Posted on 12/07/2013 7:40:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
Former president Nelson Mandela was a member of the South African Communist Party’s (SACP’s) central executive committee at the time of his arrest in 1962, the SACP and the African National Congress (ANC) confirmed on Friday.
Even though it had always been denied, the ANC and the SACP confirmed that Mr. Mandela had served on the party’s central executive committee in their statements paying tribute to the anti-apartheid icon. There had been much debate about the issue among historians and academics.
SACP deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila on Thursday said he was a member of the party, but it was denied at the time for “political reasons”. …
(Excerpt) Read more at bdlive.co.za ...
All good points to be sure. I wasn’t saying that he necessarily could have visited wanton genocide on whites, but his rhetoric could have been more divisive and could have raised tensions inevitably leading to more bloodshed.
I am no fan of the current South African government and I am no fan of Mandela either. Apartheid and white control of the country was going to end. The numbers were not there nor was there the will to continue with that system. Partition of that country may have been a better solution or, perhaps, a more gradual transition to majority rule/power sharing should have been implemented.
There are numerous outrages being committed against the white population. Also, there is a large increase in black on black crime. I don’t see the situation getting better very soon. Perhaps, the new overlords of Africa, the Chinese, will impose some order. I am not optimistic about the long-term prospects of the Boers and other European descendents in S.A. Hopefully, I am wrong about that.
It was interesting that he would say one thing in his speeches in English, when the world was watching, and another thing when he was speaking to “his” people. The rhetoric differed substantially, with much more of a revolutionary or moderate bent depending on the audience. It was what was expected of him though, and he would not have been able to govern had he approached it any different.
“Partition of that country may have been a better solution or, perhaps, a more gradual transition to majority rule/power sharing should have been implemented.”
Very astute observations, and not too different from what De Klerk promised the whites. Unfortunately he sold out.
Saying something moderate to one audience and something radical to another sounds like Obama....
De Klerk definitely sold out his people. As I said before, Apartheid was no longer tenable, but the path forward could have and should have been very different.
If I were in South Africa, I would have emigrated by now. I know many who have. They should have seen the future by looking at what happened to the formerly prosperous country of Rhodesia.
The former South African leadership should have demanded more power-sharing etc before agreeing to changes. It’s all academic now and should serve as a lesson for future generations of people facing a similar political change. Yeah, I know the conditions were pretty unique for Rhodesians and white South Africans, but this model could be applied to any ethnic population turning over power to a different group.
Someone cue Gomer Pyle.
For those who bothered to pay attention years ago and touch news sources outside the U.S., this is no revelation at all. I’ve been to South Africa, as well as a number of other African countries, many times. The U.S. media’s love affair with Mandela was not shared by most other sub-Saharan African nations. In 1992, I was training some officers (all of whom were black) from several different African nations and one, an officer from Zimbabwe with whom I ultimately developed a genuine friendship, asked me, “Tell me my friend, why is America so in love with Nelson Mandela? Don’t you understand that he’s a &$#@ communist?” That was the only time I ever heard my friend swear. He went on to tell me that Zimbabwe (early Mugabe years) considered Mandela and the ANC it’s greatest security threat. The ‘Umkhonto we Sizwe’ (”Spear of the Nation” - the military wing of the ANC) maintained illegal bases in southern Zimbabwe and conducted military operations into South Africa - Zimbabwe’s single largest trading partner, from those bases.
Yet another of my students, a captain from Lesotho, stated that he and members of his tribe greatly feared Mandela, a Zulu, and the ANC because the ANC was a Zulu organization and the Zulus were the greatest historical enemy of the Sotho tribes. Yet another aspect of African politics that the American media and Americans in general fail to appreciate; that African politics are, first and foremost, tribal in nature.
While I was never supportive of the apartheid regime in South Africa, since the ascension of Mandela and the ANC, South Africa has declined from a first-world nation into near Third-World status. A once first-rate energy network is now fraught with blackouts and brownouts; the influx of illegal aliens has become a severe problem; the Alexandria area of Johannesburg has been overrun by illegals and is one of the worst slums I’ve ever seen; some of the largest commercial buildings in the country have been, and are being “hijacked” by illegal aliens; organized crime controls many areas of South Africa’s largest cities; a once superb military force has declined to the extent that it is no longer viable, and the list goes on.
