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The Master's Touch

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7. “As Jesus Passed By”

171:7.1 (1874.4) Jesus spread good cheer everywhere he went. He was full of grace and truth. His associates never ceased to wonder at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth. You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul.

171:7.2 (1874.5) Goodness always compels respect, but when it is devoid of grace, it often repels affection. Goodness is universally attractive only when it is gracious. Goodness is effective only when it is attractive.

171:7.3 (1874.6) Jesus really understood men; therefore could he manifest genuine sympathy and show sincere compassion. But he seldom indulged in pity. While his compassion was boundless, his sympathy was practical, personal, and constructive. Never did his familiarity with suffering breed indifference, and he was able to minister to distressed souls without increasing their self-pity.

171:7.4 (1874.7) Jesus could help men so much because he loved them so sincerely. He truly loved each man, each woman, and each child. He could be such a true friend because of his remarkable insight—he knew so fully what was in the heart and in the mind of man. He was an interested and keen observer. He was an expert in the comprehension of human need, clever in detecting human longings.

171:7.5 (1874.8) Jesus was never in a hurry. He had time to comfort his fellow men “as he passed by.” And he always made his friends feel at ease. He was a charming listener. He never engaged in the meddlesome probing of the souls of his associates. As he comforted hungry minds and ministered to thirsty souls, the recipients of his mercy did not so much feel that they were confessing to him as that they were conferring with him. They had unbounded confidence in him because they saw he had so much faith in them.

171:7.6 (1875.1) He never seemed to be curious about people, and he never manifested a desire to direct, manage, or follow them up. He inspired profound self-confidence and robust courage in all who enjoyed his association. When he smiled on a man, that mortal experienced increased capacity for solving his manifold problems.

171:7.7 (1875.2) Jesus loved men so much and so wisely that he never hesitated to be severe with them when the occasion demanded such discipline. He frequently set out to help a person by asking for help. In this way he elicited interest, appealed to the better things in human nature.

171:7.8 (1875.3) The Master could discern saving faith in the gross superstition of the woman who sought healing by touching the hem of his garment. He was always ready and willing to stop a sermon or detain a multitude while he ministered to the needs of a single person, even to a little child. Great things happened not only because people had faith in Jesus, but also because Jesus had so much faith in them.

171:7.9 (1875.4) Most of the really important things which Jesus said or did seemed to happen casually, “as he passed by.” There was so little of the professional, the well-planned, or the premeditated in the Master’s earthly ministry. He dispensed health and scattered happiness naturally and gracefully as he journeyed through life. It was literally true, “He went about doing good.”

171:7.10 (1875.5) And it behooves the Master’s followers in all ages to learn to minister as “they pass by”—to do unselfish good as they go about their daily duties.

CHAPTER 3 . The Treasure-House at the Cape. Part 4

It is obvious that a single unitary monetary system for the whole world, controlled from a single centre, would be an important prerequisite for the projected "new world order". That means that the ultimate prerequisite for a centralized world rule would be total control of all the raw materials in the world, including gold in particular, under the supervision of a supra­-national world organization: the UNO.

Why? Because wealth (say raw materials) in the hands of its possessor means power and freedom and independence; especially if that wealth is easily exchangeable for money. The sovereignty and independence of a nation, therefore, is a matter of its state of power and financial resources. Therefore all the strenuous efforts during this century to turn the world into a socialist dictatorship (or "new world order", as the UNO prefers to call it) have been concentrated on undermining the sovereignty of all nations to deprive them of all power to resist their future absorption into the "new world order".

The whole eastern part of Europe has already fallen victim to the plot; and all the communist countries, including the USSR and China, are therefore mere vassals of high finance; exploited colonies which, because of a utopian collectivist economic system, have no chance of ever attaining economic independence and are thus condemned to eternal bondage to their capitalist creditors.

Andrew Young, a former American delegate to the UN, paid a visit to Windhoek in South West Africa a few years ago, where he frankly admitted to the journalists present that the USA had no intention of interfering with a communistic Angola or Namibia; on the contrary, he said; the communist countries had always been the easiest markets for American goods ...

Payments are of course mainly in the form of minerals or other natural products extorted from the enslaved peoples. That is what happened with the much-lauded "decolonization" of Africa and other continents. Never had those countries been so exploited by the colonial powers as they are now by international high finance. The former colonial territories and practically all the Third World are now in the pockets of international money powers, which lend them billions of worth­ less paper dollars that they have to repay with the wealth of their minerals. Thus the whole business of decolonization was simply a deliberate ploy on the part of international finance groups to enable them to get their hands on those countries. The old colonial empires were emasculated and their control over their colonies was wrenched from their hands; so that now they must pay for their raw materials and natural products from the "decolonized" countries-now recolonized by the banks in expensive US dollars. So two birds are killed with one stone and at the same time the way is paved to the assimilation of the countries into the New World Order.

A strong, white, independent government in South Africa in possession of the biggest gold deposits in the world and next to those in the USSR the richest reserves of strategic minerals is therefore necessarily a serious obstacle in the road to the projected socialist world order. On the other hand, a corrupt black communist government in the guise of the "liberation" movements that are so zealously supported by the One-Worlders in the Western governments would very soon find itself obliged to repay its credits to the financial powers of Wall Street in the form of the mineral wealth of South Africa.

From that angle we can now understand the apparently irrational handouts, the multi-million-dollar credits given to almost every country in the world; often positively forced on them and in many cases - and this is intentional - with no prospect of ever being repaid. It might not seem the soundest way of doing business; but it becomes intelligible when we realize that these vast sums are guaranteed to the banks by the Western taxpayers through their governments.

The international bankers have no scruples; and they are certainly not simple or stupid. For repayment or security all they require is the assignment of the minerals, future crop yields or other economic assets of the countries concerned. Thus they are the real masters of the countries whose governments they control.

The undeclared worldwide war against South Africa can only be under­stood against this background. How it will end will affect not only the black and white people of this country but also all the other peoples of the-so far- free world.

CHAPTER 3 . The Treasure-House at the Cape. Part 3

Is it really credible that Western governments could run the risk of what would be tantamount to suicide for the sake of "violations of human rights" or apartheid in South Africa?

Why then do they support a terrorist organization like the ANC, whose declared goal is and always has been to incorporate South Africa in the communist sphere of influence? (See Chapter 12)

We shall find the answer to these questions only if we consider the attack on South Africa within the context of a global strategy in which both the East and the West share common goals.

In his book The War on Gold (1977) Dr Antony Sutton writes:

"... the basic reason for the attack on South Africa has little to do with its racial or domestic policies; these are propaganda counterparts to the war on gold. A moment's thought will suggest that a Kissinger who is unmoved by Soviet persecution of Jews and political dissidents is unlikely to be moved by the lack of voting rights for black South Africans."

Prof. Sutton adds: "The war on South African gold originated with the Wall Street Establishment. But this is not the place to more than hint at the complete story of Wall Street's incredible machinations. The interested reader is referred to the Wall Street involvement in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the continuing military and economic assistance to and protection of the Soviet Union by the Wall Street banking establishment, and the drive for a New World Order under U.S. dominance (which means dollar imperialism under Wall Street leadership), in which the USSR would become a technical and financial colony of the United States." (See also Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton)

Five essential minerals in particular give South Africa a key position in the supply of critical raw materials to the free world. These are chromium ore, the metals of the platinum group, manganese ore, asbestos and gold. Of these chromium is the most important, because there is no substitute for it in the manufacture of high-quality lightweight stainless steel. Without chromium the engines for modern jet aircraft or Cruise missiles could not be built. It is also much used in the petrochemical industries, in power stations, nuclear reactors, in the building industry and many other branches of industry.

In a publication of August 1981 the American Bureau of Mines wrote:

" None of the major industrial nations outside the Eastern bloc has any chromium reserves of its own. Indeed, a major portion of the world's known chrome deposits are concentrated in just two countries: South Africa and Zimbabwe."

96% of the world reserves of chromium ores is in Southern Africa, and 95% of the non-communist supplies of the platinum group metals. The USA is dependent on imports for 89% of its platinum, Japan for 98% and Western Europe for a 100%.

The same is true of manganese and asbestos. Although production of those two minerals is not so high as that of chromium and platinum, South Africa and Russia together possess 93% of the world reserves of manganese. After Russia and Canada, South Africa has the third largest supply of asbestos.

It is easy to see, therefore, why the communist rulers in the Kremlin have always taken a great interest in South Africa, and why it has always been an important component of their long-term strategy. In 1971 Leonid Brezhnev, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, declared that the Soviet Union intended to gain control of the two great treasure­ houses on which the free world was dependent: the petroleum of the Persian Gulf and the minerals of Southern Africa.

Of course the communists know full well that whoever controls the shipping round the Cape of Good Hope controls a vital artery of the economic life of the West. Western Europe alone receives something like a quarter of its oil via the Cape route. On average seventy ships a day sail round the Cape. Altogether they amount to one and a half million gross registered tons; which means twenty-five thousand ships annually up to a total of nearly 550 million GRT.

As Welt am Sonntag reported in a special issue in May-June 1986, the South African share of Western supplies of raw materials amount to the following percentages:

• manganese ore 93

• platinum 83

• vanadium 61

• chromium ore 58

• gold 63

• fluorspar 46

• diamonds 29

• zirconium 19

• antimony 17

• uranium 16

If the communists could control the mineral resources of South Africa alone, they could pinch off a central nerve of the Western economy. But since a communist puppet government in South Africa would obviously be remote-controlled from Moscow anyway, the South African resources could be added to those of Russia if it were absorbed by the Eastern bloc. Then the total share of the combined South African and Russian resources would amount to the following world percentages:

• manganese 94

• platinum 85

• gold 70

• chromium 70

• vanadium 65

The whole world would then be dependent on the Kremlin for its precious metals, gold and platinum, and the components of high-performance steels, manganese, chromium and vanadium.

In the light of these facts the reader must by now be wondering how it is possible in the circumstances for governments in Western Europe and North America to threaten South Africa with sanctions and embargos. They would not only be cutting themselves off from the mineral resources of South Africa which are vitally necessary for the development of their national economies and their defence capabilities, but also from the supplies of raw materials of the other countries in Southern Africa, whose export routes mostly pass through South African ports.

Is it really credible that Western governments could run the risk of what would be tantamount to suicide for the sake of "violations of human rights" or apartheid in South Africa?

Why then do they support a terrorist organization like the ANC, whose declared goal is and always has been to incorporate South Africa in the communist sphere of influence? (See Chapter 12)

We shall find the answer to these questions only if we consider the attack on South Africa within the context of a global strategy in which both the East and the West share common goals.

In his book The War on Gold (1977) Dr Antony Sutton writes:

"... the basic reason for the attack on South Africa has little to do with its racial or domestic policies; these are propaganda counterparts to the war on gold. A moment's thought will suggest that a Kissinger who is unmoved by Soviet persecution of Jews and political dissidents is unlikely to be moved by the lack of voting rights for black South Africans."

