1.WATER UNDER THE 10-YEAR-OLD LINDIWE-SISULU BRIDGE

Phiri with colleagues under relaxed circumstances

Want to spot Blogger Phiri? Highest row and closer to the tree stands a “White” officer in a blue beret, and you will find “Black” Phiri right in front right to the aforesaid blue beret.  Phiri is the  “Black” officer wearing wearing a black beret.  And to Phiri’s right stands another “White” officer. Without any involvement of black racism (pro-Zuma-sworn-by Eastern Cape Black Racial Superiority pro-Mandela’s tribe) on this Military College studies went superbly (of course this is a picture of students with the front row occupied by their tutors/instructors/lecturers who did their job most professionally and never went about, like Eddie Drost and Raymond Lentsoe some moons later at a different College, respectively assaulting students who are too black for their liking or demanding sex in order to pass the students as it the case with Mandela cousin Zini-Bobelo and Lentsoe).  Unlike with Eddie Drost’s College, everybody you see on this picture most probably PASSED, and even almost every single one of them did so with flying colours.  This class pictured is a wonderful example of the dynamism of South Africans working together minus Zuma-supported black racism pro- Nelson Mandela’s Xhosa speakers from the Eastern-Cape Nationality-Thembus Royal House. I am putting this picture up so that South Africa’s justice system (via Constitutional Court’s Chief Justice Mogoeng  Mogoeng, via any other delegated institution of justice in this land or the international community if at all yes all of local justice authorities bow to Zuma’s abuse of state power for his black racism pro-Eastern-Cape-of-the-spy-tapes-that-saved-Zuma-from-jail) CAN HAVE PEOPLE TO TALK TO IN ORDER TO SEEK JUSTICE FOR PHIRI EVEN WHEN I AM DEAD SEEING THAT OF LATE ZUMA HAS SUNK SO LOW AS TO HUNT COLONEL PHIRI  DOWN WITH ARMED MILITARY POLICE FOR THE “CRIME” OF REPORTING ZUMA'S OWN ABETTING OF BLACK RACISM IN THE ARMY IN FAVOUR OF HIS DEMIGOD AND MENTOR, NELSON MANDELA. If you zoom into the picture (say, you are an investigator of the Phiri Case), you will see names of people and military officers who are still alive and active in defence of South Africa as every good officer must more than any other profession do (although Zuma hates any boldness by officers because he is probably thinking of building this or that new mansion for himself marrying this or that other woman and hates the truth coming out about the rot he is busy causing South Africa per his racism)... the names you can glean from the  picture will help Phiri fight Zuma even from behind bars, Phiri fighting Zuma even from the graveyard where Phiri may soon lie dead because Phiri will allow neither our great party the ruling African National Congress founded by our ancestors nor our Republic of South Africa to be in Phiri’s name sunk by a man of the Zuma calibre or Zuma cruelty from exile days where Zuma ordered some comrades buried alive just as long as the ill-fated comrades opposed pro-Mandela-tribe racism in the ANC military camps of Tanzania... and so let us say No to all forms of racism whether white or black or tribal or xenophobic, let us say no to sexism and but let us support all the other noble things and ideals that Mr Jacob Zuma Zuma has flouted with both his lifestyle and his policies. Particularly strident our call should be as South Africa starts today a Month for Women in South Africa)---an August-1 2012 update. 

The eves to my Thursdays constitute holy moments for me. It is when I re-align my week and reevaluate my priorities. But more importantly, it is when I prepare what comfort messages I need to prepare for those who, like me, undergo perrenial stress. That, in the main, is the core business of Goodman Manyanya Phiri Management Solutions Blog.

Ordinarily, therefore, my post today would probably feature forecasts on stress levels for people who, like me, are tremulously treading in the footsteps of other Thursday children like President Nelson Mandela, President Robert Mugabe, President Richard Nixon, President Julius Nyerere, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Trouble with me is I am not only keenly aware I was born on a Thursday just like these other gigantic guys, I am informed this morning by a friend of mine on another subject to be careful about following in the footsteps of big people.

"You know the story, Phiri, don't you?" says Lieutenant Colonel Kabasia.

"Of the boy who followed in the footsteps of his father and discovered the s**t at the end!"

I think Thursdayers are cursed because things happen in our lives in a way that spares people born on the other days of the week. I mean, compared to Thursdayer me, other folks will write letters and get responses thereto one way or the other. But not a kid born on a Thursday! Probably I need to kick some ass before a response is directed to me. Conversely, somebody is trying to kick my ass by just ignoring my missives even those with legal implications as the current one.

