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Dan Roodt: "The South African Crisis in World Perspective" (2016)
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Our next speaker, Dan Root, speaks from a perspective that will be ours if we do nothing.
That is to say, Dan Root is from South Africa, so he is a white minority living under black rule.
Dan Root is the director of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group, which he founded in the year 2000, which regularly attacks the excesses of the ruling regime, and it also sets up small businesses for whites.
Who, because of the current racial policies in South Africa, almost completely shut out of employment in major institutions.
Mr. Root is a real voice of sanity in the South African media.
He has a Twitter following of nearly 40,000.
And his most recent book is called Raiders of the Lost Empire.
It's about the artificial identity that South African is trying to establish today.
It's for sale in the back of the room.
And today, Mr. Root will speak to us about the South African crisis in world perspective.
Dan Rutten.
Yes, thank you, Jared, and everybody at American Renaissance for your kind invitation.
And I also want to thank the U.S. government for finally You know, okaying my visa application, because upon first applying for it, I was confronted with one of your darker compatriots as an official,
and after learning that I was on my way to the American Renaissance Conference, he promptly refused my U.S. visa.
And I was very disappointed, and it took quite a few weeks before this decision was reversed.
And in the meantime, I'd actually sent an email to Jared Taylor saying that I might come on a Mexican visa because I'd worked out that I could actually fly to Monterey in North Mexico and buy a second-hand mountain bike and then cross the Rio Grande by mountain bike up to San Antonio and it would have taken me 300 miles in cycling and it would have been very good exercise.
And now I'm spoiling myself on your marvellous southern cooking here at breakfast every day, and I'm not getting the exercise I need.
But that's perhaps not such an important point at this moment.
Yes, when I listen to most of these stories today, we are, as we say, ahead of the curve in South Africa.
We are already a minority.
A powerless minority in our own country.
In fact, there's a Dutch politician, Mr. Martin Bosma, who's written a book, and it was published last year, about us, with precisely that title.
Afrikaners saying that we are a powerless minority in our own country.
And he also famously said, and this is from a Dutch newspaper, that Afrikaners are the canaries in the coal mine.
Well, most of you are familiar with the role of a canary in a coal mine.
When there are dangerous gases for humans, the canary that they take along in a cage will die first, and when the canary dies, the miners will know that there are these gases present in the coal mine.
So we, according to Mr. Bosma, are the canaries in the coal mine, and we would be the first...
Western nation to become extinct in the modern history of the West.
Okay, that's Martin Bosma's book there, Minderheit in Eichenland, and in fact, Jared Taylor used a Dutch phrase earlier on with that exact same word, Eichen Volk Eost, he said.
And the subtitle there is How the Progressive Struggle...
Degenerated into genocide and ANC apartheid.
Now, most of you are familiar with this figurative term, apartheid, and there's a famous definition by the UN of it as well.
But in fact, if you look at that UN definition, it fits the current government of South Africa more than it did any of our governments in the past, because the UN says apartheid is destroying...
A race or a culture or a people.
And that's exactly what is being done to us currently in our own country where we are a minority.
This is the quote from the book by Martin Bosma where he says, The Afrikaners function as the guinea pig in the multicultural laboratory.
It is the first Western nation undergoing what the multiculturalists propose to become a minority and give up power.
The canaries in the coal mine.
We may ask ourselves, is that scenario to be recommended?
Should Dutch people get themselves into the same position as Afrikaners in South Africa?
Should we also fall for the multicultural call for diversity and reconciliation?
The author Milan Kundera wrote, a man knows that he's mortal, but he always assumes that his nation has eternal life.
And, well, as we've seen, From Jared Taylor's talk and some of the others we've heard this morning that, you know, once you...
Given the lamentable state of the multicultural experiment currently in the West, it's going to become even worse when you actually lose power yourselves, when you become a demographic minority in your country.
And there are very close similarities between our decline and yours, with the main difference that your decline is still gradual.
It is still a few decades in the
But ours was, to put it bluntly, sudden and brutal.
It reminded me, when I was young, even as a child, America was for me a very distant place.
But I did read a few American books.
