Tuesday, February 28, 2012

In Defense of Mulder's Statement about Land Reform.

This is a follow up on what Mulder said, this time the view of a Professor that is part of the Institution for Race Relations, Prof. Hermann Giliomee


http://www.beeld.com/In-Diepte/Nuus/Wat-Mulder-eintlik-se-20120223  
http://mspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/


F.V de Wet


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Wat Mulder eintlik sê

2012-02-23 22:27


Daar is kere dat ’n mens wanhoop dat die politieke debat in die “nuwe” Suid-Afrika ooit volwassenheid sal bereik. Dit is klaarblyklik ’n skrale moontlikheid as dit oor ’n kwessie soos grond gaan, skryf Hermann Giliomee.

Oor die laaste paar dae het ’n storm om die kop van dr. Pieter Mulder, leier van die VF+, uitgebreek omdat hy dit durf waag om die ANC se grondhervormingsbeleid te
kritiseer.

Hoofartikels en rubrieke het Mulder gestriem oor sy onsensitiwiteit, sy onkunde oor die geskiedenis en selfs oor die sogenaamde leuens wat hy vertel het. Business Day het verklaar: “Dr. Mulder het sy party en sy land in die steek gelaat.” (22 Maart.)

Wat is die onvergeeflike, onsensitiewe flater wat Mulder begaan het? Hy het gereageer op die stelling van die departement van landelike ontwikkeling en grondsake en pres. Jacob Zuma dat nog net 8% van die grond sedert 1994 aan swart mense oorgedra is.

Dit beteken dat die regering se teiken van 30% grond in swart hande in die gedrang is.

Sedert 1994 is demografie en die eise wat daarmee saamhang ’n sentrale deel van die politieke spel. Veral in aanstellings in die staatsdiens en sport is dit ’n gevoelige saak.

Maar al kan minderhede nie die regering se speletjies boikot nie, kan hulle vra: Die nasionale demografie of streeksdemografie?

In die Wes-Kaap is mense woedend oor die regering wat die nasionale demografie wil afdwing op die gevangeniswese in die provinsie waar die demografiese proporsies heeltemal anders is.

Die mees gewraakte sin in Mulder se toespraak het gelui: “Die ANC praat graag van ‘Black people in general and Africans in particular ’... (maar) ‘Africans in particular’ het nooit in die verlede in die hele Suid-Afrika gewoon nie.

“... Daar is genoeg bewyse dat geen Bantoesprekendes in die Wes-Kaap en die Noord-Kaap gewoon het nie. Hierdie dele beslaan 40% van Suid-Afrika se oppervlakte.”

Business Day se kommentaar daarop is dat historici baie van Mulder se feite betwis. Ek weet egter nie van ’n enkele historikus wat Mulder se stelling betwis dat “Black people in general and Africans in particular” teen die 1770’s nie in genoemde twee provinsies gewoon het nie.

Die verhaal van die besetting van grond in die 18de eeu word uitvoerig beskryf aan die hand van argivale bronne in The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840.

Ek het daarin aan die hand van argiefdokumente oor die eerste kontakte en konflikte tussen wit en swart tussen 1770 en 1812 geskryf, terwyl Martin Legassick die noordgrens (die huidige Noord-Kaap) behandel het.

Soos Jeffrey Peires in sy standaardwerk oor die Xhosa se geskiedenis aandui, het Xhosas nooit op grond anderkant Sondagsrivier aanspraak gemaak nie.

Business Day verklaar ook dat Mulder se stelling aanstoot gegee het teenoor Suid-Afrikaners van alle rasse wat die onreg van die verlede probeer herstel. Dis nie presies duidelik wat daarmee bedoel word nie.

Mulder het beslis nie die ou mite verkondig dat die land leeg was toe die wit mense hier aangekom het nie.

Wat wel waar is, is dat die sogenaamde tuislandbeleid, soos dit deur dr. H.F. Verwoerd in 1959 aangekondig is, gegrond was op die foutiewe historiese aanname dat ’n groot deel van Suid-Afrika nie bewoon is nie.

Dié opvatting was algemeen onder wit historici.

In 1957 het Eric Walker se History of Southern Africa verskyn, wat ’n tyd lank as die standaard algemene geskiedenis beskou is.

Oor die vestigings­patrone van “Africans in particular” (Mulder se woorde) het Walker geskryf: “In some parts of the present-day ­Union and Southern Rhodesia their occupation is not much older than that of the Europeans, and in the western half of the Cape ­Colony it is more recent than theirs.”

Die eerste deel van die stelling is nie korrek nie.

Gedurende die 1960’s het ar­geoloë ná ­nuwe opgrawings aangetoon dat die eerste deel van die stelling foutief is: Swart mense het inderdaad verspreid oor die land in die hele oostelike en noordelike deel gewoon.

Die belangrike punt van Mulder was egter nie om sekere groepe se reg op die grond te verdedig nie.

Vir hom het dit in die eerste plek daaroor gegaan dat mense nie die geskiedenis moet misbruik om swak beleid en die ewe swak toepassing daarvan te probeer regverdig nie.

Die regering wil nou die vrywillige koper/verkoper-beginsel laat vaar omdat die boere glo nie wil saamspeel nie.

Mulder voer aan dat die kernoorsaak nie die boere se onwilligheid is nie, maar die onbevoegdheid van die betrokke departement.

Dit antwoord nie op boere wat grond aanbied nie en in baie gevalle sloer die departement lank om vir grond te betaal wat oorgedra is.

