Only 27 robbing days to go until Xmas

The festive season has come early this year - well for the robbers it has.

For the rest of us there isn't a great deal to celebrate. Here, long-suffering South Africans call the annual spike in robbery “Christmas Shopping”. This year the stockings of criminals are overflowing and it is not even December.

Against a background of political turmoil, after a bitter split in the ANC, the number of house break-ins, robberies and muggings is even higher than usual.

Unfortunately, I've had first-hand experience of the Christmas rush, SA-style. This year, among the most sought-after “gifts” are laptops - something of a professional necessity for a journalist.

My first one went about a month ago when thieves took advantage of our neighbours' lax security - lax by this country's standards that is. They have high walls and powerful spotlights, but had chosen not to put spikes or electric fences on the top. Young and perhaps naive, they have even forgone external beams linked to an alarm system.

This is child's play for the young bargain-hunters. With a skip and a jump they were over, and my office, separated from the garden by a low wall, must have looked like a rich kid's Christmas tree - stuffed with laptop, satellite and mobile phones, cameras and all sorts of digital goodies.

“That wall is too low. They'll be back...” said Leon, a security expert, as we sized up the garden like it was the exercise yard of a maximum security jail. “Don't worry we'll brick up the wall and fix more electric fence.”

Builders arrived, walls were raised, electric fencing unrolled. “Take that,” I thought, to no avail.

Last Sunday, having calculated that I would have replaced the goodies by then, the thieves were back.

This time the alarms went off, the spotlights shone, two young figures were clearly highlighted.

Instead, I stood there four yards away in my boxers transfixed like the proverbial rabbit in the headlights - before running off to tell my wife and daughters to hide in the bathroom (why the bathroom?) and arming myself with a tennis racket.

They battered down the French study windows with garden boulders, walked in, unplugged the back-up laptop and hopped back over the wall. The armed response unit took seven minutes to arrive - far too long. It was all over in less than three.

“It breaks my heart when I see what they do. This has been a crazy weekend,” the friendly local policeman said as he surveyed the wreckage.

Indeed, it had been. It began with a midnight shoot-out between police and car thieves at the end of our road on Friday. Then in rapid succession, a neighbour's daughter was mugged, a friend's cottage burgled, a cash dispenser broken into and a nearby house cleared out.

Go figure
In Britain, the middle classes chatter endlessly about mortgages. In South Africa, it is crime. At times, along with sport, it often seems the only thing to transcend racial divides.

Whites and the black middle class are united in condemnation of the Government's apparent inability to stem the rising tide of criminality that involves 50 murders a day and a rape every 83 seconds - and that is only the ones that are reported. Official statistics are notoriously hard to come by and often out of date by the time that they are published. No one believes them anyway, least of all the police, who are only too willing to tell you how much worse the situation is compared with official claims. This fuels a paranoia that has triggered a fresh exodus of young professionals from the country, despite the huge skills shortage.

Of course it is worse for the poor. People living in the townships deal with crime every day, and are so fed up that many local activists give warning that there is a serious danger of vigilante-style reprisals against criminals.

Own goal
Jacob Zuma, the ANC leader who expects to become the country's next president after elections early next year, has promised to make fighting crime his number one priority.

Until now, politicians have promised a lot but done little. However, the one thing that terrifies all the ANC top brass is that crime will derail the 2010 World Cup, an event that they hoped would showcase the new South Africa and bring untold glory to the entire continent.

The organisers face a choice between swamping the country with military and paramilitary units, or risking the danger of attacks on visitors. Optimists say that the whistle could finally be blown on crime. Perhaps that's why this “Christmas shopping” has started early for some: the thieves know that it could be the last time such bargains are to be had.

You are not wanted

This family's story highlights the position you may find yourself in one day. If the US does not deem the situation NOW in South Africa dire enough to grant these expats citizenship, how bad does it need to get before they do? Don't count on being able to hop on a plane and landing somewhere should matters go pear-shaped in South Africa. Live your life but have a contingency plan. The world truly does not want you.