And one of my most cherished possessions is the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe in an edition that I got from my father.
And you probably know that story, the strange facts in the case of Monsieur Voldemort.
And it's a kind of metaphor for me what happened to us.
In the case of Mr. Voldemort, he gets hypnotized on his deathbed.
And then seven months later, the hypnotist...
Tries to reawaken him to see if he might not live.
But in fact, in a few seconds, his body goes through the degeneration that it would have gone through in seven months.
And that's the rather macabre description that Edgar Allan Poe gives of Mr. Monsieur Valdemar.
And we, since 1994, have gone through such a process of degeneration and decline.
That one could compare it almost to the rotting away of a corpse.
I could tell you very many stories about everything that's wrong in South Africa today, but this graph of our currency, I think, puts it all into perspective.
As you can see here, up until about 1984 or thereabouts, when the anti-apartheid movement really started gaining momentum, until today, You know, our currency has lost about 90% to 95% of its value.
In fact, since my last appearance at American Renaissance in 2011, it's lost 50% of its value.
So even though the media are trying to sell the South African story as a good story, the markets are not convinced, and the investors are not convinced, and that is the result.
Yeah, in 1974, one US dollar was only 66 of our South African cents, and one US dollar currently is worth 15 rand 40. There's another graph about the decline.
That's another theme that we've heard today, is the demographic decline of Westerners and white people generally in the world.
And this is a graph from the economist, the British economist.
Where they show that the blue section there is the white population of South Africa and how it's grown slowly over the years since about 1910.
And the black one, the black portions on this graph shows you how the black population has grown.
So we've since 1960 gone from 20% of the overall population to currently below 10. And there are even some very pessimistic predictions that say in the year 2030, we'll only be 1 or 2% of the total population of South Africa.
But I'm inclined to think that those are a bit on the pessimistic side, but it's definitely the case that we are waning away as a percentage of the total population.
Yeah, these are the same kind of figures.
Presented of the white population since 1904, when we were 1.1 million.
2015, we are 4.5 million.
Our fertility rate is also very low.
It's below the replacement value.
Peter Brimelow also in his talk referred to that, that that's a major problem among European peoples worldwide.
The Afrikaner fertility rate is slightly higher than the other white people in South Africa, the English speakers, the Portuguese and Greeks and others, but it's still not high enough to really be sustainable in the long term.
Interestingly, even though those of you who have read my recent article, I think it was last year in the Amren magazine online, About the war on the Afrikaans language.
Despite that, there's a marginal increase in the number of Afrikaans speakers among white people.
We're now 60.8%.
And the English speakers have declined to 35.9%, as you can see there.
So they're only 35.9% now of the total white population.
As a result of their very negative birth rate.
Now, you know, what's really astonishing about South Africa's fall from grace, as I would call it, is the fact that at one point we were an integral part of the whole Western system.
We fought on the side of the Allies in both world wars.
We had a very famous Prime Minister called Jan Smut.
In 1942, during World War II, he became the first Empire Statesman, so-called, to address both Houses of Parliament in London to thunderous applause.
You can actually go and see that.
there's a YouTube video of that where the entire British political class applauds him and where Churchill invites them all to give him a standing ovation and they sing he's a jolly
That was in 1942.
And only a few years later, a few decades later, we were the so-called pariah of the world.
People were boycotting us.
They wouldn't play sport against us.
They even spat on our diplomats in Western capitals.
Picture taken quite recently, earlier this year, a bust of smuts defaced at the University of Cape Town.
You've got the same types of problems on your campuses where statues of former white heroes or confederate heroes are also defaced by these so-called protesters.
Yeah, that's another monument to our participation in the two world wars.
I wouldn't read the inscription there.
I'm sorry to expose you to that, but it gives you a good impression of the sort of hostility that we've got against white people currently in South Africa, defacing memorials like that.
Yeah, this is another picture of Churchill, well, all the leaders from the Second World War, there's Eisenhower, Churchill, and Smuts, and including the Canadian and Australian leaders inspecting the troops during the war.
So what are the main reasons, in summary, for our decline was first our demographic marginalization.
