Interview with Alex Newman

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African National Congress (ANC), Cape of Good Hope, Cyril Ramaphosa, Land expropriation without compensation, Nelson Mandela, South Africa

On Wednesday 15 December 2021 I had a brief INTERVIEW with Alex Newman on his Channel, Liberty Sentinel. Alex is a decent and honorable man who loves South Africa and its people. He has lived in the country and actually knows a lot about it, which is extremely rare for an American. He often talks about the country and fully realizes that South Africa is the test case for what the Left wishes to do to America. He appreciates the historical parallels between the countries and sees South Africans as the closest cousins of Americans. The Left in the US is trying hard to shut him up and shut his efforts down. He is one of the huge number of Americans who have started seeing what ordinary South Africans have been up against for decades. They are correctly concerned for the future of their country.

The interview with me starts at exactly Minute 13 and 41 seconds.

— Harry Booyens

Trailer for AmaBhulu YouTube Channel

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African National Congress (ANC), amaBhulu, Cape of Good Hope, Cyril Ramaphosa, Farm Attacks, Great Britain, Julius Malema, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, United States

I have now added a trailer for the AmaBhulu YouTube channel.

This channel is devoted to the history and challenges of the AmaBhulu, the White Tribe of Africa. The channel is an adjunct to the book, AmaBhulu and the blog of the same name. Most AmaBhulu have a family history in Africa that is longer than that of most Americans in the United States. They are now brazenly threatened with extinction as Communist Black political party leaders dance on stage, calling for their killing more than 30 years after the end of any apartheid policies. This video is just a quick glimpse into the world of the AmaBhulu, a world that North Americans and Europeans find difficult to contemplate, yet seem to feel comfortable to judge. It is a world at present built on a mountain of anti-White discriminatory laws and regulations. And the International Media that fell over its own feet to condemn the AmaBhulu in the previous century is now only too happy to look away and even stoop to justifying what they previously called an abomination.

To the extent that the ruling ANC in the country is now openly targeting ALL those who are not indigenous Black Ba’Ntu, the interests of such groups will also be covered here. The so-called “Coloured” people of the country were discriminated against during the apartheid era, and now again discriminated against by the Racist Black ANC government. Many dream of an independent Cape of Good Hope, free of the oppressive and exploitive racist shackles of the ANC, an organisation that has willfully maintained the racial groupings of people that characterised the apartheid policies of the previous century.

I have given up all hope for the country that has been known to date as South Africa. It was a British Imperial Colonial Construct that included within the confines of South Africa people who already had their own countries, such as the Ba’Sotho, Ba’Tswana and amaSwazi, yet gave no serious consideration to the dreams of others. The ANC has exacerbated this situation by actively ensuring that the AmaBhulu, in particular, had no own territory in which to have an effective say in their own destiny.

I’d like to see an Independent Non-Racial Secular Democratic State west of a negotiable line wherein the majority demographic is a people with a Western European language, a Free Enterprise Philosophy, a Respect for Property, and a Western Judeo-Christian Value system that respects all Religions. I am convinced that this is the only way forward that has a chance of avoiding bloodshed. I believe it also will provide greater protection for those of Western Convictions who wish to remain east of any such line.

— Harry Booyens

Pompeo speaks; Marx sits …and sits

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Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, Nelson Mandela

About Marx and Marxists

— I had some hope several months ago when Lana Marx was finally formally installed in her job as US Ambassador to South Africa. Since then, unfortunately, she has done her level best to ingratiate herself with the ex-terrorist ruling party in South Africa, Nelson Mandela’s Marxist African National Congress. This would be the same government that attacks white people day in and day out based on their skin colour. It has been threatening to simply take the property of white people without compensation. In fact, South Africa’s current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, got his job by promising the ANC kingmaker, Ace Magashule, that he would steal the property of white people.

Just yesterday, Bernie Sanders, the leading contender for the role as Democrat Party nominee for President of the USA, equated himself to that very Nelson Mandela who created this situation. Perhaps Americans who happen to have a white skin colour should take note and carefully contemplate their future…. just saying.

Pompeo Speaks

Into this picture, yesterday, stepped Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of the United States. Just to be clear here, as Head of the US State Department, Mike Pompeo is Marx’s boss. In an address in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, he stated, …

Centralised planning hasn’t worked – look at the failed socialist experiments of years past in Zimbabwe, in Tanzania and right here in Ethiopia. Even now, as we stand here today, South Africa is debating an amendment to permit the expropriation of private property without compensation. That would be disastrous for that economy and most importantly for the South African people.

