The U.S. government’s decision to reduce funding for HIV/AIDS-related work in Occupied Azania (South Africa) has stirred the Black community, mainly because 8 million people in South Africa are HIV positive. The statistics tell a clear story: Africans: 21.44%, Asians: 0.90%, Whites: 0.37%. These statistics are a testament to how colonialism has systematically weaponized biological warfare against African people. This is not new—there is documented evidence of South African white nationalist groups in the early 2000s intentionally flooding African communities with mandrax (methaqualone) and even the HIV virus itself.
The high rate of infection among Africans is not simply due to inadequate education, but a deliberate, calculated effort by white power to control and eliminate the African population. This is military action. According to Winnie Byanyima, director of UNAIDS, the U.S. aid program PEPFAR allocates funds across African nations as follows: 90% to Tanzania, 70% to Uganda, 50% to Rwanda, and only 17% to South Africa.
Africa suffers the highest burden of HIV/AIDS in the world, yet neocolonial African leaders do nothing to change this reality in the interest of the oppressed masses. Although Donald Trump is a proponent of cutting aid to South Africa, it’s essential to understand that the reduction of USAID was always planned—only accelerated by U.S. financial crises and colonialism. Trump, like all U.S. presidents before him, is merely executing long-standing U.S. policy, enforced militarily, ideologically, and economically by the U.S. government.
Trump meets the South Africans—solving the white nation’s problems at our expense!
President Trump took to X to express concerns for white settlers in Occupied Azania, fearing that land expropriation without compensation would return stolen land to its rightful owners. South African white nationalist groups like Solidariteit and AfriForum (with “Afri” not meaning Africa but “Afrikaner”—a word white people gave to themselves, not unlike whites in the U.S. calling themselves “Americans”) jumped at the opportunity to meet with Trump. They pretended to reject his proposal of asylum while quietly negotiating economic arrangements with the U.S. government.
These two groups acted as representatives of the colonizer nation—at first protesting that they were not interested in leaving their colony, but then agreeing on a meeting with Trump regarding economic arrangements between them and the U.S., because they are going to be affected by the latest U.S. policies regarding South Africa. This is proof that the white nation always solves its problems at the expense of the colonized.
Although the majority of people in this country do not acknowledge it, the South Africans are very sympathetic to the Israeli government that’s currently carrying out a massacre against the Indigenous people of Palestine and the Arab lands. They held a protest in their white enclave towns last month, saying they want to be recognized as a white nation just like the Jews of Israel. These same South African settlers—who have long profited off the genocide of African people—are among the most vocal supporters of Israeli settler colonialism. Just last month, they held protests in their white enclave towns demanding recognition as a “white nation” like Israel. They openly support the genocide of Palestinians while continuing the genocide of Africans in South Africa—and face no consequences for their treachery.
HIV/AIDS is a biological weapon against the African Nation
Under colonialism, the mere existence of African people is seen as a threat—for fear that in them might emerge resistance against colonialism and its economy. Our people have been the logical targets of this virus. HIV/AIDS was not a virus that suddenly emerged from monkeys in Africa, as Western media claims. Instead, it was developed as an imperialist counterinsurgency weapon in 1976, targeting the African resistance movement.
Despite the lies pushed by colonial propaganda, we know that colonialism itself is deadlier than any disease. Another popular myth later claimed it came from homosexuals—but it was never said from where geographically, as if to suggest it was endemic in this group by virtue of its existence. However, we Africans must know that colonialism is worse than all the diseases one can name because it’s the ultimate breeding ground for death.
The history of African people under colonial rule proves that any disease disproportionately affecting the colonized is the result of the colonizer. Sometimes this happens deliberately, as in the case of biological warfare. Other times, it is the structural violence of underdevelopment—colonial-imposed poverty, malnutrition, and lack of healthcare—that leaves African people vulnerable to illness. The same is true across the African world—whether in the U.K., the U.S., or the Continent, it is always Africans who suffer the highest rates of infection.
The white nation owes Africa! Trump and South Africans owe reparations!
“The U.S. offering aid to African people is like the wolf offering shelter to sheep.” This was the analysis of Jabulani Ngonelo, a South African worker, speaking on behalf of the African masses.
Chairman Omali Yeshitela, founder of the Uhuru Movement, recently traveled to Durban, KwaZulu-Natal alongside other African organizations and demanded reparations from all colonizers—including white South Africans themselves. He exposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), led by Beyers Naude and Desmond Tutu in the late 1990s to early 2000s, as a cover-up designed to whitewash colonial crimes and ensure African people remained blind to the full extent of historical plunder.
The white minority in South Africa has never been exposed to the real aspirations of the African working class, only to their own puppets—those willing to accept money, corruption, and African death as the cost of neocolonial power. But we, the African working class, have a vision for our future. This vision is best expressed through the All-African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP). This is what white people everywhere should identify as the legitimate expression of our hopes and dreams as a people.
Founded in 2007, AAPDEP is the only organization dedicated to mobilizing African professionals to develop solutions for our people—by our people. Director Aisha Fields, an accomplished physicist, led AAPDEP’s efforts in Sierra Leone, implementing rainwater harvesting systems and maternity clinics to fight preventable deaths.
This is why we, Africans in South Africa, reject the term ‘South African.’ We know that we are not South Africans—we are Africans. We do not owe political or emotional allegiance to a colonial state. When Africans in any part of the world experience devastation, we want to be there—but AAPDEP is a way to translate those feelings into reality.
When Ebola devastated African communities, it was AAPDEP, armed with African Internationalism, that sent organizers to train the masses on how to prevent deaths. Whether in the U.S. or on the Continent, African people must unite to wield our own skills for our own liberation. The U.S. aid ban is an opportunity for Africans to depend on ourselves—not our oppressors. The Uhuru Movement has built the necessary connections to turn our unity into real solutions—wherever we are in the world.
Build the Uhuru Movement in South Africa.
We Are Our Own Aid!
One Africa, One Nation! Uhuru!
