‼️🇺🇸🇨🇴Colombian President Gustavo Petro said:
“The drug lords live in Dubai and in Miami, where not a single police officer reaches them, and narco dollars move freely through the global banking system.”
Congratulations to my brother, Comrade Andile Mngxitama, on his upcoming book launch, "The Gupta family VS the Stellenbosch Mafia". I'm not a person who usually attends book launches, as I view them as an elite hobby for the upper class. I'm tempted to attend Comrade Mngxitama's book launch, but I'm still battling with the idea of attending an elite book club and legitimizing elite tendencies. I'm lucky to receive hard copies of books as gifts, while I'm a big fan of online book reading, as the Communist Party of China emphasizes that we must always adapt and move with the times.
My expectations from this book are the following:
- Both the Gupta family and the Stellenbosch Mafia were never about empowering the majority black population, the indigenous people of South Africa, but rather about empowering a few political elites and their relatives.
- The Stellenbosch Mafia co-opted a certain faction of the ANC's political elites to safeguard their interests.
- The Gupta family co-opted a particular ANC faction and used it to secure deals within the state.
- The Stellenbosch boys are the owners of South Africa's economy, representing South Africa's white minority interests. They co-opted the ANC elites and controlled and influenced the ANC's policies, including leadership, while the ANC managed the black majority.
- The Guptas, on the other hand, were fighting for relevance and wanted the same grip the Stellenbosch Boys or Mafia had over the ANC and its leadership. Meanwhile, the majority, the black indigenous population, remained managed as voting cattle, and their livelihoods deteriorated.
- The Gupta family didn't only want relevance but also wanted to use South Africa as a vassal state for India's minerals. They were turning Pretoria into Mumbai, using South Africa to isolate India's adversaries. For example, they closed the Johannesburg-Mumbai straight airlines and made new laws to make it difficult for Pakistanis to travel to South Africa.
- The family did this to deal with its competitors, including Indian and Pakistani businesspeople, making it difficult for them to do business in South Africa while the family had a monopoly and patronage over ANC leadership and government officials.
- The Gupta family acted as Indian brokers, making it difficult for the Indian government to communicate with the South African government, and they could only communicate through arrangements made by the family.
- The Gupta family made it difficult for everyone to communicate with government officials, including the Stellenbosch Boys or Mafia, and that's where their troubles started. It wasn't because the family was empowering black people or the majority people of South Africa; the radical economic transformation myth was far-fetched or a pipe dream.
- The Gupta family not only undermined South Africa's sovereignty but also its economic development and the empowerment of the black majority. There was nothing South Africa as a country or South Africans benefited from them.
- The Gupta family used many black people for fronting, and that's why many people who called themselves millionaires vanished when the Guptas vanished, exposing that their era didn't empower black people but exploited them for their gains. Their intervention and economic strategy were unsustainable and cosmetic.
- The Stellenbosch Mafia's role in our country is totally different from the Gupta family's role. The Stellenbosch boys or Mafia, while interfering in our domestic policies, didn't influence our foreign policy, although their interests were always that South Africa remain a British and American vassal. They gave the ANC leadership and governance the freedom to make their own decisions, and that's a difference between the two. But nothing from both of them was good or beneficial to the uplifting of the majority black population.
- In both the Gupta family and the Stellenbosch boys or Mafia, there was no better devil than the other.
Cape Town is spending R21 billion upgrading it’s airport and another R10 billion on a new private airport, yet people in Langa live in squalor, Nyanga has no water, and the Cape Flats struggle daily. Which people is the DA really serving?
@kalliekriel@PresidencyZA How convenient that you no longer pushing the genocide narrative 🤔...Anyway all of these right wing organizations need to charged
@GodPenuel The violence starts in the fact that we haven't dealt with the pain and scars of apartheid, we carry them with us and perpetuate them.
Apartheid was a violent system that stripped the black man of his dignity. Feeling powerless he let his frustration out on the black woman in a