Die departement stel dit ook nie duidelik wat hy bedoel met die doelwit van 30% besit in swart hande nie. Wat is swart? “Africans in particular” of swart, bruin en Indiërs saam?

Die inheemse mense wat in die westelike helfte van die land gewoon het voor wit vestiging was die Khoikhoi en San en die regering se grondhervormingsbeleid is beslis nie op hul nasate toegespits nie.

Die vraag is verder of die syfer slaan op alle besit, staatsgrond ingesluit, of grond in private besit.

As dit gaan oor laasgenoemde, is die regering se doelwit reeds bereik, want hy kan by die 13%, wat in 1994 in swart hande was, die 8% toevoeg wat hy aangekoop het en die 25% van die totale landsoppervlakte wat volgens Mulder in die staat se besit is.

Maar die regering stel waarskynlik nie in hierdie syfers belang nie. Die departement erken hy weet nie hoeveel grond die staat besit nie.

In ’n Beeld-rubriek gister kryt Henry Jeffreys Mulder uit vir sy “desperate vorm van politiek”.

Hy verdraai Mulder se woorde heeltemal wanneer hy verklaar dat Mulder gesê het swart mense “kan nie aanspraak maak op 40% van die grond nie”.

Wat Mulder wel gesê het, is: “In die Karoo en Kalahari is groot plase beskikbaar. Waarom koop die departement nie van daardie grond om vinniger die 30% te bereik nie? Hierdie semi-woestyngronde word egter by die 87% propaganda-persentasie as wit grond getel.”

Jeffreys behoort homself af te vra of dit nie hy is wat die gevaarlike speletjie speel waarvan hy Mulder beskuldig nie.

Mulder is veral daaroor begaan dat die hoeveelheid vrugbare grond wat onder landbouproduksie is van 1994 tot 2009 met 30% afgeneem het.

Hy verklaar verder: “Mislukte hervorming, waar 9 uit 10 plase nie suksesvol is nie, het ’n belang­rike rol. Landbouers moet nou op minder grond meer kos produseer vir Suid-Afrika se bevolking van 50 miljoen.”

Zuma het op Mulder se toespraak gereageer deur te impliseer hy het op ’n onverskillige wyse ’n emosionele saak aangeraak. Vir sommige mense is dit “’n saak van lewe en dood”.

Die vraag is vir hoeveel mense is dit so ’n lewensbelangrike saak?

In die meningspeilings van die laaste 20 jaar het die behoefte aan grond nooit gefigureer as ’n belangrike kwessie vir swart mense nie. Werkgeleenthede, onderwys en bekostigbare kos, huise, dienste en misdaad is veel belangriker.

As ’n mens die hele teks van Mulder se toespraak lees, is dit duidelik dat hy nie met goedkoop politiek besig is nie, maar op verantwoordelike wyse ’n belangrike saak aanroer.

Waaraan die histerie in sekere van die media toegeskryf word, is moeilik om te bepaal.

Miskien is dit heimwee na die stryd teen apartheid toe alles, moreel gesproke, gerieflik wit en swart was.

Hermann Giliomee is mede-redakteur, saam met Bernard Mbenga, van Nuwe Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika (Tafelberg 2007). 

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Apartheid - Part 8


Still think we forced 80% of the population into 13% of the land??


F .V de Wet


http://mspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2010/05/opening-pandoras-apartheid-box-part-8.html


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Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 8 – The lies about the Homelands

By Mike Smith
5th of May 2010

A common myth or lie about Apartheid is that the whites stole the land from the blacks and shoved them on 13% of the land of South Africa in what was called Homelands. It is further believed that blacks barely scratched out a living in these homelands due to it being on barren soil or arid regions. It is further claimed that whites made sure there were no minerals on these lands before giving to the blacks.

It is time to address these lies.

Traditionally South Africa belongs to the whites who first permanently settled South Africa since 1652. Blacks entered South Africa at about the same time, but never permanently settled any area, because they were nomadic cattle and goat herders. Blacks only started settling areas permanently after about 1770.

Wherever the Boers or Voortrekkers went they bargained for land with local Blacks who settled certain areas before them. In fact there is hardly any part of South Africa that was conquered by whites from blacks. Piet Retief’s treaty with the Zulu King, Dingaan still exist to this day.

Blacks settled other areas than the whites and in those areas blacks have the right or claim on those areas. It is however difficult to determine their claims, because blacks had no written language, no maps and no legislation such as land title deeds.

Despite this, whites researched the areas that Blacks traditionally settled and gave them full autonomy to rule themselves, with their own police forces and armies trained in South Africa with white taxpayer money.

To create work, white business people were encouraged to open factories in these countries with huge tax concessions.


The ten homelands were as follows:

Transkei –Xhosa
Ciskei – Xhosa
Venda – Venda
Bophuthatswana – Tswana
Gazankulu – Tsonga/Shangaan
KaNgwane – Swazi
KwaNdebele – Ndebele
KwaZulu – Zulu
Lebowa – Pedi (Northern Sotho)
QwaQwa – Sotho

Note how some blacks got TWO or even THREE countries of their own.

The Xhosas got both Ciskei and Transkei.

The Tswanas who have their own country called Botswana, also got Bophuthatswana.

The Sothos who already had Lesotho as their own country also got Lebowa and QwaQwa.

The Swazis who already had their own country Swaziland got KaNgwane.

