Names of murdered farm dwellers read on Solidarity radio Sept 17

It will take at least 8 hours to read half the names

Thursday 17 September 2009 is dedicated by Solidarity Radio ‘s featuring well-known South Africans who will read the names of 1,650 of the more  than 3,000 farm-murder-victims’ names during a day-long broadcast. Today, (Thursday September 17 2009 ) broadcast can be heard on the internet at http://ww.solidariteitradio.co.za from 8:30 am to 16:30. It will take at least 8 hours to read the names of only half of these more than 3,060 victims.

These names will be read by well-known South Africans, amongst them Dr Allan Boesak, the veteran actor Marius Weyers of ‘The Gods Must be Crazy’ fame, the hugely popular Afrikaner singer Bok van Blerk, actresses Brumilda van Rensburg and Shaleen Surtie-Richards (left) , the parliamentarians Jan Els, Greyling and Dr Pieter Mulder and many others -- such as Gerrie Pretorius, Ghapi, Mel Botes, Elizma Theron,  Chris van Zyl of the Transvaal Agricultural Union, Flip Buys of Solidarity trade union,  Kallie Kriel of the civil rights movement AfriForum, Danie Langner of the union’s Helping Hand charity organisation which helps the more than 600,000 homeless, unemployable Afrikaners in their struggle to survive in an economy where they are being denied all access to the job market. Names will also be read by Danie Goosen of the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural organisations. (FAK).

Warning: the broadcast will be very upsetting to many…

Moreover, the often very gruesome descriptions of the cruel way in which these unarmed, often elderly rural Afrikaners were slaughtered, will also be broadcast by the trade union’s radio station. .

Among the facts which Solidarity will read out on the air, is the fact that in the ten years up to 2006, about 2,017 people were murdered on commercial farms – and of these attacks, only 2,8% were carried out by farm workers, contrary to the ANC-propaganda. On the contrary, 25% of the farm murders targetted farm workers and their families, Solidarity noted, and 70% were farm-owners. According to Statistics SA, commercial farmers hire an average of 22 farm workers (permanent and seasonal). This means that due to these murders, some 31,000 farm workers have lost their jobs – and that statistic does not include the loss of income of their families and dependants.

According to the database maintained by the Transvaal Agricultural Union, 64% percent of all the attacks between 1993 and 2009 resulted in murder.  Solidarity union spokesmen say that the extent of the murder-attacks on rural farm dwellers now has become so vast that it will take at least eight hours just to read out 1,650 of the names – while more than 3,000 farm murders having been carried out since 1991.

Today -- Thursday September 17 2009 -- ’s broadcast can be heard on the internet at http://ww.solidariteitradio.co.za from 8:30 am to 16:30.  Solidarity warns that ‘the broadcast will upset many people. ‘

Solidarity’s videos online at their Kyknet site: http://www.S-Tube.co.za - More information: Lees verder.

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Anti-Afrikaner hate-speech siege at Booysen Afrikaans Primary School by one black parent – elections on Saturday, Sept 19 2009 

Civil rights movement AfriForum has been asked by parents and teachers at the traditional Afrikaner school Booysens Primary in Pretoria to help them in the anti-Afrikaner campaign mounted by a local parent, MacDonald Keswa. His campaign has become a massive Afrikaner-hating exercise, warns AfriForum.

Anti-Afrikaner hate-speech pamphlets were distributed at the local taxi-stand which rage against all the white, Afrikaans-speaking teachers at the primary school and calls on parents to demonstrate at Thursday’s one-sided re-election which the school ‘s management-body has been forced to call for September 19 2009. Read entire story in Afrikaans.

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Whites must not be silent – South Africa needs white workers’ expertise: Solidarity spokesman Flip Buys

Flip Buys

‘Whites will face mass slaughter…’

Flip Buys of Solidarity trade union has also rounded on recent public statements by a leading Afrikaner theologian Dr. Nico Smith, who has been warning that ‘whites must shut up, they must stop criticising the ANC-government, because they are bringing down the vengeance of black people onto their heads and this could cause mass slaughter (of whites’).

This startling statement has drawn criticism from the trade union leader – who says that ‘of course it bothers him if white people just moan without trying to undertake anything themselves to improve matters. That is a destructive reaction to our societal collapse which we see all around outselves. And this destructive reaction s worsened by the alienation and exclusion from mainstream society which white people are undergoing in SA right now.

Criticism is the oxygen of democracy:

“However, it’s important to note such criticism is the oxygen of democracy – which by the way is a system designed to give room for people to disagree with one another, not to agree about everything,’ he writes in Solidarity’s daily newsletter.

“And it’s also wishful thinking (if whites believe) that history will repair the historic accident of 1994. However, to expect white people to remain silent as they are forced to watch the African National Congress regime turn this first-world state, which was in perfect working order, into a multi-million Rand deficit-fiasco within just 15 years – using our taxpayers’ money, the ANCunder 15 years of Mbeki misrule has ‘transformed and remodernised’ South Africa into a failing, criminal state which has massive problems’.

Buys writes: “On the contrary, Smith’s view that white people should remain quiet about this, that they should ‘migrate inwards’, is an extraordinarily undemocratic viewpoint which does not belong in a constitutional democracy.

“One cannot expect any group in the world to only sit around and pay their taxes silently, without expecting any kind of returns from this tax money -- nor even have any kind of say about the way their taxes are being used.’

http://www.solidaritysa.co.za/Tuis/wmview.php?ArtID=2699

Solidarity’s videos online at their Kyknet site: http://www.S-Tube.co.za

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SOL-TECH, trade union’s technicon, holds open day

Sol-Tech ‘s recent open day drew more than 600 student applicants, parents and others interested in the technical courses offered by the trade union’s SOL-TECH artisans’ training college – which trains 130 artisans annually. Their new website was also launched at the same time: www.sol-tech.co.za .

 

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