A Separate Afrikaners State?

Apartheid mastermind Eugene Terre’Blanche has resurfaced, calling for the unification of South Africa’s Afrikaners political parties to form what he feels is a necessary Afrikaners State. Due to the perceived threat to the approximately 2 million South African’s of Dutch decent, of which 2,000 have been killed since the end of apartheid, Terre’Blanche plans to lobby the International Court of Justice for a white-only territory. This threat, in addition to land title deeds still legally held by most Afrikaners, could present quite a headache to the Court.


Two questions then pose themselves: (a) is the idea of a separate white State realistic, as the perceived threat and title deeds can legally form a basis for ICJ involvement; and (b) how does this affect the rainbow nation image of South Africa in the lead-up to next year’s World Cup?