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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315164 (071358ZAUG23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Carl Niehaus (video)

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“Expulsion of Carl Niehaus from the ANC: Samkele Maseko” [Dec 12, 2022] - https://youtu.be/QekF3oGvwQc

Carl Niehaus History

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/carl-niehaus

Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final exams in 1980 when he was expelled from RAU for putting up campus posters that supported Nelson Mandela's release from prison.

In the same year, he resigned from the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) as he was opposed to their compliance with the apartheid system. He joined and became a deacon in the African Dutch Reformed Church in Alexandra and in July 1980 Niehaus joined the African National Congress.

He worked in the ANC underground inside South Africa until he and his fiancé (and later wife) Johanna (Jansie) Lourens were arrested in August 1983. During the same period Niehaus completed a degree in Industrial sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Carl and Jansie were found guilty of High Treason and he received a 15 year sentence while Jansie was sentenced to four years in prison.

Jansie served her full sentence and Niehaus served seven and a half years of his sentence. Carl and Jansie got married in prison. He did two degrees in theology through the University of South Africa and finished both Summa cum Laude.

By 1991, the process of dismantling apartheid had begun and Niehaus was released from prison in March 1991 following ANC negotiations with the previous Nationalist Party Government for the release of political prisoners. Immediately after his release Niehaus became the media liaison spokesperson for the ANC, and from 1992 until the General Election on 27 April 1994 he was head of the ANC's media liaison unit.

After having served for two consecutive terms on the Regional Executive Council (REC) of the ANC in Gauteng (the old PWV Region), Niehaus was elected at the ANC's National Conference in Bloemfontein (December 1994) to the National Executive Committee of the ANC. He also chaired the NEC's Commission on Religious Affairs.

In 1996, Niehaus was a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly. He chaired the Select Committee on Correctional Services, and also served on the Select Committee for Justice and Communication. The Transformation Forum on Correctional Service was also chaired by him.

Later in life, Niehaus was surrounded by controversy. His alleged degree in Industrial Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, and a PhD in Theology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands raised much controversy. In 2009, it was revealed that Niehaus did not have a degree from the University of Utrecht and that he had in fact falsified additional information regarding his qualifications and work for the ANC. Niehaus claimed he obtained a doctoral degree in theology at Utrecht during his tenure as South Africa's ambassador in The Hague from 1997-2000.

Following an enquiry, a university official told the Beeld newspaper, "I can inform you that Mr Carl Niehaus had not obtained a doctorate in Theology in the period you mentioned."

In addition, allegations of fraud were brought against Niehaus, most of which he admitted to. He apparently convinced the owner of a travel agency to temporarily cover the expenses of a family holiday to Mauritius and when he was expected to repay the amount of money, he refused to do so. He was forced to resign from the ANC in February 2009.

Niehaus has also written an autobiography "Om te Veg vir Hoop". The book was translated into English and Dutch.

Was..

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-04-06-ill-support-zuma-no-matter-what-says-carl-niehaus-outside-court/, 06 April 2018

“ANC national executive member and Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association spokesperson Carl Niehaus”

Then…

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/anc-expels-carl-niehaus-as-a-member/¸12 December 2022, 2:39 PM

“ANC expels Carl Niehaus as a member”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315171 (071400ZAUG23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Carl Niehaus (video)

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“Carl Niehaus, the sanctimonious con artist and mascot to corruption and incompetence”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-12-29-carl-niehaus-sanctimonious-con-artist-and-mascot-to-corruption/

29 Dec 2022

The former ANC spokesperson and Jacob Zuma’s number-one cheerleader is synonymous with unashamed hypocrisy and venal dishonesty, and is deserving of Daily Maverick's Moegoe Lifetime Achievement award 2022.

ix months ago, Carl Niehaus led a march to Luthuli House and gave the President 48 hours to resign over the Phala Phala scandal. ANC members demanded accountability and the march was “the first of many protests to come”, he said.

Wearing a Panama hat, thick-rimmed glasses and ANC merchandising mistakes, Jacob Zuma’s number-one cheerleader embarked on an often solitary #RamaphosaMustGo campaign, warning that the President was “very damaging if not totally destructive for the African National Congress”.

Niehaus’s campaign to save both party and country was building up to the Nasrec conference. He’d been staging a one-man protest outside the venue by defiantly holding a #RamaphosaMustGo poster. But days before the conference began, he was expelled from the ANC over comments he made in July 2021. He had vowed to fight any attempt to arrest Zuma after the Constitutional Court’s contempt judgment. The uprising that followed Zuma’s incarceration led to 354 deaths and about R50-billion in damages.

Niehaus’s life has been spiralling towards the absurd for years.

In his twenties he was studying to be a Dutch Reformed Church minister in Johannesburg before he left the whites-only organisation and joined the anti-apartheid movement. He was arrested in 1983 after, unbeknown to him, working with a security police spy on plans to sabotage the Johannesburg Gas Works. He served seven-and-a-half years in prison, which he often inflates to nine-and-a-half or 10 years.

In the democratic era, he chaired a parliamentary committee and later served as ANC spokesperson. This is, of course, to say there was a time before “Carl Niehaus” was a synonym for unashamed hypocrisy and venal dishonesty, before he became an empty body of lies in a real soldier’s uniform.

In a profile from 2021, Niehaus told DM168’s Rebecca Davis that he’d realised the material things he previously strived for, “which led to financial problems, are not important”. They rarely are when you get exposed as not just a liar but also a sanctimonious con artist who would betray friends and family – not to mention the fight for a just and democratic society – for a buck.

Debt and the undead

Niehaus’s financial deceit has become the stuff of legend. In 2009, he resigned as ANC spokesperson after tearfully admitting to Mail & Guardian journalist Pearlie Joubert that he had forged signatures while working at the Gauteng Economic Development Agency. He borrowed huge sums from ANC comrades and business leaders, without paying them back. He left a job at Deloitte & Touche in 2003 owing to his embarrassing financial fancies and owed the Rhema Church more than R700,000.

An East London travel agency owner said she fronted Niehaus R100,000 so he could go on holiday with his family while he was battling leukaemia (he wasn’t).

When a landlord demanded Niehaus pay R4.3-million in rent and damages for two Sandton apartments, he claimed his mother had died and he would use his inheritance to pay the debt. Magrietha Niehaus, who in 1983 had told the court her son was “still a good boy at heart”, was still alive.

In 2011, he borrowed money from then deputy justice minister Andries Nel to bury his father. Nel reportedly tried to attend the funeral but Niehaus’s father was, in fact, alive.

He was also exposed for lying about having a doctorate in theology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

In a perverse way, even though he lost his ANC job and party membership, the Ramaphosa years have been kind to Niehaus. He’s been on a crusade of loyalty to the likes of Zuma, Ace Magashule, Bathabile Dlamini and the Radical Economic Transformation forces. He’s more a mascot to corruption and incompetence than a political player and has had ample opportunities to don the MK fatigues in which he never trained nor served.

The day after he was expelled by the ANC, Niehaus protested outside Parliament ahead of the debate on the Phala Phala report. He stood his ground against police shields like a veteran activist who refuses to give up the cause. Niehaus clearly still has a lot of struggle left in him, but despite all the bluster his fight is and always will be for his own relevance. DM168

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315241 (071416ZAUG23) Notable: >>1931526, Julius Malema Speech and others at EFF 10th Anniversary (video)

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>“Socialism and man in Cuba”

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>“The Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s”

Julius Malema Speech and others at EFF 10th Anniversary – Part 1

https://youtu.be/Y-7BFNpQECY

Jul 29, 2023

5:22 – [SAFTU]“President and the commander in chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters, Julius Malema, on behalf of the South African Federation of Trade Unions, SAFTU, I wish to pass our revolutionary greetings and salutations to their ground forces gathering here and the leadership of the EFF this important day. The occasion of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the EFF. We note that it is among others, the blood of the mattias of Marikana that nourished the seed of the birth of the EFF. Marika Massacre which represents the highest peak of the class struggle since the advent of the liberal democracy in 1994 become the catalytic event that gave birth to this giant the EFF today… Finally, as we say, only socialism that can truly liberate the oppressed groups and liberate workers from exploitation… Capitalism must be abolished and EFF has the role play as the key leader in that struggle. Happy Birthday EFF”

9:22 – [Azapo] “That as Azapo, we have faith in the EFF, we believe in the EFF, we think that there is hope in this country. We stand here this afternoon to say happy 10th anniversary to the EFF. When we see you gathered like this as Azapo, we see change. When we see gathered like this, there is hope that it will not be only black people who live in townships in this country. It will not only be black people who in shacks in this country. It will not only be black children who study in mud schools in this country. It will not only be black children who study under trees in this country. It will not only be black people who are unemployed in this country. When we see you, we see change. The EFF brought change in the politics in this country. Before, the parliament was a bathroom. The parliament was a ‘slaapkamer’ [bedroom]. People were snoring in that parliament and when the EFF walked in the parliament has changed. Now the parliament is a boxing ring. Now the parliament is a fighting space that is why you can say, pay back the money. It is now time to say, bring back the land, bring back the land, bring back the land, bring back the land, bring back the land…”

14:51 – [PAC] “Today, as the PAC, we are brining to you a message of solidarity. Indeed, because of EFF, political landscape of this country has changed. Indeed you brought what the struggle was all about in the fall. The strugglein this country was about the land… The land belongs to Africans. We are happy that the EFF has brought that message of hope. We are happy that the EFF is able to unite all of us under the same roof. We are looking forward for us to working together with the EFF. We the Pan African Congress of Azania, we are for the fraternal relationship of all African people. Unity of African people is sacrosaned. Eff stand for that. Thank you very much ground forces, you have proved naysayers wrong. You have proved that indeed you are a force. You have proved that indeed you are ground forces. You have proved that indeed South Africa will never be the same again. You have proved that next year, in the center stage of this country, everything will be about the land. Everything will be about what the liberation was all about which is the land, the return of the land to African people. Thank you EFF. Happy 10th anniversary…”

Then announces the list of kings present.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315252 (071418ZAUG23) Notable: >>1931526, Julius Malema Speech and others at EFF 10th Anniversary (video)

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>Forward to seven tenament pillars, forward!

“The 7 Non-negotiable pillars of the EFF”

https://effwc.org.za/7-non-negotiable-pillars/

Expropriation of land without compensation for equitable redistribution

Nationalisation of mines, banks and other strategic sectors of the economy.

Building state and government capacity.

Free quality education, healthcare, houses, and sanitation.

Massive protected industrial development to create millions of sustainable jobs, including the introduction of minimum wages in order to close the wage gap between the rich and the poor.

Massive investment in the development of the African economy.

Open, accountable, corrupt-free government and society without fear of victimisation by state agencies.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315378 (071444ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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>Young Lions

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>commemoration of the UDF and your “Call to Action” on August 20.

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>he Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s

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It is worth reposting this article as a reminder to draw similarities. This is what Sweden supported.

“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 1

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

When the first waves of violence first started hitting formerly peaceful South African farming communities a common analogy drawn by those affected was with the Rhodesian Bush War. This was a reference to the conflict between the Rhodesian Front government of Ian Smith and ZAPU and ZANU guerrillas, in which white farmers were a particular target of armed attack. Between 1964 and 1980 around 300 white farmers and their family members were killed, most in the intense and vicious final few years of the conflict.

South African statistics on farm murders date back to 1991 when the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) - now Agri-SA - started trying to first document this disturbing phenomenon. This was the year after the unbanning of the liberation movements by President FW de Klerk, the release of political prisoners, the start of the return of cadres from exile, and the ANC’s de jure suspension of the armed struggle.

The SAAU figures record 66 farm murders in 1991, rising to 92 in 1994. This was clearly part of the trend of politically-related violence, and more general lawlessness, that swept South Africa at the time.

Instead of falling back post-1994, however, the number of murders committed during attacks on predominantly minority-owned farms and smallholdings continued on an upward trajectory, reaching 150 a year by the end of the decade, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Though there has been no shortage of intellectuals willing to argue the contrary over the years, the prevalence of this type of murder (especially in rural areas) is clearly abnormal, the age profile of the murder victims (usually elderly) is abnormal, and the level of brutality often involved is abnormal.

