Die eenigste "Stem" van Suid Afrika

Uit die blou van onse hemel,

Uit die diepte van ons see,

Oor ons ewige gebergtes

Waar die kranse antwoord gee.

Deur ons vêr verlate vlaktes

Met die kreun van ossewa.

Ruis die stem van ons geliefde,

Van ons land Suid-Afrika.

Ons sal antwoord op jou roepstem,

Ons sal offer wat jy vra:

Ons sal lewe, ons sal sterwe,

Ons vir jou, Suid-Afrika.

Second verse

In die murg van ons gebeente,

in ons hart en siel en gees,

In ons roem op ons verlede,

In ons hoop op wat sal wees.

In ons wil en werk en wandel,

Van ons wieg tot aan ons graf.

Deel geen ander land ons liefde,

Trek geen ander trou ons af.

Vaderland, ons sal die adel,

Van jou naam met ere dra:

Waar en trou as Afrikaners,

Kinders van Suid-Afrika.

Third verse

In die songloed van ons somer,

in ons winternag se kou,

In die lente van ons liefde,

in die lanfer van ons rou.

By die klink van huw'liksklokkies,

by die kluit-klap op die kis.

Streel jou stem ons nooit verniet nie,

Weet jy waar jou kinders is.

Op jou roep sê ons nooit née nie,

Sê ons altyd, altyd ja:

Om te lewe, om te sterwe -

Ja, ons kom, Suid-Afrika.

Fourth verse

Op U Almag vas vertrouend

het ons vadere gebou:

Skenk ook ons die krag, o Here!

Om te handhaaf en te hou.

Dat die erwe van ons vadere

Vir ons kinders erwe bly:

Knegte van die Allerhoogste,

Teen die hele wêreld vry.

Soos ons vadere vertrou het,

Leer ook ons vertrou, o Heer:

Met ons land en met ons nasie

Sal dit wel wees, God regeer.

THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT RACISM

THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT RACISM

<<< How the hell can we believe you Mr President >>>

"South Africans are psychologically sick as a result of the violence inflicted upon the majority of the country’s people during the apartheid era", President Jacob Zuma said.

This is getting really old! The history of black South Africans has always been that of violence, death and destruction - NOT inflicted upon them by white people in this country.

Shaka Zulu, during his 10-year reign butchered more than 2 million black people in South Africa, not counting the deaths during mass tribal migrations to escape his armies. He had his warriors clubbed to death upon the merest sign of weakness. He neither took a legal wife nor fathered a son, for fear that his heir would plot against him, and had his concubines executed if he discovered they were pregnant. When his mother died, he massacred thousands of his subjects so their families would mourn along with him. Shaka retained his throne through the worst kind of sheer terror, vast mass executions, torture and mindless butchery.

His brother, Dingane, was no better. He took power after the assassination of Shaka and started his reign by butchering those loyal to Shaka.

THAT, amongst many other horror stories of black-on-black violence, is the history of Black South Africa.

During the Apartheid years it was not better. Factional fighting and tribal conflict was again the main cause of violence and death amongst black South Africans.
During the Apartheid era, from 1948 to 1994, the average life expectancy of black South Africans had risen to 64 years, on par with Europe's average life expectancy. Infant death rates had by been reduced from 174 to 55 infant deaths per thousand, higher than Europe's, but considerably lower than the rest of the African continent's. The African population in South Africa increased by 50%.

Deaths due to political violence during apartheid:

21 000 people died in political violence in South Africa during apartheid of whom 14 000 died during the six-year transition process from 1990 to 1994.

This includes SA Defence Force actions, for instance the 600 deaths at Kassinga in Angola during the war in 1978.

Of those deaths, the vast majority, 92%, have been primarily due to Africans killing Africans, such as the inter-tribal battles for territory.

During the period June 1990 to July 1993 a total of 8580 (92%) of the 9 325 violent deaths during the period June 1990 to July 1993 were caused by Africans killing Africans, or as the news media often calls it, "Black on Black" violence - hostel killings, Inkatha Freedom Party versus ANC killings and taxi and turf war violence.
The security forces caused 518 deaths (5.6%) throughout this period.

During the transitional period, the primary causes of deaths were not security forces nor white right-wing violence against blacks, but mainly due to "black-on-black necklace murders", tribal conflict between the ANC-IFP, bombs by the ANC and PAC's military wings in shopping centers, landmines on farm roads, etc.

In this country TODAY as many as 18 000 people are murdered EVERY year. ...and those are the official statistics. More than 400 000 people have been murdered in South Africa under ANC rule. The past 20 years have been the most violent in the history of this country since the death of Shaka Zulu.

...and NONE of it has anything to do with WHITE people or Apartheid... but I guess if you repeat the lie often enough you actually start believing the drivel coming from your mouth, Mr. Uneducated President !!!

South Africa: Boers, Africans and Britain: What you are not told…or were afraid (or too ignorant) to ask

South Africa: Boers, Africans and Britain: What you are not told…or were afraid (or too ignorant) to ask

They say that ignorance is power, to those who want to keep you ignorant, which is usually those in power for no other reason than to control. The power lies with each of us,the individual, and that power is curiosity for information, to do research, and ask questions. That is what sets us apart of being an informed individual with an inquisitive mind, and, uninformed people who just follow blindly without self-enriching themselves with information and facts. Information is what makes us question things by broadening ours mind, by not just accepting one view point, but by looking at things from different angles. Digging deeper, on a topic or history titbit discovered, and getting the different angles of a story, is what creates, “critical thought” and healthy debates.
What many South African’s don’t realize is that the Anglo-Boer War was the main instigator, of the start of modern problems we are facing today in South Africa. Ask most South African’s about history, and they vaguely tell you something from 1652, with most knowing not history, but propaganda which were pumped repeatedly into heads, in order to create a biased perceptions or opinion by those in power. This is the opposite of critical thought and just repeating what you hear. “Intellectual Parrotism”

Many groups had their own lands, but it was not enough for the British. They had to have the prize of South Africa. The Boer Republics. African land was easy for them to conquer. Not so much the little Republics.

