The World of the Black People: 1816

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Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa

—Today I publish the next chapter in my Who stole the Land? series. Chapter 6: The World of the Black People before the Mfecane:1816 provides the lay of the land and the distribution of the Black peoplpes of South Africa in the 1816-1822 period. The Mfecane, the Great Crushing, started in the Natal region in 1816 at the hand of the amaZulu and spilled over the Drakensberg Mountain range onto the Plains of the interior in 1822. The Mfecane itself will be the next chapter. It is after that Mfecane that the White Christian Trekkers moved into the interior. So this picture is important to understand when anyone wants to debate the matter of LAND in South Africa.

This new Chapter 6 tells the reader exactly who is who during the ensuing mayhem. The ba’Tlokwa of Chapter 6 become the dreaded Mantatee Host of Chapter 7. The amaHlubi of Northern Natal in Chapter 6 become the amaFengu (the Beggar People) of Chapter 7. Peoples who lived in a part of the country that looks like Florida in the USA, end up in places that look like Wyomng. The well laid out peoples of Chapter 6 are scrambled, in some cases to near the equator, in chapter 7. It is therefore important for the reader to understand the layout of the map in Chapter 6 before the future history of South Africa can be understood and appreciated.  Chapter 7 will introduce the reader to a period of wanton murderous bloodletting, the likes of which the world had never seen before, nor since. It will be a reduction of the state of Mankind as at no other time in human history. All this is built into the psyche of South Africans of all colours, and the rest of the innocent world apparently has no clue.

It is high time they did.

It is this kind of thing that advisors to President Trump should understand. It is this kind of thing that the Western Media needs to understand before baying for the blood of Christian farmers just because they are white. It is this kind of thing that people like the moPedi* Julius Malema needs to understand before they sing, “Kill the farmer”. It is this kind of thing his audience needs to understand when he tells them to kill farmers as in the video below (click on the image).

*: moPedi -a single person of Pedi descent.

I need to ask my Black friends from South Africa to forgive me if I have left out their specific people in this chapter. There are so very many, and they all suffered, but I had to make a choice as to who I focus on in order to tell the general history. Many isiZulu speaking peoples and Tswana peoples will be scattered to the wind  in Chapter 7, but in Chapter 6 I could put only a limited number of them on the map, otherwise it would have obscured the map and utterly confused non-South Africans. The bloodsoaked scope of the utter hell and misery unleashed in Chapter 7 is so great that it is difficult to capture it on paper. It is a travesty that there is not a single movie anywhere that addresses it.

—Harry Booyens

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US Military Interest near South Africa

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African National Congress (ANC), Communists, Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump, South Africa, United States

—The United States has been working away at facilities at Thebephatshwa air base inside Botswana, the country most strategically situated with respect to South Africa and several other Southern African countries. More particularly, it is situated just west of Molepolole, itself some miles west of the capital of Gaberone.  The capitals of South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and Lesotho are all within about 600 miles of that base, and important parts of Malawi, Congo and Angola are within 1000 miles. One wonders whether President Trump knows this.

What the United States wishes to do there, I do not know. However, it certainly is interesting, considering the increasingly unstable situation in South Africa. Under its ANC ruling party and new president Cyril Ramaphosa it is rapidly morphing into the Democratic People’s Republic of Azania, a haven for racist socialism, hell bent on emulating Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and its original teacher, the U.S.S.R. This very day an ANC Government Commission adopted a resolution that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to allow expropriation without compensation of (read “white-owned”) property.

Botswana, on the other hand, can realistically be considered the most stable, Western oriented, and pragmatic country in Africa. It has, for practical puprposes, a population belonging to a single tribe or nation, the ba’Tswana. That explains the stability. The majority of the ba’Tswana, however, live in South Africa. Yes, you heard right:  they already have their own HUGE country of which the border with South Africa was settled in the late 1800s. In fact, three times as many Tswana people live in South Africa as in Botswana. Go figure!

Americans may feel entirely free to scratch their heads, because their teacher and CNN never told them that. Then again, what mindless idiot trusts CNN to be informative?

Oh yes, and those aircraft in the first image?:- Vietnam Era Northrop F-5A “Freedom Fighters”. The United States exported quite a few of those. I do not know where the Botswana Defence Force got theirs.

As to the official US position, as stated by American Deputy Ambassador to Gaborone, Michael Murphy:

The United States, working with the Botswana Defence Force (BDF), has contracted the construction of facilities to support future, mutually-agreed bilateral and multilateral exercises at Thebephatshwa Airbase, Molepolole, Botswana. We are not constructing a U.S. military base, and we are not planning to relocate AFRICOM headquarters to Botswana.This project, a direct result of Botswana hosting Exercise SOUTHERN ACCORD in August 2012, underscores the close and ongoing partnership between the BDF and United States.

He added that the construction block consists of administration, instructional and latrine facilities. “These particular facilities were chosen so that if Botswana and the United States agreed to a future exercise at Thebephatshwa, the exercise will not disrupt normal BDF operations,” he said.

