A confrontation broke out between Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini and Nkosikhona “Phakel’umthakathi” Ndabandaba in Soweto, with police intervening to calm tensions between the two activists.
In 1982, the ANC released its January 8 statement in which it called on South Africans to join the armed struggle to dislodge the Apartheid government.
Panicking, the Establishment sent in Desmond Tutu under the auspices of the World Council of Churches to meet the ANC leadership in Harare and London to convince them to adhere strictly to nonviolent resistance and abandon the armed struggle.
One of the meetings, held in 1985, was organised by the British Commonwealth Secretary-General Sonny Ramphal who hosted a dinner in London where Tutu met ANC President Oliver Tambo to introduce him to the idea of non-violence.
In 1987, Tutu again met the ANC’s Executive Committee in Lusaka. Tutu had travelled to Zambia specifically to discuss nonviolent struggle strategies as the path toward dismantling Apartheid.
Now, to underline how much the Anglosphere Establishment was hyping Tutu up, in 1986, Warner Bros released Miles Davis’ jazz album with the title “Tutu” as a tribute to the Anglican Archbishop.
The album won the 1987 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist plus the Grammy for Best Album Package, with Tutu’s name prominently displayed in front.
If you take anything away from this let it be that where the Establishment is concerned, nothing is ever a coincidence.
In any case, throughout the period leading up to 1994, Desmond Tutu was given a platform and a bullhorn through which he repeatedly preached that “truth is powerful” and that exposure of evil was a necessary prerequisite for peace, explicitly rejecting Nuremberg-style “retribution”.
For context, the Nuremberg Trials were tribunals held between 1945 and 1949 in Nuremberg, Germany, to prosecute leaders of Nazi Germany for crimes against humanity. The trials delivered 37 death sentences and prison terms to high-ranking officials, military leaders, industrialists and doctors.
The trials further codified the principle that individuals, including head of state officials, can be held legally accountable for crimes against humanity establishing the precedent that “just following orders” is not a valid defence.
Similarly, by the time Tutu was rejecting Nuremberg-style justice, the United Nations had long formally designated Apartheid as a crime against humanity through numerous resolutions starting in 1966.
But as Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 looking into Apartheid crimes, Tutu transformed his “truth” ideology into a formal state process which used the commission as a non-retributuve ritual where perpetrators could shed the burden of secret guilt instead of facing justice as they should have.
In a nutshell, all of Desmond Tutu’s accolades and adulation such as his 1984 Nobel Peace Prize award were a direct expression of the Anglosphere’s approval of him as a tool to suppress justice.
“Donald Trump must leave us alone. As far as I recall, Donald Trump was not around the negotiating table when we negotiated the end of apartheid. So stick around there in the White House. We will do our business here, and we will find solutions for our problems.
So stay out of our issues, and we will not get involved in your issues in America.'
President Ramaphosa
"What about me and my family?" asks Soweto spaza shop owner Sihle Buthelezi, who says he made no profit running the business himself.
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Sailors tried to jump off the USS Abraham Lincoln which has been at sea for 250 consecutive days marking longest deployment in history.
Sailors are facing alarming conditions including broken toilets & showers as well as food & supply shortages.
IMPEACHABLE ON SO MANY LEVELS IT’S BAFFLING.
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