Most South Africans will recite history of the last 40 years like a parrot, just showing the power of mass indoctrination. Having an education does not mean anything, if you act like a parrot and just repeat what you read, without having a deeper understanding of a topic.
Before the Boer war with Britain (1899 – 1902), there were treaties in place, between the Boers and Africans as these groups lived and confronted each other over decades. They settled and got to know each other, who to trust, and who not to trust. Boers were seen as just another African tribe. On the other hand, Britain were the outsiders. The aliens that wanted land in order to enrich the global Empire. The tactics of the day, as still is today, was to conquer and divide. To create suspicion and instigate distrust between Boers and Africans. Before the Anglo-Boer War (South African War or Second War of Independence as it is known by other names), there were general peace as each group had negotiated borders and land even helping each other in many cases because of friendship and alliances. Before Britain attacked the Boer Republics, the Zulu’s were in line first to lose their land to British expansion. South Africa was not like it is today, but consisted of many nations. What changed this dramatically was when Britain Attacked the two Boer Republics, the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Yes! Before Britain attacked the Boer Republics, South Africa was actually more than THREE different countries, including the Zulu Kingdoms! This meant that these nations were governing themselves!
The goal of the British was to take all those little countries and areas, of the Boers, Zulu’s, Xhosas, etc, en turn it into one BIG country (British Imperialism and colonialism), which turned into the modern day South Africa. The defeat of the Boers, by the British, made all those treaties obsolete. This of course created a lot of new problems under British rule. All these nations now had to bow down to Britain. , which meant they lost their sovereignty, to make their own choices, and to rule of their own people. They “belonged” to Britain now. This ended in 1961 when South Africa became an independent Republic.
This defeat meant that everyone, Boers and Africans, became “subjects” of the Queen of England. They were now governed, not by their Kings or Presidents, but by Great Britain.

The Boers inherited the laws made by Great Britain including the “Native Land Act of 1913” as the Boers did not control South Africa, or were in a position to have the last say. They were subservient to England.

This is how South Africa looked till 1961, giving the country to the Afrikaner, who then had to fix the land issue started by the British. The British of course, took what they wanted, brought more problems by the war they created, the borders they cut up, and then left it for the Afrikaners to fix. Taking no responsibility as usual.

If people understand South Africa’s past, which can be complicated and confusing at times, it will be better understood. Our history is not just black and white, yes or no, or right or wrong answers. In many cases it’s “grey” like the stories below will show.

Louis Botha and Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo

Louis Botha was a famous Boer General and South African Statesman. Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo was the king of the Zulu nation from 1884 until his death in 1913.

Cetshwayo succeeded his father Dingaan and was crowned as the Zulu King in 1873. During the same year Maphitha Zulu the leader of the Mandlakazi section died and was succeeded by his son Zibhebhu kaMaphitha. After Cetshwayo’s capital Ulundi was captured and torched he was exiled to London. Disorder broke out and in an attempt to resolve this, Zululand was divided into 13 districts in 1879 by the British. Zibhebhu was appointed as one of the 13 independent chiefs’ and was allocated the Mandlakazi district. His kraal was not far from the boundaries of the current ZRR, further upstream on the Msunduzi River.
All the Zulu people north of the Umhlatuzi River were again placed under Cetshwayo after his restoration in 1883 apart from the Mandlakazi section which remained under Zibhebhu’s authority. Almost immediately tribal wars broke out between the Mandlakazi tribe and Cetshwayo followers. Zibhebhu’s army burnt Cetshwayo’s kraal in Ulundi on 21st July in 1883 and was responsible for Cetshwayo’s flight which later ended in his death on the 8th February 1884. Dinizulu the son of Cetshwayo was left to fight for succession and with the help of General Louis Botha defeated Zibhebhu and his army at the Battle of Ghost Mountain. The Boers acquired cattle and a large portion of the fertile land in Zululand and the Usutu refuted this. The British Government interfered and the land acquired by the Boers was confirmed and the remainder of Zululand was annexed by the British in 1884.
Tribal lands were officially demarcated by Zululand’s Delimitation Commission in 1902. Zibhebhu, Chief of the Mandlakazi tribe died on the 27th August 1904. His successor Bokwe Zulu was only 2 years old when he died and so his brother Mciteki Zulu was appointed as the acting chief. Bokwe Zulu was appointed Chief on the 1st January 1920 until he became seriously ill in 1939. Between 1939 and 1947 there were several acting Chiefs of the Mandlakazi Tribe. In 1947 they requested that acting Chief Mbangomuni Nxumalo be deposed and that the area be divided into 4 sections, each under the authority of a headman. 12th October 1949 Pumanyana Zulu Bokwe was officially appointed as the Chief of the Mandlakazi tribe.
The Government notice 1235 in August 1957 stipulated the approval of the tribal area and the official tribal authority as “The Mandlakazi Tribal Authority”. Pumanyana Zulu’s successor Eugene Bhekintinta Zulu became of age and was appointed by the Zulu Government as Chief of the Mandlakazi tribe as it is still today.”
Zululand had been broken up into 13 smaller territories after the Anglo-Zulu War against Britain which lasted from 11 January – 4 July 1879
(5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo was the last king of the Zulus to be officially recognized as such by the British. On 22 July 1883, Usibepu (A son of Cetshwayo’s) attacked Dinuzulu’s new kraal in Ulundi, wounding the king and causing him to flee.
To contest the succession, Dinuzulu first appealed to the British, but had no response. He then offered rewards of land to Boer mercenaries who would come and fight on his side.
In 1884 a group of Boer farmers from the districts of Utrecht and Vryheid undertook to restore order, in return for land for the formation of an independent republic. These volunteers to help the Zulu king was Led by General Louis Botha.

