I had this Irish au pair nanny, a little fat thing of 5’2″ and 200 pounds. But all the aux pairs from the same agency would hang around together.

This was like the second generation of aux pairs during the 90s. The first had been mostly Nordic girls, and some of the families had learned maybe it was better if the girls spoke English. So there was this second wave of English Nannies, until that one killed the child she was watching, claiming she was worked into a frazzle.

So, anyway, this Irish imp would have the other British nannies over, and she would play this IRA music that had words something like (not actually but more or less) “Fuck the Bastard British, let’s blow them all to hell,” and I would sort of glare at her, and she would return this mischievous sense of “Boy I’m dancing on the couch now with my shoes on now.”

But I gotta just think when the President of South Africa joins in to “Shoot the Boers,” the effect on the general population is just a little bit different than a nanny trying to get a rise out of some British friends.

But make no mistake about it. This girl was IRA Irish.

There was bombing on the London tube as evening rush hour was going on. I challenged her about it and she said, “They had to. Major wouldn’t talk.”

And I loudly said, “And you killed me, men on the way home from work to their families, because Major wouldn’t talk?”

She hung her head.

Hard to say if she went back to Ireland with a less radical view of the IRA, probably. But even harder to say if getting back there renewed it once she was amongst the Irish instead of some liberal whites in Boulder.

But even though she might have played those songs just to bug the British girls, I have no doubt the core group of her Irish peers didn’t agree with both the message in the songs and any actions the IRA took prior to 9/11.

But if you look on web site of Engels-Volkers, an international realty firm, there’s some really cheap prices on luxury real estate in South Africa. You can get some really large properties, thousands of hectares, for a bit more than 5,000,000 dollars. And most of the properties for sale are in the western Cape.

But it’s a German firm, but with an international viewership. And there are 4,600 German properties for sale on it, 10,000 Spanish (due to what is going on in Spain and the “holiday” nature of most of those properties, they were built to sell to northern Europeans), and about 1,500 each in Italy and the US.

And 5,600 in South Africa. I sort of spend a bunch of time viewing different properties around the world as I fantasize about winning the lottery and moving here or there. There seems to be an exceeding high percentage of farms and hunting lodges for sale compared to any other country.

Can you imagine some foreigner not being aware of the information contained in this article and then buying one of these places after going on some Potemkin Village sort of tour led by the realtor and then finding out the hell he had gotten himself into.

There is a movie with John Malkovich called Disgrace. I leave a link to it that you can stream. It pops up a lot of junk ads and just kill them. Click the arrow in the player. I have adblocker on a Chrome browser so I don’t see the ads.

The synopsis from IMDB says, “After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.”

It’s far worse than that. He gets attracted to a lighter colored student and asks her on a date. She doesn’t really want to but goes anyway. He takes her to his place and while she isn’t happy about it, he has sex with her, and it is a definite sort of “not saying no doesn’t imply consent”. Her friends rat him out to the administration and he gets fired.

With the end of apartheid and things being as they are in J-burg, he has no prospects in the city with the loss of this teaching job. So he heads to the country where his daughter lives, a lesbian who raises dogs and has a market garden.

They are attacked by three black men. He is knocked unconscious and she is raped. She ends up pregnant. And they experience stone walling with the black authorities now in charge of the region. She decides not to prosecute and to keep the baby. She signs her farm over to the control of the local black guy who is the patriarch there. And wants her father to leave. She feels she has no other option. If she aborts the baby and prosecutes her rapists then she believes at some point they will kill her. But by having the baby then she is part of the kin thing of the group.

So this movie is deeply symbolic of what Boers experience in South Africa. In every review of the movie the crime and violence of what happened to the daughter is often taken as a tit for tat with her father taking liberties with the college student even though the two cases are night and day and the university authorities severely punished him for a regret rape. It is almost like the world has this “They had it coming attitude”.

And in a bigger picture, much the same can be said for all whites. To believe in some post-racial utopia where all live in harmony is idiocy. Variations of this movie will play out over and over.