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ANC Bun

>>17774408 Making sense of ANC MP’s threat of assassination to The Star [INL] editor [Sifiso Mahlangu], should he not leave presidential adviser Chauke alone

>>17807064, >>17807069, >>17807072 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC

>>17824990, >>17824992, >>17824993, >>17824996, >>17825002, >>17825006, >>17825010, >>17825015, >>17825022, >>17825033, >>17825040, >>17825028 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll

>>17857816 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President (with ,pdf)

>>17880938 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them

Phala Phala and Ramophosa Bun

>>17774395 Namibian linked to Phala Phala theft, in Cape Town court for possession of firearms - Imanuwela David Shot? (video)

>>17807519 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale, her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele” (video)

>>17852996 Britain and South Africa agree to health partnership on Ramaphosa's second day of state visit” (video)

>>17852997 UK columnist brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a "dreadful fellow" after state visit to UK

>>17853029 Marikana returns to haunt Ramaphosa

>>17853070 Robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm ahead of release of Farmgate Parliamentary report

>>17857810 Cyril Ramaphosa broke the law – Phala Phala Farmgate report

>>17861673 Many calling for the removal/resignation of Cyril Ramaphosa

>>17861686 DA calls for dissolution of government and early elections after Phala Phala report

>>17862656 Impeachment panel omits allegations of Ramaphosa cover-up

>>17863273 Ramaphosa, associates implicated in USA illegal money transfer

>>17863277 Cyril Ramaphosa’s resignation can crush the economy

>>17863281 Recalling Ramaphosa could be the last thing the ANC NEC does before disbanding

>>17880689 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign

>>17880743, >>17880820, >>17880865 Union calls for judges behind Section 89 report to be investigated” - South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU)

>>17880945 Parliament Speaker rejects request for secret ballot vote over Phala Phala report

>>17880962 Ramaphosa files papers with ConCourt to have the S89 report set aside

>>17881229 ANC NEC stands with Cyril Ramaphosa over Section 89 Report

Violence and Crime Bun

>>17807122 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months

>>17880966 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep

Zuma Bun

>>17804851 ICYMI: DCS to appeal SCA ruling on Zuma’s return to jail

Here's the rest:

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>>17722751 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm

>>17774332 Global energy restructuring veteran KW Miller says nothing comes even close to the Eskom disaster (video)

>>17774341 SAHRC gives Malema 10 days to retract ‘hate speech’ – he will not

>>17774372, >>17774374, >>17774375, >>17774378, >>17774382 Paul O’Sullivan

>>17774412 A close look at whistleblower Phenya’s murder (video)

>>17774464, >>17774469, >>17783785, >>17783786, >>17783787 Arthur Fraser

>>17774475 Black people can NEVER be racist’, Vishoek High learners told (mp4)

>>17783782 US identifies ISIS members in DURBAN – two weeks after Sandton terror alert (video)

>>17783792, >>17783794, >>17783796, >>17783800, >>17783805, >>17783807 Julius Malema & Jaques Pauw

>>17783808, >>17783809, >>17783816, >>7783820 The Lost Boys of Bird Island

>>17783840, >>17783842, >>17783846, >>17783850, >>17783852, >>17783855, >>17783857, >>17783859, >>17783861, >>17783863 About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots

>>17784293, >>17784294 Chester Crocker, "Oppenheimer of South Africa," later became a Director of Minorco

>>17786077 Israel’s Most Wanted Gang Leader Arrested in Bryanston, South Africa

>>17784324, >>17784341, >>17784355, >>17862700 Unsolved 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme (videos)

>>17798841 From General Research (Thank You again Japan #8!) The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted

>>17807096 Senior Zulu Prince close to King Misuzulu KaZwelithini assassinated in Nongoma

>>17807847 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row – report

>>17807851 South African businessman and Honorary Consul Avi Lasarow wins entrepreneur of the year in UK, helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK

>>17857808, >>17861676, >>17861678, >>17862700 Janusz Walus

>>17863299 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos

>>17880707>17880722, Bram Hanekom, Africa4Palestine/BDS (Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions) South Africa

Q Research General >>17785141 #21792 >>17785104

The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted

>>17784998

>Gates back in Africa

The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted

January 5, 2021 (Children’s Health Defense) — Anyone defending the Bill Gates/WHO global vaccine program needs to explain this study: Mogensen et al 2017. Prior to 2017, neither HHS nor WHO ever performed the kind of vaccinated/unvaccinated (or placebo) study necessary to ascertain if the DTP vaccine actually yields beneficial health outcomes. The DTP vaccine was discontinued in the US and western nations in the 1990s following thousands of reports of death and brain damage.

… girls vaccinated with the DTP vaccine—the flagship of Bill Gates’s GAVI/WHO African vaccine program—died at 10 times the rate of unvaccinated kids.

But Bill Gates and his surrogates, GAVI and WHO, made DTP a priority for African babies. The Danish government and Novo Nordisk Foundation commissioned this study by a team of the world’s leading experts on African vaccination. The two most prominent names, Drs. Soren Mogensen and Peter Aaby, are both vocal vaccine supporters. They were shocked when they examined years of data from a so called “natural experiment” in Guinea Bissau where 50% of children die before age five. In that west African nation, half the children were vaccinated with the DTP vaccine at three months and the other half at six months. Dr. Mogenson and his team found that girls vaccinated with the DTP vaccine died at 10 times the rate of unvaccinated kids. While the vaccinated children were protected from Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis, they were far more susceptible to other deadly diseases than unvaccinated peers. The vaccine apparently compromised their immune systems. Thanks to Gates, DTP is the world’s most popular vaccine.

The researchers suggested that the DTP vaccine is killing more children than the diseases it targets.

For African nations, GAVI and WHO use DTP vaccine uptake to gauge national compliance with vaccine recommendations. GAVI can financially punish nations that don’t fully comply. The researchers suggested that the DTP vaccine is killing more children than the diseases it targets. It’s possible that millions of children are adversely affected. Although the New York Times and other Gates boosters will accuse me of promoting “vaccine misinformation”, this is a peer reviewed publication in a respected journal by the world’s most authoritative vaccine scientists describing catastrophic outcomes.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-bill-gates-effect-whos-dtp-vaccine-killed-more-children-in-africa-than-the-diseases-it-targeted/

“Rafal Pankowski (NEVER AGAIN) on the idolising of racist killer Janusz Walus by far-right in Poland.”

https://youtu.be/czWghKUckI8

Rafal Pankowski (NEVER AGAIN Association and Collegium Civitas) on the idolising of Janusz Walus (the killer of anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani) by far-right in Poland, 29.11.2022.

3:00 – “There is amazing story about an online market place OLX which is actually owned by Naspers which is a South African company. It was selling material around Janus Walusz; scarves, flags that sort of thing for football fans.”

https://mg.co.za/news/2020-09-08-right-wing-poland-and-the-glorification-of-hanis-killer/

Another worrying development for Pankowski is the growing commodification of Walus’s name and image. T-shirts, buttons, and scarves with his likeness, name and messages of support are for sale on the internet.

One of the webpages on which such paraphernalia is available is second-hand goods site OLX Poland. Technology-investment company Prosus owns OLX. Prosus is, in turn, owned by South African-based tech giant Naspers.

”‘The cult of Janusz Walus’: How Chris Hani’s killer became a neo-Nazi idol” – Walus now on Parole

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/janusz-walus-neo-nazi-far-right-idol-racism-poland-world-parole-hani-breaking-8-december/

08-12-2022 15:29

‘They wrote to him that they admired him because he tried to stop communism in South Africa, that he is the great hope of the white race,’ said a journalist who interviewed Walus.

After the Constitutional Court ordered Janusz Walus’ release on parole, a Polish anti-racism group said the decision would be met with an “explosion of neo-Nazi joy.”

JANUSZ WALUS REVERED AS A NEO-NAZI ICON ACROSS THE WORLD

Walus was officially released on Wednesday, 8 December, after spending decades in prison for the 1993 assassination of the South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani.

“I know what it means for the racists and the neo-Nazis in Poland and internationally. I would say that we can see an explosion of joy on social media on the part of the far right … those people who see Janusz Waluś as a role model.

“If he is to return to Poland, for some on the far right he is to be welcomed as a hero. He will be seen as a model for the violent far-right extremist movement in Europe,” said Rafal Pankowski, the spokesperson for the Never Again Association, to Cape Talk.

Walus will not return to Poland as the Department of Home Affairs issued him an exemption in terms of the Immigration Act, which will grant permanent residence in South Africa for the duration of his parole.

>>17912578

>>17912608

>The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association's co-founder and longtime leader was Marcin Kornak.

“Howard Holmes honours Marcin Kornak (NEVER AGAIN) at European Medal of Tolerance ceremony, 9.03.15.” - https://youtu.be/ZnJot4DvsTo

“Marcin Kornak (1968-2014) – the founder and leader of the “NEVER AGAIN” Association”

https://www.nigdywiecej.org/docstation/com_docstation/188/marcin_kornak_the_founder_and_leader_of_the_never_again_association.pdf

Aleksander Kwasniewski, the former president of Poland wrote in his letter of condolence, addressed to the representatives of the “NEVER AGAIN” Association: “Marcin Kornak was a brave man with a big heart, who devoted many years of his life, to building a world free of discrimination. He launched many beautiful initiatives, spreading tolerance and promoting multiculturalism, which has enriched our society. We had the pleasure to experience the effects of his laudable actions as well as observe and admire his determination and constant optimism. His merits will stay with us forever. We received the news of his passing with a great deal of pain and regret. It’s a huge loss to both “NEVER AGAIN” – who has lost its founder – as well as for the whole country, which, thanks to his tireless efforts has become a more tolerant and open minded place”.

Thanks to the professional cooperation and great friendship between Marcin Kornak and Rafal Pankowski…the “NEVER AGAIN” Association began collaborating with international organisations, including the Council of Europe, United Nations and The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. “NEVER AGAIN” is also an active participant in various, international anti-racist networks such as: UNITED for Intercultural Action, Football against Racism in Europe (FARE), Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (HCA), International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) and Anti-fascist Network for Research and Education (Antifanet). In cooperation with these organisations, “NEVER AGAIN” has organised numerous international conferences and workshops in Poland and abroad.

Thanks to its consistent and effective work against racism and xenophobia, the “NEVER AGAIN” Association is becoming prominent both in Poland and abroad – specialising in monitoring crimes committed by neo-fascists and the far right. In 1996, Marcin Kornak initiated the “Brown Book” – a record of racist and xenophobic incidents and various other acts of discrimination – which he continued for the next eighteen years. The “Brown Book” is recognised as the most comprehensive independent compilation of its kind throughout Poland, and the information it provides is used by the media, international organisations and various scientific centres… The “Brown Book” monitoring system is therefore used for educational purposes, as a form of intervention in specific cases as well as a tool for raising public awareness.

“NEVER AGAIN” cooperates with UEFA and various sport clubs. Furthermore, the Association conducted educational activities during the 2006 World Cup and 2008 European 3 Championships. A year later, in 2009, “NEVER AGAIN” became an official partner of UEFA and started to coordinate the UEFA EURO 2012 Social Responsibility Programme “RESPECT Diversity”. This was a unique educational anti-racist programme, organised in Poland, Ukraine and the entire Eastern European region in preparation for Euro 2012.

In the 1990s, he initiated the campaign “Music Against Racism” which attracted performers of various musical genres, to spread a positive message to hundreds of thousands of listeners. At that time, Marcin encouraged artists to join the movement against racist violence with the following words: “We count on an effective reaction from the circle of people connected to music, who multiple times in history, have proven their social sensitivity. There is only one race - the human race!”

Thanks to the cooperation between the Association and the media, thousands of articles, TV programs, radio broadcasts, documentaries and academic works have been produced, which discuss the phenomena of racism and neo-fascism.

The path that Marcin took in life, can be illustrated by the great deal of awards given to him in recent years. In 2011, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski awarded Marcin Kornak the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta – one of the highest honours in Poland. Marcin also received the Man Without Barriers Award - given to an outstanding disabled person who breaks down barriers and stereotypes and who is a positive role model in various walks of life. In addition to this, in 2012, Marcin Kornak was awarded the title of “Social Activist of the Year 2011” by the Polish edition of “Newsweek” weekly.

Is it a major push for an ‘environmentally sustainable’ power supply?

“Mantashe says load-shedding worse than state capture” - https://youtu.be/_xhzylIoKQg

“‘Water challenges’ in some towns as stage 6 load-shedding takes toll on infrastructure”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2022-12-09-water-challenges-in-some-towns-as-stage-6-load-shedding-takes-toll-on-infrastructure/

09 December 2022 - 12:03

Municipalities are urging residents to use water sparingly as stage 6 load-shedding starts taking a toll on infrastructure and the provision of services in some areas where water resources are already stretched in the Western Cape [it also affects other provinces].

“Dysselsdorp, we urgently need your help to avert a water crisis. Due to level-6 load-shedding, pumps cannot get enough water into the reservoir quickly to provide water to you. We urgently ask that you limit your water consumption to absolute necessary use,” was the call made to residents on Thursday by Oudtshoorn mayor Chris Macpherson.

The provincial government confirmed municipalities had also raised concerns about the increased cost of diesel to keep backup generators running for longer.

“The costs associated with load-shedding keep piling up. We are concerned about water reservoirs that cannot fill sufficiently with subsequent pipe bursts due to uneven pressure in the pipe networks when normal levels are restored,” said local government, environmental affairs and development planning minister Anton Bredell.

“Sewerage systems are designed for a constant flow of water, and interruptions due to load-shedding can cause blockages and spills.

“With the increased severity of power cuts, the department is aware of water challenges in Kannaland. The Garden Route district municipality is supporting Oudtshoorn municipality with water tankers in Ladysmith and Dysselsdorp. The Matzikama and Swartland municipalities have also reported technical issues with their water and sewerage systems, and the department is engaging them on these issues.”

Load-shedding was also having a knock-on effect on services provided by the department of social development, such as the provision of food and security at gender-based violence shelters and the department’s offices.

“Load shedding leaves taps dry in iLembe”

https://www.ecr.co.za/news/news/load-shedding-leaves-taps-dry-ilembe/

Updated Dec. 9, 2022, 1:49 p.m.

Some residents of Ndwedwe hadn't seen a drop in three days.

Shami Harichunder, who speaks for Umgeni Water, says initially there were leaks in the bulk distribution pipelines.

That was repaired and they started to supply the area in the north of Durban again.

But the rolling blackouts, which were ramped up to a higher stage this week, have caused five reservoirs to dry up.

"Which resulted in the situation where Umgeni Water was not able to supply water through to iLembe and therefor the municipality was unable to supply water to consumers in Ndwedwe,” Harichunder says.

“The leak has since been repaired and Umgeni has begun supplying water. The difficulty is that it will take a few days before the system recovers completely and full water supply to consumers can be restored."

It is also affecting South Africa’s neighbour Zimbabwe.

“Council called to order for blaming water crisis on ZESA”

https://www.suburban.co.zw/council-called-to-order-for-blaming-water-crisis-on-zesa/

09 DEC, 2022

HARARE residents have called the City of Harare (CoH) to order after the municipality made a claim that the increased electricity load shedding was the main challenge in reduced water production at the city’s water treatment plants.

This week council claimed that the long power outages, occasioned by suppressed electricity generation at Kariba Dam due to dropping water levels, was affecting its water rationing scheme.

In a statement, the CoH said that the incessant power cut have affected water production but residents would have none of the blame game. Also water production is an essential service and arrangements can be made for the City of Harare’s water treatment plants to be spared from the load shedding.

“We all know that council problems go way beyond the ongoing load shedding. What they are saying now is confusing us as the residents. In the recent past it was lack of water treatment chemicals, now its load shedding. They should just put their house in order,” said a resident.

Other residents described the municipality’s statement as an attempt to pass the blame for its incompetency on other utilities.

Last week, the City of Harare resolved to ration water as purification of water at its treatment plants remained suppressed due to unreliable supply of chemicals.

Production at Morton Jaffray Water Works currently stands at 136 megalitres out of an available capacity of 450 ML while at Prince Edward council is producing only 78 ML. Harare needs at least 600 mega-litres daily.

“The Environment Management Committee has resolved that council rations water in the wake of suppressed water production. This is to ensure equitable distribution of water in the city.

“All efforts are being made to work out sustainable solution to problems. Residents are therefore encouraged to use availed supplies conservatively all the time they receive water.

All inconveniences caused are sincerely regretted,” said the municipality.

Residents from several of the city’s suburbs such as Avondale, Greendale, Marlborough, Mainway Meadows in Waterfalls, Glen Norah, Glen View confirmed that they do not have council tap water.

Some residents actually laughed off the city’s announcement as a joke because some Harare suburbs have not had council tap water for periods as long as two decades. The residents said the city cannot claim to ration something that is not available.

“Citywide power outage hits Mbombela”

https://lowvelder.co.za/807602/citywide-power-outage-hits-mbombela/

December 7, 2022

The reason for the power outage across Mbombela is unclear at this stage. The City of Mbombela has yet to release an official statement on the matter.

Mbombela is in the midst of a power outage stretching across the whole city.

The reason for the outage is unclear at this stage.

Cllr Sanley van der Merwe of the DA said in a statement the party is aware of the power outage affecting the entire City of Mbombela.

“As councillors we have not received any official communication on this matter, but believe it is important to keep residents informed.

“As the DA in the City, we do not believe that this is only related to the stage 6 load-shedding as announced, and it is definitely not due to the Delta network. It is our understanding that there might be a possibility that Eskom has moved the City to rotational shedding due to the enormous default on the municipal account that currently exceeds the R1.1b mark. This has not been confirmed, though, and our opinion is based on WhatsApp messages that have gone viral on social media platforms.

“Unfortunately, we have been kept in the dark about the possible consequences, and at this stage we cannot confirm whether the move to rotational load-shedding is true or not. Eskom indicated that they will not provide information prior to the City administration’s official communication.”

Van der Merwe said they would continue to put pressure on the executive for answers.

She concluded by requesting residents to kindly allow them time to gather the correct information and to provide a factual report.

https://lowvelder.co.za/807888/city-of-mbombelas-electricity-situation-back-to-normal-for-now/

December 8, 2022

The City’s residents were left in the dark and without answers when their homes and businesses suddenly lost power ahead of the scheduled load-shedding times and also in areas that are not supposed to have it at all.

According to a statement released by CoM yesterday evening, “The ongoing implementation of stage 6 load-shedding by Eskom has also led to an increased scope of a load reduction programme that affected about 40 municipalities across the country that experienced this sudden addition of areas/substations that were not on the normal schedule.”

The City added that it “would like to set the record straight and indicate to consumers that the outage had nothing to do with its debt to Eskom. The City continues to service its account with Eskom as per the agreed payment plan.”

>>17913252

“Silulumanzi water reservoirs critically low and likely to run dry soon” – “City of Mbombela warns residents of water shortages due to blackouts”

https://lowvelder.co.za/807938/silulumanzi-water-reservoirs-critically-low-and-likely-to-run-dry-soon/

December 8, 2022

Because of the ongoing power outages, Silulumanzi has issued a water scarcity warning to residents of Mbombela, Nsikazi and Matsulu.

The water utility’s spokesperson, Richmond Jele, said the additional electricity load-shedding, coupled with load reduction, has resulted in the Silulumanzi Water Treatment Works being without electricity for up to six hours at a time.

All reservoirs are critically low and likely to be empty if the electricity supply is not resolved soon. They continue to monitor reservoir levels and will communicate further changes accordingly, and arrange for the deployment of water tankers to the affected areas.

“We further appeal to our customers to please save and use the available water sparingly, while the relevant authorities resolve these unprecedented electricity outages,” Jele said.

“City of Mbombela warns residents of water shortages due to blackouts”

https://lowvelder.co.za/808084/city-of-mbombela-warns-residents-of-water-shortages-due-to-blackouts/

December 9, 2022

The municipality said the water shortages are expected to continue until the load-shedding stages are reduced.

The City of Mbombela said its four regions will be experiencing ongoing water shortages.

A post on the City’s Facebook page earlier today, December 9, said the water shortages are due to the Eskom load-shedding hovering between stages 5 and 6.

The City said in its post that water tankers will be dispatched where possible, however, the problem is at the water sources, as the pumping capacity is compromised by the rolling blackouts.

“The community is urged to use water sparingly when it becomes available while this situation is upon us. The situation will improve as soon as the load-shedding stages are reduced,” said the City.

>>17910156

>>>17857808, >>17861676, >>17861678, >>17862700 Janusz Walus

>>17912578

“Chris Hani's wife Limpho Hani is furious at the ConCourt judgment ordering the Justice Department to free her husband's killer, Janusz Walus.” - https://youtu.be/TcqMUSzFirw

4:29 – “Come to me after 2 years. Karma exists. All of them there sitting there from Zondo downwards. This judgement is diabolical… Let me give you free information. If my husband was not killed, we would never had elections. Mandela, after my husband was murdered, said to De Klerk, for us to stop this, give us an election date. That is how Zondo and his friends today are sitting in this court.”

“Janusz Walus reportedly stabbed by ex-MK soldier who aimed for his heart”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-stabbed-janusz-walus-stabbed-in-prison-mk-soldier-30-november-2022/

30-11-2022 08:56

Chris Hani’s killer, Janusz Walus was reportedly stabbed by a former Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) soldier who had aimed for his heart but missed it.

Walus was stabbed by another inmate from the same housing unit at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Facility in Tshwane, Gauteng where he is currently serving a life sentence for the murder for anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani. The Department of Correctional Services confirmed the attack on Tuesday afternoon.

JANUSZ WALUS STABBED BY FORMER SOLDIER

Correctional Services spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo said a detailed incident report is to be provided at a later stage but what can be stated at this point is that inmate Walus is stable and DCS healthcare officials are providing the necessary care.

The incident comes as the Constitutional Court ordered that the Polish national be released on parole by the first week of December and the Department of Home Affairs has granted him permanent residence in South Africa.

“The Department said the Minister granted the exemption in order for Walus to serve his parole period in South Africa and the exemption contains a condition that he may not use any travel document and/or passport issued by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland,” the department said.

Meanwhile, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Chris Hani’s widow, Limpho, are heading to the apex court to challenge his release.

>>17913411

>“Janusz Walus reportedly stabbed by ex-MK soldier who aimed for his heart”

>>17912578

>There is amazing story about an online market place OLX which is actually owned by Naspers which is a South African company. It was selling material around Janus Walusz; scarves, flags that sort of thing for football fans.

“South Africa | The 1993 plot to kill Chris Hani”

https://zammagazine.com/politics-opinion/1444-south-africa-the-1993-plot-to-kill-chris-hani

02 November 2021

Below are excerpts

According to the NIA report, approximately twenty people were involved in the conspiracy to kill Hani, ranging from apartheid covert unit operatives to members of the security force leadership and at least one member of South Africa’s post-1994 parliament. This finding complements evidence laid out in ZAM investigations editor Evelyn Groenink’s book Incorruptible, that also indicated a broader conspiracy to kill Hani.

The document also gave the code names of police agents 241/153 and 241/222, who had infiltrated the ANC and MK leadership; agent241/222, in particular, was described as being ‘instrumental in infiltrating MK leadership,’ and as frequently accompanying MK leaders within South Africa. New Nation journalists contacted Joe Mamasela, the notorious askari attached to the Vlakplaas unit, who confirmed that Vlakplaas had been involved in the preliminary stages of the plot to kill Hani, and that he ‘did not doubt that other people were called into the plan’ as it progressed.

Meanwhile, the NIA report’s mention of ANC members of parliament who were involved in the plot stands out especially in the light of the reference to SADF MI’s plans to ‘neutralize the SACP/Hani/ Kasrils’ faction in the ANC. As we have seen, these plans developed after a meeting between DCC officers and very high-ranking members of the MK leadership who were open to being recruited as apartheid spies. One of the MK leaders at this meeting was Joe Modise, who was South Africa’s minister of defence when New Nation published the findings in 1997. In this way, New Nation’s coverage of the covert NIA report – which no other media outlet reported on at the time – reinforces evidence suggesting that elements within the ANC had been recruited by SADF MI and were privy to, if not actively involved in, the plan to kill Hani. Moreover, the SADF MI memo’s stated objective in ‘neutralizing’ Hani’s power – to ‘win votes in a future election’ – is noteworthy because it reinforces the perspective put forth in this book: that clandestine apartheid counterinsurgency operations during the transition period did not aim to derail negotiations with the ANC entirely, but rather to violently shape the outcome of a future election to the regime’s advantage.

The ‘Third Force’ was a clandestine force of South African security-force operatives which, following the onset of negotiations between the ANC and the Apartheid regime in February 1990, unleashed a massive wave of violence against individuals and communities loyal to the ANC. This continued until 1994. The source of the violence wad intended to be untraceable, hence the name ‘Third Force’, which implied that neither the regime nor the ANC was responsible. The extent to which the ‘Third Force’ answered to De Klerk’s government is still debated.

This is an excerpt of Daniel L. Douek’s 2020 book, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa (Oxford, UK: Hurst Publishers), available in hardcopy and as an e-book. Daniel L. Douek teaches political science at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

“Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa launches National Sex Worker HIV Plan” [Mar 14, 2016] - https://youtu.be/rnZIxaYmaJA

1:54 – “Sex work is essentially work as well.”

“Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/criminal-law-amendment-bill-sex-work-9-december-2022/

09-12-2022 13:27

Have your say! The Bill which seeks to decriminalise sex work in South Africa is now open for public comment.

The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill of 2022, which seeks to decriminalise sex work, has been published and is now open for public comment.

On Friday, 9 December, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Ronald Lamola held a media briefing to provide details on the progress that has been made in decriminalising sex work.

SHOULD SEX WORK BE DECRIMINALISED?

The bill proposes the repealing of the Sexual Offences Act (previously Immorality Act), 1957 (Act No. 23 of 1957) and Section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No. 32 of 2007) to decriminalise the sale and purchase of the adult sexual service.

During the briefing, Lamola explained that the proposals of the bill are a response to Pillar 3 of the government’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.

Lamola said Pillar 3 of the National Strategic Plan on GNVF contains a list of key interventions, key activities and indicators. One of the key activities under Pillar 3 is the finalisation of the legislative process to decriminalise sex work.

“This follows the view that the ongoing criminalisation of sex work contributes to GBVF, as it leaves sex workers unprotected by the law, unable to exercise their rights as citizens and open to abuse generally, not least when they approach State facilities for assistance,” Lamola said.

The Minister emphasised that although current legislation and municipal by-laws continue to criminalise the adult practice, this has not “stopped the selling or buying of sex, nor has it been effective”.

“If anything, the criminalisation of sex work has led to higher levels of violence against sex workers. In addition, criminalisation affects predominantly women, with the female sex worker usually being the one who is confronted by law enforcement, but the male client isn’t. The National Prosecuting Authority has also indicated a very low percentage of cases or prosecutions for such transgressions,” he said.

The Bill has clauses that seek to:

• Repeal the Sexual Offences Act, 1957 and section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007.

• Deal with the expungement of criminal records of persons convicted of, engaged in, rendering or receiving sexual services from persons 18 years or older.

• Handle the transitional provisions pertaining to criminal proceedings relating to sexual services rendered or received by persons 18 years or older, which were instituted prior to the commencement of this Act.

“It is hoped that decriminalisation will minimise human rights violations against sex workers. It would also mean better access to health care and reproductive health services for sex workers, as well as compliance with health and safety and labour legislation. It would also afford better protection for sex workers, better working conditions and less discrimination and stigma,” Lamola said.

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>During the briefing, Lamola explained that the proposals of the bill are a response to Pillar 3 of the government’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.

What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]

https://www.polity.org.za/article/what-it-will-take-to-prevent-sas-gender-based-violence-2022-12-05

5TH DECEMBER 2022

Recent findings from a 30-year study involving South Africans born in the Soweto-Johannesburg area in 1994 reveal important facts. The study covers the nature of violence, its impact on human development, and what it will take to prevent and break cycles of violence.

Results showed that 87% of the study cohort, both boys and girls, were exposed to four or more forms of violence, such as physical, sexual, emotional and substance abuse, by the age of 18. This increased their likelihood of becoming a victim or perpetrator ‒ or both ‒ of further violence. It also confirmed what many other studies have shown: that experiences of violence in childhood are not only common but also cumulative.

It is not only that violence begets violence. Experiences of violence significantly influence a range of other outcomes. Suffering violence in childhood increases the likelihood of unemployment, school dropout, substance abuse, and dependence on a social grant. In short, violence is a strong contributing factor to many of the challenges that hamper South Africans’ wellbeing and national development.

At the summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that South Africa needs to pay more attention to preventing gender-based violence. At the same time, in early November, some provincial departments of social development were reducing funding for social services that are crucial safety nets and key to preventing violence. Examples are after-school care programmes, soup kitchens and parent-support initiatives.

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Over 7 000 people were murdered in the second quarter of 2022 alone. The knee-jerk temptation is to respond by investing more in policing. This is misguided.

The roots of gender-based and other forms of violence are deep and extensive. Our efforts to address this must be equally comprehensive, coordinated and far-reaching. Devoting time, expertise and resources to preventing children from experiencing violence, and nurturing their development, is key to breaking intergenerational cycles of violence.

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>>>17722751 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm

>>17694298, >>17694300, >>17694317, >>17694319, >>17694321, >>17694325, >>17694328, >>17694331, >>17694335, >>17694338, >>17694345, >>17694348, >>17694353, >>17694360, >>17694364, >>17694366, >>17694370, >>17694374, >>17694376, >>17694378, >>17694382 Unleashing Communism/Socialism into the World; Case Study of South Africa [Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan.]

“Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm” - Leonard McCarthy

https://www.news24.com/citypress/News/former-scorpions-boss-lands-big-job-monitoring-russian-telecoms-firm-20190823

23 Aug 2019

The former Scorpions head, Leonard McCarthy, has been selected for a top job monitoring a leading Russian telecoms company.

Leonard McCarthy, the former integrity vice president at the World Bank, has been selected as the monitor for Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) as part of the Russian telecoms company’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlement.

MTS, Russia’s leading telecommunications operator and digital services provider, paid $850 million (about R13 billion) and agreed to a three-year monitorship in March to settle charges brought by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission that it bribed officials in Uzbekistan in return for access to the country’s telecoms market.

MTS is the first Russia-based company to settle an Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case.

McCarthy was appointed to head up the Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions) in April 2003.

The agency, which investigated and prosecuted organised crime and corruption, was officially disbanded in late January 2009.

In June 2008, McCarthy was appointed to the World Bank, where he investigated allegations of fraud and corruption in projects funded by the bank. He left the World Bank in 2017 to run his own compliance firm, LFMcCarthy Associates, in Washington DC.

While he led the World Bank’s anti-corruption enforcement arm as integrity vice-president between 2008 and 2017, McCarthy oversaw a monitorship programme there.

During his tenure as Scorpions head, he was accused of being involved in a “political conspiracy” against President Jacob Zuma due to the timing of corruption charges against the president.

His name is mentioned in the so-called spy tapes, which intercepted conversations between McCarthy and Advocate Bulelani Ngcuka, former head of the National Prosecuting Authority.

“WATCH | Mystery surrounds presence of US-sanctioned Russian vessel in Simon's Town” - https://youtu.be/7Gtvy8CPSDU

“Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/lady-r-sanctioned-russian-ship-simons-town-cargo-breaking-10-december/

10-12-2022 09:26

‘What is the minister hiding and why is it shrouded in secrecy? The minister and the chief of SANDF have a responsibility to tell South Africans what is going on,” said the DA Shadow Minister of Defence.

Lady R, a sanctioned Russian commercial cargo ship, spent three nights at the Simon’s Town naval dockyard. The Ro-Ro ship arrived on Tuesday night and left early on Friday. Its stay was shrouded in secrecy.

RUSSIAN SHIP DOCKS AT NATIONAL KEYPOINT

Since the ship’s arrival, the Department of Defence and Military Affairs has been peppered with questions from the media and political parties alike.

Lady R allegedly switched off its Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), which provides positioning and identification information to other ships and coastal authorities when it arrived. There are reports that it was still off when the vessel left on Friday.

“The vessel should have docked at Table Bay harbour just like other commercial vessels. Instead, it was allowed to dock at Simon’s Town Naval base, which, because it is the largest base in the country, is a national key point,” said Kobus Marais, the Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Affairs.

Simon’s Town residents saw container trucks enter the dockyard and cranes loading and unloading cargo from the ship under cover of night on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Armed security personnel reportedly oversaw the operations.

“Evidence suggests that over the last two nights, there was unusual activity in the harbour with on-board cranes offloading cargo from the Russian commercial vessel onto trucks. There was also movement by said trucks transporting containers in and out of the naval base.

