05/06/2025
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🔴 🔥 The Land Wasn’t Stolen — It Was Built From Barren Dust 🔴
South Africa’s Greatest Lie, and the Global Shame of Letting It Spread
By: Paul Hattingh
🛑 The Greatest Ongoing Hoax of a "Democratic" Nation
There are few betrayals of truth more damaging in today’s political world than South Africa’s “stolen land” narrative. What began as a complex and nuanced historical discussion has been twisted into a weapon of racial division and political extortion.
This myth, — repeated relentlessly in parliament, classrooms, media, and global think tanks, claims that white settlers stole a flourishing land from African nations. It is not only factually false, but morally devastating. It robs history of its depth, it stokes dangerous resentment, and it blinds the world to the true causes of South Africa’s collapse.
Let us be clear: the land was not stolen!
It was uninhabited, undeveloped, unclaimed — and then it was transformed.
🌍 What Was South Africa Before the Voortrekkers?
By the early 1830s, when the Voortrekkers began their migration from the Cape Colony, historical demography estimates that around 1.4 million Bantu-speaking Africans lived within the present-day borders of South Africa. These communities were concentrated along river valleys, floodplains, and the more humid eastern escarpments, where water and rainfall allowed for basic subsistence.
But the vast majority of the country — including the Karoo, the central Free State, and the Northern Cape — was arid, uninhabited, and inhospitable.
There were no towns, no surveyed land, no irrigation systems, and no governing state that enforced land rights over the interior. Indigenous groups had no centralised claim over the land as a whole. Most importantly, there was no system of land ownership in the legal or Western sense: no deeds, no boundaries, no title systems, and no economy of land exchange.
The land was unused and unwanted until someone had the will to change that.
🛠️ How the Land Was Made Livable
The Voortrekkers, and later European pioneers and settlers, did not arrive with muskets and land deeds. They arrived with ploughs, shovels, seeds, grit, and faith. What they found was not paradise — it was nothing.
What they built has endured for generations:
Over 4,700 dams and reservoirs were constructed between the 19th century and the present, including major water systems such as the Gariep, Vanderkloof, Loskop, and Theewaterskloof dams.
These dams today supply 63 million people with water — black, white, coloured, Indian. Without them, no city, no town, no economy could function.
Boreholes, windpumps, canals, and irrigation systems brought water to places where none existed for thousands of years.
They didn’t steal the land.
They made the land livable.
🏗️ These Are the Real Monuments
Forget statues. These water systems, built with bare hands and engineering brilliance, are the real monuments of South African civilisation. They were not inherited — they were created.
Destroying them or neglecting them, as has become common under ANC rule, will not deliver justice. It will deliver a catastrophe. Water is not political. It is existential.
Yet, few outside South Africa even know these facts — because they’ve been buried under slogans.
Where Is the Political Opposition?
It is bad enough that radical voices like Julius Malema continue to preach hate and repeat lies about land theft. What’s worse is that South Africa’s so-called opposition parties have gone mute.
Where is the Democratic Alliance? Where is the Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, who should be defending property rights, farmers, and the truth?
South Africa’s entire political establishment has failed to defend historical reality. Either out of fear, ignorance, or cowardice, they have ceded the truth to those who would destroy the country for power.
A real opposition party would say:
“No — the land was not stolen. It was empty. It was built. It is feeding all of us now.”
But we hear nothing. Only silence.
And silence is betrayal.
📚 Schools Are Teaching Children to Hate Their Own Foundations
Perhaps the greatest tragedy is not what’s said in parliament, but what’s not said in classrooms.
Generations of South African children are growing up believing a lie. They are told their land was taken, that they have a historical claim to something, that their poverty stems from white theft — and not from political misrule, corruption, and economic sabotage.
They are taught grievance, not gratitude.
Resentment, not responsibility.
Myth, not memory.
This is state-sponsored historical erasure, and it will ensure the collapse of the next generation, not just the current one.
🇺🇸 Has the World Been Lied To? Has America Been Duped?
The answer is yes. The United States, Europe, the UN, and the global left have been completely seduced by the ANC’s historical fantasy.
Why? Because it fits a pre-written script: white coloniser, black victim, reparations required.
But no one in Washington has asked:
What land was actually occupied in 1830?
Who irrigated and built infrastructure?
Who paid for the water systems?
Who feeds the country today?
This is not an apology for colonialism — it is a demand for truth. America, as the last global superpower with leverage in Africa, must stop funding regimes that lie to their people and blame others for their own collapse.
⚠️ This Lie Must Be Buried Before It Buries the Country
South Africa is not failing because of what happened 200 years ago.
It is failing because no one is allowed to say what happened.
The land was open.
It was unused.
It was settled, built, irrigated and cultivated.
And it now sustains tens of millions, including those who cry “thief.”
This is not a political opinion.
This is the historical, agricultural, and infrastructural reality of South Africa.
If this truth dies in silence, the country will die with it.
Let the world know:
The land wasn’t stolen. It was unlocked. It was built. It was blessed.
And it must now be defended.🔴