With respect to the “Full Mugabe” reference, the “Africanization” of South Africa has been underway for years. White farming families, particularly in the Kwazulu Natal have been evicted or, in many cases, murdered for years. And, although the Africanization of South Africa is not yet an official government policy, in 1998, a spokesman for President Jacob Zuma (also a Zulu) and the head of the ANC, declared on national TV that the Africanization of South Africa would begin in earnest upon the death of Mandela. What those who bother to pay attention do not yet realize is that the Africanization of the country will extend well beyond white South Africans to Indians, Asians, and all non-Zulus - something else the American media will ignore, if not fervently deny.
“Yet another of my students, a captain from Lesotho, stated that he and members of his tribe greatly feared Mandela, a Zulu, and the ANC because the ANC was a Zulu organization and the Zulus were the greatest historical enemy of the Sotho tribes.”
Just a small correction, Mandela was a Xhosa, not a Zulu. The Zulu’s and Xhosas have long been enemies. Your friend from Lesotho was right in one respect though, Mandela was not their friend, invading Lesotho in 1998 in Operation Boleas.
Thanks Olog-hai.
Unknown Evidence from the Soviet Archives: What organization did Nelson Mandela belong to? Why is it so important? –
By CCDn / December 9, 2013
The Soviet documents clearly show the true nature of the activities of the African National Congress of the South Africa, which Mandela belonged to. Without them the image of the Nelson Mandela would not be complete.
Nelson Mandela who died last week was touted as an hero by the global media. In our times when esthetical, scientific and even moral authority is television, the half-truth established by the visual means seems hard to be erased or even corrected. An unreality of the television image very often becomes more real than true life.
Such is the case of Nelson Mandela. It is true that as the President of South Africa he made some wise decisions such as formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. There the perpetrators of crimes after admission and apology were being granted pardon. That was however not his idea.
Mandela was rightfully accused of his involvement in the terrorism and being a member of the Communist party. While the latter was proved recently by the scholars, the top-secret Soviet documents show that the African National Congress of the South Africa (AFC) was supported by the Soviet Union. In fact the AFC was the Soviet instrument of its foreign policy. The unlimited goal of it was to conquer the world with any tactics, including terrorism.
How could it have been?
We need to return to the history of the Soviet Union. It is impossible to understand its activity without first learning about its nature. This is key for understanding the role of the African National Congress of South Africa in the buildup of the Communism. Vladimir Bukovsky, the Russian dissident and the author of numerous publications on the Communist Soviet system emphasizes that the ANC was in fact the Communist Party of South Africa along with the other organization which had the name of the Communist Party. “It was double head organism – the same people led those groups” – he says.
Soviet Type of Foreign Relations
The Communist Party in non-Communist state was more important than its Foreign Ministry. As Dr. John Lenczowski an expert in the strategic policy explained the Soviet Union was the revolutionary state pursuing the Marxism Leninism. According to this ideology the state was an instrument of exploitation of the people. Why did the Soviet Union did exist? This question must be answered with preceding statement that the Soviet Union was not a normal state. The institution of the normal state such as the Soviet foreign ministry were a temporary arrangement aimed to deceive West into believing that USSR was not a revolutionary state.
The Soviet Union, however, as a revolutionary was devoted to promoting a “new form of international relations”: “proletarian internationalism.” This concept described relations that would no longer be conducted between “states”—since the state, according to Marxism-Leninism, was the instrument of the oppressor class—but rather between “peoples.”
Thus as an appropriate Russian term ‘Mezhdunarodnaya otnosheniia’ suggests there were “relations between peoples”.
As a practical matter, for the Soviets, this meant relations between the proper representatives of the people: the communist parties.
The Soviets would contact with the African National Congress through the International Department which was the successor of the Communist International (“Comintern”). The department continued bringing about the revolutionary transformation of non-communist states to the Soviet model of communism.
As Dr. Lenczowski concludes:
These new communist states would then recognize the Soviet Party-state as a legitimate regime, thus ending their potential ideological threat to Soviet rule. The ongoing attempt to promote communist takeovers required a massive investment in the ideological warfare.
It included propaganda, material and military assistance to the various Marxist-oriented revolutionary movements. One of them was in fact the African National Congress.
There is plenty of evidence, which has proven this claim. It is worthy to look at the most precious documents of the highest levels of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (ANC). We obtained three such documents from 1974, 1979 and 1980: thirteen pages of top secret documents signed by the Members of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the comrades from the African National Congress of the South Africa.
