Boerevryheid English

Come and enjoy a cup of coffee!

You might as well wonder where I come from! I was born in 1967 and made my début in the “Perdeby” (Tukkies University Newspaper). In the meantime I also received a Senior Advocate award, with my eye on the Boeremag case. Of course I don’t really exist and is it not necessary to take notice of me (although I am the only one speaking the truth in the court). I am a Boer in bone and marrow. I wear koedoe skin shoes from Upington, a guinea-fowl feather from Alldays’ area on my hat, smoke Magalies mountain tobacco and like wearing braces as well as drinking black, sweet, ‘moer’ coffee. I am often quite controversial but can defend my claims (and oh yes, the ladies are fond of me and I am still not married).

I was asked to visit the Courier and to enjoy a cup of coffee on the porch while chatting to all those passing by.

Cousin, come and sit down and enjoy a cup of coffee. Don’t you want to stop? Get some for you, fresh from the Magalies mountains. You say they call you Frekkie and you are from the Vorsters in Stellenbosch?

My great-great-great grandparents came from Tarka. Farming close to the late Uncle Andries Pretorius (like the old people used to say) of the farm Letskraal. You know? Close to Graaf Reinette. He apparently told (in the family) that his Grandfather was part of the “Volksrepresentaten” (Culture Representatives, or something to that effect) in the period of 1780 at the Eastern borders who again represented the “Emigranten Boeren” (Settlers) of that time.

They apparently called themselves “Patriots??”. His second wife apparently made detailed notes of how they tried to establish their own Republic; Graaf-Reinet in 1785 and in Swellendam in 1795. It also describes how the English tried to prevent it. Did you know that the Boerevolk tried to establish fourteen republics throughout history? They say the establishment of the fifteenth republic is just around the corner. What do you think about that?

But to come back to my great great-grandfather’s story. He apparently told (like the old people used to say), that people who looked like and spoke the same language as the “Boeren” of that period were hired and paid to arrest and lock up the men who tried to establish a Republic. Men like Adriaan van Jaarsveld and his friends for instance. (Can you believe that members of the Boerevolk needed to orientate Van Jaarsveld at a later stage for disregarding the values of the Boerevolk?)

Later in 1815, during the so called “Slagtersnek” rebellion, these people who were hired together with the ‘pandoere’ (that is men with another skin colour, who was dressed by the English in uniforms, and thereafter was called “law-officers”), had to hang the so called rebellions in public on a gallow. Did you know that the rope broke when men was hanged twice?

Today we still have the same kind of hirelings (traitors) amongst us!? Isn’t it?? I am only doing my job!!?? You probably remember that most of the men who shot Jopie Fourie was also Afrikaners? But more about this later.

Cousin Frekkie, did you know that some Bezuidenhouts were involved at the Slagtersnek rebellion? As well as the event that was the instigator for the first English war, or the way many like to call it, the first Anglo-Boer war, just like Paardekraal and Majuba. You remember now? The wagon story at Potchefstroom? Now I hear that one of the men that were proscecuted in the so called Boeremag case, is actually married to a direct descendent from the Bezuidenhouts!! Wonder what kind of rebellions their children will be, huh!? Or don’t you believe in genetics?

Old friend, what about another cup of coffee? I am going to get a fresh pot.

Now then cousin Frekkie, we were still talking about the “Emigranten-boeren”(Settlers/Emigrated Boers) at the Eastern borders and the Bezuidenhouts of the Slagtersnek rebellion. You see, the circumstances during that time was a big frustration for the “Emigranten-Boeren”. The natives at the Eastern borders robbed their lifestock and belongings, hi-jacked their wagons, murdered the people, young and old, raped their wifes and all the way the Government was on the side of the criminals. No cousin, I am not talking about the year 2007, that was during the period in the 18th century. The religious or the Missionaries like they wanted to be called, (I think their names were Read, Phillips and Van der Kemp), spread lies about the Boeren. There was this particular English man, with the surname Barrow who travelled through the country and spreaded a very one sided and false impression of the character of the “Emigranten-Boeren” to the outside world. The same with the Missionaries. You need to remember, they just took women out of their church communities and started to live and think like the members of the said church.. These stories were of course believed as to be true by the British. For that reason the English Government took the side of the criminals against the Boeren. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it!?

The misstreatment of the Boeren caused them to feel strongly about getting out from underneath the yoke of the English. This lead to several leaders like Maritz, Retief and Trichard to write certain manifests. The manifests of these leaders, emphasise especially the following four points:-

1.They want to move to establish a Volk of their own.
2.To serve God.
3.Free land where they
4.Can be free and rule over themselves.


You know Frekkie, these manifests and the instituttion of the Boeren who will be known as the ‘Boerevolk” later, differed a lot from the people who lived closer to the Cape Province. These people are probably your ancestors and were called the “Cape-Dutch” by the English. They concentrated on trading, economical prosperity, was cosmopolitan, willing to serve under the British flag, and never really wanted to be independent. They were exposed to alien cultural influence all the time and therefore not as patriotic like the people at the Eastern border. The border farmers were dependent on each other, became indigionous or formed part of the land and its influences. They loved the land they farmed on and lived in harmony with and for the laws of nature, scripture and culture. This lead to them, without them realizing it at first, that they are busy to become a VOLK. Through the preservation of a new value-system, as well as the striving to exist as a volk like it is prescribed in the Manifests. One can accurately claim, and there are several history writers that agree, that the Boerevolk’s birth took place during the years 1784 and 1806. (Bruwer also mention this in his book.)

If we look at the situation today, it does seem like the spirit of the Cape-Dutch and the spirit of the Boerevolk still continues to live in different factions of the Afrikanerdom. That is why there is so much confusion. The people are experiencing an identity crises. You won’t believe me, but the enemy purposefully created this confusion to suppress the Boerevolk and its patriotism which goes hand in hand with independence. But more about this the next time. I must go to the post office because I am expecting a very urgent letter.

Greetings and peace for you my friend Frekkie!