Operation Mayibuye

[MidnightWizard]

Seeing as it is that time of the year again

This thread may go some way to confusing all those posters to other similar threads here on these topics.


When the wall came down Marxism went out of favour -- good , I bought up all my books at give away prices

When Madiba was released all the old "RooiGevaar" and Seperate Development went out of favour -- good , I bought all my books at giveaway prices


What people did not realise is that HISTORY NEVER goes out of favour -- books have long memories -- "papier is geduldig"

So I am now reading about the Rivonia Trial :erm:

Lauritz Strydom "Rivonia Unmasked" Voortrekkerpers Johannesburg ( perhaps the forerunners of NASPERS )

Full of agitprop -- but most fascinating

Arthur Goldreich
Torn between two struggles

In 1940, an Afrikaans-speaking Jewish boy called Arthur Goldreich was living in Pietersberg, the brutally intolerant capital of the Northern Transvaal.
Goldreich was 11 and South Africa was at war with Nazi Germany.

One morning, his secondary school headmaster announced that students would be learning a foreign language, German.
The implication was clear: many Afrikaners, including some of their political leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler would win the war.
When Goldreich's teacher distributed the German "textbook", the Jewish boy found himself staring at a Hitler Youth magazine.
He balked and wrote to the prime minister, Jan Smuts, refusing to learn German and demanding to be taught Hebrew.
Goldreich got his way and was headed on a path that tore his life between two struggles; against white domination in South Africa, and for the survival of the Jewish state in Israel.

In 1948, both of Goldreich's worlds were transformed within a few days of each other.
Israel declared its independence on May 14, a fortnight before the apartheid Nationalist party won South Africa's election and the men who backed Hitler came to power.
Goldreich had already determined to go to Israel and fight to save it from strangulation at birth. [Editor MW -- joined the PALMACH]
"The reason I went was the Holocaust and the struggle against British colonialism but, of course, the Nats winning the election left me in no doubt about what I had to do," he says.

Goldreich returned to South Africa in 1954 to join his other struggle.
After a few years of political agitation, he became an early member of the African National Congress's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, led by Nelson Mandela.
Goldreich wasn't known to South Africa's security police, so he was installed with his family as the tenant of Lillieslief farm in Rivonia, north of Johannesburg, where the underground leadership of the banned ANC met secretly.

Mandela wrote in his autobiography how he turned to Goldreich as one of the few in the ANC's nascent guerrilla army who knew how to fight.
"In the 1940s, Arthur had fought with the Palmach, the military wing of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine. He was knowledgeable about guerrilla warfare and helped fill in many gaps in my understanding."

or this other agitprop here


Die Boerekryger JEWS AND COMMUNISM IN SOUTH AFRICA


So I hope you can see that I am trying to keep a balance

The main state prosecutor in the RIvonia trial was also a Jew -- Sir Percy Yutar.

Jews , South Africa , Israel , Africa -- Sort of like the IRISH -- especially at Colenso in 1899

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What is more intriguing though -- WHERE are ALL the court documents associated with this case

ALL the thousands of pages of evidence -- WHERE

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Have a happy birthday -- but please tell us where the Archives are -- or as the say in the movies -- where all the bodies are buried


The ARCHIVILIST

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

Hmm. Interesting stuff.

 

[brixton tower]

Interesting stuff. But still doesn't explain how Jews went from noble(debatable) freedom fighters to some of the worst (colonialist)oppressors in less than 60 years.

 

[rebel998]

Interestingly enough the jews aided the apartheid govt militarily.

 

[MidnightWizard]

Brenthurst

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Have a happy birthday -- but please tell us where the Archives are -- or as the say in the movies -- where all the bodies are buried
The ARCHIVILIST

OK Found it -- I am sort of quite delighted -- better than I thought :erm:

It has all been kept "in-house"

Oppenheimer
The collections handed over to the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the National Archives included official state records of the Rivonia Trail of 1963-64, in which Mandela and seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The records were declared missing when an assessment of the original set of court records transferred to the Department of Justice in 1994, were recognised as being incomplete.
An investigation launched by the government at the time proved unsuccessful.

Meanwhile Dr Percy Yutar, who had led the prosecution at the Rivonia Trial and had amassed a substantial collection of copies of records and his own working papers, was actively offering this collection on the international market.

In an effort to keep the court records in South Africa, mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer acquired them from Yutar and kept them at the family's Brenthurst Library.

Handing over the records to Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan, Nicky Oppenheimer described the Rivonia trial as a seminal trial in the history of South Africa. He said he was proud to return the documents to the state on behalf of his father who had wanted to ensure that they remained in South Africa.

Included in the records, which will now be in the care of the National Archives (a division of the Department of Arts and Culture) is the original transcript of the trial, a series of photographs, a range of other documents and the diary Mandela kept when he left South Africa secretly at the beginning of 1962.

Man oh Man what a "Mensch" you just have to admire the chutzpah ( and solidarity ) of these people.

I am suprised they were not taken up in the Brenthurst "Library" -- or the Holocaust Museum in Cape Town.

PS; Somebody please check to see that they are still there -- and not sold off to some anonymous collector in NYC.

MW