It is interesting to note that there has been only ONE apology... from a British prime minister...and that is from Tony Blair. Now we are happy that his office had the courage to say...sorry for this crime. But there are many more issues to think about here.
1. Do we take the word of a war criminal?
2. What is being done by the people for Britain to repair the damage caused by slavery & imperialism in Africa by Britain and America,Italy, Portugal,France,Russia and China, Saudi Arabia and the UAE...Amongst I am sure ...many many others.
3. Who is responsible for the slave trade?
4. How have and how do the slavelords and their descendants benefit today from the criminal slave trade - and should we activate the "proceeds of crime act " in much the same way that the UK does so with its own criminals...and prosecutes criminals in much the same way as the Jews did the Nazis.
5. How much did America & Britain profit from the slave trade- and why are they the main perpetrators who need to be held to account?
But first what has news from the AUP?
Our first bit of news is that our vice president has been replaced by Frans Thukwane - an advocate from Pretoria . We wish to thank Pastor Charles Badenhorst for his valuable contribution in the first stage of the founding of our great movement and party; thank you Charles for your contribution!We all wish you well in the future in your working the Township of Daveyton and elsewhere across Africa! God bless you.
Frans will be running for local elections in Pretoria in 2016. In the mean time he will be responsible on the ground for any queries about the party's principles.He can be contacted on 082 0879165or by email on thandeni.thukwane@gmail.com. We have also appointed a new secretary for the party who is also able to answer any queries from the press. He is also heading up the business forum at the Business Ambassadors Club ( BAC)- His contact details are as follows 0847498396 Sam Siyonzana.
In other developments we have registered a new web address and are in the process of transferring the old site to the new as we felt the site needed to be revamped. The new address will be :
www.africauniteparty.org
And now to News from the UK...
In the UK our our president has decided to go into voluntary exile on account of the immoral apartheid regime of President Zuma. Mr. Denton stood against apartheid when it wasn't popular. He was arrested for his beliefs and had to leave South Africa time and again because he was called up to the army and refused to be enlisted. Mr Denton spent this time in exile from 1982-1994 to spread the word about life in an apartheid regime. It was his dream that all would be equal; before the law and all would live together in peace-black and white...
But under Thabo Mbeki in the year 2000 that all changed. Once Mandela and the unity government was history the ANC set about creating racist new laws that discriminated against white people.As a result of this discrimination and racist apartheid policy implemented by the BEE laws and other racist polices the hope that brought South Africa its miracle in 1994...was gone.
In the last 20 years we have seen over 4000 farm murders and around 25000 racially motivated violent deaths.It was generally and is generally ignored by the mainstream media ; but it is nevertheless...a fact.
This party was initially created at the request of those victims of racial violence.However,we were prohibited from standing in the May elections by the corrupt IEC chairperson(who by the way has been sacked )...and even the constitutional court would not hear our legal argument proposed by Hogan Lowells attorneys.
So it was then up to this party to make a decision once again...do we participate in a morally corrupt regime...or not?
In the last 20 years over 1000 000 South Africans have voted with their feet and left the country...perhaps more !
And that should tell you something.Were they all racist? I don't think so. Perhaps they were all sick and tired of empty promises and corrupt officials who once were revolutionaries who cared about the fate of the people...
There are those who will never leave South Africa... but there are those that NEED to leave South Africa - to make others aware of what is happening.
And until the racist laws and President Zuma answers for his crimes... The President of the Africa Unite Party shall not return to South Africa.
But let us return to what the intrepid adventures of Mr. Denton in the UK.As you might see from the above photo we have been test driving the electric car invented by Elon Musk... A South African Billionaire living in Bel Air, Los Angeles, America.
It felt like a horizontal bungy jump as I accelerated from 0- 60mph in 4.2 seconds on a deserted street in London.It is soundless. Doesn't make a sound... I think in a way it could be dangerous because it doesn't warn those it creeps up on... the seats were OK but I felt the neck could have been more supported.I was impressed by the console screen and its features...you can even tune in to the radio station of your choice..I was listening to 702 radio in London...how about that!!