“Socialist schemes haven’t economically liberated this continent’s poorest people. But we all – everyone in this room – know the right way forward. Basic strong rule of law, respect for property rights, regulation that encourages investment. You need to get the basic laws right so that investors can come and invest their capital

“Who knew, and when did they know it”

Folks in South Africa have drawn up a petition to have Marx removed as ambassador for her ill-considered kow-towing to these Marxists. She has been a phenomenal disappointment to thinking people in South Africa. This is particularly true after President Trump announced around two years ago that Mike Pompeo would investigate what is happening in South Africa.

Pompeo may want to consider cleaning out that entire embassy contingent and replacing them with people who implement President Trump’s policies. Surely the “Impeachment Debacle” has shown thinking people just exactly how ingrained Anti-Trump individuals have become in the State Department and they have attempted to undermine the President.

Surely it can be understood that, if an entire embassy staff just sat there and shut up for decades while the horror in South Africa developed, then they are part of the problem. I hold them at least in part accountable for the deaths of South African farmers on their watch.

It is time to ask the infamous American question,

Who knew, and when did they know it.

— Harry Booyens

South Africa and the New US National Security Advisor

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Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, United States

Robert O’Brien

— On September 18, 2019 President Trump named his new National Security Advisor. Non-Americans may find it interesting to know that this post does NOT require ratification by the US Senate. President Trump can choose whomsoever he pleases. He has chosen Robert O’Brien (above). He is the fourth person in three years to serve in that role under President Trump, being preceded by Gen. Michael Flynn, H.R. McMaster, and, most recently, John Bolton of the famous mustache and vividly hawkish convictions.

O’Brien, an attorney, has made a name for himself as a hostage negotiator, being appointed to the position of Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs by President Trump on May 10, 2018. He has written on US Foreign Policy. He is a man who believes that the world is a better place when America acts from a position of strength. This author would agree.

Fluent in Afrikaans?

His appointment is significant.  Raised a Catholic, O’Brien converted to the Mormon faith and spent time in South Africa in the 1980s. More particularly, he was there during some of the worst violence and saw what the ANC terrorist organization, now the government of South Africa, is capable of. He spent a year at Free State University as a Rotary Foundation Scholar and is reputedly fluent in Afrikaans. This is something for which the intellectually bankrupt Left in the United States will likely pillory him.

ANC Violence while he was in South Africa

On 7 November 1985, while in South Africa at the age of only about 20, he wrote an interesting article from Johannesburg for the Baptist Press, a news service of the Southern Baptist Convention. One assumes this was before his religious conversion. The title of his piece was “Apartheid Protest Breeds Intolerance in Reverse“. In this article, Black South African Baptists are interviewed. One of them describes how he had to watch helplessly as a black girl was burnt to death, the mob knocking her down every time she got up while they threatened to burn alive anyone who tried to help her. Ronald Reagan himself described some of that so-called “necklacing” horror (below), but America would simply not listen at the time. Today Reagan is revered by all as a departed president. It is amazing how the same people would not listen to him about South Africa.

Amanzimtoti

Six weeks later, on 23 December 1985, an operative of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the “military” wing of the ANC, planted a limpet mine in the Shopping Mall under the towering Sanlam Centre in Amazimtoti, Natal (below). White women and children were killed in the attack.  The terrorist killer, Andrew Zondo, later explained in court that he had done it because there were many white people there. One of those “many white people” was this present author’s own mother, who lived in an upstairs apartment in that building.

Having drawn blood, the ANC tried again a few weeks later. This time the mine was discovered before it went off. On this occasion my mother WAS indeed near the bomb and she describes how the Police practically carried her out of the building at high speed, her feet barely touching the ground here and there.

The Attitude of the ANC

I trust it is appropriate to point out to the thinking world—which I would like to believe still has some morality—that the ANC clique in power in that area has renamed the street past the building to Andrew Zondo Road, immortalizing the killer of the innocent. Imagine North Harvey Avenue, the street past the now-demolished Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City (below), being named after bomber Timothy McVeigh. This is exactly what the ANC is doing to white people in South Africa and the organization relishes it. And the ever-left-leaning World Media is silent.

Decent human beings note that the memorial (below) created at what used to be the location of the Alfred P. Murrah building is dedicated to the victims. In South Africa the street is dedicated to the killer. A secondary school has also been named after him. That should tell any person of sound morals exactly what the ANC government of South Africa actually is.

