Thursday, April 3, 2014

Nelson Mandela and That Song

Harry Booyens emails:

Robert,

This is a belated and long response to the posting of the following article, which I discovered today:

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/12/video-nelson-mandela-sings-kill-whites.html

I should like to address two issues related to the video in question. It will
take some effort, so please indulge the length of this e-mail. The truth about South Africa has been so badly abused for so long, that three lines in an e-mail will not suffice.

1. The term "AmaBhulu" (sometimes written AmaBulu)

In the language of the Coastal Nguni black people of South Africa, the prefix "ama-" is best translated as "the people of..." or "the .....(insert a term)  people". So, for example, the Xhosa people would be described in their own language of isiXhosa as being the amaXhosa and the Zulus would be the amaZulu.

The term amaBhulu itself has an interesting origin:

The Dutch word for farmer is "boer". In fact,  I have it on record in an American Journal that a British officer referred to some difficult farmers in upstate New York as "Boers" in the late 1600s (using the unfortunate plural "s", so typical of English as language). That should come as no surprise, because my 100% South African family has an American ancestor (Sterrevelt) from 1660 New York. The family name is still active in the USA.

The first white people the amaXhosa came into contact with overland in 1702, a full fifty years after the settling of the Cape of Good Hope, were the Dutch. In fact it was hunting party led by my own "not entirely savoury" ancestor. The folks who settled the frontier region, some 500-600 miles east of Cape Town, referred to themselves as "boere" or "boeren", the plural of "boer" in Dutch. The amaXhosa could not pronounce  the "r" in "boere". As with some Eastern peoples, they automatically replaced the "r" with an "l".

In Dutch the sound of "oe" is the same as "oo" in "loot" in English. "Boere" ( to the American English ear) becomes "boo-ruh" with two very distinct sylables.

Since the amaXhosa did not have a written language, their phonetic attempt at "boo-ruh" became (to the American English ear) "boo loo". Today, in written amaXhosa, it would be written as "Bhulu". Putting the prefix in front, you get the "Boo-loo" people, the amaBhulu!!!

And  so arose the term for white men in the world of the amaXhosa, the only whites they knew being Dutch (now Afrikaans) farmers, practically to a man.

Please let no person attempt to mislead you as to what that song means. It really does mean "We have resolved to Kill (Bulala)  the whites (amaBhulu)" I keep seeing folks, usually of a far left leaning, desperately flail about, trying to attach other meanings, usually more subtle, to the term. Please be assured, they are trying to deflect the mirror of reality off its proper target.

The ruling ANC has been singing that song for years, and, in response, more than 3,000 white farmers have been horribly slaughtered, very often tortured to death for amusement.  The government tries to hide the murder statistic among the remaining 40,000 white farmers within the stats of the 40M black people. That dilutes the impact by a factor 1,000 and fools gullible Americans and the Media. They defend that obfuscation by claiming that showing the stats for farmers separately would make a white life seem more valuable than a black life. The Media indulges them. I suspect hell will freeeze over before the The New York Times will report it properly, and then they would preface the report witrh something about Apartheid from 25 years ago, apparently seeking thereby to justify the torture.

2. Nelson Mandela in the video itself

That video was taken more or less at the time of the ending of the ANC's so-called "Armed struggle" (no-one ever noticed they had one; they generally just bombed white women and children - there were no straight fights ever that anyone knows of).

The white man in the clip with Mandela is Ronnie Kasrils, a devout Communist of Lithuanian Jewish extraction (a proper Cold War relic). The particular ethnic community formed the core of the SA Communist Party think tank. He was then the "Military Leader" of Umkhonto we Sizwe, "Spear of the Nation" (MK).  He was trained by the Soviet Union to the level of Brigadier. I note that more recently he has avoided stating that so proudly on his résumé. He could hardly be considered a classic member of the AmaBhulu. He is as representative of White South Africans as Bill Ayers is of Americans. In a word, he joined what Reagan  called the "Evil Empire".

As for the words at 1:20 in the clip "Amaaaaaaandla!" means "Power!". The second word is garbled. I cannot make it out.

