“Fiery debate about Afrikaans and the plight of the Afrikaner people in the Dutch national quality daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad…”
Dutch MP Martin Bosma , right, apparently stepped on a lot of very old anti-apartheid activists' toes – judging from the often volatile responses he’s getting to his mildly-worded April 20 article, praising the brilliant uniqueness of the Afrikaans language’s poetry, pleading for its survival and for the survival of all the people who speak it in South Africa. He warned that Afrikaans was plowed under by a deliberate anglicisation policy under the ANC-regime.
Top Afrikaans authors Dr Dan Roodt and Breyten Breytenbach today are battling it out on the pages of NRC, with Afrikaans-language activist Roodt writing a hard-hitting article which agrees with Bosma's comment that things are not going well with the Afrikaners and their language under the ANC-regime. Breytenbach sneered disparagingly at Bosma's statement that 'Afrikaans is Dutch' - saying that 'Afrikaans is brown, a creole language created in the mouths of slaves, servants and Boers, a language which was hijacked by the apartheid-regime to prove their ethnic-European origins with'. http://www.artikel7.nu/?p=56296
“Queen Wilhelmina sent a Dutch warship to rescue Paul Kruger from imprisonment and humiliation by the British… the ANC wants to rename Queen Wilhelmina Street in Pretoria after its church-street bomber Abobaker Ismael, who killed 19 people and injured/maimed more than 200…”
Afrikaans-language activist and author Dr Dan Roodt writes that Bosma 'was entirely correct.' " The new South Africa", writes Roodt, 'to the Afrikaner means (pro-black-anti-white) positive discrimination, murders on Boers and sprawling squatter camps. The survival of Afrikaans is a lot more than the survival of a language and its literature”, he warned.
"The young, brave Queen Wilhelmina (of the Netherlands) sent the Dutch warship Hr Ms Gelderland in 1900 to Delagoa Bay (Maputo) to fetch the old, romantic Boer Republic president Paul Kruger, saving him from incarceration and humiliation by the British.
" Now the black nationalistic regime is planning to change the well-known Queen Wilhelmina Street in Pretoria: they want to replace it with the name of Aboobaker Ismael, the man who committed the vile Church Street bombing on 20 May 1983 in that very same Pretoria (left).
"Not far from Oom Paul's bronzed-eyed guardian statue on Church Square, nineteen people were killed by the Church Street Bomb, and more than 200 people were injured and/or mutilated by the only 'military triumph' the ANC has ever ever booked.
Things are not going well with the Afrikaners.
"Things are not going well with the Afrikaners. Pres FW de Klerk handed over the entire flourishing country, with its army, police, economy and its central bank on a silver platter to a gang of inexperienced ex-terrorists and expats from Londen and Eastern Europe. From the ANC and his followers not one word of thanks was ever spoken. "On the contrary, like hungry crocodiles they insist on ever-more: more power, more money, more rights, ad absurdum.
"Last week the governing ANC party defended its youth league leader Julius Malema in his hatespeech trial for singing the song "Shoot the Boer", claiming that it 'forms part of their'culture'. However we Boers feel at first-hand the results of this hatespeech slogan, as we are being murdered way out of proportion to our small numbers by blacks. "The ANC and Malema claim the right to shout "culture' whenever they call for genocide.Measured by the number of murders and rapes, South Africa has meanwhile become the most dangerous country on earth under their rule…
“The vast black majority, politically in power and economically nearly in charge – applies draconian anti-white empowerment laws… against a defenceless, small minority…”
"The black-economic-empowerment laws of the ANC are being applied in the most draconian way - worse than in any other country in the world, astonishingly to protect a vast majority - a majority with all the political and nearly all the economic power -- , against a very defenceless, small minority.
"The hundreds of thousands of top educated Afrikaners are now sitting unemployed, destitute in squatter camps - plakkerskampe -and small wonder:
" Over the Easter weekend I spoke with my nephew and niece. First year students at the University of Pretoria, which is being rapidly, structurally anglicised just like they are doing to the five other Afrikaans-language universities. In some subjects, Afrikaners and indeed all white people of European origin are being actively discriminated against: a black student with an average final year exam score of fifty percent is admitted for a medical education. A brilliant Afrikaner student with an average 90 percent score is barred from studying for this subject.
Afrikaners have become second-rate citizens:
"Our children are no longer allowed to study at the universities which we have built ourselves, financed ourselves and founded ourselves. For the Afrikaners, the New South Africa means racial discrimination, farm murders and squatter camps. Afrikaners have become second-rate cizitens. We are discriminated against only because of our skin colour. What does one call that again? According the definition of the United Nations that 's referred to as apartheid.
“Writer NP van Wyk Louw, one of our greatest poets, was an enlightened Philosophe. Policitically he described himself as a 'liberal nationalist' - yet sometime during the fifties he wrote:
"the demands of freedom, equal rights, equal chances for all is, when put abstractly, nearly self-evident. That is, if we take as its starting point normal humanity. However when it 's applied in South Africa this would mean that the small, relatively well-educated Afrikaner nation, together with the English-minority, will slide down as helpless minorities into a mass of blacks."
“How profetic were these words. Not only single right remains self-evident for us Afrikaners today, not even the right to Life or equal treatment.,” concludes Roodt. - http://www.nrc.nl