For those who did not know, Umkohonto we Sizwe was created by Nelson Mandela, and one can find in his “auto”-biography the details of how he fought to ensure it was indeed created. That “auto”-biography was actually ghostwritten by Richard Stengel, a later member of President Obama’s Administration. It is truly tiresome to hear thinking people turn Mandela into an “angel of peace.” They apparently have trouble reading, especially when their hero confesses his role in his own book.

There is always Hoping

I would assume, without knowing for a fact, that Mr. O’Brien was still in Johannesburg when these events took place in Amazimtoti and were front-page prime time news. One hopes and prays that some of this has left at least some impression on his memory and that he will not conveniently forget the truth of what he learnt  in South Africa. In fact, the truth has turned out to be amazingly fragile in recent times under the direction of the US Left. In fact, it has become difficult to locate at all.

Then again, there is always hoping.

— Harry Booyens

 

The South African Impact on the US

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Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, Obama, South Africa, United States

The Effect of South Africa on the United States

— Americans are constantly amazed when I clarify for them the impact that South Africa has had on their country and the role it is playing in the demise of the institutions and views that made America great in the first place. Examples include the obsession of Former President Obama with South Africa. He made that quite clear on record. His admiration for the Communist leader of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, is well-known. Obama even appointed Mandela’s ghost writer to his administration. More recently, the removal of statues was imported from South Africa. The US Democratic Party now sounds very much like South Africa’s ANC, which is 100% focused on stealing from citizens with white skins all that they possibly can. Its equivalent in the United States at this point is the combination of Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, the Far Left of the Democratic Party and the overall drive to denigrate the white male and bar him from anything they possibly can. I keep telling Americans that, if they wanted to see their future, all they need to do is pay about $1500 for a flight to South Africa. A more affordable alternative may be to just follow this Blog.

But How Deep is the penetration?

If one had to summarise President Trump’s single most important action in the first two years of his presidency, it would be around the Supreme Court (above). His key long-term achievement is not the drastically improved economy; it is in fact the appointment of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. He may even get further shots at appointing more Supreme Court Justices. This is likely the greatest fear of the grey-beards in the Democratic Party, because it would affect important challenges to the Constitution for decades to come and could swing some other very important cases. Who knows, it might even affect the fate of Roe v. Wade, which would drive Democrats into a frenzy. It could effectively negate the stranglehold the Democratic Party has on the exceedingly liberal Ninth Circuit Court that keeps stopping President Trump at every possible turn.

It therefore behooves us to ask what the ranking Liberal Supreme Court Justice thinks. She mans the “Liberal wall” against president Trump in the Supreme Court. And, it is not as though we have to speculate. The lady in question, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (below), has made her views entirely clear on two counts:

• Before his election, she made clear her resentment of the man who is now her duly elected president. So, we know exactly how she’d vote on any case brought before the Supreme Court by the present White House.

• But we also know a second thing: She prefers the South African Constitution over the American one, which she regards as “old”. See more below.

What was that again about the influence of South Africa in the United States?– no influence, eh? Yeah right!

Folks have already seen how sickeningly the South African government’s disregard for proper process in Law has found its way into the Democratic Party’s effort at undoing president Trump. If it is unclear, then wake up and read THIS article.

With the “New South Africa” influence embedded even in the US Supreme Court it is time for Americans to SIT UP AND LISTEN. It should also make it entirely clear to Americans why they need a president capable of saving America from the insanity that has become embedded into their national woodwork.

Ginsburg on the South African Constitution

While on a visit to Egypt, Ginsburg— never shy with her prejudices—offered the following jewel of wisdom to the Egyptians seeking to formulate a new post-Muslim Brotherhood constitution. She was addressing the matter of which constitution the Egyptians should model theirs on. In the process she stated that she would not base it on the US Constitution. Instead she actually suggested that the South African Constitution is the one the Egyptians should consider; this when more than a million white South Africans have left the country because the government of the country makes fulltime war on them under that constitution. Literally thousands of white farmers have now been killed under that constitution and a woman sentenced to three years in jail for using the South African equivalent of the N-word. I, and many tens of thousands of White South Africans, have moved to Canada because she is 100% wrong. She calls the South African Constitution a “Great Piece of Work”. If this is the level of insight and analytrical ability she has, then she has overstayed her free parking on the US Constitution.

