A petition for the Boer Republics and Tribes who lost their land This is the Moment of TRUTH for South Africa! We need YOUR signature for us to survive!! We are claiming that the land of South Africa was annexed by Great Britain illegally during which people who were born in South Africa were slaughtered and put into concentration camps by the British military companies by order of the British Government. By placing their own representatives into the political arena through a Westminister system of governance, they have remained in control of South Africa ever since. South Africans are still being murdered for their land today. The “Union” of South Africa in 1910 was illegal and has to be dissolved, and the land be given back to the people it belonged to before the Anglo-Boer war in 1902. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We, the people, and friends of the people of Southern Africa, also herein represented by the Independence Commission Africa NGO, call upon our right as specified in the Treaties and Protocols of the Geneva Convention, and also specified in the Constitution of South Africa dated 1994, for intervention by the United Nations Security Council to apply universal jurisdiction through an International Criminal Court, and also for consideration by the International Court of Justice, to establish stability within the country of South Africa during its transitional period wherein the citizens inside South Africa regain their freedom, their possessions, and the right to their land. We will prove that our land has been annexed illegally and bound as a possession both directly and indirectly of the British Empire. Within this process, the war on the indigenous people of the land, in person and in groups, has taken on many faces but remains a constant attack on their lives and their possessions, and can only be construed as the genocide of a nation. One of the most stark land marks of this war, was the Peace Treaty signed in Vereeniging on the 31st of May 1902, between the British Government, and the Government of the South African Boer Republic (ZAR), and the Government of the Orange Free Boer State (OVS), acting on behalf of their respective Burghers. Before this time, the British Empire had already annexed two large portions of the land in Southern Africa and named it the Cape Colony and the Natal Colony, by military action as well as by enforcing dominion by land claims supported and endorsed by the British Sovereignty. In 1897, The British Empire openly declared that they would annex the two Boer Republics, named The Orange Free State (OVS), and the Transvaal (ZAR). The Republic of the Orange Free State and the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek were two seperate Boer Republics with their own Boer Governments. The sovereignty of the ZAR had been recognized by Britain at the Sand River Convention of 1852, and two years later, the British Empire recognized the sovereignty of the Orange Free State during the Orange River Convention of 1854. However, after the discovery of diamonds and gold, the annexation of the Boer republics, Matabeleland north of the ZAR and Griequaland, west of the ZAR and OVS, commenced. The first diamond was discovered n 1867 near the Orange River,and subsequent placer diamonds were found between the Vaal and Orange Rivers, territories that belonged to the Griquas and the Boers. An attempt by Britain to annex this territory led to the first Anglo Boer war, the Jameson Raid and the Anglo-Matabele Wars. After the British Empire lost the first Anglo- Boer war, the British Empire restored the independence of the ZAR in 1884 by signature at the London Convention . No one knew there would be the discovery of the colossal gold deposits inside the territory of the ZAR two years later, in March 1886. The first rocky outcrop of gold was discovered in March 1886 inside the territory of the ZAR. An unsuccessful raid by the British Empire, called the Jameson Raid, was followed up by the second Anglo-Matabele war. In every step taken by the Jameson company of the British Empire was the guiding hand of British military leader and mining magnate, Cecil John Rhodes, whose interest was in the minerals of the land. This fact received recognition when, by a proclamation of 3 May 1895, the British Empire officially named the territory it received by his dealings the name Rhodesia. During this year there was great activity in exploiting Matabeleland. Stands or plots were sold at extraordinary prices in Bulawayo by the Brittish company of Rhodes. Within nine months the rebuilt town of Bulawayo had a population of 1,900 colonials and in the various goldfields there were over 2,000 colonial prospectors. The construction of telegraphs proceeded with rapidity and by the end of 1895, 500 miles of new lines had been constructed, making about 1,500 miles in all. A new company, the African Transcontinental Company, had been founded under the auspices of Col. Frank Rhodes, brother of Cecil, with the ultimate purpose of connecting the Cape with Cairo. By the end of 1895, 133 miles of these lines had been laid. At this time too, the railway from Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, had passed Mafeking and was approaching the Rhodesian frontier. This railway reached Bulawayo in 1897. Meanwhile on the east coast the line to connect Salisbury (now Harare) with Beira, Mozambique (then Portuguese East Africa Colony) was under construction and this was completed in 1899. A case for the annexation of