Finally, Malema admitted!!
This is a book for you to read – if you think white South Africans started Apartheid, then you have it slightly wrong. It’s the British – read and know your history.
This is just a ‘bit’ of South African history. You can find more links on the Boer War on my blog. Please use the ‘search’ box to find the links – or visit the About page.
SPOKEN BY GREAT MEN
“Give me 20 divisions of American soldiers and I will breach Europe . Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin . Give me two divisions of those marvelous fighting Boers and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth.”
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allied forces during WWII.
“The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honor and glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians have no choice. The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it.”
American General, George “Guts and Glory” Patton
“Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern White Boer.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
From the Boer War Facebook page
From the Boer War Facebook page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-VGx9KHgkQ
Equally shocking as what happened in SA at the same time – and ‘somewhere else’ in the world – and still happening in ‘some’ places: America in the 1960’s – not allowing black children to be friends with white children. Children got arrested. No wonder ‘Apartheid’ was shouted all over the world. This is how the winds blew. We all knew it was becuase ‘they’ wanted to distract the attention away from themselves too.
Battles fought
The Battle of Spion Kop
War: The Boer War.
Date: 24th January 1900
Place: On the Tugela River in Northern Natal in South Africa.
Combatants: The British against the Boers.
Generals: General Sir Redvers Buller against General Botha
Size of the armies: 20,000 British troops against 8,000 Boers.
Automatic weapons were used by the British usually mounted on special carriages accompanying the cavalry.
Casualties: The British lost 1,500 casualties, 243 of them dead in the trench on the peak of Spion Kop. The Boers suffered 335 casualties.
Winner: The Boers.
britishbattles.com/great-boer-war/spion-kop.htm
The Battle of Ladysmith
War: The Boer War
Date: 29th October 1899.
Place: Northern Natal in South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Lieutenant General Sir George White against General Joubert.
Size of the armies: 5,500 British against 4,000 Boers.
Winner: The Boers.
German volunteers fighting for the Boers at Ladysmith
Image: britishbattles.com/great-boer-war/ladysmith.htm
The Battle of Stormberg
War: The Boer War
Date: 9th December 1899
Place: Stormberg Valley in Northern Cape Colony, South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers
Generals: Major General Sir William Gatacre against General Olivier.
Size of the armies: 3,000 British against 2,000 Boers.
Automatic weapons were used by the British usually mounted on special carriages accompanying the cavalry.
Casualties: British casualties were 90 men with the 600 captured by the Boers. Boer casualties were trivial and are unknown.
Winner: The Boers
The Battle of Magersfontein
War: The Boer War.
Date: 11th December 1899.
Place: 6 miles north east of the Modder River in the North West of Cape Colony, South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Major General Lord Methuen and General De la Rey.
Size of the armies: 8,000 British against 9,000 Boers.
Casualties: British casualties were 902. The Highland Brigade lost 53 officers and 650 soldiers, among them the brigade commander, Major General Wauchope, and 2 commanding officers killed. The commanding officer of the Gordons was also killed. Boer casualties were 236.
Winner: The Boers.
The Battle of Colenso
War: The Boer War.
Date: 15th December 1899
Place: Colenso on the Tugela River in Northern Natal, South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: General Sir Redvers Buller against General Botha.
Size of the armies: 16,000 British against 12,000 Boers.
Casualties: British casualties were 1,167 killed, wounded and captured. Boer losses were slight.
Winner: The Boers.
The Battle of Val Krantz and Pieters
War: The Boer War
Date: 5th February to 28th February 1900.
Place: The Tugela River, Northern Natal in South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Lieutenant General Sir Redvers Buller against General Botha.
Size of the armies: 20,000 British against between 4,000 to 8,000 Boers, as they returned to their commandos.
Casualties: This extended period of fighting cost the British around 3,000 casualties, 500 of them suffered by Hart’s brigade during the attack on Inniskilling Hill. The Boers probably suffered around 1,500 casualties.
The Battle of Paardenburg
War: The Boer War.
Date: 27th February 1900.
Place: North West of Cape Colony in South Africa on the border with the Orange Free State.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener against General Cronje.
Size of the armies: 15,000 British troops against 7,000 Boers
Casualties: British casualties were 1,270, the highest for any day in the war. Boer casualties in the fighting were negligible but some 4,500 surrendered with Cronje.
On the Wednesday Roberts made the decision to retreat. He was saved from what would have been the greatest humiliation of the war by De Wet’s withdrawal from the kopje and Cronje’s surrender the next day, transforming Paardeburg from disaster to triumph.
The Siege of Mafeking
War: The Boer War
Date: 14th October 1899 to 16th May 1900.
Place: Mafeking lies on the railway north to Rhodesia in the Northern tip of Cape Colony in South Africa near to the Bechuanaland border.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Colonel Robert Baden-Powell against General Cronje and from November 1899 General Snyman.
Size of the armies: 1,500 British colonial troops against initially7,500 Boers reduced in November 1899 to 1,500.
Winner: The British held out until relieved.
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The Siege of Ladysmith
War: The Boer War
Date: 2nd November 1899 to 27th February 1900.
Place: Ladysmith in northern Natal in South Africa.
Combatants: British against the Boers.
Generals: Lieutenant General Sir George White against Generals Joubert and Botha.
Size of the armies: 5,500 British troops against a varying number of Boers. From the end of the year 1899 the garrison outnumbered the besieging Boers.
