The Boer War: How The Jews Seized South Africa

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The Boer War: How
The Jews Seized
South Africa
By
Tony Norton
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CDL Report Issue 275 November 2004
The Boer War: How
The Jews Seized
South Africa
At the turn of the 19th century there occurred a war so devastating in its
consequences that the world is still feeling its effect. Perhaps the most
important result of the war is that the Jews gained control of the richest
gold deposits known to mankind, along with a diversity of minerals
seldom found in one country; all of which are of the greatest importance
to the West today. The purpose of this article is to summarize the causes
of the war, who was behind it, and what their motives were.
The Anglo-Boer War is not a well known event in the annuals of history.
Indeed, it is safe to say that it is a war which was swept under the carpet.
I doubt whether it is a subject which is ever mentioned in the classrooms
of U.S. schools and universities. This is no accident, but deliberate policy.
We need to look at the character and racial make up of the “Boers” as they
were called in the early part of the history of what is today South Africa.
The Boers were farmers; the racial make up of the Boer was not very
different from that of the people of the southern United States.
These pastoral people had a very strong sense of personal liberty as
opposed to the dictates of a central government. Coupled with their
highly developed concept of personal freedom was their religious belief,
consisting in the main of Protestant Calvinism, formalized in the Dutch
Reformed Church. They believed in the leadership of the white race, and
treated all of the coloured races in South Africa with benign paternalism.
They held to the teachings of the Old Testament namely that the stewardship
of the earth belonged to the white race. Coloured races were to be
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treated as stepchildren. They did not believe in, nor did they practice
slavery at any time in their history. This is where the Boers differed from
their cousins, the American colonists.
With the annexation of the Cape of Good Hope by the British, which was
to take over the Cape as a half way station for the British East India
Company, the Boers decided to move into the deserted hinterland of
South Africa rather than submit to British rule. It should be noted here,
that while the British East India Company was ostensibly a normal
trading company dealing in spices and tea in the Far East, it was in fact,
along with the Dutch East India Company, the vehicle by which the
profits from the opium trade in China were moved to England, and to a
lesser extent to Holland. It is a fact which is overlooked by most historians;
that the profits from the Chinese opium trade made possible the
active promotion of hostilities against the Boers. In fact, the tone for
action against the Boers was set: by the Treaty of Nanking, signed in
1842, which brought the British a vast fortune as well as the port of Hong
Kong, which to this day is the hub of dope distribution by the Chinese and
the British. Lord Palmerston (1830-1865) openly admitted Britain’s role
in the dope trade in China in a speech which he made in January 1841.
It is necessary to digress for a moment, and deal with the famous infrastructure
the British opium trade in China by establishing the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank, the door was opened for British imperialism at its
worst to sweep through China. Similarly, by establishing what was called
“suzerainty” over the Boer Republics. The British showed that the imperialistic
lesson they had learned in China could be equally profitably
applied in South Africa, only this time, it was gold, not opium, which was
the rich prize to be captured. Let none imagine that the British fought a
gentlemanly war against the Boers. In fact, the Boers, rough hewn as they
were, were, the ones who displayed most of the old world courtesy
toward their adversaries as we shall see. I say this because at the time the
war was promoted by the British, they enjoyed a high reputation as a
nation, of gentlemen of good conduct and sportsmanship, a reputation
richly deserved as events in South Africa showed all too clearly.
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The initial onslaught against the Boers took place a few years earlier, in
which the British were soundly defeated. The place was Majuba, the time
1881. Earlier, the British had annexed the Transvaal, an arbitrary action
without legal standing. The Boers, who had come thousands of miles
through a countryside which was anything but hospitable, fought back,
and at Majuba, under the leadership of the great Boer patriot Paul Kruger,
(the Krugerrand is named after him), soundly defeated the British. This
ought to have acted as a warning to the British imperialistic designs;
‘instead, it encouraged them to blunder into an even greater act of aggression,
the Anglo-Boer War. During the reign of Queen Victoria,
(1837-1901) Britain was at the height of its imperial power. No nation
dared cross the British monarch; even the Germans feared the lady Paul
Kruger called a “kwaai vrou” (an angry lady). Thus Majuba was an insult
to be wiped off the record. But we must look behind the scenes to see who
was responsible. The ordinary British citizen knew little of the backroom
politics, which sent its men folk off to fight a war in faraway South
Africa. Then as now, propaganda played a leading role. The big drum of
patriotism was banged, however patriotism was not an issue, but outright
greed by the Jews certainly was. Disregarding the warning of Majuba, the
British were told that their military machine would crush the citizen army
of the Boer farmers and return triumphant to the shores of England in a
matter of a few weeks.
War is costly. This was no less true in 1899 than it is today. The money
to prosecute the war against the Boer rebels was to come from the swollen
coffers of the opium traders, which meant that some of the most famous
and noble names of England would be involved. The opium trade had
made millions for the Keswicks, the Jardine Mathesons, the Barines, and
the Suthertands. The same names featured prominently in the fortunes
made through slave trading in the U.S. prior to the War Between the
States (the Civil War). The Southerland family was one of the largest
slave traders in the Americas, and you can add to the list, the Lehmans
and the Rothschilds, who entered the U.S. scene via the slave trade. As in
the case of the opium war against China, the willingness of Her Majesty’s
government to use all of its resources to crush the Boers, up to and
including full scale war, to support it’s false claims to the Transvaal gold
was evident at an early stage of the conspiracy. As in the case of the war
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on China, the British used ethnic origin and background as a weapon to
promote unrest in the independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and
the Orange Free State. Following the discovery of gold in the Transvaal,
a steady stream of “uitlanders” (foreigners) flocked to the Transvaal. It
was not long before the model of the Scottish Rite Freemason movement
used in China was also put to good use by the British in South Africa. As
in China, the mix was Italians, Jews, and of course, local Chinese.
During the life and after his death the dirty tricks operations of Lord
Palmerton’s China gang of ethnic Jews, the Order of the Zion of the
London based “Court Jews” was put to work in South Africa to foment
unrest and to demand “voting rights” and a voice in government; something
the vastly outnumbered Boers could not permit. The Jewish families
that today rule the gold trade, such as the Mocattos, the Monefiores,
the whole slew of well known Jewish names, learned their dirty tricks,
lessons in the pre-war days of the Boer Republics in South Africa. The
self same dirty tricks were used against the U.S. many years later in the
Vietnam era. In fact, Queen Victoria’s “favourite Jew was Sir Moses
Montefiore, who took command of the British Board of Deputies (Jews)
in 1835. As we shall see, it was the Jews who fomented the unrest in the
Boer Republics, unrest which eventually led to the unjust Anglo-Boer
War. It was Montefiore who took charge of the Order of Zion, and who
trained Jews for active duty in political trouble making in South Africa,
a process which continues to this day, and one which will not cease until
the Jew has open and full control of South Africa’s vast mineral wealth.
There is ample evidence that Montefiore’s Order of Zion was also very
active in the unrest in the U.S. which preceded the War Between the
States, and which led, eventually, to the murder of Abraham Lincoln. So
there is a very definite link between American history, and that of South
Africa. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a Jew from South Africa,
John Wilkes Booth. Real name Botha.
Like their American counterparts, the Boers had moved thousands of
miles to ensure their freedom from British control. They loved independence
more than anything else, and suffered incredible hardships in order
to establish their two republics in the Transvaal and the Orange Free
State. Like the American colonists, they opened up the vast African
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hinterland through their blood, sweat, toil and tears. The story of the
Great Trek from the Cape is one of the most moving in the annals of
modern man in his search for individual freedom and liberty. These
hardy, God fearing Christian people carved a civilization out of the
African wilderness, in much the same way as did the American colonists.
Now, owing to the machinations of the Order of Zion, the Freemasons led
by Rhodes and Milner, and the inside planning of the two Jews in
Johannesburg, Beit and Werhner, who later became fabulously wealthy
at the expense of the Boers, the Boers were faced with a full scale war by
the most powerful army in the world at that time.
As in the case of the Chinese opium diplomacy, the same tactics were
used to stir up trouble inside the Boer Republics. The Transvaal had
gained legal independence from the British at the Sand River Convention.
The Transvaal ruled by Paul Kruger and the Volksraad (peoples council)
was a legal entity. To undo this, the Jewish agitators Belt and Werhner
were put to work under the direction of Lord Alfred Milner and Cecil
John Rhodes to overturn the independence of this small nation and grab
the gold, the richest strikes ever found, for themselves and for international
Jewry.
The foreigners, who held no voting rights, were stirred up to demand
voting rights and change in the governing constitution If this sounds
familiar, it is the self same pattern still being used around the world today,
the so called “majority rule” plot. The Jews, ever the smoldering underground
force in any country, were particularly active in the Boer Republics.
