I came across this article on June 29th and saved it. It delves into something that I talked about before where when things were White-Only. The White South African Government had a number of advantages FOR IT. With its main, hold up... Lemme...!?
I think this fits perfectly;
Skewed perceptions.
Warped perceptions.
All controlled and dictated by Whites & White-Jews.
I decided to use the Birth of Galvatron in this post and SPECIFICALLY in regards to SA, because the entire country was designed to suit-n-serve ONLY WHITE South Africans. Which means any GOVERNMENT FUNDS were ALWAYS FUNNELED TO-N-FOR THEIR NEEDS. PERIOD. Now? I never got as deep into it as I should have with Stacey, but I believe PEOPLE OF ALL RACES STILL HAD TO PAY TAXES. So how's that for the ULTIMATE FUCK YOU. If you HAPPEN TO GET A JOB, if this is the way things were, BECAUSE IT IS THAT WAY HERE. So lemme REPEAT THAT.
Black Americans PAY TAXES.
White Americans ALWAYS CLAIM WE'RE LAZY OR LAZY OR LAZY-&-BROKE, PLUS LAZY-N-BROKE-N-CRIMINAL-PLUS CRIMINAL.
So then we pay taxes, we DON'T GET OUR FAIR SHARE OF THE TAXES DIVIDED TO US. City Services in OUR PARTS OF THE WHEREVER, tend to be sub par or LACKING IN SOME WAY. I think that Black Americans should PROTEST BY NOT PAYING TAXES FOR A FEW YEARS ALL AT ONCE AND THEN SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
Set the money ASIDE IN AN ESCROW. Cuz I don't need any of you to get HEMMED UP WORSE, BUT!? Just as a TEST. To see WHAT IMPACT WE HAVE. Just DON'T PAY TAXES FOR 3-YEARS. And let's see what happens TO THIS COUNTRY. I think THAT is a BETTER PROTEST. And I say KEEP IT IN ESCROW, because SOME OF YOU WILL START WITH THE KNEE-KNOCKING AND WANNA BAIL ON IT. Cool! I GET IT. So have the money HIDDEN AWAY AND NOT IN A BANK! NO BANKS! NOTHING ELECTRONIC SO THEY CAN SNATCH IT AND SHIT! Go old fashion RAW-DOG and HIDE THE SHIT SOMEWHERE AND SIT ON IT. Do your taxes. Look into the FEES FOR LATENESS, REALLY PLAN-N-MAP SHIT OUT AND THEN...!?
Don't fuckin send it in. If we can get AT LEAST 1/2 of Our Population TO DO THAT!? Over 3-years!? OH!? WE'LL SEE SOMETHING HAPPEN AND NOT JUST NAZI-COPS RUNNING AROUND SAYING "FUCK DID U HIDE YOUR TAXES NIGGERS!? C'MON STOP FUCKIN AROUND AND PAY!? HEY, THERE GOES ANOTHER ONE! STOP THEM! LOOK GUYS YOU'RE FUCKIN IT UP FOR EVERYBODY WITH THIS SHIT! DON'T MAKE ME TAZE YOU FOR YOUR TAXES!"
So we have the same SITUATION HERE, where I'm not sure if during Apartheid EVERYBODY HAD TO STILL PAY TAXES. While KNOWING you're NEVER gonna get your fair share! So with a country CENTERED AROUND a minority WHITE population, like I said!? While you COLLECT TAXES FROM EVERYONE and then GET SUPPORT from the Larger White Power-White Supremacy Structure. It's a SWEET DEAL. For all the FAKE OUTRAGE by Whites in other countries during Apartheid, they DAMN SURE DID TRAVEL TO SOUTH AFRICA TO VACATION THOUGH, now didn't they!
So now when Apartheid ENDS?! O_O Now all of a sudden THE COST OF HAVING EVERYBODY INCLUDED MAKES EVERYTHING RIDICULOUSLY DIFFERENT! Than when the Whites were rulin-n-NOT SCHOOLIN. Everything that used to be CHEAP AND EASY TO ADMINISTER? Is now staring back at you as what will you keep? What will you cut back on? How will you meet budget for THIS DEPARTMENT? How will you raise funds for THAT DEPARTMENT? Now you're talking about the ELECTRICAL GRID that WAS NEVER MEANT FOR ANYONE BUT WHITES. Now you're talking about THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. THAT WAS NEVER MEANT FOR BLACKS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN! This is some SERIOUS SHIT. And money has got to come from SOMEPLACE! Now? Unlike when shit was Whites-Only, now? The Larger White Power Structure-n-System, isn't giving you anymore SWEET HEART DEALS AND LOANS. NOPE!
NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KAFFIRS! YOU GOTTA PAY JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE NIGGERS DO! Which is some BULLSHIT! Because now with NO STABLE BLACK COUNTRIES TO IMMEDIATELY DO DEALS WITH TO OFF-SET THE WHITES TRYING TO FUCK YOU OVER, well? Uhhh? Now? You end up with "Well we will LOAN YOU THIS. But you MUST GUARANTEE THAT TO US. Oh we will GIVE YOU THIS. If you GIVE US THAT." and these concessions are things that THEY KNOW you do NOT. WANT. TO PART WITH. Like for instance....
South Africa, the nation that gave up its nukes
F.W. DE KLERK
December 22, 2013
It would be a mistake to think that the end of the Cold War also ended the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Nuclear-armed states continue to deploy huge arsenals of nuclear weapons, other states continue with their efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and there is the alarming possibility that such weapons might fall into the hands of terrorists.
Accordingly, it might be helpful to consider the factors that led South Africa to develop nuclear weapons in the 1970s, and the reasons why it decided to dismantle them in 1989.
In 1974, as Soviet influence began expanding in southern Africa, our country decided to build a small number of nuclear bombs. After the collapse of the Portuguese empire in Africa in 1975, South Africa's industrial heartland was suddenly vulnerable to air attack from the Soviet Union's new allies in the region.
The buildup of Cuban forces in Angola from 1975 onward reinforced the perception that a deterrent was necessary, as did South Africa's growing international isolation and the fact that it could not rely on outside assistance in case of an attack.
South Africa produced six fairly simple Hiroshima-type atom bombs. The strategy was that if the situation in southern Africa were ever to seriously deteriorate, one or more of the major powers would be told of the bombs' existence in an attempt to persuade those nations to intervene. There was never any intention to use the devices, which were regarded purely as a deterrent.
For the following 16 years, the nuclear weapons program was one of South Africa's most closely guarded secrets. During this time, I was involved in the program for a short period while I was minister of mineral and energy affairs.
Soon after I became president in 1989, Foreign Minister Pik Botha urged me to take two key steps if we wished to improve South Africa's relationship with the world: The first was to release Nelson Mandela, and the second was to dismantle our nuclear weapons and accede to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. (OHHHHHHHHHHHH! Now you fucked up! How convenient that the conditions are Let Mandela go and OH YEAH. Since the Niggers will be in charge, DO NOT LEAVE THOSE NUKES THERE OR ELSE WE WILL PUT A BULLET IN YOUR HEAD! Get those nukes, a-bombs or NOT! Get'em the fuck outta the way and DO NOT! LET THE ANC GET HOLD OF THEM! Niggers with Nukes is a NO-GO! But somehow this fuckin FOOL! Believes that Black People are supposed to be DUMB ENOUGH TO MISS THIS. They had NUKES OR ATOM BOMBS FOR HOW LONG!? But then Black SA are going to end up IN CHARGE and now it's "Oh and by the way, get rid of those nukes. This is where the frustration between the Black-&-White Race EVERYWHERE is so fuckin HIGH. Because Whites will LIE RIGHT TO OUR FUCKIN FACES! Right to Our COLLECTIVE FACES! Claiming that "now things are... different". Yeah, it's called you don't want ANY BLACK PEOPLE to be able to say I will GET YOU THAT SUN-TAN YOU WANTED REAL FAST IF YOU DON'T GET OUTTA MY FUCKIN COUNTRIES AFFAIRS! AND MIND YA BUSINESS!)
I had already decided to take both steps. I was determined to begin a process of radical constitutional transformation, which would of necessity require the release of Mandela and the commencement of multiparty constitutional negotiations.
Dismantling South Africa's nuclear capability and signing the NPT also made sense to me. Nuclear weapons had no value in the kind of border wars we were fighting, and the prospect of using them against neighboring countries was too appalling to be contemplated. (Oh he is SUCH A HUMANI-fuck outta here. Phony-ass.)
Also, by the end of 1989, it had become clear that the world — and South Africa — had changed fundamentally since the mid-1970s.
