Canadian ER Physician: “I am a Boer from South Africa”

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Canada, Covid-19, South Africa

On Saturday 5 February 2022 Ottawa, the capital of a country called “Canada”, was invaded and taken over by the actual Real Canadians themselves while the whole world watched in amazement. The usually soft-spoken, nice and almost ritually conformist Canadians have finally woken up to what is being done to them. And it took a convoy of “blue-collar cut-the-crap here” truckers to lead the effort.

All this followed on a week of convoys and town “Occupations” that the government has desperately tried to label with the “fringe” and “racist” slurs they usually use to describe normal, solid, decent, objective, reasonable, hard-working people. In the process, the Prime Minister, the son of the departed Castro-friend, Pierre Trudeau, went into hiding!!

Taking the stage among the speakers on the podium in Ottawa was a South African immigrant emergency room doctor, a lady whose full name I am still trying to determine. I believe her first name is Rochelle, as best I can tell. The audience listened carefully as one swung a South African flag (look again above, in front of the tower– apologies for the lousy image quality).

Announcing, “I am a Boer from South Africa” (LINK) and referring to “The Vierkleur“, it took this lady doctor to articulate exactly what it is that I have been feeling in my heart all week. She explained what I could not: why the ordinary Canadians lining the highways in minus 30°C temperatures  to cheer on the Truckers and wave their Canadian flags had caused me to break out in tears.  I cannot begin to tell you how long it has been since I last felt proud to be a citizen of a country.

It also explains to the uninitiated why it is that Canadians love their ex-South African doctors with their characteristic non-nonsense style, straight talk, and vividly obvious competence. In this respect, she stated in different words what thinking folks had logically concluded about The Great Pandemic in early December 2021. And that is that Omicron heralded the end of that pandemic. Folks could have listened to Angelique Coetzee, the chairman of the South African Medical Association in late November 2021 and they could have found out for themselves that earlier pandemics had ended with the advent of a more rapidly spreading but less deadly variant that could survive without killing its host, namely HUMANS. In the case of Omicron it has been known for a while that it also bolsters immunity against earlier deadly variants.

The North American Media and the UK Government had elected to dismiss Our Lady Angelique’s reports. But, that UK Government did a stark about-face some days ago. Denmark followed suit more comprehensively a few days later. See more about Denmark HERE, from Dr John Campbell. Other nations have followed, but Canada’s imperious little political kabouter (E: gnome), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, expects Canadians to follow his destructive diktats. Canadians have had quite enough of suspect measures that mess up their lives, and Trudeau has now been moved to “an undisclosed location” where he can attend to his famous hairdo and… err… “straighten his badly ruffled tailfeathers” in safety before he utters his next stupidity. What a truly “inspiring”… errr…. man (end sarcasm). He got it into his head to call the Truckers “fringe” and “racists”. You can see their response in their numbers, their flags, their posters, and their MEMES.

I can say more about all this in later posts, but, for now, I thought I should share this morsel of interesting and inspiring news.

P.S. Watch as the folks on horseback arrive. Remember the temperatures! How can a decent human not be inspired by all this? Who would have thought that Canada, of all possible countries, would lead the world in this. My American friends are positively giddy at the sight of all this. I can’t help but giggle mischievously at the Trump flag in the middle.

P.S. 2: Watching the formal media in Canada try to spin all this and coming apart themselves in this process is quite hilarious. They are visibly rattled, as well they should be. Perhaps they have lost their footing now that their lord and intellectual Führer, Jeff Zucker, chief of CNN is gone.

P.S. 3: The Ottawa Police Chief is correct: Hear him speak 3 days ago. Perhaps the lady speaking at the end should come out of hiding in her basement to see the sheer size of the crowd and get a free hug from a burly trucker with a beard. The army has been contacted and has responded that Policing is not their business and they have no intention of getting into it any time soon. There is pretty much zero connect between the formal media and what is actually happening. They come up with comments like “trash being strewn”. In reality, there is no trash, because the truckers have cleaning crews! The media is trying everything, and has come up empty-handed.

