War, virtual reality and the ANC

I have a some reliable contacts in the Republic of South Africa. They have told me that racial discrimination against white increases there every day.  Even so, when I read this article by Adriana Stuijt I thought I should check it out because it sounded extreme.  It is, my friends assure me, completely faithful to the facts.

Adriana Stuijt writes:-

Mbeki is a Black Nazi, not a leader of South Africa: his Black Economic Empowerment policy benefits only his own Xhosa tribe and display nationalist-socialism in its purest form. They have even made Nuremberg-type laws to exclude Afrikaners from land-ownership and are causing them to disappear from public life - exactly what happened to the Jews under the Nazi yoke.

More than 260,000 Afrikaners have already lost their jobs over the past 10 years due to the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy of the ANC regime. More than 440,000 Afrikaners now live below the breadline ($60 a month) - yet are being denied any government aid or food-handouts even from non-governmental aid agencies because they belong to the so-named “previously advantaged” group …

The most dangerous policy by Mbeki’s Black Economic Empowerment are the Nuremberg-like “racial purity” laws, which are deteriorating into an ethnic-cleansing campaign targeting regions where Afrikaans-speakers are still the majority. A similar campaign is also being launched against members of the Zulu tribe, the largest ethnic group in the country. There have been scores of political murders and attacks in that region of South Africa …

The independent Volksstaat, or Afrikaner state, idea is becoming an ultimate political goal of every Afrikaner, a hope they carry deep inside their hearts, often afraid to admit it.

These newly-poor people are now all out in the streets and living in backyards of their relatives who still have jobs. Pretoria North, Vanderbijlpark, Sasolburg and other cities are filled chock-and-block with desperately poor Afrikaner families.

Unlike the Jews under the Nazi yoke, the Afrikaners don’t need laws requiring them to wear Stars of David to identify them publicly: their ethnic-European appearance and Afrikaans language very clearly identify them as “the enemy of democracy” - the term of preference used by Thabo Mbeki when he speaks of Afrikaners, or “whites” as he prefers to refer to this social group …

I have already elaborated on one aspect of this ongoing drama - the farm murders MR article of 6th June this year.  Since then the farm murders are unabated (in Afrikaans – but note that nothing whatsoever was stolen, once again).

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At the end of July 2005 there was a crucial ANC land summit at Johannesburg’s Nasrec Expo:-

South Africa’s 50,000 white farmers are threatened with forced land expropriation after a government land summit called for a “fast-track” programme of redistribution.

But pay attention, to expropriate white farmers at other than market prices would be crossing the Rubicon.  Private property is a right written into the 1994 South African constitution that ended white apartheid, and the present distribution scheme – known as Willing Selling/Willing Buyer – imbues the land reform process with the market ethic.  That, of course, also slows it down.  By December last year only 3% of commercial land had been transferred.  So …

The South African government has set a target of voluntarily transferring 30 per cent of productive farmland from whites to previously disadvantaged blacks by 2014.

But President Thabo Mbeki’s government is worried the target will not be met, at the very slow rate at which white farmers are offering land for sale. It also claims farmers are asking for unjustifiably high prices.

Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the summit the willing buyer/willing seller scheme, through which farmers voluntarily offer their properties to government at market prices, was a major drawback to land reform and said South Africa would embark on a “fast-track” programme to meet targets.

She was backed by Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Angela Thoko Didiza who said the government should strongly intervene to ensure expeditious redistribution.

Details of the suggested “fast-track” are yet to be spelt out but the decision has been welcomed by campaigners for the landless poor. “We want this process to begin immediately,” said Mangaliso Kubheka, national organiser for the Landless People’s Movement. “We’re waiting to see if the pledge will be implemented. The people have spoken. We need to see if the government will listen.”

And to add to that, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told delegates to an African distance-education conference in Pretoria:-

There is a general complaint in South Africa that land reform is too slow, too structured and “that we need a bit of an oomph”.

“So, we might want some skills exchange between us and Zimbabwe, to get some of their colleagues to help us here with that.

Jan Lamprecht, the Johannesburg-based journalist and author of “Government by Deception”,  writes the following about this South African land reform summit:

You are watching the Politics of Sanity versus complete Insanity - and the sad news is… Insanity will undoubtedly carry the day. So watch this, and watch how a completely successful country, the most successful country that ever existed on the African continent, is completely smashed to pieces through policies which are doomed, from the word go, to bring nothing but suffering and destruction for everyone.

I have been warning and saying since the year 2000, that the MADNESS and complete racial hatred which Robert Mugabe unleashed in Zimbabwe will be coming to visit us in S.Africa and Namibia. And here, before your eyes, you can see how DETERMINED our Govt is, to take us down that same path even though it is completely obvious to all that you can collapse the country’s economy in 10 years or less.

I believe, they are driven by a hidden agenda, and that is to break us whites and get us out of positions of power in this society at the fastest possible pace - even if it means destroying the economy in the process. I wrote of it. I warned of it, and the process is now happening. It will neverthless run for quite some years. It may yet take them quite a while to get things moving along fast enough - but undoubtedly the POLITICAL WILL to engage in this, is definitely there.

Why madness?  To elaborate on Jan’s thoughts elsewhere:-

1. Zimbabwe’s economy is in a state of total collapse after so-called “Fast Track Land Reform”.
2. Zimbabwe is begging for US$1 billion from South Africa to service their IMF debt - among other things.
3. Now Zimbabwe is running with its begging bowl to Namibia and Communist China.
4. Yet as all this is happening, Zimbabwean professor Sam Moyo, of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies, is lecturing at the “Land Summit” in Johannesburg about ‘how South Africa needs to radically speed up land reform ...”
5. Namibia, too, has said it needs to radically speed up “Land Reform”.
6. The South African Govt is in complete agreement that “White Land” is not going to Blacks fast enough.