Prof. Sutton adds: "The war on South African gold originated with the Wall Street Establishment. But this is not the place to more than hint at the complete story of Wall Street's incredible machinations. The interested reader is referred to the Wall Street involvement in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the continuing military and economic assistance to and protection of the Soviet Union by the Wall Street banking establishment, and the drive for a New World Order under U.S. dominance (which means dollar imperialism under Wall Street leadership), in which the USSR would become a technical and financial colony of the United States." (See also Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton)

Continued in next post

CHAPTER 3 . The Treasure-House at the Cape. Part 2

Five essential minerals in particular give South Africa a key position in the supply of critical raw materials to the free world. These are chromium ore, the metals of the platinum group, manganese ore, asbestos and gold. Of these chromium is the most important, because there is no substitute for it in the manufacture of high-quality lightweight stainless steel. Without chromium the engines for modern jet aircraft or Cruise missiles could not be built. It is also much used in the petrochemical industries, in power stations, nuclear reactors, in the building industry and many other branches of industry.

In a publication of August 1981 the American Bureau of Mines wrote:

" None of the major industrial nations outside the Eastern bloc has any chromium reserves of its own. Indeed, a major portion of the world's known chrome deposits are concentrated in just two countries: South Africa and Zimbabwe."

96% of the world reserves of chromium ores is in Southern Africa, and 95% of the non-communist supplies of the platinum group metals. The USA is dependent on imports for 89% of its platinum, Japan for 98% and Western Europe for a 100%.

The same is true of manganese and asbestos. Although production of those two minerals is not so high as that of chromium and platinum, South Africa and Russia together possess 93% of the world reserves of manganese. After Russia and Canada, South Africa has the third largest supply of asbestos.

It is easy to see, therefore, why the communist rulers in the Kremlin have always taken a great interest in South Africa, and why it has always been an important component of their long-term strategy. In 1971 Leonid Brezhnev, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, declared that the Soviet Union intended to gain control of the two great treasure­ houses on which the free world was dependent: the petroleum of the Persian Gulf and the minerals of Southern Africa.

Of course the communists know full well that whoever controls the shipping round the Cape of Good Hope controls a vital artery of the economic life of the West. Western Europe alone receives something like a quarter of its oil via the Cape route. On average seventy ships a day sail round the Cape. Altogether they amount to one and a half million gross registered tons; which means twenty-five thousand ships annually up to a total of nearly 550 million GRT.

As Welt am Sonntag reported in a special issue in May-June 1986, the South African share of Western supplies of raw materials amount to the following percentages:

• manganese ore 93

• platinum 83

• vanadium 61

• chromium ore 58

• gold 63

• fluorspar 46

• diamonds 29

• zirconium 19

• antimony 17

• uranium 16

If the communists could control the mineral resources of South Africa alone, they could pinch off a central nerve of the Western economy. But since a communist puppet government in South Africa would obviously be remote-controlled from Moscow anyway, the South African resources could be added to those of Russia if it were absorbed by the Eastern bloc. Then the total share of the combined South African and Russian resources would amount to the following world percentages:

• manganese 94

• platinum 85

• gold 70

• chromium 70

• vanadium 65

The whole world would then be dependent on the Kremlin for its precious metals, gold and platinum, and the components of high-performance steels, manganese, chromium and vanadium.

In the light of these facts the reader must by now be wondering how it is possible in the circumstances for governments in Western Europe and North America to threaten South Africa with sanctions and embargos. They would not only be cutting themselves off from the mineral resources of South Africa which are vitally necessary for the development of their national economies and their defence capabilities, but also from the supplies of raw materials of the other countries in Southern Africa, whose export routes mostly pass through South African ports.

Is it really credible that Western governments could run the risk of what would be tantamount to suicide for the sake of "violations of human rights" or apartheid in South Africa?

Why then do they support a terrorist organization like the ANC, whose declared goal is and always has been to incorporate South Africa in the communist sphere of influence? (See Chapter 12)

We shall find the answer to these questions only if we consider the attack on South Africa within the context of a global strategy in which both the East and the West share common goals.

In his book The War on Gold (1977) Dr Antony Sutton writes:

"... the basic reason for the attack on South Africa has little to do with its racial or domestic policies; these are propaganda counterparts to the war on gold. A moment's thought will suggest that a Kissinger who is unmoved by Soviet persecution of Jews and political dissidents is unlikely to be moved by the lack of voting rights for black South Africans."

Prof. Sutton adds: "The war on South African gold originated with the Wall Street Establishment. But this is not the place to more than hint at the complete story of Wall Street's incredible machinations. The interested reader is referred to the Wall Street involvement in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the continuing military and economic assistance to and protection of the Soviet Union by the Wall Street banking establishment, and the drive for a New World Order under U.S. dominance (which means dollar imperialism under Wall Street leadership), in which the USSR would become a technical and financial colony of the United States." (See also Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton)

Five essential minerals in particular give South Africa a key position in the supply of critical raw materials to the free world. These are chromium ore, the metals of the platinum group, manganese ore, asbestos and gold. Of these chromium is the most important, because there is no substitute for it in the manufacture of high-quality lightweight stainless steel. Without chromium the engines for modern jet aircraft or Cruise missiles could not be built. It is also much used in the petrochemical industries, in power stations, nuclear reactors, in the building industry and many other branches of industry.

In a publication of August 1981 the American Bureau of Mines wrote:

" None of the major industrial nations outside the Eastern bloc has any chromium reserves of its own. Indeed, a major portion of the world's known chrome deposits are concentrated in just two countries: South Africa and Zimbabwe."

96% of the world reserves of chromium ores is in Southern Africa, and 95% of the non-communist supplies of the platinum group metals. The USA is dependent on imports for 89% of its platinum, Japan for 98% and Western Europe for a 100%.

The same is true of manganese and asbestos. Although production of those two minerals is not so high as that of chromium and platinum, South Africa and Russia together possess 93% of the world reserves of manganese. After Russia and Canada, South Africa has the third largest supply of asbestos.

It is easy to see, therefore, why the communist rulers in the Kremlin have always taken a great interest in South Africa, and why it has always been an important component of their long-term strategy. In 1971 Leonid Brezhnev, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, declared that the Soviet Union intended to gain control of the two great treasure­ houses on which the free world was dependent: the petroleum of the Persian Gulf and the minerals of Southern Africa.

Of course the communists know full well that whoever controls the shipping round the Cape of Good Hope controls a vital artery of the economic life of the West. Western Europe alone receives something like a quarter of its oil via the Cape route. On average seventy ships a day sail round the Cape. Altogether they amount to one and a half million gross registered tons; which means twenty-five thousand ships annually up to a total of nearly 550 million GRT.

As Welt am Sonntag reported in a special issue in May-June 1986, the South African share of Western supplies of raw materials amount to the following percentages:

• manganese ore 93

• platinum 83

• vanadium 61

• chromium ore 58

• gold 63

• fluorspar 46

• diamonds 29

• zirconium 19

• antimony 17

• uranium 16

If the communists could control the mineral resources of South Africa alone, they could pinch off a central nerve of the Western economy. But since a communist puppet government in South Africa would obviously be remote-controlled from Moscow anyway, the South African resources could be added to those of Russia if it were absorbed by the Eastern bloc. Then the total share of the combined South African and Russian resources would amount to the following world percentages:

• manganese 94

• platinum 85

• gold 70

• chromium 70

• vanadium 65

The whole world would then be dependent on the Kremlin for its precious metals, gold and platinum, and the components of high-performance steels, manganese, chromium and vanadium.

In the light of these facts the reader must by now be wondering how it is possible in the circumstances for governments in Western Europe and North America to threaten South Africa with sanctions and embargos. They would not only be cutting themselves off from the mineral resources of South Africa which are vitally necessary for the development of their national economies and their defence capabilities, but also from the supplies of raw materials of the other countries in Southern Africa, whose export routes mostly pass through South African ports.

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CHAPTER 3 . The Treasure-House at the Cape. Part 1

Our objective is to gain control of the two great treasure-houses on which the West is dependent: the energy sources of the Persian Gulf and the minerals of Central and Southern Africa.

Leonid Brezhnev, Secretary General of the USSR (1971)

As at the outbreak of the Boer War, the battle for South Africa is still a battle for gold and the minerals of the Southern African subcontinent. Then as now the secret warmongers used the same methods to conceal their objectives; then as now they operated both inside and outside South Africa. "The whole plan is concocted and controlled by a colossal syndicate for the dissemination of false information." These were the words of Lt-Gen. Sir William Butler, Commander in Chief of the British forces in South Africa, shortly before the outbreak of the second Anglo-Boer War, who resigned his position in disgust at what he had seen.

The chief instrument of "systematic false information" and insidious manipulation of public opinion is still the press, now reinforced by radio and television, which is still in the hands of the same financial forces as let loose the bloody conflicts then.

Before the outbreak of the Boer War the British government used the pretext of alleged abuses and violations of human rights against the uitlanders, mostly British immigrants in the Transvaal, where huge deposits of gold had been found. Now the attack on South Africa is being carried out under the pretext of apartheid, a word that the establishment presses continually bandy about as a synonym for everything evil, so that it is execrated all over the world, although hardly anybody knows what it really means.

Whoever wishes to understand the background to this tendentious propaganda must first realize that South Africa and the USSR together possess the largest deposits of minerals on earth. The wealth locked up in the South African earth is so great that the country, in its present stage of development and with an almost unlimited labour force in the decades to come, would inevitably become an industrial super-power on whose supplies the whole Western world (in which, paradoxically, Japan must now be included), would be dependent. In the 21st century the oil wealth of the Arabs will be superseded by the mineral wealth of the South African subcontinent.

South Africa possesses the largest deposits in the world of gold, platinum, chromium ore, manganese, vanadium, fluorspar and andalusite, and large supplies of antimony, asbestos, lead, diamonds (both industrial and jewels), iron ore, mica, coal, copper, nickel, phosphates, titanium, uranium, vermiculite, zinc and zirconium. These are all exported to a greater or less degree and constitute the most important earners of foreign exchange.

Other minerals in which South Africa is self-sufficient and can even export in smaller quantities are barytes, beryllium, feldspar, graphite, gyp­sum, kaolin, diatomite, corundum, salt, fireclay, talc, tiger's-eye and other semi-precious stones, silver and tin.

The importance of the strategic minerals of South Africa to the armaments industries and the economies of the Western nations is evident from a study by Dr James A. Miller titled The Vulnerability of the West through its Mineral Reserves - from a Soviet Perspective: "If the Soviet Union and its allies can get control of the mineral resources of South Africa, with the exception of oil, the following percentages of worldwide reserves would be controlled by the Kremlin:

"Platinum group: 95% of world production and 99% of world reserves.

Chromium: 57% of production and 99% of reserves.

Manganese: 59% and 93% respectively.

Vanadium: 69 and 95%.

Gold: 80 and 70%.

"The United States is dangerously dependent on foreign sources for at least half of the forty minerals that it needs for its industry, and it is compelled to import 90% of its 100% needs in manganese, cobalt, chromium, niobium, mica, strontium, tantalum and bauxite.

