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IS THE SOUTH AFIDCAN

GOVERNMENT DOMINATED

Y

MARXISTS

By Peter Hammond

I t

is surprising thaL many

observers have dismissed the very

real

co

ncerns of communist

domination in South Afri

ca

as

an

"allegation" and a "rumour". When

16 of the 26 cabinet members

appointed by the

ANC are

members,

or "former members", of the South

Aflican Communist Party

(SACP)

then one has to reluctantly admit

that Mandsm has far

mOre than a

foothold in the New South Africa.

Even more incredibl e is the attempt

to ridicule any who "claim that the

election was rigged".

The hard and objecti

ve

reality is

that the SA elections m

ay

have been

an example of the most fraudulent

election ever held. Thousands

were

murdered during the 4 months of

electioneeIing in the run-up

to

the

elections. Millions of ballot papers

went missing just before the

elections. Thousands of voting

stations reponed irregulalities;

shOltages of ballot papers, incolTect

ballots,

no

ballot boxes, no ink

~ t h

which

to

mark voters, no batteries

for the ultra violet lamps to check if

the voter had already voted,

inadequate security, and no box for

the Inkatha Freedom Party ofDr.

Buthelezi on many millions of the

ballot sheets. The leader of the

Democratic Party claimed that there

were literally millions of incidents of

fraud and irregularit

ie

s in the

election.

There was massive fraud in the

voting process, during the

transportation of ballot boxes

and

even in the counting process.

Independent Electorial Commission

(lEe)

officials were caught switching

boxes and tampeling with ballots.

Widely divergent and contradictory

statistics were released by the

IEC

and a

ll

attempts to finish connting

was abandoned after much

confusion and delays. Systematic

computer fraud was also discovered.

In the end counting was abandoned

and the statistics were manipulated

by the officials in what they

descri.bed

as

"horse trading .. to

resolve dispmes." When confronted

abom the blatant frau d and

irregulariti

es

in the election and

counting process, the

l e

chailman

Judge Kriegler admiued it and said,

"You

can't work in a brothel and

remain chaste."

It was blatant hY)JOClisy for the

West to praise this fraudulent

election. TIlere is not one Westem

nation which would tolerate I of

the fraud and inegulalities that

pervaded this election

in

their own

countries. (Those who would like to

see documentation on the

Fraudulent Elections are welcome to

write to United

C111istian

Action,

P.O. Box 23632, Claremont 7735,

South

Africa

or Fax :

011-27-21-685-

5884 for a

fTee

copy o[ an 8 page

summary rep01t by

UCANEWS

4

94.

Those who described the South

Afltcan elections as "the first

democratic elections in South Africa"

and as "a victory for democracy"

were engaging in a game of wishful

thin king.

Unwelcome as the truth may be -

we need to face the facts: the

ANC's

election victo

ry

was ovelwhelmingly

a

viCtOlY

[or sanctions, subversion,

terrorism, intimidation and fraud.

Dem

ocraey had little to do with it.

Nearly 8

million people became

unemployed as a result of sanctions

to bring the ANC to power. Over

Rev. Peter Hammond can be contacted through Frontline

Fellowship PO

Box

74 Newlands 7725 South Africa

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February, 1995

3,500

schools

we

re burned down

and 5 million black children we re

deprived of education to bling the

ANC to power. Over 120,000 people

were murdered by the ANC and

PAC

supporters over the last

34

yea rs in order to bring the ANC to

power.

No

other counlly has ever

suffered snch a sustai ned

international hate and sanctions

campaign as South Aflica has. Now

we have the largest number of mass

murders, bombers, communist

terrorists, kidnappers and child

abusers

eve

r appointed to power in

anyone parliament. Is this what the

West wanted? Was

all

the bloodshed

and suffering worth it?

The

ANC

Nelson Mandela has for

decades been in close alliance with

the

SA

Communist Party (SACP).

