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Udo W Froese Afrika The Other Side
THE five-month long strike led by Joseph Mathunjwa and his cohorts of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which includes the Economic Freedom Fighters, its leader Julius Malema and Dali Mpofu, shows a crossover to insurrection and high treason.
The men in the shadows behind AMCU and EFF turn on the heat of full destabilisation, where the winner takes all.
AMCU’s Mathunjwa and EFF’s Malema and Mpofu know what they are doing. They act as economic hit men, targeting South Africa’s mining industry. This will have a ripple effect on the rest of the economy, if not put to an immediate stop.
An “Arab Spring” seems unavoidable as particularly, the poor majority will feel the spiralling price-escalations.
Meanwhile, the electorate gave the ruling ANC and its president Zuma a clear mandate for a second term of office. This current political development in the country’s mining sector could lead to another Ukraine, where a democratically elected government was unseated by a foreign funded, reckless anarchical mob.
The five-month long strike in the North West Province’s platinum belt with repeated threats from AMCU’s Matunjwa and EFF leaders Malema and Mpofu, that those strikes would be escalated and spread to the gold mining sector, has left a bloody trail of about 100 murdered mineworkers. Thousands of labourers have been left destitute, queuing for their daily bread at soup kitchens. Meanwhile, the once wealthy platinum mining town of Rustenburg is on the brink of shutting down.
Marikana cost about 60 mineworkers’ lives. Police were shot at with live ammunition that left the South African Police Services (SAPS) no alternative, but to defend their lives. Mathunjwa and his cohorts thought it right to hide assassins, armed with hard-nose bullets, to kill the police present. Creating a situation of lengthy violent strikes in the country’s platinum mine sector with numerous threats that that strike will not end there, other industry workers would realise that it is possible to achieve at least promises for salary increases, by recklessly undermining the economy.
South Africa’s economy would eventually end in a dust bowl. Mineworkers as well as their colleagues from other industrial sectors would be mere canon-fodder to achieve the ultimate goal of the collapse of the rand in the near future. Foreign and local interests would then be able to buy the jewels of the economic crown for less than a song to the detriment of the entire workforce.
Undermining the economy and the currency value of one’s country through destabilising actions, such as questionable political activities masquerading as legitimate strikes, with the assistance of foreign and local interests, would be tantamount to high treason. South Africa’s legal system has stringent laws against high treason.
South Africa’s economy, as would that of the other members of the new economic block be – BRICS (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) — is under attack from the existing foreign and local interested blocs. However, sabotage remains sabotage. Murder remains murder and high treason remains high treason.
South Africa’s sovereignty would have to be respected too, just like that of all countries’ worldwide, no matter who the foreign interests are. It is certainly not in South Africa, nor in the Sadc’s interest for South Africa to end up like Libya, or Egypt, or Algeria, or Sudan.
“Hands-off!” is the ANC-led government’s message loudly and clearly.
The background and the role of the Cape Town based foreign and locally funded, “Alternative Information and Development Center (AIDC)” under its director, Brian Ashley, and its senior economist, Dick Forslund, needs to answer many questions. These include — who are their sponsors; who are their trustees and/or who serves on their board; what are their overt and covert founding policies; what are the real roles of Brian Ashley and Dick Forslund; would they be prepared to publish their full, unedited CVs? This writer was shown reports, recording, “Forslund admitted, he has been a long-time undercover agent based in South Africa, planning an insurrection.” Interestingly, the media only reported on the AIDC on June 9, 2014. It seems fashionable to deploy NGOs to foment uprisings. They no longer do community work, but come in bad faith with hidden agendas, advertising that they help the destitute mineworkers.
The NGOs’ reputation of being non-aligned is in tatters. They are used to further destabilise pockets of unrest. In other words, they work as political activists, pretending to do good for the poor, when the lives of the mineworkers are already destroyed.
Udo W. Froese, is a freelance writer and analyst based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He can be followed on Twitter @theotherafrika or his blog, theotherafrika.wordpress.com
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