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Toets jy nog telkens jou eie lewe aan elkeen van die Tien Gebooie van God? God het ons uitverkies om sy kinders te wees en Hy vra dat ons Hom met ontsag en eerbied dien. Dit sluit in dat jy in woord en daad jouself aan sy wil onderwerp in gehoorsaam en getrouheid aan al tien die gebooie – nie net sommige van hulle nie.
MISDADE TEEN DIE BOER
EJG Norval
"Dankie meneer Brit vir al die gemors wat jy in hierdie land aangevang het en daarna ons volk verdruk en besoedel het."
Erge gruwels en oorlogsmisdade was tydens die Engelse oorlog van 1899-1902 deur die Britse owerhede en Tommies gepleeg, waarvan sommige opgeteken is in my boek “Onskuldige Bloed”. (Dit kan bestel word by Hierdie e-posadres word van Spambotte beskerm. Jy moet JavaScript ontsper om dit te lees. - Red). Dit sluit in seksuele aanrandings, pedofilie met kinders deur Britse offisiere, onetiese entstof-eksperimente op kampkinders en die vergifting van karige rantsoene met kopersulfaat, laudanum, arseen, rotgif, skaapdip, fenol, lysol, belladonna en nog meer.
‘n Ander gruwel was opgeteken deur A de V Minnaar van die Human Sc. Res. Councilin google: “Zululand and the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902). Die onderstaande aanhalings onderskryf hierdie boosheid van die Bitish Army in Noord-Zululand en in die suidelike distrikte van die ZAR, wat getuig van die wreedheid, gierigheid, barbarisme en moorde gepleeg op ons volk deur volksvreemdes, net om die Boer fisies en materiëel uit te wis. Om die Brit se psige te verstaan, kyk gerus na google: “Up to 70% of British men are related to the Egyptian” en u sal begryp waarmee ons te doen gehad en steeds het.
- Early in 1901, a large British column led by Gen. French began moving through the south-eastern Transvaal, destroying farm buildings, burning crops and seizing Boer livestock. To prevent the Boers driving their livestock into Zululand to avoid confiscation, the British Commander-in-chief, H Kitchener, on 3 February 1901 authorised Col H Bottomley to raise a small body of men to assist the Zulus in sealing off the border between Zululand and the South African Republic. In addition, Bottomley was instructed to supervize the Zulus when driving into Zululand Boer cattle which might otherwise supply the commandos with animals for slaughter and draught purposes. Of the animals captured 65% were to become the property of Bottomley’s force, 10% would be retained by the Zulu in return for their co-operation while the remaining 25% were to be handed over to the British Army.
Die bende se doel was:
- the arming of the Zulus in Zululand and their being sent, without any white supervision, into the South African Republic to loot Boer stock. They felt this to be contrary to Bottomley’s orders which stated that he should inform the Zulus to ‘oppose entry of Boers into Zululand’ and encourage them ‘to resist any invasion by force’. Nothing had been said about their going into the South African Republic to raid the Boers, only that ‘outside Zululand unarmed natives may be employed directly under the control of Colonel Bottomley or his officers to collect and bring cattle in’.
- On 26 March 1901 Bottomley arrived in Zululand and at once assigned military agents to the border districts to organize the operation. At Nkandla he placed the Zulu under the charge of a man named Cooper with instructions that they were to guard the border and raid the stock of the Boers in the districts of Utrecht, Wakkerstroom and Vryheid. At Melmoth Bottomley appointed B Cressey as his agent. On 30 March Bottomley arrived at Mahlabatini and from there visited Dinizulu and Zibhebhu, both of whom were ordered to arm their followers to protect Zululand. On the night of 31 March, Chief Ngodi of the Nkandla district, with a party of armed men, crossed into the Vryheid district, exchanged shots with Boers in the vicinity, and returned with 500 cattle and 600 sheep. On the following night a similar raid again occurred across the border. Dinizulu had raised a 1 500-strong impi and commenced raiding. Estimates of the number of cattle brought back in the Bottomley raids vary widely but Warwick estimates that at least 10 000 cattle, together with a few thousand sheep, were rounded up in the short space of two months.
Die Boere het teruggeslaan en op 4 Maart 1901 ene Mann se stoor by Mhlabatini geplunder. Kmdt. Scholtz en sy kommando het op 27 en 28 Maart Britse poste in Zululand aangeval en sommige gesteelde beeste herwin. Teen die einde van September 1901 het Genl Louis Botha en sy manne Britse forte by Itala en Prospect aangeval, asook ‘n konvooi met voorraad by Melmoth op 29 September gebuit.
Genl Bruce Hamilton het Vryheid tydens Maart 1902 beset en dadelik 250 van Dinizulu se krygers, asook Gilbert en FJ Symmonds se Zulubendes by hom ingeskakel om Boervee te plunder. Louis Botha het die Vryheidskommando beveel om Sikobobo se kraal aan te val om gesteelde beeste te herwin. Na die aanval het die Zulus hulp by Hamilton gesoek en Sikobobo het met magistraat AJ Shepstone se goedkeuring Vdkt. Jan ”Mes” Potgieter se kommando die nag van 4 op 5 Mei 1902 by Holkrans naby Vryheid aangeval. 56 Boere is gedood en 3800 beeste gevat. 54 Zulus is gedood en die 48 gewonde Zulus was deur die Britte in Vryheid se militêre hospitaal versorg.
Dankie meneer Brit vir al die gemors wat jy in hierdie land aangevang het en daarna ons volk verdruk en besoedel het.
Dinizulu Potgieter Hamilton