They led demonstrations and riots, protests, and petitions to Queen
Victoria. Now one might ask what right did these foreigners have to
petition the Queen of England, when the question of law and order and
voting rights rested with an independent government, that of Paul Kruger
and the Boer citizens of the Transvaal Republic. As in the case of
Palmerston and the second Chinese opium war, the British moved with
alacrity to intervene in the internal affairs of Kruger’s republic, notwithstanding
the fact that the British had given up any such rights under the
terms of the Sand River Convention. Just as Lord Russell had written to
his grandson Lord Bertrand Russell (the fiend who introduced ‘drugs’ to
the U.S. saying: “We must in some way or another make the Chinese
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repent of the outrage.” (i.e. for daring to defend themselves against the
British opium families), so Lord Alfred Milner wrote to Rhodes and said
that the Boers must be punished for their intransigence (i.e. for refusing
to bow to Jewish agitation and British pressure to give up their legal
rights).
The same British families who opened the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank to facilitate the movement of drug money now set up show in
Johannesburg in order to get control of this gold, which belonged to the
Boers. The criminal conspiracy of the British cabinet which ran the
opium war now extended its influence and power through Freemasonry
to the Transvaal. Behind Prime Minister Palmerston’s fine facade of
respectability was the rotten degeneracy of British aristocracy, besotted
by the evil of high Masonry. It was only after the Military Commission
on the murder of Lincoln made its findings public that some of the sordid
details of Palmerston’s connections with the Scottish Rite Freemason
lodges became known. I mention this, to remind my renders of the strong
links between U.S. history and the Boer War, i.e. the same people ran
both the American War Between the States, and the Boer War.
The Chinese Triads, the Order of Zion, were all part of the dirty tricks
organized to upset both America, and later, the Boer Republics. The trail
leads back directly to the British Court Jews and the Scottish Rite Freemasons.
We should not overlook the part played by the Jews in the Masonic
Order. Their starting point was the B’nai B’rith, also called the Constitutional
Grand Lodge of the Order of the Sons of the Covenant, which was
recognized as a branch of the Scottish Rite. This was headquartered at
450 Grand Street, Manhattan, in the home of Joseph Seligman. The B’nai
B’rith was nothing but an intelligence front for the Montefiores and the
Rothschilds as was proven with the advent of Judah P. Benjamin, a
British subject, and leader of the B’nai B’rith to the post of Confederate
Secretary of War! Confederate General Albert Pike, a Grand Commander
of the Scottish Rite, completed the deep penetration of the South by these
agents of Satan.
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The Boers, innocent of the real forces arrayed against them, thought that
they had only to defend themselves against a massive and powerful
military machine.
They did not know of the powers of darkness, the forces of spiritual
wickedness in high places, which were to be brought to bear upon their
tiny nation. Britain’s element of subversion was the large force of Jews
and other foreigners who flocked to the Transvaal following the discovery
of gold there. The Order of Zion was quick to utilize this force to
carry out acts of rebellion and to foment unrest in Kruger’s republic. The
Menorah, a Jewish publication, was quite open about the relationship
between the Scottish Rite and itself, and wrote that the Odd Fellows, the
Masons and other secret “benevolent” societies were all based upon
Jewish ideas.
As space does not permit further digression into the links behind the War
Between the States and the Boer War I will proceed with a summary of
events which led up to actual hostilities erupting in South Africa. The
foreigners kept up a drum beat for their “rights” (just as they had done in
Tsarist Russia) and in this way they were aided by a prostituted British
press, which loudly proclaimed the arrogance of the Boers, and demanded
that the Boers be punished. Particularly vehement lying was the Jewish
correspondent of the London Times. This vilification of Boers reached
hysterical proportions at times, stirring up resentment among the ill
informed British public back in England. The British leaders also understated
the tenacity of the Boers, as nationalists, as fighters, and as clever
politicians. They told the public, that British citizens were being badly
treated in the Transvaal, which was an insult to the British Queen and the
Union Jack. Such a situation was not to be tolerated, they said, by the
British Parliament.
When things were going too slow for Beit and Werhner, direct action to
speed up a war was instituted by these two men, who more than any
others, apart from their collaborators, Rhodes and Milner, were directly
responsible for the vicious and cruel war that was to come, working,
lovers of the soil, a simple pastoral people, a people Churchill once
described as a “mixture of squire and peasant.” One of the most important
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beliefs held by the Boers was that the coloured races were to be kept
absolutely separated from the white race. They believed in the superiority
of the white race, based on Biblical injunctions. This was used against
them by the agitators, in much the same way as the issue of slavery was
used to drum up support for the War Between the States in an earlier part
of the century.
The Boers feared the vast influx of newcomers with their godless ways,
their foreign languages and customs. They feared the manner in which
these newcomers crossed racial lines. Greatly outnumbered, the Boers
took measures to protect their cultural and religious beliefs.
The measures which Kruger took were quite properly based on a very real
fear, that the Boers would be swamped if he did not protect their heritage.
The foreigners were not allowed to vote, and could hot obtain citizenship.
Eventually, the British Parliament intervened on the, side of the foreigners,
insisting that they be allowed to have “rights” to which they were not
entitled. Passions ran high in England as tales of great suffering by the
“British” (mainly Jews) unfolded in the Times and Daily Telegraph. Calls
for action were sounded by British politicians of all stripes. The legal
agreement of the Sand River Convention was forgotten. Still, Kruger
sought to avoid hostilities. He wished the death of no white men, surrounded
as were the Boers by the black races. He could not understand,
why white men should want to fight each other in the face of what he
considered the common danger, the coloured races. In this Kruger had no
conception of the nature of the forces arrayed against him.
A giant of a man, Paul Kruger spent much of his time meeting with
petitioners from his own people on the “stoep” (porch) of his simple home
in Pretoria, with a Bible in one hand to guide him, and a cup of coffee
never far away. He belonged to an ultra-conservative sect of Dutch
Reformed church called the Dopper Kerk. He was nonplussed and astounded,
that white men would want to fight to protect the so called
“rights” of non whites. He was a modest and simple man not given to
outward trappings of power. He never seemed to realize, that the real
issue was not the rights of the foreigners, but the desire of the Jews to
grab the gold of the Transvaal., He was a humble man dedicated to his
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people. It is fair to say that Kruger did everything he could to prevent
actual war, including a personal visit to Queen Victoria. But against the
evil doings of Milner, Rhodes and the Court Jews, he had no defence.
The British, goaded on by the Court Jews and the Freemasons, got the
war they longed for. As usual, the ordinary people had not the slightest
idea of why they were going to war. Patriotism. was the issue, just as it
was in the Malvinas war. Then the plotters Milner, Beit and Werhner,
along with the arch villain Rhodes, made their first blunder. They arranged
for a British imperialist, Dr. Jameson, to invade the Transvaal
from outside the borders, march on Johannesburg, and declare the Transvaal
to be British territory. The Jews Beit and Werhner were supposed to
raise a force inside Johannesburg, that would rise against the Boer forces
at the same time. In fact, the rebellion never materialized; it was never
intended to. The Jews had no compunction in double crossing Jameson.
Jameson and his band of raiders were financed by the Jew Alfred Beit,
who was one of the main trouble makers inside the Transvaal, and
Jameson saw himself as a crusader, not a raider and an outlaw. With a
force of about 270 men on horseback and accompanied by black trackers
and guides, Jameson set off to topple Kruger, after a rousing rendition of
“God Save the Queen.” Kruger and the Boer general Joubert had received
information of the planned invasion and waited until Jameson and his
men were almost within sight of Johannesburg before decisively crushing
them in the most humiliating manner. This in itself ought to have been a
warning to the British people that the Boers were not going to be a
pushover. Coupled with, the rout of the British at Majuba in the first Boer
war, it should have down right alarmed the citizens of England.
Instead, it only inflamed passions against the Boer “enemy.”
Let us not pass judgment on the ordinary British people, after all, we in
America were misled in the same way in both the world wars. The
Scottish Rite Freemason Lord Alfred Milner, who hated the Boers and
their simple religious and racial beliefs, openly admitted fomenting war.
In a letter to Lord Roberts he said: “I precipitated the crisis, which was
inevitable, before it was too late. It is not very agreeable and in many
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eyes, not very creditable piece of business, to have been largely instrumental
in bringing about a big war.” So with Milner agitating in England,
and Rhodes doing the same with the “uitianders” (foreigners) in South
Africa, the stage was set for a major war.
The Boer leaders had been laying in supplies of weapons for some time,
mostly from Germany, and consisting of Mauser rifles of the new five
shot type, and sonic field guns, The British had modernized their army
with 6 shot magazine loaded Lee Metford rifles. The Boer war was to be
a major testing ground for new weapons and new military tactics. The
scope of the war can be gauged by comparing the fact that the British
eventually had 400,000 men in the field in South Africa. The Americans
in Vietnam numbered some 500,000 men.
