Nelson Mandela: The Untold Story -- Some Inconvenient Facts

Given that the entire planet seems to be of one voice in both mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela and celebrating his life, most will find it inconceivable that anyone would think to so much as suggest that Mandela was anything less than the saint that his admirers are working tirelessly to depict him as.

Mandela was a proponent of “democratic socialism” who, along with the South African Communist Party, unleashed a torrent of violence against his political opponents that included the bombing of government sites. He was convicted of “sabotage” and attempting to overthrow the government—charges to which he openly confessed at his trial. And in spite of having been released from prison in 1990 after serving 27 years and eventually becoming South Africa’s first black president, he remained on the United States Terror Watch list until as recently as 2008. The late Margaret Thatcher characterized Mandela’s African National Congress as a “typical terrorist organization.”

Ilana Mercer is a writer and former resident of South Africa who knows all too well about Mandela and his legacy. One of her books, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, includes a chapter chock full of interesting, but inconvenient, facts regarding the man who is now being lauded as never before.

Mercer informs us that long before apartheid came crumbling down, the government of South Africa offered to release Mandela from jail as long as he promised to renounce violence. Mandela, though, “refused to do any such thing [.]” Mercer adds that Mandela’s “TV smile has won out over his political philosophy, founded as it is on energetic income redistribution in the neo-Marxist tradition, on ‘land reform’ in the same tradition, and on ethnic animosity toward the Afrikaner.”

In 1992, two years after Mandela was set free, he was videoed at an event surrounded by members of the South African Communist Party, his own African National Congress (ANC), and “the ANC’s terrorist arm, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), which Mandela led.” Courtesy of YouTube, all with eyes to see could now witness “Mandela’s fist…clenched in a black power salute” as the members of MK sang their anthem, a little song according to which they reaffirm their pledge to “‘kill them—kill the whites.’”

Mandela remained a socialist to the last, Mercer assures us, even though he cleverly—but transparently—“rebranded” it. Mandela’s was a racial socialism, a point established beyond doubt by the remarks he made in 1997. Mercer quotes Mandela insisting that “the future of humanity” cannot be “surrendered to the so-called free market, with government denied the right to intervene [.]” Mandela also declared the need for the “ownership and management” of the South African economy to reflect “the racial composition of our society” and criticized “the…capitalist system” in South Africa for elevating to “the highest pedestal the promotion of the material interests of the white minority.”

For the conceit of those Westerners who assume that Mandela’s thought is a justified response to the evils of apartheid, Mercer has just the treatment. She reminds us that Mandela and his ANC “had never concealed that they were as tight as thieves with communist and terrorist regimes—Castro, Gaddafi, Arafat, North Korea and Iran’s cankered Khameneis.” Mercer further reminds us that in addition to once cheering, “‘Long live Comrade Fidel Castro!’” Mandela referred to Gaddafi as “‘my brother leader” and Arafat as “‘a comrade in arms.’”

Moreover, though awarded by President George W. Bush in 2003 with the Medal of Freedom Award, Mercer observes that Mandela couldn’t resist issuing the harshest of indictments against America. “‘If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world,’” Mandela said, “’it is the United States of America.’” He added that “‘they,” meaning Americans, presumably, “don’t like human beings.’”

And what is Mandela’s legacy to his native South Africa? It is the purpose of Mercer’s book to show that it is nothing to write home about. “Since he [Mandela] came to power in 1994, approximately 300,000 people have been murdered.” “Bit by barbaric bit,” she writes, “South Africa is being dismantled by official racial socialism, obscene levels of crime—organized and disorganized—AIDS, corruption, and an accreting kleptocracy.”

Mercer’s book is a rarity inasmuch as it supplies us with a brutally frank account of the real South Africa that Nelson Mandela helped to bequeath to the world. While the rest of the world is busy singing hosannas to Mandela over the next few days, those of us who are interested in truth would be well served to visit it.

