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‘The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The freer a country claims to be, the more rules and regulations it legislates. These only serve to whet the appetite of the creatively devious.
If our actions require the restraining force of established authority, then we do not understand the meaning of the word freedom.
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. Freedom is a state of self-responsibility and self-liberation. This is only achieved when we cease oppressing self and others with deviousness in thought, word and action.
Freedom is the ultimate state of our being and is attained when our actions are in accordance with our highest ideals and aspirations. When we reach such a stage of advancement we no longer require any form of governance.
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King. Jnr.
Let our pens run hot until there is no place for those with criminal minds to hide; not even among the sewer rats or other places were vermin creep.
People who have faith in themselves take correct action.Those who know better than to become involved with ego or struggle with evil know that compromise with evil is impossible.
In Africa there is no secret that can remain hidden, no untruth that will not be uncovered, and no dark place where light will not shine. Truth and steadfastness help to cure the ills of the world.
Despite their fancy talk and wonderful promises, some politicians and their representatives do the opposite of what they say, which is what they planned to do all along.
Unfortunately many promises remain unfulfilled and despite endless representation much is ignored until people take to the streets with their placards. This usually adds to the conflict and violence. Situations should never been allowed to get to this. People, who protest, do so because they have been manipulated accordingly. However, when people respond peacefully rather than react violently they would instil empathy in the public, rather than tarnish their image.
Unfilled promises are lies. This type of governance discourages public loyalty and is the cause for institutions to destroy themselves.
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'The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The freer a country claims to be, the more rules and regulations it legislates. These only serve to whet the appetite of the creatively devious.
If our actions require the restraining force of established authority, then we do not understand the meaning of the word freedom.
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. Freedom is a state of self-responsibility and self-liberation. This is only achieved when we cease oppressing self and others with deviousness in thought, word and action.
Freedom is the ultimate state of our being and is attained when our actions are in accordance with our highest ideals and aspirations. When we reach such a stage of advancement we no longer require any form of governance.
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Politics is a sugar-coated cyanide tablet that promises everything and gives nothing Political leaders are blind and deaf to the vows that qualify them to hold such positions. There is a glaring disregard for their countries constitution and legal system. Politicians say one thing and do another; not realising that the population at large eventually wakes up to those with forked-tongues and lie-telling that goes beyond the bounds of poetic licence.
Some politicians humiliate themselves and denigrate their own character every time they open their mouths. This can lead only to their demise. No warriors need conquer them for they so eagerly crush themselves.
Humans are used as mere fodder in the political arena to achieve sinister objectives. The population are told they are free and perhaps they are inclined to believe it, until the pain of the cracking whip awakens them to the truth. If apartheid was perceived to be the ‘frying pan’, many are now in the fire.
Many people have become dissatisfied and discontent. They have realised that they can’t eat freedom; they need the jobs they were promised. Economic growth rarely makes its way down to the poor. Only a small sector of the population gains benefit, while the vast majority find themselves in increasingly desperate circumstances.
When people give their power to the ballot box, they lose their freedom. When they give their voice to politicians, they lose their choice.
Sadly all this came about in the deceptive, cunning and manipulative name of politics, a sugar-coated cyanide tablet that promises everything and gives nothing.
When humanity conducts itself in a specific manner there will no longer be any need for authorities to monitor, police or jail people. Crime is the excuse being used to usher in humanity’s worst nightmare – the incarceration of our minds.
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Mental incarceration is of no benefit to humanity There are many systems in place that coax humanity into giving their power away and not thinking for themselves.
When people join movements such as political parties, religions or philosophical organisations, they surrender their intellectual capacity and succumb to the hypnotic sway of indoctrination.
The shutters come down and they interpret everything they see, hear and read to be in line with the narrow confines of their brainwashing.
Every group promotes its own agenda. While they may appear to be assisting humanity, it is soon apparent that the population at large are used to further the aims of these organisations.
Politicians are mere puppets in a game of deceit that they do not themselves understand. In their quest for power the population are mere voting fodder. As brainwashed puppets, their function is to heed the command of their pitiless masters.
Religionists do not understand religion. External worship destroys one’s spirituality. By being coaxed into surrendering our power we fail to experience our own divinity.