Winner: The British under White held out until relieved by General Buller, but without great distinction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d-VGx9KHgkQ
A history to be proud of – till 1992
Racism – during the Anglo-Boer War – from the side of the English!? uh-oh…..see this link.
http://bobsbooksnz.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/when-empire-calls-by-ken-catran/
I love this entry:
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/04/05/rothschilds-british-concentration-camps-a-means-to-usurpdestroy-the-gold-standard-only-then-to-be-replaced-by-rothschilds-keynesian-economics-derivative-fiat-paper/
If you’re English, please take note: the word ‘Boer’ is not pronounced as ‘Boar’ like some dictionaries will tell you, but ‘oe’ in Boer = ‘oo’ like in school/put.
I have these two pages on my blog. The first link is loaded with other links and info + images+ art + poetry etc. The second link is a new link with more info, images etc. These two links will open in new windows. [unblock pop-ups if your pop-ups are blocked]
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/boer-war-art-poetry-and-history/
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/churchill-makes-me-smile/ – and did he not make me SMILE! My smile was really a broad smile, I can promise you. [lol]
Update: 10th February 2012: Steve Hofmeyr visited my blog last night and this page in particular. I’m glad I could ‘teach’ him something about the Afrikaner! This is what he said on Twitter. Thanks Steve for visiting my blog! I feel ‘honoured’ Only one thing: I’m not a ‘Sir’! [hehe] Dankie Steve vir jou kommentaar. Ek is bly jy kon iets hier op my blog vind wat ‘nuut’ vir jou was!
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Thomas Jefferson
“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool – shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple – teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep – wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise – follow him.”
“There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.” — Goethe
“The search for truth is never wrong. The only sin is to lack the courage to follow where truth leads.” — Duke
“He alone deserves to be remembered by his children who treasures up and preserves the memory of his fathers.” — Edmund Burke
http://www.saveyourheritage.com/history_of_south_africa.htm
South Africa. Other than Germany probably the most misunderstood White country in the world. A country that has now degenerated into anarchy. Let’s take an unbiased look at their noble history.
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Thomas Jefferson
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annetteduplessis/2695709310/in/photostream/ – Interesting link found – want to read later more.
Enjoy my favourite pieces of music – I just have them here for the moment – till I can move them somewhere else to my blog:
Elizabethan Serenade by Mantovani and his orchestra
The Mouth Organ boy – by Vicky Leandros
Laurika Rauch – The song of the trains
For a dancer – Jackson Browne
Angelle
Sleepy Time…by Angelle
Hennie Bekker…Tranquil Realms
Villa Rides
Hungarian Rhapsody no2.
The Clock Symphony in 101 in d by Waldo de los Rios
Toy Symphony by Waldo de los Rios
Beethoven Symphony no 6 in F opus 68 by Waldo de los Rios
The Wind beneath my wings – Bette Midler
Sea of Dreams..by Angelle
The following video is a stop-frame animation about the Boer War and the concentration camps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S0g0jFIm9n0
Prince Nikolay Georgievich Bagrationi of Georgia
This news article is about the Prince of Georgia who fought alongside the Boers in the British/South African war – the Anglo-Boer War. There is now a Boer War museum in Tbilisi, Georgia – to honour him. This news article is from ‘Die Burger’ – see the source link at the bottom of the entry. ‘Die Burger’ is a South African newspaper – based in Cape Town.
Oplaas hulde aan ‘Niko die Boer’
2012-03-31 02:23
Toe Nikolay Georgievich Bagrationi, die Georgiese prins van Tiflis (nou Tbilisi), einde 1901 uit krygsgevangenskap op die eiland St. Helena deur die Britse militêre vrygelaat is om na Georgië terug te keer, is hy as ’n held verwelkom. En tot vandag toe is sy bynaam, Niko Buri (Niko die Boer), ’n towerwoord in dié land.
Só het ’n joernalis van Landbouweekblad, Hugo Lochner, agtergekom toe hy die land onlangs besoek en heel toevallig gas was by die opening van ’n voorlopige Anglo-Boereoorlog-museum in Tbilisi, hoofstad van Georgië, hoofsaaklik gewy aan Niko die Boer. Die museum- gebou is die Mukhrani-paleis van die adellike Mukhrani- Bagrationi-familie, waarvan Nikolay lid was. Hy is in dié paleis gebore.
In die kommunisties-bolsjewistiese rewolusie, wat in 1917 begin het, het die gepeupel die paleis geplunder en verwoes sodat dit vandag net ’n murasie is. Die regering van Georgië gaan dit nou restoureer om as volwaardige museum en inligtingsentrum te dien. Die hoof- fokus sal op Niko die Boer en die Anglo-Boereoorlog wees.
’n Gedenkplaat met inskripsies in Georgies en Engels is met die samewerking van die Transvaalse Landbou-unie (TLU) aangebring. Dit lui: “Nico Bagrationi (Nico the Boer) was born and lived in this house. The memorial board was put up with the support of South African Boer farmers to honour the memory of Nico Bagrationi, Georgian patriot fighting for their freedom in 1899-1902.”
Die amptelike openingsplegtigheid op 5 November is gesamentlik behartig deur Georgië se minister van diaspora, Mirza (Papuna) Davitaia, en Bennie van Zyl, hoofbestuurder van die Transvaalse Landbou-unie.
Die ABO-uitstalling bestaan tans uit uitstalkaste van glas en staal waarin foto’s, dokumente en inligtingstukke gemonteer is. Dit vertel die verhaal van die Boere se heldhaftige stryd teen die Britse Ryk wat die twee Boererepublieke van Transvaal en die Oranje Vrijstaat aangeval en verower het. Daar is onder meer ook foto’s van Nikolay as krygsgevangene op St. Helena, asook van sy familie. Sy herinneringe, Niko Bagrationi with Boers, saamgestel deur sy vrou, Anna Buchkiashvili, is spesiaal vir die openingsgeleentheid in sagteband heruitgegee. Daarin word ook die verloop van sy kinderjare en opvoeding vertel.