Province	1994/95	1995/96	1996/97	1997/98	1998/99	1999/00	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03
Eastern Cape	76.8	73.4	70.4	61.5	59.6	56.2	50.7	55.2	52.1
Free State	50.6	54.0	50.7	46.1	43.3	38.6	33.9	34.2	35.2
Gauteng	83.1	81.3	76.6	78.2	77.5	64.6	63.1	54.1	53.3
Kwazulu-Natal	95.0	92.5	76.4	72.9	75.1	67.7	61.4	57.0	56.5
Mpumalanga	37.5	43.6	50.0	42.8	39.7	35.6	32.0	29.6	33.1
North West	37.6	44.5	46.7	38.9	40.9	31.6	30.2	30.2	30.7
Northern Cape	69.5	83.9	70.3	64.7	70.4	58.4	55.6	54.8	52.7
Limpopo	22.2	19.8	19.0	19.3	18.4	15.3	14.6	16.1	13.2
Western Cape	71.5	83.9	79.4	80.6	86.9	77.0	84.0	76.2	79.5
South Africa	66.9	67.9	62.8	59.5	59.8	52.5	49.8	47.8	47.4

Province	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	Δ%
Eastern Cape	48.6	48.6	53.2	52.6	51.1	49.5	48.4	47.3	-5.1%
Free State	30.5	30.7	29.5	32.2	29.7	31.6	31.4	34.1	6.5%
Gauteng	48.8	41.6	38.8	40.8	38.9	37.9	32.7	29.1	-26.5%
Kwazulu-Natal	53.9	51.1	49.9	50.4	47.0	47.0	40.4	35.2	-28.5%
Limpopo	12.9	13.8	12.9	13.9	12.9	14.2	14.6	12.2	-3.6%
Mpumalanga	30.4	31.9	25.4	24.8	23.6	25.1	24.3	20.0	-31.6%
North West	25.9	23.9	22.8	24.4	24.3	25.1	21.5	23.2	-13.9%
Northern Cape	40.4	38.1	36.4	38.1	38.3	36.5	33.2	31.0	-20.6%
Western Cape	63.1	58.7	59.2	60.7	58.6	44.6	42.4	44.2	-18.6%
South Africa	42.7	40.3	39.6	40.5	38.6	37.3	34.1	31.9	-19.6%

Mandela Memorial Service. A Festival Hypocrisy and Cynicism

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ChristianConceptsDaily ^ | Dec 12th, 2013

http://www.christianconceptsdaily.com/mandelas-memorial-service-nullifying-the-differences-for-any-price/

Thus former President of the United States, George W. Bush and the American law-makers sat under the same roof with the uber-dictator, Robert Mugabe, Bolshevik hegemon, Raoul Castro and the second most important official from the Chinese Communists, the apparatchik, “Vice-President” Li.

It has been said that the African National Congress (AFC) and the South African Communist Party are a two-heads creature. They shared their goals, strategies and members. One of the top members, was their leader Nelson Mandela. The speakers confirmed it during the Memorial Service to commemorate the former President of South Africa.

Nevertheless, some in the West are still ignoring this fact. Tens of thousands of mourners, mostly members and sympathizers of the African National Congress, and numerous global dignitaries paid their last respects to the former president in the Pretoria stadium on Tuesday, 10th of December. Numerous speakers asserted during the ceremony, that Mandela was “a founding father of the democratic state of the South Africa”.

Was it really a celebration of the Western democracy? Can Mandela be a symbol or an icon of it?

Some of the speakers, including his former “brother-in-arms”, in their remarks called him “a Comrade” and “a great leader”. A careful observer could tell that these words seemed to be some special code known to the locals. Whenever the ANC deputy president and joint master of ceremonies, Cyril Rhamaposa uttered these words some parts of the crowd would become energized. They would shout and sing with their hand stretched upward and clenched their fist, a known symbol of the Communists.

Whether or not they were aware, the leaders of the Western democracies gathered in Pretoria’s stadium were inadvertently taking part in the celebration of “the people’s democracy” and not the democracy. What is the difference? The people’s democracy was used by the Kremlin together with the Communist parties around the globe, to pursue their unlimited goals such as conquering the world.

During the Bolshevik rule, the Communist Party around the globe led by the Kremlin, committed indescribable crimes in the name of the very same “people’s democracy”. Some examples of their crimes include: murder of the millions of Ukrainians, imposing on them an artificial hunger, support of the war crime of murdering several thousands of war prisoners, Polish officers in Katyn, co-responsibility for the Holocaust together with Nazi Germany, killing of hundreds of millions of innocent people in China and other Asian countries. Further more, the murder of hundreds of thousands of people in Africa. The Kremlin committed this latter crime with a the local instrument, which was the African National Congress.

“A people’s democracy”, a Communist tautology, is used as a cover by the Communist rulers, which are neither “people’s” but a self-imposed regime nor “democratic” but a tyrannical power.

The documents and witnesses over the years confirmed that the Communist Nelson Mandela, found himself deprived of the ANC’s major sponsor, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and changed his tactics.

