The speech that had Thabo Mbeki furious for weeks
Mbeki, the president of South Africa. Not a leader, but a man who uses racism and fear to try and control any negative opinions against his party and questionable policies.

This has gone on for so long, and so frequently that eventually a single political party leader has had the courage to say it as it is, a speech that had the president steaming in anger to the point that he made two retaliatory speeches about it.

This is an extract of the parliament speech that Mr. Tony Leon from the Democratic alliance made, and it was this very speech that cause the President Thabo Mbeki to show his true and racial bias against white citizens of South Africa.[Note the amount of ANC discrediting tactics that are mentioned below by Tony Leon in his extracts from the president's speeches and editorial submissions - similar to 'I did not have an affair...']

Antjie Krog once wrote:"Reconciliation is not only a process. It is a cycle that will be repeated many times."
What all South Africans wish to avoid is a cycle that becomes a downward spiral; in which smoldering resentment is fanned into burning anger.

On June 5, President Thabo Mbeki issued a warning in Parliament: "I'd like to advise those who find it politically and strategically expedient to perpetuate the negative stereotype of the African which we inherit from our past to take the greatest care that they do not start a fire they cannot put out."

But it is on President Mbeki's watch that South Africa has moved from the politics of the rainbow nation and reconciliation to the politics of race-labeling and race-baiting.

President Mbeki must start to lead by example. For when the leader of this country uses racism to silence his political opponents, he re-ignites the fires of hatred and despair that South African has worked so hard to extinguish.

Let us consider an acute case. The president recently said : "The reason Zimbabwe is such a preoccupation here, in the UK, in the US and in Sweden is because white people died, and white people were deprived of their property.. all they say is Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe."

Recently, in a letter to the ANC Today, President Mbeki "flamed" whose who questioned the ANC government's corrupt arms deal and his possible involvement in editing the Auditor General's report.
Rather than addressing the evidence directly, President Mbeki claimed those who have questioned the government's conduct are "determined to prove everything in the anti-African stereotype."
In classic "flaming" fashion, President Mbeki then "sought to portray Africans as a people that is corrupt, given to telling lies, prone to theft and self-enrichment by immoral means, a people that is otherwise contemptible in the eyes of the 'civilized..."
THe President says that those who stand up against government corruption are merely "fishers of corrupt men". But the President insists on fishing for racism in the minds and hearts of his opponents [political opposition]...
If we want South Africa to be a real democracy, we are going to have to face real issues: poverty, crime, HIV/AIDS and Zimbabwe.

We need to get out of the cul-de-sac of racism and return to the inspiring vision of a rainbow nation.