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3f5110 No.19636057 [Last50 Posts]

Welcome To Q Research South Africa

While the world is waking up, we are more divided than ever before, while watching them burn our country to the ground.

Time we dig our own country.

Enough is enough.

Let's be more active.

The world is waking up.

The world is watching.

PEOPLE ARE PAWNS IN THEIR SICK GAME OF GLOBAL DOMINATION.

PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED TO PREVENT A RISING OF THE PEOPLE.

PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED AND TAUGHT TO FIGHT THEMSELVES INSTEAD OF THE RULING CLASS.

RACE VS RACE

RELIGION VS RELIGION

POLITICAL VS POLITICAL

CLASS VS CLASS

SEX VS SEX

WHEN YOU ARE DIVIDED, YOU ARE WEAK

WHEN YOU ARE WEAK, YOU HAVE NO POWER.

WHEN YOU HAVE NO POWER, YOU HAVE NO CONTROL.

STAY STRONG, PATRIOTS.

STAY UNITED, NOT DIVIDED.

YOU ARE WHAT MATTERS.

YOU, AWAKE, IS THEIR GREATEST FEAR.

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3f5110 No.19636061

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>>19487470 ——–——– Australia #32

>>19601701 ——–——– Canada #47

>>16694358 ——–——– France #7

>>18551332 ——–——– Germany #105

>>19529888 ——–——– Japan #18

>>16694250 ——–——– Nederland #10

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3f5110 No.19636067

Notables are NOT Endorsements

#11-A

>>18801509 President Ramaphosa reveals that a health revolution is on the way (video)

>>18816521, >>18816539 National Health Insurance Plan for South Africa” (2009) -- funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (video and .pdf)

>>18830125 Meet Dr Patrick Moore: Greenpeace co-founder who left the organisation hijacked by political left (video)

>>18830765 AfriForum wins order against Rand Water with costs

>>18842617 (from Canada #42) Secrets of Manufactured Consent

>>18846292, >>18846295, >>18846297 How South African weapons are fuelling war crimes in Yemen (Parts 1-3)

>>18916836, >>18916842, >>18924629, >>19110654, >>19110660 Webber Wentzel law firm

>>18916863, >>18916868, >>18924517, >>18924528 How Middlemen and Corporations Armed the Rwandan Genocide - Armcor

>>18935804, >>18935811 Solidarity to companies -- you do not have the right to obey injustice (with .pdf)

>>18983193 ‘If this was about a bailout, they would be here’: Denel board snubs Scopa

>>18999706 US Cracks Down On Entities Training Chinese Pilots, Including Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group - South Africa mentioned

>>19017498, >>19017499, >>19017506 Parliament has passed NHI Bill

>>19027267 Another vote of no confidence for the new Johannesburg mayor scheduled for 20 June 2023

>>19032975, >>19038744 SA hosts high-level foreign delegations (video)

>>19064930 Covid Is Genocide - A Biological Warfare Crime - Dr. David Martin Speaks To The European Parliament (video)

>>19064964 Okeefe Media Group: BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War is Good for Business’ (video)

>>19064964 BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War is Good for Business’ (video)

>>19117473 ANC Bun | Brazzaville Foundation Bun

>>19117487 G4S Security Company Bun

>>19117497 Jackie Selebi Bun | Violence and Crime Bun | Webber Wentzel Bun

>>19126731, >19140862, >>19140873 Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC)

>>19126855 Same players seen in both Selebi and Zuma’s trials

>>19134665 Acting public protector denies Phala Phala report was a 'whitewash' (video)

>>19134701 Zuma 'likely' to appeal ruling against the private prosecution of Ramaphosa

>>19140873, >>19140923, >>19141022, >>19141022 Kropz

>>19279341 Mark Suzman, CEO, Board Member, Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation and Helen Suzman’s nephew (video)

>>19298258 Durban Port and ICTSI Bun

>>19298260 Updated Judge Meyer Joffe Bun

>>19315241, >>1931526, >>19315252 Julius Malema Speech and others at EFF 10th Anniversary (video)

>>19340689 Horace Campbell [Global Pan-African Movement, Chair] on Opposing Military Intervention in Niger & Disastrous U.S./French Role in Africa (video)

>>19355884, >>19355885 Iqbal Survé Biography; “founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)” and “founding member of the BRICS Business Council (Parts 1&2, video)

>>19355888, >>19355895, >>19363794, >>19363800 South Africa’s Mail & Guardian

>>19356343, >>19356350 All the companies Naspers owns (Parts 1&2)

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3f5110 No.19636071

11-B

>>19356771, >>19356774, >>19357509 Convicted paedophile Gerhard Ackerman sentenced on 12 life terms, asks court for retrial

>>19357471 Niger military says it will prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for treason (video)

>>19363862, >>19363905 The Rand Daily Mail: Anglo American and Harry Oppenheimer

>>19505959 Islamic banking continues to grow in South Africa (from 2021)

>>19530741 (from Canada #46) G20 admits African Union as permanent member

>>19542376 Floyd Shivambu warns IFP against infighting after Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s death (video)

>>19552219 Updated BRICS Summit Bun

>>19552225 Castleton Commodities International Bun

>>19552227 Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>19552228 Updated Eskom Bun

>>19552251 Updated Russia and Ukraine Bun

>>19552253 Taxi Strike Bun

>>19612958 BizNews: “President” Trump will want his pound of flesh from SA… Tough renegotiations of AGOA likely” - Dr Edward Mienie (video)

>>19627135 AfriForum presents politically inconvenient facts about land and land reform before parliament (video)

>>19635994 Final ANC Bun

>>19366002 Final Banksters Bun

>>19636006 Le Cercle Bun

>>19636010 Final Commodities Bun

>>19636018 Final Johannesburg Bun

>>19636019 Final Lady R Probe Bun

>>19636028 Final Violence and Crime Bun

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3f5110 No.19636085

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Dough

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3f5110 No.19660255

Two Top Execs at South Africa's Port and Rail Operator Resign

Published Oct 2, 2023 9:51 PM by The Maritime Executive

The CEO and CFO of South African state logistics company Transnet resigned last Friday. The departure of Transnet’s CEO Portia Derby was a culmination of pressure from business and labor groups, which have expressed concern over a deepening operational crisis at the company.

One of the major pain points for Transnet has been with its rail management division. Shortages of freight trains and destruction of railway infrastructure have resulted in massive disruptions, especially for the iron ore industry, which relies on rail to deliver its product to seaports.

According to recent data by the lobby group Minerals Council of South Africa, the country’s mining output has fallen to below pre-pandemic levels with electricity outages and rail disruptions cited as the leading causes. Mining output and sales for the 12 months to May 2023 were down by an average of four percent year-on-year.

These problems saw Transnet declare an annual loss of $302 million in the 2022/23 financial year. Transnet said the financial year was challenging with cable theft and vandalism of railway infrastructure reaching “crisis levels.”. Operational inefficiencies have also become common especially at Durban, South Africa’s largest container port. Trucks congestion at the entrances of major ports is now a huge barrier to movement of goods.

Displeased with Transnet services, the Durban Chamber of Commerce recently wrote to the Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan requesting the resignation of the company’s senior management team.

“We would like to bring to your attention our concern regarding the current CEO and her executive team. The business community of e eThekwini has reached a point where we can no longer tolerate poor service delivery at the Port of Durban,” wrote the Chamber.

In the wake of Portia Derby’s resignation, Transnet Group said Michelle Phillips - currently the head of Transnet Pipelines - would take over as the acting CEO. In addition, Transnet’s chief financial officer Nonkululeko Dlamini also departed, taking up the same position at South Africa’s telecommunications company Telkom.

President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Portia Derby in 2020 to head Transnet, filling a position which had remained vacant for almost two years. In 2018, Transnet fired its former CEO, Siyabonga Gama, for what the board described as “serious violations of his financial, procurement and fiduciary responsibilities.” Gama has denied the allegations.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/two-top-execs-at-south-africa-s-port-and-rail-operator-resign

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78cd27 No.19692232

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“Israeli businessman Shafiq Nasser killed in Cape Town” - https://youtu.be/x0tQOvqrfHY

Police in the Western Cape are on a manhunt for the killer of Israeli businessman Shafiq Nasser. According to reports, a gunman on a motorbike shot and killed Nasser near Montague Gardens, in Cape Town yesterday. His cousin was also killed almost a year ago while visiting him in South Africa.

The businessman and some family members fled Israel following accusations of being involved in criminal activities.

“Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town”

https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news/property-developer-shafiq-naser-killed-by-assassins-on-superbikes-in-cape-town-c277a34c-1ed1-448a-9c59-b9d100e2e9bc

Published Oct 5, 2023

A Palestinian property developer is dead after two gunmen on motorbikes fired several shots at him in peak-hour traffic close to his home in Sandrift, Milnerton.

The killing of Shafiq Naser comes almost a year after his brother, Abdel Fattah Nassar, was shot dead in a gun battle near the V&A Waterfront.

Nassar is believed to have been involved in the Israeli underworld and had, according to reports, sought refuge in Cape Town from the gangland killings in that country.

Naser owned Naser Construction, based at Century City, and had been involved in the development of buildings in and around Cape Town according to filings with the City council.

The latest killing comes after the Global Organised Crime Index showed that South Africa ranked seventh in the world, and was a hotbed for organised criminal activities, including drug trafficking, cash-in-transit operations, poaching syndicates and robberies.

Mafia-style groups, well-armed and associated with high levels of violence, are increasingly prominent, particularly in major cities such as Cape Town, Joburg and Durban.

On Wednesday, Naser was driving his Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV on Bosmansdam Road when two gunmen on two motorcycles shot at him after the traffic lights on Freedom Way, adjacent to the Sable Square shopping centre.

Milnerton Community Policing Forum vice chairperson Jacqui Pember said Naser's assassination had left the local community in shock.

"The Milnerton CPF finds it quite disturbing that an incident like this has occurred in broad daylight with such blatant disregard for anyone else who may be in the vicinity.

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78cd27 No.19692436

>>19636071

>>19505959 Islamic banking continues to grow in South Africa (from 2021)

“Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality”

https://southafricatoday.net/business/africarare-ubuntuland-partners-with-haqq-to-innovate-sharia-law-education-and-ethical-community-engagement-in-mixed-reality/

October 5, 2023

Africarare, the AI-powered mixed reality platform, is set to redefine ethical finance education through a pioneering collaboration with HAQQ. This ethics-first L1 blockchain brings together sustainability-focused developers, validators, open-source contributors, and Muslim innovators in sustainable finance.

This strategic alliance aims to elevate Africarare’s immersive experiences within Ubuntuland by seamlessly integrating ethical finance principles with community-driven decentralised technologies. Simultaneously, it bolsters HAQQ‘s presence in Africa, a burgeoning region for blockchain and cryptocurrency, by empowering local communities through Sharia-compliant financial literacy.

Africarare’s Ubuntuland will host two distinct 12×12 virtual villages, a hallmark of this groundbreaking venture:

1. Sharia Law Education: A dedicated zone within the virtual villages will offer users immersive encounters with Sharia law within the realm of ethical digital finance. Through interactive AI agents and mixed-reality settings, users will gain a deep understanding of this crucial aspect of financial ethics.

2. Exhibition Area: Showcasing HAQQ‘s network partnerships and projects, this virtual space will vividly highlight the global impact and collaborative achievements that HAQQ has garnered over time.

3. Auditorium for Live Events: A cutting-edge virtual auditorium will be erected to host live events, seminars, product unveilings, and assorted initiatives. This platform will serve as a global stage for thought leadership in ethical digital finance.

Expressing excitement about the partnership, Africarare CEO Mic Mann stated, “Our collaboration with the HAQQ Network is a significant stride towards Futureproofing Africa. It allows us to provide valuable insights and education on Sharia Law and the evolving landscape of the digital economy.”

Echoing this sentiment, HAQQ‘s CEO, Alex Malkov, remarked, “Our partnership with Africarare Ubuntuland marks the establishment of an unparalleled educational hub. Together, we amplify the message of ethical finance and innovation across Africa and beyond. At HAQQ, we remain steadfast in our commitment to driving change while upholding our ethical principles.”

The Africarare Ubuntuland and HAQQ partnership ushers in a new era of mixed reality, merging ethical digital finance education with community engagement on a platform engineered to revolutionise learning, connections, and growth within a Sharia-compliant ecosystem.

About Africarare Ubuntuland

Africarare is an inclusive AI-powered web3 platform that enables connection, collaboration and e-commerce amongst individuals, brands, and communities by leveraging AI and mixed reality, uniquely positioned in the high-growth African market. Africarare has a bold vision to serve over a billion people and break barriers by leveraging the power of AI and mixed reality. With a focus on Africa and communities worldwide, Africarare aims to create an inclusive platform that empowers individuals, brands, and communities to unleash their potential. Learn more at www.africarare.io

About HAQQ

HAQQ is an ethics-first L1 blockchain that brings together sustainability-centred developers, validators, open-source contributors, and Muslim innovators in sustainable finance with its native asset – Islamic Coin. As an EVM-equivalent chain built using the Cosmos SDK, HAQQ‘s innovative technology allows for the seamless deployment of smart contracts from other EVM chains. HAQQ aims to create a fairer, more sustainable financial system by balancing Shariah-compliant philosophy with cutting-edge technology using Shariah Oracle – an on-chain registry of Halal Certificates that assures compliance with Islamic principles. HAQQ ensures that its users interact exclusively with whitelisted Shariah-compliant dApps, minimising unethical or Haram activity within the network. Learn more about HAQQ at haqq.network.

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78cd27 No.19692443

>>19692436

“South Africa: The Halal Kingdom”, “Although it holds the world’s smallest percentage of Muslims”

https://jamiat.org.za/south-africa-the-halal-kingdom/

Although it holds the world’s smallest percentage of Muslims, there are grounds for asserting that South Africa has a highly advanced halal certification programme. The Rainbow Nation is considered one of the five largest producers of halal products worldwide.

And because it comprises 25 per cent of the African continent’s gross domestic product (GDP), significant opportunities exist for halal trade.

The story of this development is intricately entwined with South Africa’s unique and painful history, as the fight against apartheid gained momentum in the second half of the last century.

Halal certification was introduced in the 1960s, under the supervision of the Ulama (religious leader of the Muslim community), but was limited to meat slaughterhouses and abattoirs. In the 1970s, oversight was extended to poultry, and in the 1980s to other consumables. In 1996, the South African National Halal Authority (SANHA) established itself as the pre-eminent halal certification body.

This is despite the fact that South Africa’s Muslim community is not large. For instance, Pretoria, one of the country’s three capital cities, is home to a population of around 50 million, of which 79 per cent are Christian, two per cent Muslim, 0.1 per cent Jewish, 1.2 per cent Hindu, 3.7 per cent other beliefs, and 14 per cent with no religious affiliation. The Muslim population is estimated to be 1.2 million officially, and over two million unofficially.

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78cd27 No.19692449

>>19692436

>>19692443

“[South] Africa Might Emerge As A Major Supplier Of Halal Food”

https://news.africa-business.com/post/africa-supplier-of-halal-food

With the Belt and Road Initiative poised to transform market access across Asia, potential partnerships with African companies are opening as they seek to target Asian consumers. In particular, many South African halal food producers have high hopes that Hong Kong could prove the ideal gateway for boosting their exports across the region.

By 2030, the global Muslim population is estimated to number some 2.2 billion, representing about a quarter of the world’s consumers. This substantial demographic shift will result in increasing demand for halal products. The global halal food industry is estimated to be worth US$2.3 trillion, and South Africa is among many countries hoping to capitalise on this rapidly expanding market.

Despite its relatively small Muslim population, South Africa is a world-leader in producing and – importantly – certifying halal products. The country’s exporters see Asia as one of the fastest-growing markets for halal goods; by 2030, it’s projected that Asia will be home to 80 per cent of the world’s Muslim population.

“South Africa has long had a significant number of domestic producers of halal food,” said Ebi Lockhat, a spokesman for the South African National Halaal Authority, the country’s leading halal certifying body. “Those manufacturers are now starting to become active internationally. This has seen many of them attend trade events across the Muslim world, while looking to establish a firm presence in the international markets.”

South Africa’s halal production system is subject to high certification standards, ensuring compliance with the requirements of Muslim consumers. Eating only properly-certified food is mandatory for practising Muslims, with such proof of compliance providing an assurance that all such foodstuffs have been produced according to Islamic law.

In line with this, plans are now in place to further enhance South Africa’s position within the sector. This includes the launch of a government-backed US$67 million halal food-processing industrial park. This new facility will ramp up South Africa’s halal food export capacity, with the aim of doubling its share of the global market. A feasibility study is underway in the Cape Town area to determine the best location for the proposed park.

When completed, the park will comprise a cluster of halal manufacturing and service firms. South Africa’s Western Cape provincial government also hopes to attract a globally recognised halal certifying body to operate out of the site.

Halal Food Industry In Africa

For the provincial government, growing the halal industry is now a key focus as it looks to boost growth and create new jobs in the region. “This industry is growing at an estimated annual rate of 20 per cent,” said Alan Winde, Western Cape Minister of Economic Opportunities. “This is why we are now looking for significant growth in the size of the province’s halal industry.

“Certification is also hugely important. In addition to developing a guide to the current certification standards, we will work with the appropriate certification bodies in order to try and establish a single standard, one that is in line with global market demands.”

The new park is being planned in collaboration with the Malaysian government, which has itself identified a shortfall in the provision of halal food for the world’s growing Muslim population.

As a result, the Western Cape Fine Food Initiative, another partner in the proposed park, and the Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology signed a long-term cooperation agreement to foster partnerships between the two countries’ halal industries.

The Market For Halal Food

China is also looking to increase its share of the global halal food market. This move has been partly spurred by the country’s adoption of the far-reaching Belt and Road Initiative. Significantly, many of the countries along the proposed Belt and Road routes have substantial Muslim populations.

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78cd27 No.19692458

>>19692436

>>19692443

>>19692449

Is it then coincidence that…?

“‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding” – Part 1

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa-isis-jihadist-terrorism-funding-money-laundering-organised-crime-latest/

13 Jun 2023 11:01 am

South Africa has never been touched by Islamist attacks. Its three-decade-old democracy is solid, and its financial system is respected.

Yet experts say the continent’s most industrialised nation is now a nerve centre for jihadist financing in Africa.

South Afica ‘now a hub’ for transfer of money to IS branches

“South Africa is open hunting ground,” Pretoria-based counter-terrorism expert Jasmine Opperman told AFP.

Islamist financiers gather money in the country and transfer it into “the hands of terrorism,” she said, adding it was internationally recognised “that we are now a hub”.

It’s a stark indictment for a country that, apart from the odd alerts issued by the US embassy, hardly registers on the radar of extremist activities worldwide.

Yet Opperman’s assessment is widely shared by analysts across Africa, Europe and the United States (US).

Red flags were first raised last year when the US government levied sanctions on several South Africans it accused of belonging to an Islamic State (IS) cell.

The group facilitated the transfer of money to IS branches across Africa, according to Washington.

It “provided technical, financial, or material support to the terrorist group,” the US treasury said in November.

Complacency by SA authorities

Some analysts have suggested that jihadist financing flourished because South African authorities grew complacent at the lack of visible Islamist activity.

“I don’t think South Africa realised it. It was the Americans who said, ‘something not okay is going on in your country,'” Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter-Extremism Project think-tank, told AFP.

“The entire government is now put to task,” he said.

South Africa grey-listed

One of the clearest signs something was amiss came in March this year when the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global illicit cash flow watchdog that aims to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing, placed South Africa on its “grey list” over gaps in monitoring and stemming illegal financial activities.

A cocktail of conditions, including a functional financial system, liberties, porous borders, corruption and criminality have made South Africa fertile ground for Islamists to raise funds, experts say.

A lot of the money comes from organised crime syndicates which raise funds through drugs and precious minerals trafficking, as well as kidnapping for ransom.

Extortion, with the use of fake Tinder profiles to lure victims, is also widespread.

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78cd27 No.19692463

>>19692458

“‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding” – Part 2

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa-isis-jihadist-terrorism-funding-money-laundering-organised-crime-latest/

13 Jun 2023 11:01 am

‘Organised crime is rife’ in South Africa

Kidnapping cases doubled to 4,000 between July and September last year, compared to the previous quarter, police statistics show.

“Organised crime itself is rife in South Africa,” said Opperman.

To avoid detection, the money is then transferred to Islamist cells across the continent in small remittances that don’t raise eyebrows.

Some R6.3 billion was wired from South Africa to Kenya, Somalia, Nigeria and Bangladesh through mobile money transfer using nearly 57,000 unregistered phone SIM cards between 2020 and 2021, according to an investigation by a South African weekly newspaper, the Sunday Times.

The hawala system, an informal method of payment based on trust that is far more difficult to trace than bank transfers, is also used to siphon money away.

Some money sent abroad is genuinely aimed at supporting family, and it’s unclear just how much jihadists raise.

But experts believe they are awash with cash, likely making “more money than they need,” Schindler said.

IS internal documents seen by experts show that of the money raised on the continent, the IS in Somalia keeps 50% while 25% is split between cells in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the balance going to IS central.

‘Waiting for proof’ – Farhad Hoomer

One of the suspects listed by the United States as an IS cell leader is Durban-based Farhad Hoomer, 47.

He was sanctioned last year for “playing an increasingly central role in facilitating the transfer of funds from the top of the Isis hierarchy to branches across Africa”.

Hoomer denied being an IS cell leader, telling AFP by phone from Durban that he “was surprised” by the sanctioning.

“I’m waiting for the proof. It’s one year waiting for the proof,” he said.

Hoomer was arrested by South African police in 2018 for allegedly planning to deploy improvised incendiary devices near mosques and retail shops. Authorities brought dozens of charges against him, which were however later dropped.

Terrorists ‘exploit democratic nature’ of South Africa

Tore Hamming, a fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, told AFP those involved in jihadist financing were “pretty well-known extremist figures from South Africa who have been active in the extremist milieu for a good number of years.”

The jihadists capitalise on “open financial structures”, he added.

Martin Ewi, a regional organised crime observatory coordinator with the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies, said a number of individuals were currently being investigated, with detectives “digging” up cases as far back as 2017.

“Terrorists have exploited the country’s democratic nature… to use it as a hub for mobilising financing” and other resources, Ewi told AFP.

In a recent note the US-based intelligence and security think-tank Soufan Center concluded that South Africa has “emerged as a financial hub for Isis in Africa”, using another name for IS.

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78cd27 No.19692470

>>19692458

>>19692463

“‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding” – Part 3

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa-isis-jihadist-terrorism-funding-money-laundering-organised-crime-latest/

13 Jun 2023 11:01 am

‘Increase of funds’

Cells based in the country are backing the “operational work” of IS “more widely”, said the Soufan Center.

These revelations come as the continent is increasingly becoming a favoured sanctuary for the jihadist group after the 2019 loss of the “caliphate” following US-led international counter-offensives in both Iraq and Syria.

IS has seen its most striking rise recently across Africa, with a presence in the Sahel region, through to Lake Chad, all the way to the DR Congo, Mozambique and Somalia.

“In the last five years, Africa itself has become more and more important for ISIS,” said Schindler.

But South Africa’s role in international terrorism dates back more than a decade, according to Ryan Cummings, analyst with the Cape Town based Signal Risk security advisory firm.

It has been a “perceived financial hub for extremist groups for quite a while,” he said citing intelligence evidence that suggested Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab used South Africa to move funds after the 2013 attack on the Westgate mall in Kenya’s capital.

There are reports of “an increase of funds… flowing from South Africa” to Mozambique, and the IS affiliate in the DR Congo, said Cummings.

Laws to bolster fight

South Africa is now boosting efforts to get off the FATF grey list.

Several pieces of legislation have been rushed through parliament in recent months, notably one on anti-money laundering and combating terrorism financing.

On 19 May, Security Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told lawmakers that her office, along with other agencies, will “continue to develop and implement… measures to ensure that South Africa’s territory is not used to plan, facilitate or carry out acts of terrorism and acquire, move, store and use funds in support of terrorism”. [More lip service]

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3f5110 No.19731387

General Research #24226 >>19730150

Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo

The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) announced on Wednesday that it had taken "strong measures" against peacekeepers suspected of "serious misconduct".

According to internal documents of the MONUSCO peacekeeping mission, seen by AFP, the eight peacekeepers deployed in Beni, eastern DR Congo, were arrested on October 1 and an officer suspended a week later in connection with alleged sexual exploitation and violence.

All belong to the South African contingent of the UN force, and may be involved in what internal reports describe as a "systematic widespread violation" of UN rules.

"The Office of Internal Oversight Services has been apprised and precautionary measures have already been taken in accordance with the UN Secretary-General's zero-tolerance policy," MONUSCO said in a statement late Wednesday.

The measures taken "include the suspension, detention and confinement of the peacekeepers concerned", the UN force said, adding that it "strongly condemns such behaviour, which is unworthy of UN personnel".

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20231012-eight-un-peacekeepers-detained-over-sex-abuse-claims-in-dr-congo

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d94b15 No.19773234

>>19773073

非常にホモな感じ

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4546fa No.19782005

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

“South Africa and the Cuban communist project”

https://youtu.be/QAtrcf7d7zI

Oct 20, 2023 #communism #cuba #southafrica

A recent report found that South Africa is not only spending extravagant amounts of money on Cuba, but also that these expenditures are irrational as it carries not benefit to South Africa. In this video I discuss some of what was found in the most recent report and I explain why this makes perfectly sense if you consider South Africa's commitment to the Cuban communism strategy.

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4546fa No.19782011

File: ba31032a5b5884a⋯.jpg (51.95 KB,424x757,424:757,Patrisse_Cullors.JPG)

Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OfFOlvlgKEA?feature=share

“The other thing I’ll say is Palestine is our generation in South Africa and if we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project that’s called Israel, we’re doomed.”

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4546fa No.19782021

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>>19782011

>Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

>>19782005

>“South Africa and the Cuban communist project”

>>19692458

>“‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding”

“ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy”

https://youtu.be/b8Dt0y638AY

0:29 – “We are in a revolution.”

0:36 – “All we do is to protest and walk around. The days of protesting and walking around went to an end. We’re saying that we must stand up and act like the people of Palestine.”

0:54 – “The ANC is the ruling party here… Every time you vote for the DA and the PA, you must know you are voting for Israel Apartheid.”

“WATCH: ANC calls for Israeli embassy to be shut”

https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/watch-anc-calls-israeli-embassy-be-shut/

Updated Oct. 20, 2023, 7:01 p.m.

Excerpts below

The ANC and its alliance partners have called for the Israeli embassy in Pretoria to be closed amid the country's ongoing war with Hamas

The ANC, SACP, Cosatu, joined various civil society and faith-based organisations in a march to the embassy on Friday.

The South African government has expressed solidarity and support for the people of Palestine while also condemning the killing of civilians on both sides.

The governing party has over the years held pickets outside the Israeli embassy in support of Palestine.

In May 2021, the then deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte who was leading the picket called on the Israeli government to “take their knees off the Palestinians” or close their embassy in the country.

ANCYL President Collen Malatji has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy in Pretoria.

"We are here today, and we are told that the Ambassador of Israel is not here. Now we are calling upon the president of the ANC and that of the country Mr Cyril Ramaphosa to immediate expel them.

"This embassy here must be removed with immediate effect.

"If the president doesn't remove them by Friday, we are coming back here on Friday to occupy these buildings.

"We are calling upon all companies of Israel to immediately leave South Africa, starting with that Woolworths that you love so much," said Malatji.

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4546fa No.19782035

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>>19782021

>The ANC, SACP, Cosatu, joined various civil society and faith-based organisations in a march to the embassy on Friday.

>The South African government has expressed solidarity and support for the people of Palestine while also condemning the killing of civilians on both sides.

Yet South Africa remains neutral concerning the Ukraine/Russia conflict…

“Africa Day | President Ramaphsoa defends SA's position on Russia's war with Ukraine” - https://youtu.be/I8pnd2gwM4A

“Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-25/ramaphosa-rules-out-south-africa-abandoning-non-aligned-stance#xj4y7vzkg

May 25, 2023

South Africa’s president insisted his country won’t be drawn into taking sides in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, even as it faces pressure from some of its main trading partners to change course.

“Some countries, including our own, are being threatened with penalties for pursuing an independent foreign policy and for adopting a position of non-alignment,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a speech on the outskirts of Johannesburg on Thursday. “We will maintain our position on the peaceful resolution of conflict wherever those conflicts occur.”

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3f5110 No.19821993

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Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power

Bloomberg October 27, 2023

South Africa is utilizing ships to store diesel as part of an effort to ensure supply to run generators and reduce electricity outages that have crimped the economy.

Diesel-fired turbines typically intended for peak use have been increasingly run to meet demand while state-owned utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd’s poorly maintained coal plants remain susceptible to frequent breakdowns. South Africa doesn’t have enough storage capacity onshore, prompting the use of vessels off the southern coast near Mossel Bay to store the fuel.

“As there is limited storage, PetroSA has taken a process of using floating tankers to ensure that product is readily available as and when required according to forecasts as agreed with Eskom,” the state-owned oil company said in a letter to stakeholders dated Oct. 18. There were four tankers designated to deliver diesel to PetroSA “to supply key customers” and one carrying gasoline, it said.

There were six tankers offshore Mossel Bay on Friday, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.

Eskom didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment.

The utility has spent more than $1 billion on the fuel in the year through March 31, more than double the previous period. It’s often exceeded use of the open-cycle gas turbines on a monthly basis compared with last year.

https://gcaptain.com/tankers-line-up-off-south-africa-to-ensure-diesel-power/

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bedd9d No.19822365

File: 95d36dfbb24ccb5⋯.png (462.38 KB,951x617,951:617,2023_04_10_11_42_35_david_….png)

File: 9e95eb4cc735adc⋯.jpeg (107.06 KB,1125x627,375:209,Ft0fd1bX0AE5pMy.jpeg)

File: 9741850fbd3427d⋯.png (195.67 KB,584x377,584:377,Screenshot_2023_04_12_12_5….png)

File: 31a8b5aae234973⋯.png (660.58 KB,1275x809,1275:809,Screenshot_2023_04_12_13_0….png)

File: 1a8c2ffaa3bfa34⋯.png (172.67 KB,581x431,581:431,Screenshot_2023_04_12_12_4….png)

South Africa research and nobody talks about NANTSA?

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3f5110 No.19877994

>>19822365

There's been a lot of things in the South Africa breads but don't recall anything NANTSA

Do you have info on them that does not come from George Webb?

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3f5110 No.19952053

Chronic congestion building along the east coast of South Africa

Sam Chambers November 21, 2023

Massive ship queues are forming off the east coast of South Africa where dire handling capabilities at the ports of Durban and Richards Bay are causing consternation.

At Durban, which ranks among the poorest boxports productivity-wise in the world, there are 63 ships backed up with Transnet, the country’s port operator, warning it could take up to February to clear the backlog.

Liners have instituted congestion surcharges as well as announcing some dropped calls to South Africa in the wake of the growing queues which sees more than 70,000 containers stranded off Durban.

“The problem of port congestion is a complex one and it is something that was due to happen at some point, as a result of many years of underinvestment in equipment and its maintenance,” said Transnet chairperson, Andile Sangqu. “We need to caution that this is going to take some time as the lead times for some of the equipment is anything from 12 to 18 months.”

Transnet group CEO Michelle Phillips described the ongoing crisis at the port of Durban as “Rome is burning”. She said a damaging combination of a lack of maintenance and inadequate investment in infrastructure meant the old equipment simply could not withstand the weather.

At Richards Bay, meanwhile, a key dry bulk export terminal, Transnet is holding an emergency meeting today with port officials and the industry to work on a plan to address the port’s many problems.

The country’s Road Freight Association said this week the truck congestion at Richards Bay was a consequence of the country’s failed rail system, which should be used to transport goods.

This comes after Transnet suspended the receiving of goods at the port from trucks due to heavy traffic on the roads.

https://splash247.com/chronic-congestion-building-along-the-east-coast-of-south-africa/

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3f5110 No.20008705

File: e935a298de44c56⋯.png (366.3 KB,432x640,27:40,Paddedcell.png)

>>20007235

Take Your Meds

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3f5110 No.20027327

General Research #24583 >>20027306

Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa

November 29, 2023

On those bleak corners of the Internet that fret about economic growth, social cohesion, and other boring stuff, there’s a common question: What the heck happened in 1971?

On one chart after another for the United States, there is a pattern of steady growth and improvement in life that suddenly goes haywire right around 1971. Wage growth stagnated for all but the richest Americans. Inequality explodes. Housing prices began a long upward march that has yet to level out. Fertility rates crashed while illegitimacy surged. And so on, and so on.

Many other nations have data that tells a similar story, around a similar time. But one nation has a very different year that marks a shift in fortunes. In South Africa, the question could well be, “What the heck happened in 1994?”

In that country, life expectancies grew until the early 1990s, when they suddenly went into reverse, driven heavily by an explosion of AIDS.

Primary school enrollment in the country peaked in the early 1990s but then started to go down, reaching only the low 80s by the mid-2010s.

From 1997 onward, South Africa has never come close to matching the (already high) unemployment rate it had in 1994.

Man, what the heck happened to South Africa in the early 90s?

Not too long ago, South Africa was a darling of the global neoliberal order. The nation hosted a soccer World Cup (where its fans ruined things with the abominable vuvuzela). It had that schmaltzy feel-good movie with Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. The BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China gave South Africa a sympathy invite to join the newly-renamed BRICS cabal. South Africa was the nation that would prove a post-colonial, post-European majoritarian multiracial democracy would astonish the world.

A new report from Harvard sums it up thusly:

The early 1990s marked a victory for generations of freedom fighters, and the future of an inclusive South Africa was set in motion. There was no telling what could be accomplished with the full force of South Africa’s human capabilities, creativity, and resilience in combination with its industrialized economy and established comparative advantages in global trade. […] The Rainbow Nation seemed poised to leverage its substantial economic assets at full strength. In 1995, South Africa supported the 47th most complex economy in the world — on par with China (ranked 46th) and far ahead of any other African nation (Tunisia was next at 66th). There was good reason to believe that the economy would grow rapidly, and opportunity would expand to many more South Africans.

Uh, yeah, about that.

You all know how well things went. But what’s incredible is that now even Harvard is giving up on the country.

Courtesy of the university’s “Growth Lab” at the Center for International Development, we have a lengthy 178-page paper titled “Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa.” But despite the title, the paper is actually about how the drive for “inclusion” has caused growth to disappear from the unfortunate country:

South Africa’s economy is stagnating and, in fact, losing capabilities, export diversity, and competitiveness. While the racial composition of wealth at the top has changed, wealth concentration in South Africa has not and remains very high. Moreover, the broader structures of the economy have not allowed for the inclusion of the labor and talents of South Africans — black, white, and otherwise.

The report is a gruesome, piece-by-piece dissection of South Africa’s failed economy, dressed up in just enough euphemisms to be publishable while allowing the more alert and informed to see the truth.

More:

https://revolver.news/2023/11/harvard-report-reluctantly-tells-the-truth-about-what-killed-south-africa/

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3f5110 No.20056501

Anons actually in Africa heard of this?

Canada #50 >>20053307

Here We Go: CDC Issues Health Alert Over Deadly, Fast-Spreading Strain of Monkeypox

by Jim Hᴏft Dec. 9, 2023

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert on Thursday to inform clinicians and health departments nationwide about the emergence and spread of a deadly subtype of the monkeypox virus, known as Clade I, predominantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

This health advisory, part of the CDC’s Health Alert Network (HAN), underscores the necessity for heightened vigilance, particularly among travelers returning from the DRC. Clade I, distinguished as a distinct genetic grouping of the monkeypox virus, has not been reported in the United States to date, according to the health alert.

There is currently an outbreak of deadly monkeypox in 22 out of 26 provinces, including urban areas in Congo.

However, the possibility of its appearance in travelers necessitates increased awareness and diagnostic readiness among healthcare professionals.

Symptoms of Clade I mpox resemble those of other forms of the virus, including a widespread rash and lymphadenopathy. Clinicians are urged to promptly notify state health departments upon encountering patients exhibiting these symptoms, particularly those with recent travel history to the DRC.

The CDC also emphasizes the importance of lesion specimen submissions for clade-specific testing in such cases.

Though vaccine coverage in the U.S. is low, the CDC reasserts that vaccines such as JYNNEOS and ACAM2000 are expected to be effective against both Clade I and Clade II MPXV infections. Medical experts are urged to recommend vaccination for all eligible patients.

In a separate travel advisory, the CDC has strongly advised travelers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to exercise heightened caution. Key recommendations include avoiding contact with individuals who are ill, maintaining a distance from wild animals, and refraining from consuming or handling game meat.

New York Post reported:

A deadly, fast-spreading strain of the monkeypox virus has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert.''

The variant of the virus, which causes the severe disease known as mpox, kills up to 10% of the people who are infected, according to the World Health Organization.''

“The virus variant is known to be more virulent. If it adapts better to human-to-human transmission, that presents a risk,” Rosamund Lewis of the WHO’s mpox surveillance team told Reuters.

Last year, a less-deadly variant of the monkeypox virus known as Clade II spread worldwide (a clade is a genetic subtype of virus). More than 31,000 Americans were diagnosed with mpox during last year’s outbreak, and 55 died.

But now, the rapid spread of the deadlier Clade I subtype of the virus has been reported by health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the disease has spread to 22 of the DRC’s 26 provinces.

In the same week, CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen issued a new alert for the COVID “Pirola” variant and recommended masking up for those who are feeling symptoms.

“Respiratory viruses commonly cause illness such as flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), especially in the fall and winter. There are actions you can take to protect yourself and others. Learn about how to reduce your risk of getting sick from these viruses, and if they are spreading in your community,” the CDC stated.

We can really tell that it is now election season.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/here-we-go-cdc-issues-health-alert-deadly/

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3f5110 No.20065199

General Research #24627 >>20065132

West sees BRICS expansion as direct threat analyst

The growing alliance is forcing neocolonial powers to rethink their ?parasitic? relationship with the Global South, Jackie Shandu told RT

The West views the expansion of BRICS as an existential threat because a larger alliance jeopardizes the West's "parasitic" relationship with the Global South, independent analyst Jackie Shandu told RT on Sunday.

Cooperation between BRICS and the EU, as proposed earlier this week by South Africa's chief representative to the EU, Tokozile Xasa, means "the West will no longer be able to enjoy all the wealth and riches that it does directly at the expense of the rest of the world," Shandu said.

Because exploiting weaker countries has "kept the West in this position of being highly industrialized, high-income, and very wealthy economies and nations," the expansion of BRICS, which has allowed the developing world, particularly Africa, to hold its own on the global stage, "poses a direct threat to that very parasitic relationship," he explained.

BRICS envisions itself as a competitor to "the current western-dominated global economic order and the military industrial complex," which provides that order with a "monopoly on being able to mete out brute force," Shandu continued.

"A more organized BRICS takes more than half the world away from the undemocratic dictatorship of institutions such as the IMF [and] the World Bank" and makes the UN Security Council more democratic, he said.

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274060819/west-sees-brics-expansion-as-direct-threat-analyst

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3f5110 No.20114651

Canada #50 >>20109732

Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC

BY TYLER DURDEN THURSDAY, DEC 21,2023

Confirming a move which had been widely expected after the internal acrimony at the last OPEC+ meeting, moments ago Angola - also known as China's gas station in Africa - announced it was leaving OPEC, the country's news agency ANGOP reported on Thursday, quoting the African producer’s oil minister Diamantino de Azevedo.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, led by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, the news agency noted. Jornal de Angola also reported the news.

As OilPrice notes, Angola and another African OPEC member, Nigeria, had a spat with the other cartel members before the latest meeting regarding their oil production quotas.

At a meeting in June, Angola and Nigeria were given lower crude oil production quotas as part of the OPEC+ agreement, after the two producers had underperformed and failed to pump to their quotas for years, due to a lack of investment in new fields and maturing older oilfields.

The most recent spat within OPEC about the African countries’ quotas was one of the reasons for the cartel to postpone its latest meeting within a few days.

African OPEC members Angola, Congo, and Nigeria were forced to commit to lower output in 2024, and the originally scheduled November 26 meeting could potentially have pressured them to make further production cuts, as the Saudis expressed discontent over compliance with the deal as it shoulders the bulk of the burden.

Before the meeting at the end of November, Angola said it was not considering quitting the cartel.

“There’s no thinking in that direction,” Angola OPEC governor Estevao Pedro told Bloomberg at the time, assuring markets that Africa’s second-largest producer had no intentions of rocking the boat to that extent.

However, it seems now that Angola doesn’t see an OPEC membership as beneficial anymore after the recent spats over its production quota.

Angola, which joined OPEC in 2007, holds untapped oil and gas resources estimated at 9 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves and 11 trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves.

The news sent oil, which had caught a bid in recent days on fears about a protracted Red Sea blockage, sharply lower and back to Tuesday levels.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/oil-tumbles-after-angola-announces-it-leaving-opec

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3f5110 No.20114680

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Canada #50 >>20109787

Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Dec 21, 2023

Following the meeting between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation event in San Francisco last month, the hopes for de-escalation in Sino-US relations seem to have fallen apart after China announced export controls on rare-earths technologies.

China is the world's top processor of rare earths and has placed an export ban on technology to extract and separate rare-earth metals, according to Bloomberg, citing a document from the Ministry of Commerce.

The move comes as Washington and its allies try to reduce reliance on China's stranglehold of the global rare earths market. There are 17 rare earth metals, and Beijing controls about 85% of the global refining capacity. These metals are found in everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines to military hardware.

Beijing first hit the US with export bans for gallium and germanium in July due to its anger at the Biden administration's broader semiconductor chip export ban. Tit for tat, eh?

In a separate report overnight, the Wall Street Journal cited sources that said the Biden administration is considering tariffs on certain Chinese products, such as electric vehicles, to strengthen the US' clean-energy sector. This could be due to cheap Chinese clean energy products flooding the market, at a time when solar, wind, and hydrogen are in a bust cycle:

Lights Out: Solar Power Stocks Crash After Demand Warning Across Europe

World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm-Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects As Renewable Bust Erupts

Renewable Energy Meltdown Spreads: Plug Power Crashes After 'Going Concern' Warning

Beijing's broadening of export restrictions underscores how the East and the West are weaponizing industrial raw materials and technologies against each other. The primary issue for the West is that it has a grand re-shoring of supply chain vision but is far from becoming a reality.

Beijing's broadening of export restrictions underscores how the East and the West are weaponizing industrial raw materials and technologies against each other. The primary issue for the West is that it has a grand re-shoring of supply chain vision but is far from becoming a reality.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beijing-imposes-export-controls-rare-earth-processing-tech-mineral-war-us-heats

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3f5110 No.20115757

Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns

John Konrad December 22, 2023

by John Konrad (gCaptain) South African bunker traders are facing a unique challenge as an influx of ships, diverted from the Red Sea due to threats from Houthi rebels, are overwhelming African ports. This situation has extended voyages between Asia, the Middle East, and Europe by up to two weeks, making stops at South African ports like Durban and Cape Town essential for ships to top up their fuel. This situation has raised significant concerns regarding the escalating costs and availability of fuel, as well as growing apprehensions about carbon emissions.

Carbon Intensity

The diversion of maritime traffic from the Red Sea, driven by security concerns, leads to a significant, albeit unintended, environmental consequence: heightened carbon emissions. This could be challenging for ship owners because, starting January 1st 2024, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will require all ships to meet new the Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) requirements. This system is designed to evaluate ships’ carbon emissions and apply corresponding financial rewards or penalties. To adhere to these standards, numerous vessels are planning to operate at reduced speeds. However, the longer journey necessitated by rerouting around Africa – approximately 12,000 nautical miles – might compel ships to increase their speed to compensate for delays, potentially contravening emission targets.

Additionally, a 2020 mandate from the IMO stipulates the use of very-low-sulfur fuels (VLSFO) or the installation of emission scrubbers on ships. This regulation restricts fuel choices for vessels that haven’t invested in scrubbers and limiting the options for ships trying to refuel in overwhelmed ports.

As of now, there’s no official statement from the IMO or other regulatory authorities regarding any potential suspension or modification of these carbon-related mandates in light of the new routing challenges.

Fuel Stocks

While there is confidence in major South African ports like Durban having sufficient fuel stocks, including high sulphur fuel oil (HSFO), very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), and marine gas oil (MGO), the costs are a major concern. Fuel prices in South Africa are significantly higher than major bunkering ports like Singapore and Rotterdam due to the heavy reliance on imported fuels and limited local production. For instance, Durban’s pricing for HSFO (High Sulphur Fuel Oil) is approximately a thousand dollars higher per ton compared to Singapore, whereas the price difference for VLSFO (Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil) between the two cities is under one hundred dollars.

An additional challenge comes from the shutdown of offshore bunkering operations in Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, after revenue service officials arrested tankers servicing the facility on tax evasion charges, causing a shift in demand to other ports. The situation is further complicated by South Africa’s sole oil refinery near Cape Town, which is inadequate to meet the increasing demand. The vast majority of the marine fuels used in the country’s ports are imported, leading to higher costs. These costs could skyrocket as tanker market rates rise due to the Red Sea disruption.

A report by Linsen Nambi Bunkering Services sheds light on the decline in the bunker market over the past 15 years in South Africa, with a 61% decrease in bunker supplies. This is attributed to insufficient investment in both local refineries and terminal infrastructure, impacting the ability to produce and deliver marine fuel efficiently. South Africa is also suffering from a slow decline in the reliability of the electrical grid and infrastructure serving ports.

Despite these challenges, bunker fuel manager Gavin Naidoo from Linsen Nambi told Tradewinds that the existing infrastructure can cope with the surge in demand, with Durban operating at only 20% of its capacity. However, he noted that the response to this demand surge also hinges on whether oil companies can provide adequate fuel supplies.

The congestion from an excess of ships seeking to refuel could further escalate operational expenses, as South African ports struggle to cope with the overwhelming demand.

https://gcaptain.com/red-sea-ripples-prolonged-voyages-soaring-fuel-costs-and-escalating-carbon-emissions-concerns/

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3f5110 No.20177955

Canada #51 >>20175908

Saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS -- state media

The group has welcomed five new members, with further expansion expected later this year

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday officially announced that it has joined the BRICS+ group, with the news carried by state TV.

Riyadh has been in negotiations on its accession to the group for months, with Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan stating last August that all the details on the move would be evaluated before an “appropriate decision” was taken.

At the time, the foreign minister said the BRICS group was “a beneficial and important channel” for bolstering economic cooperation between member countries.

The group, which until January 1 included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, welcomed five new members on New Year’s Day. Apart from Saudi Arabia, it now includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the UAE. Another prospective member, Argentina, made an abrupt U-turn on its accession plans after the presidential election in the country was won by Javier Milei late last year.

The group is expected to grow even larger later this year, with Venezuela seeking to become a permanent member at the next summit in Russia in October 2024.

Moscow has assumed the one-year rotating presidency of the group, with President Vladimir Putin pledging to “facilitate the harmonious integration” of new partners. Some 30 other countries have already expressed their intent in participating in the group’s activities in one form or another, Putin noted.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke on the matter with the Spanish-language edition of Le Monde Diplomatique in an interview published on Monday, arguing that the group represents “humanity’s future,” given its vast economic power.

According to the IMF figures, the expanded BRICS now surpasses the G7, an informal group of the leading Western countries, in terms of GDP at purchasing power parity, accounting for 36% of the world total.

Maduro also slammed the move by his Argentine counterpart, arguing that the decision to scrap the BRICS+ plans was “one of the clumsiest and stupidest things Milei has done” to his country to date. With his decision, Milei has effectively taken the country back to the 19th century, seeking to turn it into a “vassal of the imperial unipolar world,” Maduro suggested.

https://www.rt.com/news/590048-saudi-arabia-joins-brics/

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3f5110 No.20227263

Canada #51 >>20226282

Israel Calls South Africa The "Legal Arm Of Hamas" After 1st Day Of Hague Genocide Case

by Tyler Durden Thursday, Jan 11, 2024

After the opening day of hearings at The Hague for South African's genocide case against Israel, the Israeli Foreign Ministry blasted the South African government, saying it is "functioning as the legal arm of Hamas."

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lior Haia further called the proceedings "one of the greatest displays of hypocrisy in history" soon after the first day wrapped up.

He also said that South Africa "seeks to allow Hamas to return to commit the war crimes, crimes against humanity and sexual crimes they committed repeatedly on October 7," in a statement posted to X, additionally calling South Africa's lawyers "the representatives of Hamas at the court."

For the first day of its International Court of Justice case (ICJ, or also commonly called the World Court), South Africa urged an "end to the targeting of healthcare workers, facilities, ambulances and civilians, including women and children" and "a permanent ceasefire and a diplomatic solution for lasting peace."

Despite it having no power to actually make this happen, other than symbolic censure, Pretoria is demanding that the court impose an order for Israel to immediately halt fighting and abide by a ceasefire.

According to a summary of South Africa's filing at the court:

The case lists the killing of Palestinians in Gaza in large numbers, especially children; the destruction of their homes; their expulsion and displacement; and a blockade on food, water and medical assistance to the strip as acts of genocide. It also includes the destruction of essential health services crucial for the survival of pregnant women and babies as further crimes of genocide against Israel.

Israel denies the allegations of genocide and says it launched the bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza to destroy Hamas, which killed 1,139 people in attacks on October 7 in southern Israel.

To be sure, there is a minority view in South Africa— mostly among the small white community — that is more sympathetic to Israel. "The comparison to South African apartheid is fully embraced by some but rejected by others," said 28-year-old Mark du Plessis, a Cape Town-based multimedia producer who requested that his real name be withheld in South Africa’s charged atmosphere over the war.

Starting last month, Israel's Foreign Ministry issued a blistering rebuke in response, rejecting the filing "with disgust" and called Pretoria's accusations a "blood libel" - essentially saying the South African government's charge is being fueled by antisemitism.

"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague pic.twitter.com/WGU1e8M23y

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 11, 2024

Israel has gone on a full-court diplomatic press pushing back against the case. There's not much that the court can enforce in terms of action regardless, but a ruling against Israel would be a huge reputational black eye. International boycotts of Israeli goods could also grow as a result.

"We call on the International Court of Justice and the international community to reject the baseless claims of South Africa out of hand," a prior formal government response stated. Major US mainstream networks largely ignored Thursday's World Court proceedings, while Al Jazeera streamed most of it live.

Watch the day one oral arguments...

THE HAGUE: South Africa v. Israel - DAY 1 - S.A. Oral Arguments - International Court of Justice https://t.co/MRbMg5k9Xi

— Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) January 11, 2024

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-calls-south-africa-legal-arm-hamas-after-1st-day-hague-genocide-case

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3f5110 No.20230322

South Africa seeks emergency external help to remedy dire situation across the nation’s ports

Sam Chambers January 10, 2024

The dire situation at South Africa’s ports, which have some of lowest productivity levels in the world, has seen the authorities seek external help.

Transnet National Ports Authority, which oversees the country’s top ports, is seeking terminal operators to come in for a period of three years to close what it describes as “port operational gaps” at its eight commercial seaports where termini operators contracts have been suspended or terminated.

The ports include Durban, Cape Town, Richards Bay, Ngqura, Saldanha Bay, Port Elizabeth, East London and Mossel Bay.

“This approach is part of the ports authority strategy of fulfilling its port landlord role,” said Anthony Ngcezula, Transnet’s general manager for commercial services. “This will lead to decreased cargo losses and ensure that we provide our customers with a cost-effective and sustainable freight logistics solution.”

Splash has reported repeatedly on the queues of ships that have built up at ports across South Africa, with the country’s terminals repeatedly polling among the lowest productivity-wise in surveys carried out by the World Bank.

https://splash247.com/south-africa-seeks-emergency-external-help-to-remedy-dire-situation-across-the-nations-ports/

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b9f483 No.20231254

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“SPECIAL EPISODE: Adv. Mark Oppenheimer on SA’s Genocide Case at the ICJ”

https://youtu.be/bShuZp9v3us

Jan 12, 2024

3:53 – “South Africa has very little regard for international law. It has threatened to withdraw from the Rome Statute on a number of occasions which is the statute that would bind it to the decisions of the ICC. By the way, the Rome Statute is the statute that declares Apartheid a crime against humanity so there’s a real interesting irony that happens in this.”

11:18 – “One of the interesting ironies of the presentation so as I said there’s this gigantic team. One of the members of that team is Tembeka Ngcukaitobi whose role was to argue around genocidal intent and he sites a song sung by Israeli soldiers where they say we must wipe out the seed of Amalek. Now some of you might recall that Tembeka was involved in the “Kill the Boer” case where he said the song “Kill the Boer” is merely metaphorical and we shouldn’t take it seriously despite the fact that you have a mother and a daughter who were raped with broken bottles and killed and “kille the Boer” written in blood on their walls.”

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898e42 No.20236804

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>>20231254

What is the play here? Taking into account; Israel vs South Africa, ANC and Jewish ties, pedophile connections (1 of 2)

- Jews were strong supporters of the ANC and helped them during their ‘struggle’ even though they murdered civilians, like Joe Slovo, Ruth First, Harry Oppenheimer, Helen Suzman, Ronnie Kasrils, Albie Sachs, Arthur Chaskalson, Denis Goldberg, etc.

- Sol Kerzner (of Jewish descent) is in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black book. He owned Sun City, also known as Sin City, in former South Africa’s Bantustan, Bophuthatswana. The biography, “Kerzner Unauthorised”, written by Allan Greenbro was banned by a judge in the ‘new’ South Africa even though it was not part of the lawsuit [https://www.biznews.com/news/2021/10/15/sol-kerzner-allan-greenblo]. He admitted to corruption back in 1989 and MPs were accused of corruption [https://mg.co.za/article/1989-01-20-00-a-lesson-from-sol-its-ok-if-its-over-the-kei/] however South Africa went through a regime change and things got worse. Sol later went onto build Atlantis in the Bahamas. One wonders what is going on there. Keep in mind, Bophuthatswana was also known as “Little Israel” [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21528586.2011.621240]. AWB members were murdered in front of the media cameras in Bophuthatswana before the 1994 elections. As a reporter stated “it was almost like a film set” [https://youtu.be/FC7UyAN-jrY] to send a message [https://youtu.be/PPvuAVO2-NI – (take note: this video states that the AWB “fired indiscriminatory at people on street corners”, yet there is no footage of this)].

- Sidney Frankel, a prominent South African Jew, accused of child molestation. “The true significance of the famous story about Cyril Ramaphosa removing a fish-hook from (National Party Cabinet minister) Roelf Meyer’s thumb is that their host on the day [during negotiations before the 1994 elections], Sidney Frankel, was chairman of Frankel Pollak, the largest stockbroker on the (then) Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Frankel acted as a facilitator of relationships between foreign and domestic business investors and government. By 1987 Frankel was well connected with the “left” in (the National Party) government – with people such as Gerrit Viljoen, Barend du Plessis and Roelf Meyer – and he began to reach out to the United Democratic Front.”… “On 13 April 2017, it was Gundelfinger who confirmed to the press that his client [Sidney Frankel] had succumbed to cancer. While most observers muttered under their breath about the “convenience” of such a demise, the activist group Women & Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA) were less demure: “It was the worst-kept secret in Johannesburg’s business, Jewish and socialite communities,” they said of the child molestation and sexual abuse charges.” [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-05-23-sidney-frankel-the-true-legacy-of-a-paedophile-philanthropist/]

- Then there is Bishop Trevor Huddleston who has been accused of child molestation. “[Nelson] Mandela said Archbishop Huddleston became a mentor to leaders in the liberation movement [ANC], who now occupy leading positions in the country's young multiracial democracy.” [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/04/21/archbishop-trevor-huddleston-anti-apartheid-leader-dies/4d5c3135-a7e0-459a-80d8-cc3ec5adabf8/] He influenced Oliver Tambo [https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803102015333], Nelson Mandela [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/mandela-taught-us-courage-love-and-compassion/article15800875/], Desmond Tutu [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-26-the-dauntless-priest-whose-humanity-ignited-the-courage-of-a-boy-who-would-become-archbishop-tutu/], etc.. “Years later Sam Silkin a former Labour Attorney General stated the prosecution was suppressed because it “… would have ruined his [Trevor Huddleston’s] career and influence”.” [https://africaunauthorised.com/pervert-or-protector-of-the-poor/]

- South Africa had its own “Lost Boys of Bird Island” and Mark Minnie who died 9 days after his book was release. “On August 5 details from the book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island, sent shockwaves through the country as authors Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn detailed their investigations into an alleged paedophilia ring that operated during apartheid. The book claimed that three former National Party ministers, including Magnus Malan and one minister who is still alive, were key figures in the operation.” [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-08-15-the-death-of-mark-minnie-what-we-know-so-far/]

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898e42 No.20236810

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>>20236804

What is the play here? Taking into account; Israel vs South Africa, ANC and Jewish ties, pedophile connections (2 of 2)

- Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker flew to South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda and Mozambique in 2002. [https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/]

- PW Botha rightfully stated in 1998 that Nelson Mandela “is a captive of the cabal and he is a captive of interests from which he cannot escape. He is a decoy dove”. [https://youtu.be/Urw9FZMor48]

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9111e9 No.20242629

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>>20236804

>Jews were strong supporters of the ANC and helped them during their ‘struggle’ even though they murdered civilians… Harry Oppenheimer

Don’t forget

Harry Oppenheimer; did business with the Soviet Union (who trained and supported the ANC) during the Cold War and used Hollywood and the Royal Family to promote diamonds

https://youtu.be/DOXp1iUvYvE

Harry Oppenheimer did business with the Soviet Union during the ‘Cold War’. In turn, the Soviet Union supported and trained the ANC. Hollywood and the Royal Family helped him to promote diamonds which is in abundance across the world. Incidentally, one of ANC headquarters was in London when they were in exile [https://antiapartheidlegacy.org.uk/heritage-arts-culture/history/the-anti-apartheid-centre-of-memory-and-learning/28-penton-street/] but did not have one in the Soviet Union.

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9111e9 No.20242633

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>>20236804

I want to highlight the quote in your attached image especially when transgenderism is being pushed around the world.

Pieter-Dirk Uys also known as Evita Bezuidenhout

“Part Afrikaner and part Jewish, Uys used his talents as a satirist for social activism, consistently lampooning the Apartheid government and using drag to create the well-know character Evita Bezuidenhout; an Afrikaner socialite. When the ANC came to power, Uys televised intimate interviews with prominent members such as Nelson Mandela and Joe Slovo.”

[“Evita Bezuidenhout in PE for her "State of the Nation Address"” (Feb 18, 2017) - https://youtu.be/xh4mvEQP-NI]

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9111e9 No.20242709

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>>20236804

>Then there is Bishop Trevor Huddleston who has been accused of child molestation.

>>20236810

>PW Botha rightfully stated in 1998 that Nelson Mandela “is a captive of the cabal and he is a captive of interests from which he cannot escape. He is a decoy dove”.

>>20242629

Hollywood and artists were used to push the political agenda. Now South Africa has an ever increasing murder rate; 2019/2020 had 58 murders/day and 2022/2023 had 75 murders/day. We supposedly don’t have a war and now the ANC led government is taking Israel to court for genocide? The ANC was regarded as a terrorist organisation which killed civilians in the most brutal way. It is interesting that Israel is not highlighting the ANC’s past.

Tony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world – Part 1

https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc [Embedded] - “We’re not allowed to do politics. Is it politics? I said no, no… Is it for the ANC? I said no… Is it for the Anti-Apartheid? I said no… Will it call for sanctions? I said no… Will it call for the release of all political prisoners? I said no… The global broadcast event which was live, of course… musicians can say what they wish to say. So of course it was for sanctions, of course it was for the release of all political prisoners, of course it was all of that as well.”

https://tonyhollingsworth.com/?q=content/nelson-mandela-70th-birthday-tribute

The Nelson Mandela 70th birthday tribute global broadcast event at Wembley Stadium on June 11 1988 was probably the most politically influential of any concert held in the UK. It was also one of the biggest and most spectacular pop-musical events of all time.

