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

Now Zuidema was a very great Dutch philosopher. He died just recently. He was previously amissionary in Indonesia. He was imprisoned by the Japanese in World War II. He weighed 85pounds when he got out of the Japanese concentration camp. He has made several trips to SouthAfrica, and he has very bluntly told me there that he was just about fed up with the United Nations.Anyone, says Zuidema, who compares a backward Buddhist state like Tibet to South Africa, andclaims that Tibetans should enjoy equality at the international level with an advanced andmechanised and industrialised Christian Calvinist nation such as White South Africa -- is insultingthe Holy Ghost!What did Zuidema mean by this? He meant that the Holy Spirit in regenerating His elect (as thedecrees of Dordt say) "when He will, where He will and how He will," -- as well as the Holy Ghostgiving common grace to the non-elect to promote the development of art and science and literatureand industry -- has moved to a vastly greater degree among the White South Africans in the historyof the world up to today, than He has yet moved in the backward outposts of Tibet. And I myselfwould agree with that assessment of the great Dutch philosopher Zuidema.Now then, we want to deal with the eschatology of victory in South Africa -- as it derives from itsEuropean roots transplanted to South Africa in 1652. There are not too many people in SouthAfrica today. It is a rather sparsely populated country -- chiefly a large hunk of desert with a verylimited potential to support hordes of people. In that regard, it is very similar to Australia which toois basically one hunk of desert -- even though it is as huge as the continental United States. So itmight surprise you to learn that in the whole of South Africa today there are only about twenty-onemillion people -- less than one-tenth of the number in the United States.There are something like four and a quarter million White people in the whole of South Africatoday. You could put the entirety of White civilisation in South Africa today -- rather comfortablyin a city the size of Chicago, and then almost lose it! But of the Whites in South Africa whoseancestors have been there from 1652 (almost the same time as the first major White colonisation ofNorth America) -- we can say that such Whites were principally of French Calvinist, DutchCalvinist, German Calvinist, and Scottish Calvinist descent.There are also Calvinists descending from groups, such as Swiss Calvinists. The previous PrimeMinister of South Africa, John Vorster, was of Swiss Calvinist descent. The present Prime Ministerof South Africa, P.W. Botha, is of French Calvinist descent. And perhaps the most conservativeCalvinist politician in South Africa today, Andries Treurnicht (who wrote the introduction to mybook on The Central Significance of Culture) is of German Calvinist descent. But the interestingthing is that all of these European strands -- Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Germans, Scots and others --have gone into the melting pot and have produced a White nation in South Africa -- the Afrikaners.In much the same way, people came to the U.S.A. from England, Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia,Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Eastern Europe. They have now gone into the American meltingpot and have produced a new White race or nation, the White American people. So too, you havesomething similar happening -- of a much smaller numerical scale -- in South Africa.Of course, you've also had the fortune-hunters: ungodly White men who have left Europe and goneto South Africa in search of gold and diamonds -- and who have not had a very edifying effectupon the development of the White civilisation. But I think one can say that their influence inSouth Africa, though clearly observable, has been much less in the development of the new nation-- than has that of the previously mentioned various kinds of Calvinists.