Messages

[Part 5 – Black Cognitive Ability - Third Rationale For Apartheid]

Part 5 – Black Cognitive Ability - Third Rationale For Apartheid

By Mike Smith

Long before studies like "The Bell Curve" or "Race and Reason" were published, before IQ tests were invented, we whites of Africa knew the mind of the black man intimately. Nobody had to prove anything to us. We knew the limitations of the African black and his capacity to break whatever he touches. We knew his strengths and his weaknesses. From simple, obvious and uncomplicated examples the white man drew his conclusions about black's cognitive abilities. The white man noticed that the blacks from South Africa never invented the wheel. Blacks never had any written languages. They had no dug-out canoes, let alone ships. Their dwellings were nothing but single roomed shelters that resembled poor imitations of inverted bird's nests, made from sticks and grass. They had no woven cloth and were wearing animal skins. They had no maps and no borders. They had a primitive belief system and their tribal laws were held and changed by "elders" at will after drinking their tribal beer/brew.

They were nomadic cattle herders that never permanently settled in one place for too long. They hardly grew crops and if so, it were small patches of subsistence maize introduced by the whites who brought it back from South America, the only place where it grew and existed. Yes that is right. Maize, which is today the staple food of all Blacks throughout the entire Africa, comes from South America and was introduced to blacks by white European settlers. Blacks today cannot even imagine a life without maize, yet they say that whites never brought anything good to Africa. Because as far as providing for themselves, they are useless. Blacks have proven that they cannot farm. They hardly understand the principle of irrigation, let alone ever building any dams. When a slight drought occurs one year all their crops fail and they starve.

Whites in South Africa developed commercial farming into a science and built universities such as Elsenburg at Stellenbosh. Blacks who have worked on white farms for their entire lives, for generations, never learned a thing and every white commercial farm that was handed over to blacks failed, even after vast amounts of money was thrown at them, training was given and the most modern implements bought for them by the government. This tragedy is documented in a book by Dr. Phillip du Toit called, The Great South African Land Scandal . Dr du Toit has made his book available online, free of charge. http://greatsalandscandal.blogspot.com/ Liberals and cultural relativists will be quick to point out that there are many blacks today who are academics, medical doctors or lawyers.

They will tell us that the environment determines IQ. They somehow believe that a black child raised in a white household, who went to white schools and who had all the opportunities as a white kid would magically become equal or better than a white child. It is only the simpleminded who believes this. Eskimos live on the same parallel as Northern European Whites, but have never been able to reach the same level of development and ingenuity as Whites from Scandinavia, Russia or Germany. Blacks who live in Tropical conditions have never been able to build the structures of the Incas, the Mayas or even anything resembling the beauty of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Besides, the Australians tried it. They took Aborigine children away from their communities, raised them in wealthy white households, sending them to only the best schools, etc. The results were that these Abbo children reverted to the same behaviour and sometimes worse than that of their traditional communities. Today we refer to them as The stolen generation. So what about those clever blacks you ask ? The ones who are doctors, etc ? Anybody who has ever taught blacks anything, lectured to them or tried to jerk them into the twentieth century will understand what I am about to say ?

I have to tell you a little story here.

When I was at school in South Africa I had a friend. Let us call him "Manie". Manie was a hyper intelligent young boy. At the age of eleven when we had the "Rubik Cube" craze, he was solving the puzzle in 50 odd seconds. Later on in high school, Manie produced straight A's, he could play several musical instruments including the drums, guitar and trumpet. He played Rugby and was also a martial artist of note. Manie became a dentist and is currently practicing in the UK. While he was a medical student I once asked him how difficult the course was. He said to me that to become a doctor is not difficult. It is a sh!t load of work to study, but it is not difficult as in Engineering or Physics. I asked him why he opted for Dentist. He told me that when he wants to drive a Porche, he wants to go out there and buy him one. He was honest. He did not become a dentist, because he had some calling in life, he did it purely for the money.

