South Africa

I has recently put up a post on South Africa following my recent visit to that country as a tourist. As with all articles about a country written by a tourist, my impressions were as imprecise as one would expect.

The May 2004 edition of American Renaissance contains a fascinating (and much better) article by Dan Roodt, who is Afrikaner himself and knows more about the country than any of us here with the possible exception of Johan.

Excerpts:

“Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer—the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain.”

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“The sense of community one experiences among Afrikaners, at their schools, churches, cultural societies, arts festivals and concerts, is completely different from that among the English whites. The English South African, apart from the sizeable number who have intermarried with Afrikaners or been integrated to the point of becoming Afrikaners themselves, is an atomised individual, linked by his language and outlook not to Africa but to that powerful Anglo-American civilization that still radiates its influence from across the oceans. As such, he is fascinated by the model of the sovereign individual who wants to get rich quickly, and buy a better house with better security in a more lavish gated community. He is essentially apolitical and adapts to circumstances. He thinks he can outwit the black government in a double game in which he pretends to be in favor of affirmative action. He will play the game, get a black partner to stay in business, and mouth the multicultural clichés of his English newspaper that already has a black editor, while privately voicing his misgivings and making sure his passport is ready for a quick exit in case things go wrong.”

Posted by Phil Peterson on Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 10:05 AM in Race realism
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Posted by Johan Van Vlaams on December 10, 2005, 04:54 PM | #

But what’s a people without a territory of their own?

Posted by Phil on December 10, 2005, 05:03 PM | #

Well, one could have said the same about the Jews and yet Jews as a people have endured longer than practically any nation or people in the history of mankind.

Posted by Al Ross on December 10, 2005, 08:58 PM | #

After the disaster of World War2, the prescient Jan Smuts tried in vain to persuade his fellow Boers to allow unlimited immigration from the UK as a way of increasing European numbers. The Boers didnt agree as they felt that such a move would inevitably dilute their power. Smuts’s plan combined with zero African immigration to SA and intense birth-control campaigns in the townships and rural areas might have made the country more amenable to civilisation today.

Posted by Phil on December 11, 2005, 07:32 AM | #

Al,

That may well have worked but consider that countries like Canada and Australia that have been overwhelmingly white are now working overtime to commit suicide.

The Afrikaners would die to have a 80 or 90 percent majority and wouldn’t dream of doing what the Canadians are doing if they had a 80 or 90 percent majority.

Ultimately, it is not a crisis of numbers but a crisis of the soul - South Africa was not threatened in the same way until the West discovered the joys of racial equality and multiculturalism. The South African whites are victims of the West’s decadence and its degeneracy.

Posted by Johan Van Vlaams on December 12, 2005, 03:47 AM | #

But perhaps the Afrikaners won’t have to wait as long as the Jews to get a country of their own. As an example, some risks that could trigger an Afrikaner war of independence:

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A125910 Now that the whites can hardly be squeezed any further, the greedy blacks are financing their ever growing consumption (cars…) by borrowing on the international capital market at 7% or more. And the surplus capital they get is invested at 3% only in the United States…

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A125602 In exchange for ever towering taxes, the whites hardly get anything back in return, but in this case, this perhaps could turn out to be very disrupting.

Of course these only are examples.

Posted by Johan Van Vlaams on December 12, 2005, 07:32 AM | #

And the cold war against the Afrikaners goes on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4420404.stm

BTW, the only “racist” element in their radio broadcasts was that it was done in Afrikaans.

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