Bushmen and boere continued

So they did, AfriForum Youth and the Khoisan community presented a memorandum to the dept of land affairs yesterday. They applied for a march but were denied, someone pointed out: It's just another way the KhoiSan are descriminated against ... fair point.

Daily Maverick and News24 both had stories, the Maverick's is much better though.

This is fascinating, the ANC's only claim has been historical possesion, a claim which has always been very thin, but has proven highly effective against the boers, in this climate of political correction. However, the inherently racist ANC is now presented with a challenge that it is ill prepared to face. While the bushmen and boers share a common goal, that of their own land as promised to all by the constitution, the undermining of both groups has been easy, with the one labelled "colonialist invaders" and the other merely sidelined in the same manner as the apartheid government used against the blacks.

KhoiSan have never been media friendly, being too simple and generally ignorant of these things. That has led to them literally being swept under the carpet, by the old apartheid government, the new ANC government, the government of Botswana, and anyone else who thought them a bother. Similarly, the boer youth have had a problem winning any kind of sympathy, ans they are seen as "priviledged", despite the overwhelming odds against them lately. So we have the undisputed "heirs of africa" and a very media savvy white youth joining together to fight a common evil, correctly slated as worse than apartheid.

I look forward to more of this story. Pieter Mulder has taken a LOT of flak recently for his correct summation of the facts, highly inconvenient facts i'll grant, but undisputed history (except by the anc, they'll dispute anything if they feel like it). I hope he stands firm, and i suspect this issue is receiving far more interest in Europe than we suspect, from the Dutch and Belgians, who now really have a wedge with which to open the fallacy of the new south africa for all the world to see.