The Mandela Cover-up Unravels Cliff Kincaid — December 8, 2013
It appears that AIM and blogger Trevor Loudon are among the few sources highlighting the official statement of the South African Communist Party (SACP) about Nelson Mandela having been a high-ranking member. SACP deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila is quoted by a South African magazine as saying it was denied at the time for “political reasons.”
The communist Workers World Party, which supports North Korea, has also reprinted the official SACP statement about Mandela. The communists are proud of Mandela and what he accomplished. His false claims of being a non-communist fooled South Africa and the world (except for his domestic and international comrades who were in on the secret). The official SACP statement includes these words: “At his arrest in August 1962, Nelson Mandela was not only a member of the then underground South African Communist Party, but was also a member of our Party’s Central Committee.”
Politicians lie, but this was a whopper, designed for the purpose of turning South Africa and its strategic materials over to the communists. The perfect front man, Mandela had always denied being a party member and, for the benefit of foreign audiences, publicly rejected Marxism as a “foreign ideology” as recently as a few years ago. It appears that was just a ploy to keep the foreign aid coming. South Africa has been among the top ten recipients of U.S. foreign aid, getting close to $500 million in fiscal year 2013.
Now that we know what’s going on, what will we do about it? Three American presidents—Obama, Clinton, and George W. Bush—are going to South Africa for his state funeral on December 15. Obama has ordered American flags to remain at half-staff in his honor until sunset on December 9. The con will continue. Still, the facts matter.
Not sure what this revelation means for his memory. Mandela as a communist leader is not what's being celebrated about his life.
Mandela is being celebrated for leading a Country in the struggle away from Apartheid. I don't know much else about him and neither do most people. He's a symbol for something good. It's not him really, it's what he symbolized.
Very little blood was shed in the transition from white rule and once the power went to blacks, the white rulers from the past were not marched off and executed as punishment for being devils.
He was a card-carrying Communist party leader? Oh well, is South Africa Communist? If not then that isn't what he accomplished or what we celebrate about his life on earth.
There's no longer an anti-war Left. There's only an anti-Right Left
Mandela wasn't a real Communist. He would have set up different controls when they reorganized the SA govt' when he took power. What he WAS that isn't being talked about is totally incompetent. His leadership was a disaster. SA is the carjack capitol of the world because of him. Crime is rampant and the economy sucks. I also get irritated that no one discusses the fact that de Klerk set the end of apartheid in motion and that the MSM glosses over the fact that his wife was a radical terrorist thug who routinely used the practice of putting a tire full of gasoline around political opponents and setting it on fire. It's called necklacing.
Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #3Mandela wasn't a real Communist. He would have set up different controls when they reorganized the SA govt' when he took power. What he WAS that isn't being talked about is totally incompetent. His leadership was a disaster. SA is the carjack capitol of the world because of him. Crime is rampant and the economy sucks. I also get irritated that no one discusses the fact that de Klerk set the end of apartheid in motion and that the MSM glosses over the fact that his wife was a radical terrorist thug who routinely used the practice of putting a tire full of gasoline around political opponents and setting it on fire. It's called necklacing.
All true, but evil has a habit of cloaking itself in the mantle of incompetance.