Hi emersonreturn, RT has a reasonable article mainly about Nelson Mandela. In it, you will see how much of the original video is just wrong and I get so mad if they slander Mandela. You will see from his quotes in the article that he wanted the country to bury the hatchet. https://www.rt.com/africa/621448-nelson-mandela-lifelong-struggle/

You will also notice that Mandela eventually started negotiations after rejecting them a number of times, but not under the the ANC. So, you may understand why I get so angry with the current bunch, because they have sold out every principle that Mandela set out – every sense of true reconciliation that there ever was.

The white community was with Mandela. Anyway, much better article than the usual. There are a few detail problems. Each time it is described that some action was ‘peaceful’, it was very violent, from all sides.

That beautiful and productive country these ANC dicks and criminals broke apart. I wonder if people even have any idea what a successful reconciliation in South Africa could have meant for the rest of Africa. It could have been the Burkina Faso of the times.

Mandela: “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”
“I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred… The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity,”

He understood the path of freedom very deeply.

“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

“It is not true that the enfranchisement of all will result in racial domination. Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial and, when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Now check this: “The ANC has spent half a century fighting against racialism. When it triumphs, it will not change that policy.”

And lo and behold, Mandela was hardly cold in his grave and they changed that policy.

Just a tad of Fela Kuti

My dearest emersoonreturn,

I do not know what you want me to say, but I’ve said some things.  The problem is that most of Africa is still so entangled in neo-colonialism, and it is not ‘the other guys fault’.

This starts with a liberation movement that does not end up well – they are there to liberate but not to govern effectively.  YEAH! and then the excuses start.

The white party … How dumb is Jamarl?  How many times has he been there?  Has he ever looked at the DA?  It is an integrated management team and a multi-cultural party.  I guess in this sphere, he is skating on thin ice by applying his Western values.  He does not know what he is talking about.  The DA is the 2nd largest party without which the ANC cannot survive.  If the DA walks, the ANC has no mandate to govern.   The DA is a relative white party as they are from the Cape Province and there are relatively more whites, coloreds and indians.  Rainbow nation duh!

The white genocide … If he used his head, and looked at the numbers, the killings of farmers are critical. The crime rate is sky high, and if you roll it into the crime rate, it looks like nothing which shows how pathetic the crime rate is.  But if you start comparing.. farmer killings (and it is now all colors but there are relatively fewer black farmers) as a percentage of for example, killings of any other grouping, it is way beyond – compare that rate of killings of farmers with say … uhm, killings of policeman, the farmers are way ahead.  Farmers in South Africa are being killed at a higher rate than a small war.   Trump called ‘white genocide’, nobody else.   Nowadays the farmers are solidly connected with radios and can call for help very quickly.  The local social groups are intent on security.

I just replayed the New African Covenant, from Traoré, before I saw your video here…

Mandela was a stop gap president? What shortsightedness. He (and his alter ego) set a tone, they set a value .. and that was the value of a Rainbow Nation (many tribes or ethic groups) .. not a bunch of liberators that steal and refuse to govern. Always remember that the ANC inherited a functioning and thriving country, and now ALL state organizations are bankrupt – the airlines, the railways, the post office, the power generators… everything – all state governed service operators.  The ANC screwed it up totally. Not even the IMF or World Bank will give them loans any longer, and I’ve said before that BRICS won’t give them a sou, because they don’t develop; they steal it. And that has not changed.

Mandela was in negotiations from the late 1980’s with the so called freedom election or democracy in 1994. He was neither isolated nor ignored and had his team with him even in the jail.  How bitter, to blame Mandela. How little does one have left over if you have to blame Madiba, the clan name of The Father of the Nation?.

The ANC missed the opportunity, and they were advised by ‘whites’ on black empowerment to make structural changes. Now, the whites are to blame again. That is a dead ANC give-away – blame the other one, best if it is a white.

Now, after 30 years, they want to do something? They’ve failed. How many do-overs do they want?

People have rights, they can speak – he says. But they cannot live. They cannot eat. And they want to smash the state? That means smashing themselves, the ANC and I concur heartily. The state that made it so that they cannot eat? The story about wearing military uniforms – that is just nonsense. Traoré is at war .. it is a military administration – the western forces have put a mess of ISIS types on the Sahel States. Traoré has been there for just a few years, and he has thrown France out.  South Africa still are in cahoots with the ‘white’ bosses – they call it minority capital, but if that leaves, nobody will eat. Because it is relatively simple, they could not establish a government or an economic system that works.  They intend to make the Bolshevik mistakes.

The race laws do not support the poor masses. They encourage those that do not work, do not learn and do not do anything … because they can shout race laws.  See how clever – those that cannot get the neo-colonialists out because they are in full cahoots,  by saying it is not a fundamental change. Uhm .. that kind of criticism just pissed me off.  Psychology of subordination?   Take a look at Traoré, he is not throwing out French that work with him .. he is throwing out those that are taking the Burkina Faso’s wealth in mining or in any other productive endeavour and in the main, he is economically supporting it locally – So what is this guy jealous about?  He is still decolonizing his mind? Sure sure .. Let’s keep a colonized mind so we have an excuse.

The interviewee is also not South African, although he lectures there.  He is almost certainly from Northern climes, judging by his last name.  That name does not exist but it exists further North.

