Russia has 43 million hectares of unused farm land, which amounts to 107,5 million acres. Very tempting for those who wish to farm it. During the past few years Russia has produced record harvests and Russian non GMO food is now a fashion on world markets. Imagine how many more crops can be planted on the unused 43 million hectares (107,5 million acres).
Times are obviously changing. Who could have imagined in Soviet times that one day people would be willing to emigrate to Russia. During the past few years I have noticed that people showed interest on the Internet about Russia. A few years back a well known Polish website stated that if Europe does not settle it’s immigration problems, then a day will come when the entire native population of Europe will flee to Russia for protection. It’s not as fantastic as it may sound.
It migiht be better for Russia to start filling up the farmland with Eurpean-origin farmers etc. than to wait for landless Chinese and Central Asians to start having a similar idea.
Katherine
It already is. Putin has offered free land to Russians and foreigners who meet the criteria. Afrikaners are of Dutch, french and German origin.
Actually our primary language is Afrikaans. They will certainly learn Russian as quick as possible. Intelligent and hard working. Thank you for the help.
No, Russia needs more English and more Mandarin, Korean and Japanese speakers. Afrikaners are usually at least bilingual if not trilingual and would be a great addition to Russia. Georgia realised the desirability of Afrikaners in 2011 https://www.voanews.com/a/afrikaner-farmers-migrating-to-georgia-129900258/145298.html but it seems that has fallen flat.
Whether you or anyone else likes it, English is a major scientific and commercial language, to ignore that is to cut off your nose, to spite your face. Afrikaners will bring money and a Protestant work ethic not unlike the Orthodox work ethic. I suspect they will fit in just like the Volga Germans of centuries before.
I am surprised no one on this board has mentioned Australia. Since the end of Apartheid, Australia has been the top country of choice for emigrating white South Africans. Based on the recent social unrest and the “police state style” PC correctness in Britain, I cannot imagine Australian society is much different. Perhaps Russia would allow the Boers much more freedom?
The Quebec government in Canada has an agreement with France. French-speaking Quebeckers are allowed to live and work in France without a visa, and vice versa. Canada has benefited as a result.
I wish the Russians would make it easy for Germans to immigrate. They can contribute much to the Russian economy. Generous incentives for German immigration would be one of the last things the Anglo-Saxon elites want – Which is why the Russians should encourage it! How else can it be possible for countries to grow closer economically and to understand each other unless the citizens of both countries have opportunities for constant, intimate contact?
Australia was happy to accept “British” South Africans, but not Afrikaners. Nowadays, all “white” South Africans are undesirable, gotta keep up our international image. Of course, those with enough money are still acceptable.
That pretty much describes the Australian Governments position. The Boers are white and Christian, and thus a no-no for Australia who since the 1990’s has welcomed everybody who is not white and not British.
The Boers know their position in South Africa; much the same as what happened in Rhodesia later renamed Zimbabwe with land grabs and murder. Once the South African government announced their land confiscation scheme the Boers lost their last chance of survival in South Africa, and of course the Australian Government is insensitive to the rape and murders of white South Africans, just as they did with CHOGM in 2001/2
Again, the Boers are strongly Christian, and they will fit in well with the Russian Orthodox Church and they will assimilate, unlike some other cultures.
And lastly there is the Boer’s wealth, which if they are permitted to bring it with them will greatly benefit the local Russians, and of course the loss to South Africa.
The Boers will at the least supply you with culinary, agricultural and workers. The only problem is potential uses of racism that could be directed at Russia for accepting Boers who aren’t actively seen as refugees by the world government. This can lead to propaganda of Russia being a white supremist country and incentives may be forced on Russia to accept diverse groups of people such as Africans and Arabs and this is what makes it a very undesirable topic both for south Africans and governments.
Thank you for posting this, Saker. Just a small correction from the inset: The Boers are descendents from employees of the Dutch V.O.C that arrived in 1652 and which ran a waystation in the Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town today) for passing ships. When the V.O.C packed up and returned to the Netherlands some employees wanted to stay in Africa and keep on farming. So, Boers have been in S.A.for at least 360 years (the video says 200 years). Later (in the 1700´s) they were joined by French Hugenots who were fleeing persecution in France. Some other smaller groups of Europeans also immigrated to South Africa and joined them: some Swedes, Germans and Irish amongst others. They formed their own culture and are not Dutch by culture (anymore) – this is quite relevant, because a lot of people assume they are Dutch and have a close relationship with the Netherlands – in fact the Netherlands wants noting to do with them – probably because they ´defected´ll those centuries ago.
I wonder why the people of the Netherlands would want nothing to do with the Boers. I have always thought that Afrikaans was a Dutch dialect, and that the Dutch and the Boers could understand each other’s language with effort. One South African student once told me that the Dutch call Afrikaans “kitchen Dutch.” The business elites in the Netherlands would do well in establishing and maintaining healthy relations with the Boers in Russia.
Would the Orthodox Russians be “ok” by importing thousands of Calvinists? How many years would it take for the Boers to be discriminated against due Russian of the prosperous minority? There is a precedent: Decades prior to WW I, the Russians were jealous of the thriving Volga German communities and began to treat them unfairly.
Wat van al die “van de Kaap” stammoeders? Of “van Makau”? Of “van Bengal”? Die VOC werknemers was deels Maleis—kyk maar na portrette van Simon vd Stel—dis belaglik om ons so uitermatig wit te hou.
Herkoms van die Afrikaner is tog nie ‘n nuwe boek nie.
The South African Boers are intelligent, Christian, hard-working, law-abiding people. Russia will gain an immigrant class to till the soil and make it productive.
The Boers will escape the persecution of the black South African government, which has already said that they intend to murder them and steal their land.
I think there is probably a back story here which is not mentioned. Any other group of people similarly threatened would get priority status as persecuted minorities from a war-torn country. But because the victims in this case are white, they are ignored by the rest of the world…the persona non grata of the refugee class. Thus, Boers are investigating Russia precisely because Russia is the one of the few countries that is open to them. I’m sure it would be far easier, given their language, culture, and religion, for Boers to emigrate to the USA or Europe, but we are not interested in helping them-whites need not apply.
The black garb is part of the protest of their murdered fellow farmers. It’s clearly a demonstration.
I should also point out, also, that Russia is picking up the slack that Canada foolishly dropped years ago. Barbara Amiel was a popular columnist in MacLeans, a Canadian weekly, and she proposed taking displaced white folk from S Africa into Canada in a column that was widely condemned for racial insensitivity.
