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White Propaganda: Hellen deZille, and Colonialism's intra generational theft and insult

24 Apr 2017 at 04:57hrs | Views


The world heard Helen DeZille premier of the Western Cape province of South Africa stand up for white supremacy when she tweeted early inn the morning on 16th March 2017 that "For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure, piped water etc". She received a lot of heat for the statement, but those looking for excuses for colonialism and slavery cheered her on.

DeZille obviously as all white supremacists around the world pushed her point even further in her provinces legislature, and as reported by Aphiwe Deklerk, who uttered the words "Zille said those who believed the price of colonialism was too high should not drive cars‚ which were colonial left-overs that were used "not only as a means of transport but the ultimate status symbol," and she received a standing ovation from her colleagues, all feeling proud thinking to themselves it's time to put these kaffirs in their place with the truth, we created South Africa, we gave Africa the light, let's be honest, that is what is running in their heads. In London, Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Washington, Stockholm they felt proud of her, tell those blacks.

This irritates many a black with any sense of being a human being, but that is the idea of such propaganda, where would Africa be without colonialism. The usual angry black responses came up, we blacks where the slaves building things, our contribution is immense. This might be true, but we from Mthwakazi don't respond with knee jerk reactions, we understand their propaganda, that's why Thatcher loved Mugabe, a simpleton with knee jerk reactions. We see clearly the confusion in the mind of DeZille and other white supremacists pretending they brought light to this world. She says "those who believed the price of colonialism was too high should not drive cars," what a fool, those who drive cars earned that money and traded it for cars, the white supremacist is a simple creature always contradicting itself, we from Mthwakazi know that. You will not here us running and saying we arrived in Southern Africa at the same time as whites, where did we get these ancient clicks in our tongues arriving at the same time as whites.

They talk of the benefits of trade, but colonialism was not trade, it was theft. Let's return their own words to them, let's take the book "Path of Blood" by Peter Becker written in 1962 and see the damage colonialism has done, and the pattern is similar all throughout Africa. Peter Becker says "The Sotho clans and tribes lived independently of each other, under the rule of hereditary chieftains, and yet their way of life followed a similar pattern. Like the Nguni, they were tillers of the soil, planters of crops, cattle – breeders, hunters and collectors of edible berries, herbs and roots."

For the white people to now come and say they somehow saved Africa, people were being fed, now the skills of tilling the land and breeding cattle are lost in the major part because the white men took all the land, when it comes to skills you use them or lose them, the land was gone, agricultural skills naturally would fall then the white will say they fed us when truth is they took away our abilities to feed ourselves by taking away the land and thus agricultural skills are lost. There is big money in agriculture if handled properly. If whites had been true traders they would have bought our agricultural produce instead of just taking the land. This argument alone is big, but let's take it further.

Whites would have asked for our agricultural produce offer a price and we would have increased our output to meet this new demand, as there would be a benefit in that trade. Ways would have been found to increase production and those methods would have been looked into by blacks who through trade would understand the urgency of increasing production. All those skills lost and deZille with her evil mind says don't drive cars, we would have traded for them with produce from the land going to black people, billions of dollars

Reading Peter Becker further, he continues, "The Bamangwato of Northern Bechuanaland manufactured a large range of weapons: long, heavy, broad – bladed javelins, a variety of assegais both plain and barbed, double – barbed arrows and formidable battle-axes. Many of the tribes smelted iron and copper ore in simple clay furnaces…" The white men did not bring metal smelting. But it was on a small small scale the detractors will say. But we from Mthwakazi understand what trade is. If the white people had been honest about the concept of trade, seeing there is iron, it was in all the weapons, the spears, assegais, arrows, metal was everywhere they could have asked could I have some metal. The black people would have found ways to increase for this new demand, they would have paid for expertise knowing the results would be greater but the black would own the mineral production on his own land.

Through trade rail routes are created, as conveniently as possible with the people always a political consideration. The black would have been in control of the purse, the problem with white supremacists they don't think, they lie. DeZilles people came and took over the purse belonging to black people we are talking trillions of dollars in todays money considering the multiplier effect in economics. We from Mthwakazi know colonialism brought nothing but whole scale theft of Africa's potential. There is not a single benefit. Trillions of dollars, with the purse in black strings, blacks would have been paid higher wages, that money would have stayed in Africa, but trade did not occur, theft occurred and a shallow minded white supremacist says don't drive cars you bought through the concept of trade.

The likes of DeZille not understanding the concept of trade only as a trick word when they can not openly steal, In todays money if trade had been the idea not colonialism, Africa would be manufacturing cars like toys, toys are for children. We from Mthwakazi understand that, we don't care that our contribution was as a slave, is that something to be proud of, we know and understand not only the insult, but the theft that occurred because they did not trade they stole.

Why DeZille brought up a topic nobody cares about, and why did her colleagues some of whom claim to understand economics and concept of trade stand and cheer her on when she said people must reject convenience of a car, a product of trade for can only be because white supremacy feels under threat, we from Mthwakazi understand that, pretending to look at things objectively, if they did they would understand how much colonialism robbed the black people, and this includes slavery.

We from Mthwakazi understand that every part of a cow is valuable, and tasty if you take the time to enjoy the cow, we know value, you will not cheat us when it comes to economics and war and propaganda.



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