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d9e924 No.127891
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715385 (181758ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Ethos Private Equity, Rohatyn Group
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Last paragraph was cut-off. Below is the full
“We are pleased to complete our acquisition of Ethos, which marks our official expansion into Africa, one of the largest and fastest growing regions in the world,” said Nicolas Rohatyn, TRG’s Chief Executive Officer and founder. “Together, with unmatched local knowledge and a skilled global team of investors, we’ll unlock significant opportunities to drive further growth across the continent’s private markets, real assets, and public markets.”
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d9e924 No.127892
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715418 (181808ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Patrice Motsepe, Tyme Bank, and African Rainbow Capital (ARC)
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>In 1997, Motsepe, Nicky Oppenheimer and Mark Shuttleworth [born in the gold mining town Welkom] formed Green and Partners, a venture capital firm through which Motspe established African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). With low gold prices that year, he purchased low-yield gold mine shafts from AngloGold under favourable finance terms. AngloGold sold Motsepe six gold mine shafts for $7,7 million allowing him to repay the debt out of the future earnings of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM).
Take note; “Nicky Oppenheimer joined the Anglo-American Corporation in 1968, serving as a director from 1974 until his retirement in 2011 and as Deputy Chairman from 1983 to 2001.” https://opp-gen.com/leaders/nicky-oppenheimer/https://opp-gen.com/leaders/nicky-oppenheimer/
History of AngloGold
https://www.anglogoldashanti.com/company/our-history/
AngloGold Limited was formed in June 1998 through the consolidation of the gold interests of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited (AAC) and its associated companies, namely East Rand Gold and Uranium Company Limited; Eastvaal Gold Holdings Limited; Southvaal Holdings Limited; Free State Consolidated Gold Mines Limited; Elandsrand Gold Mining Company Limited; H.J. Joel Gold Mining Company Limited and Western Deep Levels Limited into a single, focused, independent, gold company. Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company Limited (Vaal Reefs), the vehicle for the consolidation, changed its name to AngloGold Limited and increased its authorised share capital, effective 30 March 1998. AngloGold acquired minority shareholders interest in Driefontein Consolidated Limited (17%); Anmercosa Mining (West Africa) Limited (100%); Western Ultra Deep Levels Limited (89%); Eastern Gold Holdings Limited (52%); Erongo Mining and Exploration Company Limited (70%).
1999: AngloGold acquired a non-controlling shareholders interest in Driefontein Consolidated Limited (17%); Anmercosa Mining (West Africa) Limited (100%); Western Ultra Deep Levels Limited (89%); Eastern Gold Holdings Limited (52%); Erongo Mining and Exploration Company Limited (70%). It also purchased Minorco’s gold interests in North and South America and acquired Acacia Resources in Australia.
2000: AngloGold acquired a 40% interest in the Morila mine in Mali from Randgold Resources Limited; a 50% interest in the Geita mine in Tanzania from Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (Ashanti); a 25% interest in OroAfrica, South Africa’s largest manufacturer of gold jewellery; and a 33% holding in Gold Avenue, an e-commerce business in gold.
2001: AngloGold sold the Elandsrand and Deelkraal mines to Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony); disposed of its interests in No.2 Shaft Vaal River Operations to African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and made an unsuccessful take-over bid for Normandy Mining Limited.
2002: AngloGold sold the Free State assets to African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Harmony Gold. It acquired an additional 46.25% of the equity, as well as the total loan assignment, of Cerro Vanguardia SA from Pérez Companc International SA, thereby increasing its interest in Cerro Vanguardia to 92.5%. AngloGold disposed of its wholly owned subsidiary, Stone and Allied Industries (O.F.S.) Limited.
2003: During 2003 the following corporate activities took place: AngloGold disposed of its wholly owned Amapari project to Mineração Pedra Branca do Amapari. AngloGold finalised the sale of its 49% stake in the Gawler Craton Joint Venture, including the Tunkillia project located in South Australia to Helix Resources Limited. It concluded the sale of its interest in the Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture to Queenstake Resources USA Inc and disposed of its entire investments in East African Gold Mines Limited and in Randgold Resources Limited. AngloGold purchased a portion of the Driefontein mining area in South Africa from Gold Fields Limited.
2004: AngloGold sold its Western Tanami project to Tanami Gold NL in Australia. The business combination between AngloGold and Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited was completed, resulting in the company changing its name to AngloGold Ashanti Limited.
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d9e924 No.127893
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715672 (181856ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African Breweries [SAB]
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>South African Breweries (SAB)
South African Breweries [SAB]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Breweries
South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016.[2] South African Breweries is now a direct subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV.[3][4]
The company that is now South African Breweries was founded in 1895 as Castle Brewery to serve a growing market of miners and prospectors in and around Johannesburg. Two years later, it became the first industrial company to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the year after (1898) it listed on the London Stock Exchange.[5] In 1950, SAB relocated its headquarters and control from London to South Africa.[5] In 1955, Castle Brewing purchased the Ohlsson's and Chandlers Union breweries, and the group was renamed South African Breweries.
From the early 1990s onward, the company increasingly expanded internationally, making several acquisitions in both emerging and developed markets. In 1999, it formed a new UK-based holding company, SAB plc, and moved its primary listing to London. In May 2002, SAB plc acquired Miller Brewing, forming SABMiller plc.
On 10 October 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired SABMiller for £69 billion (US$107 billion at the time the deal closed).[6] The arrangement had been approved by shareholders of both companies on 28 September 2016, and the deal closed on 10 October 2016.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110912014624/http://www.sablimited.co.za/sablimited/action/media/downloadFile?media_fileid=791
http://www.sablimited.co.za/sablimited/action/media/downloadFile?media_fileid=791
1995: State President Nelson Mandela opens SAB's World of Beer (then the Centenary Centre) in the Newtown cultural precinct of Johannesburg. SAB celebrates 100 years with a share price of R100, market capitalisation of R30 billion and a record R10 billion in added value for the South African economy.
SABMiller plc is the world’s second largest brewer by volume. The company has interests in over 60 countries around the world and is one of the largest bottlers and distributors of Coca-Cola products outside of the United States.
It owns and distributes more than 200 brands and has a total annual lager volume in excess of 175 billion litres.
ABI was established in Johannesburg in 1976 as a result of beverage manufacturing and marketing agreements between The Coca-Cola Export Corporation of the United States, CadburySchweppes (South Africa) Ltd and SAB.
SAB’s pioneering equity (affirmative action) programme, launched in the mid-1970s to alleviate historical inequalities and disadvantages experienced by many of its employees, fostered skills training and advancement to compensate for the denial of basic education to so many.
SAB has a long history as a progressive, societal leader, and this is backed up by the number of awards that the business has won over the years.
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d9e924 No.127894
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715709 (181903ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African Breweries [SAB]
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>Despite the oppressive regime, he managed to get a license from South African Breweries (SAB) to sell the distribute liquor.
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>Among the same crowded Cato Manor shanties, police made arrests for illicit possession of liquor, and on 24 January 1960 the umpteenth riot broke out. This riot shocked South Africa! Nine policemen were dead!
>>127893
Shouldn’t the government issue liquor licenses and not SAB? Was it the responsibility of SAB to issue liquor licenses in the 60s and the police enforced it? If the Zulus had liquor licenses the Cato Manor Massacre would not have occurred? SAB needs to be investigated!
South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 1)
https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html
The South African Breweries Limited (SAB) is a holding company whose principal line of business is brewing. The company holds an impressive 98 percent share of the beer market in its home country of South Africa, where it sells 14 brands of beer, including local lagers Castle and Lion as well as foreign brands brewed under licenseHeineken, Guinness, Amstel, and Carling Black Label. Aggressive overseas expansion following the end of apartheid, however, has also given SAB ownership of, or stakes in, more than 25 breweries in the emerging markets of central Europe, China, and sub-Saharan Africa. Overall, in terms of volume, South African Breweries is the world's fourth largest brewer. SAB also has a variety of nonbrewing operations, such as carbonated and natural fruit drinks and other beverages, retailing, hotels and gaming, and manufacturing of safety matches and glass. The company has been divesting many of these noncore assets in the late 1990s. SAB's history is in many ways the history of the South African brewing industry, most notably through the government-ordered merger of the largest breweries in 1956. The company's history was also greatly influenced by the apartheid system and its effect on the domestic economy, on domestic firms, and on foreign investment in South Africa.–
The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand (a region encompassing Johannesburg) in 1875 brought large numbers of prospectors to South Africa. Small outposts for white settlers were transformed into busy cities with new industries. Several brewmasters, most with little experience, began to produce a variety of beers which immediately gained popularity with the settlers.
[Frederick] Mead remained interested in establishing a brewery in the rapidly growing Witwatersrand. In 1892 he purchased the Castle Brewery in Johannesburg from its proprietor Charles Glass. The expansion of this facility, however, was beyond the means of the Natal Brewery Syndicate, and Mead returned to England to attract new investors. In the final arrangement, Mead formed another larger company based in London called The South African United Breweries. This company took over the operations of both the Natal Brewery Syndicate and the Castle Brewery.
After construction of the new Castle Brewery, South African United Breweries made additional share offerings which were purchased by South Africa's largest investment houses. Subsequent growth precipitated a restructuring of the company and reincorporation in London on May 15, 1895, as The South African Breweries Limited.
South African Breweries CEO Ted Sceales was instrumental in the creation of a new subsidiary called Barsab Investment Trust, jointly held by SAB and Thomas Barlow & Sons Ltd. (later Barlow Rand), the rapidly expanding mining services group. Barsab permitted SAB and Barlow to invest in each other and pool their managerial and administrative resources.
Parliamentary motions to permit the reincorporation of SAB in South Africa were initiated in 1968. These motions, however, did not gain approval until March 17, 1970. On May 26, 1970, after 75 years as an English company, SAB became a de jure South African company.
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d9e924 No.127895
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715774 (181915ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African Breweries [SAB]
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>Why was the book, Kerzner Unauthorised, banned? What does the SA government want to hide? Sol’s name also appears in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book.
>>127893
>1995: State President Nelson Mandela opens SAB's World of Beer (then the Centenary Centre) in the Newtown cultural precinct of Johannesburg.
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> I had an opportunity in my office to tell [Mr] Mandela, but apparently he is a captive of the cabal and a captive of interests [from] which he cannot escape.
>>127894
South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 2)
https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html
While sales of wine and spirits continued to rise, SAB sold a number of its liquor-oriented hotels, and reorganized those that remained under a new subsidiary called the Southern Sun Hotel Corporation. Southern Sun, which operated 50 hotels in South Africa, was formed by the merger in 1969 of the existing SAB hotel interests with those of the Sol Kerzner family.
The South African government barred SAB from further investment in the liquor industry and limited its ability to invest overseas. The company then made several attempts to diversify its operations. In 1972 SAB and Barlow Rand decided to alter their collaboration and dissolve Barsab. As a result, two former Barsab holdings, the Shoe Corporation, and Afcol, South Africa's largest furniture manufacturer, came under SAB control. The following year, SAB acquired OK Bazaars, a large discount department store chain. Certain other investments were disposed of, however, including ventures in banking and food products.
Several brewing interests attempted to challenge SAB's dominant position in the South African market. Various German interests set up breweries in Botswana and Swaziland in a failed attempt to gain a foothold in South Africa. Louis Luyt, a South African entrepreneur, also failed, and sold his breweries to the Rembrandt Group in 1973. The Luyt breweries, which formed the core of Rembrandt's alcoholic beverage group, were later incorporated as the Intercontinental Breweries. Determined to succeed, Rembrandt's chairman, Dr. Anton Rupert, committed his company to a scheme of competition based on control of liquor retail outlets. In 1978 Rembrandt acquired a 49 percent share of Gilbey's, the third largest liquor group in South Africa. The addition of Gilbey's 100 retail outlets gave Rembrandt access to a total of 450 stores. South African Breweries responded by acquiring Union Wine, an independent liquor retailer with 24 hotels and over 50 retail outlets.
Once again, market conditions were not conducive to competition. The government, therefore, proposed a rationalization program in which SAB would take over Rembrandt's brewing interests and turn over its wine and spirits operations to an independent subsidiary called Cape Wine and Distillers. The program, executed in November 1979, also called for Rembrandt to turn over its Oude Meester wine and spirits operations to Cape Wines, in which SAB, Rembrandt, and the KWV wine growers cooperative each owned a 30 percent interest. The remaining 10 percent interest was sold to private investors.
Many business leaders openly called for change, but the government still prevented companies such as SAB from transferring capital out of South Africa through foreign investments. Often these companies had little choice but to reinvest their surplus capital in South African ventures, which in turn gave them a more crucial interest in the resolution of social and human rights problems within South Africa.
Many foreign-owned companies, which faced fewer restrictions on divestment, sold their South African subsidiaries and closed their offices in South Africa. This trend made acquisitions by South African companies easier. SAB took over control of the ABI soft drink concern from Coca-Cola, and later added several clothing retailers, including Scotts Stores (acquired in 1981) and the Edgars chain (added in 1982). A government order in 1979 for SAB to sell its Solly Kramer retail liquor stores was completed in 1986, five years before its deadline. Also in 1986 SAB established a joint venture with Ceres Fruit Juices to sell leading noncarbonated juice brands Ceres, Liquifruit, and Fruitee.
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d9e924 No.127896
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715797 (181923ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African Breweries [SAB]
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South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 3)
https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html
SAB&mdashting largely out of self-interest since 85 percent of the beer in South Africa was purchased by blacks–was well out in front of the political changes as it had begun to hire blacks in the early 1980s. By 1985 28 percent of salaried employees were black, a figure that rose to 48 percent by 1994. Nevertheless, the threat of a government-forced breakup of SAB's beer monopoly hung over the company following the end of apartheid.
