The English South African, His History, Culture and Achievements
They gave the country great political figures and administrators, including prime ministers. There were great missionaries, scientists, authors, inventors, travellers and hunters among them.
Conclusion
How simple, and yet how moving and how true, the inscription on a granite memorial in Grahamstown:
To the
BRITISH SETTLERS
of
1820
to whom South Africa
owes so much
What is recorded here is just the tip of the iceberg. So much more could be told, and even after the telling of much more, so much more would yet remain to be told. The contribution of the English South African to the country he loves – loves as much as any other South African loves it – has been immense, and in a very real way, immeasurable. What would South Africa be without the English South Africans? Where would South Africa be? That is not a difficult question to answer. English South Africans are true South Africans. This country belongs to them as much as it does to any other South Africans. South Africa would have been incalculably poorer if they had not come; and now, if they are driven out en masse, it will be incalculably impoverished without them. Together with the Afrikaners, the Zulus, the Indians, the Coloureds, the Xhosas and so many others, the English belong here. It will be a huge tragedy if murderous thugs spouting nonsense about Africa belonging only to black Africans succeed in forcing ever increasing numbers of English South Africans to leave, or Communist revisionists succeed in their sinister plot to load them with undeserved guilt and make them regret their presence here. It will also be tragic if some Afrikaans South Africans continue to promote the false notion about Afrikaners being the only legitimate “white” South Africans, thereby falling for the Communist tactic of “divide and conquer” by separating themselves from their natural allies against the Red tide. Let the English South African hold his head up high, resist the forces seeking his downfall, and claim his rightful place in the sun as a true South African! For that is what he is, and nothing less.
March 2010
Shaun Willcock is a minister of the Gospel, and lives in South Africa. He runs Bible Based Ministries. For other articles (which may be downloaded and printed), as well as details about his books, audio messages, pamphlets, etc., please visit the Bible Based Ministries website; or write to the address below. If you would like to be on Bible Based Ministries’ electronic mailing list, to receive all future articles, please send your details.
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ENDNOTES:
[1].Proudly Indian? Be Human Too! By Gitanjali Pather, The Post,August 1-5, 2007.
[2].They Were South Africans, by John Bond, pg. xiii. Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1960.
[3].Weekend Witness, January 27, 2007.
[4].Anton Barnard, www.praag.org/briewe11052005antonb.htm.
[5].A New Anglo-Boer Entente for the 21st Century, by Dan Roodt, pg.5. www.praag.org/essay8d.htm.
[6].They Were South Africans, quotation from Denis Hatfield (SABC), dust jacket of the book.
[7].They Were South Africans, pg. xiii.
[8].The Were South Africans, pg.1.
[9].They Were South Africans, pg.2.
[10].They Were South Africans, pgs.2,3.
[11].Thus Came the English in 1820, by Dorothy E. Rivett-Carnac, pg.125. Howard Timmins, Cape Town, 1961.
[12].Thus Came the English in 1820, pg.89.
[13].Thus Came the English in 1820, pg.83.
[14].Thus Came the English in 1820, pgs.100-1.
[15].“Holy War” Against South Africa, by Shaun Willcock, pg.56. First Century Ltd., Huddersfield, UK, 2003.
[16].‟Holy War” Against South Africa, pg.57.
[17].Thus Came the English in 1820, pg.126.
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