If Barbara had wrote it in the USA or any western European society I’m sure she would have gotten the same slagging.
So now we’re discovering who the “free nations” really are.
“Russia is picking up the slack that Canada foolishly dropped years ago. Barbara Amiel was a popular columnist in MacLeans, a Canadian weekly, and she proposed taking displaced white folk from S Africa into Canada in a column that was widely condemned for racial insensitivity.”
Yes, canada was foolish and really missed out. Look at all those benefits those white west ukrainian immigrants have brought to canada. Imagine what canada could be now with boers bolstering this wonderful demographic.
It is called cultural preservation. Are you familiar with the fact the the Boers were almost completely wiped out as a culture group in their history (during the 2nd Boer War)?
Here is a well researched documentary about that – including some comments by Nelson Mandela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2FoHyVpRE
How would that not have affected them? So they do tend to group together – but not for the reasons you think. Also, keep in mind that what people call an “apartheid mentality” (wanting to group together as a culture) is just a form of tribalism, which in Africa is normal and natural. When Africans group together it is their right and nobody comments on it – when Afrikaners / white Boers group together it is called “apartheid mentality” or “racism”. Why the double standards? The Afrikaner culture was formed within a very tribalistic environment and as a matter of self-preservation within that environment they naturally also grouped together. Btw, I have on my travels met people from the USA, Germany, Spain and other countries do exactly the same when they are abroad – for example, who would deny that this is also an English trait when Brits visit Southern Europe seaside resorts?
So, although in your case you met some who were not so open, most people who have met Afrikaners would say that they are friendly, open and hospitable – especially those who have visited South Africa. Afrikaners need to be understood within the context of their history.
Well, it’s an open secret that Apartheid South Africa under White Afrikaner rule was a geostrategic ally of the Israeli apartheid state, which involved, among other things, support of nuclear weapons development.
Given that Russia is welcoming Zionist regime leaders like Bibi Netanyahoo to Victory Day celebrations, perhaps it’s only appropriate that it also welcomes the Boer Afrikaners with open arms.
Actually Anonymous, the adage you were trying to find was ‘Birds of a feather’!
However I think you may notice a difference between the South African eagle and the Zionist Crow.
As for the Victory Day celebrations, Israel who was on the side of Georgia and Georgia lost that little debacle with Ossetia, and Bibi’s crown of thorns was to carry a plaque in remembrance of the Georgian war.
Exactly. The apartheid regime (ie: boers) were very close to the zionazi regime. They were developing nuclear weapons together. A program that got as far as testing at least one device. Being among the strongest supporters of apartheid, the israelis broke off relations, essentially, when apartheid officially fell and have been working overtime to undermine the current government and replace it with a colonial regime more subservient to israeli interests.
BTW, another fact not well known in the zionazified west is that during WW2, many of the boers supported nazi germany during that conflict, including many in the apartheid regime itself. Again, much like israel and its stern gang.
I see you (and another poster) completely ignored the context I gave about Afrikaners wanting to preserve their culture – I explained it in detail – what is so difficult to understand? I even posted a video. Still, you ignore this context. The Boer culture has always been under threat – from African tribes as well as from British imperialists. The Afrikaner culture is under severe threat today (amongst other things the Afrikaans language has been forced out of universities – ones the Afrikaners established.) They are now forced to study in English. Under the tribalistic circumstances in Southern Africa there is no other way but to group together.
Now, tell me: Why is it that after 25 years of democracy the Afrikaners are forced to group together once again? In fact they are dispersed and spread right across the South African republic’s territory. If they are such apartheid-lovers, why are they not all concentrated in one area of the country today? Surely if they would “bring back Apartheid in a flash” they would already have started to concentrate in one area? No?
Well, Afrikaners have to date complied with everything that was negotiated and agreed upon in the run-up to democracy. It is not they who have abandoned the constitution, the negotiated settlement or reconciliation. It is the ANC who has done that. Considering the danger that Boers face and in light of the fact that democracy has failed – I wonder who would blame them if they indeed would prefer to have apartheid back? (Yes, the usual suspects of course).
If they are such apartheid-lovers, why are they not all concentrated in one area of the country today? Surely if they would “bring back Apartheid in a flash” they would already have started to concentrate in one area? No? …YES! but they have started establishing their own “whites only town” in South Africa called ORANIA!! and if that is not racism then what is?????
I’m technically white (Cornish-Manx-Flemish) and live in South Africa very comfortably, in a rural area in the Eastern Cape, working at a university thirty kilometres down the valley. South Africa is not hell for anybody except poor blacks (who admittedly have a horrible time, although it’s far better for them than it was under apartheid even after ten years of corrupt and incompetent government).
I have a few doubts about this 15 000 claim. No real farmer is going to abandon a successful farm in order to charge off into the unknown. Farming conditions in Russia are dramatically different from farming conditions in South Africa — this is not like going to Zambia, where there was already an Afrikaner presence and where in any case the climate and general conditions are quite like South Africa. I suspect it’s rather silly right-wing propaganda. Notice, incidentally, that nobody has taken up the offers made by Australia a couple of years back.
More than half of South Africans were poor in 2015, with the poverty headcount increasing to 55,5% from a series low of 53,2% in 2011. The figures are calculated using the upper-bound poverty line (UBPL) of R992 per person per month (pppm) in 2015 prices. This translates into over 30,4 million South Africans living in poverty in 2015.
Canadian officials would have to consider the ramifications of allowing refugee status on the grounds of flight from a supposed race war. As events unfold south of the Canadian border, countless American refugees could be sent northward in a bid to destabilize and control the entire continent. There are attempts now to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, which would declare the USA to be unsafe for refugees (even with the USA’s 4 percent unemployment rate and booming economy.)
Canada would be daft to take in Americans under any circumstances, the “booming economy” is a case in point. There is no “booming” anything except the lying.
Paul Craig Roberts has been spreading this link around:
Companies have gone full two-tier since Reagan, and “retirees” losing their pensions and health care has kept oldsters frozen in place. Likewise, the younger ones are finding that American corporations are only looking for ways to replace them (robots or outsource.)
An explosion IS coming: In public, Mexico “loves” her citizens north of the Rio Grande. In private, they know if a significant number were forced back to Old Mexico, the numbers would destroy the place. They are quietly supporting American ICE because they know a reinforced border would protect Mexico more than the US.
Canada? No Americans will head that way, unless they’re passing through from Guatemala. Trump only got the mid-American vote because they thought he’d help, economically. Nope. So if they want the land of their ancestors, they’ll have to fight for it after all.