Equally inexplicable, on the face of it, has been the ANC government’s lethargic response to this crisis. Although some concrete efforts were taken to address the issue during Nelson Mandela’s presidency, such as declaring farm attacks a priority crime in 1998, the same cannot be said of the Mbeki and Zuma presidencies. Indeed in May 2003 cabinet announced that the commando system, the farming community’s main line of defence, would be progressively dismantled over the next few years. Having done so it was then announced that farm attack statistics would no longer be released. This moratorium was only recently lifted, with three years of data still missing, and the reliability of more recent figures under question. To this day the ANC government steadfastly refuses to once again treat farm attacks as a priority crime.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315380 (071445ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 2

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

In this ideological schema the white farmer (or “Boer”) was the individual embodiment of the “historic injustice”, the illegitimate occupier of stolen land, and a ruthless exploiter of the labour of those who had been dispossessed. The Zulu King Dingane was praised on occasion in ANC propaganda for the sly and ruthlessly effective way in which he had dealt with trekking parties and their leaders in Natal, “scattering the Boers like terrified rats.”[2] It was regarded as axiomatic too that these “white colonialists” who “took our land by force” could not be made to hand it back without force.

Then in 1983 national protests had broken out – led by the newly formed United Democratic Front [UDF] – against the new ‘Tricameral’ constitution. This was followed in September 1984 by the Vaal uprising, the start of a sustained insurrection against apartheid and continued white rule in South Africa. The activists on the ground, and in the leadership of the UDF, looked to the ANC in exile for tactical, strategic and ideological guidance.

An early indication of the direction that the ANC/SACP was moving in, when it came to the land question, was contained in the ANC National Executive Committee’s January 8th statement of 1984 delivered by Oliver Tambo, which also made the call for South Africa to be made ungovernable. This stated that:

“On the commercial farms, the most merciless brutalisation of our people, especially women and children, takes place, every day and every hour of the day at the hands of the landowners. One of the fundamental elements for the solution of the problems facing our people in the countryside is the resolution of the land question in favour of the tillers. Our immediate task, therefore, is to mobilise the rural masses around the question of land. It is only when the countryside is organised that the rural masses will be able to respond resolutely to the call: ‘Seize the land!’"

1985: Resolving the land issue “the hard way”

Tambo’s January 8th statement in 1985 returned to the importance of organising in the farming areas of the country and placing “the perspective of seizing the land from the dispossessor in front of our rural masses and educate them to understand that this is a task that calls for dedication, determination and sacrifice.” This address stated “The dispossession of our people of the land that is theirs remains one of the most burning national grievances….Millions of our people in the rural areas are brutally exploited as agricultural workers on farms carved out of their ancestral lands. Their daily lives are dominated by the dictates of the racist White farmers and agricultural companies against whom they have absolutely no redress, because they are the least organised and mobilised.” It then delivered the ominous warning, “The land question must be resolved, if needs be, the hard way.”

In Radio Freedom broadcasts through late 1984 and early 1985 the ANC in exile exhorted its young supporters on the ground in South Africa to completely discard adherence to the criminal law and basic Christian morality; to organise themselves into military-style units, to link up with MK operatives, to sabotage industries and farms, to rob whites and take their guns, and to use these (and whatever other weapons were at hand) to “eliminate” black policemen, councillors, suspected informers, and other categories of the enemy.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315381 (071445ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 3

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

The Kirkwood area of the Sundays River valley was one of innumerable areas across the country where such a call to arms received a ready response. On 5th May 1985 the EP Herald reported on how the formerly peaceful farming community there had, over the past six weeks, suddenly been afflicted by strikes, consumer boycotts, arson attacks and death threats against individual farmers. Then on the night of the 17th of June 1985 an elderly farming couple - Koos de Jager, 72, and his wife, Myrtle, 68 - were brutally murdered. They were found “in their blood spattered homestead on their farm near Addo. Mr De Jager fought desperately against the killers before he was overpowered and bludgeoned to death with an axe. His wife died of stab wounds.”[4] The killers took various minor items, including a .22 rifle and a pellet gun, and had driven away in the couple’s Datsun bakkie, which was later found burnt out in Motherwell Township, Port Elizabeth.

The twelve youths who carried out the attack were all members of the Addo Youth Congress, an affiliate of the UDF. Eight members of the group were arrested and charged and convicted for the murders, four were sentenced to death, with two eventually being hanged in April 1989. They would be reburied by the ANC government as heroes in 2017, https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/how-these-udf-cadres-ended-up-on-death-rowmichae. Some of the group however escaped over the border and joined MK. On his return from exile one of them, Khanyiso Malgas, was integrated into the South African National Defence Force and applied for amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the killings. He told his hearing in 1999 that the League had held a meeting where the decision was taken “that farmers should be killed. After that meeting Chairperson, an action was taken. We went from Addo. We went to kill the farmers and then this first farmer was killed.” Asked why the De Jagers were targeted in particular, he expounded: “We did not target a specific farm, the farmers were killed and if our plans did not fail, I think that a lot of farmers would have been killed, more than one, but what happened is that our plan failed, so it was difficult for us to continue killing the farmers. So we did not target a specific farmer, we were killing farmers.”-

The targeting of white farmers was also top of mind of the ANC leadership in exile at that time. A discussion document for the Commission on Armed Struggle prepared for the ANC’s Kabwe conference, held in June 1985, stated: “We should liquidate and harass the enemy manpower, puppets and traitors including the rural bourgeoisie (white farmers…)”. The Commission on Strategy and Tactics talked about using the liberation movement’s urban strongholds as a springboard for launching the armed struggle in the rural areas. It stated:

“In the rural areas it is necessary to create underground and mass political bases as a foundation for the armed struggle. In areas where suitable conditions exist units must be sent to be based in the terrain to make contact with and train the local population for action against the enemy. We must undertake a sustained drive to clear the white farms and harass the enemy with mine warfare. Sustained armed activity in the rural areas is important both as a politicising factor locally and nationally, and as a tactic to disperse the enemy.” (My italics)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315385 (071446ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 4

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

Although a key reason for targeting white farmers was ideological –the start of an offensive designed to “seize the land” from the “white colonialists” - the ANC still remained formally committed to the principle, enshrined in the Geneva conventions, that MK would not directly target white civilians. The Commission argued around this by claiming that “the enemy has begun to transform almost every farm into a military outpost. Certainly in the countryside they are more and more blurring the distinction between what is civilian and what is military.” The white farming class as a whole was thereby redefined as a legitimate “military” target.

Among the 30 NEC members elected or re-elected at Kabwe were Moses Mabhida, Joe Slovo, Joe Modise, Mac Maharaj, Joe Nhlanhla, Sizakele Sigxashe, Aziz Pahad, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma. The campaign to take the struggle into white areas would involve both a propaganda element, involving incitement, and a military element, with MK cadres either going after particular targets themselves, or training and arming radicalised ANC supporting youth and then directing them to do the same. The Composite and Organisational Report of the National Preparatory Committee for Kabwe talked about building “MK units among workers and peasants, drawing in the unemployed” and creating “politico-military units in factories, farms, mines and other places of work.” It described the ideally trained MK cadre as an “all-rounder who can impart the skills of a soldier, agitator, propagandist, etc, to people inside the country. Stress must be put on MK fighters as political militants.”

In a Radio Freedom broadcast in October 1985 the ANC called on its supporters to “use all means” to get weapons from the “privileged white community” that it said was “armed to the teeth.” These weapons it said were “meant to mow down our people.” It called on “our compatriots who are working as domestic servants to take a leading role. They know where their employers keep their weapons and they are the ones who can devise plans of transferring the ownership of the weapons.”

A pamphlet distributed by the ANC later that year stated that the “time has come to take the war to the White areas. White South Africa cannot be at peace while the Black townships are in flames.” It elaborated that “taking the war to the white areas” meant inter alia “forming underground units and combat groups in our places of work and taking such actions as sabotage in the factories, mines, farms and suburbs” and “well-planned raids on the armouries and arms dumps of the army, police, farmers and so on to secure arms for our units.” Even in this somewhat watered down call to action then farms were explicitly mentioned as a legitimate targets both for sabotage and robbery.

After the Kabwe conference meanwhile MK, under the direction of the ANC NEC’s Politico-Military Council, also set about implementing the ANC leadership’s instructions to drive white farmers off the land, beginning with the border areas. Operations would be carried out under the command of Julius Maliba, the head of the MK’s Regional Politico-Military Committee in Zimbabwe, and Siphiwe Nyanda, the head of the RPMC responsible for the Eastern Transvaal, and from Botswana as well.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315393 (071447ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 5

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

The first fatality of the landmine campaign was Jas Balie, 25, a black tractor driver. His vehicle had struck a landmine on a farm road on 27th November and he died the following day. A day or two later another black farm worker, Philemon Ngcobo, was killed when his tractor was blown up on a farm in the area.[5]

On 15th December six people were killed when the bakkie they were driving in detonated a landmine on a game farm near Messina. Mrs Kobie van Eck, 34, her children Ignatius, 2, and Nellmarie, 8, Marie Denyschen, 59, and her grandchildren Kobus, 3, and Karna, 9, were all killed in the blast. Two weeks later Elize de Beer, 32, and her father-in-law Hubert de Beer, 63, died after their vehicle struck a landmine on a farm close to the Botswana border near Ellisras in the Northern Transvaal. A Radio Freedom broadcast on 6th January 1986 described the victims of the first attack as “six white Boer farmers and one black” and the second as “two Boers” and said that, while ANC HQ in Lusaka could not confirm responsibility, whoever carried out these attacks was “most certainly a South Africa patriot.” The following day Lukas Marais, a successful sugar-cane farmer was shot dead in cold blood on his farm by an assailant with an AK-47 rifle in the Komatipoort district in the Eastern Transvaal.

1986: Give the enemy no quarter

The ANC NEC’s January 8th statement of 1986, delivered by Tambo, stated that “the charge we give to Umkhonto we Sizwe and to the masses of our people is attack, advance, give the enemy no quarter-an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!” On the land question the NEC noted that “Our mass political offensive must of necessity also succeed to draw in the millions of our people in the countryside, both inside and outside the Bantustans. It is clear that, relative to the situation in the past, we have made considerable progress in mobilising and organising the people in the countryside.” Tambo added that MK had also “taken the armed struggle both into the Bantustans and into the enemy rural military zones, striking blows that have worried the enemy and its puppets.” He then stated:

“Much organisational and mobilisation work still needs to be done in these areas, raising to the fore such questions as the need to destroy the oppressive Bantustan system, to rise up against the blood-sucking white soldier-farmers and to address the central task of the landless masses seizing the land which rightfully belongs to them.” (My italics)

In his address to MK at this time Chris Hani stated that in 1986 there should be a qualitative change in the way in which the enemy was fought. This should be the year in which MK should be made a “people’s army involving the whole population in the fight”. It would also finally be in a position “to arm the young lions who have been battling with the racist army for more than a year”. 1986, he said, should also be the year: “when the countryside should be unsafe for the enemy. Already there are indications that this is beginning to take place. But what has happened is the tip of the iceberg. We should spread those operations in the rural areas and the farms.” To make all this happen, Hani added, MK need to “plunge itself into the country, train and arm our people and be part of the struggles of those millions of our people.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315405 (071450ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 6

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

In March 1986 Radio Freedom broadcast a call for farm workers to find ways of sabotaging the production process on the “Boer farms where millions of our compatriots are working under slave conditions.” In another broadcast that month Hani reiterated the ANC’s call for the people to arm themselves. “There are arms everywhere in that country. The white community is a militarised community. Every shopkeeper, every dealer, every farmer has got weapons. The people must grab those weapons and use them against the enemy.”

On the 15th April three members of the Paarl Youth Congress (PAYCO), an affiliate of the UDF, raided Vlakkeland Farm to seize weapons for their fight with AZAPO. In the attack the domestic worker, Anne Foster, and the gardener, John Geyser, were shot dead, the latter while he was tied up and completely helpless. Unable to find weapons the culprits instead made off with a box containing jewellery and money.