After South Africa became a union in 1910, the territories (British protectorates) of Bechuanaland (Botswana), Basutuland (Lesotho) and Swaziland was excluded from the union, but the plan was to incorporate them later. The successive South African governments always tried to enclude them, but the British played delay tactics and after South Africa withdrew from the commonwealth in 1961 it ended any prospect of incorporation of these territories into South Africa. Botswana got its independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho in 1966 and Swaziland in 1968.

If one considers that these countries are actually part of the original South Africa, then the territories under Black rule and autonomy including the other homelands makes up 50% of the total land and not 13%.

One further has to remember that about 70% of the current South Africa is uninhabitable simply because it is too mountainous or it is half desert in the Western part. Only about 10% is under normal climate conditions economically viable farmland.



When one considers the rainfall map of South Africa and the areas settled by Blacks, then one sees that Blacks settled in above average rainfall areas. The soil of these homelands was some of the most fertile soil of South Africa.



Today the black ANC government is taking white owned farms away and handing them over to blacks to be totally ruined in a few months.

Something else a lot of people do not know is that the White NP government ALSO forced whites off their land by paying them out undervalued sums for their farms so that they could hand it over to blacks in the establishment of the homelands.

I personally know people who lost their successful dairy farm in those days to make way for the Ciskei.

About 48% of all the viable agricultural land was in these Black homelands.
Today the Blacks want to say that these lands are barren. As I have mentioned it is totally false, but on the other hand, these were the areas the blacks chose out for themselves to settle on about 200 years ago. The cannot blame the whites for it today.

It is often said that whites first made sure that there were no minerals in these homelands before they gave it to the Blacks.

This is also false. In the homeland of Bophuhatswana, the Tswana homeland in addition to having their own country Botswana, we can find the largest Platinum deposits in the entire subcontinent. Gold are also mined as a byproduct in these platinum mines.

In the “Book Verrat an Südafrika” Klaus Vaque mentions an article in the German Magazine “Deutschland-Magazin” Nr. 3/83 where a Lebowa chief was asked if it was true that blacks have been pushed onto worthless desolate areas...

I freely translate, the chief answered:

“No, it is not true. We have here all the raw materials except diamonds and crude oil. We have all other minerals. As far as agriculture is concerned, we have some of the richest parts of South Africa. We have good rainfall and good soil. I think our livestock are some of the best and our wheat and maize potential is fairly high. The people who say that we have been pushed onto dry and desolate areas do not know what they are talking about. I think they are talking about others.”

The question has to be asked...what is so bad about giving all the major Black tribes of South Africa their own country where they could rule themselves on territory they historically settled and where they could be ethnically homogenous, where they could speak their own language, practice their own culture and religion and where they could be totally free?

What is the crime in that?

POSTED BY MIKE SMITH AT 12:51 PM

Friday, February 24, 2012

White Man in Land Claim Bid


This just in from IOL. Obviously land was taken from Whites and reserved for Blacks, Coloureds and Indians and here is some evidence. The ANC has opened a hole new can of worms with their land redistribution and WHITES all over SA should stand up for their rights and claim their land back that was "stolen" from the Apartheid Gov and given to Blacks, Indians and Coloureds.
Sadly, the Gov will find a way to bypass the system and will state that this man's claim is not valid because the land belonged to Blacks before his family bought it in 1968. Sadly, they will state that any land owned by Whites after 1913, was stolen from Blacks. The ANC just loves rewritting history and nothing is said about the fact that they (Blacks) themselves stole the land from the Khoi people and nearly caused a genocide against them. 
The only true claimants of land in SA are the Khoi people as they were the "natives", while the Darker Skinned Africans moved down from East, West and North Africa around the same time that Europeans started coming to Africa.
But seeing as Science found that HUMAN LIFE started in Africa, African then belongs to ALL the people in the world, doesn't it?? But, we all know Blacks and they only claim reparations / compensation when History suites them. So yes, Life started in Africa (ALL LIFE OF ALL RACES), but only Black Africans can claim the land!! WTF!!
F. V de Wet
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White man in land claim bid

It was designed to discourage people of colour from living in certain affluent areas earmarked for white people, but now the Group Areas Act has been turned on its head with a white man claiming compensation for land he says his family was “forced” to sell under the act at the time.
Abraham Wollach, 72, from Green Point has taken his case to the Land Claims Court, with the national government, the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, the Commission on Land Rights and the regional land claims commissioner listed as defendants. He is claiming more than R28 million in compensation, saying the value of the land was not taken into account when it was sold.
The 1 500-hectare property – which was once a dairy farm – now comprises large parts of Atlantis, which was established in 1977. The area includes residential housing.
According to court papers, Wollach’s case is that the property had been owned by Hartebeeskraal Farms at the time.
Wollach’s father, Lazarus Wollach, was the majority shareholder.
His father bought the property in October 1968 before it was bought by the apartheid government’s Community Development Board for R475 627 five years later because the area had been declared for “coloureds”.
“It therefore became unlawful for the plaintiff’s father to own property there, as a person who had been classified as white,” the court papers said.
On Wednesday, Wollach, along with his advocate Joel Krige, took Acting Judge Steve Kahanovitz on an inspection in loco at the farm.

