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His Name Is Stefan Smit: White South African Who Spoke Out Against Black-Run Government Taking White-Owned Land Without Compensation Found Murdered

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His Name Is Stefan Smit: White South African Who Spoke Out Against Black-Run Government Taking White-Owned Land Without Compensation Found Murdered
PAUL KERSEY
JUNE 3, 2019

One of the most important books published this century is the must-read Kill The Boer: Government Complicity In South Africa’s Brutal Farm Murders.

You need to read it. You need to buy it, because soon Amazon will make it unavailable. It’s that good. Another must-read is A Country at War with Itself: South Africa’s Crisis of Crime. It offers a glimpse into the horror of what’s happening in post-apartheid South Africa.

But what’s happening in South Africa happened in Rhodesia first. Rhodesia’s Death Europe’s Funeral: European to Wall Street Colonialism is the ultimate book detailing the horror of what the western world did to one of the few outposts of hope in Africa (and a fellow white nation).

Rhodesia first.

Then South Africa.

All of Western Europe, the USA, Australia and New Zealand are next.

What fate awaits us? [Stellenbosch murder: Stefan Smit killed following land grabs dispute: After expressing concerns about land grabs on his property earlier this year, Stefan Smit has fell victim to a farm murder on his Stellenbosch estate., TheSouthAfrican.com, June 3, 2019]:

Sad news is reaching us from Stellenbosch on Monday morning: Stefan Smit, the owner of Louisenhof Wine Estates in Stellenbosch, was the victim of a murder over the weekend.

Who is Stefan Smit?
Smit had gained something of a national profile after he was interviewed by the New York Times in March, speaking to the publication about the threat of land grabs on his property. The wine merchant had previously complained about how citizens from a nearby township had begun erecting shacks at the back of his farm.

The farmer was forced to get a court interdict against the squatters. Sadly, the letter of the law couldn’t prevent Smit from meeting a brutal fate. Police have confirmed that four armed men gained access to the wine estate via an unlocked door, before opening fire on the 62-year-old. His wife and a family friend survived the attack.

Stellenbosch farm murder victim was “embroiled in land dispute”
The Stellenbosch vineyard backs on to the township of Kayamandi. Over the course of a few months, a settlement bordering the farm was established. Although he had it dismantled by the Red Ants, the squatters were undeterred and rebuilt shacks on the fields. You can learn more about this from one of our previous articles on the matter.

When Smit spoke to the NYT, he gave a chilling prophecy on what he thought would happen if the dispute carried on. Within a few months of giving this interview, his worst fears have been realised.

“I, personally, can’t breathe here. They are bringing people down here like fodder. I have never spoken to the people myself, not directly. You don’t do that. It’s not un-dangerous. It’s not advisable. I have received threats before, where they said they would burn me alive.”

Kill The Boer is one of the most important books on Amazon right now, which is why it will be removed. Get it. Understand that those who try and claim the idea of white South Africans being targeted by blacks on their farms is not a myth, but a terrible, horrifying fact.

Annette Kennealy spoke out about the holocaust against her people — and by extension, our people. What’s happening to whites in South Africa is a preview of what will happen to whites once they are a minority in Western Europe and the United States of America.

She tried to warn her people about what was happening and ended up being a victim of the very crimes she was tried to tell the entire world were happening.

Because the black-run government of South Africa prepares to expropriate white-owned land without compensation, men with the courage of Stefan Smit spoke out.

He is now dead.

Rest in peace, Annette.

Rest in peace, Stefan. God help the Boers. God help us all.

Because no one is coming to save us.

[Jim Mathias]

Rest in peace, Annette.

Rest in peace, Stefan. God help the Boers. God help us all.

Because no one is coming to save us.

Not even their god is coming to help them, or us. The sooner false gods and religions are excised from our minds and hearts, the sooner we can come to the hard realities we must face alone. One of those realities is that none of us can afford to sit on our thumbs and let others do the work. We all must take responsibility for Alliance building.

[Jim Mathias]

I'm not entirely certain this hasn't been posted elsewhere on this forum, and my apologies if it as I'm going to repost this fairly written piece from a few months ago for the methods used in building Orania.

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'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming

Twenty-five years after apartheid, black people cannot live and work in this small South African city

Photographs by Madelene Cronjé

by Dennis Webster in Orania

October in Orania can be charming. When the sun sets, long ribbons of burnt orange settle on the horizon. The flies and mosquitoes that come with the oppressive summer heat haven’t arrived yet. It is Magdalene Kleynhans’ favourite time of year. “You can sit outside until late into the night,” says the businesswoman, whose family spend much of their time outdoors. Her children fish from the banks of the Orange River whenever they choose. Kleynhans leaves the house unlocked. “It’s a good life. It’s a big privilege.”

