By William Tonet
Africa-Press – Angola. The country and Angolans are living in indescribable moments, largely due to weak political leadership and the increasing curtailment of freedoms, mainly because President João Lourenço has put the MPLA and the country in total self-combustion over the last eight years.
The dictatorship has replaced, in practice, the incipient democracy (textual, in the CRA), with the Constitutional Coups d’Etat, through the subversion of legal norms, approval of fascist laws, the absolute control of the Defense, Security and judicial bodies.
In the Constitutional Court (which also serves as the Electoral Court), the president is a member of the MPLA political bureau and of the 11 judges, only two are not from the ruling party. It’s tamed!
The situation is worse in the Supreme Court. The challenge against Joel Leonardo is growing in a spiral, accused of nepotism, embezzlement, corruption and trivialization of the courts, with the appointment of partisan judges, without ethical or academic reputation and even convicted in criminal cases.
But this “stench” seems to please the Head of the Executive Branch so much that on 09.05, ordering the independence of the sovereign bodies to be undermined and, to the dismay of the deputies, including those from his own party, he surreptitiously endorsed a bill to extend the mandate (which ends in 2026) of the contested “brigadier-president” of the Supreme Court to 10 years, in violation of paragraph 4 of article 180 of the Constitution: “the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Vice-President shall serve for a non-renewable seven-year mandate”.
The change to be verified, with approval, on May 21, 2025 (imposition of JLO), of the amendment of the Organic Law of the Supreme Court, the package will require, for effectiveness, a partial or total revocation of the Constitution, but will also highlight the conscience of the MPLA deputies, for the commission of evil, the majority of Angolans, mainly, the 20 million poor.
SUBMISSION TO WESTERN INTERESTS
The political and legal chaos is leading the country to bankruptcy and to the development of economic colonization by Western, Asian and Islamic fundamentalist speculators, in the face of the continuous erasure of the conscience of MPLA veterans, who exchange their erect spines for their transformation into snails, without the dignity capable of opposing the destructive warmongering and terror policy of the “supreme leader”, imposed to burn fear.
The President of the Republic speaks of Angola, its riches and potential, during his millionaire visits abroad, but he ignores the real drama of Angolans, thrown into hunger and extreme poverty, as a result of the far-right ideological policy of the MPLA and the economic neoliberalism adopted by the Executive.
The dramas and dreams of different peoples and micro-nations do not find an echo in João Lourenço when he claims to be the only Angolan (black) who does not have a tribe. He stated this publicly and proudly, as do many assimilated and complexed people who idolize Western cultures to the detriment of Angolan and African ones.
In post-independence African history, leaders who behave as if they were assimilated are easily tied up by the former exploiting powers, who use them as facilitators to open up the borders for the entry of false investors, the new name for the new colonizers. The objective is to continue the plundering of African wealth, persecution, torture and assassination of all leaders who choose to defend true independence, control and dominance of economic sovereignty, the local transformation of raw materials, the commitment to promoting education, teaching, health, housing, employment, as well as the improvement of the economic and social conditions of the majority of citizens.
France, which continued to exploit minerals from its former African colonies, has seen its prominence and dominance diminish, with the rise of new leaders, mainly in Shael, hence turning to other geographies and allies. Angola is one of them…
A credible source close to the Élysée Palace (French presidential palace) told F8 that Emanuel Macron urged João Lourenço, as President of Angola and the African Union, to do everything he could to free the businesswoman and French citizen, Sylvia Valentin Bongo Ondimba, 62 years old, Ali Bongo Ondimba (66 years old), former president, Noureddine Bongo (33 years old), her son, who had been under house arrest since 30 August 2023, at the time of the coup d’état carried out by General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, in Gabon, who strangely, in the April 2025 elections, was considered the winner with 95% of the votes… Shame! It should be remembered that the Electoral Commission, Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, list delegates and polling station presidents were all soldiers in General Brice’s presidential guard, who did their utmost to keep the accounts in favor of the leader…
No! But João Lourenço strangely praised the model, considering it exemplary, transforming, in less than two years, the leprous military coup leader (he avoided any approach or meeting), into an exemplary statesman…
A strange metamorphosis that did not stop there, because on May 16, 2025, the Presidency of the Republic of Angola, in a statement, announced the arrival in Luanda of the French citizen, the former dictator and his son, after their release. They will then head to Paris, where a lordly life awaits them, after the Bongos (father and son) made their fortune during the 55 years of dictatorial rule.
As there is no free lunch, after this, Angolans should not be surprised if France, the European Union and the United States support many unconstitutional and illegal practices, such as electoral fraud in 2027, in Angola.
