Exporting Apartheid Mandela Legacy

Exporting Apartheid to Sub-Saharan Africa. The Legacy of Nelson Mandela

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

This article was first published in French in the Monde diplomatique in April 1997.  It was subsequently published in the African Journal of Political Economy and in the author’s book: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order. 

The policy of land expropriation in Mozambique leading to the establishment of White Afrikaner farms using indentured Mozambican farm workers had the support of the ANC government. It also had the the personal blessing of President Nelson Mandela “who had delegated Mpumalanga Premier Matthews Phosa to the SACADA Board of Governors. Premier Phosa, a distinguished ANC politician and among the most prosperous black businessmen in Mpumalanga province (East Transvaal), contributed to laying the political ground work for the expansion of White Afrikaner business interests into neighbouring countries.  

The SACADA project was coordinated by the leader of the right wing Freedom Front and former South African Defense Force Chief General Constand Viljoen 

Viljoen developed a close personal relationship with Nelson Mandela. He had convinced Mandela that  promoting White Afrikaner  farms in neighbouring countries “would provide food and employment for locals”.  What was not discussed was that this ANC government policy implied a de facto process of land expropriation which went against the basic tenets of the ANC’s struggle for land rights for African peasants.

From the outset, international corporate agribusiness and the World Bank  were involved in this project. It is worth noting that during the period of “Transition” preceding the 1994 presidential elections, General Constand Viljoen had been “plotting an Afrikaner guerrilla war against multiracial rule”. (Financial Times, December 5, 2013)

While Mandela “believed in action” … at the core of [his] militancy was always a desire to get the white colonial regime to come to the table and talk.” (Mail and Guardian, December 12, 2013). This stance largely characterized his relationship  with General Viljoen.

It is worth noting that in the 1980s General Viljoen as Chief of the South African Defence Force led South African troops into Angola. In 1993, he participated in the establishment of the Right wing racist Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF).  He later formed the Freedom Front Party which presented candidates to the April 1994 elections.

The article on Exporting apartheid was the object of controversy.

Its publication in Le Monde diplomatique in April 1997 coincided with the hearings of the South Africa Truth Commission led by Rev Desmond Tutu, which focused on the role of General Constand Viljoen as South African Defense Force Chief during the Apartheid period. (General Viljoen testified in May 1997 before the Truth Commission

The article was the object of a June 1997 law suit claiming defamation directed against the author and Le Monde diplomatique by the South African Chamber for Agricultural Development (SACADA)  and the leader of the Freedom Front and former SADF Chief General Constand Viljoen. 

The law suit launched in Paris was subsequently thrown out by the Paris Court of Justice.

Michel Chossudovsky, December 12, 2013

The Real Mandela

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GANGSTER MANDELA'S LEGACY 

Zoleka mandela (left)

Zoleka Mandela wrote: 'From the time I was barely eight years old to the age of 14, I had been sexually abused by some of the adults who should have been looking after me."

 
Nelson Mandela's granddaughter

South Africa is famous for its child sex rings.

Gert van Rooyen / Child Sex Industry Booms In South Africa

Multi-millionaire Mandela

Nelson Mandela is as fake as Tony Blair or Jimmy Savile.

Nelson Mandela's family are rich capitalists.

His children and grandchildren are active in more than 100 companies and hold their wealth in a number of trusts.

Some of the trusts own expensive properties in Johannesburg.

The Mandelas are involved in a Mandela clothing range, minerals, the controversial Aurora mine, real estate, railway engineering, medical firms, and entertainment.

Mandela family rakes in millions

Mandela was a myth

http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2013/06/mandela-was-myth.html

The Mandela myth was a long time in preparation. The former ANC terrorists spent twenty years in jail where he was trained by MI6 to assume a statesman role on his release. How do I know? Because a classmate of mine had the job of retraining him, who worked for MI6, getting him ready for his role in South African and world political theatre, now nearly over.