The estimated audience for the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute of 600 million in 67 countries was arguably an underestimate in that several broadcasters in Africa were given a free licence. Not surprisingly, the apartheid government refused to allow the event to be broadcast in South Africa. However, soon after, younger political detainees with Mandela smuggled in a video of the event in the guise of an educational video. During the event itself, Mandela’s wife Winnie heard snatches of the music in the background when Oliver Tambo, head of the African National Congress and a VIP at Wembley, phoned to tell her how well the global broadcast event was going.

The event had a strong effect across the world, first among ordinary people, then among politicians, increasing pressure on the South African government to release Mandela. It became increasingly likely that he would be released, albeit 20 months after the Birthday Tribute and 27 years after he was imprisoned. Shortly before the release, Mandela's lawyer asked Hollingsworth and Terry to meet him to plan another broadcast event at which Mandela himself would speak and call for the end of apartheid.

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9111e9 No.20242774

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>>20242709

Tony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world – Part 2

https://youtu.be/3S6aJEfvs-Q [Embedded]

https://tonyhollingsworth.com/?q=content/nelson-mandela-70th-birthday-tribute

Performers and speakers (by order of appearance)

Farafina Drummers

Harry Belafonte- Opening address and introduction for Sting

Sting Set them Free, They Dance Alone, Every Breath You Take, Message in a Bottle

Lenny Henry Introduction for George Michael

George Michael Village Ghettoland, If You Were My Woman, Sexual Healing

Sir Richard Attenborough (Speech)

Whoopi Goldberg and Richard Gere (Speech)

Richard Gere Introduction for The Eurythmics

Eurythmics– I Need a Man, There Must Be an Angel, Here Comes the Rain Again, You Have Placed a Chill in my Heart, When Tomorrow Comes, Sweet Dreams, Brand New Day

Graham Chapman (Speech)

Arnhemland Dancers

Whoopi Goldberg (Speech)

Amabuto

Lenny Henry Michael Jackson parody

Lenny Henry Introduction for Al Green

Al Green Let's Stay Together

Joe Cocker Unchain my Heart

Jonathan Butler True Love Never Fails

Freddie Jackson Jam Tonight

Ashford & Simpson Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Natalie Cole Pink Cadillac

Al Green, Joe Cocker, Jonathan Butler, Freddie Jackson, Ashford & Simpson, Natalie Cole He’s Got the Whole World in his Hand, Higher and Higher

Lenny Henry Introduction for Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

Fry & Laurie (Stand-up comedy)

Tracy Chapman (first appearance) Why?, Behind the Wall, Talking 'Bout a Revolution

Daryl Hannah Introduction for Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet Wishing I was lucky

Tony Hadley A Harvest for the World

Joan Armatrading Love and Affection

Midge Ure, Phil Collins Peace and a Restless World

Paul Carrack How Long

Fish Kayleigh

Paul Young Don't Dream It’s Over

Curt Smith Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Bryan Adams Somebody

Bee Gee You Win Again, I've Gotta Get a Message to You

Ali McGraw, Philip Michael Thomas Introduction for Jonas Gwangwa

Jonas Gwangwa

Lenny Henry Introduction for Salif Keita

Salif Keita

Youssou N’Dour Pitche Mi

Jackson Browne, Youssou N’Dour When the Stone Begins to Turn

Sly & Robbie, Aswad Set Them Free

Mahlathini, Mahotella Queens

Gregory Hines Introduction for UB40 and Chrissie Hynde

UB40 Rat In Mi Kitchen, Red Red Wine

UB40, Chrissie Hynde I Got You Babe, Breakfast in Bed, Sing our Own Song

Whoopi Goldberg One Woman Show

Tracy Chapman(second appearance) Fast Car, Across the Lines

Billy Connolly (Speech)

Hugh Masakela, Miriam Makeba SowetoBlues

Miriam Makeba Pata Pata

Courtney Pine, IDJ Dancers

Emily Lloyd, Denzel Washington Introduction for Simple Minds

Simple Minds Waterfront, Summertime Blues, Mandela Day, Sanctify Yourself, East at Easter, Alive and Kicking

Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds Biko

Steven van Zandt, Simple Minds, David Sanborn Sun City

Jerry Dammers, Simple Minds Free Nelson Mandela

Harry Enfield (Stand-up comedy)

Amampondo

Corbin Bernsen, Jennifer Beals Introduction for Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston Didn't We Almost Have It All, Love Will Save the Day, So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, How will I know, He/I Believe (duet with her mother Cissy Houston), I Wanna Dance with Somebody, The Greatest Love of all

Meat Loaf Introduction for Salt-N-Pepa

Salt-N-Pepa Push it

Derek B Free Mandela

Stevie Wonder I Just Called to Say I Love You, (Speech), Dark 'n 'Lovely

Fat Boys, Chubby Checker The Twist

Harry Enfield (Stand-up comedy)

Billy Connolly (Stand-up comedy)

Billy Connolly Introduction for Dire Straits and Eric Clapton

Dire Straitswith Eric Clapton Walk of Life, Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet, Money for Nothing, Brothers in Arms, Wonderful Tonight, Solid Rock

Jessye Norman Amazing Grace (concert finale)

There were also appearances by Grupo Experimental de Dansa, H. B. Barnum, Mick Karn, Mark Kelly, Ray Lema, Johnny Marr, Steve Norman.

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9111e9 No.20242815

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>>20236804

>What is the play here? Taking into account; Israel vs South Africa, ANC and Jewish ties, pedophile connections

>>20242709

>The ANC was regarded as a terrorist organisation which killed civilians in the most brutal way. It is interesting that Israel is not highlighting the ANC’s past.

“ANC sponsored violence in South Africa”

https://youtu.be/rJkTkUXbn0c

Nov 21, 2023

The New York Times recently published an article in which it was suggested that the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa explicitly rejected the use of violence in its armed struggle for power. In this video I respond to the media's continued distortion of the facts regarding South Africa.

Links referenced in the video:

The NY Times article: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/opinion/palestinian-ethical-resistance-answers-grief-and-rage.html

Munk debate: https://youtu.be/nvaf7XOOFHc

Piers Morgan / Lowkey interview: https://youtu.be/KEUElq-T5TI

New York Times correction 1: https://afriforum.co.za/en/south-african-farmers-indeed-serious-crisis-ernst-roets/

New York Times correction 2: https://afriforum.co.za/en/afriforum-responds-new-york-times-article-containing-south-african-land-debate-inaccuracies/

New York Times correction 3: https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/tucker-carlson-a-reply-to-the-new-york-times

Books listed (All found on Amazon and links provided in the video as I am unable to post them here):

People's War

Inside Quatro

ANC A View from Moscow

The Liberal Slideaway

Anatomy of a Miracle

The Bang Bang Club

Tainted Heroes trailer: https://youtu.be/34S_f00sLxw

Watch Tainted Heroes at: https://afriforumtv.co.za/

I also want to include;

ANC VIPs of Violence Full [1980s documentary]: https://youtu.be/BniyOkX09G8

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9111e9 No.20242864

>>20242786

Those artists performed these songs at the 1988 concert.. View the 10 hour video of the concert which was broadcast throughout the world to aid a terrorist organisation.

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78cd27 No.20252093

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>>20231254

>Rome Statute

>>20236810

>[Nelson Mandela] is a decoy dove

>>20242815

>ANC sponsored violence in South Africa

It is curious that the Chicago Tribune posts an article written by Ivor Ichikowitz, an arms dealer [https://www.intelligenceonline.com/insiders/africa_central-asia_middle-east/2016/09/07/ivor-ichikowitz-the-worldwide-connections-of-the-south-african-arms-magnate/108179801-beg; https://youtu.be/GvFsTNMcAZ4] and then I discovered that they have an office in South Africa, https://www.gov.za/about-government/contact-directory/foreign-media/chicago-tribune.

The irony, weapons are used in genocide.

“Ivor Ichikowitz: South Africa’s genocide case against Israel is rank hypocrisy”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-south-africa-united-nations-genocide-accusations-israel-gaza-20240116-vj7o5smsdfd2vbytncfyvf7mqe-story.html

Jan 16, 2024

Excerpts below

South Africa made history when it took Israel to the International Court of Justice — the United Nations’ highest court — and accused it of waging genocide against Palestinians while asking the court to order an immediate cease-fire.

It might turn out to be the worst decision the country has ever made.

Once, South Africa, especially the post-apartheid beacon fashioned by onetime leader Nelson Mandela, would have had the obligation to call out oppression and champion the vulnerable, but it hasn’t lived up to Mandela’s expectations for a long time.

The world will not forget South Africa for its failure in 2015 to execute an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, another tribunal, against then-Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The South African government’s response was to threaten to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, despite the Mandela administration being one of the original signatories to the Rome Statute that created it.

It is rank hypocrisy: South Africa is quick to call out injustice in some parts of the world but not in others. It is blinded to its own failings. More than 23,000 people have died in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to health officials. In comparison, 27,494 South Africans died by homicide from 2022 to February 2023.

I am a proud South African. I have also been a member, a supporter and a fundraiser for the African National Congress for more than three decades, but I’m also a Jew. I believe that the ANC has much to be proud of in terms of what it has achieved for South Africa as a whole. I believe, too, in the power of the ANC and its leadership to be a force for good on the international stage.

I feel betrayed. I feel that Jewish South Africans have been rendered second-class citizens in the land of their own birth [What about the ‘white’ South Africans who are discriminated against because of the BEE laws?]. The government did nothing to commiserate with the South Africans slain on Oct. 7 and did little to try to repatriate those caught in the conflict thereafter.

Most of all, I am disappointed that the party of Mandela has failed on the world stage to make a difference, instead of just trying to make a statement.

What was once the ANC’s strength — a broad church where all who shared its ideals were once welcome — has become its greatest weakness. The party of today has become hijacked by minority interests at odds with its traditional credo.

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3f5110 No.20279240

The Oil Market Is Making Plans For Red Sea Chaos To Last Weeks

By Alex Longley, Sherry Su and Bill Lehane January 20, 2024

Jan 20, 2024 (Bloomberg) –The oil market is bracing for a weeks-long disruption to shipping in the southern Red Sea, where Houthi militants have for months been attacking merchant vessels in response to Israel’s war in Gaza.

Charters of tankers to haul crude and fuels — which for some vessels are arranged up to a month in advance — reveal growing numbers of the vessels are being hired for routes that will avoid the danger zone, according to shipowners, brokers and traders.

Airstrikes in Yemen on Jan. 12 by the US and UK have heightened a sense of chaos for ships in the area, especially after western navies subsequently warned vessels to stay away. With the Houthis pledging to strike back against both nations’ commercial fleets, numerous owners elected to stay away from a route that normally handles about 12% of global seaborne trade.

“More and more owners are avoiding the area,” said Alexander Saverys, Chief Executive Officer of Euronav NV, whose own fleet can transport more than 50 million barrels of oil. “What looked like something that could be solved within weeks, now could indeed have consequences for many months.”

Tankers to move fuel cargoes are instead being hired to sail to Asia instead of Europe, sparking a surge in earnings. At the same time, several Iraqi crude shipments have been booked on tankers that will take a thousands-of-miles detour around Africa.

Earnings Rising

Danish tanker owner Torm said in a statement that there’s been an increase in voyages to Asia for transporting refined fuels.

That has helped pushed earnings on the so-called relatively large tankers that ship oil products from $35,000 a day to $60,000 a day over the past week.

In addition, there’s also been a significant volume of Iraqi crude cargoes booked to sail from the Persian Gulf to Europe around Africa, according to people involved in the market.

Some are jointly loading smaller cargoes onto bigger ships to make the journey more cost-effective, one of the people said.

Although crude flows from the Persian Gulf to Europe are less common than ones to Asia, the shipments nevertheless reveal owners’ attitudes to transiting the Red Sea.

More Detours

Container shipping, where many Houthi attacks had initially been concentrated, had already largely diverted before the US and UK airstrikes. Increasing numbers of tankers and bulk commodity carriers followed suit.

Some crude tanker rates have been climbing too in recent weeks too.

Aframax ships that haul about 700,000 barrels more than doubled to hit almost $80,000 a day since the middle of December.

Suezmax ships — so-called for their ability to sail full through the canal that links Asia and Europe — are up about 50% to almost $70,000 a day.

https://gcaptain.com/the-oil-market-is-making-plans-for-red-sea-chaos-to-last-weeks/

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898e42 No.20340428

>>20236810

>What is the play here? Taking into account; Israel vs South Africa, ANC and Jewish ties

Muslim radicals were also able to easily attack Israel who had the tightest security in the world, etc.. Let’s look at the following…

“Jews and Communism in Lithuania (1918 to June 1941)”

https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jews-and-communism-in-lithuania-1918

JUL 24, 2023

Excerpts below

It is well-known that jews were significantly over represented among the leaders and activists of the Russian Social Democratic Party that went on to split into two elements whose names are better known: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks under their part-jewish leader Lenin were - as I am sure most of my readers know - victorious in the power struggle that derived from the February Revolution of 1917 and which ended with the October Revolution that same year.

What is less well-known is that jews were also significantly over-represented in parties set up in an attempt to imitate the Bolshevik success, otherwise known as the (official) communist parties, across both Europe and North America. Notable examples of heavily jewish communist parties, well out of proportion to the size of the local jewish population, were the CPUSA (USA and Canada [for a time]), CPP (Poland), PCF (France), CPN (Netherlands), CPB (Belgium), CPM (Hungary), CPR (Romania) etc. [We can include the SACP (South Africa)]

What is usually ignored when we look at this over-representation are the smaller countries that bordered the, then emergent, Soviet Union and how deeply jews were involved in communism in those countries. One such state bordering the emergent Soviet Union was Lithuania and in many respects it affords a textbook example of the scale of jewish involvement in Communism as well as its governance and terror apparatus.

jews played a key role in attempting to snuff out an emergent independent Lithuania since one of the two principle architects of the policy was jewish. Out of two of the eight members of the Politburo of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic were jewish. If we discount the key background players Joffe and Manuilsky that leaves us with a quarter of the Politburo being jewish, which in turn is clearly in massive disproportion to the minority jewish population in Lithuania at the time.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between them only had approximately 265,000 jews by 1940, (1) which in turn breaks down as: (2)

Estonia: 4,434 jews (0.4 percent of the population) in 1934.

Latvia: 93,479 jews (4.8 percent of the population) in 1935.

Lithuania: 153,745 (7.6 percent of the population) in 1935.

The following excerpt was found on the Wayback machine regarding the “History of Lithuanian Criminal police” as it was removed from their website.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190321101137/https://lkpb.policija.lrv.lt/en/about-us/history-of-criminal-police/

The first activities of the criminal police (called militia at that time) in Lithuania were started to be organised on 27 October 1918. The first criminal police staff comprised three Jewish, two Polish, three Russian, one Belorussian and two Lithuanian employees none of whom spoke Lithuanian.

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898e42 No.20340445

>>20340428

>Lithuania… respects it affords a textbook example of the scale of jewish involvement in Communism as well as its governance and terror apparatus.

>>20252093

Take note…

“The peculiarly South African story of kitke [Challah]; Jewish ceremonial braided bread”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-02-25-the-peculiarly-south-african-story-of-kitke/

25 Feb 2022

the Jewish ceremonial braided bread that South Africans often call kitke and the rest of the world generally refers to as challah.

I began by establishing the origins of the internationally understood term challah. Writing in The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Moskin observes that, “The bond among Jews, God and bread goes back to the first five books of the Bible. As the Israelites are about to end their exile, God commands them to show gratitude by setting aside a portion, (‘challah’ in Hebrew), of all the bread they make after entering the Holy Land. But nowhere in Jewish scripture is it written that challah is the braided, sweet, yellow, deliciously squishy bread of the kind familiar to most American Jews, which comes from the rich tradition of Eastern European baking.

So, having established that while all kitke are challah, not all challah are kitke, I moved on to querying the origin of this seemingly South African specific term.

Kitke is listed as the Litvishe Yiddish dialect term used within what was the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Since the vast majority of South African Jews have Lithuanian ancestry it is safe to assume that they brought the recipe and its regionally specific name with them. [90% of South African Jews are Litvaks. https://vilnews.com/2011-01-litvaks-in-south-africa] Further evidence of its epicurean ancestry came when Chef Yoskowitz kindly connected me with the owners of Beigelių Krautuvėlė, a Jewish revival bakery in Vilnius who wrote that: “Yes, we know kitke, it is literally ‘braided’. We use it as a verb.”

If you are too busy to bake, Fordsburg is your best bet. Many bakeries in this predominantly Muslim neighbourhood make and sell kitke [it is interesting that Muslims will sell Jewish bread especially when there is supposedly so much animosity between them.] from recipes that would not be out of place in a Kosher kitchen.

Mass participation, international link up events such as the Shabbos Project’s Great Big Challah Bake at Johannesburg’s Norwood Mall show that many younger South African Jews use the word “challah” rather than kitke. This suggests an increasingly international identity linked to the use of the Hebrew term rather than a Yiddish and shtetl specific kitke culinary identity.

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898e42 No.20340560

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>>20242815

>ANC sponsored violence in South Africa

>>20236804

As George Halloway states that Jews helped the ANC. https://youtu.be/6jfTaIW8mqg

Keep in mind the brutality of the ANC during their ‘struggles’ and heavy involvement of the Jews in the organisation.

“South African Jews Struggle With Legacy of Apartheid”

https://forward.com/news/143231/south-african-jews-struggle-with-legacy-of-aparthe/

September 22, 2011

Excerpts below

Exiled in Israel: Anti-apartheid activist Arthur Goldreich had to flee to Israel from his home in South Africa over his support for African National Congress freedom fighters.

But rather than salving old wounds, the SABJD’s posthumous granting of a human rights award to anti-apartheid hero Arthur Goldreich has torn at the community’s scabs.

The day before the award was given, the board hosted a preliminary event, at Liliesleaf, the legendary farm outside Johannesburg where, in the early 1960s, Goldreich sheltered fugitive guerrillas who belonged to the military wing of the anti-apartheid African National Congress, including Nelson Mandela.

Goldreich, who died in May, was a lifelong Zionist who fought in Israel’s 1948 independence war in a unit of the Palmach, the young country’s military shock troops, and then returned to South Africa to join the struggle against apartheid. With his Palmach training, Goldreich brought to Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC’s young underground military wing, a veteran’s invaluable expertise in warfare. As a white man free to come and go, he traveled to Communist China and elsewhere to obtain designs for homemade military weapons for the group, such as hand grenades and landmines. Meanwhile, in public Goldreich played the role of a prosperous designer for a Johannesburg department store who owned a rural estate maintained by an outwardly subservient black staff that included key ANC leaders. Mandela was a gardener known as “David.”

“Arthur was the convenor of our Logistics Committee of the High Command,” Dennis Goldberg [“whose family had Lithuanian Jewish origins”, https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/denis-goldberg-obit-1.5551033], a senior ANC official and frequent Liliesleaf resident who helped organize the ANC’s guerrilla effort, wrote in an obituary to his friend.

Arrested in a raid on Liliesleaf in 1963, Goldreich and his co-conspirator, lawyer Harold Wolpe, escaped from prison before they could be put on trial with Mandela and other ANC leaders captured in the raid. Goldreich then eluded a nationwide manhunt and eventually returned to Israel, where he became the head of the Industrial and Environmental Design Department at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design — and a vigorous campaigner against the strong ties that grew between Israel and apartheid-era South Africa.

The SABJD sought to use its celebration of Goldreich — a centrepiece of its conference — to, among other things, reach out to the many Jewish veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle from whom the South African Jewish establishment has long been estranged. But many of those anti-apartheid veterans assailed the SABJD’s effort as but one more attempt at historical revisionism by a leadership that, at the time, disowned them and strongly distanced itself from the country’s black majority. Many of the activists who were invited boycotted the Liliesleaf gathering, which ended up being sparsely attended.

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898e42 No.20340605

>>20340428

>>20340445

>Many bakeries in this predominantly Muslim neighbourhood make and sell kitke [Jewish ceremonial braided bread]

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“‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa-isis-jihadist-terrorism-funding-money-laundering-organised-crime-latest/

13 Jun 2023

Excerpts below

South Africa has never been touched by Islamist attacks. Its three-decade-old democracy is solid, and its financial system is respected.

Yet experts say the continent’s most industrialised nation is now a nerve centre for jihadist financing in Africa.

South Afica ‘now a hub’ for transfer of money to IS branches

“South Africa is open hunting ground,” Pretoria-based counter-terrorism expert Jasmine Opperman told AFP.

Islamist financiers gather money in the country and transfer it into “the hands of terrorism,” she said, adding it was internationally recognised “that we are now a hub”.

It’s a stark indictment for a country that, apart from the odd alerts issued by the US embassy, hardly registers on the radar of extremist activities worldwide.

Yet Opperman’s assessment is widely shared by analysts across Africa, Europe and the United States (US).

Red flags were first raised last year when the US government levied sanctions on several South Africans it accused of belonging to an Islamic State (IS) cell.

The group facilitated the transfer of money to IS branches across Africa, according to Washington.

It “provided technical, financial, or material support to the terrorist group,” the US treasury said in November.

‘Organised crime is rife’ in South Africa

Kidnapping cases doubled to 4,000 between July and September last year, compared to the previous quarter, police statistics show.

“Organised crime itself is rife in South Africa,” said Opperman.

To avoid detection, the money is then transferred to Islamist cells across the continent in small remittances that don’t raise eyebrows.

Some R6.3 billion was wired from South Africa to Kenya, Somalia, Nigeria and Bangladesh through mobile money transfer using nearly 57,000 unregistered phone SIM cards between 2020 and 2021, according to an investigation by a South African weekly newspaper, the Sunday Times.

The hawala system, an informal method of payment based on trust that is far more difficult to trace than bank transfers, is also used to siphon money away.

IS internal documents seen by experts show that of the money raised on the continent, the IS in Somalia keeps 50% while 25% is split between cells in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with the balance going to IS central.

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898e42 No.20340636

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>‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding

“MTN Sued For Funding The Iranian Regime. It involves Cyril Ramaphosa, SA President, when he was MTN’s Chairman”

https://youtu.be/SJXIUe6Fi74

1 February 2024

“MTN faces lawsuit under US Anti-Terrorism Act”

https://www.southafricanlawyer.co.za/article/2023/10/mtn-faces-lawsuit-under-us-anti-terrorism-act/

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

In what The Star calls a ground-breaking legal decision, the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has given the nod for a high-stakes Anti-Terrorism Act lawsuit against Africa’s telecoms giant, MTN Group, to advance to the discovery stage.

This ruling comes as MTN Group wasted no time in submitting an appeal, setting the stage for a precedent-setting legal battle that could rattle court and boardrooms alike for years to come.

In a federal lawsuit filed in New York, more than 50 Americans claim MTN and other technology companies did business with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), even though they knew the transactions would help finance, arm and support the Iranian group’s terror campaign in neighbouring Iraq.

As a result, thousands of Americans were injured or killed between 2011 and 2016, according to the suit.

The court’s ruling was multi-faceted, dealing with counts of aiding and abetting liability under the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, civil conspiracy liability, and aiding and abetting terrorist acts in Afghanistan.

The Star reports MTN managed to fend off two of the three counts, but the court determined that the plaintiffs had sufficiently stated a claim for aiding and abetting liability against MTN in Iraq.

The report says what makes the ruling particularly remarkable is that it marks the first time a US court has allowed for the possibility of corporate liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act for direct aid to the IRGC.

Notably, the judgment also highlighted that even after the IRGC was officially designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation in 2019, MTN retained its commercial ties.

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898e42 No.20341195

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“Morality provision removed from Jewish prayer After Ramaphosa replaced Zuma - Chief Rabbi”

https://youtu.be/2BmlZyRZmDY

Sep 13, 2018

https://www.news24.com/News24/morality-provision-removed-from-jewish-prayer-after-ramaphosa-replaced-zuma-chief-rabbi-20180913

Ramaphosa heard the prayer for government when he joined Rosh Hashanah celebrations at the Gardens synagogue on Wednesday night.

It was a full house and he received bursts of applause during the event.

"As part of one of the traditions of Judaism, we pray for the welfare of the president, deputy president and government, that God should guide them and their work should be blessed for the sake of the country," [Chief Rabbi Warren] Goldstein explained.

Last year, a section was added to state: "Bless us with a president who is morally worthy of this nation of heroes, a president and government of integrity and honesty, dedicated with selfless devotion to the service and upliftment of all the people of South Africa."

Towards the end of Zuma's rule, Goldstein felt a distancing from the presidency and had joined in marches calling for his resignation and an end to state capture.

He felt state capture was a real threat to the future of the country, and he could not stand by the "sheer immorality" of a few people stealing from millions of people and causing human suffering.

Ramaphosa's address on Wednesday invited the Jewish community to work with government in its drive for investment and job creation.

He also sought to allay fears about land reform and assured that his government was fighting corruption.

He added that South Africa stood ready to play a constructive role in the peace process in the Middle East.

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898e42 No.20341198

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“President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses Jewish Community New Year’s prayer session”

https://youtu.be/hV5Rjv5md18

Sep 13, 2018

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the South African Jewish Community in Cape Town on 12 September 2018.

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898e42 No.20341222

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>>20341195

>Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein

Now there is a back lash.

“ICJ verdict: SA Chief Rabbi's call to fight back” [Chief Rabbi Goldstein]

https://youtu.be/9QsMxXjoO6g

Jan 28, 2024

“The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim judgment. Even a political body appointed by the United Nations General Assembly, whose members are mainly non-democratic states, couldn’t bring itself to order Israel to ceasefire, but we should not be grateful for that. They had no moral right to order Israel to cease its just war of self-defense in the first place.”

1:44 – “And God has given us another blessing. While around half of the Jewish world live in the sovereign State of Israel , another 95% of the other half, Jewish diaspora live in free democracies where we have built strong, proud, vibrant Jewish communities. Enjoying full political and civil rights, we are flourishing as contributing members of our societies wielding influence and power, playing vital roles in changing society for the better. We the Jews of the diaspora have the right, the resources and the capacity to support and defend the interests of the State of Israel and the Jewish people in this just war of self-defense [the ANC used the same words when they were terrorists].

5:07 – “We were at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement to liberate South Africa from its racist regime and since the birth of freedom and democracy in 1994, we have contributed disproportionately to our relatively small numbers in advancing the new South Africa in every field of human endeavor; business, law, medicine, politics and the arts.

5:46 – “The ANC is not the people of South Africa. In the same way that we as Jews have been betrayed by the ANC, millions of other South Africans have been betrayed by the ANC corruption and incompetence.”

8:03 – “The South African press is already investigating the corrupt business and financial ties between the ANC and Iran. Amid allegations that it initiated the ICJ application in exchange for funding to clear its debts and prepare for elections this year.

8:39 – He talks about MTN.

9:29 – “And now the latest story broken by the Jerusalem Post is one in which the accuse South African banks; Nedbank, Standard Bank and ABSA of providing funding platforms for Hamas.

Keep in mind. Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein also stated this…

https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/this-is-a-momentous-time-for-south-africa-dqe0sn8l

December 21, 2017 12:53

South Africa's Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein hails Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as ANC leader

Let us reflect on the momentous history we witnessed during the past few days.

Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as ANC leader and the repudiation of Jacob Zuma’s preferred candidate is a great victory for freedom and democracy in South Africa.

I use the word “attempted” because society rose up to defend its freedom and its institutions’ integrity.

When a society is truly free, like South Africa is, it is ultimately able to overcome great challenges.

Now, the election of Cyril Ramaphosa is another victory in the fight for a South Africa that stands for openness, integrity and good governance.

Let us thank Hashem for the great blessing of freedom and the strength that he has given South African society, a nation of heroes, to stand up to the tyranny of corruption.

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898e42 No.20341240

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>>20341222

As NPR state;

It's been called the Democracy Super Bowl. More than half the world is set to go to the polls in 2024 - regional elections to national leaders. Eighteen of those elections are in Africa, where South Africa's ruling National Congress party, the continent's oldest liberation party, embodied for so long by Nelson Mandela, faces its most competitive electoral challenge since the end of apartheid in 1994.“ https://www.npr.org/2024/01/13/1224585588/more-than-half-the-world-goes-to-the-polls-in-2024-south-africa-is-one-to-watch

“Ramaphosa warns of political repercussions following SA's genocide case against Israel”

https://youtu.be/J-M7GLFcW_k

Jan 31, 2024

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of political repercussions following South Africa's genocide case against Israel.

He was closing the ANC's NEC Lekgotla in Boksburg

0:22 – “ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says he expects a full-blown fight back from the Israelis. “The fight back may also focus on our domestic politics and our electoral outcomes in order to pursue a regime change agenda. Some people have said this was David and Goliath type of contest so we must be aware that whilst we have done what we believe was driven by our conscience and our principles and whilst we also went and did the right thing and take this matter to the courts that were setup by those who were there in 1948 or so as they setup that court. We are being blamed for taking the matter to the very court that they set up”.

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02eac0 No.20361537

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>>20340428

>Jews and Communism in Lithuania (1918 to June 1941)

>The first activities of the criminal police (called militia at that time) in Lithuania were started to be organised on 27 October 1918. The first criminal police staff comprised three Jewish, two Polish, three Russian, one Belorussian and two Lithuanian employees none of whom spoke Lithuanian.

>>20340445

>all kitke are challah… Kitke is listed as the Litvishe Yiddish dialect term used within what was the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania… https://vilnews.com/2011-01-litvaks-in-south-africa

Mendel Kaplan; Relocated Soviet Jews to Israel and Established a Jewish Museum with a Lithuanian shtetl

Nelson Mandela was released from prison on 11 February 1990

“Homeward Bound : Operation Exodus Lends Support to Soviet Jews in Their Return to Israel” [11 June 1990] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-11-vw-81-story.html

https://archive.jewishagency.org/news/content/24492/

A true Zionist, Mendel made Aliyah and took great pride in owning a home in Jerusalem's Yemin Moshe neighborhood as well as another home in Caesaria.

In our Jewish Agency family, Mendel was the first and only non-American to serve as Chairman of the Board of Governors for seven years in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, presiding over Operation Exodus. He also served as the Chairman of our Education Committee and was active in the Jewish Agency Executive until his passing.

https://www.thejc.com/news/mendel-kaplan-dies-lnm965tr

He also founded the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town in 1980, and the South African Jewish Museum, which was opened by Nelson Mandela in 2000.

Mr Kaplan invested in groundbreaking multimedia equipment for the museum, including the complete reconstruction of a Lithuanian shtetl.

His foundation also provided over 2500 bursaries for higher education for his employee's children, and for Ethiopian and Druze students in Israel. Mr Kaplan was also a great supporter of the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, and was chairman of the Board at the gardens

WJC President Ronald Lauder described Mr Kaplan as “one of the great leaders of world Jewry over the past decades.”

He added: “As a gifted chairman of important bodies within the World Jewish Congress, as well as in the Jewish Agency of Israel and other Jewish organizations, he made a tremendous contribution to the well-being of Jews everywhere the world, in particular those in the former Soviet Union whose emigration he helped to make possible in the 1980s.

"Mendel Kaplan was one of the great contemporary Zionists, and over the past five decades he contributed immensely to turning the State of Israel as a vibrant, pluralistic democracy. He had a truly global vision for the Jewish people and supported many education projects.

https://vilnews.com/2011-01-litvaks-in-south-africa

The [Jewish] museum's basement is dominated by a village environment (shtetl) from the late 1800s. A few houses are reconstructed in full scale, and you can clearly see how people lived and co-existed at the time. The village is called Riteve. It was recreated in the museum on the basis of entries made in the 1990s by a group of experts who went from South Africa to Lithuania to find traces of the family of the museum's founder, Mendel Kaplan.

The village is called Rietavas in Lithuanian. It is there to this day, less than a half hour drive from Klaipeda, at the highway direction Kaunas and Vilnius. The Kaplan family emigrated from here in the 1920s, while the village's population was still 90% Jewish. Today, no Jews live in Rietavas.

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02eac0 No.20361546

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Corruption in South Africa WORSE than under Zuma | Ep 161

https://youtu.be/ddma7OqSI0A

Feb 4, 2024

Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma

https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/42894/corruption-in-south-africa-now-worse-than-under-zuma/

30 January 2024

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South Africa dropped further in the 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, showing that corruption is not only entrenched in South Africa but allowed to thrive.

Transparency International’s (TI) 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) saw South Africa score 41 on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).

Since Corruption Watch (CW), Transparency International’s local chapter, started tracking its progress on the index 12 years ago, South Africa has never scored as low as 41.

This score is a decline from the previous low of 42 in 2013 and two points below its maiden score of 43 in 2012. This was during the state-capture years under former President Jacob Zuma.

South Africa is one of 23 countries that reached their lowest-ever scores this year and now fall into the category of “flawed democracies”. South Africa’s score of 41 also means it has dropped below the global average.

It said the global trend of weakening justice systems creates an environment of impunity for and reduced accountability of public officials involved in corruption.

“It is frustrating that, in a country like South Africa, where the corrupt have been exposed for all to see in such public processes as the Zondo Commission and robust media investigations, so few of the implicated parties have been brought to justice,” said CW executive director Karam Singh.

“There is an urgency to our corruption problem, as citizens witness the unravelling of cities and infrastructure because of years of impunity and state capture.”

“With elections looming in a few months, the need for accountable leaders of integrity could not be more critical.”

South Africa achieved the same score as Burkina Faso and Vietnam and now ranks just below Cuba, China and Hungary.

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02eac0 No.20362707

File: d266d185939cf1b⋯.jpg (103.62 KB,535x852,535:852,Sizani.JPG)

‘Fake’ UN official allegedly received briefings from SA’s top security cluster

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-01-24-fake-un-official-allegedly-received-briefings-from-sas-top-security-cluster/

24 Jan 2024

Excerpts

Nhlanhla Sizani, 24, the alleged imposter who duped authorities into believing that he was a United Nations (UN) representative, reportedly received briefings from the country’s top security cluster during his years of operation.

While it is not confirmed how many times this happened, sources informed Daily Maverick that the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NatJoints), headed by the State Security Agency (SSA), South African Police Service (SAPS) and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), briefed Sizani on the country’s state of readiness for the 2021 local government elections.

A NatJoints duty is to ensure that elections are conducted without violence and to quell any protests that may arise during election time.

“He [Sizani] was overseeing the state of preparedness of their work for the elections,” said the source with information on Sizani.

“Surprisingly, there were no major risks during the 2021 [local government] elections besides Covid and possible protests. So he got briefed on safety and security issues. NatJoints, on their risk assessment, did not even consider the possibility of an imposter amongst them. The SSA even co-chairs NatJoints.”

There have also been claims that at some stage Sizani joined President Cyril Ramaphosa to welcome new police recruits.

Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said: “This is a matter for the police to address to ensure it does not happen again.”

During the 2021 local government elections, Sizani allegedly submitted a fraudulent letter under the UN logo to the police, requesting a SAPS escort to monitor polling stations.

Sizani allegedly misrepresented himself as a UN ambassador or diplomat, and the SAPS Diplomatic Police Unit escorted him to polling stations as an observer.

He made his second appearance at the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 23 January after being issued with a summons on 12 December 2023. He faces charges of fraud, forgery and uttering.

His case was postponed to 6 February. Sizani is not in custody since he appeared on summons and was not arrested.

Authorities are still mum on the lapse of due diligence and vetting processes, but the incident gives an idea of how SAPS performs its safety and security mandate.

National police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, who is also the NatJoints spokesperson, said all of this forms part of the investigation and they could not divulge more information as the matter was before court. DM

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02eac0 No.20362713

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8 things you need to know about farm murders [in South Africa]

https://youtu.be/ALHHCosJZ_E

Feb 4, 2024

In this video I discuss eight factors relating to the farm murders crisis in South Africa. A few days ago, 5FM Breakfast Show host, Dan Corder uploaded a video on YouTube in which he attempted to discredit the campaign against farm murders. He made several good points, but overall, the video was misleading. This video is only partly a response to Corder's video, because the main focus is to shed more light on the extent and reality of farm murders in South Africa.

I discuss eight issues relating to farm murders:

1. Numbers

2. Brutality

3. Impact

4. Unique circumstances

5. Political reality and reaction

6. Hate speech

7. Media reporting

8. The way forward

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02eac0 No.20362731

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SACP slams Zuma for 'opportunistic' use of MK name

https://youtu.be/V-LCQj4KRTk

UMKHONTO WESIZWE'S REAL FOUNDERS TURNING IN THEIR GRAVES: SACP ON ZUMA, MK PARTY

https://web.archive.org/web/20240107120434/https://ewn.co.za/2024/01/07/umkhonto-wesizwe-s-real-founders-turning-in-their-graves-sacp-on-zuma-mk-party

https://ewn.co.za/2024/01/07/umkhonto-wesizwe-s-real-founders-turning-in-their-graves-sacp-on-zuma-mk-party

07 January 2024 10:22

JOHANNESBURG - The South African Communist Party (SACP) said the real founders of uMkhonto weSizwe – the armed wing of the liberation movement, including its former general secretary Joe Slovo are turning in their graves because of former African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma’s MK [/uMkhonto weSizwe] party.

The communist party commemorated the 29th year anniversary of Slovo’s passing in Soweto on Saturday.

Its current general secretary, Solly Mapaila described the new outfit, which is using Zuma as the face of its campaign ahead of the fast-approaching seventh democratic elections as a wolf in sheep's skin.

As former president Zuma campaigns for the MK party in Mpumalanga where the ANC, an organisation he led for two terms prepares for its 112th birthday celebration in the same province, the SACP, which co-founded the original MK 60 years ago is calling his bluff.

Zuma’s name and the word imposter were used several times on Saturday. This as he was accused of betraying the country and being an exposed emperor.

The SACP’s Mapaila said if Zuma had any sense of honour left in him, he would remember his own disapproval of a faction in the ANC that left to form the Congress of the People (COPE) following the 2007 Polokwane conference.

Dan Hato, from the MK was also given an opportunity to speak – he said Zuma must be addressed in honour of the likes of Joe Slovo.

“Let us expose the nakedness of the emperor from Nkandla, who wants to deny that during his tenure, our organisation was mired in countless corruption scandals, factionalism and infighting."

The SACP also raised concerns about the state of the country, warning that additional progress faced a genuine threat of erosion.

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02eac0 No.20362804

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>>20340428

>Notable examples of heavily jewish communist parties, well out of proportion to the size of the local jewish population, were the CPUSA (USA and Canada [for a time]), CPP (Poland), PCF (France), CPN (Netherlands), CPB (Belgium), CPM (Hungary), CPR (Romania) etc. [We can include the SACP (South Africa)]

>Lithuania… affords a textbook example of the scale of jewish involvement in Communism as well as its governance and terror apparatus.

>>20340560

>Goldreich, who died in May, was a lifelong Zionist who fought in Israel’s 1948 independence war in a unit of the Palmach, the young country’s military shock troops, and then returned to South Africa to join the struggle against apartheid.

>>20236804

>>20361537

Joe Slovo, a Lithuanian Jew and Communist

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/slovo-joe

SLOVO, JOE (1926–1995), South African politician. Slovo was born in Lithuania and taken to South Africa when he was eight. After war service, he graduated in law at Witwatersrand University. In 1942 he joined the Communist Party, but after it was outlawed he was arrested and detained on several occasions in the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the accused in the 1956–61 Treason Trial, which ended with charges being dropped or acquittal for all 156 defendants. He was one of the drafters of the Freedom Charter, the African National Congress's non-racist manifesto of 1955, and helped to organize the Congress's guerrilla wing, serving as its chief of staff. He worked from countries neighboring South Africa. Slovo was the first white appointed to the Congress's national executive (1985). In 1986 he became secretary general of the South African Communist Party. After 27 years of exile he returned to South Africa in 1990 and played a leading role in the negotiations leading to the transition from white minority rule to multiracial democracy in April 1994. He was appointed as the first minister of housing in the post-apartheid South African government under Nelson Mandela, a position he held for six months before dying of cancer early in 1995. His autobiography, Slovo – The Unfinished Autobiography, appeared posthumously later that same year.

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02eac0 No.20362830

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>>20362731

>>20362804

ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma

https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/eswatini-daily-news-9y77/20240130/281526525937652

30 Jan 2024

SOUTH AFRICA’S ruling African National Congress (ANC) has suspended former President Jacob Zuma, weeks after he backed another party ahead of this year’s general election.

“Zuma and others whose conduct is in conflict with our values and principles will find themselves outside the African National Congress,” ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said on Monday.

The decision, which was widely expected, will be seen as a further sign of disunity in the movement ahead of the general election, in which the long-dominant ANC is expected to lose ground.

Zuma was the fourth president of democratic South Africa, serving from 2009 to 2018, but was forced from office under a cloud of corruption allegations, and he has become estranged from the party he once led.

In December, he declared he would campaign for a new party, uMkhonto We Sizwe (MK) or Spear of the Nation, named after the ANC’s former armed wing during the anti-apartheid struggle. Mbalula said that in addition to suspending Zuma, the ANC could complain to the electoral court to get the new party deregistered and mount a trademark challenge to recapture the name.

“The formation of MK party is not an accident,” Mbalula declared after a meeting with the party’s National Executive Committee, attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa. “It is a deliberate attempt to use the proud history of the armed struggle against the apartheid regime to lend credibility to what is a blatantly counterrevolutionary agenda.”

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4546fa No.20367850

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>>20362830

Jacob Zuma launches uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party on 16 December

https://theconversation.com/jacob-zuma-the-monster-south-africas-ruling-anc-created-continues-to-haunt-it-221900

Published: January 27, 2024 7.07am CET

Former South African president Jacob Zuma is endorsing the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party, the latest rival to the governing African National Congress (ANC) for the upcoming national elections. By doing so, he not only challenges the ANC politically, but also claims its heritage.

The new party – which media reports say is Zuma’s brainchild – uses the name of the ANC’s former military wing. The party’s launch coincided with the 62nd anniversary of the real uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), formed on 16 December 1961 to fight the apartheid government.

Zuma could not have been more daring.

16 December is very significant in South Africa because…

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/aftermath-battle-blood-river-1838

The Day of the Vow

For the greater part of the twentieth century 16 December had been observed as a public holiday, with Afrikaans-speakers attending special church services or visiting the Voortrekker Monument. Until the National Party seized power in 1948, this day was observed as Dingane's Day. After 1948 the National Party government set about politicising this day to legitimise their apparent uniqueness and historical relationship with God. Hence in 1952 Dingane's Day officially became the Day of the Covenant or the Day of the Vow [because of the Battle of Blood River in 1838]. African nationalists and the socialist liberation movement's forces also used the day to mount protest action against white rule. The ANC led Congress Alliance launched its armed struggle (military wing), 'Umkhonto we Siwze: the Spear of the Nation', on December 16th 1961.

In 1994 South Africa elected its first non-racial and democratic government. In the spirit of promoting reconciliation and national unity, the day was given a new meaning and was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1995.

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4546fa No.20367951

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>>20252093

>I feel betrayed. I feel that Jewish South Africans have been rendered second-class citizens in the land of their own birth [What about the ‘white’ South Africans who are discriminated against because of the BEE laws?].

>>20362804

>>20362731

The infamous apartheid-era "Kill the Boer" song (1990)

https://youtu.be/a6NJitdq8Bk

Lyrics below, sung in a school.

Here is a message from Joe Slovo

Comrade units survive

Street committees survive

Kill the Boers – our father

Kill the Boers – young man

Communist party – victory

Joe Slovo – our father

Life in exile

Tambo in exile

“That’s no white man. That’s Joe Slovo.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mandelas-jewish-helpers

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Yossel Mashel Slovo, known as Joe, joined the Communist Party in 1942 and then lied about his age to join the South African army, with which he fought in Italy. After the war, Slovo became active in the radical Springbok Legion veterans’ association and studied law at Wits, where he met Mandela. Just before graduating, he married Ruth First, the daughter of a Communist Party leader. “We took off half an hour from our respective offices to get married,” he later wrote in an unfinished autobiography, according to the recent book Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Their home served as a center for radical organizing, discussion, and parties. When the police conducted one of their regular searches of the house in the 1950s, they confiscated a copy of Stendhal’s The Red and the Black solely because of the title. Indeed, Joe was the primary link between the Communist Party and ANC in the late 1950s and was Mandela’s partner in organizing the Umkhonto we Sizwe militia. Both Slovo and First were arrested and prosecuted in the Treason Trial of 1956, which was partially conducted in a converted Pretoria synagogue—the only record of either First or Slovo having ever entered one. Abroad at the time of the Liliesleaf raid in 1963, Slovo was eventually joined in London by First and their children. Though in his early years he was an ardent Stalinist—much more so than First—by the late 1980s Slovo had become more critical of “socialism without democracy.” Returning to the country in 1990 after Mandela was released and the prohibition on the Communist Party was lifted, Slovo crafted the power-sharing agreement credited with making the transition to majority rule after the end of apartheid in 1994 relatively smooth. Mandela, Slovo’s last visitor the night before he died in 1995, delivered an emotional eulogy at the memorial service. At the gathering, Khoisan X, a black activist a generation younger than Mandela, recalled hearing his son’s friend once ask, after seeing a photo of him and Slovo together, “Why is your father shaking hands with a white man?” The son answered: “That’s no white man. That’s Joe Slovo.”

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4546fa No.20368055

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>>20367850

>After 1948 the National Party government set about politicising this day to legitimise their apparent uniqueness and historical relationship with God. Hence in 1952 Dingane's Day officially became the Day of the Covenant or the Day of the Vow [because of the Battle of Blood River in 1838]… The ANC led Congress Alliance launched its armed struggle (military wing), 'Umkhonto we Siwze: the Spear of the Nation', on December 16th 1961.

>>20367951

>Kill the Boers – our father

>Kill the Boers – young man

>Communist party – victory

>Joe Slovo – our father

“The Children of 464 Men ~ Dean Chancy”

https://youtu.be/v7qDbcHxj4U

This song of Dean Chancy tells the story of the day of the vow that takes place on 16 December every year. The song is written to all the children of the 464 men, the Boer people.

Thank you, Dean, for writing this song and promoting our Boer cause. May this song impact our people, the way you intended it to!

"I would like to express a special thank you to everyone who participated in the video. God bless you, and God bless the Boer people!" ~ Dean Chancy

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4546fa No.20368101

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>>20367951

>>20340560

”Nelson Mandela Was a Revolutionary—and These Jews Made Common Cause With Him”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/mandelas-jewish-helpers

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Excerpts below

Beginning with his years at Johannesburg’s more or less integrated University of the Witwatersrand—aka “Wits”—and later as an apprentice to a Jewish law firm, Nelson Mandela had a political life that was profoundly intertwined with those of Jewish activists who, to varying degrees, found in their Jewish identity the imperative to object to a system that, while almost completely welcoming to them, treated blacks in a way that many of these children of European refugees found discomfitingly familiar.

While most South Africa Jews took the silent, implicitly conservative position of the Board of Deputies, the great majority of white South Africans involved in “the struggle” were Jewish. Many were Communists. Most were lawyers.

That so many Jews surrendered the comforts of their own relatively privileged lives—indeed, in at least one case, surrendered life itself—to join Mandela and the ANC, though they had little material stake relative to their black comrades, is in itself a testament to the radical legacy these Jews brought with them out of Europe to the other end of the globe.

Lazar Sidelsky, the South African-born son of refugees from Lithuania, grew up in the Transvaal highlands and paid his way through Wits by playing violin in a jazz band called Skoenie and his Connecticut Yankees. By the early 1940s, he was partner in one of Johannesburg’s biggest law firms, where he ran a program helping black South Africans get mortgages they were otherwise denied. One day in 1942 [South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1961, https://aaregistry.org/story/south-african-gains-independence-from-britain/], an ANC member named Walter Sisulu brought in Nelson Mandela, then 24, whom Sidelsky hired as an articled clerk, enabling Mandela to qualify as an attorney—a radical move for an established firm at the time… Mandela worked at Sidelsky’s firm while earning a B.A. by mail order and later while studying law at Wits. In 1952, Sidelsky loaned Mandela seed money to start South Africa’s first black law practice, and when Mandela married his second wife Winnie in 1957, he brought the wedding procession past Sidelsky’s home as a sign of respect. At a kosher lunch in Mandela’s home a few years before Sidelsky’s death in 2002, at 90, the first black president of South Africa still referred to his former mentor as “Boss." [Isn’t it racist?]

Nat Bregman, a cousin of Lazar Sidelsky, became a clerk at Sidelsky’s firm the year before Mandela joined. The building had segregated elevators, but Bregman, a member of the Communist Party, rode with Mandela on the one reserved for blacks. In his memoir, Mandela describes Bregman—“Natie”—as his first white friend. Bregman schlepped his skeptical friend to Communist get-togethers in the early years of their friendship—gatherings populated almost entirely by blacks and Jews—but while Mandela was impressed by the “lively and gregarious group of people who did not seem to pay attention to color at all,” he later wrote that he was put off by the Party’s “antipathy to religion” and emphasis on class rather than race. As time went on, Bregman became religiously observant, moonlighting from his legal career as a comedian at weddings and bar mitzvahs and particularly renowned for his imitations of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Bregman died of kidney failure in 2011.

Arthur Goldreich, Harold Wolpe, Ruth First, James Kantor and Helen Suzman are also discussed in the article.

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3f5110 No.20369297

>>20341240

Something is not right

If the ANC got so much support over the decades, and iirc the De Klerk government got Israeli assistance to build nuclear weapons, then why did South Africa file that case to start with?

With all the problems with Eskom, Transnet, and the Port of Durban I would think Ramaphosa would be too busy to care about Gaza. Somebody else came up with the idea

I'm looking at Mossel Bay again today in regards to the tankers for Eskom diesel power thing like in >>19821993 and I only see two. A Kuwaiti-flagged chemical/oil products tanker name MUTRIBA that might be carrying diesel fuel and a Chinese-flagged oil products tanker (again, maybe diesel cargo) named YONG AO. I rather doubt Eskom has thse coal plants back up to capacity so no idea from where I sit what towns are completely without power because of load shedding

So "carrot and stick?" Diesel fuel and or fuel rods for the reactors? End of AGOA aid?

Who has the most to gain?

Houthis shooting at ships with Iranian weapondry because of Gaza messes up the Suez Canal. Russia and China transit through there as well, and the recent attack on a Russian ship means the Houthi promise not to attack Russian or Chinese ships is meaningless. That whole Operation Prosperity Guardian has not been all the great. France decided not to accept US command since they have their own operation ongoing starting with Somali pirates and extending to protecting French ships. So much for NATO unity. Going around Africa the long way means added costs for everybody (except Iranian tankers heading for Venezuela) so the EU is out as the rising costs of everything and the Climate Change regulations are causing the farmers all over the EU to take to the streets. China I don't see since all they are getting right now is intelligence on how NATO ships deal with air threats. There was one Chinese Navy ship supposed to be heading into the Red Sea, but one ship and a flotilla are worlds apart

Two players stand to gain in this crap, Iran and the United States. Iran is having their weapons sytems combat tested and keeping up their old campaign of causing trouble in the Region. Other than oil and oil products, I don't see Iran as having anything South Africa would want. Question is how much would Iran be sending?

The USA needs to distract the populace from the Border invasion, the rising costs of everything due to shitty economic policies. Add in parents are getting real sick of the LGBT&#%$@ and "transition the kids without parents having a say" bullshit. "Jobs Reports" where these nice numbers are broadcast, but nobody has actually seen where these new jobs have happened. The vaunted Bi-partisan Infrastructure legislation where millions were earmarked, but nobody has seen a roads or bridges or rail lines actually upgraded. Don't forget the provisions for Diversity Hires so the ones who would do the work are mostly clueless such as the case of Boeing.

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898e42 No.20372567

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>>20369297

>Something is not right… I don't see Iran as having anything South Africa would want. Question is how much would Iran be sending?

There are claims…

“Paul Hoffman [of Accountability Now] - South Africa is looking like the 'useful idiot' for Hamas, Iran” - https://youtu.be/eyfXK_pRG-U

“Did Iran fund South Africa’s approach to the ICJ over Israel?”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-01-25-iran-fund-south-africa-icj-israel-palestine-fact-check/

25 Jan 2024

The reason this claim is difficult to conclusively fact-check is because we don’t have access to the ANC’s balance sheets, so there’s no way of categorically refuting the idea that the party has just received a massive donation from Iran.

This is a difficult claim to fact-check, as will be seen, but it’s an important one because it has been repeated by some fairly high-profile public figures and has found quite a bit of traction on social media.

The allegation is essentially: The ANC, which for years has been teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, announced in early January that it had managed to stabilise its finances. It didn’t really give any specifics on how this had been accomplished.

In the same week, South Africa approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague to ask that Israel’s actions in Gaza be classified as genocide.

To some people, the timing of these two events is suspicious. And so the rumour was born that Iran, an enemy of Israel, had essentially paid the ANC to litigate against Israel in the ICJ.

The major person who spread this claim appears to have been Frans Cronje, the former CEO of the Institute of Race Relations, in an interview [https://www.chaifm.com/podcast/2024-01-12-dr-frans-cronje-former-ceo-of-the-south-african-institute-of-race-relations-irr-discussing-his-thoughts-on-the-icj-application-by-the-south-africa-government/] with the Johannesburg radio station ChaiFM. A similar claim was made by advocate Paul Hoffman from Accountability Now in an interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg [embedded].

We asked ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu straight up: Has the ANC received money from Iran? She replied: “Unlike other parties, or even NGOs for that matter, the ANC does declare where its funding is derived.”

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898e42 No.20372592

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>>20372567

>“Paul Hoffman [of Accountability Now] - South Africa is looking like the 'useful idiot' for Hamas, Iran”

Accountability Now seemed to have protected President Cyril Ramaphosa

“Accountability Now lays charges against public protector [Busisiwe Mkhwebane]” [Aug 6, 2019] - https://youtu.be/FvDC7sfGEFM. He states that “she is seen as a tool of the Zuma faction in the ANC which is making life miserable for inter alia, Pravin Gordhan and the President himself.”

“Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has had to clarify the scope of her office’s investigation into Cyril Ramaphosa after reports came out alleging that the president was being investigated for money laundering.” The article mentions Gavin Watson who later died under suspicious circumstances. [25-06-2019 09:37] https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/busisiwe-mkhwebane-clarifies-scope-investigation-cyril-ramaphosa/

“The Constitutional Court has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision to suspend Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was lawful and rational. The Western Cape Division of the High Court had ruled the suspension illegal in September 2022, but the ConCourt has now unanimously overturned that ruling.” [13 Jul 2023] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-07-13-concourt-on-mkhwebane-suyspension-no-bias-by-ramaphosa/

https://accountabilitynow.org.za/team/

Trustees

Ghalib Galant

Judge Lee Bozalek… He is best known for the decision in the case concerning the invalidity of nuclear power procurement from the Russians.

Jonathan Mort

Judge Ian Farlam is a retired Judge of Appeal who is best known for his work on the Marikana Commission of Inquiry. [Read Marikana controversy at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/]

[Former judge] Richard Goldstone… He was on the original Constitutional Court Bench in the new SA after 1994 and was involved in setting up the ICC in The Hague. [“After subsequent service at the international criminal tribunal, Goldstone was asked in 2009 to head a four-person team investigating allegations that Israel had violated international human rights during the Gaza incursion… [H]e felt compelled to recant his opinions about the 2008-09 Israeli invasion of Gaza in public.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/05/richard-goldstone-judge-gaza-report… Also “Richard Joseph Goldstone was born on October 26, 1938, in the Boksburg area near Johannesburg, South Africa, to a Jewish family of mixed English and Lithuanian ancestry, where his maternal grandfather was an Englishman and his paternal grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew who immigrated in the 19th century… From 1991 to 1994 he served as chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Public Violence and Intimidation, which became known as the Goldstone Commission, an independent judicial commission that investigated activities and people who posed a threat to the restoration of civil rights during the transition to post-apartheid South Africa… Goldstone presided over the International Tribunal from 1994 to 1996 and investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.” https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2022-10-25-richard-goldston—the-judge-who-confronted-the-apartheid-regime-in-south-africa-and-angered-israel-in-the-gaza-strip.H1g315UrNj.html#google_vignette]

Directors

Paul Hoffman

Guy Lloyd-Roberts

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898e42 No.20372630

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>>20341222

>>20341195

>>20372592

>>20372567

>>20340428

>Muslim radicals were also able to easily attack Israel who had the tightest security in the world

Chief Rabbi Goldstein used the same term, ‘useful idiots’… Smoke and mirrors? Is Iran being used as a scapegoat? Or even President Cyril Ramaphosa?

“Ever since October 7th, commentators, scholars, politicians, and Israeli officials alike have referred to the terrorist attack as a hyper-charged version of “Israel's 9/11.”” https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/11/why-the-oct-7-attack-wasnt-israels-9-11.html

“You are Iran’s 'useful idiots' - Chief Rabbi to SA government and global opponents of Israel”

https://youtu.be/5R_FfrRrQ-4

Nov 9, 2023

In a sweeping address, Chief Rabbi Goldstein confronts what the Israel-Hamas conflict is really about – Iran’s plans to destroy Israel and spread global jihad. Pinpointing how the South African government and those marching against Israel in the world’s capitals are Iran’s “useful idiots”, he addresses multiple issues ranging from jihadi terror in Africa to the ANC’s betrayal of biblical and basic moral values.

Chief Rabbi Goldstein also explains how the baseless accusations of colonialism, apartheid and genocide levelled against the Jewish state are the latest in a long line of nefarious, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, a 21st century version of the blood libel and the “Protocols of Zion”.

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898e42 No.20372747

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“Professor Dire Tladi sworn in as a new judge at ICJ”

https://youtu.be/XTkX0L7iNfg

Feb 6, 2024

Professor Dire Tladi has been sworn in as a new judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The South African legal mind on international matters has taken his place at the World Court in the Hague. Professor Tladi was elected by the United Nations, and is the first South African to be a permanent judge at the court.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/judge-dire-tladi-begins-his-term-at-icj-after-swearing-in/ar-BB1hRo9p

Tladi and three other judges from Romania, the US and Mexico replace four judges who are retiring, and they include the ICJ President, Joan Donoghue from the US, Vice President of the ICJ, Kirill Gevorgian from Russia, Judge Mohamed Bennouna from Morocco, and Judge Patrick Robinson from Jamaica.

Tladi was sworn with Juan Manuel Gomez Robledo of Mexico, Sarah Hull of the US and Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu of Romania.

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4546fa No.20377791

>>20341222

>Even a political body appointed by the United Nations General Assembly, whose members are mainly non-democratic states, couldn’t bring itself to order Israel to ceasefire, but we should not be grateful for that.

This is a good question

Gaza war: Why did Arab states not join South Africa's case against Israel in the ICJ?

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-did-arab-states-not-join-south-africas-case-against-israel-icj

Published date: 20 January 2024 09:25 GMT

South Africa's historic case against Israel has raised a debate in the Arab world about why Arab states did not join in this action or file a similar case at the ICJ to protect Palestinians

According to the ICJ's statute, all UN member states can file cases against any state. Any Arab state could have filed a case against Israel in the ICJ or at least asked South Africa to join its case before it was officially filed on 29 December.

This includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, UAE, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Indeed, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took every possible step to bolster ties with Israel because of his belief that Tel Aviv played a significant role, alongside Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in convincing the Obama administration not to object to the coup he led in 2013.

Saudi Arabia was also in the process of negotiating a deal with Israel to normalise their relationship in exchange for a special US defence pact.

Due to their severe violations of international human rights law, Arab governments would not face Israel before the ICJ or ICC to avoid facing similar charges [Yet the South African ruling party, ANC, had/has committed human rights violations which continues to be ignored.]

Saudi Arabia has also been accused of serious war crimes in Yemen [and South Africa supplied the weapons, https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-africa-saudi-arabia-weapons-yemen-war/].

All Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have issued many statements condemning Israel's assault on Gaza, but they did not take any further action. Saudi Arabia and the Arab League waited for more than a month of onslaught in Gaza to hold a summit in Riyadh to discuss the issue.