The Boers had no regular standing army. Their force, never more than
30,000 men under arms at any given time, was strictly a volunteer
citizens’ army. They never wore uniforms, and never indulged in parade
ground drilling or regular military exercises. But at the earlier battle of
Majuba, they proved to be deadly accurate shots, excellent horsemen, and
skilled guerrilla fighters. At Majuba in. 1881, General Joubert had
thrashed the British army under General Colley. One lesson the British
did learn from, Jauba was in future wars, in South Africa, the red coat
uniform had to go, and it was replaced by the drab khaki uniform in time
for the major war now looming.
The Jameson Raid, planned by Rhodes and Milner, and financed by the
Jews Beit and Werhner, was the catalyst which started the war. General
Jan Smuts said after the war (1906) that “The Jameson Raid was the real
declaration of war in the great Anglo-Boer conflict and that in spite of the
four year truce that followed, the aggressors (the British) consolidated
their alliance, the defenders on the other hand grimly prepared for the
inevitable.”
All of Paul Kruger’s efforts to find a solution to averting the war were
nullified by Rhodes, Milner, Beit and Werhner. The stage was set for one
of the most cruel, savage, corrupt and ugly wars ever to be waged, a war
which gave birth to the policies of attacking the civilian population,
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concentration camps, and scorched earth policies. It also showed the utter
disdain of the British hierarchy for the welfare of its own troops, many of
whom were left wounded and lying out in the blazing African sun for
three days, while efforts by the Boers to negotiate a truce so that they
could be attended to went unanswered. The callous brutalities endured by
the Boer civilian population will be catalogued during the course of this
article.
On September 8th 1899, the British sent 10,000 men to South Africa, an
act of hostility which Kruger demanded be rescinded. The British sneered
at Kruger’s ultimatum that unless Her Majesty’s government recalled the
troops, the Boers would consider themselves at war with the British. The
Times called it “An infatuated step.” The Telegraph said, “Of course,
there can only be one answer to this grotesque challenge —- Mr Kruger
has asked for war, and he must have it.” The British troops left Southampton
on October 14th 1899, to the cheers of a large patriotic crowd, with,
flags flying and banners waving. Neither they nor, their commanding
officer, General Butler had any idea of the terrible hardships they would
soon be called upon to endure. The British public was told that the war
would be over in three weeks, and the Boers were going to be taught a
severe lesson.
With the billions of pounds at their disposal mainly the profits from the
Chinese opium trade: the British sent out the best equipped army the
world had ever seen. The khaki uniforms were well made, and the men
carried the latest quick firing rifles with a range of over one thousand
yards. They had plenty of artillery, and even observation balloons. This
was indeed a formidable fighting force, a professional army in every
sense of the word. Many of the crack regiments fell over each other for
the honour of going to beat the Boers who had insulted their Queen;
regiments such as the Grenadier Guards, the Royal Scots Greys, the
Royal Irish Fusiliers and on and on.
The Boers on the other hand were an undisciplined force of irregulars,
ranging in age from fourteen to seventy. Their leader, General Plet
Joubert had no formal military training, and no military manuals to guide
him. Nevertheless, at Majuba and against the Jameson Raiders, he had
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proved himself to be a brilliant and brave leader of men, a natural soldier.
Photos of the period show just how young (and old) some of the Boer
soldiers were. The photos also show the type of clothing worn by Joubert’s
men. Small wonder that the British, accustomed to victory after
victory in China, Sudan and India, looked down upon the rag tag army
that was to challenge their elite forces. The British were confident that
after a few short, sharp skirmishes, the. Boers would lay down their arms.
One soldier, Lt. R. Kentish of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, in a letter to his
mother on October 12th 1899 wrote, “I don’t think the Boers will have a
chance, although I expect there will be one or two stiff little shows here
and there. I think they (the Boers) are awful idiots to fight, although we
of course, are very keen that they should” A British officer of higher rank,
writing to the instigator of the war, Lord Alfred Milner, said, “I hope to
hear that Symons (the British general) has taken tea with the Boers at
Dundee.” That is how confident the rank and file as well as the officers
were, that the Boers were going to be soundly defeated in short order.
But the British had underestimated the will of the Boers. When General
Joubert’s troops rose up “like ants from the ground” to smash Jameson,
they had come from New Year festivities. Many wearing their Sunday
clothing, with bandoliers stretched across their shoulders. They made
short work of Jameson’s trained soldiers, and captured a black box
containing all of the proof needed to show, that Milner and Rhodes were
implicated in the raid up to their necks, along with the British Prime
Minister. The denials by the conspirators were proved to be blatant lies.
This deeply angered the “farmer soldiers” and stiffened their determination
to rid themselves of the British for once and for all. Of course, the
ordinary Boer soldier had no idea that at the bottom of it all was the
machinations of international Jewry. True to Weishaupt’s dictates, the
master Jews took good care to hide behind the scenes.
The first set battle of the war occurred at Talana in Natal. The British
troops under the command of General Symons were attacked by some
three thousand Boers under the leadership of Lucas Meyer. The British
were soundly defeated, and General Symons left, mortally wounded.
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The huge Union Jack that had been flying over the British camp was shot
to pieces. The roar of rapid firing Mauser rifles, never before experienced
by British troops, unnerved them. The British lost 53 killed and 203
wounded. The Boer commandos escaped on horseback long before the
British could rally and counter attack. It was a horrifying portent of what
was to come for the British forces.
The next battle took place at Elandslaagte, near Ladysmith on October
21st 1899. A commando of mounted Boers, under the leadership of
Commandant Koch, had come into the area against the express orders of
General Joubert.
Kock’s forces numbered 1,000 men and 3 field guns. The British forces
numbered over 3,000 men, including cavalry and 18 field guns. The
British took Kock by surprise, and the Boers had to flee. They were
cut-off; and the British cavalry, in
spite of a white flag of surrender, stormed through the Boer lines, stabbing
them with lances and cut ting them with sabres as the Boers tried to
surrender. One British officer called it “Excellent pig sticking.” But a
private wrote home saying “It was a terrible thing, we went along sticking
our lances through them.” The order had been given before the fight that
no prisoners were to be taken, so in spite of crying surrender, the Boers
were none the less slaughtered. But some were taken prisoner, and the
Boer survivors were marched through the streets of Ladysmith past
jeering blacks, who called out after them “where is your pass” (All black
people at that time, in South Africa had to carry an identification card, or
face arrest.)
The Boers still believed that this was a white man’s war, a war among
gentlemen. They were to be sadly disillusioned. The next major engagement
took place at Dundee. General Joubert had crept up in the night and
surrounded the British garrison. The British had just that day received the
news of the defeat of Kock at Elandslaace, and were told that the Boers
were in total retreat. The commander of the garrison, General White,
called for reinforcements, but none came. Far from being in retreat, the
Boers were there in strength. Eventually, the British forces were able to
escape during a heavy rainstorm one night, a humiliating set back for
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what was the pride of the British army. Several British officers and about
one thousand men stayed behind to supervise the hospital and tend the
wounded. When the Boers rode into the camp, the leaders were dressed
in ordinary working clothes. The British officers were astounded at the
casual dress, but surrendered the camp, complete with pitched tents and
equipment, to the Boer officers. Donegan, the British commander, had his
field glasses and revolver taken; otherwise the Boers treated the prisoners
with civility. Altogether the booty was supplies for forty days for five
thousand men, equipment, trophies and most valuable, the code book
used by the British.
General Sir Symons had been mortally wounded in an earlier battle, and
he died in the hospital. General Erasmus, the Boer commander, asked to
be allowed to see the face of the British leader saying that he had heard
that Symons was a brave man. When he saw the dead man Erasmus said,
“it is a pity, this war.” The Boers attended the funeral service and helped
with the wounded. They also helped collect the bodies of the British
soldiers, which lay on the battlefield. The British lost 28 men, and the
men who had remained behind. The wounded were allowed to go to the
British encampment in Ladysmith, which the Boers promptly began to
lay siege to the main force which had fled Dundee in the night, was cause
for much bitterness among the British war correspondents. A beaten army
is never a pretty sight, especially when it is the pride of a nation, and has
suffered defeat at the hands of an irregular force which by all accounts
was supposed to be inferior. One of the correspondents wrote “What a
bitter shame, all ashamed of England. Once more England is the source
of laughter to her enemies.” But before this force, consisting of some of
the crack regiments of the British army, could reach the safety of Ladysmith,
they were attacked by Boer commandos on horseback. The Boers
could hit almost any target while riding at full gallop. They put the fear
of God into the British troops, who broke their nerve lost. The Calvary,
which had speared the helpless Boer prisoners, was routed, and straggled
into Ladysmith, “A streaming mass of clubbed and broken cavalry” as
one observer put it. It was the last occasion on which cavalry played a role
in the war, and it led to the eventual abandonment of cavalry as a fighting
unit in the British army.
