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South Africa has been told about a flawlessly disciplined discipleship of Cadres who fought against apartheid while the truth is emerging to be very different to that beautifully painted picture.
The recent exposure of Pallo Jordan(ANC’s intellectual) and Kenny Maphatsoe's(MKMVA Chairman) roles in the struggle against apartheid while as "heroes" is clear proof that the ANC's gloriously one-sided history is distorted, or invented. (...let's not forget Ayanda Dlodlo’s once shocking revelation about the treatment of women in those MK camps, where women were compelled to use prevention pills against their own will).
If the ANC's history was so glorious in the main, why did they agree to a clause of common cause with the NATS (…In the "Record of Understanding") which said "DON'T TELL ABOUT OUR SECRETS, WE WON'T TELL ABOUT YOURS"(aka indemnity from prosecution for politically motivated crimes).
My "beef" in this case is not with the ANC but with African historians, and people with first-hand experience who are distorting records of history in their favor. Why should we read about MKhonto We Sizwe's shortcomings in Piet Nortje's book, 32 Battalion or wait for Dr Van Zyl Slabbert to tell us his observation about The Other Side of History.
In America's Mississippi State, when the racist Commission of Sovereignty(aka pseudo-TRC) closed down effectively opening for the end of their apartheid system, the State officials and principals entered into an agreement/compromise to say that all records that criminally implicated about 87000 people(mostly white) where going to be archived for a period of 50years(...obviously to allow them to fade away peacefully into hell).
My fear is that there are so called leaders today in South Africa who previously sold-out our people for a extra loaf of bread.
If scholars of history do not reveals this side of history to the public, we will soon find ourselves with schools, hospitals, streets and even squatter camps being undeservedly named after the likes of Kebby Maphatsoe or even worse named alter-egos like "Dr" Pallo Jodaan Primary School in the Eastern Cape.
The truth about the truth is, it’s like a bubble submerged under water, it always comes up and pops in the surface.
Nnete ea tswa...gannyane-gannyane(Die waarheid kom na die lig...Bietjie-bietjie).