When I look at my life and this Thursday on which my mother and I concurred I should report my individuality on earth, I kinda understand why guys like Guevarra and Lumumba met their conflictual deaths; and I get my way of understanding why President Nixon had this outstanding uniqueness in office.

Maybe I'm getting too superstitious about the day on which I was born in the week but since I integrated with the SANDF, I have this jinx of writing (since 2001) to my Commander-in-Chief (the State President of the Republic of South Africa) about my mistreatment in the hands of my employer (Honourable Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota); and then the office of the President replies to the mass media, rather than to me!

I must thank His Excellency The President for replying one way or the other, though, however much I dislike the megaphone approach and too often, a denialism approach too, adopted by his office towards my problem or the receipt of letters highlighting the said problem. He is after all The Boss: Highest Office-holder In The Land. And who knows? Maybe President Thabo Mbeki plans to reply me after all, even when he will no more be president: "sorry sorry I did not know that while I was still president the people around me concealed such serious letters, sorry, sorry Comrade Phiri".

Or, better still, maybe he will reply me when I am dead. But I just have to accept that I am weak before him, finish and klaar!

The one person I am not going to say I am weak before him is the one who has decided to engage my grievance to the State President by hauling me before judges... remember the dictum: "equality before the law/judges"?. I am addressing him here not as my employer but as an opposing party in a matter of law; also as an opposing party in a matter of corruption versus whistle-blowing: exactly what he asked for!

That person is none other than Honourable Mosiuoa Lekota, the man who has dismally failed in his rampant and directionless runs to the High Court of South Africa, seeking to have Phiri falsely and procedurally unfairly tried in some kangaroo court of Lekota's for no crime whatsoever, except the "crime" of blowing the whistle on prostitution as a tool for woman promotion in the Department of Defence Lekota leads.

I mean, I have just confirmed with my own attorney (in case the State Attorney acting for Lekota decided to communicate response to me via my attorneys), but there is neither a response to my letter (deadlined tomorrow, 21 August 2008), nor an acknowledgement! This is exactly the way I have been being treated for the past seven years by both Mr Lekota and his superior, Mr Mbeki, in a matter that also touches on Xhosa tribalism: which is the tribe of Mr Mbeki's and his predecessor, Mr Mandela's.

It is Xhosa tribalism because whites who commit prostitution while wearing uniform are prosectuted under the leadership of Lekota. Zulus, Pedis, Swazis and all other ethnic groups in uniform for South Africa are equally prosecuted. But a Xhosawoman who is known by all and sundry to have practised prostitution for promotion is indeed promoted by Lekota some three ranks above the one she had while prostituting herself!

AND THEN LEKOTA HOUNDS THE WHITLEBLOWER, YOURS TRULY PHIRI, FOR SEVEN YEARS NOW WITH FALSE CHARGES CLEARLY AIMED AT SILENCING ME BY GIVING ME THE BOOT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE.

All I can say to Mr Lekota is: It is possible to kick me out of the Department of Defence through your false charges. It is even possible to have your corrupt black generals involved with my victimization, all of them Xhosa-speaking or born in the Eastern Cape (assisted by one white general and a great sympathizer of the moribund Boeremag): it is possible to engineer even more evil things than merely seeing me falsely prosecuted.

BUT YOU SHALL PAY FOR IT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, BROTHER:

INENTSHEBE I-ANC!!!

(THE RULING ANC WAS NOT BORN YESTERDAY!!!!)


Please enjoy the reading of the letter once more ignored by Lekota and Masilela for the past month since it was delivered to them on 21 July 2008:








Inquiries: Lt Col G.M. Phiri
Tel: +2712 3552783
Fax: +2712 3552702
Cell: +27832798297
email: manyanya@webmail.co.za
21 July 2008


The Secretary for Defence (J.B. Masilela, Esq.)
The Office of the State Attorney, Pretoria (Mr A. Mosidi and D. Molusi)

MINISTERIAL BID TO CONCEAL BRIGADIER GENERAL WINNIE NTOMBIZODWA ZINI-BOBELO PROSTITUTION:

LEKOTA’S R192 750.00 FINANCIAL STRANGLEHOLD ON PHIRI AT THE HIGH COURT

Dear Comrade January Masilela

Your move as statutorily guided by the State Attorney, to offer me by 21 August 2008 all the financial relief required as in the matter above refers, failing which I will have to approach the Equality Court and even some extra-judicial platforms (like Parliaments, Political Parties including and in particular the ANC, SADC and Continental bodies and of course, as an employee with rights, my union too) to get you paying with speed, rather than letting you off the hook together with a most dubiously promoted Brigadier General Winnie Ntombizodwa Zini-Bobelo (48) and her client, Colonel Atlholong Raymond Lentsoe (46).

