SWAPO Party’s 75% election victory - opposition claims “vote rigging”.
By Udo W. Froese, Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia

Let’s check the real facts of SWAPO Party’s 75% election victory and the losers’ ‘sour grapes response’.

Has the SADC Election Monitoring Commission declared Namibia’s recent elections ‘free, fair and peaceful’?

If so, than this would certainly proof the trumped up challenges of “vote rigging” a deliberate and intentional hoax to destabilise a peaceful nation and the SADC region.

Do those challengers of the election outcome and their allegations of “vote rigging” have any real concrete evidence to the effect that “vote rigging” had indeed and in fact taken place? How, where exactly with clear, factual evidence only please.

African “vote rigging”:
It is known fact in sub-Saharan Africa amongst most, if not all heads-of-state and members of the African Union (AU), that accusations of “vote rigging” have become common practices to set up parallel structures to existing governments as a means to ‘install democracy and all its sweet worded network-of-pillars of division, to divide and control in order to motivate a so-called balance of power, to undermine, disinform, create fear and insecurities, all done to finally control in a Machiavellian manner every single ruling party, government and country in the Third World.

It is important to take note of the words of Cynthia McKinney, former African- American Congresswoman, who is famous for her fight for oppressed people in the world, particularly in Africa, when she said in an interview with the magazine “New African” in May 2009, responding to the question: “The global financial crisis is hitting Africa hard, but Africa is not responsible for it. What do you think President Obama’s African policy is going to be like?

And, here is Cynthia McKinney’s answer: “It is not going to be good, unfortunately. If you look at President Obama’s response to the situation in Zimbabwe and his comments about Sudan, it is clear that Africom (the US military bases in all of Africa’s stragegic areas) will be established on the continent, the military presence of the United States will be deepened, and that does not bode well for the African people. That is just very simple.”

Let the examples speak for themselves.

Kenya:
Kenya’s Rainbow Coalition, which under President Mwai Kibaki had grown out of Jomo Kenyatta’s KANU, was clearly undermined by the brutal machinations of a paidup lackey of the international West, Raila Odinga, and his right-hand man, William Ruto.

Ruto seems to be wellknown as an alleged arms trader and gun runner with further serious allegations of being part of the bloody uprising in Kenya soon after the elections. This allegedly ensured Odinga and his weirdly named “Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)” his Prime Ministership and a say in the new “Government of National Unity (GNU)”. Many Kenyans paid the most dear price for it - with their lives.

Kenyans bluntly accused South African politicians, Cyril Ramaphosa and that international, neo-liberal Bishop Desmond Tutu, to have channelled funds for the “ODM”. Those two politicians tried to act as peace brokers at the time of a “national uprising”. In fact, when those two arrived in Nairobi seperately from each other, they were immediately shown the way back to Johanesburg. The motives of Ramaphosa and Tutu were openly questioned by Kenya’s media.

Zambia:
A similar situation was imposed on Zambia, when former President Kenneth Kaunda - who always seemd to be pro-imperial-international West, similar to his former colleague, Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta - was ousted by Frederick Chiluba and his MMD.

The US Embassy allegedly played a major role. Chiluba, a trade unionist and his MMD (similar to South Africa’s COSATU leadership and Zweli Vavi), was groomed and guided by members of the US Embassy in Lusaka, according to local, senior observers. And, senior local Zambian observers told this columnist, the US Embassy was open and clear about that one then.

Now, why would that be? As much as a moderate KK tried to bend over backwards to please the imperial-international West during the era of the Cold War, being a close friend to Tiny Rowland and his South Afican protege in Lusaka, Marquard de Villiers, regularly communicating with South Africa’s John Vorster and his securocrats, jailing Robert Mugabe and supporting Joshua Nkomo, Kaunda was still rejected and forced out of power by the international West under the flag of democracy.

It was stragegised to ensure that the assassinated, hugely popular and heir-apparent to former President Nelson Mandela, the SACP head, ANC senior leader and MK Commander-in-Chief, Chris Hani and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) would not be able to return to Zambia, if the CODESA-negotiations in Kempton Park in the East of Johannesburg in 1990 to 1994 would not work out in favour of the ANC.

If so, the ANC would have to withdraw from said negotiations and its MK would then have to return to Zambia. However, this was nipped in the bud.

A newly elected government under the diminuitive Chiluba and his opportunistic former trade union, come political party in Lusaka, with seriously compromising accusations of corruption and fraud, even allegations of drug trafficking, would have none of the aforementioned.

Zimbabwe:
Neighbouring Zimbabwe is still going through the murderous pains of accepting a SADC negotiated Government of National Unity (GNU). On the one hand the besieged President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and the ruling ZANU-PF and on the opposing side, Morgan Tsvangirai and his Tendai Biti (a person similar to Kenya’s William Ruto), with equally close ties with the US Embassy in Harare have forged a united government. The MDC came from the Zimbabwean Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU).

Believe it or not, the ZCTU is backed and has been fociverously defended by SA’s Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).

The author of this column is surprised that Zimbabwe’s MDC has not any form of ‘Orange’ in it.

South Africa:
The attempt to split the ANC by forming the “Congress of the People”, or COPE, described as plagiarising the ANC, is similar to the formation of Namibia’s RDP/CoD.

International Western leaning and Western educated fired senior members of Namibia’s ruling, popular party, SWAPO, have tried the same, as COPE attempted: splitting the resistance movement, weakening it and eventually getting rid of it and its struggle history.

Madagascar:
Recently, Madagascar had a military coup d’ etat, ousting its president and enforcing an unconstitutionally young Disc Jockey into the Presidency.

There again the rather weird word/fruit, “Orange”, was used to define the “ruling, military” under a said young DJ government.

Remember, it was the US American consultant, a certain Dick Morris, who assisted the engineering of the “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine? In other words, it is a common, imperial-international Western formula.

A suggested way forward: Therefore, every African ruling party and government would be well advised to counter civil society, as done by the former Prime Minister of Singapor, Lee Kwanyuan, outlined in his book “Singapor Story” and Kenya’s former Minister of State and Energy and President Daniel Arap Moi’s right-hand-man, Nicolas Biwott, who sued every single publisher, reporter, media person, advertiser, distributor, editor and bookshop in their countries as well as at their source, whenever they published any form of attempt in character assassination. In that way, the aforementioned were able to keep the foreign owned and controlled media and civil society at bay.

Namibia:
In all above context it is interesting that certain groups and individuals now claim that Namibia’s elections were not free and not fair. They claim irregularities.

If they cannot proof it, if they fail to deliver real facts, the ruling party and government would be well advised to lay a counter charge of disinformation and high treason with the attempt to undermine state, government and country.

In other words, those trying their hand to muscle their way into power, and thus perceived to make use of anything that is fair in love and war, should be challenged and hopefully sued for destabilising the country, thus posing a threat to national security.

This would result in serious charges of treason and high treason. In other words, they would be facing charges that could land them in jail with seriously hard labour, for a while at least.

This is no hero-making. The imperial-international West would have to answer, why they would be part of such “democratic games”, or face the music.

The last word has not yet been spoken. Africa’s deceivers and plunder-barons’ time will come and then they’ll have to really invent ways out of their bluff.