Incredibly, Zimbabwe - the country which has sunk faster and further than any other in the world - is being held up as a shining example by Namibia and South Africa.  It is as if the virtual reality they have constructed completely excludes Zimbabwe’s near total economic collapse in farming - and, therefore, it simply cannot happen to them.

But is it simple insanity?  Or is there a coherent hidden agenda?

Well, look at the myths on which the ANC’s virtual world of land reform is built.  Any sign of an insane hand at work there?  Not to my mind.  Rather, a ruthless, calculating political liar:-

Myth no 1: In South Africa a minority of white landowners have all the land, leaving the majority of people without access to it and in miserable conditions.

Myth no 2: The white landowners do not adequately cultivate their properties, thereby harming agricultural production and contributing to the fact that the majority of the population live in hunger and misery.

Myth no 3: There is a great disparity in the distribution of wealth making the rich even richer and the poor even poorer, therefore the farmers are an untapped source of income.

Myth no 4: Land reform will spread property ownership and increase production, employment and the income of those who live in the rural areas.

Myth no 5: Land Reform in South Africa is a pre-requisite for economic growth and is not contrary to the free economy.

Myth no 6: It is irresponsible to deny “progress” on land reform otherwise there will be a general revolt of the poor masses leading South Africa into a social revolution with grave political, social and economic consequences.

I can add to this one other myth created by the ANC spin-doctors.  They talk a lot about land transference to poor blacks, but they have no intention of bestowing real title-deeds upon the beneficiaries.  At least, that’s not what they have done up to now.  Black farmers are only given certificates stating that they and their families have the right to live and work on the land and keep any profits earned from it.  As security to finance commercial farm investment it is a completely useless document!  But without bank loans a modern farm business (in one of only six countries in the world today that are nett exporters of food) simply cannot survive.

But there is more. South African President Thabo Mbeki caused quite a stir when, unannounced, he arrived at the Land Summit.

Welcome comrade president,” said Blade Nzimande, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party, who was chairing a session when Mbeki arrived.

“You are really welcome to join the summit. It’s a very pleasant surprise,” Nzimande said as photographers jostled to take Mbeki’s picture.

As Mbeki entered the conference hall just after 17:00 delegates burst into song.

Without his ghost-writer at hand and carried away by the excitement,  he let slip that ANC’s long term intention for the Boers was always a programme of ethnic cleansing:-

The Zimbabwe government delayed its land-reform programme so that negotiations for South Africa’s liberation succeeded, said President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday.

“They slowed down to get the negotiations in this country to succeed,” said Mbeki as he arrived at the land summit without prior notification.

He said that when South Africa was negotiating its transition to democracy, around the time which Zimbabwe had started its land reform programme, the Organisation of African Unity had asked Zimbabwe to stop the programme as it would “frighten the apartheid government in South Africa”.

To suggest that Zimbabwe’s land-reform programme was marred by corruption was actually wrong, Mbeki said to loud applause from delegates.

Not all ANC militants are illiterate blacks, you understand.  They know very well what they are doing.  No other explanation can be given but that this is a deliberate policy to rid South Africa of the hated Boer farmer community.  There will be a price to pay, of course.  The country will become a nett food importer.  But revenues from the platinum and gold mines can make that affordable.  And then, it may be that imported food will be handed out first (only?) to ANC supporters, Mugabe-style.

In that case the Nasrec Land Summit will have its place in history.  It will be a place shared with the Wannsee Conference.  Perhaps the present high oil prices will exhaust South Africa’s foreign currency reserves and provide some temporary relief to the Boer farmer.  The balance of payments already groans under the burden of capital flight (in Afrikaans).  In 2004 South Africa already had $27 billion foreign debt and only $11.68 billion foreign currency.

Accordingly, some experts hold that no large-scale land grabs are to be expected.  The Mail & Guardian, by the way, is a leading Johannesburg newspaper with virtually no Boer readers.  Note the politically correct remark that “Past subsidies provided to commercial farmers (under apartheid) could be discounted from the market price”.  At what interest rate these subsidies will be capitalised is not discussed.  But to purchase 30% of the present South African farmland owned by white commercial farmers by 2015 would cost R17-billion at market prices, or R1.5-billion a year.  The South African Department of Land Affairs budget — which allocated R345-million for land acquisition this year — falls far short of this.  They only have 23% of the money.  Will they, then, expropriate the land of the Boer farmers who have escaped genocide at 23% of market value?  Maybe so.  Maybe they hope that the fear of death will make the job easy for them.

However one reads events it is very hard to see any tolerably kind future for the Boers in Mbeki’s South Africa.  Western leaders should be following the situation at every turn.  They should remember the descent of Europe’s Jews towards extinction.  They should guard against their own complacency, in particular.  A distinctive feature of Nazi policy before the war was the confusing interplay between repression and normalcy, the constant tightening and untightening of the anti-semitic pressure.  Spurts of intense anti-semitic activity were buffered by long periods of apparent stability.  In retrospect, of course, the general trajectory to disaster was maintained.

So I believe it to be now in South Africa for the brave and beleaguered Boers.

Posted by Johan Van Vlaams on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at 05:25 PM in World Affairs
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