I have a friend in Edinburgh I went to visit- another South African who wont be returning to South Africa because of its racist policies... He like I love south Africa but not what it is doing to its own citizens...
The rate of evolution of consciousness will take another 200 years before all people are equal. It is in the minds and in the hearts of south africans that the change must take place...you cannot blame or scapegoat white people... think about it... if one south african leaves with his or her skills...he takes not just money but possibility... so many south africans have excelled with their ingenuity and expertise..and many have disinvested... why?
Because of the policies of the ANC.
My friend Ian left in the mid 90s and hasn't returned.He is now the proud owner of a string of South African restaurants and is worth several millions...check out ...
www.shebeenbar.co.uk
And I could go on...my sister went to Australia and is making more money now in one day than she made in South Africa as a journalist in one month...
check out www.kindynews.com
And the list goes on..- who are the biggest losers?
The people of South Africa...
who creates wealth?
it is the innovator... the creator of the idea...take the innovation away and you have nothing.
What our mission is as a party is to bring back the confidence into Africa by improving its governance.
Bristol where we are based in Europe was the centre of the slave trade in the world. Preachers like John and Charles Wesley spoke out against slavery and inspired people like William Wilberforce to lobby against and to abolish slavery... they succeeded...and they were both Christians.
Slavery was an Unchristian exercise.
In the first month here in Bristol Ive been trying to find out what Bristol has done to acknowledge its past and reconcile it to the present. Ive been trying to understand if they know what the effects of this crime against humanity were...and how the people of Britain benefited and continue to benefit from the proceeds of this crime.Between 1697 and 1807, 2,108 known ships left Bristol to make the trip to Africa and onwards across the Atlantic with slaves. An average of twenty slaving voyages set sail a year.[5] Approximately 500,000 slaves were brought into slavery by these ships, representing one-fifth of the British slave trade during this time.[5] Profits from the slave trade ranged from 50% to 100% during the early 18th century. Bristol was already a comparatively wealthy city prior to this trade; as one of the three points of the slave triangle (the others being Africa and the West Indies), the city prospered. This triangle was called the Triangular Trade. The Triangular Trade involved delivering, as well receiving, goods from each stop the ship took.
And the main beneficiaries of this crime were the slavelords who are the current pillars of the establishment.If historical crimes can be prosecuted by the judiciary... eg rolf harris and cliff richards... and the proceeds of crime can be recovered... what then about the slavelords and their children and shareholders???
I am of course talking about Barclays bank... and others...and why are these criminals Honoured today in Bristol? " COLSTON Tower Colston Hall... Cabot circus... etc.. Black boy hill...
Between 1698 and 1807, around 2100 slaving related ship voyages sailed out of the port of Bristol and most of them were involved in trading with the American colonies. Visitors to Bristol can discover this dark history at the city's new Harbourside museum, M Shed or on aBristol Pirate Walk. Pero’s Bridge on Bristol's Harbourside, is named after Pero Jones, who was the African servant of a plantation owner. There is also a slave trade walking trail which explores Bristol's historical associations with the slave trade in detail.
why have the good people of Bristol stuck their heads in the sand????
here is part the reason...
Then there is Colston Hall, a major music venue named after Edward Colston, a philanthropist and merchant who paid for several schools, churches and hospitals, many of which survive to this day. Much of Colston's wealth came from the trade – and his investments in the RAC. The Bristol band Massive Attack have pledged never to play at the venue until its name is changed.
On Corn Street is an impressive, honey-coloured building with a worn stone pl aque proclaiming "the Old Bank". The bank was formed by slave traders and, after being merged with others, went on to become the NatWest.
