I spent twenty-one years under this flag. We stood in the school yard and watched these colours blow in the wind. The echos of the past are always with us, remembering in spite of vexatious propaganda that those days also held nobility, goodness and wonderful life for all men living in our beautiful country to paraphrase Guy Butler (see preface Karoo Morning) One of the follies of the present is its negligible fairness in studying the History of South Africa. The bastard revolutionaries of France are ever viewed as the heroes in their methodical slaughter, envy and terror. Laughable in kind, is the lying press gangs with their cavalier view of the Nationalist, and Colonial eras. Our true History waits to be written. Below is the Lands Flag, indeed part thereof was the Transvaal Vierkleur, which has a long history adopted in the Old Zuid Afrikaansche republic. The flag was lost in 1874-1875 but also discontinued with annexation of the Old Transvaal Republic by the British in 1877. The Vierkleur returned again with the rebellion of local Boers in 1880. The First Anglo-Boer War (Eerste Vryheids Oorlog) won the day, and returned the Boers their independence, in 1881. Source for below: Blogger- Republican Trekker Volk The Transvaal Vierkleur [ as well as the OVS Vierkleur pictured at right ] became a very important symbol to the Boerevolk during the second Anglo-Boer War as a symbol of resistance to British Colonial oppression in which close to 50 % of the Boer child population died in the concentration camps. Due to those circumstances the flag has taken on added significance other than just an old Boer Republican flag & is still flown by many today representing a nation which was almost wiped out but flies as proof of the continued existence of the Boer Nation.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 10:21:49 +0000
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