Now if by “booming” you mean gun sales, right. That part of the economy is way, way up.
“An explosion IS coming: In public, Mexico “loves” her citizens north of the Rio Grande. In private, they know if a significant number were forced back to Old Mexico, the numbers would destroy the place. They are quietly supporting American ICE because they know a reinforced border would protect Mexico more than the US.”
Can you expand on the background to these statements?
I don’t understand what you are saying about Mexico/Mexicans in USA/Mexicans returning to Mexico.
Is a question the cultural attitudes acquired in the USA? Or is it an issue of unemployment in Mexico?
???
Katherine
35% of Mexicans live in the United States. Mexican labor chiefs, Mexican executives, and Mexican politicians are all aware of this. I’ve talked at one point or another to members of all three groups.
If a significant — not all those millions, just a significant — number of that 35% tried to go back to Mexico and live the current infrastructure there would collapse in less than a week.
It was the spinelessness of American politicians and the greed of American plutocrats that allowed a nation-within-a-nation that huge to fester north of Mexico. A massive dose of messy politics in the US would turn the entire continent south of the Canadian border into chaos. And something simple like the failure of Social Security is all it would take.
Were that to occur, whites in America would be the new Boers, which is why we follow them and the entire South Africa situation rather closely.
4 decades ago I took a job at a resort that had hired South Africans. They hired many people from around the world for 3 month work contracts. I worked with several South Africans and we often associated after work, as well. These were not boers, though, but those of a brit background. There were more boers than brits, but the afrikaans did not ever associate with any one who was not one of their own kind. I never saw them make even a minor effort to engage anyone who wasn’t boer. They were always together in their own little group, conversing in afrikaans, oblivious to any others around them. While at work they were polite, they were also cold with non-boers, and it was clear they would rather not have contact, but we’re doing so only out of necessity.
The brit background South Africans, on the other hand, we’re the opposite. Happy to engage with others outside their ethnic/national group.
And as I mentioned, the resort hired people from around the world. Of all these people, none of them isolated themselves like the boers, but were generally warm and friendly towards people of other backgrounds.
GC –
(1) there are huge numbers of Ukrainians making there way via Poland into or through Germany. Remember that there is an unacknowledged but widely recognised USA plan (or rather programme of action, since it is very effectively realised) to reduce the population of Ukraine from 46 million to 25 million plus-minus. They are well on the way to achieving this through (A) “encouraging” emigration/fleeing – several million have gone into RF (which has welcomed and housed them), about 2 million are officially working in Poland in agriculture (there is a great shortage of labourers in Poland, as in Germany). The ones going into Germany and beyond, including britain, are getting there as “Poles” or “Balts” or “Czechs” etc. (the Germans, British and others too uninformed to be able to distinguish their Russian tongue (yes, Russian, not, on the whole, Ukrainian). And (B) gerontocide (killing off the elderly popluation of Ukraine (alo happening very effectively, as we speak. The 20-25 million target is well on the way to being achieved.
(2) There are no South African refugees. Do not allow yourself to be duped.
A related issue is: Afrikaner identity was to a great extent forged in the fires of apartheid. It has always had the stench of racist exclusivity to it. How does one reconcile this with the call for Afrikaner-only spaces? The statements from the Afrikaner organisations and Rapport were vehement in their claims to Afrikaner rights but refrained from addressing this question.
Is it possible to take apartheid out of whites? Maybe. The first step would be to stop denying that the Free State video boys and the alleged Skielik killer are products of a context of currently existing white racism.
(mod-to note: expletive deleted) Afrikaner identity started forming in the different groups of people even before they came to Africa. The industrious Dutch, the religious Hugenotes, etc.
Apartheid is not in the Afrikaner DNA.
If you have known someone for 100’s of years and they represent almost the complete opposite of the values you hold dear, do you mingle with them or do you keep your distance? That is the core of apartheid, the actual meaning of the word.
It became institutionalized because the government was scared of the current corrupt and lawless South Africa becoming reality. You see they understood the context of South Africa, something none of you armchair critics do.
It ended because these racists Afrikaners voted for it to end. Read that sentence 10 times. Racist people voting to be non-racist, or maybe most of them were never racist, and of the parties involved the Afrikaner is the one participant that has kept every single agreement.
So stop blabbering your uninformed crap and hiding like a little mouse behind anonymous.
I am Afrikaner, I tell it like it is. I live in the USA. I don’t take crap and don’t waste time mixing with fake people. I do not like most Americans because of their moral values and fakeness, yet I know people from across the world who are my friends and not Afrikaners.
We choose our friends, you earn it, and we don’t care where you are from or how you look, but if you don’t deserve our trust or friendship you won’t get it.
Molyneux is a Magnitude One Zionist suck-up. I would not trust anything he says or anyone he cites.
I have heard one suburb of Tel Aviv accounts for 90 percent of internet trolling and “alt” whatever, but I’ve seen no evidence… only a suspicious blindness to the totally obvious.
There are some poor whites in South Africa, and they are often shamefully neglected by the white community (unlike africans and indians who tend to look after their own) but obviously that doesn’t apply to the farming community; a white street beggar is not going to be any more welcome in Russia than in the United States, and for very good reason.
White South Africans can walk into jobs in UK, NZ, Australia.
This Afrikaner farmer oppression is a propaganda stunt. Or more sinister.
Too much media coverage to be legitimate.
Russia knows too.
Anyways these guys will move to Australia and get cushy jobs.
You don’t see non whites getting the same treatment.
Given South Africa is entirely under control of mostly X tribe families that don’t live in country. Given the majority of natives Africans have not seen any uplift since 94.
Since blacks get f***ed by crime and murder far more than this meme of Boer farmers. This persistent meme is rather tiresome.
“White South Africans can walk into jobs in UK, NZ, Australia”
No, they can´t. They have to meet very stringent criteria in terms of qualifications or needed skills to get into those countries and the need to have a lot of money, otherwsie it´s a no-go.
“This Afrikaner farmer oppression is a propaganda stunt.”
In light of all the video evidence and statistics available about real events in South Africa one could equally claim that your statement is a propaganda stunt?
“Too much media coverage to be legitimate.”
Virtually no mainstream coverage. Very little media coverage, that´s why it´s getting some (not much) attention in alternative media.
“You don’t see non whites getting the same treatment.”
Australia has taken in reugees and asylum seekers from loads of non-white countries – fact.
“Since blacks get f***ed by crime and murder far more than this meme of Boer farmers.”
