Nelson Mandela, Creation of the Real Movers and Shakers of the Global Political Scene

       Africa’s Patron-saint-to-be, Nelson Mandela has become one of the most publicised icons of liberation struggle in modern times, in Africa certainly, but even in Asia and South America. He will be popularly mourned and saluted by millions of people around the world and his passing will no doubt be hailed as the end of an era. Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela is to be hiled and respected for the part he played in trying to reconcile the inequalities and conflicts between the racial and economic divide that has troubled his country. But in reality he was a created icon of liberation struggle, a creation of the real movers and shakers of the global scene for a larger political agenda. Without the interest and obsession of foreign imperialist powers in South Africa’s massive mineral wealth, Mandela would have been forgotten in his jail [where he served a sentence for treason and terrorism] until the day he died or was released on humanitarian grounds in his twilight years.

Without all those billions of dollars of international sponsorship, fanning the flames of revolution through Mandela’s ANC party, Nelson would have continued to be the relatively unknown and powerless leader-in-exile of an organization that had been divided and ineffective for decades while Britain controlled his country. Nelson Mandela (perhaps unknowingly) had helped his country become another minion of the United States rather than of Britain.

Mainstream media created the myth that Nelson Mandela brought democracy to South Africa. But long after democratic governments had been established by and for European settlers and gradually duplicated for the other ethnic groups in the country, the vast majority of Mandela’s people were still living relatively undisturbed in vast rural areas under the dictatorship of tribal chiefs and their councils of warlords. Nelson Mandela and his ANC party fought for the privilege of taking over the democratic system established by the Europeans. The fact is that even today, the tribal chiefs in South Africa retain their authority, rights and privilege by tradition, not as a democratically elected office.

Did Africa’s icon of liberation really improve the lot of indigenous South Africans? Free, indeed, yes, South Africa’s people are free, free to be poor, free to be unemployed, robbed, raped and diseased. Many of his people would say they are definitely NO better off!  But now they have their very own patron saint and that will keep them voting for his ANC party as long as his name is engraved upon it.

Read full article at the Global Research Centre  http://www.globalresearch.ca/nelson-mandela-icon-of-africas-liberation-struggle-creation-of-the-real-movers-and-shakers-of-the-global-scene/5360531

See also “The Dark Side of America’s “Friendship” with South Africa” http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dark-side-of-america-s-friendship-with-south-africa/?print=1