While 1989 was the annus mirabilis with the fall of communism and the Soviet Union, 1994 was also a seminal year in the advancement of peace and freedom. Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin Accords. Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty. Republicans swept both houses of Congress for the first time in forty years, pushing back on the Democratic Party’s left-wing lurch.
And Frederik Willem de Klerk, the last white president of South Africa, ushered in the end of Apartheid in the former British Colony of South Africa. Nelson Mandela, the civil rights activist arrested for standing up to Apartheid, was swept into power along with the African National Congress. This was a long turnaround from the years of persecution and discrimination, including the 1976 Soweto uprising, when a grieving man carried a dead child, who had protested compulsory Afrikaans taught in the predominantly black schools.
It seemed like the racist wrongs had been righted, and life and society would get back to normal in South Africa. White and black (and colored, there are mixed-race South Africans, too) would live in peace, and there would be no further threats to the natural order. But that was not to be, for the cancer of the reverse racism which defines South Africa was waiting to burst and metastasize.
In the 1989 movie “A Dry White Season,” starring the impeccable Donald Sutherland as Ben du Toit, a South African teacher, we witness a small number of white South Africans fighting to end Apartheid. The movie follows the murder of a black South African who participated in the Soweto uprising. Sutherland wants to expose the brutality of the apartheid regime, and he works with an American reporter (played by Susan Sarandon). Brando plays a South African attorney who tries to get justice for the black South African murdered by the apartheid police. They get the story to the public, right before an Afrikaner police officer kills Ben du Toit. In righteous retaliation, a black South African, and friend of de Toit, shoots the police officer. Five years after the movie, Apartheid ended in South Africa.
The one scene that stands out in this movie, though, focuses on a tense exchange between du Toit and his wife. She confronts him over his efforts to expose the evils of Apartheid and end the regime. “What will they [black South Africans] do to us when they become free?” she asks him pointedly. It was a cynical question, since we should all desire that citizens in every country enjoy natural rights free from invidious discrimination. But that fearful question has received a frightening answer in today’s South Africa.
The persecuted have become the persecutors. White supremacy under Apartheid has been replaced with Black Supremacy, and the ruling African National Congress has embraced genocide against the remaining white farmers. This crisis hits close to me, since one of my relatives is an Afrikaner, though he was not deliberately targeted before he came to the United States.
The current government, under the perverse leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa, has called for full expropriation of white farmers’ land to pay for the “wrongdoings” of their ancestors. This is the first step towards the full extermination of a people. Other forms of racism have cropped up around the country, which I have documented here.
White farmers are systematically targeted by black supremacists throughout the country. The most prominent instigator is Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party. In typical Marxist fashion, he does not advocate for freedom, but rather theft from those who have to give to those who have not. The videos of his vile, genocidal chants have been broadcast around the world: “Shoot to kill! Kill the Boer! The farmer! Brrrrr Pow! Pow!” The frenzied chant galvanizes crowds of black supremacist South Africans around the country, and they have followed through on his exhortation.
Corporate media and academia have largely ignored or downplayed these chants. This silence is telling in all its gaslighting atrocity. They point to moments in which Malema ‘hesitates’ in his call for genocide. Consider his remarks at this rally: “We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people at least for now (emphasis mine). What we are calling for is for peaceful occupation of the land.” A lawyer confronted Malema about his genocidal bigotry, but he refused to stop calling for the slaughter of white people. Imagine if a white or colored South African talked about wiping out black people?!
Some may counter that President Ramaphosa is not responsible for Malema’s rhetoric, since he’s not part of the current governing coalition in Pretoria. Thankfully, the racist ANC lost the majority for the first time in thirty years, and they were forced to join with center-right, more white-leaning political parties in the country. But Rhamaposa has called for land expropriation, as well! He is not guiltless.
Thankfully, more people around the world cannot ignore this genocide. President Donald Trump confronted the black supremacist regime of South Africa cogently and assiduously. I must admit: I did not vote for this, only because I never anticipated any Western head of state summoning the courage to confront this scandal. I cried watching President Trump confront the arrogant Ramaphosa to his face, before the whole world. It was a welcome sight to see black heads of state in South Africa hide their faces or hang their heads in shame as Trump and his staff related one tragic story after another. Memes have abounded with Ramaphosa’s shocked face.
That White House confrontation is another transformative moment, in which the Marxist ravaging of Critical Race Theory and South Africa’s reverse discrimination were demolished before the entire world. The corrupt media class, which has worked hard to cover up the white genocide because of their attachment to the cult of intersectionality, was also duly put to shame that day. I have waited for a head of state to confront this vile bigotry, and Trump got it done.