Louis Botha was an Afrikaner (Also known as Boers) and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state. (1862 – 1919)
Botha’s volunteers formed, “Dinuzulu’s Volunteers” and after several clashes with Usibepu (Zibhebhu), defeated him at the Battle of Ghost Mountain (also known as the Battle of Tshaneni) on 5 June 1884
500 Boer mercenaries each received a farm from the Zulu King,Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, of 16 km². Another 300 men who had arrived late received smaller grants, known as ‘half farms’. On 5 August 1884, these mercenaries declared a republic, with the town of Vryheid as its capital, which lasted for only four years.
In 1890 Dinuzulu was captured by the British and exiled to the island of St. Helena—the same as Napoleon and Boer General Piet Cronje—for seven years for leading a Zulu army against the British from 1883 to 1884.
Two years later an old friend of Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo , Boer General Louis Botha believed that Dinuzulu did not have a fair trial by the British. When Louis Botha became Prime Minister of South Africa in 1910, one of the first things he did was to order Dinuzulu’s release. He granted him a farm near Middelburg, Transvaal, to which the King of the Zulus retired. He died in 1913.
A statue of Dinuzulu has been erected next to the statue of General Louis Botha, the first prime minister of the Transvaal colony, at the corner of Berea Road and Warwick Avenue in Durban.
And this is possibly why older black generations (on top of the WW1 and WW2 black veterans) took on the name of “Botha”.

Piet Cronje and Len Tau and Yamasan.

Boer General Piet Cronje (1836 – 1911) was a Boer General during the Anglo Boer war, and later Prisoner of War (POW) on the island of Saint Helena. The war was between the Boers and Great Britain when gold and diamons were discovered. Cronje was held on the same island where Napoleon Bonaparte was a held, including King of the Zulu nation, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo. (Story above)
Len Tau (real name: Len Taunyane) and Yamasani (real name: Jan Mashiani) were two Tswana tribesmen,and the first black Africans to compete in the Olympic Games.
South Africa, 2 years (1904) after the Anglo-Boer War against Britain, (It took about 2 years for most POW’s to return to South Africa after the war ended) returning to South Africa from Saint Helena, Boer General Piet Cronje met these two men, who became his friends, Len Tau (left) and Jan Mashiani. He sent them to the University of the Free State (Freestate being a Boer Republic before the war with Great Britain)

General Piet Cronje, paid the university fees out of his own pocket. When Cronje heard about the 1904 Olympic Games which were to be held in the USA, and sent both of these men to compete. The games was a special ”Ethnic Games” had been included in the program, which saw American Natives, Pygmies, Aborigini, and other groups taking part.
They had been brought over by the exposition as part of the Boer War exhibit, which was an exhibit by Boers, after the war, to try and get money from the US to built up the South African infrastructure after the British burned 40 000 farms, and killed all the live stock.
Len Tau finished ninth and Yamasani came in twelfth. This was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Len Tau could have done better if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by aggressive dogs.
Watch this movie which fits these stories well, about a Boer Tracker that went to New Zealand when the Boer War ended. It is the Full movie online, and worth watching.

Maori’s of New Zealand and the Boer War

Some New Zealand Maori’s were Pro-Boers during the Anglo-Boer war with Britain – There were some Māori communities who sympathised with the Boers, feeling that responsibility for the war lay with the British who wanted more land, as they saw it as a fight against colonialism and imperialism by the British.

Truth about South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA DURING APARTHEID.

The lie about apartheid n 1988, a German book published how benevolent the White giant of Africa actually was.
Below are some of the facts referencing 1988 In 1972, SA blacks owned 360,000 vehicles. (More than all the black African states together) The monthly income of blacks per capita in 1988 was R352 per month in South Africa – Malawi and Mozambique was less than R20 per month.

HEALTH.

In 1988 black people could undergo a complicated heart valve surgery for just more than $ 1 while black Americans had to pay $ 15,000. In a Pretoria hospital between 2,000 and 3,000 of these surgeries were done per year.
In 1970, black workers earned R1,751 million, or 25.5% of the total wage fees in SA and increased to R17,238 million in 1984 (1,000% growth) and 32.3% of total wages in SA.
In 1978 the South African government built a highly modern hospital MEDUNSA on the border of the independent state of Bophuthatswana at a cost of R70 million on 35 hectares. In this “city” there were living and sleeping facilities for male and female students. Black doctors, dentists, veterinarians and para-medical staff were trained. It is the only specialized university of its kind in Africa and one of the few in the world financed by white taxpayers exclusively to benefit blacks. Almost all students who mainly came from the national homelands costs were taken care of by the government. The practical training took place in the nearby Garankuwa Hospital farm where the whole range of human ailments is covered. Garankuwa had the facilities for kidney transplants, isotopes units with specialized laboratories where 200 doctors were trained practically every year.

TAXES

In the 1986/1987 financial year, whites paid R9,000 million in taxes and blacks R171 million. Indians paid R257 million and coloreds paid R315 million on tax.
Between 1962 and 1972 the UN paid $ 298 million to underdeveloped countries compared to South Africa that spent $ 558 million on the development of its black areas.
South Africa was accused of paing starvation wages: In 1974, the average monthly income of black workers in South Africa were $ 127 versus the $ 140 in the US, the richest country in the world.

