A Salute to Brave Warriors

There are a few remaining African based blogs which continue to report the truth of what is happening in Southern Africa. I luv South Africa, Ne Ultra, Afrikaner Broadcasting, Die Nuwe Suid Afrika, Cape Independence Movement, Tia Mysoa, and Sokwanele (This is Zimbabwe) still post harrowing accounts of what life has become. However, it is becoming progressively more difficult and dangerous for them to do so, especially for those living in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Perhaps the most successful of all these blogs was “Why South Africa Sucks” which, over the years has achieved phenomenal popularity and internet traffic on account of its willingness to “speak truth to power” and tell politically incorrect and uncomfortable truths.

I have long been a supporter of “Why South Africa Sucks” and its various successors, which Google kept closing down, despite having some personal issues with their choice of both language and imagery. A visit to WSAS was not a comfortable journey for the faint of heart, but then the subject they were addressing was not for the squeamish.

Sadly Why South Africa Sucks has fallen victim to the new police state which is forming in the Southern Hemisphere. The bloggers at WSAS have long had to contend with threats to themselves and to their families, however, in recent weeks events have taken an even more sinister turn for the worst, culminating in a mass police raid on the home of one of the main contributors. The blogger in question's door was kicked in and he was arrested by around twenty armed policemen, in front of his terrified children.

He was held in custody overnight, amongst hostile black prisoners, and it was made very clear to him and other bloggers that the powers that be in South Africa had been taken a strong interest in WSAS and were no longer prepared to permit it to continue revealing the truth to such a wide audience.

The small group of writers who contributed to WSAS are brave and honourable men, but they all have young families, lives and jobs in South Africa, and they have decided between themselves that, as the threat has now become so real, they can no longer continue to put their lives and families at such risk in the violent, and increasingly totalitarian state where they still reside. Hence Why South Africa Sucks has now been closed down, which is a sad loss to the internet and to the cause of free speech everywhere.

The writers at Why South Africa Sucks and its various prior incarnations were warriors in a war we will all soon be fighting. May God keep them safe and see them well for they have shown great courage in the face of a deadly foe. They have now wisely chosen to move on, but their bravery and their achievement remains.

However, this is not the end, other sites continue to tell the truth from outside South Africa, retired Dutch journalist Adriana Stuijt runs two excellent sites Censor Bugbear and the Afrikaner Genocide Archives both of which continue to report the disturbing news from South Africa which is seldom reported in South Africa itself, and is never revealed in the International media. Meanwhile South African Diaspora chronicles the lives and challenges facing ex-patriot South Africans who have left the hell hole their homeland country has become

Also, following the closure of Why South Africa Sucks an ex-patriot South African and one time WSAS contributor, now based in the USA has now launched My South Africa Sucks where he plans to carry on the work of the sadly fallen WSAS free of very real danger of doing so from within that collapsing country. I would like to wish him every success.

I hope we will all continue to support those few isolated sources which report the truth about what is happening under black rule in Southern Africa, despite the fact that it is no longer politically correct to do so. It is vital that the the truth is told, and I salute those brave men and women who report it.