The only successes AGAINST the truckers thus far is the turning around of a chuckwagon with fuel and the freezing of their GoFundMe account, which stood at more than $10M!! Hordes of YouTubers are advertising the alternative funding systems. But help and support is streaming in on a scale that no one ever anticipated.

All this is some of the most inspiring television I have seen in years, and none of it — ZERO— is coming from the formal media, which seems to be struck with a mix of rather pathetic apoplexy, dismay, helplessness and, of course, their congenital lying. Personally, I’m waiting for “The Russians did it“….. oh wait! They’ve already done it. Here’s Canada’s national broadcaster: LINK. OK! OK! OK! Maybe I’ll hold out for “Apartheid did it!”

If only there were some truck drivers left in South Africa with Western Values.

—Harry Booyens

Opening the Year with Scott Balson

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African National Congress (ANC), Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Western Secession

On 3 January 2022 I did another show with Scott Balson on His Loving Life channel. The Full show may be seen HERE.

My apologies go to Chief Buthelezi, who I wrongly stated had recently passed away. Too many senior characters in our history have done just that in the last year, including King Goodwill Zwelethini of the amaZulu, FW de Klerk and Desmond Tutu, in that order. For some or other reason I thought we also lost Chief Buthelezi, but he is still very much with us. I wish him well; South Africa needs more men like him. He stood up for his Zulu people when they needed him to, before the 1994 elections. It led to the involvement of Henry Kissinger and to the Ingonyama Trust, a wonderful thorn in the side of the ANC. It would have been good if some others in the list of characters had stood up for their people like that.

— Harry Booyens

 

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

One Year of Silence

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Afrikaners, Donald Trump, South Africa

It is true that I have had one year of silence on this blog. In December of 2020 I published my last entry on the AmaBhulu blog. Roundabout that time my mother’s newly returned cancer hijacked our family. She had originally been diagnosed with oral cancer on 1 October 2016, but fought that into remission in 2017. By end 2019 it was back and they could only provide limited radiation treatment, which pushed it back by about one more year.

Given that this last stage was during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown here in British Columbia with the hospitals in a crisis, it was decided that we would nurse my mother, Nickie, here in our home. We thought this both sensible and considerate. Hospital beds were scarce and most attention went to the crisis stricken terminal COVID patients. Cancer took very much a second seat. I’m sure time will tell how many postponed cancer diagnoses and treatments led to preventable deaths.

In the very last week before her passing we received round-the-clock nursing attendance. By far the best nurse we had was a black lady from Jamaica who took one look at the situation and took command. I was 100% happy to follow her instructions. She did things “softly but firmly with a smile”. Along the way, we also had in-home support staff from Nigerian immigrants, who were great fun to deal with under terrible circumstances. One lady was called Lobola and I could explain to her what that meant in isiXhosa (bridewealth”). Her eyes went wide and she said that in Nigeria it meant “wealth”. So, Africa is a small place. I could speak to these ladies in a way I could not communicate with regular Canadians. Their faces lit up the moment I started talking to them. It was a small point of light in a dark time.

It has taken a long time to adapt to the sudden quiet in this house. After all, there are three relationships among three people, but only one among two, so there is now one third of the previous joint activity. Nickie’s influence on this home and on the community was huge. The Sunday after her passing, the sermon in our church was pretty much based on “What would Nickie have said?” After all, she had pointed out Biblical facts to the minister and to the assistant pastor who led the Church Meet. Condolences came from Canada, the United States, Britain, Germany and South Africa. She had touched many people’s lives.

Having shared almost every moment of the last months of her life, I can tell you that my mother gave up on life the moment Donald Trump lost the election in the USA. Until then she was quite lively, and asked every day to see what he had done that day and which of his demonstrably evil political enemies he had “slammed down” that day. She equated him to the character Trompie in South African culture, a very naughty boy with a heart of gold. On the other hand, she often said, “No, my child, he should not have said that.” The next day she would ask, “My Child, what has Trompie done today?” However, she even shut up her Church Meet group when they launched into their unthinking knee-jerk anti-Trump rants, which many Canadians seemed to think their duty. Facts did not seem to mean much to them. I do not think South Africans are capable of believing what extreme garbage was dished up to the lamentably unthinking North American public. It boggles the imagination and revolts me to this day. And much of it is now being revealed for what it really was by the Durham Probe in the US. Nickie is probably smiling in vindication.