In mid-1986, at the height of the insurrection, the SACP magazine Umsebenzi called for the consolidation of gains of the revolution in the face of President PW Botha’s declaration of a state of emergency. It noted that “the flames of urban resistance and defiance have spread to the hated Bantustans. Names like Bophuthatswana, Lebowa, Transkei, KwaNdebele are being added to the lists of nationwide flashpoints of upsurge.” The urgent need now, it stated, was to “intensify the offensive against all the sell-out administrations and those at the top who use their positions as out-and-out puppets of Pretoria. It is also time to begin to clean out the countryside of the racist farmers.” (My italics)

In a broadcast on Radio Freedom on 21st October 1985 the ANC noted that “quite a number of racist farmers” had been killed or seriously injured in a spate of landmine explosions in the areas around the northern borders of South Africa. The ANC said that it had long ago declared these areas war zones, after these farmers, their wives and children were integrated into the state’s security and defence network. “These racist farmers” it continued, “are notorious for their brutal oppression and exploitation of African labour. Our people employed by these farmers go to the fields under the shadow of the whip and the gun. They work under slave conditions for slave wages.”

“Sabotage his farming operations. Destroy his crops. Sabotage his implements and machinery. Daring actions of Umkhonto we Sizwe are not the only way of confronting the enemy. Sabotage operations are part of the people's war. And actions of the people are. Do not allow the Boers to arm you against the people. Take the guns and communication equipment [in their possession] and everything you can lay your hands on and turn them on the exploitative farmers. These are the actions we have to take to end this state of tyranny which occupies our land. Let us all unite and fight for a new South Africa where the land shall not be the property of white farmers only but shall be shared among all those who [work it].”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19315444 (071458ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic (Parts 1-7)

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“The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic” – Part 7

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

James Myburgh |

20 June 2018

Below are excerpts

It is worth noting at this point the similarity between the message conveyed in this broadcast, and the words of the war song "Dubul'ibhunu" sung by MK cadres in exile:

Dubula! Dubula! Dubula nge s'bhamu

Dubul' ibhunu

Dubula' Dubula Dubula nge s'bhamu

Mama, ndiyeke ndidubul' ibhunu

Dubula' Dubula' Dubula nge s'bhamu

Ziyareypa lezinja

Dubula! Dubula! Dubula nge s'bhamu

[Shoot! Shoot! Shoot them with a gun

Shoot the Boer

Shoot! Shoot! Shoot them with a gun

Ma, let me "shoot the Boer

Shoot! Shoot Shoot them with a gun.

These dogs rape us

Shoot shoot shoot them with a gun.]

On the 14th of November a farmer, Dries van der Westhuizen, was driving home with his eight-year-old son Pieter when the rear wheel of their bakkie detonated a Soviet-made landmine on a farm road close to their homestead near the Botswana border. The vehicle was blown apart and the two were flung clear. The father was found by his neighbour bleeding and in a state of shock, holding his critically injured and unconscious son in his arms.[6]

In a press conference on the 20th November the Chief of the South African Army, General Kat Liebenberg, said that MK cadres were being infiltrated into South Africa from Botswana through two routes. Their instructions were “to carry out a programme of selective murders of White farmers with the aim of intimidating farmers into abandoning their land, and to spy out deserted farms on which ANC sub-bases could be set up.” He said that MK operatives operating out of Botswana were responsible for six mine incidents and fourteen other incidents so far this year.[7]

By 1987 the ANC leadership’s high hopes for the imminent overthrow of the regime had receded, and it was forced to switch its approach. On the one hand it placed greater emphasis on diplomatic and political initiatives, including talks with intermediaries of the Afrikaner establishment. Mbeki’s role in these talks was, as Mark Gevisser later wrote, to demonstrate to his “white compatriots” that he and the ANC could be trusted in “the face of their Piet Retief anxieties.”[9] On the other it sought to build up the ANC’s underground presence within South Africa through Operation Vula, in which only the most trusted operatives were involved. This involved extensive arms smuggling and stockpiling. [These weapons are still in the country] The intention was that the next mass insurrection would not fail for the reasons that the first one had. Siphiwe Nyanda, among others, was deployed into the country for this purpose in 1988. In the second half of 1987 the ANC leadership now sought, for the first time, to actively discourage the use of the necklace method against black targets of the liberation movement. It also put the landmine campaign in the white farming areas temporarily on hold.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321213 (081259ZAUG23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / South Africa's ANC controls eight of nine provinces - why the Western Cape will remain elusive in the 2024 elections (video)

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>>77569

>“Like the generation of comrades Anton Lembede, Nelson Mandela, the Young Lions of the 80s who formed student organizations and contributed to making this country ungovernable and the 1991 generation who launched the Youth League, again you are called upon to define yourself what it means to be a vibrant, strong, autonomous, militant and disciplined ANC Youth League of the African National Congress.”

>>77651

>ANC National Executive Committee’s January 8th statement of 1984 delivered by Oliver Tambo, which also made the call for South Africa to be made ungovernable.

>>77638

>gathering evidence of damage to infrastructure and incitement of public violence

ANC continuing their campaign to make the Western Cape ungovernable. [“Timeline of ANC & ANCYL's WCape ungovernability campaign” (15 August 2012), https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/timeline-of-anc-ancyls-wcape-ungovernability-camp]

“Taxi strike | WC government considers calling in army”

https://youtu.be/Q8JKibXrecA

Aug 7, 2023

“South Africa's ANC controls eight of nine provinces - why the Western Cape will remain elusive in the 2024 elections”

https://theconversation.com/south-africas-anc-controls-eight-of-nine-provinces-why-the-western-cape-will-remain-elusive-in-the-2024-elections-210013

Published: August 1, 2023 2.38pm CEST

By history and demography, the ANC in the Western Cape faces tougher challenges than anywhere else in the country. In all other provinces, black Africans constitute the majority of voters. But in the Western Cape the majority are coloured voters. “Coloured” in South African history means people who are of biracial or multiracial descent, or whose ancestors were Khoisan, not Bantu-speaking Africans. The country’s other population categories are white and Indian.

The mass support in the Western Cape for the United Democratic Front [UDF], a loose coalition of anti-apartheid organisations allied to the then-banned ANC, between 1983 and 1990, misleadingly suggested support for the unbanned ANC after 1990. In fact, the ANC in that province faced devastating defeats in all the elections from 1994 onwards.

The ANC started by winning only 33% (rounded off) of the votes in the first democratic 1994 election, rising to 42% in 1999 and peaking at 45% in 2004. After that it declined to 32% of the votes in 2009 and 2014, dropping further to 29% in 2019. It attracted still fewer votes in local government elections, getting for example only 21% of the votes in 2021. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has run the province with an absolute majority for over a decade.

The effect of the ANC’s governance and poor performance in the eight provinces and most municipalities it runs is the main factor in the ANC’s nationally declining vote in the four general elections held since 1994. In media, commentariat, and auditor-general reports, the DA is judged to do a much better job of running the Western Cape province and Cape Town metro.

What can explain such a spectacular divide? As a political scientist and historian, I suggest that one factor is that in Cape Town, the DA of 2023 is based upon the old network of its historical predecessor the Progressive Party (Prog) branches, and the current DA politicians were mentored into politics by Helen Zille, the party’s federal chair, and other old Prog leaders. These were liberal activists and veterans committed to nonracialism.

But in the rural Western Cape, today’s DA branches are based upon the renamed National Party branches of the 20th century. National Party politicians, responsible for driving the apartheid programme, were late converts to non-racialism, and often tone deaf to what black voters will take as priority issues, or insults. The DA is made up of the former Progs and National Party adherents.

Another factor in the ANC’s declining vote is the declining moral standards of ANC leadership. The first ANC Western Cape chair after 1994 was the respected Chris Nissen, a trilingual clergyman (speaking isiXhosa, English and Afrikaans) from the Presbyterian church. This enabled him to speak to all voters in their mother tongue.

By 2016 the chair was Marius Fransman, a career politician, who had to step down from all posts after complaints of being a sex pest were lodged against him. The ANC judged that these complaints also merited suspending his membership for five years.

After that, the ANC Western Cape was unable to elect anyone at all as its chair for six years, due to factionalism and branches, zonal, and regional structures becoming defunct. Simultaneously, nationwide, the ANC Youth League was disbanded, and the ANC Women’s League very little in evidence. The plight of the ANC in this province was evident to all.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321217 (081259ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Zama-Zamas (video)

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“Brazen zama-zamas can look forward to more police raids”

https://thestar.pressreader.com/similar/282136410929138

7 Aug 2023

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AFTER yesterday’s gunfight in Matholeville, close to Riverlea, between law enforcement officers and zama-zamas, law enforcement officers said they intended to continue the raids on zamazama strongholds.

A variety of mining gear was confiscated, including milling machines, generators, gas cylinders, phendukas, and more. The informal settlement is thought to be home to a number of zama-zamas.

In addition to finding what was thought to be the zama-zamas’ operational headquarters, the authorities also found five large-calibre weapons, explosives and other mining machinery.

“A gang of zama-zamas operating in Matholeville opened fire on police, and police retaliated. This is an area we have been told is very risky. This is the place where zama-zamas took women to the top and raped them around February and March this year. The zama-zamas raped the women for about four days. This place is very dangerous; no SAPS has come here,” said Tshwaku.

“The locals have been crying about the high rate of crime in this area; every month they have to pay ransom to the zama-zamas and they are robbed. We confiscated a number of items, including equipment, sand and firearms,” he said.

He said rape was a significant problem that the majority of community members complained about.

Eight women who were in the area filming a music video in 2022 were gang raped by a group of zama-zamas.

All the taverns in Riverlea would be shut down, according to Tshwaku.

”I told them that I was going to close down all taverns because when people are drunk, they rape and kill and they don’t care," said Tshwaku.

The raid came after the community of Riverlea threatened to take matters into their own hands should police not deal decisively with the zama-zamas.

The police were shown the locations of some of the illegal miners by several locals. The majority of them claimed that they were terrified of the illegal miners, who occasionally engage in shooting warfare among themselves.

One zama-zama was killed over the weekend during an operation where police discovered their headquarters.

About 200 zama-zamas, the majority of whom are from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi, have been arrested, according to Police Minister Bheki Cele, who made the announcement at an illegal mining imbizo on Friday in Riverlea.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321220 (081300ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Zama-Zamas (video)

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“No will to stop the zama-zamas”

https://thestar.pressreader.com/article/282136410929138

7 Aug 2023

LAST year, the so-called zama-zamas (dominated by Lesotho nationals) raped five women filming a movie in West Village, near Krugersdorp. They were apprehended and later released. Whatever happened to justice?

Kagiso residents took to the street, demonstrating against the crimes committed by zama-zamas in their area.

Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, and his crew visited Kagiso. In a packed stadium, Cele promised to stop the zama-zama activities. Did he?

In other areas, Gauteng in particular, there are also serious complaints about zama-zamas. The complaints are about gunshots, murders and crime overall. Police are doing nothing to stop the nonsense.

Last week, residents in Riverlea, near Johannesburg, protested against zama-zamas. They live in fear because of the gunshots near their area and other criminal activities committed by zama-zamas.

Cele visited Riverlea and promised that the police would patrol the area. What’s new? He always comes after the fact and makes hollow promises.

Clearly, there is no political will to stop zama-zamas from destroying our beautiful country and nation.

Are our political leaders benefiting from the zama-zamas’ criminal activities in our country? There is no easy answer.

It’s time we take our government to court to explain why it’s allowing foreign nationals to engage in illegal mining, destroy infrastructure and terrorise communities.

Otherwise, zama-zamas will continue unabated.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321224 (081301ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Zama-Zamas (video)

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>“No will to stop the zama-zamas”

“Explosive details emerge on underworld of hijacked mines in SA”

https://youtu.be/tzorpMFEIyA

Aug 7, 2023

TimesLive investigative journalists Tankiso Makhetha and Aron Hyman reveal to @XoliMngambi details of their investigation into the underworld of hijacked mines and gun fights by zama zamas in SA. Tune into Newzroom Afrika DStv channel 405 for more.

