South African famers need to
adopt the old “bywoner” policy of offering accommodation to needy
Afrikaner families to assist them and also to boost farm security, the
president of the International Afrikaner Society (IAS), TJ Ferreira, has
said.
Mr Ferreira, a former mayor of Boksburg, the third largest city in South Africa, pointed out on his organization’s website
that South African farmers are regularly assaulted, dehumanized and
subjected to extreme forms of torture regularly by white-hating black
criminals.
“Almost nothing is done to protect them, or change this state of affairs,” he said.
“This leaves them at the point where they need to take care of themselves—an impossible task as a single family.
“I wish to call on our farmers, to have
a look at the past, the days of the “bywoner”, the days when farmers
would allow other white families to live in a second dwelling on their
farms,” Mr Ferreira said, referring to the time in the early twentieth
century, when many Afrikaners, impoverished by the tribulations of the
Second Anglo-Boer War and post-war anti-Afrikaner discrimination, were
given refuge on agricultural holdings by fellow Afrikaners.
“We have thousands of poor whites
living in hazardous conditions in squatter camps. Most of them will give
anything for a place where they could live a normal life,” Mr Ferreira
continued.
“Farmers need to give something in order to gain something—in this case their security and safety.
“Farmers must do what their forefathers did—invite some of those dispossessed families to join them on the farms.
“There, they can set up decent housing,
and maybe even cut out an acre or two where they can do a little
farming on their own,” he said.
“In return, this will go a long way to
assisting the host farmer to creating a safer environment for himself.
Numbers create safety, and with more bodies moving around on your
homestead—people you know—the less the chance of surprise attacks and
ambushes.
“In this way, farmers can help fellow
Afrikaners and themselves at the same time. Ask yourself this: How many
more farmers have to die before we wake up and protect ourselves?”
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