The figure (R192 750.00) above is a result of the following breakdown:

1. R30 000.00 being a refund to yours truly Goodman Manyanya Phiri (47), for an ABSA Bank loan made April 2004 as the Minister of Defence, Honourable Mosiuoa Gerard Lekota (60) made a dead set to conduct a procedurally unfair and unlawful prosecution in his military court against me. A High Court Urgent Applicant, then, was I, Phiri (please forgive the skipping of rank title etc. once mentioned before and may I be allowed the reference to persons in their present-day ranks and even ages where I can).

2. R17 000.00 being a refund to Phiri for the 2006 High Court consultations as a Respondent to a dismally failed attempt by Lekota to convince the High Court that he had complied with all the High Court orders of April 2004.

3. R67 000.00 (per day) being the payment for Phiri’s prospective Senior Counsel (S.C.) to stand against Lekota’s (Advocate Hennie J. De Vos, S.C.) in the commenced application by Lekota to the effect that [the Judge erred in his finding in favour of Phiri as per HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA TRANSVAAL PROVINCIAL DIVISION CASE NO: 26284/05].

4. R45 000.00 (per day) being the prospective payment for Phiri’s Junior Counsel (Adv. Thami Ncongwane) to stand against Lekota’s (Adv. David M. Mohlamonyane) in the commenced application by Lekota to the effect that [the Judge erred in his finding in favour of Phiri as per CASE NO: 26284/05].

5. R33 750.00 (per day) being the prospective payment for Phiri’s Attorney (Mr Joe Msiza) to stand against Lekota’s (State Attorney: one Mr Snyman) in the commenced application by Lekota to the effect that [the Judge erred in his finding in favour of Phiri as per CASE NO: 26284/05].

Ministerial precedent for financial support in civilian courts. I note that one Rear Admiral Charles Henry Dunstan Smart (61), a former member of the old Apartheid SADF was tried before a Regional Court Magistrate around May 2007 for inter alia defying a lawful command issued by the former Chief of the SANDF General Siphiwe Nyanda* (58) in a matter concerning the appointment of Colonel Erick Zanoxolo Mnisi (39) and when Smart was said to have instead appointed one Colonel Paul David Mardon (46)who had resigned 26 July 2005. In this matter the said Smart was represented by a legal team that included Adv. Jaap G. Cilliers, S.C.

Smart, as I understand it, was represented in that civilian court (appearing before the said Regional Court Magistrate) at State expense. But now, if the Department of Defence (DOD) paid Smart’s legal fees it must also pay my legal fees at the High Court in all the High Court matters: before Judge Claassen (2004), before Acting Judge (AJ) M.N. Solly Sithole (2006), as well as in the coming appeal which has been lodged by the DOD against the judgment of Sithole AJ.

Having operated under directives of senior liberation-movement leaders inside South Africa and outside from countries like Mozambique (Jacob Zuma) Angola (Chris Hani) Tanzania (Johnson Mlambo), I am a former member of the non-statutory forces (NSF) the ANC’s Umkhonto WeSizwe and the PAC’s Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) in particular. I am advised that the DOD is prohibited from practising unfair discrimination as amongst its employees by the provisions of the Employment Equity Act, 2000. In other words the DOD is prohibited from practising unfair discrimination between myself, Phiri, as a former member of APLA as against Smart as a former member of the Apartheid SADF.

In the new SANDF we must be treated equally. The DOD is also required to promote equality in its employment practices in terms of the provisions of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000. Therefore if the DOD persists in paying Smart’s legal fees and refuses to pay my said High Court legal fees I will have to approach the South African Human Rights Commission to assist me to access the Equality Court for an order compelling the DOD to also pay my legal fees. If I do not get written confirmation on or before 21 August 2008 that my legal fees will be paid in full as stated above I will have to approach the Equality Court for an appropriate order.


Background to 7-year-old Legal Battle Against Phiri By Lekota. You may want to recall that on 6 February 2001, the Army Inspector General, Major General Enock Muiseng Mashoala (49) arrived at the South African Army College headed by Major General Mxolisi Edward Petane (50) to conduct a month-long investigation into what was causing alleged white racism on the Army College premises, in Thaba-Tshwane, Pretoria; and that I, Phiri, offered to give him the root cause, being the love-affair-for-passing-mark (hence “prostitution”) between Student Zini on one hand; and Course Leader/Head Lecturer Lentsoe on the other hand....[(to the reader of this post, Blogger's elucidation on the Mashoala character, please check the yellow highlight to be found here)]....

