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Etienne Marais

11/15/2010 4:45:00 AM

On Nov 15, 6:41 am, Etienne Marais <etienne.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 15, 5:58 am, Bob Dubery <megap...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 15, 5:41 am, Etienne Marais <etienne.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Facebook page:http://www.facebook.co...!/African.White.Refugees
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> > > White South Africans use Facebook in campaign to return to Holland
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> > > White South Africans, concerned about racism and crime, have launched
> > > a Facebook petition to return to Holland, where their ancestors lived
> > > 300 years ago.
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> > > Cape Town, South Africa
> > > Is there a statute of limitations on citizenship?
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> > > Afrikaners in South Africa may soon find out. Three hundred years
> > > after their forefathers left Europe for a new life in Cape Town, some
> > > Afrikaners are lobbying the Dutch government to grant them
> > > citizenship.
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> > > The descendants of the Boer settlers are looking for an exit plan.
> > > They say white people have become targets of crime with tensions
> > > rising since the murder of right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
> > > (AWB) leader Eugene Terreblanche last month.
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> > > They want the Dutch authorities to enact a "Jus Sanguinis" or right of
> > > blood law allowing Afrikaners to return to what they claim is their
> > > original home.
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> > > After the end of apartheid in 1994, many white South Africans fled the
> > > country fearing a racial backlash. Many emigrated to Australia,
> > > Canada, New Zealand, the US, and the United Kingdom. A recent report
> > > by the South African Institute on Race Relations said nearly 800,000
> > > whites had left during that period, citing employment discrimination
> > > and the high crime rate. South Africa sees an average of 50 murders a
> > > day – most of the victims are black.
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> > > The emerging Afrikaner "Right of Return" campaign echoes the concerns
> > > of 1994, and is indicative of a rising fear among some white farmers.
> > > The effort is being co-ordinated by Lara Johnstone, who claims South
> > > Africa is heading down the path taken by Zimbabwe with whites bearing
> > > the brunt of economic and civic collapse.
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> > > “I don’t know whether it will be five years, 10 years or whenever – it
> > > depends on the Malema factor," said said, referring to Julius Malema,
> > > the African National Congress youth leader who was fined $1,300 last
> > > week for singing a song that urged ANC members to “shoot the Boers.”
> > > "But I think we are going to become another Zimbabwe."
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> > > Ms. Johnstone traces her Afrikaans heritage to the Bosmans who left
> > > Amsterdam for the Cape in 1707. Her Facebook-led campaign has so far
> > > attracted nearly 600 members.
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> > > Many of her members are also supporting an online petition for South
> > > African Brandon Huntley, who prompted a diplomatic spat after applying
> > > for asylum in Canada on the basis of racial persecution here.
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> > > Johnstone's site also explains how to apply for Dutch citizenship. But
> > > for most, the chances of receiving Dutch citizenship are almost non-
> > > existent, say Dutch officials and analysts.
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> > Which is what I'd expect. EU countries are increasingly clamping down
> > on immigration. In some countries, if you could prove that a grand
> > parent was a born citizen you might have a chance, but this far down
> > the line, if you can prove an unbroken blood line (which wouldn't
> > always be the case, given the Hugenout and other blood lines
> > involved) , I think it's very unlikely.
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> > Nothing to do with Holland anyway. No real reason why they should make
> > any concession now.
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> > It's akin to nth generation Australians suddenly deciding they want
> > British citizenship. or an American proving that his family were
> > descendants of the British and now he'd like to have right to live in
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> Yes, as Jan Rath says the Right of Return campaign has little chance
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> The Afrikaner needs its own non-racist homeland as South Africa is a
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And blacks should make up their minds whether they want us here or
not,
I am finding an increase in the number of posts on youtube stating
that
we will be driven away sooner or later.

Thabo Mbeki said 'we' do not like it that skilled South Africans are
taken
into Britain and America. But I think the masses want to drive us into
the sea.