"Moreover it has to import 75% of the metals of the platinum group, asbestos, fluorspar, tin and nickel. Over 50% of the following minerals have to come from sources overseas: cadmium, zinc, potassium, selenium, mercury, gold and tungsten. The allies of America in Western Europe and Japan are even more dependent on imported minerals.

"No wonder," Miller concludes, "that the Soviets are so eagerly working to turn off the South African tap."

The influential American research institute, the Heritage Foundation, wrote in one of its publications: "There is no question but that (American) industry is now and will be in the future far more dependent on foreign supplies of non-fuel minerals than on oil. The possibility of interruption of deliveries of critical minerals must also be taken into account."

General Alexander Haig, a former Secretary of State, believed that the loss of the mineral supplies from southern Africa would have "the most serious consequences for the existing industrial and security-political positions of the free world".

J. William Middendorf, a former Secretary of State for the Navy Department, gave warning that leftist regimes in South Africa and Zimbabwe controlled by Moscow could constitute a no less effective minerals cartel than the oil cartel of the OPEC countries, which was certainly capable of ordering an embargo on supplies.

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Chapter 2. Facts or Fiction? - Part 4

"ln South Africa children are being locked up in gaols."

Under the heading "What is to be done with murderous children?" the journalist Peter Young husband wrote in The Washington Times (11.12.86): "The world reacted with indignation to the admission by the South African government that in all South Africa 256 children had been arrested without trial. This reaction was understandable. Arrest without trial is abominable and undemocratic, especially when the victims are between the ages of 11 and 15. But the reports generally fail to mention that many of the detained children are hardened criminals and many of them are even murderers.

The South African government is now confronted with the following problem: What is to be done with criminal children? The answer ought to be: Put them before a juvenile court and sentence them. But South Africa is in a state of revolution. The police and the judiciary are heavily over­ burdened. The inquiries and formalities that must precede a fair trial in court are in many cases several months in arrears. Meanwhile the young detainees must be interned somewhere, somehow. A few years ago most of them would have been released in the custody of their parents until their trial came up. But now even eight-year-old children are forced into revolutionary roles. The release of a child detained on evidence or suspicion of revolutionary violence would have his immediate return to the revolution as a consequence.

Take for example the case of 24-year-old Rosaline Skosana, who died in the black township of Duduza in July 1985. As she was attending the funeral of an anti-apartheid activist, she was accused of being a collaborator by young activists, the so-called 'comrades', on the grounds that she had once had relations with a (black) policeman. Within seconds she was surrounded by the crowd, dreadfully beaten up, doused with petrol and set on fire, and as she lay dying they continued stoning and kicking her.

Long after her body had ceased to twitch under the hail of blows with sticks, stones and kicks the corpse was still being kicked and stoned by the jeering mob dancing round it. One or two of the attackers even went so far as to throw big, heavy stones at the horribly mangled, scorched, half-naked body for the benefit of the (foreign) camera crews who were filming the scene.

The films showed that some of the murderers of Rosaline Skosana were children less than twelve years old. Hardened journalists reporting on the violence in the black townships were repeatedly shocked by the participation of small children in 'necklace executions', in which the victim has a tire soaked in petrol placed round his neck and is set on fire.

Teenagers and younger children are often in the front ranks in attacks on the police with stones, acts of arson and sabotage. Witnesses have testified in several court cases that the African National Congress, sup­ ported by the Kremlin, urges its fighters in the black townships to use small children at the head of their attacks on property and the police, well aware that wounded or dead children would put the government in a highly embarrassing situation. Children used in that way become indifferent to death and grow up as callous criminals who carry out their tasks with the fearlessness characteristic of young people and with astounding courage. If the security forces are confronted with children prepared for murder and arson they have no alternative but to arrest them. Then the government finds itself in the dilemma of detained children to whose predicament they are in general not indifferent. The detained children are normally not kept in solitary confinement and are usually kept separate from adult prisoners and criminals. As far as possible they are sent to 'reorientation' camps until their release.

The Minister of Justice, Kobus Coetzee, has often expressed his concern over the detained children. Only recently he arranged a high-level investigation of their social relations and living conditions. 'I would much prefer it if these children were under the care of their parents,' he said, 'but that is not always possible .. .' "

(According to the most recent reports - June 1987 - only eleven children are still in custody awaiting trial for particularly serious offences.)

Chapter 2. Facts or Fiction? - Part 3

"The blacks are housed in slums and have to live in ghettos like Soweto."

First of all, nobody is forced to go to Soweto, the huge black township just outside Johannesburg, unless he voluntarily abandons his tribal associations in the "homelands". Secondly, Soweto is neither a slum nor a ghetto of the sort that we are familiar with in South America, India, the other African countries and even the USA.

Anybody who has made a tour of this huge conurbation will have observed that here, like everywhere else, there are three classes: poor, middle and upper. Dwellings range from millionaires' villas with well-tended gardens to rows of simple "matchbox houses" which are within the resources of most blacks at a subsidized rent of about forty rands a month.

By 1978 Soweto had 115 football pitches, three rugby pitches, four athletics fields, eleven cricket pitches, two golf-courses, 47 tennis-courts, seven swimming-pools (some of Olympic standard), five bowling alleys, 81 basket-ball pitches, 39 children's playgrounds and innumerable com­ munity halls, cinemas and clubhouses. There are 300 churches, 365 schools, 2 technical high schools, 8 clinics, 63 crèches, 11 post offices and a fruit and vegetable market.

Baragwanath, the vast black hospital in Soweto with three thousand beds, is one of the biggest and most up-to-date in the world. Its 23operating theatres are provided with the most modern equipment in the world. The maintenance costs of this hospital, in which black patients pay a nominal fee of two rands - there is no national health insurance in South Africa - are treated, operated on and given post-treatment for an indefinite period, are higher than the annual budget of some of the smaller member-states of the United Nations.

The hospital employs a staff of eight thousand, including 450 doctors on full-time service, and it treats over 112 000 in-patients and 1 620 000 out­ patients a year. It is interesting that ninety per cent of the blood-donors to this black hospital are white.

At 34,8 per thousand the infant mortality rate for Soweto is lower than that for Harlem in New York.

Dr Kenneth Walker, a Canadian medical doctor, recently wrote of Soweto: "l saw many houses in Soweto that had cost a hundred thousand dollars and had a BMW standing in the garage entrance. All the houses there are single-storied. Many had been recently painted. Many have flower-pots in the windows and lawns in front. Only two per cent are shanties. If I had the choice between living in Soweto or in one of the run-down blocks of flats in New York, Chicago or Detroit, it wouldn't take me a minute to plump for Soweto.

"The Canadians will no doubt be shocked when I say that I'd rather be injured or sick in Soweto than in many Canadian towns. In Soweto there are eight clinics supported by the government and several private doctors. There is also Baragwanath Hospital, an outstanding teaching hospital ... in which 898 heart operations were performed in 1982 alone. Baragwanath is the biggest and most versatile hospital in the whole African continent. Next door there is the St John's eye clinic. It is world-famous for its treatment of glaucoma, detached retina, traumatic eye injuries and rare tropical diseases." (From Globe and Mail, quoted in Vox Africana no. 31, October 1987).

In Soweto there are over 2300 registered firms owned by black business­ men, including a thousand private taxi concerns. Of the fifty thousand car owners three per cent drive a Mercedes-Benz. The township has more schools, churches, cars, taxis and sportsfields than many independent African countries. No wonder vehicles can be seen everywhere with stickers declaring "I Love Soweto". The same is true of many other "black ghettos" in South Africa.

"In the South African mines more (black) workers get killed through inadequate safety precautions than anywhere else in the world."

In 1986 the South African coal-mines showed their absolutely lowest accident rate. The South African Chamber of Mines announced the fact at the time. In the previous year the rate of fatal accidents had been only half the figure for American mines. For three years the rate for the mines controlled by the Chamber has been steadily falling, and that for the previous year, one death per three thousand employees, is the lowest ever attained in this branch of industry. It is less than half the rate for the year 1984.

For the South African gold-mines a number of circumstances make accurate comparisons difficult. The South African gold-mines are the deepest in the world; some of them as deep as four thousand metres below the surface. That results in extraordinary conditions of heat and pressure, so that the gold-bearing quartz rock is among the hardest on earth.

If we compare the mines in the USA with those of South Africa (though they are only remotely comparable) we find a fatal accident rate of O,93there as against 1,25 for South African gold-mines. But if we exclude the fatal accidents resulting from sudden pressure bursts caused by the extreme depths we have a rate of 0,95 per thousand, which is not significantly higher than the American rate.

"The blacks are deliberately kept stupid and ignorant."

This year (1987) over six million black children are going to school in South Africa - a new record figure. In the previous year nearly eighteen hundred new classrooms were built for secondary schools, which is equivalent to about a hundred and thirty new schools. (But for the losses caused by the wanton burning and destruction of schools by mobs during the disturbances a few years ago the educational opportunities available to blacks would be even greater.)

Within the last ten years the expenditures on black education have risen from R143 million to 1,15 thousand million-an eightfold increase! All this is part of a ten-year plan to bring black education in every respect up to the level of the much older and better established systems of the other population groups.

"The South African police and army are terrorizing the blacks in the townships and should be withdrawn."

After politically-motivated black gangs in the townships had murdered over six hundred black "collaborators", mostly by the ghastly "necklace" method, and other criminal elements had begun to take advantage of the situation, in the course of the state of emergency and at the behest of the black local authorities, the government decided to take stronger security action in defence of the black population. The army and the police were received by the overwhelming majority of black citizens with relief and gratitude - but also with the reproach: "Why do you only come now? It was high time; we were at the end of our tether." The young white soldiers on duty in the townships at night were often given coffee and biscuits by grateful black inhabitants.

In a petition to the Minister of Police over a thousand townsmen of Sebokeng asked for increased police protection. As the inhabitants said to Aida Parker, a Johannesburg journalist: "Those people who don't want the police in the townships mustn't come here to live and work. We need protection against criminal violence and terrorism. So many houses are being attacked and robbed, women raped, householders killed and maimed. By day or night nobody can be sure of his life anymore ... We've had enough of being terrorized."

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Chapter 2. Facts or Fiction? - Part 2

"The whites took the blacks' land away from them and 'removed' them to 13,7% of the country."

Historically South Africa belongs to the white settlers, who have been in permanent occupation (as distinct from conquest) since 1652. They have "right of priority" by settlement, and there is hardly any area in white South Africa that was taken from the blacks by conquest. In the same way the blacks have priority right to possession of their "homelands", which they still inhabit and where they exercise autonomy or have acquired their independence. Historically Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland also belong to South African territory; so that the blacks actually occupy fifty per cent, not thirteen per cent, of the land mass.

It must also be borne in mind that seventy per cent of South Africa is uninhabited, since it consists largely of mountain and desert. Under normal climatic conditions only ten per cent can be cultivated.

Since the black nations had settled as pastoralists in well-watered regions, some of the best agricultural land in the subcontinent now belongs to the self-administered or already independent states. It is estimated that 48% of the cultivable soil in South Africa is situated in those black states. Over 75% of its area receives an annual precipitation of more than 500 millimeters, compared with an average of 430 for the rest of South Africa.