You’re listening to a skilled ANC operative who would not be able to run a spaza shop if it were given to him.  He is there to encourage DEI at university level.  (Spaza shop, little local grocery, like very local grocery and daily milk and bread store – all universities in the country are now DEI shops.).

Jamarl?  Well, what shall I say?   The man is deceived, and perhaps he wants to be deceived. Maybe he has to get on a plane and visit – and purchase from the little Spaza shops and hear what the real folks on the ground are saying these days.

They cannot even agree on a budget. This is the latest from President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Even as the world faces difficult economic headwinds, our economic reform agenda will create the conditions for higher growth and investment, while renewing our infrastructure for generations to come. (Now he has said that for the past 8 years!)

Economic reform agenda?  He has said that for eight years!  Here is just one response. There were thousands, and all of them said .. Get Out! You are an incompetent fool who robs the country and helps your buddies to rob it more.  And the people stay hungry.

Hay Cyril I truly thought you were different from the rest but this Mkhwanazi situation has exposed you completely. You’ve shown that you’d rather protect the ANC’s image & its corrupt comrades than stand up for the people of this country.

Time & time again, you turn a blind eye to the very things that are destroying South Africa, collapsing institutions, lawlessness, illegal immigration & public sector looting all to protect a party not a nation. While you polish the ANC’s legacy, millions of South Africans are sinking deeper into poverty, unemployment & hopelessness. You are a disgrace to the legacy of black South Africans & those who fought & died for democracy. OMandela noHani didn’t sacrifice everything just so future generations would still be trapped in poverty, living with empty promises & staged unity. If this is what “freedom” looks like, then their fight was in vain because the black majority is still suffering, not thriving. History will remember this betrayal.

Mkhwanzini was a fine, high-level police commissioner who uncovered graft from the political class. Ramaphosa gave that political class nice vacations, while they were under investigation. So far, not a word as far as I know.  This has happened repeatedly. I guess they need a real revolution to throw their lazy asses out and put the people who can govern a country to work. The danger is that this revolution is coming from the two small parties that are worse than the ANC. The one party led by the former president is quite something – he built himself a large village, utilizing state resources and labor, and lives there comfortably with his entourage of wives, numerous swimming pools, and fleets of luxury cars.

Finally, Trump made a deal .. stop the race laws, stop the landgrabs without compensation and Trump the High Lord will be kind with tariffs.  They did not and now the tariffs are about 40% all told.   I see hungry people.

OK; you have my comments.  It is a pity, because I love Africa.

A bit of info on the detainees that were released for Venezuela .. Seems it was a swap of some kind .. 250 Venezuelans released of which 10 were Americans that now are back in the US.  I’m just glad that someone got out.

Venezuela releases 10 detained Americans in prisoner swap deal

Venezuela released 10 detained Americans in a prisoner swap facilitated by El Salvador. The exchange involved over 250 Venezuelan migrants, previously deported from the U.S. to El Salvador, who were freed from a Salvadoran prison.

Among the released Americans was Lucas Hunter, reportedly kidnapped by Venezuelan border guards in January.

The Trump administration maintains its refusal to recognize Maduro’s presidency, using this exchange to balance domestic political goals and international relations in Latin America.

Its a snap snap business today. I had your video on Gustavo Petro lined up for posting this morning, AHH and I double posted the original Russian version of the article that you hauled out of RT, and now you have Berletic, who I just posted. Hahaaa … Universe is playing resonance tricks with us.

Anyway, brownshirts and there is no doubt about it.

A piece from Telesur:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/fascisms-new-face-is-still-the-same/?utm_source=planisys&utm_medium=NewsletterIngles&utm_campaign=NewsletterIngles&utm_content=42

Then, and I have not had time to figure out the what exactly, but I see in the Veneuelan news that they have a planeload full of deportees to the prison in El Salvador back .. how they got them back I don’t know, but they managed to get them out. And then at the same time there is press of 10 that came back to the US. Again, not had time to make sense of this.

We know this, but anyway ..

COVID VAX LOTTERY: Deadly “Hot Lots” vs. Harmless “Duds” – Epidemiologist exposes pharma roulette jab system

Some COVID-19 vaccine batches cause mass injury and death, while others are essentially harmless duds, warns epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher.

🔥 Hot lots: High levels of DNA plasmids, mRNA overload, and heavy metal contamination.
🧊 Dud lots: Degraded, inactive, often due to poor storage or faulty manufacturing.

Multiple peer-reviewed studies confirm that the batch you get determines your fate. Early 2021 batches were found to be the most dangerous, while others barely had any impact.

I believe that phase has been done Mr P.

Not so sure of that AHH.  They will throw the blow (with the Oreshnik nuke killer) if the pressure touches the existential issue in their calculus.  Remember Putin .. What good is the world without Russia.

Marat Khairullin today .. he had this list and these are the final points:

“Third, the buffer zone’s boundaries are now visible: stretching along the Volchansk – Bely Kolodez – Prikolotnoye – Velikiy Burluk – Sadovod route, with an advance toward Kupyansk.

Fourth, with the formation of these (and likely additional) active sectors, the command of the Russian Armed Forces gains additional “keys.” By alternately pressing these “keys” (positioned along the entire line of combat contact), the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces will perform Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 for the AFU. And the more such “keys” there are, the purer and more convincing the melody will sound.”