TIle SACP

never registered

[o

r the

election, never ran as a legitimate

political party, and was never placed

on the ballot papers - yet their

candidates dominate the cabinet

of

the new government Although

no

body voted

fo

r the

SACP,

the

ANC chose (in violation of SA

electorial law )

to

give at least 31 of

the AN C's National Assembly seats

to

members of the SACP. In

addition,

16

of the ANC's Cabinet

posts were awarded to members,

or

"f01m er members", of the SA

Communist Party

It would be naive ofus to take

undue consolation in the democratic

nature of the new

SA

Constitution.

Firstly, it is a transitional document.

TI1e final constitution is ye t to be

drawn up. Secondly, a cursory

reading of the previous S o ~ e t

constitution (unde ' which tens of

th ousands

of

Churches were closed

and millions of Russian Christians

il

prisoned and executed) actually

guaranteed freedom ofspeech,

worship, movement, assembly, etc.

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As Lenin said, UTo tell th e truth is a

peuy bourgeoisie habit...

bUI

10 lie

convincingly is

O

sign I' superior

illldligencc and Trentics are

like

pie crusts -made to

be

broken.

Hence it would he t judge

all

politicians - not so 111 ueh by what they

- as by what the)' aCua

ll

y do.

T

he

first actions

01

the new

SA

government have ee n.ainl)' been

disturbing. Ille Presiclenrial

inauguration was ciominated by

interfaith pra),ers by a witchdoctor, a

Muslim inunan, a

Hi

ndu priest, a

mbbi and an archbishop.

Ma

rxist

ciictators such as F idel Caslro,

Roben M ugabe, and Eduan]u Dos

Samos and terrorist leaders such as

Yassar Ara[at were reeeivell as V1P's.

Prayer was then abolished in our

parliament. For 134 years the

parliament in Cape Tow n was

convened in prayer - in the Name of

our

Lord jesus Christ. One of the

first acts of this new government was

to cancel this custom. Thereafter

publication control was loosened so

as to unleash a li teral avalanche

of

previously illegal po

mogr

aphy into

our

country. Then the M nistly of

Health attempted to legalize

abortion

l

Only the ' ~ g o r ( l u s

mobilization of Cillistians

througbout South Afr

ica

by United

Clulstian

Ac

tion a llcl its affiliates

f

or

ced the ANC to temporarily halt

this plan. (For mo re deta ils on the

untold story of the paganization of

South AMca please write [or a copy

of Lamentations for Somh

Africa

' by Frontline Fellowshi p,

P.

O. Box

74-

, Newlands 7725

Fa

x: 01 1-27-21-

685 -5884.)

In the shadow of this pagan

invasion, I find the excbmation:

Thank you Lord for this New South

Africa to be inappropriate. My

pm

ye

r s Porgive us L

or

d fo r the

New Sonth Africa. F

or

g

ive

our

friends in the West who sanctioned

and boycoLled us and the media

which bore false , \ ~ t n e s s against us.

Forgive those in the East who

trainecl and equipped terrorists

to

infiltrate our once peaceful eonntry

an cl

murder

thousands with their

landminds, limpet mines,

amb

ushes,

assaSS inations, grenade aLlacks, car

b

om

bs and arson. Forgive Ihose

who

hated us and those who betrayed us.

Forgive those who hardened their

heans

and

were unmoved by our

suffering. Forgive those who

passive ly allowed evillO triumph.

Forgive those who are engaging in

wi shful thinldng and deception

to

salve their conscience. Grant us 0

Lord

a

rc,rival of repentance and of

the fear or the Lord in S o u t h

A f r i c a .

However, having said ~ l l t h a t , 1

am still optimistic fo r Lhe future. 1

finnl)' believe that Afr i.cii presems

the most promising potential for

Biblical rdoll11ation and for spiritual

revival. TIle greatest challenges and

opportunities for missionary service

in the world LOda)' are in Africa.

Despite the

ve

lY severe oppression,

corruption and suffertng - the

hunger

for

the Gospel and the

openness

to

Biblical teaching

s

unprecedented in our continent.

