WHY Mandela epitomizes western imperial apologist than a true peacemaker

Rutashubanyuma · 2013-12-09T07:32:17+00:00

The global dominated western media which is controlled by the Multinational Conglomerates has successfully painted Mandela as an exemplary peacemaker who forged forgiveness at the expense of revenge, leaving behind a powerful legacy to all of us! On surface that seems to be true but the undertows are harsher than that. To begin appreciating the real issues at stake let us decipher a man, Madiba, behind the mirror:- 1) Mandelas pre & post-Robben Island life was a mishmash of rebellion and low regard of human rights and here are the evidence:- a) While at the Methodist University studying law, he was shown the exit door and never finished his law degree for what he later admitted was foolhardy. The lesson there is that Mandela pursued narrower self-interests at the expense of longer interests of acquiring his LLB necessary to fight for the rights of the subjugated poor South Africans. b) When he went home and found his father had been dethroned as chief by the Boer regime and he was asked to marry one of the local gals whom he did not love and knowing adhering to filial wishes will bog him down to village life, he ran away to Soweto. The lesson there is where personal interests were under threat Mandela chose to sacrifice community interests for personal gain. c) While Mandela knew he did not possess the law prerequisites to run a law firm, he begun a law firm representing poor South Africans who did not know he was unqualified to practice as an advocate. The Boer regime knew Mandela was unqualified as an advocate but looked the other way because they never wanted the poor to get the best legal services to begin with. d) In his first marriage to a nurse, Evelyn Ntoko Mase, Mandela was known for being a drunkard and of spousal abuse which most scribes are unwilling to risk their fabulous careers and write something about it. Even Mandela in his own hagiographies has refused to come out of the closet and admit that spousal abuse ended this marriage! The lesson there is that where Mandela public life is scrawled in a manner to portray him as a fighter for human rights but a closer peek to his own life reveals he was the abuser of human rights of his half hubby in Evelyn Ntoko Mase. So the question has to be was Mandela really caring about human rights or when his own human rights were being trampled with that he saw the wisdom to rise to the occasion? e) While in his final days before his release, Mandela refused to allow other top ANC leaders to take part in the negotiations that ended apartheid in a manner that showed he was only interested to elevate himself above his peers. He never wanted to share the glory of ending apartheid even with those who had elevated him outside the Robben Island prison. All along the battle to end apartheid became a personal glorification crusade to Mandela more than the intended targets who were the rank and file members of South African society. f) During the campaigns leading to a first democratic elections, Chris Hani who was by then the second most popular ANC leader and who stood valiantly against the causes and the effects of apartheid which are essentially multinational exploitation of South African cheap labour and natural resources Mandela went AWOL because he was a sole beneficiary of that murder. With Chris Hani out of the way, Mandela had no credible threat to his leadership within the ANC particularly tackling the causes of poverty through wealth distribution. g) No sooner he was out of the prison, Mandela hastily convened a meeting with South African top twenty multinationals where he solicited one million rand from each corporation and urged them to support the ANC! No wonder that now ANC has been hijacked by multinational conglomerate interests and the South African dream of equal opportunity to all is now confined to the historical museums. h) At a time Mandela was popping up champagnes with MNC leaders with his right hand, his left hand was being wagged against his fellow black leaders in labour movement where he warned them unless they girded their loins and accepted lower wages South African path to economic emancipation was not possible! The lesson there was vivid: Mandela was a tool of imperialism and his roles in dismantling the structures of apartheid were at best half-hearted and at worst hypocritical for how economic redress could be achieved when Mandela was nudging his fellow citizens to endure economic exploitation? i) Perhaps the most prolific critic of Mandelas leadership was no other than his successor Thabo Mbeki who excoriated Mandela for his lack of grips to what Mbeki had dubbed the mechanics of governance. If Mandela was a poor leader how then is he this much eulogized unless, of-course, if not for being an imperialist puppet? j) More than a decade since South Africa ended a system of apartheid but South Africa is still divided today economically and black ascension to positions of power both in public and private sector owe its success upon a well entrenched system of nepotism and cronyism. Not yet Uhuru? ..is now what most South Africans perceive today. k) At a time president Zuma was and still is a resilient face of what is wrong with South Africa through massive official graft, Mandela embraced him purposely to secure a senior position for his grandson within the ruling party of ANC and in the government. If this is not selfishness, I have no idea what else it is! l) It was Kenyan first president Jomo Kenyatta and not Mandela who was the first colonial tutelage success story of intoxication of forgive and forget mantra! Paradoxically, the Boer regime in South Africa copied almost to a letter what the British model that led to Kenyan independence: The preparatory work through mental brainwashing of the colonial captives was part of the tactics used by the British to subdue Jomo Kenyatta to come to terms of the aftermath of colonial maladministration. The Boers just did the same to Mandela without a flick of alterationThe Kapengurian six minus Jomo were left to fend for themselves as Jomo was moved away from them and dined with the colonial masters who is wholist, and so was Mandela! The credit of the virtue of forgive and forget was later endowed on the duo obfuscating the fact that it was the colonial rulers who ingrained that tenet in their minds in the first place K) When required to choose between his second wife, Winnie and the rule of law after she was convicted of abetting the murder of a young boy under her Football club's watch- Mandela chose Winnie at the peril of justice indicating that where personal interests is at stake justice could go to hell.These are not hallmarks of a true peacemaker, at all! 2) After the Mandela hoax has been repeatedly many times in the western media controlled by the MNCs, it begins to look like there was this big black man who did it all by himself overturning centuries of racial subjugation while the unshakable fact remains: it was the colonial rulers who ended it in style because apartheid as system of governance was unsustainable. 3) Global economic sanctions not Mandela who at last got the attention of the Boer regime just like African slaves in slavery era where it was economic considerations but not moral ones which ended that human cargo trade as we knew itand so was the apartheid as we knew it! 4) Apotheosis of an African fellow after centuries of racial discrimination and exploitation appeals to most blacks including the current American president because of eons of low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority complex, ensuing from literary ageless racial suppression, have left us in search of one prodigal narrative and Mandela story of selfless fortitude- no matter how specious and repulsive it is - seems to fit the bill but beyond that there is nothing else to celebrate.

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Start date Dec 9, 2013

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