'Kill All Whites' Call a Strategy, Says Suspect


The Namibian (Windhoek)

October 10, 2005
Posted to the web October 10, 2005

Werner Menges
Windhoek

A SELF-STYLED "black revolutionary" not only offered no apologies, but also repeated his call for all white people in Namibia to be killed when he appeared on a charge of racial discrimination in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Friday.

The 33-year-old Methuzal Matundu, also known as 'Malcolm X' Matundu, is the second suspect to have been arrested and charged with offences under the Prohibition of Racial Discrimination Act in connection with the display of a hand-written placard stating 'Kill all whites' at a public demonstration in Windhoek on August 24.


"I am the authentic author of that placard," Matundu told The Namibian before he appeared in court before Magistrate Sarel Jacobs on Friday.

"The intention was to solicit the support of black people to employ that strategy, because the Mau Mau school of thought, of which I'm the head, believes that killing all white people is the only way that we will get people to take black people seriously," he said.

Matundu said he had reported himself to the Police to take responsibility for the placard that was carried along Windhoek's Independence Avenue during a demonstration led by Herero Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako.

The event was supposed to be a march in support of demands that Germany should pay reparations for the genocide of the Herero people in the anti-colonial war of 1904 to 1907.

The march also featured protests against suggestions that Germany should be given a permanent seat on the United Nation Security Council.

The real purpose of the demonstration has, however, been eclipsed by the reaction to one of the placards displayed during the march.

The poster, stating 'Kill all whites, was condemned by Government and the National Society for Human Rights.

Matundu, an unemployed resident of Khomasdal in Windhoek, on Friday described himself as "a black revolutionary, subscribing to two ideological pillars: black consciousness and socialism".

For him, making and displaying the placard was a matter of strategy on the way to achieving his primary goal - the economic emancipation of black people, Matundu said.

A key part of achieving this goal is repossessing all land owned by white people - who are the ones still in control of the economic calabash in Namibia, he said.

"The only language which we think the white people can understand, is the approach that was followed in Zimbabwe, and that is the approach of revolution," he said.

"The killing of white people is a strategy to achieve our goal, which is the repossession of our wealth from white people," he said.

"The only way we can repossess our wealth, is to get people to take black people seriously, and the only way people will start taking black people seriously, is when (whites') lives are threatened."

He might be calling for acts of genocide, but he is no criminal, Matundu maintained.

"We are not criminals," he said.

"We are just continuing what Hosea Kutako started. We did not start with the revolution to be drawers of water and hewers of wood in our own country."

Like Gerson Ndjavera (40), the first suspect arrested in the case, Matundu has been charged with contravening the Prohibition of Racial Discrimination Act by publishing or distributing material with the intent to threaten a group of persons on the grounds of their membership of a particular ethnic group.

They are also facing a charge of contravening the Act by having intended to cause, incite or encourage hatred between different racial groups.

The Act states that such offences can be punished with a fine of up to N$100 000, or up to 15 years' imprisonment, or both.


Matundu and Ndjavera have to return to court for a second appearance on November 22.

They have both been granted bail of N$500.

Fortunately this bozo seems to be the exception in Namibia. Not once during the 9 days my son and I just spent there did we encounter any animosity or discrimination. In fact, everybody, black or white, greeted us like long lost friends. I've been in other African countries where that wasn't always the case.

It is not the common folks that have the hate, it is the power hungry vis a vis the communists.

The first step is stirring up trouble by claiming that they are the picked upon and the downtrodden. A classic case, repeated over and over again, and not only in Africa. The same thing happened in India, etc.

The claim is to make everyone equal but it nevers turns out that way, does it?

Seems like racial tensions are heating up a bit, I have noticed it here-In NO after the hurricane. Its so stupid and such a waste of energy.

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Originally posted by Will:
It is not the common folks that have the hate, it is the power hungry vis a vis the communists.

The first step is stirring up trouble by claiming that they are the picked upon and the downtrodden. A classic case, repeated over and over again, and not only in Africa. The same thing happened in India, etc.

And Berkley and San Fransisco and Boulder ETC ETC...

Is this the same "Malcolm X" that all the black people were wearing T-shirts with him on it a few years ago?

Jarrod,

No, that's the original Malcolm X you're thinking of. He was an American black activist. (I won't dignify him by calling him a civil rights leader.) This non-original idiot in Namibia is just using the name "Malcolm X" because it is well known. We have a dingbat here in Houston that goes by Quannell X. Just another small time wannabe....

-Bob F.

I sense the hurricane has heated things up a bit as well; I read one guy dragging up slavery reparations in the AZ Republic. BTW, I am actually pro-affirmative action (that should raise some crap here) but here is my response, which was published a week ago Sunday, to this guy:

Frederick Wilburn’s acrid letter (Poor Black people? Nah, couldn’t be, Sunday, Sept 25) could not be further off base. True, blacks did not come to this country of their own free will. But because Mr. Wilburn’s ancestors did come over as slaves, he is actually better off for it. Don’t believe it? Then you haven’t traveled much in Africa, where poverty is mind-numbing, AIDS is rampant and killing millions, and the continent itself rife with corruption. And oh, by the way, most businesses there are run by Arabs or Asian Indians.



