Child of the Covenant

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Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa

As a child it used to drive me nuts. My birthday was a perpetual Sunday and all the bioscopes (movie houses) were closed. There was no TV or Internet back then in 1950s  and 1960s South Africa.

The Nightmare Background

I was a little older when I started learning the meaning of all this. In truth, it was only while writing the book AmaBhulu some years ago that the true terror and scope of the challenge that gave rise to the Covenant became clear to me. It was only then that the significance of being a Geloftebaba, a Child of the Covenant, struck me.

On 9 December 1838, some 400 men of the old Afrikaner Voortekkers (Eng: those trekkers who lead the way) first made a Covenant with God that, if He should give them Victory over the treacherous Zulu king Dingane, they would erect a Church in his name and forevermore treat the day of the victory as a Sunday.

Prior to this, these men had crossed the largely uninhabited Free State prairie strewn with bleached human skeletons. Then they had clashed with Mzilikazi of the Matabele, who lived far to the northwest, because they had inadvertently ridden into his no-man’s-land. They had defeated him and driven him to what is now Zimbabwe. They had then crossed the Drakensberg and signed a treaty with King Dingane of the Zulu. He had offered them land to the south of his heartland if they would recover his stolen cattle from Sekonyela of what used to be the frightening Mantatee Horde, but who were now again known by their original name, the Ba’Tlokwa. They retrieved the cattle, but after the deal was signed, as they were preparing to leave, the king had set his army upon them and slaughtered the entire Trekker contingent of 100 men. Dingane had them impaled. Then he had sent his army to kill the women and children. It had been a terrible massacre of 400 souls (above) in February 1838.

The Trekkers had survived this, as well as two more pitched engagements. The British contingent from Port Natal (Durban) had also tried to take down Dingane, but were badly beaten and physically driven into the sea at Durban (onto the brig Comet, from which they had to sit and watch helplessly as the Zulu trashed their little settlement).

It was now 10 months later, the Trekkers had studied their enemy, knew his tactics, and had been reinforced with more men. They numbered some 407. They also had a new leader in Andries Pretorius, who had arrived with a tiny little homemade cannon. One hundred Zulus, armed with guns, had joined them [YES!!! – people forget that bit]. Between three and five Englishmen, including Alexander Biggar, had joined them – [YES!!! people forget that bit also]. The battle was eventually to happen on 16 December 1838, my perpetual birthday. But the religious runup to the event started earlier.

The Covenant

It was likely on 9 December 1838 that the Covenant service was first conducted. Sarel Celliers has it as the 7th of December and Jan Bantjes as the 10th. Jan Bantjes clearly describes events of a Sunday. These simple farmers were much more likely to have the day of the week correct than the calendar date. The Sunday in that week was in fact the 9th of December 1838. The official scribe of this force was Jan Bantjes, and it is to him that I turn for his exquisitely detailed description of the event. (John Bird’s, Annals of Natal Vol.1, (1888), p.445):

On Sunday morning, before divine service commenced the, chief commandant called together all those who were to perform that service, and requested them to propose to the congregation “that they should all fervently in spirit and in truth, pray to God for His relief and assistance in their struggle with the enemy: that he wanted to make a vow to God Almighty, if they were all willing, that should the Lord be pleased to grant us the victory, we would raise a house to the memory of His great name wherever it might please Him,” and that they should also supplicate the aid and assistance of God to enable them to fulfil their vow; and that we would note the day of the victory in a book, to make it known even to our latest posterity, in order that it might be celebrated to the honour of God.

He [Sarel Celliers] commenced by singing from Psalm xxxviii, verses 12-16, then delivered a prayer and preached about the twenty four first verses of the Book of Judges; and thereafter delivered the prayer in which the before-mentioned vow to God was made, with a fervent supplication for the Lord’s aid and assistance in the fulfilment thereof. The 12th and 21st verses of the said xxxviii Psalm were again sung, and the service was concluded with singing the cxxxiv Psalm. In the afternoon the congregations assembled again and several appropriate verses were sung. Mr Celliers again made a speech, and delivered prayers solemnly; and in the same manner the evening was also spent.

