By: Clyde Ramalaine
– A coalition is on the cards as part of an endgame plan to finally bury what is considered a corrupt ANC –
In a season where we are bombarded with debates, accusations of expired COVID-19 vaccines, and dosages arriving in dribs and drabs, we are preoccupied with the obvious, namely our health and safety. Yet Stellenbosch and Brenthurst long got their vaccine shots and are hardly occupied with the physical vaccines but the machinations of delivering a proverbial mRNA vaccine, which is designed to alter the DNA of the ANC once and for all. They are hard at work on the not-so-obvious for the non-discerning eye, meaning the actual realigning of the political power reality in SA. It is claimed in some circles that mRNA vaccine consists of foreign to the human body material that may alter the DNA of the recipient. The ramifications of this, we are told, can be disastrous. Let me leave the medical and DNA scientists to shout at each other on this; I instead want to suggest whether it is not possible for the ANC to be vaccinated with an mRNA-based vaccine that alters the original DNA of the ANC which will result in a split not long from now?
Stellenbosch and Brenthurst’s mutual white interest has never, since the release of Nelson Mandela, felt so optimistic and close to realizing their ideal of a hybrid model of South African party-political governance where a majority black party will never again lead South Africa. Some will say, what do you mean since Mandela? Well, as romantic as some would like to make the era that fits the term of the democratic elections in 1994. We must not underestimate or downplay that we are a Negotiated Settlement. There is also very little debate that Mandela was in daily meetings with Harry Oppenheimer, and Clive Menell among others. These meetings found an already mellowed old man willing to be directed by the mining-complex dynasty families. These meetings, as we all know, often took place behind the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA). Mandela, the face of an ANC-led black liberation struggle, I wish to postulate, was duly vaccinated by the first drops of an mRNA vaccination while still in prison. By the time he stood on the Grand Parade in Cape Town and gave his first public address since the 60s, the drug was working already. Don’t forget who held the microphone as part of the Release Mandela Committee. Mandela spent more than enough time in the company of white monopoly capital interests who told him he couldn’t nationalize anything.
Then came the unfortunate but well-timed death of SACP and ANC leader Martin Thembisile ‘Chris’ Hani on 10 April 1993, perhaps the last original revolutionary who died in a toxic political conundrum of white economic political and economic power interest and some beholden ANC leaders’ personal interests. The true story may never be told, but there is enough to suggest the infiltrated ANC had a hand if not an ear in his death. After Hani’s death and many of us as young lions were ready to go back to the support of an armed struggle, we were cooled off with an election promise. A Government of National unity in which apartheid and liberation struggle leaders served together. In South Africa, the Stellenbosch/Brenthurst miracle was born.
It produced what the rightful late ‘Mother-of-the-Nation’ Winnie Mandela coined in description of an ANC state leadership as ‘the ANC is not in power but in office.’ Black elites in political office and heavily dependent on colonial and apartheid economic elites to take care of them in economic corrupt deals that would ensure a future existence and power of white interest endorsed by a wholly compromised black ANC leadership. This type of leadership would become what I termed the buffer zone and new ‘mlungus’ [whites]. Mandela was in on this since he, it can be argued, was part of the genesis of this when he could boldly tell us at the opening of Steyn’s House the struggle was won because of apparent principled people like the questionable Douw Steyn. When Douw Steyn is on record to have asked the late Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert, ‘stel my voor aan die lot en jy kan my huis vir al jou vergaderings gebruik’. [introduce me to this new lot in exchange you can have access to my house for all your meetings] Such a lie was seldom told but it was told by the one whose mind had been more than messed with and as some of us long ago said one who sold out. The vaccine was working. It worked to the point that Mandela became the created icon of white interest and used it as a proverbial sjambok to keep all blacks in check while his people suffered. Until he donned a green Springbok shirt and was now immortalized as the hero of whiteness.
