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The Red Chinese are coming! They are casting their greedy eyes on southern Africa, aiming to colonize this part of the world as they have begun to colonize the rest of the continent.

It is neo-colonialism, of course: Chinese investment for China’s own benefit, extracting the natural resources of Africa to develop Chinese industries, then selling the Chinese products back to the Africans; all in exchange for propping up corrupt, dictatorial African tyrannies. Who wins? China. It grows richer, Africa continues to grow poorer. Yes, it’s neo-colonialism; but it is no less real or sinister for all that. It is in fact the very reason why Marxist China, and Marxist Russia, supported the Marxist terrorist organizations in southern Africa since before the 1960s: to establish puppet Marxist regimes in these African countries, beholden to their new Chinese and Russian masters. It had nothing to do with “ending colonialism.” It had everything to do with replacing European colonialism with Chinese and Russian colonialism. And now these two giant Communist powers (yes, Russia is still Communist!) are beginning to reap the rewards for assisting the African terrorist organizations to come to power in all these African countries. Conservative anti-Communists in southern Africa warned about this for decades, but their warnings went unheeded. The Russians and the Chinese supported African terrorism because they wanted Africa; and now they have it.

Africa’s vast, untapped reserves of fossil fuels and minerals are drawing Red China like a magnet. It has been developing oil fields in Sudan, with that country now supplying 5% of China’s oil consumption. And in exchange for Sudanese oil it played a major role in blocking UN intervention in the mass killings in Darfur. In Nigeria, not only is there oil but also (as indeed in the rest of Africa) a massive market for China’s manufactured goods: clothing, shoes, hardware, electronic items. In Kenya, the government announced in August this year that it had secured over US $35 million in grants and concessional loans from China; with the Kenyan president speaking of China as “a dependable and good friend of Kenya.” Bilateral trade between Kenya and China has jumped 46% since 2003.

In a mere three years (2001 to 2004), Red China’s trade with Africa more than doubled, from US $10 billion to $20 billion.

And now she is eyeing the southern African states: Lesotho, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. But the southern African leaders, always so quick to condemn European colonialism and to insist that never again will African countries be ruled by “colonialists”, will resist Chinese colonialism tooth and nail, right? Wrong! They are eagerly embracing these new colonial overlords from the Far East, in exchange for all kinds of favours.

In Mozambique, Chinese businessmen have expressed great interest in buying shares in the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam. And they have made it clear that they are interested in investing, also, in developing the riches of the entire Zambesi Valley: investing in agriculture, in hydropower, and in exploiting coal for producing energy in thermal power stations.

In Botswana, China is involved in construction deals.

In Namibia, the Chinese government is expected to foot the bill for building the new presidential palace in 2006. Namibia’s minister of works said that the cost would be covered by a “generous” grant from China. Projected figures in budget documents estimate the total value of the construction at almost N$500 million.

And what about Zimbabwe? The Communist regime in Zimbabwe boasts that it destroyed European colonialism there. The election campaign of the ruling Marxist ZANU-PF in 2005 had the slogan, “We are a sovereign nation! We will never be a colony again!” There were constant and rabid attacks on what was termed “British Imperialism” and the opposition party, the MDC, was accused of being a puppet of Tony Blair. And yet ZANU-PF is flinging open the country to a new colonizer: Red China.

ZANU-PF has been friends with Red China since at least the 1960s, when their revolution against the then-Rhodesian government was supported by Communist China. China gave ZANU immense support in the form of training, logistics, and political support. In return, ZANU terrorist leaders embraced Chinese-style Communism.

In Zimbabwe today, the Chinese want raw materials, opportunities for investment in platinum mines, power production, farms, etc., and opportunities to dump their cheap manufactured goods. These mass-produced, inferior-quality goods cannot be dumped on countries in the developed world, so under-developed, unsophisticated Africa is the obvious choice. And President Robert Mugabe and his Marxist cabinet are only too willing to let China into Zimbabwe, in exchange for Chinese investment, and for Chinese assistance to keep them in power - not to mention Chinese commercial planes, busses, military aircraft, army trucks and riot gear, and even Chinese tourists as a source of revenue! Mugabe’s recent vicious attack on his own citizens, through “Operation Drive Out Trash”, had as one of its hidden motives the purpose of expanding Chinese interests in Zimbabwe. For Chinese businessmen have been pouring into Zimbabwe (an estimated 10 000 of them) selling cheap goods - and Red China has made it clear to Mugabe that it does not want any competition from the local Zimbabwean small business sector. This in exchange, of course, for aid from China for the Mugabe regime. The Chinese government has absolutely no qualms about using brutal force to stay in power; and so it is prepared to prop up other brutal Communist regimes, such as ZANU in Zimbabwe.

