Nelson Mandela: Speech on Release from Prison, 1990

The following speech can be downloaded in .pdf format HERE.

Please note that all formatting in the following version is my own, for the purpose of highlighting certain important aspects of the speech.

The highlighted section relate to the non-intention to strive for unity, equality for all races, without discrimination, democracy, peace and stability in South Africa. It also points out the support for Marxist- Leninist Communism and Mandela's promotion of the armed struggle, for which he was given a Noble Peace Prize. Please note my personal comments in [square brackets]

Nelson Mandela: Speech on Release from Prison, 1990

After a quarter century in jail, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the South African African National Congress, was released and faced the world's press in a speech carried live throughout the world.

Comrades and fellow South Africans, I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.

On this day of my release, I extend my sincere and warmest gratitude to the millions of my compatriots and those in every corner of the globe who have campaigned tirelessly for my release. I extend special greetings to the people of Cape Town, the city which has been my home for three decades. Your mass marches and other forms of struggle have served as a constant source of strength to all political prisoners.
[Forms of struggle which caused the death of many thousands of blacks and whites in South Africa. It should be noted that by far the vast majority of all political deaths during Apartheid were directly attributable to the ANC]

I salute the African National Congress. It has fulfilled our every expectation In its role as leader of the great march to freedom.

I salute our president, Comrade Oliver Tambo, for leading the ANC even under the most difficult circumstances.

ANC heading for turmoil - Buthelezi - Sowetan LIVE

ANC heading for turmoil - Buthelezi - Sowetan LIVE:

IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says the ANC is sitting on a "powder keg of social and political upheaval" as it heads to its conference in Mangaung and its centenary celebrations next year.

"We are sitting on a powder keg of social and political upheaval. This much is clear from the march on Thursday that split the ANC and its alliance partners, Cosatu and the SACP, on the issue of nationalisation and land expropriation. A message like that, emanating from within the ruling party's structures, is damaging to South Africa's economic prospects," he said yesterday.
"Where once the ANC seemed to be a rock that could not be moved, it is now showing cracks and fissures that could shatter it ."
This article relates to my earlier article "South Africa's Rolling Clouds"

Numsa warns against tripartite leaders

The following relates to my earlier article called South Africa's Rolling Clouds

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Numsa-warns-against-tripartite-leaders-20111030-3
News24 : 2011-10-30 22:48

Johannesburg - Numsa on Sunday cautioned against "factional defences" by some leaders within the ANC-led tripartite alliance at the expense of the poor.

"We need to guard against narrow nationalism and factional defences of individual leaders, at the expense of addressing the growing challenges of poverty [and] unemployment," the union said.

In a statement issued after its two-day national executive committee, Numsa said it was concerned with the reaction of working class formations - the SA Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) - in relation to the ANC Youth League's "economic freedom" march held last week.

Numsa slammed the "cheap political innuendoes" by some leaders within the alliance who believed the march was organised to undermine the ANC government and President Jacob Zuma's leadership.

Last week, SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande urged members of the ANCYL not to participate "any march that will not make a difference" in their lives.

"We are not going to be supporting any march whose intention is malicious and is to undermine the authority of the ANC and the government," he said.

The ANCYL march took place on Thursday and Friday with demands which included the nationalisation of mines, the expropriation of land without compensation, the banning of labour brokers, free education and decent housing.

There was also conflicting statements ahead of the march by Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and its president, Sdumo Dlamini, on whether or not the union would join the march.

"Both Cosatu and SACP have a collective responsibility to lead working class struggles, and advance the centrality of the role of the working class leadership of the NDR [national democratic revolution] and the movement, including the leagues of the ANC," said Numsa.

Its NEC also discussed the nationalisation of strategic companies like Arcello Mittal, Sasol, banks, mines and all monopoly industries.

Numsa also wanted a state-led agricultural sector - in which people are employed and paid a living wage to cultivate the soil - as one of the mechanisms to defend existing jobs.

"The government must promote farming with more meaningful incentives and ensure access to productive land," the union said.

- SAPA

Formatting (Bold) and (Italic) are my own to highlight points relating to my previous article : South Africa's Rolling Clouds

South Africa's Rolling Clouds

This post relates to my previous article South Africa's Looming Revolution


Winnie sounds warning
2011-10-30
By Sabelo Ndlangisa

“Next year, we will be voting in Bloemfontein and trust me, we’re not into recycling. We shall get a new leader,” she told guests at an event to mark the 60th ­anniversary of Drum magazine at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg.

Earlier that day, the veteran politician testified in favour of embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema at his ­disciplinary hearing.

This is probably the most ­direct indication so far that Madikizela-Mandela supports the league’s bid to remove President Jacob Zuma in Mangaung next year.


