I have lived in Suid Afrika and speak Afrikaans and I can tell you that every time I go back it is in a more advanced state of decay than the previous visit. Suid Afrika is proof that white people can tolerate the most deplorable surroundings and hyperviolent Kaffir crime without doing a goddamn thing. If tough hardened Boerevolk stock will not rise up than don't count on the prominent bellied Americunt or the feminised metrosexual Euro fags to do anything either. The only good thing is that the poorly educated brown masses will make no distinction between Jews and real whites....yes my friends rest assured the Jews have made their future destruction assured. A global holocaust if you will.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Boer War Remembered

Paul Rockower formerly served as the Press officer at the Israeli Consulate in Houston, Texas and in that capacity he became acquainted with a variety of people in Oklahoma. He recently spent several months in the Republic of South Africa as a Rotary fellow, and he detailed his experiences and adventures in that land in a blog found at http://levantine18blogspot.com . Like most visitors to South Africa, he was entranced by the natural beauty of that nation, and was struck by the friendliness of all of the diverse people he encountered there.

And in the city of Bloemfontein he came upon a museum that is dedicated to an event that the rest of the world seems to have forgotten, the Boer War. That conflict was fought from 1899 until 1902 by the Afrikaners who resided in the two republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State and the British government that controlled the adjoining areas of the Cape Colony and Natal. The Afrikaners were the descendants of the Dutch settlers who had come to Southern Africa in the 17th Century and in the subsequent century that had left the Cape Colony to escape British rule. The war took its name from the Afrikaans word for farmer, “Boer”. And many people sympathized with the Boers, and citizens from as far away as what was then Oklahoma Territory signed petitions supporting them.

That conflict launched the career of Winston Churchill who became famous in England after escaping from a Boer POW Camp. During the Boer siege of Mafeking, a town held by British forces, a young Englishman named Robert Baden-Powell directed young men that he described as “boy scouts” to patrol the town and night. After the war, he returned to England and founded the boy scouts as a result of that experience. The Afrikaans words “trek” and “commando” made their way into the English language as a result of the Boer War.

After some initial setbacks at the hands of the Boers, the British were able to capture the Boer Capital's of Pretoria and Bloemfontein and the British military thought that the war was essentially over. But it wasn't. The Boers then began a campaign of guerilla warfare that was to keep the war going for an additional two years. The Boer soldiers were supported by Afrikaners who lived on farms and were often given supplies and information on the location of Brisith forces by them. Decades before Mao tse Tung would write “the guerillas are the fish and the people are the sea” the Boer guerillas were relying on their civilian counterparts for support in that manner. To remedy that situation the British Commander Lord Kitchener issued an order that directed that all of the rural Boers were to be “concentrated ” in camps so they couldn't support the Boer fighters . And over 60,000 Afrikaner women and children were moved from their farms to camps operated by the British Army. Well over 26,00 of them would die in those camps

Johann Wolfaardt, a researcher and information officer at the Boer Republics War museum that Rockower met, explains via e-mail the reasons for those deaths. Kitchener was an arrogant and autocratic man who cared little for the plight of his own foot soldiers, let alone the wives and dependents of those who he was fighting And it is not surprising that the British army would get priority in the allocation of food and supplies, and Wolfaardt reports that very often food that was unfit for human consumption was given to the Afrikaners in the camps .

Many Boers had large families, and Wolfaardt says that his Museum has copies of the British regulations that mandated that each family only receive a daily ration of half bucket of water, a tablespoon of condensed milk, half a tin of bully beef, a teaspoon of sugar and salt, and a small cup of soup. Soap was in short supply as well. Under those circumstances, it is not surprising that there were outbreaks of cholera and other diseases that would kill many of those interned in those camps. And the British government has never apologized for those actions.

Against the Grain

William O'Brien

http://www.altustimes.com/articles/2006/06/26/news/columns/obrien.txt