A different perspective on Mandela.....

[andreb]

Someone sent me these articles.....bit of a reality check!!


Mandela: The legend and the Legacy Part 1


This excellent two part article appeared on the blog of Sarah



Sarah is an Englishwoman endowed with an incisive and razor-sharp understanding of South Africa 's recent history. Unlike so many millions of brain-washed lemmings in the UK , she sees right through the media-contrived smoke & mirrors, lies and myths as propounded by the MSM.


By Sarah, Maid of Albion

It is often said that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, however, this usually means that the other man has been less than fastidious in his choice of hero, or that the "freedom fighter" in question was on the crowd pleasing side.

On the 27th of June, London's Hyde Park will play host to a concert in honour of Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday and we can be assured that it will receive wall to wall coverage by a star struck and worshipping media, who will continue to laud Mandela as one of the greatest, or indeed the greatest, heroes of our time.

No doubt the beaming old man will appear on stage in one of his trademark multi-coloured shirts and cheerily acknowledge the cheers of the adoring crowd, most of whom have been taught to believe in his sainthood since their first days in primary school, which, for many of them, will have occurred around the same time their hero walked free from Robben Island.

The unquestioning belief in Mandela's universally admired saintliness will again be displayed in the press and by the unending line of politicians and dignitaries who will queue up to genuflect before him and sing his praises. It is a brave politician or journalist who would dare to question the godliness of this legend and consummate showman, and hence no such questions will be raised, nor will his much vaunted "achievements" be subjected to any objective scrutiny.

No matter how many speeches are given or how many news articles are written, it is safe to bet that the full truth about Mandela will not be told.

In fact the truth about Mandela is so hidden in mythology and misinformation that most know nothing about him prior to Robben island, and those who do tend to exercise a form of self censorship, designed to bolster the myth whilst consigning uncomfortable facts into the mists of history.

For most people all they know about Mandela, prior to his release in 1990, was that he had spent 27 years in prison and was considered by many on the left at the time (and almost everyone now) to be a political prisoner. However, Mandela was no Aung San Suu Kyi, he was not an innocent, democratically elected leader, imprisoned by an authoritarian government.

Mandela was the terrorist leader of a violent terrorist organisation, the ANC (African National Congress) which was responsible for many thousands of, mostly black, deaths. The ANC's blood spattered history is frequently ignored, but reminders occasionally pop up in the most embarrassing places, indeed as recently as this month the names of Nelson Mandela and most of the ANC remained on the US government's terrorist watch list along with al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and the Tamil Tigers. Of course the forces of political correctness are rushing to amend that embarrassing reminder from the past. However, Mandela's name was not on that list by mistake, he was there because of his Murderous past.

Before I am accused of calumny, it should be noted that Mandela does not seek to hide his past, in his autobiography "the long walk to Freedom" he casually admits "signing off" the 1983 Church Street bombing carried out by the ANC and killing 19 innocent people whilst injuring another 200.

It is true that Mandela approved that massacre and other ANC killings from his prison cell, and there is no evidence that he personally killed anyone but the same could be said about Stalin or Hitler, and the violent history of the ANC, the organisation he led is not in question.

According to the Human Rights Commission it is estimated that during the Apartheid period some 21,000 people were killed, however both the UN Crimes against Humanity commission and South Africa's own Truth and Reconciliation Commission are in agreement that in those 43 years the South African Security forces killed a total of 518 people. The rest, (some 92%) were accounted for by Africans killing Africans, many by means of the notorious and gruesome practice of necklacing whereby a car tyre full of petrol is placed around a victim's neck and set alight. This particularly cruel form of execution was frequently carried out at the behest of the ANC with the enthusiastic support of Mandela's demonic wife Winnie.

The brutal reappearance of the deadly necklace in recent weeks is something I shall reluctantly focus upon later.

Given that so much blood was on the hands of his party, and, as such, the newly appointed government, some may conclude that those who praised Mandela's mercy and forgiveness, when the Truth and Reconciliation tribunal set up after he came to power, to look into the Apartheid years, did not include a provision for sanctions, were being deliberately naive.

