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Aug 14, 2014 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
The Marikana massacre took place this week in South Africa two years ago. Sadly enough, there will be no anniversary observance in Third World countries. Certainly not in Guyana. Sadly Walter Rodney is not around; if he was alive that anniversary would have been observed.
The police murdered 34 striking mine workers at the Marikana platinum mine and guess who was a director, (still is) of the company who owns the mine; Cyril Ramaphosa, the current deputy President of South Africa and an anti-apartheid fighter.
Apparently, the wealthy directors at the company sought Ramaphosa’s help as the strike intensified. Ramaphosa’s super-rich colleagues at the company knew they could count on him, because he was one of the most powerful figures in the South African Government and obviously, he could get the Minister of Home Affairs to direct the police to fire. That is what Ramaphosa did, that is what the Home Affairs Minister did, that is what the police commissioner did, and 34 Black South African miners were shot to death.
Now Mrs. Margaret Thatcher faced a similar strike in the UK, but the British police didn’t shoot a miner even in his big toe. Guns were never used. But should we be surprised when the post -1945 records shows that the non-white leaders who cussed down the White man when the White man ruled us, turned out to be less civilized, more bestial and more corrupt than the White man.
Did you know that Forbes magazine has the eldest daughter of the President of Angola as the richest Black woman in the world? (She outshone Oprah Winfrey who earned her money the old-fashioned way, and not from Papa Winfrey) The President was a big freedom fighter when the White man ruled Angola.
At the time of the Marikana massacre, the President of South Africa was Jacob Zuma. In May this year, Zuma was re-elected, so was Cyril Ramaphosa. The South African police murdered 34 striking mine workers and the ANC won re-election, even though there was a strong Black alternative party that only garnered six percent of the vote.
The people of South Africa did not punish Cyril Ramaphosa (I find this gentleman to be a repulsive hypocrite), Jacob Zuma and the ANC. As night follows day, there will be more massacres, because that is the way politicians behave when their stupid supporters give them unlimited power. The May election was the fifth consecutive victory for the ANC. It reminds you of Guyana, where the PPP has retained the presidency and the government for the fifth consecutive time.
Once a government knows it can go to bed in the night and wake up in the morning and still remain in power, and it knows it can sleep for centuries and wake up to power in the palm of its hand, it will do what it wants and do the most horrible things and get away with it.
The ANC government killed 34 Black miners (sorry, you read correctly, 34 Black working class miners not White workers) and got re-elected. The ANC is going to win the next ten general elections. So Ramaphosa and company will enjoy their wealth and give more orders to the police to shoot down Black people.
It is no different here in Guyana. Peaceful demonstrators were shot and killed in Linden. A Commission of Inquiry blamed the police, but not one officer was even disciplined much less charged.
By the way, as we are on the topic of the Linden massacre, I met Justice Claudette Singh, a commission member, outside the Bourda Market last week. I let her know my total rejection of her decision to award 15,000 American dollars to the families of the three men killed. In a tone I found irritating, she intoned; “It was a consensus.” If anything, the Commission’s decision was a horrible contempt for the value of life.
Even if the PPP tosses away the no-confidence motion as Mrs. Jagan did when the marshal served her a writ, there will be a general election in Guyana in 2015. And the story of the inherent stupidity of humans will be on display once more. The East Indians of Guyana must understand that once guaranteed power stays alive; there is no psychological sensitivity from those who possesses that power.
The PPP has no motive to perform; no sensitivity to the suffering of the Guyanese people. They know it will be re-elected for the next three hundred years, so its voters appear stupid in the eyes of the PPP leaders. The question is whether in fact these people are not really stupid. I guess that’s life.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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