Mxolisi Edward Petane

You may also want to recall that Mashoala and his team decided to call witnesses for testimony under oath against me, rather than calling me to testify about the Zini-Lentsoe marks-for-romance scandal. I was prevented from even testifying about the two or three white officers I had verbally indicated to having seen organizing the white group’s confrontations, a patently clear retaliation by the whites, for Petane’s reluctance to charge the Zini-Lentsoe duo. In the normal state of military affairs they two would have been charged for undermining military discipline with their devil-may-care romance accompanied by undue avalanches of passing marks (from a Lentsoe who was even on the job something of an alcohol-and marijuana-abuser) to a Zini who was by no means a model student.

Refresh yourself from records sent to you that on 6 March 2001 I then wrote a grievance letter, ending with the State President, regarding Mashoala’s unethical conduct of targeting me the whistleblower rather than the erstwhile love-sick tsotsi-like officers (or even those who reacted with “white racism” to the apparent protection the sinful lovers enjoyed from Petane).

Recall that on 7 March 2001 a Petane subordinate, one Colonel Eduard Frans Drost (48)¹ then assaulted me in the presence of a heavily-intoxicated Lentsoe; this character (Eddie Drost²) was trying to extract from me a “confession” to allegations made by the selfsame Raymond Lentsoe, coached (or maybe blackmailed seeing that, over and above the illicit love affair with Zini, he was also such a notorious drunkard during his stay at the Army College) by Mashoala’s office that I “had on 06 February 2001 called a certain Petane subordinate, one Colonel Johannes Hendrik Beyers Kleynhans (47) a [fucking racist]”.

Having secured some “lucrative” job/business with Nigerian links only a few years after conspiring against me, Kleynhans has since left the SANDF, but not without curious prior visits to Nigeria while he was still a serving member of our armed forces. Naturally, Kleynhans is still waiting in the wings to come back to the SANDF if only to corroborate viva voce in Lekota’s military courts the [fucking racist] lies against me; and naturally I am also watching every move the life of Kleynhans is involved in.

By the way, the Nigerian job/business was curious not only because he’d commenced it while he was still a fully-fledged member of the SANDF, but also because my brain tells me there are laws that prohibit uniformed nationals of one country leaving for private remuneration in other countries while still employed by their homelands as soldiers; furthermore, any “googling” for the name “JHB Kleinhans”/ “JHB Kleynhans” should through your internet reveal that even the South African Government was frowning upon whatever “business venture” this Kleynhans or his carbon-copy namesake was involved in.

Such is the calibre of Lekota’s arsenal against me in his military courts; but please recall that on 8 March 2001 I then wrote a second grievance letter now to Brigadier General Barend Deon Steyn (57) about the assault, to which Steyn (Retired) was later to verbally respond that the whole train of lies and other negative actions towards me as exemplified by the assault [were engineered by Mashoala]. Refresh that on 9 March 2001, the selfsame assailant, after consulting with the office of the very Mashoala then charged me on behalf of Lekota.

From that Year 2001 to 2004 I then appeared in the military court demanding to have access to the report submitted by Mashoala to Army Council (AC) immediately after his month-long investigations (06 February to 6 March 2001) on Zini, Lentsoe, the “white racists” and Phiri.

After dilly-dallying while giving me the run-around for three years in his own military courts, then Lekota woke up one April (2004) morning and simply refused to give me that report (and others), commencing instead, a song since made famous in the High Court:“Such A Document Doesn’t Exist”. On that fateful morning Lekota even employed the services of one senior military court judge who was clearly under the influence of a perfect instrument for Lekota’s concealment-for-Zini tactics: the instrument was the said judge’s supervisory director, herself a woman suspected of having been promoted through the selfsame Zini-type emotional involvement with her supervisory officer rather than merit, and a woman who made it her point to be personally in court [to coach the judge?] every time I appeared in her military courts.

So the [coached?] judge (whom I asked in vain to have him recuse himself for his obsequiousness towards a supervisor who clearly wanted to micromanage my trial procedure) then shamelessly forced me onto the witness stand to plead. He called his witnesses who repeated their lies under oath but I was prevented from cross-examining and exposing their lies seeing that I still had no access to the Mashoala Report which remains to this day the obvious foundation on which the decision was made by Mashoala’s office to recommend Phiri be charged. Not surprisingly, the star witness in that trial, was none other than perpetually-drunk Lentsoe: he, like Eddie Drost and Kleynhans (all state witnesses and subordinates of Petane’s) was later to be exposed through some documentary evidence given me by Lekota through the High Court order to have had prior deliberations over Phiri with the office of Mashoala.