“These trucks were protected by armed personnel. While trucks transporting containers are not uncommon, it is, however, very unusual for such activities to take place at night,” said the DA MP.

Lady R is en route to the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Initially, it was thought the vessel docked at Simon’s Town because it was in distress. However, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) ruled this out and said no distress signal was received.

According to reports, Lady R already sailed past Cape Agulhas on 5 December per maritime monitoring websites, which means it turned around and went back to Simon’s Town.

Tugboats towed the cargo ship out of the harbour at approximately 6:00 on Friday. By 8:00, it was heading past Cape Point, according to Daily Maverick.

David Feldmann, the US Embassy spokesperson, told News24 that the US Consulate in Pretoria previously warned that entities supporting Lady R could run afoul of American sanctions.

“We had indicated the vessel was sanctioned under US law because the ship is part of Russia’s military export-import business and had cautioned that entities supporting the vessel could run afoul of US sanctions,” he said.

The DA said the behaviour of Lady R worried Simon’s Town residents because it is sanctioned by the US and European Union over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“Given the ANC government’s history with Russia, the minister needs to come clean and explain what is going on and why this commercial vessel which is sanctioned by the US and European Union, was allowed to dock at Simons Town.

“What is the minister hiding and why is it shrouded in secrecy? The minister and the chief of SANDF have a responsibility to tell South Africans what is going on,” said Marais.

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“BREAKING: ConCourt dismisses Limpho Hani’s application to rescind release of Janusz Walus”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/constitutional-court-dismisses-limpho-hani-application-on-janusz-walus-9-december-2022/

09-12-2022 17:45

Chris Hani’s widow, Limpho, wanted the Constitutional Court to reconsider its decision to grant her husband’s killer, Janusz Walus parole.

The Constitutional Court has reportedly dismissed Limpho Hani’s reconsideration application to release her husband’s killer, Janusz Walus from prison.

On Wednesday, 7 December, the Department of Justice and Correctional Services confirmed that Walus was released from the hospital where he had been kept after he was stabbed by another prisoner on 29 November.

CONCOURT UPHOLDS RULING ON JANUSZ WALUS

As previously reported, Walus was serving a life sentence for the 1993 murder of anti-apartheid activist and South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani.

In November, the Constitutional Court ordered that the Polish national be released on parole.

The Apex Court’s decision did not sit well with Limpho Hani who described it as diabolical and together with the SACP they vowed to challenge it. The ANC, COSATU and other unions also expressed their disappointment and also marched to the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Facility where Walus was serving his sentence.

Walus was denied parole four times before. His accomplice in the assassination, Clive Derby-Lewis, who organised the hit, was released on medical parole in June 2015 and died of lung cancer in November 2016.

“Offender Walus was only discharged from hospital today (7 December) as he had been receiving treatment after he was involved in a stabbing incident. He will serve two years under community corrections in line with the parole regime upon which he is released,” the Department of Justice and Correctional Services said

The EFF is also amongst the parties that were unhappy about the release of Janusz Walus which it described as diabolical, cynical, and harmful.

The party said it condemns the Polish national’s release as it is abhorrent and shows scant regard for the nature of the crime he committed.

“Janusz Walus not only killed a man, but his bullet also shattered the hopes of millions of our people and almost pushed this country into war,” the party said.

The Red Berets said the killing of Hani was an assassination of the very idea of freedom itself, and it was not merely murder, but it was treasonous.

“For this, Walus has not even shown remorse, he has not divulged the identities of the people he worked with, and he is likely to pursue his destructive right-wing ideas once released.”

“May our people see what they do with Janusz Walus now that he is out of prison,” it added.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/eff-on-janusz-walus-release-from-prison-parole-7-december-2022/

The EFF previously said there’ll be serious consequences if Janusz Walus is released from prison, it now says people should see what they do.

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>>>17783840, >>17783842, >>17783846, >>17783850, >>17783852, >>17783855, >>17783857, >>17783859, >>17783861, >>17783863 About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots

About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 1

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/22/world/un-officer-on-flight-103.html, December 22, 1988

Bernt Carlsson, who was a passenger on the Pan Am flight that crashed over Scotland, had served as chief administrative officer of the United Nations Council for Namibia since July 1987. He was on his way here for a ceremony on Thursday, at which accords providing for Namibia's independence are to be signed by Angola, Cuba and South Africa.

The officer is, in theory, the United Nations' appointed governor for Namibia, the South African-ruled territory also known as South-West Africa. But because United Nations authority over Namibia is not recognized by South Africa, he is in practice the chief United Nations officer in charge of development programs intended to prepare Namibia for independence.

Mr. Carlsson, a 51-year-old Swedish diplomat, had been in London for a meeting with nongovernmental groups, United Nations officials said.

From 1983 to 1985, he was an Ambassador at large and special emissary of Prime Minister Olof Palme to the Middle East and Africa.

https://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2007/10/lockerbie-investigator-disputes-story.html.

"Proper judicial procedure is simply impossible if political interests and intelligence services from whichever side succeed in interfering in the actual conduct of a court … The purpose of intelligence services from whichever side lies in secret action and deception, not in the search for truth. Justice and the rule of law can never be achieved without transparency."

–Hans Koechler, U.N. observer at the Zeist trial

I find it increasingly difficult to argue with Dr. De Braeckeleer's conclusion: "Shame on those who committed this horrific act of terror. Shame on those who have ordered the cover-up. Shame on those who provided false testimony, and those who suppressed and fabricated the evidence needed to frame Libya. And shame on the media for their accomplice silence."

Meanwhile, new extraordinary revelations have surfaced that support my view that the Lockerbie trial was engineered by Western intelligence services to frame Libya.

It now appears that huge amounts of money were offered by U.S. officials to at least three key witnesses. The defense was never told that the CIA had offered millions of dollars to their star witnesses.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 2

http://i-p-o.org/THFord-Lockerbie-why_only_silence-Sept05.htm

It was during the trial that Gup's book was published, and given the apparent candor that it showed in discussing the secret roles of Gannon, Twetten, and the Agency in general in the Lockerbie disaster, no one could reasonably expect that the United States and the CIA were the government and secret intelligence agency involved. But this was the case, as the Scottish police officer finally coming forward has demonstrated, with the Agency providing in various corrupt ways what has been explained above: the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 and French UTA Flight 772 were matches of Islamic terrorism. "Then, in 2003," after an appeal had confirmed the conviction, "a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted." (Marcello Mega, Scotland on Sunday, August 28, 2005)

By the time The Fall of Pan Am 103, written by Steven Emerson and Brian Duffy, appeared in 1990, the 'conspiracy theories' had been so shot down that no serious person would listen to them any longer, though Joe Vialls continued to claim that the Zionists had done it.

That should change now. The planted evidence, plus Gup's false stories, should make everyone be thinking conspiracy. It should be seen, it seems, as the disaster the just-elected George H. W. Bush arranged to prevent the worst secrets of Iran-Contra ruining his Presidency.

http://whale.to/c/murder_of_policewoman.html

There is no doubt that Robin Cook's statement was designed to quash growing public skepticism about Libyan involvement in the downing of Pan Am 103 during 1988. When investigators finally prove officially that the Libyans were not responsible for Yvonne Fletcher's murder in London, British and American Government credibility over the fake charges on Pan Am 103 will be destroyed. This will leave unanswered the critical question of exactly who ordered and carried out the murders of 259 citizens on the ill-fated "Maid of the Seas", high above Lockerbie in December 1988.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 3

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/Pinetreeline/other/other18/other18an.html

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Canadian_Connection_To_Lockerbie_&_Pan_Am_103

airforce.dnd.ca Honorable Portor Goss February, 14 , 1998

Chairman

House Intelligence Oversight Committee

US House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

Subject: My knowledge of CIA involvement in the crash of the Gander Arrow Air DC-8 and PAN AM 103

My specialized knowledge of ordinance, explosives and pyrotechnics may provide the missing insights needed to solve several major terrorist crimes. For 15 years my company ACCURACY SYSTEMS ORDINANCE CORPORATION, provided specialized explosive devices to law enforcement, the military, Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Most of the military victims had been part of the 101st Airborne who were returning from Cairo, Egypt, where they were part of the U. N. peacekeeping mission enforcing the Camp David Accords. However, in addition to these troops, there was also a small group of Special Operations personnel who boarded the plane at the last minute. Sources found to be reliable told me that these personnel smuggled a nuclear backpack bomb aboard in Cairo because they had discovered the true nature of their recently cancelled hostage rescue mission.

However, the real reason I am sending you the reports of federal efforts to silence me is to emphasize the value of the specialized knowledge that I possess. As a second example, I present photos of the detonator that initiated the bomb on PAN AM 103. I know where this circuit board was manufactured in Florida, not Europe, and that it was sold exclusively to the CIA— not to the Libyans!

All of my current efforts to have local and federal law enforcement agencies (including their parent agencies in DC) investigate these matters have been unsuccessful. In fact, our US Attorney has actually defended the perpetrators and local US District Court judges have refused to act on my requests, or, in most cases, simply Dismissed them or ruled in favor of the U S Attorney. In spite of overwhelming evidence that not only am I telling the truth, but the Federal Agents are lying, filing False Affidavits or otherwise knowingly misleading the Court.

Charles M Byers

President

CC: All Members of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 4

“Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross - Lockerbie (1994)”- https://youtu.be/0B5hv6scbBo

Notice Bill Barr [US Attorney General 1991] and Robert Mueller [US assistant Attorney General] handled the situation, see video clips concerning their statements; 1:42 – Bill Barr and 1:14:04 – Robert Mueller.

25:09 – “A number of VIPs were pulled off that plane, a number of intelligence operatives were pulled off that plane. The South Africans, particularly Pik Botha, were booked on flight 103 and changed pretty much at the last hour or so. These South Africans had been warned by Bureau State Security to change reservations. The South Africans booked on flight 103 cancelled just before departure along with Pik Botha, General Malan, the Defense Minister, General van Tonder, Head of the Secret Service BOSS, and other senior government officials. Botha, Malan and Van Tonder confirmed this change in travel arrangements to British businessman Tiny Rowlands. They tell him the source of the information was of the kind that could not be dismissed. Botha rebooks on the earlier PAN AM 101, General van Tonder and 2 other members of BOSS cancel their trip all together. BOSS has close ties to 2 very important services, to the Israeli service and also to the American Central Intelligence Agency.”

https://inteltoday.org/2019/10/13/one-year-ago-apartheid-foreign-minister-pik-botha-dies-lockerbie-conspiracy/

The suggestion was that there was a plot to assassinate Bernt Carlsson, the designated UN Commissioner for the newly independent Namibia, who died on the flight. (INTEL TODAY – Carlsson was rebooked on PA103 because he had been delayed by a meeting with De Beers officials in Brussels.)

Not a single US worker at the Moscow embassy took flight Pan Am 103 from Frankfurt, a standard and popular route home for Christmas.

Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross – Lockerbie (1994)

Produced, written, and directed by Allan Francovich and financed by Tiny Rowland, the film was released by Hemar Enterprises in November 1994.

With a controversial premise, it was immediately threatened with legal action by lawyers acting for a US government official, and the British government prevented screenings at the 1994 London Film Festival, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and at several universities.

Some background regarding Tiny Rowland

https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1993/eirv20n19-19930514/eirv20n19-19930514_036-did_british_intelligence_kill_ha.pdf

[Janus] Walus's possible involvement with British intelligence becomes highlighted also with the sudden visit to South Africa, just days before the [ANC’s Chris Hani’s] assassination [also note >>17913444, >>17913411 ], of one of the most important figures in British intelligence, former MI-6 Africa desk head Nicholas Elliott. Despite being in his seventies, Elliott made the arduous journey to Johannesburg from London for a mere three days of meetings. According to sources in London, he met with Julian Ogilvie-Thompson, head of the Anglo-American Corp., the ANC's chief financial sponsor inside the country. Elliott, whose father had been headmaster at the elite British boarding school Eton, was the lifelong friend of Soviet spy Kim Philby, and was suspected of having tipped off Philby in 1963 that he was being investigated by British counterintelligence, allowing him to escape to Moscow. Elliott is also a former board member of Lonrho of Tiny Rowland. Rowland's Lonrho purchased the ANC's Johannesburg headquarters [where the shell house massacre occurred before SA’s first ‘democratic election] for them, and is bankrolling a planned new ANC newspaper.

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>“Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross - Lockerbie (1994)”- https://youtu.be/0B5hv6scbBo

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 5

BERNT CARLSSON: THE TARGET ON PAN AM FLIGHT 103? By Patrick Haseldine

http://www.shirleymckie.com/documents/BERNT_CARLSSON.pdf

Countdown to Lockerbie

1. On 27 September 1974, the UN Council for Namibia (UNCN) enacts Decree No 1 which prohibits all exploitation of Namibia's natural resources - particularly diamonds and uranium. The Decree provides for the payment of damages to the future government of an independent Namibia.

2. UN Security Council Resolution 435 of 1978 orders apartheid South Africa to withdraw from its illegal occupation of Namibia.

3. On 1 July 1987, Bernt Carlsson is appointed an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and the UN Commissioner for Namibia. Within two weeks of Carlsson's appointment, the UNCN institutes infraction proceedings against the uranium producer URENCO in the Netherlands, and signals similar action against Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. [“Bernt Carlsson and The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds Part 3” - https://youtu.be/IHIDaGrIsmY]

4. Reagan/Gorbachev summit of June 1988 decides on Namibian independence. The New York Accords are scheduled for signature on 22 December 1988 by US/Soviet client states: South Africa, Cuba and Angola. 5. In July 1988, UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, is invited to address the Development Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels on 20 December 1988.

6. Early in December 1988, Carlsson appears in the Granada TV documentary "Disappearing Diamonds" and criticises De Beers for illegal extraction of Namibia's diamonds (value $18.7 billion at 2009 prices). As a result, De Beers summon him to a meeting in London on 21 December 1988. Three days before his departure from New York to Brussels on 19 December 1988, Carlsson cancels his return flight booking from Brussels to New York. Instead, he books himself on British Airways Flight 391 to London for the meeting with De Beers, and on Pan Am Flight 103 from Heathrow to JFK. (This information is derived from Jan-Olof Bengtsson's article in the Swedish newspaper iDAG of 12 March 1990. It has never been published in English. Why?)

7. A 23-strong delegation from South Africa are also booked on Pan Am Flight 103. Their South African Airways flight from Johannesburg is forbidden by the US Comprehensive AntiApartheid Act of 1986 from continuing to New York. So Foreign Minister, Pik Botha, Defence Minister, Magnus Malan, Director of Military Intelligence, General Van Tonder, and 20 negotiators have to suffer the indignity of alighting at Heathrow and of taking the US carrier, Pan Am, to JFK. In the event, none of the 23 South Africans travelled on Carlsson's flight. Six are reported to have taken the morning Pan Am Flight 101 to New York, and 17 are understood to have returned by SAA to Johannesburg. (The fact that Pik Botha's delegation were booked on Pan Am Flight 103 was suppressed for six years - until the Reuters news agency reported it on 12 November 1994. Why?)

Conclusion

No attempt has yet been made to formally investigate the murder of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson. The decision not to investigate was taken by a junior Scottish policeman, Detective Constable John Crawford, on the basis of information supplied to him by "a very helpful lady librarian in Newcastle". Former MEP Michael McGowan has called for urgent action by the UN. He is the 17th signatory of an online petition ( http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BerntCarlsson/ ) which demands a United Nations inquiry into the murder of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, in the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 6

“The Lockerbie Bombing Apartheid Conspiracy” – Brent “Carlsson had links with the ANC”

https://secretsouthafrica.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/the-lockerbie-bombing-apartheid-conspiracy/. Another twist

The Commissioner was on his way to the UN signing of the Tripartite Accord which would grant independence to Namibia and end the direct involvement of foreign troops in the Angolan Civil War. Interestingly, Carlsson had links with the ANC.

On the 14th of March, 1982 he tipped off the then ANC president, Oliver Tambo not to attend a meeting in the London offices of the ANC which were bombed by one of Carlsson’s compatriots on the same day.

The fact that Bernt Carlsson had been helpful to the president of the ANC (Oliver Tambo) on a number of previous occasions provides possible ascription of motive for assassination to the apartheid government in that the ANC were one of their greatest political enemies.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 7

Gala premiere of “Chaplin”, funded by De Beers in memory of Bernt Carlsson, Dag Hammarskjold mentioned - PJ Haseldine 20 December 1992 Letter

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Guardian_letter_20_Dec_1992.jpg and attached. Below are excerpts.

The souvenir programme briefly described Mr Carlsson’s life and reported that he died on December 21, 1988 but failed to make any mention of the Lockerbie disaster and that he was the most prominent of its 270 victims.

Why?

Of course, the explanation might have nothing at all to do with the fact that the gala’s benefactor and biggest advertiser in the programme was De Beers, who control the mining, marketing and pricing of the world’s diamonds; nor that Namibia, which did not manage to shrug off the illegal occupation of most of its territory by South Africa until late 1989, is the source of some of the best diamond gemstones; nor that Mr Carlsson was in fear of his life in the seven days leading to Lockerbie; nor that Mr Carlsson made a last-minute, unscheduled trip from Belgium on December 21, 1988 to meet De Beers in London, just prior to boarding the fateful flight PanAm 103.

Far be it from me (an ex-diplomat) to point an accusatory finger, but it was only a few months ago in these collumns that two former UN diplomats, George Ivan Smith and Conor Cruse O’Brien, accused mining interests of responsibility for the plane crash in which Swedish UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, died in Rhodesia 31 years ago.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/De_Beers has more interesting links concerning De Beers.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 8

“LOCKERBIE: A PRIME SUSPECT: De Beers/ Anglo American Group”

http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.com/2010/01/london-origin-theory.html?showComment=1264768549230#c5692664032111793634

Patrick Haseldine said…

Dear Adam,

Here is Gordon Brown's reason (sent to me by e-mail yesterday) for you to suspect otherwise:

LOCKERBIE: A PRIME SUSPECT

With reference to the murder of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, and 269 other innocent folk in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, it would not be out of line to consider the De Beers/ Anglo American Group a prime suspect as it had the Motive, Means and Opportunity to carry out such an attack.

MOTIVE: With regards to motive, the Group had a pressing need:

1. to prevent an in-depth investigation of its decades-long illegal gem diamond mining operations in Namibia in breach of United Nations Decree No. 1 which Bernt Carlsson was about to conduct,

2. to prevent the United Nations Commissioner for Namibia from further uncovering and quantifying the secretive high-grading/overmining practice which the Group had embarked upon with the object of depleting Namibia’s more valuable gem diamond resources ahead of an internationally recognised independence settlement; an illegal practice which had been brought to public note through the findings of the Thirion Judicial Commission of Inquiry,

3. to hide from public scrutiny the human rights abuses and discriminatory employment practices the Group’s Namibian employees had been subjected to for more than 50 years,

4. to ward off a massive claim for damages the United Nations could legally have instituted against the Group on behalf of the people of Namibia,

5. to frustrate any action likely to threaten the Group’s dominant control of diamond mining in Namibia and prevent its lucrative concessions from being legally expropriated in the public interest and granted to a less controversial and more responsible mining company. This effectively would have ended the De Beers Diamond Cartel’s monopolistic control of the world diamond industry.

MEANS: Through the Group’s established contacts and dealings with the CCB, CIA (through Maurice Tempelsman [remember in one of the previous South Africa thread(s) that he is connected to the Kennedy family]), BOSS and Executive Outcomes, The Group most certainly possessed the means to carry out such an attack. Breaking into Heathrow Airport’s luggage handling section would have posed little difficulty to any one of these organisations. There was money and expertise aplenty to carry out such an operation.

OPPORTUNITY: There was more than adequate time to plan and execute this heinous criminal act as Bernt Carlsson’s movements and travel arrangements, dictated in part by De Beers in London, were known to The Group well in advance. It was the ideal crime as nobody would ever suspect Bernt Carlsson was the target and therefore no finger would ever point at De Beers/Anglo American. This cowardly attack was conveniently labelled the dastardly work of a terrorist organisation.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 9

UN Council for Namibia sues Netherlands over Namibia's natural resources – Urenco

In an unprecedented action, the United Nations Council for Namibia has instituted legal proceedings in the Netherlands against the Dutch uranium enrichment plant Urenco Nederland V.O.F. and its State-controlled managing partner Ultracentrifuge Nederland N.V., as well as the Government of the Netherlands, "to prevent Urenco Nederland V.O.F. from carrying out orders on the basis of purchases of Namibian uranium'. The Council is the legal Administering Authority for the Territory until independence. It is the first time that a United Nations body has sued a Government.

Council President Peter D. Zuze of Zambia said the action was "only a first step by the Council in implementing its decision of May 1985 to institute legal proceedings, as one of various options, to safeguard the natural resources of Namibia'. The writ of summons was served on the defendants on 14 July 1987. On 23 July 1987, the Netherlands, in a letter (A/42/414) to the Secretary-General called the action "unprecedented', adding that Netherlands electricity companies did not buy Namibian uranium. Urenco Nederland V.O.F. and Ultracentrifuge Nederland N.V. operated within a German, British and Netherlands consortium, Urenco Ltd., established in 1971, that concluded enrichment contracts on behalf of the three partners in the consortium with electricity suppliers. The enrichment processes did not take place in the Netherlands.

The Council's Steering Committee on 2 May 1985 decided to institute legal action, in domestic courts of States and other appropriate bodies, against corporations or individuals who were violating the Council's 1974 Decree No. 1 for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Namibia. The Committee had also decided that those legal proceedings would commence in the Netherlands, against Urenco, a company which it said was known to process Namibian uranium in violation of the Decree.

The Decree forbids any person or entity from searching for, prospecting for, exploring for, taking, extracting, mining, processing, refining, using, selling, exporting or distributing any natural resources, whether animal or mineral, situated or found to be situated within Namibia's territorial limits without the Council's consent and permission.

Other countries against which such action might be taken are: Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Council for Namibia sues Netherlands over Namibia's n atural…-a06272039

https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/urenco.pdf

Urenco also came under fire from the United Nations, which accused the company of obtaining uranium from Namibia without permission. The UN had asserted authority over Namibia in 1967, but the apartheid government of South African continued to exercise control of the territory and its mineral wealth. A Urenco spokesperson responded to the charge by saying “we don’t know where the stuff comes from.”x (The case was later dropped as Namibia moved toward independence in 1990.)

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 10

“Pik Botha’s Lockerbie mystery” – 1 of 2

https://www.iol.co.za/ios/behindthenews/pik-bothas-lockerbie-mystery-17617534

Oct 24, 2018

Chris Nicholson [retired judge of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal]

What do Mats Wilander, the tennis player, and former National Party minister Pik Botha have in common?

Botha and Wilander both missed Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people.

“Those whom the gods love, die young” is an adage from Greek mythology but for the handsome, curly-haired Swede the gods were clearly making an exception when he missed Pan Am Flight 103. Since that fateful day, Wilander has had a wonderful career and made a lot of money. He now spends much of his time living on an 33-hectare estate in Hailey, Idaho, US, which is part of the Sun Valley ski resort. He married Sonya (née Mulholland), a South African model from Summerveld, Durban.

On January 11, 1989 Botha travelled to Stockholm in Sweden with other foreign dignitaries - including UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - for the funeral of the UN’s Commissioner for South-West Africa, Bernt Carlsson. Botha was interviewed by Sue MacGregor on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and alleged that he and a 22-strong South African delegation, who were booked to fly from London to New York on December 21, 1988, had been targeted by the ANC. However, having been alerted to these ANC plans to kill him, Botha said he managed to outsmart them by taking the earlier Pan Am Flight 101 from Heathrow to JFK Airport, New York.

Despite having the knowledge, the question remains why he did not tell the airline security and alert the other passengers that their deaths were going to follow in a few minutes. Is there any other conclusion but that Botha was happy for them to go to their deaths?

The notion that Botha was warned is bolstered by statements made by Oswald Le Winter, who worked for the CIA from 1968 to 1985, and Tiny Rowland in the 1994 film The Maltese Double Cross. This film was made by Allan Francovich, who later died under suspicious circumstances.

>“Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross - Lockerbie (1994)”- https://youtu.be/0B5hv6scbBo

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 11

“Pik Botha’s Lockerbie mystery” – 2 of 2

https://www.iol.co.za/ios/behindthenews/pik-bothas-lockerbie-mystery-17617534

Oct 24, 2018

In the film Le Winter quotes Rowland as disclosing that Botha had told him he and 22 South African delegates were going to New York for the Namibian Independence Ratification Ceremony and were all booked on the Pan Am Flight 103. They were given a warning from a source which could not be ignored and changed flights. The source revealed by Le Winter is the SA Bureau for State Security (BOSS), which he claims had close contacts with Israeli intelligence and the CIA.

Could the “rough working notes” and the “personal diary of those days” have been fabricated to save Pik Botha’s skin from a most embarrassing and possibly criminal act? Two years before Eglin asked the questions in Parliament, Botha was contacted by the press and his replies were reported on a Reuters Textline of November 12, 1994, under the heading “South African Minister denies knowing of Lockerbie Bomb”.

The article said: “Former foreign minister Pik Botha denied on Saturday he had been aware in advance of a bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people. The minister confirmed through his spokesman that he and his party had been booked on the ill-fated airliner but switched flights after arriving early in London from Johannesburg.”

There is further confirmation of the fabrication from other sources. On November 12, 1994, Botha’s spokesperson, Gerrit Pretorius, told Reuters that Botha and 22 South African negotiators, including Defence Minister Magnus Malan and Foreign Affairs director Neil van Heerden, had been booked on Pan Am Flight 103. He said “the flight from Johannesburg arrived early in London and the embassy got us on to an earlier flight. Had we been on Pan Am Flight 103 the impact on South Africa and the region would have been massive. It happened on the eve of the signing of the tripartite agreements,” said Pretorius, referring to pacts signed at the UN headquarters on December 22, 1988, which ended South African and Cuban involvement in Angola, and which led to Namibian independence.

Another statement by Pretorius was in appallingly bad taste: “The minister is flattered by the allegation of near-omniscience.” Pretorius goes on to explain again how the change had come about. “But we got to London an hour early and the embassy got us on an earlier flight. When we got to JFK (airport) a contemporary of mine said, ‘Thank God you weren’t on 103. It crashed over Lockerbie’.”

Papenfus admits a further intriguing detail: “In response to enquiries the Department of Foreign Affairs initially officially denied that seats had ever been booked for the ministerial party on Pan Am Flight 103. They said that the bookings had been on Flight 101 right from the beginning.” Papenfus concludes: “The tragedy claimed the life of the UN’s Commissioner for South West Africa, Mr Bernt Carlsson of Sweden. He was supposed to have been present at the signing of the agreements.”

The question remains whether he was not the real target of those who put the bomb on Pan Am 103.

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>Bernt Carlsson, who was a passenger on the Pan Am flight that crashed over Scotland, had served as chief administrative officer of the United Nations Council for Namibia since July 1987. He was on his way here for a ceremony on Thursday, at which accords providing for Namibia's independence are to be signed by Angola, Cuba and South Africa.

>The officer is, in theory, the United Nations' appointed governor for Namibia, the South African-ruled territory also known as South-West Africa. But because United Nations authority over Namibia is not recognized by South Africa, he is in practice the chief United Nations officer in charge of development programs intended to prepare Namibia for independence.

Namibia 1989 Events Towards Independence - Chester Crocker, Louis Pienaar, Anatoly Adamishin

https://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/131.htm

https://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/131.htm

28.02.1989

The TGNU [Transitional Government of National Unity (Namibia)] dissolves itself.

Administrator-General Louis Pienaar [Is he related to Andre Pienaar? >>17694378] assumes control over governmental affairs in Namibia.

07.04.1989

The Administrator-General Pienaar unilaterally suspends the independence process. The SA Foreign Minister Pik Botha quickly contradicts Pienaar with a statement that South Africa remains fully committed to SC Resolution 435.

The UN Secretary-General orders the early mobilisation of three UNTAG-battalions from Finland, Kenya and Malaysia.

09./11.04.1989

Representatives of SA, Angola and Cuba in the Joint Monitoring Commission, with US (Chester Crocker), Soviet (Anatoly Adamishin) [Before the Soviet Union’s ‘fall’], and UNTAG observation, meet at Mount Etjo to salvage the independence plan. The parties agree that SWAPO troops should be assembled at 16 assembly points and withdraw from Namibia to the 16th latitude in Angola, under guarantee of safe passage. All assembly points would be under UNTAG supervision and be operational by noon on 11.04.1989.

Beginning October 1989

The South African Administrator-General Louis Pienaar transfers the Namibian civil service pension fund from the Namibian administration to trustees who could move it to South Africa. The estimated outflow of Namibian pension funds is 1,2 billion Rand.

11.11.1989

UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari certifies that the elections were "free and fair".

21.11.1989

Sam Nujoma opens the Constituent Assembly exactly one week after the elections being certified. The sixty-six men and six women of the Constituent Assembly represent a total of seven political parties. Theo-Ben Gurirab proposes the adoption of the 1982 Constitutional Principles of the Western Contact Group (UN Report S/15287 dated 12.07.1982).

07.12.1989

The British Ambassador, Robin Renwick, reports that SWAPO has approached him for help in the creation of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) and the Commonwealth (which Namibia will join with independence) for the formation of a national police force (NAMPOL).

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>Representatives of SA, Angola and Cuba in the Joint Monitoring Commission, with US (Chester Crocker), Soviet (Anatoly Adamishin) [Before the Soviet Union’s ‘fall’], and UNTAG observation, meet at Mount Etjo to salvage the independence plan.

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>>>17784293, >>17784294 Chester Crocker, "Oppenheimer of South Africa," later became a Director of Minorco

Remember…

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“OPPENHEIMER OF SOUTH AFRICA" - Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/08/magazine/oppenheimer-of-south-africa.html

May 8, 1983

Of course, it might also be said to be by its nature a part of Africa. But then the Reagan Administration's man on Africa [Chester A. Crocker] didn't mean to be talking race; he was talking power, economics and ideology. He was talking of a South Africa that deserves to be called, as he elsewhere noted, the Saudi Arabia of minerals.

Despite South Africa's exchange controls, the group has managed in recent years to build up large holdings in the United States and Canada through the Bermuda-based Minerals and Resources Corporation, known as Minorco, whose board includes such American business eminences as Citicorp's Walter B. Wriston and Lazard Freres' Felix Rohatyn. Forbes magazine claimed a few years ago that Minorco was the largest foreign investor in the United States. Anglo American modestly says Forbes's calculations were ridiculously inflated, but Minorco's lengthening list of interests includes coal in Appalachia, copper in Arizona, fertilizer in Iowa and investment banking on Wall Street through Salomon Brothers.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2655201

Lastly, that edition of Optima commented on the “valiant efforts” (Barber 1987a, p. 68) of Dr. Chester Crocker, the then American Assistant Secretary of State for Africa. Both De Beers and Anglo American were obviously enormously enamored with Crocker. By 1990 [the year Mandela was released], they had appointed him as a director of Minorco, which was based in Luxembourg and “the main overseas investor for Oppenheimer funds” (Kanfer 1993, p. 362). A high-profile appointment to such an entity suggests a very different imperative to that which Oppenheimer voiced in his interview with Nielsen (1985) regarding investing beyond South Africa.

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>Representatives of SA, Angola and Cuba in the Joint Monitoring Commission, with US (Chester Crocker), Soviet (Anatoly Adamishin) [Before the Soviet Union’s ‘fall’], and UNTAG observation, meet at Mount Etjo to salvage the independence plan.

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>Both De Beers and Anglo American were obviously enormously enamored with Crocker. By 1990 [the year Mandela was released], they had appointed him as a director of Minorco, which was based in Luxembourg and “the main overseas investor for Oppenheimer funds” (Kanfer 1993, p. 362).

“Memorandum of Conversation Between Assistant Secretary Chester Crocker and Anatoly Adamishin. Subject: Southern Africa”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16874-document-02-memorandum-conversation-between

Below is an excerpt

Date: May 29, 1988

Place: Foreign Ministry Guest House, Moscow

Participants: Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary, US Dept. of State

Anatoly Adamishin, Deputy Ministre, USSR MFA

Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

Vasillen Vasev, Director, 3rd African Dept., USSR MFA

Soviet interpreter

In Fact, Admishin seaid, Luanda has asked Moscow to tell the U.S. during the Summit that Angola was ready for trilateral economic cooperation with the U.S. and Soviet Union in three specific areas: diamonds, gold, and ferrous metals. (Adamishin asked that Crocker keep this to himself until it had been raised at higher levels in the course of the Summit.)