Die Transvaalse Landbou-unie is tans baie betrokke by die vestiging van Afrikaanse boere in Georgië, waar ’n groot behoefte aan landboukundiges bestaan. Hulle word met ope arms verwelkom, want vir die mense van Georgië is dit baie betekenisvol dat Afrikaanse boere verwant is aan die Boere vir wie Niko die Boer uit bewondering gehelp veg het.
Piet Kemp, een van Suid-Afrika se topboere van Mpumalanga en voormalige streekbestuurder van die TLU, het hom reeds permanent in Georgië gevestig nadat politieke intriges, grond-eise, arbeidsprobleme, mynregte en besoedelde water hom uit sy land gedwing het.
Dit is interessant en betekenisvol dat juis die regering van Georgië die TLU verlede Mei gekontak het om kundige Afrikaanse landbouers te werf.
Nikolay is in 1868 gebore en het ’n Franse opvoeding ontvang omdat Frans destyds in Oos-Europa as die belangrikste wêreldtaal gereken is. Synde ’n lid van die adel is hy in 1881 as verteenwoordiger van Georgië na die kroning van tsaar Alexander III van Rusland genooi. (Georgië was toe deel van Rusland.)
In 1899 is hy na Frankryk om die Parys-wêreldskou by te woon. Hy wou daarna op safari in Noordoos-Afrika gaan om onder meer trofee-luiperds te skiet, toe hy in Egipte verneem dat die Anglo-Boereoorlog op hande was. Toe aan hom vertel is dat die Boere voortdurend in konflik met Brittanje verkeer omdat laasgenoemde hul land wil annekseer, het hy daar en dan besluit om per skip na Mosambiek te vaar en van daar per trein na Pretoria te reis. Hy wou die Boere help om die Britte, wat hy gehaat het, te keer. Hulle het voortdurend die Turke aangemoedig en bygestaan om Georgië te bedreig.
In Pretoria het hy hom by kommandant-generaal Piet Joubert aangemeld as vrywilliger. Joubert was diep beïndruk deur die besonder lang, donker vreemdeling met sy uitheemse, kleurryke kleredrag en beervelmus. Trouens, Nikolay het oral aandag getrek met sy tradisionele Georgiese kostuum soos deur die adel gedra. Joubert het hom daarop voorgestel aan pres. Paul Kruger en ander lede van die generale staf van die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, soos genls. Koos de la Rey en Piet Cronjé.
Kruger was verstom. Hy het nog nooit van Georgië gehoor nie, en hier was ’n prins in sy tradisionele drag in Pretoria om die Boere vir vryheid en reg te help veg.
Hulle het hom welkom geheet, en Joubert het dadelik gereël dat hy as offisier onder De la Rey ingedeel sou word. Toe hy wou vertrek, het die generaals hom om die beurt die hand gegee, maar Kruger het hom omhels en toe genooi om saam met hom na sy ampswoning te stap en saam met sy vrou, Gezina, koffie te drink.
Niko was Franssprekend, en toe hy verneem dat ’n Franse veteraan van die Krimoorlog, kol. Georges de Villebois-Marceuil, die bevelvoerder van die ZAR se Franse Korps was, het hy versoek om daarheen oorgeplaas te word. Die Fransman, wat alles van Georgië en sy adel geweet het, het Niko in sy korps verwelkom en aangestel as sy aide-de-camp (sekretaris te velde).
Niko, ’n uitstekende ruiter en skut, het hom vreesloos goed van sy taak gekwyt in verskeie gevegte teen die Britte. In die Slag van Abrahamskraal op 10?Maart 1900 was hy só dapper dat hy die bewondering van sy kamerade afgedwing het. En toe hy ’n proviand-wa, gelaai met kos en lekkernye, van die Britte kaap, het sy medestryders hom uitbundig op ’n kombers vasgedruk en soos op ’n trampolien daarmee in die lug gebons. Niko, ’n reus van oor die 2 m, wat 130 kg geweeg het, het hulle laat sweet.
Op 24 Maart 1900 het die Franse Korps besluit om ’n trein naby Kimberley, deur die Boere beleër, te kaap en die treinspoor te vernietig. Op 5 April het die voorhoede van die Britse ontsettingsmag onder bevel van lt.genl. Paul Sanford, lord Methuen, onverwags opgedaag en die stryd met die Franse Korps aangeknoop. Die meer as 700 Britte het die betreklik klein korps vasgekeer en verwoed met kanonne, gewere en bajonette aangeval. De Villebois-Marceuil is deur ’n bomskerf getref en is op slag dood. Niko is gevange geneem.
Methuen en die opperbevelvoerder van die Britse magte, genl. lord H.H. Kitchener, het baie in Niko belang gestel en hom ondervra. Toe Kitchener hom vra waarom hy, ’n Georgiese prins, teen die Britte in Suid-Afrika veg, was sy kordate antwoord: “Uit oortuiging.”
Hy het Kitchener daarvan beskuldig dat sy soldate die Geneefse konvensie oortree deur krygsgevangenes dood te skiet en dat hul onwettige veldtog teen die Boererepublieke deur ongekende wreedheid gekenmerk word.
Kitchener het gelas dat Niko as krygsgevangene na die eiland-tronk St. Helena gestuur word. Daar het Niko sy vernuf met perde aangewend om perdesport onder die Britte en Boere aan te moedig. Hy was ook ’n uitstekende skaakspeler en het ’n skaakstel met die hand uit hout gesny en aan die gevangenes se gemeenskapsentrum geskenk. Sy innemende geaardheid, sportmangees en grootmoedigheid het hom baie gewild by sy kamerade en hul Britse bewakers gemaak. Vir die Boere was hy hul held, en hy is met groot respek behandel.