6:57 – “Basically the mines have been pleading with government since at least 2017 to please intervene and help them to deal with these illegal miners. What was happening is they found themselves engaged in a low scale war. Their security officers were fighting with these guys and dying, often running out of ammunition during gun fights with them on a weekly basis. They were discovering sex slaves of literally children as young as 13 being found in the mines, being trafficked to the mines, being used as sex slaves and who were regularly being rescued by mining staff and the poilice.”

11:43 – “Even though these groups may appear to be zama zama groups, they actually extend far beyond that. They form part of the social structures of Lesotho… Some of these members we find that they are police officers and Lesotho defense soldiers. In some instances, these same members, these same law enforcement members will break into armories and steal guns and basically ship them off into South Africa for zama zamas to continue their wars...”

14:18 – “Aron, let’s conclude the conversation with you. You have intimated that our Police Minister, Bheki Cele, may have met the group leaders in the so-called zama zama wars?... Based on what you have seen, do you think that South Africa has a handle on this situation? Are we winning this war against illegal mining?... [response] It’s not a may have Xoli, his office confirmed that they did meet. They didn’t want to go into detail about what that meeting was about. Although we were told by the members of the leaders of these groups that the meeting was about their alleged involvement in the Mdlalose’s tavern massacre and what resulted after that was a botched SAPS operation which led to these guys actually making their way across the border… Just to refer to Tankiso’s work on this going further, so many witness in cases involving zama zamas have been killed last year. They distributed videos of some police witnesses being brutally murdered and chopped up as a warning to other witnesses in this country. You can see how these zama zamas brandish their weapons, they don’t hide their faces and they are literally calling out the police in South Africa to say, “come, come at us. We’ll show you.” This is what’s happening. This is why the citizens in Klerksdorp, in some of these other towns that have been dealing with this for years have complained to the police. For years they’ve been complaining to government, to their local government structures for years. The police have done nothing and it starts with upper management. I’m not talking about talking about police officers on the ground who are thinly spread and who have been trying to fight these zama zamas.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321225 (081301ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Zama-Zamas (video)

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>https://youtu.be/tzorpMFEIyA

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321244 (081309ZAUG23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Illegal guns fuel violent crime, wreak deadly havoc in South Africa (video)

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>On the other it sought to build up the ANC’s underground presence within South Africa through Operation Vula, in which only the most trusted operatives were involved. This involved extensive arms smuggling and stockpiling. [These weapons are still in the country] The intention was that the next mass insurrection would not fail for the reasons that the first one had. Siphiwe Nyanda, among others, was deployed into the country for this purpose in 1988.

“THE SECRET SAFARI – DVD” - https://youtu.be/2GLDgvy4UDc

Made in 2001 this film tells the story of how weapons were smuggled to the ANC under the bums of tourists travelling on Safari holidays across Africa to Johannesburg and Cape Town

50:30 – “Between 1986 and 1993 the Africa Hinterland Safari entered South Africa forty times carrying one tonne of weapons on each trip. They were never caught.”

50:46 – “This film is dedicated to the memory of Oliver Tambo, Chris Hani, Joe Slovo and Cassius Make, the commanders of the Africa Hinterland Operation”

“Illegal guns fuel violent crime, wreak deadly havoc in South Africa”

https://mg.co.za/article/2015-10-14-illegal-guns-fuel-violent-crime-wreak-deadly-havoc-in-south-africa/

14 OCT 2015

A consistent and disturbing trend in post-apartheid South Africa is the rate that state-owned guns land in the hands of criminals through theft, negligence, fraud and corruption. The police’s secretariat recently said that more than 1 900 guns belonging to the police, defence force and the prisons went missing over the past year.

The AK-47, an iconic struggle weapon of African liberation, lasts 20 to 40 years. It is also the weapon of choice for terrorists and drug lords globally. It is easily transported, smuggled to conflict zones and cached.

The sources of the proliferate weapons in Africa are many and diverse, legal and illegal. Their flow is extremely difficult to track or monitor. One important source is the stockpiles of Cold War weaponry still circulating throughout the continent. Small arms and light weapons are frequently recycled from conflict zone to conflict zone, and among fighters, security forces and war profiteers.

With post-Cold War weapons still in circulation and caches of arms of the liberation armies seemingly not accounted for, post-apartheid South Africa was always at risk of continued instability from armed crime.

This has been the post-conflict experience in Africa, where criminal syndicates fill the vacuum caused by the cessation of political hostilities, capitalising on existing arms networks. Porous and extensive borders such as those of South Africa facilitate the illegal trafficking of weapons, other illicit goods and the movements of crime syndicates.

Research confirms that the proliferation of arms and the process of militarisation in regions where structural violence is the norm exacerbate societal dysfunction, political turmoil and erode state authority.

“I was a teenage gun runner”

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/feb/13/features11.g21

Tue 13 Feb 2001 03.14 GMT

Fifteen years later, the story of how 30 [more like 40] tons of weapons and ammunition were smuggled into the country by, among others, an A-level student from the Midlands, has been rescued from obscurity by South African television. David Brown made Secret Safari, broadcast in South Africa this week, after learning that his father, Mannie, had helped to set up a travel agency in London which for seven years was a front organisation for transporting guns and ammunition into the hands of Umkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, in the days when war in South Africa seemed inevitable.

What they didn't know was that it had been set up by the ANC. The agency, Africa Hinterland, had premises in Greenwich High Road, south-east London. "We had a budget of £80,000," says Mannie Brown. "That was to buy the vehicle, convert it and get it to Mombasa. We bought a second-hand Bedford and converted it on farmland near Ipswich. My nephew did all the welding."

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321269 (081317ZAUG23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Illegal guns fuel violent crime, wreak deadly havoc in South Africa (video)

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>“Illegal guns fuel violent crime, wreak deadly havoc in South Africa”

“Mbeki, Mnangagwa meet” [Dec 16, 2019] - https://youtu.be/vIDlB9q_Vp8

“How ED [Emmerson Mnangagwa] helped ANC comrades during Apartheid” smuggle weapons

https://www.herald.co.zw/how-ed-helped-anc-comrades-during-apartheid/

September 21, 2019

Less than a month into Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, then African National Congress leader Oliver Tambo met with then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe over how the new nation would help the liberation movement execute its war against Apartheid.

The two leaders then set up a committee co-led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, then Mininster of State Security and Thabo Mbeki, that time a high ranking ANC cadre to come up with a deal and operationalise it.

This new interesting detail is according to former President of South Africa and ANC struggle veteran Thabo Mbeki who recentrly gave a eulogy during a recent commemoration even held in honour of the life of Zimbabwe’s ex-President, Cde Robert Mugabe, who died a fortnight ago.

Cde Mbeki said the committee then came up woth a cocktail of interventions that oiled the ANC’s struggle for independence, including movement of weapons from Zambia and cadres, using Zimbabwean identity cards.

“Emmerson Mnangagwa, was Minister of State Security that time and I worked with him. He is now President of Zimbabwe. Under the deal we crafted, Zimbabwe moved a whole battalion to the Limpopo river at the border with South Africa.

“That means the Zimbabwean soldiers would cross our weapons from Zambia to the Limpopo. Our people would then cross from South Africa, without weapons and get them in Zimbabwe. There were a lot of roadblocks then,” said Mbeki.

Mbeki said, many ANC cadres travelled to sensitive meeting abroad, I would go as Patrick Zhuwao,” he said, drawing laughter from the crowd that included former Zimbabwean a minister Patrick Zhuwao.

The security situation then was very fragile and dangerous. Its was a transitional period and Ian Smith’s spies were still in government.

“Imagin it was just within a month of Zimbabwe’s independence and the security situation was still delicate. There we were, requesting Zimbabwe to host our freedom fighters. Mugabe then said let us come up with a team from both sides to operationalise the process.

“We needed to cross our weapons from Zambia through Zimbabwe to our border, the into South Africa. Mnangagwa helped our cadres get Zimbabwean identity cards and our people carrying weapons passed every roadblock without problem. Each time they produced Zimbabwean IDs they passed through each road block without problems.

“This is a secret am letting out for the first time. That is how Mugabe and Mnangagwa stood by us. I could say more. But Zimbabwe played a very important role until we got our independence in 1994,” said Mbeki much to applause.

“The Liberation struggle in South Africa had reached fever pitch, inspired by the new State of Zimbabwe, and needing to up the guerilla movement against black discrimination. For some of us in the ANC, Zimbabwe is a very special country.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19321355 (081341ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / 'No talks with taxi operators if violence persists (video)

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>>77662

>“Illegal guns fuel violent crime, wreak deadly havoc in South Africa”

>The AK-47, an iconic struggle weapon of African liberation, lasts 20 to 40 years.

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>>77657

“'No talks with taxi operators if violence persists'”

https://youtu.be/2-6m4EXbMI0

Aug 8, 2023

SANTACO says it welcomes the call to release impounded taxis. Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says as long as violence persists in the city, they won't have engagements with taxi operators. He speaks to Nasiphi Same. Tune into Newzroom Afrika DStv channel 405 for more.

4:09 – “There was a statement actually that the meeting collapsed on Sunday. Why then did that meeting collapse and the taxi driver leave that particular meeting that you spoke of Sunday afternoon?... [response] Because certain of the taxi bosses showed up with automatic rifles like AK-47s and machine guns. That in itself is a crime. There’s not a private citizen that is allowed to have a weapon like that. There’s no way that you can get a license for a weapon like that. You can’t just carry it around the street to meetings with you. This is the kind of thing that we are dealing with. This is the point that we keep making. You don’t want to be on the side of people who perpetrating violence and it’s very strange to me that the National Minister of Transport would choose the side of people like that. National ministers, as this government is, should be on the side of commuters, people who are trying to get to work, people who are trying to get to school and standing up for the rule of law.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19323419 (081933ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / Transport Minister and JP Smith in war of words over taxi strike

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>National Minister of Transport

“Transport Minister and JP Smith in war of words over taxi strike”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/transport-minister-and-jp-smith-in-war-of-words-over-taxi-strike-7be278b6-e713-4bd4-bc23-aac25c92fb8e

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2023

Transport Minister Sindi Chikunga is flying to Cape Town to take part in negotiations to solve the taxi crisis that has crippled the city and province.

Chikunga said the taxi industry strike could be resolved if all parties, including the City of Cape Town, come to the negotiating table.

The minister also accused the city of using the wrong by-laws to impound 6,000 taxis.

But MMC for Safety and Security in Cape Town JP Smith denied the claim by the minister and accused her of inciting violence.

“Minister Chikunga, why are you trying to incite further violence by making false statements?

“Please can the public help us, whoever is closest to the minister, lean over her and explain to her very slowly. ‘No minibus taxi has ever been impounded within Cape Town, because of a by-law. Never. Taxis have only been impounded under her National Land Transport Act. It’s her Act. From 2009. If it is illegal, how come she only decided this today? After 14 years’,” said Smith.

Chikunga, who was briefing the media on Tuesday, said the municipality has been using wrong laws to impound taxis.

She ordered it to release 6,000 taxis that had been impounded using these wrong laws.

“We call on the City of Cape Town to respect and uphold national laws as they currently stand. To this end, we call on the city to return to the negotiating table, address the areas of disagreement and demonstrate a genuine effort to find a lasting solution to the current challenges. We call on the city to immediately release without any conditions all vehicles impounded based on the National Road Traffic Act and leave those that are impounded on the basis of the National Land Transport Act of 2009.

“We have the National Land Transport Act and the issue of impounding minibus taxis is actually found in that legislation. It is in section 87 of the National Land Transport Act and that act specifies when you can impound a minibus taxi,” said Chikunga.

She said the city can make by-laws, but they must be consistent with national laws.

“They can make by-laws but those cannot be in conflict with the national legislation as no national legislation can be in conflict with the Constitution. What is not illegal is for the city to have by-laws, but those by-laws when they are in conflict with national legislation, then it’s illegal.

“The taxi strike emanates from the impoundment of their vehicles, 6,000 of them are impounded and not in operation. Why that impoundment? Because the city is executing and implementing a wrong legislation and that is why we are forced to talk about these two pieces of legislation,” said Chikunga.

She was hoping the meeting on Tuesday will be able to find a solution to the crisis.

But she was going to stay in Cape Town for as long as it takes to reach an agreement by all parties.