The summit decided to break the siege and blockade, but Arab countries never turned this resolution into action. Instead, Egypt obeyed Israeli commands and refused to give access to move injured civilians for treatment outside of Gaza unless Israel approved their names.

Media and eyewitnesses confirmed that Egyptian brokers forced Palestinians in Gaza to pay up to $10,000 as bribes to officials to obtain access through Rafah Crossing. Egypt also agreed to send all aid trucks to be checked by Israeli security at the Karm Abu Salem commercial crossing, which caused delays in the arrival of aid and complicated the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Egypt justifies its position by saying that it would risk the bombing of the trucks by the Israeli Air Force if they were not sent through the Israeli checkpoint. Meanwhile, an Israeli lawyer before the ICJ claimed that Egypt was responsible for the Rafah crossing and for preventing aid vehicles from entering Gaza.

Although Israel threatened to attack any aid entering Gaza without its permission, Egypt can only respond to Israel's accusations against it by opening the borders for injured people and patients to exit and for aid and commercial trucks to enter and prove that Israel was responsible for the disaster.

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b9f483 No.20379812

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“Dilemmas of Humanity Conference I The world can't ignore Palestinians' suffering: [Naledi] Pandor” Part 1

https://youtu.be/NoD_0Wnehtk

Oct 14, 2023

The Minister of International Relations Dr Naledi Pandor says the world can not look away while millions of Palestinians are suffering in the Middle East.

Addressing delegates at the Dilemmas of Humanity Conference hosted by the labour organisation National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), Dr Pandor says she will oppose Israel being granted observer status at the African Union.

This comes at the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

1:47 – “The world is a very troubled place and I don’t want us to pretend that it is easy. It is not. We are faced with a very challenged world. I realised this when, in 2021, I was sitting in a summit of the Executive Council of the African Union and it was whispered to me that the African Union Commission Chairperson had issued an invitation to Israel to become an observer at the African Union. Imagine my horror. I decided at that moment that I would raise my arm and would propose that this decision be rescinded. I walked around the room seeking supporters. Of the 54 nations, I got 3 and I include SADC in that but I said nevertheless this is not going to happen. I therefore lifted my arm and said I wish to table a matter. I have learned of this and as South Africa we object to it and it must not be implemented. We want our leaders to discuss it and we will never accept it as South Africa. While we appreciate the role that the organisation of African Unity played in us achieving our freedom as South Africa, this decision of the AU Commission Chairperson will make us consider whether we can be present in the African Union. I thought I would get support from many of the countries gathered in the room but what I discovered is that countries that are oppressors, that continue to be colonial occupiers, are using financial muscle to provide grant in aid to African countries and secure the depoliticized support of African countries for these oppressive nations. Among them, Israel and Morocco. They’re playing a very negative role in Africa and comrades I’m being frank here because you in this room, you are supposed to be trade union leaders… or lead progressive organisations and you are failing in your duty to convince governments in Africa and all other countries of the South that they cannot tolerate such situations. It can’t be left to us as members of government to be the ones that take up these issues. With no word from progressive organisations. This is intolerable and cannot continue. So I’m hoping out of this conference that you are going to decide. Rise up. Rise up. Rise up… You should be talking to all progressive unions worldwide. The unions in the United States of America, weak or strong, should be making it clear to President Biden they don’t appreciate his statement which has led to the slaughter we are seeing today. The union movement in the United Kingdom should be doing the same… I have no idea what has happened to our organisational capability because as South African leadership, our trade union movement was able to marshall under the worst oppressive chains, we were able to marshal international solidarity of a kind that has not seen since the struggle against Apartheid. Where have all these progressive leaders gone? And why? Why are we not able to organise? Why are we only sitting in a room as 300? There should be 3 000 here. There’s something wrong and that’s why I’m saying we’re in a troubled world… What has happened is in a determined fashion, progressive values and principles have been hacked and hacked and hacked and it is now difficult to find a voice of the left. And we need to revive, we need to organise, we need to be smart, we need to be strategic… Say as South African trade union movement, let us lead, let us agree for one month, none of our unions are going to life any Israeli goods out of any transport. Just one thing…

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b9f483 No.20379826

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>>20379812

>https://youtu.be/NoD_0Wnehtk

This is the wrong link, below is the right one.

“Dilemmas of Humanity Conference I The world can't ignore Palestinians' suffering: [Naledi] Pandor” – Part 2

https://youtu.be/CMIm5TnvgQ0

Oct 14, 2023

20:32 – “Despite the fact that I’ve been called all kinds of names because I refused to call Russia an occupying power of Ukraine. I have always objected to double standards. These type of double standards are the result of a global system which is skewed in favour of the powerful to the detriment of those fighting for their rights and self determination.”

23:01 – “Afriforum is decimating all the progressive gains we have made in South Africa including affirmative action and we are allowing it to happen while we live. We are also articulating calls that we should overhaul the current global financial and trade architecture and much of the world is joining us in this call. We believe we need a fundamental reset of the Brettonwoods Institutions including the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation. Multilateral development finance institutions need to be redesigned to respond to the challenges we are confronted with and to assist countries to meet the sustainable development goals. The must help us respond effectively to public health emergencies and to mitigate climate change.”

26:24 – “In 2025, South Africa will be chair of G20 and again we must strengthen the progressive ground. With leading countreis of the global South able to set the world agenda, this ia an opportunity for all of us to push for real change. Let’s not waste it.”

30:36 – “This pillar of international solidarity made an immense contribution to our victory against Apartheid to the extent that some analysts have even tried to elevate it above other very important pillars such as underground, the armed struggle which comrade [Ronnie Kasrils} referred to and the mass struggle which we must never forget. These four pillars of the struggle complemented and reinforced each other to deliver the death of the Apartheid regime. So again we need to revive international solidarity as a pillar, we need to revive underground as a pillar, we need to revive armed struggle as a pillar and we need to ensure mass struggle as a pillar. The international struggle against Apartheid embodied humanity struggle against discrimination and social exclusion. Our post-Apartheid South Africa has attempted to continue this tradition of active internationalism on the continent and globally. We’ve tried to play our part in the renewal of Africa… striving for the transformation of the global system of governance. We know we benefited and we are trying to use our benefit in the interest of others. We believe that today internationalism is going to be decisive in crystallizing new forms organising political forces for meaningful transformation but as I said earlier we need a strategic approach to the search of a better international order. One that is equitable, just, humane, inclusive and democratic.

34:04 – “Across the global south, the progressive community has begun to rally. We look forward to the expansion of brave, united, vibrant, social movements. As the great revolutionary leader of Cuba, President Fidel Castro said, “We need to unite today to build the tomorrow we yearn for, to vindicate the always excluded and to rescue faith in humanity.”

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b9f483 No.20379836

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>>20379826

>This pillar of international solidarity made an immense contribution to our victory against Apartheid to the extent that some analysts have even tried to elevate it above other very important pillars such as underground, the armed struggle which comrade [Ronnie Kasrils] referred to and the mass struggle which we must never forget. These four pillars of the struggle complemented and reinforced each other to deliver the death of the Apartheid regime. So again we need to revive international solidarity as a pillar, we need to revive underground as a pillar, we need to revive armed struggle as a pillar and we need to ensure mass struggle as a pillar.

“Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference”

https://youtu.be/9QmFtcC60dM

Oct 14, 2023

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, NUMSA is hosting the third International Dilemmas of Humanity conference in Johannesburg.

The Dilemmas of Humanity process began in 2004 when popular organizations and movements from all over the world came together to confront the crisis of humanity caused by capitalism with concrete alternatives and solutions.

0:26 – “We are for humanity which is why we are for socialism and why we are here, dilemas of humanity at an inflection point which way to be slaves or to be free and Palestine is at the center of the struggle. It’s at the center as the people have been saying for so many years.”

2:32 – “We are all Gaza! We are all West Bank! We are all 1948 Palestine. We are the refuges in the camps! We are Palestine and we stand with Palestine!”

3:31 – “We have in such pride to be here with our sister, the great warrior of Palestine, Leila Khaled, and we rise to Leila. We rise to you as we did with Naledi Pandor’s father who was a mentor of mine in exile. A leader of our Communist Party then and of the ANC and I was saying to our brave foreign minister who was a child at the time… When Leila Khaled stood up and delivered a blow back in 1970 or so, we had Leila a solidarity meeting in Red Lion’s Square in London and her father was speaking and praising you, praising you because we recognize comrades in the Palestinians what we wer!. What we came from! Our disposition! Our right and humanity’s right to stand up and to resist that oppression, that slavery and in international law you have the right to rise up against occupation. Remind America. Remind the United Nations.”

12:58 – “We have on our agenda, comrade Andrew, a huge task ahead to stand by Palestine, to prevent the extermination of the Palestinians, to protect our own future and that of our own children.”

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b9f483 No.20379849

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>>20340428

>>20379836

Bisho Massacre [Cyril Ramaphosa was there as shown in the video] - https://youtu.be/xl_MWEmM5tE

”Profile : ANC Leader [Ronnie Kasrils] in Ciskei Protest Is a Veteran of Brinkmanship : His role in the massacre may have alienated some supporters. But his passionate dedication still makes him a beloved anti-apartheid leader.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-09-15-wr-733-story.html

Sept. 15, 1992 12 AM PT

Last week, the burly 54-year-old was again at the forefront of the black liberation struggle. He led ANC protesters on a dangerous end run to Bisho, capital of the Ciskei homeland created by the South African government, that triggered a fusillade of gunfire.

Kasrils, head of the ANC’s campaigns department, and other leaders had planned to lead the 20,000 protesters only into the homeland’s soccer stadium, under a compromise with the homeland government.

But Kasrils had checked out the stadium and spotted a large hole in its fence. In a meeting of ANC leaders the night before, Kasrils volunteered to lead a small group of protesters through that hole to Ciskei’s government offices, 300 yards away.

When Kasrils and his group emerged from the opening, though, Ciskei troops opened fire on them–and on all the demonstrators waiting to enter the stadium. Kasrils dived for cover as the bullets whizzed overhead, striking some of his compatriots.

Afterward, the government and an array of liberal whites, including major newspapers, charged that Kasrils provoked the shootings and callously used ANC supporters as “cannon fodder.”

Indeed, he and other ANC leaders now admit they may have miscalculated. They had thought they could outflank the Ciskei soldiers, and they also thought many soldiers would join them in ousting Ciskei’s military ruler, Brig. Gen. Oupa Gqozo.

He is a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee and the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party.

His role in the Ciskei massacre may have alienated some supporters.

Although he was head of military intelligence for the ANC guerrilla army during the 1980s, Kasrils was little-known outside the close circle of exiled leaders until he returned to South Africa when the ANC was legalized in 1990.

Kasrils was born in Johannesburg and grew up in the lower-middle-class suburb of Yeoville. His parents were Jews from Lithuania, and his father worked as a traveling salesman for a candy factory.

While working as an advertising copywriter, he joined the Communist Party, then a mostly white organization that had and still hasstrong links to the ANC. And he helped found the ANC’s underground guerrilla army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation).

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b9f483 No.20379919

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>>20379849

>Ciskei

>>20361537

>Nelson Mandela was released from prison on 11 February 1990

”THE RULE OF BRIGADIER OUPA GQOZO IN CISKEI [Bantustan/Homeland] : 4 MARCH 1990 TO 22 MARCH 1994.”

https://commons.ru.ac.za/vital/access/services/Download/vital:2616/SOURCEPDF?view=true

Below are excerpts

The concern that the history of the two republics be recorded before it is lost has been underscored by two experiences during my research. The first occurred when I approached officials at the Eastern Cape Legislative Buildings, Bhisho, and requested copies of official documents relating to President Lennox Sebe and Brigadier Gqozo, only to be told that none was available. The officials informed me that after the demise of the Sebe regime, all official documents of that era were burnt, and after Gqozo’s resigned as head of state, all documents of his time were placed in a room and no one knows what has happened to them! Similarly, no documents could be found in the East London Museum, the Amathole Museum, King William’s Town, the archives of the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, King William's Town, or at the University of Fort Hare. The only available documents are some in the Cory Library for Historical Research, Grahamstown, and those that individual role-players have retained.

The second experience that heightened my concern was when I read the recent publication New History of South Africa, which covers the history of South Africa from 300 AD to 2006. Its authors are 31 of South Africa’s top historians, and it is edited by Professor Hermann Giliomee, the Extraordinary Professor of History at the University of Stellenbosch, and Professor Bernard Mbenga, the Associate Professor of History at the North-West University. Despite the fly-leaf stating that it is a comprehensive history of South Africa, you will not find in it more than a passing mention, and certainly no discussion, of the history of the independent Republics of Transkei and Ciskei, or of their leaders. Does this mean that such events as the attempted coup in Transkei, the coup in Ciskei and the killing of Charles Sebe and Onward Guzana, are not considered part of our history or, even worse, are considered so inconsequential as to be relegated to the dustbin? I hope not.

As this dissertation covers what may be termed 'contemporary history,’ which has yet to be recorded, heavy reliance has been placed on the memories of those who were role-players when the events occurred.

Mluleki George (President of the UDF from 1986 to 1992 and subsequently South African Deputy Minister of Defence)

By 1989 the opposition to [Lennox] Sebe's regime had reached fever pitch. This was due not only to the actions of Lennox and his government, but also the increased attacks on the citizens of Ciskei by the United Democratic Front [which the ANC helped to resurrect a few months ago] and the African National Congress. During the year there were bombings in Bhisho, Bulembu, Frankfort, Keiskammahoek, Zwelitsha, Mdantsane, and an attack on the Potsdam Police Station.

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b9f483 No.20379966

>>20379836

>>20379849

>>20379919

“The Jewish Top Spy [Ronnie Kasrils] Who Advised Hamas”

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/talk-to-al-jazeera/2017/9/2/the-jewish-top-spy-who-advised-hamas/

2 Sep 2017

He is a white, South African Jewish man who fought apartheid and advised Hamas. Ronnie Kasrils tells us his story.

Fifty years ago, the state of Israel seized the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights, and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, in a matter of six days.

In a conflict with Egypt, Jordan and Syria, known as the 1967 War, Israel delivered what came to be known as the “Naksa”, meaning setback or defeat, to the armies of the neighbouring Arab countries and to the Palestinians who lost all that remained of their homeland.

When the Naksa took place, many countries started questioning their support for the Jewish state.

A UN resolution calling for the return of captured Palestinian territories accelerated a process of political isolation that grew stronger as the Israeli occupation went on.

At the same time, an organised Palestinian resistance was taking shape. The Israelis turned to a country it had long counted on for friendship: South Africa. And so in the 1970s, a more extensive economic and military relationship developed.

The Palestinians, however, also had friends in South Africa. Just when the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) began its armed resistance, they found support in the African National Congress (ANC), the black movement fighting apartheid.

One man found himself squarely in the centre of this historic movement: a Jewish South African-born communist who fought with the ANC against the white regime.

Later in life, when he was a cabinet minister in the South African government, Ronnie Kasrils was scorned by Israel and some of his Jewish countrymen when he advised Hamas.

“There are Jews in this country, not just me … who are decrying what Israel is doing … and standing up for Palestinian rights, and then, of course… [we are later] condemned as traitors,” he says.

For many years, Ronnie Kasrils, fought side by side with President Zuma. They worked together to build the ANC intelligence service. When asked for his impression of Zuma, Kasrils responded:

“He is a completely different person. I worked with him when he was in exile from Mozambique and Zambia … I wonder to what degree, at that stage, he had thoughts and ambitions of power and wealth. Because the behaviour from the moment he came back into South Africa, right from the very start 1990 or so, was the acquisition of favours from benefactors, and it just grew and grew out of proportion,” he says.

Today, as Israel, the wider Middle East and his own homeland confront deep existential questions, South Africa’s former intelligence minister, and one of the country’s original freedom fighters, Ronnie Kasrils talks to Al Jazeera.

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3f5110 No.20381505

>>20379836

How to declare jihad without openly saying jihad so the jihad does not boomerang back on your faces?

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b9f483 No.20395003

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>>20379812

>>20379826

Liberation movements use religions and the ‘success’ of South Africa to achieve their goals.

Address by South African Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Naledi Pandor: Al-Quds Mosque in Cape Town

https://youtu.be/KzpkH6rFiW0

Feb 4, 2024

11:18 – “It’s important for me to say this that I have referred to of the promotion of fairness, justice and solidarity with the oppressed are to be found in Judaism and Christianity. The South African Jews for a Free Palestine, the SAJFP, recently circulated a statement distancing themselves from the statements of the Chief Rabbi of South Africa.

13:32 – “Liberation theology is a major component of progressive Christian practice and has always been associated with aligning with the aspirations of oppressed peoples. Some who don’t understand Islam, will wonder why I quote other great religions but we as Muslims, we respect all of the book and it’s important that we all understand this. We have seen how Christian Liberation theology is active in struggles against poverty, inequality, racism and colonialism. This point was brought home very powerfully when in the presence of South African clergy and activists in a church in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve last year, Reverend Munther Isaac said the following, “Jesus, may peace be upon him, was born among the occupied and marginalized. He is in solidarity with us in Palestine, in our pain and brokenness.” Reverend Munther went on to criticize the complicity of the western world and others in the unfolding genocide in Gaza. He said, “Let it be clear, silence is complicity. An empty calls for peace without a ceasefire and an end to occupation and the shallow words of empathy without direct action are all under the banner of complicity. The progressive and liberatory nature of the 3 Abraham religions has found pride of place in the values and principles of the South African Constitution as these constitutional values were shaped by the values born out of our struggle against colonialism and Apartheid. These values have shaped much of our foreign policy and they call on us to be on the side of the oppressed always. Siding with the oppressed, especially the Palestinians, has been criticized by some here in South Africa as being reckless and jeopardizing our economic interests. We say, that standing on the side of justice, ending impunity and working to stop mass killing in a genocide, is very much part of our national interests. Those advocating for economic reprisals against South Africa for not being complicit with genocide are,” as Reverend Munther pointed out, “perversely actively complicit in the genocide in Gaza.” These are the values and principles that inform South Africa’s decision to firstly charged the leaders of Israel with individual criminal liability for the atrocities in Palestine through petitioning the international criminal court.”

17:34 – “South Africa acted to end the killing of Palestinians particularly of children, women and men.” [Yet violence against women and children increase in South Africa.]

25:42 – “Essentially if the case proceeds as we anticipate and it is found that Israel committed genocide, all those who were complicit are as guilty as Israel.”

26:44 – “It is truly tragic that this convention which was drafted following the Holocaust against Jewish people in Europe that it is the very people who then moved to Palestine who are offending this convention. It’s tragic.”

28:45 – “I trust that you all continue to be guided by Islamic values that place a premium of justice, fairness and solidarity with the oppressed. I thank you as the South African Muslim ummah for not forgetting that although we have won our freedom from the oppression of Apartheid, it is our duty to seek that freedom for all humanity for all who are oppressed. This is our duty and we must carry it out.”

29:45 – “We know, through you, that we as the people of South Africa, while we waged the mighty struggle against Apartheid, our leaders went from country to country across the world and asked for support and the international community joined in in developing a concept some of us forget called international solidarity… Your task today is to join the world in fighting for the people of Palestine until they are free. This is what we must do.”

38:11 – “You will remember Pik Botha. He said there’ll never be a black president. We had Nelson Mandela first… We know that situations of conflict will end by negotiations… So yes, we do believe that there must be a two-state solution and that it cannot be based on none contiguous pieces of land. That’s not a state. That’s a Bantustan, >>20379919, >>20236804. That’s not what we support.

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b9f483 No.20395018

>>20379812

>>20379826

>>20395003

“South African foreign minister alleges intimidation by Israel after ICJ case”

https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2024-02-09/south-african-foreign-minister-alleges-intimidation-by-israel-after-icj-case/

9 February 2024

Johannesburg, Feb 9 (EFE).- South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor accused Israeli intelligence of attempting to “intimidate” her, after South Africa accused the Jewish state of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the war in Gaza.

Pandor said she was concerned for the security of her family and had asked the country’s Police Ministry to beef up her security after receiving threatening messages, local media reported on Friday.

“But this is par for the course. The Israeli agents, the intelligence services, (this) is how they behave, and they seek to intimidate you, so we must not be intimidated. There is a cause that is under way.”

She underscored that the South African government was determined to continue with its ICJ case as a “moral course” and support the Palestinian people in their quest for peace.

On Thursday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that his country had taken up the “Palestinian cause” to the top UN court to prevent “further deaths and destruction” in the Gaza Strip.

“We have welcomed the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Israel must take all measures within its power to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians,” he said during his State of the Nation address to Parliament in Cape Town.

South Africa “condemns” the killing of civilians on “all sides” and calls on parties involved in the conflict to commit to a peace process that would deliver a “two state solution,” the president added.

In its ruling on Jan. 26, the court ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of genocide” in Gaza and adopt “immediate and effective measures” to facilitate the provision of aid to the besieged enclave.

However, the ICJ did not explicitly call for a “ceasefire” as a precautionary measure.

The South African government has long been a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.

The ruling party, the African National Congress, often draws parallels between the Palestinian cause and its historical struggle against the apartheid regime (1948-1994). [Yet their 'struggles' started way before then >>20368101. the ANC was founded in 1912.]

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b9f483 No.20395025

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>>20395018

>South Africa “condemns” the killing of civilians on “all sides” and calls on parties involved in the conflict to commit to a peace process that would deliver a “two state solution,” the president added.

The same President who stated that there are no farm murders in South Africa while South African police are losing “the war on crime”.

"No Farm Murders" | Cyril Ramaphosa | South Africa (2018)

https://youtu.be/IlppxlMpkks

Sep 27, 2018

“As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in”

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223358578/as-police-lose-the-war-on-crime-in-south-africa-private-security-companies-step-

JANUARY 7, 2024 10:12 AM ET

It's an all-too-common story in South Africa, a country that in the past year has seen an average of 75 killings and 400 robberies with aggravating circumstances every day, according to official statistics. While it may be Africa's most developed country, it also has one of the highest violent crime rates in the world.

Even…

In 2018, “Police Minister Bheki Cele says South Africans are living in a war zone where 57 citizens are murdered every day.” https://web.archive.org/web/20180912121226/https://ewn.co.za/2018/09/11/crimestats-south-africans-are-living-in-a-warzone-cele

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b9f483 No.20395045

>>20395003

>So yes, we do believe that there must be a two-state solution and that it cannot be based on none contiguous pieces of land. That’s not a state. That’s a Bantustan. That’s not what we support.

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b9f483 No.20395068

>>20379919

>Despite the fly-leaf stating that it is a comprehensive history of South Africa, you will not find in it more than a passing mention, and certainly no discussion, of the history of the independent Republics of Transkei and Ciskei, or of their leaders.

>>20395003

>So yes, we do believe that there must be a two-state solution and that it cannot be based on none contiguous pieces of land. That’s not a state. That’s a Bantustan. That’s not what we support.

>>20236804

>Sol Kerzner (of Jewish descent) is in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black book. He owned Sun City, also known as Sin City, in former South Africa’s Bantustan, Bophuthatswana

Consider 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa’s “transformation’ – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc.

https://mg.co.za/article/1989-01-20-00-a-lesson-from-sol-its-ok-if-its-over-the-kei/

20 JANUARY 1989

Below are excerpts

That's the message of this week's extraordinary series of corruption exposes. Stories of corruption in South Africa have been rife for some time, particularly in relation to the homelands. This week, however, it became clear for the first time how acceptable these practices have become. Hotel magnate Sol Kerzner this week blandly admitted giving R2-million to a homeland leader in order to secure casino rights in the Transkei.

A year ago, he and his company had indignantly denied reports of this, and had forced one newspaper to withdraw such a report and apologise. In an extraordinary move this week, the company boards on which Kerzner serves – Safren, Kersaf Investments and Sun International – resolved unanimously to give him their full support. And the Johannesburg Stock Exchange said it would take no action against Kerzner. "We have a very limited jurisdiction," JSE president Tony Norton said.

This week's developments also drove home the picture of the homelands as hotbeds of corruption. Several other prominent East Londoners were also implicated in the Harms Commission report around activities in the Ciskei. The report recommended that charges ranging from fraud to corruption also be investigated against Ciskei's; former ambassador plenipotentiary Douw Steyn, former East London mayor Robert de Lange and former city councillor Phillip Rothbart. The report also slammed the apparent willingness of Ciskei officials to involve themselves in corrupt dealings. It said there was information pointing at "high level corruption" in Ciskei. Kerzner's statement explaining his position was based on the argument that corruption was an accepted homeland practice.

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b9f483 No.20395076

>>20395068

>>20395003

>Liberation movements use religions and the ‘success’ of South Africa to achieve their goals.

Then consider this research paper.

“Elites and economic policy in South Africa’s transition and beyond”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02692171.2023.2268558

Received 28 Sep 2022, Accepted 28 Sep 2023, Published online: 20 Oct 2023

Below are excerpts

We build on and critique previous literature on economic policy configuration during the transition from apartheid to democracy (1990 to 1994) in South Africa (SA). The contribution of this article, and our critique of much influential literature on economic policy formation during the transition, is that the powerful corporate elites were not just stakeholders in negotiations between the apartheid government, the African National Congress (ANC) and other parties. We adopt a structural approach that highlights the crucial role of corporate elites and their active manoeuvring to manage and control economic policymaking during the transition to ensure continuity of the ostensibly free market economic policies they designed during the late-apartheid period… Ultimately, the corporate elite’s exertion of their state-expanded powers, their co-option of selected members of the black political elite and the ANC’s economic policy self-emasculation has further strengthened multinational corporations’ domination of SA’s markets, which were already highly concentrated, and limited present and future possibilities for inclusive development of the SA economy.

4. The term ‘free market’is not about reducing the role of the state. Without laws, policies, security and courts, market freedom is neither possible nor guaranteed (Fine and Saad-Filho Citation2017, 694–695). In the neoliberal frame, the free market entails redirection and transformation of the control and role of the state in social and economic reproduction. Macroecomic policies are aligned to the prescripts of both the Washington and Wall Street Consensus (Hickel Citation2021).

9. The relationship between the western powers and the elites of SA’s large corporations during the intensification of the Cold War in southern Africa deserves lengthy discussion… The corporate elites shared close ties with western governments whom they viewed as key allies in the southern Africa's Cold War. The election of Jimmy Carter to President of the USA (1977 to 1981) provided a boost to SA’s corporate elites. The Carter administration was against escalating sanctions against SA but launched a ‘serious reform initiative’ (Minter Citation1986, 281–282). At this time, the USA’s ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, was in contact with Harry Oppenheimer. They opposed economic sanctions, and publicly declared that businesses acting together could end apartheid (Minter Citation1986, 282; Young, Citation2017: 169–70). In May 1977, Oppenheimer invited Young to address the South African Chamber of Commerce and to reside in his home. After the SA visit, Young met with ‘African leaders’ in Mozambique and secured agreement on the Carter’s administration’s southern African plans to arrest the ‘communist scouge in Africa’ (Young, Citation2017: 171). The positive responses from Oppenheimer and the SA business sector, encouraged President Carter to proceed with their plans. The Carter administration entered into ‘aggressive partnerships’ with the ‘frontline states’ -– -neighbouring countries who provided the ANC military training sites and served as launching pads to infiltrate SA (O’Malley, nd.) – to mediate between business people and freedom fighters (Young, Citation2017: 171).

10. …Many ANC leaders very quickly developed close relationships with wealthy businesspeople during the transition. For example, Douw Steyn, the insurance and real estate magnate, housed Mandela in his mansion after his divorce from Winnie Mandela in 1990. Steyn later built a villa for Mandela and Graca Machel on his private game reserve. According to Bantu Holomisa, former head of the Transkei Bantustan, Thabo Mbeki’s lavish fiftieth birthday party, in 1992, was sponsored by Sol Kerzner, the casino magnate, who allegedly in exchange wanted assistance to quash his corruption trial in the Transkei (Brummer Citation1996).

12. By 1980, Anglo was the largest foreign investing company in the US, larger than Volkswagen and British Petroleum (Innes Citation1984). The importance of South African big business within the Carter administration’s Cold War plans for the southern African region is discussed in endnote 9.

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b9f483 No.20395136

>>20395003

>11:18 – “It’s important for me to say this that I have referred to of the promotion of fairness, justice and solidarity with the oppressed are to be found in Judaism and Christianity. The South African Jews for a Free Palestine, the SAJFP, recently circulated a statement distancing themselves from the statements of the Chief Rabbi of South Africa.”

>>20341222

>>20372630

“SAJFP [South African Jews for a Free Palestine] Says Not in Our Name to “Chief Rabbi’s” Racist Rhetoric”

https://sajfp.org.za/sajfp-says-not-in-our-name-to-chief-rabbis-racist-rhetoric/

Jan 31, 2024

Dr. Warren Goldstein, who currently occupies the position of Chief Rabbi of South Africa, has released a number of videos using racist language to defend Apartheid Israel’s crimes. SAJFP distances itself from this unelected official who, by virtue of this title, may be taken to represent the South African Jewish community. In fact, Goldstein has repeatedly shown his disregard for large parts of this community.

Since October 2023, Rabbi Goldstein has recorded regular diatribes defending Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is telling that in many, including the January 28 video on the ICJ verdict, Goldstein has used colonialist language and racist dog whistles. He refers to Israel and its defenders as “civilised nations” with “liberal Western values” fighting the “forces of barbarism”, using this framing to justify the murder of more than 27 thousand Palestinians, almost half of whom are children, and the starvation of hundreds of thousands more. This is the same rhetoric that has been used over millennia by colonial empires that dispossessed and subjugated peoples they considered “uncivilised”.

Marek Edelman, a Polish political and social activist and the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, said that “[t]o be a Jew means always being with the oppressed, never with the oppressors.” In this spirit, SAJFP rejects Rabbi Goldstein’s racist and colonial polemic, which goes against the basic humanist values of respecting the inherent worth of every person and undermines the long and diverse history of Jews fighting for equality.

Not only has Rabbi Goldstein himself refused to attend events that have platformed non-Orthodox rabbis and leaders but he has also implored other Orthodox Jewish leaders to do the same in the spirit of rejecting pluralistic attitudes. These include events with talks and panels on topics including Progressive Judaism, LGBTQ+ belonging in the context of Torah, and gender egalitarianism – which might be considered among the “liberal values” he claims that Apartheid Israel defends. Rabbi Goldstein’s reluctance to engage with these issues within the context of Orthodox Judaism, and his support for the active suppression of this engagement, only serves to uphold the legacy in many Orthodox Jewish communities of exclusion, queerphobia and misogyny. This environment has led to many queer Orthodox Jews having to leave their families to find belonging, and at least one recent case of death by suicide.

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3f5110 No.20397875

Canada #53 >>20396104

South Africa’s Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to “Our People”

by Jim Hoft Feb. 10, 2024

Malema delivered the party’s election manifesto at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban on Saturday. During his speech Malema called for taking the farmlands from the (white) owners and redistribute it to “our people.”

Joseph Stalin made similar promises during his reign of terror in Soviet Russia.

Joseph Malema: This manifesto is a product of the people. This is a manifesto from the domestic workers. This is a manifesto from security guards. This is a manifesto from teachers. This is a manifesto from all those who are swimming in the pool of poverty. What is our commitment? We are going to take the land and we’re not going to pay a cent. Whether they like it or not, the land will be turned in the hands of our people.

The Gateway Pundit has been covering this South African racist leader for over a decade now.

In 2011 South Africa youth leader Julius Malema told his supporters that the white farmer’s land must be shared by all black Africans.

Malema was arrested for playing “Kill the Boer (white man)” song at his rallies.

Julius Malema later founded the Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party.

In February Malema called for new law to confiscate land from white farmers.

It’s relevant and important to share CiC Julius Malema speech on expropriation of land without compensation #LandExpropriation #EFFMotion pic.twitter.com/NEhV8JeXxY

— Azania Afrika (@SAYoungLion) February 27, 2018

The South African Parliament agreed with Malema and voted to confiscate land from white farmers without payment in February.

In March Julius Malema called on his followers to go after the white man and cut the throat of whiteness.

In August Julius Malema called for a united African continent.

Earlier this week Julius Malema said racism and white privilege are preventing white people from giving up their property without compensation in South Africa.

Times Live reported:

Malema noted that white people who participated in the public participation process of the committee, whether rich or poor and even the landless, were in unison in opposing expropriation of land without compensation. He said this was because when white interests and privilege were threatened, white people protected each other.

“Why would people think alike like that, if it is not an issue of racism and privilege which seeks to perpetuate landlessness among those who were conquered by criminals who came into our country and took our land?”

He said that among black people, and Africans in particular, there were different views as they did not come from a process that sought to isolate anyone. Rather, he said, it came from a background that sought to win a debate through an honest engagement.

“Here you have got a group of people who 90% of them vote for the same party. This is white privilege, this is in defence of white privilege which seeks to perpetuate landlessness among our people,” said Malema.

He called for black unity, saying this was very important when it came to the matter of land.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/south-africas-racist-eff-leader-vows-take-farmlands/

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b9f483 No.20403282

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>>20395018

“Battle Continues - South Africa's President and Palestine Just Met”

https://youtu.be/zKsdpTxDWQU

Feb 12, 2024

2:10 – “We have said to them and to the world that we are following in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela who said to us and who taught us that our freedom will not be complete until the freedom of Palestinians is also achieved. So we too are not entirely free until the Palestinians are free and we will stand by them. We will struggle with them and that is why we went to the International Court of Justice. We were led there by Minister Ronald Lamola and Minister Naledi Pandor. So today [11 February 2024] we also remember the day on which the father of our nation, Nelson Mandela, was free and we say thank you very much to the Palestinian [soccer] team for being here.

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b9f483 No.20403286

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>>20403282

“Nelson Mandela's pro-Palestinian legacy lives on”: Mandla Mandela

https://youtu.be/IMN95KKZKmg

Dec 5, 2023

Nelson Mandela, South Africa's anti-apartheid icon held unwavering pro-Palestinian support, that remains relevant even after a decade of his death. Here’s a look at his relationship with then Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

1:35 – “This month, Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela hosted a conference in Johannesburg calling for solidarity with Palestinians.”

“South Africa: Mandela’s grandson [Mandla Mandela], convert to Islam gets married in Muslim ceremony”

https://muslimnews.co.uk/news/religion/south-africa-mandelas-grandson-convert-to-islam-gets-married-in-muslim-ceremony/

9th Feb 2016

CAPE TOWN, (AA): The grandson of former South African late president Nelson Mandela has married Rabia Clarke in a traditional Muslim Nikah ceremony held in Cape Town. He converted to Islam two months ago.

Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela released the following statement Sunday evening. “I am honoured and delighted to announce my marriage to Rabia Clarke, in Cape Town, on 6 February 2016. I wish to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Rabia’s parents, her extended family and the Muslim community, for welcoming me into their hearts.”

Influential Islamic leader Sheikh Ebrahim Gabriels, who wedded the two, informed Anadolu Agency that Mandla embraced Islam two months ago. Mandla is currently the Xhosa traditional chief of Mvezo, Nelson Mandela’s birthplace, while Rabia Clarke is from a Muslim household in a Southern suburb of Cape Town.

“Although Rabia and I were raised in different cultural and religious traditions, our coming together reflects what we have in common: We are South Africans,” Mandla said.

Hotel staff were sworn to secrecy and were not allowed to speak of the wedding. Little is known of the new bride.

In 2013, family disputes raised to the surface only months before Nelson Mandela’s death. The feud erupted and led to questioning of Mandla’s leadership legitimacy as head of clan.

Mandla has been married three times previously. In 2004, he married Tando Mabuna-Mandela in a civil ceremony.

He is still legally married to her and has been in a longstanding divorce struggle centered on community property disputes.

In 2010, he married Anais Grimaud in a traditional ceremony. Three years later he accused his wife of having cheated on him with his younger brother, Mbuso Mandela and their marriage was annulled.

His third marriage to Mbali Makhathini was declared null and void by the courts in 2014.

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b9f483 No.20403291

Why highlighting the obvious only now?

“BREAKING: US congress receives bill to review SA relations following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case” Part 1

https://mg.co.za/politics/2024-02-10-breaking-us-congress-introduces-bill-to-review-relations-with-south-africa-following-politically-motivated-icj-case/

10 FEBRUARY 2024

Abill has been submitted to the United States congress calling for a full review of the country’s bilateral relationship with South Africa following the International Court of Justice ruling that found it plausible that Israel has committed acts of genocide against Gaza.

The bipartisan bill which was introduced by US Republican congressman John James and Democratic Party congressman Jared Moskowitz this week could threaten South Africa’s prospects to benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

The bill will still need to be discussed and passed by congress.

It states that not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, US President Joe Biden in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, shall certify to the appropriate congressional committees and release publicly an unclassified determination explicitly stating whether South Africa has engaged in activities that undermine United States national security or foreign policy interests.

It further states that the US government must provide an unclassified report submitted to the appropriate congressional committees justifying the determination upon its certificate.

US Embassy mission spokesperson David Feldmann declined to comment. The ANC and the government’s response will be added when received.

The bill accuses the ANC of acting inconsistent with its publicly stated policy of nonalignment in international affairs.

It states that the South African Government has a history of siding with malign actors, including Hamas and the Russian Federation.

The US congress bill argues that the South African government’s support of Hamas dates back to 1994, when the ANC first came into power, taking a hardline stance of consistently accusing Israel of practising apartheid.

The ANC and the South African government have however been known to have ties with the Palestine Liberation Organisation dating back to former president Nelson Mandela’s term in office.

“Following Hamas’ unprovoked and unprecedented horrendous attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, where Hamas terrorists killed and kidnapped hundreds of Israelis, members of the South African Government and leaders of the ANC have delivered a variety of anti-semitic and anti-Israel-related statements and actions,” it reads.

The US congress states that some of the anti-semitic remarks include President Cyril Ramaphosa’s statements accusing Israel of genocide.

It said that the anti-semitic statements also include International Relations and Cooperations Minister Naledi Pandor’s statement expressing concern about escalating violence, urging Israel’s restraint in response.

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b9f483 No.20403293

>>20403291

“BREAKING: US congress receives bill to review SA relations following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case” Part 2

https://mg.co.za/politics/2024-02-10-breaking-us-congress-introduces-bill-to-review-relations-with-south-africa-following-politically-motivated-icj-case/

10 FEBRUARY 2024

It adds that Pandor implicitly blamed Israel for provoking the attack through “continued illegal occupation of Palestine land, continued settlement expansion, desecration of the Al Aqsa Mosque and Christian holy sites, and ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people.

It accused the ANC national spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri of anti-semitic remarks after stating that the decision by Palestinians to respond to the brutality of the settler Israeli apartheid regime is unsurprising.

“On December 29, 2023, South Africa filed a politically motivated suit in the International Court of Justice wrongfully accusing Israel of committing genocide. The South African Government has pursued increasingly close relations with the Russian Federation, which has been accused of perpetrating war crimes in Ukraine and indiscriminately undermines human rights. South Africa’s robust relationship with Russia spans the military and political space, including allowing a United States-sanctioned Russian cargo ship, the Lady R, to dock and transfer arms at a South African naval base in December 2022,” the bill stated.

It also cites that South Africa dispatched multiple high-level official delegations to Russia to further political, intelligence, and military cooperation.

The congress bill states that South Africa and the ANC’s relationship with the Chinese government and its ruling Chinese Communist Party(CCP) – which is committing gross violations of human rights in the Xinjiang province and implementing economically coercive tactics around the globe – undermine South Africa’s democratic constitutional system of governance.

These acts include what it says are ongoing ANC and CCP inter-party cooperation; recruitment of former United States and NATO fighter pilots to train Chinese People’s Liberation Army pilots at the Test Flying Academy of South Africa; South Africa’s hosting of 6 Chinese government-backed and CCP-linked Confucius Institutes; South Africa’s participation in a political training school in Tanzania funded by the Chinese Communist Party, cooperation with the Chinese global Belt and Road Initiative; and the widespread presence in South Africa’s media and technology sectors of PRC state linked firms.

“The ANC-led South African Government has a history of substantially mismanaging a range of state resources and has often proven incapable of effectively delivering public services, threatening the South African people and the South African economy,” the bill stated.

The bill accuses Ramaphosa of having declared the national state of disaster over the worsening energy crisis, “the worsening, multi-year power crisis caused by the ANC’s chronic mismanagement of the state owned power company Eskom, resulting from endemic, high-level corruption”.

It states that the persistence of Transnet’s insufficient capacity, an on-going outbreak of cholera, a failure to provide clean water to households and rampant state capture are part of ANC governments mismanagement of the state.

Dirco spokesperson Clayson Monyela said that relations between the two countries are warm and mutually beneficial.

“We know for a fact that the USA government doesn’t share the views of the individuals behind this bill. We are confident that it won’t go anywhere. We continue to engage, share information, and cooperate with the USA at bilateral and multilateral fora to deepen the already strong ties between our two countries politically, economically, and work together to respond to global developments, ” he said.

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9111e9 No.20406078

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>>20397875

The video title may say that it is Malema’s full speech but it is not. From about 55:40 – Snot started running from Malema’s nose and people started leaving the stadium.

“EFF Manifesto Launch 2024:Julius Malema Full speech.”

https://youtu.be/oCReLw1-AJY

Feb 10, 2024

0:48 – “Forward to Socialism. Forward. Forward to Socialism. Forward.”

6:21 – “We send and salute all the Marxist, Leninist, Socialist, Communist parties in all parts of the world, in particular the Communist Party in China, Cuba and Vietnam.

6:50 – “We can say without fear of any contradiction that this province [KwaZulu Natal] is the home of the EFF.”

10:05 – “This province also produced one of the most outstanding predecessors in the Congress Youth League, Anton Muziwakhe Lembede, the first president of the [ANC] Congress Youth who died 77 years ago at the age of 33. We take this opportunity to assure President Anton Muziwakhe Lembede that we continue to be under his ideological, political and visionary guidance of achieving freedom in our lifetime. The generation and struggle of economic freedom in our lifetime is definitely inspired by the generational mission and struggle led by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede who in 1944 [prior to Apartheid] proclaimed freedom in our lifetime. We take this opportunity to report to President Anton Muziwakhe Lembede to President Robert Sobukwe… to all the heroic fighters of the freedom in our lifetime generation that we are here in the province of KwaZulu Natal to unveil and launch a manifesto that is going to bring about true freedom to the majority of our people.”

11:52 – “We are the Economic Freedom Fighters. A fearless, militant, radical and revolutionary economic emancipation movement founded here in South Africa and expanding to various parts of the African continent. We are a socialist, a pan-african movement that unapologetically fight for the reunification of the African continent. We are the most dependable and reliable weapon in the hands of the oppressed masses of our people.

20:52 – “We are fighting black people who are standing on our way being black outside and white inside. Those are sellouts, like Ramaphosa. When we fight him, we make no apology. We know that we are fighting an evil spirit of a white settler inside Ramaphosa.”

35:53 – “Comrades, we going to insource security guards and create State owned security company that will create 1 million jobs within a year. [to reinforce tyranny]

42:08 – “EFF will introduce free decolonized education for all and introduce subjects that incorporate indigenous knowledge and economic freedom. The EFF will criminalise all parents who don’t take their children to school because education [brainwashing] is going to be free and compulsory.”

53:52 – “Comrades, we are going to increase social grants.”

56:15 – “Comrades, in the EFF, there is no lesbian, there is no gay. We are all human beings, the rights of the lesbians and the rights of the gays and all LGBTQIA+ are human rights. If you are EFF and you isolate and discriminate LGBTQIA+, you are not a fighter. You are a sellout.

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02eac0 No.20407571

>>20242815

How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states

https://theconversation.com/how-liberators-turn-into-oppressors-a-study-of-southern-african-states-57213

Published: April 11, 2016 5.44am CEST

Excerpts below

Since coming to political power, the anticolonial movements of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have remained in control of the former settler colonies’ societies.

At best their track record of running the countries they helped liberate is mixed. From the “oiligarchy” in Angola under José Eduardo dos Santos and his family clan and the autocratic “Zanufication” under Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to the presidential successions in Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, all movements embarked on what could be termed “state capture”.

This is true of all five: the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU PF), Namibia’s South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) and the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.

During the years of organised resistance, activists in the liberation movements often internalised a “we-they” divide that categorised people as comrades or enemies. This was true in exile politics and armed struggle, as well as militant internal underground mobilisation.

The repressive regimes the liberation movements opposed were based on human rights violations as an integral component of minority rule. To have a chance of success against them, the struggle mainly operated along the lines of command and obedience. Operating in exile or for a banned organisation at home left no room for complacency. Suspicion was required for survival. It is normal for resistance movements to adopt rough survival strategies and techniques

Unfortunately that culture takes root and is permanently nurtured. Such confrontational mentality has become entrenched in an authoritarian political culture that is based on the claim that liberators have an entitlement to rule within a new elite project. This has happened much to the frustration of those who believed that the struggle against settler colonialism was also a struggle against a range of other things. These include economic exploitation, redistribution of wealth, plural democracy and respect for human dignity, rights and civil liberties.

There is also nothing new about militant movements that are supposedly justified in ethical and moral terms losing their legitimacy quickly when obtaining power. Since the French Revolution, liberators have often turned into oppressors, victims into perpetrators. New regimes often resemble features of the old one [actually they become much worse].

It bears repetition that the unscrupulously violent character of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) regime had already revealed itself in the early to mid-1980s. Already during the exile years internal power struggles led to assassinations and showed the brute force inherent in liberation struggles, even within their own ranks. This willingness to resort to violence was seen on a massive scale after independence as it was turned against political opponents and their support base.

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02eac0 No.20407598

>>20407571

>Already during the exile years internal power struggles led to assassinations and showed the brute force inherent in liberation struggles, even within their own ranks. This willingness to resort to violence was seen on a massive scale after independence as it was turned against political opponents

Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice

https://bnnbreaking.com/politics/political-assassination-rocks-south-african-province-a-call-for-justice

09 Feb 2024 06:35 EST

The brutal killing of IFP Councillor Ndukwenhle Duma has sparked outrage in a South African province [KwaZulu Natal]. As the community demands justice, questions arise about the role of political motives in the tragedy that also claimed the lives of two innocent children.

The incident transpired as Duma was en route to a meeting, his journey interrupted by a hail of bullets. The assailants, their identities shrouded in mystery, struck with precision and merciless intent. But the carnage did not end there. In a cruel twist of fate, a nearby taxi, filled with children returning from school, was caught in the crossfire.

Two of these young souls were claimed by the indiscriminate gunfire. Another three were left nursing injuries, their innocence shattered amidst the chaos. The question lingers, haunting the community - were these children casualties of stray bullets or victims of a more sinister plot to eliminate potential witnesses?

In the aftermath of the tragedy, a voice emerged from the shocked silence. Local resident Seepe, echoing the sentiments of many, expressed his dismay at the persistent issue of political assassinations that continue to plague the region.

"The root causes of these crimes remain unaddressed," Seepe lamented, his words carrying the weight of a community's collective grief and frustration. He criticized the police for focusing solely on investigating the murders rather than delving into the deeper political motives behind them.

The IFP, Duma's political party, has since issued a statement condemning the violence and demanding action. They have called upon the police to shift their focus from merely investigating the murders to apprehending the suspects, including those who orchestrate these heinous acts from the shadows.

As the party grapples with the loss of one of their own, they find themselves in the unenviable position of determining whether Duma's death was politically motivated. The police, meanwhile, are tasked with untangling the complex web of events, now investigating two cases of murder and two of attempted murder.

As the dust settles on this horrific incident, the echoes of gunfire serve as a stark reminder of the ongoing struggle against political violence. The community, bound by shared grief and determination, waits with bated breath for justice to prevail.

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02eac0 No.20407726

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Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2

https://youtu.be/1wCDAUYdXHg

“We have done what we wanted to do,” fiancée heard after farm murder

https://www.wereldwyd.co.za/en/survivors-of-farm-attacks-tell-their-horrific-stories-in-new-documentary-series/

FEB 2, 2024

“We have done what we wanted to do.” This is what Mariaan Brits had to hear shortly after her fiancé, Robert Stander, was shot and killed in a 2021 farm attack in Muldersdrift. In yet another attack, this time in 2020 on a farm east of Pretoria, Joey and Leon Kruger had to watch as an attacker held a gun to their crying seven-year-old son’s head and threatened to shoot him. These and other emotionally loaded stories – as told by the survivors of farm attacks – form part of a new five-part documentary series that has just been released by AfriForum. The first two episodes are already available on YouTube and the complete series will be available on AfriForum TV on 16 February.

In this series, titled Resilient voices: Survivors of farm attacks tell their stories [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwwV5tfwH29TwOPTmHYZbl5IoJmB05_P-], the experiences of victims of violent farm attacks in South Africa are revealed in shocking detail.

“Farm attacks and murders are a harsh reality in South Africa. It’s shameful that we have a government who denies or downplays these crimes, while we have political parties like the EFF who openly chant ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer’ at political rallies,” says Jacques Broodryk, director of the series and Chief Spokesperson at AfriForum’s division for Community Safety.

According to Broodryk, it is essential to tell these stories and for the international community to take note of victims’ experiences in these unimaginable violent attacks. “These are real people who suffered real horrors,” concludes Broodryk.

AfriForum has established 172 civilian safety structures countrywide and will continue to empower rural and urban communities to take their safety into their own hands, in collaboration with the authorities and within the confines of the law. The organisation also offers trauma counselling to victims of farm attacks.

Farm murders and farm attacks have become a bigger crisis than ever before. There has been an increase in farm attacks lately, and the government’s inability to address this problem is clearly visible.

For this reason AfriForum has decided to take the bull by the horns by launching a campaign that focuses on safeguarding farms.

The “Safeguard a farm” campaign will specifically address the following:

• assessing the safety of farmsteads;

• basic first-aid training;

• musketry training; and

• supplying an analogue radio system, including radio training.

The aim of this campaign is not only to safeguard farms and those living on farms, but also to empower the broader community in specific areas to be able to live freely, safely and prosperously.

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02eac0 No.20407809

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South Africa makes urgent request to ICJ on Israel’s Rafah offensive

https://youtu.be/xn4HNDyy5F4

Feb 13, 2024

The government of South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to consider whether Israel’s plan to extend military operations in Rafah “requires that the court uses its power to prevent further imminent breach of the rights of Palestinians in Gaza”.

It said in a statement that “the Court may at any time decide to examine proprio motu whether the circumstances of the case require the indication of provisional measures which ought to be taken or complied with by any or all of the parties”.

The South African government added it was gravely concerned that the unprecedented military offensive against Rafah has already led to and will result in further large scale killing, harm and destruction, the statement said.

“This would be in serious and irreparable breach both of the Genocide Convention and of the Court’s Order of 26 January 2024. South Africa trusts this matter will receive the necessary urgency in light of the daily death toll in Gaza”, it added.

Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller has the latest from Johannesburg.

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3f5110 No.20410783

The World is beginning to find out

Canada #53 >>20406484

South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is “Inciting Violence”

by Richard Abelson Feb. 13, 2024

The authoritarian left-wing attack on conservatives around the world is picking up steam: Five well-known Afrikaner activists are now on trial in South Africa for the crime of protesting, which the government calls “inciting violence.”

Political prisoners being persecuted worldwide include Tommy Robinson (now on trial in UK for eating breakfast in London), Julian Assange (facing his last extradition hearing for the crime of embarrassing Hillary Clinton, a capital offense) plus Peter Navarro, Rudy Giuliani, Owen Shroyer and all the J-6 political prisoners and persecuted Christians in the USA. US YouTuber Gonzalo Lira was tortured in prison and died in Ukrainian custody Jan 11. Bestselling German-Turkish author Akif Pirincci was sentenced to 9 months in prison Feb. 5 for “inciting hate” by criticizing mass illegal immigration.

Now five Afrikaner activists are being charged with “inciting violence” for protesting outside a courthouse in Groblersdal, Limpopo (former Northern Transvaal) Jan. 24. Three of the five appeared in court Monday, the fourth claiming medical grounds for not appearing. The fifth was arraigned Feb. 8.

The accused include prominent YouTuber Willem Petzer and the son of top Afrikaner country music star Steve Hofmeyr, Devon Hofmeyr. Devon is co-director of the Bittereinders civil defense movement, named after the Afrikaners who vowed to fight to the “bitter end” in the Second Boer War 1899-1902. Co-defendants are Tewie Wessels and Dries Olivier, who claimed medical reasons for not appearing in court.

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Petzer, Hofmeyr and the Bittereinders had called for protests outside the trial of farmers Piet Groenewald (63) and son Stephan Greef (27), who stand accused of sic’ing a dog on a black farm worker in Grobersdal in a violent altercation Jan. 17. The farmers claimed the farm worker Veneruru Kavari (30) was drunk and destructive, and attacked them with a panga (machete) and a pick axe handle.

Without any reports of altercations or violence, police accused Petzer, Hofmeyr, Wessels and Olivier with “inciting violence” and called for their arrest. The four decided to surrender to police and face trial voluntarily, as Petzer said in video Monday morning.

The other Bittereinders co-director Francois van der Merwe (25) was arrested for protesting outside the courthouse as well and arraigned Feb. 8. Van der Merwe was initially charged with assault for protesting outside the courthouse, but the charges were then reduced to “inciting violence”.

Van der Merwe said in an affidavit the police tried to prevent him from “protesting in a peaceful manner and with permission”, rnews reports.

On the morning of Feb. 12, Willem Petzer posted a video on Facebook announcing he was driving to surrender to police, and “this will probably be the last video you’ll see of me in quite a few weeks.”

Van der Merwe’s hearing was delayed Feb. 8 because of blackouts. South Africa is now without power 9 hours a day or more.

“The Afrikaner’s last democratic instruments are slowly being stripped from him”, country star Steve Hofmeyr wrote of his son’s arrest. “Our right to protest is being called terrorism. We are being made an example of while the killers are exonerated. They did it to me. They will do it to our sons, too.”

Die BoereAfrikaner se laaste demokratiese instrumente word stadig van hom gestroop. Sy reg op protes en betoog word as terrorisme bestempel. Hy word ‘n voorbeeld van gemaak terwyl ander bloeddorstiges gevrywaar word. Hulle doen dit aan my. Hulle sal dit aan ons seuns ook doen.

— Steve Hofmeyr (@steve_hofmeyr) February 12, 2024

Hofmeyr Senior played the lead role in South African movie Treurgrond (“Mourning Ground” 2015) about farm murders, which won Best Foreign Film at the 2018 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema in Amsterdam.

Crime has risen dramatically in South Africa, with 27,272 homicides 2022, or 46.6 per 100,000, making South Africa the most violent country in the world after Jamaica.

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Homicide rates among the farmer community are even higher. There were 182 Farm attacks and 45 farm murders in 2023, up from 156 Farm attacks and 39 farm murders 2022, South Africa Today reports. With a farmer population of roughly 25.000, that would mean a murder rate of 180 per 100.000.

Farm attacks were up 21% in the third quarter of 2023. According to AfriForum Spokesperson for Community Safety Jacques Broodryk, the third quarter 2023 saw the highest number of recorded farm attacks for the year.

More:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/south-africa-white-farmers-arrested-protesting-which-is/

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02eac0 No.20418196

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>>20397875

>>20406078

“We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages).”

https://youtu.be/GMqx3fUtjfs

Premiered Feb 14, 2024

Eff Manifesto 2024

https://effonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/A5-EFF-2024-Manifesto-full-version.pdf

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02eac0 No.20418277

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>>20410783

>The authoritarian left-wing attack on conservatives around the world is picking up steam: Five well-known Afrikaner activists are now on trial in South Africa for the crime of protesting, which the government calls “inciting violence.”

Encouraging racial divide? While people are "Getting away with murder in South Africa", https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/677737/getting-away-with-murder-in-south-africa/.

>>20341240

>ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says he expects a full-blown fight back from the Israelis. “The fight back may also focus on our domestic politics and our electoral outcomes in order to pursue a regime change agenda.

The ANC Is Shivering! [MK Party gaining strength] - https://youtu.be/fOPkN4bk-Hc

Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa?

https://www.iol.co.za/news/explained-what-will-it-take-for-sa-to-declare-a-state-of-emergency-a4d79fbe-94e2-4b37-b16b-0e930328bdbe

A state of emergency gives the state power to temporarily suspend certain rights and allows it legal authority to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens.

The Constitution holds that a state of emergency can be declared to restore peace if the nation is threatened by war, disorder, civil unrest, or natural disasters.

Constitutional law expert Professor Pierre de Vos says for a country to declare a state of emergency, there is an “exceptionally high threshold to meet”.

“An armed insurrection, an attempted coup d’état, or some other catastrophic event that endangers the continued functioning of the democratic state might in some circumstances warrant such a declaration, but only if there are no other ways to deal effectively with the threat,” he said.

De Vos said that during a state of emergency, President Cyril Ramaphosa will be allowed to issue “draconian” regulations, authorise detention without trial and implement various forms of censorship.

“In the wrong hands, such powers will be abused, not only against insurrectionists and looters, but also against others whose actions displease the security forces and their political principles,” he said.

A state of emergency has its legal authority in Section 37 of the Constitution, to be declared for no more than 21 days and the National Assembly may extend a declaration of a state of emergency for no more than three months at a time.

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9111e9 No.20423234

“Islamic State lead deadly attack on Mozambique troops as Total gears up for LNG project”

https://www.biznews.com/africa/2024/02/14/islamic-state-attack-mozambique-total-lng-project

14th February 2024

Excerpts

Islamic State-affiliated insurgents launched their deadliest attack on Mozambican troops in Mucojo, posing heightened security risks as TotalEnergies SE plans a $20 billion LNG project. The assault, 85 miles from the project site, resulted in the reported death of 25 government forces. The casualties mark the highest in a single battle since 2021. Analyst Tomás Queface expressed concern, emphasising insurgents’ increasing strength. Recent attacks signal a resurgence of violence, challenging gains made in the six-year conflict. TotalEnergies’ potential return would bolster regional stability and impact ExxonMobil Corp.’s LNG project approval.

“The insurgents are gaining more strength,” Queface said by phone from Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. “It’s very worrying.”

A string of attacks since December has marked a resurgence in violence after Mozambican and regional forces last year announced major gains in the six-year war that’s left at least 4,849 people dead. Government forces had killed senior leaders, and dislodged the militants from hideouts deep in the forests of Cabo Delgado. The improved security situation provided a TotalEnergies-led consortium with the confidence to consider resuming the gas project by the middle of this year after halting it in 2021.

The return of TotalEnergies would also help clear the path for a group led by ExxonMobil Corp. to approve an even-bigger LNG project in the region.

The coastal stretch around Mucojo has growing significance for the insurgency, which Rwandan troops forced southward after they joined the war in 2021. Rwanda has been responsible for protecting the area around the LNG project and the town of Mocimboa da Praia to the south, the previous epicenter of the conflict.

Separately, a regional bloc, which Rwanda isn’t part of, in 2021 also sent hundreds of troops to help Mozambican forces secure areas including Macomia district, which includes Mucojo. The 16-member Southern Africa Development Community plans on withdrawing that deployment by July, around the same time that TotalEnergies hopes to resume work.

https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-terrorists-kill-25-mozambican-soldiers-in-cabo-delgado-aim-253866/

6:45 CAT | 12 Feb 2024

This figure is higher than that claimed by the terrorists themselves. The propaganda channels of the self-styled “Islamic State” claim that 20 soldiers were killed in the clash. The jihadists also boasted of beheading a soldier after several hours of interrogation.

This is the second time in less than two months that terrorists have attacked and occupied the Mozambique Defence Forces position in Mucojo.

The terrorists also killed a minibus-driver in Meluco district and burned down churches in Chiure district.

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9111e9 No.20423259

>>20423234

>>20407598

>"The root causes of these crimes remain unaddressed," Seepe lamented, his words carrying the weight of a community's collective grief and frustration. He criticized the police for focusing solely on investigating the murders rather than delving into the deeper political motives behind them.