In December 1988, agreement had been reached among Angola, Cuba and the United States for the withdrawal of 50,000 Cuban troops from Angola, followed the next year by a cease-fire agreement there.
The withdrawal of the Cuban forces opened the way to the implementation of the United Nations independence plan for Namibia, which until then had been ruled by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate. The successful independence of Namibia in 1990 showed that positive outcomes could be achieved through negotiations, even with one's bitterest enemies. (AGAIN!? White Power is being lost so, HEY!? ACTING! HEY!? ACTING!? LET THOSE BLACKS GO NOW, CUZ WE CAN'T BENEFIT ANYMORE! Wow, scummy.)
And the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism had created a completely new global strategic environment, removing one of South Africa's central concerns. I realized that there would never again be so favorable an opportunity for negotiations with our regional neighbors, so my colleagues and I did not hesitate to act.
Under these circumstances, it no longer made any sense for South Africa to retain its limited nuclear weapons capability — if, indeed, it had ever made sense. In 1989, as president, I made the decision to dismantle South Africa's atom bombs. (See? THIS IS A MASTER MANIPULATOR.)
We signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in July 1991 and concluded a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency that September.
Unfortunately, South Africa is still the only state that has ever voluntarily dismantled its entire nuclear weapons capability. Nuclear states continue to give lip service to the goal of nuclear disarmament, but little has been achieved in practice. (BECAUSE THEY CONTROLLED THEIR OWN DECISION-MAKING PROCESS, ASS, OF HOLE! In TYPICAL White South African Fashion, he ARBITRARILY makes a decision that was ALL AGREED ON BY WHITES FROM EVERYWHERE ELSE AND HIM.)
South Africa has illustrated that long-term security can be far better assured by the abrogation of nuclear weapons than by their retention.
The core of the regional and national threats that confronted us before 1989 did not lie in military weakness but in escalating tensions between black and white South Africans arising from apartheid. The solution was not the acquisition of greater military power through the development of nuclear weapons but the abolition of apartheid and the negotiation of a new non-racial constitution.
The international community must take concrete steps to control, and finally eliminate, nuclear weapons as a thinkable option. This will require greater support for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and more rapid movement by existing nuclear weapons states toward the reduction and dismantling of their stockpiles. The world should realize that real security does not lie in increasing our power to destroy others; it lies in our ability to live with others on the basis of peace and justice.
F.W. de Klerk was president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize along with Nelson Mandela for bringing an end to apartheid in South Africa.
So this article BY FW DE-JERK! Highlights that Whites were already working on what can be done TO UNDERMINE a Black South Africa. And the first step was, get those goddamn NUKES! Now? SOME OR MANY OF YOU MAY BELIEVE JACOB ZUMA IS AN IDIOT! Well then, guess what? YOU ARE THE IDIOT! Do NOT BE FOOLED by his BUMBLING NONSENSE. He is FAR FROM ANYWHERE NEAR AS STUPID AS HE PRETENDS TO BE! Like the White European Court Jester of Old it is the Court Jester that knows ALL OF THE COURTS DIRTY SECRETS. And it is the Court Jester that gets to MAKE AN ASS OUT OF HIMSELF AND TO ENTERTAIN THE COURT-N-THE KING!With jokes and antics that cut dangerously close to who everyone assembled actually is and what they ACTUALLY. HONESTLY. DO. Zuma has been playing a strategic chess game with Obama who has constantly tried to get him to COME UP OFF OF that nuclear material THAT WAS MELTED DOWN WHEN DE-JERK SOLD SA OUT AND GOT RID OF THEIR NUKE PROGRAM. However the various White Power Players have started to see that BUNGLING-ASS Jacob Zuma, may not be as STUPID as he's pretending to be. They've been on his ass to give up the nuclear material and he's refused. MYSTERIOUSLY someone tried to STEAL the nuke-material, yet once the raid FAILED...?
