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Q: Is the ANC better or worse than you expected in 1994?A: The ANC turned out to be exactly as was forecasted by the renowned anthropologist Dr. Wiets Beukes who warned of an impending danger. He predicted that South Africa would follow the same patterns as all African states. The demonisation of the Afrikaner community was crucial for the policies of black empowerment to survive international scrutiny. Black empowerment is blatant racial discrimination - even worse than under the apartheid government. Rectifying the injustices of the past was the 'hobby horse' selected. The ANC is now turning out to be...

Q: What is FF+ doing currently to achieve independence or autonomy for Afrikaners? A: Firstly, we are building the party in terms of organisation and members. The party is slowly becoming the only party in the country, and the world, who speaks on behalf of all the Afrikaners in the world. Our experience has shown that the present government reacts to pressure, and only the strong can exert pressure. We, therefore, participate in every municipal election where we have support, to enable our supporters to cast their votes in our favour. We have seen a steady indicator of growing support....

JOHANNESBURG — Even the heads of state who were its members called the old Organization for African Unity a dictators' club, one reason why it was replaced three years ago by a new African Union that was modeled, in name and purpose, on Europe's own union. The old O.A.U. fulminated about colonialism and liberation, but was often silent on human rights and the consent of the governed. The new group, bowing to a democratic breeze blowing from Mali to Mauritius, stood for the premise that the rule of law is in, and despotism out. Take it from Nigeria's president, Olusegun...

Zanu-PF was last night on course to win a two-thirds majority in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary election, but the fraudulent nature of its victory is no guarantee of stability. As the results emerged yesterday , both the head of the opposition and the leading Roman Catholic prelate hinted at mass protests. Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said Robert Mugabe’s government had once again stolen the people’s votes and that this time his party was not going to pursue its grievances through the courts. He did not elaborate on what it was planning to do instead, but implied that...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - For years, South African President Thabo Mbeki's approach on the growing autocracy in Zimbabwe has been to use "quiet diplomacy" - supporting President Robert Mugabe in public, cajoling him in private. This used to satisfy the United States. But that's begun to change. President Bush is newly set on "ending tyranny in our world"; his team calls Zimbabwe one of six "outposts of tyranny." Mr. Bush's ambassador to South Africa, Jendayi Frazer, hinted in a speech last month that Zimbabwe's crisis threatens US support for the region. If African organizations are "not seen to act forcefully...

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said yesterday the seizure of land would not be necessary if white commercial farmers remained committed to land reform and redistribution. Mbeki, speaking at an imbizo with black farmers at Calvinia in Northern Cape, was replying to a complaint from emerging farmers that it was difficult to access agricultural land. They called on him to seize land to meet their needs. Mbeki’s comments come days after South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande told a black farmers’ summit it would take another 100 years for government to transfer 30% of commercial agricultural land to blacks. Nzimande...

President Bush has issued a statement on "Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa," conveniently ignoring the fact that South African President Thabo Mbeki is a Marxist who has surrounded himself with followers of radical Islam. The other curious omission is that while the president complimented "South Africa's commitment to progress at home and around the world," evidence is emerging that South Africa has played a role in nuclear weapons proliferation, including to Iran. The evidence is contained in a hot new book, Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest for the Atom Bomb, by journalist Al Venter. Some people forget that...

French President J.Chirac’s remarks on President T. Mbeki’s peace efforts in Ivory Coast have unleashed a political and diplomatic tsunami in Africa and in the Diaspora. During a state visit to Senegal in February 2005, the French Head of State said: ”West Africa is West Africa. It has its own characteristics. You have to know it well.”Pr Shadrack described the French President’s comments as representative of a “typical racist mentality of a former colonizer” French President Jacques Chirac’s remarks on President Thabo Mbeki’s peace efforts in Ivory Coast have unleashed a political and diplomatic tsunami in Africa and in the...

A South African spy captured by Zimbabwean counter intelligence is alleged to have been severely tortured before agreeing to co-operate with local officials, the Institute for Security Studies said in Pretoria today. The spy recently was nabbed by Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives at Victoria Falls and under questioning, revealed the names of his collaborators within the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu(PF)). Chris Maroleng, an analyst, said the spy would not have naturally agreed to work with the Zimbabweans as they had alleged and therefore must have reached his "pain threshold". "The Zimbabwean CIO are renowned...

London - President Thabo Mbeki criticised the United States for calling Zimbabwe an "outpost of tyranny" saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it went against Washington's efforts to promote democracy worldwide. The comment attacked by Mbeki was made by US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who listed six "outposts of tyranny" last month; Zimbabwe, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar and North Korea. "It's an exaggeration and whatever (the US) government wants to do with that list of six countries, or however many, it's really somewhat discredited," Mbeki told the Financial Times. South Africa has served as an important mediator...