The crime and murders directed towards Boers are for racial reasons while the crime affecting other races are non-racial crimes. This is the reason why it is starting to (reluctantly) get attention now.
You could perhaps aim a bit higher for factual truths next time.
“AFRIKA for the Afrikans, Europe for the Europeans, Asia for the Asians” The great Marcus Garvey. Those 15,000 Europeans belong to Europe (invaders) not Alkebulan.( Mother Afrika)
“If a cat give birth to kittens in a oven, that does not make them biscuits” Malcolm X
History turned a circle. 100 years ago the Soviets went after kulaks. Killed them all, raped them, stole their land, whatever remnants were sent to Siberia to freeze to death. Now Russia invites over kulaks from South Africa. Atonement for their sins? Have they learned the lesson?
It is really commendable that Russia is providing this solution to Afrikaner farmers (boers). A similar scenario to what happened to the Kulaks are now happening in South Africa:
– a big discussion has already taken place about this Kulaks repeat scenario in S.A. – see here for article and extensive commentary: http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/land-expropriation-what-could-possibly-go-wrong
So the government there is repeating in South Africa what happened in the Soviet Union that time. Until now though it would seem that nobody in BRICS have yet criticised South Africa. The 2018 BRICS summit is starting in Johannesburg this week – South Africa is the host this year. The open question is, will there be any official or unoffial statements made to the South African authorities? Or not?
On the BRICS 2018 Summit website it says that South Africa is an inclusive nation. Yet, they are excluding their farmers from the protection they need to safeguard them in their production of food for the nation. They are excluding Afrikaners from being educated in their mother tongue (home language) – they removed the Afrikaans language from Universities late last year. They are exluding white people from jobs on the basis the of race beause of affirmative action policies – that includes young white people who were born after the end of apartheid. Soon they will exclude white people from being able to keep their legally acquired land. In light of this, what is the meaning of ïnclusive?
To date the only country in the world that has made an official negative statement to the S.A. government has been Australia when they asked the SA government to provide better protection for their citizens so they do not end up having to become refugees.Under Apartheid the whole world mobilised against the Afrikaner government and people were very vocal against human rights abuses in South Africa. What has changed?
It is a very positive step to assist Afrikaners outside of South Africa and Russia is doing a very good deed here. Although we should also remember that it is better to try and assist these people to retain their rights in their own country of birth. Until now there has been no campaign to try and motivate the South African governent to respect the negotiated settlement that happened at CODESA – where agreements were made that property rights would be protected after the end of Apartheid.
Please look up the word: PERFIDY – it is against the Geneva convention. PERFIDY is when you make an agreement with your enemy to lay down arms with the objective to lead him into a trap. This is what has happened in South Africa. Afrikaners gave up power under assurances that their rights would be protected and they are now defenseless to protect themselves from attacts which have a clear racial motive. There used to a farm security system in place called the commando system whereby farms would be protected by patrol vehicles which would also be available for rapid response. This system was disbanded by one of the former presidents with a promise that it would be replaced by something else – which never happened.
There has been no pressure from outside South Africa to comply with human rights. Afrikaners have already been to the U.N. and nothing has come from it. While there is still an opportunity before the country descends into anarchy nations that support international law and human rights should make statements to condemn whatis happening in South Africa. If they don´t, one may have to draw the conclusion that they are possibly not against what is happening there.
“Although English is the mother tongue of only a minority of the
population, it is the language most widely understood, and the second
language of the majority of South Africans. However, government is
committed to promoting all the official languages, including the Khoi,
Nama and San languages, as well as Sign Language.”
– Yet, in late late 2017 the education department there removed the Afrikaans language from universities – the very universities that Afrikaners built so that they can be educated in their won language and not English. Well, now the government is forcing Afrikaners to be educated in English. Where is this commitment to develop all languages as is stated on the official BRICS Summit website? Furthermore, the SA Government is not in the process of developing any of the African languages – they have decided to use English only.
The real reason why there is no international outcry against the current South African regime´s neglect of the human rights of its citizens is bacause removing the old white government from power was probably just about getting easier acces to the reources of the country. Many of the countries that supported the anti-apartheid movement have a very close relationship with the ANC government today. Most of these countries also have lucrative resource contracts with the current government. Furthermore, many of them were exposed in 2017 to have been involved in bribery of the ANC government under the previous president. The current president is seen to be even more business friendly and open than the one before and when he came into power he was very well received by the business community worldwide. Shortly after he announced the confiscation of land withoun compensation – still, very little criticism from abroad. The fact that there is no outcry is because human rights takes a backseat to business rights and it is only ever really championed when there´s a positive financial result in the end.
Russia is a nation with vast land in need of population. Agricultural development is national security and good business for export, too.
These South Africans are a hardy stock with Christian values. They seem to make a good fit with Russians.
One thing certain, they won’t become a burden on society. They are self-sufficient and will come with all their earthly possessions and cash.
Hopefully, it will work out smoothly.
Russia has 43 million hectares of unused farm land, which amounts to 107,5 million acres. Very tempting for those who wish to farm it. During the past few years Russia has produced record harvests and Russian non GMO food is now a fashion on world markets. Imagine how many more crops can be planted on the unused 43 million hectares (107,5 million acres).
Times are obviously changing. Who could have imagined in Soviet times that one day people would be willing to emigrate to Russia. During the past few years I have noticed that people showed interest on the Internet about Russia. A few years back a well known Polish website stated that if Europe does not settle it’s immigration problems, then a day will come when the entire native population of Europe will flee to Russia for protection. It’s not as fantastic as it may sound.
It migiht be better for Russia to start filling up the farmland with Eurpean-origin farmers etc. than to wait for landless Chinese and Central Asians to start having a similar idea.
Katherine
Katherine
It already is. Putin has offered free land to Russians and foreigners who meet the criteria. Afrikaners are of Dutch, french and German origin.
but that’s in the North – the Boers want southern lands – Is it in Crimea that they went ? Stravrpol ?
I know the origin of Boers . . .
Katherine “Afrikaners are of Dutch, french and German origin.”
That was my point.
Alright, but the last thing Russia needs is more English. Come, but learn Russian.
They speak ENGLISH?
Brit says:
Afrikaans —
Native name: Afrikaans [ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Linguistic affiliation: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, Low Franconian, Dutch.
Number of speakers: c.15-23 million.
Spoken in: South Africa and Namibia.
First written: 19th century.
Writing system: Arabic and Latin alphabets.
Status: official language in South Africa and Namibia.