During the inspection, Wollach vividly recalled the layout of the farm, in which he mentioned dams, milking sheds and barns. Judge Kahanovitz was shown what was left of a now dried-out dam which had since made way for housing. About a quarter of the dam remains today.
The property was converted into the Hartebeeskraal Community Centre.
The border of the property ran along the Old Darling Road, with trees lining either side, and stretched towards Dassenberg Drive.
Krige submits that a number of factors needed to be taken into account, such as inflation, and the present day value of the land was R28 470 775. Court papers included historical valuation reports in which the value of the property at the time of the act was at least R848 100.
Wollach also wants the government to pay his legal costs.
The case has since been postponed to allow for experts to evaluate the property.
Krige said the experts would determine whether just and equitable compensation was given for the property. - Cape Times

Apartheid - Part 7




By Mike Smith
4th of May 2010

When one asks most people, white or black, what the role of government is one will get various opinions depending on who one pose the question to, but in general most people believe that the role of government is to develop and maintain infrastructure, in other words build dams, roads, schools, etc. Their means of doing this (it is believed) is to tax the citizens.

Most people also believe that the government (politicians and civil servants) steal some of this money out of the state coffers...and that is what we call corruption.
They further believe that some governments steal more than others. Some build more schools and roads than others and a good government is the one who does not steal and who builds lots of “things” such as sport stadiums.

But in reality it basically works like this...

Several political parties compete to rule the country to represent the people. The party that has the best sales pitch, that appears to be the most just will win, voted in by the majority population. Once in power the self-enrichment starts. The politicians do not care one bit about the people who have voted for them. Their sales pitches, lies, empty promises, bullshit and fraud is all just to get to the feeding trough and pocket the spoils, but open theft will soon end them into prison so they have to be sly about it.

All governments spend more than they raise in taxes. Government officials borrow money from gigantic banks and other financial institutions to finance their building of roads, houses for the poor, etc. They then contract the jobs to companies that they themselves own, their families own, etc. This borrowed money ends up in the pockets of the politicians, but the loans needs to be paid back. This is where our taxes come in. Our taxes pay back to the banks what our governments have stolen.

The more liberal/socialist the government, the bigger the government structure will be and the bigger the theft, nepotism and corruption will be. Conservative and nationalist governments tends to be smaller and the corruption a lot less.

The more uneducated the people of a country is, the least they will grasp this thieving principle and the fewer checks and balances will be kept on their thieving government.

That is why liberal/socialist governments will introduce dumbed down education systems such as Outcomes Based Education and Training (OBET) to keep the people uneducated. In fact everything from sports to radio, newspapers and television will be changed to keep people ignorant of the theft going on behind the scenes.

It is important to reiterate that theft and corruption happens in ALL governments to some extent. Some of them are mild when it comes to corruption, but most are aggressively greedy. The longer they stay in power, the longer they are in the front row of the feeding trough. That is why a socialist government like the ANC in South Africa has one goal and that is to stay in power for ever. Or as Jacob Zuma said, 
The ANC will rule until Jesus comes back

In order for us to understand the reasoning and rationale behind Apartheid it is necessary to briefly look at the role of Government.

We as human beings want to live and survive. We want to pass on our genes into the future and in this short period of being here on earth, we want to be happy.

Part of being happy is to have a house, furniture, a television, or whatever makes us happy...basically to own property.

This is called the right to life and the pursuit of happiness through the ownership of property.

Problem comes in when someone wants to take your life away, take your property away or interfere in anyway with your pursuit of happiness.

Such a person is then initiating force. He is stealing from us, physically attacking us, defrauding us, etc and therefore threatening our survival and our pursuit of happiness which are the most fundamental rights an individual can have.

When you are a strong burly bloke, you can easily defend yourself against such a person and your retaliatory force will be just. You did not initiate the force, but protected your right to life and happiness.

But what if the assailant has weapons, or there are more than one? What if you are a child, a frail woman, an elderly person or mentally handicapped? How do you then protect yourself against the initiation of force?

And that dear people is why we have a government. The ONLY job of any government is to protect our individual rights. The role of any government is to protect our right to life and our pursuit of happiness from those who wants to take it away from us.

The way government does it is to have an army to protect us from those outside of our country who are or might be attacking us and threaten our survival and pursuit of happiness and to have a police force to protect us from those inside our country who wants to take our individual rights away.

The government therefore needs to uphold the laws that the citizens feel are rightful and just to protect them from the initiation of force and what threatens their individual rights...First as a warning to those intending on taking away those individual rights and also to punish those who break these laws.

One thing a government should never do is to initiate force against its citizens. This becomes a dicey topic, because extorting taxes is a form of initiation of force. A government can actually totally fund all its expenditures through other moral means such as setting up trust funds with all the money and property it owns, donations and people paying for services such as passports, toll roads, vehicle registration, etc.

Companies who want to transport their goods through harbours, by rail or road, etc should pay for using this infrastructure. Taxes therefore become obsolete. There is not a single government department that cannot FULLY pay for itself.

Nevertheless, I am digressing.

The National Party government in 1948 were faced with all these dilemmas when they came to power. Their primary task as a government was to protect ALL the citizens of South Africa.

In the previous instalments of this series I tried to explain the background to this dilemma, considering the vast diversity of South Africa’s people, their cultures, their religions, their languages and their histories.

I explained how Blacks from literally hundreds of smaller tribes were fighting against each other for hundreds of years before the whites came to South Africa, often wiping each other out completely.

Credo Mutwa writes in his book “My People” (1969), chapter eleven, page 244:

“One of the High Laws of the Bantu is the law of revenge...The result of this law is that there are blood-feuds going on all over Africa which show no sign of dying out. Some of these have already been going on for generations. The Zulus have been feuding with the Basutus (Sothos), and also with the Shanganes of Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), for more than a century. The feud between the Baluba and some of its neighbouring tribes has been going on for nearly six hundred years, while the feud between the Masai and the Wakambi in Kenya has now entered its tenth century. The Bahutu (Hutus) and the Wa-Tu-Tutsi (Tutsis) have been at each other’s throats for as long, and as recently as 1963 the newspapers reported that this senseless feud had accounted for another 30,000 Wa-Tu-Tutsi lives”.

