THABO MBEKI VS JACOB ZUMA: DIVERGENCE OF VIEWS ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRISIS; THE NEW PATH FOR AFRICA-BRICS WAY OR CAGE WITHIN COLONIAL BONDAGE.NEED FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT IN AFRICAN FOREIGN POLICY THRUST

H.E.THABO MBEKI

     THABO MBEKI VS JACOB ZUMA: DIVERGENCE OF VIEWS ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL CRISIS; THE NEW PATH FOR AFRICA-BRICS WAY OR CAGE WITHIN COLONIAL BONDAGE.NEED FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT IN AFRICAN FOREIGN POLICY THRUST

"WHEN EUROPE SNEEZES, WILL AFRICA CATCH A COLD?THE EURO CRISIS, GLOBALIZATION AND AFRICA".

His Excellency Thabo Mbeki ,

I thank you for the article you sent to me asking a very important question of the contemporary time in world history and affairs. which is : When Europe sneezes will Africa catch cold? Globalization and Africa. I feel highly elated that you have yoked me Prince frank Onavi Ukonga and National peoples news as  worthy to participate in such intellectually challenging theme and as you have found us worthy as an emerging intelligentsia of Africa, so shall you also be worthy in the site of GOD and all men of good will in the affairs of men.

The European Economic crisis has been on for quite a while and it reached a point where a Black Man was killed in London which subsequently sparked off a chain of remarks and riots and crisis. Prince Frank Ukonga 's Remarks on the London riots which was over embellished by the TIME , NEWSWEEK MAGAZINES and other western press exposed the secrets of the decline of western civilisation  which we all esoteric minds have been hiding and assisting the west to cover its greatly guided secrets but the racial connotation of the London riots made Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga to expose the west and subsequently this exposition led to other demonstration all over the world calling the west to confront the problems of the decline of western civilisation.And here you are as well , a former President of South Africa contributing your quota to the vexing issue of our time which was made possible by our publisher by exposing the west and that particular issue , the Euro financial and economic crisis  with a view to generate public discuss, town hall meetings etc and we are happy to discuss the issue with your excellency on the following premises:

THE NEED FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT IN AFRICAN FORIGN POLICY THRUST: We have read you views H.E Thabo Mbeki and they are indeed very all embracing, thought provoking and progressive. but your views seem to run contrary to the views of our Publisher Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga who has been an apostle of the campaign for a paradigm shift in the Africa foreign policy thrust addressed towards freeing Africa from all tradition colonial bondage and taking a radical, more progressive direction in the 21st century... I am grateful that your former protege H.E.President Jacob Zuma  shares that same view with Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga and he has already begun by joining the BRICS UNION of Nation addressed to bring Africa into new rich and formidable progressive partnership with forward looking nations and gradually decouple Africa from the appendage of the West and the European imperialism.

H.E.JACOB ZUMA& HIS NEW PARADIGM SHIFT OF AFRICAN FOREIGN POLICY THRUST: H.E Jacob Zuma has began a radical move to reposition the Africa Continent so as to decouple Africa from the tail and appendage of the western civilisation which will insulate Africa from the decline and problems of western civilisation and this is the only logical smart move recommended for now in the theory of wealth of Nations and the aspect as of the game without rules of chiron d centurion... And that this is the most dialectical paradigm shift to canvass for Africa to be left for Africans and for the world to allow us to invent home grown democratic models and economies which H.E.Jacob Zuma is evangelising is one of the most commendable posture and Jacob Zuma has become the Secou Toure for Africa of the 21 century... He has become the Patrice Lumumba, the Samora Micheal for Africa of the 21st century and we need to encourage him to do more for Africa as he is rightly guided.

LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

Sign: Prince Frank Onaivi Ukonga; Publisher National Peoples News

 

The views of H.E. THAMBO MBEKI on the Euro crisis as it pertains to the African are as follows:   

"As Africans we must remain closely interested in the resolution of the Eurozone crisis, in much the same way that Barack Obama said the US was interested in this outcome.

The Eurozone is a vitally important destination for African exports and a source of foreign investment, and generally an important player with regard to the integration of our Continent in the global economy.

Many of our citizens who work in other countries, including the Eurozone, export into our countries significant inflows of foreign exchange in the form of remittances.

The West Europeans, many of whom are our former colonisers, continue to pay especial attention to our Continent, as demonstrated by their recent interventions in Côte d’Ivoire and Libya.

In this context we must assess the impact the Eurozone and European crisis will have on our relations with these countries.

We must follow closely the evolution of the Eurozone crisis, knowing that if it worsens, perhaps leading to the demise of the Euro, this would have an immensely negative impact on the global economy, with a similarly negative impact on our economies, which might very well create great social instability in our countries.

It is obvious that the Eurozone crisis will further deepen the already prevalent view among the Europeans that Africa is peripheral to their global strategic posture, except as a part of the world which they can wilfully dominate as their ‘natural’ backyard.

This signifies that the European ‘establishment’ will even be more dismissive of the African voice, which will reinforce its sub-conscious – and perhaps conscious - understanding that its own voice, rather than ours, should be the determining factor with regard to our future.

Accordingly, we must honestly engage one another as Africans about what we should do in this context, together, and in cooperation with the historic friends of Africa in Europe, who have constantly stood with us to help ensure that we achieve our dignity as human beings.

Accordingly we must abandon the misguided notion that the Eurozone and EU crisis has nothing to do with us.

In this context we must understand the nature of the process of globalisation in all its complexity, and fully appreciate the naked fact that it encompasses us as well.

The globalisation process will continue as an objective manifestation of the very existence of capital, and therefore the development of society, which nobody can stop.

Obviously what we must resist is the attendant ideological proposition that human society has no choice but to accept that the nature and content of this globalisation must be informed by the most primitive instincts of capital, which has led to the disastrous co-habitation with the philosophy and practice of neo-liberalism.

To achieve our own renaissance, we must determine our place within this system and therefore what we have to do to claim and hold this space.

It therefore stands to reason that, among other things, we must do our best to understand what happened at the meeting of the European Council of December 8/9, 2011 and the consequences of its conclusions for us, the Africans."