VENÂNCIO AND INTERNAL DEMOCRACY
The candidate for the leadership, António Venâncio, naively believes that the MPLA is capable of behaving with dignity and fairness during free, fair and transparent elections in Angola. This is something that it does not do internally and that the activist has already proven first-hand when he was severely prevented from presenting his candidacy at the 8th Congress.
Party intolerance as a hallmark of this MPLA makes the master of ceremonies, who holds control of the judicial bodies, untouchable.
Even so, António Venâncio expresses hope in the article entitled “Elections and Dialogue”, appealing to the youth to remember and not forget the past of resistance for independence, when this was a proclamation, materially, ideologically, identified with the MPLA militants.
So much so that in the path taken from one-party rule (11.11.1975) to the opening of multi-party rule in 1991, António Venâncio, perhaps due to the MPLA’s vaccination campaign, voluntarily or involuntarily omitted the Alto Cauango – Luena – Moxico Peace Agreements, mediated by the journalist and jurist, William Tonet and signed by General Ben Ben – FALA/UNITA and Colonel Higino Carneiro of FAPLA/Government, on 19 May 1991. But the Bicesse Agreements, signed on 31 May 1991, mediated by Portuguese people, are given exclusive access to by António Venâncio: “it was on that date, in a room at the Escola Superior de Hotelaria, in Estoril, Portugal, that the MPLA and UNITA reached an understanding that paved the way for multi-party rule and the holding of the first elections in Angola, in 1992”. asserted.
LEGAL COPS “MURDERERS” DEMOCRACY
One of the latest and most bizarre episodes, which shocked the majority of citizens and the world, is related to the judicial suspension of a debate, which was to take place, as is customary in the entire democratic world (unfortunately Angola is not), within an academy: the Catholic University, on the electoral package. One by the MPLA (the most controversial and anti-democratic) and the other by UNITA (respecting the acquired rights of voters and transparency), in a debate in the National Assembly.
The party in power with the majority intends to approve, in advance, yet another fraud and cheating, with a sham in the 2027 elections, once approved in parliament, yet another constitutional coup d’état. Discussion in academia is normal in any civilized country that loves different thinking. Unfortunately, it frightens those in power and, if the devil were not to weave them and in a ghostly (pseudo) scenario, lawyers, stabbing the class, as if they were secret agents, shielded with the fingerprints of the MPLA, file a lawsuit in the court of appeal.
This inquisitorial question of academic and intellectual thought, not even during the time of apartheid (white ethnicity), did the South African regime dare to “invade and assassinate” the parchments of scientificity, so much so that it was from a university that Frederick de Klerk (white), representing the National Party, came to negotiate, with Nelson Mandela (black), the end of the segregationist regime (both won the Nobel Peace Prize).
Unfortunately, it is shameful to believe that in 2025, in the country of the current president of the African Union, legal apartheid and crimes of robbery against democracy are applauded, in courts (common and specialized) with a Nazi bias, dominated by the partycracy of the CAPs…
In a serious court where impartiality is the rule, the principle of representativeness would prevail, given the quality of the petitioners (four), and the conclusion would soon be reached that they were ineffective, as they do not represent even 0.03% of the members of the OAA (Angolan Bar Association), more than 12,000 members. This would be a field for questioning the magistrates because the litigants did not perform functions that had been compromised, in light of the Statutes, in electoral, executive or third-party acts deserving of judicial remedy.
But, when the OAA least expected it, the “empty complainant”, “adamantly” and “pliers” supported prospered, like lethal manure, murderer of the law, of free thought, of the legal academy, of freedoms, exhaling the odor of dictatorship and fascism. We witnessed the genocide of the Constitution, of the law and of the incipient democracy, with the abject sentence, indifferent to the rectitude of the law.
Faced with the terrifying situation that has been burned in the corridors of justice, former presidents (Raul Araújo, Né Gonçalves, Inglês Pinto – most of whom are identified with the MPLA, and even Hermenegildo Cachimbombo, often associated with SINFO, for having exposed the individual processes of colleagues, in order to revoke their membership cards), did not remain indifferent, expressing indignation and repulsion, for such a stupid and Nazi decision.
Lawyers from the CPLP and other associations joined together in solidarity and rejection of the legal stupidity of the magistrates, the MPLA jurists and its Executive, for stabbing the legal knowledge and independence of the Bar Association, whose leadership refuses to be a bootlicker for the party in power.
Hence, against all risks, the OAA will not only appeal the absurd decision, but will also file a lawsuit against the judge in the case and the authors of the precautionary measure, for their blatant and shameless violation of the law, the rule of law and democracy that they want to see implemented in Angola.
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