So for blacks to become medical doctors is actually not that difficult. The black (Zulu) historian and Shaman, Credo Mutwa talks about this in his book, "My People" (1969). Credo says that blacks never had any written language so they have no written history. Their history is passed down orally from Sangoma to Sangoma. See, the Sangoma is not only the traditional healer, he is also the preserver of the oral history, the tribal laws and the ancient rituals and customs of the blacks. He explains that blacks have an excellent memory that they drill from childhood through stories, rhymes and songs. To remember detail they use what we would call "memory association". For instance, Credo Mutwa says that the blacks have a huge respect for the late president of the ZAR, Paul Kruger. President Kruger had an ability to mimic the sounds of all birds through whistling. Even till this day the township of Mamelodi east of Pretoria, capital city of the ZAR and South Africa is named after Paul Kruger, the whistler. His statue stands on Church Square in Pretoria. When one teaches blacks, it is not uncommon to find that they score well to very well in tests or exams where they have to repeat what they were taught. In fact it is almost well known amongst educators that blacks are better at this than whites. But when it comes to applying knowledge, when it comes to using logic, faultfinding and problem solving skills, blacks fall by the wayside. They just cannot do it.

A black can pass all the theory exams to become a pilot, but put him in a simulator and subject him to crisis situations where he has to think rapidly, then one sees the cogs of the black cognitive system start flying all over the place. And I am talking about the one percent, the best of the best. The other 99% are only good to dig ditches, provided they do not break the pick or spade. The proof is in the pudding. It is not as if the world is over run by Nobel Laureates for hard sciences like physics or chemistry. How many black astro or nuclear physicists do you know ? Today much is being said about Black education under Apartheid, but the truth is that in 1987 at the height of Apartheid, six million black children were at school, a new record for South Africa at the time. In the previous year 1800 classrooms for secondary education were built by whites, with white money for blacks. About 130 new schools were built. If one considers the schools burnt down by blacks at the same time the education standards of blacks could have been even higher.

At the time black South Africans had the highest literacy rate amongst other blacks on the entire continent. Blacks had eight universities in South Africa producing lawyers, doctors, teachers, etc of world standard. None of those people would say today that their education and degrees are of an inferior standard. Quite the contrary, they are extremely proud of their education they underwent during Apartheid. Telling them that their education was "Sub standard" would be insulting them. As I have mentioned before, South Africa was a world leader in medical science during Apartheid and established a unique Medical university called MEDUNSA which produced amongst others on average 200 black doctors per year. MEDUNSA also trained nurses and other medical staff. The most amazing thing is that no matter how well Blacks are educated, they never let go of their superstitious believes in the Tokoloshe, Muti witchcraft and ancestor worship. Blacks who hold high positions today such as ministers in parliament or judges, blacks who are engineers, still consult the witchdoctor on a regular basis. Blacks still run around and attack everyone, including their own with pangas. No amount of western education will ever be sufficient to change the African black savage into respectable human beings. They are what they are. We have to be honest with ourselves and with blacks and accept them for who and what they are. We have to realise that our cultures will never be compatible.

Just as the Boers never wanted to rule over the Blacks, the Boers will NEVER accept blacks ruling over them. The previous National Party government was not stupid. They never took any decisions without thoroughly investigating all options. They studied the Swiss Canton system and the Belgium model with the Flemish and Walonians. No sytem could be compared to the unique South African situation. Apartheid was not the only option. There were others to consider like the Stalinist option of just exterminating all opposition in their millions. But BJ Voster asked us to accept the reforms, because the other options were just too ghastly to comprehend for the pious Whites of South Africa.

[Part 4 – Black Culture And Customs - Second Rationale For Apartheid]

Thank you Rev Pat  - the author of these articles have put a lot of effort into them, and hopefully people will understand why Apartheid was the best way to go at the time, and why it was abolished

Part 4 – Black Culture And Customs - Second Rationale For Apartheid

By Mike Smith

I find it rather amusing that the cultural relativists wants to tell us that all cultures are equal and that no culture is better or higher than another, but these same primitive cultures they want to make equal to our White Western culture, rejects the notion of equality outright. In South Africa we observe this amongst blacks on a daily basis. Again the examples are legion, but let us start with the way the African black treats his women. I said women (plural), because Black men are polygamous. They can marry as many women as they can afford. When a black man walks down the street, his wife is lucky if he allows her to walk five paces behind him. Most of the time he tells her to go walk on the other side of the street and a few paces behind him. You see this all the time in South Africa, but we who grew up in South Africa just accept it as "it is just the way blacks are". Although black women can vote in official government elections, on a tribal level they have no political say and are not allowed to even sit amongst men least raise an opinion.