EDUCATION

The budget amount for black education increases every year from 1970 to almost 30% more than any other government department. From 1955 to 1984 the number of black scholars increased from 35,000 to 1,096,000. In 1988 71% of the adult black population could read and write versus 47% in Kenya, 38% in Egypt and 34% in Nigeria. On average during the year 15 new classrooms per working day were built for black scholars. In 1985 there were 42,000 black students enrolled at SA universities. There were 5 black universities and 28 higher education institutions funded by the government.
Soweto had 365 schools versus Pretoria 229.
The white government built a huge hospital Baragwanath 3,000 beds in Soweto. One of the largest and most modern hospitals in the world. Its 23 operating theaters were equipped with the best equipment money can buy. Here blacks were treated at a nominal cost of R2 for an unlimited period. In 1982, no fewer than 898 heart surgeries were done here. Next to the Baragwantha Hospital is the St. John-eye clinic, famous for the treatment of glaucoma, previous fix retinas, traumatic eye injuries and rare tropical diseases.

LIVING IN SOWETO.

Soweto with its population of 1.2 million had 5 modern stadiums versus Pretoria with its 600,000 whites who had three.
In Soweto in 1978, there were 115 football fields, three rugby fields, 4 athletic tracks, 11 cricket fields, two golf courses, 47 tennis courts, 7 swimming pools, 5 bowling halls, 81 basketball fields, 39 children playgrounds and countless community halls, cinemas and clubhouses.
In Soweto in 1978, there were 300 churches, 365 schools, 2 technicons, 8 clinics, 63 kindergartens, 11 post offices and its own fruit and vegetable market. There were over 2,300 registered firms, 1,000 taxi operators and 50,000 car owners in Soweto. Dr. Kenneth Walker, a Canadian physician, visited Soweto and made the following observations: He saw several houses worth more than R100 000 with various BMW’s at the door. Only 2% of homes are shacks with neat buildings with lawns. If he had to choose between the decaying apartments in New York, Detroit or Chicago than he would rather stay in Soweto. He’d rather be very ill in Soweto as in some Canadian cities. He says the city has more schools, churches, cars, taxis, and sports fields than any other independent African states.

ASSISTANCE TO OTHER AFRICAN STATES.

South Africa provided training for the airline personnel of Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zaire and the Comores. In 1979, when the train traffic to the Malawian capital Lilongwe was interrupted by rebels, SA sent transport aircraft with fuel drums to keep their economy going.
In 1986, 80,000 black businessmen from Africa visited Cape Town to finalize business deals. South Africa provided the grain needs of its neighboring countries and wider. In 1980, Zambia received 250 000 tons of maize, Mozambique 150,000 tons maize and 50 000 tons of wheat, Kenya 128,000 tons maize and Zimbabwe 100 000 tons. Other countries that also received South African grain were Angola, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mauritius, Tanzania and Zaire. At least 12 countries of Africa, according to the “Argus African News Service” were so dependent on SA grain that a total ban on imports and exports would have destroyed them economically. About half of Lesotho’s male population worked in South Africa, about 146,000 in 1983, and earned R280,6 million which was about half of Lesotho’s treasury. In the 1982/83 financial year SA budgeted R434 million for assistance to the independent neighboring states.
SA produced more electrical energy than Italy, as much crude steel as France, more wheat than Canada, more wool than the US, more wine than Greece and more fish than Great Britain. South African trains ran on more rail lines than in West Germany, carried more passengers than Switzerland, have better punctuality record than Austria and exported car parts to 100 countries.

POLICE AND OPPRESSION

South Africa was accused by the world that they were a police state: In SA 1.4 officers for every 1,000 people while the world is as follows: UK 2.2, Israel 3.5, New York 4.3, and Moscow 10 per 1000. In South Africa there were 16,292 white policemen and 19 177 non-white. They were accused of killing their political offenders: In 1979-1980 there were no deaths in SA prisons. In the previous 10 years 37 died versus 274 in the same period in Wales and England. They were accused that they locked up thousands of political prisoners: In 1983, 127 such prisoners are confined in SA and 11 whose movements were limited. A further 32 were under house arrest.

LAND

The crux of the black Communist argument for land "redistribution" (land invasions and murder and rape of whites) is that we are told that whites "stole" land from blacks, and they are constantly told to "go back" to where they came from and even when they are indigenous, born and bred in South Africa, blacks insist on calling whites "Setters" and "Colonists". How ironic is this!

The Bantu migrated from the North of Africa AFTER whites discovered and developed South Africa, making whites the first to set foot in SA after the SAN, and making WHITES the indigenous peoples of SA and black people of SA descendants of the "Bantu Setters" and "Bantu Colonists".

How IRONIC that the opposite is taught Leftist funded Hollywood movies and in SA and international schools, and the black Communists together with their white and Indian leftists can't see this, even when you prove it to them in every single way possible???

COMMUNIST INDOCTRINATION OVER GENERATIONS USING BLACK ANTI WHITE PROPAGANDA! That's how!

The Bantu (black man) was not in South Africa when the whites discovered SA!
South Africa is not the adopted country of whites, they are indigenous.
(Firstly, most South African minorities are not settlers or colonists – Most of them were born in South Africa, and therefore they are African, just as many, and not all, other black Africans were born here.

The first white person to set foot on Southern African soil in 1487 was the Portuguese explorer Batholemeu Dias who reached Angola, and in 1488 Dias named the ‘Cape of Good Hope’. In 1497 Vasco da Gama put foot on South African soil at present-day St. Helena Bay and encountered the first Khoi-Khoi, who were the only indigenous people in South Africa at that time.

