dutch mp fights for afrikaner rights

AFRIKANER SURVIVAL DEBATE IN HOLLAND AND FLANDERS HOTTING UP

In April, Dutch MP Martin Bosma launched a fiery debate about the poor-survival chances for Afrikaans and the desperate plight of the Afrikaner people in the Dutch national quality daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad. link On 28 September 2011, Bosma said he would plead for the survival of the Afrikaans language and the people who speak it after he was elected chairman of the Dutch Language Union’s interparliamentary committee. link also: Afrikaner children denied survival rights – Breyten Breytenbach documentary about Afrikaner destition also: Dutch Freedom of Speech articles about Afrikaners descent into genocide bullets fly in Krugersdorp

Bosma thus inadvertently launched a debate about the survival-fight of the Afrikaners which is beginning to spread across the Dutch-language regions of Europe with this first salvo in NRC Handelsblad. Bosma on April 20 wrote an article in the country’s top international daily, NRC Handelsblad, praising the brilliant uniqueness of the Afrikaans language’s poetry. He was ‘pleading for its survival and of all the people who speak it,’ he warned. Bosman said ‘Afrikaans is Dutch’; and that ‘the Dutch should be concerned about the way in which Afrikaans was being plowed under by a deliberate anglicisation policy under the ANC-regime”.

He pointed out that there was a growing counter-movement among young Afrikaners and Afrikaans-speaking people of colour – ‘because the majority of Afrikaans-speakers are slightly tinted ‘ – to try and rescue their language and the people who speak it.”

Bosma’s analysis is accurate: The Afrikaners call for their own autonomic land-based rights are growing ever louder as members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples, UNPO, the Afrikaners also demand their own autonomous Afrikaner State: since they represent 6% of the total population, they feel it’s only fair that they get autonomous control over six percent of the total SA land-surface – and specifically in those regions where they already had their internationally-recognised, own independent Boer republics before the British colonial regime destroyed them in 1902.

“The Dutch Language Union which includes the Netherlands, Flanders and Suriname is also spreading its wings over the protection of Afrikaans, writes Bosma. “Our languages are deeply embedded with one another – in the words of poetess Elisabeth Eybers who lived most of her life in Amsterdam: ‘Nogtans sal jij aan mij gebonden bly / Met die onsigb’re naelstreng wat nie breek.’ Bosma says he keeps the Afrikaans book Winternag at his side in parliament.

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