Sy vrylating op 10 November 1901 is deur die Russiese diplomatieke diens bewerkstellig, maar hy moes self vir sy reis-koste per Engelse skip betaal. Hy moes die geld leen en kon dit eers terugbetaal nadat hy in Frankryk aangekom het en sy familie geld daarheen laat telegrafeer het. By sy terugkeer in Georgië het hy met sy vriende op St. Helena gekorrespondeer totdat ook hulle vrygelaat is.
Hy het in 1902 met Anna Buchkiashvili getrou. Die egpaar het ses kinders gehad, van wie twee jonk dood is.
Toe die rewolusie in 1917 uitbreek, het hy sy kinders na Frankryk gestuur. Hy en sy vrou het al hul besittings verloor en hul laaste dae in uiterste armoede geslyt. Gekleed in sy verslete tradisionele kostuum het hy sigarette op die dorpsplein verkoop om aan die lewe te bly.
Hy is in 1933 oorlede en in ’n onbekende graf begrawe – die kommuniste wou nie toelaat dat hy saam met sy voorsate in die dorpskerk ter ruste gelê word nie. Net die murasie van sy paleis het bly staan.
http://www.dieburger.com/By/Nuus/Oplaas-hulde-aan-Niko-die-Boer-20120330-2
New book published – the truth – Breaker Morant – NOT pardoned by the Queen, nor by the Australian Government!
http://www.beeld.com/Boeke/OnlangsVerskyn/n-Legende-ontmasker-20120603
Hierdie volgende artikel – link aan die einde van die artikel – laat mens ook goed nadink.
Verdien hulle plekname?
2012-03-10 00:13
Dit is veral Afrikaner- en Afrikaanse name wat in die visier is in die veldtog om plekname te verander. Misdadigers teen die mensdom word egter steeds hier met plekname gekoester, skryf Martiens van Bart.
Die name van Cecil John Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson en Alfred Milner is onlosmaaklik verbind met Brittanje se “Scramble for Africa” van die laat 1800’s en vroeë 1900’s. Met die ontdekking van diamante en goud in die Noordwes-Vrystaat en Transvaal het Brittanje alles in die stryd gewerp om dié rykdomme te verower. In die proses is een staatsgreeppoging en twee anneksasie-oorloë teen die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) van Transvaal gevoer. Dit het gelei tot ’n lewensverlies van duisende burgerlikes, onder wie 22 000 kinders.
Die rol van veral Milner, die Britse Ryk se hoofaanstigter van die verskroeide-aarde-oorlog van 1899 tot 1902, ook die Goudoorlog genoem, is oorbekend. Hy het ná die vredesluiting van 31 Mei 1902 voortgegaan om ’n koue oorlog teen die Afrikaners, hul taal en kultuur te voer. Tog is talle plekke en strate in die land na hom genoem. Hiervan is die voorstad Milnerton naby Kaapstad die bekendste.
Rhodes, Jameson, en die Britse minister van kolonies en oorlog, Joseph Chamberlain, kan saam gegroepeer word as die beplanners van die bloedige Anglo-Boereoorlog om die Witwatersrandse goudrif te verower. Rhodes het as diamantmakelaar en aandelespekulant sy fortuin op die diamantvelde van Kimberley gemaak. Met sy geld, gekoppel aan sy dinamiese persoonlikheid, ambisie en briljante verstand, kon hy invloed en mag koop. Hy het tot die politiek toegetree en premier van die Kaapkolonie geword. Toe kon hy sy planne om die goudskat van Transvaal te bekom, met die steun van die hoogs moontlike gesag in Londen in werking stel.
Die medikus Jameson, bekend as “Doctor Jim”, was Rhodes se vertroueling en handlanger.
Omdat die eerste Britse anneksasie van Transvaal kort ná die ontdekking van goud in Noordoos-Transvaal misluk het deurdat die Afrikaners die invallers met die Slag van Majuba in 1881 beslissend verslaan het, moes Rhodes versigtiger te werk gaan om die ZAR te verower. Hy, Chamberlain, Jameson en ander in gesagsposisies het met die Randse liberale kapitaliste saamgesweer om die regering van president Paul Kruger in ’n staatsgreep omver te werp.
Maar eers moes Transvaal geïsoleer word voordat dit vanuit die gebiede ten noorde en noordweste daarvan, Betsjoeanaland, Masjonaland en Matabeleland, binnegeval kon word.
In 1885 is Betsjoeanaland as protektoraat van Brittanje geannekseer en Jameson daar as administrateur aangestel.
Maar met Masjonaland en Matabeleland het dit ietwat moeiliker gegaan: Lobengula, seun van die Zoeloe-krygsman Mzilikazi, wat teen Shaka gerebelleer het, was in beheer van die landstreek. Sy krygslustige Matabeles het die vredeliewende Sjonas, die oorspronklike inwoners, onderdruk en oorheers. Lobengula was skrander, politiek uitgeslape en ingelig.
Rhodes, stigter en hoof van die magtige Chartered Company, het dus eers Britse sendelinge ingestuur om op Lobengula te spioeneer en hom geestelik en polities te bearbei. Terselfdertyd moes hulle die strategiese terrein van waar die ZAR binnegeval sou word, verken. Die tweede linie was sy sogenaamde goud- en diamantprospekteerders, inderdaad huur- soldate, wat toe na Lobengula gestuur is met die vroom belofte dat indien daar groot vondste gemaak sou word, hy en sy volk in die welvaart sou deel. Hy moes net ’n traktaat onderteken wat prospekteerregte aan die Chartered Company toeken. ’n Besending van 1?000 Martini-Henry-gewere en ammunisie, altyd gewild by Afrika-despote, is as omkoopgeskenk afgelewer. Lobengula was egter nie bereid om sy handslag op papier te plaas nie. Hy en sy indoenas het, heel korrek, vermoed dat die traktaat Brittanje die reg op anneksasie sou gee.
