Suidlanders
The Suidlanders , in German for "southerners", are a South African organization that hastened to present themselves as victims of a self-predicted collapse of civilization in South Africa. As is often the case with right-wing extremist groups, they too derive an alleged right to use violence from this self-imposed victim role. The main concern here is to prepare an emergency plan for evacuating “white believers” from the country in a media-effective manner. According to a media report, people with non-white skin color are not allowed to become members of the ultra-right-wing extremist group ; the internal atmosphere is described as racist . The group refers to the prophecies of the Boer Siener van Rensburg .
In the course of preparations for the 2010 soccer World Cup , the South African police accused the organization of planning attacks. Farms and private property were searched. Weapons storage facilities with explosives, ammunition and firearms were found and an arrest warrant was issued. In the wake of prophecies by right-wing groups in South Africa that the death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 would be followed by an apocalypse , the Suidlanders recommended that their members go "on vacation" to safe havens without, however, going so far as to request an evacuation. Christian Putsch, Africa correspondent for the daily newspaper Die Welt , noticed during research on the Suidlanders in autumn 2018 that the group had a “lust for downfall”. In South Africa the politicization of the prepper scene is clearer than elsewhere, and the Suidlanders openly warn of a “race war”. According to Gareth Newman from the South African Institute for Security Studies, the group "probably makes a lot of noise abroad, not least for financial reasons"; The target group are “right-wing organizations” who “would like to pass the message on”, “because they support racist images of the enemy with which they act against a liberal refugee policy”. In the WDR magazine "Monitor" , he also gave an interview in which he literally as clear as a right-wing nationalist describes organization. This report also mentions that the Suidlanders are under the surveillance of the South African security authorities, that they participated as observers in the violent neo-Nazi demonstrations in Charlottesville (USA) and that they met one of the most famous neo-Nazis in the world, the former Ku-Klux- Klan chief David Duke . The group officially describes meetings with such extremist people as an accident: They did not know who they were meeting with. At the same time, the organization itself described reports about the debts of Suidlanders boss Gustav Muller as "lies of the controlled opposition".
The movement puts the number of supporters at around 130,000, but without a list of members. The loosely organized supporters are recruited mainly from white Boers, around three million of whom live in South Africa.
In 2018, the German AfD member of the Bundestag Petr Bystron completed a shooting training with members of the group during a business trip carried out at the expense of the Bundestag .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suidlanders website , accessed on May 19, 2018: "The Suidlanders is 'n noodplan inisiatief wat bestaan uit' n netwerk van blanke gelowiges wat voorberei vir nasionale ontruiming."
- ↑ They're prepping for a race war. And they see Trump as their 'ray of hope' , CNN , accessed December 18, 2018
- ↑ Phillip de Wet: The carefully hidden face of online racism . In: Mail & Guardian May 7, 2012.
- ↑ WW3: Germans, Boers, Race War, Suidlanders, Simon Roche, Siener Van Rensburg & Adriaan Synman. (Archive version)
- ↑ Dagmar Wittek: Racists want to sabotage the World Cup . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 20, 2010.
- ^ Johannes Myburgh: Right-Wing South Africans Still Fear "Racial Apocalypse" After Mandela's Death . Business Insider . December 25, 2013.
- ↑ WDR magazine Monitor of December 19, 2018: "The MP Petr Bystron and his South African friends" , in the video (from minute 2:45): "They are really extreme. Their ideology is the superiority of the white race. They just are white members open and their only reason for existence is the alleged defense against blacks. One can clearly describe them as a right-wing extremist organization. "
- ^ A b Christian Putsch: The Suidlanders and the lust for downfall . In: The world . November 30, 2018, p. 8.
- ^ AfD politicians in South Africa: shooting training with racists . In: tagesschau.de . December 18, 2018.