/qnotables22/ - ===Q Notables 2022===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221578 (251313ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Power cuts in SA are playing havoc with the country’s water system

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“Power cuts in SA are playing havoc with the country’s water system”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/power-cuts-sa-are-playing-havoc-countrys-water-system-breaking-24-january-2023/

24-01-2023 15:29

The recent blackouts have led to water utilities issuing warnings about damage to water supply infrastructure and operations.

South Africans had to deal with the worst ever series of power cuts in 2022. All in all the country lost a record 205 days of electricity due to constant breakdowns at the coal-fired power plants run by Eskom, the state-owned electricity utility. The plants are old and have not been sufficiently maintained.

The country’s energy crisis has been escalating since April 2008, when scheduled power cuts were first implemented.

One of the biggest casualties of more than a decade of severe power outages has been the country’s water processing and distribution networks. The most recent, and escalated, blackouts have led to water utilities in parts of the country issuing warnings about damage to water supply infrastructure and operations.

The negative effects on water supply are far-reaching. Energy and water are intertwined. The water reticulation system – the transport of water from source, the treatment of water and sewage and the distribution and delivery of water to consumers – all require electricity.

A number of cities, including Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay, as well as smaller towns, have had drastic water cuts.

These experiences – as well as the growing frequency of sewage spills – have given South Africans a glimpse of what the future might hold if the energy crisis isn’t properly addressed. Water shortages and prolonged cuts in supply are likely to become increasingly common.

The problems triggered by the power cuts have been made worse by the fact that the country’s water infrastructure has been deteriorating for decades. Water losses have been increasing as a result of decaying infrastructure such as old pipes which haven’t been replaced.

In addition, allegations of corruption and misappropriation of funds have also plagued the sector.

The country needs a clear way forward to address both the energy and water crises. These will not be solved overnight. They will require political will, making use of the knowledge and skills of experienced individuals within the various sectors, to collectively develop a realistic and clear plan. It will require specific timelines and deliverables to address both crises: energy and water.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221591 (251316ZJAN23) Notable: ‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated

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>>127574

>“‘Black people can NEVER be racist’, Vishoek High learners told”

>>127575

“‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/western-cape/diversity-training-at-fish-hoek-high-school-being-investigated/

January 24, 2023

The complaint that the FF Plus lodged with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) about last year’s traumatic ‘diversity training session’ at Fish Hoek High School is officially being investigated.

The HRC confirmed this to the FF Plus shortly after the announcement about Schweizer-Reneke was made last week.

The HRC found neither the teacher, Elana Barkhuizen, nor the Schweizer-Reneke Primary School guilty of any form of racism or discrimination in the 2019 incident.

Regarding the Fish Hoek incident, the complaint was made against the DA’s Western Cape Education Department (WCED), the party’s MEC for Education, Mr David Maynier, and the group of individuals who presented the session.

The complaint was lodged after public outcry from the townspeople and concerned parents reached out to the FF Plus for help.

It seems that the Fish Hoek training incident has already resulted in one head rolling. Ironically enough, it is not the head of one of the presenters nor of the individuals who organised the training, but of a staff member who tried to protect the children.

The staff member’s name is known to the FF Plus, but is kept confidential for her protection.

While the training was taking place, this teacher became aware that the learners found it severely traumatising and she entered the school hall to ask them to stop the training session.

At the end of last year, disciplinary steps were taken against her for her ‘disruption’ of the session and she was asked to resign.

In its complaint to the HRC the FF Plus requested, among other things, that while the incident is being investigated, the Western Cape Education Department must not be allowed to conduct any further diversity training at schools.

According to parents in town, they are not aware of any ban on the diversity course.

The FF Plus is urgently calling on the WCED to immediately scrap the course in the interest of all Western Cape learners.

Critical Race Theory forms the basis of the course. This theoretical framework jars with most commentators’ interpretation of the equality principle in Section 9 of South Africa’s Constitution. Consequently, a constitutional body like the HRC must also rule on whether it is appropriate to employ it in schools.

One of the presenters stated that white people are the only ones who can be racists, while black people cannot seeing as they have no power.

Christianity was, furthermore, equated to white patriarchal oppression and the other statements that were made about Christianity can, at best, be seen as unwarranted, and at worst, as blasphemous.

From the sound recordings that learners secretly made of the session, it is clear that learners were extremely shocked and emotional.

And the one staff member who tried to protect the children lost her job.

The DA must see to it that this person is reinstated at once, and must stop playing with words as they are currently doing with the Schweizer-Reneke matter.

Ms Helen Zille from the DA said last week in response to the HRC’s finding that the then youth leader of the DA who labelled Ms Barkhuizen a racist, Luyolo Mphithi, had ‘resigned’ after the incident.

The truth, however, is that the DA had in fact rewarded and promoted him by appointing him as a Member of Parliament.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221603 (251319ZJAN23) Notable: ‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated

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>>127718

>The HRC found neither the teacher, Elana Barkhuizen, nor the Schweizer-Reneke Primary School guilty of any form of racism or discrimination in the 2019 incident.

“‘I am a good teacher!’ - Elana Barkhuizen speaks out after her suspension” [Jan 15, 2019] - https://youtu.be/72mDnldSSRU

0:50 – “Do not be sorry for me – I will not surrender. I will fight. I will make sure that what happened to me will never happen to any other teacher… I will take on these people with power and I shall win.” [English translation]

“North West MEC put Schweizer-Reneke teacher's [Elana Barkhuizen] life in danger, falsely accused her of racism – SAHRC”

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/north-west-mec-put-schweizer-reneke-teachers-life-in-danger-falsely-accused-her-of-racism-sahrc-20230120

20 January 2023

•	The publication of a photograph of black and white pupils sitting at separate tables at a North West primary school in 2019 led to a teacher being accused of racism.

•	Following a probe, the SA Human Rights Commission found claims of unfair discrimination at the school could not be substantiated.

•	The SAHRC also found that the education MEC at the time had violated the teacher's constitutional rights and put her life in danger.

Former North West Education MEC Sello Lehari’s successor has been instructed to apologise for Lehari's conduct after he was found to have falsely accused teacher Elana Barkhuizen of racism.

Barkhuizen was the teacher who took a photograph which showed four black pupils sitting at a separate table from white children in a Grade R class in 2019. The photo went viral on social media at the time and sparked wide outrage.

The photograph led to allegations of racial segregation and unfair discrimination at Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke.

Barkhuizen was at the centre of the allegations, having taken the photograph. It was originally posted to a WhatsApp group for the childrens’ parents to see how they were settling in on the first day of school.

She was summarily suspended and Lehari disclosed her name to protesters and media who had gathered at the school in the aftermath.

It was later revealed that the photograph was not of Barkhuizen’s class and that the seating arrangements were not aimed at discriminating against the black pupils, but were based on their language needs and aimed at helping them integrate at the Afrikaans-medium school.

The allegations and social outrage led to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) launching an investigation.

More than four years later, the investigation has been completed and the report made public.

The SAHRC said the allegation that the school had unfairly discriminated against the four pupils could not be substantiated.

The commission did say that the four black pupils had been treated differently, purportedly on the basis of language, and indirectly on the basis of their race, but that the discrimination was fair on a balance of probabilities.

The findings effectively exonerated Barkhuizen, who, at one point, had to flee from her home and remove her children from school because of safety concerns.

"Within 14 days of this report, the current MEC for Education of the North West Province must issue a public written apology to Ms Barkhuizen for the manner in which she was treated by the department and the former MEC for Education in the North West province," it ruled.

"The written apology should, inter alia, state that the MEC is apologising for the violation of Ms Barkhuizen's rights to due 58 process and privacy.

"Moreover, the MEC should apologise for the former MEC’s conduct of falsely accusing Ms Barkhuizen of racism and for placing her life and the life of her family at risk through the public disclosure of her identity. The written apology should be printed in at least one national newspaper and posted on the website of the department for at least one month."

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221605 (251320ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Criminality is well organised and rife in Eskom - de Ruyter

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“Criminality is well organised and rife in Eskom - de Ruyter”

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/criminality-is-well-organised-and-rife-in-eskom-de-ruyter-1135adb6-64bf-476b-b3c3-51aa0ca6961c

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023

Cape Town - Criminality is deeply embedded in Eskom, and is very well organised.

This is according to outgoing Eskom chief executive, Andre de Ruyter, as he briefed Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday.

De Ruyter said the organisation was dealing with many challenges, and criminality was high up on the list.

“Criminality (for example), we know someone has a maintenance contract for mills, there will be rock and metal added to the coal to destroy the mills. We stopped theft of R100 million a month at Tutuka. We affected two arrests, but they were released on R500 bail the following day and the case has not been finalised,” he said.

In other instances, De Ruyter said they have had to write off inventory and when they tried to implement controls by adding bar-coding, it was “resisted” internally.

“Criminality is quite well organised, very deeply embedded. (There is) resistance to implement basic control measures and it goes to extraordinary lengths,” he said.

To combat fraud and corruption, he said they had increased governance controls and implemented technology to measure coal quality that would sample every truck delivered to Eskom.

He said since the deployment of the defence force, they were seeing greater action from police.

“There is a criminal justice value chain and prosecutions are equally important. At Camden, Eskom security intercepted a coal truck which contained poor quality coal, the coal had been replaced. The truck driver and manager offered security a R50 000 bribe which was declined. After approaching the police, he was arrested, made a full confession, however (a) prosecutor released the individual,” De Ruyter said.

He said after the matter was brought to the attention of the director of public prosecutions, they had seen a change.

Eskom said it was experiencing high levels of plant unreliability and forced outage currently. This is compounded by high planned maintenance.

A number of large generating units are off for extended periods, said Eskom, contributing to the higher plant unavailability and loss of generating capacity.

These include Medupi 4, Kusile 1, 2, 3, Koeberg 1 (planned outage) and Kusile 5 (delayed commissioning).

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221611 (251321ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / AfriForum to start own electricity generation company; Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar in Previous Posts

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“AfriForum to start own electricity generation company” – “of starting a company with André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital” and “shareholder in PBMR company X-Energy”

https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/afriforum-start-own-electricity-generation-company/

Jan. 23, 2023, 6:40 a.m.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel says formal engagements have started with C5 Capital to invest in nuclear energy.

The lobby group says it is fed up with the decay of the state of the energy crisis in the country.

Kriel says they are in the process of starting a company with André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital, to build a venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/477385-afriforum-starting-its-own-power-company-with-nuclear-plans-in-the-pipeline.html

South African-born venture capitalist André Pienaar, a shareholder in PBMR company X-Energy.

X-Energy is currently building the world’s first commercial-scale advanced nuclear reactor in the state of Washington.

It forms part of the US Department of Energy’s $2.5-billion (R43-billion) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP).

The ARDP will see the construction of X-Energy’s first 320MW XE-100 power plant, consisting of four 80MW PBMRs.

The helium-cooled, high-temperature reactors are designed to provide small-scale power generation with faster deployment times and better safety than large conventional reactors.

X-Energy has also signed a contract with the US military to supply it with Xe-mobile micro reactors for remote operations.

Ironically, the earliest forms of PBMR were developed by a team of South Africans as part of Eskom’s PBMR company.

The utility planned to construct a new nuclear power station in Duynefontein near Koeberg that would use the technology.

However, after ten years of development and ballooning costs, the project was terminated due to a lack of investment.

X-Energy scooped up one of these team members — Eben Mulder — who now serves as the company’s chief scientist.

Its lead reactor developer is another South African — Martin van Staden — a North-West University and University of Johannesburg alumnus.

Kriel acknowledged there was no quick fix for the country’s energy crisis, but said civil society and the private sector could play a critical role in a future “on the other side” of Eskom.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221625 (251325ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / AfriForum to start own electricity generation company; Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar in Previous Posts

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>>127721

>“AfriForum to start own electricity generation company” – “of starting a company with André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital” and “shareholder in PBMR company X-Energy”

>>127564

>Zuma wants Ramaphosa to be prosecuted as part of the ongoing private prosecution of NPA advocate Billy Downer

Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar in Previous Posts

Final Andre Pienaar Bun

>>>/qresearch/13900374 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 1

>>>/qresearch/13900380 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 2

>>>/qresearch/13900382 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 3

>>>/qresearch/13908297 André Pienaar Biography

>>>/qresearch/13908317 Sample from Pienaar's blog for reference

>>>/qresearch/13956493 André Pienaar Remarks on the Space Investment Landscape at America’s Future Series Space Innovation Summit

“Liam Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US radical right” – More South Africa Connections (Part 2) dated 15 Oct 2011 at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

“South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider” dated December 13, 2018, at https://www.somtribune.com/2018/12/13/south-african-at-centre-of-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud-linked-to-kremlin-insider/

While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious “Luciano” in the leaked “Zuma spy tapes” saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon Project – a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes – he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg [>>120889 Viktor Vekselberg Bun], who has close links to the Kremlin.

Former South African intelligence agent, Andre Pienaar, has been cited in an extensive investigation by BBC journalists into bids for the Pentagon’s $R10 billion Jedi Contract project aimed at storing sensitive military and other information on a single cloud.

Pienaar was exposed in court transcripts in the Zuma “spy tapes” saga as the mysterious “Luciano” who allegedly leaked illegal National Intelligence Agency recordings of conversations between then Scorpions boss, Leonard McCarthy, and former NPA boss, Bulelani Ngcuka.

The leak ultimately led to the initial withdrawal of charges of fraud and corruption against former President Jacob Zuma.

https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2021/05/25/jacob-zuma-prosecution

25th May 2021

Former president Jacob Zuma claims that ‘foreign intelligence agencies’ may have interfered in his corruption prosecution.

In his ‘special plea’ challenging the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption and racketeering, Zuma claimed he had ‘come across information’ that former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called André Pienaar.

He said Pienaar, who he said was code-named Luciano, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18221687 (251339ZJAN23) Notable: Team SA pulling out all the stops at Davos

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>>>/qresearch/18188984

>Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence. Nations cannot be interdependent without each of them giving up some of, or at least acknowledging limits to, its own independence.

>>127702

>the interdependence of countries, on their food and fuels and so on, is leading to an interdependence which has seeds of draining away of sovereignty within it.

“Team SA pulling out all the stops at Davos”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/partnered/team-sa-pulling-out-all-the-stops-at-davos-34edd61a-908f-4807-a763-2d518aaa94da

Published Jan 23, 2023

On Monday, Team South Africa arrived in Davos, Switzerland for the 53rd World Economic Forum (WEF). The team includes a strong mix of government ministers, industry leaders, diplomats and key stakeholders.

Team South Africa announced that its partners for the annual event are Old Mutual, Multichoice, Anglo American and Naspers - and thanked them for their committed partnerships.

WEF brings together leaders from government, business and civil society from across the world in Davos in Switzerland to discuss the status of the globe’s economy and identify potential international opportunities and partnerships.

Team South Africa has a busy four days in Davos - with the main activities happening from January 16 to 20 at the South African Business Hub at Promenade 54.

Brand South Africa, in partnership with WEF, Multichoice and Naspers hosted the official WEF Reception on January 18 at the Congress Centre. Actress Nomzamo Mbatha hosted South Africa night, framed by South African Food Experience with Chef Wandile Mabaso, and the Proudly South Africa showcase featuring Mi Casa and The Soil. The objective was to provide global guests with a cultural showcase; enticing them to visit, partner with, invest in and initiate business with South Africa.

What Team South Africa is emphasising at WEF is an uncommonly strong message focussed on the country’s openness to new business, as well as highlighting the stability of South Africa’s key financial institutions. The high-powered team is pulling out all the stops, positioning South Africa as a business and innovation hub lead by a wealth of world-class human capital.

South Africa certainly knows a thing or two about surviving turbulent times. However, the country’s resilience has led to increasing global confidence in the country’s socio-economic stability, protected by a functioning democracy, a progressive legal system and a respect for the rule of law. [A gangster's paradise]

Team South Africa will also focus on emphasising the country's creativity competitiveness, diverse industries, abundant resources and economic opportunities. It will also draw attention to the nation’s pool of experienced and skilled professionals, and its track record of creating value, economic growth and sustainable ROI for investors. It is imperative that Team South Africa provides the international business community with updates on the country’s economic reforms, as well as the progress being made in implementing the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (EERP).

South Africa is marketing its status as an investment destination and open economy, with credible and independent institutions, a resilient and competitive private sector, world-class infrastructure and an influential role in the region (BRICS, AfCFTA). Brand South Africa is also executing a digital marketing campaign, and a media programme that sheds light on the country’s achievements and successes in key economic sectors.

Brand South Africa Acting CEO, Sithembile Ntombela said earlier that as the organisation is the official custodian of South Africa's brand reputation, it will leave nothing unsaid about South Africa’s potential and the collaborative economic opportunities that the nation can offer to the world.

Ntombela also highlighted the WEF’s importance in providing a platform for the country to position itself as “a land of endless opportunities” and an investment-friendly environment. With a plan to have more than 1 000 international companies operating and investing in South Africa by 2025, Team South Africa is committed to piquing global investor interest by increasing engagement and networking.

his year’s WEF runs from the January 16 to 20, under the focus “Co-operation in a fragmented society”. More information on South Africa’s participation in this year’s WEF can be found at brandsouthafrica.com/our-initiatives/sa-in-davos/, http://brandsouthafrica.com/our-initiatives/sa-in-davos/.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18229656 (261540ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / International watchdog contracted to validate Eskom’s turnaround plans for load shedding

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“International watchdog contracted to validate Eskom’s turnaround plans for load shedding”

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/international-watchdog-contracted-to-validate-eskoms-turnaround-plans-for-load-shedding-1c9e91e5-70f2-4ec3-b222-e11d04b74858

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023

Cape Town - The increased public and expert scrutiny of Eskom’s operations in recent months has struck a nerve with the utility as Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana revealed that the power utility was seeking to increase its credibility with the public by contracting an international consultancy to validate the execution of its turnaround plans.

This was shared during a meeting between the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) and Eskom on Tuesday where the board and executives of the power utility faced off with the MPs over the utility’s umpteenth plan to bring the country out of darkness.

Scopa questioned how this plan was different to previous plans it had heard from Eskom, why yet another oversight service was needed for this, and why it was being outsourced to an international consultancy when Eskom was already in financial distress and had the necessary engineers and experts to perform these duties.

They had done this before…

“How Deloitte, McKinsey, the Guptas and SAP Ripped Off Eskom”

https://www.brightworkresearch.com/how-deloitte-mckinsey-the-guptas-and-sap-ripped-off-eskom/

November 5, 2019

Executive Summary

•	The South African energy utility, Eskom, has been in long term decline.

•	As it has been mismanaged, it has been systematically pilfered by several entities ranging from Deloitte, McKinsey, the Guptas, and SAP, among other.

Introduction

Eskom’s decline began around the changed in government to the ANC. Eskom has been living off its infrastructure from a bygone era and is set up for significant future problems. The story of its decline is intertwined with some underhanded firms pushing the utility further to the brink through their parasitism.

So Deloitte had an “inside man” at Eskom, which was Prish Govender. This not only gave Deloitte a distinct advantage in their tender but allowed them to plagiarize work from McKinsey. So when Deloitte submitted its adjusted tender, it would have been able to neutralize the impact of McKinsey’s tender.

Furthermore, Deloitte is an international partner with SAP and recommended SAP solutions to Eskom that would worsened Eskom’s situation, like HANA, the Brightwork Research & Analysis has extensively analyzed. Deloitte would not have informed Eskom of HANA’s indirect access liabilities, which we covered in the article HANA Police Indirect Access Charges, https://www.brightworkresearch.com/saphana/2017/02/07/hana-police-indirect-access-charges/. Internationally, Deloitte lies to companies about SAP, and inaccuracies about SAP to prospects, while pretending to be impartial advisors to firms like Eskom.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-24-global-firm-to-validate-eskom-stats-as-rolling-blackouts-remain-reality-for-next-24-months-scopa-hears/

While using consultants is commonplace internationally, further questions arise as to why no domestic experts are engaged, particularly given the role of global consultancies in State Capture, and the prevailing circumstances that facilitated such moves, which also emerged before the Zondo commission of inquiry — be that McKinseys, Bains or T-Systems.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18229669 (261542ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Eskom wants to get rid of another 500 white maintenance staff, says trade union Solidarity

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“Eskom wants to get rid of another 500 white maintenance staff, says trade union Solidarity”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/energy/eskom-wants-to-get-rid-of-another-500-white-maintenance-staff-says-trade-union-solidarity-388f7589-0d9d-4376-97f9-bef90553d611

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2023

In the midst of South Africa’s worst energy crisis in history, trade union Solidarity says ailing state power utility Eskom, wants to to get rid of another 500 white males by 2025, mainly persons who are responsible for maintenance work.

The union said in a statement on Thursday this was according to Eskom’s latest race plan for 2023 to 2025.

In a letter issued by Solidarity's legal team addressed to Eskom, it said it asked for a moratorium on race-based appointments at Eskom as a measure to help address the power crisis.

Solidarity said it pointed out that there was an urgent need in South Africa for the deployment of best skills in jobs, regardless of race.

“There are competent black and white artisans at Eskom and out there and those are the people Eskom should recruit based on their ability to help solve the power crisis and without looking at the colour of their skin. Solidarity also reserves the right to go to court should Eskom continue with the implementation of its race targets,” the union said in a statement.

“We do not see in the plan that Eskom is making plans to address its skills challenges. This plan is all about skin colour at the various job levels,” Solidarity Chief Executive Dr Dirk Hermann, said.

“Eskom has just announced a huge tariff increase but instead of addressing its skills problem, Eskom is only paying attention to race targets.

“These absurd race targets come amid the fact that power station maintenance is one of Eskom’s major challenges. Eskom should now focus on one thing only, and that is not race, but power. South Africans do not need race targets but light in their homes and power for their businesses,” Hermann explained.

“Targets such as these discourage existing staff members and also imply that competent white persons cannot apply for jobs to help solve the crisis. Also, it makes it nearly impossible to appoint some of the hundreds of experts who have offered their services to assist Eskom because they have the wrong skin colour.”

Solidarity further said Eskom had a long history of having an aggressive race policy.

Between 1994 and 2002, 10 207 whites left Eskom.

From about 2000 Eskom has paid R1.8 billion in terms of current rand value for packages to get rid of white people.

This rapid loss of skills led to a huge loss of expertise and institutional knowledge.

“Eskom has learnt nothing from this. It is still pursuing its race programme, even in the dark,” Hermann said.

Solidarity is also preparing for a court case to get Eskom exempted from black economic empowerment requirements.

According to Solidarity, black economic empowerment is costing Eskom billions and a tariff increase would not have been necessary if Eskom did not have to meet all the racial requirements involved in procurement.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18229675 (261543ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests (Parts 1-3)

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“Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests” – Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-26-eskoms-rolling-blackouts-26-years-of-anc-meddling-manipulation-and-vested-interests/

26 Jan 2023

Below are excerpts

When President Cyril Ramaphosa tells the ANC faithful at the Free State elective conference he’s asked Eskom to suspend the statutorily approved 18.65% electricity price hike, he continues the political interference that’s marked the governing party’s relationship with Eskom in particular, and with state-owned enterprises in general.

It’s a toxic swirl of blurring the lines between party and state, vested interests and electoral populism, now with a firm eye on the 2024 elections when rotational power cuts are set to be a central electioneering tool. That churn has continued regardless of expert advice, presidential committees’ and others’ recommendations and more.

It all goes back more than two decades — to late 1996 when the governing ANC first looked at Eskom with a view to bringing the power utility — which had served apartheid white South Africa and the mining and manufacturing industries — firmly under state control.

“Eskom is not vested within the government. Therefore, legislation is necessary to place the entity under government control and this should happen early next year,” the then public enterprises minister, Stella Sigcau, was quoted as saying in the Mail & Guardian in late 1996.

The 1998 Eskom Amendment Act was followed by the 2001 Eskom Conversion Act, which made the power utility the public entity it is today, Eskom Holdings Limited, with the public enterprises minister in a shareholder compact with this state-owned enterprise (SOE).

That properly ended the power utility’s status as a self-financing entity funded from debt and accumulated reserves and, according to its 1992 Annual Report, with 44,142 employees. By 1995 the Eskom reserves stood at R18.8-billion, with assets of R43-billion and debt at R27.2-billion, according to the power utility’s Statistical Report then.

All this came on the back of a politically sussed Eskom that had read the changing political winds; from late 1994 it had integrated the former TBVC (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei) Bantustans’ power grids, and announced a mass electrification programme targeting 700,000 black households by 1997. Meanwhile, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) in 1996 set a target of electrifying 2.5 million households by 1999.

By the time the Eskom Conversion Act became effective, new investment should have been made in the electricity and energy supply side, according to the wide-ranging — and widely well-received — December 1998 Energy White Paper, the government’s official policy statement approved by Cabinet.

The unbundling plan

Talking about affordable energy, improved governance and tighter regulation and diverse supply, including independent power producers, this document proposed that Eskom be unbundled into transmission, generation and distribution entities — “initial exploratory steps will include the unbundling of Eskom’s generation and transmission groups”.

Such a plan re-emerged in the October 2019 Eskom Roadmap released by now Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. This plan is now running many months behind schedule; while the transmission division is established as a separate entity, its board has still to be appointed.

Movement on the other roadmap’s milestones remains sticky, as Eskom’s debt stubbornly hovers around R400-billion. In July 2018, the then ANC treasurer, Paul Mashatile, said there were discussions about an Eskom debt-for-equity swap of some R120-billion, possibly with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), the government’s manager of R2.5-trillion in employee pensions and social savings.

“It’s top of the agenda at Luthuli House. We have to get the economy right and be able to create the necessary employment, particularly for young people,” Mashatile told the Cape Town Press Club then, followed by various officials signalling for a debt-equity swap.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18229678 (261543ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests (Parts 1-3)

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“Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests” – Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-26-eskoms-rolling-blackouts-26-years-of-anc-meddling-manipulation-and-vested-interests/

26 Jan 2023

It didn’t happen. Instead, Budget 2019 provided Eskom with an amortised R250-billion bailout in annual instalments over a decade. Another bailout — or in the preferred government jargon, cash injection — for Eskom’s stubborn R400-billion debt, is expected in Budget 2023.

Back to the 1998 White Paper that the governing ANC left in limbo after protests from, among others, its alliance partner, the labour federation Cosatu. Ditto, the ANC stalling on SOEs’ role in the developmental state — from the August 2000 Cabinet-approved policy framework on “accelerated agenda towards the restructuring of SOEs” to the 2012 presidential SOE review committee. Recommendations of rationalisation, better governance and adequate funding were repeated across all.

Instead, what unfolded in the early 2000s was the ANC’s establishment of its investment arm, Chancellor House, with interests in energy, mining and IT. Named after the Joburg downtown law offices of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, its establishment was wrapped up in 2003 under the term of then ANC treasurer Mendi Msimang.

It took until November 2006 for Chancellor House to hit the headlines. Then the Mail & Guardian exposed its targeting of sectors where the government was readying to allow large-scale procurement.

On the energy front, Chancellor House secured a 25% shareholding in the local subsidiary of Hitachi Power Africa. That came at a time when moves were under way in the government to finally catch up on the much-ignored and delayed action to bring on additional energy and electricity supply.

With the 1998 White Paper 2000 deadline for extra, diverse and affordable energy supplies ignored, by 2004 Eskom, and others, including then public enterprises minister Alec Erwin, told Parliament in public, and no doubt Cabinet in private, that new sources of energy were urgently needed because capacity was running out.

Kusile and Medupi

In 2006, Kusile and Medupi, the largest new-build power stations in South Africa, designed to bring on board a total of 9,600MW, were loading. By 2007, when construction began, it emerged that Hitachi Power Africa got the largest contract on this new build — as did its 25% shareholder, Chancellor House.

A total of $5-million was paid in dividends to Chancellor House, effectively the ANC, according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission charges against the Japanese Hitachi parent company for the “inaccurately recorded improper payments to South Africa’s ruling political party in connection with contracts to build two multibillion-dollar power plants”.

In September 2015, Hitachi paid $19-million “to settle” charges the US Securities and Exchange Commission brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for the arrangement that “gave the front company and the ANC the ability to share in the profits from any power station contracts that Hitachi secured”, according to the commission’s statement at the time.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18229686 (261544ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests (Parts 1-3)

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>>127727

“Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests” – Part 3

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-26-eskoms-rolling-blackouts-26-years-of-anc-meddling-manipulation-and-vested-interests/

26 Jan 2023

Today, Medupi and Kusile are almost a decade behind the 2014 completion schedule, and each is tens of billions of rands over budget, with design faults continuing to bedevil timelines and budgets.

In 2007, widespread rolling blackouts hit South Africa — and have continued to do so ever since. Today’s rotational power cuts that hit every day so far this year — and over 200 days in 2022 — have left South Africans going for up to 12 hours a day without power. Small businesses are buckling, and hospitals, courts and home affairs offices struggle with enforced downtime, while the citizenry’s health is jeopardised as water and sewage treatment fail.

Jacob Zuma’s presidency

The Thabo Mbeki presidency pretty much ignored calls for energy and electricity investment until the last innings as Mbeki was recalled by the ANC in September 2008. The governing ANC had long been roiling internally ahead of the 2007 Polokwane conference where ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma was elected as party president, ready for the Union Buildings.

The Jacob Zuma presidency facilitated Eskom’s looting, as at other SOEs, through a series of deals, middlemen and facilitation fees — mainly, but not solely, by the Gupta brothers and their business partners. International consultancies and auditing firms stepped into State Capture, giving the prevailing dynamics that facilitated making money hand over fist.

Eskom became a revolving door of executives and board members, key interventions that are the sole prerogative of the government, which since 1994 has been the ANC. A crucial moment was the appointment of the 2014 board, and the subsequent suspension of then Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona, a veteran public servant, alongside three senior executives in Lynne Brown’s stint as public enterprises minister.

The Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture ultimately bore testimony to how Eskom, and other SOEs, were hollowed out and the institutional cultures twisted. As Eskom CEO Jabu Mabuza testified in early 2019: “I learnt that the name is corruption but the game is procurement.”

Today little seems to have changed.

Talk of sabotage

“The criminality is quite well organised and well embedded,” Eskom CEO André de Ruyter told MPs on 24 January 2023. Aside from rocks and metal bits regularly found in coal headed to mills to trigger urgent maintenance call-outs, he recounted how three procurement officials recommended a R430-million contract to an individual who after due diligence was found operating from a Germiston suburban home, with a default judgment for falling behind with bond payments and a repossessed car. All procurement officials were suspended, and one left within 24 hours.

Talk of sabotage within Eskom seems to have receded as talk of sabotage by Eskom is upped by politicians. Whether that’s Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe describing how rotational power cuts are “agitating society against the state” and the ANC, or International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor likening the rolling blackouts to “oppositional attacks”.

It’s blame-shifting. It’s another twist in ideological navel-gazing; SOEs were meant to be the drivers against poverty and joblessness as part of the developmental state. And it’s a turn to victimhood to cover a possible election defeat in 2024, or to galvanise voters to ensure another governing ANC victory.

“We have committees to look at what can be done to cushion where we can. As soon as we have found the mechanism of easing the pain, we will go back to our shareholder [the public enterprise minister] and Necom [National Energy Crisis Committee]…”

Right now, this signals how political interference in Eskom stays put, without much pushback. It seems a case of the more things change, they stay the same. Lest we forget. DM

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18229695 (261546ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Eskom load shedding poses security threat to South Africans (video)

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“Rolling blackouts pose a national security risk in South Africa: ISS” - https://youtu.be/zLkRIgEN_3A

“Eskom load shedding poses security threat to South Africans”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/eskom-load-shedding-poses-security-threat-to-south-africans-say-experts-48a93266-4584-484a-8db3-3f37e047aff0

Published Jan 25, 2023

Pretoria -The intermittent load shedding imposed by Eskom could potentially pose security threats in South Africa.

This was the concern expressed by experts who were part of the discussions organised by the National Press Club in Pretoria yesterday.

Panel members discussed and assessed the risk posed by load shedding and the electricity tariff hike to national security in the country.

Gareth Newham, head of governance, crime and justice division at the Institute of Security Studies, said some insurance figures had shown an increase in claims because of house burglaries taking place during load shedding and experienced mostly on weekends.

“Load shedding is a very worrying factor that piles on to a number of other factors that weaken public security situation,” he said.

