I'M CURRENTLY re-reading an amazing book by Frank Wilderson III, titled Incognegro.

Wilderson was one of the two black Americans who were members of the ANC in the 1990s.

In 1995 Nelson Mandela said Wilderson was a threat to national security.

Wilderson analyses the events that shaped South Africa, in particular the massacres and the dramatic assassination of Chris Hani. He was there in the thick of things.

I am re-reading the book through the eyes of what is happening today in our country. The parallels between the ANC rule to defend white wealth in the mines, its own share holding and the National Party's brutality to maintain white rule are shockingly identical. It's like the ANC has learned well from its National Party predecessors.

We would do well to remember that the De Klerk regime sent killing squads into townships, brought the army in and supervised the mass slaughter of blacks. De Klerk denied any involvement.

The ANC sent in the police and special forces in Marikana, killed scores, then arrested and charged the people it was killing for the murder of their colleagues. Just like under apartheid, there are also allegations of torture.

Then, under public pressure, the ANC released the accused. But last weekend it sent in the army to terrorise the whole community of Marikana. These are apartheid tactics.

A government that is losing legitimacy to govern resorts to naked force.

The ANC is rapidly losing its right to rule over the people. The ANC is defending its own interests by force since some of its members are mine bosses.

The book takes us back to the NP-engineered "black on black" violence. Only Chris Hani, Peter Mokaba and Winnie Mandela were able to march into the war zones, to comfort the wounded and windowed, to arm the defenceless, to give hope to the brutalised.

When Chris Hani died the country demanded revolution now! Mandela stepped in and called for calm and elections.

A new order under the ANC was given birth.

In power, Mandela and his party continued the policies of apartheid, leading now to Marikana.

Wilderson shows how at Phola Park, Peter Mokaba did a Julius Malema and stared down at the armed and menacing army that had encircled the area with barbed wire.

He spoke to the people, looked into the guns of the enemy, showed admirable courage.

But Mokaba, like Malema today, fought the boere to ensure further black enslavement under the ANC's rule.

Malema is not fighting for the people; he is fighting for Mangaung so that the tenders don't stop.

Wilderson says: "The role of black politicians is anger management."

Mandela did it for peace without justice. Malema is doing it to secure his position in the ANC.

The people continue to suffer! We must insist on this question. If Malema is so pro-people, why has he allowed tenders to destroy Limpopo?

Why are the people in Limpopo so poor and the politicians so rich?

The question that must be asked is this: If the NP was brought down by the masses, does the ANC think it can rule by force forever?

• Frank Wilderson III will speak at Wits University this Friday at 6pm at the South West Engineering Graduate Centre.