Namibia And South Africa, Beware Of False Prophets In The Academia

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it” – George Orwell

It is trendy to worship the academia and its academic qualifications, academic “analysis” and “PhD essays”, presented in an academic jargon that has become all too flowery and removed from the truth. And of course, therefore, it is misleading. Serious problems of whatever size simply get intellectualized away, more particularly, when of political nature.

In fact, mischievous armchair academics have two things in common, their egos and their hidden agendas, always ready to advertise their “opinion” under the guise of “analysis” of “news and current affairs”, to lend “credibility and weight”. Yet, it is usually nothing new.

It has become the academics’ clarion call to all those seeking employment to have academic qualifications. Because, if they not, they will simply not get a job and the much needed income. They and their families would be part of the unemployed and would finally starve, whilst admiring the “academics and intellectuals”.

It creates an unnecessary and inhumane class-system. Such is not part of SWAPO Party, or ANC, or Frelimo, or MPLA or ZANU-PF, who fought for the freedom of all oppressed and disenfranchised, against racism and unfair educational- and economic systems, making life hell for the disadvantaged indigenous black African majority in their own land on their own continent. This is in fact, a declaration of war to plunder and kill with impunity and in exclusivity.

To undermine the struggle for freedom for all living in the land is counter-revolutionary. To attack SWAPO’s and the ANC’s constitution as well as its senior founders would be an attempt to reduce Namibia and even more so, South Africa to puppet states. Independence is hard earned and is not for sale. Hot academic air should not confuse students and the public out there.

Ghana’s late former president Kwame Nkrumah documented in his publication, “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare”, “Local reactionaries would assist foreign infiltration in an attempt to suppress progressive and revolutionary forces throughout the continent.”

Education is one of the most important pillars of society. But, it should benefit all and should be balanced.

After World Wars 1 and 2, Germany created its new middle class mainly through a technical education programme. Education does not mean it has to be exclusively academic. Technical education contributes not only to a broad tax system. It also helps to build an independent, self-sufficient country. Today, Germany is the most powerful country within the EU. Its economy rates among the top four of the world. The powerful middle class forms the tax-base of government.

An arrogant global corporate approach to acquire useless academic qualifications to land a job, will lead to a class system, based on exclusivity and elitism, marginalizing the majority in mainly Third World and African countries into mass unemployment, abject poverty and starvation.

An elitist class system has never been part of any freedom struggle, unless one would succumb to the collective amoral reflection of the US box-office film, “Wolf of Wall Street” and its sordid bling-bling levels of deadly greed.

An exclusively elitist, well-connected and academically highly qualified small middle class would assist the ‘grand apartheid’s’ equally evil ‘structured poverty’, sowing starvation and destablisation, compromising struggle leadership.

We do not need to look far for a working education system. Zimbabwe is right here on Namibia’s and South Africa’s borders – the British publication, the “Guinness Book of World Records” hailed Zimbabwe’s educational system among the top three in the world for years. It shows in the Diaspora. Zimbabweans hold top positions in banking-, mining-, retailing and many other industries.

It would be a grave blunder to expose the University of Namibia (UNAM) for example, to academics, who do not have Namibia’s interests at heart. Their history and their actions speak for themselves. With their hidden agendas to promote corporatization of state and economy, those hooligan armchair academics contribute to misinformation and subsequent tension all around. They have become agents’ provocateurs, promoting a foreign democracy that would lead to anarchy and regime change. Meanwhile, they enjoy the public platforms, masquerading as “intellectual giants, influential and well-connected opinion makers and democratic thinkers”. However, they are the exact opposite.

They actually play politics. Those academics would do anything, to get into positions of influence to manage public minds and opinion. Their scheming mindsets are equal to those of mercenaries.

Why do those over-ambitious academics not form their own political parties? Or, are they part of an agenda to destabilize their respective countries in order to bring about a ‘regime change’ like the ‘Bolsheviks’ did in Russia, leading up to the Red Revolution in 1917? You might recall, Lord Milner and Lord Rothschild, heading the British Exchequer in London, financed the ‘Bolsheviks’. Together, they brought the reigning Tsar to a fall, killed his entire family, because he refused to underwrite a Central Bank for Russia. In whose interest do certain academics remain persistent to get into leadership positions in academia?

Had it not been for the leaders’ drive and the understanding of history, of colonial-apartheid-structured-poverty and of discrimination, those same academics would not have been in their aspired and worshiped positions today. Unless of course, they would receive compromising payments from the powerful men in the shadows. The only explanation would be that those academics are in actual fact soulless intellectual prostitutes, far removed from teaching the truth, preparing the youth for economic participation.

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Is Eskom Used To Build A War Chest For Political Change In South Africa?

“A catalogue of disasters seems to be built up for the ANC’s NGC in October this year in 2015, attempting to turn the NGC into an elective conference”, senior members of the ANC NEC and NWC caution. “It would enable the enemies of President Jacob Zuma to recall him and put their man, deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, in his place. If president Zuma would serve his full second term, chances of deputy president Ramaphosa to become president would be slim.”

Above senior politicians explain, “This ‘catalogue of disasters’ includes so-called xenophobia; rolled out electricity cuts; the assault on the value of the ZAR; so-called service delivery protests; corruption charges, including the call to “pay back the money” for Zuma’s private estate, Nkandla, in the province of KwaZulu; a lawless and treasonous anarchy, propagated as “democracy”; grand apartheid’s structured poverty; resulting in massive youth unemployment. All of this affects the black African majority directly.”

It would seem that that set-up serves to force the collapse of the ANC, bringing about a so-called “regime change” during the ANC’s elective General Conference in December 2017.

The above-mentioned senior leader and member of the ANC NEC and NWC pointed out in his conversation with this writer, “The very thought of, and the strategic reality that the head-of-state and commander-in-chief of South Africa could be poisoned, as reported in the media, shows that absolutely nobody is safe in South Africa.”

To add agony to the above report, Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba said, “We keep quiet about our colleagues’ shortcomings, because we don’t want to be attacked.” This means, when under siege, you are alone without any form of protection, or support. Thus, this begs the question: does fear influence leadership?

What exactly are the Intelligence Services, including State Security, the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA); the South African Police Services’ Crime Intelligence and the South African National Defense Force’s Defense Intelligence doing? What could the explanation be for retaining staff in their positions against a reality of so-called “xenophobia”, a mafia-style judiciary, where the perpetrators of violence and murder cannot be found, or are immediately released from jail, if and when caught? They escape the discipline of the rule-of-law. How deep have outside agents infiltrated the intelligence community to render them ineffectual?

South Africa will host the next African Union (AU) summit in the Sandton Convention Center in June this year. With its history of xenophobia, South Africa’s heads of the Intelligence Services Cluster have to assure African heads-of-state that they are safe.

It is interesting that the corporate media does not ask the most obvious questions, why neither the Chinese, nor the Indians have been exposed to the so-called “xenophobia”.

A while ago, Chinese traders just outside Johannesburg’s Central Business District (CBD) had to flee for their lives. But, now they have nothing to fear. The Indian communities in KwaZulu and Gauteng are also safe. Who protects them in return for what?

The Somalis, Ethiopians, Zimbabweans, Tanzanians, Bengalis and Pakistanis paid with the loss of their lives and businesses in South Africa.

Who are the warlords-come-Mafioso, directing a ‘Third Force’ behind this “xenophobia”? Is there any form of “protection money” being paid? What is the role of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in this effort to destabilise the country? Have Africans been exposed to racketeering when pressed for protection? Could EFF leaders, Julius Malema, Floyd Shivambu and Dali Mpofu as well as Joseph Mathunjwa from the union AMCU shed some light on these questions?

Would the Intelligence Agencies be able to share, what has been done to monitor the movements on the ground in the urban areas prior to the last elections up to today?

The current so-called “xenophobia” in South Africa is similar to the covert urban war, waged by apartheid Military Intelligence’s Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) from 1990 to 1994, when over 8000 indigenous black African South Africans were murdered. This is on record of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Certain media described it as “black-on-black violence” then.

Independent observers explained that the attack on foreigners from Africa is at the heart of the geo-political engineering attempting to destroy South Africa’s leadership position in Africa. Who stands to benefit from it?

Senior ANC NEC members remarked under the condition of confidentiality, “This “xenophobia” could have been avoided. Is the ANC running away from its responsibilities of power? Had the security cluster not been stable, these attacks could have led to a civil war.”

However, it cost South Africa dearly. African countries retaliated by having stopped importing goods from South Africa, closed South African businesses down and stopped local artists from performing in neighboring countries.

In a similar context, it is observed that a cruel war of exterminating the majority of the populations of the Ukraine, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen has been on the cards for a while. So is the destruction of the Developing World.

Over a hundred historic monuments and statues mainly in the cities of the Ukraine were brought down. It happened shortly before a foreign-engineered uprising and the subsequent toppling of its government. An inhumane war against unarmed civilians of all ages and backgrounds followed. Who engineers and benefits from that lethal global holocaust?

Boko Haram is attacking Nigeria. To this day, the international community has not fervently declared Boko Haram a terrorist organisation.

Al Shabaab in East Africa attacks Kenya at will to destroy its economy, ensuring that Kenya will not call for another currency.

What is the role of large companies such as Exxaro Mining Company, Pembani Holdings, Shanduka, Glencor and Afric-Oil in South Africa’s current political climate?

Interestingly, Afric-Oil supplies Eskom, the national electricity provider, with Diesel to the tune of 50 to 60 million liters per month. It costs something to the amounts of four to five Rand per Kilowatt-Hour to produce electricity from Diesel. The same Kilowatt-Hour is sold for R0.84. What is the logic in this? It seems the state is being plundered. Would it not be in the interest of Afric-Oil that Eskom buys its Diesel from them until 2017 to make as much profit as possible for as long as possible? Who really makes these profits?

It would seem that a war chest of sorts would benefit from the above-mentioned profits. Who initiated this war chest? What is the aim for stockpiling such huge profits? Would that “war chest” be used to finance the build-up to and the final outcome of a “regime change” in South Africa?

As some leaders in southern Africa stress, “Africa needs to know its enemies and fight back united, or else, be destroyed.”

Will the engineers of the destruction of the Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Iraq and the attempted destabilisation of South Africa be brought to book?

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Namibia And South Africa, Beware Of False Prophets In The Academia

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it” – George Orwell

It is trendy to worship the academia and its academic qualifications, academic “analysis” and “PhD essays”, presented in an academic jargon that has become all too flowery and removed from the truth. And of course, therefore, it is misleading. Serious problems of whatever size simply get intellectualized away, more particularly, when of political nature.

In fact, mischievous armchair academics have two things in common, their egos and their hidden agendas, always ready to advertise their “opinion” under the guise of “analysis” of “news and current affairs”, to lend “credibility and weight”. Yet, it is usually nothing new.

It has become the academics’ clarion call to all those seeking employment to have academic qualifications. Because, if they not, they will simply not get a job and the much needed income. They and their families would be part of the unemployed and would finally starve, whilst admiring the “academics and intellectuals”.

It creates an unnecessary and inhumane class-system. Such is not part of SWAPO Party, or ANC, or Frelimo, or MPLA or ZANU-PF, who fought for the freedom of all oppressed and disenfranchised, against racism and unfair educational- and economic systems, making life hell for the disadvantaged indigenous black African majority in their own land on their own continent. This is in fact, a declaration of war to plunder and kill with impunity and in exclusivity.

To undermine the struggle for freedom for all living in the land is counter-revolutionary. To attack SWAPO’s and the ANC’s constitution as well as its senior founders would be an attempt to reduce Namibia and even more so, South Africa to puppet states. Independence is hard earned and is not for sale. Hot academic air should not confuse students and the public out there.

Ghana’s late former president Kwame Nkrumah documented in his publication, “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare”, “Local reactionaries would assist foreign infiltration in an attempt to suppress progressive and revolutionary forces throughout the continent.”

Education is one of the most important pillars of society. But, it should benefit all and should be balanced.

After World Wars 1 and 2, Germany created its new middle class mainly through a technical education programme. Education does not mean it has to be exclusively academic. Technical education contributes not only to a broad tax system. It also helps to build an independent, self-sufficient country. Today, Germany is the most powerful country within the EU. Its economy rates among the top four of the world. The powerful middle class forms the tax-base of government.

An arrogant global corporate approach to acquire useless academic qualifications to land a job, will lead to a class system, based on exclusivity and elitism, marginalizing the majority in mainly Third World and African countries into mass unemployment, abject poverty and starvation.

An elitist class system has never been part of any freedom struggle, unless one would succumb to the collective amoral reflection of the US box-office film, “Wolf of Wall Street” and its sordid bling-bling levels of deadly greed.