However, much worse: If these are her convictions, and the result in South Africa is anything to go by, then millions of Americans are in desperate danger and are likely completely unaware of it. The Laws enacted under that South African Constitution have chased around one fifth of the White population, the author included, out of that country in despair of any future for their children.

The CIA World Factbook states that 72.4% of the US population is white and that the total population is 329,256,465. Let’s round that to 330 million. That makes the white population around 238 million. One fifth of the White American population is around 48 million people. Where exactly would they flee to? Are folks going to ask white Americans the same infantile question as white South Africans face all the time, namely, “Why don’t you go back?“. Like the White South Africans, where exactly would 48 million Americans “go back” to? Both nations have been in their respective countries since the 1600s with no right of return to anywhere.

My position

If Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is correct about the South African Constitution, then she needs to explain the result to me. If she indeed is as intelligent as I assume her to innately be, then, as a person of some moral rectitude, she ought to take a stand against the South African government.  That government is busy urging racial attacks under that constitution and is attempting to steal the titled property of people based on skin colour.

If she thinks I’m a little vexed on this subject, then I suggest she reads THIS article by the Hoover Institution.

— Harry Booyens

South Africa – The Drop Dead Important Historical Facts

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Afrikaners, Cape of Good Hope, Dutch East India Company, Farm Attacks, Nelson Mandela, United States

The History Factsheet

— In my dealings with well-meaning folks all across North America, I find that many simply do not know even the most basic historical facts about South Africa. In fact, I find that many South Africans don’t. Actually, I doubt whether a single Black South African knows these basics anymore, given the intense brainwashing they have been subjected to by the ANC government for a quarter of a century. In fact, an entire generation has now been raised on lies and racist propaganda. The most extreme of anti-white racism is not coming from elderly Black folks who had to live with apartheid. It is coming from clueless young Black people raised on this ANC diet of racist lies.

The attitudes in North America are built strongly on the History of Race in the United States. And this is exactly where the greatest of mistakes are made. Pretty much every single North American I have met simply assumed that the Dutch went to the Cape of Good Hope to catch slaves. They’re not too sure when it happened, but it was “for slaves”. When they find out the Dutch settled the Cape of Good Hope within one generation of New York, they are generally dumbstruck. And there are many facts similar to this that completely take the ground out from under their “outrage”. When they find out that no Black people in South Africa were ever enslaved by any white men from anywhere, they start getting annoyed at whoever told them that junk. When they hear it is the Whites who have slave ancestors, not the Blacks, then their jaws hit the ground. Yet it is true.

Those who care about what is now happening in South Africa need a simple factsheet that they can give to interested people. So, I am sharing today with readers of this Blog that factsheet. I did a presentation at a conference in the United States in the past three weeks and the need for this Factsheet became very clear, and it may be found BELOW and elsewhere in DOWNLOADABLE FORM. These are the facts I presented at that conference, and the response was overwhelming. May I suggest that folks distribute this to those who have a sense of humanity, for matters are coming to a head rapidly in South Africa:

South Africa

The Drop Dead Important Historical Facts

■ When the Dutch settled the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, the nearest Black people were 700 miles away behind the 350 mm summer rainfall line with its higher rainfall and tall grass for cattle grazing. Their civilization was based on milk, and they invaded from the Northeast, supplanting the indigenous Khoi and San.

■ It took TWO generations (1702) before White met Black in South Africa, 500-600 miles east of Cape Town. It took FIVE generations (1780) before the first major armed clash at roughly the same spot: The Great Fish River.

■ No indigenous Black South African person was ever enslaved by any white man from anywhere. But, Nelson Mandela’s amaXhosa did enslave the amaFengu. Mozambique and Angola were the nearest places the Portuguese traded in slaves. The Portuguese slave routes bypassed the coast of South Africa.

■ It is the White South Africans, not the Black, whose ancestors were slaves of the Dutch. They were often Indian or Indonesian and sometimes Black East- or West African. This White author has a Black West African slave ancestor.

■ The indigenous Cape population were the Khoi and San. As a culture, they were almost completely destroyed by the great Smallpox Epidemic of 1713. Some groups far from Cape Town survived. The author also has Khoi ancestry.

■ Since 1814, the White Afrikaner has had no “right of return” to Europe, unlike the colonial Portuguese, British, or French. Today’s young Afrikaner’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was the last man with any right to a life elsewhere.