Nobody GOT, NOBODY GOT CHARGED! I PERSONALLY BELIEVE that the reason why the Raid went so fuckin SMOOTHLY and NEARLY SUCCEEDED was because Zuma knows he can rebuild the nuclear weapons and actually equip SA with REAL NUCLEAR WEAPON CAPABILITY. The RAIDERS were actually SA, RAIDING ITSELF! To steal the nuke-material and then Zuma intended to blame someone else while then developing nuclear weapons in secret! For the RECORD. Whites during Apartheid HAD DEVELOPED CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS! IN SECRET! They then CLAIMED that it was... DEFENSIVE ONLY. But as recent as... 1998 AND IT WAS CALLED PROJECT COAST! But shit came out in 98 that it was DEFENSIVE MY ASS! Like I said, this is why I said. SHIT IS SERIOUS OUT HERE PEOPLE. Zuma appears to be trying to equip SA so that can AT LEAST have the same WEAPONRY as the White Countries like here in Nazi-America, that it is COMPETING WITH. As well as "in league with" LIKE RUSSIA AND CHINA.
Who do you think has been pushing to get Zuma to come up off that nuclear-material?
Black People, we do NOT HAVE the ADVANCED WEAPONRY WHITES HAVE. You have SEEN THE YOUTUBES I HAVE PUT UP. WE OUR DEFENSELESS IN EVERY FUCKIN WAY! They fuckin DECIDE TO MARCH AGAINST ANY OF US, ANYWHERE! WE'RE FUCKIN DEAD! At THEIR LEISURE, they can mobilize and of course NAZI-AMERICA is THEE STRONGEST MONSTROSITY ON THE PLANET! IF ALL IT IS ABOUT IS DESTROY EVERYTHING AND FUCK WHATEVER IS LEFT! Zuma IS NO SAINT! But YOU BETTER LEARN ABOUT WHAT'S GOING-ON OUTSIDE YOUR BORDERS BEFORE YOU KEEP BLASTING HIS ASS! This country I'm in right now? IS WATCHING SA LIKE A HAWK! WATCHING NIGERIA LIKE A HAWK! Because YOUR COUNTRY AND NIGERIA! STAND THE GREATEST CHANCES OF CATCHING UP TO THEM AS BLACK COUNTRIES OF AFRICA! And I for one AM ROOTING FOR YOUR SUCCESS 24/7!
Here is the article;
U.S. unease about nuclear-
weapons fuel takes aim at a
South African vault
PELINDABA, South Africa — Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half a dozen bombs, each powerful enough to obliterate central Washington or most of Lower Manhattan, is locked in a former silver vault at a nuclear research center near the South African capital.
Technicians extracted the highly enriched uranium from the apartheid regime’s nuclear weapons in 1990, then melted the fuel down and cast it into ingots. Over the years, some of the cache has been used to make medical isotopes, but roughly 485 pounds remains, and South Africa is keeping a tight grip on it.
That gives this country — which has insisted that the United States and other world powers destroy their nuclear arsenals — a theoretical ability to regain its former status as a nuclear-weapons state. But what really worries the United States is that the nuclear explosives here could be stolen and used by militants to commit the worst terror attack in history.
Senior current and former U.S. officials say they have reason to be concerned. On a cold night in November 2007, two teams of raiders breached the fences here at the Pelindaba research center, set in the rolling scrubland a half-hour’s drive west of Pretoria, the country’s administrative capital. One group penetrated deep into the site unchallenged and broke into the site’s central alarm station. They were stopped only because a substitute watch officer summoned others.
The episode remains a source of contention between Pretoria and Washington because no suspects were ever charged with the assault, and officials here have dismissed it as a minor, bungled burglary. U.S. officials and experts — backed up by a confidential South African security report — say to the contrary that the assailants appeared to know what they were doing and what they wanted: the bomb-grade uranium. They also say the raid came perilously close to succeeding.
The episode still spooks Washington, which as a result has waged a discreet diplomatic campaign to persuade South Africa to get rid of its large and, by U.S. reckoning, highly vulnerable stock of nuclear-weapons fuel.
But South African President Jacob Zuma, like his predecessors, has resisted the White House’s persistent entreaties and generous incentives to do so, for reasons that have partly baffled and enormously frustrated the Americans.
President Obama, in a previously undisclosed private letter sent to Zuma in August 2011, went so far as to warn Zuma that a terrorist nuclear attack would be a “global catastrophe.” He proposed that South Africa transform its nuclear explosives into benign reactor fuel, with U.S. help.
If Zuma agreed, the White House would trumpet their deal at a 2012 summit on nuclear security in South Korea, Obama wrote, according to a copy of the letter. Together, he said, the two nations could “better protect people around the world.”
