It's very sad that for over 24 years, we were taught that Apartheid was this evil, racist, oppressive and murderous regime whose primary aim was to suppress and exploit Black people from maximising their full potential, in a country that was and is truly theirs.
So much that we were taught to be skeptical of Whites, and to look at Indians and Coloureds as reformed tractors.While holding on to the illusion that was made famous by the late Steve Biko, that Blacks have endured so much oppression from Whites that it is impossible for them to be racist.
[Which is strange, because Steve Biko should have known that when the Mfengu's had fled from Shaka's Mfecane; they came to Xhosa land to seek refuge. Through King Hintsa, the Emperor all amaXhosa, they found more than refuge. They were integrated as Xhosas.
Yet the amaXhosa did not receive them well. They abused, exploited and even treated them as actual dogs. Thus they too possessed the same oppressive quality that he was condemning Whites for.
For every Xhosa man who lived during Steve Biko's time knew this history very well, and it had happened just over 100 years prior.
Thus it was strange that Steve Biko did know this. The same way it is strange for Thabo Mbeki to say that South Africans are not Xenophobic when every year they kill hundreds of African Foreign Nationals for being in their country.
Yet again, when you are blinded by racism, you cease to be objective. Your objective is Colour.]
Thus when you look and deal with Black people, one could let go of their guard; for now they were dealing with a Saint who could not sin unless the White man oppresses him enough.
Yet when you look into reality, you easily find that, this was all ANC propaganda; designed to cripple Blacks from using their majority vote to vote and demand the prosperous life they thought the end of Apartheid was going to yield.
For if Black people were not intellectually crippled by the ANC, the latter would not be in power and Blacks would not be starving as they are today.
[For no government has ever subjected Black South Africans to this level of helplessness, uselessness and hopelessness as the ANC has.
The only difference is that Black South Africans give the ANC a mandate to keep them poor and hungry every five years. So clearly they enjoy being worthless.]
Yet because they are intellectually crippled, they do not possess the intellectual might to doubt their leaders and act on this doubt.
The same way when the weather man is telling you that it is sunny, because you have a functional brain; you don't just accept his claim as truth. You go outside and verify yourself.
In fact, you carry an umbrella despite what the weather man is telling you on SABC. For your ability to use your brain compels to think and act according to your own interests. And when you step outside, you find that your neighbors also did the same thing.
However, it seems as though Black South Africans are incapable of doing this. The same way Africans in general have proven to be incapable of thinking clearly, as we see them keeping the same leaders who impoverish them, in power.
I mean, how is it possible that Black graduates were more successful during Apartheid than they are in a Democratic South Africa?
How is it that today, with Blacks in power, that only 5% of Black students graduate on time; whereas during Apartheid (1975), 15% of them graduated?
How is it that today's graduates are begging their own government for jobs, when the Apartheid government not only gave them jobs; but gave them scholarships to study abroad, and come with better skills to invest in South Africa?
In essence, why are things worse now, for Black people than they were under Apartheid, under White racists?
It is because we merely replaced one racist regime with another one. The only difference was that Apartheid actually yielded jobs, while ANC-Rule destroys them and is bent on keeping Blacks hungry.
This continues to perpetuate itself because Black South Africans have proven themselves to be unwilling to think and act for themselves in the political arena. Just as we see with Whites, Coloureds and Indians, who have grown to be more successful under ANC-Rule than Blacks could ever dream of.
How can they not be more successful when most Black people dont even own a book, much less read it?
If only our Youth could realise that they have been duped by their parents, most of whom are blindly devoted to the ANC. And that their enemy is not some foreign invader with a foreign language.
If they, just like African-Americans could realise that it is their own community that is a threat to their own lives. For it is their own leaders who sell them short in exchange for a cheque.
The same way it was Black chiefs who sold of their own people to be American slaves; in exchange for mirrors and beads.
Vuka Mzantsi!
Poverty Does Not Have To Be Your Best Friend. The Arms of Prosperity Are Yours To Embrace!
Blessings!
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