Die Plaas

Hy het in hofstukke wat by die gelykheidshof in Johannesburg ingedien is, gesê die woord “boer” verwys nie na die “Afrikaner-mense” nie, maar na ’n “verdrukker”.

Aldus Beeld

I am so sorry that Mr Malema wishes to take this route. His actions and the counter re actions that he will experience will push poor people into hunger poverty. Hunger Poverty is what Zim is experiencing at the moment. His own role will turn into an International beggar. Some one giving speeches to the UN pleading for food aid and clothes for starving South Africans.  There will be people that will steal that food aid from the starving children and he will still sing hate songs about white people.

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While South Africans are steaming ahead blaming each other for mistakes we are making the Chinese are conquering the world. Everybody desire nice shining things and we all want it for Free. But not even Nationalizing the mines and the  occupying the farms will help the poor.

We need leaders to step forward and start chanting. Chant the songs that your ancestors sang on the fields when they did hard manual labor. The ancestral chants that your fathers and mothers sang when they where working the lands for themselves. Those chants will make us one proud Nation that will overcome all.

Leaders at all levels and schools must show the initiative to work hard at spirit building and not Xenophobia and racism.  This country is the Breadbasket of the World with all the riches to back it up, but if we do not get together and make it happen China will step in and do it for us.

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Today, human trafficking is primarily for prostituting women and children.^[4] It is described as “the largest slave trade in history”^[who?] and is the fastest growing criminal industry, set to outgrow drug trafficking.^[4][5]

So where do South Africa fit into the picture. Do we have the capacity to deal with this amongst other problems such as Julius Malema’s hate speech and echoing the Zim Presidents chants against imperialism. Clearly Malema has no faith in the post Apartheid Judicial system. It seems that almost any body can do and say anything and law abiding citizens must just bow our heads and seed to all challenges.

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“But militancy does not mean cutting people hands, militancy does not mean violent politics, militancy means you must be vigilant, you must be on the ground, you must be in each and every corner of Zimbabwe.”

This is a wonderful day for all South Africans. This democracy can only work if it is done peaceful and with respect.

Yet in the same statement he proclaims that South Africa will take the mines away from public owner ship and turn them into state assets.  Some how I have sympathy with this mythology. The world control our riches wile we stay poor. It would be great if all mining assets could be voluntarily handed over to the South African Government fr save keeping and managing so we all can benefit from it.

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My father, still very alive and well, believed you could move a mountain with a team of chanting Zulu men. He himself did not shy away from hard physical labor and always put in the lead and followed the chorus of such a chant. In the early seventies when big stuff needed to be moved from one place to another cranes was not a luxury in Zululand.

Ropes, poles and chanting Zulu men where the only means to move the sometimes unmovable. The Chorus was always catchy and the chills through my spine is still felt today just thinking about it. Any person within hearing distance would come and see what the commotion is about and any able body person would jump in and help. Not for the over time nor for the glamor but to be part of the chanting group fixated on getting the job done.

As I roamed the cane fields with my motor cycle it was always these chanting singing and gum boot dancing groups that grabbed my attention and I had to join. To dance and sing you had to pay homage. You had to work. Sweat producing blood inducing work. If not you where a looser and an out cast.  Soft hands where the worst insult. Weak back meant your lady friend was not satisfied and help was offered to much off your embarrassment.

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South Africans, Black, Colored, Indians, Whites and al those shades in between,  are divided because of what I feel is a cultural misunderstanding. As a nation we are forged out of human suffering and ancestral blood that was shed on the plains of this beautiful country.

But let me start at the beginning. Bierpens(Potbelly or Beer Belly) was a character that I, a middle aged over weight white South African, started to take on the Afrikaans Blogging community for praying into other peoples personal lives.

Bierpens has evolved into a concerned citizen with his roots in Apartheid and his failure in BEE. I Blog this entry in the lingo of the so called anti Christ, for my fore fathers hated the English for what they have done to my people and the suffering they have cased us. As a young rebel I did not do well in school because my internal warning system was against the National Party’s mechanisms.

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