MY PREDICTIONS IN NOVEMBER 2013 Dr. Riek Machar and the Politics of Ngundengism in South Sudan By Gordon Buay November 12, 2013 (SSB) — We need to be honest to history if we want to shape the future. Riek Machar started his leadership as a Nuer leader in South Sudan, and he is believing in that. The grassroots support you talked about is based on Ngundengism, a belief promoted by Riek that his leadership was predicted by Ngundeng. Before South Sudan independence, the Nuer in the villages were made to believe that Salva Kiir would be slapped to death in Khartoum and Riek Machar would take over as the president. When that happened, Dinka would be slaves forever. When Salva Kiir did not die before 2011, Riek Machar came up with a new propaganda that Salva Kiir would die like John Garang and his deputy (Riek Machar) would take over. Riek Machar is not the vice-president right now, and the new propaganda among the Nuer is that he would defeat Salva Kiir in the SPLM Convention and the Dinka would prevent him to lead the SPLM party creating a war between the Nuer and Dinka. Riek Machar’s supporters believe that in 2015 election, a war would take place between the Nuer and Dinka if Riek Machar does not become the President. They said that “prophet Ngundeng predicted that the war”. They believe that after the war, the Nuer will win, and Riek Machar would be crowned as a leader for life. When you see Riek Machar talking about democracy within the SPLM, he is talking about it in the context of Ngundengism. He believes that once he fails to achieve the chairmanship of the SPLM party, then, his supporters will start a war. That is what Riek Machar believes in. Read The Nuer Prophet by Douglas H Johnson to know that what I am talking about is true. Also read THE NUER DILEMA by Sharon Hutchinson to know how Riek promoted his version of Ngundengism to use the Nuer in 1990s to kill the Dinka. You are not a Nuer, and you don’t know the political debate within the Nuer community right now regarding the future of South Sudan. Are you aware that Riek Machar’s great grandfather is a Dinka of Hol from Duk who migrated to Gawaar Nuer? His great grandfather moved to Gawaar territory and married a Nuer woman and gave birth to his son Puot. Nyuon, his great grandfather, is a Dinka from Duk. It was Puot who moved to Dok Nuer territory. Puot had a witchcraft called Teny-dhurgon that made him rich because people with problems visited him with cattle. He acquired a lot of cattle among Dok Nuer and married Dok girl. Puot was killed by Dinka Malual after leading 600 Nuer youth to raid the Dinka. His witchcraft failed to protect him. Maybe Dinka Malual had a more superior witchcraft than Puot. —-
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