Running from the Rainbow Nation edition by Zarelsie Van der Merwe Jianeca Low SelfHelp eBooks
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Zarelsie Van der Merwe is a Personal Change & Development
Consultant in Auckland, New Zealand.
In 2002, Zarelsie and her family emigrated from South Africa – the
Rainbow Nation – to start a new life in New Zealand.
Running from the Rainbow Nation is the bitter sweet chain of events that eventually brought this family to a new country, and a new life.
It describes their struggle to find a way out of South Africa while under stress, facing obstacles and meeting a range of “angels” – people appearing on their path to help them on their journey.
It is a personal account of huge change in the life of one family, and the silent truths that lay on the heart of someone who has to face the heartache and rush of immigration – the most traumatic event in any human being’s life.
But is it also a tale of hope and adaptation in a new country, blessed with wonderful people and a clean, safe environment.
A great read for anyone who faces the same situation, anywhere in the world.
Running from the Rainbow Nation edition by Zarelsie Van der Merwe Jianeca Low SelfHelp eBooks
I enjoyed reading this book by author Zarelsi Van der Merwe who tells the reasons why her family chose to leave South Africa in 2002 and emmigrate to New Zealand and why the process was so difficult for a middle-class family without major wealth. Not only had conditions in her country become more unstable as the whites became marginalized with the advent of the new "Rainbow Nation" regime of Nelson Mandela; it had also become quite dangerous crime wise as Rule of Law declined. How dangerous ? Roughly 50,000 murders per year (as compared to America's 16,000 per year) as far as the official records showed but actual statistics are not well kept because the new regime under Mandela did not want to broadcast such bad news as it tried to attract new capital investment to create new jobs the country desperately needed.South Africa since the 1990's has been in transition from Anglo Boer minority political rule to rule by the majority who are mostly either of the Bantu or Zulu group. In exchange for a new constitution granting universal sufferage and voting rights the result of the transition was increased social disorder with some of the highest rape and murder rates in the world as the result of transfer of power. It was seen that unless universal sufferage occured there would be a violent revolution and there would be no winners.....only losers so this path was chosen as the best course to take. There was also the grave problem of the AIDs epidemic which as many as 5M in a country of 41M appeared to have and which approximately 300,000 people die from each year. The statistics are staggering. Average lifespan had been reduced by 15 years for some groups. This country has had many challenges and for the whites who used to rule the change to a condition of unstability or semi-rule of law but not quite abject chaos was difficult to take. The "good life" had evaporated. Some of the Dutch Boers whose ancestors settled in South Africa 300 years ago along with the English are emmigrating away from this beautiful country that I visited in 1982 while it was still under Anglo Boer rule. Of the 6M Dutch-Anglos about 1M have decided to go elsewhere for a more stable lifestyle with less crime and a better future. This is the story of one such Boer family who decided that the stress of everyday life in this country was too much after visiting the Durban seaside on holiday and that the risks of staying in South Africa were more that taking a chance somewhere else.
Things did not seem to be getting better as she describes on the family outing to the beach in Durban where perhaps 50,000 people are on the beaches and it is very unhealthy from all the excrement that the crowd leaves everywhere. Pictures are shown of the vast number of people on the beach and it appears to be quite chaotic and people in general not acting responsibly in regards to hygiene and disregard for other people by the trash, feces and bad behavior. The incident was the last straw of many incidents. The family's daughters are not only not well educated in the public schools but are sometimes beaten up or humiliated because they are white. They could not afford to go to the safer private schools. In order to keep safe from attacks from criminals it was necessary to carry a hand gun and maintain hyper-vigilance for any intruder. This constant vigilance looking for threats wore the family and made them unable to enjoy living in their country so they embarked on a two year process to try to emmigrate elsewhere. But where else was the big question ?
Here's the Catch 22 of emmigration to other countries......you must have a sponsor and a job waiting for you in the country you want to go to. The der Merwe's are a middle class family with a dwindling savings account. The only real wealth they have is in their house which in 2002 is very difficult to sell because so many people are leaving and many people are selling homes not buying. There are many constraints and issues to overcome before you can get a passport and an exit visa. Fortunately Zarelsi is a hard worker and she gets on the internet to do her research and thru serendity, divine guidance and tenacity she gets results and finds a sponsor in New Zealand after she determines that New Zealand is the best fit for her family.
