Saturday, February 25, 2012

Did South Africa's President sing a kill the Boer song?

This has not been in the news at all in Australia. It appears that the South African President, Jacob Zuma, sang a song earlier this year which contains the phrase "kill the Boer" - the term "Boer" referring either to farmers or to white men.

The song has already been ruled to be hate speech by the South African courts. Another politician in South Africa, Julius Malema, was convicted of hate speech by a court in September of last year for singing the song.

A group representing the Boer population has lodged a formal complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission against the President for singing the song.

It's a particularly serious issue in South Africa, as 3000 white farmers have been murdered in that country since the mid-90s. A written declaration was presented to the EU this month protesting the murders (see below):


There are websites (here, here and here) which track these murders (warning, the content can be graphic).

And here is video of Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, singing the song with gusto at the ANC centenary celebrations in Bloemfontein in January:



I can't vouch for the translation, but the lyrics of the song have been rendered as follows:
Ayasab' amagwala (the cowards are scared) dubula dubula (shoot shoot) ayeah dubula dubula (shoot shoot ) ayasab 'a magwala (the cowards are scared) dubula dubula (shoot shoot) awu yoh dubula dubula (shoot shoot) aw dubul'ibhunu (shoot the Boer) dubula dubula (shoot shoot) aw dubul'ibhunu (shoot the Boer) dubula dubula (shoot shoot) aw dubul'ibhunu (shoot the Boer) dubula dubula (shoot shoot) aw dubul'ibhunu (shoot the Boer) dubula dubula (shoot shoot)

It has been suggested that Zuma sang a slightly different version of the song with the lyrics "Kill the pink skin" rather than "Kill the Boer" but the overall effect would seem to be much the same.

Why isn't there more international attention focused on the fate of the Boers? One reason is that the Western middle-class is ideologically committed to the idea that whites are privileged oppressors and therefore are immune from persecution. They cannot bring themselves to recognise the vulnerable position of whites in South Africa, particularly the white farmers living in isolation on farms. Nor, perhaps, are they aware of the real poverty of some of the Boers in South Africa, who are given the lowest priority when it comes to employment.

Reuters ran an article on Afrikaner poverty in South Africa back in 2010. About 10% of the white population is thought to live in poverty, with about 100,000 struggling to survive. There are now white squatter camps close to the South African capital Pretoria.

A squatter camp for poor whites outside Pretoria

10 comments:

Jesse_7 said...

Its kind of sad when white guys have to go cap in hand to the Europansies.

Daybreaker said...

"Why isn't there more international attention focused on the fate of the Boers? One reason is that the Western middle-class is ideologically committed to the idea that whites are privileged oppressors and therefore are immune from persecution."

That's right.

Another reason is that lines of though become politically incorrect (that is improper to speak aloud) when they raise awkward questions for the dominant anti-White narrative.

As Whites in Zimbabwe decline ever further in numbers in a brutal social environment, and as South Africa advances piecemeal toward full-on anti-White genocide, is it wise and safe for Whites in other countries to diminish their majorities, give up power, and lose control of their fates, as the White southern Africans did?

If it isn't right for us to put ourselves in the position of the White South Africans, without control of our collective fate, subjected to intimidation and barbarous murders and increasingly threatened with genocide, then our policies of mass non-White immigration and anti-White multiculturalism are wrong. So that line of thought is politically incorrect from the outset.

Another question that troubles me is: why are Whites so inhuman, so cold to the distress and ruin of their own kind in Africa? Sure, we have bad ideas and a corrupted culture. (It must be a corrupted culture to engender such hard-hearteness.) But why has bad ideology so readily over-ridden the natural tendency to sympathy with those who are related to and similar to oneself?

It doesn't speak well of us. And it doesn't speak well at all of the ideas that are dominant in our public discourse that objecting to expressions of genocidal hatred against people like us is socially awkward.

Another awkward question is: if this is a slowly developing genocide against the Whites of southern Africa, what should we do about it?

I think the right answer is that we should give those Whites refuge in our other White countries. All of those threatened Whites, including those without the skills to be accepted as normal immigrants.

I think the reaction of world Jewry to the exodus of many Jews from the late Soviet Union should be our model. That is how people with undiminished natural ties of affection respond to a crisis for people of their own kind in a far country.

Anonymous said...

If you need some more SA web sites (worthy of interest), here you are:

http://mspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/

http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/

dfordoom said...

in South Africa, as 3000 white farmers have been murdered in that country since the mid-90s.

Which you also don't hear about in the mainstream media here.

Bartholomew said...

Jesse wrote,

"Its kind of sad when white guys have to go cap in hand to the Europansies.

Haha, that's just the response we would have here in the States. It seems that red-blooded Australians and Americans have that much in common, huh?

I myself did have a somewhat different response this time, though, than usual. These whites acted kind of like sons, going humbly to their father, Europe, for help and protection. What I found sad was that the "father" has long since abandoned his legitimate children.

How often has France intervened militarily on behalf of this or that black government in one of its former African colonies. Yet when the sons and daughters of Europe abroad look for good from their European fatherlands, what do they get back in return? Snake-oil politicians and a stone-cold European public.

It makes me think of Matthew 24:12.

And, as usual, Mark diagnoses precisely the sickness underlying it all.

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh I was just googling this last night!

Because Mandela is in the hospital I was worried about Uhuru

And then the video of Mandela singing kill the whites popped up.

Uhuru is supposedly when Mandela dies the blacks will murder all the whites like in Zimbabwe

Anonymous said...

I've never read a comment from Daybreak that I didn't like.

Daybreaker said...

Thanks. :)

California kid said...

Daybreaker said:
"I think the right answer is that we should give those Whites refuge in our other White countries. All of those threatened Whites, including those without the skills to be accepted as normal immigrants".

Mr. Daybreaker we don't control our own countries. If we did, all those people be evacuated already.

Anonymous said...

to answer the question as to why we are indifferent to our own decline in South Africa, it is because when we make an effort to preserve our way of life, the ENTIRE planet (including OZ) went to war against us with sanctions, isolations, embargoes as well as sponsored wars which we fought in and out the country in Africa. Its disgusting how people sit and sneer at us for not fighting back when doing so brings the WRATH of the world community on us.

Idiots