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Daily Stormer
April 10, 2015
At least in South Africa you can openly talk about the concept of White genocide without everyone acting like you’re crazy.
South African singer Sunette Bridges yesterday chained herself to the statue of former Boer leader Paul Kruger, known as the father of the Afrikaner nation, in Pretoria to protest against calls for its removal.
The statue was covered in green paint on Sunday night by members of the ANC Youth League and the Economic Freedom Fighters, following the successful #Rhodesmustfall campaign to remove a statue of British coloniser Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town.
Amid an ongoing row about historic symbols of colonialism and white domination, questions about Afrikaner identity in post-apartheid South Africa have come to the fore.
One response to these questions comes from those such as Bridges who, along with the musician and language activist Steve Hofmeyr, has become a self-appointed spokesperson for a group of Afrikaans speakers calling themselves “Boers” who believe the “volk” are under threat. They fear being victims of a “Boer genocide” by the black majority.
‘Cultural Afrikaners’
Sunette Bridges is the daughter of the late Bles Bridges, a crooner with a penchant for colourful blazers and who once made Afrikaans women swoon as he warbled sentimental ballads.
Bridges and Hofmeyr’s politics are as prone to kitsch and overwrought emotion as Bles Bridges’ ballads. They firmly identify as cultural Afrikaners – a group defined by a unique history, language and destiny – set apart from the rest of South Africa. There are, they believe, enemies everywhere – old colonials, English-speaking South Africans and then, of course, black South Africa.
Bridges and Hofmeyr’s action in Church Square on Wednesday is a reaction to the events of the weekend, where protestors emptied green paint over the statue of Paul Kruger, president of South Africa from 1883 to 1900. The incident was one of many that have occurred across the country as symbols of “colonial imperialism and oppression” have been targeted in the wake of the #Rhodesmustfall student movement.
