History Main / AmoralAfrikaner

** Vincent Moore from ''Film/{{Chappie}}'' is more of a MadScientist, but he's lived in Johannesburg for a while and Moore is both a mercenary and a former soldier. Though he seems consistent with an Amoral Afrikaner, he's actually originally Australian (he served in the SAS), so he doesn't quite fit.

* Mutro Botha, from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "The Final Cut" is a [[MurderInc Society of Assassins]] member who extorts Batman into protecting him from Curaré by planting a high-yield bomb somewhere in Gotham that only he can locate and disarm in time. Even if you were to chalk such a craven act up to desperation, he's still an immoral, unrepentant assassin, [[spoiler:so [[AssholeVictim it's hard to feel bad for him]] when Curaré ambushes and [[MindWipe mind wipes]] him while Batman is distracted.]]

* Hugo Grief, the MadDoctor villain of the second ''Literature/AlexRider'' book, ''Point Blanc'', and his assistant Mrs. Stellenbosch, are both South Africans who after the end of apartheid emigrated to Austria. Their extremely racist views would make Hendrik Verwoerd himself (or hell, even most Nazis) protest; they took a kind of sadistic pleasure in the subjugation of black people in their native country. [[spoiler:Their plan is to clone Grief, give the clones MagicPlasticSurgery to make look like the children of influential billionaires, and indoctrinate them as white supremacists, so that apartheid will eventually be restored in South Africa and possibly other countries around the world as well.]]

* Hugo Grief, the MadDoctor villain of the second ''Literature/AlexRider'' book, ''Point Blanc'', and his assistant Mrs. Stellenbosch, are both South Africans who after the end of apartheid emigrated to Austria. Their extremely racist views would make Hendrik Verwoerd himself (or hell, even most Nazis) protest; they took a kind of sadistic pleasure in the subjugation of black people in their native country. [[spoiler:Their plan is to clone the children of influential billionaires and indoctrinate them as racist white supremacists, so that apartheid will eventually be restored in South Africa and possibly other countries around the world as well.]]

* Frickie Van Hardenburg, a minor antagonist in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony'', is a South African businessman who is secretly an arms dealer responsible for selling weaponry to brutal regimes and conflicts and who's also a drug trafficker and human trafficker.

* The main enemies of ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' are Shoreline, a South African {{PMC}} hired by the main villain composed primarily of Afrikaners, with their leader being Nadine Ross, a black South African woman. That said, Nadine's only a PunchClockVillain, she's increasingly uncomfortable with the lengths her employer is willing to go to in order to get Avery's treasure, [[spoiler:and eventually she leaves him behind.]] In the following game, ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'', Nadine undergoes a HeelFaceTurn and teams up with Nate's old flame, [[AwesomeAussie Chloe Frazer.]] Her former lieutenant Orca and the rest of her men stay amoral, though.

There's [[TruthInTelevision a degree of truth to this:]] During the Cold War, South African mercenaries participated in various conflicts and civil wars across the African continent. After the end of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, the South African military and police forces [[FormerRegimePersonnel downsized a lot]], which left a lot of highly trained South African soldiers and paramilitary operators [[PsychoForHire looking for jobs]]--which they found as PrivateMilitaryContractors. When those [[ShellShockedVeteran battle-hardened]] guys brought their Apartheid-era sensibilities to the table... well, look out.

-->'''Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom user Thande''': The reason I bring up Stirling was that it reminded me of how he views Afrikaners, especially in ''The Peshawar Lancers'' where that one Afrikaner airship captain betrays the good guys to the evil Satanist cannibal Russians purely because the British stopped his people from doing some of the nasty things they like doing to ''"blicks"''. As if Afrikaners literally have nothing more important in life to do then sit up all night thinking of new interesting ways to make black people's lives more hellish.

* The "wet team" that invades Frank Moses' home at the beginning of ''Film/{{RED}}'' are said to be an independent South African hit-squad-for-hire.

* ''Series/SpittingImage'' even did an entire song based on it: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDk6ZeGNnU "Never Met A Nice South-African"]], which listed all the negative stereotypes of White South-Afrikaaners. It was strong stuff, but with Apartheid in full swing, that portrayal (and mockery) was generally seen as an important propaganda tool in bringing down that racist system. They note there ''are'' some nice white South Africans however -- those that opposed apartheid[[note]]They specifically mention [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach Breyten Breytenbach]], who is a nice South African who hasn't killed anyone... which is why they threw him in jail[[/note]].