Note how Credo Mutwa writes about the animosity between the Hutus and the Tutsis of Rwanda in 1969, referring to a relatively small massacre of 30,000 Tutsis in 1963. It culminated in full blown genocide of between 800,000 and 1,2 million Tutsis in 1994.

This is exactly the chaos Apartheid tried to prevent.

The South African situation was unique. It was a major challenge and it had to be solved fairly. The NP had to find a compromise that everyone could live with and be happy with.

The White NP government intimately knew the blacks of South Africa and the blacks of Africa in general. They knew about Shaka’s Defecane that was worse than the Rwanda genocide, they knew about all the inter cultural and inter tribal differences of the blacks of South Africa. They knew about the massacres of whites during the Xhosa wars, the massacre of whites at Bloukrans, the Battle of Blood River and countless more.

The only way to keep the peace, protect all the citizens of South Africa and to secure the individual rights of all the people of South Africa was to separate them, let them develop at their own pace, give them autonomy the right to rule themselves, draw up their own laws and enforce those laws with their own armies and police forces...The official government policy was called...”Seperate Development”...The Media called it, “Apartheid”. Proposed in 1973 accepted and enforced in 1976The United Nations General Assembly declared 
Apartheid a crime against humanity
 without offering an alternative to South Africa’s situation.

The question is thus open. Considering the background that I have sketched so far in this series...what would you have done if you were in charge of South Africa at the time, faced with the same challenges? What would your solution have been?

The worst that Apartheid critics can dig up...the worst “Massacre” they can ever refer to...is the Sharpeville shootings in 1960 when 69 blacks died.

Compare that to Rwanda 1994...

Rwanda is exactly what Apartheid tried to prevent. It does not matter what people says about Apartheid today...on the watch of the National Party, no Rwanda style massacre ever occurred on South African soil.

More than 3000 white farmers were not killed by black savages under Apartheid, reported rapes of 50,000 per year never happened under Apartheid.

Contrary to what most blacks and/or liberal whites would like to think about what whites supposedly did to blacks under Apartheid. There are no mass graves, there is not a single concentration camp, and there are certainly no gas chambers where whites tried to exterminate blacks.

Quite the contrary. White South Africans built the biggest hospital in the world, Baragwanath (today called the Chris Hani Barragwanath hospital) for blacks with white expertise and white taxpayer’s money... 3200 beds and 6760 staff members.

For that, and many other altruistic and charitable endeavours, whites of South Africa were and still are made out as the evil skunks of the world.

.../to be continued

Apartheid - Part 6



Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 6 Other rationales for Apartheid.
By Mike Smith
30th of April 2010

So far I have only scratched the surface and told the reader about the more common practices and customs of Blacks that whites know about and find abominable such as, Lobola (buying wives with cows), the initiation rituals of boys and girls, witchcraft, superstition, muti-murders, raping babies to cure AIDS, etc.

There are so many more rationales for Apartheid that one can actually write a book about them. And indeed someone has written a book about it...several books actually. His name is Credo Mutwa and the name of the book is “My People-The writings of a Zulu witch-doctor”. (1969) ISBN 014003210X

The book is extremely rare and few people know about it. It is not even mentioned on the Wikipedia page of Credo Mutwa. It is a fascinating book, giving you insight into the various traditions of black South Africans of various tribes, their beliefs, their superstitions, their customs and their mindset.

Credo is the most respected Sangoma and Sunusi in the whole of South Africa. He is a traditional healer, a black historian and an authority on traditional customs and beliefs of the black tribes of Africa. If one has to compare him to Christianity, then Credo Mutwa would be the pope of traditional healers.

He mentions several practices that is just too ghastly for the pious whites of South Africa to accept.

One of the things he describes is the Black law of infanticide when twins are born. This practice is still carried on today. Think about it...look around you...how many black twins have you seen in South Africa?

“The law requires that if a woman gives birth to twins, one must be destroyed by having a round pebble pushed down its throat. But in the case of triplets, one must die and two must live”

“My People”, Chapter 10, Pg. 218


So the few “twins” we see amongst blacks were actually triplets of which one was killed.

Blacks also killed their own wounded soldiers

“The wound would fester and sooner or later the patient would die. Even small gaping wounds spelt a write-off of the patient; large mPanga slashes were regarded as fatal at the outset and warriors thus wounded were given a mercy death. Many battle axes were furnished with special ‘dispatchers’ for this purpose.”
“My people” Chapter 11, pg. 234.


I will conclude with a topic that very few people wish to address and prefer to ignore...But if we are going to be honest about blacks and why we had Apartheid, then we need to mention the facts that blacks are untidy and...well they smell funny.

One just has to look at how blacks live. From ancient times until today, it does not matter where in the world one goes, a black area looks like a pig sty. I have seen this in Trinidad and Tobago, in Haiti, in Jamaica in the Bahamas and everywhere I went in Africa. I have seen this from black areas in European cities to ghettos in the USA.

Blacks just cannot keep their environment clean and tidy. Everything is disorderly, chaotic and dirty...Rubbish lying all over the place.

Another phenomenon that one sees in townships of South Africa, is that Blacks do not plant grass, flowers or trees amongst their tin shacks. This is amazingly odd. Firstly, because blacks work as gardeners or bricklayers for whites.

