By: Clyde Ramalaine
– A coalition is on the cards as part of an endgame plan to finally bury what is considered a corrupt ANC –
In a season where we are bombarded with debates, accusations of expired COVID-19 vaccines and dosages arriving in dribs and drabs we are preoccupied with the obvious of our health and safety. Yet Stellenbosch and Brenthurst long got their shots and is hardly occupied with the physical vaccines but the machinations of delivering an mRNA vaccine which is designed to alter the DNA of the ANC once and for all. They hard at work on the not so obvious meaning the actual realigning of the political power reality in SA. It is claimed in some circles that mRNA vaccine consists of foreign to the human body material that may alter the DNA of the recipient. The ramifications of this we are told can be disastrous. Let me leave the medical and DNA scientists to gawk each other’s eyes out on this, I instead want to suggest is it not possible that the ANC is vaccinated with an mRNA based vaccine that is altering the original DNA of the ANC?
Stellenbosch has never since Mandela felt so close to having their ideal of a hybrid model of SA governance. Some will say what do you mean since Mandela. Well as romantic as we would like to make that fits the term of democratic elections, there is little debate that Mandela was daily meeting with Harry Oppenheimer, Clive Menell among others. These meetings often took place behind the DBSA. Mandela the face of a black liberation struggle was vaccinated by the first drops of an mRNA vaccination that he started being served while in prison. By the time stood on the grand parade and gave his first public address since the 60’s the drug was working already. Don’t forget who held the microphone as part of the Release Mandela Committee. Mandela spent more than enough time in the company of white monopoly interest who told him he can’t nationalise anything.
Then came the unfortunate but well-timed death of Chris Hani, perhaps the last original revolutionary who died in a toxic political conundrum of white and ANC interest. The true story may never be told but there is enough to suggest the infiltrated ANC had a hand if not an ear in his death. After Hani’s death and we were ready to go back to the armed struggle we were cooled off with an election. A government of national unity in which apartheid and liberation struggle leaders served together. In South Africa, the Stellenbosch miracle was born.
It produced what the later Mother of the Nation Winnie Mandela coined the ANC is not in power but office. Blacks in political office and dependent on colonial and apartheid economic elites to take care of them in deals that would ensure a future existence and power of white interest endorsed by a wholly compromised ANC. Mandela was in on this since he it can be argued confirmed the genesis of this when he could boldly tell us at the opening of Steyn’s house the struggle was won because of principled people like Douw Steyn. Such a lie was seldom told but it was told by the one whose mind had been more than messed with and as some of us long ago said sold out. The vaccine was working. It worked to the point that he became the icon of white interest used as a sjambok to keep all blacks in check while his people suffer.
Stellenbosch / Brenthurst post-Mandela for a while had access to Mbeki and made his wife wealthy they didn’t like his arrogance to talk about race and his two nations state analysis, and his nationalist rhetoric. They were willing to bid their time because Mbeki became obsessed with his reincarnation of a Kwame Nkrumah renaissance vision. Stellenbosch and Brenthurst were planning when Mbeki spits BEE pollution which some hold was Oppenheimer’s bequeathed legacy though it was articulated by the political face of Mbeki. Their agenda suffered for a short while though not materially since he with his policies served them very well divesting billions out of SA. He would become a Renaissance obsessed philosopher-king leader pontificating as Adekeye Adebajo would later describe him. . With this BEE pollution a few black paper tigers would emerge but whites quadrupled their wealth at every instance because every BEE deal worked better for them. Ideologically Mbeki sounded the opposite while economically he had GEAR ASGISA and relaxing the outflow of currency. Mbeki the Renaissance guru was not liked but he didn’t stop the control and power of Stellenbosch and its colonial Brenthurst interest. He relied on the World Bank and IMF handouts leading and administration which had as a priority the fiscal control and discipline where austerity measures became the end and be all, in line with IMF and Work bank directives.
We are right back there if you noticed, after almost ten years of an absence of IMF and World bank direct influence under Jacob Zuma, Ramaphosa and his obdurate Finance Minister Tito Mboweni who was not even Ramaphosa’s choice since but was told by the powers that be it shall be Mboweni. I need not jog your memory on how Ramaphosa played Russian roulette on the eve of the announcement of the minister of treasury. Mboweni got that call after Mcebisi Jonas rejected I supposed how he rejected R600m in offer from a guy he is not sure who it was.
