Tag Archives: South Africa

Occupy South African Embassies

South Africa is facing a big problem and if it does not take care the country shall be drowning and becoming a 2° Belgian Congo or a Rwanda. Over the past few months we could not discard the fact that … Continue reading

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Apartheid or Apartness #6 Anno 2012

Previously we mentioned, in Apartheid or Apartness #5 Spiral of violence and destruction or of reconciliation and peace, that South-Africa had to choose a spiral and  WCC programmes tried with initiatives as The Decade to Overcome Violence (DOV) to strengthen existing … Continue reading

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Apartheid or Apartness #5 Spiral of violence and destruction or of reconciliation and peace

What happened before:  #4 Hangover of Church 9. On the way to peace The World Council of Churches‘ 9th Assembly (Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 2006) called for “a process of wide consultation to be undertaken toward developing an ecumenical declaration on … Continue reading

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Apartheid or Apartness #4 Hangover of Church

What happened before: #3 Opposition and Escalation 7. Moving Reformed Church The South African Council of Churches put more pressure on the South-African Christians and got a major role in the years up to Nelson Mandela’s liberation in 1991 and the … Continue reading

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Apartheid or Apartness #3 Opposition and Escalation

5. Opposition In 1960, a large group of blacks in Sharpeville refused to carry their passes; the government declared a state of emergency. The emergency lasted for 156 days, leaving 69 people dead and 187 people wounded. Wielding the Public … Continue reading

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Apartheid or Apartness #2 Up to 2nd part 20th Century

3. First part of 20th century When the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910 the white people got all the functions and major positions. The African National Congress (ANC), formed in 1912, became the opponent of apartheid, … Continue reading

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Apartheid or Apartness #1 Suppression and Apartness

1. Suppression Mabheka – He Who Looks; all the way from South Africa, finds that at last the wait is over. “The hideous reality that was apartheid is now being brought into the open” he says. “The Truth and Reconciliation … Continue reading

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100 years old ANC having to face a new challenge of free people

When the Dutch East India Company established a station at Cape Town in 1652 White settlement of South Africa began and the “swarties” saw their land be taken in by the “blankies”. By the time Britain annexed the Cape Colony … Continue reading

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ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map #4 Task

ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map Task Afrikaans is the third strongest language following Zulu and Xhosa, and therefore Afrikaans should be protected as an official language. {Notwithstanding: Research shows that Afrikaans is the … Continue reading

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ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map #3 Rights

  ANC-regime wants to wipe every presence of Afrikaans from the SA map Language rights No government can claim the status of being a mature democracy if such government cannot or will not reach a balance between the rights and … Continue reading

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