the Boer republics was developed by the Cape Colony Governor Sir Alfred Milner, Cape Prime Minister Cecil John Rhodes, British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and mining syndicate owners or Randlords (nicknamed the gold bugs), such as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, and Lionel Phillips under the pretext to gain improved rights for the “Uitlanders”, people who were not Boers and who worked the mines inside the Boer Republics. However, they could not stir an uprising by the Uitlanders, who enjoyed a good relationship with the Boers, as can be read in many letters, annuls, newspaper reports and books written by the people living in the mining communities of that time. Key British colonial figures laid plans for war with the Boers in order to annex their territories and espoused support as far away as the Australian colonies by using negative propaganda against the Boer nation. Confident that the Boers would be quickly defeated, they planned and organized a short war, citing the Uitlanders grievances as the motivation for the conflict. The Boers resisted, and a 3 year war known as the Second Anglo Boer war ensued. The British military company could not defeat the Boers, so they introduced the “Scorched Earth” policy. They burned the homesteads, slaughtered the livestock, and destroyed the farmlands of the Boers, of which the men had formed Commandos and were out fighting the war. Hired soldiers for the British military company raped, murdered and captured the farmers’ wives and children, and put them into 39 concentration camps, where 29,000 women and children died. In addition, they put the black servants and farm workers into 65 concentration camps, where 24,000 people died. Malnutrition, tinned food spiced with chips of glass inside, inadequate hygienic living conditions and disease were the main reasons of death. Emily Hobhouse, a British citizen, made a trip to Southern Africa at this time, and visited some of these camps. She was horrified at what she discovered, and made a full report to the Boer Commandos. See Attachment Emily Hobhouse. The correct term is Boer nationalists and not right-wingers, as the Institute for Security Studies labels them. Boers are not an (extremist) element on the spectrum of the South African professional party-political comedy. Boers do not wish to be part of this rainbow spectrum, nor do they consider themselves bound in conscience by a constitution, laws, rules and statutes made on their behalf without any form of consultation with them or consent by them. If and when they do obey these oppressive laws, they do it out of a higher conscience, and out of respect for the semblance of the order of things. The Boers have a right to resist an oppressive constitution and oppressive laws, as they believe that actions borne from coercion can never be interpreted as the giving of consent! Re: A petition for the Boer Republics and Tribes who lost their land The Concentration Camp Memorial remembers those who were interned in the Kimberley concentration camp during the Second Boer War, and is located in front of the Dutch Reformed Mother Church in Kimberley. The world’s first concentration camp originates here. When the Boer Commandos heard the report from Ms Hobhouse, they decided to enter negotiations for a peaceful settlement with the British Empire. Thus after more than half the Boer nation comprising of women and children died inside the British concentration camps in South Africa, the Boer Commando leaders signed a Peace Treaty in Vereeniging on the 31st of May 1902 to cease hostilities. Please note that all the different tribes and their leaders of Southern Africa were not represented at this meeting of Vereeniging, and the Boers were in no position to represent any tribe other than their own. Since then, to date, these tribes have never been given the right to repossess their land in full, which stretches from inside and beyond South Africa into Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Clause 7 and 8 of the Peace Treaty off Vereeniging stipulated that the Boers would be given back control of their republics. This, to date, has never happened. The British set up a military government after the second Anglo Boer war. The Boer Generals were court marshalled and imprisoned. Many of the impoverished Boers sought work on the mines and were looked down upon as a disgrace. In 1907, General Jan Smuts sailed from South Africa to Europe and got international recognition for the independence of the OVS and ZAR. However, the British Empire had implemented a Westminster system of governance, keeping their own people in very prominent positions of governance On the 31st of May 1910, the Union of South Africa was formed under British dominion. The British Empire hereby successfully annexed the whole of the country in one foul swoop through deceit. The Boers who dared object against this, were called the “Bitter Einders” and were outlawed. This remained in place until the 31st of May 1961, when Britain handed over the governance of South Africa to a South African political party of the British Empire’s choice, and according to its rules of inauguration, which denied many tribes in South Africa the freedom of vote. This political party, the National Party (NP), commonly known as the “Apartheid Government”. In 1992, freedom of vote was introduced. Once again, the ruling Government of South Africa (NP) handed over the governance of South Africa to a political party of its choice, and