■ In 1836, wholly deserted by their British overlords, they packed their belongings on their ox-wagons and set off north at 15-20 miles a day on the Great Trek to escape British control. They settled mostly on the higher central Prairie, which was for the greatest part not occupied by any Black People. There they created two corn and ranching republics until diamonds and gold were discovered.

■ The Afrikaner was NOT part of Europe’s Late 1800s “Scramble for Africa”; they gave their lives fighting Imperial Britain’s Colonialist Expansion in two wars.

■ The Germans did NOT invent concentration camps. The British created concentration camps for Afrikaners during the Great Boer War of 1899-1902. Of the author’s Booyens family who entered those camps, 57% died there in 1901.

Vindicated

I shall report on the actual conference in a later post. All I wish to  say at this time, is that I feel vindicated in my belief in the basic decency and humanity of Americans and in my faith that Black Americans in particular, once they know what is really going on, will rise to the occasion and do the right thing with respect to South Africa.

I have lived the evidence. I wish readers could have seen the faces of a crowd of Americans when they realised that I, the white man from Africa, was the only African-American in the room and that their Black countrymen were really Black Americans; Americans who just so happen to be Black.

Furthermore, I shall go to my grave believing that the key to the future of South Africa is actually its truthful past; its very real and epic history. South Africa is where Mel Gibson should have gone to get his Braveheart movie story. There never was a need to invent history and add fictional trimmings. He could simply have based the movie on the factual history of South Africa in the 1830s and the real men who made that history.

— Harry Booyens

 

“South Africa” on WeThePeopleRadio

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Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki

—Erin Ryan and Bill Cundiff are a superb Northern Californian couple who present WethePeopleRadio every Sunday; a two hour slot on Radio in the United States.  They transmit from Redding, California. They address topical issues of concern to those who care about the future of the United States and who prefer their news to actually be news, as opposed to the endless bile and retracted statements from CNN and the like. Even my Democrat friends have had quite enough of the incessant hate being spewed by CNN. Erin is also a District Representative for a US Congressman.

Given that President Trump has already correctly described South africa as a very dangerous mess, it seemed appropriate to share the truth of the present South African hell for white folks with Americans on Radio.

And so it is that the couple interviewed the present author three Sundays in a row. The three interviews may be heard at the following three links:(click on the headings)

1. Sunday 27 May, 2018 (one hour)

— The emphasis was on the history of South Africa and the misconceptions that Americans in particular have on the subject of South Africa. Americans in general do not realise that (1) White folks have been in South Africa since 1652; that (2) the Black people at that point were 700 miles away; that (3) no White people from anywhere ever enslaved indigenous Black people in South Africa; and that (4) it is in fact the White people who have slave ancestors. These simple basic points are invariably a subject of amazement to Americans. The related misconceptions lie at the root of their attitude toward White people in South Africa. The uncanny parallels between the United States and South Africa were explored, as were some of the wrong parallels that have cuased much trouble.

2. Sunday 3 June, 2018 (two hours)

— The emphasis was on the the scourge of farm murders and associated torture and terror in South Africa. This author got the hosts to log onto various independent sites on the internet to see the facts for themselves. The listeners could do so as well. This served as backdrop to a discussion of State President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Land Expropriation without Compensation policy. The patent lies dished up to an indulgent West by the ANC government were discussed.

3. Sunday 10 June, 2018 (one hour)

— The emphasis was the infamous Black Economic Empowerment Act, which should more properly be named the White Economic Destruction Act. The author turns to articles in the Economist and open letters to Ministers by senior players in the South African business environment. The four phases of South Africa’s post-apartheid quarter century are discussed in terms Americans will relate to.

— Harry Booyens

Proper and Improper Parallels between the USA and South Africa

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Donald Trump, Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Obama, South Africa, United States

On Thursday 29 June 2017, Dan Happel, host of the Internet Radio programme Connecting the Dots, interviewed Harry Booyens, author of AmaBhulu. The subject was “proper and improper parallels between the USA and South Africa”, and what the United States could learn from South Africa.

The  discussion touched on the remarkably similar histories of the two countries and their common origins; both started by the Dutch, both taken by the British, both fighting for their independence, both winning their first wars against Britain. In fact, South africa has been described as The Second America, a concept incorporated in the subtitle of the book AmaBhulu. The interview went on to look at parallels between the two countries in order to better clarify the damaging improper parallels that have been drawn between the two countries since around 1966, starting with the visit of the late Senator Robert Kennedy’s to South Africa.

