SHAKA ZULU'S&GADDAFI'S LOSS IS MBEKI'S CONFUSION

I write this as a citizen outside of my profession or else I might, the last of my wishes, displease a judge and undermine the rule of law in my country South Africa, but Mr Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, former President of South Africa, I declare is busy confusing young people with his recent drive to visit universities at issue Stellenbosch in particular.

It is difficult for me at this moment to say whether it is Mr Mbeki who is confused about African history; or it is only his lectures that are ill-prepared and economical on the thoroughgoing in African history.

I refuse to be pedantic and so let me be straightforward with my criticism.



Crocodile Tears From Thabo Mbeki


WHY, YOUR EXCELLENCY, FIND FAULT WITH THE INVOLVEMENT OF WESTERN POWERS IN THE OUSTER OF LIBYAN COLONEL GADDAFI EXACTLY WHEN ANATHEMA TO YOU WAS ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT THE COLONEL STOOD FOR?

I know this for, as a cultural internationalist by virtue of my ancient clan name, Mr Mbeki's policies while in power touched me too much at the personal level.

So, thanks to Mr Mbeki, without a passport I cannot fly to Egypt and closer to Arabia where in the sixteenth century, a probable cousin of mine, Admiral Phiri Rhis, like Africans centuries before him had (while the entire Europe was still savage and resident in caves), brandished the complete map of the world .

Thanks to Mr Thabo Mbeki, without a passport I still can’t go to Swaziland to visit my fourth maternal cousin (King Mswati III) and other relatives.

Thanks to Mr Thabo Mbeki, without a passport I still cannot go to Lesotho to research about the Phiri, an obvious cousin of mine said by at least Lesotho historical word of mouth to have been the man who worked side-by-side with the British in erecting the Kingdom’s capital as the “The King’s Own Appointed Truest Mosotho Who Would Know The Full History And The Holy Burial Places Not To Be Trampled Upon By The British Constructions of The Capital in 1869”.  Thus my research on my cultural heritage as a Phiri cannot with ease delve into the Phiris of Lesotho in togetherness with the Phiris of KwaZulu-Natal...the Phiris who were known as the Matanje People during the rise of King Shaka Zulu.

Thanks to Mr Thabo Mbeki, without a passport, I cannot at the spur of the moment fly to Zambia’s Lusaka to see my eldest sister, Mrs Mary-Ann Tiezghe Gondwe (born Phiri, in Malawi). Nor can I (while there and desirous of paying tribute to the burial place of my great great grandfather Pikamalaza Phiri at a place in Zambia named after him who was part and parcel of the first-generation exodus from South Africa after Colonial-British-inspired pogrom of Mfecane at the Battles of Mbholompo and Dithakong) overstay the number of days on my on my colonial-era passport.

Thanks to Mr Thabo Mbeki, without a passport, I cannot see myself in the United Republic of Tanzania’s Dar es-Salaam or Malawi’s Lilongwe for Chilumba for a brief but salubrious reunification with my paternal cousins.

Colonel Gaddafi was the first in this century and millennium to make a call for the formation like yesterday of a united states of Africa with one flag, one passport and one army to defend against the plunder that we see every year happening on the continent by imperialist forces and their local agents....

... And Mr Thabo Mbeki, then President of the Republic of South Africa, was among the first to oppose the colonel  from the land (Libya) of the man who 2000 years ago carried for Jesus Christ the cross which today is the leading symbol of civilization the world over.

The Mind of The Young To Perpetuate Colonial Britain's Version of African History

Mr Thabo Mbeki knows very well that, being impressionable, young people as the university students he is bombarding with his version of African history, are not only impressionable, but they learn best from example and from role models like state presidents (or “former”, in the case of Mr Thabo Mbeki).

Mr Mbeki was the President of the Republic of South Africa a few years ago (and here I presume he had foreknowledge of the strategy of Africa’s chiefly-British colonial masters in “Divide and Rule” a.k.a TRIBALISM).

While preaching African Unity and Renaissance on the continental level, what did His Excellency Mbeki do to combat the colonial canker in his home ground, South Africa?

ZERO!!!!

(If not...)

(...NEGATIVE!!!!)

To this day, the chaos faced by South Africa (and faced particularly by the ruling African National Congress), can easily be attributed to the tribal mismanagement of South Africa during the “reign” of Mr Mbeki, an upper hand which in all essence started in 1994 when he was deputizing the Old Man Mandela.

