Posted on 07/11/2004 5:48:51 AM PDT by Ironfocus
Africa's masses had to be mobilised for a revolution to improve the continent's political, economic and social situation, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
Writing in his weekly online column, ANC Today, Mbeki said that duty would fall on the Pan African Parliament (PAP) and the African Union's (AU) Economic, Social and Cultural Council (Ecosocc).
"The call to achieve Africa's renaissance is therefore necessarily a call to the African masses to rise up in struggle to defeat poverty and underdevelopment, to end Africa's marginalisation and to restore the dignity of Africans everywhere," wrote Mbeki.
There was a need for a "veritable revolution that must lead to the eradication of poverty and underdevelopment on our continent, the restoration of the dignity of the African people and victory in the struggle to end the global marginalisation of Africa and Africans".
However, to achieve this Africans must fully understand the impact that slavery, colonialism and racism has had on them.
"There are some in our country and the rest of the world who demand that we should view and treat these phenomena merely as a matter of historical record, with no relevance to our contemporary struggles for Africa's rebirth.
"We see this clearly in our own country, where some insist that apartheid is a thing of the past, and that all references to the continuing impact of that past constitute an attempt to 'play the race card'".
He said it was important the impact of that past was understood so that Africans were empowered to deal with the present.
"Our purposes are not informed by any desire to blame those historically responsible for the most terrible crimes against humanity, but to design the policies and programmes that must help us to achieve Africa's renaissance."
Mbeki said the genuine democratisation of African politics and the empowerment of Africans to be their own liberators was critical.
"It is our responsibility, acting together with all other patriotic forces in Africa and the African Diaspora, to ensure that we mobilise the masses of the people to act as their own liberators."
He called on African academics to inform people about the consequences of slavery on the continent.
"It has a duty to educate us about the emergence and impact of racism on the societies that were the victims of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism."
Mbeki said the establishment of PAP emphasised the need for the empowerment of Africans to play a role in changing their lives. – Sapa
Programmed starvation has been the communist trademark ever since Lenin's land reform programs of the 1920s. Why should this be anything different?
The worst of it is that there will be corporate globalists and UN bureaucrats cheering them on. See "Lenin."
As was noted previously, phases like 'patriotic forces' and 'masses of the people' can only point toward some kind of dictatorship of the proletariet. And it sounds like he is thinking about one large 'People's Republic of Africa'.
Also, 'mobilise the masses of the people to act as their own liberators' can only mean 'create a police state and take all valuable property away from those who have it now'.
It's not entirely clear if he thinks this unity and mobilization can be done by the organizations he mentions or whether he is considering unifying Africa by force...And people think Africa is in bad shape now.
This is the prologue to intensified demands for worldwide reparations payments to Africa, probably through UN agencies and these pan-African syndicates.
Expect a bill for several trillion dollars to come due shortly.
Mbeki is insane and has been slowly slipping into insanity over the past ten years. ANything he spouts should be considers the ranting of a lunatic.
> No, they need property rights and free trade. The rest will come.
Will that ever come to be? Is it "culturally possible"?
I know my ancestors from Europe knew that item x was someone else's and didn't seek to obtain it by force or fraud. This was just part of the worldview.
Is it part of the African worldview?
If yes, they have a hope. If not, they're SOL.
And Mbeki is going to do his part to help blacks... by backing Robert Mugabe?
They're stupid.
Virtually impossible, I should think. They would still be fighting.
"This is the prologue to intensified demands for worldwide reparations payments to Africa, probably through UN agencies and these pan-African syndicates.
Expect a bill for several trillion dollars to come due shortly."
Respecting property rights cuts both ways...
People don't care when it comes to Africans. Even when blacks who had their property taken under the Groups Areas Act, there were some who said it shouldn't be given back.
Mbeki sounds like he has a touch of syphillitic dementia.
The supreme irony is in Africa's falling for socialism as liberation from colonialism, convinced by the europpean and particularly the french intellectuals to throw off one set of chains for another...
Hey, there you are. The rest of the African leaders are also getting fed up with him proclaiming things in the name of Africa, as if he is the saviour of Africa. He is getting marginalized along with the other scumbags on his lot(Mugabe, Nujoma). He sure talks a great game.
Good point. But a difficult task as long as you have the Mugabes around. Let's hope for the next generations.
He's living up to his Hitler aspirations. He spouts verbal gangrene. Cut him off before he drags down Africa with him. There are very few African nations that are problem free. To the North, there are the muslim hordes and to the south the AIDS hordes mostly created by Mbeki and others' blind ignorance about the disease.
I hope that South Africa is still in good shape for the World Soccer Cup in 2010.
All of the problems will be hidden by the lefty press, regardless of how it turns out.
Mbeki thinks he knows the future. He might! If Kerry wins, then the UN becomes the new world order. Through the UN the wealth of the USofA will be transfered to causes in Africa. Bush has already done some of this with our AIDS money to Africa. If you want to see the future of the USofA, with Democraps in control, look to the Davis administration in California.
I fear for that. The money finds its way to the pockets of dictators, and the whole evil cycle will be repeated. We will see more speeches like this from Mbeki, and nothing will change for the people in Africa.
Yes. That's what I meant. Posters here can go on and on about the need for African countries to respect white farmers' property rights in Zimbabwe and Namibia, but ignore all the land grabs in the 20th century that removed productive black farmers (or merchants, or journalists, etc) from their homes to reward supporters of a corrupt regime.
Well not looking at both sides is intellectually dishonest.
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