The Canadian National Newspaper: Honorary Canadian Nelson Mandela flirts with mass-deception on rich should help poor rhetoric

Honorary Canadian Nelson Mandela flirts with mass-deception on rich should help poor rhetoric

Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday on 18 July 2008, by urging the wealthy to share their prosperity with the less fortunate and by saying he wished he had been able to spend more time with his family during the anti-apartheid struggle. Prime Minister Jean Chretien had conferred honorary Canadian citizenship on Nelson Mandela in 2001.

In an interview at his home in rural southeastern South Africa, the anti-apartheid icon was asked if he had a message for the world.

"There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty," Mandela said.

Yet, when Mr. Mandela had access to political power as South African President, he collaborated with transnational corporations. Mr. Mandela accepted economic advice in the behalf of Big Business interests, and essentially turned his back on the poor. Indeed, when Mr. Mandela was President, he sang a different tune, than the one on his birthday.

Mr. Mandela ignored and essentially tore up the Reconstruction Development Plan (RDP), which forward-thinking representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), had developed, while he was in prison. The RDP could be viewed to have been a Magna Carta for a truly progressive society, that would have wiped out economic disparity, and that promised to turn South Africa into a sort of "Sweden of Africa".

Instead, Mr. Mandela chose to re-assure the same clique of U.S. and European Big Business interests that had propped up the former apartheid regime, and that aside from not enforcing the "separation of races", it would be "business as usual". Mr. Mandela, as President of South Africa, presided over the furtherance of a spiralling context of predatory capitalism, which then led to worsened poverty, to economic alienation, and to social malaise. These conditions fostered that fostered South Africa having the worst crime rates in the world, as occurs in places like Greater Johannesburg.

The blacks which actually benefited from Mr. Mandela's Presidential administration, are basically limited to a small clique of "bourgeoisie" opportunists associated with a well-documented context of political corruption, that became the "black faces", in support of the same clique of wealthy white former apartheid rulers.

The selling-out of the poor and the oppressed, by a clique of former so-called "revolutionaries" in South Africa under Nelson Mandela, could be viewed to be reminiscent of the portrayal that was presented in George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The current headlines which uncritically spreads Mr. Mandela's message for social justice, are the work of mass-deception of a media clique. This media clique which seeks to participate in cover-ups concerning culpable Crimes Against Humanity, which include a re-creation of Mr. Mandela's actual legacy. Such Crimes Against Humanity and perpetuated when economic development is limited to commercial-financial outcomes for elites instead of broad quality-of-living outcomes in behalf of Human Development.

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