In 1503 Antonio de Saldanha, leading a Portuguese squadron, enters Table Bay. They are the first Europeans to climb Table Mountain, which they name Taboa do Cabo.

In 1652, the Dutch East India Company establishes a refreshment station at Table Bay and this was the first settlement of whites in South Africa.

During 1779 the whites met up with the first blacks; the Xhosa nation, who were migrating Southwards and settled in the Eastern part of South Africa (now the Eastern Cape). Nine wars followed to block the Xhosa expansion into the white occupied land; the last ended in 1878, when the Xhosa settled down in the Eastern Cape.

HOMELANDS

LIE NUMBER ONE: 

There is a common belief that the Natives Land Act of 1913 shoved blacks on reserves (‘7% of the land’) and ‘prohibited them from buying land in white areas’. That ‘whites forcibly removed blacks to these reserves and that these reserves were on the worst land in the country with no mineral riches and that whites kept all the best land and minerals for themselves’. Now if I was a black man, I would probably also want to believe that myth, because it would ensure me eternal victimhood status and compensation for generations to come.

TRUTH: 

Unfortunately, it is a blatant lie and can be attributed to the lack of reading ability or legal comprehension of the journalists and historians of our time.
First of all the biggest Platinum reserves in the world runs through the former Black homeland of Bophuthatswana (North West province). The former Nationalist government had no problem allocating this area to the Tswana tribes for self rule – although they already had a massive country called Botswana given to them by the British. It was originally part of South Africa, called Bechuanaland. Blacks further got another two massive countries from the British called Lesotho and Swaziland. There goes their 7%.

LIE NUMBER TWO: 

‘Black homelands were on the worst land in South Africa’.

THE TRUTH: 

When one compares the rainfall map of South Africa and anybody with elementary knowledge of South Africa will tell you that the largest part of South Africa is called the Karoo. It is a semi dessert comparable to Arizona or Nevada in the USA. Blacks never even entered this area let alone settled it. Whites made it blossom and created successful sheep farms producing meat of world quality. Black “settlements” are found on the north and east coast of South Africa. The East Coast has a sub tropical climate and the north a prairie-like climate with summer rainfall and thunder storms. An exception to this is the Western Cape with a Mediterranean climate and winter rainfall. The northern and eastern part of South Africa with its beautiful green grasslands and fertile soil is where the blacks eventually coalesced and this is the land they chose for themselves. Their eventual homelands were found on the land they inhabited out of their own free will. The Afrikaners even have a song praising the greenness of Natal, called “ Groen is die land van Natal” ( Green is the land of Natal). It was perfect grazing area for the cattle herding blacks.

LIE NUMBER THREE: 

‘Blacks are indigenous to South Africa and first settled it’.

THE TRUTH: 

Today Blacks in South Africa often tell Afrikaners and other minorities such as the Coloureds, Indians, Chinese or Jews to’ adapt to their misrule and corruption or “Go Home”…implying that we, who have been born here, who hold legal citizenship through successive birthrights; should emigrate to Europe, Malaysia, India or Israel. That the only ones who have a legal claim to South Africa, all of it, are the blacks. Blacks believe that they are ‘ indigenous to South Africa ‘ – but they are not: it was proven by DNA research. We are ALL settlers in South Africa. All South Africans are settlers, regardless of their skin colour, and their DNA carries the proof. So says Dr Wilmot James, head of the African Genome Project, a distinguished academic, sociologist and, more recently, honorary professor of human genetics at the University of Cape Town.

LIE NUMBER FOUR: 

Whites created black reserves and homelands.

THE TRUTH: 

Blacks created the homelands themselves, thanks to Shaka Zulu. The common belief is that the ‘black tribes at the time were all living peacefully and in the spirit of ‘Ubuntu’ with each other in a virtual liberal paradise’. Nothing could be further from the truth. Shaka-Zulu was a genocidal maniac who wiped out some 2-million black people in the Defecane. The Zulu tyrant Shaka, at the time was committing genocide against other tribes. Wiping out an estimated 2 million people in what is now
known as the Defecane (great scattering). The Swazis and the Ndebeles fled back north in the direction of central Africa where they migrated from. The Sotho’s fled into the mountains of what is today, Lesotho. The rest of the smaller tribes huddled together trying to find strength in coalescing. That is the history of black South Africans that blacks prefer to ignore… that blacks drove other blacks of their land, not whites. It is into this Maelstrom of black chaos that the Boers trekked in 1838. As far as they went they found large open sections of country uninhabited by anyone. Black tribes fleeing Shaka’s carnage grouped themselves into areas finding protection in concentrated numbers. This is how Sir Theophilus Shepstone later found the remnants of black refugees huddled together on self-created reserves. He just demarcated it in order to protect them from each other. The creators of the Bantustans were not the Boers or the Whites, it was a black man called Shaka.

Slag van Bloedrivier

Die Slag van Bloedrivier is op 16 Desember 1838 naby die Bloedrivier in die huidige KwaZulu-Natal, Suid-Afrika, geveg. Sowat 470 Voortrekkers, onder leiding van Andries Pretorius, het 'n ossewalaer beskerm teen tussen 10 000 en 20 000 Zoeloe-impies. Die Zoeloekrygers, onder Koning Dingaan se regering, is aangevoer deur Dambuza (Nzobo) en Nhlela.

