After the municipal elections next year, South Africa may see more ‘cultural villages’ that contain only those who identify themselves as Afrikaans. The area will not only have its own schools and universities where students will learn in Afrikaans, but the statue of Paul Kruger from Church Square in Pretoria will be moved there.

Front Nasionaal leaders Francois Cloete, Wessel Basson and Marius Coertze delivered a memorandum to Blessing Manale on behalf of City of Tshwane executive mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa on Wednesday morning. The decision came about when the Afrikaans ethnic group was being targeted and all they want to do is protect Afrikaans-speaking people.

We have a problem that Afrikaans schools or areas are being targeted. It seems like a concerted effort to target us.

A community must look after themselves; that’s what we believe in. Kleinfontein and Orania have more or less the same idea we have.

In the memorandum, they stated that they were a registered political party acting on behalf of cultural and ethnic Afrikaner communities in South Africa. Only those who identify as Afrikaans will be welcome there.

We write this letter to you regarding the next municipal elections to be held in 2016.

We hereby give notice that we purport to establish independent Afrikaner cultural areas and independent self-governing Afrikaner cantons after the municipal election in 2016.

We purport to do this in terms of the Constitution of South Africa and International Law pertaining to ethnic and cultural self-determination…

After the party wins the various municipal elections next year, they will use Section 235 of the Constitution of South Africa, which provided for self-determination and territorial unity inside of the Republic, providing the right of the South African people as a whole to self-determination. The section also encourages the recognition of the notion of the right of self-determination of any community sharing a common cultural and language heritage, within a territorial entity in the Republic or in any other way, as determined by national legislation.

The party’s greatest vision is to have an independent country just for Afrikaners within South Africa’s borders – possibly even with its own currency.

What we are fighting for is not just for Afrikaners; it is for all ethnic groups. We want to build a model for other ethnic groups to follow.

What set it off? Stellenbosch’s decision to remove Afrikaans as its primary language.

Afrikaner people should not feel threatened, unsafe or uncomfortable. There would be a lot more harmony in the country when people have safe havens.

Afrikaners saw Africa as their home and considered themselves to be white Africans.

They do not want to exclude other cultural groups from living in certain areas, but instead, they want these areas available to them to live out their heritage.

Front Nasionaal members, supported by other organisations, will tomorrow march from the Pretoria Art Museum to the Union Buildings to deliver another memorandum.

[source: iol]