[Menydh]

Afrikaners are clinging to the rope where they'll hang sooner or later. Let's be honest here, I didn't perceive enough clear signs of intelligence among Afrikaners. They could have started an Afrikaner homeland while they had the power to do so. They didn't, even when they knew that the days of Apartheid were counted. Right before and even after the first multiracial elections, when the ANC took power, they were still arguing as to where there should be an Afrikaner homeland. Some would stick to the Western Cape Province, others to the OVS, and others to the Transvaal. And yet a number of them have moved into the North-Western Cape into what could be the start of an Afrikaner homeland, they are still few and many still clinge to their surrounding territories while mobility for them becomes each day less attainable.

In 1993, while I was trying to make some of them understand that they had things very wrong, one of them suddently said that South Africa would be "the last homeland of the white man" ... I remained speechless. I couldn't believe that they could be so short-sighted.

Later, I was much surprised of how smoothly the change had occured after the 1994 elections. I would have expected widespread violence at a large scale, given the situation. Still today I believe that Mandela and Mbeki would have gladly gone that road, but that they've been appeased by international advisers to let things happen one at a time, slowly. They may have succeeded so far, but I much doubt that the mass of the ANC supporters have changed much through all this time. It is like a big gunpowder magazine waiting for a spark to be released. It's always been.