Dr. Conrad Beyers, FF Plus councillor in the Tshwane Metro Council, welcomed a report of the Tshwane Metro Council’s Mayoral committee in which it is stated that a planned statue of Nelson Mandela will not be erected on Church Square in Pretoria, but rather at the Old Synagogue site nearby.
According to the report, Church Square was one of ten possible sites for the statue but after an evaluation process it was decided that the square was not suitable for the project.
According to Dr. Conrad Beyers, FF Plus councillor, the FF Plus was concerned about the fact that Church Square was included as a possibility, especially in the light of previous remarks by ANC councillors that the statue of Paul Kruger should eventually be removed from Church Square.
The Old Synagogue is a more suitable site for the statue due to the fact that the Treason Trials of 1958 to 1963, in which Nelson Mandela himself stood trial had taken place in this building.
Both Paul Kruger and Nelson Mandela are regarded as freedom fighters by respective sections of the South African population and it is therefore, in the opinion of the FF Plus, fitting that one statue is not erected in opposition to the other.
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Wherever it stands, I am positive it will be a fitting resting place and suitable lavatorial for pigeons and Indian minors.
Might I inquire as to how one can equate an elected president who led his band of merry men against an external imperialist aggressor and a cowardly, lying Marxist terrorist who attempted to overthrow a legitimate regime and rotted in jail instead of being hung for his efforts?
It is fucking sad when a patriot like Oom Paul is compared to a sack of shit like Mandela.
@ Dash...
Yep! Hanged, not hung. Preferably by the neck until dead.
It was the Boerseun in me coming out to play.
;-)
@Anon: The ANC wanted to take down the statue of Paul Kruger and replace it with their statue of Mandela, in the same way that the Afrikaans verse of the national anthem was deliberately omitted at the Confederation match. They are constantly picking fights with Afrikaners.
@Anonymous
this Oom Paul you speak of denied the vote to white men because they were English speaking.
Having said that, the idea of taking down a statue and replacing it with another is repugnant, particularly when an attempt like this to rewrite history is made. The ANC should be made to read 1984 ...
@Anon: sorry, I deleted that comment on blacks rather well hanged than well hung. :)
@Viking: Paul Kruger limited the vote to white males who had lived in the country for seven years. Fair enough.
@Dachshund
I recall it was 14, he was going to reduce it to 7 then changed his mind. I'm going to factcheck this one though..
@Viking: I agree, this deserves a post on it's own. I've now also read that it was 14 years, and then reduced to 2 years for a different category of uitlanders.
There is some further background and photos of Kruger on this link:
http://www.cachecoins.org/krugerrand.htm
I'm sure you'll find a lot more. Cecil Rhodes and Barney Barnato were of course mortal enemies of the Boers and would have done anything to undermine them, as subsequent events bore out. It was justified paranoia for Kruger and the Boers.
@Dachshund
It does!
But on the other hand it shouldn't have one. For the same reason I wouldn't argue with a German about World War I. It's not irrelevant but was a long time ago and I think that these days white people should be arguing less about the past, in the name of peace, and more about how to root out PC-dogmatism which is far more insidious.
Some may think it dishonest, but there are new enemies now and I for one keep quiet (usually) on such sensitive subjects.
@Viking: True what you say, but Essers could be a bit nicer to Afrikaners. Don't bury the hatchet, though. Keep it ready for far worse enemies.
@Dachshund
Essers??
Good point, though :)
I have a serious problem with name-changing. If you want to name something after some "hero", build something new and name it after them! Don't take away from someone else's culture. Leningrad should have been renamed St.Petersburg, but only because that city had already been renamed!
Leave history alone, commies!
Essers = English speaking Saffers.
@Dachshund
aha!
thanks
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