He said load shedding came at a precarious time in South Africa’s recent history. For example, he said that the statistics showed that murders had grown by 54% from 1994 to 2012.

In addition, he said the ability of the police to solve murders dropped by 55% in 2012 and last year they could only solve 14% of crime.

He said the consequence of the police’s ability was seen in July 2021 during riots in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

Newham said there had not been any improvement in the recent five years in the current administration in terms of the ability to solve various crimes such as armed robberies.

He, however, said there had been improvement in organisations such as the NPA and Special Investigating Unit.

Lunga Dweba, director of Geopolitical Intelligence Advisory, remarked that the situation of load shedding posed a security threat.

“The actions that followed after Nersa’s tariff increase are the ones that concern us; not necessarily the protest actions or court applications but the violent action that follow based on the decision that was made by Nersa,” he said.

He said during protest actions there may be sporadic action of violence.

What was more concerning to him was the growing appetite for lawlessness.

“An example is the unrest in July 2021 where the trace of those that planned it are not known, except the few that were arrested, who are not the planners. Of concern are acts that are planned and executed without trace.”

Grant Clark from Cash-in-Transit Association of South Africa, said load shedding was extremely concerning for the cash distribution industry.

He explained that in South Africa the disruption of cash distribution adversely affect the economy.

“It costs a lot of money to put the generation systems and we see those costs going up all the time,” Clark said.

He said that the possibility of a total blackout, as some experts have warned, would be disastrous for the country, and collaborative work was being done to put contingency plans in place to deal with a possible total shutdown.

South African Banking Risk Information Centre’s Nischal Mewalall said load shedding had a specific focus for the banking industry.

“We have been taking steps to evaluate and identify the type of scenarios that could develop as load shedding begins to pan out,” he said.

One of the scenarios, he said, had been the impact of State 8, and the potential of what could happen if there was a total collapse.

He said the banking industry had looked at load shedding impact to banks’ operations and function as well as the crime and security associated with it. “At the end of the day, our plans don’t solve load shedding rather we tend to solve business continuity.”

He said the banking industry had not observed any disruption arising out of the protest actions.

Load shedding, he said, was already disrupting the ability for use of online services or telephone banking.

“In the event where we have Stage 8 load shedding, he said, people would find it difficult to communicate.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18231534 (262141ZJAN23) Notable: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visit to South Africa (video)

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“US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to visit South Africa” - https://youtu.be/H1xf0bxyPM0

“Yellen lauds Ford's 100-year history in South Africa, flags more investments” – even during Apartheid

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/yellen-lauds-fords-100-year-history-in-south-africa-flags-more-investments/ar-AA16LJTY

26 January 2023

SILVERTON, South Africa (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded the Ford Motor Co's 100-year history of assembling vehicles in South Africa and underscored Washington's resolve to expand trade ties with countries that it "can count on," including South Africa.

Yellen spoke at Ford's plant in Silverton, a suburb of Pretoria, during the third leg of her nearly two-week trip across the African continent, which also included stops in Senegal and Zambia.

The plant, which employs 4,000 people, is an example of how deeper ties between the United States and Africa could produce good jobs and boost economic growth for both sides, Yellen told workers and company officials.

"Africa will shape the future of the global economy," she said. "We know that a thriving Africa is in the interest of the United States. A thriving Africa means a larger market for our goods and services. It means more investment opportunities for our businesses."

Ford, a major U.S. investor in South Africa, is investing $1 billion to expand output at the plant there by 20%, adding 1,200 new jobs, and aims to develop a freight rail link with a seaport 700 miles (1,126.54 km) away.

Yellen said other U.S. companies, including Cisco, General Electric, and Visa also planned big investments, attracted by expanding markets fueled by a demographic boom that will see Africa account for a quarter of the world’s population by 2050.

The U.S. Treasury chief said South Africa had been the biggest beneficiary of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which grants eligible Sub-Saharan countries duty-free access to the U.S. market, but did not spell out what would happen when the legislation expires in 2025.

Yellen said South Africa also had a role to play in U.S. efforts to shift supply chains away from over-reliance on China and other non-market economies to more like-minded countries, an approach she has dubbed "friendshoring."

As in her comments to South Africa's finance minister earlier on Thursday, Yellen did not address South Africa's refusal to take sides over Russia's war in Ukraine or Washington's concern over military exercises it plans with China and Russia.

The massive economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war against Ukraine underscored the need for resilient supply chains, she said.

"We are addressing the over-concentration of the production of critical goods in certain markets — particularly those that may not share our economic values," Yellen said. "To do so, we are deepening economic integration with the many countries that we can count on. That includes our many trusted trading partners on this continent — like South Africa."

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18231560 (262144ZJAN23) Notable: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visit to South Africa (video)

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>>127541

>The last US-Africa Leaders Summit was convened in 2014 under former president Barrack Obama.

>>127552

>WASHINGTON — The last time leaders of the African continent were invited to the White House, Barack Obama was president. It was August 2014, and Vladimir Putin had just invaded Ukraine — for the first time. The world was grappling with a deadly virus: Ebola. And Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. https://news.yahoo.com/african-leaders-white-house-summit-biden-192355564.html

“US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen meets Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana” - https://youtu.be/Qrw7EQbA_TI

“Yellen welcomes South Africa's energy transition, steers clear of Russia mention”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yellen-welcomes-south-africas-energy-transition-steers-clear-of-russia-mention/ar-AA16MgC7

26 January 2023

PRETORIA (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded South Africa's "bold" participation in an energy transition partnership backed by the United States and other Western nations but steered clear of mentioning U.S. concerns about Pretoria's planned military drills with China and Russia.

Yellen spoke to reporters alongside South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in Pretoria on the third leg of her nearly two-week tour of Africa, and just days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited South Africa.

She welcomed Godongwana's "cooperation and insightful views" in their previous discussions, and said she would raise several issues, including Zambia's stalled sovereign debt restructuring effort, given South Africa's key role on the country's creditor committee.

"The United States strongly values our relationship with South Africa," Yellen said in remarks that included no mention of Russia or China, or White House concerns about Pretoria's plans to hold joint military drills with both countries.

Washington was not asking countries to choose sides, focusing instead on America's plans in South Africa and beyond, a senior Treasury official said.

U.S. officials did brief the South Africans on U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over its war in Ukraine to avoid possible misunderstandings, the official told reporters.

Godongwana said the two would discuss countering the financing of terrorism, climate financing, resolving sovereign debt crises in Africa and global topics that will form part of a meeting of the G20 group of major economies next month.

He said Yellen's visit was a "momentous" occasion, noting that the previous visit by a U.S. Treasury secretary was in 2014, and praised Yellen's announcement on Wednesday that the United States and South Africa were setting up a joint task force on combating the financing of wildlife trafficking.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18231629 (262155ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / South Africa loses permission to import nuclear fuel for Koeberg from the US

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>>127732

>U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded South Africa's "bold" participation in an energy transition partnership backed by the United States and other Western nations

Yet not helping with the current crisis.

>>127721

“South Africa loses permission to import nuclear fuel for Koeberg from the US”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/477679-south-africa-loses-permission-to-import-nuclear-fuel-for-koeberg.html

25 January 2023

South African power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is examining how the suspension of a pact that enables it to import nuclear fuel components from the US will affect its sole atomic plant.

The Agreement for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the US and South Africa expired on Dec. 4.

That resulted in Westinghouse Electric Co. losing its license from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to export fuel-assembly components to Eskom’s Koeberg plant near Cape Town.

“Eskom is exploring the implications of the withdrawal of the US NRC approval for Westinghouse, and what is needed to enable them to continue supplying fuel,” the utility said in a reply to questions.

Eskom doesn’t anticipate that it will “have to establish new fuel contracts due to this current issue” and no nuclear fuel shortage is expected at Koeberg in the immediate future, it said.

The development may frustrate Eskom’s efforts to end record nationwide power outages that are crimping the economy. The matter may be raised with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is visiting South Africa this week.

US President Joe Biden was poised in August to extend the existing agreement, but it was still allowed to expire.

South African Department of International Relations & Cooperation spokesman Clayson Monyela and an energy department spokesperson weren’t immediately able to comment.

The Westinghouse license authorizes it to export fuel components to Sweden for fabrication into completed assemblies, and for those to be subsequently shipped to South Africa for use in both of Koeberg’s reactors, according to the NRC order.

Westinghouse and France’s Framatome have been maintained as nuclear fuel suppliers for the plant, according to Eskom.

The US company has already delivered the material that will be loaded during maintenance on one unit that’s currently under way, while fuel for the second was provided by the French firm, it said.

“The contracts with Westinghouse and Framatome cover the fuel needed beyond these two outages,” Eskom said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18248211 (291543ZJAN23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate

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“ Thapelo Amad is the new mayor in town. This is what you need to know about Joburg politics and the election of the new number one citizen”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/thapelo-amad-is-the-new-mayor-in-town-this-is-what-you-need-to-know-about-joburg-politics-and-the-election-of-the-new-number-one-citizen-73152cdf-36cd-4165-9f2e-a21739d20f8a

Published 28 January 2023

Thapelo Amad started off his acceptance speech by thanking God for making it possible that the city of Joburg has its first Muslim mayor.

Pretoria - The City of Johannesburg has become a political battleground as parties jostle for control of the country’s economic hub.

Coalitions have proven to be challenging as political parties find it hard to work together due to their ideological differences and with other parties wanting complete dominance.

The country’s municipal government elections in 2021 produced a number of unstable local government coalitions.

This is when the ANC’s support fell below 50% for the first time, which birthed multiparty coalitions led by the DA controlling Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Johannesburg.

Ever since the DA-led administration came into power, the ANC has made numerous attempts to remove all DA candidates as mayors.

Former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse faced more instability as the ANC brought several motions of no confidence — some failed and some were withdrawn until she was finally ousted on Thursday. Others were deemed unlawful by the courts.

The ANC managed to garner support from other parties such as the EFF and PA to finally vote Phalatse out of office this week.

With 138 votes, backed by ANC, EFF and PA votes in the Joburg council, parties elected Al-Jama-ah’s Thapelo Amad, a member of a Muslim minority political party with just three seats in the city of gold, as the new mayor of Joburg.

However, Amad is only expected to hold the fort for six months while the ANC and EFF find each other.

It is expected that an EFF-ANC coalition agreement will see the EFF back the ANC for the mayorship in Joburg, with the ANC expected to back the EFF for the mayoral chain in Ekurhuleni.

Speaking to eNCA, political analyst and politics lecture at the Durban University of Technology, Zamokuhle Mbandlwa, said the removal of mayors is not only based on the failures of providing service delivery.

“They are actually removing people on the basis of their political preference and on the basis of what they want to achieve as a political party not as the council.”

Mbandlwa said the constant changing of mayors creates instability and tampers with service delivery.

“People are suffering on the ground and they will continue to suffer because those who are elected are not serving the interest of the people, but serving the interest of the coalition partners.”

Mbandlwa also touched base on the fact that Phalatse had plans before she was booted out and it was likely that the new mayor would not follow through with the plans, instead, he will come up with a new plan to prove his predecessor wrong.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18248221 (291544ZJAN23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate

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>>127734

>Thapelo Amad started off his acceptance speech by thanking God for making it possible that the city of Joburg has its first Muslim mayor.

It is curious that the ANC and EFF backed a Muslim mayor. “Islam in South Africa is a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_South_Africa

“Who is Thapelo Amad, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate to become the next Joburg mayor”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/who-is-thapelo-amad-al-jamahs-anc-backed-candidate-to-become-the-next-joburg-mayor-5492c04c-1685-4996-a9e8-df5ccb1a5e6d

Pretoria - Born and bred in Soweto, member of a Muslim minority political party and an imam, Thapelo Amad, provincial chairperson of Al Jama-ah, is the front runner to be the new mayor of Johannesburg.

Amad is expected to succeed DA councillor Mpho Phalatse, who was ousted after a motion of no confidence.

Wikipedia’s entry on the party says the party upholds Sharia law.

He has been the face of party’s mayoral candidate since 2019 and performed various legislative duties in the municipality of Johannesburg.

In October 2022, former mayor, ANC chairperson Dada Morero, named Amad as the MMC of Development Planning.

He will hold the fort for Morero for six months until the party is able to fix its issues with the EFF concerning a deal that went sour that was supposed to guarantee the EFF the mayoral position in Ekurhuleni.

According to information posted on Al Jama-ah's website, Amad holds several tertiary qualifications from various institutions.

He holds a BA in Islamic sciences and a NQF Level 4 qualification in entrepreneurship as well as a NQF Level 5 qualification in gender mainstreaming in the public service from the national school of government. He holds a ASRI future leaders’ fellowship and he is currently studying for a certificate of competence from the South African Local Government Association.

The party described him as a politician who excels in self governance and ethics, self representation of designated groups, having knowledge of domestic public policy making, and of legislation and national skills development strategy, and their implications for political performances.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18248252 (291551ZJAN23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate

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>>127735

“Cape Flats gang violence continues” [Dec 28, 2022] - https://youtu.be/12aBygfwjlc

“AL JAMA-AH Manifesto 2021”

https://www.aljama.co.za/manifesto/

Key take aways

So, if you vote for AL JAMA-AH, you vote for change , you vote for transformation, and you vote for a better quality of life.

Al Jama-ah remains committed to strive towards true liberation and the democratic ideals that are enshrined in our Constitution.

4.	OFFER FULL EMPLOYMENT IN MUNICIPALITIES [creating a dependency on the state]

Al Jama-ah will establish an employment desk at municipalities that will ensure jobs for matriculatns as a first step towards full employment in local government.

5.	PROVIDE DIGNIFIED HOUSING

The densification of white suburbs must be targeted to develop affordable homes for the homeless and trading areas for black traders (Africans, Coloureds, and Indians) who are mostly confined to already overcrowded spaces on the Cape Flats. [Spread violence and gangsterism? “Life on the Cape Flats - one of the most violent places in the world”, https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/444757/life-on-the-cape-flats-one-of-the-most-violent-places-in-the-world]

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18248259 (291552ZJAN23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / The Bloody War Against South African Gang Leaders and Notorious Drug kingpins…PAGAD (video)

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“The Bloody War Against South African Gang Leaders and Notorious Drug kingpins...(PAGAD)”

https://youtu.be/xGuhKtScEaU

Premiered Jun 30, 2022

This is a short documentary about a Muslim vigilante group known as PAGAD or The People Against Gangsterism And Drugs...

14:11 – “No one was arrested for all these murders.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18248271 (291555ZJAN23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Cape Town's most dangerous communities: Investigating SAPS (video)

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>“Cape Flats gang violence continues”

“[WARNING: GRAPHIC DETAILS] Cape Town's most dangerous communities” - Investigating SAPS

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Apr 18, 2022

The Western Cape Police Ombudsman has now launched an investigation into allegations that the SAPS has failed to clamp down on drug dens. Newzroom Afrika's Athi Mtongana takes us into one of Cape Town's most dangerous communities, where many lives have been lost in deadly gang-related shootings.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18253833 (301722ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Load shedding exacerbates South Africa’s food crisis, says Food Forward SA

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“Load shedding exacerbates South Africa’s food crisis, says Food Forward SA”

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/load-shedding-exacerbates-south-africas-food-crisis-says-food-forward-sa-2fbda692-6541-4668-9239-9bdf5a131dc4

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2023

Johannesburg - The recent news about dairy farmers being forced to discard 12 000 litres of milk because it had gone sour and the poultry industry being forced to slaughter 10 million chickens paints a bleak picture of what most businesses face as a result of load shedding.

Managing director at Food Forward SA (FFSA), Andy Du Plessis, speaks about how load shedding is threatening food security and affecting many livelihoods.

“The real impact of load-shedding goes well beyond being unable to turn on our lights or charge our phones for a few hours a day. It’s triggering an unprecedented collapse of South Africa’s economy, infrastructure, and future. It’s threatening our fragile food security ecosystem, leaving more people in poverty and without access to healthy, nutritious food. At the same time, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has granted Eskom tariff increases of 18.65% and 12.74% over the next two years."

Du Plessis says this is expected to stretch financially strapped consumers even further, with reports suggesting some South Africans will be forced to choose between their electricity needs and food security.

“Forcing people to choose between buying food or buying electricity is not an option; it’s not sustainable, and it goes against our fundamental human rights,” adds Du Plessis.

“It’s time for South Africans to come together, take our future into our own hands, and protect the resources that we have at our disposal,” he said.

It is revealed that while there is no quick fix to the energy crisis, there is a relatively untapped opportunity in terms of timeously intercepting quality, edible surplus food from the value chain and distributing this food to those who need it to lessen the burden of household food insecurity.

He further points out that in South Africa, more than 10 million tonnes of quality food are lost or wasted throughout the supply chain every year. This amounts to one-third of all food produced in the country.

“Load shedding is not going anywhere any time soon. But we can reduce its impact on the environment and the poor.

“By partnering with farmers and other supply-chain partners, we can recover quality food and redistribute it to people who otherwise could not access or afford a nutritious meal,” he concludes.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18253872 (301731ZJAN23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun / Ingonyama Trust loses bid to reverse ruling on its ‘unlawful’ leases”

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“Ingonyama Trust loses bid to reverse ruling on its ‘unlawful’ leases”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ingonyama-trust-board-land-supreme-court-of-appeal-25-august-2022/

25-08-2022 09:38

The Supreme Court of Appeal rejected Ingonyama Trust’s application to appeal a ruling on its ‘unlawful’ lease programme.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has rejected Ingonyama Trust’s application to appeal a 2021 ruling which found that it was wrong for the trust to make people living on the land it controls to sign leases and pay rent.

The Ingonyama Trust Board had asked for the recusal of the two judges who made the previous ruling and for the matter to be reheard by new judges. The SCA ruled that the appeal had no prospect of success even if it was heard.

“The application for leave to appeal is dismissed with costs on the grounds that there is no reasonable prospect of success in an appeal and there is no other compelling reason why an appeal should be heard,” read the SCA order.

THE 2021 RULING THAT WAS APPEALED

In 2020, it was a group of mostly women from rural KwaZulu-Natal who claimed they were tricked into signing leases by the Ingonyama Trust on their ancestral land and forced to pay rents that increased by 10% a year, who sought a high court order to declare the agreements invalid.

King Goodwill Zwelithini was the sole trustee of the land under the Ingonyama Trust Act, which spans about 3 million hectares. It is not yet clear if his son, King Misuzulu will take over the role.

In June 2021, the Pietermaritzburg High Court declared the land lease programme imposed by the Ingonyama Trust’s Board in 2012 as unlawful and an infringement on the residents’ constitutional rights.

The judges also ruled that the Ingonyama Trust must pay back the millions of rands collected from the people since the programme’s inception. It reportedly collected about R90 million in lease fees in the 2018-19 financial year alone.

According to City Press, in 2012, the Ingonyama Trust’s board chairperson, Jerome Ngwenya, initiated the lease programme to replace the permission to occupy certificates and other informal rights to land protected under the Interim Protection of Land Rights Act that residents had been using.

This reportedly left residents with no choice but to pay the annual fees of R800 or more, depending on the plot of land they occupied. The board was also reportedly acting against residents who failed to make the payments, while some occupants were left unable to develop their land as any developments required them to be in possession of a lease agreement which they only obtained after paying the lease fees.

LAND UNDER INGONYAMA TRUST IN THE SPOTLIGHT

This week, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said there is no plan to interfere with the land under Ingonyama Trust. It vowed that the land is safe and no one will touch it.

ANC KZN Provincial Secretary, Bheki Mtolo said reports on seizing land under Ingonyama Trust must be rejected and categorised as cheap propaganda aimed at creating social instability.

Mtolo said it should be remembered that on 9 July 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the late King Goodwill Zwelithini at Protea Hotel Waterfront in Richards Bay to clarify the position of the ANC and the ANC-led government on the issue of Ingonyama Trust.

“Critically, during that meeting His Majesty appreciated the explanation given – that both the ANC and ANC-led government had nothing to do with the recommendations on Ingonyama Trust – by the High Level Panel on the Assessment of Key Legislation and Acceleration of Fundamental.

“The King was encouraged that a Ministerial Task Team had been set up by President Ramaphosa to have a series of meetings with houses of traditional leaders at national, provincial and district levels. The Team was tasked with the responsibility to address concerns of our traditional leaders.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18253881 (301732ZJAN23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun / Uproar over unauthorized community trust collecting money on Zulu king’s land

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“Uproar over unauthorized community trust collecting money on Zulu king’s land”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/uproar-over-unauthorized-community-trust-collecting-money-on-zulu-kings-land-597144ad-ad6a-4c83-9600-d8187c468b42

Published Jan 27, 2023

Ulundi - Some community members of Babanango Village near Ulundi are up in arms over a community trust that is allegedly collecting money from residents using the Zulu King Misuzulu’s name.

The Babanango community trust is led by Mbangiseni Mbuyisa, a king’s appointee who has been tasked with leading the community of eMakhosini, the sacred burial site of ancient Zulu kings including King Jama, Mageba and Phunga of Babanango.

A concerned community member told IOL that the money the trust was collecting was not authorised by Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini or the Zulu royal family.

The community member alleged that the trust was being used as a finance vehicle by Mbuyisa and his inner circle, using their proximity to the monarchy.

One invoice was provided to IOL by the community as evidence that the community was collecting unexplained money from residents, and an annual sum of R50 was collected and it was classified as a customary fee.

“This community trust is conning people, collecting money from them yet the land they are operating on belongs to Ingonyama Trust.

“No one knows why this trust is here and we doubt that King Misuzulu or the royal family knows anything about this trust.

“The land these people are collecting these monies from belongs to Ingonyama Trust and this should not be happening,” said the Babanango resident.

Another resident, also from Babanango, said she had been paying this money for years and she had no idea why the committee under Mbuyisa was collecting it.

“This is very suspicious. Why are we paying this kind of money while we are under Ingonyama Trust,” the resident asked.

Mbuyisa told IOL he was unable to comment on the specifics until he was told who signed the receipt given to the residents.

He said he wanted to first know who signed off on these payments so that he could comment from an informed position.

He said there were several people and committees collecting money from the community of Babanango.

“Once I know who signed the receipt that has been given to you, I will tell you what that money is for,” Mbuyisa said when pressed by IOL.

Asked why his team was collecting money from residents, he said some of the people belonged to land not under Ingonyama Trust and this money was for paying staff of the trust.

“This money goes to paying staff like office clerks and cleaners who are not paid by Cogta (The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs).

“This trust was formed even before he came to power. He found it there and he blessed their existence, so there is nothing sinister about it,” Mbuyisa said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18253904 (301736ZJAN23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun / Impasse over Ingonyama Trust Board continues even after Didiza had meeting with Zulu King

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>This week, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said there is no plan to interfere with the land under Ingonyama Trust. It vowed that the land is safe and no one will touch it.

>Mtolo said it should be remembered that on 9 July 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the late King Goodwill Zwelithini at Protea Hotel Waterfront in Richards Bay to clarify the position of the ANC and the ANC-led government on the issue of Ingonyama Trust.

ANC wants to control the land through the trust?

““Impasse over Ingonyama Trust Board continues even after Didiza had meeting with Zulu King”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/impasse-over-ingonyama-trust-board-continues-even-after-didiza-had-meeting-with-zulu-king-40754e62-c18f-44b7-9258-9c8019080a74

Published Jan 25, 2023

Durban - The impasse over the appointment of the new board of directors of the Ingonyama Trust Board continues, with threats that the matter may end up in court if the government insists on ramming through its preferred candidates.

IOL understands that a meeting between the minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, Thoko Didiza, and representatives of King Misuzulu on Tuesday in Pongola, ended on a sour note when they could not reach a consensus.

Didiza had visited the King in Pongola in northern KwaZulu-Natal to discuss the matter, but she ended up in a heated meeting with his representatives.

The issue of the Ingonyama Trust and its board has been a thorny matter, even during the reign of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini.

Also, there are growing calls to take the 2.8 million hectares of land managed by the trust, whose sole trustee is the king, and place it under direct government control.

At some point, Parliament’s portfolio committee on agriculture, land reform and rural development demanded that the governance issues at the trust, which include financial mismanagement and board vacancies, be urgently dealt with.

During Tuesday’s meeting, a source said the King’s delegation expressed his unhappiness about some board members proposed by the minister.

“The King’s delegation was not happy with the proposed names and asked the meeting to be halted until his concerns have been addressed.

“However, the minister and her delegation appeared to be prepared to get their way and that annoyed everybody in the palace.

“There was even a suggestion that the SAPS team that guards the King should kick them out of the palace,” the source said.

However, Didiza’s spokesperson Reggie Ngcobo said the minister clarified the processes that must be followed in the appointment of the Board according to the legislation.

"In terms of the Ingonyama Trust Act of 1997, the minister appoints four members after consultations with Ingonyama, the premier and the chairperson of the KZN House of Traditional leaders.

“The premier then consults Ingonyama and the chairperson of the KZN House of Traditional Leaders. Following these consultations, the premier then forwards the names to the minister.

“Ingonyama then appoints His nominee and forward such to the minister.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18253909 (301737ZJAN23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun / About Ingonyama Trust

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“About Ingonyama Trust”

https://www.ingonyamatrust.org.za/about-itb/

Ingonyama Trust was established in 1994 by the erstwhile KwaZulu Government in terms of the KwaZulu Ingonyama Trust Act, (Act No 3KZ of 1994) to hold all the land that was hitherto owned or belonged to the KwaZulu Government.

The mandate of the Trust was to hold land for “the benefit, material welfare and social well-being of the members of the tribes and communities” living on the land.

When the democratic government came into existence initially in terms of the Interim Constitution of 1993 the original enabling Act creating Ingonyama Trust was reviewed comprehensively such that the final product was a new Act albeit called the Amendment Act.

This Amendment Act had to meet all the constitutional requirements both in terms of the Interim Constitution and the final Constitution of 1996.

His Majesty the King is the sole Trustee of the land. The Amendment Act provides, among other things, for the establishment of Ingonyama Trust Board to administer the affairs of the Trust and the Trust land.

Firstly, the land which the Trust is the nominal owner of is administered mainly in terms of Zulu customary law. The land is divided according to clans under the leadership of Traditional Leaders (AMAKHOSI) who in turn are responsible to the King in terms of customary law. Hence the King is the only Trustee of Ingonyama Trust.

The enabling Act was amended in 1997 to create a Board separate from the Trust to administer the trust and its assets which include land. This amendment tried as far as possible to align itself with the practice under customary law. The King for all practical purposes is relieved of all hands on administration. This is left to Board members none of whom is a trustee.

Communally the land is owned by the clans as a collective in respect of each demarcated area. In turn each member of each clan is entitled through the procedures under customary law to have ownership of his/her allotment.

https://mg.co.za/article/2019-08-07-secret-details-of-the-land-deal-that-brought-the-ifp-into-the-94-poll/

[Chief minister Mangosuthu] Buthelezi says that he discussed the passing of the Act with the NP and the ANC, “but they did not need to give consent”. The [Ingonyama Trust] Act was passed in the KwaZulu legislature without following normal process, which was necessary, Buthelezi says, because the province’s land would have been transferred to the state after elections.

[Danie] Joubert, [Danie] Schutte, and [Willem] Olivier went to see State President FW de Klerk. Joubert and Olivier presented the proposals they had worked out the previous evening: first, amend the constitution to recognise the Zulu king; second, promise further international mediation after the election; and third, as Joubert put it, “Put the Zulu land into a trust with the king as trustee and call it the Ingonyama Trust”.

Schutte, Olivier and Joubert spent the day working through details. Schutte and Joubert recall that [Roelf] Meyer, despite his reluctance to compromise with the IFP, was informed at this stage. When the first three returned to De Klerk, they decided that it had to be [Washington] Okumu who would present the proposals to Buthelezi. Joubert listed Okumu’s important characteristics: he was an “independent guy who Buthelezi trusts”, “an African guy from Kenya” who was “not directly invested in this whole thing”. What was needed was a “third party”.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18253990 (301752ZJAN23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun / King’s Trust sells people out to mining: Jindal and its empowerment partner, Sungu Sungu

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“‘King’s Trust sells people out to mining’” - Jindal and its empowerment partner, Sungu Sungu

https://mg.co.za/article/2015-06-04-kings-trust-sells-people-out-to-mining/

4 Jun 2015

Activists from KwaZulu-Natal say they have received death threats after challenging traditional authorities over prospecting rights granted to the Indian mining giant, Jindal.

The residents of Makhasaneni, near Melmoth, say tribal leaders gave permission to prospect on communal land without informing them.

Mbhekiseni Mavuso, who is heading a protest that aims to halt the prospecting, told amaBhungane that he and other leaders have received death threats and that he had been warned to leave the area.

Mavuso has been in hiding since last month.

KwaZulu-Natal violence monitor Mary de Haas has written a letter to the Melmoth station commander, calling on police to investigate the threats.

The trust stands accused of giving permission to Jindal and its empowerment partner, Sungu Sungu, to prospect – without consulting the villagers.

The Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act states that no one can be deprived of their rights to land without their consent, said Michael Clark, a legal researcher at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Law and Society.

Similarly, the Ingonyama Trust provides that the trust may not infringe people’s existing land rights.

Clark said it was illegal if the Makhasaneni residents had not been consulted.

Mavuso said the consortium started drilling in 2011. Villagers were angered by the lack of consultation, worried that prospecting could destroy their farmland and that they would not benefit from the mining.

“The mining company and the tribal authority stand to earn millions, while the community stands to lose everything,” Mavuso said.

“The people on the phone tell me that I have been identified as stubborn and a troublemaker and that I should be taken care of.”

At first Mavuso ignored the calls, but these became more frequent after articles attacking him appeared Bayede News, a weekly newspaper.

One article in July last year quoted people accusing Mavuso of being a “traitor” and said that he was in cahoots with white farmers.

The article was in reaction to a workshop intended to inform people about their land rights, Mavuso said. He had given a presentation at the workshop that was hosted by various nongovernmental organisations.

Bayede News described the workshop as part of a growing campaign “to stop Ingonyama Trust from taking back the land that belongs to Zulu people from the white farmers … taken by force during colonial times”.

Bayede News journalist Mandla Zulu, a member of the traditional council, who wrote the article, said it reflected what was said at the workshop.

Mavuso and other activists, who asked not to be named, alleged Jindal had used tactics to soften up the tribal council, including giving jobs to royal family members.

AmaBhungane has independently confirmed that the consortium purchased a car for the local chief, Thandazani Zulu.

AmaBhungane has also learned that, after signing the access agreement with Chief Zulu, Sungu Sungu took the document to Ingonyama Trust for a final go-ahead.

The activists described how the villagers woke up in late December 2011 to find “heavy machines drilling holes in our backyards and grazing fields, and trucks driving up and down”.

In early 2012 the villagers called for a meeting with Chief Zulu, local government officials and the mining company to get clarity.

Residents formed a circle in an open field, placed the chief in the middle and demanded that he explain the situation to them, according to one villager and a company source.

“The community was angry and felt betrayed. No one knew anything about the plan for mining and the drilling machines were destroying people’s crops and family graves,” said Mavuso.

He added that Jindal and Sungu Sungu had failed to knock on a single door in the village.

“We might be uneducated and poor but we didn’t deserve such treatment,” he said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18254004 (301755ZJAN23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun / Putting the Ingonyama Trust Act in Perspective (Parts 1&2)

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“Putting the Ingonyama Trust Act in Perspective” – Part 1

http://globalenvironmentaltrust.org/putting-the-ingonyama-trust-act-in-perspective/

Amidst threats of violence, a political storm is brewing following an announcement by the central government of its intention to amend or do away with the Ingonyama Trust Act. Denials by the F W de Klerk Foundation and former IFP leader Prince Buthelezi that the legislation was passed secretly are disingenuous. The matter had not been canvassed with the Nationalist Party’s main CODESA negotiator, the ANC. The context was one in which the IFP, in partnership with ultra conservative groupings, was making unrealistic demands about devolution of powers to regions, and, with unprecedented levels of violence, and the party refusing to participate in the elections of 27 April until the eleventh hour, there were fears of an intensified civil war in the region. Furthermore, since 1992 there had been reports that the then government was secretly planning to transfer large areas of land to homeland governments, despite agreements reached at CODESA, and legislation passed in 1993 had given President de Klerk what lawyers had described as ‘extraordinary powers’ to bypass parliament in matters pertaining to the self-governing homelands.