The classmate was recruited out of school by the history master, who was an MI5/6 recruiter. He hand-picked boys from his history students to work for MI5, and the trainer of Mandela was one he recommended. Top stream, not the brightest in the bunch, and a chip on his shoulder. Ideal material to do whatever he was bid to acquire status. Creating media myths doesn't take a genius, just someone who can follow the foreign office handy elder statesman instruction guide, enjoys the feeling of being a cut above the others, and talks with an unnecessarily posh accent. Traitors were always so. The history teacher knew how to spot one.

It was interesting to listen to Michael Tellinger on the hidden history of South Africa, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Why did the history teacher never mention such things at school? Even now the media will never touch the real history of mankind. We only get a load of drivel imagined by the MI5/MI6 myth departments, like most of our news. Don't be taken in.

An earlier media impression before the senior statesman was created

Mandela mocks idea he was MI6 man

Such claims show 'a contempt for Africa', says anti-apartheid leader after spy-book allegations

http://rt.com/news/uk-intelligence-spy-budget-increase-252/

UK spy agencies get $154mn bonus amid sweeping cuts

UK intelligence has received the largest budget boost in the latest government review of public spending. The funds increase follows civil rights uproar at UK involvement in the NSA spy scandal.

British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has presented a review of public spending for 2015-16 on Wednesday with a view to cutting the deficit. While, funding for most government bodies have been slashed, MI6, MI5 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have received a bonus of up to $154 million.

The increase of 3.4 percent in overall funding for intelligence organizations, which already had a budget of $2.9 billion, makes them top of the UK government’s spending agenda, overtaking the health service, education and military.

The institutions that will suffer most at the hands of the $17 billion austerity cuts include the Business department, the Culture department, the Home Office and the Justice department. The Ministry of Defence, meanwhile, faces cuts of around $1.5 billion, with the reassurance that this will not stipulate a decrease in front-line troop numbers.

“While they’re cutting the science research budget, pollution controls, flood controls, closing down libraries, and dispossessing people with fragile lives, they want to put all this money into intelligence agencies and increase the foreign aid budget...Commentators have called it fascism because while they carry out ludicrous austerity, which makes no difference to the public accounts, they beef up security services as if they’re preparing for civil unrest,” RT contributor Afshin Rattansi said.

Recently, UK intelligence has come into the firing line after it was discovered the GCHQ has access to a massive global network of communications, storing calls, Facebook posts and internet histories. GCHQ also shares this data with the NSA.

The extent of the spy program is such that whistleblower Edward Snowden, who originally leaked the information to the Guardian, called it “worse than the US.” Rights groups were up in arms about the sheer scope of the network able to monitor 600 million ‘telephone events’ a day.

“This appears to be dangerously close to, if not exactly, the centralized database of all our internet communications, including some content, that successive Governments have ruled out and parliament has never legislated for,” said Nick Pickles of UK privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch.

GCHQ, for its part, has defended its sweeping eavesdropping network, saying it had always been “scrupulous” in complying with the law.

UK Foreign Minister William Hague (AFP Photo)

‘Nothing but pride’ for US-UK intelligence-sharing In answer to the public uproar to the sweeping surveillance programs, UK Foreign Minister, William Hague spoke out in support of the spy network and data sharing with the US. He said that both the US and the UK had acted in compliance with the law and used information only “to protect citizens’ freedoms.”

"We should have nothing but pride in the unique and indispensable intelligence-sharing relationship between Britain and the United States," Hague said in his speech at the Ronald Reagan Library on Tuesday afternoon. He went on to call the US-UK alliance a “bastion of freedom.”

Moreover, he stressed that such surveillance was “indispensable” to combat the growing threat of terrorism.

Following the brutal murder of 25-year-old soldier Drummer Lee Rigby by Islamist extremist in Woolwich in May, UK intelligence has come under increased scrutiny. There were suggestions that MI5 and MI6 could have done more to prevent the death of Rigby after it was found that one of the alleged killers, Michael Adebolajo, had already been flagged by UK intelligence as a potential threat.