…Rocher became angry. “The DA have done buggerall to assist people with water rights, because politicians feel nothing about people until voting time because you get your money every month.
“We who produce food for the country don’t need people to run us down. You don’t know me, but we can go outside and I will tell you what I am. I am not scared to be white.”…
A WHITE rights leader threatened to give Eastern Cape DA leader Athol Trollip a schoolyard-style beating at a public meeting in East London on Tuesday night. Trollip had objected to Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) and AfriForum leader Wilhelm Rocher’s “scare tactics” (Gogga maak vir baba bang stories) to get farmers to join their rightwing organisations.
Addressing a meeting in Gonubie of 65 local farmers, Rocher – the chairman of TUA’s western region who farms in Swartruggens near Rustenburg – said: “There was a time when these black people were scared of us whites, but in 20 years we have lost our advantage.”
As he spoke he pointed to his skin. Trollip called Rocher’s statements outrageous in a constitutional democracy. “We are not living in a white enclave. All South Africans have equal rights. You can collect all the white farmers you want to shout together but the only way to get [what you want] is to put an X on a ballot. You can all load your [guns] but you will lose everything that way.”
Turning to a policy document on land ownership raised at the weekend by Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti, Trollip accused Rocher of “running after every red herring put out by the ANC”. “The government wants to say that white people are racists. But we [DA] don’t want to run after every red herring.”….
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