The ANC taught us that violence was the answer - Buthelezi

The ANC taught us that violence was the answer - Buthelezi

Mangosuthu Buthelezi | Inkatha Freedom Party | 22 August 2012

IFP leader says as a result violence accepted as standard in response to injustice

Dear friends and fellow South Africans,

In the wake of the Marikana Mine massacre, we in the opposition have called for answers. During yesterday's debate in the National Assembly, many pertinent questions were posed.

Who gave the order to shoot? Who authorised the use of live ammunition? At what point did the Minister of Mineral Resources intervene in the dispute? At what point did the Minister of Police intervene? Why did negotiations break down between the mineworkers' representatives and the management of Lonmin? Why were the striking workers carrying traditional weapons? Why were NUM and AMCU not given equal standing in talks with Government?

Beneath the many questions runs a common thread: how could this have happened in a democratic South Africa?

As our nation's representatives grappled with this painful question in the National Assembly, the eyes of the world were upon us. We were also watched from the gallery by the Minister for Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration, Kalon Dicki Chhoyang.

Kalon Chhoyang is visiting South Africa to raise awareness of the human rights violations which continue in Tibet. I had the pleasure of meeting with the Kalon on Monday morning in Durban, where she kindly thanked me for my support of the Tibetan struggle for autonomy.

'National Democratic Revolution' is cornerstone of ANC/SACP/Cosatu policy analysis - SAIRR

Research and Policy Brief: NDR: the cornerstone of any policy analysis of South Africa

Dr Anthea Jeffery - Frans Cronje, SAIRR
29 August 2010, Politicsweb

People's War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa, by Anthea Jeffery [*Amazon*] Author of: The Truth About the Truth Commission (PDF)

The current public service strike has brought to the fore the bitter nature of the power struggle at play in the ruling ANC/SACP/COSATU alliance. Our current assessment is that factions in the alliance, perhaps led by the ANC Youth League, are preparing to execute a political coup at the ANC's 2012 conference in Bloemfontein. At its most serious this political shift may include the axing of Jacob Zuma and his forced resignation as president of South Africa.

At the very least infighting ahead of the 2012 conference will continue to destabilize the alliance. This will have the effect of destabilizing the broader policy environment in the country and therefore causing a rise in levels of uncertainty about the future of the country.

It is our assessment that it is only possible to make sense of the policy environment in South Africa by understanding the ANC's concept of a National Democratic Revolution (NDR). The NDR is poorly understood in South Africa but it serves as the philosophical and ideological grounding of the ANC. Its origins, its importance after 1994, its consequences, and the countervailing forces acting against it are reviewed in the abridged analysis below.

'We're going to take the land & determine the price' - Malema Report to ANCYL National General Council

For, months prior to the 2010 World Cup, this blog recommended a “No Normal Sport in TRC Hypocrisy on Steroids ZA” Boycott of the World Cup, for among other reasons: ‘Zimbabwe style farm invasions may be delayed ... but will definitely happen in SA's future’ - Lt. Gen. Mojo Matau, Former Chief of Mil. Intel., SANDF, but the majority of South Africans -- black and white -- love sport more than honest and honourable goverment, and so the result is their corrupt goverment allows them to watch and play as much sport as they wish, to keep them distracted from how the 'National Democratic Revolution' plans and dealings for the Zimbabwefication of South Africa are being implemented step by step...

‘We’ll take the land and give you nothing’

2010-08-27 11:34
City Press

Landowners who refuse amounts offered during expropriation should have their land taken away with no payment, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has said.

“Willing seller, willing buyer is not working, (black economic empowerment) is not working,” Malema told the Mail & Guardian when asked what the league meant when it said it did not want leaders to tell the queen (of England) that economic policies would not change.

Malema said that in 10 years, a certain percentage of land should have been transferred to the majority of the population.

“It’s a simple policy. We’re going to take the land, but we’ll compensate and we’ll determine the price. We go to (Eugene) Terre’Blanche’s farm and say: for these many hectares we will give you R2 million, thank you very much.

“If you say that’s too little and you don’t want it, then we take the land and give you nothing. It’s called expropriation with compensation determined by the State.”

Without mentioning President Jacob Zuma, who travelled to the United Kingdom earlier this year and met Queen Elizabeth II, he said that when the ANCYL was formed, it was opposed to forms of struggle such as petitions, or “sending delegations to the queen”.

“Now that you are given power by the people of South Africa, you still go to the queen and behave like you don’t have power from the people.

“When you say that there will be no change in South Africa’s economic pattern, you are saying that it will remain the same as during the colonial regime.”

Viva Barbarism.. The ANC's Long Walk to -- 'liberation before education comradeship' -- Freedom from responsibility continues...

Have we descended below worst kind of barbarism?

Aug 19, 2010, Sowetan
Flipside of Life, with Charles Mogale

LET'S get serious, for once. Last week South Africans saw the very worst possible savage barbarism visited on a couple of young women on the East Rand.

