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Afrikaners escape armed attackers June 22 2010

 

Bronkhorstspruit smallholder survives execution-style gunshot
A 26-year-old Bronkhorstspruit smallholder survived an execution-style gunshot wound to the head after an apparent house robbery in Bronkhorstspruit on Tuesday, paramedics said. Netcare 911 spokesman Chris Botha said the man was in critical condition at the Pretoria East hospital. He was believed to have been shot at his house in the outlying areas in Bronkhorstspruit and taken to a local hospital.The hospital called Netcare 911 for assistance.

"Paramedics were flabbergasted to find that although the man was shot in the temporal area, he was still communicating with them," said Botha.He was stabilised and transported to the Pretoria East hospital."He is doing very well," said Botha late on Tuesday night.Bronkhorstspruit police " could not immediately confirm the incident". Probably too busy watching the WC2010. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100622222402800C986617

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J.J. Strydom, 30, escapes at high speed from hail of bullets in Mamelodi, Pretoria

2010-06-23 PRETORIA. Vehicle-evaluator J J Strydom shows where a hijacker's bullet hit his GPS before going through his windscreen during an attack in Mamelodi. (Wayne Coetzee, Beeld) Virginia Keppler, Beeld. Strydom’s father and brother have also been in several hijackings and armed robberies over the past year – and all three men have thus far survived…   http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-escapes-hijackers-shots-20100622

Strydom JJ vehicle evaluator Mamelodi attack June 22 2010 Beeld Wayne Coetzee pic Strydom, who lives at the Rietfontein smallholdings near Pretoria escaped a bullet to the head on Monday afternoon when he slapped away a hijacker's firearm and raced off in his bakkie. The shot was fired and the bullet, which would probably have hit Strydom in the head, hit his GPS before going through the windscreen of his double-cab Ford Ranger.

He then raced out of Mamelodi, in the east of Pretoria, under a hail of bullets, so he wouldn't be shot "to smithereens".

Strydom had been in  the black township  to evaluate a vehicle when he was accosted by the gunman in the middle of the day at about 14:30.

Pistol to head
He says he was attacked when he stopped at a stop sign somewhere in the east of the suburb."My bakkie's window was open, and the next minute someone was pressing a pistol against my head and tried to open my door.

"At first I kept my hands in the air, but while he was struggling with the door, I slapped away his hand holding the firearm, and the shot went off. Luckily my bakkie was in first gear and I could pull away immediately. More shots were fired behind me, but I kept driving until I reached the old Cullinan Road, east of Pretoria. There I saw that two more bullets had hit my bakkie - on the right back door and through the tailgate.”

  • He drove straight home. The badly-shaken Afrikaner registered his formal complaint at the Moot police station on Tuesday. "I got a huge fright, but I'm just happy to be okay."

This wasn't the first time he and his family members have had to deal with hijackers. "In 2004 I was hijacked in Mamelodi, and the hijackers pistol-whipped me against the back of my head before they stole my cellphone, belt, watch, all my personal belongings and my car. Then they dropped me off between shacks in Mamelodi."

His father, Johan Strydom snr, 64, was hit over the head and hijacked in Nelspruit four months ago. Strydom jnr's brother 32-year-old Jaco, was hijacked in Hatfield in October last year. "They also forced him to withdraw money from his account and drove around with him in the boot before throwing him out and disappearing with his BMW."
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-escapes-hijackers-shots-20100622

SA communists asked to visit Afrikaner-poor sites

By 2008, more than 600,000 of the 3-million Afrikaners were trying to survive in marginal internal refugee camps, without any government benefits – they are denied foreign and local government food-aid, are denied access to the labour market and are even turned away from public health facilities..

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AfriForum Youth and Solidarity trade union’s  Helping Hand have extended an invitation to the leaders of the Young Communist League (YCL) to visit  a white squatter camp. The invitation was extended in light of the recent unfeeling remark by the YCL that 'affirmative action and black AfrikanerPoor children in tent towns Joppie Ruach DisMosOnsEieMenseDieFacebookeconomic empowerment would continue until "whites have just as little as their black counterparts".

Indeed: nearly one-third of the Afrikaner nation now have far less than their poor-black counterparts – because while poor black communities – whether from other parts of Africa or from South Africa itself -- are receiving massive aid from their own government and also from a plethora of foreign aid-agencies, the Afrikaners are being denied even the most basic rights – such as food-aid or refugee-housing --  to help them in their battle for survival on the marginal land-sites they have been pushed to.

June 2010 documentary: “White Poverty – Arme Blanken”, Dutch and Flemish TV broadcast

The dire poverty of nearly one-third of the 3-million-strong Afrikaner nation was recently highlighted in a Dutch TV-documentary by Dutch journalist Saskia Vredeveld: entitled “White Poverty, Arme Blanken’, broadcast on IKON-TV in the Netherlands and also on Flemish TV in June 2010. 

This independent journalist Vredeveld Saskia documentary about Poor whites in South Africa Holland doc 24 festivaltook her hand-held camerato record the plight of these socalled ‘white’ families who had lost their jobs and fallen into irretrievable poverty as a direct consequence of the ANC-regime’s laws which bar ‘whites’ from the labour market. She recorded the daily rounds by a religious Afrikaner couple to help feed the poor in Coronation Park, a camp-city near Johannesburg. This couple receives no financial support from the (ANC-) government at all despite many pleas. Vredeburg’s lens recorded the grieving aid-worker’s helpless tears as she described how one Afrikaner newborn had died of malnutrition before they could get emergency-help to the young family.