Partly in response to this threat, and partly in response to the loosening of laws regarding foreign investment, the [Meyer] Kahn-led South African Breweries aggressively expanded outside its home country starting in 1993. That year, SAB spent US$50 million for an 80 percent stake in Hungary's largest brewer, Dreher Breweries, the first of a series of moves into the emerging markets of central Europe. In 1996 the company gained joint control of two of the largest breweries in Poland, Lech Brewery and Tyskie Brewery, as well as three breweries in Romania and one in Slovakia. In 1994 SAB created a joint venture with Hong Kong-based China Resources Enterprise Limited; by early 1998 this joint venture had gained majority control of five breweries in China. A third area of foreign growth for SAB was in sub-Saharan Africa, where management control was gained of breweries in Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Uganda during this period.
In August 1997 Kahn was appointed chief executive of the South African police service [to influence investigations?], becoming the first civilian to hold the post. The outspoken Kahn, who had been vocal in calling for the rapid liberalization of the economy and for a restoration of law and order, was made responsible for cracking down on a national crime epidemic. Taking over as acting chairman of SAB was Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's most prominent black capitalist and a former militant trade unionist [NUM (National Union of Mineworkers)].
By this time, South African Breweries was the world's fourth largest brewer and had a rapidly expanding international brewing empire. The company was now free to unload its noncore businesses in order to concentrate more closely on brewing and its other beverage operations. Under Ramaphosa, it did just that. In late 1997 and early 1998 SAB divested its holdings in OK Bazaars, Afcol, and Da Gama Textiles, and announced that Lion Match and Conshu Holdings, a footwear maker, were also likely to be jettisoned. These divestments were not proceeding quickly enough for some observers, but SAB had already managed to strengthen its overall position in the face of the continued threat of the breakup of its domestic beer monopoly. Selling off noncore assets was freeing up capital for additional investment in foreign breweries, which would further mitigate the impact of any government intervention.
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d9e924 No.127897
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715813 (181925ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African Breweries [SAB]
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South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 4)
https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html
Principal Subsidiaries:
Southern Associated Maltsters (Pty.) Ltd.; SAB Hop Farms (Pty.) Ltd.; SAB International Holdings Inc.; SAB International (Africa) B.V. (Netherlands); Botswana Breweries (Pty.) Ltd. (40%); Kgalagadi Breweries (Pty.) Ltd. (Botswana; 40%); Swaziland Brewers (Pty.) Ltd. (60%); Lesotho Brewing Company (Pty.) Ltd. (39%); Tanzania Breweries Ltd. (46%); Cervejas de Mozambique Limitada (65%); Zambian Breweries Plc (45%); Nile Breweries Limited (Uganda; 40%); SAB International (Europe) B.V. (Netherlands); Dreher Breweries (Hungary; 85%); Lech Browary Wielkopolski S.A. (Poland; 32%); SC Vulturul S.A. (Romania; 70%); Compañia Cervecera de Canarias S.A. (Spain; 51%); SC Pitber S.A. (Romania; 81%); SC Ursus S.A. (Romania; 73%); Browary Tyskie Górny Slask S.A. (Poland; 45%); SAB International (Asia) B.V. (Netherlands); China Resources Enterprise Beverages Ltd. (49%); China Resources Shenyang; Snowflake Beer Co. Ltd. (China; 44%); China Resources Dalian Brewery Co. Ltd. (49%); Shenzhen C'est Bon Food and Drink Co. Ltd. (China; 33%); China Resources (Jilin) Brewery Co. Ltd. (90%); Delta Corporation Ltd. (Zimbabwe; 23%); Seychelles Breweries Ltd. (20%); Accra Breweries Limited (Ghana; 50.5%); Amalgamated Beverage Industries Ltd. (68%); Coca-Cola Canners (Pty.) Ltd. (24%); Can Vendors (Pty.) Ltd.; Appletiser South Africa (Pty.) Ltd.; Appletiser Pure Fruit Juices (Pty.) Ltd.; Ceres Fruit Juices (Pty.) Ltd. (35%); Valaqua (Pty.) Ltd.; Associated Fruit Processors (Pty.) Ltd. (50%); Traditional Beer Investments (Pty.) Ltd.; Distillers Corporation (SA) Ltd. (30%); Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery Group Ltd. (30%); Edgars Stores Ltd. (65%); Amalgamated Retail Ltd. ("Amrel") (68%); Southern Sun Holdings Ltd.; Plate Glass and Shatterprufe Industries Ltd. (68%); Da Gama Textile Company Ltd. (61%); The Lion Match Company Ltd. (71%); Conshu Holdings Ltd. (67%).
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d9e924 No.127898
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715926 (181955ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Peter Obi, Anambra Governor, ties to SABMiller Brewery (video)
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Nigeria: “Anambra Governor Said to Secretly Own Shares in N15 billion SABMiller Brewery”
https://businessnews.com.ng/2012/08/31/anambra-governor-said-to-secretly-own-shares-in-n15-billion-sabmiller-brewery/
August 31, 2012
Former House of Representatives member, Mr. Chudi Offodile has asked Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to resign over a company ownership scandal.
The SABMiller Brewery which was commissioned by President Jonathan yesterday is the second largest brewery in Africa and cost $100 million of private and public (Anambra State) funds to build.
The Brewery is expected to employ 750 direct employees and 4,500 indirect employees and distributors. 10% of the company is owned by the Anambra State governor, whilst local investors own 12.5% of the brewery.
Former Rep, Offodile is alleging that a company, Next International Ltd, owned by Governor Obi and his family members has a stake in the 12.5% owned by the private investors.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Offodile said, “It would amount to an endorsement of a sordid affair and may embolden other foreigners who design and put into effect, different and newer corruption techniques with government officials. In the history of corruption in Nigeria, the Onitsha brewery scandal will rank as the most brazen”.
Offodile said investigations he made into Next international at the Corporate Affairs Commission disclosed that the Obi family owns the company and even though Governor Peter obi resigned his directorship in his company, his brother serves as the Managing Director.
When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Obi on Media and Publicity, Mr. Valentine Obienyem did not refute the claims that Next international was indeed a shareholder in SAB Miller Brewery. He did not refute the claim that Governor. Obi’s brother was the head of the company.
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d9e924 No.127899
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715931 (181956ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Peter Obi, Anambra Governor, ties to SABMiller Brewery (video)
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“Peter Obi: Integrity issues with Sabmiller Brewery, by Chudi Offodile”
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/peter-obi-integrity-issues-with-sabmiller-brewery/
AUGUST 26, 2012 - UPDATED:JULY 31, 2022
Excerpts
When I first raised the issue a few months ago, apart from a rain of insults I received from government agents, the Attorney General, Peter Afuba, directed me to the Corporate Affairs Commission to obtain information about the company. But a search at the CAC did not yield any information on Sabmiller brewery, Onitsha, which is the name the state government repeatedly called the company. The government itself refused to release any information on the ownership of the company except to say that Anambra State invested N2 billion for a 10 per cent stake in the Sabmiller brewery with “other businessmen”.
The identity of the so-called ‘other businessmen’ remained a closely guarded secret until I stumbled upon a company, in the records of the CAC, called INTAFACT BEVERAGES LIMITED, with registration no 680933, incorporated by the firm of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie. The company has British and South African directors with a nominal share capital of N40,000,000 million divided into 400 ordinary shares of N100,000 each.
Three hundred of the 400 ordinary shares worth N30 million were allotted to the following shareholders as at April 2011: Sabmiller Nigeria holdings – 230 ordinary shares, Anambra State Government – 40 ordinary shares and Next International Nigeria Limited – 30 ordinary shares. Intafact Beverages Limited is the owner of the brewery in Onitsha. Keep in mind, the fact that Next International Limited, one of the three shareholders of Intafact Beverages Limited, is owned by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and his family. It turns out that the mysterious “other businessmen” is no other than the governor himself. Alas, the gods are naked!
Part of the land on which the brewery stands in bridgehead, Onitsha, belongs to a company called International Steel Industry Limited, Onitsha. The land was allocated to the company in 1975 by the defunct East Central State Government. The company had developed the over seven acre property and paid ground rent on the property up until 2011. Indeed, the certificate of occupancy was re-certified by Governor Obi on March 5, 2010. Yet, Obi went ahead and revoked the right of occupancy of International Steel Company and awarded same to Intafact Beverages Limited, a private company in which he has interest.
The land was revoked for “overriding public interest” and re-awarded to a private company for “overriding personal interest”. It is illegal to revoke a parcel of land for overriding public interest and grant the same parcel to a private company. It becomes immoral and symptomatic of greed, avarice and a capricious abuse of state power, when the beneficiary of the revocation is the governor himself.
Sabmiller, based in South Africa, is said to be the biggest brewery group in the world. Its investment in Nigeria is speculated to be more than a $100 million. A good deal for Nigeria and Anambra State, no doubt. But it appears that in an attempt to expand its operations in Africa, it has gotten itself entangled in a web of corruption and unethical conduct.
Governor Obi personally handled all negotiations between Anambra State Government and Sabmiller Group and visited South Africa several times on the subject. Did Sabmiller allocate the shares in Intafact Beverages Limited to Next International Limited as “bribe” to further its business interest in Nigeria?
To address these questions and more, an international enquiry into the activities of Sabmiller Group in Nigeria and the operations of Next International Limited and the possible interface of its accounts with that of Anambra State Government should commence without further delay. To this end, I shall be forwarding a letter to Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice, the British government, the government of South Africa and the United States Department of Justice demanding for this investigation.
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d9e924 No.127900
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715933 (181958ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Peter Obi, Anambra Governor, ties to SABMiller Brewery (video)
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>Next International Limited
“EXCLUSIVE: UK authorities dissolve Peter Obi’s company, Next International”
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/575026-exclusive-uk-authorities-dissolve-peter-obis-company-next-international.html
January 11, 2023
For failing to submit its annual accounts, authorities in the United Kingdom, UK, have struck off Next International (UK) Limited, a company largely owned by Nigerian top politician and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.
Checks by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the company was removed from the record in September 2021 following a first and second gazette notice of “compulsory” strike off of the entity.
In the UK, a compulsory strike off is imposed on a company by creditors or by the Companies House for non-submission of annual accounts or failure to notify Companies House about a change of official registered office address. Once a company is struck off, its details will be removed from Companies House register and the company ceases to exist.
Next International (UK) Limited failed to submit its annual accounts for the year 2020, hence, the company was struck off and dissolved in 2021.
Before a company is struck off, however, the UK requires the Companies House’s Registrar to send at least two formal letters to the company warning that a failure to file its annual accounts will lead to its removal from the register.
According to UK Liquidators, a financial consulting firm, if Companies House receives no reply to its letters, it will then publish a first ‘strike off notice’ in the Gazette, which is the official journal of public record.
The first official notice to strike off Next International was issued on 22nd June 2021, then a second notice was given on 31st August 2021. A final gazette to dissolve the company was issued on 7th September 2021.
Before its final dissolution, records show that for four consecutive years (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) the UK Companies House had to always issue a “first gazette notice for compulsory strike-off” before Next International filed its annual account. Then immediately the company submitted its annual accounts, a gazette will be issued to discontinue the compulsory strike-off action.
A private limited company, Next International was incorporated on 16t May 1996. Mr Obi was listed as a director while his wife, Margaret, served as secretary. Next International (Nigeria) Limited (with 999 ordinary shares) and Mr Obi (with one ordinary share) were listed as shareholders.
Records show that the company was registered as business “agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods” in England and Wales.
The firm reported taking a mortgage from Lloyds TSB Bank Plc for a property on 53 Clyde Road, Croydon.
On 16 May 2008, 14 months after assuming duties as governor of Anambra State, Mr Obi resigned as the director of Next International.
He took office on March 17, 2006 but continued to serve as a director of the company in violation of Nigerian law.
In Nigeria, a person is statutorily required to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, except if it is farming, upon becoming a public officer, Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act provides.
The former governor admitted to PREMIUM TIMES in 2021 that he did not declare these companies and the funds and properties they held in his asset declaration filings with the Code of Conduct Bureau, the Nigerian government agency that deals with the issues of corruption, conflict of interest, and abuse of office by public servants.
At the time, Mr Obi said he was unaware that the law expected him to declare assets or companies he jointly owns with his family members or anyone else.
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d9e924 No.127901
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18715957 (182003ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Peter Obi, Anambra Governor, ties to SABMiller Brewery (video)
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>Taking over as acting chairman of SAB was Cyril Ramaphosa
>>127893
>1995: State President Nelson Mandela opens SAB's World of Beer (then the Centenary Centre) in the Newtown cultural precinct of Johannesburg.
“PETER OBI WINNING IN COURT FROM ALL ANGLES - NIGERIAN CHOSEN PRESIDENT”
https://youtu.be/yo0niv8hzhM
Mar 23, 2023
Now a presidential candidate… Coincidence?
“2023: [Peter] Obi picks LP presidential ticket”
https://guardian.ng/news/2023-obi-picks-lp-presidential-ticket/
30 May 2022 | 6:00 pm
–Former governor of Anambra, Mr Peter Obi has been elected unopposed as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for 2023 general elections.—
Obi emerged winner after all other aspirants stepped down for him and in the interest of the party in a presidential primary elections held on Monday in Asaba, Delta .
According to Chairman, Electoral Committee, Usman Abdullahi, five presidential aspirants were cleared to contest the election.
Abdullahi disclosed that a total of 104 delegates from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), were accredited for the election.
However, in the unfolding event, the presidential aspirants; Prof. Pat Utomi, Mr Joseph Faduri and Mrs Olubusola Emmanuel-Tella stepped down while Mr Charles Uchenna withdrew from the election
Obi, at the end of the voting, polled a total of 96 votes to clinch the party ticket for the general election.
While declaring the result, Abdullahi declared Obi winner and presidential candidate of the LP for the 2023 general election for having polled a total of 96 votes out of the 97 valid votes with one invalid vote.
He described the process as free, fair, transparent and credible.
Obi, in his acceptance address, said that the country was in dire need of effective leadership that could remove the country from consuming to productive nation.
According to him, the only way to fight insecurity is to pull people out of poverty.
He said that under his administration, education, power generation and the economy would be the priority if given the mandate as president.
Obi said that having secured the mandate as presidential candidate that the journey to the presidency has begun.
He said he would mobilise to harness votes from all nook and cranny of the country too win the presidency.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the process was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) amidst tight security by security agencies and the media, Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress were represented.