Then came the Zuma era, he came to power against the wishes of the so-called aristocratic and intellectuals in the ANC who never thought it possible that a peasant would become president. Zuma an underdog both in and outside the ANC never had close relations with Stellenbosch and the Brenthurst crowds. As he so often noted, when they came back from exile ANC leaders were given homes by the Stellenbosch and Brenthurst groups. Zuma while not overtly hanging out with the Stellenbosch and Brenthurst groups continued in his predecessor’s policy choices for economic solutions meaning he in the first term of the presidency did very little to break with the Old-West control of SA as a colony. Zuma thus indirectly while not a friend of the Brenthurst / Stellenbosch cohorts aided the agenda of Stellenbosch though there was never any direct relationship as his predecessors Mandela and Mbeki had. Zuma’s radicalising of the ANC in his second term was him reading the signs of the time. That radical ANC was never going to work for the Stellenbosch / Brenthurst crowds. So, Zuma had to go and carry the can as the embodiment of a corrupt ANC, when Ramaphosa who must answer on accusations levelled against him by Brian Molefe, Matshele Koko and others, become the moral beacon as corruption buster.
Fast-forward to the year 2017, Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa left the ANC angry as its secretary-general around 1991, because he could not become vice-president under Mandela would now contest. The truth is the idea to have him as deputy president was that of the very Stellenbosch and Brenthurst crowds who swindled the mind of Mandela and persuaded him this was the best choice for SA. The true history of Ramaphosa is not ANC, Ramaphosa is historically linked with an association of the Urban Foundation. The idea of the Urban Foundation is the original mind of Harry Oppenheimer although on the day of its launch the privilege to articulate its strategic ethos on the day was extended to Anton Rupert who was BJ Vorster’s opponent for presidency. Rupert senior settled to give political power to Transvaal in a deal that saw him become the economic ruler with a slew of government contracts. The Urban Foundation’s focus from the start has a clear agenda. They would plant some trees and add some street furniture to the apartheid townships just enough to ensure the darkies don’t become too angry to revolt want to come to white suburban SA. In the words of Irene Menell “, we adopted him [Cyril] as a charity gesture into the Urban foundation. His entire rise to crafted popularity was stage-played and came sponsored by Oppenheimer who needed a milder workers union. NUM the hybrid vaccinated workers entity was born despite betrayals that left Piroshaw Camay of CUSA to his grave distraught with his protégé Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa would use his claim to fame the much made and publicised 1986 Strike to negotiate with a struggling – bush- camp based ANC political power in future anticipation. This would catapult him into talks with the ANC in Lusaka.
A few years later the influence of the mRNA Stellenbosch/Brenthurst cocktail vaccine in the ANC would be seen when Ramaphosa against the better thinking, ethos culture against original ANC History emerged as its Secretary-General and in control of the ANC. It’s during this time that he unilaterally replaced Thabo Mbeki as ANC chief negotiator and replaced Zuma as intelligence head with Terror Lekota. Also, the period in which as we are told the files on the Bird Island shenanigans were brought to the ANC at Shell House. Your guess is as good as mine nothing happened to those files in what I argued elsewhere the coloured boys of bird island became collateral damage not to scupper the negotiations. I wrote to both Ramaphosa and Lekota to seek clarity on what they knew besides an acknowledgement of my communique from Michael Louw in the presidency until now neither Ramaphosa or Lekota responded. The ANC under SG leadership of Ramaphosa saw it not appropriate to even bring the information of such a case to the TRC where it could have been ventilated.
The vaccine was working until he failed to secure the deputy president role and in childish anger refused to attend Mandela’s inauguration. He would later emerge with the new assignment as assigned to deliver to co-lead the drafting of the constitution before he exited in Anton Rupert style banished to wealth not earned but in handed out by those who made him since 1978.
