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Secession Push Grows as South African Regime Plots Land Thefts
By: Hawk Date: March 27, 2018, 6:42 pm
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SOURCE : New American
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Secession Push Grows as South African Regime Plots Land Thefts
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There is only one sensible solution to the escalating crisis in
South Africa: Self-determination for the Western-minded,
Afrikaans-speaking Christian majority in the Western Cape. At
least, that is how a growing number of concerned people across
the country and among South Africans abroad see the issue.
Organized efforts to achieve independence for the Cape region
are already underway. At least one local tribal leader, Khoebaha
Calvin Cornelius III, whose formal title roughly translates into
“king” in English, has already declared independence from the
Communist-controlled South African regime. Other voices hope for
Afrikaner self-determination in an interior region of the
country where they once governed themselves within the Boer
republics. And a growing number of embattled Afrikaners and
Boers are making (peaceful) preparations in anticipation of what
they believe is a looming civil war and societal collapse.
While not everyone agrees on the solution or what to do, the
fact that there is a major problem can no longer be denied. As
the world has finally started realizing in recent weeks, South
Africa is coming apart at the seams amid an explosion of
violence, tyranny, and hate — not to mention the “Second Phase”
of a communist revolution. Most recently, the rapidly
deteriorating situation was exposed in South Africa's
Parliament. Last month, lawmakers there voted in favor of a
racist plot to confiscate property from European-descent South
Africans without any compensation. The scheme to authorize mass
theft, which requires a change to the Constitution, comes amid a
growing tsunami of racist violence targeting Afrikaner farmers,
often labeled Boers. There have been thousands of unimaginably
brutal so-called “farm attacks” and “farm murders,” known as
“plaasmoorde” in Afrikaans, since whites voted to surrender
political power some 25 years ago in the face of a brutal
communist terror campaign.
One non-political civil-rights organization, CapeXit, formerly
known as the Afrikaner Society, has already put the South
African government on notice that the people of the Cape are
working to secede using a lawful, internationally recognized
process. In a letter delivered to then-South African President
Jacob Zuma, who proudly sang genocidal songs advocating the
extermination of embattled Afrikaners, the group said the effort
would comply with the South African Constitution and
international law. The area in question is known as the Cape
region, which includes the provinces of the Western Cape, the
Northern Cape, and parts of the Eastern Cape. According to the
latest census data, a majority of the region's residents are
Afrikaans-speaking Christians who are either white or what is
known in South Africa as “coloured.”
Speaking to The New American after the latest developments
involving the government's land grabs, CapXit Co-President
Hannes Louw said there was no other choice. “The Black
Supremacist Government of South Africa have set a course towards
Civil War, the writing is on the wall and all other options are
exhausted,” explained Louw, adding that options such as mass
emigration would be less preferable. “The only way to avert the
next major humanitarian crisis is the creation of a safe haven
for Afrikaners and other descendants of the aboriginal people of
Southern Africa, those who currently identify as Khoi or San.”
That safe haven, he said, should be in the Cape region, where
Afrikaners and other marginalized people groups still constitute
a numerical majority and have historically valid claims to the
land.
All of the efforts are guided by, and in compliance with, South
Africa's Constitution and a variety of international treaties to
which the central government is a party. “The right to secede is
guaranteed by Section 235 of the South African Constitution,
Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and Article 20 of the African Charter on Human and
Peoples' Rights,” Louw explained, echoing the letter delivered
to Zuma by the sheriff of Pretoria. “By supporting secession,
the international community has an opportunity to help a whole
nation. Granting refugee status should be the last resort.”
Growing cries to grant refugee status to embattled Afrikaners
come amid statements by top Australian officials warning of the
dire plight facing Afrikaner farmers and vowing to explore
possibilities for them to immigrate there.
