Many Afrikaans are remembering Nelson Mandela as the man who fought for their freedom, who fought discrimination against them by the European rulers of their land. Many world leaders are also doing the same, praising a man who fought for the freedom of his people.
How many ever noticed or realised that the South Afrikaans were the native of South Africa and they had to fight for their freedom from foreign rules, from foreigners? It is so pathetic that if the white men did not conquer and colonise their country there was no need for any fighting at all, no need for so many deaths and wounded, no need for so many to be imprisoned and tortured as terrorists. And definitely no need for so many tragedies and tragic stories of broken homes and families.
The painful stories of the South Afrikaans must not go in vain. People of the world must treasure their country, protect themselves and their way of lives from cunning and scheming foreigners that would seize the opportunity to take over their country and turn them into subjects, servants and slaves in their home land.
Sinkies have lately starting to reveal how they are being cheated, discriminated in their own country by foreigners who were invited in hordes to live and work in their country. The foreigners are quietly turning against the Sinkies and the daft Sinkies are happily going about their lives, taking it for granted that they will always be the owners of this island. If the foreigners keep coming in and gang up against them in the near future, the fate of the South Afrikaans can be theirs. By then it would be too late to resist. And they can only hope that 100 years down the road, their progenies could have the chance to celebrate the release of one of their freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for 27 years and branded as a terrorist for fighting for their freedom that were taken away. And in the meantime, till that day comes, they will live as third class oppressed citizens in their homeland, ruled by foreigners and be discriminated by foreigners in all areas, their homes, land and jobs taken away from them.
The daft Sinkies must understand the lessons of history and not to take for granted their rights and freedom as citizens of their homeland. When it is lost, it will be a very costly and dreadful affair to think of taking back their country. Sinkies must be aware and be politically conscious of what is happening around them, what is happening to their country and fight at the slightest sign that their country is being sold or taken away from them by foreigners. The foreigners must not be allowed to gain a foothold here to take over this country and run the citizens into gallows or into the seas.
Pray we don’t have to worship a hero as a freedom fighter. We don’t need that hero, we don’t need that experience, we just want to be the way it is. Wake up daft Sinkies, before you lose everything and be cursed by your children and grand children for losing this country for them. What is happening in recent years is not fiction or wild imagination. Don’t there be a day when your children or grandchildren were to ask you in your face, ‘What were you doing when the foreigners were taking over the country?
Chua Chin Leng AKA Redbean
*The writer blogs at http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/