Yes,his ability to speak Afrikaans has duped quite some amongs the Afrikanners and they now believe this man is a 'breath of fresh air'!All DR Lets says of COPE is a true and correct analysis,save for the fact that they represent a rich,middle class following.The working class and the poor are clearly abreast of how far we have come as a nation.They will not be swayed by any Tom,Dick and Harry blurting out a lot of words about nothing!

Well, if you bothered to listen properly, you would have heard the guys apologise for battling with a Shoutcast server that was down and trying to sort it out.

Then they left the eastern Cape en mass during the 1830s & 1840s due to being killed off by a neighbouring tribe & the oppressive British Colonialism whereupon they would found a number of more Boer Republics with the ZAR / Transvaal Republic / the Orange Free State / the Natalia Republic & the Vryheid Republic being the most notable.

Then the Boers were conquered during the second Anglo-Boer War where close to 50 % of the child population was killed in the concentration camps & whereupon their two remaining main republics were annexed by Britain & attached to the new macro State of South Africa the British created which lumped the various nations & ethnic groups in the region under a single administration for the first time ever.

Then the Boers attempted to restore their Boer Republics during the Maritz Rebellion of 1914 only to be put down by force & jailed by the Afrikaner / Anglo South African regime. Then during the 1940s the Boers tried again to restore their Boer Republics by numbers upwards of 500 000 until the Afrikaner establishment shut it down once again.

Then a one Robert van Tonder left the National Party in 1961 [the same year that Hendrik Verwoerd turned South Africa into a nominal republic & who Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio rightly noted was not a friend of the Boer Nation] in order to pursue the goal of restoring the Boer Republics. When no other established political party wanted to pursue this goal: van Tonder then started his own Boerestaat Party & petitioned for a referendum among to be held among the Boerevolk for restoration of the old republics.

The Boers have been under Dutch Colonialism then British Colonialism / then most had self determination within the Boer Republics for about 50 years. Then they were back under British Colonialism / then Afrikaner domination [as the Cape based Afrikaners inherited the new macro State of South Africa & outnumber the Boers] & now the Boers are still under a form of suzerainty with the current neo Colonial regime administrating the macro State. The Boer freedom struggle is thus not new & goes back for centuries.

Lets Pretorius is not a so called “racist” as he is just the latest is a centuries long line of Boers who have fought & struggled to acquire freedom & some form of self determination.

Last week’s shortwave show was a disgrace and very amateur, especially with all the noise and commotion in the background.

And just like the typical coward you are, sitting behind your keyboard, you won’t be calling in.

- Admin

Cope is the future of this country

Margaret

Can you back up your statement in any way?

Allan Boesak already joined COPE – a person convicted of defrauding funds from international agencies intended for the poor and having served a sentence for it.