You sold out black South Africans, Mr Mbeki
DEAR Honourable Former President,
When we had thought we were defending “our people” to eradicate Islamophobia and genocide against the people of Palestine, Judge Julia Sebutinde, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, adopted the same attitude as you, former president when you said, “who is not our people”.
Now I understand why it was your ANC that had allowed the perpetuation of whites-only communities in your so-called liberated South Africa.
It is not surprising that it was your ANC that engaged in a campaign to disarm black people while allowing white people to own as many guns as they wished. When your ANC had advocated for a gun-free society we were naïve not to realise that you meant black society. Your ANC allowed secret military training for white people while our people were being forcefully demilitarised. Your sudden U-turn on your “I will not campaign for the ANC” utterances, is one such example of a chameleon changing spots.
In the ’80s when everyone warned us about you, we vehemently defended you because we did not believe anyone in the liberation movement of our people could be a sellout. Of course, the phrase “our people” was always in your mouth like all of us. Little did we know that you did not mean the same thing as the rest of us when you referred to “our people”.
Your questionable relationship with Craig Williamson also did not raise much alarm because we thought you were politically conscious. Now it makes sense why the ANC adopted a deliberate campaign to obliterate Black Consciousness activists. You and your movement never regarded them as “your people” since they were spreading self-love for black people, a concept that you hated because it did not advocate for the love for “your people”, the white folk.
When Williamson later confessed to killing Onkgopotse Tiro with a letter bomb, you defended him as an innocent white folk, again because after all “who in South Africa is not our people”.
You seem to believe that all that which is ANC is sacrosanct; your blinkered belief that the Freedom Charter is the holy book and therefore cannot be wrong is a dangerous poison fed to our youth by your ANC. That you hold a position of prominence in society does not mean your views cannot be challenged. In fact, it is the same reason why we should quickly correct the distortions you make, lest generations fall into the trap of neo-liberalism legitimised by your likes.
If the Freedom Charter was holy, then we would never have had the breakaway of the PAC from the Charterist Movement in the 1950’s. We all know the Freedom Charter is a liberal doctrine sponsored by white monopoly capital so it can accommodate the interests of white capital and the minority property rights.
The Freedom Charter was cooked in the talks that led to the Lusaka Declaration of 1969 which was sponsored by Britain and America. The Lusaka Manifesto of 1962 was also a result of that sell-out programme. Needless to, the Harare Declaration of 1989 which was the gateway for the Codesa negotiations was the extension of that Lusaka sellout programme too.
Today, Africa is reeling from the spell of post-colonial independence through sell-out agreements such as the Continuation of Colonisation Agreement because of the Lusaka Declaration.
Your recitation, “I am an African”, clearly does not have any revolutionary sense. I know this may be distorted as an anti-white sentiment, but I must state that being a believer in Black Consciousness and the salvation of black people from the bondage and mental slavery, is in no way an attack on white people, it is merely self-love.
It was your ANC that had for years engaged in making white people believe that the PAC and the Black Consciousness Movement had an agenda to drive white people into the sea, yet you and I know that nothing had been further from the truth than this propaganda.
The terms of political settlement in South Africa had their foundation laid in the political advice offered to the ANC and the Communist Party of South Africa, by comrade Leon Trotsky in his thesis of 1935 which your Stalinist ANC had rejected. The Lineage of your ANC to Stalinism lured the organisation into political oblivion and skewed political consciousness.
This also explains the ANC’s onslaught against Trotsky and his movement. All of this led to the confusion you have about who are our people. It is your ANC that has been chasing after white people begging for reconciliation when the other party has been drifting further and further from the reconciliatory agenda.
The land question in this country cannot be trivialised and ridiculed in the way you do. I do not know what you mean when you say that the ANC you belong to does not advocate for “giving the land to our people.”
Not long ago the ANC told us there shall be expropriation of land without compensation.
So, your attitude towards our land is a dangerous one and is clearly sponsored by those who have possession of our land.
You have over the years made our people feel guilty for demanding their stolen land but it is not surprising given your political associates.