When the military court adjourned pending the return of Kleynhans (from Nigeria), I rushed to the High Court to seek relief; and High Court Judge, the Honourable J. Claassen agreed with me that the last senior military court appearance [had turned everything into a kangaroo court] which, in the name of justice, had to be halted/stayed until I get the Mashoala Report and all other reports which Lekota created prior to my being charged. And on 04 April 2008, Claassen’s finding was re-affirmed by High Court Judge Sithole, AJ.


The whole while when I was still going to military court sessions with Lekota using such discredited individuals as Lentsoe for witnesses (there is a string of officers, who, if non-Lekota-victimisation assurance is received will testify to the lowlife characteristics exhibited by both Lentsoe and Zini 2000-2001), I was nonetheless still able to proceed with the trial because I was represented by Colonel Bhekumndeni Qedusizi Penuell Simelane, Senior Defence Counsel-SDC (63), then a serving member of the SANDF and who was provided to me in accordance with my entitlement to legal representation at state expense in terms of Section 23 of the Military Discipline Supplementary Measures Act No. 16 of 1999.

However, the moment my case graduated to the High Court Lekota seemed to develop an amnesia that I still need money for my new lawyers, seeing that my (uniformed) lawyers like Simelane SDC are barred from practising in the High Court, being confined to military courts. Lekota failed to remember me for financial assistance even while at the very same time I was in the High Court against him, he paid the fees for a suspected fraudster, yet another DOD Accused member, Smart as already detailed hereinbefore.

As of this writing, I have already lost over R200 000.00 of my own personal money on lawyers, wasted time, hidden and open costs for the two High Court appearances forced upon me by Lekota’s own tactics of shielding a Zini woman who obviously passed and got promoted most fraudulently seeing that she never deserved the passing marks she got from Lentsoe; and you, Mr Masilela, have so far refused to refund me that money. Put politely, you never even acknowledged receipt of my letter to you dated 16 June 2004, requesting for a refund.

My pain is far from over as Lekota is of the view that both Judge Claassen and Acting Judge Sithole (in their respective, two different findings, separated from each other by two years) “erred in their individual findings in favour of Phiri. He is now dipping even deeper into the pocket of taxpayers, who, like a double whammy, are also the ones worst hit by the defrauding tactics of the likes of Zini: having personally seen Adv. De Vos, S.C. in action around June 2008, I can attest to the fact that indeed, far more expensive lawyers have now been employed to fine-tune Lekota’s sagging signature tune: “The Mashoala Report Does Not Exist” or even the chorus “The Mashoala Report went Missing At Army Headquarters”.

I am a mere lieutenant colonel with a wife and a school-going teenager in far-away Tanzania (victims of Xhosa tribalism/xenophobia) proving financially harder every day to support so remotely. I was never allowed even a single promotion by Lekota in my 10 years in the SANDF. I was unlawfully denied opportunity to finish my military studies. I was therefore consigned to stagnation and effective demotion. Due to my whistle-blowing habits, I was never allowed to fairly compete for better wages like other South African soldiers.

So, without kindly providing me the funds from his DOD, where on earth does Lekota imagine I will obtain R192 750.00 to match his financial muscle at the High Court if indeed it is the truth and justice, rather than my ruination, which he ultimately seeks? Instead of allowing me to help him clean up his departmental act which reeks of prostitution, Lekota is effectively financially strangulating me using (I daresay “abusing”) the South African taxpayer who is groaning at the moment from the double yoke of high petrol prices and high electricity bills. Lekota must be boasting an inflated sense of audacity to do that. Maybe the opposite is true that the poor man is buckling under a ton of bricks, palpable fear of those more powerful than he: namely His Excellency President Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki and Former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

The Mandela Element In The Ointment of Corruption. I understand that Lekota is afraid of Zini (a Xhosa from the Eastern Cape) because she claims to be a relative of Mandela’s (a Xhosa from the Eastern Cape); and therefore Mbeki (another Xhosa from the Eastern Cape) may be displeased with him if he should hammer this corrupted woman and her boyfriend, Lentsoe together with many of the senior officers who have supported her but tried to destroy Phiri. The said officers all come from the Eastern Cape, part and parcel of the clique, the crème de la crème, that has come to occupy all the most crucial posts and positions in the SANDF under Lekota.

If Lekota is indeed afraid, surely he must be knowing more than most people do just how Mbeki’s brain works. But what I am sure about is that I can tell a lot better than Lekota just how the brain ought to be working for the great man, Mandela who, in the presence of kings, queens and luminaries from all ethnic groups hailing from various regions of South Africa and the world, was three days ago at Eastern Cape’s Qunu celebrating his life’s 32 874th day. I am also joyfully joining all those wishing: Happy 90th Birthday, Madiba! South Africa would not be where we are without a man and God’s gift like you!