Geskiedenis

Op 15 Desember 1838 het die Voortrekkers inligting verkry dat 'n groot Zoeloemag op pad was. Pretorius het 'n uiters goeie gevegsterrein langs die Bloedrivier (toe die Ncomerivier) gekies, waar die ossewaens in 'n laer getrek is. Ten spyte van mis wat die aand oor die omgewing neergedaal het, was dit die volgende oggend helder. Voor die slag begin het, het die Voortrekkers 'n gelofte voor God afgelê dat, sou hulle gespaar word, hulle 'n kerk sal bou en die dag as 'n sabbat herdenk en hulle kinders van God sal vertel.
Die Zoeloes het die laer herhaaldelik onsuksesvol aangeval totdat Pretorius ná twee uur 'n groep perderuiters beveel het om die laer te verlaat en die Zoeloes aan te val. In die struweling het Pretorius ook 'n assegaaiwond aan sy linkerhand opgedoen.
Ten spyte van die feit dat die Voortrekkers vuurwapens teen die Zoeloes se assegaaie gebruik het en 'n goeie ligging gehad het, het hulle steeds geglo dat hulle nie sonder God se hulp sou kon oorleef nie. Die Britse weermag het met duisende opgeleide soldate met selfs beter vuurwapens teen die Zoeloes geveg en die meeste Britse soldate het in die geveg omgekom. Uiteindelik is slegs drie Voortrekkers gewond en geen dood nie; dít teenoor meer as 3 000 Zoeloekrygers wat gesterf het. 16 Desember is 'n openbare vakansiedag in Suid-Afrika; voor 1994 was dit as Geloftedag bekend, en tans as Versoeningsdag.

Deelnemers aan die Slag van Bloedrivier

Hier volg 'n lys van 'n aantal persone wat aan die Slag van Bloedrivier deelgeneem het: Hoofkommandant: Pretorius, Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus
Assistent-HoofKmdt: Landman, Karel Pieter
Kommandante:

Hoofkommandant

• Pretorius, Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus 

Assistent-HoofKmd

• Landman, Karel Pieter 

Kommandante

• Jacobs, Pieter Daniël 
• de Lange, Johan Hendrik (Hans Dons) 
  
• Potgieter, Jacobus (Koos)
• Erasmus, Stephanus
• Uys, Jacobus Johannes 
• Meyer, Lucas Johannes

Laerkommandante

• Pretorius, Albertus (ook kanonnier)
• Erasmus, Lourens
• Moolman, Piet (Rooi Piet)
• Fronemann, Christoffel Cornelis

Veldkornette

• Steyn, Johannes C
• Viljoen, Gert
• Pretorius, Hercules Albertus (Bart) 
• van Staden, Gert 
• Lombard, Stephanus
• Scheepers, Jan
• Fourie, Hermanus
  
• Cowie, William 
• Labuschagne, Casper
• Joubert, Jan (ook kanonnier)

Godsdiensleiers

• Cilliers, Sarel Arnoldus
• du Plessis, Jan (ook 'n Veldkornet)
• Joubert, Pieter J 
• de Bruyn, Petrus Frederik 

Kanonniers

• Rudolph, Petrus Johannes 
• Pretorius, Gerhardus
• Venter, Willem Daniel

Manskappe

• Aucamp, Pieter Josua
• Badenhorst, H
• Badenhorst, P
• Bantjes, Jan Gerritze
• Beneke, Johannes
• Bester, Barend Jacobus
• Bester, Lourens Rasmus 
• Bester, Paul Michiel 
• Bezuidenhout, Daniël
  
• Biddulph, Thomas Jervis 
• Bierman, Isak
• Biggar, Alexander Harvey
• Bodes, Barend
• Bornman, Johannes Jurgens 
• Boshoff, Jakobus (Jan)
• Botha, Ernst Adriaan Lodewyk 
• Botha, Hendrik
• Botha, J C
• Botha, Jan
• Botha, L
• Botha, P J
• Botha, P R
• Botha, T F
• Botha, Theunis
• Bothma, Carel A
• Bothma, Daniël
• Breytenbach, Chris
• Breytenbach, Izaak Johannes 
• Breytenbach, Jacob Coenraad
• Breytenbach, Johan Hendrik
• Breytenbach, Johannes Jacobus
  
• Bronkhorst, Johannes Jacob 
• Bronkhorst, Johannes Jacobus 
• Bronkhorst, Samuel Johannes 
• Bruwer, Eduard Christiaan Daniël 
• Bruwer, Hans
• Bruyn, Piet
• Buitendagh, Carel Hendrik
• Burger, Jacobus Johannes
• Burger, S W
• Buys, Piet
• Claassens, Christiaan
• Coetzee, Cornelis (P-zn)
• Coetzer, J J
• Coetzer, Philippus Jeremias
• Coetzer, Thys
• Combrinck, G
• Cronjé, Abraham
• Cronjé, Piet
• Davel, Henning
• Davel, Jan
• Dannhauser, Thomas Richard 
• de Beer, C (Snr)
• de Beer, Abraham
• de Beer, Christiaan M 
• de Beer, Jan Christiaan
• de Beer, Johannes A
• de Beer, Stephanus A (Snr)
  
• de Beer, Zacharias Jacobus
• de Clercq, Abraham
• de Clercq, Barend
• de Clercq, C
• de Clercq, Jacob 
• de Jager, Frederick Johannes
• de Jager, Izak J
• de Jager, Johannes Wilhelmus 
• de Jager, Lodewyk
• de Lange, Adriaan (Jnr)
• de Lange, Robert
• de Wet, Kootjie
• de Wet, P
• de Winnaar, S
• Dreyer, C Sr.
• Dreyer, F
• Dreyer, I
• du Plessis, Francois
• du Plessis, Jan
• du Plessis, P
• du Plooy, Hendrik
  
