By Mike Smith
20th of August 2020
Shortly after Mandela vrekked and whilst sipping my special bottle of Moët & Chandon that I saved to celebrate the occasion, I wrote an article about the true legacy of the dead terrorist Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
The True Legacy of the Terrorist Nelson Mandela
Some of us always knew the truth about the Marxist terrorist scumbag Nelson Mandela, but most people, and I would even say, a majority of whites in South Africa thought that he was a wonderful man.
I often wondered how that whitewashed “hero” perception of Mandela took hold in the collective mindset of South Africans.
I can understand that during Apartheid the overseas politicians, celebrities and MSM constantly vilified white South Africans and glorified Mandela, but we in South Africa knew the truth, didn’t we?
Then suddenly, after Mandela was released from prison and he took over as President of South Africa, I noticed how people changed. Suddenly whites were also singing his praises and fawning over him for being such a good peaceful and reconciliatory president.
I mean, WTF??? What film did they watch?
In fact there was a film made in 2013 of Mandela called Long walk to Freedom with Idris Elba as Mandela.
Several movies about Mandela have been made. In 1997 came out “Mandela and De Klerk. In 2009 two films came out namely Invictus and Endgame, but it is about the 2013 movie I wish to speak, seeing that it is based on the bullshit “autobiography” of Nelson Mandela.
In fact, the book “Long Walk to Freedom” is not an autobiography at all. It is at best a biography and severely modified version of Mandela’s own manuscript. A manuscript that seemingly disappeared until it was rediscovered after Mandela’s death.
What the Lost Manuscript revealed about Mandela
About a month after Mandela died, the former anti-Apartheid journalist Rian Malan wrote an article in the British “Spectator” namely… What a lost prison manuscript reveals about the real Nelson Mandela
According to Malan, whilst Mandela was on Robben Island I wrote down his true beliefs, circulated it amongst comrades who added comments in the margins and then gave it to his friend Mac Maharaj who smuggled it out of prison when he was released in 1976.
Maharaj typed it all out neatly and sent it to London, England where the SA Communist Party was based. Since 1977 it then disappeared until 2013 when Professor Stephen Ellis of the University of Leiden found it in the online archive of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
What it revealed was that Nelson Mandela was living a double life. By day, he was or pretended to be a moderate democrat, fighting to free his people in the name of values all humans held sacred, but by night he donned the cloak and dagger and became a leader of a fanatical sect known for its attachment to the totalitarian Soviet ideal.
Now we as the bloggers of South Africa Sucks and this blog always knew Mandela was a Communist, seeing that at the Rivonia trial his almost 100 pages of handwritten notes on “How to be a good Communist” were submitted as evidence. Mandela lied under oath that it was just a collection of quotes and notes that he collected after hearing it in speeches by others, etc.
Shortly after Mandela’s death, both the African National Congress and the SACP issued statements confirming that at the time of his arrest in 1962, Nelson Mandela was a member of the SACP’s innermost central committee.
Meet Mandela’s whitewasher
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| Richard (Rick) Stengel |
Stengel, a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, is an expert on South Africa, an expert on propaganda and even wrote a book on counter-propaganda in 2019 titled, “Information Wars: How we Lost the Battle Against Disinformation and What to Do About It”.
Under Obama he served as “Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs” which means he was the chief propagandist responsible for counter-disinformation efforts, which included managing State’s counter-ISIS messaging center, The Center for Strategic Counter Terrorism Communications, and started the first counter Russian disinformation hub at the department. That ultimately led to an executive order creating the Global Engagement Center, the one entity in the US government tasked with countering disinformation globally.
The book that Stengel is best known for is his collaboration with Nelson Mandela on Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. In 1992, he signed a ghostwriting deal with publishers Little, Brown to work on the book, having first been cleared by the African National Congress as a suitable author. Source: "Ghost Writer Hired To Speed Way Of Mandela Story" by David Beresford, The Guardian (London) (November 13, 1992).
The book was published in 1995 and Stengel also served as co-producer of the 1996 documentary film “Mandela”, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Incidentally, Stengel is married to Mary Pfaff, a South African photographer. The couple met while Stengel was in South Africa working on Nelson Mandela's “autobiography”, and Mandela was godfather to their oldest son, Gabriel. The younger son is called Anton.
How Stengel Ghost-wrote and modified Mandela’s original manuscript
Barack Obama was a big fan of the Dead Terrorist and even visited his prison cell on Robben Island. Barack Obama said that Mandela waged a lifelong struggle for ‘your freedom, your democracy’.
However, in Mandela’s original manuscript Mandela had this to say:
Start of quote:
‘I hate all forms of imperialism, and I consider the US brand to be the most loathsome and contemptible.’
‘To a nationalist fighting oppression, dialectical materialism is like a rifle, bomb or missile. Once I understood the principle of dialectical materialism, I embraced it without hesitation.’
‘Unquestionably, my sympathies lay with Cuba [during the 1962 missile crisis]. The ability of a small state to defend its independence demonstrates in no uncertain terms the superiority of socialism over capitalism.’
End of quote.
It is clear that Mandela hated the USA and supported the Communists during the Cold War.
As Rian Malan said: “…these problematic quotes have vanished, along with several other outbreaks of what can only be described as pro-communist harangue.” What happened?
In the 1980’s, whilst Stengel was a diplomat (read spy) in South Africa he showed sympathy to the black Communist cause. It was during this time that he started working on Mandela’s 637-page original manuscript.
Stengel cut out all the undesirable text and produced “Long Walk to Freedom”, a blockbuster that sold more than 15 million copies and considerably boosted the Mandela legend and formed the basis for a movie of the same title.
Clearly those lines about the Cuban missile crisis and the evils of Yankee imperialism had to go. Beyond that, the changes are usually quite subtle — a quote dropped here, a shift in emphasis there.
The three areas in which Stengel washed Mandela as white as snow.
Rian Malan mentions three critical areas where Stengel cleared up Mandela’s act.
1. The first was his premature conversion to violence. Officially, Mandela was a moderate black nationalist, clinging to hope of peaceful change until it was extinguished by the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. But in the prison memoir we find him plotting war as early as 1953, when he sent a comrade on a secret mission to beg guns and money from Red China, in flagrant violation of the ANC’s non-aligned and non-violent stance. ‘I was bitter and felt ever more strongly that SA whites need another Isandlwana,’ he explains.
Driving around the country, Mandela constantly imagines rural landscapes as battlefields and cities as places where one day soon ‘the sweet air will smell of gunfire, elegant buildings will crash down and streets will be splashed with blood’. These vivid quotes did not make it into the bestseller.
2. The second area is his endorsement of force against opponents. In April 1958, the ANC called a three-day national strike which drew little or no support and had to be called off in humiliating circumstances. In Long Walk, Mandela notes that the strike was completely effective in towns where it was enforced by violence or pickets. ‘I have always resisted such methods,’ he says, but goes on to reason that coercion is acceptable in cases where a dissident minority is blocking a majority. ‘A minority should not be able to frustrate the will of the majority,’ he concludes.
But in the prison manuscript, he says the opposite. ‘This is not a question of principle or wishful thinking,’ he says. ‘If force will advance [the struggle], then it must be used whether or not the majority agrees with us.’ Pardon my italics, but it’s important to understand what you’re looking at here: the rewrite makes Mandela sound reasonable. The original is Stalinism. Who determines the course of struggle? It is the communist vanguard, imbued with higher wisdoms derived from the gospel of dialectical materialism. And if the majority talks back, they must be smashed. As they were in the final bloody phase of the struggle here. And everywhere else in Planet Soviet.
3. The third area of amendment involved errors of even-handedness. I thought I knew South African history, but one section of the prison manuscript surprised me. (The section beginning on page 304, if you must know). I’d heard of the Alexandra bus boycott of 1957, in which a determined display of people power forced capitalists to withdraw a fare increase. But I was totally ignorant of ANC-led boycotts against Langeberg, a giant food-canning operation, and United Tobacco; both corporations were forced to deal with African unions and grant wage increases.
Emboldened, the ANC tackled cruel potato farmers, and brought them down too. Soon it was organising consumer boycotts all over the country, and often winning. At the same time, it was behind the ceaseless protests against the pass laws for women while winning stunning victories in the Treason Trial and elsewhere. The cost in ANC lives: zero. ‘To the best of my knowledge,’ writes Mandela, ‘no individuals [meaning political detainees] were isolated, forced to give information, beaten up, tortured, crippled or killed’ prior to December 1961, when the communists started their bombing campaign (see page 302).
Clearly, this could not be allowed to stand. It spoils the plot completely! So Stengel cut it, allowing Long Walk to soar towards to its moral epiphany. Provoked beyond endurance by oppression, Mandela convinces the ANC’s timid old guard that it is time to fight back. With their blessing, he goes on to form MK, ‘military wing of the ANC’, which launches a bombing campaign against non-human targets.
But this is all rubbish, because the decision to go to war was actually taken by the Communist party, meeting in a prosperous white suburb, in a marquee where black Africans were outnumbered around two to one by white and Indian intellectuals. ANC president Albert Luthuli did not endorse the move to violence and MK was not the military wing of the ANC at all — it was the sole creation of the Communist party, and everyone involved in its high command was openly or secretly a communist.
However, you will find nothing of this in “Long Walk to Freedom”
When Rian Malan approached Rick Stengel and Mac Maharaj for their comments, they never returned his calls.
What about the movie version of “Long Walk to Freedom”?
Personally, I never saw the rubbish, but journalist Rian Malan fortunately saved me the trouble.
Says Malan,
“No one really expects movies to be true, and this one certainly isn’t. It’s a fable about a brave man who sticks up for what he believes in and, against all odds, wins in the end. Music swells, titles roll and I must hide the fact that I am moved.”
“Then I borrow an electronic copy of the script and run a search for the word ‘communist’. Two scenes come up. In one, a white policeman jostles Mandela while saying, ‘Ag, everyone knows you’re a bloody communist!’ In another, a white police general appears at the scene of a bombing and says, ‘This is the work of communist terrorists….’ Both cops are clearly intended to be taken as racist buffoons. This is a perfect distillation of the traditional left-liberal position on Mandela. For decades it was gospel. Now, it’s inadvertently funny. “
Conclusion
Well now we know how Mandela was whitewashed from a Marxist Communist terrorist to a secular saint for the whole world…and by whom.
Mandela’s alignment with militant leftism somehow serves to discredit the idea of his moral superiority.
Nelson Mandela was never a heroic figure, but was rather a pro-communist radical who espoused “Stalinism” and saw himself as part of “the communist vanguard, imbued with the higher doctrine of dialectical materialism”.
There is little doubt Mandela’s scribblings have been sanitised in the authorised print works. Quotes were edited out of “Long Walk to Freedom” by Stengel and others because they would not gel with the international MSM propaganda image of Mandela.
In reality, Nelson Mandela was by all means and definitions nothing but a Marxist, terrorist scumbag.