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d9e924 No.127902
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724300 (201447ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd Merger - July 16, 1974
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>South African Breweries CEO Ted Sceales was instrumental in the creation of a new subsidiary called Barsab Investment Trust, jointly held by SAB and Thomas Barlow & Sons Ltd. (later Barlow Rand), the rapidly expanding mining services group. Barsab permitted SAB and Barlow to invest in each other and pool their managerial and administrative resources.
The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd Merger - July 16, 1974
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/16/archives/mine-concerns-set-south-african-deal-merger-planned-in-south-africa.html
July 16, 1974
The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd., both of South Africa, announced yesterday an agreement in principle to merge into a new group to be known as Unicorp Barlow, Ltd. Under the agreement, every 100 shares of Barlow Rand would be exchanged for 100 shares of Unicorp Barlow, and every 140 shares of Union Corporation for 100 Unicorp Barlow.
Merger News
A spokesman for the companies said in London that on the basis of current prices of the shares, Unicorp Barlow would have a market capitaliIzation of about 600‐million rand, which, at current foreign exchange rates, would amount, to $909‐million. [interesting to see the rand/dollars exchange; then R1.52 = $1; now R18.14 = $1] The spokesman estimated that the combined group earnings after taxes would amount to about $121‐million a year.
Barlow Rand was established in June, 1971, through a merger of Rand Mines and Barlow Rand, Ltd., which was formerly known as Thos. Barlow and Sons, Ltd. The company is diversified mining and industrial group.
Union Corporation, which has no connection with an American company of that name, is a major mining finance company with large interests in gold and platinum and various industrial interests. American Depository Receipts of Union Corporation are traded on the over‐the‐counter market here.
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d9e924 No.127903
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724313 (201450ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / The many faces of Barlow Rand Ltd. - April 11, 1982
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“THE MANY FACES OF BARLOW RAND LTD.” - April 11, 1982
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/11/business/the-many-faces-of-barlow-rand-ltd.html
April 11, 1982
JOHANNESBURG WHEN foreigners take notice of big business in South Africa, their attention is normally drawn to the vast Anglo-American Corporation and its chairman, Harry F. Oppenheimer, whose place in the moneyed portion of this society makes him a one-man aristocracy.
But the second-biggest industrial and mining group in South Africa is also very big. It is called Barlow Rand Ltd. and the last time anyone counted, at the end of its financial year that ended Sept. 30, it had 325 operating companies, employed 196,000 persons and reported consolidated after-tax profit of $441 million. That represented a 23 percent leap from the previous year and didn't include the returns on another batch of companies, nearly 600 of them, in which Barlow Rand has either an equity or management stake.
Barlow Rand also has a chairman and chief executive officer whose statements on sensitive social and political issues are perused almost as carefully as Mr. Oppenheimer's.
Aanon Michael Rosholt, who signs himself A.M. but is generally known as Mike, made his reputation by presiding over the remarkable growth of his group: revenues, of nearly $4.8 billion last year, represented a fivefold increase over 1975.
When they were drafting their own code several years ago, Mr. Rosholt and his industrial relations director, Reinhald Hofmeyr, journeyed to Philadelphia to consult the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who gave his name to the American code. Barlow Rand, they told him by way of a calling card, employed more blacks than all the American subsidiaries in South Africa combined.
This was before Congress, in what is known as the Evans Amendment, made adherence to the standards of the Sullivan code a prerequisite for loans to South Africa from the Export-Import Bank. Barlow Rand's industrial empire was based, originally, on an American connection - the South African dealership for Caterpillar earth-moving equipment it won more than half a century ago - and it had financed important investments with Export-Import Bank loans.
When the new requirement was put on the statute books, Mr. Rosholt said, I was able to say in Washington, 'look, the Rev. Sullivan happens to be a friend of ours.' But Washington never established machinery to determine whether a South African company met the code's standards, so a major loan to Barlow Rand was never delivered.
Foreign guests are likely also to be whisked off to Rietspruit, an open-cast coal mine where they will tour through black family housing and recreational facilities that easily surpass the wildest dreams of the Appalachian coal fields. Rietspruit, which is jointly owned with the Shell Oil Company, is unique among South African mines in that it has an exemption from the Government that enables it to ignore the rule that no more than 3 percent of black employees can be housed with their families on any mine.
Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2019/08/07/the-sullivan-principles-at-work-the-conflicted-activism-of-rev-leon-howard-sullivan/
On 1 March 1971, General Motors (GM) chairman James Roche appointed African American clergyman and civil rights leader, Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, to the corporation’s Board of Directors. As the automobile company’s first African American board member, Sullivan instantly made national headlines. Appearing on Meet the Press shortly thereafter, Sullivan defended his role amid some skepticism, commenting that, “I know that General Motors is using me, but…I will be using General Motors to help my people.”[1] Sullivan turned his focus to South Africa, and would use his pedestal to boldly condemn GM’s complicity with apartheid, calling for it to “withdraw from the Union of South Africa, until clear changes have been made in the practice and policies of that government as they pertain to the treatment of Blacks and other non-white residents.”[2] Exactly six years after his appointment to the board, Sullivan would convince twelve major American corporations with operations in South Africa to sign the Sullivan Principles.
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d9e924 No.127904
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724337 (201454ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand Ltd Parts 1&2)
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>South African Breweries
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BARLOW RAND LTD. (Part 1)
https://www.company-histories.com/BARLOW-RAND-LTD-Company-History.html
The original South African Barlow company was founded by Major Ernest Barlow, an Englishman who fought with the British against Dutch and Huguenot Boers in South Africa at the turn of the century. Major Barlow returned to South Africa in 1902 and established an engineering supplies company in Durban. The family-owned "import-indent agency" was incorporated in 1918 under the name Thomas Barlow & Sons (South Africa) Ltd. The original Thomas Barlow & Sons was established as a cotton mill in Lancashire, England during the 18th century, and continued to trade in textiles when Major Barlow borrowed its name for his enterprise in South Africa.
Major Barlow died in 1921. In 1927 the company was taken over by his eldest son Charles, who that year received an engineering degree from Cambridge University. That year Barlow became the South African sales agent for the Caterpillar company, an American manufacturer of heavy machinery. Through its connection with Caterpillar, Barlow & Sons gained expertise in construction and agricultural machinery. Over the following years, strong demand for engineering supplies allowed the company to expand its scale of business.
After the war Barlow expanded its operations in Southwest Africa (Namibia) and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Southwest Africa was confiscated by South Africa during World War I, and placed under South African mandate by the Treaty of Versailles [Remember SA Prime Minister Jan Smuts was the only person who signed the peace treaties for both World Wars >>>/qresearch/18029708 ]. It was also extremely rich in mineral deposits, including diamonds, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium. Rhodesia, a self-administered British colony, was also well-endowed with mineral resources, including gold, copper, chrome, nickel, and tin. As a company, Barlow was in a privileged position to supply mining equipment and develop new mining technologies, but did not directly engage in the operation of any mines.
In the early 1960's, the White minority government of Ian Smith in Rhodesia came under increasing pressure from Britain and the United States to integrate its society and permit the Black majority to engage in politics. The government's strong resistance resulted in economic sanctions and guerilla warfare against Rhodesia. As conditions deteriorated in Rhodesia, Barlow began to divest itself of certain properties and businesses there.
In April of 1966 Thomas Barlow & Sons Ltd. and South African Breweries exchanged 12 million rand worth of stock. As a result, South African Breweries owned 22% of Barlow, and Barlow owned a substantially higher percentage of South African Breweries. As part of an effort to combine their marketing and resource networks, a number of executives from South African Breweries were admitted to the board of directors at Barlow.
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d9e924 No.127905
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724348 (201456ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand Ltd Parts 1&2)
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>Union Corporation
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BARLOW RAND LTD. (Part 2)
https://www.company-histories.com/BARLOW-RAND-LTD-Company-History.html
Barlow companies which were losing money in Southwest Africa and Rhodesia were reorganised. Generally, however, Barlow subsidiaries in those states and in Britain continued to perform beyond expectations. The well-established tractor company and the fast-growing forestry division, called Federated Timbers, continued to be Barlow's most profitable companies.
Through its association with the Caterpillar company, Barlow gained expertise in corporate finance and product distribution. By the end of the 1960's, Barlow had diversified into several fields, and continued to sell mining equipment and technical expertise to mining companies. In June of 1971 Barlow purchased Rand Mines Ltd., South Africa's oldest mining house. Rand was acquired for 39 million rand in stock, the largest takeover in South African history. At the time, Barlow was primarily a distributor of industrial products; only 10% of its revenue were derived from manufacturing. Rand Mines, on the other hand, was South Africa's oldest mining house, but in recent years had established a strong presence in primary industries. The new company, Barlow Rand Ltd., was a fully integrated manufacturer and distributor of heavy industrial products.
Under South African laws, Barlow Rand could only offer shares of its own stock in return for shares in European companies it was interested in purchasing. In order to increase the marketability of its shares in Europe, Barlow Rand stock was listed on the Brussels and Antwerp bourses in February of 1972, and on the Paris bourse the following July.
In July of 1974 Charles Barlow announced his company's intention to purchase the Union Corporation, a mining finance group with substantial British holdings. Over the next two months, however, Gold Fields (of South Africa) and General Mining (now called Gencorp) entered the bidding. Barlow Rand withdrew from the competition when it decided the bidding price for Union shares had exceeded a reasonable value. Shortly afterward, General Mining purchased the Union Corporation.
Social conditions began to deteriorate rapidly in Rhodesia, where the minority government was rapidly losing support. When South Africa stopped supplying the Rhodesians with weapons (particularly helicopters), Prime Minister Ian Smith was forced to initiate a program to bring a Black majority government into power within two years. Because it was a South African company, Barlow Rand's presence in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) became less welcome, and the company's stock was subsequently delisted from the Harare (Salisbury) stock exchange.
In 1979 Charles Barlow died. He was succeeded by a highly capable and progressive man name Aanon Michael Rosholt. A protege of Barlow, Rosholt advocated the integration of educational facilities for South Africa's races, and for the eventual elimination of apartheid.
As a result of the Wiehahn reforms of 1979, trades unions for non-Whites grew in both size and influence. Companies such as Ford, the Anglo-American Corporation, Chloride (S.A.), and Barlow Rand generally supported the growth of the trades unions.
In a speech in 1981, Rosholt said that Black trade unions were a fact of life which "must be seen as bodies which can possible defuse labor problems." He expressed his belief that representation was an internal union matter which employers should not try to influence. The employees' unions, however, continued to regard Barlow Rand with skepticism. The company, however, remained relatively free of labor unrest.
Continuing to expand, Barlow Rand purchased dealerships for Hyster forklifts in Britain and the southeastern United States. In April of 1982, the company acquired one of South Africa's largest food companies, Tiger Oats. In 1985 Barlow Rand launched a takeover of J. Bibby & Sons, a British industrial and agricultural concern, partially owned by Tiger Oats. The company offered three pounds per share, an amount so generous that 97% of Bibby shareholders sold out, leaving so few English shareholders that the company lost its listing on the London bourse.
Today Barlow Rand is the largest company in South Africa, and an international parent company of businesses in southern Africa, Britain, the United States, and Europe. The groups' operations are divided among eight autonomous divisions: mining; cement, lime and paint; electronics and engineering; heavy equipment; building and construction supplies; packaging, paper and appliances; sugar, food and textiles; and group services.
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d9e924 No.127906
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724353 (201458ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
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Barlow Rand is now Barloworld.
Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 1)
https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/
1960
Barlows rapidly expands into many fields, including motor retail; steel and building materials; handling equipment; consumer electronics; and steel manufacturing and selling.
In his Chairman’s Statement, Punch Barlow says: “It is our policy to continue to expand the group, and to seek further opportunities for investment in well-managed companies that have good growth and profit prospects. We believe diversification will maintain even trading results”.
Barlows also acquires trading interests in the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia. In 1969, it lists shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
1979
Punch Barlow [probably his nickname] dies and Mike Rosholt becomes the new chairman. After acquiring Wrenn Brothers (later Wrenn Brungart), Barlow Rand expands into the USA.
1980
Barlow Rand expands to include information technology, electrical engineering and textiles. Its international reputation increases and it manages brands including IBM and Merck in South Africa. The company also lists its June shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for the first time.
1984
Barlow Rand’s international footprint increases after acquiring J Bibby & Sons PLC in the United Kingdom. Bibby is involved in British agriculture, materials handling, science products and paper converting.
1989
Barlow Rand reaches profits of R1 billion, an employee count of 240 000 people, and 79th position on the Fortune 500 list of global companies. [Notice, sanctions did not affect this company.]
1992
The company continues to expand its operations in Europe by acquiring Lamson in Belgium, Finanzauto in Spain and STET in Portugal.
1994
Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition. Its large size helps to bring different political parties together, assist in the management of the 1994 elections and move with the country towards a peaceful democracy.
After the 1994 democratic elections, with South Africa once again accepted on the international stage, The company’s strategy evolves to include a stronger focus on growing core businesses across the globe.
Barlow Rand unbundles non-core businesses between 1993 and 1994. The more focused and streamlined Barlow Limited is born.
Barlow Limited is granted Caterpillar dealership franchises in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Angola, giving it cover over the whole Southern Africa region.
Barlow acquires Lanes Limited and Taubmans in Australia, distributes Perkins engines in Southern Africa and supplies Caterpillar equipment in Siberia.
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d9e924 No.127907
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724361 (201459ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 2)
https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/
2000
Barlow Limited changes to Barloworld, with a renewed focus on core strengths and increased global reach. We introduce a modern and uniform corporate identity and a global rebranding initiative.
Barloworld also purchases Barton Freightliner USA and 26.3% of Avis South Africa. This is part of our strategy to seek new product ranges in areas where we already operate.
2001
Barloworld launches a new Barloworld Logistics division. Our value-based management approach continues to drive our strategies and we exceed our real cost of capital target of 8% cash-flow returns on investment (CFROI®).
We expand our global reach by acquiring:
•	The Sterling Freightliner dealership in the USA
•	Three motor dealerships in Australia
•	Protean – a laboratory company in the United Kingdom
•	Portland Holdings – a cement business in Zimbabwe
We also improve our customer relationships by formalising Smart Partnerships™. Our combination of financial strength, skills, products and services creates a value-adding package for our customers that our competitors struggle to match.