Such buildings are testimony to a trade that was conducted with extraordinary vigour. It is estimated that Britain transported more than three million African people across the Atlantic (500,000 on Bristol ships alone), an epic trade that involved some 10,000 voyages and swelled the coffers of the owners. By the Victorian era, as many as one in six of the wealthiest Britons derived at least some of their fortunes from slavery. Few seemed to have any qualms. The Quakers, for example, had been enthusiastic investors.
"Before 1760, they were up to their eyeballs in it," said Madge Dresser, associate professor in history at the University of the West of England. Later they were in the vanguard of the 19th-century antislavery movement.
And after abolition finally came, those who had participated – including, as the UCL project reveals, the ancestors of Graham Greene, George Orwell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning – were handsomely compensated for their lost income.
In 1833 parliament approved the payment of £20m to the former slave owners – 40% of the government's expenditure that year, equivalent to £16bn in today's money. Much of the wealth generated was concentrated in the West Country.
My first mission was to uncover the past.I met a guy from Equatorial Guinea ... he showed me a secret entrance to a slave cave that was used in the past apparently to house slaves on their transit to America whilst the ships were being provisioned.
We found a way in but unfortunately it was bricked up...I estimated the bricks at around 50 or 60 years old.
Later I discovered another cave below an ancient mansion - probably owned by a slavelord...but now donated to the University of West England... - Burwall House...
I have requested a meeting with the mayor of bristol to discuss these and other issues about how best to move forward and bring unity between the past and the future... between Africa and Europe... and I have also been in contact with some key African leaders...
Our aim is to acquire a building that can be converted into an Africa Centre or embassy of a United States or Nations of Africa.
I would also like to see a scholarship fund created for the best and brightest of African peoples.
Theres a lot of work to heal the wounds created by slavery ,colonisation and imperialism... it is an ongoing blight upon the people of Africa...and that is why we need to UNITE...that is why ALL Africans from the South to the North..from the West to The East ..and all of our africans in the diaspora in the Caribbean and in the Americas...and elsewhere around the planet need to feel that these great injustices are being dealt with...
The AUP and the AUM is an organisation that seeks to redress the imbalances of the past... it seeks to heal the divisions created by the evils of APARTHEID AND POVERTY... it seeks to generate a new dawn in africa that will empower and release all Africans into a greater future for all...but to do that we need to get rid of the "houseniggers..."
The Bank of England, set up in 1694, made capital available for slave voyages and the City became the financial centre of the slave trade. Alexander and David Barclay were Quaker slave traders who operated in the West Indies , and founded Barclay’s Bank on slave trade profits. Sir Francis Baring whose family eventually founded Barings Bank, had major financial interests in slavery. Today Baring Road London
The footprint of slavery can also be seen in the world of art, culture, and religion. The Church of England was heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade. In February 2006, the Church voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade, ‘recognising the damage done’ to those enslaved.
I use this word as it was used in the deep south by african slaves ...of themselves...and NOT in a racist manner...when i talk about House-nigger I talk about those that have capitulated to greed and sold out the principles of the struggle which is the freedom of all africans...black and white, brown and yellow...ALL african peoples...and in a socialist viewpoint of thinking that includes all those who are impoverished by the decadent society we live in today that oppresses one man over another making him a wage slave...SO THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE CONTINUES...
by Editor 03 Jul 2012 - 09 Jul 2012
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On 11 June 2012, we raised concern with the acquisition of 49.9% shares in Bank Windhoek by Barclays Bank.
We pointed out that Barclays Bank does not have a clean record and is at the top of a list of more than 700 companies which run the world through hook and crook as well as blood and sweat.
These companies fix food prices by hoarding stuff for speculation; they peddle arms and prop up oppressive regimes so that they can exploit resources or just make profit.
There is a lot Barclays is involved in not forgetting that it was formed from slave money. The blood of our African brothers who were stolen from the continent and sold abroad where they died like dogs watered the seed that is Barclays Bank today.
Of course, Barclays Bank does not admit this fact yet In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa; the late Walter Rodney makes it clear that the Barclay brothers - David and Alexander - established Barclay’s Bank in 1756 with the profits made in their slaving business.