I said that a black can have as many wives as he can afford. That does not mean that he has to work and look after his wives. Quite the contrary. Traditionally the women do all the work in black culture. Black men buy their women and pays for them in cows in a system known as "Lobola". It starts with five cows and then the two families barter a price. The price is dependent on her social status, whether she is still a virgin or already has a child, what education she has, etc. The daughter of a chief is worth around twenty cows, but normally the price is kept down to between five and ten cows for ordinary women. Once married the woman is chattel and becomes the possession of the man, to breed and beat as he feels fit. The Xhosas practice what is called, uKetwala (the hunting down of a young girl and raping her to make her his wife)

Missionaries from Europe have tried to convert the Blacks to Christianity ever since the whites first set foot on African soil. These missionaries came across savages who believed in the powers of their dead ancestors, rather than that of a deity. Just about all civilisations had deities of some sort, but it was absent amongst blacks in South Africa. These missionaries saw the results of intonjane (female initiation) and ukwaluka (boy's circumcision and initiation into manhood) where some boys were lucky to live after their penises fell off due to gangrene, etc. They saw the licentious behaviour and customs of the blacks, but none of their efforts could ever win the blacks over. They struck up compromises in the hope to later convert the blacks, but even after their best attempts the best they achieved was that blacks accepted Christianity as an addition to their tribal religions and beliefs, not as a replacement. Blacks continue to practice their traditional beliefs in parallel with Christianity up until this very day.

Read about the fruitless experiences of the missionaries here  http://stmarys.ca/~wmills/course322/Missionaries_XhosaClergy.pdf

To us whites the initiation rites of blacks are horrific and barbaric practices that are still practiced to this very day. No Xhosa will ever be accepted as a man if he as a last resort to save his life, went to a western hospital during the circumcision period. The Zulus initiation into manhood is called ukeshwama. A group of boys have to kill a bull with their bare hands. They pull out his tongue, stuff dirt down his throat, squeeze his testicles till it burst and then finally wring his neck by gripping the horns until his neck snaps. They also have to tear meat from the carcass with their bare hands and eat it raw. This is all in the name of "Culture". But the most horrific practice amongst blacks in South Africa and Africa in general has to be "Muti-murders". One just has to make an internet search or a search on a news site like IOL for "Muti-murders" to be shaken to the core at the brutality of the black man. Muti means "medicine". It is made from plants or animal organs, but the most powerful muti is made from human body parts, harvested while the person is still alive.

Everything from sexual organs to hands, lips, ears and other organs are cut from victims of all ages while they are still alive, including young children and babies. Some will say that these are a few dissident Sangomas (traditional healers) who practice "muti-murders", but the shear amount of these killings tells us that there are huge markets of believers amongst the black communities which drive these killings. Blacks further believe in the "Tokoloshe", a hairy goblin-like creature with a huge penis, who is sent by the Sangoma to attack them if they have done something wrong. One can literally write volumes on the evil practices and beliefs of black South Africans. In more modern times new "cultural beliefs" of blacks have emerged that shows their primitive mindset that no amount of education or conversion to Christianity has been able to change. Blacks believe that sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. This has resulted in horrific rapes of babies as young as six months. Black men rape lesbians, to "correct" them. It is called by the media, "corrective rapes". How can any cultural relativist ever be able to convince us that these practices, customs and cultures are the same as ours ? The problem is that people who do not know Africa, or more specific, South Africa, will never believe anything I wrote above, yet it is all true and only a fraction of the truth about the blacks of South Africa. The information is today freely available on the internet and in books.

Cultural relativists should first go and try to preach their "equality" and "relativism" to the blacks of Africa, before they try to convince others of it. The whites of South Africa learned the hard way from observing the black man in his natural habitat over hundreds of years since they first settled on South African soil in 1652. Despite all this evil, never, not once, did it cross the minds of the Whites to annihilate and obliterate the entire black populations of South Africa, although they had every reason to do so. The whites were too pious and despite all the evils committed against them during the nine Kaffir wars, at Bloukrans, at Bloodriver, at Makapansgat, etc, still believed in "Peaceful co-existence" with Blacks. The whites acknowledged the nature of Blacks, with all their evil customs, cultures and superstitious beliefs. The whites did not want to change any of it like the missionaries attempted (and failed) to do. No, they just wanted to separate themselves from such evil as far as possible. In the end the piousness of whites would mean their downfall. What they should have done was to extinguish this evil.

