We never fabricated apartheid. The landing of Jan van Riebeck at the Cape in 1652 made it very difficult for the Dutch and Khoisan people to communicate.
In this engagement, a language had to be born and this was between the owners of the land and the visitors. The Khoisan Cape people had to fight three wars to resist these visitors who wanted to take over with force.
After a while, the Dutch spoke with sweet words that were lies, saying that they only wanted fresh waters and would continue but that was not true.
The best thing to happen is that they took the Khoisan and made them wives. The birth of the Afrikaans language was born, the Dutch mixed with the Khoisan language and this allowed the two to communicate.
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The person who taught Afrikaans in Cape Town was a woman by the name of Maria who was Khoisan; she was the first Afrikaans teacher.
Some of the Afrikaners may differ but everything was stolen from the Khoisan, even the African National Congress was formed and founded by the Khoisan but be aware that Afrikaans belongs to the Khoisan people who are also the first people of this land, South Africa.
50 percent of the Khoisan people speak Afrikaans, a home language and mother tongue. The Dutch children from the Khoisan women were the first to speak Afrikaans as a mother tongue. Who are you to do away with this language and why fight another person’s mother tongue?
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A Khoisan women’s DNA is from mother to child and not from father to child. If you have a problem with that, please ask God why this language was God’s plan and will not go away.
Those of other races that love and speak Afrikaans have better communication and also have a better chance to find jobs or even be in leadership. Wars are knocking at our community. Land is still a big ‘indaba’ and still not over. The land belongs to the Khoisan; it was forcefully taken by these visitors who only came here in 1400.
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The Khoisan nation is not a joke and I am a Prince under His Majesty the King Dirk Louis, who is the direct descendent of those who fought wars of resistance. Under our command, 500 000 trained soldiers wait to protect the Khoisan communities.
Why fight over language when we are still sorting out the land matters?
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Please let us leave Afrikaans alone and focus on real matters to develop this country and unite the nations. If you let someone run your affairs and run it to the ground, then the owner has a right to take it back.
As a Prince, my main objective is to create unity, as a Commissioner my main objective is to protect and promote all South Africans’ culture, religion and language, as a Pastor my objective is to get all people saved.
Your anger must sleep; your hatred and unforgiveness will be the cause of your downfall. The Khoisan never founded apartheid, learn before your act.
Prince Raymond Trollip
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