PART XVII: Apartheid

At this point, I'm going to skip a piece of history, as it is better discussed later on. Suffice to say, that at the same time and for the same reasons, we had a very similar Rebellion of our own against the English in 1916 when the first War started, than the Irish did.

And again against the English mining bosses in 1922. That time period cemented our wish to get away under their control again. That was our dream, to just rule ourselves again, and not be part of their “Crown”. We had our own King, Jesus Christ. We did not bow to theirs.

My people suffered greatly after the war. They lost their farms and children and freedom. They were left poor and destitute and broken. Then it was world war I, Spanish Flu and the Great Depression a decade later. All things that set us back. But eventually, around the late 1930's, we were slowly climbing out of the hole we were in. People said we picked ourselves up from our bootstraps, because we did it with nothing. The English did not help us or supported us, nor restored what they burnt and looted and stole.

The English took control of Southern Africa after the war of 1902, and created the “Union of South Africa” in 1910 that included all the areas and Republics of Afrikaners, Zulu's, Xhosa's, Sotho's, Tswana's, etc. They wrote laws, which was basically the beginning of Apartheid, setting out how these different groups were allowed to interact with each other. And then the vile land act of 1913 was created, that set out where different groups were allowed to live and work.

Our burning desire was to be free from the English. But we realized... times have changed in the world. We cannot do it via the first 2 methods anymore. Fleeing into the wild, creating our own Republics like in 1830, nor have a war with them again like in 1860 and 1899. So we chose a new third option that became available those days. Politics. Oh, we hated politics. We still do. But with determination, we got into it and started our fight.

In 1948, we were successful. It took us almost 50 years, but at long last, we regained at least political power over ourselves. It was huge. It was wonderful. We celebrated!!

Then, we made a big mistake.

Instead of breaking the Union apart into all the separate countries it used to be 40 years previously, we kept South Africa as a whole and made it a Republic. We thought all the areas too integrated to separate immediately. We decided on a plan to disengage all the different parts over a period of some decades, and called it Separate Development.

We wanted our freedom, and so did the Zulu's, the Xhosa's, the Sotho's, the Swazi's. All the different groups wanted their own Kingdom's back, where they lived and ruled before the English created the Union. But so many, many of them moved to the cities of our old Republics to work in the mines. They were now dependent on these incomes to feed their families who lived in their homelands. We couldn't just kick them all out, declaring it our Republic again in the middle part of the land. It wasn't their fault either, what the English did to all of us.

So instead of just abruptly splitting the whole country apart into the smaller countries it used to be, we kept the Union as I said, and made it one big republic in 1961, called the Republic of South Africa, or RSA. And we started on the Plan, Separate Development, where we wanted to develop every separate country or part, into a successful sovereign country, before breaking it apart.

So that those people working in our old Republics, would rather go back to their own areas out of free will. Lured back to their homelands, where there's also jobs and opportunities close to home. To where their families were. Xhosa's in Xhosa-land, which were called Transkei and Ciskei, Swazi's in Swaziland (Eshwatini today), Sotho's in Lesotho, Tswana's in Bopupatswana, etc. Every tribe had their own homeland, run by a king.

But in1948 when we took control from the English, those areas were very, very poor. Unlike the Afrikaners from 1900 to 1948, those tribes did not thrive and fought back. Build and create to regain their freedom. The areas were underdeveloped, poor and people just continuously flocked into the old Republic's cities, where the mines and jobs were.

We thus planned to first create a Republic, then homelands, then concentrate on uplifting each homeland, and once done and people start to move back towards their original homelands, we would break it all apart into what it used to be in 1899, before the war. And voila, we'd have our own Republics of those days back. Legally, without kicking people out, having more wars or such. Oh, we were so very very naïve!!!

So from 1948, we took control of the country's taxes when we gained the political upper hand. We started pumping huge amounts of money into education for all groups, and built loads of new hospitals, schools and universities all over. We trained teachers and doctors and lawyers by the bucket load. Quickly, we were a first world country, even capable of nuclear development, excellent weaponry, helicopters, tanks, etc. The country prospered at an astonishing rate. Our money was better than the pound and the dollar. Our development astounded and scared the other world powers. They realized we were quickly becoming a country to be reckoned with, and that scared them, because at that point, they still controlled the mines and didn't want to loose that source of wealth.

In 1963, the Communists infiltrated and used Angola to attack one of Germany's colonies in Southern Africa, which we were administering for them. Called South West Africa, today Namibia. We sent troops to help the locals defend themselves from the invaders, and just like that, we had a new war on our hands. Not of our making. We couldn't let the communist take control of Namibia, and kill the people in the North there mercilessly. We had to go defend the border. For 23 years we successfully kept Russia, Cuba and Angola out of our country.

In 1965, we tried to pull out of the World Bank, the Elite controlled money system. Our president was then assassinated in 1966. A smear campaign was started that still holds up today, against his good name. To this day, most people believe the way he was portrait. As the villain, as if he deserved to be assassinated.

By 1969, they started to destabilize our country from within. They infiltrated and used the ANC to cause friction between the different tribes and races in SA (South Africa).

We were fighting a revolution inside and a war outside, and still we grew us a power on the world stage. Despite the unrest, we lived happy and safe lives. Because we had a strong police force, and an amazing army. In the whole 23 years, we lost less than 3000 men in the border war. God was clearly still fighting for us, and with us. Protecting us. Our young men had mandatory service for 2 years after school, which were hard on them. It's not easy going to a war when you're 18 years old. Our police also faced difficulties with the unrest caused by the ANC. The tribes were not happy with waiting for the Separate Development plan to fulfill anymore. They didn't really understand it, and accused us of taking all control and denying them power in their own country. They started to demand that they were the majority, and thus the country should be theirs. That we were actually invaders on African soil, and should go back to Europe. It would be similar to Indians demanding Americans to go back to Europe! Except that we didn't annihilate the locals when we came to Africa. Else we too would've been a majority here. We're a minority, because we left them in peace and traded for land.