[Part 3 – The Violent Nature Of Blacks - First Rationale For Apartheid]

Part 3 – The Violent Nature Of Blacks - First Rationale For Apartheid

By Mike Smith
26 April 2010

Many white South Africans feel guilty about Apartheid, they feel as if they actually did something evil or bad, but that is totally wrong. Ex president De Klerk apologised for Apartheid and http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4134067.html so did the Dutch Reform Church Dominee, Swanepoel who also started pulling out his intestines about Apartheid and apologised on behalf of the entire church without any mandate from anyone of the congregation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/despatches/africa/33032.stm So when such "leaders" tell us how wrong we were, then we tend to believe them. But let us look at the truth.

Anyone who knows the history of South Africa will know that nobody suffered more on the soil of South Africa, no one has bled as much as the Afrikaners and their descendants the Boers. The Whites of South Africa and specifically the Afrikaners have nothing to be sorry for. In fact the Blacks owe them a tremendous gratitude and a gigantic apology for the way they treated Whites in the last 350 years. The Afrikaners have a song that is taught to all Afrikaans kids from the crib and that every Afrikaner today knows. The name of this song is called, "Siembamba". The lyrics are so heavy that I almost do not want to repeat it here. But it goes like this,

"Siembamba, mama se kindjie,
Siembamba, mama se kindjie
--draai sy nek om, gooi hom in die sloot;
trap op sy kop dan is hy dood."

For our international readers I will freely translate and then explain.

"Siembamba, mommies little child,
Siembamba, mommies little child,
--Wring his neck, throw him in the ditch,
Step on his head, then he is dead..."

Believe it or not, this is a song Afrikaans people sing to their children while rocking them to sleep ! It records the brutality of the Xhosas who would indiscriminately kill white women and white babies during the nine Kaffir wars. Black men are mostly cowards who are only brave when in packs. They actually seldom engage in head on confrontation with White men. When they attack it is always in groups, while people are asleep. Their preferred targets are the elderly, women and children.

A common myth amongst foreigners and South Africans alike is that they think that before the White man came to Africa, Blacks lived in peace and harmony with nature and with each other. This harmony with nature is not entirely wrong. It is the perception of "In harmony with nature" that is misunderstood. People want to believe that nature is pure and good and that the lion lies with the lamb, but reality is far removed from that. When one sees how hyenas tear a live animal apart, how a praying mantis bites the head off her mate after copulation; how the Streptococcus bacteria can destroy human flesh, one is left with a feeling that nature can be very cruel. Nature amongst African blacks have always been very cruel. Blacks who supposedly lived in tune with nature were regularly eaten by lions, crocodiles, bitten by snakes, stung by scorpions and their numbers controlled by insects like the mosquito (Malaria) or the Tsetse fly (sleeping sickness). Yellow fever and Cholera were other forms of nature to control the numbers of Blacks. But it has to be said that before the white people came to Africa, the most effective way Blacks controlled their own populations were with genocidal tribal wars and cannibalism.

Let me point out some of the psyche of the Blacks in order to try and understand his petty jealousy and envy. Amongst the Black communities it is not allowed for individuals to show ingenuity or individualistic prosperity. The moment one black person starts to rise a little above the others, he will be the first one to be hammered down by the community like a nail in a wooden floor. Those who do prosper are ostracised by their black tribes and it will be said of them that they are not real blacks that they are whites with a black skin. That mentality still persists to this day, but this petty envy is accompanied with an inbred, inextinguishable, brutality that the whites of Africa came face to face with and learned about the hard way. Ever since the white man set foot on South African soil, he has been shocked and horrified at the brutality of the blacks. No matter how much the whites wanted to believe in the "equality of man", they were sadly confronted only with the brutality and reality of Stone Age savages.

Blacks of central Africa sold other blacks they have conquered into slavery to Arabs, other black tribes and also to whites. The moment one tribe had a bit more than the others, they would be prone to a nocturnal raid by neighbouring tribes who would kill all the men, rape the women and children, steal the cattle and incorporate the women and children into their own tribes. Tribes who were not strong enough would flee the area. In sub Saharan Africa it meant that nobody wanted to flee north, because they knew it was a desert where they could not survive. So the only way was to flee south. The weakest of the weakest tribes were right in the front, followed by a slightly stronger tribe, followed by ever increasing stronger tribes further north, driving the weaker ones south. Roundabout the same time that whites first settled in South Africa, black tribes first entered South Africa. They were contemporary settlers of the area now known as South Africa. In some areas whites were the first and in others, blacks were the first. Blacks moving South and Whites moving north looking for better grazing for their cattle eventually met at the Fish and the Kei rivers around 1770. About 120 years after the Whites first (permanently) settled at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 . To put it into perspective, it was about the same time as New York was founded in the USA.