I next give the floor to Sarel Celliers (below), the man who actually conducted the services, to tell us about it many years later in 1870, when his memory as a 69 year-old man may have been fading a little (John Bird’s, Annals of Natal Vol.1, (1888), pp.244-252):

I took my place on a gun carriage. The 407 men of the force were assembled round me. I made the promise in a simple manner as solemnly as the Lord enabled me to do. As nearly as I can remember, my words were these:

“My brethren and fellow countrymen, at this moment we stand before the holy God of heaven and earth, to make a promise, if He will be with us, and protect us, and deliver the enemy into our hands so that we may triumph over him, that we shall observe the day and the date as an anniversary in each year, and a day of Thanksgiving like the Sabbath, in His honour; and that we shall enjoin our children that they must take part with us in this, for a remembrance even for our posterity; and if anyone sees a difficulty in this, let him retire from the place. For the honour of His name will be joyfully exalted, and to Him the fame and the honour of the victory must be given.”

I said, further, that we must join in prayer to be raised up to the throne of His grace; and so forth. And I raised my hands towards the heavens in the name of us all. Moreover, we confirmed this in our prayers each evening, as well as on the next Sabbath. Every evening, at three places, there was an evening service.

The Lord was with us.

As to what I have written, He who knows all things, knows that I have not wittingly written an untruth.

(Signed) S. A. Celliers, Elder

By God’s enduring mercy and grace, 69 years old.

Copy verbatim:

(Signed) W.S. van Rijneveld

The Covenant was presented as follows in the Zuid-Afrikaan newspaper in 1839, back in the Cape Colony:

Here we stand before the holy God of heaven and earth, to make a vow to Him that, if He will protect us and give our enemy into our hand, we shall keep this day and date every year as a day of thanksgiving like a sabbath, and that we shall erect a house to His honour wherever it should please Him, and that we also will tell our children that they should share in that with us in memory for future generations. For the honour of His name will be glorified by giving Him the fame and honour for the victory.

The Battle of the Ncome River : Blood River

The Battle of Blood River, fought from daybreak on 16 December 1838, exactly 180 years ago today, against 10,000-15,000 very brave battle hardened Zulu soldiers using well-tried and very succesful tactics, was an overwhelming victory for the Trekkers; their first against the mighty Zulu Army. That Zulu Army, employing basically the same tactics and assegaais (spears), completely annihilated a vastly larger and vastly better equipped British Army 41 years later in 1879. On 16 December 1838 the 400 men in their wagon circle (memorial below), with their faith in their Covenant, suffered three flesh wounds, while more than 3,000 Zulu soldiers lay dead. The Ncome River ran red with blood – hence its future name: Blood River. The worst wound was that of Trekker leader Andires Pretorius, who was stabbed through the hand while trying to get a Zulu warrior to take a letter to the Zulu King. The Zulu myth of Invincibility lay shattered. That Battle and its outcome has been seen for 180 years as one of the prime examples in World History of Divine Intervention, and that is true not only in South Africa. The dramatic blow-by-blow detail of the battle may be read in the book AmaBhulu.

The Covenant Today

The Afrikaners of South Africa, of all extractions, languages and skin colours again face a terrible challenge. In these troubled times we might well remember the vow our forefathers took. It is also against the background that I place here the link to the music video, Die Gelofte (The Vow – image below). May it inspire a few souls in South Africa and abroad to stand up and do what is right, before it is too late.

Today I become a pensioner in Canada and I might as well grow up and understand the significance of this day…. and it has nothing whatsoever to do with it being my birthday. It has everything to do with my family and people facing Ethnic Cleansing in the country of their great-great-great-great-great-grandfathers. My one great prayer on this day, is that President Trump will intervene and put pressure on the racist ANC Government of South Africa to stop its brazenly racist policies and its daily threats against the White people of that beautiful country.

Along with it, goes the music video of Die Land behoort aan jou (The Land belongs to you), which represents a musical oath by the Afrikaner people of South Africa to the next generation that they shall, as a people, hold onto the land of their forefathers.

 —Harry Booyens

South Africa: Situation Critical on WeThePeopleRadio

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African National Congress (ANC), Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa, South African Communist Party

Yesterday I treated the subject of the previous post (South Africa: Situation Critical) on WeThePeopleRadio with Erin Ryan & Bill Cundiff.

On this show I added bits of text from books by the early Missionaries to the interior of South Africa. More particularly, I provided the words of rev. Eugène Casalis, missionary to the ba’Sotho king Moshesh. He described the scenes of skeleton covered plains in what is now the Free State Province of South Africa. He described the same absence of people in 1831 that struck the Voortrekkers of 1836. So, where exactly is this country that the white people supposedly stole?

I also made use of the description of devastation in the wake of the Mantatee Host as provided by Rev. Samuel Broadbent, the first missionary to the ba’Rolong people. He described the very real cannibalism he saw with his own eyes near Makwassie in the Southwestern Transvaal in 1823.

