A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL MUSIC: THE CUT LINE AND THE BOER WAR

Not all nations are considered equal. It is axiomatic that the Western World self-righteously looks down their collective nose at certain people, certain ethnicities, certain tribes.

Such as, for instance, the Afrikaners.

Why?

In what way are Afrikaners unworthy of consideration?

They have done far less evil in the world than the English, the French, the Germans.
And they're damn sight better than most of those pestilential groups in the Balkans and the Mediterranean basin.

Here then, because I really feel like it, are two musical numbers that express the flavour of the modern Afrikaner world. The first one (die kaplyn - the cut line) is about the bush war that was supported by the English and the Americans against the Marxist terrorists in Angola, the second (De La Rey) recalls the savage and hopeless struggle against Britain over a century ago - a war in which the British perfected scorched earth tactics, concentration camps, and the use of disease and starvation as weapons against civilian populations.


DIE KAPLYN

[SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eke3l8Tmqdc.]


DE LA REY

[SOURCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LIgIF9nfyc.]


You will note that both songs deal with conflict, specifically wars started by the greed and manipulative actions of outsiders.
The Boer War was rooted in English venality and imperialism, the South African Border War was Cuban interventionism at its worst - the Cubans, as Communists and exporters of revolutionary violence, were heavily involved in the terrorism of so many groups world-wide that the support and love the regime in Havana still enjoys from certain circles in Europe and America is rather sickening, explained only by the anti-Yank sentiments rife among enlightened folk.

[Note that that famous companion of Fidel, adoptive Cuban, and pop-cultural icon Ernesto Che Guevara was a sadist and mass-murderer whose death was too long delayed, and justifiably brutal. May his memory be forgotten, and may Fidel soon join him.]


BOK VAN BLERK

A native of Pretoria, Bok is a good musician who sings in a language that most English speakers could probably never understand. After all, all the civilized world speak English.
Isn't that the language that both Jesus and Karl Marx spoke?


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