NF — After Africa, picking up Russian should be simple for these folk.
Russia really is getting a good deal here.
Actually our primary language is Afrikaans. They will certainly learn Russian as quick as possible. Intelligent and hard working. Thank you for the help.
No, Russia needs more English and more Mandarin, Korean and Japanese speakers. Afrikaners are usually at least bilingual if not trilingual and would be a great addition to Russia. Georgia realised the desirability of Afrikaners in 2011 https://www.voanews.com/a/afrikaner-farmers-migrating-to-georgia-129900258/145298.html but it seems that has fallen flat.
Whether you or anyone else likes it, English is a major scientific and commercial language, to ignore that is to cut off your nose, to spite your face. Afrikaners will bring money and a Protestant work ethic not unlike the Orthodox work ethic. I suspect they will fit in just like the Volga Germans of centuries before.
I am surprised no one on this board has mentioned Australia. Since the end of Apartheid, Australia has been the top country of choice for emigrating white South Africans. Based on the recent social unrest and the “police state style” PC correctness in Britain, I cannot imagine Australian society is much different. Perhaps Russia would allow the Boers much more freedom?
The Quebec government in Canada has an agreement with France. French-speaking Quebeckers are allowed to live and work in France without a visa, and vice versa. Canada has benefited as a result.
I wish the Russians would make it easy for Germans to immigrate. They can contribute much to the Russian economy. Generous incentives for German immigration would be one of the last things the Anglo-Saxon elites want – Which is why the Russians should encourage it! How else can it be possible for countries to grow closer economically and to understand each other unless the citizens of both countries have opportunities for constant, intimate contact?
Australia was happy to accept “British” South Africans, but not Afrikaners. Nowadays, all “white” South Africans are undesirable, gotta keep up our international image. Of course, those with enough money are still acceptable.
Dear C,
That pretty much describes the Australian Governments position. The Boers are white and Christian, and thus a no-no for Australia who since the 1990’s has welcomed everybody who is not white and not British.
The Boers know their position in South Africa; much the same as what happened in Rhodesia later renamed Zimbabwe with land grabs and murder. Once the South African government announced their land confiscation scheme the Boers lost their last chance of survival in South Africa, and of course the Australian Government is insensitive to the rape and murders of white South Africans, just as they did with CHOGM in 2001/2
Again, the Boers are strongly Christian, and they will fit in well with the Russian Orthodox Church and they will assimilate, unlike some other cultures.
And lastly there is the Boer’s wealth, which if they are permitted to bring it with them will greatly benefit the local Russians, and of course the loss to South Africa.
Oh, and the Boers also know how to fight!
The Boers will at the least supply you with culinary, agricultural and workers. The only problem is potential uses of racism that could be directed at Russia for accepting Boers who aren’t actively seen as refugees by the world government. This can lead to propaganda of Russia being a white supremist country and incentives may be forced on Russia to accept diverse groups of people such as Africans and Arabs and this is what makes it a very undesirable topic both for south Africans and governments.
Thank you for posting this, Saker. Just a small correction from the inset: The Boers are descendents from employees of the Dutch V.O.C that arrived in 1652 and which ran a waystation in the Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town today) for passing ships. When the V.O.C packed up and returned to the Netherlands some employees wanted to stay in Africa and keep on farming. So, Boers have been in S.A.for at least 360 years (the video says 200 years). Later (in the 1700´s) they were joined by French Hugenots who were fleeing persecution in France. Some other smaller groups of Europeans also immigrated to South Africa and joined them: some Swedes, Germans and Irish amongst others. They formed their own culture and are not Dutch by culture (anymore) – this is quite relevant, because a lot of people assume they are Dutch and have a close relationship with the Netherlands – in fact the Netherlands wants noting to do with them – probably because they ´defected´ll those centuries ago.
@Kobus
I wonder why the people of the Netherlands would want nothing to do with the Boers. I have always thought that Afrikaans was a Dutch dialect, and that the Dutch and the Boers could understand each other’s language with effort. One South African student once told me that the Dutch call Afrikaans “kitchen Dutch.” The business elites in the Netherlands would do well in establishing and maintaining healthy relations with the Boers in Russia.
Would the Orthodox Russians be “ok” by importing thousands of Calvinists? How many years would it take for the Boers to be discriminated against due Russian of the prosperous minority? There is a precedent: Decades prior to WW I, the Russians were jealous of the thriving Volga German communities and began to treat them unfairly.
Wat van al die “van de Kaap” stammoeders? Of “van Makau”? Of “van Bengal”? Die VOC werknemers was deels Maleis—kyk maar na portrette van Simon vd Stel—dis belaglik om ons so uitermatig wit te hou.
Herkoms van die Afrikaner is tog nie ‘n nuwe boek nie.
This is a win-win.
The South African Boers are intelligent, Christian, hard-working, law-abiding people. Russia will gain an immigrant class to till the soil and make it productive.
The Boers will escape the persecution of the black South African government, which has already said that they intend to murder them and steal their land.
I think there is probably a back story here which is not mentioned. Any other group of people similarly threatened would get priority status as persecuted minorities from a war-torn country. But because the victims in this case are white, they are ignored by the rest of the world…the persona non grata of the refugee class. Thus, Boers are investigating Russia precisely because Russia is the one of the few countries that is open to them. I’m sure it would be far easier, given their language, culture, and religion, for Boers to emigrate to the USA or Europe, but we are not interested in helping them-whites need not apply.
Why are they all wearing black?
They look like Amish, or members of some cult.
Not like modern South Africans.
Katherine
The black garb is part of the protest of their murdered fellow farmers. It’s clearly a demonstration.
I should also point out, also, that Russia is picking up the slack that Canada foolishly dropped years ago. Barbara Amiel was a popular columnist in MacLeans, a Canadian weekly, and she proposed taking displaced white folk from S Africa into Canada in a column that was widely condemned for racial insensitivity.
If Barbara had wrote it in the USA or any western European society I’m sure she would have gotten the same slagging.
So now we’re discovering who the “free nations” really are.
F
“Russia is picking up the slack that Canada foolishly dropped years ago. Barbara Amiel was a popular columnist in MacLeans, a Canadian weekly, and she proposed taking displaced white folk from S Africa into Canada in a column that was widely condemned for racial insensitivity.”
Yes, canada was foolish and really missed out. Look at all those benefits those white west ukrainian immigrants have brought to canada. Imagine what canada could be now with boers bolstering this wonderful demographic.