The recent proposals are made in the interests of promoting the land rights of rural residents, so it is not clear why they should be pose a threat, save to Board members and staff benefitting financially from the income of the Trust. The great respect and prestige enjoyed by King Zwelithini has nothing to do with the existence of the Trust (which is widely resented by his subjects). The Act itself appears clearly unconstitutional since it discriminates against black people living in KZN as opposed to those living in other provinces where such Trusts do not exist. Nor is there any good reason why only one of the various kings in South Africa should be the sole trustee of a Land Trust. Historically, this land was not ‘owned’ in the modern commercial sense by traditional leaders or kings, for relationships to land were of a different order in the pre-colonial era. The Trust’s claim to nominal ownership of the land through Zulu customary law is seriously flawed.

The Trust has, with impunity, breached the provisions of its governing Act, which stipulates that it must be administered for the benefit, material welfare and well being of the areas it controls. In 1991 rural residents in the far north of the province near Mbazwane discovered that, unbeknown to them, the Trust had granted a lease to a local traditional leader to operate a private game reserve in partnership with outside business interests. To that end, he fenced the area off and evicted residents from their ancestral homes – and arranged for local police to arrest them if they returned to engage in their subsistence activities. All appeals to the Trust failed and it was only through concerted opposition by the community, and various court actions – including an interdict against the chief – that residents eventually won the right to remain in their homes. The area, like some of the others falling under the Trust, had never been part of the historic Zulu kingdom.

In 2008 the KZN government and a traditional leader reportedly entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a Dubai-based investor for a massive tourism development in the eMacambini area near Mandeni. The deal fell through, so no lease was issued by the Trust, but it did lease the land to Hulett Tongaat, without consulting with affected community members, including those who had been given the land when they were removed from Mangete in the 1970s. As usual, the consultation had been with the local traditional leader who controlled the community trust set up. This same leader, notorious for terrorising his own subjects and driving them off their land, while orchestrating illegal land invasions and general mayhem in nearby Mangete, was subsequently appointed to the Board of the Trust.

Commonage land, especially in peri-urban Trust areas, is being allocated to outsiders for building purposes, decreasing the land available to long established residents. The rights of these residents are protected in law by the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act (IPILRA). Now the Trust is trying to persuade residents on traditional land to sign leases (allegedly written in English), which would involve paying annual rent for land they already have rights to. If they default on rent they could be evicted.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18254028 (301759ZJAN23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Gardee murder case shocker

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“Hillary Gardee laid to rest” [May 7, 2022] - https://youtu.be/5oQASF7gwg4

“Gardee murder case shocker” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/entertainment/movies/news/gardee-murder-case-shocker-81b25136-1615-4d65-9b30-234fd5925d67

Published Jan 29, 2023

Johannesburg - The man who was accused of being the mastermind behind Hillary Gardee’s kidnapping and murder was released on R20 000 bail last week after seven months behind bars.

Now he wants the state to withdraw all the charges against him and apologise for their blunder. In an exclusive interview with Sunday Independent on Friday, Philemon Lukhele claims he was tortured and begged by police to implicate EFF deputy president, Floyd Shivambu, whom he hasn’t seen or spoken to for many years, as the one who ordered a hit on Gardee.

“I was tortured and asked to admit that I worked with Floyd to kill Hillary, someone wanted to settle a political score with Shivambu using me in this case. When police realised that there was no connection between Floyd and myself as we haven’t interacted for so many years, they then begged me to ask accused number one, Sipho Mkhatshwa, to implicate Shivambu and I refused to be part of their sick game”, Lukhele said.

He said police wanted him to claim that he met Shivambu when he was in Mbombela to take part in a protest at a farm belonging to businessman, Johann Rupert, in Mpumalanga on April 5 last year.

“I haven’t seen or spoken to Floyd in more than four years yet I was tortured to implicate him in a murder I wasn’t even involved in.”

Lukhele said police “exaggerated charges” against him and his co-accused Mkhatshwa and Albert Gama, from the beginning.

“When they realised that they had arrested the wrong people, they started creating, manufacturing and planting evidence against us but still that didn’t work. No amount of lies will turn into the truth. I said on the day I was arrested that the truth shall set me free and that history will absolve me. I have nothing to do with Hillary’s murder or kidnapping. I never even met her in my life.”

Lukhele was released on bail last Friday after he was officially given the case docket with a confession of the man who admitted that he killed Gardee and that he acted alone.

The Sunday Independent reported in August last year that when police arrested Hlabirwa Rassie Nkuna, for killing a 27-year-woman, Nonkululeko Nkosi, in Ekurhuleni and dumping her on a farm dam before stealing her Mercedes-Benz, he confessed that he was Gardee’s murderer.

Nkuna was out on parole and had a warrant of arrest after he shot and killed his girlfriend, Pretty Nkambule, and her sister, Marcia, who was a police officer, two weeks after Gardee was murdered. The publication further reported that Nkuna even took police to an ATM in Sabie where he withdrew money from Gardee’s account.

Nkuna has been added as accused number four in this case but they had refused to release Lukhele, Gama and Mkhatshwa claiming that there was a connection between the four men. Hillary’s father and former EFF secretary general, Godrich Gardee, is suing the state for R18 million for “wrongfully” releasing Nkuna on parole before the man kidnapped and killed his daughter.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18254032 (301759ZJAN23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Gardee murder case shocker

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“Gardee murder case shocker” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/entertainment/movies/news/gardee-murder-case-shocker-81b25136-1615-4d65-9b30-234fd5925d67

Published Jan 29, 2023

Hillary was kidnapped in Nelspruit while she was in town with her 3-year-old adopted daughter. Her body was found dumped in a plantation outside Nelspruit towards Sabie. In his confession seen by Sunday Independent this week and part of the police docket, Nkuna claims that he killed Gardee within the vicinity of Sabie and stressed that he acted alone.

He admits, in his confession, that he met Gardee via Facebook and asked her out on a date. He also confessed that he stole Gardee’s cellphone and laptop and sold them to a Nigerian national living in Nelspruit.

Correctional Services spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo, confirmed to the Sunday Independent that Nkuna was sentenced to four years for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition in September 2015 and placed on parole on July 6, 2016.

Nkuna absconded from the community service system until he was arrested again in September 2020 for rape. He was again placed on parole on January 27, 2022, and he allegedly killed Gardee and the Mazibuko sisters within four months.

Lukhele said the initial charge of rape and kidnapping against him, Gama and Mkhantswa were withdrawn against them in the final indictment.

“My guest house was initially mentioned as the scene of the crime but that is no longer the case in the indictment. Even the case of kidnapping was withdrawn against the three of us. All I want is for the state to withdraw all the charges against Sipho, Albert and myself and apologise for the error but they must know that no amount of public apology will wash our names after they dragged our good names through the mud for so long”, he said.

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) provincial spokesperson, Monica Nyuswa, confirmed that Lukhele was released on R20 000 bail last Friday and that he was ordered not to interfere with witnesses in this case and to report to the police every Friday.

When asked about the withdrawal of most of the charges against Lukhele, Gama and Mkhatshwa, Nyuswa said: “The state has the discretion to remove and add charges before the accused pleads guilty based on evidence.”

She confirmed that Nkuna was charged with Gardee’s murder last year and the NPA would not comment on why all the charges against Gama, Mkhatshwa and Lukhele weren’t withdrawn or whether there is a link between the three men and Nkuna.

“The NPA cannot comment on that as it is the subject of court proceedings during the trial,” she said.

Gama and Mkhatshwa are still behind bars and expected to make new bail applications now that they were given Nkuna’s confession as part of the indictment. The Gardee murder is expected to start in April.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18254097 (301811ZJAN23) Notable: EFF Bun / Stability at various KZN municipalities under threat due to EFF, IFP divorce (video)

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>>127730

>Many political pundits believe the ANC and the red berets are natural bedfellows. The one’s ideology is closely followed by the others’ slightly more radical ideal of its ideological utopia.

>>127709

>Officials in Eswatini admit there are problems in the kingdom but say the unrest was due to “terrorists” and “rabble rousers” from South Africa.

>Khumalo said that security forces had intervened when authorities “had been made aware of a grand plan to sow a trail of destruction” in Eswatini. Without offering evidence, he alleged the plan involved the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical leftwing political party in neighbouring South Africa.

>“The EFF was bringing in people to lead the destruction and who would train and mentor its local branch to do this … We were able to intercept the plan on the internet. We had to protect business and security for all citizens. It was beyond a protest,” the minister said.

“IFP media briefing on coalitions” [Jan 30, 2023] - https://youtu.be/8KR8QJQbDBs

The IFP is currently briefing the media on the EFF's decision to cut ties with it in coalitions.

0:19 – “As I conclude, the IFP will not be threatened by any political party and will not be pushed into any corner.”

18:04 – “I just want to add my voice in congratulating the ANC in being able to enlist a new partner in their looting spree in the EFF because this marriage of convenience has nothing to do with ethics and actually quality service delivery to the people but actually opportunities to loot and plunder the resources of the people of this country. You can see that with the token mayors that actually are going to be planting all over in Gauteng because they don’t want anybody to actually disturb them in their looting spree… and I wish them well in their journey to hell… As for the IFP being branded an Apartheid collaborator, clearly Mr Malema was still enjoying breastfeeding when this country actually burned as a result of this reckless talk. You know more than 20 000 people actually died as a result of this because this was ANC propaganda peddled against the IFP and one can actually forgive Mr Malema because he was still a toddler then but he is being reckless and nobody wants to go back to that unfortunate past.”

“Stability at various KZN municipalities under threat due to EFF, IFP divorce”

https://www.ecr.co.za/news/news/stability-various-kzn-municipalities-under-threat-due-eff-ifp-divorce/

Updated Jan. 30, 2023, 10:57 a.m

The political stability of multiple municipalities in KZN, where the IFP teamed up with the EFF to govern, is under threat.

EFF leader Julius Malema has announced that the red berets are cutting ties with the IFP, just days after ordering EFF deputy mayors in KZN to vacate their posts.

“Following these meetings, and the inability of the IFP to appreciate the need to cooperate with those who have given them unconditional roles of responsibility in municipalities, the EFF will initiate and support motions of no confidence against all IFP Mayors in all Municipalities we previously voted with them,” Malema said on Sunday.

Malema wants the party removed from positions of power in municipalities in KZN and Gauteng.

Zululand, Amajuba, Uthukela and Jozini are a few of the areas that stand to be affected in KZN.

"These include Zululand, Amajuba, Uthukela, Umkhanyakude, King Cetshwayo District Municipalities, and Ulundi, Nongoma, Mtubatuba, uMhlathuze, Jozini, Dannhauser, Alfred Duma, Nkosi Langalibalele, Abaqulusi, Uphongolo, Umhlabauyalingana Local Municipalities."

Malema addressed a media briefing in Johannesburg on Sunday.

He said the party is withdrawing its support after negotiations with the IFP to assign EFF deputy mayors with responsibilities failed.

"We have said to the IFP ‘give us Mhlathuze and we are not fixated on Mhlathuze. If you refuse then you should give a counter-offer’ and they said they are done with us. they can't go beyond that they are not going to give us anything." Malema believes it's time for the EFF to take on bigger roles of responsibility.

"The door is therefore open by the EFF for engagements on how best to structure coalition agreements in the municipalities for all those who are interested in achieving stability and service delivery in our communities."

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18254152 (301820ZJAN23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Judge Piet Koen recuses himself from Jacob Zuma Arms Deal trial (video)

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“Zuma Corruption Trial | Judge Piet Koen recuses himself” - https://youtu.be/BMQxleR6NUw

“Judge Piet Koen recuses himself from Jacob Zuma Arms Deal trial”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-judge-piet-koen-recuses-himself-jacob-zuma-arms-deal-trial-30-june/

30-01-2023 14:58

‘I have come to the conclusion, and it was not an easy decision, that I have to recuse myself from the trial,’ said Judge Piet Koen on Monday.

Judge Piet Koen of the Pietermaritzburg High Court recused himself from Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption trial on Monday, 30 January.

KOEN RECUSES HIMSELF FROM ZUMA TRIAL

Last year, Koen dismissed a special plea by the Zuma camp to have Advocate Billy Downer removed as a prosecutor in the matter. In doing so, he expressed “strong comments” about the merits of the then-pending private prosecution brought by Zuma against Downer.

In October 2022, Koen asked the State and defence to make submissions on whether or not he should recuse himself as the trial judge.

“I have come to the conclusion, and it was not an easy decision, that I have to recuse myself from the trial,” said Koen in court on Monday.

“It is what the sound administration of justice, the requirements of the Constitution and my conscience dictate.

“The integrity of the judicial process must be protected against any reasonable taint of suspicion so that the public and litigants may have the highest confidence in the integrity and fairness of our courts.”

Koen further explained that in this instance, the Zuma camp did not allege that he was actually biased in the submissions made to the court. However, South African laws on recusal do not require proof of bias on the part of a judge.

“The appearance of a reasonable apprehension of bias is enough to vitiate the proceedings,” said Koen.

Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Jimmy Manyi welcomed Koen’s decision to recuse himself, saying it was a “very sober decision by the judge.”

Manyi then pivoted to the National Prosecution Authority’s (NPA) refusal to have Downer removed from the case. He said the NPA should use the same motivation as Koen to remove Downer from the case as he “cannot be perceived to be free and fair…”

As previously reported, Zuma is privately prosecuting Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan. He is accusing them of violating the NPA Act. The former president is also attempting to charge President Cyril Ramaphosa in this matter for allegedly failing to act on complaints Zuma made to him about the NPA prosecutor.

Zuma and French arms company Thales are the accused parties in the Arms Deal Trial, which dates back to 1999.

The former president is accused of accepting a R500 000 bribe from Thales annually to protect them from an investigation into a deal to supply military hardware to South Africa, according to Reuters. The parties face 16 charges of racketeering, fraud, corruption and money laundering.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18254261 (301840ZJAN23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Judge Piet Koen recuses himself from Jacob Zuma Arms Deal trial (video)

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>>127750

“Judge Piet Koen recuses himself from Zuma's corruption trial: Mzwanele Manyi [Jacob Zuma Foundation reaction]”

https://youtu.be/sEVJf5IuHps

Judge Piet Koen says his decision to recuse himself from former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg is in the interest of justice. Zuma and his co-accused, French company Thales, face charges related to fraud, corruption and money laundering in connection with the multi-billion-rand arms deal that took place in the 1990s.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18259142 (311434ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Soweto Vs Eskom: War between Eskom and Soweto residents continues

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“Soweto Vs Eskom: War between Eskom and Soweto residents continues”

https://youtu.be/Sxr9l_2sbgk

Mar 3, 2019

The power utility is bleeding dry as 80% of Soweto residents are in arrears which amount to 17 billion rands. EWN takes a closer look at how this came about.

0:35 – “She’s just one of the Soweto residents who’ve refused to part with their money arguing that free electricity is a basic right enshrined in the Freedom Charter.”

“More darkness for Soweto as De Ruyter runs out of wheels”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/more-darkness-for-soweto-as-de-ruyter-runs-out-of-wheels-aeb763d2-8d29-4d45-af8f-dc74ea89a77e

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2023

Johannesburg - Community members in Naledi (Draaihoek) in Soweto have been without power since May last year, in part, because Eskom at one point did not have a truck to deliver a replacement transformer.

Eskom quietly delivered the transformer two weeks ago after the Sunday Independent asked questions, but the nine-month-long blackout continues for frustrated residents since the unit is not yet connected to the grid.

Whereas millions of South Africans are becoming accustomed to getting a ray of electricity for a few hours a day, the Draaihoek residents in the south-western townships of Johannesburg, a traditional voter base of the governing ANC, have it worse.

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter recently resigned from the post amid murmurs in the governing party’s circles the rolling blackouts are intended to foster a regime change. Eskom has also been accused of implementing long hours of darkness in black townships as compared to the white suburbs.

He [Naledi Thulani Buthelezi] said with mini-sub boxes exploding every week, it was common there would be more boxes that need to be transported than the trucks available at Eskom.

He says the initial delay in Draaihoek was due to outstanding payments of R500 per household, which were compulsory for Eskom to procure new transformers to replace the damaged unit.

He says Eskom had previously adopted a strategy to install the boxes, switch on the power and then come back to convert households to prepaid.

“But some communities don’t allow them to come back and normalise so they realised that it does not work. What they do now, install the box, then normalise (convert to prepaid), then switch on.”

Buthelezi confirmed a new box was on-site in Draaihoek but was yet to be switched on pending the normalisation process.

“Eskom security contractor officer shot dead in Klipspruit Soweto”

https://www.eskom.co.za/eskom-security-contractor-officer-shot-dead-in-klipspruit-soweto/

Tuesday, 18 January 2022: An Eskom-contracted security officer succumbed to head injuries on Thursday, 13 January 2022 after he and six of his colleagues were shot at by approximately 30 heavily armed suspects during an alleged attempt to steal copper cable outside the Eskom Klipspruit Customer Network Centre (CNC) in Soweto.

“Eskom withdraws services from parts of Soweto following attacks”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/394535-eskom-withdraws-services-from-parts-of-soweto-following-attacks.html

22 April 2021: Eskom has temporarily withdrawn its services in Orlando East in Soweto after violent attacks and damage cause to Eskom vehicles on Thursday.

“Our employees were conducting disconnections for non-payment in the area when they were attacked by violent members of the community who in the process, also damaged our vehicles,” the utility stated.

“Eskom withdraws services in parts of Soweto due to unrests”

https://sowetourban.co.za/92249/eskom-withdraws-services-in-parts-of-soweto-due-to-unrests/

August 19, 2021: Some of the affected areas in Soweto include Diepkloof, Orlando and Zola. The power utility said it was forced take a step back due to safety concerns arising from violent protests and threats to its employees and equipment.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18259227 (311453ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Lesufi wants to write off Soweto's unpaid R5bn Eskom bill (video)

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>>127752

>She’s just one of the Soweto residents who’ve refused to part with their money arguing that free electricity is a basic right enshrined in the Freedom Charter.

“Soweto community leaders request meaningful engagement with Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi”: Seth Mazibuko - https://youtu.be/WI34jongY7I

They’ve made their beds and now they’ll have to lie in them

“Lesufi wants to write off Soweto's unpaid R5bn Eskom bill”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/lesufi-wants-to-write-off-sowetos-unpaid-r5bn-eskom-bill/ar-AA16FK4F

24 January 2023

Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi is on a mission to get the R5bn owed by Soweto residents to Eskom written off.

Lesufi visited Zola 3 in Soweto this week where he addressed the community on electricity and safety challenges in the area.

Community members from neighbouring parts of Soweto voiced their grievances on several concerns, including electricity, safety, high drug use, and a lack of proper housing.

They expressed frustration with Eskom for cutting off their power due to nonpayment.

Panyaza said Soweto's electricity problems would not be resolved until the debt is removed.

He asked residents who could afford to pay for services to do so.

“Until we remove the debt of electricity in Soweto, we are not going to resolve the problem of electricity in Soweto. But we can't just remove the debt. We must agree on a process and it's very simple: protect those who are unemployed and elderly who can't pay, but ensure those running businesses in our township pay.

“We can’t hide behind the poor when you are employed or you run businesses in our township and that's the process we must undertake without fear or favour,” said Lesufi.

Speaking to the media, the premier said the government would look into removing illegal connections so that when the debt is resolved communities don't recreate it.

He said if the government takes over Eskom's debt Eskom should write off the debt of poor communities.

“The minister of finance went to parliament and said this government is taking over the debt of Eskom and our view is, if this government is taking over the debt of Eskom, by extension Eskom must remove the debt from our communities because the state has taken that particular debt,” said Lesufi.

“We can't remove the debt forever. Communities that can pay must be given the opportunity to pay and agree on a process — do they want to pay through prepaid, or do they want to pay through flat rate?”

Last year, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said the government would be taking on “a significant portion” of Eskom’s R400bn debt to ensure the power utility's long-term financial viability.

Godongwana said he would release full details of the Eskom debt plan when he presents the 2023 budget.

“For at least a decade, we have spent billions of rand supporting Eskom, with limited improvements in the reliability of the electricity supply or the financial health of the company.

“The debt takeover, once finalised, together with other reforms, will ensure that Eskom is financially sustainable. The programme will allow Eskom to focus on plant performance and capital investment and ensure that it no longer relies on government bailouts,” he said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18259247 (311459ZJAN23) Notable: Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One / Lesufi wants to write off Soweto's unpaid R5bn Eskom bill (video)

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>>127752

>>127753

The socialists do not want to admit to the real cause but ‘Dr’ Trevor Ngwane makes a true statement further down the article.

“Calls to scrap Soweto’s R4 billion Eskom debt ‘smacks of desperation’”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/load-shedding/calls-to-scrap-sowetos-r4-billion-eskom-debt/

27 Jan 2023

The issue of Soweto’s historical electricity debt to Eskom has for the longest time been a thorny issue for both the Gauteng Provincial Government and residents alike.

Residents of Soweto have been calling for the total scrapping of the debt, believed to be in the region of R4 billion.

Marches have also been held by irate residents who have complained about poor service delivery from Eskom regarding relentless power outages, caused by either load reduction or transformers that have blown up.

Load shedding the least of Soweto’s problems

Socialist and anti-apartheid activist Dr Trevor Ngwane says one of the main reasons behind some residents refusing to pay for electricity is because of what they describe as poor services from the power utility.

“For example, every winter season, and this is long before load shedding started hitting us, residents would experience power failures and simply because Eskom was failing to upgrade their infrastructure and the more people moved to Soweto from other areas, substations and transformers were not being upgraded.

Soweto residents punished with load reduction?

“The amazing thing is that Eskom under Andre de Ruyter came up with a type of load shedding, specifically geared towards black – class areas called load reduction, and the reason they give for that is – those areas where there are illegal connections or where there is overcrowding – have to be reduced in terms of the load because they pose a bigger danger to the grid.

“We at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) found out when we conducted research, that if in Sandton there is 2 hours of load shedding, for a guy in Tembisa and Soweto there is 10 hours of load shedding,” said Ngwane.

Lesufi may be genuine in his concerns

Referring to Lesufi’s concerns about the Soweto electricity conundrum, Ngwane said he believes the premier truly wants to solve the problem, though his motives may not be completely innocent.

“He is genuine in as far as 2024, and the loss of power for the ANC is a reality, and he is under pressure because he thinks that Gauteng ANC will lose more votes, hence, he wants to be seen as resolving residents’ issues.

“He is also presenting himself as ‘Mr Fixit’ and it’s not only electricity issues, even on the issue of crime, he promised he is going to buy six helicopters to fight crime. So, on the one hand he is genuine in wanting to solve Soweto’s problems, while on the other hand – but there is also an element of electioneering and real fear and desperation that something must be done to help the people of Soweto and Gauteng at large.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18259465 (311608ZJAN23) Notable: EFF Bun / CIC Julius Malema Addresses EFF Press Conference (Parts 1&2)

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>>127749

>As for the IFP being branded an Apartheid collaborator, clearly Mr Malema was still enjoying breastfeeding when this country actually burned as a result of this reckless talk. You know more than 20 000 people actually died as a result of this because this was ANC propaganda peddled against the IFP and one can actually forgive Mr Malema because he was still a toddler then but he is being reckless and nobody wants to go back to that unfortunate past.

In response to this…

“CIC Julius Malema Addresses EFF Press Conference” – 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/35hTfZR8Et4

Jan 29, 2023

6:28 – “This comes after the credible realization that the EFF has grown tremendously over the past 10 years and has now reached a stage where we are ready to govern. This will immediately require a deliberate effort to politically educate not only 1 million members of the EFF but society as a whole to the ideals and principles of a socialist government so that our people rally behind and defend the gains of economic freedom once it is attained.’’

13:49 – “The EFF will initiate and support motions of no confidence against all IFP mayors in all municipalities we previously voted for them.”

15:54 – “The EFF will continue to participate in the removal of the DA across all metros.”

22:12– “The EFF has resolved to hold a national shutdown to demand the return of electricity and for the resignation of Cyril Ramaphosa on the 20th of March 2023… No truck and no train will be allowed on the roads and railways particularly the trucks transporting South Africa’s minerals and coal to outside South Africa through Richards Bay. We cannot fold our arms and do nothing when the ANC government and Cyril Ramaphosa who is involved in a lot of criminal and questionable dealings and yet protected by law enforcement agencies. This is a shutdown we will call for the immediate end to load shedding which is crippling the South African economy and returning this country to the dark ages.”

24:48 – “All sectors and spheres of society are invited to form part of this historic National shutdown which will confront the puppet of the capitalist establishment Cyril Ramaphosa directly and expose him as an agent who’s determined to sell the sovereignty of South Africa to the highest bidder. The EFF leadership will be engaging with all taxi associations to support the national shutdown and will encourage all structures at all levels to engage taxi associations and all people to support the national shutdown.”

26:44 – “The continue rising levels of unemployment, the increasing cost of living, the rolling electricity blackouts and rampant corruption and incompetence of the ruling party are all signs that South Africa is yet another African country that is collapsing after the attainment of liberation.”

37:57 – “The negotiations with the IFP will never be closed, it’s an opposition party with a history of collaborating with Apartheid.”

38:39 – “The DA more than willing to negotiate and give power to Patriotic Alliance. A Party of well-known convicted criminals… and then not ready to talk to us who have clean record and no history of being convicted criminals.”

42:10 – “National shutdown 20 March, we don’t apply for nothing. We can’t apply for that which is given to us by the Constitution. It is our Constitutional right to protest and we shall protest on the 20th of March. Like Sharpeville, we’re not scared of the state power. Let the state come with its power, we’ll come with the mass power. So everything is going to come to a standstill… On the 20th, if you know what is good for you, park your trucks in your depots. Let the trains stop.”

53:03 – “Our interest in taking over housing is to unlock opportunities for our people and also to reclaim the hijacked buildings in Johannesburg and convert them into people’s house and student accommodation.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18259474 (311610ZJAN23) Notable: EFF Bun / CIC Julius Malema Addresses EFF Press Conference (Parts 1&2)

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“CIC Julius Malema Addresses EFF Press Conference” – 2 of 2

https://youtu.be/35hTfZR8Et4

Jan 29, 2023

59:50 – “Well as a political party especially a leftist movement, consistent training of your cadres is very important so that they become grounded on your ideological orientation and your policies. So it’s important we intensify political education.”

1:02:31 – “Let’s go back to 1994 without BEE, without anything. 1994 a democratic breakthrough, white business people went to fetch black people into their companies and say let’s work together because they were seeing that democracy is here.

1:12:20 – “We’re not threatened by any security because we do this [national shutdown] peacefully, it’s our right. And if they want to come and violate our rights, they will find us ready. No one is going to intimidate us. South Africa will come to a stand still. If Ramaphosa does not resign on the 20th of March then what will happen will be announced on the 20th of March but we never make pronouncement on the things that are not possible. Whether Ramaphosa likes it or not, it’s a mess in this country, he is responsible for crimes of Phala Phala and it’s not me who is saying that his former Chief Justice who says that there’s prima facie evidence for Ramaphosa to answer on Phala Phala. Why would you want to continue as a president after being found with dollars that are not declared to Reserve Bank and SARS.

1:14:49 – “The July 2021 of Zuma… The unrest of Zuma is going to look like a Mickey Mouse. From Musina to Cape Town, nothing will be move except ambulances, hospitals, doctors and nurses and police. Only emergency services and emergency services include you who’s asking about people’s lives. You will be covering nicely the protest of the EFF on that day. We are unstoppable. South Africa has been waiting for too long. We are mobilizing every corner of our country. That is the beginning of bringing down the ANC and Ramaphosa. 20 March 2023 is a Freedom Day. Our freedom that was stolen by the criminals of the ANC shall be returned to the people of South Africa on the 20th of March 2023. Everywhere else we meet, progressive unions and all progressive professionals, we must all remind each other that freedom is coming on the 20th March 2023. We are going to switch on the lights of South Africa because we are going to remove a man who switched off the lights of South Africa.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18259632 (311653ZJAN23) Notable: Gayton McKenzie Bun / Ex-con Gayton McKenzie offers to help Flabba’s killer: "God forgave you" (video)

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>>127755

>The DA more than willing to negotiate and give power to Patriotic Alliance. A Party of well-known convicted criminals

“Gayton Mckenzie marks 100 days as Central Karoo mayor” - https://youtu.be/gKxojtIsKOU

“Ex-con Gayton McKenzie offers to help Flabba’s killer: ‘God forgave you’”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/celeb-news/gayton-mckenzie-patriotic-alliance-mayor-jail-criminal-kenny-kunene-flabba-skwatta-kamp-sindisiwe-manqele-parole-latest-news/

30-05-2022 10:07

‘You served your time’: ex-convict and Central Karoo mayor Gayton McKenzie tweeted in support of Flabba’s killer Sindisiwe Manqele.

Former convicted criminals Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene have vowed to assist the woman behind the death of slain Skwatta Kamp rapper Flabba.

The founding members of political party the Patriotic Alliance (PA) have pledged their support to Sindisiwe Manqele after she was granted parole last week. Manqele served six years for the death of Nkululeko Habedi aka Flabba, who she stabbed to death in 2015.

GAYTON MCKENZIE’S PAST CONVICTIONS

Gayton McKenzie’s career from criminal to presidential campaigner has been well-documented. The Bloemfontein-born politician and motivational speaker has spoken extensively about his criminal background, which included armed robbery and being a part of the notorious “Numbers” gang.

In jail, Gayton McKenzie formed a firm friendship with Kenny Kunene – who was imprisoned for theft and fraud. The pair would be involved in a bombshell prison expose in 2002 at Grootvlei, which lead to his early release.

He tweeted of Kunene and himself: “They can call us criminals, yes we did commit crimes 3 decades ago. We went to jail, we paid for our crimes. We share our riches because we know what it is not to have, we gave 17,000 food parcels during lockdown. Salute.”

Gayton is the author of several bestseller books that details his past offences. They include The Choice: The Gayton McKenzie Story, A Hustler’s Bible and The Uncomfortable Truth amongst many others.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18260006 (311755ZJAN23) Notable: EFF Bun / Eight EFF deputy mayors in KZN have resigned after fallout with IFP

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>>127749

>>127755

>No truck and no train will be allowed on the roads and railways particularly the trucks transporting South Africa’s minerals and coal to outside South Africa through Richards Bay.

“Eight EFF deputy mayors in KZN have resigned after fallout with IFP”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/eight-eff-deputy-mayors-in-kzn-have-resigned-after-fallout-with-ifp-30a971fa-7155-44fe-bbad-a76ea62ca999

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2023

Durban – The chairperson of the EFF in KwaZulu-Natal, Mongezi Thwala, says all eight of their deputy mayors in the province have heeded the call to resign from their positions after the party recently ended its coalition pact with the IFP.

EFF leader Julius Malema announced the party was cutting ties from the IFP over the weekend. The IFP responded by saying the doors to negotiate the coalition terms again were closed.

Malema claimed that their deputy mayors were not being given any significant roles to play except being given bodyguards once they assume office.

“Eight deputy mayors, have resigned all of them,” Thwala told IOL on Tuesday.

Among those who resigned was Nkululeko Ngubane, the former deputy mayor of the City of Umhlathuze (Richards Bay-Mpangeni) which the IFP claims the EFF wanted in exchange for maintaining their coalition pact which started in November 2021.

IFP President Velenkosini Hlabisa told a press conference in Durban on Monday that they refused to accede to that demand, but proposed that the EFF be helped to topple the ANC in eThekwini and govern there.

He said they flatly refused that and the option to topple the ANC in Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg) or Umdoni (Umzinto) and govern there, but they insisted on laying their hands on UMhlathuze (Richards Bay-Mpangeni). [Take note: Malema is targeting Richards Bay for the planned 'strike' on 20 March 2023]

Ngubane completely left the municipality as he even surrendered his seat as a councillor amid speculations that he is heading for the provincial legislature. [Or rather due to the planned strike/violence?]

Despite being a coalition partner, Ngubane held the IFP accountable in the city and he is the one who raised concerns about the party-focusing rallies than taking much-needed services to the people.

Another deputy mayor who resigned was Thulani Ndlovu, the former deputy mayor of the Zululand district municipality which is anchored in Ulundi, the original capital of the Zulu kingdom.