The profound difference between the terms “African American” and “Black American” were discussed, along with the resulting implications that the USA is only now starting to appreciate after the departure of Barack Obama, an actual African American, from the White House.

While the American experience of Black/White relations may well be that of a Master and a Slave whose original culture had been forcibly removed, the South African experience is one of Clashing Civilisations. Unlike Black Americans, Black people in South Africa have no confusion about the culture and origins of their ancestors. When Americans, against this background, project their experience onto South Africa, they make serious errors of interpretation, analysis, and judgment.

The conversation went on to discuss the hopes for both countries centered on the new American President, Mr. Donald Trump.

The entire radio interview may be heard and downloaded HERE.

My Blood on Robben Island

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Cape of Good Hope, Dutch East India Company, Nelson Mandela

—Given the seven years of hard work that went into the subject of genealogy in order to write the book AmaBhulu, I felt as author that I owed it to readers to share the Booyens genealogy in more detail. After all, they had spent good money to purchase the book and it relies on that genealogy. That genealogy now exists on its own website, as reported by an earlier post on this blog.

Last night I discovered, to my horror, that the Dutch Nationaal Archief has changed the website of the “VOCopvarenden” database so that all the Cape arrival links I have so carefully provided on the Booyens Genealogy website for the Stamvader are now defunct. I shall have to redo them all. However, I also discovered that the good folks of the archive have scanned the original documents so that we can see what the Dutch East India Company wrote about these men back in 1710-1715. And it is interesting indeed.

Conundrum

Ever since realizing in 2013 that Joen Peter Booyens did not remain at the Cape of Good Hope, and that he was almost certainly the father of Pieter Booyens who was born in the Netherlands and DID remain, I have wondered why it is that both men stayed with the Erasmus family of Drakenstein, but that Pieter was absent in December 1713. See the table below, in which the information comes with the courtesy of Richard Ball.  Since the muster rolls pretty studiously recorded all the non-company folks at the Cape, this was a bit of a conundrum. Why would the son, if he were really the son, appear and disappear?

I may have found out, and it is intriguing.

Date	Parish	Person	Where listed and/or with whom
31.12.1712	Stellenbosch	Joen Pieter Booijns	p.247
31.12.1712	Drakenstein	Pieter Boeijens	NOTE: Both men listed as Freemen at the Cape in December of 1712
31.12.1713	Drakenstein	Joan Booijen	p.266 Pieter Erasmus & Maria Lijsebeth
31.12.1714	Drakenstein	Pieter Booijs	p.297 Pieter Erasmus & Maria Elisabeth
30.04.1716	Drakenstein	Pieter Boijens	p.333 Pieter Erasmus & Maria Elisabeth Jooste
30.04.1717	Drakenstein	Pieter Booijens	p.361 Pieter Erasmus & Maria Elisabeth Joosten
30.04.1718	Drakenstein	Pieter Booijens &Geertruij Blom	pp.387 Pieter Erasmus &Maria Elisabeth Taken from 30 April to 2 May 1718

Clarity

The newly scanned documents at the Dutch Nationaal Archief show an entry in 1714 stating that Pieter Boijs, the putative son, is sentenced to six months on Robben Island (below), future home of Nelson Mandela, somewhere between August 1713 and August 1714. There is also an earlier 1713 entry recording him as being present at the Cape. This checks with an arrival of 29 November 1712 on the Huis te Hemert.

In 1717 Pieter Boeiens marries Geertruijd Blom, and the church book reads:

“den 30ste Maij -Pieter Boeiens van Blokzeijl jonghman met Geetruijdt Blom jonge Doghter van Cabo”

That just so happens to be the daughter of Pieter Erasmus’ neighbour. Given that Pieter’s putative father, Joen Peter Booyens, is a Dane, it is also significant that Pieter Erasmus is also known as Pieter den Deen, “Pieter the Dane”. Other research has shown that Pieter den Deen’s wife is related directly to Pieter Booyens’ mother-in-law, and both ladies are of mixed descent. So, we have here a little ex-Dutch East India Company Danish community at the Cape of Good Hope.

When his fourth child is baptised in 1723, the entry in the church book reads,

“Den 21ste Maart – Catharina, doghter van Pieter Bois en Geertruijda Blom. Getuijgen Lucas Mijer en Agata Blom.”

