Boer uprising 'fake'

VOLKSTAAT RHETORIC: AFRIKANERS ‘SEEK UNITY, NOT MOBILISATION'

- Faizel Patel

FUN TIME. An analyst says most Afrikaner groups want peaceful solutions.

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North-West University professor and political analyst has dismissed claims that Afrikaners are mobilising to "rise again" in South Africa, following a social media post by the Volkstaat movement declaring the “Boer is coming”.

The movement's post on X proclaimed: “Die boere kom [the farmer is coming]. We firmly believe that our nation will rise again from the ashes and be strong like the Boers of old.”

Analyst Prof André Duvenhage, however, said he has not observed any organised mobilisation among Afrikaners.

“In my observation - and I have contact with Afrikaners at large with different groups, including those who refer to themselves as Boers I have not picked up any tendencies in this regard,” he said.

“At the highest level, what I have seen are attempts at self-defence when they perceive a crisis, but no active mobilisation.”

Duvenhage acknowledged that some Afrikaner social groupings are deeply concerned about being deliberately victimised or portrayed as hostile actors intent on reviving apartheid.