So, Mandela would never have said: Zini, since your are my relative, go along and get romantically entangled with the man (Lentsoe) to achieve passing marks. Mandela would not have said: Petane, since you are Xhosa -speaking, make sure that Phiri is charged for exposing your fellow-Xhosa Zini’s College-premise romance even though the passing-mark-connected romance undermines military discipline.

Mandela would not have said: Brigadier General Mlandeli Alfred Kula (50), since you are Xhosa-speaking, ensure that Phiri does not get his promotion ever since he 10 years ago integrated into the SANDF.

Mandela would not have said: Lieutenant General Derrick Mbuyiselo Mgwebi (52), since you are Xhosa-speaking, ensure that even as you meet Phiri whom you know personally from your previous work with him in Nelspruit, ignore him totally for anything further than a hello at the S A Army College premises whereas you were specifically ordered by the S A Army to talk to the students who, like Phiri, were negatively affected by a Mashoala report at your disposal, seeing that you were a member of the AC addressed by Mashoala at the end of his investigation. And Mandela would certainly not have said: should you, Mgwebi, talk to Phiri, you will not only endanger Zini’s career, but you will scupper future plans to have Zini externally deployed with you to Burundi some three years after.

Derrick Mbuyiselo Mgwebi

Mandela would not have said: Mashoala, since, despite the sound of your name, you were born in the Eastern Cape, do make sure that in your work as Army Inspector General, you sweep under the carpet Zini’s corruption while shooting the messenger, Phiri.

Mandela would not have said: Lieutenant General Moreti Johannes Motau (55), since, despite the sound of your name, you were born in the Eastern Cape, do make sure you in 2002, in a procedurally and lawfully untenable way and without one single reason written on paper for Phiri’s information, remove him from the deputy-directorate post under your command at Defence Intelligence.

Moreti Johannes Motau (with bared teeth) born Tuesday, 10 March 1953 

Mandela would not have said: Lieutenant Colonel Khotso Edmund Matli (51), since, despite the sound of your name, you were born in the Eastern Cape, do make sure you assist Petane in protecting Zini in the South African Army College in 2001. Remember that, related to me, Zini is therefore also related to Lieutenant General Themba Templeton Matanzima (55), my extended family’s main representative in the SANDF. And once you have sacrificed Phiri, my dear Matli, means will be made to have you removed from the tribally-shaking Lekota Department and you shall be transferred to National Intelligence Department where we Xhosas, still need do strengthen our Xhosa tribe under my Jewish boy, Ronald Kasrils (70).

Mandela would not do or say such things. Instead, Mandela would have immediately recognized Phiri as one of his own. Like Mandela, or maybe a little bit more than he, I am descendent of the kings and queens who built ancient Africa from Egypt to South Africa; and my veins are in the same shape as you will find in King Mswati III of Swaziland.

Let alone my paternal royal Phiri-Matanje ancestry who ruled the Matanje people of present-day KwaZulu Natal (and co-ruled the entire Southern Africa as an amalgamation of Phiri kings) prior to the rise of Shaka Zulu, Zwide Ka Langa or Dingiswayo Mthethwa, I am maternally also twice the great-grandson of Swazi King, Somhlolo, which makes King Mswati my fourth cousin, and the ANC’s Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, my first cousin once removed.

When the ANC was formed in 1912, it was my great great aunt, Swazi Queenmother Labotsibeni, who significantly funded the organization, particularly in its bid to establish and maintain its first newspaper, Abantu/Batho; and when Mandela came to Johannesburg a mere night-watchman in the mines, it was ANC founder, Pixley KaIsaka Seme (a descendant of AmaThonga/Zulu kings and, through Princess Lozinja Dlamini, also son-in-law to the Swazi Royal House) who welcomed and groomed Mandela for the reason not that he was necessarily among the brightest youths around, but mainly because here was a handy young great-grandson of Xhosa/Thembu King Ngubencuka Vusani who could help strengthen the ANC.

History indicates that even though Seme had through the ANC formed a serious window of unity among ethnic groups that had been so much at war amongst each other that King Ngubencuka had massacred fellow Africans with the assistance of British forces in the Battle of Umbholompo, in Ngubencuka’s own great grandson (Mandela) working for the ANC, Seme must have recognized serious putty with which to strengthen the window of greater reconciliation and unity among blacks so as to form one bloc against the 1910 white regime.

