View on our Heritage

The past Tuesday we’ve had the celebration of heritage day. I want to address two groups her, both the Boers and our American friends here concerning our heritage as the Boers here. Why do I see it as important here. Each year we have the heritage day being celebrated on September 24. The Centralized version is where the only heritage being celebrated, is that of the ANC. Even though it was supposed to be based on Shaka Zulu as the heritage of the Zulus, you find that Shaka Zulu is not even featured, but rather the celebration of the Marxists and there terrorist acts as if they are heroes.

Further more, when ever we as Boers wants to celebrate our faith, culture, past, history, heritage and identity, we are being blasted for being racist and White Supremacists. The worst is we are even accused of such things by the Afriforum and the Freedom Front Plus of such things. Are we supposed to be ashamed of our own skin color, heritage, language, history, shared values, culture, faith and where we come from? This is what the Establishment wants and the progressives, who are pushing for Globalism. Unfortunately it is not only the Boers who are facing these attacks. Even in America the Patriots are experiencing the same thing, the attack on the American Stars Spangled Banner Flag, National Anthem, heritage, American Revolution, Christian Values, the founding of America, monuments and even names of places, where the Left wants all of these to be removed and history be removed, all for the sake of Globalism in the name of ending racism.

To both the Boers and to the American Patriots, are you willing to allow these Globalist Progressives to rob us of our heritage? I would prefer no. We should not allow these Globalists Marxists to walk over us. There is nothing that we as Boers and the Americans need to be ashamed of concerning our past, history and heritage. The Boers and the true Americans share the same values and heritage, based on Judeo-Christian Values, shaped through the Protestant Reformation.

Among the Americans who came to the New World, many fled from the religious persecution by the State Church in England, to strengthen the Carta Magna, for religious Freedom. Mostly the Pilgrims, Puritans and Congregationalists who fled to the American Colonies or to establish the American Colonies. The American Colonists also entered into the covenant with God through the Mayflower Compact, on which the American Constitution is based, that led to America being a Republic on Free Enterprise system, based on the Protestant Reformation. With the Americans it was the gun in one hand and the Bible in the other.

Among the Boers, it was the Dutch, who fought the Spanish Hapsburg Empire to be free, who like the American Colonists, flee to the Cape Colony to have Religious Liberty, becoming known as the Vrijburgers (Free Citizens), to build a new country based on Scripture, based on Protestant Christianity.. Many started to become pioneers like their American counterparts, trekking Eastward as the Trek Boers, further away from the elites in the Cape. Many later became the Frontier Boers, counterpart the Frontier men in America. The Boers, like their American counterpart also have the covenant with God, through the 16 December Vow of 1838, that shaped us through our cause. Being strengthened again through the Paardekraal Vow.

On top is the Huguenot Monument at Franschoek, in the Western Cape, symbolizing the Liberty of all French Huguenots world wide, including many who fled to america away from the religious persecution by the Roman Catholics in France under King Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu who persecuted the French Protestant, known as the Huguenots. This monument is also a monument to those of you in America as Americans who are descendants of the french Huguenots who fled France to the American Colonies for religious Freedom, and who help built America and fought in the American Revolution. The same also happen in South Africa where the French Huguenots fled to the Cape Colony, like the Du Pre who became the Du Preez, De La Porte who became Delport, Terreblanche, Labuscaigne who became Labuschagne,l Marais, Meyer, Faurie, Du Plooy, Hugo, Roux, Le Roux, Du Rand, De La Rey, Da La Rosa, Cronje, Cilliers, Malan, Maritz, Boshof from Bosau and so forth. In among both the Boers and Americans the French have a great influence on the culture of both.

Also there are German blood in among both the Boers and the American people, from the Lutheran tradition, who also helped to shaped our cultures, like Ackerman and Muller and so forth. Also the Beyers family in both the USA and South Africa, Rudolf, also German. Both the Americans and Boers have rich heritage from the Germans, giving both hardiness.

Among the Boers, we also have some Puritan English heritage and blood in us, like Andrews, Haywood, Wilson, Anderson and so forth, bringing strong English Protestant faith. Among the Americans they also have Dutch Blood in them from the De Boer, De Priest, Van Reenen, Van Buuren, Jansen and so forth. Thus we have influences from both. Then both Americans and Boers have Scottish influence from the Scottish Protestantism, having last names from the Scottish too. Both the Boers and the Americans also have the Irish blood in both of them too, giving the maverick attitude in both and even stubbornness too.

Both the Americans and the Boers have Swiss influence too, and Italian and also of the Nordic influences in our blood. Thus the Americans and the Boers have the same ancestral heritage which shaped both, to have very similar cultures, both being strongly conservative with strong Christian heritage. The only difference is the American language is English or more accurately, American English, among the Boers we speak Afrikaans, formed from Dutch with German, French, Nordic and Spanish influence in. both are hardy people. And that is why the Globalists and Marxists hates both the Boers and the Americans, because of our heritage, that they will go out of their way to demonize our history, twisting everything, making up lies as if our cultures, past, heritage are racist according to the Left.

Both our history and past and heritage are fulled with the Free and the brave men who fought strong to secure our liberty, full of bravery. what helped it? This was due to our Christian heritage through the Protestant Reformation, that shaped our character, faith in Christ Jesus, work ethics, values, principles, individual liberty, pioneering spirit, willingness to defend our individual liberties. Family life are important to both the Boers and the American people. This is the very heritage that the ANC people in South Africa, Julius Malema, the Democrats in America is attacking, because our heritage, culture, values, faith in Jesus Christ, history and past that are threatening to the radical left who wants to remove everything that reminds them of our heritage, culture, faith and history, since they have none and wants all to be collective.

In conclusion to both my fellow Boers and to our American friends, let us not be ashamed of our culture, history, heritage, values, identity, but rather be proud of who we are, strengthening it in our kids, taking hands together and supporting one another as brothers and as sister nations, the Boers and the Americans.