"The homelands' are desolate, barren regions where the blacks can barely keep body and soul together."

To that one can only reply that it was the blacks themselves who selected those areas centuries ago in the course of their southward migrations. Apart from that, they are in fact far from being such poor barren areas as all that. In Bophuthatswana, the independent homeland of the Tswana people, there are the largest platinum deposits in the whole of Southern Africa; and

gold is won as a by-product of the big mines.

To the question whether it was true that his people had been dumped in a worthless region the Chief Minister of another homeland, Lebowa, replied: "No, that isn't true. We've got everything here but diamonds and oil. We've got all the other minerals. As for agriculture, we've got some very rich parts of South Africa with good rainfall, good soil. I think our stockbreeding is among the best, and our wheat and maize potential is pretty high. People who say that we've been dumped in dry and barren regions can't be referring to us; they must be thinking about somebody else."

Apart from the fact that conditions are similar in the other homelands, it would still be unreasonable to hold the whites responsible if things were otherwise.

"The blacks are discriminated against' in South Africa."

Well, what does that mean? When we "discriminate" (Latin discrimino I distinguish) we are simply recognizing the difference of another.

If I see my wife struggling to carry a piece of heavy iron plate and I take it from her because I am stronger, then I am "discriminating". If I would rather be treated by a white doctor than by an African witch-doctor, then I am "discriminating".

When in the army in South West Africa only Bushman soldiers are used as trackers rather than white soldiers, then the whites are being "discriminated against".

These few examples should suffice to show how far the word "discriminate" has been turned into a mere catch-phrase. Of course the blacks are discriminated against, but not because they are black; rather because in so many respects they are simply different from whites.

Anybody who is capable of recognizing the great variety of living creatures with all their different qualities and aptitudes must inevitably "discriminate" without that being misinterpreted in a purely negative sense. As a psychiatrist will tell you: The first sign of idiocy is inability to discriminate.

"The anti-terrorist legislation in South Africa is a violation of human rights."

Anybody who compares the South African laws, particularly those for the prevention of terrorism with others, will be astonished to find how similar they are. The Prevention of Terrorism Act passed by the British Parliament in 1974 is a parallel to the South African laws that declare membership or support of an officially prohibited organization illegal.

That Act also provides that any person suspected of any such offence may be detained for up to seven days without trial; and on one occasion 566 persons have been locked up in England by the Merseyside police under the Act. In the Netherlands a suspect may be held for twelve days before appearing before a judge. If he is charged he can be detained for a further three months before a trial is fixed.

In the German Federal Republic an Act was passed in 1983 to allow the police to break up "demonstrators" regardless of whether the demonstration was violent or not. Anybody who does not comply with the corresponding police ordinances may be sentenced to a year's imprisonment.

As a result of historical experience and the realities of Africa, the South African legislation places more emphasis on preventive measures, such as longer periods of investigation, than in Europe. That is also true of banning orders with restricted freedom of movement or house arrests. In South Africa in August 1983 there were 170 persons affected by these laws as compared with 1 560 detainees in Northern Ireland.

The effectiveness of the South African anti-terrorist legislation can be seen from the following examples (the present state of emergency cannot be taken as a criterion): In South Africa in 1982 there were 39 cases of terrorism, compared with 51 in the USA. France recorded 112 cases in 30 months. In Northern Ireland there were 382 terrorist shooting incidents and 219 bombings. In addition there were 580 cases of armed raids and 499 cases of arson in which 97 persons were killed, including 57 civilians.

"South Africa attempts to ' destabilize ' its neighbours."

Any time South Africa carries out a small limited commando action against a terrorist base on the other side of the border operating against South Africa and used as a sanctuary - often with the connivance of the government of the country - South Africa is accused of "destabilizing" its neighbours; although such actions are perfectly permissible under international law.

If South Africa were really trying to destabilize its neighbours (and valuable trading partners) then it has been applying some very odd strategies. South African exports of food alone to other African countries are well over a thousand million rands' worth a year. Without those deliveries of foodstuffs the countries concerned would suffer continual famines, which would make their governments far more unstable than they already are.

In the financial year 1982-83 South Africa paid R314 million to Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland and 341 million to the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and the Ciskei in dues as a member of the customs union of those countries.

The importance of the South African contribution to their economic stability can be seen, for example, from the fact that in 1984-85 the domestic budget of Lesotho amounted to R304,7 million, of which Rl 09 million came from the customs union agreement with South Africa alone.

Then there is the South African labour market, which employs over two million migratory workers from the neighbouring countries, most of whose earnings are sent back home. The multifarious forms of assistance given by South Africa in all fields, as we have mentioned in the previous chapter, clearly prove that South Africa, far from destabilizing its neighbours, is precisely the factor on which their stability mainly depends.

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Chapter 2. Facts or Fiction? - Part 1

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Hardly a day passes but the mass-media in the West let fly at South Africa in large headlines. You need only glance at an establishment newspaper or any of the evening news broadcasts on TV. South Africa has the place of honour right at the top of the establishment hate list; the forces that form "world opinion" and manipulate it as they please. The methods that they use range from downright lies, half-truths, falsifications to contrived pictures and "objective" reports that leave out the most important parts.

South Africa is a classic example of successful psychological warfare on the part of those who wish it nothing but ill, and indeed it is very difficult for the ordinary citizen to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

To most people everything they read in the papers or see on television is quite simply the truth. They believe in their "democratic constitutional state" and of course in a "free press" with its national patriotic duty to inform the lieges objectively and truthfully. They forget all too easily that the mass-media are in the hands of private and usually international interest groups whose aims go far beyond maximization of profits and "the public's right to information", as we shall see in due course.

Let us take a closer look at the accusations most frequently leveled at South Africa:

"Apartheid legislation in South Africa means racist oppression and exploitation of the blacks, and it is an offence against human rights in general."

The Afrikaans word apartheid means nothing more nor less than "separation", with the additional implication of "separate development". The rationale of such legislation is based on the recognition of the multiplicity of the population, as we saw in the previous chapter. The different stages of development of the different peoples, black, white and coloured, necessarily required a very special system of legislation to protect and preserve the characteristic culture of each, and (particularly in the case of the blacks) to avoid racially-determined disputes.

The main buttresses of the policy were separate residential areas, separate schools and separate amenities such as cinemas, theatres, lavatories, parks, hospitals and so on. (Now that some of these things are no longer regarded as necessary the restrictions are being abolished.) There can be no question of oppression or exploitation; the converse is nearer the truth. The blacks in South Africa own more houses, cars and businesses and have a higher standard of living than the blacks in any other part of the African continent. They are paid three or four times more than elsewhere in Africa. That is one of the chief reasons why so many thousands of blacks try to immigrate to South Africa from the neighbouring countries every year.

Nor, despite the views of the UNO, can apartheid be regarded as an offence against human rights; otherwise, surely, there would not be so many separatist movements all over the world, in which peoples fight tooth and nail for their own "separate development" and autonomy.

Nowhere is apartheid more strongly marked than among the blacks themselves. If a Zulu woman were to marry a Tswana -to which few would feel inclined - she would be expelled from the tribe or put to death by her own family for "disgracing" it.

Intelligent and honest blacks have assured me quite frankly that they regard apartheid as natural and that they welcome it. Of course, what the enemies of South Africa have made of the word and convey to the world is something completely different and entirely devoid of foundation.

On 31.8.85 the South African government made an official statement to the Foreign Ministers of Luxembourg, Italy and the Netherlands and the European Commissioner for External Affairs which makes that quite clear: "If apartheid meant political domination of one ethnic group by another; exclusion of any community from the political decision-making process; injustice or absence of equality of opportunity for all; racial discrimination or violation of human rights; - if apartheid meant all those things, then the South African Government also rejects that concept."

"South Africa is a police state."

To every thousand people in South Africa there are 1,4 policemen. By comparison there are 2,2 in Great Britain, 3,5 in Israel, 4,3 in New York and 10 in Moscow. The entire South African police force is smaller than the police forces of the American states of Chicago and New York. More­ over, most policemen in South Africa are non-white. At the last count there were 16 292 white policemen and 19177 of black, coloured or Asian origin.

The South African police are also accused of murdering political dissidents and responsibility for the suicides of arrested persons. According to the most recent statistics available to me, during the years 1979 and 1980 there was not a single fatality in South African prisons. In the previous ten years 37 detainees under investigation died.

Compare for example England and Wales, where 274 detainees died between the years 1970 and 1979. In 1980 alone 63 persons under investigation died, and fifteen prisoners committed suicide in British prisons in 1981.26

"South Africa pays starvation wages to its eighteen million blacks."

By 1974 the average monthly earnings of black workers in productive industry were the equivalent of 127US dollars (usually with considerable extras in kind and other perks). At the same time 24 million workers in the USA, the richest country in the world, were earning less than 140 dollars a month. Since then black wages have risen at a proportionately higher rate than white pay. For example, a black factory-worker in Johannesburg needs to work 12 minutes to earn enough to buy a kilogram of rice, 38 minutes for 750 ml of vegetable oil and 363 hours for a colour TV set. A white worker in Moscow would have to work 54 minutes, 118 minutes and 701 hours respectively for these things.

"The blacks in South Africa hate the whites."

That is simply not true. Relations between black and white in South Africa are better than in Great Britain or the USA. It is far safer for a white to walk the streets of Soweto or any other black township than it would be in Harlem, Watts, the centre of Detroit or many other big American towns.

American visitors to South Africa are often astonished at the number of black people who smile at them in the streets.

"There are thousands of political prisoners in South Africa."

What are called political prisoners are in reality terrorists and revolutionaries working for the overthrow of the government. In 1983 there were 127 such prisoners in South Africa: eleven others were restricted in their movements and contacts with other people by a government order, and there were 32 more under house arrest: 170 altogether. By contrast, in Northern Ireland there were over fifteen hundred political prisoners, and there are many millions in the compulsory labour camps in the USSR, Red China, Cuba and other communist countries.

Where do we see demonstrations on behalf of those people? In the states next door to South Africa alone there are many more (real) political prisoners than in South Africa itself.

"The blacks are horribly exploited by the whites."

On the contrary. A million white taxpayers, two hundred thousand coloureds and two hundred thousand Asians subsidize eleven million blacks. Blacks in South Africa pay practically no income tax. The whites subsidize their housing, medical care, transport and education.

"The black majority is denied the right to vote; only the whites can vote."

In the first place there is no "black majority"; there are nine completely different black peoples and hundreds of tribes almost all antagonistic to one another. The Xhosa, VaVenda or Basuto would not tolerate living under the domination of the Zulus or vice versa.

Democratic voting is an invention of the white man's culture as it has evolved over thousands of years, and it is most unusual in the authoritarian structures of African tribal units. The chief gives the orders, and the people obey. In the African countries where the vote has been introduced, it usually turned out to because of one man, one vote, once. Most countries in Africa are now either Marxist dictatorships or one-party states in which no opposition parties are tolerated.

In the South African tricameral parliamentary system the whites, the Indians and the coloureds all have the vote. The blacks can vote in their own autonomous tribal territories. At present attempts are being made to devise some form of suffrage for the urbanized blacks living in the big industrial towns.

