Amnesty Hearings — Boksburg — 1998-09-14

VIDEO FOOTAGE EUGENE TERREBLANCHE: When we came to the Fatherland, we came to listen and talk and make a joint decision because Paul Kruger said that in the voice of my volk, I hear the voice of my God.  That is why it is important for us to participate in today's proceedings.  The volk must talk, because therein lies the task of our volk.
	The volk is a faithful volk, which has committed itself to make this country wealthy through cultivation.  We have committed ourselves to this country in God's name and to give it down to our descendants. 
	The honour and the wealth of victory will always depend on God.  A house will be built in your name and we will tell our children to the furthest generations, that this is what our volk did.  We have always used you in the meetings of our volk, especially with regards to the annexation of Transvaal when the Boers felt the humiliation of the loss of their sovereignty, the volk gathered at Paardekraal and said what can we do?
	The volk packed the stones and spoke to God.  That is when the volk decided that we cannot live in subjection, the volk was not prepared to give in and from there, the first freedom war emanated and twice thereafter the Boers stormed up Majuba mountain and took back the freedom of the volk, which was from the most powerful empire at that time, the British Empire.
	Those who determine the direction, those who are the natural leaders only 5 000 people from the Boer republic, went up Majuba mountain and took part in a battle which was the same as that of Blood River.
	Militarily speaking we had the best base.  Earlier during the parade it was asked whether or not 80 percent of us sitting here, were in Bophuthatswana.  You know that when you were welcomed and blankets were given to you, this was after Rowan Cronje and I had an agreement with Bophuthatswana and the former Rhodesia that the AWB's presence would be felt there.	
	In an operation area while the Bophuthatswana Defence Force was in mutiny, while the Police were all in mutiny, Viljoen's Officer was sent to the AWB in spite of our agreements and he said the AWB must get out.  They are enough to handle the situation.
	When his body was ripped of the vehicle and the vehicle was shot down, and the convoy was stopped, all six wounded were taken up and taken to a place of safety and this was executed within a barrage of automatic gunfire and the blacks retreated despite the fact that our bullets could not penetrate their armoury.
	The fire of the Boers who shot through the tiny hole which they could see, and that is how we saved the day.  Our casualties the following morning, was zero.  Not one single AWB member had died, five were wounded and on the other side, according to the SABC, 50 had died and 285 had been wounded.
	Apparently they are still running.  I know of no military set-up and I am a militarist, I did patrol work for a long time, I was on the border of South West Africa where I fought for a year and 14 days.  I am a militarist, it is my interest and I know of no other battle in which ordinary vehicles with handguns and shotgun fire, fought against military vehicles and ammunition, which left no single Boer casualty during that incident.
	Regarding our friends who were taken out of the convoy, they were occupied by the Bophuthatswana government and shot dead.  There they were murdered in cold blood by the State.  This Honourable Chairperson General, the blood which flowed there, is blood which heralded the beginning of the freedom struggle with the participation of thousands of men and women and children.
	We must now allow that our volk feels alone.  We must support our volk with sincere prayer so that the Comforter of grief and tears can be felt.
	I feel very proud as a leader in front of proud soldiers, men of courage and determination.  There was never any retreat, cowardice or lack of order.  There was always discipline.  I must tell you that I thought many times that I should also have left, but I did not because if I had turned around, there would have been people who said turn around and shoot, because some of our people might have died in that event.  That is why I thank my Corporals.  They led a convoy out of an ambush, which deserves the admiration of the world.
	I thank my staff, thank you very much.  When I listened to Mr Willem Olivier - indeed we are threatened and people are fighting against us, the powers of Hell are fighting against us.  We must remember that our Christian Creator would never expect anything from us which we cannot manage.  He would never expect of us to become a Jodi Scheckter all of a sudden and becomes the world's best driving champion.
	He wouldn't expect of us to climb into the boxing ring tomorrow.  He would never give you a task which you cannot handle.  He would only show you what to do if it is possible for you to do it.  If you think about the handful of Voortrekkers in the ox wagon who braved the fever and the illness alone, the illness which killed them, if we think about that, it would never have occurred to us that the Boer could win at Majuba and they did, despite all of this they did.
	If we think about the Battle of Blood River where we faced an enemy of 30 000, and even then we became famous in battles of the world which we won.  We were made strong by our God.  When it came to fighting against the Zulu's and the Xhosa's, we had to fight against obstacles, we still fight against obstacles such as communism.
	These are our political enemies.  We must fight against the bombardment of communism from the Eastern countries.  We must sound the trumpet of the volk and announce that we are here today, we must say the country is good, let's take it.
	We will look like locusts in comparison to our enemies, because they are giants, but this view is not entirely of application, because the group which is threatening us is not a group of giants, and we are not like locusts.
	That is why I say that by means of our experiences and our intellectual abilities and our spirit and the spirit of God which runs through your veins, you can never see yourself as a locus then, because of that.  We are the giants then, we are the white giants.
	We were mentioning figures during the last couple of meetings and we have seen that there are thousands of Permanent Defence Force members.  There are 250 000 Commando and active Civil members of which 180 000 at least are right-wingers.  The South African Police of which 80 percent are right-wingers, and if you add on the 180 000 of the Defence Force Commando members who are right-wingers to the South African Police, and the 65 000 AWB members, then we are more than prepared.
	We have the minority of whites, but we have the majority of soldiers among us.  Umkhonto weSizwe which has 28 million people under its representation, only has about 7 000 members, not 15 000 members.
	We have come out of the heart of the volk for the AWB.  Not only are we the right-wingers, but we have suffered humiliation, fraud and other hardships, but we have become the strongest right wing organisation in this country.
	I challenge you then as Officers and as believers that I have stood before audiences and called and begged and scolded until I have gathered 60 000 of you together.  Now fetch them and arrange them in your Commando's because there are very few choices.
	Next month this time, we will have become part of a new State and those three sixes will hover above our fatherland in the air, or will we have our Volkstaat, no matter how big or how small.  We want our own piece of land in which we can protect our 60 000 men, women and children.  These are our options.
	I have told you that I will never accept an ANC government.  Since then I have never changed my mind, and therefore I cannot say anything else.  I must say it once more.
	I am what you have made of me.  My task is fulfilled in the obtaining of the Volkstaat.  I just want to tell Viljoen and some of the others, that I refuse to place my Generals in command of people whom we cannot trust.
	With the greatest possible level of co-operation and the Boere Krisis Aksie, the greatest level of co-operation with all our friends, and with the men and women and children who are prepared to take the oath of loyalty.  You will see that there are more than 60 000 of them.
	There will be a time when we fill find our final resting place and that will be when we ultimately obtain a much bigger Volkstaat than what Mandela had ever planned for us.  I promise you that when we have won the war, Mandela will ask us for land and then we will decide whether or not we could do away with a centimetre or two.