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On the 3rd of April 2000, Iain Kay was ambushed on his Zimbabwe farm by a large group of war veterans and squatters.
They chased him into a school where he locked himself into a classroom. However, they broke down the door and attacked him savagely. His hands were tied with barbed wire and he was dragged away into the bush where he would have been killed but for the timely arrival of his son.
Chenjerai Hunzvi, leader of the war veterans in Zimbabwe says:
"The white farmers have two options: to hand over the land and leave or to stay and see what land we leave them. The whites are foreigners, they are British! They should go back to Britain. We don't need them here. They can all go."
I see Mr. Hunvi's point. I'll tell you what, Hunvi, old sport, you can have all the hundreds of thousands of black Rhodesians in Britain, who came over here to get away from people like you, and we'll have your white farmers, fair enough?
Didn't think so.
This is Ian:
On the 15th of April, 2000, David Stevens, a white Zimbabwean farmer, was taken from his property 75 miles east of the capital, Harare, and shot dead by squatters.
He was the first white farmer to be killed in the land confrontations inspired by President Robert Mugabe.
Five other farmers who tried to help were also taken away, though they were later released after having been badly beaten up. One of them, John Osborne, witnessed David Steven's murder.
"It was unreal. These guys are not playing, they are deadly serious and out of control," he said.
Approximately 1,000 farms were occupied involving "war veterans" at this time and 100 or so white families fled their farms after this incident.
In March, 2002, Terry Ford, was found dead, 40 kilometres west of Harare.
Terry, who had been shot, was the tenth white farmer to be killed since land seizures began.
Robert Mugabe is the acceptable face of brutal, black nastiness.
We can criticise Robert Mugabe if we want to and not fall foul of the race hate laws.
We all know that he has stayed in power illegitimately. We all know his Zanu PF party has slaughtered many tens of thousands of people in Zimbabwe and we all know that whole townships have been raised to the ground and those who lived there cast out into a suburban nomansland.
And we all know that white farmers have been killed and that the encouragement to kill came from him.
Many Early Day Motions have, quite rightly, been introduced and signed by members of the British parliament criticising this dreadful creature.
Compare him, however, with the sainted Nelson Mandela.
Mandela has been eulogised at an almighty level by the media darlings and the political classes in this country. More than one serving MP, Frank Dobson springs to mind, has said that they believe Mandela is the greatest living human being and the "the greatest statesman of the twentieth century".
As for London's Mayor, Ken Livingstone, well, this is what he thinks of South Africa's top bloke:
"Nelson Mandela's statue should be placed on Trafalgar Square as a symbol of our respect for this great leader...
There is clear support for the statue across the world, recognising Mandela's significance in world history... It is wholly appropriate that the statue of Nelson Mandela be placed in a prominent position in Trafalgar Square. By granting planning permission, Westminster Council will join the rest of us in honouring one of the greatest statesmen of our time".
It's not too surprising that Red Ken would seek to honour Mandela in this way, he is a fellow communist, after all.
It isn't just London's Mayor who wants his statue erected in Trafalgar Square, however. Many MPs have signed Early Day Motions calling for the once empty plinth to be adorned with a likeness of the old chap.
And yet, in the 1960s, the former "freedom fighter" ordered bombs to be planted which killed innocent men, women and children and, since he became the President of South Africa, around 1,700 white farmers and/or members of their family have been slaughtered by blacks.
Indeed, since the ANC began encouraging the murder gangs to wreak their hatred upon South Africa's white farming community in 1991, around 1800 of them have been killed.
That's 1,800 against Mugabe's 10.
And, as for you feminists, how about this one:
As far as I'm aware, Mandela has never made any objection to the widespread practice of female mutilation in South Africa, despite the many deaths that occur because of it.
Oh, and Johannesburg is the murder and rape capital of the world, and about 1 in 5 of all black, South African adults have AIDS. Indeed, Mandela's own son died of this disease.
Now, none of smiley, smiley, tail-wagging, "let's erect a statue of St. Nelson" brigade, ever told you any of this, did they?
Let's take a peek at the stats:
In 1994, excluding attacks on smallholdings and plots, there were 442 raids by black gangs on rural South African farms.
These raids resulted in the deaths of 92 white farmers and/or members of their families.
In 1995, there were 551 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 121 white people.
In 1996, there were 468 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 109 white people.
In 1997, there were 434 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 84 white people.
In 1998, there were 827 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 145 white people.
In 1999, there were 834 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 136 white people.
In 2000, there were 902 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 142 white people.
And, up to October, 2001 there were 809 such raids which resulted in the deaths of 106 white people.
Thus, whilst Mandela was the President of South Africa, from May, 1994 until June, 1999, there was around 3,000 attacks on isolated white-owned farmsteads and almost 600 members of South Africa's white farming community were slaughtered by rampaging, black gangs.
Why didn't St. Nelson do something about this?
Why did he allow this to continue on his watch?
Why, when we saw him on television, was he always wreathed in smiles, as though he didn't have a care in the world?
Why didn't this "honest" communist tell us in the West what was really happening in his country?
More to the point, why did our own politicians keep all of this hidden? Why is this bloke beyond criticism, as far as our betters are concerned, when, under him, South Africa degenerated, so quickly, into genocide and brutality?
Here are a few of the things Mandela has said along the way:
"At the beginning of June 1961... I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence... the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle"
"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution... I acknowledge that I made these studies to equip myself for the role which I might have to play if the struggle drifted into guerrilla warfare."
"The soil of our country, South Africa, is destined to be the scene of the fiercest fight and the sharpest struggles to rid our continent of the last vestiges of white minority rule."
As of now, the minority rule of the ANC is entrenched and irreversible.
Just so you know I'm not making any of this up, let's take a look at what others have said:
In a 29th of November, 1993 speech at Kean College in Union, New Jersey, the black activist and Louis Farrakhan acolyte, Khalid Abdul Muhammed, told the student audience what he thought South African blacks should do to any white people who refuses to leave South Africa:
"We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough."
On the 13th of January, 1995, The Jewish Chronicle said:
"The African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa was guided by two Communist Jews, Albie Sachs, 'one of its foremost intellectuals'and Yossel Mashel Slovo (Joe Slovo.)
Slovo was born in a shtetl in Lithuania and grew up speaking Yiddish and studying the Talmud. He joined the ANC's terrorist wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe, in 1961 and eventually became its commander. He was named Secretary General of the South African Communist Party in 1986.
When Nelson Mandela's ANC took over South Africa, Slovo was named Minister of Housing. Slovo, a Yiddish-speaking Lithuanian Jew, was Secretary General of the South African Communist Party and director of the military wing of the ANC, which perpetrated numerous terror bombings against white civilians."
It is, perhaps, interesting to note that, though such Jews as Sachs and Slovo were in driving seat as the ANC progressed to power in South Africa, with the rise of black power and militancy, around 40,000 of the country's 130,000 Jews emigrated elsewhere.
On the 10th of November, 1997, the ANC Councillor, Mzukizi Gaba, said:
"When Mandela dies we will kill you whites like flies."
On the 29th of July, 1999, upon the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ordination of Women, the Reverend Barbara Harris said this at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia.
"South Africa is... one of the 'rape capitals' of the world, where a woman is raped every 26 seconds... women in some parts of the country are still being accused of being witches and killed as a result of such accusations."
On the 17th of September, 1999, The Guardian reported thus:
"A black South African army officer was shot dead yesterday after he went on the rampage against white colleagues killing seven, including several officers.
Five white soldiers were also wounded, two of them critically. |