Who were these Blacks they met at the Fish River ? They were the Xhosa. The Xhosa were fleeing from the Zulus who murdered them en masse. Even until today the word or name "Xhosa" in Zulu is synonymous with the word "coward". The animosity between the Xhosas and the Zulus goes back hundreds of years. Mandela and Mbeki, the two previous presidents were both Xhosas, but the current president, Jacob Zuma is a Zulu. Zulus and Xhosas hate each other more than they hate whites and that says a lot. But why do the other Blacks of South Africa hate the Zulus ? It goes back to "King" Shaka. Note, I put "King" in inverted commas. Blacks can never be kings of any kind - before one can be a King, one should first be a MAN. Shaka was a sadistic psychopath who committed genocide on a larger scale than Rwanda has ever seen. The Zulus wiped out entire tribes, entire cultures in what is today known as the Mfecane or Dfecane (Annihilation). Shaka's terror was so great that Mzilikazi, the chief of the Matabeles fled back North, direction where Zimbabwe is today.

Amongst all this chaos arrived the White man in the region of the Xhosas. They fought nine "Wars" against the Xhosa between 1811 and 1879. The Frontier Wars, Kaffir wars or Xhosa wars. Everytime the wars were about Xhosas stealing cattle and other livestock, burning down homesteads, killing not only white farmer families in the most horrific torturing ways, but also the coloureds who worked for the whites. It was at the time of the sixth Kaffir war that Piet Retief decided to trek with the other Voortrekkers. Piet Retief and his party thought they could negotiate and buy land from the Zulus, but they were massacred on a hill at the kraal of the Zulu King, Dingaan when they respected the wishes of Dingaan to leave their weapons outside. Every man and boy, around 100 in total, were clubbed to death. Retief was the last to be killed, so as to witness the death of his comrades.

Dingaan then ordered all Voortrekker laagers to be attacked along the Bushman's River. An orgy of violence started. Families were camped at Bloukrans, Dorinkop, Moordspruit, etc. Cowardly blacks would attack them during the middle of the night, killing everyone in the most horrific ways. Women were brutally gang raped and pregnant women were cut open, their babies killed in front of them while they still lived. Small children and babies were picked up by their feet and their heads smashed against the sides of the wagons. Among the Voortrekkers , 41 men, 56 women and 185 children were killed. In addition another 250 or 252 Khoikhoi and Basuto that accompanied the Voortrekkers were killed. A girl called Johanna van der Merwe (12 years old at the time) sustained 21 assegai wounds, but managed to survive. The Voortrekkers built the town Weenen (meaning wailing) at the site.

The Bloukrans Massacre  http://www.anglo.50megs.com/bloukrans.htm
Throughout the following decades up until the present day the whites of South have experienced this petty envy and brutality at the hands of blacks. Examples are legion. Boers retaliated at Makapansgat http://tia-mysoa.blogspot.com/2009/08/makapaanspoort-murders.html where blacks savagely murdered whites in the most horrific ways. Hermanus Potgeter was tied down to a rock bed and skinned alive like an animal while still conscious, he died while the blacks ripped his organs out. More lately we saw the brutal black on black murders with the necklace method. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing We saw blacks storming into white churches with AK 47's and hand grenades, opening fire on the unarmed congregation such as at the St James Church massacre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_James_Church_massacre We have seen everything from brutal Muti murders http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2003/0814/fe21-2.html to the evil torture preceding the brutal killings of White farmers and their family members in Rhodesia, Namibia and also in South Africa, most of the time nothing stolen. More than 3000 White farmers and family members murdered to date since the ANC took over in 1994.

It is necessary to reiterate that this violent nature of blacks are not directed at whites only, so the black behaviour apologetics who claim that this behaviour is retribution for wrongs committed by whites against blacks, have no leg to stand on, because most often than not this black violent nature is directed at their own kind as we have seen with Shaka's defecane, Muti murders and necklacing. No, this brutality, this murderous, stealing and other asocial behaviour of Blacks could never and can never be reconciled with the behaviour of the deeply religious and pious Boers of South Africa. This violent behaviour of blacks was one of the rationales for Apartheid. The other was cultural differences. More on that in the next edition. For now it is important to realise that whites in South Africa never wanted to rule blacks. Whites wanted to separate from blacks and stay as far away from blacks as possible.