History is replete with examples of Seme’s strategical thought processes in relation to royal participation and encouragement and encouragement of such in his ANC; obviously thinking that once you unite descendants of Southern African Kings as one group of leaders under the banner of the ANC, then you will achieve all the black people’s unity: the very reason why Seme (in all practicality, single-handedly) founded the ANC without becoming its first president. Maybe because of Eurocentric biographers or Mandela’s own memory failing him as he mellows with age, Seme’s role in a young Mandela’s life is now virtually nil; but Mandela (or anyone who, like me, wishes him well) can refresh his/her memory by visiting a 78-year-old woman in a poverty-stricken four-roomed house at Ulundi (KZN).

That woman, a great granddaughter of King Cetshwayo Zulu (Commander-in-Chief in the Zulu Battle of Isandlwana, where the British military might was humiliated) is the only surviving child of Seme and she recounts as a young girl countless visits by a young Mandela at her home for the purposes of audience with her father.

Helen Seme is also my first cousin twice removed by marriage and out of family ties I declare that it cannot be said fair, therefore, that only relatives of Mandela (if indeed Zini is a relative as she so claims), will get rich in the new South Africa; it cannot be fair that those of Mandela’s relatives who do not have the mental wherewithal to get rich will just by brandishing the Mandela name like a magic wand, conduct acts of corruption in a modern state like ours, and rely on the Lekotas or the Masilelas (for that matter) to be coerced into an expensive, high-court coverup at the expense of taxpayers’ money: it does not work that way in a democracy!

Even if South Africa were a kingdom, it is neither a Xhosa Kingdom nor a Mandela Kingdom, whatever the extent to which the Gordon Browns of the day in Britain might have gone to rewrite South African history and to resurrect a modern-day British Puppet King Ngubencuka Vusani. All the other African nations constituting modern-day South Africa have their own royal house members who are not above the law. So why must Mandela’s relatives live above the law?

Conclusion, Love and Forgiveness. In spite of my brief depictions of my own royal family background instrumental in the founding of the ANC, as juxtaposed against those of UBaba uMandela whose family made acquaintance with an ANC already in existence.

In spite of my genetic heritage, my pedigree as one of the many children of [The King of Openness and Candour]: uSobhuza WaMaSwazi Osifuba Siyingcenge Singamanzi, a pedigree now trashed by a Lekota with an aplomb for feeding the mass media with untruths about me if merely to justify the fact that he is the boss of the DOD, conveniently forgetting that he is in the same breath a civil servant.

In spite of my standing as a freedom fighter since 1976 when I was the tender, school-going age of 15, a contribution now trashed by Lekota who clearly lacks the guts to tackle this particular manifestation of Xhosa tribalism and white racism against me.

In spite of antipathy by a few (though powerful) Xhosa individuals towards me, I declare that I love UBaba uNelson Mandela who is the man who inspired me when I was still a child; but I make no apology for thinking that South Africans must work even harder to protect his legacy that is being undermined by the likes of Britain’s Gordon Brown as well as by some of his overly-ambitious relatives, as seen through Zini.

I declare that I love Isizwe samaXhosa as well as Die Boerevolk and I know many soldiers from these ethnic groups who can lay down their lives for me. Indeed, as Lekota will soon discover to his dismay, some of my best allies in my legal fight with him are none other than AmaXhosa and Boers, themselves sick and tired of walking around Pretoria hanging their heads in shame because of the Xhosa tribalism (and too-often retaliatory white racism) committed by a few that have been sucked in the veritable whirlpool, Zini.

I declare that I am so close to the AmaXhosa people that I have even discovered that neither English nor my own mother tongue, SiSwati can best the language IsiXhosa in expressing my indignation at the current Likotasque financial asphyxiation of me. I declare that my disdain at the preceding allegations (Xhosa: “izityolo”) against me in the wake of my 2001 Army College whistle-blowing against Zini are best expressed in IsiXhosa:

Ezozityolo
Ndiyazinyamnya!
Ndiyazinyasha!
Ndiyazinyevula!

