By: Jan Lamprecht

There will be a conference on sustainable development here in
Johannesburg in the next few weeks. They are expecting about 65,000
delegates from all over the world, and they are even hoping President
Bush will be here. I doubt if Johannesburg's hotels can cope with such
numbers, so no doubt other arrangements are being made. It is expected
to cause a lot of problems here. We have been warned that the Police
will be so busy protecting the delegates that normal crime against us
may increase! Furthermore, all the local Marxists and Socialists are
planning demonstrations, etc. So we are expecting quite a lot of chaos
and disruption during the conference. On the plus side, the brothels
and other businesses ought to be getting a good injection of money
from all these foreign delegates! So we can't moan too much - we need
as much business as we can get in this stagnant socialist economy of
ours.




In recent weeks the South African government has been arresting whites
that were plotting against it. Eleven whites were arrested recently
who had apparently been planning terrorist acts. But on Sunday, 18
August, I heard a news report that there was a countrywide operation
to arrest whites that have been planning "terrorist acts" which would
take place during this conference on sustainable development.

The problem here in South Africa is that many whites on the far right,
just want to start shooting. They can't stand the ANC and the assorted
Marxists and they just want to get going. The problem with these types
is that they form small conspiracies, which are often penetrated by
agents (whites) who work for the government. It has long been said
that the Right Wing in South Africa is heavily penetrated by
government and even foreign agents who turn these people over to the
government. Even in the days of white rule, the Right Wing was a
target for mass infiltration. At the best, these people would plant a
bomb today, and be in jail within a week. I have always been opposed
to this way of doing things. I do not condone terrorism, and do not
think we should do things that way. Many of these people feel very
frustrated because they are leaderless, and because they feel their
cause has been completely forgotten. The problem is that most of them
end up in prison before they even get their conspiracy off the ground.
I have always believed, the correct procedure for any type of
resistance is to go public about it. Make as much use of Free Speech
as one can. It does not help to have a tiny conspiracy, which nobody
knows about. Instead, one should be public about one's resistance and
opposition for that is the only way to spread the word, and to get
allies. That is why I am doing the things I am doing. If one has a
problem, one must be open about it. Terrorism is not a tactic I
approve of, even if it is against the ANC. I believe, if one must
resist one must first fight a propaganda war and engage in a public
relations exercise. That way, if things do progress to a shooting war,
then everyone knows why. Also, it does not help if people end up
languishing in jail for years. By sitting in jail they are unable to
actively support the cause they believe in. The reason this sort of
thing happens in South Africa is because whites here are pretty
leaderless, and so tiny groups try to do their own thing. Hopefully
things will change. The problems in Zimbabwe are doing a lot to start
building some cohesion among conservatives in South Africa.

Apart from the eleven whites arrested about two weeks ago, no figures
are available for the mass arrests, which Police in South Africa
engaged in this weekend.

The panic accelerated this weekend among the farmers in Zimbabwe who
defied Mugabe's eviction orders. One week after the deadline, the
Zimbabwe Police force began arresting them.

Earlier in the week, one farmer had been attacked and killed. Another
farmer had his house set on fire and he was lucky to escape with his
life. They showed film footage of his burnt face on South African TV.
Then on Thursday and Friday the Police began arresting farmers in the
south of Matabeleland (this is the southern part of Zimbabwe which
borders on South Africa). On Saturday, the arrests spread countrywide.
The Police arrested 50 farmers on Saturday, bringing the total
arrested so far to 80.

One particularly bad incident occurred on the farm of Manguru 100 Km
North West of Harare. The Police accompanied by "War Veterans", went
to the farm and attacked a black farm worker, forcing him to tell them
where the farm owner Mr Smith, was living in Harare. The Police
arrested him and handcuffed him in Harare, whereupon the "War
Veterans" proceeded to attack Mr Smith. A farming organisation is
attempting to get Mr Smith out of Police custody so that he can be
treated for a broken leg and head injuries.

Note: This Mr Smith is not Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister. I
have not heard anything about his activities, except that he is
involved in this resistance. Mugabe has already said that Ian Smith
must not think that he can rally the whites around him to fight
another war.

According to Human Rights groups in Zimbabwe, 59 people have been
killed in political violence so far this year. They say that thousands
have either been tortured or raped in the same period. Most of the
victims are black members of the opposition.

Mugabe gave a speech on Friday to soldiers who had returned from the
DRC (formerly Zaire). In the speech he accused whites of financing the
MDC (Movement for Democratic Change).

Eleven member nations of the Commonwealth have said that Zimbabwe
should be kicked out of the Commonwealth.

One of the most ridiculous statements this week came from a Zimbabwean
MP who said that the whites were hiring blacks to beat them up so that
they could get international sympathy!!

The Citizen newspaper in South Africa reported that Zimbabwe has
refused some British people entry into the country in a tit-for-tat
move against the travel ban against Mugabe.

South Africa's quiet complicity in this is clear for the entire world
to see. During the last few months, Mr Pahad, of the ANC [African
National Congress], has been coming up with one lame excuse after
another for South Africa not to take action against Mugabe. This shows
his clear support of President Mbeki's "constructive engagement"
policy, which has so far achieved absolutely nothing. All this has
done, from the start, is ensured that Mugabe does as he pleases. As I
have said from the beginning, South Africa has tremendous economic
leverage over Zimbabwe. Most of Zimbabwe's imports and exports move
via South African ports. This was reiterated by opposition members in
the South African government this week. They said that we could bring
Mugabe to his knees on short notice by strangling his country. But, as
usual, the South African government pretends that this is not a
desirable course of action. They similarly rebuke the idea of military
action against Zimbabwe. All this does is prove the correctness of my
assertions in my book, Government by Deception where I speak of the
"Marxist Brotherhood" and how these people keep each other in power.
Most African countries have refused to criticise Mugabe.

The SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation), which controls most
of South Africa's Radio and TV broadcasts, has been amazingly candid
in their investigative reporting of events in Zimbabwe in the last two
years. But this may change. It seems as if the SABC's candid reporting
has caused the government concern, and this week saw sudden changes
"Editorial Policy" forced upon the SABC by the South African
Government. All the opposition political parties went wild in
parliament this week saying that the ANC is trying to muzzle the SABC.
The ANC of course denies this. To my knowledge the changes will be
taking effect shortly.

According to news reports in South Africa, many white Zimbabwean
farmers intend fleeing to South Africa as refugees because they have
nowhere else to go. Some of the commercial farmers in Zimbabwe have
not had any income from their farms in the last year. There was one
South African farmer in Zimbabwe who said in a TV interview that he
had not had an income for two years.

Earlier this week I saw a thread on a forum where an American said
that whites who remain in Africa must be the dumbest people on the
planet. What I would like to point out to such people is that whites
have actually been leaving Africa at a steady rate since the 1960s.
(Note how Africa has fallen into an ever greater state of disrepair as
whites have pulled out of it). The white population of Zimbabwe was
close to 300,000 at its greatest in the early 1960's. The current
white population in Zimbabwe is probably about 10-20% of that. People
already began leaving that country in the early 1960's. The rate
increased during the Bush War of the 1970's. The biggest mass
migration of whites occurred in the period of 1980-1985 when more than
60% of the whites left Zimbabwe to come to South Africa. The whites
who remained there did so because they were either too poor to leave,
or they decided to take advantage of the opportunities which came to
them as a result of others leaving. Most of those who remained were
also very liberal. Most of the conservative whites left in the period
1980-1985 after the war had been lost.

Here in South Africa, a similar trend is at work, except it is much
more difficult to leave the continent as a whole if one does not have
the necessary skills or money. So many will remain trapped here
indefinitely. South Africa had about 5 million whites. Officially that
number is down to 4.2 million as at the last census. Note, there was
an influx of lots of liberal whites from other countries and also from
the former Soviet Bloc, so that number does not truly show how many
people have left South Africa. But it would be fair to say that about
1 million whites have left South Africa over the past 15 years.

It is easy for people to just say, "run away", but many people don't
want to either - especially in South Africa. In South Africa
especially, one finds lots of whites who don't believe they are under
any obligation to run because they have deep roots here. They have
lived in Africa for about the same length of time that people have
been in America. This is home and they have no roots elsewhere.

Ian Smith, for example, will not leave Zimbabwe because he says he is
born there and has a history there. He refuses, on principle, to
abandon his farm or anything he has. He faces extreme danger, but he
has always said whites should not leave Africa at all.

There has however been a general trend since the 1960's for whites to
leave Africa or at least to move southward where conditions were
better. Here in South Africa, for example, you will find whites who
come from Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola. These are
people who lived there and who then fled southwards. There are many
people here who have lived in more than one African country and who
have their story to tell of how they watched beautiful, prosperous
countries being destroyed. You will be hard-pressed to find any
liberals among whites who have lived in more than one African country.
As a rule, their experiences have hardened them, and they became more
conservative.

My barber, for example, is a Portguese man who told me he came to
South Africa in the late 1960's. He had never been to Africa, but was
called up into the Portuguese army to fight the communists in Angola.
He told me Angola was a beautiful country back then, and it was
potentially wealthier than South Africa. (Angola is one quarter the
size of Europe!). He told me that dreadful things happened there. I
have mentioned on my website (www.AfricanCrisis.org), that white
people were sawed in half and white women had their breasts cut off.
But my barber told me, that in a Portuguese Police station he saw a
photograph of a pregnant white woman who had her stomach cut open. Her
unborn baby was taken out and cut to pieces. After his stint in
Angola, my barber fell in love with Africa and came to live in South
Africa. There is a sizable Portuguese community in South Africa who
are people who lost everything they had in Mozambique or Angola and
who now live in South Africa.

Angola was the African country, which inhabited by whites for the
longest period of time - 500 years. South Africa has the second
longest history of habitation. Angola's white population at one time
stood at 500,000. I suppose people outside Africa do not realise that
we whites are used to facing tremendous odds, and by all calculations,
we have never had it as good as we have it in South Africa. Here we
have 4 million of us. We have never had such great numbers in one
place, and so we are not finished yet. The real fight for South Africa
has never been fought. There have been proper wars in Angola,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Nambia, but a real war has never been fought
in South Africa. South Africa's downfall was mostly a propaganda and
psychological warfare exercise coupled with tremendous world pressure.
It was mostly an exercise in psychology rather than a proper
confrontation. If a real confrontation had to come, there would be
plenty of corpses.

Mugabe may be paving the way for the last fight. In Zimbabwe, we may
yet see all manner of problems - among them starvation, civil unrest,
or masses of people fleeing. Rest assured, the Zimbabwean problem is
yet going to have a big impact on South Africa in the years to come.

Stay tuned, the last chapter of so-called "African Liberation" has not
yet been written.