our return to blogging

THE BOER NATIONS.
"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home andfortune and left their country for ever at the time of therevocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously beone of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive,place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited tothe tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consumingpatriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses inone individual, and you have the modern Boer--the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain."

This inspiring piece was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...him of the Sherlock Holmes fame. I would like to agree with it...well, except maybe the part about being god fearing. I have some reluctance to accept the "beard in the sky" belief based on what people and books have to say about it. Even though I am sitting in dreary London now, have been for some time, I still keep up to date with what's happening back home. Recently I've started think how Afrikaans white people seem to be blamed for all the trouble and woes in South Africa. And we seem to just quietly bow our heads and accept this. Is this from a deep seated guilt, that possibly the world's media and populace could be correct and these problems our country face now, is directly related to how our forefathers saw fit to run our country? I hope not. There is a lot I could say about this, but prefer not to, as this would put me into the category of Afrikaans people that I have come to despise. The one's that go around the UK and admit to Afrikaans people being the unjust ethnic cleansers, the one's responsible for putting South Africa in the state in which it finds itself now. Needless to say, these "patriots" have no idea of what really happend, have no inkling as to how much better and stronger South Africa was under a white goverment. I'm not advocating we go back to apartheid, but judging by interviews I have seen recently with black people livinig in informal settlements, many of whom say that they prefer the old, white Afrikaner goverment back. This comes from black people, completly disillusioned by the black regime who has made countless of promises and and failed to achieve the majority of them.

I prefer to keep the description from Arthur Conan Doyle as the image i have in my minds-eye of my nation and culture. I prefer not to see the soft, complacent, complaining Afrikaner nation that is emerging