Media in the centre of power struggle

WHO should govern? When the elites fight each other, it is the best time for regular people to listen and learn.

Currently the “white monopoly capitalist” (WMC) protagonists and their opponents are ruling the TV news. For a total news junky, media wars are an education process.

The main characters in this narrative are the Guptas, President Jacob Zuma and Black First Land First (BLF), represented by ANN7 news.

On the other side is a mixture of anti-Zuma, anti-Gupta, political and other groups, fronts for WMC posing as political analysts all given opportunity by e.tv news.

What is ironic is that the most unbiased TV news locals can receive is probably coming from the SABC.

As an example, recently an ANC minister berated former ANC minister of finance Trevor Manuel (a WMC denier) for being a tool of WMC and having fooled South Africans by selling state assets to his friends.

Manuel, who is now working for the global capitalist elite Rothschild family, is regularly portrayed on ANN7 as a deceitful sell-out and enemy of the poor, and a friend of WMC.

On the flipside e.tv news seeks to undermine the WMC narrative as if it never existed and blames a British-based public relations company, Bell Pottinger, of creating this concept out of thin air.

Most of us have forgotten that former president Nelson Mandela spoke about white monopoly capital in the 1950s and 1960s.

In response to e.tv, on Tuesday, July 18, ANN7 ran an interview with a former SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) committee member who explained that the economy was captured decades ago by the Sarb, which is controlled by five private banks.

The interview sought to support Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who suggested the constitution be amended and the activities of Sarb be re-examined.

Concurrently former public protector Thuli Madonsela was accused by ANN7 of being a front for WMC, which followed-allegations that she was a spy for the CIA in the US. While the elite fight over billions, locals wake up early in the morning to get to work, stand at filthy taxi ranks and train stations in the dark hoping they won’t be harassed or robbed before returning home.

Was the Struggle for human dignity a deceptive ruse for the “black elite” to replace our former masters, “the white elite”? Are South Africans incapable of having a nation of equals?

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