I think I have now dwelt enough on the passing of this special lady who commanded so much respect from everyone she touched, the Afrikaner Farm Girl who had literally jumped over a cobra, who had broken the glass ceiling, who had won her own face-offs with both the Church and the Police, who had survived a terrorist attack by the ANC, and who outlived both Mandela and his terrorist chief, Joe Modise. I only wish the circumstances of her passing were more positive and that we could have had a proper funeral service. COVID made it impossible.

I am ready to proceed with the AmaBhulu Blog again. I am starting with a recent livestream with Scott Balson of Loving Life and with an interview with a great friend of civilized South Africans, Alex Newman, on his Sentinel Report.

— 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

“America Must Fall”-2

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Black Lives Matter, Great Britain, Rhodes Must Fall, South Africa, United States

—In 2017, I published “America must Fall”, a blogpost showing how race & statue-related events in the USA at the time were born from the “Rhodes must Fall” effort in South Africa. On 5 July 2020, in the midst of major upheaval in the United States, I was asked to relate the background to that post as a guest on Erin Ryan and Bill Cundiff’s program on WeThePeopleRadio. The full recording of the program may be heard HERE. The images referred to may be seen HERE, and are best kept ready by the listener as the show proceeds. In the interview, I drew the line through to July of this year, but also added more detail about, for example UC Berkeley and their heroes, and about some of the Rhodes Must Fall leaders.

Much of the historic background may be read in AmaBhulu.

We had some trouble getting Skype to cooperate, and had to use a rather bad telephone line. Later in the show we got it running correctly, but with a less than perfect microphone.

—Harry Booyens

The Great Trek – Part 2: 1837-1841

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Farm Attacks, Great Britain & South Africa, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa, United States, Zimbabwe

— The Great Trek is an epic saga in all of Western History. I have now published Chapter 9 in the series Who Stole the Land? The detailed story of what happened in Natal when the Trekkers got there may be read HERE. In this chapter the reader discovers that there were Brits, ex-slaves, and gun-armed amaCele warriors led by an Englishman INSIDE the laager (wagon circle) at the seminal Battle of Blood River. The reader will also learn about the interesting multi-national force, composed of not just the Trekkers, but at least three and possibly four Black nations, including Mpande’s amaZulu (the majority of the force), who worked together to ultimately defeat Dingane.

There was just not enough space to still include the complaint of the (Mpande) Zulu general, Nonkalaza, about the fact that the Trekkers were not killing all their enemy. The mercy shown by the devoutly Christian Trekkers and their refusal to kill women and children did not sit well in the least with the tough Zulu general.

This is the chapter that explains how my birthday became a permanent Sunday in South Africa. The blow-by-blow account of the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838 may be read in AmaBhulu.

— Harry Booyens

“America must Fall” – Part 2

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Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, Media, South Africa, United States

— On 29 April 2017 I wrote the following words on this Blog:

Today they will tear down Robert E. Lee
– perhaps tomorrow Thomas Jefferson,
– next week Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington,
– and then every statue of anyone who looks Caucasian,
… just as in South Africa.
Welcome to “America must Fall”.

Some American folks remembered this, and in the last few weeks I have twice been interviewed on the subject.

This past Tuesday, 18 August 2020, Alex Newman of The New American interviewed me on the subject of the parallels between South Africa and the United States and how the present unrest in the United States was imported from South Africa.

Alex actually lived in South Africa for a while and is a wonderful supporter of the efforts of South Africans to find justice and hope in this world. The interview was planned to be just fifteen minutes, but somehow got a life of its own and grew to about fifty.

The full interview is now available online HERE.