As a result of the black and the colored population explosion, our so-called colored population, the mixed race population, they went from below 1 million to currently about 5 million people since 1960.
And then there was this great ideological change in the world that people call political correctness, cultural Marxism, progressivism, or anti-white racism.
And that triggered this immense hostility towards us in the world, and as a result of that propaganda onslaught, we finally lost power in our own country.
And those same factors are at work to bring down the entire Western civilization, demographic decline, as well as the demoralizing influence of political correctness.
And, of course, we were betrayed by our own leaders, just like Mrs. Merkel betrayed Germany by welcoming all these Islamic refugees into her own country.
And, I mean, there are other statements by Bill Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy, and others where they openly declare that it's going to be a good thing.
For whites to become minorities in their own countries, just like we are at the moment.
So it's a David versus Goliath struggle that we are currently up against in South Africa.
There are four and a half million whites.
We are still treated in a hostile fashion by the world media.
We've got about 50 million people of color, so-called, who are constantly being brainwashed into The evils of white racism, white privilege, and so on.
We've also got a very ultra-liberal set of media.
And around us, there are Afro-Marxist states who are openly socialist, openly anti-white, such as Mr. Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
Many of the other countries in the region are equally anti-white and radical.
There's also a new anti-racism law in South Africa that they are contemplating, and it's going to be a criminal offense to say or do anything deemed to be racist.
Hate speech, so-called, will in itself become a hate crime.
This is almost like something from George Orwell's novel 1984, where there were thought crime and speech crime.
So you're going to commit to speech crime in South Africa, and they could actually get very nasty with you.
There's also a national plan, so-called, against racism.
I won't go into all the details of that, but those are some of the definitions.
Being used, such as a hate crime, acts motivated by bias based on the identity with reference to race, religion, and national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity of the victim.
Except, somehow, these things don't apply to whites.
I mean, if you're anti-white, that doesn't count as racism or as a hate crime.
Over the past week or two in...
Ever since the beginning of the year, every week there has been a racism scandal in South Africa and the media go completely berserk in reporting on these things.
A week or two ago, there was a high court judge in Pretoria, Mabel Janssen, who stated that there was a high...
She had about 50 cases in her own court of black men raping children.
And she said that this was such a phenomenon and she thinks there were cultural reasons behind this.
Immediately she was attacked by a so-called social justice warrior, one Jillian Skitter, and she's on her way to being the first judge in the history of South Africa to be impeached as a result of something she stated in a private message on Facebook about...
The nature of black perpetrators.
This is now the social justice warrior.
You've also got a lot of them here in the USA.
Her name is Gillian Skitter.
Her married name is Singizwa.
And this is Mr. Singizwa and their child.
And she's got such an obsession over her own step into miscegenation or whatever you might want to call it.
That she is constantly raging against all the whites in the country and seeking out those whites who dare to stray a few millimeters from the straight and narrow path of anti-racism.
So we are becoming a kind of anti-racist Soviet Union where whites will be persecuted for not towing the line and for making or even thinking.
The unthinkable.
Some of the stuff that Jared Taylor said today, I think if he had to say it in South Africa, he would also be possibly charged with a misdemeanor, or it could soon be a felony in your terms.
So U.S. political correctness is amplified and intensified in South Africa.
And there's a strange case of Mr. Andre von Deventer.
He actually called a...
They're talking there about the K-word.
Now, you have in the U.S. the N-word, whereas we've got the K-word.
There's an Arab word for an unbeliever.
He's a Kaffir.
And in South Africa, that's the sort of pejorative word that people use for black people, and it's been like that for years.
And apparently Mr. von Deventer called his girlfriend's domestic servant a Kaffir.
And he was first fined with 50,000 rand and two years of house arrest.
Then when he didn't, according to the magistrate concerned, he didn't follow her court order to the letter.
He was sent to jail for two years for using the word kaffir.
Here in America, we're protected by the First Amendment, so I can say it here on stage, but probably not.
In South Africa.
So our struggle in South Africa is part of the global struggle that we've been talking about today.
