The First & Not Last Detonation of an Apartheid Nuclear Weapon.

No doubt there will be more to come, as the failing Apartheid state in occupied Palestine gets more desperate, pathological and murderous by the hour.
“The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. Today, most independent researchers believe that the flash was caused by a nuclear explosion an undeclared joint nuclear test carried out by South Africa and Israel.” Source: Vela incident
“The National Party began negotiations with the African National Congress to end apartheid rule. The prospect of a South African government led by the ANC possessing nuclear weapons may also have given the apartheid regime some pause; FW De Klerk denies this, but there are surely reasons to doubt that the security apparatus of the National Party shared his reasoning.”
De Klerk never, ever told the truth, so we can be sure it was just another lie from a pathological racist, reactionary bigot.
Why South Africa Built Nuclear Weapons and Then Gave Them Up.
There was no way that the Apartheid Appeasing Western Powers were going to allow African revolutionaries’ nuclear weapons.
As we all watch the apartheid state in occupied Palestine, carpet bomb millions of civilians into the dark ages, without any credible pushback from any of the Western Powers, the use of nukes has to be considered.
I was 19 when that explosion took place and was already involved in the anti-apartheid and anti-nuclear campaigns. It’s become a never-ending resistance, so be it.
Don’t play with, support, trade with or have diplomatic relations with apartheid. To do so is a betrayal of oppressed people globally.
“Ted Koppel’s interview with Nelson Mandela in 1990 on ABC News. Nelson Mandela visited the U.S. for the first time after being freed from 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa. Here is sectioned out footage of his views on Palestine, Israel, Yasser Arafat along with mentions of Fidel Castro and Gaddafi on Cuba and Libya.”

The Brits occupying the six counties of Ireland systematically and selectively assassinated members of the resistance leadership. They picked out the revolutionary communists and killed them, thereby determining the trajectory of the resistance with the remaining moderates. It was a cunning, successful strategy, transplanted to Africa where uncompromising communists like Chris Hani were murdered in the twilight of the regime’s existence and moderates like Mandela were allowed to live. If you want/need some inspiration, delve into the first link above and learn more about my hero Chris Hani, R.I.P. comrade.
Chris would have nationalized the mines and corporate farming, additionally he would never have tolerated the corruption of the ANC, with some of the traitors’ skimming off hundreds of millions, sometimes billions. “While Ramaphosa was exiled from politics for 16 years between 1996 and 2012, he was able to amass a fortune arguably unmatched by anyone making the transition from politics to commerce – wrote Pieter du Toit, this tome’s author. When in 2012 he returned to politics as the ANC’s deputy president and of the country in 2014, Ramaphosa profited an estimated $200 million from Shanduka’s acquisition by Phutuma Nhleko’s investment firm, Phembani. By 2015, he was regarded as the 42nd richest person in Africa with a fortune estimated at $450 million – a status, wrote Du Toit, not owing to him and others being shrewd businessmen, but rather to being favoured because of their links to the governing ANC.” ‘The ANC Billionaires’- book review

I didn’t risk jail time or my life for African traitors to become billionaires. I went to Africa to work on a development project in Mozambique in 1991, Ulli and I refused to go to South Africa as long as Apartheid ruled. That became an issue when I broke my neck and refused medevac’ing to SA. Adventures in Africa- Brushes with Death- A Love Story

I’ve previously written about the use of nukes to temporarily cool down a broiling atmosphere. The Inevitability of Nuclear War and Subsequent Nuclear Winter
Embedded in the hyper link above is a video with Carl Sagan discussing a nuclear winter.
My hypothesis focused on the Apartheid state nuking Iran, but equally possible now is that the most dedicated, resourceful, revolutionary movement on the planet, Ansar Allah in Yemen is now in the cross hairs.
“Until it fired missiles and drones against Israel in October 2023, the Yemeni Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah, remained largely unknown in the Global North.”
“In the year since, in support of the Palestinians under siege and genocide in Gaza, Ansar Allah have fired multiple projectiles against Israel, one of which successfully evaded Israeli air defenses in July 2024 and reached Tel Aviv, killing one person. Later attacks wounded some and damaged infrastructure, including Ben Gurion airport on September 15. The majority of their attacks have been on maritime trade in the Gulf and the Red Sea, significantly impacting international trade through the Suez Canal as well as traffic in Israel’s ports: Eilat has almost ceased operations, and in July 2024, the port declared bankruptcy.” Yemen’s Ansar Allah: On the Houthi movement’s roots, governance and resistance
Many of us have felt impotent watching the Western Backed, armed and funded slaughter of our Palestinian comrades, unusually for me, I want to end on a positive note.
As we bore witness to the Apartheid regime collapsing, we saw thousands of racists cueing up at the airports, to escape retribution for their crimes, many of the blood-soaked vermin migrated to Aotearoa NZ.
That same unraveling of the occupying European regime in Palestine is happening again, with massive ques at the airports as the economy tanks and the settlers escape back to where they came from. That is of course when Ansar Allah isn’t closing Ben Gurion airport. “Ansarallah strikes deep inside occupied territory, making clear that complicity in genocide will have consequences.” Yemeni Ansarallah Hits Ben-Gurion again, Warns of Wider Operations
Patriots don’t run away, settlers do.


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About Kevin Hester

I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.