>>20395003

>We know that situations of conflict will end by negotiations

>>20379812

>>20379826

>>20379836

>>20379966

“South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-22-south-africa-a-growing-conduit-for-islamic-state-funds-says-new-un-report/

22 Jul 2022

Excerpts

South Africa is continuing to provoke international concern because of its allegedly expanding role as a conduit of funds from the leadership of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil) to its affiliates in Africa. This emerged from a new United Nations report this week which says that after Isil’s loss of its territorial caliphate in Syria and Iraq in 2016, its affiliates in Africa have emerged as among its most important battlegrounds.

The report to the UN Security Council by a team of experts monitoring Isil and Al-Qaeda says one UN member state “highlighted the emerging importance of South Africa in facilitating transfers of funds from Isil leadership to affiliates in Africa. The Monitoring Team is aware of several large transactions totalling more than $1-million.”

Although the most violent and deadly jihadist group in Somalia, Al-Shabaab, is an Al-Qaeda affiliate, the report says Isil’s Al-Karrar office in Somalia is active, covering Somalia, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The Ahlu-Sunna Wa-Jama’a (ASWJ) jihadist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has been affiliated with Islamic State (IS) for the past three years but the precise organogram is not clear. The US has previously described ASWJ — as well as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which operates mainly in the DRC but also in Uganda — as affiliated with IS through “Islamic State — Central Africa Province”.

The UN report’s citation of South Africa as a growing conduit for IS funding echoes similar concerns by the US and may reflect the same circumstances. In March this year, the US slapped sanctions on four individuals in South Africa for various activities in support of IS, including financing its affiliates elsewhere in Africa. It said one of the four, Farhad Hoomer, was a recruiter, trainer and the leader of a Durban-based IS cell who “raised funds through kidnap-for-ransom operations and extortion”.

It added that Hoomer “was in contact with members of Isis-Democratic Republic of the Congo … and Isis supporters throughout South Africa”.

Hoomer was charged in 2016 with leading an IS cell that attacked a Shi’a mosque in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, killing one man; planting incendiary pipe bombs in shops and kidnap-for-ransom and other offences. A magistrate later withdrew the case because it was poorly presented.

The Financial Intelligence Centre reported to Parliament in February that the government’s reluctance to acknowledge the existence of terrorism in South Africa “indirectly impacts on their ability to investigate and prosecute potential [terrorist financing], including to identify financing networks and other financing activities. [SA] has failed to demonstrate that [it is] effectively identifying the specific roles played by terrorist financiers.”

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9111e9 No.20425381

>>20423259

>Islamic State

“Maldives Grapples with Repatriation Amidst Rising Religious Extremism”

https://thediplomat.com/2024/01/maldives-grapples-with-repatriation-amidst-rising-religious-extremism/

January 29, 2024

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The Muizzu government will repatriate 21 Maldivians, primarily widows and children of foreign terrorist fighters, from a refugee camp near the Turkey-Syria border.

Recently, the Maldives has garnered significant media attention due to its government’s escalating tensions with India and increasing engagement with China. However, media and pundit speculation about a potential shift in Maldivian foreign policy, moving from an “India First” approach to a more China-leaning stance, has overshadowed an important domestic development: the decision of the Muizzu administration earlier this month to facilitate the repatriation of 21 Maldivian nationals from five families who had been residing in a refugee camp near the Turkey-Syria border.

This group primarily consists of widows and children of foreign terrorist fighters who had previously left the Maldives for Syria to join the country’s civil war.

Currently, it is estimated that over 100 Maldivians, consisting of widows and children of deceased foreign terrorist fighters of Maldivian origin, are living in refugee camps near the Turkey-Syria border. Some of these individuals have reached out to relatives in the Maldives, using them as intermediaries to request government assistance for repatriation.

Under President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (2018-2023), the Maldives decided to facilitate the repatriation of all its nationals stranded in war zones, a policy continued by the current administration. This decision includes a commitment to ensure that returnees undergo necessary deradicalization programs, aiming to rehabilitate them and prevent the spread of extremist views within the general population. Additionally, if required, they would face criminal charges. To achieve these objectives, the Solih government significantly amended the country’s anti-terrorism legislation and established the NRC to temporarily house returnees

There is an urgent need to understand the allure of extremist ideologies, the factors that drive individuals to participate in foreign conflicts, and the willingness of some radicalized individuals to commit acts of violence both within the Maldives and in foreign conflict zones. Alarmingly, from 2013 to 2018 coinciding with the administration of former President Yameen Abdul Gayoom, the Maldives had the grim distinction of having the world’s highest per capita rate of its citizens joining foreign terrorist groups — over 250 from a population of less than 500,000. Many were initially emboldened by the Islamic State’s 2014 declaration of a caliphate; several have since been killed, including by rival terrorist groups.

Domestically, the Maldives has experienced a series of increasingly brazen and violent terrorist acts.

Additionally, in July 2023, the United States Treasury Department blacklisted nearly 30 Maldivian companies suspected of financing terrorist entities including al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

Thus, as the Maldives confronts the challenges of repatriation and stemming the flow of terrorist fighters, it becomes clear that these are symptoms of a much wider issue of religious extremism, a problem that successive Maldivian administrations have struggled to fully address.

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9111e9 No.20425392

>>20425381

Islamic extremism in the Maldives

https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/opinion-south-asia-restless-over-islamic-extremism-in-the-maldives-4525710

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Excerpts

In the Maldives, Islam is not only the state religion; citizens are expected to practice it per the country's new Constitution from 2008.

Article 9 (d) of the Constitution declares that "a non-Muslim may not become a citizen of the Maldives," whereas "Islam is the religion of the State of the Maldives and the basis for all Maldivian laws would be Islam," stated Article 10(a).

Under the leadership of President Solih, the Maldivian government implemented the 'Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy' of the United Nations to combat terrorism and violent extremism. The country has also joined the Saudi-led 'Islamic Military Alliance' to fight terrorism.

Following the "Prevention of Terrorism Act," the Maldivian government published a "watch list" of 17 terrorist organizations on 19 September 2019. Organizations like the Islamic State (IS)/ISIS, al-Qa'ida, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Harkat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HuJI) are among those on the list, based on recommendations from the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and endorsed by former President Solih.

The committee study also disclosed that the Maldives' security establishments, including the police, military, immigration division, and education ministry, were being targeted by both al-Qa'ida and the Islamic State (IS), two global terrorist organizations. The Maldivians' ties to al-Qa'ida and IS began in 2008 and 2014, respectively. In 2014, several Maldivians responded to the call made by the first self-styled caliph of the IS- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and did hijra (emigration) to IS-controlled territory in Iraq.

Unlike strong ties between India-Maldives under the leadership of former President Solih, the bilateral relationship is facing a tough time under President Muizzu's leadership. Like former President Abdulla Yameen's "India Out" campaign, Muizzu's "India-Out" campaign refreshed the memories of the 2013 elections. Having pro-China sentiments, Muizzu's campaign was supported by China to counter India's presence in Maldives' security environment.

During a press conference in January 2024, President Muizzu targeted India by saying, "We may be small, but this does not give them the license to bully us". His comment came after he visited China and met with Xi Jinping. Under the influence of China, Muizzu announced the relocation/withdrawal of Indian Army personnel from one of the three aviation platforms in the Maldives by 15 March 2024. Anti-Bharat statements and actions by President Muizzu will further deteriorate bilateral relations between Bharat-Maldives and jeopardise the security milieu of the Island nation.

A report by the European Election Observation Mission on "Presidential Election Maldives 2023" revealed that in an attempt to influence public opinion and manipulate election results, the present Maldivian government, which is a coalition of the People's National Congress (PNC) and the Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM), carried out misinformation campaign on social media platforms with an emphasis on anti-Bharat sentiments.

The presence of al-Qa'ida in the Maldives was revealed via the Meta/Facebook page of Bilad al- Sham Media (BaSM), an extremist group linked with Jabhat al-Nursa (JN). The BaSM claimed to be the media representative for Maldivian foreign (terrorist) combatants in Syria.9 In 2009, hundreds of Maldivians were recruited by terror groups such as the Taliban and al-Qa'ida affiliates in Pakistan and Afghanistan.10 In November 2009, al-Qa'ida's media wing published a film featuring Ali Jaleel, aka Musab Sayyid-a Maldivian native who had joined a pro-Taliban organisation in Pakistan, killed after a suicide attack on the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) HQ in Lahore on 27 May 2009.

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9111e9 No.20425407

>>20425381

>>20425392

“USAID to Provide Additional $7.2M of Assistance to Maldives”

https://mv.usmission.gov/usaid-assistance-maldives/

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Maldives signed an amended agreement for an additional $7.2 million in U.S. support over the next year.

The Development Objective Grant Agreement amendment was signed in a ceremony on June 5th, 2023, by Gabriel Grau, United States Chargé d’Affaires for Maldives, and Ahmed Khaleel, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Maldives.

The new amendment will add an estimated US$7.2 million (110.8 million Maldivian Rufiyaa) of U.S. assistance to Maldives. It brings the total U.S. support to the island nation since the initial development agreement was signed in 2019 to approximately US$36 million (554.4 million Maldivian Rufiyaa). These funds will support programming to strengthen democratic governance, individual and community resilience, environmental conservation, and climate change adaptation.

“This comprehensive agreement will enable us to broaden our cooperation with the Maldivian people and their government to advance joint U.S.- Maldives priorities and reinforces our support to the people of Maldives to realize their aspirations for a more stable and prosperous future,” Chargé Grau said.

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9111e9 No.20425438

>>20425407

>Gabriel Grau

>>20425392

>>20425381

There is no mention of terrorism below.

“Administrator Samantha Power at the Swearing-In Ceremony for the Incoming Mission Director for Maldives Gabriel “Gabe” Grau”

https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/speeches/jun-13-2022-administrator-power-swearing-ceremony-incoming-mission-director-sri-lanka-maldives-gabriel-grau

Monday, June 13, 2022

Excerpts

And I should say that Gabriel Sr. is himself a lifelong public servant. He worked initially as an engineer in Colombia, but then was recruited, plucked by the World Health Organization, went to FAO, and made a major contribution within the UN family.

But Gabe worked hard at his languages, and his skills came in handy when he was drafted into the Colombian army as a high school senior. Thanks to his strengths in English, he was sent to the Sinai Peninsula, where he worked as an English-Spanish translator for a high-ranking military official.

His time in the military, his knack for languages, and his childhood spent traveling and living in diplomatic communities around the world deepened his love for diplomacy and international work. And it led him, eventually, to USAID as a career Foreign Service Officer. His 21 years at the Agency have taken him to Thailand, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Djibouti, Peru, and Afghanistan.

Nowhere was that more evident than in Afghanistan, where Gabe served as our Deputy Mission Director. From the moment he arrived, Gabe got to work strengthening the Mission’s relationship and engagement with our Afghan Foreign Service Nationals. He re-initiated the Foreign Service National Committee and worked to help make sure women colleagues had a voice in that forum. He served as our local staff’s main point of contact in the leadership of the Mission.

Last fall, after we evacuated most of our Afghan staff, Gabe worked around the clock to help 140 of our team find refuge in the United States. All of them had to leave behind possessions, homes, and most importantly, family members, arriving on American soil at one of eight camps before finding homes across the country.

Gabe’s work in Afghanistan is just one powerful example of his deep commitment to his work at USAID and the Agency’s broader mission—a commitment that makes him a perfect fit for this new role: Mission Director for USAID Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Meanwhile, Maldives faces crises of its own. A small nation spread across dozens of islands and atolls, Maldives is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, facing a rising threat of sinking into the Indian Ocean. Economically, development across the atolls is far from uniform, requiring a range of community-specific economic solutions and efforts to strengthen local governance and inclusivity.

American engagement is expanding in Maldives as well. Originally small and mostly focused on environmental issues, our USAID Mission has since grown to include programs supporting democracy and governance and fostering economic growth and resilience. The U.S. has just announced a new embassy in Maldives, and the first ever U.S. Ambassador to Maldives will be named while Gabe is Mission Director.

Both Sri Lanka and Maldives are going through times of immense turmoil and change.

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898e42 No.20429148

>>20425438

>Maldives is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, facing a rising threat of sinking into the Indian Ocean.

“Egg on Their Faces: The Maldives Still Above the Waves 30 Years After Environmentalist Prediction”

https://pjmedia.com/tyler-o-neil/2018/09/21/egg-on-their-faces-the-maldives-still-above-the-waves-30-years-after-environmentalist-prediction-n61028

TYLER O'NEIL | 2:04 PM ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

On September 26, 2018, all 1,196 Maldives Islands will be under water, or so our environmentalist betters told us in 1988. Next week, the Maldives will go “poof,” just like Atlantis. Here’s the thing — the islands are actually getting bigger, and the climate alarmists have egg on their faces.

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b9f483 No.20429651

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Very interesting discussion

Tucker Carlson 2/16/24 | Tucker Carlson February 16, 2024; Mike Benz Discusses Rick [Richard] Stengel

https://youtu.be/jpGU2NzVwgg

https://twitter.com/i/status/1758529993280205039

22:43 – “Can you give us an example of how… the National Security State lies to the population, censors the truth in real life? So we have this State Department outfit called the Global Engagement Center which was created by a guy named Rick Stengel who described himself as Obama’s propagandist and chief. He was the Under Secretary for Public Affairs which is essentially the liaison office role between the State Department and the Mainstream Media. So this is basically the exact nexus where government talking points about war or about diplomacy or statecraft get synchronized with mainstream media… He [Stengel] made the argument … that essentially the Constitution was not prepared for the internet and we need to get rid of the First Amendment accordingly… He started something called the Global Engagement Center which was the first government censorship operation within the federal government. It was foreign facing so it was okay.

He had so much more to say about Rick Stengel.

https://factsbuddy.com/richard-stengel/

He was born to his parents in New York City. Richard was brought up by a Jewish family in Westchester County.

He is happily married to a native of South Africa called Mary Pfaff… Richard and Mary met while he was in South Africa working on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography. Mandela was godfather to the couple’s oldest son, Gabriel.

https://richardstengel.com/

Richard Stengel is the former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the Obama administration. Prior to serving in government, Stengel was the Editor of TIME for seven years. He was also the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center. In the 1990s, he collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African’s bestselling autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom.” The many hours of taped interviews from that time were the basis of Stengel’s 10-part award-winning audiobook, “Mandela: The Lost Tapes,” from Audible. Stengel is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is “Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation.” He is also a political analyst for MSNBC.

Under his leadership, TIME won the National Magazine award for Magazine of the Year in 2012, the only time it has ever done so. In that same year, Stengel received an Emmy award for his work as executive producer of TIME’s documentary, “Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience.” In addition to “Information Wars,” Stengel is also the author of “January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town,” “You’re Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery,” “The Constitution: The Essential User’s Guide” from TIME, and “Mandela’s Way,” a NYT-bestselling memoir of his time working with the South African leader. Stengel is on the board of CARE, the global poverty relief organization. He attended Princeton University where he played on the 1975 NIT championship basketball team. He then studied English at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

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78cd27 No.20434931

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“The "Old Money" Family That Controls Africa: The Oppenheimers”

https://youtu.be/AtdpTRQwFeY

Jan 5, 2024

In this video, we dive into the remarkable story of the Oppenheimer family, a dynasty whose influence has extended far beyond the shores of Africa, shaping the global diamond industry and beyond.

His revolutionary marketing strategies transformed the diamond industry, and his political influence is examined, particularly in the context of apartheid-era South Africa.

We then shift to the controversies and ethical issues surrounding the diamond industry, particularly the accusations of monopolistic practices and the impact of cultural references like the film "Blood Diamond" and Kanye West's song "Diamonds From Sierra Leone."

These cultural phenomena brought increased scrutiny to the ethical and environmental implications of diamond mining.

The story culminates with the Oppenheimer family's strategic decision in 2012 to sell their stake in De Beers, marking the end of their direct involvement in the diamond industry but not their influence in global business.

We explore their subsequent investments in diverse sectors, highlighting their continued economic impact in Africa and beyond.

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78cd27 No.20434935

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>>20407809

“ICJ REJECTS South Africa's plea to intervene in Gaza”

https://youtu.be/8ZsqzwOqNSo

Feb 16, 2024

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78cd27 No.20434939

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“ICJ to hold public hearings tomorrow”

https://youtu.be/rvf5rX6hWfU

Feb 18, 2024

Public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, will commence on Monday at the International Court of Justice.

This is a separate case from the one brought by South Africa against Israel questioning its compliance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention concerning its current military offensive in Gaza.

The United Nations General Assembly voted in December 2022 to request an advisory opinion from the World Court.

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3f5110 No.20436542

>>20434939

>The United Nations General Assembly voted in December 2022 to request an advisory opinion from the World Court.

That's nice, their "advisory opinion" is meaningless

The public hearings are nothing more than a stage, watch how many of those Palestinian Statehood groups show up

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898e42 No.20442095

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>>20407598

>>20407571

“KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings”

https://youtu.be/5fafjAEe89Q

Feb 14, 2024

2:59 – “You would remember that in September that inter-ministerial task force that was in the province to deal with these political killings. We heard the provincial police commissioner in the province in […] speak about the fact that one of the major things that they discovered as they were busy investigating these political cases is that some of their own were involved and it’s not only just illegal firearms that are being used but firearms that are also belonging to certain police personal who belong within their ranks.

4:50 – “So he’s saying another major issue is the issue of arrest where they are arresting the hitmen but their handlers are essentially not being arrested.

‘Killings a direct attack on democracy’

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/political-killings-concern-over-politicians-inflammatory-language/

14 Feb 2024 03:22 pm

The local government oversight body in KZN has questioned the effectiveness of the police.

The South African Local Government Association (Salga) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has expressed concern over political killings as this year’s elections edge closer.

Speaking in a media briefing, KZN Salga chairperson Thami Ntuli said the sudden surge in political killings was “worrying”.

“What is increasing our worry as Salga in KwaZulu-Natal is the heavily contested political reign in the province [which] has a history of black-on-black violence,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

What is also not helping is some of our political leaders who are using inflammatory language during their campaign instead of sticking to political diplomacy while wooing voters, thus, the incidents of the past few weeks are worrying and something should be done by the police and those in power to arrest this situation.

“If we fail to act now, we will become like countries like Colombia where politicians are killed everyday,” the Salga provincial chair said.

He also said the fact that no one has been arrested for any of the four killings that happened in parts of KZN last month raised concerns about the effectiveness of the police.

“In countries where law enforcement officers are effective, these cases would have been cracked long ago and the alleged killers facing justice,” Ntuli continued.

“We all know that out of the many councillors killed since the current term of office that started in 2021, only a few cases are in court. The rest have virtually become cold cases.

“All these political killings should be viewed as a direct attack on our democratic system. They are meant to weaken and render them ineffective. Killers and their handlers have turned politicians into sitting ducks and instilled fear in municipal workers who dare stand up when they see acts of corruption.”

He added: “The brazenness of the criminals who kill them shows that they knew there will not be any consequences for their actions.”

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45b4db No.20445849

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“Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates”

https://youtu.be/YaVHyxs-d-k

Feb 18, 2024

DA MP Glynnis Brytenbach says there is no room for any judicial officer to manufacture evidence for or against anybody.

Breytenbach was reacting to explosive reports which included some magistrates, ranging from non-existing court proceedings, threats to journalists to having informants for intelligence units.

She says she has faith in the Magistrates' Commision to cleanse itself.

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45b4db No.20445854

“Oppenheimer’s granddaughter backs RISE Mzansi with R15m”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/oppenheimers-granddaughter-backs-rise-mzansi-with-r15m/

18 Feb 2024 01:22 pm

RISE Mzansi leader, Songezo Zibi, has confirmed the receipt of a R15m donation from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.

Rebecca Oppenheimer, the granddaughter of De Beers founder and former chair of the diamond company Harry Oppenheimer, has reportedly donated R15 million to newly registered party political party RISE Mzansi.

Rebecca is a board member of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, where she is able to contribute to her family’s philanthropic endeavours in South Africa.

Party leader Songezo Zibi confirmed the receipt of this donation during an interview with the SABC this week.

RISE Mzansi was established in April 2023 and was officially register by the former editor of Financial Mail and the Business Day in October last `year.

The party has since been gaining a massive amount of support and donations following its inception. It also received just over R500 000 from Kairos Communications.

Other donors to the party that has been declared, are businesses Main Street and Injozi Design.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/rise-mzansi-receives-r167-million-in-funding-with-oppenheimer-pumping-in-most-of-the-money-3b425d57-0f4b-42fc-8d0f-8b27ddeea4ec

Oppenheimer, who is the granddaughter of mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer, has over the last few years been donating to the DA and ActionSA.

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45b4db No.20445866

“Understanding Vaal's water lettuce crisis”

https://youtu.be/uJYHYvaxQWY

1:10 – “Under ideal conditions as we have at this point in time, we have really good weather… and unfortunately the water is polluted significantly. That pollution comes from either wastewater treatment plants that are working inefficiently upstream.” [Why not address the cause? ‘A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report, https://www.circleofblue.org/2022/world/a-tsunami-of-human-waste-half-of-south-africas-sewage-treatment-works-are-failing-says-report/]

“Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution” 1 of 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-02-15-spraying-of-controversial-herbicide-on-vaal-river-water-lettuce-begins-critics-urge-caution/

15 Feb 2024

As the invasive water lettuce continues to multiply along the Vaal River, Rand Water has begun an integrated response to halt the growth, spraying herbicide on the plants and releasing weevils as biological control agents. While the response is seen by some as necessary to urgently address socioeconomic implications, it’s seen as controversial by others.

Rand Water was given an urgent general authorisation by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to begin an integrated approach to manage the water lettuce, which includes physical removal, biocontrol and chemical application, as advised by experts by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE).

Glyphosate-containing herbicide was sprayed on the invasive water lettuce in sections of the Vaal River on 13 February in a sub-lethal dose. Rand Water said specific formulations of the glyphosate that were recommended are made based on DFFE expert opinion and research and this work is being monitored for compliance.

This has caused some controversy with many people concerned that using glyphosate-based herbicides – which is the most heavily applied herbicide in the world – would affect human health and drinking water.

Bettina Genthe, an independent consultant, previously at CSIR, has 40 years of experience in environmental health related to water quality. Genthe told Daily Maverick that she was concerned to hear they were using glyphosate because recent studies had shown that this widely used chemical herbicide could contaminate drinking water sources and air, could cause neurological diseases, and had been categorised by the World Health Organization as a probable human carcinogen.

However, Genthe said, “the dose is everything,” and that if Rand Water was using glyphosate only as an interim measure, and not routinely spraying the chemical, the exposure length would be less harmful. If the dose was repeatedly sprayed, it resulted in a higher dose in total, “because there would be adverse health effects in higher doses and on a prolonged basis”.

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45b4db No.20445869

>>20445866

“Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution” 2 of 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-02-15-spraying-of-controversial-herbicide-on-vaal-river-water-lettuce-begins-critics-urge-caution/

15 Feb 2024

The area that is currently being affected by the water lettuce is below the abstraction points for Rand Water (Rand Water extracts from Vaal Dam). However, downstream of the spraying is a supply source for a major crop irrigation project (the Vaal-Harts government irrigation scheme).

Dr Ferrial Adam, executive director of citizen science organisation WaterCAN, said “while glyphosate may not have been sprayed in close proximity to Rand Water’s extraction areas, concerns arise regarding downstream water users’ potential impact”.

Dr Samuel Motitsoe, an aquatic ecologist based at Wits University, said, “I think we should, by all means, stay away from chemical control/spraying in any dose because this is simply a quick fix and never sustainable.

Professor Anthony Turton, a water resource management specialist at the University of Free State, holds similar views, stating that he is opposed to the use of glyphosate and that its use is irresponsible.

Turton said that along with glyphosate having an international reputation for being extremely controversial, he noted that the Water Research Commission’s 2023 study on glyphosate levels in SA cautioned that there were human health impacts that were as yet not fully understood.

“The report suggests that there is a very strong possibility of intergenerational impacts from the DNA-altering characteristics of this chemical,” said Turnton.

Adam also advocated against continued spraying of glyphosate, which has been banned in many countries around the world, and for bioremediation efforts.

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45b4db No.20445882

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“Red flags in SA DRC deployment: R2B, operational constraints, strategy, Rwanda - Prof Esterhuyse”

https://youtu.be/a_SETG1IxDY

Feb 14, 2024

South Africa’s military is leading a mission of troops in collaboration with the Southern African Development Council (SADC), to neutralise M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after the withdrawal of 2000 United Nations peacekeepers. The deployment of 2,900 soldiers to the eastern part of the DRC will cost over R2 billion this year. President Cyril has said that the deployment of the force is South Africa’s international obligation. However, Prof Abel Esterhuyse from the Department of Strategic Studies at Stellenbosch has identified several red flags. He said although there is a broader issue of stability in Africa and for SADC, it is not clear what the national interest in the DRC conflict is. Prof Esterhuyse stated that South Africa is facing extremely difficult logistical and operational challenges for the DRC mission, which is not essentially a peacekeeping mission. A lack of infrastructure means no trains or roads for logistical support and airlifts would be needed to sustain the force which South Africa does not have. Additionally, there is a clash of interests with Rwanda, equipment incompatibility between the different SADC forces and a potential soldier morale problem as medical support would be complex. The military involvement is also taking place against a backdrop of severe SANDF funding constraints. Prof Esterhuyse pointed out that South African Military (SAMIL) trucks date back to 1981. He also wanted to know whether the R2 billion for the DRC mission would come out of the already challenged Defence Budget of R50 billion and whether the government has an exit strategy. Commenting on global tensions, he said, “The bigger picture is that we are increasingly seeing the kind of divide we saw in the 1930s with the democratic world on the one side and the autocratic world on the other, and there is growing tension between the two worlds.”

4:58 – “We’re sitting in essence with a complex emergency if I could call it like that with the main agent at the moment the M23 rebels but the M23 rebels is supported by the Rwandese and a number of countries within the Great Lakes region and so that makes it a very very complex situation. I mean keep in mind that we are supposed to work with the Rwandese in solving the issue in Mozambique… So here we ‘re sitting with a bit of what I want to call clash of interest between South Africa and Rwanda, yet we working together with one another in Mozambique.

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/two-sandf-members-killed-three-hospitalised-in-drc/

“Two SANDF members killed, three hospitalised in DRC”

15 February 2024, 11:27 [SAST]

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45b4db No.20446076

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>>20445882

>We’re sitting in essence with a complex emergency if I could call it like that with the main agent at the moment the M23 rebels but the M23 rebels is supported by the Rwandese and a number of countries within the Great Lakes region and so that makes it a very very complex situation. I mean keep in mind that we are supposed to work with the Rwandese in solving the issue in Mozambique… So here we ‘re sitting with a bit of what I want to call clash of interest between South Africa and Rwanda, yet we working together with one another in Mozambique.

“Rwanda Just Warned & Blocked UN Support For South Africa-led Force in Congo!”

https://youtu.be/pC5Bo41PvQ4

Feb 19, 2024

Rwanda has written to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), warning the international body that it could spark a regional war if it provides any support to the SADC Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (SAMIDRC).

A peaceful solution is the best alternative to the crisis in the eastern DRC, it said.

1:15 – “The roots of the [DRC] conflict can be traced back to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 [and South Africa got a new government]. The genocide which resulted in the mass killing of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, led to an influx of refugees including both perpetrators and victims into the eastern regions of the DRC.

4:31 – “During the first and second Congo wars, Rwanda and Uganda South sought to support rebel movements and install leaders sympathetic to their interests in the DRC. Control over valuable natural resources in the eastern DRC including minerals like coltan, gold and diamonds has been a significant motivation. Some experts have argued that Rwanda among other neighbouring countries, has been illicitly exploiting these resources contributing the perpetuation of conflict.”

5:35 – “The tensions have accelerated after the United Nations Security Council’s plan to support the South African led forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

6:42 – “The involvement of external forces in the DRC, especially those led by South Africa under the SADC umbrella, is viewed by Rwanda as an interference that could exacerbate the already complex regional dynamics.

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45b4db No.20446222

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“Rwandan government tried to silence opponents, Human rights watch report claims”

https://youtu.be/GAGbPKxB_r4

Jan 26, 2024

“Exiled Rwandan politician shot dead in Cape Town”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/exiled-rwandan-politician-shot-dead-in-cape-town-46f2ffb9-0e96-4c09-af25-83e4eaf3e432

Published Feb 22, 2021

A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon.

It is not clear whether the murder was politically motivated, but a Twitter user alleged Bamporiki, co-ordinator of the Rwanda National Congress [an arm of the African National Congress?] of General Kayumba Nyamwasa, was ’’assassinated by Rwanda’s external intelligence operatives using silencer handguns’’.

In May 2019, Camir Nkurunziza, a Rwandan refugee and political activist living in South Africa, was shot dead in Cape Town.

The car of the former member of the Rwanda National Congress, who had fled Rwanda after serving the presidential guard, had been hijacked before he was shot.

In 2013, one of the Rwanda National Congress’s founders [Rwanda's former intelligence chief], Patrick Karegeya, was killed in his hotel room in Johannesburg.

Another opposition figure, Kayumba Nyamwasa, survived an alleged assassination attempt in 2010 in South Africa.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56119088

Another RNC founding member, former army chief Gen Faustin Nyamwasa was shot and wounded in Johannesburg in 2010.

The attacks caused a huge diplomatic row between South Africa and Rwanda in 2014.

South Africa expelled three Rwandan diplomats after accusing them of links to the murder and attempted murder of Rwandan dissidents living in the country.

Rwanda's government dismissed the allegation.

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45b4db No.20446234

>>20407571

> Already during the exile years internal power struggles led to assassinations and showed the brute force inherent in liberation struggles, even within their own ranks. This willingness to resort to violence was seen on a massive scale after independence as it was turned against political opponents

>>20446076

>The roots of the [DRC] conflict can be traced back to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 [and South Africa got a new government].

>>20446222

“Rwanda's disappearing dissidents” 1 of 2

https://www.dw.com/en/rwanda-the-mysterious-deaths-of-political-opponents/a-59182275

September 15, 2021

DW has put together a list of mysterious deaths and disappearances of people critical of Rwanda's government. Monday's killing of businessman Revocant Karemangingo in Mozambique is the latest.

The death of former Rwandan lieutenant Revocant Karemangingo, a critic of President Paul Kagame, is the latest addition to a list DW has compiled of Rwandan opposition voices that have died under suspicious circumstances.

The regime of President Kagame, who has ruled Rwanda since 1994 in effect, is accused of suppressing dissenting views.

International rights groups claim that opposition politicians, journalists, and activists both in Rwanda and abroad have also been killed or made to disappear after criticizing Kagame or his ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) party.

Mysterious deaths

Revocant Karemangingo, 2021

Millionaire businessman Revocant Karemangingo was sprayed with bullets by gunmen near his home in Maputo. The outspoken Kagame critic had settled in Mozambique after being ousted from his home country in 1994. The Rwandan government has denied any involvement in the killing. However, Cleophas Habiyaremye, president of the association of Rwandan refugees in Mozambique, rejects the denial. "If there is any real independent inquiry, Kagame and his government should be held responsible," Cleophas Habiyaremye told DW.

Ntamuhanga Cassien, 2021

Rwandan journalist Ntamuhanga Cassien disappeared in Maputo in May after being taken into custody by Mozambican police, and has not been heard from since. There are rumors he was handed over to Rwanda.

Abdallah Seif Bamporiki, 2021

The leading Rwandan opposition politician and member of the Rwanda National Congress was shot dead in South Africa, where he was living in exile. South African police initially said they were treating the killing as a robbery. A week before his murder, Bamporiki had led a memorial service for Rwandan opposition activists killed worldwide.

Kizito Mihigo, 2020

The singer and government critic died under suspicious circumstances in police custody. Police claim Mihigo strangled himself — but days before his arrest, hereported to Human Rights Watch that he was being threatened.

Anselme Mutuyimana, 2019

The assistant to Victoire Ingabire, president of the opposition United Democratic Forces (FDU-Inkingi) party, was found dead in the woods in 2019. The year before, Mutuyimana had been freed from a six-year prison sentence for "political activism."

Jean Damascene Habarugira, 2017

The opposition politician disappeared after being called to a meeting with an officer responsible for local security. A few days later, authorities called Habarugira's family to collect his body from a local hospital.

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45b4db No.20446240

>>20446234

“Rwanda's disappearing dissidents” 2 of 2

https://www.dw.com/en/rwanda-the-mysterious-deaths-of-political-opponents/a-59182275

September 15, 2021

Illuminee Iragena, 2016

The opposition activist went missing in 2016, and has not been seen since. There are fears she was forcibly disappeared.

Patrick Karegeya, 2014

The former Rwandan intelligence chief was found dead in a hotel room in South Africa. He had fled to South Africa in 2007 after allegedly plotting a coup against President Kagame. According to a 2019 article in The Guardian, before his death, several Rwandans in South Africa had warned Karegeya that Rwanda's military intelligence was looking to hire contract killers.

Theogene Turatsinze, 2012

The former head of the Rwanda Development Bank was found dead in 2012 in a river near Maputo, days after he went missing. Before he was fired from his position, Turatsinze was believed to have taken with him to Mozambique a list of clandestine payments made by top Rwandan government officials.

Charles Ingabire, 2011

The Rwandan reporter founded Inyenyeri News site, which was highly critical of Rwanda's government. Ingabire was shot and killed in Uganda, where he lived as a political refugee.

Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, 2010

The deputy chairman of Rwanda's Democratic Green Party was found murdered and partially beheaded in Rwanda in 2010. An inquiry into his murder by Rwanda's Bureau of Investigation never saw the light of day.

Jean-Leonard Rugambage, 2010

The journalist was shot dead in 2010 after he published an online article about the attempted murder of a former army chief, Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa. Rugambage was viewed as highly critical of  Kagame's government.

Seth Sendashonga, 1998 

A moderate ethnic Hutu involved in the post-genocide unity government with Kagame's RPF party, Sendashonga served as interior minister until he fell out with the RPF before Kagame became president in 2000. Sendashonga survived an attempt on his life while in exile in Kenya, but was subsequently killed by unknown gunmen in 1998.

Theoneste Lizinde, 1996

The former intelligence official was found dead in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1996.

Suppressing the opposition

Opposition politician Victoire Ingabire, who served eight years in prison, told DW in 2020 that the "political space in Rwanda is closed."

At the time of the interview, Ingabire was the leader of the FDU-Inkingi opposition party.

"I was in prison and spent eight years [there], and when I was released, I thought the government of Rwanda was ready to open up the political space. But one month later, our vice president disappeared. Four months later, my assistant was killed. In July, our representative in [an] eastern province disappeared; yesterday, our national coordinator was murdered," Ingabira said in a 2020 interview with DW.

Although Ingabire did not blame President Kagame for the murder of her party members, she said the killings were politically motivated, and warned that many more would die under the regime she described as a dictatorship.

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45b4db No.20446459

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“11th World Governments Summit |One-on-one conversation with President Kagame”

https://youtu.be/YX43v0N262c

Paul Kagame

https://www.weforum.org/people/paul-kagame/

Made an early commitment to fight for national liberation and led a military struggle that ended the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. 18 August 2017, sworn in for third term as President of the Republic of Rwanda. Has transformed Rwanda into a nation that is progressing rapidly towards its ambitious vision for socioeconomic development, peace and reconciliation. 2010-15, Chair, United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Group on the Millennium Development Goals. Co-Chair, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Broadband Commission. July 2016, appointed by African Union member states to lead the ongoing reforms process aimed at transforming the African Union into an efficient, productive and financially independent institution. Addresses regional and international audiences on a range of developmental and leadership issues. Recipient of honours and awards for leadership in peace building and reconciliation, development, good governance, promotion of human rights and women’s empowerment, and advancement of education and information and communications technologies. Interests: tennis; football.

https://moneyinc.com/richest-president-in-the-world/

Updated on November 20, 2023

• Country: President - Rwanda

• Age: 66. (2023).

• Net Worth: According to CA Knowledge, the net worth of Paul Kagame exceeds $510 million. (2023)

• Source of Wealth: Paul Kagame's personal wealth is not publicly disclosed in great detail, so it is speculated that his role as president and the benefits of his political role played a significant role in the collection of his wealth.

Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician who has been Rwanda's president for more than two decades. He was born in southern Rwanda – in Tambwe, to a Tutsi family, but his family was forced to flee to Uganda, where he spent his childhood. He is also a former Rwandan military officer of the Rwandan Patriotic Front – the armed rebels that ended the Rwandan genocide during the country's civil war. Rwanda's economy has grown rapidly under Kagame's presidency as his economic policies were based on the objective of liberalizing the nation's economy and reducing required red tape for businesses.

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45b4db No.20446488

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>>20446076

>>20446222

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>>20446240

>>20446459

Guess what the outcome will be.

“Rwanda's Kagame says he will run for fourth term • FRANCE 24 English”

https://youtu.be/vnTLHEOGEvQ

Sep 21, 2023

0:05 – “The Rwandan President has been holding the highest office for over 23 years.”

0:34 – “Last April, Kagame was re-elected as the head of his party, RPF, with 99% of the votes. The same score was also seen in the last Presidential elections in 2017, marking the beginning of his 3rd term after amending the Constitution in 2015 to allow for his re-election… This long stay in power… has always been criticized by his opponents, NGOs and Western diplomats.”

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2015-12-30/rwanda-referendum-approves-extended-presidential-terms/

(Dec. 30, 2015) On December 19, 2015, Rwandan citizens approved a referendum to amend the country’s Constitution. Reportedly, 98% of the voters agreed to the revision of article 101. The change will permit the current president, Paul Kagame, to remain in office for a third seven-year term beginning in 2017, to be followed by two possible five-year terms. (Bradley McAllister, Rwanda Voters Approve Constitutional Referendum to Extend Presidential Term Limit, PAPER CHASE (Dec. 19, 2015).)

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45b4db No.20451268

>>20446222

>>20446240

>Patrick Karegeya

>>20446076

>The roots of the [DRC] conflict can be traced back to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994

“The Dark Side of Rwanda’s Rebirth” 1 of 2

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/29/the-dark-side-of-rwandas-rebirth/

MAY 29, 2021, 6:00 AM

Michela Wrong’s Do Not Disturb: The Story of Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad is the fascinating account of how Kagame and his regime have come to embody this macabre dialogue between the dead and the living, which continues to haunt the region.

Conflict in the region has killed millions of civilians over the years. The drivers, however, remain the same: exclusion and marginalization of citizens, power abuses, and disregard for human life—a situation that in the name of peace and stability the United Nations and Western powers have often been complicit in.

Wrong’s book achieves the rare feat of being both a historical chronicle and a rigorous analysis of current events. She anchors the book around the killing of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the exiled former head of the Rwandan External Security Organization who was strangled in his Johannesburg hotel suite on Dec. 31, 2013. Wrong weaves a trail of failed attempts and assassinations of high-profile Rwandans at home and abroad who had fallen out with the regime in Kigali.

Uganda is at the center of this story—and it is crucial to understanding what later happened in Rwanda. Wrong introduces her readers to Uganda’s turbulent political history through the power wrangling of the Milton Obote years from 1966 to 1971 and again from 1980 to 1985, the 1971 coup by Gen. Idi Amin Dada, and the travails of Gen. Tito Okello’s army of northerners from 1985 to 1986.

The Ugandan Bush War, waged by Gen. Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Army (NRA) from 1980 to 1986, offers lessons in guerrilla warfare reminiscent of Fidel Castro’s battle to topple Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. For a moment, the reader also gets a glimpse of a fleeting Pan-Africanism, which brought in support from Mozambique, Tanzania, and Libya.

The NRA’s success, however, also depended on the critical contribution of Banyarwanda refugee youths who had joined the group in significant numbers from its inception. Composed of Tutsis, Hutus, and Twas, the Banyarwanda community originated from Rwanda and settled in Uganda in waves dating back to the turn of the 20th century.

According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, during the pogroms of the Hutus against the Tutsis that took place from 1959 to 1964, between 40 and 70 percent of Tutsis left Rwanda. Of those fleeing, 50,000 to 70,000 went to Uganda, where they joined a larger community of Banyarwanda who had migrated to the area in the early 1900s and considered themselves fully Ugandan. The rest scattered across the region to Burundi, Tanzania, and Congo.

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45b4db No.20451271

>>20451268

“The Dark Side of Rwanda’s Rebirth” 2 of 2

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/29/the-dark-side-of-rwandas-rebirth/

MAY 29, 2021, 6:00 AM

Among the early recruits was the teenager Emmanuel Gisa (nom de guerre Fred Rwigyema), who trained with Museveni in Tanzania and Mozambique. His family fled Rwanda in 1960 when he was 3 years old. One of Museveni’s original 27 fighters, Rwigyema participated in all the guerrilla war’s major and critical campaigns. The much-celebrated and decorated fighter would eventually become a major general and deputy commander of the NRA, the national army. Rwigyema recruited [Paul] Kagame—who had arrived in Uganda at the age of 2—into the NRA, where he served in intelligence. As a major after the war, Kagame attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

When Museveni took power in 1986, he faced instant, mounting public discontent over his reliance on the Banyarwanda, having rewarded them with key, sensitive positions. The backlash placed the president in a precarious situation and threatened his legitimacy in the eyes of the population.

For the Banyarwanda, service in the NRA did not shield them from xenophobic abuses. And for the refugees, it was a constant reminder that Uganda was not home. As Kagame once summed it up for a biographer, “You were always reminded, in one way or another, that you didn’t belong here. You have no place that you can call yours.”

In Rwanda, the Hutu regime of Juvénal Habyarimana refused to consider the return of the Banyarwanda, claimed that the country was full, and stripped them of their citizenship. For the Tutsis, the specter of ethnic cleansing remained ever present.

But the sons and daughters of refugees and migrants had had enough of the abuses and second-class citizenship in Uganda and set out to reclaim their rights and home in Rwanda.

For Museveni, there was only one optimal choice: support the exodus and arm them.

Wrong details the rise of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the world’s first refugee insurgency, under the command of Rwigyema, who was killed on the second day of the invasion and later replaced by Kagame.

The shooting down of Habyarimana’s plane on April 6, 1994, triggered the genocide and ended that peace process. The RPF eventually won the costly war, but 27 years later, a democratic Rwanda has yet to materialize.

The insurgency, and later the army and its Congolese allies, left a trail of alleged revenge killings of Hutus in Rwanda and in Congo and other crimes documented in series of reports, including the Gersony Report, the United Nations Mapping Report, the Garretón Report, and Alison Des Forges’s book Leave None to Tell the Story. Today, as a ruling party, the RPF has a firm grip on the country. It is also prone to regional adventurism.

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45b4db No.20451276

>>20451271

>The shooting down of Habyarimana’s plane on April 6, 1994, triggered the genocide and ended that peace process.

“Rwandan President Kagame 'sparked 1994 genocide'”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-15165641

4 October 2011

A former ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused him of complicity in the death of a former president which sparked the 1994 genocide.

Theogene Rudasingwa said he heard Mr Kagame boast in 1994 that he ordered the shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana.

"By committing that kind of crime Kagame has the responsibility in the crime of genocide," he told the BBC.

President Kagame has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attack.

Mr Rudasingwa, who lives in the US, has fallen out with Mr Kagame in recent years and was sentenced in absentia in March to a 24-year jail term for threatening state security and propagating ethnic divisions.

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45b4db No.20451301

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>>20451271

>For Museveni, there was only one optimal choice: support the exodus and arm them.

>Wrong details the rise of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the world’s first refugee insurgency, under the command of Rwigyema, who was killed on the second day of the invasion and later replaced by Kagame.

Will Kagame and Museveni resolve their dispute?

https://youtu.be/AD2lMyp6nxE

Feb 21, 2020

“Can Museveni [Uganda] and Kagame’s [Rwanda] renewed bromance inspire regional peace?”

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/4/27/can-museveni-and-kagames-renewed-bromance-inspire-regional-peace

27 Apr 2022

Kampala, Uganda – Last weekend, Rwandan President Paul Kagame visited Uganda for the first time in nearly four years, a clear sign of thawing relations between the two countries.

Kagame was in Entebbe to attend a birthday dinner hosted by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for his son, Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, 48, commander of land forces in the country’s army and a special presidential adviser.

The weeklong birthday celebrations across the country were full of pomp and grandeur.

Kainerugaba, increasingly seen as successor to his father who has been in power since 1986, said he was celebrating partly because of improved relations between both countries.

The younger Museveni has been at the centre of attempts to mend relations between both countries, having visited Rwanda twice in the past two months and held talks with Kagame whom he calls his uncle.

Those visits led to the reopening of the Katuna border in southwestern Uganda, the busiest border point between the two countries, which Kagame closed in January 2019.

Ties between Museveni and Kagame date back to the late 1970s. The latter was one of 27 rebels who launched a bush war in 1981, that brought Museveni to power five years later.

Until 1992, when he and other refugees launched a war that ended in his capture of power in his homeland, Kagame served as a senior military officer in the Ugandan army under his mentor, Museveni.

Since then, the Museveni-Kagame relationship has oscillated up and down. Some analysts have said the disagreements between the two heads of state are ideological, military and a feeling of lack of respect for each other.

Others have argued that the disagreement dates back to the 1980s, when Rwandan refugees felt they were never truly accepted and appreciated for their role in Museveni’s ascendancy to power.

Perhaps the earliest signs of a deterioration in their relationship came in 1999. Their armies fought each other in Kisangani, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after disagreeing on a strategy of deposing its leader Laurent Kabila whom they had helped become head of state in 1997.

In 2000, Uganda officially declared Rwanda a hostile state. Both states deployed personnel at border points in anticipation of attacks; Kampala hosted Rwandan citizens considered hostile to Kigali and vice versa.

It took the diplomatic intervention of Clare Short, the then British minister for international development, to get the duo back on good terms.

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45b4db No.20451317

>>20446076

>The roots of the [DRC] conflict can be traced back to the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide in 1994

>>20451271

>But the sons and daughters of refugees and migrants had had enough of the abuses and second-class citizenship in Uganda and set out to reclaim their rights and home in Rwanda.

“Explainer-Why fighting is flaring in eastern Congo and threatening regional stability”

https://www.aol.com/news/explainer-why-fighting-flaring-eastern-161001739.html

February 19, 2024 at 11:10 AM

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Violent clashes have escalated between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s army and Rwandan-backed M23 Tutsi-led rebels in eastern Congo, killing scores and displacing hundreds of thousands.

The fighting, in a war that has lasted decades, has increased the risk of an all-out conflict between Congo and Rwanda that could suck in neighbours and regional forces including South Africa, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.

In the capital Kinshasa, and the North Kivu provincial capital Goma, Congolese have taken to the streets to protest against deteriorating security in the east and have accused the international community of not doing enough to hold Rwanda to account for its support for the rebels.

WHAT IS THE M23?

The M23, which refers to the March 23 date of a 2009 accord that ended a previous Tutsi-led revolt in eastern Congo, is the latest in a series of groups of ethnic Tutsi-led insurgents to rise up against Congolese forces.

The group has accused the government of Congo of not living up to the peace deal to fully integrate Congolese Tutsis into the army and administration. It also vows to defend Tutsi interests, particularly against ethnic Hutu militias like the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), founded by Hutus who fled Rwanda after participating in the 1994 genocide of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

In 2012 and 2013, M23 seized large parts of eastern Congo and entered Goma, a strategic economic hub, before they were chased out by Congolese and U.N. forces into Uganda and Rwanda.

In March 2022, the group launched a series of attacks and seized large areas of eastern Congo, saying the move was a defensive response to attacks by the FDLR, which it said was collaborating with the Congolese army. The Congolese army has denied working with the FDLR.

The government of Congo, U.N. officials and Western powers including the United States and Belgium have accused Rwanda of providing support for M23, including arms and soldiers, despite Rwanda's repeated denials.

Rwanda and Uganda have a long history of military intervention inside Congo. The two countries invaded in 1996 and 1998, claiming they were defending themselves against local militia groups.

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45b4db No.20451326

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>>20451271

>Rwigyema recruited [Paul] Kagame—who had arrived in Uganda at the age of 2—into the NRA, where he served in intelligence. As a major after the war, Kagame attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas.

“Anti-Rwanda protests spread throughout eastern DRC”

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/anti-rwanda-protests-spread-throughout-eastern-drc–4526998

Friday, February 16, 2024

• M23, or March 23 Movement, a largely Tutsi group, has been on the offensive over the past two years in Nord-Kivu, with combat recently intensifying around the provincial capital Goma

Demonstrators called for the closing of the borders with Rwanda and Uganda, which has also been accused of supporting the rebels.

Some also called for breaking off relations with the United States, France and Britain for their presumed connivance with Rwanda.

Protests against Rwanda and Western countries spread throughout eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, with demonstrators accusing them of complicity with a rebel group that wreaked havoc in the region.

“The years pass, the dead, the suffering and the trauma multiply in this part of the country,” said Adrien Zawadi, president of a local civil society organisation. “It must end.”

Western governments and the United nations accuse Rwanda of supporting the M23, though Kigali denies the claim.

Demonstrators called for the closing of the borders with Rwanda and Uganda, which has also been accused of supporting the rebels. Some also called for breaking off relations with the United States, France and Britain for their presumed connivance with Rwanda.

A similar demonstration in Kisangani in Tshopo province called for a declaration of war against Rwanda and breaking off relations with allegedly complicit Western countries.

Several hundred women on Wednesday marched in the capital Kinshasa to call for an end to the war, while a few youths burned cars and tyres outside Western embassies and United Nations offices.

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/protesters-tear-gassed-as-they-target-embassies-in-dr-congo-4523320

February 13, 2024

The M23 has seized vast swathes of North Kivu since emerging from dormancy in late 2021, in an area wracked by violence for decades following regional wars in the 1990s.

DRC authorities on Monday stepped up security outside embassies and UN buildings after they were targeted by protesters accusing the West of supporting M23.

On Saturday, embassy and United Nations vehicles were targeted by demonstrators. Protests broke out last week in Kinshasa and the southeastern city of Lubumbashi.

On Friday, dozens of youths demonstrated outside the French and British embassies and earlier in the week, in front of the US embassy.

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45b4db No.20451329

Some more lip service.

“UN Security Council sanctions rebels in DR Congo as violence escalates”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/21/un-security-council-sanctions-rebels-in-dr-congo-as-violence-escalates

21 Feb 2024

The United Nations Security Council has sanctioned the leaders of six armed groups fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid escalating violence in the country’s restive northeastern region.

“We are pleased that as of today, six additional armed group leaders will be designated by the UN DRC Sanctions Committee,” said Robert Wood, the United States deputy permanent representative to the UN, in a statement on Tuesday.

“These individuals are responsible for numerous abuses,” Wood said.

The committee imposed an arms embargo, travel ban, and asset freeze on two leaders of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), one leader from the Twirwaneho armed group, and one from the National Coalition of the People for the Sovereignty of Congo (CNPSC) rebels.

Also added to the UN list were the military spokesperson for the M23 Tutsi-led rebels and a leader with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), founded by Hutus who fled Rwanda after taking part in the 1994 genocide of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Tuesday’s decision comes as violence in the country’s northeast has displaced nearly seven million people in the past three decades as more than 120 armed groups vie for the mineral-rich region’s control. Civilians fleeing from fighting describe harrowing accounts of these groups’ violence, from summary executions and abductions to sexual violence.

Fighting there has renewed in intensity since the M23 rebel group picked up arms again in 2021 after being dormant for nearly a decade.

Kinshasa, alongside the US and the UN, accuses neighbouring Rwanda of backing the group. Kigali denies the allegations.

“Rwanda and the DRC must walk back from the brink of war,” Wood said.

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45b4db No.20451331

While

“Rwanda and Uganda Commence Power Trade Through the 220kV 172 km Shango – Mbarara Power Interconnection”

https://www.topafricanews.com/2024/02/18/rwanda-and-uganda-commence-power-trade-through-the-220kv-172-km-shango-mbarara-power-interconnection/

18 February 2024

Following completion of interconnection and synchronization of the power grids of Rwanda and Uganda in June 2023 through 220kV 172 km Shango –Mbarara Interconnection, the two nations commenced trading of power in October 2023.

The Shango – Mbarara inter- connection was first conceived under the Northern Corridor Integration Infrastructure Projects. The project was taken up under NELSAP-CU led Inter- connection of Power Grids of NEL Countries project, which aimed to interconnect the power grids of five countries (Burundi, D.R Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda) through a 946km 220kV and 400kV Over-Head Transmission Lines (OHTLs) and 17 associate substations.

NELSAP-CU conducted Feasibility Studies and provided technical support during construction and synchronization of Rwanda-Uganda power interconnection. To facilitate completion and commissioning of this project NELSAP-CU, the East Africa Power Pool (EAPP), and the two countries, put into place working groups that consisted of planning, dispatching, protection and telecommunications engineers from the countries.

Rwanda and Uganda, through their national utilities Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) then signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to guide this power exchange process.

This transmission line was funded by the African Development Bank (AfDB) General Outlook of Power Interconnections in the NEL Region The electric grids of Kenya and Uganda are in synchronized operation and a second transmission line running from Lessos in Kenya to Tororo and Bujagali is under implementation through NELSAP-CU. Grids of Rwanda and Burundi and part of Eastern D.R Congo are also connected at Ruzizi.

Rwanda-DRC interconnection has been in operation for six years through Gisenyi-Goma line. The grids of Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania are being connected through the 80MW Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Project.

Kenya and Tanzania are connected through ZTK Interconnection that runs from Isinya in Kenya to Arusha and Singida in Tanzania and onwards to Kabwe in Zambia. NELSAP-CU completed feasibili- ty for ZTK Interconnection in 2017 and organized a donor’s conference for its funding. The interconnection between Rwanda and Uganda was one of key missing links, whose commissioning has realized an integration of the electric grids of the five countries namely, Burundi, D.R Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. Currently Feasibility studies are ongoing through NELSAP-CU for interconnection between DRC-Uganda and South Sudan-Uganda.

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45b4db No.20451343

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>>20451326

>Protests against Rwanda and Western countries spread throughout eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, with demonstrators accusing them of complicity with a rebel group that wreaked havoc in the region.

>>20451331

>NELSAP-CU

”Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda”

https://ikp.nilebasin.org/center/nelsap

The Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, is one of the two investment programs of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), the other being the Eastern Nile Subsidiary Action Program (ENSAP) headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia known as Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO). NELSAP-CU was established in December 1999 by the Council of Ministers for Water Affairs in the Nile River Basin, with a mission to “contribute to the eradication of poverty, promote economic growth, and reverse environmental degradation in the Nile Equatorial Lakes (NEL) region, within the overall NBI’s shared Vision of sustainable socioeconomic development and the equitable use of and benefit from Nile Basin water resources”.

NELSAP-CU is governed and reports to the Council of Water Ministers from 10 Nile Basin membership states of Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Within its mandate, NELSAP-CU facilitates jointly agreed transformative in-country projects with regional impact/significance and trans-boundary cooperative investment projects related to the common use of the Nile Basin water resources. It also builds regional capacity of countries and provides a platform for implementation coordination of trans– boundary investment projects.

NELSAP-CU has prepared a number of cooperative in country and regional trans-boundary projects, which are at various levels of preparation and implementation. NELSAP-CU has mobilized finances for pre-investment and investment projects cumulatively totaling to USD 1.050 billion (pre-investment USD 557.107 million and for investment projects USD 493.018 million).

NELSAP-CU, in delivering on its mandate, is supported bilaterally and multilaterally by different development partners including, but not limited to, the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the Governments of Norway (NORAD), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Government of The Netherlands, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), GIZ (Germany), French Development Agency (AFD), European Union(EU) and KfW (Germany).

Newsletter

https://nelsap.nilebasin.org/index.php/en/media-items/newsletters/newsletters/135-nelsap-news-feb-2024/file

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4546fa No.20451446

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>>20242709

>Now South Africa has an ever increasing murder rate; 2019/2020 had 58 murders/day and 2022/2023 had 75 murders/day.

>>20395025

>In 2018, “Police Minister Bheki Cele says South Africans are living in a war zone where 57 citizens are murdered every day.”

“MORE lies from Bheki Cele: South Africa's Nightmare Unveiled in Q3 Crime Stats! | Ep 165”

https://youtu.be/RttloQosJNM

Feb 20, 2024

“REVEALED: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/revealed-a-total-of-86-people-are-killed-every-day-in-sa/ar-BB1ipR1E

17 February 2024

The recently released crime stats REVEALED that a total of 86 people are KILLED every day in South Africa. At the same time, a further 169.8 people are sexually assaulted every day in South Africa.

Despite these alarming stats, Police Minister Bheki Cele nonchalantly said the efforts by police ‘to prevent, combat, and arrest criminals are proving to be effective.’

CELE NONCHALANTLY SAID EFFORTS BY POLICE ARE PROVING TO BE EFFECTIVE

According to the SAPS’ report, the period between 1 October 2023 and 31 December 2023 saw South Africans suffering:

• 7,710 Murders (85,7 per day);

• 15,284 Sexual Offences (169,8 per day);

• 7,927 Attempted Murders (88 per day);

• 53,513 Assaults (GBH) (594,6 per day);

• 52,965 Assaults (common) (588,5 per day);

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9111e9 No.20452927

>>20451331

>African Development Bank (AfDB)

“South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising” – Part 1

https://www.theafricareport.com/187429/south-africa-afdb-boosts-ramaphosas-investment-drive-eyes-27bn-just-transition-fundraising/

Posted on March 25, 2022 17:40

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has thrown its hat in the ring with Group of Seven (G7) partners to establish a Just Transition Facility to help South Africa raise $27bn for the country’s energy transition.

AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina, who is on a three-day charm offensive in South Africa that started on Tuesday, also came bearing a R42.5bn pledge from the multilateral financier on Thursday for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Investment Conference. This was the largest pledge made at the conference across all segments.

“Net zero cannot be done with zero financing. We supported [Eskom’s] Medupi coal power plant, now we will support the drive towards renewable energy for South Africa in its drive towards net zero emissions,” said Adesina in an address delivered at the fourth edition of the Investment Conference held at the Sandton Convention Centre.

A Ramaphosa brainchild, the conference first kicked off in 2018 with the aim to raise R1.2 trillion in investments over five years from domestic, regional, and international investors.

As part of his three-visit, Adesina held meetings with President Ramaphosa, G7 ambassadors credited in South Africa, and the African chapter of the Ambrosetti CEO Community, as well as made the address at the Investment Conference.

Adesina has been accompanied by a high-powered delegation of the bank’s senior executives: Swazi Tshabalala, Solomon Quaynor, Yacine Fal, Kevin Kariuki, and Leila Mokaddem.

“The … [AfDB], working in partnership with international partners, especially the G7 countries, plans to establish a Just Energy Transition Facility that will support South Africa to raise at least $27bn in support of its energy transition into renewable energy,” said Adesina to rousing applause at the Sandton Convention Centre.

“We will do it, without South Africa getting into debt,” added the AfDB president.

“I am delighted to announce that the … [AfDB] will commit R42.5bn in South Africa over the next five years. The African Development Bank believes in South Africa,” Adesina said.

The AfDB’s financing will support public and private sector investments in agriculture, renewable energy, transport, youth employment, health, vaccines, and manufacturing.

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9111e9 No.20452931

>>20452927

“South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising” – Part 2

https://www.theafricareport.com/187429/south-africa-afdb-boosts-ramaphosas-investment-drive-eyes-27bn-just-transition-fundraising/

Posted on March 25, 2022 17:40

The AfDB’s current portfolio in South Africa totals $3.2bn:

• Financing to the private financial sector amounting to R16.5bn ($1.1bn), including support to the Development Bank of Southern Africa and lines of credit and trade finance facilities for leading domestic banks.

• A R6.2bn ($413m) loan to Transnet, the state-owned freight rail and logistics company that operates the country’s ports and port terminals.

• A total of R48bn ($3.2bn) for the energy sector, including Eskom’s capital expenditure and the Medupi power project.

To prepare for South Africa’s energy transition, Ramaphosa has set up a Presidential Climate Finance Task Team to lead the mobilisation of funds.

