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| Formation | 2006 |
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| Founder | Gustav Zietsman Müller |
| Type | Civil defence organisation; right-wing[1] ethnonationalist white Afrikaner survivalist group |
| Purpose | Emergency evacuation of white citizens in a state of nationwide anarchy |
Membership (2018) | 130,000 claimed[2] |
| Leader | Gustav Müller |
Spokesperson | Simon Roche |
| Website | Afrikaans: suidlanders English: suidlanders |
The Suidlanders (English: Southlanders) is a South African right-wing[1][3][4] ethnonationalist[5] Afrikaner survivalist group whose ideology is based on the prophecies of Boer Siener van Rensburg.[6][7] The group believes that a race war or general civil war, sometimes referred to as "Uhuru" or the "Night of the Long Knives",[8][9][10][11] is coming in South Africa. They anticipate an eventual collapse of infrastructure, and advocate and plan for an evacuation of white South Africans from major cities in the event of a race war.[12][13] Their leader is Gustav Müller.[12] The group has claimed success in raising global awareness of the alleged threat,[14] following a 2017 tour to the United States by spokesperson Simon Roche,[15] and has also taken credit for an offer by Australian government minister Peter Dutton to preferentially grant refugee visas to white South African farmers.[16]
- ^ a b "SA conservative group takes credit for increased 'white genocide' awareness". News24. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
- ^ "South Africas's Suidlanders brace for race war". Pretoria News. 23 November 2018.
- ^ Gedye, Lloyd (23 March 2018). "White genocide: How the big lie spread to the US and beyond". The Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ Ward, Justin (23 August 2018). "The dangerous myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ Staff (18 December 2018). "AfD-Politiker in Südafrika: Schießtraining mit Rassisten" [AfD Politician in South Africa: Shooting Practice With Racists]. tagesschau.de (in German). ARD. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
Nach Einschätzung von Gareth Newham vom südafrikanischen Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria handelt es sich bei den "Suidlanders" um einen Zusammenschluss von völkischen Rassisten: "Ihre Ideologie ist die Überlegenheit der weißen Rasse", sagte Newham. "Ihr einziger Existenzgrund ist die angebliche Verteidigung gegen die Schwarzen. Man kann sie eindeutig als rassistische völkische Organisation beschreiben. [According to Gareth Newham of the South African Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, the "Suidlanders" constitute an association of populist Racists: "Their ideology is the survival of the white race," says Newham. "Their singular reason for existing is to supposedly defend against blacks. One can clearly describe them as a racist populist organization"]
- ^ WW3: Germans, Boers, Race War, Suidlanders, Simon Roche, Siener Van Rensburg & Adriaan Synman, retrieved 24 August 2018
- ^ Weiner, Sophie. "Trump Thrills White Nationalists With Tweet About South African Farms". Splinter. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ Serino, Kenichi (11 December 2013). "30 miles and a world away, a more fractured response to Mandela". Al Jazeera America. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
Pretorious was expressing a long-held belief among some Afrikaners, particularly a fringe organization known as Suidlanders, of "Uhuru," or "the night of long knives," when blacks will kill whites in South Africa following the death of Mandela.
- ^ Myburgh, Johannes (25 December 2013). "Right-Wing South Africans Still Fear 'Racial Apocalypse' After Mandela's Death". Business Insider. Agence France Presse. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
In South Africa, right-wing prophesies that Nelson Mandela's death will be followed by a racial apocalypse refuse to be quashed by events. Ever since the mostly peaceful transition to majority rule in 1994, right-wing South Africans have claimed the moment would spell an end to reconciliation and unleash untold bloodshed. So engrained was the idea of a "Night of the Long Knives" that it even seeped into mainstream thinking. Some plotted elaborate evacuation plans, radio programmes discussed whether it was remotely possible and one journalist even visited a town where whites would supposedly gather before fleeing, just in case anyone turned up.
- ^ de Wet, Phillip (7 May 2012). "The carefully hidden face of online racism". The M&G Online. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ^ "They're prepping for a race war. And they see Trump as their 'ray of hope'". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ^ a b Schneider, Victoria (7 November 2013). "Is the white-right in South Africa a threat?". Al Jazeera.
- ^ Gedye, Lloyd. "White genocide: How the big lie spread to the US and beyond". The M&G Online. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
- ^ Gedye, Lloyd (23 May 2018). "White genocide: How the big lie spread to the US and beyond". The M&G Online. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ^ "Far-right activists are teaming up with white supremacists to exploit South African politics". Media Matters for America. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- ^ "SA conservative group takes credit for increased 'white genocide' awareness". News24. Retrieved 24 August 2018.