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Comment on Dubul’ ibhunu lyrics & history by Janine

Janine — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:13:38 +0000

Dear Bheks,
I quote Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial in 1964, after which he spent 27 years in prison for your freedom:
“We of the ANC had always stood for a non-racial democracy, and we shrank from any action which might drive the races further apart…the only solution which will guarantee racial harmony and freedom for all. It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on colour, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one colour group by another. The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs it will not change that policy…I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
None of the hundreds of white people I know, think that “black” South Africans are stupid. “Black” South Africans are 90% of the population. There are now more wealthy “Black” South Africans than wealthy “White” South Africans. The political party in power for 18 years (a very long time in any democracy)is predominantly “Black”. Every where I go almost all the people I deal with in every job, at every level, are “Black”. I don’t think this is being “marginalised”. Yes, the legacy of the unspeakably unjust and brutal disposession and exploitation of the indigenous people of South Africa for 340 years has caused millions enormous suffering. However, the past cannot be undone. We must all work together, now that we have the freedom to do so, to bring about the equality that many thousands of wonderful people struggled courageously and died for. If you give yourself a chance to look around at the many people doing wonderful work to change things for the better, you will see that many of them are “White”. As Mandela taught us all, non-racism (both ways) is the only way for all of us to have freedom.
I wish you all the best in all that you do.

Comment on Clive Derby-Lewis on the wrong side of history by Mak

Mak — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:00:49 +0000

what do you expect in Africa – justice? you’re really naive if you do

Comment on The female gaze by Will the real men/women please stand up?!! | Laa's Hot Spot

Will the real men/women please stand up?!! | Laa's Hot Spot — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:48:06 +0000

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Comment on I’m stupid, selfish & deluded? by Kameraad Mhambi

Kameraad Mhambi — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:19:14 +0000

Thanks for the response Mukhtar, appreciate it.

Comment on I’m stupid, selfish & deluded? by Mukhtar

Mukhtar — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:47:03 +0000

The sad reality is that we all practice some form of racial profiling and stereotyping. I suppose th e trick is to look through our prejudice and not relax our instincts to protect what is ours. Complacency is the real enemy. Bummer about the iPad dude..

Comment on Dubul’ ibhunu lyrics & history by Bheks

Bheks — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:14:30 +0000

F* the white people, we grew up struggling because of them and bantu education we got is not helping much. Even now at work places after the so called liberation blacks are still maginalised. So if they think we as blacks are not intelligent enough to do things right they can go to hell. I think Africans (blacks) are easily forgiving thats why why whites think we are stupid we allowed them to live with us all bad things they did to us.

Comment on Dubul’ ibhunu lyrics & history by Racist smasist | abcitsme

Racist smasist | abcitsme — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:19:44 +0000

[...] clutching onto their MK uniforms…which have somehow morphed into ANCYL t-shirts screaming: Dubul ibhunu aka Shoot the Boer. Yes, I’m being dramatic but you get my point [...]

Comment on The question of Mulder’s Niemandsland by Tah

Tah — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:41:29 +0000

What Jan says is correct – Boers were not the only victims of the imperialist British strategy in what is now South Africa. Its safe to say that indigenous Africans were victimised by these “policies” to the same extent, if not even worse.

Only that they had to go though another era of vitimization: when the Boers took over the political power and introduced apartheid!

Also it doesnt matter whether “Bantu-speaking-people” only partially occupied the area of what today is called Republic of South Africa – they were definitely present in the region when some people from as far away as the Netherlands or Britain arrived and claimed the land to be their property.

Its known that more then 1000 years ago there has been the kingdom of Mapungubwe in the northern part of South Africa – an African kingdom that probably had trading links with the swahili coast, which means in consequence it had trading links with China, the Indian subcontinent and the middle east.

Also its very absurd to differentiate between Khoisan indigenous Africans and Bantu-language-speaking indigenous Africans from a modern day perspective – There has been a lot of fusion between those cultures, Xhosa culture and language for example is a mix of Bantu and Khoisan culture. The boer-minority regime made no big difference when it came to treating people of bantu and of khoisan descend very rude!

Latest research also shows that Khoisan people are essentially the “original humans” and all modern “races” descend from them – Khoisan have the largest variety of genes – all other “races” have a reduced pool of genes in comparision.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7283/full/nature08795.html

My proposition: So every South Afircan who acknowledges that she/he probably descends from Khoisan anyways, might claim to be a citizen of the land – that would be a common ground for us all!

Comment on The question of Mulder’s Niemandsland by Jan

Jan — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:59:39 +0000

I think if you did more rigorous research you will find that the Bantu-speaking migrations took place hundreds of years before settlers arrived at the Cape. They did not meet at the Kei River. Mulder is of course trying to say the land was empty and the claim to it by Afrikaners is valid. He should be condemned.

Furthermore, not only Boer farms were burned under the scorched-earth policy. All farms were. I know because my great-grandparents’ farm was burned and their wells poisoned. They spoke English and German to their family, and corresponded with the government in High Dutch (official language). They too had to flee to avoid being put in the concentration camps. Afrikaners were very good at creating this identity for themselves and writing everyone else, black and white, out of the story.

Comment on The Boers & the making of modern Britain by Jan

Jan — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:43:47 +0000

You have made a mistake. Afrikaner nationalism only arose significantly from the 1920s. Dutch (high Dutch) was taught in the schools. There was not an “Afrikaner” identity (outside the confines of a small group of intellectuals) at the time of the Anglo-Boer War. All claims to the contrary are subsequent revisionism.