The Battle for South Africa

132 Pages·1979·9.408 MB·English

by  BENSON, Ivor

THE BATTLE FOR
SOUTH AFRICA
IVOR BENSON
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Copyright Ivor Benson 1979.
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THE BATILE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
CONTENTS
page
PREFACE
POSTSCRIPT
INTRODUCTION: THETHIRDSOUTH AFRICAN WAR
1. THIS WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY 11
2. THE WAR ON GOLD 33
3. BEHIND COMMUNISM IN AFRICA 39
4. WHAT HAPPENED IN RHODESIA 73
5. THE BATILEGROUND OF THE MIND 89
(1) The Role of the Mass Media in Contemporary
History 91
(2) PsychologicalWarfare designed to obscure
Driving Force behind Communist Conspiracy
105
BIBLIOGRAPHY 116
INDEX 117
Theplan, Ithink, isthe oldoneofworlddominion inanewform . . .Today
the scene issetfor the thirdact, intended to complete the process. The money
powerandthe revolutionary-powerhavebeensetupandBivenshambutsymbolic
shapes(Capitalism'or 'Communism')andsharplydefinedcitadels(America'
or 'Russia'). Suitably to alarm the mass-mind, the picture offered is that of
bleak and hopeless enmity and confrontation ...
Such isthespectaclepubliclystaBedfor the masses. Butwhatifsimilarmen,
with a common aim, secretly rule inboth camps and propose to achieve their
ambition throuBh the clash between those masses! I believeany diliBent student
of our times will discover that this is the case.
Douglas Reed, Far and Wide, 1951.
PREFACE
In the light ofdevelopmentsin Southern Africaduring the lastfew months of
1978,ithasbeendecidedtoadd two newchapterstothesecondeditionofthisbook.
Theseare:an Introduction,entitled The ThirdSouthAfrican War,and anewChapter
4, entitled What Happened inRhodesia.
Events on the continent of Africa since Mr. Harold Macmillan, then British
PrimeMinister,delivered hiscelebrated "Winds ofChange"speechat Cape Town
earlyinFebruary 1960,arequite unintelligible unlessseenandunderstoodaspartof
what has been happening all over the world during the present century.
Thefactsbelong togetherand,therefore, have no contentofhistorical meaning
when considered separately. In otherwords, ifwewishto understandthe present
undeclaredwar on SouthernAfricawemustfirstsetitinavalidcontextofhistory
- a taskwhich has been attempted in the first part of this little book.
Another global aspect of the struggle isbrieflyexamined in Part 11, helping to
explainthefurious urgencyofthepressures nowbeing broughtto bear onSouth
Africa, all ostensibly designed to expand the area of freedom and justice - it
appears thatthecontinued independenceand self-determination ofSouth Africa,
the world's biggestsupplier of newly mined gold, is seen as the greatest Single
obstacletothesettingup ofaglobal,totalitarianmonetarysystem;therefore,alsoas
the greatest threat to a tottering monetary system.
PartIII provides a concise account of what has been happening in Africasince
1960,with thecreation of"a form ofautonomyand independencewhich ensures
the destruction of the old forms of sovereignty (colonialism) and permits the
settingupofnewforms ofsovereigntysoprecariousandsoartificialthatitisaneasy
matter to dominate them" (the words of Dr. Franco Nogueira, former Foreign
MinisterofPortugal).Inthispart, also,weseehow"liketwo hoodlumsworkingin
partnership", the "capitalist" West promotes policies in Africa which operate
almost always to the advantage of Soviet Communist imperialism.
The main battle, however, unsuspected by millions ofpeople, especiallyin the
Westernworld,isfoughtinsidetheirown mindsasthemotivesofatiny minorityof
power-wieldersare translated, bythe magicofthe media, into somesemblanceof
the willof mankind.
How the battle isfought - or, rather, how the assault on the public mind is
conducted- isbrieflyexplained in Chapter 5,whichisasummaryoftwo papers
acceptedfordistributionattwo recentconferencesoftheWorld Anti-Communist
League.
Bychallenging the establishment version ofcontemporary history, this book
offers,atleast,astartingpointforthefewwhoinsistonhaving opinionswhichthey
have some right to call their own.
IVOR BENSON
Durban, March ]979.
POSTSCRIPT
Encouraging signs noted in the Introduction which follows (written some
monthsago)needtobereadinthe lightofsubsequentdevelopments.Asthiswriter
has written elsewhere (Behind the News), affairs in Southern Africaseem to have
reached astateofstalemateafterarapidand surprisingsuccessionofevents.Thisis
true ofallthe areasconcerned- South Africa,Rhodesiaand South WestAfrica.
Thereisnodoubt, however,thatwhatwearenowexperiencingisonlyalullbefore
the storm.
In South Africa,the resignation on June 4 ofthe President(and former Prime
Minister),Mr.John Vorster, bringsto aclimaxwhat hasbeen,withoutdoubt, the
biggestand most appalling mess-up in the history of this country's politics.
The troublecanbetracedtothefactthatsincethedeathofOr.H.F.Verwoerdin
1966, the National Partyand Government havebeenwithoutadequate leadership.
What Or. Verwoerd could do quite easily,and what Mr. Vorster could notdo,
wasto stand astrideanddominatethe two mutually antagonistic components of
Afrikanerdom- the right and the left.Internaltensions there havealwaysbeen,
bothinthepartyandthegovernment,butwhileOr.Verwoerdwasinchargeitwas
still one party and one government.
For, itisonly bya rare accident ofhistory that we now have inSouth Africaa
Prime Minister supplied by the Cape - which always was and still is liberal;