• du Plooy, Willem
• du Plooy, Wouter
• du Preez, P D
• Deysel, F
• Engelbregt, Adriaan
• Engelbregt, E
• Engelbregt, Gerhardus
• Engelbregt, H (jong)
• Engelbregt, H H (Snr)
• Engelbregt, Johannes Hendrik
• Enslin, Johannes Jacobus
• Erasmus, Antonie
• Erasmus, Barend
• Erasmus, Cornelis
• Erasmus, Daniël Elardus
• Erasmus, Hans
• Erasmus, Jacobus
• Erasmus, Pieter Erasmus
• Erasmus, Stephanus E
• Esterhuizen, Jan
• Ferreira, Marthinus Stephanus
  
• Fick, Hendrik
• Fisher, Jan
• Fourie, Christiaan Erns
• Fourie, Dirk S
• Fourie, Hermanus
• Fourie, Philip1
• Garden, Kapt. (Engels)
• Geers, Carel
• Giezing, Fredrich 
• Goosen, Marthinus2
• Gouws, Daniël
• Gouws, Jacob I
• Gouws, J Marthinus
• Gouws, P
• Greyling, Jan Cristoffel 
• Greyling, Pieter Jacobus 
• Grobbelaar, Nicolaas 
• Grobbelaar, Pieter Schalk 
• Grove, Hermanus Gerhardus 
• Hammes, Pieter Johannes 
• Hattingh, C
• Hattingh, Francois 
• Hattingh, Johannes Dewald
• Hattingh, Johannes Hendrik 
• Herbst, M
• Heydenreich, Cornelis Frederik 
• Human, P G
• Jacobs, Gabriël Gerhardus Nic 
  
• Jacobs, Pieter Daniël 
• Jacobsz, Jan
• Janse van Rensburg, Lukas
• Janse van Rensburg, Nicolaas M (C-zn)
• Janse van Vuren, Luckas Gerhardus
• Janszen, Willem
• Jordaan, Willem
• Joubert, Abraham Benjamin
• Joubert, Gideon
• Joubert, Jan (Jacs-zn)
• Joubert, Jan (jnr.)
• Joyce, Robert 
• Kemp, G
• Kemp, Jacobus
• Kemp, Petrus J
• Klaassen, P
• Klopper, H
• Klopper, Jacobus
• Koekemoer, C
• Koekemoer, Marthinus
  
• Kritzinger, Lewis
• Kruger, Jan
• Kruger, P E
• Kruger, T J
• Laas, Cornelius
• Laas, Mathys
• Labuschagne, J P
• Labuschagne, J H (Jan Groen)
• Labuschagne, Willem Adriaan
• Landman, A K P (Snr)
• Landman, Jan (Doringberg)
• le Roux, D
• le Roux, Nicolaas 
• Leech
• Liebenberg, Christiaan Jacobus 
• Liebenberg, Christiaan Jacobus 
• Lindeque, G (Snr)
• Lindeque, Petrus
• Lombard, Hans
• Lombard, Hermanus Antonie
• Lombard, S
  
• Lotter, Johannes
• Ludick, M J
• Malan, D J J
• Malan, David D
• Malan, Jacob Jacobus
• Malan, Stephanus
• Marais, Coenraad
• Marais, Johannes L
• Marais, Stephanus Abraham
• Marcus, F
• Mare, Wynand Wilhelmus 
• Maritz, Pieter
• Maritz, Salomon Gerhardus 
• Maritz, Salomon Stephanus 
• Martens, Hendrik Jacobus 
• Martens, Jan Thomas 
• Marx, Frans 
• Meintjes, Albertus Jacobus
• Meinties, Jacobus William
• Meintjes, Schalk
• Mey, Christiaan Lodewyk
• Meyer, Jacob
• Meyer, Jan
• Meyer, Lukas (L-zn)
• Meyer, Theodorus
• Mienie, Carel Johannes Hendrik
• Mienie, Frederik Christiaan
  
• Mienie, Johannes Willem
• Mienie, Willem Jacobus
• Moolman, I
• Muller, Christiaan 
• Muller, Jan 
• Naudé, (Philip) Jacob 
• Naudé, Philip Jacobus 
• Naudé, Francois Paulus 
• Neethling, Hendrik Ludolf
• Neethling, Schalk Willie
• Neethling, Willem
• Nel, Louis J
• Nell, Theunis Jacobus
• Nell, Willem Gabriel
• Nortjé, Joachim
• Oberholzer, Jan Albert
• Olivier, (Lang) Gert
• Olivier, Ockert
• Oosthuizen, A
• Oosthuizen, Jan (J-zn) 
• Oosthuizen, J J (Snr)
• Oosthuizen, Marthinus Jacobus 
• Opperman, C
• Opperman, D
• Parker, Edward
  
• Pieters, Coenraad
• Pieterse, Frederik
• Pieterse, H J
• Pieterse, Nicolaas
• Potgieter, Cornelis
• Potgieter, Evert F
• Potgieter, Hendrik
• Potgieter, Jurgen
• Potgieter, Matthys
• Potgieter, Petrus Hendrik Theunis
• Potgieter, Theodorus
• Pretorius, A P
• Pretorius, Barend
• Pretorius, Dewald Johannes 
• Pretorius, Gideon
• Pretorius, Henning Petrus Nicolaas 
• Pretorius, Marthinus Wessel 
• Pretorius, Nicolaas
• Pretorius, Petrus Gerhardus 
• Pretorius, Petrus Gerhardus 
• Pretorius, Samuel
• Pretorius, Willem H
• Pretorius, Willem Jacobus
• Prinsloo, Jochemus Johannes Petr 
• Prinsloo, N J
• Prinsloo, Willem P
• Raads, D
• Raath, Philip
• Raath, Pieter
• Raath, Roelof
• Raatz, Gerrit1
  
