Dulcie September, l’enquête inaboutie | L’Humanité
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« Dulcie September s’intéressait de trop près au commerce des armes, entre Paris et Pretoria », expliquait, en 1997, Peter Hermes, directeur de l’Institut néerlandais pour l’Afrique australe. Il affirme par ailleurs que « les services secrets français n’ont pas participé directement à l’assassinat de Dulcie September, mais ils étaient au courant de sa préparation ». On sait maintenant que des réunions ont eu lieu entre les renseignements militaires sud-africains et la DGSE, qu’on y a parlé vente de Mirage, de missiles, d’hélicoptères. Et que ces conversations ont abouti à des contrats secrets. L’Élysée comme Matignon ne pouvaient pas ne pas être au courant. Il semble évident que, parmi les intermédiaires, ils avaient, l’un et l’autre, leurs affidés politiques, intermédiaires financiers avec les entreprises d’armement.
Il semble par exemple – selon la journaliste néerlandaise Evelyn Groenink (2) – qu’elle se soit également inquiétée de l’attitude de certains hauts cadres de l’ANC qui, déjà, mettaient leurs mains dans ce juteux commerce des armes, en préparant les lendemains de l’apartheid. Thales est ainsi impliqué dans des affaires de pots-de-vin qui auraient été versés à Jacob Zuma. Notre consœur cite des faits et des déclarations troublants, et relie ces affaires d’armement y compris à l’assassinat, en 1993, de Chris Hani, secrétaire général du PC et chef de la branche armée de l’ANC, en lutte contre la corruption.
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Where were you when #Chris_Hani was killed?
▻http://africasacountry.com/where-were-you-when-chris-hani-was-killedOn the day he died, i was in our flat on grafton and minors in #Yeoville. my dad called. i turned on the TV to hear the worst news. i remember being quite hysterical, laughing, not because i thought it was funny. somehow, tears seemed too little and my emotions were confused. i hear that an aunt of mine laughs when she is sad. i had only had occassion to meet him once. we were visiting MK cadres on hunger strike in hospital - Neo, Ting Ting, Jabu. i had a crush on Ting. we were sitting on the floor in the corridor of the hospital one fine day, an ordinary day, waiting for the doctors to tend to our comrades. then, the light became brighter, the world slowed down, and walking down the corridor in a haze of nostalgia was our hero, Chris Hani. he shook our hands. and we were (...)
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#Chris_Hani’s political legacy
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-late-chris-hanis-political-legacyThe American political scientist Adolph Reed Jnr. once said of Malcolm X: “… He was just like the rest of us—a regular person saddled with imperfect knowledge, human frailties, and conflicting imperatives, but nonetheless trying to make sense of his very specific history, trying unsuccessfully to transcend it, and struggling to push it in a humane direction.” Because in the political present, most of Chris Hani’s comrades in the ruling ANC, the Communist Party and the main trade federation, COSATU, are such disappointments, the tendency is to set him up as some kind of ideal type (even opposition parties, who had time for Hani’s ideas and struggle while he was alive, are doing so opportunistically). At the same time, Hani represented the energies that people inside and outside South (...)
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#Madiba : I remember
▻http://africasacountry.com/madiba-i-rememberI remember not knowing what you looked like; at sunrise seeing the regime’s footmen erase your name from walls before the paint had dried. I remember, as a child, sitting on the back seat of the car on the way to town, and at the top of Hospital Bend, my aunt pointing to #Robben_Island […]
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