I have just finished writing an article titled I am NOT Charlie. An excerpt reads as follows: ...The documents and a report by a UN team investigating breaches of the embargo, leaked to the Times in early November, show the arming of the Interahamwe involved British arms dealers, intermediaries in Israel, eastern Europe and Russia, FRANCE, Italy, Belgium...” [Emphasis mine]... ...I sit here now thinking back to the words of comrade Joseph Mathunjwa, the president of Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), in his address to miners in Marikana shortly before they were massacred in the hands of South African state police. As he knelt on his knees begging them to disperse, with tears in his eyes, he pleaded: “They will kill us all here and hire others who they will pay salaries which do not mean anything in life. Black life is cheap in South Africa!” Comrade Mathunjwa was correct that Black life is cheap, but not only in South Africa. Black life is cheap all across the world. That is why the massacre of Nigerian people does not move the world with the same intensity as the killings of twelve White people does. That is why today, the world mourns the few dead in Paris but sheds no tear for the multitudes who perish in Birao, in the Central African Republic where Black bodies are massacred by the French army, as they have been for decades. My condolences to the departed, who drew cartoons provoking Islamists but barely caricatured their own leaders who have brought immeasurable suffering to the people of Africa... For the rest of the article, get yourself a copy of the SUNDAY INDEPENDENT this weekend.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 02:17:31 +0000
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