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Health & Healing

                                                                                            Innovate Afrika

          Africa where Black people will be in   apartheid regime and many western
          power, the white regime destroyed   countries didn’t want the upcoming
          all the country’s main military    Black leaders to inherit such a pow-
          facilities, ballistics missiles and   erful arsenal.
          dismantling all six complete nuclear
          weapons shortly after the release   ”The whole thing was dressed up as
          of Nelson Mandela from prison in   an honorable retreat from a nuclear
          1990.                              Africa” said Frans Cronje, deputy
                                             CEO of the South African Institute
          South Africa hastily joined the    of Race Relations, a Johannes-
          Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),    burg-based think tank.
          and seven weeks later the country
          signed a Comprehensive Safeguards   “A nuclear African state would be
          Agreement with the International   taken more seriously and would
          Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).       have a stronger leadership role – it
                                             forces people to take you seriously.
          According to Greg Mills ”South
          African authorities cooperated fully   In leadership terms, renouncing nu-
          with the IAEA during the whole     clear weapons does the opposite – it
          verification process, and were com-  reduces your influence in foreign
          mended by the then director-general   affairs and international politics.
          of the Agency in 1992, Dr. Hans
          Blix, for providing inspectors with   If renouncing nuclear weapons
          unlimited access and data beyond   grows your influence, others would
          those required by the Safeguards   be falling over themselves to surren-
          Agreement”                         der their nuclear arsenals.” contin-
                                             ued Frans Cronje
          In less than 3 years all South Africa’s
          ballistic missiles were scrapped, its   While a racist, violent, and brutal
          six nuclear weapons dismantled,    oppression white apartheid regime
          and any remaining missile engines   was trusted to have and manage
          destroyed.                         nuclear weapons, a Black and dem-
                                             ocratically elected regime was not
          To prevent any future attempt by   trusted to manage them.
          any upcoming South African admin-
          istration to empower the country,   That historic decision was all about
          the apartheid regime enacted the   racism. Nothing else.
          most self-restricting legislation
          in the form of the ”Act on the     South Africa would today be stron-
          Non-proliferation of Weapons of    ger on the international stage if it
          Mass Destruction” that makes pro-  had retained a nuclear arsenal.
          vision for a South African Council
          for Non-proliferation of Weapons   Editor’s comment:
          of Mass Destruction to control     This article begs the question of, how
          exports of dual-use materials, equip-  many things, ideas, innovations, systems,
          ment and technology.               technology that Afrika and Afrikans have
                                             lost or had to walk away from because
          While South African apartheid      some faceless globalist would not allow
          leaders’ actions were met with praise   anything good about Afrika to come out?
          by the western medias and leaders,   But should this unrighteousness continue?
          many saw this speedy destruction of   Not at all. Only Afrikans can stop it and
          all the country main military infra-  we must do it now.
          structures as a sign that the racist



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