Things were falling apart for us again from the early 1980's. We didn't allow the tribes to have voting power, as they would vote the ANC into power, which mean we would, again, loose control over ourselves. We would again be ruled by a foreign group of people, in our own Republics. It was a mess. We so hoped we could get them to move back into their areas where they would then have voting rights in their own Republics, and we in ours.

But it was clear, our plan of Separate Development was failing. They were unhappy. And the world became unhappy with our plan. The people who moved into our Republics for work, were now citizens and demanded voting rights and refused to move back into their areas. We weren't able to lift their areas up to the necessary standards yet, as their population growth just exploded from 1948 when we took over and life expectancy improved for all as we climbed to a first world country.

Our population, the Afrikaners, went from about 1 million to 4 million from the 1900's. The Bantu's went from around 3 million to over 20 million by 1990. And they have since tripled that number (to 60 million), as well as added an estimated 20 million foreigners from Africa to their numbers. While we stayed around 4 million, and the English South Africans are around 1.5 million. About 3x what they were 100 years ago. The Khoisan is around 5 million, and the South African Indian population about 1 million. And a tiny % of Asian.

We saw the writing on the wall. We caved. We gave our power away, again, just like 1902. Knowing we would loose control over our own lives again. We tried so hard. We worked so hard. But it was not to be. Separate Development failed and the world were angry and called it “Apartheid” and called us racist. Without trying to understand the history and reasons behind it all. We were vilified and maligned. Footage were shown where riot police tried to control violent riots, where invariably the police were a mixture of black and mostly white, but the rioters were all black. So it was depicted as white on black violence over and over again by the world. Never showing what the rioters did and why the police had to control it. They also used to send their children even as young as 12 out into these “riots”. And then send the world footage of white police brutality against young black kids. Of course it was said “for no reason at all except that they were black”. The fact that the black kids threw bricks to the police, or used lead pipes to beat them with, was of course, kept silent. That the police sometimes had little other recourse than trying to stop the violence by acting against the kids, were shushed.

Oh, I have to interject. I'm not making excuses for the true racist events. Of which there of course WERE as well. We were about 30 years behind America. So just like in America there were white on black racisms in 1950, we still had that in 1980 too. We had separate bathrooms, drinking taps, public benches and train coaches. JUST like it used to be in America. We were just slower to get rid of it all. It wasn't right, and it HAD to go. It was demeaning, dehumanizing and unfair. But not always violent.

And yes, we also had violent incidents. And yes, sometimes there WERE white on black violence or brutality from the police or political front. Usually, these were dealt with. But of course not always in a fair way. As we had the political power and they did not. We misused our intelligence, just like is currently still happening in America. We were NOT innocent in all ways, far from it, we know it. And we apologized and tried to make it right by handing our first world country over to them. Just like that. Giving them a whole country on a silver platter.

We knew it all HAD to change. We knew that and were working towards these changes as fast as we could. If only they worked with us, instead of against us.

From around the 70's, the ANC realized that we're going to give power over. And they tried to situate themselves as the one on the receiving end when that day comes. To accomplish that goal, they had to get rid of the other contenders, especially their main contender, the IFP, the Zulu's Party.

So instead of fighting us, the Afrikaners in control, they went to Russia and were trained in the People's War. From the1980's, they then whipped the tribes up against each other. Especially the Xhosa-controlled ANC against the Zulu's. These 2 tribes had a history of warring against each other, so it was rather easy to do.

Under Mr Mandela's wife, Winnie, the ANC used a method they called “necklacing” where they would take people from their homes who they accused of supporting the “Apartheid government” (but who would just many times turned out to be a political opponent) and dragged them into the street. Then they put a car tire around their neck, fill it with petrol and set it alight. They killed thousands upon thousands of the Zulu's in this most gruesome way. That's when the Afrikaner riot police would be sent out, to stop this. To help the poor wretched victims. To catch the culprits. The world was shown this footage and declared us evil whites for harming innocent blacks. When they were sent in to separate 2 violent tribes hellbent on annihilating each other after such a necklacing.

We were unable to fight this propaganda war. Sweden had an office with a budget of millions of dollars, controlling what the world was shown about us. Europe, UK and the USA had a vested interest in destroying us, as an emerging world power, to keep control over the riches of this country. They knew we would eventually stop their looting of our wealth and privatizing our banks again. They could not allow this. So they made sure the world hated us.

They sanctioned us to death. And they vilified and maligned us as evil racist's who refused voting rights to their citizens based on color. It was true. We did deny blacks voting rights, as we were still idiotically holding onto our Separate Development plan. 

So we caved. We gave it all away. To the ANC who necklaced those they hated. Who had a communist plan to turn this into another Cuba or Venezuela. They told the world they wanted democracy, but it was never their true plan. They declared their communist goals in what they called the NDR in 1955 already, and to this day, they are working to achieve the goals set out in it.

Before the handover, we asked our leaders to at least make sure that our freedom to speak our language was protected, as well as to have control over our education and the ability to practice our religion without persecution. They promised us they would assure that. But their promises fell flat within 5 years after the ANC took control of South Africa in 1994, with our so-called new democracy, which I discuss here.