By joining philosophical groups people limit their vast potential for personal development. These organisations alienate their followers from family and friends. Once trapped, they are robbed of their self-esteem.
Conscious citizens have no need to be ruled by governments. People who realise their own divinity have no need of religions. Those who are connected to their own innate intelligence have no need to fill their mind with artificial knowledge.
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‘Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.’
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Politics stirs up hatred. It has been used for selfish motives and has disadvantaged many of the people of Africa, and personal gratification has been attained by the oppression of others. Bad governance and violence is the major cause for people to seek greener pastures in far off lands.
In many self-governing African countries, black refugees seeking survival have fled in their masses from the ‘freedom’ they supposedly attained. They have risked their lives crossing seas to escape the ‘liberation’ they demanded. In the name of ‘freedom’ African countries have been brought to their knees. Africa is in crisis, a life and death struggle for survival.
Politicians have been indoctrinated to promoting the plans of idealism without realising the consequences. They avoid entering the courtroom of their own conscience, and coerce communities to follow paths that lead to their demise. In Africa, those who have orchestrated heinous deeds against their own people are lauded as heroes.
In these ‘democratic’ countries perfectly good and decent streets in plush suburbs have been renamed after terrorists, murderers (praising the warriors) and those who have followed the path of communism. Rather than adding to our history they try to obliterate it. This encourages communities to hold their government in contempt.
African countries have connived their way, via ‘free and fair’ elections, threat and intimidation, to become one-party dictatorships with little freedom or justice. When people have their choice taken away from them, they behave like zombies. In the name of ‘freedom’ bestial and barbaric killings have been perpetrated, and good people, who have had the courage to speak out, have been brutalised and murdered.
Thus the lashing whip, falling on the backs of the innocent and righteous, has tried to silence Africa’s pleas for fairness and justice. The unthinking majority have been hypnotised by ruthless men.
'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.’
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Africa is losing its roots, its culture is eroding
Since urbanisation in Africa, comparison has crept in; rich/poor, plentiful/deprived; and the people who traditionally lived without money, nor any need for it, were enticed into incorporating it into their lives. With exposure to materialism the African culture has eroded and they are losing their dependency on, and connection to the land. This artificial situation has caused them to lose their natural faith.
When their culture begins to disintegrate, people lose a very important part of themselves. They then live in fear and want, which results in feelings of desperation. The more desperate they feel, the more despairing their situation becomes.
Those living a natural basic life, as many millions of people in Africa do, aren’t necessarily poor. These people are perhaps the most blessed and happy, yet the world pities them and tries to remove their happiness by enticing them to Western ways of life.
Money is a Western perception that was forced upon the people of Africa. When people think that the most important thing is that they have lots of money, the very thing that in Africa could be difficult for many to attain, attention shifts to living for money and some seize it at any cost. When money is epitomised as a ‘god’, faith is broken and is replaced with the love of money, which can be viewed as the root of all evil.
These transferred tribal ways are causing Africa to lose its roots. Western civilisation has become so superficial that possessions and arrogance have greater significance than human decency. The self-destructive and aggressive way that people live is now imploding on itself. These aggressive attitudes have ushered in a sick society that has become corrupt and dangerous.
By returning to natural and kindly ways of living, Africa will once again work in harmony with Nature and reclaim its culture. When the people of Africa begin to awaken they’ll remember how connected they once were to cosmic consciousness. This could lead to the beginning of a new civilisation on the Mother Continent and instil ‘the awakening’ in the rest of the world.
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‘When cultures don’t even know the difference between real strength and weakness, and when they confuse spiritual with other kinds of power, then these cultures degrade and attract the exploiters.’ Dan McCarthy
Africa, is a continent of many cultures, where shadowy realms, the real and the unreal merge together and become one and it is difficult to distinguish what actually exists and what is the figment of some long-dead legend. Here magical beings are seen to be more real than flesh and blood, where myth and legend, fact and fable are woven together.
On this continent the great ingwenya, the crocodile is revered for its cunning and stealth. The crocodile’s ability to creep up on its prey underwater and grab it in its massive jaws is taken as a sign of its greatness and its invincible powers.
This unsavoury, vicious and devouring scavenger is so honoured for its cunning that it has been adopted as the totem of certain African tribes. To these people, to be cunning is regarded as a quality, but to others to be cunning is known to be a sign of great weakness.
