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Thread ID: 9637 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-09-08
2003-09-08 18:09 | User Profile
Radio Pretoria, one of the few privately owned, Afrikaans speaking radio stations in South Africa, sends out its daily news commentaries to those of us who subscribe to it.
This commentary summarizes the situation in South Africa regarding the Afrikaner. I also believe it holds good for all of the law abiding Christian citizens who are feeling increasingly threatened by crime which is out of control.
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Robbers and the president attend church
The past week the ANC-chief and a group of robbers respectively attended church services in the Cape and the Rand. The president to warn Afrikaners in the traditional Groote Schuur Church not to be proud of their past although he cannot find a fault with this specific church. The armed robbers confronted churchgoers in a hall in Fontainebleau near Randburg and demanded cash, jewellery and other belongings. It is not the first time a gang of robbers attacked congregations, even during sermons. This is how people reach out to Afrikaners today. The South African Council of Churches wants to talk to Afrikaner organisations who feel alienated from the current state regime. They offered to convey this message. The minister of education, Kader Asmal, carries on with his policy to remove the traditional Christian education in schools. Another top ANC-official, premier Sam Shilowa of Gauteng, offered the Afrikaner the hand of friendship during the recent Sharpeville celebrations. Just when farm murders are on the increase in his province. The authorities declare Draconian laws to drive farmers from their properties and a farmer still has the headache of thousands of illegal squatters on his property.
It is not quite clear what president Thabo Mbeki meant in his church message. What is clear, however, is the complete silence about church attacks and robberies. They say nothing about the farm attacks or the constant alienation of the Afrikaner or his increased poverty. His pleas for language rights get ignored. Reaction quickly sets in when a rugby player reacts racially towards other players or an Afrikaans organisation holds a sports competition. When a member of the Boer Nation falls victim, the silence continues. We live without protection in a world of crime and financial and cultural impoverishment. We refuse, however, to be lulled by sweet talk. History has taught us to challenge life with the bible in one hand and our weapons in the other, even when we attend church. Barbarism surrounds us and injustice rules us.
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