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Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by RSA(m): 3:54pm On Oct 09, 2012
Whites in South Africa were also sold out by their leaders,and their leaders who were bought by the big corporations.Same thing that happened to the black population.An average white is not rich but would have a decent job,because of his eductional backround compared to a black South African.But with more blacks getting educated and the Black Econimic Empowerment Act that is allowing fair discrimination against whites in the workplace and in business at large to redress the economic inbalances of the past,whites are now feeling the aftermath of apaartheid.

Still research shows that whites(mostly big coporations,owned by americans and british) are getting more richer in the new South Africa. http://www.sarpn.org/documents/d0003024/index.php
And this companies are the one that employed majority of this whites,apaartheid gave them good education,most Afrikanners where given free land after participating in the military during the apaartheid years,Some have cashed on this land and went on to start other business,some still farm 'their' land and some who didnt take their oportunies are now struggling.

Having said all that,as South Africans we find ourself in a very stable country where people are not afraid to voice out their grievances without trickering a civil war.We've gone pass that.But a lot still need to be done.
Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by morpheus24: 4:58pm On Oct 09, 2012
^^^^

Yep ya'll sure like to toi toi alot though!!!
Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by andrewza: 7:00pm On Oct 09, 2012
morpheus24: ^^^^

Yep ya'll sure like to toi toi alot though!!!

Nothing wrong with it if it is peaceful
Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by morpheus24: 3:00pm On Oct 10, 2012
^^^^

You are right, only that 95% of the time the men are armed.
Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by AwodwaGyanOniwe: 10:40am On May 06, 2013
@Morpheus24

I have been reading your threads and think u have some interest in Xhosas
Im Ghanaian(Larteh woman, today shes a teacher in the Eastern Cape) and South African descent/Xhosa(doctor) father who went to exile in UK. Most people don't know that APARTHEID IS ABOUT PROPAGANDA. For example coloured people in Cape Town were made to believe that Xhosas were new to Cape Town. That is highly untrue.

[b]SA History

Source: cape-slavery-heritage.iblog.co.za
The earliest Xhosa connections to the Western Cape

Dominant discourse amongst white South Africans and to some extent amongst Coloured people too, tends to portray that the Xhosa are alien recent arrivals in Cape Town. The facts are very different, showing deep kinship ties between Coloured and Xhosa people. There was no Chinese wall between Khoi and amaXhosa as colonial ignorance of local culture and white nationalist propaganda suggested.

In the 1650s at the time of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, the Western Cape Quena (Khoi) honoured the Chobona (or Coboqua, or Khoebaha) King as their paramount chief. AmaXhosa visitors and traders frequented Quena camps and intermarriage was widespread

The Chobona were one of two wealthy mixed Xhosa-Quena polities based in the Eastern Cape and stretching in influence to the Western Cape which they considered to be their lands and was accepted by Quena chieftainships in the Cape Peninsula. (the other was the Gonaqua) This was acknowledged by Jan van Riebeeck in his writings but something that was never acknowledged by modern white historians until the 1980s when some academics finally broke the mould. Van Riebeeck refers to the Khoebaha as ‘supreme ruler of the whole Hottentot (Khoi) race` and ‘overlord of all the kings and chiefs of the country`. The erroneous notion of the Xhosa being alien to African culture in the Western Cape was an ideological construct which emerged much later to justify white claims to land unpopulated by black people who were then magically separated as a ‘race` from Khoi people

The hierarchy of Quena tribes and clans in the South Western Cape saw the Gorachoqua and other small splinter groups of Peninsulars being subject to the chieftainship of the Goringhaiqua. Of equal status to the Goringhaiqua were the Guriqua also known as the Chariguriqua, and both were subjects of the Chainoqua regional chieftainship. The Chainoqua were extensively intermarried with the amaXhosa. The amaXhosa regularly frequented Chainoqua camps, traded and shared know-how. The Chainoqua, like the Hessequa, Chamqua, Omaqua Attaqua, Caqua and Houtunqua all were subject to the Hamcumqua (or Inqua) King. The Hamcumqua in the Central Cape also had strong Xhosa relationships. From the time of Xhosa monarch Togu (1590-1620) the From the time of Xhosa monarch Togu (1590-1620) the Hamcumqua in turn honoured the paramount status of the Chobona in the east. Note: This outline does not cover in detail the Namaquas of the North Western Cape except in showing that the Attaqua and other groups also regarded the Hamcumqua and Chobona as paramount authority. But the Namaqua also had strong relationships with the Tswana-Bricqua.

While official histories of the past project that slave labour was used ‘instead of` Khoi labour, it is reported as widespread that in the new territories of Paarl, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch and on frontier farms, farmers supplemented scarce slave labour with Khoi labour. Adam Tas reported in 1705 the use of teams of Khoi men moving from farm to farm to participate in harvesting. Others report on Khoi having children with slaves on their farms. The neat boxes of separation projected by ideologically doctored history unfortunately still resides in many minds and can be found to be widely projected in tourism materials today. In the period 1652-1700 much of Dutch settler contact with the amaXhosa, other than shipwreck survivors, was through Quena interlocutors. Their initial contacts and agreements were with fairly petty chiefs quite low down in the ranking order. Only in 1867 the King of the Hamcumqua initiated direct contact by sending an emissary to the Cape government. His brother Gaukou of the Hessequa also opened up communication directly with Governor Simon van der Stel. European direct contact with the amaXhosa thereafter replaces the Khoi-Xhosa relationship as the main means by which amaXhosa arrive in the Peninsula. A series of aggressive incursions of Europeans into Xhosa territory began in 1702 with a group of mercenaries and continued over the next two centuries. AmaXhosa would end up as prisoners and pressed labour in Cape Town until the Apartheid regime introduced pass laws and Coloured-White labour preference policies in the Cape after 1948. Far from the oft repeated refrain that Xhosa people only started coming to the Western Cape from the former Bantustans in recent years and should be regarded as aliens, all the evidence shows that the Xhosa have a historical relationship as old as everybody else in the Western Cape. The incident of 1702 is when fourty-five white mercenaries, (mainly unmarried men from the lower echelons of white society financed by a wealthy farmer) each accompanied by a Khoi servant left Stellenbosch for deep into the eastern interior. They launched an unofficial raid into Xhosa territory killing many Xhosa and Hamcumqua in their path and seized many cattle. It is likely that some prisoners would have been taken as this was common practice for various practical reasons. While officially frowned upon by the VOC authorities many wealthy farmers benefitted from these raids as it improved their breeding stock. The record of this first act of aggression is recorded in the raiders account of the raid entitled[/b]
Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by AwodwaGyanOniwe: 10:44am On May 06, 2013
@Morpheus24
DNA samples taken recently show that Xhosas have higher Khoisan DNA sample than the CAPE METRO AREA coloured who are very diversed(Khoisan,Bantu,European,Asian,other ancestry).

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/files/colouredcontext.jpg

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Re: Why Do White South Africans Refuse To Go Back To Europe ? by Teybaker: 9:42pm On Sep 27, 2017
panafrican:
African Americans are waiting for reparation before coming back to Africa. Pay them the $ 199 trillion over slavery and they will leave today, you bet. grin
I'll leave now if i didnt have a wife and kids. And would stay in the huts. 1 thing I notice about them is they dont have a care in the world being 1 with nature. Following the Maat.

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