Unfortunately, when cultures are not able to distinguish the difference between real strength and weakness, honour is awarded to evil. Here people confuse what is truly spiritual with trickery and strange and magical forces. Such misinterpretations have degraded the cultures and produced the victim mentality that attracts exploiters.
From its northern desert tip to its southern white shores, Africa has attracted the unscrupulous; the missionaries seeking souls, the explorers lusting for adventure and opportunity; the miners raping the Earth of its treasures, and the corporate crocodiles who hide their cunning and stealth beneath their smart suits, but their lipless smile exposes their canine fangs.
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Africa’s spirit pleads for magnanimous leaders dedicated to equality and prosperity for all her people.
Africa is a magnificent continent of abundant sunshine where life has little value and nothing is cherished. It knows no mercy or gentleness and still resists Western civilisation. Deprived of wisdom and understanding, Africa is choking on its own ignorance and is laden with the stupidity of unimaginable greed and corruption; a state of unconsciousness that offers little progress or enlightenment. All the assistance rendered has not always achieved the hoped for results.
Decisions made by top government officials are not always from national loyalty or the desire to do the right thing, but for the attainment of personal riches. Social welfare, the environment, and quality of life, take a back seat to corruption and greed. Destructive choices and brutality retards human advancement and cruelty stunts emotional development. Harsh realities offer little opportunity to experience gentler, kinder levels.
People’s actions ruin their own and other’s lives. While evolution brings progress, reactive revolution halts humanity’s advancement. When reasoning faculties are awoken and developed, reactivity no longer plays havoc in society. There are other levels, which when reached, move people from existing to really living. Living in kinder environments, people learn better ways of dealing with challenges.
When Africa develops a mature level of problem solving, it will suffer less at its own hand. Africa’s spirit pleads for magnanimous leaders dedicated to equality and prosperity for all her people.
‘And I saw Freedom walking alone, knocking at doors, asking for shelter, but no one heeded her pleas. Then I saw Prodigality striding in splendour, and the multitude acclaiming her as Liberty.’
Voice of the Master. Kahlil Gibran
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UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL ‘People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.’
Stedman Graham
The reverse side of the apartheid coin is alive and well and living in South Africa. Still playing the role of victim, many people with their attitudes of entitlement, cling to the concept of apartheid. Old ways do not disappear when they are clung to tenaciously.
When those who consider themselves to have been disadvantaged lose that label and change their attitudes, they encourage situations that will lead them to a brighter future. Labels, like handcuffs hold people prisoner, their escape being in correcting their perceptions.
Many cry for work, but by their lethargy and appallingattitudes prove themselves to be unemployable. Those who have no respect for the human rights of others are quick to demand their own rights.
Rather than demand our rights, we could do well to make sure that we live responsibly and contribute positively towards society. Moral education would be a solution. People in possession of values enjoy a life a value.
In South Africa we have a wonderful profusion of cultures and a great diversity of talents. By realising how important our individual contributions are and by expecting more from self, we would work together in harmony and accelerate South Africa’s advancement. Like a mirror the world reflects back to us the goodness we offer it, and like an echo, it rewards us many times over.
‘Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.’
Bob Marley
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DIVIDE AND CONQUER
World governments orchestrate situations that cause their citizens to perceive themselves as being separate. They then rise up against one another in community disputes, tribal warfare or civil unrest.
The apartheid system set up by the colonial governments in Africa is one such example. The previous white government in South Africa is blamed for having suppressed the African people and those of colour. As Gandhi stated, ‘100 000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate’.
In South Africa the Indian and Muslim communities generally thrived and prospered regardless of restrictions.
Although the South African government claims to be representative of all groups in this rainbow nation, their actions belie their statements. As happens in the rest of Africa many whites are being savagely slaughtered.
In Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the Congo, the black governments not only suppressed the white people, they stole their property and drove them from the land. These governments also suppress, steal from, and murder-en-mass any group of people, blacks in particular, who do not support their particular brand of dictatorship, which they present as democracy.
When we step away from the games that governments play, we reclaim our voice and our power. Good, honest and just citizens have no need for puerile rules, or the cracking whip that accompanies them.
When we realise that we create our own experiences, we become conscious creators. By doing what we know to be right, we unite and triumph over oppression and transform the world into the Paradise it was always meant to be.
