Politically Incorrect Truths About Apartheid 1. Forsaking commitment to Gandhian Non-violence, honour & character.. ANC-Fanonstein spawned a Government of comrade-tsotsis, gangsters & kleptomaniacs In Racist, sexist, violent-peddling, Malema hate-talk dangerous for the future, Mphutlane wa Bofelo, a writer, activist, life-skills facilitator and performance poet, who was arrested and imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activism, shares his perspectives of the ANC‘s current behaviour, in relation to its former anti-apartheid behaviour. While he does not directly address the Just Cause issue in so many words, it is clear he has little respect for the antiapartheid decision-making of the ANC. Considering his views as stated, it is concluded that if framed within the context of a Just War principles argument, his conclusions would not consider the ANC‘s ‗liberation war‘ conduct as bein in accordance with Just War Principles. He does not consider the ANC leadership as capable of ‗Proper Authority‘, or ‗Right Intention‘, nor that their methods used were against legitimate targets or proportional; to the contrary. Put differently his essential argument is that forsaking Gandhian Non-Violence, Honour and Character, the ANC‘s Fanonstein spawned a government of comrade tsotsis, gangsters and kleptomaniacs: The glorification of thoughtless action and the ―diss-missing‖ of theory and marginalization of analytical minds have had dire and ghastly consequences for the country. The problems that the country has with regard to the violent nature of crime, apathetically low levels of respect of life, lack of appreciation of the self and indifference to parental guidance could be traced to the era in our history when we lionized youths who acted without first getting theoretical clarity of the situation facing them and weighing critically the strategic and tactical choices available to them. Even at that time, there were voices among youths that appealed for action rooted in the clarity of vision regarding the future. But the media and academia chose to give prominence to youth outfits that availed them the opportunity of covering dramatic incidents of empty classrooms, principals running for their lives, children making their mothers and fathers drink Jik and eat Sunlight soap, youngsters administering justice with petrol-fire and kerosene. To the media and academia the clamor of ―liberation first, education after‖ was catchier than the erudite call of ―Educate to Liberate‖. Indefinite school boycotts made more spectacle sense than cautious, restrained calculation of how much damage a boycott inflicted on the system and how much loss it incurred on the students. Now that the problems accrued from the culture of more toi-toi and less think-think continue to bedevil our school system, none of the adults are willing to own the role they played in taking the struggle from the streets into the classrooms as opposed to the Black Consciousnessinspired youths of 1976 who took the struggle out of the classrooms into the streets, and towards the system. Today, we can only give prominence to Malema and ilk and marginalize young people with critical, creative, innovative minds at our own peril. Once the culture of Hard Copy Print Version: Last Update: 09-01-2011: Other Translations Available from: www.african-white-refugees.co.nr
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