“CapeXit is trying to avoid a potential conflict by proposing a
peaceful, practical and long-term solution to the growing
instability in South Africa,” Louw continued in a follow-up
statement, noting that the name was derived from the successful
“Brexit” movement. “Unfortunately, there are not many options
left on the table for a peaceful solution. The issues in South
Africa are fundamental, long-term, and deeply-rooted differences
for which no solutions have been found in more than two decades
of democratic rule. Perhaps the most concerning aspect is that
these radical and racist policies enjoy widespread popular
support among the black majority, and that the African National
Congress and the Economic Freedom Fighters coalition easily
commands the two-thirds majority required to make constitutional
changes. Parties proposing unity and reconciliation are either
stagnating or in decline.”
But, despite the difficulties surrounding the current situation,
“the solution is simpler than what many people may realize,”
said Louw. “There is a region in South Africa that is
fundamentally different from the rest of the country. A region
that was independent for almost 300 years until 1910, and by
rights should never have been incorporated into South Africa. A
region where the vast majority of the inhabitants are members of
the oppressed brown and white minorities and speak the shared
Afrikaans language. This region has for thousands of years
belonged to the aboriginal Khoi and San tribes, who since 1652
have lived in peace with the early settlers from Europe.” That
region is the Cape, consisting of the former Cape Colony, where
the brown and white peoples are direct descendants of the “First
Nations” and the early European settlers.
The following maps (taken from the 2011 South African census)
immediately and clearly show how substantially different the
Cape is from the rest of South Africa:
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It took more than a decade of research and planning, Louw
continued, but now, the CapeXit movement is in a position to
facilitate the peaceful secession of the Cape region. “Our goal
is to create a safe haven for these marginalized minorities,
thereby not only ensuring their safety but also providing an
environment for them to thrive and enjoy their basic human
rights without domination and oppression,” he said. “At the same
time this solution will not infringe on the rights of the black
majority in South Africa, since they will continue to have full
access to their historical lands to implement whatever policies
they see fit. It should be noted that there are still
significant minority populations outside of the Cape region, but
a mass migration of these people to the Cape is already
underway, and undoubtedly this will rapidly accelerate as
secession becomes a reality.”
South African scientist and scholar Harry Booyens, an Afrikaner
who wrote the epic book AmaBhulu: The Birth and Death of the
Second America exploring the fascinating history of his
homeland, agreed that there are no more realistic options for
dealing with the situation. “The world is witnessing the
beginning of the end of South Africa as a viable country,”
Booyens said after the parliamentary vote to steal land. “The
only possible means of long term survival for non-Blacks is
formal secession. The world supported the split of the Sudan
into two countries based on race; it is now inevitable in South
Africa. The only question is how many will have to die before
the inevitable happens.” Dr. Booyens has been sounding the alarm
for years. But now, he says, the situation is completely out of
control.
Despite recent statements by Australian officials, Booyens does
not believe Western governments “have the moral guts” to accept
some five million white refugees from South Africa — especially
considering the role many of those governments played in
bringing about the current situation. Without gas chambers, he
continued, it will be impossible to fully exterminate South
Africa's remaining European-descent population, which first
settled the sparsely inhabited Cape region almost 400 years ago
alongside small bands of nomadic tribesmen already living in the
area. There is no way the regime will be able to make 4.5
million Western-minded Christians into “African subsistence
farmers,” particularly when the government has stolen all their
land. “So, the only possibility is secession,” Booyens told The
New American.
But unfortunately, it is likely to get uglier before then, he
fears. “I can only shudder at what will happen if the Formal
Western Media continues its assault on the Afrikaner while as a
nation he lies helpless on the ground, pummeled by that vile ANC
government,” said Booyens, whose Afrikaner roots trace back to
the earliest Europeans to arrive in South Africa in the 1600s.
“No group of humans can take this present degree of abuse
without ultimately reacting with violence. Is this what the West
wants ... a violent reaction to validate their prejudice against
these folks?” Unfortunately, there are already voices on all
sides in South Africa preparing for such an eventuality.
The constant beating up on the minority population “flies in the
face of humanity, reason, and mathematics,” Booyens continued.
