Mandela Sold Us Out.

Note that this is my opinion, I don’t need people to judge me because of my thoughts because I’m not judging yours.

Now as known the Mandela issue is a very sensitive one, I fail to understand why, it’s not like he fought alone in the struggle, it’s not like he was the only man within the ANC who made decisions, but when it came to laying in bed with the Nats (National Party), he did it alone. "I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel [Peace Prize in 1993] with his jailer [FW] de Klerk. Hand in hand they went.”

He negotiated on behalf of Africans and made a bad deal…He negotiated politically freedom, leaving out economic freedom. We needed politically freedom yes, but we needed economically freedom more.  Mandela may have let us down not just for the fun of it but because at the time it felt “the right thing to do for his people and the country at large”. But he could have changed all that after he came to power.

Political And Economic Freedom are two sides of the same coin.  The importance of political freedom is fundamentally linked to the conviction that an individual should be at liberty to pursue his or her own ends in a manner that he or she thinks fit. This is the essence of economic freedom. Conversely it is economic freedom which makes independent political action possible.

Mandela had a dream, a dream of political victory. But political freedom means not if the economy still belongs to the oppressors.

I’d like to quote: In an interview published by the London Evening Standard, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela had no doubts as to where her ex-husband stood. “Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically, we are still on the outside. The economy is very much ‘white’. It has a few token blacks, but so many who gave their life in the struggle have died unrewarded.” Assuming what Winnie said was true, if not close to the truth, I agree with her that Mandela indeed “had let us [black people] down”.

Firstly I would like to quote the “Freedom Charter”

“The national wealth of our country, the heritage of South Africans, shall be restored to the people; The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole;  All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the wellbeing of the people; All people shall have equal rights to trade where they choose, to manufacture and to enter all trades, crafts and professions.”

The Freedom Charter unambiguously states that “the mineral wealth beneath the soil, the Banks and the monopoly industry shall be transferred to the ownership of the people (socialist-speak for “the State”) as a whole.” Julius Malema likes to remind everyone that when Mandela left prison, nationalisation was almost a given for him. But by the time he ascended to power, he was strangely mute on the subject. Why did he keep quite all of a sudden, he was all for the Charter, Mandela spoke highly of the charter.

But where is the economic freedom?

When Mandela was released from prison, he put into place steps that would eventually lead to the present state of events, where not much has changed for the average black South African, who remains economically sidelined. The current system only benefits the connected few, the Sexwales, the Ramaphosas and the Motsepes of this country. 

I like how T Osiame Molefe puts it more forcefully, “Instead, and admittedly reasonably, but I contend cowardly, an uneasy compromise was reached. Black South Africa would be allowed to phase in reclaiming what they’d waited for, in exchange, white South Africa, the beneficiaries of apartheid, would keep their ill-gotten gains.”

Whites have all the reasons to LOVE Mandela, he gave them power, the economic power and now They put that huge statue of him right in the middle of the most affluent "white" area of Johannesburg. Not here where we spilled our blood and where it all started. Mandela is now a corporate foundation. Wait, he has another statue in London mind you, LONDON.

Many whites are out there celebrating, but for most South Africans not much has changed. POLITICAL VICTORY WAS NOT ENOUGH.

The Hall / Weekend Pass.

Let me explain first explain The Pass,  The Pass can come in half-day, full-day or weekend. It is something to be prized, cherished and used judiciously for it is not an easy thing to obtain. It is
Permission given by your lover to fool around with another person outside your relationship.

So ladies, how do you feel about the Pass, will you ever give your man the Pass?

(Tweet me @BossoKeMang )

NB: The Pass does not extend to women, so no ladies you do NOT get the pass

BEER Time - Boys' Night Out.

The idea of him wanting  to spend a night out with the boys instead of you doesn’t settle well?  It may benefit your relationship.

