Times Of Swaziland: FUNDAMENTAL STRUGGLE FOR RESOURCES

FUNDAMENTAL STRUGGLE FOR RESOURCES
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Sabelo Gabs Nxumalo on 14/03/2023 08:04:00


Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse Tung once said; “We need to understand the
fundamental struggle and differentiate it from the petty struggles.”
The fundamental struggle determines your very existence and survival as a
people. Our fundamental struggle as Africans is antagonistic with other races
for resources. We are basically living in a world where there is an increasing
scarcity of resources, as Rutendo Matinyarare put it in his interview on the
Penuel Show. In this competition for resources, teams have been formed. Africans
fail to realise that they are competing against groups of foreign races who are
organised as collectives, despite whatever differences they might have
internally.
Europeans, as a race, have their differences, the Nordics, Alpines, Arians and
the Mediterranean, but they know who they are and their internal struggle, but
never confuse it with their fundamental struggle against other races.
They operated collectively even before the ‘scramble for Africa’ – the
artificial drawing of African political boundaries among European powers at the
end of the 19th century - which led to the partitioning of several ethnicities
across our continent. This created new African states, which would be divided
and weakened in every way. At the same time, they remained with a solid colonial
presence for centuries, looting our natural resources until the establishment of
the present-day European Union – another symbol of their unity. The scramble
for Africa contributed to economic, social and political underdevelopment by
spurring ethnic-tainted civil conflict and discrimination and by shaping the
ethnic composition, size, shape and landlocked status of the newly-independent
states.
Understanding resources value
The Europeans, Asians and Americans, as a race, understand that whoever controls
the world’s resources controls their processing and sophistication to create
something of value that can control the world markets, including markets in
Asia, Africa and the whole world. The cheapest resources in Africa meant that
they had to subdue and control Africans and other races for the resources. The
Jewish race chose to control the banking sector, and to some extent shipping and
storage (bonded warehousing). This meant they did not care who controlled the
resources because they controlled the money and its movement. They collectively
understand that the education for every Jewish child is key. Their fundamental
struggle is to keep the Jewish race on top by dominating the banking sector,
which funds the extraction, processing and distribution of the resources under
their control by every means possible.
Real enemy, real friends
The greatest challenge with Africans is that they have not been able to
differentiate the fundamental struggle which is against the other races and the
internal or local political party petty struggles within their own countries. In
his speech, Mao Tse Tung’s ‘Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society’
(March 1926), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 13, asks who are our real enemies; who
are our real friends? This is a question of outmost importance of any
revolution. The basic reason all previous revolutionary struggles in China
achieved so little was their failure to unite with real friends to attack real
enemies. To distinguish real friends from real enemies, we must analyse the
economic status of the various classes and their respective attitudes towards
the revolution.
Abandoning collective
Revolutionary African leaders who led the masses to independence soon abandoned
the collective and amassed individual wealth. They did not realise that the
other races they were competing with had not stopped fighting as a collective.
The African National Congress (ANC) is falling into the same trap. They allow
their petty internal struggles to spill out to the extent that they even seek
assistance from their fundamental enemy. Soon ANC breakaways will be seeking
alliances with the DA.  Their starting point in 1994 was very precarious, to
begin with, through the Sunset Clauses, allowing control of critical resources
by the white minority. Africa was the only continent where the colonial
imperialists remained in control to the large extent of the mineral resources of
most of the newly-independent states. South Africa was in the worst possible
scenario; nothing changed except that Eskom now had to power millions of black
families with the same old power plants used to extract billions in minerals
over decades.
Be careful of narratives
There are many narratives designed by the other races competing with us to
mentally degrade us into believing we are useless. These narratives are drummed
into our minds by their media such that we actually believe them without testing
them. ‘The Zuma wasted years’ is one such narrative. A billion Rand was
spent on State capture that excluded all other races except African and Indian.
If we seriously test this theory, we find that the Guptas (who had been around
as far back as President Mandela) only controlled four per cent of Eskom’s
coal supply. Who controlled the rest? How do you capture a state when you
don’t control all branches of the state?  The South African Airways collapsed
and is now broken up to be sold, and you can guess who will buy it. Eskom is
being collapsed for the same purpose. The blame is on the Zuma years when
billions were extracted out of South Africa using Eskom electricity without
regard for putting funds aside for maintenance long before the ANC took over.
Eswatini, know your real enemies
The nation must understand that internal differences will always be there, and
we need to fight any injustice within our society. However, guard against
anything that seeks to divide us, understanding the fundamental struggle is
raging on furiously. Funding from foreign races defects the fundamental
struggle. And that those in power must also understand that hoarding wealth as
individuals in a sea of poverty can only lead to division and alternate risks to
the overall survival of emaSwati. One, two, or a few super-rich families do not
make a nation, and they can be easily broken. Only a collective can stand.
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