David, who owned slaves which he worked on his Jamaican plantations admits to being a slave owner in an 1801 book titled An Account of the Emancipation of the Slaves of Unity Valley Pen, in Jamaica where he writes: “Having been a slave owner, and much dissatisfied in being so, I (am) determined to try the experiment of liberating my slaves; firmly convinced, that retaining my fellow creatures in bondage was not only irreconcilable with the precepts of Christianity, but subversive of the rights of human nature.”
He freed them but kept the proceeds of slavery! There is no evidence that he gave each of his slaves compensation for working them and making him rich. This is the money that set up Barclays Bank. He had made enough dough and did not want slaves any more. His experiment worked.
Furthermore, Barclays Bank acquired Heywoods Bank from Martins Bank in 1968. Heywoods Bank was an 18th Century money lender for the Atlantic slave trade.
Of course again, small-minded people who claim to be thinkers will say we are going back to the past. And we ask them: Why not go to the past if it’s the truth? And that truth is still as it was then? Why forget the truth and pretend that everything is fine when the perpetrators – more than 400 years after the sordid deed – are still exploiting the continent?
What we said on 11 June in this space has come to pass. Barclays Bank does not have good intentions although in some quarters, there is this narrow-mindedness about letting Bank Windhoek go to foreign investors simply because locals run things down.
That colonial thinking – locals which should be read as blacks – run things down. So because of that belief which is still being perpetuated by those endowed with inferiority complexes has kept the nation backward because they think that unless they work for the pale skinned, they are not working.
We pointed out that Barclays Bank does not have a clean record and is at the top of a list of more than 700 companies which run the world through hook and crook as well as blood and sweat.
These companies fix food prices by hoarding stuff for speculation; they peddle arms and prop up oppressive regimes so that they can exploit resources or just make profit.
There is a lot Barclays is involved in not forgetting that it was formed from slave money. The blood of our African brothers who were stolen from the continent and sold abroad where they died like dogs watered the seed that is Barclays Bank today.
Of course, Barclays Bank does not admit this fact yet In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa; the late Walter Rodney makes it clear that the Barclay brothers - David and Alexander - established Barclay’s Bank in 1756 with the profits made in their slaving business.
David, who owned slaves which he worked on his Jamaican plantations admits to being a slave owner in an 1801 book titled An Account of the Emancipation of the Slaves of Unity Valley Pen, in Jamaica where he writes: “Having been a slave owner, and much dissatisfied in being so, I (am) determined to try the experiment of liberating my slaves; firmly convinced, that retaining my fellow creatures in bondage was not only irreconcilable with the precepts of Christianity, but subversive of the rights of human nature.”
He freed them but kept the proceeds of slavery! There is no evidence that he gave each of his slaves compensation for working them and making him rich. This is the money that set up Barclays Bank. He had made enough dough and did not want slaves any more. His experiment worked.
Furthermore, Barclays Bank acquired Heywoods Bank from Martins Bank in 1968. Heywoods Bank was an 18th Century money lender for the Atlantic slave trade.
Of course again, small-minded people who claim to be thinkers will say we are going back to the past. And we ask them: Why not go to the past if it’s the truth? And that truth is still as it was then? Why forget the truth and pretend that everything is fine when the perpetrators – more than 400 years after the sordid deed – are still exploiting the continent?
What we said on 11 June in this space has come to pass. Barclays Bank does not have good intentions although in some quarters, there is this narrow-mindedness about letting Bank Windhoek go to foreign investors simply because locals run things down.
That colonial thinking – locals which should be read as blacks – run things down. So because of that belief which is still being perpetuated by those endowed with inferiority complexes has kept the nation backward because they think that unless they work for the pale skinned, they are not working.
The Africa Unite Party will continue to fight for the rights of the oppressed and stand against the powerful and rich who do not care about their fellow man.
The struggle Continues!!!
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