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Original Post Date: 2002-09-08 Published on: ETHERZONE.COM  Posted By: Jan
I happened to be privvy to a most interesting news conference held in Rosebank, Johannesburg,
on Friday, 6th September. It was an interesting exercise in how the truth is
kept from people here in South Africa. More of that, further down.
It was a very active week on the political front here in South Africa. The World Summit on
Sustainable Development, which is best described as a travelling circus, finally came to
an end – thank God! I was getting sick and tired of hearing how America’s industry is
responsible for Global Warming – as if I believe that.
The really weird stuff happened with Robert Mugabe and Colin Powell. When Colin Powell gave
a speech, he was booed until he could not be heard and had to stop. But Robert Mugabe on
the other hand was never booed once, in fact, he was given quite an applause which came
mostly from African delegates! President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa never once mentioned
the Zimbabwe crisis during all his speeches at the summit. To top it all, he gave Robert
Mugabe twice the allowed speaking time which he gave all the other delegates! These are
but a few of a number of highly ominous signs. If folks think that Africa has hit rock
bottom – think again – Africa is about to head into a new era which will make its recent
history look like the “Good old days”, and which will make Colonialism look like a long
lost Utopia! If you think Africa is hell on Earth – wait – the worst is yet to come.
Robert Mugabe’s propaganda exercise started the minute he landed here. There are millions
of black Zimbabweans living in South Africa and they all hate Mugabe. So imagine my
surprise when there was a massive pro-Mugabe demonstration at the summit. I wondered if
“Rent-a-Crowd” had been hired for the occasion. Someone in Zimbabwe emailed me to say
they had information that the CIO [Central Intelligence Organisation] was behind the
pro-Mugabe demonstration. The political opposition parties in South Africa are highly
opposed to Robert Mugabe. The DP [Democratic Party], which is the official opposition
in parliament, actually suggested that Robert Mugabe be arrested in South Africa on
human rights violations (apparently our law allows for this). Of course it never happened.
Mugabe gave a speech at the World Summit on Sustainable Development which was nothing more
than a propaganda exercise filled with blatant lies. He said he was not forcing anyone
off their farms! He said each white farmer gets to keep at least one farm! That is a total,
blatant lie which anyone with half a brain can see through. Consider Mugabe’s own statistics.
They say that 2,900 farmers will be removed from 4,500 farms. But hold on, if each farmer
gets to keep one farm, then surely there will be 2,900 farms left in white hands? According
to JAG [Justice for Agriculture], the total land area which Mugabe wants is 97% of all farmland.
Furthermore, 75% of the farms were bought by white farmers AFTER Mugabe came to power! These
are not “remnants of colonialism”. So Mugabe told one lie on top of another, and got a huge
applause. He mocked Tony Blair, and made a melodramatic statement about how he had never asked
for a part of Europe and how Blair can keep “his England”, while Mugabe kept “my Zimbabwe”.
Some people noted that he said “my Zimbabwe” as if it were his personal possession – which
I am sure he believes it is.
Mugabe claimed there were some farmers with 35 farms. Well, judging once more by statistics
such as those above, there can’t be too many farmers with multiple farms. Obviously there are
a few. As has been reported, time and again, those being thrown off are often elderly, and
the farm is not only their home, but also their only source of income! That is why these
people are struggling so desperately to hang on to it because it constitutes their only
source of livelihood. According to JAG [Justice for Agriculture], in Zimbabwe, there was
one farmer who owned 20 farms. But he gave up 19 of them willingly to Mugabe’s government
and kept one for himself to live on. Then some of Mugabe’s thugs came, and set his farm
house on fire in the middle of the night with him and his wife inside. He was badly burned
but managed to survive. According to JAG, most of the farmers with multiple farms have given
their farms back to Mugabe already.