Chikunga said the strike was reflecting badly on South Africa, as countries have already issued travel alerts to the citizens about what was happening, and this would impact on the economy.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19323437 (081937ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / ‘Anti-white racism’: Farmers being targeted in South Africa (video)

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>>77627

It’s about time that the international media starts talking about the farm murders and race baiting in South Africa. It is great that Sky News Australia called out on the New York Times’s article, “‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S.” which states, “Right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence, but historians and the left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/africa/south-africa-kill-boer-song.html.

“‘Anti-white racism’: Farmers being targeted in South Africa”|Sky News Australia

https://youtu.be/FrA9S8RFC20

Aug 5, 2023

Sky News host Rita Panahi has raised concerns about “anti-white racism” occurring in South Africa where political leaders chant about "killing white farmers".

“These attacks are real and yet this murderous chant is not only tolerated but celebrated by some race-baiting miscreants,” Ms Panahi said.

“These people are real, these farm attacks are real and have been happening for several years now but South Africa's Equality Court ruled just last year that chants about killing farmers were NOT hate speech.

“If you can't by now detect the very real, very dangerous anti-white racism, the dehumanization and degradation of people based on nothing other than the colour of their skin, then you haven't been paying attention.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19323448 (081939ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Elon Musk Calls For Cancelling New York Times Over ‘Genocide Support’

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> It is great that Sky News Australia called out on the New York Times’s article, “‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S.” which states, “Right-wing commenters claim that an old anti-apartheid chant is a call to anti-white violence, but historians and the left-wing politician who embraces it say it should not be taken literally.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/africa/south-africa-kill-boer-song.html.

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>>77628

>“Elon Musk urges Ramaphosa to address Malema’s ‘Kill the Boer’ chant”

“Breaking: Elon Musk Calls For Cancelling New York Times Over ‘Genocide Support’”

https://coingape.com/elon-musk-new-york-times-south-africa-kill-the-boer/

August 5, 2023

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk called for boycotting The New York Times over an article he alleges to be supporting genocide of white people in South Africa. Controversy erupted over the “Kill the Boer!” chant raised by Julius Malema, a South African leader during a recent rally in Johannesburg. In response, Musk had on July 31, 2023, asked South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa on the open calls for “Genocide of white people in South Africa.”

The “Kill the Boer!” chant was referred to white farmers. The latest New York Times report quoted a professor of saying that the chant does not literally mean to promote violence against individual farmers. It added that Malema called Musk an illiterate when asked about the tweet from Musk on open genocide calls. “Why must I educate Elon Musk? He looks like an illiterate. The only thing that protects him is his white skin,” Malema reportedly said.

In response to the news article from the publication, Musk called for cancelling the publication, accusing it of supporting the calls for genocide.

“The New York Times actually has the nerve to support calls for genocide! If ever there was a time to cancel that publication, it is now.”

Also, the billionaire criticized the New York Times’ coverage of the FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried. He alleged that the publication had a lot of sympathy for the cofounder but not for the victims of FTX collapse. This confrontation could have huge political ramifications both in the United States and South Africa, considering Musk’s popularity and global reach. Earlier, CoinGape reported that the Tesla CEO is actually the most favorable political figures in the US, beating the likes of US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19329903 (092106ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / Taxi strike in Cape Town leads to violence, deaths: Gugu Nonjinge (video)

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“Santaco Taxi Strike | Taxi strike in Cape Town leads to violence, deaths: Gugu Nonjinge”

https://youtu.be/nRgv0_QOs5M

Aug 9, 2023

It's been several days of violence linked to the taxi strike in the City of Cape Town. Vehicles have been petrol-bombed, roads have been blocked, and two men have been confirmed to have been shot and killed during the demonstrations. This follows last week's announcement by the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco), declaring a seven-day strike in response to the City of Cape Town authorities impounding multiple vehicles last week. The taxis have ceased operations, leaving commuters and public servants, such as healthcare, teachers, and social workers, stranded. Joining us now is Gugu Nonjinge, an advocacy specialist at the Centre for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation (CSVR).

For more news, visit sabcnews.com and #SABCNews on all Social Media platforms.

2:23 – “I think our research pretty much shows how there’s no single cause of violence in South Africa and perhaps our conversation should be rooted on the normalisation and the widespread tolerance of violence which is a very critical issue. South Africa has a strong history of violence right? And I think more than anything it reflects the widely held laws and beliefs which often see violence as a necessary and justified means of resolving conflicts or other difficulties in our country and in our communities. It happened before during Apartheid, it happened after democracy, it’s still happening now and there are several factors that feed into the perpetuation of the culture of violence in our country and perhaps we need to focus our energies quite more on those in order for us to be able to prevent violence and address its effects.”

3:14 – “We’re also seeing the national government weighing in on this and whether we look at the police minister, Bheki Cele, or we look at the transport minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga, basically calling the City of Cape Town out saying that the impounding of taxis are unlawful and the City should release the vehicles without condition. Yet there is legislation that says that what they’re doing is unlawful and this is now taking sides and it’s becoming a bit of a political scuffle as well.”

5:14 – “One thing we didn’t even touch on is the issue of so many countries like the US, the UK, Australia issuing citizens to really sort of stop planning travel to the City. Some suggesting delay trips if possible to avoid any harm.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19329915 (092109ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / Cape Town taxi strike: DA calls for accountability from Bheki Cele

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>>77668

>“We’re also seeing the national government weighing in on this and whether we look at the police minister, Bheki Cele, or we look at the transport minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga, basically calling the City of Cape Town out saying that the impounding of taxis are unlawful and the City should release the vehicles without condition. Yet there is legislation that says that what they’re doing is unlawful and this is now taking sides and it’s becoming a bit of a political scuffle as well.”

>>77657

>ANC continuing their campaign to make the Western Cape ungovernable. [“Timeline of ANC & ANCYL's WCape ungovernability campaign” (15 August 2012), https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/timeline-of-anc-ancyls-wcape-ungovernability-camp]

“Cape Town taxi strike: DA calls for accountability from Bheki Cele”

https://www.da.org.za/2023/08/cape-town-taxi-strike-da-calls-for-accountability-from-bheki-cele

04 Aug 2023

The DA is deeply concerned over the taxi strike declared by Santaco in Cape Town, which has resulted in significant hardship for our city, particularly impacting the most vulnerable members of our community, including children. The economic devastation caused by the strike is also alarming, and it is incumbent upon us to address the situation urgently.

Of even greater concern is the presence of Police Minister Bheki Cele at the meeting where the strike was declared. It raises questions about his involvement and role in a matter that falls outside the scope of his responsibilities. The primary responsibility of the Police Minister is to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of all citizens, regardless of the circumstances.

It is distressing that while the strike was underway and acts of violence were being perpetrated, Minister Cele was not seen addressing these incidents. The burning of buses and looting of trucks have put innocent lives at risk, and the recent shooting of a bus driver in Khayelitsha is a tragic incident that should not be overlooked.

As the Police Minister, Cele should have taken immediate action to mitigate the violence that erupted during the strike. The lack of a visible and proactive response is deeply troubling and undermines public confidence in the ability of the South African Police Service (SAPS) to protect its citizens.

We call on Minister Cele to clarify his involvement in the meeting where the strike was declared and to provide a detailed account of his actions during the strike. Moreover, he must outline his plan to ensure the remainder of the strike proceeds peacefully and without endangering lives and property.

This strike and the associated violence bring back memories of previous attempts to render the Western Cape ungovernable during election periods. The presence of an ANC minister at the meeting where the decision to strike was made raises questions about the potential political motivations behind this action. The focus should be on addressing legitimate concerns within the taxi industry through constructive dialogue and adherence to the by-laws governing the sector.

Minister Cele must prioritise his duty to protect residents and uphold the law. It is essential that he ensures the SAPS operates effectively and that there is no room for a lawless taxi industry. The safety and security of our citizens should never be compromised.

We urge the relevant authorities to take swift action to resolve the taxi strike and engage all stakeholders to find a lasting solution to the issues facing the industry. Our priority remains the well-being and safety of the people of Cape Town.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19329984 (092122ZAUG23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / “Why Won't Mandela Renounce Violence?” 1990 (video)

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>>77668

>perhaps our conversation should be rooted on the normalisation and the widespread tolerance of violence which is a very critical issue. South Africa has a strong history of violence right? And I think more than anything it reflects the widely held laws and beliefs which often see violence as a necessary and justified means of resolving conflicts or other difficulties in our country and in our communities. It happened before during Apartheid, it happened after democracy, it’s still happening now and there are several factors that feed into the perpetuation of the culture of violence in our country and perhaps we need to focus our energies quite more on those in order for us to be able to prevent violence and address its effects.

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>>77648

>AZAPO

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/president-p-w-botha-offers-nelson-mandela-conditional-release-prison

On 31 January 1985 State President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela, leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC), conditional release from the prison sentence he had been serving since the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial in 1964. The condition of his release is that he renounces violence, and violent protest, as a means to bring about change in South Africa. Mandela communicates his refusal of the offer through his daughter, Zindzi Mandela, who reads his statement to this effect at a rally in Soweto on 10 February 1985. He states that the ANC's only adopted violence as a means of protest "When other forms of resistance were no longer open to us".

Then…

“"THE QUANTUM LEAP" F.W. de Klerk's Speech to Parliament - February 2, 1990” [unbanning of the liberation movements and unconditional release of Mandela] - https://youtu.be/8DdNV6nbByM

“Why Won't Mandela Renounce Violence?”

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/21/opinion/why-won-t-mandela-renounce-violence.html

June 21, 1990

Who is the real Nelson Mandela? Before his supporters drape him in the garments of Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr., they should take a close look.

Understandably, Americans are eager to hear Mr. Mandela's opinions delivered in person, after his release from 27 years of imprisonment. But he, in turn, needs to answer one simple question: Why won't he and the A.N.C. renounce violence?

Mr. Mandela's conflicting public statements on violence may be prolonging the suffering. At a May 26 rally in Atterigeville, Mr. Mandela said of rival black groups: There are organizations which have imaginary armies, who have not conducted a single armed struggle in this country, who criticize us for trying to secure peace. Our patience is not likely to last very long. Two days later, the A.N.C. clashed with members of the Azanian People's Organization [AZAPO], a militant black-consciousness movement, in Maokeng, Orange Free State. Seven people were injured, three of them seriously.

The stain of violence has even touched Mr. Mandela's wife, Winnie, and her personal bodyguard squad, the Mandela United Football Club. The brutal beating and stabbing death last year of James (Stompie) Mokhetsi Seipei, a 14-year-old black youth accused by the defendants of collaboration, is a shocking tragedy close to the Mandela inner circle. The Government insists that Mrs. Mandela had no role in the beatings or killing. Nevertheless, two children who survived the beatings alleged in court testimony that Mrs. Mandela beat Stompie and flogged him with a sjambok, a leather whip often used by the South African police.

In this regard, Dr. King once wrote: This, I feel, is one of the greatest tragedies of Communism. Read Lenin as he says 'Lying, deceit and violence are justifiable means to bring about a classless society.' This is where the principle of nonviolence breaks with Communism and any other method which holds to the same belief. . . . So, in the long run, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends, because the ends are pre-existent in the means.

Even Mr. Mandela's most ardent disciples should admit that he would do far better to associate himself more closely with the words of Dr. King and Gandhi than those of Lenin.

Americans must question Mr. Mandela on the A.N.C.'s use of violence. Those of us who are genuinely interested in his opinions regarding a post-apartheid South Africa must neither be swayed by the adulation of his admirers nor the contempt of his critics.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19335084 (101834ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / Taxi industry law unto itself - Sandile Swana (video)

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“Taxi industry law unto itself - Sandile Swana”

https://youtu.be/YFUfC2roMro

Aug 10, 2023

The Western Cape taxi strike continues as SANTACO has extended its stayaway by two days. Political Analyst Sandile Swana says it's no surprise that the law-abiding City of Cape Town is in conflict with the taxi industry. Tune into Newzroom Afrika DStv channel 405 for more.