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Anton Peens brought his family to America from South Africa eight years ago, but he says he still hasn't quite embraced that uniquely American holiday, Thanksgiving. "Not totally yet," he said with a laugh. "It will not be a very thankful one this year."

That's because Peens, his wife and his two daughters, an eighth-grader and a senior in Kenton County schools, are packing their bags and selling their home in Independence. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is sending them back to South Africa on Dec. 5 unless someone hires Peens, sponsors him and takes over his immigration case.

"Not many are willing to fight the INS," he said. "It's expensive. It takes lawyers."

And it takes years of patience, often rewarded only by disappointment. The same federal bureaucracy that can't seem to do anything to stop illegal immigration can be surprisingly effective at deporting families that try to follow the rules. It brings to mind the proverb about swallowing a camel and choking on a gnat.

Peens was brought here on an H-1B visa, the kind used by employers to import foreign workers. His family filled out the paperwork to apply for permanent citizenship.

But his application has dragged out for nearly four years. South Africa lost one of the Peens' passports, and their application was stalled. "They are just overwhelmed," he said of the INS.

Meanwhile, his job as a computer applications developer for a Kroger contractor was eliminated. Without the job, his visa expired and INS told him he had to find a new sponsor or leave.

It's not a good time to find a job - even without the INS baggage. It's not a good time to sell a house, either. "It's almost impossible to get it sold," Peens said. "The way it looks, we can't even pay back the mortgage."

"There is no way they will let me stay," he said. So, while the Peens family and their friends hope for a miracle, they are packing to return to Johannesburg.

"If it were up to me, I'd rather not," he said.

He will miss his good friends. "They offered to hide us in an attic or a basement," he joked.

His daughters will have to repeat their schoolwork, because the calendar in South Africa begins in January. "They have to leave their friends behind and change their way of life," Peens said.

Amanda Lukas, a close friend of high school senior Jackie Peens, has written letters to congressmen, senators and others to get help.

But the official answer was always the same: Rules are rules. Nothing can be done.

Peens also worries about the "utter lawlessness" in South Africa. "When you leave home in the morning you're not sure it will be there when you get home at night," he said. Rising crime has been aggravated by unrestricted immigration and no border control, he said.

That's ironic. We have some of the same immigration problems in the U.S. - so the Peens family is being sent back to South Africa, where it's even worse.

"I can understand why people don't follow the rules if the rules don't work," Peens said. Knowing that many illegals will stay while his family is deported "can make you feel bitter," he said, "but that's the way it is."

Anyone who flies over the great open spaces of America knows we have plenty of room for families like the Peenses. They have paid their taxes, done their homework, followed the law - and yet the federal grinding stones will turn their dreams into dust.

Their story is repeated every day all over the country: Good people get deported, or stand in line for years to get to America, while others cut a hole in the fence. If this is what happens when you fill out the paperwork and play by the rules, why not take a chance and cross the border in the back of a van?

Peens says he probably won't be back for another Thanksgiving in America. He shared his story knowing it's probably too late for his family. "But maybe it will help somebody else."

Was Apartheid Really The Most Evil Regime In The World?

How does one measure evil? Is there such a thing as a universal 'index' according to which deeds of evil can be judged?

If we, for example, take the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the final arbiter of what is evil and what is not, how could we then judge Zimbabwe as being more evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia – two countries enjoying marvelous ties with the West despite their abysmal human rights records. Is this blatant hypocrisy, or just the obligatory Real Politic of individual nations surviving in a cynical world where might (financial, military, etc) is right?

Be that as it may; it would be quite an interesting exercise to give Joe and Jane Average a list of five words to rank according to the evilness 'index' of the West.

For example; take the words Apartheid, Gowon, Mengisthu, Hutu, and Kim IL Sung, and then give them a number, 1 – 5, on a scale of the evil they signify. Try it.