Rhodes moes nou ’n ander plan bedink. Een van die sendeling-spioene het gerapporteer dat Lobengula aan ernstige jig ly wat hom by tye groot pyn besorg het. “Doctor Jim” is toe na die Matabele-koning gestuur om hom te genees.
Die dokter het, soos Rhodes, ’n innemende persoonlikheid gehad waarmee hy ander se vertroue maklik gewen het. Hy besoek Lobengula as administrateur van Betsjoeanaland en vra uit na sy gesondheid. Lobengula kla oor die jig. Jameson bied aan om hom te genees; en toe Lobengula inwillig, spuit Jameson hom oor ’n tydperk van verskeie weke gereeld met dosisse morfien in. Dit was tydens hierdie “behandeling” dat Lobengula aan druk van Jameson toegee en die traktaat met die Chartered Company onderteken het. Dit is ’n mediese feit dat morfien die gebruiker se weerstand en goeie oordeel ernstig belemmer. En soos Lobengula vermoed het, was die traktaat só bewoord dat hy met die ondertekening daarvan sy hele koninkryk aan Brittanje afgestaan het.
Op 12 September 1890 is Rhodes se eie ontwerp van die Union Jack gehys en die grondgebied in die naam van Brittanje en die British South Africa Company geproklameer. Rhodes noem die landstreek na homself – Rhodesië – en stel Jameson as administrateur aan. (Van 1979 word dit Zimbabwe genoem.)
Het “Doctor Jim”, met die hulp van morfien, nie Lobengula se ryk bekom nie, sou Rhodes se alternatiewe plan in werking tree: ’n Huursoldaat, Frank Johnson, het met 500 man gereed gestaan om ’n moordaanslag op die koning se kraal, Gubulawayo, uit te voer. Sy beloning sou £150 000 en ’n plaas van 40 468 ha wees. Omdat die aanslag nie nodig was nie, het hy £87 000 as troosprys ontvang.
Drie jaar later besluit Jameson om Lobengula, wat heeltyd laag gelê het, tóg uit die weg te ruim. In Oktober 1893 val hy met sowat 700 huursoldate, gewapen met vyf Maxim-snelvuurkanonne, drie Gatling-masjiengewere en twee 7-ponder-veldkanonne, Lobengula se vesting aan die oewer van die Shangani-rivier aan. Meer as drieduisend Matabeles word afgemaai. Gewondes word een vir een doodgeskiet, en Gubulawayo word afgebrand. Lobengula kan die vernedering van gevangenskap en fusillering deur ’n Britse vuurpeloton nie aanvaar nie en pleeg selfmoord deur gif te drink.
Van die Matabeles se 300 000 gebuite beeste is 40 000 onder Lobengula se Sjona-teenstanders uitgedeel. Jameson en sy bende het die res vir hulle gevat.
In 1896 kom die inheemse bevolking, ook die Sjonas, in opstand teen die Chartered Company, wat hulle as slawe misbruik. Die rebellie word met die hulp van ingevoerde Britse soldate, onder wie kol. Robert Baden-Powell, bloedig onderdruk. Rhodes se opdrag was ondubbelsinnig: Doen die meeste skade aan die swart mense wat julle kan doen. Maak elkeen binne bereik dood, en betoon geen genade nie; ook nie aan diegene wat wil oorgee nie.
Toe die uitgerekte slagting oplaas verby was en alle tekens van ’n opstand onderdruk, het Rhodes die oorlewende leiers laat vang en aan die takke van ’n groot msasa-boom (Brachystegia spiciformis) in Harare laat ophang. (Op 4 Desember verlede jaar het dié boom, sowat 200?jaar oud, omgeval toe ’n vragwa daarteen gebots het. Dit was een van Zimbabwe se nasionale gedenkwaardighede en is in 1996 op ’n eeu-herdenkingsposseël afgebeeld.)
In sy bloedbad-euforie steek Jameson op 29 Desember 1895 die Transvaalse grens met ’n swaar gewapende invalsmag van 567 huursoldate oor. Hy wil, in opdrag van Rhodes en Chamberlain, die ZAR van pres. Paul Kruger tot ’n val bring.
Op Nuwejaarsdag en 2 Januarie keer kommando’s van Rustenburg, Krugersdorp en Potchefstroom die invalsmag by Doornkop, op die plaas Vlakfontein, Roodepoort-Suid, vas en dwing hulle tot oorgawe.
In die daaropvolgende hofsaak in Pretoria is Rhodes, Jameson en 64 kapitaliste aan die onwettige inval skuldig bevind. Rhodes moes sy premierspos bedank. Daarna is Jameson en 14 van sy offisiere na Londen gestuur om (ligweg) gestraf te word.
Jameson, wat tronkstraf kry, word glo siek, word in die tronkhospitaal behandel en enkele weke later vrygelaat – ’n oëverblindende diplomatieke spel om Chamberlain en sy regering te beskerm.
Kort daarna annekseer die Britte die grondgebied Zimbaansland aan die Transvaalse oosgrens en bekom Swaziland as protektoraat. Die omsingeling van Transvaal is voltooi. Britse soldate word toe al langs die grense van die ZAR ontplooi, en die Transvalers word gedwing om tot die dood toe vir hul vryheid en reg te veg. Die koste aan lewens is enorm.
