Why the United States?

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Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, South Africa, United States

—I have been asked why I am so intently focused on the United States and Americans in my efforts at seeking a solution in South Africa. The answer is simple:

1. The United States is the only country in the world of 2018 that can and might cause the ANC government of South Africa enough political and economic pain to change its direction and to stop its low-level genocide campaign against people based on skin color.

—OK, so they helped put the ANC in power, but they might well take exception at what the ANC is now. In 1994 they could perhaps have pleaded ignorance about the ANC. Now they cannot, because the cat is out of the bag about Mandela. He WAS a member of the Communist central committee in South Africa. The Communist Party of SA said so the day he died.

2. Right now, the United States has a president in Mr. Donald Trump with the guts to do the right thing and his fractious Congress is not in control of foreign policy; he is.

—OK, so that Congress will scream blue murder if he tries to save the lives of white people in South Africa and the left will go shopping for a judge to stop his efforts. Either way, it will highlight the problem in South Africa. If the events in SA could get the spotlight that the “DACA kids” are getting in the USA, it would help tremendously.

3. I also believe that, given our joint bloodline, our extraordinarily similar histories, our respective dealings with the British, our similar experience with the Dutch, and our cultural histories as frontier nations on the outer edges of Western Civilization, the Afrikaner is the “Post Office Issue” American’s closest cousin, down to the guns, Bibles, John Deere tractors, and cut-the-crap attitude….. including “Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!”.

—OK, so we speak English a little differently. So what? Below is a scene from Villiers in the northern Free State Prairie in South Africa, not the US Prairie. It’s the same John Deere used by the same farmers in both countries. Both are doing corn, but the ones in South Africa are being attacked and murdered because they are white. The ones in the US do not know their cousins are the subject of genocide plans. It is time to let them know.

4. I fundamentally trust in the basic value system of the ordinary American.

—OK, so perhaps the comment is true that, “One can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else”, but it means that if we hang in there long enough, they will eventually settle on the proper decent humane response. They are just fundamentally more humane than any other powerful nation “out there”, no matter what the Europeans try to tell you. Fundamentally they have the appropriate combination of heart and guts.

— Harry Booyens

We’ll just steal your Land Quietly

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African National Congress (ANC), Farm Attacks, South African Communist Party

— It would appear that the ANC today beat a hasty retreat in the face of rising worldwide outrage at its plans to steal the legally owned land of white people (read “farmers”). For once, the reaction was quite strong and Cyril “Mr BEE” Ramaphosa scrambled back furiously from the position that got him the presidency, namely his proposed  legalised theft of the property of white people based on their race. How deep was that ditch, Cyril?

The plan was to amend the Constitution to allow this theft. It would appear there is now a new plan in the making, following a few weeks of violence as various groups tried to snatch land (Hermanus above) in exactly the way Ramaphosa had said it would not happen. Methinks Lil’ Cyril has discovered what happens when the genie is let out of the bottle. I’m also sure his rich Globalist friends told him that they did not fancy being legally stolen from. They might just engineer an economic disaster to dethrone him. One way would be to collapse the nation’s currency, the Rand.

 

Enter the Communists

So a committee was formed under the leadership of Jeremy Cronin, until recently the white First Deputy Secretary of  the Communist Party, who is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC (How else, for crying out loud?). The Communist Party does not contest elections. They just automatically get roles in the Government. Neat deal, eh? It’s a bit like Barack still has his creatures embedded in the US Government. This creature was jailed for his Communist Party activities from 1976-1983.

If one reads his Wikipedia write-up, one would swear he was a socialist angel with no sins. Oh…. he’s a poet. Surely that means he’s a “nice guy”….like a Berkeley professor? He was trained at University of Cape Town. He is also Deputy Minister of Public Works. One struggles to believe these creatures can still exist in 2018 after the 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall; a little bit like Bernie Sanders in the USA, except that this one is actually the “Real Communist Deal”. The South African Communist Party describes him as “The Most Public Face of the Communist Party“.

 

To the Liberal American Reader

Now that the last link to the Communist Party website is open, see who that is in the banner of three faces at the top of the page?….. the one on the far right?