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>Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

“Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society”

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Clapp Bio.pdf

Ms. Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Asia Society and the US Institute of Peace, where she is also a member of the International Advisory Board.

During her 30-year career with the U.S. Government, Ms. Clapp served as Chief of Mission and permanent Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Burma (1999-2002), Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in South Africa (1993-96), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs (1989-1993), Deputy Political Counselor in the US Embassy in Moscow (1986-88), and chief of politicalmilitary affairs in the US Embassy in Japan (1981-85). She also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. She speaks Russian, Japanese, French, and some Burmese.

Prior to government service, Ms. Clapp spent ten years in foreign policy and arms control research, with the MIT Center for International Studies and as a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Ms. Clapp’s books include: with Morton Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2006), with I.M.Destler et al., Managing an Alliance: the Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations (Brookings, 1976), with Morton Halperin, U.S.-Japanese Relations in the 1970's (Harvard, 1974). She is a frequent media commentator and the author of numerous publications on Burma and U.S. Burma policy with USIP, the Brookings Institution, the East-West Center, Australia National University, Singapore's ISEAS, the National Bureau for Asian Research, National University of Singapore, the Asia Society and others

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>>>17784324, >>17784341, >>17784355, >>17862700 Unsolved 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme (videos)

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>From 1983 to 1985, he [Bernt Carlsson] was an Ambassador at large and special emissary of Prime Minister Olof Palme to the Middle East and Africa.

>>17694378 - If the Apartheid regime and its “puppet” Bantustans were so evil, why were their intelligence agents integrated into the “new” South Africa?

Wynand du Toit (former Recce, South Africa special forces during Apartheid) knows who murdered (Swedish Prime Minister) Olof Palme

“Donderdag, 27 Oktober 2022. Wie het vir wie binnegeval. 'n Parallelle geval” (Thursday, 27 October 2022. Who invaded whom. A parallel case)

https://youtu.be/YA2HWWJNW_c

4:26 – “I think at that stage the West abandoned our interests as an Afrikaner nation but it was probably planned in advance that these misleading actions had to take place. Now then, who financed the ANC and SWAPO in their war struggle? Sweden, Netherlands, the United Nations, Britain and America.”

8:20 – “Ask yourself the question, why was Olof Palme then shot dead in an assassination attack by a South African in those war years? No prosecution, of any kind was ever done regarding it, but I think it is also well known who assassinated him at that time. I don’t want to go into it because the person, from the nature of the matter, is still alive and has the right to live.”

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>Far be it from me (an ex-diplomat) to point an accusatory finger, but it was only a few months ago in these collumns that two former UN diplomats, George Ivan Smith and Conor Cruse O’Brien, accused mining interests of responsibility for the plane crash in which Swedish UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, died in Rhodesia 31 years ago.

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“South Africa may hold the answer to who murdered Olof Palme”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/08/how-i-got-close-to-those-who-claimed-to-know-who-murdered-olof-palme

Mon 8 Jun 2020

Dag Hammarskjöld brought me to Olof Palme. Two Swedish leaders, both supporting small nations on the world scene, both of whom refused to be controlled by global superpowers; both died a violent death.

Through the Hammarskjöld investigation I had built an extensive network of contacts: former intelligence operatives, ex-military staff, historians, and journalists. For the Palme case, one of the most useful contacts was a former general, Tienie Groenewald, who at the time of Palme’s murder had been in charge of South Africa’s National Intelligence Interpretation Branch. He told me fascinating stories of how South African military intelligence collaborated with the CIA, how the Israelis helped South Africa acquire the nuclear bomb – but not much of value for the Palme case.

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“Sweden drops probe into unsolved 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme”

https://youtu.be/RaVncsHmZZs

10 June 2020

https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/the-skandia-man-suspected-of-killing-swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme/10 June 2020

At a press conference on Wednesday morning, the Swedish chief prosecutor Krister Petersson announced who he believes to be the killer. He named a man who in Swedish media has been called ”the Skandia man” as the suspect.

”The Skandia man” is deceased, which means he can not be interrogated, and he can not be prosecuted. Therefore the prosecutor has decided to close the criminal investigation.

The investigation of the murder of the prime minister is the most comprehensive and most expensive investigation in Swedish history, and one of the biggest in the world. 134 people have confessed to shooting Olof Palme in the 34 years that have passed since the murder. 29 of them have confessed to Swedish police.

More than 10.000 people have been interrogated in the investigation. 40.000 people are mentioned in the investigation, according to the police investigator Hans Melander.

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>Niehaus, a staunch critic of current party president Cyril Ramaphosa, held a one-man protest outside Nasrec, Johannesburg, where the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC) was meeting to discuss the Phala Phala scandal after the Section 89 Independent Panel of experts found he has a case to answer.

“Phala Phala: Anatomy of a scandal” - https://rumble.com/embed/v1w1x4o/?pub=4

“ Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/plot-to-kill-fraser-and-his-advocate-exposed-aec39316-777d-4c0e-be8a-d3a820524d23

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2022

Johannesburg - A plot to kill former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general (DG) Arthur Fraser was hatched after he allegedly refused a R50 million offer from a Cape Town underworld boss to make the Phala Phala case against President Cyril Ramaphosa “go away”.

The Sunday Independent can exclusively reveal that Fraser has not seen his family since he opened a criminal case against Ramaphosa and the head of the presidential protection service, General Wally Rhoode, at Rosebank police station in Johannesburg on June 1 this year.

The former spy boss has been in hiding after he received “credible information” that there was a hit on him and his lawyer, advocate Muzi Sikhakhane. Fraser confirmed this week that he was aware of the plot.

“I am aware of these claims and, having independently investigated them, I can only conclude that these inducements and threats originate directly from the president or people acting in his interest,” Fraser alleged.

He refused to give further details or what he had uncovered about the matter. Fraser also confirmed that his lawyer had also become a target.

“Both of us have been put through hell with inducements and serious threats to our lives since I laid the charges against the president,” he said.

Ramaphosa spokesperson, Vincent Mangwenya, yesterday said they have no knowledge of the claims.

“We have no knowledge of the claims deposited in your questions,” he said.

Sikhakhane also confirmed that he was made aware of the alleged plot to kill him and Fraser.

“I was made aware of the plot to kill me and my client, Mr Fraser, and this is nothing new as I have always been singled out for doing nothing but representing my clients. I have also been targeted by even my own colleagues for the cases that I do. My white colleagues have never been troubled for who they are representing,” he said.

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>>>17783792, >>17783794, >>17783796, >>17783800, >>17783805, >>17783807 Julius Malema & Jaques Pauw

Is it not interesting that no one made an attempt on Jaques Pauw's life like the rest?

“Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti” – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/opinion/julius-malemas-mafia-connection-what-we-know-about-adriano-mazzotti/

08-07-2018 16:22

Julius Malema’s recent outbursts directed at Jacques Pauw and Pravin Gordhan. Is Malema feeling the heat now that the dots are being joined between him and Adriano Mazzotti?

Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF) Commander in Chief, Julius Malema, has entered into a war of words with investigative author, Jacques Pauw, and Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan. Where there’s smoke there’s usually fire – why is Malema now fighting anti-corruption forces?

The President’s Keepers author, Jacques Pauw, has opened a can of unsavoury worms surrounding Malema and his association with Adriano Mazzotti. This comes at a time when suspended SA Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner, Tom Moyane, finds himself in the hot seat.

Moyane is accused of gross maladministration and corruption while head of SARS, resulting in a revenue shortfall of R50 billion. These allegations have landed Monyane in front of the Nugent inquiry, established to unpack the former commissioner’s accountability.

‘SUNLIGHT IS A GREAT SANITISER’ – ROBERT NUGENT

Retired judge, Robert Nugent, is chairing the commission tasked with uncovering Moyane’s incompetence. While the subject of this inquiry deals with liability and dereliction of duty with regards to taxes, Malema has become awfully offended by the commission.

Which seems strange considering that the revolutionary leader has always fought against corruption, famously coining the phrase ‘pay back the money’, in reference to former president Jacob Zuma’s improper residential funding.

Why is Malema defending Tom Moyane, while lambasting anti-corruption loyalists Pauw and Gordhan? Could Malema’s outburst be a result of fear surrounding what may be uncovered in the enquiry process?

JULIUS MALEMA AND THE ADRIANO MAZZOTTI CONNECTION

Much has been written about this ignoble association; that of a self-confessed fraudster, smuggler and illicit merchant coupling with a revolutionary leader of the people.

The former, Adriano Sauro Lorenzo Mazzotti, is the director of Carnilinx, a cigarette company not shy of controversy. SARS have previously investigated Carnilinx for illicit dealings and tax evasion. That was before Moyane was at the helm of the operation.

In fact, the dodgy glue which binds Mazzotti, Malema and Moyane together was manufactured under an unethical SARS dispossession. The Nugent commission is threatening to reveal all injustices, and that has some very powerful people very worried.

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“Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti” – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/opinion/julius-malemas-mafia-connection-what-we-know-about-adriano-mazzotti/

08-07-2018 16:22

ADRIANO MAZZOTTI, THE EFF’S FIRST FINANCIAL BACKER

In a legal address, obtained by PoliticsWeb, following allegations of illicit activities, Mazzotti’s legal team wrote:

“Mr Mazzotti did make a donation of R200 000 to the EFF prior to its registration. This has always been in the public domain and he has always been transparent about the payment.”

This is in reference to a payment made in 2014 when the EFF needed financial backing to register as a political party. But it isn’t the only transaction rumoured to have taken place between the two unlikely counterparts.

Pauw has alleged, in his open letter to Malema, that the EFF and their leader have benefited from the proceeds of crime. According to the author, there is evidence supporting his claim that R1 million found its way into EFF coffers.

The money, rumoured to be a loan, was made by Carnilinx co-director Kyle Phillips. Pauw is adamant he can verify the claims.

‘THE PROBLEM WITH WHITE SUPREMACY’ – JULIUS MALEMA

This was Malema’s response to Pauw’s accusations. Malema added further to his retort:

“If it is the proceeds of crime, let them open a case. If such a contribution is the proceeds of crime, let it be prosecuted and if found guilty, the EFF will be more than willing to return that money.”

Malema has previously explained that his relationship with Mazzotti stretches back to his days in the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. When Malema was expelled from the organisation he maintains that Mazzotti was one of a few people who stayed in touch with him.

The EFF commander in chief has been contradictory in describing his relationship with Mazzotti, previously stating:

“Me and him [Mazzotti]… we engage on political issues, national topics, not about his business. If he is messing up, they must lock him up and he must go to jail and rot in jail for a very long time.”

Although in other statements to the media he has indicated that Mazzotti has no profound understanding or knowledge of the EFF, saying:

“Mazzotti doesn’t know anything about the EFF, he reads about it like any other person.”

‘UNSAVOURY CHARACTERS’

Pauw ended his open letter to Malema cautioning him against his intimate dealings with known criminals, saying:

“You must know that Mazzotti mingles with unsavoury characters.

Do you know that apartheid assassin Craig Williamson was one of his business partners?

And that you have been photographed with Mazzotti in the presence of self-confessed killer and gangster Mikey Schultz?”

Questions are being asked of the relationship between Malema and Mazzotti. Is Julius Malema fighting to subjugate the truth, and to what extent have SARS role-players colluded with accused racketeers?

Tensions are high with both sides attempting to discredit the other. In this case, the old adage, ‘the truth will set you free’, may be furthest from reality. In this case, the truth may put powerful people behind bars.

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“Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-adriano-mazzotti-family-home/

03-12-2018 12:25

Malema’s wife and children live in a home owned by Mazzotti.

The relationship between Julius Malema and cigarette manufacturer Adriano Mazzotti has, once again, been thrust into the spotlight.

Malema, political provocateur and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has never denied his connection with self-confessed cigarette smuggler, Mazzotti. Then again – how could he? The facts are clear to see and have been widely publicised in recent years.

JULIUS MALEMA AND ADRIANO MAZZOTTI

Mazzotti is the co-director of Carnilinx, a cigarette manufacturing company which has garnered controversy due to its alleged involvement in the illicit tobacco trade. The dubious association stretches back to 2013, when Mazzotti donated R200 000 to the EFF, prior to the party’s registration. The following year, Carnilinx’s other executive director, Kyle Phillips, helped Malema out of tax troubles with a cool R1 million ‘advance’.

Investigative journalist and author of The President’s Keepers, Jacques Pauw, has previously challenged Malema to come clean regarding his relationship with Mazzotti. Citing affidavits, Pauw has shown Mazzotti to be under the watchful eye of South African Revenue Service (SARS) due to alleged fraud and tax evasion.

Malema, who has built a large portion of his political rhetoric on anti-corruption, finds himself in a sticky position. A recent report, published by EWN, has, once again, brought the Malema-Mazzotti connection back under the microscope for further crutiny. This, at a time when the EFF is attempting to buffer a fierce media pushback while defending itself against allegations of corruption stemming from the VBS Mutual Bank saga.

MALEMA’S FAMILY LIVING IN MAZZOTTI’S HOUSE

It’s now been confirmed that Malema’s wife and children live in a home owned by Mazzotti. Pauw revealed further details about the high-security Hyde Park estate, posting a satellite image with the caption:

“Malema lives in self-confessed gangster Adriano Mazzotti’s house in Hyde Park. It’s true. The estate, consisting of four luxurious villas, is at [address withheld]”

EWN further revealed that the house in which Malema’s family lives is valued at R7 million.

Mazzotti argues that although the family lives on the property, they are paying market-related rental prices – in this area of Hyde Park, rentals cost between R35 000 to over R100 000 per month.

Malema, himself, has a permanent residence in Goodwood, Cape Town. The EFF’s Commander in Chief has been mum on the recent revelations.

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“Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement”

https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2022/11/15/malema-jacques-pauw-new-book

15th November 2022

Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves

“This is the book that Julius Malema does not want you to see,” says author Jacques Pauw.

Pauw’s comment comes in response to demands issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters’ attorneys, insisting that copies of his new book be removed from all bookstores.

NB Publishers received an urgent letter of demand on Monday from Julius Malema, Floyd Shivambu and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s attorneys demanding the immediate withdrawal of Our Poisoned Land, published on 11 November 2022 under the Tafelberg imprint of NB Publishers. It’s Pauw’s sequel to the bestselling The President’s Keepers.

The letter also requests that “both Mr Jacques Pauw and NB Publishers unconditionally apologise to Mr Julius Malema, Mr Floyd Shivambu, Mr Ndlozi, and all other members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, for the negligent and mala fide publication of untrue, unverified, and defamatory allegations pertaining to those parties, which publications have been unconditionally withdrawn, and will not be republished, either now or in the future.”

The letter is in response to the shocking allegations unearthed by Pauw, detailing the extent of Julius Malema’s controversial relationship with self-confessed tobacco smuggler Adriano Mazzotti.

“The EFF’s demands are reminiscent of similar attempts, almost exactly five years ago, when then spy boss Arthur Fraser threatened to use intelligence legislation to remove the The President’s Keepers from the shelves”, adds Pauw. [Using the same tactic to increase sales?]

The President’s Keepers remains South Africa’s fastest-selling book ever and has sold over 210 000 copies since its publication in October 2017.

NB Publishers stands by our author and the book. The information in the book was properly sourced and lawfully published and demands for removal and apologies have been rejected.

Our attorneys have responded to the letter received.

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Jacques Pauw biography

https://briefly.co.za/95222-jacques-pauw-biography-family-books-scandal-pics-facts.html

February 17, 2021

When you mention Jacques Pauw's name, what comes to most people's mind is the investigative journalist who unveiled the "cancerous cabal" that bankrolled Jacob Zuma's presidency. His recent arrest and publication that wrongly painted a South African restaurant and the police are two other Jacques Pauw latest news.

Jacques Pauw is a famous journalist in the country's media sector. Known for his exceptional investigative skills, he is a two-time winner of CNN's African Journalist of the Year award, among others. After publishing his book, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and out of Prison, in 2017, the efforts made to ban it ended up making it a best seller.

Jacques has served in various capacities until his retirement. He was a founding member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper, Vrye Weekblad. Founder members collectively owned the newspaper, including Max du Preez, who served as an editor. His television career started in 1994, and he specialised in documentaries around the African continent.

Moreover, he worked with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as an executive producer of the Special Assignment, a current affairs programme. As an investigative journalist, Pauw investigated lethal criminal activities in southern Africa's underworld and exposed atrocities committed by governments around the African continent.

Some of his documentaries focused on the War in Darfur, the Rwandan genocide, and the police death squads in South Africa under apartheid. He produced documentaries on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Algeria, Burundi, Liberia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone, among other countries.

The award-winning journalist has been recognised internationally for his exceptional ways. For instance, 2002 was a significant year in Pauw's career as he was decorated with the ICIJ award based on his documentary on the Rwandan genocide.

He has also received Italy's Ilaria Alpi and the Nat Nakasa award for bravery and journalism integrity. Then, he has won the Daniel Pearl Award in the United States for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.

Scandal and facts

On the 6th of February, 2021, Pauw was arrested at the V&A Waterfront and was detained overnight before he was released on a warning. Initially, Jacques Pauw Daily Maverick's published column posited that his credit card bounced a few times when he wanted to pay his bill at the restaurant. It was after then that "three policemen pounced on me, grabbed my arms and cuffed my hands as tightly as they could."

Considering the post detailing Jacques Pauw restaurant incident, he created the impression that the restaurant management called the police to arrest him. But then, after his release, he apologised to the public that it was not so; the police were around doing something else before they showed up to find out what the problem was. So, his arrest was due to overreaction.

The award-winning journalist apologised to the police officers for accusing them of taking the R1,000 cash with him.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/401031.Jacques_Pauw

When he left journalism in 2014, he was the head of investigations at Media24 newspapers (Naspers).

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>“There is amazing story about an online market place OLX which is actually owned by Naspers which is a South African company. It was selling material around Janus Walusz; scarves, flags that sort of thing for football fans.”

>”‘The cult of Janusz Walus’: How Chris Hani’s killer became a neo-Nazi idol” – Walus now on Parole

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>He was a founding member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper, Vrye Weekblad. Founder members collectively owned the newspaper, including Max du Preez, who served as an editor.

“Vrye Weekblad: An Analysis of the Visual Strategies in a South African Newspaper” [December 2021] – “a progressive and left-leaning publication”

https://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/123690/vanniekerk_weekblad_2021.pdf

The contemporary revival of the weekly has the mission of establishing and reaffirming its brand identity as a progressive and left-leaning publication in a society now far more liberal than its original context. The various visual strategies they used in the revival of the publication are thus examined within the framework of nostalgia. This research aims to better understand the revival strategies of an old anti-apartheid newspaper and contribute to the thinking of Afrikaner identity through an appropriation of nostalgia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrye_Weekblad

Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper that was launched in November 1988 and forced to close in February 1994. The paper was driven into bankruptcy by the legal costs of defending its charge that South African Police General Lothar Neethling had supplied poison to security police to kill activists.[1]

It was relaunched in a digital format in April 2019 by Arena Holdings, with Max du Preez returning as editor and Anneliese Burgess as co-editor.[2] A new edition is published every Friday on the Vrye Weekblad website.

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>The award-winning journalist [Jacques Pauw] apologised to the police officers for accusing them of taking the R1,000 cash with him.

“Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect?” – Accused of molesting boys

https://uncensoredopinion.co.za/can-jaques-pauw-claim-to-have-a-reputation-and-integrity-to-protect/

February 22, 2021

AFTER the recent damning admission by investigative journalist Jaques Pauw that he lied in an opinion piece published by Daily Maverick, can he still continue with his defamation lawsuit against Prerotia News editor Piet Rampedi?

Last year, Rampedi posted several tweets in which he accused Pauw of racism, lying and challenged him to address allegations that he molested children in Mozambique while on an assignment in early 2000.

Pauw then sent Rampedi a lawyer’s letter giving him 24hours to apologise and remove the remarks or face “legal action”. Rampedi ignored the gagging order, forcing Pauw to issue summons, suing Rampedi for R500,000. https://wp.me/p7OMJc-3c4

The big question is whether Pauw’s case against Rampedi can still hold given the former’s confession so devastating to media integrity that journalists who otherwise cover-up for their clique of friends, found themselves having to come out and lambast their own.

At the time, Rampedi called Daily Maverick a “propaganda portal” carrying the lies of Pauw. One of the tweets read: “Racist liar @Jaqqs must do two things before i can take him seriously: (a) Prove his lies in a 2017 book that the Guptas bankrolled my newspaper, and (b) clear serious allegations that he molested young boys in a hotel in Mozambique on SABC assignment in early 2000. #rogueunit”

In the aftermath of the Pauw lie, Anton Harber, a veteran journalist that has strongly criticised the Sunday Times and the journalists who wrote about the alleged SARS Rogue Unit, specifically Rampedi, took to Twitter. He called the Pauw incident “devastating”. “The Jacques Pauw/Daily M (Daily Maverick) saga has been devastating. The Satchwell Report on Media Credibility and Ethics was clear on how journos have to tighten up and stop this stream of appalling mess-ups if we are to rebuild credibility. This takes us back to first base”.

Daily Maverick, despite the serious accusations about the police and the restaurant, believed Pauw’s version. They claim they approached the other parties in the story but they were unwilling to speak. I frankly don’t believe they tried hard enough. Pauw is the king of the stratcom media cabal. Had it not been for the CCTV footage, Pauw would have gotten away with this lie. His story would have stuck and the question is how many such stories have been carried without proper editorial scrutiny.

There are other sources which indicate that the issue of South Africa’s death squads may have already surfaced by the time Nofomela made his confession. Another clear indication that Pauw did not expose Vlaakplas. The information was simply handed over to him – an argument some have made against him when he rubbished the many years of journalist Chris Steyn’s investigation into members of the National Party who were involved in child sex and paedophile rings. [Is Jacques Pauw protecting paedophiles?]

With respect to his case with Rampedi, can Pauw claim to have a reputation and integrity to protect? Methinks not.

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>The information was simply handed over to him [Jacques Pauw] – an argument some have made against him when he rubbished the many years of journalist Chris Steyn’s investigation into members of the National Party who were involved in child sex and paedophile rings.

“SABC EXCLUSIVE: Family believes Mark Minnie did not commit suicide” - https://youtu.be/o72n-RyxAJg

“Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later” – Part 1

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/detective-publishes-book-exposing-high-level-govt-pedophile-ring-shot-in-the-head-days-later/

August 23, 2018

A former police detective, and author of a bombshell book that exposed a massive pedophile ring made up of high-level government officials was found shot in the head last week. While officials are calling it an apparent suicide, his family is claiming that he told them he would never kill himself and that people were after him because he was about to expose even more high-level government pedophilia.

Mark Minne, author of the controversial book ‘The Lost Boys of Bird Island’ devoted his post-police life to exposing the corruption and horrifying pedophilia he discovered while working as a detective. Minnie and his good friend Chris Steyn, also a former cop turned investigative journalist, worked together on the book to expose a government and business community who took children to Bird Island where they were abused, and some possibly murdered.

The book details the level of their involvement in the pedophile ring, abuse of the children, alleged acts of murder to cover up the crimes, as well as corruption and abuse of high-level state resources by the network’s members.

The book details the corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and implicated officials all the way to the top, including defense minister Magnus Malan and the minister of environmental affairs John Wiley.

Before his death, Minnie announced that he was approached by many more people with even more damning evidence which he planned to reveal in a sequel of the book. However, he died before he could finish it.

The book was published earlier this month on August 5 and only nine days later, Minnie would be found dead. Officials claim they found a suicide note at the scene, but his family says they don’t believe it at all.

Tersia Dodo, a family member of Minnie told reporters that just days before he died that if anything happened to him, they must know he was killed.

“He mentioned to us all the time that his life was in danger and if anything did happen to him we must know that it was done to him not by himself,” she said.

Dodo says Minnie was being watched and feared for his life because he had more information which would’ve exposed even more people.

“I knew about the book for many years and I knew what he had been through, it really played him that he had seen and been involved with the investigation surrounding the book,” Dodo told SABC.

Dodo came forward on her own after she saw the suicide narrative being played out in the media. She said she was compelled to do so, to dispel the myths.

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“Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later” – Part 2

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/detective-publishes-book-exposing-high-level-govt-pedophile-ring-shot-in-the-head-days-later/

August 23, 2018

“Mark was not a coward, Mark faced life head on,” she said. There is no ways that I or any of us believed that he would have opted out and that is why I agreed to do this interview to dispel any thoughts and rumors of suicide. He was not the type of man that was cowardly and that would do something like that.”

As for the note police allegedly found next to Minnie’s body, Dodo believes it is either fake, or was written under duress.

“I have said this from the beginning, this supposed suicide note was either written under duress and I would like to see it before I will believe it was written by Mark,” she said.

This case is eerily similar to that of a man who was allegedly murdered in Lithuania after he began exposing high-level government pedophiles.

As TFTP previously reported [https://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-murdered-home-raided-after-they-exposed-high-level-government-pedophiles/], teenage refugee from Lithuania came forward last year with a White House petition and a damning testimony showing what happened after his family tried to expose a little girl’s abusers.

When his four-year-old cousin accused two high-level government officials—describing it in heartbreaking detail—Korolis Venckienė learned the hard way how the government protects its vilest members, up to and including using hundreds of militarized police and even murder.

As Venckienė explained in his petition on WhiteHouse.gov, this nightmare started when their family attempted to seek justice for the sick men who allegedly raped his four-year-old cousin.

“In 2008, 4-year-old Deimante Kedyte described her sexual assault by high-level Lithuanian officials. Her testimony was later verified as true by 4 separate commissions. She never had her day in court,” Venckienė wrote.

When the teen’s uncle, Drasius Kedys, Deimante’s father pushed for the men to be prosecuted for what they did to his daughter, he was murdered.

If Minnie was actually murdered, hopefully, the information he was planning on releasing still comes forward. The only way to stop these vile actors is to shine light into the darkness. While Minnie has been silenced, his work can live on to be that light.

Article posted with permission from The Free Thought Project. Article by Matt Agorist.

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>NB Publishers stands by our author [Jacques Pauw] and the book [Our Poisoned Land]. The information in the book was properly sourced and lawfully published and demands for removal and apologies have been rejected.

“'The Lost Boys of Bird Island' pulled from the shelves — and won't be published again” - NB Publishers

https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-04-17-the-lost-boys-of-bird-island-pulled-from-the-shelves-and-wont-be-published-again/

17 April 2020

NB Publishers on Friday announced it had withdrawn the book The Lost Boys of Bird Island and its Afrikaans version from circulation, in both print and digital formats.

The publisher said it took this decision after weighing up a number of factors.

In March, the publisher announced it had withdrawn unsold copies of both the Afrikaans and English book — which claimed to have exposed a paedophile ring allegedly run by apartheid-era politicians.

The book named three ministers, two of whom, Magnus Malan and John Wiley, have since died.

In March, the publishers conceded in a statement that the surviving minister, Barend du Plessis, could have been erroneously linked to the book.

After the announcement in March, lawyers for the three apartheid-era ministers said the book was nothing but a fabrication and a web of lies woven by its co-authors, Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn. Minnie killed himself at a friend’s farm in Port Elizabeth in 2018.

In its announcement on Friday, NB said it regretted and sincerely apologised for the emotional harm that the publication of the book may have caused the Malan and Wiley families.

“Furthermore, the book will not be reprinted,” the publisher said.

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>“The Lost Boys of Bird Island”

>That was the nature of Magnus Malan.

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>Minnie and his good friend Chris Steyn, also a former cop turned investigative journalist, worked together on the book to expose a government and business community who took children to Bird Island where they were abused, and some possibly murdered.

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>The information was simply handed over to him – an argument some have made against him when he rubbished the many years of journalist Chris Steyn’s investigation into members of the National Party who were involved in child sex and paedophile rings.

“Chris Steyn, author of the Lost Boys of Bird Island speaks to Marianne Thamm” – Pedophilia in South Africa

https://youtu.be/d0EFlfhJC6I

Dec 4, 2018

Since co-author Mark Minnie’s death and the publication of the Lost Boys of Bird Island, new leads have dropped into author Chris Steyn’s inbox.

6:57 – “When I got to Magnus Malan, he freaked out completely and told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” He distrusted me, he didn’t know whether I was there to kill him… For me when I think of this story I often think of these two moments, the first time he told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” Second time, I stood next to his body 31 years later… I could hear him turn to me and say I told you so.”

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“Renewed interest in Bird Island”

https://youtu.be/ygPUKywP0UY

Aug 21, 2018

Following the publication of the controversial book "The Lost Boys of Bird Island".. there's renewed interest in the island, 58 kilometers north-east of Port Elizabeth. The SABC has unearthed a permit that was issued by the Monument Council in the 1980's, granting PE businessman Dave Allan permission for a diving expedition to the Dodington, which sank near Bird Island. Allen is one of the men identified in the book written by journalist Chris Steyn and Mark Minnie. It implicates among others former National Party ministers Magnus Malan and John Wiley, and Allen in an alleged government pedophile ring in the 80's. For more on the story, we are joined on the line by our reporter Jayed-leigh Paulse.

“SABC discovers permit that gave Dave Allan permission to dive on 18th century wreck of Doddington”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sabc-discovers-permit-that-gave-dave-allan-permission-to-dive-on-18th-century-wreck-of-doddington/

21 August 2018, 8:25 PM

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has discovered a permit issued by the Monuments Council in the 1980s that gave permission to Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha) businessman Dave Allan to dive on the 18th century wreck of the Doddington near Bird Island, in Algoa Bay.

Allen is one of the men identified in the controversial book “The Lost Boys of Bird Island” which was co-written by journalist Chris Steyn and former policeman, Mark Minnie.

Minnie was found dead on a smallholding outside Port Elizabeth earlier this month. Although it is alleged he committed suicide, his family is not convinced of this.

The book implicates three former National Party Ministers and Allen in an alleged government paedophile ring from the 1980s.

In the book, co-author Minnie gave details of the alleged molestation and rape of the young boys on the island. He spoke to the alleged victims while he was a police officer trying to uncover the truth. In the book, he says that the ministers would allegedly ferry boys, mostly of mixed race, to the island, under the pretext of “fishing excursions”.

These boys were often taken from the Northern Areas and townships in Port Elizabeth. It is alleged the boys were flown to the island in military helicopters and made drunk.

On the island, a stone plaque was also discovered. It was issued by then Environmental Affairs Minister John Wiley to Dave Allen in 1985. SABC News has also secured the original permit, giving Allen permission to dive near a vessel that ran aground on Bird Island in 1755.

The vessel, the Doddington, was carrying a consignment of gold and silver on its way to India when it was wrecked. In 1978, Allan documented that he found the wreck and was then a frequent visitor to the island. [Nelson Mandela Bay Tour Operator Lloyd] Edwards says the island is home to many dark secrets.

“The alleged perpetrators of what was going on there actually got the permit to salvage the Dodington and he claimed not to have found any gold there but this gold later surfaced at Southebys in London claiming to be from the Dodington and the South African government took their half of it. So after that stage a lighthouse was built in 1854, it was the fourth lighthouse ever built in South Africa and since then there has been 21. There is always something happening there one of the lighthouse keepers’ wives mysteriously drowned in the well on the island.”

Bird Island was not the only location where the alleged incidents took place. Other locations are said to include Allen’s house in Schoenmakerskop near Port Elizabeth and a beach house in Witelsbos in the Tsitsikamma Forest.

Mark Minnie’s funeral will be held in Port Elizabeth on Friday.

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“Alet Van Rensburg-Wright on investigating 1980's paedophile cases” – Mark Minnie, the gun did not belong to him

https://youtu.be/iaVjnUaC1zI

Aug 14, 2018

Port Elizabeth police have confirmed that the gun found next to the body of co-author of controversial book 'The Lost Boys of Bird Island', does not belong to him. Police spokesperson, Priscilla Naidu says the gun will be sent for ballistic testing. Mark Minnie's body was found near a rose plantation with a bullet wound to the head.

Naidu says a suicide note has also been found on the farm at Theescombe outside the city. Police are still looking for the farm owner. Minnie's cell phone and car are still missing. Minnie, a former policeman, together with reporter Chris Steyn detail, in the book, how former National party defence minister Magnus Malan and other NP ministers allegedly had sex with young boys during fishing excursions on Bird Island near Port Elizabeth. Executive producer of Fokus, Alet Van Rensburgh Wright is in studio with us and she has been busy investigating the kidnappings of girls in the 1980's by paedophile, Gert Van Rooyen.

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”What happened to Glenn Wood?” – John Riley Connection

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/george-herald/20180823/283098479938575

23 Aug 2018

The Lost Boys of Bird Island; the notorious paedophile Gert van Rooyen; and the disappearance of the fourteen-year-old Glenn Wood from Heather Park in George…

These are three seemingly different scenarios, but according to Wood's sister, Glynnis Hartwig, there is more to this than meets the eye.

