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Family remembers Gaetsewe-Part I

Late John Taolo Gaetsewe
Late John Taolo Gaetsewe

With their residence in Botswana having begun with the start of their political refugee days in January 1965, which experience was an almost identical case of déjà vu of 1916 for their mother, and following the eventual passing away of their father on Christmas day 1988 and burial in Francistown, the late SA struggle veteran and honouree John Taolo Gaetsewe’s family has, particularly since the 8th of January 1994, been working very gradually towards helping to find real civil-society-based solutions to especially SA’s and Africa’s fundamental problems.

Having dedicated more time to this work from 2015, the family has since developed the abovementioned Ultimate Botswana, SA & African (UBSAA) Vision project, in attempted liaison with all influential individuals and organisations in Botswana and particularly in SA, to help to begin to realistically resolve all of Botswana’s, SA’s, Africa’s and the world’s fundamental problems. The UBSAA Vision project then formally urged Presidents Mokgweetsi Masisi, in August 2020, and Cyril Ramaphosa, in December 2021, essentially ‘... to help mobilise ... societies to begin to meaningfully and urgently tackle all of ... [their national] fundamental issues without fail ...’, as the SA President now appears to be doing with the impending SA National Dialogue (SAND) and preparatory Convention set for the 15th of this month. This SAND undertaking is now unfolding only after SA’s governing African National Congress’s (ANC’s) historic loss of electoral and political power, in May 2024, and Botswana’s BDP’s virtual obliteration at the end of October 2024. Given especially SA’s and Africa’s recent and overall histories as elucidated by modernity, this anticipated SA National Dialogue would seem to promise to be potentially epoch-making. It will be the very first time in all of human history that South Africans and Africans, as the most senior humans and parents of humanity who currently enjoy conditions of relative freedom and self-determination, begin to assess the pros and cons of the approx. 12,000-year-old Middle Eastern and European modernity which has already been biblically declared as the Original Sin and the work of the Devil himself.

In view of its said related extensive work, the UBSAA Vision project’s USA Vision component has now formally offered the SA President, as of the 5th of this month, to serve as the overarching framework for the said SAND which should ideally be permanent. The project further reported, with appropriate evidence provided, the seeming ineffectiveness and secretiveness it recently experienced with the SAND Task Team’s publicisation efforts, after the Task Team had apparently been in office for about a year. However, having hoped to work much more constructively and productively with the Task Team going forward, the project was rather amazed by the reported withdrawal, on the 8th instant, of seven of the Task Team’s key constituent Foundations, particularly as the withdrawal was said to have been for reasons which seemed to relate to the project’s said concerns. Overview of SA national dialogue’s (SAND’s) target issues The main problems which appear to have been identified in a 10/6/2025 SA presidential announcement as deserving the special attention of the SAND are ‘Poverty, unemployment ... inequality ... Crime, gender-based violence and corruption ...’. For the nature of the identified problems to be duly addressed, and/or for the very involvement of civil society to be worthwhile, the following complete but succinct historical appreciation of the said problems would appear to be essential:- South Africans’ reality of loss of natural control of their own lives: All South Africans and Africans generally have controlled and lived their purely natural and agriculture-centred lives based exclusively and entirely on The Total True Story of Humanity (TTTSoH) and the 14-billion-year-old Supreme Natural Law for up to about 12,000 to 300,000 years, and, thus, have only this way of simply beginning to reliably understand anything at all.

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