Daniel Mminele, a career central banker and the former CEO of big four bank Absa, will head the task team. The task team will lead engagements on the R131bn just transition partnership with the European Union, France, Germany, UK and the US.

Ramaphosa also revealed that the fourth instalment of the Investment Conference has helped his administration reach 95% of the R1.2-trn target.

Some of the largest pledges received at Thursday’s Investment Conference by sector came from: Scatec, R16bn in the energy sector; Ford, R16.4bn in the automotive sector; Renergen, R14bn in the mining beneficiation sector; Biovac, R2.5bn in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector; Telkom, R7bn in the infrastructure, property and logistics sector; and the New Development Bank, R21.7bn in the development finance institutions sector.

“With just one year left to go, we have now reached 95% of the ambitious target we set,” said the South African president.

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9111e9 No.20452953

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>>20452927

>As part of his three-visit, Adesina held meetings with President Ramaphosa, G7 ambassadors credited in South Africa, and the African chapter of the Ambrosetti CEO Community

[Hillary Clinton at 0:39]

“The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are”

https://youtu.be/9uwSTogTxgY

Jan 23, 2024

The European House - Ambrosetti is a professional Group, with 300 professionals, operating since 1965, which has grown significantly over the years, thanks also to the contributions of many of its Partners, developing numerous activities in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world. Today the Group has three offices in Italy and many abroad, in addition to other partnerships around the world. What distinguishes it is its ability to provide support to companies in the integrated and synergic management of the four critical aspects of value-creating processes: Seeing, Planning, Achieving and Optimizing. For over 50 years we have been working alongside Italian businesses and each year we provide consulting to about 1,500 clients, including more than 350 strategic scenarios and studies aimed at Italian and European institutions and companies, and around 120 governance pacts for family-run businesses. In addition, each year about 3,000 Italian and international experts are involved in more than 750 events we organize for over 18,000 managers whom we follow in their personal and professional paths to growth. The Group vaunts an invaluable international network of contacts on the highest level in the sectors in which it operates, including top-level decision-makers within multinational institutions and on an individual country level. Since 2013 The European House – Ambrosetti was named — in the category Best Private Think Tanks — the no. 1 think tank in Italy, the no. 4 think tank in the European Union and among the most respected independents in the world out of 11,175 on a global level (source: “Global Go To Think Tanks Report” of the University of Pennsylvania). The European House - Ambrosetti was recognized by Top Employers Institute as one of the 147 Top Employers 2024 in Italy. For more information, please visit www.ambrosetti.eu

To highlight a few of their Partners

https://www.ambrosetti.eu/en/topmanagement/

Valerio De Molli: “He was the local organizer of the 2004 Bilderberg meeting in Italy.”

Daniela Bianco: “She is also the Head of the “Health and Pharmaceutical” Practice and has handled many projects over the years in the field of strategy, organizational change and development of scenarios and sector studies for Italian and international clients… In 1997 she started working at Millward Brown and later, from 1998 to 2001, at Bayer.”

Paolo Borzatta: “He assisted several of the world’s largest companies in the development of their strategies. He has worked and lived in the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and China. In the last years, he has also been involved in strategic projects in Asia and in Africa. A substantial part of his advisory activity has been devoted to assisting European and Chinese enterprises in entering (respectively) the Chinese and European markets.”

Benedetta Brioschi: “Within the Food&Beverage and Sustainability Area, she carried out strategic studies and customised researcher for ADM – Associazione Distribuzione Moderna, Amadori, Cavit, Celli Group, Coldiretti, Conad, Coop, Parmacotto, Elior, Federalimentare, Federdistribuzione, Fiere di Parma, Italmercati, Nestlé, and many others.”

Carlo Cici: “Before joining The European House - Ambrosetti worked for Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Rga and EY.”

Gianluca Consonni: “From 1998 to 2006 he grew professionally in the software department of IBM, being repeatedly promoted to higher managerial positions.”

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9111e9 No.20452962

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>>20452953

“CEO Community meeting with South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile - Jan. 2024”: Nhlanhla Nene and Maurizio Mariano

https://youtu.be/pqBpOnXBNks

Feb 1, 2024

South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile was the keynote speaker at the first 2024 meeting of The European House - Ambrosetti's #CEOCommunity – African Chapter.

A great opportunity to discuss the future of the country in a closed-door session chaired by Nhlanhla Nene (Chairman of TEHA Africa) and Maurizio Mariano (Deputy Chairman of TEHA Africa).

https://theconversation.com/the-removal-of-south-africas-finance-minister-is-bad-news-for-the-country-52170

Published: December 10, 2015 1.05pm CET

The fallout from President Jacob Zuma’s decision to remove South Africa’s respected Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene was felt immediately in the foreign currency markets where the rand suffered an immediate and dramatic fall.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2167776/south-africa-finance-minister-resigns-after-admitting-meetings

Published: 11:23am, 10 Oct, 2018

South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene resigned Tuesday over undisclosed meetings with a business family at the heart of a corruption scandal, dealing a blow to President Cyril Ramaphosa.

https://eventi.ambrosetti.eu/southern-africa-europe-ceo-dialogue-2020/speakers/maurizio-mariano/

MAURIZIO MARIANO

Special Advisor in South Africa - The European House – Ambrosetti

A lawyer by profession with a Masters degree in International Law, Maurizio Mariano is a co-founder of BBM Inc. Attorneys [https://www.bbmlaw.co.za/], a general practice firm with a national footprint across South Africa. With a focus on strengthening economic co-operation between Italy and South Africa, he advises across the relevant stakeholder groups. In line with his interest in community development and cross-cultural engagement, he serves as a Trustee of the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation [Kgalema Motlanthe: “South African politician who served as the third president of South Africa from 25 September 2008 to 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki.”]and the David Makhura Charity Fund Trust, amongst others. In 2018, he was a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italian and South African affairs.

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9111e9 No.20452972

>>20452962

>South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile

“DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen”

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/da-lays-criminal-charges-against-paul-mashatile–j

12 February 2024

Today, the Democratic Alliance (DA) formally laid criminal charges against Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, following severe allegations of corruption levelled against him which span almost two decades.

These include an intricate web of nepotism and family patronage of which Mashatile is allegedly the ultimate beneficiary, with the most recent scandal being the purchase of a Constantia mansion by Mashatile’s son-in-law, Nonkwelo, at a cost of R28,9 million by his company which allegedly still owes the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements R7 million for a failed Alexandria housing project.

The DA has also submitted a formal complaint to parliament’s Joint Committee on Ethics and Members’ Interests for a breach of the members’ Code of Conduct by Mashatile, for failure to disclose registrable interests, or for wilfully or grossly negligently, providing the Registrar with incorrect or misleading details. Mashatile also faces allegations for having misled parliament for failing to properly declare his use of various properties, including a R37 million Waterfall house in Gauteng. In addition to this, Mashatile also breached the Code of Conduct by failing to act in all respects in a manner that is consistent with the integrity of their office or the government.

Given that the appointment of the Deputy President is made solely at the discretion of the President of the Republic, the DA submitted a dossier of allegations levelled against Paul Mashatile to the Union Buildings for the attention of President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday, 2 February 2024.

It comes as no surprise that President Ramaphosa has, once again, done nothing to act against the corrupt cadres within his government and within his own party. In light of President Ramaphosa’s indifference and sheer paralysis, the DA has now taken matters into our own hands to rid our country and its government of the ANC’s corruption.

Furthermore, had President Ramphosa instituted lifestyle audits for his cabinet ministers, as promised in his first SONA, all of the allegations levelled against Paul Mashatile would have come to light for the requisite action to be taken. This entire sordid debacle is proof that President Ramaphosa was never serious about dealing with corruption in his government and within the ANC.

Furthermore, we cannot allow President Cyril Ramaphosa to float above his own party’s corruption when he aided and abetted it at every turn along the way.

South Africans deserves far better than Paul Mashatile, and it deserves far better than the ANC.

The DA will continue to hold the most corrupt in our country to account to truly Rescue South Africa.

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b9f483 No.20457742

>>20403291

>>20403293

>>20379812

>>20379826

>>20395003

>>20403282

>>20395018

“SA unfazed by US Bill threat”

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20240217/281522231008356

17 Feb 2024

THE South African government says threats by two US congressmen to table legislation in the US House of Representatives, which seeks to punish South Africa over its foreign relations, will come to nought.

Democratic Party representative Jared Moskowitz and representative John James, his Republican counterpart on the House Foreign Relations Committee, have threatened a bill that would “require a full review of the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa”.

But Department of International Relations and Co-operation spokesperson Clayson Monyela was defiant yesterday, saying: “We don't think that bill will go anywhere. The USA government values the mutually beneficial relations with South Africa and they don't share the views of the drafters of that proposed bill.”

The bill needs to be adopted by the Foreign Relations Committee and then sent to the desk of Speaker Mike Johnson who will bring it up for a vote in the House of Representatives, where the Republicans have a razor-thin majority. It then has to pass in the Senate, and eventually be signed into law by US President Joe Biden.

The text of the bill states that the South African government has, despite its claims of nonalignment, “a history of siding with malign actors, including Hamas, a US designated Foreign Terrorist Organization and a proxy of the Iranian regime, and continues to pursue closer ties with the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation”.

“Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes the findings of the review.” But International Relations and Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor, through her office, said: “The USA is a significant trade partner for South Africa and I value our relationship. I believe South Africa offers quality products to the US market and I wish that relationship to grow.

“We have dif¬ferent views on a number of foreign policy matters but as a democracy we affirm the sovereign right of states to frame their own foreign policy.

“I am concerned at the bill drafters' attempt to associate our country with terrorism and the atrocious attack against civilians in Israel.

“It is well known that South Africa condemned the killing of civilians [what about the murder rate in South Africa? >>20451446] and hostage-taking [What about kidnappings in South Africa?]. “Our government would encourage a more informed and balanced perspective and will continue to work at strengthening our relationship.”

Pandor said there were several issues with which the South African government disagreed with its American counterpart, including calls for fair trade rules and the Russian-Ukraine war, in which South Africa had “argued for peace, not war”.

South Africa also supported Palestine, “which asserts our belief that all human beings must enjoy justice, freedom and human dignity”, said Pandor. [Tell that to the women and children of South Africa. Unless she means “justice, freedom and human dignity” for criminals.]

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b9f483 No.20457755

>>20457742

>It is well known that South Africa condemned the killing of civilians [what about the murder rate in South Africa? >>20451446] and hostage-taking [What about kidnappings in South Africa?]

“South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement”

https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/crime/south-africas-alarming-spike-in-kidnapping-cases-a-nation-grapples-with-organized-crime-and-human-trafficking

17 Feb 2024 10:06 EST

An 11% rise in kidnapping cases has South Africa on high alert, as ransom demands and human trafficking highlight the need for a united front against organized crime. Police Minister Bheki Cele remains committed to curbing the tide of abductions, yet questions remain on the effectiveness of current measures.

In the shadow of an ever-evolving urban landscape, South Africa grapples with a concerning spike in kidnapping cases, a stark reminder of the challenges facing its criminal justice system. In the third quarter of 2023, the nation witnessed an 11% increase in such incidents, with a total of 4,577 cases reported, painting a grim picture of the security situation on the ground. Gauteng, the country's economic powerhouse, bore the brunt with 2,367 incidents, casting a long shadow over its bustling streets and vibrant communities.

Digging deeper into the statistics reveals a more nuanced narrative. Of the 3,975 cases analyzed, a demand for ransom was made in 138 instances, signaling a disturbing trend towards kidnapping for profit.

Moreover, the specter of human trafficking looms large, with 23 cases identified, 15 of which occurred in the Northern Cape, a region not typically associated with such crimes. This data underscores a multifaceted challenge, intertwining issues of poverty, unemployment, and criminal enterprise in a complex web of societal woes.

In response to this surge, Police Minister Bheki Cele has been vocal about the efforts to curb the tide of kidnappings.

Highlighting the lucrative nature of kidnapping for ransom in the realm of organized crime, Cele pointed out that over 300 suspects have been arrested in the past two years, a testament to the dedication of South Africa's law enforcement agencies. Yet, the question remains: is it enough to stem the flow of such crimes, or are these measures merely a drop in the ocean?

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b9f483 No.20457780

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>>20452931

>A R6.2bn ($413m) [AfDB] loan to Transnet, the state-owned freight rail and logistics company that operates the country’s ports and port terminals.

>Daniel Mminele, a career central banker and the former CEO of big four bank Absa, will head the [Presidential Climate Finance Task Team].

“Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced ‘all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres’ onto SA, collapsing economy”

https://youtu.be/UfXp7vCIV_E

Feb 22, 2024

After a three-year court battle, the ANC was compelled on Monday to release over 1,300 documents revealing details of actions taken by its three-decade-old cadre deployment system overseen by a communist-style central committee. SA’s economic woes - high and growing unemployment, rising debt, stagnant GDP growth - are a direct consequence of the injection by this committee of thousands of unqualified and often useless party loyalists to the leadership of corrupted and bankrupt State Owned Enterprises like Eskom and Transnet; and the broader public sector. In this compelling interview the DA’s shadow Minister of Public Service and Administration, Dr. Leon Schreiber, explains why he has been obsessed with forcing these disclosures, the root cause of so much wrong in the country. Previously a senior research specialist at esteemed Princeton University, Schreiber also provides context on the revelations, which parallels the seismic impact of ‘Gupta Leaks’ in 2017. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

14:54 – “This is where President Ramaphosa becomes such a fascinating case study in actually State Capture because he himself is a beneficiary of BEE, of crony capitalism, of being a connected ANC cadre in the private sector and then he went on from 2013 to actually Chair the Deployment Committee that did the same thing to the State. I think that this is a very important part of what we’re discussing is that once and for all any suggestion that Cyril Ramaphosa was not part of the State Capture project is dead. Once you see how the cadre Deployment Committee operates and understand that he was the Chairman of this thing throughout the Zuma years.

15:35 – “But the mind boggles. Maria Ramos goes from a deployed cadre position to CEO of ABSA. Gill Marcus goes from communication specialist to Chairman of ABSA. Trevor Manuel goes from the Finance Minister to Chairman of Old Mutual and so on and so on and so on. How deep this runs I guess will only become evident over time.

“Cadre deployment records released by DA and ANC”

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/cadre-deployment-records-released-by-da-and-anc-727535f8-3cfe-44d1-8f45-68756e051d82

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Following a lengthy court battle, the Constitutional Court ordered the ANC to hand over its deployment records from 2013 onwards to the DA by Monday.

Both the ANC and the DA made the documents publicly available on Wednesday, although they only cover the period from 2018, with President Cyril Ramaphosa telling the Zondo Commission into State Capture that it has no records of its deployment committee meetings and decisions between 2013 and 2018 because no minutes were taken.

Meanwhile, the DA on Wednesday lost its bid to have the court overturn the ANC’s cadre deployment policy.

The fight is, however, far from over, with the DA saying that it had already instructed its legal team to appeal this ruling as a matter of urgency.

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b9f483 No.20457925

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“'I was never a spy': SA President Ramaphosa responds to sell out accusations”

https://youtu.be/8-PHcxKaH5A

Feb 14, 2019

Is Cyril Ramaphosa a CIA spy? Part 1

Sequence of events

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-late-edition/20211223/281509344509290

23 Dec 2021

A “TOP “secret” report, titled “Intelligence Brief: US interest in ANC party dynamics”, which was allegedly compiled by the South African State Security Agency (SSA), has revealed how the political office of the embassy of the US in Pretoria is working with some of the top ANC leaders to influence policy direction in South Africa.

The Star’s sister paper, the Daily News is in possession of the highly classified intelligence report dated November 5, 2020, (referenced DMS: 10001242724).

“The Political Office of the US Embassy in Tshwane continues to gather information related to the ruling party, which is then sent to the US State Department.

“This brief confirms that the US Embassy is part of the US intelligence community, and has a network of ANC party officials who, wittingly or unwittingly, share privileged information,” read the intelligence report.

The document also stated that there was very close co-operation taking place between the US diplomatic community and the US intelligence community in South Africa to guard and enhance US economic and political agendas on targeted countries like South Africa.

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20220520/page/0/textview

20 May 2022

INDEPENDENT Media is forging ahead with its legal battle against the State Security Agency (SSA) to get a suspiciously classified intelligence report laid bare.

The report, the content of which cannot be fully disclosed since the matter will be heard behind closed court chambers in Pretoria on Tuesday, was allegedly compiled by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spies based at the US embassy in Pretoria

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b9f483 No.20457938

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>>20457925

>>20457780

>This is where President Ramaphosa becomes such a fascinating case study in actually State Capture because he himself is a beneficiary of BEE, of crony capitalism, of being a connected ANC cadre in the private sector and then he went on from 2013 to actually Chair the Deployment Committee that did the same thing to the State.

>Both the ANC and the DA made the documents publicly available on Wednesday, although they only cover the period from 2018, with President Cyril Ramaphosa telling the Zondo Commission into State Capture that it has no records of its deployment committee meetings and decisions between 2013 and 2018 because no minutes were taken.

“Mosiuoa Lekota calls President Cyril Ramaphosa a “sellout””

https://youtu.be/npR-XiqI9oQ

Feb 14, 2019

Is Cyril Ramaphosa a CIA spy? Part 2

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-early-edition/20220926/281479280285534

26 Sep 2022

According to the itinerary Ramaphosa was only set to meet Biden a day after he had arrived but the plan was changed without the knowledge of Dirco and its representatives and no South African officials were allowed in and around the high-level meetings.

According to the sources, Ramaphosa wanted strict privacy with no minutes or records of meetings and acted outside of the embassy and against diplomatic protocol.

The highly placed sources believe that Ramaphosa may have travelled to the US to seek a favour from Biden and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) to help him win the much-contested election.

In May The Star’s sister paper, the Daily News. exposed a clandestine document linking the CIA, Ramaphosa and the State Security Agency (SSA).

After hefty attempts, including court action, by the SSA to get Independent Media to drop the story, the group proceeded to publish.

The report was allegedly compiled by CIA spies based at the US embassy in Pretoria. When the Daily News asked questions about the document, the SSA went to court and obtained an interim interdict until the matter was argued in court.

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/ramaphosa-is-a-spy-working-with-cia-zuma-755efb6e-708f-42f4-9b7e-14dc4f70b4aa

Published Nov 21, 2022

President Cyril Ramaphosa is a spy and working with the CIA. These are claims made by former president Jacob Zuma, speaking at an ANC Youth League event in Philippi, Cape Town.

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9111e9 No.20462524

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>>20457938

>According to the itinerary Ramaphosa was only set to meet Biden a day after he had arrived but the plan was changed without the knowledge of Dirco and its representatives and no South African officials were allowed in and around the high-level meetings.

>>20252093

>I feel betrayed.

“Plot For Peace Special Preview at Curzon Hall in London” [Feb 3, 2014]: Ivor Ichikowitz speech

https://youtu.be/IzrLn77PkFU

Then Cyril Ramaphosa’s aircraft was grounded in Poland: "Plot for Peace" Failure

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-06-18-why-was-ramaphosas-security-detail-grounded-in-poland-pro-russia-perceptions-or-underprepared-securocrats/

18 Jun 2023

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema had a total of 24 officials – of whom about a dozen were security officers – travelling with him on the African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia on Friday and Saturday.

Comorian President Azali Assoumani was accompanied by two security officers and four other officials, other sources said.

Senegalese President Macky Sall probably had about the same number of security guards as Hichilema.

As a result of having such small security contingents, these and the other three state officials participating in the peace mission were able to travel with their guards to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday and to St Petersburg to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

President Ramaphosa, meanwhile – with a huge security detail numbering about 120, plus about 12 containers of weaponry (reportedly including heavy arms fit for combat, not just personal protection) – couldn’t take them either to Kyiv or St Petersburg, because the small South African army caused such alarm along the way.

Particularly to the Poles. The Polish government grounded the South African Airways charter aircraft at Warsaw airport, refusing to allow the guards or the weapons off the plane.

At that point, it looked as though the security team’s aircraft, having missed Ramaphosa’s trip to Ukraine, would at least get to cover the Russian leg, when Ramaphosa and the rest of the African mission were to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg.

But that didn’t happen either, for reasons that are not quite clear. It was conjectured that SA couldn’t get overflight permissions.

Hungary was mentioned in some reports, which made no geographical sense at all, since it is way off the route between Warsaw and St Petersburg. It has also been reported that it was Estonia that refused overflight. That makes more sense geographically, as it does lie on the direct line between Warsaw and St Petersburg. But SA could then have detoured around Estonia by flying over Belarus – Russia’s closest ally – into Russian airspace.

Ramaphosa, Sall and Assoumani were the only three presidents on the mission, while the four other African governments involved were represented by their officials. Of these, the most senior was Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, who had quite a substantial security detail – though nothing like Ramaphosa’s, diplomats said.

Uganda and the Republic of Congo were represented by lower-ranking officials, and their security details were small, the sources said.

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/african-peace-mission-one-step-forward-one-step-back

23 JUN 2023

The central, behind-the-scenes role of the London-based Brazzaville Foundation, headed by French businessman Jean-Yves Ollivier, is particularly odd given the many diplomatic avenues open to African leaders. Reports linking a South African businessman in the global arms and defence industry, Ivor Ichikowitz, to the mission create further suspicions around its independence and credibility. Besides his arms trade interests, Ichikowitz financially supports South Africa’s ruling African National Congress. [This “Plot for Peace” failed.]

https://mg.co.za/politics/2023-06-19-the-arms-dealer-behind-the-african-peace-mission-to-ukraine/

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9111e9 No.20462545

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>>20462524

>https://issafrica.org/iss-today/african-peace-mission-one-step-forward-one-step-back

>23 JUN 2023

>The central, behind-the-scenes role of the London-based Brazzaville Foundation, headed by French businessman Jean-Yves Ollivier, is particularly odd given the many diplomatic avenues open to African leaders. Reports linking a South African businessman in the global arms and defence industry, Ivor Ichikowitz, to the mission create further suspicions around its independence and credibility. Besides his arms trade interests, Ichikowitz financially supports South Africa’s ruling African National Congress. [This “Plot for Peace” failed.]

>https://mg.co.za/politics/2023-06-19-the-arms-dealer-behind-the-african-peace-mission-to-ukraine/

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9111e9 No.20462663

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“Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years”

https://youtu.be/UFe8sqK5KtU

Feb 22, 2024

It is curious that there was a lot of commercial moon landing failures yet America was able to land people on its first and only mission in 1969.

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3f5110 No.20462672

Initial ANC Bun

>>20242815 ANC sponsored violence in South Africa (video)

>>20362830 ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma

>>20379836, >>20379966, >>20379849 Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (video)

>>20395076 Research Paper 2022: Elites and economic policy in South Africa’s transition and beyond

>>20418277 Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa? (video)

>>20457780 Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced ‘all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres’ onto SA, collapsing economy (video)

Initial BRICS Bun

>>20065199 (General Research #24627) West sees BRICS expansion as direct threat analyst

>>20177955 (Canada #51) Saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS – state media

Initial Commodities Bun

>>19660255 Two Top Execs at South Africa's Port and Rail Operator Resign

>>19952053 Chronic congestion building along the east coast of South Africa

>>19692449 Africa Might Emerge As A Major Supplier Of Halal Food

>>20114651 (Canada #50) Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC

>>20115757 Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns

>>20114680 (Canada #50) Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up

>>20230322 South Africa seeks emergency external help to remedy dire situation across the nation’s ports

>>20279240 The Oil Market Is Making Plans For Red Sea Chaos To Last Weeks

>>20434931 The "Old Money" Family That Controls Africa: The Oppenheimers (video)

>>20452927, >>20452931 South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising (Parts 1

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3f5110 No.20462673

Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>20056501 (Canada #50) Here We Go: CDC Issues Health Alert Over Deadly, Fast-Spreading Strain of Monkeypox

Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun

>>20340636 “MTN Sued For Funding The Iranian Regime. It involves Cyril Ramaphosa, SA President, when he was MTN’s Chairman” (video)

>>20372592 Accountability Now seemed to have protected President Cyril Ramaphosa (video)

>>20457925, >>20457938 Is Cyril Ramaphosa a CIA spy? (Parts 1&2)

>>20462524, >>20462545 Then Cyril Ramaphosa’s aircraft was grounded in Poland: "Plot for Peace" Failure (video)

Initial ICJ Suit Bun

>>20227263 (Canada #51) Israel Calls South Africa The "Legal Arm Of Hamas" After 1st Day Of Hague Genocide Case

>>20252093 “Ivor Ichikowitz: South Africa’s genocide case against Israel is rank hypocrisy” (video)

>>20341222 ICJ verdict: SA Chief Rabbi's call to fight back (video)

>>20341240 “Ramaphosa warns of political repercussions following SA's genocide case against Israel” (video)

>>20372567 Did Iran fund South Africa’s approach to the ICJ over Israel? (video)

>>20372630 “You are Iran’s 'useful idiots'" - Chief Rabbi to SA government and global opponents of Israel (video)

>>20372747 Professor Dire Tladi sworn in as a new judge at ICJ (video)

>>20377791 Gaza war: Why did Arab states not join South Africa's case against Israel in the ICJ?

>>20379812, >>20379826 Dilemmas of Humanity Conference [Naledi] Pandor: "The world can't ignore Palestinians' suffering" (Parts 1&2 video)

>>20395018 South African foreign minister alleges intimidation by Israel after ICJ case

>>20403282 Battle Continues - South Africa's President and Palestine Just Met (video)

>>20403286 “Nelson Mandela's pro-Palestinian legacy lives on”: Mandla Mandela (video)

>>20403291, >>20403293 US congress receives bill to review SA relations following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case (Parts 1&2)

>>20407809 South Africa makes urgent request to ICJ on Israel’s Rafah offensive

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3f5110 No.20462676

Initial Maldives Bun

>>20423234 Islamic State lead deadly attack on Mozambique troops as Total gears up for LNG project

>>20425381 Maldives Grapples with Repatriation Amidst Rising Religious Extremism

>>20422392 Islamic extremism in the Maldives

>>20425407 USAID to Provide Additional $7.2M of Assistance to Maldives

>>20425438 Administrator Samantha Power at the Swearing-In Ceremony for the Incoming Mission Director for Maldives Gabriel “Gabe” Grau

>>20429148 Egg on Their Faces: The Maldives Still Above the Waves 30 Years After Environmentalist Prediction

Initial Rwanda Bun

>>20445882 Red flags in SA DRC deployment: R2B, operational constraints, strategy, Rwanda - Prof Esterhuyse (video)

>>20446076 Rwanda Just Warned & Blocked UN Support For South Africa-led Force in Congo (video)

>>20446222 Rwandan government tried to silence opponents, Human rights watch report claims (video)

>>20446234, >>20446240 Rwanda's disappearing dissidents (Parts 1&2)

>>20446459 Paul Kagame

>>20446488 Rwanda's Kagame says he will run for fourth term • FRANCE 24 English (video)

>>20451268, >>20451271 The Dark Side of Rwanda’s Rebirth (Parts 1&2)

>>20451276 Rwandan President Kagame 'sparked 1994 genocide

>>20451301 Can Museveni [Uganda] and Kagame’s [Rwanda] renewed bromance inspire regional peace? (video)

>>20451317 Explainer-Why fighting is flaring in eastern Congo and threatening regional stability

>>20451326 Anti-Rwanda protests spread throughout eastern DRC

>>20451329 UN Security Council sanctions rebels in DR Congo as violence escalates

>>20451331 Rwanda and Uganda Commence Power Trade Through the 220kV 172 km Shango -- Mbarara Power Interconnection

>>20451343 Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda

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3f5110 No.20462677

Initial Violence and Crime Bun

>>19692458, >>19692463, >>19692470 ‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding (Parts 1-3)

>>20340605 “Open hunting ground: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding”

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>20362713 8 things you need to know about farm murders in South Africa (video)

>>20395068 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa’s “transformation’ – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc

>>20397875, >>20406078 South Africa’s Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to “Our People” (video)

>>20407598 Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice

>>20407726 Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2 (video)

>>20410783 (Canada #53) South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is “Inciting Violence”

>>20418196 We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages) (video)

>>20423259 South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report

>>20442095 KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings (video)

>>20445849 Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates (video)

>>20451446 REVEALED: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA (video)

>>20452972 DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen

>>20457755 South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement

Initial Jacob Zuma Bun

>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)

>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)

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3f5110 No.20462695

Notables are NOT Endorsements

passing 150

#12

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>19692436 Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality

>>19692443, >>19692449 South Africa: The Halal Kingdom, Although it holds the world’s smallest percentage of Muslims

>>19731387 (General Research #24226) Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo

>>19782011 Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

>>19782021 ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy

>>19782035 Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine

>>19821993 Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power

>>20027327 (General Research #24583) Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa

>>20242629 Harry Oppenheimer; did business with the Soviet Union (who trained and supported the ANC) during the Cold War and used Hollywood and the Royal Family to promote diamonds (video)

>>20362707 ‘Fake’ UN official allegedly received briefings from SA’s top security cluster

>>20242709, >>20242774 ony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world (Parts 1 &2 video)

>>20407571 How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states

>>20445854 Oppenheimer’s granddaughter backs RISE Mzansi with R15m

>>20445866, >>20445869 Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution (Parts 1&2)

>>20452953, >>20452962 The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are (video)

>>20457742 SA unfazed by US Bill threat

>>20462672 Initial ANC Bun | Initial BRICS Bun | Initial Commodities Bun

>>20462673 Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Initial ICJ Suit Bun

>>20462676 Initial Maldives Bun | Initial Rwanda Bun

>>20462677 Initial Violence and Crime Bun | Initial Jacob Zuma Bun

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b9f483 No.20463933

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“The surging violence in the eastern DRC”

https://youtu.be/EAMTBFcirA4

Feb 23, 2024

Hugo Ribatika unpacks the surging violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and Rwandan-backed M23 Tutsi-led rebels with political commentator Joseph Ochieno.

4:20 – “So if this plunder of the DRC or support of the M23 rebels by Rwanda and Uganda as you say so blatant. Where is the rest of the world while this is happening? Where is Africa? I think it’s only now that the United States I think in the last few days has called out Rwanda and Congo and said guys get your act together… I think that’s a very important question… You can actually say Congo’s conflict has been amongst the most forgotten conflicts in the world and particular the African continent has actually been a shame. I have been and many of us have written and have been very critical about the irresponsibility of the African Union, irresponsibility of the African governments but of course also irresponsibility of the global community. Part of the reason is being really because Rwanda and Uganda for a very long time have been the darlings of the West where they never went wrong on anything African wherever they put their fingers. But it has also been suggested that both regimes have also been, if you like, extensions to particularly western influences that seek to continue to [support] Rwanda in order to exploit resources in Congo. Of course Uganda and Rwanda both of them are very strategic allies to western powers particularly led by the US and Britain. So for that matter, for a very long time they’re untouchables.

6:13 – “Ironically, when about 10 or so years ago, there was a ceasefire between this particular group of rebels and the Congo administration. Most of these rebels were resettled in Uganda and people have always been asking, these guys got resettled in Uganda as part of arrangement of some sort. How did they sneak out of Uganda, found themselves either back into Congo or into some other establishments where they now continue again to cause havoc? Not many observers like yourselves have asked the Ugandan authorities this question nor have they asked the East African authorities this question nor indeed for that matter the African Union.

7:21 – “I think I gave you part of the historical context. The United States would possibly be amongst the last to have interest in the settlement in Congo because United States and Belgium were really the earliest guys responsible causing instability. Remember the first independence Prime Minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated with tacit support of the US and the Belgium authorities… Beyond that, Mobutu [Sese Seko] and Joseph Kasavubu were really the 2 nearest darlings to the West… Under that is this huge amount of resources in Congo; gold, platinum and tungsten… The interest has been strategically economical, historically and then of course in more recent times has been political.”

9:59- “So basically, they’re basically using these African leaders as front men… to serve a particular, in this case, political and/or in many cases a very very economic interest. Unfortunately.

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b9f483 No.20463991

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>>20451271

>But the sons and daughters of refugees and migrants had had enough of the abuses and second-class citizenship in Uganda and set out to reclaim their rights and home in Rwanda.

>For Museveni, there was only one optimal choice: support the exodus and arm them.

>>20451301

>Ties between Museveni and Kagame date back to the late 1970s. The latter was one of 27 rebels who launched a bush war in 1981, that brought Museveni to power five years later.

>>20463933

>“Ironically, when about 10 or so years ago, there was a ceasefire between this particular group of rebels and the Congo administration. Most of these rebels were resettled in Uganda and people have always been asking, these guys got resettled in Uganda as part of arrangement of some sort. How did they sneak out of Uganda, found themselves either back into Congo or into some other establishments where they now continue again to cause havoc? Not many observers like yourselves have asked the Ugandan authorities this question nor have they asked the East African authorities this question nor indeed for that matter the African Union.”

History repeating?

“Paul Kagame's Powerful Declaration: We Will Fight Like We Have Nothing to Lose!”

https://youtu.be/zR8p4lxujI8

Jan 27, 2024

2:19 – “Rwanda did not in any way create this war that is happening in Eastern Congo… go and investigate and prove me wrong… but with time, there has been an effort to actually make it our war. Now using what? If you see the combination of hate speech and displacement of these people, you come to understand what is actually behind it. Maybe somebody thought they were being smart and they thought that was the way to end the M23 problem which was there in 2012 because it’s ethnic cleansing. Pushing these ethnic Tutsis to Rwanda to belong there because that’s where they belong and Kagame is a Tutsi and is the President of Rwanda. Let them go and join their President. This is what is behind it.

4:51 – “I asked specifically that one responsible for Congo. I said we are not going to address anything unless you come out clearly to tell us facts about the situation… I asked him, “are these people in M23 Congolese or not?” And he said to me and there were other leaders in the meeting that “absolutely. These are Congolese.”… He was confirming that these are Congolese. So I said fine. So how do they become Rwanda’s problem?”

9:49 – “You may associate us with M23, you may blame us for everything M23. What do you say about FDLR that is in Eastern Congo for the last 30 years more or less? I thought even the UN forces that were put in Congo were put there to actually address this problem and maybe other problems… They’ve been there for decades, it has been so costly but the problem is still there.”

10:59 – “In fact, one time, I one time told the President of DRC… You don’t know that these people are there in this place and in this place, that place and they’ve been even manning road blocks and they collect taxes… He remembered that that has been happening. So I said so what are we talking about? FDLR who have taken over territories in Eastern Congo and are collecting taxes and you’re telling me they are not there? We know this came to some point and this war was raging and this time it turned into where the government of Kinshasa wanted to mobilise the people, they thought they would now push [M23] into Rwanda and this still remains by the way the aim. This is their goal. So I told our friends, this is the powerful friends of ours. I’ve even said it publicly. When it comes to defending this country that has suffered for so long and nobody came to help, I don’t need permission from anybody to do what we have to do to protect ourselves.

13:27 – “There will be nothing crossing these borders of this small country of ours.”

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02eac0 No.20464138

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“250 Ekurhuleni metro police workers have criminal records”

https://youtu.be/15fvQ0VHiEU

Feb 23, 2024

Ekurhuleni Community Safety MMC Letlhogonolo Moseki says 250 metro police department workers have criminal records for various crimes including rape and murder. The DA is reportedly accusing the city council of hiring convicts and not taking accountability for it. Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department spokesperson Kelebogile Thepa says these records were acquired after the employment of these workers.

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898e42 No.20483993

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>>20457780

>After a three-year court battle, the ANC was compelled on Monday to release over 1,300 documents revealing details of actions taken by its three-decade-old cadre deployment system overseen by a communist-style central committee.

>Meanwhile, the DA on Wednesday lost its bid to have the court overturn the ANC’s cadre deployment policy.

>The fight is, however, far from over, with the DA saying that it had already instructed its legal team to appeal this ruling as a matter of urgency.

“The WhatsApp Group That Controls South Africa.”

https://youtu.be/DTQ8Bxu86cU

Premiered Feb 26, 2024

0:14 - “Now the interesting thing about that is that DA took the government to court to get cadre deployment declared illegal right after Zondo said it was illegal and unconstitutional but it would appear that cadre deployed judge said no, it's not… then like these two paragraphs [of the judgement] saying how great President Ramaphosa as a president and that he didn't commit perjury at the Zondo Commission even though he said cadre deployment never existed and the committee was a figment of the imagination of the opposition. That's literally what he said on the bench at the Zondo Commission. Only for him three years later having been forced to divulge all of the minutes of the meetings of the Deployment Committee of the ANC.”

2:07 - “In fact as we've seen from the cadre deployment records that people within the ANC including government ministers like freaking bloody Gordhan Pravin. I mean that's pretty serious man. I mean he's a very senior member of Staff. He has himself been disciplined by the cadre deployment committee for making decisions without running it through the cadre deployment committee.”

3:34 - “This one really takes the cake. It's the nuclear regulator and it basically says we need eight people we've got eight people, they're all ANC members, the Chairman's ANC person. Great approved. That's literally the decision… You deploy cadres for ideology but they still deploy them to the nuclear energy regulator, the regulator of nuclear energy.”

5:59 - “Now you may recall that the ANC adopted their cadre deployment policy in 1997, yeah in Mandela's era, by the way.

9:38 - “Gwede Mantashe himself has come out and said to the DA directly, you can make it illegal, you can tell us not to do it, you can say whatever you want, we're going to do it anyway because we don't care. It's part of our policies.

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898e42 No.20484031

>>20362830

>a new party, uMkhonto We Sizwe (MK) or Spear of the Nation, named after the ANC’s former armed wing during the anti-apartheid struggle.

“‘He took the spear and stabbed himself with it’: Mbalula on Zuma and MK party”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/mbalula-swipe-zuma-mk-party-anc/

22 Feb 2024

African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has taken another swipe at former president Jacob Zuma for leaving the governing party.

Mbalula on Wednesday attended an ANC rally in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), ahead of the party’s manifesto launch, which will be held at the Moses Mabhida Stadium over the weekend.

Addressing ANC supporters, Mbalula criticised Zuma for backing the new uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.

“We are fighting in court [cadre deployed judge?] and you will hear that it is the end of it soon,” he said in reference to the trademark dispute between the ANC and MK party.

The case will reportedly be heard by the Electoral Court on 19 March.

The ANC secretary-general said “those who are lost will come back”.

“Those who want to go, we are not going to force them to stay. They can leave, but you will come back my child. The ANC will always be here in South Africa, it is not going anywhere,” Mbalula said.

“He did something that has never been seen in the struggle. You can’t, as a veteran like him, say that I’m leaving the party.”

“We are not jealous, we don’t have hate and we are reviving the African National Congress.”

Mbalula further dismissed Zuma’s claims of fixing the ANC from the outside by supporting the MK party.

He took the spear and stabbed himself with it. You can’t leave to work with the enemy and then say you are fixing the ANC. The enemy is happy, the enemy has never loved us [and] the enemy is rejoicing.

The ANC secretary-general emphasised that Zuma’s time was over, saying “leaders come and go”.

“Msoholozi had his time, we fought for him, placed him in the Union Buildings [despite] his charges and made him president of this country.

“After nine years, a new president came in… [Cyril] Ramaphosa’s tenure will also come to an end and another president will come on, but no matter what happens the African National Congress will stay.

“Leaders come and go, but the ANC must remain and that’s what important. You don’t leave the ANC because you have problems. Also us, we have problems, who doesn’t have problems? Who will solve those problems? We will solve those problems.”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/2024-02-21-fikile-mbalula-laughs-off-jacob-zumas-two-thirds-target-for-mk-party/#google_vignette

“He [Zuma] took the spear and left with it. You can't leave to work with the enemy and then say you are fixing the ANC by stabbing us with this spear. The enemy is happy, they want us divided, that's not a struggle. The organisation will always have challenges but you can't desert it,” Mbalula explained.

He did not expand on who the enemy was.

“When we campaign don't go as if there's nothing you can tell the people — this election is do or die. The enemy says we did nothing but our history is evident — we have changed lives.

“The ANC is loved by people through its actions, if we work the people will never leave us for the enemy,” said Mbalula.

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898e42 No.20484050

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>>20484031

>this election is do or die

Election date set for 29 May 2024.

“ANC Manifesto Launch: Spear and Lightning at the end of Cyril Ramaphosa speech.”

https://youtu.be/UZzLJk9OtfE

Feb 24, 2024

4:02 – “—[Fikile Mbalula ] We are ready comrade President, uMkhonto we Sizwe, ANC Youth League, Women’s League and our Tripartite Alliance… We are ready to attack.–”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/can-anc-take-the-heat-in-durban-as-it-launches-manifesto-ahead-of-toughest-election-since-1994/ar-BB1iNSZ6

The ANC also held a gala dinner at the Durban ICC on Friday night ahead of the manifesto launch, where Ramaphosa, with spear in hand, call on the party to “arm themselves” (Mayihlome) - in the battle lines for election victory.

“South Africa's ANC launches election manifesto as president highlights party's achievements”

https://www.krmg.com/news/world/south-africas-anc/G7BLTZ3BEREU55A2RMU3V57OCQ/

February 24, 2024

DURBAN, South Africa — (AP) — South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday highlighted the achievements of his African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May's election.

Ramaphosa delivered the party’s manifesto to thousands of ANC supporters at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The rally came as South Africa faces increasing poverty, unemployment and crime and a crippling electricity crisis.

Party supporters dressed in yellow, green and black party regalia packed the stadium and sang struggle songs praising Ramaphosa and the ANC

A procession of motorbikes with bikers waving ANC flags was among the first displays to entertain the crowd before Ramaphosa arrived to the delight of supporters.

However, the tension surrounding this year's elections was laid bare when some supporters entered the stadium grounds carrying a caricature coffin bearing the name of the uMkhonto we Sizwe political party, a new political organization formed by former ANC president Jacob Zuma.

The party is set to compete in this year's elections after Zuma denounced the ANC.

In what has become somewhat of a popularity contest between parties to show who can pull in the biggest crowds to their election rallies, thousands of ANC supporters were bussed in from various parts of the country to ensure the stadium was full as early as possible.

The ANC also brought in popular musicians to entertain supporters. They performed after Ramaphosa's speech, concluding with ANC slogans and colorful fireworks and confetti.

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898e42 No.20484269

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>>20242629

>>20463933

>I think I gave you part of the historical context. The United States would possibly be amongst the last to have interest in the settlement in Congo because United States and Belgium were really the earliest guys responsible causing instability. Remember the first independence Prime Minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated with tacit support of the US and the Belgium authorities… Beyond that, Mobutu [Sese Seko] and Joseph Kasavubu were really the 2 nearest darlings to the West… Under that is this huge amount of resources in Congo; gold, platinum and tungsten… The interest has been strategically economical

When watching this, consider the previous South Africa breads concerning the death of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am 103, Lockerbie Bombing, who was investigating mining companies in Namibia.

“The Oppenheimer Family-The Richest Family in South Africa(Short Documentary)” – Patrice Lamumba, DRC discussed

https://youtu.be/RmA8LqHbwAc

May 13, 2022

This is a short documentary about the Oppenheimer Family….whom, through their demand empire are the richest and most powerful family in the continent of Africa… #TheOppenheimer #TheRothschildfamily #The Dimanondempire #JpMorgan

3:58 – “In the 1960s, the rise of African nationalism presented new challenges to the Oppenheimer’s diamond cartel. To show the amount of political power and influence the Oppenheimer had in the continent of Africa through their diamond empire, in June 1961 with the fall of white rule in the DRC, the people of Congo would come to celebrate the nation’s first independence day and the election of the country’s first black president, Patrice Lumumba, which was a happy occasion showcasing the country full of hope for the future. But then, just two months after the inauguration of Patrice Lumumba as the first democratically elected president of Congo, he was executed by hanging in a coup which was financially backed and formed by the De Beers company [when Harry Oppenheimer was its Chairman] and the CIA… Patrice Lumumba was very critical of the colonial mining arrangements in Africa and had been very vocal about allowing more black citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo to take ownership of at least 70% of the mining lands within the country.

5:13 – “The Oppenheimer family at that time owned and had control over the two biggest private mining companies in the world which stretched from South Africa all the way north to the Democratic Republic of Congo. At that time, the Republic of Congo had the second biggest diamond and gold reserves in the world with South Africa being the first. So coincidentally, the De Beers and Anglo-American companies owned almost all of those diamond reserves. This would make Ernest Oppenheimer use his political connections and make the local German army which was in control before Patrice Lumumba, to support forces and army actions which oppose Patrice Lumumba. Just two months after Lumumba took office as president he was arrested and hanged on falsified charges of war crimes and genocide. Then shortly after his death, he was quickly replaced by a man named Mabuto Sese Seko who was a ruthless dictator who had business dealings and arrangements with Ernest Oppenheimer and the De Beers empire. This was one of the moments that showcased how much power the Oppenheimer family had throughout the continent of Africa and the extent that they’ll go to keep that power and also their wealth.

7:25 – “[Harry] Oppenheimer was instrumental in the formation of the Progressive Federal Party which is now known as the Democratic Alliance or the DA for short which he financed personally.”

Keep in mind

https://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/scandals/diamonds.html

The Million Carat Network, the name given to the illegal trade, is another indication of its size of the traffic and as national police services seemed incapable of ending it, in November 1953 Ernest Oppenheimer turned to Sir Percy Sillitoe, the former head of MI5.

Some accounts of the breaking of the diamond smuggling network in the 1950s give Sir Percy Sillitoe the credit for MI5's success. The double-cross system had actually been run by John Masterman, an Oxford don who had been Harry Oppenheimer's tutor in politics at Oxford.

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898e42 No.20484870

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>>20452927

>“The … [AfDB], working in partnership with international partners, especially the G7 countries, plans to establish a Just Energy Transition Facility that will support South Africa to raise at least $27bn in support of its energy transition into renewable energy,” said Adesina to rousing applause at the Sandton Convention Centre.

“Oil discovered in South Africa”

https://youtu.be/7fie2tgS_Rc

Feb 22, 2024 SOUTH AFRICA

This video explores the oil and gas discoveries in South Africa. TotalEnergies previously discovered two huge gas fields off the South African coast in 2019 and 2020. Its current area of interest covers 10,000km and is located between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas, in water depths between 700 metres and 3,200 metres and Kinetiko Energy, an Australian gas company also discovered gas in the Mpumalanga province. We explore how South Africa plans to balance unemployment, just energy transition, load shedding, and economic prospects of this discovery.

2:54 – “The South African government has said that it will receive a significant portion of the revenue from these projects. South African’s government plans to take 20% free stake in all new oil and gas ventures. The government will also receive royalties and taxes from oil and gas production. Total Energies is the operator of the offshore block with a 45% working interest alongside Qatar Petroleum with 25%, CNR International with 20% and Main Street 10%. Africa Energy holds about 49% of shares in Main Street. The partnership agreement also includes plans to drill up to four additional expirational walls in the block.

8:09 – “Kinetico has signed a production sharing agreement with the South African government for the exploration and development of the gas discovery [in Mpumalanga]. The PSA is a 20-year agreement that gives Kinetiko the exclusive right to explore and create the gas fold. The government will create and receive a royalty of 25% of the revenue generated from the sales of the gas. The company will also be required to invest in the community projects and environmental protection measures.

8:53 – “Against the backdrop of South Africa’s recent oil discoveries, the nation grapples with the challenge of unemployment adding a layer of complexity to its economic landscape. South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. The oil discoveries are seen to present an opportunity since the discovery of gold. Reports show how gold was once the largest employer in the mining industry giving way to platinum group metals by 2006.”

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898e42 No.20484878

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>20452927

>South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising

It’s interesting that they use the same “27” number.

“Government invests R2.7bn in development near Waterfall City”

https://youtu.be/HvNrP0leYs0

Feb 27, 2024

The developers behind Waterfall City say they believe the R315 million they pledged at the investment conference last year will help the province’s economy.

Government has invested R2.7 billion in the development through the Public Investment Corporation.

Waterfall City Management Company CEO Willie Vos says Gauteng will benefit significantly.

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898e42 No.20484891

File: 36fdd48afa2ad1a⋯.jpg (27.96 KB,500x500,1:1,41MEXdNT3xS_SL500_.jpg)

File: edde0ef40b7d564⋯.jpg (86.99 KB,1175x791,1175:791,Waterfall_City_Ad.JPG)

>>20484878

It seems that the World Economic Forum is active in this project in South Africa. They even used the same guy in their marketing material.

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9111e9 No.20489029

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>>20484870

>Total Energies is the operator of the offshore block with a 45% working interest

“TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné: U.S. LNG pause could be 'damaging' for Europe”

https://youtu.be/m_g6HmT_yGs

Feb 12, 2024

A snapshot

TotalEnergies: Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

https://totalenergies.com/company/identity/history

Its history also relates the story of a company that was created from scratch back in 1924 under the name Compagnie française des pétroles with the aim of ensuring France's energy independence. Over the years, it has evolved into an international organization that is actively involved in addressing the global energy challenges of the 21st century.

https://totalenergies.com/group/identity/governance/biographies/board-of-directors-members

Patrick Pouyanné

A graduate of École Polytechnique and a Chief Engineer of France’s Corps des Mines, Mr. Pouyanné held, between 1989 and 1996, various administrative positions in the French Ministry of Industry and other cabinet positions (technical advisor to the Prime Minister – Édouard Balladur – in the fields of the Environment and Industry from 1993 to 1995, Chief of Staff for the Minister for Information and Aerospace Technologies – François Fillon – from 1995 to 1996). In January 1997, he joined TotalEnergies’ Exploration & Production division, first as Chief Administrative Officer in Angola, before becoming Company representative in Qatar and President of the Exploration and Production subsidiary in that country in 1999. In August 2002, he was appointed President, Finance, Economy and IT for Exploration & Production. In January 2006, he became Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Development and R&D in Exploration & Production and was appointed a member of the Company’s Management Committee in May 2006. In March 2011, Mr. Pouyanné was appointed Deputy General Manager, Chemicals, and Deputy General Manager, Petrochemicals. In January 2012, he became President, Refining & Chemicals and a member of the Company’s Executive Committee.

On October 22, 2014, he became Chief Executive Officer of TOTAL S.A. and Chairman of the Company’s Executive Committee. On May 29, 2015, he was appointed by the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting as director for a three-year term. The Board of Directors appointed him as Chairman of the Board of Directors as of December 19, 2015. Mr. Pouyanné thus became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Following the renewal of Mr. Pouyanné's directorship at the Shareholders' Meeting on June 1, 2018 and then on May 28, 2021 for a three-year period, the Board of Directors renewed Mr. Pouyanné's term of office as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for a period equal to that of his directorship.

Mr. Pouyanné is thus the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies SE.

On June 1, 2022, Mr. Pouyanné was appointed Chairman of the French association, Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE). Mr. Pouyanné has also been the Chairman of the Alliance pour l’Education - United Way association since June 2018, having accepted this office as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Capgemini (since May 2017), of the Board of Directors of Ecole Polytechnique (since September 2018), of the Institut Polytechnique of Paris (since September 2019) and of the Association Française des Entreprises Privées (French Association of private companies) (since 2014), of the Institut du Monde Arabe (since 2017) and of the foundation La France s’engage (since 2017).

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9111e9 No.20489032

File: 724ff1a71482147⋯.jpg (53.46 KB,782x602,391:301,Jean_Yves_Ollivier_Prince_….JPG)

>>20489029

>Its history also relates the story of a company that was created from scratch back in 1924 under the name Compagnie française des pétroles with the aim of ensuring France's energy independence.

>>20462524

>>20462545

It is interesting that there are quite a number of French involved in Africa in the name of business.

Jean-Yves Ollivier, the “Plot for Peace” key player

https://www.plotforpeace.com/synopsis/

THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND HISTORY, a well-kept secret behind the world-wide icon : Nelson Mandela’s release was a Plot for Peace. For the first time, heads of state, generals, diplomats, master spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal how Africa’s front line states helped end apartheid. The improbable key to Mandela’s prison cell was a mysterious French businessman, dubbed “Monsieur Jacques” in classified correspondence. His trade secret was trust.

For the first time, the protagonists of this high-risk venture – African heads of state, battle-tested generals, international diplomats, secret service operatives, and anti-apartheid icons such as Winnie Mandela and ANC leader Thabo Mbeki – recount the true story of how the front line states put paid to apartheid.

“Monsieur Jacques” leads this action-packed documentary through a rugged landscape of moral dilemmas. To some, such as Thabo Mbeki and militants for transparency, he was a sanctions buster, a secret go-between, a French spy. For others, such as Winnie Mandela and Mozambique’s former President Joaquim Chissano, he is a trusted friend and a man of bold vision. “I shake the hand I cannot sever”, says Jean-Yves Ollivier. As a matter of fact, he was bestowed upon highest honours by both the last impenitent stalwart of apartheid, P.W. Botha, and the first President of the new South Africa, Nelson Mandela.

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9111e9 No.20489038

File: db025f165832ed0⋯.jpg (29.03 KB,720x720,1:1,Kinetiko.jpg)

>>20484870

>Kinetiko has signed a production sharing agreement with the South African government for the exploration and development of the gas discovery [in Mpumalanga]. The PSA is a 20-year agreement that gives Kinetiko the exclusive right to explore and create the gas fold.

Kinetiko

https://www.kinetiko.com.au/

Kinetiko Energy Limited (ASX Code: KKO) is an Australian company in the energy exploration business, solely focused on advanced sandstone gas and coal bed methane (CBM) discovery and commercialisation in an energy challenged Republic of South Africa.

In the heart of the Permian Age Coal Fields, the flagship Amersfoort Project and 2020 granted Exploration Rights are held through South African company Afro Energy (Pty) Ltd.

The project is strategically located in a region characterised by existing infrastructure including power generation, gas pipelines, high voltage transmission lines, road and rail networks. These networks connect the major cities of South Africa plus the neighbouring African countries.

Nick de Blocq CEO, SOUTH AFRICA

Over 33 years of experience as an Engineer and Manager in the Upstream Oil and Gas industry in various senior roles, including Multi-Country Operations & Functions Management and Regional Business Development with Schlumberger, Africa VP with an American corporate and COO with a Regional Solutions supplier in West Africa. His knowledge of the entire drilling industry and its support mechanisms, both off- and onshore, is extensive and his knowledge of getting new wells into production is a speciality. Nick has consulted to the SA Government on the localisation of industry and sat on the National Ports Authority advisory panel to bring an oil and gas aspect to their marketing strategies. He has also presented at, and chaired various sessions at industry conferences and other events.

Nick has built an extensive network with global Operators and Technology Suppliers, having worked in about 60 countries, as well as Ministerial and Regulatory bodies in Africa, having visited 33 countries on that continent. His local network includes the Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA), the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) and Department of Energy.

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9111e9 No.20489042

>>20489038

Kinetiko: The Joint Venture

https://www.kinetiko.com.au/the-joint-venture/

Joint Development Agreement with the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa:

Afro Energy (a subsidiary of Kinetiko Energy Ltd) has entered into a joint development agreement (“JDA”) with the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (“IDC”).

The IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the South African government mandated to promote economic growth and industrial development in South Africa.

• JDA to develop around 20 gas fields to produce gas for industrial, commercial, transportation or power generation applications.

Strategic South African investor secured:

• Kinetiko has secured a subscription of ZAR$10m from South African energy investment group, Phefo Power.

• Investment group stakeholders comprise leading South African oil and gas executives.

The subscription substantially bolsters the Kinetiko Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) certification.

The project is strategically located in a region characterised by:

• Existing infrastructure, power generation, gas pipelines, high voltage transmission lines, road and rail.

• Very high energy demand be it gas for power generation, industrial or mining applications.

• Uniform geology.

• 100% drilling success with large pay zones typically in excess 100m.

Past exploration on Exploration Rights ER38 and ER56 and commercialisation studies have proven up the project geology and the potential for commercialisation.

The drilling and flow testing of wells on ER 38 and ER 56, has established a 2C (P50) Contingent Resource of 1.554 Tcf (Gustavson Associates 2015) across these two Exploration Rights totalling 1,027km2.

With the granting of a further 3,577km2(ER 270,271 and 272) and a further 2,394km2 pending (ER320), gives the project a total exploration footprint of 6,000km2.

KKO through its shareholding in Afro Energy will continue to work with South African stakeholders and regulators to advance Amersfoort to the next stage of commercialisation.

Gas in now deemed to be an important component of the South African energy mix to combat the energy crisis.

Over the next 12 months, this initial IDC JV is expected to be completed with pilot plant production and revenues.

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9111e9 No.20489047

File: 4d71be3a7178f59⋯.jpg (28.01 KB,497x599,497:599,Dr_Mbendeni_Humphrey_Mathe.JPG)

>>20489042

>Strategic South African investor secured:

>• Kinetiko has secured a subscription of ZAR$10m from South African energy investment group, Phefo Power.

>• Investment group stakeholders comprise leading South African oil and gas executives.

>• The subscription substantially bolsters the Kinetiko Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) certification.

==Phefo Power: Mbendeni Humphrey Mathe, Director and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) recipient=

List of companies

https://b2bhint.com/en/officer/32621421

CAPE COPPER OXIDE Director

SCINTA ENERGY Director

YEKANI TECHNOLOGY (RF) Director

ALTERNATEUR Director

AMATIKULU GOLD Director - Inactive

UFULU HOLDINGS Director - Inactive

TRANTER ROCK DRILLS Director

SALUNGANO GROUP Non-Executive Director

DYNAMO INVESTMENT HOLDINGS Director

TRANTER RESOURCES Director

INNOVAGE RESOURCES Director

VULANAMASANGO BUSINESS VENTURE Member

KUSASA REFINING Director

POWER MATLA WIND Director

DREAMVISION INVESTMENTS 15 (RF) Director

EYESIZWE SPV (RF) Director

BELLWETHER AFRICA Director

SCINTA SOUTH AFRICA Director

TALENT 10 HOLDINGS Director

ACETOMANZI Director

TRANTER-INKWALI ENGINEERING SERVICES Director

PHEFO POWER Director

YEKANI MANUFACTURING Director

K2017261410 (SOUTH AFRICA) Director

DORPER WIND DEVELOPMENT Director

EYESIZWE MINING (RF) Director

UPWARD SPIRAL 10 Director

PLURIREX Director

TALENT 10 CAPITAL PARTNERS Director

TALENT 10 MINERAL RESOURCES Director

YEKANI GROUP Director

DORPER WIND FARM BEE HOLDINGS (RF) Director

TRANTER ENERGY AND MINING SERVICES Director

KUSASA BEE HOLDING COMPANY Director

VULANAMASANGO BUSINESS VENTURE Director - Inactive

SCINTA DAVEL COAL Director

EMPOWERMENT CAPITAL INVESTMENT PARTNERS Non-Executive Director

COPPER 360 Director

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9111e9 No.20489051

>>20489047

Humphrey Lawrence Mbendeni Mathe : More connections

https://copper360.co.za/our-board/

Humphrey has over 47 years of experience and holds a Ph.D. in geology. Humphrey is the chairman of a large South African listed coal company and has served on the Board of many South African companies. Humphrey is also part of the parliamentary oversight committee for Mineral Resources. Humphrey’s key strengths are that he is a good listener, firm yet fair, pragmatic and conciliatory.

https://ca.marketscreener.com/insider/HUMPHREY-LAWRENCE-MBENDENI-MATHE-A0J4QS/

Humphrey Lawrence Mbendeni Mathe is a businessperson who has been the head of 5 different companies and holds the position of Chairman for Salungano Group Ltd., Chairman of Scinta South Africa (Pty) Ltd., Non-Executive Chairman at Tranter Rock Drills (Pty) Ltd., Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at Tranter Resources (Pty) Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer for Tranter Exploration Pty Ltd. Dr. Mathe is also on the board of 8 other companies.

In his past career Humphrey Lawrence Mbendeni Mathe occupied the position of Chief Exploration Geologist at Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd [Patrice Motsepe, Cyril Ramaphosa’s brother-in-law]. and Chief Geologist & Project Manager at West Rand Consolidated Mines Ltd. (a subsidiary of Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd.), Executive General Manager-Corporate Services at Exxaro Resources Ltd. and Executive General Manager-Corporate Services at Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga Pty Ltd. (a subsidiary of Exxaro Resources Ltd.) and Senior Geologist at Shell South Africa.