Stellenbosch/Brenthurst interest post-Mandela for a while had access to Thabo Mbeki and made his wife exceptionally wealthy; they, however, didn’t like his arrogance to talk about race, his 1998 ‘’two nations state” analysis, and his nationalist rhetoric. They were willing to bide their time because Mbeki became obsessed with his personal reincarnation of a Kwame Nkrumah Renaissance vision. Stellenbosch and Brenthurst were planning when Mbeki spit BEE pollution which some hold was Oppenheimer’s bequeathed legacy though it was articulated by the political mouth of an ANC led Mbeki. Their agenda suffered for a short while though not materially neither mortally since he, with his policies and his Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, served them very well allowing for the divesting of billions out of SA. Mbeki would become an African Renaissance-obsessed philosopher-king-leader as among others Nigerian academic Adekeye Adebajo would later describe him. With this BEE pollution, a few black paper tigers would emerge, but colonial and apartheid whites quadrupled their wealth at every instance because every BEE deal worked better for them. Ideologically Mbeki sounded the opposite while economically he advocated the questionable GEAR, ASGISA and NEPAD policies and was relaxing the outflow of currency. So when Mbeki talks of money flows out of South Africa we warrant enquiring as to his personal role in the epoch when he was jet-setting Africa as a prophet of Renaissance and left governance on autopilot at a domestic level.
However, Mbeki the Renaissance guru was not liked by white interest, but he didn’t stop the control and power of Stellenbosch and its colonial Brenthurst interest. He did nothing about land redress even with a two-thirds majority. Instead, Mbeki relied on the World Bank and IMF handouts leading an administration that had as a priority fiscal control and discipline where austerity measures became the end and be all, in line with IMF and World Bank directives.
We are right back there if you noticed after almost ten years of an absence of IMF and World Bank direct influence under Jacob Zuma leadership, Ramaphosa and his obdurate Finance Minister Tito Mboweni who was not even Ramaphosa’s choice but was told by the powers that be it shall be Mboweni. I need not jog your memory on how Ramaphosa played Russian roulette on the eve of the announcement of the minister of treasury. Mboweni got that call after 9 pm after Mcebisi Jonas rejected it, I supposed in the same fashion how he rejected R600m in an offer from a guy he is not sure who it was.
Then came the Zuma era; he came to power against the wishes of the so-called self-styled Sussex ‘aristocrats’ and ‘intellectuals’ in the ANC who never thought it possible that a peasant would become president. Zuma, an underdog both in and outside the ANC, never had close relations with Stellenbosch and the Brenthurst crowds. As he so often noted, when they came back from exile, ANC leaders were given homes by the Stellenbosch and Brenthurst groups. Zuma while not overtly hanging out with the Stellenbosch and Brenthurst groups continued in his predecessor’s policy choices for economic solutions meaning he in the first term of his presidency did very little to break with the Old-West control of SA as a colony.
Zuma thus indirectly while not a friend of the Brenthurst / Stellenbosch cohorts aided the same agenda though there was never any direct relationship as his predecessors Mandela and Mbeki had. Zuma’s radicalizing of the ANC in his second term, as I have elsewhere contended was his desperate reading of the signs of the time. That radical ANC was never going to work for the Stellenbosch / Brenthurst crowds. So, Zuma had to go and eternally carry the can as the embodiment of a corrupt ANC, when Ramaphosa who must answer diverse accusations levelled against him by among others Brian Molefe, Matshele Koko, and others, automatically for some became the moral beacon of a corruption buster. Se voet!
Fast-forward to the year 2017, Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa who left the ANC angry as its secretary-general around 1991, because he could not become vice-president under Mandela would now contest. The truth is the idea to have him as deputy president was that of the very Stellenbosch and Brenthurst crowds who swindled the mind of Mandela and persuaded him this was the best choice for SA. The true history of Ramaphosa is not ANC; Ramaphosa is historically linked with an association of the Urban Foundation. At best, he is an Urban Foundation Leaguer. The idea of the Urban Foundation is the original mind of Harry Oppenheimer although on the day of its launch in Johannesburg where 200 businesses gathered the privilege to articulate its strategic ethos on the day was extended to Anton Rupert who was BJ Vorster’s opponent for presidency. Rupert Senior settled to give political power to Transvaal in a deal that saw him become the economic ruler with a slew of government contracts.