Chirac's Mbeki Barb Baffles Foreign Affairs Business Day (Johannesburg) NEWS February 4, 2005 Posted to the web February 4, 2005 By Hopewell Radebe Johannesburg French President Jacques Chirac's criticism of President Thabo Mbeki's peace efforts in west Africa has unleashed a storm, as the foreign affairs department urgently sought clarity on his comments. Chirac's statement in Dakar, Senegal, in which he said Mbeki failed to understand the "psychology and soul" of west Africa, has also set off a diplomatic row. Chirac also claimed Mbeki had not achieved much in the region. Mbeki is the African Union-appointed mediator in the conflict...

Ten years after De Klerk’s unconditional surrender to the ANC clique, Mbeki and his gang are preparing for their second revolution, the “true revolution”. As the ANC and its ally, the SA Communist Party, constantly refer to it, 1994 was merely the “national democratic revolution” that delivered power to the “vanguard of the masses.” Thus far Red October – the SACP has recently launched a campaign by that name – has not occurred. Alternatively known as the “socialist revolution”, this second one will be the inevitable result of the first. Obviously South Africa is no model for Marxist dogma, since...

PRETORIA (AFP) - The African Union is ready to help restore stability and pave the way to elections in Haiti, "an African country outside Africa", AU Commission chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said. Speaking after a meeting with South African President Thabo Mbeki and deposed Haitian leader Jean Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria, Konare said he was wrapping up talks to see what role the 53-member body could play in troubled Haiti. "Haiti is an African country outside of Africa," said Konare who visited the Caribbean nation last month. "The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can...

SA in 'cold war' - Mbeki 04/01/2005 19:53  - (SA)       Related Articles Mbeki jets into Darfur Mbeki vows to help Africa Mbeki in Sudan for talks SA, Sudan in economic talks SA 'proves detractors wrong'    Pretoria - Neither South Africa, nor Sudan have yet been able to establish societies acceptable to all their people, President Thabo Mbeki told that country's national assembly. He noted that while the two countries achieved their respective democracy and independence nearly 40 years apart, both had to work out what of societies they wanted to build, amid dynamics of diversity and filled with...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - President Thabo Mbeki's ruling party published a stinging attack Friday against top U.S. health officials, accusing them of treating Africans like "guinea pigs" and lying to promote a key AIDS drug. The criticism reinforces fears of doctors and activists that new questions about the testing of nevirapine could halt use of a drug that's credited with protecting thousands of African babies from catching HIV from their mothers... "Subsequent research has confirmed the safety and efficacy of nevirapine in protecting newborns, according to the World Health Organization."

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The African Union mandated South African President Thabo Mbeki to launch an urgent mission to resolve the crisis in Ivory Coast. "President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has been mandated to undertake an urgent mission in consultation with the chairperson of the AU commission, with a view to promoting a political solution" in the west African country, the African Union said in a statement. It was not immediately clear when the mission would leave, nor who would take part in it. The decision was taken "as a follow-up to the decision adopted at the Otta AU-ECOWAS...

The war on Iraq without United Nations approval should fill African countries with unease, President Thabo Mbeki contended on Monday. "The prospect facing the people of Iraq should serve as sufficient warning that in future we too might have others descend on us, guns in hand to force-feed us (with democracy)," he said in Pretoria. "If the UN does not matter... why should we, the little countries of Africa that make up the African Union (AU), think that we matter and will not be punished if we get out of line?" Mbeki was opening a four-day conference on elections, democracy...

NELSPRUIT, South Africa – Heidi Le Roux sat weeping in her spacious farmhouse on the South African veld as the leaves turned gold and saffron in the glorious autumn twilight. Blonde and pretty, boasting of three young, healthy children and a devoted, hard-working husband who runs a huge multi-million dollar sugar and macadamia farm, it would seem that Heidi's life is a page out of apartheid's "glorious" past. It is a not-too-distant past when farmers were the "lords of the manor" and the future seemed bountiful and perhaps even endless. In the "New South Africa," however, nothing is as is...

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...

President Thabo Mbeki will openthe UN conference in Cape Town South Africa will host a two-day UN conference in support of Palestinian rights beginning on Tuesday, hoping that it will help advance the idea of a negotiated Middle East peace. "We hope this conference will put the message across that no military solution is possible and that the only way forward is through a negotiated settlement," said Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on Monday. "We want this conference to help people understand what is going on in Palestine," he said. South Africa is a strong supporter of Palestinian rights and...