A small meeting of what may be the last organisation that broadly represents white right wing groups on Wednesday suggested vengeance attacks on black people, leaving even its leaders worried.
It is a statement all the more shocking for the calm voice in which Andre Visagie delivers it.
"People were very radical, in the sense that they want to go over to action. They want to prepare for war. They want to set an ultimatum: for every single one of our people who is killed by a black person, 30 black people should be killed, because we are 30 times fewer than they are."
That, Visagie said, was the general consensus of the 100 or so people who gathered in Bloemfontein for a "nood volksvergadering", or emergency meeting of the nation, which he had called to address the issue of farm murders, and the killing of white people in urban areas.
"People said the murders of more white people would be a declaration of war. They also said changing the Constitution to restrict press freedom and remove property rights would also be a declaration. They don't want politics anymore. They don't want to use legal avenues. Afriforum pushed the government into a corner through the courts, but the government can just change the law. They want revenge."