An exclusively elitist, well-connected and academically highly qualified small middle class would assist the ‘grand apartheid’s’ equally evil ‘structured poverty’, sowing starvation and destablisation, compromising struggle leadership.

We do not need to look far for a working education system. Zimbabwe is right here on Namibia’s and South Africa’s borders – the British publication, the “Guinness Book of World Records” hailed Zimbabwe’s educational system among the top three in the world for years. It shows in the Diaspora. Zimbabweans hold top positions in banking-, mining-, retailing and many other industries.

It would be a grave blunder to expose the University of Namibia (UNAM) for example, to academics who do not have Namibia’s interests at heart. Their history and their actions speak for themselves. With their hidden agendas to promote corporatization of state and economy, those hooligan armchair academics contribute to misinformation and subsequent tension all around. They become agents’ provocateurs, promoting a foreign democracy that would lead to anarchy and regime change. Meanwhile, they enjoy the public platforms, masquerading as “intellectual giants, influential and well-connected opinion makers and democratic thinkers”. However, they are the exact opposite.

Those academics would do anything, to get into positions of influence to manage public minds and opinion. Their scheming mindsets are equal to those of mercenaries. Why do those over-ambitious academics not form their own political parties? Or, are they part of an agenda to destabilize their respective countries in order to bring about a ‘regime change’? In whose interest do they remain persistent to get into leadership positions in academia?

Had it not been for the leaders’ drive and the understanding of history, of colonial-apartheid-structured-poverty and of discrimination, those same academics would not have been in their aspired and worshiped positions today. Unless of course, they would receive compromising payments from powerful men in the shadows. The only explanation would be that those academics are in actual fact soulless intellectual prostitutes, far removed from teaching the truth, preparing the youth for economic participation.

President Mugabe, The Ruling ZANU-PF And Zimbabwe Remain Short-changed

Just last week the US government renewed sanctions against Zimbabwe. By now, it has become clear that Zimbabwe is a threat to US foreign policy. Hence, the sanctions were renewed. Zimbabwe’s government is not ashamed to stand its ground, for its rights and resources.

Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US’s President Jimmy Carter both had signed the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, which formed the cornerstone of Zimbabwe’s independence.

However, when Jimmy Carter lost the following elections, his rightwing opponent, Ronald Reagan, took over as President of the United States. This also meant the end of the Lancaster House Agreement. Reagan demonstrated US race-history and double standards, where people of colour were treated as mere cattle. His narrow approach reflected that of the settler-mind towards the indigenous Zimbabweans and also of those of the leaders of the foreign funded, but ailing MDC.

The above actually applies to the whole of Africa. “There was a policy in America to depopulate the third world. They (Washington DC) made it policy”, the African-American leader, Louis Farrakhan, explained during his recent visit to Jamaica.

It is on record that London’s Lord Mayor Boris Johnson publicly blamed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for wrecking the white farmers’ chance of staying on the land, or at least being compensated for it. Johnson decried Britain’s role, “Britain played a shameful part in the disaster (in Zimbabwe).”

Right Honorable Johnson is tipped to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, replacing David Cameron.

The foreign funded opposition party in Zimbabwe, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its leaders were not a twinkle in their funders and conductors’ eyes, when the Lancaster House Agreement was signed in 1979. The MDC is on the wrong side of history. History has overtaken the mafikizolo. To force a “regime change” in a country where there is stability and the security cluster is balanced, it would be impossible to force a “Ukraine-situation”, a “regime change”.

As a respected AU observer of the developments in Zimbabwe said, “The MDC leadership is just crazy.”

Hence, the MDC is shown up in its misinterpretation of Zimbabwe’s history. Eddie Cross’s narrow understanding of Zimbabwe’s history and his misunderstanding of the three Chimurengas can be dismissed.

The MDC’s Cross also fails to put the serious problems of the 1980s, the ‘Gukurahundi’, into proper context. There was an insurgence. The security apparatus of the apartheid regime supported the insurgence. Yes, many people died. President Mugabe described it as “A moment of madness.”

The role of the dissidents should be put into context. Apartheid South Africa’s security machine supported the dissidents. As it happened then, many of the former dissidents joined Mangosutho Buthelezi’s Bantustan-Inkatha army and were trained in ground-to-ground and urban warfare in Namibia’s Caprivi region.

SUPASAFO had been formed to launch the insurgency to overthrow the government in Harare. During that bush war in Zimbabwe many people were unfortunately killed.

It is the mandate of the government of Zimbabwe to engage on those issues. Harare would not follow anyone in their claims to do such. Anything else would be a misrepresentation.

In 2005 the City Council of Harare put ‘Operation Murambatsvina’ in place. Illegal street traders and their structures were destroyed, as they had not been approved by the City Council. Even money laundering took place there. In that way Zimbabwe’s City Councils prevented city-based slum areas. It seems that Zimbabwe’s government understood the nature of people’s movements.

Mr. Cross writes further that schools in Zimbabwe have become care centers for children. Zimbabwe’s education is a direct consequence of economic sanctions. At the same time, the standard of education of Zimbabweans is evident in the Diaspora by the positions they hold.

Only Cross does not seem to understand that.

There are two sides – the MDC’s Eddie Cross on the one hand and the greater number of Zimbabweans, the regional and the continental majority of indigenous Africans on the other.

The MDC’s problematic narrative should be clear. It should not have challenged the land reform. The MDC should not have run to Washington (US), London (UK) and Brussels (EU) to lobby for sanctions against the government and its leadership. Why does the MDC not admit to that? It is on record. The sanctions have not only put Zimbabwe under economic siege. The average citizens, including the white community suffer.

Meanwhile, the MDC did not fare well in the last elections. To say otherwise means, Eddie Cross is playing mischief. The African Union (AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and a host of other election observers found Zimbabwe’s elections free, fair and credible.

As a reality check – observing the performance of the MDC and its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, during the time of the ‘government of national unity’ (GNU), who would vote for such incompetence?

And, ‘The Standard’, March 1 – 7, 2015, its reporter Paidamoyo Muzulu writes under the headline, “MDC-T in financial dire straits”, reporting, “MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora confirmed that the party’s financial position was bad.”

Lest we forget, the war for Africa was and remains the war for land. The colonizing settlers’ history in Africa, America, Australia and New Zealand is one of brutal occupation, of civil and tribal wars, of mass-slaughter, slavery, genocide and xenophobia, of plunder and apartheid-UDI-structured poverty. To date, Africa’s borders remain colonial borders as mapped out in Berlin in 1884/5, where whole nations had been divided into two and more countries.

