THE CHRISTIAN AFRIKANERS - The Works of F. N. Lee

financed by White money. It is built in the form of an ox-head, the symbol of the Zulu army -- butwith a huge cement cross rising up in its midst, to symbolise the triumph of the cross over thepowers of darkness.If that be racism, then I too must confess to being a racist -- without any feeling of shame. But Ifeel this is the very opposite of racism! For it is the triumph of Christianity and civilisation over thepowers of darkness. Indeed, I look forward to a yet happier day in the future -- when WhiteCalvinists and Black Calvinists in South Africa and elsewhere can stand as brothers shoulder toshoulder against the new forces of darkness -- the White atheistic scum of the earth now associatedwith anti-Christian Black and anti-Christian Yellow non-Christians.Let the line then be drawn where it needs to be drawn -- in every generation, wherever beliefconfronts unbelief. And if, incidentally, in a certain day and age the line of belief should thenhappen to coincide with the line of race -- well then, we'll have to accept that position (at least asthe point of departure). But as soon as possible let it be understood that the line of belief goesthrough the heart of every man, regardless of his skin colour -- as the Word of God continues in itsonward course, throughout the world, to christianise and to civilise it!And what shall we say further? From 1840 through 1850, the British annexed the Republic ofNatalia. This drove the White South Africans out -- into the very centre of South Africa -- to theOrange River Colony. There, at the Sand River Convention, the British finally signed a PeaceTreaty with the White South Africans -- allowing them to set up their independent AfrikanerCalvinist Republic (the Orange Free State). Then, in 1857, the British recognised a secondAfrikaner Calvinist Republic -- this one to the north of the Vaal River and south of the Limpopoand known as the South African Republic (alias the Transvaal).These two Republics had rigid Calvinist constitutions. Even the British constitutional expert, LordBryce, in his great book on the constitutions of the British Empire of Nations, admits that theOrange Free State Republic had a model constitution for good government.Things now went reasonably well in South Africa, until in 1867 diamonds were discovered on theCaledon River. Immediately, the British moved to grab the diamonds. They did this by stirring up anon-White nation called the Griqua's -- to claim that area for themselves (even though they hadnever been there before). Then the British persuasively "offered" to establish a British"Protectorate" over that area! Thus Griqualand West -- the place where the diamonds werediscovered (in what was technically the Orange Free State Republic of the White South AfricanCalvinists) -- was forcibly incorporated into the British Empire as a British Protectorate.Even the Encyclopaedia Britannica today admits that the British were thus doing wrong at thattime. That is how Kimberley, the greatest centre of diamond production in the whole world, wasremoved from the Orange Free State Republic -- and incorporated into the British-controlled CapeColony!Some of the Afrikaners moved on, establishing new republics ever farther to the north. These werethe Stellaland Republic; the Goshen Republic (the name of which they got from Genesis 45:10); theRepublic of Freedom (Vryheid Republic); the Lydenberg Republic; the Rustenburg Republic; theLichtenberg Republic; the Soutpansberg Republic; and the Far Northern Republic.In 1886, gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand (the "Ridge of the White Water") near what isnow Johannesburg. People poured in from all parts of the world. Exports had trebled over theprevious decade. Exports rose again, sevenfold, between then and 1900. By 1910, gold represented60% of all of the wealth of South Africa -- and diamonds a further 20%.