On Tuesday the municipality convened a special council sitting and replaced Ndlovu with Siyabonga Mbatha from the IFP.

Another former EFF deputy mayor who vacated his position was Sabelo Nkosi who was Nongoma local municipality’s deputy to Albert Mncwango of the IFP.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18263161 (010500ZFEB23) Notable: Ingonyama Trust Bun

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Ingonyama Trust Bun

>>127740 Ingonyama Trust loses bid to reverse ruling on its ‘unlawful’ leases”

>>127741 Uproar over unauthorized community trust collecting money on Zulu king’s land

>>127742 Impasse over Ingonyama Trust Board continues even after Didiza had meeting with Zulu King

>>127743 About Ingonyama Trust

>>127744 King’s Trust sells people out to mining: Jindal and its empowerment partner, Sungu Sungu

>>127745, >>127746 Putting the Ingonyama Trust Act in Perspective (Parts 1&2)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18264487 (011405ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview: “State captures happened with Anglo American” (Parts 1-3 video)

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“00DEZZ - Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview.” – “State captures happened with Anglo American” 1 of 3

https://youtu.be/I7hEnZV0vEY

Discussing state capture of SOE’s in Africa as a whole.

2:42 – “You know for me, what I realized is that many people in Africa don’t yet understand how the world works. It’s a race for resources and capitalism is about captivating and capturing resources in order to build monopolies. So what we saw with Zisco steel [in Zimbabwe] was sabotage by monopoly makers and these monopoly makers were companies like Anglo American, Iscor of South Africa, Lancaster Steel and Voestalpine that was manufacturing the machines that were used in smelting iron and steel in Zimbabwe. Now Zisco steel is in many ways very similar to Eskom. Zisco steel was the biggest steel and iron manufacturer in the southern hemisphere. The biggest in Africa, the biggest in Brazil, Australia, and the problem was was when we got independence, the western world was not happy to bestow an African country with the ability to produce iron and the ability to sophisticate iron and to create military hardware in industrial hardware that would have industrialized Zimbabwe or Africa.

The reason being, once the Second World War ended, there was a plan called The Morgenthau Plan was supposed to deindustrialize Japan and Germany so that they would never rise to become superpowers that would challenge the Western world or the Western banking system. So what they did is they wanted to turn them into agrarian societies. Take out their industry, block their mines, take their workers that were most technical and take them out of Germany and out of Japan so that these countries could never rise to industrialize. Eventually what happened is Germany’s lack of development, Japan’s lack of development made it difficult for the West to compete with Russia… which was now bringing communism. So they were forced to allow Germany and Japan to develop so that Western capitalism could show as an example in these regions as a success. But for this Western capitalism to take place for the Marshall Plan to be given to these Western countries to rise themselves up, they needed cheap resources. So what did they have to do, they have to take the Morgenthau Plan, this undevelopment plan, this agrarian society plan to Africa and so they had to de-industrialize African countries that had just come out of colonialism to ensure that they’ll never be able to sophisticate their resources…

5:13 - This is exactly what’s happening here in South Africa with Eskom. Because you have to understand that Eskom itself was created by a private monopoly that was led by the Cecil John Rhodes company, the British South Africa company. It created Eskom as private entities initially where they were providing electricity to a lot of the mining industries and with the biggest mining industry in the world in South Africa, you quickly developed the biggest electricity supplier in the world. So what they realized is that if you want to be the biggest electricity supplier, you have to consolidate all these small electricity suppliers and make on electricity supplier which became the Victoria Falls Power Supply Company and was owned by Cecil John Rhodes. If you remember, all British South Africa Companies were then taken over by Anglo America. Anglo American is the same one that we see having a problem in Zisco steel. So Anglo American becomes this agent of sabotaging Africa to ensure that it doesn’t industrialize and to keep the industrialization capacity in areas controlled by whites [cabal] which is why it lasted in Apartheid in South Africa.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18264490 (011405ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview: “State captures happened with Anglo American” (Parts 1-3 video)

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“00DEZZ - Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview.” – “State captures happened with Anglo American” 2 of 3

https://youtu.be/I7hEnZV0vEY

6:38 – State captures happened with Anglo America.

7:07 – The state inquiry is a farse, is an embarrassment quite frankly. That’s why you see that even Glencore doesn’t appear … It was tailored evidence, manufactured consent to a certain narrative but it’s not true… You have a situation where Anglo American controlled 60% of this economy followed by the Ruperts who controlled another 20% and so forth and so on.

8:04 – So let’s give you a reality again. Remember we heard that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They were never found and there were supposed to be evidence because it was never tested and there’s this Western agenda to always make a story a reality that never gets tested. That’s what we’re seeing with the state capture commission.

8:51 – In South Africa, we had the same people that perpetuated the crime against humanity still running society, running the media, running the companies, running banking and continuously perpetuating the crimes of Apartheid in a modern day democracy by lies and doing the same things that were done during Apartheid. We will never know the truth as long as the criminals of the Apartheid system are running the economy for the same ends and the same purposes of the Apartheid which was exploitation of the mineral resources of this country. Remember, Eskom was built off the gold, platinum and exploitation of diamonds in South Africa. When the mining companies were paying for those services, they were not paying enough in order to allow for replacement costs in the future. They were simply making money for the moment.

10:59 – It’s interesting, how can we not erase 12 years if we’ve erased 135 years of state capture by Anglo America and by the companies that were formed out of the Cecil John Rhodes companies.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18264497 (011406ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview: “State captures happened with Anglo American” (Parts 1-3 video)

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>>127761

“00DEZZ - Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview.” – “State captures happened with Anglo American” 3 of 3

https://youtu.be/I7hEnZV0vEY

12:40 – I always like to use history as my guide. So what is happening in Madupi and Kusile has happened before when they were creating Eskom. Where the company that was called [Dick, Kerr & Co.]. Dick, Kerr & Co. was supposed to provide electricity for Johannesburg municipality for its tram system and the electricity in Johannesburg plus rand mines. So what they did is they went to buy machinery from England in order to power the generation of power that was going to be generated by engines. We are talking [the year] 1905. So they got engines from the English who were not good at making electricity machinery. The electricity machinery was mainly made by Germans particularly AEG, Siemens and other companies like that. They made the best machines but the economy was controlled by the British and they wanted their British companies to get the contracts to provide the machinery. So what happened with this company, Dick, Kerr, is that all the machineries started collapsing, people were dying on the job, people were being asphyxiated in the plant because it was burning gas but that gas was becoming toxic. Eventually this entire plant collapsed but even the collapse of this plant was very weird where trams that sank at sea, we had one of the chief engineers dying on the job, the very same things you’re seeing happening with Eskom which looked like sabotage that was done by the Victoria Falls Power Company that owned by Rhodes so that they would get a monopoly… [The collapse of the plant], many people say, was because of the English machinery that was obsolete. Some people say it was because of sabotage by these guys who wanted to build a monopoly. Today this is what’s happening at Kusile. Kusile, we’ve got Hitachi that come in, they’re not the best at producing electricity power… so there is a chance that we’ve chosen the wrong service provider but there is also a chance that what happened in the past, the sabotage that could be happening at these plants by other interests that are trying to perpetuate a monopoly that existed and we’ve learned this in history before. So if you look at what’s happened in Kusile, we actually need a commission of inquiry which is what they did in 1910. They had a commission of inquiry to find out what was happening in the electricity.

14:55 – This [current] Commission of Inquiry was a farse. It was not honest, it did not have the right questions and it did not look at the right scope. You cannot have a commission ofiinquiry of state capture if you do not have Glencore in there, you do not have Anglo American in there, you do not have Ruperts in there, you do not have the owners of capital people, like Old Mutual, who had been sabotaging this region even during Apartheid to ensure that Apartheid never ended. We cannot have a commission of inquiry that doesn’t look at those criminals.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18264507 (011408ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Doctors Without Borders says employee filmed with looted meat was pressured into helping looters

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“Doctors without Borders worker loots reefer truck in shameful example of less South Africa” - https://youtu.be/M3LU7SBgW9Y

“Doctors Without Borders says employee filmed with looted meat was pressured into helping looters”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/doctors-without-borders-says-employee-filmed-with-looted-meat-was-pressured-into-helping-looters-125b1444-48d2-46f9-a90d-ed0823518954

January 31, 2023

A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staffer, caught allegedly stealing meat from a truck in KwaZulu-Natal, is set to appear in the Melmoth Magistrate's Court on theft related charges.

However, the MSF says its own preliminary investigations revealed that the meat was put in the back of the MSF vehicle and that the alleged looters attempted to pressure the MSF driver into assisting them flee with the meat.

MSF says the employee refused to flee with the chunks of meat which are seen in the back of a branded MSF van.

In the video clip, which has gone viral on social media, people are seen grabbing meat from a truck parked along the R66 in King Cetshwayo. The video was taken on January 19 after the truck had broken down on the side of the road.

The clip is filmed by the truck owner who makes remarks in disdain of the looting and stops to shout at a few of the people seen stealing the goods.

"An on-duty MSF staff member driving a marked vehicle was delivering medical supplies in the area at the time of the incident.

“The MSF driver has reported the incident to MSF managers in Eshowe, who are in turn fully co-operating with the owners of the meat truck and the SAPS," the organisation said.

MSF’s own preliminary investigations revealed that the meat was put in the back of the MSF vehicle and that the alleged looters attempted to pressure the MSF driver into assisting them, which the staff member refused to do, it said. [Why did he then stop at the truck in the first place?]

"A police investigation is currently ongoing, and the MSF staff member is expected to appear in the Melmoth Magistrate’s Court, shortly.

“Pending the outcome of the legal proceedings, MSF will follow internal processes in accordance with South African labour law," the statement said.

MSF regional operational support manager in Southern Africa, Philip Aruna, said it is very concerned at this incident and the impact it has on MSF’s relationships with communities in KZN as well as its supporters, nationally and globally.

"As we work diligently to get to the bottom of this incident and its consequences, we remain committed to being fully transparent and accountable to our patients, donors and the authorities.

“MSF takes the allegations very seriously and will continue to collaborate with the ongoing investigation to determine the facts of the incident.

“We are committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical and professional behaviour and any violation of these standards is unacceptable to us," Aruna said.

Meanwhile, the abattoir owner told IOL he had been advised not to speak to the media at this stage as investigations were still under way.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18264675 (011448ZFEB23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / Implications of declaration of state of emergency on electricity (video)

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“Implications of declaration of state of emergency on electricity”

https://youtu.be/t-AZ_riYpBs

Jan 31, 2023

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the ANC NEC lekgotla has resolved that the government should impose a National State of Disaster over the energy crisis and the situation at Eskom.

Head of African Centre for Disaster Studies Professor Dewald van Niekerk explains the impact of this.

7:37 – “Positive and negative elements if you look at the possibility of a state of a disaster. For instance, the ability of private providers to quickly link to the national grid for private citizens to generate additional electricity, for the Karpowerships to come on board, even heard people say stuff like stopping coal exports.”

“Avoid looting similar to Covid-19 if declaring national state of disaster, opposition parties warn”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/avoid-looting-similar-to-covid-19-if-declaring-national-state-of-disaster-opposition-parties-warn-7206af88-076c-48ae-adc4-6f971ddc2da3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Pretoria - The ANC is facing mixed reaction over its proposed call for a national state of disaster over the energy crisis facing the country.

Opposition parties were quick to warn that if President Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to declare a national disaster, contingency plans must be put in place to avoid massive corruption and fraud similar to that during the outbreak of Covid-19.

Yesterday, the ANC, during its meeting briefing on the outcome of its party lekgotla which concluded on Monday, reiterated their call to Ramaphosa to declare a national state of disaster while plans were in place to eradicate load shedding before the end of the year.

Addressing the media, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the declaration would require that the ANC reconnected with the communities and society, to find a common solution to the problem.

“We therefore call on all of society to work with us in progressively solving the challenge since it affects all of us, in particular the poor and the working class.

“Lekgotla also directed the Cabinet to study in detail the obstacles in delivering infrastructure, vandalism and counter-revolutionary tendencies, with a view to increase infrastructure investment while strengthening the capability and capacity of the state,” Mbalula said.

The party also expressed concerns about vandalism of infrastructure which had posed a risk, compounded by the fact that six power stations were not in operation.

According to the ANC, their Energy Action Plan would be bolstered by lessons drawn by the lekgotla from the Energy Dialogue, presentations from technical experts and communities, as well as international best practices from India and Germany.

Mbalula said the lekgotla noted that the Budget and the potential to raise capital has been negatively impacted by the municipal debt to Eskom, saying that together with national debt of R 4.8 trillion as well as the progressive social wage (which amounts to 58% of the budget), this has made the budgeting manoeuvring space quite tight.

“It is for this reason that Parliament needs to fulfil the function of watchdog to ensure this does not become yet another opportunity for Covid-like misappropriations by key ANC ministers and officials,” Cachalia said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18265601 (011815ZFEB23) Notable: Kenny Kunene Bun / Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach (video)

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Yet “Equality Court rules EFF ‘Kill the Boer’ song does not constitute hate speech”, https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/equality-court-rules-eff-kill-the-boer-song-does-not-constitute-hate-speech-90d4d78b-2d0f-4d9d-afdc-c0b536b50982, and farm murders continue to occur in the country.

SA has no justice system!

“Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-kenny-kunene-cockroach-comments-1-february-2023/

01-02-2023

Wait, what? The Gauteng High Court in Joburg found Kenny Kunene guilty of hate speech after he called Julius Malema an irritating cockroach.

BACKGROUND ON THE MALEMA AND KUNENE LAWSUIT

During the 2021 Local Elections, Kenny Kunene was pressed on comments Malema had made about his then newly-formed political party.

Malema said those in the Patriotic Alliance ‘were all bandits’ – but Kunene responded with some extra spice.

The Sushi King branded the controversial party leader as an ‘irritating cockroach‘. However, Juju didn’t take this insult lying down. He then approached the Johannesburg Equality Court, claiming that the comparison to the lamentable insect ‘lent itself to the language used in the Rwandan genocide’.

“I don’t believe I committed hate speech within the confines of the law. My attorneys are here. We will defend the matter, and we are confident. If not, we will appeal. Julius has previously called Pravin Gordhan, a dog. The court said that’s not hate speech, but Malema talks in violence.

“Courts have said that is NOT hate speech. Calling someone an irritating cockroach is not hate speech because he IS an irritating cockroach. When I called him that, he first said the Patriotic Alliance was a party full of bandits. He is an emotionally fragile boy,” Kunene said outside court in 2022

SUSHI KING FOUND GUILTY OF HATE SPEECH

On Tuesday, 31 January, the Johannesburg High Court reportedly found that there was no retaliatory justification for Kunene’s comments and that he sought to incite hate and harm towards Malema.

In response, the EFF said it hopes that the judgement will serve the rehabilitating purpose that the prison system failed to achieve with Kunene as an individual.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18265605 (011817ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / More Farm Murders

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>>127765

>farm murders continue to occur in the country

“11 Farm attacks, 3 farm murders in South Africa, 1 – 15 January 2023”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/11-farm-attacks-3-farm-murders-in-south-africa-1-15-january-2023/

January 18, 2023

As the police continue refusing to make these atrocities priority crimes there were, in first fifteen days of January 2023, another eleven farm attacks and three farm murders in South Africa.

During the month of December 2022, there were fourteen farm attacks and one farm murder in the country.

For the period 1 January to 31 December 2020, on average, a farmer in South Africa was murdered every 4.7 days.

There were 77 farm murders and 446 farm attacks in 2020. That is 1,22 attacks every day in the country.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2021:

January 2021 – 21 farm attacks and 0 farm murders.

February 2021 – 17 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

March 2021 – 36 farm attacks and 5 farm murders.

April 2021 – 24 farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

May 2021 – 23 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

June 2021 – 23 farm attacks and 5 farm murders.

July 2021 – 21 farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

August 2021 – 26 farm attacks and 9 farm murders.

September 2021 – 13 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

October 2021 – 14 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

November 2021 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

December 2021 – 13 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2022:

January 2022 – 14 Farm attacks and 4 farm murders.

February 2022 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

March 2022 – 7 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

April 2022 – 12 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

May 2022 – 10 Farm attacks and 2 farm murders.

June 2022 – 3 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

July 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

August 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

September 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

October 2022 – 13 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

November 2022 – 21 Farm attacks and 4 farm murders.

December 2022 – 14 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269860 (021307ZFEB23) Notable: EFF Bun / NFP to back the ANC and EFF alliance in hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal

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“NFP to back the ANC and EFF alliance in hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/nfp-to-back-the-anc-and-eff-alliance-in-hung-municipalities-in-kwazulu-natal-8a0916bb-8332-4ef9-8c10-1e5d192abca6

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Durban - The National Freedom Party, a splinter party of the IFP which was formed in 2011 by the late former deputy minister Zanele KaMagwaza Msibi, says it has resolved to work with the ANC and the EFF in hung municipalities.

The NFP said the IFP’s style of governance “inspires no confidence” and all municipalities their opponent governs have “collapsed”.

On Wednesday, the party held an impromptu press conference in Durban to take a position after the fallout between the IFP and the EFF meant that there would be a change of leadership in some municipalities.

The party’s secretary-general, Canaan Mdletshe, said the people could be better served by the ANC-EFF-NFP alliance as opposed to the IFP.

The NFP has several councillors in a number of municipalities. However, some of them are openly defying their leadership and voting with the IFP.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269896 (021320ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / [University of] Fort Hare press on with anticorruption plan, despite killings (video)

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“Glaring corruption at Fort Hare University uncovered”; Sakhela Buhlungu interview - https://youtu.be/5pUeD9xt77M

0:37 – “Something to do with the corruption that’s been uncovered there from procurement to fake qualifications allegedly to connected high-profile individuals.”

“[University of] Fort Hare press on with anticorruption plan, despite killings”

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-01-31-fort-hare-press-on-with-anticorruption-plan-despite-killings/

31 January 2023 - 15:52

The murders of bodyguard Mboneli Vesele and fleet manager Petrus Roets are linked to corruption investigations at the university

Despite University of Fort Hare (UFH) management staff increasingly being intimidated and threatened with violence, the corruption clean-up project will not be halted, says the institution's council.

That was after two staff members were killed.

UFH council chair Bishop Ivan Abrahams said the killings of vice-chancellor Prof Sakhela Buhlungu’s bodyguard, Mboneli Vesele, and fleet manager Petrus Roets could be “inextricably” linked to corruption investigations at the university. Roets was gunned down in a suspected hit in May 2022.

President Cyril Ramaphosa previously authorised the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to look into allegations of corruption and maladministration at UFH.

SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said the investigations concerned maladministration in the awarding of honours degrees, mismanagement of funds and a probe into four 2012 tenders. These included cleaning and gardening contracts, student accommodation tenders, maintenance and repair of air conditioning tenders and collusion.

Abrahams said Vesele’s murder was a direct threat to Buhlungu. He said the council would support management despite the attacks, against the backdrop of internal investigations and the SIU’s probe.

“Executive management and senior staff are increasingly being intimidated and threatened with violence. We have had to bear witness to the loss of two lives. Yet it is our view that it is exactly the success of the renewal project that underpins this terror campaign,” said Abrahams.

“Therefore, the council is resolute in backing the management executive committee and the vice-chancellor in the clean-up campaign and the rebuilding of the university. As a council, we call on all law-enforcement agencies to ensure arrests are made and the renewal project at the University of Fort Hare is secured.”

At Vesele’s funeral, higher education and training minister Blade Nzimande said he strongly suspected that as a result of corruption and criminality, Vesele was assassinated and Buhlungu and other university employees continuously threatened.

“As various stakeholders — the University of Fort Hare, our department, our law-enforcement agencies — we have to ensure we ramp up our efforts to ensure the safety of this university community,” he said.

“We dare not allow instances of corruption and lawlessness to rob the future generations an opportunity to study in this institution, which largely caters for the dependents of the working class and the poor.”

The police ministry said a multidisciplinary team was established to investigate threats on the lives of the institution's staff members, but no arrests had yet been made.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269902 (021322ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / “Re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives” – Anglo American

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They seem to use the word ‘reimagining’ across the board for their agenda as the following posts will demonstrate.

“What does ‘reimagining’ policing mean?”

https://youtu.be/4a321QbMEJ0

Jan 31, 2023

3:48 – “The left creates all the conditions for the crisis to flourish and then the left says, “oh, we have the answers.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269912 (021326ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / “Reimagining energy: Our 2030 plans - two minute version” – BP (video)

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>>>/qresearch/18269908

“Reimagining energy: Our 2030 plans - two minute version” – BP

https://youtu.be/rktLF-WRhcY

Aug 20, 2020

Key statements

0:00 - “We’re turning our ambition into action by 2030, we’re aiming to be a very different kind of energy company.”

1:34 – “Accelerating the global revolution in mobility”.

1:47 – “Intergrating energy systems.”

1:50 – “Partnering with countries, cities and industries.”

1:54 – “Innovating with a strong focus on digital.”

https://www.producer.com/opinion/unreliable-renewable-energy-is-costly/

Further, Gifford’s article says, the transportation costs of the inputs for solar photovoltaic module manufacturing and delivery have also been rising dramatically.

“Container shipment costs are eight times higher from Shanghai to ports in the United States and Europe in 2021 than they were in 2020, according to several sources.”

For module shipments, Rystad, the solar photovoltaic producer quoted above, concludes that shipping prices have increased 500 percent from September 2019 to October 2021.

The idea that society could windmill and solar panel its way out of fossil fuels and into a carbon-neutral future that is both affordable and can produce sufficient energy to maintain a prosperity-generating economy is, and always has been, based on highly flawed thinking.

When considering input costs for energy production, switching to energy generation that requires a multitude of scarce material inputs of highly variable price is not a recipe for a lower-cost energy future.

On the contrary, prices for goods based largely on scarce materials and highly variable input costs are likely to grow over time.

If Canada continues on the path of phasing out reliable, affordable fossil-fuel energy for scarce, expensive and unreliable “renewables” such as wind and solar power, Canadians can look forward to enduring or adapting to whatever climate change may be in store with less wealth, and less power to weather the changes.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269929 (021330ZFEB23) Notable: Reimagining Corporate Impact - Joseph Kenner at World Economic Forum 2023 (video)

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>>>/qresearch/18269908

>>127771

>>>/qresearch/18155828

>I feel this is my political responsibilities as a white person, the complete rejection of the meritocracy.

>>127713

>it’s not become excellent in a particular domain, work your way up through a meritocracy and workout how to run Eskom or Transnet.

“Reimagining Corporate Impact - Joseph Kenner at World Economic Forum 2023”

https://youtu.be/SDj4rRcNjKQ

Jan 31, 2023

Segment from "Frontier Partnerships Reimagining Corporate Impact" at World Economic Forum 2023. Hosted by Daniel Nowack, Head of Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum.

“So the next speaker Joe Kenner who leads the Greyston Social Entrepreneur Enterprise which has piloted a practice that abolishes discrimination in the hiring process because the way that they do it is they just let people in. No CVs, no background checks, you just show up for a job and you start to work.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269936 (021331ZFEB23) Notable: UNESCO Futures of Education Report: Reimagining our futures together (video)

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>>127771

>>>/qresearch/18269908

>>127770

“ UNESCO Futures of Education Report: Reimagining our futures together”

https://youtu.be/j8aXSTN71MY

Jan 4, 2022

UNESCO’s futures of education initiative is catalyzing a global debate on how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet. A new report from the International Commission on the Futures of education, in preparation for 2 years, and based on the inputs and engagement of over a million people, presents a vision for forging a new social contract for education.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18269941 (021333ZFEB23) Notable: Klaus Scwab of WEF: A Social Contract for the New World Order (video)

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>a vision for forging a new social contract for education

“A Social Contract for the New World Order”

https://youtu.be/juh09XdLUtQ

Jun 30, 2022

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 13 Klaus Schwab is the Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, which openly seeks to remake the world and its economies into a "stakeholder" model of his own creation. In his 2022 book, 'The Great Narrative for a Better Future' (https://amzn.to/3QvkcrU), Schwab explains that the existing "shareholder"-based social contract has expired, and it's time for a new one. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay walks you through a few paragraphs of The Great Narrative in which Schwab details what a new social contract would entail and where it might come from.

2:38 – “Klaus does it for us, so we’ll just continue reading a few paragraphs down. He says, “Rising concerns about inequality and profound sentiment of dissatisfaction if not anger that it provokes, will prompt many societies around the world to redefine the terms of their social contract.” Now imagine if you will that you have an organization that funds a lot of woke Marxism. A lot of this identity politics that makes people angry and makes them perceive inequality and injustice, like the World Economic Forum and all of its various partners. Then that same organization happens to point out, look how angry people are, look how dissatisfied people are because of the inequality that we are actually stoking. What if that same organization was creating gigantic wealth inequality by creating policies say through Covid 19 that funnel tons and tons of money to the big corporations like Amazon that did wonderfully well through the pandemic while all of the smaller things get squashed and destroyed. So you’re creating social inequality, you’re creating wealth inequality and then you’re saying look how much inequality there is. This demands a complete redefinition of our social contract. We need an entirely new society under the leftist terms.”

7:01 – “Your own leftist policies which don’t work, aren’t working and it causes people to be dissatisfied but you’re going to say it’s somebody else’s fault. Again the same classic Marxist deflection of responsibility and demand for more ability to keep doing what they’re doing. This is where bloody revolutions, like the Bolshevik Revolution and the French Revolution ultimately come from. Not just these failures of policy but also deflecting the blame onto some scapegoat.”

7:56 – “In some countries, this widespread exasperation has taken the form of both peaceful and violent demonstrations and others it has led to electoral victories for populist and extremist parties.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18270759 (021653ZFEB23) Notable: Kenny Kunene Bun / Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach (video)

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“Kenny Kunene to appeal Malema hate speech case ruling” - https://youtu.be/jThFOjqPkAs

1:30 – [EFF Spokesperson] “These comments are not only hateful but were not considered of the historical impact of derogatory terms used to refer human beings inciting violence and genocide. Genocide and hate crimes against human beings begin at the point of dehumanization when Hitler rationalized the genocide against the Jewish community, he referred to them as rats. When colonizers wanted to enslave and exploit African people, the rational behind it was that Africans were people without history. They were barbarians whose conquest was justified in order to invite them into humanity. During the Rwandan genocide, when the Hutus massacred the Tutsis, Tutsis were referred to as cockroaches on national radios and places of public discourse. The EFF hopes that this judgment will serve the rehabilitating purpose that the prison system has clearly failed to achieve with Kunene as an individual.”

“Kunene to appeal guilty judgement for calling Malema a cockroach”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/kenny-kunene-to-appeal-hate-speech-verdict-julius-malema-cockroach-2-february-2023/

02-02-2023

Kenny Kunene said it was rich of Julius Malema to head to court over the cockroach comments yet he sings ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’.

Kenny Kunene says he will appeal the judgement that found him guilty of hate speech for calling Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema an irritating cockroach and a frog.

The court ordered Kunene to issue an unconditional public apology to Malema, including retracting his statement.

KENNY KUNENE VS JULIUS MALEMA

Judge Motsamai Makume said the statement uttered by Kunene when he referred to Malema as a cockroach, little frog, and criminal declared to constitute hate speech as defined by the Equality Act.

In response to the ruling, Kunene said he respects the South African courts but has substantial grounds to feel the judgement handed down by Judge Makume was wrong in law and will be overturned on appeal.

Kunene said his lawyers firmly believe that another court will come to a different decision, and therefore, the appeal will be launched as a matter of urgency.

“Now is not the time to nitpick the judgement, but I’m sure that few people could ever have imagined that what I said about Julius Malema was so criminally horrendous as to be termed “hate speech.”

“It was truly rich of Julius Malema to take me to the Equality Court when he proudly sings ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer,’ which isn’t hate speech. For me, as a layman, that is incitement to violence against a minority ethnic group,” Kunene said.

The Sushi King accused Malema of spewing violence out of his mouth over and over.

“It was shameless of Julius Malema to take me to court after calling Pravin Gordhan a ‘dog’ that must be kicked so the master can come out. Julius Malema is a man with thin skin. He’s emotionally fragile, like a child. He wants to insult and doesn’t want to be insulted. He wants to demean others but doesn’t want to be demeaned,” Kunene added.

The EFF believed that the words were not only hateful but were also not considerate of the historical impact of derogatory terms used to refer to human beings in inciting violence and genocide.

The party said it hopes that the judgement will serve the rehabilitating purpose that the prison system failed to achieve with Kunene as an individual.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18271185 (021826ZFEB23) Notable: Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun / “Judge bans anit-apartheid song” Reported by CNN Sep 14, 2011 – Julius Malema and the ANC (video)

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>I just want to add my voice in congratulating the ANC in being able to enlist a new partner in their looting spree in the EFF... As for the IFP being branded an Apartheid collaborator, clearly Mr Malema was still enjoying breastfeeding when this country actually burned as a result of this reckless talk. You know more than 20 000 people actually died as a result of this because this was ANC propaganda peddled against the IFP and one can actually forgive Mr Malema because he was still a toddler then but he is being reckless and nobody wants to go back to that unfortunate past.

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It was different about a decade ago. Is Malema now serving a purpose? He is now working with the ANC again.

“Judge bans anit-apartheid song” Reported by CNN Sep 14, 2011 – Julius Malema and the ANC

https://youtu.be/0MKoO26gWRc

“It’s an Apartheid era song that has divided South Africa… Loosely translated, the song calls for the killing of white farmers. A possible incitement to genocide says one high court judge who has ordered the youth leader of the ruling African National Congress, Julius Malema, and his party to stop singing it… Malema and the ANC say the song is a historical expression against Apartheid and not a literal threat to whites but the judge rejected the argument calling it hate speech. Known for his racially charged comments to some, Malema is a divisive politician that the country can do without but there are those who see him as a hero of a new struggle against poverty and inequality. Julius Malema is a contravercial figure. He is currently facing a disciplinary hearing by his own party for among other things, calling white South Africans criminals for stealing land from blacks but he’s gained some support from those who see the court’s ruling as a threat to freedom of expression. The ANC has called the judgment an attempt to rewrite South Africa’s history and plans to appeal.”

As one interviewee stated, “If you look at today, Apartheid is not yet done.”

Malema clip, “The songs of the revolution are burned in the democratic South Africa. A country we fought for.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276067 (031406ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Eastern Cape Premier condemns the brutal killing of 10 people by gunmen in Qunu, Bityi (video)

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“Spate of mass shootings raises alarm” - https://youtu.be/Phsv6ZoLvrU

4:06 – “If you look at the gun control laws of South Africa, we have one of the strictest around… We see that with house robberies and farm robberies that these premises are being targeted by criminals in order to gain access to these firearms that are actually locked up according to law in the safe places, etc., etc.. But we also pick up that a lot of ammunition and a lot of firearms are being smuggled across the border so we have a challenge with our porous borders towards the north with Zimbabwe… East with Mozambique… and also indications in recent months that some of these firearms came in via Eswatini. So the porous borders are a real challenge for us. What we need to understand here, these are not small time criminals looking for firearms. These are organised syndicates that are trafficking in these… Another source of these firearms also is of course corrupt officials within the police and the military that are either losing their weapons or they are renting it out and then these firearms are then coming back after they have been used and they just put it back into the stores and they never pick that up… So as you can see the challenge that we have will not be solved by our legislation.”

6:18 – “So essentially, Mr Els, you can have law but if there’s no order then it’s all in vain especially by those who are tasked with protecting the country… You are so right, without order there is no law.”

6:48 – “We have been hit by a tsunami of organised crime wherever you look in South Africa, whether it’s corruptions, whether it is with the syndicates, whether it is with cash in transit, there’s just tremendous spike in that and it seems we are losing the battle in containing that.”

8:41 –“That is one of the main indicators, when you are looking at a definition of a failed state. We can see if your government cannot provide that security to its citizens then it is failing the citizens in terms of its mandate to govern and that is the real challenge we are facing at the moment. The people are not feeling safe.”

“Eastern Cape Premier condemns the brutal killing of 10 people by gunmen in Qunu, Bityi”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/eastern-cape-premier-condemns-the-brutal-killing-of-10-people-by-gunmen-in-qunu-bityi-276f7950-3e51-4a69-8280-11b8670270e8

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Johannesburg – Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has condemned the brutal killing of 10 people by unknown gunmen in two separate incidents in Bityi and Qunu, near Mthatha.