The radio show is rather intense, but it is high time we got intense.

The complete recording of the show is HERE.

Note:  Samuel Broadbent was a missionary of the Wesleyan (Methodist) Church, which did a very good job in South Africa in the 1800s. My objections are reserved uniquely for the London Missionary Society cabal.

— Harry Booyens

South Africa : Situation Critical

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African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa

—In the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday of this past week, there were no fewer than five attacks on white farmers and their families in South Africa. At the same time, the leader of the third largest party in parliament, the ex-leader of the ANC Youth League/“Hitler Jugend” – Julius Malema, sings “Kill the Boer; kill the Farmer” and works up his party faithful against white people.

Expropriation of property Without Compensation

Tuesday this week the ruling Soviet-trained ANC government-controlled National Assembly (above) approved a final report by a Select Committee proposing the Expropriation of property Without Compensation (EWC : outright Theft via Democracy). “When the blood flows it will be on your hands,” Member of Parliament Anton Alberts said in the direction of the ANC benches.

That Committee was chaired by Jeremy Cronin, the leading and most visible Communist in the country, and its hearings were a complete farce. It is important to note that the change to the constitution refers to PROPERTY and not to just LAND. Even former President Thabo Mbeki has called the plan RACIST.

• To implement this EWC, the original constitution agreed by Nelson Mandela would have to be changed.

• In particular, Section 25 of that Constitution dealing with property rights would need to be changed, as it protects property rights of individuals as is the case in the USA.

• That Constitution and that section in particular formed the basis of the end of White rule in South Africa. It was a key element of the 1994 deal.

• 27 April 2019 will be exactly 25 years after the election that brought Mandela to power.

• About a year ago the ANC announced that it was ready to implement THE SECOND PHASE Of its REVOLUTION. This here now is it.

The Reasoning of the ANC Government

The reason the ANC gives for implementing EWC, is that

• white people are supposedly not selling their farms fast enough to the government; and that

• white farmers supposedly own a disproportionate fraction of the land. 80-90% is often quoted; also by BBC and CNN.

However,

• the government is also not giving the farms that HAVE been acquired to aspirant Black farmers.

• Last Friday, a rare Black commercial farmer sued the government for NOT transferring title to him for a farm he acquired via the EXISTING “willing buyer-willing seller” scheme16 YEARS AGO.

• I have it on the authority of a senior Agricultural Union Manager that the government has not transferred title to any Black farmers on expropriated land since 2009.

The government promotes, or at the very least condones and supports, the concept that

• white people are supposed “Invaders” and that they supposedly “Stole” the land;

• they “Should give it back” to its “rightful owners” who are in their view “Black South Africans”; and that

• “LAND” is the overwhelmingly big issue of the Nation

The Reality

There are four thruths involved here:

                    1. The truth about Land Ownership:

• White farmers own exactly 21.8% of the land in South Africa, calculated using THE GOVERNMENT’s OWN REPORT and the CIA’s stated surface area of South Africa.

• The vast majority of the white owned land is in the low yield semi-desert west of the country (below) – much like Southern Nevada or Southern Arizona.

• The Government owns all the well-watered old Black Homelands except Kwa-Zulu, which was put in trust for the Zulu people by the old White Gvt. in 1994 to get them into the election. Ironic, eh?

• Whites may not own farms in those Apartheid Era Black Homelands.

• One cannot raise a mortgage from a Bank against land owned by the government; keeping title from Black people therefore condemns them to failure in developing that land.

                   2. The truth about Arable Land:

• It is the white farmers who have developed the dry land farming country in the east since at least 1852 and turned it into the greatest cornfields of Africa.

• The Black peoples, in those areas where they did control land, never developed it. They just practiced subsistence farming.

• In evidence: there is not a single grain silo in any of the old Black Homelands where black farmers did not hold title. That pretty much says it all.

                   3.  The truth about expropriation:

• The estates that WERE transferred mostly decayed to nothing and lie useless and unproductive (e.g. the Lipton Tea case, etc);

• The ANC itself confessed 6 years ago that nine tenths of formerly white farms given to black communities had gone dormant; moreover

• Repeated surveys show that when Black communities are given the option of financial reward or the land as part of existing expropriation deals, they prefer the money.

                  4.  The truthful reasons behind EWC:

• The expropriation case judges themselves complain that Black lawyers are getting rich off the state by hanging up expropriation cases.

• EWC will get the Black Government Racist Black votes and will save them having to pay for the land they want to take from Whites.