Yes..you’re seeing straight….it IS Mandela.

Oopsy! Now, next time we hated South Africans tell you something for 40 years, LISTEN and LEARN! We actually know our stuff and we’re not so sure you do, because your media has lied to you for decades upon decades and you forgot to ask questions. We, on the other hand, always knew he was a communist. Bill Clinton thought he was the Fourteenth Apostle, but then Slick Willie thought a lot of things. He thought Bin Laden was not much of problem either, if you see what I mean.

Just in case you think, like me, that the picture is a seriously unclear one, you can read the party’s full statement on Mandela’s death HERE on their official website. I quote part:

At his arrest in August 1962, Nelson Mandela was not only a member of the then underground South African Communist Party, but was also a member of our Party’s Central Committee. To us as South African communists, Cde Mandela shall forever symbolise the monumental contribution of the SACP in our liberation struggle. The contribution of communists in the struggle to achieve the South African freedom has very few parallels in the history of our country. After his release from prison in 1990, Cde Madiba became a great and close friend of the communists till his last days.

We’ll just do it quietly

And Cronin’s contribution?  He realises that changing the Constitution to legalize the theft will ring bells around the planet Earth. He has stated that the ANC is exploring new ways to allow for the possibility of land expropriation without changing the Constitution. So he muses,

Yes, we need to accommodate what is now an official ANC resolution that there needs to be the possibility of expropriation without compensation, but that possibility does not require changing the Constitution – it can be done via a statute, via [a] legislative process invoking the limitation clause inside of the property clause itself, in referring to the broader limitations in the Bill of Rights,

That translates in regular English to,

we’ll just do it quietly

Now they will apparently select who they might steal from. Guess who that will be.

In case the reader has any confusion as to where Cronin is coming from, his next comment about the EFF, who instigated this whole Land Theft Vote, should make matters entirely clear:

[The] EFF is proposing expropriation of all land without compensation – but what it is rather quiet about is that it would involve expropriating the land and homes of black people

So Cronin wants to be sure to steal only from whites. Do you need that any clearer? Really? Seriously?

By the way, you did know that Black people owned property in South Africa, or did you not? How’s that working percentage-wise in the USA; do Black folks own 12% of US real estate?

Hmmmm, I guess I was not supposed to ask that question, was I? So, explain to me again how it is that Whites in SA must only own land in the same proportion as their population?

— Harry Booyens

The New American on the author of AmaBhulu

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African National Congress (ANC), Afrikaners, Cyril Ramaphosa, Farm Attacks

— In an article of today’s date in The New American, American contributor Alex Newman extensively quotes the present author in the matter of developments and options in South Africa. The article was precipitated by the announcement of the planned dispossession of white people by the ANC government under the new president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. A former Secretary-General of the ANC Party, Ramaphosa was effectively Nelson Mandela’s second-in-command and his favorite to succeed him as president. History turned out differently in the intervening years.

Newman (below) has been a steadfast supporter of the basic human rights of Afrikaners and other threatened folks in South Africa

This blog has acknowledged Newman’s efforts on a number of occasions, such as when he reviewed the author’s book  AmaBhulu and also when he referred to it in very positive terms in a late 2017 video interview. He has also covered the views of this author in other articles.

I should like thank him on behalf of all the people of all races in South Africa who are threatened by the brazenly racist rhetoric and actions of the present  ANC government in South Africa.

Thank you, Alex, for being a man with a pen and a conscience; these form a rare combination indeed at the present time.

— Harry Booyens

The First Clashes between Black & White

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amaBhulu, Farm Attacks, Fish River, Media, South Africa

—The political types forever want to present a picture of Black and White having been permanently at war in South Africa. That is simply not true. As we have seen in the first three Chapters of the series South Africa: Who stole the Land?, it took 130 years from the Dutch settlement of the Cape before the first Frontier war at the Fish River, about 500 miles to the east of Cape town.

They also never tell the innocent reader that, in the first two frontier wars, the strongest amaXhosa King actually solicited the help of the Frontiersmen against (what he saw as) rebellious followers who were invading the white folks’ country. The struggles went back and forth over the coastal Suurveld countryside in the image above near Grahamstown, and in the drier interior in the Achter-Bruyntjeshoogte area around what is now Somerset-East (below).