2002
Barloworld celebrates 100 years of success and a 75-year partnership with Caterpillar. We set our medium-term goal of 2*4*4, which aims to double the value of our company for Barloworld stakeholders in four years.
Disposals include PPC’s stakes in Natal Portland Cement and Ash Resources, our UK Coatings business, the Robor Stewarts & Lloyds steel distribution outlets, our half share of steel trading company Stemcor (South Africa) and our Mitsubishi motor dealerships in Australia. Our relationship with Caterpillar celebrates it's 75th anniversary.
2003
Barloworld acquires the north-west Arkansas and Texarkana Freightliner truck dealerships in the USA. We dispose of six motor dealerships and exit the paper business by selling Henry Cooke in the United Kingdom.
Barloworld also forms important Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deals. We establish a 50:50 joint venture to distribute DaimlerChrysler products in Durban, and sell Afripack – PPC’s paper sack manufacturing business – to a BEE investment consortium and the Afripack management.
These high-profile BEE equity deals join our established BEE structures, which include Shosholoza Steel Supplies Pty Limited and Sizwe Paints – a 70% BEE 30% Barloworld-owned architectural paint manufacturer.
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d9e924 No.127908
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724369 (201500ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 3)
https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/
2004
In partnership with Wagner, we also double our Caterpillar dealership territory in Siberia to 9.9 million square kilometres – an area larger than the USA.
We acquire all of the remaining Avis shares in Southern Africa, the International Colourant Corporation (ICC) and the Hyster dealership in the Netherlands.
Barloworld establishes a formal Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy.
2005
Barloworld acquires the Hyster dealership in Northern Ireland and the Hamilton Brush and Budget franchise in Sweden.
PPC announces their plan to increase cement capacity to one million tons, to meet the rapidly growing demand in South Africa.
2006
Barloworld acquires the Avis and Budget franchises in Denmark to consolidate our Scandinavian group of countries. After a strategic reviewing process, we sell the Steel Tube division, as well as the USA and United Kingdom Handling leasing finance books.
We achieve our 2*4*4 target and double the value of our business for Barloworld stakeholders. We announce a new target – to double the value again by the year 2010.
2008
Barloworld announces its Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) transaction, which includes all South African employees, a number of community service groups, an educational trust and strategic black partners. The transaction achieves a 29% empowerment in our Southern Africa operations.
We also launch the Leadership Development Centre (LDC) in Barlow Park, Sandton. The LDC facilitates and co-ordinates professional development programmes that enhance the skills of our employees.
2009
Jim Owens, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Caterpillar Inc; and Membathisi Mdladlana, Minister of Labour in South Africa, open the Centre of Technical Learning on Barloworld Equipment’s Isando campus.
The centre provides our stakeholders with sustainable technical skills development, in line with our value-based management approach.
2010
Barloworld reached agreement to acquire Wagner Equipment’s 50% shareholding in our Russian Caterpillar equipment joint venture, known as Vostochnaya Technica (VT).
Barloworld disposes of its Scandinavian car rental operations.
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d9e924 No.127909
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724374 (201501ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
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>>127908
Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 4)
https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/
2012
Automotive and Logistics division acquires a majority stake in Avis Coach Charter, and Dreamworks (a fuel management company); and secured the entry of Avis Fleet Services into Ghana.
Barloworld Equipment and Tractafric Equipment agreed to extend the original 10 year 50:50 joint venture in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by another 50 years.
Barloworld was awarded the MWM gas engine distribution rights in southern Africa and Russia.
Barloworld acquired the remaining 50% shareholding in Phakisaworld Fleet Solutions.
Barloworld Logistics acquired specialised chemical transporter, Ecosse Tankers.
Handling US was sold for about US$60 million at the end of April.
Opening of Barloworld Reman Centre for CAT engine and drive train rebuilds in Boksburg, and 85th anniversary of the partnership between Caterpillar and Barloworld Equipment.
Barloworld concluded a joint venture agreement with Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.(EMD), a subsidiary of Caterpillar-owned Progress Rail Services Corp.
Barloworld acquired the Bucyrus equipment distribution and support business in southern Africa for approximately R1.4 billion (US$164 million.)
UK handling business sold for R626 million, effective from 28 September.
An agreement was signed whereby the Bucyrus distribution and support business in Barloworld Russian territories was acquired for US$50 million (R436 million).
A R1.6 billion contract for the supply and commissioning of Cat equipment at the Husab Mine was signed between Barloworld Namibia and Swakop Uranium.
Barloworld Power appointed distributor of Australian Lighting tower and water pump company AllightSykes.
2013
The Integrated Employee Value Model and the Integrated Financial Value Model were launched in 2013.
The remaining 49% shareholding in Toyota Stellenbosch was acquired during 2013, and the dealership is now 100% owned.
Avis Fleet Services acquired the remaining shares in its subsidiary in Lesotho.
A merger between Barloworld Logistics’ Dedicated Transport Services division (DTS) and the Manline group, a diversified logistics business specialising in transport and other logistics solutions throughout southern Africa became effective on 30 January 2013.The merged business, called Barloworld Transport Solutions (BWTS), became a subsidiary of Barloworld Logistics, which had a 50.1% shareholding. It included the Manline, Manline Energy (fuel tankers) and Timber24 (timber logistics and forestry solutions) brands, which would be retained within the BWTS group of companies.
The Handling Belgium business was sold on 8 May 2013, generating €7.5 million in cash proceeds.
Barloworld Logistics acquired a controlling stake in a business transporting abnormal loads, since re-named Manline Mega, in June.
The Ferntree Gully motor dealership in Melbourne was sold effective from 31 October 2013.
2014
Barloworld celebrated 20 years as a Caterpillar dealer in Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, and Malawi; and 50 years as such in Botswana.
Barloworld Equipment celebrates its 20th year as the Cat earthmoving and power systems dealer for Zambia. Motor Retail acquired a majority stake in 51% of the Jaguar Land Rover dealership in Witbank, one of the leading Jaguar Land Rover dealerships in South Africa.
Avis Fleet Services entered into agreements to acquire a leasing business in Tanzania.
Barloworld Logistics acquired a majority share in Kumkani, an extra-heavy abnormal load transport business.
The remaining Australian motor retail operations were sold effective from 31 March 2014. The sale of the entire operations realised R1.3 billion.
Motor Retail acquired Leach Toyota and Hino in Kuruman.
Barloworld opened a US$14 million facility in Zambia to meet the servicing needs of Caterpillar customers.
Barloworld Handling acquired the AGCO agricultural equipment dealership in Zambia as part of its Africa growth strategy.
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d9e924 No.127910
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724380 (201503ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 5)
https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/
2015
VT was recognized by Caterpillar as being the #1 Dealer in the ACAM (Asia Pacific, CIS, Africa and Middle East) region for 2015 which is represented by 60 dealers
Barloworld Motor Retail acquired GM Ferndale in Cape Town.
Barloworld Logistics acquired 100% of the re- environmental solutions business which was renamed SmartMatta.
The Avis Budget Group (ABG) granted Barloworld the licence to operate the Budget Brand in southern Africa from 1 March 2015 in addition to the Avis Car Rental brand.
Vision 2020 was launched at the 2015 Global Leaders Conference in March 2015 which sets the growth objectives for the next five years. Sustainability as a core value was also added to the Barloworld Worldwide Code of Conduct.
2016
Disposal of Barloworld Handling and Agriculture in South Africa into a joint venture with BayWA AG.
Opening of the VT facility in Magadan in the Russian Far East which represents a US$10m investment.
Barloworld Logistics made a 100% acquisition of temperature controlled solutions business KLL and a 51% stake in Aspen Logistics.
Barloworld Logistics entered into an unincorporated Joint Venture with The Barberry Group which will lead to a 51% acquisition of the company.
Barloworld Logistics acquired 100% of SmartMatta.
Barloworld Transport dispose of the Barloworld Cranes business.
In March 2016, Barloworld Automotive added two additional Mercedes-Benz dealerships, namely Union Motors Lowveld and Union Motors South Coast within our NMI-DSM joint venture.
Barloworld Automotive acquires a majority share in SMD in May 2016.
Barloworld celebrates 75 years of being listed on the JSE in August 2016.
2017
Former CEO of Equipment Southern Africa, Dominic Sewela takes over from Clive Thomson as chief executive (CE) of Barloworld.
Barloworld and Caterpillar celebrate 90 years of partnership. In recognition of this milestone, a new advanced R1.3billion distribution facility was launched in Ekurhuleni, South Africa.
2018
Sadly Mr Peter Bulterman passed away. His legacy will forever be celebrated. (19th November 1955 - 8th May 2018)
The Barloworld Corporate Office relocated to 61 Katherine Street, Sandton in November 2018.
Disposal of Equipment Iberia generates R 2.5 billion in cash.
The Board approved a proposed B-BBEEE transaction known as "Khula Sizwe".
20 years of Barloworld as a Caterpillar dealer in Russia.
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d9e924 No.127911
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18724389 (201506ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
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>>127907
>>127908
>>127909
>>127910
Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 6)
https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/
2019
Barloworld Mbewu launched, a R30 million fund next generation approach to corporate social development geared towards scaling up social enterprises.
Khula Sizwe Property Holdings B-BBEE empowerment transaction approved by shareholders, launched and oversubscribed.
We celebrate 50 years’ partnership with Avis.
Avis Fleet held-for-sale at 30 September 2019.
2020
Barloworld Automotive & Logistics Division appointed Ramasela Ganda as its Chief Executive for Avis Budget Rent-a-Car – the first black female CEO appointed by Barloworld.
Neo Dongwana was appointed as the first a female Chairman of the Barloworld Board.
Barloworld won the Gender Mainstreaming Champions award for 2020.
In terms of growth, two acquisitions that are in line with the Group strategy were made, Equipment Mongolia which closed on 1 September 2020 and Tongaat Hulett Starch (Ingrain) which closed on 31 October 2020.
2021
Barloworld sold assets in Motor Retail to NMI-DSM in a quest to move to relatively asset light and defensive businesses. On 1 October 2021 Dr Lulu Gwagwa joined Barloworld as Chairman of the board.
2022
Barloworld celebrated 120 years of existence
Barloworld Equipment celebrates 95 years of partnership with Caterpillar
Ingrain celebrated 100 years of existence
In August 2022 Barloworld launched Barloworld Launches Africa’s First Gender Bond
Another key milestone celebrated during 2022 is the SARA remuneration awards for our REM reporting where we took first place.
On 13 December 2022 Barloworld unbundled its car rental and leasing business and it listed on the JSE, under the name Zeda.
An exciting development this year was the start of work on Barlow Park, a multipurpose development on the land that previously housed our head office.
2023
On 15 March 2023, Barloworld was awarded the ESG Bond Deal of the Year award at the 2023 Bonds, Loans and ESG Markets Africa Award ceremony at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.
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d9e924 No.127912
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18725559 (201929ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / International Archives in South Africa: Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc
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>>127902
>Barlow Rand was established in June, 1971, through a merger of Rand Mines and Barlow Rand, Ltd., which was formerly known as Thos. Barlow and Sons, Ltd.
>>127629
>Over time, the smart township model will be replicated in other townships
Companies established townships in South Africa and now they want to establish ‘smart’ townships and cities across the world.
“International Archives in South Africa” – Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc. (Part 1)
https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v016/p0163-p0174.pdf
Excerpts
The leader and pioneer in this field was a mining house, Rand Mines, Limited, which established its Archives department in June 1963. However, the organization of the archives along professional lines and the introduction of an acquisition program only commenced after the appointment of the present archivist ten years later. The Barlow Rand Archives were opened to researchers towards the end of 1975.1
Since 1974 two banks, two mining houses and two insurance companies have established corporate archives. In addition to Barlow Rand, DeBeers Consolidated Mines and the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa represent mining archives in the country. Two major banks, the Standard and Barclays support archival programs; a third bank, Nedbank, has deposited its archives with the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg. In the field of insurance Sanlam a took the lead with the establishment of their archives in the late 1970s and the Old Mutual 4 recently decided to do the same. Two other corporations, namely the South African Breweries and the United Building Society are investigating the feasibility of establishing archival pro grams. However, with the exception of Barlow Rand, none of the above cor porate archives can claim to be international in character, although some of them contain sub-groups of correspondence exchanged with principals in London.
The records of the mining division form the nucleus of the Barlow Rand Archives. They reflect the wide range of business activities of the companies which constituted The Corner House Group:* Wernher Beit & Co. of London, the Johannesburg house of H. Eckstein & Co., and its subsidiary Rand Mines, Limited, and The Central Mining & Investment Corporation, Limited. Although the Corner House became known internationally for the part it played in the development of mining and other industries in South Africa, its interests were by no means confined to South Africa nor to mining.
The Corner House had its origins in diamond mining and marketing in Kimberley in the 1870s. In 1871 the Parisian diamond merchant, Jules Porges, sent Julius Wernher, a young German, to Kimberley to assist his partner, Charles Mege. The firm of Jules Porges & Co., was reputedly the greatest and wealthiest diamond business in the world at the time of the Kimberley discoveries. The discovery of payable gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, prompted Porges to open a branch of the firm in Johannesburg. It was named H. Eckstein, after one of the founding partners.
The Archives of H. Eckstein & Co., are remarkably well preserved although not complete… The Archives also contain valuable information on the early history of Johnannesburg since H. Eckstein & Co., was, for example, responsible for the establishment of townships through its subsidiary the Braamfontein Company, Limited [As Wikipedia likes to describe it; “In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refer to the often underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Black Africans, Coloureds and Indians.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Township_%28South_Africa%29]
The Corner House had large holdings in profitable outcrop mines like the Robinson, Langlaagte, Bantjes, Randfontein, Crown Reef and Jumpers by the end of 1889, and started acquiring deep level properties on the dip south of and below these mines at low prices. This led to the formation of Rand Mines, Limited which was designed as a holding company to take over the important assets and administrative services of the deep levels while H. Eckstein & Co., continued to administer its outcrop mines.