Onder die Boere-generaals wat die Britte teengestaan het, was J.B.M. Hertzog en Jan Smuts – dapper stryders wie se name nou op die Stad Kaapstad se naamskraplys voorkom. Dié van Rhodes, Milner en Jameson word egter nie oorweeg om geskrap te word nie.
Cecil John Rhodes’s Officials enjoying the scene of their ‘hard work’ in Harare, Zimbabwe by the msasa-tree (Brachystegia spiciformis) where they hanged indigenous tribe leaders.Cecil John Rhodes (links) en Lobengula, die Matabele-koning.
Cecil John Rhodes – the architect of apartheid – see this news article:
During the brutal scramble for Africa and Africa’s resources such as diamonds and lands, at least two million Africans were killed in the scramble for ivory tusks for piano keys and billiard balls. At the time, the center of the ivory trade was Connecticut.
80% of the Nama and Herero peoples of Namibia were murdered in cold blood by the Germans. They were killed and forced to the desert where they were left to die in the desert without food, water or shelter.
Germany till date has never recognized this genocide or paid reparations even as they have paid billions in reparations to Israel for the Holocaust.
But Germany’s crime in Africa is not what we want to talk about here.
During this same time of Germany’s massacre in Namibia, the British colonizer Cecil Rhodes came to southern Africa. He believed so much in British imperialism and promoted it. He is credited for saying “to prevent civil war you must become an imperialist.”
Cecil Rhodes was a British man responsible for untold, unending devastation and violence in the region of South Africa.
His goal was to install British imperialism from Cape Town to Cairo and built the Cape-Cairo railway.
Cecil Rhodes was a perpetrator of genocide, who was responsible for the displacement of millions of African people for the benefit of white settlers. He was instrumental in the enslavement of millions of African people on their own land.
He is part of the legacy of white people who came from Europe and became wealthy from the theft of the gold and diamonds in Southern Africa.
Rhodes founded the popular DeBeers diamond cartel. He left Britain for South Africa when he was only but 18 years old. He took over the diamond mines at Kimberley South Africa and others in the area. By his early 20s, he was already millionaire but he did not retire.
He made fortunes off the sweat of the indigenous nations and tribes of Southern Africa. At that young age, he believed in subjugating Africa for the benefit of England.
Maybe he was born with this kind of hate, or just like other Europeans, he had the hunger to see Africa blood flow.
He was the architect of apartheid in South Africa. Rhodes explicitly believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was a master race. This ideology drove him to not only steal approximately one million miles of South African land but also to facilitate the murder of hundreds of thousands of black South Africans. Many accounts actually number his victims in their millions.
He established the paramilitary private army, the British South-Africa Company’s Police (BSACP). That army was responsible for the systematic murder of ten to hundreds of thousands of the native people of present-day South Africa.
His hateful amendment of the Masters and Servants Act (1890) reintroduced conditions of torture for native and indigenous laborers. His monstrous racist “land grabs” set up a system in which the unlawful and illegitimate acquisition of land through armed force was routine for white people.
Rhodes founded the popular DeBeers diamond cartel. He left Britain for South Africa when he was only but 18 years old. He took over the diamond mines at Kimberley South Africa and others in the area. By his early 20s, he was already millionaire but he did not retire.
He made fortunes off the sweat of the indigenous nations and tribes of Southern Africa. At that young age, he believed in subjugating Africa for the benefit of England.
Maybe he was born with this kind of hate, or just like other Europeans, he had the hunger to see Africa blood flow.
He was the architect of apartheid in South Africa. Rhodes explicitly believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was a master race. This ideology drove him to not only steal approximately one million miles of South African land but also to facilitate the murder of hundreds of thousands of black South Africans. Many accounts actually number his victims in their millions.
He established the paramilitary private army, the British South-Africa Company’s Police (BSACP). That army was responsible for the systematic murder of ten to hundreds of thousands of the native people of present-day South Africa.
His hateful amendment of the Masters and Servants Act (1890) reintroduced conditions of torture for native and indigenous laborers. His monstrous racist “land grabs” set up a system in which the unlawful and illegitimate acquisition of land through armed force was routine for white people.
Cecil Rhodes, gay lover, said he, “thoroughly enjoyed the outing.” He saw the slaughter of over 5,000 Africans as sport and adventure.
How noble!!! These were the same people who brought the gospel of peace and love to Africa, through missionaries.
The Chokwe, Shona, and Zulu people were among the indigenous tribes who led powerful struggles against the European invasions.
Cecil Rhodes was known to help set up the apartheid system in South Africa and the pass laws which were based on the Jim Crow laws of the United States. The pass laws, were mainly colonial taxation of African people to force them to work to be used as near slave labor in the diamond mines.
The Africans who worked in his diamond mines were forced to stay away from family and wife, in compounds with only cold tea and bread. These are much the same conditions you find today in the various mines in Africa. When Cecil Rhodes died the DeBeers diamond cartel was taken over by the Oppenheimer family.
The atrocities that took place in Sierra Leone and other West African nations were what DeBeers itself has done to African people for a hundred years. The greed and gluttony of European governments and corporations for Africa’s resources have lasted from the days before colonization, till today.
His vision was part of the British empire’s vision, on which they boasted that “the sun never set” because their empire went around the world. The then British empire included 77 countries including India and 15 nations in Africa. 458 million people were oppressed under this empire.
It is accounted that one-quarter of the world’s population at that time was under British colonialism. At that time England had one of the highest standards of living, which they achieved through near starvation of the people in Africa, India, and the other colonies.
People like Cecil John Rhodes should not be celebrated by the Europeans the way he is celebrated today, except the present generation are directly endorsing his atrocities in Africa.
Chessalee 
Thanks for a great blog, especially the poetry section!