Dr. Mathe received a doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a graduate degree from Rhodes University.

Humphrey Lawrence Mbendeni Mathe : More connections

https://copper360.co.za/our-board/

Humphrey has over 47 years of experience and holds a Ph.D. in geology. Humphrey is the chairman of a large South African listed coal company and has served on the Board of many South African companies. Humphrey is also part of the parliamentary oversight committee for Mineral Resources. Humphrey’s key strengths are that he is a good listener, firm yet fair, pragmatic and conciliatory.

https://ca.marketscreener.com/insider/HUMPHREY-LAWRENCE-MBENDENI-MATHE-A0J4QS/

Humphrey Lawrence Mbendeni Mathe is a businessperson who has been the head of 5 different companies and holds the position of Chairman for Salungano Group Ltd., Chairman of Scinta South Africa (Pty) Ltd., Non-Executive Chairman at Tranter Rock Drills (Pty) Ltd., Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at Tranter Resources (Pty) Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer for Tranter Exploration Pty Ltd. Dr. Mathe is also on the board of 8 other companies.

In his past career Humphrey Lawrence Mbendeni Mathe occupied the position of Chief Exploration Geologist at Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd [Patrice Motsepe, Cyril Ramaphosa’s brother-in-law]. and Chief Geologist & Project Manager at West Rand Consolidated Mines Ltd. (a subsidiary of Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd.), Executive General Manager-Corporate Services at Exxaro Resources Ltd. and Executive General Manager-Corporate Services at Exxaro Coal Mpumalanga Pty Ltd. (a subsidiary of Exxaro Resources Ltd.) and Senior Geologist at Shell South Africa.

Dr. Mathe received a doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a graduate degree from Rhodes University.

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9111e9 No.20489064

File: 6ffe8163f220d17⋯.png (14.61 KB,296x257,296:257,logo.png)

>>20484870

>Africa Energy holds about 49% of shares in Main Street.

Africa Energy Corporation

https://africaenergycorp.com/the-company/about-africa-energy/corporate-profile/

Africa Energy Corp. is a Canadian oil and gas exploration company focused on South Africa.

The Company is listed in Toronto on TSX Venture Exchange (ticker "AFE") and in Stockholm on Nasdaq First North Growth Market (ticker "AEC").

https://africaenergycorp.com/the-company/about-africa-energy/corporate-history/

The Company was incorporated on April 27, 2010 pursuant to the provisions of the ABCA under the name "Denovo Capital Corp.". On July 14, 2010, the Company amended its articles to remove the restrictions against the transfer of securities.

During September 2011, Denovo Capital Corp. ("Denovo") acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Canmex Holdings (Bermuda) I Ltd. ("Canmex"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Africa Oil Corp. ("AOC"). Canmex held a 60% interest in the production sharing agreements for the Dharoor Valley Exploration Area and the Nugaal Valley Exploration Area in Puntland, Somalia.

In June 2015, the Company and its joint venture partners notified the Puntland State of Somalia of their decision to withdraw from the Nugaal Block and Dharoor Block Production Sharing Agreements (“PSAs”).

On March 11, 2015, the Company announced its intension to change its name to Africa Energy Corp. ("Africa Energy"). Africa Energy will continue to be within the Lundin Group of Companies and maintain its listing on the TSX Venture Exchange. The name change was made effective on March 12, 2015 and at market open on March 12, 2015, the Company's common shares began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the new symbol AFE.V.

On October 21, 2016, Africa Energy closed three transactions resulting in the Company acquiring a 90% participating interest and operatorship in Block 2B offshore the Republic of South Africa.

On September 13, 2017, the Company acquired one-third of the shares in a subsidiary of Pancontinental Oil & Gas N.L. ("Pancontinental") that holds a 43.85% participating interest in Petroleum Exploration Licence 37 ("PEL 37") offshore the Republic of Namibia.

In December 2018, Main Street 1549 Proprietary Limited, an entity owned 49% by the Company, closed farmin agreements to acquire a 10% participating interest in the Exploration Right for Block 11B/12B offshore the Republic of South Africa resulting in the Company holding an effective 4.9% interest.

In October 2020, the Company subscribed for new shares and has obtained 99.9% voting control of Impact Oil & Gas SA Blocks 11B-12B Limited, which was a subsidiary of Impact Oil & Gas Limited (“Impact”) immediately prior to closing, whose sole asset is a loan agreement that provides for an indirect financial interest in Main Street 1549 (Proprietary) Limited.

In April 2021, the Company closed two farmout agreements on Block 2B offshore Republic of South Africa, transferring operatorship and an aggregate 62.5% participating interest in Block 2B. Africa Energy retained a 27.5% participating interest in Block 2B.

Africa Energy's registered and records office is located at Suite 2500, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 2X8. The Company's corporate office is located at 2000 - 885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3E8.

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9111e9 No.20489069

File: 8811fd0e877b65c⋯.jpg (1.66 MB,1920x1452,160:121,aoi_activity_map_2020.jpg)

>>20489064

>Africa Oil Corp. ("AOC")

>Africa Energy's registered and records office is located at Suite 2500, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 2X8.

Africa Oil Corporation

https://africaoilcorp.com/about-us/corporate-history/

Africa Oil Corp. was incorporated under the BC BCA on March 29, 1993 under the name ‘Canmex Minerals Corporation’ with an authorized capital of 100,000,000 common shares.

On August 20, 2007 the Company changed its name to ‘Africa Oil Corp.’

The common shares of the Company trade on the TSX and on the Nasdaq Stockholm under the trading symbol ‘AOI’. The transfer agent and registrar of the Company’s common shares in Canada is Computershare Investor Services Inc., 3rd Floor, 510 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3B9. The registrar for the common shares of the Company in Sweden is Euroclear Sweden AB, 103 97 Stockholm, Sweden. Africa Oil’s registered and records office is located at 2500 Park Place, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2X8. The Company’s corporate office is located at Suite 2500, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6C 2X8. The Company also has an office located at 1st Floor Fidelity Centre, Waridi Lane, Off Waiyaki Way, P.O. Box 1194-00606, Nairobi, Kenya, and a registered office at 16 Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2B 5AH.

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9111e9 No.20489072

>>20489069

Few Africa Oil Board of Directors

https://africaoilcorp.com/about-us/board-of-directors/

Keith C. Hill

Mr. Hill was the Company's President and CEO before retiring and stepping down from his executive roles in August 2023. He was also the company’s former Chairman of the Board from 2009 until 2016. Mr. Hill is also a Director of ShaMaran Petroleum Corp., an oil development and exploration company. He has over 35 years' experience in the oil industry including over 20 years with the Lundin Group as well as international new venture management and senior exploration positions at Occidental Petroleum and Shell Oil Company. Mr. Hill is a former director of BlackPearl Resources Inc., 3 Sixty Risk Solutions Ltd. (formerly, Petro Vista Energy Corp.), and Tyner Resources Ltd. He is also the former President and Chief Executive Officer of BlackPearl Resources Ltd., Valkyries Petroleum Corp. and ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. His education includes a Master of Science degree in Geology and Bachelor of Science degree in Geophysics from Michigan State University as well as an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

Ian Gibbs

Ian Gibbs is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Calgary where he obtained a bachelor of commerce degree. He has been a member of Africa Oil's Board of Directors or Executive Management Team since 2006. Since 2004, Mr. Gibbs has been the Chief Financial Officer of several TSX-Venture and TSX Listed international oil exploration and production companies including Valkyries Petroleum Corp. and Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. and has been actively involved in the day to day operation of these companies with operations in Russia, Syria, Egypt, Kenya, Ethiopia and Puntland (Somalia). Prior to 2004, Mr. Gibbs spent several years working in Russia and Kazakhstan in the upstream oil and gas industry. As CFO of Tanganyika Oil, in 2008, he played a pivotal role in the $2 billion acquisition by Sinopec International Petroleum. Prior to Tanganyika Oil, Mr. Gibbs was CFO of Valkyries Petroleum which was the subject of an $750 million takeover.

Gary Guidry

Mr. Guidry has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Gran Tierra Energy Inc., a company focused on oil and gas exploration and production in Colombia, since 2015. Mr. Guidry is a former Chief Executive Officer of Caracal Energy Inc. from 2011 to 2014. Mr. Guidry has also served as President and CEO of Orion Oil & Gas Corp., Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd., and Calpine Natural Gas Trust. He is a former director of Zodiac Exploration Corp., and TransGlobe Energy Corp. Mr. Guidry has directed exploration and production operations in Yemen, Syria and Egypt and has worked for oil and gas companies around the world in the U.S., Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina and Oman. Mr. Guidry is an Alberta-registered professional engineer (P. Eng.) and holds a B.Sc. in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.

Andrew Bartlett

Mr. Bartlett has been an Oil and Gas Advisor with Helios Investment Partners since 2011. He has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas Industry. Mr. Bartlett was both the Global Head of Oil and Gas Project Finance and Global Head of Oil and Gas Mergers and Acquisitions at Standard Chartered Bank until July 2011. In the period 1998 to 2001, prior to going into investment banking, he helped to establish Shell Capital, a private equity/mezzanine debt group set up by Royal Dutch Shell to finance small producers in emerging markets. Prior to joining Shell Capital, Mr. Bartlett worked for Royal Dutch Shell as a Petroleum Engineer and Development Manager where he gained extensive experience in developing and operating oil and gas fields. His postings included the North Sea, Netherlands, Somalia, New Zealand and Syria.

Erin Johnston

Ms. Johnston serves as Managing Director of Lundin Foundation, a Canadian not-for profit organization that develops market-based programs to maximize benefits to communities surrounding resource operations. In her role as Managing Director, she advises on Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) issues to reduce non-technical risks of resource development projects, and engages with stakeholders on ESG issues, including host governments and local communities.

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9111e9 No.20489078

File: 9f5e7cb587d90d5⋯.jpg (81.47 KB,861x740,861:740,Lundin.JPG)

>>20489072

>[Keith Hill] has over 35 years' experience in the oil industry including over 20 years with the Lundin Group

>Ms. Johnston serves as Managing Director of Lundin Foundation, a Canadian not-for profit organization

THE LUNDIN GROUP

https://thelundingroup.com/about-us/

Founded by Adolf H. Lundin over 50 years ago, the Lundin Group of Companies comprises separate, individually managed public companies focused on the minerals, metals, renewables and energy sectors. Our expertise ranges from early exploration to development and production.

The Lundin Group itself is not a corporate entity or a parent company. It is a way of describing a group of companies that share the benefits of the Lundin Family’s expertise, evaluation, guidance and funding. The Lundin Family is usually one of the largest shareholders of each of the companies through several family trusts.

Over the years, The Lundin Group has earned a reputation for executing and delivering projects to the highest standards and to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.

ADOLF H. LUNDIN, 1932-2006

Adolf H. Lundin created the template for the Lundin Group of Companies as miners, oilers and natural resource explorers. He was relentless in his pursuit of new finds and passionate about the need to supply raw materials to a growing world economy. Adolf was a “rock” star in the true sense of the word in the resource industry. His worldwide followers adored him and happily called themselves “Lundinies.”

His legacy looms large and his values remain intact in the hands of his sons and grandsons. Success measured as much, if not more so, in respect for all. He truly was a caring, giving individual who believed that sharing wealth was mandatory – while meeting the resource needs of a rapidly growing world and all stakeholders.

But above all we honour Adolf.

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9111e9 No.20489082

>>20489078

>ADOLF H. LUNDIN, 1932-2006

“The Life and Death of Adolf Lundin” – Part 1

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btft67cpjzhyizh0pvk0/home/the-life-and-death-of-adolf-lundin

November 15, 2006

Excerpts

There was, seemingly, no place on earth Lundin would not go to find his fortune, nowhere he would not dig or deal. He found gold in Argentina; copper in the Congo; oil in Sudan and Malaysia; natural gas in the Middle East and Russia; nickel in Australia; and a variety of minerals in Canada, Europe and the U.S.

For years the Swedish press excoriated Lundin for cutting deals with governments notorious for corruption and brutality. Singling out an especially contentious Lundin oil venture in war-torn Sudan in 2001, Sweden’s then-minister of Foreign Affairs, the late Anna Lindh, called his activities detrimental to Sweden’s image. “We expect Swedish companies to respect an ethical code in line with human rights and the environment in which they operate abroad,” she said.

But there is no denying Lundin’s business acumen. While amassing a fortune for himself and his family, he earned at least twice that much for thousands of mostly Swedish and Swiss investors with the nerve to endure the steep rises and falls of Lundin stocks. “It was wild, but if you stuck by Adolf, you made a lot of money,” recalls Rudolf Müller, 66, a retired Swiss investment banker with UBS who invested his money and that of his clients with Lundin.

Today, Lundin is best known for his investments in Russian natural gas. His Vostok Nafta Investment fund is the single largest foreign portfolio investor in Gazprom (see box). It has a 1.34 percent stake in the controversial, state-controlled Russian energy giant, whose market capitalization is $250 billion.

The young Lundin identified with the rough-and-ready image of American cowboys and oil barons, even though neither existed in his Stockholm suburb of Äppelviken. He spiced his English with tough-guy clichés — “No guts, no glory” and “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” — straight out of the Hollywood action movies that enthralled him as a boy. He was riveted by popular biographies of John D. Rockefeller and J. Paul Getty.

But Lundin, who hadn’t abandoned adolescent fantasies of becoming an American-style oil tycoon, chafed at the notion of remaining a well-paid management employee. “John D. Rockefeller was long dead,” he recalled in his interview with Institutional Investor. “So Armand Hammer became my idol.” He thought Hammer, the maverick American chairman of Occidental Petroleum, showed real genius by operating in high-risk countries that the oil majors avoided, like Libya, Peru and the Soviet Union. Like Hammer, Lundin was convinced that one of the few advantages a smaller natural-resources company enjoys over the global giants is the ability to gamble on projects in countries that are politically suspect and not creditworthy enough.

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9111e9 No.20489085

>>20489082

“The Life and Death of Adolf Lundin” – Part 2

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btft67cpjzhyizh0pvk0/home/the-life-and-death-of-adolf-lundin

November 15, 2006

Excerpts

In 1968, while at CEI, Lundin began managing his own small fund, First Investors International Mining and Petroleum Fund. “As deputy director of CEI, he got to travel all around the world and would inspire his students with stories of new, exciting projects,” recalls Bo Hjelt, a Swede who studied at CEI when Lundin was on the faculty and who became his partner in a mining company before starting his own management consultancy business. Lundin regaled students with stories of searching for oil in the Colombian jungles and exploring nickel sites in the Australian outback. “Many former students invested in Lundin’s ventures and brought him other investors,” says Hjelt.

One loss at the outset nearly derailed the enterprise. The episode — detailed in a 2002 biography, Adolf H. Lundin, by Robert Eriksson, a Swedish journalist who later became head of investor relations for Lundin Group — was one that Lundin could blame only on his own boneheaded tactics.

It wasn’t long before another ethically ambiguous episode helped establish Lundin’s reputation as a significant entrepreneur and a daring, innovative deal maker. In 1972, Lundin flew to Doha, the capital of Qatar, to negotiate with the emir, Sheikh Khalifa bin-Hamad al-Thani, for a concession to explore and develop potential oil and gas fields in the Persian Gulf. The contact with the Qatar ruler had been made through an Egyptian, Ahmed el Dib, who became a 50-50 partner with Lundin in the deal.

But Lundin was in desperate straits, all the more so because the Wintershall consortium delayed drilling off Qatar for four years, until 1976. Returns from his other investments were disappointing. By then, Lundin and his family — wife Eva, sons Lukas and Ian, and daughters Nico and Mona — could no longer afford to live in Switzerland. But he dismissed any thought of moving back to Sweden. “I still had good business contacts in Geneva,” he said. “And back then, Stockholm was not an international financial center.”

In 1992, Argentina was reeling from years of political and economic instability that had scared off foreign investors, particularly from long-term ventures like mining. Not Lundin. Through his company International Musto Exploration — Musto Exploration’s successor, in which Lundin and his family once again held a 30 percent stake — Lundin purchased the rights to the undeveloped gold and copper deposits of the northwestern province of Catamarca, paying the local government a paltry $2 million in cash and agreeing to turn over 20 percent of any future net profits once mining operations got under way and the original investment had been recovered. International Musto issued $12 million in new shares, mainly to Swedish and Swiss investors, to pay for a feasibility study. It concluded that Bajo de la Alumbrera contained up to 300 tons of gold and 2.7 million tons of copper. In 1994, International Musto sold a 50 percent stake in the project to Australian mining company Mount Isa Mines for $130 million. And the following year, on Lundin’s recommendation, International Musto shareholders sold the remaining 50 percent to two other mining companies — Australian North and Rio Algom, a Canadian operation — for $325 million. “This is the biggest deal of my life,” Lundin told a Swedish news agency in a 1995 interview.

With Adolf Lundin’s death, control of the entire Lundin portfolio of companies has been turned over to his sons Lukas, 48, and Ian, 45, who have helped manage the group for the past 12 years.

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9111e9 No.20489088

>>20489082

>>20489085

“The Life and Death of Adolf Lundin” – Part 3

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btft67cpjzhyizh0pvk0/home/the-life-and-death-of-adolf-lundin

November 15, 2006

Excerpts

Despite the huge risks involved in his projects, Adolf Lundin was always able to raise capital among Swedish businessmen, professionals and shopkeepers with a reputation for being conservative investors. “He came along at a time when Swedes were investing mostly in rather dull engineering companies, and he showed them the possibilities that existed in emerging markets,” says Peter Elam Håkansson, chairman of Stockholm-based East Capital, which manages $2 billion in Russian equities. “He was also a very good storyteller — utterly fascinating.”

Members of the Swedish financial community liken Lundin’s fundraising efforts with retail investors to church revival meetings.

The Swedish press also began to take aim at Lundin. It wasn’t the risk of his projects (there were in fact more winners than losers), but rather the political controversies they raised. For example, despite Sweden’s support of a global economic embargo against apartheid-era South Africa, Lundin invested in a gold project in that country in 1982. The venture, East Daggafontein Mines, was one of the least expensive gold producing sites in the world. By early 1983, Lundin and his partners — British asset manager M&G Securities and French bank BNP — owned 35 percent of the operation and took management control. Lundin’s original 1 million rand investment ($926,000) earned him 20 million rand when he sold his 10 percent stake in 1988. (By then the rand’s value had dropped against the dollar, making Lundin’s stake worth $8.8 million.)

In his last interview Lundin defended East Daggafontein. “We improved the lives of people we worked with there,” he said. He also asserted that tax revenues from projects like his gold operation created a solid economic foundation for the postapartheid era that began in 1994 under then-president Nelson Mandela.

The Swedish media was also blistering in its attacks on Lundin for negotiating with Zaire’s dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, for a copper concession in 1996. Mobutu, who took power in a military coup in 1972 and remained dictator until his death in 1997, siphoned a personal fortune estimated at more than $5 billion from his poverty-stricken nation’s treasury, while executing hundreds of suspected opponents. Lundin’s response to his critics came in a January 1997 interview with the Canadian national daily the Financial Post. “If you want to find the really big reserves today, whether ore bodies or oil fields,” he said, “you are forced to operate in countries that are not popular with the general public.”

In 2001, Lundin was denounced in the Swedish media for his oil investments in Sudan, a country shattered by civil war. Human rights groups alleged that the Sudanese armed forces were using a road built by Lundin Oil, an exploration and production company, to mount attacks against insurgents belonging to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, or SPLA, in the southern part of the country. In a November 2003 report, Human Rights Watch took Lundin Oil and Canada’s Talisman Energy to task. “Oil companies operating in Sudan were aware of the killing, bombing and looting that took place in the south, all in the name of opening up the oil fields,” wrote Jemera Rone, Sudan researcher for Human Rights Watch. “These facts were repeatedly brought to their attention in public and private meetings, but they continued to operate and make a profit as the devastation went on.”

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9111e9 No.20489092

>>20489082

>>20489085

>>20489088

“The Life and Death of Adolf Lundin” – Part 4

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2btft67cpjzhyizh0pvk0/home/the-life-and-death-of-adolf-lundin

November 15, 2006

Excerpts

But Lundin rejected any blame for the atrocities. “We are bringing the Sudan out of misery,” he asserted in a March 2001 interview with Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri. Later that year, however, Lundin Oil ceased all drilling because battles were raging within its concession area, and the company was sold to Talisman for $400 million. With the proceeds, Lundin created Lundin Petroleum, currently its main oil and gas exploration and production company. In June 2003, Lundin Petroleum sold its remaining interest in a Sudanese concession to Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali for $142.5 million. But after the 2005 peace accord between Sudan and the SPLA rebels, Lundin Petroleum decided to return to the country; it is planning to drill three exploratory wells in southern Sudan by early 2007.

Despite the controversies, Lundin was hardly a pariah. His stature as a leading Swedish entrepreneur abroad led King Carl XVI Gustaf to name him international Swede of the year in 1998. Lundin was able to persuade some prominent Swedes — including former prime minister Carl Bildt and economist Anders Åslund, a onetime adviser to former Russian president Boris Yeltsin — to sit on the boards of his companies.

Lundin used his younger brother Bertil, a senior intelligence officer in Sweden’s Defense Ministry who briefed the prime minister almost daily, to help woo Bildt after he stepped down as head of government in 1994. Bertil, who died in 2004, arranged meetings between his brother and the former prime minister in Stockholm and later in Geneva, where Bildt served as the United Nations secretary general’s special envoy to the Balkans from 1999 to 2001. Bildt accepted Lundin’s offer to join the board of directors of Vostok Nafta Investment in 2000 and stayed at the post until last month, when he was appointed foreign minister in the new center-right Swedish government. “He has been a very valuable board member,” says Ian Lundin, alluding to Bildt’s political instincts.

Political savvy has certainly been essential in Lundin’s dealings with Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly that accounts for more than 90 percent of Vostok Nafta’s $3.8 billion portfolio and about one third of Lundin Group’s total assets. Vostok Nafta, run by chief executive Per Brilioth, first started investing in Gazprom in the mid-1990s, when it began building up a portfolio of Russian energy companies. According to Lundin, he had initially considered buying Siberian oil fields but decided that the lawlessness and violence surrounding the privatization of oil and gas in those years just after the collapse of the Soviet Union made it too risky a venture even for him. “Since it wasn’t possible to wildcat in Siberia, I wildcatted on the Moscow stock exchange,” said Lundin during the interview at his French farmhouse.

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9111e9 No.20489101

>>20489085

>With Adolf Lundin’s death, control of the entire Lundin portfolio of companies has been turned over to his sons Lukas, 48, and Ian, 45, who have helped manage the group for the past 12 years.

>>20489072

>Keith C. Hill

>>20489069

“AFRICA OIL ANNOUNCES THE PASSING OF LUKAS H. LUNDIN”

https://africaoilcorp.com/news/africa-oil-announces-the-passing-of-lukas-h-lundi-122838/

July 27, 2022

VANCOUVER, BC, July 27, 2022 /CNW/ - (TSX: AOI) (Nasdaq-Stockholm: AOI) – Africa Oil Corp. ("AOI", "Africa Oil" or "the Company") regrets to announce the death of the Company's founding shareholder and inspirational leader behind the Company, Mr. Lukas H. Lundin, in Geneva, Switzerland on 26 July 2022 at the age of 64, following a two-year battle with brain cancer.

Over the past 40 years, Lukas Lundin was the driving force behind the tremendous success of the Lundin Group of Companies. Lukas started his career in the international energy and mining sectors in the early 1980s working side-by-side with his father, the late Adolf H. Lundin.

Under the leadership of Lukas and his brother Ian, and in close cooperation with the rest of the Lundin family, the Lundin Group of Companies has grown into an internationally recognized group of energy and mining companies with operations around the globe, employing more than 15,000 people and creating opportunities for tens of thousands more.

The eleven companies that make up the Lundin Group of Companies today have a combined market capitalization exceeding USD $11 billion.

Lukas Lundin founded Africa Oil Corp in 2007 by transforming a former group company, Canmex Minerals Corporation, into an East African oil exploration vehicle. Following some major discoveries in Northern Kenya, the company has grown into a large, highly successful full cycle company with production in Nigeria and development and exploration projects throughout Africa.

Africa Oil's President and CEO, Keith Hill, commented, "The world has lost a leading force in responsible, sustainable and profitable development of natural resources. I have lost a good friend and mentor who gave me the opportunity to grow a number of companies under his guidance and leadership. His tireless enthusiasm, his endless persistence and his steadfast knowledge that we were performing an invaluable service to the world by working with developing nations to create value through the responsible development of their resources, should be a model for future generations. We look forward to continuing his vision under the leadership of the third generation of the Lundin family business who will undoubtedly preserve and grow his legacy."

Africa Oil Corp. is a Canadian oil and gas company with producing and development assets in deepwater Nigeria; development assets in Kenya; and an exploration/appraisal portfolio in Africa and Guyana. The Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol "AOI".

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9111e9 No.20489120

>>20489078

>>20489085

>With Adolf Lundin’s death, control of the entire Lundin portfolio of companies has been turned over to his sons Lukas, 48, and Ian, 45, who have helped manage the group for the past 12 years.

>>20489092

>But Lundin rejected any blame for the atrocities. “We are bringing the Sudan out of misery,” he asserted in a March 2001 interview with Swedish financial daily Dagens Industri.

But they continue to operate under many company names.

“Sweden charges Lundin Energy executives with complicity in Sudan war crimes”

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sweden-charges-lundin-energy-executives-complicity-sudan-war-crimes-2021-11-11/

November 11, 202112:21 PM EST

Excerpts

Swedish prosecutors on Thursday brought charges against the chairman and former CEO of Lundin Energy (LUNE.ST), opens new tab for complicity in war crimes carried out by the Sudanese army and allied militia in southern Sudan from 1999 to 2003.

Prosecutors said the company had asked the Sudanese government to secure a potential oilfield, knowing this would mean seizing the area by force. This made the executives complicit in war crimes that were then carried out by the Sudanese army and allied militia against civilians.

"What constitutes complicity in a criminal sense is that they made these demands despite understanding or, in any case being indifferent to, the military and the militia carrying out the war in a way that was forbidden according to international humanitarian law," the prosecutors' authority said in a statement.

Sweden launched an investigation in 2010 following a report on Lundin's presence in Sudan by the Dutch non-governmental organization PAX, which has called for an investigation of the company's role in human rights abuses there.

"This is a great victory for justice and a historic achievement… This is the first time since Nuremberg that a listed company will have accounted in court for war crimes," Egbert Wesselink, a spokesperson for PAX, said in an email following the indictment.

"Many corporations look at human rights as a source of risk that must be managed, instead of a norm that must be upheld," he added.

Sweden-based Lundin Energy said in a statement that it rejected any grounds for allegations of wrongdoing. It identified the indicted executives as Chairman Ian Lundin and former CEO Alex Schneiter, now a board member. The company, known as Lundin Oil until 2001, sold its Sudan business in 2003.

Ian Lundin's lawyer Torgny Wetterberg said on Thursday his client was innocent: "The prosecutor will never be able to reach convictions. The prosecution is deficient on every point."

The prosecutors also filed a claim to confiscate 1.39 billion crowns ($161.7 million) from Lundin Energy, corresponding to the profit the company made from the sale of the Sudan business in 2003. The company said it would contest this claim.

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3f5110 No.20489300

File: 2b5efebb72b9f97⋯.png (1.07 MB,1920x4829,1920:4829,Screenshot_2024_02_28_at_1….png)

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>>20489064

Canmex Holdings (Bermuda) I Ltd. and a deNovo Corporate Advisors are in the Paradise Papers

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/82006927

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3f5110 No.20489520

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Anglo American Completes 10-Ship Fleet Expansion

FILE PHOTO: MV Ubuntu Loyalty. Credit: Anglo American

Mike Schuler February 28, 2024

Multinational mining corporation Anglo American has taken delivery of its final chartered LNG dual-fuelled Capesize+ bulk carrier, the MV Ubuntu Liberty. The delivery marks the completion of the company’s 10-vessel fleet, all of which have been built over the past three years in partnership with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.

The Ubuntu Liberty will now its maiden voyage from China to Saldanha Bay, South Africa, to pick up a cargo load of iron ore.

The completion of the 10-ship fleet is a significant milestone in Anglo American’s commitment to more sustainable shipping. “The launch of the final vessel of our Ubuntu fleet is a huge step towards our commitment to a more sustainable path,” said Matt Walker, CEO of Anglo American’s Marketing business.

Walker also highlighted how using LNG as a fuel option can contribute to a cleaner maritime industry. “Our customers have shown a strong interest in our Ubuntu freight, recognizing the value of sustainable shipping as part of a more sustainable supply chain,” he said.

Anglo American aims to become carbon neutral for its controlled ocean freight by 2040, aligning with its Sustainable Mining Plan commitment to carbon neutral operations across its mines by the same year. The LNG dual-fuelled vessels are estimated to offer a 35% reduction in emissions compared to ships powered by conventional marine oil fuel and are currently the most efficient of their type.

The so-called “Ubuntu” fleet has already moved 6.4 million tonnes of iron ore and steelmaking coal across global shipping routes since the first vessel was loaded in early 2023. The fleet has also made over 30 refuelling stops for LNG in locations such as Singapore and Malaysia.

https://gcaptain.com/anglo-american-completes-10-ship-fleet-expansion/

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45b4db No.20492903

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“Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan.”

https://youtu.be/UFfLY7pxboY

26:11 – “I phoned IEC and said listen here, we are doing our best to get the physical signatures but we are also now collecting digital signatures but we are doing it through this platform where the signatures are considered legally recognizable, please will you accept those forms… Then she was like no, we can’t because it’s not legal. But then I said when you went and registered all your voters online, was that not legal? And then she was like, OK well for these elections we won’t accept digital signatures but next election we can. So that makes me think, what does the 3 major parties have in store? Why are they so wanting to hold onto power now? For what purpose? What is coming up? They are actually ganging up together and becoming a mafia… None of the top 5 parties are saying a word about the signature requirements.

51:01 – “It’s funny. The ANC is rushing, DA is rushing and the EFF is rushing. They want elections now. Everyone else wanted more time.”

““MK, BOSA, Rise Mzansi, ATM among parties unhappy with election timetable, want meeting with IEC”

https://www.ewn.co.za/2024/02/26/mk-bosa-rise-mzansi-atm-among-parties-unhappy-with-election-timetable-want-meeting-with-iec

26 February 2024 | 11:38

In a letter which Eyewitness News has seen the organisation's request to discuss the elections timetable signature requirements and identity documents the deadline for the registration fee as well as voter education.

JOHANNESBURG - Over ten political parties, mostly new formations including Build One SA (BOSA) the Umkhonto weSizwe Party and Rise Mzansi, have written to the Electoral Commission (IEC) asking for an urgent meeting over their dissatisfaction with the election timetable.

Bantu Holomisa’s United Democratic Movement (UDM) is also among the parties who’ve all raised concerns that they believe will deeply affect the integrity and inclusivity of the 29 May polls.

In a letter, which Eyewitness News has seen, the organisations request to discuss the elections timetable, signature requirements and identity documents, the deadline for the registration fee as well as voter education.

On Monday, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) published its timetable of deadlines for candidates.

The UDM and African Transformation Movement (ATM), along with several new players on the political scene, have raised concerns over a compressed election timetable.

They’ve argued that the allocated time doesn’t allow them to fully meet the requirements as set out by the IEC. They have also labelled the issue of having to meet a set threshold of signatures as a barrier to entry for emerging parties. They say this not only impedes the principles of a multi-party system but will have a dire impact on new and smaller parties.

"Including the confusion of which forms and the threshold, provincial threshold and signatures are required, all these things we feel and the way and approach and shape that it taking is not necessarily going to make it free and fair," said the MK party’s Nhlamulo Ndlela.

The parties proposed that a meeting with the IEC should take place within the next 48 hours.

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9111e9 No.20494555

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This is a phenomenal speech by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. We are certainly seeing plenty of similarities in South Africa.

“JUST IN: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Warns Of 'Dark Forces' In Anti-Crime Speech At CPAC”

https://youtu.be/u0e_grWEcB0

Feb 22, 2024

At CPAC, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele decried "globalism" and warned about social and civilizational decline.

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9111e9 No.20494559

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>>20494555

“Hits or contract killings becoming a common occurrence in South Africa”

https://youtu.be/DsXTBmutmW8

Feb 29, 2024

A group of suspects arrested in connection with the murders of rapper Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes and his friend, Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane, appeared in the Durban Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning.

The court appearance comes just over a year since the two were gunned down outside a restaurant in Durban.

Police say the suspects conspired to kill Forbes and that Motsoane was not their target. Police have also linked some of the suspects to other unrelated murder cases. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi earlier this week confirmed the first arrests and that an amount of R800 000 was allegedly paid to the suspects for the execution.

Hits or contract killings have become a common occurrence in South Africa. We are now joined by an SABC News investigator to further unpack this… We will not be revealing our guest for safety reasons - I will refer to him as X for the purposes of this interview

7:59 – “We’ve seen that with the recent released killer or hitman [Janus Walus] of Chris Hani. He also mentioned that if I reveal who sent me, South Africa won’t be the same… They rather take the fall because they’re afraid that they will be killed themselves or they’ve an agreement of a large amount that they are promised by the people who ordered the hit.

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9111e9 No.20494573

File: c487aee2d2a71a1⋯.jpg (64.22 KB,780x519,260:173,b49b6599_walus_banner_at_s….jpg)

>>20494559

>“We’ve seen that with the recent released killer or hitman [Janus Walus] of Chris Hani. He also mentioned that if I reveal who sent me, South Africa won’t be the same… They rather take the fall because they’re afraid that they will be killed themselves or they’ve an agreement of a large amount that they are promised by the people who ordered the hit.”

“RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination” – Part 1

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/12/07/rw-johnson-hani-sin

7th December 2022

Excerpts

The assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 was the original sin of the New South Africa. Hani’s death nearly provoked civil war. But it also profoundly changed the political balance within the ANC – and thus the country. Hani, still a handsome young man at 50, was by far the most charismatic figure among the returning exiles, the hero of many of the MK fighters whom he had been drilling down in the Transkei, a man who had caught the imagination not only of the black youth and many ANC activists, but who had also won broad popularity within the movement.

Crucially, at the 1991 Durban conference of the ANC Hani had topped the list in the delegates’ vote for membership of the National Executive. In doing so he had out-distanced his great rival, Thabo Mbeki and thus established himself as the leading member of the successor generation to the old troika of Tambo, Mandela and Sisulu. Hani and Mbeki were then locked in a struggle for the ANC’s deputy chairmanship. Mandela, worried that their rivalry might split the party, drafted Walter Sisulu back in to take the post instead.

Moreover, whereas Mbeki and many others were quietly ditching their membership of the Communist Party (the SACP), Hani, an unabashed revolutionary, was the new SACP leader. He stood for radical purism, a sea-green incorruptible uninterested in compromise. Driving through the Transkei in 1992 I had been struck that all the ANC cadres I met wanted Hani for President, not Mandela. The plan, clearly, was that Hani would become ANC leader after Mandela and thus unite, in his own person, the leadership of the ANC and SACP – effectively an SACP takeover. All this and more was smashed by Hani’s assassination.

Almost immediately, Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis were arrested for the murder. The case seemed open and shut. As Mandela was careful to emphasise, a white Afrikaner woman had witnessed the shooting and had come forward to put the finger on Walus. And in any case, Walus confessed. Finish and klaar?

No, not really. Walus and Derby-Lewis had not taken into account the fact that, with the return of ANC exiles, the apartheid security police had had to learn to share their space with the ANC intelligence apparat. The two sides were in regular contact with one another – they had, in any case, penetrated each other’s organisations long before. But they also watched one another like hawks. Such was the reality of “dual power” in the 1990-94 situation. Inevitably, any plot to assassinate Hani was bound to become known to both these rival intelligence services.

Walus and Derby-Lewis had also not taken into account the fact that several other figures had strong motives for wanting to see Hani done away with. Indeed, I later ascertained from a variety of ANC sources that there had been an ANC plot to kill Hani scheduled for ten days after Walus actually did the deed. Meanwhile, many wondered how members of the white Right like Walus and Derby-Lewis could have known such key details as which was Hani’s house, or that he had spent the previous night with a lover (a Transkei Airways stewardess), or the fact that Hani’s bodyguards had the day off when Walus struck.

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9111e9 No.20494579

>>20494573

“RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination” – Part 2

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/12/07/rw-johnson-hani-sin

7th December 2022

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Winnie Mandela, who had been close to Hani, insisted that “moderate” ANC leaders had conspired to eliminate Hani by passing on to the apartheid Security Police, the dates when Hani’s bodyguards would not be on duty. Quite clearly Winnie was hinting that Mbeki had been involved and there was no shortage of ANC voices willing to name names on that score. There was, though, no evidence to back such an accusation and Mbeki himself remained silent. Hani’s widow, Limpho, was so unsure of the truth that she asked the DP leader, Tony Leon, whether he could shed any light on the affair.

Ramon and Riley

Ramon, a double agent (working for the NIS but notionally employed by the ANC Intelligence Dept – his real name was Mohammed Amin Laher – was able to prove that the NIS had had advance warning of the Hani assassination, including its date, and also attested that ANC Intelligence was equally aware of the plot, in which some of its own agents were involved. Indeed, Ramon’s NIS handler, Eugene Riley, [“• Eugene Riley – was killed in January 1994 after probing the killing of Chris Hani) – Died under suspicious circumstances” https://alchetron.com/Civil-Cooperation-Bureau]actually told the Mail and Guardian that Hani would be assassinated several days beforehand. Ramon even claimed to have documents showing that ANC intelligence and some ANC leaders had been involved in the plot. Their job had been “to facilitate” the Walus/Derby-Lewis plot.These documents pointed squarely at the future Defence Minister, Joe Modise.

Stefaans Brummer, an investigative journalist, interviewed members of the ANC’s own investigative team. They confirmed that there had been a second team of killers besides Walus. There had been a second car besides Walus’s outside Hani’s house, evidence that someone had been standing behind a wall next door to the house and one of the bullets that killed Hani had been fired by someone other than Walus.

Moreover, Hani himself had learnt of a plot against him and had demanded that the ANC step up his security arrangements – but he met a stony refusal. The police, for their part, proved “unwilling” to follow up any of these leads. Many journalists tried to find the Afrikaans woman who had witnessed the assassination but she had vanished into thin air. Pretty clearly she had been an intelligence operative placed there to play such a role.

Ramon was extremely nervous and hid himself both physically and under various aliases. He completely evaded the TRC inquiry into the assassination and simply disappeared. Eugene Riley was himself killed by an unknown assassin only eight months after Hani. Riley’s girlfriend, Julie Wilken, testified that she had typed out Riley’s reports showing advance knowledge of the assassination.

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9111e9 No.20494594

>>20494573

>>20494579

“RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination” – Part 3

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/12/07/rw-johnson-hani-sin

7th December 2022

Excerpts

Wilken also said that Riley had told her that Walus and Derby-Lewis would be rewarded for their work by being spirited away to Poland and Australia, respectively. (There is no evidence that this promise was ever made to the two men.) Riley’s murder and Ramon’s disappearance suggested that those who had been Walus’s accomplices were protecting themselves by getting rid of witnesses. Unsurprisingly, Wilken disappeared into a witness protection programme for over eight years.

Eight years later…

Hearing, all those years later, that Wilken had re-appeared, I tracked her down. She confirmed that Riley had had a close relationship with Shariff Khan and his son, Ramon (Laher). Ramon had been a colonel in MK and had passed on to Riley information about large-scale drug-dealing by a leading ANC figure close to Hani and other information useful for Riley’s own criminal activities. Two weeks before the Hani assassination, Riley had learned that a prominent ANC leader was about to be killed and three days beforehand he learned that Hani was the target. This information was widely known within Security Police and ANC circles but neither did anything to prevent the killing.

Ramon had told Riley that ANC Intelligence had decided to facilitate the assassination, though both Walus and Derby-Lewis were far too naive to realise that they were being assisted. Ramon said that senior ANC figures had decided Hani must be removed to prevent him from toppling Mandela. This was clearly a smokescreen to disguise the real motives of the ANC leaders who wanted Hani done away with, for there was never the slightest chance of Hani deposing Mandela or even attempting such a thing. For their part the Security Police saw Hani as one of their main opponents and found little reason to step in to save him.

Fruitless inquiries

The Hani murder was investigated for the ANC by a team led by Mathews Phosa. He declared that there had definitely been a wider conspiracy to kill Hani but that those involved had covered their tracks.

The TRC also looked at the possibility of a wider right wing conspiracy but found nothing. The TRC was too loaded with ANC-aligned personalities to look anywhere else but on the right. But it clearly didn’t want to recommend that Walus or Derby-Lewis were eligible for amnesty, although by the TRC’s own rules they should have been (amnesty was available to those who had committed violent acts for political motives).

The TRC justified this by claiming that neither of the two men had made full disclosure. By this they meant that they hadn’t provided any evidence for the wider right wing conspiracy which the TRC wanted to believe in, but for which it had no shred of evidence.

It was immediately clear that the assassination had settled the succession to Mandela: Mbeki was now the only plausible candidate. Mandela might favour Ramaphosa but the dominant exile wing of the ANC had settled on Mbeki. On the principle of cui bono many now accused Mbeki of having had a role in Hani’s murder but there was no evidence for this.

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9111e9 No.20494605

File: 15b42257ee79186⋯.jpg (91.46 KB,811x585,811:585,Slovo_Hani_Modise.JPG)

>>20494573

>>20494579

>>20494594

>>20492903

>Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan

“RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination” – Part 4

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/12/07/rw-johnson-hani-sin

7th December 2022

Excerpts

Among the suspects one name stood out above all others: Joe Modise. Modise had been a gangster boss in Alexandra township. His gang, the Spoilers, was notorious for their professionalism, their ruthlessness and their exceptional violence. In the exiled ANC everyone was afraid of Modise: he was a physically powerful man (an ex-boxer), was known to have carried a gun even under apartheid, and had killed a number of men with his own hands. The general view was that Modise could and would make anyone who got in his way simply disappear.

Within MK it was noticed that anyone who annoyed Modise – like the Natal MK leader, Thami Zulu – was doomed. Thami Zulu was accused of being an enemy agent, was detained and tortured by ANC Security for two years and was finally poisoned, but no evidence against him was ever found. Very noticeably, his MK followers in Natal were all quickly picked up by the SA Security Police.

Joe Slovo (the MK chief of staff) and Hani (MK Commissar), knowing that gangsters had always had links to the police, feared that Modise was still in touch with that network. As a leader of the Spoilers Modise had always had police contacts and it was only after Modise went into exile in 1962 that the police moved to crush the Spoilers.

Moreover, Modise was certainly still a gangster – in Zambia he ran the stolen cars racket, with the assistance of Tom Nkobi, the ANC Treasurer-General, and had a hand in a number of bank robberies too. The ANC was always too hungry for the money this produced to make objection.

Modise liked the good life and lived high on the hog, although most exiles were poor. Moreover, exiles liked to live in obscurity for fear of attacks by the SA military, but Modise lived very publicly in his own house in an upmarket suburb and always drove a fancy car: he clearly felt he had nothing to fear.The source of his high income was never explained and in general he was neither liked nor trusted.

But Modise was a powerful man – the MK commander. As such ANC Intelligence reported to him but he also had a ring of gang members reporting to him, quite apart from his Security Police contacts. (When I questioned former members of the Security Police working for the ANC government, they all confirmed that Modise had been a police informer under apartheid.)

During his exile years Modise seems to have become involved in diamond smuggling, drug smuggling and arms sales to Unita (despite the fact that the ANC was at war with Unita). In Lusaka, Modise shared his house with a well-known cocaine dealer, a Mister Stevens – though a number of other ANC leaders were equally involved in the drugs trade. As MK commander Modise was also responsible for the brutal torture of MK dissidents in Angola. Modise’s associate, Mzwandile Piliso, the head of ANC security, was the torturer in chief.

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9111e9 No.20494642

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>>20494573

>>20494579

>>20494594

>>20494605

>>20489032

>It is interesting that there are quite a number of French involved in Africa in the name of business.

“Sexwale [who found Hani's body], Gungubele: Chris Hani's purpose was to free SA's from apartheid”

https://youtu.be/PfWRVqft6ls

“RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination” – Part 5

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2022/12/07/rw-johnson-hani-sin

7th December 2022

Excerpts

Modise vs Hani

In 1968 the young Chris Hani plus another six MK officers signed a bitter statement complaining of the hard life of MK troops in comparison with the perks and privileges enjoyed by the MK high command. Modise was mentioned by name. Modise furiously demanded the execution of all seven men and even after Oliver Tambo intervened to prevent that, Hani remained clearly at risk from Modise’s revenge.

As Hani rose to become the MK No 2 he was more and more obviously a threat to Modise. What was at stake was the position of Minister of Defence in an ANC government. Long before 1994 it was realised that the decades-long ban on arms sales to South Africa had left the country’s military in need of a major rearmament programme. Sniffing a lucrative deal the big international arms dealers began to cultivate possible ANC candidates for the Defence ministry – the French lavished their attentions on Tokyo Sexwale and annoyed the British by boasting that they had already sewn up an arms deal with him.

As anyone who has read Anthony Sampson’s The Arms Bazaar knows, arms deals are almost synonymous with corruption. Typically – and not just in Third World countries – such deals involve large pay-offs to the minister of defence, the prime minister and president, for these are the people with make or break power over any arms contract. Naturally, Joe Modise realised this and knew that if he could secure the defence portfolio he stood to make the financial killing of a lifetime.

The greatest threat that Modise faced was Chris Hani. For a start, if Hani, the MK hero, demanded the defence portfolio, he might be very difficult to stop. But even if Modise secured that portfolio, a big arms deal was bound to be politically controversial. There were bound to be rumours and allegations of corruption. And based on previous experience the man most likely to make such awkward allegations was Chris Hani.

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9111e9 No.20494685

>>20494642

>>20494605

>>20494594

>>20494579

>>20494573

>>20489032

>It is interesting that there are quite a number of French involved in Africa in the name of business.

>>20379836

>>20379966

>Ronnie Kasrils

No surprise. Ronnie Kasrils dubbed R.W. Johnson’s article a conspiracy theory.

“No, Anti-Apartheid Activist Chris Hani Wasn’t Killed by ANC Leaders”: Posted on the Jacobin website, written by Ronnie Kasrils

https://jacobin.com/2022/12/anti-apartheid-activist-chris-hani-murder-anc-false-fabrication-journalism

12.21.2022

South Africa–based journalist R. W. Johnson has penned an article implicating ANC leaders for the 1993 assassination of anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani. It’s pure slander and fabrication.

It is scarcely surprising in South Africa, where conspiracy theories thrive, that the parole of Janusz Waluś, the assassin of South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Chris Hani, should revive questions about the April 1993 murder. It is understandable that Hani’s family, and the party he led, should have been the first to question whether a wider conspiracy existed. Conspiracies abound, but for matters of such national importance, it is vital to do sober research, investigation, and analysis. Those, who thrust themselves to the fore with speculative, fanciful, and libelous storytelling, should at least warrant circumspection. They invariably excite the most basic of prejudices, and far from clarifying possible leads, muddy the waters. R. W. “Bill” Johnson’s latest foray on the business news site BizNews is one such aberration.

https://jacobin.com/about

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 3,000,000 a month.

Jacobin meaning

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jacobin

[French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group's founding in the Dominican convent in Paris] : a member of an extremist or radical political group

especially : a member of such a group advocating egalitarian democracy and engaging in terrorist activities during the French Revolution of 1789

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kasrils-ronnie

KASRILS, RONNIE (1938– ), South African resistance leader and politician. Kasrils was a member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and was active in the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), from its creation.

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3f5110 No.20495419

>>20489029

Out of Gabon, into South Africa

Canada #46 >>19465512

Challenged by a String of Military Coups, France’s Influence in Africa Is Declining Fast – Will Paris and the Western Powers Fight for It?

by Paul Serran Aug. 30, 2023

French President Emmanuel Macron has a formidable capacity to hang on to power, even though his tenure as head of state has been plagued with turmoil, from never ending Yellow Vests marches to widespread protests over his Pension reform, up until the shocking race riots following the police killing of a teenager in a traffic stop.

When it comes to Foreign Policy, things have been just as rocky, from his fruitless mediation of the conflict in Ukraine up until his snubbing on the BRICS meeting.

But very possibly the worse defeat in this area is the complete debacle of the French influence in West Africa, mainly in the sahel, a semi-arid region between the Sahara desert to the north and the savannas to the south.

Now, in parallel, many former colonies are breaking away from Paris’ sphere of influence, raising the scary specter of war in the region.

As the ECOWAS countries, led by France’s ally Nigeria, vow to intervene to ‘restore democracy’ in Niger, another coup d’état takes place in Gabon – another country seemingly about to sever ties with France.

Reuters reported:

“Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday and put President Ali Bongo under house arrest, stepping in minutes after the Central African state’s election body announced he had won a third term.

The officers, who said they represented the armed forces, declared on television that the election results were cancelled, borders closed and state institutions dissolved, after a tense vote that was set to extend the Bongo family’s more than half century in power.”

In a move that shocked Western powers, hundreds of people in the streets of the Gabonese capital Libreville celebrated the military’s intervention.

The African Union and of course France, that was Gabon’s former colonial ruler – and which has troops stationed there – condemned the coup.

The turmoil in Gabon follows the latest military coup in Niger, in July. Military officers have also seized power in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Chad.

The coup adds uncertainty for France’s presence in the region. With about 350 troops in Gabon, Paris fears it will face the same fate as in Mali and Burkina Faso, where its forces have been expelled after coups.

French miner Eramet said it had halted operations in the manganese mines in Gabon, and fears mount now that the same will happen to Oil companiesTotalEnergiesand Perenco.

The coup in Gabon came after widespread concerns about fraud in the weekend election. A lack of international observers, suspension of foreign broadcasts, cut internet services and a night-time curfew after the vote are among the criticized measures.

Bongo’s team rejected allegations of fraud.

Meanwhile, the situation in Niger gets even more acute. Two ultimatums have expired. One, by the ECOWAS countries, demanded that the president Bazoum be reinstated by the junta. The other, by the coup leaders, demanded that the French ambassador leave Niger.

Both ultimatums were ignored.

More:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/challenged-string-military-coups-frances-influence-africa-is/

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78cd27 No.20495619

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>>20484870

>>20489029

>>20495419

>>20445882

South Africa and Rwanda in Mozambique

Now the attacks have increased in Mozambique when TotalEnergies wants to restart operations.

“Mozambique fighting: Tens of thousands flee renewed attacks”

https://youtu.be/uJTh_MqMXq8

Feb 29, 2024 #Mozambique #MozambiqueConflict #MozambiqueUnrest

Renewed attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes.

Fighting in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado began in 2017, when fighters affiliated with ISIL declared a campaign to establish a caliphate.

0:48 – “Nearly 3 years ago, soldiers from Rwanda and southern Africa came to help the government forces. They control much of the coastline once again. French oil giant, Total, has expected to resume operations later this year. The armed groups still operate but further inland. [They would rather protect the company’s interests than the people]

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/tens-thousands-flee-new-wave-brutal-mozambique-attacks-2024-02-28/

The attacks, despite a massive security clampdown, are continuing as French oil company TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA), aims to restart a $20 billion liquefied natural gas terminal in Cabo Delgado in the coming months. The project was halted in 2021 after a deadly Islamic State-linked attack in a town near it.

"What is particularly of concern to UNICEF is that the majority of these displaced people are women and children, more than two-thirds of the total when combined," Guy Taylor, UNICEF's Mozambique spokesperson said on Wednesday.

So far this year, 56 incidents of insurgent-led aggression have been recorded, said Tertius Jacobs, head analyst for Mozambique at risk management firm Focus Group.

"So, only two months into the year and we've already had more than half of the number of attacks we've had for the whole of last year," he said.

Insurgents were attacking civilian targets such as churches and homes and were posing a "significant risk" to a major highway route, EN1, which moves key commodities to Nacala port, Jacobs added.

TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanne has said the company was monitoring the situation to make sure it was safe before committing to restart operations.

"What I want to avoid is making the decision to bring people back and then being forced to evacuate them again," he said in early February during an announcement of 2023 annual results. The company declined to provide further comment on the latest attacks.

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78cd27 No.20495633

File: 71674c86c568910⋯.jpg (278.85 KB,1024x765,1024:765,3476299296_b0f05b0932_b.jpg)

>>20494573

Interesting history

BKS Lechia Football Club History: Janusz Walus on its Banner

https://www.rabbittranspoland.com/post/lechia-gdansk-and-gedania-the-most-important-football-teams-in-gdansk

Lechia Gdańsk, with its colors and brave spirit, not only won the hearts of fans, but also goes down in gold in the annals of Polish football. Its history, full of victories and challenges, is inextricably linked with the history of the city itself.

BKS Lechia Gdańsk

Lechia Gdańsk, a club born from the ashes of post-war chaos in 1945, quickly became a symbol of hope and rebirth for the city's inhabitants.

The sports club plays a significant role not only on the pitch, but also in the local community. By engaging in charitable and educational activities, Lechia contributes to the development of Gdańsk, supporting young people and various social groups. In this way, the club constantly builds bridges between generations, creating a space where sport becomes a tool for social integration.

How was the Lechia Gdańsk football club founded?

Lechia Gdańsk, one of the most recognizable football teams in Poland, has its roots in post-war Gdańsk. The club was established in August 1945 as the Sports Club of the Port Reconstruction Office on the initiative of Władysław Szedrowicz, director of the Port Reconstruction Office, and people associated with the Gdańsk University of Technology.

At the beginning of its existence, the club was called Baltia, and later - in accordance with the authorities' order - Budowlani, to finally adopt the name Lechia, referring to the pre-war club in Lviv.

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78cd27 No.20495660

File: a083632ac367338⋯.jpg (104.4 KB,640x444,160:111,Poland.jpg)

>>20495633

> to finally adopt the name Lechia, referring to the pre-war club in Lviv.

Lviv, Ukraine

https://www.britannica.com/place/Lviv-Ukraine

Lviv, city, western Ukraine, on the Roztochchya Upland. Founded in the mid-13th century by Prince Daniel Romanovich of Galicia, Lviv has historically been the chief centre of Galicia, a region now divided between Ukraine and Poland. Its position controlling east-west routes and passes across the Carpathians has given it a stormy history. Polish control was established in 1349. The town was seized briefly by the Cossacks in 1648 and the Swedes in 1704. It was given to Austria on the first partition of Poland in 1772 and occupied by Russia in 1914–15. The government of the short-lived Western Ukrainian National Republic arose in Lviv in 1918, but the Poles drove Ukrainian troops out of the city and regained control. Lviv was seized by the Soviet Union in 1939 and, after German occupation, annexed by the Soviets in 1945.

Lviv is a major publishing and cultural centre, especially of Ukrainian culture, which flourished there in tsarist times when it was suppressed in Russian Ukraine. The university, which was founded in 1661 and named for the Ukrainian poet and journalist Ivan Franko under the Soviet regime, is one of the institutions of higher education and research in the city. Pop. (2001) 732,818; (2005 est.) 733,728.

Even the New York Times highlighted Lviv’s importance

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/europe/lviv-ukraine-war-russia.html

“Kyiv is the heart of Ukraine, Lviv is the soul,” the mayor [Andriy Sadovyy] said, using a phrase that many inhabitants repeat.

“We are the diplomatic capital of Ukraine right now,” he said. “And a lot of government agencies have their headquarters here right now because they moved here to have adequate accommodation, and so all the government systems are in operation despite the bombardment.”

Lviv was often in the forefront of the Ukrainian national movement, including during the breakup of the Soviet Union.

That spirit of resistance is now everywhere in Ukraine, and while Kyiv is the center of the resistance today, historians and politicians said, the inhabitants of Lviv remain proud of their reputations as nationalist leaders.

Former members of a militia group, who ran security and medical evacuations when fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014, were reorganizing this week in a private school in the city. Their motto, “Slaves are not taken to heaven,” was that of a legendary Cossack leader.

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9111e9 No.20500680

File: 81f46bed27a91a9⋯.jpg (241.38 KB,1463x2048,1463:2048,Headshot_AndrePienaar_1463….jpg)

The following posts will give context to an article which André Pienaar wrote concerning South Africa.

André Pienaar

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/flagship-event/global-energy-forum/andre-pienaar/

Founder and Chief Executive, C5 Capital

André Pienaar is the Chief Executive and the Founder of C5, a specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy with offices in Washington DC, London and Luxembourg.

André serves on the boards of IronNet Cybersecurity, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and BlueVoyant in the USA; Reduxio in Israel; the Haven Group in Luxembourg, and ITC Secure in London. He previously served on the Boards of Omada, Balabit and Shape Security which C5 exited successfully.

André started his career at Kroll Inc in 1996 where he became the youngest managing director until the successful sale of the company to Marsh & McLennan. In 2004, André founded G3, an international consulting firm that advises global companies and international law firms on cybersecurity. In 2011, he sold G3 to Europe’s leading technology investment holding company.

André advised the 6th Duke of Westminster on the establishment of the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) in the United Kingdom as a state-of-the-art centre for the rehabilitation of injured British military veterans.

Andre serves on the Advisory Council of the US Institute for Peace (USIP, an US government agency dedicated to conflict resolution globally. He is a member of the Atlantic Council Task Force on Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. André set up the Cyber Alliance to Defend Our Healthcare, a voluntary coalition of 36 cybersecurity companies to protect the healthcare sector from cyberattacks during global pandemics.

André’s charitable interests include being a Director of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the Limitless Space Institute (LSI) a non-profit organization to develop leaders and technologies that enables space exploration.

André is a lawyer and an expert on cyber law and cybercrime. He holds two law degrees and a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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9111e9 No.20500683

>>20500680

“The ‘CIA agent’ [André Pienaar] who never was, plus five talking points from ‘Vrye Weekblad’”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-10-22-the-cia-agent-who-never-was-plus-five-talking-points-from-vrye-weekblad/

22 October 2021 - 06:38

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SA-born André Pienaar has been much maligned in the country of his birth. He’s been called an evil foreign agent by former president Jacob Zuma, and been vilified by journalists as a conniving intelligence operator.

The son of an Afrikaner dominee, Pienaar is also one of the most connected South Africans abroad. He counts among his network former US and UK secretaries of defence Jim Mattis and Liam Fox, senior members of the Tory establishment, and Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos (Pienaar’s wife, Teresa Carlson, is a former vice-president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector business).

Pienaar was part of a team that set up a standalone specialist law enforcement unit, staffed by the newly trained operatives, to fight organised crime and corruption. Once signed into law, the Directorate of Special Operations, or Scorpions, was born.

[It is interesting that the CIA also established a Scorpions unit in Iraq. “Before the Iraq war began, the CIA recruited and trained an Iraqi paramilitary group, code-named the Scorpions, to foment rebellion, conduct sabotage and help CIA paramilitaries, intelligence officials say.” https://www.theage.com.au/national/cia-trained-scorpions-to-promote-unrest-20050804-ge0mrc.html]

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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9111e9 No.20500696

>>20500680

>>20500683

>Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper

“Loyal to the Max – how the billionaire [André Pienaar] who was once in Jacob Zuma’s crosshairs saved ‘Vrye Weekblad’”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-11-20-loyal-to-the-max-billionaire-angel-investor-saves-vrye-weekblad/

20 Nov 2022

Excerpts

Almost 30 years after it was forced into bankruptcy when apartheid-era deputy police commissioner Lothar Neethling sued it over its reporting on the poisoning of ANC activists, the Vrye Weekblad’s voice was again threatened with silencing, with the abrupt announcement by Arena Holdings on 1 September that it had become financially unviable.

Weeks before it was due to close for good, an angel investor stepped in to salvage the progressive Afrikaans publication.

