A new Afrikaner resistance group has been founded and is gathering members at a rate described as ‘frantic”.
Calling itself the Afrikaner Young Women’s Union (AYWU), the group has its base in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, an area known as home to the more progressive of Afrikaans political thinking. As its name suggests, the AYWU is entirely female in origin and style. Already affectionately dubbed the Meisiemag, the core of the group consists of six highly trained young Afrikaans women, all of whom have taken and survived rigorous military training.
Veldkornette Girlie van Wyk, a strapping blonde, is the nominal leader of the AYWU core. She was adamant when asked whether the group would consider all means to be acceptable in what she called ‘the desperate fight to save South Africa”.
‘We treat every challenge to our rights as full African citizens according to its own danger. If someone comes at you waving a panga, you’d be stupid to try to talk him out of it,” said Girlie. ‘If on the other hand someone comes at you with a proposition, you lie back and listen.”
The fears that the Meisiemag might be a female copy of the Boeremag were dispelled when Girlie’s adjutant, Corporalette Baby Schuster chipped in, saying that the AWYU in fact ‘despised” the weak-kneed way the Boeremag men had subjected themselves to ‘so-called justice”. Being accused of treason and sabotage was exactly the sort of thing that sent the pioneer Afrikaners of the Cape on the Great Trek, said Baby spiritedly.
‘We certainly don’t think of ourselves as being old-fashioned,” added Girlie wisely. ‘We just feel that admiring the way our forefathers did things is also necessary.”
‘Today we find ourselves in exactly the same position as the suppressed black people found themselves under apartheid,” blurted Llwellerina Havenga, a sturdy brunette with fierce green eyes. She was also very strong on the matter of attempts by the country’s justice system to bring political revolutionary movements under control. She spoke of the famous trials of what she termed ‘that terrible apartheid government”. ‘People like Nelson Mandela and his comrades also was subjected by treason trials and police brutality as we are today. So what did they have to do? They had then to stand up for themselves and take up arms if necessary. Not just sommer stand around in some Pretoria court waiting to be sent to jail.”
Llwerllerina then expanded on the historical imperatives driving the new movement. ‘We by the Meisiemag keep very sacred the ideals carried into the African wilderness all that years ago by our noble stakeholders of the Great Trek. They also was taking a stand against an authorities that they didn’t want for to be in charge. The same apply today, but there is nowhere left where we can now trek to.”
Asked about how recruitment was going for the AWYU, Baby said that the group had received the majority of its applications from men.
‘We can’t understand why this is so,” she said. ‘Still we’ve so far got about 200 women, just like ourselves, already signed up and in basic trnaining.”
The six women raised their weapons to the sky and fired off some rounds to give emphasis to their words. They then slipped away into the undergrowth, leaving behind a tantalising scent of cordite mixed with Wild Woman body spray.