* ''Film/InMyCountry'': Quite a few unrepentant Afrikaner cops who brutally murdered innocent people appear. {{Subverted}} though by [[TheAtoner the repentant ones]], and those like Anna who'd opposed Apartheid. Langston, however, an African-American reporter, initially sees them all this way.

* The Krenel mercenaries from ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' check most of the boxes of this trope: they're [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain racist]], [[SociopathicSoldier sociopathic]] [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene war criminals]] in the service of a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC]] that has been forced to rebrand multiple times after PR disasters; most of their service history involves massacring black people in Third World backwaters; and they've all got Dutch surnames. However, ''Disco Elysium'' liberally utilizes [[FantasyCounterpartCulture fantasy counterpart cultures]], and the mercs' home country of Oranje is more of a CulturalChopSuey of the Netherlands and the United States than a straight riff on South Africa, so this trope is ultimately more PlayedWith than played straight.

* [[ComicBook/PowerCompany Kirk [=DePaul=]]], the [[LegacyCharacter sixth]] man to wear the mantle of Creator/DCComics' Manhunter, isn't a villain ''per se'', but he's a massive {{Jerkass}} and has no qualms about using the [[KnifeNut many lethal weapons]] [[SuperheroPackingHeat he carries]].

* A sort of UpToEleven "South Africa" exploiting all the clichés and perceived stereotypes is developed in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal.
** A character called Horst Lensen is introduced as a brash, opinionated and rather loud young man who somehow survives seven years at the Assassins' Guild School. He could be seen as a typical ''bro'' and ''boykie'' with a streak of ''[[LowerClassLout zef]]'' in him. In the opinion of [[UnresolvedSexualTension one compatriot]], a ''[[WhatAnIdiot pielkop]]'', a ''[[YouBastard bliksem]]'' and perhaps a ''[[ForeignCussWord draadtrekker.]]'' However, he has several Near-[[TheGrimReaper Death]]-Encounters in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/1/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', and grows up as a result.

* In the 2004 film ''In My Country'', involves victims of apartheid testifying about their experiences and perpetrators confessing to their crimes in return for an offer of amnesty. Creator/BrendanGleeson plays De Jager, an unrepentant racist colonel who strikes a deal with African-American protagonist to incriminate his superiors in return for a possible amnesty offer, [[spoiler: which he [[LaserGuidedKarma doesn't get on the grounds that his actions were disproportionate and excessively cruel]].]]

* ''Series/SpittingImage'' made fun of this archetype with the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqdrbWVg_M I've Never Met A Nice South African]]". The producers of the show would go on to [[SincerityMode justify the song]] on the basis that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped it was necessary to show moderate South Africans just how much the rest of the world disapproved of apartheid]].

* ''Series/SpittingImage'' even did an entire song based on it: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDk6ZeGNnU "Never Met A Nice South-African"]], which listed all the negative stereotypes of White South-Afrikaaners. It was strong stuff, but with Apartheid in full swing, that portrayal (and mockery) was generally seen as an important propaganda tool in bringing down that racist system. They note there ''are'' some nice white South Africans however -- those that opposed apartheid.

* The Vermaak 88 from ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' were a unit of world-famous [[PrivateMilitaryContractors South African mercenaries]] even before they were [[EmpoweredBadassNormal powered up]] with [[AnIcePerson freezing powers]]. Unfortunately, the psychological trauma associated with the change means they're almost all completely AxCrazy, with the exception of one DefectorFromDecadence who helps Cole out in the Good Karma missions.

