Apartheid and Racism in Angola: An Assault to Human Dignity

By Max Coutinho

Africa: the birth place of Mankind and the cradle of Racism.

Today, I watched an appalling video where the Angolan Health Minister, Silvia Lutucuta, informed her countrymen that medicine for Blood Pressure will be made available only to Black Nationals. Mulatto and White Angolans do not have the same right; only Black ones. If true, this is a Human Rights violation.

Apartheid: a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. 

It is clear that on top of everything else, Angola seems bent on showing us all that it is a Racist State. Apartheid is alive and kicking in Luanda.

It could be argued that the policy of free medicine was announced based on the argument that Black citizens are the poorer ones in comparison to other Ethnicities, however that argument is problematic for two reasons:

1. The Black segment is poorer because of the Policies of institutionalised theft implemented by the Angolan Government over 40 years of independence
2. It is a violation of the Principle of Equality, present in the 23rd Article of the Angolan Constitution.

The Principle of Equality (Article 23rd)

1. All are equal under the Constitution and the Law. 
2. No one can be harmed, privileged, dismissed of any right or exempt of any duty based on one's origins, sex, race, ethnicity, colour, physical impairment, language, birthplace, religion, political, ideological or philosophical beliefs, level of education, economic, social or professional status. 

If Blacks, Whites, Mulattoes, Asians and derivatives are equal under the Constitution and the Law then why are Blacks being privileged over the others? If the State of Angola goes ahead with this nonsensical decision, then it has no problem in violating its own Constitution; and if it does then it is yet another country bent on showing us that the Law of Men is meaningless. What other Laws does Angola break?

If the Republic of Angola wants to make Hypertension medication available for free to its citizens, then it has to do so to all its citizens – not just the Blacks ones. Failing in doing so, it’s not only a violation of the Human Rights of White, Mulatto and Asian Angolans but also a mockery of the law and a blatant Racist Statement.

Contradictions to Support Racist Agendas

Basic Duties of the State (21st Article) 

b) Ensure the rights, freedoms and fundamental guarantees;
d) Promote the well-being, social solidarity and the rise of the quality of life of the Angolan people, namely of poorer demographic groups
f) Promote policies towards universal and free basic health care 

Ensure the rights, freedoms and fundamental guarantees: since it doesn’t contain the expression “of all”, it is "natural" that the State feels free to only ensure the rights, freedoms and fundamental guarantees for Black People. However, Black people have the basic right to have a nationality (as per the 9th Article of the Constitution, paragraph 4 stating “No natural Angolan citizen can be destitute of its original nationality”) and yet more than 15 million citizens (suspected of not voting for the ruling party) do not have IDs meaning they are not registered as National Citizens.

Promoting well-being and an increase of the quality of life of the Angolan people, namely of poorer groups (i.e. Black People): on one hand the Constitution claims that all citizens are equal and on the other it inserts paragraphs legalising discrimination and Apartheid (which goes against the very same International Law the Angolan Constitution claims to abide to).

Promote policies towards universal and free basic health care: what constitutes basic health care in Angola? The last time we read about the Status of the Angolan Health Care system, the reports painted a very stark reality where public hospitals didn’t have the basics to treat patients and relatives took sheets and blankets from home to cover their ill ones. Moreover, the Morgue has bodies piled in the halls, for instance.

The promotion of health care policies section doesn’t include “for all” either, meaning that while only black people are to be protected they are the ones to be completely harmed by the state, since its majority do not have the means to seek treatment in alternative facilities when the national health system fails them.

These contradictions only serve to support the Socialist character of the Angolan State. In a couple of years, we may see another Venezuela-style failed State where Angolan citizens will kill stray dogs to kill their hunger and drink urine to quench their thirst. And what does the UN do?

The UN’s Criminal Silence

Agencies at the UN like to unjustly accuse certain countries of being an Apartheid State; however they remain silent before Racist African States, why?

Imagine if Germany, or Spain, would announce that only fair skinned Nationals would have access to free medicine and only their rights would be promoted…yes, all hell would break loose and the Media would be all over it for months. But when an African country does it, it’s acceptable – and the world shuts it because perceived powerful people are benefiting from the grand theft of African natural resources, with the Angolan ruling “elite” as accessories.

The level of the UN’s hypocrisy and double-standards is irritating. They thrive at the expense of African blood, sweat and tears (and by African it’s meant Black, White, Mulatto, Asian and derivatives). The UN Sec-Gen, António Guterres, the Catholic Socialist, should be ashamed of himself because he lets his House run wild and be paid to obsess over the Middle East when, as a Portuguese, he should redirect his people to actually work to improve the lives of Africans (and not just talk about it, like they do every year with silly projects of development till 2030).

Conclusion

Apartheid is alive and kicking in Africa. Instead of offering more funds to Angola, a Safe Haven for Hezbollah and other Terrorist organisations, the world should work to better the lives of the Angolan People; or will it just stand by and watch them fall?

(Angolan National Assembly[Ed] - Wikipedia)

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