So the ability to build is there, the ability to keep lawn and a garden is there. Why is it that blacks never do in their own areas what they do when they are working for whites?

Maybe their environments are reflections of how they keep their bodies orderly and tidy as well.

This is how blacks are. They are actors. They can even mimic a White accent, white behaviour or intelligence and appear almost the same as whites. Many whites fall for this and indeed believe that blacks are the same as whites...but it is when one gets to know blacks up close and personal that one sees through this veil and behind the mask.

Blacks can bullshit a lot, especially when they work for whites. Then they know they have to put their best foot forward or lose the job. That is when they wash, dress respectably and behave almost white. In the workplace, blacks who are utterly incompetent will fake competence, bullshit their way through every day, steal other’s work...all an act to hide their incompetence and when they are caught out, they just change jobs and repeat the process.

That is when one realises that the so called intelligent words coming out of the mouths or pens of Martin Luther King or Barack Obama are all stolen. All non original thought and written by speech writers or whispered in their ears by advisors.

But something blacks find extremely difficult to hide is their body odour. Blacks smell. Everyone knows this. You go to Poland, you go to Japan and you ask anybody about blacks, you will hear they say, “Blacks smell”.

Maybe there is a biological reason for it, but I am not exactly keen on finding out. All I know is what my nose tells me and that is that Blacks smell really bad and that I cannot live with that.

But let me quote what Credo Mutwa says in his book, “My people”, (1969) chapter ten.

“Xhosa women also prepare mysterious potions to secure their husbands to them, so that they will not be forsaken. This potion is prepared as follows: The woman refrains from taking a bath for several days, and then rubs the body dirt off her skin in little rolls. To this she adds the hair she has shaved off her private parts. Then follows ground Bangalala root which, when mixed with milk, is a violent aphrodisiac. The recipe may also include the powdered dry petals of a sunflower, a little spittle, and a piece of sandlewood. The whole concoction is then heated in a bowl until red hot and thus reduced to ashes. These ashes are then stirred into the milk of a nanny goat which had a deformed kid, until a thick putty is formed. This is then rolled into little balls or pills, which are added one at a time to the husband’s food.”
“My People”, Chapter ten, pg. 213.


It is clear that the religions, cultures, customs and the behaviour of blacks are just too different than that of white, Christian people.

These cultures are worlds apart and totally incompatible with each other.

Whites and blacks will never get along in South Africa. Anybody who believes such a pipe dream as a multicultural “Rainbow Nation”, does not know black culture or white culture. Such a person would only be fooling himself through masturbating his own delusional, liberal, feel-good mindset. No, I am sorry to disappoint such people, but blacks and whites are NOT the same.

The reality of South Africa is so that few options actually exists. Either one of the two, black or white, totally wipes out the other or they separate completely. Not partial separation as under Apartheid...Total separation.

The reasons for Apartheid are still as valid today as they were 100 years or 50 years ago. Whites can never apologise for Apartheid, because whites cannot help for the inferior cultures, customs and behaviour of blacks. Separation and separate development of all the tribes is and was the most humane and fairest solution for all the complex groups of South Africa.

.../ To be continued

Apartheid - Part 5


This part explains the difference between White and Black and their COGNITIVE ABILITY. For those who do not know, cognitive ability helps you solve problems, find solutions, to evolve and develop and so on. 


F.V de Wet

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Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 5 – Black cognitive ability. Third Rationale for Apartheid.
By Mike Smith
27 April 2010

Long before studies like “The Bell Curve” or “Race and Reason” were published, before IQ tests were invented, we whites of Africa knew the mind of the black man intimately.

Nobody had to prove anything to us. We knew the limitations of the African black and his capacity to break whatever he touches. We knew his strengths and his weaknesses.
From simple, obvious and uncomplicated examples the white man drew his conclusions about black’s cognitive abilities.

The white man noticed that the blacks from South Africa never invented the wheel. Blacks never had any written languages. They had no dug-out canoes, let alone ships. Their dwellings were nothing but single roomed shelters that resembled poor imitations of inverted bird’s nests, made from sticks and grass. They had no woven cloth and were wearing animal skins. They had no maps and no borders. They had a primitive belief system and their tribal laws were held and changed by “elders” at will after drinking their tribal beer/brew.

They were nomadic cattle herders that never permanently settled in one place for too long. They hardly grew crops and if so, it were small patches of subsistence maize introduced by the whites who brought it back from South America, the only place where it grew and existed.

Yes that is right. Maize, which is today the staple food of all Blacks throughout the entire Africa, comes from South America and was introduced to blacks by white European settlers. Blacks today cannot even imagine a life without maize, yet they say that whites never brought anything good to Africa. As I said before, blacks needs to go down on their knees and thank the Lord for sending the white man to their evil continent. Because as far as providing for themselves...they are useless.
Blacks have proven that they cannot farm. They hardly understand the principle of irrigation, let alone ever building any dams. When a slight drought occurs one year all their crops fail and they starve.

Whites in South Africa developed commercial farming into a science and built universities such as
Elsenburg at Stellenbosh

...blacks who have worked on white farms for their entire lives, for generations, never learned a thing and every white commercial farm that was handed over to blacks failed, even after vast amounts of money was thrown at them, training was given and the most modern implements bought for them by the government.

This tragedy is documented in a book by Dr. Phillip du Toit called, 
The Great South African Land Scandal . Dr du Toit has made his book available online, free of charge.
Liberals and cultural relativists will be quick to point out that there are many blacks today who are academics, medical doctors or lawyers.