The politicians also do not tell the reader that the amaXhosa councillors stated to British negotiators in 1819,

When our fathers and the fathers of the amaBhulu first settled the Suurveld, they dwelt together in peace.

That would be the Afrikaner Frontiersmen—the amaBhulu—that the councillors were talking about, complaining about British conduct up to the Fifth Frontier War, being the third such confrontation with the British.

In Chapter 4, (click to access), we recount what happened during the First and Second Frontier Wars. Both of these were between the Settlers and the “spin-off Houses” of the amaXhosa people. The powerful amaRharhabe people and their king sided with the Settlers.

I guess the Media and Politicians did not tell you that, did they? I just thought the reader should know these things in a spirit of openness and honesty.

The complete story of the development of the land issue in South Africa may be read in South Africa: Who stole the Land?

— Harry Booyens

The Line between Black & White

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Cape of Good Hope, Farm Attacks, Fish River, South Africa

—In the Third Chapter of my series “South Africa: Who stole the Land?“, we show how the Great Fish River was established as the line between Black and White in South Africa. Click on the map below to enlarge. We provide the evidence from the books and letters of the time.

The Nguni group of nations, spearheaded by the amaXhosa, was expanding down the east coast of the country. The white people were moving east through the drier semi-desert interior between the two mountain ranges. The eastern half of the south coast was well-nigh impassable, with deep crevasses and enormous forests. That coast today sports the world’s highest man-made bungee jump into one of those crevasses.

The Black folks from the east were nearing the limit of the 350mm summer rainfall line, which limits the ideal cattle herding region, being longer grass. They also grew millet and other agricultural items on a subsistence basis and mostly still do in that region, though they have since added corn and other items. Their very existence was predicated on their cattle herds, because they largely lived from milk and milk-derived foodstuffs.

The West Cape had meanwhile established itself as a superb place for fruit and wheat, largely a winter/spring rain crop with greater drought resistance. The climate of the West Cape is Winter Rainfall Mediterranean that arrives on violent Westerly gales. It is almost completely dry in Summer.

One look at the geography of the country immediately reveals how the continuous chains of rugged mountain ranges practically propelled the two drastically different civilizations headlong into each other. They met at the Great Fish River.

In later chapters we discuss the movement of the Ba’Tswana and Ba’Sotho, as well as the Vha’Venda. The country’s latest president is of Venda descent.

For the complete story, see South Africa: Who stole the Land?

— Harry Booyens

Before Black & White Fought

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African National Congress (ANC), Farm Attacks, Fish River, South Africa

— The first overland meeting between Black and White people in South Africa came in 1702, fifty years or two generations after the founding of the settlement at the Cape.  It happened between hunting parties from either side near the Great Fish River (above – click to enlarge), some 500 miles east of Cape Town, in a completely different climate zone.  The author’s own Bezuidenhout ancestor was leader of that party.

Before the first serious clash between the two sides around 1780, more than five generations after the founding of the settlement, the nearest Black people lived further east along the coast.

As part of a 2008 formal investigation by the Black Dominated ANC Government of South Africa, the Elders of the amaXhosa Black people explained that the people of their nation were immigrants to the country that would eventually become South Africa, and that they were still migrating southwestward by steps at the Mtata River even as the Dutch were already established on the continent to the west. They also maintain that the amaXhosa lived far beyond the great Kei River in the half-century after the Dutch settled the Cape. And, according to the survivors of the 1686 wreck of the Stavenisse, it was San Bushmen who lived further south along the coast. There are no coastal San people left in South Africa.

Read more in the Second Chapter of South Africa: Who stole the Land.

— Harry Booyens

Where were the Black People?