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The news of the reverse, and the possible siege of Ladysmith sent shock
waves coursing through the British public. In England, the voice of Lloyd
George was raised in protest at the British actions in South Africa, but in
general, the Scottish Rite Freemason dominated cabinet of Queen Victoria
was determined to destroy the small Boer nation, and General Buller
was ordered to South Africa with a mass of men and equipment with
orders to vigorously prosecute the war. There is a strange parallel here
between what happened in the Boer republics and Vietnam.
Meanwhile back in Ladysmith, British General White hesitated long
enough for the Boers to come up and surround the garrison, cutting the
telegraph line to Durban, and isolating the British garrison in what would
turn out to be a humiliating siege, probably one of the worst chapters in
the annals of British military history. News of the battles and the death of
Symons came to Buller en route to Cape Town; a passing ship held up a
sign announcing “Three battles, Boers defeated, Penn Symons killed.”
Soldiers on the H.M.S. Dunnottar Castle were shocked; they thought the
war would be over before they had a chance to fight in it! But by the time
Butler disembarked in Capetown and hurried off to see Milner, the news
of the disaster-at Ladysmith and the crushing defeat of the British at
Nicholson’s Nek came through, but were held back from the public.
Butler found the Freemason leader, an ardent pupil of the communist
John Ruskin, in a state of agitated fear. Milner complained that everything
was going wrong; he had badly underestimated the Boers. He told
Butter that he was “quaking with fear.” Strange words indeed from the
man who had started the war. As for the Boers, they did not change their
ways or their tactics. They did no training; they did not like to fight on
Sundays, preferring to attend church services. The Bible was a book,
which was always in the one hand, along with a Mauser in the other.
Kruger refused to celebrate the victory of his men. He felt, and said that
it was a sad thing to see white men killing each other, a lesson we could
have, but did not, benefit from in the wars which were to follow. All he
said was “God has given us a great victory.”
Of even greater reliance to Cecil Rhodes was the fact that Boer commandos
were converging upon Kimberley, diamond capital of the world.
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Rhodes, a man given to shrill condemnation of the Boers in his high
falsetto voice, lashed out also at the ineptitude of the Queen’s army. And
no wonder, since Kimberly was the cornerstone of his fortune. He held
daily consultations with the Jew financier Alfred Beit one of the prime
movers of rebellion against Paul Kruger’s government, as to what should
be done. Instead of getting out the way, Rhodes rushed off to Kimberly,
as though he could do any good there, and proceeded to be a thorn in the
side of the British garrison during the ensuing siege. Rhodes kept on
sending, messages to Milner, and later, when in fact Kimberly was
surrounded by the Boer forces, he even threatened to hand over the town
to them, unless Milner sent relief forces to his aid at once. Thus was the
true character of the man revealed, a man who on the one hand claimed
to be a great British imperialist, yet who stood ready and prepared to
surrender to the Boers as a matter of expediency. Those who know only
the side of Rhodes around which the scholarship named after him is
wrapped, will be shocked to learn more of his true hyena like character,
a subject I shall deal with later.
There were many minor skirmishes, most of which went badly for the
British. The towns of Kimberley and Ladysmith were besieged, shutting
off several thousand British troops. Altogether an unflattering situation
for an army which hitherto had nothing but one victory after another in
India and the Sudan. The British were finding out that “Johnny Boer” as
they called the Boer soldier was made of sterner stuff than the Indians and
the Sudanese. Butler, in the meantime, arrived in Durban, Natal (a British
colony) and was waiting for more reinforcements to arrive from England.
From the Cape (also a British, colony from which the Boers had trekked
rather than suffer British rule) another British general was preparing to
march off to relieve the squealing Rhodes in Kimberley. Lt. General Lord
Methuen had no way of knowing, but it would not be many months
before he and the pride of the British army suffered a crushing and utterly
devastating defeat.
Lord Methuen was a true’ aristocrat, and like Buller he was not altogether
happy with the unjust war being waged against a small pastoral nation.
He had been caught once expressing such doubts, and it nearly cost him
his support in high places, the support of men like Lord Lansdowne, the
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War Minister. Butler too was not altogether happy about the reasons
advanced for the war. There is some evidence that he felt very uncomfortable
with the role being played by the two Jews, Werhner and Beit, whom
he regarded with suspicion. Also, he did not care for falsetto voiced Cecil
Rhodes.
Such ideas then, as now, he realized were best left unsaid. One thing
Methuen had quickly learned since his arrival, this was a war in which the
enemy was able to make himself nearly invisible. He had read the reports
of previous battles in which the British soldiers complained of hardly
ever being able to see their targets. “Where are the Boers” was a frequently
asked question. This was no parade ground war. Drift work was of no
value. Also, the new smokeless long range magazine rifles of the Boers,
and the Lee Enfield rifles of the British made it a war in which the usual
reconnaissance had become obsolete. So often the Boers would ride up
behind a hill, dismount, and fire upon the surprised British forces, who
were unable to see the khaki clad Boers taking cover on the boulder
strewn slopes of the hill. They then would melt away, mount their ponies
and gallop off before the British had a chance to recover. This was unlike
any military manual set piece, and the British discovered to their chagrin
and their cost, that the Boers were past masters at it!
Lord Methuen studied all of these problems before setting out from the
Cape to cross the Orange River on his way to relieve the quavering
Rhodes in Kimberley.. One of the war correspondents who accompanied
Meuthuens army was Julian Ralph of the London Daily Mall At the
crossing point of the Orange River he had ridden out to see first hand the
outcome of a skirmish between a British scouting party and the nearly
invisible Boers. What he found did not please him.
The first sight of blood or a bullet hole in a man is always a shock. The
Boers had just surprised a British scouting party under Colonel George
Gough’s command. A train had been sent out to bring the mauled British
back across the river. Ralph saw six dead soldiers, four of them officers.
“The Boers will not play the game fairly,” a fellow officer said. Ralph
looking at the gleaming insignias on the officer’s uniform was not surprised.
The Boers had a reputation for deadly marksmanship, and shining
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insignias were no doubt a target too good to be missed. It was no small
wonder that so many officers were casualties, usually in the opening
minutes of the battles. The Boers had become strategists, their orders
were “pick off the officers first.” Methuen issued orders that henceforth
buttons and insignias were to be blacked out before any action.
The immediate result of the loss of Gough’s scouting party was more
quaking, fear from Milner, and even more falsetto bleating from Rhodes.
Neither of the two great imperialists, the ardent admirers of Ruskin the
old school communist, could understand how it was, that the pride of the
British was suffering daily humiliation at the hands of a “backward”
nation they despised so much for its religious and racial beliefs, and for
its love of the land.
The main problem facing Methuen was “where were the Boers.” With the
Mauser’s long range, scouting in the flat open country around the Orange
River was impossible. So Methuen had to rely on reports brought in by
blacks, unreliable at best, and sometimes pure invention.
In addition, Meuthen lacked the needed transport animals, so supplies had
to be brought up from the Cape on the vulnerable single railway. Thus
Meuthen had to go straight in the direction of Kimberley, following the
railway line. Surprise was out of the question, it would have to be British
luck which would see them through. On the evening of November Blast
1899, Meuthen’s army started to roll over the Orange River towards
Kimberley in a three mile long column, and reached the north bank
without incident. The march continued with skirmishes at Belmont and
Graspan. The casualties sickened Meuthen. He lost 297 men killed and
wounded, while the Free State Boers lost 130 men. Meuthen hated the
war, and he wrote to his wife to say so, “People congratulate me, and look
upon me as their father, but I detest war, the more I see of it. I have
already buried 13 officers and men. There is a poor fellow outside my
tent, groaning and moaning, shot through the chest; he is at last silent,
perhaps God has released him.” The pride of the British Army, the
Grenadiers lost 136 men killed and wounded at Belmont.
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Poor mobility and weak intelligence was the prime cause of the British
losses Fine uniforms, discipline, and plenty of food could not make, up
for it. By contrast the Boer forces were showing signs of wear. At best
they were very poor people. There was little money to go around. Food
was always in short supply. They had to live and fight in the same clothes.
Some of them were even bare footed. Yet what they lacked in military
equipment was made up by their fighting spirit, their love of the land their
belief that they were fighting for their existence as a nation. Even the very
young and the very old did not waver. It is a remarkable story of human
fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming odds.
