Mandela was sympathetic to Zionism as a movement for freedom and self-determination. Today SA befriends N. Korea, not Israel
The millennium began full of contagious hope and fierce ambition. Not coincidentally, South Africa had a government which knew right from wrong. As the darling of the West the country had five jewels in its crown.
- Nelson Mandela
- A constitution second to none
- A legacy of 1st world infrastructure
- High-voltage vitality
- A nation at peace with itself
Today, outbreaks of rebellion, looting and burning signal a rock bottom after more than a decade of freefall. The elect failed to build a working state. They could not keep a dynamo economy ticking over. They weren’t even able to put one proper meal a day within the reach of hungry millions. Soup kitchens are run by charities, churches and individuals with a heart.
They struggle to feed the minions of bloated comrades – they like endearments, old communists in suits. In their whispering limos and guarded mansions they’d hardly be human if they felt for the destitute. Debauchers and plunderers, the elect took one generation to devour a legacy meant to uplift the people who voted them into power.
Here is a lesson that goes beyond yet another African country gone to the bad; actually, a lesson and a warning. An elite that keeps bad company ruins it for the entire nation. I have made this point often enough.
A recent public statement graphically illustrates the perverted, if not depraved, modality of rulers who revile the good and embrace the bad. The communiqué let it be known that the government of SA was,
“Appalled at the African Union granting Israel observer status in a year in which the oppressed people of Palestine were hounded by destructive bombardments and continued illegal settlements of their land.”
To give Israel (which has good relations with 46 African states) a seat at AU assemblies was “unjust and unwarranted.”
The bold lies are not the point. South Africa being the lone objector on the continent is also not the point. Rather it is the state of mind seemingly oblivious to the bedlam of allies and foes that a government has clung to over time.
I mean, consider some allies of the ruling ANC. They are the most rigid opponents of making peace with the Jews. The Muslim Brotherhood aka, Hamas is a close ally. So are Iran and North Korea. What binds this axis of evil together is the dream of one day wiping Israel off the map.
Oh but…the ruling party may object. Surely Nelson Mandela told the West, your enemies don’t have to be our enemies. He also said, “Our attitude toward any country is determined by the attitude of that country toward our struggle.”
For sure Mandela said it. And Zionists squirmed in their seats; they knew that Israel had traded with the Apartheid regime. Yet – the icon had stood foursquare behind Israel. Indeed he was openly sympathetic to Zionism. Mandela saw it as a movement for freedom and self-determination. No doubt about it, he took the two state delusion to heart. He also took the suicide bombing of Israelis to task. When his words caused a furore, in his party and the Muslim community, the proud figure was made to recant.
One has to wonder: did the ruling party stop to think if Mandela thought his principle out fully? After all, the cruellest regime on earth gave succour to the anti-Apartheid movement. Would Mandela have turned a blind eye to North Korea running a criminal hub at the embassy in Pretoria? With friends like these, ran a recent headline, who needs enemies? https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/latest-news-north-korea-south-africa-pretoria-embassy-criminals
North Korea’s record is considered to have no contemporary parallel. In a 1,400-page report a UN panel described its methods as resembling Nazi methods, of which a sprinkling are:
- Public executions of Christians for as little as giving out bibles.
- Resettlement of whole families for punishment.
- Babies born with defects are immediately put to death.
- The disabled are rounded up and sent to special camps.
- The right to food, health, shelter, work, freedom of movement and liberty depend on bribing state officials.
- Drafting girls as young as 14 years into prostitution teams.
- Women suspected of being impregnated by Chinese men are subjected to abortion, or their babies born alive are put to death.
- Alive premature babies are sometimes killed but more commonly discarded into a bucket or box and buried. They may live several days in the container.
- There are some 323 sites where public executions take place for “anti-state” activities
- According to the testimony of a former camp guard, children fought over who got to eat a kernel of corn retrieved from cow dung.
- Political prisoners perform slave labour with primitive tools. Prisoners are constantly on the brink of starvation. An estimated 40% die from malnutrition. Others are crippled from work accidents, frostbite or torture.
“Our attitude toward any country is determined by the attitude of that country toward our struggle.”
Towards North Korea the ANC to this day keeps to the Mandela dictum.
But his fervid support for Israel? This the ANC does not keep.
About Jews Paul Johnson writes in the Epilogue to ‘A History of the Jews’:
“One way of summing up 4,000 years of Jewish history is to ask ourselves, what would have happened to the human race if Abraham had not been a man of great sagacity or if he had stayed in Ur and kept his higher notions to himself, and no specific Jewish people had come into being. …
“To them we owe the idea of equality before the law; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the person; of the individual conscience and so of personal redemption; of the collective conscience and so of social responsibility; …and many other items constituting the basic moral furniture.”
