By Mike Smith
5th of March 2020
James Kemp of Radio Pretoria had a stunning article on Maroela Media on the 4th of March 2020, which I thought should be shared wider, because unfortunately not everyone understands Afrikaans.
Crime against Humanity: A tale of two fotos
The original heading read: “Misdaad teen die mensdom – ‘n Verhaal van twee fotos”.
This heading is very important as we will see later, but first let us look at...
James Kemp’s article:
Obviously, the article by Kemp is a response to the polemical shit storm that broke out after former president F.W. de Klerk said that Apartheid was not a crime against humanity.
His foundation reiterated this sentiment by saying: “The idea that apartheid was a crime against humanity was and remains an agitprop project initiated by the Soviets and their ANC/SACP allies to stigmatise white South Africans by associating them with genuine crimes against humanity,”
The statements by De Klerk and his Foundation were responses to the EFF leader Julius Malema who on 13 February during the SONA of President Ramaphosa said, "We have a murderer in the house. It is incorrect for you to have extended an invitation to De Klerk because De Klerk is a murderer, De Klerk has got blood on his hands."
There already we could see that only deaths of Marxist terrorists under the NP government are considered “murders”, but the deaths caused by ANC and PAC bombs, landmines and shootings of civilians would never be considered murders…not even terrorist attacks. Half of the ANC MP’s that day had blood on their hands.
Be it as it may, Kemp compares two photos and asks why one is considered a crime against humanity and the other not?
The first one is easily recognizable as the 1976 Soweto uprising picture of the dead Hector Peterson, being carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo with sister, Antoinette Sithole, running beside them. The date was 16th of June.
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| The picture of the shot Hector Peterson, Soweto 1976 |
The second picture, nobody knows, except for a few enlightened people like Kemp, those who read this blog and have read My Book
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| Bomblast victim Magretha van Wyk (5), Amanzimtoti 1985 |
It is the picture of a little girl, Magretha van Wyk (5), being carried off to hospital by a medical ordinance after the ANC terrorist Andrew Zondo planted a limpet mine in a rubbish bin in the concourse (directly in front of a supermarket) of the Sanlam Shopping centre at Amanzimtoti…two days before Christmas (23 December 1985).
The centre was packed with holiday makers at 10:30 am when the bomb went off. Five civilians including three children were killed and 48 were injured. The intention was clearly to kill as many civilians as possible.
Zondo later admitted to having chosen the target for racial reasons, preferring it over two government installations in the area. In 1985 the ANC had repeatedly called for the “People’s War” to be taken into the white areas of the country.
Those killed in the blast were Willem van Wyk, 2, from Vereenigeng in the Transvaal; Corneo Smit, 8, from Pretoria Gardens; Sharon Bothma, 16, from Benoni, Transvaal; Anna Scheurer, 40, from Amamzimtoti; and Irma Benisni, 48, from Randfontein in the Transvaal.
The attack was described at the time as the “worst terror bomb attack in Natal and the second worst in the country after the Pretoria car bomb blast” of 1982. (Natal Witness, 24 December 1985)
Zondo was hanged on the 9th of September 1986 after a liberal judge who was actually opposed to the death penalty, Judge Ramon Leon, father of former DA leader Tony Leon, sentenced him to death five times. His accomplices Pumezo Nxiweni and Stanley Sipho Bhila were freed, but later assassinated by an Apartheid anti-terrorist hit squad.
Judge Ramon Leon
The ANC in love with terrorists
The ANC later honoured Andrew Zondo by renaming Kingsway Road in Amanzimtoti to Andrew Zondo Street. Zondo's own father, Pastor Aiken Zondo of the Africa Evangelical Church, said he stood firmly opposed to the renaming of the street as it would "open old wounds".
Well what do you expect from the Marxist terrorist ANC who also renamed Edwin Swales VC Drive (a RAF WWII hero pilot) to Solomon Mahlangu Drive (a cowardly terrorist) and Higginson Highway to Yasser Arafat Drive (a mass murdering Palestinian terrorist).
Another accomplice of Zondo, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, was sent to Robben Island and (now former) President Zuma made him KwaZulu-Natal’s MEC for Health in 2009, but he was forced to resign in April 2019 after he single-handedly destroyed health care in Natal over ten years and caused the deaths of thousands more.
This former terrorist is currently chairperson of the National Assembly’s Health Committee and will play a pivotal role in deliberations over the National Health Insurance (NHI).
Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo says the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill will come into effect in 2026 . God help us all.
Jacob Zuma personally selected, ordered and sent the terrorists
Nevertheless, on the 3rd of May 2019, former ultra-corrupt president Jacob Zuma (ANC chief of intelligence at the time in 1985) proudly admitted that he personally selected Andrew Zondo and that he was the one who sent Zondo to explode the cowardly bomb in Amanzimtoti.