according to its rules of inauguration. Strangely they chose the African National Congress (ANC), which had been outlawed as an “enemy of the State” in the 1950’s. In 1973, the ANC took up an “armed struggle” against the civilians inside South Africa, and opened military training camps outside the borders of South Africa such as the Mbokodo Quatro Terror Camp where soldiers, known as the MK, were trained in the art of interrogation, torture and murder. White South African young men were conscripted to the South African Defence Force on a compulsory basis to protect the South African borders against the insurgence of terrorists, and the ANC, in particular. The ANC were unbanned in 1990 and were hailed as the “freedom fighters” of South Africa. The borders between South Africa and its neighbouring countries were also relaxed, and the MK were welcomed as the heroes of the day, and as such incorporated in the South African National Defence Force, where they became the new protectors of South Africa. The South Africans that had fought against the ANC were now seen as the enemy, and many of their leaders were imprisoned. The white South African has been fingered out as the enemy of the MK, and attacks on their lives occur daily by these militant soldiers, and gangsters they incorporate. See Attachment South Africans Under Attack Physically – genocide. True freedom still evades the people of Southern Africa. To date, none of the states, republics, kingdoms, towns, kraals or farms which were in South Africa before the Peace treaty which was signed in Vereeniging in 1902, have been restored to their rightful owners, and the citizens of the land have been forced to accept the political parties presented to them by the governance in force. Tribes who do not pay allegiance to these political parties, are still considered as the ‘enemies of the state” and their leaders are murdered. Possession of the land in South Africa has been an ongoing scourge of the political parties who have ruled since the British Empire commenced with their colonization in 1795. At present, the reigning African National Congress party own 85% of the farmland in South Africa, yet they are calling for the appropriation of all farm land owned by Boer farmers, which is estimated at 6% of the arable land. An unofficial war has been declared on these Boer farmers, in which they have been tortured and murdered since 1994 at an alarming rate. This would not have occurred if the illegal Union of South Africa had not taken place. We, therefore, call for the Union of South Africa to be dissolved, and for the land of South Africa to be returned to its rightful owners. We call for the states, kingdoms and all other land that was in existence as independent entities before 1902, to have their rights restored, and their ownership be returned to their rightful owners. We do not call for any displacement of the citizens of South Africa in any form whatsoever, nor for their loss of citizenship in any part of the country. What we do call for, is a “paper trek”. A system suitable to the vast country of South Africa, and its great assembly of different tribes. Built upon the foundations already laid by its forefathers, the existent municipal boundaries should be implemented to finalize the borders of the different states as already been formed. All citizens of South Africa would be entitled to dual citizenship. One for the area they presently live in, and another based on the land of their heritage. All states, kingdoms and other independent land will be controlled and governed by the people of that territory, and not by a central government. A confederation system whereby all territories co-operate with each other towards their progress is the only system that would suit South Africa. The Cape Colony and the Colony of Natal, which had, in fact, gained its independence from British rule in 1961, should also be allowed its immediate freedom from the central government of South Africa, which was a system of rule introduced by the British Regime, under the guise of ‘Democracy”,and which still prevails. Die Nieuwe Republiek, a country which was recognised as having full independence from South Africa, and which lost all its power due to the signage of the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging in 1902, should also be restored its full rights and powers. Of interest to note in the urgency of this matter, is the fact that diamonds worth hundreds of millions of dollars were put on sale Friday, the 5th of December 2011 by a joint Chinese-Zimbabwean company with strong military ties. The auction followed the decision by the industry watchdog, the Kimberley Process (KP), a month earlier, to lift the ban on sales from Zimbabwes Marange diamond fields despite objections from human rights groups. See Attachment Diamonds Claudia Bryan has also called for a demonstration against the auctioning of Blood Diamonds by De Beers and the Botswana Government. It has been said that the proceeds of this sale will help fund suspended ANC Youth League President Julius Malema and other dissidents living in Botswana to attempt a regime change in South Africa. She further invited anyone who was interested in demonstrating against the sale of polished and unpolished Blood Diamonds to get in touch with her, and mentioned that The Article 1174 of UN Council for Angola is a precedent to stop these diamonds being sold to fund civil wars. Also to take into consideration is that under the administration of said