Through Infantile Opportunism, South Africa’s Political Opposition, Academia And Media Mislead The Public, Strangulating Democratic Debate

Despite democracy, transparency, a Bill of Rights, a liberal Constitution, as well as freedom of association, of choice, of movement and of speech, South Africa’s political opposition, academia and media shy away from addressing the secret Sunset Clauses, which apartheid-president FW de Klerk and Joe Slovo, brought to the CODESA negotiations pre-1994. The Sunset Clauses remain secret to date.

Yet, at the same time, there is an obsession with democracy, transparency, the constitution, the judiciary and the rule-of-law, not to mention Nkandla, corruption, service delivery, rugby and cricket. A clear line of political opportunism looks the other way when in actual fact and particularly, ‘real politick’ needs to be addressed. However, the opposition to the ANC is vocal on president Zuma’s private residence and the EFF dress code in Parliament.

The ill-gotten properties of the apartheid regime elite in the former Bantustans, in Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Mauritius, Namibia, Paraguay, Uruguay and the Seychelles would be listed with South Africa’s department of public works and others. Again, neither the opposition, nor the academia, nor the media spent as much as a paragraph on those properties and their owners.

Political opportunism ignores the real issues. It focuses on soft targets such as Nkandla and service delivery. It refuses to debate the Sunset Clauses and the gerrymandering of the notorious Demarcation Board.

In that context the democratic debate remains on the periphery. In other words, they agree to debate democracy, but disagree to address the cornerstone that formed South Africa’s democracy – the Sunset Clauses and the Demarcation Board, that make democracy almost unworkable.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Alliance went to court to demand the spy tapes. To date it seems that there was nothing much in those spy tapes. But actually, the court actions are mere side issues. True democrats should have addressed the Sunset Clauses, the gerrymandering of the Demarcation Board, a one-person, one-vote electoral system in a constituent assembly.

Is the above-mentioned not deception on the highest level then? There seems to be a consensus that unites all opposition parties, academia and media to sing the same hymn from the same hymnbook to the same tune, avoiding the country’s realities that actually need to be brought out into the open.

As long as the Sunset Clauses remain secret and unpublished, corruption will never end and people will continue to be compromised. As long as the Demarcation Board exists, electoral fraud will be committed through gerrymandering, while the ANC’s voter base is whittled away.

Another issue that needs a free national democratic debate is the ‘proportional representation’, which was implemented through electoral laws. The ruling ANC agreed on proportional representation. The voting public was however, not informed.

One of the respected senior members of the ANC NEC and NWC reminded this writer, “Twenty-one years since the first democratic elections it would be advisable for the ANC to free itself from the traps of the pre-1994 negotiations and return to a one-person, one-vote system and a constituent assembly.”

“The majority of South Africans in the struggle led by OR Tambo, Albert Luthuli, Robert Sobukwe, Chris Hani, Govan Mbeki, Anthony Lembede, Duma Nokwe, Dan Tlhome, Moses Kotane, Mark Shope, Moses Mabide, Dr. Limbada, Dr. Neville Alexander and dr. Sammie Marx, as well as the numerous freedom fighters, who perished in the war against apartheid. They fought for freedom against an evil, exclusive and elitist colonial-apartheid system. Their ideal was a one-person, one-vote system in a constituent assembly to set all South Africans free. They fought for the implementation of the Freedom Charter,” the old ANC NEC member explained. The UN defined apartheid as ‘crime against humanity’.

He continued, “It is disappointing to observe that the Freedom Charter is no longer discussed. No platforms have been created to debate the Freedom Charter. Hence, opportunistic political parties such as the “Economic Freedom Fighters” (EFF) and the “Congress of the People” (COPE) make efforts in their deception to claim that they will address the Freedom Charter. The real freedom fighters would turn in their graves.”

Meanwhile, there are no serious policy debates. In stead, institutionalised armchair academics and the media encourage the EFF and the DA to commit anarchy in order to bring about a failed state. The mindset – “I told you so. Blacks (ANC) can’t manage a state!” – prevails.

The senior ANC NEC member further explains, “The honourable action to take now would be to lead the debate on the Freedom Charter, publish all Sunset Clauses and dismantle the Demarcation Board. The fundamental key to a good future for all would be the economic policies. Industrialisation needs to be fostered and a technological hub needs to be created. But, this cannot be part of the industrial and economic elite. It should never land in those hands, as it would certainly be destroyed.”

“You can see how the IMF-World Bank keep their stranglehold on Third Wold countries, continuously destroying emerging markets through misleading, bad policies. The Breton Woods Institutions have never come in good faith. Why would they now?”

The ANC would need to develop a strategy within the ambit of BRICS. The BRICS Development Bank currently based in Shanghai, China, should be nurtured. Patriotic capitalism would best be promoted, as that would not withhold cash, but reinvest it in the local economies. The majority of the foreign owned companies do not reinvest anywhere in South Africa and the SADC region. They rather hoard their capital, hindering local economic development. Those owners play politics. Hence, there is an upward spiral of unemployment of 25%, as recorded by Stats-SA. The majority of the unemployed are the youth and the women. If the IMF-World Bank directives and policies would be followed, it would lead to total destruction of South Africa’s economy.

The country’s parastatals are a case in point, more particularly Eskom, the electricity supplier and the national water supplier. Cabinet was made aware back in 1998 that Eskom and the water supplier would run into serious problems. So far, no strategic initiative was taken to ensure that Eskom would receive a well-structured investment programme with experienced and strong management.

Both, senior ANC NEC members as well as owners of the small and medium sized economy suggest that an inter-ministerial commission should be set up to deal with Eskom and the national water provider. They ask, “Are South Africans gradually set up for privatisation, so that the private sector can buy the parastatals for a song? Would this not impoverish the majority of the population? Could that be the reason, why no particular guidance is given? Why no action, but in return just silence?”

Mature SWAPO’s War For Freedom

SWAPO Party’s war against the illegal and illegitimate occupiers of Namibia and their hated colonial-apartheid laws and structures, was a war for freedom. It is history that SWAPO and its formidable armed wing, the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) won the war and finally the democratic elections back in 1989. Independence followed on 21 March 1990.