At Belmont, things had gone badly for the British. The Boers, although
outnumbered four to one, held good cover among the rocks and boulders
of the small hills which dot the area. Once again, they were almost
invisible. Their deadly accurate rifle fire was a horror not previously
faced by the British troops. The short, sharp engagement put the three
defensive hills in the hands of the British, but when they crested the
slopes, they saw, what the British troops at Talana had seen before them;
the mounted Boers melting away in the distance.
On the night of November 27th 1899, Methuen paused to take stock of
his position. He did not know it, but one of the most decisive battles of
the war was about to begin, one which would stun the British Empire and
cause dismay and fear in the hearts of Rhodes and Milner.
The Boers had a secret weapon; the spade. Up until this war, the spade
had not played a role in modern warfare. But at this point in history, it
was used with remarkable success by the “stupid peasants,” as Lord
Milner described the Boers, to telling effect. On Saturday, December 9th
1899, General Wauchope of the Highland Brigade detailed the plan of
attack to his superior officer, Lord Methuen. The British had brought up
crates of champagne with which to celebrate the up coming victory.
Incidentally, the champagne was a gift from Lord Rothschild, the Jewish
banker, who was heavily involved in financing the war (and reaping huge
profits) and who stood to control the goldfields if the British won.
Wauchope’s plan called for a night march, followed by a dawn attack.
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But the British were not sure of where the main Boer forces were
positioned. Using the spade, they had dug false fortifications on top of the
ridge of hills, where the British could see it. They also sent Boer horsemen
up along the skyline just long enough to be seen by Methuen’s
forces. A short sharp engagement was the way Wauchope saw it, if
Kimberley was to be revealed, and the shrill falsetto of Cecil Rhodes
complaints to Queen Victoria ended. Rhodes was still trapped by the Boer
forces, along with ten thousand black miners, inside Kimberley, much to
his rage and chagrin, at Modder river. They had dug in deep and well,
using thorn bushes to completely conceal their positions. The secret
weapon, the spade, was about to pay off! The Boers, under the leadership
of De La Ray and Cronje waited in their trenches as the leading columns
of companies A and B approached them, then when they saw the flicker
of bayonets, at four hundred yards, the Boers opened fire. A sheet of
flame seemed to erupt from under their feet, one soldier stated later. A
sergeant of the Argyles said “It was as if a great roaring opened up” and
“it was like a dam bursting its walls.” The Boers poured into the serried
ranks, confusion reigned, orders and counter orders flew almost as thick
as the bullets. The soldiers broke and ran, trampling on each other in
panic. The deadly fire mowed them down, so that they were forced to fall
on their faces and lie there. Any movement brought a Mauser bullet, the
Boers were deadly marksmen, and they were proving it. Even a hand
reached for a canteen of water, and the soldier was instantly killed.
For hours the Highlanders were pinned down, and as the sun began to
strengthen, they suffered from its piercing rays; later it beat down so
fiercely that some soldiers, crazed with thirst and delirious from heat,
staggered up, only to be immediately shot down. The pride of the British
army, the Guards, and the Highlanders, the apple of the eye of Queen
Victoria, mightiest monarch on earth, had been thrashed and humiliated
by the despised Boers. Lord Methuen, stunned by the savage defeat, sat
under the shade of a tree all day long, as if unable to move. Unlike the
Boers leaders, General De La Ray, and General Cronje, he took no part
in the fighting. Finally the British artillery was able to get a bearing and
began to pound the Boer lines. Some soldiers, who had lain prone in the
burning heat for 9 hours, had the skin from the back of their legs scorched
off below their kilts. Eventually they could stand no more. First a few,
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then many, then a rush took place as the Highlanders fled back in panic.
One officer described the scene thus: “I saw a sight I never hope to see
again: men of the Highland divisions running for all they were worth,
Still others cowering under bushes, some behind the guns (artillery), with
officers running around, revolvers in hands, threatening to shoot them,
others kicking the men. Wauchope was found dead, along with 902
British troops. The Boers lost 216 men.
This battle, one of the most significant in the annals of modern warfare,
has been swept under the, rug. What should be remembered is that the
Boers were only civil militiamen, comparable to the men who fought in
the American Revolution. Yet they were able to defeat in a resounding
manner, the cream of the finest army in the world, even though outnumbered
ten to one.
Their secret was their deep abiding faith in the Bible, and their love of the
land. They were in short, not able to be corrupted and seduced by
international Jewry. Sad to say, the same does not hold true of present day
leaders in South Africa. The young Afrikaner businessman has been led
astray by the machinations of Jewry, and today, the leadership lacks the
old deep rooted faith in the Bible, and the love of the land. The present
leadership of South Africa is not fit to stand in the same room with the
Boers of 1899.
After Lord Methuen’s shattering defeat which shocked the British Empire
(by then there were Canadians and Australians serving with the British
forces) a new spirit of ruthlessness seized the leaders of the conspiracy.
Lord Milner at the Cape advocated harsher methods, as did Cecil Rhodes.
In a very short while, the Boers inflicted further disasters upon the British
forces in Natal, where the British, led by General Buller, although out
numbering the Boers by as much as 10 to 1, were soundly thrashed on
several battle fields. Altogether it was a stunning and astonishing spectacle,
the mightiest army, fully, equipped with the most modern weapons,
beaten and disgraced upon the fields of battle. Not by a regular trained
army, but by a scratch force of men, looked down upon by Rhodes, and
despised by Milner, poorly equipped and with little or no military experience.
At Frere, and at the Tugela River, the British were repulsed with
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heavy loss of life. General Louis Botha, the Boer commandant, proved to
be more than a match for the Sandhurst trained officers of Queen Victoria’s
army.
Yet the Boers were dismayed by the slaughter.
The Boers heard the British general remark that he was a finding himself
in a position subordinate to the Boers, whom he despised and detested as
inferiors. Wauchope fell for the Boer trick. He told his commander that
the main Boer position was on top of Magersfontien Hill. The three crack
Scottish regiments, Black Watch, Seaforth Highlanders and Argyles,
were to storm the hill at dawn. At 3 am three thousand of Britain’s finest
moved out of their base camp toward the Magersfontien Hill, six miles
away. The African heat was fierce, and as had often happened, several of
the troops collapsed from heat and sun stroke. Behind the troops came the
British artillery, five batteries in all. The Highlanders had covered their
bright buttons and tartan with khaki. As is common in Africa, the weather
changed, and a sleety rain began to fall. The soldiers carried no coats so
they got soaked. About three miles from the Magersfontein Hill, a halt
was called, and camp made for the night, right out in the open, with no
shelter of any kind. Wauchope rode back to give final briefing to Lord
Methuen, who decided to hold back the Guards and 9th Brigade as
reserves.
Meanwhile the British artillery began the biggest bombardment up to that
time, against what they thought was the Boer positions on top of Magersfontein
Hill. For the rest of the afternoon, the dust and red dirt thrown up
by exploding shells from the British artillery, filled the sky. Later Methuen
admitted that the only thing the shelling did, was warn the Boer
forces of his impending attack. With the coming of night, the winds
turned icy; no one who has not slept out on the African veldt at night
without cover can imagine how cold it gets. The men were under orders
not to make fires; they lay down to sleep in wet clothes, having eaten cold
food. At midnight a strong wind sprang up, and the sky rumbled and
reverberated with rolling thunder from a storm.
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Wauchope compressed his men, who were woken up at midnight, into a
column 45 yards wide, 30 companies, 90 files, all according to British
parade ground drill. The column was about 160 yards long, joined
together with knotted ropes, so that they would not lose contact in the
darkness of the pitch black moonless night. The march was led by Major
Benson, with the aid of a compass, a really tricky procedure to be
followed by disaster. Wauchope had done night marches in the Sudan,
over sand, clear of obstacles, the night sky brilliant. This was different.
The terrain over which the soldiers had to pass was strewn with boulders,
holes, defiles and thorn bushes, difficult enough in daylight, but now, a
nightmare. The howling wind, blue white flashes of lightning and rolling
thunder made the scene one out of a Shakespeare set, only this was
reality. As the sky began to brighten a bit near morning, the column was
almost at the exact spot chosen by Lord Methuen, a tribute to the skill of
Benson.
The column halted, Benson telling Wauchope this was as far as his men
could go. The Boers were about to spring the trap. Wauchope figured that
his men, having been in darkness for so long, would be able to see better
than the Boer riflemen, so he decided to storm the ridge at once. The
order was given to fix bayonets. What Wauchope and Methuen did not
know was that under cover of darkness, for at least a week before, the
Boers had dug a line of trenches and fortifications at the base of Magersforitein,
extending around the only way through, right up to the banks of
the rive.