But there can be no acceptance of a voting system such as is possible in the homogeneous states in Europe; for in South Africa with its multiplicity of peoples it would inevitably lead to the exclusive domination of all the other groups by the strongest; and neither the whites nor the black tribal leaders are prepared to accept that.

"There is no freedom of the press in South Africa."

In South Africa there are more daily papers in opposition to the government than in all ten of the neighbouring independent black states put together. Apart from certain restrictions for reasons of security, the prohibition of communist propaganda and recent restrictions on what may be published during the state of emergency, the press can criticize the government and its transgressions to its heart's content. The English­ language press in particular makes full use of that freedom. Despite the restrictions, the South African press is the freest in all Africa.

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Live for it

You have often heard the expression "I will die for you" or "I will die for my cause". But ask yourself first "Why?" Why indeed? The dead are useless.

Rather say "I will live for you" or "I will live for my cause". Only the living can make a difference. Live for it.

Childlike Innocence

Innocence is freedom of corruption. It is to be childlike but not childish, which is to be foolish, immature and unwise.

A return to innocence and childlikeness is possible. Like everything it's about choice. You can choose it. You can choose to purge corruption from mind and spirit without sacrificing truth, wisdom and maturity.

You can choose to become pure and innocent once again. Choose to be childlike but not childish.

CHAPTER 1 The Rule of the Boers - Part 5

If you are still convinced, after all this, that South Africa exploits and oppresses its black fellow-citizens, that the mass-media and many church and anti-apartheid organizations present an objective picture of the situation and that the country deserves worldwide condemnation and economic sanctions, then please read on. But even if by now you are beginning to have your doubts about the correctness and objectivity of the reporting, you will certainly acquire fresh insights that will help you to understand the confusing events of the present era.

Can we blame most of the black heads of states in Africa for casting envious eyes at the white giant at the Cape of Good Hope when it almost effortlessly displays such a superiority in every field as they can only dream of?

A few figures should make that clear: Within its borders South Africa contains only six per cent of the total population of Africa and covers only four per cent of its total area; yet in 1979 it produced over 50% of the total electric power, it has 74% of the total electrified railways, runs over 25% of the total gross national product and possesses 45% of all the telephones in Africa. Seventy per cent of all the school pupils at the higher levels and four out of five doctors in southern Africa live in South Africa.

South Africa produces more energy than Italy, as much raw steel as France, more grain than Canada, more wool than the USA, more wine than Greece and more fish than Great Britain.

The South African railways run more line-kilometres than West Germany, carry more passengers than Switzerland and have a better punctuality record than Austria.

South African firms can work to the microscopic tolerances necessary for nuclear industries, build computers and Mach 2 jet fighters, export motor spare parts to a hundred countries and have built the biggest munitions factory in the world.

South Africa owns and runs one of the few highly complicated uranium enrichment plants in the world. South Africa has the biggest completely new port installation in the world, at Richards Bay, and the longest special railway in the world, 860 km connection between Sishen and Saldanha, which in the meantime is being used as a multipurpose line.

South African mine-shaft experts, whose predecessors dug the biggest man-made pit, the Big Hole at Kimberley, for diamonds, have reached a working depth of 3 480 metres, deeper than anything drilled by man ever; and they hold the world record for the deepest vertical shaft ever sunk: 2948 m.

The oil-from-coal process developed by the vast SASOL organization is in the front rank of international technology, and its special knowledge is in great demand for similar installations in Germany, the USA and Japan. In this part of Africa the descendants of the white settlers and later immigrants, mostly British, German, French Huguenot, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek, have created a regional super-power without equal, with a population of 4,8 million whites.

The income per head of the total population of South Africa (including the blacks) for 1983 was 2 450 US dollars, nine times that of Mozambique, four times that of Zambia, more than three times that of Zimbabwe, and almost double that of the whole southern African region.

Compared with the whole region of southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe) the South African proportion is as follows:

80% of the total gross national product (1986)

77% of all electricity produced (1980)

97% of all coal won (1980)

98% of all iron ore won (1980)

82% of all chromium won (1978)

77% of maize harvested (1986)

87% of wheat harvested (1980)

67% of sugar production (1979)

39% of beef cattle (1980)

80% of sheep (1980)

82% of motor vehicle production (1986)

63% of all tarred roads (1982)

60% of railways and port installations (1985)

84% of all telephones installed (1977)

The comparative figures for the entire African continent speak for themselves. The South African share is as follows:

46% of all motor vehicles 33% of all lorries

44% of all tractors

66% of total steel production

40% of African cement production.

The government is constantly endeavoring to raise the standard of living of the whole non-white population and to create a large contented black middle class. The enormous state expenditures necessary for that are at the expense of the white minority, who have to put up with an inflation rate of nearly twenty per cent, for the increased wages of the blacks, some of it statutory, is not matched by a proportionate rise in productivity.

An American visitor who knows the country well said recently that more changes had taken place in South Africa during the past ten years than in America in the last hundred years.

Racial separation has been scrapped almost everywhere: on the railways (summer of 1985); in the cinemas (Nov. 1985); and in sport. Everybody has the same citizenship (autumn of 1985). The Immorality Act has been scrapped (spring of 1985). The blacks have been given the right to freehold ownership (beginning of 1986) and can open firms in the central business areas (1985). Reserved occupations (for whites) are on the way out, and black members have been incorporated in central education committees: Coloureds and Indians now have proportional representation in Parliament. The blacks have their own democratic governments in their National States ("homelands"} So far the urban blacks only have a say in their own local administration, but they also will shortly participate in national government by means of a newly-created board.

The former State President, P.W. Botha, said some time ago: "The more reforms we carry out, the more we are condemned. The farther we move from the era of apartheid, the more furious the international campaign against us becomes ... It is as though our critics didn't want us to carry out orderly reforms."

CHAPTER 1 The Rule of the Boers - Part 4

For obvious reasons most of these countries issue no exact figures; however, from a study carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit we can take it that the proportions of imports from South Africa are as follows:

Angola 13%, Botswana 88%, Lesotho 95%, Malawi 36%, Mozambique 14%, Swaziland 90%, Zambia 16% and Zimbabwe 22%.

South Africa is one of the few countries in the world - and the only one in Africa - to be self-supporting in food production and still capable of exporting large quantities. By contrast, in most African countries there is a chronic shortage of food, particularly of the principal staple, maize. Because of their geographical proximity these countries are to an increasing degree dependent on South African supplies. Experts believe that four out of five African countries could not survive without food imports.

In 1980 African Business reported that Zambia had bought 250 000 tonnes of maize; Mozambique 150 000 tonnes of maize and 50000 tonnes of wheat; Kenya 128 000 tonnes and Zimbabwe 100 000 tonnes; and Angola, the Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mauritius, Tanzania and Zafre all imported grain from South Africa.

In 1980 nine African states imported 1,4 million tonnes of grain, most of it directly or indirectly from South Africa. While food production in black Africa fell by two per cent per head per annum, with all its unhappy consequences in the form of famine, poverty and declining living standards, South African food production rose by five per cent annually between 1960 and 197018, double its population growth rate.

According to the Argus African News Service , at least twelve countries are so completely dependent on South Africa economically that a really comprehensive economic embargo on it would mean their own total economic ruin.

Every day on average four heavy-laden large South African aircraft take off from Jan Smuts airport outside Johannesburg bound for black African destinations. Half the copper exports of Zafre and half its food imports flow through South Africa.

Lesotho sends about half its male population to South Africa (in 1983 it was 146 000) and depends on the estimated remittance of over 280 million rands to meet more than half of its domestic budget. Assuming that each of the 350 000 or so migrant workers from the neighbouring countries is supporting a family of at least eight members, that means that subsistence for about 2,8 million people comes from across the borders of South Africa. That takes no account of the illegal foreign workers, who are estimated to number over a million.

In addition to sending technical experts to many African countries, South Africa also provides them with a number of governmental and administrative advisers. Although here again no official figures are published by the countries concerned, according to a press statement of February 1972 during the sixties there were 53 government officials performing advisory functions in various neighbouring states: 26 in Lesotho, 22 in Malawi, three in Swaziland, one in Mozambique and one in Botswana. In the four independent South African states, the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and the Ciskei, in January 1983 there were 1 213 South African advisers placed at their disposal for an indefinite period.

The world press is also silent about the humanitarian contributions by South Africa in the form of relief for refugees and in emergency situations. A few examples may suffice:

In 1964, at the request of Prime Minister Tshombe, a Hercules of the South African Air Force flew to the Congo with urgently-needed supplies of medicaments, first-aid equipment and food.

In 1965, at the request of Prime Minister Jonathan, South Africa sent a hundred thousand bags of grain worth R315 000 to Lesotho to relieve the famine there.

In 1966 South Africa gave Botswana a gift of two hundred thousand rands when the country was suffering from famine.

During the Biafra war South Africa contributed ten thousand rands to the International Red Cross for the relief of victims of the conflict.

In 1968 twelve South African farmers lent 230 tractors to nine villages on the Lesotho border so that they could plough their fields in readiness for the maize season.

In 1969 a Dakota of the SAAF flew emergency supplies for thirty thousand people in the Qwagga's Nek district of Lesotho to relieve a famine.

In 1972 South Africa sent eight teams of specialists to Rhodesia to help in the rescue operations after the Wankie coal-mine disaster. The SA Chamber of Mines later gave R25 000 to the Emergency Aid Fund.

In 1976 South African doctors helped to contain the outbreak of the dreaded Marburg disease in Zafre.

In August 1977a South African team of specialist volunteers flew to the Moatize mine in Mozambique, where there had been a serious explosion of methane gas.

In 1979 South African fire-fighting teams helped to put out fires in petrol storage depots at Beira in Mozambique and Salisbury in Rhodesia.

In1979 South African services provided several hundred refugees from Lesotho with food and shelter.

The chaos caused by the civil war in Angola in 1975/ 6 forced thousands of people to flee the country. Most fled south across the border of South West Africa (Namibia). By the middle of September 1976 there were about eleven thousand Angolan refugees in four camps in South and South West Africa. The costs amounted to about four million rands. Two more camps were run by the South African army in Southern Angola.

In 1980 South Africa helped the Transkei with R6,6 mil]J-on in drought relief and provided employment for unemployed families by the improvement of roads and earth dams.

In 1987 South Africa looked after about two hundred thousand refugees, including soldiers, from the civil war and famine in Mozambique. FRELIMO, the ruling communist party in Mozambique, was formerly supported by the World Council of Churches (WCC). Now thousands of blacks are fleeing to "white" South Africa so anathematized by the WCC, braving the mines, the barbed wire and the wild beasts. On average two thousand refugees a month stream through the Kruger Park game reserve alone. Many of them bring malaria with them, and the game wardens are afraid that the lions, to whom many have fallen victim, will become man-eaters. During recent years the various forms of official development aid have greatly increased. The estimated value of official aid to the independent neighbouring states for 1982/3 amounted to R434 million, an increase of 69% over the previous financial year. In January 1983 the total official development aid programme, including the allocation of credits, legal and technical expenditures for 1982/3 were estimated at R627 600 000.23 If the development aid programme for the (non­ independent) self-governing black states inside South Africa are taken into account, all this costs the predominantly white taxpayers in South Africa more than a thousand million rands. Unless I am much mistaken, in proportion to population this must be an absolute world record!