Vot tak,
It is called cultural preservation. Are you familiar with the fact the the Boers were almost completely wiped out as a culture group in their history (during the 2nd Boer War)?
Here is a well researched documentary about that – including some comments by Nelson Mandela:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz2FoHyVpRE
How would that not have affected them? So they do tend to group together – but not for the reasons you think. Also, keep in mind that what people call an “apartheid mentality” (wanting to group together as a culture) is just a form of tribalism, which in Africa is normal and natural. When Africans group together it is their right and nobody comments on it – when Afrikaners / white Boers group together it is called “apartheid mentality” or “racism”. Why the double standards? The Afrikaner culture was formed within a very tribalistic environment and as a matter of self-preservation within that environment they naturally also grouped together. Btw, I have on my travels met people from the USA, Germany, Spain and other countries do exactly the same when they are abroad – for example, who would deny that this is also an English trait when Brits visit Southern Europe seaside resorts?
So, although in your case you met some who were not so open, most people who have met Afrikaners would say that they are friendly, open and hospitable – especially those who have visited South Africa. Afrikaners need to be understood within the context of their history.
when Afrikaners / white Boers group together it is called “apartheid mentality” or “racism”.
You like the State of Israel also?
Well, it’s an open secret that Apartheid South Africa under White Afrikaner rule was a geostrategic ally of the Israeli apartheid state, which involved, among other things, support of nuclear weapons development.
By their friends, you will know them….
The unspoken alliance: Israel’s secret relationship with apartheid South Africa
https://mondoweiss.net/2013/12/alliance-relationship-apartheid/
Given that Russia is welcoming Zionist regime leaders like Bibi Netanyahoo to Victory Day celebrations, perhaps it’s only appropriate that it also welcomes the Boer Afrikaners with open arms.
“Apartheid South Africa was a geostrategic ally of apartheid Israel”
So was the Soviet Union. They were the very first state to recognise Israel only 3 days after Israel declared statehood.
Actually Anonymous, the adage you were trying to find was ‘Birds of a feather’!
However I think you may notice a difference between the South African eagle and the Zionist Crow.
As for the Victory Day celebrations, Israel who was on the side of Georgia and Georgia lost that little debacle with Ossetia, and Bibi’s crown of thorns was to carry a plaque in remembrance of the Georgian war.
“You like the State of Israel also?”
Exactly. The apartheid regime (ie: boers) were very close to the zionazi regime. They were developing nuclear weapons together. A program that got as far as testing at least one device. Being among the strongest supporters of apartheid, the israelis broke off relations, essentially, when apartheid officially fell and have been working overtime to undermine the current government and replace it with a colonial regime more subservient to israeli interests.
BTW, another fact not well known in the zionazified west is that during WW2, many of the boers supported nazi germany during that conflict, including many in the apartheid regime itself. Again, much like israel and its stern gang.
Vot Tak,
I see you (and another poster) completely ignored the context I gave about Afrikaners wanting to preserve their culture – I explained it in detail – what is so difficult to understand? I even posted a video. Still, you ignore this context. The Boer culture has always been under threat – from African tribes as well as from British imperialists. The Afrikaner culture is under severe threat today (amongst other things the Afrikaans language has been forced out of universities – ones the Afrikaners established.) They are now forced to study in English. Under the tribalistic circumstances in Southern Africa there is no other way but to group together.
Now, tell me: Why is it that after 25 years of democracy the Afrikaners are forced to group together once again? In fact they are dispersed and spread right across the South African republic’s territory. If they are such apartheid-lovers, why are they not all concentrated in one area of the country today? Surely if they would “bring back Apartheid in a flash” they would already have started to concentrate in one area? No?
Well, Afrikaners have to date complied with everything that was negotiated and agreed upon in the run-up to democracy. It is not they who have abandoned the constitution, the negotiated settlement or reconciliation. It is the ANC who has done that. Considering the danger that Boers face and in light of the fact that democracy has failed – I wonder who would blame them if they indeed would prefer to have apartheid back? (Yes, the usual suspects of course).
If they are such apartheid-lovers, why are they not all concentrated in one area of the country today? Surely if they would “bring back Apartheid in a flash” they would already have started to concentrate in one area? No? …YES! but they have started establishing their own “whites only town” in South Africa called ORANIA!! and if that is not racism then what is?????
Why is it racist to want to want to defend yourself from ethnic cleansing?
only if you are white
“… to undermine the current government and replace it with a colonial regime more subservient to israeli interests.”
That has already been achieved. It is the present government under the new president – all the rest is just smoke and mirrors.
what’s past is past – the future shines bright for Dutch immigrants coming from hell – because if you have white skin – South Africa is hell now.
what’s past is past
What is in mind is never past – many Afrikaners would, if possible, re-institute Apartheid at the drop of a hat.
They want it’s return and that’s what really counts http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/inside-kleinfontein-south-africa/.
The Afrikaners helped create hell for many millions, perhaps they now partake in Karma there, who knows.
Having said that, the ruling class of South Africa now have made sure little, for most, has really changed for the better.
I’m technically white (Cornish-Manx-Flemish) and live in South Africa very comfortably, in a rural area in the Eastern Cape, working at a university thirty kilometres down the valley. South Africa is not hell for anybody except poor blacks (who admittedly have a horrible time, although it’s far better for them than it was under apartheid even after ten years of corrupt and incompetent government).
I have a few doubts about this 15 000 claim. No real farmer is going to abandon a successful farm in order to charge off into the unknown. Farming conditions in Russia are dramatically different from farming conditions in South Africa — this is not like going to Zambia, where there was already an Afrikaner presence and where in any case the climate and general conditions are quite like South Africa. I suspect it’s rather silly right-wing propaganda. Notice, incidentally, that nobody has taken up the offers made by Australia a couple of years back.
South Africa is not hell for anybody except poor blacks (who admittedly have a horrible time
http://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=10334
More than half of South Africans were poor in 2015, with the poverty headcount increasing to 55,5% from a series low of 53,2% in 2011. The figures are calculated using the upper-bound poverty line (UBPL) of R992 per person per month (pppm) in 2015 prices. This translates into over 30,4 million South Africans living in poverty in 2015.
Quite the exception.
Canadian officials would have to consider the ramifications of allowing refugee status on the grounds of flight from a supposed race war. As events unfold south of the Canadian border, countless American refugees could be sent northward in a bid to destabilize and control the entire continent. There are attempts now to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement, which would declare the USA to be unsafe for refugees (even with the USA’s 4 percent unemployment rate and booming economy.)
