AWB! Stop Right There.

By Kerry-Leigh East

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The AWB is at it again. In an interview with Mail and Guardian Newspaper, Eugene Terre’Blanche revealed that they want to have their own republic for Afrikaners. I say NO! How is allowing this going to help strengthen and build a better South Africa?

According to the United Nations Charter, if a group of people feel they are being discriminated against economically and culturally they may become a self determined state and then support themselves independently from outside influence. This is the main problem with the AWB’s claim. Afrikaners are not being culturally stigmatized against nor are they suffering economically.

The point is Afrikaners are as much a part of South Africa as everyone else. What would our diverse country be like without the smells of braais on a Saturday afternoon and a group of people watching rugby together (Africans, Coloureds, Indians and Afrikaners alike)? Consider for a moment the mutual rejoice felt by South Africans when the bid for the 2010 Soccer World Cup was won. For a moment, everyone forgot their prejudices and loved the land we live in.

By allowing Afrikaners to have their own republic, we would be tearing up a vital part of our country’s heritage and depriving our country of what is vital to it running successfully. Perhaps if the government encouraged the involvement of the Afrikaans community more, such ludicrous ideas would not arise.