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d9e924 No.127913
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18725562 (201930ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / International Archives in South Africa: Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc
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“International Archives in South Africa” – Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc. (Part 2)
https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v016/p0163-p0174.pdf
Rand Mines, Limited was registered in the Transvaal on February 22, 1893, with a capital of E400,000 in 400,000 shares of a nominal value of E1 each. It was Wernher, Beit-H. Eckstein's most important flotation and major event of the 1890s.
Rand Mines pioneered the system of Group Administration on the Witwatersrand which was adopted eventually throughout the South African mining industry.
Under this system the parent or controlling company is a mining-finance house which usually has ample financial, technical and administrative re sources, as well as very considerable mining knowledge and experience. It provides secretarial and technical services to the mines in the group. It is a shareholder in the individual mining companies and is represented on the boards of these companies by its nominees who ensure that control is main tained. Group administration provides a means of controlling costs, as well as permitting close examination of all expenditure.
H. Eckstein & Co., was responsible for the technical and managerial ad ministration of the companies under its control, including Rand Mines. The latter provided secretarial and administrative services for its subsidiary com panies and after 1910 for Eckstein's companies.
The partners in the firm actively participated in the social, cultural and educational affairs of the community and their correspondence, particularly the London letters, contain lively commentaries on local events and politics.
The Central Mining records which form part of the Barlow Rand Archives, deal mainly with the Corporation's South African business.
In the late 1950s Central Mining decided to dispose of its South African interests to its subsidiary, Rand Mines, Limited. A senior manager was sent to Johannesburg to complete the formalities and close down the local office. In the course of doing so and acting on instructions, he carried out a wholesale destruction of records containing information which they did not wish to pass into the hands of Rand Mines. Central Mining's British and some inter national interests were absorbed by Charter Consolidated Limited, London. As legal successor to Central Mining they became the owners of the Corpora tion's records, including the Minute Books. In the 1960s Charter Consolidated decided to dispose of some of the 'redundant' Central Mining records, some of which were given to Rhodes House Library, Oxford. la The rest, dealing mainly with South Africa, together with the surviving Wernher, Beit records were sent to South Africa.
The Barlow Rand Archives form a major part of the company's program to promote education and scholarship, and to stimulate an interest in South African business history.
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d9e924 No.127914
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18725630 (201945ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld
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>>127906
>Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition. Its large size helps to bring different political parties together, assist in the management of the 1994 elections and move with the country towards a peaceful democracy.
>>127911
>In August 2022 Barloworld launched Barloworld Launches Africa’s First Gender Bond
>>127913
>The Barlow Rand Archives form a major part of the company's program to promote education
First political transformation and now gender transformation
“RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld”
https://www.rmb.co.za/news/rmb-arranges-africas-first-genderlinked-bond-issuance
19 August 2022
RMB successfully arranged a R1.143bn gender-linked bond issuance across 3-year and 5-year tranches for industrial group Barloworld, acting as Arranger and Sustainability Coordinator.
“The gender-linked bonds have been issued in alignment with our gender transformation strategy and something that we as Barloworld are committed to and have been monitoring for years. We are proud to have pioneered this landmark transaction,” said Relebohile Malahleha Barloworld Executive: Strategic Finance and Treasury.
It is evident that there is more work to be done in South Africa to improve gender parity both in the workplace and more broadly through equitable access to economic opportunity.
Nopasika Lila, Finance Director for Barloworld added: “Barloworld is committed to playing our role in driving gender equity in South Africa and across our markets of operation. To date we have made significant progress in ensuring gender mainstreaming across our operations. The issuance of bonds with gender specific KPIs, the first of its kind in Africa, is testament to our commitment and enables our stakeholders to track our progress in this regard. The KPIs that have been outlined are in line with our diversity and inclusion journey.”
RMB worked closely with Barloworld in establishing a gender-linked bond framework that clearly outlines the strategic relevance of gender diversity to Barloworld and will enable Barloworld to issue similar instruments in future, in line with this strategy priority. The framework has been externally verified to confirm its alignment with the international capital market associations’ sustainability-linked bond principles.
Danielle Frank from RMB’s Sustainable Finance & ESG Advisory team said: “This gender-linked bond not only recognises the need for greater gender transformation in South Africa but also acknowledges local investor demand for more socially-aligned instruments. Sustainable finance offers a fantastic opportunity to innovate and deliver solutions for clients that support a long-term sustainable economy.”
The bond will also be listed on the JSE’s Sustainability Segment, having complied with the latest debt listing requirements.
“Notably, the gender-linked bonds priced competitively compared to Barloworld’s traditional bonds which is typical of funding raised for sustainability focused debt instruments. This instrument further delivers a pricing benefit for Barloworld on the achievement of the gender performance targets and is a great demonstration of how to align an issuer's financial strategy with its sustainability strategy through innovative solutions. We are confident this transaction sets the benchmark for other corporates on the continent and will encourage companies to focus on their disclosure of gender-related metrics and ultimately commit to targets for improvement in gender diversity in their own business,” says Trishalia Naidoo from RMB’s Debt Capital Market’s team.
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d9e924 No.127915
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18726249 (202213ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld
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Is this "sustainability" regarding Barloworld the California Liberal "climate change" type or the "continuous profit generating" type?
The gender-linked, California Liberal 56 genders or the ones I can find in a Biology textbook?
The ESG thing cost Blackrock dearly, wondering if Barloworld is going down that path?
From what I see so far, mining is the biggest part of the economy in South Africa. I can't say I've seen anything about refining the ores. Seems "dig it up and pack it up and ship it" is the Way Of Things. I saw how Zimbabwe was going to restrict raw ore exports in order to have domestic refining capabilities but considering all I've heard about the place since it had nothing Rhodesia in the name (seven year-olds doing surgery as there was no alternative) I have to wonder who is to build these blast furnaces and who will maintain them. China Belt & Road comes immediately to mind. I can't recall any mention of a University in Zimbabwe producing any Engineers, Metallurgists, or anything at all. I have seen mentions here of STEM education in South Africa but might still go back into mining and find foreigners to do things like build roads, bridges, buildings, and power plants.
Apologies anons, but I see South Africa hurting and being taken advantage of in many ways. Apartheid gone, Virtue Signalling established but in decades after nothing real until Washington wants to drive a wedge into the BRICS Nations by suddenly wanting to invest in a Marxist government (ANC) by sending first Blinken then Janet Yellen. Honestly, what is she going to do, teach how to print money out of promises and thin air? Perhaps go to that "basket of metals" thing President Nixon talked about when the United States came off the Gold Standard?
Please do not forget the Carrot and Stick tactic. "Oh we are going to invest millions in South Africa, just do things our (DC) way." "Oh, you won't put sanctions on a fellow BRICS nation so no uranium fuel rods for your reactors, enjoy the Stage 8 Load Shedding"
Keep in mind the U.S, dollar is backed by the "Full Faith and CREDIT of the United States Government" while the Russian Ruble is now officially backed by grams of gold.
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d9e924 No.127916
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18739775 (231254ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun / RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld
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>Rand Mines pioneered the system of Group Administration on the Witwatersrand which was adopted eventually throughout the South African mining industry.
>The partners in the firm actively participated in the social, cultural and educational affairs of the community
>>127915
As the mining companies adopted a system in South Africa then, so do the companies of today adopt a system to govern the world. They get involved in political, social and educational affairs.
For now… It seems Barloworld is concentrating on women. “As a tribute to our work in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, Barloworld has been recognised as finalists in several categories of the Gender Mainstreaming Awards. In its eighth year, the Gender Mainstreaming Awards, were developed to encourage the private sector to buy-in to achieving more meaningful representation of women in the mainstream of business.”… “We will continue our journey to transformation and stay committed to the ongoing improvements for equal employment opportunities in the workplace.” https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/inspiring-a-world-of-difference/gender-mainstreaming-awards-2020/index.php
Regarding ESG – Barloworld has a 14 page document on that and it includes the United Nations’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.barloworld.com/pdf/sustainability/2022/bw-esg-update-2022.pdf. As it states, “Built on enduring partnerships and transformative growth”… “Stakeholders are increasingly focused on the impact of companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies, policies, and practices on the long-term sustainability of the business.””
https://www.barloworld.com/sustainability/overview/
In line with our commitment to responsible citizenship programme, we are a signatory of the Energy Efficiency Accord with the Department of Energy in South Africa. We are a member of the South African National Business Initiative’s Energy Efficiency Leadership Network and have signed its Energy Efficiency Pledge.
We have responded to the 2021 CDP Climate Change Disclosure and 2021 CDP Water Disclosure.
The group is committed to responsible business conduct and legal compliance, and complies with King IV.
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d9e924 No.127917
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18739779 (231255ZAPR23) Notable: Mervyn King Bun / A summary of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance™ for South Africa, 2016
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>King IV
“A summary of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance™ for South Africa, 2016”
https://www.pwc.co.za/en/publications/king4.html
"The overarching objective of King IV™ is to make corporate governance more accessible and relevant to a wider range of organisations, and to be the catalyst for a shift from a compliance-based mindset to one that sees corporate governance as a lever for value creation”
Prof Mervyn King
King IV™ in a nutshell
•	A set of voluntary principles and leading practices.
•	Drafted to apply to all organisations, regardless of their form of incorporation.
Sector supplements explain how the King IV Code™ should be applied by certain organisations/sectors.
•	Proportionality is explained and advocated.
•	King IV™ focuses on outcomes. The King IV Code’s™ principles and practices are linked to desired outcomes, therefore articulating the benefits of good corporate governance.
•	The Code™ differentiates between principles and practices. Principles are achieved by mindful consideration and application of the recommended practices.
•	'Apply and explain’ regime (as opposed to ‘apply or explain’ regime in King III).
•	New ‘look and feel’ to the King IV Report™ and King IV Code™.
•	Philosophical underpinnings in King III retained but refined in King IV™.
•	‘Corporate governance’, for purposes of King IV™, has now been defined.
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d9e924 No.127918
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18740108 (231454ZAPR23) Notable: Dr Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit (video)
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“Dr Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit”
https://youtu.be/DYWrehjaMFQ
Apr 20, 2023
Veteran climate expert Dr Richard Lindzen made a name for himself before the fundamentally flawed field of climate science that we know today was invented. In an interview with the pioneering atmospheric physicist and former emeritus professor of meteorology at MIT, he recounted events that occurred in the 1980s, which gave birth to the all-consuming climate change narrative that prevails today. Having begun his research on climate change in the mid-70s motivated by a sincere interest in understanding the Earth's climate regimes, Lindzen's assessment of the various elements paraded as scientific evidence of an impending climate catastrophe is remarkably sensible. What's particularly revealing from his recollection of events is how complicit the media and politicians have been in forcing the disastrous climate change narrative upon an unsuspecting and trusting public from the very beginning.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Dr Richard Lindzen on his career as an atmospheric physicist and what drew him to study Earth's climate
01:21 On carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect
05:02 On politicians, the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the enabling of climate hysteria
07:21 On the politicisation of climate change and the significant human progress enabled by the fossil fuel industry
08:45 On the environmental destruction caused by renewable energy sources
09:46 On the cult-like climate activism movement and its demonisation of carbon dioxide
12:41 On the purported scientific consensus on climate change
14:46 On the Clinton-Gore administration's funding of climate impacts between 1989 and 1996
17:35 On Professor Guy McPherson's claim that abrupt climate change will lead to human extinction by 2026
18:22 On the motives behind the climate change/green energy movement
19:23 On his iris hypothesis on climate change proposed in 2001
21:56 On the epistemological issues relating to climate change
23:59 On climate variability vs anthropogenic climate change
27:19 On his experience with institutional bias in favour of scientists who support the official climate change narrative and the influence of institutional funding scientific research
29:50 How the situation is rigged to support the narrative and the complicity of politicians and scientists
32:10 On the climate catastrophe prediction and how this compares to reality
33:34 – “Time will of course play a role but I hope we don’t have to wait to see the destruction of modern society and realise it had nothing to do with climate. I’d like to think we can get out of this before that.”
34:39 – “Clearly China, India, Russia are ignoring this [climate change], they know it’s nonsense. They’re sitting by and watching the West self-destruct wondering about what divine good luck they have… [The enviromentalists] hate humanity, they want power and they don’t give a damn about the environment. And they certainly give no attention to feeding starving people.”
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d9e924 No.127919
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18745067 (241530ZAPR23) Notable: Mervyn King Bun / Mervyn E. King, Judge Professor – King Report
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>>127917
>"The overarching objective of King IV™ is to make corporate governance more accessible and relevant to a wider range of organisations, and to be the catalyst for a shift from a compliance-based mindset to one that sees corporate governance as a lever for value creation”
>Prof Mervyn King
>>127916
“Prof. Mervyn King explains Integrated Reporting for South Africa - Part 1”
https://youtu.be/6HRB7aMvT08
Mar 23, 2011
Professor Mervyn King explains Integrated Reporting, at the launch of South Africa's new Framework for Integrated Reporting and the Integrated Report Discussion Paper on 25 January 2011.
3:51 – “The planet is in fact in crisis. We have 3 crises; we’ve got the financial crisis, we’ve got climate change crisis and we’ve got an ecological crisis in that we’ve used the natural assets of planet earth faster than nature can regenerate them… We have to start, if there’s such a word, monetizing these issues.”
6:28 – “The King III Report recommends Integrated Reporting. It’s now a listing requirement of all our listed companies. The JSE has been lauded around the world for being the first but we’re not going to be the first much longer, other companies or other stock exchanges starting to join. The World Federation of Exchanges has acknowledged that the JSE has adopted the correct course and it’s on the agenda for the meeting of stock exchanges in October. At the World Economic Forum which is on the 27th of January, the redesigning of corporate reporting is being discussed with world leaders. So there is as it were a tsunami coming. History teaches us that corporate reporting has been changed when there’ve been great global events and global crises and especially accountants are aware that corporate reporting has changed when there were great global events such as the great depression.”
Mervyn E. King, Judge Professor – King Report
https://www.integratedreporting.org/profile/professor-mervyn-e-king/
Chair Emeritus
Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria and Visiting Professor at Rhodes University.