Hi My Nation,

I dont want to go too deep into organized religion, as we all know where that leads to, but I`m all for debate. I`m sure we all know that debating organized religion always goes in circles, never reaching the end, whose deity is bigger than the next, etc - why ? Because its not based on logic, simple as that. In Creativity we have a creed based on logic. In Creativity we have a practical programme to save the white Race from its problems, all spelled out in our Holy Books. Where in the CI holy books do we have such a practical plan to save the White Race ? The Holy Books of Creativity speak about the White Man - do your holy books speak about the White Man ?

We have nice stories and myths in all books of organized religion; yes mythology can teach us a few things, but does it teach us to help save the White Race ? A person sitting in a whale for three days; a father told to go sacrifice his son and practically selling his wife to the pharaoh enriching himself. Even if Abraham is not a jew as CI claims, I dont want my children reading this stuff - how do you think they will react to this specific Abrahamic lessons if they have to apply them in White society ? David that puts his best soldier in the front line so that he can get to his wife ? Hey son, seeing that you`re in the army and are a commander now, put Pete in the front line so you can get to his wife - thats the White thing to do ?!? You see where I`m coming from ? The normal CI response is that its taken out of context or that this god was testing his people - sorry, I dont buy that. If anything tests me, its the laws of Nature. Another thing is that this god is all to human - he loves gold, loves human sacrifice and even gets angry to the point where he kills indiscriminately, whether you do good or wrong. Even if you want to worship a deity, surely not this one ! Rather look at the energy behind the forces of Nature, and stand in awe, if you so chose, and call that god or whatever you want.

Now, as I have said in a post here, a while ago, I`m all for racialist unity. In South Africa we dont have the privilege of being full of crap when it comes to the defense of our race - if I find people to cooperate with, thats what I do, I cut out their religious beliefs and we work together on the racial aspect. If people kick me in the head, dont care if they`re CI, atheist, deist, agnostic, etc ... I remove myself and go in search for common ground. My outlook in life in South Africa have always been this - when the SHTF, nobody is going to be asking what I believe, as long as we face the same direction when confronting the enemy. I`m not sure how it is in other parts of the world, seeing I`ve never been outside South Africa except years ago when I was in Namibia for a few months, but in South Africa, we dont have the luxury of clashing heads over crap, it still happens, believe me, but people are in such danger of being annihilated, that common bonds are built as we speak.

I have asked the question on other forums in the past when it comes to christians and CI people that are sitting in filth and misery in squatter camps in South Africa - are you going to turn your back on a christian or CI child starving there, or are you going to help them ? I`m sure going to help them if I`m in the position to do so. The trick is to get common ground on the racial aspect, and leave the invisible aspect, thats personal - in the invisible aspect people believe what they want if they so chose, there is no right or wrong, because nothing can be proved or disproved, similar to scientific knowledge that are now "invisible" and "supernatural", but in time will become visible and thus natural.

I ask you again - Where in the CI holy books do we have such a practical plan to save the White Race as is in the Creativity Books ?

[Part 2 - What "Diversity" Means In South Africa]

Part 2 - What "Diversity" Means In South Africa

Nobody can understand Apartheid unless they understand the diversity of the people of South Africa. Let us start with the whites. In South Africa there are several groups of whites. The two main groups are the Afrikaans speaking and the English speaking ones. The Afrikaners are the descendants from mainly Dutch, Flemish, French, German and some other Western European backgrounds. The Afrikaners have a unique culture, their own language and they are mostly protestant. The English speaking whites of South Africa are from mostly British background. They are made up of English, Scots, Welsh and Irish descendants, as well as a large contingent of ex Rhodesians. These English speaking Whites of South Africa can today not be referred to as British anymore. Very few hold British passports. They developed a unique accent and culture in South Africa and are fully South African today. Their forefathers came to South Africa long before there were any Whites in Australia or New Zealand.