Long story short: the women took up jobs vacated by people who had been fired for going on an illegal strike at the OR Tambo International Airport.

They were apparently ambushed and caught by a bunch of yahoos on a train, stripped starkers and their clothes thrown out of the window.

Someone with a phone camera snapped away and the pictures ended up on the front page of a tabloid.

Now savagery does not go beyond that. The pity of it all is that if our past record is anything to go by, the perpetrators will never be arrested, let alone have their day in court and be convicted.

MK's Mbokodo & Complaint by SADF Generals to Public Protector of TRC Handling of SADF - January 1998

Mbokodo: Inside MK: Mwezi Twala: A soldier's story, Ed Benard and Mwezi Twala (1994) The Battle for Rhodesia, by Douglas Reed (1966) Zulu Kings and their Armies, J Sutherland & D Canwell (2004) Commando Courageous - A Boer's Diary, by R. W. Schikkerling (1964) Great Battles of History - The Zulu War - Isandhlwana and Rorke's Driftt, Rupert Furneaux, (1963)

Give a young boy — 16 years old — from the ghetto of Soweto, an
opportunity to drive a car for the first time in his life.
This boy is from a poor working class family.
Give him money to buy any type of liquor and good, expensive clothes.
This boy left South Africa during the Soweto schools uprising in 1976.
He doesn't know what is an employer.
He never tasted employer-exploitation.
Give him the right to sleep with all these women.
Give him the opportunity to study in Party Schools and well-off
military academies in Eastern Europe.
Teach him Marxism-Leninism and tell him to defend the revolution
against counter-revolutionaries.
Send him to the Stasi to train him to extract information by force from
enemy agents. He turns to be a torturer and executioner by firing
squad.
All these are the luxuries and the dream-come-true he never thought
of for his lifetime...
This Security becomes the law unto itself.
-- Olefile Samuel Mngqibisa, a former soldier in the ANC army Umkhonto we Sizwe, describes the education of an Mbokodo officer, which he presented to the Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses in ANC detention camps, chaired by Mr Sam Motsuenyane. (Women in the ANC and SWAPO: sexual abuse of young women in the ANC camps, by Olefile Samuel Mngqibisa, October 1993, Searchlight South Africa, No 11, Pages 11-16 (PDF))

ANC: VIP's of Violence (Documentary)

“Maybe the decision of the ANC youth cadres to take up witchhunting, was also based on the calculation, that party politics and revolutionary slogans would not be sufficient for mobilizing the population. Witchhunts on the other hand seemed to be a common cause for which one could expect broad-based support.” (1993:527) Isak Niehaus shows how witchcraft was politicised .. and how the ANC and other political groups used witchcraft beliefs to further their own agendas. [ANC's Occult “Struggle” Politics] [African Occult Muti Sacrifice Beliefs] [AIDS, Witchcraft & Power in Post-Apartheid SA]

“People’s war has two main facets, the political struggle and the military struggle, and together they constitute the hammer and the anvil between which all adversaries are crushed. In this kind of conflict, no distinction is drawn between combatants and civilians. Instead all individuals living within the arena of conflict are regarded as weapons of war (hence the term, ‘people’s war’). The people’s war has also contributed to South Africa’s plague of violent crime, if only because it turned policemen into targets of attack, loosened moral constraints, drew youngsters into heinous acts of violence, and flooded the country with illegal weapons, many of which have never been recovered.”-- Anthea Jeffery

“For once the techniques of ungovernability have been widely taught, that knowledge cannot be withdrawn. The genie cannot simply be put back inside the bottle.” -- Anthea Jeffery

» » » » The ANC's 'People's War' struggle for Power & Hegemony, at any price...

Africanisation of RSA: ANC's Occult “Struggle” Politics: Witchcraft and the State in South Africa

Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa; By Adam Ashforth [*Amazon**Kalahari*] “In communities where a witchcraft paradigm informs understandings about other peoples’ motives and capacities, life must be lived in terms of a presumption of malice.” -- AIDS, Witchcraft, and the Problem of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Adam Ashforth

The following report Witchcraft and the State in South Africa, is provided as additional evidentiary context to South African Human Rights Commission Complaint WC-2009-0455BS (PDF) which indicts various ANC officials for endorsing Occult Phallic Slave and Cannon Fodder Breeding Procreation Population Policies. In this document the ANC elite actively endorsed “Operation Production” practices; i.e. coercing young girls to produce cannon fodder (babies) for the ANC struggle for hegemony:

Especially evening assemblies girls had to attend as well: “They would come into the house and tell us we should go. They didn't ask your mother they just said ‘come let's go.’ You would just have to go with them. They would threaten you with their belts and ultimately you would think that if you refused, they would beat you. Our parents were afraid of them” (quoted by Delius 1996:189).