But there is much more to this small Northern Cape town than the bucolic ideal painted by Kleynhans. Incredibly, 25 years after the fall of apartheid, Orania is a place for white people only.

Kleynhans runs one of Orania’s biggest enterprises: a call centre whose business is recruiting and retaining members for Solidariteit, a trade union primarily for Afrikaner workers, and Afriforum, a self-styled “civil rights” movement. Afriforum recently met with US president Donald Trump’s administration and Tucker Carlson of Fox Nows to tell them that Afrikaners are facing a widely discredited genocide. Both have made extensive investments in Orania’s construction boom.

Oranians claim the town is a cultural project, not a racial one. Only Afrikaners are allowed to live and work there to preserve Afrikaner culture, the argument goes.

The reality, however, is a disquieting and entirely white town, littered with old apartheid flags and monuments to the architects of segregation. While there are no rules preventing black people from visiting, those who live nearby fear they would be met with violence.

The town has faced numerous calls for it to be broken up over the years, with prominent author and advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi arguing its existence violates South Africa’s successful dismantling of racial segregation. “Orania,” he says, “represents downright hostility to the idea of a single, united, non-racial country.”
Large-scale eviction

Orania was created in 1991, a year after Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Island, and three years before the country’s first democratic election.

Set among lush pecan nut orchards in the otherwise arid Karoo, it was set-up as an Afrikaner-only hamlet, not dissimilar from the ethnic Bantustans established under former prime minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, often dubbed the “architect of apartheid”.

By the end of the 1980s, the probability of losing control had already occurred to many Afrikaners, with some believing that impending democracy posed an existential threat to the white Afrikaans way of life. A few felt protecting that required becoming a demographic majority somewhere, rather than remaining a minority everywhere.

So a small group of Afrikaners – Verwoerd’s daughter and son-in-law, Carel Boshoff, among them – purchased a strip of land on the southern banks of the Orange River, and went about setting up a volkstaat, or independent homeland, where Afrikaners would decide their own affairs.

Orania’s founders did not settle on virgin territory, but on the remains of a half-realised 1960s project to build canals and dams along the Orange River. A community of 500 poor black and mixed-race squatters who had made their homes in the buildings left behind by the project stood between the new owners and their whites-only vision.

Speaking to the community after the purchase, Boshoff reportedly said he “did not buy a bus with passengers”. What followed, according to Cambridge historian Edward Cavanagh’s history of land rights on the Orange River, was one of the last large-scale evictions under apartheid. It was carried out by the future residents of Orania, with the assistance of beatings, pistol whippings and dogs.

The population has doubled

After three decades as a quiet backwater, Orania is booming. Its population – currently around 1,700 – has doubled over the last seven years. The most recent census estimates growth of more than 10% a year, outstripping most comparable rural towns and more, proportionally, than South Africa’s biggest cities.

Population growth means a flourishing housing market and construction industry. Neat suburban homes have been joined by new apartment blocks and walkups which sell for as much as R1.5 million (£80,000), putting them on par with comparable homes in Johannesburg. There is an industrial zone of brick and aluminium factories which sell their products around South Africa. China buys most of the pecan nuts.

The growth shows no signs of slowing. A sewage works meant to accommodate 10,000 future residents is in the pipeline. There are designs to transform the town’s humble technical training facility – where many of the skills driving the town’s new construction were taught – into a university.

Not a single brick has been laid by a black worker. In a reverse of the usual situation in South Africa, all low-paying work in Orania – from keeping the town’s gardens to packing the shelves in its grocery stores – is performed by hard-up white Afrikaners. It is increasing numbers of poor labourers, whose tenancy is often less secure and who either rent or rely on subsidies from Orania’s cooperative bank, who are largely behind the town’s growing population.

Orania is owned by the Vluytjeskraal Aandeleblok (Vluytjeskraal Share Block) company which, together with a series of internally elected bodies, is responsible for the town’s municipal decision making.

People who want to live in Orania buy shares in the Vluytjeskraal Aandeleblok, instead of freehold. The screening of prospective shareholders allows for tight control. Buyers undergo extensive vetting, central to which is their fidelity to Afrikaans language and culture, a commitment to employing only white Afrikaners, and a string of conservative Christian undertakings. Unmarried couples, for instance, cannot live together.

The town exists at the mercy of the South African constitution. In the early 2000s, a planned remapping of boundaries that would have brought Orania under the control of a democratically elected municipality appeared to spell the end, but the town successfully appealed to the high court using the constitutional rights of the country’s minority cultural groups.
Pursued and harassed

A quarter of a century after the end of apartheid, black people are restricted to using the filling station on the edge of Orania. Benjamin Khumalo* is one of them.

The 55-year-old and his wife, who have lived on a small nearby plot since the 1980s, were once pursued and harassed by a pickup truck covered with Orania stickers when walking home after an evening with friends. “Now you must run,” he urged his wife, pushing her through a fence. “I’ll be behind you.”