The surname in this case is written almost identically (minus the “j”)to the Pieter Boijs that is used on the Dutch East India company documents for the man arriving on the Huis te Hemert. It is exactly the same as the surname used for Joen Pieter’s son baptised in Blokzijl in 1695. On those company documents, however, they say he joined the Company from the Bishopric of Bremen. But, that may merely have been the first place he went to look for work, given that the major harbour of Bremen is close to his father’s origins in Nord Friesland.

Dutch experts have confirmed the fact that whoever Pieter Boijs was who arrived on the Huis te Hemert, he definitely served his sentence on Robben Island between August 1713 and August 1714. They are not yet convinced he was the same man as the Pieter Boeijens/Boijens/Bois/Booijs/Booijens (Booyens) who is the confirmed progenitor of the Booyens family and son of Joen. However, there were awfully few men of that name who served the Dutch East India Company, and only three men of that surname show up at the Cape in VOC shipping registers. The third is Jan Boijens of Blokzijl, who was most likely Pieter’s younger brother. He shows up after 1716. There was no other Boijens family in Blokzijl…. pretty much ever.

Closure

Having struggled several years to figure out the comings and goings of the first Booyens in South Africa, I go to sleep tonight realising the route likely runs through Robben Island. And what was a problem, has become in part an apparent vindication of a set of conclusions I made several years ago.  That is, the Pieter Boijs who arrived on the Huis te Hemert in 1712 was likely the son born to Joen Peter Boijens in Blokzijl, The Netherlands,  in 1695. And they ended up together in the home of Pieter the Dane at the Cape, where young Pieter remained until after his marriage. His father left the Cape in 1714 and his trips on VOC ships are well-recorded.

The above, if correct, would make him the second of my family to be consigned to the island. The first was Autshumao, better known as Harry the Strandloper, Khoekhoe clan chief at the Cape. He escaped. He was the uncle of Krotoa, my Hottentot forebear who turned interpreter for the first Dutch commander at the Cape, and who married another Dane, the doctor/explorer Pieter van Meerhof. She also spent time on that island, but as wife of Meerhof, who was the head there.

Is it not ironic that I apparently got my family name from a man condemned to Robben Island and my natural licence to be in South Africa from another party who was a forced resident on that island, only to be denied that licence by the followers of a  third person who was also forced to spend time on that barren piece of rock: Nelson Mandela.

My blood seems to be on that island.

Tell me that bit again about genealogy being boring.

— Harry Booyens

The Real Face of South Africa

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African National Congress (ANC), Afrikaners, Democracy, Donald Trump, Nelson Mandela, South Africa

Take a good look

– Folks in North America seem to think that South Africa is some sort of miracle of democracy and brotherly love, a symbol of the power of democracy. Being generally ill-informed about the planet outside their countries, they have tended to believe the media when it comes to events in such other countries. More recently, they have started to realize that they have been extensively lied to and misled about matters in their own countries. President Trump is doing an excellent job of keeping pressure on the media for its actions. But he is up against 50 years of entrenched abuse. It will take a while for Americans in general to realize that they have been just as much lied to about other countries.

One mental picture they possess almost to a man, is that South Africa is this wonderful place with serene scenes of animals and a “rainbow nation” basking in the “Glory of Democracy”. They have been led to believe that they have played a major role in establishing this “Heaven on Earth” that is South Africa.

Well, the time has come to show folks in North America what it really looks like and what has really been done in their name. So I invite all Americans and Canadians to take a good look at the accompanying photo, because it is the true face of South Africa today. The country has now been essentially as long under the rule of Mandela’s ANC Party as what he sat in jail on Robben Island and in Pollsmoor Prison, and this is what they have done with it. We now have a situation where the 4.5 million White South Africans have sat in the jail that is South Africa for as long as that one single black terrorist, founder and leader of the military wing of his party, sat in a proper jail for being properly convicted. This was never done to him while in jail. In fact, he was treated in Tygerberg Hospital, the best the country has. When he was moved  from Pollsmoor, the prison authorities gave him a house with a swimming pool and a white male Afrikaner cook, and he was welcomed with a case of wine.

An Orgy of Bloodlust

The picture above shows the Wiggill family of Haenertsburg after they were attacked by black men on their farm. This story is repeating itself all over the country. In the last few weeks, all in February, there were 30 attacks on farms. In one case a white lady was raped and then her eyes were gouged out.  The savagery has assumed the proportions of an orgy of animal bloodlust by creatures that have become utterly subhuman.