It would not be surprising if your ranking closely resembles the original order of the words I listed. The last four words will most probably be vaguely familiar and have some negative connotations, whereas the first word, Apartheid, is guaranteed to conjure up images of the most evil kind. The question now obviously is whether evil is evil most foul simply because you know about it, especially in view of the fact that the above four words that you are not really familiar with denote genocides of a million and more.

Did you know that fewer than 2000 people were deliberately killed by security forces in South Africa during the 42 years of Apartheid?

And did you know that 90% of all the politically motivated deaths during Apartheid (total 20 000) was due to Black-on-Black (mostly tribal) violence?

20 000 too many of course, but seen against the background of the never-ending vilification of white South Africans, the four million-man genocides mentioned above and innumerable unknown other evils like, for example, Robert Mugabe's Knighthood, awarded by the Queen while he was massacring 21 000 Ndebeles in 1984, surely must illustrate that selective (media-borne) knowledge of evil can never be the ultimate criteria when putting together an 'index' of universal evil.

Lest I stand accused of quantifying evil, let us examine the reason why Apartheid's 2000 dead in 42 years is judged as being more evil than, amongst others, Pol Pot's 2 million dead in 4 years and Rwanda's 1 million dead in 3 months.

Apartheid South Africa was ruled by whites, and whites (the West) demand that their kin, wherever they may find themselves on this lonely planet, act according to the moral standards they have set themselves, be it those inherent in human rights, democracy or capitalism. Whenever a white nation transgresses, it is punished till it conforms….and rightly so.

Noble and honourable indeed the West's moral hegemony is, especially given the fact that none of the other races bother to do so at all. Japan can't be bothered (except financially) by China's human rights abuses, neither can black South Africa by Mugabe's horror regime, or Saudi Arabia by the Taliban's madness.

Different moral strokes for different coloured folks, it would seem.

But then, the West has always been on a mission…..to make existence as livable as possible, for all humanity. A quest not easily undertaken or brought to fruition, especially when living in the moral outskirts of progressive human existence. ..like in Africa.

Did you know that the life expectancy of black South Africans nearly equaled that of Europeans during the last decade of Apartheid?

Did you know that the black population nearly trebled during Apartheid?

Did you know that black South Africans had the highest per capita income and education levels in Africa during Apartheid?

No, of course you didn't….because your view of evil has already been defined.

Imagine being on a mission…to rid your surrounding world of primitive ignorance, and then you stumble across the last hurdle (the final acknowledgement of universal human rights, democracy, etc) – not because you wanted to….but because your fellow runners simply refuse to acknowledge its existence.

On trapping birds and kicking dogs

This is an old article but worth a re-post.

When one traps pheasants, one has to bait them with feed until they are under the trap. Once there, one yanks out the stick and the trap falls over the birds. Then their heads are cut off. Further, they are plucked, roasted and eaten.

What do the other pheasants feel about the trapper? Do they think he was such a nice man to feed them for a while, or do they think he is an evil butcher?

In order to catch a dog unawares and kick him in his teeth, one has to sweet talk him and be nice to him, otherwise he will run away and avoid you. Let him think you are going to pat him on his head or give him something nice to eat, but the moment he is within range, you kick his teeth in. What does all that sweet talk mean to him then?

After Jacob Zuma’s win of the ANC presidency, Afrikaner "leaders" and "academics", such as F.W. de Klerk, Pieter Mulder and Dan Roodt congratulated Zuma and all were looking forward to dialogue with him. Zuma has been sweet-talking the so called "Afrikaner leaders" and "Intelligentsia" for a while now.

How amazing to see that the only LEADER with BALLS was a woman. Helen Zille was the only one who dared speak out against this abomination of a primitive scoundrel, functionally illiterate and morally challenged individual called Jacob Zuma.

I am not sure why these sophomoric Afrikaners attempt to "steig" the moral high ground. It is embarrassing to watch them clambering over each other to go plant their white flag at the apex of Mount Moral.