This is not the first American presence at the base. The US DoD was there in 2006, as may be seen from the photo on the left. For those unfamiliar with military uniforms of the world, the American general would be the gentleman on the left, Army Gen. William E. “Kip” Ward, U.S. European Command deputy at the time.

For Americans, the pronounciation is Te-be-Putsh-wah, with the “e” pronounced as in “ten” and the “u” as in “hunt”.

So, while I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of Americans who know where Botswana is, at least the other 330 million may hereby rest assured that their military will have latrines in case nature calls.

As to where it is located, the map below might help. One cannot really get more central than that in Southern Africa and still have a tarred (blacktop) road.

Somehow, the erection of latrines is always the first item at a military base. Been there, done that!

—Harry Booyens

Viktor Orbán Lays it All Out

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Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, South Africa, Viktor Orbán

Viktor and the Hungarians

—Viktor Orbán, the leader of Hungary, is not well liked by Western Liberals. He seems to go against every one of their “Socialist Spaceship Earth” principles. His resistance to the passage of Syrian refugees was one example. For their part, the Western Liberals love to paint him as some sort of Fascist. It is therefore with some interest that I read his address of 23 October 2018. His passion for his nation’s history shines through. It is abundantly clear that he does not want the unique Hungarian nation to disappear into a characterless pan-European nation so that Soros, the arch Globalist of today, might float all-powerfully above it all. He does not want to be run from Brussels. I think it is clear how CNN with its light-pink glasses might see Orbán as a “Nationalist Monster”.

This is not the first time that Orbán has featured in these pages. I wrote about him in relation to the Brexit effort of Nigel Farage and its connection to President Trump, then candidate Trump. Of the various individuals linked in my previous post referred to here, Orbán is the only who has had to actually live under the Communist yoke. He is not about to swap Moscow for Brussels.

For those who do not know, The Hungarians and the Finns are two nations that do not fit into the general groupings of European nations. Their languages are quite distinct from any of the Germanic, Latin, or Slavic languages of Europe. Finnish is not an Indo-European language at all, and was a major inspiration in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings in respect of the Elven language. Hungarians and their language are similarly odd-fitting in Europe. As with the Finns, their language is Finno-Ugric and related to that of the Estonians. The point is, the Hungarians are rightly proud of their unique culture and language and do not want it submerged in some sort of “Bland Vanilla Europe.”

Further to the above, the Hungarians have played a major role in the undoing of the Soviet Union. Anyone with even a minor interest in the history of the 20th century must know how bravely the Hungarians stood up to the Soviets in 1956 and how terribly they were repressed. They had come out on the side of Germany in WWII. That did not help them with the Russians. They also played a major role in the run-up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The Pan-European Picnic comes to mind. Their entire history is filled with failed uprisings and they have shed much blood for their dreams. Save up and take a trip on the Danube to go look at their memorials and statues. It is quite something!

The Poster Boys of the Political Divide in the West

I am an expatriate member of a nation that has been denied its destiny: the Afrikaner, be he White, Brown or Black and irrespective of language. I can therefore understand what is going on in the hearts of the Hungarians. I do not have to agree with everything Orbán says, but I can fully understand “where he is coming from” and why he resents Brussels and characters like George Soros so intensely.

Of course, we need to remember that George Soros is really György Schwartz, who was born in Hungary and survived the German occupation during WWII. “Soros” managed to leave there in 1947, and so he has little experience of the Communist period. So, this contest between the arch-Nationalist Orbán and the light-pink billionaire Schwartz is a fascinating one of much greater significance than just the independence of Hungary. They are in fact two Hungarian poster boys for the two extremes of the current polar political divide in the West.

In my own life, in the very heart of the Cold War around 1976, I managed to communicate on the subject of Physics with a professor in Hungary. To me it was intriguing that the communication could cut through the deepest divide on Earth. I finally managed to visit Hungary very briefly in 2015 and found it hugely interesting, if still bearing the scars and regression of the Soviet era. The picture above was taken on a lightning tour through Budapest. I absorbed just enough to get respect for these folks. This was certainly Europe, but a very different Europe from the one I knew.

— Harry Booyens

AmaBhulu now Affordable in South Africa

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South Africa

Good News is Hard to Find

—There is finally good news for those in South Africa who have been looking for some years now for a pragmatic South African supplier of the printed version of AmaBhulu. It seems that Takealot.com, based in Cape Town, is offering AmaBhulu in South Africa at a price competitive with the delivered price from Amazon.com.

Good for them!

The book may be found HERE in the Takelot.com site.

— Harry Booyens

Connecting the Dots

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Donald Trump, Obama, South Africa, United States

—Dan Happel is a conservative American and host of a show that he calls Connecting the Dots. I have appeared several times on his show in which the parallels between the USA and South Africa are highlighted and I extract for Americans the lessons they need to learn from the South African experience. With Americans going to the polls two weeks from now, it is a good time to remind folks of these lessons and of the consequences of not heeding them. Those who have followed this blog will know that I have posted links to several of these programmes. I have now found that two more of the shows are available to non-subscribers. They may be found HERE (30 March 2017) and HERE (28 December 2017).

—Harry Booyens