All those opposing the wishes of the young men were reminded, that it was every woman’s obligation to give birth to new “soldiers”, in order to replace those warriors killed in the liberation struggle. The idiom of the adolescents referred to these patriotic efforts as “operation production”. Because of exactly this reason it was forbidden for the girls to use contraceptives. (Delius 1996:189; Niehaus 1999:250)

It provides further context to the issues raised in Open Letter to World Cup Teams: God vs. FIFA: Do you have the Honourable Courage to be a ‘Flying Scotsman’?, how African Occult Ideals of Manhood viz a viz procreation of children; and concepts of Autocratic & Hegemonic Power that do not tolerate Dissent -- the Africanization of the State -- have penetrated the heart of politics and political institutions:

The ANC's 'People's War' struggle for Power & Hegemony, at any price...

People’s War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa, by Anthea Jeffery, author of The Truth About the Truth Commission (PDF:379K)

In response to Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) granting Brandon Huntley, white refugee status, the Inkatha Freedom Party's press release, stated, among other things:

In SA, a major way of problem-solving is mob rule..... This use of mobs and the impunity of the anonymity of mass action lead to a breakdown in the rule of law. This, as academics have observed, is a direct result of the merging of militarised struggle politics with unions and community organisations.

Analysts chalk the violence up to lack of service delivery, levels of inequality and other standard epitaphs that are paraded out to explain every social problem. But this is only part of the story. I am sorry to say the genesis of the present unhappy state of affairs lies in the apartheid era.

The ANC and UDF had the strategy of ungovernability that was used to incite the youth and people of the townships to violently rise up against their oppression. The townships saw a lot of violence in recent times as apartheid began to unravel. The violence included mob justice in the form of necklacing, shooting and other violent acts against those deemed to be the enemy. The unforeseen legacy of the strategy of ungovernability is what we are seeing today.

Dr. Anthea Jeffery, Head of Special Research at the South African Institute of Race Relations, new book People’s War: New Light on the Struggle agrees. Dr. Jeffery holds law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and from Cambridge, and a doctorate in human rights law from the University of London. Her previous books include The Natal Story: Sixteen years of conflict and The Truth about the Truth Commission (PDF:379K).

AIDS in the “Witchcraft Paradigm” of Power: AIDS, Witchcraft, and the Problem of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Adam Ashforth

“Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa,” by Adam Ashforth:

Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa; By Adam Ashforth [*Amazon**Kalahari*] “In communities where a witchcraft paradigm informs understandings about other peoples’ motives and capacities, life must be lived in terms of a presumption of malice.” -- AIDS, Witchcraft, and the Problem of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Adam Ashforth

How does democracy fare when the people governed insist they live in a world with witches? If the government of a people afflicted by witchcraft refuses to punish witches, how does it avoid becoming alienated from the perceived needs of its people or, worse, seen as being in league with witches? In Soweto, South Africa, the constant threat of violent crime, the increase in black socio-economic inequality, the AIDS pandemic, and a widespread fear of witchcraft have converged to create a pervasive sense of insecurity among citiens and a unique public policy problem for government.

In “Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa,” Adam Ashforth examines how people in Soweto and other parts of post-apartheid South Africa manage their fear of 'evil forces' such as witchcraft. Ashforth examines the dynamics of insecurity in the everyday life of Soweto at the turn of the twenty-first century. He develops a new framework for understanding occult violence as a form of spiritual insecurity and documents new patterns of interpretation attributing agency to evil forces. Finally, he analyzes the response of post-apartheid governments to issues of spiritual insecurity and suggests how these matters pose severe long-term challenges to the legitimacy of the democratic state.

Mob Justice Tribal Xenophobia: South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks

“So intimidating have the comrades become that in many parts of South Africa they can terrify township residents simply by holding up boxes of matches. When they are not carrying out spontaneous attacks, they may hold kangaroo "people's courts" that are designed to intimidate the public. In a typical court session, young toughs drag the accused forward, inform him or her of the charges and then pronounce and execute the sentence. The outcome is never in doubt.” -- South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks, Time Magazine

The following Times Magazine article, South Africa The War of Blacks Against Blacks provides more context to, the Press Release by the IFP, shortly after the original Huntley verdict: The IFP Press Release deals with: Huntley, Militarization of Politics, mob rule, breakdown in rule of law, etc:

This week's bizarre Canadian ruling giving Brandon Huntley asylum, unfortunately, wrongly conflates the image of a lawless and anarchical SA.

In SA, a major way of problem-solving is mob rule. When construction workers go on strike they torch the trucks and damage the site. When municipal workers strike they burn cars, damage property and dump rubbish. Some police toyi-toyi and even shoot at each other. This use of mobs and the impunity of the anonymity of mass action lead to a breakdown in the rule of law. This, as academics have observed, is a direct result of the merging of militarised struggle politics with unions and community organisations.

The ANC and UDF had the strategy of ungovernability that was used to incite the youth and people of the townships to violently rise up against their oppression. The townships saw a lot of violence in recent times as apartheid began to unravel. The violence included mob justice in the form of necklacing, shooting and other violent acts against those deemed to be the enemy. The unforeseen legacy of the strategy of ungovernability is what we are seeing today.