whereas the realpower isin the Transvaal which, in spiteofallthe undermining
influences ofthe last20years,isstillheirto allthe traditions ofthe GreatTrek and
the Boer Republics. Wemay besure that the right versus leftstruggle insideand
outside the ruling party isgoing to be stepped up.
On the whole, this writer is of the opinion that the total political picture is
brighter - ifonly because the real issuesare so much clearer.
A Word ofWarning: The reader iswarned about the phrase "Blackmajority
rule" which recurs frequently in any discussionofSouthern Africanpolitics,and
cannotbeavoided;whatitmeans isnotthetransferofpowerfrom WhitestoBlacks
butonly the transfer ofpowerfrom onesetofWhites toanothersetofWhites, aprocess
which this writer has described as "an invading imperialism of money".
Theuseofthe expression"Blackmajority rule" must, therefore, beidentifiedas
atrickofdialecticswhichmakesgenuinedebateverydifficultbyintroducingwords
and phrases which sayto the massesthe exactopposite ofwhatthey mean to the
power-wielding inner circle. In much the same way, Marxist enslavement is
conducted in the name of "liberation", Marxist tyrannies are described as
"democracies", and war becomes "peace".
IVOR BENSON
November 1979.
INTRODUCTION
THE THIRD SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
Ido notsubscribe to the often repeatedslosan ofthe leftist who tries
to stampede our people into declaring that time is runnins out on us.
AccordinB to them ithasbeen5minutesto12o'clockfor the last ioyears.
But I want to emphasise that we must work before the sunBoes down. I
am now too oldfor afrontline soldier but count me as homesuard, who
stands steadfast and withoutJlinchinB inthis battle. And I will always
partake in any action which will fire and inspire our sons and our
daushters not to give way, but to standfaithful and true like the stock
they come from.
Dr. J.D. Vorster.
In September 1978, the caucus of South Africa's ruling National
Partyelected Mr. PieterWillem Botha asleader and Prime Minister
to succeed Mr. B.J. Vorster, who had held office since the
assassination of Dr. H.F. Verwoerd in 1966.
The present writer regards a strong and well-informed nati
onalism asthe only possiblebulwark against a zothcentury liberal
Communist revolutionary imperialism that threatens to drag all
humanity into another dark age, and was at first encouraged by
some of the signs which attended Mr. Botha's promotion.
Chief among these were Mr. Botha's own utterances at recent
FreeStateand Transvaal congressesofthe ruling party in which he
calledforastronger, morecourageous response to thechallenges of
the undeclared war now being waged against South Africa.
Atthe Transvaal congress he remarked that, "WorldWar ill will
not be declared - it has already started" - which is what
AlexanderSolzhenitsyn hasbeen telling us with allthepowerat his
command.
Armed with all the information availableto him as Minister of
Defence,Mr. Botha's remarks were even moreto thepointwhen,at
the Bloemfontein congress of the party, he said: "I have in my
possession a number ofdecisionsofthe United Nations, in writing,
mE BATILE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
from 1973, in which the UN, time and again,expresslydeclared that
they are on the sideofthe South WestAfrica People'sOrganisation
(SWAPO)and that they recognise SWAPOas the representative of
the people of South WestAfrica". And SWAPO Mr. Botha bluntly
identified as a "Marxist, terrorist organisation".
Mr. Botha alsosaidthis:"Manycountrieshavegrowntiredofthe
super-powers, and South Africashould create links with countries
which have refused to kneel and creep to them".
Itismostimportantatthistime, whenSouth Africaappearsto be
headed for confrontation with the United Nations over South West
Africa, that our own people and their millions of friends abroad
shouldclearlyunderstand whatare the forcesand whatthe motives
involved in the present undeclared war on South Africa,
The situation in which South Africafindsherselftoday hasbeen
so much complicated with falsehood, thatitishard to know where
to start trying to put the record straight. What Peter Simple, the
London Daily Telegraph columnist, said when referring to the
Rhodesianstruggle isequally trueforSouthAfrica: Weareinvolved
in a struggle against "a world of lies".
What makes the battle even harder to understand isthe factthat
SouthAfrica'sleadersarenowtrying to playtheiropponentsattheir
own game. Von Clausewitz, the philosopher of war, has remarked
thattheweapons to beusedin any struggle areseldom the choiceof
eitherofthepartiesinvolvedbutaredictatedbythe circumstancesof
the time. This may betrueofashootingwar, butwedo notthink it
isequally true ofthe sort ofpoliticalstruggle in which South Africa
is today locked.
Artillery against artillery, yes; tanks against tanks, yes; aircraft
againstaircraft, yes.Falsehood againstfalsehood, liesagainstlies! We
think not. Not onlydoes South Mrica lack the wealth with which to
set up a global generator ofdefensivefalsehood, but South African
leaders are woefully lacking in know-how, as has been amply
demonstrated by the Information Department debacle.
For there isnothingSimpleabout the liesofmodern psychologi
calwarfare - total untruth (seldom used). amalgams oftruthand
falsehood in varying proportions, untruth lightly garnished with
truth, half-truth and truthSimplysuppressed and concealed. Cross,
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