Look, before we start falling all over ourselves in some misguided attempt to declare that in losing Nelson Mandela, the world has somehow been made to suffer some irreplaceable loss, let’s pause for just a minute. I know we’re all supposed to think of Mandela as being a man who is said to have been some great lover of peace and a seeker of racial equality, but it might be worthwhile to review a few of the actual facts regarding the man. The story that Mandela was some selfless, humble, freedom fighter turned cheerful, kindly old man, has long been told in the West. So I suppose it’s only natural that one would assume that if there is an international leader anywhere on whom we can universally heap praise upon, it must most assuredly be Mandela. But not so fast, because if you bother to take the time to look past the halo that has been placed above his head, you soon begin to realize that the man has very few similarities to the myth.
The official story is one that goes a little something like this: Mandela was born in 1918 into the Thembu tribe’s royal family. He studied law at two prestigious universities and became involved in "anti-colonial politics," joining the African National Congress (ANC). He was committed to non-violent protest in gaining sovereignty for blacks. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government and was sentenced to life in prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release, which was granted in 1990, and he was hailed as martyr of white racism by the international media. This popularity propelled him to be elected president of South Africa in 1994, where he continued with his struggle to "end ethnic tensions and bring about racial equality." Over the years, Mandela has received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Order of Lenin.
Now that we’ve managed to get past the bullshit story presented to the world in an effort to build up the man into something that he most definitely was not, it’s important for us to realize that nearly all of what we have been told about the man is essentially nothing more than a myth, and one that resembles very little the real story of just who, and what, this man really was. Because, you see, the real story is one that portrays Mandela as being a man who was not imprisoned for opposing apartheid, or even segregation, in Africa. The reason that he was actually put in prison was because he was a communist terrorist murderer-bomber in the service of the Soviet Union. The ANC’s guerrilla force, known as uMkhonto we Sizwe—MK, or "Spear of the Nation"—was founded in 1961 by Mandela and his advisor, the Lithuanian-born communist Jew Joe Slovo, born Yossel Mashel Slovo, who was officially named secretary general of the South African Communist Party in 1986.
Slovo, this buddy of Mandela’s, had been the planner of many of the ANC terrorist attacks, including the January 8, 1982 attack on the Koeberg nuclear power plant near Cape Town, the Church Street bombing on May 20, 1983, which killed 19 people, and the June 14, 1986 car-bombing of Magoo’s Bar in Durban, in which three people were killed and 73 were injured. Then in 1962, Mandela was arrested along with 19 others, half of whom were White communist Jews, in a police raid of ANC headquarters at a farm owned by Andrew Goldreich, who was also a communist Jew, at Rivonia, a Johannesburg suburb. In the Rivonia Trial, which took place between 1963 and 1964, the defendants were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the government and conspiring to aid foreign military units. So you see, the more we look, the more we see how Mandela is far from being the saint that we’re all supposed to believe him as being.
The prosecutor, a man by the name of Percy Yutar, said at the trial that "production requirements for munitions were sufficient to blow up a city the size of Johannesburg." Stop and think about that for a minute. Does this sound, even remotely, like the actions of a man who we are supposed to revere? Mandela managed to escape the death sentence, but was given life in prison. By 1990, the communists behind Mandela had gained enough power to force his release. Apartheid was abolished in 1992 and the ANC was put into power in 1994 with Mandela as president. Slovo became his secretary of housing. It was shortly thereafter that Mandela and Slovo, along with a group of ANC leaders, were filmed chanting a pledge to kill all whites in South Africa. Not exactly the actions of a man who we’re told was some lover of peaceful disobedience. He was, in fact, a racist. Which, I guess is acceptable as long as he wasn’t white.
Current South African President Jacob Zuma, also of the ANC, was also filmed as late as January 2012 singing a song called "Kill the Boer" in front of a crowd of thousands of blacks while they cheered and danced. The song advocates the murder of the descendents of the original white settlers of South Africa, with lyrics encouraging blacks to gun down the farmers with machine guns. Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie, also a longtime ANC activist, prefers a method called "necklacing," where a gasoline-filled tire is placed around the neck of a victim and set ablaze. "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country," she is infamous for saying. (Mandela was in solitary confinement at the time of the necklacing torture-murders. An estimated 3,000 victims died by necklacing.)
Since 1994, 68,000 whites have been brutally tortured and murdered by blacks in South Africa, in ways too gruesome to describe, including almost 4,000 Boers whose farms were confiscated by savage murderers, a combined area of over 25,000 square miles. Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of blacks in South Africa aren’t natives, but came by the millions from neighboring countries only after the white Boers created a country with a thriving economy, education opportunities and medical benefits. Under white rule, blacks in South Africa enjoyed better living conditions than any other African country, where blacks kill each other in tribal warfare. But with the advent of black rule, the country rapidly became nothing more than a cesspool sitting there at the bottom of Africa. It would seem that went blacks become determined to live in squaller they have very little trouble making that a reality.
In 1994, the same year Mandela took power, the Hutu tribe killed 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda. Similar tribal genocides have taken place in Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Chad, Mali, Zimbabwe, Angola and many more African countries. Tribal savagery and genocide has always been a way of life for Africans. Upon Mandela’s assuming the presidency, South Africa was quickly put on the fast track to becoming just another Third World country. It went from being the safest country in Africa, to being the rape and murder capital of the world in nearly record time. In fact, in Johannesburg, 5,000 people are murdered every year and unemployment went from 5% in 1994 to 50%. South Africa also has the largest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in the world. But such a turnaround should have been expected. After all, what experience could he call upon in his effort to govern. It’s much like choosing to elect someone who has never been anything other than a community agitator.
So as we look beyond the media myth of Mandela, it quickly become all the easier to, instead of grieving over his lose, simply say, "good riddance" to he who was a very bad man. And instead of being ushered into heaven for his many humanitarian actions, it is far more likely that he will be spending eternity in that ‘other’ place. Because while it may easy to fool those on this plane, fooling those on the other side, those who decide in which direction we will go after spending our allotted time here on earth, is simply impossible. So I hope that he enjoyed his time here, because if there is any justice in the afterworld, he will be spending the rest of eternity doing nothing more than to tend the fires of Hell. But look, I’m sure he’ll be able to get along quite well with those that he will be meeting up with there. And I’m sure they be able to compare stories of the atrocities that they took part in, and the number of innocents that they managed to murder all in the name of their respective causes.
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