I simply refuse to believe and/or accept
intelligent people – Guyanese at that – would be so aroused as to
petition South Africa’s African National Congress demanding the Oliver
Tambo award for Forbes Burnham.
Firstly,
it is apparent that the people of ANC who are responsible for awarding
the Oliver Tambo award did not do their homework. If they did; they
would have realized that Forbes Burnham and his illegal PNC regime did
business with the apartheid government of South Africa. Thus, Forbes
Burnham and members of his illegal PNC are ineligible for such an award.
Oliver
Tambo and Forbes Burnham had little or nothing in common. Oliver Tambo
and Forbes Burnham were two different people with different agenda and
different support system and sources of support. Tambo and Burnham are long dead. The award is meaningless to either man. Oliver
Tambo was Black Nationalist intent in bringing down the apartheid
regime in South Africa and replacing that illegal regime with the
legitimate government of African National Congress. Forbes Burnham was a
Machiavellian manipulator. Burnham was playing both sides of the coin. Never
mind the contributions Burnham and his illegal regime made to the
African liberation struggles in Southern Africa, Burnham did business
with South Africa. That’s a fact.
Tambo
was fighting an illegal regime in South Africa. Burnham was leading an
illegal regime in Guyana. Burnham exhibited numerous characteristics of a
despot. Burnham was a tyrant.
Oliver
Tambo is not known to be linked to the deaths and/or suffering of
African peoples anywhere on earth. Certainly, no notable African died as
a result of Tambo’s aspirations and unsavory actions.
I
don’t have a problem or issue with Burnham receiving the
Dingane-Mhlangana-Mbopa Award on Sunday, September 22, 2013, and /or on
September 22 of any year.
It
is criminal to even begin to think of creating an East Coast Demerara
1823 martyrs’ award to hand it to Burnham. Telemachus and the other
heroes of the East Coast Demerara Rebellion and the shareholders and
joint proprietors of the African communities of the East Coast would be
very offended by such an affront.
Friday, May 3, 2013
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