South Africa also has other large white communities such as the Portuguese (300,000), the Greek (+/- 100,000). They all have their own religions and cultures. The Portuguese are mostly Catholic, the Greeks are orthodox Christians. Further, South Africa has a Chinese population who arrived around 1870 to work in the gold mines until Chinese immigration was stopped by an exclusion act in 1904. The South African Chinese community is about 300,000 and the Jewish communities about 70,000 strong. The Cape coloureds are also diverse and complex from a wide variety of backgrounds. Today there are the two main groups, Christians and Muslims. There is about 4 million coloureds in total. It is commonly understood by most foreigners and also amongst many South Africans, that the coloureds are a mixture of Black and White ancestors. This is false. The coloureds as a group existed long before the Whites saw any Blacks for the first time around 1770 in the Eastern Cape about 1000km from Cape Town. This was 120 years after the Dutch settled at the Cape (1652).

The indigenous people of the Cape were the Khoi Khoi(Hottentots). They were almost 90% annihilated by a smallpox epidemic at the Cape (1703) http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/smallpox-epidemic-strikes-cape. The Dutch also imported artisans such as bricklayers, carpenters, etc from Malaysia and Indonesia. These were the Muslims or Cape Malay people. The KhoiKhoi and the Cape Malay also intermarried and interbred. A small percentage of Whites also married coloureds, but it was actually very rare. A large amount of the passing sailors frequented coloured prostitutes. Today the Cape Coloured features vary from dark brown to almost White or yellow and their hair vary from peppercorn curly to straight black. Some have KhoiKhoi features and some Arabic or Malaysian. Today the Muslim and Christian coloureds have distinct and different cultures. Some speak a dialect of Afrikaans and some English. In Natal we find most of South Africa's Indian population. They total about one million and are descendants of indentured labourers (for the sugar cane plantations) and traders from India and Sri Lanka. They speak mostly English, but many still speak Tamil, Hindi or Urdu. Their religion is mostly Hindu but many are Muslim. So far I have not even started with the blacks yet. Most foreigners believe that South Africa has one group of Blacks that speak one language and have one culture. Nothing could be further from the truth.

South Africa's Black population is not homogenous. There are several different tribes who all speak different languages and who have distinct and hugely different cultures. There are main tribes such as the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Venda, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi and the Shangaan/Tsonga people. But it does not stop there, because these main tribes consist of smaller tribes. For instance the Xhosas are made up of Mpondo, Fingo, Thembu, Bhaca, Nhlangwini and Xesibe tribes. The Sothos are made up of North Sotho (Bapedi) and South Sotho (Basotho) tribes. The Tswanas are only a part of the main tribe known as the West Sotho. Other tribes that make up the West Sotho are the Kwena, Kgatla, Tlhaping, Tlharo, Rolong and Ngwato. The Venda tribe is made up of mainly the Mphephu and the Lemba, but in total the Vavenda can be bordered off into 27 clearly distinguishable tribes. The Zulus are made up of about 200 smaller tribes The Swazis are made up from the Nkosi, Shongwe, Khumalo and Hhlatyawako tribes. The Northern Sothos are made up from the Pedi, Koni, Phalaborwa, Lobedu and Kutswe tribes. And so I can go on. All in all South Africa has nine official Black languages, with 23 sub categories and innumerable dialects.

Yes, these different tribes of South Africa all have different languages, cultures and belief systems. The Vendas for instance have a special affinity to crocodiles. The Zulus consider themselves as a warrior tribe and they do not circumcise their boys when they are initiated into manhood, they have to kill a bull with their bare hands. The Xhosas on the other hand do circumcise their boys and therefore Xhosas consider Zulus as mere boys regardless of their age. When a Xhosa and a Zulu work together and they have words, the Xhosa will first and always accuse a Zulu of being a boy, thus not a man. Another remarkable piece of information that very few people know about is that the Lemba people who form part of the Venda tribe are Jewish. No. They did not convert to Judaism after meeting some Jewish immigrants to South Africa. President Kruger found them already with their Jewish belief system going back more than two thousand years. They migrated from the Kenya or Ethiopian regions. South Africa's black Jews.  http://www.freemaninstitute.com/Gallery/lemba.htm

I hope that the reader can see that South Africa is a palette of people, cultures and religions, but also note that I started with the white people who were leading in the atomic age into Africa and I ended with Blacks who are for all intents and purposes still nomadic Negro tribes stuck in the stone-age. With this background, is it really so unimaginable and difficult to understand that the way of "Separate development" (Apartheid) was the best and fairest solution for the problems of South Africa ?