I quote from your post above: “Quite frankly, they told us horror stories about what happened to blacks at the hands of white farmers. Steven Biko was not an isolated case, not by a long shot. Black Africans from all the black nations knew about the plight of South African blacks.”

Your African student friends were lying. If apartheid SA was so bad why did we have to patrol our borders for illegal AFRICANS from “all the black nations” who wanted to come to terrible apartheid SA? Why were there hundreds of thousands of AFRICANS from “all the black nations” who wanted to live and work in apartheid SA? As an example the mines in SA had thousands of Malawians working there in the apartheid era.

Btw, Steve Biko did not “suffer” at the hands of farmers. He died in police custody. He was an activist (a pseudonym for terrorist).
Did your student friends also tell you about how the ANC treated other Africans who did not want to resist the then government? Did they tell you about “neclacing”, that little bit of fun ritual of putting a burning tyre around the dissedents’ necks? Does the Sonlight Curriculum include this part of history, or only your African student friends’ side?

BEWARE of ex-militia disguised as refugees, writes NDABEZINHLE KHUMALO of Meadowlands

In the early 1980’s Robert Mugabe formed a paramilitary youth brigade similar to the Malawian Young Pioneers or Interahamwe of Rwanda.

The Zimbabwe Youth Brigade was characterized by bright red shirts with a Zanu-PF badge. Their main brief was to kill, torture, rape destroy homes or break limbs of Zanu-PF supporters, ex-Zipra, Nguni-Ndebeles, Xhosa, Sotho, Kalanga, Tonga and Venda people.

They complemented activities of the notorious 5th Brigade. For details read the Catholic report, “Breaking the silence”.

The brigade’s activities contributed to the death of 20 000 civilians, and millions fleeing to South Africa from Matebeleland.

After the 1987 Unity Accord, the government absorbed most brigade members into quasi-government and government departments. Today most are adults, some are in strategic positions, some are in the main opposition.

Facing a strong opposition threat in 2000, Mugabe activated the youth-militia, headed by the late Border Gezi. This time their main brief was to invade, kill, intimidate and chase away white commercial farmers.

The net result was the death of seven white farmers, one police constable and the total collapse of organized commercial farming.

As the economy started to melt the regime has been struggling to sustain the youth-militia. To get rid of them, the Zimbabwe government is facilitating issuance of South African farm work permits ahead of other applicants.

I have personally met hundreds of these ex-youth militia working as farm hands on commercial farms around the Vhemke district of Limpopo and at asylum offices in Pretoria.

These youth are dangerously indoctrinated and pose a security threat. They are actually human rights criminals.

How can South Africa be a sanctuary for such criminals who have contributed to the current state of Zimbabwe?

[Letter appeared on page 13 of The Citizen (Johannesburg daily Newspaper) on Friday 15 June 2007]

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When in prison he shared a cell with a black man. When they were released he found a job for this black man in Ventersdorp. How hateful of him!

I don’t really buy the whole “it’s colonialism that’s to blame”. I think that this is rather just the nature of what happens when different ethnic groups come into contact with each other. The continent of Africa experienced many wars, genocides, and ethnic cleansing long before any Europeans came to Africa, which is why Afrikaner separatists are pressing for their own nation, because they know that they will never be safe in a black country.

As the blogger Fjordman has noted, the imperialism is to blame for violence against whites doesn’t hold water, when immigrants from Africa and Asia are moving into European countries that never practiced colonialism like Norway or Ireland, and are committing acts of brutality against the native white populations.

The point is, that even if South African whites didn’t do bad things (which they did, I don’t deny that), Africans would still be trying to get rid of them, as that’s the way human nature is. Justice isn’t really the motivator, it’s a desire of South African blacks to secure the country for themselves. [The country is not an abstraction; the majority is feeding of a tiny white tax base; once they impoverish all whites and seize their property, the country will collapse] The whites are a foreign element that need to be cleansed. [Afrikaners have been in SA as long as some black tribes] And I think this would prove to be true even if South African whites were the most saintly people in the world.