[Note: this one-sided 'confession' is here for your information. Its sentiments are not necessarily endorsed by John Mark Ministries].

Along with the NG Church we Afrikaners who are not members of it, also wish to confess. We want to confess to all coloureds and blacks in the RSA for every injustice we and our ancestors committed against them. We acted like senseless fools that knew no better, and today we are genuinely sorry for each of these sins which Have brought only shame and damage over us:

1.We provided doctors and free medical services to them so that they could multiply and breed uncontrollably.

2.We sent missionaries among them in an attempt to introduce the white man's God to them - all in vain.

3.We taught them to read and write and even put their own languages in writing for them. We also taught them elementary arithmetic. We built schools for them and repaired them again after they had trashed and burnt them down.

4.We built factories and trained them to work in them in order to earn money - more than their black brothers have earned in any other African country.

5.We provided free housing for them, cheap transport, the protection of our Police force, and when necessary, they also received free medical treatment in our best equipped hospitals.

6.We developed farms on which we produced food in order to feed their millions of hungry stomachs.

7.We gave them clothing so that they would not have to go naked as in the time before Jan van Riebeeck, and become ill and die in the harsh winters.

8.We mined the minerals over which they trampled and regarded as worthless gravel and stone under their bare feet for centuries, and we let them share in the profits thereof. Thousands of them are still working in the mines.

9.Our women established welfare organisations to feed and clothe the destitute among them.

10.We built a network of roads on which they kill and maim us today.

11.We built huge dams in order for them to misuse water freely.

12.We spend 90% of our income on their welfare and needs and we do more for them than any other nation would do for its own people. For this the world despises us and we have lost all our self-respect. We should not have done it! We are Guilty! We are sorry! We sincerely and humbly ask: May our black 'brethern' forgive us. Please, if possible, forgive us! We did it out of ignorance and meant well!

One day when we stand before God and we are judged, we will be judging ourselves. The condemned themselves will realise that their way was not worthy of Christ and that they were never prepared to make one single sacrifice on His behalf. They will remember how they stood looking on how the Holy name of God was banned from schools; how they shrugged and accepted that the prayer of the Government was no longer the prayer directed to their Redeemer, the Son of God; how they believed the lies of the media without thinking or investigating for themselves; how they turned their backs when Satan attacked the children of God and were thankful it was not themselves being attacked.

Will they also remember how they, along with the followers of Satan, willingly knelt before the false gods for the sake of monetary gain, a shiny car, a few worldly possessions, and closed pacts with them and sought their favour?

Merciful God, is there another nation with so many spineless jellyfish among its 'men'? Show me the nation that sits back and looks on while its inheritance, its children, its spiritual good, yes, everything that belongs to it, is robbed and plundered? Show me another nation whose parliament is run by a band of terrorists and robbers that carry away everything before it, and of whom many had to be released from the prisons in order to take over the running (ruining) the country!

I see in the Boer (Afrikaner) of today a combination of what Israel suffered so many centuries ago. The nation is experiencing punishment as the Israelites did. They were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. Our slavery will be short-lived, but just as intense. We are waiting for a Redeemer, a Moses, an Elijah, because the nation itself cannot rectify the mess any longer. We are exiles in our own land, pushed out and have been reduced to the status of beggars along our roadsides.

Julie van Resnburg <> Durban, KWAZULU-NATAL SA - Wednesday August 22, 2001 22:09:13