There is a great article on the web site of Dan Roodt which goes into detail about the plan he discussed on the program at: http://www.praag.co.za/chronologie.afrikaner_nation.htm .
The following is an excerpt from the article in question.
The Afrikaners are mainly descended from Dutch, French Huguenot, German and Scottish settlers who first arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1652. However, even when still in Europe, they fought for their indepence from Spain (in Holland) and for their religious freedom as Protestants (in France). This spirit of freedom and independence, stimulated by the French Revolution of 1789 and the subsequent "Cape Patriot" movement of the 1790s, inspired the Great Trek and the founding of two independent Boer republics in the interior.
According to some calculations, the Boers constituted an absolute majority in these two republics in the 1890s. There are two main reasons why Afrikaners have become a minority in their native land: firstly, the British genocide of 1899-1902 which severely reduced Afrikaner prospects for population growth during the twentieth century and, secondly, the massive migration of blacks across South Africa's borders for most of the twentieth century, coupled with an inordinately high demographic expansion of the entire black population in the country, both indigenous and immigrant.
During the Anglo-Boer war, Lord Milner vowed to "eradicate the last vestiges of Afrikanerism from South Africa". In fact, British policy at the time was an early form of ethnic cleansing. Some aspects of anti-Afrikaner ethnic cleansing subsist to this day as since 1994 more than 1800 Afrikaner farmers have been killed or tortured to death in so-called "farm attacks". Slogans such as "kill a Boer, kill a farmer" are regularly chanted by government supporters and many thousands more have been killed in the cities.
The only problem I have with it is that he tends to refer to the Boers as Afrikaners -but other than that thee article is very informative / interesting & as such is a great read.
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There is a great article on the web site of Dan Roodt which goes into detail about the plan he discussed on the program at: http://www.praag.co.za/chronologie.afrikaner_nation.htm .
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The following is an excerpt from the article in question.
The Afrikaners are mainly descended from Dutch, French Huguenot, German and Scottish settlers who first arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1652. However, even when still in Europe, they fought for their indepence from Spain (in Holland) and for their religious freedom as Protestants (in France). This spirit of freedom and independence, stimulated by the French Revolution of 1789 and the subsequent "Cape Patriot" movement of the 1790s, inspired the Great Trek and the founding of two independent Boer republics in the interior.
According to some calculations, the Boers constituted an absolute majority in these two republics in the 1890s. There are two main reasons why Afrikaners have become a minority in their native land: firstly, the British genocide of 1899-1902 which severely reduced Afrikaner prospects for population growth during the twentieth century and, secondly, the massive migration of blacks across South Africa's borders for most of the twentieth century, coupled with an inordinately high demographic expansion of the entire black population in the country, both indigenous and immigrant.
During the Anglo-Boer war, Lord Milner vowed to "eradicate the last vestiges of Afrikanerism from South Africa". In fact, British policy at the time was an early form of ethnic cleansing. Some aspects of anti-Afrikaner ethnic cleansing subsist to this day as since 1994 more than 1800 Afrikaner farmers have been killed or tortured to death in so-called "farm attacks". Slogans such as "kill a Boer, kill a farmer" are regularly chanted by government supporters and many thousands more have been killed in the cities.
The only problem I have with it is that he tends to refer to the Boers as Afrikaners -but other than that thee article is very informative / interesting & as such is a great read.
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