Black South African Warns Whites To "Share" Their Property With Blacks

Original Post Date: 2001-08-20  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/20/2001 10:48:29 AM
Black South African Warns Whites To "Share" Their Property With Blacks

Background Note:This appeared last week on the Drudge Report
(WWW.DrudgeReport.com). I noted that the “black businessman” is Cyril
Ramaphosa. Many believe him to be a “capitalist.” While doing the R&D for
my book, I learned from a former high-ranking intelligence source, and
also had this confirmed by ex-MK people, that Ramaphosa is in fact
a hardline communist. He is being courted by the CIA who mistakenly believe
he is a capitalist and want to
install him as the next president of South Africa. I was told, this would
be a disaster and it would be the same mistake the Americans made with
Fidel Castro in Cuba.

I was told, by the intelligence source, that if Ramaphosa ever gets in,
he will be far worse than Mbeki and that will be the end of the road for
the whites. I was told this in May, 2001. Now you can see this article
doing the rounds in the world which basically confirms what I was told
confidentially.
Jan Lamprecht

By Ed O’Loughlin Herald Correspondent in Johannesburg 8-14-1

White South African business should “share” more with blacks or risk
Zimbabwe-style seizures, the country’s leading black businessman has said.

Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, a senior figure in the ruling African National
Congress and chairman of the TML media group, told the BBC that too much
of South Africa’s economy was still in white hands despite efforts at
“black economic empowerment”.

“If we don’t do anything, if we don’t move quick enough, yes,
[Zimbabwe-style attacks on white farms and business] could happen. That is
a fair warning,” Mr Ramaphosa said.

“We want the white private sector in this country to heed that warning.
Let us all be aware of the responsibility and share. Share what we have.”

Zimbabwe has announced the seizure of 90per cent of white-owned farm land
in an attempt to head off growing popular opposition to the 20 year-rule
of President Robert Mugabe.

Eight white farmers have been killed by self-proclaimed liberation war
veterans organised by Mr Mugabe’s party. Another is in critical condition
following an axe attack at his home on Monday.

In recent months South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki has been criticised
at home and abroad for failing to condemn attacks on whites and opposition
supporters in Zimbabwe.

This year Government supporters, who call themselves veterans of
Zimbabwe’s war of independence, have spread their intimidation campaign
from farms to white-owned businesses and foreign aid agencies. Foreign
investors’ fear of “contagion” from Zimbabwe has contributed to the South
African currency’s big slump on international markets.

Mr Ramaphosa said previous efforts to boost black participation in the
private economy had not gone far enough. As chairman of the Black Economic
Empowerment Commission he recently called for new legislation to force
white business to share more of its wealth with black business people.

Mr Ramaphosa, formerly leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, quit
active politics after losing out to Mr Mbeki in the contest to succeed
former president Nelson Mandela.

He became one of South Africa’s wealthiest blacks through the first round
of post-apartheid “black empowerment” deals, in which white-owned
conglomerates sold off chunks of stock to well-connected black
entrepreneurs in supposed “sweetheart” deals.

Although at one point the resulting “black chip” corporations controlled
10 percent of the Johannesburg stock market, this has slumped to about 2
percent.

Mr Mbeki has again baffled doctors and AIDS activists by declaring that
violence rather than the AIDS epidemic sweeping Africa is the main cause
of death in his country.

Official figures show South Africa with one of the highest murder rates in
the world, with 22,000 of its 40 million people murdered each year.
Another 10,500 die in road accidents. However, the United Nations
estimates 7 million South Africans will die of HIV/AIDS in the next
decade, an average of 700,000 a year.

It is estimated that one in 10 people carries the virus.

Asked if he accepted that AIDS, rather than racism or corruption, was the
greatest threat to his country, Mr Mbeki told the BBC that he had learned
that more than half of South Africans who died between the ages of 16 and
64 were killed by violence.

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