THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

I wrote this in response to a reply to my earlier piece on South Africa on Stormfront.

Here it is:

Let the old man ramble a little.

I was in South Africa and at the Washington Embassy a lot.

Once I went to a party at the South African Embassy and used the same line I had used everywhere else.

They asked me what I was doing in Rhodesia and a couple of other places in Africa. I said I was working at a sewing machine company, which is what I had said everywhere else.

This was stupid, but I had spent years saying that to people and most folks don't know one African country from another. To say that in the South African Embassy was really stupid. It got laughs all around.

In fact, the result was a bit like a scene from a movie. One Embassy employee would talk up to another and look over at me and repeat my line and they would have a great laugh. You could see the word spreading around the room.

But I told them and every other white I spoke to in Africa something that is not, in retrospect, quite so funny.

I told them that South Africans had better start backing the white movement outside the Republic or, if apartheid fell, they would have nowhere to go.

But foreign affairs was a matter the average Boer left to his Kerk and to the National Party.

One unmentioned martyr of our movement was a senior civl service employee of South Africa who tried to act on my advice. The Washington Star had recently gone out of business and there was no competition in DC with the Washington Post.

This man took it upon himself to find funding within the South African government to finance a real, full-fledged rival paper right there in DC.

You know how hard it is tyo fire a senior bureaucrat?

He was fired.

Eventually a rival newspaper in DC, the Washington Times, was founded by the Moonies, who are conservative and violently anti-white.

The cost of setting up a DC newspaper full-scale was enormous in terms of the average corporation, but miniscule in terms of the South African budget. If South Africa had controlled the opposition newspaper in DC it could have saved the Boers.

But by the time South Africa fell, the Moonie-type conservatives and liberals had changed the immigration laws so that there was no haven anywhere for the average South African white.

In the 1970s all of the traditional immigration countries, Australia, Canada, the US, would have welcomes several million productive whites with open arms.

But South Africa did not want to interfere in other countries' politics.

So all I got was the responsibility of ruining one career civil servant's career -- thought I may be overstating my influence.

South African whites put their trust in die Kerk and in the National Party, not in some random redneck who knew Washington politics.

They slammed the door in their own faces. I warned them and they ruined a good man.

That is on MY conscience.

My sympathy with them is all it should be.