[Here is a question which I am pondering. The ANC is a strange organisation. To me it is as if the ANC is going in two opposing directions at the same time.

Something does not make sense to me.

On the one hand Mbeki is playing along with them, and I feel that the main reason Mbeki remains in power and hopes to remain in power is due to his CIA/MI6 support.

But, on the other hand… officially, in front of the blacks, Mbeki is still talking the talk of the revolution. Admittedly, he is not DOING the revolution as much as he TALKS it. He talks a lot about their aims, but he’s not the doing kind. He’s a sort of toothless bulldog type…

So where does Mbeki want to take the ANC? … It strikes me as strange because I’m a single-minded type of person. In my mind if you want to go left, you turn left and you get moving… or you turn right and you start walking. But Mbeki talks left while trying to walk in the centre. It seems messy and it appears to me to be an IMPOSSIBLE ACT TO KEEP GOING WITH FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. At some point a conflict inside the ANC must arise from this.

Why is Mbeki doing things like this? Perhaps it just is the result of CIA/MI6 influence in that Mbeki can’t tell the blacks that the “Revolution” is anything other than a 100% VICTORY. The Blacks believe “they won”… And it would be a bummer to come along in 2006 and say to them: “We told you we won in 1994, but we didn’t really WIN… we misled you”. I can’t see the blacks being too charmed with that.

Officially, and publicly, since 1994, the ANC talks with its Marxist-forked tongue… but quietly… it has “moderated” somewhat since even Mandela’s tenure.

But what is in Mbeki’s mind? That’s what I’m wondering. Or is he just concerned with trying to hold this difficult divided country together?

He doesn’t strike me as courageous or bold, either physically or intellectually. So I’d guess he’s pretty much a run-of-the-mill Little Man in a Big Man’s job… and he’s trying to sign those papers… and dress neatly, and just generally trying to look important. Not an overtly ambitious or powerful type.

Mandela, judging by what I’ve heard from President Botha and others, may publicly have a poker face, but inside, the man is a raging furnace of hate and determination. So Poker-faced Mandela might actually be a real firebrand… maybe a much tougher cookie than even Jacob Zuma could ever wish to be.

Look at the Mandela’s “peers”… guys like Robert Mugabe… a fire-breathing dragon (my apologies to all dragons for smearing them with that brush!). Maybe Mandela and Mugabe deep down aren’t all that different?

But Mbeki? I’d guess his driving force is mediocrity. And I see he loves appointing women. He is obviously hoping that his complete lack of passion and charisma can be offset by pretending that women can rule this country. It suits him. Zuma seems to be a leader of MEN.

But maybe too, Mbeki is more SOPHISTICATED than I give him credit for. Maybe, Mbeki himself, is wary of his CIA/MI6 buddies. Maybe he believes deep down, that those too-friendly Liberals also carry a big knife with them to stab you solidly in the back when it suits them?

But it is interesting how the ANC lies to their electorate. I do enjoy that. But… by telling them all the Revolutionary lies, it still keeps all the blacks in that Communist-frame-of-mind. And that bothers me. Why isn’t Mbeki weaning the blacks away from that mode of thinking? Why aren’t the CIA and MI6 twisting his arm to do more of that?

OR… is Mbeki playing both sides… by KEEPING BOTH OPTIONS OPEN? Is he pretending to play to the centre, but keeping the left open in case that is their fall-back plan? So if the centre doesn’t work, then they swing to the Left and back to the comforts of Communism?

Mbeki may be mediocre, but I think he can’t be completely stupid. To say he is a fool is to underestimate him. There must be a reason why he is playing the game this way. (Not to mention that Mandela might have actually influenced the strategy to begin with).

Maybe even President Mbeki realises that the “Great Central Experiment” with the CIA and MI6 might one day fail, and they need to keep the blacks at the ready for a return to the only thing that ever worked for them, namely: violence.

Maybe, despite the CIA’s love and attention… Mbeki really does feel a need to be open to another approach, and so he keeps open the doors that lead to the Dark Side. Maybe he feels comforted, knowing that the Dark Side can be called upon when other things fail.

I am really just thinking aloud and asking questions.

I think Mbeki really wants to get rid of Zuma at the CIA’s prompting… but sometimes, I just wonder why there is NEVER A CHANGE IN ANC PROPAGANDA TOWARDS THE BLACKS? The ANC’s propaganda line to the blacks has been completely consistent all the time… from before 1994, until this very day. Neither the presence nor absence of Mandela has changed the ANC’s propaganda line. Every single Government Minister sticks to the same old rhetoric… day in and day out… year in and year out.

The ANC may have deviated in many ways since 1994, but the one arena where there has not been smidgeon of deviation is in the actual PROPAGANDA STORIES the ANC tell the blacks. For example, to this very day, I *NEVER* see Mbeki praising Business nor Capitalism in any way.

Mbeki may be a rubber man, but he certainly shows an unexpected firmness not only when it comes to keeping the ANC’s age-old propaganda line, but also when it comes to supporting scumbag Mugabe. Mbeki does everything he can to keep Mugabe going… under the radar. That also bothers me.

So I have wondered if… perhaps… the ANC & SACP split… perhaps has an element of acting in it… where they will split and fight and break up in public… but deep DEEP DOWN… at the deepest levels… there never was a split. Or am I now attributing more sophistication to them, than they deserve?

Perhaps the real answer is: FLEXIBILITY. Maybe… they’re keeping *ALL* their options open so that they can move to the centre or the left, whichever seems more promising at that time.

I will think about it more. Jan]