Mandela was not just "associated" with MK... HE WAS THE CREATOR and first LEADER of it. He fought the old guard leaders of the ANC at the time ( early 60s) to convince them of the need for armed action. He provides the whole story in his own book, Long Walk to Freedom, but Americans generally perefer not to read it, and simply just assume he was an Angel of Peace. On page 323 of that book he states emphatically: "The Congesses authorized me to go ahead and form a new military organization, separate of the ANC." So was born MK. Page 325: "...we formed the High Command with myself as Chairman". So much for the "man of peace" garbage. He claims one of the men who had given him clearance to start the effort was Albert Luthuli, who was some months LATER in 1960...repeat LATER....given the Nobel Peace Prize. Page 362: "I had arranged to receive six months of training in Addis Abbeba" (Ethiopia)..."I was taught about demolition and mortar-firing and I learnt how to make small bombs and mines....".

Mandela was sentenced to life in jail (1964) for planning with his friends an armed revolution titled Operation Mayibuye. It called for the seaborne landing of insurgents at several points, including my birthtown of Port Elizabeth. They had this down to exact volume and weight requirements of munitions. In court they would try to sketch it as no more than a theory and actually managed to convince the judge. However, as their own later books reveal, they nearly beat up some of their number in jail for NOT taking it seriously. Please do not be misled.

Their Defense lawyer in that trial, Bram Fischer, was actually a co-conspirator and eventually fled the country. Unbeknown to the court , Fischer had actually written some of the documents serving as evidence!! The famous speech by Mandela at the end of the trial, was NOT TESTIMONY. The trial lawyers kept him from testifying, otherwise he would have died at the end of a rope, as would have some of the others. The same would have happened in the USA of the time. However, South Africa's famous Roman Dutch Law allowed him the opportunity to address the court NOT IN TESTIMONY. And so was born his 4 hour speech...which WAS NOT TESTIMONY!

When President PW Botha offered Mandela freedom in exchange for swearing off violence in 1985, he refused. The ANC promptly followed that up with a massively scaled up bombing campaign and turned specifcally and pointedly to bombing civilians. Over that period they bombed my mother's apartment complex near Durban killing white women and children. At the same time the Soviets ramped up their effort in nearby Angola. The CIA did not miss this turning point and George Bush senior himself ended up listing the ANC as a terrorist organization, which it in essence still is today. It behaves no different from before and now (2014) threatens to "complete its revolution after the next election" in April. They have also tried to rename the street past my mother's old apartment building after the convicted and hanged bomber, Andrew Zondo. They HAVE appointed as Police Commissioner the very man who bombed the Magoo's Bar in Durban killing several white girls.  The man who launched the attack with nail-spiked grenades on a Cape Town church in which many people in the congragation were killed is now a member of Parliament!

If you want to know the REAL story of South Africa, complete with all the evidence you could ever pray for or dream of, I suggest to you a copy of my book AmaBhulu - The Birth and Death of the Second America. It will also show you how 9/11 is connected to all the 1970s-1980s events around South Africa. Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter did not have the wherewithal to put this picture together, but Ronald Reagan and Bush Senior did. Unfortunately, they were undone by a hostile Congress. And that is how Reagan became the first president in 20th century US history to have his veto on a Foreign Policy matter overridden by a completely misled Congress.  Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa followed, and the rest is history for which the US will eventually have to answer. Reagan knew the truth. So did Bush Senior. Much good that did in a USA where facts counted for zero.

The book will also clarify the matter of the supposedly "stolen land" and "the forced movement of native blacks off their land by Dutch farmers".  The origin and founding of the SA Communist Party  is also in there.  Readers  might be surprised at its American connection. As always in the book, if I make a statement, I provide the evidence -- I'm a scientist.

Harry Booyens holds a Ph D in Physics from The University of Port Elizabeth.  Originally from South Africa, he now lives with his family outside of Vancouver, Canada.


7 comments:

  1. I appreciate this post Harry.

    So that I understand better, could you clarify that the actual translation of amaBulu(or Bhulu) is "farmer people"?

    If I understand your point correctly, you are saying the translation means they would be necessity be white because as you put it: "the only whites they knew being Dutch (now Afrikaans) farmers, practically to a man."-even though the literal translation seems to be "farmer people", correct?

    I am definitely interested in your book. Would you mind giving us a brief rundown on the distortion involved with the claim of "stolen land" and "the forced movement of native blacks off their land by Dutch farmers".

    In other words, how did the Dutch farmers originally acquire the land?

    Thanks again for your contribution to the topic!

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    1. Nick,

      I need to be able to show maps to answer the second question properly. Without those, it will lead to bad misunderstanding.

