SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY by
Kunu Matima
BLACK JUDASES IN TRAINING: WHY DID THE APARTHEID REGIME RECRUIT MOSTLY MEN FROM THE FORMER NORTHERN TRANSVAAL PROVINCE? AND THE BANTUSTANS OF LEBOWA, GAZANKULU AND VENDA AS COPS?
Kunu Matima
BLACK JUDASES IN TRAINING: WHY DID THE APARTHEID REGIME RECRUIT MOSTLY MEN FROM THE FORMER NORTHERN TRANSVAAL PROVINCE? AND THE BANTUSTANS OF LEBOWA, GAZANKULU AND VENDA AS COPS?
WAS IT BECAUSE OF THE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN THAT AREA OF SOUTH AFRICA?
MOST OF THESE COPS WERE BARELY LITERATE AND THEIR “POLICE STATEMENTS” WERE A JOKE OF MISSPELLED NAMES AND WORDS.
MOST OF THESE COPS WERE BARELY LITERATE AND THEIR “POLICE STATEMENTS” WERE A JOKE OF MISSPELLED NAMES AND WORDS.
BUT THESE BLACK APARTHEID COPS ENJOYED ABUSING OUR PEOPLE TOO!
THE REASON BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL IN BONDAGE TODAY, IS THE SELF-HATE WHICH IS PROJECTED ON OUR OWN PEOPLE.
THE REASON BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL IN BONDAGE TODAY, IS THE SELF-HATE WHICH IS PROJECTED ON OUR OWN PEOPLE.
WHY WOULD ANY BLACK MAN OR WOMAN BE WILLING TO SERVE THE OPPRESSIVE APARTHEID REGIME? SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG UPSTAIRS IN THEIR MINDS?
MEET THE TRAITORS IN TRAINING! WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?
MEET THE TRAITORS IN TRAINING! WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?
WHILST STUDENTS WERE RISKING THEIR LIVES AND LIMBS AS TEENS, AND DAILY DODGING BULLETS IN OUR HOMES AND STREETS OF SOWETO AND OTHER TOWNSHIPS, THESE BLACK MERCENARIES WERE HAPPY AND WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE ENEMY.
IN 1978, ONLY 2 YEARS AFTER THE SPILLING OF THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, THESE MEN SIGNED UP TO JOIN THE DREADED APARTHEID POLICE.
HAMANSKRAAL POLICE ACADEMY PRODUCED THE MOST VICIOUS AND HATEFUL BLACK POLICE MERCENARIES OF THE APARTHEID ERA.
I HAD MANY ENCOUNTERS WITH SOME OF THEM WHO WERE PROMOTED TO THE SECURITY BRANCH. THESE THUGS KILLED MANY INNOCENTS TO PLEASE THEIR RACIST MASTERS. SOME OF OUR OWN TURNED INTO TREACHEROUS ASKARIS.
A FEW TIMES IN MY YOUTH IN SOWETO, I WAS DISGUSTED TO SEE GROWN, STRONG AND HEALTHY BLACK MEN ARRESTED BY A SINGLE COP WITH NO HANDCUFFS FOR NOT HAVING PASS BOOKS.
ONE DAY AT OUR LOCAL DUBE RAILWAY STATION, A FEW FRIENDS AND I CONFRONTED THESE COPS FOR ARRESTING THEIR OWN PEOPLE AND ORDERED THE SCARED DETAINEES TO RUN AWAY.
THEY TOOK OFF LIKE HELL AND LEFT THE COPS THREATENING US WITH BAYONETS. WE TOOK OFF WHEN THEIR WHITE SUPERVISORS SHOWED UP IN “KWELA-KWELAS” (POLICE VANS) TO LOAD UP THE MISSING DETAINEES.
THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS LIKE THEIR WHITE COMMANDERS.
A BLACK SECURITY BRANCH “WARRANT OFFICER” BALOYI ONCE THREATENED TO SHOOT ME IN FRONT OF MY MOM AND DAD IN OUR DINING ROOM IN DUBE (SOWETO) THE REASON? I DARED TO “TALK BACK TO AND DISRESPECT HIS WHITE COMMANDER”.
A BLACK SECURITY BRANCH “WARRANT OFFICER” BALOYI ONCE THREATENED TO SHOOT ME IN FRONT OF MY MOM AND DAD IN OUR DINING ROOM IN DUBE (SOWETO) THE REASON? I DARED TO “TALK BACK TO AND DISRESPECT HIS WHITE COMMANDER”.
I WAS BEING INTERROGATED ABOUT SOME “BOMBING INCIDENT” I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT.
I WAS “TOO CHEEKY” FOR THIS TRAITOR.
WE AFRICANS ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES, SOMETIMES.
Kunu Matima
WE AFRICANS ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES, SOMETIMES.
Kunu Matima
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