🇿🇦 WHEN HENDRICK VERWOERD WALKS AGAIN: VOORTREKKER ENEMIES, STRUGGLE SONGS, AND THE DANGEROUS RETURN OF DIVIDE AND RULE🇿🇦🥲🤣 It feels like Hendrik Verwoerd is awake and walking the streets of South Africa again. 🤣🤣The Rainbow Nation is being pulled apart, not by ordinary citizens, but by a dangerous return to the politics of division and conquest. Is “White Power” trying to replace the 1976 cry for “Black Power”? 🤣🤣Or are we just watching the age-old strategy of “divide and rule” come alive once again only now dressed in new clothes, and using old wounds? A RECENT ARTICLE by Independent Global Insight (May 2025) highlights a growing international concern: The European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) is echoing warnings first raised by Donald Trump about violence against white farmers in South Africa. These warnings are framed as a form of ethnic-political violence, pointing to hate speech like “Kill the Boer” as a sign of a society slipping into sanctioned hostility with state silence being interpreted as complicity. That article may spark concern. But before we rush to conclusions, we need to ask deeper questions especially about the selective memory at play in both international outrage and our own national symbols. 🏛 THE VOORTREKKER MONUMENT : A Mirror of Our Selective History Inside the iconic Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, the word “ENEMIES” is carved into the marble friezes. These “enemies,” according to the narrative, were the African kingdoms: the Zulu, Ndebele, Xhosa, who resisted Boer expansion. But let’s be honest: How can people defending their land, lives, and sovereignty be enemies in their own country? And today, we must ask: Are we seeing a new version of that same narrative, where white farmers are recast as victims in isolation, without interrogating the history of land dispossession, inequality, and ongoing trauma? This is not to deny that brutal crimes occur on farms nor to downplay any murder, black or white. It is to caution against weaponizing selective pain for global political gains, while ignoring the unhealed wounds of the past. 🔁 THE CYCLE OF INJUSTICE: : From Historical “Enemies” to Modern Fears In 1838, the Voortrekkers cast African resistance as evil. In 1948, apartheid justified itself by protecting the “volk” from black “threats.” Today, in 2025, global actors are once again REVIVING the same tropes: “white victims, black perpetrators,” with little historical nuance. So, let’s flip the question: 🌺Why is it that when farm attacks happen, the world listens but when villages suffer hunger, pit latrines collapse, or police brutality affects black youth, the global alarm remains silent? 🌺WHY DO SONGS OF STRUGGLE become labeled as hate, BUT SYMBOLS OF CONQUEST (like the Voortrekker Monument) are protected as “heritage”? 🌍 WE NEED MORAL CONSISTENCY, Not Political Convenience If we are to speak about violence, incitement, and protection, then we must do so evenly and truthfully. The moral compass must not change based on skin color, politics, or global alliances. Yes, all citizens deserve protection, including white farmers. But also all narratives must be questioned, including those that ignore the ongoing effects of colonization and apartheid. We cannot heal as a nation if we let OLD LIES AND FIND NEW MICROPHONES 🤣🤣 We cannot claim unity while OUR MONUMENTS STILL CALL BLSCK PEOPLE “ENEMIES” We cannot move forward if WE LET YHE EORLD REWRITE OUR PAIN FOR THEIR POLITICS. 🕊️ SO NOW WHAT? 🌺We revisit our monuments not to destroy, but to contextualize. 🌺We revisit our history not to erase, but to understand. 🌺We revisit our present not to point fingers, but to build a future that includes everyone. If we fail to do so, WE RISK TURNING OUR RAINBOW NATION into a shadow of its promise and Verwoerd, indeed, walks again.🤣🥲🥲🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