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CHAPTER 1 The Rule of the Boers - Part 3

In its issue no. 29 (April 1987) Vox Africana, an independent publication catering mainly for the English-speaking churches in South Africa, reported on a visit by an American evangelist, Professor Smock, who discovered certain "shocking facts" about South Africa:"When we arrived at the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg we began to look for the notorious apartheid. There was no apartheid in our smart hotel - everything was integrated. Nor was there any apartheid in the posh restaurants that we went to; there were people of all races eating there, and we were served by both black and white waiters."

After his visit to South Africa in 1986 Professor Jed Smock, Director of Campus Ministry, Lexington, USA, wrote as follows: "The inner city of Johannesburg reminded us of Chicago, Detroit and Dallas, with only one difference- here there were three times as many blacks in the busy streets. In the modern department stores and shops all races were served with the same readiness.

"We found the same thing in all the other cities that we visited. When we went to the bank to change our money, there were both blacks and whites behind the counter. In the bookstores we looked in vain for a book in which apartheid was defended. There were indeed plenty of books on the subject, but they were all negative. Every English-language periodical in the country condemned the vestiges of apartheid. The only newspaper that had a word of praise for the government's reforms was The Citizen."

Professor Smock found that the non-whites also participated in the political set-up:

a) A tricameral parliamentary system gives Indians, Coloureds and whites authority over their "own" affairs and a say in "general" affairs;

b) blacks administer their own townships and residential areas;

c) Blacks have complete supremacy in the National States;

d) Non-whites have a voice in the provincial governments. (In Natal that means that for the first time the whites are in the minority.)

e) The integrated provincial governments have laid down the foundations for integrated Regional Service Councils;

f) On the national level there is a multiracial National Council.

a) The newspaper writes: "The Professor was also impressed by the many reforms: The influx control and pass laws had been abolished.

b) Laws that prevented migrant workers from bringing their families with them had been abolished.

c) South African citizenship had been restored to blacks living in white areas.

d) People of all races are issued with the same identity documents.

e) The immigration laws are the same for everybody.

f) Special law-courts for blacks had been abolished.

g) Black urban police had been given more authority.

h) It was now possible for ground and houses to be purchased in black residential areas.

i) Some central business areas had been opened to entrepreneurs of all races."

In a paper for American students Professor Smock wrote:

1) "Blacks are paid three or four times as much in South Africa as in the rest of Africa.

2) Black South African workers have practically the same rights as American workers.

3) In South Africa there are more black women in executive positions than in the whole continent.

4) South Africa is training more black doctors than any other country in Africa.

5) South Africa is the only country in the continent with a black middle class of any size.

6) In South Africa blacks own more cars than the whites in the USSR.

7) The government is building five thousand houses a month and makes housing available to 92 per cent of the black population.

8 South Africa proposes to spend a thousand million rands in the next five years to improve underdeveloped towns.

9) Whites with an income of thirty thousand US dollars a year pay fifty per cent tax to raise the thousand of millions spent on subsidies for non­ whites."

So much for Professor Smock of America.

These are all hard facts that cannot be argued away when it is alleged that the whites in South Africa oppress or exploit the black majority. It would be far nearer to the truth to say that the whites in this country would be much better off if they did not have to pay the enormous financial costs of supporting and advancing the rapidly proliferating black masses.

Another example of white "development aid" is the very up-to-date medical university Medunsa on the edge of the independent black state of Bophuthatswana, 35 km northwest of Pretoria, built at a cost of seventy million rands. In what amounts to a small town covering thirty-five hectares, with dormitories for male and female students, black doctors, dentists, veterinarians and paramedical personnel are being trained with the most modern equipment and in accordance with the latest methods of instruction.

This is the only specialist university of its kind in Africa and one of the very few in the world. Practically all the students, who come from the black South African National States, are fully subsidized by the white government.

Practical training takes place in the nearby black hospital at Garankuwa, in which the whole range of human ailments can be treated. In addition to the standard equipment there is apparatus for artificial kidney transplants, isotope units and their associated specialized laboratories. Occupational therapists can instruct their patients in hospital in thirty-two different therapies to prepare them for a productive life. Here up to two hundred black doctors are trained annually, so that they can then take over responsibility for medical care in their homelands.

In three centuries the descendants of the Boer pioneers, the Afrikaners as they now call themselves, together with generations of later European immigrants, have developed an almost European-type state at the southern tip of Africa that has grown into the greatest industrial and military power in Africa. Its economic importance to black Africa in general, but especially to its immediate neighbours, is so great that if there were to be a total hypothetical worldwide cessation of economic co-operation with South Africa it would cause severe famine and the collapse of their national economies, while South Africa, even though damaged, would survive intact.

The advocates of economic sanctions against South Africa fail to realize the fact that it produces three-quarters of the industrial capacity of all Southern Africa, employs hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and maintains the only reliable transport communications with the outside world, on which at least seven states, as far north as Zaire, are vitally dependent for their imports and exports.

The well-known British writer and historian Paul Johnson tells us that if the South African economy were to be destroyed by sanctions, "... the driving motor of growth - even of survival - on the continent would be put out of action, and its fall would pull down all the countries of southern Africa with it, probably all the countries of the sub-Saharan zone too ... We should have to number the dead from starvation in millions."

Besides these connections in transport, trade and labour, the regional economic interdependence of the southern African states also extends to electricity supplies across the borders, petrol and other oil products, tour­ ism, private investments by South African firms, technology and research. The neighbouring states depend on South Africa not only for technical aid by South African experts; they also drive steam and diesel-electric locomotives borrowed from the South African Transport Services (SATS). South African diesel locomotives travel as far north as Zafre and Tanzania. In 1985 thirty-seven diesel and forty steam engines were hired out to the neighbouring states; on average 6195SATS goods wagons a day travelled on foreign rails alone, as against 944 in South Africa itself.

South African technicians of South African Airways (SAA) maintain and repair the aircraft of many other African states that possess neither the technical skills nor the proper equipment to do it themselves. South Africa also trains the crews of the Swazi, Botswana, Zimbabwean and Comoran airlines. South African Hercules C-130 transport aircraft carry urgently­ needed spare parts, machinery, pharmaceutical and consumer goods of all kinds to most African countries.

For example, when in 1979 the railway line to Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, was broken by rebels, South Africa immediately came to the rescue with a fleet of air-transports carrying urgently-needed fuel in drums to keep the economy of Malawi going.

Although most African states deny any official contacts with South Africa and in the UN and other bodies vociferously call for sanctions and boycotts, in fact nearly all of them still maintain close commercial relations with South Africa.

In 1986 alone eighty thousand businessmen from all parts of Africa visited the country to make new deals. In 1984 South African exports to forty-seven African countries amounted to about two thousand million rands, or 7,6% of all exports, while imports amounted to about 480 million, or 2,2%.

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CHAPTER 1 The Rule of the Boers - Part 2

When the Dutch pioneers first set foot on South African soil in 1652 under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck they had neither the desire nor the intention to subjugate the native inhabitants or rob them of their possessions. Their task was simply to establish a refreshment station for the ships of the Dutch East India Company carrying the riches of the East to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope.

That was a year before the founding of New York and a hundred and fifty years before the settlement of Australia and New Zealand by British immigrants.

Now that a regular mud-slinging campaign is being waged by the USA and the UNO to which it plays host, it is only fair to mention, not without irony, the fact that the execrated Boers did not exterminate millions of Indians (for which read blacks) - of the estimated ten million original inhabitants of North America there are now only about four hundred thousand10 - or filch their land from them and pen the survivors up in reservations. Nor did they import Negro slaves; with their own hands they set about clearing and cultivating the almost uninhabited country. Apart from small groups of nomadic Bushmen and Hottentots, it was a hundred years later, in 1770, that they first encountered Negro tribes on the banks of the Great Fish River, a thousand kilometres north of Cape Town. Those tribes formed the spearhead of the Nguni peoples, who had originated in the region of the Great Lakes in Central Africa, hundreds of years before they began their migration southward.

By then some of the people employed by the Dutch East India Company had become "free burgers" who, together with150 Huguenots who had fled their native France, settled an area of 170 000 square kilometres; about six times the area of the present-day Netherlands.

After a few skirmishes and several border wars they eventually came to terms. The Boers left the black migrants in possession of the territories where they had settled, and which are now the "homelands" that they themselves have chosen.

If South Africa now has problems with its present black majority proportions, that in itself is clear evidence of the difference in humanity between the pious Boers and the white subjugators of America, Australia and New Zealand, who would never have allowed any such disproportion to exist. It is the very pinnacle of hypocrisy that those countries should now be in the forefront of those who accuse South Africa of gross violations of human rights.

The news of the remarkable abilities of the white man and his technical achievements soon had the effect of bringing more and more blacks into the territories occupied by the Boers in quest of work, protection and medical treatment. The white man did not come to Africa to take their land from them, as is often asserted. He could not take from them their schools, their hospitals, their roads or their railways; for of course they had no such things.

As we have said, he entered an almost uninhabited country, a wilderness of desert and bush with little to offer but wild beasts, a pleasant climate and some fertile coastal strips. The few indigenous peoples that he encountered lived in a state of barbarism, their principal occupation being to smash in each others' skulls at regular intervals. They did not use the wheel; they had no writing; they lived as they had lived a thousand years before.

Let me put it quite bluntly: Everything that the black man now possesses in South Africa he owes to the technical knowledge, the initiative and the creative talents of the white man. The white man owes him absolutely nothing. It is sheer nonsense, as is often alleged, that the whites owe their prosperity to the cheap labour of the blacks. Europe did not need to wait for "cheap'' foreign labour to be imported to acquire its wealth and civilization. The contrary rather. It is not more necessary than ever before to spend more and more on welfare payments and unemployment benefits to over-prolific migrant workers raised through higher and higher taxes? Are there not more crime and social problems than ever before?

In South Africa at present 4,8 million whites bear 77 per cent of the total tax burden, while 56 per cent of state expenditure goes to the benefit of 18,2 million blacks who pay only 15 per cent of the taxes.

Where in all the world is there anything comparable? Probably never before have so few done so much for so many. In plain figures the picture is as follows: In the financial year 1986-7 the whites paid R9 thousand million in income tax, the blacks 171 million, the Indians 257 million and the Coloureds 315 million. (From The Financial Mail 11.9.1987).

Between 1962 and 1972 the UN paid out 298 million dollars to underdeveloped countries. In the same period South Africa spent 558million dollars on the development of its black territories.

By the end of 1970 the blacks in South Africa owned 360 000 motor vehicles: more than the whole of black Africa put together. While the populations of countries such as Malawi and Mozambique earn an average income per head of less than R20 a month (and only in very few black countries does it exceed R lOO) in South Africa the average figure is R352.

Between 1975 and 1984 the real income of black workers rose by 27,5 per cent, compared with 6,4 per cent for whites.