4:14 – “What we cannot run away from and the ANC government has been avoiding this problem for the longest time is that the taxi industry was inaugurated in South Africa in 1988 by FW de Klerk. It was released to us as a highly politicised industry, totally unregulated until today, … and it has a history of violence as in destroying trains, destroying buses, murder and other things that are very very criminal. It has a criminal and mafia character. So it is not surprise that a City that is run according to the laws of South Africa is in conflict with the taxi industry in the Western Cape and in Cape Town because the taxi industry wants to be above the laws of South Africa wherever they operate. They want to be above everybody except that they will shoot you dead or burn you or burn your property.”

8:54 – “So, if the City of Cape Town has decided to bring an end to the mafia that has been running the taxi industry since 1988 and Bheki Cele it’s good for him to say he will not get involved because I am yet to discover a place where the ANC government and Bheki Cele have actually stopped crime. They have not been able to stop the zama zamas, they have not been able to stop the political killing in KZN… and so many other things. They are just a failure.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19335103 (101838ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / South African Taxi Industry: the establishment of SANTACO 2014

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>>77671

A different tune was sung back in 2014

“South African Taxi Industry” – the establishment of SANTACO

https://www.whoownswhom.co.za/south-african-taxi-industry/

1 Oct 2014 | 9:53 am

Taxi drivers are not the most popular people the world over, most certainly in South Africa. But there can be few more successful examples of creating order from chaos as that of the South African national Taxi Council (SANTACO) in its 13 years of existence.

Taxi related violence as recorded by the SA Institute for Race Relations caused the deaths of more than 2000 people from 1991 to 1999. Eleven years later in 2010 SANTACO launched its TR3 2020 strategy for the industry, which includes smartcard and tracking technology, free WiFi at all taxi ranks by December this year and in all registered taxis by 2017. In July 2013 SANTACO introduced a Taxi Fare Index which determines taxi increases by taking into account the costs of short versus long distance taxi operations as well as coastal and inland cost differentials.

SANTACO, which was established in 2001 with the mandate to restore stability to and unify the industry, has evolved into a structure today consisting of a National Council, nine provincial structures, 69 regional bodies and 1300 local associations. It is recognised by government as the official representative of the taxi industry to the exclusion of competing associations.

According to the Who Owns Whom report on the Minibus Taxi and Bus Industry, the minibus taxi industry carries 69% of the 80% of the South African population who use public commuter transport. It contributes R40bn to the GDP, employs 650 000 people, spends R30bn annually on fuel, R5bn on insurance and R800m on tyres.

SANTACO is an association not a company but to give a context the combined turnover of its members is twice that of Tiger Brands. There are 300 000 permitted taxis on the road with an average ownership of two taxis per operator which translates to roughly 150 000 entrepreneurs. If the newly created Department for Small Business Development was wondering where to find entrepreneurs with the experience of running a business they need look no further.

The Department of Transport introduced the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) in September in 2013 under which taxi owners were paid a scrapping allowance for old taxis to be used to purchase a new vehicle, or leave the industry. Under the programme 58 000 taxis have been scrapped but SANTACO’s view is that the scrapping allowance was insufficient to make the purchase of a new vehicle viable. In addition owners were obligated to buy TRP-compliant vehicles which many believed are not suitable for the purpose and those leaving the industry were not offered support to establish a new business outside of the industry.

The industry faces a significant threat from the Bus Rapid Transport Systems which have been installed in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Cape Town as well as the replacement of the municipal metro bus fleets and the metro rail rolling stock.

A short term opportunity has been created by the phasing out of contracted metro busing where private operators have been subsidised for years on a month-by-month contract and consequently there has been no investment in their ageing bus fleet. SANTACO has also lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission that the subsidisation of buses should extend to taxis otherwise it constitutes unfair competition.

The introduction of smart card technology has been slow due the individual ownership profile of the industry but once it gains traction so does the potential for transaction-based revenue generation. A project has been initiated by Taxichoice to install TV screens in each taxi to provide travel and other information to passengers as well generate advertising revenue for the operator.

The formalisation of the industry by SANTACO has been necessary to guard against pirate (and therefore unlicensed) competition and to establish their authority when negotiating with government; one of the results is the exemption of permit holding taxis from paying e-tolls.

The primary constraint on the industry’s long term competitiveness against new and revived modes of commuter transport is funding, which could be solved by the introduction of an institutionally funded franchise structure.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19335117 (101841ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / From 2010: Address at the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) launch of The TR3 2020 Strategy by Mr Sibusiso Ndebele, Minister of Transport

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>TR3 2020 Strategy

“Address at the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) launch of The TR3 2020 Strategy by Mr Sibusiso Ndebele, Minister of TransportMidrand Conference Centre”

https://www.gov.za/address-south-african-national-taxi-council-santaco-launch-tr3-2020-strategy-mr-sibusiso-ndebele

2 Nov 2010

Excerpts below

Ten years ago we said, in South African terms, public transportation virtually denoted horror. It painted gory pictures of minibus-taxi road crashes, taxi violence and bodies of our loved ones scattered on our roads. But we also said, on the other hand, the taxi industry represented, and still does, a great model of successful Black economic self-empowerment. It is the only sector where Black people control an entire sector through their ownership of the taxi mode of transportation.

We are ready to work together with the industry to identify opportunities. Over the past ten years we have seen an increase towards investment by the taxi industry in the transport sector. Today the industry owns garages, dealership networks such as Taxi Choice, partnerships with Toyota - all of which have seen serious returns for you as the taxi industry.

The initiatives of the Department of Transport on the economic empowerment of the taxi industry commenced as far back as 1996. Today in November 2010, more than ten years later we are here to recommit ourselves to a new taxi development agenda. We have both the objective and subjective factors which are conducive for a major, giant leap forward. The main objective factor is that public transport is on the rise and defines the future of mobility in South Africa, in Africa and the world.

We cannot afford to continue building more roads and parking bays in cities as this simply encourages more traffic over the medium term to long term. No city in the world not even London, Chicago, Venezuela, Paris or New York has solved urban mobility challenges through private car use.

Switching car users to public transport, walking and cycling will make a major contribution to our global responsibilities of protecting the environment. Public transport provides a greater level of safety and stress free travel than private transport.

Over the past five years we have invested R48 billion in our Bus Rapid System (BRT), rail and the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme. This expenditure pattern is going to continue over the next ten years.

We have spent over R9 billion rolling out the Integrated Public Transport Networks in four cities. Already, in the Rea Vaya BRT in Gauteng, the taxi industry owns and is involved in the operation of the BRT. There are concrete plans to extend these Rapid Networks into other cities. Secondly, we are about to develop new long-term contracted services in all provinces.

This will be completed in all provinces over the next two years. These contracts will vary between seven and 12 years at an average of R5 billion a year as subsidy from government.

New dawn in taxi industry

Today marks the launch of the Taxi Industry’s Strategy for 2010- 2020 and the Taxi Academy. These two achievements are the fulfillment of our vision applied through our three-pronged approach which involves:

1. The creation of a structured engagement on all matters between government and the taxi industry.

2. The development of a structural framework to enable the taxi industry to engage collectively in economic activities.

3. The setting-up, within the environment of a solid structural framework, of actual business ventures aimed at turning the taxi industry into a serious economic force.

• Firstly, we want to adopt your TR3 2010-2020 Strategy as the basis for our partnership with the industry.

• Let us give ourselves three months to consolidate the strategic partnerships with key private sector partners including banks, vehicle manufacturers, technology and other relevant partners

To conclude, a vibrant taxi industry that shares the vision of transformation in improving public transport in addition to bus operators and passenger rail operations is what is needed in this country. We have faith in South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO). SANTACO has the mandate to lead efforts to unite the taxi industry.

It is only through working together, the taxi industry, government and the private sector, that our endeavor to implement our much needed integrated public transport networks can be achieved.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19335139 (101849ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / From 2010: Address at the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) launch of The TR3 2020 Strategy by Mr Sibusiso Ndebele, Minister of Transport

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Old Mutual

>>>/qresearch/19278851

>Standard Bank

More on Santaco

https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/357071/the-company-cashing-in-on-south-africas-minibus-taxi-industry/

26 Nov 2019

Santaco is the only government-recognised representative body of the minibus taxi industry.

https://sataxi.co.za/santaco-acquired-25-stake-in-sa-taxi/

19 November 2018

THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL TAXI COUNCIL (SANTACO) ACQUIRES 25% STAKE IN SA TAXI FOR R1.7 BILLION IN A HISTORIC TRANSFORMATIONAL OWNERSHIP TRANSACTION

SA Taxi, a major subsidiary of Transaction Capital, is a vertically integrated business platform that provides a comprehensive financial, insurance and allied services offering to minibus taxi operators. Today SA Taxi and SANTACO (a national body which represents the interests of its members who are individual minibus taxi operators) announced a unique transformational equity partnership transaction whereby SANTACO will acquire a 25% interest in SA Taxi.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-09-sa-taxi-industry-lost-in-the-boardroom/

In 2018, Santaco and SA Taxi announced a much-welcomed Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) deal. The transaction was hailed as long overdue as it gave the minibus industry a stake in a value chain worth billions of rands.

Santaco, through a special purpose vehicle, acquired a 25% stake in the share capital of SA Taxi. The deal, valued at R1.7-billion, was largely funded by Africa’s largest lender, Standard Bank, and FutureGrowth Asset Management, a member of Old Mutual Investment Group. About R1.2-billion came from the former and the latter, and was used to buy 15.7% of ordinary shares in SA Taxi. The remaining R500-million for the 9.3% of ordinary shares was funded via vendor finance from JSE-listed Transaction Capital, the majority shareholder of SA Taxi.

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2023/08/07/taxi-mafia-terror-andrew-kenny

The ANC has destroyed most public transport for the black working-classes. It has wrecked passenger rail. It does nothing when criminals, almost certainly part of the taxi mafia, attack buses and shoot their drivers. Last year there were over 150 violent attacks on long-distance buses, mainly in the Eastern Cape. The taxi mafia was believed to be responsible for most of them. Fikile Mbalula, then Minister of Transport, was asked by Intercape, a bus company, to take action against the criminals. He refused. They took the matter to court, and the court ordered Mbalula to take action. He appealed against the court decision. Why? Was he just another ANC coward, scared of the thugs in the taxi industry? Or could it be that he had interests in the taxi industry? I don’t know. (There is no doubt that the police are behind many of the cash-in-transit robberies. Maybe other ANC instruments of state power also have interests in organised crime.)

What I do know is that as railways and buses have become less available, the working-classes are forced to depend on mini-bus taxis for transport. Uber drivers, whom I have always found reliable, safe, and law abiding, are also likely to be threatened by the taxi mafia.

I believe in capitalism, and the minibus taxis have some capitalist features. They receive no subsidies from the state; they stand alone. But they negate the two crucial features of successful capitalism: they don’t allow the rule of the law or the free market. They break the law and kill competitors. Now they are in financial trouble. Transaction Capital, a company whose main business was providing finance for the taxi industry (and whose second business is We Buy Cars) is in big trouble now when the taxi companies cannot afford to take out and repay loans. This is because of South Africa’s economic decline under the ANC and the ravages of the dreadful Covid lockdown.

One of the things that strikes me so dramatically about the minibus drivers is their hatred. They exude menace. They are very vengeful. Their awful behaviour is more than a desperate attempt to earn some money; it is also an attempt to dominate and be feared. I have heard numerous stories of people who hooted when a minibus cut them off, and were then followed by the taxi and cursed and even beaten up.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19335142 (101850ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / Riot and strike warning for South Africa (Parts 1&2)

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“Riot and strike warning for South Africa” (Part 1)

https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/710314/riot-and-strike-warning-for-south-africa/

10 Aug 2023

As the City of Cape Town and the City of Tshwane are beset by striking taxi drivers and public workers, the insurance industry has warned that South Africa faces the risk of even more tensions and blowouts in the months to come.

This is according to professional services and consulting firm Aon’s latest State of the Insurance Market report for South Africa, which outlines the significant shifts that have been seen in the country and how they have impacted one of the biggest financial services industries.

According to the group, one of the biggest shifts in the market globally and in South Africa relates to growing instances of civil unrest.

Globally, the onset of the war between Russia and Ukraine in February of 2022 proved to be a seismic geopolitical event with tragic direct and indirect consequences – most importantly, loss of life and senseless destruction.