He has an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand, is Chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II and III, and is First Vice President of the Institute of Directors Southern Africa.
He is Chair Emeritus of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), Chairman Emeritus of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years.
He has been a chairman, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges. He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in 53 countries and has received many awards. He is the author of two books on governance and sustainability and sits as an arbitrator and mediator internationally.
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d9e924 No.127920
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18745075 (241532ZAPR23) Notable: Mervyn King Bun / Get to know Professor Mervyn King (video)
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“Get to know Professor Mervyn King”
https://youtu.be/UTRpDNWd_O8
Nov 20, 2018
Thanks to the King Code of Good Governance, South Africa leads the world in Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting legislation. This is due almost solely to the prescience and perseverance of the legendary Professor Mervyn King.
1:01 – “I was a judge… and I resigned over matters of conscience… but I had a big corporate legal practice so many of my clients asked me to go on their boards as a non-executive director… I ended up chairing companies listed in London, Europe and South Africa.
3:16 – “I think we can be proud as South Africans that the King Report is used as a template around the world on governance.”
From 30:53, a company as seen as a person.
14:43 – “This led to a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva at the end of 2009. The President and Chief Executive of the International Federation of Accountants was there, the World Chairman of the big 4 auditing firms, the World Bank and the purpose of that meeting with Chatham House Rules was what do we develop, how did we develop an answer to reporting actually happening inside a company and I addressed the meeting won integrated thinking, intergrated reporting. This led to a meeting in St. James’s Palace hosted by Prince Charles… It was agreed the way forward was integrated thinking, integrated reporting… So I’m now the Chairman of the International Integrated Reporting Council… if you Google the IRC, I’ve got about 71 council members and they’re all great institutions around the world; CPA China, CPA Japan, CPA Australia, chartered accountants of England, Wales, America Institute of Certifie Public Accountants, asset owners, asset managers, Black Rock, etc..”
18:52 – “In the 4th iteration of the King Report, we have done the report but then we’ve done supplements on state owned companies, small medium sized companies, municipalities and can be used for government departments.”
27:16 – “I believe that King IV is, which is going around the world just by the way I’m off to New York the next day or two and I’m talking to the hedge funds in America on the question of common sense principles of governance for in America because America is still shareholder centric. Still involved with the primacy of the shareholder. So I’m actually going over there to talk to them about moving to a company centric model… Corporate leaders in America have to stop thinking that their duty is to maximize shareholder wealth. They have to think of corporate health rather than shareholder wealth [Does this not sound like communism?].”
31:12 – “The question is, is one optimistic about human capital globally? We are in the 4th Industrial Revolution. We’ve got artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, 3D printing. All these things are going to replace people who are presently employed. So over the next 20-30 years, we’re going to have an exacerbation of the unemployment problem and people that have the necessary skills to be employed now will become unemployable. Some entrepreneurs are looking at focusing on building entertainment businesses and intellectual exercise businesses as businesses are the future because so many people have so many free hours [You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?]. So the answer to you is it’s a huge problem and studies are being done around the world at great institutions about this… South Africa is not an island, it’s part of the globe.”
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d9e924 No.127921
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18746497 (242013ZAPR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / Analyst: prepare for a possible complete grid collapse
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“Analyst: prepare for a possible complete grid collapse”
https://youtu.be/tl3-il1IPCo
Apr 24, 2023
Electricity minister Kgosientso Ramokgopa has warned that South Africans should brace themselves for a dark winter with loadshedding likely to reach higher stages. But Professor of physics at the University of Johannesburg Hartmut Winkler says South Africans should prepare themselves for the possibility of a complete grid collapse. He explains why.
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d9e924 No.127922
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18750048 (251339ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African Breweries [SAB]
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>South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016.
“SABMiller agrees AB Inbev takeover deal of £68bn”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/13/sabmiller-agrees-ab-inbev-takeover-68bn
Tue 13 Oct 2015 09.04 BST
London-listed brewer of Peroni and Grolsch accepts improved terms from larger rival in Britain’s biggest takeover
SABMiller has agreed to sell itself to Anheuser-Busch InBev for $104bn (£68bn) in a deal that will be the biggest takeover of a British company and create the world’s first global brewer.
The takeover, one of the top five deals in corporate history, will create a brewing empire making about a third of the world’s beer. AB InBev is already the world’s biggest brewer, and SABMiller is its closest rival.
The boards of the two companies said they had reached agreement in principle on the key terms of a “possible recommended offer” after SABMiller rejected repeated approaches by AB InBev over the past month.
SAB’s top managers will share a potential $2.1bn payout of shares and options if the deal is completed, according to analysts at Bernstein. Alan Clark, SABMiller’s chief executive, is likely to receive more than £80m.
The deal would create a company generating more than $70bn of annual revenue from brewing 80bn litres of beer a year. The giant corporation will have big operations in Europe, north America, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region, and will give AB InBev, the brewer of the US’s favourite beer, Bud Light, access to the fast-growing African beer market.
London-listed SABMiller said AB InBev – which brews Budweiser and Stella Artois – proposed to pay £44 a share in cash. It also proposed a partial share payment for the 41% of the company owned by SABMiller’s two biggest shareholders, Altria, the maker of Philip Morris cigarettes, and BevCo, owned by Colombia’s billionaire Santo Domingo brewing family.
The £44 cash offer values SABMiller, the maker of Peroni and Grolsch, at about 50% more than its value on 14 September, before news of AB InBev’s interest leaked. If all the shares were sold for that price it would value SABMiller at £71bn, but the £39.03 part-share alternative, devised for tax reasons, brings the valuation down to about £68bn.
If completed, the takeover will secure AB InBev a target it has long coveted. Backed by Brazil’s richest man, the financier Jorge Paulo Lemann, the Belgian-Brazilian brewer has expanded aggressively through big deals including combining with Interbrew, the maker of Stella Artois, in 2004 and buying the US Budweiser brewer, Anheuser-Busch, four years later.
Brito said AB InBev decided to make a move after carrying out research on Africa, where SABMiller, founded in Johannesburg in 1895, is the dominant brewer. The charity ActionAid has criticised SABMiller for paying low taxes on its profits in Africa, including in Ghana.
Adrian Tierney-Jones, the secretary of the British Guild of Beer Writers, said SABMiller had preserved the character of beers it had bought such as Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic. But he said creating a megabrewer raised concerns, especially as both companies have been buying craft beer producers.
“I don’t think it’s good for beer. The more things get bigger, the more you lose touch with what’s happening on the ground. The bottom line for these guys is profit,” he said.
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d9e924 No.127923
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18750994 (251659ZAPR23) Notable: ANC wants South Africa to quit ICC -- Cyril Ramaphosa
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“Namibian President Geingob weighs in on ICC's arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin”
https://youtu.be/b94HU5pYe8s
Apr 20, 2023
Namibian President, Hage Geingob, has criticised countries that aren't signatories of the International Criminal Court Rome Statute for insisting that Russian President Vladimir Putin be arrested and handed over to the ICC. President Geingob is on a state visit to South Africa and has met with President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings. The leaders discussed peace and security on the continent, and around the world.
“URGENT: ANC wants South Africa to quit ICC – Cyril Ramaphosa”
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-wants-south-africa-to-quit-icc-cyril-ramaphosa-urgent-breaking-25-april-2023/
25-04-2023 15:00
President Cyril Ramaphosa said his ruling ANC party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal Court.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday his ruling ANC party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal Court, which last month issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa bloc [BRICS] summit this year, would have to detain him on arrival.
“Yes, the governing party… has taken that decision that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC,” Ramaphosa said during a press conference co-hosted with the visiting President of Finland Sauli Niinisto.
Ramaphosa said the decision, which follows a weekend meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), was reached “largely” because of what is perceived as the court’s unfair treatment of certain countries.
“We would like this matter of unfair treatment to be properly discussed, but in the meantime the governing party has decided once again that there should be a pull out,” he said.
NOT THE FIRST TIME SOUTH AFRICA HAS TRIED TO QUIT THE ICC
The arrest warrant against Putin followed accusations that the Kremlin unlawfully deported Ukrainian children.
On whether South Africa would arrest Putin, Cyril Ramaphosa said “that matter is under consideration”.
A continental powerhouse, South Africa has refused to condemn the invasion of Ukraine which has largely isolated Moscow on the international stage, saying it wants to stay neutral and prefers dialogue to end the war.
It is not the first time South Africa has attempted to withdraw from the ICC.
It made an attempt in 2016 following a dispute a year earlier when the then Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited the country for an African Union summit. It refused to arrest him despite the then-leader facing an ICC arrest warrant over alleged war crimes.
The controversial decision to pull out was however revoked when a domestic court ruled such a move would have been unconstitutional.
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d9e924 No.127924
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18761281 (271401ZAPR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / ANC ‘trying to shift goal posts’ to incorporate the DA-governed uMngeni into Impendle, Mpofana councils (video)
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“BEWARE! The ANC Attempted Coup.”
https://youtu.be/pnpXHw3hThQ
“ANC ‘trying to shift goal posts’ to incorporate the DA-governed uMngeni into Impendle, Mpofana councils”
https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/anc-trying-to-shift-goal-posts-to-incorporate-the-da-governed-umngeni-into-impendle-mpofana-councils-743ff481-bc6c-44c7-b24c-344269336934
Apr 25, 2023
Durban — A concerned member of the public, Mike Wood, has put pen to paper accusing the ANC of attempting to “steal” a well-run uMngeni Municipality back into its hands, and said the attempt “flies” in the face of the voters of the DA-governed municipality”.
This came after the ANC approached the municipal demarcation board to incorporate the DA-governed uMngeni into the councils of Impendle and Mpofana.
In his letter, Wood said: “Under the capable leadership of mayor Chris Papas and team, the council has been turned around in a short space of time. Loans have been repaid, employment has been created, plant and equipment has been purchased to assist with service delivery. Huge strides have been made to promote tourism in the area, and that will and has led to more employment.”
He added that the municipality stepped in when the ANC-led provincial government could not deliver food to schools in the areas.
“This was driven by the mayor and his team. Service delivery is at a high.”
Wood added that the ANC “would have us believe that service will improve in Impendle and Mpofana”.
“This begs the question: why has the service delivery not been of the required standard since the ANC has been in government in these councils since 1995?
“This attempt to amalgamate uMngeni into a broader municipality must be rejected with the contempt it deserves.
“Where the DA governs, they govern better and for all,” he said.
Mooi-uMngeni constituency leader Greg Krumbock said that this is nothing but the ANC’s political ploy to get rid of the DA in this region, so they were using the demarcation incorporation ploy to take over this municipality.
Krumbock said that since the DA took over the municipality in November 2021, the residents were happy about the service delivery in the area.
“When we took over, only 131 received the indigent grant to help assist those households who meet the requirements and receive free water and electricity.
“Our mayor, Chris Papas, is very popular with all residents here, and you can find him interacting with different races in the area. He even speaks IsiZulu fluently, which makes him even more loved and accepted here.
“The uMngeni Municipality budget is well-run, and service delivery is well-received by all.”
Because of the DA’s successes, Krumbock added, the ANC is now doing all it can to fight the DA and get rid of the only party that is changing people’s lives for the better.
Krumbock said the public was very unhappy about what the ANC was trying to do, and many were flocking into the municipal hall to voice their objections.
“If you come to Howick now, you cannot see even a single pothole, people have water, electricity and other human needs.
“Moving the goal posts is what I’m hearing from the voters her – all those who come here echo similar sentiments,” Krumbock stressed.
ANC Moses Mabhida Regional secretary Samora Ndlovu said the matter was still under discussion.
“But it is true that the municipal demarcation board is currently undertaking public engagements of all stakeholders interested in the matter to determine whether the municipality is incorporated or not, and these are going to close on May 2. Thereafter the board will make a determination, and then make its decision around this matter,” Ndlovu added.
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d9e924 No.127925
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18761286 (271403ZAPR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / Months-long water issues the final straw for White River residents
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“Months-long water issues the final straw for White River residents”
https://lowvelder.co.za/822119/months-long-water-issues-the-final-straw-for-white-river-residents/
April 26, 2023
The town has been without water for 95 days since December, and the residents demand a permanent solution.
Labelling the current water situation in town anything other than a crisis, would be to downplay the severity of the problem.
Lowvelder visited several enraged members of the community on Monday April 24. During this time, it was discovered that the town had been without water for 95 days since December, according to some residents.
On days that water does flow from household taps, it is dirty and inconsumable and most likely a health hazard. In March alone, the town only had water for nine days, and in April, up until Monday, only five.
A resident, Ludolph Botha (75), could not hold back his tears and was so infuriated that he was willing to strip down to his boxers in protest against the hardships he has been suffering as a result of this dire situation. According to Botha, he has to go to nearby farms with empty containers to obtain water to bath and flush the toilet.
“I look after my mother, who is 95. She cannot look after herself anymore. At my age, I have to carry water for myself, my wife and my mother. We use the water for flushing toilets and cleaning. I have to carry the heavy water containers onto my van and offload them into the house.
“My wife and I no longer work, but we still pay for services, and now have to buy water as well, which we cannot afford. How can the municipality expect people to survive without water for more than 20 days? Maybe the municipality wants to see me and other community members walking naked in the streets to show our frustrations to realise we need serious intervention? I am personally pleading with the mayor and the entire council to do something about the water crisis,” he said.
Botha is one of the many disheartened residents demanding a permanent solution from the City of Mbombela (CoM) for this ‘never-ending’ crisis.
Residents who can afford it, have been buying water for consumption, incurring additional costs despite regularly paying for monthly services.
“There was a slight improvement in supply for a short while, but now it seems the problems have returned. Not everyone is in the financial position to buy water from local retailers and is forced to drink dirty water,” the residents said.
The ward councillor for the area, Rowan Torr, once again stressed that the deteriorating water issue is a direct result of White River not receiving water from Silulumanzi’s pump stations.
“Both the mayor and officials have been promising that pump stations will be fitted with emergency generators. This has not been done. This is not a water shortage, but a system failure aggravated by load-shedding, continued electrical problems and mismanagement of the water systems,” Torr said.