Such nativity is not uncommon when it comes to the adoring reporting of Nelson Mandela, and neither is the great leader himself rarely shy of playing up his image of fatherly elder statesman and multi-purpose paragon. However, in truth, the ANC's conscious decision to reject a policy of non-violence, such as that chosen by Gandhi, in their struggle against the white government, had left them, and by extension, their leader, with at least as much blood on their hands as their one time oppressors, and this fact alone prevented them from enacting the revenge which might otherwise have been the case..

As the first post Apartheid president of South Africa it would, be unfair if not ludicrous to judge Mandela entirely on the basis of events before he came to power, and in any event there is many a respected world leader or influential statesman with a blood stained past so in the next part I shall examine Nelson Mandela's achievements, and the events which have occurred in South Africa in the 14 short years since he took power in following the post Apartheid election in 1994.


Mandela - The Legend and the Legacy Part 2


By Sarah, Maid of Albion

In the second of two articles examining the life of Nelson Mandela, in advance of Friday's concert in Hyde Park celebrating the living legend's 90th birthday, I shall look at his legacy and the new South Africa which he created after coming to power on a surge of worldwide optimism and hope in 1994, when, following the end of Apartheid, he and his followers promised a new dawn for what became termed the Rainbow Nation.

Today South Africa stands out as one of the most dangerous and crime ridden nations on Earth which is not actively at War. In 2001, only seven years after the end of Apartheid, whilst the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands with 5,6 murders per 100,000 population was declared the "murder capitol of Europe", Johannesburg, with 61.2 murders per 100,00 population and remains the world's top murder city.

In South Africa as a whole, the murder rate is seven times that of America, in terms of rape the rate is ten times as high and includes the ugly phenomenon of child rape, one of the few activities in which South Africa is now a world leader. If you don't believe me, you can read what Oprah Winfrey has to say about it here.

All other forms of violent crime are out of control, and Johannesburg is among the top world cities for muggings and violent assault, a fact seldom mentioned in connection with the 2010 World Cup which is scheduled to be hosted in South Africa .

As always with black violence the primary victims are their fellow blacks, however, the rape, murder and violent assault of whites is a daily event, and there is more .....

As with the Matabeleland massacres, news of which the BBC, together with much of the world media suppressed for twenty years to protect their one time hero, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, another secret genocide is being ignored by the world media, the genocide of white Boer farmers, thousands of whom have been horribly tortured to death in their homes since the end of Apartheid. Anyone who clicks on this link should we warned that it includes some very gruesome images as the savagery of these attacks belie the authorities attempts to dismiss them as nothing more than a "crime wave".

Given that it is now all but illegal in South Africa to report the race of either victim or the perpetrator of a crime (unless the perpetrator is white and the victim black) and as modern South Africa's official crime statistics are notoriously massaged, it is impossible to know the exact numbers of farm murders that have taken place. Many reliable sources estimate the figure as close to 3,000, but even if we take the more conservative figure of 1,600 quoted in the politically correct South African press (but not quoted at all in ours) this is three times the numbers killed by the South African security forces over a period of 43 years, and which the UN calls a crime against humanity.

To put this in perspective, the population of South Africa is 47 million, (13 million less than Britain despite its far greater land mass) of which the 4.3 million whites account for 9.1%, about 1% less than the immigrant population of Britain . Can you imagine the outcry if 1,600 (let alone 3,000) members of a minority community in Britain were tortured to death by the native population?.

Yet when the victims are white, there is hardly a peep in the South African press and silence from the international media. Compare this to when a white youth is the killer, such as in the case of Johan Nel, who shot three Africans, a story which became instant world wide news with the predictable screams of racism and machete wielding mobs baying for his blood.

(And they accuse us of hate?!! Don't such people nauseate themselves with their hypocrisy?!)