I am
Yours faithfully

GOODMAN MANYANYA PHIRI (LIEUTENANT COLONEL)


For Action

Secretary For Defence
State Attorney

For Information

The President, Republic of South Africa (H.E. Thabo Mbeki)
The President, United Republic of Tanzania and AU Chairperson (H.E. Jakaya Kikwete)
The King, Kingdom of Swaziland (H.M. King Mswati III)
The President, Pan African Parliament (Hon. Gertrude Mongela)
The President, African National Congress of South Africa (Mr. Jacob Zuma)
The President, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (Mr. Letlapa Mphahlele)
Speaker, South African Parliament
Chairperson, Portfolio Committee For Defence: South Africa
The Minister of Defence of South Africa (Hon. Mosiuoa Lekota)
Chairperson Portfolio Committee On Defence (Hon. Fezile Bhengu)
South African National Defence Union (SANDU)
Chief of the South African National Defence Force (General G.N. Ngwenya)
Chief of the South African Army (Lieutenant General Zacharia Shoke)
General Officer Commanding S A Army Intelligence Formation (Brig Gen Job Magasela)
Chief of Staff, South African Army Intelligence Formation (Colonel Johan Brandsen)
National Chairman Umkhonto WeSizwe Veterans Association’s (Mr Kebby Maphatsoe)
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*Commentary made 18 November 2010 is that Sphiwe Nyanda, one of the ministers recently fired by the Zuma administration from cabinet, was in the helm of the SANDF when the tribal and sexual rot reached the core of the organization including the way military courts turned out to be used as instruments of punishing whistle-blowers more than anything else. You can now read about the charade or kangaroo court the military trial of Goodman Manyanya Phiri has been turned into, for example.  But, the point to make before you read the court transcripts is: this individual appointee (Nyanda) of President Nelson Mandela's to head the SANDF is in the following lines being compared with another military veteran of the anti-apartheid military struggle: Bhekumndeni Qedusizi Penuel Simelane.

My reading is that Nelson Mandela was definitely not bothered by brain content of incumbent, in which case Bheki Simelane (by the way the father of South Africa’s head of Prosecutions under Zuma, Menzi) would have been any revolutionary president’s first choice. My take is that Sphiwe Nyanda was preferred over Bheki Simelane mainly because, where this particular appointment was concerned, Nelson Mandela solely intended PR, a mere Zulu head count, and of himself to cut a picture of notoriously tribal Africa’s political saint and super-revolutionary who did not harbour any of the anti-Zulu tribalism of exile (or the era of pre-exile days where Zulu after Zulu revolutionary leader of the ANC was either poisoned or bludgeoned to death to allow for the ascendancy of the Mandela clique, not least of which assassinations was that of the first President of the ANC Youth League, Anton Mzwakhe Lembede whose biological dissolution by colonial British agents not only killed the name of the Seme who was Lembede’s-mentor-cum-ANC-founder, but also gave rise to South Africa’s two currently ruling families Mandela and Sisulu who quickly usurped the reigns of the ANC Youth League and directed South Africa towards the freedom of British neo-colonialism we are enjoying today in 2010, hence the Mandela statue in Trafalgar Square).

Please, enjoy the transcripts of my trial; but apologies in advance for the messiness of those electronic copies.  For their voluminousness, they have been divided into Court Transcripts Part One and Court Transcripts Part Two.  And throughout that trial, the Accused Goodman Manyanya Phiri had only one legal angel (Bheki Simelane) for whom I profusely thank God and my Maker.

About Bheki Simelane I wish to leave this note, by the way:
The Simelane clan is the one that gave blogger Phiri his maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother and the mother to Sobhuza the Great King to whom I ascend through my mother born Belinda Thokozile Mavimbela, my grandmother born Princess Mafede Eleanor Nkosi, my great-grandfather Prince Sigeyeza Nkosi, my great-great grandfather Prince Khenkana Nkosi, my great-great-great grandfather King Sobhuza I, whose mother was a Simelane maiden (Somnjalose Simelane)

For that reason I wish to say to Bheki Simelane:

MNTUNGWA!

MNGUNI WASEBUHLENI!

NABONKHOSI ! NABONGWANE!

MPEMBELIKHULU LAKALOKOTFAKO!

NDLEBEZIMCHEWANE ZACHEWULWA MAGUNDWANE! NDLEBEZIKHANYA LILANGA! NINEMATALANKHOS’ USOBHUZA!

MAHLEMANGWERENGWERE EKHAYA NETSAFENI!

NDLOVU ZIDLEKHAYA NGOKWESWELUMELUSI!

BHOZONGO!

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1 popularly known as “Eddie Drost”^↩

2 Eddie Drost, for readers who are visually-impressed (and good luck to you if you are one of them), DOES pictorially feature in an online magazine with the photo of three captioned “Lt Gen Solly Shoke, Chief of the SA Army, addressing the audience at the seminar, while Col Eddie Drost (left) and Col Adri Kotze listen thoughtfully”. Unfortunately, you might have to scroll around an unpaginated magazine to find the requisite facial illustration; and that, after your first hurdle of copying and and pasting on a fresh, search-engine page the following link http://www.dcc.mil.za/sasoldier/2007/may2007.pdf^↩

Jacob Zuma (Mr) and some unnamable character