Under pressure the African National Congress (ANC) has historically relied on one red herring above all others to negate responsibility and divert attention from dissatisfaction with its own performance: a "third force", be it the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or white supremacists, is supposedly the root cause of its many and varied problems.
Always unseen, never proven and yet constantly alluded to, its claims to this effect are the ultimate abdication of agency. The implication is that, inside and outside of the government, secretive foreign forces are at work, manipulating the South African people and causing mayhem and instability.
The end game is always "regime change" and more often than not, "agents of the West", "western forces" or "western imperialism" serve the "agenda" of the hostile ideological architect behind it all.
In this way the ANC is nothing but a victim. And if anything sells in SA, it is victimhood. We fairly revel in the stuff. You can see it on every level; if not pure, unadulterated conspiracy, then the sublimation of it.
This past weekend student leader Malaika wa Azania wrote "the greatest responsibility for the torching of universities and other forms of violence must be taken by our government…" (Burning of universities is counter-revolutionary) No one is really responsible for anything in SA. It’s always someone else. We are all victims of some third force, in some form or other, acting on us.
Of course, the irony is that, if true, it is a complete and utter indictment of the South African security forces. Routinely our highest security structures are set to work to uncover and investigate these elusive yet omnipresent influences. Routinely, they turn up empty-handed.
If ever one needs proof SA’s security agencies are fundamentally useless, one need only measure their performance against the ability to deliver on the primary problem their political masters set them: a ubiquitous set of saboteurs who are everywhere, manipulating everything, and yet who can never be found.
Top 10 bogus ANC conspiracy theories
Under pressure the African National Congress (ANC) has historically relied on one red herring above all others to negate responsibility and divert attention from dissatisfaction with its own performance: a "third force", be it the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or white supremacists, is supposedly the root cause of its many and varied problems.
Always unseen, never proven and yet constantly alluded to, its claims to this effect are the ultimate abdication of agency. The implication is that, inside and outside of the government, secretive foreign forces are at work, manipulating the South African people and causing mayhem and instability.
The end game is always "regime change" and more often than not, "agents of the West", "western forces" or "western imperialism" serve the "agenda" of the hostile ideological architect behind it all.
In this way the ANC is nothing but a victim. And if anything sells in SA, it is victimhood. We fairly revel in the stuff. You can see it on every level; if not pure, unadulterated conspiracy, then the sublimation of it.
This past weekend student leader Malaika wa Azania wrote "the greatest responsibility for the torching of universities and other forms of violence must be taken by our government…" (Burning of universities is counter-revolutionary) No one is really responsible for anything in SA. It’s always someone else. We are all victims of some third force, in some form or other, acting on us.
Of course, the irony is that, if true, it is a complete and utter indictment of the South African security forces. Routinely our highest security structures are set to work to uncover and investigate these elusive yet omnipresent influences. Routinely, they turn up empty-handed.
If ever one needs proof SA’s security agencies are fundamentally useless, one need only measure their performance against the ability to deliver on the primary problem their political masters set them: a ubiquitous set of saboteurs who are everywhere, manipulating everything, and yet who can never be found.
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