So, what is the big plan Stellenbosch is working on for the future SA governance? You must respect Stellenbosch they always work 25 years ahead. So, they somehow envisaged the return of their guy. This wish was made easier by those in the ANC who suggested he be brought back in. Stellenbosch smiled their plan was going to work. They spent more than a billion to buy an ANC election you guess right by a very narrow margin of 179 votes after courts and Judges like JP Mlambo who stands accused by Advocate Brink as an ‘unconvicted criminal’ had his hand in determining the Nasrec conference outcomes by disqualifying branches that would do not support CR17 candidacy.
Well by March 2020 Ramaphosa was failing on every front, he never had any control over the ANC let alone the economy. Despite a slew of talk-shops on empty investment commissions publicity stunts and lights and camera flashing he failed to produce a coherent strategy on fixing a SA economy. Then came to proverbial godsend COVID -19 pandemic or as some calling it a pandemic and Cyril was now going to run the country by Marshall law at the hand of a Disaster Management Act. The Stellenbosch / Brenthurst agenda was always to work for the attaining of a mild, incoherent malleable ANC. The methodology they would apply is to dole capital to ANC political elites their wife’s, children and friends. A weak and mild bought ANC is suiting the agenda of Stellenbosch. The prophecies that the ANC will hardly rule for 30 years when it is reduced to the ash heap of history as having failed not only its original cause but the millions who trusted it in elections when its soul was long infected by the Brenthurst and Stellenbosch cohorts.
Almost a year later, Ramaphosa is under instructions to deliver the ANC to a table of hybrid governance. Cyril must endeavour to bring the already capital induced ANC through lackeys in the NEC to the table. Given the fact that Ace Magashule and others won’t let that happen. Meaning Ramaphosa must half the ANC since Stellenbosch and Brenthurst will bring the DA thus birthing a hybrid party is. CR will have a second term but Thuli Madonsela the one who was instrumental to bring the ANC to its knees through the political campaign of state capture would be first rewarded with a professor role at the bastion of apartheid ingenuity, later knighted in France she would be his deputy in the hybrid ANC/DA model. This deal was discussed before COVID-19 which has rendered the ANC in functional programme dysfunctional. Use COVID -19 to destabilize the ANC. I can hear you say, shut up your conspiracy theorist, while others have open mouths trying to figure out how I know this.
COVID thus became a blessing to realign, contain and recalibrate the balance of forces in the ANC. The COVID- Emperor would maximise the moment to ensure the ANC programmes and events are derailed and the NGC again postponed with no real hope of it happening any time before July 2021. Another dimension is buying NEC votes to remove Ace if you fail to break the party in two. That is halving the party and let that half join the DA because ideologically there is no difference between the ANC under Ramaphosa and the DA under Zille and Steenhuizen. That’s why no radical policy of the ANC could be delivered because the president of the ANC who is also president of South Africa does not believe in any of the radically adopted policies that made him president. His only interest is a second term and it never mattered how that was going to come, historical under clear direction to speak from two mouths such we heard him say I rather will be called a weak president but I won’t split the ANC when his very work is to that end because the DA is ready to do the deal.
The second term guaranteed and history will record that Ramaphosa’s true legacy your legacy in ANC organisational sense is he gave SA a hybrid-party of governance of inverse liberal definition. So, while you talk COVID-19 and look for masks is trapped in zoom meetings, crying because you cannot lay your hands on any COVID aid money which as my one friend said, the president report on but no official can give you a phone number or email address while white business scored big from COVID aid as increasingly Ramaphosa’s favourite Minister of Small business reluctantly had to admit Stellenbosch is at work.
I have said Zuma’s confirmed refusal to appear at Zondo Commission is no constitutional crisis, it is only a political crisis for Ramaphosa and his exit of that crisis is the Stellenbosch/ Brenthurst vaccine plan for the ANC. In that sense Zuma’s insistence to have Zondo recuse himself for which he has what legally is understood as a good cause since he has a case against the chair is protesting a fulcrum moment in the ANC.
If you see Ramaphosa in recent weeks this buoyant, hawking all television channels do not think it accidental the deal is on, a second term even with or without the ANC majority is more than on the cards. You do not have to believe me, remember what the Titanic voyagers were told while the ship was sinking. Then again what do I know I am a conspiracy theorist that one day may be called a prophet.
Clyde N.S. Ramalaine
A lifelong social justice activist