Zuma was unmoved, however, and in a letter of his own, he insisted that South Africa needs its nuclear materials and was capable of keeping them secure. He did not accept a related appeal from Obama two years later, current and former senior U.S. officials said.
Differing points of view
The United States says there are reasons to be concerned about South Africa’s nuclear explosives. (Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
Washington may bear a special responsibility for ensuring that South Africa’s materials do not wind up in the wrong hands.
Over nine years ending in 1965, it helped South Africa build its first nuclear reactor under the Atoms for Peace program and then trained scientists to run it with U.S.-supplied, weapons-grade uranium fuel. Washington finally cut off the fuel supply in 1976, after becoming convinced the apartheid regime had used nuclear research to create a clandestine bomb program, fueled by its own highly enriched uranium.
The apartheid regime hatched the bomb program at a time when it faced sabotage at home, wars on its borders and increasing international isolation. But by the end of the Cold War, the government realized that its whites-only rule would have to be scrapped, and so its leaders ordered the weapons destroyed and the production facilities dismantled, while holding onto the explosive fuel.
In interviews, top officials in both countries made clear that they see the issue through different prisms. Zuma’s appointees assert that it is absurd for the United States to obsess over the security of the country’s small stockpile while downplaying the starker threat posed by the big powers’ nuclear arsenals.
Raising the threat of nuclear terror, officials here say, is an excuse to restrict the spread of peaceful and profitable nuclear technology to the developing world, and to South Africa in particular.
This claim of being singled out is similar to that made by another emerging nuclear power: Iran. And for good reason: Both countries defiantly constructed facilities to enrich uranium in the past, over foreign opposition, and want the rest of the world to agree they have a right to do it in the future. They have long been diplomatic friends and trading partners and have discussed helping one another’s nuclear research.
But this demand for enrichment rights — which Tehran wants enshrined in an agreement with six great powers — is hardly theirs alone. Although the Obama administration has tried to discourage uranium enrichment everywhere, leaders in Brazil, Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Jordan and South Korea say they see nuclear power, along with the ability to enrich uranium, as their right.
By most accounts, Iran doesn’t have significant amounts of weapons uranium, only the means to make it. But it stands accused by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — and behind it, by the United Nations Security Council — with failing to come clean about past nuclear work with weapons applications. That’s why Iran has been hit with sanctions.
South Africa, in contrast, was praised by the IAEA in 1995 for “transparency and openness” in discussing its weapons program. The agency also declared it had no reason to suspect that South Africa’s inventory of fissile materials was incomplete or that the program had not been completely stopped and dismantled.
Unlike Iran, however, South Africa already possesses highly enriched uranium — nearly a quarter-ton of it, which the United States has tried but failed to pry loose. That’s why current and former U.S. officials say that South Africa is now the world’s largest uncooperative holder of nuclear explosives, outside of the nine existing nuclear powers.
Few outside the weapons states possess such a large stockpile of prime weapons material, and none has been as defiant of U.S. pressure to give it up.
Told what this story would say, the South African government responded Friday with a statement reaffirming its view that the November 2007 break-in was a run-of-the-mill burglary and asserting that the weapons uranium is safe.
“We are aware that there has been a concerted campaign to undermine us by turning the reported burglary into a major risk,” said Clayson Monyela, spokesperson for the country’s foreign ministry, called the Department of International Relations and Cooperation. He said the IAEA had raised no concerns, and that “attempts by anyone to manufacture rumors and conspiracy theories laced with innuendo are rejected with the contempt they deserve.”
A crime problem
Experts consider highly enriched uranium the terrorists’ nuclear explosive of choice. A bomb’s worth could fit in a five-pound sack and emit so little radiation that it could be carried around in a backpack with little hazard to the wearer. Physicists say a sizable nuclear blast could be readily achieved by slamming two shaped chunks of it together at high speed.
Several months before becoming responsible for White House nonproliferation policies last year, arms control expert Jon Wolfsthal told the Center for Public Integrity in an interview that the U.S. motives for seeking to clean out South Africa’s weapons uranium were straightforward and that they focused on the stockpile held at Pelindaba.
“The bottom line is that South Africa has a crime problem,” Wolfsthal said. “They have a facility that is holding onto material that they don’t need and a political chip on their shoulder about giving up that material. That has rightly concerned the United States, which is trying to get rid of any cache of HEU [highly enriched uranium] that is still out there.”
