Robert O’Brien
— On September 18, 2019 President Trump named his new National Security Advisor. Non-Americans may find it interesting to know that this post does NOT require ratification by the US Senate. President Trump can choose whomsoever he pleases. He has chosen Robert O’Brien (above). He is the fourth person in three years to serve in that role under President Trump, being preceded by Gen. Michael Flynn, H.R. McMaster, and, most recently, John Bolton of the famous mustache and vividly hawkish convictions.
O’Brien, an attorney, has made a name for himself as a hostage negotiator, being appointed to the position of Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs by President Trump on May 10, 2018. He has written on US Foreign Policy. He is a man who believes that the world is a better place when America acts from a position of strength. This author would agree.
Fluent in Afrikaans?
His appointment is significant. Raised a Catholic, O’Brien converted to the Mormon faith and spent time in South Africa in the 1980s. More particularly, he was there during some of the worst violence and saw what the ANC terrorist organization, now the government of South Africa, is capable of. He spent a year at Free State University as a Rotary Foundation Scholar and is reputedly fluent in Afrikaans. This is something for which the intellectually bankrupt Left in the United States will likely pillory him.
ANC Violence while he was in South Africa
On 7 November 1985, while in South Africa at the age of only about 20, he wrote an interesting article from Johannesburg for the Baptist Press, a news service of the Southern Baptist Convention. One assumes this was before his religious conversion. The title of his piece was “Apartheid Protest Breeds Intolerance in Reverse“. In this article, Black South African Baptists are interviewed. One of them describes how he had to watch helplessly as a black girl was burnt to death, the mob knocking her down every time she got up while they threatened to burn alive anyone who tried to help her. Ronald Reagan himself described some of that so-called “necklacing” horror (below), but America would simply not listen at the time. Today Reagan is revered by all as a departed president. It is amazing how the same people would not listen to him about South Africa.
Amanzimtoti
Six weeks later, on 23 December 1985, an operative of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the “military” wing of the ANC, planted a limpet mine in the Shopping Mall under the towering Sanlam Centre in Amazimtoti, Natal (below). White women and children were killed in the attack. The terrorist killer, Andrew Zondo, later explained in court that he had done it because there were many white people there. One of those “many white people” was this present author’s own mother, who lived in an upstairs apartment in that building.
Having drawn blood, the ANC tried again a few weeks later. This time the mine was discovered before it went off. On this occasion my mother WAS indeed near the bomb and she describes how the Police practically carried her out of the building at high speed, her feet barely touching the ground here and there.
The Attitude of the ANC
I trust it is appropriate to point out to the thinking world—which I would like to believe still has some morality—that the ANC clique in power in that area has renamed the street past the building to Andrew Zondo Road, immortalizing the killer of the innocent. Imagine North Harvey Avenue, the street past the now-demolished Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City (below), being named after bomber Timothy McVeigh. This is exactly what the ANC is doing to white people in South Africa and the organization relishes it. And the ever-left-leaning World Media is silent.
Decent human beings note that the memorial (below) created at what used to be the location of the Alfred P. Murrah building is dedicated to the victims. In South Africa the street is dedicated to the killer. A secondary school has also been named after him. That should tell any person of sound morals exactly what the ANC government of South Africa actually is.
For those who did not know, Umkohonto we Sizwe was created by Nelson Mandela, and one can find in his “auto”-biography the details of how he fought to ensure it was indeed created. That “auto”-biography was actually ghostwritten by Richard Stengel, a later member of President Obama’s Administration. It is truly tiresome to hear thinking people turn Mandela into an “angel of peace.” They apparently have trouble reading, especially when their hero confesses his role in his own book.
There is always Hoping
I would assume, without knowing for a fact, that Mr. O’Brien was still in Johannesburg when these events took place in Amazimtoti and were front-page prime time news. One hopes and prays that some of this has left at least some impression on his memory and that he will not conveniently forget the truth of what he learnt in South Africa. In fact, the truth has turned out to be amazingly fragile in recent times under the direction of the US Left. In fact, it has become difficult to locate at all.
Then again, there is always hoping.
— Harry Booyens
Port St Johns: From sleepy coastal town to ‘tourism jewel, economic hub’
Lubabalo Ngcukana 2019-09-20 17:27
“So, on a country to country level, we are here to see the possibility of a small harbour to drive regional development to benefit from the sea. The second part we discussed with the premier is how we can encourage more investment from China to the Eastern Cape for industrialisation, for example, in Coega.”
Lin said they were also impressed by Mabuyane’s development plan for the province, including in the agricultural sector, which was something China was also very keen on.