Moscow Forges Documents for ANC
On June 6th, 1974 the General Secretary of the ANC U. Dadu asked Moscow for one hundred forged, blank passports of Swaziland. What for? Dadu explained that “the ANC activists”, terrorists, are extensively travelling around Africa. The ANC was trying to set up the terrorist camp in Mozambique. As Dadu had explained in his letter, the ANC terrorists would conceal themselves better travelling via third countries to Mozambique. As he said Swaziland passport would be an ideal solution for them.
“Arrival from Swaziland to Mozambique would look like a normal situation” – he had explained. Dadu to his letter attached a copy of the Swaziland passport. He also provided a copy of the stamp of the Immigration Office of Swaziland to be forged by Russians.
On June 16th, 1974 the Deputy to the Director of the International Department R. Ulyanovskiy sent his letter on behalf of the ANC to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As he explained: “Swaziland borders with the South Africa. Many of the South Africans were travelling to work there. The Soviet Union has no diplomatic ties with this state.” Ulyanovskiy was convinced that “it is important” that the Soviets would provide the forged documents to the ANC. The forgery was supposed to be responsibility of the KGB – he had explained. The KGB official at the Council of Ministers of the Russian government Comrade Tsvigun had a positive opinion about this request.
The Decision of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarding the provision of forged passports to the leadership of the African National Congress of the South Africa. August 19th, 1974.Top Secret.
On July 17th, 1974 the Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ordered the KGB would provide hundred of the forged passports with stamps to the leaders of the ANC in three months.
Another set of documents comes from June and July of 1979.
On June 18th 1979 the top leadership requested the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for “a brotherly help”. This letter is signed by Comrade Alfred Nzo, the General Secretary of the African National Congress of the South Africa, a successor to Comrade Dadu. What was his request?
Moscow Delivers Man Portable Missile Launchers
In the beginning of 1979, as Nzo wrote, president of the African National Conference of the South Africa, Oliver Tambo met with the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Zambia Vasiliy Solodovnikov to discuss the air-strike of the military forces of the South Africa against the terrorist training camps run by the African National Congress in Angola. Tambo asked Soviets for the air-defense systems. He informed the Soviet Ambassador that the government of Angola was not able to provide such help to the ANC terrorist camps. The government of Angola agreed that the ANC would support itself with such a military measures.
In his letter sent on June 18, 1979 the General Secretary of the ANZ, Comrade Nzo, described this meeting and presented his shopping list: eight machine gun batteries of ZGU-1 and seven machine gun batteries of ZGU-2 , a heavy machine guns designed to destroy aerial targets; 90 thousand of pieces of ammunition; 200 pieces of Strela (SAM-7) a man portable, shoulder-fired, surface to air missile launchers and the radar systems. Nzo suggested that Moscow would organize the military training for the sixty one comrades from Africa in September of that year. In this letter Ngo informs that representative of the Soviet Embassy in Zambia said to him that the Soviet military experts can train the ANC terrorist in operating of the Strela, a missile launcher. Thirty ANC terrorists should fly to Russia to be trained in ZGU the air-defense systems. This letter was translated by A. Urnov and registered on June 29th, 1979.
Ngo sent his letter through the diplomatic mail via Embassy of the Soviet Union in Zambia. The Soviet Ambassador V. Solodovnikov wrote a covering letter on June 20th, 1979 to the International Department (note that the official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign affairs, Soviet diplomat, is contacting the Comrades at the International Department not at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Soviet diplomat supported the Ngo’s request. Ambassador reminded the Comrades from the International Department that he not only informed them in the telegram about the meeting with the ANC Secretary Tambo but also he sent the Minutes of this discussion, too.
On July 4th, 1979 the Deputy-Secretary of the International Department K. Vrutents explains even better the case of the military assistance to the ANC in his letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His letter is highly educative: “The Communist Party of Angola (CPA) is the democratic-revolutionary party [see: a tautology in this phrase: democrat cannot be revolutionist but it means that communist party which are being called “democrats” will organize revolution to impose the communist system in Angola] which is fighting with the racist regime of the South Africa. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union stays in friendly relations with the CPA and shows different kinds of help.” The opinion of the International Department obliged the Soviet government which is an instrument of the Communist Party. Comrade Vrutents continues: “The International Department advises the Department of Defense to provide assistance and to present a plan for it to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet in one month”.
Nelson Mandela who died last week was touted as an hero by the global media. In our times when esthetical, scientific and even moral authority is television, the half-truth established by the visual means seems hard to be erased or even corrected. An unreality of the television image very often becomes more real than true life.
