The Battle for South Africa

Undeclared War

Author: Ivor Benson

In the light of developments in Southern Africa during the last few months of 1978, it has been decided to add two new chapters to the second edition of this book. These are an Introduction, entitled The Third South African War, and a new Chapter 4, entitled What Happened in Rhodesia.

Events on the continent of Africa since Mr. Harold MacMillan, then British Prime Minister, delivered his celebrated Wind of Change speech at Cape Town early in February 1960, are quite unintelligible unless seen and understood as part of what has been happening all over the world during the present century. The facts belong together and therefore, have no content of historical meaning when considered separately. In other words, if we wish to understand the present undeclared war on Southern Africa we must first set it in a valid context of history, a task which has been attempted in the first part of this little book.

Another global aspect of the struggle is briefly examined in Part I, helping to explain the furious urgency of the pressures now being brought to bear on South Africa, all ostensibly designed to expand the area of freedom and justice, it appears that the continued independence and self-determination of South Africa, the world’s biggest supplier of newly mined gold is seen as the greatest single obstacle to the setting up of a global, totalitarian monetary system, therefore, also as the greatest threat to a tottering monetary system.

Part III provides a a concise account of what has been happening in Africa since 1960, with the creation of a form of autonomy and independence which ensures the destruction of the old forms of sovereignty, colonialism, and permits the setting up of new forms of sovereignty so precarious and so artificial that it is an easy matter to dominate them, the words of Dr. Franco Nogueira. former Foreign Minister of Portugal. In this part, also, we see how, like two hoodlums working in partnership, the capitalist West promotes policies in Africa which operate almost always to the advantage of Soviet Communist imperialism.

The main battle, however, unsuspected by millions of people, especially in the Western world, is fought inside their own minds as the motives of a tiny minority of power wielders are translated, by the magic of the media, into some semblance of the will of mankind. How the battle is fought, or, rather how the assault on the public mind is conducted, is briefly explained in Chapter 5, which is a summary of two papers accepted for distribution at two recent conferences of the World Anti-Communist League.

By challenging, the establishment version of contemporary history, this book offers, at least, a starting point for the few who insist on having opinions which they have some right to call their own.

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