Vrye Weekblad (VWB) bounced back under the independent control of veteran journalists and co-founders Max du Preez and Anneliese Burgess, with former head of News24’s investigations, Andrew Trench – whom Du Preez describes as “possibly the best digital media specialist in South Africa” – as chief operating officer. The acclaimed veteran journalist continues as editor-in-chief, with Burgess as co-editor.

Du Preez had never relinquished control of the VWB brand – the web domain, copyright, the title and the intellectual property of the combined nine years of the publication’s existence remained his.

In an announcement on Monday, 26 September headlined “Hier kom VryeWeekblad 3.0 #Kanniedood” (“Here comes Vrye Weekblad 3.0 #Willnotdie”), Du Preez revealed VWB’s “rebirth”, as the weekly publication would now be published by a new entity, the Nuwe Vrye Weekblad Mediagroep, with a new vision and ambitious plans.

The new company was made possible, he said, through an investment from a consortium of South African business leaders who live in the US and the UK, led by the Gqeberha-born billionaire André Pienaar.

Pienaar is the founder of C5, a specialist venture capital firm with interests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy.

Asked about his links to Pienaar, Du Preez told DM168 that when he announced Arena’s decision to close VWB, the billionaire – an avid reader since their early print days – reached out to him.

“He contacted me a while ago, telling me how VWB had a profound impact on his political views and his view of life. He had left South Africa after he completed his law studies at UPE [the University of Port Elizabeth, now Nelson Mandela University] and studied in Wales.

Then Pienaar’s name cropped up in the news when former president Jacob Zuma claimed he was a CIA operative who “handled” former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy in his 2021 challenge to the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption.

Zuma had claimed Pienaar, code-named “Luciano”, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.

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9111e9 No.20500713

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>Then Pienaar’s name cropped up in the news when former president Jacob Zuma claimed he was a CIA operative who “handled” former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy in his 2021 challenge to the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption.

>Zuma had claimed Pienaar, code-named “Luciano”, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.

“South African [André Pienaar] at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-12-12-former-south-african-intelligence-agent-linked-to-kremlin-insider-at-centre-of-controversial-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud/

12 Dec 2018

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While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious “Luciano” in the leaked “Zuma spy tapes” saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon [$R10 billion] Project – a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes – he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, who has close links to the Kremlin.

While the AU Foundation claims that its aim is “to mobilise resources in support of the African Union’s vision of an integrated, people-centred and prosperous Africa, at peace with itself and taking its rightful place in the world”, it appears not much has been achieved in its three years of existence.

Pienaar is described on the AU Foundation website as “a private investor in specialist areas of technology. He is a founder of C5 Capital Limited. He is a trustee of several African charities.”

C5 was founded in 2012 and since then Pienaar and his companies have become major international players. Pienaar has business connections with international political heavyweights including, according to BBC journalists Ruth Clegg and Manveen Rana “the most influential and trusted figures in military and security circles on both sides of the Atlantic”.

Pienaar’s flagship company C5 Capital, boasts as “strategic partners” Charles McGarry, former CIA Operations Officer and CIA European chief; Admiral Mike Mullen, principal advisor to Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama and 17th Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011; Lord Gold, former “Corporate Monitor of BAE Systems” and current Chairman of the Conservative Party Disciplinary Committee; Sir Ian Lobban, former Director and Director-General of operations for the British Security and Intelligence agency GCHQ; Lieutenant General Graham Lamb, a former member of the UK regular and special forces.

C5 has worked with the leading bidder for the Pentagon Jedi cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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9111e9 No.20500729

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”Browse Mole report a ‘mixture of fact and fiction’”: Scorpions

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-03-browse-mole-report-a-mixture-of-fact-and-fiction/

3 JULY 2008

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Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the first version of the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble but didn’t do anything about it immediately because he was advised to ”file” it and his department already had a heavy workload.

”It was one of those documents that you wish you have never seen. I had this gut feel about this document, that this was going to cause trouble,” he said in Johannesburg on Thursday at the Ginwala commission of inquiry into his fitness to hold office.

The report was handed to him in March or April 2006 by former Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) head Leonard McCarthy.

McCarthy told him that a Swiss judge had spoken to him about a person involved in money laundering who had made several trips in and out of South Africa. However, McCarthy had said it was still a work in progress.

At the time the DSO was busy with high profile investigations and dealing with matters relating to the Khampepe Commission into the dispute over whether the DSO, an investigative unit, should stay in the Justice and Constitutional Development Department or be moved to the South African Police Service.

Although it already contained a number of conclusions ”on the face of it”, Pikoli considered it a ”mixture of fact and fiction”.

The report contained allegations of a foreign funded operation to bring African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to power.

One of the ”high profile” investigations that the DSO was working on was a corruption case against Zuma. The other was a corruption case against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.

When he read the final version in June/July he became angry and thought that ”if there was a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave the DSO, it was going to be that time”.

It had clearly been produced by someone who had contact with ”old apartheid structures of intelligence”, he said, and not a single member of the DSO had the capacity to produce it.

He believed it was clearly an intelligence report, and not the mandate of the DSO, although it had some elements of organised crime in it.

H then met the directors general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and of the South African Secret Service and between them they decided to work together to find out who the source was.

Pikoli was suspended on September 23 last year on the grounds of a breakdown in relations with Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla and that he did not fully appreciate maters of national security.

He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation. – Sapa

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9111e9 No.20500756

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“McCarthy phone-bugging part of extensive sting against Scorpions”

https://amabhungane.org/mccarthy-phone-bugging-part-of-extensive-sting-against-scorpions/stories/

August 30, 2013

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This emerged from the disciplinary hearing of a senior prosecutor, advocate Nomgcobo Jiba, now the acting national director of public prosecutions. Jiba had been suspended in November 2007 for helping police to secure an arrest warrant for Gerrie Nel, the Scorpions head in Gauteng.

In support of Jiba, Richard Mdluli, then a regional but later national crime intelligence boss, filed an -affidavit in which he provided a long transcript of one of McCarthy's calls, purporting to show that McCarthy was blocking the police investigation of Nel. Mdluli alleged the interception flowed “from a completely different investigation that was conducted against certain persons involved in drug dealing”, including, he claimed, McCarthy.

The NIA revealed it had also been monitoring [Leonard] McCarthy's communications, in this case as part of an investigation into the production and leaking of the so-called Browse Mole report.

The 2006 report, authored by [Ivor] Powell [the journalist-turned Scorpions investigator] and delivered to McCarthy, outlined, among other allegations, claims that the Angolan intelligence establishment planned to covertly support Zuma in his presidency bid.

The notes speak of a “seven-hour conversation” with Kebble to try to persuade him to change sides and that, at a later date, McCarthy told people that the case against former police commissioner Jackie Selebi was “a plot” driven by the Scorpions' Gerrie Nel.

Other titbits seemingly dating back to 2003 include the allegation that Ngcuka had said Zuma was “on his way out” before announcing that year that there was a “prima facie case” against him, but that he would not charge him; and that a well-known businessman had threatened [Brett] Kebble [who was later killed] with the Scorpions should the latter not help him with his political ambitions.

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9111e9 No.20500768

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>4:02 – “[Fikile Mbalula ] We are ready comrade President, uMkhonto we Sizwe, ANC Youth League, Women’s League and our Tripartite Alliance… We are ready to attack”

Now the ANC wants the Scorpions model back.

“Bring back the model of the Scorpions: Mbalula”

https://youtu.be/UIM-LKI28t4

Jun 24, 2023

ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula says the party must create a crime fighting unit with a similar model to the Scorpions. #DStv403 #eNCA

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9111e9 No.20500803

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>The son of an Afrikaner dominee, Pienaar is also one of the most connected South Africans abroad. He counts among his network former US and UK secretaries of defence Jim Mattis and Liam Fox, senior members of the Tory establishment, and Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos (Pienaar’s wife, Teresa Carlson, is a former vice-president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector business).

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“60 Years After Eisenhower's Warning, Distinct Signs of a 'Digital-Intelligence Complex”: AWS, André Pienaar

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/02/23/60_years_after_eisenhowers_warning_distinct_signs_of_a_digital-intelligence_complex_127207.html#!

February 23, 2021

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In June 2019, Susan Gordon stood on a stage at the Washington Convention Center. Behind her loomed three giant letters, “AWS,” the abbreviation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the giant Internet retailer. After three decades at the Central Intelligence Agency, Gordon had risen to one of the top jobs in the cloak-and-dagger world: principal deputy director of national intelligence. From that perch she publicly extolled the virtues of Amazon Web Services and the cloud services the tech giant provides the CIA.

She told the crowd that the intelligence community’s 2013 decision to sign a multi-year, $600 million contract with AWS for cloud computing “will stand as one of those that caused the greatest leap forward. … The investment we made so many years ago in order to be able to try and harness the power of the cloud with a partner who wanted to learn and grow with us has left us not only ready for today but positioned for tomorrow.”

The agreement was also a “real game-changer,” said André Pienaar, founder and CEO of a tech firm called C5 Capital, whose business includes reselling AWS services. “When the CIA said they were going adopt the AWS cloud platform,” Pienaar said at another AWS event. “People said if the U.S. intelligence community has the confidence to feel secure on the AWS cloud, why can’t we?”

Gordon left government in August 2019, two months after her AWS summit talk. In November 2019 she became senior adviser to a consultancy with close Amazon connections and in April joined the board of a defense contractor with extensive AWS business.

Gordon is one of scores of former government officials who have landed lucrative work in Big Tech.

The synergy between Washington and Silicon Valley can be seen as the latest manifestation of the Beltway’s revolving door. But the size and scope of Big Tech – and the increasing dependence of government on its products and talent – suggest something more: the rise of a Digital-Intelligence Complex. Like the Military-Industrial Complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in 1961, it represents a symbiotic relationship in which the lines between one and the other are blurred.

Gordon’s history illustrates this development. Her endorsement of Amazon was important to the company: AWS touted the success of the CIA deal as a prime reason it believed the Pentagon should award the company a 10-year, $10 billion contract for cloud computing for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. That bid has been mired in litigation as competing tech companies have accused the government of insider dealing, political interference, and other improprieties in considering and awarding the contract.

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9111e9 No.20500816

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>The following posts will give context to an article which André Pienaar wrote concerning South Africa.

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“Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar Part 1

https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/jacob-zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/

February 22, 2024

On December 28, 2007, the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), known as the Scorpions, charged Jacob Zuma with eighteen charges of money laundering and corruption based on seven hundred and fifty-three illicit payments he received while serving as the Deputy President of South Africa. The indictment of Zuma was the result of an extensive investigation by the Scorpions that commenced five years earlier in 2002. The investigation was global, involving the Scorpions working through mutual law enforcement with law enforcement agencies across 12 countries.

The indictment followed the conviction of Zuma’s financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, in May 2005 on two counts of corruption and one count of fraud. In the verdict of the trial, the judge stated that there was “overwhelming evidence of a corrupt relationship between Zuma and Shaik.” The Scorpions combined intelligence collectors and analysts with detectives and prosecutors in one law enforcement unit. In July 2006, Ivor Powell, a now-deceased senior intelligence analyst of the Scorpions, produced a “Top Secret” classified summary of different intelligence reports they received about the fact that Zuma had multiple clandestine foreign intelligence affiliations. The report was codenamed “Browse Mole” to indicate that the Scorpions received credible intelligence from several sources that Zuma is a paid agent (a mole) of more than one foreign intelligence service. Powell found the intelligence so compelling that he recommended in the intelligence report that the Scorpions should initiate a criminal investigation into Zuma for conspiracy to sedition.

The then Director of National Prosecutions (NDPP) Vusi Pikoli sent a copy of the top-secret report to the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the government agency with responsibility for counterespionage and counterintelligence. Arthur Fraser, who at the time served as the “General Manager of Counterintelligence” for NIA, immediately unlawfully leaked the top-secret Scorpions’ report by faxing a copy of the report to one of the country’s trade unions, COSATU. Powell was targeted with a brutal disinformation campaign which included his unlawful arrest and detention by the police. The leak of the Browse Mole report, like the subsequent unlawful leak of the illegal wiretapping of Leonard McCarthy, the Head of the Scorpions, by Fraser and his associates, were serious criminal offenses and an abuse of power. These acts were deliberate to conceal a near and present danger to South Africa as a democracy.

It was no surprise to see years later the same Arthur Fraser, now serving as the Director-General of Correctional Services, orchestrating the unlawful release of Zuma from prison under the pretext of “medical parole” after Zuma was convicted of contempt of court in 2021. Once Zuma is elected as President, he uses both unlawful leaks—the leak of the Browse Mole report and the illegal wiretaps of the Head of the Scorpions—to terminate his prosecution by the Scorpions and to kill the Scorpions as a law enforcement unit.

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9111e9 No.20500822

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“Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar Part 2

https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/jacob-zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/

February 22, 2024

Militarizing Electoral Politics

Now Zuma has returned to politics with a new political party—MK. With its ostentatious display of weapons, uniforms, and Soviet-style stiff-legged marching, Zuma’s new political party—MK—is deliberately militarizing South Africa’s democracy, commencing a new wave of his assault on South Africa as a constitutional democracy on behalf of his masters in the Kremlin.

The Social Research Foundation poll reports that in the May 2024 election, Zuma’s MK party can take up to 50% of the ANC’s support in KwaZulu-Natal, the province which in recent years has been the ANC’s power base. The same survey estimated the national support for MK at 9% of the turnout on election day. This could reconfigure South African politics.

KwaZulu-Natal has a highly militarized political culture. In the years preceding the democratization of South Africa, an estimated 20,000 people died in a decade-long conflict between the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the ANC in which Jacob Zuma had been a dominant political presence. Between 2010 and 2023, approximately 600 political executions occurred in this province. Jacob Zuma served as the President of South Africa for most of these politically violent years (from May 9, 2009, to February 14, 2018). He resigned from the presidency in February 2018 amid corruption allegations and legal challenges.

The Russian Option

President Zuma’s new party’s name—MK—is an abbreviation for the former armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe. The name MK also has strong Russian connotations. The Eastern Cape Herald recently reported that among ANC cadres, MK is called “the Russian option.” MK is the Russian language abbreviation for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It is also the Russian language abbreviation for a foreign subsidiary of a Russian company with an international focus. This last meaning—a foreign Russian subsidiary—rather than the history of the ANC’s armed wing—may well be the truth about MK.

The Russian Glavnoye Razvedka Upravleny (GRU)

The key finding in the intelligence that the Scorpions received back in 2006 that prompted the Browse Mole counterintelligence investigation was not reported until now—Jacob Zuma has a longstanding paid agent relationship with the Russian GRU or the Russian Glavnoye Razvedka Upravleny (GRU), the Directorate of Military Intelligence of the Russian General Staff.

The first time that Zuma’s relationship with the GRU came to the Scorpions’ attention was in a separate investigation into the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who operated from South Africa and Swaziland from 1997-2002. Bout worked for the GRU on illicit arms deals across Africa and the world, earning himself the sobriquet “Merchant of Death.” Bout met Zuma regularly and made frequent cash payments to Zuma for “protection.” The Scorpions disrupted Bout’s operations in South Africa.

Following the destruction of the Scorpions, state capture commences under Zuma’s leadership. Putin brings back the GRU officer who was his handler during the Cold War from retirement, and he commences regular meetings with Zuma in South Africa and around the world using commercial cover. The GRU enables Zuma to meet with Putin on a regular basis. Together they set out to break South Africa as a constitutional democracy and to foist an $80 billion nuclear program on the country in collusion with Vladimir Putin, a corrupt deal so big that Putin was personally going to benefit from it financially.

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9111e9 No.20500826

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“Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar Part 3

https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/jacob-zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/

February 22, 2024

The Guptas receive payments on Zuma’s behalf in Hong Kong for the nuclear deal. Zuma removes all restrictions on the GRU’s operations in South Africa, cementing links between the GRU and South African Special Forces and the senior leadership of the intelligence community. The Carnegie Foundation report of 2019 reports how South African civil society and the rule of law disrupted the GRU’s operations. I wrote about this in the Vrye Weekblad in 2023.

MK is the first political party in South Africa’s democracy that has been formed with the active sponsorship of a foreign intelligence service—the GRU. It has been designed to be part of the network of assets that the GRU is building across Africa under the rubric of the “Africa Corps”—a network of Russian private military companies, arms dealers, and client juntas for the profit of Putin and the Kremlin. The GRU runs all the illicit Russian arms deals across Africa and worldwide.

The arms deal between Rosoboronexport—the Russian arms exporter of the entire range of military, dual-use products and services and technologies—to provide armour-piercing shells and automatic rifles to South African Special Forces and to export South African weapons for use in the war on Ukraine that was transported by the mysterious Lady R in December 2022 is a classic arms deal coordinated by the GRU.

The GRU is the most notorious of the Russian intelligence services. Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces—officially known by the acronym GU, though more commonly referred to as the GRU—is unlike the KGB’s successor organizations, the SVR and FSB, in many ways. Since its founding under a different name by Leon Trotsky in 1918, it has enjoyed virtually uninterrupted continuity as the Russian military’s clandestine intelligence service.

Headquartered in a fortified complex in Moscow, the centrepiece of which is an enormous building known as the Stikliashka (or “Glass House”), the GRU answers directly to Russia’s Chief of the General Staff and is technically under the authority of the Russian Ministry of Defense. One of the defectors from the GRU reported that new recruits must watch a film of a traitor to the GRU being incinerated alive as part of their induction into the service.

It was the GRU that choreographed the seizure and annexation of Crimea, as Vladimir Putin admitted in a documentary that aired on Russian state television in March 2015. Since then, Ukraine has functioned as a laboratory for Russian military doctrine and GRU subversion efforts. According to Mark Galeotti, a Russia security specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, the Glass House oversees “the gangster-warlords, militias, and mercenaries of the Donbas” of eastern Ukraine.

The GRU operates globally, including running hostile operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Two different units of its operatives hacked Democratic Party emails in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to an indictment issued by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The intelligence agency then disseminated their contents via GRU-run internet personae called Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.

In March 2018, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, was run by two GRU hit men, later identified by Bellingcat as Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. British authorities said the murder weapon was a proscribed military-grade nerve agent called Novichok, the unleashing of which ultimately killed one British civilian and landed several more in critical condition.

Skripal had been a GRU colonel who spied for MI6, Britain’s foreign-intelligence service, from 1996 until his arrest in Moscow in 2004, ultimately spending six years in prison before he was traded back to Britain as part of an Anglo-American spy swap with Moscow. The Skripal poisoning, an act of international terrorism, led more than 20 Western countries to collectively expel more than 100 intelligence officers.

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9111e9 No.20500835

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“Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar Part 4

https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/jacob-zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/

February 22, 2024

The Events Leading Up to MK’s Launch

It is worth revisiting the timeline of events in the run-up to the registration of MK as a new political party on September 5, 2023. In May 2023, Russian state media praises Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, Zuma’s daughter, as one of the first to use the hashtag #IStandWithRussia on Twitter and published joint photos of her father with Putin. This is the launch of the GRU’s global propaganda campaign in support of the invasion of Ukraine.

In June 2023, Russian state media published an article that highlighted opinions expressed by Zuma that the “crisis” in Ukraine was created by NATO countries in attempts to counter BRICS. The GRU’s social media trolls shared a video of Zuma saying “Russia said that this [Ukraine] is their neighbour, that you cannot bring NATO into a neighbouring country. And this particular war is actually related to the existence of BRICS. The West doesn’t like the existence of BRICS.”

Despite having been placed on medical parole on July 7th, Zuma is well enough to travel to Zimbabwe on a Russian-funded trip with Duduzile. In Zimbabwe, he promotes a carbon credits scheme from Belarus funded by Russia as a new scheme to evade sanctions. From Zimbabwe, he is whisked away by his Russian handlers on a Russian plane for “medical treatment” in Moscow, now claiming he is suddenly feeling unwell again.

In the meantime, back home, the Constitutional Court in South Africa rules that Zuma has to return to prison because his medical parole is unlawful and invalid. All the travel arrangements—South Africa, Zimbabwe, Russia—for Zuma were ultimately made under the signature of Major-General Andrei Veryanov, the Head of the Clandestine Service of the GRU.

Other than for Zuma to continue to abscond from prison, the real reason for Zuma’s visit to Moscow is to attend Putin’s Africa Russia Summit on 22-23 July. He announces that he is extending his stay in Moscow. During the Summit, Putin and Veryanov broker a deal between Ramaphosa and Zuma that will keep Zuma out of prison going forward. The GRU has a secret mission for Zuma that requires him to be out of prison—the launch of its first wholly-owned political subsidiary, MK, as a political party in South Africa.

Zuma returns triumphantly on 3 August to South Africa. His Russian-brokered deal to stay out of prison is announced on 11 August by the Government under the guise that this is part of a new program to reduce overcrowding of jails. Three weeks later, on 5 September, on Zuma’s instructions, Jabulani Khumalo registers MK as a new political party. Russia state-owned media announces Zuma’s return to politics.

Over the same period from June to August, the GRU dismantles the management of its most valuable asset in Africa, Prigozhin and the Wagner Group, on Putin’s instructions. Prigozhin is assassinated on 23 August when his plane is blown up. In the same week of September when MK is registered as a new party, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the Russian Deputy Minister of Defence with General Andrei Averyanov, the head of the GRU clandestine services, start a tour across Africa to meet with the Wagner Group’s African clients to advise them that they will work directly with the Russian Ministry of Defence going forward. Zuma sends emissaries in support of General Averyanov’s mission to the CAR where, during his Presidency, he did a major SA military deployment.

On 6 December, Democratic Alliance Councillor Ndlovu is shot 10 times in front of his family by two assassins. On 16 December, Zuma endorses MK as his new political party. At the same time, the GRU announces on its propaganda channels the rebranding of the Wagner Group as the “Africa Corps,” the same name as Hitler’s military deployment to North Africa.

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“Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar Part 5

https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/jacob-zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/

February 22, 2024

What Does MK Mean for South Africa?

The fusion of the GRU’s Africa networks with local organized crime syndicates through Zuma and the MK Party poses a new and gravely dangerous threat to South Africans and to South Africa as a constitutional democracy.

Since the dawn of democracy, South Africa grapples with the intertwined challenges of economic transformation, organized crime, and institutional weaknesses.

The criminalisation of the state under Zuma following the destruction of the Scorpions led to the proliferation of mafia-style interests in the supply- and value chains of various sectors of the formal economy.

The Gcaba brothers is an organised crime family that owns the lion’s share of the taxi businesses in KwaZulu Natal. They are nephews of Zuma. The Gcaba brothers’ networks are an integral part of MK. Due to their network of hitmen, other violent economic interests such as the construction mafia use the family for protection services and enforcement to maintain positions within the state’s procurement regime. As the proliferation of the extortion economy – pervasive in supply lines of government procurement in the province of KwaZulu-Natal – extends its influence, legitimate enterprises find themselves compelled to navigate an environment characterized by violence and state complicity.

The state’s response to the mafia threat to date has been uncoordinated and weak with limited capacity. Despite publicized arrest figures, doubts persist about the extent of the state’s commitment to combating these criminal activities. More than a hundred prominent members of the governing ANC had been implicated in the crimes of state capture by the Zondo Commission of Inquiry, some of them still members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet.

In the meantime, feeding off the criminalized state, MK militarizes South Africa’s body politic with threats of draconian new policies and of unprecedented political violence and intimidation.

Fighting organized crime and terrorism on this scale is extremely difficult for a constitutional democracy. Only the rule of law can now protect South Africa from Zuma’s predatory politics. South Africans must turn out to vote against organized crime and predatory foreign interference. Zuma must be returned to prison to complete his sentence. The long-delayed and stalled prosecution of Zuma on corruption charges needs to proceed without any further delay. MK must disclose its foreign sources of financing under South African electoral laws, and if it does not, the law must be enforced. The capacity to fight organized crime must be rebuilt combined with effective counterterrorism and counterespionage capabilities. Alliances need to be revived with other democracies facing similar threats.

Make no mistake this will require great sacrifice and a strong political will from a new South African government after the upcoming elections. It will be a tough fight, but ordinary South Africans can do extraordinary things- we, the people defeated Zuma and state capture [it is still thriving!] before and can do so again.

“This is an authoritative first hand analysis of Zuma’s web of corruption, the incalculable damage he did to his country as President and the present danger he continues to pose, with the Kremlin’s involvement and direction. Zuma’s corruption was first uncovered by the Scorpions, and after Zuma destroyed the Scorpions, disrupted during Zuma’s second term by a combination of an intrepid civil society and the courts. All South Africans and the international community now need to come together again to defeat Zuma, the MK Party and their predatory sponsors.”

– Lord Renwick of Cliveden, former British Ambassador to South Africa and to the US.

Andre Pienaar is the Founder and CEO of C5 Capital, a venture capital firm investing in cybersecurity, energy security and space. Pienaar is the author of “Mandela’s “Untouchables”- the Scorpions and the fight for justice in South Africa,” to be published in 2024. Pienaar is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa and the architect of the Scorpions. He studied counterintelligence in the UK and wrote his Master thesis on Directorate T of the Russian KGB. Zuma accused Pienaar in a “Special Plea” defence to his corruption charges in 2021 of being a foreign intelligence agent who orchestrated his prosecution.

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9111e9 No.20500876

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>All South Africans and the international community now need to come together again to defeat Zuma, the MK Party and their predatory sponsors.

>Lord Renwick of Cliveden, former British Ambassador to South Africa and to the US.

“The Inaugural FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture 2022”: Lord Robin Renwick speech

https://youtu.be/V3kt3_kcmR0

Nov 11, 2022

9:39 – “When the United Democratic Front then was banned, Johann Rupert and I had dinner that evening with FW [de Klerk] at the Nelson Hotel. He hadn’t been consulted he said and would have opposed the ban. Things would’ve been done very differently if he took over. When FW did take over from PW as leader of the National Party, I arrange for him to meet Margaret Thatcher who promised him full support from her if he released Mandela and abolished Apartheid.

10:35 – “Desmond Tutu promised me and others that the churches would marshal a huge demonstration planned in Cape Town if we could help to get it authorized which wasn’t really necessary as that was what FW wanted to do anyway.”

11:11 – “At midnight before his historic speech on 2 February 1990 unbanning the ANC and paving the way for the release of Mandela and his colleagues, FW telephoned me to say, you can tell your Prime Minister that she will not be disappointed. I’m sure that this audience doesn’t need reminding who abolished Apartheid. Apartheid was not abolished by Nelson Mandela… but by FW de Klerk.

11:54 – “FW de Klerk’s intention in setting his country on a completely different path was to give South Africa as he put it, the chance of a new beginning. Nelson Mandela, with who I also had numerous meetings at the time, had the precisely the same intention. Mandela on one occasion urged me to join the ANC “because you think like us.” I told him that I thought like him but not like others in his party.”

13:03 – “Mandela was right also in foreseeing that sport loved by nearly all South Africans could be a unifying factor. Not only that but there’s another great cause with respect for and the protection of the Constitution and the ideal of a State based rule of law. That too to date has been achieved with the judges, a free press and the non-governemental organizations combining to help defeat Jacob Zuma’s persistent attempt to undermine the rule of law. You have an admirable new Chief Justice [Raymond Zondo of the Zondo Commission] who most certainly will defend the Constitution.

29:55 – “Maputo, right next door, which like many other African ports is operated by Dubai World and Grindrod. South African miners have been reduced to diverting huge volumes of traffic by road to Maputo.

30:13 – “So why not rescue Transnet by inviting first-class port operators and logistics experts like Grindrod based right here in Durban to help to manage South African ports as they’re doing successfully elsewhere? Why not allow mining companies to play a leading role in helping finance and operate the main coal and iron-ore export lines as they do in Australia?

34:21 – “Cyril Ramaphosa a long standing friend of mine and of many of us here no doubt, is likely to be re-elected as President next year. He is by nature a conciliator though he had the courage to save you all from 5 more years of Jacob Zuma where not many thought he could win.

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9111e9 No.20500928

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“BISHOP JOSHUA MAPONGA | Zanu PF, SA Elections, MK, ANC, EFF, ICJ, African Problems,African Solutions”

https://youtu.be/CjUvPy1Uei0

Premiered Feb 26, 2024

9:25 – “Your thoughts on the new MK party?… A snake is sleeping in the cave or in a hole and then you go there and you poke it and you poke it and you poke it and you poke it… Anyone who pokes the hole and does not know how this snake functions, is waiting for a day when this snake will smite them on their faces. I think it was bad enough to harass Msholozi [Jacob Zuma]. What Msholozi did vs what Oppenheimers and Ruperts did vis-à-vis Ramaphosa, Thabo Mbeki , Nelson Mandela Foundation did? I think we’re being naïve to think that we can chase 1.4 million that Msholozi said we have taken from the government on the arms deal of the French when Nelson Mandela Foundation was the beneficiary. That Thabo Mbeki was the chairman on that conversation… because the deal itself was worth billions if not trillions.

10:52 – “I think we are heading for what I might want to call a political polarization. Almost maturing into political anger where the common people are getting fed up with the lies of the politicians, pointing at wrong enemies when they are themselves the real thieves.”

13:04 – “MK sits the army, sits the intelligence, sits the disgruntled ANC personnel that have not benefited from the business transactions in the country. The MK sits the muscle of war in the country and to think that they are worth nothing, you need to look at the crime records in this country… but the biggest crimes happening in this country are in the hands of the military personnel who are trained in explosives, in bombs, in guns, etc. and they are not employed in the system. To think that MK is a joke, can only come from a person who does not know how military and war works. This is not EFF. This is not NP. This is not DP. This is not AP. This is MK which is the backbone of the military intelligence of ANC and when that breaks off with its leader, with Jacob Zuma, only fools who don’t know how strategies work… Mk’s breakaway brings a disparity in the ANC between the bourgeoisies and oligarchs in the financial system and the poor people, unfortunately. We have Ramaphosa protecting the interest fo the economically viable and Zuma representing the pain and the tears of those at the bottom and the populations are not divided equally for those at the bottom are more than those at the top… The formation of MK is a cry inside the ANC to say we have become too economic, too bourgeoisie, too oligarchy-like, too pro-colonial production, too white preservative. We have forgotten the people that brought us into power.” [Which was the bourgeoisie, oligarchs, etc.]

15:56 – “So you do agree that it’ll have a very big impact on ANC’s vote?… If I was ANC, I would not sleep not for one day.”

16:35 – [Referencing the ANC, IFP and taxi wars in the early 1990s] “I have my fair share of understanding exactly of what role Jacob Zuma played in the reclamation of KwaZulu Natal into alignment with the ANC away from IFP. Which is a fact that all of us would know that had Zuma not been present, IFP would have been running KwaZulu Natal to date. But Zuma having been from KwaZulu Natal and being a stalwart of ANC gave the KwaZulu Natal a sympathetic understanding that he’s one of us and he’s with the ANC and they have instruments of power… You undermine that? You throw all that into the dustbin? You victimize Zuma over Nkandla. You don’t want to talk about Stellenbosch, Phala Phala.”

22:47 – “From understanding the Zanu-pf position which my father almost died for and I am a Zanu-pf follower not for anything but for historical understanding.”

25:39 – “Had Chris Hani, Oliver Tambo and other guys been alive with their radical moves, maybe South Africa would not be what it is. Would have been in a war maybe or better still maybe would have had Azania that we were looking for.

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9111e9 No.20501022

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>>20492903

>Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan.

>>20500816

>>20500822

>>20500826

>>20500835

>>20500846

>>20500876

>“Cyril Ramaphosa a long standing friend of mine and of many of us here no doubt, is likely to be re-elected as President next year. He is by nature a conciliator though he had the courage to save you all from 5 more years of Jacob Zuma where not many thought he could win.“

>>20500928

“MK Party make inroads in KZN and Mpumalanga”

https://youtu.be/Y47ku6UPrQs

Mar 1, 2024 #DStv403

The newly-formed MK Party may become a heavy hitter and even a kingmaker after the elections. That's if recent by-elections are anything to go by. The party took a gamble and competed in elections in Mpumalanga and KZN. #DStv403

“Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen”

https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2024/02/28/umkhonto-we-sizwe-anc-dominance-katzenellenbogen

28th February 2024

In a political shake-up months before the election, the uMkhonto we Sizwe Party, endorsed by former President Jacob Zuma, is rapidly gaining ground. Recent by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal reflect impressive support, with the MK Party receiving 28% in uPhongolo and 19% in Abaqulusi. Drawing on disenchanted ANC voters, MK threatens to reduce the ruling party’s national share to under 40%, potentially reshaping post-1994 politics. Despite challenges and uncertainties, the rise of MK may alter the balance of power, presenting a significant threat to the ANC’s dominance.

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45b4db No.20510793

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“Mass Relocation Of UN Staff From New York To Nairobi Raises Eyebrows”

https://youtu.be/NhuEjsxw5bo

Feb 28, 2024

Wongel Zelalem reports on United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) making a decision to relocate a significant portion of its New York staff to Nairobi.

“UNFPA staff concerned over headquarters' relocation from New York to Nairobi” 1 of 2

https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/national/19644/unfpa-staff-concerned-over-headquarters

20 Feb 2024

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced major organisational changes in the company.

UNFPA announced by 2025, a quarter of its New York headquarters staff will be relocating to Nairobi.

However, the announced changes prompted concerns among the employees, who noted that there was a lack of consultation on the decision to relocate, and it’s unclear what the benefits of the move are.

UNFPA is the United Nations’ dedicated agency focused on promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights.

It operates in more than 150 countries and works to address unmet needs for family planning, prevent maternal deaths, and end gender-based violence.

The staff raised eyebrows at the repercussions the changes would have on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights with the significant loss of staff involved in influencing policy and agenda setting in New York.

LBTQ, women's rights

Others argued that they could lose their jobs in the process, while others expressed their worries over the controversial stance of Kenya on LGBTQ and women's rights.

Speaking to Devex, UNFPA staff council representative Henia Dakkak said, “The workload is currently “unmanageable, and there’s a lot of anxiety and stress among staff, with morale being “very low”.

UNFPA said the decision has already resulted in people who do not want to move to Nairobi to look for jobs elsewhere or take a voluntary early separation.

According to an email sent by the office of the agency's executive director's office in September, the move seeks to make UNFPA more effective and efficient by shifting its core functions closer to the people it serves.

It added that it will also show that UNFPA is “truly field-based” by moving some of its core headquarters functions to the Global South.

The organisation noted that 80 per cent of the affected staff were job-matched and informed whether their position stayed in New York or would be moved to Nairobi.

The remaining affected employees who weren’t job-matched can participate in an internal job fair set for February 19, but there are no guarantees.

The majority of staffers moving to Nairobi are from the Policy and Strategy Division and the Technical Division, which are being merged into one division as part of UNFPA’s restructuring.

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45b4db No.20510794

>>20510793

“UNFPA staff concerned over headquarters' relocation from New York to Nairobi” 2 of 2

https://eastleighvoice.co.ke/national/19644/unfpa-staff-concerned-over-headquarters

20 Feb 2024

Reviews

The agency said the decision was based on reviews conducted over the past few years looking at how the organisation can realign its functions to better deliver on its work.

Based on their findings, senior management reviewed several options, including locations, but they didn't specify what those options or locations were.

According to the director of UNFPA’s Division of Communication and Strategic Partnerships, Ian McFarlane, the decision to move to Nairobi is driven by a long-term vision to be closer to the countries where the organisation operates.

He emphasised that the move is in line with changes happening in other UN agencies, which are relocating significant portions of their headquarters staff out of New York.

“It’s part of a longer-term retool, refit for the future, and be where we need to be to deliver the results that we have,” he said.

He said the reviews were very staff-developed and consulted, and that they’ve been transparent and engaged with colleagues.

McFarlane emphasised that UNFPA has a clear stance, both externally and internally, that sexual reproductive health and rights apply to everyone.

He reiterated that they strongly support freedom of choice, non-discrimination, and zero tolerance for abuse against people who describe themselves or who identify as LGBTQI.

According to an FAQ seen by Devex, Nairobi was chosen based on time zone, field proximity, geographic accessibility, staff safety and security, UN presence, infrastructure, and talent availability.

Projections suggest potential cost savings of about $3.3 million annually from 2026 onward, although UNFPA maintains that the move is not driven by cost reduction.

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45b4db No.20510840

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“CIA Director Secretly Visits Kenya And Somalia To Discuss Regional Security”

https://youtu.be/nEQlLgYMsHQ

Feb 16, 2024

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45b4db No.20510844

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>>20500876

He supported Hillary Clinton to be President.

“Lord Renwick: Ready for Hillary”

https://youtu.be/sbWdyJ4FIjs

Nov 19, 2014

Speech by Lord Renwick from the book launch for "Ready for Hillary", held at the Centre for Policy Studies, Monday 17 November 2014.

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da3957 No.20511103

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“Coalition to fight misinformation”: South African elections

https://youtu.be/BMa02xD18pk

Mar 3, 2024

Africa Check, South African media and Google are creating an election fact-checking coalition. The collaboration is aimed at helping voters make informed decisions in the voting booth and curbing election misinformation. Africa Check researcher Keegan Leech has more.

https://africacheck.org/who-we-are/partners

Africa Check depends on the support and assistance of our key partners, our funders and our allies in the media and civil society. These include:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Reporters without Borders

UNDEF

Covid-19 response in Africa, together for reliable information

DW Akademie

Ejicom

Meta Journalism Project

Fojo Media Institute

Google News Initiative

IFCN

KAS Media Africa

Luminate

Open Societ Foundations

RAITH Foundation

Ronald W Naito MD Foundation

Standard Bank

US Embassy in South Africa

Wits Journalism

Founding partner

AFP

AFP has been integral to the establishment and growth of Africa Check since our inception in 2012. AFP is a global news agency covering the events shaping our world from conflicts to politics, sports, entertainment and the latest breakthroughs in health, science and technology. With 2,300 staff spread across almost every country, AFP covers the world 24 hours a day in six languages.

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da3957 No.20511116

>>20511103

>Google News Initiative

>US Embassy in South Africa

>>20500803

>“60 Years After Eisenhower's Warning, Distinct Signs of a 'Digital-Intelligence Complex”: AWS, André Pienaar

>>20457925

>“This brief confirms that the US Embassy is part of the US intelligence community, and has a network of ANC party officials who, wittingly or unwittingly, share privileged information,” read the intelligence report.

>The document also stated that there was very close co-operation taking place between the US diplomatic community and the US intelligence community in South Africa to guard and enhance US economic and political agendas on targeted countries like South Africa

“Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance”

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance

Published December 8, 2017

Excerpts below

The intelligence community and Silicon Valley have a long history

Two decades ago, the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story. Some of the research that led to Google’s ambitious creation was funded and coordinated by a research group established by the intelligence community to find ways to track individuals and groups online.

The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today.

It’s the origin story of the mass-surveillance state, and the government money that funded it.

In fact, the internet itself was created because of an intelligence effort: In the 1970s, the agency responsible for developing emerging technologies for military, intelligence, and national security purposes—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—linked four supercomputers to handle massive data transfers. It handed the operations off to the National Science Foundation (NSF) a decade or so later, which proliferated the network across thousands of universities and, eventually, the public, thus creating the architecture and scaffolding of the World Wide Web.

Silicon Valley was no different. By the mid 1990s, the intelligence community was seeding funding to the most promising supercomputing efforts across academia, guiding the creation of efforts to make massive amounts of information useful for both the private sector as well as the intelligence community.

They funded these computer scientists through an unclassified, highly compartmentalized program that was managed for the CIA and the NSA by large military and intelligence contractors. It was called the Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) project.

Over the next few years, the program’s stated aim was to provide more than a dozen grants of several million dollars each to advance this research concept. The grants were to be directed largely through the NSF so that the most promising, successful efforts could be captured as intellectual property and form the basis of companies attracting investments from Silicon Valley. This type of public-to-private innovation system helped launch powerful science and technology companies like Qualcomm, Symantec, Netscape, and others, and funded the pivotal research in areas like Doppler radar and fiber optics, which are central to large companies like AccuWeather, Verizon, and AT&T today. Today, the NSF provides nearly 90% of all federal funding for university-based computer-science research.

“The development of the Google algorithms was carried on a variety of computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford,” Stanford’s Infolab says of its origin

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898e42 No.20516726

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“Former President Jacob Zuma wishing Julius Malema a happy birthday.” MK and EFF Coalition?

https://youtu.be/xwKYi65z-EQ

Mar 3, 2024

“Yes my brother, Happy Birthday. You are now 43. That is a very good age in the circumstances in which we are. I want to wish you Happy Birthday and wish you and all of us to change the country this year whether they like it or not. We must win with 2/3 majority and you’ll be saying when I got to this level, I was 43 that is a good age. Enjoy. Do whatever you want but be ready that we must have our 2/3 as a black majority in this country. Then we’ll sort out other things thereafter. Thank you very much indeed. Enjoy.”

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898e42 No.20516743

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>>20407726

>“Farm attacks and murders are a harsh reality in South Africa. It’s shameful that we have a government who denies or downplays these crimes, while we have political parties like the EFF who openly chant ‘Kill the Boer, kill the farmer’ at political rallies,” says Jacques Broodryk, director of the series and Chief Spokesperson at AfriForum’s division for Community Safety.

>>20442095

>Speaking in a media briefing, KZN Salga chairperson Thami Ntuli said the sudden surge in political killings was “worrying”.

>“What is increasing our worry as Salga in KwaZulu-Natal is the heavily contested political reign in the province [which] has a history of black-on-black violence,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

“MK party member fatally shot in Umlazi”

https://youtu.be/9nNhTNsdyaY

Mar 4, 2024

uMkhonto we Sizwe party has confirmed that its member was gunned down on Saturday in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal.

The party says five more members were injured in the shooting.

MK spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndlela says they believe political intolerance is behind the shooting.

3:01 – “The reality Xoli, I think you coined it quite well, when you say that leaders of political parties especially at such a sensitive era such as elections, ought to really be mindful and be measured in terms of how they communicate and what they say. The last time when you and I were in the studio, you asked be a questions off the back of what in this case of a leader of a political party in the KZN who made all sorts of comments which incited violence in that nature including a Senior Minister who went and said President Zuma must burn or buried rather. So those kinds of comments can only fuel such elements of violence and intolerance. That’s why in Pongola as you would have seen what happened what transpired when ANC members, who were very senior by the way. One of them is a member of the Provincial legislature, the other was a leader of the party at the regional level. They were the ones who went and attackedour people and ripped that gazebo off which obviously led to us opening up a case. This is also as you’ve mentioned off the back of what seems to be desperate acts of politicians to try and maintain their position forgetting that they’re actually leading a society. I mean it’s very disturbing.”

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898e42 No.20516751

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>>20484050

>>20516743

The South African government shows you how to resolve issues.

WATCH | Violence, chaos erupts in Ekurhuleni council between EFF and ANC”

https://youtu.be/HiQH19nCjes

Feb 29, 2024

Tensions were laid bare at the Ekurhuleni Council meeting on Thursday during the amendments to a motion of no confidence in the Executive Mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana. A stand-off between the ANC and the EFF resulted in a war of words after the EFF requested a 30-minute caucus break during recommendations to amend the conditions of the motion.

As they say…

https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv02918/06lv02985.htm

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight.

The African National Congress (ANC) had no choice but to resort to armed struggle

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898e42 No.20516774

>>20484269

>But then, just two months after the inauguration of Patrice Lumumba as the first democratically elected president of Congo, he was executed by hanging in a coup which was financially backed and formed by the De Beers company [when Harry Oppenheimer was its Chairman] and the CIA…

South African intelligence and De Beers worked with the CIA in the early 60s

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100660020-1.pdf

Key paragraph

United States and South African cooperation in southern Africa is not unknown. In the early 1960’s. South African intelligence worked closely with the CIA to recruit mercenary forces for the Congolese civil war, according to intelligence sources. This collaboration was part of what three independent Administration sources describe as a “close” liaison relationship which the CIA has maintained with South African intelligence for years.

Other interesting information

The FNLS (National Liberation Front of Angola)is led by Holden Roberto, and based almost solely among the Bakongo people, who make up about 13% of the population. Roberto is closely allied with his brother-in-law, President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, and has spent most of his adult life outside Angola in Zaire. Most of the territory controlled by the FNLA is in the north, along the Zairian border. On November 11, the FNLA and the third independence group, UNITA, formalized a shaky alliance by declaring themselves to be the legitimate government, with their capital in the southern Angolan city of Huamba.

Since President Ford’s decision, the United States has maintained a “two-track” policy twards events in Angola. Secretary Kissinger continues to publicly decry Soviet and Cuban intervention, supporting the call of the Organization for African Unity for negotiations between the combatants and an end to outside interference. On the second track, the U.S. government itself intervenes by sending funds and arms to UNITA and FNLA. I addition to this covert assistance, the Administration is requesting an unprecedented increase in open aid to Zaire in FY 1976, as the graph below indicates. The Administration has come close to admitting that this assistance will be used in Angola, in spite of a congressional prohibition on providing aid to countries which pass it on to other parties or use it for non-defensive purposes – both of which Zaire has been doing in behalf of the FNLA.

[Angola’s] Strategic importance: Angola is strategically located in southern Africa. Its major ports provide the primary outlet into the Atlantic Ocean for Zambia and Zaire, and its railroads provide the major outlet for Zambian and Zairian copper. It is also located north of Namibia (Southwest Africa), the colony of South Africa, wich the United Nations and the World Court have suled is held illegally by South Africa.

The extensive South African and U.S. intervention in Angolan places the United States in a de facto alliance with the apartheid regime, raising the possibility that the governments are secretly cooperating.

The CIA intervention in Angola is not a secret to the combatants there, to the leaders of other African countries or to the USSR. The primary victims of secrecy are the Congress and the American people. Covert intervention enables the President to avoid submitting his policy to the public and Congressional scrutiny which open policies must endure.

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898e42 No.20516804

>>20511116

“South Africa: The Growing Influence of the Military”: CIA Document 1982

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP83B00225R000100060001-4.pdf

February 1982

Over the longer term, the growing self-assurance and influence of the military, which is among the most progressive of Afrikaner institutions, could enhance the prospects for peaceful change within South Africa. Having confronted more directly than others the constraints imposed by racial policies and international isolation, the military constitutes one of the country’s most adaptive elites and has adopted racial reforms that outdistance those in other major Afrikaner institutions.

The government of Prime Minister Botha, who served as Defense Minister for 12 years, has been at least partly structured along military lines. Botha clearly relies heavily on military advisers who served him during his tenure as Defense Minister.

A bitter Parliamentary debate over whether South Africa should enter World War II on the side of the British climaxed a longstanding battle between a coalition of internationally minded Afrikaners and English speakers and intensely nationalistic, anti-British Afrikaners. Prime Minister J.B.M. Hertzog, who had favored South African neutrality, was narrowly defeated on the war issue and was replaced by his deputy. Afrikaner World War I hero Jan Chrisiaan Smut.

General Smuts declared war on Germany in September 1939 and began raising a volunteer force for service abroad. Only those willing to swear allegiance to King George were eligible for wartime duty, however, and anti-British Afrikaners opposed to Smuts’s war policy found it difficult to advance within the military or to find jobs in an economy dominated by English speakers.

[General Magnus Andre de Merindol] Malan was appointed Defense Minister in October 1980. Previously, he was Chief af the SADF, Chief of the Army, Commanding General of the South-West Africa Command, and Commandant of South African Military Academy, often as the youngest ever to hold these postions. Now 52, Malan is a close confidant of Prime Minister Botha and a leading government spokesman. The last South African to attend the US General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth – he was there in 1962-62 – Malan admires US principles of military organization and Israeli defense strategy.

Recruiting blacks was a more contentious issue for Afrikaner military officers, many of who retained traditional notions that “only the British would think of arming Bantu.” The first blacks were admitted in the mid-1970s

The military’s growing influence in Pretoria makes South Africa a more cautious negotiator over security issues, including Namibia.

In the longer term, however, the military still is among the most enlightened of Afrikaner institutions, one that has actually acted upon perceptions that internal reform is necessary for white survival. If the military threat to South Africa stabilizes – which would allow the military to regain its broader vision of the challenge facing with South Africans – the increased prominence of the military could serve US interests by fostering peaceful change in South Africa.

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898e42 No.20516812

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>>20516804

>[General Magnus Andre de Merindol] Malan

Magnus Malan family disputes paedophile claims

https://youtu.be/6ID-mpW6w0s

“South Africa's 'paedophile' minister [General Magnus Malan] and a mysterious death”

https://bbc.com/news/world-africa-45195756

15 August 2018

South Africa has been gripped by the mysterious death of former police officer Mark Minnie, just a week after he revealed horrific details about an alleged paedophile ring in the once-feared white-minority government that portrayed itself as being made up of devout Christian men.

Minnie, 58, was found with a bullet to his head, but many people are refusing to believe the police version - that he took his own life at the farm of a friend near the coastal city of Port Elizabeth.

Aged 81, Malan died of a heart attack in 2011 - about 17 years after anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela swept to power as South Africa's first black president, heralding the end of the racist system of apartheid.

But secretly, Minnie alleged, Malan was part of a paedophile ring which raped boys - mostly of mixed race - during "fishing excursions" on Bird Island, a declared nature reserve near Port Elizabeth. The boys were flown to the island in military helicopters, made drunk during barbecues - and then sexually abused, he alleged.

President intervened

Other shocking allegations contained in The Lost Boys of Bird Island include:

• Some of the boys regarded Malan as an especially "cruel uncle", and nicknamed him "Ears" because of his big ears

• On one occasion, a gun was inserted into the anus of a boy. A shot was fired by Malan, and the critically injured boy was flown to a hospital in Port Elizabeth for treatment

• Men, dressed in suits, stood guard while the mixed-race boy was treated in the whites-only section of the hospital, even though this was illegal under South Africa's then-racial segregation laws

• The boy's family and the hospital matron were paid to remain silent.

Minnie said he had been building a case against Malan, but was forced to abandon his investigation after senior police officers in the regime… intervened and a prosecutor wrote in "fat red letters" on the docket: "Any investigation into this matter should be discontinued immediately."

The book alleged that the paedophile ring, which operated in the 1980s, included then-Environmental Affairs Minister John Wiley and wealthy businessman and diver Dave Allen. Minnie said he had, in fact, arrested Allen for allegedly having sex with children and for possessing child pornography.

Allen, Minnie added, had sung "like a canary", and dropped "a bombshell: he mentions a name. And not just any name, but the name of a very powerful cabinet minister.

"I'm taken aback, then he names two more cabinet ministers. He threatens to open the whole can of worms."

'Minnie feared for his life'

Allen never stood trial - he was found dead, at the age of 37, with a bullet wound to his head, just like the 60-year-old Wiley.

Both died within weeks of each other in 1987. Both had, according to the official police version, taken their lives.

Now, more than 30 years later, Minnie - their nemesis - has died, also with a bullet wound to the head.

As South Africa's Times Live news site put it: "That is the common denominator linking alleged suicides three decades apart that silenced three people with intimate knowledge of an alleged apartheid-era paedophile ring extending to the highest echelons of government."

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898e42 No.20516835

>>20500876

>Apartheid was not abolished by Nelson Mandela… but by FW de Klerk.

“South Africa in the 1990s: Decade of Dramatic Change”: CIA Document 1986

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88T00768R000100150003-7.pdf

April 1986

Dramatic political change is already taking place in South Africa and by the end of this century we believe the transition to black majority rule in Pretoria will be well under way, if not complete. Nevertheless, we believe there will not be a convulsive violent revolution because blacks will not have the capacity to overthrow the government by force given Pretoria’s overwhelming security apparatus.

A less destructive transition to black-white power sharing is possible, in our view, only if a courageous and visionary Afrikaner leader emerges who is sill ing to drag whites into negotiations with blacks even in the absence of white consensus and before violence exhausts white determination to remain in power.

The United States and other Western antions will have scant ability to influence South Africa’s Afrikaner leaders to pursue a negotiated solution. The impetus for a dramatic reversal in white policies toward blacks will most likely have to come from within the white community.

If and when whites agree to negotiate with blacks on a transition to black majority rule, Pretoria may ask the United States and other Western countrie to exert pressure on blacks in hopes of gaining their agreement to guarantee protection of white minority rights. A new black government in South Africa will face significant economic problems as it attempts to improve conditions for millions of impoverished homeland blacks, and the West may be able to use promises of economic aid to persuade black leaders to moderate their demands.

The emergence of a black government in Pretoria certainly will not end the country’s political and economic problems, and some of those problems will even worsen. Nevertheless, we do not expect trends in South Africa to mirror exactly those in the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, in part because of higher level of economic development, a vibrant private sector – black and white – and a sense of nationhood not evident elsewhere in Africa.

During the 1990s, the future of South Africa will be the key African issue for the United States because of the strong influence that events there have on US domestic politics and because of souther Africa’s strategic and economic importance.

It is also possible that South African whites – much like the political elites in Iran during the late 1970s – will suddenly lose their will and capitulate rapidly and without much violence.

South Africa would still be a violent society

Whites stay in control by sharing power to a limited extent. The government under the National Party proposes a national convention to write a new constitution. Participation in the convention is carefully circumscribed to eliminate the more militant nonwhite groups. Homeland leaders and other cooperative blacks are included. The result is an extremely complex confederal system that appears to offer power sharing to blacks but leaves whites in control of economic and national security forces. Becausing of the poor state of the economy, gains by nonwhites are made at the expense of whites, leaving all groups dissatisfied and forcing the government to perform a perpetual economic balancing act. The West tentatively applauds the new system, although many observers warn that black aspirations will continue to be thwarted. Black areas – including urban communities – are given more autonomy, and there is some breakdown in apartheid as blacks… Violence continues, but the reforms buy time and allow a white-dominated government to survive beyond the year 2000.

Sustained unrest in the black townships, in our view, also will increasingly create a social climate that encourages violence and rewards the militants…. people become inured to its consequences and a new generation emerges whose lifestyle and morals are geared to coping with a violent existence. Already in South Africa, the press and US Embassy reports point to the fact that gangs of young blacks led by obscure radicals are disrupting their communities, closing down the schools, destroying facilities, committing random crimes, and intimidating the politically uninvolved.

According to polls and a review of the Afrikaner press, whites consistently favor a strong law-and-order stance, and they sincerely fear that black majority rule would eventually lead to the destructions of their standard of living and bring South Africa to the sorry state of most black African nations. [and they were right!]

Although Soviet ties to the ANC are well-established, many of its Communist supporters in the organization are white, Colored, or Asian.

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898e42 No.20516854

>>20500928

>MK sits the army, sits the intelligence, sits the disgruntled ANC personnel that have not benefited from the business transactions in the country. The MK sits the muscle of war in the countr

>>20516726

“South Africa’s liberation war veterans are angry: here’s why”

https://theconversation.com/south-africas-liberation-war-veterans-are-angry-heres-why-170596

Published: November 5, 2021 2.12pm CET

It is estimated that the membership of the ANC and PAC’s military wings in the 1990s stood at between 8000 and 10 000 members. These numbers swelled during the transition to democracy to 23 000 by 1994, and later to 33 000 members.

This last-minute spike raised eyebrows at the time, and in fact can be blamed in part for the unhappiness ensued. The numbers went up because it was felt necessary to boost the relatively small number of liberation fighters, compared to the apartheid-era South African Defence Force which had a total of 67 5000 active duty force and 360 000 in the citizen forces in 1993.

But the large signups were controversial, and created tensions that have simmered down the decades.

On top of this, the dismantling of these armed forces and that of the apartheid state was, in retrospect, managed badly. The result is that it left in its wake thousands of angry veterans who felt betrayed. In recent years they have come out vociferously against the ruling ANC. Most recently 53 veterans were charged with taking government ministers hostage in an attempt to get the government to fulfil promises they claim were broken.

For decades sociologists have warned that military veterans would use their skills to cause instability if their needs weren’t addressed. Lephophotho Mashike, who has researched the subject extensively called them a ‘a ticking time bomb’.

The end of the armed hostilities following the end of apartheid in 1994 meant the establishment of a new united military – the South African National Defence Force. The former guerrillas and armies of the former nominally independent states of Venda, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei and Transkei, were either integrated into the new defence force or demobilised.

When the integration process was finalised in 2001, 44 143 names appeared on the collective Non-Statutory Force Certified Personnel Register. Of these, 15 805 were integrated into the South African National Defence Force, 9 771 demobilised and 13 117 neither integrated or demobilised.

Those who were demobilised weren’t considered fit to serve in the new integrated army due to ill-health or age. Each received a gratuity based on their years of service. They could choose to either receive a lump sum, or monthly pension pay-out.

Military veterans complained that the payments were inadequate. Many have remained destitute due to poor education, lack of marketable skills, health problems and inability to reintegrate into society.

A 2006 report titled “Only Useful Until Democracy” found that 73% of the military veterans believed that South Africa’s post-apartheid leaders had forgotten them. Over 84% believed that their compensation was not adequate, felt neglected and abandoned by the ANC government.

The group, calling itself the Liberation Struggle War Veterans, is made up of former members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, APLA and the Azanian National Liberation Army (Azanla) allied to the Black Consciousness Movement. This Azanian National Liberation Army was not officially disbanded during the negotiations to end apartheid as the Black Consciousness Movement boycotted the talks. They were therefore latecomers to the compensation process.

Military veterans constitute a small but vocal constituency in the ANC and form a powerful political bloc that’s been closely aligned to [Jacob] Zuma.

It’s neither sensible nor desirable that the maladministration that’s affected their lives is allowed to continue, as a recent report by the public protector pointed out.

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898e42 No.20516903

>>20516743

>>20516854

>A 2006 report titled “Only Useful Until Democracy”

>>20516835

>Sustained unrest in the black townships, in our view, also will increasingly create a social climate that encourages violence and rewards the militants…. people become inured to its consequences and a new generation emerges whose lifestyle and morals are geared to coping with a violent existence.

>>20516751

“Only useful until democracy? Reintegrating ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa with lessons from Kosovo & Zimbabwe”

https://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Only-Useful-Until-Democracy.pdf

The number of political deaths per year in KwaZulu/Natal, which had averaged 1 500 per year from 1990 to 1993, continued to be high, with 1603 deaths in 1994, 905 in 1995, 536 in 1996 and 334 in 1997.62 While the violence was officially condemned by both the ANC and IFP, there are reports that some MK cadres continued to “assist” in the conflict even after the election in 1994.

Of the former MK and APLA members they surveyed, 88 percent were male and 12 percent were female. Just over half the soldiers were under the age of 35, and almost a quarter were over the age of 46. Almost 60 percent completed 11 years or less of schooling. Employment numbers were also very low in their survey: only 16 percent indicated that they were employed or selfemployed, while 66 percent said they were unemployed.86 The proportion of unemployed respondents was very similar to the combined total of unemployed and those in skills-training from the ISS survey.

Qualitative studies by Gear (2002) and Heideman (2003) indicate that many ex-combatants face problems of social stigmatisation. Gear found that this was equally true of former SADF members, who complained about their reputation as brutal killers, and liberation armies, who had a reputation as terrorists or criminals. Heideman’s study of MK ex-combatants noted that this social stigma was present both in the social and the economic spheres, with ex-combatants telling of alienation within their neighbourhoods and difficulties experienced in gaining or holding onto employment when their ex-combatant status was disclosed.87 It is difficult to determine how widespread this problem is: Mashike and Mokalobe’s survey indicate that 88 percent of the ex-combatants said their communities’ treatment of them is the same now as it was at the end of the struggle.88

Heideman’s study also reports that relations within the families of ex-combatants were frequently strained, either because of continued disapproval about involvement in MK or because of economic strains caused by the ex-combatant’s employment status.89 Mashike and Mokalobe make a similar finding, noting that while 68 percent reported good relations with their families, 10.7 percent reported that their relations with their families deteriorated after their return, while a further 4 percent said they were completely rejected by their families.90

Regional violence also needs to be examined in a way that will draw out some of the particularities of the violence. Gear (2002) recognises this in her work with the Thokoza SDU in the East Rand. Violence in KwaZulu-Natal also needs to be given this type of special attention.

