adminCommunity (Sadc) region – held in Windhoek, Namibia, it was made public knowledge that “nobody should be surprised to hear that the American and the British embassies in Harare, Zimbabwe, have been working for some time and continue to work with white former farmers and gun merchants to cause confusion in Zimbabwe by striving to destabilise the security system”.
The current ruling parties and former liberation movements range from South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), to Angola’s MPLA, Mozambique’s FRELIMO, Namibia’s SWAPO, Tanzania’s Chama Cha Mapinduzi and Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF.
Meanwhile, South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma travelled to Luanda, Angola, to yet another Sadc summit. Zuma works closely with his counterparts from Mozambique, president Guebusa, and Zambia’s, president Banda, in their efforts to oversee and assist with the elections and political developments in Zimbabwe.
As of the recent Sadc summit in Luanda, Angola, president Jacob Zuma and South Africa took over the Chair of the “Sadc Protocol for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation”. This move seems to clash with the role of the South African president, leading the Troika of South Africa, Mozambique and Zambia on Zimbabwe.
Some Sadc members made their discontent over South Africa’s additional regional powers public, as they feared that particularly Malawi, Madagascar, Swaziland and Zimbabwe would become more vulnerable to the “US Foreign Policy of Regime Change” and the “British Globalisation Programme”, established through an overt and covert rollout of an orchestrated destabilisation and intervention effort. During the colonial-apartheid era, South Africa was considered a regional security risk. However, the ANC led government and its security cluster were able to alleviate such fears.
The summit host, Angola, would not feel comfortable with South Africa’s new appointment, as president Eduardo Dos Santos and the ruling MPLA could become the next victim of America’s foreign policy of regime change. Back home in South Africa, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) currently engages its Special Forces component in “Exercise Stalwart”, a joint military manoeuvre with Special Forces from the USA, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Zambia at an isolated venue called “Dwarskersbos” on the wet flats of the South African West Coast. “Exercise Stalwart” began last Wednesday, August 17, 2011, with a command post exercise including integration of training forces.
According to SANDF director for corporate communications, Brig-Gen Marthie Visser, “Exercise Stalwart” would be a closed exercise with no access to the public and media”. Some 600 US soldiers partake in a “largely humanitarian military exercise”.
In December 2012 South Africa’s ruling ANC party will be celebrating its centennial in Bloemfontein.
Meanwhile, it seems the National Executive Council (NEC) is divided on Jacob Zuma. Although he enjoys solid support, Zuma’s opponents within the ruling class and the Head Quarters of the ANC, Luthuli House in Johannesburg, as well as the trade union movement, COSATU, seem to leave no stone unturned to oust him and some of his staunchest supporters. Senior sources say, the battle for the leadership in Polokwane, in the northern Limpopo Province, in December 2007 against re-called former president Thabo Mbeki, could “look like a children’s breakfast on a Sunday morning”.
Zuma’s opponents include Tokyo Sexwale, ANC NEC and Minister for Human Settlement (Housing); Paul Mashatile, ANC NEC and Minister for Arts and Culture and ANC head for the economic and financial hub, the province of Gauteng; ANCYL leader, Julius Malema; ANC NEC and Minister of Sport, Fikile Mbalula and a few more. Minister Sexwale has just appointed ever-popular Winnie Mandela, ANC NEC and well known as “Mother of the Nation”, as his associate to step up the building of low-cost housing for the poor to eradicate squatter camps.
According to a broad analysis, Zuma seems strategically undermined in his own country. His policies, the new road-toll system, the latest appointment of a senior judge and his personal life seemed to sway him to appease neo-liberal institutions. He is further criticised for an absence of solid senior staff, although the appointment of his spokesman in his office, Mac Maharaj, is astute and to the benefit of the presidency.
Like Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki before Jacob Zuma, there is just no African South African think-tank that does solid research and development, giving good advice on foreign and African policies. Mandela had completed his task before he was inaugurated as president of a “new” South Africa and Mbeki asserted himself only.
As in most African countries and more particularly in those with a majority supported former freedom movement currently heading government, the media and “civil society” are hostile also towards Jacob Zuma.
The government seems to depend on the opinion of the locally based media. Therefore, Zuma will do his utmost not to be seen on the payroll of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. This could be considered as bad advice, as those in the know, are aware that he is not on Gaddafi’s payroll.