I have great hopes for the future

not becanse o[ sinful man or the

predictions of humanist

propagandists but because I believe

in our great and all powerful God.

The ANC failed to ' \ ~ n a war.

They did not even win a revolution.

All tiley won was a h audulent

election . They did not have a

capable or disciplined army of their

own. They have

inh

erited politi

cal

comral of an army which is

inherently anti-marxi.sL So too with

the poli.ce and civil s m ~ c e More to

the pOilll the South

Afri

can

population is well armed. Not only

with fi reannshu also with

computers, photocopiers and faxes.

In shon, [bose

cO

llllllunists w

ho

may d

esi

re

to

subj

ug

ale

bilh

and

fTeedom

in

SA

do not have a free

hand to do as they wish. This means

that the final chapter on SA h

as not

yet been written. This is not the time

to write

SA olf.

The battle is far from

over.

So

uth Africa

does

have

a

solid

corc or Bible believing people . And

with God there is always hope.

God juclges nation s (jeremiah

18:7-10). The Lord chastises,

disciplines and purges His

ptople

from sin Isaiah] :13-20). The

book

nf

Jud

ges records how God judges

faithlessness and disobedience. And

it

shuws

how

od

gr duu

ly

redeems and

reSlClres

His repentant

people (Judges 2:10-16). Much of

the Bible deals V I ~ . L h times

of

c a p t i \ ~ t exile, implisonment and

wa

r.

jo seph is an example

of

how a

believer can remain faithful to the

Lord even in exile, slavery

and

imprisonment. And God rewarded

Joseph's fa ithfulness by raising him

up

to

be prtme minister of Egypt.

Daniel remained faithful

to

God

even in exile in a foreign land

and

was raised up to serve as prime

minister even under,a heathen king -

yet without compromising

his

faith.

Nehemiah managed to rebuild the

wa lls ofj emsalem even while

under

foreign occupation. Elijah managed

to evade the

murderous

persecution

by King Ahab and QueenJezebel. He

finally saw tile false prophets

exposed and defeated them on

Mo

unt

Carmel.

As we face the moral break

down

of

South Aflica: the deteriorating

pornography plague, the exploitative

gambling industry, the clesecration

of the Lord's Day, increasing

blasphemy in entelt ainmcl1l , the

secularization of school

s,

increasing

crime anc1lawlessness, probable

hig

her

taxes, att

empt

s to legalize

February,

1995 I THE COUNSEL

of Chalcedoll

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abOltion and even possible

persecution of Chlistians - how

should we respond?

In any

conflict

we

can say with

Shadrac

h,

Meshach and Abednego:

The God whom we

serve is able

to

save

us...and He will But

even i He

does

not, we

want you to lmow 0 king,

that we will not serve

your

gods or worship the

image o gold you have

set up. Dani

el

3:17-18

We must recognize that God is

.sovereign over the kingdoms of men

(Danie 4:25). Times change.

Seasons come and

go (Ecc . 3: 1-

8).

Kingdoms lise and fall. Leaders

come and go. (Psalm 2). The wicked

carry

in

themselv

es

the seeds of their

own destruction (Psalm 37:38).

Humanism is a self-destruCli

ve

ideology (Psalm 34:21).

Go

d is

working all things tOgether for good

for those who love Him and are

called according

to

His purpose

(Romans 8:28).

f

our lives are filmly

built upon the Word of God then we

can en

dure the sto

lm

s of

li

fe

(Matthew 7:24-25).

Ev

en amidst

chaos and catastrophe we can

experience the comfort and calm of

Ch,ist (Psalm 46).

A CllTistian response

to

the

present situation would be: To

grieve over the destructive results of

sin (Psalm 31); to repent for the sins

of our nation

(2 Chron. 7: 14); to

pray for spilitual revival in the

churches of South Africa (Daniel

9:3-19);

to

proclaim the Word of

God (2 Tim.

4:1.-

5); to evangelize

(Luke 24:47); make

diSC

iples

(Matthew 28: 18-20) and strengthen

the churches (Acts 1.4:22). Q

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