The shootings took place on Wednesday night.

Three people were killed by unknown gunmen in Thantseka location in Bityi, while another seven people were shot dead in a village in Qunu.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this vicious and senseless attack on families. It is heartbreaking to hear that elderly women, children and heads of households lose their lives in the most brutal way in our province,” said Mabuyane.

The premier has also expressed concern about the repeated attacks on families that have been noted in the OR Tambo and Chris Hani districts as well as the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro recently. [The irony]

“The high rate of these incidents is indicative of a decay in our moral fibre. All sectors of society should work together to fight crime and restore peace, as well as promote safety and security in our communities.”

Mabuyane said armed criminals had brought about anxiety and distress for families and the community.

The premier has also called on the police to remain focused and treat each incident as a high priority.

“Law enforcement agencies must follow all leads to identify these criminals and bring them before the courts of law to face their crimes.

“We also urge community members with any information that may lead to the arrest of individuals behind these murders to urgently contact the police and share that information,” said Mabuyane.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276084 (031409ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Minutes show ANC ran ‘parallel process’ to fill top government jobs: DA” including judges

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>SA has no justice system!

“Minutes show ANC ran ‘parallel process’ to fill top government jobs: DA” including judges

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2022-01-05-minutes-show-anc-ran-parallel-process-to-fill-top-government-jobs-da/

05 January 2022 - 09:58

The ANC, through its controversial deployment committee, appears to have run a parallel deployment process to fill senior public service positions in government departments, agencies and boards of state-owned enterprises.

This is revealed in deployment committee minutes released by the DA which were obtained via the state capture inquiry. The judiciary and a chapter nine institution, the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), were not spared.

A meeting at the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House, in March 2019, noted: “We have a dynamic link with Nadel [National Association of Democratic Lawyers]. The current process is incestuous. It contributes very little, if anything, towards judicial independence.”

This was according to notes following the preselection of judges for vacant posts, despite the existence of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

In this exercise, DA shadow minister of public service and administration Leon Schreiber charged that the governing party turned the JSC into a mere rubber stamp.

“This interference started at the very highest levels of our state as the minutes show the ANC’s cadre deployment committee preselected the appointment of judges Steven Majiedt and Zukisa Tshiqi to the Constitutional Court,” he said.

This followed two vacancies arising from the retirement of justices Edwin Cameron and Baaitse Nkabinde.

“The committee also preselected judge Xola Petse for appointment to the Supreme Court of Appeal, judge Edwin Molahleli to the labour court, and judge Mmathebe Violet Phatshoane to the Northern Cape division,” alleged Schreiber.

The ANC also allegedly interfered in the appointment of the deputy chairperson of the SAHRC and the board of the SABC.

If it is indeed the case that applicants send their applications and CVs directly to the ANC rather than to the government, it makes a complete mockery of the state’s own appointment process.

DA MP Leon Schreiber

The DA noted that “in addition to interfering in appointments to the judiciary, the public broadcaster and the SAHRC, the ANC also sought to deploy party cadres to the Defence Force Service Commission and the Armscor board, the nuclear energy board, PetroSA, and the Central Energy Fund”.

Other institutions featured in discussions at Luthuli House included the appointment of the Rand Water CEO and the Nkomati, Bloemfontein, TransCaledon and Amatola, Lepelle Northern, Umgeni, Magalies and Sedibeng water boards, the SA Post Office board, the transport department, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA, the Road Accident Fund, Post Bank, the National Lottery, Railway Safety Regulator and SANParks.

Schreiber said the DA was shocked as the minutes indicate applicants in some cases applied directly to the ANC’s deployment committee.

In total, since 2018, the ANC deployment committee allegedly interfered in the appointment of senior public servants in at least 96 different government departments, agencies and the boards of state-owned enterprises.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276100 (031413ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment records (video)

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“DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment corruption records” - https://youtu.be/eL55q-Izy-w

0:08 – “The ANC says it intends to appeal that ruling.”

“DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment records”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/da-wins-court-anc-cadre-deployment-records-2-february-2023/

02-02-2023 19:34

In a ground-breaking judgment handed down by the Johannesburg High Court, the DA won the battle to expose records of the ANC cadre deployment

The Johannesburg High Court has today, Thursday, 2 February, ruled in favour of the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) court battle to expose cadre deployment records within the African National Congress (ANC).

DA CELEBRATES VICTORY AGAINST ANC CADRE DEPLOYMENT CASE

This long-running court battle was finally won by the DA which seeks to expose complete records of the ANC national cadre deployment committee’s role in the corruption, capture and collapse of South Africa’s public sector.

“In its ruling, the court found that the ANC’s refusal to make public minutes, Whatsapp conversations, email threads, CVs and all other records of its cadre deployment committee was ‘unlawful and invalid.’ The court ordered the ANC to pay the DA’s costs in the case and to surrender, within 5 days, all of these documents dating back to 1 January 2013, when President Cyril Ramaphosa became the chairman of the cadre deployment committee.”

Dr Leon Schreiber MP

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA IMPLICATED IN THE SCANDAL

In a statement, Dr Leon Schreiber MP – DA Shadow Minister for Public Service and Administration revealed that Ramaphosa chaired this committee all throughout the years of Jacob Zuma’s presidency, during which time the committee exercised undue influence to ensure the appointment of the corrupt cadres who captured and collapsed the state.

“The judgment dealt a fatal blow to the ANC’s claim that ‘there are instances where the wishes of the Deployment Committee are not taken into account. The corollary of this is that there are indeed instances where the appointments are so made.’ It also affirmed the importance of parliamentary oversight, holding that the DA’s efforts to end cadre deployment in Parliament ‘necessitates the disclosure of facts in relation to the appointment of individuals.’ In sum, the court ruled that the DA ‘has set out, and prima facie established, the right which is sufficient proof for an applicant to result in his entitlement to access the record,” Schreiber broke down the ruling.

He added that today’s ruling is a historic victory by the DA for transparency and the rule of law in South Africa. “It creates new jurisprudence confirming that political parties are not elevated above the Constitution, and makes it clear that politicians who corruptly interfere in affairs of state cannot hide behind a veil of secrecy,” he explained.

He went on to say for nearly three decades, the ANC’s cadre deployment committee secretly interfered in appointments across the state, directly causing the collapsing service delivery and load-shedding crisis we all experience on a daily basis.

“That secrecy ends now, thanks to the DA’s relentless fight for the public’s right to know the truth about cadre deployment.”

Schreiber

“Thanks to the DA’s relentless fight against cadre deployment corruption, South Africans will for the very first time be able to see not only Ramaphosa’s personal complicity in state capture as chairman of the committee, but they will also get to see the full truth of how the appointment of ANC cadres on the basis of loyalty to the party rather than on merit is the true cause of our country’s rapidly failing state.

Once these records are made public, the DA calls on all sectors of society to rally behind our End Cadre Deployment Bill that is currently serving before Parliament, so that we may finally bring an end to this scourge and begin the arduous but urgent journey of building a professional, skilled and merit-based public sector.

The DA will not rest until cadre deployment corruption, along with the party who wrought this evil on our country, is consigned to the dustbin of history,” Schreiber further stated.

Read the full https://press-admin.voteda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/F-leon-amos-schreiber-and-another-vs-the-african-na.pdf

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276116 (031416ZFEB23) Notable: Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun / Ramaphosa nominates Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (video)

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>“The ANC says it intends to appeal that ruling.”

“JSC interviews: Judge Molemela words on transformation.” – https://youtu.be/1nAYA46fnC8

“Ramaphosa nominates Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ramaphosa-nominates-judge-president-of-the-supreme-court-of-appeal-2-february-2023/

02-02-2023 12:22

President Cyril Ramaphosa nominates Justice Mahube Betty Molemela as Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has nominated Justice Mahube Betty Molemela as Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

The President has informed Chief Justice Raymond Zondo of his consideration to appoint Molemela .

RAMAPHOSA NOMINATES MOLEMELA FOR JUDGE PRESIDENT

The President has, through the Chief Justice, invited the Judicial Service Commission to advise on the suitability of Justice Molemela to hold the office of the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President, said Ramaphosa had undertaken this consultation in terms of Section 174(3) of the Constitution.

“This constitutional provision sets out that the President, as head of the National Executive – and after consulting the Judicial Service Commission and the leaders of parties represented in the National Assembly – appoints the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice. After consulting the Judicial Service Commission, the President appoints the President and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.”

Vincent Magwenya

Justice Molemela is currently a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Magwenya said the position President of the Supreme Court of Appeal has been vacant following the appointment of Justice Maya to the position of the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court with effect from 01 September 2022.

JUSTICE MOLEMELA IS A JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL

Molemela has established an illustrious judicial career over 15 years. She was first appointed as a Judge of the Free State Division of the High Court in 2008.

Justice Malemela also served as a Judge President of the Free State Division of the High Court for three years. She was then elevated to the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2018.

She has served as a Judge of the Labour and Labour Appeal Court. Later as Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court and Acting Judge of the Constitutional Court.

She holds a B.Proc degree (University of Fort Hare >>127769 ); LLB, LLM, and LLD (Honoris Causa) (all from the University of Free State).

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276125 (031418ZFEB23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Zuma’s Private Prosecution Postponed Again Sparking Fury in SA: “Our Judiciary Is a Circus” (video)

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“Zuma's private prosecution matter against Adv Downer, Maughan postponed to 4 August” - https://youtu.be/6oEEeHwe9RE

5:34 – “There are several applications that have been brought and this court still needs to deal with those applications. We have an application brought by Sanef as well as Helen Suzman Foundation applying to be Friends of the Court, essentially saying they want to support and have a voice in this matter with regard to Karyn Maughan as well as Advocate Billy Downer. Then there’s also that urgent interdict by Maughan and Billy Downer to have their matters set aside.”

“Zuma’s Private Prosecution Postponed Again Sparking Fury in SA: “Our Judiciary Is a Circus”, SA Complains”

https://briefly.co.za/politics/152344-zumas-private-prosecution-postponed-sparking-fury-sa-judiciary-a-circus-sa-complains/

February 02, 2023 at 9:10 PM

Former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution against Billy Downer and Karyn Maughan has been postponed once again

The case was postponed to accommodate the outcome of Maughan's application to have the prosecution set aside

Frustrated South Africans are fed up with the delays and are beginning to question the justice system

PIETERMARITZBURG - South African have had enough of former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution of State Advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg postponed that case to 4 August in under one minute, sending citizens over the edge.

South Africans are now wondering if the justice system has become a playground for SA's elite to flex their power.

According to News24, the matter was postponed to accommodate Maughan's bid to have the private prosecution thrown out.

The former president started his private prosecution case against the state advocate and the journalist in October 2022. Zuma is accusing Downer and Maughan of disclosing his confidential medical documents to members of the public in contravention of the National Prosecuting Act, EWN reported.

South Africans voice their frustrations about the constantly postponed private prosecution

Citizens are at their wit's end with Zuma's bid to privately prosecute Downer and Maughan and are now questioning SA's entire justice system.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276769 (031627ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations (Parts 1&2)

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“South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-african-activists-and-lawyers-pursue-legal-batlle-02-february-2023/

02-02-2023 17:40

Article originally published on GroundUp by John Yeld

Six South African activists and public interest lawyers have filed revised papers in their marathon legal battle against Australian miners.

•	Six South African activists and public interest lawyers have filed revised papers in their marathon legal battle against a collective R14.25-million “SLAPP” defamation suit.

•	This comes in the light of two Constitutional Court judgments that allowed them to amend their pleas within 30 days after it set out the parameters for defence against SLAPP suits for the first time.

•	Lawyers for the mining plaintiffs say the defamation case will continue to be pursued.

Six South African activists and public interest lawyers have filed revised papers in their marathon legal battle against a collective R14.25-million “SLAPP” defamation case brought against them by Australian mining interests.

This revision follows a pair of judgments handed down by the Constitutional Court, which for the first time in South African legal history set out parameters for defence against SLAPP suits, and also prescribed limits on defamation action brought by for-profit trading corporations.

SLAPP

SLAPP is an acronym for Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, and describes a legal strategy often employed by big corporations that bring defamation actions for huge amounts against individuals who criticise them, as a means of discouraging, censoring, intimidating and silencing these critics.

“The pair of landmark judgments [by the Constitutional Court] … for the first time recognise SLAPP as an abuse of process, and carve out a limitation to trading corporations’ ability to claim damages for reputational harm. The judgments have important consequences for the protection of activism and the rights and responsibilities of corporations in South Africa and beyond,” non-profit activist lawyer group Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) commented after the judgments were handed down in November.

Two of the six defendants were employed by the CER as environmental lawyers at the time of the alleged defamation.

While neither of the Constitutional Court judgments was technically in the six defendants’ favour, they were not penalised with costs, and were given a 30-day window in which to amend their two special pleas in the case.

Notices of intention to amend were duly filed in the Western Cape High Court.

The defendants’ first special plea relates to the court’s ruling that a SLAPP defence must also take the merits of the alleged defamation into account, because improper motive for bringing a case is alone insufficient to warrant dismissal of such an action.

This plea has been amended by the addition of a brief paragraph about merit that reads:

The plaintiffs have weak prospects of succeeding in their claims for defamation against the defendants and/or the relief sought against the defendants.”

The defendants’ second special plea – that “for-profit” trading corporations (such as the two Australian mining company plaintiffs) cannot sue for general damages in defamation cases – has also been amended.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18276777 (031629ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations (Parts 1&2)

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“South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-african-activists-and-lawyers-pursue-legal-batlle-02-february-2023/

02-02-2023 17:40

COURT

The Constitutional Court found that such corporations can sue for general damages, but not where the allegedly defamatory speech forms part of public discussion on issues of legitimate public interest. This is because awarding such damages would constitute an unjustifiable limitation on the right to freedom of speech.

The defendants’ amended second special plea argues that claims for damages by the first plaintiffs – Mineral Sands Resources and Mineral Commodities Ltd – are bad in law because: the allegedly defamatory statements concerned form part of public discourse and concern an issue of public interest; and the plaintiffs claim general damages and do not allege that they suffered any patrimonial [actual monetary] loss arising from the alleged defamatory statements concerned.

“In the circumstances, the first plaintiffs’ claim for damages falls to be dismissed with costs,” they argue.

There is as yet no indication of whether or when the proposed amendments to the defendants’ special pleas will be opposed by the plaintiffs.

Lawyers for both sets of parties are playing their cards close to their chests in this highly complex and extended case; the first papers were filed more than five years ago.

Ross Kudo, attorney for the plaintiffs, said the defamation action was continuing and that his clients’ next steps would be disclosed during the course of the litigation.

He pointed out that, until now, there had been agreement between all the parties that the issues before court would be dealt with collectively as a matter of convenience. However, there were actually three separate defamation cases, and collective agreement might not extend to the trial stage.

“In other words, each trial may be dealt with separately,” he said.

COURT HEARING

Currently, there was no indication of when the trial or trials would be set down for hearing, Kudo added.

“Due to the length of time it takes to obtain a trial date, and depending on how the various matters progress, the trial will most likely not be heard this year.”

The six South African defendants are: environmental lawyers Christine Reddell, Tracey Davies and Cormac Cullinan; social worker John GI Clarke; and community activists Mzamo Dlamini of the Wild Coast and Davine Cloete from Lutzville on the West Coast.

They are alleged to have defamed the plaintiffs: Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) and its South African subsidiary Mineral Sands Resources; then MRC executive chairman Mark Caruso (he is no longer with MRC); and MRC’s black empowerment partner Zamile Qunya.

The allegations stem from comments made at various times and places in books, interviews and/or presentations about the miners’ controversial activities on the Pondoland coast at Xolobeni and at the Tormin mineral sands mine on the West Coast.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18277874 (031936ZFEB23) Notable: Kenny Kunene Bun / Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate – Kenny Kunene (Parts 1-3)

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>>127757

>The founding members [Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene] of political party the Patriotic Alliance (PA)

>>127765

>Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach

>>127775

One cannot make this stuff up! This belongs in a mobster movie but in reality it can have dire consequences for the country as the next posts will demonstrate.

“3rd Degree | Update Show (Part one)” [Kenny Kunene, posted Nov 14, 2012] - https://youtu.be/NAz-Ncdu_6Q

“Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate” – Kenny Kunene Part 1

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15southafrica.html

Feb. 14, 2011

SANDTON, South Africa — Kenny Kunene, a former gangster turned businessman, gave what he called “the mother of all parties” for his 40th birthday. With his small paunch protruding from a white tuxedo and his eyes hidden behind Roberto Cavalli sunglasses, he ate sushi from the belly of a woman who was wearing nothing but black lingerie and high heels while hundreds of guests looked on.

As the revelers got tipsy on his liquor, he says he treated the most important among them — including Zizi Kodwa, President Jacob Zuma’s stylish spokesman, and Julius Malema, the rabble-rousing leader of the governing party’s youth wing — to $1,300 bottles of Dom Pérignon. Like the American rappers he emulates, Mr. Kunene himself swigged a bottle of Armand de Brignac Champagne that goes for more than $1,500 at his posh nightclub, ZAR, perched on the roof of a five-star hotel.

His October bash here in Sandton, a Johannesburg suburb often described as the wealthiest square mile in Africa, and another sushi-eating party that Mr. Kunene hosted recently in Cape Town, have turned him into a peculiarly South African sensation. His antics set off raucous bickering in the governing alliance about the conspicuous consumption of a politically networked black elite in a country where the majority of young blacks do not even have jobs.

Zwelinzima Vavi, leader of Cosatu, the powerful trade union federation allied with the governing African National Congress, accused Mr. Kunene of “spitting on the face of the poor” and declared that parties where people who have gotten rich in dubious ways flaunt their wealth “turn my stomach.”

Mr. Kunene, who says he supports the A.N.C.’s Youth League with his time and money, promptly retorted that his was “honest money spent on honest fun.” He describes his success as proof of the nation’s democracy, and he told Mr. Vavi, who is also black: “You remind me of what it felt like to live under apartheid. You are telling me, a black man, what I can and cannot do with my life.”

The Kunene story has crystallized a recurring question about life in post-apartheid South Africa: Is the accumulation and exhibition of such wealth a sign that blacks have finally arrived after an era when whites hogged the high life, or is it evidence of a moral decay undermining Nelson Mandela’s once great liberation movement?

“It raises in such wonderfully stark terms what freedom is and what one does with it,” said Jonny Steinberg, an author and one of the many newspaper columnists who commented on the events. “The idea that one uses it to get rich, and ostentatiously so, and that this is the most important dividend of freedom, is very powerful.”

In recent months, the spectacle of eating sushi from a woman’s body — perhaps familiar to Americans from Samantha’s escapades on “Sex and the City” — has been a source of both lurid fascination and ridicule here. A cartoon by the Mail & Guardian’s Zapiro, titled “The Last Sushi,” depicts a naked woman lying on a long table with well-known businessmen and politicians feasting on the fishy bits that decorate her curves.

That Mr. Kunene, a small-time player in South African politics, has vaulted onto the front pages underscores how salient the issue of economic inequality has become in South Africa, a country that by some estimates has the worst disparities of wealth in the world.

But the focus on Mr. Kunene, nicknamed the Sushi King by headline writers, is also a tribute to his obvious gifts for self-promotion and self-reinvention.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18277903 (031941ZFEB23) Notable: Kenny Kunene Bun / Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate – Kenny Kunene (Parts 1-3)

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“Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate” – Kenny Kunene Part 3

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15southafrica.html

Feb. 14, 2011

Mr. Malema’s comments prompted Gwede Mantashe, the party’s secretary general, to starchily insist that the A.N.C. “is not into nightclubs or partying, but it is a revolutionary movement. We furthermore reiterate our condemnation to the act of serving sushi on a woman’s body.”

Mr. Kunene this month bowed to his party’s wishes and foreswore sushi parties, but he could not resist noting that in South Africa, the rainbow nation, “I ate sushi off a black girl in Johannesburg. In Cape Town, I ate it off a white girl. I was intending to eat it off an Indian girl in Durban.”

Mr. Kunene has leapt into a life of fame and money, but often on Mondays he gets into one of his Porsches and makes the short drive to the poor and working-class township of Alexandra. “I don’t forget where I come from,” he said.

There he drinks with the regulars at a small bar, the Stoop, and eats a plate of tripe like his mother used to make. House music pumps from speakers, echoing over the township hillside, sparkling with tiny lights.

Last Monday, he left his nightclub, with its purple velvet couches, mirrored wall and sensational views of the Sandton skyline, dressed to impress in $2,000 jeans (“Billionaire brand,” he said, “the most expensive in the world”), pointy-toed purple Italian shoes and a matching belt.

As the evening wore on at the bar in Alex, as the township is sometimes called, men in shirtsleeves who had just finished work gave way to young women with glossy lips who were in a party mood. Mr. Kunene, sitting in a molded plastic chair, nursed his Belvedere vodka and soda and updated his Facebook page.

“Chilling at the Stoop,” he wrote. “The township is the bomb.”

Instantly, he had a rush of responses from some of the thousands of people who have added him as a friend since his birthday party made news.

“Can I join u?” posted one.

“Lucky you,” wrote another.

“Why was I not invited?” asked a third. “Is there sushi?”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18277995 (031956ZFEB23) Notable: Kenny Kunene Bun / Kenny Kunene is set to become MMC for transport in JHB

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>>>/qresearch/18259690

>“Mpho Phalatse’s removal engineered by Patriotic Alliance”

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“Kenny Kunene is set to become MMC for transport in JHB”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/kenny-kunene-is-set-to-become-mmc-for-transport-3-february-2023/

03-02-2023 12:36

Kenny Kunene is expected to be sworn in as a member of the mayoral committee (MMC) in the transport portfolio.

The Patriotic Alliance deputy president, Kenny Kunene, is set to become MMC for transport in Johannesburg, under the leadership of the new mayor, Thapelo Amad.

KUNENE SET TO JOIN NEW MMC

Thapelo Amad announced his mayoral committee on Thursday 2 February 2023.

Amad was elected as mayor after a vote of no confidence in Mpho Phalatse. The councillors nominated Amad during a council sitting and Phalatse refused to let go of the mayoral chain without a fight.

Kunene is expected to emerge as a member of the mayoral committee (MMC) in the transport portfolio.

“We need to work together to make our country great and it starts with local government. When one is called upon to serve, one must do so with all one’s might. Salute,” Kunene said.

AMAD YET TO ELECT HIS EXECUTIVE

Even though he has been sworn in on Monday, Amad is yet to announce his executive.

Now that Kunene is set to be a councillor, he can also be elected to the mayoral committee.

Two new councillors will be sworn in on Friday and the entire team will be sworn in as MMCs on Monday 6 February 2023.

CITY OF JOHANNESBURG LISTS ITS NEW MMCS

According to the City of Johannesburg, the new MMCs were selected after extensive consultations with other political parties, with the aim of solidifying the Government of Local Unity (GLU) partnership in the City.

Below is the list of Councillors of the City of Johannesburg appointed as MMCs:

1.	Finance: Cllr. Dada Morero

2.	Group Corporate and Shared Services: Cllr. Loyiso Masuku

3.	Environment and Infrastructure Services: Cllr. Jack Sekwaila

4.	Public Safety: Cllr. Sepetlele Raseruthe

5.	Development Planning: Cllr. Eunice Mgcina

6.	Economic Development: Cllr. Nomoya Daphney Mnisi

7.	Housing: Cllr. Anthea Natasha Leitch

8.	Community Development: Cllr. Lubabalo Magwentshu

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18283482 (041531ZFEB23) Notable: SA Tourism board members resign with immediate effect” - scrutiny over R1 billion BritishTottenham Hotspur deal

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“Breaking: SA Tourism board members resign with immediate effect” - scrutiny over R1 billion BritishTottenham Hotspur deal

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/sa-tourism-board-members-resign-3-february-2023-breaking/

03-02-2023 21:36

Three SA Tourism board members have reportedly resigned with immediate effect. This as the entity face scrutiny over R1 billion Spurs deal

Three SA Tourism board members have reportedly resigned with immediate effect today, Friday, 3 February.

SA TOURISM BOARD MEMBERS CALL IT QUITS

ENCA reports that the three board members Enver Duminy, Ravi Nadasen and Rosemary Anderson resigned with immediate effect and their resignations were received by tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu.

Minister Sisulu is yet to confirm these resignations.

The trio departs as SA Tourism has come under heavy scrutiny over its R1 billion sponsorship deal with English side Tottenham Hotspur.

WHY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC IS NATIONAL NEWS

The Daily Maverick spoiled the deal for Spurs after the publication exposed the yet-to-be-finalised deal this week.

South Africans and political parties did not take kindly to this news as South Africa is crippled by load shedding, unemployment and crime.

Reacting to the sponsorship deal, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said that the R1-billion deal by SA Tourism to Tottenham Hotspur is an insult to every South African.

HOW THE DA WANTS THE R1 BILLION TO BE SPENT

Initially, the DA demanded that the R1 billion be reallocated to buying diesel for Eskom to lower load shedding.

However, with many public sectors in dire straits, the party decided to dissect the sponsorship fund to benefit those sectors.

DA listed three sectors that would require urgent funding and appreciate it:

•	Over 33 million litres of fuel to power Eskom

•	Over 10 000 more NSFAS bursaries

•	Close to 5 000 new police officers

With the party taking no prisoners on this matter, the DA announced that the Parliament has confirmed a meeting for next week over the matter.

“An urgent meeting by Parliament to discuss this controversial deal has been confirmed to take place on Tuesday 7 February, following DA pressure. The DA will not allow this deal to go ahead!”

DA

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18289330 (051521ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Gardee murder case shocker

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“Hillary Gardee shot with a state gun”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/africa/hillary-gardee-shot-with-a-state-gun-1cb4b686-bf9a-41a1-bcca-f4490f843273

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Johannesburg - The man who confessed to robbing and killing Hillary Gardee in April last year told police in a shocking confession that he used a state-issued firearm to kill her.

In the chilling confession, seen by the Sunday Independent, Hlabirwa Rasie Nkune (sic), told police in August last year that he acted alone when he robbed Gardee of R1 500 and shot her in the back of the head while she was running away from him in the bush near Sabie in Mpumalanga.

Nkune admitted that he had used a 9mm PX4 pistol that he had earlier robbed from a traffic officer in Kanyamazane near Nelspruit. Police in Mpumalanga had initially arrested Sipho Mkhatswa, Philemon Lukhele and Albert Gama and accused them of raping and killing Gardee at Insika Guest Lodge owned by Lukhele in Nelspruit.

The men have protested their innocence since day one but police mounted evidence against them which now looks to be false. Lukhele was released on R20 000 bail three weeks ago, after seven months in custody, while Mkhatshwa and Gama are still behind the bars.

Nkune in his confession, which was admitted in court and added as part of the indictment, doesn’t implicate the three men or mention any role they would have played when he killed Gardee. But instead, Nkune gave police names of his friends, a group of hoodlums, who are preying on young women on social media and then later rape and kill them after robbing them of their belongings including, cash, cellphones and cars.

Nkune also admitted that he shot and killed “my wife”, Pretty Mazibuko and her sister, Marcia, who was a police officer, on May 15, 2022 after an argument.

Nkune claims that he went home and told his mother that he had killed some people, including his wife, before his friends drove him to Mozambique the following day, where he was hiding from the police.

Nkune took police to point out all the scenes where he committed the crimes on August 14, 2022, including the spot where he killed Gardee and robbed the traffic officer.

Another piece of information, seen by the “Sunday Independent”, contained in a police “success report” on the day Nkune was arrested, states that “information indicates that there’s a possibility that the suspect is wanted and will be linked to more than 20 cases in the province”.

The report added that Nkune had killed Gardee with a service firearm stolen from a traffic officer. Nkune was arrested in KwaThema, Springs, on August 11, 2022, days after he returned from Mozambique. Nkune had lured another woman to meet him on a date but again he intended to rob her of her Mercedes-Benz vehicle and sell it for cash.

Nkune allegedly strangled 27-year-old Nokuthula Nkosi and dumped her in a farm dam while she was still alive. She managed to identify him before she died after she was rescued by a farmworker.

Gardee’s father, Godrich, who is a former EFF secretary-general, is suing the state for R18-million for the grief and pain his family have suffered after the Correctional Services Department unlawfully released Nkune on parole months before he killed his daughter.

In their letter to Justice Minister,Ronald Lamola, Gardee’s family argue that Nkune should not have been released on parole as he had other pending cases and that “Hillary would not have been his victim, causing the family so much grief”.

Lamola was given 60 days to respond to the letter sent in October 2022 but he has yet to respond.

The National Prosecuting Authority and police this week failed to answer detailed questions sent to them regarding Nkune’s confession, pointing out of the scene and the gun stolen from a traffic officer that was used to kill three people, including Gardee.

The Gardee murder trial is scheduled to start in the High Court sitting in Mbombela in April. Lukhele, Mkhatshwa and Gama are trying to clear their names and get all charges against them related to this case dropped.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18289337 (051522ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President

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>>127544 - Is David Mabuza being manipulated due to the affidavit and other scandals?

“David Mabuza's resignation | Sandile Swana and Dr Levy Ndou weigh in” - https://youtu.be/Kuy8nhQNHr4

0:42 – “My suspicion is that there could have been a number of other discussions that were taking place between the ANC and Mabuza himself based on the fact that Mabuza for me has actually saved the President’s political life. [It] is David Mabuza in 2017 who came with the unity project in the ANC that at the last few minutes of voting, David Mabuza convinced Mpumalanga Province to vote for Cyril Ramaphosa. It was David Mabuza who chose last month at the conference of the ANC to contest any other position eventhough nominated.”

3:12 – “He [David Mabuza] says that I am paving the way for the one who was elected at Nasrec.”

“David Mabuza confirms he has resigned as deputy president”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/david-mabuza-confirms-he-has-resigned-as-deputy-president-77d00345-4b11-4507-944f-375e9b8b2ace

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Deputy President David Mabuza has broken his silence on his future, confirming that he has resigned from his position.

This follows weeks of speculation since Paul Mashatile was elected deputy president of the ANC at the Nasrec conference in December.

Mabuza, who was addressing mourners at his brother’s funeral in Mpumalanga on Saturday, confirmed he had sent a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa saying he was resigning.

“As you all know, there was a conference where I declined nomination. I was deputy president of the ANC. But in that conference Paul Mashatile was elected to be deputy president. Then I was left as deputy president of the country. What do you think must happen?

“The reason (for leaving) is to make way for the one elected by conference because I can see that he is starting to move, and I am making things quick on my side to give him space. I spoke to the president,” said Mabuza.

“The president will say himself that Mabuza has resigned. I promised him that I will respect him until I leave office. I hope those left behind will also respect him,” he told mourners.

Mabuza had been deputy president since Ramaphosa became president in 2018.

There has been mounting speculation on when Ramaphosa will announce his new Cabinet.

Parliament announced this week that new MPs will be sworn-in on Monday. ’This will be ahead of the State of the Nation Address on Thursday.

It is expected that Mashatile will be joined by former premier and MEC in KwaZulu-Natal Sihle Zikalala and another former MEC in Gauteng, Parks Tau, as new ANC MPs.

This will be before the anticipated Cabinet reshuffle.

Mashatile is then expected to become the deputy president and Zikalala to go into Cabinet.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18295552 (061745ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Ace Magashule’s ex-PA detained in US, FBI involvement

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“Ace Magashule’s ex-PA detained in US” – FBI involvement

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/ace-magashules-ex-pa-detained-in-us-dfcda1c3-0e65-4647-84e7-58cf585c7ee6

Published Feb 5, 2023

Johannesburg - Just days after the High Court in Bloemfontein made light of the fact that Ace Magashule's former PA was a phone call away, throwing out any need for extradition or deportation to secure her appearance in court for the asbestos roofs trial, the US authorities pounced on Moroadi Cholota last week in Washington and detained her - exactly as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had wished.

Those in Cholota's camp have accused the NPA of reneging on an agreement made before Free State Judge President Cagney Musi in court a few days earlier on January 20. The parties had agreed that state prosecutor Johannes de Nysschen would communicate with attorney Victor Nkhwashu to secure Cholota's voluntary appearance in court.

It was expected that the agreement would see the NPA abandon its wish to bring Cholota back to the country in shackles and handcuffs. On Friday, NPA spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga would only say: “The matter you are enquiring about has a direct bearing on proceedings that are under way in court and therefore we are unable to indulge you on it for fear of compromising pending court proceedings.”