If you are a hard working South African family and you are poor and middle class and concerned that the trends in the future may overwhelm you eventually if you stay in the Rainbow Nation then this is the book you should read to find a path for emmigration and what is needed to Shoot the Gap (Rugby term to express getting out of Dodge City). Lots of Excellent Lessons Learned for those who don't mind hard work with realization that if things are a bit too dicy where you are at then you have a choice. This book shows how one hard working Boer family went from a high stress environment of uncertainty to one where the future is much rosier in New Zealand. It is not easy and Good Luck to you.
The thesis of this book is that even though the media proclaims how wonderful the Rainbow Nation is and how great universal sufferage is the truth of the matter from the Anglo Boer perspective is that South Afric is going in the same direction as Zimbabwe did. And the people with the means who are scared of the way things are going are emmigrating. The quality of life is not what it used to be. Things may look great on the travel brochures but the overall culture of the South African society as a whole is sliding towards increased instability with a major pandemic due to lack of self discipline and a culture that rewards hedonistic behavior. When this continues unabated society implodes.
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Running from the Rainbow Nation edition by Zarelsie Van der Merwe Jianeca Low SelfHelp eBooks Reviews
An excellent read. Make you realise how privilege we are living in NZ and what we have left behind. We all have similar stories coming from South Africa and settling in our new life.
What will make you decide to flee from the rainbow nation - to emigrate from your beloved birthplace? Or to at least find a `relatively safer area' to flee to inside South Africa or neighbouring countries?
By Adriana Stuijt. a.j.stuijt@knid.nl
For author Zarelsie van der Merwe and her family, the final drop in the bucket was a harrowing visit to the Durban beachfront -- to show the children the giant fishes in its once world-famous aquarium -- which made this Afrikaner family realise they'd become strangers in their own land that they had to get out to save the lives of their children...
The Afrikaner mom describes their ordeal very soberly and precisely in the 123 pages of her hard-hitting little book, `Running from the Rainbow Nation. " (click on picture left to order) I got it in the post this morning and was spellbound by it.
` We were white, very visible and in the wrong place '
She describes their own personal turning point. The date December 16, 2000. The place the Durban beach front where the family had to be taken under armed police escort to the aquarium, surrounded by many tens of thousands of drunken, defecating and aggressive louts who were shooting at each other with AK47s and befouling the once so pristine beachfront with an overwhelming stench of human faeces, urine and blood from newly-slaughtered livestock.
She writes "We were white, very visible and in the wrong place. The atmosphere was thick with the putrid smells of muti, raw meat steaming and decaying in the heat." The family had driven 200km from their small town and the children were looking forward to seeing the giant aquarium. Her husband, a police officer, had to obtain help from a black colleague to take the family there and back, under guard...
Careful to sidestep the `landmines" the human faeces on the pavement...
She describes the walk, writing "We took a child each, secured our guns under our clothing and ... were walking as fast as we could through crowds of people. You could not help feeling threatened and vulnerable. We pushed through hordes, me holding on to Johan's trouser belt so we would not become seperated. I made sure that I looked mainly straight into the ground in front of me - careful to sidesteps the `landmines', the human faeces on the pavement. It was filthy with street vendors lining almost a hundred percent of each open centimetre against the buildings. As far as we walked I heard `tsh tsh tsh' noises from all around us...'
"Sweat was running down my temples from stress and panic and the kids were agitated and crying. The officer was waiting for us and smiled as we came up the small street to the cordon, and indicated for us to follow him. As we went through the (police) cordon and past the huge armoured vehicles, the children started crying profusely, afraid of all the commotion, armoured vehicles and policemen.
Chaos reigned on the beachfront of Durban... the noise was overwhelming...we thought we heard gunshots
Looking down the hill to the beachfront made me gasp there were at least fifty-thousand to eighty-thousand people on the beach and in the swimming pools, recreation areas and parks around the beach. The crowds covered the swim areas like ants. A wave of black extended to where the front swimmers would usually be in the sea. From the elevated positions of the (police) cordons, the beach fronts stretching north looked exactly the same. Chaos reigned on the beachfront of Durban...We could hear what we thought to be gunshots in the distance... We looked down on tens of thousands of people, the noise was overwhelming.
Blood from freshly-slaughtered sheep ran into the children's pools
The side where the beachfront street met the recreation areas, people were offloading live sheep from a parked bus and slaughtering them right there on the footpath, blood running down the paved areas into the children's pools. They were so overpopulated by children and adults, that no-one noticed the sheep's blood, or they just did not care...'
What happened next?