‘The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.’
Albert Einstein
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad’. Lord Acton
Political appointments in Africa are viewed as the ultimate status symbol. With great wealth and fantastic power, and having no need for personal restraint and self-discipline, a culture of nepotism has been endemic. Perceived political power, like a sickness, influences self-serving decisions.
Politics embracing tribalism in Africa is a means of favouring one group of people over another, their strategy camouflaged by deceptive words. Despite fancy talk and wonderful promises, politicians and their ‘yes-men’ do the opposite of what they say, which is what they planned to do all along.
People in power are corruptible and ‘the system’ gives little support to those with higher visions of integrity. People who are consumed by greed turn on one another and like white ants eating at their brain, corruption like a cancer eats away mercilessly at them.
In South Africa we hear the same speeches we heard in Central and Southern Africa. The ideas that failed in places like Zambia and Zimbabwe have been popping up here as well.
As happened in the Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe, it appears that this government’s ‘Robin Hood’ tactics of ‘robbing the rich’, but keeping for themselves is quick-marching this country towards ‘democratic’ communism or socialism. Nationalisation leads to governments owning everything and the citizens owning nothing. Like slaves to the system, all their effort disappears into a bottomless pit.
I sometimes wonder if a ‘one-world-government’ is not already in place, but the public have as yet not been advised.
This country’s misinformed youth are once again being compromised by being brainwashed to Toyi Toyi* for an agenda to usher in a force that will awaken them to their worst nightmare. If this is not stopped, this beautiful country will fall into a heap like the rest of Africa has done.
* Dancing and singing while gesticulating the actions of their intent.
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On pondering the public rebellions against oppressive authority that are gaining momentum in Africa and around the world, I am reminded of the wisdom in the I-Ching (Book of Changes).
#43 refers to breakthroughs after a long and accumulated period of tension and gives the analogies of a cloudburst or a swollen river breaking its dikes.
On the human level it refers to a time when inferior people gradually begin to disappear. Such a breakthrough will result in the waning of the influence of the inferior people.
The I-Ching states that if even one inferior man occupies a ruling position in a city, he is able to oppress superior men. Because obsessions obscure good reasoning, in order to succeed, the public need to relentlessly oppose and expose evil.
The I-Ching teaches that a compromise with evil is not possible and that in all circumstances it is vital that evil be openly discredited. Greed and weakness are not to be glossed over.
Gathering is always followed by dispersion. Those who, without consideration for others, pile up riches for themselves alone will certainly experience a collapse.
The struggle should not be direct or forceful, not fought blow by blow. That would cause us to become embroiled in hatred and passion and result in loss.
The answers lie within. The triumphing over our own shortcomings causes the sharp edges of the weapons of evil to blunt. With a firm and friendly disposition, humanity is able to oppose evil and make energetic progress in the good. This is our way forward.
Once again, one ponders the public rebellion stemming from humanity’s deep-seated urge for transformation. The energy on Earth is changing and people will no longer tolerate any form of oppression or dictatorship, regardless of how surreptitiously it may be tucked away in democracy.
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SPEAKING OUT IS OUR GREATEST STRENGTH While there are no organisations or institutes that are able to improve the lot of the people, everyone would be better off if they were not being disadvantaged by the aggressive and desperately grabbing mentality that currently dominates Africa.
Like an iron heel, the blatant disregard for human rights, is stamping down hard on the innocent, yet the guilty continue to prance around like peacocks, their tail feathers proudly fanned out. While speaking out is our only tool, the civil liberty that promises freedom for all, with a vice-like grip, is attempting to clamp down on our words. There is something terribly wrong when we do not have the freedom to object. We have come to live in a sick society where the unrighteous suppress truths, and for those who stand up for what is right, justice is merciless. People give their power away when they place their trust in leaders to fulfil the promises they so glibly make. When humanity takes their power back, we will have no need of governments or any systems that try to control the course of our destiny. |
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COMPENSATION FOR MISAPPROPRIATION If it really was our vote that brought the government into power then it should be working in our favour, not against us. As the government demands that we hand over a portion of our hard-earned money, we demand that it be used wisely and well, providing us with necessary services. By failing to do so, the government is making itself redundant. Considering all the financial mismanagement and fraud that has diminished our contributions, these funds need to be returned to their rightful owners. Hence, we should all be expecting a rather handsome refund!!! |
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TRANSPARENCY Governments don’t fight fair. While pretending that the will of the people is sacred, and while implying that good citizens have given them mandates, governments around the world commit atrocities against their people, brazenly imposing their own agendas.
