The Right Perspective: Theuns Cloete / Boervolk Radio. 1/9.

This is the first part of an interview conducted by the shortwave / internet radio program: The Right Perspective that they did with Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio on Jan 6 2007 on the 150th anniversary of the Transvaal Vierkleur flag: one of the most recognizable symbols of the Boerevolk. The Orange Free State Vierkleur flag would also become 150 on Feb 23 2007. The interview was an hour long with no breaks & will be posted here in 9 parts.

The history of the Boers is often told from a Western / British or Afrikaner point of view & thus often from a skewed perspective. This interview is refreshing & important as the Boers' history is explained & told from a Boer perspective.

The facts concerning the Boers are often obscured as the Boers have been overshadowed for the past 100 years most notably by the Afrikaner Nationalists: the Cape based political heirs to the artificial macro state of South Africa created by the British & imposed onto the region.

The Boers trekked from the Cape Afrikaners & the western Cape beginning in the late 1600s & throughout the 1700 when they were nomadic migrating farmers known as the Trekboers occupying the northern & eastern Cape frontier where some later settled down & were known as Grensboere or Border Farmers. A large number of their descendents became known as the Voortrekkers who left the eastern Cape en mass -mainly due to British Colonialism- to trek into the largely uninhabited (due to the Difaqane) interior were they would establish numerous Boer Republics of which the Transvaal Republic (also known as the South African Republic which was composed of the former Potchefstroom Republic / Lydenburg Republic / Rustenburg Republic / Utrecht Republic & the Zoutpansberg Republic) & the Orange Free State (the northern part of which was the former Winburg Republic) were recognized by other governments around the world.

The Sand River Convention signed on Jan 17 1852 between the British & the Transvaal Boers recognized the independence of the Boers north of the Vaal River. This lead to the independence of Boer Republics north of the Vaal River which would coalesce into the South African Republic on Jan 6 1857.

The Orange River Convention signed on Feb 17 1854 between the British & the Transorangia Boers recognized the independence of the Boers north of the Orange River up to the Vaal River. This lead to the independence of the Orange Free State on Feb 23 1854.

The Boer Republics were conquered on May 31 1902 by the British at the conclusion of the the second Anglo-Boer War after 27 000 Boer civilians died in the British run concentration camps. This represented the death of close to 50 % of the total Boer child population of the republics & is one of the main reasons how they were able to be overshadowed for the next 100 years by other forces ascending to power in the region.

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[Pinard7]

There are in fact about 1.5 million Boers out of a total White Afrikaans population of 3.5 million with numerous White Afrikaans people having emigrated abroad. There has indeed been a campaign on the part of the Cape based Afrikaner Broederbond to indoctrinate the Boers into thinking that they are also Afrikaners but a number of Boers did not fall for it like the late Robert van Tonder of the Boerestaat Party with increasing numbers of Boers waking up to this in current times.

[Boereprinses]

We Boere WILL shake of the Afrikaner oppression - not because we want to be "stroom-op", but because we DESERVE to rule ourselves... We are a PROUD nation, and a NATION to be proud of!

[frankvanqueens]

On Die Regtse Perspectief we have endeavoured to bring to the world the history and truth About Die BoereVolk. I may be born an "Uitlander" but in my heart I am a Boer! Ter Wille Van Die BoereVolk! Daar is Maar Eine Volk, Die BoereVolk!

[Pinard7]

The Boers are a distinct "sub group" who were lumped in with the Cape Dutch under the Afrikaner designation. But the Boers are the ones who struggled for independence & even had internationally recognized Boer Republics before being conquered by the British. Most Afrikaners are of Cape Dutch origin as the Boers were the smaller & marginalized segment. The Cape Dutch have never struggled for independence as they were quite content with the Colonial power.

[Pinard7]

The British created South Africa then recruited the Afrikaners to rule it as a surrogate Colonial regime until they too later recruited folks to replace them as the surrogate Colonial power. The Afrikaners were a forced coalition of Cape Dutch & Boer. The Boers are under Afrikaner domination as the Cape Dutch segment is larger & much better financed. The Boers had their own republics when the Cape Dutch were still pro-British & content with Colonial rule & unconcerned with self determination.

[islandshark4]

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[whiteworld1488]

There is about 1 million Boers in South Africa and up to 900,000 elsewhere (there has been mass migration among them since 1990).

The problem is that most of the Boers don't know themselves to be Boers and just call themselves Afrikaners.

[Kenfromtoti]

Theuns, So how many boers are there out of the white south africans. And whats the dream, is it the reclaiming of Vryheid? Interesting video.

[perkele0079]

I won't call it Tlokwe, I promise!