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Cape of Good Hope, Farm Attacks, South Africa, United States

— In my Series “South Africa:  Who stole the Land?” the first question is “Where were the Black people when the Dutch settled at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652?” The answer to that question may be found in the FIRST CHAPTER of the Series, where we show that, as the Dutch prepared to found the Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, the nearest Black Ba’Ntu setllements were still established near the Mzimkulu River. This river is indicated on the map below (Click to enlarge)

That leads to the question, “So where then were the Black people when the Portuguese first got to Southern Africa around 1500?” The answer to that question may also be found in the FIRST CHAPTER of the Series. They were to the north of the Mtamvuna River (below- click to enlarge), which is the southern boundary of Natal. It is north of the Mzimvubu River. They were certainly in what is now Mozambique. We do not know whether they were in the Natal of today. It is possible, but not certain.

So, when the Dutch prepared to settle the Cape, the Black coastal people (with whom they would in future have no fewer than nine wars) were some 1100 km or 700 miles from Cape Town as the crow flies. By road it is 1500km or 830 miles. That is pretty much the distance the crow would have to fly from New York to Savannah, Georgia, and about the same distance by road. I trust that calibrates Americans. For Europeans, it is the distance from Paris to Belarus! One could fit many centuries of European history into a circle of that radius.

So, lose the thought that there were Black people on the beach to welcome the Dutch. Please realize folks who suggest such things are willfully lying or are lying from ignorance. And their lying is now leading to people being killed.

The readers of this post are watching the destruction of the outer wall of Western Civilization in South Africa, and they either want to resist that, or they are part of the destruction. Folks can no longer wash their hands of the situation. Pontius Pilate tried to do that, and look what history did to him.

For the painful and frightening background to this, see “South Africa: Who stole the land?“

—Harry Booyens

South Africa: Who stole the Land?

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Afrikaners, Farm Attacks, South Africa

—Today I make available the first five chapters of the series “South Africa: Who stole the Land?“. This is all about how people got to be where they are in South Africa. I feel urged by the events in South Africa around the threatened confiscation of the property of white farmers without due compensation.

It has taken me many weeks to put all this together properly and I am only at chapter 5.  However, those five chapters deal with the development of the old Cape Frontier between the Afrikaner on the one hand, and two of the isiXhosa speaking nations, the amaXhosa and abaThembu, on the other. On the map below (click to enlarge), that would be the region along the coast between the broken green line and the right-most brown arrow.

This map plays a big role in the whole saga, so folks may want to memorize it or keep it handy. I say this with non-South Africans in mind. There will be more maps along the way. This particular map shows the immigration of the main groups of  Black Ba’Ntu people into South Africa. The indigenous people were the San Bushmen, and later the Khoekhoe, both drastically different people from the Black people. As late as 1836, a traveller came across a band of San Bushmen in the Southern Free State (the ‘Prairie’ on the map). As late as 1838 folks were still running into San Bushmen in the north of the 11,000 foot Drakensberg Mountains, shown heavily snow-topped on the map. Yes, South Africa gets snow. Port Elizabeth on the South Coast is as far from the Equator as Charleston in the USA.

Australia notices…

The brutality of the Ethnic Cleansing Campaign against white farmers in South Africa is beyond anything the world has seen in modern times. Being a farmer in South Africa is by now surely the single most dangerous occupation on the face of the earth outside war or space; and those occupations that come close do not involve being tortured to death. In a recent case, a Dutch immigrant farmer was tortured over five hours while his wife had to listen to his screams as he was dying. The ANC government dominated Police prefer to call these “robberies gone wrong“…. really!!?  Seriously!!?.

Folks outside South Africa have finally noticed the hell that South African farmers are suffering. This has led the Minister of the Interior of Australia to suggest fast tracking immigration visas for those farmers, because they are struggling with “horrific circumstances”. He also used the opportunity to tell the world just what fantastic immigrants the South Africans are and that they are exactly what his country needs. I had already personally been told that by a Minister in a Canadian Provincial Government who had made a point of wanting to meet me to convey the message. He was talking about South African doctors. In reality, these farmers are exactly what South Africa needs, but the government threatens them daily and the Black politicians chant “Kill the farmers!”