Did he himself really change? It is being said that he had resigned from violence. He did. Violent methods were useless for him since his Communist comrades, the policy makers from the ANC, could finally get their hands on the steering wheel. Exaggeration? Not at all.

Mandela appointed in his first government, the chief of the African National Congress Comrade, Alfted Nzo, as the first foreign minister. As the documents from the Soviet Communist Party Archives have proven. In 1979, the same Alfred Nzo had secretly ordered the weapons and forged passports from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to run the terror campaign against the democratic governments in Africa including South Africa.

Instead of standing trial, Nzo stood on the red carpet, before the cameras being praised as a peacemaker. Was it possible that Mandela appointed Nzo onto the central nerve system of the young state by accident?

What if he wanted to push South Africa closer to the Russian orbit and to keep it beyond the reach of the United States and its allies. In fact, Gorbachev’s plan appeared to have such a goal – as former KGB strategists Anatoliy Golitsyn explained in his letter to the CIA which was published in “Perestroika Deception”:

to facilitate a shift of the emerging regime in South Africa from the Western sphere of influence, towards close economic and political cooperation and alliance with the CIS. USING for this purpose, old friendships with leaders of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party with which it is effectively merged.

Mandela portrayed the formation of his government, which would consist of the former Comrades from the African National Congress, as a victory of the democracy in South Africa. The West was complacent and fell in the trap of hyper-optimism and self-contentment.

So what should Mandela have done to prove that he had changed? He should have opened the African National Congress archives and convinced his Comrades to talk about the secret cooperation with the Empire of Evil. He did nothing. Mandela duped the world and with skillful manipulation covered his past behind the thin curtain.

Even today some respected senior political figures, aspiring to the highest offices, historians themselves, appear to be victims of such manipulation by joining the chorus of the ignoramuses and cynics, who are praising the Communist terrorist. A product of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the international communist movement.

It is even more amazing that some leaders of the Western world cannot understand it, given the wealth of information in the open sources.

Maybe some of them, after hours of sitting in the stadium, became surprised or maybe even shocked about what they had heard and seen. Democrats and tyrants were sitting together in the source of their power would not be important. The television footage around the globe was continually showing the representatives of the states, that were still committing crimes against humanity and those who are supposed to defend the innocent victims of the criminal regimes.

Hundreds of thousands true fighters for freedom and dignity are being tortured and killed in the prisons, labor camps and secret places of detention around Zimbabwe, China and Cuba.

Mandela’s record of defense of the Chinese, Cuban or other freedom fighters is not impressive. It is impossible to find any statement in which he would criticize for instance: Beijing, Phenian, Teheran, PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, Kremlin, or Havana regimes. None.

Is it possible that Mandela’s indifference or lack of activity on behalf of true freedom fighters was just ideological?

It is more than clear today that Nelson Mandela was not just one of the top leaders of the African National Congress but he was Comrade Li Yuanchao, “vice-president”, top apparatchik in the Chinese Communist Party was teaching Western leaders about the greatness of Mandela at the Memorial also a top member of the South African Communist Party.

A fact that he denied during his trial. He even repeated this statement in his autobiography. On page 239 he wrote: “I was not a communist nor a member of the party”. On the day of Mandela’s Memorial Service in the Pretoria Stadium, the former deputy general secretary of the South African Communist Party, Solly Mapaila stated in an interview with the Business Day, that Mandela, was a member of the party but it was denied at the time for “political reasons”.

“At his arrest in 1962, Nelson Mandela was not only a member of the then underground South African Communist Party, but was also a member of our party’s central committee. To us, South African communists, Cde [Comrade – note by TP] Mandela shall forever symbolize the fundamental contribution of the SACP in our liberation struggle” – the party said in a statement reacting to Mandela’s death.

“The contribution of the communists in the struggle to achieve the South African freedom has very few parallels in the history of our country. After his release from prison in 1990 Cde Madiba [Nelson Mandela – note by TP] became a great and close friend of communists till his last days.”

Why did Mandela not admit that he was a member of the central committee of the South African Communist Party? Time has changed. At that the time he was released from prison, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and there was “too much negativity around the Soviet system” – Mapaila said.

The Memorial Service became a good lesson of history for a diligent observer.

The crowd in the stadium gathered to remember their former President, cheered enthusiastically to acknowledge the African Dictator In Chief, Robert Mugabe. Even him could not believe it.

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