Paul Kruger Name in Spotlight - Will it reach KNP?

[Richprins]

These buffoons live in ivory towers, and don't or won't realise the value of the Kruger name, as it won't affect their pockets...

But anyway, not serious.


The serious part is "selective patriotism".

In other words, the rhetoric possibly has merit, very vociferously, but once action needs to be taken, it falls away as realism sets in!


So change Kruger's name, do all the land claims in KNP etc....


Money talks and BS walks!

[Richprins]

http://lowvelder.co.za/295922/eff-feels ... st-change/

[Flutterby]

With every statue they take down and every name they change, our history is slowly but surely being erased!

[Richprins]

SANParks spokesman Mr Isaac Phaahla said, “Why should we be answering this question? We have more serious issues of conservation to deal with. Please refer the question to the politicians.”

An excellent point!


But regarding other things political, SP can be very eager to get involved...

[Lisbeth]

With every statue they take down and every name they change, our history is slowly but surely being erased!

Your history? Yes! But as we are not allowed to discuss politics, this is a difficult argument I know ... and how!

[Richprins]

Anchen Dreyer glorified Paul Kruger - Office of ANC Chief Whip
Moloto Mothapo |
22 January 2016
Moloto Mothapo says DA MP was involved in last year's commemoration of ZAR President, a ruthless colonial oppressor


As South Africans on Tuesday endured torturous and cheap theatrics by DA leader Mmusi Maimane claiming that racists are not welcome in his party, it has emerged that Dianne Kohler-Barnard is not the only DA MP who glorifies the cruel system of apartheid and its repressive leaders. It has come to our attention that DA MP in the National Assembly, Anchen Dreyer, was one of the Afrikaner community members who attended Solidarity Movement’s event a few months ago to commemorate one of the ruthless colonial oppressors, Transvaal Republic president Paul Kruger, on 10 October 2015.

The 10th October is the day which was known during South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history as “Kruger Day”, and was observed from 1952 to 1993 to celebrate the birth of Paul Kruger. It is one of the racially divisive apartheid era holidays which were abolished after the advent of democracy in 1994. However, there exists a minority that is still stuck in the past, clearly battling to accept our country’s new non-racial democratic dispensation, who are continuing to observe this apartheid holiday to this day.

Not only did Dreyer partake in the commemoration of Paul Kruger, she even addressed the event on behalf of the DA and also posed for a picture next to the cardboard cut-out of her hero Paul Kruger, with a hand-held placard written: “Lekker verjaar Oom Paul!!" (Happy birthday Uncle Paul!!).


The news of yet another senior DA MP engaging in the glorification of our painful colonial and apartheid past and its leaders, although highly disturbing and outrageous, does not come as a surprise. This once again confirms the view held by many South Africans that the DA, whose origins are rooted in apartheid, continues to be a sanctuary of hard-core racists that unashamedly perpetuate racism and promote apartheid.

Kruger was a ruthless and bloodthirsty colonial era racist ruler who presided over the mass killings, torture, harassment, and cruel destruction of Black communities in various parts of this country. He was an apartheid pioneer who led the enslavement, dispossession, economic deprivation and subjugation of Black people. Hendrick Verwoerd legislated and formalized a cruel system which Kruger created many years before.

Kruger was a killing machine that carried out brutal attacks on various African tribes and condemned Black people to death in the Anglo Boer wars, whose purpose was to preserve the racial subjugation, slavery and colonial looting of resources. He buried alive Black people that he suspected of spying or fighting on the side of the British and cut women's breasts while they were still alive. He was a heartless monster.

Kruger regarded Black people as nothing but uncivilized "savages who must be kept within bounds"’. Some of his racist views, which are consistent with the white supremacist philosophy he championed, are recorded in his memoir: “South Africa has room for only one form of civilization, and that is the white man’s civilisation; and, where there was (sic) only a handful of white men to keep hundreds of thousands of Black natives in order, severity was essential. The black man had to be taught that he came second, that he belonged to an inferior class which must obey and learn.”


http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/a ... ice-of-anc



Better change the Park's name then?

[Lisbeth]

Is it true what is written about Paul Kruger above?

[Alf]

I don't believe a single word from the above.

Did this person writing it, personally knew Paul Kruger

It's always easy to make things up and to get the millions of people behind you. They don't know any better and believe every word these politicians say.

Can't they ever forget the past

Can't they rather focus on the future and be man enough to realize we have more important problems.

[harrys]

This is the anc game plan for the elections coming up, these people don't know what they are talking about they are looking for so called racist under every rock and bush, it's a ploy to take the focus of their bad service delivery and broken promisess .....just my opinion

[Lisbeth]

Is it the newspaper of the ANC?