I shall be posting another that took place five weeks ago.

— Harry Booyens

Ricky Grenell and the Satchel of Doom

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Donald Trump, Media, Obama, Russia, South Africa

—This is a picture known to anyone who grew up in the ’60’s within Western Civilisation. It shows the four Beatles crossing the road in front of the Abbey Road recording studios in a “four man walk”. The image was used as the cover picture for the album “Abbey Road”, released September of 1969. It foreshadowed momentous things. In that particular case it presaged the demise of the group.

Now consider the “four man walk” image below and please indulge my Harry Potter-style title of this post…. I simply could not help it [Click on the image for the video]. Those men are walking with intent.

It was taken as a video on 7 May 2020 at a pedestrian crossing in front of the John F. Kennedy building of the US Justice Department in Washington, DC. I know the spot, because I was there last year.

This “four man walk” also presages a dramatic event. It shows Acting Director of National Intelligence for the Trump Administration, Richard Grenell (“Ricky” in the light blue shirt), personally taking a satchel (in his right hand, partly obscured) to Professor Dumbledore.

( )…What’s that? Oh..err… …oops….sorry…. correction… “to Attorney General Bill Barr” (below). My bad. Apologies to all!

Now, back to Ricky Grenell and the Satchel of Doom:

That satchel in Grenell’s right hand will go down in history as The Satchel of Doom for the Conspirators to the Coup to topple the duly elected President of the United States of America. When this whole story is finally revealed, decent Americans will ask whether they are living in South Africa or in the United States. In fact, the picture that is emerging is more like the Central African Republic.

Unmasking a three-star General

Within a handful of days of the satchel delivery, the names were released of the parties who had demanded in 2016, during election season, to know the name of the American on a “wire-tapped” phone call to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. One of them, or someone associated with one of them, released the name of the person to the Washington Post. That is a punishable crime that may land someone in jail for up to ten years.

The Mainstream Media will have the world believe that it should panic about the coronavirus, which is no longer news by any stretch of the imagination. They would have you believe the Satchel of Doom is a distraction. They will have you believe that there never was an effort to take down the US President. They will have you believe that there is nothing interesting about various Obama Administration individuals being listed among the many individuals demanding the unmasking of the relevant American’s name, including Joe Biden, the current Democratic Party presidential candidate.

That American on the phone call was none other than General Michael Flynn (below), then President Elect Trump’s National Security Advisor-to-be. He had previously been fired by Obama from his job as Defense Intelligence Agency director, and he knew “where all the ‘Obama bodies’ were buried”. He was the single most dangerous man to the conspirators and they had to find a way to “take him out”. So they put the spying system of the State onto him, failed to find anything incriminating, and then proceeded to hound him into a corner by abusing the powers of the FBI before Trump could properly assume office.

The thing to realise here, is that  US presidents nominate secretaries for all regular offices in the Cabinet, and those then have to be ratified by the Senate. The National Security Adviser, however, is a president-only appointee. The president does NOT have to have that person confirmed by the Senate. So, General Flynn was good to go, he could hit the ground running,…. and the conspirators had to stop that. The point is that, the day Flynn would get into office, he would be able to see what these creatures had done because he would have access to all information of an intelligence nature…. and all the records.

They never thought Trump would win the election, so their sins were on record, because they likely thought Hillary Clinton would appreciate them for their “helpful” skullduggery. But all hell had broken loose when Trump had “unexpectedly” won, and they had to cover their tracks and keep him off-balance. There were two elements to the plan: (1) take down Flynn, who is a registered Democrat; and (2) infiltrate President Elect Trump’s offices to “get dirt” on the president. If that turned out to be not enough, they had the “Steele Dossier” of wholly contrived XXX-rated filth to fall back on, courtesy of Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Slytherin…..err, sorry, the Democratic Party, which has been anything but democratic of late.