Thirty years ago, on 19 July 1988, Glenn Wood, a learner at York High, vanished from his family home. The man who was tried and convicted of Glenn's murder, based on a testimony he gave after being incarcerated for the attempted murder of his girlfriend, has been released from prison in 2007.

The convicted might have been sentenced for the boy's murder, but Glenn's body has never been found. "I am not expecting to find him alive, but where is the body?" asks Glynnis (she prefers being called by her first name). She is certain that the convicted was not the only one involved in her brother's disappearance. "I am not saying he was not involved, but I think that is only part of the story," says Glynnis. The recent media storm following the publication of the controversial book The Lost Boys of Bird Island sparked her interest and she would like to see Glenn's murder reinvestigated.

The book by authors Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn details allegations that former apartheid minister Magnus Malan was part of a paedophile network. Three former National Party ministers were allegedly central figures in a paedophile ring that operated during the apartheid era. According to the book Malan, then minister of environmental affairs, John Wiley and another minister (who is still alive) were involved, as well as Dave Allen, a prominent businessman from Port Elizabeth. Young teenage boys were allegedly taken to Bird Island in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth, where they were molested and raped, among other things.

Wiley was acquainted with the Wood family. Glenn's father, Ian Wood, was a sawmill manager and received forestry awards from Wiley on different occasions. "On these occasions Glenn was present," says Glynnis.

A 'nest of child molesters'

Only a few months later a businessman from Port Elizabeth, the regional manager of a wellknown national furniture group, appeared in the George Magistrate's Court. He was accused of sodomising two 16-year-old boys between June and October that same year. He was not asked to plead.

According to an article from the George

Herald's archives (10 November 1988) by Marinda Olwagen, a series of arrests took place all over the country from October to November 1988, after the police exposed a network of child molesters.

At the time a well-known actor and a radio personality had already appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on charges of indecent assault and the possession of pornography. According to the police these arrests were "only the tip of the iceberg". They said many arrests could be expected before Christmas 1988, especially in the arts, performing arts and communications circles.

Glenn disappeared on a Tuesday, He was looking forward to having his braces out the Friday. "This is also a reason why he would not have run away," said Glynnis.

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>John Riley

Correction; It should be John Wiley

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>“The Lost Boys of Bird Island”

>ARMSCOR

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“When I got to Magnus Malan, he freaked out completely and told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” He distrusted me, he didn’t know whether I was there to kill him… For me when I think of this story I often think of these two moments, the first time he told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” Second time, I stood next to his body 31 years later… I could hear him turn to me and say I told you so.”

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>09./11.04.1989

>Representatives of SA, Angola and Cuba in the Joint Monitoring Commission, with US (Chester Crocker), Soviet (Anatoly Adamishin) [Before the Soviet Union’s ‘fall’], and UNTAG observation, meet at Mount Etjo to salvage the independence plan [for Namibia].

Magnus Malan Background - "Gen. Malan headed the 1990 negotiations that led to Namibia’s independence and separation as a South African colony"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/magnus-malan-apartheid-era-defense-minister-dies-at-81/2011/07/19/gIQAskmWQI_story.html

Magnus Andre De Merindol was born Jan. 30, 1930, in Pretoria. He took his mother’s maiden name and was a distant relative of South Africa’s first apartheid-era prime minister, Daniel F. Malan.

After studying at the University of Pretoria, Gen. Malan joined the navy and served in the marines on Robben Island, home of the prison where Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years.

Gen. Malan eventually transferred to the army and received steady promotions. In 1962, he attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

When Botha served as defense minister, he made Gen. Malan chief of the army in 1973. Gen. Malan was serving as chief of the South African defense force when he became defense minister at age 50.

A 1989 Washington Post investigation revealed that shipments purporting to be Lebanese bathroom tiles bound for Northern Ireland had originated from South Africa’s state-run weapons manufacturer, Armscor.

Beneath a thin layer of tiles, the cargo contained scores of rifles, hundreds of grenades and more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition earmarked for Protestant paramilitary groups. Gen. Malan denied his government was involved in the arms sale.

Gen. Malan headed the 1990 negotiations that led to Namibia’s independence and separation as a South African colony.

“Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RSA/comments/eg8zhv/sydney_frankel_our_own_epstein_with_friends_in/

(Written by) Hannes Engelbrecht

South Africans know the anecdote about Cyril Ramaphosa and Roelf Meyer's fishing experience during the Kodesa talks on a new multicultural political dispensation in the early nineties. It happened at the country cottage of Sidney FRANKEL, the billionaire Johannesburg businessman.

Frankel, a mutual friend of Ramaphosa (the promising young ANC negotiator) and Roelf Meyer (the National Party minister), flew his two friends into the estate with his private helicopter. That weekend sealed the solid friendship of Frankel, Ramaphosa and Meyer with frequent private meetings even when the Kodesa ship seemed to be off-course. Meyer was 44, Frankel 42 and Ramaphosa 40. The world was their oyster, they were important and they could actually do whatever they wanted.

Frankel was "a noted philanthropist, CEO of Société Générale Frankel Pollak and chairman of Frankel Consulting. His nonprofit work included the establishment of the Buffelshoek Trust, which built schools, clinics and preschools in Limpopo.

Through Frankel his friend Ramaphosa also became involved in youth work with the Buffelshoek Trust and Constitution Hill Trust; Ramaphosa acting as president of the latter.

Through Ramaphosa's involvement Frankel took Nelson Mandela on a guided tour of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

In March 2006 Frankel and Ramaphosa started the Constitution Hill Trust with government and corporate funding " to ensure that every South African kid gets taken through it".

In the late nineties Frankel built a lavish lodge in the Manyeleti region of Mpumalanga where school children could be entertained.

He set up the Buffelshoek Trust with R1,5m and by 2010 more than R25m had been spent on Frankel and Ramaphosa's pet project through donations of Nedbank, Telkom, Old Mutual and even the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

In 2016 the Daily Maverick and Noseweek ran a story on Frankel's dodgy dealings. The response from readers were shocking: ignoring the fraud allegations, male and female readers responded with allegations of sexual abuse by Sidney Frankel in the 80's and 90's when he was the philanthropist of Buffelshoek and Constitution Hill and close friend of Ramaphosa and Meyer.

Apart from short references by Radio 702 and Cape Talk 567 radio stations no media followed up on the allegations.

Obviously Frankel had friends high up in government and media circles. But the victims, now knowing about each other, banded together and pressed charges against Frankel, even though it happened twenty years ago.

“It started when I was six and ended when I was 13,” explained Marinda Smith.

The civil case was straightforward enough: Frankel was sued for the emotional and physical harm he had allegedly caused to the seven complainants who had already come forward - and he apparently paid up readily.

But the criminal case was something else entirely different. The Constitutional Court rejected the lawyer’s bid for direct access.

Frankel hired Billy Gundelfinger as lawyer. On 13 April 2017 Gundelfinger confirmed to the press that his client Sidney Frankel had succumbed to cancer …

How much are the applicants in the sexual abuse case willing to disclose after the fact?: Nicole Levenstein, Paul Diamond, George Rosenberg, Katherine Rosenberg, Daniela McNally, Lisa Wegner, Shane Rothquel or Marinda Smith… and the countless others from the black community who are not even aware that Frankel had been taken to court?

Apart from short articles by Anton Harber (Wits) and Tony Bloom (Daily Maverick) and the court records, no public information can be found … but somewhere, sometime, someone is bound to talk."

>>17928983

>“Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP)

>https://www.reddit.com/r/RSA/comments/eg8zhv/sydney_frankel_our_own_epstein_with_friends_in/

>(Written by) Hannes Engelbrecht

>South Africans know the anecdote about Cyril Ramaphosa and Roelf Meyer's fishing experience during the Kodesa talks on a new multicultural political dispensation in the early nineties. It happened at the country cottage of Sidney FRANKEL, the billionaire Johannesburg businessman.

>Frankel, a mutual friend of Ramaphosa (the promising young ANC negotiator) and Roelf Meyer (the National Party minister), flew his two friends into the estate with his private helicopter. That weekend sealed the solid friendship of Frankel, Ramaphosa and Meyer with frequent private meetings even when the Kodesa ship seemed to be off-course. Meyer was 44, Frankel 42 and Ramaphosa 40. The world was their oyster, they were important and they could actually do whatever they wanted.

Roelf Meyer, Cyril Ramaphosa and Magnus Malan

“Silk Tie Revolutionaries” - https://thenewamerican.com/silk-tie-revolutionaries/

• The blatantly pro-ANC/SACP constitution was constructed by the ANC’s Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa and the NP’s Constitutional Development Minister Roelf Meyer — with the help of Harvard’s Roger Fisher (CFR) and other Insider internationalists. It amounted to an abject surrender of the government by the NP to the ANC. But it was presented to South Africans by de Klerk and company as a great negotiation “victory.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/30/world/south-africa-leader-demotes-2-ministers-in-charge-of-security.html

General [Magnus] Malan, who was demoted today to the Ministry of Housing and Works for the white chamber of Parliament, was replaced in the Defense Ministry by Ro[e]lf Meyer, a civilian.

Reposting from QR Bunker

https://endchancxfbnrfgauuxlztwlckytq7rgeo5v6pc2zd4nyqo3khfam4ad.onion.autos/qrbunker/res/73076.html

>>83213

>QR Bunker #234 >>80934

“British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2020-02-29-Her-Royal-Bioweapon-Exposed-by-Gabriel-McKibben-American-Intelligence-Media-Americans-for-Innovation-Feb-29-2020.mp4

1:15 - “You basically found the source of what we could call white supremacists/fascists hegemony planned the Brits.”

8:15 – “What we call the deep state or the shadow government is this Pilgrim Society to this present day.”

29:31 – “In those [Privy Council] meetings, one of the things they did is they cleared the way for the establishment of the British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

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>>17929949

>>17929958

>29:31 – “In those [Privy Council] meetings, one of the things they did is they cleared the way for the establishment of the British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

“Roelf Meyer has been involved in ‘peace efforts’ in Myanmar since 2014” - 0:24 of “Myanmar Coup | Widespread condemnation of military coup” [Feb 9, 2021] at https://youtu.be/VWKY_MBzKbY

“Suu Kyi will need to listen to Roelf Meyer and Co”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/suu-kyi-will-need-to-listen-to-roelf-meyer-and-co-13222051

Feb 11, 2018

Meyer has been appointed as one of a select group of international advisers to Myanmar’s President Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis.

This is the latest in a long line of conflict resolution work undertaken by Meyer and is a difficult job given the scorched earth policy that has been exacted on Rohingya communities by Myanmar’s security forces in Rakhine state.

But if Meyer could succeed as a driving force with Cyril Ramaphosa in the negotiations that led to a free-and-fair democratic South Africa, then no conflict is so intractable that a solution cannot be found.

Suu Kyi hand selected Meyer, along with the former deputy prime minister of Thailand, the speaker of the Swedish parliament, Lord Derzi from the UK’s Privy Council Office, the chair of Myanmar’s Human Rights Commission, and a retired UN assistant secretary-general.

But one member of the advisory board who has now quit - veteran US politician Bill Richardson (who was heavily involved in the Balkans and Iraq) - called the advisory board a whitewash and a cheerleading team for the policies of the Myanmar government.

The decades-long relationship between Richardson and Suu Kyi soured when he confronted her about the detention of two Reuters journalists by the Myanmar military who had been working on a report about the massacre by security forces of 10 men who were shot and thrown into a mass grave.

Even though the army admitted to the extrajudicial killings, the journalists are still being held and are facing up to 14 years in prison.

According to Richardson, Suu Kyi got very angry when he confronted her on the issue and claimed it was not part of his mandate.

From Richardson’s perspective, if the advisory board was supposed to look at the implementation of the recommendations in Kofi Annan’s August 2017 report, then freedom of the press was part of those recommendations. Richardson left the board and has since been highly critical of Suu Kyi as being arrogant and intolerant of criticism. Some have gone as far as to say that Suu Kyi is providing the military with political cover.

But for all the criticism of Suu Kyi’s ethics, she remains Myanmar’s head of state, presiding over what is becoming an unspeakable human tragedy. This makes Meyer's and the rest of the advisory board’s task all the more urgent and critical.

Yanghee Lee, the UN special envoy on human rights, has said the killings and disposal of bodies by the Myanmar military had all the hallmarks of a genocide. This will need to be addressed by the board, and Suu Kyi will need to confront this reality head-on and stop trying to sweep it under the carpet.

It would seem that the Myanmar security forces have gone from killing, raping and burning villages to employing subtler measures to make life intolerable for the Rohingya.

It was impossible for the authorities to hide the devastation exacted on Rakhine villages as the group flew over the burnt out villages. In one day it would have been impossible to do a comprehensive assessment of the situation on the ground.

>>17929976

>“Roelf Meyer has been involved in ‘peace efforts’ in Myanmar since 2014”

>Yanghee Lee, the UN special envoy on human rights, has said the killings and disposal of bodies by the Myanmar military had all the hallmarks of a genocide.

>>17918547

>She [Priscilla Clapp] also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

>>17918536

>“Memorandum of Conversation Between Assistant Secretary Chester Crocker and Anatoly Adamishin. Subject: Southern Africa”

>Participants: Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary, US Dept. of State

>Anatoly Adamishin, Deputy Ministre, USSR MFA

>Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

Interesting that Priscilla Clapp and Roelf Meyer were/are both involved in Myanmar.

https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/priscilla-clapp

Priscilla Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service and a senior advisor to Asia Society, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and other NGOs focused on Myanmar.

“Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi discusses Rakhine crisis with ASEAN foreign ministers” - Priscilla Clapp

https://www.refworld.org/docid/58f9ca0710.html

19 December 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi, who called for the meeting, said the government is committed to resolving the Rakhine crisis, but needs time, and stressed the importance of clearing up differences among ASEAN members through friendly consultations, it said.

Following the security crackdown to find attackers believed to be Rohingya militants, reports about Myanmar army soldiers committing extrajudicial killings, torturing villagers, raping women and burning down homes in Rohingya communities have sparked protests by Muslims in Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, as well as accusations of human rights abuses and genocide by some international organizations, Western governments, and the United Nations.

The government, which has denied the allegations, has a few backers among the international community.

Priscilla Clapp, a retired U.S. diplomat who was the chargé d'affaires at the American embassy in Myanmar from 1999 to 2002, questioned the veracity of the accusations by outside nongovernmental organizations and others.

She told RFA's Myanmar Service on Dec. 12 that those who support such charges "don't known what the situation is."

"They don't understand the language, and people make things up," she said. "They make things up just to spread rumors."

>>17910151

>>>17807064, >>17807069, >>17807072 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC

“Independent Media, Thabo Makwakwa granted leave to appeal interdict sought by SSA”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/independent-media-thabo-makwakwa-granted-leave-to-appeal-interdict-sought-by-ssa-e8e377e0-e083-409d-80ab-fa52f8079809

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Cape Town - Independent Media, Independent Online and journalist Thabo Makwakwa were granted leave to appeal a judgment by the North Gauteng High Court, which interdicted them from publishing an intelligence report on the alleged activities of the CIA in destabilising the ANC.

The report in question was compiled by the State Security Agency and titled “US interest in ANC party dynamics”. The report was handed to Makwakwa by concerned sources in the SSA in December 2021. The SSA had previously obtained an interdict preventing Independent Media from publishing the report.

Independent Media’s editor-in-chief, Aziz Hartley, said Independent Media, Makwakwa and IOL, all cited as respondents in the original interdict application, were of the professional opinion that it was the media’s right to report on matters that were in the public interest.

“The contents contained in this report are of the utmost importance and interest to the public. Preventing such matters from coming to light is an infringement of media freedom,” said Hartley.

Judge Daisy Molefe, in her ruling granting Independent Media leave to appeal on Thursday, that Independent Media submitted that there are also compelling reasons why leave to appeal should be granted because: (a) there is no definitive judgment on the question as to how journalists should treat classified information leaked to them, and this is of enormous significance for the work of journalists and for the public’s right of access to information; (b) there is no case law which pronounces conclusively on the issues in the appeal, and thus the matter is deserving of further scrutiny by a higher court.

“For these reasons, I am satisfied that leave to appeal the order to the SCA should be granted,” said Molefe

Last week, Molefe made public her judgment that had previously interdicted Independent Media from making the report public.

Hartley said the judgment was a victory for press freedom.

“The judgment is a great victory for Independent Media and media freedom in general. We have always maintained our stance that the matter has been in the public interest. We have been vindicated,” said Hartley.

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>>17930730

>>17930716

“The battle to expose US interference in the ANC: State Security Agency vs Independent Media”

https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/opinion/the-battle-to-expose-us-interference-in-the-anc-state-security-agency-vs-independent-media-06f465f5-8d53-4a41-bc3f-558e5fd17ff2

Published Nov 5, 2022

Below are excerpts.

For decades, stories have been told about foreign governments conducting clandestine intelligence operations to gain access, spy, and influence the policy direction of other countries.

In the case of South Africa, the United States has been found wanting as an intelligence report about alleged US efforts to gather intelligence about South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party was leaked to Independent Media journalist Thabo Makwakwa.

The report was dated November 5, 2020, titled “Top secret: US interest in ANC party dynamics” and commissioned by the US intelligence operating at the country’s offices in Pretoria.

Historical Background: The emergence of the Secret Report

On December 2021, the Daily News attempted to finally bring to light the involvement of the US government in working with certain prominent ANC leaders to drive the US interests within the ruling party.

This was after a series of engagements between Makwakwa who was investigating the matter, the US embassy, and the South African State Security (SSA) which had received the intelligence report from the US intelligence before it was leaked to Makwakwa and other media houses not linked to Independent Media.

In early December, a highly placed source within the State Security gave Makwakwa the intelligence report and also disclosed that the report had already been leaked to other media outlets.

In an attempt to verify the document, Makwakwa hit the ground running and enquired with the ANC, US consulate, SSA, and the Presidency.

Also on the same day at 12.28pm Makwakwa addressed an email to Mava Scott from the SSA with the report appended. On December 21, 2021 at 7.58am, having had no response from Scott, Makwakwa followed up via WhatsApp and made two calls to Scott to no answer.

Eventually, Scott contacted Makwakwa and demanded to know who leaked the report. Contrary to what the US had said denying knowledge of the report, Scott stated that this was a classified document and that whoever had leaked the document would be arrested.

Court battle: SSA V Thabo Makwakwa and Independent Media

Following the intensive engagements with all the parties who were made aware that a story would be published on December 23, 2021 - On December 22, 2021, Makwakwa posted a tweet that was “sensitising readers about a shocking leak that was to be published”, the minister launched the urgent, ex parte (without notice to the other side), application and obtained an interim interdict barring publication in the interests of state security.

At 11.20pm Makwakwa was contacted by Advocate Ntopane Mashabela and reported to him that a court interdict had been granted in his absence prohibiting the publication of the report. This was done without notice of the hearing.

Court Hearing: SSA V Makwakwa & the Independent Media

The minister had argued that the report was classified as a secret because it contained allegations regarding the interaction and the nature of the working relationship between the US and SSA, “the disclosure of which can disrupt the effective execution of information or operational planning”.

>>17910151

>>>17824990, >>17824992, >>17824993, >>17824996, >>17825002, >>17825006, >>17825010, >>17825015, >>17825022, >>17825033, >>17825040, >>17825028 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll

“A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll” – Part 1

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

http://web.archive.org/web/20080320232050/http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

Original Article: How the CIA defeated Apartheid & placed the ANC in power

Date Posted: Thursday 08-Mar-2007

[This is the most important article I found on the web in my more than 5 years on the web. The original discovery was by a military friend of mine overseas. He found the book, and then later, I found this article.

An alert reader in the UK found this. This article is the follow on by Dr Cummings to his book, "The Pied Piper" (1985).

Dr Cummings was a CIA agent in the Middle East. This is an extremely important article and it explains what went on behind the scenes in this country. Jan]

From International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Summer 1995:

by Richard Cummings

Nelson Mandela is the president of South Africa, an event of monumental significance in world history. This great personal triumph is for him a vindication of his struggle. But now that the South African elections are long past, the record must be set straight about what really happened and why. The press has concealed as much as it reported; ideologues of all stripes have rushed around to rationalize their hypocrisies, and American politicians have been spreading around largesse as if the money were their own. That the results were so perfect, historically so symmetrical, is rather remarkable.

But, those with power, or who are connected to it, do not want the facts about the funding of the election to be known because it would reveal a pattern of deception and control, both to influence the outcome and to moderate the African National Congress. And those on the radical left don't want it known that the ANC has compromised itself by joining the list of organizations taking money from the United States, because they think it will hurt the cause of revolution. Everyone involved, across the ideological spectrum, has therefore joined in a kind of game to cloud the minds of outside observers.

Most hypocritical perhaps was the attempt to make a devil out of Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi by characterizing him as the tool of the oppressors and an obstructionist in the transition to democracy. His anomalous situation in post-apartheid South Africa led to suggestions that he was an enemy of democracy, and the cause of dissension that led to violence in an attempt to disrupt the electoral process that black South Africans struggled for decades to achieve. Chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party and chief minister of KwaZulu, this prince and descendant of Shaka Zulu was then cast in the role of villain and reactionary. But it was not always so.

>>17930756

“A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll” – Part 2

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

http://web.archive.org/web/20080320232050/http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

ANC and the CP

The triumph of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in South Africa was, for many years, viewed in certain circles as an extremely undesirable result. During the Cold War, the power of the South African Communist Party in the ANC made the ANC unacceptable as a holder of power in a post-apartheid South Africa. Yet, because apartheid and the white supremacist Nationalist Party were anathema to the rest of Africa, and because white racism fueled the sentiments for communism among the black majority in South Africa, a reliable black alternative to the ANC became essential. As Harry Rositzke, the Central Intelligence Agency station chief in New Delhi from 1957 to 1962, and coordinator of operations against Communist parties abroad from 1962 until his retirement from the CIA in 1970, wrote in 1977: "In Africa, an area of primitive, unstable states, Soviet influence is substantial in Somalia, Guinea, Nigeria, and Angola. The support of black independence movements against the Rhodesian and South African governments may extend that influence. The training of five thousand African students each year in the Soviet and East European universities is a direct investment in the future leadership of a largely illiterate continent."1 Noting the "Chinese competition the Soviets face in … the South Africa liberation movements," Rositzke argued candidly for covert action in the Third World: "Do we try to make a deal with the leftists – covertly at least to start? Do we take any covert political action to ensure the continued supply of chrome from a black Rhodesia that threatens to boycott its sale to the United States if we do not withdraw our investments in South Africa? However unlikely these scenarios, we cannot forecast what will happen in the economic world to threaten our prosperity."2

These concerns led to a policy that did not distinguish between anti-communism and opposition to apartheid. Indeed, they became synonymous in South Africa as that policy came to a head in the Reagan administration. As Gregory Treverton has observed:

"For the Reagan administration, the intended signal was anti-communism. For it, there was nothing incompatible about supporting anti-communism in Angola and anti-apartheid in South Africa."3

United States anti-apartheid policy was always primarily a tool of its anti-communist policy. And that anti-communist policy was directly related to the preservation of American "prosperity" and economic self-interest, as Rositzke explained. To this end, the CIA funneled money into Africa Bureau, a London-based anti-apartheid group headed by the Rev. Michael Scott, an Anglican priest dedicated to ameliorating the harsh apartheid policies of South Africa in South West Africa. Dan Schecter, Michael Ansara, and David Kolodney wrote in 1970, "The United States remains involved in channeling money to various factions within southern-African liberation movements, hoping, of course, to mold them in pro-Western directions."4

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>>17930762

“A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll” – Part 3

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

http://web.archive.org/web/20080320232050/http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

Long before the Reagan administration, white liberals in the United States and South Africa understood the threat of communism in South Africa and took action, in concert with the CIA, to undermine that threat, even if this delayed, by necessity, the end of apartheid. And ultimately, Buthelezi became a key figure in that effort.

The leading American liberal politician to first become actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement was then United States Senator Hubert Humphrey (D., Minnesota). In 1960, a press agency, International Features Service, was established, largely to disseminate the thoughts of Senator Humphrey to the people of the Third World, including Africa. International Features was quickly reorganized as a not-for-profit organization, Peace for Freedom, liberally supported with CIA funds through the International Development Foundation and the Price Fund.5 Another organization launched with CIA assistance was the United States-South Africa Leadership Exchange Program (USSALEP) when the African-American Institute, a CIA conduit, agreed to add USSALEP to its existing projects.6 A key functional area of USSALEP was, and is, "flexible independent exchanges, providing opportunities for leaders in any variety of fields to confer with colleagues."7 In 1983, Harris Wofford, later a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, and then, as now, a member of the management committee of USSALEP, stated that Buthelezi deserved support because he had stayed in South Africa, unlike leaders of the ANC, and had not engaged in violence.8 Wofford made it very clear that he was speaking not only for himself, but for his organization. Wofford served as President Kennedy's special representative to Africa from 1962 to 1964 before he became associate director of the Peace Corps. The implication was clear: Buthelezi was with the West, but Mandela, who often espoused pro-South African Communist Party sentiments, was not. And a major non-governmental backer of USSALEP was AMAX, the American mining giant, on whose board have served former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

The Lowenstein Intervention

In 1959, Allard Lowenstein, then a foreign policy aide to Senator Humphrey, traveled to South Africa and South West Africa to gather data on the effects of apartheid in both territories. During the course of this trip, Lowenstein was approached by the CIA in South Africa and requested to smuggle out of South Africa a "Cape colored" student, Hans Beukes, a member of the anti-SWAPO Herero tribe from Rehoboth, South West Africa.9 Beukes would later be accused of subverting SWAPO when it expelled him in 1976.10 Lowenstein would later write Brutal Mandate, a book on his South African experience. A leading American liberal who had served as president of the National Students Association and civil rights activist, Lowenstein was recruited to the CIA in 1962 as an expert on southern Africa.11 From 1962 to 1967, Lowenstein traveled to that part of the continent and had contacts with various southern African personalities, both in Africa and the United States, providing the agency with his assessment of their political leanings, and their reliability.

The ANC had taken up armed struggle on 16 December 1961 with the founding by Nelson Mandela of Umkhonto We Sizwe, "Spear of the Nation," and with its Communist support, was becoming a threat. Mandela was a cult figure of the Left who had enormous appeal. Until his capture, his ability to elude the police had made him a folk hero. In the spring of 1962, Lowenstein was contacted by both the American Committee on Africa and the CIA-supported American Society for African Culture, which were joining forces for a demonstration and protest march on behalf of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and the seven others who had been arrested by the South African police when the ANC underground headquarters was discovered. While the United States did not want Mandela in power, neither did it want him martyred. The arrested leaders were on trial and faced the possibility of the death penalty, which in South Africa was administered by hanging. Because of the organized pressure, Mandela and Sisulu were not executed but sentenced to life in prison, with Mandela remaining on Robben Island as the preeminent figure in the African National Congress. After the day to day operations of the ANC passed to Mandela's far less charismatic law partner, Oliver Tambo, who had fled to Zambia, the ANC was seemingly neutralized without the United States to blame.

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>>17930762

>>17930764

“A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll” – Part 4

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

http://web.archive.org/web/20080320232050/http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

Other Choices

The CIA was looking for alternatives to the ANC. To the ANC's left, the CIA directed money to the ultra-black nationalist Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) which had organized the demonstration, from which the ANC abstained, that led to the Sharpeville massacre in the spring of 1960.12 As early as 1961, Mandela had discounted the Pan Africanist Congress because, he asserted, "there is no doubt in my mind that they preached an extreme form of racialism."13 Mandela believed the abandonment of non-violence and the introduction of the use of force to be justified because, "[N]o leader is going out to say we want peaceful discussions because the government is making that kind of talk senseless. Instead of getting a favorable response, the government is more arrogant. The African reaction can only be a show of force." Notes of the secret interview given by Mandela to Patrick O'Donovan were provided to Allard Lowenstein in London by Mary Benson, an anti-apartheid activist.14

To rival Spear of the Nation, which had begun a campaign of sabotage against "the symbols of apartheid" by staging rocket attacks against police stations, the PAC launched Poqo, a mass movement modeled on the Mau Mau in Kenya. Claiming a membership of 150,000, it engaged in acts of terrorism. Although it never achieved the strength of the ANC, it did come back to haunt South African politics by initially refusing to take part in the first one-person, one-vote non-racial elections in the country's history. Having become the CIA's Frankenstein's monster, the Pan Africanist Congress ceased to be an acceptable alternative to Mandela and the ANC, but it continued to pose a sufficient threat to possibly disrupt the electoral process.

Throughout the 1960s, Lowenstein made considerable use of his expertise on revolutionary movements in southern Africa in ways that would have an important impact on U.S. policy. From his vantage point in the intelligence community, he argued for an anti-Communist alternative on the Left, becoming a key figure, in the parlance of the agency, of the "good wing" of the CIA. As a CIA operative once described this element in the agency to Harris Wofford, "If you only knew what we're really doing, the liberals and the leftists, the democratic leftists, what we're supporting around the world, you'd see that we represented the 'good wing' in the CIA."15 And in his pursuit of an anti-Communist left alternative in South Africa, while he acknowledged that the blacks had ample reason to resort to violence, Lowenstein faulted the ANC, as did the agency, on the grounds that it was engaging in armed struggle with support from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, not to mention its alliance with the South African Communist Party.16 In his 1966 [the year South African Prime Minister, HF Verwoerd, was assassinated] swing through southern Africa, Lowenstein conferred with representatives of the ANC in Dar es Salaam, whose headquarters in which they met featured a large portrait of Mao Zedong. When Lowenstein asked them how he could be of help, the black South Africans told him that what they needed was money for arms. They were engaged in armed struggle and wanted weapons, not the limited support Lowenstein had provided in the past, and which China had eclipsed. At this point, Lowenstein concluded that the ANC was unreliable and uncontrollable and therefore totally unacceptable.17 But as the entire Cold War liberal structure began to come apart during the Vietnam war, Lowenstein turned his efforts to getting rid of President Lyndon Johnson and to replacing him with Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D., New York) and to his own political career, winning election to Congress as a Democrat from New York in 1968. He would not return to the South African scene until the late 1970s, when, following a stint as one of President Carter's ambassadors to the United Nations, he traveled extensively in southern Africa at the behest of the CIA and Harry Oppenheimer, scion of the South African DeBeers and Anglo-American gold mining and diamond empire. In the interim, the fruitless search for an alternative political group to the ANC continued as violence escalated in South Africa, and it become increasingly threatened by the possibility of a revolution led by the South African Communist Party and the ANC.

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Zulu Rising

During this period the fortunes of Buthelezi began to rise. Although in the pay of the South African government as chief minister of the KwaZulu government, Buthelezi steadfastly refused to permit KwaZulu to be turned into a "homeland." To do so would have constituted an acceptance of the government's apartheid policies. This posture of at least nominal independence, as well as his identification with the mythic Zulu people led Buthelezi to be able to play both sides with consummate skill. He was never a sycophant to the National Party, which had formalized a system of total racial segregation, and which had controlled South Africa since 1948, when the old United Party of Jan Smuts had been defeated. Buthelezi appealed to those who never had any use for white liberals like Helen Suzman, whose Liberal party had been outlawed, and who maintained a life of luxury in the midst of a system she purported to detest. As the cast of "Wait A Minim," the South African musical comedy mocked, "the only thing the liberals hate more than apartheid is the blacks."

Buthelezi, highly intelligent and articulate, played the role of the radical conservative, to the increasing attention of the United States. Capable of appearing fiercely traditional in tribal dress one minute, and handsome and immaculate in a Saville Row suit the next, Buthelezi began to capture the imagination of the power brokers. He not only spoke all the languages of South Africa, he seemed to speak to the economic and political needs of the country, with its astonishing diversity, as well. There was a vacuum and he appeared to be the only player capable of filling it. With Buthelezi and his ideas for a federal republic of South Africa, investment would be safe, and whites and blacks could be placated. Even his appeal to royalty, his professed loyalty to the King of the Zulus, Goodwill Zwelethini (also his nephew), impressed whites who sought modest change in the context of stability, and blacks, for whom royalty had always held a certain attraction as a dimension of African pride. If a black African leader for South Africa could have been created by the Reagan administration, it would have been Buthelezi. With Ronald Reagan in the White House and William Casey at CIA, the "good wing" would be out and the hard line in. There was no such thing as a Left alternative to communism in this ideology, only a Right alternative that was indeed "right." Under Reagan, Buthelezi would fit the mold, as Jonas Savimbi did in Angola, where South Africa and the CIA together aided his efforts against the leftist government, with its pro-Soviet sympathies.

