Nelson Mandela, Communist Terrorist, Dies

Joe Slovo (23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995) was a South African politician, long-time leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and leading member of the African National Congress.

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Between 1946 and 1950 he completed a law degree at Wits University and was a student activist. He was in the same class as Nelson Mandela.

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Slovo and Abongz Mbede emerged as two of the leaders of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC, formed in alliance between the ANC and the SACP.

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After the elections of 1994 he became Minister for housing in Nelson Mandela's government...

- WIKI

"Nelson Mandela surely deserves our respect and admiration for his role in the struggle against apartheid. Because he is bound to play a key role in restructuring South African society, it is essential that his restructuring views be made clear. Questions relating to his political, economic and social tendencies must be answered.

Among these questions, none is more important than this: Given Mr. Mandela's avowed admiration and strong words of praise for Fidel Castro, Yasir Arafat, Muammar el-Qaddafi and Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, and his consent to appear in public with the convicted Puerto Rican who shot up the United States Capitol in 1954, and given some of the antidemocratic, violent history of the African National Congress, along what lines would Mr. Mandela and his colleagues like to structure a future South Africa?

The fate of South Africa and the well-being of its citizens - black and white - depend in large measure on the answer."

- (Rep.) DAN BURTON, vice chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Letter To the Editor of NYT, June 20, 1990.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/05/opinion/l-what-s-mandela-s-plan-329490.html

Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo give the clenched fist salute.

"In the 1950s, he was indeed a young radical, who came to favour an “armed struggle” and may once have been a secret member of the banned Communist party."

- Nelson Mandela obituary, The Telegraph Online

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"...research by a British historian, Professor Stephen Ellis, has unearthed fresh evidence that during his early years as an activist, Mr Mandela did hold senior rank in the South African Communist Party, or SACP. He says Mr Mandela joined the SACP to enlist the help of the Communist superpowers for the ANC's campaign of armed resistance to white rule."

- The Telegraph Online

"Madiba [Mandela] was also a member of the South African Communist Party, where he served in the Central Committee."

- ANC Website

‘THE IRA helped carry out one of the biggest bomb attacks against the South African apartheid government in the early 1980s, according to the memoirs of former senior ANC activist and politician Kader Asmal.

The former ANC cabinet minister and Trinity law professor, who died earlier this year, reveals in his memoirs published this week how volunteers recruited from Ireland carried out reconnaissance on one of the country’s most strategic installations – the Sasol oil refinery in Sasolburg, near Johannesburg, before it was bombed on June 1st, 1980.

The attack was carried out by Umkhonto we Sizwe, better known as MK, the military wing of the ANC, and struck a major blow against the apartheid state at the time.

In his book, Politics in my Blood , Asmal, founder of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM), also claims Gerry Adams provided the IRA volunteers to carry out the mission after he contacted go-between Michael O’Riordan, then general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland."

- The Irish Times (still looking for a link)

From Black Provos – The ANC And The IRA

"No dedicated ANC member will ever heed the call to break with the SACP. We regard such a demand (from PW Botha) as a purely divisive (apartheid's) government strategy. It is in fact a call on us to commit suicide. Which man of honour will ever desert a life-long friend among his people? Which opponent will ever trust such a treacherous freedom fighter? Yet this is what the (apartheid) government is in effect asking us to do; to desert our faithful allies. We will not fall into that trap."

- Nelson Mandela, after his meeting with PW Botha in prison on 5 July 1989

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HOW TO BE A GOOD COMMUNIST
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Nelson Mandela

Link - https://ia600401.us.archive.org/31/items/HowToBeAGoodCommunist/Mandela.pdf

"In 1963 he [Joe Slovo] was fortuitously out of the country drumming up support for the A.N.C.'s military wing when police swooped down on the top leadership of the anti-apartheid struggle. He spent the next 27 years in exile, working as a propagandist and strategist of the A.N.C. guerrilla army and a conduit of aid and training from Moscow.

Mr. Slovo was a faithful apologist for the Soviet Union, even when others in the anti-apartheid movement, including his wife, were anxious about Soviet behavior.

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But he said that given the chance, he would do nothing different, because fealty to Moscow was a prerequisite for leadership in the anti-apartheid struggle.

"Our minds were completely focused on what our position would be if we cut ourselves off," he said."

- NY Times article, Joe Slovo, Anti-Apartheid Stalinist, Dies at 68

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"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, Comrade 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."

- NELSON MANDELA: SACP statement on the passing away of Madiba.

Communist-Party.org.UK Website

"With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we will liberate this country"

- Winnie Mandela, speech she gave in Munsieville on 13 April 1986, here she endorsed the practice of necklacing (burning people alive using tyres and petrol)

Necklacing - Wiki

Just marking this blog article for later reading.

This too puts froth some interesting facts...I think it's already been covered pretty well, but I'll add this link to the mix anyway!

http://balder.org/judea/South-Africa-Terrorism-ANC-Revolution-Jewish-Involvement.php

This is a little more complicated...


http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/188864/memories-of-nelson-mandela-from-zionist-childhood

I'm interested in the CIA funding angle.

I read somewhere that Mandela was caught in his hideout due to a CIA tip off.

I'm wondering if the whole plan was for him to be caught, and held in prison for decades to be made a martyr for the anti-apartheid cause.

Wouldn't surprise me. He seemed like a useful idiot.

CIA-South Africa connections:

International Development Foundation

Price Fund

African-American Institute

United States-South Africa Leadership Exchange Program (USSALEP)

AMAX

American Committee on Africa

American Society for African Culture

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

United States Agency for International Development (AID)

National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

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If you can make sense of this report from the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence then your a better researcher than me.

http://www.namebase.org/diamond.html

As far as I can tell....the CIA funded anti-communist alternatives to the ANC (like Buthelezi) up until they believed it was a lost cause, at which point they finally funded them in the hope they could control them. This was about 1990. Until then it seems they were primarily Soviet funded.

Very complicated business.

Complicated is right! I knew there was more to it than the media was hyping it to be, as always. I just figured out enough to file it under the BAD category and leave it there.
Too many other things vying for my attention, I suppose.

Still, interesting how they go about all their business.

Just imagine if this kind of evil intent was turned around and used to do good! What a world it could have been!