It was a shame that white men should be fighting each other. That indeed
was the tragedy of the Boer War, which was to be repeated on a vast scale
in World War 1 and 11. We Christians never seem to learn from our
mistakes. In spite of winning on the battlefield, the Boers took no comfort
from the losses of the British. In the meantime, the real enemy, Werhner
and Belt, Cecil Rhodes and Lord Milner kept well out of sight.
Space does not permit me to go into the many battles that were fought.
But the Boers proved to be more than a match for the British forces,
which in 1900 numbered over 400,000 men.
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One of those major battles was fought at Tugela River, near Ladysmith.
Here the largest British army to march into battle since Alma, fifty years
earlier, saw action against General Botha and his rag-tag citizens army.
Sixteen battalions of infantry, cavalry and heavy guns started out toward
the Boer position. It was a David and Goliath affair, but the fearless Botha
held his ground against the Irish Fusiliers, the Connaught Rangers and
some of Britain’s finest regiments. The outcome stunned the British
public, by now somewhat accustomed to shocks from South Africa.
General Butiler’s army was defeated by the Boers. A general retreat even
turned to a rout. It was a great day and a great victory for the Boers. It also
cost Buller his job; he was relieved of his command and sent home. His
successor was Lord Roberts.
Prime Minister Balfour chose Roberts, who was a court friend, although
not liked by Queen Victoria. No sooner had Roberts arrived in South
Africa than he was persuaded to adopt a code of war against the Boer
civilian population, the first official such action recorded. Where the
British army and the foreigners who flooded the Transvaal had failed to
change the ways of the Boers, Roberts thought he would do so by a direct
assault on the Boer family unit. Immediate plans were laid by the High
Command to implement a scorched earth policy, destroy the crops and
cattle, burn down the homesteads, and put the women and children in
concentration camps. Hitter has often been accused of being the man who
started civilian concentration camps. The truth is, the distinction belongs
to the British, who at the urging of Milner and Rhodes, saw it as a way to
bring the Boers to heel. It was dirty war at its worst.
The Boer housewife was particularly hated by Milner and Rhodes. She
was the rock of the family; she did all of the domestic work. Even
President Kruger’s wife milked the cows. The Boer women kept the farm
going and the family together while the men were away fighting the war.
In the end, they even did the ploughing and sowing of seeds.
Together these men went to work in earnest. Boer farms were destroyed
and cattle killed. Women and children were herded into camps, without
any proper sanitation, or shelter, other than the ordinary bell tent. It was
a scene set for disaster, which was not long in coming. When the Boer
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women, left standing on the open veldt, their homes burning in the
background, were asked about the war, by British soldiers, they said they
would never give up fighting, no matter how long it took. One of the
British officers assigned to the dirty war wrote home as follows; “The
worst moment is when you first come to the house. The people thought
we had come for refreshments, one women went to get milk. Then we had
to tell them that we had to burn the place down. I simply don’t know
which way to took. I gave the inmates, three women and some children,
ten minutes to clear their clothes and things out of the house, and my men
fetched bundles of straw and we proceeded to burn it down. The old
grandmother was very angry. Most of them were too miserable to curse.
The women cried and the children stood by holding on to them, looking
at the house with large frightened eyes. They won’t forget that sight, I’ll
bet a sovereign, not even when they grow up. We rode away and left them
standing, a forlorn little group among their household goods, beds and
furniture strewn about the veldt; the crackling of the fire in their ears, and
smoke and flames streaming overhead.”
Thus did the British High command demean itself. Later he same tactics
were to be used against the civilian population of Germany on a hitherto
unheard of scale, like in Dresden, when 125,000 German women, children
and old men fell victim to Churchill’s murderous firebombing in one
hellish night. This was how war was shaped, not by the Germans, but by
the most civilized nation on earth, the British, and they did it to women
and children, their own, kind, Christian people, so that the Jews who ran
Queen Victoria, and those who had infested South Africa could take
control of the largest gold mines in the world. They knew no bounds of
Indecency, those blinded people, under the direction of the Jews. The
Boer women and children suffered indescribable hardships in the primitive
camps set up to “house” them In the end, out of the 116,572 Boers in
concentration camps, some 25,000 perished from malnutrition dynasty,
and exposure, as well as a variety of other diseases. It is one of the most
terrible blots on the history of a civilized Christian country, and it shows
one just how far we can be lead astray, when our governments sell
themselves to International Jewry.
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Plainly the Boer War was fought because the international Jewish agitators
who flocked to the Transvaal and demanded “rights” they were not
entitled to were acting according to a detailed plan. It was to overrun the
Boers by sheer weight of numbers, gain “voting rights” and then relegate
the Boers to the background without power, once they, the Jews., gained
control. But the Boers would have none of it, and rather than bow to
Jewish pressure and see themselves inundated with in a short period by.
a horde of alien Orientals, who had no love for the land, and who
worshipped pagan Babylonian gods, the Boers decided to fight. Would
that we in this country today would show some of that spirit! The Boers
set a precedent we ought all to study, and it rocked the conspirators back
on their heels and shook their foundations. The brave Boers set back
Jewish plans in a very real way that frightened Rhodes and Milner, and
panicked the secret Jew leaders. And when that happens, the Jew always
resorts to barbaric cruelty. History is replete with examples. The Spanish
“Civil” War demonstrated that as clearly as any war has ever done. Now
the fury of the Jew controlled British was unleashed on the Boer women
and children.
Hatred of any nation which opposes their plans for world domination
always follows in the wake of a Jewish victory. Following World War
One, the Jewish hordes which flocked to Versailles drew up a treaty
which is noted, even today, for its utter savagery and wilful misconduct
toward the German people. No wonder Herbert Hoover had grave misgivings
about it. Our people should have learned from the savage vengeance
wreaked upon Boer women and children by the “British” Jews. But
they did not. The savage conduct which they displayed in South Africa
was put, into effect against a defeated Germany. I cannot go into the
provisions of this infamous document, but it frightened some of the
Allies. Only Wilson, the servant of his advisor, “Colonel House” (real
name, Mandel Huis), a Dutch Jew thought it was “Fair” as did of so many
offensive Jewish ideas. The Treaty of Versailles subsequently embodied
many of the lessons the Jews had learned from their war in South Africa,
and ties with their Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
The British General who was ordered to carry out this devilish scheme
was none other than Lord Roberts, a legend in the annals of British
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military history. Even he found time to praise the Boers, speaking in the
most glowing terms of the exploits of General De Wet, and later almost
getting into hot water because of it. There is no doubt that the Boer
General De Wet was more than a match for the British. A British officer,
Captain Seele, captured by De Wets men was immediately impressed by
the modesty and fighting qualities of De Wet. He described De Wet as “a
wonderful man.” In one battle, defeat was handed to 40,000 British
soldiers by 2500 men under the direct command of De Wet, an astonishing
feat when it is remembered that the British had the superiority not
only in numbers, but in firepower also. It was the love of the land, and a
deeply ingrained sense of faith in God which carried the Boers, De Wet
later explained. Many of the British officers had no desire to fight the
Boers for whom they had nothing but admiration and this too, reflected
in the outcome of many a battle. The British soldier ordered by Lord
Roberts to make war on Boer women and children simply detested the
task. This was not lost on the generation of psychologists who followed,
and as a result, the attack on German civilians in the Second World War,
was carried out from the air, so that the effect would be less distressing
for those who were forced to do the dirty deed. This lesson was not lost
on “correspondent” Winston Churchill, who later put it to good use in his
war of attrition against Germany.
The Boer forces were now widely scattered. Lord, Roberts thought they
were demoralized by the cowardly attacks on their women folk and
children, and the destruction of their farms. He sent a cable to the British
Prime Minister, Lansdowne, in which he predicted that his brutal policies
against the civil population would bring the war to a speedy close. He
sent the Queen a similar telegram. Roberts failed to reckon with the
determination of the Boers, and the love of their land, newly ravaged and
destroyed. The Boer Generals decided to carry on the fight using only
guerrilla tactics from that day on. The Boers were past masters of guerrilla
fighting, and from-that day on, there were no more set battles with the
British.
Lord Roberts sent 3 columns against the Boers under Lord Kitchener,
Lord Methuen and Smith Dorrien. An attempt was made to corral the
Boers against the mountains in a wide net, drawing it ever tighter. But no
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matter how hard they tried, the Boers under De Wet and Steyn, always
eluded capture. The Boer forces in the field suffered terrible privations.
Their families were scattered throughout concentration camps, they
themselves were short of food and ammunition. Many of them had no
great coats or winter clothing, some were even without boots. The cold
frosty nights of the South African winter was a test of endurance. Somehow
they were able to survive, and notwithstanding the boast of Lord
Roberts, they were able to prolong the war for another two years, inflicting
one humiliating defeat upon another on the British, who were quite
unable to cope with this new style of warfare.
