adminUdo Froese Correspondent
Truth is always the first victim of every war. The Western corporate mainstream media is transformed into a propaganda organ, deceiving its market. Overtly and covertly funded and directed foundations and their consulting academic analysts are part of it.
Church leaders and global corporates are also involved.
It is a case of revolving doors where a senior politician becomes a business partner and leader, not understanding the business, the senior politician becomes compromised, a useful tool to control political parties.
South Africa, like Brazil and Russia, suffers the consequences of its BRICS membership.
How did the ruling ANC leadership get itself sucked into this demise? When was that “deep state” entrenched?
Who are those economic hitmen and their “ratings agencies” operating from the shadows, manipulating the economy, collapsing the Rand?
Stellenbosch University senior academic, professor Willie Esterhuyse reflects in his book, “Apartheid Endgame”, on pages 100 and 101, “For the purpose of redistribution, some must be prepared to relinquish wealth. Growth alone won’t help. And there has to be a transitional period”, participant Tony Trew insisted.
“(Stellenbosch University academics) (Sampie) Terreblanche, (Willie) Breytenbach and I (Willie Esterhuyse) expressed our enthusiasm for the idea of a transitional period. (Tony) Trew emphasised, “We want whites to come over and share the [ANC’s] aspirations.”
Esterhuyse comments further, “Michael Young, a very disciplined and calm person, couldn’t help saying: “You terrify the outgoing order. You instill expectations on which you cannot deliver.”
After the above-mentioned agreement, the negotiations for a new South Africa picked up speed. But, a social state is not ANC policy.
ConsGold’s public relations officer, Michael Young, was a former advisor to the Thatcher government on Africa. His task included influencing the negotiations over the end of white rule in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Already then Young’s close contacts with South Africa’s apartheid regime were known.
A prominent senior cadre of the ANC clarified, “A new order was brought in from 1994 onwards. South Africa’s democratically elected new government was forced to attend to service delivery without funds. Government had to raise capital.”
Consolidated Gold (ConsGold), sponsored the meetings behind closed doors between some of South Africa’s white Boer academics with close ties to senior apartheid government officials and the ANC’s elite including Thabo Mbeki, Essop Pahad, Cyril Ramaphosa and other prominent ANC structures.
At that time, Rudolph Agnew was the ConsGold chairman. He was known for his close ties with the reigning British Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher. She is on record having described the ANC as “communist terrorists.”
As one of the ANC delegations’ leader, Essop Pahad, observed, “Michael Young would have been discussing this meeting between the Stellenbosch academics, the ANC delegation and himself with the British intelligence. It couldn’t be otherwise. But, for us there was no problem. It helped us to then get an understanding within the then-British government that we are not all these “mad Russian agents” interested in armed seizure of power (and nationalization of the economy — this writer). We were serious about transformation.”
Since 1994 things changed. The changes seem to pick up speed. And, they are not for the better of the country and her people.
Foreign organised crime syndicates and their strategies for an ANC-led South Africa were also no part of the ANC.
Who introduced those to an already compromised new elite? Who made it possible to allow them into the country? Who protected them?
Well-positioned senior insiders describe the Gupta-case as “a crass flaunting of gutter capitalism, badly managed, like old chieftains would control their subjects.” The Guptas’ modus operandi comes across as an unsophisticated form of “state capture”.
In fact, that action could be viewed as a breach of South Africa’s national security.
It is a form of co-option of a political elite, assisting to split the ruling party into many political factions.
The mainstream- and its co-opted black elite come across as sycophants, having assisted to create the perfect opportunity to take out the Rand.
Here is another African economy that has been sodomised and enslaved. It is a case of corporates doubling their profits with expenses being Rand-based and profits US-Dollar based.”
“The signs of an economy purportedly used by hostile so-called “ratings agencies” smacks of primitive plunder-mindsets typical of economic hitmen.”
They are indeed the proverbial “economic hitmen and financial terrorists, as described by fellow BRICS member, Russia.”
