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After two meetings held on Saturday, all Afrikaans organisations involved in community security have united to devise a common strategy to deal with threats of violence against the Afrikaner nation of South Africa.

These threats emanate from the collapse of law and order in the country, as well as recent pronouncements by the ANC Youth League leader, Julius Malema, made in Zimbabwe. Mr. Malema has seemingly enlisted the help of ZANU-PF military personnel in the coming seizure of Afrikaner-owned and white-owned farms in South Africa.

Dr. Dan Roodt of PRAAG (Pro-Afrikaans Action Group) called a meeting on Saturday in Pretoria at which security issues were discussed with members of the Afrikaner Front Security Directorate. "There is real fear among Afrikaners that South Africa is sliding into Zimbabwean-style anarchy and chaos," said Roodt. "Racially motivated attacks on whites and Afrikaners are on the increase. While in Zimbabwe, Mr. Malema promised that land seizures in this country would commence from the end of this year. According to reports, the ANC has sent some of its cadres to Zimbabwe for training in land seizures. We have to take these threats very seriously. The livelihood of our farmers and the food security of South Africa are at stake."

Afrikaans organisations intend setting up a common command and control structure, but with decentralised citizens' commando groups operating more or less autonomously, each one under a district Kommandant. According to Roodt, the following organisations will participate in the setting up of a voluntary security system capable of ensuring safety amid the collapse of law and order, as well as to repulse military threats arising from land seizures with or without the participation of ANC cadres and ZANU-PF military personnel crossing over South Africa's border: Boerevolk Vryheidstigting, AWB, Suidlanders, Kommandokorps, TAU, PRAAG community safety group.

Roodt said that Afrikaner security assocations were concerned about the escalating tone of hate speech directed against Afrikaners. "Songs inciting violence or even genocide against Afrikaners or Boers are still being sung in various parts of the country. The remarks made by Julius Malema yesterday in the Northern Cape, implying that Afrikaner land owners are foreigners, convey a clear message that Afrikaners are not wanted in South Africa. Given the xenophobic attacks in May 2008, we are concerned that members of the Afrikaner nation will become the next target for pogroms by South African blacks."

Roodt urged all Afrikaner males to join up with one of the citizens' security associations. "Our analysis has shown that we are sitting on a powder keg. The ethnic and racial consciousness of a significant section of the black population has reached fever pitch and some sort of racial conflagration in the country could be imminent."