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_ “DEMOCRACY” IN South
' Africa is nigh and cheers are
heard from the West’s ship
of fools, Nelson Mandela is to
be crowned king, and as the
foolish poet said at the time
of the French Revolution,
bliss is it in this dawn to be
alive.

The calendars put out by the

South African Embassy carry the
slogan “It’s sunny taday in South

Africa.” But} doubt that it will stay

‘fine,

Every state in Black Africa i isa
basket case and the “new” South -
‘Africa is not likely to be much dif-,

“ferent, Whatever happens, though,
’ the whites will be held to blame.

:SApartheid’s cruel legacy: vio-
_Tence and poverty,” ‘read a'dumb’
headline in the Vancouver Sun.

What bilge! Of course there's

, poverty. But South Africa’s blacks

‘MEN'S

are the bestolfin Africa, which is
why a millicn orso bave flooded in
from clsewhere, As for violence,
what about Rwanda? Was that the
fault of apartheid?

Mandela's main bet is that ihe
mainly white South African
Defence Furee will be able to pre-
vent civil war. Bat so far it hasea’t
hag iauch luck. About [4,000 have
died in tribal conflicts in the bast
four years.

The formidable Zulus have
already, in effect, declared their
own slate of KwaZulu and the even
more formidable Afrikaners have
no intention of allowing themselves
lo be dispossessed,

(fthe attempt is made, ruin will
follow, And Ottawa will be handing
out even more foreign aid money
we don’t have. We have already
given millions so that Al Johnson, a
socialist and a former CBC boss,
can help guide South Africa into a
“new age.” Try not to laugh,

Blacks will replace whites in the
essential services, Not overnight, of
course. ft will unfortunately be nec-
essary.to use Whites for a while.
But their eventual ouster is sure,

‘To African blacks “democracy”
is only a word. President FW. de
Klerk — South Africa's Joe Clark
— cannot change that.

The ANC has no democratic tra-
dition and its closest links were
always with the Moscow of the
USSR.

A majority of the ANC's
Central Committee are members of
the. South African Communist
Party. But Westerners nursing lib-
eral fantasies have never wanted to
hear about that...

Has the ANC leopard changed
its spots? Not according to the
South African Institute for Race

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Relations, which reports that the
ANC's “nas mobilizasion pro-
gram” has been the maya cause of
black-on-black violence.

The ANC has never governed
anything. But it has been goad at
terroc, Ut invented the sport kaawa
as “uecklacing” in which hundreds
of people died with flaming tires
around their necks, Many of the
victims were schovichildren,

Neither the CBC norany other
TY outlet ever showed one of
THOSE little parties. But they were
available on film,

Consider also the case af love-
able Winnie Mandela, “mother of
the nation.”

Hubby was forced to disown
this Lady Macbeth, who liked neck-
Jacing and was found guilty of an
assault in which a 12-year-old boy
was tortured to death.

She is now president of the
ANC Women’s League and if she
visits this country the National
Action Committee of the Status of
Women will give a banquet in ber

-hanor, The NACSOWS are stupid,
of course, but no more stupid than
Brian Mulroney, who gave
Mandela six million of your dollars,

The slogan for the new South
Africa is “one man one vote.” But it
will at best be democracy by .

“remote control.

* There is to be a two-house par-
liament, one house of which will be
drawn from nine provincial legisla-
lures, Proportional representation ”
will decide the composition of the
other.

The worm in the apple is that
the parties will have “preferred
lists” in which THEY will decide
who gets in, not the individual
voter.

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will therefore elect itself and 16 of
the first SQ candidates on the
ANC's election list are members of
the South African Communist
‘arly,

One nian one vote?

Lard Louis Maunthauen, a lib
eral who oversaw the release of
ladia from British rule, became dis-

illusianed and had this to say in the
1960s about “democracy” in the
Third World:

“We have... made a mistake in
trying fo export the Western parlia-
mentary system to countries where
the vast majority. af the population
is iNiterate and backward. One man
one vote is proving nonsense...”

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