Masoga,
Brother, the rest of africa is reacting!
Will south Africa be comfortable again in isolation?
Right now, none of South African citizens can dare say, in a foreign country,
that they are south African, the pride is gone and violence is knocking at your
door.
And all these because of a 'king'? I pity you.
Cheers.
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From: Mphiri Masoga
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Subject: [PAYCO] WHAT WENT WRONG WITH AZANIA (SA) BURNING by Bulayo News on-line
What went wrong with SA independence to turn their anger and hate on foreigners?
by Nomazulu Thata
18 April 2015 | 1887 Views
What went wrong with South African independence to turn their anger and hate on
foreigners? Naomi Klein chronologies some facets of a stolen revolution: "Shock
doctrine"
"Reconciliation means that those who have been on the underside of history must
see that there is a qualitative difference between repression and freedom. And
for them, freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having a good
job, to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible health
care. I mean, what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of
life of these people is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is
useless." These are the words of Archbishop Tutu verbatim, Chair of South
Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 2001. Taken from the book: "Shock
doctrine" by Naomi Klein.
Naomi Klein, the writer of "Shock Doctrine" follows the economic and political
developments that took place in South Africa following the release of Nelson
Mandela from prison in 1990. Her analysis on SA could give us some clue as to
what happened to the revolution in SA? Who benefited from the independence, why
do people feel betrayed, do they know they got betrayed? Now it seems the
betrayal, the hate and anger are openly, is nakedly vomited on the foreigners.
They are to blame! They must leave South Africa or else they will be killed!
When Mandela was released from prison in 1990, February the 12th, he came to a
world that had changed from what it was in 1963 before he went to prison. He
arrived to a new generational South Africa, New Africa and a new world order.
The socialist revolutionary movements the whole world had ceased to exist. The
Berlin Wall had fallen and as a result the cold war over. Che Guevara had died
long back, President Salvado Allende of Chile died in a coup in 1973, President
Samora Machel of Mozambique died of a plane crash in October 1986. The
repression at Tiananmen Square was crushed and communism in China collapsed,
says Naomi in her "Shock Doctrine." But what Mandela still had firm in his mind
when he left the prison door of Robin Island, was power of the Freedom Charter,
policies that he had worked on with other ANC stalwarts before he went to
prison and the document spread like fire to almost all peoples of South Africa,
everyone in the revolution was convinced that it was a document to free the
people of South Africa from political and economic oppression. ANC policies had
its roots, its values its principles enshrined in the Freedom Charter, a live
and timeless document adopted in 1955. The objectives of this noble document
were,
- Landless people and dispossessed people should be given land
- Workers should be given livable wages and shorter working hours
- There should be free and compulsory education for all
- Right to freedom of movement irrespective of color race, creed and
nationality
- Share the country's wealth of land, gold and diamonds
- Banks mineral wealth monopoly of industries shall be controlled to assist
the wellbeing of the people
Before South Africa's democratic independence in 1994, South Africa had an
economic system that perpetuated racism, and it implemented economic returns
that were only to be enjoyed by the few white elite. The cheap labor they got
forcefully from the black population nurtured the economy and it boosted,
making South Africa the largest economy in the African continent. White people
were paid ten times more than blacks doing the same job description. According
to Naomi Klein, South Africa was a country with California living standards for
the whites and Congo living standards for the black people. Mandela's release
from prison could have sparked an economic collapse and civil war at the same
time. He had to balance those forces never to be out of hand and explode into
total civil war and chaos. The National Party of F. W. De Klerk provoked this
scenario to prove that blacks were not capable of governing such a huge economy
like South Africa. It was a two lane negotiation process; political and
economical. Mandela and Ramaphosa, together with his ANC team had to negotiate
the political independence from the hands of the few whites to the majority of
South African