Indigenous African Namibians were finally set free. They could go wherever they wanted to and set up business wherever they needed to and were given access to their land, which they could till. However, a part of commercial farmland remained in the hands of those, who benefitted from the former occupiers, Germany and South Africa.

As the late struggle stalwart, Ruth First, documented in her book, “South West Africa”, “The crowding of Africans into small Reserves has undermined their subsistence economy, while taxes have only increased their impoverishment. Labour regulations decree that a tribesman may enter a labour area and earn a cash wage, to pay his tax and tide his family over a short period in their rural slum, but that he must return home at the end of his labour contract.”

During those cruel and disrespectful times, the force of law backed such actions.

In other words, indigenous African Namibians, or original Namibians, were guests in their own land providing cheap and restricted labour. At the same time they remained imprisoned in structured poverty.

“Thus, each Reserve, town, or farming area (including mines) is an island surrounded by a sea of restrictions. Once a man is ordained to live and work in one area, there is little or nothing that he can do to change his situation. If he steps beyond the limits recorded in his passes, he risks arrest by the police, the detectives in plain clothes, the labour inspectors, who search everyone for transgressors.”

Ruth First recorded the above in her historic book, “South West Africa”, published in 1963.

The revolutionary movement of the masses of Namibia, SWAPO, led by its president Sam Nujoma, was formed on 19 April 1960. The liberation movement stood its ground undisputedly in the van of the Namibian people’s struggle. The war for freedom lasted until March 1989.

“All the Africans of South West Africa, whether Ovambo, or Herero, Nama or Damara, were subject to the same exploitation. The workers in the migrant labour camps – unfit for human occupation – saw that unity across all tribal barriers was their only weapon against their oppressors. Since that time Sam Nujoma has felt a deep commitment to this solidarity.”

Researchers, historians and authors Alfred Babing and Hans-Dieter Braeuer reported the above in their book, “Namibia”.

Why does this writer refer to the above now in 2014? Well, history seems forgotten as soon as the struggle was over and freedom had been achieved. New developments cast their shadows. It seems that whatever the SWAPO-led government does, it is severely criticised that it is “corrupt and not doing enough for the people of Namibia”. Younger generations with the assistance of the media seem to expect a social welfare state, where government does everything for the people. Instant gratification trends the world over.

Observing global destabilisation and a debt holocaust, massive unemployment and poverty setting in everywhere, Namibia seems quite well off. So-called “Arab Springs” and anarchy, regime changes and economic disintegration make headline news daily. The Afghanistan/Iraq/Egypt/Libya/Syria/Sudan/Ukraine and Yemeni wars speak for themselves.

To date, Namibians live in a peaceful environment with an existing and managed infrastructure. Namibia is well known for its peace and cleanliness, its accommodating hospitality and tourist influx from Europe and South Africa.

Black and white Namibians live peacefully next to one another. City, towns and rural areas boast good living standards. Hotels, restaurants, roads, shopping malls and telecommunication systems are readily available. The country’s middle class has grown, still benefiting from Namibia’s welcoming society.

The port of Walvis Bay is currently undergoing an infrastructural development boom. The export industry has taken off. Namibia’s economy grows despite a global economic meltdown.

The country is a member of the regional Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the UNO and keeps its close financial and economic ties with South Africa and Germany and the international community.

Of course, the poor classes cannot be wished away and need urgent attention. They were victims of colonial-apartheid’s structures of poverty. It would take time, commitment, guidance, education and social welfare to support them out of their poverty.

However, SWAPO Party has succeeded to turn an enslaved indigenous African Namibian community into a growing and solid nation with hope for a better future. Namibia’s young with their access to a better education and therefore, with greater possibilities to participate in the economy, has never had such opportunities before.

SWAPO Youth League has its role to play by informing the youth of the sacrifices their parents and grandparents made. History should be made obligatory so that the slaughter of their forefathers in Namibia, in neighbouring countries and at Kassinga for example, will never be forgotten. This is the history of SWAPO’s brothers and sisters of this region in their joint struggle against imperialist, racial occupation and exploitation. They include South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), Angola’s MPLA, Mozambique’s Frelimo, Zambia’s weakened UNIP and Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF.

Today SWAPO Party demonstrates mature African politics based on Christian principles. It commands the respect of all, who live on the land. Such respect includes good and critical advice and guidance, hard work and the support those deserve who were prepared to give their lives for the freedom of the future generations.

SWAPO Party decided in its last Congress to have Right Honorable Dr. Hage Geingob as party president. This decision is respected as it shows mature political leadership. How often was SWAPO Party described as “the new colonisers of Namibia”, as its leadership consisted of strong Ovambo representation and the Ovambo are the biggest people of the country?

SWAPO Party demonstrates that it is not an ethnic party, but a unifier for all people living in Namibia. Party president, Dr. Hage Geingob, a member of the indigenous Damara people, proves that the ruling party has no ethnic factionalism.

Another term under SWAPO Party leadership would ensure continuity and stability.

Africa’s Ruling Freedom Movements Should Beware Of The Traps Of Imported And Dictated Democracy

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) was trapped into “service delivery”. This however, was no part of the struggle against oppression.

Neither South Africa’s ANC, nor Namibia’s SWAPO Party, nor Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF, nor Mozambique’s Frelimo, nor Angola’s MPLA, nor any other Southern and East African liberation movement fought for “service delivery”. It was a struggle against racist colonial-apartheid and its race-based exploitation.

“Democracy” was imported as a US product of the Cold War to protect foreign interests in Africa, just like colonialism, apartheid and UDI did. The plunder of Africa’s wealth through structures like the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the banking structures carries on with impunity. Imported US “democracy” has legitimised this evil.

Now, democracy proofs to be key to global anarchy and regime change. Democracy needs to be corrected.

The East African slogan, “UHURU NAGAZI” – Freedom and Hard Work – means freedom of movement, of association, of communication and all other freedoms enshrined in the constitution. They are part of the struggle for freedom.

UHURU NAGAZI was hijacked. The public is misled by cunningly wrong analysis and interpretations. People demand houses, jobs and land. To get it, they have exchanged hard work for lengthy, violent strikes. Hence, president Zuma accuses South Africans of being lazy. The Freedom Charter stated clearly, land would be given to those who work it. Service delivery was no part of the ANC, its struggle for freedom, its policies, or its goals.

In fact, massive service-delivery-protests harm social stability, as certain unelected and unknown political activists seem to be close to foreign interests of the imperialist West.