A black citizen of South Africa can undergo a complicated heart-valve operation for little more than one US dollar. (Between two and three thousand such operations are performed annually in one hospital in Pretoria alone.) A black American would have to pay fifteen thousand dollars for the same operation in the USA.

In 1970 the blacks earned R1 751 million, or 25,5 per cent of the total national wage income. By1984 their share had risen to R17 238 million; a rise of over a thousand per cent in fourteen years. '

In Africa and most of the developing countries generally compulsory education is unknown. For years South Africa has been endeavouring to expand those areas where there is compulsory education.

Since 1970 the domestic budget for black education has been raised by nearly thirty per cent a year - the greatest increase shown by any government department.

Since 1955 the number of black pupils rose from thirty-five thousand to over a million in 1984, i.e. by a factor of 31. In South Africa the percentage of children attending school is 65, compared with 64 in Egypt, 57in Nigeria, 52 in Ghana, 50 in Tanzania and 29 in Ethiopia.

Of black adults in South Africa 71 per cent can read and write (80 per cent between 12 and 22 years) compared with 47 per cent for Kenya, 38 per cent for Egypt, 34 per cent for Nigeria and 26 per cent for Mozambique. On average, throughout the whole year fifteen new classrooms per working day are built for black pupils; that is, counting forty to a class, accommodation for six hundred more a day.

In 1985 there were forty-two thousand black students at South African universities. There are five black universities and twenty-eight polytechnics subsidized by the government.

The proportion of black businessmen in the total commercial life of the country rose from one per cent in 1977 to ten per cent in 1987. The industrial areas in the towns are open to all races; so are the shopping areas for black entrepreneurs in most towns.

South Africa far outstrips most developing countries in health care. (According to the UN definition South Africa is one of the developing countries.)

According to the World Bank Atlas of 1985 the South African infant mortality is 55 (i.e. per thousand live births up to the age of one year) and therefore makes a better showing than three of the six regions into which the World Health Organization divides the earth: the Eastern Mediterranean (112), Southeast Asia (110) and all Africa (119). The black infant mortality is 82, or 31 per cent lower than in the rest of the African continent.

The national healthcare services (doctors etc.) amount to 480 per hundred thousand of the total population; about 380 more than the average for the "third world". Every year more than eleven hundred black patients come to South Africa from other countries to be treated by medical specialists. (Die Vaderland 2.3.87)

Soweto, the black metropolis outside Johannesburg with a population of some 1,2 million, has five modern sports stadiums. Pretoria, the capital, with a white population of six hundred thousand, has three. Soweto has over three hundred schools, Pretoria 229.

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CHAPTER 1 The Rule of the Boers - Part 1

THE WHITE GIANT OF AFRICA

CHAPTER 1

The Rule of the Boers

You don't want reforms. You want my country.

President Paul Kruger to (Lord) Alfred Milner on 31.5.1899, just before the outbreak of the Boer War

More than any other country South Africa might well be taken as a microcosm of the world; as the advertisements for South African Airways put it: "the whole world in one country". Its population reflects not only the ethnic variety of the world in general but also its inequalities in economic and social development such as are seen elsewhere between the so-called "first" and "third worlds".

Three continents meet here in one country: Europe (the whites), Africa (nine different black peoples) and Asia (the Indians and Malays), together with a large community of mixed race (the "coloureds").

Moreover, not one of the eleven main languages of South Africa is spoken by a majority. Therefore, the South African Broadcasting Corporation transmits its programmes over the radio in all eleven languages, and in six by its television services, which are generally understood by its population of about 27 million.

Throughout its whole history South Africa has always been more of a geographical expression than a true national entity. The country did not come into being because its peoples had any particularly close affinities with one another but through purely artificial lines drawn on the map by former colonial administrations. As a result fundamentally different peoples, such as the Xhosas and the Zulus, were sometimes quite arbitrarily enclosed within South African territory, though in their own separate areas. No less arbitrarily, parts of other black peoples were excluded beyond the borders of South Africa. Thus there came about the anomalous situation that larger components of the Swazis, the Basutos and the Tswanas lived inside South Africa than in their own independent territories of Swaziland, Basutoland (Lesotho) and Bechuanaland (Botswana).

Most non-South Africans assiduously ignore the fact that the nine black peoples in South Africa are in culture, language and mentality at least as different from one another as, say, the Norwegians and the Spaniards, the British and the Greeks or the Dutch and the Italians. In this polyethnic state there is no "black majority"; only nine completely distinct peoples split up into 757 tribes, and each constituting a minority.

Of the total population 22,8% are Zulus, 18,2% Whites, 12% Xhosas and 10,5% Coloureds. All the remaining ethnic groups amount to less than ten per cent. Like the European states, the black peoples of South Africa live in their own traditional territories, each "apart" or separate from the others. The differences between them are accentuated by ancient tribal enmities, which in the past used often to lead to bloody wars in which whole tribes were exterminated.

Although that is prevented nowadays by the national security forces, every now and again there are still outbreaks of hostility and violence. As recently as 1986 a hundred men were killed and several hundred injured in tribal fighting between the Zulus and the Pondos. It took the army and the police months to restore peace and order before they could withdraw.

The civilized European can hardly imagine the gruesome, primitive weapons that blacks use against other blacks; anything that will kill will serve: knives, spears, picks, hatchets, clubs, sickles, bicycle-spokes, blank­ cartridge pistols with the barrel drilled through, all manner of ancient firearms - these are only a few of the instruments collected by the police from the mangled victims; whose guilt usually consists in no more than the fact of belonging to a different tribe.

Black "racism" and tribal animosities are so deep-rooted that the big mining companies will allow their workers to go underground only in gangs belonging to the same tribe. Nevertheless the armed security men employed by the mines regularly have to intervene in murders and man­slaughters committed in the hostels and dormitories by different ethnic groups.

The South African reality of intertribal hostility can reach such a pitch that in one case it became necessary to create two separate government organizations and administrations for the culturally identical Xhosa people because centuries-old animosities between the various branches of the tribe made peaceful co-existence impossible. The Xhosas are now living in two independent black states, the Transkei and the Ciskei, inside South African territory.

Meanwhile the South African government has complied with the wishes of some of the black peoples (and indeed made it a fundamental plank of its policy) and granted them home rule within their traditional areas, with the prospect of gaining complete national independence in due course.

So far four of them have been granted independence: Transkei, Venda, Ciskei and Bophuthatswana. A fifth, KwaNdebele, has requested its independence. Others may follow as soon as they please. Although these countries are larger and have a higher income per head than many members of the UNO, they are not recognized by the world organisation.

The complexity and uniqueness of South Africa, however, consists not only in the multiracial structure of its peoples. Within the nine principal black languages there are twenty-three subgroups and innumerable dia­ lects. Most groups are mutually unintelligible. For example, the VaVenda, the most homogeneous community, comprise twenty-seven clearly distinct tribes. The Zulus comprise as many as two hundred. Within the tribes there are further subdivisions into many different clans.

Besides the 18,2 million blacks there are 4,8 million whites, 2,8 million Coloureds and 880 000 Asians.

Of the Asians 65,1 per cent are Hindus, 20,6 per cent Muslims, 6,9 per cent either Christians or Buddhists, while 7,4 per cent belong to "other" religions. Although most of the blacks have been nominally "christianized", many of them are still much more inclined towards their ancestral animistic cults than to Christianity. Next to the Chief, the medicine-man or witch­ doctor is still the most respected and feared personage. Thus it is not unusual for black heads of state and their ministers to take counsel of the sangoma "throwing the bones" before making any important decision.

If we add to these South West Africa (Namibia) with its Bushmen, we may begin to imagine ourselves in the position of a government with an "electorate" covering the whole spectrum of colours and cultures, from people who have barely emerged from the Stone Age and Negro tribes that were still nomadic until quite recently to European immigrants of the Atomic Age.

Against such a background, is it really so perverse and unforgivable that the way of apartheid or "separate development" of peoples should have been seen as the best solution to the problems of this country?

Critics of the South African notion of separate development mostly ignore the question why distinct ethnic groups all over the world strive for their own separate development and fight for their own autonomy. They stigmatize the traditional black territories of South Africa as "Bantustans", poverty-stricken depressed areas, wicked creations of a white policy of Divide and Rule.

Why do they not equally condemn the separatist movements elsewhere: the Basques and Catalans in Spain, the Corsicans and Bretons in France, the Kurds in Turkey and Syria, the Kabyles in North Africa, the Ibos in Nigeria, the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi, the Walloons and Flemings in Belgium, the Untouchables in India, the Eritreans in Ethiopia, the Moslems in Chad and the Philippines, the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Greeks and the Turks in Cyprus, the Indians in Brazil, the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, the Lapps in Sweden, the oppressed minority groups in the Soviet Union and the many other conflict situations in the world?

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The Plot Against South Africa - Introduction - Part 2

Above all we must realize that it is not communism in itself that is the chief enemy to be repelled, but the forces that lurk behind it, that control it and use it as a wedge to drive for the attainment of their goal of world domination.

Hitler fell into that trap when he mobilized his armies against Bolshevism. While he was giving the German troops their marching orders for the East, the bankers in the West were mobilizing the forces of the governments that they controlled for the attack on Germany. They had no wish to see the·' fruit of their labours, the Red Empire, destroyed. Their plans were well thought out and carefully executed. On the one hand the predominantly Jewish-Zionist bankers deviously supplied Hitler with credits to make Germany capable of waging war; whereupon they manipulated events in Europe in accordance with their own intentions. They were well aware of Hitler's feelings about the Jews and Bolshevism. If they could induce him to persecute the Jews on a vast scale and expel them from Europe, and then to invade Poland and the Soviet Union, they would have killed several birds with one stone: the state of Israel long envisaged by the Zionists would gain official support from all over the world as a home for the Jews driven out of Europe, their communist empire would be strengthened, Germany would be destroyed, and Europe would be divided and enfeebled.

As we now know, General Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the American forces in Europe, on orders "from above" stopped his advancing troops, thus allowing Eastern Europe to fall into the hands of the communist hordes, which America had been supplying with enormous quantities of weapons and other material.

The bankers' objectives had thus come true according to their plans. In his book National Suicide (Arlington House 1973) Professor Antony Sutton, a scientist at the Hoover Institute, Stanford University in America, cites irrefutable evidence that:

"During the past five years we have on the one hand threatened Russia and communism with the sword, while on the other we have secretly given aid to the Bolsheviks on such a colossal scale that without it the communist despotism in Russia would probably have collapsed. In 1944 Stalin admit­ted that about two-thirds of all large industrial undertakings in the Soviet Union had been accomplished with American aid or technical assistance." Professor Sutton proves that the remaining third had been built by the other Western states; that the tank factories, the aircraft factories, the explosives and munitions factories came from America; that 90 to 95 per cent of Russian technology since 1918 had come from the USA and its allies; that we built, sold or gave to the communists plants for the production of copper wire, motor vehicles, tanks, missiles and calculators; that the Russians now have the largest merchant navy in the world, with about six thousand ships, two-thirds of them built abroad.