Julius Malema, an ANCYL army was incorporated during 2011, comprising of 8000 soldiers within South Africa. This army has not been disbanded since his suspension. See Attachment ANCYL Army. An unprecedented influx of Somalian citizens into the Western Cape at an average 8000 people per month are presently experienced, which is creating instability and alarm for safety in that area. Take into consideration the history of Somalian warriors in African war fields. See Attachment Influx of Foreigners. The economy of South Africa is presently drained through corruption in governance, which impose strangling taxation, The unemployment rate stands at more than 25%, yet the ANC import labour from countries such as Cuba. Our citizens have become embroiled in a modern genocide which does not only threaten the very infrastructure of our economy, but the very future of our lives as well! See Attachment South Africans Under Attack Economically – genocide. The correct term is Boer nationalists and not right-wingers, as the Institute for Security Studies labels them. Boers are not an (extremist) element on the spectrum of the South African professional party-political comedy. Boers do not wish to be part of this rainbow spectrum, nor do they consider themselves bound in conscience by a constitution, laws, rules and statutes made on their behalf without any form of consultation with them or consent by them. If and when they do obey these oppressive laws, they do it out of a higher conscience, and out of respect for the semblance of the order of things. The Boers have a right to resist an oppressive constitution and oppressive laws, as they believe that actions borne from coercion can never be interpreted as the giving of consent! Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. - Farber Re: A petition for the Boer Republics and Tribes who lost their land We therefore call upon you to I. Establish protection of the rights of all South Africans II. Assist with the establishment of interim governance during the transitional period to freedom III. Bring to book those guilty of the war crimes against the citizens of South Africa. We realise that an interim system would be required during the transitional period to freedom in South Africa. There is only one system presently available in South Africa, and which represents all tribes in South Africa. This is the Federal system of governance. There is only one political party in South Africa who presently implement this system, and it is the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) who, in their Constitution, adhere to a Federal System. The IFP was formed by Dr Mongesuthu Buthelezi in 1973 at the time when the ANC decided to take up the armed struggle against the civilians of South Africa as an alternative for peaceful discussions. None of the IFP leaders have ever been found guilty of corruption, and they have proven themselves to be humanitarian and servants to the community. We therefore support the leadership of the IFP and their position to represent and corroborate with all the different tribes of South Africa in their transition to their freedom. Furthermore, atrocities against all tribes in Southern Africa incurred by the British Empire and their mining syndicate owners should be corrected by a Truth and Reconcilliation Court of Law within the borders of Southern Africa. In our supplication, we submit the following documentation to substantiate our plea: Attachment 1. Definitions of terms used. Attachment 2. Our Right ² as specified in the Treaties and Protocols of the Geneva Convention Attachment 3. Our Right as specified in the Constitution of South Africa Attachment 4. Genocide of the South African nation. Attachment 5. Peace Treaty in Vereeniging on the 31st of May 1902 Attachment 6. Events leading up to the second Anglo Boer War. Attachment 7. The African National Congress (ANC) and MK Attachment 8. The Apartheid Government 1992. Attachment 9. States & Kingdoms in Southern Africa before the Union of South Africa in 1902. Attachment 10. Die Nieuwe Republiek, Attachment 11. A confederation system. Attachment 12. Thw Inkatha Freedom Party. Attachment 13. The interest of the British Empire in Southern Africa Attachment 14 Emily Hobhouse Attachment 15. Diamonds Attachment 16. Jameson Raid Attachment 17. Anglo-Matabele Wars Please note that these Attachments do not exclude any additional Attachments which may be forthcoming to this matter. Do you endorse it? If so, please write your name, and under the comments column, your ethnic identity, and country, if applicable. turnitaround.co.za/petiti...e-south-africa The correct term is Boer nationalists and not right-wingers, as the Institute for Security Studies labels them. Boers are not an (extremist) element on the spectrum of the South African professional party-political comedy. Boers do not wish to be part of this rainbow spectrum, nor do they consider themselves bound in conscience by a constitution, laws, rules and statutes made on their behalf without any form of consultation with them or consent by them. If and when they do obey these oppressive laws, they do it out of a higher conscience, and out of respect for the semblance of the order of things. The Boers have a right to resist an oppressive constitution and oppressive laws, as they believe that actions borne from coercion can never be interpreted as the giving of consent! Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. - Farber
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