Nantsi indlela enye i-arhente yezindlu, ekhuthaza amakhaya kwihlomela-dolophu yaseMark Thatcher eKapa, eConstantia, ichaza uncedo lokuhlala eMzantsi Afrika. I-EscapeArtist.com ithi: “Irandi ebuthathaka ikunika amandla amakhulu okuthenga ukuba uhlawula ngeedola okanye ngexabiso eliphezulu,” itsho i-EscapeArtist.com. Loluphi uhlobo lobomi oluya kukuthenga? I-villa ene-pool, imoto, kunye nomncedisi wemihla ngemihla. … UMzantsi Afrika yenye yeendawo ezimbalwa ehlabathini apho uya kufumana ubutofotofo neziseko ezingundoqo zeHlabathi lokuQala, kunye namaxabiso ehlabathi leSithathu kuyo yonke into ukusuka ekutyeni, ukuya kwidayimani, ukuya kwizindlu nomhlaba. … UMzantsi Afrika uneengxaki, kodwa yiloo nto eyenza ukuba kubekho ithuba.”(1)
I-Afrika, ukuya kwiiklasi eziphezulu zaseBritani, ihlala iyindawo yokudlala, ipaki yenyamakazi kunye nobuncwane. Kwaye iConstantia lelinye laloo magquba amaninzi ocalucalulo - afumaneka kuyo yonke indawo ukusuka kwiNtaba yeTafile ukuya kwiNtaba yaseKenya - ephumelela kwilizwekazi lasemva kocalucalulo.
Yiyiphi eyona ndlela yokonwaba uMarko nonina? UMargaret Thatcher wafumanisa ukuba ukuvumela iinkampani zaseBritane ukuba zaphule izohlwayo ezichasene norhulumente wocalucalulo kwajika iingxaki zoMzantsi Afrika zibe ngamathuba ethu. Xa uMarko ebuzwa ukuba ucinga ntoni ngesikhundla sikamama wakhe, waphendula wathi “imfesane yam ikuluntu olumhlophe olutsala nzima”.(3)
Ngo-2001, uLady Thatcher wachaza ukuba uza kuchitha inxalenye yonyaka eConstantia kunye nonyana wakhe. Imfazwe Yehlabathi. Kwabanye babamelwane babo, elo xesha alizange lidlule. Ulwimi olukwileta ecengayo eyathunyelwa entolongweni ngumhlobo kaThatcher uSimon Mann (Eton, Sandhurst, Scots Guards), isuka ngqo ePG Wodehouse. “Unuka kwaye uScratcher”, wakhuza esitsho, bebengabancedi ichum yabo endala. “Kusenokwenzeka ukuba usikhupha siye kufikelela kwindawo enkulu yewonga!”(4)
UMann noThatcher (uHarrow, ongqindilili kakhulu ukuba ungubani na kwenye indawo) bangamalungu odidi olusakholelwa ukuba lunelungelo elivela kuThixo lokongamela ubomi bama-Afrika. Phakathi kwabahlobo bakaMargaret Thatcher abanamakhaya akwithambeka leNtaba yeTafile yayinguJohn Aspinall (Ibhola lombhoxo, iOxford, iRoyal Marines), usozigidi wongcakazo, umgcini wezilwanyana kunye nentsalela yolo hlobo lodidi oluphezulu lweFascist yaseBritani eyayidla ngokugcina iDuke yaseWindsor. inkampani. U-Aspinall wayekholelwa ukuba uninzi lwabantu lufanele lubulawe “ngembubhiso eluncedo”.(6) Wayesithi “uphando lwezonyango kufuneka luxhaswe ngemali yokuqhomfa, ukubulawa kweentsana, ukubulawa kwabantu ngokubulawa kweentsana, ukubulawa kwabantu ngokubulala iintlungu kunye nolawulo lokuzalwa”(7) kwaye wachaza umfazi wakhe wesithathu njengo. “umzekelo ogqibeleleyo wemazi yenkawu, ekulungeleyo ukukhonza indoda eyongamileyo kwaye yenze ubomi bayo buvumeleke.” (8) U-Aspinall usebenze noMangosuthu Buthelezi ukujongela phantsi i-African National Congress. Waxoxa ukuba uMzantsi Afrika kufuneka wahlulwe ube ziibantustan ezingama-30. (9)
“I-Aspers” yayisisazulu seqela labavukeli benkululeko ababefuna ukugxuphuleka kwimicimbi yamazwe awayefudula engamathanga aseYurophu. URobin Birley, unyana womnye wabahlobo bakhe abasenyongweni, waqwengwa lelinye lamahlosi akwa-Aspinall xa wayeneminyaka eli-12 ubudala, kodwa oku akuzange kube yingozi kulwalamano lwabo. Umama ka-Birley washiya umyeni wakhe waya ku-Aspinall's chum uSir James Goldsmith, kwaye bobabini uAspers noBirley (owafumana ilifa lika-Annabel - iklabhu yasebusuku egqwesileyo yaseLondon - kutata wakhe) bema njengabagqatswa kwi-Goldsmith's Referendum Party. Kwiminyaka eyadlulayo ndakhe ndaxambulisana noRobin Birley, emva kokuba endixelele ukuba wayekholelwa ukuba wayengelolungelo nje kuphela kodwa wayenoxanduva lokunceda iRenamo, umkhosi oxhaswa nguMzantsi Afrika owawugrogrisa abantu baseMozambique.