They pass draconian laws that do humanity no good, yet we are expected to abide by these rules. Many authorities have no respect for the rule of law that seems to apply only to good civilians. As we have seen, many of the lawmakers have become the lawbreakers. Policies beneficial to finance and big business but detrimental to humanity are legislated. Those with devious intentions, with no thought of morals and ethics, justify their actions as being above board because they connive their way through legal loopholes. Secrecy bills and meetings held in-camera are not for the good of Joe-public. There should be no need for us to have to pry information about questionable activities out of the authorities with a crowbar, all at taxpayer’s expense. Governments that have nothing to hide, hide nothing. Fortunately there is a great awakening taking place around the globe. Everywhere people are taking a stand for that which is morally correct. |
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INIQUITY IS THE CAUSE OF INEQUALITY Since 1994 when the New South Africa became democratically ‘free and fair’, it has become the country with the greatest disparity of incomes in the world. Despite promises to the contrary, fewer jobs are available; hence our beautiful country has become a breeding ground for crime. Governments are there to serve the people, but the tables have been turned and they now parasite off the people. Greed and ignorance are the cause of humanity’s suffering. The official fat cats gorge while their people grow thin, their hunger pains being the dawning of the truth; that politics is robbing them of any sense of freedom they may have had. Little wonder that the energy of revolution is expanding to bursting point. |
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MEMORIES OF MANICALAND On misty and lonely hills
the remnants of once abundant crop production pitiful in their neglect now entwined with weeds, serve as a reminder of political irresponsibility. Uncompensated farm seizures, business takeovers, corrupt governance, lavish self-indulgence stupid in its brutality and arrogance, mindless rampant youth bring ignorant nations to their starving knees. When are we, the citizens of Africa,
magnificent continent of abundant sunshine, with great strength of manpower going to realise that together we are able to keep the wheels of industry turning, to feed ourselves with plenty to share and spare? |
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A COUNTRY OUT OF CONTROL Install an incompetent government that, in its eagerness to maintain its self-serving platform, rules its populace with a lenient rod.
In due course, due to lack of maintenance everything that was once so majestically built-up, soon disintegrates, is run into the ground or mysteriously vanishes at night. Services for which we now pay so dearly are provided for so poorly that they no longer have the right to bear the title ‘service’. When governments and municipalities are managed correctly, communities’ benefit and existing structures do not end in wrack and ruin. The authorities are bleeding our country to death and they aren’t even ashamed of themselves. |
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‘In times of tyranny and injustice, when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history.’ Robin Hood - 2010 In tyranny lies failure. Around the world, laws have enslaved humanity to systems that demand loyalty, yet they offer little in return. In many instances these systems with their self-serving laws prohibit people from fending for themselves, yet they are blamed for the crime of theft. This only encourages people to live outside of the law and express themselves at their worst. Many who have stood up to these systems have been dealt heavy blows. Only systems where people are empowered actually gain great strength. We are now on the threshold of an era where systems, if they are to survive, need to ensure that justice, in the form of liberty, is available to every reasonable person. People should only be subject to laws that are reasonable and that enable everyone to live by their own efforts, to become the best people they can be, everyone flourishing in their particular field of expertise. Successful societies are built from the ground up. In structuring our future we need to set our foundations strong. We all need to work together. Every job is a necessary piece of the puzzle. No job holds priority over another; therefore everyone should be able to claim similar rights. |
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THE ROBBING HOOD SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT Despite their claims kingdoms, governments and corporations with all their grandiose self-sustaining systems are not set in place by divine right, nor do Earth’s treasures belong to them.