Fortunately for the United States and the rest of Civilisation, Hillary lost the election and the “Steele Dossier” has been wholly discredited. And, very importantly, one man with actual integrity went to warn President Elect Trump that he was being “wire-tapped”. That man was Admiral Rogers, head of the NSA, who found out that unauthorised people were digging around in his data system. The very next day Trump moved his team out of the Trump Tower and told the media he “was being wire-tapped”. The Media called him “crazy”. It turns out, he was actually correct.

Of course, Republican Senator John McCain is no longer with us. In life, he had been only too happy to convey the “dirty dossier”. Of course, he had earlier lost the nomination for Republican candidate for the Presidency against Trump.

The boss of the FBI at the time, James Comey, had been only too happy to go to Trump’s office to rub Trump’s face in the XXX-dossier, but mysteriously did not inform him that they “were concerned about” his pick for National Security Adviser to the extent that they were targeting him for removal. Somehow Comey DID think it was important to advise Democratic Party Senator Feinstein that SHE had an infiltrator in her office.

So, the FBI clearly worked FOR the Democratic Party and AGAINST the Republican Party. More particularly, it worked against the President Elect. This was the kind of corrupt behaviour that we are used to hearing about in African Banana Republics, not the leading country of the Free World. How utterly disgraceful. Why is anyone surprised that Trump fired Comey? The problem is, it would appear Rosenstein, who took over from Comey, was part of the scheme. It was he who launched a special investigation into Trump’s election win, exactly in line with the needs of the rogue FBI cabal. Surprise, surprise!

There was nothing wrong to start with

There was nothing wrong with what General Flynn was doing. It was his job as incoming National Security Adviser to make contact with senior diplomats of other countries. He did nothing wrong in the process. In the end, the conspirators are on record under oath, confirming that “there was nothing there”. Nonetheless, they carried on hounding him until they backed him into a corner where he had to confess to something so they would stop threatening his family. And then they testified differently under oath to what they were telling the Media. Where I come from, that is called “lying to the public”. They also lied to Congress. Had they been put under oath in public, this stuff would not have been possible. These people are now proven liars, and they lied with some considerable dedication and focus.

How odd is it that there was not a single whistleblower from the FBI that warned the President, either before or after he took office. One appreciates that a fish rots from the head down, but just how deep down from the top has the FBI been rotted that not a single person stood up and cried foul? In the end, it was the NSA that warned Trump, fer cryin’ out loud! Covered by the Media who desperately wanted to believe the lies, the crooked heap in the FBI coerced General Flynn into pleading guilty to “Lying to a federal agent”. This while Comey himself was considering “wearing a wire” into the White House for a meeting with Trump.

Fast forward to the present. On the same day as that satchel delivery (7 May 2020), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said it would move to drop all charges against General Flynn. The DOJ fully realised the alarming extent to which the FBI had transgressed in forcing such a plea out of Flynn, a three-star general who had loyally served his country for three decades.

There’s a big thing coming, but “nothing to see”

The plans of the conspirators are being revealed, one move at a time, by Attorney-General Bill Barr, and we are all waiting to see what his bloodhound, Special Investigator John Durham (left), will charge the conniving parties with. The Conservative and Constitution-protecting people of the US are angry as all hell at what has been done to President Trump and the people around him, and they want blood. If I did not know them better, I would tell you they want the heads of some people posted on pikes up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.

There is a classic Afrikaans saying that has been turned into an acronym that only South Africans know : HKGK. I’m sure other interested parties can get it decoded if they really want to. I’ll leave that as a fun challenge. That acronym now applies here.

Of course CNN is telling you, “Move along now! Nothing to see here! Nothing to see here! Worry about the virus and don’t ask questions! Be afraid! Be afraid! Be good little mental midgets now and move along!” I personally believe this is because they were a key part of the conspiracy from day one, but cannot yet prove it.

Why do I care?

The United States is the only country with the power to do anything about the mess in South Africa, and President Trump (below) is the only US president in my lifetime with the basic guts to do what it takes. South Africa as an entity is now past the point of recovery in its present form. We need President Trump in his job for another four years in order to apply the required pressure on the ANC government in South Africa. The place is a candidate for “Regime Change”.