… but the Formal Media is morally challenged

Of course, the Anglophone Formal media of the World is largely trying to tell its readership and viewership that the dead farmers are lying about being killed, which I find an odd concept, to say the least. The BBC is flailing around, effectively suggesting, in my view, that, if 2001 dead farmers is a horrific situation, then just 2000 dead farmers is somehow acceptable. I cannot account for their relativist morality; I was raised differently and value all life. Next time you hear of a family who lost two children, ask them if it would have been OK if they had lost just one. I wonder if this is another “British Thing” or if it is just the BBC that is “morally challenged”. Is that perhaps the correct definition for “liberal?”.

The BBC was not around in the Great Boer War of 1899-1902 in South Africa, otherwise they might have behaved like the New York Times, who suggested at the time that Afrikaner ladies were enjoying tennis in the British Concentration Camps: — What!? You don’t believe me?…really?…then READ! I never knew tennis was so dangerous that it could kill 30,000 people. THAT is the Liberal Anglophone Media for you.

“Move along folks! Nothing to see here!“

The ANC government is clearly burying the numbers relating to farm murders, and the Formal media is playing along. The government does not allow the Police to report on these murders as a category of crime. They prefer to bury it in the mass of black-on-black violence, because there are ten times as many black people as white in South Africa, the vast majority of them in the east of the country. For my American readers, that would be the tactical equivalent of politically trying to hide any murders of Wyoming or Montana farmers in among the Black-on-Black gun violence statistics of Detroit. Fortunately, the Internet does not allow governments to hide stuff anymore, as the United States has discovered.

A Life and Death story in Ten Parts

I do not wish to steal my own thunder by saying much more here. So I refer the reader to “South Africa: Who stole the Land??“. Perhaps the title should be “A  Story of Life and Death in Ten Parts“.

What is to come

I am currently working on the sixth chapter, which addresses the matter of “who was where and moved where” over the period of the Great Trek up to the Sand River Convention of 1852, when Great Britain acknowledged the independence of the Free State and Transvaal Republics. It will also address the histories of the Black people affected. It may surprise some folks to find out that some Black groups specifically requested to be incorporated into the “white-run” Free State.

I imagine folks will be equally surprised to learn how the Ba’Rolong Tswana and the Afrikaners fought on one side against the Matabele: Black and White comrades-in-arms. How did that happen? Perhaps folks just never thought it odd that there would be Bushveld Tswana people freezing in winter in a patch in the Free State east of Bloemfontein. Folks should ask “WHY?”. Did Media people really never wonder why there was a little patch of the Bophuthatswana Homeland stuck in the middle of the Free State? I guess they were too busy expounding on why the country with the biggest platinum mine in the world was a “dump for Black people dreamt up by racists”. The same can be said for the Transkei coast, which was somehow a “dump” in the 1970s and is now a tourist haven of heavenly beauty. Such is the Media.

Folks will likely be as surprised to hear of the many Zulu warriors and men of mixed descent who fought on Afrikaner side at Blood River. And then there were the Englishmen who fought at the same battle, but I guess we should not let a small thing like facts and truth interfere with the political spin of the ANC and its Communist partnership.  I imagine the knowledge that the Mpande Zulu and the Afrikaners had a joint military campaign against Zulu King Dingane would be simply too much for the Government to process.

Further chapters will consider the European Rape of Africa and the history up to now.

I tell you, history is powerful. That’s why I study it.

The truth will set you free

For now, folks, I give you South Africa: Who stole the Land?.

— Harry Booyens

Stealing the Land – Theft via Democracy

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African National Congress (ANC), Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, Media, Ramaphosa, South Africa

—The new South African President has just assumed office. His name is Cyril Ramaphosa (below, with ex-president Zuma on left). That would be the man who ran rings around the hapless FW de Klerk and his pet “Canary” in the negotiations leading up to the 1994 elections. Folks can read all about that in AmaBhulu.

The ordinary White folks of the country convinced themselves that Ramaphosa was some sort of “White Knight” come to their rescue.

Unfortunately, here we now have Ramaphosa’s first move in Parliament and it takes the form of a successful vote to take away the property of White South Africans without compensation. This is theft via democracy. He said he would do that. Pretty much everywhere else in the Civilized World, that would be considered Theft or Larceny; but not in South Africa. Even Zuma did not do that.

