{"id":19254,"date":"2013-11-04T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=19254"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:20:30","slug":"die-geskiedenis-douglas-gibson-se-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=19254","title":{"rendered":"Die geskiedenis: Douglas Gibson se moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Readers of The Citizen may be amazed or even amused at the question, but in some circles people are talking about voting for him.\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ossewabrandwag.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19255\" alt=\"ossewabrandwag\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.co.za\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ossewabrandwag-300x181.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>Douglas Gibson, voormalige DA-politikus en ambassadeur na Thailand het &#8216;n <a href=\"http:\/\/citizen.co.za\/79320\/mondayopeds\/#.UndsT_uUJjs.twitter\">kwalik bedekte aanval<\/a> op Afrikaners geloods deur lesers van <em>The Citizen<\/em> te vertel hoe &#8220;verregses&#8221; se versugting om Steve Hofmeyr as die nuwe Moses te sien, niks sal oplewer nie.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Readers of The Citizen may be amazed or even amused at the question, but in some circles people are talking about voting for him.\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"The White Right constantly seeks a new charismatic leader to lead it to the new promised land.\">Volgens Gibson sal geen nuwe charismatiese leier Afrikaners kan lei na die nuwe beloofde land nie, aangesien <\/span><span title=\"Some want self-determination for Afrikaners within a confederation; some think Hofmeyr is the man to get them there.\">selfbeskikking binne &#8216;n Konfederasie nie haalbaar is nie.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"He dismissed the Freedom Front Plus as a dying party consisting of a few professional politicians.\">In sy pleidooi om Steve Hofmeyr af te kraak en die Vryheidsfront Plus se beeld as &#8216;n sterwende party wat bestaan \u200b\u200buit &#8216;n paar professionele politici, te red, s\u00ea Gibson <\/span><span title=\"He disavowed politics and placed his hopes largely on Hofmeyr's Red October movement.\">Hofmeyr se Rooi Oktober-beweging sal niks oplewer nie, ten spyte van<\/span><span title=\"It was a successful stunt; they enraged the communists and attracted much media coverage.\"> baie wye mediadekking.<\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"Hofmeyr has an interesting history.\">Hofmeyr, s\u00ea Gibson, het &#8216;n interessante geskiedenis. <\/span><span title=\"I was at school with his father, also Steve, and with his uncle, Danny de Waal.\">Hy was op skool saam met sy pa, ook Steve, en saam met sy oom, Danny de Waal. <\/span><span title=\"General Louis Botha, first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, was their great grandfather, and Mrs Helen de Waal, Louis Botha's daughter, was their grandmother.\">Generaal Louis Botha, die eerste Eerste Minister van die Unie van Suid-Afrika, was hul grootoupa, en Helen de Waal, Louis Botha se dogter, was hul ouma .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"She was a notable matriarch and United Party stalwart whom I met in 1960.\">Sy was &#8216;n merkwaardige matriarg en die Verenigde Party se staatmaker. D<\/span><span title=\"The general was the leader of the South African Party, dedicated to uniting Afrikaans and English-speaking South Africans, and opposed by the National Party, then promoting Afrikaner interests.\">ie Suid-Afrikaanse Party van destyds onder Botha wou Afrikaners en Engelssprekende wit Suid- Afrikaners saamsnoer teen die Nasionale Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gibson ken nie sy geskiedenis nie. Hy vergeet gerieflikheidshalwe dat Hofmeyr se gelyknamige voorsaat ook die Ossewabrandwag se Stormjaers onder Britse invloed uitgelei het. Wat as &#8216;n &#8220;uitlaatklep&#8221; moes dien vir anti-Britse sentiment, het vinnig onder Hofmeyr se leierskap tot &#8216;n gedugte nasionalistiese voorhoede gelei.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Die Vaderland se eerste sportredakteur was sekerlik een van die merkwaardigste.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nie net het hy die Universiteit van Oxford in 1930 in die Intervarsity teen Cambridge op die rugbyveld aangevoer nie, hy was ook die owerste van die Ossewa-Brandwag se paramilit\u00eare elitekorps, die Stormjaers, wat sabotasie tydens die Tweede W\u00eareldoorlog uitgevoer het.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Met sy Oxfordse agtergrond sou niemand dit kon dink nie. Hy het die perfekte dubbele lewe gelei deur vryelik in ho\u00ebre Engels-sprekende kringe te beweeg, terwyl hy terselfdertyd die bedrywighede van die Stormjaers geko\u00f6rdineer het<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"The general was the leader of the South African Party, dedicated to uniting Afrikaans and English-speaking South Africans, and opposed by the National Party, then promoting Afrikaner interests.\"> Volgens Gibson slaag <\/span><span title=\"Hofmeyr's views are nothing like those of Louis Botha.\">Hofmeyr nie soos Louis Botha daarin om dit te vermag nie, omdat hy &#8220;v<\/span><span title=\"He has moved to a position on the extreme right of our politics, to the extent that he is dismissed by many, fairly or unfairly, as a racist.