While the impact of the war has spanned across the globe, the volatility in markets had a severe knock-on effect that will be felt for years to come.

Notably, Aon said, the war has resulted in global insurers hardening for the first time since the September 11th attacks in the United States – and it is continuing to harden.

For South Africa, the global issues around riots, strikes and terrorism insurance are exacerbated by local troubles.

Aon said there has been a marked increase in conflicts, civil unrest and economic pressures. This has limited the number of underwriters in operation and has led to significant losses in the market.

It warned that South Africa is currently operating in a troubled political climate and that tensions are likely to rise with the national elections coming soon in 2024.

These risks are making affordable insurance coverage unachievable, the group said.

Following the July 2021 riots, the industry already took a massive hit. The state-owned South African Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria) hiked rates and imposed limits in subsequent years, and certain sectors simply cannot find coverage anymore.

This has hit particularly hard in the retail, warehousing and mining industries, Aon said, which are at greatest risk of these incidents.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19335144 (101851ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / Riot and strike warning for South Africa (Parts 1&2)

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“Riot and strike warning for South Africa” (Part 2)

https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/710314/riot-and-strike-warning-for-south-africa/

10 Aug 2023

Ticking timebomb

Sasria warned in July that South Africa faces a repeat of the July 2021 riots if the country does not address pressing economic issues that have only been exacerbated by local and global issues.

One of the biggest issues, however, is youth unemployment, the group said.

Sasria said that young people in South Africa are sitting idle, and the anger of joblessness can be easily ignited.

In June, the Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) said that among the country’s biggest risks is growing social unrest, with the group already noting a rise in protests and riots, fuelled by social and economic pressures that have persisted for almost a decade.

Economic challenges include stagnant growth, high unemployment, and persistent inequality – these have consistently ranked among the country’s major risks for years, IRMSA said.

Concerns over corruption, governance, the rule of law, and breakdowns in public service delivery have also been recurring themes.

Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) has also, in recent weeks, warned that the country is a ticking timebomb, urging the government to deal with flare-ups of discord and protest swiftly.

Despite the warnings and calls to do something, at least three major outbreaks of violent or disruptive protest have occurred in the past month alone.

In July, a spate of truck attacks and looting once again hit services on key freight routes on the N3 transport corridor. The July 2021 riots started from a similar seed of violence.

Heading into August, public service workers in the City of Tshwane downed tools and disrupted critical services in the municipality after being told they would not get a wage increase this year.

Despite the courts declaring the strike illegal – and the city moving to fire workers who don’t pitch for duty – the strike has continued.

The latest and most widely covered social unrest has broken out in Cape Town, with taxi drivers and owners, under the representation of the South African National Taxi Council, ceased all services and blockaded roads in the city for over a week.

The Cape Town taxi strike was expected to end on August 9th but was extended to the end of this week.

Worryingly, the strike has been accompanied by acts of intimidation and violence that have resulted in at least five deaths. Various industries impacted by the disruption have issued alerts calling for the end of the strike, pleading for stakeholders not to allow it to go the way of the 2021 riots.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19340743 (111730ZAUG23) Notable: Taxi Strike Bun / A great relief’ — Santaco calls off Western Cape taxi strike (video)

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“‘A great relief’ — Santaco calls off Western Cape taxi strike”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-08-10-a-great-relief-santaco-calls-off-western-cape-taxi-strike/

10 Aug 2023

Santaco called off its taxi strike in the Western Cape on Thursday evening, saying it would use the next 14 days to work on releasing vehicles that had been wrongfully impounded.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19355884 (141308ZAUG23) Notable: Iqbal Survé Biography; “founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)” and “founding member of the BRICS Business Council (Parts 1&2, video)

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>its founding chairman of BRICS Business Council, Patrice Motsepe, is Cyril Ramaphosa’s brother-in-law, a mining magnet, heavily involved in the WEF

“Inside the mind of the “Struggle Doctor” Dr. Iqbal Survé” - https://youtu.be/xxQ0kGsoFcs

3:19 – “When I became a doctor many of the people involved in the struggle became my patients… While I was at Grootte Schuur, I was linking up with the Robin Island prisoners. Eventually they asked me to leave because I had been the go between the prisoners and the ANC in exile.”

6:15 – “Mandela put together a grouping of people to really fund the ANC at the time and he wanted people he could trust and they included editors and ministers and others. After a while that fizzled out and then people were speaking about empowerment… I was pulled in at the beginning when I was still practicing as a trustee and then eventually you know this became a business… I was a socialist to be honest in the sense that I was community driven… I ended being the youngest chief executive on the JSE when we listed the company in May 1999, 18 months after I left medicine.”

Iqbal Survé – Biography; “founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)” and “founding member of the BRICS Business Council” 1 of 2

https://iqbalsurve.com/profile/iqbal-surve-biography/

April 5, 2022

Cape Town-born Chairman of Sekunjalo Investment Holdings and Executive Chairman of Independent Media South Africa, Dr. Survé is committed towards meaningful transformation of the social and economic landscape of South Africa, in order to redress the economic legacy of apartheid. As the founder of The Sekunjalo Group, Survé has led the organization from initial seed capital of 20 000 USD (1997) to its current portfolio which includes more than 200 investments across the African continent with a presence in 40 African countries and an intrinsic market value of billions of dollars.

Noteworthy investments include the multisided platform Sagarmatha Technologies, Africa’s largest print and online media group, Independent Media and African News Agency, founded in 2015, is Africa’s first global news, text, picture, video content syndication service and Loot, one of Africa’s largest and fastest growing e-commerce companies. Survé Philanthropies (SP), the philanthropic foundation of Dr Survé and the Survé family, has 7 separate Foundations supporting children’s, women’s and human rights, education, music, arts and culture, entrepreneurship, social impact investing, climate change and health care.

Dr Survé carries out a number of engagements on behalf of a number of multi-lateral institutions and global organizations to which he is affiliated. He is a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and has twice been honoured by President Bill Clinton for his contribution to CGI.

He served as a founding member of the BRICS Business Council, appointed by the President of South Africa and from 2017 was the Chair for the South African Chapter of the BRICS Business Council. In 2018 Survé assumed the Presidency of the Business Council for the five BRICS countries. Given Sekunjalo’s membership to the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF), Survé is a regular contributor and participant in the Davos and Summer meetings.

He has served as the first Chairman of the Global Growth Companies (GGC) Advisory Board and Vice Chairman of the Global Agenda Council (GAC) for Emerging Multinationals. He is a participant of the G20 meeting and serves on B20 Task Team as well as the UNGA private sector forum.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19355885 (141308ZAUG23) Notable: Iqbal Survé Biography; “founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)” and “founding member of the BRICS Business Council (Parts 1&2, video)

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Iqbal Survé – Biography; “founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)” and “founding member of the BRICS Business Council” 2 of 2

https://iqbalsurve.com/profile/iqbal-surve-biography/

April 5, 2022

He was one of the first blacks to be awarded the Afrikaanse Sakeleir Van die jar by the Afrikaanse Handels Institutt. He was listed as one of Africa’s most influential leaders by Africa Magazine; honored by Mayor Higgins of the city of New Orleans; and appointed as Honorary Consul for Cape Town of Finland. He is an alumnus of the HRH Prince of Wales Business & Environment program hosted by HRH Prince Charles with CPI, a Fellow of the African Leadership Initiative (ALI), a patron of the South Africa-Italy Summit, until recently he was Co-chairman of the South Africa-Saudi Arabia Business Council (SASABC). He is a patron of the Munich based GISAID, a patron along with Queen Silvia and former President Nelson Mandela of the Swedish based World Children Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC), a founder member of the Siemans Global Sustainability Advisory Board, a member of the YPO Gold Cape Town Chapter, a patron of the South African chapter of the Soong Ching Ling Foundation, and twice honoured with the Directors award for his contribution to tertiary education by the University of Cape Town (UCT), Graduate School of Business where he served for several years as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Business School.

Dr Survé is an alumnus of the University of Cape Town (UCT), the Graduate School of Business (GSB), the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and Harvard University with degrees in medicine, science and business.

*MBChB (UCT), BSc. (Med) (Hons) Sports Medicine (UCT), Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM), MBA (UCT), SEP (Harvard), Trustee of the College of Medicine South Africa

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19355888 (141309ZAUG23) Notable: South Africa’s Mail & Guardian

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>>77680

“Iqbal Survé threatens to ‘expose’ M&G” – Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-08-23-00-iqbal-surve-threatens-to-expose-mg/

23 AUG 2013

This was after he was asked about the structure of his consortium buying the Independent group.

Survé's Sekunjalo Independent Media consortium has bought 55% of Independent News and Media South Africa alongside the state-owned Public Investment Corporation (PIC, 25%) and two Chinese state-owned companies (20%). The deal was completed last week, Sekunjalo said in a statement on August 21.

• PODCAST: Listen to the interview with Surve here; http://www.mg.co.za/multimedia/2013-08-22-independent-news-boss-surves-bloody-agent-moment

The large stake held by South African and Chinese state entities and the make-up of the rest of Survé's consortium have raised questions about media independence.

Approached with questions about these concerns this week, Survé reacted angrily. "No. First go and ask [Mail & Guar¬dian owner Trevor Ncube] if he is funded in Washington; if the entity that funds him is linked to the CIA [the United States Central Intelligence Agency] or to a fund that's got an indirect link to the CIA," he said.

Survé claimed to have "high-level" and "factual" information to substantiate the allegation.

"I want to give it to independent journalists to also publish. If you don't publish it, somebody's going to publish it, I can assure you of that, because you started it."

Ncube denied the allegations.

Secrecy jurisdiction

Core concerns about the takeover of the Independent group include the extent to which both the Chinese and South African governments might be able to influence the company. It is understood that the Chinese consortium and the PIC will be loaning money to the Independent group and Sekunjalo, but the size of these loans, and whether they will be convertible to a larger future shareholding remains a mystery.

The Chinese investment is to be housed in a company registered in Mauritius, a tax haven and business secrecy jurisdiction.

When the Competition Commis¬sion conditionally approved Sekunjalo's bid last month, it said, "two Chinese investors have filed a transaction to acquire a controlling 20% stake in [the Independent group]".

At the time, deputy commissioner Trudi Makhaya said "control" was defined by the Competition Act in that the Chinese investors would be able to "materially influence the policy" of the Independent group.

But Survé said previous M&G articles referring to Chinese "control" were "bullshit", a word he used 13 times in eight minutes.

He said: "The Chinese consortium does not have control." But he refused to discuss this in detail.

The commission later revealed that the Chinese investors were the state-owned China-Africa Development Fund and China International Television Corporation.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19355895 (141312ZAUG23) Notable: South Africa’s Mail & Guardian

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“Iqbal Survé threatens to ‘expose’ M&G” – Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-08-23-00-iqbal-surve-threatens-to-expose-mg/

23 AUG 2013

Editorial interference

The development fund was established by former Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2007 with funding from the China Development Bank. It is understood to be investing more than $400-million in a handful of South African projects. The fund has not responded to questions.

The website of a China Inter¬national Television Corporation subsidiary describes the company's goal as "putting in an effort to implement the 16th National People's congress's (the Chinese Parliament) requirements for developing the cultural industry, and earnestly representing the orientation of advanced culture". It could not be reached for comment.

The PIC owns large stakes in two other major South African media groups. In its approval, the Competition Commission included the condition that the PIC should institute a system of "Chinese walls" to prevent anti-competitive information flows between the news groups should the PIC gain control over the Independent group.

But the commission did not raise issues of editorial interference as this does not fall under competition law.

In the past, the PIC, as an activist shareholder, has pressured companies to influence issues around empowerment. It has not responded to questions.

The Sekunjalo consortium, as detailed in a June statement by Survé, is dominated by a list of politically connected players.

These include ANC parliamentarian Mandla Mandela; Sandile Zungu, the South African representative on the council of the Brics grouping; three ANC-allied union investment companies; the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association; and various "women's business community organisations, represented by Lindiwe Barbara Ngcobo and Manemele Maria".

