THE SETTLEMENT BETWEEN THE ANC AND AFRIFORUM ENTRENCHES ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY ON AFRIKANERS TO THE DETRIMENT OF BLACKS
Norman Gary Finkelstein, an American Scholar of Jewish descent is a well known political commentator on the Israeli-Palestine conflict and the Jewish people in general. What differentiates Professor Finkelstein and probably what makes him well known all over the world is his personal crusade to speak against the "norm".
As a son of parents who were subjected to the holocaust and whose extended family from his father's side was literally exterminated in Auschwitz concentration camps one would expect that he would be the last person to consistently attach what he calls the Jews' use of their experiences in the Nazi concentration camps as an excuse to hold the world and everyone else to ransom. In his seminal book "The Holocaust Industry" he expertly, clinically and scientifically advances a compelling argument of his views on Jewish people holding everyone else to ransom using the historical holocaust,
The so called settlement agreement between the ANC, Julius Malema on one side and the rightwing outfit masquerading as a civil society organization AfriForum as well as the Afrikaner farmers organization Transvaal Landbou Unie- Suid Africa, referred to in the agreement by its English name, Transvaal Agricultural Union of SA ("TAU-SA") reminds one of a similar tactic that Afrikaners in this country are using, to the one used, as argued by Norman Finkelstein and others by Jews, in holding black South Africans and transformation to ransom. For the black population meaningful transformation and economic emancipation is also hijacked and the status quo maintained by all means, including the use of the clearly untransformed courts and other institutions of civil society,
It is instructive and interesting that almost two decades into democracy you still have such racist groupings called AfriForum and TAU-SA. More interesting is that so many years into democracy you still have institutions still naming and defining themselves in terms of old apartheid territorial boundaries without the so called pro-democracy campaigners raising an eyebrow. Which part of the country is Transvaal by the way!
That said, Kallie Kriel of AfriForum is right when he said this morning during an interview with Bob Mabena of the station Kaya FM, that the so called settlement is a victory. It is indeed a victory to the Afrikaners and their well thought out and coordinated strategy to use the fact that there are a minority to hold the country to ransom. It has worked for them for years starting from the birth of the "modern" Republic when they were victims of the English rule,