The African Union, Zimbabwe and Media
This week is the meeting of the African Union where our country’s future will be decided by the African leaders. This is without the consent or the will of the people of South Africa. This is something that the government has decided and now it is these foreign leaders who decide the law and policies for South Africa.
These people will never support a tough stance against Mugabe because they will be allowing criticism of their own regimes. It will be way better to do the usual “lets all sit around and talk about it” approach. It is much safer for them. One can only wonder why Mbeki is so supportive of this ’softly, softly’ approach.
Getting back to my original point - why is the policy of South Africa and the subsequent laws being dictated to us by 26 leaders who do not have democracy and free elections in their own countries and probably will fight tooth and nail to maintain their autocratic position?
An issue like whether to join the AU should decided by the people of South Africa - perhaps by referendum. Yet the government thinks that merely because they were elected, this gives them carte blanche on what they can do. Why are we allowing our freedoms to be sold out by these people?
The main problem is that so few South Africans know what the AU is all about, or even what gets discussed there. They have been deliberately kept in the dark over the AU and all the issues surrounding it.
Most of mainstream media buries AU stories in the middle pages somewhere, or when they do mention it, it is in context to something major - like the Zimbabwe question. They are not giving the people the information we need about this organisation.
They do not report that we are going to be governed by an AU government based in Addis Ababa.
They do not report that they aim to get rid of national armies and have one AU army which will be able to deal with internal matters.
They do not report that the South African Rand is purposely being devalued in order to prepare for the one Africa currency: the Afro.
They do not report that similar to the EU, our laws will be dictated to by the Addis Ababa government.
They do not report that the new AU government will have unelected special non-African representatives involved at all levels. (Read US and EU control).
We need to stand up and demand answers. We need to educate our fellow citizens on what is happening. We need to take action before we are all sold out by a government that we know doesn’t care about what we want.
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July 6th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Ek erken dat ek nie veel kennis het in hierdie opsig nie. Ek kan net saamstem met JS. Hoe kan Suid Afrikaners net blootgestel word aan hierdie tipe besluite? Ek dink dit hou grootliks verband met die idee om ‘n United African States te implementeer. Hulle kan nie net aanvaar hulle kan doen wat hulle wil nie. Dit is tog in almal se belang. Ek dink iewers moet daar ‘n beweging wees of party wat guts genoeg het om hierdie tipe dinge aan te vat. Dit is hoe Mandela dit reggekry het. Ek vind dit ook vreemd dat hy niks te se het oor wat aan die gebeur is met hierdie SA nie. Ok, ek weet hy is nie meer president nie, maar hy het tog ‘n se. Dis sy party after all.
Ja en daar daag die MDC nie eens op vir die onderhandelinge nie. Ek sou ook nie, want dis verrot tot in die uiterstes. Ons liewe president keur met ander woorde goed wat Mugabe gedoen het. Hoe kan hy verwag dat die opposisie nou moet onderhandel terwyl die posisie tans deur onderduimsheid verkry was? Dit kom al 18 jaar so aan… rigging of votes! Hy moes al lankal nie meer in beheer gewees het nie. Ek kan nie glo dat GEEN wereld organisasie iets kan doen aan dit nie. Sadam is gehang. Ag nee wat!!!