They will tell us that the environment determines IQ. They somehow believe that a black child raised in a white household, who went to white schools and who had all the opportunities as a white kid would magically become equal or better than a white child.

It is only the simpleminded who believes this. Eskimos live on the same parallel as Northern European Whites, but have never been able to reach the same level of development and ingenuity as Whites from Scandinavia, Russia or Germany. Blacks who live in Tropical conditions have never been able to build the structures of the Incas, the Mayas or even anything resembling the beauty of 
Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Besides, the Australians tried it. They took Aborigine children away from their communities, raised them in wealthy white households, sending them to only the best schools, etc. The results were that these Abbo children reverted to the same behaviour and sometimes worse than that of their traditional communities. Today we refer to them as 
The stolen generation

So what about those clever blacks you ask?...The ones who are doctors, etc...?
Anybody who has ever taught blacks anything, lectured to them or tried to jerk them into the twentieth century will understand what I am about to say?

I have to tell you a little story here.

When I was at school in South Africa I had a friend. Let us call him “Manie”.
Manie was a hyper intelligent young boy. At the age of eleven when we had the “Rubik Cube” craze, he was solving the puzzle in 50 odd seconds. Later on in high school, Manie produced straight A’s, he could play several musical instruments including the drums, guitar and trumpet. He played Rugby and was also a martial artist of note. Manie became a dentist and is currently practicing in the UK.

While he was a medical student I once asked him how difficult the course was. He said to me that to become a doctor is not difficult. It is a SHIT load of work to study, but it is not difficult as in Engineering or Physics. I asked him why he opted for Dentist. He told me that when he wants to drive a Porche, he wants to go out there and buy him one. He was honest. He did not become a dentist, because he had some calling in life...he did it purely for the money.

So for blacks to become medical doctors is actually not that difficult.
The black (Zulu) historian and Shaman, Credo Mutwa talks about this in his book, “My People” (1969).

Credo says that blacks never had any written language so they have no written history. Their history is passed down orally from Sangoma to Sangoma. See, the Sangoma is not only the traditional healer, he is also the preserver of the oral history, the tribal laws and the ancient rituals and customs of the blacks.

He explains that blacks have an excellent memory that they drill from childhood through stories, rhymes and songs. To remember detail they use what we would call “memory association”.

For instance, Credo Mutwa says that the blacks have a huge respect for the late president of the ZAR, Paul Kruger. President Kruger had an ability to mimic the sounds of all birds through whistling. Even till this day the township of Mamelodi east of Pretoria, capital city of the ZAR and South Africa is named after Paul Kruger, the whistler. His statue stands on Church Square in Pretoria.

When one teaches blacks, it is not uncommon to find that they score well to very well in tests or exams where they have to repeat what they were taught. In fact it is almost well known amongst educators that blacks are better at this than whites.
But when it comes to applying knowledge...when it comes to using logic, faultfinding and problem solving skills, blacks fall by the wayside. They just cannot do it.

A black can pass all the theory exams to become a pilot, but put him in a simulator and subject him to crisis situations where he has to think rapidly, then one sees the cogs of the black cognitive system start flying all over the place. And I am talking about the one percent...the best of the best,. The other 99% are only good to dig ditches, provided they do not break the pick or spade.

The proof is in the pudding. It is not as if the world is over run by Nobel Laureates for hard sciences like physics or chemistry. How many black astro or nuclear physicists do you know?

Today much is being said about Black education under Apartheid, but the truth is that in 1987 at the height of Apartheid, six million black children were at school, a new record for South Africa at the time. In the previous year 1800 classrooms for secondary education were built by whites, with white money for blacks. About 130 new schools were built. If one considers the schools burnt down by blacks at the same time the education standards of blacks could have been even higher.

At the time black South Africans had the highest literacy rate amongst other blacks on the entire continent. Blacks had eight universities in South Africa producing lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc of world standard. None of those people would say today that their education and degrees are of an inferior standard. Quite the contrary, they are extremely proud of their education they underwent during Apartheid. Telling them that their education was “Sub standard” would be insulting them.

As I have mentioned before, South Africa was a world leader in medical science during Apartheid and established a unique Medical university called MEDUNSA which produced amongst others on average 200 black doctors per year. MEDUNSA also trained nurses and other medical staff.

The most amazing thing is that no matter how well Blacks are educated, they never let go of their superstitious believes in the Tokoloshe, Muti witchcraft and ancestor worship. Blacks who hold high positions today such as ministers in parliament or judges...blacks who are engineers, still consult the witchdoctor on a regular basis. Blacks still run around and attack everyone, including their own with pangas.

No amount of western education will ever be sufficient to change the African black savage into respectable human beings. They are what they are. We have to be honest with ourselves and with blacks and accept them them for who and what they are. We have to realise that our cultures will never be compatible.

Just as the Boers never wanted to rule over the Blacks, the Boers will NEVER accept blacks ruling over them.

The previous National Party government was not stupid. They never took any decisions without thoroughly investigating all options. They studied the Swiss Canton system and the Belgium model with the Flemish and Walonians ...No sytem could be compared to the unique South African situation. Apartheid was not the only option. There were others to consider like the Stalinist option of just exterminating all opposition in their millions. But BJ Voster asked us to accept the reforms, because the other options were just too ghastly to comprehend for the pious Whites of South Africa.

.../ to be continued

Apartheid - Part 4


Another brilliant piece written by Mike Smith. You can find his blog at the below mentioned link.