Queen Victoria was thoroughly alarmed at the news about the deaths of
Boer women and children, who due to the unsanitary camp conditions
and lack of food, were dying in ever increasing numbers. She also blamed
the detention policy on Lady Roberts, who had accompanied her husband
to South Africa against the wishes of the Queen. Like so many of her
kind, Flora Roberts hated the patriotism of the Boers and she looked
down on them in a manner which the Southern population of the U.S.
would well have understood. Flora Roberts was violently hostile to the
Boer women, and she made no secret of her satisfaction that so many of
them were dying. Eventually the scandal reached England, and attempts
were made by various groups in England to alleviate the suffering of the
Boer women and children. An English nurse, Emily Hobhouse, did
yeoman work in the “death camps” and she sent back hundreds of
horrifying accounts to the British Parliament over the treatment of the
camp inmates. However, none of this moved Lord Roberts and Lord
Kitchener to do anything about the disgrace.
This policy of genocide against the Boers was fully supported by Lord
Alfred Milner and Cecil Rhodes, who both expressed their satisfaction
with it. The lessons learned and experience gained by Milner in South
Africa were later put to use in the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
In the field, the British suffered major reverses resulting in the sacking of
two senior British commanders, Gatacre and Colville. By now Churchill
had wearied of the war and went back to England, where he entered
politics at Oldham. The leader of the British forces, Lord Roberts, was
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seldom seen during these trying times. He called the successful guerrilla
strikes by De Wet and Steyn “unrest”. He began to think in terms of
offering a peace treaty to the Boers. Rhodes flew into a rage, his high
falsetto voice raised in shrill protest to Queen Victoria. The autocratic
Milner was furious, and refused to entertain the idea. Roberts wrote to the
Queen saying that if Milner and Rhodes wanted to grind the Boers into
the dust (their expressed intentions), then they must be prepared to spend
billions more on the war. it is interesting to note that the seeds of the
“unconditional surrender” mentality forced upon the Germans in World
War II and the infamous Morgenthau Plan were first planted in South
Africa. Truly, Jewish hatred is unremitting!
Lady Roberts in the meantime, in defiance of the orders of her Queen,
arrived in Pretoria, and immediately ordered the expulsion of all Boer
women and children from that city. The unfortunate civilians were herded
into open cattle trucks and shipped out toward the Boer positions near the
border of Portuguese East Africa. The women and children went a few
days in the open trucks, without shelter or proper food and water supplies.
General Botha, who was in command of -the Boer guerrilla forces in the
area, called it “an inhuman act.” And it was. Robert’s answer was to
increase the tempo of farm burning. He wrote home saying that he would
“starve into submission, these banditti” as though he was fighting rabble.
Lord Milner thought nothing of the swelling protests in England over the
disgraceful treatment of Boer women and children. “If we are to do
anything about South Africa we must disregard the screamers” he wrote
to his associate, Richard Haldane. That attitude was carried over by
Milner into the Bolshevik revolution, where he disregarded the screams
of the innocent, victims of his greed. Eventually the British saw that the
only way to end the war was to come to all accommodation with the
Boers, not the unconditional surrender demanded by Milner and Rhodes,
but one which the Boers could live with. Terms were drawn up and
submitted to the Boers. After months of deliberating, they agreed to meet
the British in Pretoria. General Smuts and the British together hammered
out a compromise document. Finally on May 31st, 1902 the two sides got
together in a great marquee tent at Vereeninging and a peace treaty was
signed. The Boers lost the war, but gained a good deal of freedom and
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independence. The only one who did not agree with the wars end was
Lord Alfred Milner. He expressed bitter shock and dismay, more so at the
failure of the British Army to defeat the Boers in battle. It is said that he
never forgave Kitchener for this. After the signing of the peace treaty,
some 25,000 Boer Commandos came forward to give up arms, which
further astonished the British. They had reckoned on only about 12,000
armed men, and were thankful that the Boers accepted the terms in view
of the forces still at their command. The ordinary British soldier had no
wish to continue fighting what he felt was his own kind. War correspondents
recorded the following comments “We were half starved all the
time.” “I never saw the point of it” “Johnny Boer used to shoot Kaffirs
like you shoot a dog.” “it was all for the gold mines.”
After the war the Boers struggled to put their lives together again. They
returned to farms devastated and destroyed, some with their families dead
in concentration camps, the country side scorched and blackened. But in
a few short years those hardy men, who should be an example to us all,
built the finest country on the African continent. Unfortunately they were
not able to keep the Jews from entirely gaining control of the gold mines.
Nor were they able to keep the Jews from becoming citizens and voters.
But they did succeed in gaining independence, and in 1910 South Africa
became a self governing independent country within the British Empire.
Still the descendents of the Boers continued the struggle, and finally,
under the leadership of Dr. Verwoerd, the country became a free republic,
outside of the British Commonwealth. The war they had to fight was that
of black nationalism. The British never won the right to vote for the
blacks, but that has not stopped the liberals from going on the offensive.
If South Africa ever loses that crucial war, civilization as we know it, will
disappear from the African continent. Today, the same forces are still at
work, trying to overturn white Christian civilization in South Africa.
There is still hope that they will not succeed. The far reaching consequences
of the Boer War showed up in the First World War. The Boer
War was the testing ground for modern weapons. It was also the start of
trench warfare. But perhaps the most important lesson of all was that the
deep rooted faith of a small group of Christians is capable of putting back
the clock the enemy plans to take over the whole world in a one world –
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World government dictatorship. The Boers showed that pride of race and
belief in God can turn the tide. It is a lesson we all need to learn, for we
too, will soon be faced with the choice of whether to fight or surrender.
The Boer forces although outnumbered showed that a determined people,
rooted in Christianity and the love of the land can withstand the forces
which seek to overwhelm U.S. and deprive us of our land and our
Christian faith. The Boers are a shining example of what strength of
Christian character can do. It was a lesson to the conspirators, the Illuminists,
the Freemasons and the Jews, who thought that they would easily
overcome a pastoral people they thoroughly despised.
From Boer War to
“Democratic”
Terrorism
By Tony Norton
From South Africa
UPDATE 2004
The murder of Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd, in the South African
parliament, on September 6, 1966, was the beginning of the end, not only
of White rule in South Africa, but of Christian civilization in Africa.
Nothing could better illustrate this than the recently published remarks of
Moeletsi Mbeki, younger brother of the South African President Thabo
Mbeki, in the Weekly Telegraph of September 29, 2004, Mbeki the
younger who is head of the S. A. Institute of International Affairs, is
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reported as having told an audience in Durban that “Africans had been
better off under colonial rule, but now, Africa was in a spiral of decline.”
That decline began with John Vorster’s retreat from his predecessor’s
policy of Separate Development. It started with the introduction of
integrated Sport. From that point on there was no turning back. At last the
actions of F W De Klerk ensured that the nation was handed to our
communist enemies.
Mr. Jaap Marais, leader of the HNP (Reformed Nationalist Party) however,
resisted to the end of his life this blatant act of treachery. In a letter to
The Citizen on 8th August 1995, he wrote I am not going to apologize for
the policies followed by the N.P. under Gen. Hertzog, Dr. D F Malan, Mr.
J G Strijdom and Dr. H F Verwoerd.
“Whether called segregation, apartness or separate development, the
policies were based on the eternal truth that persons desire to have their
distinctive identity recognized and respected by others.”
“Freedom of the individual may only be enjoyed if the group to which he
or she belongs enjoys freedom. The freedom of the group, but attachment
to the cultural prescriptions of the group, provides real freedom of the
individual. This is the essence of nationalism, involving the right to
preference for one’s own. And this is precisely what the policies of the
past were promoting, especially under the enlightened and competent
leadership of Dr. H F Verwoerd.
“Under his leadership South Africa had an average rate of economic
growth of six percent per annum, and an inflation rate of two percent. The
nation was “suffering from a surfeit of prosperity”, as the Rand Daily
Mail said in July, 1966. Mr. Harry Oppenheimer admitted that the living
standards of Blacks were rising at the rate of 5.4% and those of Whites at
3.7 percent per annum.
“There was law and order in the country, Jan Botha, an opponent of Dr.
Verwoerd, wrote that South Africa was a “shining example of peace on a
troubled continent.”
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Jaap Marais ends his letter with the logical conclusion, “To apologize for
the prosperity and peaceful conditions created under these policies, and
conversely, promoting and condoning the mess of economic woe and
lawlessness created under the new policies, is preposterous.”