Such is the case of Nelson Mandela. It is true that as the President of South Africa he made some wise decisions such as formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
There the perpetrators of crimes after admission and apology were being granted pardon. That was however not his idea.
Mandela was rightfully accused of his involvement in the terrorism and being a member of the Communist party. While the latter was proved recently by the scholars, the top-secret Soviet documents show that the African National Congress of the South Africa (AFC) was supported by the Soviet Union. In fact the AFC was the Soviet instrument of its foreign policy. The unlimited goal of it was to conquer the world with any tactics, including terrorism.
How could it have been?
We need to return to the history of the Soviet Union. It is impossible to understand its activity without first learning about its nature. This is key for understanding the role of the African National Congress of South Africa in the buildup of the Communism. Vladimir Bukovsky, the Russian dissident and the author of numerous publications on the Communist Soviet system emphasizes that the ANC was in fact the Communist Party of South Africa along with the other organization which had the name of the Communist Party. “It was double head organism – the same people led those groups” – he says.
Soviet Type of Foreign Relations
The Communist Party in non-Communist state was more important than its Foreign Ministry. As Dr. John Lenczowski an expert in the strategic policy explained the Soviet Union was the revolutionary state pursuing the Marxism Leninism. According to this ideology the state was an instrument of exploitation of the people. Why did the Soviet Union did exist? This question must be answered with preceding statement that the Soviet Union was not a normal state. The institution of the normal state such as the Soviet foreign ministry were a temporary arrangement aimed to deceive West into believing that USSR was not a revolutionary state.
The Soviet Union, however, as a revolutionary was devoted to promoting a “new form of international relations”: “proletarian internationalism.” This concept described relations that would no longer be conducted between “states”—since the state, according to Marxism-Leninism, was the instrument of the oppressor class—but rather between “peoples.”
Thus as an appropriate Russian term ‘Mezhdunarodnaya otnosheniia’ suggests there were “relations between peoples”.
As a practical matter, for the Soviets, this meant relations between the proper representatives of the people: the communist parties.
The Soviets would contact with the African National Congress through the International Department which was the successor of the Communist International (“Comintern”). The department continued bringing about the revolutionary transformation of non-communist states to the Soviet model of communism.
As Dr. Lenczowski concludes:
These new communist states would then recognize the Soviet Party-state as a legitimate regime, thus ending their potential ideological threat to Soviet rule. The ongoing attempt to promote communist takeovers required a massive investment in the ideological warfare.
It included propaganda, material and military assistance to the various Marxist-oriented revolutionary movements. One of them was in fact the African National Congress.
There is plenty of evidence, which has proven this claim. It is worthy to look at the most precious documents of the highest levels of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (ANC). We obtained three such documents from 1974, 1979 and 1980: thirteen pages of top secret documents signed by the Members of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the comrades from the African National Congress of the South Africa.
Moscow Forges Documents for ANC
On June 6th, 1974 the General Secretary of the ANC U. Dadu asked Moscow for one hundred forged, blank passports of Swaziland. What for? Dadu explained that “the ANC activists”, terrorists, are extensively travelling around Africa. The ANC was trying to set up the terrorist camp in Mozambique. As Dadu had explained in his letter, the ANC terrorists would conceal themselves better travelling via third countries to Mozambique. As he said Swaziland passport would be an ideal solution for them. “Arrival from Swaziland to Mozambique would look like a normal situation” – he had explained. Dadu to his letter attached a copy of the Swaziland passport. He also provided a copy of the stamp of the Immigration Office of Swaziland to be forged by Russians.
On June 16th, 1974 the Deputy to the Director of the International Department R. Ulyanovskiy sent his letter on behalf of the ANC to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. As he explained: “Swaziland borders with the South Africa. Many of the South Africans were travelling to work there. The Soviet Union has no diplomatic ties with this state.” Ulyanovskiy was convinced that “it is important” that the Soviets would provide the forged documents to the ANC. The forgery was supposed to be responsibility of the KGB – he had explained. The KGB official at the Council of Ministers of the Russian government Comrade Tsvigun had a positive opinion about this request. –
On July 17th, 1974 the Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ordered the KGB would provide hundred of the forged passports with stamps to the leaders of the ANC in three months.
Another set of documents comes from June and July of 1979.
On June 18th 1979 the top leadership requested the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for “a brotherly help”. This letter is signed by Comrade Alfred Nzo, the General Secretary of the African National Congress of the South Africa, a successor to Comrade Dadu. What was his request?