Maria could not be traced, but a company director search for Ngcobo suggests she has held business interests with various members of the Zuma family, notably sons Edward and Mxolisi – who could not be reached – and with Zuma benefactor Vivian Reddy and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize [who was the Minister of Health during COVID and his share of scandals, https://mg.co.za/politics/2021-06-03-mkhize-to-quit-over-covid-19-scandal/].

Mkhize and Reddy said their respective co-directorships were now defunct. They denied any knowledge of the Independent buyout.

Survé said the media would be invited to a press conference shortly, where: "We'll give you information that we want to give you."

'The CIA doesn't fund M&G'

Mail & Guardian owner Trevor Ncube this week dismissed alleged Central Intelligence Agency links to him and the newspaper: "I have been funded by Zimbabwean and South African banks in addition to my own resources. I have no foreign links and I have never received money from the CIA."

He said M&G Media is 10% owned by the New York-based Media Development Investment Fund, which is a 39% shareholder in his Alpha Media Holdings, the owner of four Zimbabwean papers.

"I am not aware of any links between the CIA and the fund, and doubt any exist," Ncube said.

"As a former journalist I am alive to the importance of proprietors staying clear of editorial issues. I guard the editorial independence of our journalists jealously."

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19356771 (141614ZAUG23) Notable: Convicted paedophile Gerhard Ackerman sentenced on 12 life terms, asks court for retrial

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“Could this man [Paul Kennedy] be South Africa's very own Jeffrey Epstein?” [Aug 31, 2022] - https://youtu.be/T6qSN5tJsYY

“MAN ACCUSED OF RUNNING SEX RING WITH PAUL KENNEDY [the counsel in the State Capture Commission of Inquiry] TO CONTINUE PLEA IN COURT”

https://adamwhittington.co/2023/01/24/human-rights-lawyer-and-acting-judge-paul-kennedy-was-one-of-two-accused-in-the-case-of-a-sex-ring/

Human rights lawyer Kennedy’s co-accused, Gerhard Ackerman, faces over 700 counts of charges ranging from human trafficking, to the production and distribution of child pornography, and rape.

The Johannesburg High Court on Monday heard how one of the counsel in the State Capture Commission of Inquiry allegedly paid to watch the sexual exploitation of teenage boys to fulfil his lewd fantasies.

Renowned human rights lawyer and acting judge Paul Kennedy was one of two accused in the case of a sex ring.

While he was leading evidence at the State Capture Commission of Inquiry, he was also being investigated for crimes including rape and the exploitation of minor boys for the production and consumption of live child sexual abuse material.

It is alleged several boys between the ages of 14 and 16 were paid to give massages to men, which often led to their rape and sexual assault.

Kennedy died by suicide while he was out on bail last year.

But his co-accused, 52-year-old Gerhard Ackerman, faces over 700 counts of charges ranging from human trafficking, to the production and distribution of child sexual abuse material, and rape.

The State believes Kennedy used Ackerman as a middleman to lure the boys in. He would allegedly pay the boys through Ackerman, who was accused of having made a living from the exploitation.

State prosecutor advocate Valencia Dube told the court on Monday how Ackerman allegedly took a cut from the fees Kennedy and others paid, sometimes pocketing all the money.

Not only is he accused of ferrying some of the boys by cab and train in 2020 and linking them with adult men including Kennedy, but he is also accused of actively participating in the rape of boys.

Judge Mohamed Ismail ended proceedings before Ackerman could finish pleading.

After standing in the dock for about two hours, pleading to about 700 counts, Ackerman will continue with his plea on Tuesday morning.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19356774 (141615ZAUG23) Notable: Convicted paedophile Gerhard Ackerman sentenced on 12 life terms, asks court for retrial

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“Convicted paedophile Gerhard Ackerman sentenced on 12 life terms, asks court for retrial”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/convicted-paedophile-gerhard-ackerman-sentenced-on-12-life-terms-asks-court-for-retrial-82522394-c1e4-4b44-a0d9-b9e711acd4b5

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2023

Convicted paedophile Gerhard Ackerman has been sentenced to 12 life terms in the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday, on the more than 700 charges related to him running a child trafficking ring.

He was sentenced on charges of rape, human trafficking, attempted murder and malicious damage to property.

In handing down his sentence, Judge Mohamed Ismail, said Ackerman's sentences will run concurrently, meaning he will only serve one life term behind bars.

Ismail further declared Ackerman unfit to work with children. He added that Ackerman showed no remorse throughout the trial.

Ismail reprimanded Ackerman during proceedings on Monday after he raised his hand in an attempt to address the court.

“This is not a school. You cannot just raise your hand. It’s rude and also distracting,” Ismail said.

Moments after he was sentenced, Ackerman fired his legal representation and asked for a retrial.

Ismail reminded Ackerman that he was on leave and came to court today (Monday) to hand down judgement.

Ismail instructed Ackerman to file his motion for a retrial with the court and State by November 15 and the motion for retrial will be heard on November 30.

IOL previously reported that Ackerman was convicted on charges including attempted murder, rape, sexual exploitation of children and sex trafficking. Ackerman was charged alongside acting judge and senior advocate Paul Kennedy.

The two ran the human trafficking ring between September 2020 and July 2021. Kennedy died by suicide.

The men were charged with sexually grooming children, being in possession of child pornography, creating child pornography, committing rape, sexual assault, compelled rape, compelled sexual assault, human trafficking, sexually grooming children and benefiting from sexually exploiting children.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19357471 (141813ZAUG23) Notable: Niger military says it will prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for treason (video)

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“Niger military says it will prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for treason”

6:16 – “So Niger is only one of a number of West African states that on the surface were democratic but beneath that veneer of democratic structures and processes and all the structural weaknesses of corruption, unemployment and of course excessive and intrusive foreing interference. Niger epitomizes the challenges that the Sahel and West African states are facing.”

https://youtu.be/bdSJKMFL-ac

Aug 14, 2023

The military junta that seized power in Niger in a coup last month has said it will prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason over his exchanges with foreign heads of state and international organisations. The coup leaders imprisoned Bazoum and dissolved the elected government, drawing condemnation from global powers and neighbouring West African countries, which have activated a standby military force that could intervene to reinstate Bazoum. The Ecowas leadership has shot itself in the foot by threatening to deploy a standby force in Niger. This is according to Professor Emmanuel Kwesi Aning of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

Since the coup in Niger last month, Ecowas has had two meetings where it discussed ways to return democratic rule to Niger.

Professor Aning spoke to the SABC's International news editor, Sophie Mokoena.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19357473 (141814ZAUG23) Notable: Final Lady R Probe Bun / Hawks' senior member killed by SANDF special forces unit'” - Links to an Ethiopian abduction and Lady R (video)

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0:00 – “The organisation, Open Secrets, says it now has some evidence that appears to link the assassination of a senior member of the Hawks perhaps to an SANDF Special Forces Unit that may also been involved in the abduction of an Ethiopian national from the Mall of Africa. A car belonging to that unit which was in the parking lot of the shopping center at the time of the abduction was also in the area around the Simonstown Naval Base when the Russian ship, the Lady R, docked in December last year.”

https://youtu.be/R-0Cq6s4KWA

Aug 14, 2023

The organisation Open Secrets says that it now has some evidence that appears to link the assassination of a senior member of the Hawks to an SANDF special forces unit that may also have been involved in the abduction of an Ethiopian.

Director of Open Secrets Hennie van Vuuren speaks to Stephen Grootes about how they came to this conclusion.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19362494 (151259ZAUG23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Julius Malema cries "Kill the Boer" at rally: Could South Africa end up going the way of Zimbabwe? (video)

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“Julius Malema cries "Kill the Boer" at rally: Could South Africa end up going the way of Zimbabwe?”

https://youtu.be/JinBmB8J8io

Aug 6, 2023

'South African political leader Julius Malema has called for the murder of white South African farmers.'

Leo Kearse asks: could South Africa end up going the same way as Zimbabwe?'

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19363800 (151631ZAUG23) Notable: South Africa’s Mail & Guardian

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“MDIF acquires majority stake in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian” – Part 2

https://www.mdif.org/mdif-acquires-majority-stake-in-south-africas-mail-guardian/

12 DECEMBER 2017

About MDIF

MDIF is a New York-based not-for-profit investment fund for independent media in countries where independent media are under threat. It has more than 20 years’ experience of helping build quality, news and information companies – print, digital and broadcast – in emerging markets. It has:

• invested more than $163 million in 113 media companies

• worked in 39 countries on 5 continents

• a current portfolio of more than $60 million invested in over 50 media organizations

In South Africa, MDIF manages the South Africa Media Innovation Program (SAMIP) – a three year, US$4m initiative to accelerate digital media innovation among independent media outlets and encourage new entrants.

About Mail & Guardian

The M&G is a quality, investigative and comment news publication, based on a culture of editorial independence and excellence. The publication was started as an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two leading liberal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express. It was originally known as the Weekly Mail. The paper was renamed the Weekly Mail & Guardian on 30 July 1993. The London-based Guardian Media Group (GMG), publishers of The Guardian, became the majority shareholder of the print edition in 1995, and the name was changed to Mail & Guardian.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/19363862 (151643ZAUG23) Notable: The Rand Daily Mail: Anglo American and Harry Oppenheimer

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>The publication was started as an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two leading liberal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express.

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>Allister Sparks, former editor of South Africa’s Rand Daily Mail

>Sparks served at the helm of the now-defunct Daily Mail between 1977 and 1981. During that time, the newspaper broke the political scandal known as Muldergate in which officials from the Department of Information secretly planned to use state resources for a propaganda campaign for the apartheid government. The scandal led to the resignation of Prime Minister John Vorster in 1978, and Sparks was named International Editor of the Year in 1979 for his leadership of the paper’s coverage.

“THE RAND DAILY MAIL: CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT” - Anglo American controlled it

https://hsf.org.za/publications/focus/issue-39-third-quarter-2005/the-rand-daily-mail-convenient-scapegoat

By RAYMOND LOUW

Excerpts

Summary - Just 20 years ago, the Anglo American Corporation closed the Rand Daily Mail, leaving behind a trail of sacked editors and loyal journalists and readers who even now express their sorrow at its departure.

The paper lingers on, however, at the Witwatersrand University’s Business School, where its demise has become the subject of a lecture on how not to run a business. The lecture deals with the tricky subject of how costs should be allocated in companies where common resources are shared between their various enterprises.

The allocations to the Mail were grossly miscalculated. When the paper closed on 30 April 1985, the company’s overdraft was R10 million; a month later with no Mail to absorb the wrongly calculated and over-estimated costs, the overdraft had soared to R40 million and the company was forced to sell its building and presses to try to remain solvent.

The closure caused huge damage elsewhere; it seared the country’s news gathering and distribution systems, from which the industry has still not recovered.

The Afrikaans press had pounced on each issue of the Mail for story ideas. Foreign correspondents had looked to the Mail as a reliable source for their reports.

Among its readers were people who entertained liberal ideas and were bolstered by the Mail in their opposition to apartheid and a large number of black people, many of whom still praise the paper for taking up their cause so vociferously. But there were also ardent Nationalists who read the Mail. They were among the Afrikaners who formed 21 per cent of the paper’s readership.

Then the indifference of Anglo American, which did not want to be seen to be in control of the English press, as indeed it was, came into play. Anglo American could have intervened but nothing happened and the paper was closed.

But the real damage caused by that ill-considered shameful closure of the Mail has been visited on the practice of journalism in South Africa. Australian and some British papers profited when the Mail closed and some of its best journalists emigrated [to spread their propaganda]. In Australia they are still improving the quality of papers such as the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

A few were African National Congress cadres engaged in underground activities but they tried hard not to embarrass the paper and seldom did. A fair number, especially the black reporters, were roughly handled or assaulted. Several went to jail to protect their sources; others were incarcerated by the police for suspected subversive activity.

Anglo-American could have intervened — indeed legendary editor Laurence Gandar, former editor Allister Sparks and myself tried on three occasions in three years to persuade the Anglo American director Gordon Waddell, who was Saan chairman from 1983 to 1985, to take strong action against the management — but nothing happened and the paper was closed.

President Botha cheered the closure, congratulating the paper’s owners and bestowing an award on Anglo American chairman Harry Oppenheimer, though it has never been confirmed that there was a causal connection between the two events.

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