Khumalo still remembers when Orania was a home for black families. The guns carried on the hips of many Oranians, however, have been enough to convince him never to enter the town again. “They will hurt you,” he says. “There is nothing we can do.”

Unsurprisingly, Orania’s white residents have a different take. The town’s doctor, Philip Nothnagel, describes South African cities as “warzones”. He lived in the country’s administrative capital, Pretoria, before he moved to Orania. The 10 months since have been the best of his life, he says.

“It’s the first time in history that a country has been established without a war,” he adds, sporting a Lincolnesque beard after he dressed up as Paul Kruger during recent celebrations of the Boer hero. “It’s like boere [white Afrikaners] Disneyland. Except you never have to go home.”

The spectre of Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is difficult to escape. His portrait and bust seem to be around every corner. His wife, Betsie, is buried in the town, and her old home has been converted into a Verwoerd museum.

His grandson Carel Boshoff junior is a former leader of the Orania Movement, which first proposed the idea of Orania in the 1980s. Boshoff junior is perhaps one of the more unlikely fans of the pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, whose music plays on a laptop in his office.

Like his parents and grandparents, Boshoff fears white Afrikaners face a real threat of “being wiped out”, either through violence or what he calls “amalgamation”. He believes the recent expansion of Orania is just the start.

“We are something like the phoenix in the ashes,” he says. “The questions to which Orania is the answer are so fundamental to the structure of South African society that you can’t express and affirm your Afrikaner identity without coming to the conclusion of a bigger Orania.”
Offended by Orania

Orania has continued largely uncontested since its victorious appeal to the high court in the early 2000s. The ANC government does not appear to be considering an appeal of the high court decision. Zamani Saul, head of the ANC-run Northern Cape government, has said an inquiry into Orania’s legal status is yet to be concluded.

For Ngcukaitobi, the author, Orania “represents the reversal of the constitutional project of national building.” The rights that underpinned the town’s high court challenge against the remapping are not unlimited, he says. Anyone who cares about South Africa “would rightly be offended by what Orania represents, which is an enduring legacy of racial mobilisation”.
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Orapeleng Moraladi, Northern Cape secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, blames the town’s continued existence on the courts, an uncooperative Orania leadership, and a lack of political will from the ANC. “[The town] is like embracing an apartheid system within a democratic state,” he says. “Orania is an indictment of the government of South Africa.”

*Indicated names have been changed

The idea of forming a company that owns the land and sells shares to those who would live there has some appeal.

[Benjamin Bice]

Victims Tortured, Raped and Strangled As Attacks on White Farmers In South Africa Continue Unabated

Brittany M. Hughes , @RealBrittHughes
October. 8. 2020

Furious farmers in South Africa have taken to the streets to protest after two white farmers were brutally murdered by two black men, just the latest in racist attacks on white farmers who’ve been accused of farming land that was taken from black natives during apartheid.

Two black men, Sekwetje Isaiah Mahlamba, 32, and Sekola Piet Matlaletsa, 44 - or, as I call them, Garbage 1 and Garbage 2 - stand accused of torturing and murdering a 21-year-old white farm manager named Brendin Horner. Police say they tied Horner to a pole and tortured him, finally stabbing him several times and strangling him to death by stringing his body up on a pole on remote farmland outside the town of Paul Roux last week.

A second white farm manager, this one a 44-year-old woman named Chantel Kershaw, was ambushed by two armed black men as she helped load a lawnmower onto a truck. The men then held her down, assaulted her, and strangled her to death in the garage of her farm just east of Johannesburg. They then pistol-whipped her mom.

In yet another incident, a gang of nine men attacked a white farmer named Paul da Cruz, his wife and four young children on their own farm. Da Cruz said the attackers threatened to rape his wife and kids if he didn’t agree to their demands. These latest are just several of the roughly 75 annual attacks that occur against white South African farmers, descendants of Dutch and Huguenot settlers who colonized the area in the late 17th Century.

Which leads to a far greater point: if CNN would take its lips off Black Lives Matter’s rear end for four seconds, maybe we’d have a few less race riots in our streets and a little more care for the actual atrocities happening all over the world. Like the countless Uyghurs still imprisoned and forced to work in Chinese concentration camps while liberal-loving Disney films multi-million dollar blockbusters in the field next door. Thousands of Christians are still being slaughtered by militant Muslims in Nigeria solely because of their faith. And white farmers are still being stabbed and raped and tortured and hung in South Africa because of the color of their skin. But over here in America, our media is too concerned about whether Donald Trump took his facemask off while standing on a balcony all by his lonesome.

If you want to slam systemic oppression, you’ve got plenty of examples to choose from and causes to take up - including that of white farmers in South Africa who are being brutalized for the color of their skin while the world turns a blind eye.

If only the media cared enough about racism to mention it.

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