South African Whites are called racists. We are constantly reminded that it is our ancestor Verwoerd that is the “Father of Apartheid” The facts pointed out below does not support that accusation.
Granddad Verwoerd – by Pieter Velthuizen
(Just to set the record straight for the ANC, EFF and the LIBERALS who love to throw blame around.)
“I refer to Gauteng’s MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi’s reaction to an alleged racist slur. He states: “My purpose is to reverse what your ‘granddad Verwoerd’ did”.
“Mr Lesufi is, no doubt, a learned man, and like our president, a history boffin. However, let me refresh Mr Lesufi’s memory with just a few facts.
“The term ‘apartheid’ was not coined by Verwoerd , but by Dr DF Malan. Firstly, one must remember that Dr Verwoerd was born in 1893.
“In 1809 the ‘Native Pass Law’ of the BRITISH government compelled blacks to carry a pass book. (Verwoerd not born yet).
“In 1865 Sir Theophilis Shepstone prohibited blacks in the province of Natalia to have any voting power. In 1894 (Verwoerd 1 year old).
“Cecil Rhodes prevented Krom Hendriks, a coloured, from joining the national cricket team to England.
“In 1905 Rhodes compelled schools in the Cape Province to separate white British and Black pupils. In 1913 the BRITISH ‘Native Law Act’ prohibited black people from owning land (Verwoerd 20, and still a student).
“In 1925 BRITISH Minister, HW Sampson, promulgated the act on Labour Demarcation to divide whites and blacks. (Verwoerd not a politician yet).
“In 1927 the ‘immorality Act’, in BRITISH controlled Natal, prohibited intimacy between whites and blacks. These were all BRITISH instituted, and not by Verwoerd, as I’m sure Mr Lesufi will remember.
“Strangely enough, when Verwoerd was murdered, South Africa was at its wealthiest – inflation rate 2%, national growth 7,9%. The second highest growth rate in the world. So ‘granddad Verwoerd’, although unfairly accused of many discretions, did not do too badly in his leadership role.
The words Apartheid and previously disadvantaged are used as a sad pathetic excuse to cover up the greed, corruption and general lack of competent people in the South African government.
They are also used to put up a smoke screen that Whites are racists and that Blacks can not be racists. What a load of BS! The biggest and worst racists in South Africa are BLACK. They sit in our Government, in the Public Eye and they pass and enforce racist laws. They make openly racist remarks in public and they lie to their own people.
Why do they succeed in fooling so many millions? Because they keep their own people uneducated. They play on the fears of these people – Apartheid will come back if you do not listen to us!!! Apartheid became the boogieman – the monster under the bed, the tokolosh – whatever you call the thing parents use to scare kids and discipline them. The ONLY way they can keep control over the masses is to keep them uneducated and uncivilized.
For centuries these people believed in Witch Craft. Tradition and superstition is deeply embedded in them and the Government makes sure it stays that way. According to their ways there is a Chief or a King or a Tribal leader and this leader and his family rule – no questions asked. If they dared to disobey or think for themselves they were punished severely. Today they believe their punishment will be the return of the Whiteman’s Apartheid Regime.
The story of Apartheid as it is told and forced down the throats of the masses is based on half truths and whole lies. Since many of these leaders are educated intelligent people one can only come to the conclusion that they know the truth but they prefer not to tell it. Why? because it will rob them off their excuses to explain why these people are no better off today than 20 years ago when South Africa became a democratic country. The truth is millions of people, black and white and every other colour is worst off today than in 1994. Take a look at the high unemployment rate, the HUGE squatter camps and the overall poverty of the majority of South Africans. The only ones to benefit from this so called democratic government are the fat cats in parliament and their friends and family. They are corrupt and rotten to the core and the biggest criminal of them all? The President Jacob Zuma.
My biggest wish for my country – to open the eyes of the masses so they can see the truth. Only when this happens do we stand a chance to not go the same way as so many other African countries. Right now we are on a speedboat heading straight for disaster and no hope to prevent it.
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