Newsgroups: soc.culture.african
Subject: Re: Great Victory in Angola! Savimbi loses elections
From: pmmst8+@pitt.edu (Paul M Mweene)
Date: 7 Oct 92 05:45:22 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <BvnMJp.DH3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kautaj@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (kauta) writes:
>Savimbi is a major threat to the national security. By all means, he should be
>removed from active service, lest he indulges in more unAfrican activities.
>
>There is no reason to believe that the foreign financiers will reduce his
>stipend now. That's not the way they operate. Just before the elections, 
>they gave him over US$200 m I think. The last amounts were grosssly expedited
>since he was in big trouble: he had just murdered a few of his opponents 
>inside UNITA, the story was a big deal, and there was the risk that the 
>congress might cut off funding. They (Savimbi's western henchmen) did all 
>this shamelessly. They WILL do it again!
>
>BIG QUESTION: After all these untold miseries the almighty dollar has 
>inflicted upon the citizens of Angola, will Washington make reparation now?
>Uucp:     kautaj@iubacs.uucp           

Let the truth be told. These people care neither about freedom nor "democracy"
There is ample evidence of this all around us, starting with (and certainly not
ending ) with South Africa. The case of Angola is told in terms of "minerals".

De Beers a South African based but Anglo-American owned(the same co. which one way or the other owns or controls 63% of the South African economy) controls 80%
of the world's diamond trade having the power to set the price. The Russians
who are the world's only other significant producer have always happily sold
De Beers enough of their diamonds to preserve its power as the worlds diamond
cartel. The Russians then sold their remaining diamonds on the world market at
the high price set by De Beers. 

Angola, however has the diamonds to break the  cartel. There is known
to be in Angola a valley which is full of diamonds. And it was no other than 
the truant boy of the western politics France which seized this opportunity.
In 1986 and 87, the French secured a promise from MPLA that they would be given
mining rights to the diamonds if they succeeded in heving Savimbi stop the 
insurgency. The French baited and neared hooked Savimbi with a 1 billion dollar
cash offer if he could retire to a French chateaux. Uncle Sam, however, got 
wind of the skim and torpedoed it. The skim itself took several years to mat
erialize, Savimbi was tempted seriously in late '89

Many factors contributed to this state of affairs (in this period  the
Angolan airforce humiliated the South Africa and for the first time took 
control of the sky over Southern Angola and Northern Namibia and followed this
by defeating South Africa in war for the first time, at Cuito Canavale) 
Also, the USSR was straining and Gorbachev was letting it known that he
intended to abandon the effort in Angola. All these factors served to make
both UNITA and MPLA less intransigent leading to talks which led to the 
just ended election.tru

Bearing the foregoing in mind (together with our already established opinion
on UNITA) that it is in our interets to find a smart way to eliminate UNITA.

MAKALA