Omnye wabahlobo baka-Aspinall wayengumbhali wemihlathi yababukeli uTaki Theodoracopoulos. Ekunye noCarla Powell, inkosikazi kaNksk. Thatcher owayesakuba ngunobhala wabucala, ukhokele iphulo kumaphephandaba aseBhritane alwela ilungelo lokuvakalisa uButhulezi njengobungcwele. UTaki wakha wabhala ngeKenya ukuba "idemokhrasi inokwenzeka ukuba ifike kumhlaba we-bongo-bongo njengokuba ndithumela itikiti le-Concorde kubantwana bam." (10) Uye wakhalaza ukuba "iBritane iphangwa ngabamnyama ... bavunyelwa ukuba bafuduke emva kwemfazwe [kwaye] baphindaphindeke okweempukane”.(11) Ngo-1999, uTaki noRobin Birley baxhasa ngemali iphulo lokukhulula uAugusto Pinochet. Umphathi wabo we-PR yayingugqirha omdala ka-Margaret Thatcher uLord Bell, owayesebenzela uMbutho weSizwe woMzantsi Afrika kunyulo luka-1994, kwaye ngoku umele uMark.
Ukusukela oko uCecil Rhodes wathimba iMatabeleland, umzabalazo wamalungelo weBhritane wokulawula imbono eAfrika unxulunyaniswa neenzame zokuhlutha ubutyebi belizwekazi. Uthungelwano lukaSimon Mann lweenobs lwaluneminwe emigodini nakwimimandla yeoli kulo lonke elaseAfrika. Amagosa anikezela ngezihlunu kwimbuyekezo yemvume yezemigodi abonakala ehlonitshiwe ludidi lwabo. UMann waseka inkampani yakhe IziPhumo eziLawulayo kunye nosomashishini waseBritane uTony Buckingham. UBuckingham wabala phakathi kwabahlobo bakhe umcebisi wabucala kunye nenkokeli yangaphambili yeSocial Democrats, Lord Steel. Ukuza kuthi ga ngo-1997, i-Steel ibingumlawuli wenye yeminye imidla yase-Buckingham yase-Afrika, inkampani ebizwa ngokuba yi-Heritage Oil and Gas.
Konke oku kukwazisa okude kwinto ekumele ukuba yintsika malunga neDarfur. Injongo yam kukubonisa ukuba ama-Afrika anesizathu esivakalayo sokukrokra ukubandakanyeka kweBritane kwimicimbi yabo. Akukho mathandabuzo ukuba amaBritane, kwaye ahlala "exhalabile" ngeAfrika, kodwa inkxalabo yabo ihlala iyinto yobunikazi. Xa urhulumente waseSudan esithi iBritane ilandela ioyile negolide yayo, ilungile nesiqingatha: nokuba urhulumente waseBritane akanjalo, abanye babemi bayo abadumileyo. Kwiveki ephelileyo otyholwa ngokuba nguMann, uNick du Toit, unike ubungqina enkundleni yase-Equatorial Guinea ukuba uThatcher uphakathi kwabo. Wathi uThatcher wayefuna ukuthenga inqwelo-ntaka kuye "umsebenzi womgodi oya eSudan".(12) UThatcher uyaziphika izityholo ezinjalo.
