Signs of the Times

A number of indications have become apparent in South Africa during the past few years.  Citizens should pay attention to what the actions of the various parties are telling them, rather than the words they use.  Let us look at some of them.

During a recent congress, Mr Zwelinzima Vavi made an unequivocal call for the people to be prepared to ensure the re-election of the ANC, to the extent of being prepared to die for the purpose.  This is a very clear indicator that the Tri-Partite Alliance is preparing for a loss of power at the next election, a possibility that appears to be becoming more likely with each month of Government incompetence.  This call to arms and a violent retention of power is typical of Communist theory and practice.  It is the way in which the Russian and Chinese Communist Parties gained and held onto power during the many years of their mismanagement of their respective economies, and forced the populace into submission.

The push for a further invasion of the privacy of the citizen by permitting the interception of electronic communications from abroad without obtaining a Court Order is another indicator of a drift towards Communist absolutism.  Under the tenets of Marx, the Party must have a monopoly of power, and it obtains that by means of spying on every activity of its citizens, amongst other means.

The continued push of Cosatu and the Government towards increasing control of the labour market, a push that is undoubtedly increasing the cost of labour in this time of declining markets and economic activity and thereby reducing the incentive to private enterprise to invest in labour-using activity, is in stark contradiction to their professed desire to increase employment.  This is accompanied by a seemingly methodical degradation of the education system by the Government, in its ‘inability’ to provide qualified teachers (in terms of numbers and in terms of qualifications), to provide books to the schools, to provide schools of acceptable quality and standards, to manage the performance of the teaching staff, and to ensure the attendance of teachers at the school (with numerous calls to attend discussions away from the schools during school hours). 

It is a clear characteristic of Communism that it feeds on the poor and the uneducated.

It is equally clear that the South African Communist Party has an inordinate influence on the policies and practice of the, supposedly, ANC Government, and that this influence is increasing.

Read the signs, ask yourself the questions.  You will certainly come to the conclusion that South Africa is headed towards a take-over by the Communists, a result that was planned by Stalin in 1946, when the Soviets decided to expand world Communism by influencing the trend of colonial countries to gain their independence.