A new interpretation of the Siener visions predicts that,
after the collapse of the SA & ZIM governments, we will be
invaded by a foreign power (UK?, UN?)!
It is against THEM that the SA Nation will fight their final
liberation struggle, see more at:
[www].sienervanrensburg.co.za
Hi Fransie, Welcome at my blog and tks for visiting/message. I’ve seen that link before, thank you, the forum is quite interesting reading too. [My spamfilter normally responds to links as spam, but I allowed this one through as an inactive link. Anyone who wants to follow it, can copy/paste it in their browser]
Hi Nikita, I’ve used a nickname for you, for one of my characters in my book about the Voortrekkers. My book’s first 3 chapters have been finalized and are now being translated into English and Russian. But since I aim for a book with 10 chapters, there’s a lot more to write.
I hope to be finished by coming December with another 2 chapters ~ and then the last 5 still remain. It took me 3 years so far. Because research involves 75% of my time
Kind regards
Clive
hi Clive!
You said, you have used a nickname for me, one of your characters? I’m not sure if I understand what you mean. You wrote me into one of your stories. You gave me a nickname. haha… that sounds interesting. So, what type of character am I? [should be interesting]. I would like to know more about ‘me’, maybe you can shed light on myself lol…. ok, let me be more serious. Tell me more about this ‘character’ 🙂 Will I also get a copy of the book with myself as a character? I hope I’m not a ‘baddie’ in this book! 🙂
No, Nikita, not at all. I am sure you’ll love the explanation of your nickname in the story. Quite a character she is. She has a strong character, she is very supportive of her husband’s dreams, very loyal to her family and mindful of the people around her and she loves her dogs. And she grew up in the Hantam.
I got the nickname, and I assumed it referred to you, from a comment to you by one of the people that corresponded via your website, with you. He (she?) referred to you by this name.
Hi Clive! Ok, you have me curious ENOUGH…spill the beans, co’mon! why not telling me the name! sounds interesting! well, I love dogs too. I haven’t been to the Hantam – will love to go there..but grew up in Mpumalanga. Loyalty is my second name lol – strong character – that is for you to decide 🙂 So…what is the name,,,again?
I am busy (albeit at a snail’s pace) to investigate which method of publishing my book would be the best ~ a) the traditional publisher or b) the more popular e-book method.
The problem with the publishers are they take forever to decide or return an answer be it jay or nay, we are interested or no we are not interested, to publish your story. I’ve heard so many horror stories of the authors receiving only 8 to 10% of the final selling price that it becomes a joke to have a book published if you are a first timer, like me. So it appears that the e-book system may be the winner in the end. We’ll see what what answers the future may have. Once the book is available on the open market, well, then everybody is free to purchase it. But I am sure you’ll be very satisfied with your namesake. She is a woman well respected in her community and is a pillar of strength to all those around her including her 2nd oldest son who is soon to be married. Remember in those days it was quite acceptable for girls having reached the age of 16, to be married and start a family.
Yes, a boy is regarded as a man and he is given a farm or two as a birthday present on becoming sixteen years of age. The whole family will then pitch in to build a pioneer cottage that was quite comfortable to live in for the first few years of the marriage and as time progressed and the family grew, a more permanent dwelling with larger rooms and a big kitchen can be built a short distance away from the pioneer cottage.
hi Clive…but you haven’t told me the NAME of this character! You said someone on my blog has addressed me on the name…
OK Nikita, I won’t keep you in suspense any longer. The name…… that was used was…. Moonchild, or perhaps the Afrikaans version thereof Maankind. I can’t remember exactly which of the two were used. Most probably Moonchild. Be it as it may, it caught my attention and I gave the character in my story this name as a “troetelnaampie” (name of endearment she received from her father), when she was still a child in the Hantam district. And she remembered how her father would tell her about the two typical Afrikaner dog types he was fond of breeding, namely the one with the long nose for far away patrolling and the other type for close-up protection and how proud he was when explaining the virtues of each of these dogs. There was a stage when a man offered to give him a wagon and a team of oxen in exchange for a breeding pair for each of these two types, because these dogs were extremely scarce. But typical gentleman that he was, he refused. But of course this Boere lady we spoke of, is spoken of by her baptized name in the story, and not by the special name her father gave her.
The name Moonchild she received because as a child she was very fond to go and sit on the lawn in front of her parents’ house on occasional bright, moonlit nights. And stare up in wonder at the stars in the sky and she could identify the sound of the Barn Owls coming from the barn a short distance from the house. She felt comforted by the knowledge that even King David of old, found a peace and comfort in the firmament above him and wrote about it, in one of his Psalms.
Hi Clive! At last! lol….Maankind is one of many blogreaders and she also blogs herself too. She will be impressed to know you’re using her nickname in your book. 🙂 Sounds interesting – the book. [PS I know what you’re talking about when it comes to Publishers! I’m still waiting – after 1 year – for a publisher to send me a copy of a book where they included my translated version of the poem by Eugene Marais: The Dance of the Rain – it’s been included in a Reading Series for Gr6. They promised me last week to mail me the book this week.]
Now I am interested. Do you have Maankind’s blog website?
Die dans van die reen? Do you refer to Mabalel with the golden rings, or is it the approaching storm? I have a section in my book describing the approach of a typical storm with its “castle-clouds” in the sky and the dance of the wind before a hailstorm hits the sheep flock, while on trek. I would be interesting to read through the original version (the Afrikaans one) ~ I may just tickle some ideas out of it, although I am always very careful NOT to copy as I strictly guard myself against plagiarism ~ which I absolutely abhor.
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/the-dance-of-the-rain/
Hi Clive – maankind = http://maankind.wordpress.com and here is the link too to the poem in Afrikaans/English. Enjoy!