“There is no way in heaven or on earth that one can keep
murdering, literally and figuratively, one person to make nine
others rich. This is NOT about land; it is about driving out the
white man from his country.” Citing Dr. Pieter Groenwald, a
member of Parliament with the Freedom Front Party, Booyens noted
that virtually all of the “land restitution beneficiaries”
preferred money and did not want land. The government is already
sitting on thousands of farms, and virtually all those it has
redistributed failed. Plus, the whole premise of it all — the
notion that European-descent South Africans “stole” the land —
is false. In short, the effort to rob South Africa's embattled
farmers is not about creating a new class of farmers — it's
about stealing. “The hubris of the ANC in this regard is now
bordering on the psychotic,” he said.
Making matters worse, almost half a million blue collar
Afrikaners are now living in squatter camps, Booyens said. With
the total white Afrikaner population number just 2.7 million,
that means more than one in every seven is now destitute and
living in a squatter camp. “They are not just neglected; they
are actively discriminated against,” Booyens explained, noting
that the “Black Economic Empowerment Act” makes it practically
illegal for them to be employed. “The fact that they are herded
together as whites is used by the government to refuse them aid.
The actual truth is that these people are 'dead man walking'
because they have nothing left that the government can steal
from them. So they are left to rot and die. The Poor White
problem of South Africa is an active design by the ANC
government.”
All pretense at South Africa being a so-called “Rainbow Nation”
is now “out the window,” Booyens continued. “The rainbow hath no
color white,” he said. “To fail to appreciate this, is to be
deaf, blind and devoid of enough intelligence to feed oneself.”
Of course, there is also the very real communist issue. In fact,
after Nelson Mandela died, it was confirmed that he was a member
of the Soviet-controlled South African Communist Party's Central
Committee. The ANC became practically a front for this murderous
party, and Mandela led its terrorist wing, the MK, landing him
on the U.S. government's terrorist list until he was removed a
few years before his death.
“Like good Communists the ANC comes ready-made with a
revolutionary lexicon,” Booyens said. “They talk about Phase 1
and Phase 2. The white person understands the message of the ANC
as 'First we’ll abuse Democracy to make you helpless, then we’ll
chase you out.' They were made helpless just on a quarter
century ago; now they are being chased out ... but they have
nowhere to go. Where are they supposed to go?”
“The Western World is in permanent debate about what to do about
Black and Middle Eastern people who flee to Europe for a new
life,” he said. “But those folks are fleeing their own leaders
and nations who remain in command of their own countries. In
South Africa we have a government that threatens its white
population daily, refers to them as the source of all problems,
and assails them morally morning, noon, and night. But the West
will not view such people as refugees. Caucasian Christians are
not allowed to be refugees even if they are being tortured to
death.” And as more than a few experts have been warning for
years, the prospect of a government-backed genocide against the
Afrikaner is very real. Indeed, the ghastly farm murders, which
often involve savage torture of even children and babies, may be
just a preview of the future if current trends continue.
Booyens recounted comments made to him by a liberal Northern
European professor, who told him that Afrikaners are a “sick
anachronism” and a “blot on the name of Europe” who “should just
die.” “He meant it,” Booyens recalled, adding that northern
liberals and their media allies still believe this.
“We don’t expect balance from that media. It was the New York
Times that said as far back as 1901 that Afrikaner women could
play tennis all day in the British Concentration Camps,” he
continued. “I never knew tennis was so dangerous that it could
kill 30,000 women and children. The same media is now
questioning whether there really are farm murders in South
Africa. Some say these are robberies gone wrong. I never knew
that robberies could go so wrong that ladies would end up burnt
all over their bodies with clothes irons, yet others would be
suffocated to death with plastic bags, elderly couples would
have their feet destroyed in boiling water, and men would end up
shot dead in an execution position with their torn Bibles on
their bodies. What incredibly peculiar robberies these must be.
How exactly does one accidentally kill a few thousand farmers?
Apparently one robbery went so wrong that the farmer was
tortured to death over five hours while his wife was forced to
listen to his dying screams. I give you the Western Media.”
