Yes, I said it.
The death of Dirk Coetzee, the evil man who slaughtered and facilitated the merciless slaughter of Black people in Vlak Plaas and many other parts of the country has triggered emotions in the hearts of the many but to others it brings a sense of sadness. It bring sadness because the man died without telling the truth that many families of his victims wanted to hear: Where are the bodies of the sons and daughters he murdered?
Firstly, I must say that the African National Congress betrayed the souls of the people whose lives were unjustly, brutally and savagely taken by this man and many of his (some still living) cronies, by allowing him to join the Movement of the people. They have effectively said to the families of this man's victims; "Your siblings were only scapegoats for us to ascend to the throne designed by whites for the oppression of the Black man."
This man deserved to be hanged along with many of his cronies whose deeds and actions directly and indirectly contributed to the slaughter of mankind. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission headed by Emeritus Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu was nothing more than a PR exercise for the corrupted ANC and the corrupt Nationalists to mislead the masses into a mindset that all would be well in South Africa.
How could this be? How could it have been that they believed that we would not see through that? They (TRC) granted amnesty to people who had no regard for the life of a Black man and invited them for coffee so as to reminisce about the atrocities committed in the past. They also wanted to share with the oppressor the new inventions of state-sponsored crime and violence so as to keep the status quo as it was. This should explain the many prisons built by the ANC, the many police trained ever year, the many laws against corruption and crime. But if you look closely, you will realise that, as in the past, all of these are established for a purpose; to continue to oppress the Black man, to blame the Black man for crime so that his destiny is mediocrity and impotence, brand the Black man a criminal in his own land.
These are just a few of the reasons that reconciliation here is a joke. We, the poor and the oppressed, are enticed with words like "Job Opportunities, Fight against Crime, Better Life for All", so that we are kept quiet and believing that all is well, when in actual fact we are living as we did when the oppressor began his reign of terror. Then, we get people telling us that South Africa is a rainbow nation with opportunities for all, yet what they fail to tell us but is clear as day light, is that so long as the White-man owned banks own the lands upon which the mines, the farms and other privately owned natural resources, the Black man shall always be a needy, dangerous and impoverished criminal because the social construct is designed to suite the oppressor.
How do you then reconcile with people who have killed thousands of your people and raped tens of thousands of innocent women and children. How do you reconcile with people who refuse to acknowledge the injustice of the past and who are not prepared to go the length in redressing such? It is always interesting to hear the ANC man argue that land can not be taken from those who got it without the consent of its owners. You will hear things like; "It is not feasible to take productive land from a farmer whose producing and give it to someone who will not turn it into a profiting project". What an absurd type of thinking in the face so many injustices inflicted upon the dispossessed.
The oppressor never gave consideration to whether the land he intended to take made profit or not, he took it and that was that. Why are these questions brandied about when people talk about taking back the land. People don't necessarily want their land back because they want to produce from it; they want it back simply because it's theirs.
It is difficult to reconcile here because the racist has not changed his ways; he continues to tell me that I am racist when I tell him about how racist he is. He says, because he joins me in protest against police brutality, he is not racist. This reconciliation thing, in South Africa, is like saying I should forgive the guys who mugged me in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. I will not do so until they bring back my phone, wallet and my camera. Until the beneficiary of the unjust, corrupt and cruel design that has continued to be a thorn in the life of a Black man, humbles himself, acknowledges the injustice and wok towards altering such, there shall be no meaningful reconciliation.
The white man shall continue to live as he does and the Black man shall always be angry. The White brother will not trust me because he has something eating him inside; awakening him to the truth that the reason I am so poor is because my being was taken from me, by those who built a lasting legacy for him, and I was left with with only a shell of the former self.
We are a long way off true reconciliation.
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