Anon:
Canada would be daft to take in Americans under any circumstances, the “booming economy” is a case in point. There is no “booming” anything except the lying.
Paul Craig Roberts has been spreading this link around:
https://www.sott.net/article/390315-Work-til-you-die-Record-number-of-folks-age-85-and-older-are-working-in-the-US
Companies have gone full two-tier since Reagan, and “retirees” losing their pensions and health care has kept oldsters frozen in place. Likewise, the younger ones are finding that American corporations are only looking for ways to replace them (robots or outsource.)
An explosion IS coming: In public, Mexico “loves” her citizens north of the Rio Grande. In private, they know if a significant number were forced back to Old Mexico, the numbers would destroy the place. They are quietly supporting American ICE because they know a reinforced border would protect Mexico more than the US.
Canada? No Americans will head that way, unless they’re passing through from Guatemala. Trump only got the mid-American vote because they thought he’d help, economically. Nope. So if they want the land of their ancestors, they’ll have to fight for it after all.
Now if by “booming” you mean gun sales, right. That part of the economy is way, way up.
“An explosion IS coming: In public, Mexico “loves” her citizens north of the Rio Grande. In private, they know if a significant number were forced back to Old Mexico, the numbers would destroy the place. They are quietly supporting American ICE because they know a reinforced border would protect Mexico more than the US.”
Can you expand on the background to these statements?
I don’t understand what you are saying about Mexico/Mexicans in USA/Mexicans returning to Mexico.
Is a question the cultural attitudes acquired in the USA? Or is it an issue of unemployment in Mexico?
???
Katherine
K —
“Background” in this case is only numbers.
35% of Mexicans live in the United States. Mexican labor chiefs, Mexican executives, and Mexican politicians are all aware of this. I’ve talked at one point or another to members of all three groups.
If a significant — not all those millions, just a significant — number of that 35% tried to go back to Mexico and live the current infrastructure there would collapse in less than a week.
It was the spinelessness of American politicians and the greed of American plutocrats that allowed a nation-within-a-nation that huge to fester north of Mexico. A massive dose of messy politics in the US would turn the entire continent south of the Canadian border into chaos. And something simple like the failure of Social Security is all it would take.
Were that to occur, whites in America would be the new Boers, which is why we follow them and the entire South Africa situation rather closely.
4 decades ago I took a job at a resort that had hired South Africans. They hired many people from around the world for 3 month work contracts. I worked with several South Africans and we often associated after work, as well. These were not boers, though, but those of a brit background. There were more boers than brits, but the afrikaans did not ever associate with any one who was not one of their own kind. I never saw them make even a minor effort to engage anyone who wasn’t boer. They were always together in their own little group, conversing in afrikaans, oblivious to any others around them. While at work they were polite, they were also cold with non-boers, and it was clear they would rather not have contact, but we’re doing so only out of necessity.
The brit background South Africans, on the other hand, we’re the opposite. Happy to engage with others outside their ethnic/national group.
And as I mentioned, the resort hired people from around the world. Of all these people, none of them isolated themselves like the boers, but were generally warm and friendly towards people of other backgrounds.
That’s funny. I thought Germany was welcoming of refugees, yet I never hear of Ukrainian or South African refugees receiving asylum in either country.
GC –
(1) there are huge numbers of Ukrainians making there way via Poland into or through Germany. Remember that there is an unacknowledged but widely recognised USA plan (or rather programme of action, since it is very effectively realised) to reduce the population of Ukraine from 46 million to 25 million plus-minus. They are well on the way to achieving this through (A) “encouraging” emigration/fleeing – several million have gone into RF (which has welcomed and housed them), about 2 million are officially working in Poland in agriculture (there is a great shortage of labourers in Poland, as in Germany). The ones going into Germany and beyond, including britain, are getting there as “Poles” or “Balts” or “Czechs” etc. (the Germans, British and others too uninformed to be able to distinguish their Russian tongue (yes, Russian, not, on the whole, Ukrainian). And (B) gerontocide (killing off the elderly popluation of Ukraine (alo happening very effectively, as we speak. The 20-25 million target is well on the way to being achieved.
(2) There are no South African refugees. Do not allow yourself to be duped.
A related issue is: Afrikaner identity was to a great extent forged in the fires of apartheid. It has always had the stench of racist exclusivity to it. How does one reconcile this with the call for Afrikaner-only spaces? The statements from the Afrikaner organisations and Rapport were vehement in their claims to Afrikaner rights but refrained from addressing this question.
Is it possible to take apartheid out of whites? Maybe. The first step would be to stop denying that the Free State video boys and the alleged Skielik killer are products of a context of currently existing white racism.
http://thoughtleader.co.za/christivanderwesthuizen/2008/03/05/you-can-take-afrikaners-out-of-apartheid-but-can-you-take-apartheid-out-of-afrikaners/comment-page-1/
(mod-to note: expletive deleted) Afrikaner identity started forming in the different groups of people even before they came to Africa. The industrious Dutch, the religious Hugenotes, etc.
Apartheid is not in the Afrikaner DNA.
If you have known someone for 100’s of years and they represent almost the complete opposite of the values you hold dear, do you mingle with them or do you keep your distance? That is the core of apartheid, the actual meaning of the word.
It became institutionalized because the government was scared of the current corrupt and lawless South Africa becoming reality. You see they understood the context of South Africa, something none of you armchair critics do.
It ended because these racists Afrikaners voted for it to end. Read that sentence 10 times. Racist people voting to be non-racist, or maybe most of them were never racist, and of the parties involved the Afrikaner is the one participant that has kept every single agreement.
So stop blabbering your uninformed crap and hiding like a little mouse behind anonymous.
I am Afrikaner, I tell it like it is. I live in the USA. I don’t take crap and don’t waste time mixing with fake people. I do not like most Americans because of their moral values and fakeness, yet I know people from across the world who are my friends and not Afrikaners.
We choose our friends, you earn it, and we don’t care where you are from or how you look, but if you don’t deserve our trust or friendship you won’t get it.
Hi all,
some background info:
The Fall of South Africa | Simon Roche and Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rASKrisLXS4
it may help
tanto
Stefan Molyneux – Pro Israel – watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBS9rElkc8
Boycott Israeli supporters
Ann —
You are most correct.
Molyneux is a Magnitude One Zionist suck-up. I would not trust anything he says or anyone he cites.
I have heard one suburb of Tel Aviv accounts for 90 percent of internet trolling and “alt” whatever, but I’ve seen no evidence… only a suspicious blindness to the totally obvious.
