Posted on 12/21/2013 4:52:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
PRETORIA, South Africa — The relentless pilgrimage of mourners stretched north for miles toward Pretoria on Thursday. They came to bid farewell to Nelson Mandela, who lay in state in the Union Buildings after giving his beloved South Africa freedom, unity and democracy. I sped south on open road to the hilltop Voortrekker Monument, the 130-foot-high granite shrine to the Afrikaners who pioneered the country in rickety covered wagons and eventually became the political rulers of the country under apartheid.
The 130-foor-high Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria is a memorial to the Afrikaners who pioneered South Africa and fought brutal wars against the nation's tribes. As the nations bids farewell to Nelson Mandela, whose body lies in state in the same city, young Afrikaners struggle to reconcile what they have learned from Mandela with their brutal past.
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Kind of misleading unless you point out that the Zulus killed some large multiple of the number of blacks killed by the Boers.
That monument will disappear soon just like the Stars and Bars and the song “Dixie”.
They'll forget the brutal past soon enough when they're struggling with their brutal future.
The policy of “apartheid” was instituted after WWII while ours in the US called Jim Crowe particularly in the south began after reconstruction when the democrats took control after the Civil War. Which eventually included required segregated toilet facilities and back of the bus BS.
What I’m not clear about is did “apartheid” go that far ? Demanding separate facilities for the races ? Requiring blacks to cross a street for whites. Use of segreated toilets, eating and the reat of it.
Anybody know ? Because if they didn’t it becomes a very important distinction between what South Africa was doing and what we actually did.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/7-nelson-mandela-quotes-you-probably-wont-see-in-the-us-medi
In some ways apartheid went much farther than Jim Crow.
The entire country was chopped up into black and white areas. Shockingly, the whites in control, despite being a minority, decided they needed 87% of the land. In theory, blacks couldn’t live outside the black homelands, though of course white SA society was utterly dependent on black labor so this provision was never enforced much.
How about the Boers who were massacred in huge numbers by the British in the 1902 uprising? Afrikaners had far worse warring against them than Zulus, who themselves would make separate peace with whites whenever it was in their interests.
“Breaker Morant” was not about whites against blacks. Anyone see one single nonwhite in that film?
Wasn’t there a black guy sweeping the floor in the court room at the beginning of the movie? Or maybe it was near the end after the Australian lawyer had made his summation and the court room was empty?
Lots of Boers died in the SA War, but they weren’t “massacred” by the British, which implies lining people up and killing them.
The vast majority died in camps the Brits set up to try to bring the guerrilla warfare under control. Most of them were women and children who died of disease and to some extent malnutrition.
You can have an excellent discussion about the extent to which the British government is responsible for those deaths thru negligence and maladministration, but AFAIK there is zero evidence that there was ever an official policy of planned killing.
Yes.
I saw the remains of it first hand in '97.
It looked weird when you found a sign that hadn't yet been painted over.
The Older generation where still behaving like it was still in force and had to be encouraged to stay on the sidewalk and look you in the face when they spoke to you.
She sounds lovely speaking her native language, but people should be warned it’s in the context of a Piers Morgan interview, with all the grating of his voice interspersed that entails.
Hey where’s morgan freeman?
The Boer War wasn’t a 1902 uprising. It was a full-blown war war between the two Boer republics and the the Empire.
It started in 1899, with a more or less conventional war phase over by June of 1900.
Thereafter it went to guerrilla warfare, which led the British to eventually resort to internment (concentration) camps for Boer civilians to prevent them from supporting the fighters.
“It’s a new kind of war, George. A new war for a new century. I suppose this is the first time the enemy hasn’t been in uniform. They’re farmers. They come from small towns, and they shoot at from behind walls and from farmhouses. Some of them are women, some of them are children, and some of them... are missionaries, George.” - Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant was mistaken. Such wars had taken place many times before. Many of them colonial wars against “natives” who had no uniforms.
This article is so bogus!
“Young Afrikaners struggle with a brutal PAST?
No, it is a brutal present that they should be concerned with.:
http://ajkraad.wix.com/genocide-museum
What about the British summarily executing captured Boers simply because they lacked the means to evacuate prisoners to the camps?
I’ve read original magazines from 1902; there was tremendous outrage in the U.S. over British atrocities in South Africa AND American ones against Moros in the Philippines (e.g., pumping water down captured Moros’ throats). Anti-imperialism in the West had little to do with communism at the time. It’s a fascinating period that is hardly discussed anymore.
That said, post-Mandela SA is going to quickly become an even more dangerous place for whites in general but for Afrikaans-speaking Boers in particular. Their past as perceived by the now empowered black majority will be used as a weapon against them. The old Xhosa vs Zulu rivalry will only fuel the general climate of violence.
Wonder what Jan Christiaan Smuts would say about the present reality in SA? BTW, when I was in grade school, Smuts was depicted as a Washington-like figure, interviewed by a young Winston Churchill & presenting his vision for SA.
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