I know many intellectuals. Fine political analysts, but none of them I would trust with a leadership role of any Afrikaner. Not politically. Not militarily. These academics are so far removed from reality that they actually believe dialogue is going to help the Afrikaners and that THEY, the Academics, have the best words strung together to do that job. I can just picture these vicarious whores, parking off on their leather couches in up market white suburbs, scoffing peanuts and sipping brandy, hallucinating up their drivel behind their laptops and thinking they are "Afrikaner Leaders".

Trying to make sense of their verbal-vomit is like using a broken calculator to solve the Collatz Conjecture. They call themselves "Moderate Conservatives", "Centrists"…"Non-ideological", because they are in the middle…In the middle of what? I am sick and tired of their over-reasonableness. Moderation is cowardice!

As it says in Revelations 3:16…"So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth."

Take a lesson from Nicola Machiavelli you cowards, in conflict choose sides. Always choose the lesser of two evils.

Every time the communist blacks get uppity and start Toi-Toiing in the streets for more of what Whitey has, the closest these Afrikaner fools get to resistance is playing their "De la Rey" CD, and singing along.

They have absolutely no desire to ever lead or save the Afrikaners. Not Roodt, Not Mulder, Not De Klerk….Not even the idiot who fell off his horse.

Who do they think Zuma is talking about when he sings, "Bring me my machine gun"? What does he want to do with that machine gun? Kill Blacks? I don’t think so…

I wonder if the reader knows what these so called "Afrikaner Intelligentsia’s" long term strategy is. Let me tell you, dear reader what their 50 year plan is for the Afrikaner, or go see their websites…

Their entire strategy is one of appeasement. Keep the enemies of the Afrikaner happy in South Africa so that the Afrikaner can find and survive in his own little niche.

That, people is the truth. These Afrikaner Intelligentsia organizations, such as the Afrikanerbond, FAK, ATKV, et al are shamelessly taking money from their members and having monthly meetings on how to appease the enemies of their people. They are first interested in the welfare of their enemies, before they care about their own people’s interests or welfare. I know it sounds pathetic, but it is unfortunately true.

Not a single one of those Afrikaner Intelligentsia organizations support a homeland for the Afrikaner. No, they feed the crocodiles and hope they get eaten last, as one reader pointed out.

If this is the quality of "leadership" the Afrikaners espouse, then there is little hope for them. In chess it is good to have a strategy, but one should never forget that the opponent also has a strategy. The Afrikaner Intelligentsia’s strategy is to force a draw (at best), while their enemies want to wipe every white piece off the table. Unless they take cognizance of this fact, their strategy of appeasement is doomed.

It is time for the members of these organizations to change this strategy. They should tackle their leaders and unite behind a common goal. Afrikaner unity will only come if they are striving for a common goal, namely their own country, their own Republic where they can rule themselves and be free from the communist yoke of their enemies.

Afrikaners should take a look out the window and realize that the world around them is Black, hungry and violent. They are armed with AK 47’s and willing to tear the Afrikaners apart for whatever possessions they have left.

People like Zuma is only holding the rabid dogs on a leash, because the whites fear the number of dogs and it extorts from them their money and possessions.

What is going to happen, Afrikaners, when you have nothing more to give? Why then should the dogs still be kept on a leash?

How can anybody think that dialogue is going to help him or her against violent assault and murder? How are they going to talk their way out when someone is chopping them up with a machete and raping their wives?

Even a moron will realize that only violence can stop violence. Yes people, sometimes violence is necessary. Start accepting it and embrace it. You have to fight to save your life.

The Afrikaners should further realize that it is not Fanus Badenhorst or Hans Pienaar being killed on the farms; it is the Afrikaners being killed!

There is only one way to stop being attacked and that is to hit back. Self-defense is your right, Afrikaners! Use it or lose it.

