Tributes and words of praise and honour poured into South Africa for Nelson Mandela. He was a lawyer turned freedom fighter, fighting simply for equality, to be treated like a man, for his people in his own country. The discrimination, victimisation and oppression of his people by the white colonial masters were inhuman, demeaning and painful. Many black South Africans who fought alongside Mandela were beaten up, shot and killed or jailed.
Mandela was lucky. They caught him and sentenced him to 27
years in jail, for a crime to demand to be treated as a man, for the simple
dignity as a fellow human being. The white colonialists would have none of his
nonsense. The whole white world kept quiet for a very long time while the black
Africans continued to suffer the indignity as lesser men and children of a
lesser God in their own country.
Today, all the white men are crying crocodile tears. Many of
their forefathers have been on the same side of the apartheid leaders not just
in South Africa
but in the whole of Africa and in North and South
America and other continents. Many of the natives, hundreds of
millions, were brutally murdered, tortured, oppressed, and if they were lucky,
survived as slaves for hundreds of years.
It is so sad that a man had to go through so much pain and
suffering and humiliation and the lost of freedom in the best part of his life,
and on his release, to be praised for not wanting to exact revenge on the
criminals that put him behind bars for 27 years, for colonising his homeland
and murdering millions of his people, and for treating his people as lesser
people with lesser rights.
If Mandela and his people would have fought like the Red
Indians and be massacred in the millions, he would not be around to be revered
and acknowledged as a great freedom fighter. He had to survive the ordeal, to
live through it in ignonimity, to earn this dubious honour as a great man. To the white
supremacists, a colour man is only great when he can be kicked around,
sentenced to life imprisonment, and on release at their mercy, willing not to
pursue the matter further, not to redress the wrongs and injustice of the past
committed against him and his people. He had to let the past be the past and
pretended that nothing had happened.
Would the white hypocrites say all the good things about
Mandela as a truly great man if he would to continue his fight for his people
and country and to rid his country of white men? The crimes against humanity
can only be committed by the white men. The coloured people must not attempt to
seek revenge or justice and to put the wrong doers and criminals behind bars
for crimes against them. Only then can the coloured people be respected,
honoured and praised as good men, men deserving to be called great men.

