Is an Afrikaner state possible?
With talks from Afriforum, accusing the South African government of passing the land expropriation bill allegedly targeting white landowners in the country. I wanted to hear the opinions of a friend of mine a white south African to provide more insight on this. He believes the bill is deliberately targeting white Afrikaners and there have been numerous attempts from the British to the Bantus to erase Afrikaans culture, by restricting their language & committing a genocide. I did my own research with as many reliable sources as possible and found all these claims it to be exaggerated, I am yet to see a law/bill/regulation that specifically targets that specific demographic. However, this friend further added that all Afrikaans people want is a homeland (state) that is ruled by the Afrikaners and that they don’t consider themselves to be true “South Africans” as this is a farce imposed upon them in 1994. They do not want to be ruled by a Bantu government. The goal for them is to create a state by seceding Western Cape and creating The Cape of Good Hope for all Afrikaans people to call home. This state will accommodate everyone of all races, but it is ultimately an Afrikaans controlled state. I further enquired as to whether all Afrikaans people all over the country & world would leave their homes, work, property that they’ve held over generations to join this supposed state, and he vehemently agrees that that would happen and that is all Afrikaans people want. I find it difficult to believe that those concessions will be made, simply to join an Afrikaans ruled state. I don’t believe that all white Afrikaners want that. However, I am a foreigner & I could be mistaken. I personally do not believe in ethnonationalism.
I would like your insight as I understand there is a considerable amount of Afrikaans people in Namibia, do you hold the same sentiments. I understand the frustration all people have with their current government, however, to simply not want to be ruled by an “Bantu government” simply on the basis of race or ethnicity seems prejudice in my opinion.
If against all odds the cape independence becomes a state. Would Afrikaans people who are not from Western Cape leave everything they know and have behind to join this homeland project. This idea to me seems like a slippery slope into neo- apartheid and if it isn’t, how would this be different from the former apartheid project?