Afrikaners are too busy accumulating possessions that are going to be taken away from them anyway. The Boers of 100 years ago fought, because they lost everything. Does that have to happen again?

I don’t know what the Afrikaners are scared to lose anyway. Most of them are so deep in debt that having a zero on their bank balances is considered as being rich. The few personal belongings they carry on them are being taken off them in daily muggings. Even their souls are stolen through rape and torture.

So, Afrikaners…tell me, what are you scared to lose? Your life? Your Freedom? You have no life under the ANC. How can you ever be free unless you live in your own country?

When you have nothing more to lose, you have everything to gain.

Anybody who believes that a war can be put off for much longer is a fool. Anyone who thinks that dialogue will prevent a confrontation is delusional and fooling himself.

It is now the time for the REAL leaders of the Afrikaners to step up to the plate. Men who are willing to make sacrifices. Men who are not scared to lose everything. Men who are willing to FIGHT!

People will tell you, you have two options; Fight or Flight.

In combat reality there are actually FOUR options. Fight, Flight, Submission and Posturing. The first three is quite self explanatory, but what is posturing?

When faced with a threat, an animal will often make himself look fiercer than he actually is. Think about a dog’s mane standing up, or a cat arching his back and hissing; the same for a Cobra flattening his neck or an Elephant waving his ears.

It is all to intimidate the threat in such a way that he chooses to avoid the fight or submit without fighting.

This behaviour is also seen in humans. From ancient Greek/Roman’s plumed helmets and shiny armour to the masks of the Samurai; from Scottish bagpipes to the "Banzai" of the Japanese in WWII. From the Maori Haka to the Zulu war dances and Toi-Toi. From singing De la Rey to singing "Bring me my machine gun".

It is all show. It is just posturing. Do not let that intimidate you. Do not fear. Remember who you are. You are a Boer. In your veins pump the blood of a thousand Germanic warriors. The Boers of old did not need a proper Army to fight the British or the Zulus. Each Boer family was a fighting unit in itself. Husbands, wives, children and helpers…even the family dog…each family a force to be reckoned with. Boy, did we give them hell. People use to talk about the "Fighting Fouries" or "Dangerous Rossouw brothers". We are being forced to adopt these tactics again; not because we want to, but because we have to.

Do not for one moment think this is just doom-say in reaction to Zuma winning. No friends, this is about survival. You want some good advice; start training and preparing already; for the day of our third struggle is at hand.

Remember that the ANC might have beaten the system of Apartheid, they have not beaten us. Not by a long shot.

All it takes are a few good men… and an idea

I have often wondered why Whites in South Africa, and in particular, Afrikaners, do not have independence yet. I mean, the right to self-determination for minorities is provided for in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. According to their guidelines, Afrikaners and/or Boers can definitely be classified as indigenous to South Africa and therefore has the right to self-determination.

Furthermore, in our constitution in Chapter 14, Regulation 235. It states:

“Self-determination:
The right of the South African people as a whole to self-determination, as manifested in this Constitution, does not preclude, within the framework of this right, recognition of the notion of the right of self-determination of any community sharing a common cultural and language heritage, within a territorial entity in the Republic or in any other way, determined by national legislation.“

Why have Whites not exercised this right yet?

Many say it is, because Whites simply are not united on this issue and I tend to agree, but what does “united” mean? If 70% of Whites want self-determination, would that be enough to have a country of our own? What are the criteria necessary for self-determination? Must 100% of Whites agree on it; 51%, two thirds, or what?

Now the constitution states that self-determination can be granted to a,

“…community sharing a common cultural and language heritage, within a territorial entity in the Republic or in any other way, determined by national legislation.”

So let us analyze that:

We must share a common cultural and language heritage (not race). Whites in South Africa do not share a common cultural and language heritage. White Afrikaans and English speakers might be very similar, but according to the constitution, they will have to apply for self-determination on their own cultural and language grounds. Not to mention the Whites from Portuguese, Italian, Greek, German or French backgrounds.