Indeed, conservatives worldwide began to support Buthelezi, with particular support coming, according to a former U.S. "Africa hand," from Germany through such conservative semi-political foundations as the Adenauer Schiftung and the Ebert Schiftung, much in the manner that DCI Casey was able to get other countries such as Saudi Arabia to aid the contras in Nicaragua.18 According to this source, Buthelezi had been promised a "Greater Natal" by hard-line apartheid Prime Minister P.W. Botha, who offered him the possibility of having white areas such as Durban in his power base. With such an increase in his domain, were an election to happen, he would be able to command at least the five percent that was ultimately established as a basis for a seat in the cabinet. Along with white representation in the cabinet, he would be a sufficient force to moderate the polices of a leftist government under Mandela, and block either nationalizations or confiscatory tax policies.19 But before this scenario began to take hold, the liberals gave it one more shot to find an alternative to Mandela and the ANC who would not be so conservative as to alienate the majority of blacks, who might still turn to the far left. At this point in the 1970s, Allard Lowenstein once again entered the scene, with Buthelezi playing to both liberal and conservative factions.

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According to South Africa expert Professor William Foltz of Yale University, Buthelezi was being "courted by South African big business and some American corporations" during the 1970s.20 He mentioned AMAX, the mining giant with extensive South African holdings that was also a USSALEP backer through its AMAX Foundation, as one of these. The effort to approach Buthelezi, Foltz explains, was led not by American business interests, but by the liberal part of South African industry, particularly Harry Oppenheimer, whose Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, the charitable arm of Anglo-American, was also backing USSALEP; Helen Suzman; and Clive Menell, chair of Anglovaal Holdings, Ltd., a mining giant. Menell lives across the street from Oppenheimer in South Africa, and entertained Buthelezi in his home in the presence of Professor Foltz. Foltz explains that Buthelezi's refusal to let KwaZulu be a homeland made him attractive to the Oppenheimer crowd, as he could not be seen as a tool of apartheid. Although highly ambitious and sensitive to slights, real or apparent, Buthelezi was regarded by his advocates as a "reasonable and interesting alternative, at least a serious player." So Wofford was right. USSALEP, launched with the CIA's help and passed along to power South African and American corporate interests, could proclaim by 1980 that it "receives no funding, direct or indirect, from the United States, South Africa, or any other government," was now behind Buthelezi, seeing nowhere else to go.

Lowenstein Redux

By the mid 1970s, the exploitation of uranium in South West Africa [now Namibia] had made South Africa's role there a major international issue. The large block of nonwhite Third World countries pressed for South West Africa's independence. In April 1975, Allard Lowenstein attended a key symposium on "The Outlook for Southern Africa," which was backed by the Johnson Foundation. Funded by USSALEP and the Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical company, the meeting was held at the Johnson Wingspread conference facility in Wisconsin. The symposium explored ways to prevent the worst from happening from the point of view of the American, South Africa, and British companies that invested heavily there. South Africa was described as "the Saudi Arabia of minerals," and South West Africa had once again become vitally important to the West because of Britain's dependence upon it for uranium.21 Rio Tinto Zinc, a multinational mining company based in Britain, was exploiting the Rossing mine, the world's largest single source of uranium.

Lowenstein's presentation at the Wingspread symposium was a classic "good wing" analysis. Will we identify with the oppressed people, including those of South Africa? Because Africans were finding that the only way to produce change was through violence, this was playing "into the hands of the Soviet Union and China," who were providing money and training which were, in fact, producing results. Lowenstein asked the rhetorical question and tried to answer it: "Can we influence Africans to accommodate their demands in less violent ways? Only if we pressure for the necessary reforms at an acceptable pace. This means finding ways for South Africa to get out of Namibia and Rhodesia, to permit Black regimes to develop in both states. Instead of 'buffer states' there might emerge on the border of South Africa the appearance of privileged sanctuaries so that the pressure for change within South Africa would be stepped up. As the international dimensions proceed, they are the priority; the domestic ones should follow. Eventually, changes within South Africa will have to occur. If they do not come nonviolently and in a rapid, evolutionary way, they will be forced with sabotage, violence and warfare."22

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At the United Nations, he clashed with U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young over U.S. policy in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. Lowenstein was strongly opposed to Robert Mugabe and wanted a role for white liberals. He also visited South Africa where he held lengthy meetings with young Afrikaner Nationalists. After his U.N. service, Lowenstein came back in from the cold. His involvement with the powerful white liberals of South Africa and his relationship with Frank Carlucci, appointed deputy director of the CIA by President Carter (and who had been stationed in South Africa when Lowenstein traveled there in 1959), enabled him to continue his work in southern Africa in the summer of 1979.

This vitally important trip was financed by Anglo-American, which paid Lowenstein $7,000 for his services, $1,000 to his aide, Mark Childress, and $1,000 to Lowenstein' s secretary. Provided for the summer's expedition were a comfortable house in Johannesburg, with recreational facilities and domestic servants, and full transportation, including return air fares on the Concorde for Lowenstein, Lowenstein's three children and Childress. All of this was arranged by Hank Slack, the American Director of Anglo-American and the former son-in-law of Harry Oppenheimer.23 Lowenstein was working closely with Deputy CIA Director Carlucci, who stated categorically that "Lowenstein would report to me."24 And there was much to report.

Lowenstein first consulted with Theo-Ben Gurirab of SWAPO, at SWAPO headquarters in New York City, then departed for South Africa. There he held meetings with Buthelezi, Harry Oppenheimer, Helen Suzman, South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha, and P.W. Botha, the South African Prime Minister. He also met with Mandela, still incarcerated on Robben Island.25 Richard Moose, Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, told Sam Adams, formerly of CIA, that Lowenstein was talking to "a lot of opposition groups."26 What Lowenstein was doing was laying the groundwork for a flexible American policy in South Africa, in alliance with the wealthy South African white liberals and the "verlicht" Afrikaner Nationalists, to dismantle the structure of apartheid without Marxist revolution. Lowenstein's role in this venture was cut short when he was shot to death in 1980 by Dennis Sweeney, a former recruit in the civil rights movement in Mississippi, but the legacy of his involvement remained a potent one. Carlucci, who admired Lowenstein and was greatly influenced by him, shared Lowenstein's assessment that the problems of South Africa could be "worked out."27 And Buthelezi had good reason to believe that he was, at the very least, part of the solution and not the problem.

U.S. Aid

With the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980, United States and South African intelligence (BOSS, the South African CIA) increased cooperation on behalf of Jonas Savimbi in Angola. The CIA authorized $15 million for Savimbi's UNITA.28 In South Africa, with German money coming to him, Buthelezi was fast becoming the darling of American conservatives, including Jeane Kirkpatrick, Reagan's Ambassador to the United Nations, as a "sound anti-Communist alternative."29 The Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal took up his cause. But, according to Professor Foltz, there was a significant split in the Reagan administration. Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Chester Crocker [later became director of MINORCO], was "opposed to Buthelezi" and "playing a much more complicated game."30 Foltz explains that Crocker thought it wise "not to see any single person as the answer."31 Foltz also credits the British Ambassador to South Africa at that time, Sir Robin Renwick, as being "highly skillful" in his efforts to prevent violence and bring about a peaceful solution in South Africa. (Renwick is generally acknowledged with having obtained Mandela's release from prison, a task made easier by the fact that his government had not imposed sanctions on South Africa, thereby giving it some leverage with the white regime in Pretoria.) But he argues that the "whole situation was sliding rapidly" and that the "logic" of the Reagan administration's policy was "coming apart."32

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The support of American industrial interests for Buthelezi began to diminish when it appeared that he might not be able to deliver in the face of enormous public support for Mandela. The final push, Foltz explains, was the 1986 U.S. sanctions legislation, which altered the situation irrevocably. Now a legend among American blacks as a symbol of the triumph through struggle over apartheid, Nelson Mandela could no longer be shunted aside. The ANC had become the ultimate force in South Africa, and Buthelezi, with his base limited to the Zulus, was without a national organization capable of overcoming it. But, with financial support still coming to him from Germany, Buthelezi was, according to Foltz, able to retain the services of the powerful Washington public relations firm, Black, Manafort. Buthelezi and his people continued to use the rhetoric of the Cold War, "not about the ANC but the ANC and the Communists."33 But the mining companies were no longer interested and Buthelezi's support was limited to "the fast buck people in Natal."34 And while Buthelezi might, at one point, have been able to get the 5 percent needed for a cabinet position, the "old Africa hand" argued (incorrectly, it turned out) that Buthelezi would be "hard pressed" to carry the Zulu vote. Because the young Zulus are now more urban than rural, and identify increasingly with the ANC, he maintained, Buthelezi' s power base was substantially eroded, notwithstanding continued German support and support from private American conservative groups.35 Foltz puts it more forcefully: "He [Buthelezi] is playing a destructive and scandalous role now."36 But who was actually paying for that role and, in effect, funding the bloodbath that lasted until Inkatha reentered the elections?

Reenter the United States-South Africa Leadership Exchange Program (USSALEP), by now no longer stating that it does not receive funds from any government directly or indirectly, but indicating overtly that it is funded, in part, by the United States Agency for International Development (AID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In its 1992 Program Update, in a short note entitled "Transition to Democracy Project," USSALEP proclaims:

The $8,000,000 cooperative agreement, under which subgrants of $4.8 million for the African National Congress (ANC) and $2.6 million for the Inkatha Freedom Party was to be disbursed by September 30, 1992, was extended for an additional 15 months in order to utilize the full amount obligated by USAID. The purpose of the project is to build administration capacity within the ANC and the IFP organizations to enable them to participate more effectively in the negotiations leading to a new constitution and democratic government. Due to the very stringent disbursement conditions (which, for example, eliminated the category of salaries as a permissible expenditure category under the original budgets), coupled with administrative/absorptive capacity limitations of the sub-grantees, only approximately 45 percent of the $7.4 million could be expended during the originally scheduled, 13-month project life.

The monies disbursed to date have been used to: (i) acquire or rent office space to house central and regional staff, (ii) purchase and install computer hardware and software and train personnel needed to establish effective management information systems, and (iii) pay for sundry travel, consulting and workshop expenses relating to the above and to the formulation of policy options and negotiation positions.

USAID and USSALEP are presently in discussion with the subgrantees to identify new areas of expenditure not previously included in their budget proposals. Among those being considered is the critical one encompassing peace initiatives.37

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Hired as project manager of the Transition to Democracy Project was Stanley Kahn, a South African sociology professor on the faculty of both the universities of Witwatersrand and Cape Town. Kahn had served as executive director of the Funda Centre in Diepkloof, Soweto and was the recipient of a USSALEP Alan Pifer Fellowship to visit the United States to "survey the contribution of community colleges to adult education."38 Kahn was later promoted to Director of USSALEP South Africa.

Kahn may be a fine fellow, but it still sounds a lot like "walking around money." And if salaries were being paid to ANC and Inkatha, who was getting the money? Mandela? Buthelezi? And if these groups were getting the money, who decided that more than twice as much should go to the ANC as to Inkatha? Notably, Harris Wofford continued to serve on the Board and Council of USSALEP, which dispensed the funds from the AID budget that Wofford voted for as a senator. His past legal practice has involved major clients in Africa. Apart from this seeming conflict of interest, American taxpayers should be concerned that their money was being used to influence the outcome of an election in a foreign country, however overt this funding might now be. Most of the old players are still there: Harry Oppenheimer, who funds USSALEP through the Anglo-American & DeBeers Chairman's Fund; Clive Menell, chairman of Anglovaal Holdings, Ltd. (contributor and Board and Council member), and an old Buthelezi backer; and Hank Slack, now president and CEO of MINORCO [Part of Anglo-American} in London (contributor and Board and Council member), as well as all the major industrial concerns, American, international and South African, that control the vast mining' interests of South Africa and the rest of its economy. The result of all of this funding of the competing parties? R.W. Johnson, a native of South Africa and a fellow in politics at Magdalen College, Oxford, on leave from Oxford to write about current South Africa and also to serve as national co-director of the Launching Democracy project, a public information service for all South African political parties, sponsored by the Institute for Multi-Party Democracy (one wonders about the source of its funding), observed:

Some of the killing is political: currently the largest set of victims are Inkatha officials killed by the ANC, though the most publicized recent killing was that of Chris Hani, the SACP (Communist) leader, by the white Right [scapegoat]. The Azanian People's Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress, carries out anti-white atrocities from time to time, and, of course, Inkatha takes its vengeance on the ANC with fair regularity.39

As the whites were panicking, a state of emergency was declared in KwaZulu because of the inability of Mandela, Buthelezi, King Goodwill Zwelethini, and de Klerk to come to an agreement on how to resolve the impasse and get Inkatha back into the election process.40 Buthelezi denounced what he described as "a lengthy Machiavellian manipulation commenced, right at the start of our negotiations, with attempts to marginalize our Inkatha Freedom Party."41 If he was referring to the inequitable distribution of the U.S. AID money between the ANC and Inkatha, he certainly made up the difference from the Germans. And how effective giving money to the ANC will be in wooing it from its South African Communist Party ally remains to be seen. Mandela insists the ANC is not Communist, but that it remains loyal to its oldest ally and friend.42 Moreover, the relisting as a USSALEP sponsor of the African American Institute, a CIA conduit in the past that helped launch USSALEP, also means that CIA money still, in all probability, flows covertly to certain organizations in South Africa. The most likely candidate for U.S. assistance was the CIA's old client, the Pan Africanist Congress (whose overt support the ANC would never accept), to keep it in the electoral process and then accept the results. But the amount of money given to the Pan Africanist Congress has surely been miniscule, given its lack of a function at this point of history. The purpose was not to get it votes, but to keep it quiet.

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Educating Voters

After the supposed failure of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger (now an international business consultant) and former British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who has served on the board of Rio Tinto Zinc, which controls the Rossing uranium mine in Namibia) to bring Buthelezi into the elections, all seemed to be lost.43 But an amazing last minute reprieve was finally achieved, and the elections went forward in the midst of bombings by white extremists. Helping the Independent Election Commission to supervise them to make sure they were "fair" was the South African Fair Elections Fund (SAFE), funded largely by American interests and headed up by the liberal Kennedy loyalist, Theodore Sorensen, who had $7 million at his disposal for "voter education." According to Ian Williams of the New York Observer, "many of those involved in SAFE haven't concealed their hopes for an ANC landslide."44 And while Williams reported AID's funding of both the ANC and Inkatha, he neglected to mention USSALEP, the éminence grise of the whole sordid business. But even with AID funding much of the election, and SAFE providing additional assistance to assure the right kind of acceptable "left" victory, Ronald Brown, President Bill Clinton's man at the Department of Commerce, announced $140 million in aid to South Africa.

A good portion of this will find its way into the pockets of North Carolina academics and their institutions, Duke, Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State. They are participating in the $350 million South African research and manufacturing center to be built in Muizenberg, a suburb of Cape Town. The project has the backing of the ANC.45 This may help explain why conservative, anti-Communist Senator Jesse Helms (Rep., North Carolina) has failed to denounce the U.S. AID funding of the Communist-backed ANC – he makes an unlikely pair with Harris Wofford. Actually, the only institution that should cry fraud is North Carolina's predominantly black university, Northern Carolina A&T;, Jesse Jackson's alma mater, which has mysteriously been excluded from the AID boondoggle.

The ANC and Buthelezi both shouted "fraud" as the election came to a close. The one party that began to pick up surprising support in the election's final hours was the old bastion of white supremacy, the National Party. It appealed to the "colored" vote, those of mixed race who tend to be better educated and own property, and to conservative blacks. F.W. de Klerk, holding black babies, managed to remind South Africans of every color that "majority rule" on the African continent can be less than paradise. Rwanda, Somalia, Angola, Zaire, and the Sudan are shattering reminders of the chaos so often associated with post-colonial "liberation." He managed to do the impossible: prevent the ANC from getting the two thirds seats in parliament it needed to ram through an economic agenda that is supported by the South African Communist Party. In four years, de Klerk's party will be in a position to form a coalition with Inkatha, not unlike the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance in Namibia (formed with Allard Lowenstein's support and assistance), which also managed to prevent the prevailing revolutionary group, SWAPO, from getting the two thirds it needed to nationalize the mineral wealth.

Once again, white American liberals have failed to appreciate the innate conservatism of some black Africans, and their willingness to work with whites, even their former oppressors, out of fear that they might lose their property to a "revolutionary" regime, even one financed by the U.S. government and supported by Jesse Helms and Harris Wofford, the "Odd Couple" of American politics. If a post-Mandela ANC splits apart, as some South Africans have predicted, and with the South African Communist Party marginalized, a National/Inkatha Party could well become a real force in South Africa. There is a certain logic to this; the Boers and the Zulus have always had a common enemy: the British and their English-speaking South African allies in the mining industries. But the Boers and Zulus, both pro-business, pose no threat to the great companies and families that have controlled the South African economy since the Boer war.

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Mandela's Democratic Moves

Meanwhile, Nelson Mandela has made all the right noises, from the point of view of his American supporters. He pledged not to confiscate the property of whites and not to tax in a way that will discourage foreign investment and profit. He also made it clear that he will not tolerate disorder; after the election he urged everyone to go back to work and back to school. Mandela did not spend all those years in prison to preside over a country in chaos and anarchy. Like Buthelezi, who is actually a close friend of his, Mandela is a descendant of African royalty. If the ANC and Inkatha have accepted U.S. dollars, as they have, from the Americans who caused the perpetuation of apartheid for Cold War reasons, there is more than enough irony in this to justify their actions. Mandela has started to resemble his predecessor in African liberation, Jomo Kenyatta. Kenyatta had been jailed for a very long time on charges of being a Mau Mau terrorist, and then was released in time to stop a violent revolution. Kenyatta suppressed his opposition and allowed the whites to keep control over the Kenyan economy. But Alec Erwin, a white Communist ANC candidate, declared that there "was nothing sacrosanct" about limiting the budget deficit to 6 percent of the GNP, as the IMF had required the ANC to pledge prior to granting a loan. If the ANC could stop mentioning this IMF requirement as part of the ANC's program, clearly more was necessary to make sure the worst did not happen.46

The Voters' Choice

The election results, which all the parties long ago accepted as "free and fair," produced some surprises, with the ANC polling 62.5 percent, less than the 67 percent required for control over the constitution, but more than enough to control patronage and 12 cabinet seats. De Klerk and the National Party (NP), which won control of the Western Cape, got over 20 percent, enough votes to allow de Klerk to be one of the two executive vice presidents and to gain four cabinet seats. The NP probably got a higher percentage of the black vote than did the Pan Africanist Congress, a relic of Cold War history, which received scant support in the election. Also disappearing into oblivion was the Democratic Party (DP), which was nothing more than the reconstituted old Liberal Party that Allard Lowenstein had backed. Once banned by the primitive white racist South African government, and later reinvented as the Progressive Party with the help of Harry Oppenheimer, the DP was basically the personal vehicle of Helen Suzman, who spent as much effort fighting the ANC as she did apartheid.

Mandela indicated that he would consider offering cabinet posts to representatives of parties which polled less than the required 5 percent, a carrot to the Pan Africanist Congress if they agreed to behave themselves. Inkatha received over 10 percent, enough to put Buthelezi in the cabinet and give Inkatha a total of four cabinet seats – a result his critics said was impossible. His total was augmented, and de Klerk's reduced, by the fact that some white Afrikaners voted for Buthelezi on the national level and the NP on the provincial level to bolster black opposition to the ANC. The white separatist Freedom Front ended up with about 3 percent, indicating that the white racist call for a boycott of the elections was only marginally successful. Together, these three provided an opposition bloc of over one-third of the voters, not counting those who boycotted the election.47 Buthelezi, whose Inkatha also carried KwaZulu/Natal, which his critics claimed he would never be able to do, summed up: "I'm grateful that up to now, in spite of all the skullduggery and the cheating, so far it has not flared up into any conflict or violence."48

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And it is not likely to. Buthelezi is now the Home Minister, which puts him in charge of internal affairs and makes him the boss of Sidney Mufamadi, the black chief of police who is also a member of the central committee of the South African Communist Party. The late Joe Slovo, South African Communist Party chairman, was head of Housing and Welfare before his death. Joe Modise, the black commander of Spear of the Nation, is Minister of Defense (albeit assisted by the existing chief of staff, General Georg Meyring, a white Afrikaner, who remained in his post); after the change in government Derek Keyes, de Klerk's white Afrikaner Minister of Finance continued to run the economy from the same position. Mandela's selection of the ANC's Thabo Mbeki as the other executive vice president left the able Cyril Ramaphosa out of the cabinet and the government entirely, although he remains as the chairman of the ANC, in which capacity he is in charge of drafting the new constitution. Mandela's incredible balancing act made it possible, overall, for there to be something for almost everyone, at which the CIA probably heaved a considerable sigh of relief.49 With the Cold War over, the view seems to be who cares if a couple of Communists clank around in the South African government as long as things are basically under control?

A Carat a Day…

The Goldsmith Commission, which had investigated the role of the police in the violence prior to the elections, subsequently looked ahead to 1999, when the "real" elections will take place. There will be a need for new leaders who comprehend the serious economic problems of the country, as perceived by the International Monetary Fund. USSALEP no doubt stands ready to provide these leaders. The only question is whether the United States government will continue to finance their campaigns.

But while the pundits debate the first year of the Mandela era, DeBeers continues to control 80 percent of the world's diamond trade, "with 50 percent of these diamonds by value coming from the company's own mines in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia."50 Jonathan M.E. Oppenheimer, Harry Oppenheimer's grandson, the son of Nicholas F. Oppenheimer of Johannesburg, deputy chairman of the great mining giants, the Anglo-American Group and DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., the latter founded by Cecil Rhodes with the backing of the Rothschilds, represents the next generation of Oppenheimers as he continues his work as a management trainee at N.M. Rothschild & Sons in London.51 Politicians may come and go, but as the DeBeers ad claims on television, "a diamond is forever."

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“A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll” – Part 13

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

http://web.archive.org/web/20080320232050/http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=11102&

Funny Peculiar Postscript

Subsequently, reports came of widespread election fraud in KwaZulu Natal where Inkatha won its "victory." In some areas, more votes were counted than the census recorded people living there. Nevertheless, the ANC did not seriously challenge the results. Key ANC candidates who were not elected on the national or provincial levels were rewarded with big jobs in either Mandela's government in Pretoria or in the Inkatha-dominated government of KwaZulu/Natal. Reporting for Newsday from South Africa in May 1994, Dele Olojede wrote:

[T]he great South African political settlement is fait accompli. Mandela is in Pretoria, where Buthelezi will serve as his home affairs minister in charge of federal relations with provinces. In the Natal provincial capital of Pietermaritzburg Friday night, Inkatha Chairman Frank Mdlalose was duly sworn in as premier at the inaugural session of the provincial legislature. His candidacy was unopposed. The ANC accepted three of 10 positions in Mdlalose's cabinet. And when Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini swept into the chambers, the ANC bench jumped up along with everyone else to shout, in salute, "Wena ndlovu!" ("You're the elephant.")

Or the donkey.

Richard Daley, the legendary major of Chicago, would have approved totally. That AID money wasn't wasted at all. King Goodwill expressed confidence that, now, peace would surely reign in "my kingdom."52

“Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his ‘busy schedule’”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/pandor-to-lead-sa-delegation-to-us-africa-leaders-summit-instead-of-president-ramaphosa-due-to-his-busy-schedule-d9cef322-21f4-420e-b3f6-b7e67fb44590

MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2022

Cape Town - Minister Naledi Pandor, head of the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (Dirco), will lead the South African delegation to the second US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC from December 13-15, in place of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

According to a statement issued by Dirco on Monday, Ramaphosa is unable to attend the summit owing to his busy schedule.

On Thursday last week, the Presidency confirmed that Ramaphosa will not be attending the summit that will be hosted by US President Joe Biden.

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

Forty-nine African states and the chairperson of the AU Commission are expected to participate in the summit.

The renewal of the US-Africa Leaders Summit follows President Biden’s intervention during the 34th summit of the AU, in February last year, where he underscored the US “commitment and readiness to partner with the continent in taking the relations to new heights”.

The Leaders Summit will discuss three topics, namely “Partnering on Agenda 2063”, “Multilateral Partnerships with Africa to Meet Global Challenges”, and “Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience”.

Minister Pandor will deliver remarks on the first topic, that is “Partnering on Agenda 2063”.

On Tuesday, December 13, the following events will take place:

• The African and Diaspora Young Leaders Forum, which will be held under the theme “Amplifying Voices: Building Partnerships that Last”.

• The Peace, Security and Governance Forum, under the theme “Delivering Democracy and Security Dividends”.

• A discussion on Conservation, Climate Adaptation, and a Just Energy Transition, under the theme “Building Our Green Energy Together”.

Wednesday, December 14, will start with the “US-Africa Business Breakfast meeting, followed by the inauguration of the US-Africa Business Forum and discussions on various topics, which include “Charting the Course: The Future of US-Africa Trade Investment Relations”; “Growing Agribusiness: Partnerships to strengthen Food Security and Value Chain”; and “Advancing Digital Connectivity: Partnerships to Enable Inclusive Growth Through Technology“.

Biden will deliver a keynote address at the Business Forum on December 14.

The delegation comprises Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Ebrahim Patel and senior officials from the departments of higher education; science and innovation; defence and military veterans; and health.

“Apart from attending and participating in the above-mentioned events, I will also have bilateral meetings with some of my counterparts and leading captains of industry,” Pandor said.

An independent panel chaired by retired Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo recently found that Ramaphosa has a case to answer in relation to the Phala Phala Farmgate scandal.

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>But he went much further than this technicality, attacking other material in the book – such as a detailed exploration of Kerzner’s notorious pay-off to Transkei leader George Matanzima – and arguing that its publication could damage Kerzner’s business interests.

>And all of it negotiated with [Bophuthatswana] Minister [of Finance, Leslie] Young, whose salary Sun [International, Sol’s company] was secretly subsidising. Greenblo [and Noseweek] thought the conflict of interest was obvious. Not so, ruled Judge Flemming: Gencor had seconded an accountant (Young) to “give Bophuthatswana a competent Minister of Finance”.

“MANDELA CONFIRMS KERZNER DID CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO ANC KITTY” - Part 1

https://justice.gov.za/trc//media/1996/9608/s960810a.htm

August 10 1996

Axed deputy environmental minister Bantu Holomisa - branded a liar by the African National Congress for claiming that hotel magnate Sol Kerzner funded the party's election campaign - has been vindicated by President Nelson Mandela.

The President through the office of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki confirmed to the Sunday Independent newspaper this week that Kerzner, who faces possible bribery charges, did contribute to the ANC's coffers.

"President Mandela has confirmed that Sol Kerzner made the contribution to the ANC while it was fundraising before the elections," Mbeki's spokesman Thami Ntenteni said.

He said the President did not disclose the size of the donation.

The ANC declined to comment late on Saturday night on whether it would apologise to Holomisa.

ANC national spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said: "The President has spoken the final word on the matter. We will not make any further comment on it. The issue is sub judice."

Holomisa also claimed that Kerzner had funded Deputy President Thabo Mbeki's 50th birthday party and suggested that Mbeki and Sport Minister Steve Tshwete had accepted favours from the hotel magnate for protection against possible bribery charges.

Mbeki and Tshwete instructed lawyers last week to warn Holomisa to desist against making such allegations or face possible legal action.

In a statement issued from its Johannesburg head office two weeks' ago the ANC said the allegations were "not only blatantly false but also malicious and defamatory".

Holomisa faces an internal disciplinary inquiry this Wednesday arising from statements he made to the Truth commission in Port Elizabeth implicating fellow ANC national executive member and Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau in corruption when she was a former Trankei government minister.

He alleged that Sigcau was among Transkei officials who accepted a R50,000 cut from a R2 million payment Kerzner made to former Transkei prime minister George Matanzima for exclusive gambling rights.

The three disciplinary charges against Holomisa relate to misconduct, bringing the ANC into disrepute and conduct unbecoming of an ANC member or elected representative.

He was also stripped of his deputy ministerial portfolio by President Mandela, although no reasons were given for the dismissal.

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“MANDELA CONFIRMS KERZNER DID CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO ANC KITTY” - Part 2

https://justice.gov.za/trc//media/1996/9608/s960810a.htm

August 10 1996

Holomisa may face additional disciplinary charges for subsequent statements made.

When the ANC denied his claims that Kerzner had funded it, Holomisa then disclosed that President Mandela was the source of his information.

Holomisa told Sapa President Mandela had approached him at the Carlton Hotel in early 1994 and told him that Kerzner was willing to contribute R2 million.

Kerzner had also asked whether the ANC could assist in the criminal proceedings pending against him in the Transkei, the nominally independent homeland that Holomisa ruled at the time and which was reincorporated into South Africa after the 1994 general elections.

President Mandela had asked whether anything could be done about the matter and had also approached him after the elections about Kerzner's case, Holomisa said.

The President confirmed this week that the Carlton Hotel meeting with Holomisa had taken place.

"There was a meeting in 1994 between the President and Holomisa," Ntenteni told the Sunday Independent.

"It was a routine meeting and Sol Kerzner was not on the agenda. But the controversy surrounding Kerzner and the charges against him were prominent in the media so President Mandela did ask Holomisa about the Kerzner affair.

"He was interested because Kerzner had made a donation to the ANC. Holomisa briefed the President on the matter, but subsequent to that meeting there has been no follow-up with the Transkei attorney-general or any other person to influence the outcome of the case," Ntenteni said.

Transkei attorney-general Christo Nel earlier told Sapa that no ANC leader had approached him to drop charges against Kerzner.

Holomisa was not immediately available for comment.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/mandela-confirms-kerzners-contribution-anc

Holomisa demanded a public apology from the ANC, but a bitter and clearly agitated Mandela refused.

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>>>17774395 Namibian linked to Phala Phala theft, in Cape Town court for possession of firearms - Imanuwela David Shot? (video)

“Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm I Sunday Times obtains footage of alleged robbery heist ring leader [Imanuwela David]” - https://youtu.be/ghhXqUOAvAc

“Namibian linked to Phala Phala theft, in Cape Town court for possession of firearms” - Imanuwela David Shot?

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/namibian-linked-to-phala-phala-theft-in-cape-town-court-for-possession-of-firearms-f0547d1e-9c1e-40bf-b104-aee91aade245?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1662052804

Published Sep 1, 2022

Rustenburg - One of the Namibians linked to the theft of money at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in Limpopo, appeared in the Cape Town Regional Court on Thursday.

Urbanus Shaumbwako, 37, is facing charges of unlawful possession of firearms and reckless driving.

He was arrested at a roadblock in October 2020, after he was found in possession of 12 automatic firearms.

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson in the Western Cape, Eric Ntabazalila, told journalists outside the court that Shaumbwako’s case had nothing to do with the Phala Phala scandal. He said Shaumbwako was only facing a firearms charge.

“As things stand, us as the NPA in the Western Cape we do not know anything about Phala Phala. We have got no case on Phala Phala in this case.

“The accused before this court is a 37-year-old Namibian nationals; he is charged with 12 counts of possession of illegal firearms (automatic firearm), which he was arrested for on Blaauwberg Road on 18 October 2020… nothing on Phala Phala only those,” he said.

Shaumbwako was supposed to make a plea statement in court, but his lawyer, Reon Heckrath, told the court that he could not proceed with the pleas because of new developments, television news channel Newzroom Afrika reported.

According to the broadcaster, Heckrath said the investigating officer and a member of the Hawks took his client out of his cell at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town in June this year and questioned him without the lawyer present.

Heckrath told the court that the investigating officer and the Hawks officer asked Shaumbwako to go through Arthur Fraser's affidavit and point out any mistakes Fraser might have made, and to correct them.

He asked that Shaumbwako be placed in protective custody in case he was again secretly removed by the police.

The lawyer also told the court that Imanuwela David, also named by Fraser as an alleged Phala-Phala robber, was allegedly shot in Johannesburg last week.

David is believed to be the mastermind behind the Phala Phala farm theft.

Ntabazalila said Heckrath would have to make a formal application to the Department of Correctional Services for his client to be moved into protective custody.

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>>>17774408 Making sense of ANC MP’s threat of assassination to The Star [INL] editor [Sifiso Mahlangu], should he not leave presidential adviser Chauke alone

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>Axed deputy environmental minister Bantu Holomisa - branded a liar by the African National Congress for claiming that hotel magnate Sol Kerzner funded the party's election campaign - has been vindicated by President Nelson Mandela.