Nkhwashu did not respond to questions. The hostile relationship between Cholota and the NPA dates back to November 2020 when De Nysschen told the court she would be a state witness against Magashule, without her knowledge. Almost a year later, in September 2021, the Hawks interviewed her for the first time in the US during a session akin to an interrogation rather than a state witness debriefing.

The room in which she was interviewed was kept cold – a tactic commonly used by the FBI to unnerve witnesses. After she complained, it was heated. During two more sessions where she alleged she was being subjected to “intimidation tactics”, the authorities also charged Cholota with fraud, corruption and money laundering.

Magashule faced the same charges relating to the R255 million contract to remove asbestos roofs in the Free State in 2014. The Hawks and the FBI wanted Cholota to implicate Magashule in wrongdoing, but she refused. From an American perspective, the FBI official who was part of Cholota’s interview was interested in the dealings between former ANC secretary general Magashule, and Cuba - a country friendly to South Africa but declared an enemy under US foreign policy.

During the court proceedings on January 20, Judge President Musi found it odd that the NPA, instead of summoning Cholota to appear in court, had opted for a costly and time-consuming extradition application. The court heard, and accepted, that Cholota was not a fugitive from the law and that she would “voluntarily” appear in court in South Africa on any date the NPA set.

In a slightly sarcastic tone, Judge President Musi repeated the submission: “She is prepared to return to SA at the request of the State.” He repeated: “The State should just request her to be here on a particular day and she will make sure that she is in SA.” De Nysschen then remarked: “That is the best news I have heard in the whole year.”

Earlier De Nysschen was tongue-tied when asked about the flailing extradition application that the NPA embarked on more than a year ago, saying that "the lady who is head of all the extradition exercise only started working on Monday and one of the other officials went on pension, so they have problems of their own“.

"We are still waiting for our colleagues in the USA. The process is still going on. With all due respect to our colleagues in America, I’m not sure why it is taking this long.“ De Nysschen continued: ”In any event, apart from the extradition, Ms Cholota’s visa has expired. So we foresee that it will be a question of either extradition or deportation, one or the other.“

Judge President Musi warned De Nysschen that the NPA faced a “dilemma” if the trial were to begin in Cholota’s absence. “You say you are ready but in fact you are not ready,” said the judge. The hearing was postponed to May 5.

Magashule had previously lost a bid to have the charges against him withdrawn for lack of evidence. He has since applied for leave to appeal the judgment in the Supreme Court of Appeal after the high court in Bloemfontein declined the application.

According to Magashule, the NPA failed to follow the proper two-pronged process in prosecuting him under the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act. Section 27 of the statute stated that before a certificate of prosecution could be issued, the NPA should request an explanation from the applicant.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18296981 (062158ZFEB23) Notable: ‘Plenty of military training in Richards Bay with foreign countries in less than a year” - SANDF happens to have 2023 Armed Forces Day during SA, Russia and China naval drills at Richards Bay

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‘Plenty of military training in Richards Baywith foreign countries in less than a year” - SANDF happens to have 2023 Armed Forces Day during SA, Russia and China naval drills at Richards Bay

“US Army Caught on Camera Training in KwaZulu-Natal: “Our Soldiers Training With the Big Boys””

https://briefly.co.za/south-africa/132867-reactions-piece-army-training-kzn-caught-camera-soldiers-training-big-boys/

Thursday, July 21, 2022

•	The United States of America’s Army was caught on camera training in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal

•	Members of the US Army and the South African National Defence Force have been training together for a multinational exercise

•	The clip has been widely shared on social media and reignited claims that the army is here to protect government

KWAZULU-NATAL - The United States of America’s Army was caught on camera, emerging from an aircraft and training in Richards Bay. Members of the US Army and the South African National Defence Force have been training together for a multinational exercise named ‘Shared Accord’.

The clip has been widely shared on social media and reignited claims that the army is in the country to protect President Cyril Ramaphosa in the event of a civil uprising.

“S.Africa unveils joint naval drills with Russia, China”

https://www.spacewar.com/reports/SAfrica_unveils_joint_naval_drills_with_Russia_China_999.html

Jan 19, 2023

"As (a) means to strengthen the already flourishing relations between South Africa, Russia and China, a multinational maritime exercise between these three countries ... will take place," the army said.

The exercises dubbed "Mosi", which translates to "smoke" in the local Tswana language, are scheduled for February 17 to 27, off the port city of Durban and Richards Bay.

“WATCH: Have you seen the convoy of SANDF armoured vehicles on the N3?”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-have-you-seen-convoy-sandf-armoured-vehicles-on-n3-breaking-news-6-february-2023/

06-02-2023 15:34

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is hosting the 2023 Armed Forces Day (AFD) at Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal from 06 – 22 February 2023.

The City expects to host about 15 000 members of the SANDF and the SA Navy from February 15.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Commander-In-Chief, is expected to officiate at the event.

According to reports, Naval ships from the Chinese, Russian and South African navies will be alongside the Richard Bay small craft harbour ahead of Exercise Mosi II.

NAVAL SHIPS FROM THE CHINESE, RUSSIAN, AND SA NAVIES WILL BE IN HARBOUR

According to the SANDF, it will be open to the public between 09h00 and 15h00 from 16 to 19 February.

The vessels are the Valour Class frigate SAS Mendi (F148), the hydrographic survey vessel SAS Protea (A324), the multi-mission inshore patrol vessel (MMIPV) SAS King Sekhukhune I (P1571), and the inshore patrol craft SAS Tekwane (P1554).

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301127 (071634ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / “You can make roughly R20m a month" – zama zamas gang boss (video)

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“South Africa’s Underground Gold Wars” [Feb 4, 2023] - https://youtu.be/yi6k1Hej0ZQ

VICE World News delves into the underworld of illegal gold mining in South Africa that is costing the country over a billion dollars a year.

“You can make roughly R20m a month – zama zamas gang boss”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/careers/you-can-make-roughly-r20m-a-month-zama-zamas-gang-boss-726839be-0529-4827-80d7-2891afaf0eaa

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2023

South Africa’s dire unemployment levels have left millions of people living in poverty and doing anything necessary in order to survive and support their families.

For example, in locations with abandoned mines, zama zamas, or illicit miners, sift for gold to sell on the black market. Once the world’s biggest producer of gold, South Africa has more than 6 000 abandoned mines.

These mines make for fertile ground for zama zamas to try their luck. Additionally, alleged turf wars often erupt between several zama zama gangs for control of the former mining areas.

In a recent “Vice” mini-documentary about illegal mining, one zama zama boss whose identity was withheld was quoted as saying: ‘’This is a business, this is a game. There’s nothing you can do. If somebody plays in your territory, you need to fix him up.

‘’You need to rob Peter to pay Paul. It’s blood money. There’s a group of five of us who are the big bosses. We can make roughly R20 million and we share it among ourselves.’’

The zama zama top dog told “Vice” that the process worked as smoothly as a well-oiled machine when it comes to bribing corrupt police officers to stay off their tails.

‘’In our scheme, we take out around R15 000 a month...They are on our payroll, those cops.’’

Thabang Mbote, an artisanal miner, also spoke to the media company about the conditions of his work above ground. He said that sometimes he can work for a week or even a month without getting nothing.

‘’I don’t see myself as a zama zama. That word does not sit well with me at all. I am scared of those people,’’ he told “Vice”.

In 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that a specialised police team would be set up to fight illegal mining in South Africa.

Seven suspected illegal miners were apprehended in January while mining for chrome at Mooihoek Mountain in Driekop, Limpopo, in January.

‘’The fight against illegal mining activities will continue to be intensified across the province, particularly in the Sekhukhune and Mopani districts.

“We warn communities to desist from engaging in these illegal activities as the police will relentlessly arrest all perpetrators and seize their equipment,” said Limpopo provincial commissioner, Lieutenant-General Thembi Hadebe.

However, the police are fighting a losing battle because as some zama zamas get arrested, more come to take their places. ‘’Unfortunately, because of the money going up and down, arresting them is not the end of it,’’ a police officer told ‘’Vice’’. He said it is an ongoing battle.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301132 (071635ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Eastern Cape residents concerned over recent mass murders

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“Eastern Cape residents concerned over recent mass murders”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/eastern-cape-residents-concerned-over-recent-mass-murders-12a54128-9b45-4714-89bf-2d3083d8e502

Published 19h ago

Cape Town - Eastern Cape residents are living in fear after a number of recent mass murders in the province.

The residents say they are living in fear as the killings appear to be becoming a trend.

Last week, 17 people were gunned down in three separate incidents in Gqeberha and Bityi near Mthatha.

Speaking to SABC News, Eastern Cape's MEC of Community Safety spokesperson, Unathi Binqose, said the recent killings are largely happening from two regions, namely the OR Tambo and the Nelson Mandela Bay.

“If you go to the OR Tambo district you will find that these killings are related to family feuds that date back years and some are related to stock theft.

“When you go to the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro you will find that it’s a different story and the issue of drugs has been one of the leading factors including the issue of tender that has been happening for too long in both of these economic hubs of the province and we are looking at that as the department,” he said.

Binqose maintained that illegal firearms have been a major contributing factor in all of these cases especially in areas where they have been able to make arrests.

“It is that reason the MEC Xolile Nqatha committed himself that they need to cut the supply of illegal firearms and when we are done with that for those firearms that are already in the hands of the criminals to ensure that we disarm them.

“If we disarm them then we will be able to make a significant dent in these mass murders that are becoming a trend in the Eastern Cape.

“In October last year, we reported about a traffic officer who was shot and killed in the very same Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, and that woman was disarmed and her firearm is still out there or possibly in the hands of criminals,” Binqose said.

Binqose further added that criminals are forcefully taking firearms to legal owners and own them in order to commit crime in the communities using those guns.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301187 (071649ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / 18301217 Gun Free South Africa, UN supported NGO

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>>127797

“Were you ever tempted to violence? : Archbishop Desmond Tutu” - https://youtu.be/nm2Egr1m1-g

1:52 – “I did get to the point of saying, I am not a pacifist because… I couldn’t want to sit by say whilst Hitler was throwing children into gas chambers… I recognized that there might come a time when you have to say that non-violent means were no longer viable… [16 Dec 1982 church sermon] We have been deluding ourselves too often. We have thought that there were nice white people. That there were nice newspapers. Newspapers that cared about our struggle! Our struggle! Why our struggle is going to succeed? Is not just because of numbers. Our struggle is going to succeed because it is a just struggle.”

Guns Free South Africa Patrons

https://gfsa.org.za/our-patrons/

GFSA founder Professor Emeritus Bishop Peter Storey

Peter Storey is former president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, past president of the South African Council of Churches, and was Methodist Bishop of the Johannesburg/Soweto area for 13 years. In the 1980s he became a national leader in the church struggle against apartheid and co-led an ecumenical delegation to the United Nations, the U.S. Congress and Europe, urging intensified pressure on the apartheid regime in 1984. Committed to non-violence and reconciliation, Peter Storey was a founder of the Methodist Order of Peacemakers and Gun Free South Africa. He co-chaired the regional Peace Accord structures intervening in political violence before South Africa’s first democratic elections and was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to help select the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Human rights and gender activist Pregs Govender

Pregs Govender is a writer, educator, and the author of Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination. During SA’s transition, she managed the Women’s National Coalition campaign for equality and women’s rights in the Constitution and future SA. As an ANC MP from 1994 she chaired Parliament’s committee on women. In 2002, she resigned after registering opposition to the arms deal in the defence budget vote and chairing HIV/AIDS public hearings (breaking the silence of the ANC Caucus on treatment). In 2009 Parliament unanimously elected her to the South African Human Rights Commission which she served as Deputy Chair until 2015.

RIP GFSA Patron Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

A globally respected peacemaker, Tutu recognised that “real peace never comes from the barrel of a gun.” [The lies!]

He was a committed supporter of a gun free South Africa, calling for SA’s first democratic election to be gun free, supporting SA’s first national firearms amnesty on 16 December 1994 and soon thereafter becoming a patron of Gun Free South Africa after the organisation was established in 1995.

His commitment to silencing the guns was not limited to South Africa: In 2018 the Arch awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize to the Parkland students in the USA for establishing an international movement after a deadly school shooting. Presenting the award, Tutu called the March For Our Lives movement one of the most significant youth-led mass movements in living memory and its founders “true change-makers.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301409 (071727ZFEB23) Notable: EFF Bun / "Vile misinformation" IFP responds to EFF’s assassination claims

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“‘Vile misinformation’: IFP responds to EFF’s assassination claims”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ifp-responds-to-eff-assassination-claims-secretary-general-marshall-dlamini-7-february-2023/

07-02-2023 14:54

The IFP has called on Police Minister, Bheki Cele and the State Security Agency to investigate assassination claims by the EFF.

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has accused the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of sensationalist and fabricated allegations regarding the alleged assassination plot of Marshall Dlamini.

On Tuesday, 7 February, the EFF said it received an intelligence report from the South African Police Service (SAPS) that senior members in the IFP are plotting to assassinate Dlamini.

IFP RUBBISHES EFF ASSASSINATION CLAIMS

IFP spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa said the EFF’s delusions of grandeur have come full circle in the face of a brewing internal revolt emanating from its decision to restore the ANC into power.

Hlengwa said the EFF exaggerated its influence, assuming its parting ways with the IFP would spell disaster for the party.

“Where we must warn the EFF, however, is when it begins pressing on the old wounds of our people with no regard for the pain that this causes. The allegations are inflammatory and dangerous politicking.

“They have produced nothing to back this serious claim, which the IFP now demands be investigated by SAPS. If SAPS genuinely knew of an assassination plot and knew who was plotting it, they would have made arrests.”

Mkhuleko Hlongwa

The IFP has also called on Police Minister Bheki Cele and the State Security Agency to clarify the allegation.

INKATHA SLAMS RED BERETS FOR FLIP-FLOPPING

Furthermore, Hlengwa said the EFF’s latest political stunt of removing themselves from co-governance with the IFP did not yield the results the party had hoped for. Suddenly, the IFP – with whom they happily worked until it refused to hand over governance of Umhlathuze [Richards Bay area] – is an “agent of apartheid” that “only thrives through violence”.

“This kind of flip-flopping is the unique brand of the EFF. Lest we forget, the same Malema who declared in 2021 that there is ‘no way, no way, the EFF is going to vote with the ANC’, is now voting with the ANC,” Hlengwa said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301422 (071729ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies (Parts 1&2)

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“Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies” – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/supreme-court-of-appeal-ruled-against-mining-companies-breaking-07-february-2023/

07-02-2023 13:05

Mining companies lost challenging appeal on the certification of Silicosis class action at the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Article originally published on GroundUp by Tania Broughton

•	The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled against mining companies that are challenging the certification of the silicosis class action against them.

•	The court said it is in the interests of justice that the class action be expedited because the claimants are poor and vulnerable.

•	The judge said the issues raised by DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines are not appealable at this stage.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed a bid by two mining companies to challenge a court certification of a class action which could potentially result in them being liable for damages suffered by thousands of miners who contracted silicosis.

Apart from challenging the certification, DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines also wanted to overturn the decision in the Johannesburg High Court to develop the common law, allowing families of miners who have subsequently died, or may die pending the resolution of the case, to benefit from any eventual damages award or settlement.

But the SCA has said neither issue is appealable at this stage and struck the matter from the roll.

This means that the class action can proceed.

LITIGATION

At this stage there are only 69 applicants in the class action and a process is underway for others affected to either opt in or opt out of the litigation, following which “common issues” would be determined in a first round of litigation and then individual claims during a second stage.

Following the certification of the litigation as a class action, several of the initial 32 mining companies (and parent companies), the owners of 82 mines, which had been cited, entered into settlement agreements with miners who worked for them.

But DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines launched an appeal with the SCA.

In the ruling handed down this week, Judge Christiaan van der Merwe, writing for the court, said it was common cause that over several decades many thousands of underground mine workers in South African gold mines contracted silicosis or pulmonary tuberculosis, caused through the inhalation of large quantities of silica dust.

Silicosis is a painful, incurable and progressive disease, often resulting in death.

It is contended by the miners that while tuberculosis is a treatable bacterial lung disease, exposure to excessive silica dust increases the risk of miners contracting it.

Judge van der Merwe said the mining companies represented virtually the entire industry in South Africa, including “parent companies” because of their controlling interest.

SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL

In the High Court, the 69 miners had presented evidence of prolonged industry-wide underground exposure to unhealthy levels of silica dust and that the mining companies had been negligent and wrong in failing to properly address this health hazard.

They said every affected mineworker – or his dependents – had a claim for damages.

After certifying the class action, the high court then signed off on a declaratory order (the declarator) which, in effect, developed the common law which up to that time decreed that any claim for general damages, pain and suffering or loss of amenities of life, terminated on the death of the claimant.

The effect of this was that mineworkers who had died, or would die before the finalisation of the litigation, would still have a valid claim and any damages would go to their estate, for the benefit of their heirs.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301430 (071729ZFEB23) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies (Parts 1&2)

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“Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies” – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/supreme-court-of-appeal-ruled-against-mining-companies-breaking-07-february-2023/

07-02-2023 13:05

COURT

Judge van der Merwe said as a result of a settlement agreement signed by the majority of the mines, the certification only now applied to six mining companies. Only DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines appealed.

Judge van der Merwe said orders were generally not appealable if they were not final and definitive.

“The certification is no more than a procedural device aimed at facilitating the determination of the class action. It has no final effect … and is susceptible to alteration by the court hearing the class action.

“It is not definitive of any rights.”

The judge said the mining companies had contended that should the certification not be set aside, their participation in the class action would cause them to suffer undue prejudice because they had little part to play in it.

This was because the tuberculosis claims had already been withdrawn against them, there was no parent company liability against them and they had ceased underground mining between 2000 and 2008.

Judge Van der Merwe, however, said that the trial court would have wide procedural options at its disposal and any issues unrelated to the two mining companies could be separated out.

SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL FINAL RULING

“The appellants’ complaint of prejudice in this regard appears to be exaggerated,” he said.

“The participation of each of the appellants in underground mining constitutes a significant portion of the ambit of the remaining class action.”

Regarding the declarator, the judge said the potential class members were poor and vulnerable and the litigation had already been ongoing for ten years.

“Should we entertain an appeal at this stage, there may be a further appeal.

“For me the overwhelming interest of justice consideration is that the finalisation of the class action should be expedited.”

The court struck the matter from the roll, ordering the mines to pay the costs.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301902 (071855ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position (video)

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“Ditsobotla Municipality| ANC will vote for Patriotic Alliance for mayor: Gayton mckenzie” - https://youtu.be/W1_AixWemSo

“Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/patriotic-alliance-second-mayoral-position-9-january-2023/

09-01-2023 22:12

Patriotic Alliance has today, Monday, 9 January, secured a second mayoral position in the history of the party’s politics.

PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE HAS A NEW AYOR IN THE NORTH WEST

Member of the Patriotic Alliance Itumeleng Elizabeth Lethoko was elected as the new mayor of Ditsobotla Local Municipality following a special sitting earlier.

The special sitting took place at Ngaka Moderi Molema District Municipality Chambers in Mahikeng.

HOW MAYOR ITUMELENG LETHOKO WON

According to the SABC North West, her nomination was supported by the ANC and Forum For Service Delivery. The ANC received 16 seats following Dec 14th by-elections, while the opposition parties had 23, combined. This led to coalition talks, which saw the ANC, F4SD and Patriotic Alliance agreeing to their coalition conditions.

Through this coalition, Fikile Jakeni of the ANC was elected the Speaker of the Municipality. He received 20 votes while his opponent Letlamoreng Mosiane from the Save Ditsobotla Movement secured 17 votes.

“Congratulations are in order to Itumeleng Elizabeth Lethoko of Patriotic Alliance South Africa for her election as the mayor of Ditsobotla Local Municipality.”

Bonginkosi Khanyile

CONGRATULATORY NOTES FOR NEW MAYOR

“The council is [currently] taking place at Mahikeng, at the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality chamber. And I can confirm it is led by the PA Mayor. Salute President Gayton Mckenzie you led us well. This is WAR!” Khanyile updated earlier.

“A Mayor from the Patriotic Alliance will lead the Ditsobotla Municipality. The people of Ditsobotla can be assured of service delivery. Where the PA lead, service delivery is paramount. Ons baiza nie. Salute!!! Well done my President Gayton McKenzie!!! Salute Itumeleng Lethoko Salute!!!” Patriotic Alliance Bronville Ward 11.

The first mayoral position was secured by party president Gayton McKenzie in the Central Karoo District Municipality in the Western Cape where he has proved to be a leader to be reckoned with.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301916 (071857ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position (video)

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>Salute President Gayton Mckenzie you led us well. This is WAR!” Khanyile updated earlier.

Then comes the coalition shenanigans.

“Patriotic Alliance on Ditsobotla mayor's resignation” hours after she was elected

https://youtu.be/nK8RRxd6mtM

Jan 10, 2023

The mayor of Ditsobotla Municipality in the North West resigned hours after she was elected. Elizabeth Lethoko says her decision was triggered by the ANC's proposal to appoint the administrator as municipal manager. Her party, the Patriotic Alliance has rallied behind her. Patriotic Alliance's deputy president Kenny Kunene speaks to Xoli Mngambi.

6:54 – “In the same principal of clean governance, why was it prudent to you as a party to put forward the name of Elizabeth Lethoko? This was someone who convicted for fraud and this was in breach of the municipal Finance Management Act 2015 when she attempted to influence the finance chief of the municipality for funds to be channeled towards a birthday party… We are a political party of 2nd chances… Myself and the president have been given 2nd chance.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301922 (071858ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position (video)

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>>127802

“U-turn – Patriotic Alliance’s Elizabeth Lethoko withdraws resignation as mayor of troubled Ditsobotla municipality”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-12-patriotic-alliances-elizabeth-lethoko-does-u-turn-withdraws-resignation-as-ditsobotla-mayor/

12 Jan 2023

The mayor of the ailing Ditsobotla Local Municipality in North West has withdrawn her resignation following meetings between ANC and PA leaders. Her resignation had not been processed yet and the Speaker accepted her withdrawal. The municipality has had 14 municipal managers, four mayors and four Speakers in six years, resulting in a total collapse of governance.

P atriotic Alliance (PA) councillor Elizabeth Lethoko has withdrawn her resignation as mayor of the troubled Ditsobotla Local Municipality in North West.

Speaking to Daily Maverick on Wednesday evening, PA Deputy President Kenny Kunene said they had talks with their coalition partners, which include the ANC, and reached an agreement that the mayor must withdraw her resignation.

“The Speaker has indicated that the letter was not yet processed, so the withdrawal is accepted and therefore the mayor of the PA will lead that municipality.”

He added that they also spoke with the African Heart Congress, which is part of the coalition.

“Their president accepted our input and said they are also on board. The ANC will go to speak to Forum 4 Service Delivery. On Friday, all the coalition partners are meeting to map a way forward for the councillors.”

Commenting on the vacant municipal manager post, Kunene said the council would meet and decide as a collective whether they would accept the proposal of someone being deployed by the provincial Department of Cooperative Governance or whether the council would appoint someone directly while the post is advertised.

Meanwhile, another coalition partner, Forum 4 Service Delivery (F4SD), said it rejected the PA’s attempt to withdraw the resignation of the mayor.

“We are wondering what has changed and what enticed them [the PA] to attempt to withdraw the resignation,” said F4SD National Working Committee member Thapelo Makgale.

“In all the shenanigans by the PA, coalition partners were never consulted; instead we established through the media that Lethoko has resigned,” added Makgale.

Last year, the Ditsobotla Local Municipality was dissolved by Parliament, following massive non-compliance breaches and reports of maladministration.

The municipality has had 14 municipal managers, four mayors and four Speakers in six years, resulting in a total collapse of governance.

Last year, dairy group Clover closed its cheese factory in Lichtenburg, the company’s biggest, due to the ailing service delivery in North West.

Before the by-elections, Daily Maverick visited the municipality and saw total decay, with townships full of exposed sewage while the streets, which are mostly not tarred, were full of litter.

In the subsequent by-elections, the ANC lost its majority for the first time since the dawn of democracy in SA, going from 51% to 39%.

The ANC then entered into a coalition with the PA, F4SD and African Heart Congress, which gave it 21 seats in the 39-seat council.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18301934 (071859ZFEB23) Notable: Gayton McKenzie Bun / "I will run for President in 2024" Central Karoo Mayor Gayton McKenzie says after 100 days in office (video)

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We should keep an eye on them.

“Gayton McKenzie, Hersov’s ’Prez”, explains PA’s switch: ‘DA had to be taught a lesson’ ahead of 2024”

https://youtu.be/wf2qaG1r-gA

Oct 20, 2022

In this no-holds-barred interview Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie opens a window into what South Africans can expect from coalition rule after the 2024 National Election. At the very least, it promises to be exciting. The PA’s co-founder says his ‘kingmaking’ moves that reinstated power for the ANC in Johannesburg and Knysna, are deliberate lessons for erstwhile allies – especially the Democratic Alliance whose leader he again meets with tomorrow. Arguing the end justifies his means, McKenzie maintains if allowed to continue, current bickering between anti-ANC parties threatens to snatch defeat from the jaws of 2024’s probable victory. He maintains the PA’s switching sides will prove the point that coalitions must be run as true partnerships – and is confirmation he will always follow through on what he promises. In this interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews, McKenzie also explains the reasons why the PA rejected formal offers of funding from ‘my friend’ Rob Hersov and like-minded tycoons. At BNC#4, in Hersov’s suggested post-2024 cabinet he proposed McKenzie as SA’s President.

29:59 – “One thing he did right for his country, it’s a gift that Rob Hersov gave to this country. He has shown business people… he is the Harry Oppenheimer of our time.”

“‘I will run for President in 2024’, Central Karoo Mayor Gayton McKenzie says after 100 days in office”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-24-i-will-run-for-president-in-2024-central-karoo-mayor-gayton-mckenzie-says-after-100-days-in-office/

24 Jul 2022

Gayton McKenzie gave himself 12/10 for his achievements as mayor of the Central Karoo District in his first 100 days — even though he was light on the details. He announced he would run for President in 2024, and offered his services (free of charge) ‘to fix Eskom’.

McKenzie, who was jailed as a teenager for a failed bank robbery decades ago, went on to become a motivational speaker, author and businessperson. He founded the Patriotic Alliance (PA) in 2013 with his friend Kenny Kunene – with the pair acting as president and deputy president, respectively.

During a council sitting to elect a mayor after Mitchell Smith resigned, only McKenzie was nominated — no opposition candidate was put forward.

Friday’s celebration was attended by coalition partners and about 1,000 PA supporters from across the country. Also in attendance were McKenzie’s friends and investors — such as billionaire Rob Hersov, Karoo politics strongman and former Beaufort West mayor Truman Prince, and, of course, Kunene.

He praised Kunene and Hersov, specifically for their role in creating employment and fixing basic needs, including the eradication of bucket toilets and repairing potholes.

“There will be fracking happening in the Central Karoo. We will mine uranium in the Central Karoo — Johannesburg had nothing, they mined and today they have everything… Why can’t Central Karoo have everything?”

“I, Gayton McKenzie, will be running for President in 2024,” he said.

McKenzie also made renewed comments on expelling foreign nationals: “Foreigners will go home if I became the President.” And: “When you are a foreigner legally here you must come with a special skill — you can’t do a job that can be done by a South African.”

McKenzie said he was offering his services as Eskom CEO as incumbent André de Ruyter was unable to deal with the “mafias” who operate in the diesel, petrol and transportation sectors and the unions.

Addressing President Cyril Ramaphosa directly, he said: “I am volunteering without a salary to fix Eskom for you… I have fixed the Central Karoo, I will deal with the mafias.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18302048 (071916ZFEB23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Siphiwe Nyanda: Profiling the alleged apartheid spy (Parts 1&2)

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>We have a situation in MK where people killed. One of the survivors with tears in his eyes told me thank you for being brave to ask me this question because I asked him, “who sold you out.” With tears in his eyes, he said I was sold out by comrade Siphiwe Nyanda… Siphiwe Nyanda is a spy.”

“SOUTH AFRICA: FORMER GUERRILLA LEADER [Siphiwe Nyanda] TO BECOME MILITARY CHIEF” (30 Apr 1998) - https://youtu.be/EA1mp3SnDpE

“Siphiwe Nyanda: Profiling the alleged apartheid spy” – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-is-siphiwe-nyanda-profiling-alleged-apartheid-spy/

5-07-2019 18:59

The former president claims that Nyanda’s spy name was ‘Ralph’.

Former president Jacob Zuma made startling revelations on his first day at the state capture inquiry. None was more shocking than the accusation he made about former SANDF General Siphiwe Nyanda.

Zuma stated that he has been the target of a character assassination plot that has been active since 1990.

He alluded to the presence of dark forces deployed by three intelligence agencies — two from foreign governments and one established by the apartheid regime — whose agenda was to neutralise him.

Claiming that this was his last bid to redeem what’s left of his struggle legacy before these ‘dark forces’ succeed in killing him, the former president went on to make bold accusations against Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Fikile Mbalula and Ngoako Ramatlhodi.

The name that flew under the radar, partially due to the celebrity of the aforementioned figures, was Siphiwe Nyanda.

Probably the most shocking accusation he has made so far, Zuma alleged that Nyanda was recruited by the apartheid government to infiltrate the structures of the ANC’s struggle movement.

WHO IS SIPHIWE NYANDA?

Nyanda is a 69-year-old high-ranking government official, considered by many as an icon of the liberation struggle. Much of his early roles in the fight against apartheid were with the uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) military wing in the 1970s.

He joined the party’s military in 1974, and within a span of ten years, he rose up the ranks and became a field commander, playing a key role in directing coordinated operations against the apartheid government in the 1980s.

Nyanda’s work with MK and 1994’s Transitional Executive Council earned him the position within the SANDF as the Chief of Defence Force Staff of the country’s military.

The General served the SANDF in different positions until 2005. Four years later, he was moved to the Ministry of Communications, ironically serving under the administration of Zuma’s first term as the head of state.

He would only spend 18 months in this role, after facing mounting pressure about tender irregularities and accusations that he personally benefitted from state funds.

Nyanda would go under the radar for eight years, before returning to the fore of public service as a board member of Denel, South Africa’s embattled arms manufacturer.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18302057 (071919ZFEB23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Siphiwe Nyanda: Profiling the alleged apartheid spy (Parts 1&2)

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>>127807

“State Capture | Spies, lies and conspiracies” - https://youtu.be/Y8qHegeeog0

3:05 – “The war today is fought at intelligence level. No longer at guns etc..”

“Siphiwe Nyanda: Profiling the alleged apartheid spy” – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-is-siphiwe-nyanda-profiling-alleged-apartheid-spy/

15-07-2019 18:59

ZUMA’S INTEL ON NYANDA’S DAYS AS A SPY

While Zuma, during his testimony, recognised Nyanda’s achievements, he alleged that the General’s struggle history was tainted. Zuma told the commission of an apartheid spy named Ralph whose mission was to infiltrate the ranks of the ANC.

As the ANC’s intelligence operative, Zuma revealed that he always had the advantage of receiving leaked information. One of this included Nyanda, who he alleged was in cahoots with the Swazi government and the apartheid regime under the alias ‘Ralph’.

Zuma brought Nyanda’s arrest in Swaziland to question, where he alleged that an orchestrated attack on the prison that held him was part of the ploy to maintain the integrity of the undercover operation and to not compromise his identity.

Zuma revealed that upon their release from prison, he had received intelligence that the mole in the movement was given an instruction to hug a certain operative as an indication that he was not compromised.

As it turns out, it was allegedly Nyanda who was hugged by the operative, confirming, based on his intelligence, that the former Minister of Communications was an apartheid spy.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18302061 (071920ZFEB23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Nyanda will not seek legal action against Zuma – Was he concerned that the truth would come out? (video)

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>>127808

“Nyanda will not seek legal action against Zuma” – Was he concerned that the truth would come out?

https://youtu.be/Cdw_AOjkuMw

Jul 16, 2019

Former SANDF head, Siphiwe Nyanda, claims former president, Jacob Zuma, is a bitter man.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18302094 (071927ZFEB23) Notable: Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun / Who’s Rob Hersov: An Intricate Look (Parts 1&2)

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>McKenzie also explains the reasons why the PA rejected formal offers of funding from ‘my friend’ Rob Hersov and like-minded tycoons.