Next up is the question of where this self-determined country should be, the so called, “territorial entity in the Republic”. Some Whites have picked Orania already; some say the old Boer Republics of the Free State and the ZAR (Transvaal). Personally I believe the Cape Province south of the Orange River and West of the Fish River is politically obtainable, historically and morally justifiable, and militarily defendable. It is also economically strategic, being by the sea, but unless Whites agree on this area or ANY area, no self-determination will be obtained.

So does the last part, “or in any other way, determined by national legislation”, give us an idea of how to get round this issue of race? Well, I suppose it could, but it will have to be nationally legislated. In other words, approved by a majority Black Parliament. Good luck with that.

As far as regulation two about the “Supremacy of the Constitution” is concerned it states: “…law or conduct inconsistent with it is invalid”.

So in other words, one part of the constitution cannot be used to contradict another part. We need to be able to satisfy all the criteria of non-racialism, non-sexism, etc before we can even think along the lines of self-determination for Whites.

Should we then rather give up and leave South Africa? Well, that would obviously be the best option if you are White and unhappy to live in a crime infested, corrupt, Communist hellhole.

Is regulation 235 of the constitution only written in there as an unobtainable, unrealistic dream for Whites? What will it take to obtain self-determination? Can we ever make it reality?

The problem that we have in South Africa is that none of the major political parties, intelligentsia or cultural organisations supports a White homeland. There are more than fifty so called Afrikaner organisations, and some of them like the Afrikanerbond and Solidarity, are made up of heavyweight intelligentsia, yet none of these organisations claims to speak for, or on behalf of the Afrikaners and none of them support a homeland for the Afrikaners. They all believe that Afrikaners should find their niche in the New South Africa. The truth is that Afrikaners and other Whites are finding their niches in Australia, England and Europe simply, because the ANC/Communist regime creates policies of legislated discrimination against them and does nothing about horrific, violent crime against Whites that would in any normal society be seen as genocide.

I would suggest they start by assembling a task team made up of top White intelligentsia from many fields, who are SERIOUS about a White homeland, a few like-minded good men. Their ranks should include, but not be limited to, Lawyers, Historians, Journalists, Economists, Business people, Military Defence experts, Politicians, Linguists, Religious leaders, Scientists, Public Relations officials, etc. About 20 experts in total would be enough. They should elect their most charismatic leader and then aggressively pursue their goal of self-determination for Whites.

Next up would be an official, independent survey amongst Whites to see how many really want self-determination. Determine why they want it or why not. Based on this, a case can be built that would be legally, morally and historically justified. A new constitution and declaration of independence will have to be drawn up. A lot of work lies ahead.

In the meantime the training of a defence force should also commence in case of reprisal or intimidation attacks so often used by Marxist terrorists against White farmers and residents. They will eventually form the basis of the new Military and Police forces of the new Homeland.

Once the people start seeing a definitive drive from the top to pursue this goal, they will support it. People need to be clearly shown what they stand to gain by seeking self-determination and what they stand to lose by living under Communist oppression for much longer. People should have one common goal; a united and free country for the Whites of Africa, a Heimat for the destitute and persecuted from Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa.

The time has come for Whites in South Africa to shake of the shackles of the past and start working towards a new dispensation that will ensure our continued survival on an otherwise hostile continent. It is up to us and us alone, because the world has turned their backs on us.

Most of the time I endure the scoffing and the mocking, but I firmly believe that Whites in South Africa can obtain self-determination. It starts with a dream, an idea shared by a few good men. It starts with you and me. Every time I close my eyes, I see a Free Republic for the Whites of Africa. In my heart are songs and poems of freedom. I believe that we can build a new country, a beacon of light at the tip of the continent that will forever shine as a testimony to who we are and what our ancestors brought to Africa. We might be down now, but we can be magnificent again. I believe nothing is impossible. If enough people believe it, we will be free and we will prosper as never before.