By: Shirley Willemse
Dear Comrade Carl Mpangazitha Niehaus,
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” – Jonathan Swift
As I watch Comrade Carl Mpangazitha Niehaus standing alone against a heard of Ankola, taunting and humiliating him, many emotions came rushing to me, I was distraught, pained because I was powerless to do anything.
But the most important lesson came to me “THE POWER OF TRUTH OF ONE MAN”.
In the times when South Africa is under Dystopian Society, a society of where the Buffalo led government is in complete control over the people in a society through the usage of propaganda, heavy censoring of information and denial of free thought, worshiping an unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity.
It’s only the uncensored TRUTH that will stand and prevail no matter the odds
Truth is the oldest of all the virtues; it antedated man, it lived before there was man to perceive it or to accept it. It is the unchangeable, the constant.
Truth can stand alone, for it needs no chaperone or escort. Lies are cowardly, fearsome things that must travel in battalions.
The Buffalo who is vacillating, temporizing, shifting, constantly trimming his sails to catch every puff of wind of popularity, is a trickster who succeeds only until he is found out.
A lie may live for a time, but truth lives for all time. A lie never lives by its own vitality, it merely continues to exist because it simulates truth. When it is unmasked, it dies.
Truth is the cultivated hunger for it in itself and for itself, without any thought of what it may cost, what sacrifices it may entail, what theories or beliefs of a lifetime may be laid desolate and Carl Neihaus was willing to pay that sacrifice.
I also realized something else, the weakness of the Buffalo and the Cabel he serves, he is terrified, he is a whimpless and spineless coward who would stop at nothing to hide the TRUTH that he’d spend a million or more to stop just one man CARL NIEHAUS!
The time is drawing closer when the Buffalo whose rule is based on trickery, who is slowly pulling down the supporting columns of his own edifice, and will perish in the ruins.
My dear comrade the naysayers will talk but know this you are and will be an inspiration for generations to come, they will write about this day and many other days you stood alone for TRUTH.
What a piece. Worse cant explain the amount of truth in this article. My level of respect for Carl has just sky rocketed.
Be strong Xarl , you are an inspiration to many of us..
This open letter should be taught un schools as part of our struggle to real freedom
It was so sad to c comrade Carl being humiliated like that infront of everyone even the media n ntn hs been said abt it in the media , but I respect comrade Carl, he dnt need no 1 to speak the truth , he stand with truth alone , Viva comrade Carl
Wonderful. Carl is a very brave man. Respect multiplied for him.
Ramaphosa second chance
Carl, you really have to stop with all this ‘Mpangazitha’ and ‘Revolution’ and ‘Comrade’ rubbish…do you even realise how ridiculous you sound? Get a job and accept the ANC don’t want you and the rest just laugh at you…’Comrade’. I mean you faked your parents death and are a confessed fraudster…or does that somehow make you more ‘Revolutionary’..
I admire Carl, being bullied by people who have no idea what they are demonstrating for except being lied to, about who Ramaphosa is. Never give up Carl, the truth has no chance against a fool determined to believe a lie.
Unshakable fighting spirit viva Comrade Carl mpangazitha viva.