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

of success.I may add that White South Africa is the only country in the world at the moment which officiallyrecognises the independence of these Black Republics. Today one of the saddest things is that theUnited Nations -- the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany -- absolutely refuseto recognise the independent status and nationhood of these Black areas in South Africa. This is avery interesting phenomenon. Here are various countries -- a White country and several Blackcountries -- trading with one another and maintaining diplomatic relations with one another withinSouthern Africa. Yet the rest of the world ignores it, as if it had never happened!Of course, the world humanist establishment wittingly ignores it. It implies that Vendaland, theTranskei, Bophutatswana and all of the other independent Black nations would then have to begiven independent seats at the United Nations. That would indeed demonstrate to the world that theSouth African policy of separate development is working. That, of course, would be lethal to theliberals who do not want to see it work. For they believe in racial amalgamation and integration --rather than in good neighbourliness between man and his fellowman and respect for one anothers'sdifferences and right to be different.Well now, in 1910, at the creation of the Union of South Africa, all of these future developmentshad to be projected as best they could. Many had been killed, and the country itself had been ruinedby war just ten years earlier when about 25% of the population of South Africa were Whites. By1910 only 22% of the population of South Africa was White. By 1980, this figure had gone downto 17%. By the year 2000, it is projected that only 13% of the population of South Africa will stillbe White.Now this is not so much on account of the arrival of birth control methods. The fact is that thegrowth rate of the White South Africans is considerably higher than the growth rate of the Whitesin other countries.They had a very interesting survey several years ago in South Africa, asking Roman Catholic Whitegirls and Calvinist White Afrikaner girls how many children they would like to have in theirfamilies. The replies were very significant. The average Roman Catholic girl, then still implacablyopposed to contraceptives, gave the answer that she would like to have four children. The averageCalvinist Afrikaner White girl said she would like to have five children, if that be possible. Indeed,the size of White families in South Africa is still definitely higher than it is of most White peopleelsewhere.However, even if each White South African family were to produce an average of four or fivechildren, the Black South African families -- especially since the advent of White medicine whichhas drastically cut down the Black death rate -- has now risen to some eight or nine children perfamily on the average. And, of course, at this point we also run into the theological problemsconcerning the cultural mandate.There, God did not say "be fruitful and add and fill the earth" -- so that two people, a man and hiswife, should want to produce only two children. For then, only if those two children were to growup and both to get married and both to be fertile, would there be no decrease. Instead, God said:"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth." So it seems to me that two people getting marriedshould desire to produce a very minimum of four children per family. For that alone ismultiplication.I believe in the United States the average number of children per family is something like 2.2. Thatis rather too low. On the other hand, the Word of God does not say that human beings are to be