F.V de Wet
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Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 4 – Black culture and customs. Second Rationale for Apartheid.
By Mike Smith
27 April 2010

I find it rather amusing that the cultural relativists wants to tell us that all cultures are equal and that no culture is better or higher than another, but these same primitive cultures they want to make equal to our White Western culture, rejects the notion of equality outright.

In South Africa we observe this amongst blacks on a daily basis. Again the examples are legion, but let us start with the way the African black treats his women. I said women (plural), because Black men are polygamous. They can marry as many women as they can afford.

When a black man walks down the street, his wife is lucky if he allows her to walk five paces behind him. Most of the time he tells her to go walk on the other side of the street and a few paces behind him. You see this all the time in South Africa, but we who grew up in South Africa just accept it as “it is just the way blacks are”.

Although black women can vote in official government elections, on a tribal level they have no political say and are not allowed to even sit amongst men least raise an opinion.

I said that a black can have as many wives as he can afford. That does not mean that he has to work and look after his wives. Quite the contrary. Traditionally the women do all the work in black culture.

Black men buy their women and pays for them in cows in a system known as “Lobola”.
It starts with five cows and then the two families barter a price. The price is dependent on her social status, whether she is still a virgin or already has a child, what education she has, etc. The daughter of a chief is worth around twenty cows, but normally the price is kept down to between five and ten cows for ordinary women.

Once married the woman is chattel and becomes the possession of the man, to breed and beat as he feels fit. The Xhosas practice what is called, uKetwala (the hunting down of a young girl and raping her to make her his wife)

Missionaries from Europe have tried to convert the Blacks to Christianity ever since the whites first set foot on African soil. These missionaries came across savages who believed in the powers of their dead ancestors, rather than that of a deity. Just about all civilisations had deities of some sort, but it was absent amongst blacks in South Africa. Believing in an almighty God and abstract thoughts such as time infinity takes intelligence that blacks lack.

These missionaries saw the results of intonjane (female initiation) and ukwaluka (boy’s circumcision and initiation into manhood) where some boys were lucky to live after their penises fell off due to gangrene, etc. They saw the licentious behaviour and customs of the blacks, but none of their efforts could ever win the blacks over.

They struck up compromises in the hope to later convert the blacks, but even after their best attempts the best they achieved was that blacks accepted Christianity as an addition to their tribal religions and beliefs, not as a replacement. Blacks continue to practice their traditional beliefs in parallel with Christianity up until this very day.

Read about the fruitless experiences of the missionaries here

The bible says in Mathew 7 verse 6:
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”

In Mathew 13, Jesus said to plant the seeds on fertile soil only, because the rest will only produce thorns and weeds.

But let us explore the weed and thorn infested soil of African customs.

To us whites the initiation rites of blacks are horrific and barbaric practices that are still practiced to this very day. No Xhosa will ever be accepted as a man if he as a last resort to save his life, went to a western hospital during the circumcision period.

The Zulus initiation into manhood is called ukeshwama. A group of boys have to kill a bull with their bare hands. They pull out his tongue, stuff dirt down his throat, squeeze his testicles till it burst and then finally wring his neck by gripping the horns until his neck snaps. They also have to tear meat from the carcass with their bare hands and eat it raw. This is all in the name of “Culture”.

But the most horrific practice amongst blacks in South Africa and Africa in general has to be “Muti-murders”.

One just has to make an internet search or a search on a news site like IOL for “Muti-murders” to be shaken to the core at the brutality of the black man.
Muti means “medicine”. It is made from plants or animal organs, but the most powerful muti is made from human body parts, harvested while the person is still alive.

Everything from sexual organs to hands, lips, ears and other organs are cut from victims of all ages while they are still alive, including young children and babies.
Some will say that these are a few dissident Sangomas (traditional healers) who practice “muti-murders”, but the shear amount of these killings tells us that there are huge markets of believers amongst the black communities which drive these killings.

Blacks further believe in the “Tokoloshe”, a hairy goblin-like creature with a huge penis, who is sent by the Sangoma to attack them if they have done something wrong.
One can literally write volumes on the evil practices and beliefs of black South Africans.

In more modern times new “cultural beliefs” of blacks have emerged that shows their primitive mindset that no amount of education or conversion to Christianity has been able to change.

Blacks believe that sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. This has resulted in horrific rapes of babies as young as six months.

Black men rape lesbians, to “correct” them. It is called by the media, “corrective rapes”.

How can any cultural relativist ever be able to convince us that these practices, customs and cultures are the same as ours?

The problem is that people who do not know Africa, or more specific, South Africa, will never believe anything I wrote above, yet it is all true and only a fraction of the truth about the blacks of South Africa. The information is today freely available on the internet and in books.

Cultural relativists should first go and try to preach their “equality” and “relativism” to the blacks of Africa, before they try to convince others of it.
The whites of South Africa learned the hard way from observing the black man in his natural habitat over hundreds of years since they first settled on South African soil in 1652.

Despite all this evil, never, not once, did it cross the minds of the Whites to annihilate and obliterate the entire black populations of South Africa, although they had every reason to do so. The whites were too pious and despite all the evils committed against them during the nine Kaffir wars, at Bloukrans, at Bloodriver, at Makapansgat, etc, still believed in “Peaceful co-existence” with Blacks.

The whites acknowledged the nature of Blacks, with all their evil customs, cultures and superstitious beliefs. The whites did not want to change any of it like the missionaries attempted (and failed) to do. No, they just wanted to separate themselves from such evil as far as possible.

In the end the piousness of whites would mean their downfall. What they should have done was to extinguish this evil.

.../to be continued