In 1980, few people understood what we were up against, except perhaps the American South, the Belgians who were driven out of the Congo, the Portuguese who were driven out of Angola and Mozambique, the Rhodesians, and some Frenchmen, because the French also had various colonies in Africa,
and they had some experience of...
The cultural differences between whites and blacks.
But thanks to the immigration crisis in Europe today, which is very unfortunate for them, but in a way it's unfortunate for us because now suddenly people understand.
They've got a greater experience and understanding of what we are confronted with.
And there's a nice term in German called Kulturkampf, which is, I think, Huntington.
Translated that into his clash of civilizations.
And this is actually Huntington's own map of the various civilizations in the world.
And there's sub-Saharan Africa.
There, where we live, the west is sort of the light blue or purple there.
And then you've got the Russian Empire over there, and then the cynic one, as he calls it.
The thing is that I don't think Africans have the power or the ability to actually dominate South Africa in years to come.
We're already seeing an influx of Pakistanis into our country and Chinese and so on.
And eventually our country will be dominated either by the Chinese or by the Indians.
And that way the Western world is shrinking all the time.
And some of these other civilizations are taking positions, they are taking strategic positions, and South Africa is already an anti-Western country, but in the future, it might even become more of an anti-Western country, aimed with all its naval bases and so on,
being used against the West itself.
You'll know about the domino theory.
General Charles de Gaulle of France thought South Africa of strategic importance to the West, and he said that France should always protect it.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
And each domino that falls on that map of the clash of civilizations is a negative for our civilization, and that's one very good reason to try and save what is left of South Africa.
This is a picture of our old Air Force, some of our planes.
When the ANC and South African Communist Party took over, they simply sold off all those planes everywhere for cash.
And a lot of middlemen made a lot of money out of that.
But it's gone.
Our Air Force is gone.
And we were once voted the most professional Air Force in the world by a group of pilots meeting here in the United States.
I mean, this is a very old map from colonial times, but it shows you, I wanted to show you how these dominoes fell.
You know, we were surrounded by friendly countries, the two Portuguese colonies, Angola, Mozambique, and then southern Rhodesia, Botswana, today Betuanaland, and southwest Africa, which we controlled.
But the moment the two Portuguese colonies fell in the 1970s and in 1980s, Rhodesia, 1990, South West Africa.
We just collapsed a few years later.
So the same logic holds for you.
The more the dominoes fall, if a country in Europe like France had to become Islamic, that would be extremely negative for America too because they will have more and more positions and territory that they control against our own...
White, Christian, Western civilization.
Should we place our faith in these leaders?
First of all, there's Mr. de Klerk here.
He's an absolutely hated man in South Africa today.
The world press lauded him as a hero, as a great architect of the new South Africa and reconciliation between black and white.
But his own people today Abhor him totally, and in fact, our new black government bought a million-dollar armor-plated Mercedes for him to protect him against his own people,
because there were so many threats, apparently, to his life from people who felt that he'd betrayed them.
Then there's Mrs. Merkel.
I don't think we need to say too much about her.
Mrs. Hillary Clinton, who depends on the black vote.
In the USA without the black vote, she probably would have lost against Bernie Sanders.
So she's not a friend of white people by any stretch of the imagination.
And whenever people say that we should emigrate from our own country, I wonder sometimes whether we're not going from the frying pan into the fire.
Because we may find that...
Mrs. Clinton or Mrs. Merkel or whomever will do a kind of a declare to us in our new adopted country and we'll end up in exactly the same position as we are in at the moment.
This is a little photo that I got on the internet and which is very touching.
It's actually a group of Afrikaner children of kindergarten age and they're learning our folk dances that we've practiced for hundreds of years.
I did it when I was about 14 at high school.
We had once a week these sessions with girls and we dress in traditional dress and we play music and we do these folk dances.
And they're learning it there today.
This was from 2011.
So our customs and culture and so on is still being transmitted from one generation to the next.
I think Richard Spencer also referred to the struggle for our identity.
And I think on that score, we are actually winning the battle in South Africa.
We are fighting for our language, fighting for our customs, our identity, our culture, and so on.
That's the first aspect of what we are up against.
And then there's a security issue.
You can go on...