“We want to be a key partner in the premier’s efforts to develop the area and transform this province from poverty to common prosperity.
“The Eastern Cape is our favourite province to work together between China and South Africa,” he said.
Lin added that the feasibility tour would help to gauge whether it was a good idea to build a sustainable harbour in Port St Johns to benefit from the ocean economy, with the next step being a visit to Port St Johns to see for themselves if building a harbour was possible.
The ambassador said he was not in a position to make a commitment until the feasibility study was complete, but said the vision was to have a thriving fishing and processing industry in Port St Johns to create jobs and ease the high level of poverty in the area.
https://city-press.news24.com/News/port-st-johns-from-sleepy-coastal-town-to-tourism-jewel-economic-hub-20190920
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This “port-development” is the resuscitation of an old National Party plan.
I would not be surprised if the Chinese offer to take up the ESKOM debt in exchange for the Naval base at SIMONSTOWN !
Watch this space
The build-up to the beginnings of the World Revolution ……..
Chris,
The one area where you and I can agree, is in the matter of China’s effort to colonize Africa, in particular, South Africa. The kind of people in charge in African countries do not have the ability to see where this will lead. And the West is now so self-obsessed that it cannot hear or see unless its face is rubbed violently in an issue, as 9/11 unfortunately demonstrated.
But, I have news for the Chinese. Just as they were run out of Africa in the early 1970s, they will be run out again. Their imported Chinese workers will overstep the bounds of relationships with the Black Africans, who will turn on them and kill them. I cannot conceive of two cultures more different than those of China and Black Africa.
Enjoy THIS.
If you get bored, fast forward to THIS point.
NO Harry ,
The Chinese have learned a lot since their first experiences with Africa
They have the black leaders ( despots ) in their pocket
Should the workers not perform then the black African leaders will call out the military ( supplied with Chinese arms ) and that military will sort out the problems with the black workers. — see ZIMBABWE
The video you linked is just one example.
The Chinese are every where in every country in Africa
HOW did they manage to construct the highest suspension bridge in Africa in Mozambique ?
https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-opens-africas-longest-suspension-bridge/
To cover every successful Chinese project in Africa would need a whole article of it’s own
Instead of Belgian / French / British / Portuguese / German / Dutch colonists there will be ONLY ONE.
NO infighting and NO DEMOCRATIC public at home to worry about what is being done in Africa
Black Africans see the Chinese as — “Cargo Cult” — lots of nice goodies — “for free”
Just like the early European Explorers.
Black Africans will ONLY be killing — Each other !
Look for a recent video that explains and shows the Silk Road — which has reached as far as Europe — where it appears they also like lots of — “free-stuff”
( Or at least their POLITICIANS do )
You underestimate the Chinese at your peril !
What I am wondering is how long will the Chinese “free stuff” last?! Is it true they are building a new canal in Nicaragua?
I “get” what you’re talking about during the “Missionary Era”…I believe they were called “rice Christians”!!
Excellent, as always, Harry!! Let’s pray that some attention will now be given to the South African question!! Hopefully, many here in the U.S. are realizing how we have been lied to by the mainstream media for decades….for that reason we were sold a bill of goods about Mandela & did not realize who he really WAS!!!
The Mandela Effect!!!…..INDEED!!
To my mind this is EXTREMELY significant!
Do some US strategists begin to see what would happen should the Indian Ocean become a Chinese lake? Have they studied Operation Ironclad? It is impossible to supply the World via an “Airlift”, something the British and Americans learned during the War of the Atlantic.
Has there been any explanation as to why Mr Robert O’Brien specifically has been chosen,bearing in mind the choice for US Ambassador to South Africa ?
Still seeing how many US foreign policy promises have been null and void LIES, I do not hold out much hope. I think that, based on their military thinking, they would rather just nuke SA back into the stone age and thus deny it to anyone else!
Are South Africans of any more worth than South Vietnamese?…or Rwandans?…or Rhodesians …or Syrians …or Afghans?
Apparently not as much as the Israelis!
Chris,
I know you have little, if any, faith in the United States, but I subscribe to the old adage that “one can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else”. After all, Churchill relied on that in order for Britain to survive WWII.
Well it appears SOMETHING is happening
Lana Marks has finally been confirmed as US ambassador to South Africa
By Peter Fabricius• 27 September 2019
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-27-lana-marks-has-finally-been-confirmed-as-us-ambassador-to-south-africa/?utm_source=homepagify
Apparently fluent in English / Afrikaans / isiXhosa
Mandarin …?????
You make me laugh, Chris!! Subtle question!! Mandarin….???