Comrades in arms against apartheid are now at one another’s throats

[BusinessTech]

Comrades in arms against apartheid are now at one another’s throats

South Africa’s embattled finance minister Pravin Gordhan has come under attack from two colleagues in government. The public attack has made headlines because all three men serve in government as members of the African National Congress (ANC).

 

[Geoff.D]

One of the dubious "successes" therefore is that MK did make the country "ungovernable" and it still is.

First, it electrified millions of oppressed people to mobilise internally in the United Democratic Front, trade unions and a host of civil society organisations and their campaigns “to make South Africa ungovernable”.

 

[Mortymoose]

I might have mentioned this before..

I have an old Afrikaans dude that watches my Security Camera's, Got his eardrums blown up in the war when he drove his Buffel over a landmine.....
My partner is an old Ovambo Man, staunch SWAPO chap, connected to the top level and helped plant limpet mines in struggle...

A few years back I walked into my office.... the two old guys sitting at the table eating slap chips and sharing tomato sauce... sharing their food..... jabbering away..... I started to laugh....

On enquiring why I was laughing...... I pointed out the futility of war........ twenty years ago the tow of them were trying to kill each other.... today, they were laughing and sharing their food....

 

[battmann]

IZuma has performed a coup d'etat. Using taxpayers money he has paid off the simpleminded leadership he had surrounded himself with.
The ANC has a backbone of an amoebae, and it has cheap idiots and tools to shout nonsensical remarks to hide the truth.
But the truth is coming out non the less.
Zuma and his weak and spineless NEC will be going to jail for a long time if all they have done and are doing is revealed.
But like a tick attached to its host these parasites are going to fight to the death to hold onto their positions.
Let's pray that there is a miracle soon.

 

[Sl8er]

I might have mentioned this before..

I have an old Afrikaans dude that watches my Security Camera's, Got his eardrums blown up in the war when he drove his Buffel over a landmine.....
My partner is an old Ovambo Man, staunch SWAPO chap, connected to the top level and helped plant limpet mines in struggle...

A few years back I walked into my office.... the two old guys sitting at the table eating slap chips and sharing tomato sauce... sharing their food..... jabbering away..... I started to laugh....

On enquiring why I was laughing...... I pointed out the futility of war........ twenty years ago the tow of them were trying to kill each other.... today, they were laughing and sharing their food....

 

[j4ck455]

There are some vaguely interesting urls embedded in that article.

MK veterans are not a political force per se. But they are mobilised by rival factions within the ANC. For example, the smear attacks by Maphatsoe against former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils are part of his defence of President Zuma. It is unlikely that his smears represent the views of most veterans, or that he has even consulted them.

After following some of those urls, one discovers that Kebby Maphatsoe lost his arm after escaping an MK camp in Uganda and was shot by the Ugandan Defence Force, Maphatsoe is also the person that slurred Thuli Madonsela by accusing The Public Protector of being a CIA spy.

It seems glaringly obvious that Maphatsoe and Van Rooyen both have big mouths and not much going on for them intellectually.