He also added the community has tried to assist by collecting R46 000 to keep one of the water treatment plant pumps operational. He said it does help sometimes, even though the municipality takes its time to fill up the pumps with diesel to keep it running.
The CoM’s spokesperson, Joseph Ngala, said the municipality is aware of the crisis and is working on a permanent solution.
“Load-shedding has a bad impact on the water system, because all our water treatment plants depend on electricity. Eskom was called on to stop load-shedding during the week in those areas depending on the Boschrand-Nels River link in order to improve the supply in the area. We are in the process of securing generators for all our water plants so that people will still have water during power cuts,” he said.
He also said the municipality is prepared to organise on-site storage for emergency water and was willing to provide tankers in the affected areas, but the resident do not want it.
“We have availed tankers, but people insist on water from taps and say they do not have containers and storage facilities in their yards.”
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d9e924 No.127926
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18766208 (281333ZAPR23) Notable: Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa (Parts 1&2)
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“Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa” – “100 years ago in South Africa has resonances with what goes on in modern times” (Part 1)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687886/
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Summary
In 1871, prospectors exploring a remote stretch of land in South Africa stumbled upon a rich deposit of diamonds. Fifteen years later, gold was discovered in the region, which was once regarded as a "worthless jumble of British colonies." What followed was an epic struggle for control between the colonizing British and the native Boer settlers, culminating in a costly, bloody war that left the Boer nation devastated. British historian and journalist Martin Meredith discussed his new book, "Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa" as part of the Center for the Book's Books and Beyond author series. In his eighth book about Africa, Meredith draws on new research to describe the origins of modern day South Africa. He vividly depicts the war fought between the British and the Boers and shows how the exploitation of African resources is a long, shameful tradition of the West. He also details how British policy led to the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold in the new South African state.
5:46 – “The subject matter of this book does have indeed modern relevance. It is a story essentially of great wealth, raw power, deceit and corruption. Now those are pretty much the staple diets of human activity and there are all kinds of images which still reflect onto the sort of modern world that come from the distant past. The book is about ambitious individuals who gain great wealth and use it to exercise political power. It’s also about the way in which empires or governments with huge might behind them use that might to enforce their will around the world. Now that is just 2 examples as it were where this struggle that took place in the past, 100 years ago in South Africa has resonances with what goes on in modern times… Which is why I find that even history from the past is really quite interesting because you find again it’s reflections of what goes on in modern times, exist exactly the same as they did 100 years ago or 200 years ago or 300 years ago… I am often been struck by the long term repercussions that come from actions and decisions that were made in the past and still reverberate today… One obvious example is the shape of modern Africa today.“
11:41 – “Britain provoked this war as many wars are kind of provoked or started assuming that it will all be a short war. It was called a ‘Tea Time War’. It will be all over by Christmas… The war lasted for 2 ½ years, it created an enormous wave of anger and hatred which continued generation after generation, and it left the 2 boer republics which the boers conquered decimated. The British were faced with gorilla warfare… The British then did not quite know what do… so they resorted to scorched earth tactics. That is they went around burning down thousand, quite literally, thousands of homesteads. Razing whole villages to the ground. Rounding up women and children and putting them in, what they called, British concentration camps… The vast herds of cattle, which was the mainstay of the economy those days were actually destroyed. [Keep in mind, the world makes sure that no one forgets the holocaust but is silent about this. The jews got their jewish state but the boers didn’t.]”
14:25 – “Now this book sets out to do is to describe the 40 year period that led up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa. 1910… is a useful point at which to break off as it were the subject, ‘the making of South Africa’, but there is also a point, an epilogue in the book, which explains how you get from 1910 basically to 1994 when the first ‘democratic’ elections were held.”
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d9e924 No.127927
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18766249 (281342ZAPR23) Notable: Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa (Parts 1&2)
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“Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa” – “100 years ago in South Africa has resonances with what goes on in modern times” (Part 2)
https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687886/
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21:17 – “The propaganda in a sense against [Paul] Kruger started at a very early time and it went on for a very long time. He was in fact extremely conservative, he was sort of a religious, dogmatic, almost fanatic… The only book he read was the Bible but he knew large chunks of it by heart… He was an expert hunter, horseman and gorilla fighter and who rose to be the kommandant-generaal of the Transvaal and fought in 8 campaigns against the African chieftains… the British point of view, he was this backward, ignorant man… When he [Kruger] happened to sit in the state that happened to find the gold, the richest sources of gold, the British had more of a reason to paint him in rather negative terms.”
24:49 – “So there are these 2 kinds of opposing characters; [Cecil] Rhodes, the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, the Chairman of DeBeers, the Managing Director of what was called the British South Africa Company which is the chartered company that the British government allowed Rhodes to setup Rhodesia with vs this kind of extreme conservative boer, father figure, sitting on top of the world’s greatest resources of wealth… Rhodes as when he was Prime Minister plotted to overthrow Kruger and he did this with connive of some British Ministers. A lot of this was covered up for generations… Indeed one of the key people involved, being interviewed about 30 years subsequently, was explaining that it had to be covered up because otherwise the honour of the British Empire would be defaced.”
27:22 – “Rhodes himself had to except responsibility because the trail led more or less to his doorstep… So Rhodes had to resign as Prime Minister but the British, because British Ministers were involved, they were careful not to punish him severely because otherwise Rhodes was then going to expose the role of the British Minister have played. So you had sort of mutual blackmail going on here, nobody was particularly interested in uncovering it. The problem for the British still kind of remained that they still, the British that is, still wanted to get their hands on the gold fields and essentially what happened is that they organised war to get ahold of the gold fields. As their correspondence reveals, they kept on saying, ‘We don’t really have an excuse for war.’… ‘How can we manipulate events so that we can actually then have a war.’… This war had horrific consequences for the boer population of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. It ignited Afrikaner nationalism.”
31:48 – “I’ve interviewed women who can graphically describe for me their memories of being 6 years old in a concentration camp with people kind of dying like flies of dysentery around them.”
32:53 – “The way in which it was all prompted by the discovery of diamonds and gold. If there had been no diamonds and gold, there would’ve been no war. There would’ve been no point in having a war.”
43:43 - Discuss Winston Churchill in South Africa where he became a 'hero' and later Prime Minister of Britain.
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d9e924 No.127928
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18767383 (281834ZAPR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa (video)
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“Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa”
https://youtu.be/4rvemAmlHDU
Streamed live on Apr 26, 2023
“Andre de Ruyter refuses to name senior politician involved in Eskom corruption”
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/andre-de-ruyter-refuses-to-name-senior-politician-involved-in-eskom-corruption-ef4dc169-e14f-4890-bb9e-b5dad9292ba2
Published Apr 26, 2023
Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has stuck to his guns that he complied with the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (Precca) by reporting looting at Eskom to senior officials, intelligence officials and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola.
However, De Ruyter refused to disclose the name of a senior official who was involved in corruption.
He said he shared that information with a senior minister and senior official in the presidency.
He became aware of the involvement of the senior politician in May last year when they were delving deep into corruption at Eskom.
However, he refused to say whether the senior politician was a Minister or a former Minister.
This was to prevent any legal action against him or compromise the ongoing investigation.
De Ruyter, who was appearing before Parliament’s finance watchdog the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday, said the levels of corruption and cartels at Eskom had been reported to the Hawks, the SAPS, the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure and the State Security Agency.
When asked by ANC MP Bheki Hadebe to name the high-ranking official who was involved in corruption at Eskom after he spoke about allowing people to eat a little over the $8.5 billion for the Just Energy Transition funding by the international [US] community, he said he was not at liberty to do so for legal reasons.
“Andre de Ruyter says cartels operated with impunity at Eskom”
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/andre-de-ruyter-says-cartels-operated-with-impunity-at-eskom-4eba29aa-266a-4a88-9e1b-380b766c1856
But Veronica Mente of the EFF wanted to know if the “Presidential” cartel at Eskom was a reference to anyone.
De Ruyter said this was not the name given to the syndicate by its members.
“The name of this cartel is something that, as far as I know, is the name that members of the cartel have come up with. I am not aware it’s got any significance or attached to anybody relating to the president. I think this is the name that they have chosen. Up until recently when these allegations became public, the members of the presidential cartel had a fairly lively presence on social media. They made a number of statements saying ‘thanks to coal we can shower in champagne’. These individuals, it appears, acted with a fair amount of impunity when it came to publicising their activities and what they were up to,” said De Ruyter.
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d9e924 No.127929
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18767385 (281835ZAPR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa (video)
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“Scopa to call Pravin Gordhan, Sydney Mufamadi, Hawks over Eskom claims by De Ruyter”
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/scopa-to-call-pravin-gordhan-sydney-mufamadi-hawks-over-eskom-claims-by-de-ruyter-12426a67-bbc3-425d-893d-aaa5ecc4a8fe
Published Apr 26, 2023
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts has decided to call senior government officials who were identified by former Eskom boss André de Ruyter, who said he shared information with them about corruption at the power utility and those implicated in it.
De Ruyter told Scopa he had given the name of the senior politician to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national security adviser Sydney Mufamadi and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola.
De Ruyter said he told the State Security Agency and the Hawks about the levels of corruption at Eskom’s coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga.
Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa said after meeting with De Ruyter it was clear that he was not budging from his stance in refusing to reveal the identity of the high-ranking politician allegedly involved in corruption.
He said De Ruyter had also told them they needed to invite the Hawks to obtain information on the progress of the investigation.
The former Eskom CEO had told members of the committee he did not want to jeopardise investigations by disclosing some of the information in public.
“The committee plans to meet these cited parties to get more information on the allegations made by Mr De Ruyter. De Ruyter has told Scopa to contact the Hawks, Mr Gordhan and Dr Mufamadi for further details on the allegations that he made in the eNCA interview. He indicated that he reported the identity of a high-ranking politician as well as individuals he referred to in his interview as allegedly involved in criminal activities in Eskom to Mr Gordhan, Dr Mufamadi and the Hawks,” said Hlengwa.
“The committee informed De Ruyter that Parliament is able to offer him protection against any legal action through the Powers and Privileges provision, but he indicated that he does not want to jeopardise the ongoing investigation by law enforcement agencies into Eskom. The committee believes that De Ruyter missed an opportunity to take the nation into his confidence on these matters,” he added.
De Ruyter had lifted the lid on levels of corruption at Eskom early this year.
He said it contributed to load shedding. He said there were also four cartels operating at the power plants.
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d9e924 No.127930
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18767403 (281845ZAPR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa (video)
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>>127544
>“David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President”
>>127556
>>127557
>Gwede Mantashe
>>>/qresearch/18668625
>>127863
>>127864
>Jacques Pauw
>>127928
>>127929
“ANC statement on Andre de Ruyter’s unfortunate decampaigning tactics” – News24: David Mabuza and Gwede Mantashe mentioned in Andre De Ruyter’s report
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/de-ruyter-funded-eskom-investigation–anc
26 April 2023
News24 [Naspers] has reported that there is no basis to claims made against Mabuza and Mantashe [https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/eskom-dirty-dossier-revealed-apartheid-spook-behind-de-ruyters-r50m-off-the-books-project-ostrich-20230426, take note that the article was written by Jacques Pauw]
Reports have emerged that former Eskom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andre De Ruyter directly oversaw and privately funded a dubious investigation conducted by former apartheid era killer Tony Oosthuizen under the questionable guise of attempting to assist law enforcement agencies to deal with corruption at Eskom. It is also reported that the "intelligence reports churned out by De Ruyter's agent made sensational and malicious claims about former Deputy president Comrade David Mabuza and National Chairperson, Comrade Gwede Mantashe without any credible evidence.–
At the time when South Africans are starting to focus their attention on the upcoming 2024 National General Elections, it now becomes even more questionable as to what could have motivated De Ruyter's utterances against the ANC. It is curious why a CEO of a state-owned enterprise would go out of their way to affirm reports which are not grounded in an iota of evidence. This being the same Andre De Ruyter who accused the ANC of being out of touch with reality and instead stuck in a cold war era, is now found to be closely associating himself with dubious apartheid era agents that consciously supported a brutal system and have blood on their hands.
The ANC will not be distracted by underhanded tactics aimed at diverting us from a determined drive to renew our organisation. We encourage South Africans to trust the ANC with our countries transformation agenda. Recent independent polling of the 2024 National General Elections by Dr Frans Cronje, Inclusive Society and Ipsos finds that the ANC is likely to attain a victory of over 50%. The likes of De Ruyter are obviously disturbed by such data to a point of ending up soiling what otherwise could have been a clean reputation premised on his other positive contributions at Eskom.
Whilst it is true and public knowledge that to date law enforcement agencies have pointed at the fact that Eskom is besieged with corruption and a poor performance outlook, any information to this effect should be verifiable and authentic. At the core of unearthing information which points us to the weakest links within Eskom must be unquestionable efforts that can stand public scrutiny. Anything else will render justified and well-meaning efforts aimed at cleaning up Eskom unsuccessful.
The ANC commends media houses who conducted their own diligence and refused to simply rinse and repeat De Ruyter's questionable behaviour on their platforms. This gives hope and a timely reassurance that media houses have a semblance of independence.
We are deeply concerned about reports that the erstwhile CEO solicited funds from unknown sources that were channeled through Business Leadership. Even today during his appearance in front of a multiparty democratically elected parliament, De Ruyter continued with his duck and diving only once again to fail to take the nation into confidence. We call on the CEO Of Business Leadership South Africa and former boarder member of Eskom, Busisiwe Mavuso to take the nation into confidence and reveal how much was paid to apartheid era agents to launder "rooi gevaar" tactics and propaganda against ANC leaders.
Issued by Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, National Spokesperson
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d9e924 No.127931
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18767411 (281846ZAPR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Naspers gave R1 million to the ANC in 2021
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>>127930
>News24 [Naspers]
“Naspers gave R1 million to the ANC in 2021”
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/434790-naspers-gave-r1-million-to-the-anc-in-2021.html
22 February 2022
South African multinational holding company Naspers donated R1 million to the ANC in November 2021.
This was revealed in the latest Political Party Funding Declaration Report published by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) on Tuesday.