* A sort of UpToEleven "South Africa" exploiting all the clichés and perceived stereotypes is developed in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal. A character called Horst Lensen is introduced as a brash, opinionated and rather loud young man who somehow survives seven years at the Assassins' Guild School. He could be seen as a typical ''bro'' and ''boykie'' with a streak of ''[[LowerClassLout zef]]'' in him. In the opinion of [[UnresolvedSexualTension one compatriot]], a ''[[WhatAnIdiot pielkop]]'', a ''[[YouBastard bliksem]]'' and perhaps a ''[[ForeignCussWord draadtrekker.]]'' However, he has several Near-[[TheGrimReaper Death]]-Encounters in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/1/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', and grows up as a result.
** Subverted by Hans Ruijterman from ''FanFic/SlippingBetweenWorlds'': Ruijterman is a Rhodesian who later moved to South Africa, but left when the rumblings against apartheid began. While he is nostalgic for the Rhodesia of his youth and resents being targeted by black politicians with a chip on their shoulder against whitey, he has nothing but respect for the black soldiers he served and serves with, frequently questions why black soldiers in Rhodesia and South Africa stayed loyal ("We gave them ''nothing'' to be loyal ''to''") and was "encouraged" by [[StateSec BOSS]] to leave South Africa because of his "dangerously liberal" attitudes towards apartheid laws. And by "dangerously liberal", we mean "got pissed he couldn't have a drink with his black comrades, headed out into the townships to do just that, and incited a race riot when the police came to run him off".

* Played with in ''Series/{{Crisis}}'' with Jakob Vries, the South-African-born founder of a private contractor that is implied to have done a lot of nasty jobs... and a Ballard Academy parent. When the kidnappers call him up to extort his services in exchange for getting his daughter back, he doesn't even hesitate, even though he knows he'll probably have to do something horrible. On the other hand, he ''is'' doing all this for his daughter's sake, and he privately expresses his disgust at the kidnappers' extortion.

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* A sort of UpToEleven "South Africa" exploiting all the clichés and preceived stereotypes is developed in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal. A character called Horst Lensen is introduced as a brash, opinionated and rather loud young man who somehow survives seven years at the Assassins' Guild School. He could be seen as a typical ''bro'' and ''boykie'' with a streak of ''[[LowerClassLout zef]]'' in him. In the opinion of [[UnresolvedSexualTension one compatriot]], a ''[[WhatAnIdiot pielkop]]'', a ''[[YouBastard bliksem]]'' and perhaps a ''[[ForeignCussWord draadtrekker.]]'' However, he has several Near-[[TheGrimReaper Death]]-Encounters in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/1/Gap-Year-Adventures Gap Year Adventures]]'', and grows up as a result.

** Perhaps under Draka's influence, it became something of an infamous cliche in alternate history circles for Afrikaners or Afrikaner-analogues to be expansionist racists with no redeeming qualities.

* In the 1979 miniseries ''Series/{{Quatermass}}'', set in a grim, dystopian near-future Britain, the UK's police services have been disbanded and replaced by the Contract Police, or 'pay cops', a force comprised of overly aggressive and not-very-bright mercenaries. The novelisation of the story makes it clear that they are almost exclusively white South Africans and the ones heard speaking in the TV series have Afrikaner accents.

There's [[TruthInTelevision a degree of truth to this:]] During the Cold War, white South African mercenaries participated in various conflicts and civil wars across the African continent. After the end of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, the South African military and police forces [[FormerRegimePersonnel downsized a lot]], which left a lot of highly trained South African soldiers and paramilitary operators [[PsychoForHire looking for jobs]]--which they found as PrivateMilitaryContractors. When those [[ShellShockedVeteran battle-hardened]] guys brought their Apartheid-era sensibilities to the table... well, look out.

However, fiction would have you believe that South Africa isn't much more than a spawn point for [[EvilPoacher big-game poachers]], [[HiredGuns mercenaies]], and [[SociopathicSoldier bloodthirsty military types]], who are probably {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s to boot.

However, fiction would have you believe that South Africa isn't much more than a spawn point for [[EvilPoacher big-game poachers]], [[HiredGuns mercs]], and [[SociopathicSoldier bloodthirsty military types]], who are probably {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s to boot.

There's [[TruthInTelevision a degree of truth to this:]] after the end of UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra, the South African military and police forces [[FormerRegimePersonnel downsized a lot]], which left a lot of highly trained South African soldiers and paramilitary operators [[PsychoForHire looking for jobs]]--which they found as PrivateMilitaryContractors. When those [[ShellShockedVeteran battle-hardened]] guys brought their Apartheid-era sensibilities to the table... well, look out.