Why did the superbankers build the biggest steelworks in the world in Russia? Why did they build the biggest tanks factory in the world in Russia? Why did the Roosevelt government not only betray the secrets of the atomic bomb to the Russians but also send them at the same time the materials necessary for its production?

Question upon question that admit of only one conclusion: There has long been in existence a conspiratorial network of secret forces that spins its web in the shadow of the officially elected governments and controls them so as to maneuver all mankind into a collective world state. Nowhere can that be seen more clearly than in the attack on South Africa.

In the first main section of the book that follows we shall examine the real state of affairs in South Africa and discuss its economic importance to Africa and the Western world; in the middle section we shall take a closer look at the "New International World Order", its significance, and the hidden wirepullers who operate it; and in the last we shall deal with the strategy of the planned revolution in South Africa and the part played by its supporters.

In the final section we shall attempt to analyse the possible future course of South Africa and the dangers that Europe and the rest of the free world will be threatened with should South Africa fall victim to the internationalist conspiracy.

The Plot Against South Africa - Introduction - Part 1

Introduction

More and more observers of the contemporary scene are arriving at the conviction that the innumerable crises and trouble-spots of our era differ from all others in that they all have a common origin.

Thus we read in the first section of This Age of Conflict, by F.P. Chambers,

C.P. Harris and CG. Bailey (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1943):

"Two world wars and their intervening wars, revolutions and crises are now generally recognised to be episodes in a single age of conflict which began in 1914 and has not yet run its course. It is an age that has brought to the world more change and tragedy than any other equal span in recorded history. Yet whatever may be its ultimate meaning and consequence, we can already think of it - and write of it - as a historic whole."

In Behind the News3 of January 1985 Ivor Benson writes:

"The revolutionary changes which have swept the world since the beginning of this century and now appear to be headed for a grand climax had their origin in a revolutionary change which occurred in the realm of high finance.

"For a long time after the beginning of the modern industrial era, finance capitalism- not to be confused with private ownership capitalism - existed almost entirely in national concentrations; there was a British finance­ capitalism, answerable to a British government which was in turn an­swerable to an electorate; a German finance-capitalism, a French one, a Dutch one, etc, each one joined to a national government and finally answerable to a national electorate. Last century and well into the twentieth, these national concentrations of financial power were in vigorous competition.

"What then happened was that the many national concentrations of finance-capitalism were drawn into coalescence to form something new in history; namely, an international finance-capitalism fiercely resolved to free itself from answerability to any national government and its electorate.

"This process of coalescence had already begun at the time of the Anglo­ Boer War but only began to exert a major influence in world affairs in the next two decades. One of the last national concentrations of finance­ capitalism to capitulate was that of the United States; this occurred in the middle 1930's when the multimillionaire American pioneering families, led by J.P. Morgan, finally lost their supremacy in Wall Street to the inter­nationalists, as recorded by Dr Carroll Quigley.

"There can be no doubt that a major factor in bringing about revolutionary changes in the realm of high finance was the existence within the different nations of Europe of banking families or dynasties which had always specialised in transnational operations.

"The story of how these financial families consolidated their power on an international basis is told by Dr Quigley in his History of the World in our Time - Tragedy and Hope. He writes: 'The greatest of these dynasties, of course, were the descendants of Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812) of Frankfort, whose male descendants, for at least two generations, generally married first cousins or even nieces. Rothschild's five sons, established at branches in Vienna, London, Naples and Paris, as well as Frankfort, co-operated together in ways which other international banking dynasties copied but rarely excelled.'

"Dr Quigley names as some of the other international banking families: Baring, Lazard, Erlanger, Schroder, Seligman, Speyers, Mirabaud, Mallet, Fould and Morgan. This list could easily be extended - Warburg, Wallen­ berg, Kuhn, Loeb, Schiff, etc. There is no need to enquire deeply into the genealogies of these internationally dispersed banking dynasties which, as Dr Quigley put it, 'in time brought into their financial network the provincial banking centres organised as commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies, to form all of these into a single financial system on an international scale which manipulated the quantity and flow of money so that they were able to influence, if not control, governments on the one side and industries on the other.'

"All the major changes which have occurred in our century - the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath, the precipitation of World War II, the dismantling of the colonial empires and the creation of a bogus 'world parliament', etc. - all of these and much else can be explained as having been dictated by the needs and ambitions of the new international financial power; for there was obviously no way in which the prosperity and security of this Jewish-controlled money power could be reconciled with the continued existence of strong governments in Europe and Russia to which it would have to be responsible and answerable."

When we consider the conflicts and revolutions of this century in many countries, it becomes conspicuous that:
every revolution or overthrow of a government has followed almost the same pattern;

every new regime has been either socialist-marxist or at least strongly centralized and dictatorial in its nature, and in nearly every case more brutal, corrupt and oppressive than the government that was over­thrown ostensibly on those very pretexts;

the regimes overthrown were strongly nationalist, anti-communist and particularly autonomous or independent;

although the new clique in power were more brutal than the former rulers and trampled human rights underfoot, after a little while they were recognized by practically all the Western governments and sup­ported with credits and material aid;officials of the American State Department had a hand in all these subversions.

In his book Behind the Scene5 (1976) Douglas Reed writes:

"Hatreds, passions and prejudices are to some extent innate in man and may be reduced by wise leadership or inflamed by bad. As I have gone along I have seen that they are incited, in all countries, by organized forces from outside for the purpose of setting up the World State on the ruins of Christian nations. That key once found, the dark origins of our twentieth­ century wars and the strange doublings their courses take are alike plain to understand."

It is not possible within the compass of this book to reveal the full extent of the global conspiracy in detail. Many excellent books have been written on this subject, and it is recommended to the interested reader to acquire the books listed in the Appendix. Many of the big booksellers might, however, be reluctant to stock such books, for fear of reprisals.

Although the plans of the world-rulership conspiracy go far back in time, as far as the occult notions of the Novus OrdoSaeculorurn of the eighteenth­ century Illuminati and the Freemasons, the ideas of Adam Weishaupt, Giuseppe Manzini and others were taken over by Karl Marx for his Communist Manifesto and then put to use by powerful high-finance groups for the furtherance of their world rule.

In this book we shall concern ourselves mainly with the events of this century, most particularly with the attack on South Africa, and we shall find parallels with similar occurrences and draw the appropriate conclusions. Never before has any nation been exposed to such a heavy and incessant barrage of vituperation from the establishment media all over the world, for decades on end, as this country; it can be compared only to the conjoint press campaign against the German Third Reich in the thirties. (Could that be a portent of corning events in South Africa also?)

While South Africa can hardly stern the flood of black refugees from the "liberated" neighbour countries, an ill-informed world public sees it as the very embodiment of racist oppression and exploitation. Unprecedented diplomatic pressures are exerted on the country. Total sanctions and economic boycotts are threatened, and have actually been put into effect by many former trading partners. Ten members of the EEC have ordered their ambassadors back. Australia has withdrawn its embassy; Norway and Denmark have shut down their consulates. The US State Department has put South Africa on its list of "hostile foreign powers" - the first country in the free world to receive that honour. The American Congress resolved to introduce thorough-going economic sanctions.

The picture formed by the man in the street in the West from the media is one of total confusion; for how is all this hostility to South Africa to be reconciled with the fact that Yugoslavia, Angola, Red China, Mozambique and other totalitarian self-styled marxist states are still treated as friendly allied powers worthy of aid and support, while the Russian invasion of Afghanistan is apparently forgiven and forgotten?

In Diagnosen (no 1/86, p. 26) Ivor Benson, a former adviser to the Rhodesian government, writes:

"The first fact of decisive significance is that the real history of what is happening in South Africa is only one episode of a widespread scenario that is essentially devised for the whole world and all mankind. That means that only by understanding what has happened and is happening in the world in general can we hope to find out the truth about what is going on in South Africa at present. To put it briefly, South Africa has become one of the main targets of the worldwide revolutionary movement that started at the beginning of our century and has rapidly gained impetus since the end of the Second World War. Its goal is the centralization of political power, which is in line with its increasing, by now almost completed, centralization of financial power."

So all the talk about "apartheid" and "human rights" is mere camouflage for a political war drama, and its purpose is to conceal the identity of those who want to soften up South Africa preparatory to its incorporation in the planned new international economic order; which will in due course turn out to be a new political order: the unitary world that the UNO is assiduously working towards.

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Translation of Manuel:

WONDERFUL .. Good. I have accumulated a lot of experience in this final phase, hard, complicated, and unpleasant, for me, but, I give FAITH and walk with witnesses, THAT GOD KNOWS, that, when I lost the support of the Family, I found THE FRIENDS ... Thank you to this wonderful friendship, even today, I can even write to you and share a little of my life

.. I IDENTIFY myself in my personal experience, with this SHORT, THOUGHT, DIVINE.

Me:

Muchísimas gracias. Estoy muy contento de que hayas encontrado un lugar al que sientes que perteneces. Aquí ciertamente estás entre amigos.

Thank you very much. I am greatly pleased that you found a place where you feel you belong. Here you certainly are among friends.

When all else fails

When all else fails, what will you do? When all else fails, when everything around you falls down and pulls apart at the seams, what will you do? Who will you turn to? Will you turn to family? What if they fail? How about friends? What if they desert you? The police? Emergency services? The government? What if the numbers don't work? What if nobody is on the other side?

If all else fails and you stand alone with nobody to call on, nobody to help you? If all else fails and you need courage, where will you find it? How will you conquer your fear? What if you are pushed beyond limits where even your body and mind feels it can't go on and is screaming for release?

When all else fails, where can you turn too?

When all else fails, you descend. You descend into Silence. You close your eyes, even if for only a moment or two, and you descend. You descend inwards toward your center.

When all else fails you descend into God. You descend inwards into the God within you. You go deep inside and you embrace the power you carry. You go deep inside and you embrace the Silence of the center of God which you are deep inside. For that one moment you embrace that silence and then...you bring that power out. You bring that power out in full force. You bring out the power of God within.

When all else fails you bring out the power of God within. You bring out the peace. You bring out the courage. You bring out the knowledge and wisdom that is part of you as God is part of you. When all else fails you bring out God.

You bring out God and you see that when all else fails...that you do not...that you cannot...that it is impossible for you to fail.

When all else fails and you bring out God within and embrace that alliance which is closer than your rushing heartbeat...you discover that you are invincible. You discover that you not only have God within but also the power and peace of that God within. You discover that you are God as God is you. You discover the power of the Silence and then you discover the power of the Word. The Word of God within. The Word of God which you are.

When all else fails you then stand up. You lose your fear. You go beyond. You find your true courage and power. You take a step forward...and another...and another...and you begin to walk as God on earth. You become the invincible Spirit you are, for when you walk as God nothing can ever fail and when all else outside fails nothing inside will.

This call is sent out to all who may find themselves alone in the midst of chaos and fear where ever and whenever it may occur during the coming times. Know that when all else fails but you embrace the Silent Power of God within that you will never fail. The power is only a thought away. God is only a thought way. Let it lift you and guide you. Listen to the Silence speak.

When all else fails...take the step...and let God take the rest with you. You are never alone and never will be...even when all else fails.