This is the organization who wants to call Apartheid a “Crime Against Humanity”??
The semantics of, “Apartheid is a Crime Against Humanity”
The meaning of the Afrikaans word “Apartheid” is literally “separateness”.
The word “Apartheid” as such is therefore clearly not a crime.
If you want to translate “Apartheid” as, “a government system of legalized segregation declared a crime against humanity by undemocratic, Marxist countries of the world, with human rights abuses far worse than South Africa”, then yes, by that definition it is probably a “Crime Against Humanity”, but then you must be consistent and declare all those other countries who practice/d any and all forms of segregation of humans based on race, gender, class, whatsoever…”Criminals”.
The meaning of “Humanity”
For a long time the phrase “Crime Against Humanity” bothered me, but I could never put my finger on it until a few days ago on the 26th of February 2020 when the well known and respected historian Prof Hermann Giliomee pointed it out in his article, The ‘apartheid as a crime against humanity’ question revisited
See, Afrikaans people mistranslate the meaning of “Humanity” in “A Crime Against Humanity” as “Mensdom”…”…’n Misdaad teen die Mensdom” when in fact it should be “menslikheid” or "menswees"…”…’n Misdaad teen die Menslikheid/menswees”.
As Prof Giliomee points out, “The concept of 'crimes against humanity' was developed by the Nuremberg Tribunal in the context of the Nazi atrocities committed during World War II.”
That was when it hit me. If you look at the English Wikipedia you will see what Crimes against Humanity are, but under the Dutch it reads, Misdaden tegen de menselijkheid and under German, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit
The word Humanity can be a collective noun for “Humankind”…it can mean 1) human beings collectively, or 2) the quality of being humane; benevolence.
That is the beauty of German…it is a very specific language.
The Germans do not use the word “Menschentum” meaning the people of the world (humankind), which would be “Mensdom” in Afrikaans. They specifically use “Menschlichkeit”, meaning “humaneness”.
Likewise, the Dutch (where the international court is that declared Apartheid a “crime”) do not use the word “De mensheid” (humans collectively) but “De menselijkheid” (Humaneness).
Therefore, the Afrikaans translation of Apartheid being “’n Misdaad teen die Mensdom” is completely wrong.
It does not mean that Apartheid was declared a crime against the people of the world, but rather a crime against humanness. It should be, “…’n misdaad teen menslikheid.”
Further, in Dutch it is also referred to as a “Misdrijf”, or in Afrikaans “Misdryf” which translates into English as a “Misdemeanor” which is not the same as and far less serious than a “Misdaad” or “Crime”.
So now we see that the actual meaning of “’n Misdaad teen die Mensdom” should really be “…’n “Misdryf teen menslikheid”.
The Dutch reference to Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court clearly states it as a “Misdrijf” not a “Misdaad”.
Point “j” refers to Apartheid.
Apartheid is therefore not a “crime” or "felony", but a misdemeanor.
The Dutch “misdrijf tegen de menselijkheid“ in Article 7 literally translates as „Misdemeanor against humaneness”…NOT A “Crime Against Humanity”.
Here is the original Dutch.
Artikel 7 Statuut van Rome inzake het Internationaal Strafhof
1. Voor de toepassing van dit Statuut wordt verstaan onder misdrijf tegen de menselijkheid elk van de volgende handelingen, indien gepleegd als onderdeel van een wijdverbreide of stelselmatige aanval gericht tegen een burgerbevolking, met kennis van de aanval:
a. moord;
b. uitroeiing;
c. slavernij;
d. deportatie of onder dwang overbrengen van bevolking;
e. gevangenneming of andere ernstige beroving van de lichamelijke vrijheid in strijd met fundamentele regels van internationaal recht;
f. marteling;
g. verkrachting, seksuele slavernij, gedwongen prostitutie, gedwongen zwangerschap, gedwongen sterilisatie of elke andere vorm van seksueel geweld met een vergelijkbare zwaarte;
h. vervolging tegen elke identificeerbare groep of gemeenschap op politieke, raciale, nationale, etnische, culturele, geslachtelijke als gedefinieerd in paragraaf 3 of andere gronden die internationaal erkend zijn als ontoelaatbaar onder de internationale wet, in verbinding met elke daad waarnaar in deze paragraaf wordt verwezen of elke misdaad onder jurisdictie van dit hof;
i. gedwongen verdwijning van personen;
j. apartheid;
k. andere onmenselijke daden van een gelijkaardig karakter die opzettelijk groot lijden of aanzienlijk schade aan het lichaam, aan de geestelijke of fysieke gezondheid toebrengen.