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ANC - CLUELESS AND IMMORAL

THE ANC IS TURNING ITS BACK ON THE WEST 

Stes de Necker

The party is turning its back on human rights and freedom by allying itself with the world’s most corrupt regimes.

In the discussion documents set to be tabled at this year’s National General Council (NGC), the ANC makes a few very bold and potentially disastrous statements like:

1. The fall of the Berlin Wall “marked not the freeing of captive nations in Europe, but a regrettable triumph of Western imperialism.”

The ANC seems to believe that communist Russia and the oppression of the German by means of the Berlin Wall, was justified and acceptable.

2. Secondly, the ANC called the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square — where the Chinese government executed students for protesting the oppression of the communist regime – “an American-backed counter-revolution.”

3. As if that’s not enough, the ANC also claims that Russia’s illegal and aggressive invasion of sovereign Ukraine was “a conflict directed from Washington”

Is the ANC really thinking that Russia had nothing to do with Russian soldiers invading Ukraine? … or was it actually American soldiers dressed in Russian uniforms!?  

       

4. And finally, and here’s the humdinger, the ANC document suggested that South Africa ‘seek to have American military bases thrown out of Africa’.

If this was not so ridiculous it might have been amusing.

Yet the document is entirely serious. Its contents are to be debated at the ANC’s policy conference in October. Its authors include several serving and retired cabinet ministers, including a former foreign minister.

South Africa risks becoming a laughing-stock, not least in Africa itself.  South Africa’s human rights-guided policies have fallen by the wayside.

The ANC Government’s refusal to allow the Dalai Llama entry to South Africa while rolling out the red carpet for  a criminal like Omar al-Bashir and defying the International Criminal Courts orders, clearly shows that the ANC would rather side with a man wanted for mass-murder and rape than a religious human rights activist.

All countries struggle to balance their principles and national interests. Yet South Africa’s revolutionary foreign policy serves neither. Its claim that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a victim and Barack Obama is the oppressor is sheer opportunism and courting the communist regimes.   

The United States has saved millions of African lives through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, yet the ANC Government is involved in BRICS as part of forming an alternate world economic force, with Brazil, Russia, India and China.

The ANC is doing South Africa a grave disservice by rejecting its loyal friends and brown nosing with some of the world’s most corrupt regimes.