Okay, there's another photo showing the Volksbieler.
This is from 1952.
3,000 people participated in this folk dance down in Cape Town.
Now today, something like that wouldn't happen.
But we can look back at the past when our people were really motivated to live out their own culture like they did in this photograph here.
There was also a commemorative stamp for Volkspiele, as we call it, folk dances at the time.
So what can be done?
I mean, we are confronted with two very
We are being attacked all the time.
You can go onto the internet and Google farm murders, and you'll find a whole lot of very gruesome photographs of people who have been killed, murdered.
Raped, tortured to death, horrible things that have happened over the last few years in South Africa.
And there's been a response to that by means of private security companies, neighborhood watchers, farm watchers, and people are buying guns all the time, and they are getting prepared.
But we need something more strategic, like a community security company that will be run and managed by whites and properly staffed by whites, so that if the worst comes to the worst, we at least have something to defend us.
And then we need economic security.
You know, that's a major issue.
On Facebook, not so long ago, somebody said there was a job as a chauffeur available for a white person.
And I'm not lying, within a few hours, Applied for that job on Facebook, showing you that there's such a need for employment amongst white people who are being marginalized through affirmative action and all these other grandiose schemes by our government.
I mean, they actually force the companies to maintain racial quotas in employment and so on.
So there's a great need for new jobs among white South Africans.
There's my book that's available here.
And in the book I talk about this artificial new identity that they have created in South Africa, a multicultural identity, and they use aspects of the old British Empire for that and to create what I call a denationalized,
globalized, and kitsch identity.
And the advertising industry played an important role in creating this new identity in South Africa.
Another example of a kind of a small business, this farming family, they're exporting grapes to China and Japan.
I myself had the opportunity to visit a place where they do a lot of exports of fruit and so on to Europe.
So there's a lot of things that we can do.
There are all sorts of sectors of the economy where we can play a role in tourism, IT and web design, medical accounting.
South Africa was voted...
As the number one country for financial reporting of listed companies, because we probably have the best accountants in the world.
We've got extremely stringent standards and the level at University of Education and the board exams, very difficult.
So that's something that we can do.
And a lot of them, of course, have gone to Australia and other places where they are still practicing as accountants.
Anything high-tech.
In South Africa, it's also good for white employment.
We got a contract from Europe and the USA to build the largest radio telescope in the world in the Karoo Desert, and that created a lot of jobs for white people.
I'm just showing one example of a successful businessman in South Africa.
He started a new bank a few years ago.
In fact, the costs...
For the customer, it's so low, it's equivalent to 30 US cents per month for banking with this bank, and the rest of the services are all free.
He was actually fired at the age of 48, and he had to start a new business.
And he had a brokerage for a few years, and then he started this new bank, and this is the share price, how it's done over the last two years or so.
And the title of his autobiography is, And Then They Fired Me.
Now, we've been fired from government and everywhere in South Africa.
Most jobs, we have been fired by the new lot that took over, but it's not the end of the world.
We can bounce back, like this man did.
So, I think, I've been mentioning it here and there to people at the conference, I think there's a great need for a kind of a worldwide ethnic business network for pro-white people, where we can invest in each other's businesses, and we can create jobs in various countries,
also in Europe.
Huge youth unemployment problem.
And the internet has made physical proximity almost irrelevant.
We can communicate at almost zero cost with one another.
And both regarding human relationships and economic exchange, it just facilitates it to an astonishing extent.
This is a picture of the people who conquered us.
I think they're a bunch of clowns.
This is the famous Nelson Mandela.
They built a statue for him next to the British Parliament.
They've erected statues all over South Africa for him.
That's his wife, Winnie, or his ex-wife.
She killed a child of 12 years old.
But the state never pressed charges against her.
She's a murderer.
She ran a group of thugs, which she called a soccer team, and they murdered several people, in fact.
And this man, he wasn't even born in South Africa.
His name was Joe Slovo.
He came to South Africa at the age of 10 from Lithuania.
His name is Joe Slovo.
There's now a road renamed after him in Johannesburg, and it really irritates me every time when I see it.
And, yeah, the West preferred these people to us.
