The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika was founded on March 31, 1968. Both the current Interim President Krystal Muhamad and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Siphiwe Baleka (who is the President of the Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society in America), are both descendants of the Balanta who were captured from their ancestral homeland (modern day Republic of Guinea Bissau) and trafficked to the Americas where they suffered chattel enslavement and U.S. state sanctioned ethnocide. The Balanta are known as “those who resist” and it is no coincidence that the two have risen to the leadership of the New Afrikan Independence Movement which is aiming to conduct a plebiscite for self determination.
On Wednesday, March 13 59 ADM (after the death of Malcolm X), Siphiwe Baleka, sent an email to the RNA email list entitled REFLECTIONS Re: PGRNA SPECIAL ELECTION VOTING LOCATIONS. (see below). The message was described by one person as his “usual competent and compassionate description of what has happened and where we stand as a ‘dueling PG-RNA’". Indeed, his intention was reconciliatory and he invited open comments. In response, Asinia Lukata Chikuyu sent the following message entitled BURNING BRIDGES within the Revolutionary Movement that stated in part,
“Can we afford to burn bridges among our small conscious/revolutionary community? Creating a rogue/second government, the interim republic of new afrika, is burning bridges and fits right into the Willie Lynch Syndrome. . . . .”
Then, on Thursday, March 14, Shujaa Alkebulan sent the following message “PCC Response to the "Interim Government”
“a few disgruntled citizens of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) began patching together an "Interim government.” They are doing so by copying the name, symbols, and general formats of the very Government they claim they are breaking away from. Stated more bluntly, these citizens are forging a counterfeit Government in an attempt to pass it off as the historically authentic, and duly-elected, Government founded on March 31, 1968 — the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PG-RNA). It seems they seek to legitimize their efforts through illegitimate means. From the beginning, these disgruntled citizens chose to work outside of New Afrikan Law, and have deceptively projected the false impression that what they are doing is legal. The truth is, what they're doing is not only illegal under New Afrikan Law but also unethical and without substance. . . . The duly-elected People's Center Council calls on all RNA citizens to not only beware of this group and their deceptions, but to join us in denouncing their counterfeit "Interim Government"; its preceding "People's Convention"; and its toxic leadership which has set out to fool as many people as they can.”
BBHAGSIA President Siphiwe Baleka’s name was then listed as one of “those publicly associated with this ‘Interim Government’”. It is because narratives matter that he wrote the document below for all to read, but also for posterity’s sake, since there is a concerted effort from the above to distort the truth with false and negative propaganda.
For the record, the “Interim Government” was not an attempt to “break away” from the PGRNA or create a “rogue/second government”. Neither was it “illegal, unethical and without substance” as will be seen from my personal testimony below.
The Interim Government was the product of an electoral and constitutional crisis created by a failed PG-RNA and a sham election.
New Afrikan citizens stepped in with the Code of Umoja to ensure continuity of the legitimate PGRNA. There was never an attempt to set up an alternative or second government but only an attempt to save the one government black people in America have. It is not very much different than what is occurring in Haiti right now where the people demand the removal of the unelected Acting Prime Minister who is running the country by decree. The people got fed up and are now in the process of setting up an Interim Transitional Government for Haiti. That is not a rogue/second government - it is the proper re-establishment of Haitian self determination and the Haitian government. As long as it is led by a social contract accepted by all stakeholders among the Haitian people, it is a legitimate government. Likewise the New Afrikan People’s Convention and the establishment of the Interim Government.
People may disagree and have different opinions, but the level of animosity, pompousness, vitriol, slander, hypocrisy, negative pathology and self-righteousness from some individuals claiming to be patriotic New Afrikan citizens is alarming and should be exposed and corrected. Siphiwe Baleka believes that a fair reading of his testimony will show this and, in particular, his participation in the Interim Government as Minister of Foreign Affairs and serving as the Chief Justice of the People’s Court, is neither unethical nor without substance.
REFLECTIONS Re: PGRNA SPECIAL ELECTION VOTING LOCATIONS
FREE THE LAND!
I write to you all as a conscious New Afrikan Citizen. The fundamental problem of New Afrikans is POWERLESSNESS. The agreed solution is A SOVEREIGN NATION. The function of national and local government units is TO WIN SOVEREIGNTY FOR THE NATION! i.e. FREE THE LAND!
We all know that a regular PG-RNA election was held last November that suffered from charges of voter suppression and other irregularities that resulted in just 4 certified districts out of 30+ voting. It was seriously contested that the election was NOT free and fair and no adequate explanation or resolution of the various charges were given. As a result, New Afrikan people held a Convention and was given a mandate to establish an Interim government whose primary concern would be to hold a proper free and fair election, much like the mandate given yesterday in Haiti to establish a transitional government. Currently, the PG-RNA is faced with the problem of "dueling PG-RNA's" that has divided the active New Afrikan population and discouraged many others from getting involved.
The intent of the upcoming Special Election was to correct the defects of the regular election from last November in hopes of having broad participation that could end the "dueling PG-RNA" crisis. YOUR participation in the election will determine if this can happen. I understand that there are many fundamental issues and grudges (for lack of a better word) and perhaps even vendettas..... How will we move past this to WIN SOVEREIGNTY FOR THE NATION? As long as there is a write-in option on the ballot, all New Afrikans can feel that their voice will be counted and their voice heard. We expect a substantial turnout of voters at the voting locations and the voice and will of New Afrikan people will be given. But what will be the result after the vote? Apathy won't help us. Dueling PG-RNA's, as a dialectical process, can only help us if the result is synthesis or a more developed, more advanced understanding of the PG-RNA. The special election could be a means to synthesis. Or not. Ultimately, however, it is not the Hegelian/Marxist European concept that governs this - rather, it is the African principle of Ubuntu. The sad fact is that, outside of the PG-RNA, there is no entity focused on WINNING SOVEREIGNTY FOR THE NATION. There is no organized nationalist entity or voice in the current reparations movement and discussion. This can change if the PG-RNA becomes stronger, and that can only happen within a few weeks with a large and broad voter turnout for the special elections.
Just like the world is talking about how to solve the problem in Haiti and form a transitional government that will lead to a strong, popularly supported government in Haiti, I'd like to hear from PGRNA veterans on this thread their thoughts about the upcoming Special Election and/or the prospect of reconciling the dueling PG-RNAs...
Siphiwe Baleka, writing as a New Afrikan citizen.....
