Afrikaners only true white Africans - Jacob Zuma 02 April 2009 ANC president tells audience he appreciates honesty of the white tribe JOHANNESBURG (Sapa) - ANC president Jacob Zuma called Afrikaners the only true South Africans among whites, at a meeting with representatives of Afrikaner groups in Sandton, Johannesburg on Thursday. "Of all the white groups that are in South Africa, it is only the Afrikaners that are truly South Africans in the true sense of the word," Zuma said. The representatives of various Afrikaner agricultural, women's and cultural organisations listened intently after Zuma broke the ice by trying to speak Afrikaans. "I won't go very far in Afrikaans. As you know I grew up in Natal... and in Natal we are more English than anything.. So that's why ek praat nie mooi Afrikaans nie (I don't speak good Afrikaans)," he said, letting out a long belly laugh. With the audience leaning forward in their seats, he said: "Up to this day, they (the Afrikaners) don't carry two passports, they carry one. They are here to stay." Some of the representatives tried to applaud, but stopped to listen as he continued. He said since the Afrikaners embarked on the Great Trek from the Cape to the north, they had made many contributions to the country and encounters with Afrikaners had been both friendly and hostile over the centuries. Afrikaners were part of the discovery of the riches of the country, they helped shaped a union out of separate republics and they made an <b>...</b>

Published: 2009-04-05
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