10 years on, KK&K still gets the True Believers in a panic

I was recently made aware of an entertaining exchange on one of the various Boer War Facebook groups. The catalyst for this was that someone had dared to offer a copy of ‘Kruger, Kommandos & Kak’ for sale – and at the bargain price of just R150:

Predictably, and entertainingly, the mere mention of this sacrilegious text – obviously – quickly got the Defenders of the Myth into a flat panic, and, despite the fact that Kruger openly boasted of building an Afrikaans Empire, ‘From the Zambesi to Simon’s Town’, the denial of reality started instantly:

And so it continued, as the faithful frantically tried to defend National Party myths:

Elsegood claims I am ‘not worth it’ – which is perhaps why he has never dared to contradict me when I shatter his treasured myths in various blog articles. He is clearly much more comfortable writing about horse racing and walking about in Australia, waving the old South African flag.

And so it continued:

And on and on it went, with David Wilson so desperate to keep the myths alive, that he had no hesitation to resort to false (libelous?) allegations:

I eagerly await Mr Wilson substantiating his baseless claim… though of course he won’t, because he can’t. In reality, his comment is as stupid and groundless as me picking an author whose book I don’t think I would enjoy reading, and publicly suggesting we should investigate him for ‘possible paedophilia’. Just like David, I would have absolutely no evidence to support such an allegation, or reason to believe it to be true, but – hey – in the Wacky World of Wilson, why should something as unimportant as that stop one from throwing it out there?

Still, it is amusing that – 10 years after it was published – my book is clearly so upsetting and earth-shattering for Wilson, and the National Party version of events so important to him, that he has no hesitation to resort to libel to keep his myths alive. Entertainingly, when challenged, Wilson then admitted that, due to his failing eye-sight, he hadn’t even read the book. Instead – like the good sheep he is – he was unthinkingly going on what people who ‘detest me’ had told him:

Mr Wilson’s lunatic posts perfectly illustrate just how rattled the True Believers were by ‘KK&K’… panicking and fearing their much-loved Apartheid-era myths had been exposed, the response from many was simply to dismiss my books using any spurious and made-up reason they could dream up. Of course, resorting to this tactic was a tacit admission that they could not actually dispute my references, or refute any of my statements and conclusions. Finding himself in this uncomfortable position, Wilson went with a mindless and baseless claim of ‘plagiarism’ – which is actually rather benign compared to some of the things others have frantically come up with over the years.

All of this prompted Kobus and Hennie to try and outdo one another in a bid to come across as ignorant as possible:

Of course, in reality, the conflict ‘arose’ because Kruger declared war upon Great Britain, and invaded British territory. And poor old Hennie also ignores that inconvenient truth, and pretends that the basket case Transvaal – which started the war by attacking British territory – was ‘the reddest of red cherries’, and somewhere Britain was desperate to ‘grab’. Which is (in the twisted mind of Hennie, at least), presumably, why London… errr… waited until the Boers invaded British territory, and then… err… granted the republics self-rule just a few years after the British army won the war?

Unsurprisingly, it would seem Hennie has a reputation of running away when asked challenging questions:

But at least there was a final voice of sanity: