Gayton McKenzie Threw Out The Baby with Bath Water!

By Abuti Elmond

I went through Gayton McKenzie's Open Letter to Julius Malema and I feel like responding to him than congratulating him for being so brave to mis-educate our people. Although I don't know if the letter will reach him, I'll just direct it to him with the hope that he'll be informed by his buddies when they purchase clothes worth more than an annual salary of a farmworker.

I have no interest on what he says about Malema, I think you have every right to say anything about him as buddies who shop together but you have decided to attack a call for expropriation of mines and land as if that is Malema's call. This call was there long before you could think of being a Gangster. It has been renewed by the ANCYL and now championed by those fighting for socialism.

According to Gayton, those who loot in the private sector are not criminals or thieves but only state looters deserve to be called criminals. This one is just laughable. The private sector is dominated and led by people who justify their crimes by claiming that they did it on their own. How did Cecil Rhodes do it on his own if it was not through enslaving our parents and giving them absolutely nothing in return? How did JP Morgan and Rockefeller control American Banking and Oil if not through deceit, fraud, violence, economic depressions, bankruptcies and even financing world wars just to concentrate the wealth of the world in their own hands? The Rothschild controlled Britain and colonized India and destroyed the rich and developed continent just to concentrate wealth in their family. Ask any Indian who knows his/her history and you'll learn that Bengal was the world's richest province or region but the Rothschild family, through their company called East India Company, occupied the province and destroyed lives of ordinary people and further turned into a graveyard.

If you don't have an Indian friend at least you should know that Cecil Rhodes established the British South African Company (1889) with Lord Rothschild's help in 1889. This was the seed of the great De Beers company that still dominates the world diamond market today. Rhodes and Rothschild wanted the mineral rights and ultimately the territory itself that lay in Chief Lobengula's Matabele land. They formed the Chartered Company's Volunteers with 700 men and marched off to fight Lobengula's 3000 impi warriors. However, Rhodes had armed his men with the new Maxim gun. The 0.45-inch weapon could fire 500 rounds per minute: fifty times faster than the best rifle then available.

Rhodes used the Maxim Gun for the first time at Shangari River in the battle, 1,500 natives died but Rhodes lost only four men. He renamed Matabele Land 'Rhodesia' in honor of himself, having already become Prime Minister of the Cape in 1890. (http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes)

You don't know of anything called Money Trust? The American Oligarchy controlling the wealth of the world and having a political control over all? You write like a concerned citizen but urge the youth to study and work hard to develop the economy yet you don't tell them whose economy will they be developing. Those who own and control the private sector also control the public sector, through media, education and finance. Over 79% of South African land is own by the unknown and this can only mean we are tourists or foreigners in the unknown land.

While you are correct in pointing out that Malema's deeds are anti-revolutionary and Sankara should be regretting saying them given that any demagogue can just utter them but you've just flushed out a baby with bath water. People want land by hook or by crook. Where are the South African youth supposed to develop the economy if the land is foreign owned? If land could be saved in the bank like money, I'm sure we could be queuing for land loan but even when it's just around and with us we are unable to utilize it. Did you forget how women had to cry in Lenasia when the shields of British Imperialism had to demolish their homes leaving them in cold?

Young people are not unemployed because they can't find opportunities or are not searching enough, as you want to suggest, but because those who own Banks, Mines, Farms, Land and Government Policy are comfortable with the status quo, it serves them very well. Progressive Alliance is set for a disaster and failure if you believe that young people are taking drugs and abusing alcohol just because they love such and not compelled by the material conditions they live in. I hate drugs and alcohol abuse with passion and will always use every opportunity to educate the youth and adults about the effects of such but I also educate them to organize themselves and prepare for a revolution – to take the farms and mines owned by the greedy capitalists who have destroyed the hopes and ambitions of African youth.

Gayton, you are an embarrassment and spear of Capitalism, you are so hell bent to impress right wing elements that you are not for a revolution. You are a small puppy that barks just to frighten yet given a chance cannot bite anyone. When you ridicule and settle scores with Malema make sure you leave the cause we are fighting for out of your letters.