The Urban Foundation’s focus from the start had a clear agenda. It was to keep ‘kaffirs’, ‘hotnots’, and ‘coolies’ in their assigned and designated apartheid Group Areas Act township dwellings while they appear to beautify these townships. They would plant some trees and add some street furniture to the apartheid townships just enough to ensure the darkies don’t become too angry to revolt and want to come to white suburban SA. Two years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, when others such as Onkgopotso Tiro left SA to go into exile because of the liberation cause, Ramaphosa joined the Urban Foundation. In the words of Irene Menell, “We adopted him [Cyril] as a charity gesture into the Urban Foundation.” Truth has seldom manifested in more precise means than as captured by Irene Menell.
Ramaphosa’s entire rise to a crafted popularity was stage-played and came sponsored by Harry Oppenheimer who needed a milder workers-union. NUM the hybrid duly vaccinated workers entity was born despite undeniable betrayals that left Piroshaw Camay of CUSA to his grave distraught with his protégé Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa would use his claim to fame for the much-made and publicized 1986 Strike to negotiate with a struggling – bush-camp-based ANC dreaming of political power in future anticipation. This would catapult him into talks with the ANC in Lusaka. Send him cojoling with Black Consciousness with no seriousness of interest as we all know he would later casually disown. We must at some point enquire as to what the impact of NUM leaders as SGs of the ANC has been since Ramaphosa. I explicitly here refer to Ramaphosa, Motlanthe and Mantashe all NUM leaders who graduated into the ANC from outside the ANC. Some research students warrant engaging was not part of the vaccination to produce NUM leaders as ANC Secretaries-General.
A few years later the influence of the mRNA Stellenbosch/Brenthurst cocktail vaccine in the ANC would be seen when Ramaphosa against the better thinking, ethos culture, against the original ANC history, emerged as its Secretary-General and in control of the ANC. It was during this time that he unilaterally replaced Thabo Mbeki as ANC chief negotiator and replaced Zuma as intelligence head with Terror Lekota. Also, this marks the period in which as we are told the files on the Coloured boys of Bird Island shenanigans were brought to the ANC at Shell House by Cadre ‘Jacobs’. Your guess is as good as mine; nothing happened to those files in what I argued elsewhere the Coloured boys of Bird Island became collateral damage not to scupper the negotiations. I personally on behalf of our TMOSA Foundation wrote to both Ramaphosa and Lekota to seek clarity on what they knew besides an acknowledgment of my communique from Michael Louw in the presidency until now neither Ramaphosa nor Lekota responded. The ANC under SG’s leadership of Ramaphosa saw it as not morally correct and appropriate to even bring the information of such child abuse to the TRC where it could have been ventilated. In fact, [Were the Coloured boys of Bird Island made collateral damage to keep negotiations on track?] an article I published in 2018 and my official inquiry that same year to enquire from Ramaphosa and Lekota as to what they knew while at Shell House back then, at the time these allegations first surfaced, led to me receiving strange calls and threats that had seen me having to respond to fictitious numbers who wanted me to fetch parcels from a pseudo-Starlight Courier service.
The vaccine was working until Ramaphosa, despite Stellenbosch/Brenthurst’s intense lobbying on Mandela, failed to secure the deputy president role, and he, in childish anger of entitlement, refused to attend Mandela’s inauguration. He would later emerge with a new assignment to deliver, in co-leadership with National Party’s Roelf Meyer, the drafting of the SA constitution before he exited in the second coming of Anton Rupert style, banished to wealth not earned but handed out by those who made him since 1978. He is and remains their protégé.