>One thing he did right for his country, it’s a gift that Rob Hersov gave to this country. He has shown business people… he is the Harry Oppenheimer of our time.

>>>/qresearch/18301942

>The Menell family is one of the biggest family in mining. I’m in mining, so know the families. Menell paid for [Ramaphosa’s] schooling through the Urban Foundation. He gave them money to start NUM. The National Union of Mineworkers was started by money from from Menell, Oppenheimer and Rupert.

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>In our country, you have the Ruperts, the Menells and you have the Oppenheimers that controls these people.

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>They know the reason why black people have nothing is because of CODESA and of what happened in CODESA. Our Constitution was written… under the supervision of Menell, Oppenheimer and Rupert.

Is history in the process of repeating itself?

“Who’s Rob Hersov: An Intricate Look” – Part 1

https://blackopinion.co.za/2022/02/20/whos-rob-hersov-an-intricate-look-2/

February 20, 2022

Who’s Rob Hersov, the man who holds the details of the meeting between British Lord Robin Renwick & EFF’s Julius Malema in London? Malema & Renwick having met under the Chatham House protocols of sworn secrecy, so who’s Rob to have privileged third party information? Chatham House is the 3rd most powerful society & what is said there stays there- you speak you die.

It’s well established that Rob Hersov is the son of Basil Hersov. Basil Hersov is former chairperson & shareholder in the former Anglo Vaal mining company, co-owned with the Menell families. In essence Rob Hersov is the heir to the Hersov family wealth, however keen to make his own mark- Rob left abroad.

Having worked as an executive for such companies as Wall Street listed Morgan Stanley bank, & Italian based pay-tv company Telepui owned by Richemont of Johann Rupert, Rob used his contacts to raise capital to form a company called Sportal in 1998 of which was a sports website development company, & secured contracts with various elite sports entities across Europe & even the South African rugby team.

With Rob as CEO, by May of 2000 Sportal was worth £270 million. However by March 2001 Rob admits the company is falling as investors start to pull out- Rob resigns as CEO, & in November 2001 Sportal is sold for £1, yes one pound. 2002 Rob Hersov founded the executive jet service Marquis Jet Europe of which was a successful venture of which he sold it to rival Netjets, controlled by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in 2004 & Rob remained as the vice-chairman of Netjets Europe.

Fresh & jubilant from this success- Rob Hersov financially backed German businessman Lars Windhorst to launch an investment firm called Sapinda with Windhorst as CEO & Hersov as board chair, & was again wildly successful building up a balance sheet of more than £900million. However the financial sector global crisis of 2007 dragged Sapinda down as Sapinda was shored up by debt.

German prosecutors however investigated Windhorst’s management of Sapinda & eventually brought 35 charges of fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust, but Windhorst entered into a plea bargain & was fined £850 000 & admitted a breach of trust offence, for which he was given a one-year probation period & with a criminal record after Sapinda had left it’s investors with £60 million in debts.

Hersov & Windhorst were also jointly accused by Alki Partners an American hedge fund- of fraudulent market manipulation. In 2008 a company called Vatas was sentenced by the Berlin Court to pay €29m to Audley Capital a British hegde fund. In 2009 German Bank NORD/LB sued Vatas for €150 million. Vatas filed for insolvency after this. Vatas was owned by Hersov with Windhorst as CEO. There’s also a link of $35 million investment by Sapinda into USA tech company Azubu TV, of which was subsequently embroiled in a $9 billion money laundering ring.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18306633 (081355ZFEB23) Notable: EFF Bun / EFF-ANC coalition targets Alfred Duma Municipality (KZN)

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“EFF-ANC coalition targets Alfred Duma Municipality [KZN]”

https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/eff-anc-coalition-targets-alfred-duma-municipality-3e8214a3-2a53-452c-b688-e74a442e340d

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Durban — In its drive to seize power from the IFP in hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal, the new ANC-EFF coalition is setting its sights on Alfred Duma municipality in a motion against the mayor on Wednesday.

ANC spokesperson in uKhahlamba region Bheki Khanyile told the Daily News the ANC was ready to reclaim power in the former Mnambithi local municipality, which the party ran for years until the IFP won it in the November 2021 local government election.

Khanyile said although the numbers were tight, he was hoping councillors would put the interest of citizens first and vote with their conscience rather than party directives.

“We understand councillors take the mandate from their leaders who have not even set their foot in Ladysmith, so those may have no interest of the citizens at heart since they do not personally know the challenges faced by the people where their coalition partner, the IFP is in charge,” said Khanyile.

The motion against the mayor was filed by National People’s Assembly councillor Nathi Mthethwa, seconded by NFP councillor Bonisiwe Biyela.

ANC councillor Lindiwe Kubheka has filed against the speaker, while the EFF’s Lwazi Nkosi would present and motivate against the deputy mayor’s removal.

Although the EFF has helped the IFP to govern the municipality, the IFP kept all the senior positions. In the 73-seat council, the IFP has 33 and the ANC 28, while the EFF came third with five seats. The DA got three seats, and the NFP, NPA, African People’s Movement and Philani Mavundla’s Abantu Batho Congress got one each.

With the DA and ABC in the IFP corner, it looks like the IFP will survive with 37 votes against 36, unless some councillors among the IFP-led councillors use their conscience, as happened in Zululand.

An NFP councillor, Berthwel Nxumalo, rescued the IFP when he openly defied his own party position and used his conscience to vote with the IFP.

NPA councillor Mthethwa, who has been critical of IFP leadership since taking over in 2021, said he was hopeful their new coalition under the ANC would celebrate after the special council meeting. Had Mavundla’s relationship with ANC not soured, the ANC-led coalition was guaranteed victory in Alfred Duma.

In its media briefing recently, IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa said his party had no sleepless nights and was not worried about the EFF and ANC coalition, arguing that his party’s calculations showed the IFP would only lose KwaMaphumulo and uMhlabuyalingana local municipalities.

These are two poor rural municipalities with revenue collection issues and solely depend on government grant funding, so losing them would be no big deal.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18306635 (081356ZFEB23) Notable: EFF Bun / EFF says it has ‘working relationship’ with ANC in KZN

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“EFF says it has ‘working relationship’ with ANC in KZN”

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/eff-says-it-has-working-relationship-with-anc-in-kzn-eabd7b2a-8a37-48c9-9ea9-293e1c9466fd

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Durban - The EFF has revealed that it has entered into a “working relationship” with the ANC in eThekwini while bilateral talks for a more formal relationship are under way.

EFF provincial leader Mongezi Twala said they were in a working relationship with the ANC, albeit an informal arrangement while talks were ongoing.

But he revealed that one of the conditions that would pave the way for a formal working relationship with the ANC, was the removal of eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda from the post.

In an interview with The Mercury yesterday, he said: “Yes, we are working with the ANC. We want to block the re-emergence of the ‘establishment’, the partnership between the DA and the IFP.

“We want to see the back of that ‘establishment’. We have decided we should work with these ones (ANC) as corrupt as they are, and we tell them to their faces they are corrupt,” he said.

Rumours of an arrangement between the two parties have been circulating for some time and gained momentum after the EFF cut ties with the IFP, ending their coalitions in municipalities they were governing together in KZN.

The arrangement became more apparent when the EFF voted with the ANC on key issues last Friday in an eThekwini council meeting, including on the appointment of a deputy mayor and against a motion of no confidence in Kaunda. In December last year, EFF councillors protested during a council meeting, calling for Kaunda to be axed.

On Monday, the party had claimed it voted against the motion on Kaunda because the smaller parties had been “arrogant” and not consulted it on their plans to oust Kaunda.

“We are going to make changes in the city but we will do this on our own time,” said Twala.

“There are bilateral talks happening with the ANC and we have made it clear that as part of the condition of a formal relationship, Kaunda must be removed as the mayor.

“We need credible people in that post. That man (Kaunda) lacks vision and we have seen the city decay under him. We want credible people to lead the city that will deliver services to the community,” he said.

Twala said the ANC had not shown any indication of wanting to accede to this demand but the bilateral talks were still ongoing.

An ANC councillor in eThekwini, who did not want to be named because coalition talks are being handled by the province, said for the moment, the arrangement with the EFF was on an issue-by-issue basis. The official said the relationship with the smaller parties, which was established after the local government elections, would remain in place even if the ANC and the EFF reached an agreement.

Asked about the ANC and EFF relationship, ADeC councillor Visvin Reddy, who is a member of the bloc of smaller parties, said as far as they were aware, there was no relationship between the ANC and the EFF.

“We have had bilaterals with the ANC and we have put up certain conditions in the interests of the citizens of Durban. We will be watching developments very closely in the next few months.

“People now assume there is a relationship between the EFF and ANC based on one vote. We vote on principles and as ADeC we have voted against the ANC on a number of issues,” he said.

ANC spokesperson Mafika Mndebele said they were working not only with the EFF but with the other smaller parties in the council.

“Indeed, we are in constant negotiations with the EFF and as soon as agreements are reached we will make an announcement.”

He added that the ANC still had full confidence in Kaunda.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18306643 (081358ZFEB23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / ANC says Super Zuma will drive ‘agriculture revolution’ after he was appointed as KZN Agriculture and Rural Development MEC

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Is this another reason why KZN has been targeted by the EFF and ANC?

“ANC says Super Zuma will drive ‘agriculture revolution’ after he was appointed as KZN Agriculture and Rural Development MEC”

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/anc-says-super-zuma-will-drive-agriculture-revolution-after-he-was-appointed-as-kzn-agriculture-and-rural-development-mec-df4c185d-da12-41ab-a50c-fc670a8838c3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Durban - Former trade unionist and ANC KwaZulu-Natal secretary Super Zuma has been named as the new Agriculture and Rural Development MEC after a change was made in the provincial executive council due to former Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC Sihle Zikalala being deployed to the National Assembly.

In a media briefing at the Marine Building in Durban yesterday, KZN Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube announced that MEC Bongi Sithole-Moloi would move from the Agriculture and Rural Development Department to become Cogta MEC, with Zuma taking her former role.

Zuma has also served as regional secretary of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) before joining the KZN legislature where he served as chief whip.

“He will work with the farming community to ensure that agriculture becomes our solution to both food insecurity and unemployment. Critically, Zuma will drive the programme of the agriculture revolution,” said party spokesperson Mafika Mndebele.

The spokesperson said Zuma’s appointment was in line with the ruling party’s plan of using the agricultural sector to drive the redistribution of wealth.

“This is extremely important considering the fact that this province has a total of 6.5  million hectares of land for farming purposes of which more than 82% is suitable for extensive livestock production and more than 18% is arable land,” Mndebele said.

Judge Poyo-Dlwati emphasised the need for office bearers to conduct themselves along the principles of the Constitution of the Republic, and promised to provide support from the judicial arm of government when needed.

Yesterday’s announcement came as a surprise to many in the ANC because of the swift manner in which Zikalala’s replacement had been found.

Some party members had expected that the ANC would go to the provincial workshop before announcing the new MEC.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18375787 (191520ZFEB23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / In Conversation | SABC News spine-chilling interview with a hitman "Inkabi" (video)

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>Muti killings: from a client wish to a gruesome, evil death” - Sangomas

>>>/qresearch/18301152

>Gun Free SA calls for action over gun ownership

“In Conversation | SABC News spine-chilling interview with a hitman "Inkabi"”

https://youtu.be/DwMpBmpt2sA

Feb 16, 2023

Police have confirmed that the killing of rapper, Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes, was a hit. A hitman, or Inkabi, as they are popularly known in isiZulu, is someone who is hired to carry out a murder. They are commonly used in taxi wars, gang wars and political killings. The SABC recently had a spine-chilling interview with an Inkabi.

1:46 – “You find us in church a lot. We go there to ask forgiveness. We believe more than all the congregants. We pray to be cleansed because we kill people for a living.”

6:56 – “Our victims are often sold out by their bodyguards. We offer them money. They are human too. We make them understand that we are doing our job just like them. They know that if they don’t cooperate, they are putting their lives at risk. We don’t want your children to starve. You are not the target. We tell them when their boss dies, they will easily find another job. We also work with the police. They are human too. When I need bullets for example, I get them from the police. They know my profession. They alert us about roadblocks and tell us which routes to avoid. They also tell us to hide our weapons so that they are not detected during a search operation. We are also able to evade detection by sniffer dogs because of the muthi we smear on our guns. We only expose the legal firearms for them to check. At times though, we are warned that it won’t be easy to pass through the roadblock. In that case we go back home and make another plan. After carrying out their assignments, hitmen often go for cleansing [at a traditional healer (or sangoma)].”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18397610 (231510ZFEB23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / ENCA My Guest Tonight - Annika Larsen interview with Andre De Ruyter – “led to his ‘immediate’ departure as Eskom CEO” (video)

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“ENCA My Guest Tonight - Annika Larsen interview with Andre De Ruyter” – “led to his ‘immediate’ departure as Eskom CEO”

https://rumble.com/embed/v27zo06/?pub=4

3:07 – “We know of at least 4 organised crime cartels operating in Mpumalanga in Eskom. Some of them also have interests in Transnet and we see that in our inability to rail coal to Majuba Power Station for example, where we don’t have enough electric locomotives because the overhead lines are stolen and Transnet does not have enough diesel locomotives because these are being tampered with and otherwise disabled. So these 4 cartels are quite sophisticated as far as we can tell. They are well organised. It is interesting that they’ve adopted the language of the mafia so people are called soldiers and they have a hit squad allegedly between 60 and 70 highly trained, well armed people and people get assassinated in Mpumalanga. I think the media maybe has become very used to these reports so they don’t receive much airtime anymore but every week there’s pretty much an assassination. So it’s deeply entrenched and it is highly organised.”

“Eskom exposed: De Ruyter’s explosive revelations”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/andre-de-ruyter-eskom-ceo-interview-annika-larsen-what-claims-revelations-fired-23-february-2023/

23-02-2023 11:57

Andre de Ruyter made various bombshell claims in an interview which now led to his ‘immediate’ departure as Eskom CEO.

Andre de Ruyter opened up in a candid interview on Wednesday 23 February about the alleged political interference and corruption at the embattled power utility. In less than 24 hours since speaking to eNCA journalist Annika Larsen, De Ruyter has been released from his duties as Eskom CEO “with immediate effect” — a month earlier than his planned exit.

In the interview, De Ruyter said the power utility is a “feeding trough for the ANC” and that the party is stuck in outdated communist ideologies

INSIDE ESKOM: DE RUYTER LAYS BARE DEEP ROT AT UTILITY

We break down De Ruyter’s bombshell claims from his eNCA interview. Take a look…

‘CORRUPTION AT HIGHEST LEVELS OF ANC RULING PARTY AND GOVERNMENT’

De Ruyter claims he approached a senior minister about a high-level politician that was involved in “sinister and potentially criminal activities” at Eskom.

“The minister in question looked at another senior official and just said: ‘I guess it was inevitable that it would come out anyway’. It suggests that it was not news,” De Ruyter told Larsen.

The now-former Eskom CEO would however not reveal who the person is, but according to him, he is still in a senior government position.

STATE SECURITY MONITORING DE RUYTER

De Ruyter revealed that criminal syndicates in Mpumalanga were stealing around R1 billion a month from Eskom. Despite this widespread theft and criminal activity, state security was “missing in action”.

“However, they did see fit to send one of their agents to COP 27 to keep an eye on me.”

ANC NOT INTERESTED IN FIXING ESKOM?

De Ruyter then discussed the ANC, saying that “they want what will win them the next election, not what will keep the country going for the next two decades”.

He said the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), under the leadership of minister Pravin Gordhan, played an interventionist role at Eskom and micromanaged the company.

“That balance has been disturbed by turning Eskom into a state-owned entity under the direct control of the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE).”

“There is a narrative that the state should control everything,” De Ruyter said.

“The ghosts of Marx and Lenin still haunt the halls of Luthuli House. People are still firmly committed to a 1980s style ideology.”

In the eNCA interview, De Ruyter said “there is very little explanation for the very vociferous opposition to starting the just energy transition”.

According to him, decarbonising the South African economy is essential to protecting the environment, growing the economy, and addressing energy security.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18425888 (010048ZMAR23) Notable: French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools

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General Research #22590 >>>/qresearch/18425798

French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools

28 Feb, 2023 12:48

Emmanuel Macron wants to rebrand Paris’ presence in its former colonies as cultural and economic projects

Since France was dumped by some of its former colonies in Africa in favor of new partners, like Russia and China, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new plan in an obvious effort to have an excuse to keep hanging out in the hope of winning hearts and minds.

How exactly does Macron plan on doing that? Certainly not by “taking people for imbeciles”, as he said on February 28 while announcing his new African strategy ahead of a tour of the continent this week. “We aren’t going to do common good,” Macron stated, underscoring that France clearly has interests and isn’t going to pretend otherwise. After a remark like that, one might be lulled into believing that everything else that he said would be equally straightforward.

That’s not exactly the case. Rather, Macron is just announcing a different manipulation tactic – because Washington’s model of deploying military shock and awe on resource-rich countries in the hope of ultimately translating it into business deals apparently isn’t getting the job done. Even worse, the West is now worried about being outdone on the security and economic front by Russia and China. And for all the patronizing attempts to warn African countries to avoid dealing with them — most recently by Western officials at the Munich Security Conference — it turns out that treating African leaders like they don’t know what’s in their own best interests isn’t working, either.

The big question in the wake of Mali giving the boot to France’s years-long “counter-terrorism” mission, leading to an exit of the country’s armed forces from the region, was how Paris would justify sticking around. In 2021, there were over 19,000 deaths related to Islamist violence, more than in 2015, when Boko Haram was at its strongest, in the Sahel – the region that France ostensibly sought to stabilize.

So France was fired. For all its time in the region, Paris wasn’t able to parlay its security footprint into the kind of economic and resource deals that it wanted on behalf of both itself and resource-poor Europe.

Macron tipped his hat early in his speech by evoking the Franc of the Financial Community of Africa, as a sort of anchor for the Franco-African cooperation that he’s introducing. The controversial currency, used in 14 African countries and printed in France, is pegged to the Euro. Some consider it a symbol of colonialism and a lack of sovereignty, while the Western establishment generally considers it a source of stability for these countries that attract investment.

Back in 2019 when she was in opposition, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni called it the “colonial currency” to which France “applies seigniorage and by virtue of which it exploits the resources of these nations.” Macron would now like to build on that, s’il vous plaît.

To that end, the French President has a new idea that involves Africans forgetting France’s military presence on the continent. Its bases in Africa are now going to be co-managed with Africans and some will be rebranded “academies”, he said. Apparently, in today’s Western world, if an army base wants to self-identify as a school, that’s now entirely its right.

The move to soften France’s image in Africa after having overseen the proliferation of jihadists under its counter-terrorism missions looks a lot like the Biden administration’s new PR efforts aimed at Africa. “Jill Biden’s visit to Namibia was a big hit with scores of giddy children who crowded around her Thursday as she handed out boxes of White House M&Ms after visiting an organization that gets US support for programs that teach young adults about HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence,” the Associated Press reported on February 23.

Macron is also playing up new French-led cooperative initiatives for Africa in culture, sports, health, digital technology, and education. All backed by a European team, he said — in case there were any doubts as to the European Union using France to wedge open the door to resource heaven. Macron also repeatedly mentioned partnerships with African civil society. Translation: French cash for NGO “influencers”. That’s generally called a “paid partnership” on social media, and the ethical protocol is to disclose that funding relationship. What are the odds that the French-backed NGOs will be doing the same when attempting to influence their fellow citizens?

Macron spoke of France’s network of African diaspora, able to open the doors to increased business cooperation in their countries of origin. It sounded like he was planning to just swoop in and rain cash on African enterprise. But how much of that, in reality, will end up benefiting French companies and their shareholders?…..

https://www.rt.com/africa/572192-macron-french-military-africa/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18463460 (072215ZMAR23) Notable: (from Geneeral Research) ‘Colonization’: Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov’t to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa

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Canada #41 >>>/qresearch/18463023

‘Colonization’: Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov’t to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa

Kennedy Hall March 7, 2023

The Ugandan politician also took aim at Canada's promotion of contraceptives and its insistence on providing so-called sexual education to children.

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) –– Ugandan Member of Parliament Lucy Akello spoke to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Tuesday, telling the Canadian government that her nation is not interested in abortion being tied to international aid from developed countries like Canada.

Akello opened with a strong statement directed toward the efforts of the Canadian government to push a pro-abortion mentality on Africans, stating: “About abortion, our people are still loyal to religious truth and cultures… it seems no matter how much money will be spent on making abortion look good, our people still see through the money, the marketing and mass education…”

“Africa has a long history of colonization just like Canada [with] foreign-led governments telling us what is good for us, or what our priorities should be,” she said.

She added that the women she represents as an MP are “able to see through” the push to spread an abortive and contraceptive mentality in Africa. “We believe life starts from conception,” she said. “Where I come from, once conception takes place, it is life.”

Akello told those present that in Uganda even miscarried babies are “given a decent burial, irrespective of the sex.”

To support her African pro-life stance she referenced multiple studies from the continent that demonstrated that the “overwhelming majority of Africans” are pro-life.

She said that pro-life activity far outweighs any pro-abortion sentiment in the continent and that “hardly any” anti-life action exists. “Unborn babies have a right to live and deserve to be protected by laws,” she continued.

Akello told the committee that pushing hormonal contraception on Africans is “hurting” African women due to the “side effects of hormonal contraception.” She also took aim at Canada’s push to spread so-called sex education in Africa.

“The parents who I represent see [sexual education] as an assault to the health and the innocence of children.”

She finished her opening remarks by imploring the Canadian government to spend more resources “keep[ing] the girl child at school as opposed to giving them contraceptives.”

Shadow minister for international development, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, asked the first question after thanking her for making the trip to Canada and took a shot at fellow politicians saying: “Sometimes we have public servants who don’t want to come from their offices to be with us in person.”

He asked Akello how developed nations could help bring resources to developing nations like Uganda without imposing values that are not welcome there.

She replied by saying that in the past, donors would ask what the values of a nation were before offering resources, but that has changed and now donations come with an ideology attached. She said Africans are told by donors, “you must fit in our values” in order to receive money and resources.

“If you want to help,” she continued, “come build what I have, as opposed to making me fit in your priorities.”

She doubled down on her insistence that international support from nations like Canada should be focused on keeping young women in school. “When we keep the girl at school… she will definitely stay out of unwanted pregnancy.” Akello also said that more money for maternal and pediatric health centers were needed, as opposed to funding for contraceptives and abortion.

Liberal MP Robert Oliphant expressed his disagreement with Akello’s presentation, and said that Uganda’s sovereignty as a nation and culture came second to what “the world community has decided.” He told her that “human rights are universal, and transcend political boundaries.”

More:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/colonization-ugandan-mp-tells-canadian-govt-to-keep-pro-abortion-propaganda-out-of-africa/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492144 (121504ZMAR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / U.S. Embassy: State of Disaster declared over ongoing Energy Crisis of "Load Shedding"

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“SECURITY ALERT: U.S. EMBASSY – STATE OF DISASTER DECLARED OVER ONGOING ENERGY CRISIS OF “LOAD-SHEDDING””

https://za.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-state-of-disaster-declared-over-ongoing-energy-crisis-of-load-shedding-controlled-electricity-outages/

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Location: South Africa

Event: The government of South Africa has declared a “State of Disaster” in response to ongoing power shortages. The country’s energy crisis includes sustained load-shedding (controlled rolling blackouts), at varying intervals and is expected to extend beyond 2023. Load-shedding currently results in localized power outages of up to six hours or more per day throughout the country. These planned electricity outages negatively affect private residences, businesses, municipal lighting, traffic lights, and hotels. Rolling blackouts can also impact water availability and safety, internet connectivity, cell phone network coverage, fuel pumps (and therefore fuel availability), residential security features, and the food supply. Additionally, power outages have the potential to increase crime; for example, traffic jams when lights are out provide opportunities for smash and grab crime, and residences can be targeted when lights are out and security systems are not functioning. Further, ongoing conditions have led to an increase in protests and demonstrations, and in some cases civil unrest, throughout the country.

The U.S. Embassy would like to take this opportunity to remind U.S. citizens traveling to or living in South Africa that South Africa has a Travel Advisory Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution due to Crime and Civil Unrest.

Prepare in advance for power outages, including contingencies for communication and water (see additional actions and tips below).

Actions to Take:

•	Be aware of your surroundings.

•	Review your personal security plans.

•	Inquire about a back-up power supply for your place of lodging (i.e. generators or solar-power).

•	Avoid demonstrations.

•	Exercise caution if unexpectedly in the vicinity of large gatherings or protests.

•	Monitor local media for updates.

Emergency Preparedness Tips:

•	Have a communications plan for when there is no or limited power (land line locations, external cell phone battery, additional charging cords, hard copy of important numbers, etc.)

•	Ensure you have necessary medicine, personal hygiene supplies, eyeglasses

•	Memorize family members’ phone numbers

•	Identify safe areas around the city, these could include hotels, hospitals, churches, or police stations that may not lose power

•	Maintain 72-hours’ worth of supplies at home by stockpiling non-perishable food, 3 liters of drinking water per person per day, and medicines and first aid supplies

•	Store flashlights, batteries, radio, and basic tools in a safe location where all family members have easy access

If you received this email, it means that you already enrolled in STEP. Please help us to spread this message and remind all U.S. citizens in South Africa to enroll in the program so that they too can receive the most up to date security and health information.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492159 (121506ZMAR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Australia’s Warning About South Africa (Parts 1-3)

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Australia’s Warning About South Africa – Part 1

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/south-africa#safety

Still current at:13 March 2023

Updated:17 February 2023

Crime and violence are serious issues in South Africa.

Crime rates in South Africa are significantly higher than in Australia and often involve weapons.

Be alert.

Due to increased crime, avoid using Numbi Gate at Kruger National Park and consider using an alternative gate.

Police in South Africa deal with a high volume of aggravated crime. Their resources are stretched. You may not get the level of service you would in Australia, especially for less serious crimes such as theft and fraud.

The South African Police Service doesn't have a 'Tourist Police' force. Criminals have posed as 'Tourist Police' to extort and rob tourists. This includes stopping tourist buses to check proof of identity and search luggage.

Power Shortages and Rolling Blackouts (Load Shedding)

The government has declared a state of disaster in response to ongoing power shortages. Rolling blackouts (load shedding) are occurring throughout South Africa which are affecting private residences, businesses, municipal lighting, traffic lights, and hotels.

Blackouts can also affect water availability, internet connectivity, mobile phone network coverage, fuel availability, residential security features, and food supply.

Power outages can potentially increase crime; for example, traffic jams due to power outages provide opportunities for smash-and-grab crime. Residences can be targeted when lights are out and security systems are not functioning. Ongoing conditions have led to increased protests and demonstrations, and in some cases, civil unrest, throughout the country.

Be prepared for issues that may arise from blackouts:

•	have a communications plan for when there is no or limited power (landline locations, external mobile phone battery/power banks, additional charging cords, hard copies of important numbers).

•	maintain several days worth of non-perishable food, drinking water, and other essential items, including medicine and first aid supplies.

•	store torches, batteries, radios and basic tools in quick-access locations.

•	identify safe areas around the city, including hotels, hospitals or police stations that may not lose power.

•	monitor local media and follow the instructions of local authorities.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492161 (121506ZMAR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Australia’s Warning About South Africa (Parts 1-3)

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>>127821

Australia’s Warning About South Africa – Part 2

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/south-africa#safety

Crime at airports

Crime in and around airports can occur.

Criminals have robbed arriving passengers, following them from the airport to:

•	ATMs

•	foreign currency exchange facilities

•	tourist accommodation

Theft from luggage also occurs. To avoid this, don't place valuables in checked-in luggage.

Other crimes

Crime in South Africa includes:

•	murder

•	rape

•	assault

•	food and drink spiking

•	mugging, robbery and theft, sometimes with weapons and violence

•	carjacking

•	kidnapping

Robberies involving violence can occur at shopping centres. South Africa experiences a higher amount of crime during its rolling blackouts (loadshedding) including at shopping centres. Be alert at all times.

Assaults and robberies on local commuter and metro trains happen:

•	between Johannesburg and Pretoria

•	in Cape Town

Theft from hotel rooms and guest houses does happen, including within game parks.

Criminals have stolen bags and backpacks from public places including restaurants and bars. Be alert in all public places.

To avoid theft:

•	don't leave luggage and valuables unattended

•	place your luggage and valuables in safekeeping facilities

Crime rates are significantly higher after dark.

To protect yourself against crime, avoid travelling to:

•	central business districts

•	townships, unless with an organised tour run by a reputable company

•	isolated beaches, lookouts and picnic areas

There's a threat of kidnapping across South Africa. Kidnaps are generally for financial gain or motivated by criminality. Foreign nationals, have been kidnapped in the past. Pay attention to your personal security.

Cash-in-transit attacks occur targeting armoured courier vans, sometimes using automatic weapons, with a significant risk of causing death or serious injury to anyone in the vicinity. Avoid driving alongside or parking next to cash transit vehicles wherever possible.

Crime involving vehicles

Thieves posing as vendors or beggars target cars:

•	on highways off ramps

•	at intersections

•	at traffic lights

‘Smash and grab’ thefts from vehicles and carjacking are common, particularly:

•	on major routes

•	at major intersections

•	during traffic congestion

•	after dark

Criminals also place debris on roads to stop vehicles. Don't stop to clear debris.

Road spiking occurs on South African roads, where criminals place spikes on roads to damage vehicles and force motorists to pull over.

To prevent theft when travelling by car:

•	keep doors locked and windows up, even when driving

•	keep valuables out of sight

•	avoid driving after dark

•	maintain situational awareness and stop at designated areas such as petrol stations

•	if followed by a suspicious vehicle, go to a police station, petrol station or alert a security company

Attacks against hikers

Criminals have attacked hikers in South Africa.

To prevent attacks when hiking:

•	hike in groups

•	be alert to your surroundings and circumstances

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492165 (121507ZMAR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Australia’s Warning About South Africa (Parts 1-3)

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>>127821

>>127822

Australia’s Warning About South Africa – Part 3

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/south-africa#safety

Crime involving cash and credit cards

ATMs in major cities are common. ATMs in rural areas are more rare.

ATM and credit card fraud is common. Criminals use skimming devices to copy your card details onto a blank card.

Criminals wait near ATMs and rob people withdrawing cash.

Criminals use spotters to identify victims who have withdrawn cash or made expensive purchases. Be aware of your surroundings.

To protect yourself against cash and credit card crime:

•	only withdraw small amounts of cash at ATMs

•	refuse offers of help at ATMs

•	keep all ATM and credit card payment slips secure

•	keep your credit card in sight at all times when using it

Don't use ATMs that open onto the street. Only use ATMs in controlled areas, such as:

•	banks

•	shops

•	shopping centres

Scams

Scams are common.

Don't be fooled by scams. If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

If you're a victim of scam, don't travel to South Africa to try and get your money back. The risk of assault is too high.

Fake internet friendship, dating and marriage schemes operate from some African countries. These typically take place on internet dating sites or chat rooms.

Someone you meet online may ask you to send money so they can travel to Australia to visit you. As soon as the scammer receives the money, they end their relationship with you.

Some may ask you to travel to Africa to meet them. When you arrive in Africa they may kidnap, assault or rob you.

Report fraud and scams to the Commercial Crimes Unit of the South African Police Service in Johannesburg on +27 (11) 970 5300.

More information:

•	Scams

•	Kidnapping

Demonstrations and protests

Avoid areas where protests are taking place.

Don’t attempt to cross protester roadblocks as this could provoke a violent reaction.

There have been reports of protesters damaging property belonging to bystanders. Avoid taking photographs or video footage of demonstrations and protests.

If you're caught in a protest, find shelter until it's safe to leave.

Monitor local and social media for updates.

More information:

•	Demonstrations and civil unrest

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492173 (121509ZMAR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa (Parts 1&2)

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New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa – Part 1

https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/south-africa

•	Reviewed: 3 March 2023, 16:21 NZDT

•	Still current at: 13 March 2023

Exercise increased caution in South Africa due to violent crime (level 2 of 4).