Moscow Delivers Man Portable Missile Launchers
In the beginning of 1979, as Nzo wrote, president of the African National Conference of the South Africa, Oliver Tambo met with the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Zambia Vasiliy Solodovnikov to discuss the air-strike of the military forces of the South Africa against the terrorist training camps run by the African National Congress in Angola. Tambo asked Soviets for the air-defense systems. He informed the Soviet Ambassador that the government of Angola was not able to provide such help to the ANC terrorist camps. The government of Angola agreed that the ANC would support itself with such a military measures.
In his letter sent on June 18, 1979 the General Secretary of the ANZ, Comrade Nzo, described this meeting and presented his shopping list: eight machine gun batteries of ZGU-1 and seven machine gun batteries of ZGU-2 , a heavy machine guns designed to destroy aerial targets; 90 thousand of pieces of ammunition; 200 pieces of Strela (SAM-7) a man portable, shoulder-fired, surface to air missile launchers and the radar systems. Nzo suggested that Moscow would organize the military training for the sixty one comrades from Africa in September of that year. In this letter Ngo informs that representative of the Soviet Embassy in Zambia said to him that the Soviet military experts can train the ANC terrorist in operating of the Strela, a missile launcher. Thirty ANC terrorists should fly to Russia to be trained in ZGU the air-defense systems. This letter was translated by A. Urnov and registered on June 29th, 1979.
Ngo sent his letter through the diplomatic mail via Embassy of the Soviet Union in Zambia. The Soviet Ambassador V. Solodovnikov wrote a covering letter on June 20th, 1979 to the International Department (note that the official of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign affairs, Soviet diplomat, is contacting the Comrades at the International Department not at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Soviet diplomat supported the Ngo’s request. Ambassador reminded the Comrades from the International Department that he not only informed them in the telegram about the meeting with the ANC Secretary Tambo but also he sent the Minutes of this discussion, too.
On July 4th, 1979 the Deputy-Secretary of the International Department K. Vrutents explains even better the case of the military assistance to the ANC in his letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His letter is highly educative: “The Communist Party of Angola (CPA) is the democratic-revolutionary party [see: a tautology in this phrase: democrat cannot be revolutionist but it means that communist party which are being called “democrats” will organize revolution to impose the communist system in Angola] which is fighting with the racist regime of the South Africa. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union stays in friendly relations with the CPA and shows different kinds of help.”
The opinion of the International Department obliged the Soviet government which is an instrument of the Communist Party. Comrade Vrutents continues: “The International Department advises the Department of Defense to provide assistance and to present a plan for it to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet in one month”.
In June 12th, 1979 the formal request for the military assistance to the CPA was presented to the Office of the Central Committee. This two page document was given a number CT-167/12ge on June 12th, 1979 when nine of the ninth of the members of the Central Committee “voted“ for it in one accord.
On August 28th, 1979 the decision was made by the top leaders, the Political Office of the Central Committee and signed by the General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev – says the top secret Communist Party’s protocol No. 167 and 12gs.
KGB does the training for the ANC peacemakers
The other document dated December 5th, 1980 is a Decision of the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Nine of the nine Members of the Central Committee signed an order for the KGB to organize the course on “the Party’s Techniques”. A Communist Party unlike normal political party was subversive organization which run illegal activities inside the democratic states. The ANC wanted to send “its trusted comrade” for such six weeks training to Moscow. As the document says the KGB would provide the travel assistance, accommodation and cover the expenses of the participant.
This is an answer on the request which the ANC leadership sent via diplomatic mail “through the Soviet Ambassador from the city of Maputu in special telegram no. 738 on November 18th, 1980”. (as the other top-secret document of the Central Committee from November 28th, 1980 states). The course on “the Party Techniques” would be run by the trainers from the International Department. This document was signed by the Deputy to the Director of the International Department V. Zagladin who informed that the Deputy of KGB V. M. Chebrikov “was in agreement with him”.
Those Soviet documents clearly show the true nature of the activities of the African National Congress of the South Africa, which Mandela belonged to. They are encouraging a reader to view the problem of racism in its full political context of those times. Without them the image of the Nelson Mandela would not be complete.
Tom Pompowski – Editor
Nelson Mandela’s Memorial Might Be the Biggest State Gathering Ever
http://www.thewire.com/global/2013/12/nelson-mandelas-memorial-might-be-biggest-state-gathering-ever/355933/
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.”
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