The thing which has been on my mind for the last 2 years, and which is why I started my
website and also wrote my book, Government by Deception, is that it seems as
if the Socialists in Africa have decided to finally get rid of all Western influences in
Africa for once and for all. It is not just about driving white farmers off their land in
Zimbabwe. It is much bigger. It includes the destruction of industry, the take-over of
mining, and finally, the removal of all whites from the continent. We could be on the
edge of the greatest humanitarian disaster which southern Africa has ever known…
There were a number of indications that this is something serious, and something big, and
that Mugabe is in reality leading the charge with most of Africa behind him.
Firstly, people must understand that Mugabe is not some “nobody” in the African context.
Mugabe is a recognised figure, an “elder statesman” if you will, of the same “rank” as
Mandela. Mugabe is about 10 years younger than Mandela. He is no yuppie. Guys like President
Thabo Mbeki look up to him. Mugabe regards himself as an intellectual, and many black
leaders respect this guy – and also fear him. Mugabe has always had an aura of ruthlessness
around him which may not be evident to those in the rest of the world. But if you live
in Zimbabwe, as I did, you will know this man means business, and anyone who crosses his
path gets their butts kicked. He has a reputation, and everyone in Africa knows this.
During Mugabe’s speech, wherein he liberally insulted Blair and England, he said that
Zimbabwe was “ready to shed blood” in defence of its independance. Mugabe said that
neighbouring states must not interfere in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs. President Thabo
Mbeki had also said the same thing in recent weeks. When Mugabe says he is prepared to
shed blood, you had better believe he is serious.
Here in South Africa, we live in a Liberal state of wishful thinking and total
denial. The subject of “land reform” does come up quite regularly. There is a process in
place whereby blacks can go and claim back land which belonged to their ancestors. It is
a process fraught with problems since it is based on word of mouth. But there is a system
in place to deal with all land claims and even with evictions harking back to Apartheid.
There is a court where blacks can go and present their case. Land Reform here is based
on the “willing buyer, willing seller” principle. Land is paid for at market rates.
This is of course how things started in Zimbabwe too – more than 20 years ago. It is
orderly, and it is slow. And before long, government runs out of money. Although, I must
say, most of the money used to drive the process is actually donated by Western nations.
So there are many people in South Africa who believe that land reform is orderly and
will never become like the situation in Zimbabwe. Most whites in South Africa are of
the opinion that the lawlessness up there can never be repeated here. They are living
in a state of self-denial – which I have seen before.
The topic of land reform is something which is downplayed quite a bit here, and when it is
mentioned, they do so, sometimes in a cryptic fashion. For example, Presdent Mbeki, and
even the highly respected former ANC leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, have both said that if
whites do not learn to “share” then a Zimbabwe situation may repeat itself here! They
tackle the problem from a pseudo-logical point of view. They say that white Zimbabweans
did not “share” and that is why the “landless” are invading them. This is of course nonsense.
The landless did not invade them. Mugabe deliberately drove the entire process by hiring
the “War Vets” and using the Army and the CIO [Central Intelligence Organisation] to manage
the entire process. This has been thoroughly established by the independant journalists
who reported on the process.
This has nothing to do with “sharing”. It has to do with a political move to violate our
constitutional rights. Let me remind people, that Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, all
have proper constitutions which were hammered out with international approval and which
are recognised and which drive these countries. These constitutions allow for organised
land reform as I have described. These constitutions recognise private ownership of property.
Nobody can just come and take your land. It is against the law – period. Most of what is
happening in Zimbabwe is completely against the constitutional rights of the whites there.
So people here in South Africa hope the law and the constitution will protect us. But I have
heard a number of ominous remarks which make me think this will not be so. A few months ago,
a friend of mine told me of an interview in Cape Town, on talk radio of a prominent black
journalist in Zimbabwe who happened to get a farm from Mugabe. I later obtained a copy
of the interview. The interviewer was grilling this guy, asking him why he was getting a
farm when clearly he was not “landless” and when he had a good career and a senior position.
The journalist struggled to answer the questions. Eventually, in exasperation, he lashed out
and said something along these lines “You South Africans think that this will not happen to
you. But I know that land reform is highly topical in South Africa whether you South
Africans like it or not.”