When these systems bankrupt their own wealth they plunder the pockets of the population. They minimise humanity’s possibilities of survival and deplete us of our livelihood. It seems to be presumed that loyalty to a government means paying over a share of our earnings to that government. In the name of providing services they strip us of our wealth. Good money that gets devoured in keeping systems going, does humanity little good. They are bleeding us dry. These systems have need of people, but they are actually people’s enemies. They only survive because of our co-operation. Without our loyalty these systems could not survive. As long as such systems remain detrimental to humanity’s livelihood we would be wise to withdraw our co-operation. When the systems bend their knees to the people and listen to what we have to say, they may well encourage our loyalty. |
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South Africa, a backward society! It is a shame that in a country as magnificent as ours, millions of innocent children are molested.
Abused children are prone to become abusers, the revolving wheel crushing every generation. Leaders are rotten with corruption, their garments bursting at the seams, while babies and children starve. Despite the laws set in place to protect children, they remain unprotected. Is there any point of having a progressive constitution in a backward society! We brag to the world, showing-off with our fancy and now useless stadiums, all the while hiding a cesspit of abuse and molestation. Shame on you South Africa, shame on you again and again! |
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SELF-CRUCIFIXION We are encouraged to fight poverty, fight disease, fight corruption, fight, fight, fight. Certain dates are set aside annually to celebrate the diseases that we are encouraged to fight.
Revolution serves only to retard humanity’s progress. What we resist persists. When we fight for causes, we revolt against external effects, all the while righteously nourishing and preserving their cause in our hearts. While people may be anxious to have their circumstances improved, many are resistant to improving themselves. This is a form of self-crucifixion that can never achieve its desired objectives. Our thoughts and actions need to be in harmony with our desired end results. Only by working diligently on improving ourselves and by being self-responsible is there any possibility of improvement in our outer circumstances. |
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Wandering aimlessly along the corridors of the hallowed halls of so-called higher learning, some people dance mindlessly to tunes played on any puppeteer’s flute. |
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OUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Since falling into the clutches of politics, Africa has been lashed by many storms. Playing their viperous games, politicians orchestrate brutal but profitable conflict.
Millions are slaughtered, hundreds of thousands of women and children are violated and the environment is systematically but profitably destroyed. In Central Africa, Government Ministers, blind to the conflict of interests, use their inside information and their biased influence to ply their trade and line their pockets. At the same time, the self-appointed and lawless guard the gateways to unsafe and illegal mineral mining operations. With little chance of escaping, the bribes paid to enter these pits of hell, keep its labourers imprisoned in muddy mountains of doom. For a mere pittance, these desperate hopefuls risk their lives grovelling in hazardous makeshift tunnels. Others, used as mules, stagger for days along jungle paths to deliver the wanton spoils, ripped from Mother Earth, to the gaping jaws of industries that stifle their conscience and turn a blind eye on their social responsibilities. We need to give due consideration to the heavy price others pay for our conveniences. Only by demanding that everything be done properly and refusing to become involved in anything that is detrimental to humanity and Mother Earth do we usher in humanity’s highest possibilities. |
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STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT! The people that control governments, big corporations, legal systems and the big media companies, which monitor the information we receive, seem to think that they own us and that they own our lands.
With their sinister agendas they set systems in place to disguise the truth. In order to use us they sell us their lies. Fascinating as these lies may be, many of us are able to figure out what is going on. Political systems have been put in place to convince us that we are free, that we have a say in the running of our countries. We are not free. Everything is being systematically taken from us. We are being taxed, fined, licensed, and overcharged on essential supplies so that our hard earned pay packets end up back in their pockets. Something is severely wrong with systems that make people vulnerable and insecure. People risk life and limb to defend political agendas, only to find themselves without any support, their pensions whipped out from under their noses. Governments create distrust and division amongst people. Their engineered chaos creates cheap soldiering to cull the population. What we need to build each other up and move forward in a constitutional way. By standing up for what is right we can build a better nation. |
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WILL THE MEEK INHERIT THE LAND? And so they want to nationalise property in South Africa! It seems as though Uncle Bob has been putting ideas into people’s heads. Or maybe a more sinister force is at work here?
In Zimbabwe the meek did not inherit the Earth. The winners took it all. The meek had their shacks demolished. Zimbabwe’s land reform programme benefited those with big fat salaries who work in government departments and those with the right connections. The rest remain destitute. Rhodesian military staff of all races paid eight percent of their salaries into their pension fund only to have it withheld by the government. The winner takes it all, or put another way – governments steal from people. So much for loyalty! In order to eek out an existence, these men now have to risk life and limb by going abroad to fight in wars that are not their concern. Is the same fate awaiting the military personal in South Africa? Surely in a country of national unity the example of our nation moving forward together should be set by our government! What a sad state of affairs it is when the general population have to teach their leaders that there are better ways forward. It would be a grand day indeed when we have leaders that we can look up to rather than those we look down on! |
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STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST OPPRESSION In Rwanda one million people were slaughtered in 100 days.