      In brief, there IS an argument for "land restitution", and land WAS unfairly taken from some black communities in SA. BUT, there is no such thing as "the whites took South Africa from the blacks". There were also no "Trails of Tears" or "Great Marches" or massacre-based land theft or any such stuff. Folks WERE indeed moved off land and resettled; but it was never a Cherokee national experience, for example. So, the American experience simply does not apply.

      HOWEVER, the PRESENT process is an out and out effort by the ANC to "drive whites from the land". But, when literally 90% of such land falls into ruin (See BBC 3 March 2012) and one can actually see the disaster from space (see AmaBhulu) then you know you have a problem.

      The maps would show you why the black people of SA lived along the wet east coast and in a wide sweeping warmer arc around the west and north of the Prairie. This means they only ever occupied a remarkably small percentage of what is now SA. This mostly resulted from the need for (i) warmer climes, the need for (ii) sgrass for their cattle-herding culture, and from (iii) their own never-ending wars that created massive stretches of no man’s land, both on the SA Prairie and in Natal.

      The indigenous people who populated the west of the country were the clan-based Khoekhoe ("Hottentots") along the coast and the San Bushmen hunter-gatherers in the high-and-dry interior. Those folks have practically zero in common with African black people ---not language; not culture; not organization. They have always lived in fear of the blacks and the latter know it. I suggest you read "The Journey of Man" by Spencer Wells to see who the San are. When the Dutch landed on 7 April 1652, the nearsst blacks were around 600 miles away to the east along the coast – the distance from DC to Montreal, Indianapolis, or Savannah!

      The rainfall divide (~350mm annual summer rain) between the black people and the others was still evident in the voting district returns of the 2002 election, which I show in the book AmaBhulu.

      So the ANC arguments about who should get what "percentage of the land" is just rubbish, not supported by any facts, geography, demographic distributions, climate, or history. And the US news media love playing these numbers. I guess it appeals to the cheap moral outrage of folks, particularly when they are left intentionally clueless but worked up.

      If the ANC government arguments were applied in the USA, white American farmers should forthwith be driven from their land to give black American farmers 25 times as much land as they now have, as per official US sources.

      By way of illustration, my family is 1/8,000,000 of the Canadian population. I'd like immediately to have 1/8,000,000 of Canadian territory please. That is around 1.25 square miles. The center of Vancouver City would do just fine, thank you very much! I'm not asking much here, eh; just my “demographically due percentage”. NO, I do not want my 1/8,000,000 in the tundra. I want it where some other hardworking folks have created something. I trust this cynical example clarifies the point.

      As it is, only 12% of land in SA is actually arable, and so we need to have clarity on what we are talking about. We would also have to discuss the numerous examples of black communities who sold the farms back to white farmers after the government bought it out from under those farmers in the first place (using the farmers' taxes of course).

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  2. Perhaps we should expect an apology from Bono?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRbUoqkPXJU

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  3. A marvelous book that demythologizes the ANC and Mandela is Ilana Mercer's "Into the cannibal's Pot".

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  4. Nick,

    The twin-syllable fraction "Bhulu" has no meaning in its own right. It is an amaXhosa phonetic rendition of the Dutch word "boere". I do not believe the amaXhosa at the time knew what that meant exactly. They just heard the sound and ---as was (and still is) their wont---added the "ama-" prefix to turn it into a name for a "people" or nation. For example, today they refer to the overnight rich black people in the country as the amaBenzi, because they tend to drive Mercedes sedans. In this case "Benzi" has no meaning in itself. I trust that makes it clear. When (white) British settlers arrived in 1820 and were placed right on the border with the amaXhosa, they were just more amaBhulu. The amaZulu, by the way, render it as “amaBhunu”.

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  5. Nick,

    The twin-syllable fraction "Bhulu" has no meaning in its own right. It is an amaXhosa phonetic rendition of the Dutch word "boere". I do not believe the amaXhosa at the time knew what that meant exactly. They just heard the sound and ---as was (and still is) their wont---added the "ama-" prefix to turn it into a name for a "people" or nation. For example, today they refer to the overnight rich black people in the country as the amaBenzi, because they tend to drive Mercedes sedans. In this case "Benzi" has no meaning in itself. I trust that makes it clear. When (white) British settlers arrived in 1820 and were placed right on the border with the amaXhosa, they were just more amaBhulu. The amaZulu, by the way, render it as “amaBhunu”. I trust this makes it clear.

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  6. The amaBenzi are a living breathing version of the pigs in Orwell's "Animal Farm."

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