Crime aside, Mandela and his ANC inherited the strongest economy in Africa, indeed, despite economic sanctions, South Africa was still one of the richest world nations, and indeed initially there was a brief post Apartheid boom, resulting from the lifting of sanctions and due to the fact that until affirmative action forced most of the whites out of their jobs to be replaced by under qualified blacks, those who had built South Africa were still in place.

However, any optimism was to be short lived. Now, after just 14 years of rule by Mandela and his grim successor Mbeki, corruption is rife, the country is beset with power cuts and the infrastructure is crumbling.

The nation's great cities like Durban and Johannesburg, which could once rival the likes of Sydney, Vancouver andSan Francisco, had descended in to decaying crime ridden slums within a decade.

And in the last few weeks we have seen the so called Rainbow nations ultimate humiliation, as xenophobic anti immigration violence spreads across the country. ("xenophobic" is what the media call racism when blacks do it) As poverty and unemployment explodes and is exacerbated by the floods of immigrants flooding in to escape the even more advanced Africanisation of the rest of the continent, the mobs turn on those they blame for stealing their jobs, their homes, and their women.

Thus the cycle turns, and, like watching some barbaric version of "back to the future", on the news we see exactly the same scenes we saw on our televisions twenty years ago, wrecked buildings, burning vehicles, mobs brandishing machetes, axes and knives hacking at everything and everyone which comes within their reach. Most horrific of all, we see the return of that most savage symbol of African brutality, the necklace where, to the cheers of a blood thirsty crowd, some poor trembling soul, with a tire around his neck, is dragged from his home and set alight, exactly as all those other poor souls were set alight throughout the Apartheid years, when we were told it was all the evil white man's fault.

As nothing else the return of the necklace exposes the failure of Mandela's revolution, and those who fought for him should weep.

Under Apartheid, blacks and whites went to separate hospitals but they received world class health care, whatever their colour, now the facilities are collapsing or non-existent. Black children went to different schools than white children, but they received an education, something which is now a privileged luxury. When they grew up, their bosses may have been white, but they had jobs and a living wage, as the recent violence shows us, such security is but a memory for most South Africans.

Eighteen years after Nelson and Winnie made their historic walk towards the cameras, and 14 years, since Mandela assumed power on a tide of optimism, a once proud South Africa slides like a crumbling, crime ridden, wreck towards a precipice created through greed, corruption and incompetence.

For all his gleaming smiles, grandfatherly hand gestures, and folksy sound bites, tomorrow night, when crowd cheers the retired terrorist in the gaudy shirt, they would do best not to focus too closely upon his much admired legacy, as they might just find that the Xhosan Emperor has no clothes. For Nelson Mandela's lasting achievement is that, in the face of a world wishing him well, he, and the party he leads, have shown the world that, for all its flaws, Apartheid was a more benign system than what replaced it, and that the average South African was immeasurably better off under the hated white rule than they are under the alternative which black rule has created.

That is quite an achievement, Mr Mandela, happy birthday.

[Robin Hood]

A thought provoking article. Written I fear, by an expat as she refers to 'us'. It does however lay in out in stark detail exactly the way I felt after reading Long walk to Freedom. It was like a smokescreen behind which the old incompetent Afrca was/is busy coming to the fore.

[Bayliner]

A well written article. This is actually the story of Africa. The bottom line is "they" dont want us anywhere in Africa. I see it here everyday in Kenya and Uganda. South Africa is no exception.

[Morph]

I understand the sentiments, and thought prevoking as it is, this is not aviation related.

Can we reiterate the rules of the forum. Let's keep politics and religion off the forum please. These subjects tend to end up in heated arguments and Microlighters is not about that.

Thanks

Morph

[Robin Hood]

Agreed!!

[The Agent]

And then there was the Aviation terrorist called " "

Who was moking a seeerios move on the Cape flat lands trying to build a beeeeg white airfield for all the old timers.
And we all lived happily after.

Hey manne it could have been worse ne'. and look at the mountain.

[andreb]

I understand the sentiments, and thought prevoking as it is, this is not aviation related.

Can we reiterate the rules of the forum. Let's keep politics and religion off the forum please. These subjects tend to end up in heated arguments and Microlighters is not about that.

