13 Our enemy

13 Our enemy

That the Makers of the Vow found themselves in 1838 in Natal and why they found themselves there, meeting every night in a strengthened wagon laager, is so because two great enemy powers threatened to death what would be to them the most precious and dearest on earth.

Behind them there was the merciless power of British Imperialism, who claimed unconditional and blind subjection from all and everybody within its sight.

British imperialism overpowered many peoples, centuries before. His recipe was very simple, but unbelievably effective: “Reject the Tenth, the Eighth, the Sixth and the Ninth Command, consequently in the same order . . . ”

He starts to desire which is not his, and then, after he stole and murdered for the sake of what he desired, he lies unforeseeable into the future therefor, in our case now already one and a half centuries, since the Sand River Convention in 1852. With that he still keeps it on, still long after the British Empire itself is dead, passed away mainly as result of the wounds inflicted by the People of the Vow, namely in February 1881 at Majuba, in December 1899 at Magersfontein, Stormberg and Colenso, and on 31 May 1961 with the People of the Vow’s regaining of its republican freedom.
Then the front end of the Vow makers’ road to calling fulfilment “in the freedom in which Christ made us free,” was barred by the other just as Godless unscrupulous enemy power, Africa Barbarism. This is embodied in the overwhelming overpower number of black peoples. Of this they have already noticed in December 1838 by own acrid experience of Hottentots, Bushmen, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Matabele and Zulu.