My message to my fellow Afrikaners in South Africa- regain your warrior spirit!
It is a story which Afrikaners my age know all too well. A nation of people subjugated by war with the British and oppressed slowly rising and managing to establish a republic at the Southernmost end of Africa. The story of how these people have regained their ethnic pride and what they have accomplished with their unity has filled our history books. Then- with no more English soldiers to humiliate, subjugate or kill them, these people, the Afrikaners secured their hold on this country and made sure that no one else rises up to take it from them. That meant that the Black people, who actually made up the majority of this country's people and who regarded themselves as the indigenous people of this country before us- had to be kept in check. Now we can allow some of the most hypocritical among us to come and say that it was for their own good and so forth, but that does not change the situation in which we find ourselves now. In 1994 the tables got turned with...