Readers' Views: Afrikaner state idea is hypocrisy

After 20 years of democracy, one would assume South Africans had buried the demon of apartheid and moved on with their lives.

But this seems not to be the case with some of my fellow Afrikaners, who want to have their own independent state.

I wonder who they represent because I'm against this idea.

South Africa has come too long a way to be have people harbouring this mentality.

It is not like the democratic dispensation came with reverse racism, where blacks enjoy more privileges than their white counterparts.

The view that an Afrikaner Volksraad was self-governing before 1994 is completely fallacious because that was based on the apartheid rule, and it was not recognised by the international community.

We already have Orania and we cannot afford to have another one because this will undermine the gains of our democracy.

One must also consider that more than 75% of the land in South Africa is in the hands of white people. What more do they want?

The truth is these people have no claim to land because their ownership of it came as a result of conquest.

This land was not God-given and I think they should appreciate the fact that after 1994, we have not seen land grabs, like in Zimbabwe.

We have made advances when it comes to nation-building.

Those who feel uncomfortable living together with their black counterparts should feel free to move to any country of their choice because no one is forcing them to live here.

Seeking to establish a state on land to which they have no claim is racist.

We have no time to nurse disgruntled people's feelings. - Willem van Wyk, Green Point