Booyens apologized for sounding “raw.” “But matters are out of
hand,” he said. Booyens also believes that the only possible
future for Afrikaners is in self-determination in the Cape.
Another independence movement led by Cor Ehlers, dubbed
“Onafhanklike Afrikaner-selfbeskikkingsekspedisie” (OASE) or
Independent Expedition for Afrikaner Self-determination in
English, also seeks self-determination for Afrikaners, but not
in the Cape area. Instead, Ehlers told The New American that he
would like Afrikaners within a defined territory about the size
of Austria in central South Africa, near the capital of
Pretoria, where Afrikaners had the Boer Republics until the
British brought them down, to vote on independence. There, they
still retain a majority and would almost certainly vote for
independence, he believes. And while his definition of who and
what exactly constitutes an Afrikaner differs from others'
views, Ehlers, too, cites South Africa's Constitution and
international treaties as the legal basis for
self-determination.
“Recognizing that approximately half of the total Afrikaner
population in South Africa already reside permanently in the
defined territory referred to above, with another half a million
living immediately adjacent to the area, it is obvious where the
true Afrikaner heimat is — not in the Western Cape,” he
concluded. “Once materialized, self-determination for Afrikaners
will naturally exclude racial discrimination of whatever kind,
including Affirmative Action and Black Economic Empowerment.
This will result in equal job opportunities for all. Many
Afrikaners currently living outside the defined territory,
including abroad, will naturally move into the area similar to
what happened to the state of Israel.”
Considering the deteriorating situation, more than a few
Afrikaner activists believe independence and self-government are
inevitable over the long term. “The drive for self-determination
for the Afrikaner Boer picked up speed, and the resolve for our
own freedom away from a failed Marxist black nationalist state
made us more determined,” explained Henri LeRiche, a prominent
globe-trotting Afrikaner activist also working for independence.
“Our drive for freedom and to rule ourselves will happen, and is
hard-coded not just in past, or our DNA, but also our future.
This is why the Afrikaner belongs to the Unrepresented Nations
and Peoples Organization [unpo.org] which clearly states,
'defending our political, social and cultural rights, to
preserve our environments and to promote a right to
self-determination.'"
Another secession movement involving Afrikaners and Khoi native
peoples actually declared independence on September 24 last
year. Standing at the Castle of Good Hope flanked by supporters
of various races and people groups, a Khoi tribal leader known
as King Cornelius III outlined a list of grievances that
prompted the declaration of independence. His supporters are
referring to the new state they hope to build as the Sovereign
State of Good Hope. Under their vision, the new government will
share power between the various nations and people groups that
inhabit the area, with the Goeb (roughly translated as king)
overseeing the whole process.
So far, no other governments have recognized the declaration of
secession, South African authorities have ignored it, and few
media outlets have reported it. A number of other secession
movements have distanced themselves from that particular effort,
saying a referendum should be held so that severing ties with
the South African regime can enjoy full public legitimacy. But
supporters of Cornelius and the effort say that, as the original
inhabitants of the region, the Khoi and their leaders have the
legal right to secede. Cornelius III was at the United Nations
in New York City just last week. “We are now a sovereign state
breaking away from South Africa, with 15 million people, … and
we are ready to make our country a legal, official country —
this is why I'm in New York,” he said in an interview. What
happens next remains to be seen.
Of course, the South African government — an alliance of the
Communist Party and its front groups such as the African
National Congress and a coalition of labor unions — is unlikely
to accept any move that would threaten its wealth, territory,
power, or prestige. In fact, with the “Second Phase” of its
revolution now underway, it intends to begin seizing wealth and
property faster than ever before. That means all of the
secession movements in South Africa face an uphill battle, to
put it mildly. It also means that anyone who stands in the way
is in jeopardy — farmers, business owners, taxpayers, and more,
of all races and creeds. But with the South African Constitution
recognizing and protecting “the right of self-determination of
any community sharing a common cultural and language heritage,”
the law may be on the side of the secessionists.
And with essentially no acceptable options left, this may be
literally a fight for survival.
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