Naspers was a noteworthy new entry to the list of contributors and donors in the third quarter, giving exactly R1 million to the ANC on 19 November 2021.
The companies under the Naspers umbrella include ecommerce giant Takealot, media publications house Media24, and technology investment company Prosus.
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d9e924 No.127932
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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18767492 (281910ZAPR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Elon Musk won’t pay bribes to ANC cronies – so SA to miss out on Starlink’s cheap, fast internet broadband from space (video)
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“Elon Musk won’t pay bribes to ANC cronies – so SA to miss out on Starlink’s cheap, fast internet broadband from space”
https://youtu.be/awmMhMEFCGM
https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2023/04/28/elon-musk-starlink
28th April 2023 by Alec Hogg
Elon Musk’s Starlink, the high-speed, low-cost internet access offering from space, won’t be coming to South Africa. The reason, says tenacious SA opposition politician Dianne Kohler-Barnard, is the ANC demands that to be licenced, Starlink must first give 30% of the local company to politically connected cronies under the guise of Black Economic Empowerment. That’s a demand that Musk, who was born and raised in Pretoria and still has family in the country, refuses to countenance. This was admitted by the ANC in Parliament, prompted by Kohler-Barnard, the DA’s Shadow Minister of Communications. So while the rest of Africa stands to leapfrog into the digital age through Starlink’s cheap, fast, universally accessible bandwidth from space, ANC policy will stop South Africa from participating. Kohler-Barnard spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.
Relevant time stamps from the interview:
•	01:20 Dianne Kohler-Barnard on Elon Musk’s refusal to appease the ANC’s demands for 30% equity in Starlink
•	04:42 On SA falling down the continental pecking order as African political rivals embrace Starlink
•	06:03 On SA’s “catastrophic” economic status due to corruption and loadshedding
•	07:42 On the potential value of Starlink that SA is missing out on and how it is benefitting other African nations
•	09:28 On Zimbabwe’s former telecommunication systems
•	10:21 On the Zondo commission and how governmental corruption in SA has led to Elon Musk’s absolute stance against appeasing ANC demands
•	12:41 On the ANC’s apathetic stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences
•	14:32 On Starlink’s aiding of Ukraine and whether South Africa’s ties with Russia have impacted negotiations with the satellite company
•	16:43 On the politics of coalition and why the DA will never make the EFF an ally
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d9e924 No.127933
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777728 (302132ZAPR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun
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Final ANC Bun
>>127503 This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past
>>127504 Carl Niehaus EXPELLED by ANC for misconduct
>>127524, >>127525, >>127526, >>127527 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>127528, >>127529, >>127530, >>127531, >>127532 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 1-5)
>>127533, >>127534, >>127535, >>127536, >>127537 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 6-10)
>>127538, >>127539, >>127540 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 11-13)
>>127544, >>127792 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President
>>127545 Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions
>>127556, >>127557 Calls for Gwede Mantashe to be fired amid money laundering allegations
>>127567 Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around
>>127571 ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7
>>127573 Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe
>>127578, >>127579, >>127580, >>>127581 Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula (videos)
>>127600, >>127601 Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future (video)
>>127602 Ossewabrandwag, Nazi and ANC Parallels
>>127604 SACP, Cosatu change tune on 2024 polls, throw weight behind ANC
>>127610 Current ANC NEC composition favours Ramaphosa, gives him room to act decisively – political analyst
>>127653, >>127654 National Treasury and the Project Spider Web (Parts 1&2)
>>127655 The Corruption Of The ANC Predates Codesa – Never Mind Jacob Zuma’s Presidency (video)
>>127656 ANC to go ahead with disciplinary proceedings against MPs who antagonised Ramaphosa and “did not toe the line”
>>127659, >>127660 Discussion with Kobus Marais, the Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (video)
>>127692, >>127693 [ANC’s] RET faction joins hands with Carl Niehaus in new civil movement (video)
>>127712, >>127713 “Cadre deployment: ANC has a right to appoint whoever it wants in public service positions, says party counsel” (video)
>>127734, >>127735, >>127736 Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate
>>127779 Minutes show ANC ran ‘parallel process’ to fill top government jobs: DA” including judges
>>127780 DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment records (video)
>>127793 Ace Magashule’s ex-PA detained in US, FBI involvement
>>127802, >>127803, >>127804 Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position (video)
>>127814 ANC says Super Zuma will drive ‘agriculture revolution’ after he was appointed as KZN Agriculture and Rural Development MEC
>>127834, >>127835 Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1&2)
>>127836, >>127837, >>127838, >>127839, >>127841 Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)
>>127840 ANC: VIP's of violence (video)
>>127865 South Africa: Torture, ill-treatment and executions in African National Congress camps” – Amnesty International Report
>>127877, >>127878 The ANC Method Violence 1986 [documentary] (video)
>>127924 ANC ‘trying to shift goal posts’ to incorporate the DA-governed uMngeni into Impendle, Mpofana councils (video)
>>127931 Naspers gave R1 million to the ANC in 2021
>>127932 Elon Musk won’t pay bribes to ANC cronies – so SA to miss out on Starlink’s cheap, fast internet broadband from space (video)
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d9e924 No.127934
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777730 (302132ZAPR23) Notable: Barloworld Bun
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Barloworld Bun
>>127902 The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd Merger - July 16, 1974
>>127903 The many faces of Barlow Rand Ltd. - April 11, 1982
>>127904, >>127905 Barlow Rand Ltd Parts 1&2)
>>127906, >>127907, >>127908, >>127909, >>127910, >>127911 Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
>>127912, >>127913 International Archives in South Africa: Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc
>>127914, >>127915, >>127916 RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld
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d9e924 No.127935
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777735 (302133ZAPR23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun
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Final Commodities Bun
>>127549, >>127552 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>127598 Namibia holds the power to push Europe into darkness (video)
>>127648, >>127649, >>127651, >>127652 Who owns Absa?
>>127665, >>127666 David v Goliath court battle on the cards between coal mines (Parts 1&2)
>>127670, >>127671 Charges against Denel executive may backfire (Parts 1&2)
>>127696, >>127697 Shift in southern African economic landscape following Zimbabwe’s lithium ban (Parts 1&2)
>>127760, >>127761, >>127762 Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview: “State captures happened with Anglo American” (Parts 1-3 video)
>>127770 “Re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives” – Anglo American
>>127771 “Reimagining energy: Our 2030 plans - two minute version” – BP (video)
>>127783, >>127784 South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations (Parts 1&2)
>>127795 “You can make roughly R20m a month" – zama zamas gang boss (video)
>>127800, >>127801 Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies (Parts 1&2)
>>127847, >>127848, >>127849, >>127880 Gold Mafia - Al Jazeera Investigations, Episodes 1-3 (video)
>>127850, >>127851, >>127852, >>127853, >>127854, >>127855 The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines (Parts 1-5)
>>127868 Organisation says ‘the real zama zamas’ in Kagiso are big companies (video)
>>127884, >>127885, >>127892 Patrice Motsepe, Tyme Bank, and African Rainbow Capital (ARC)
>>127886, >>127887, >>127889, >>127890, >>127891 Ethos Private Equity, Rohatyn Group
>>127888 All the South African banks that have failed in the last 30 years
>>127893, >>127894, >>127895, >>127896, >>127897, >>127922 South African Breweries [SAB]
>>127898, >>127899, >>127900, >>127901 Peter Obi, Anambra Governor, ties to SABMiller Brewery (video)
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d9e924 No.127936
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777739 (302133ZAPR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
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Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
>>127764 Implications of declaration of state of emergency on electricity (video)
>>127816 ENCA My Guest Tonight - Annika Larsen interview with Andre De Ruyter – “led to his ‘immediate’ departure as Eskom CEO” (video)
>>127817 SA technically in stage 8 load shedding despite Eskom saying it’s stage 6
>>127820 U.S. Embassy: State of Disaster declared over ongoing Energy Crisis of "Load Shedding"
>>127826 “South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse”
>>127866 Eskom fights to block town from using its own solar power
>>127879 Eskom will soon become part of the Private Sector
>>127882 Eskom implemented Stage 8 load shedding – and YOU didn’t know
>>127883 Load shedding at 40: The performance of power stations in South Africa vs the United States
>>127921 Analyst: prepare for a possible complete grid collapse
>>127925 Months-long water issues the final straw for White River residents
>>127928, >>127929, >>127930 Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa (video)
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d9e924 No.127937
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777741 (302133ZAPR23) Notable: Mervyn King Bun
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Mervyn King Bun
>>127917 A summary of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance™ for South Africa, 2016
>>127919 Mervyn E. King, Judge Professor – King Report
>>127920 Get to know Professor Mervyn King (video)
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d9e924 No.127938
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777744 (302134ZAPR23) Notable: Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
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Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
>>127507, >>127508 Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti (Parts 1&2)
>>127509 Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens
>>127510 Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement
>>127511 Jacques Pauw biography
>>127512 Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect? – Accused of molesting boys
>>127592 AfriForum says SAHRC must deliver on promise to take Malema to Equality Court over hate speech
>>127688 Court dismisses Julius Malema’s bid to appeal AfriForum’s interdict which prohibits him from calling on land grabs
>>127689 Pay back the money: This is how much Julius Malema paid AfriForum
>>127765, >>127775 Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach (video)
>>127777 “Judge bans anit-apartheid song” Reported by CNN Sep 14, 2011 – Julius Malema and the ANC (video)
>>127810, >>127811 Who’s Rob Hersov: An Intricate Look (Parts 1&2)
>>127863, >>127864 The Conflict of the Past - Jacques Pauw (Parts 1&2)
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d9e924 No.127939
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777746 (302134ZAPR23) Notable: Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
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Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>127505, >>127506 Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed (Parts 1&2)
>>127542, 17940724 Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning (video)
>>127541 Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his "busy schedule"
>>127547 President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect
>>127550 Phala Phala vote: NDZ [Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma] dragged before ANC disciplinary committee after Pemmy Majodina's report
>>127555 Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable
>>127564 Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president (video)
>>127565, >>127577 Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case
>>127576 Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech (video)
>>127582 Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized" (video)
>>127584 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele (video)
>>127585, >>127586 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
>>127644, >>127645, >>127646, >>127647 Zondo exposed: What the Commission did not want SA to know (Parts 1-4)
>>127650 New PIC board appointed, includes Ramos, SARB governor reappointed
>>127675, >>127676, >>127677 Zuma v Ramaphosa: NGO wants to join case as friend of court, targets NPA for alleged bias
>>127681 Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people, says Ramaphosa (video)
>>127684 Ramaphosa’s plan for radical economic transformation and tackling unemployment (video)
>>127703 Former president Jacob Zuma locks horns with King Misuzulu at Isandlwana commemoration over speech that was seen as pro-Ramaphosa
>>127714 Public Protector's office wraps up Phala Phala investigation
>>127781 Ramaphosa nominates Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (video)
>>127830 00DEZZ - How Cyril Ramaphosa was bought by UK and EU money (video)
>>127869, >>127870, >>127871, >>127872, >>127873, >>127874 Leaked P Thabo Mbeki 17 Page letter to VP Paul Mashatile
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d9e924 No.127940
Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18777749 (302134ZAPR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun
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Final Violence and Crime Bun
>>127479 Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment (video)
>>127480, >>127481 What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]
>>127513, >>127514 Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later (Parts 1&2)
>>127515, >>127516, >>127517, >>127518, >>127519, >>127520 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>127521, >>127522, >>127523 Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP) (video)
>>127558 Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded
>>127563 Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022
>>127587 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>127588 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
>>127589 Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences
>>127608 Clive Derby-Lewis The last FULL INTERVIEW (video)
>>127618 Ransom kidnappings on the rise in South African crimes (video)
>>127622 A high court judgment that invites more land invasions (video)
>>127623 Twitter User Claims Teens in Alleged Free State Racism Attack Pushed 3-Year-Old Into Pool Starting Chaos
>>127624 Anti-crime village hero in hiding after evil stock-thieves gun down wife & 7 family members (video)
>>127627 War on Women: Son kills mom, drinks her blood and woman shot dead in Gateway Mall
>>127631, >>127632, >>127635 How shipping giant MSC reacted to billion-dollar cocaine bust; Aponte Family
>>127633, >>127634 140 Days After the Perfect Crime” – “MSC’s five major drug busts this year (Parts 1&2)
>>127657 R8.2m splurged on ‘camera-friendly’ Bheki Cele and company’s ‘jet-setting’ travels
>>127672 10111 crisis: More than seven million calls dropped at severely understaffed call centres
>>127673 Police captain accuses Bok scrum-half Faf de Klerk of ‘attempted murder’
>>127682 More high-profile names implicated on graft corruption at the National Lotteries Commission (video)
>>127694 Cable thieves plunge Mdantsane hospital into crisis mode (video)
>>127737 The Bloody War Against South African Gang Leaders and Notorious Drug kingpins…PAGAD (video)
>>127738 Cape Town's most dangerous communities: Investigating SAPS (video)
>>127747, >>127748, >>127791 Gardee murder case shocker
>>127763 Doctors Without Borders says employee filmed with looted meat was pressured into helping looters
>>127766, >>127767 More Farm Murders
>>127769 [University of] Fort Hare press on with anticorruption plan, despite killings (video)
>>127770 What does ‘reimagining’ policing mean? (video)
>>127778 Eastern Cape Premier condemns the brutal killing of 10 people by gunmen in Qunu, Bityi (video)
>>127796 Eastern Cape residents concerned over recent mass murders
>>127797, >>127798, 18301217 Gun Free South Africa, UN supported NGO
>>127815 In Conversation | SABC News spine-chilling interview with a hitman "Inkabi" (video)
>>127821, >>127822, >>127823 Australia’s Warning About South Africa (Parts 1-3)
>>127824, >>127825 New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa (Parts 1&2)
>>127833 “Four electricians killed by Ekurhuleni residents while trying to restore power to their suburb” (video)
>>127867 Crime-fighter Ian Cameron on how criminals captured SAPS, but there is hope for the future (video)
>>127875 , >>127876 Intercape bus company to sue Bheki Cele for police inaction (Parts 1&2)
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