Ramaphosa’s Roelf Meyer Appointment: Surrender to US Imperialism, White Privilege
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s choice of Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s US Ambassador isn’t just bad diplomacy—it’s a humiliating capitulation proving the black majority’s liberation was sabotaged 30 years ago and now sold to American imperialism and white protection.
History remembers: As ANC National Spokesperson and junior negotiator during CODESA, I saw Ramaphosa—the ANC’s lead—forge an unseemly personal friendship and political alliance with Meyer, the apartheid National Party’s chief negotiator, through countless sessions and backroom deals.
It was on the basis of that firsthand experience that I have always been so vehemently opposed to Ramaphosa becoming the President of the ANC, and ultimately the President of South Africa.
Even then it was clear that he is a weak, spineless sell-out who has been handled by Roelf Meyer as his white handler. Meyer was never a partner in liberation — he was the guardian of white privilege, and Ramaphosa was all too willing to follow his direction.Roelf Meyer was no innocent reformer. He served as Apartheid Minister of Defence in 1991–1992 under F.W. de Klerk. He participated in the notorious State Security Council (SSC), the sinister apex body that planned, coordinated, and approved the apartheid regime’s cross-border military raids on ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe bases in the Frontline States, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, including women and children.
The same SSC systematically orchestrated the assassination of anti-apartheid leaders and fighters both inside and outside South Africa as part of a deliberate strategy of state terrorism to defend white minority rule. Meyer’s hands carry the bloody stains of that regime’s atrocities, yet today he is being rewarded with one of the most prestigious diplomatic postings in our foreign service.
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