“Making sense of ANC MP’s threat of assassination to The Star [INL] editor [Sifiso Mahlangu], should he not leave presidential adviser Chauke alone” – Phala Phala

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/opinion-analysis/making-sense-of-anc-mps-threat-of-assassination-to-the-star-editor-should-he-not-leave-presidential-adviser-chauke-alone-d42d4a00-9d03-4ef6-a468-5b8642cc56e1

I understand that INL published their story after the [leader of UDM Bantu] Holomisa submission, which went around social media platforms like wildfire. Ordinarily, before the media publishes such claims, they would extend an invitation and opportunity to those implicated to give their version. I understand that INL did precisely that since its editor claims they solicited Chauke’s account, which he declined. However, Chauke later wrote a lengthy piece addressed to the editor in which he disowned some of the information in the Holomisa submission.

Perhaps important to note is that when INL published this following the Holomiisa submission, presidential political adviser Bejane Chauke did not threaten the media outlet with any legal action; instead, he wrote a response refuting some of the allegations contained in the Holomisa submission.

The idea of Chauke opting to respond to INL instead of following a legal channel of bringing a libel case against the media outfit baffled me when I considered his response.

According to the cited WhatsApp as published by INL, Mamabolo allegedly says, “Aowaa mon (No man) Mo tologele nyana (leave him alone).“

When Mahlangu says he has no idea what Mamabolo is referring to, he allegedly says, “Leave him alone abit. You are my frnd and I don’t want Pple to Assassinate you. Bcos it can happen anytime from now” (sic).

Reading MP Boy Mamabolo’s whatsApp messages to Editor Mahlangu, which sends chills down one’s spine, one is compelled to ask precisely who, according to Mamabolo, will instruct the assassination.

Perhaps where Mamabolo needs to catch up is his misreading of the prevalence of a Chauke in our South African discourse, particularly this season. Chauke’s presence in our discourse in this season comes at least three-fold. First, he is the known political adviser to the ANC and SA president, making him the most trusted lieutenant of Ramaphosa. He is cited and implicated in (the affidavit) Arthur Fraser opened at the Rosebank police station in June. He is also in the subsequent affidavit of Fraser and is explicitly mentioned and implicated for being directly linked to the stash of monies found at Phala Phala and for having brought large amounts of foreign currency from various trips he undertook on behalf of his principal in the subsequent affidavit that Fraser submitted.

The Holomisa submission to the Parliament-initiated Section 89 inquiry panel draws from the second affidavit of Fraser. Third, and perhaps more importantly for ANC and SA citizens, the same man accused of the earlier mentioned crimes is on an ANC slate to be a contestant for a top six position in the 55th Conference, which starts on December 16.

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>>>17852996 Britain and South Africa agree to health partnership on Ramaphosa's second day of state visit” (video)

“Prince Edward and President See UK-SA Science Collaboration” - https://youtu.be/0qT9rkCeJ5c

“WATCH: Britain and South Africa agree to health partnership on Ramaphosa's second day of state visit”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/watch-britain-and-south-africa-agree-to-health-partnership-on-ramaphosas-second-day-of-state-visit-50c7bed9-ee5a-4a05-b8d4-dee48a685e53

Published Nov 23, 2022

Britain and South Africa on Wednesday announced a new health and science partnership to mark the second day of President Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit to London, the first such official guest hosted by Britain's King Charles.

Charles, 74, had rolled out traditional pomp and ceremony to welcome Ramaphosa, hosted a banquet in his honour on Tuesday. Ramaphosa also addressed lawmakers at the Houses of Parliament.

On Wednesday, Britain announced a new set of research collaborations as Ramaphosa toured the Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research facility in Europe, and Kew Gardens, with Charles' brother Edward.

British foreign minister James Cleverly said the partnerships, on areas such as vaccine manufacturing, genome sequencing and climate change, will "benefit us all".

"The UK and South Africa have shown global leadership in joining together to protect people by preventing the spread of dangerous diseases, and by working to halt climate change."

Ramaphosa will meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak later in the day, and attend a UK-South Africa business forum to discuss trade and investment. South Africa is Britain's biggest trading partner in Africa.

Ramaphosa had highlighted the role that industrialised nations had to play in helping other countries cut emissions in his speech on Tuesday, and welcomed Britain's involvement in initiatives helping South Africa to decarbonise.

Britain will support genome sequencing at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), which played a key role in detecting Covid-19 variants such as beta and omicron, in a push improve antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Africa.

Kew Gardens - a botanical garden in west London - will also work with South Africa's National Biodiversity Institute on preserving South Africa's plant diversity.

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>>>17852997 UK columnist brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a "dreadful fellow" after state visit to UK

“UK columnist brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a ‘dreadful fellow’ after state visit to UK”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/uk-columnist-brands-cyril-ramaphosa-as-a-dreadful-fellow-after-state-visit-to-uk-405145ca-c369-4136-88b6-0adda37e3415

November 29, 2022

Pretoria - President Cyril Ramaphosa has been labelled “a dreadful fellow” by the UK-based Sunday Times newspaper, where he was described as a man who prefers “folded stuff” over chequebooks.

In the article titled “He must be special – the tea trolley’s out”, political sketch writer Quentin Letts delved into the pomp and ceremony marking Ramaphosa’s visit to the UK’s monarchy, at the invitation of King Charles III.

The November 23 article, which criticises the president for his requests for money, was met with mixed reactions on Twitter. Some argued South Africa deserved reparations while others felt Ramaphosa could not be trusted when it came to handling the country’s purse.

“Visiting heads of state are usually subtler about asking for money, but Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, was quick to business when he addressed the joint houses of parliament.

“Ramaphosa, not one of life’s charmers, demanded Britain cough up for historical industrial emissions. South Africa wanted ‘compensation for harm done and harm yet to be done’. Get out your chequebooks. Actually, from what one hears about Ramaphosa, folding stuff might be preferable,” wrote Letts.

The writer painted Ramaphosa’s speech as a long whine about South Africa’s socio-economic challenges.

“(Lord) Hoyle delivered a tidy speech, much about (Nelson) Mandela. Ramaphosa sat there expressionless. He possibly longs for the day when someone makes a speech about him.

“His own speech, not short, was light on diplomatic anecdotes and historical perspective normal at these events.

“Instead, he banged on about poverty, diseased water, power cuts, and how to transfer ‘substantial resources’ from rich countries (i.e, us) to low and medium-income countries (i.e, him),” he wrote.

Letts ended his article with unflattering whisperings his colleague picked up at the event as journalists had to be present an hour before Ramaphosa was introduced. “As the parliamentarians dispersed, a colleague heard a couple of peers mutter, ‘what a dreadful fellow’.

“That may be unfair, but Ramaphosa certainly misread the room,” Letts wrote.

During his visit to the UK, Ramaphosa was met with protests from DA members and South African expats, who demanded he focus on fixing the energy crisis, especially recurring blackouts.

He later told the UK parliamentarians about the strong ties South Africa had with Britons.

In “our Parliament buildings in Cape Town, you may have seen a statue of Queen Victoria, the revered ancestor of His Majesty King Charles III. And not far from here, on the other side of Parliament Square, is a statue of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the father of our nation.

“The presence of the statues of these two great historical figures at the seats of our respective democracies makes a powerful statement,” said Ramaphosa.

Ramaphosa said: “ … this state visit is to reinvigorate ties of commerce, trade, and investment between our two countries. The UK is the largest foreign investor in South Africa and our fifth-largest export destination”. Over the last two decades, the UK has been South Africa’s largest source of tourists outside of Africa

“Few countries have the depth of experience and knowledge of the South African economy than Britain. British companies need to seek out opportunities in SA for investment and trade.”

Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya did not respond to a request for comment on the article

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>>>17853029 Marikana returns to haunt Ramaphosa

“Marikana returns to haunt Ramaphosa”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/marikana-returns-to-haunt-ramaphosa-8f96d53f-a140-4a10-aabc-5c6c55599570

November 29, 2022

Johannesburg - President Cyril Ramaphosa is heading to the dock for a grilling on his role in the Marikana massacre back in 2012 when the police shot and killed Lonmin mineworkers during a strike for a wage increase.

The pleadings in the civil claim for damages brought seven years ago by the group of 349 surviving mineworkers against Ramaphosa, Lonmin (now trading as Sibanye Stillwater) and the South African government, have now closed.

The remaining step would be for the parties to share the documents on which they rely. The matter would then be set down for a trial, where Ramaphosa must come and testify why he should not be held personally liable for the massacre. The mineworkers want an unconditional apology for his actions and utterances, including a damages payment of nearly R1 billion.

In June, the Johannesburg High Court made a scathing ruling that opened the door for Ramaphosa to be held liable for collusive conduct during the Marikana massacre. The move brings the current head of state - who was back then a Lonmin director - one step closer to his day in court.

Judge Frits van Oosten found that a case could be made that Ramaphosa “participated in, masterminded and championed the toxic collusion” between mining company Lonmin and the SA Police Service that led to the Marikana massacre.

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>>>17853070 Robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm ahead of release of Farmgate Parliamentary report

“LIVE BLOG: Watch robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm ahead of release of Farmgate Parliamentary report”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/live-blog-watch-robbery-at-president-cyril-ramaphosas-phala-phala-farm-ahead-of-release-of-farmgate-parliamentary-report-61c7f75e-6308-4767-adad-b5643493984e

November 30, 2022

All eyes are on the Phala Phala farm scandal today as an independent panel investigating the circumstances around the theft of $4 million (about R64m) from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm in Bela-Bela, Limpopo, is expected to hand over its report to Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.

News about large sums of foreign currency concealed under a mattress and couches at the farm came to light early this year after former State Security Agency and Correctional Services director-general Arthur Fraser opened a criminal case against Ramaphosa at the Rosebank police station.

* Check out IOL’s special Phala Phala content hub here. * https://www.iol.co.za/tags/phala-phala

Earlier reports by IOL and the Sunday Independent indicated that the money was allegedly stolen by five Namibians who conspired with a domestic worker on the farm in February 2020 and that Ramaphosa had allegedly failed to report the theft to the police.

In September, one of the Namibians linked to the theft, Urbanus Shaumbwako, 37, appeared in the Cape Town Regional Court following his arrest at a roadblock in October 2020.

At the time, he was found in possession of 12 automatic firearms and also faced charges of reckless driving.

The media in Namibia reported that police in Namibia denied any involvement in helping to cover up the theft.

The panel that will be handing over the report includes Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, former head of the Gauteng High Court Division, Judge Thokozile Masipa and advocate Mahlape Sello.

“The purpose of the panel is to say, based on information before them, if there is prima facie evidence that warrants Parliament to look into the matter, if this is the case when the report is handed over, members of Parliament will then receive a report and will have an opportunity to look at it and go to the House and have it debated and adopted,” Mapisa Nqakula said when the members of the panel were announced.

“Opposition parties expect Phala Phala panel to find Ramaphosa must face impeachment committee” - https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/opposition-parties-expect-phala-phala-panel-to-find-ramaphosa-must-face-impeachment-committee-578327d4-f201-4f07-af0a-3862b8bc71fc

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>>>17862656 Impeachment panel omits allegations of Ramaphosa cover-up

“Impeachment panel omits allegations of Ramaphosa cover-up – IRR”

https://dailyfriend.co.za/2022/12/02/impeachment-panel-omits-allegations-of-ramaphosa-cover-up-irr/

DEC 2, 2022

Below are excerpts

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has expressed alarm over the fact that the Parliamentary Independent Panel ignored evidence that President Cyril Ramaphosa ‘acted in an impeachable fashion by suspending Mkhwebane too late to serve South Africa but just in time to try block the Phala Phala investigation’.

In a statement, https://irr.org.za/media/impeachment-panel-omits-allegations-of-ramaphosa-cover-up, the IRR noted that while the Panel ‘found that President Cyril Ramaphosa is “guilty” on four serious charges relating to the Phala Phala scandal …evidence on one of the most dangerous allegations was expressly, and alarmingly, omitted’.

‘The ATM party submitted to the Panel that “Ramaphosa acted in bad faith and was conflicted when he suspended Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the Public Protector …[and that] ATM contends that he was triggered by the 31 questions relating to the Phala Farm scandal”.

‘There should be no doubt that Mkhwebane should have been suspended years ago. There is also no doubt that Ramaphosa could have suspended her at least since February 2022. The question is therefore why he only suspended her on June 8, the day after she announced her investigation into Phala Phala, the day before a court judgment on whether the removal process was lawful, and months before other court challenges were decided.’

As a full bench of the Western Cape High Court unanimously held: ‘Significantly, the sequence of events leading to the suspension of the applicant cannot be discounted or overlooked…[O]n 7 June 2022, [Mkhwebane] informed the President in writing that she was instituting an investigation against him with regard to allegations relating to a violation of the Executive Ethics Code in respect of the Phala Phala farm incident. Thirty-one questions were raised and the President had to respond thereto within 14 days. This correspondence was followed by a public announcement by the applicant on the 8 June 2022 that she had decided to launch an investigation against the President in respect of the Phala Phala matter. In response, on the 9 June 2022, the President decided to suspend the applicant. On these objective facts, it is reasonable to form the perception that the suspension of the applicant was triggered by the decision of the applicant to institute an investigation against the President. There was no other plausible or logical explanation for the premature suspension of the applicant on the eve of a judgment meant to determine the very lawfulness of the suspension.’

The Court went on to say: ‘The above considerations do not detract from the fact that [Mkhwebane’s] suspension was long in the making. However, at the time the suspension was finalised, the President was dealing with an investigation by the applicant, the substance of the allegations of which he could not discuss as he had done with the other investigations, and this, in our view, is the critical time to assess whether it was still tenable for the President to exercise the suspension powers.’

Said IRR head of campaigns Gabriel Crouse: ‘The upshot is that a High Court was shown prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa acted in an impeachable fashion by suspending Mkhwebane too late to serve South Africa but just in time to try block the Phala Phala investigation. The Panel ignored this evidence outright. It is quite alarming.’

The IRR said it was ‘worth noting that when US President Richard Nixon faced impeachment half a century ago the original offences emanating from the Watergate Hotel were not nearly as important as the subsequent Presidential attempt at a cover-up, which included firing high-ranking investigative officials, just as Ramaphosa has been found to have done by a High Court. For evidence supporting that charge against Ramaphosa to be expressly ignored puts accountability on the back foot.’

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>>>17863273 Ramaphosa, associates implicated in USA illegal money transfer

“Ramaphosa, associates implicated in USA illegal money transfer”

https://www.maravipost.com/ramaphosa-associates-implicated-in-usa-illegal-money-transfer/

Tuesday, 21 Jun 2022 06:28AM

Below are excerpts

PRETORIA-(MaraviPost)-As the controversy rages on over the origins of the millions of US dollars stashed at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm, it has been revealed that the head of state and those close to him may have violated aspects of the international money transfer laws of the US.

The US International money transfer laws in accordance with the US code title 18 of subsection 1957, states that:

“(a) Whoever, in any of the circumstances set forth in subsection (d), knowingly engages or attempts to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property of a value greater than $10 000 and is derived from specified unlawful activity, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).

“(b) (1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), the punishment for an offence under this section is a fine under title 18, United States Code, or imprisonment for not more than 10 years or both.”

In addition, Code 1957 of the US international money law provides that a US court may impose an alternate fine of not more than twice the amount of the criminally derived property involved in the transaction.

“(c) In a prosecution for an offence under this section, the Government is not required to prove the defendant knew that the offence from which the criminally derived property was derived was specified unlawful activity.

“(d) The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are – (1)that the offence under this section takes place in the United States or in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States; or (2) that the offence under this section takes place outside the United States and such special jurisdiction, but the defendant is a United States person (as defined in section 3077 of this title, but excluding the class described in paragraph (2)(D) of such section,” reads the US Code 1957.

Furthermore, it stipulates that violations of this section may be investigated by components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney-General may direct, and by such components of the Department of the Treasury as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.

The US Code subsection 1957 also indicates that the term “monetary transaction” means the deposit, withdrawal, transfer or exchange in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of funds or a monetary instrument (as defined in section 1956(c)(5) of this title.

“(2) The term ‘criminally derived property’ means any property constituting, or derived from, proceeds obtained from a criminal offence; and that the terms ‘specified unlawful activity’ and ‘proceeds’ shall have the meaning given those terms in section 1956 of this title.”

“As it happened: Ramaphosa survives vote and won’t face [Phala Phala] impeachment inquiry” – “ANC BACK RAMAPHOSA”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ramaphosa-survives-section-89-phala-phala-impeachment-debate-breaking-13-december/

13-12-2022 18:25

President Cyril Ramaphosa lives to fight another day after a vote about whether he should face impeachment failed to receive enough votes.

The National Assembly debated on whether to adopt or reject the Section 89 Panel’s report over the Phala Phala burglary on Tuesday, 13 December. If the motion passed, President Ramaphosa would have faced an impeachment inquiry.

The report said there was prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa violated his oath of office and broke anti-corruption laws by failing to report the theft of millions of rand in US dollars from his farm. He allegedly had the matter investigated by his Presidential Protection Unit.

PHALA PHALA DEBATE SEES ANC BACK RAMAPHOSA

17:38 –

Votes

Yes – 148

No – 214

Abstain – 2

‘The S89 inquiry will not be proceeded with. That concludes the business of the day and the house is adjourned,’ said the Speaker.

“‘No backbone’: Lindiwe Sisulu and Zweli Mkhize MIA during vote on Phala Phala report”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/national-assembly-phala-phala-report-lindiwe-sisulu-zweli-mkhize-13-december-2022/

Lindiwe Sisulu and Zweli Mkhize have been accused of being cowards after they were nowhere to be seen during the National Assembly debate on the Phala Phala report.

“Patricia de Lille: From whistle-blower and anti-graft crusader to sitting on the Phala Phala fence”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/patricia-de-lille-from-whistle-blower-and-anti-graft-crusader-to-sitting-on-the-phala-phala-fence-e562ac21-74ce-40be-9fa8-2d9b1187a897

She has done almost everything to the extent that she has been lined up as the first witness in the ongoing Jacob Zuma arms deal corruption trial.

This is because De Lille was the original whistle-blower in the late 1990s when South Africa spent billions of rand to purchase modern arms while it was not preparing for any war.

>>17940459

>Chauke’s presence in our discourse in this season comes at least three-fold. First, he is the known political adviser to the ANC and SA president, making him the most trusted lieutenant of Ramaphosa. He is cited and implicated in (the affidavit) Arthur Fraser opened at the Rosebank police station in June. He is also in the subsequent affidavit of Fraser and is explicitly mentioned and implicated for being directly linked to the stash of monies found at Phala Phala and for having brought large amounts of foreign currency from various trips he undertook on behalf of his principal in the subsequent affidavit that Fraser submitted.

“Ramaphosa denies knowing ‘nephew’ who bagged R400m tender”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-ramaphosa-nephew-tender-4-november/

04-11-2022 05:06

“I don’t even know this gentleman,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said to DA leader John Steenhuisen in Parliament on Thursday

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he doesn’t know Hangwani Maumela, his alleged nephew who scored contracts worth a whopping R381 million in the past three years from public hospitals across Gauteng.

Ramaphosa appeared in the National Assembly on Thursday, 3 November 2022, where he answered questions from MPs.

It was Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, who made the revelation in a written reply to questions by the DA’s Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom in the provincial legislature.

RAMAPHOSA DENIES BEING RELATED TO ‘NEPHEW’

DA leader John Steenhuisen mentioned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s nephew in a question about broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) schemes and corruption.

“The Zondo Commission showed that BBBEE has been central to corruption in South Africa. Whether it is the R14 billion PPE corruption in Covid-19 or the billions stolen at Eskom. A recent example, one of your own nephew’s companies scored R381 million from Gauteng hospitals. You are right. It does not benefit the majority. It only benefits ANC-connected cronies,” Steenhuisen said.

Ramaphosa responded, saying in part: “You keep saying, my nephew. I don’t even know this gentleman. So, let’s not even get there. I don’t know him.”

Ramaphosa’s office has previously denied he was involved with Maumela in anyway, but Bloom disputes this.

“The relationship is there. He’s a nephew by President Ramaphosa’s first wife but there is another connection according to News24 and that’s between Mr Maumela and Mr Bejani Chauke, who is the president’s chief of staff,” he is quoted as having told EWN [https://ewn.co.za/2022/11/03/da-questions-tender-process-for-contracts-awarded-to-ramaphosa-s-nephew].

>>17910156

>>>17774372, >>17774374, >>17774375, >>17774378, >>17774382 Paul O’Sullivan

>>17940459

>Chauke’s presence in our discourse in this season comes at least three-fold.

>>17940605

> He’s a nephew by President Ramaphosa’s first wife but there is another connection according to News24 and that’s between Mr Maumela and Mr Bejani Chauke

“Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan” – Phala Phala Saga Part 1

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2022/11/03/pots-kettles-paul-osullivan

3rd November 2022

If we could mine ironies and sell them on the global market, we’d save our economy. We’ve just hit a particularly rich seam with Zuptoid and former spy chief, Arthur Fraser, whom Paul O’Sullivan paints below as “Public Enemy Number One”. O’Sullivan suggests that along with Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidential security detail chief, General Walther Rhoode, Fraser is more crooked than a bent nail and should also be behind bars. One of the more ironic aspects of what would otherwise be an excellent reality TV series called, Who’s the Biggest Liar? are these questions – prepared in time-honoured journalistic fashion by a member of that otherwise fantasy news outfit known as Independent Newspapers and all valid – posed to our very own Crusader for Justice, Paul O’Sullivan. Forget the motivation for going after O’Sullivan for the moment (or Independent’s historic links to the Zuptoids, embedded or not), the questions are valuable for the responses they provide. Which makes this a worthwhile read. You decide who is the biggest liar. For those whom history judges correct, a slew of designer TV couches awaits (which may or may not be stuffed with cash). – Chris Bateman

Email chain from Paul O’Sullivan

Good afternoon Tshwarelo.

Your enquiry of even date refers.

Since Mr Fraser has tried to fraudulently implicate me, I have copied the head of the DPCI, so that what I say to you, is ON THE RECORD with the DPCI.

The only reference I saw in the hearsay letter of Mr Fraser, is the following:

5.24. Mr O’Sullivan, who is a close associate of both the President and Mr. Chauke, is said to have used his private investigation company to assist in the tracing of the persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence.

I note that Mr Fraser uses the expression “…, is said to have used …”. He does not state who said this, but merely repeats it as if it is a fact. This is the case with 80% to 90% of what he says in this letter and in the farcical docket he has opened.

The facts are:

1. The very first I knew of the so-called Phala Phala incident was earlier this year, when it surfaced in the media. I was able to establish that it surfaced in the media because Arthur Fraser caused it to appear in the media. At the time the incident appeared in the media, I had absolutely no prior knowledge of the incident or the allegations of Fraser.

2. For the avoidance of doubt, I was NOT involved in tracing or finding anybody, or bringing them into the custody of the president’s security detail, none of whom I have ever met in my life.

3. I have never been contacted by the DPCI about this matter.

4. When it appeared in the media, I was somewhat taken aback so I did carry out a preliminary investigation. My findings were quite shocking and are set out below:

• Ninety percent of what Fraser alleges is pure hearsay, without a shred of prima facie evidence, although it seems that some of it may have underlying facts, for example a house break-in, not a robbery as widely reported in the media, did take place.

• The head of the Presidential Security Detail, Major General Walther Rhoode, had a very dark history, involving crimes such as racketeering and corruption.

• It could not be established how Rhoode got into the position of Major General in the police, when it seems he should have ended up in a criminal trial for his alleged criminal activity in the past.

• Up until early 2020, Rhode was swamped in debt and was not able to make ends meet.

• By 2021, all of Rhoode’s debts had miraculously vanished, indicating a sudden large income stream form somewhere.

• The ONLY video tape of the house break-in that took place at Phala Phala, was removed by Rhoode, or persons reporting to Rhoode and handed to Arthur Fraser.

• Arthur Fraser not only published his version of events, through a select group of journalists, but he also supplied them with a copy of the video footage he had handed to the police.

• Some of the photographs used by Fraser, ostensibly to point out motor vehicles allegedly bought with the proceeds of the alleged crime at Phala Phala, pre-date the actual incident, thereby making it impossible for them to have been purchased with proceeds of a crime that took place in February 2020 at Phala Phala.

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“Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan” – Phala Phala Saga Part 2

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2022/11/03/pots-kettles-paul-osullivan

3rd November 2022

5. The result was that almost all of the allegations made by Fraser are impossible to prove or disprove, because they are based on speculative hearsay and not fact.

6. It is very easy, especially for a person such as Fraser, to take a long thin line of truth and wrap it up with fat lies in the hope that the casual observer will believe the whole thing, when in fact it is a tailor-made pack of lies, with a sprinkling of the truth to give it an air of authenticity.

7. I am left realising that at least 80% to 90% of what Fraser alleges is an intentional figment of his imagination, conceived after realising his days as a free man are numbered and he needs to create something that can be used to either cause a change of presidency. He can then obtain some sort of get-out-of-jail-free card from an incoming Zuma loyalist, or improve his bargaining position with the current president to be let off the hook for his crimes of theft and fraud that have taken place over many years, which started with the theft of the standby generator, supplied at taxpayer expense for the commission of enquiry into the Scorpions; which generator was subsequently seen installed at Fraser’s private house.

8. I wonder what other rabbits this magician will pull out of the hat, to inflict upon a gullible public.

If an investigation is needed now, it should be into the following, at least:

A. How much money Fraser has stolen from the people of South Africa, some of which was stolen through his shadowy Principal Agent Network, which still seems to be alive and well.

B. Why Fraser has NEVER been brought to justice for his crime against the State.

C. How many people were paid with the stolen cash to run a third force type of parallel intelligence structure, that acted off the radar to destabilise the country for Zuma and his accomplices.

D. How Walther Rhoode was not put on trial for his prior crimes, which miraculously vanished at the hands of crooked Zuma appointees Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi.

E. How Rhoode ended up as a major general in the police and ‘protecting’ the president.

F. How Rhoode managed to suddenly pay off all his debts and where the cash came from.

G. Whether Rhoode was a ‘sleeper’ planted there by Fraser to be ‘woken’ when the timing was right.

H. How Fraser came into possession of the video of the break-in at Phala Phala.

I. How many other ‘sleepers’ are still on the payroll of Fraser’s third force intelligence network, who they are, where they are and when they will be ‘woken’.

J. Why the state (DPCI) has committed valuable resources investigating the hearsay of this criminal Arthur Fraser, when substantial priority crimes are being committed on a daily basis, with ample prima facie evidence, (as opposed to hearsay evidence) yet valuable resources are being used to settle the score of a low-life criminal like Fraser.

Put simply, it’s time the media started focusing on the real criminal here and the agenda being run by them. People like Fraser and Rhoode belong in prison and it’s time they were exposed for what they are.

Best wishes,

Paul O’Sullivan CFE

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>>17940635

“Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan” – Part 3

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2022/11/03/pots-kettles-paul-osullivan

3rd November 2022

Good Morning, Mr O’Sullivan

My name is Tshwarelo Hunter Mogakane, from Independent Media. I’m following up on a document submitted to the Section 89 independent panel. The document, said to have been written by Arthur Fraser, names you as one of the people who helped President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security detail trace and apprehend suspects in the Phala Phala farm burglary between 2020 and 2021. It is common cause that you are somebody renowned for exposing corruption, but in this instance, you are accused of illegally playing a role in what has been termed an attempt to cover-up the burglary, which has far-reaching implications as you would have seen in parliament and other platforms.

I therefore request that you respond to the following questions in order to assist in the story that I’m writing.

1. Did you or did you not assist the president’s security detail to trace suspects in the Phala Phala burglary?

2. Did you use your investigating capacity to bring the suspects into the custody of the president’s security detail?

3. Have you been approached by the Hawks in order to assist them with their investigation into the Phala Phala matter, especially since you are named in one of the documents Fraser handed to the Hawks?

4. As somebody who is well known for investigating fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes, have you ever attempted to investigate the veracity of the claims made by Fraser about money laundering that took place at Phala Phala? If not, why not?

Your time is highly appreciated. Please let me know what time you will be able to respond to the questions.

Below is a link to the document you requested.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

Many thanks, Tshwarelo Hunter Mogakane

>>17940661

Excerpts from the Document submitted to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation from Arthur Fraser dated June 23, 2022 – Part 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

5.22. Deputy Minister Mahlobo, a former Minister of State Security, used his network of contacts to assist in the tracing of the persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence.

5.23. Deputy Minister Kodwa accompanied Major General Rhoode on numerous trips to Namibia in engaging with the Namibian President and Namibian law enforcement authorities on the matter.

5.24. Mr O’Sullivan, who is a close associate of both the President and Mr. Chauke, is said to have used his private investigation company to assist in the tracing of the persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence.

5.25. Mr McCarthy is said to have assisted the President and Mr. Chauke in facilitating converting large sums of US$ into Rands. Mr McCarthy is also said to have most of his capital kept offshore in Mauritius…

5.26. Mr Magnusson, a neighbour to President Ramaphosa in Cape Town, and who is presently believed to be illegally in South Africa, is said to have not only assisted in facilitating converting large sums of US$ into Rands, but also assisting in pinging of persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence and actively participated in their subsequent torture.

5.31. Importantly, the Namibian Crime Intelligence Report (notably p.5) corroborates what I had been told by another source, as well as corroborated and provided further information to the evidence submitted together with his affidavit filed at the Rosebank police station on 1 June 2022, notably:

5.31.2 The report details that the domestic worker, employed at Phala Phala farm had assisted Mr. Imanuwela David and his co-conspirators in locating the US$ concealed in the furniture at Phala Phala farm.

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>>17940431

>The lawyer also told the court that Imanuwela David, also named by Fraser as an alleged Phala-Phala robber, was allegedly shot in Johannesburg last week.

Excerpts from the Document submitted to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation from Arthur Fraser dated June 23, 2022 – Part 3

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

5.38. Page 2 of the Namibian Police Intelligence Report references the acting CEO of Fishcore, Mr. Paulus Ngalangi as having been arrested by the Namibian authorities in June 2020 for assisting Mr. Imanuwela David to illegally cross from South Africa into Namibia on 13 June 2020…

5.40. I subsequently learned that Mr Imanuwela David and Mr Paulus Ngalangi are related and further that both Mr. Imanuwela David and Mr Paulus Ngalangi are related to Mr. James Hatuikulipi who is one of the accused in the infamous ‘Fishrot’ corruption case pending in the Namibian High Court. The Namibian Home Affairs department and the Namibian police can confirm these relations.

5.41. Mr. James Hatuikulipi is also closely linked to the President of Namibia. Information available is that one of the suspects in the matter, Mr. Maren De Klerk, an attorney, implicates some of the accused, along with the President of Namibia.

5.42. It is believed that Mr. Imanuwela David was laundering money into Namibia to cover the legal costs of some of the accused in the pending ‘Fishrot’ case.

5.44. At page 6, par 2 of the Namibian Police’s Crime Intelligence Report, I highlighted that according to the report, Major General Rhoode contacted the Namibian Police Special Branch, Crime Intelligence to set up a meeting in “No man’s land” at Ariamsvlei border post.

5.45. During the meeting at “No man’s land”, Major General Rhoode confirmed to his Namibian counterpart that “something” took place at President Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm and that Mr. Imanuwela David was the mastermind behind the burglary.

5.47. the report further also noted that discussions were allegedly ongoing between the Presidents of South Africa and Namibia.

5.55. In this fictitious “drug smuggling” claim, Major General Rhoode’s informal investigation then provided the details of some of the individuals involved in the Phala Phala theft to the SAPS Detective services to track the individuals concerned.

5.56. As a result an enquiry was opened into fictitious drug smuggling when in fact the investigation related to a crime committed at President Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm.

5.63. I further advised of an individual who facilitated the exchange of US$ at the Chinese pawnshop, who is being identified.

5.67. The certified court record depicting the charges on which Mr Imanuwela David has since pleaded guilty on and in respect of which he had paid a fine ought to be obtained.

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>>17940642

>>17940661

>>17940665

>>17940679

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>>84826

>[Paul] O'Sullivan ran away from home at age 14, travelled to the UK, and joined the army. He trained as an engineer, and spent six years working for the British government in counter-espionage and counterterrorism. He does not discuss what that involved. But he probably wasn't a stationery clerk. https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-03-31-the-wrong-guy-why-paul-osullivan-wont-back-down/

>>84831

>The release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 swayed him [Paul O'Sullivan], and he applied for permanent residence that year, as a person of independent means. "I brought in a few million pounds and started getting involved in business."But soon his work took a public turn: he became a police reservist, and in 1996 began training police officers and reservists on the Bill of Rights in the new constitution. One of his students in the late 1990s was a reservist called Cyril Ramaphosa, then a rising tycoon with an interest in community policing. Ramaphosa topped the class. https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-03-31-the-wrong-guy-why-paul-osullivan-wont-back-down/

Ramaphosa seems to be well protected.

“Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning”

https://youtu.be/vxotm8JAydI

Dec 2, 2022

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan says the entire Phala Phala scandal threatening SA’s President is a setup engineered by disgraced former director general of State Security Arthur Fraser, his ‘sleeper’ inside the Ramaphosa household and ‘flexible’ journalists. He says there is no case for Ramaphosa to answer as Fraser’s affidavit, which sparked the controversy, is long on hearsay and short on fact. O’Sullivan urges Ramaphosa to display backbone and reject calls for his departure, saying he must not abandon the country in its hour of need. To resign now, the Forensics for Justice founder adds, would be an admission of guilt. He spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.

5:47 – “This is a message I sent to somebody who is extremely close to Cyril… I sent this at 5 o’ clock last night when I read this article on News24 [Naspers]… Make sure Cyril knows he will plunge this country into chaos if he resigns. He did nothing wrong and he must stay and captain the ship. Now there’s another saying… Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.” (And the criminal syndicate will continue to run the country.)

6:43 – “I was tempted to phone my good friend Herman [Mashaba], him and I have been friends many, many years. We used to be in business together… I saw Herman did a media release yesterday that Cyril must resign immediately.”

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>https://youtu.be/vxotm8JAydI

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>>17940720

>“I [Paul O’Sullivan] was tempted to phone my good friend Herman [Mashaba], him and I have been friends many, many years. We used to be in business together… I saw Herman did a media release yesterday that Cyril must resign immediately.”

“Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash”

https://www.saffarazzi.com/news/herman-mashaba-actionsa-funding-oppenheimers/

2021-11-19 10:56

Herman Mashaba confirms SA's wealthiest are ready to back him.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba clawed his way back from a heap of backlash to clarify the presence of the Oppenheimer family on his political party’s fund list.

Herman Mashaba response to Oppenheimer backlash

The IEC, on Thursday, published the party funding declarations report for the 2021 municipal elections, showing the donors backing each political party.

ActionSA, a new political movement enjoying a great deal of momentum in growth, was the third-most backed party in the three months leading up to Election Day (July – August 2021).

Mashaba’s party declared R16.923 million of donations made up of cash transfers and in-kind. The latter, in this context, refers to cashless donations like printing and providing election campaign merchandise, marketing collateral and consulting.

ActionSA received more than R3. 333 million from Rebecca Oppenheimer, granddaughter of Harry and Brigdet Oppenheimer.

In fact, considering the donations it received from a Jessica Slack-Jell and Victoria Freudenheim, individuals with close links to Rebecca, ActionSA received a shade below R10 million from the Oppenheimer network.

The transactions, according to the declarations report ,were made within 24 hours, between 16 and 17 September 2021, each R3 333 million.

Business magnate Martin Moshal also shelled out R5 million to Mashaba’s party, showing the true intent from South Africa’s one-percent in bolstering ActionSA’s ambitions.

In his statement, released as a response to the backlash that came from the ‘RET’ community, Mashaba implored his followers to recognise the transparency ActionSA has shown by declaring and, effectively, publishing its backers.

“We are proud of our association with South Africans who are committed to SA & have generously donated to its political future Our donors have been willing to do so openly & transparently as envisioned by the Political Party Funding Act, while others hide their donors from voters

“The reality is that after the performance of ActionSA, we have received even more interest from funders across the board. There is an overwhelming interest in the expansion of ActionSA to the 9 provinces of South Africa,” Mashaba wrote in a tweet thread.

>>17928343

>“‘This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past”

>Bathabile Dlamini, the former president of the ANC Women’s League, was also disqualified

“Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/tony-yengeni-bathabile-dlamini-no-longer-disqualified-anc-nec-position-14-december-2022/

14-12-2022 16:57

Tony Yengeni had said the decision to disqualify him would kill the ANC while Bathabile Dlamini had also vowed to fight the decision.

The African National Congress (ANC) has backtracked on its decision to disqualify its former Chief Whip Tony Yengeni and former Women’s League President Bathabile Dlamini from participating in the upcoming conference.

Yengeni was disqualified from contesting for a National Executive Committee (NEC) position because of his criminal record while Dlamini was disqualified because she was found guilty of perjury in 2017. The two appealed the decision.

“We, therefore, wish to confirm that you are no longer disqualified from being a candidate for the NEC positions during the 55th National Conference of the ANC due to take place on 16 December – 20 December 2022 at Nasrec,”Motlanthe said in the letter.

Dlamini did make a threat earlier;

“‘Something big is coming’ – Bathabile Dlamini’s grim WARNING”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-bathabile-dlamini-warning-13-december/

13-12-2022 09:04

Bathabile Dlamini isn’t pleased with the ANC electoral committee’s decision to disqualify her from contesting for an NEC position

A faction of the African National Congress (ANC) is not about to roll over and play dead while some of their comrades get “sidelined” ahead of the party’s elective conference this coming Friday, 16 December – that is if what Bathabile Dlamini has said is anything to go by.

“Something big is coming .Something we all don’t expect is about to be done by agent provocateurs.They don’t want the conference but they are doing all in their power to ensure conference becomes a festival of chairs .There is no sober minded revolutionary that can allow this,” Dlamini said.

Dlamini reportedly received over 800 branch nominations to form part of the new NEC that will take over after the upcoming 55th national conference, which will be held in Nasrec, Johannesburg, from 16 – 20 December.

In the letter, the party said Dlamini is disqualified as a candidate for all NEC positions, including additional members during the 55th National Conference based on one of its rules which states that “The ANC expects the highest ethical and moral standards from its NEC leaders. Any member may stand for the NEC if they have been an active member for at least ten years, unless they have been found guilty of or have been charged with unethical or immoral conduct, or any serious crime, or corruption.”

“300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/300-government-officials-on-suspension-for-alleged-fraud-theft-rape-paid-r130-million-2369fb99-ee02-4351-9eca-66ba43133edc

Published Dec 13, 2022

Pretoria - The government paid more than R130 million to more than 300 public servants who are on suspension with full pay and benefits.

One, an employee of the Gauteng Economic Development, has been on full pay for four years.

These were the damning revelations of Acting Minister of Public Service and Administration, Thulas Nxesi, in his written reply to questions from the DA public service and administration spokesperson, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, in the National Assembly. Gondwe asked Nxesi to give details about the total number of suspended officials; the charges against them and any punitive measures taken by the department against the 305 officials.

In his reply, Nxesi said a Gauteng official had been suspended for four years (1 604 days) for fraud. Another official had been suspended for 902 days for misuse of a petrol card.

Three assistant directors were on suspension for fraud and another on theft charges. A deputy director is facing charges of poor performance, insubordination, and fraud.

In the Gauteng Community Safety Department three officials were charged with discharging firearms in public – one incident resulted in a fatality.

In the Department of Infrastructure Development nine officials were suspended – three junior officials for 99 days for theft of copper pipe.

Six senior officials, including one deputy director-general and five other managers, were charged with failure to follow prescripts in the appointment of professional service providers in the AngloGold Ashanti hospital refurbishment project. All had been on suspension for 116 days.

Nxesi also gave shocking details of sex allegations against some officials. Two Department of Higher Education officials, one a deputy director-general, were facing charges of raping learners. The deputy director general has been on suspension for 237 days while another official has been iced for 44 days. In the Northern Cape, two officials had been on suspension for three and two years over the sexual harassment of learners.

KwaZulu-Natal had the highest cases of sex-related crimes with officials having sexual relations with learners. Four officials were facing charges of allegedly having sexual relations with learners.

One has been on suspension for 1 050 days, the second for 990 days, the third for 150 days while the last for 60 days.

Seven other officials are charged with sexual assault while another five face sexual harassment charges.

The others were facing financial misconduct charges bringing the total number in the Education Department to 27 officials.

In Gauteng, two Education Department officials are facing sexual assault charges and six in the Western Cape. Other Education Departments were also fingered in sex charges.

Three officials in Western Cape Premier Alan Winde’s office, were charged with sexual harassment while no cases were reported in the premier’s offices in other provinces.

In her reaction, Gondwe also said a Department of Defence official has been on suspension for three years (1 157 days) for allegedly stealing state rations; a Department of Health official has been on suspension for two-and-a-half years (930 days) over fraud; and a senior public servant in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has been on suspension for two years (778 days) for alleged negligence.

Home Affairs was singled out as one of the worst departments. A total of 26 were charged, some for assisting foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain IDs and passports.

Gondwe said Public Service and Administration should urgently implement a discipline management strategy so government departments could finalise disciplinary cases within the 90-day period stipulated by Public Service Regulations. “It is grossly unfair that, year in and year out, the already burdened South African taxpayer pays such a heavy price.”

“President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/president-cyril-ramaphosa-suspends-western-cape-judge-president-john-hlophe-with-immediate-effect-95d0c2c5-dd3c-4508-a8dc-9810c08de751

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

Durban – President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe.

The suspension of Hlophe who is accused of gross misconduct while on the bench is with immediate effect.

However, the judge will be allowed to complete all cases he heard and hand down all reserved judgments – but that’s not clear how.

His suspension was announced by the presidency through a statement on Wednesday.

The office said it was based on the advice of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) and in terms of section 177(3) of the Constitution.

“In order to ensure continuity and stability in the work of the divisional high court, the suspension which is in effect immediately, is on condition that Judge President Hlophe completes all part-heard matters and reserved judgments,” the presidency said in a statement.

Explaining the rationale for this decision, the presidency said Ramaphosa received the JSC report on July 27.

“Due to the long history and complexity of the matter, President Ramaphosa took time to carefully consider all the permutations of the JSC recommendations, including obtaining guidance from an independent legal opinion.

“The President fully appreciated the need to balance Judge President Hlophe’s rights with those of the public and the interest of the judiciary as a whole.

“Section 177 (3) of the Constitution provides that the President, on the advice of the JSC, may suspend a judge who is the subject of a procedure in terms of subsection (1) that deals with the removal of a judge who is found guilty of gross misconduct.

“The Judicial Conduct Tribunal (JCT) concluded that Judge President Hlophe’s conduct breached the provisions of section 165 of the Constitution by improperly attempting to influence the two Justices of the Constitutional Court to violate their oaths of office.

“The JCT established that Judge Hlophe’s behaviour seriously threatened and interfered with the independence, impartiality, dignity and effectiveness of the Constitutional Court and further undermined public confidence in the judicial system.

“The JSC has referred the matter to parliament for the National Assembly to institute impeachment proceedings against Judge President Hlophe,” reads the statement from the presidency.

Furthermore, it said since 2008, Hlophe has been accused of alleged judiciary misconduct after he was accused of trying to improperly influence judges on matters involving former president Jacob Zuma.

“In May 2008, 11 Justices of the Constitutional Court lodged a complaint with the JSC against Judge President Hlophe for his improper attempt to influence the outcome of certain cases pending before the Constitutional Court in favour of former President Jacob Zuma.”

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>Is it a major push for an ‘environmentally sustainable’ power supply?

“‘Resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis’”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/resignation-of-andre-de-ruyter-deepen-eskom-crisis-breaking-news-14-dewcember-2022/

14-12-2022 17:55

Solidarity said the resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis and will not alleviate it. The wrong person resigned.

Solidarity has come forward and said the resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis and will not alleviate it. The wrong person resigned.

SOLIDARITY SAID DE RUYTER’S RESIGNATION WILL DEEPEN THE ESKOM CRISIS

This comes shortly after the news broke that Eskom’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Andre de Ruyter, reportedly resigned from his position this week.

According to Connie Mulder, Head of Solidarity Research Institute, the problem at Eskom is not the CEO’s operational will but the government’s political will.

“The best person in the country can be appointed to the position but the current political dispensation makes it an impossible task for the person.

“The politicians looked for a scapegoat to hide their own incompetence and exerted incredible pressure on De Ruyter. Instead of doing the right thing, the politicians sacrificed De Ruyter for the sake of their politics.”

Connie Mulder

‘DE RUYTER STOOD ON THE OXYGEN LINE FEEDING CORRUPTION’

Connie furthermore said De Ruyter stood on the oxygen line feeding corruption.

“Those who want to loot more exerted the most pressure for him to resign. Bigger corruption post – De Ruyter is a real danger.

“Drastic political changes are called for. The current government and the ministers involved do not have the ability to bring about the political changes that are required.”

Connie Mulder

HIS RESIGNATION COMES AFTER SEVERAL CALLS FOR HIS HEAD FROM POLITICIANS AND THE LARGER PUBLIC

De Ruyter’s resignation comes after several calls for his head from politicians and sections of the larger public.

According to reports, he informed Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana of his decision to call it quits earlier this week. Makwana in turn informed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Earlier this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation about the country’s energy crisis.

HERE ARE FIVE THINGS THAT WERE DISCUSSED BY RAMAPHOSA

Here are the five major things you should know from the family meeting. Take note we are still waiting to see these changes despite the family meeting in July.

FIRSTLY– IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF ESKOM’S EXISTING FLEET OF POWER STATIONS

Over time, the maintenance programme of Eskom’s electricity generation fleet has declined. It is now been decided that over the next 12 months, Eskom will increase the budget allocated for critical maintenance to increase the reliability of its generation capacity

SECONDLY, IT WILL ACCELERATE THE PROCUREMENT OF NEW-GENERATION CAPACITY

The relevant government departments are working together to ensure that all projects from Bid Window 5 of the renewable energy programme can start construction on schedule.

THIRDLY, TO MASSIVELY INCREASE PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN GENERATION CAPACITY

The licensing threshold for embedded generation will be removed completely. This will enable private investment in electricity generation to rise to higher levels.

While they will not require licenses, all new-generation projects will still have to register with the regulator and comply with the technical requirements for grid connection and our environmental legislation.

FOURTH, ENABLE BUSINESSES AND HOUSEHOLDS TO INVEST IN ROOFTOP SOLAR

There is significant potential for households and businesses to install rooftop solar and connect this power to the grid. To incentivize greater uptake of rooftop solar, Eskom will develop rules and a pricing structure – known as a feed-in tariff – for all commercial and residential installations on its network.

FINALLY, TRANSFORMING THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR AND POSITIONING IT FOR FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY:

Eskom will be restructured, which will result in three entities, namely an electricity generation entity, an electricity transmission entity and an electricity distribution entity.

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U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington - https://youtu.be/Uo_sAjA6ye4

“Our administration will be guided not by what we can do for Africa but what we can do with Africa - Vice President Kamala Harris”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/our-administration-will-be-guided-not-by-what-we-can-do-for-africa-but-what-we-can-do-with-africa-vice-president-kamala-harris-243668dc-afcf-4eaf-b5b3-7ec23fc66540

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

Speaking at the African and Diaspora Young Leaders’ Forum at the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit, US Vice President Kamala Harris has announced a host of new investments into Africa’s youth development.

Harris announced a new investment of $100 million “which we will expand networking for African youth alumni and connect them with social impact and business investors”.

Speaking at the young leaders’ forum on Tuesday Harris said the Biden administration will invest their time and energy to fortify partnerships across Africa.

“Africa cannot help but be in the future business. I strongly believe that the creativity and ingenuity of Africa’s young leaders will help us shape the future of the world, and that their ideas — your ideas — and innovations and initiatives will benefit the entire world.”

Harris said that within the next two years, the Biden administration would have invested more than $1 billion in education and youth programming in Africa, which will allow the administration to further its partnership with African academic institutions and the private sector on education and research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Harris said that the investment will allow the administration to expand its signature programme for African youth, the Young African Leaders’ Initiative, also known at YALI.

The YALI programme sees fellows travel to colleges and universities in the United States for six weeks to study. They also study business, civic engagement, or public management.

“We also developed YALI Regional Leadership Centres to provide a similar experience at higher education institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa. Through these experiences, these leaders join a continent-wide network of young leaders.”

Harris added that currently more than 640 000 young Africans participate in the YALI network.

She further said that this week, the United States Export-Import Bank will be entering into a new memoranda of understanding with entities in Sub-Saharan Africa whereby the US will provide more than $1 billion to finance American commercial investment in Africa.

“This, we know and believe, will create jobs and opportunities in various sectors, and in particular, the renewable energy sector, in agriculture, water and sanitation, and infrastructure.

“In addition, we will launch The African Women’s Trade and Investment Initiative, a new programme which will help women across Africa participate in e-commerce, and access financing and export markets.”

Harris said the US government will also re-launch the African Women Entrepreneurship Programme to provide micro-financing to women to support their ambitions and their aspirations.

According to Harris, President Joe Biden will also sign an executive order to create the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States.

“This council will provide advice and recommendations to the president to strengthen the ties between the people of Africa and the people of America.”

Harris said that throughout history, in moments of uncertainty and change, the world has often turned to young people to help lead the way forward. Now is no different.

“So to Africa’s young leaders, I say: I am an optimist about what lies ahead for Africa and, by extension, for the world because of you — because of your energy, your ambition, and your ability to transform seemingly intractable problems into opportunities. Simply put: your ability to see what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

>>17942454

>a new memoranda of understanding with entities in Sub-Saharan Africa whereby the US will provide more than $1 billion to finance American commercial investment in Africa

New biolabs? Gain-of-Function research on Ebola?

“80 hours and counting without electricity: eThekwini electricity department shambles exposed”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/80-hours-and-counting-without-electricity-ethekwini-electricity-department-shambles-exposed-d3a39b96-7926-4d7a-a9bf-27332475e290

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022

Durban – Last night was the fourth night in a row that some residents in the suburb of Manor Gardens in Durban went to bed without electricity.

I first wrote about this on Tuesday morning after the suburb including parts of Glenwood were hit by a power outage on Sunday night. The power to the majority of the area had been restored at about 10.30am on Tuesday morning – my home included – but after a round of scheduled load shedding that same day from 2pm – 4pm, my home and about 14 others in the neighbourhood did not have the power restored when the load shedding ended.

What we have discovered as we battled the bureaucracy of the municipality to have our power restored, is the shambles plaguing the eThekwini electricity department that has wider implications for all Durban ratepayers – as the festive season approaches.

The eThekwini Municipality, in an effort to clamp down on rampant overtime claims by contractors and employees of the city has stopped paying for overtime in the electricity department.

This means, according to various sources, that any electrical fault logged after hours will not be attended.

An increase of load shedding in recent weeks to Stage 6 has seen a spike in electricity faults logged with the city as the electrical infrastructure was not built to handle the constant outages.

This means that areas are often plunged into darkness due to “tripping” as the start-up load on a transformer may be greater than the network’s capacity – tripping the circuit.

This is what happened in my suburb on Tuesday, which caused a fuse to blow in the transformer plunging over a dozen homes back into darkness.

Help came at 5.20pm on Wednesday when an electricity contractor called me to confirm my address. A sense of relief fell over all of us.

Like many of my neighbours, I had earlier in the day, thrown away food that had gone off because the fridge was thawed and spent the day at a relative’s house charging cellphones, laptops and load shedding lights.

Our lives without electricity for three days in a row was in turmoil.

When the electricity contractors arrived they were able to locate the transformer and discovered that the fuse had blown. According to Janus Horn, the chairperson of the Manor Gardens Ratepayers Association who was on scene with the contractors, it took less than 5 minutes to repair. When the lights came on we jumped for joy in our home.

But our joy was short-lived. A mere 30 minutes later the lights went out again. Again it was the 15 homes affected.

I immediately called the contractors back on the same number they called me on and they were shocked to hear it had gone off again.

“I need to call my controller for them to tell me what to do,” the contractor said.

It was after 6pm on Wednesday and we had now entered “overtime” territory with the municipality.

A source in the municipality told me that they were not coming back as the city was not going to pay them for overtime.

What is worse, the source added, is that some contractors may be dragging their feet or going on a “go-slow” during normal working hours in an effort to increase the backlog of faults and force the municipality to pay them overtime.

“You are in fact lucky this happened now and not over the long weekend. Because if it happened over the long weekend or during the holidays over the festive season, no one will come out to assist,” the source said.

It is an ominous warning to all Durban ratepayers who may have the misfortune to experience an electrical fault on a public holiday, weekend or after hours.

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Africa may be the next Ukraine as Biden states, US is “all in on Africa’s future.”

“Pres. Biden Pledges $55 Billion In Investments At U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit” and it is just the beginning

https://youtu.be/4mpiIK0DVxI

The irony is;

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

“FBI beat security cluster in identifying cyber hack of the SA Reserve Bank, says Godongwana”

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/fbi-beat-security-cluster-in-identifying-cyber-hack-of-the-sa-reserve-bank-says-godongwana-0c5e9af6-00e2-45bd-9867-a386cd351db7

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022

Cape Town - Cyber-criminals attempted to hack the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) on August 12, Treasury Minister Enoch Godongwana has revealed, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) beat the security cluster in identifying the breach.

The FBI took it upon itself to notify oblivious law enforcement authorities that the bank was under cyberattack.

Godongwana made the revelation as he spoke at an SA Local Government Association event.

Delivering off-the-cuff closing remarks in Xhosa, Godongwana said: “Cybersecurity … on August 12, the SA Reserve Bank was hacked. They saw it themselves. Our own security cluster didn’t see it.

“The FBI in America phones the Hawks and says: ‘Your bank is being hacked’. Do you see how exposed we are in this nation, and yet we criticise you (municipalities) as if we’re better at national level?”

SARB spokesperson Ziyanda Mtshali confirmed that the bank had received information regarding “a possible breach in August” from “both State agencies and private cybersecurity providers”.

She said there was no impact on the bank’s operations.

SAPS spokesperson Athlenda Mathe referred queries to the Hawks.

Hawks head advocate General Godfrey Lebeya said he was on leave and had forwarded the query to spokesperson Brigadier Nomthandazo Mbambo, who said the SARB would be better positioned to indicate whether the matter was reported to the Hawks.

World Wide Worx founder and tech analyst Arthur Goldstuck said: “SA institutions have regularly demonstrated that they are unprepared for the global escalation in cybercrime in recent years.

“The fact that the SARB had to be alerted to an attack by a third party tells us they were not adequately monitored and protected by their own systems.”

The SARB hack attempt was yet another incident of the SA security cluster being upstaged by a foreign intelligence service in what is supposed to be SAPS, Hawks and other local law enforcement agencies’ stomping ground.

Citing Police Minister Bheki Cele’s response in Parliament, the Cape Argus recently reported that the police were caught unaware of an FBI investigation and interception of a Bonteheuwel mother who was in the act of selling her 4-year-old child to paedophiles. [https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/sa-cops-still-in-the-dark-after-fbi-intercepted-the-sale-of-a-4-year-old-bonteheuwel-child-6a5751e6-5d61-4020-ab7c-ecb84df27c00]

US intelligence also one-upped its local counterparts in October when the US embassy issued a terrorism alert, warning its citizens of an imminent attack in Sandton, leading to diplomatic tensions between the two nations.

The State Security Agency and SAPS crime intelligence were widely chastised for allegedly failing to identify the threat.

Goldstuck said the Transnet ransomware attempt and the crashing of the Justice Department’s systems last year were the most dramatic, as they brought down two of the country’s most critical infrastructures.

He said: “A key element of cybersecurity is visibility of attacks and the ability to analyse these in order to further shore up defences.”

Godongwana also touched on the rolling power cuts.

“No amount of progressive macro-economic can work when you have no electricity. We have 14 years trying to fix Eskom, not to fix power to the grid for 14 years,” he said.

On the shortage of diesel at Eskom to mitigate load shedding, Godongwana said Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe informed him there was enough diesel in South Africa, but Eskom refuses to fork out cash.

He said Mantashe also told President Cyril Ramaphosa, who “frantically” called Godongwana to ask: “Brother, where is the diesel? Your people should also be there every day (in meetings with Eskom officials).” [flogging the dead horse]

Godongwana said: “I heard him (Ramaphosa) swear for the first time in isiXhosa, ‘uyayazi mos yikaka lanto yenzeka pha kula Eskom’.” This loosely translates to “you know what’s happening at Eskom is literally sh*t”.

>>17949516

>On the shortage of diesel at Eskom to mitigate load shedding, Godongwana said Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe informed him there was enough diesel in South Africa, but Eskom refuses to fork out cash.

>He said Mantashe also told President Cyril Ramaphosa, who “frantically” called Godongwana to ask: “Brother, where is the diesel? Your people should also be there every day (in meetings with Eskom officials).”

Eskom R400 billion debt and Diesel costs

https://www.sanews.gov.za/south-africa/government-take-over-portion-eskom’s-r400-billion-debt

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Government to take over portion of Eskom’s R400 billion debt.

https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/extreme-load-shedding-ahead-as-eskom-diesel-budget-runs-dry-20221120

20 November 2022

UPDATE | Extreme load shedding ahead as Eskom diesel budget runs dry

At a state of the system briefing last week, Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said that since 1 April, Eskom has spent R12 billion on diesel against an initial budget of R6.1 billion. This was later revised to R11.1 billion.

"If we continue to burn diesel the way we have for the past seven months, the cost would be astronomical. But we do not have the cash to spend. We would be able to pay if the municipalities were paying us," said Oberholzer at the time.”

In the past, Eskom has overspent its diesel budget excessively, arguing that the R500 million a day per stage cost to the economy is greater than the cost of buying diesel. Eskom has therefore spent profligately on diesel to keep the lights on, with the only cap being the amount of diesel that can physically be delivered and burnt each month. This has equated to about R2.4 billion of diesel a month.

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>Lindiwe Sisulu and Zweli Mkhize have been accused of being cowards after they were nowhere to be seen during the National Assembly debate on the Phala Phala report.

“Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable’”

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/lindiwe-sisulu-speaks-on-missing-parliament-vote-says-the-phala-phala-scandal-is-untenable-8922242d-6c9b-4f33-babe-59a13d7ae14d

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022

Cape Town - Senior ANC Lindiwe Sisulu says the Phala Phala scandal is “untenable” and that there has been one cover-up after another in the saga that implicates President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Sisulu, who was speaking on The Press Club podcast, was a notable absentee in the vote and rejection of the adoption of the Section 89 report on the Phala Phala fallout.

“I was shocked like everybody else when this (the Phala Phala saga) was revealed,” said Sisulu, who is also Tourism Minister and holds membership to the party’s National Executive Committee and National Working Committee.

“When I was in intelligence, we had come across illicit outflows and inflows of money and we knew this would affect the value of the rand.”

Their discovery gave effect to the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Centre and other measures “in preparation that we’d never experience something like Phala Phala”.

“Several laws have been broken. I must say this about Comrade Cyril: I think his first instinct was to say ‘let me walk away’. It’s the people around him, I believe, who are dependent on his patronage, who said, ‘but Mr President, what about us?’

“We’re sitting with a group of people holding the whole country and its integrity at ransom.”

Sisulu said a prevailing culture in the ANC was that there aren’t people who can tell Ramaphosa the truth “and tell the emperor that he’s naked”.

Sisulu said Ramaphosa should’ve been allowed to resign and the Phala Phala saga thoroughly investigated. “What we’ve done is covered up, creating a situation which is untenable.”

Podcast anchor Professor Sipho Seepe asked her to opine on those who say “better the devil you know” and whether Ramaphosa was a good man.

“I don’t know what the definition of a good man is, but the presidents we’ve had I have looked up to … I didn’t expect that I would be discussing Comrade Cyril with money stashed in Phala Phala. That is not how I associate his position and relationship with society.”

Sisulu said the ANC was clear about what happened, but there was an “active agenda” to try to cover up that which “is irregular, blatant, wrong in the extreme”.

Sisulu said the incident happened as Luthuli House employees had not been paid for seven months – it could’ve been used to assist poor people.

She said Namibian president Hage Geingob has a “very high moral standard” and wouldn’t have known the truth behind Phala Phala.

On her being absent from the Section 89 voting, she said she and NEC member Dr Zweli Mkhize were “aggrieved” in a recent NEC meeting where, she said, ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe “did not recognise us”.

Sisulu said a decision cooked outside ANC processes saw Mantashe tell MPs to toe the party line.

“It got so heated we were worried about the exchanges between Mkhize and Mantashe.”

She said she addressed a caucus meeting on Tuesday to disagree with Mantashe, but was “hauled down. I could not continue”. Sisulu said the matter was “managed to have a particular outcome”.

Sisulu said she and Mkhize received a message that they don’t vote and she left the building to check the message. She said when she returned, the doors were closed.

She doesn’t regret not voting as she “will not support anything dictatorial”. Asked whether she would’ve voted “Yes” to adopt the report, she said she would’ve repeated what she did in the caucus meeting.

“The hype around Nkandla was almost out of this world. And here we have something out of this world happening and the hype is not at the same level because there are people who are beholden to the president,” Sisulu said.

She said when ANC MP Mervyn Dirks called for Ramaphosa to account, he was thrown out of Parliament. She was referring to his suspension from January this year.

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>Mantashe says load-shedding worse than state capture

>>17949547

>“Several laws have been broken. I must say this about Comrade Cyril: I think his first instinct was to say ‘let me walk away’. It’s the people around him, I believe, who are dependent on his patronage, who said, ‘but Mr President, what about us?’

>Sisulu said a decision cooked outside ANC processes saw Mantashe tell MPs to toe the party line.

“Calls for Gwede Mantashe ‘to be fired’, amid money laundering allegations”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/what-money-laundering-gwede-mantashe-accusations/

24-01-2021 14:50

The DA believe Gwede Mantashe ‘must be removed’ from his positions of power, after the minister was accused of taking part in a money laundering operation.

Gwede Mantashe‘s alleged links to a money laundering venture have been slammed by the DA on Sunday. Shadow Minister Kevin Mileham, whose portfolio includes mining and energy, believes that President Ramaphosa ‘would be doing South Africa a great service’ if he were to remove his ANC colleague from office.

GWEDE MANTASHE ACCUSED OF ‘MONEY LAUNDERING’

Media reports on Sunday state that the Gwede Mantashe Foundation has been complicit in a scheme involving several subsidiary companies. The minister’s wife is also thought to be benefiting irregularly from a government contract. The fresh allegations weave a rich tapestry of intrigue and financial misgivings:

• Bidvest subsidiary, Voltex, allegedly made a number of dubious payments to Ntlokholo Investments .

• Chief Operating Officer of the Gwede Mantashe Foundation, Caswell Mokoena, was a director at Ntlokholo.

• One of the payments, for an amount of R935 000, was quietly intended as a donation to the Foundation.

• Payments to Mokoena were allegedly related to the National Solar Water Heating Programme. But Ntlokholo isn’t involved in the NSW heating tender.

• The project itself is administered by Mr. Mantashe’s own department, raising further serious questions

• Meanwhile, Gwede Mantashe’s wife – Nolwandle Mantashe – was a director of Royal Mnandi. They are the beneficiary of a catering contract in excess of R600 million, to feed workers constructing the Medupi and Khusile power stations.

DA LOBBY FOR MINISTER’S REMOVAL

Mileham is calling for a full investigation into the conduct of the ANC veteran.

“Reports that the Gwede Mantashe Foundation may be involved in money laundering must be fully investigated and the Minister’s role in this scandal clarified. All of these coincidences raise serious questions about the man in whose orbit all these dodgy deals keep happening: Minister Gwede Mantashe himself.”

“With this in mind, President Ramaphosa would be doing the country a great service by removing him from any position, including that of Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, where he can influence tenders or where his involvement in any way calls into question the legality and ethical management of government funds.”

Kevin Mileham

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“SA energy mafia? Accusations against Gwede Mantashe are serious and could hurt entire South Africa”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-02-sa-energy-mafia-accusations-against-gwede-mantashe-are-serious-and-could-hurt-entire-south-africa/

02 May 2021

On Friday it emerged that the Mineral Resources and Energy Minister and ANC Chair, Gwede Mantashe, and his wife, Nolwandle Mantashe, had been implicated by a losing bidder in the project to provide “emergency” power generation. The consequences of this could be immense, both for South Africa’s continuous energy failure and the ANC’s future balance of power.

The publication of the claims in legal papers by amaBhungane in Daily Maverick suggests that the decision to provide Karpowership SA (which uses ships that produce power using liquefied natural gas) with the contracts to generate electricity as an independent power producer was corrupt. The claims point to a “close associate” of the minister.

It is not just that the ANC has failed to solve the power crisis which saw load shedding starting in late 2007, despite the first warning that the lights would go out being sounded as early as 1998.

It is that at almost every step in the process there has been corruption.

The ANC’s investment vehicle, Chancellor House, benefited from contracts with Hitachi, which had R38.5-billion in contracts with Eskom to provide boilers for the Medupi and Kusile power stations, and which ultimately paid a $19-million fine to US regulators for breaching the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The boilers were not properly designed — costing South Africa an untold amount of money — and are unlikely to ever reach peak performance.