The Inevitable Moment has Come

I have been waiting patiently for this inevitable moment, because I knew this would get international attention. Those defending the ANC will now have to show their true colors as the Friends of Thieves and National Socialist Racists; the ruling ANC party being the African NATIONAL Congress and an avowed SOCIALIST party (read the panel on the right in the previous link) with a core of Communists.  They style themselves a Workers’ Party. For those who do not know, the NAZI party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. These supporters will have to defend out-and-out theft by Black People from White people based on skin color.

FOX NEWS finally latches onto the truth

And so it is that FOX NEWS finally picked up the story late last week. Tucker Carlson on his evening show (Click on the image belowto link to the video) treated the subject and asked outspoken but very erudite commentator Mark Steyn for his view on the matter. Mark Steyn, for those who do not know, is a born Canadian who lives in New Hampshire in the United States. 

The Time has Come to Act

With FOX NEWS, and Mark Steyn now aware of at least one truth about South Africa, the time has come for South Africans to stand up and get counted. The iron is hot NOW and it should be struck NOW. I’m doing my best to tell North Americans what is happening in South Africa, but so should South Africans living in that country; and they need to do so in English, please, so folks outside South Africa can understand what they are saying.

In a perfect world, President Trump would speak up and make it clear that this thinly disguised ethnic cleansing has to stop and stop immediately. However, the Left in his own country would howl in delight if he were to align himself with what is obviously right to any reasonable human being; all this because the vile Media in the US has painted South African Whites as the “spawn of Satan” who “should just die”, as I have personally been told to my face in an office of a world leading company in New York. This is why the formal Media in the US does not report on the farm attacks in South Africa; they have already sentenced White South Africans to death on the altar of their own guilty conscience about the slavery practised by their own great-grandfathers. Put differently, they are going to lament their own guilt unto the death of the last white South African.

Lies, damned Lies, and Politics… and ignorance

Readers in South Africa need to know that 99% of Americans have been led to believe that Black people waited on the beach in 1652 when the Dutch landed at the Cape. In reality, Black and White only met overland some 50 years later in 1702  in one small event, and the first clashes over territory happened some 600 miles to the east of Cape Town just on 130 years after the founding of the Cape Settlement. This “The Blacks were there” lie is representative of the mountain of utter rubbish the truth is up against in the United States; and the ANC surfs on a tsunami of this trash.

Another favorite of the media is to quote percentages of land ownership in South Africa. Since folks in faraway North America have no clue of the geography of South Africa and most could not find it on a map, they have no idea what percentage of the country is arable. In fact, they can’t even find their own country on a map. Incredibly, as fate would have it, the silly girl in that link even invokes the name of South Africa.

So, when I ask Americans and Canadians what percentage of the South African Karoo and western desert they would like Black South Africans to own, they just produce a vacant stare. When I ask them whether White farmers should be allowed to own any land in the much higher rainfall Black reserve areas, they come apart.

So, the ignorance is simply overwhelming. It is best exemplified by my learned MSc colleague in New York who asked me whether I knew her friend in Liberia (!) and the wonderfully kind elderly gentleman who told me, “I know South Africa! I was in the Mediterranean in the War!” (WWII). And then there is the young University student here in Canada who recently asked me, “Does Africa have countries?”

I trust the above calibrates South Africans in South Africa. They need to “yell, scream, and make noise”…. lots and lots of it. That is all that Americans understand, sorry to say;…. really I am,….. but it is true.

Who stole the land?

I am responding to all this in the one way I know how, and that is to provide evidence of the demarcation of land between White and Black on a basis of the verifiable history of South Africa. That is, I do my best to cut through the politics and the Media Drivel using facts people can check for themselves.

At this point, I have been busy for several weeks on a series of articles under the title Who stole the land? This seeks to provide the detailed verifiable history of the land split between White and Black in South Africa. Up to this point, my focus has been on the old Cape Province, but I aim to add the Free State, Natal and the old Transvaal in due course.

Watch this Blog in the near future for the over-arching post that will serve as the link to the collection of permanent pages on the subject. It will be posted under the subject of AmaBhulu Topics where there is already a collection of articles of historical nature that have bearing on South African Political developments.

—Harry Booyens