REVOLUTION BETRAYED! by Mzimkhulu Nyeka on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 4:09pm
The plan to keep black South Africans dispossessed, exploited and oppressed and enslaved to capital. Special emphasis on the complicity of the African bourgeoisie in the subjugation of the African personality in Azania. It is time to evaluate and assess the conditions created by the dispensation unleashed by our oppressors with the collusion of the opportunists and philistines who joined with the forces of darkness in the perpetuation of the fraud that is called democracy and/or the end of apartheid in the motherland. We are going to look at the circumstances that led the boers and their imperialist allies to formulate a fraudulent and rotten intervention to save capitalism and keep economic power in the hands of the local bourgeoisie and its masters. We are also going to look into the future being conjured up and our role in going along with the systematic disarming and neutralising of the forces of revolution and our noble cause to free our country from the grip of foreign settlers and imperialist countries like the US, England and countries of the European Union. We are also going to look at how the subjugation of oppressed people is kept alive with the creation of, and implementation of strategies hatched in foreign capitals through the instrumentality of spy agencies that have turned our country into their playground and, indeed, the appendage of their mother countries. I will attempt to demonstrate how we have been duped into thinking we are free and that our problem is service delivery and government corruption. It is my contention that the two phenomena are symptoms of a deep-seated disease, not the cardinal obstacles in our path to genuine freedom. Needless to emphasize that historical precedent will be the primary unit of analysis with regards to foreign intervention while the socio-economic conditions of the masses of our people will account for the rest of the analysis. The intensification of the struggle for liberation in the 70's, 80's and part of the 90's is responsible for the change of heart that saw the west put pressure on the Botha government to institute changes that would halt the people's march to their final destiny with history - the liberation of the fatherland from settler colonists and their imperialist masters that had propped up the apartheid regime under the guise of fighting communism and of having a bulwark against communism in the southern hemisphere. There is some truth to the desire to halt the spread of communism in Africa by the US and its allies, but make no mistake about it; the primary cause of US intervention in Africa, especially, South Africa has always been the safeguard of US corporate interests and those of its allies like Britain and its satellite states. When it became apparent that the uprising of the people would not abate without a significant occurrence that would suggest a genuine desire to do away with apartheid by the fascist government, pressure was applied on the Botha regime to loosen its grip on power and allow some modicum of power-sharing to counter the struggle of the people to be free and to ascertain that foreign investments and the ideology of capitalism would remain intact. Botha, believing that he was truly “die groot krokodil” refused to go all the way with the plan although he had counseled the whites to “adapt or die” In an address to the nation and the international community in 1985, Botha could not control his temper and his racist instincts and made a serious blunder that would lead to his replacement by De Klerk. Botha had, while acceding to the need for change, also demonstrated that he was an unwilling pawn in the entire episode. At one point, he waived his finger and, with gusto and machismo cautioned the west, “Don’t push us too far; don’t push us too far”! De Klerk was a hand-picked alternative of the local capitalists and of their counter-parts in the west and of the intelligence agencies like the CIA, MI6 and Mossad. In the meantime, the townships were burning, the necklace terrified the whites although it was being used against fellow Africans. Indeed, some whites decided to leave the country fearing a bloodbath and total loss of the loot they had accumulated over decades. Western Imperialist countries were still distrustful of the ANC with regards to their investments in the country and access to the Cape sea route. South Afrika had been a de facto member of the western alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation led by Washington and had diligently cherished and played its role as a bulwark against communism in the South Atlantic to maximum effect. What were the motivations of the fascist regime in entering into an alliance with Nato? First and foremost, South Afrika needed protection from the liberation movement by pretending that the communists were behind the uprising, not apartheid. This ruse worked perfectly on the willing and racist countries that had always been the sponsors of the fascist regime, its trading partners and diplomatic colleagues. Secondly, South Afrika needed military aid, know how as well as being a strategic partner of the alliance to be able to build the bomb with no interference or exposure. Indeed, a vela satellite