• Ranger, Simon
• Reineke, Adam
• Retief, Jacobus
• Robbertse, I
• Robbertse, Jan
• Robbertse, Matthys
• Roets, Hendrik
• Rood
• Roos, Cornelis J
• Roos, Gysbert
• Roscher, P
• Roux, Dirk
• Rudolph, Jacobus Andreas 
• Rudolph, Johann(es) Bernard 
• Rudolph, Gerhardus Jacobus 
• Scheepers, Coenraad F (swaer v. Erasmus Smit)
• Scheepers, Gert
• Scheepers, H
• Scheepers, J A
• Scheepers, Jacobus Johannes
• Scheepers, Stephanus Johannes
• Scheepers, M (G-zn)
• Scheepers, Marthinus
• Schoeman, Gert
• Schoeman, Johannes
• Schutte, Jan Harm Thomas
• Slabbert, G
• Smit, Andries Adriaan
• Smit, Chr. (C-zn)
• Smith, F
• Snyman, Coenraad F W 
  
• Snyman, J H
• Steenkamp, Hermanus
• Steenkamp, Jan Harm 
• Steenkamp, Piet L
• Steenkamp, Thomas Ignatius
• Steyn, Hermanus
• Steyn, Johannes Christoffel
• Steyn, Pieter
• Strydom, D J
• Strydom, Hendrik
• Strydom, J
• Strydom, Pieter Gerhardus
• Swanepoel, Willem
• Swart, Marius
• Swart, Pieter Johannes
• Uys, Dirk Cornelis 
• Uys, Jacobus Johannes 
• Uys, Jan C
• Uys, Petrus Lafras (Piet Hlobane)
• van den Berg, Hendrik 
• van den Berg, Hendrik Stephanus 
• van der Berg, Isak
• van der Merwe, Andries
• van der Merwe, C
• van der Merwe, Christiaan Pieter
  
• van der Merwe, Frederik J
• van der Merwe, Jan
• van der Merwe, Josias
• van der Merwe, L P
• van der Merwe, Lukas J
• van der Merwe, M
• van der Merwe, Willem
• van der Schyff, D
• van der Schyff, J D
• van Deventer, Jan
• van Dyk, Joseph
• van Dyk, Sybrand
• van Gass, Ferdinand Paul George
• van Gass, J F
• van Jaarsveld, A
• van Loggerenberg, Hendrik
• van Niekerk, Izak Andries
• van Niekerk, J A P
• van Niekerk, Pieter Johannes
• van Rooyen, Cornelis J
• van Rooyen, Dirk
• van Rooyen, G T
• van Rooyen, Gert F
• van Rooyen, Gert Reinier
• van Rooyen, I
• van Rooyen, Lukas
• van Rooyen, Stephanus
  
• van Schalkwyk, Christiaan
• van Schalkwyk, Gert
• van Staden, Cornelis
• van Staden, V C
• van Straten, Jacob
• van Venen, D
• van Vuuren, P
• van Zyl, Jacobus
• Venter, Albert
• Venter, C I
• Venter, P A
• Venter, Willem Daniel
• Vermaak, Cornelis
• Vermaak, Johannes Gerhardus
• Viljoen, Christoffel
• Viljoen, Gideon
• Viljoen, Johan H
• Viljoen, M
• Viljoen, Sarel
• Visagie, Jan
• Visser

Kulturele Erfenis

Die Bloedrivier-slagveld, Plaas Vechtkop 168, Utrecht Distrik, is 'n provinsiale erfenisterrein, en word beskerm in gevolge van die Wet op Nasionale Erfenishulpbronne (25/1999).

Voortrekkers

Die Voortrekkers het tydens die Groot Trek vanaf 1836 vanuit die Kaapkolonie na die binneland van suidelike Afrika getrek. Meeste trekkers het met hulle hele gesin en al hulle besittings, vee en werkers ingesluit, vanuit die Oos-Kaap met ossewaens getrek. Die rede vir die massa-migrasie is steeds nie heeltemaal duidelik nie. Dit word gemeen dat die Frans-Nederduitse setlaars ongelukkig was oor die Britse regering se hardkoppigheid en hul streng beleid. Dit word ook gemeen dat die natuurlike weiding van die Transvaal en Natal meer aanloklik as die Kaap en die droë Karoo was.
Van die vernaamste leiers was Piet Retief, Gerrit Maritz, Andries Pretorius, Louis Tregardt, Hendrik Potgieter, Sarel Cilliers en Piet Uys.
Onder leiding van Gerrit Maritz en Piet Retief het 'n groep voortrekkers na Natal getrek in die rigting van die huidige hoofstad, Pietermaritzburg. Hulle het onderhandel met die leier van die Zoeloes, die regerende stam in daardie gebied, om 'n stuk grond te verkry. Die leier van die Zoeloes, Dingaan, het die Voortrekkers toe om die bos gelei met die transaksie; 'n groot groep trekkers, waaronder Piet Retief, is deur Dingaan laat vermoor. Later is die oorlewendes deur 'n oorweldigende Zoeloemag aangeval te Bloedrivier (vandag Nacome-rivier). Die Voortrekkers het egter die Slag van Bloedrivier gewen en later stig hulle die Republiek van Natalia. Dié is later deur die Britse Ryk oorgeneem.
Teenstrydig met algemene denke was die Voortrekkerbeweging in die 1840's/1850's nie 'n wit beweging nie, maar wel 'n wit-geleide beweging. Daar was menigte 'boere' wie se swart slawe na vryspraak vrywillig saamgetrek het a.g.v. die politieke ongerief in die Kaap.