DID NELSON MANDELA SELLOUT?

By Teboho Sekhosana

 DID NELSON MANDELA SELLOUT?

July is known worldwide as Mandela Month emanating from the 18th of July being named the International Mandela Day by the United Nations as part of celebrating Madiba's birthday. The day started with the late statemen's instruction that people should dedicate 67 minutes of their time to public service, doing good for society on the 18th of July every year as a way of celebrating his birthday. The 67 minutes is a representation of the 67 years Nelson Mandela dedicated to the service of society. Later on the United Nation adopted this day and named it the International Mandela Day. The day has gained popularity and it is being celebrated or commemorated the world over. It is indubitable that Nelson Mandela has become a world icon celebrated by different people for different reasons. His legacy is a contested one with some propounding that he sold out with others on the other side advancing an argument that he did all that was possible at that juncture.

Those advancing the argument that Nelson Mandela sold out point out the following :
Nelson Mandela upon his release from prison spoke of the Freedom Charter which amongst other things contains the nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy including the mines, banks, ect.
He then went on the world tour which included touring countries such as the United States of America and Britain .On his return from the tours from the United States of America and the United Kingdom he then changed his tune on Nationalization and told the world and his comrades in the ANC that nationalization is not a policy of the ANC.
At this stage Nelson Mandela was housed by some of the captains of the White Monopoly Capital such as the Oppenheimers . It was Nelson Mandela and his ANC leadership collective who allowed the likes of Joe Slovo to sneak in the Sunset Clause into the interim and later the new constitution of the country. The SunSet Clause can be found in Section 25 of the Republic's Constitution, this is a private property clause  which is aimed at protecting the private property. Now in the South African context a country which is emerging from Colonialism/Apartheid which is characterized by the violent dispossession of the Natives (Afrikans) of their land by the invading force of Europeans(Whites), Natives were reduced into slaves after being dispossessed of their land ,live stock and culture. How could Nelson Mandela and his ANC allow for a protection of private property clause in the constitution of a new nation which was meant to be about redressing the injustices of the past?. Whose property  
My name is Teboho Sekhosana I'm an ex Numsa Shopsteward trained in Grievance and Case Handling. Political activists who has had a privilege to spend time in South America(Venezuela)

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