Mr. Wilburn, I have a news flash for you. The Japanese alive today aren’t responsible for Pearl Harbor, the Germans alive today aren’t responsible for the Holocaust, and I am not responsible for the crime of slavery. And I am not liable for reparations, either.

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Originally posted by BFaucett:
Jarrod,

No, that's the original Malcolm X you're thinking of. He was an American black activist. (I won't dignify him by calling him a civil rights leader.) This non-original idiot in Namibia is just using the name "Malcolm X" because it is well known. We have a dingbat here in Houston that goes by Quannell X. Just another small time wannabe....

-Bob F.

What about this Nitro X character; what's his story?

S.

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Originally posted by Seq:

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Originally posted by BFaucett:
Jarrod,

No, that's the original Malcolm X you're thinking of. He was an American black activist. (I won't dignify him by calling him a civil rights leader.) This non-original idiot in Namibia is just using the name "Malcolm X" because it is well known. We have a dingbat here in Houston that goes by Quannell X. Just another small time wannabe....

-Bob F.

What about this Nitro X character; what's his story?

S.

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Originally posted by Seq:

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Originally posted by BFaucett:
Jarrod,

No, that's the original Malcolm X you're thinking of. He was an American black activist. (I won't dignify him by calling him a civil rights leader.) This non-original idiot in Namibia is just using the name "Malcolm X" because it is well known. We have a dingbat here in Houston that goes by Quannell X. Just another small time wannabe....

-Bob F.

What about this Nitro X character; what's his story?

S.

That has to be a joke! ???????????????

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Originally posted by Seq:
What about this Nitro X character; what's his story?

S.

I'll assume you are serious. NitroX, short for Nitro Express. Of course, I may have it wrong and he can certainly answer for himself.

Originally posted by Seq

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What about this Nitro X character what's his story

That's hilarious. NitroX being compared to this Malcom X guy. Where is NitroX at to defend himself

Nitrox is hunting

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Originally posted by Jaco Human:
Nitrox is hunting

A good buffalo cull hunt no less!

No big deal these type statements have been poular in Atlanta for over 100 years. And we are still here. I am sure the Namibians are laughing as well.

The whole point of X in Malcom X was that the last name of people who were slaves was often the name of the slaveowner, certainly had nothing to do with their history and heritage of ancestors in Africa. The whole point of asking what the story was behind Nitro X was a joke - it was funny to me because it had absolutely nothing to do with the "X" being discussed.

Welcome to the land of concrete thinking .

lawndart

The whole point of asking what the story was behind Nitro X was a joke - it was funny to me because it had absolutely nothing to do with the "X" being discussed.

I could not help to respond, I enjoyed the joke in it.

It was very funny Jaco.

The next time you are in the US or I get to RSA, the meal is on me, and we can trade some more punch lines.

lawndart

The mention of berkeley, etc., and Boulder is wrong. That's "The People's Republic of Boulder" as we call it here in Colorado!

One must remember that extemists on both the left and right exist in ALL countries and within ALL cultures and religions.

If one researchs well enough you will find heaps of evidence of groups everywhere calling for the end to all whites, blacks, christians, muslims, jews, hispanics blah blah blah.

It is not good at all, BUT society needs the fringe to define the middle or the rational norm...don't we?

How would we know what the middle is without the edges?

I think that reports get mixed up in a snowball effect of politics and taken completely out of context and people fret and worry about it...it is worthy of aknowledgement but all out fear...well, don't cross the road then as you are VERY likely to die!!!

(Its like poeple coming to visit 'Africa' and crapping about snakes but happily do 100km/h on a highway???? The mind battles to get around that one...)

'Extremism' in African countries always gets press as it an easy whipping boy for the press.
Lets no forget Toledo a few days ago with all out police, African-American and full blown Neo-Nazi group clashes...that my friends in archaic and sad......

Not to worry, the AIDS epidemic will keep their numbers in check as they are incapable of comprehending the "mother of all holocausts" that is the AIDS epidemic.

As a "minority" I am totally opposed to affirmative action. I've done "ok" in my career field, but you know how many times I heard "oh yeah, he promoted because he's hispanic" crap. Six trillion dollars and almost 40 years later, and they've shown little upward mobility.

In Africa, the few countries that even have (or had) a modicum of success were those governed by the white minority. Since Apartheid ended (which incidentally was a tool to keep them from killing each other "a la" tutsi-hutu), RSA has gone steadily downhill in all appreciable methods of measurement. I'm sure Namibia will go through some bad times, just like Zim is currently undergoing but in the end, africa is africa and the smart ones, regardless of color will come out of this mess. At least I hope so. jorge

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Lets no forget Toledo a few days ago with all out police, African-American and full blown Neo-Nazi group clashes...that my friends in archaic and sad......

Ah, 'er, the Neo Nazis (all twelve of them) didn't march. The blacks rioted all by themselves. It was your basic "gangs versus the convenience stores", "loot and scoot" scenario.

lawndart