SA’s black colonialists
DEAR SIR — Recently I watched a socalled “debate” on SABC2 on what was referred to as “land reform”. Most of the participants were calling for a Zimbabwe-style expropriation of Afrikaner-owned land.
For some time now I have been thinking that SA is perhaps the first country in the world afflicted with black colonialism. As ever, one’s perception of our sociopolitical situation is entirely determined by the paradigm or world- view from which one gazes upon SA.
Notwithstanding the antiwestern rhetoric of the black colonialists, they share the same culture, language and imperialist disdain for us as Lords Milner or Kitchener of yore, burning everything in sight and herding us into concentration camps.
Black and white colonialists on SABC2 were united in their thirst for land and for forcibly removing the rightful owners — like any conquistador in the days of the Spanish Empire.
Of course, black colonialism often clothes itself in leftist idiom.
Hence, the white British marxist professor, Ruth Hall, of the University of Western Cape, was herself calling for the eviction of Afrikaner natives from their land in favour of some new form of plantation slavery.
Seated in airconditioned offices, the black colonialists wish to evict Afrikaner peasants from their ancestral lands. The colonialists commute in spanking new German luxury cars, while the sunburnt Afrikaners in shorts and velskoens drive around on dusty roads in aged utilitarian bakkies.
Our minds, like our universities, have been colonised. Hence the almost complete lack of critical perspective on the colonialist enterprise known as the “New SA”.
The contempt for our indigenous Afrikaans culture, literature, cuisine, style and our very names have never been greater. Britain never changed the Voortrekker name of Pretoria, yet the black colonialists relish in humiliating us daily with their colonial folly of “Tshwane”, which is about as foreign to SA as the Cyrillic alphabet.
SA is being pillaged by these colonialists who enslave and exploit us, confiscating our resources to finance their colonial lifestyle in ludicrous Italianate mansions.
Our country is in dire need of national liberation.
Dan Roodt Johannesburg