He sometimes wonders if a rotten egg is really an egg, writes the chairman of the Solidarity Movement in his reply to Max du Preez's article last week about volk, language and nation.
IT sometimes feels like we are living in one country but in different worlds. If so much mistrust and prejudice exist among Afrikaans speakers themselves over “Afrikaners", one wonders whether greater national unity among all South Africans is possible. This is especially true at a time when thousands of well-qualified people are “resigning" as South Africans and moving out of the country.
The fact that South Africa is one of the largest exporters of job creators and taxpayers represents a kind of “revolution of the rich". This could have even worse consequences for the country than the much-discussed revolution of the poor. A revolution of the rich is not a violent uprising that dominates the news, almost like the looting of June 2021. It is a silent revolution but with permanent effects. There are no shopping centres that can be rebuilt. The country will lose those people's contributions permanently, and it will have to compete economically with them from now on.
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Flip Buys: Afrikaners are angry, but not evil
He sometimes wonders if a rotten egg is really an egg, writes the chairman of the Solidarity Movement in his reply to Max du Preez's article last week about volk, language and nation.
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IT sometimes feels like we are living in one country but in different worlds. If so much mistrust and prejudice exist among Afrikaans speakers themselves over “Afrikaners", one wonders whether greater national unity among all South Africans is possible. This is especially true at a time when thousands of well-qualified people are “resigning" as South Africans and moving out of the country.
The fact that South Africa is one of the largest exporters of job creators and taxpayers represents a kind of “revolution of the rich". This could have even worse consequences for the country than the much-discussed revolution of the poor. A revolution of the rich is not a violent uprising that dominates the news, almost like the looting of June 2021. It is a silent revolution but with permanent effects. There are no shopping centres that can be rebuilt. The country will lose those people's contributions permanently, and it will have to compete economically with them from now on.
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Unionist and activistFlip Buys is chairman of the Solidarity Movement, which includes the Afrikaner rights activist group AfriForum.