picked up a spark in the Kalahari desert in 1980 that was attributable to a nuclear explosion. The spy satellite was owned by the United States! South Afrika had tested a nuclear weapon despite repeated warnings from the non-proliferation agency, foes of the regime and UN technocrats. It is apparent why the western countries wanted to intervene in our country while their prestige, businesses and dependence on the mineral resources they could not do without, were still salvageable. It is common practice of the US and England to “run with the hares and hunt with the hounds” After supporting the fascist Portuguese regime in what was called Mozambique, the US attempted to switch its allegiance when it became clear that the gallant Frelimo comrades were assured of victory over fascism, colonialism and rape of their country. There are many examples of this double-dealing and lack of principle by the belly of the beast and warmonger that is Amerikkka! Let me make it clear that the ANC was not coerced to enter into an unholy agreement with the forces of oppression and fascism in our country. The ANC did so voluntarily and in keeping with its declared objective of seeking equality with whites, not change of regime or restoration of the land and rights to its rightful owners, the Afrikan people. The negotiations conducted with Mandela at Makana Island were no accident or activities of a lone ranger who operated outside the confines of charterism, opportunism and spineless cowardice by a cabal that has been exposed for what it is – a group of pseudo-revolutionaries who can’t wait to be white, sleep with whites and share our wealth with whites while we languish in ghettos called townships without being towns or having ships for that matter! The evidence of the success of this diabolical scheme and rot abounds. All one needs to do is look at the emerging bourgeois class of professionals, business tycoons, dumb politicians and some self-hating Afrikans. It is no coincidence that South Afrika has been able to manufacture millionaires and billionaires while it can’t build houses, for the majority whose land is still owned by settler colonists, feed them, provide them with jobs and protect them from the vicious racially motivated attacks as we witnessed in that boer cauldron called the University of the Free State. What is the purpose of creating this class of Afrikans. The reasons are multifaceted. 1. They are expected to act as a buffer between the capitalist barons, the racists and fascists who still rule the roost in our country against the oppressed and dispossessed Africans2. They are no different from a mirage in the desert in the middle of summer. They look like frpeople. They talk like free people. They think they are free in a country that equates blackness with evil, stupidity, indolence, immorality and barbarism. They are like actors in a Frankenstein film. They are alive as long as the supply of blood is maintained, but must be home before sunrise. Theirs is a short life span. Show them a cross (metaphor) and they disappear like butterflies covered with blankets of oblivion.3. They are our brothers and sisters, but have been trained to see themselves as different in speech mannerisms, cultural affinity and lifestyle.What then is our role - those among us who have not forgotten that the struggle for liberation meant the liberation of all? We must first understand that as much as they are victims of scrupulous, deceitful and manipulative people, they are, nevertheless free agents who know without any shadow of a doubt that some of their people still have to scrape for food in trash cans, sell their bodies for sex, steal to feed their children, sleep in the streets, die in the streets of a cruel world – a world that has always treated black people as sojourners, commodities and less human than those with a lighter pigmentation as result of nothing else but melanin deficiency, not superior intellect or monopoly of knowledge. We must not equivocate when informing them that the time will come when they will have to choose whether they are with us or with the enemy; whether they are black or wannabe white; whether they want to stay in a ship that is sure to sink when the tiger in us, once more, tires of being abused, marginalized, taken for granted and treated like pariahs in the land of our fathers; indeed, the land of our forefathers. CLASSIC DIVIDE AND RULE: “This is one country where it would be possible to create a capitalist black society, if whites were intelligent, if the nats were intelligent. And that capitalist black society, black middle class would be very effective. South Africa could succeed in putting across to the world a pretty convincing, integrated picture with still 70% of the population being underdogs” Steve Biko; “I write what I like”. Is this a prophecy or what? This is exactly what is happening before our very eyes, brothers and sisters. This is what Bantu ka Biko foresaw. To have been able to construct the probability of such a scenario is testimony to his genius and ability to interprete the not-so-hidden socio-economic factors which when properly analysed always yield useful and meaningful information about the present and the future. In 1978, during the reign of Jimmy Carter, he of human rights fame, a National Security memorandum