Thanks in part to U.S. efforts, just nine non-nuclear-weapon states besides South Africa still have enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon, although mostly not in a readily usable form, according to Miles Pomper, senior research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies: Germany, Japan, Canada, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands and Belarus.
Each has been similarly asked by Washington and its allies to reduce or eliminate their stocks of highly enriched uranium. Canada, Japan, Kazakhstan, Italy and Poland promised publicly at the 2014 White House nuclear security summit to reduce their holdings in the next few years. Belgium said it would eliminate its stocks “in time.”
For South Africa, maintaining a grip on its bomb fuel is tangled up with its national pride, its suspicion of big power motivations and its anger over Washington’s past half-measures in opposing apartheid. “It’s a technical issue with an emotional overhang,” said Donald Gips, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 2009 to 2013.
Some of its top officials complained privately, Gips said, that Washington’s pressure stems from a conviction that Africans “cannot be trusted to keep nuclear materials.”
Other South Africans have said that by refusing to let go of its uranium, the country retains the higher political and scientific stature of a country such as Japan, which is considered “nuclear weapons-capable” while possessing none. (Note; Japan has one of THE LARGEST "Peace Keeping Forces" ON THE PLANET!)
The chief obstacle to achieving one of the White House’s top arms control priorities, according to U.S. officials, is Zuma, the president since May 2009. He led the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to another victory last year with 62 percent of the vote and could serve at least through 2019.
Zuma, a former ANC intelligence chief, is a shrewd populist and one of the most influential figures in the Non-Aligned Movement representing 120 mostly developing nations. That’s why Washington thought swift action by Zuma could set a valuable precedent.
Obama’s election was celebrated here, and the two presidents seemed to forge a personal bond at their first meeting in July 2009, raising White House hopes for progress. A team of senior Energy and State department officialstraveled to Pretoria a month later to sell the idea of relinquishing the explosive materials.
Obama invited Zuma to a series of White House summits on nuclear security and dispatched scientists from U.S. nuclear-weapons labs and FBI antiterrorist experts to help protect the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg against nuclear-related threats.
After Zuma nonetheless rejected Obama’s 2011 plea, Obama raised the issue again, during a trip to Pretoria in June 2013.
This time, he privately asked Zuma to relinquish a different trove of weapons-usable uranium — still embedded in older reactor fuel that by U.S. accounts is lightly guarded — in exchange for a free shipment of 772 pounds of fresh, non-weapons-usable reactor fuel, valued at $5 million.
Obama followed up with a three-page letter in December 2013, two days after he spoke with Zuma at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Soweto. According to a copy of the letter, he urged Zuma to seal this new deal at aMarch 2014 nuclear summit in the Netherlands.
Although technical experts held preliminary talks, Zuma never accepted the swap and didn’t bother to attend that summit, sending Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in his place.
There, the South African emissary told reporters that the summits should “wrap up” their work and leave nuclear security to the IAEA, which considers the expansion of civilian nuclear power a key mission.
Fear of “what could go wrong” with nuclear technology, she said, should not violate the “inalienable rights” of countries to use enriched uranium for peaceful purposes. “We have no ambition for building a bomb again. That is past history,” Nkoana-Mashabane said. “But we want to use this resource.”
South Africa has used some of the former bomb fuel to make medical and industrial isotopes — generating $85 million in income a year. But about six years ago, South Africa started making the isotopes with low-enriched uranium that poses little proliferation risk — a decision that robbed it of its long-standing rationale for keeping the materials.
Now officials here say they’re retaining their weapons uranium partly because someday someone may find a new, as-yet-undiscovered, commercial application. If and when one is found, a senior South African diplomat said in an interview, “it’ll be like OPEC to the power of 10,” where states without the material would be at the mercy of a cartel of foreign suppliers.
Ambassador ‘No’
As a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board from 1995 to 2011, Abdul Samad Minty was considered a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement of 140 mostly developing nations, many of them skeptical of nonproliferation programs. (Douglas Birch/Center for Public Integrity)
Pretoria’s determination to keep its weapons uranium dates to the apartheid era, but the most vocal advocate in democratic South Africa has been Abdul Samad Minty, who served for most of the past two decades as his country’s top nuclear policymaker.
