QuestionsTo former President Mbeki

To former President Mbeki

I have had the pleasure-and at times the horror- of being able to read about you  from sources most people, especially the youth do not even dare to look at even though we know we should because we know mainstream news agencies are quite frankly full of lies.

It is from these non-mainstream news agencies that I got lucky and stumbled upon a book that I am currently reading that tries to show us much of what is happening behind our governments’ curtains. From this book I have started to connect the dots that map out the world’s politics and Africa and in particular the Republic of South Africa’s place in them.

I have come to realize that some of the stories about how America operates are true. This has led me-coupled with some SABC News reports-to question the motives behind the direction RSA has taken with regards to primarily its form of democracy and the two pillars (capitalism and socialism) it seems use as its legs.

With the above problem as a background, could you please help me settle my thirst for knowledge by addressing as much as you can, the following questions.

1.   Is America an empire?

2.     Are the American free trade initiatives like AGOA , in the long term really good for African states and their people. Or are they just a way to strangle us off our resources in the long run.

3.     Why does the President of Zimbabwe hate Britain and its allies?

4.     We hear that Darfur and Chad have a lot of oil that China and America are very much in need of. If you were president of these two countries: which one would you choose to partner with and why?

5.     Some leaders assert that the true aim of the west is to suppress industrial growth in Africa so as to ensure Africa remains a supplier of  its natural resources and not the prime user. Is South Africa protected from this and if so, how is it helping to protect other African states?

6.     Land reforms are responsible for putting the ANC on the No.1 spot during the freedom struggle early days. Why is it then that the ANC we have today no longer seems to encourage Land reforms? Are they too hard a topic to tackle or is just that the ANC made a secret compromise during the regime change talks, a compromise that is today holding the ANC back?

7.     Zuma is currently fighting a wave that is forcing him into a horrid early retirement. Given that you experienced the same thing late 2008 and early 2009(and that it is essentially of the same nature), would one be right to assume that the is a third if not a fourth force operating in RSA that has made it possible to trap RSA’s presidents into a social blunder of some kind and then use media and socio-political movements to discredit the victim and then push him out of the presidency so as to fit in one that will be more agreeable with their manner of making profit?

8.     Are the IMF and the World Bank truly free of Western political aims? I f so:

9.     Why is it that Brazil, RSA, India, RUSSIA and China (BRICS) are not popularized in Western media?

10. Why don’t you become president again?