War is orchestrated murder. It is the ultimate degradation of humanity that plunges us into our worst nightmare. We have been thrust into horrific wars we did not cause, but forever suffer the enormity of their devastating effects. Earth people have become victims in the pursuit of gunrunning, mining and drug money, all manipulated by the bloodthirsty authorities. When harm is on such a great scale as in war, mankind’s advancement is greatly hindered. We are not here to slaughter each other. Killing is one of the greatest misdeeds on Earth. We are taught ‘Thou shalt not kill’, but if it is war and all wars are political, soldiers are instructed to do so. Politics turns injustice into justice. The words ‘sold’ and ‘die’ are contained in the word ‘soldier’, revealing it’s meaning; ‘sold to die’. How many wars, how much slaughter will it take before humanity stand together against oppression and live in harmony! By everyone refusing to become involved in conflict we put an end to war. |
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Incompetence and corruption are no strangers to the many municipalities in South Africa that have been run into the ground. |
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It is a travesty of justice that certain people, having failed to diligently prepare themselves, are placed in so-called ‘high positions’. |
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IT IS A MATTER OF HONESTY AND RESPONSIBLITY I am always amazed when people honour me for being so brave as to speak and write the truth. What amazes me is that there are people out there that would even think of not telling the truth. It is because of all the lies, deceit and corruption that our lives are in a state of chaos.
The remedy is very simply. When we stop throwing bottles on the pavements we’ll no longer suffer with cut feet. In a state of fear, people keep a smouldering silence about the wrongs committed by others. Such non-action allows wrongdoing to flourish. As evil flees in the face of truth, threat of exposure encourages people to walk the straight and narrow. Thosee who have faith in themselves take correct action. By standing up for what is right we take the first steps in building a world that is worth living in and worth passing on to our children. |
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ARE THE WINNERS THE LOSERS? Many people have been dancing, singing and shouting in the streets, celebrating the results of the ballad boxes. How long is it going to take before the winners realise that they are in fact the losers?
Many of these same celebrators have been disgruntled with their government’s empty promises, yet blinded by the ‘pie and T-shirt’ campaigning, again they have placed their X in the ballot box, again pinning their hopes on a system that has previously disappointed them. Many people voted from the standpoint of ‘what is the government going to give me?’ Like Robin Hood and his merry men, governments can only give what they have taken from others. Eventually disappointments burn a flaming anger within; the anger turns to resentment and then to rebellion. What people really need are the opportunities and the self-determination to do for themselves, and then they will enjoy feelings of accomplishment rather than those of disappointment and regret. |
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WHAT ARE WE ACTUALLY VOTING FOR? In Africa, political puppets manipulated by their masters, orchestrate heinous deeds against their own people, yet they are lauded as liberators.
Patrice Lumumba, a post office worker, caught defrauding Post Offices in the Belgium Congo of large sums of money was specifically selected for his conniving abilities. The ‘international-powers-that-be’ primed him for the position as Prime Minister of a ‘liberated’ Congo. Lumumba’s hands were soon dripping with the blood of thousands of innocent people. He fell from favour, was murdered, and the local tribesmen were blamed. In the process the Congo was and still is being systematically destroyed. Kenneth Kaunda, a kindly gentleman, was democratically voted in as Zambia’s first Prime Minister, yet he followed the one- party path of Socialism. Kaunda brought this wealthy country’s economy to its knees by nationalising the copper mines and other enterprises. From his base in Mozambique, Mugabe vowed that the Rhodesian Bush War would continue until he was in power. After ‘democratic’ elections and some fancy political footwork Mugabe came to the fore, his Marxist flag flying triumphantly in the winds of change. Zimbabwe is in wrack and ruin, a mere skeleton of its former glory. Now South Africa, the industrial giant of Africa is fast skidding down the hill. Many of its jobs traded for foreign imports. African countries are built up and then destroyed by politics. And to what agenda? Are politicians liberators or destroyers? Are we unknowingly being used to vote in our worst nightmare? Would we be getting what politicians promise, or would the opposite materialise? Would it make any difference if all the voters failed to turn-up at the polling stations? What are the international monitors actually monitoring? One wonders whose hand actually counts the votes! |
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‘South Africa is a land where people forgive.’ Dr Credo Mutwa South Africa has been fraught with a turbulent history. Following the dictates of the day, much needless suffering was inflicted on people.