Please, do buy and read her book. It's a must for every South African family faced with identical sights and sounds and smells and dangers all across the country.... [...]
I enjoyed reading this book by author Zarelsi Van der Merwe who tells the reasons why her family chose to leave South Africa in 2002 and emmigrate to New Zealand and why the process was so difficult for a middle-class family without major wealth. Not only had conditions in her country become more unstable as the whites became marginalized with the advent of the new "Rainbow Nation" regime of Nelson Mandela; it had also become quite dangerous crime wise as Rule of Law declined. How dangerous ? Roughly 50,000 murders per year (as compared to America's 16,000 per year) as far as the official records showed but actual statistics are not well kept because the new regime under Mandela did not want to broadcast such bad news as it tried to attract new capital investment to create new jobs the country desperately needed.
South Africa since the 1990's has been in transition from Anglo Boer minority political rule to rule by the majority who are mostly either of the Bantu or Zulu group. In exchange for a new constitution granting universal sufferage and voting rights the result of the transition was increased social disorder with some of the highest rape and murder rates in the world as the result of transfer of power. It was seen that unless universal sufferage occured there would be a violent revolution and there would be no winners.....only losers so this path was chosen as the best course to take. There was also the grave problem of the AIDs epidemic which as many as 5M in a country of 41M appeared to have and which approximately 300,000 people die from each year. The statistics are staggering. Average lifespan had been reduced by 15 years for some groups. This country has had many challenges and for the whites who used to rule the change to a condition of unstability or semi-rule of law but not quite abject chaos was difficult to take. The "good life" had evaporated. Some of the Dutch Boers whose ancestors settled in South Africa 300 years ago along with the English are emmigrating away from this beautiful country that I visited in 1982 while it was still under Anglo Boer rule. Of the 6M Dutch-Anglos about 1M have decided to go elsewhere for a more stable lifestyle with less crime and a better future. This is the story of one such Boer family who decided that the stress of everyday life in this country was too much after visiting the Durban seaside on holiday and that the risks of staying in South Africa were more that taking a chance somewhere else.
Things did not seem to be getting better as she describes on the family outing to the beach in Durban where perhaps 50,000 people are on the beaches and it is very unhealthy from all the excrement that the crowd leaves everywhere. Pictures are shown of the vast number of people on the beach and it appears to be quite chaotic and people in general not acting responsibly in regards to hygiene and disregard for other people by the trash, feces and bad behavior. The incident was the last straw of many incidents. The family's daughters are not only not well educated in the public schools but are sometimes beaten up or humiliated because they are white. They could not afford to go to the safer private schools. In order to keep safe from attacks from criminals it was necessary to carry a hand gun and maintain hyper-vigilance for any intruder. This constant vigilance looking for threats wore the family and made them unable to enjoy living in their country so they embarked on a two year process to try to emmigrate elsewhere. But where else was the big question ?
Here's the Catch 22 of emmigration to other countries......you must have a sponsor and a job waiting for you in the country you want to go to. The der Merwe's are a middle class family with a dwindling savings account. The only real wealth they have is in their house which in 2002 is very difficult to sell because so many people are leaving and many people are selling homes not buying. There are many constraints and issues to overcome before you can get a passport and an exit visa. Fortunately Zarelsi is a hard worker and she gets on the internet to do her research and thru serendity, divine guidance and tenacity she gets results and finds a sponsor in New Zealand after she determines that New Zealand is the best fit for her family.
If you are a hard working South African family and you are poor and middle class and concerned that the trends in the future may overwhelm you eventually if you stay in the Rainbow Nation then this is the book you should read to find a path for emmigration and what is needed to Shoot the Gap (Rugby term to express getting out of Dodge City). Lots of Excellent Lessons Learned for those who don't mind hard work with realization that if things are a bit too dicy where you are at then you have a choice. This book shows how one hard working Boer family went from a high stress environment of uncertainty to one where the future is much rosier in New Zealand. It is not easy and Good Luck to you.
The thesis of this book is that even though the media proclaims how wonderful the Rainbow Nation is and how great universal sufferage is the truth of the matter from the Anglo Boer perspective is that South Afric is going in the same direction as Zimbabwe did. And the people with the means who are scared of the way things are going are emmigrating. The quality of life is not what it used to be. Things may look great on the travel brochures but the overall culture of the South African society as a whole is sliding towards increased instability with a major pandemic due to lack of self discipline and a culture that rewards hedonistic behavior. When this continues unabated society implodes.
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