That “mess” to which Mr. Marais referred grew rapidly once the ANC
had been handed the White’s wealth, weapons and security both in variety
and intensity. Newspapers abroad were not ignorant of South Africa’s
slide into something approaching anarchy. In 1998, a survey conducted
by the British Department of Home Affairs, which included a 24 page
report on South Africa, it was found that of the 29 countries examined by
the survey, the murder rate in South Africa far outstripped its nearest
rival, Russia. In South Africa 57.52 murders were committed per 100,000
people, whereas Russia had 20.2 per 100,000. The rate for the USA was
6.26 per 100,000. In Britain the figure was lower than 3%.
In 1998 the average crime increase of the 29 countries was 4.7% on the
previous year, but South Africa’s increase was 37%. From 1994, when the
communist ANC took power, to 1998, crime in South Africa rose by 40%.
Tim Butcher Telegraph’s representative in South Africa, wrote in its
weekly issue 568 that, “The scale of South Africa’s crime epidemic does
not register with the outsider until they experience it. Only then is it
possible to see how crime is rotting the soul of South Africa, driving good
people away and threatening every corner of society.”
Jani Allan, a popular correspondent for a Johannesburg Sunday newspaper,
who experienced a reluctant “brief encounter” with the one-time
fire-eating leader of the AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) Eugene
Terre Blanche, who at the time, was filling halls and stadia with his
searing but empty bluster, returned to South Africa in 1996, after an
absence of 8 years, and reported her experiences for the International
Express on July 17, 1996. Jani says she was met at the airport by her
friend Kate who was wearing a T-shirt that read, “1 serious crime is
committed every 17 seconds; 1 murder every 219 minutes 12 seconds; 1
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violent assault every 3 minutes 328 seconds; 1 car hijacked every 5
minutes 39 seconds, Living in hell and loving it!”
She went on to say, “In this country of 42 million (of whom five million
are Whites) there are only four mil lion tax payers. These are the most
highly taxed in the world … in Britain the inflation rate is 2.2%; in South
Africa it is 16%.
“Kate is 36 and, like most of her peer group, has impeccable liberal
credentials. She ardently supported the ANC during its years in exile but
like most of her peer group feels the honeymoon is over. “I’m tired of the
ANC making me feel guilty for being White, heterosexual and a smoker.
This, “we are poor because you are rich” is something only an intellectual
is stupid enough to believe. I’m tired of having to give to a different
beggar at every traffic light.”…My dinner companions decided that corruption
is the only discernible growth industry, and that 50% of the
population is unemployed.”
Kate, like so many disillusioned liberals, including the irascible Dame
Helen Suzman, who lately declared that the ‘apartheid’ government was
better than the present set up, have either bolted to a safer haven or live
behind burglar bars.
Anybody who still has a modicum of civilization left in them must agree
with Helen Suzman. When they read the clippings I have on my desk.
“Baby raped: six arrested” reads this headline. Another baby of 9 months
was tested for Aids after being raped and sodomized, a victim of the
myth, that “sex with a virgin will protect a man against Aids.” An Argus
editorial on 3 December 2001 sounded shocked when a 5 month old baby
was also raped and sodomized.
“Since democracy came to South African 1994,” runs another Argus
report, “Cape Town has become a second home to … a band of international
drug barons.” In February of 1996 the Argus reported that there
were 278 organized crime syndicates in South Africa, who dealt mainly
in drugs, diamond and vehicle theft. And listen to this, from Tony Leon,
leader of the Democratic Party: “South Africa has lost three times more
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lives through murder in the past 10 years than the United States has lost
in the whole of the Vietnam War.” No wonder the streets of our big cities
are regarded as more dangerous than a war zone.
Here’s a little snippet to make your day. One Patrick Mbus Msani (26)
told the police that he had eaten five (5) people including his neighbour.
He confessed, with some regret, that he would have eaten two more, but
they escaped. (Report from News 24 7/5/2001.) And just in case you were
unsure, Anglican Bishop of Pretoria Joe Seoka told a conference on
racism at the University of Pretoria, that “Racism is a White sin. It is
impossible for a black to be racist.” And so it goes in the New South
Africa on and on.
Perhaps I should add some African culture to this article. Who better than
the late, lamented leader of the SA Communist Party, Chris Hani, for
whose demise Clive Derby-Lewis is under sentence of death in a South
African jail. The following is from his poem, “Uhuru Day”. “I will rape
their daughters, I will kill the living, I will murder the unborn. And curse
the Whites dead. For it is they who raped mother Africa. For it is they
who oppress my Black people. I will hang them on trees, I will burn … ,
I shall kill with all the strength I have. Kill! Fragment! and eliminate all
that is White! For I will be paving a way for Uhuru day. The time to free
ourselves has come, Blood will ooze! Blood will flow. And blood will
flood the rivers of Africa. And the Black man will have his freedom.”
We cannot deny that he meant what he said, nor that he was as good as
his word.
The last word I bring to you is from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on
the occasion of her visit to this country during the 100 year commemoration
of the Boer War.
“President Mbeki, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grateful to you and your
predecessor (Nelson Mandela) for inviting me to pay a visit to South
Africa … I am particularly fortunate since Prince Philip and I were
welcomed here only four and a half years ago, a visit which is still vivid
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in our memories. No one can forget the great surge of joy and optimism,
which followed the change to democratic rule in South Africa.
“Since that visit, so much has improved in South Africa. So much has
been accomplished: in the economy, in the lives of disadvantaged people
and, above all, in the progress in this country towards a truly multiracial
society.
“Much of this has been due to the vision and statesmanship shown in
making difficult short-term sacrifices in the interest of long-term goals …
The vibrancy and optimism which Prince Philip and I met in 1995 are still
here. They are now accompanied by a confidence in the New South
Africa’s ability to meet the challenges, which lie ahead. South Africa is
set fair to become a symbol of how African countries can combine
democratic accountability, economic success and improved living standards.
“I know, Mr. President, that your ambition is exactly that. Those values
lie at the heart of an African Renaissance … You Mr. President, are at the
head of those who argue that good government is, in its principles, a
universal value…
“Mr. President, Prince Philip and I have already received the warmest of
welcomes on our arrival in South Africa. We look forward over the next
few days to seeing more of your country and its people. It is a great
pleasure for us both to be back here again.
“Ladies and gentlemen, may 1 ask you to rise and drink a toast to the
President and people of South Africa.”
Good Lord! Does our Queen live in a cocoon? does she never read a
newspaper?
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UPDATE ON SOUTH
AFRICAN
HISTORY
With the Boer/Afrikaners losing the war against the British Empire in
1902, the destruction of the farms and that of family life had to be built
again. The assault against the Afrikaners did not stop with the peace
treaty on 31st May, 1902, the British then started to Anglicise the Afrikaner.
The soul of the people was not destroyed, they lifted themselves
up and started rebuilding.
The British then allowed home rule and in the 1910 the Union of South
Africa was born. All four provinces then came under one government
with the Republics of the Orange Free State and Zuid-Afrikaansche
Republic [South African Republic (Transvaal)] incorporated together
with the Cape Province and Natal with General Louis Botha as the first
Prime Minister. The spirit to keep fighting for a free Republic never
ceased and with the outbreak of WW I, there was a rebellion as most of
the Afrikaners saw England as the enemy and therefore refused to fight
the Germans. The National Party was still on the sideline, but growing
stronger with General J.B.M. Hertzog, the founder of the party. With the
outbreak of WW II the same scenario took place with the birth of the
Ossewbrandwag, an organization against supporting England, as the
main purpose was to establish a free Afrikaner Republic.
The South African Party of General Jan Smuts was then in power and
hundreds of Afrikaners were arrested and put in prison or in internment
camps. Brother fought brother. Notwithstanding the oppression and hard
times more organizations were born to help the Afrikaners to establish
themselves in the corporate world. Banks and mining houses were in the
hands of the Afrikaners.
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In 1948 General Jan Smuts and his liberal allies were defeated and the
National Party with General J.B.M. Hertzog as first national Prime
Minister took over.
The spirit of freedom and the wish for independence from Britain never
ceased and with a referendum in 1961 the majority voted for the break
from England and the Republic of South Africa was born. The first
President was Advocate C. R. Swart, with Dr. H.F. Verwoerd as Prime
Minister.
The enemy just worked harder to try and destroy the Afrikaner and the
most prosperous country on the continent of Africa was only allowed to
be for 5 short years when Dr. H. F. Verwoerd was assassinated and the
traitors with the leadership of Attorney Vorster took over. The undermining
of the National Party then started in all earnest and the process took
from the acceleration on 6 September 1966 when Dr. H. F. Verwoerd was
assassinated to 2004 to completely wipe the existence of this party off the
map of the Republic of South Africa.
In 1969 a son of General Hertzog, Dr. Albert Hertzog walked out of
parliament with other members to found the Herstige Nasionale Party
(Reconstructed National Party) He had the vision to know that the
National Party was on the wrong road and would eventually cease to exist.
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