was sent out to the secretary of state, secretary of defense, director of central intelligence. This memo became public because of a lawsuit which alleges that the aids virus was created by US scientists who were working for the US government. This memo came from Zbigniew Brezinski. Among the recommendations were the following:1. The United States government needed to neutralize black opposition groups with radical leanings.2. This would be achieved through infiltration, spreading of lies and rumours among activists to foster an atmosphere of distrust, division, inter-group and intra-group conflict.3. Cooperation with African radical groups should also be sabotaged. The liberation movement in Southern Africa would also be infiltrated, members pitted against each other and finally render them ineffective, irrelevant and corruptible. The US feared that cooperation between Africans in the US and continental Africans would jeopardize its support of the racist regimes of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. In keeping with this stated objective, the possibility of the emergence of a black radical governments in these countries would be fought tooth and nail, at all cost and by all means necessary. Anyone out there who doubts that this policy succeeded beyond expectations as the liberation movement floundered confused and rendered totally toothless both as a fighting force and representative of the masses who were still under brutal and barbaric conditions with no relief in sight.I have brought this memo as further proof of the role played by imperialism in our subjugation and the continuing farce being touted as the advent of democracy in our country. I also wish to stress that our country is still a playground of western intelligence organizations which dictate economic and political policy that favour the neo-liberal economic system so dearly loved by one, Thabo Mbeki. I also wish to remind those who might have forgotten that the first step of the Zuma regime was a visit to Washington accompanied by Vavi and Mothlanthe to express to the US government that they were merely bluffing when they mentioned the possibility of nationalizing major industries during the campaign for elections. They reassured the US government that their interests would be in good hands and that political upheaval would be contained by all means including the use of deadly force. CONCLUSION: Brothers and sisters, comrades-in-arms allow me to make this call to all patriots and lovers of freedom. We must not allow the rot that has been conjured up in western capitals with the cooperation of the local bourgeoisie which has no shame or dignity to subvert our will to be free. We must not yield an inch of ground to the emerging reactionaries who now call black people lazy or racist in demanding total liberation of our persons and land. We must be aware of their tendency to occasionally condemn racism with so much rationalization and minimalisation that they end up more critical of our people than of the perpetrators of the heinous crime of apartheid, dispossession and marginalization. Our political ideologies may differ; our organizations may differ as well, but what will forever stay constant is the reality of our oppression. This statement does not suggest that past is prologue but rather underscores the importance of thinking historically, of taking a long view when trying to understand changes in deeply engrained patterns in our political discourse. The white people have been emboldened by the ANC to the point that they now call for the restoration of the ancien regime. They now present themselves as victims of a non-existent animal called “reverse racism”! We are now to believe that the poor African farmers suddenly use the awesome state power to discriminate against their white bosses! We are now asked to believe that the slums, the abject poverty we see are a consequence of would be millionaires if they could just work hard! We are now to believe that the mansions we see in the suburbs of our country are really shacks as white people cannot afford anything anymore! These are worrying signs not just of the reflexive credibility given to reactionary columnists but also of just how entrenched the myth of pervasive reverse racism is. This is the era of colourblind racism. Blacks are just as racist as whites, we are told by charlatans and demagogues whose sensibilities resemble those of a mad cow whose butt is itching every minute of the day! Let us remember who we are; what we are made of and what we are going to be. Let us work tirelessly for the liberation of all. Let us give thanks to those that came before us; those that sacrificed their lives so we may continue the noble cause started centuries ago when the first settler colonists descended on the Cape of Good Hope as they called that portion of our land in complete disregard of our presence and oneness with the environment around us. Let us make them proud and complete the work they started many, many moons ago; Let us fight to the bitter end; we the children of Hintsa, Shaka, Moshoeshoe, Sekhukhune, Makana ka Nxele, Sobukwe, Mothopeng Biko and the thousands who perished fighting to free this land of our fathers; the land of our forefathers! Makube njalo!
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