\">erhuis het na &#8216;n posisie aan die regterkant van ons politiek, tot so &#8216;n mate dat hy deur baie, regverdig of onregverdig, as &#8216;n rassis afgemaak word&#8221;.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"He has moved to a position on the extreme right of our politics, to the extent that he is dismissed by many, fairly or unfairly, as a racist.\">Nietemin glo Gibson dat alhoewel <\/span><span title=\"There is a group (not large) of younger Afrikaans-speakers who reject politics as being irrelevant, and vow to stay away from the polls, but also talk about voting for Steve Hofmeyr, if he will stand.\">jonger Afrikaners politiek verwerp as irrelevant, en belowe om weg te bly van die stembus, hulle waarskynlik vir die &#8220;rassis&#8221; Steve Hofmeyr <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"There is a group (not large) of younger Afrikaans-speakers who reject politics as being irrelevant, and vow to stay away from the polls, but also talk about voting for Steve Hofmeyr, if he will stand.\"> sal <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"There is a group (not large) of younger Afrikaans-speakers who reject politics as being irrelevant, and vow to stay away from the polls, but also talk about voting for Steve Hofmeyr, if he will stand.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"There is a group (not large) of younger Afrikaans-speakers who reject politics as being irrelevant, and vow to stay away from the polls, but also talk about voting for Steve Hofmeyr, if he will stand.\">stem<\/span><\/span>, as hy staan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"For which party, one asks?\">Sal die <\/span><span title=\"One wonders whether the FF+ will try to put him on their election list as one way of keeping him quiet and using him to save themselves.\">VF + probeer om hom op hul verkiesingslys te sit en hom gebruik om hulself te red? Gibson dink nie Hofmeyr sal dit oorweeg nie aangesien <\/span><span title=\"The deputy ministership of Agriculture occupied by leader Pieter Mulder has not been a success.\">Pieter Mulder se <\/span><span title=\"He has not been able to do anything and he is seen as fatally compromised by the embrace of President Zuma, whom he attacks ritually every now and then before lapsing into silence.\">omhelsing van President Zuma noodlottig was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"He has not been able to do anything and he is seen as fatally compromised by the embrace of President Zuma, whom he attacks ritually every now and then before lapsing into silence.\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"It was a successful stunt; they enraged the communists and attracted much media coverage.\">Volgens Gibson is daar geen politieke voertuig meer vir die ondersteuners van Rooi Oktober nie.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"People know that this is just as valid today.Dan Roodt and his co-believers do not explain how a confederal state will be achieved.\">&#8216;n Konfederale staat is nie haalbaar nie, weens die tweederdemeerderheid wat &#8216;n w<\/span><span title=\"Amending the constitution requires a two-thirds majority in parliament.\">ysiging van die Grondwet vereis in die parlement, en is wat Gibson betref onoorkombaar. <\/span><span title=\"Is it achievable if right-wingers boycott the political process and stay away from the polls?\">Dit is des te meer onhaalbaar as regse kiesers die politieke proses <\/span><\/span><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Is it achievable if right-wingers boycott the political process and stay away from the polls?\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"Is it achievable if right-wingers boycott the political process and stay away from the polls?\">boikot <\/span><\/span>en wegbly van die stembus, s\u00ea hy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span title=\"The support for this view is small and the overwhelming majority of Afrikaans voters will continue supporting the Democratic Alliance instead of chasing after unattainable nonsense.\">Gibson troos homself dat die ondersteuning vir s\u00f3 &#8216;n siening klein is en die oorweldigende meerderheid van Afrikaanse kiesers sal voortgaan om vir die Demokratiese Alliansie te stem in plaas daarvan om &#8220;onbereikbare nonsens&#8221; na te jaag. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"af\"><span title=\"President Steve Hofmeyr is not on.\">&#8216;n President Steve Hofmeyr sal daar nie wees nie, belowe Gibson.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Gibson, voormalige DA-politikus en ambassadeur na Thailand het &#8216;n kwalik bedekte aanval op Afrikaners geloods deur lesers van The Citizen te vertel hoe &#8220;verregses&#8221; se versugting om Steve Hofmeyr as die nuwe Moses te sien, niks sal oplewer nie. Volgens Gibson sal geen nuwe charismatiese leier Afrikaners kan lei na die nuwe beloofde land &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=19254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Die geskiedenis: Douglas Gibson se moses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,5],"tags":[14060,9377,14061],"class_list":["post-19254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c36-afrikaanse-nuus","category-nuus","tag-ossewabrandwag","tag-steve-hofmeyr","tag-stormjaers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}