tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33542328.post5448597173728216509..comments2023-11-02T08:23:06.625ZComments on Mata'irea: December 15, 2009 - Blood RiverDanika and Stenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439857532968628597noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33542328.post-32728667276467312442012-02-13T07:40:23.950Z2012-02-13T07:40:23.950ZThe Boers & Zulus are BOTH oppressed under the...The Boers & Zulus are BOTH oppressed under the Afrikaner & Xhosa domination of South African society & both groups want exactly the same thing: self determination. But foreigners like you will never stop to misrepresent both of them & distort in order to create false acrimony so as to justify the destruction of both & the force of the South African State. I think you are just projecting.Ron.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14880098291195583234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33542328.post-20295340882635941432012-02-13T07:38:57.032Z2012-02-13T07:38:57.032ZThis comment has been removed by the author.Ron.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14880098291195583234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33542328.post-35850355792788426682012-02-13T07:35:47.488Z2012-02-13T07:35:47.488ZFor an extensive list of excerpts of notable figur...For an extensive list of excerpts of notable figures recognizing the important <a href="http://www.republicantrekkervolk.blogspot.com/2008/09/noted-distinction-of-boers-from.html" rel="nofollow"> distinction of Boer from Afrikaner </a> click on the preceding link. <br /><br />For more regarding the distinction between Boer & Afrikaner click <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfYW_BP5Xc" rel="nofollow"> on this link to an excerpt </a> of an interview done with Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio from 2007. <br /><br />For more on <a href="http://www.neultrasa.blogspot.com/2011/02/persistent-blind-spot_10.html" rel="nofollow"> The Persistent Blind Spot </a> concerning the regular omission of the larger Cape Dutch population click on the informative preceding link.Ron.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14880098291195583234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33542328.post-3182233809521728732012-02-13T07:23:11.659Z2012-02-13T07:23:11.659ZThe Boers & Zulus have been allied together ma...The Boers & Zulus have been allied together many times after this famous battle. Pretorius & King Mpande were in an alliance. King Dinuzulu gave the Boers of the ZAR a tract of land in the Northern Natal as payment for hiring the Boers to help him tackle a pro-British Zulu faction. The Vryheid Republic was established in 1884 on this land which the modern Zulus in fact STILL recognize as belonging to the Boers as they publicly stated in a CODESA like meeting back in 1985. The notion that the Boers & Zulus are irreconcilables is simply at odds with the truth & I suspect that you promote your assertion in order to stir the pot. <br /><br />Then you misidentify the Cape Rebel flag as supposedly the Transvaal Republic flag. The ZAR flag has a red top bar not an orange top bar. You say that the new South African flag is conspicuously absent while forgetting that it has no place as a Boer flag. The Boer people will naturally be using Boer flags. You will notice that the old South African flag is also conspicuously absent as that flag too is not a Boer flag [ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiB5yow3lYc" rel="nofollow"> click on this link to learn more about this </a> ] & was adopted by the Cape Dutch Prime Minister JBM Hertzog. [ Despite his siding with & fighting for the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War. ] The new South African flag simply represents the SAME mega State that the old South African flag represented. A State that was created on the backs of 24 000 dead Boer children in the British concentration camps. <br /><br />The Afrikaners had no states. Those were the Boer Republics you are talking about. The Cape Dutch Afrikaners ridiculed the Boers for going on the Great Trek & presumed that they would all die in short order. Try to learn more about this topic before spouting off. The fact that the Boers & Zulus celebrate the day on different sides of the river is due to cultural realities not due to a lack of reconciliation.Ron.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14880098291195583234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33542328.post-89738824242102434782012-02-12T08:14:06.566Z2012-02-12T08:14:06.566ZThe people whom you are talking about here are the...The people whom you are talking about here are the Boer people. Not the Afrikaners. The term Afrikaner was cooked up by some Cape Dutch intellectuals at Paarl [ a region that the Boers' ancestors trekked away from long before they were known as Boers ] in the late 19th cent at a time when most of the Boers were independent within their Boer Republics. The term Afrikaner is simply political mythology that was aimed at lumping the smaller Boer people in with the numerically larger Cape Dutch after the second Anglo-Boer War. <br /><br />No. The Boers & neither most of the Afrikaners are "of Dutch extraction". This was yet another lie by the elite in order to deny the ethnicity of the Boer people. The Boers are of German / Frisian / Danish & French Huguenot origin. There are some Dutch roots but that is found more among the Cape Dutch Afrikaners. The Boers developed on the Cape frontier away from the Cape Dutch. A lot of German Protestants settled directly on the Cape frontier where the Boer developed. <br /><br />Afrikaner Nationalism was created entirely by the Afrikaner Broederbond which was a very small special interest group which hijacked their way into power by first hijacking Boer history & heritage while often omitting their own Cape Dutch roots [ as pointed out by authors like Sheila Patterson ] all under the dispossessing rubric of the Afrikaner term. Professor Wallace Mills notes how the Boers were different from the Cape Dutch of the western Cape region. <br /><br />The point of the the Day of the Vow was to give THANKS for being spared. Not about gloating over a victory & it has NOTHING to do with racialism as the Boers would have had to defend themselves even if they were being attacked by European powers which they have had to do as well. Try to remember that the Zulus had killed 500 Boer civilians & children at Bloukrans earlier that year right after they also killed Piet Retief & his 70 member delegation. <br /><br />Therefore one must view this battle in its proper perspective. The Zulus are not the "majority" of the population. No ethnic group has a majority in South Africa. Furthermore the Boers & Zulus have reconciled A LONG TIME ago back when they both exchanged Rocks of Peace in 1840 & came together again on the banks of the Ncome River in 1866 to stack rocks as a symbol of reconciliation.Ron.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14880098291195583234noreply@blogger.com