Why did the De la Rey song about the Boer War elicit such a strong response from South Africans, particularly the Afrikaans speaking people? After watching this 2-part video, you may understand.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Jon Qwelane:
Somehow, government leaders always have the temerity to “reassure” overseas countries that everything in South Africa is hunky-dory and all the negative things reported about the country are the work of whiners and disaffected white people hankering after a return of apartheid rule and people unhappy about blacks ruling the country!
Corruption in this country is at an all-time high, and anyone who tries to excuse or somehow condone government complicity is simply being dishonest in the extreme.
Here is an example of this type of rampant corruption for which there are existing remedies in law, but the trouble is that the police themselves are deeply implicated by their criminal deeds.
The Mpumalanga provincial government has just blown R1,45m on a party to celebrate its new 2010 stadium.
That is a crying shame, and one more example why the ANC is not the right crowd to rule this country.
Contrast this wastefulness with the R300 000 which Durban spent on a similar party for its much bigger stadium and with the very modest R35 000 spent by Cape Town.
At any rate, why is there a need to celebrate the construction – not opening – of stadiums?
Afrikaans komt natuurlijk gewoon van het Nederlands net als het vlaams en de verschillende Nederlandse en vlaamse dialecten komen ook gewoon van het Nederlands.
Dus dan moet je niet moeilijk gaan doen.
Als ik Afrikaans hoor denk ik eerder dan het een mix is tussen oudNederlands en Fries.
i aGREE WITH YOU MAN…it is true, there is not just dutch in afrikaans, german, bantu, french due to the french hugonauts in the founding of the cape with the dutch
The Dutch elite did not even like the languages of the White servants they sent to the Cape let alone the emerging Afrikaans dialects. People think that just because Afrikaans has double “a”s & other features found in Dutch that it somehow must be of Dutch origin neglecting to take into account that the double “a”s & other Dutch features are found in OTHER Germanic languages & dialects & that the White ancestors of the Boers & Afrikaners were taken from a non-Dutch ethnic group.
The Dutch elite who ran the VOC took the German / Frisian & French ancestors of the White Afrikaans peoples out of Europe often respelling their surnames to fit a Dutch spelling. French names like Villion became Viljoen / Gauch became Gouws / Cronier became Cronjé & the German name Kluthe became Cloete. Others who had no proper surnames were given ones named after the towns the VOC took them from such as: van Rensburg / van Tonder etc.
No. The White Afrikaans speaking people – most especially the Boer descendent segment – are not of Dutch descent. Afrikaans is not even from Dutch as the language the arrivals spoke was Frankonish a SIBLING language to Dutch not a descendent langauge of Dutch. Furthermore: Afrikaans is a mixture of numerous other influences such as French / Malay / Portuguese / Khoi / German etc.
Quote: [ wonder how come that there are so much Germans like myself showing interrest in SA-affairs. ]
Perhaps because the Boers are significantly to even mainly of German descent.
No Chunhyei. The Boers did not coin the term Caffer -it was the Portuguese who did & it comes from the Arabic term Kaffir meaning “infidel” which is how the non Christian population was viewed as. The Boers have not been in control since 1902 when they were conquered by a coalition of Cape Dutch -re: Afrikaner- & British during the conclusion of the second Anglo-Boer War. The Boers never “took land” from anyone as they negotiated & even settled into depopulated regions.
everyone can’t be put into one category, just as my experience living in three countries, i cannot any longer doubt that there is both good and bad in all people.
and yes! it is fucking awful that the government has deprived people of their land and livelihood, but their grudges dont come from thin air, there’s gotta be a look at both sides. just as there is now genocide upon the whites, there was genocide in the past against blacks.
ok i do understand that yes, the boers went thru some shit brought on by the british, but they also joined in in segregating the africans after the early part of the colonial period.
and it’s just funny how yes they came seeiking land that…still wans’t theirs considering the afrikaaners come from the dutch speaking parts of the netherlands and belgium, it’s obvious by the language itself.
Oh yeah, the land was empty…
I do not know whether that is true, but what I do know is, that the Boers are no saints at all. I just think it is a little strange, that the americans are accepted but they are as much american as the boers are african.
I wonder how come that there are so much Germans like myself showing interrest in SA-affairs.
Aber was meinst du bitte mit “Die Buren schaffen es hoffentlich?” Als bildeten die da nicht sowieso den wohlhabenderen Bevölkerungsanteil…
The boers were actually the first people to inhabit south africa! Well, technically Portuguese diamond miners were there first. African migration their didn’t occur until centuries after European inhabitation of that area. The africans are robbing the boers of their anscensternal homelands. Even though white people are portrayed as oppressors, usually the reverse is quite true.
I can not stand ignorant people like you Chunhyei! If South Africa is not the Boers then who’s is it? The Zulus? The Xhosas? The Black (bantu) people are NOT NATIVE to South Africa, the invaded from the north killing the Khoi San and stealing there land. When the Whites arrived in South Africa they did everything in their power to PURCHASE the land, they never invaded! Only when the Blacks (bantu) murdered their woman and children did they become aggressive! Unfortunatly the Khoi suffered too!
South Africa is a Boer land as well! You can´t deny them their right to stay and grew on the land their ancestors gave them. They are Afrikaaner and they will never leave, for that I am sure. And I am not Boer, by the way, but German (in case someone is interested); but I know some guys from SA, english and boer.
the boers need to leave Africa to the Africans. they’re the one’s who coined the term caffer, the one’s who JOINED the british in segregating the Africans. how dare anyone feel proud of what they did! What this is, is propaganda for people who wish for the way things were when they were in control of their ‘glorious’ past.
Just like the british who came to america, australia and new zealand taking land from the Original Peoples.
Sommer pragtig
Thanks!
i dont know the boere, i was never at south africa but i really hope the boer will make it.
hirngespinst means something like an illusion that you produce by yourself to strength your courage.
Stilich02, thanks for your comment.
Amongst whites in SA today, there is a group of roughly 2 million Afrikaners who call themselves Boere. They are truly people of the soil who love their land so much that they will survive whatever the “third world” throws at them.
I did not understand the word “hirngespinst”, though.
grüße dich!
ich finde das lied auch bemerkenswert und völlig untypisch für die geisteshaltung in der westlichen welt.
aber ich fürchte dieses lied ist nur ein hirngespinst. die buren sind wie wir und wollen leben wie wir, nur das sie (seit dem ende der apartheid) in der dritten welt leben.
wenn sie harte bauern wären, wie ihre ahnen, dann hätten sie eine chance. aber dem ist nicht so.
unds gehts genau so, im endeffekt.
Im german and live in britain, yet that song touched me alot, itslike a patriotic feeling even is it doesnt actually mean anything to me in that sense of boer against brits, you people should be proud of your olf flag and of your past…
50ffash. The British were fighting for what belonged to the Boers. Remember: the Boer Republics were established in areas which were de populated from the difaqane therefore: it is an unsound statement to imply that the republics did not belong to the Boers who established them. If the Republics did not belong to the Boers than the British would have been fighting THOSE people instead of Boers as they did in 1879 concerning Zululand. Get the facts straight.
hi to boer people ..you made south africa !
when different groups fight for what belong to to others
Wat is het probleem met van die andere vlaggen zwaaien, als ik een boer was zou ik ook met m´n eigen vlag zwaaien en niet met een die van je vroegere vijand was.
Groeten uit nederland