Trump embracing Afrikaners and the 'Soweto Derby' gave letter writers food for thought

Semantic subterfuge and the refugee issue

The ANC regime’s denial that the group of Afrikaners which has taken up the Trump Administration’s offer to resettle in the US are refugees, is semantic subterfuge.

Complaining that the country’s sovereignty is being undermined and treated with disdain by Trump is risible given how the ANC regime does the bidding of Iran, the extent to which it allows the resources of South Africa to be increasingly foreign owned and the extent to which it has plunged the country into international debt.

What is reality is that whites in this country are hostages to a new form of baaskap and apartheid that marginalises them in terms of 140 different laws and regulations. To use an Afrikaans term, many whites have been reduced to bywoner status.

The latest policy of the ANC regime to demand R100 billion to further compress and tighten its already stifling B-BBEE regulations validates the Trump Administration’s view that whites are being racially persecuted.

It also validates what Cyril Ramaphosa told the late IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini about the ANC’s strategy to deal with whites. He said it would be like boiling a frog alive by gradually raising the temperature until it was too late to salvage anything.

That would involve laws transferring wealth, land and economic power to blacks incrementally until whites lost all they had gained (see p. 211, The Prince and I).Unfortunately, what the ANC strategists did not take into account is that the corollary of marginalising whites is the impoverishment of blacks.

Unemployment, homelessness, dysfunctional government, collapsing infrastructure where a basic need like water has to be fetched from a water truck are all the products of ANC misrule. | DR DUNCAN DU BOIS Bluff

Displaced! How so?

What is all the fuss about all the displaced people in Albert Park being displaced.

They were never placed in the first place so how can they be displaced. Anyone care to comment on that? All these people have rural homes that they can return to. They should not be here in the first place. | Margie Forbes Westville

Soccer then and now

I watched the Nedbank Cup final between Kaiser Chiefs and Orlando Pirates played at the packed Moses Mbahida Stadium on Saturday. It was a great spectacle especially since it was played in Durban.

To the delight of their delirious fans, Kaiser Chiefs won, ending their 10-year drought.

Though I am not a big fan of local soccer I do occasionally watch the big matches. While watching the Kaiser Chiefs v Orlando Pirates match my mind went back in time when soccer was segregated during Apartheid times. I thought of how whites and Blacks couldn’t play together, of Durban City and Durban United and how so many Indians used to flock to Kingsmead to watch these whites only teams.

I remember taunting some of my friends who supported white soccer. I had never set foot in Kingsmead to watch Durban City and Durban United. I wonder why. I was young and not politically ignorant. My family wasn’t into politics. My father was just a simple, uneducated, labourer and gardener.

There must have been something deep inside me for my aversion to white soccer. Perhaps it was my birth place. We lived in a tin house at the bottom of the Bluff hill, squelching in the mud of the mangrove swamps of the bay while the whites lived in comfort and luxury in big brick and tile houses on the top of the Bluff.As I watched the match I could only see a Black stadium with a few white faces.

Apartheid is gone but remnants of it still remain. Not by law, but by privilege, like Orania, the exclusive enclave of the Afrikaner, the dominance of whites in executive and managerial posts in the private sector and, conversely, a Black public service.

Democracy has certainly brought about changes to the country but not all have benefitted. There is economic inequality, the black elite and segregation in sports – at least in soccer. From white soccer to Black soccer, not statuary but by sheer numbers. | T Markandan Kloof

Mollifying radical Islam not the answer

Anti-Semitism is the longest-running sin in the world. Christians have persecuted Jews for close to 2 000 years; Muslims for 1 400 years.

With the exception of short periods of enlightenment, Jews have never been fully accepted. They have been invited into nations, exploited and robbed and allowed to rebuild only to be robbed again.

They have been thrown out whenever the rulers found it necessary.From the Romans scattering the Israelites in70 AD, to Muhammad beheading the Jewish men and enslaving the women of Medina in the 7th Century, to the Crusades, to the inquisition, to the Holocaust and to wars of genocide launched against Israel by its neighbours, Christians and Muslims have exhibited an inexplicable cruelty toward the minority in their midst, from which their religions sprang.

Do they hate the morality of the Ten Commandments? Do they chafe at a people who seem to overcome so much cruelty only to survive and, when allowed, to give the world learning, art, medicine and creativity far beyond what their numbers would predict?

Today, it’s the Palestinian hoax and the terror it entails. There is no Palestine. Palestinianism was an invention of the Soviet KGB in 1964. The KGB created the Palestine Liberation Army as a tool to diminish American influence in the Middle East. Their modus operandi was terrorism to popularize their ideas and destroy Israel. They recruited fighters from throughout MENA and called them ‘Palestinians’. The goal of Palestinianism remains the destruction of Israel.

Israel is the “Little Satan’” America is the “Great Satan”.

Those who believe we can who mollify radical Islam by promoting a two-state solution or “from the river to the sea” are engaging Jew-hatred, whether by ignorance or malice. | Len Bennett Ottawa, Canada