Hello Nikita. I was a visitor of your nice blog a few years ago, and landed her now via someone elses reference to this page. Beautiful work you are doing.
I just want to inform you of this link on top of this page, leading to a dead end:
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/churchill-makes-me-smile/
Only show ‘404 not found.’ . Maybe you moved the file to another directory?
Keep up the good work.
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/churchill-makes-me-smile/
Hi Andry!
Tks for the kind message, I think I must have moved it and will correct the error, here is the actual link, thank you, once again!
Sooo great to see some truth said, wish the right people would actualy pay attention. Thnx
hi 2soon2world!
Welcome to my blog, thanks for stopping by and leaving a msg.
Thank you to Steve Hofmeyr for comments on Twitter – I’ve uploaded his Twitter message. Dankie Steve vir jou kommentaar. Ek voel ge-eerd dat jy hier op my blog was!
This is the Twitter-image I’ve uploaded in this entry.
Thank you for opening peoples eyes on this subject.
hi Roelof
Welcome to my blog and thanks for your message. Somebody needs to do this – the more the better.
Great article, thank you. Is it correct to assume the book is still not published or where can I get a copy?
Hi Hennie, Thank you! Welcome to my blog. The book is a text book for schools in the UK, so you will be able to order a copy – try Amazon.co.uk – and it’s quite ‘current’
Thank you Nikita
It’s currently out of stock, but I asked to be notified when it becomes available. When I read about the issues the author had to get the book published, I fail to see why he never considered publishing it online? Even in pdf format I would have jumped at the opportunity to purchase it at the (published) retail price, which also means the author could reach a much larger audience, without the expenses of publishing.
I’m sure he’s got his reasons, but even it could also be sold on Amazon in a downloadable format?
Thank you Nikita
It’s currently out of stock, but I asked to be notified when it becomes available.
I fail to understand why it’s not available as a download or on the author’s personal website?
hi Hennie
I think it is because it’s just an ordinary text book, covering a variety of topics and one chapter is about Mandela – etc. etc. If I were this author, I wouldn’t do it too, not worth all the money etc to do it as it’s not a biography/autobiography or topic book. SORRY! I’m thinking about another book. Yes, you’re right, but then again…money etc. will be an issue.
PS: your first comment was in my Spam box..I ‘approved’ it, that’s why it shows here. 🙂
Just reading here on page 95 something: ‘Black schools remained centres of anti-government activity – if they stayed open, that is. Many pupils believed that, despite increased government spending on education, they were still getting a poor deal and refused to attend school at all.” – HE DOESn’t say ANYTHING about them BURNING text books and demolishing schools!! Poor man
Thank You Dankie ! This was such a great experience to read you view of our Afrikaners!
Hi Elmarie – ‘toevallig’ IS ek ‘n Afrikaner!! hehe
Ek blog in Engels om die ONINGELIGTES in te lig, anders HOE ANDERS!!!! my bloed is DIK EN DUN AFRIKAANS!!! Hoe kan jy mense laat verstaan wat die waarheid is as hulle NIE jou TAAL verstaan nie!!!
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/churchill-makes-me-smile/
Hier’s nog ‘n link! – another link
Hi Nikita.
I shared the article on my Facebook page. Peeved off some Brits and Dutchmen(the real ones in Holland) Nobody likes the truth!
haha!! I can imagine!! I would love to see the page, would love to give them another ‘go’ hehe
https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/boer-war-art-poetry-and-history/
This link will make them BOIL! hehe
Hi Nikita,
I am glad to say that the family I am writing about in the Great Trek has finally crossed the Orange River, after a month’s delay bevause of the slowness of rafting all their possessions across. They are an ordinary family that formed part of the 15 000 people that left the Eastern Cape in drips and drabs to amalgamate at Blesberg.
Yes I am curious to think what the English and the Dutch have in their minds about the Afrikaners. Very little I assume, except the political prescribed info of that time. But al the same many people have expressed a great interest in my book especially now that a book has come about on the market that rubbishes the people of the Great Trek. So much so that some commuity leaders actually burnt that book in public, expressing their outrage.
We live in interesting times and I’ll keep you posted on how the family in my book progresses.
Kind regards
Clive
fantastic blog, its good to come across this, it puts a new spark in the heart of this Afrikaner in New Zealand, fighting all the way for our people and for truth
Boere groette
Hi Boer of Natalia!
Welcome and thank you for your message. Great to year more people fighting for the truth, which is hard for ‘some’ people to swallow. 🙂 Boere Groete vir jou ook!
I was brought up in South Africa and that beautiful country will always be part of me. I learned all about die voortekkers en piet retief at school and I feel saddened by what I have stumbled on today, that in our politically correct world true history has been lost. Please would you send me details of your book.
Hi Samantha
Thank you for your visit and your message. I feel the same as you. Was brought up in SA and love our country. Yes, VERY sad, isn’t it? I’m not sure what book you’re referring to. I’m the blog-owner, not a writer of any book. Book/s in this entry was[were] written by someone else. I think authors are available – let me know if you can’t find via a search – Amazon should be of great help if you insert a title etc.
Ek soek dringend ‘n dvd ivm geloftedag. Ek wil vir kinders dit wys. Help asb. dankie Smittie
Hi Smittie, Welkom op my blog. Het jy al ‘n internet search gedoen? Ek self is nie nou op die oomblik op hoogte van dvd’s oor ons geskiedenis nie, my tyd is ongelukkig beperk met studies en werk. Jammer, ek hoop ‘n leser wat hier lees sal kan help! Op youtube is daar ook videos oor Bloedrivier, het jy al daarna gekyk?
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