Today, South Africa can safely say that it has been forced to accept a slave currency and economy — a raw, unbridled capitalism in its worst mutation.”
Washington’s AGOA dictate is another case in point of primitively racist disrespect of South Africa’s sovereignty.
How can any government in a developing economy take charge to the benefit of its majority, its voting support base, when it is compromised, entrapped and straitjacketed by the very same philanthropists, their foundations and media?
How can any nation survive the imperial West’s brutal bullying manipulations and tactics?
Britain’s much hailed, “winds of change” for Africa, as promoted by its Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in 1960 was a deception with serious repercussions for sub-Saharan Africa.
In his research on Rhodesia’s former, late Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith, in his book: “Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith — The Debunking Of A Myth”, Stephen Mitford Goodson documented, “In the early part of 1960 British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan embarked on a tour of British colonial Africa and announced that the remains of the British Empire were about to be liquidated as a result of a wind of change, which would develop, ultimately — contrary to what he said in the Cape Town parliament on 16 March 1960 — into a “howling tempest”.”
“In 1960, sub-Saharan Africa was one of the most prosperous parts of the world. A net-exporter of food with not one of its colonies burdened by international debt. This pleasant state of affairs would change dramatically over the ensuing years for the worse.”
Today, all former British colonies in Africa are heavily indebted to international Western structures and suffer from structured abject poverty, malnutrition, starvation, destabilisation, civil- and rebel wars, all included in Africa’s economic re-colonization.
Sovereign Zimbabwe still suffers illegal Western sanctions, which have not only affected Zimbabwe, but the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a whole too.
Zimbabwe’s infrastructure has been severely affected and its economy struggles to get off the ground. Character assassination of President Mugabe and his leadership remains the order of the day. The international Western corporate media assists throughapplying a vicious propaganda campaign.
The “new” South Africa has its challenges too. Foreign foundations, a crude and raw, unbridled capitalism in its worst mutation, where a free market economy remains a mirage, taunting government and ruling party all the time.
In stead, an exclusive, oligopolistic cartelised warehouse economy has not changed its modus operandi.
However, it accepted the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) structure, because it could handpick the new BEE participants to control and influence the new elite and government.
Many South Africans lean on government to bring about economic change in these economic dire times. However, when South Africa joined BRICS, the owners of the economy cried foul. Washington dictated AGOA with all its deliberate shortcomings, showing South Africa, like Brazil, the middle finger.
The owners of the economy, like the former apartheid regime, protected cartel forming in almost all industries. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) remains majority white owned and controlled. The construction industry colluded to defraud government with billions during its building of the infrastructure in the time before the FIFA World Cup in 2010.
South Africa is of geo-strategic value. Hence, a flood of foreign interest groups muscle their way into the country. It has become vulnerable since 1994. The former order and its global network developed a “deep state” to retain control over the current status quo.
The ‘Collins English Dictionary’ defines a “deep state” as a “state within a state”, a “shadow government”, or a “permanent government”, which is a network of individuals, or groups, which are in actual charge of a “national government”. Many “democratically elected governments work as fronts, providing a level of plausible deniability and allowing the “deep state” to operate in secret. On matters of deep political importance, agents of the “deep state” routinely subvert the public machinery of government.
“In contrast to the publicly visible structures of the “nation state”, the phrases “deep state”, “shadow government”, or “permanent government” refer to the faceless influences, who influence and control them from the shadows.”
The above would explain the current political and socio-economic developments in pre-election South Africa, the Gupta case, the anti-Zuma debacle, the threats of civil war from an infantile Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) loudmouth, the re-visit of the “Arms Scandal”, the upcoming claims of corruption and bribery. After the upcoming local government elections the ANC prepares itself for the next conference and eventually the national elections in 2019.
In the above context, the effort to reduce the national support of the ANC to 50 percentof the voter base and increase the opposition’s votes to 49 percent, possibly to 51 percent, seems not far-fetched. Neither would the breaking up of trade unionism in South Africa come as a surprise.
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