Cuban freebies - more than one billion rand of ordinary South African’s hard earned taxes have been donated to Cuba.
While President Zuma and the government are associating with the rogues of the international community such as Cuba, Iran, Myanmar and Mugabe of Zimbabwe, South Africa is increasingly losing its international esteem.
It is therefore not surprising that those economically advanced countries, which, for economic reasons are very important to South Africa, are increasingly becoming very critical of South Africa South Africa in 2008 wrote off R926m of debt owed by Cuba.
This included a R40m donation, R70m in credit and R100m from the African Renaissance Fund for purchases of South African goods.
In return Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz bestowed the "prestigious" Honour of Jose Marti on Zuma — the highest award Cuba can give to an individual.
Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma also signed an agreement on the waiver of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic, official and service passports. This would allow citizens with relevant travel documents to enter and remain in both countries for up to 90 days without visas.
One has to wonder what the Zuma administration wishes to achieve by buying better relations with Cuba. What could South Africa gain by seeking to improve trade with the impoverished socialist state "as it is well documented that Cuba possesses a failing economy" and lacked the capacity to become a big importer.
The reality is that President Zuma had to choose between 19 000 new RDP homes for South Africans or to throw political support behind an anti-democratic Cuban regime. He chose the latter and needs to explain why.
The debt forgiveness echoes the controversial R10m donation made by SA under former president Thabo Mbeki to Haiti, whose deposed leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide later sought refuge in SA after he was toppled in a coup.
Cuba debt cancellation 'unbelievable'
by Gunnshot
Many of the goings on in this country are so unbelievable, that often it feels as though they cannot be real.
Just recently the ANC government wrote off a R1.1bn debt to Cuba. Why? Does South Africa have billions to give away? Does the Health Department have no problems? Are there no mud schools in the country? Does every South African town have world class service delivery? Does everyone have access to electricity and water?
One would have to surmise that this country is in brilliant shape because if it is not, because how else can it give away such vast sums of money? In this instance, it appears to be because Cuba gave the President their highest Noddy Badge. They must have been struggling to not howl with laughter at this lunacy, which I’m sure they did as soon as “His Excellency” was out of earshot. Where does it end?
It has taken the Mail and Guardian to years to force the ANC government to release a report made by two judges, sent by Mbeki, to report on the 2002 Zimbabwe Election that Mbeki later described as been free and fair.
It is obvious that this was not what they reported but any level headed person with more than a G for woodwork in Matric would know this. We also know that the MDC won the 2008 election by a landslide even though Malema’s hero Mugabe had hundreds of MDC supporters murdered and thousands tortured in order to try and steal that election. He failed so he just then blatantly stole it. He has consistently agreed to meet his obligations in the GPA and then simply ignored them. Now he is preparing to murder and maim his party’s way back into power next year.
Zanu-PF are reportedly giving sanctuary to a Mr Mpiranya who was a commander in the Rwandan Presidential Guard. He is wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Rwandan genocide and there is a $5m reward out for him by the Rewards for Justice Program. He is implicated in leading the genocide in Rwanda that resulted in over one million murders.
It is reported that he has businesses in Harare and is involved with training the notorious Zanu-PF Youth Militias before letting them loose on the poor Zimbabwean population prior to next year’s election. He is not the first murderous tyrant to find sanctuary with Mugabe. Mengestu, also wanted for the genocide of millions of his own citizens, has been a guest of Mugabe’s for many years.
In light of all this it seems that South Africa has been accepting and supporting the Mugabe regime since at least 2002 knowing full well that his government has not had the mandate of its citizens, whilst ignoring what Mugabe has done in order to retain power.
We then have to listen to the ramblings of Malema in support of what is essentially an illegitimate government brought about through terror and murder against its own people.
If the people of South Africa can accept this, woe and betide their freedoms to live and choose going into the future. It cannot be real. It must be a bad dream.
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