Meanwhile, the media oversimplifies mentioned political and socio-economic activities and thereby misleads its clientele. This is hypocritical criticism, which does not serve anyone, but the media barons and their interests. It disrupts and skewers current affairs in South Africa and therefore, it is dishonest.

The continuous media attacks, character assassinations and disinformation campaigns against the head-of-state, cabinet, government, parliament, the ruling ANC and the souvereignity of the country, are disconcerting. It seems that the media barons, their boards and senior management are the power behind the efforts of discrediting and undermining the current authorities. There is a determined, concerted media attempt to unseat president Jacob Zuma and destroy the ANC while showing their allegiance with the opposition.

By now, it should have long been understood, that such vicious un-African efforts would eventually proof futile. The black African majority will not be fooled. In indigenous black African football circles, in the chesa nyamas and shebeens, in taxis and buses, at private parties and on the streets of the townships people ask, “Why is president Jacob Zuma made out to be so bad?” They question the role of the media as it continues to target president Jacob Zuma and the ruling ANC.

From ‘Nkandla’ to the ‘arms deal’, recalled former president Thabo Mbeki is forgotten. The media, its mischievous armchair academic analysts with egos to boot, use every platform to character assassinate Zuma and to discredit the ANC.

The media also created the impression that Zuma had set up the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the “arms deal” in order to clear his name. It eventually came out that Terry Crawford-Brown was behind it, as he tried to force the president’s hand to set up the Seriti Commission of Inquiry through court action. The court decided to set up the commission. Zuma followed the rule of law. As it turned out, Crawford-Brown based his expose on hearsay, subsequently losing his credibility.

The public protector, a chapter-9 institution, is another case in point. The state set up the institution to assist ordinary people not to be short-changed in their endeavours to get what is owed to them. Under advocate Thuli Madonsela the public protector has become a political lobby for the elite. The public protector has missed its mission. The parliamentary ad hoc committee on “Nkandla” found that Madonsela did not understand the constitution. This made her to misinterpret the role of chapter-9 institutions. Madonsela is out of her depth.

Another chapter-9 institution is the Human Rights Commission (HRC). This institution was supposed to transform society. Farm workers, factory workers, mine workers, household workers and many other sectors of the economy’s employees are exposed to abuse and racism. They remain underpaid slaves and are forced to work long hours without being rewarded accordingly. The HRC is however, not dealing with these issues, despite it being state funded.

The chapter-9 institutions are supposed to be the pillars of the constitution of South Africa. But, they fail dismally. Most of them follow the wrong course, misleading the people, working for the elite. For example, farm workers, who have been evicted from the land, have no access to land, protection or income. What has the HRC done to improve their lives?

The above-mentioned institutions and the below developments are part of a cesspool of confusion, cunningly concocted to make South Africa ungovernable. President Zuma and the black African leaders of the ANC are then accused of being responsible for said failures. The leaders of all these institutions, of civil society, media and academia are unknown and unelected media creations.

In all emerging democracies, corrections must take place. The chapter-9 institutions and political and socio-economic developments mentioned in this column are examples of that.

The chapter-9 institutions are not doing what they are meant to do therefore, they are treasonous.

President Jacob Zuma had no part in creating Gautrain, Rea Vaya, e-tolls, or the arms deal. Whose ideas were those then?

This writer was told under condition of anonymity, “Recalled former president Thabo Mbeki and his inner circle included Tokyo Sexwale, Paul Mashathile, Kgalema Motlanthe and Jabu Molekethi. Together they concocted these structures and benefited handsomely. But, they remain quiet when the media attacks Zuma and his cabinet.”

Attacking Zuma from public platforms and from within the ANC focuses on the destruction of the ANC. The media sees Zuma as the ANC. Meanwhile, president Zuma knows much. He was the first one coming from exile to South Africa. Zuma was intimately involved in the preparations for a negotiated settlement.

The newly found global alliance of BRICS is another hindrance for the local media and its supportive international Western interests. According to the rightwing imperialists, Jacob Zuma has sided with their enemy – China and Russia and the others. To date, the ANC has not joined the rightwing elements.

Throughout, president Zuma is targeted by rightwing forces, which make him look like a cheap criminal.

Unfortunately, a mischievous Caucasian Western mindset refuses to grasp that the majority of South Africa’s population elected Zuma as their president. The local population does not believe that Zuma is a common thief as the media makes him out to be. They identify with him and will protect him. Many believe that the undermining strategies of cunning Western imperialists and their Uncle Toms’ will disappear from Africa, as they eventually will win nothing at all.

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The ANC And The Enemy Within

Many perceived recalled former president Thabo Mbeki and his brother, Moeletsi, as not seeing eye to eye. However, this is a mere perception. The Mbeki brothers are also perceived to be stalwarts of the African National Congress. This perception is based on the good work of their respected father, the late Govan Mbeki.

Out of respect for Mbeki senior, Oliver Reginald Tambo, then ANC president in exile, took care of his son, Thabo Mbeki, and mentored him.

As time passed by however, it seemed as if OR Tambo had his doubts. Tambo is on record having said, “That Thabo is such a clever young man, but I always have to keep a close eye on him, because he tends to wander off. He would cause my death, if I am not careful.” OR Tambo’s statement was printed by author William Mervin Gumede in his book, “Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the soul of the ANC.”

At the same time, Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, took in Thabo’s younger brother, Moeletsi. Brother Moeletsi received his education courtesy of president Mugabe and a job with the Zimbabwean national newspaper, ‘The Herald’, where he worked as a political editor. In addition, a house, a bodyguard/driver and a car were availed. Zimbabwe’s president did so out of respect for Moeletsi’s late father, Govan Mbeki.

However, soon after Moeletsi Mbeki returned home from exile, he accepted the position of deputy head of the South African Institute of International Relations (SAIIR) at Jan Smuts House, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, he suffered from amnesia, denouncing and discrediting Zimbabwe’s head of state from every available platform.

During the “cold war” it was clear that the ANC in exile, as well as the ANC in underground at home in South Africa sympathised with the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc and Cuba, as well as with the Non-Aligned states. The ANC was a revolutionary people’s movement.

Oliver R. Tambo also worked closely with Chris Hani, who not only headed the military wing in exile, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). When Hani became leader of the SACP, he resigned from MK. He was Moscow-friendly and hugely popular both, in exile and South Africa. At the first ANC national conference in Durban soon after the unbanning, Chris Hani received most votes, while Mbeki came a distant second.