South Africa’s unsupportive role in the Cote d’Ivoire, when France’s choice, the recently inaugurated northern leader, Ouattara, as president; president Zuma’s open stance against Sudan’s head-of-state, Omar al Bashir, shortly before the Football World Cup of 2010; in Kenya backing Raila Odinga; its stand-off in Malawi while a push for regime change was taking place; its support of the international Western “no fly zone” over Libya; its support of a regime change in Madagascar, yet accommodating the toppled former president are critically noted in Africa and could lead to further isolate South Africa as the international West’s springboard into the Southern African sub-region and beyond.
Africa’s enemies are the owners of “civil society”. Neo-colonial, exploitative “neo-liberal-rightwing-fascist” interests only are allowed to work this continent. Hence, there cannot be any room at all for a diverse media with new and fresh reportage and analysis. But, this is globally promoted as “neo-liberal democracy”.
Back to southern Africa – initially in the 1980s, Zimbabwe’s president Mugabe was the international West’s “great reconciler”. The same media, that character assassinates him today, hailed President Mugabe as a good leader and peacemaker then.
In came South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela . . . and a hostile media developed a strategy of “divide and rule”. The racist media that had demonised all African liberation movements during
the “Cold War” era as “communist terrorists” some being part of a string of character assassinations, pretending to be liberal and anti-colonial-apartheid rule, adopted Nelson Mandela as their Jesus Christ. Over night a hostile media started to pray to Nelson Mandela, separating him from the ANC. Whites love Mandela. Towns, cities, universities, streets, centres, plains, ports and airports, all are named after him. Next to Coca-Cola, Nelson Mandela became the most marketed name in the international West. In this way, the media classified and created a hopeless society. They planted into the minds of its clientele, particularly the youth that a Jesus Christ is passing through, who would be followed by another one and another one and another one . . . But, Nelson Mandela’s ideology is not a real one, as it retains the white Caucasian neo-liberal status quo.
His non-existent support base in the black African South Africa demonstrated a different reality all together. Here is an example: celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, a large entourage of invited VIPs drove to the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto, where the celebrations took place. Driving though that part of Soweto, locals quietly stood on both sides of the road with placards, reading, “Mr Mandela (not Madiba, nor U’Tata), please go back to Houghton (one of the most elite suburbs of Johannesburg). We don’t know you here in Soweto.” A fine birthday gift . . . It was never reported in the media.
The US/UK/EU and its Nato could not honour the no-fly zone over Libya. The same international West did not respect the “Lancaster House Agreement of 1979”, the corner stone of Zimbabwe’s independence.
The self-proclaimed international community and its undemocratic institutions for global power control such as the UNO, the World Bank-IMF, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the International Crimes Court (ICC) promote the “rule of law”, which the international West refuses to observe and respect.
The international West is on record for having gone beyond their mandate. Everyone else is brutally forced to observe and respect the “rule of law”. It is that violent arrogance and murderous disrespect for real human life that has discredited the above-mentioned as a propagandistic failure. Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler was no different. In the above-mentioned context, which sane and logical thinking human being, educated and illiterate, would actually be able to seriously trust that Caucasian power elite and its paid up minions? It would be an ungrateful task for South Africa to shape the Sadc into one southern African unit by 2018, particularly if and when pushed to assist with the US foreign policy of regime change.
As one of the leading commanders of the Zimbabwean Defence Force (ZDF) told the media, the opposition political party MDC-T under Morgan Tsvangirai and Tendai Biti is no political threat to anyone in Zimbabwe. When President Mugabe incorporated the MDC into government and made Tsvangirai its Prime Minister, he must have been aware that it would expose that Tsvangirai and his MDC would not be able to deliver. On numerous occasions Tsvangirai was pushed to call for the lifting of all sanctions against Zimbabwe. However, he was not able to deliver.
Zimbabwe’s senior military officer pointed out that Tsvangirai and his MDC-T are a security risk for Zimbabwe and the region, as they follow US and Britain’s instructions. President Mugabe lived the full cycle of history, from signing the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979 to its expiry in April 2000. He is the living proof that neither Britain, nor the US can be trusted at all. Mugabe stood his ground.
From hailed black African Messiah to demonised African leader – he is a victim of globalised Caucasian propaganda.
Hopefully, South Africa realises those developments and will not act against its own kith and kin. Protect what is yours as documented and accepted in the Sadc Protocol for Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation. Anything else would be high treason and blood libel. This would be bloody unfair.
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