Two days from now, the Youth League President of the African National Congress Mr Julius Sello Malema is getting hauled over the coals mainly for no other crime except to suggest that imperialist footholds in Africa should be kept at bay lest South Africa one day goes through the same horrid experience Colonel Moammar Gaddafi’s Libya has gone through. Of course, current State President His Excellency Mr Jacob Zuma is in power now and it is easy for Mr Mbeki to stand aside and to even most obliquely pontificate the shortcomings of His Excellency Zuma foreign policy, including the vote that he ill-advisedly gave to imperialist powers for the invasion (ostensibly by rebels) of Libya. Mr Mbeki is also buoyed by the recent statement of Mr Malema’s Youth League that the former was “South Africa’s Best President So far”.

Take those kudos with a pinch of salt, Your Excellency Mbeki! At least I would do that if I were you. Please remember that Mr Zuma’s 2-year-old failures in government, if any, are a direct result of your own 15-year-old failures while you were still in government, particularly failures in addressing the hegemony of Eastern-Cape tribalism in the running of state affairs in South Africa. Too many South Africans today assert that Mr Zuma’s failings wherever they are apparent are primarily because too many of his top advisors (probably with tribal sentiments pro-Eastern-Cape) COME FROM THE EASTERN CAPE WHERE YOUR EXCELLENCY MBEKI CAME FROM.

NO MAN WHOMSOEVER, EVEN IF HE BE HERCULES OR ZUMA, CAN REMEDY ILLS OF FIFTEEN YEARS IN TWO (Even if they stick those charges that Mr Zuma’s ANC has levelled against Mr Malema, they will be a Pyrrhic victory for the former as Mangaung’s December 2012 is bound to kick Zuma out in favour of someone pro-Eastern-Cape as per centuries-old designs of the very British that are in the forefront of the unsavoury ouster of a legitimate African government for a pro-puppet regime in Libya).

Why are you, Your Excellency Mr Mbeki, not making that pivotal TRIBAL element clear in your lectures about Libya vis-a-vis South Africa?  Is it perhaps because you know the students will be quick to point it out to you that they live every day with the legacy of South Africa's tribalism and xenophobia created during your tenures of office?

Are you aware, Your Excellency Mr Mbeki, that, as Africa is busy battling imperialists against releasing to a rascally junta in Libya the hard-earned assets of Libya, SOUTH AFRICA IS COMMEMORATING 183 YEARS SINCE THE BRITISH COLONIALISTS INTRODUCED IN SOUTH AFRICA HITHERTO-NON-EXISTENT TRIBALISM PRO-EASTERN CAPE VIA A SURROGATE THEMBU KING NGUBENCUKA VUSANI (OF THE BATTLE OF MBOLOMPO INFAMY) WHO HAPPENS TO BE A GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF YOUR PREDECESSOR MR NELSON MANDELA?

ARE YOU AWARE OF THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICAN ZULU KING SHAKA ZULU (183 YEARS AGO) AND LIBYAN COLONEL MUAMMAR GADDAFI IN THAT BOTH OF THEM CALLED FOR CAPE-TO-CAIRO AFRICAN UNITY PRIOR TO IMPERIALIST MANOEUVRES TO OUST THEM?

ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE DAMAGE DONE TO LIBYA TODAY BY THE BRITISH IMPERIALISTS IS KINDERGARTEN STUFF TO WHAT THEY DID TO AZANIA (SOUTHERN AFRICA) 183 YEARS AGO TODAY WITH THE RESULT THAT...

....183 YEARS AGO THE DLAMINIS LIKE YOURSELF WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR SWAZI OR NGWANE CULTURE, ZULUFIED AND LATER XHOSAFIED BY BOTH THE PRESENT-DAY ANTI-GADDAFI BRITISH AND THE APARTHEID REGIME?

....183 YEARS AGO TODAY AFRICANS WERE SENT OUT OF REGIONAL SOUTH AFRICA TO ZIMBABWE WHERE THEY CAME TO BE KNOWN AS NDEBELE ALL BECAUSE OF THE MACHINATIONS OF THE SELF-SAME PRESENT-DAY ANTI-GADDAFI BRITISH?

....183 YEARS AGO TODAY AFRICANS WERE SENT OUT OF REGIONAL SOUTH AFRICA TO ZAMBIA, MALAWI AND TANZANIA (AMONG OTHER COUNTRIES) WHERE THEY CAME TO BE KNOWN AS NGONI ALL BECAUSE OF THE STRATAGEMS OF THE SELF-SAME PRESENT-DAY ANTI-GADDAFI BRITISH?

...THAT SOUTH AFRICAN PRESENT-DAY RACISM WHETHER WHITE OR BLACK OR XENOPHOBIC IS THE VERY RESULT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS REGION AT THE BEHEST OF COLONIAL BRITAIN?

If so, why don’t you tell it straight to your students, Sir (...or you are simply unaware of the tribal plank the imperialists used in Libya and are going to use in South Africa one day to oust the great African National Congress from power)?

Allow me to introuduce to you Mr Ryan Charkow, then!