Have any Proud South Africans visited Freedom Park?

Question

Surfing the 'net I found out about 'Freedom Park.' Apparently it's a monument honoring those that fell during 'the struggle' to 'free South Africa.'
I also read about the debate surrounding the names included on the wall honoring 'those that fell.'
Amongst the 68 000 names, not one name of a former SADF member - one of the finest armies ever to walk the Earth - is included. Mmmmm....whatever happened to reconciliation? Especially for conscripted soldiers?
The wall does, however, include the names of Cuban soldiers that were killed.

This quote from Mongane Wally Serote - CEO of The Freedom Park Foundation highlights the evil hypocrisy behind this (italics mine):
" The CUBANS helped fight for FREEDOM in Africa, they played a role in ending apartheid and they should be honored for that."

Here are details - http://www.freedompark.org.za/events.php

london.oval - I agree with you that the Americans were out of their league against the SADF.
In a military confrontation they would have gotten crushed. Vietnam would have seemed like a warm-up.

The SADF was never defeated on the battlefield - not by the ANC, nor by the Soviet and Cuban thugs that helped them. The same thugs from prison countries that are now being hailed as 'freedom fighters.'
Does no one else see the cynicism, illogic and hypocrisy behind this?
If only the USA and the UN could have kept their noses out of a conflict they had no understanding of. A conflict fought by Marxists using the race-card to steal something someone else built.
The Afrikaners only have themselves to blame for all this - one of the biggest blunders made in history, by ANYONE was giving racism a name.
Instituting a political system that dealt with other races as 3rd class citizens, brutally if necessary, didn't help, either.
And finally, holding onto that system, because of an unwavering belief in the Bible and the will of God, sealed their fate.
And ultimately, the fate of South Africa.

The border wars were fought to prevent exactly what's going on now - the descent of South Africa into a Stalinist, crime-ridden nightmare.
My advice is to go to 'Freedom Park' and give a thought as to whether you're better off now than you were twenty years ago.

Answer 1

What I find laughable about this whole " struggle" things is that the ANC have a vision that they somehow had Battalions of troops who confronted the SADF on the battlefield. ANC supporters believe this tripe when we all know that the so called "struggle" was no more than a propaganda War financed by the communist Eastern Block fought in Western Newspapers.Todays leaders of the ANC spent their time either in Jail or scrounging off Western Nations and fomenting terrorism and killing their own kind who did not abide by their views e.g necklacing,Magoo's,St James' Church etc. Of the 68.000 names I wonder how many died in the ANC death camps in Angola or were executed by them.
The ANC loves to write History as though it were some kind of Hollywood drama with little regard for truth and/or reality. SADF members and their families should be proud not to be associated with a rag tag bunch of Communists and their perverted notion of reality.

Answer 2

Brad. If you had noticed I had not been responding to your questions - and you know why. But I am going to do so in this one.

I agree with you that it would have been better for the country if this matter was handled the other way in order not to create unnecessary controversy. While the rationale behind excluding SADF members in the list, yes, you are right - issues of conscription should have been sorted out.

One only hopes that the powers that are will seriously consider the matter and come to a nation-building-type of a solution. Not all SADF members wanted to be there and not all necessarily supported apartheid!

I would like to go to the park, but will wait until when the controversy has been resolved.

Answer 3

Hi there

Interesting bit of miss-history you have unearthed here - where is Freedom Park?

And yes, I agree SA did have an amazing army, My contemporarys went into Angola

Thinking about that time there is another botch up by America. They promised to enter from the sea as we went over the border from SA. We pushed in well past the meeting point with the USA army who were still on their ships out at sea and never did fight. another promise never delivered. Useless army that lot!

SA the very best at that time.

Answer 4

Like all ventures of the racist ANC, it is only there for South Africans of a certain skin colour and those who pledge loyalty to communism.
They have never been and will never be a government that serves South Africa. They serve only themselves - mostly financially from the existing crime situation. They are nothing but a cancer that feeds on hatred and chaos and are well on their way to destroying our beautiful country and the lives of SAns of all races.

Answer 5

I have driven past it many times (Last Friday again), but have never been.

I do not feel welcome, since I was a member of SADF. (Even though I was FORCED by the previosu regime to be part of the SADF).

This Freedom apparently is not for me. (Or my friends killed in the war)

Answer 6

Nope I haven't been and I really don't plan on ever going. Morally, to me it would be a waste. I have no interest in 'heroes of the struggle' as I don't support terrorism and communism in any way shape or form.

Answer 7

No...and what for...its a one sided story....
And the 68.000 names is a lot of Hoggwash...
more likely 8.000.....
the other 60.000 were just added on to make it look impressive....
But 68.000 never.... unheard off...
And its nothing to be proud of anyway....it was build with blood
stained hands....

Ps...Its was the ''Stragal '' is the word that gets used....

Answer 8

I have never heard of it. Chances are that if I go my car will get stolen.

Answer 9

Yes I've been to freedom park & I will always go there bcoz it reminds of many things & you are welcom to come & join me.

Answer 10

why? do you haunt the place...?
think i'll pass...dankie, mwah!!!