[A new South African book will be hitting the bookshelves this week by the Afrikaner cultural leader and academic Dr Dan Roodt: “The Scourge of the ANC – Afrikaner survival under black rule”. One can order it from http://www.praag.org Jan]

He writes from page 69:
“To outsiders, African politics is hard to fathom. In those countries where voting does take place, corrupt and inefficient governments would be returned to power for years, while the populace suffers their rule with fatalistic indifference. The cult of the big man, or the strong dictator such as a Robert Mugabe or a Mobutu Sese Seko, is commonplace. (African economist) Daniel Etounga-Manguelle’s statement that one must either be born dominant in Africa or attain power through a coup d’etat, certainly rings true when we cast our eyes around us, either northwards or at the ANC’s seemingly divine grip on power. Another explanation for the curious political behaviour of black Africans might be found in withcraft and superstition. It is arguable whether democracy can exist in societies where faith in spirits and supernatural powers influences voter belief. To cite Etounga-Manguelle once again on witchcraft and superstition in Africa,

“Witchcraft is both an instrument of social coercion (it helps maintain and perhaps even increase the loyalty of individuals toward the clan) and a very convenient political instrument to eliminate any opposition that might appear. Witchcraft is for us (Africans) a psychological refuge in which our ignorance finds its answers and our wildest fantasies become realities.”

Why so many black South Africans vote for the ANC is a mystery. A theory held by many — and which seems quite plausible — is that the notion of a secret ballot is contradicted by omnipresent supernatural beings who watch over the individual voter as he draws his cross on the ballot paper.

The underlying threat of violence and retribution against those black voters who would ‘betray’ it at the polls is clearly present in the ANC’s approach to electioneering. The real initimidation and violence practised by the ANC in the run-up to the fateful 1994 election have been replaced by more subtle forms of coercion and persuasion where withchard — the ancient supersititions of millions of unsophisticated voters believing there are eyes in the voting booth – becomes a useful ally for our modern racial nationalists.

While denouncing tribalism and African traditionalism, the ANC is not averse to invoking the aid of praise singers or sangomas when it suits them.”

Like other African liberation movements, the ANC subscribes to the principles of Frantz Fanon, the Martiniquan psychiatrist who is regularly quoted by party appparatchiks.

Fanon praised the role of witchcraft and zombies in unleashing violence against whites.”

While reciting the usual platitudes about democracy, the ANC has only temporarily ceased to foment violence against white South Africans, particularly Afrikaners. Apart from those instances where its leaders have literally chanted “kill a Boer, kill a farmer’ from public platforms, with represents a violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the ANC has practised a policy of laissez faire regarding ethnic murders, especially against farmers. In a Fanonesque enactment of decolonisation through extreme violence, more than 1,500 Afrikaner or Boer farmers have been murdered, tortured and massacred while thousands more have been raped and injured. One in eight (Afrikaner) farmers have been attacked in the last ten years, a staggering number.

While weakly calling for moral rearmament, the ANC has been turning a blind eye to this veritable genocide that has taken place during its rule, when not supplying moral and political justifications for such acts through constant hostile propaganda directed against the farmers themselves.

At the National Conference against Racism held in Sandton during November 2001, the ANC minsiter of culture Pallo Jordan defended farm murderers by likening them to “slaves getting away from their masters”.

The gangs of farm murderers roaming the countryside represent nothing less than ANC death squads tolerated and in some instances even abetted by the regime. These “Einsatsgruppen” (notorious nazi death squads during WWII who specialised in killing Jews, Gypsies and other ethnic undesirables) who rape, pillage and often torture their victims to death are the true face of ANC rule.”