Snippets from South Africa, June 2005
Freedom Front Plus spokesman on Youth Affairs, Willie Spies, said that the ancestors of most Afrikaners arrived in Africa over 300 years ago. “Most of them have not even set foot in Europe. There are sufficient grounds for them to identify themselves as Africans.” He also said: “I am tired of hearing from the ANC that they stand for a non-racial society and that SA belongs to all its people, while at the same time they introduce blatant apartheid-like measures to give effect to their ideologies. We are not playing along in this game and if the ANC persists in its drive to discriminate, we will carry on making it more difficult for them” (The Witness, April 25, 2005).
I give my wholehearted support to the Freedom Front’s campaign. Why should we cave in to the ANC’s racist ideology of classifying only black South Africans as Africans, so as to make the rest of us appear to be foreigners in the land of our birth? Every South African is an African, and should say so!
Birds of a Feather: The ANC’s Support for Mugabe…And Why
When Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe used violence, torture, terror, etc., to again fraudulently rig the election to retain control of Zimbabwe, the South African government endorsed the results and declared the election to be legitimate. Now think back. In the good old days, when Zimbabwe was Rhodesia and both it and South Africa were free countries governed by anti-Communist whites, the ANC called for international sanctions against both countries, calling their leaders oppressors, tyrants, etc. But today it speaks no word of condemnation against the tyrant Mugabe, who is brutally oppressing his own people, murdering them, starving them, turning hundreds of thousands of them into homeless refugees in their own country, destroying their livelihoods, etc., etc.
Why this silence? I am always surprised that people are surprised by this. Both Mugabe’s ZANU and the ANC were Marxist terrorist organisations before taking power in Zimbabwe and SA respectively, and they still are. They assisted each other. They supported each other. ZANU came to power first, and under it Zimbabwe gave refuge to ANC terrorists waging war against SA. There is simply no way the ANC will denounce Mugabe! Birds of a feather flock together. But there’s more.
It’s not just a matter of supporting an old crony; of returning favours. By supporting Mugabe, the ANC is sending a very loud and clear message to the people of South Africa: “Just remember, we can do exactly what Mugabe is doing, if you don’t tow the line.” Right now, the ANC enjoys huge popular support among blacks. ZANU once enjoyed the same huge support among blacks in Zimbabwe. But as the years went by that support evaporated, as Mugabe became increasingly dictatorial and brutal towards even his own supporters. Inevitably, the same must happen in SA. It will take time, it will take years, but eventually, support for the ANC will begin to evaporate. It cannot be otherwise. The ANC is a dictatorial Marxist organisation which will become increasingly oppressive over its own people. Under its rule the country will continue to spiral downwards, it will deteriorate. But the ANC is energised by the same vicious Marxist ideology that drives Mugabe. And when the day finally comes that the black people of this country no longer support the ANC, it will not hesitate to use the very same brutal means to suppress all dissent that Mugabe has used in Zimbabwe.
Seen in this light, then, SA’s support for Zimbabwe is not at all surprising.
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