Malusi Gigaba writes: I don’t believe the things I read on Media.

Malusi Gigaba writes:

I don’t believe the things I read on media. Much of it is plain propaganda.

A little reminder that Lenin once remarked that behind all statements, declarations and proclamations, lie the interests of this or that class.

When Cde Mzwandile Masina announced plans to explore Cuban assistance in the fight against Corona virus, he was scorned and ridiculed. Meanwhile, what wrong had he done? Simply, medicine, like politics, the economy and everything else in our world, are very much geopolitical issues that address themselves to who has the power between the North and South to determine the political, economic and social destiny of humankind. US pharmaceutical companies and the Centre for Disease Control want to retain the power to develop the medicines that cure human diseases for their own profits. The outbreak of the Corona pandemic has challenged and undermined US global hegemony.

Masina had touched a raw nerve. He was directly challenging American commercial interests and undermining their efforts to benefit from our plight. He would not be allowed to do that. Neither would Cuba or China. And yet, Cuban doctors are here, they do not have a cure, but can and will help us manage the pandemic.

Today, many of us are obsessed by anti-China sentiments that are spreading like wildfire. I hold no briefs for China, but I know US-sponsored Sinophobia when I see one. It cannot be that now that the US embarks on trade wars against China and are losing the economic dominance they once held, suddenly there is a wild spread of anti-China sentiments in the media. Of course, China’s conduct in Africa has also been questionable, but it is those African countries have surrendered their national interests to China’s. Indeed, we need a new dialogue and compact with China, one that does not create the impression that China is acting imperially towards Africa, but Africa must also change the rules of the game and stop engaging with other countries, no matter how wealthy or powerful, with a cap in hand.

Remember that the anti-nuclear lobby in South Africa has suddenly gone silent. The issue even back then was not that they were opposed to nuclear energy, since we already have a nuclear power power in Koeberg in Western Cape, but they were simply against South Africa signing a deal with Russia because that would have simply been against US commercial interests.

By 2017 the Americans were engaged in an extensive regime-change agenda in South Africa, and various aid organizations such as the George Soros Foundation, the US-Aid and others were actively sponsoring regime-change programmes. The point was that any nuclear technology must be obtained from the US, especially a company called Westinghouse. Suddenly, there is no opposition to nuclear generation anymore.

Similarly, we had an episode last year when there were apparently anti-Nigerian mobilization in South Africa at the same time as anti-South African sentiments were brewed in Nigeria. Many jumped headlong into this mobilization, without asking the question, why was conflict being orchestrated between two of Africa’s leading economies and who stood to benefit from it. The obvious result of this was not merely the physical clashes on the streets between the nationals of the two countries, or the breakdown of relations between the governments and nationals of both countries, but it was a serious fallout among African countries between two leading economies and influential polities on the continent. The likely condemnation and consequent isolation of South Africa both SADC and the continent would thus benefit some other power outside the continent as our likely isolation would push us in their direction, onto their arms.

This, on the eve of the WEF Africa which was going to be held in CT and the impending launch of the Continental Free Trade Area, which would have created a trading and economic market more than the size of the United States, with both countries at its core. Imperialism has never wanted to see the day subject peoples would unite, the same way racism could and will never accept the unity among black people. The native problem at local level translates itself to international level. Native unity constitutes a horror or horrors for global and domestic white supremacists.

Here is a simple message of all this, nothing you see, read or hear is what it is. Dig deeper, seek the truth beneath the surface, seek out the interests of this or that class beyond what you read, hear or see.