Urhulumente waseSudan ubonakala ezama ukwenza ukubulawa kwabantu ngezizathu zendalo eDarfur. Abantu baseFur, baseMassaleet nabaseZagawa bayagxothwa emakhayeni abo kanye njengokuba iimvula zenza kube nzima ukuphila ematyholweni. Ibango layo lokuba abantu abayi-1200 babulewe liyanda. I-UN ithi i-50,000 ifile; Uhlalutyo olubanzi ngakumbi lwengcali yaseSudan u-Eric Reeves ucebisa ama-200,000. (13) Yintlekele, kwaye kusenokwenzeka, ngokuyinxenye ngenxa yokubekel' amangomso izinto kwe-UN, ibe mandundu kakhulu.
Kwakanye, i-US kunye noorhulumente base-UK babonakala bekwicala lasekunene, becinezela iSudan ngamandla kunamanye amalungu eBhunga lezoKhuseleko ukuba bahluthe izixhobo ze-janjaweed kwaye bamkele umkhosi omkhulu wokugcina uxolo we-African Union. Sifanele sibaxhase. Kodwa baxakeke ziintsilelo ezintathu ezinkulu zokuthembeka. Eyokuqala kukuba, emva kwe-farce e-Iraq kunye nokuthengiswa kwa-Israel, akukho rhulumente wama-Arabhu uya kuphinda abathembe ukuba bangenelele ngokungenamdla. Okwesibini kukuba amaziko abawalawulayo - ingakumbi i-cannibalistic International Monetary Fund - ajongene nokufa kwabantu abaninzi minyaka le e-Afrika kune-janjaweed. Okwesithathu kukuba imbali yobukoloniyali beUnited Kingdom ayikapheli.
AmaBritani asacatshukelwa eAfrika, yaye anesizathu esivakalayo. UBlair unokucaphuka kwaye akhukhumele malunga nelizwekazi ukuba lisisiva kwisazela sehlabathi, kodwa ngelixa abemi bethu besayithatha njengegunya labo lobuqu, kunzima ukubona ukuba kutheni nabani na ohlala apho kufuneka amthathele ingqalelo.
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Iingxelo:
1. UCheryl Taylor, ujongwe ngomhla wama-27 kuAgasti 2004. Ukuwohloka kwerandi yaseMzantsi Afrika… “yenza ubomi obutofotofo eKapa bufikeleleke”. http://www.escapeartist.com/international/0700_south_africa.html
2. ibid.
3. UJonathan Brown, ngo-27th ka-Agasti 2004. UMark Thatcher - ukuzikhukhumeza emthunzini wamandla. I-Independent.
4. Dan Bridgett, 28th January 2001. Lady T Buyela kwiNombolo ye-10. I-Mail ngeCawa.
5. UJamie Wilson, uDavid Pallister noPaul Lashmar, i-26th ka-Agasti 2004. I-Thatcher kunye ne-African coup kakhulu. UMlondolozi.
6. Kim Sengupta, 30th June 2000. Ukufa kweMaverick. I-Independent.
7. Megan Tresidder, 17th June 1995. Udliwano-ndlebe: UJohn Aspinall. UMlondolozi.
8. Akukho mbhali, 20th Novemba 1994. Iprofayili: I-Booty kunye nezilwanyana - uJohn Aspinall. UMjongi.
9. Anthony Sampson, 6th July 1996. ILizwi eliphuma eMzantsi Afrika lithi, Ndithande, Ndithande Iqela Lam. UMlondolozi.
10. Icatshulwe ngu Sholto Byrnes, 1st February 2003. A rant ubuhlanga kude kakhulu? Amapolisa aphanda uTaki ingcaphephe yeplayboy. I-Independent.
11. Taki Theodoracopoulos, 11th January 2003. Iingcamango malunga nobugebengu. UMbukeli.
12. Iindaba ze-CNN kwi-intanethi, nge-25 ka-Agasti 2004 'Inkokeli ye-Coup:' Ndadibana noMark Thatcher. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/25/equatorial.mercenaries.reut/
13. U-Eric Reeves, nge-28 ka-Agasti 2004. Uhlaziyo lokuFaka kweDarfur IV. I-Sudan Tribune. http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=5049
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