Many senior ANC members in exile soon realised that “Thabo Mbeki had to be closely monitored”, as … “his flirtations with the imperial international West had become obvious and uncomfortable.” It was openly asked, “Does Cde. President OR (Tambo) not realise how close the Sussex educated Thabo Mbeki has grown to a host of foreign interests (meaning foreign intelligence agencies)?” Tambo however, knew.

Having been heavily overworked, Tambo had his first stroke. The late Joe Modise, who later became minister of defence, admitted that OR Tambo had been overworked.

Zambia’s president Kenneth Kaunda organised a mobile clinic with medical specialists from Sweden. He sent his official car to the Gaobepe residence in Lusaka where Tambo lived, to collect the ANC president. But, Tambo was not at home.

His host, the late Mary Gaobepe, did not want to take the responsibility to wait for Tambo to return. She took Kaunda’s delegation to Thabo Mbeki’s residence. Mbeki gave his undertaking that he would forward Kaunda’s message to Tambo.

The very next evening OR Tambo arrived at the Gaobepe home, surprised when asked, if he had not been informed by Thabo Mbeki about Kaunda’s efforts. According to Mary Gaobepe, Oliver Tambo remarked, “This is not the first time that young Thabo withheld crucial information from me.”

Chris Hani made no bones of his dislike of Thabo Mbeki’s drive for the ANC leadership to become part of the West. He went as far as approaching the then newly elected head of the ANC intelligence, Jacob Zuma, to mention Mbeki’s close foreign intelligence links.

Hani further explained his concern about Mbeki to many of the senior MK cadres in exile in Angola, Tanzania and Zambia. It seemed an open secret in the exiled ANC community that Mbeki always played for the opposing side, whilst pretending to be an ANC leader.

Mbeki often travelled to London and other Western capitals where he met with representatives of foreign interest groups.

On a flight from London to Johannesburg Mbeki was heard saying, “I don’t care for the poor. All I care for is power.” His fellow travellers expressed their shock.

The ambitious, West-focused, pipe smoking and Whisky drinking habits were obvious. Winnie Mandela remarked about Thabo Mbeki, “He has internalised the Britishness to such an extend that the British Queen should knight him to become the Duke of Idutjwa (in the Eastern Cape).”

Mbeki almost succeeded in factionalising the ANC in exile. However, it did not come without a price. When Mbeki travelled to Luanda, Angola, he was incarcerated and spent time behind bars for, “betraying the course of the ANC”. Angola’s incumbent president, Eduardo dos Santos, gave the instruction. This was to ensure that the ANC in Lusaka would not be sold out and its leadership ousted, replaced by pro-Western agents. Later, Tambo called Dos Santos to release Mbeki.

This was also the reason for the total lack of contact between South Africa and Angola from 1994 until 2008. As soon as Mbeki had been recalled and Jacob Zuma took over as ANC and country president, relations between the two countries normalised.

The international West developed the political power strategy of the “Domino Theory”. That theory worked like a domino effect on southern African states. As one liberation movement would be elected to take over government, the next would follow. The last would be South Africa.

At the same time the United States of America founded the ‘African-American Institute (AAI)’. The Lusaka Manifesto was created. From that Manifesto the “Domino Theory” grew. The ‘Africa 2000’ programme developed. It was a lobby group. The AAI recruited many cadres from African liberation movement for training. That training was done to educate the cadres from the ANC, which would eventually hollow the independence of new African states out and make them dependent on the US and the rest of the international West. It was the beginning of the “constructive engagement”.

Africa’s new leadership became divided. The “former” colonial masters retained the old status quo.

Thabo Mbeki fitted into this new development. He surrounded himself with friends, cabinet members, senior government and parastatal officials and chapter 9 institutions who without exception, have serious question marks over their past and how they got into strategic leadership positions.

Under Mbeki’s ANC presidency all branches of the ruling party were starved of funds and communication. He centralised power under him from ANC headquarters. Mbeki was disregarded for his Machiavellian style of manipulative rule through fear.

As soon as Mbeki became South Africa’s next president, he refused to take any of retired president Nelson Mandela’s calls. After eighteen months of being snubbed by Mbeki, Mandela undertook to walk to the office of the president to meet with him. Throughout, Mbeki openly showed his disrespect for Nelson Mandela.

Despite a massive campaign against Jacob Zuma, despite the assistance of state organs and the assistance of the intelligence machine, a Fifth Column and their henchmen- and women were not able to fend off the power of Jacob Zuma. “Now, out of office and out of power they will not rest until they have achieved their goal, which is countrywide anarchy.”

After the ANC conference in the northern city of Polokwane in December 2007, the ANC had no option, but to recall Mbeki. According to senior ANC NEC and NWC members, “Mbeki was considered a security risk.”

“It is also interesting to observe, how brothers Thabo and Moeletsi Mbeki covertly operate in the political field of South Africa, consulting for and guiding many of the opposition political structures” says one of the senior ANC leaders.

A senior member of the ANC NEC and NWC, who spoke to this writer under the condition of anonymity said, “Public protector, Thuli Madonsela, and the “African Women Lawyers’ Association” from outside Bizana in the Eastern Cape Province seem to count among their guides Thabo Mbeki, UNISA law professor from Kenya, Shedrack Gutto and judge Denis Davis.” It was during Mbeki’s presidency that Gutto received his South African citizenship and passport.

The Mbeki brothers actively work towards their political goal, which is not necessarily that of the ANC or, of South Africa.

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Does South Africa’s Public Protector Have Her Own Political Agenda?

What seems clear for the ruling African National Congress’s former military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe and its Veterans’ Association (MKVA) is, as it is often said, “We know an enemy agent by his/her conduct.”

At the same time they admit, “It is difficult to prove that a spy is a spy. But, as former MK members, we know how foreign intelligence works. We have that expertise among us.”

The ANC is however, not alone with the experience and knowledge, who a foreign-linked agent is and who infiltrated the ruling party and its alliance partners.

Namibia’s SWAPO Party, Angola’s MPLA, Mozambique’s Frelimo and Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF have similar experiences and knowledge. Those foreign-linked agents often occupy strategic key positions and some of them even pose as populists such as Ronnie Kasrils. They often stand accused of attempting to ferment factionalism, an age-old tactic to divide and destroy ruling parties that grew from popular liberation struggle movements.

