On his death, the SA Communist Party ended 51 years of cover-up and denials about Nelson Mandelas communist affiliation, motivation and leadership. At his arrest in August 1962, Nelson Mandela was not only a member of the then underground South African Communist Party, but was also a member of our Party’s Central Committee. To us as South African communists, Cde Mandela shall forever symbolise the monumental contribution of the SACP in our liberation struggle. The contribution of communists in the struggle to achieve the South African freedom has very few parallels in the history of our country. After his release from prison in 1990, Cde Madiba became a great and close friend of the communists till his last days. - See more at: sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=4151#sthash.y8JlJZch.dpuf During his life, Nelson Mandela bluntly denied being a communist as did the organisations he was associated with. Evidence that he was a communist, including a book How to be a good communist with authorship attributed to him was claimed to be a fabrication of his enemies. These denials continued into 2013, after a Dutch historian working through minutes of communist party meetings found reference to him using their standard codeword for a communist party member. Those denials are now over. I wonder how much else of the official Mandela & ANC story we should also question? This is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle of a slowly emerging body of evidence ironically from enemies on both sides of the Cold War including the memoirs of the Soviet and SADF generals that contradicts the liberal media interpretation of our history. Communist and anti-communist enemy sources seem to agree on their version of history, while liberals seem to be in denial about the significance of the Cold War. The growing evidence from South African and Soviet sources supports the view that the free nations of Southern Africa were during the cold war under very real threat of Soviet aligned communist takeover - but were defeated by courageous efforts. Former National Party sources have indicated that the decision to negotiate with the ANC and release Mandela was taken because of the fall of the Soviet Union and thus the removal of this communist takeover threat - and not because of sanctions or protests. Mandelas armed revolution and alliance with the Soviet Union prolonged apartheid and did not shorten apartheid. The anti-communist forces such as Reagan, Thatchers Nuclear Armament & Star Wars programme, Pope John Paul II, SADF, UNITA & the Taliban and numerous Christian activist and literature smuggling groups all helped destroy the Soviet Empire and thus pave the way for the end of apartheid. The real history of South Africa in the context of the Cold War against communism has yet to be written. Will the next generation of school children be taught about South Africa in context of the Cold War or out of context?
Posted on: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 14:07:23 +0000
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