Some of the new Chinese citizens of Zimbabwe have been granted farms stolen by the government from the white farmers. In this way, Communist China is in fact colonizing Zimbabwe - and very easily and cheaply too. All it is costing China is some jets, some expertise, some tiles for Mugabe’s new palace roof; and in return it is gaining rich farmland, access to vast mineral wealth, and a monopoly on business.

Truly, the European colonizers paid a far higher price, in blood and tears.

And China is gaining something even greater than all of this: a foothold in southern Africa. No price can be placed on that. And nothing could be more sinister and ominous for conservative, anti-Communist people in southern Africa.

The Chinese have been swamping Africa with cheap textiles and other goods, thereby putting untold numbers of blacks out of work because African clothing and textile industries simply cannot compete with China’s ultra-cheap (albeit generally inferior) goods.

In the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, in a four-month period, almost 10 000 workers lost their jobs in six factory closures, triggered by Red China’s involvement in the world textiles market. And Swaziland and Namibia, too, are shedding jobs at an alarming rate.

In South Africa, the same thing is happening: the influence of Red China is being felt, as cheap Chinese goods swamp the market, forcing African industries out of business. Over 30 000 textile jobs have been lost in South Africa. And yet the Chinese influence continues to grow and grow. In KwaZulu-Natal province (KZN), members of the provincial legislature hosted a visit by a delegation from a province in China in June 2005. The visit was intended to strengthen relations between the two provinces, and to investigate opportunities for Chinese investment in KwaZulu-Natal. Such investment was welcomed by the speaker of the KZN legislature and by the chairman of the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Business.

But what makes this whole tragedy even worse in South Africa is that this situation must be laid squarely at the door of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its partners, the SA Communist Party (SACP) which essentially controls the ANC, and COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions). Through mass action and strikes over many long years, the ANC/SACP and COSATU have forced South African businesses to constantly raise the wages of black workers. Many businesses have gone under in SA simply because they could no longer afford to pay what their black workers were demanding. Blacks demand far more money for far less work, than the workforces in other countries do. Then, on top of that, the ANC government has rammed through all kinds of legislation which has hamstrung employers and essentially made the “workers” the ones who are calling the shots. In true Communist style, labour laws in SA today favour the workers and constantly penalize the employers. The result: SA labour is just not competitive. Local industries simply cannot compete with the Chinese.

In China, the Communist dictatorship runs its vast workforce as a giant slave camp, paying them starvation wages; in South Africa, the Communist dictatorship is waging war against the Capitalist business leaders, so it constantly stirs the masses to agitate for higher and higher wages, all kinds of unrealistic perks, etc. Both countries are Communist; it’s just that they are using different tactics because of the different conditions in each. Do not for a moment think that SA’s Communist overlords care more for their people than the Red Chinese overlords do. The masses of SA’s black poor will discover in time, to their cost, that their leaders never cared one whit for their wellbeing, and they will be as enslaved as the Chinese are today; indeed they are half-way there already. The ANC/SACP government cares only for itself. It is merely using SA’s labouring class as pawns in its own giant game. The purpose of the game is to enrich itself and entrench itself in power.

And as Chinese influence grows and extends across South Africa, black workers will be paid much, much less than ever they were before! That is the stark reality. The Red Chinese are here to milk southern Africa dry. That’s all they are interested in, all they have ever been interested in. The masses count for nothing. Just as they are able to massacre their own people without a twinge of conscience, so they are able to bleed their workers dry. And like all Communists everywhere, they share these endearing qualities with the ANC/SACP rulers in SA.

Not to put too fine a point on it, Red Chinese neo-colonization of the Dark Continent will make black Africans sigh with nostalgic longing for the “good old days” of European colonization. But it will be too late: the Europeans have gone, the white Africans are leaving, and the black Africans will be saddled with a vicious, cruel Eastern taskmaster. Black Africans have spent decades condemning European colonization, calling it slavery, oppression, etc.; but as the Red Chinese colonize this continent, black Africans will learn, to their awful cost, what true slavery and oppression is! Indeed, they will not have experienced such slavery since the Europeans they hate so much put an end to the African slave trade which had been conducted with such gusto by Arabs and by greedy, corrupt African chiefs. A fact which is conveniently overlooked in their enthusiasm to constantly demonize Africa’s whites.

19 September 2005

Sources:

News24.Com

AllAfrica.Com

Sokwanele Newsletter, 21 June 2005

Source: Digital Telegraph http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=632833

The Witness, June 27, 2005

The Witness, July 30, 2005

Shaun Willcock is a minister of the Gospel, and lives in South Africa. He runs Bible Based Ministries.

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