I first wrote about this whole saga very early in 2018. I have been waiting for some years now for the guilty to pay. But until Pres. Trump appointed Bill Barr, there was no hope that the FBI would be investigated. Just watch how desperate the Democrats are to get Barr removed from his post. That should tell you something right there. I sincerely hope the fact that the details are being revealed so bitterly slowly, is because they are being timed for greatest negative effect on Slytherin at election time in November. They would deserve that after fooling with the Steele XXX-Dossier and—so it would appear—digging illegally into data at the NSA.

As to the other aspects of what Durham is looking at, please read my other two posts on this general subject:

1. Is the US now South Africa?

2. Born in a Crossfire Hurricane

Meanwhile, I’d like to know whether anything is going to happen to Draco Malfoy….. sorry, Adam Schiff. He has been playing a disgraceful game in the House of Representatives by alternately lying to the House and wilfully withholding evidence.

But this story also has heroes, like Hedwig.. err.. Admiral Rogers, head of the NSA under Obama, who “flew” to Trump to warn him he was being spied on. And then there are Ron and Hermione…. I mean, Joe Di Genova and his wife Victoria Toensing, who dug open so much of this stuff to back up the president. And, yes, there are several more good people who have fought the good fight, such as John Solomon and Sara Carter and Devin Nunes, all of whom played key roles and took serious abuse in this process. And do not forget General Flynn’s excellent new attorney, Sidney Powell, who forced the release of some key information.

But the monsters are many, and Voldemort’s agents—you know who I mean—are now dangerous because they are cornered. They have already once shown that they will stop at nothing. In considering them, Mark Twain comes to mind. He once wrote about Cecil John Rhodes, another evil schemer who destroyed the lives of tens of thousands:

…and when his time comes, I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

— Harry Booyens

Who Stole the Land? – Status Check

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Cape of Good Hope, Imperial Great Britain, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa

— In March 2018, I made available the first five chapters of my online series, Who Stole the Land?. Since then, I added two extensive chapters focusing on:

Chapter 6:  The World of the Black People before the Mfecane: 1816 (added Nov. 2018), and….

Chapter 7: The Mfecane – Twenty years of Hell on Earth: 1816-1836 (added early 2019), describing the horrors suffered by the other Black nations in the wake of the creation of the Zulu nation.

And then I ground to a shuddering halt for a number of reasons, including matters of health in the family, other issues in respect of South Africa, and sheer volume of work in respect of my daily bread. I had no choice but to set this series aside for a while.

I have now returned to the subject, at least in part due to folks having contacted me to inquire as to the rest of the series. In starting on Chapter 8: The Great Trek, I realised that a huge part of what I had just written fits better into Chapter 5, and that a part of the original Chapter 5 fits better with Chapter 8.

I have therefore drastically expanded Chapter 5: The British Cape Frontier before the Great Trek: 1799-1836. (Click Link to read)

I hereby invite the readers of this Blog to return to Chapter 5 and read it again. It has been adapted to take one through a period of considerable upheaval at the Cape Colony between 1799 and 1836. It explains the background to the Great Trek that would ultimately determine the shape of South Africa today. There are certain parallels to South Africa at the present time, in which resentment is starting to reach a boiling point.

Chapter 8 on the Great Trek will pick up exactly where Chapter 5 leaves off to first fetch the story of the Black people by means of chapters 6 and 7. By the end of Chapter 7, in this new arrangement, the reader will be in 1836, both as regards the Black People and as regards the Cape Colony, then governed by Imperial Britain. And then, some weeks from now, I shall set the wheels rolling over the Orange River into the country of bleached human skeletons and cannibals described in Chapter 7.

Enjoy….. or weep, as the case may be. But, remember, history and the truth are often far more outrageous and exciting than fiction. If Hollywood tried to make up the truthful history of the South Africa lived by my ancestors, it simply would not be believed. Then again, since when have people in the Northern Hemisphere believed the history of South Africa? They have always preferred to make it up to suit their narrative.

— Harry Booyens