Thanks

Morph

This is hardly politics or religion, but rather reality of what this country has become, and is certainly relevant to every pilot out there as well. Is this forum for aviators to discuss issues, or aviation related topics only?
I don't want to open a debate on whether this is relevant or not and will gladly delete topic if members so desire. Just my 5c.

[Nkwazi]

Andre, lest you forget, if it wasnt for him you might not be alive to be contributing to this forum. Who calmed the nation on the death of Chris Hani and Boipatong when this beautiful nation stood on the brink of war? His followers could have sent this nation straight into civil war.

Just some things that make this man great:

He invited his warders to his inauguration,
When asked about his opinion on the defacing of Mandela Rylaan in Bloemfontein to De la rylaan, he said that he felt privelaged to be associated with another great leader.
At his speech and unveiling of his statue in London he related the following: " I said to Oliver when we visited London that maybe one day perhaps one of us will stand alongside that great leader, Jan Smuts"
Did you see the pain in his face when he faced a news conference and announced to the world that his son had died of AIDS. What was going through his mind when the man he had appointed his successor denied the existence of the disease??

If only this great man was 20 years younger and we had the calibre of his leadership. What a future we might have.

[andreb]

We all have our views, based on our own experiences, etc. This is a complex country with complex issues and we are all torn between people and issues that are good and yet at the same time so downright evil. That is why we are are all considered racisists by others, and even act like racists (yes we do), but we don't see oursleves as racists. This is because there are bright shing lights amongst all this negativity. Not all non-whites are bad.
We all have our own views and perceptions. That is what makes life so interesting and exciting. The real problem with humanity has always been the insistence humans have of forcing others to their points of view, instead of accepting diversity.
I have no doubt that Madiba has achieved great things, yet he has been capable of such evil and suffering. Quite a quandary I would say. Story of our lives....

My own perspective (for anyone is interested) is that I have lost good friends in our war on terrorists, numerous break ins, and a wife and son hijacked at gunpoint. I am just tired of this shit and need to lead a more "normal" life where we are safe and I can compete on equal terms.

Again my 5c worth.

[Nkwazi]

Andre, you need to do what you believe is good for you and your family and I certainly respect your view and dont blame you for for leaving your beloved country. Hopefully those that you leave behind will be able to live with their decision of not leaving and be able to build this country to what it should be - a country where we can all make as much money as possible

[Uncle Spud Murphy]

Andre, you need to do what you believe is good for you and your family and I certainly respect your view and don't blame you for for leaving your beloved country. Hopefully those that you leave behind will be able to live with their decision of not leaving and be able to build this country to what it should be - a country where we can all make as much money as possible

Greetings Nkwazi,

"A country where we can all make as much money as possible" Is that what you think is important young man. No my friend, Andre is right. To live a decent normal life with your Family, that is what is truly important. If I had the opportunity I would make South Africa the most dangerous place in the world for all those who stop others from having a decent, normal life. So I would. Be more violent to the violent, then they will be less inclined to be violent.

Andre. I wish you and your Family God speed. May you wish to return to your land one day

Avdb and to you Nkwazi

[old no 7]

And then there was the Aviation terrorist called " "

Who was moking a seeerios move on the Cape flat lands trying to build a beeeeg white airfield for all the old timers.
And we all lived happily after.

Hey manne it could have been worse ne'. and look at the mountain.

"aviation terrorist " my @rse. I think he's a double agent

[andreb]

Thanks Spud!!

[noviasa]

Mandela did some things in the past. But at the end he was one of the better leaders I hope the new leadership of SA finds the wisdom not to make SA in a other Zim because SA deserves to be on top of the world. But the greed of the new leadership is not bringing it to the Rainbow nation. So lets hope for an other Mandela who knows that to make it a better country he needs all on board. BTW floor crossing of white politicians or black should be banned! Power corrupts all so lets balance it and make SA an other VAE plenty for everybody and improvement step by step. I hope for the best because SA will be fore ever in my hart.