IMG_2040 headman damons
human rights day (eve)
"Dear Friend,
To honour and celebrate Human Rights Day, the Open Mosque is hosting a special dinner function on Tuesday, 20th March 2018 at 7pm when Chief Autshumao and Headman Damons, two prominent leaders of the Khoisan Legislative Council will deliver important keynote addresses on the pertinent subject of Human Rights for the First Nation of South Africa. (Please find attached a flyer relating to this important function).
For the first time, representatives of the Khoisan community have been invited by an established Islamic House of Worship to give their own informed analysis on the history, heritage and future of the indigenous population of this country. For far too long, most South Africans have been conditioned either by historic colonialist indoctrination or by contemporary Black African nationalist propaganda that this land either belongs exclusively to European imperialists or to the Bantu immigrants. Both claims are factually incorrect and are a gross historical travesty. In contrast to every black, white or brown South African, the Khoisan alone are not foreign to this land. Everyone else, came from somewhere else. Irrespective what Black politicians might say, this is the incontestable reality of today's South Africa.
Thousands of years before the all-conquering Black settlers from West Africa crossed the Limpopo in the 10th century on their militant southward sweep down the continent, and long before the White explorers arrived by ship at the Cape of Good Hope in the 15th century, the whole of Southern Africa was inhabited exclusively by the native Khoi and San peoples. Significantly, the roaming Black tribes from the north did not cross the Fish River nor did they settle in the Western Cape. The only locals were the Khoi, San and Strandlopers These nomadic pastoralists and stone-age hunter-gatherers had dominated the entire region for millennia. Sadly, they were to be ejected or ethnically-cleansed from their ancestral homelands by vastly superior technology. First, by the iron-age Bantu tribes with their spears and assegais, and then later by the industrial-age Portuguese, Dutch and British invaders with their military cannons and rifles. In this titanic conflict with both the Black and White newcomers, the ill-equipped native Brown residents were no match for the deadly weapons of the Bantu tribes or the modern firearms of the Europeans.
The Khoisan were first defeated and decimated by the marauding Bantu tribes. This subjugation was but a precursor to their almost total annihilation by later Dutch and the British imperialists. The Khoisan's subjection has sadly continued right to the present-day when these first people still find themselves downtrodden and marginalized in a post-Apartheid South Africa ruled by a black nationalist party. Now, taking a leaf from the original inhabitants of North America, Australia, Latin America and elsewhere, the Khoisan are rightly asserting themselves as the First Nation of South Africa.
South Africa belongs equally to everyone who lives in it according to the Freedom Charter and the South African constitution. This country's development and evolution into the industrial giant of Africa is the product of distinct interwoven contributions: white technology, black labour, coloured artisanal skills and Indian entrepreneurship Therefore, no single racial group can legitimately propagate the myth that they alone are responsible for South Africa's modern advancement. It is truly reprehensible that the governing ANC and other political parties like the opportunist EFF falsely believe that they alone have priority rights or preferential claims to this country. This is completely untrue. No one, other than the indigenous Khoi and San, can make such unwarranted assertions.
For this reason, and in view of the ANC's expedient intention to expropriate land without compensation, the Open Mosque has taken the lead in inviting senior office-bearers from the Khoisan Legislative Council in the Western Cape, Chief Autshumao (Mackie) and Headman Damons, to present the indigenous perspective in their justifiable quest for equal human rights and their pre-eminent land ownership to this part of the world.
If you would like to attend this exceptional dinner function that will enlighten and educate attendees about the true factual history of South Africa, kindly email as soon as possible so that your seat can be secured for this illuminating event.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
Kindest regards and salaam"
IMG_2040 headman damons
human rights day (eve)
"Dear Friend,
To honour and celebrate Human Rights Day, the Open Mosque is hosting a special dinner function on Tuesday, 20th March 2018 at 7pm when Chief Autshumao and Headman Damons, two prominent leaders of the Khoisan Legislative Council will deliver important keynote addresses on the pertinent subject of Human Rights for the First Nation of South Africa. (Please find attached a flyer relating to this important function).
For the first time, representatives of the Khoisan community have been invited by an established Islamic House of Worship to give their own informed analysis on the history, heritage and future of the indigenous population of this country. For far too long, most South Africans have been conditioned either by historic colonialist indoctrination or by contemporary Black African nationalist propaganda that this land either belongs exclusively to European imperialists or to the Bantu immigrants. Both claims are factually incorrect and are a gross historical travesty. In contrast to every black, white or brown South African, the Khoisan alone are not foreign to this land. Everyone else, came from somewhere else. Irrespective what Black politicians might say, this is the incontestable reality of today's South Africa.
Thousands of years before the all-conquering Black settlers from West Africa crossed the Limpopo in the 10th century on their militant southward sweep down the continent, and long before the White explorers arrived by ship at the Cape of Good Hope in the 15th century, the whole of Southern Africa was inhabited exclusively by the native Khoi and San peoples. Significantly, the roaming Black tribes from the north did not cross the Fish River nor did they settle in the Western Cape. The only locals were the Khoi, San and Strandlopers These nomadic pastoralists and stone-age hunter-gatherers had dominated the entire region for millennia. Sadly, they were to be ejected or ethnically-cleansed from their ancestral homelands by vastly superior technology. First, by the iron-age Bantu tribes with their spears and assegais, and then later by the industrial-age Portuguese, Dutch and British invaders with their military cannons and rifles. In this titanic conflict with both the Black and White newcomers, the ill-equipped native Brown residents were no match for the deadly weapons of the Bantu tribes or the modern firearms of the Europeans.
The Khoisan were first defeated and decimated by the marauding Bantu tribes. This subjugation was but a precursor to their almost total annihilation by later Dutch and the British imperialists. The Khoisan's subjection has sadly continued right to the present-day when these first people still find themselves downtrodden and marginalized in a post-Apartheid South Africa ruled by a black nationalist party. Now, taking a leaf from the original inhabitants of North America, Australia, Latin America and elsewhere, the Khoisan are rightly asserting themselves as the First Nation of South Africa.
South Africa belongs equally to everyone who lives in it according to the Freedom Charter and the South African constitution. This country's development and evolution into the industrial giant of Africa is the product of distinct interwoven contributions: white technology, black labour, coloured artisanal skills and Indian entrepreneurship Therefore, no single racial group can legitimately propagate the myth that they alone are responsible for South Africa's modern advancement. It is truly reprehensible that the governing ANC and other political parties like the opportunist EFF falsely believe that they alone have priority rights or preferential claims to this country. This is completely untrue. No one, other than the indigenous Khoi and San, can make such unwarranted assertions.
For this reason, and in view of the ANC's expedient intention to expropriate land without compensation, the Open Mosque has taken the lead in inviting senior office-bearers from the Khoisan Legislative Council in the Western Cape, Chief Autshumao (Mackie) and Headman Damons, to present the indigenous perspective in their justifiable quest for equal human rights and their pre-eminent land ownership to this part of the world.
If you would like to attend this exceptional dinner function that will enlighten and educate attendees about the true factual history of South Africa, kindly email as soon as possible so that your seat can be secured for this illuminating event.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly.
Kindest regards and salaam"