South African state media and the USSR

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African National Congress (ANC), BBC, Democracy, Media, SABC, South Africa, Soviets, Unrest

In the old Soviet Union the State Broadcaster was the Soviet Central Television of the U.S.S.R. Naturally it was completely under the control of the state. Their Programme Four was created in 1967/78 and was focused on the Russian Intelligentsia and students. Its goal was basically to ensure that neither groups questioned anything too much.

The African National Congress government of South Africa clearly believes the Soviets had it right. They are trying to stop any news about upheavals in the country getting to the eyes and ears of its gullible base of voters. Basically, the only reason why anyone is still voting for them is pure unadulterated black racism. Any logic has long departed the scene. Fortunately for the ANC, it has managed to keep the overwhelming majority of its supporters uneducated and ignorant. That helps them. The problem is, one does not have to be able to read and write to watch television and consume a basic picture and speech, and therein lies the rub for the ANC.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation, the equivalent of the Soviet institution above—both run by the governing parties—has decided to ban the broadcasting of any “destruction of property”. This, of course, while its supporters and ex-supporters are running around the country torching what they can lay their hands on. In fact, this is exactly what the ANC taught them to do in the 1980s when they announced that their intention was to make the country ungovernable. Back then it included torching alive those black people who disagreed with them and killing white farmers’ families with anti-tank mines.

In an earlier post we reported on the events (picture of school above) in the Northern Province of Limpopo. Little notice was taken of that post. If South Africans prefer to cover their own eyes and ears then so be it. Now the SABC is offering them help in the form of a news blackout on anything that looks like unhappy voters. That way the white folks can keep having peaceful barbecues and plead ignorance and the black folks can burn things without worrying about being noticed and can then plead innocence. See… that works for everyone. Why didn’t I think of that sick symbiosis.

Now the BBC comes along and “spoils it for everyone”. In an article dated 3 June [click here] (last week), they point squarely at the SABC and accuse it of “Apartheid Tactics”. I’m not sure what the BBC has in mind when they use this odd term, but they certainly appear to object to the idea of censoring news to skew the upcoming election by hiding reality from voters.

It mystifies me why the BBC would be worried by that. They have skewed the news from South Africa all my life. Why does it bother them now? My only comment to the BBC is,

“But my dear BBC, you breathlessly supported this bunch from day one. Would it be possible to get from you at least a vague indication that you think you may have been wrong in doing so. After all, it was always obvious to the rest of us exactly what these creatures were. But, you fawned on them from 1960 to 1994 and beyond. They learnt very well from their Soviet mentors.

Actually, don’t tell a soul, but all along I always I thought you did as well….and I have not seen much to change my mind.”

— Harry Booyens

The 1975 US Congress gave us 9/11

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Jimmy Carter, South Africa, Soviet Union, United States Congress

In mid-1975 a jet departed Charleston, SC into an international picture. Twenty-six years later four fuel laden airliners emerged from that same picture and killed 3,000 innocent Americans. This is the painful story connecting the events.

The more complete Blog article is HERE.

The United States was about to be tested in Angola in faraway Africa, and it would fail that test comprehensively due to decisions made by the 1975 US Congress. President Carter would subsequently be repeatedly tested and would equally repeatedly fail. To quote Soviet UN Ambassador Dobrynin,

Having suffered no major international complications from its interference in Angola, Moscow had no scruples about escalating its activities in other countries, first Ethiopia, then Yemen, a number of African and Middle Eastern states, and then, to crown it all, Afghanistan.

And there we have it straight from the horse’s mouth. It all started with Angola in 1975.

As a natural product of the Soviet-made and US-neglected upheavals in first Angola, and then the Horn of Africa and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan took note of Bill Clinton’s perfunctory response to the embassy bombings of 1998. Then came the bombing of the USS Cole on 12 October 2000 in the harbor of Aden, Yemen (See Dobrynin’s List quoted above). Incredibly, it elicited zero response from the United States. With this calibration regarding the will of the United States, Osama bin Laden set in motion his plans for the 9/11 attacks.

The failure of resolve on the part of the United States Congress on the matter of Angola in 1975 led directly to the upheaval in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa, and those upheavals gave us Osama bin Laden, the embassy bombings, the USS Cole, and 9/11. In the process it also ultimately resulted in an advanced Western country like South Africa being today little more than just another classic African Basket Case and Hell Hole.

And this is how it came to be that a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter cargo jet departed Charleston on 29 July 1975 into an international picture, and how four fuel laden airliners returned out of that very same picture on a beautiful blue sky morning in the East of the United States and killed 3000 innocent Americans (above). Perhaps the surviving members of the 1975 US Congress can explain their thinking to the rest of us and to the loved ones of those who died.

To quote an honorable man and president of the United States on the subject of the US congressional failure in Angola,

A great nation cannot escape its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today will return as more acute crises tomorrow.

 Gerald Ford, President of the United States (1975)

He was right;…. painfully right. Read the more comprehensive Blog page HERE.

The above series of events may be studied in more detail in the book AmaBhulu, which also provides all of the required references for all facts stated.

— Harry Booyens