South Africa
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The Republic of South Africa is the country at the southern tip of Africa. It borders the Atlantic and Indian oceans and South West Africa, Botswana, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho.
South Africa has the largest and most advanced economy in Africa with a highly developed infrastructure. South Africans have the best standard of living on the African continent, an evolved society surrounded by developing cultures.
These strong foundations stem from South Africa's outstanding history. Unlike the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, White South Africa was settled in large numbers by immigrants from Europe. European immigration began 300 years ago unlike the rest of Africa, where European immigration, had been much smaller and in some territories only as recently as 100 years ago. In the same way White Americans are known as Americans, Australians by their Continents name, so South Africa's White Natives adopted as their identity their Motherlands name; Afrikaners - Africa's original White Nation.
South Africa has the largest White population in Africa. The Republic of South Africa now includes 9 Black tribes who migrated into the area around 1500 and were granted independence between 1959 and 1981.
The incorporation of these developing cultures in 1994 has seriously stunted and endangered the Afrikaner Nation. Faced with impoverishment, genocide and extinction, The tragedy of Rhodesia today is widely seen as the future prospect of the once Great and Respected Nation of South Africa.
The 9 Black Tribes and their respective Homelands:
Sotho (Northern)
- Lebowa (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
Sotho (Southern)
- Qwaqwa (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
- Lesotho (Independent since 1966)
Swazi
- Kangwane (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
- Swaziland (Independent since 1968)
Tsonga (Shangaan)
- Gazankulu (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
- Mozambique(Independent since 1975)
Tswana
- Bophuthatswana (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
- Botswana (Independent since 1966)
Venda
- Venda (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
Xhosa
- Transkei (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
- Ciskei (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
Zulu
- Kwazulu (Annexed by South Africa in 1994)
Separate Development in South Africa
Dr. Verwoerd's policy of 'separate development' was implemented and is regrettably commonly confused with Gen. Smuts' apartheid.
Separate Development sought to pre-empt the need for large scale migration of people to the towns and cities, by developing the economies of the homelands instead.
Verwoerd argued that a policy of economic decentralization would make for a peaceful multicultural society, with each community exercising its right of political self-determination, the political catch phrase after World War 2.
Industrialists were encouraged with all sorts of tax incentives and labor benefits to establish industries on the homeland borders, resulting in a symbiotic relationship between labor and capital within a common economic system.
During the sixty's and seventy's, the country experienced an unprecedented economic growth. Unemployment was at its lowest in history.
Each homeland had its own Development Corporation. Large communal estates were established, which provided jobs for thousands of peasant workers and which injected millions of dollars into the communal coffers.
Tea estates, coffee plantations, citrus and dissiduous fruit estates with their own canning and processing facilities earned valuable foreign exchange for homelands and the region as a whole.
Universities and Technikons were established for each language group, decentralized in line with the overall policy and turning out thousands of literate black professionals.
New capital cities were built, each with its own parliament and administration complexes. South Africa's taxpayers gladly paid for "...these excesses of apartheid..." as they are being called nowadays.
Mother tongue education was the philosophy for primary, as well as high schools where practicable. Ironically, these institutions became the training ground for South Africa's black rulers of the New South Africa.
It was never understood that social apartheid was a distorted product of the country's British colonial history, whereas Separate Development is the application of the modern concept of Self-Determination for ethnic groups to preserve their identities and to foster peaceful co-existence with others without competing for the same resources.
There is no comparison between the economic development of the South African black homelands and the development of the independent neighboring black states outside South Africa's borders. Tragically, those 'apartheid' training grounds that served today's black leaders so well, have become relics of an apartheid past.
The development corporations have been disbanded.
The estates have been allowed to go to ruin.
Millions of jobless and roofless people are flocking to the cities and towns and live in abject poverty conditions in tin shacks, posing serious health and security problems in breeding grounds for crime.
A high price paid for a simplistic democratic system, now recognized by those familiar with the situation as a majoritarian tyranny.
An untenable social engineering process of nation building sustainable in a country with its deep historical ethnic fault lines.
Afrikaners are a crucial element to ensure the development of South Africa and the African continent.
Requiring acceptance and respect as White Africans with their own peculiar cultural needs, which they want to transfer to their children without interference and to be allowed to participate freely in the economy.
The laws that defined apartheid began to be repealed or abolished by the National Party in 1990 after economic sanctions were imposed from the international community.