This week, Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Justice, was interviewed on South
African TV. He said “If you think that in South Africa you will be freed from what is
happening in Zimbabwe and you don’t anticipate these changes, I feel sorry for you
because as things are, South African blacks are in a worse situation than Zimbabweans.”
Then Minister Chinamasa did the pseudo-logical bit, like our President, and he said
“My advice to South Africa is start now, don’t wait until the pressures are too
overwhelming.”
My view is that following his advice will not change the final outcome. Whether we hand
over land willingly or not, it will not cause the Marxists here to change their plans.
In the end, they are after everything we have. Let me quote from my book,
Government by Deception:-
“Remember that they want what is yours. What is theirs is not up for sale. But
everything that belongs to you is what they want. So you have two choices. Either
you give it to them or they will come and fight you for it. If you give to them you
must keep on giving until they have everything. The minute you stop they will attack
you to take the remainder of what you did not give.”
Minister Chinamasa’s remarks only made the front page of one newspaper here in South Africa.
As important as these remarks are, it was largely ignored.
On Thursday I received a message that JAG [Justice for Agriculture], would hold a Press
Conference in Rosebank, near where I live. So I decided to attend. It turned out to be
highly informative and also gave me a small insight into how the journalists can manipulate
the news. I was determined not to miss it, so I arrived there first! I watched as people
arrived. Even though it started late, there were only about 6 journalists there, and only
two from organisations of any standing. The one was a major talk radio station and the
other was from the Farmers Weekly.
They showed a most interesting piece of film footage shot clandestinely in Zimbabwe from
a microlight aircraft. The film was entitled “A Wet Drought”. It showed farms in the
Marondera district of Zimbabwe. It showed a canal full of irrigation water and dams everywhere
which were 75% full even though this is the end of winter. Winter in southern Africa is
always dry. So when you see footage of a “drought” in southern Africa, remember, our
rains stopped in April, and that is why it is dry now. But the rains were good, and the
dams are mostly full. One could see farm after farm with green fields. But sometimes,
next to a beautiful green field you would see a ruined one – which was parched and had
no crops. It turned out, these were the fields which the new “settlers” or “War Vets”
had taken over.
Even though the rains were on time, Mugabe’s government was slow in handing out seed, etc
and so most of the new “settlers” were not able to plant last year when the first rains
came. That is why a lot of those fields had no crops even though the blacks had them during
the entire rainy season (as we call our summers).
As the presentation continued, the spokesperson for JAG said that it is important that
people not repeat Mugabe’s propaganda that white farmers own 70% of the country. 70%
of the country is actually state land. i.e. Tribal Trust lands (for blacks), Game
Reserves, etc. Only 30% of the country is privately owned. The commercial farmers
only control about 50% of that 30% (in other words somewhere round about 15% of
the entire land area of the country). That is what I understood from the many facts
and statistics presented. (I must admit a lot of journalists asked questions showing
that they did not fully understand all the numbers themselves).
While maize (corn) is the staple food of the blacks, there is also a lot of wheat
grown there. But wheat is grown in southern Africa during the winter (dry) months.
In Zimbabwe, wheat can only be grown under irrigation. The settlers were not using
the irrigation and so the wheat crop had fallen drastically. The wheat situation is
so bad that many bakeries cannot produce bread because of a lack of flour.
At the JAG news conference we were told that there really are 6 million people starving.
Some are too weak to walk to the queues where they can get food aid. It was announced on
the South African conservation TV program, 50/50, on 8th August, that 60% of Zimbabwe’s
wildlife has been wiped out in the past two years despite Mugabe’s assurances that it
would not happen! Zimbabwe once had some of the finest wildlife and game reserves on
the African continent. There are millions of blacks from Zimbabwe in South Africa. They
live and work here because they cannot get their families admitted into South Africa. So
instead they buy food here and pay people to take it up to their families in Zimbabwe. It
is measures like this which no doubt keep many alive. But what will happen when there is
no more wildlife or farmer’s cattle to kill and eat? What then?
