Persecution of Boer groups continues

Two incidents of intimidation, death-threats and arrests without formal charges targetting Boer self-defence groups have been reported to me this week. The first incident involved the arrest of Günther Kotze, 32, arrested right after a brief appearance at the Witbank magistrate’s court yesterday. The second incident was reported from the Azri 'El Volksgenootskap en Burger Party , a small Christian self-defence Boer group at the West Rand, whose leaders have been receiving death threats from members of the ANC-youth league, according to their own media statement. (follows below).

Azri’El self-defence group’s leaders received death threats:

The Azri 'EL Volksgenootskap en Burger Party says in its statement, issued by its leader Johan Els, that they have ‘they have obtained knowledge that the ANC youth league is planning to eliminate specific leaders of their group; that they plan to plant evidence pointing the finger of blame to Azri’EL.’

Els said in his statement that their group, the Azri 'EL Volksgenoorskap and Burger Party, has organised itself as a self-defence unit against crime and to stand up against the persecution of all the Boer Citizens in the country, ‘in all sectors of society’.

“Our people cannot find jobs because we are too white, and the jobs are reserved for blacks even when we are better qualified, we are told our skills are not needed as we are either overqualified or too inexperienced...”

“However these excuses does not hold up: our skills are needed: our country is deteriorating rapidly with a rapid destruction of the infrastructures, the government departments and the general lack of service-delivery by the State also reflect on the problems in the private sector. There is daily, widespread corruption throughout all layers of society. Our mines are in the hands of the government and its black-empowerment groups and are being closing down – and those who are in charge of them are walking away with bags of money. The common citizens all suffer from these conditions – yet the government refuses to intervene or to stop the corruption.

Anyone who dares to stand up and complain about this situation is attacked or sent of for ‘anger-management training’.

Our group tries to defend its members against these criminals, these corrupt individuals and those who are leading us around by our noses. We insist on standing up for our rights as described in our country’s Human Rights Manifesto. We are deliberately being alienated from our Christianity because paganism and alien religions are being forced upon us. We have set it as our purpose to gather together our Boer people under the banner of God, for He will forgive us and He will lead us to our freedom. Because of what we stand for, there are there are threats to eliminate our leaders and to point fingers to Azri’EL. “ (end of media statement).

Fighting to keep the individual Boer families safe:

The group, some of its members refer to themselves as Soldiers for Christ, is also engaged in helping individuals in their own suburbs with hands-on security problems: for instance they recently traced a missing youngster and returned him to his family.

Young SA children are often harassed and terrorised at school, forced to cooperate with the Nigerian drug-gangs and sex-slavery trade -- and the highly-visible white minority is particularly vulnerable to the violent kidnapping-tactics of these criminal gangs.