  • Obtain the 55-minute DVD from Vredeveld: cost 20 Euro plus shipping costs from  Amsterdamsam@peacefield.demon.nl (55 minutes, A Zeppers film production, spoken: Afrikaans and English, subtitled in Dutch and English.)

 

During recent talks between AfriForum Youth and the YCL, affirmative action and the phenomenon of white poverty in South Africa were discussed. The aim of the visit to the white squatter camp would be to show the YCL how severe white poverty has become – and  discuss what could be done to combat this growing problem. The government’s  former Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) also conducted a study in April 2009 to identify the core challenges facing impoverished whites in South Africa.

Poor whites are denied State’s  disability-payouts , child-benefits, food-aid coupons -- and often also are refused treatment at public health facilities, including maternal care:

AfrikanerSquatterBabiesBornAtFountainofYouthSquatterCampJoppieRuach The study has not been formally released, but has been made available to Helping Hand, the charity organisation run by the Solidarity trade union in South Africa which had also carried out a nationwide survey to try and locate all the ‘poor white’ squatter camps – and found more than 650 that year alone. The study’s findings were that ‘white communities do not receive equal treatment when it comes to the issuing of disability and child grants, and affirmative action only leads to the further decline of these communities," according to Dr. Danie Langner, Executive Director of Helping Hand.

Afrikaners pushed to marginal land-sites – and are politically/economically marginalised in SA society:

"The study clearly shows that white South Africans (* 3-million of the 4-million ‘whites’ are Afrikaner/Boers) are becoming increasingly marginalised and pushed to marginal land - and that the ANC-government ‘s aid-programmes for the poor also must arrt offering room for providing development and support to these impoverished whites," Langner said.

Well-known demographer Prof. Flip Smit has found that about 600,000 white South Africans  - and the vast majority were found to be Afrikaans-speakers – had already descended into homelessness and abject poverty by the end of 2008.

Pres Zuma visited Bethlehem squatter camp twice – and promised to help

Smit also was quoted as saying that "Government officials themselves are not even aware of white poverty.” – However, it must be noted for the record that Pres Jacob Zuma himself visited the Bethlehem Squatter camp twice and had at both those times, publicly promised that 'whites' would receive equal government-benefits to those of poor black communities.

  • However this has not happened - on the contrary, only a week after Zuma's last visit the Helpende Hand aid-agency officials were told by ANC-officials that it would be 'racist to feed hungry whites' and that they thus turned down their request for food-aid coupons.
This also was Langner’s experience at Helpende Hand: he noted that the “government does nothing to include white people in the future of South Africa. Whites simply have to start forming an integral part of the government's plan to relieve poverty. However, government is instead using race to create a divide between people.”

AfriForum Youth's national chairman, Ernst Roets, expressed shock about the YCL's denigrating statement: "We know that the YCL places a lot of emphasis on upliftment and poverty relief. However, we were under the impression that the YCL, unlike the ANC Youth League, was not a racist organisation. The emphasis of the economic policy should be on uplifting the poor, and not making everyone poor."

Roets: "Poverty must never be tackled on a racial basis. We must focus on the socio-economic conditions and reach the point where young people can be exempt from affirmative action."Statement issued by Ernst Roets, National chair: AfriForum Youth, June 22 2010
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=182628&sn=Marketingweb+detail

Wealthier black South Africans with a tertiary education ‘believe foreigners take our benefits…” – and these government officials also deny food-aid and survival-benefits to poor Afrikaner whites…

Kolokoto Shaba Xenophobia warnings 14 June 2010 Diepsloot Gauteng PLEASE STOP THIS UGLY PHENOMENON

 SHABA KOLOKOTO, who according to his own Facebook page is a corporate-governance training officer, reported on 14 June 2010 (above) that he had personally visited the squatter camps around greater Johannesburg, and writes that ‘you can smell the hatred’. “Please stop this ugly phenomenon from happening… it is against what Nelson Mandela stands for. Above all, it is a crime against humanity…’ he warned (above). http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6138&id=100001108447359&comments=#!/photo.php?pid=52313&id=1686765607

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Hatred of ‘foreigners’ includes Afrikaner whites:

A recent survey among 6,636 residents of Gauteng -  the country's richest province - by the Gauteng  City Region Observatory (GCRO), a provincial government think-tank, in partnership with two of Johannesburg's universities, found that the hatred of ‘foreigners’ -  xenophobia— which also can be seen in the way poor Afrikaners are denied government benefits --  was not confined to poor and marginalised communities. Prof David Everatt, the GCRO's executive director, told local media that 73 percent of the participants with tertiary education thought "foreigners are taking benefits meant for South AfricansKill whites Facebook page not ours claims PAC Feb262010 Citizen", while three-quarters of those without tertiary education believed this was an accurate assessment. Everatt commented: "If the attitudes of xenophobia remain ... we have a problem."
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89276

Black government workers deny food-aid to Afrikaners as part of their xenophobic beliefs:

And it’s precisely this segment of the population -- black South African government workers -- who are also denying food-aid and many other life-saving benefits including clean water and medical health care to the poor white Afrikaner community: their xenophobia clearly also extends to include South African whites who have no other place to flee to except the country of their birth.