The 94′ effect
We commemorate symbols of victory and the end on an era, without mistake or over celebrating a victory never met in a duel of words or swords. 1994 highlights the beginning of a new South African page; Mandela was released with a clinched fist and heart-warming speeches of endless suffering, conquering the jaws of defeat and the end of a regime. Indeed hearts filled up mindlessly; the streets were noisy; the possibility of freedom had once faded, hearts had been dispirited by death tolls of anyone who stood against the regime. suddenly the unimagined had become a reality. rushing our disbelief with a seeming possibility of freedom.
That was the idea sold to us. but did we completely look into it as to what it truly meant; it was always going to be difficult to be a skeptic after years of racial prejudice. it was incomprehensible to even process a
question of what had the makings of a true revolution. this was true, the only truth pulled before our eyes. we could only see the promised land and a great truimph. we were not allowed to think it through; like a prisoner set free to serve house arrest, the conditions looked favorable. a matter of better than before.
another form of slavery replaces the one before, its better than nothing i suppose. knowing the evil of the regime and time it took to kill the spirit of black lives. this celebration is necessary to uplift the people.
but we need to remember how this change came to being, it wasn’t a change of heart of the minority. if the regime still had benefits to them we will still be in the same boat.
that is the hypothesis of the 94 post mo-term. so the question now is who benefited from the 94 effect? certainly not the average black man that was integrated into a pit to restart his dream without favor or compensation for the injustice he went through. neither did the domestic worker or middle class black civilians.
so it wasn’t goodwill that freed Mandela, it wasn’t that what the freedom fighters had stood for that warmed the hearts of the government. the grumbles of students protesting and reports of the shootings of innocent men and women rocked the apartheid boat. the showings of men slaughter had waken global hearts questioning and protesting local investor’s business ethics. causing a decline in wealth for major benefitors of the apartheid regime.
when F W de Klerk received a noble peace prize that should provoke even a sleeping mind to question the folds of the universal system. so what does that mean? shouldn’t a noble peace prize be given to Leopold for agreeing to congo’s independence? or any other war lord that agreed on an African country’s independence? then again what is independence in Africa? is there an African country that is independent? there is no such thing when colonial tax is still paid and the loans are still owed to the federal bank, its only a continuation or incurred debt that falls on the new government. so the allies clause is still true keeping the government slaved to its masters. there is no real control in governance. in truth Africa owes her rapist.
so freedom was given to us, there was no remorse but a wise business decision. global sanctions were costly to the investors, banks and all stakeholders. did they care about the effects of the apartheid regime? of course not. as long as their tenants paid rent in time nothing else mattered.
so the Truth and reconciliations only painted the man that held the gun or performed the torture as a reflections of who was held responsible for the unjust laws of apartheid. while corporate companies cruised through and improved their mission statements with cheap labor and black exploitation to extreme degrees. with no real responsibility nor a shift in true integration. their agenda remained on course.
22 year old “freedom”
justice only applies to commoners, the ground workers that perform requested duties are the ones who face prison sentences. do we hold every entity in every profession who benefited from the regime accountable? that was not made possible because of owner ship, external investor and all corporate entities don’t bow to a make believe government that doesn’t rule over them. with limited resources in a country of transformation; land reformations and “sky is limit” corporate opportunities that keep the middle class dependent and indebted
the reality of white supremacy in corporate executive positions is still true. while we think change in company ceilings can be performed or power can be shared equally without prejudice. who are we fooling? we are still feeding from the ground; with hopes of ” better education, better jobs” when the school system doesn’t provide an independent ideology of wealth creation. it only feeds on the slave-job preparations. well the educational system belongs to our allies and landlords, we don’t make the policy; so there can be no real education that wont benefit the colonial master. so the system of learning creates a dependency and a good enough to work mentality with a false ideology of freedom to choose.
no matter how qualified one is, talent selections still pits the black scholar to entry positions to prove credibility first, with a chance of middle management promotion ladder. an insult to any thinking mind to first dig deep, while his white counterpart is prepared to step to his blue blood dad’s executive office. while he being trained by the black senior to be his future employer.
if you are lucky and selectively chosen to be the face of a company without control; its a well off matter not wealth creation and regenerating. hence the rich blacks are known, seen spending an ounce promoting a controlled state of possibility. in truth they are selling a lifestyle, a state of consumption, a market strategy to generate work slaves. while the black entrepreneur gets sponged by a big white company in corporation, losing ownership to get breadcrumbs. if not cooperated then scandal and misfortune stumbles the folds of the business. maybe its co-incidental as the release of Mandela.
it just reminds us of liberation in its true form, because this clone of freedom given serves the hand that unveiled it. we were never meant to benefit from it. we should understand this.
Oddmind Rupert 