Ladies, you must know that this is one THE most important times in a relationship

Yes we love spending time with you BUT when it’s time for us to go out with the boys to party and drink beer, you’ll have to grin and bear the pain…

We just wanna drink and be happy. Girls often think that boys nights out usually end up with a bunch of girls and sex afterwards… Well if the boys nights out really bothers her your relationship may have problems beyond the territory of boys’ nights out—she may be suffering from serious trust issues.

So ladies, if you in that kind of relationship, serious and all, it is very important that you allow your man to regularly go out for boys nights out … A girlfriend should encourage his boyfriend to spend time alone with male friends.

You may wonder why is Beer time important, well it lets him be himself, without holding back.                       It  will make him appreciate your relationship.

But remember as well fellas, ask yourself, are you giving her the same kind of time you give the boys? Because some guys, especially young guys or guys in new relationships want to make sure their friends know that they aren’t “whipped” and that they’re still “one of the guys”. In the end, though, they over-compensate, forgetting to give their significant other any time.

Nothing is more annoying to a guy than feeling smothered, suffocated or on lock down.

BEER time is very important, well I can’t really say much about boys who drink Savanas and Hunters Dry, but it can only be fair for you to take them out on a girls night out as well even baby showers.

It is a known fact that if you wind up spending every night of the week together or days a week with him, you may become an old habit.

What Has Become Of Our Youth?

We are growing up in a society that has NO respect for self and others.

We are growing in a society that has no respect for culture, tradition and most importantly, no respect for elders...  I am not trying to make a generalization here, I am well aware that there are many people who respect themselves, their culture and tradition and the elderly, but I am speaking of the ones that don’t. Why don’t they? And what happened in their life that they don’t see why this is wrong? Western influence? I'd like to believe so....

30 years from today I see a country that is filled with black folks  that have lil respect or no respect, i see our culture disappearing into thin air because we have chosen to live like white people, do as they do, forgetting that they have maintained respect for their beliefs, customs etc, but hey we still wanna be live them. 

As a Zulu man, i have grown into a culture that preaches respect as one of the main survival strategies in life, other tribes as well have grown the same, but now we have chosen to disregard the way we were brought up and live like the Jones because we now believe that our culture is outdated. White people tell  us that your culture is outdated  and we agree, Instead of defending your culture you oppose it.

I feel sad for our humanity every day and maybe I am making too much into this but am I? I feel sad every time i see a 18 year old not being able to read or write his own language. I feel sad every time I see a young man disrespecting an elderly man on the streets,  When did respect for the elderly stop? What has happened in this young man’s life that he wouldn’t allow an elderly, frail, woman to get in front of him in line. Why did it anger him so much? This literally brings tears to my eyes.  

 The western civilization has taught us that slaughtering a cow for a certain ceremony is barbaric. BARBARIC...and because they have said so we see fit that we must abolish our way of life and blend in with their way of "civilization"... 

Our black youth serves the white man well--he represents, speaks for and defends the white man. The black youth has been  designed to influence white opinion on the black man. The white man has local tools, national tools of our young black youth,  because he “speaks well”, he doesn’t sound like others, the fool smiles and agrees with white man, the white man tells him that his culture is barbaric,  the fool smiles and agrees with the white man.

400 years later we see the real truth of how the white man brainwashed the black man, kept him ignorant of his true history, robbed him of his self-confidence. “The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him.” In our own country we have been relegated to second-class citizenship, because our youth has lost all respect.

Why not change all our surnames to "X"? Because we have little or no identity left.

A great man, Malcom X once said: " We must learn to become our own producers, manufacturers and traders; we must have industry of our own, to employ our own. The white man resists this because he wants to keep the black man under his thumb and jurisdiction in white society. He wants to keep the black man always dependent and begging--for jobs, food, clothes, shelter, education. The white man doesn't want to lose somebody to be supreme over. He wants to keep the black man where he can be watched and retarded. Mr. Muhammad teaches that as soon as we separate from the white man, we will learn that we can do without the white man just as he can do without us. The white man knows that once black men get off to themselves and learn they can do for themselves, the black man's full potential will explode and he will surpass the white man. 

We are a generation that buys the most expensive clothes and cars and eat the cheapest food. 

Never forget where you come from....