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24 August 2007

Herewith the first of an article written by Shaun Wilcock -

Obliterating the History of the Whites in South Africa

by Shaun Willcock

The purpose of these articles is to provide insightful comment on the contemporary South African and southern African scene from a Christian, “politically-incorrect” perspective, for two reasons: to counter the propaganda of the Reds, almost-Reds (liberals and others), religious Reds (“liberation theologians”), and all their fellow-travellers; and to encourage Christians to pray for the people of this beautiful but desperately needy part of the world, and especially for their Christian brethren living here; and to do what they can to assist the people of this part of the world.

The ruling black Marxist African National Congress (ANC) is steadily and deliberately obliterating the history of English and Afrikaans South Africans.

This is seen, in a very practical way, in the recent countrywide “renaming” process.  Most of South Africa’s cities and towns were planned, laid out, and built by English and Afrikaner South Africans – the two “white tribes”.  It is not surprising, then, that the cities and streets and buildings were for the most part named after various white leaders and heroes of the past.  Even so, however, South Africa has always had beautiful place names in the black languages as well.  But this is not good enough for the ANC.  They have embarked on a deliberate policy of what they call “transformation”: the process of “transforming” SA’s cities and towns by deliberately erasing the monuments to English and Afrikaans South Africans, renaming the cities, and renaming the streets after predominantly ANC terrorist “heroes” and others.  The plan behind this is to obliterate the history of the whites in SA, to make it appear as if they never came to these shores and never accomplished anything.
Thus, for example, SA’s capital city, Pretoria, named after an Afrikaner leader, has been renamed “Tshwane”, after some black chief who, we are told, lived in the area long ago.  The ANC likes to tell us that it is not Pretoria itself that has been renamed, but rather the entire “megacity”, which (according to the ANC’s new demarcations) includes Pretoria and various other towns and townships; but in practice, Pretoria is already being referred to as Tshwane by ANC leaders and the State-controlled SA Broadcasting Corporation.  In this way, one of the world’s great capital cities has all but disappeared off the map.  It is a deliberate slap in the face of Afrikaners, a huge number of whom still live in and around Pretoria.
And other cities and towns have had their names changed as well.  Pietersburg became Polokwane,  Stanger became KwaDukuza, and so on.  And not only cities and towns.  Dams, buildings, airports and streets have all been renamed.  In Pietermaritzburg, for example, some nineteen streets were renamed, mainly after ANC revolutionary “heroes”.  Johannesburg International Airport, the main gateway to South Africa, has been renamed “O.R. Tambo International Airport”, after the late ANC leader, a Marxist terrorist who oversaw the ANC from outside the country and directed its terror campaign against the State. 

  White South Africans are feeling like tourists in their own country, so rapid has been the “transformation”.

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