Gary Samore, the White House coordinator on weapons of mass destruction from 2009 to 2013, called Minty “a worthy adversary for me in all of the nuclear security summits,” who was “deeply, emotionally opposed to giving up their HEU.”
Minty, 75, now South Africa’s ambassador to U.N. agencies headquartered in Geneva, sipped green tea in his office as he explained that it is the United States that is recalcitrant. Even as it campaigns to halt the spread of nuclear weapons, he says, it refuses to part with its own.
“The problem is you can’t have nuclear-weapons states who feel they can have nuclear weapons and have as many as they want,” he said.
Stocks of fissile materials held by countries outside the small club of nuclear-weapons states, he said, are just “not that important” a threat, compared with the thousands of nuclear weapons held by the bigger powers.
As an ANC activist for 30 years, Minty successfully pushed to have the regime expelled from the IAEA’s Board of Governors. Named South Africa’s top representative to the IAEA in 1995, Minty became a regular thorn in the side of the West. He abstained in 2005 and 2006 on resolutions referring Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council, arguing the resolutions were procedurally flawed or premature.
The IAEA, the 75-year-old diplomat said, cannot be used as a tool to undermine the “basic right” of nonnuclear countries to develop their own nuclear industries, by setting expensive and restrictive security standards.
He also harshly criticized the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty — in which the members of the U.N. Security Council agreed to get rid of their nuclear arsenals if the rest of the world promised not to acquire them — for not pressuring the major powers to disarm.
“Yes they are reducing, not disarming,” Minty said. “Now if you say you need nuclear weapons for your security, what stops another country from saying at another time, in another situation, I also need nuclear weapons for my security?”
“People who smoke can’t tell someone else not to smoke,” Minty said.
Bitterness and resentment
U.S. officials reject this reasoning. “Nuclear disarmament is not going to happen,” Samore said he told Minty, and waiting for it is a dangerous excuse for inaction. “It’s a fantasy. We need our weapons for our safety, and we’re not going to give them up.”
According to U.S. officials and experts, South Africa uses only about 16.5 pounds of its remaining stock of weapons uranium to make isotopes annually, out of a total stockpile estimated by foreign experts at around 485 pounds. And it need not use it at all.
Some American officials say they think Minty still bears a grudge from vigorous U.S. opposition to his bid to replace Mohamed ElBaradei as director general of the IAEA in 2009. Minty fought hard, but he had angered U.S. officials by making supportive comments about Iran, including an assertion early in 2008 that “there is increasing confidence in the Iranian enrichment program.”
Getting beyond the impasse
Waldo Stumpf, a longtime atomic energy official in South Africa who presided over the dismantlement of the apartheid-era bomb program, said in an interview that handing over the highly enriched uranium “was never part of the thinking here. Not within Mr. [Frederik W.] de Klerk’s government. Not afterwards, when the ANC took over. Why would we give away a commercially valuable material that has earned a lot of foreign exchange? Why would we do that?”
In fact, South Africa intends not only to keep its existing enriched uranium, officials here say, but also insists on the right to make or acquire more. “Our international legally binding obligations . . . allow for the enrichment of uranium for peaceful purposes only, irrespective of the enrichment level,” Zuma said at the 2012 nuclear security summit in Seoul.
Asked about South Africa’s policy, a former senior Obama administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities said that after U.S. officials pressed their arguments “at every level possible,” he became convinced that South Africa would not give up its nuclear explosives so long as Zuma remains in power.
Xolisa Mabhongo, who served from 2010 to 2014 as South Africa’s ambassador to the IAEA and last year moved to a senior executive post at theSouth African Nuclear Energy Corp., confirmed this assessment.
“I don’t think there is any incentive that can be offered” that South Africa would trade for its weapons uranium, Mabhongo said. “It’s our property. We do not see the need to give it to anybody else. [President Thabo] Mbeki explained this to Bush, and Zuma explained this to Obama. So I don’t think this position is ever going to change.”
Birch reported from Washington and South Africa; Smith reported from Washington. This article comes from the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization.
The Irony of everything is THIS!? I was UNABLE to find ANY BLACK MILITARY HELL MARCH YOUTUBES. There was A FEW with the Nigerian Army and THEY ARE GONE. So I simply give you the music that I practice and workout to, with the assembled BLACK FLAGS that truly are on the radar of the White Power Structure as a LEGITIMATE THREAT to the current status quo of White Global Power.
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