The political nature of these interests cannot be ignored.

The situation was described by Professor Anthony Butler in Business Day in this way:

“The Eskom coal supply chain, and the associated trucking industry, offers a roll-call of influential ANC donors. Many of these entrepreneurs are at the centre of the historic process of building a significant black business class in SA.”

The detail is hugely important and includes the claim that Mbalati was invited to a restaurant, where he and the group he was meeting were the only people there, and that the following was said to him:

“The one thing you must understand is that there is a system in this country and if you don’t work in accordance with that system you will fail, even if your project is the best, and I suspect that your project will be the best but that means you must be part of the system.”

In his papers, Mbalati says he is not naming the “close associate” of the minister because he is laying a criminal complaint against this person, and he has been advised not to name them at this stage.

It has still not been explained by the department why this “emergency” contract would be signed for a period of 20 years. This would mean that even if all of South Africa’s electricity problems were solved in the next decade (which may seem like science fiction now, but the price of solar energy and innovations in the storage of energy are moving very quickly), we would be locked into these contracts for a decade after that.

All of this leads to questions about Mantashe.

During his time as secretary-general of the ANC, Mantashe was sometimes seen as the “centre of gravity” in the party — the person who held it together. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-12-13-analysis-in-the-centre-of-the-ancs-gravity-field-gwede-mantashe/

Since then, however, (and since becoming minister) he has admitted to lying to a journalist in a bid to try to get them not to publish a story about him and a younger woman. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-11-05-gwede-mantashes-unforced-errors-dangerous-moves/

He has also been accused of not acting to resolve South Africa’s power crisis, of inaction when the last thing that a locked-down country in a pandemic crisis needs is another spate of blackouts (aka load shedding).

While South Africa needs action to resolve this long-running crisis, it is a complex situation with many pitfalls. The politicised interests in this space make any decision-making difficult. Any decision can be challenged in court (and possibly using political means as well), which makes swift action sometimes impossible.

Within the ANC there are other serious considerations.

Mantashe has been a strong supporter of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his agenda of renewal. He has publicly backed the resolution that those implicated in corruption must “step aside”. His support is vital to Ramaphosa in the apparent battle with ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule.

For Mantashe now to be tarnished by this kind of claim could damage this agenda.

It will allow Magashule’s allies to say that if Mantashe is corrupt, he too must resign.

“Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/land-scam-witness-khanyisile-mashego-beheaded-22dc190e-8090-46e4-8d20-ef9f7a05f619

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022

Cape Town - The body of Khanyisile Mashego, 50, who was reported missing, was found beheaded at a Brakpan morgue on Thursday.

Before she disappeared Mashego received a call from someone who kept on insisting to see her. She went missing after she left in her silver BMW 3 Series.

Her head was reportedly found in Zonkizizwe following her disappearance from Dalpark 1 estate on December 10.

According to the Ward Patroller Association’s Monde Ntebe, there were claims that Mashego was a high profile witness in a land scam case allegedly involving Centre of Excellence employees. [How ironic]

“We wish to escalate the matter to both the Hawks and the NPA to ensure that the matter is investigated and the remaining witnesses are moved into the witness protection programme urgently.”

Ntebe said the docket initially went missing, meaning there were irregularities in the investigation of the case.

“So we call on the the Ipid director to launch an investigation into the case.

“We would appreciate it if the president and the SIU launched an investigation into this land scam and ascertain to what extent did this reach into the workforce of the metro and politicians.

“The family spoke about land parcels in over three areas in Ekurhuleni that were being fraudulently sold.”

Ntebe said the Investigative officer told the family that he received calls from people claiming ransom money and saying the deceased had been human trafficked to Kenya.

Nkebe said a case of murder had been opened at Brakpan police station.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Gauteng’s MMC for Community Safety Khathutshelo Rasilingwane and EMPD chief of police Isaac Mapiyeye visited the Mashego family in Dalpark to offer support before the reports that her body had been found.

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>>>17774464, >>17774469, >>17783785, >>17783786, >>17783787 Arthur Fraser

“SACP (South African Communist Party) hits back at former Spy Boss Arthur Fraser”

https://youtu.be/vFt94HBHTjo

Jul 14, 2022

The SACP has hit back at former Spy Boss Arthur Fraser for opening a criminal case against President Cyril Ramaphosa. SACP General Secretary Dr Blade Nzimande says Arthur Fraser is using privileged state information for his own factional and devious purposes. The Communists have come out to defend Ramaphosa saying Arthur Fraser only wants to plunge the ANC into crisis and out of power. Samkele Maseko filed this report.

>>17980997

>>17941589

>“President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect”

“Analysis on Zondo's appointment as Chief Justice : Thabo Masombuka” - https://youtu.be/2h3HnO7WIYA

“Chief justice objection: Arthur Fraser says Zondo ‘lacks integrity’”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/chief-justice-arthur-fraser-letter-raymond-zondo/

20 Oct 2021

The former spy boss said Zondo is unfit to be the face and embodiment of the values enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa.

Arthur Fraser, the former head of correctional services and the former chief of spies, officially objected to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo’s bid for the position of Chief Justice.

In a letter dated Friday, 15 October, the deadline for the public to raise objections, Fraser said Zondo lacked the requisite judicial independence which the position of chief justice would demand.

He also believed Zondo lacks the integrity and fairness required for the position, as well as the necessary loyalty to the oath of office taken by judicial officers when they are appointed.

Arthur Fraser’s letter

Zondo ‘lacks impartiality and integrity’

In the letter addressed to the panel chaired by former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Navi Pillay, Fraser said the reason for his objection was shaped by Zondo’s conduct during the state capture commission.

While investigating former President Jacob Zuma’s ties to the Gupta family, Zondo linked Fraser to the abuse of secret service funds. However, Fraser said he was never given an opportunity to clear his name.

He said people who had been implicated in less serious crimes were given an opportunity to testify.

“The fact that in three and a half years, Deputy Chief Justice Zondo did not even find a day for me to testify, demonstrates his lack of impartiality”, Fraser wrote.

Therefore, Fraser argues that Zondo “is unfit to be the face and embodiment of the values enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa”.

Protecting culprits

Fraser believes Zondo was only playing to the tune of the political elite to “endear himself”, in the hopes of being the next Chief Justice.

“I have reason to believe that Deputy Chief Justice Zondo did this in order to endear himself with the political class so that he can secure the position of Chief Justice for which he is now nominated,” Fraser added.

Moreover, he believes Zondo did this on purpose in an attempt to protect the individuals Fraser may “have exposed as the real culprits” in state capture.

Fraser adds: “I further have reason to believe that his deliberate conduct sought to protect the real origins of the idea of the commission as a foreign-sponsored concept”.

Public comment

The period for public comment closed on Friday, 15 October 2021 and the shortlisting panel will be scrutinising some 564 submissions received.

In a statement on Tuesday, Pillay expressed the panel’s appreciation for public participation in this process, while the Presidency said submissions “vary greatly in substance and volume.”

Going forward, each nominee will be given an opportunity to comment on the public submissions made in respect of his or her nomination.

The panel will then commence with the “assessment and evaluation of each candidature in order to compile a shortlist of three to five candidates for submission to, and further consideration by the President”.

Chief Justice nominations

The eight nominees for the position of Chief Justice are as follows:

• Judge President John Hlophe,

• Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga,

• Justice Mandisa Maya,

• Dr Wallace Amos Mgoqi,

• Adv. Busisiwe Mkhwebane,

• Judge President Dunstan Mlambo,

• Adv. Alan Nelson,

• Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.

The panel anticipates it will submit its shortlist of three to five names to the President by no later than 29 October.

>>17980997

>>17981004

“The Watchdog | In conversation with Arthur Fraser: 08 September 2021”

https://youtu.be/tKMaxcWwUgk

5:25 – “What I can tell you was discovered as early as late 90s was the presence of people who are in one way or another worked with the former establishment, was part of orchestrating or maintaining the disruptive behaviour in society.” [ >>17694378 - If the Apartheid regime and its “puppet” Bantustans were so evil, why were their intelligence agents integrated into the “new” South Africa?]

“The most feared spy in Mzansi ? Who is Arthur Fraser, catch all the details on our Sunday Profile” – Part 1

https://za.opera.news/za/en/others/3ddfc4ef69a02b61502bb2fd73c0251b

Former head of the State Security Agency, Arthur Fraser, who generally likes to stay in the background, became well-known to most South Africans, after it emerged last year that he had signed off on a decision to grant former president Jacob Zuma medical parole. Zuma was jailed in July 2021 after he was given a 15-month sentence for defying a Constitutional Court order to appear before the State Capture Inquiry and answer non-incriminating questions.

Fraser released Zuma on medical parole just two months into that sentence after being hospitalised for an undisclosed medical condition. At the beginning of June of this year, Fraser, was back in the limelight after he laid a criminal case against President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Rosebank police station, related to the alleged theft of "in excess of four million US dollars" from Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in Limpopo in 2020.

Fraser alleged Ramaphosa "concealed the crime" and that the suspects had been kidnapped and interrogated. Fraser alleged that Presidential Protection Unit head Major-General Wally Rhoode and members of crime intelligence were involved in the cover-up.

According to the Correctional Services website, Arthur Fraser was actively involved in student politics and joined the ANC underground structures early in his life. Upon return to South Africa, Fraser joined the newly-formed National Intelligence Agency (NIA), where he was seconded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as an investigator. Fraser is no stranger to controversy.

In 2007, when the Browse Mole report was leaked, then-president Thabo Mbeki asked Fraser to investigate. The report was purported to be an intelligence memorandum claiming a bid for the presidency by Jacob Zuma was supported by various African leaders. The now-defunct Huffington Post wrote that Fraser had the NIA tap the phones of several high-ranking officials mentioned in the Browse Mole report [ >>17694353 ], including Leonard McCarthy, who headed up the Scorpions [ >>17694364, >>17694366, >>17694370, >>17694374, >>17694376, >>17694382, >>17722751 ].

The conversations which became known as the "spy tapes" [ >>17694331, >>17694335, >>17694338, >>17694345 ] included discussions between McCarthy and former NDPP Bulelani Ngcuka about when the most politically damaging time to charge Zuma would be. Fraser, it seems, decided to leak the recordings to Zuma's legal team, earning him the label, "the spy who saved Zuma". As a result of this, the NPA dropped charges against Zuma in 2009.

Jacques Pauw claims in his book, The President's Keepers that Fraser, while at the NIA, allegedly headed up a parallel intelligence network called the Principal Agent Network programme (PAN). According to Daily Maverick this was set up in 2007, and Fraser was there from its inception. Pauw futher claimed in his book that internal State Security Agency auditors found that PAN used as much as R1 billion of taxpayers' money in just three years.

In 2016, the State security agency announced Fraser was taking up the role of Director-General and Accounting Officer at the agency, after then-president Jacob Zuma made the appointment. The SSA statement at the time said that Fraser was no stranger to the intelligence world after he had "served in various operational capacities that culminated in his appointment as the DDG:

Operations in the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA)." Fraser previously served as a DDG in the Department of Home Affairs responsible for Immigration Services. In 2018, after Cyril Ramaphosa became president, he moved Fraser to Correctional Services after Fraser was implicated in several allegations of malfeasance at the SSA.

>>17980997

>>17981004

>>17981018

>https://youtu.be/tKMaxcWwUgk (embedded)

“The most feared spy in Mzansi ? Who is Arthur Fraser, catch all the details on our Sunday Profile” – Part 2

https://za.opera.news/za/en/others/3ddfc4ef69a02b61502bb2fd73c0251b

A high-level panel investigation into the SSA under Fraser found that the PAN was involved in "serious criminal behaviour… under the guise of conducting covert work and that this behaviour may have involved theft, forgery and uttering, fraud, corruption and even bordered on organised crime".

The chairperson of the high-level panel, Dr Sydney Mufamadi, testified at the Zondo Commission that, although the concept of a PAN was not unusual, the way it was structured and operated under Fraser and Graham Engel "evolved into a methodology designed to avoid or bypass the procedural requirements for recruitment of staff, disbursement of funds and procurement".

Various allegations of criminality involving the running of PAN were made to Mufamadi's panel. This included the signing of fraudulent contracts, payments to people without valid contracts, the employment of family members and missing funds and assets. Mufamadi said that even though PAN was shut down in 2011, there had been no formal action or consequences for the people who ran it. In 2021, Fraser again courted controversy, when he gave Zuma medical parole.

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria last year ruled that Fraser's decision to release Zuma on medical parole was unlawful. An appeal of this ruling will be heard in the Supreme court of Appeal in August. Earlier this year, Pauw wrote that Fraser had lied on his CV and had never graduated with a BA degree from the University of London.

Wally Rhoode is named in the affidavit that Fraser filed earlier this month. Paragraph 13.29 states: Major-General [Wally] Rhoode and his team, on the instruction of President Ramaphosa, paid Mr Shaumbwako, Mr Muhekeni, Mr Shikongo, Mr David and Mr Afrikaner R150 000 each in cash to conceal the events that took place at Phala Phala on 9 February 2020. Prior to this complaint, Rhoode was no stranger to controversy either.

In 2009, Rhoode resigned as head of security for the 2010 FIFA World Cup under a cloud. At the time, the Mail and Guardian reported his resignation was linked to controversy over the appointment of Africa Strategic Asset Protection to provide services for the Confederations Cup held in June 2009. Rhoode denied this, saying he had resigned to look after his family's construction business.

According to News24, leaked bank statements relating to the CR17 campaign revealed that after Rhoode's appointment as security head, Nala's Intense Protection and Tourism Services (IPTS) was brought on board. The bank statements show IPTS was paid R8.4 million between June 2017 and March 2018 for providing physical security to VIP members of the CR17 campaign. Rhoode was paid just over R1 million between March 2017 and October 2018. In his column, Basson questioned how Ramaphosa had allowed Rhoode to be his closest protector and oversee his entire security establishment as well as keep Fraser on as head of correctional services.

“Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/gauteng-father-kidnapped-brutally-murdered-shot-execution-style-breaking-news-16-december-2022-crime/

16-12-2022 10:54

A beloved father, Kevin Soal (68) of Gauteng, was kidnapped and brutally murdered. He was shot execution style.

What is this world coming to? A beloved father, Kevin Soal (68) of Gauteng, was kidnapped and brutally murdered.

GAUTENG FATHER WAS SHOT TWO TIMES IN HIS HEAD- EXECUTION STYLE

According to Private investigator Mike Bolhuis, Kevin was kidnapped on Wednesday, 14 December.

“He was kidnapped and held against his will while the perpetrators tried to extort money from him.”

MIke Bolhuis

While being held captive, the perpetrators transferred R250,000.00 plus another R100,000.00 from his account.

Kevin was taken to a secluded area, where he was forced to stand on his knees facing forward, kicked to fall face down, and shot two times in his head – execution style.

SOCCER PLAYERS HEARD THE GUNSHOTS AND SAW A MINIBUS WITH THE WORD STAFF ON IT

Bolhuis said a substantial amount of money was withdrawn from Kevin’s account.

“The soccer players identified a white Quantum bus with a sticker of the word “STAFF” on it at the scene.

“Within an hour, the SAPS was called again to the same area when more shots were heard.

“Another body was found, presumably also of a Caucasian male person.”

Mike Bolhuis

“SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022” - https://mg.co.za/news/2022-10-10-sa-kidnappings-surge-to-over-1-000-a-month-in-2022/

The number of kidnappings in South Africa has been increasing sharply over the past year. In the first six months of 2022 an average of 1 143 kidnappings a month were reported to the police, double the monthly average in 2021 (700).

The increase in kidnapping for ransom and extortion cases “suggests that it has become an established and lucrative criminal practice in South Africa”, said the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC) in a Strategic Organised Crime Risk Assessment report for South Africa published in September 2022.

“Zuma and Ramaphosa's brief moment at the ANC 55th National Conference” - https://youtu.be/MzN3ntAfehA

“WATCH: Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president”

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/watch-ramaphosa-and-zuma-captured-laughing-together-hours-after-zuma-decided-to-privately-prosecute-the-president-4844b7d9-caba-4b3c-9d8a-788522aa23d7

Published Dec 17, 2022

Johannesburg – Former president Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa were captured on video laughing together at the ANC National Elective Conference in Nasrec on Friday, a few hours after Zuma’s decision to privately prosecute the president.

On the eve of the conference, Zuma initiated a private prosecution of Ramaphosa.

Zuma wants Ramaphosa to be prosecuted as part of the ongoing private prosecution of NPA advocate Billy Downer, who he accuses of misconduct by leaking his medical information to the media.

He alleges that Ramaphosa, as president of South Africa, is an “accessory after the fact” in the alleged criminal offence.

Zuma claimed that Ramaphosa failed to act when he complained about improper conduct by advocates Downer and Andrew Breitenbach SC.

Ramaphosa pushed back, saying that Zuma was abusing the justice system and that the case was hopeless.

“President Ramaphosa does not interfere in the work of the NPA, nor does he have the power to do so. The president responded to Mr Zuma and took appropriate and legally permissible action,” the Presidency said in a statement.

But the Jacob Zuma Foundation said it had the right legal certificate from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), that allowed Zuma to privately prosecute Ramaphosa.

Mere hours after this drama unfolded, Ramaphosa and Zuma were caught on video laughing and shaking hands.

The video got tongues wagging on social media, with users saying politics were just a game to politicians.

>>17981046

“Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/zuma-ramaphosa-monday-deadline-to-drop-private-prosecution-breaking-19-december/

18-12-2022 10:08

‘These charges are completely spurious and unfounded,’ said the Presidency. Jacob Zuma is privately prosecuting a State prosecutor and a News24 journalist. Now, Ramaphosa has been drawn into the matter as an alleged ‘accessory after the fact.’

President Cyril Ramaphosa has given former President Jacob Zuma until the close of business on Monday, 19 December to withdraw his private prosecution case or face legal action.

ZUMA LAUNCHES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST RAMAPHOSA

Zuma is in the midst of a private prosecution matter against Advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.

The former President alleges that Downer improperly shared information about his medical condition with Maughan. Now, Ramaphosa has been drawn into the matter as an “accessory after the fact.”

“Mr Zuma’s charges are based on an accusation that President Ramaphosa failed to act after Mr. Zuma complained about improper conduct by Advocates Downer and Breitenbach. These charges are completely spurious and unfounded,” said Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.

The Presidency said Zuma’s case has no basis in law and accused him of abusing the legal process. The private prosecution was announced on the eve of the ANC National Elective Conference on Thursday, 16 December.

The State attorney warned of further action against Zuma if he fails to withdraw the prosecution by Monday.

As previously reported, the ANC is expected to elect its new Top 7 on Sunday morning. Ramaphosa is the frontrunner for the position of party leader. He is going up against the former Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize.

ANC Top 6 becomes a Top 7 – voting to commence on Sunday - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-top-7-voting-sunday-18-december-president-deputy-secretary-general-breaking/

“MPs welcome the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mps-welcome-the-deployment-of-the-army-at-four-eskom-power-stations-in-mpumalanga-6acb5b3d-819e-40f0-8580-b6d15af1964a

Parliament has welcomed the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga.

Chairperson of the portfolio committee on mineral resources and energy Zet Luzipho said on Sunday they feel vindicated by government’s decision to send the troops to the power stations as they had identified sabotage as one of the problems.

Luzipo said they understood that about 10 soldiers were deployed at each of the four power stations.

Eskom announced on Saturday that the government has sent in the army at Majuba, Camden, Grootvlei and Tutuka power stations.

This was after the power utility had been complaining about incidents of sabotage, which it stated contributed to load shedding.

Luzipo said they wanted the state to crack down on crimes committed at Eskom and its power stations.

“The committee has always held a firm view that the country’s electricity crisis is caused by Eskom’s inability to deal with maintenance of ageing power stations and internal sabotage as opposed to a policy failure. We now feel exonerated,” said Luzipo.

The decision to send the soldiers to the power stations also comes after the Hawks and other law enforcement agencies arrested a number of people in an illegal coal yard close to an Eskom power plant in Mpumalanga.

“UPDATE: Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/update-voting-for-new-ancs-top-seven-delayed-as-allegations-of-vote-buying-swirl-around-8613c658-4218-4e20-b6bf-52327b2576ad

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022

Much against anticipation that voting for the new ANC’s top seven officials would have started by 9am and concluded by 3pm and votes out around 5pm, the process has been severely delayed.

It is now likely that the voting will get under way around 7pm and run until midnight and results released in the early hours of Monday.

Outgoing ANC national spokesperson, and treasurer-general candidate, Pule Mabe, told the media on Sunday afternoon that what was happening in the plenary was that various organisations in alliance with the ANC both in SA and abroad were delivering their messages of support.

After that, their legion of delegates will discuss various reports to be tabled and adopt them if they are satisfied.

Thereafter the elections committee will outline to delegates how the voting for the top seven will take place and break for lunch.

Each province will be given time to vote to determine which slate, between the one led by Dr Zweli Mkhize and Cyril Ramaphosa, wins.

After the announcement of the results of the top seven, the elections committee will then open the floor for nominations for additional members (NEC) so that on Monday they vote.

He added that they had to cover much ground as possible because they had lost valuable time since Friday.

“As of now (around 2pm) what is happening around plenary is that messages of support are being conveyed, these are 17 messages of support.

“Fraternal organisations here in the country and in the diaspora and former liberation movements that we have shared trenches with, that had been invited…

“After all these messages of support are delivered we will discuss reports that had been tabled.

“At the conclusion and adoption of these reports, the elections committee, together with the elections commissions would come and outline how elections will unfold.

“Delegates will then break for lunch, when they come back they will move to different commissions.

“They are expected to vote per province while they are in commissions, continuing with deliberations.

“So, we are hoping that this process would be smooth, it would go as planned,” Mabe said.

Asked whether their vote counting would be manual or electronic, Mabe said the counting of ballots would be manual.

He added that their leagues and provinces would deploy their observers to ensure that there was no cheating and the process was credible.

On the allegations that both factions had been using money to buy votes from delegates, Mabe said they didn’t have enough evidence to investigate and prove that and asked for more information.

He added that these allegations brought a credibility crisis for the ANC and the people who eventually got elected.

“Unfortunately, these delegates who are alleged to have been bought or received some form of inducement to vote either way, only use the media or journalists to report and they don’t make the organisation aware.

“We are then not empowered to make the necessary investigations,” he said.

“Zondo Commission was a puppet show – Fraser” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/africa/zondo-commission-was-a-puppet-show-fraser-0cf858f5-65b2-469c-92e9-b545179f786b

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022

Johannesburg - Former State Security Agency (SSA) chief Arthur Fraser says the real reason the state capture commission of inquiry declined to hear his testimony is that Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and evidence leader advocate Paul Pistorius were afraid that he would expose “the real puppet masters” pulling the strings behind their backs.

While the commission called several witnesses who implicated him in serious crimes, Fraser said in his court application to review and set aside the findings, “the commission used every available excuse or justification to deny me the opportunity to appear before it; either to answer the allegations made against me or to present my own evidence before it”.

Fraser filed the review application on Wednesday before the high court in Pretoria. In it, he cited 14 reasons why the commission’s report on the affairs of the SSA should be “thrown into the dustbin”. The grounds for review are listed under three headings: procedural unfairness; relevant considerations ignored, bias or suspected bias; and unlawfulness and irrationality.

“The commission finds that during my term there was lack of accountability and that I was a law unto myself. It also found that my vetting was unprocedural. As I will demonstrate herein below, all the findings against me are incorrect," he said.

“Apart from the fact that I was never afforded the opportunity to be heard, the commission failed to properly investigate the facts, notwithstanding the commission’s extraordinarily wide powers to do so. Instead, it accepted as true all the allegations made against me and presents such as truth in its report.

“I will submit that the commission failed to diligently do its job and as a result, its report is littered with common errors, all of which could have been avoided had I been called to answer just like other persons were called. I am advised that this failure was at best an egregious abdication of responsibility,” said Fraser.

He said: “The relief I seek is premised on the fact that the commission's findings relating to me are based on untested information and/or testimonies of individuals whose testimonies were not tested,” adding that “the commission’s report in respect of findings against me is riddled with patent factual errors and contradictions”.

Fraser said after learning through the media of the allegations made against him at the commission, around July 2020, he started to prepare his evidence before the commission, “with the expectation and knowledge that I would be required to avail myself to answer those allegations against me, present my version and assist the commission with information that would clarify some of the evidence”.

His evidence, he said, was in respect of the 2006 National Intelligence Agency Principal Agent Network Programme and other allegations levelled against him.

>>17981078

“Zondo Commission was a puppet show – Fraser” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/africa/zondo-commission-was-a-puppet-show-fraser-0cf858f5-65b2-469c-92e9-b545179f786b

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022

“It did not occur to me that the chief justice, after his persisted pleas for directors-general to come before the commission, would place so many obstacles to prevent me from appearing before the commission.”

In August 2020 he addressed a letter to the SSA, the minister of State Security, the inspector-general of Intelligence and the director-general, requesting the declassification of certain documents that he would need to assist the commission. Two more letters of request followed dated May7 and June 3, 2021 respectively.

Fraser said the failure and/or refusal to provide him with the documents that he requested had nothing to do with their sensitivity or classification. He said Justice Zondo was “inconsistent and less than truthful in his explanation as to why I was not afforded an opportunity to make representations to the commission in respect of serious allegations against me”.

“In fact, calling me to assist the commission could not depend on whether my statement was signed. I was an implicated person and the commission could have called me as it did with former president [Jacob] Zuma and others. I invite the chairperson, on oath, to contradict my submission in this regard,” he said.

Fraser added that he had met the commission’s investigators about the Bosasa matters and “it is, therefore, inconceivable that I would refuse to meet them in respect of the SSA matters,” and continues: “It is clear that the commission and/or the chairperson did everything to prevent me from appearing before the commission. It is a matter of public record that I pleaded with the commission to allow me to present my version”.

“It is therefore regrettable that the commission has released a report that is inaccurate and I regard it as a dereliction of duty on the part of the commission and the chairperson. This failure to afford me an opportunity to be heard is a breach of procedural fairness. On this point alone, which is a common cause, the relief I seek should be granted” he said.

He said: “Even without the documents I wanted declassified, the commission had the powers to call me to testify or answer to the allegations levelled against me. It has done so in respect of other implicated persons. The commission was very deliberate in not affording me the opportunity to be heard. This much is clear and constitutes procedural unfairness.”

Fraser said Justice Zondo gave varying reasons why the commission failed and/or refused to call him to testify. However, the commission proceeded to make adverse findings against him.

“I am advised that it is obligatory for the commission in its quest for truth to ensure that it does not ignore evidence that is available and/or easily discernible and could assist in the establishment of the truth it was set up to find. Its failure to do so in itself constitutes a reviewable ground.”

He said “concealing of the true facts, or failure to investigate properly and take into account relevant facts that were available, the chairperson and the commission violated the very purpose of the commission”.

Accordingly, Justice Zondo subverted the purpose of the commission, Fraser said.

“ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-anc-top-seven-conference-19-december-2022/

19-12-2022 12:12

The results for the new Top 7 voted for at the ongoing ANC 55th National Conference in Nasrec have been released.

Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected as President of the African National Congress (ANC). A new Top 7 will lead the party in the next five years.

The results for the Top 7 positions were announced on Monday, 19 December in Nasrec, Johannesburg where the party is holding its 55th National Elective Conference. .

THE NEW ANC TOP 7

The nominees for the Top 7 were as follows:

• President: Cyril Ramaphosa, Zweli Mkhize

• Deputy President: Paul Mashatile, Ronald Lamola, Oscar Mabuyane

• National Chairperson: Stanley Mathabatha, Gwede Mantashe, David Masondo

• Secretary-General: Mdumiseni Ntuli, Phumulo Masualle, Fikile Mbalula

• First Deputy Secretary-General: Nomvula Mokonyane, Tina Joemat-Petterson.

• Second Deputy Secretary-General: Ronalda Nalumango, Maropeng Ramokgopa

• Treasurer-General: Benjani Chauke, Pule Mabe

According to the party’s Electoral Committee Chairperson, Kgalema Motlhanthe, there was a total number of 4436 eligible voters and 4386 were cast.

This is the ANC incoming Top 7:

President: Cyril Ramaphosa

Deputy President: Paul Mashatile

Chairperson: Gwede Mantashe

Secretary-General: Fikile Mbalula

Deputy Secretary-General 1:Nomvula Mokonyane

Deputy Secretary-General 2: Ramopene Ramokgopa

Treasurer-General: Dr Gwen Ramokgopa

The ANC is expected to conclude its 55th National Conference which was held in Nasrec, Johannesburg on Tuesday, 20 December.

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>President: Cyril Ramaphosa

This was planned ahead.

“Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS”

https://youtu.be/Gcn8gTyB0ig

Dec 12, 2022

President Cyril Ramaphosa will remain president. That's according to International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor. She's assured her foreign counterparts that the Section 89 report into the Phala Phala matter won't destabilise South Africa or its democracy. The report found that Ramaphosa may have a prima facie case to answer to in relation to the 2020 burglary at his Limpopo farm. eNCA senior reporter Silindelo Masikane has more.

2:23 – “Meanwhile from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS, taking over from the People’s Republic of China.”

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>Chairperson: Gwede Mantashe

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“Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/money-in-leadership-contests-is-selling-anc-to-highest-bidder-mantashe-7fdac611-9289-4d00-89fe-4c2718f806ef

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022

Johannesburg - ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has warned that the use of money in the governing party’s internal leadership elections will affect the quality of its leaders.

The mineral resources and energy minister called for the ANC and its tripartite alliance partners to have an honest discussion about the quality of leaders they elect for various structures.

“Take, for instance, the ANC process of selecting leadership which is predominantly driven by ‘money’ instead of the quality of leadership we need to lead the ANC. In that space, where we are selling the organisation to the highest bidder, pettiness becomes practice,” wrote Mantashe in the latest edition of ANC Today, the party’s weekly newsletter.

He further warned that the use of money will accelerate the decline of the ANC. According to Mantashe, this will result in a leadership that is not principled but “has resources to buy the revolution”.

”To me, this is the biggest threat facing the organisation and the alliance. As we select leadership for the ANC and the alliance, we must ask the question, what value will that individual add to the collective?”

President Cyril Ramaphosa, of who Mantashe is a key ally, has been accused by his opponents of running a multi-million rand campaign to become ANC leader in 2017. In addition, Mantashe said the ANC and the alliance are at a critical point where its support is in decline.

”We are faced with challenges of either accelerating the decline or arresting the decline,” he added.

Mantashe cautioned against the adoption of the American style of politics where party members think that the ANC is about the president.

“Ours is about leadership and not an individual leader. We must ensure that there is a generation mix in our leadership structures. To do this, we must select, and elect leaders based on their strengths that will help us in rebuilding the ANC and ensure that it remains a governing party beyond 2024,” he said.

Mantashe also weighed in on the push for the SACP to contest the 2024 national and provincial elections. At its national congress last week, the Young Communist League backed the SACP’s decision to contest the 2024 elections.

Cosatu’s biggest affiliate, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), this week became the latest alliance formation to support the SACP running in the next polls.

Nehawu’s central executive committee meeting agreed to roll out a programme for engagement and mobilising support from its members on the decision of the SACP to contest elections in 2024. However, Mantashe appears unconvinced by the SACP’s move.

“A communist party that breaks away from the ANC is behaving the same as COPE, which is fishing in the same pond as the ANC, which will weaken the ANC,” he warned, referring to the group of leaders who broke away from the ANC after the 2007 national conference.

In addition, Mantashe described the much talked about standing alone of the SACP independent of the ANC as a sign of the weakening of the relationship between the two organisations and that the elders in the alliance have accepted the principle that communists are not communist factions of the ANC.

”They (communists) must be loyal to the programme of the ANC. That is the basis of communists standing for elections for ANC positions, not on the basis of communist factions supporting them but on the basis of ANC members having confidence in them,” he stated.

Mantashe said the strategy of opting out of the alliance when there is pressure on the ANC is wrong.

“As we move towards the 2024 elections, the focus must be on renewal and unity of the ANC as a contesting party,” he added.

Mantashe has observed that the younger the alliance’s leadership, the weaker the relationships become.

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>“[Black people] can be nasty and cruel, but they cannot be racist towards white people. When a black person is the perpetrator, it is never considered racism. We cannot call it that. Racism requires power. There’d need to be 400 years of oppression first.” | Asanda Ngoasheng

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>“There is amazing story about an online market place OLX which is actually owned by Naspers which is a South African company. It was selling material around Janus Walusz; scarves, flags that sort of thing for football fans.”

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