Us who fought with them in two world wars, they preferred them to us.
So we were also betrayed by our brothers and sisters in the Western countries.
So what's really motivating me and my dream is that we should take back our country sometime in the future.
There's going to be a huge crisis in South Africa sooner or later, and we must prepare ourselves for that, and eventually we must take...
Take it back, perhaps not all of it, but at least those parts that matter.
And, you know, we must hoist our orange, white, and blue flag again.
That's the old Dutch flag that was first hoisted in 1572 when the first Dutch town was liberated from the Spanish Empire.
In fact, Martin Bosma and I from the Dutch Freedom Party, we sort of have a bit of a rivalry going on.
On who's going to hoist that flag first in one of our countries.
He also wants it back for Holland.
So we were talking about the dead canary.
The canary is not dead.
And he's working.
And as I was walking towards this hall, another very famous line from American literature by Dylan Thomas, Sprung to mind.
Don't go gently into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And we are the light of Africa, and it must stay that way.
Thank you very much.
Jared has mentioned that we've got about five minutes of question time.
So I'd be happy to take any questions.
Oh, sure.
Oh, it's working.
Excellent. I had a question about a country you had referred to earlier and how it related to South Africa.
Rhodesia. I was curious as to...
I've never really...
When I've looked, I really haven't found any information that's really satisfied.
Like, give me a clear answer.
What... What was the main reason why South Africa didn't even militarily back Rhodesia back when, as you mentioned, when the Portuguese colonies, Mozambique, and Angola fell?
I guess the British and Americans, of course, put pressure on Rhodesia, of course, with more sanctions, but did they pressure South Africa super heavily?
Is that what stopped them?
Was the Afrikaner rivalry with the English traditions?
No, I mean, definitely, you know, it wasn't due to Afrikaner-English rivalry.
And in our old army, I mean, there was such a good relationship among the two language communities within the army, and they each fought together, they ate together, fought together, and there was absolutely no division there.
In fact, We were, yeah, it's part of this, what I would call the great betrayal.
In fact, Britain first put pressure on us because we had our police force.
We had a police unit stationed in Rhodesia, and in 1973, the then Prime Minister of South Africa, B.J. Foster, he swore that South Africa will never leave Rhodesia and never pull out this police unit that were fighting for the Rhodesians.
At the end of that year, he buckled under British pressure and he pulled those people back.
And there was one British diplomat.
In fact, afterwards, after devastating both Rhodesia and South Africa, he was rewarded with a post of ambassador here in Washington.
He was also made a baron of the British Empire.
His name is Baron Robin Rennick.
And he worked in cahoots with Joe Slobo and some other people.
They first devised this plan to bring Rhodesia completely under radical Marxist rule.
That was in 1979 at the Lancaster House so-called summit.
And then he did the same thing in South Africa.
So it wasn't us.
It was definitely Britain and this one man who played a major role.
In laying Rhodesia low.
And our government was naive enough to think if they succumbed to Western pressure on Rhodesia, they would be left alone.
Of course, they weren't.
I was involved in conservative journalism in the U.S. in the 70s and 80s.
And at that time, there was all kinds of sort of plan Bs that were being talked about vis-a-vis South Africa.
Maybe the whites would fall back on the Western Cape.
Or maybe Natal would be split off.
Well, the one thing that they said they would never do is go to one man, one vote in the United States.
Well, that's exactly what they did.
Now, what happened here?
What happened to all these Plan Bs, these other ideas?
Well, you know, of Mr. P. W. Buerta, who was Prime Minister until 1989, he was stabbed in the back by both Mr. de Klerk and a whole group in the Cabinet.
And he would never have acceded to this, but de Klerk didn't have a Plan B at all.
And apparently he was so megalomaniac that he thought that the blacks would actually vote for him.
And he thought that, you know, we'd have the election, I'd still be in power, and that would be the end of it.
So he didn't really worry much about a Plan B or anything like that at all.
He was simply very naive, and there was this euphoria created by the Western media, and as a result of that...
And some people in the military...
Who were being pressured to actually do something, they also lacked the courage to actually make a stand somewhere.
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