ANCYL Economic Freedom March

As can be seen in the articles and galleries of the various South African newspapers, they only published very carefully selected photographs from which one cannot really make our how many people were part of the march.

The media went out of their way to convince the public and the World that the ANCYL's Economic Freedom March was a failure and that very few people attended the march. In fact they quoted figures of "less than 1000", and "no more than 3000", while there were no less than 10,000 and rather closer to 20,000 marchers in Pretoria, which I saw with my own eyes.

The media tried there very best to downplay the march in an effort to prevent anxiety and panic among the South African public and to prevent negative impact on foreign tourism.

The media is trying to hide the reality of the revolution building in the New South Africa. In the meantime the signs are clear for all to see.

The strange thing about it is that even the right wing is falling for the media's bluff? Even the right wingers are cheering, because the ANCYL's Economic Freedom March was a "failure"? It shows how even the right wing in South Africa are gullible to the extreme, living in their dreams of a new white homeland for white South Africans.

ANCYL march to Union Buildings
Well selected photographs of the march in Pretoria

ANCYL march in Johannesburg
Well selected photographs

Malema addresses ANCYL march
Video

ANCYL march - Day 2
Video

ANC youth league march IN PHOTOS
Well selected Photographs in South Africa's largest black newspaper


The South African Constitution is in danger

ANCYL demands change to Constitution
The ANC Youth League on Friday called on government to amend the Constitution to allow land claims without compensation.
The league demanded the amendment of section 25 of the Constitution which protects private property against arbitrary expropriation and allows for compensation.
The league's memorandum said all productive land should be nationalised and leased, and neighbourhoods electrified.

A state bank must be established and foreign policy must be changed to isolate countries that threaten South Africa's sovereignty.

"He stated clearly that everyone that lives in South Africa who isn’t black and who owns property has stolen it from the black people and especially from the black youth... Malema has now openly instructed that the Constitution be changed in order to legalise the theft of their property and possessions," said Botha. This above paragraph quoted from the following article Malema needs a history lesson - CDP.


Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Malema hands memo to JSE
"The people who are stealing our wealth must come on stage," Malema said from the back of a truck converted into a stage outside the JSE in Sandton.
"Down with white capital monopoly," he chanted.

An official from the JSE received the memorandum from Malema at 17:15.
"Thank you for the opportunity. We will take your demands to the executive," he said.

This upset the crowd who started singing Dubul'ibhunu (shoot the boer), which has been declared hate speech by a court.
"Our demands are clear and they must respond as soon as possible," Malema said.
"We have come peacefully and we hope they can respect that."


A Very Important Point

With this ANCYL Economic Freedom March Julius Malema made a very important point that should be taken seriously. He showed how much control he holds over his followers. This march was peaceful to the extreme with not a single incident of violence or lack of discipline. Malema showed how much discipline and respect he commands with his followers.

If he could discipline them this well during two days of the longest march in history, leading at least 10,000 followers, what could he achieve under circumstances that required his followers to take more aggressive action under his command?

Comes the ANC Election Conference in Mangaung 2012 we shall see the results of the ANCYL's efforts.

A revolution could take many forms, but the process and methodology remain the same.

The dark clouds of revolution are rolling across the New South Africa.

The Afrikaners' Misguided Attachment to the Netherlands

Due to ignorance the Afrikaner / Boers have this passionate emotional attachment to the Netherlands and their "SO-CALLED" Dutch heritage.

Whereas most other countries saw their Governments spearheading the anti-apartheid drive. In the Netherlands, while the Government was more talk than action, this drive came mostly from the public. The Dutch as a nation was against the Afrikaner, Boer National Party and Apartheid.

Notwithstanding, the Afrikaners / Boers to this day, persist in their attachment to the Netherlands, the nation that sold them out more times and with more ferocity than any other nation. No other country of origin had betrayed the Afrikaner as much as the Netherlands.

It is true that the blood of the Dutch fills the veins of the Afrikaner, because clean blood fills the arteries. While the Afrikaner is not Dutch, but rather a mixed breed of European nations, they do not have this same attachment to their other nationalities of origin, like Germany, France, Portugal, UK, Italy, Greece, etc. The Dutch always looked down upon the Afrikaner and always distinguished themselves from the Afrikaner.

During the Apartheid years very few nations supported the country and Netherlands, the beloved blood-country of the Afrikaner, was not one of those countries.

The Dutch sponsored and financed the terrorist movements in South Africa that led to the murder of many white Afrikaners, yet the Afrikaner continues to hail their Dutch heritage? The Dutch People should be held directly responsible for the killing of many Afrikaners, by having supported, financed and supplied weaponry to terrorist organisations for use against Afrikaner / Boers.


There are literally thousands of sources supporting the above, but the following articles provide sufficient evidence to the case.