Crime

There is a very high level of violent crime in South Africa, which includes mugging, murder, sexual assault, carjacking, armed robbery and kidnapping. While most travellers are likely to experience a trouble-free visit, there is a serious risk of crime, particularly in city centres and townships. Although crime occurs at all hours, the risk significantly increases at night.

Carjacking and theft from vehicles is a concern in South Africa, including car windows being broken and valuables taken while vehicles are stopped at intersections. When travelling by car, it is advisable to keep doors locked and windows up at all times, hide valuables from view and remain vigilant at intersections. Do not stop to assist with vehicle breakdowns, clear debris from the road or pick up hitchhikers. Criminals have posed as police officers asking for identification to rob tourists.Particular care should be taken with luggage and personal belongings in and around all airports. Where possible, luggage should be locked in secure plastic film. Criminals have followed tourists from the airport and later robbed them. Be particularly vigilant around the airport. Unsolicited offers of assistance with baggage and transportation arrangements, other than from official porters, should be declined. Avoid using Numbi Gate at Kruger National Park due to elevated levels of crime in the area.

Automatic teller machine (ATM) and ‘card skimming’ crimes are common. Criminals may loiter near machines to rob people making withdrawals. New Zealanders are advised to maintain security awareness when using an ATM, refuse offers of ‘help’, only withdraw small amounts, and avoid using them outside business hours. It may be safer to use ATMs located within a bank or shopping mall.

New Zealanders are advised to be conscious of personal safety at all times. We recommend you avoid travel after dark and to isolated areas and avoid displaying or wearing items that appear valuable, such as mobile devices, cameras and jewellery. If you are confronted by an armed individual, immediately comply and avoid resisting, as this could lead to an escalation in violence.

Terrorism

There is a threat of terrorism in South Africa. New Zealanders in South Africa are advised to keep themselves informed of potential risks to safety and security by monitoring the media and other local information sources. We recommend following any instructions issued by the local authorities and exercising vigilance in public places.

Civil unrest

Strikes and demonstrations occur from time to time in South Africa. There have been outbreaks of violence primarily directed toward refugees and other African migrants throughout South Africa. Violence could occur again at short notice and bystanders could be caught up.

New Zealanders are advised to avoid all demonstrations, protests and rallies as they have the potential to turn violent. You should not attempt to cross roadblocks. We recommend you monitor the local media to keep up to date with local events and follow any instructions issued by the local authorities.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492176 (121510ZMAR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa (Parts 1&2)

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>>127824

New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa – Part 2

https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/south-africa

Scams

Commercial and internet fraud is common in South Africa. New Zealanders should be wary of any offers that seem too good to be true, as they may be a scam.

Fake internet relationship schemes operate from some African countries. Be wary, do not meet up with or send money to any person you have any doubt about.

For further information see our advice on Internet Fraud and International Scams .

Hiking

Attacks against hikers have occurred at reserves, hiking trails, national parks, including Table Mountain, and other tourist attractions. To help prevent attacks, hike in a group and be aware of your surroundings and circumstances.

Public transport

Avoid using public transport, including buses, trains and minibuses. The ‘Gautrain’ high speed commuter train service which runs between Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Oliver Tambo International Airport, as well as the Blue Train and Ravos Rail, are, however, considered to be generally safe for tourists.

Travelling on foot is inadvisable in most areas. If walking is unavoidable, walk in busy and brightly lit streets and be aware of your surroundings. Avoid walking after dark.

Road conditions are generally good, but roads in the rural and more remote areas may be less maintained. Road safety is an issue due to poor driving habits and poorly maintained vehicles. Avoid driving after dark and be vigilant when the vehicle is stationary, including traffic lights, stop signs and motorway off-ramps. Ensure that the vehicle doors and locked and windows are closed at all times.

Outages

Scheduled power outages regularly occur in South Africa, known locally as “load shedding”. These nationwide outages can take place at short notice, and can result in up to six hours or more without power per day.

Load shedding can affect private residences, hotels and businesses, as well as key infrastructure such as municipal lighting, traffic lights, water provision, fuel provision and telecommunications. Load shedding can also result in interruptions to the supply of water. Load shedding may increase the existing risk of criminal activity, for example smash and grab crime during traffic jams or the targeting of residences when lights are out and security systems are not functioning.

Prepare in advance for load shedding, including:

•	Check with your accommodation provider about the measures they have in place to manage the impact of power outages and be prepared for issues that may arise as a result of outages.

•	Check planned municipal power outages on the Eskom website or via “load-shedding” apps.

•	Identify safe areas around the city, including hotels, hospitals or police stations that may not lose power.

•	Have a communications plan for when there is no or limited power. This includes having power banks and additional charging cords and hard copies of important numbers.

•	Maintain several days’ worth of non-perishable food, drinking water, and other essential items, including medicine and first aid supplies.

•	Store torches, batteries, radios and basic tools in quick-access locations.

•	Monitor local media and follow the instructions of local authorities.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492182 (121511ZMAR23) Notable: Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two / “South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse”

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>>127824

>>127825

New Zealand Herald even wrote this article.

“South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/south-africa-faces-civil-war-conditions-due-to-possibility-of-power-grid-collapse/5TFXMJFSHJHAZNRUXIVHBHRJXA/

27 Feb, 2023 12:31 PM

South Africa is on the verge of “collapse” amid rolling blackouts and warnings a total power grid failure could lead to mass rioting on the scale of a “civil war”.

Western embassies including the United States and Australia have advised their citizens in the country to stock up on “several days’ worth” of food and water and be on high alert during extended blackouts sweeping the country. New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade advises “exercise extreme caution” due to strikes and demonstrations. “There have been outbreaks of violence primarily directed toward refugees and other African migrants throughout South Africa. Violence could occur again at short notice and bystanders could be caught up.”

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national “state of disaster” on February 9 in response to the record electricity shortage, which has seen state-owned power company Eskom institute rolling blackouts – dubbed “load shedding” – lasting up to 12 hours in some cases.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492207 (121515ZMAR23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Jacob Zuma's land claim for South Africa (video)

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“Nando's Diversity Ad” - https://youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ

Keep in mind that the Khoisan/Bushmen were the indigenous people of South Africa and they are not regarded as Bantus. The attached video ad summarises it well.

“Jacob Zuma's land claim for South Africa”

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/jacob-zumas-land-claim-for-south-africa

03 March 2023

Below are excerpts

President says black people have occupied whole of SA, since Bantu expansion reached here in 500AD

JACOB G ZUMA FOUNDATION

27 February 2023

Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

Formerly known as Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Private Bag X250

Pretoria 0001

Attention: Minister Thokozile Didiza

Email: COS@dalrrd.gov.za

MLO.Minister@dalrrd.gov.za

PLO.Minister@daff.gov.za

queries@dalrrd.gov.za info@dalrrd.gov.za

Dear Honourable Minister T. Didiza

LAND CLAIM COMPROMISING THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.

PART ONE- NOTIFICATION OF LAND CLAIM

a.	I, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa M. Zuma, having held office as The Fourth President

of South Africa.

b. I, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa M. Zuma, in capacity as Patron of the Jacob G. Zuma

Foundation on behalf of the Black indigenous peoples hereby notify;

the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and its predecessor being Department of Rural Development and Land Reform the following:

c. Land Claim for the Sovereign Territory of South Africa-

The Black Population originates from the Bantu Expansion and we have had a presence in South Africa since time 500AD reaching present-day KwaZulu-Natal Province, of which since 500 AD we have inhabited the entire territory of South Africa.

PART TWO- FIRST STEP OF LAND CLAIM PROCESS

a. Our Submission of Claim is that the process starts with a claimant contacting the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform which is no known as the Department of Agricultural, Rural Development and Land Reform, with our "notice of intention" to make a claim based on dispossession by one or more means including:

i conquest;

ii cession under treaty or agreement;

iii occupation by white settlers;

v any other means resulting in dispossession such as forced removal ("land will be taken away without compensation"), occupation without title deed etcetera.

PART THREE- REASON FOR "NOTICE OF INTENT"

1. It has been pointed out to myself recently by my learned friends and Comrades, that Land has pillars, which are Dignity, Education and Economy. These lead to the Tripple challenges, namely Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment.

2. Dignity is the Recognition of our people who have occupied South Africa since 500 AD, prior to Jan van Riebeeck arrival of 5th April 1652.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18492235 (121522ZMAR23) Notable: Updated Jacob Zuma Bun / Vuka Naz: Zuma submits land claim for ALL of SA & 4 dead as striking health-workers go on rampage (video)

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>>127824

>New Zealanders are advised to avoid all demonstrations, protests and rallies as they have the potential to turn violent.

>>127820

>Avoid demonstrations. [US]

>>127823 [Australia]

>Avoid areas where protests are taking place.

>Don’t attempt to cross protester roadblocks as this could provoke a violent reaction.

>There have been reports of protesters damaging property belonging to bystanders. Avoid taking photographs or video footage of demonstrations and protests.

>If you're caught in a protest, find shelter until it's safe to leave.

“Zuma submits land claim for ALL of SA & 4 dead as striking health-workers go on rampage | VN | 130”

https://youtu.be/Za0_56_g8CY

Mar 10, 2023

Ironically, the protesters also sang the “kill the boer, Kill the farmer” song as the health-workers protest.

9:55 – “Guys it’s serious, it’s very serious. People are losing their lives and why? Because of certain individuals who are in the process of protesting or at least striking, have no damn care for human life.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18505945 (141509ZMAR23) Notable: Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun / 00DEZZ - How Cyril Ramaphosa was bought by UK and EU money (video)

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>>127722

>In his ‘special plea’ challenging the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption and racketeering, Zuma claimed he had ‘come across information’ that former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called André Pienaar.

>He said Pienaar, who he said was code-named Luciano, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.

>>>/qresearch/18494133 - Puppets abound in their collaboration towards the demise of South Africa. Don’t forget the former South African Scorpion boss, Leonard McCarthy, was supposed to investigate corruption in Eskom when he worked for the World Bank [https://www.news24.com/News24/DA-complaint-on-Hitachi-to-land-on-ex-Scorpions-boss-McCarthys-desk-20151001]. They create the problems and then provide solutions to the problems they created. Clearly “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars” [https://ia600100.us.archive.org/5/items/SilentWeaponsForQuietWarsOriginalDocumentCopy/Silent%20Weapons%20for%20Quiet%20Wars%20Original%20Document%20Copy.pdf] is playing out infront of us.

“00DEZZ - How Cyril Ramaphosa was bought by UK and EU money.”

https://youtu.be/U2UFoBRCgOs

Mar 14, 2023

11:42 – “Yes of course. Our friends in Europe have not always served this country well. Let us got to the original sin of the ANC, which was the arms deal. Europe basically bribed South African decision makers to agree to purchase systems that were totally unsuitable to our environment and that are now unserviceable. Of the 3 frigates, only 1 can run. Of the 3 submarines, none are serviceable… We carried on with the energy transition while about 60% of the global warming goes on the account of the United States and Europe and our contribution here in South Africa is a mere 2%. We were forced, we were pushed. Our politicians were basically bribed with enormous promises and large amounts of money to switch off perfectly well functioning power stations and to throw this country into an energy emergency. This was actually not our making. So, yes, the interests of Europe and the interests of the United States aren’t always coinciding with the need for South Africans to see progress and to develop and to have better opportunities.”

14:26 – “I would be naturally skeptical, once again, if the European leaders like they did with Cyril Ramaphosa in 2017, come up and say well we now endorse Paul Mashatile because then we have to ask how much money are they raising for him in order to influence him in order to take certain decisions in their best interest once more?”

Original Video Source;

Ramaphosa has reached a dead end in his presidency: Prof Andre Thomashausen

https://youtu.be/Fbq8LEZYL54

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18505972 (141518ZMAR23) Notable: EFF Bun / EFF Calls for National Shutdown 20 March 2023; SA Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU)

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>>127810

>Who’s Rob Hersov, the man who holds the details of the meeting between British Lord Robin Renwick & EFF’s Julius Malema in London? Malema & Renwick having met under the Chatham House protocols of sworn secrecy, so who’s Rob to have privileged third party information? Chatham House is the 3rd most powerful society & what is said there stays there- you speak you die.

>>127811

>Why are EFF’s Julius Malema & Nhlanhla Lux of Operation Dudula holding clandestine meetings with Rob Hersov. What’s interesting though is that Rupert’s employees are the ones holding meetings with Malema & Lux

>>127830

“00DEZZ - EFF Calls for National Shutdown 20 March 2023.”

https://youtu.be/E_1JE0QpG-o

31:45 – “In the past, we built our own power stations. We were going to build our own nuclear power stations and I am not talking about the pebble-bed modular reactor. I have spoken to my members about where these sites have been prepared where we were going to build our own nucleur power stations. Pressurized water reactors like Koeberg and all of these things were just stopped. They were stopped because of overseas influence.”

33:19 – “You need to understand at this stage, the EFF is obviously changing gears here. Julius Malema formed the EFF on the back of the visit to the United Kingdom and maybe the EFF is going to be used for new things in the future. They’ve been used to pacify the left for a very long time. They’ve been very effective at doing that but if that step change happens and the plan is actually to destablise this government by 2025 so that a United Nations interim government can step in to ‘stabilise’ the country under their law and order, under their regulations. We are in for a tough ride. This is certainly the plan globally”

Sources;

‘EFF will bring SA to a standstill on March 20’

Published Feb 13, 2023

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/eff-will-bring-sa-to-a-standstill-on-march-20-732abfdd-ef82-40fc-b32e-fe3d2d6d02ff

“Fighters, the militancy and protest character of the EFF, the fearless character, the ground forces of the EFF, your determination to liberate the people of South Africa is going to be seen on March 20 when you bring South Africa to a standstill,” he told the members.

Malema told the province’s delegates that they should identify which road, shopping complex and city they would occupy on that day.

‘Streets are calling’: EFF urges citizens to occupy streets during national shutdown

13 Mar 2023

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/eff-national-shutdown-march-2023/

EFF warns businesses to close on day of planned shutdown or face being looted

9 March 2023

https://www.news24.com/news24/politics/political-parties/eff-warns-businesses-to-close-on-day-of-planned-shutdown-or-face-being-looted-20230309

In a video seen this week, party members were captured announcing the shutdown on the back of a bakkie via a loudspeaker.

The speaker is heard saying: "We are saying to you close down all your businesses to avoid the looting. Close down all your shops to avoid the looting. Close down all your factories to avoid the lootings.

"Close down everything; nothing will be operating on that day; we are avoiding the looting. So, we are saying to you, come and join the march, my brother; come and join the march, my sister."

EFF spokesperson Sinawo Thambo said the party had travelled door to door, handed pamphlets, and mobilised on the back of bakkies throughout the country to "effectively gather people for the national shutdown".

Thambo said the SA Federation of Trade Unions' involvement would see more than 700 000 of its members taking part in the shutdown and ensure workers would not be victimised for joining.

Its general-secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, announced the trade unions' participation in the shutdown at a media briefing last week.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18517609 (161259ZMAR23) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / “Four electricians killed by Ekurhuleni residents while trying to restore power to their suburb” (video)

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“WATCH | Beaten with knobkerries, tied with rope and dragged:How Ekurhuleni mob killed 4 electricians” - https://youtu.be/Vq9Wo8x8qFQ

“Four electricians killed by Ekurhuleni residents while trying to restore power to their suburb”

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/contract-electricians-dispatched-to-restore-power-killed-by-residents-20230310

10 March 2023

Four contract electricians were murdered in Cruywagen Park on Monday after they were attacked by some members of the very community they were coming to help.

As such, the City of Ekurhuleni says fixing the electricity issues in the area will take much longer "because workers and contractors now fear for their lives".

Members of the Cruywagen Park community complained on Thursday that there had been no electricity since Sunday.

According to the City, at around 17:35 on Monday, a municipality electrician called for assistance from contractors in Sarel Hattingh Street in Klippoortjie, Germiston.

Contractors of BMLL, a cable repairs subcontractor in Germiston, were dispatched to assist with the fault.

A group of community members had gathered near the area.

When the contract electricians arrived, they were attacked by the group.

According to the City, the contractors' vehicle was picked up, thrown over the bridge, and then set alight.

The contractors were then assaulted with various objects. Four contractors were killed in the process.

The City said it was unclear why the contractors were attacked.

Police are investigating the matter.

Spokesperson for the City of Ekurhuleni, Zweli Dlamini, said:

The barbaric murder of these innocent people is strongly condemned by the municipality.

"What makes the situation worse is that these victims of brutal murder were trying to assist with the stabilisation of electricity in the very same area where they were senselessly attacked.

"How on earth do we allow our employees and contractors to move into communities after such a brutal attack? Unfortunately, this will affect our turnaround time to service delivery interruptions because our workers and contractors now fear for their lives.

"We cannot expose them to such risky situations until their safety is guaranteed."

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18519471 (162007ZMAR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1&2)

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>>127834

Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech Part 2

-	1985 - By the time international sanctions were imposed in the mid-1980s, business was engaging regularly with the ANC and facilitating high level meetings with the NP government, and even the security and intelligence services. In particular, after PW Botha’s Rubicon speech in 1985, far more from the business side started to get involved, perhaps because they saw the writing was on the wall… An important consideration in this process was the homogeneous nature of SA business. In the 1970s and 1980s the major national companies were Anglo (the Oppenheimers); Rembrandt (the Ruperts); Liberty (the Gordons); and Anglovaal (the Menells and Hersovs). The top six companies owned over 80% of the economy in 1985. This economic clout provided considerable leverage. https://www.up.ac.za/centre-for-mediation-in-africa/news/post_2957958-expert-opinion-business-deserves-thanks-for-role-in-averting-sa-civil-war-say-experts-ahead-of-discussion-co-hosted-by-up

-	1985 - Chairmen of leading corporate groups (Sir Timothy Bevan (Barclays Bank), Lord Barber (Standard Bank), Evelyn de Rothschild (Chair of Rothschild’s), George Soros, with representatives of Shell, Courtaulds, BP and Gold Fields and (from SA) Tony Bloom (Premier Group) and Chris Ball (Barclays), invited by Anthony Sampson to lunch at the Connaught Rooms, London, to meet with Oliver Tambo, in London. (Anthony Sampson, The Anatomist, p. 228). [https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/chronology-meetings-between-south-africans-and-anc-exile-1983-2000-michael-savage]

-	From 1976 to 1984 there was a steady growth in armed attacks, with about 265 incidents recorded. These included assassinations and attacks on police stations. "MK [ANC military wing] activity peaked between 1985 and 1988. The number of incidents increased from 44 in 1984 to 136 in 1985 and 228 in 1986," says the report. https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv02918/06lv02938.htm

-	11 June 1988 – Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium, London, to garner support for the release of Mandela, [https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc]. 600 million people watched it across the world.

-	18 January 1989 - “On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/president-pw-botha-suffers-stroke

-	“In February 1989, de Klerk was elected leader of the National Party and in September 1989 he was elected State President.” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1993/klerk/biographical/

-	10 February 1990 - Mandela and the ANC never renounced violence [https://youtu.be/Z_yyZvfSvnk (31 January 1985)] however F.W. de Klerk announces that Mandela would be released from prison the following day. “10 Feb 1990 – “FW de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela” at https://youtu.be/8DdNV6nbByM

-	1990 – Namibia got its ‘independence’ on 21st of March and US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Chester Crocker, became Director of Minorco that year. >>127496

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18519484 (162010ZMAR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 2

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

This is what has been happening over recent weeks. I find it unacceptable to be confronted in this manner with an accomplished fact. That is not my way of doing and the sooner these gentlemen accept it, the better.

But the perceptions of many overseas observers bear little relationship to the realities of the situation.

People are flocking to South Africa tonight, from neighbouring countries because they are looking for work and health services. Only last week I was in the north of our country and there I had the experience that people were locking from Mozambique into South Africa in their tens of thousands. How do you explain that? Do people flee to hell?

The Republic of South Africa still remains the leading country in the sub-continent of Southern Africa… For example, at present 90% of the exports of Southern Africa takes place through the transport systems of the Republic of South Africa.

We have such a vast task ahead of us and such great challenges to create a better future, that we can ill afford the irresponsibilities and destructive actions of barbaric Communist agitators and even murderers who perpetrate the most cruel deeds against fellow South Africans, because they are on the payroll of the their masters far from this lovely land of ours.

The underdeveloped part of the economy is mainly that of different non-White communities. There are historic reasons for this, just as there are historic reasons for the plight of Africa in general. Instead of the Whites paternalistically trying to do everything for the Blacks, they must rather be allowed to help themselves – in the informal as wella s the formal sector of the economy.

When I met with President Machel some time ago on the border of South Africa and Mozambique, I told him he must not expect from South Africa the same policy which destroyed Africa under the leadership of the West and Russia. I told him that we are not coming with aid programme, but we want co-operation and he interrupted immediately and said: “Africa is tired of aid, provide us with co-operation, and help us to help ourselves.” [Is this the reason why he died in a plane crash 19 October 1986?] Consequently, I shall go out of my way to see to it that more substantial funds are made available to the Small Business Development Corporation.

Secondly, I refer to the problem of housing, caused mainly by our population explosion in South Africa, as elsewhere in Africa.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18519488 (162011ZMAR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 3

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

It is a fallacious belief that the Government must do everything for all. We must help the people to help themselves, to build an upgrade their homes through their own efforts. We have decided that land should be made available where possible and site services supplied. We have already accepted the principle of ownership rights for Blacks in the urban areas outside the National States. Just as important is the principle of ownership rights to people in the National States.

We believe in the same Almighty God and the redeeming grace of His Son, Jesus Christ.

And I know what I am talking about, because only a few months ago I stood before an audience of 3 million Black people, proving the truth of what I am saying now. I don’t know whether one of our critics ever saw 3 million people together in a meeting. I did.

We believe our great wealth of divergent population groups must speak to each other through their elected leaders, not self appointed leaders.

We know that it is the hard fact of South African life, that it will not be possible to accommodate the political aspirations of our varous population groups and communities in a known defined political system. We will have to find our own unique system, because our problems are unique.

I firmly believe that the granting and acceptance of independence by various Black peoples within the context of their won statehood, represent a material part of the solution. I believe in democratic neighbours, not neighbours that call out elections and then stop them in their mysterious ways.

I would, however, like to restate my Government’s position in this regard, namely that independence cannot be forced upon any community. Should any of the Black National States therefore prefer not to accept independence, such states or communities will remain a part of the South Africa nation, are South African citizens and should be accommodated within political institutions within the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa.

But I know for a fact that most leaders in their own right in South Africa and reasonable South Africans will not accept the principle of one-man-one-vote in a unitary system. That would lead to domination of one over the other an dit would lead to chaos. Consequently, I reject it as a solution.

We must rather seek our solutions in the devolution of power and in participation on common issues.

I am not prepared to lead White South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide.

Destroy White South Africa and our influence, and this country will drift into faction strife, chaos and poverty.

Together with my policy statements earlier this year in parliament, I see this speech of mine as my Manifesto for a new South Africa.

In my policy statements in January and June of this year, I indicated that there would be further developments with regard to the rights and interests of the various populations groups in Southern Africa.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18519498 (162013ZMAR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 4

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

Since then we have had to contend with escalating violence within South Africa, and pressure from abroad in the form of measures designed to coerce the Government into giving in to various demands.

Our enemies, both within and without – seek to divide our peoples. They seek to creat unbridgeable differences between to us to prevent us from negotiating peaceful solutions to our problems. Peaceful negotiation is their enemy. Peaceful negotiation is their enemy, because it will lead to joint responsibility for the progress and prosperity of South Africa. Those whose methods are violent, do not want to participate. They wish to seize and monopolize all power. Let there be no doubt about what they would do with such power.

One has only to look at their methods and means. Violent and burtal means can only lead to totalitarian and tyrannical ends.

Their actions speak louder than their words. Their words offer ready panaceas such as one-man-one-vote, freedom and justice for all. Their actions leave no doubt that the freedoms that we already have – together with the ongoing extension of democracy in South Africa – are the true targest of their violence. Is this type of Government really such a wonderful example that they wish to have? Why do they nor organize the investors of the Western world to invest in Lesotho and Mozambique? Why do I have to appeal to people to invest in Mozambique?

I have a specific question I would like to put to the media in South Africa: How do they explain the fact that they are always present, with cameras et cetera, at places where violences takes place? Are there people from the revolutionaty elements who inform them to be ready? Or are there perhaps respresentatives of the reactionary groups in the ranks of certain media? [Like when AWB members were gunned down infront of an entourage of media personnel in Bophuthatswana a month before the 1994 elections, https://youtu.be/FC7UyAN-jrY embedded (Was it a suicide?), or like the necklacing incident at 16:28, https://youtu.be/dZIZ9gVEpNI]

My question to you is this: Whose interests do you serve – those of South Africa or those of the revolutionary elements? South Africa must know, our life is at stake.

I stated in Parliament, when put this question, that if Mr Mandela give a commitment that he will not make himself guilty of planning, instigating or committing acts of violence for the furtherance of political objectives, I will, in principle, be prepared to consider his release.

But let me remind the public of the reasons why Mr Mandela is in jail. I think it is absolutely necessary that we deal with that first of all. When he was brought before court in the sixties, the then Attorney-General, Dr Yutar, set out the State’s case inter alia as follows:

“As the indictment alleges, the accused deliberately and maliciously plotted and engineered the commission of acts of violence and destruction throughout the country…

The planned purpose thereof was to bring about in the Republic of South Africa chaos, disorder and turmoil…

They (Mr Mandela and his friends) planned violent insurrection and rebellion.”

The saboteurs had planned the manufacture of at least seven types of bombs: 48 000 anti-personnel mines, 210 000 hand grenades, petrol bombs, pipe bombs, syringe bombs and bottle bombs.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18519501 (162014ZMAR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / ANC: VIP's of violence (video)

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>like the necklacing incident at 16:28, https://youtu.be/dZIZ9gVEpNI

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18519509 (162016ZMAR23) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 5

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

A document was produced during the Court case in Mandela’s own handwriting in which he stated:

“We Communist Party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history… The enemy must be completely crushed and wiped out from the face of the earth before a Communist world can be realized.”

In passing sentence at the time, the Judge, Mr Justice De Wet, remarked:

“The crime of which the accused have been convicted that is the main crime, the crime of conspiracy, is in essence one of high treason. The State has decided not to charge the crime in this form.

“Bearing this in mind and giving the matter very serious consideration, I have decided not to impose the supreme penalty [death penalty] which in a case like this would usually be the proper penalty for the crime.”

We have never given in to outside demands and we are not going to do so now. South Africa’s problems will be solved by South Africans and not by foreigners.

We are not going to be deterred from doing what we think best, nor will we be forced into doing what we don’t want to do. The tragedy is that hostile pressure and agitation from abroad have acted as an encouragement to the militant revolutionaries in the South Africa to continue with their violence and intimidation. They have derived comfort and succour from this pressure.

We prefer to resolve our problems by peaceful means: then we can build, then we can develop, then we can train people, then we can uplift people, then we can make this country of ours a better place to live in. By violence and by vurning down schools and houses and murdering innocent people, you don’t build a country, you destroy it.

Despite the disturbances, despite the intimidation, there is more than enough goodwill among Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Asians to ensure that we shall jointly find solutions acceptable to us.

But I say it is going to take time. Revolutionaries have no respect for time, because they have no self-respect. Look what they have done to Africa, a continent that is dying at present. I can tell you, because I know what is happening in many of these countries. I have the facts and I am not going to hand South Africa over to these revolutionaries to do the same to this lovely country.

I am encouraged by the growing number of Black leaders who are coming forward to denounce violence. Any reduction of violence will be matched by action on the part of the Government to lift the State of Emergency and restore normality in the areas concerned.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18538615 (191236ZMAR23) Notable: EFF Bun / The EFF Accidentally Leaks Shutdown Plan: South Africa 2023 (video)

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“The EFF Accidentally Leaks Shutdown Plan | South Africa (2023)”

https://youtu.be/At20DHHykQ0

The EFF accidentally exposed their plan of burning tyres and closing roads on the planned National Shutdown on the 20th of March. Be sure to inform your security companies et al. of the new plan they have.

It is interesting that taxis associations will not be joining the EFF to shutdown the country. History they are very successful to shutdown South Africa by blocking roads.

National Shutdown: Here are 13 things you need to know so far

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/national-shutdown-here-are-13-things-you-need-know-breaking-news-18-march-2023-latest-julius-malema-eff/

18-03-2023 04:41

Here is everything you need to know so far about the planned National Shutdown scheduled for Monday, 20 March.

The National Shutdown is planned for Monday. Here are 13 things that you need to know so far.

HERE ARE 13 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW – NATIONAL SHUTDOWN:

EFF leader Julius Malema said that there would be no starting or end point for the demonstration.

•	Clinics and hospitals will be accessible

•	No starting or ending point

•	This is a protest, NOT a march.

•	No permit was granted for National Shutdown

•	Businesses warned NOT to open on Monday.

•	Promises of no violence -‘This is a peaceful protest’.

•	Various sectors of society, including SANTACO, the National Taxi Association, the local Taxi Association, the Road Freight Association and organised structures within communities, have rejected the call to shutdown.

•	All Government services will be available as normal.

•	Law enforcement officers will be out in their numbers

•	PUTCO bus services is suspended for Monday.

•	Roads will be empty and strategic routes leading to Midrand and Sandton will be CLOSED on Monday.

•	The SANDF elements will be deployed under “Operation PROSPER” as from March 17 to April 17, 2023.

•	Security will also be heightened at all South Africa’s ports on entry to ensure travel in and out of the country is not disturbed.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/18553654 (212012ZMAR23) Notable: Nicaragua Betrayed, published by Western Islands in 1980, is the memoir of former President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle (as told to Jack Cox)

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““Nicaragua Betrayed” Summary— Chapter 20: Betrayed”

https://newsofinterest.tv/politics/book_summaries/anastasio_somoza/chapt20.php

by Edward Ulrich

News of Interest.TV

February 24, 2011

Below is an excerpt

From pages 401 - 402:

The betrayal of Nicaragua was not perpetuated out of ignorance, but rather by design. This I know for a fact. One could go down a long list of U.S. allies and ask why Carter turned against these anti-Communist nations. Pinochet of Chile could give you an answer— by design. And how about Korea, Taiwan (The Republic of China), Pakistan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Argentina? No, a plea of ignorance will not suffice. Carter might have been able to plead ignorance once, but not over and over again.

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While I’m privileged to tread upon this planet called Earth, I shall do all within my power to see that other free nations do not suffer the agonizing death which struck Nicaragua. In my own way, I am sounding the alarm. To be effective, this alarm must be heard in the United States of America. It is my wish, it is my impassioned hope that freedom-loving people of the United States will hear the alarm and that they will respond without delay. There is no time for dalliance.

Like so many Americans, I have stood on the parade field and saluted Old Glory as she passed. I, too, have thrilled to the sight of the Stars and Stripes as the flag was raised at sunrise, and I have felt the melancholy that can touch a man’s heart at the sound of “Taps..” You see, I know the true meaning of the United States, and I thank God for that privilege. The United States has been, and is, the hope and inspiration of free men everywhere. May that torch of liberty, symbolized by the Statue of Liberty, burn ever so brightly— now and always. For I know for certain, that should that torch be extinguished, the dreams of free men everywhere die at the same moment. Like the people of Nicaragua, for those freedom-loving people there would be no tomorrow; “for their tomorrow was yesterday.”

My country, my people, and I were betrayed. That betrayal does not rest with the American people, but with the President of the United States. My love for the United States and her people is as great as it ever was. My prayer is that those who now lead the United States will not betray humanity. If that happens, God help us all, and for then it would be the entire free world, and not just Nicaragua BETRAYED.

The End

Editor’s Note—

Anastasio Somoza was able to discriminate between what is good about the configuration of the constitutional republic of the United States and what is bad about the corrupt elements covertly controlling its politics. While Somoza blames the Jimmy Carter Administration for what has happened, it is important to realize that Carter was only a puppet of the Illuminati global elite, just as all United States Presidents are.

The global Illuminati banking elite have a centuries old agenda of destroying the sovereignty of nations in order to form a totalitarian world government that is privately under their control, with their past implementations of Communism being a dress rehearsal for what is to come. Leftist and mainstream media sources that are controlled by these people are falsely attempting to claim that “nationhood” and “capitalism” are the cause of the world’s problems in their effort to deceptively create support for empowering such a world government.