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Stocks WND Exclusive 'Marxists' destroy 'New South Africa' Embattled farmers, soldiers, activists, PW Botha reveal nation's ebbing hope Posted: July 17, 2004 1:00 am Eastern Editor's note: For most of the past 18 months, long-time WND contributor Anthony C LoBaido has traveled throughout southern Africa conducting research, doing interviews and taking photographs. In this in-depth story, eye-opening interviews with various South African figures from threatened farmers to political analysts to former Prime Minister PW Botha rock the conventional view of the nation and where it is headed. com NELSPRUIT, South Africa - Heidi Le Roux sat weeping in her spacious farmhouse on the South African veld as the leaves turned gold and saffron in the glorious autumn twilight. Blonde and pretty, boasting of three young, healthy children and a devoted, hard-working husband who runs a huge multi-million dollar sugar and macadamia farm, it would seem that Heidi's life is a page out of apartheid's "glorious" past. It is a not-too-distant past when farmers were the "lords of the manor" and the future seemed bountiful and perhaps even endless. In the "New South Africa," however, nothing is as is seems. The old axiom, "The more things change the more they stay the same," comes to mind in this mad dance where neither the past nor the present makes sense. Against this tumultuous backdrop, plots and intrigues inspiring notions of Shakespeare have become the faire du jour. I don't want my children to get exposed to and debased by the paganism in Western culture," Mrs Le Roux said during an extensive WorldNetDaily interview. But we have to look honestly at the future - if there is one." Heidi's husband, Stephan, is a South African Defense Force veteran who fought in Angola during the Border War of the 1980s against the former Soviet Union and Cuba. Like many South Africans, he is struggling to reinterpret the past, navigate through a violent present and ascertain just where the African National Congress, or ANC, will take South Africa in the future. Stephan Le Roux seems to have come full circle during his family's epic struggle to survive and even thrive on the land. "After the Boer War (1899-1902), there was another rebellion against the British. My grandfather had his farm taken away by those who sided with the British against our own people," he said while walking through robust fields of sugarcane. But he trusted in God and began to slowly get back his land again. He did this by trading advice on farming and animal husbandry with the very people who'd stolen his farm in exchange for little bits and pieces of it. In time he got back all of this land and much, much more." Farm killings "Today however, I am caught in a conundrum," said Stephen Le Roux. "This farm is worth 22 million rand, but no one will buy it.
black farmers and farm workers will only get more jealous of me the more successful I become. Sure, I could sell the farm to the government, but others have done that and only gotten a promissory note from the bank and never received any money from the ANC government. When you look at how the farms have been taken away from the whites in Zimbabwe and Namibia, its makes you wonder about your destiny." Since 1994, over 1,600 farmers have been tortured and killed by criminal elements lurking in South Africa's rural areas. This figure is augmented by another 9,000-plus recorded attacks on a total farming population of 40,000 - making the white South African farmer the highest at-risk murder group on earth. Black farm workers also have been killed in the attacks. Moreover, the South African media have reported stories of white farmers mistreating black farm workers, some of whom work for very low wages while fleeing Robert Mugabe's nightmare across the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe. Such incidents, while rare, receive major media coverage and inflame an already tense situation. It is a lament shared by many South Africans - black, white, colored and Indian alike.
Writer LoBaido photographs the beauty of southern Africa when not researching the area's political machinations. Countries like Belarus, North Korea, Cuba and Laos are all Stalinist regimes. In South Africa, cultural Marxism is rife, yet Stalinism has reared its ugly head on several levels. Rocky Williams, a prominent African National Congress spokesman, said that the Boer Commandos - which had protected the rural areas for decades as rear guard troops, in case the Soviets or Cubans broke through - would be replaced by mostly ex-MK cadres (part of the ANC's now-defunct military wing, trained by Mainland China, Libya and the Soviets) modeled on "the militia of the old Soviet Union" during World War II. Saki and Louise Van der Merwe, who live on a farm next to the Le Rouxs, called this a case of "the fox guarding the chicken coup." Louise's first husband was killed in a car crash, and his death affected her deeply. However, Saki doesn't keep a gun in the farmhouse in case of an attack. Their friend Mandy Branch, decidedly less optimistic about reliance on angelic intervention, has been studying martial arts and knife fighting in preparation for a would-be attack on her home. "I say we must prepare for the worst and hope for the best," she said stoically and defiantly. While clinging to notions of Stalinism might seem strange to some, the ANC and its elite still refer to one another as comrade and use Marxist-Leninist jargon in their speeches and meetings. The most notable exception is the way the ANC has embraced neo-liberal economic theory, much to the chagrin of its allies in the South African Communist Party and in the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
Democratic Alliance - the African National Congress' main opposition in Parliament - the secret, inner workings of the ANC reveal that its elite are steeped in Stalinist tendencies at the very top. "Thabo Mbeki will be running South Africa long after he moves on to Ethiopia to steer the new African Union," Rayford said. Along with this writer, Rayford has been asked to prepare a brief on the use of mercenaries in Africa for a prominent Democratic Alliance member of Parliament. Much of what Rayford and her staff uncover cannot be openly stated in Parliament, since "The DA is afraid of the totalitarian tendencies of the ANC regime. "Mbeki wouldn't set up the new African Union's parliament in Cape Town. Mbeki has set up committees in South Africa on black empowerment and the Internet. The ANC made technology agreements with former US Vice President Al Gore. Not much goes on in South Africa that he does not personally sign off on." When the ANC announced that all future mining ventures would have to be at least 50 percent black-owned, the mining stocks lost $6 billion in value in a single day. Understandably, Mbeki has chosen to keep such matters quiet. Rayford also said Mbeki relies on controlling the mostly foreign-owned media of South Africa, the educational system and the nation's economic policy to keep a huge, disenfranchised mass of people ready for a war against the whites if and when that sad day should come.
Then he ups his anti-white rhetoric while pleading with the same West he despises for his very subsistence. Writing in a column titled, "We come to the G-8 not as mendicants," in the June 10, 2004, issue of This Day (just before he attended the June 2004 G-8 summit), Mbeki told the world: Henry Kissinger writes in his book "Does America Need a Foreign Policy?" Africa is destined to become "the festering disaster of our age." In his view, only the "moral commitment of the American people and international community can save us from that fate.
Rayford's analysis of Mbeki has been seconded by Harry Wu - one of the world's most respected living human-rights dissidents - who told WorldNetDaily, "Mbeki is definitely a communist. South African Communist Party honcho Jeremy Cronin has publicly lamented "the ZANU-ification" of the ANC leadership - a reference to the dictator Mugabe's ruling party in Zimbabwe known as the ZANU-PF. Prominent British journalist Christopher Hitchens said Nelson Mandela was being "used as a fig leaf for an increasin...
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