Dear President, your speech, invites another open letter

@PresidencyZA              @CyrilRamaphosa

Mr. President, for the first time I hear the aims of how many lives we are saving, “tens of thousands” by sacrificing South Africa’s economy, and our individual freedom and opportunity to feed and educate our families.

My ‘Voice of Reason’ considers the fact that throughout the World, since the introduction of the Free Market, early 1980s, economic and social stratification takes place, where the rich get richer, and the poor poorer, very simply, by buying from China, and other Asian countries, the manufacturing sector moves to the new suppliers, and employment removed from South Africans, any many countries.

Mr. President, I consider the greatest Human Rights abuse in the world, to be any Government, that fails to provide an opportunity for a parent, to feed and educate their children.

Even during World War II, when our fathers went to war to fight for the Commonwealth, our mothers were able to move freely, sourcing food and educating us children, even if they needed to stand in the food queue.

When our fathers were sent to War, the Government, gave no consideration to whether our fathers died for the flag, or how many innocent persons they would be required to kill.

As an 73 year-old man, should the Coronavirus take my life, I will accept it, what I can’t accept, is that for reasons unknown to me, my human rights are abused, and millions of people around the world’s human rights are being abused.

Mr. President, the billions of rand that our Prime Ministers / Presidents have pledged since 1902, has only reached the select minority, linked to the controlling economical and political force.

Towards the end of your President’s speech, April 21, I hear you say that part of the ‘restoration’ process, would be to re-introduce manufacturing back into South Africa.

Manufacturing disappeared in the early 1980s, and it can never be reintroduced, unless the Global Market makes that decision, the Free Market, buys where they wish, and sells where they wish how does the “President’s advisors”, during a period of 26 days, while they are directing the fight against the Coronavirus, make plans to manufacture, in competition with the Free Market.

It is common knowledge, that South Africa does not have the funds to cover the recovery of Eskom, SAA, to keep PRASA, the Post Office, the SABC, operating without regular bale-outs, so I believe that the trillions you have committed to restoration, will come from International loans, funding that will give the Global Market, the power to take control of South Africa.

Mr. President, world leaders are trapped in the control of all things ‘social and economic’ by the very wealthy families of the world, you likewise, are trapped in the China / USA trade conflict, which has trapped the international investors, and all the ‘unusual decisions / actions’ taking place around the world, are part of is Global Market restructuring of their Free Market.

Mr. President, if you are following the Chinese model, and you must be doing so, if you quote the saving of tens of thousands of lives, how do you respond to our China model, on April 07, they have nil deaths, ‘reported’ and lockdown is removed.

We look at the China model:

Period:   01 Jan  to Feb 12   1114 deaths @ ave 25,90/day 

Period:   03 Feb  to Apr 07  2012 deaths @ ave 36,58/day

On April 07 China reports nil deaths, and removes lockdown

Period:   08 Apr  to Apr 21  1506 deaths @ ave 107,57/day

Most Countries around the world, have experienced a ‘second wave of infection’, after removing lockdown, and both China and Japan, attribute the second wave of infection, to the ‘returning migrant workers’, and South Africa, who not only have migrant workers from our rural communities, but from Mozambique and Lesotho also.

Mr. President, we have been exposed to Coronavirus for 52 days, and our death total is 58, @ a rate of 0,0987 per 100000 of our population, when China goes through their 52 days, their death toll is 2918, @ a rate of 0,1941 per 100000.

The China death rate is 2,02 times higher than the South African rate at the same stage exposure, and 55 days later they have only moved to 4632 deaths, @ a rate of 0,3309 per 100000.

Mr. President, I call upon you, to provide details of how you have established that we are in the process of saving ‘tens of thousands of lives’. 

China had reached a level of no deaths of April 07, coinciding with the removal of lockdown, South Africa, I am not sure which model they are presently following, but have started opening lockdown, without me seeing the hidden model, or target that they had aimed for.

As an old man, having challenged the Free Market for many years, my mindset, once China and the USA go into conflict, sees the Global Market move into restructuring the markets, once China go into lockdown, on of South Africa’s main suppliers, may I add, at the expense of ‘buy South Africa’ all countries who buy from China, need to follow them into ‘lockdown’.

If we did not go into lockdown, our wholesalers and retailers would not have stock on the shelves, exposing the Global Markets weakness to the rest of the world, and as South Africa and other countries start to provide for themselves, it would be the end of the Free Market.

The Global Market required South Africa’s lockdown, and today, they place South Africa in a position, where you Mr. President, will not be able to maintain, total lockdown of the formal economy.

China and Japan are producing, and as a major customer of these countries, the Ports needed to be opened, in the interim, the investors of the Global World, need the mining industry to produce.

The Wine exports nearly started, but I am of the opinion that the Global Market is not ready to receive the wine, not till the Global Market removes the restrictions on alcohol outlets.

Mr. President, I have no bone to pick with you, the Global Market has dictated your actions, I personally have no objection to how you remove lockdown, the control that the world economy has, requires the formal economy to participate in the Global World, my only requirement is that we accept that we will have between 6000 and 11000 deaths before September 2020, open the informal economy urgently, this will relieve the pressures of the agricultural economy, as we get supplies into the majority of the population.

Our farmers are unable to sell their all the produce, and our poverty groups can benefit from cheap prices, until the economy returns to normal.

But then, our Corporate Supermarkets, part of the Global World, may lose their link permanently.

Please allow the African families to bury their families according to their culture, the family will protect the family and their communities. If we do not do this, the bodies will pile up, traditionally, we have 100 000 elderly dying every year,not related to the Coronavirus, they have a Human Right, to bury their elders according to their culture.

My blogs are published in the interests of the poverty groups, and your Consultants and Advisors are welcome to contact me, maybe they could give me the motivations for why our Human Rights should be abused?

Till you next public address.

Cedric de la Harpe

cedric@cedricdelaHarpe.co.za