Nelson Mandela underwent an enormous transformation, as did millions of South Africa’s citizens. Bishop Desmond Tutu initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission where people were given the opportunity to bare their souls. Certain television programmes have encouraged people with painful histories and broken hearts, to forgive the misunderstandings that have marred their lives. Through these processes many hearts were healed. When transformation takes place in our hearts of people that transformation ripples through the communities, and one by one, we, the people of this great country, link together to form unbreakable bonds. Never again will those who attempt to steer us in their chosen direction, dictate to us. South Africa is the land of forgiveness and together we are moving forward to embrace the magnificent future that lies before us. |
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THE ENERGIES ARE CHANGING I have seen the future of South Africa, the Continent of Africa and the rest of the world.
All I can say is that any governments that wish to maintain their position need to undergo a major transformation. This is their last opportunity to diligently prepare themselves to serve the people and do what is right in the highest meaning of the word. True democracy does not shackle the populace or parasite off them. We are not machines, robots or cattle, neither will we ever will be. A new era is marching towards us; we need just step in line and go with the flow. There is no need for violence and rebellion. People need to remain calm and to think for themselves. Individually and collectively we are good at heart and would appreciate the freedom to express ourselves at our best. None of us really wants to behave in ways that requires us to be prodded with the sharp end of the law, much of which seems to have been written with an evil hand. Africa’s drums are beating of the dawning of a new tomorrow where we will all live in harmony and abundance. |
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BEING TRUE TO OURSELVES Governments robotically demand complete compliance. Fear is the tool they use to try to control us. They prefer us to think only what they want us to think. Systems of surveillance are set up to encourage us to conform. Fairness, justice and freedom have become empty and meaningless words.
Most people have believed the webs of illusion that ‘the system’ has spun before our eyes; they have accepted the lies whispered in our ears. Their minds have become imprisoned and they have been robbed of their reason and common sense. Eventually the pain of the cracking whip awakens humanity to the fact that there is more to life than we have been led to believe. Unless we break from our past habits and undergo a major transformation we are condemning ourselves to continuing to live with conflict and chaos. Our first allegiance is to ourselves, not to a system that fails to use its power to serve its people. We need leaders who have consciences, not political stooges that allow themselves to be led by the nose. We need a spiritual economics that is concerned with our well-being not only our material needs. We need an education that liberates rather than shackles, and new healthy practices that restore our wholeness. By being true to ourselves we live without fear and usher in an era where humanity live in peace and harmony. |
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IGNORANCE HOLDS GOVERNMENTS IN PLACE People who do not have humanity’s interests at heart have infiltrated our councils and all departments of government. They remain perched precariously on their pedestals only because the majority of the population are kept in ignorance. Around the world, governments suppress their citizens by providing them with inferior healthcare treatment, poor education, little life skills training and few employment opportunities. In South Africa the somehow-got-so-wealthy-overnight governing elite are mere puppets obeying their masters commands. They perceive themselves as being able to maintain their positions by holding a heavy hand over the citizens who are being reduced to becoming slaves to an oppressive system. Many, comfortably entrenched and enjoying the benefits that accompany BEE status admit to supporting this government simply because its system enriches them. There is consensus that thinking and informed people would not tolerate such unconscious situations. The ‘powers that be’ plan to do away with the middle class by taxing them into the ditch. Around the world, humanity is expected to support multi-levelled taxation systems that include levies, fines, fees, licenses and tolls. Their days of glory are numbered. These systems are collapsing because the awakening population are ceasing to lend their co-operation. Conscious people do not participate in schemes that plan to lead to them to their demise. Aware and conscious people refrain from participating in political rebellions. They have realised that those with conniving minds and covert agendas pose as liberators. The problem is that the same masters control these liberators. True leaders do what is right, not what they are told. |