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Say you want to leave South Africa.

A year or two ago I was having a theoretical debate with a friend – about to leave for Canada – whether it’s better to leave South Africa, as opposed to moving to a Volkstaat somewhere in the desert. We both had already excluded the possibility of living in a gated community. Or a Volkstaat in any parts of South Africa where many people lived (we both hate conflict).

The guy in question is a drummer. An interesting guy. He had his own company. A cool guy.

He was Afrikaans but his main concern was that a Volkstaat would be full of a bunch of people quite unlike him. The bores, the religious zealots and yes, the racists. Moving to Canada was sad, terrible even, but preferable.

I was reminded of this conversation on christmas day when I saw something interesting on Facebook. Dan Roodt, yes THAT Dan Roodt had posted a link to Jan Rabie’s Swart Kersfees. A scary short story penned in the 40’s of a group whites being murdered on Christmas day by blacks.

Geseënde Kersfees aan almal… en lees bietjie “Swart Kersfees” deur Jan Rabie, wat ek persoonlik ingeskandeer het uit ‘n ou kortverhaalbloemlesing van 1947.

That’s not what I found interesting. Posting obscure stories about die swart gevaar is par for the Dan Roodt course, especially if it’s by a celebrated author like Rabie. Dan Roodt is right wing Afrikanerdom’s intellectual.

But Dan had the temerity to wish his readers a “Geseënde Kersfees”, that is to say a blessed xmas.

Here is a selection of the responses he got:

“Kan mens iemand seën met ‘n leuen? want die hele kersfees ding is ‘n leuen, eintlik ‘n paganfees, so my vraag is, watter seën Dan spreek jy oor my en my huis en almal wat dit aanvaar uit, en asb moenie antw dat ander verstaan nie, Vader verstaan nie want Hy haat, het ‘n gruwel vir ‘n leuen, want ek verstaan nie hoe die duiwel se dinge seën kan bring nie, ons sê ons dien ons Vader maar ons is te sleg om op te staan vir Hom, kersfees is ‘n leuen, ons kan nie 2 Here / here dien nie. “

I don’t feel like translating all of that, but suffice to say that the person in question says that Christmas is a lie, the devil’s work, a pagan festival, and that he rejects this devil’s blessing. And this person added.

“Die balnke is nog vêr van God se seën af, baie vêr, want ons is net so vêr van hom af, asb moet dit ook nie antw dat alles terwille van die kinders gedoen word nie, alles leuens en valsheid, so wanneer julle môre julle dag hou en geskenkies uitdeel, onthou Vader en Jesus (wat julle ookal ons Here se Name noem) is daar nie, eintlik treur.”

Whites are far from God’s blessing, because we are far from him. God laments Christmas.

Another added that Chrismas trees are not cool:

MAG OOK NIE KERSBOME IN ONS HUISE INBRING NIE.
Jer 10:1 Hoor die woord wat die HERE oor julle gespreek het, o huis van Israel!
Jer 10:2 So sê die HERE: Maak julle nie gewend aan die weg van die heidene nie, en skrik nie vir die tekens van die hemel, omdat die heidene daarvoor skrik nie.
Jer 10:3 Want die insettinge van die volke is nietigheid; want ‘n boom uit die bos kap hulle om, die handewerk van ‘n ambagsman met die byl.
Jer 10:4 Hulle versier dit met silwer en goud, hulle maak dit vas met spykers en hamers, dat dit nie waggel nie.

And another pointed out that there’s a Facebook group, in Afrikaans about how unchristian Chrismas is.

I could not help myself and left this message.

Arme jy Dan, jy probeer so hard vir die Afrikaner stry, dan skryf hulle sulke dom oningeligte – skies die woord, crap – op jou Facebook posts. Jy moet seker eensaam voel – die enigste rightwinger met ‘n brein?

Elmarie Elmarie Elmarie, hoekom immigreer asseblief gou hemel toe nie? Jannie, jy sommer ook. Rudolph, jy leef in cloud-cooko land, nes Rudolph met die rooi neus.

Besef julle dan nie. Dan glo nie eintlik in Jesus nie. Hy’s ‘n intellectual, darom bevraagteken hy dinge. Lekker kersfees vir julle. Groete uit Azanie.

Translation? You guys are utterly ridiculous.

And I felt much better for saying it – even if I was rude. And the point I discussed with the drummer remains. Would you want to live in a Volkstaat? It’s better to immigrate if you can.

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