The Mandela factor
Published On May 29, 2015 » 2257 Views» By Davies M.M Chanda » Features
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The Last WordSo Mandela was buried as a saint. I am not talking about the uncompromising ‘terrorist’ who went to Robben island for principles he was prepared to die for ‘if need be’ but a cowed, commercialised and repackaged Mandela who like Barack Obama was like a mannequin in a tailor’s shop.
The West that had cunningly orchestrated the release of Mandela and succeeded in presenting him as a quasi-religious figure who was more popular and powerful than the Dalai Lama, the Queen and Pope put together.
The powerful western media that always has its spotlight on third world leaders made Mandela earn sainthood globally making him gain a messianic status.
The west nearly succeeded in making Mandela gain some Christhood image as a saviour of black people masking the cunning plot to use the political icon of South African politics as a stooge for neo-colonialism that has replaced apartheid.
The release of Mandela and creation of the placebo rainbow nation ushered in a crop of imperialists who have continued to exploit the natural resources-rich country all in the name of the rainbow nation myth.
To achieve their highly masked evil goal, the west used malleable African Nationalist Congress (ANC) leaders like Mandela, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa (nicknamed the Randlord),  because of his wealth and several party leaders who have joined the moneyed Boer class.
Remember using once radical leaders like Mandela is not a new trick used by imperialists. It has been used in many so-called politically independent countries whose economy is controlled by the West using stooges like Mandela.
Western Imperialism has been so successful in Africa and other third world countries that the architects don’t need to change the strategy which has stood the test of time from slavery, colonialism and neo colonialism.
All the west needs are ambassadors for their imperialistic projects. Fortunately, third world countries is never short of such stooges in men like Mobutu, Obama, the late Frederick Chiluba, Jomo Kenyatta and the Mandelas of this world.
Like Obama, Mandela had charisma, international media personality and his once unwavering stance against apartheid. Mandela served 18 years on Robben Island and the remainder of the 27 years on Pollsmoor and Victor Vester prisons when the negotiations to use him as a symbol of the cosmetic unity in the invented rainbow nation were made.
The mere fact that Mandela’s legacy is celebrated in London and all other imperialist strongholds in the west indicates clearly that he was a puppet of imperialism that has been successfully used by imperialists to allow them control the economy of South Africa.
It cannot be that the system that murdered Lumumba for his ideas before he even implemented them in the Congo, the same system that murdered Thomas Sankara after he had set the pattern for other African states to follow, the same system that criminalised our own Kenneth Kaunda when he rejected the panacea of the World Bank and IMF can equally turn and cherish Mandela as they have done if he was indeed a genuine revolutionary.
Robert Mugabe knows better what the West does when you are doing what the system requires of you. You are their blue-eyed boy when you robot-like follow their directives. If you defy them like Kaunda and Mugabe did then you become a political rogue.
Woe to a third world leader who starts  addressing  real issues of the black man, like land dispossession or rejecting directives from imperialist bodies like the UN, World Bank and the IMF. Consider this, before 2000, Robert Mugabe had accolades from all imperialist institutions all over the world until he tackled the thorny issue of land reforms.
I know this article like the one I did on this column ‘Obama Silent On Racism’ has disappointed many Africans seeking for a black messiah but I want to tell my folks that when Africa rewrites its distorted history that was initiated by real revolutionaries like Lumumba who gazed at death in the eye  we should not hear of revolutionaries-turned sellouts like Mandela  who is squarely responsible for perpetuating apartheid which has metarphosised in the most repressive and exploitative system that disadvantages blacks in South Africa.
In the famous hall of Pan African heroes there must be no Mandela but real revolutionaries like Malcolm X, Thomas Sankara, Muammar Gaddafi, Amilcar Cabral, Franz Fanon, Kwame Nkruma, Chavez, Dr Kenneth Kaunda, Patrice Lumumba and Steve Biko.

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