If the government of SA understands moral furniture, it would be the looted sort.
Steve Apfel is an economist and costing specialist, but most of all a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction. His blog, ‘Balaam’s curse’ https://enemiesofzion.wordpress.com/ is followed mainly in Europe, America, Canada, S. Africa, Israel, Scandinavia and Australasia.
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When I say that Sth Africa was better when it had apartheid, I do not refer to the whites’ demeaning attitude to all others. I mean that the country was orderly, ran as a proper country, very little major crime, nobody went hungry, inluding those in village huts.
I married a “mixed race” lady from Capetown, whose family, being prominent, even in Sth Africa, had many dealings with the white people and were respected. I know much of what went on there. My wife’s family and their particular community of about 300 people never obeyed the apartheid “separate but equal” laws and were never quesioned about it by any overbearing white bully. They were able to amass considerable wealth and were a comfortabe community. When one of the later white PMs came to power he threw his weight around much more than others, so some of the communiy came to Canada, which is where my wife and I met…
They had lived in Wynberg for many years, when it was a beautiful area with many large homes. It was regarded as a “white” area, but my in-laws were on excellent terms with their neighbours.. A grandparent, or great-grandparent was from St. Helena, and named Isaacs. This was around the time that Nathaniel Isaacs went trekking to Chaka’s Krall. and led a considerably adventutous life there. I have his diary of travels. He was a Jew, from London, sent out to help his uncle at St Helena, a prominant trader. There were several families maned Isaacs there and all related.
Not only Steve Apfel but a number of other journalists of South African background have pointed out that the S.A. governments vigorously pursued “affirmative action ” policies, aimed at making nearly all positions of authority in both government service and the private sector filled by individuals who represent the racial-ethnic composition and demography of the country as a whole, (“equity” and “diversity” in the current U.S. jargon) has meant that individuals who are not qualified and adequately trained to perform the duties of their positions occupy most positions in the police, civil service, nonprofits and corporations. Many of these individuals have proved to be corrupt. But most are simply incompetent, even if they are honest and do their best to carry out their responsibilities. They just don’t know how to do their jobs. The collapse of the electric grid, the railroads, and the airline industry, and sharp declines in industrial production have resulted, rendering the country plagued by supply shortages of everything and near bankruptcy.
South Africa contains 34 different ethnic groups, each speaking their own language. All of these are now official languages of the republic. Everyone has the right to have their children educated in their own language. All government publications having to be published in all 34 of these languages, Even nightly news broadcasts are repeated 34 times in each of thesse languages. This makes for chaos, since government officials and corporate executives often cannot even communicate with each other. Had more of an effort been made to promote English as a common language rather than making all of the languages and dialects have equal status, perhaps South Africa would be more of a functioning society.
All of these disastrous mistakes in the name of “diversity” and “equity” have a clear message for the United States, where the ruling Democrats have made proportionate representation by race as the criterion for appointments to leadership positions, and hav language and culture. If the diversity-equity crowd remains in power in the U.S., it will soon be as impoverished and chaotic as South Africa.
No one can REIN in the corruption and maggot nfested dungpit which is South Africa today. They were far better off with “Apartheid”.
And since when is Sth. Africa a part of the civilised world. I demoted that country years ago. Their rapid slide into Oligarchic anarchy was obvious to all.
Not only does the South African government have antisemitic tendencies, but it has reduced the people of South Africa to extreme poverty, and is responsible for the loss of vital social services and medical care, massive crime, a complete breakdown of law and order, massive looting and arson, constant electicity blackouts, a huge AIDS epidemic, and now followed by by a serious cv-2 epidemic. 10 percent of the child-bearing-age population have active cases of AIDS, and 20 per cent have tested HIV positive. There has been massive political corruption. Efforts by the current president to reign in the corruption and prosecute his ultra-corrupt predecessor has led the ex-president, now in jail on a brief sentence, to organize massive nationwide riots with the help of his huge political machine. A radical Marxist-cum-black supremacist group, EFF has engaged in a mass campaign of harrassment of white South Africans. Thousands of white farmers and their wives have been murdered, and tthe wives together with their daughters raped. But farmers wives and daughters are by no means the only women who have been raped. South Africa has the highest number of reported rapes of any country in the world that has kept reasonably accurate crime statistics. And it ranks among the top 10 countries of the world with th highest over-all crime rates.
One thing that is interesting is that the huge number of virtue-signaling whites in the Western world who helped to bring down the former all-white governments and to replace them with “majority-rule, one-person-one-vote governments, have shown no concern at all about the current misery and suffering of the South African people under their current, theoretically majority-rule government. This shows that their past opposition to the “apartheid” regime was mere virtue signaling, and not a genuine concern for the well-being and happiness of the South African people.