So, what is the big plan Stellenbosch/Brenthurst is working on for the future of SA Incorporated governance? You must respect Stellenbosch they always work 25 – 40 years ahead. It is a known fact that when Mandela was inaugurated Stellenbosch/ Brenthurst determined the ANC would be in office for 30 years no more no less. So, they somehow envisaged the return of their plan imminent in re-emergence of choice guy [Matamela Ramaphosa]. This wish was made easier by those in the ANC during Zuma’s first term who suggested Ramaphosa be brought back in 2012. Stellenbosch smiled their plan was going to work. They spent more than a billion to buy an ANC election yes you guessed right albeit by a very narrow margin of 179 votes after courts and Judges like JP Mlambo who today stands accused by Advocate Brink as an ‘unconvicted criminal’ had his hand in determining the 2017 NASREC conference outcomes by disqualifying branches that did not support the CR17 candidacy.
Well by March 2020 we all know Ramaphosa was failing on every front; he never had any control over the ANC let alone the economy. Despite a slew of talk shops on empty investment commissions, publicity stunts, cargo diplomacy, lights, and camera flashes, and walks on beach fronts, he failed to produce a coherent strategy for fixing the SA economy. Then came the proverbial godsend of the COVID-19 pandemic, or as some of us call it, an orchestrated plandemic and Cyril was now going to run the country by Martial Law at the hand of a flip-flopping Disaster Management Act. The Stellenbosch/Brenthurst agenda was always to work for the attaining of a mild, incoherent, malleable ANC. The methodology they would apply is to dole capital to ANC political elites, their wives, children, concubines, and friends.
Key to their strategy was to divide the proverbial house, and everyone knows money divides the best of family and friends. A weak and mild duly capital-infiltrated ANC is suiting the agenda of Stellenbosch. The prophecies that the ANC will hardly rule for 30 years when it is reduced to the ash heap of history, having failed not only in its original cause but the millions who trusted it in elections when its soul was long infected by the Brenthurst and Stellenbosch cohorts, resurfaced. Is it any wonder that Ramaphosa, who sings the praises of those who stole land and kept us in inequality until now, along with the so-called cheap lecturing of Joel Netsihitenze and Trevor Manuel, both handsomely rewarded by the same white monopoly capital interest, tried to rebuke some us when we dared to continue referring to white monopoly capital and The same toxic Johann Rupert Stellenbosch summarily could summon Fikile Mbalula to instruct him to tell Zuma, “If you fire Gordhan, we [in reference to himself and a few friends] will collapse this economy.”
Almost a year later, Ramaphosa is and remains under instructions to deliver the ANC to a prepared table of planned hybrid governance. Cyril must endeavour to bring the already capital-induced and wretched ANC through his lackeys in the NEC to the table. Given the fact that Ace Magashule and others won’t let that happen. This means Ramaphosa must halve the ANC since Stellenbosch and Brenthurst will bring the DA, thus birthing a hybrid party. CR17 will have a second term, but Thuli Madonsela, the one who was instrumental in bringing the ANC to its knees through the political campaign of her swansong convenient the state-of-capture commission, for a resume would be first rewarded with a professor role at the bastion of apartheid ideology and thinking. Later to be knighted in France, she would be Ramaphosa’s deputy in the planned hybrid ANC/DA model. This deal was discussed before COVID-19, which has rendered the ANC’s annualised programme wholly dysfunctional. Ramaphosa as guided by his bosses would abuse COVID-19 to further destabilize the ANC. I can hear you say, “Shut up, you conspiracy theorist,” while others have open mouths trying to figure out how I know this.