Just for the record, the Wiggill family has been in South Africa since at least the 1820s, when the nearest Black people lived east of the Great Fish River in the Eastern Cape. That is longer than most Americans can trace their own ancestors in the USA. Julius Malema, a political leader who shares the tribal ethnicity of the killer, threatens violence on White South Africans. He cannot even prove his ancestors were ever south of Pretoria. Apparently, having a black skin is a licence to violence in his mind.

A Month of Slaughter

This month of February 2017 has been one of abject slaughter of white people in that country and I defy anyone to point to an article in the formal North American media about it. They are too busy printing and broadcasting their hatred of Donald Trump to care about actual news— the infamous Liberal Mental Meltdown. They never were good at the truth, because this picture shows what it actually looks like. Their usual reaction is to ignore news that does not fit their script.

Some further example attacks from February:

The Howarths of Dullstroom

Tanya Wiers of Polokwane

The Solik Family of Nottingham Road

The Smuts family of Balfour

Trevor Rees of Underberg, 

Gavin Carter (Australian) of Underberg

The Great Mandela Lie

At his Presidential Inauguration in 1994, Nelson Mandela spoke the Great Mandela Lie :

Never….NEVER! … and NEVER AGAIN….shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience oppression of one by another….

He is is dead and mouldering in his grave, and life in the country has turned to Black Racist terror at the hands of his followers. There are now more racist laws aimed against White people than there ever were addressing Black people before 1994. We always knew this would happen and that is why White South Africans  resisted to the best of their ability, but the battle was lost when the United States turned on them in the mid 1980s under a Democrat dominated Congress trying to win Black American votes. Most White South Africans, like the present author at the time, did their best to make the New South Africa work, but a mere three years after Mandela’s assumption of power the endgame was clear. This author reluctantly packed his bags and left with his family within another three. And this picture shows readers exactly why – and I am certainly sparing you the worst.

North American Cognitive Dissonance

But American Democrats prefer to talk about special immigration rights for Syrians, whose very own people are in fact in command of their own country. South Africa is a racist bloodbath in the making, and the Left utters not a word. Of course, the White South Africans are largely Protestant Christians, so they get no consideration. They must just wait to die. But Syrian Muslims? Oh no, that is somehow a moral argument and the Left takes to the streets and the ACLU to the courts in support.

Are decent Americans and Canadians, both of them nations who helped directly to engineer this situation with great pride, really going to attempt to plead ignorance? Seriously? Are you kidding me? Pierre Trudeau backed the Cubans in invading Africa to keep South Africans from helping black people oppose the USSR in the mid-1970s. The Democrat US Congress overturned a very well-informed veto by President Reagan against the Sanctions they insisted on slamming on South Africa in the mid-1980s. Both were key events in creating the above image. The first killed South Africa’s successful outreach in Africa and the second killed its economy.

My apologies to North American liberals who experience Cognitive Dissonance—discomfort when confronted with new information that contradicts existing beliefs, ideas, and values—when faced with this reality. I trust they will not choke on their lattes. The South African ones have fled or are living in secure communities, anywhere far enough from a farm.

Biblical

The reader needs to understand that I am holding back the truly extreme pictures. The degree of torture that accompanies these farms attacks is extreme beyond what can really be shown to “civilized” media people. And so they look away and wash their hands, but they do send the Afrikaner into oblivion. But we’ve seen this before, have we not? At least the character in the centre of the picture lobbied for the Prisoner to be spared before washing his hands. [Click the cross at the top right of the picture page in this link to see the article].

The time has come

The time has come for decent and  honourable Christian people with a sense of justice and human compassion in the United States and Canada to do the right thing. They need to demand that their Congressmen take a hand in addressing the situation in South Africa. Could these farmers be at least shown the compassion the Syrians have experienced? This hell has been brought upon the ordinary folks in South Africa by the specific actions of past liberal Canadian and US governments. And the American Pottery Barn rule says, “If you break it, you own it!“. Both President Reagan and George HW Bush knew the true situation. But Reagan’s veto was overturned by Congress and George HW Bush’s own listing of the ANC as a terrorist organization in 1988 was overturned some 20 years later by none other than his own son.

White South African farmers are strategically in no position to defend themselves; certainly not while the the US and Canadian media laud the monsters that really lurk behind what one can see and read above. It is amazing that anyone should be surprised at this situation. I warned about all this as best I could in the book AmaBhulu, which took me seven years to put together in order to ensure that every statement is backed up by evidence. All is now much worse.

The West ought to be ashamed of itself.