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Xenophobia In South Africa: When Will The Black Man Become Truly Civilised? by Nobody: 10:39pm On Apr 19, 2015 |
This is a speech made by former South African President P.W Botha to his cabinet about 27 years ago. It was reprinted by David G Mailu for the Sunday Times, a South African newspaper, in 1985. I quote… ” We are not obliged even the least to try to prove to anybody and to the blacks that we are superior people. We have demonstrated that to the blacks in 1001 ways. The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking. We have created it at the expenses of intelligence, sweat and blood……We do not pretend like other whites that we like the blacks The fact that, blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings. Hedgehogs are not porcupines and lizards are not crocodiles because they look alike. If God had wanted us to be equal to the blacks, he would have created us all of a uniform colour and intellect. But he created us differently: Whites, Blacks, Yellow, Rulers and the ruled. Intellectually, we are superior to the Blacks; that has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt over the years. I believe that the Afrikaner is honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being. By now every one of us has seen it practically that the Blacks cannot rule themselves. Give them guns and they will kill each other. They are good in nothing else but making noise, dancing, marrying many wives and indulging in sex. Let us all accept that the Blackman is a symbol of poverty, mental inferiority, laziness and emotional incompetence. Isn’t it plausible? Therefore that the Whiteman is created to rule the Blackman……And here is a creature (Blackman) that lacks foresight….. The average Black does not plan his life beyond a year”. * So tell me , despite the insult, has the black man with current events in south-Africa been able to prove this man wrong after 27yrs.......?? Erhisode Jega Barrett's Edited Comment: In all honesty, it seems to me now like the whites wasted time and resources colonizing and enslaving us. The way it looks now, all they had to do was wait and the black man would have given himself freely to them. Just how many years after freedom from apartheid and such evils, see where we are again. What manner of curse is this?!!! Even though I have added my voice against these horrendous acts being perpetuated by blacks and Africans against their own kind, I cannot help but scoff at so many Nigerians who in reality have no business complaining since they have been engaged in exactly the same kind of acts here only not always physically but mostly politically, emotionally, financially, psychologically, etc, etc. When we get it right at home, we can speak in one voice against any danger and it will turn and run away. Until we respect each other here and stop our own self-mutilation, we have a long way to go. |
Re: Xenophobia In South Africa: When Will The Black Man Become Truly Civilised? by richkal(m): 11:15pm On Apr 19, 2015 |
When i saw this quote some years back my blood was boiled with full anger in me, my hatred for the "oyinbos" was of no measure. But come to think of it, most of african face problem cause by fellow african, take for instance, al-shabab was given gun and they kill kenyans same as bokoharam, might corruption cases in Nigeria, forceful enslavement of the citizen in Tanzanian and the recent happenings in SA vindicated what botha said decades ago. Honestly, we african need to correct the impression the rest of the world had about us by stopping all these vices in our environment. I believe being black is not a sin, the problem is that we fail to realize that we fashion our backwardness by our myopic perspective. lalasticlala, do the needful, people must see this Botha racist speech. 1 Like |
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