: I am not saying we are on the brink of a genocide, but we should be alert to the possibility and be prepared.
The ANC confuses me. They seem to enjoy fanning the flames of hatred and directing it at Afrikaners, and yet there are other times when they seem willing to work with Afrikaner nationalists. I know that the FF+, which promotes Afrikaner ethnonationalism, is in a coalition with the ANC and its chairman is a member of Zuma’s cabinet. Jacob Zuma has also said positive things about Boer culture. Nelson Mandela praised Boer heroes from the Anglo-Boer Wars. Julius Malema made a visit to the Afrikaner enclave of Orania and praised it as a rolemodel community.
And yet they engage in activities like this. I really don’t know what the ANC’s game is. Perhaps they just want to remove Afrikaners from the majority of South Africa and perhaps herd them into townships like Orania?
Further to my comment above.
Recently a white female police officer took the police to court for refusing to promote her. Their refusal was racially motivated (not in line with their affirmative action policies). A court found that the police was racists. Furthermore, a court recently declared singing “kill the boer” as hate speach.
This just as a background.
Now, against this background – the ANC (Gauteng) secretary says that these judgments are the result of “rightwing” abuse of the courts. I ask you, are only certain citizens entitled to enforce constitutional rights?
http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/Politics/1057/b7bfbc32ea60432ea475125535b1b988/31-03-2010-03-23/Right-wing_misuse_sensitive_ANC
On PRAAG it is reported that the secretary said these actions (court cases) were taken “in the name of the Afrikaner/boere”. (unfortunately the link is in Afrikaans)
http://www.praag.co.za/nuus-magazine-402/suider-afrika-magazine-400/7688-regses-misbruik-die-howe-anc.html
These statements by the ANC are in pace with Malema’s demonising of the Afrikaners.
The situation in South Africa is hopeless. It was at the beginning of Black rule and will continue. Why any thinking person would expect a different result is beyond me.
In Germany, things started out with propaganda and private attacks on Jews
(which police did nothing about) and then went into systematic genocide.
Yet, all we heard about continuously from the left during apartheid was how this terrible evil had to be ended. Isn’t it funny how there’s not a peep now. Just like everything else this country foists on others, they pat themselves on the back and never look back at the wreckage they’ve left behind. I can understand being attached to one’s home but there is no way I would continue living in that country. Of course, the way the west keeps importing the third world, one has to wonder how much longer it will be before there are no other countries to move to.
Dan
“Now ‘faith’ is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11-1. This verse in the Bible does not necessarily only pertain to religion. It is extremely appropriate to Political Science. Progressives are the most religious people in the world in regard to Progressive doctrine; continuing to hold to the certainty that their beliefs will overcome all facts to the contrary. It doesn’t matter if the economy is bankrupt, if we just extend more credit, it will overcome all lack. If we just stop the Whites from having authority over Blacks, everyone will live in peace. To my knowledge, Jimmie Carter has no regrets for his work in opening democracy in Rhodesia, or South Africa and is committed to the Palestinian cause in Israel despite the disasters behind him. In many cases the Progressives causes are noble, but their faith blinds them to fact and they are unwilling to modify their courses when things don’t go according to their dreams.
When I read your bio I noted that you and your family have deep roots in the anti-apartheid movement. The direction of the South African society is or has moved has to be not only disturbing from political and social perspectives but, a real kick in the &** personally. (I’m not even including the loss of family members).
Is there a single African country on the African continent headed in the right direction? I ask this as I am woefully ignorant of the current conditions on the African continent. [NO]
Africa faces tremendous problems that continually grow more grim and bleak.I don’t see anything changing.That is all I know to say about it. I will say that in the USA we have a person residing here that needs to be shipped bound and gagged to Rwanda. That person is THE Minister of racism & hatred. This is Louis Farrakhan. Just recently he went public making statements calling on blacks in the USA to “protect Obama” from “Whites”. Well many years ago I said that Farrakhan was one of the most dangerous people in the USA. I still believe that. When he organized the million man march, he never got the million men. However, while I can’t say the exact number that showed up, it was around 700,000. When you can jump start 700,000 or so ignorant, blinded individuals to do something on that level,you have a very dangerous human being in your midst. And the President of the United States just eats up all of the compliments that this subversive racist gives him,including calling him “The Messiah”. ILana’s article was on Africa. The tentacles of that country have gripped the USA. ~Martin Berrow
As an American by birth, I have had to understand that tribal people think differently… in some cultures it’s ok to slaughter those who are not like you, just because you have the power to do so. My perception of South Africa is tha the biggest problem holding the country back is the prejudice shown by the ANC against anything not statist in nature and the prejudice shown by the blacks, who seem to be exponetially more prejudiced than the whites ever were. Correct me if you think I am wrong. As for America…Obama is just another colonial marxist trying to impose his statist garbage on a non-mrxist society. I wonder if groups like ACORN took lessons from the ANC.
SA was the breadbasket of the African continent under Boer rule. Now, except for a few industrious (and hunted) farmers, it’s just another pathetic 3rd-world country with its hand out.
Africa’s population is unsustainable without foreign aid. If things head south in the West (and it looks like it’s going to in a big way, and soon) and Western nations become unable or unwilling to give any further aid to Africa, the result will be the greatest famine in human history.
Africans literally bite the hands that feed them.
This Martin Berrow person has some prety good insight. He sounds like me. A sharp dude indeed. When he finds this out I hope he isn’t discouraged.
The arrival of Europeans in non-white majority countries, ultimately brings about an easier lifestyle for the country as a whole. Without proper education for the masses during such evolving times, their previous lifestyle (based on everyday survival) becomes too easy and results in an accumulated excess of energies. Thusly, no longer required to spend all of his time assembling his next meal, he experiments in mischief, thievery and warfare. A thorough an unbiased study in these areas will prove this to be the case. Different cultures think differently, and without proper communication and understanding, there is never going to be a sense of harmony in trying to meld two separate cultures. The modern conflicts and atrocities bear out this fact. I can’t help but think that there is a bigger, behind-the-scenes agenda to the prevalent chaos that is perpetuated in Africa.
Ilana,
what do you think of this story about the collapse of South Africa’s BEE? If the economy tanks, then what, race war?
http://www.economist.com/world/middle-east/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15824024&source=hptextfeature
Richards link closes with the following. “Meanwhile, worried whites, whose skills are still sorely needed, are continuing to emigrate in droves.” I can only say, “Good on them!”
In my Yahoo news and local paper, I see that the man killed, Mr. Blanche, was labeled as a “White Supremest” Yet in the body of the article he was never quoted that way, only that he wanted a separate South Africa, one white, one black, which I always thought would make him a “White Separatist.” The liberal news clings to their own ‘hate speech’ without any bias don’t they.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100404/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_white_supremacist
I guess the media does cover black on white crime in South Africa after all. Although I think they are covering this because they probably believe this guy was killed 20 years too late.