September 15, 2004 - Listening to Tim Modise on Radio 702 today is like listening to a barrage of anti-white hate speech. The subject he threw open for "public debate" in his carefully-vetted call-in radio broadcast was the comment by the deputy minister of mineral affairs that "white cartels are looting the country". The woman said this during a parliamentary debate. She was just copying the sentiments of her own president, Thabo Mbeki, however. "Millions of black people are suffering while white cartels are looting South Africa...they are continuing today to loot our diamonds..." she said.

In response to this, we have received the following: OPEN LETTER TO THABO MBEKI from BOER NATION

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to: The ANC President,
Republic of South Africa.
Regarding "ANC Today - Volume 4, No. 36. 10-16 September 2004 - Letter from the President: Questions that demand answers" (printed underneath our letter)
"Congratulations on the frank way in which you are taking Big Business to task, obviously disregarding the risks involved. When one wants to know what the real agenda is belying Big Business it is best to heed President Paul Kruger on this matter who claimed: “It is not our gold or diamonds they want; they want our country”. Should we be reminded of the atrocities of war that took place shortly thereafter, causing the Boer holocaust killing 5 000 women and 22 000 children?

By Ruka Jones – from United Kingdom
Any observer who has not been asleep for the past decade knows the state of contemporary Zimbabwe. The facts should be beyond dispute: Zimbabwe is an authoritarian state where the police and the judiciary have been politicised to serve the ruling party's interests. Political freedom, including the right to organise, and fair access to the media, is almost non-existent.