The JAG spokesperson, Jenni Williams, said that agricultural production in Zimbabwe has
dropped by 66-70% in the last two years.
As the presentation continued, more and more journalists finally arrived. By the time
the conference ended, the room was packed. Various journalists asked questions. The
man from Reuters asked several good questions, and a French journalist asked many as
well. The representative from the Sunday Times (UK), also asked intelligent questions.
There were not many black journalists in the room, but the few that were asked nothing.
They were totally silent.
Then one journalist, I can’t remember if it was the guy from Reuters, said that he had
heard that Mugabe would not stop with the farmers alone. He had heard that Mugabe
would go after “Filling stations and businesses”. Jenni Williams from JAG told him that
they had been hearing lots of stories and rumours about this in Zimbabwe for a long time.
The general feeling there was that Mugabe was going to go after all businesses once
he was finished with the farming sector. She cited new laws which made it very difficult
for certain businesses to function.
During the presentation Jenni said she hoped that “Zimbabwe’s hindsight could
become South Africa’s foresight”. She then spoke about the perception they have in
Zimbabwe, that this is going to be a much bigger thing in Africa. She warned that
the crisis in Zimbabwe could extend into all of Africa. Countries which are likely
to be affected the most are Namibia (where President Sam Nujoma defends Mugabe to
the hilt), and of course, South Africa.
It was Jenni’s mention that this could spread more widely across Africa, which
struck me as being a key observation. Yet, I wondered how many of those journalists
present would report on this.
I spoke to one journalist from DIE BEELD, which is an Afrikaans newspaper in
South Africa. I told him of my book and my own views that this is going to be
a bigger story than just Zimbabwe. He looked at me and just said “I hope it
doesn’t happen here…” It showed total denial on his part, which is a common
South African trait.
There was a TV crew from South African Broadcasting Corporation’s TV News department –
which controls national TV. They were shooting film footage. I thought
that the story was big enough for it to make national news on Friday night. More
especially because Jenni explained that she was cutting short her trip to South
Africa to fly back IMMEDIATELY because JAG had heard a serious rumour that the Police
HQ in Harare had sent out a signal to all Police across the country to arrest the
remaining farmers this weekend.
Jenni had told us that many farmers were in hiding. Sometimes, the Police arrested a
farmer’s wife if they could not find the farmer. She said that during the last mass
arrests, 250 farmers had been arrested, and another 250 had willingly reported to
Police stations. Thus the new orders were for them to get hold of the remaining
2,400 farmers. I thought this was all newsworthy enough to make TV news on Friday
night.
Would you believe there was not one word of this mentioned on South African TV News
on friday night! Not one word. The first news report I heard was on radio on saturday
morning. The first TV news of the new move only happened on sunday night after it
had started. Not one word of the JAG press conference, or any of the facts in it,
got on to national TV news!
Jenni ended by saying that JAG was not asking for sympathy, nor pity, but just for
the truth to be reported. I hope that the foreign journalists there did a better job
than what I saw coming from the South African journalists.
I always remind people that the last chapter in the so-called “Liberation of Africa”,
has not yet been written. But that last chapter is going to be written, and we are
seeing it in Zimbabwe. Let me leave you with the final words in the introduction to my book.
I wrote these words in March, 2001:-
“In 1994, the world thought that South Africa’s race and poverty problems had finally
been solved. Some even hinted that Africa’s problems were going to be solved since the
last pesky white men had been put in their place. Personally, I’m not so sure. There
are quite a few of us who believe that the problems have in fact just started. The
Marxists here will simply take the old problems and make them worse. There are some
of us here in Africa who believe the worst is yet to come.”
I leave you with this final thought: The Worst thing a conservative can do, is to keep
quiet. That is a recipe for certain defeat. The only hope for conservatism is for us to
speak out much more loudly and to counter the many lies put out by our enemies.
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