Video Summary:
Nelson Mandela is portrayed in the mainstream media as a
peace-loving anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist. But what is the truth about Nelson Mandela?
Correction: For decades, Mandela supported nationalization,
but abandoned his plans after being informed of the negative effects they would
likely engender.
60% of South Africans felt the country was better run under
apartheid, with both blacks and whites rating the current government less
trustworthy, more corrupt, less able to enforce the law and less able to
deliver government services than its white predecessor.
Transparency International released its 2013 Global
Corruption Barometer report. It found South Africa to be among the most corrupt
countries in the world. According to its findings, an astounding 83% of South
Africans believe that the police force is corrupt. And 36% of respondents
admitted to paying at least one bribe to the police.
A 2010 Medical Research Foundation survey found that more
than 37% of men admitted to raping at least one woman. 7% said they had
participated in a gang rape.
In response to growing violence, South Africa's minister of
safety and security, Steve Tshwete, says: "We can't police this; there's
nothing more we can do. South Africa's currency, the rand, has fallen about 70%
since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994. Emigration
from South Africa (mainly of skilled people) is now at its highest level
ever."
The tragic fact of business is that ordinary Africans were better
off under colonialism. Colonial masters never committed anything near the
murder and genocide seen under black rule in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Nigeria,
Mozambique, and other countries, where millions of blacks have been slaughtered
in unspeakable ways, which include: hacking to death, boiling in oil, setting
on fire and dismemberment.
The National Bureau of Economic Research found that the
average income of all races in South Africa dropped 40% between 1995 and 2000.
The UN 2006 Human Development Report found that over the last 3 decades Africa
has had a "virtual reversal" of human development; South Africa
dropped 38 places on the Human Development Index since 1994. (UN Development
Programme, 2007). The country of the world's first heart transplant (Christian
Barnard, Dec., 1967), the Union of South Africa, is now the rape and murder
capital of the world. [15]
At the start of the year 1900, the number of African South
Africans was found to be 3,5-million according to the British colonial
government census. By 1954, our African population had soared to 8,5-million —
and by 1990, there were a full 35-million of us.
In the decades prior to the official policy of apartheid,
(which was started in 1948), the average life expectancy of African South
Africans was only 38 years.