In the case of South Africa it seems that pressure is continuously applied from many sides to discredit and possibly topple the head-of-state. That war of attrition has long been taken to the corporate mainstream media. The president’s private home, Nkandla, is in the focus of a host of political opposition parties, academics, the judiciary, the owners of the economy and their media.

The Public Protector’s head, advocate Thuli Madonsela, leading the investigations of the funds spent on Nkandla, has taken her report to the same public platform. She challenges the head-of-state, using the media. Advocate Madonsela and the corporate media have found president Zuma guilty of having taken R246million from the public coffers.

The Public Protector is a Chapter-9 Institution and therefore, answerable to parliament. According to the constitution of the land, all Chapter-9 Institutions, without exception, have to follow the rules as laid down by parliament. They have to submit their reports to parliament first. The media should not be approached and should certainly not be put above parliament.

Not so, advocate Madonsela seems to argue. She seems above the constitution of the country. In fact, she now seems to be more powerful than parliament and the president together. In other words, she wilfully ignores the existing rules. In that context, her approach could be viewed as unconstitutional and unprocedural.

After careful research, such action could be seen as treasonous. Is Thuli Madonsela aware that she could have committed high treason? As one constitutional lawyer put it, “Advocate Madonsela’s actions of attacking the head-of-state from the public platform of the media, has fallen directly into the ambit of high treason. It could be interpreted as an attempt to assist with overthrowing the head-of-state. There is no debate. She could be charged with high treason.”

By definition, high treason according to the Oxford dictionary is “the crime of betraying one’s country esp. by attempting to kill the sovereign, or overthrow the government.”

“Madonsela engaged in discrediting the president and parliament, taking a stand in the court of public opinion, judging and finding the president guilty”, a senior member of the ANC NEC and NWC explained under the condition of anonymity.

In addition to above, Madonsela was meant to have a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, last year to address the ruling party and its leadership as well as the media there on her report on president Jacob Zuma’s private home, Nkandla. She was to attack Zuma from a public platform there coming in from outside South Africa. That would have caused division in the SADC region.

However, President Robert Mugabe would not have this. He did not allow Madonsela to use Zimbabwe as her platform to conduct her nefarious political agenda against South Africa’s head-of-state and commander-in-chief.

In addition to above, Zimbabwe’s authorities, as well as Kenya’s government know the Kenyan academic, professor Shedrack Gutto and his role as a political commentator and agitator well. He became a naturalised South African where he is now based as a constitutional law expert and director for the Centre for African Renaissance Studies at UNISA.

A reliable source explains, “In that capacity he acts as Madonsela’s political advisor. He has become a media celebrity, always commenting from every media platform on political and so-called constitutional matters. Gutto uses Madonsela to attack South Africa’s president.”

Many senior ANC NEC and NWC members angrily insist, “Gutto’s South African citizenship will have to be revoked with immediate effect. He should return to his home country (Kenya) and face the music for reasons of political agitation.”

“Forget reducing the attack from ministers and deputy ministers on Madonsela as a mere political attack. She is viewed to have committed high treason and should be charged for it.”

It has been clearly put to this writer, “South Africa’s public protector is not above the head-of-state and commander-in-chief. Neither are she and her chapter-9 institution above parliament. Madonsela should not be allowed to discredit the country’s souvereign structures.”

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The Pop Star Public Protector, The Media and the President

South Africa’s public protector, Thuli Madonsela, with the assistance of the corporate mainstream media is fixated to get president Jacob Zuma out of office. She seems to be gunning for him because he has no funds to pay R60million for Nkandla. He did commit himself and his family that they would pay back their share. If, for argument’s sake, Zuma had the funds to pay, he would also be condemned to be corrupt.

What is it that is played here? The constitution should not be used as a smokescreen behind which everyone hides, keeping everything vague. The constitution is made up of all elements of governance. By now it should be clear, which section of this constitution government does not respect.

So, should only a rich person occupy the office of the president? This means that the poor indigenous majority has no access to that office. And the public protector is the gatekeeper, deciding who is fit for office. In other words, one must pay to get in. That has certainly little to do with democracy.

It is common knowledge that Zuma’s home is not income producing. Even an idiot knows the president’s salary. However, the arithmetic does not add up. What is the arithmetical effect of Thuli Madonsela’s order to a sitting president, whose source of funds is known, unless there is an implicit suggestion that he must sell his soul?

One cannot order a beggar to pay for instance one million rand, unless such person is a deceptive beggar. That order should apply to those who have the means. In other words, this situation could be reversed.

The only order applicable is that the investments not part of security should be uplifted and returned to government, or to Thuli Madonsela’s village, as they might need it. In other words, ‘take back your house, but leave my Nkandla with me’.

Much government and private property has been destroyed. Much land has been devastatingly neglected, becoming barren and unproductive. How much investment has been vandalised?

The public protector’s entire report is pregnant with prescription. It is a transit to a destination they know already. In actual fact, it is a non-destination. Yet, Thuli Madonsela and the corporate media want Jacob Zuma’s easy assistance to get him to that non-destination. He would however, be an idiot to assist unelected people. Madonsela has balls. Let her show them now. Let her also show the hands in the shadow, which attempt to direct her course in order to oust the president.

It seems that the president has the wrong zip code. Therefore, he is always on the “wrong side”. In fact, he was always to be confronted by the disease of fitting into a society that was never meant for a person like him, especially at the helm of a country.

The constitutional order requires supporting institutions. But, unequal people can never hope to get the protection equally from an order that is from the womb of inequality. Therefore, the need to make people accountable must be universally applicable.

The above implies that if the zeal of Zille should not start in 1994. It should have started with the construction and implementation of our unequal society. The truth with no reconciliation should be the new ideology.

It is not suggested that when the spy-tapes are listened to, that reconciliation is a choice. In fact, the truth has nothing to do with nation building. It is there to destroy somebody. Today, it is Jacob Zuma. Tomorrow, it is I – as long as they come from an unlikely place, like Nkandla. Yesterday, it was Verwoerd, Vorster, Botha and De Klerk and their international Western network of benefactors.

In 1994, Zille, the journalist had no appetite to seek court orders, why those were not accountable that had decided to discriminate on a race basis which led to the massive loss of lives.

Let us all come to the table and revisit the crime, if Jacob Zuma is investigated. All should go to court. Let us test the judges if they will judge to get someone out of office and if they will judge the perpetrators of apartheid and its Afrikaaner Broederbond (the Boer brotherhood) with equal measures.

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