POLITICAL PARTIES NOW TOOLS FOR OPPRESSORS

GOD have mercy on the African child. Who is going to deliver us? The African was stolen in his villages bungled up like cargo into disease-infected slave ships and taken to toil from dust to darn for merciless white slave owners.  Auction out at slave Auctions across North America, the Caribbeans and South America like animals with no regard for our humanity, because we were just tools for their use.

Lost with no common language we could not communicate but through learning the masters and oppressors’ language. Initially, African slaves were taken from the coastal areas but later it became necessary to go deeper inland.

The whites could not go deeper for fear of diseases like malaria, which was killing them. Enter the first African sellout. Fellow Africans raided villages taking fellow Africans into brutal slavery just because they could not understand their language. They have the same traditions and culture but because of money and love of wealth, they sold their own.  Even in slavery back in America, some ‘house niggers’ those who worked inside the master’s house sold out the ‘field slaves’ and watched the punished, whipped near to death, killed and their babies taken and sold as punishment.

Freedom that never arrived
Why am I telling this sad opening? The selling out never stopped. Kwame Nkrumah warned Africa that the only way to true freedom was unity. ‘ Nkrumah was deposed in 1966 in a coup d’état by the National Liberation Council, under whose supervision the country’s economy was privatised and sold back to the white oppressors.

When we finally got our freedom in the 1950s and 1960s our liberators sold out again and became our enslavers and the puppets of our white oppressors, as is to this day. For five decades Africa has been fighting the cold war between the Communist Soviet Union and the Capitalist West led by the United States of America.  The Cold War ended but the proxy wars continue to this day.

Political parties used to weaken Africa
Africa is a huge and highly diverse continent in language but united in culture and traditions. A Nigerian has the same culture in marriage as a Zulu or liSwati. We have approximately 3 000 languages and many more dialects and 300 in Europe alone. We have no universal language. This introduction of political parties was the perfect tool in the hands of our oppressors.

They have used this very effectively by first killing off our traditional leaders physically and mentally we were sheep without a shepherd. Any African leader who has become strong enough to unite us has been systematically neutralised using opposition political parties and sellouts. Our oppressors never get their hands dirty, when they have sellouts.

The very Neo-liberal economic system we defend so much is not designed to industrialise and get out of Africa out of their control. We still shiver when we talk of the IMF, World Bank and any United Nations agencies because we belong to them. The so-called ‘markets’ and the rating agencies decide our economies. We cannot think in unity because we cannot have a united front.  

The African National Congress (ANC) has lost its majority because it just could not implement its radical economic transformation policies as per the Freedom Charter thanks to sellout presidents like Thabo Mbeki who had a clear two-thirds majority. President Jacob Zuma had the most turbulent teams in office and was kept very busy in one court after another because he was pushing for the radical transformation.

He castigated his ANC parliamentary caucus for voting down the EFF’s offer to join the governing party in support of a constitutional amendment to allow expropriation without compensation, and land reform. Unfortunately, Julius Malema and the EFF would also refuse to support the bill when the time came. Years later the ANC fell below 50 per cent and was wondering why.

Cyril Ramaphosa is the greatest negotiator
One must take his hat off to President Cyril Ramaposa for selling the ANC leadership that they are still a left-wing political party, and it is safe to go to bed with a black mamba as long as you know where it is at all times. He is either a great leader or the greatest sellout, history will tell.

The same people who called the ANC and Nelson Mandela a terrorist organisation for decades. Who fought the ANC brutally for years. Today the ANC is in a coalition with the Democratic Alliance (DA) and somehow, we are to believe that this is the best thing for South Africa and the black man.

PUDEMO
Back home to Eswatini. As an ordinary liSwati who happens to have a platform to express my opinions which I believe is on behalf of many emaSwati, I am afraid to speak my mind. Surprisingly I am not afraid of the King and the security forces, but I am afraid of PUDEMO and the so-called solidarity forces.

I ask myself how does PUDEMO expect to gain popularity and sympathy if the emaSwati are afraid of them? Are all the reports on social media promoting the progressive movement or hurting it?  If one of the most progressive journalists continues to write and has not been ‘silenced’ having done more damage to the royal family and the Monarchy, than any other, why should any man fear the King and security forces more than PUDEMO? Surely, they can get at him anytime.  

The point of this article is that when His Majesty the King stops to serve the interest of our Neo-liberal oppressors (The Western Powers) PUDEMO will get all the funding it needs for regime change and they don’t care how many fellow emaSwati die. Until that time PUDEMO can bark all it wants nothing will change.

EmaSwati needs to negotiate an African political solution internally. The question should be who are political parties fighting for between the people, themselves and third-party forces?  If it’s the people, then the people must show the way, if they don’t then PUDEMO must preach their gospel and convince them not to frighten emaSwati.

This is the same question that failed RENAMO about FRELIMO before one million fellow Mozambicans perished. The same goes for ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe after independence. The same question for UNITA and IMPA in Angola before another million fellow Angolans died. The same goes for ANC and IFP. 

The same question is for the Congolese rebel group M23 who have kept DRC poor when it is the richest country in Africa. Some do not want DRC to be free so political parties like the Congolese Revolutionary ARMY M23 are used to keep them fighting while they take the wealth. Comment septembereswatini@gmail.com

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