“I am the daughter of a former Kwa-Zulu Natal farmer (Farm: Gerizim near Utrecht).. [..]
“While serving time at George Correctional Services Prison, I was daily referred to as a ‘Boer’, such as ‘Jou AWB Boer Hoermeid’. I am not easily insulted by honesty and never insulted whenever I consider there to be more than one interpretation for any statement. If so, I always ask to make sure whether my interpretation is correct or not. I was unclear why they would call me an ‘AWB Boer HoerMeid’. How can a woman with four kids from four different men, three of the kids fathers she is not even sure about, honourably call me a ‘whore’? There is a serious problem with such a persons logical or moral reasoning. In response to my questions as to what they meant by ‘Boer’ they would respond by saying to them it meant ‘White’ or ‘White Settler’. When I said that the only indigenous people to Western Cape were the Koi-San, so Blacks were also Settlers, and asked if Blacks were also ‘Boere/Settlers’; they said no, only whites can be Boere (Settlers). The only people who are non-white whom they refer to as ‘Boere’ are prison guards or police. It struck me that ‘Boere’ represented – to them - someone who demanded they act within certain cultural or legal boundaries.
I was fascinated with some of the underlying subconscious issues related to their antagonism towards ‘Boere’; whether ‘White Settlers’ or ‘Prison Guards/Police’. In Radical Honesty, our definition of ‘freedom’ to us means the ‘freedom’ to choose to be personally responsible for our thoughts, actions and statements. Consequently the more personal responsibility we took, the greater our freedom from supervision by a policeman. In our Radical Honesty community in Virginia, we did not have keys to our homes. Cars were left outside with the keys in the ignition at all times; doors and windows wide open, even when people went on holiday. There was simply no crime, because everyone took personal responsibility for their own conduct. This to us – was the definition and concept of freedom, which was rooted in commitment by every member of our community choosing to take personal responsibility for our behaviour.
In contrast a conversation with most South Africans who admire the ANC or the ‘liberation struggle’, and particularly the ‘freedom charter’ asking them what ‘freedom’ meant to them, returned a response which essentially means ‘freedom from responsibility’. They have no responsibility to abstain from prolific breeding of unwanted children, no responsibility to save their money so they can buy their own house, or to keep a job, so they can pay for their own water bills. They want the right to ‘free water’ ‘free houses’, etc. They want the ‘right’ to breed six children, but to complain about their poverty! Personal Responsibility is absolutely non-existent in their ‘freedom charter’. Whereas Radical Honesty represents the freedom, as the conscious choice to be personally responsible; the ANC’s ‘freedom charter’ represents the total opposite: freedom represents the absence of personal responsibility. I concluded one of the subconscious reasons for their hatred of ‘Boere’ were that Boere (white settlers or Prison guards) restricted their freedom to avoid responsibility and accountability. Freedom to them represents anarchy.” -- Founding Affidavit: Application by Radical Honesty SA to proceed as an Amicus Curiae in Afriforum v. Malema