• It has nothing to do with giving Black people land; it has everything to do with visibly “sticking it to” White people.

• The farm attacks are used to scare the farmers off their land and to reduce the price they will charge for their farms.

• The threat of EWC destroys land value (who wants to buy what can be simply taken by a government) and therefore crashes the financial estates of the farmers.

• As the treasurer of the Limpopo Black Farmers Union stated several years ago already, the government is “concerned to put people on the land instead of putting farmers in agriculture” (see page 9 of that report).

Despite these four major points, the international formal media fawns on the SA government, perpetuates the lie about the land and the history, and strengthens the hand of the farm attackers, who, as a result, feel they have the tacit support of the government and the nodding consent of the world in killing white farmers.

The Deeper Plan:

• On 16 December 1971, the leader of the ANC (Oliver Tambo) stated, “The White enemy in South Africa can and must be defeated” (Sechaba, Vol.6, No.2 ( Feb. 1972). They meant it. Why would BBC and CNN be denying it now? These people, who called me as an 18 year old school kid an “enemy” because of my skin color, are now the government.

• They targeted farmers before: Page 19 of the 1986 CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate with the above cover states: “Most ANC bombings since late last year have been directed against civilian rather than government targets. A recent ANC statement specifically noted that white farmers and urban white males were considered by the ANC as part of the government’s “Security forces” and were valid targets for ANC operations”. My suggestion to any American reader is READ THAT HEAVILY REDACTED DOCUMENT.

Why exactly is anyone surprised at what is now happening?

Pres. Trump SHOULD be concerned

Nevertheless, the simple truth IS getting out, and it is starting to worry CNN. See Minute 1.39 in THIS interview of CNN with president Ramaphosa (above) where David McKenzie mentions it. Ramaphosa talks about a “tiny minority view”. He is correct: that tiny minority is the 10% that all white people together make up of the population. And those are the people whose property he aims to take. Remember, this is the man who negotiated the old government out of power. I put it to you:

• Ramaphosa is a very competent and very dangerous man.

• He would run rings around most American politicians.

• As leader of a Party listed as a Terrorist Organization by Pres. Ronald Reagan, he commands an economy of $767 Billion USD per annum with revenues of $92 Billion per annum

• His biggest trading partner is China

• South Africa is the world’s largest producer of chrome, manganese, platinum, and vanadium and the second largest producer of palladium and zirconium.

Every American’s automobile has some South Africa inside it.

President Trump has every reason to be concerned about South Africa. It is time for him to fire up the key Western Countries to put a stop to this outrage.

It is also time that the Canadian Government developed a conscience on the subject. For a country that prides itself on its occupation of moral high ground, it is disgracefully quiet… It backed the ANC to the hilt. Now what?…… eh?

— Harry Booyens

George Herbert Walker Bush

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African National Congress (ANC), Angola, George Herbert Walker Bush, South Africa

—There have been lots of eulogies dedicated to President George Herbert Walker Bush. I also believe the United States and the world lost a very good man this week. For me there are three things that stand out, and they are probably a bit different from the typical American view:

1. He was the last American President to have fought in the Second World War and, like my father-in-law, he was an Allied fighter pilot. This means he was a man who actually knew what war was and did not take it lightly. It also means he had a set of values that I could relate to. It is mentioned that president Jimmy Carter was in the military in WWII, but he was in the Naval Academy. Unlike George HW Bush, he did not serve on active duty in the war, but did so soon after.
   

2. He headed the CIA from 30 January 1976 to the end of President Ford’s term, replacing Bill Colby in that role. This means he knew what was going on in Angola at that time, because the CIA was involved. He would have known about South Africa’s joint effort with the USA, as solicited by the United States; more particularly, by Henry Kissinger. I am sure it influenced his views regarding the third point.
   

3. As Reagan’s Vice-President, it was he who placed the Communist-trained ANC party of Nelson Mandela on the United States List of Terrorist Organizations. Of course, he had the benefit of the intelligence assessments from the CIA, and his own history with the organization to rely on. Ironically, his own son would remove them from that list in 2008, and now the world can see the folly of that act.

I always hoped that I might get the opportunity to speak to him, but it was not meant to be. He was the last American leader to do the right thing with respect to South Africa, until the arrival of President Trump. It was also George Herbert Walker Bush who issued an executive order lifting all Federal Sanctions against South Africa in July 1991.

We have just witnessed the loss of a good leader of the West. He could innately tell right from wrong, and did what was right. What more can one really ask in the end?

— Harry Booyens