Notice when Ramaphosa wrote his letter to the ANC; he said the ANC was corrupt; he exonerated himself. Is it any wonder DA leader John Steenhuisen today can say he is willing to make a deal with Cyril but not with David Mabuza, the deputy president of the ANC and South Africa? Even less known is in the heat of Ramaphosa’s CR17 campaign when Steve Motale of the Sunday Independent broke news of his infidelities with young ladies, Ramaphosa contemplated giving up the race but by his own admission disclosed it was John Steenhuisen of the DA who was first to advise him not to give up. Later on, Paul Mashatile and Gwede Mantashe spoke to him also. So, when the Sunday Times, the known proverbial Goebbels mouthpiece of Cyril Ramaphosa, leads today with a deal from Steenhuisen, it measures the depth of this deal not as from now but elongated.
COVID-19, the curse of the USA’s 45th president Donald J. Trump, thus became a blessing to realign, contain, and recalibrate the balance of forces in the ANC. Ramaphosa would now emerge as the COVID-Emperor to maximize the moment to ensure the ANC programmes and events are derailed, and the NGC again postponed with no real hope of it happening any time before July 2021. Anyone who knows how the ANC functions knows how significant its programmes are for its sustenance, so not being able to gather to engage from the branch level renders the ANC a dysfunctional sitting duck in which peripheral narratives of ‘step-aside’ are given central space and not the agenda of redress. Another dimension Stellenbosch employs is buying hungry NEC votes to remove Ace Magashule, who in a sense must own up to his own foolishness of discerning the true meaning of the SG office. Meaning if you fail to break the party in two, that is halving the party and letting that half join the DA because ideologically there is no difference between the ANC under Ramaphosa and the DA under Zille and Steenhuisen. That’s why the radical socio- economic transformation policy of the ANC could not be implemented because the president of the ANC, who is also president of South Africa, does not believe in any of the radically adopted policies that made him president in the 54th Conference. His only interest is a second term, and it never mattered how that was going to come. He is under clear direction to speak from two mouths; we heard him in attempt of deceiving ignorant ones articulate, ‘I would rather be called a weak president, but I won’t split the ANC, when his very work from 1978 was to that end.The second term guaranteed, and history will record that Ramaphosa’s true legacy in the ANC organisational sense is him presiding over a SA in hybrid-party of governance of inverse liberal definition working for the destruction of the liberation movement.
So, while you talk about COVID-19 and look for masks and are trapped in Zoom meetings, crying because you cannot lay your hands on any COVID aid money which, as my one friend said, the president reports on but no official can give you a phone number or email address while white business scored big from COVID aid. His increasingly favourite Minister of Small Business Development Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, who recently also replaced the late Jackson Mthembu as Minister in the Presidency, reluctantly had to admit. Stellenbosch is at work, walala wazala!!
I have said Zuma’s confirmed refusal to appear before DCJ Zondo is a legitimate refusal. It is certainly not any constitutional crisis; it is only a political crisis for Ramaphosa and his Rubicon. But as we know, every crisis can be used wisely, so the Stellenbosch/Brenthurst’s vaccine plan for the ANC and Ramaphosa is simply to take it to the hilt and split the ANC; there are in any case two ANCs. In that sense, Zuma’s insistence to have Zondo recuse himself for which he has what legally is understood as good cause since he has a case against the chair, is protesting a fulcrum moment in the ANC but more so for Ramaphosa.
If you see Ramaphosa in recent weeks this buoyant, hawking all television channels, do not think it as accidental; the deal is on, a second term even with or without the ANC majority is more than on the cards. You do not have to believe me; remember what the Titanic voyagers were told while the ship was sinking. Then again, what do I know as a public theologian and a ‘conspiracy theorist’ that one day may be called a prophet? All I know is that this is another reason why I will never trust the virus that entered the ANC in Ramaphosa joining the ANC, from the ranks of the Urban Foundation and kamikaze organised labour spaces. I, therefore, will never be able to trust the vaccine Stellenbosch/Brenthurst produced and which Ramaphosa is the chief salesman in the hope of serving us all until herd immunity in the ANC is reached.
