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Buthelezi woos Afrikaner voters with Boer song
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Black SA leaders launch 'war of the songs' to woo white voters
see video here: http://www.stube.co.za/view_video.php?viewkey=40f0c74a814ec9237b6e
January 29 2009 -- The South African electorate is facing a presidential election early this year - and parties are gearing up to woe one of the least-liked electorates on the planet: the country's 3-million besieged Afrikaner whites.
Solidarity trade union got the ball rolling by inviting a large range of political leaders to their video-forum to introduce them to Afrikaner voters. And the one leader who immediately stood out from the crowd was Inkatha Freedom Party leader, the widely-respected Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
On this video, Buthelezi sings a whopping good version of the charming 19th century Voortrekker song called 'Watch how those Farmers ride'... “Hoe ry die Boere sit-sit so…’
Many Afrikaners say that this peaceful song by Buthelezi is a direct oppositive of the fear they feel when listening to African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma warlike 'bring me my machine gun' song See
This brain-drain is causing increasing problems because most of the emigrants are skilled engineers who used to keep the municipal infastructures going. More than 80% of the country's engineers have already left since 1994. In an effort to get them back, Solidarity trade union has launched a Homecoming Campaign of their own - and hope that Buthelezi's song might bring at least some of these families back to South Africa, to show them that the attitudes against whites are beginning to change.
On the video, Buthelezi is heard singing the song at the celebration of Inkatha-Freedom Party parliamentarian Koos van der Merwe's 70th birthday recently.
Solidarity trade union spokesman Dirk Hermann - who placed the brief clip on the internet -- said Buthelezi 's song was going to be a top-hit among Afrikaners.
- "Particularly impressive were his crystal-clear high notes when he sings: "The Cape girl says ting-e-ling-eling!" he said.
On a more serious note, Hermann said this video also is a strong message from one of South Africa's most important black political leaders to respect one another's cultures.
Buthelezi's video forms part of 21 electoral party-political messages by various polical party spokesmen - in which the leaders of Inkatha, the ANC, the breakaway party COPE, the Democratic Alliance, the Independent Democratic party and others all provide their opinions on the subjects of:
- black-economic empowerment laws (which have left more than one-third of the Afrikaners homeless and impoverished); and
- the country's out-of-control crime epidemic -- with specific messages targetting the Afrikaner electorate.
Afrikaners are the only white tribe of Africa – and we need them…
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma said on one video that 'Afrikaners are the only white tribe of Africa'. He added that they were 'necessary to turn South Africa into a better place'. However he also recently announced elsewhere that he definitely did not want to drop the party's black-economic-empowerment programme which is chasing Afrikaners from the country at such a huge rate.
COPE-leader Mosioua Lekota -- in a direct swipe at the ANC-party’s political-cronyism - said his party 'was not prepared to appoint people only because of their party-political affiliations, but that we demand that people are capable of doing the jobs.'
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said that 'the poorest always suffer the most when state-officials don't do their jobs properly, because then they don't get the opportunity to improve their lives'. http://www.solidaritysa.co.za/Tuis/wmview.php?ArtID=2115
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