Mandela Sold Us Out.

Note that this is my opinion, I don’t need people to judge me because of my thoughts because I’m not judging yours.

Now as known the Mandela issue is a very sensitive one, I fail to understand why, it’s not like he fought alone in the struggle, it’s not like he was the only man within the ANC who made decisions, but when it came to laying in bed with the Nats (National Party), he did it alone. "I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel [Peace Prize in 1993] with his jailer [FW] de Klerk. Hand in hand they went.”

He negotiated on behalf of Africans and made a bad deal…He negotiated politically freedom, leaving out economic freedom. We needed politically freedom yes, but we needed economically freedom more.  Mandela may have let us down not just for the fun of it but because at the time it felt “the right thing to do for his people and the country at large”. But he could have changed all that after he came to power.

Political And Economic Freedom are two sides of the same coin.  The importance of political freedom is fundamentally linked to the conviction that an individual should be at liberty to pursue his or her own ends in a manner that he or she thinks fit. This is the essence of economic freedom. Conversely it is economic freedom which makes independent political action possible.

Mandela had a dream, a dream of political victory. But political freedom means not if the economy still belongs to the oppressors.

I’d like to quote: In an interview published by the London Evening Standard, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had no doubts as to where her ex-husband stood. “Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically, we are still on the outside. The economy is very much ‘white’. It has a few token blacks, but so many who gave their life in the struggle have died unrewarded.” Assuming what Winnie said was true, if not close to the truth, I agree with her that Mandela indeed “had let us [black people] down”.

Firstly I would like to quote the “Freedom Charter”

“The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people; The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole;  All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the wellbeing of the people; All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.”

The Freedom Charter unambiguously states that “the mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and the monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people (socialist-speak for “the State”) as a whole.” Julius Malema likes to remind everyone that when Mandela left prison, nationalisation was almost a given for him. But by the time he ascended to power, he was strangely mute on the subject. Why did he keep quite all of a sudden, he was all for the Charter, Mandela spoke highly of the charter.

But where is the economic freedom?

When Mandela was released from prison, he put into place steps that would eventually lead to the present state of events, where not much has changed for the average black South African, who remains economically sidelined. The current system only benefits the connected few, the Sexwales, the Ramaphosas and the Motsepes of this country. 

I like how T Osiame Molefe puts it more forcefully, “Instead, and admittedly reasonably, but I contend cowardly, an uneasy compromise was reached. Black South Africa would be allowed to phase in reclaiming what they’d waited for, in exchange, white South Africa, the beneficiaries of apartheid, would keep their ill-gotten gains.”

Whites have all the reasons to LOVE Mandela, he gave them power, the economic power and now They put that huge statue of him right in the middle of the most affluent "white" area of Johannesburg. Not here where we spilled our blood and where it all started. Mandela is now a corporate foundation. Wait, he has another statue in London mind you, LONDON.

Many whites are out there celebrating, but for most South Africans not much has changed. POLITICAL VICTORY WAS NOT ENOUGH.