But more people seem to notice it everyday.
https://youtu.be/fHT-iIFfkvc
who controls the Alt-Media – Israel –
wonderful – I’ve been concerned about this – I hope Russia lets in more people from SA as well – even the poor whites – who have no hope in SA now.
ad homiem statement removed … mod
There are some poor whites in South Africa, and they are often shamefully neglected by the white community (unlike africans and indians who tend to look after their own) but obviously that doesn’t apply to the farming community; a white street beggar is not going to be any more welcome in Russia than in the United States, and for very good reason.
White South Africans can walk into jobs in UK, NZ, Australia.
This Afrikaner farmer oppression is a propaganda stunt. Or more sinister.
Too much media coverage to be legitimate.
Russia knows too.
Anyways these guys will move to Australia and get cushy jobs.
You don’t see non whites getting the same treatment.
Given South Africa is entirely under control of mostly X tribe families that don’t live in country. Given the majority of natives Africans have not seen any uplift since 94.
Since blacks get f***ed by crime and murder far more than this meme of Boer farmers. This persistent meme is rather tiresome.
“White South Africans can walk into jobs in UK, NZ, Australia”
No, they can´t. They have to meet very stringent criteria in terms of qualifications or needed skills to get into those countries and the need to have a lot of money, otherwsie it´s a no-go.
“This Afrikaner farmer oppression is a propaganda stunt.”
In light of all the video evidence and statistics available about real events in South Africa one could equally claim that your statement is a propaganda stunt?
“Too much media coverage to be legitimate.”
Virtually no mainstream coverage. Very little media coverage, that´s why it´s getting some (not much) attention in alternative media.
“You don’t see non whites getting the same treatment.”
Australia has taken in reugees and asylum seekers from loads of non-white countries – fact.
“Since blacks get f***ed by crime and murder far more than this meme of Boer farmers.”
The crime and murders directed towards Boers are for racial reasons while the crime affecting other races are non-racial crimes. This is the reason why it is starting to (reluctantly) get attention now.
You could perhaps aim a bit higher for factual truths next time.
“AFRIKA for the Afrikans, Europe for the Europeans, Asia for the Asians” The great Marcus Garvey. Those 15,000 Europeans belong to Europe (invaders) not Alkebulan.( Mother Afrika)
“If a cat give birth to kittens in a oven, that does not make them biscuits” Malcolm X
This is brilliant – thank you Russia
History turned a circle. 100 years ago the Soviets went after kulaks. Killed them all, raped them, stole their land, whatever remnants were sent to Siberia to freeze to death. Now Russia invites over kulaks from South Africa. Atonement for their sins? Have they learned the lesson?
It is really commendable that Russia is providing this solution to Afrikaner farmers (boers). A similar scenario to what happened to the Kulaks are now happening in South Africa:
– a big discussion has already taken place about this Kulaks repeat scenario in S.A. – see here for article and extensive commentary:
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/land-expropriation-what-could-possibly-go-wrong
So the government there is repeating in South Africa what happened in the Soviet Union that time. Until now though it would seem that nobody in BRICS have yet criticised South Africa. The 2018 BRICS summit is starting in Johannesburg this week – South Africa is the host this year. The open question is, will there be any official or unoffial statements made to the South African authorities? Or not?
On the BRICS 2018 Summit website it says that South Africa is an inclusive nation. Yet, they are excluding their farmers from the protection they need to safeguard them in their production of food for the nation. They are excluding Afrikaners from being educated in their mother tongue (home language) – they removed the Afrikaans language from Universities late last year. They are exluding white people from jobs on the basis the of race beause of affirmative action policies – that includes young white people who were born after the end of apartheid. Soon they will exclude white people from being able to keep their legally acquired land. In light of this, what is the meaning of ïnclusive?
To date the only country in the world that has made an official negative statement to the S.A. government has been Australia when they asked the SA government to provide better protection for their citizens so they do not end up having to become refugees.Under Apartheid the whole world mobilised against the Afrikaner government and people were very vocal against human rights abuses in South Africa. What has changed?
It is a very positive step to assist Afrikaners outside of South Africa and Russia is doing a very good deed here. Although we should also remember that it is better to try and assist these people to retain their rights in their own country of birth. Until now there has been no campaign to try and motivate the South African governent to respect the negotiated settlement that happened at CODESA – where agreements were made that property rights would be protected after the end of Apartheid.
Please look up the word: PERFIDY – it is against the Geneva convention. PERFIDY is when you make an agreement with your enemy to lay down arms with the objective to lead him into a trap. This is what has happened in South Africa. Afrikaners gave up power under assurances that their rights would be protected and they are now defenseless to protect themselves from attacts which have a clear racial motive. There used to a farm security system in place called the commando system whereby farms would be protected by patrol vehicles which would also be available for rapid response. This system was disbanded by one of the former presidents with a promise that it would be replaced by something else – which never happened.
There has been no pressure from outside South Africa to comply with human rights. Afrikaners have already been to the U.N. and nothing has come from it. While there is still an opportunity before the country descends into anarchy nations that support international law and human rights should make statements to condemn whatis happening in South Africa. If they don´t, one may have to draw the conclusion that they are possibly not against what is happening there.
On the BRICS summit 2018 website it says:
“Although English is the mother tongue of only a minority of the
population, it is the language most widely understood, and the second
language of the majority of South Africans. However, government is
committed to promoting all the official languages, including the Khoi,
Nama and San languages, as well as Sign Language.”
– Yet, in late late 2017 the education department there removed the Afrikaans language from universities – the very universities that Afrikaners built so that they can be educated in their won language and not English. Well, now the government is forcing Afrikaners to be educated in English. Where is this commitment to develop all languages as is stated on the official BRICS Summit website? Furthermore, the SA Government is not in the process of developing any of the African languages – they have decided to use English only.
The real reason why there is no international outcry against the current South African regime´s neglect of the human rights of its citizens is bacause removing the old white government from power was probably just about getting easier acces to the reources of the country. Many of the countries that supported the anti-apartheid movement have a very close relationship with the ANC government today. Most of these countries also have lucrative resource contracts with the current government. Furthermore, many of them were exposed in 2017 to have been involved in bribery of the ANC government under the previous president. The current president is seen to be even more business friendly and open than the one before and when he came into power he was very well received by the business community worldwide. Shortly after he announced the confiscation of land withoun compensation – still, very little criticism from abroad. The fact that there is no outcry is because human rights takes a backseat to business rights and it is only ever really championed when there´s a positive financial result in the end.