While the potential of ex-combatants turning to violent crime or mercenary activity has always been cited as a reason for providing aid to ex-combatants, previous research has not fully examined this issue. It is clear that some ex-combatants are involved in crimes, such as cash-in-transit heists, and others are involved in mercenary activities, such as the abortive coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. But it is unclear what proportion of the total ex-combatant population is actually involved in these activities. While negotiations committees in the early 1990s made strong efforts to secure the weapons stashes of the various non-state combatant groups, large numbers of weapons are still unaccounted for.

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78cd27 No.20520797

“How Haiti’s ‘Aid State’ Has Fueled Organized Crime”

https://insightcrime.org/news/how-haitis-aid-state-has-fueled-organized-crime/

27 Feb 2024

As Haiti continues to make headlines amid struggles to control crime and insecurity, a new book traces the roots of the institutional weaknesses that have aided the growth and entrenchment of criminal organizations.

In the book, “Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti,” author Jake Johnston argues foreign governments, multilateral bodies, and non-governmental organizations have played a key role in the collapse of Haiti’s institutions.

Johnston contends that decades of foreign intervention in Haiti have warped the country’s institutions so they serve the interests of international benefactors and favored local elites, while ignoring the concerns of the vast majority of Haitians.

“It’s a pushback on the idea or concept of Haiti as a failed state,” said Johnston, who has tracked the country for years as a researcher at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

The book, published in January, comes as US and Haitian authorities attempt to firm up support for a Kenya-led international security mission in the Caribbean nation, which saw a huge increase in criminal violence last year. US and Haitian authorities are also continuing to advance judicial cases related to the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.

A common trend…

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/south_africa_anti-apartheid_ngos_in_tran.pdf

The 1994 [South African] elections, in which the ANC gained 63% of the vote, ushered in a new era and forced a shift from the politics of resistance to a politics of reconstruction (Marais, 1998). NGOs and state institutions now were seen as partners in a national project— the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)

The resources of NGOs have been carried into the transition process in three main ways:

(1)Many NGOs have been absorbed into, or fused with, the institutions of the new state; important policy positions, key personnel, and much funding have moved into the state.

(2)NGOs that were closest to the mass-based movements—and have survived the impact of assimilation into state structures—have, often by building on personal networks, repositioned themselves as NGOs with a complementary role to the new state by undertaking partnerships with government departments, developing policies, or providing welfare and development services.

(3)NGOs that have been liberal in orientation have recast themselves as NGOs taking up a position as "watchdogs" of the new state, advocating various policy positions and asserting their independence from the state with the intent of strengthening civil society.

Nelson Mandela (1996) has written: "Non-governmental organizations played an outstanding role during the dark days of apartheid. Today, many people who received their training within the NGO sector play important roles in government." In fact, to some, the acronym NGO is taken to stand for Now Government Official. In some respects the former shadow state has become the new state.

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78cd27 No.20520821

>>20520797

>The book, published in January, comes as US and Haitian authorities attempt to firm up support for a Kenya-led international security mission in the Caribbean nation

>>20510793

>UNFPA announced by 2025, a quarter of its New York headquarters staff will be relocating to Nairobi.

>>20510794

>the move is in line with changes happening in other UN agencies, which are relocating significant portions of their headquarters staff out of New York.

Coincidence?

“Kenya Agrees to Police Haiti’s Criminal Hurricane”

https://insightcrime.org/news/kenya-agrees-police-haiti-criminal-hurricane/

4 Mar 2024

After Haiti’s prime minister signed an agreement in Kenya for an international security deployment, gangs in Port-au-Prince attacked two of the country’s biggest prisons, freeing thousands of prisoners.

While Prime Minister Ariel Henry of Haiti and President William Ruto of Kenya were in Nairobi, celebrating the signing of a security deal on March 1 that will see an international deployment of police and aid, the last semblance of state control evaporated. Amid an increase in gang activity, which saw four policemen killed, on Sunday armed men attacked two prisons, releasing thousands of inmates back among the long-suffering Haitian population.

The assault on the two prisons in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, appeared to be instigated by Jimmy Chérizier, alias “Barbecue,” a former policeman who heads the most powerful gang confederation, the G9. In a video message last week, he announced an increase in attacks aimed at forcing Henry from office.

“With our guns and with the Haitian people, we will free the country,” he said, dressed in black and wearing body armor.

Observers reported seeing at least 10 corpses of prisoners around the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. Of an estimated 4,000 inmates, around 100 remained. A second jail, the Croix-des-Bouquets Civil Prison, housing some 1,400 inmates, was also overrun, but there are no details yet on this assault.

Haiti has declared a state of emergency, including a curfew between 6 p.m. and 5 a.m., as it tries to reassert some measure of control in the capital. The US Embassy in Haiti has announced it is halting all official travel to the country. It now has a minimal presence in the country, as in July last year all non-emergency staff were evacuated amid a burst of violence, kidnappings, and threats.

InSight Crime Analysis

While no date was announced for their deployment, the Kenyan police, known more for a poor human rights record than any ability to tackle heavily armed gangs, will send up to 1,000 agents to establish some order on the Caribbean island, so that aid can be delivered, elections held next year, and basic security established.

The international effort, which has US and UN backing, has mustered over $120 million in aid money. However, without basic security conditions on the ground, which the Kenyans have pledged to provide, nothing can be delivered nor implemented.

The Kenyans face a Herculean task. Haitian gangs now control much of the country, spreading out from their strongholds in Port-au-Prince. The Haitian police, 9,000-strong in a population of 11 million, are outmatched in every way.

The Kenyans will be walking into a failed state and one of the kidnapping capitals of the world, where the gangs in many parts of the country are the only recognizable authority. Last year an estimated 3,000 people were abducted for ransom. In January this year, six nuns were taken from a bus in Port-au-Prince along with two companions, showing that nobody is safe.

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78cd27 No.20520896

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It is interesting that the US only impose sanctions to target some corrupt individuals or entities and not others.

“US imposes new sanctions on Zimbabwe's President and other senior leaders”

https://youtu.be/fuHQ69jqJ2I

Mar 5, 2024 #SABCNews

The United States has imposed new sanctions on Zimbabwe's President and other senior leaders for their involvement in corruption or serious human rights abuses. This comes as President Joe Biden signed a new executive order terminating the existing sanctions regime against Zimbabwe that had been in place since 2003.

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78cd27 No.20521051

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>>20489047

>Phefo Power: Mbendeni Humphrey Mathe, Director and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) recipient

>>20457780

>Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced ‘all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres’ onto SA, collapsing economy

>>20483993

>Now you may recall that the ANC adopted their cadre deployment policy in 1997, yeah in Mandela's era, by the way.

“Report urges state to cut BEE premium to reduce VAT”

https://mg.co.za/business/2024-03-02-report-urges-state-to-cut-bee-premium-to-reduce-vat/

2 MARCH 2024

If the government cuts the black economic empowerment premiums it pays on procurement contracts that wastefully inflate the cost of projects, goods and services, it can plough the R150 billion savings into the economy, allowing it to reduce value added tax (VAT) to just 11.5%, new research suggests.

The Institute of Race Relations’s (IRR) February report Blueprint for Growth: Slash Waste, Cut Taxes, by Gabriel Crouse [https://irr.org.za/reports/occasional-reports/the-irrs-blueprint-for-growth-slash-waste-cut-taxes.pdf], urges the government to cut BEE premiums, estimated to cost about R17 billion per annum, to simplify procurement and improve transparency.

It says this will improve corruption control to an estimated R150 billion, of which R100 billion could be used to pay for a VAT cut from 15% to 11.5%, with either a further VAT cut to follow or a general fuel levy cut of about R2.20 per litre.

According to the treasury’s budget review this year, 25.5% of all tax revenue comes from VAT.

“The initial VAT cut is estimated to leave R31 billion in the pockets of the 70% poorest South Africans, where it is likely to be much better spent than by the government.

The IRR report cites research which shows that the South African state has ballooned in size and spending, and the government is paying inflated prices for BEE contracts, while taxes have increased and the value it offers to citizens has declined.

“The operating hypothesis is that the most acute direct cause of this negative outlook is unemployment, particularly black unemployment, which has roughly doubled in the BEE era since 2008.”

World Bank data shows that South Africa appeared to improve corruption busting in the mid-2000s but, overall, between 1996 and 2022, it suffered the worst relative decline in corruption control of any major sovereign constitutional democracy, with the worst year of decline being between 2021 and 2022.

The IRR noted that the Zondo report connects corruption and state capture to a “problem in the legislative design”, specifically confusion of the “inevitable tension” between preferential procurement, elsewhere known as BEE premiums, and “maximum value for money”. This confusion, it says, subverts accountability.

He believes BEE as a “social intervention” is hard to defend as it is “so open to abuse that both the social and economic outcomes are, at best, entirely dissipated or, at worst, result in a net decline in public outputs and with it GDP”.

“The corruption resulting from the collapse of proper procurement processes has cost South Africa millions of jobs and thousands and thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises due to failed procurement of public infrastructure. So much so that the JSE has halved in size with investment drifting systematically out of South Africa,” he said.

“Domestic savings are not directed to domestic investment, as political patronage is sabotaging so much of the economy. No country can withstand this for very long. Well, it can survive — but you subsist as a Zimbabwe or a Somalia.”

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3f5110 No.20521748

>>20520896

>It is interesting that the US only impose sanctions to target some corrupt individuals or entities and not others.

Carrot = AGOA

Stick = Sanctions

Zimbabwe’s vice president says the government will block a scholarship for LGBTQ+ people

By FARAI MUTSAKA Updated 10:42 AM EST, February 16, 2024

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday as a perpetuation of the African country’s homophobic practices.

The state university scholarship for people between the ages of 18 and 35 is sponsored by GALZ, a membership organization for LGBTQ+ people in Zimbabwe. The association started offering it in 2018 without incident. But a recent online advertisement inviting applications attracted a harsh response from Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, a self-proclaimed devout Catholic and former army commander.

In a strongly worded statement Thursday night, Chiwenga claimed the scholarship was “a direct challenge” to the government’s authority.

“Our schools and institutions of higher learning will not entertain applicants, let alone enroll persons associated with such alien, anti-life, un-African and un-Christian values which are being promoted and cultivated by, as well as practiced in decadent societies with whom we share no moral or cultural affinities,” he said.

GALZ has previously said the scholarship seeks to provide equal access to state universities for LGBTQ+ people who are often ostracized by their families and struggle to pay for higher education. It did not comment on the vice president’s statement.

However, a coalition of human rights groups that GALZ belongs to said it demonstrated that sexual and gender minorities are endangered in Zimbabwe.

“We are extremely concerned about the statement from the second-highest office in the land because it exhibits intolerance, especially taking into account that the advertisement opens young people to so many opportunities,” Wilbert Mandinde, the programs coordinator at Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, told The Associated Press on Friday.

Like many African countries, Zimbabwe has laws criminalizing homosexual activity. Sex between men carries a potential sentence of up to a year in prison, and the country’s constitution bans same-sex marriages.

More:

https://apnews.com/article/zimbabwe-lgbtq-university-scholarship-gay-415f8e2b99c03dffab8ea62b33a74f96

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4546fa No.20521808

>>20521051

“Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994” 1 of 4

https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/commerce-law-and-management/research-entities/scis/documents/BEE%20Transactions%20in%20SA%20after%201994.pdf

April 2021

Excerpts below

Introduction

On 13 May 1993, Sanlam, an apartheid-era insurance company that was established in 1918 to advance Afrikaner economic empowerment, announced the sale of a 10% stake in Metropolitan Life. The 10% stake was sold for R137 million to Methold, a black-owned consortium that was led by Ntatho Motlana, a Soweto businessman and community leader who was the doctor for Nelson Mandela’s family. The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), a state-owned development finance institution (DFI), funded the transaction. On 23 August 1993, Methold changed its name to New Africa Investments Limited (Nail), which became South Africa’s pioneering black economic empowerment (BEE) company (Gqubule, 2006). It was the first major BEE transaction by a black consortium on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE).

On 2 February 1994, Anglo American (Anglo) sold 51% of subsidiary Southern Life’s shareholding in African Life to Real Africa Investments (“Real Africa”), led by Don Ncube, in a transaction that was worth R162.8 million (Gqubule, 2006; Ernst & Young, 1995). On 24 February 1995, Anglo said that it would unbundle Johannesburg Consolidated Investments (JCI) into three companies – JCI, a mining company with interests in gold, ferrochrome and base metals; Anglo American Platinum (Amplats); and Johnnic, an industrial holding company that had interests in companies such as South African Breweries (SAB), Toyota, Times Media and Premier Foods. At the time, Anglo and De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, which was also controlled by Anglo, owned 48.3% of JCI.

Anglo retained the crown jewels in Amplats, an amalgamation of its separately listed platinum interests that was established in 1997, and said it would sell 35% stakes in Johnnic and JCI to black investors and retain about 12% in each company (Gqubule, 2006). In November 1996, the National Empowerment Corporation (NEC), led by Cyril Ramaphosa, paid Anglo R2.6 billion for a 35% stake in Johnnic. In February 1997, the Saflife consortium, African Mining Group (AMG), led by former Robben Island political prisoner Mzi Khumalo, paid Anglo R2.9 billion for a 34.9% stake in JCI. The purchase price of R54.50c/share was at a 12% premium to the value of JCI’s shares, after a bidding war with Nail, where Ramaphosa was deputy chairman. After failing to raise the capital, AMG’s stake in the consortium was diluted to 11% (Chabane et al., 2003; Ernst & Young, 1997).

In 1994, South Africa’s first democratic government inherited an economy that had developed around a minerals energy complex (MEC), from the late nineteenth century discovery of minerals. The complex was defined as a uniquely South African system of capital accumulation that was based on a core set of industries and institutions that developed around mining (Fine & Rustomjee, 1996). Key players were five mining houses, led by Anglo, which controlled companies that accounted for 43.3% of the JSE’s market capitalisation in 1994 (Chabane et al., 2003), energy producers Eskom and Sasol, Iscor, a steel producer, and the IDC. The other mining houses were JCI, Gencor, Goldfields and Anglovaal.

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4546fa No.20521817

>>20521808

“Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994” 2 of 4

https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/commerce-law-and-management/research-entities/scis/documents/BEE%20Transactions%20in%20SA%20after%201994.pdf

April 2021

Excerpts below

The original seven mining houses were Union Corporation (established in 1886), Gold Fields of South Africa (1887), JCI (1889), Rand Mines (1893), Genmin (1895), Anglo (1917) and Anglovaal (1934). Partly due to exchange controls, disinvestment by foreign capital and international sanctions, mining houses diversified into industry and finance. There were cross-shareholdings across the three sectors. For the first four decades, Anglo cemented its position as by far the largest mining house as it fought for control of De Beers, invested in Zambian copper (during the 1920s), expanded to the East Rand gold mines (1930s) and the Free State gold fields (1940s). By 1960, it also controlled Rand Mines and JCI. From the 1960s it diversified internationally and acquired interests in South African industry. By the end of the 1970s, it controlled five of the country’s top 10 industrial companies (CEDT, 2017). During the 1970s, Anglo acquired shares in Barclays Bank, which became First National Bank after the British company pulled out of South Africa in 1987 and sold its 40% stake to Anglo.

Afrikaner capital built a number of companies to advance its interests. Anton Rupert set up Voorbrand, a tobacco company, which became Rembrandt in 1948. It became the most successful Afrikaner company. It expanded internationally and consolidated these interests in Rothmans International in 1972, which was listed in London. The Rembrandt group diversified beyond tobacco, wine and spirits with investments in other sectors in South Africa, including banking and financial services. It acquired interests in Volkskas, Rand Merchant Bank, Remgro and Goldfields. In 1988, the group separated its South African and international interests with the establishment of Richemont, a luxury goods company, which also acquired shares in Rothmans (Chabane et al., 2003; Fine & Rustomjee, 1996).

Sanlam established three Afrikaner empowerment investment companies – Federale Volksbeleggings (Fedvolks/FVB), Bonuscor and Sankor – in 1940, 1946 and 1960, respectively. It also set up Trust Bank in 1955. In 1968, Sanlam established Central Acceptances, which later became Bankorp, a holding company that consolidated the group’s interests in banking, including Trust Bank. By 1986, it was the country’s third largest banking group. Volkskas was established in 1934 as a cooperative bank. It became a commercial bank in 1940. It expanded rapidly after the National Party took power in 1948 and diverted state deposits to the bank. Volkskas and Sanlam were regarded as two factions – from the Transvaal and the Cape, respectively – within Afrikaner capital.

In 1953, Sanlam, FVB and Bonuscor established Federale Mynbou to facilitate the entry of Afrikaners into mining (Sanlam, 2021). The breakthrough was the takeover of Genmin by Federale Mynbou in 1964 through the assistance of Anglo. Fine and Rustomjee (1996: 161) say the move that signaled “a conscious accommodation of Afrikaner by English capital or compromise in the face of conflict”. From the 1960s, there had been “an erosion of the disjuncture between English and Afrikaner capital. It resulted in the interpenetration first of English and Afrikaner capital and secondly of different factions within Afrikaner capital” (Fine and Rustomjee, 1996:160). In 1975, Genmin acquired control of Union Corporation, which was then independently owned after receiving financial assistance from the Afrikaner group, Rembrandt. In 1980, Gencor was established after a merger between Genmin and Union Corporation (Fine & Rustomjee 1996). In 1985, Sanlam formed Sankorp, a new investment holding company. There was extensive restructuring of Gencor and Sankorp during the 1980s that involved a separation of mining, industrial and financial interests (Sanlam, 2021).

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4546fa No.20521823

>>20521808

>>20521817

“Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994” 3 of 4

https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/commerce-law-and-management/research-entities/scis/documents/BEE%20Transactions%20in%20SA%20after%201994.pdf

April 2021

Excerpts below

In 1971, Barlow, an industrial group that had been supported by SA Mutual (Old Mutual), bought Rand Mines and formed Barlow Rand, which became the largest company in South Africa during the 1980s. Fine and Rustomjee (1996) said that, by 1988, there were six mining houses – conglomerates that produced more than 70% of all major minerals. (After the unbundling of the Barlow Rand group into four smaller companies during the early 1990s, there were five mining houses). There were also six organically-linked “axes of capital” each with varying interests in mining, manufacturing and finance (Fine & Rustomjee, 1996). In 1994, according to Chabane et al. (2003) they controlled shares worth 87.3% of the JSE’s market capitalisation. Their individual JSE shares were Anglo (43.3%), Rembrandt/Remgro (13.0%), Sanlam (10.5%), SA Mutual/Old Mutual (9.7%), Liberty Life (7.2%) and Anglovaal (3.6%).

These conglomerates exercised control over many industries through complex and opaque pyramid and holding company structures and low-voting N-shares without a significant outlay of capital. Most listed companies have one class of shares with voting and economic rights. But others have dual share structures where one class has higher voting rights. For example, Naspers A shares have 1000 votes per share. The ordinary N shares have one vote per share. With such structures, the Oppenheimer family controlled Anglo, despite owning only 8.1% of its shares. Chabane et al. (2003: 7) say while this corporate structure was typical of modern capitalism, “the only significant difference was that the degree of concentration was more acute than in other developing countries.” In manufacturing, 46% of the 57 main product groupings had four companies that accounted for more than half of output.

“Concentration is even greater if measures of firm size are based on control, which is often exerted through minority stakes and holding companies, such that many different companies in a sector can be identified as being part of the same conglomerate grouping.” The activities of black entrepreneurs were blocked by racial barriers and were limited to small retail industries in the townships. Despite the fact that capitalism in South Africa had developed the forces of production to a higher level than anywhere else on the continent, the African business class remained relatively more backward than in the large majority of African countries (Chabane et al, 2003:5-7).

The African National Congress (ANC) went to the elections in 1994 with a blueprint called the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) which said: “The domination of business activities by white business and the exclusion of black people and women from the mainstream economic activity are causes of great concern for the reconstruction and development process. A central objective of the RDP is to deracialise business ownership and control completely through focused policies of black economic empowerment” (ANC, 1994). This paper reviews the implementation of policies to deracialise ownership within the Top 50 JSE listed companies with a focus on mining and finance which accounted for 75% of black ownership within these companies at the end of December 2020. It looks at the context in which the policies were implemented – the performance of the economy and the restructuring of apartheid era conglomerates since 1994 that created opportunities for BEE companies.

The paper then evaluates the three waves of BEE transactions over the past 27 years and the failures of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy framework, which included the BEE Codes of Good Practice and sector charters in mining and finance. The paper discusses the confusing maze of statistics on black ownership and presents its own findings. The prospects for further transformation of apartheid ownership structures are not good, with the economy likely to experience a second lost decade in terms of economic development until 2030, and due to policy design failures that have provided weak incentives for companies to enter into replacement BEE transactions. There also appears to be no political will to revive the project and confront powerful corporate interests, especially in mining and finance, who bullied the government into making fatal policy compromises.

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4546fa No.20521829

>>20521808

>>20521817

>>20521823

“Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994” 4 of 4

https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/faculties-and-schools/commerce-law-and-management/research-entities/scis/documents/BEE%20Transactions%20in%20SA%20after%201994.pdf

April 2021

Excerpts below

Post-apartheid economic overview

South Africa’s economic performance has been deeply disappointing since its miracle transition to democracy in 1994. Between 1994 and 2020, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the value of all goods and services produced in the economy, has increased by an average of 2.3% a year. GDP per capita, an international benchmark of average living standards, which takes into account the growth of a country’s population, increased by an average of about 0.7% percent a year. In 2020, GDP per capita was just 17.6% higher than it was in 1994 (SARB, 2020). There have been four phases in terms of post-apartheid economic policies and performance (Gqubule 2021).

From the RDP to the GEAR (1996 to 2003)

In 1996, the government replaced the RDP, a document that articulated a vision for a post-apartheid economy within Keynesian paradigm, with the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) programme, which was a neoliberal stabilisation plan (National Treasury 1996; Adelzadeh, 1996). In 1996, South Africa’s debt to GDP ratio was only 49.5%, which was far lower than the current figure for 2021 of 80.3%. Foreign debt was 1.9% of GDP (National Treasury, 2020a). The annual inflation rate for 1996 was 7%. In other words, sovereign debt and inflation were low. There was no need for a neoliberal stabilisation plan. There were alternative post-apartheid recovery paths.

Despite the fact that there was no macroeconomic instability in 1996, Gear’s slash and burn monetary and fiscal policies – which included sky-high prime lending rates that peaked at 25.5% in August 1998 and deep cuts to capital spending – depressed the economy. There was an annual average GDP growth rate of 2.6% between 1996 and 2003. GDP per capita increased by an annual average of 0.9% during the same period. The number of unemployed people, according to the expanded definition, which includes discouraged work seekers, soared to eight million in March 2003 from 4.6 million in October 1996. The expanded unemployment rate increased to 40.6% in March 2003 from 33% in October 1996 (SARB, 2020; Stats SA, 2000; Stats SA, 2009).

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4546fa No.20521841

>>20521808

>>20521817

>>20521823

>>20521829

“The role of multinational corporations in South Africa: a political-economic perspective”

https://scholar.ufs.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/2fd2362d-7d44-476d-affc-0d44f7ab9a0d/content

2006

Since the mid-1980s, a constant stream of literature on all aspects of globalisation has emerged arguing that the integration of national economies has proceeded to such an extent that it has begun to transform the nature of international economic relations and that this in turn, has had a huge impact on the political economy of nation states. Where the patterns of international trade and commerce before the 1980s were strongly influenced by national state divisions and territorial boundaries, the excalation in the volume of international trade, the increasing mobility of capital, and the appearance of global private firms whose business activities span nations and continents, have made the economic interconnections supraterritorial, bypassing central governments (Van de Walle 1999:98). These global firms, also called multinational corporations (MNCs) are seen as primary actors and key agents in the transforming both the national and international political and economic landscape.

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78cd27 No.20522182

“Rwanda plan to cost UK £1.8m for each asylum seeker, figures show”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/01/rwanda-plan-uk-asylum-seeker-cost-figures

Fri 1 Mar 2024 01.01 CET

Disclosure, calculated on basis of 300 deportations, called ‘staggering’ by chair of home affairs committee

Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost taxpayers £1.8m for each of the first 300 people the government deports to Kigali, Whitehall’s official spending watchdog has disclosed.

The overall cost of the scheme stands at more than half a billion pounds, according to the figures released to the National Audit Office. Even if the UK sends nobody to the central African state, Sunak has signed up to pay £370m from the public purse over the five-year deal.

The disclosures follow nearly three years of refusals by prime ministers, home secretaries and senior Home Office staff to explain the full costs of the deal, citing “commercial confidentiality”.

The Home Office has agreed to make two types of direct payments to the government of Rwanda, auditors said. The UK will pay to the economic transformation and integration fund (ETIF), which is designed to support economic growth in Rwanda; and make payments to cover asylum processing and operational costs for individuals relocated to Rwanda.

The Home Office has paid £220m into the ETIF since April 2022, and it will pay further amounts of £50m in 2024-25, £50m in 2025-26 and £50m in 2026-27.

The figures mean that if the UK sends 300 people to Rwanda, it will cost the taxpayer £490m under the partnership; an extra £6m in individual payments; plus £45m for processing and operational costs over five years. The total costs would be £541m, which works out as £1.8m per asylum seeker.

The Home Office has spent £20m setting up the Rwanda scheme, which has survived the tenure of three prime ministers – Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Four home secretaries – Priti Patel, Suella Braverman in two separate terms, Grant Shapps and James Cleverly – have overseen the scheme.

Officials expect that £20m to rise to £28m by the end of 2023-24, the report said. The Home Office estimates that it will incur further costs between now and the end of the scheme.

The impact assessment for the Illegal Migration Act 2023 projects that if nothing is done, the cost of housing asylum seekers will reach £11bn a year by 2026.

“We have a strong relationship with Rwanda and both sides remain absolutely determined to deliver on this partnership. Once the safety of Rwanda bill and treaty are in place, we will focus on getting flights off the ground.”

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78cd27 No.20522188

>>20522182

“Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/04/lords-pass-five-amendments-to-rwanda-bill-in-heavy-defeat-for-rishi-sunak

Mon 4 Mar 2024 23.27 CET

Rishi Sunak has suffered his heaviest defeat in the House of Lords after the archbishop of Canterbury and former Conservative ministers joined forces with the opposition to force through five amendments to the Rwandan deportation bill.

The string of government setbacks, most passed by unusually large margins of about 100 votes, means the legislation, which aims to clear the way to send asylum seekers on a one-way flight to Kigali, will have to go back to the Commons.

Sunak has made “stopping the boats” a key pledge of his leadership. However, he has been hit by several setbacks including the bill being challenged in the courts. Last week, official auditors said it will cost £1.8m to send each of 300 migrants to Rwanda.

The draft legislation and a treaty with Rwanda are intended to prevent further legal challenges to the stalled deportation scheme after the supreme court ruled the plan was unlawful.

As well as compelling judges to regard the east African country as safe, it would give ministers the power to ignore emergency injunctions. It has been warned that the legislation is “fundamentally incompatible” with the UK’s human rights obligations and would flout international law.

But Downing Street has said the government remains committed to sending flights to Rwanda “in the spring”.

In all, peers backed five changes to the bill on Monday night, including ensuring it complied with the rule of law and that parliament cannot declare Rwanda to be safe until the treaty with its promised safeguards is fully implemented.

The Lords also supported a move that would allow the presumption the country is a secure haven to be challenged in the courts.

The size of the defeats raise the prospect of an extended tussle between the Commons and Lords during “ping-pong”, in which legislation is batted between the two houses until agreement is reached.

The barrister and independent crossbencher David Anderson said the provision in the bill requiring Rwanda to be treated as safe “takes us for fools”.

Proposing an amendment that would allow the presumption to be challenged in the courts, Lord Anderson added: “If Rwanda is safe as the government would have us declare, it has nothing to fear from such scrutiny.

“Yet we are invited to adopt a fiction, to wrap it in the cloak of parliamentary sovereignty and to grant it permanent immunity from challenge. To tell an untruth and call it truth. Why would we go along with that?”

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78cd27 No.20522195

“M23 Rebellion: Rwanda Protests AU Support for SADC Forces in DRC”

https://chimpreports.com/m23-rebellion-rwanda-protests-au-support-for-sadc-forces-in-drc/

March 5, 2024

Rwanda had earlier petitioned the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to block any form of support for the SAMIDRC, saying it would dissuade Kinshasa from seeking a political solution to the crisis in the eastern DRC

“The Government of Rwanda wishes to bring to the attention of the AUC [African Union Commission] that the intention to compel the African Union to support the SAMIRC deployment can only exacerbate the conflict,” said Kigali in a note verbale to the AUC on February 2.

“Any support by the African Union to SAMIDRC would also imply supporting the government of the DRC’s offensive posture and would undermine the peaceful settlement of the decades-long crisis in the EDRC,” the note added.

“The Government of Rwanda would like to request that the Chairperson of the AUC use his good offices to encourage the Government of the DRC to pursue a peaceful solution within the Nairobi and Luanda processes.”

In its letter to AUC, Rwanda said it had “learned with great concern that one of the objectives of the meeting is to endorse the deployment of SAMIDRC and assess possible support that the African Union and other strategic partners could extend to SAMIDRC.”

The DRC accuses Rwanda of supporting the M23 rebellion to destabilize the mineral-rich eastern Congo for economic gain, a claim Kigali vehemently denies.

Rwanda claimed in its letter that SAMIDRC is fighting alongside a FARDC-led coalition, which includes the FDLR genocidal forces, ethnic-driven local armed groups allied to the FDLR under the umbrella of Wazalendo, and Burundian armed forces under a bilateral arrangement, as well as European mercenaries and private military security companies, including one associated with the former Blackwater, as reported by the United Nations Group of Experts on the DRC in December 2023.

“SAMIDRC as an offensive force in coalition with these elements cannot substitute for a political process that has been blocked by the government of the DRC. Therefore, the African Union is urged to not “authorize” or fund SAMIDRC,” said Kigali.

Rwanda told the AUC that in addition to the FDLR, whose objective is to overthrow the government of Rwanda and finish the genocide they started in 1994, both the presidents of the DRC and Burundi have publicly stated their intention to support regime change in Rwanda.

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi recently ordered its army officers to cease all forms of support for the FDLR and also arrested a high-ranking military officer for flouting the presidential directive.

“The Government of Rwanda takes these threats very seriously, considering past and current armed threats by the parties involved, especially those that the DRC and Burundi host on their territories, and their collaboration with the FDLR and its splinter group, the National Council for Renewal and Democracy/Forces for National Liberation (CNRD/FLN), respectively,” said Kigali.

Tshisekedi recently made a u-turn on his threats to invade Rwanda, saying he was ready to peacefully resolve the differences between Kinshasa and Kigali.

“The Government of Rwanda wishes to recall that the conflict has persisted in the EDRC because the international community has deliberately ignored the root causes, which include support for and preservation of Rwandan genocidal forces in the EDRC, refusal by the Government of the DRC to address genuine grievances of the Congolese Tutsi, and refusal to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Congolese refugees scattered in the region,” said Kigali.

“Rwanda hosts around 100,000 of these refugees, some of whom have lived in Rwanda for almost thirty years now, including more than 15,000 who have, in the last five months, fled ethnic cleansing in the EDRC.”

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45b4db No.20525958

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>>20464138

>>20516751

>>20516835

>people become inured to its consequences and a new generation emerges whose lifestyle and morals are geared to coping with a violent existence.

“Ekurhuleni Residents FURIOUS Following ANC-EFF Brawl In Council”

https://youtu.be/2mMsO-0jCH8

Mar 5, 2024

He discusses the Newzroom Afrika report, “Ekurhuleni residents: Coalition governments in the metro are failing us”, https://youtu.be/hAmrst44xag

22:33 – “The fact that in South Africa we don’t have the spirit of patriotism. The people in this country, they don’t want to fight… We are okay with everything that is happening… We are normalizing the things that we are not even supposed to normalize… It’s bad.

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45b4db No.20525965

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>>20500876

>Mandela was right also in foreseeing that sport loved by nearly all South Africans could be a unifying factor.

It is a pity they hopped onto the bandwagon of climate change but they do make valid points about companies.

“The Real Reason TotalEnergies Sponsors AFCON Football Tournament”

https://youtu.be/dDjEh9_tdQI

Mar 2, 2024

Bafana Bafana placing third at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations reminded us how much we love football. But why does TotalEnergies, a French oil company, also love African football so much?

In 2020, French oil company Total told shareholders extracting African resources is at the "heart of its strategy." Today, it is the company with the most new planned fossil fuel extraction activities across the continent. Some of these projects, like the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, have been described as "carbon bombs," supercharging climate change, and displacing thousands of people from their homes.

Join comedians KG Mokgadi and Céline Tshika and the award-winning Politically Aweh team as we explain how sportswashing works using the TotalEnergies sponsorship of Afcon as a case study. Silenced athletes, greenwashing and dirty PR tactics like "astroturfing" all form part of a dark manipulative strategy oil companies and their allies use to prevent regular citizens from understanding the harms caused by fossil fuel extraction and pollution.

To understand why more athletes don't speak up, we spoke to former Australian Diamonds netball player, Amy Steel. In 2022, the team famously refused to wear the logo of a controversial fossil fuel company, Hancock Prospecting.

We also spoke to host of the Sustaining Sports podcast, researcher Benjamin Mole, who is doing a PhD in sustainable system change focusing on climate justice & southern African sport, and Tracy Makheti, an activist based in Nairobi with Greenpeace Africa.

Video Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:07 Oil companies LOVE sports these days

03:34 Sportswashing: a history of distraction

05:03 Climate change impacting African sports

05:40 Greenwashing explained

06:43 "Africa needs fossil fuels to develop": myth busted!

08:07 Fossil fuel industry dirty PR tactics

09:38 Sketch: Welcome to Evilman PR

11:07 The Total 'neocolonisation' of Africa

12:37 The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)

14:07 Sports athletes silenced?

15:15 Interview with Amy Steel, professional netballer

16:32 The solution might lie in our fight against tobacco

17:38 Africans fight back against polluter lies

18:29 Outro

19:05 Post credits: A message from Etienne Stott MBE

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45b4db No.20525976

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>>20525965

>It is a pity they hopped onto the bandwagon of climate change but they do make valid points about companies.

“Global Cooling is on the way! Give up your freedom NOW!” – Or is it global warming?

https://capitalresearch.org/article/global-cooling-is-on-the-way-give-up-your-freedom-now/

JULY 8, 2014

Excerpts

Here’s the opening of a New York Times article: “The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow of the polar regions.” The date: February 24, 1895. A subhead on the article noted: “Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again.”

By the 1930s, the concern had shifted. “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE / Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents,” proclaimed the New York Times, May 15, 1932.

By the 1970s, we we were back to Global Cooling. “Get a grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst may be yet to come. That’s the long-range weather forecast being given out by ‘climatologists,’ the people who study very long-term world weather trends.” So reported the Washington Post in a January 11, 1970 article entitled “Colder Winters Held [sic] Dawn of New Ice Age / Scientists See Ice Age In the Future.”

The New York Times reported in a May 21, 1975 article, “Scientists Ask Why World Climate Is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” that “Sooner or later a major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable. Hints that it may already have begun are evident.

The approaching Ice Age was often cited as a reason for taking away people’s rights and expanding the power of government. An example appeared January 26, 1970 in the Owosso, Michigan Argus-Press, the Uniontown, Pennsylvania Evening Standard, and a number of other papers :

. . . [I]f by now we are accustomed, if not inured, to the physical threat of pollution, along comes a warning there may also be dire political consequences.

Dr Arnold Reitze, an expert in the legal aspects from Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, suggests pollution, or the effort to control it, could be fatal to our concept of a free society.

As likely inevitable restraints on the individual and mass, Reitze suggests:

Outlawing the internal combustion engine for vehicles and outlawing or strict controls over all forms of combustion.

Rigid controls on the marketing of new products, which will be required to prove a minimum pollution potential.

Controls on all research and development, to be halted at the slightest prospect of additional pollution.

Possibly even population controls, the number of children per family prescribed and punishment for exceeding the limit.

In Reitze’s view, “We will be forced to sacrifice democracy by the laws that will protect us from further pollution.”

Today, those steps are said to be necessary to save us from Global Warming. Bigger government and less freedom: No matter what the problem, the solution is always the same.

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45b4db No.20526083

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>>20525958

“Why did they beat him for an old, scrap television set? Man killed, another injured in vigilante incident”

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-03-04-why-did-they-kill-him-for-an-old-scrap-tv-set/#google_vignette

04 March 2024 - 07:00

Man killed, another injured in vigilante incident

Three days after being released from the hospital following car accident, a Soweto man finds himself fighting for his life again after a mob falsely accuses him and his friend of stealing a TV set he was gifted by a neighbour.

Puseletso Zulu of Diepkloof is recovering from his injuries at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital while his friend, only known as Tshediso, died as a result of the assault which took place on Thursday evening as they were carrying the old TV set in a bin to sell it at a nearby hostel. The incident happened just three days after Zulu was discharged from hospital after he was hit by a car, which broke his arm.

Speaking from his hospital bed yesterday, Zulu, 49, who does piece-jobs in his community for a living, said he had got the TV from his neighbour Steven Lebelo after he had helped him clean his yard. Lebelo had kept the TV in a storage and had wanted to throw it away but gave it to Zulu earlier last week instead.

Another neighbour, Neo Mogemi, who had asked them to assist in removing a rat from her house, offered them duvets, sheets and a reflector jacket as a gift.

Zulu and Tshediso were on their way to the hostel when they were stopped by a group of men who wanted to search the bin they were pushing.

“We didn't have an issue with him checking the bin, I even told him that I got the refuse bin at home and told him where I got the TV set and blankets. We asked to take him where we got those things. But the man called his friends and they started assaulting us. We begged them to stop. I am innocent. I am not a thief, we didn't steal those things,” said Zulu weeping. He said he did not know the men who claimed to have been patrollers.

Zulu said he and Tshediso pleaded with the group to first verify where they got the items from before assaulting them but their pleas fell on deaf ears as the mob continued to assault them.

They were beaten with hard objects including sjamboks. Zulu managed to escape but Tshediso died on the scene.

Lebelo was not aware of the incident until Sowetan broke the news to him yesterday. A sense of anger, disappointment and shock overwhelmed him into tears as he recalled why he gave Zulu the TV.

“I am never going to be okay after this. That TV was old, it doesn't even work and doesn't have an aerial. How could people do this? Why not come to me to verify where he got it from? How am I going to face his family?”

Mogemi, who also confirmed gifting the two, said some community members would call Zulu when they wanted things fixed in their homes.

Community leader and patroller Susan Lekgetho said the community had a crime problem.

“The community is tired and crime is very high here. We are patrolling and we apprehend these people and take them to the police station and tomorrow they are back,” Lekgetho said.

The incident comes less than two months after five men were killed in Kanana Ext 4 in Tembisa during an alleged mob justice attack. The men were allegedly stoned to death by the community in January.

In December last year, seven people were murdered by a mob in Diepsloot, which recorded 35 killings in just three months last year.

Last month during the announcement of the crime stats for the last quarter of 2023, police minister Bheki Cele announced that at least 431 murders were linked to vigilantism and mob justice attacks.

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45b4db No.20526129

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“Bloemfontein land grab: Sanco”

https://youtu.be/ECbWNXtwYcA

Mar 4, 2024

“Bloemfontein land grab: Erected shacks remain for now”

https://www.ofm.co.za/article/centralsa/330679/bloemfontein-land-grab-erected-shacks-remain-for-now-videos-photo-gallery

08:28 Mon, 04 Mar 2024

“The issue of land in terms of accommodating our people across the country, not only in Mangaung, happens to be one the greatest problems the government must attend to.”

The Mayor of the embattled Mangaung Metro, Gregory Nthatisi, said a cluster of shacks erected at Brandkop 702 and Extension 148 near Pellissier in Bloemfontein, will remain for now while the municipality tries to find a lasting solution.

Nthatisi finds himself at the centre of a complex dilemma of immediate humanitarian needs and the pursuit of a lasting solution to the land issue. Nthatisi visited the area on Sunday to address people who were erecting shacks in the area.

“The issue of land in terms of accommodating our people across the country, not only in Mangaung, happens to be one the greatest problems the government must attend to. The land invasion is not a government programme and we are discouraging it – at all costs. However, having found these people trying to erect their shacks here – operating while there is a court interdict in place – working with the police, we had to check what modalities to put in place, in terms of the court interdict that was issued,” he said.

“By law, those who have erected shacks that are standing – we have no right now to remove them until we have a final verdict about what steps to take. We've agreed with the police that some of the shacks that have been erected will be left standing. However, people now have to stop erecting more shacks as it is a subject of the municipality now to make compelling decisions as to what steps we're going to take.”

Nthatisi added that the municipality has no right to remove people who have already erected shacks until the final verdict. However, those who still want to erect shacks in the area are already interdicted, despite attempts to mark their areas.

I will have to go to my teams to look at what answers we must give with regards to the problem we face. I must indicate, that this not only happened in Bloemfontein, but in the entire Mangaung. We recently dealt with it in Botshabelo, Thaba Nchu, and now we’re in Mangaung. So we have decided as Mangaung that we are going to take a lasting solution about how best we can address the issue of provision of land to our people,” added Nthatisi.

Meanwhile, Sanco welcomed the mayor's intervention in Ward 18, which includes Lourier Park. The Regional Secretary, Thabang Teboho, urged residents to exercise patience while waiting for essential services.

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45b4db No.20526578

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>>20457755

“Tackling child kidnappings in South Africa: Chad Thomas”

https://youtu.be/qLP_e9-Sm1A

Mar 6, 2024

Following reports that two cousins were kidnapped in Brits this morning, we look at the effective response to such cases.

How important is the response time in such cases?

Where do investigators begin when it comes to piecing together information?

We are now joined by Chad Thomas, IRS forensic investigator.

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45b4db No.20526583

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“Water shedding: Paying for air | Carte Blanche | M-Net”

https://youtu.be/7fzOCes_vcw

Mar 5, 2024

Johannesburg ratepayers are fed up. For years, residents have fought the City over exorbitant municipal bills. Then the municipality implemented what it calls “water shifting”: switching off some suburbs’ water to supply others. This left residents without water for hours and sometimes even days at a time. But instead of water bills decreasing, many increased dramatically. In several cases, desperate residents checked their meters and found them spinning out of control despite there being no water in the pipes. Carte Blanche investigates why scores of households are literally paying for the air in their water pipes, instead of the water they consume.

11:46 – “In an effort to plan for the influx of people to Jo’burg, the government secured more water from our neighbour Lesotho but that life-saving deal is a decade behind schedule. The planning for Jo’burg’s future hinges the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Its critical Phase 2 was supposed to be concluded in 2019 but it only started last year. Water and Sanitation Minister, Senzo Mchunu, says its estimated completion date is 2027.

12:43 – “We are running out of electricity, we are running out of water. What’s next?

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45b4db No.20526594

>>20451331

>>20452927

>>20452931

>African Development Bank (AfDB)

>>20526583

>The planning for Jo’burg’s future hinges the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Its critical Phase 2 was supposed to be concluded in 2019 but it only started last year.

“NDB Spotlight: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project – Who Benefits?” 1 of 2

https://www.africa.com/ndb-spotlight-the-lesotho-highlands-water-project-who-benefits/

November 7, 2023

Excerpts

The 15th BRICS Summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa this month has once again put the spotlight on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) as a shining example of multilateralism and the New Development Bank’s (NDB)commitment to financing sustainable development projects within BRICS countries and other developing countries. During the 2023 BRICS Summit, the New Development Bank and the Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) signed a 3.2 billion Rands loan agreement for the implementation of Phase Two of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) in Lesotho. This funding complements contributions by other financiers, notably the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).

LHWP is a multi-phased water infrastructure project which involves construction of a number of dams in Lesotho to transfer water to South Africa, while generating hydropower for Lesotho. The entity that is responsible for implementation of LHWP in Lesotho is the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). The TCTA, a state-owned entity charged with financing bulk raw water infrastructure in South Africa, is responsible for financing and building the LHWP.

News of the signing of this agreement was received with some interest and enthusiasm in many quarters in Lesotho, partly because of the participation of Prime Minister Matekane during the Summit, as an observer, and largely due to the perceived benefits of this loan for Basotho.

However, these benefits are not guaranteed for thousands of people and communities directly affected by this project in Lesotho.

LHWP Phase II has garnered its fair share of criticism and controversy recently, for its operations and impact on the people of Polihali, Mokhotlong. These include heavy handed police intervention against people who rightfully express dissent and protest to some aspects of the project or how it is implemented. There are also complaints about the project’s implementing authority, the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA)’s compensation policy. These include unfair compensation amounts to communities which were based on unilaterally determined compensation rates and periods, non-payment of communal compensation which has prevented communities from developing income generating projects, and lack of developments such as provision of water and sanitation for communities.

Implementation of LHWP requires acquisition of land from local communities; it is estimated that 5,000 hectares of land will be flooded by the Polihali Dam.1 This acquisition of land will result in significant negative impacts on the livelihoods and socio-economic status of the local populations. Communities are going to lose arable land, grazing ranges for livestock which is the main store of wealth for communities in the area, medicinal plants, useful grasses and wild vegetables which form the basis of livelihoods for communities.

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45b4db No.20526597

>>20526594

“NDB Spotlight: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project – Who Benefits?” 2 of 2

https://www.africa.com/ndb-spotlight-the-lesotho-highlands-water-project-who-benefits/

November 7, 2023

Excerpts

Another challenge of the construction of this Dam is the required resettlement and / or relocation of communities. It is currently estimated that 270 households and 21 business enterprises will need to be relocated, mainly due to the impoundment of Polihali reservoir.2 About 12 communities will be relocated, and an additional 5 communities will be required to resettle entirely, a process that will have great economic and socio-economic and cultural implications for generations to come. Regrettably, there is no livelihood restoration strategy that has been developed by the LHDA to ameliorate the plight of these communities or at least no such strategy has been shared and/or discussed with communities and their representatives.

In fact, there have been concerning news reports in recent months, of increasing number of gender-based violence cases including teenage pregnancies and girl-child school dropouts, sex work/transactional sex, sexual violation especially of young girls, and increased HIV infection prevalence. These have been linked directly to the influx of immigrant contractors and labour workers who have come to work on the LHWP, continuing a trend which was first observed during implementation of the previous phases of this project.

All eyes are on the former Brazil President, Dilma Rousseff, new President of the NDB on her ability to transform the NDB from a multilateral development bank whose track record appears to be gender neutral towards one can proactively empower women and delivering on gender equality as part of New General Strategy and operations. In a recent statement, Rousseff explained that a priority of the NDB will be to “…promote social inclusion at every opportunity we have.

The NDB has now grown beyond the BRICS countries, and recently included new member countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Egypt and Uruguay and has greater aspirations to add many more countries.

All eyes are now on South Africa and Brazil with leadership from NDB President Rousseff and Minister Pandor to push for stronger and more inclusive development outcomes of the NDB, with women front and centre of all future NDB projects.

The LHWP Phase II is an example of the challenges faced by communities affected by large infrastructure projects with funding from Public Development Banks (PDBs) such as the NDB, AfDB and the DBSA. As the hundreds of PDBs convene at the 4th Finance in Common Summit (FICS) in Cartegena, Colombia on 4-6 September to join forces to transform the financial system towards climate and sustainability, it will be important that PDBs transform their models to be more effective in promoting positive development outcomes for communities.

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45b4db No.20526610

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>>20526583

>The planning for Jo’burg’s future hinges the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Its critical Phase 2 was supposed to be concluded in 2019 but it only started last year. Water and Sanitation Minister, Senzo Mchunu, says its estimated completion date is 2027.

>>20526594

>News of the signing of this agreement was received with some interest and enthusiasm in many quarters in Lesotho, partly because of the participation of Prime Minister Matekane during the Summit, as an observer, and largely due to the perceived benefits of this loan for Basotho.

>>20526597

LHWP started soon after he became Prime Minister?

“BRICS Summit I Statement by Lesotho's Prime Minister, Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane”

https://youtu.be/iVbvrcCFRHY

Aug 25, 2023

“SAMUEL MATEKANE (1968-)”

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/samuel-matekane-1968/

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samuel Matekane became Prime Minister of Lesotho on October 28, 2022. Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane was born on March 15, 1968 in the remote town of Mantsonyane, Lesotho. His parents were Hoohol and Mantuba Matekane and he was the 7th of 14 children. Matekane attended Bocheletsane primary school in his hometown and, later, Mabathoana High School in Maseru the capital of Lesotho.

In 1980 Matekane started a business importing donkeys from South Africa and selling them in Lesotho. A few years later he expanded his business into manufacturing bricks and then mining and selling sand. He further expanded his business interests into transportation, construction, and property development.

In 1992 Matekane consolidated his ventures into the Matekane Group of Companies. Twelve years later, in 2004 he created the Matekane Mining Investment Company which is involved in diamond mining in Lesotho. In 2009 he turned his attention to aviation by creating a small airline after becoming the first Mosotho (citizen of Lesotho) to own an aircraft. Today he is considered the wealthiest person in Lesotho. His business acumen has been widely praised and in 2021 he was awarded Forbes Best Africa Entrepreneur Award.

Matekane is also highly regarded for to his philanthropic endeavors. He created the Sam Matekane Foundation. He has donated funds for local community development, scholarships for students from primary to university level, and promoted soccer by building a football stadium in Lesotho. He has donated ambulances, ICU beds and wheelchairs to hospitals throughout the country. During the COVID-19 pandemic be provided testing equipment, vaccines and medical necessities to hospitals and clinics in Lesotho.

In March 2022 Matekane announced he was entering politics by forming a new political party, Revolution for Prosperity. He spent freely during campaign and used his personal helicopter to campaign throughout the country. His “rags to riches” life story attracted voters along with his promise to make Lesotho great.

In the 2022 general election Matekane’s party won 56 seats in the National Assembly; just five seats shy of a outright majority. His party formed a coalition with two smaller parties and Matekane became Prime Minster on October 28, 2022.

Matekane has promised to fight corruption in Lesotho. He plans to lower the government debt and hopes to create jobs to boost employment in Lesotho. He has also promised not to take a government salary as Prime Minister. Matekane is the father of seven children and several grandchildren.

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45b4db No.20526628

>>20526610

>Samuel Matekane became Prime Minister of Lesotho on October 28, 2022.

>>20526594

>These include heavy handed police intervention against people who rightfully express dissent and protest to some aspects of the project or how it is implemented.

“European Union Election Observation Mission LESOTHO 2022 Final Report”

https://www.eisa.org/pdf/les2022eu1.pdf

7 October 2022

Lesotho has acceded to all major international and regional Human Rights Conventions and Treaties. The legal framework, comprising the 1993 Constitution and the 2011 Electoral Act, remained unchanged since the 2017 elections. The Constitution contains provisions for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms and against discrimination including freedom of expression, assembly, and association. The Parliament has not yet enacted the necessary legislation to implement some of those overarching provisions in defence of fundamental rights and freedoms. The outgoing Parliament did not manage to finalise a long-standing legal reform process, under the auspices of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and with financial support from the European Union (EU). Despite constitutional provisions, a pluralistic, independent and effective Human Rights Commission has not yet been established.

The EU EOM identified 52 posts (10.4 per cent) containing misleading or false information categorized as ‘’unverified claims’’ out of 502 posts analysed from 123 public groups and 41 anonymous media news pages on Facebook.

RFP was the most targeted party with 31 posts (60 per cent), followed by DC with 10 posts (19 per cent) and ABC with six posts (12 per cent). Some of these posts contained accusations to discredit RFP leader such as ‘’DC supporters say RFP leader is a greedy killer who murdered his wife`s boyfriend.’’ However, specific searches using keywords in CrowdTangle showed that none of the ‘’unverified claims’’ went viral on social media.

The EU EOM identified 31 cases of misleading or false information categorized as ‘’unverified claims’’ (10 per cent) out of 300 posts analysed from Facebook Groups.

Most of them were targeted towards RFP with 24 posts (77 per cent), followed by DC with four posts (13 per cent). The EU EOM identified the Facebook groups MOCHOCHONONO NEWS SUPPORTERS (162k), Revolution For Prosperity (RFP) likhethong 2022, (97 k) and PARAMENTENG EA LESOTHO (120k) as the ones containing most negative statements against RFP Leader Matekane. Within these groups, the EU EOM identified three Facebook profiles created between July and September 2022 actively discrediting RFP Leader Matekane accusing him of being “cruel’’ and ‘’killer’’.

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45b4db No.20526636

>>20526583

>>20526594

>>20526597

>>20526610

>>20526628

“EU, SADC applaud Lesotho for free elections”

https://maserumetro.com/news/politics/eu-sadc-applaud-lesotho-for-free-elections/

Oct. 10, 2022

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CHIEF Observer of the European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) to Lesotho, Ignazio Corrao has lauded the country for holding a free and fair election that he says was conducted in a transparent manner.

–He said among others, IEC staff acted professionally by displaying strong dedication to their duties.

The EU EOM, he said deployed 87 international observers to all the 10 districts, covering all 80 constituencies, adding that they visited 371 out of 3,149 stations polling stations.–

The Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs of the Republic of Namibia, Frans Kapofi who headed the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) said they deployed 40 observers across the country and visited 158 polling stations on election day to observe the opening, voting, closing and counting procedures in their areas of deployment with 54% in urban and 46% in rural areas.

Mr Kapofi also commended the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) for their commitment and professionalism depicted throughout the process.

The Commonwealth representative and former president of Seychelles, Danny Faure also commended Lesotho, saying it had indeed outdone itself in conducting free and fair elections.

He said as the Commonwealth, they recommended that the IEC should review the procedures for compilation of the voter register to better ensure its reliability, in particular as regards duplicates, removal of deceased persons, and inclusion of youth.

They also recommended IEC's policies to facilitate assisted voters to persons with disability, seniors, and other groups in prioritising or helping them in order to make their votes also count. - LeNA

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45b4db No.20527256

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>>20526636

>The Commonwealth representative and former president of Seychelles, Danny Faure also commended Lesotho, saying it had indeed outdone itself in conducting free and fair elections.

TALK AFRICA: A Conversation with President Danny Faure

https://youtu.be/EpjTltzhy3M

“Mr. Danny Faure, Former President of the Republic of Seychelles”

https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/Danny_Rollen_Faure_Resume_ENG_%28May2022%29.pdf

Danny Antoine Rollen Faure was born on 8th May, 1962 to Seychellois parents in Kilembe, Uganda. He has five children.

After completing his primary and secondary education in Seychelles, he pursued further studies in Cuba where he graduated with a Degree in Political Science.

Upon his return to Seychelles in 1985, he worked as an Assistant Curriculum Officer with the Ministry of Education and Lecturer at both the National Youth Service and the Seychelles Polytechnic. In June 1989, he was appointed Director of the National Youth Service. As a young man, Danny Faure worked with the Seychelles People’s Progressive Front. He became the Chairman of its Youth Wing and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Party. In June 2009, he was appointed Secretary General of the Party.

With the return of Multi-Party in Seychelles in 1993, Danny Faure was appointed Leader of Government Business of the majority Party in the National Assembly, a post he served for five years (from 1993 to 1998). Danny Faure was first appointed as Minister in April 1998 when he became Minister for Education. In 2001, he assumed the role of Minister for Education and Youth until July 2006. He was appointed Minister for Finance in 2006 and was assigned portfolio responsibilities for Trade in July 2007 and Industries in August 2009. Danny Faure was appointed Designated Minister in April 2004 up to June 2010. He oversaw the implementation of the first generation of reforms under the macro economic reform programme which started in October 2008 and directed the second generation of reforms as part of the on-going economic programme.

In July 2010, Danny Faure was appointed Vice-President of the Republic of Seychelles holding Ministerial portfolios for Finance and Trade, Public Administration, and Information Communication Technology. During his time as Vice-President, Danny Faure spearheaded the development of a comprehensive framework for early childhood care and development which was one of the most advanced childhood education and care programme among developing nations.

Danny Faure served as the fourth President of the Republic of Seychelles from 16th October 2016 until 26th October 2020. In November 2018, Mr. Faure’s commitment and leadership towards ocean sustainability and protection was recognised by the African Union (AU) where he was announced as the Champion for the Development of the Blue Economy. In June 2019, he was awarded the National Geographic Society’s ‘Planetary and Leadership Award’.

On 8th June 2021, Former President Faure launched the ‘Danny Faure Foundation’ (DFF) , a nongovernmental organisation of which he is the Founding Chair. The DFF is dedicated to joining the local and global community in tackling the pressing issues of our times to attain a more just, equitable, sustainable and healthier planet for generations to come. Through collaborative partnerships, the DFF realises its mission by focusing on five strategic pillars that are necessary for sustainable development notably Ocean Governance, the Blue Economy, Transparency, Accountability and Good Governance (TAGG), Leadership and Gender Equality, and Youth.

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45b4db No.20527261

>>20527256

>After completing his primary and secondary education in Seychelles, he pursued further studies in Cuba where he graduated with a Degree in Political Science.

Danny Faure in Cuba

https://kreolmagazine.com/culture/features/challenge-change-and-community-with-president-faure-the-president-who-puts-community-and-creole-values-at-the-heart-of-all-he-does/

February 27, 2020

This newfound interest in politics put the President at odds with Father Lafortune, who pushed him to work for eternal peace in Heaven, while politics pushed him to work for social justice on Earth. However, after listening to a rousing speech by France-Albert René on the radio, the decision was made. He set out for Cuba, drawn by the opportunity of seeing an experiment in social justice unfolding before his very eyes. On arriving he enrolled in an international school to study politics, with the aim of getting into teaching politics.

His own international education has seen him attending schools in Uganda, the Seychelles, and Cuba. It was in Cuba that he found himself amongst people from nations and backgrounds he’d never seen before. Orphans from Angola, men from Mozambique who had lost everything in the war, and people from Palestine, Namibia and South Africa whose parents had been killed. Tragedy surrounded him. Equally, his peers included the wealthy and privileged children of diplomats and Presidents from across the world, and students from across Latin America. All of these groups came together in the fantastic melting pot of this Cuban international school. While Cuba was ruled by Fidel Castro, the President observed of him: “I saw a man wanting to have justice, social justice”, in the same way that he did. It was a wonderful experience, and the President remembers fondly, “I love Cuba, I love the culture, I love the dance, the romance.”

There was indeed a great romance in Cuba, and to the delight of President Faure, his Cuban partner gave birth to his first child – a daughter, who shared both her father and grandfather’s ethic of hard work and study, and is now a specialist doctor. Due to his staunchly Catholic values, the President initially wrestled with guilt at having a child born out of wedlock, but his immense love for his daughter easily quashed any misgivings.

Seeing the difference he could make to so many young lives through education, especially as a tool for personal empowerment, the President returned to the Seychelles in 1985, taking a role as an Assistant Curriculum Officer in the Seychelles Education Ministry, beginning his career in the Seychelles government.

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45b4db No.20527277

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>>20526636

>The Commonwealth representative and former president of Seychelles, Danny Faure

>>20527256

>>20527261

The Commonwealth

https://thecommonwealth.org/about-us

The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries.

It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 33 of our members are small states, including many island nations.

Our member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace. Our values and principles are expressed in the Commonwealth Charter.

The Commonwealth's roots go back to the British Empire.

https://thecommonwealth.org/history

Over time different countries of the British Empire gained different levels of freedom from Britain. Semi-independent countries were called Dominions. Leaders of the Dominions attended conferences with Britain from 1887.

The 1926 Imperial Conference was attended by the leaders of Australia, Canada, India, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, New Zealand and South Africa.

At the 1926 conference Britain and the Dominions agreed that they were all equal members of a community within the British Empire. They all owed allegiance to the British king or queen, but the United Kingdom did not rule over them. This community was called the British Commonwealth of Nations or just the Commonwealth.

The Dominions and other territories of the British Empire gradually became fully independent of the United Kingdom.

King George VI was the first Head of the Commonwealth, and Queen Elizabeth II became Head when he died. But the British king or queen is not automatically Head of the Commonwealth. Commonwealth member countries choose who becomes Head of the Commonwealth.

The last four countries to join the Commonwealth - Mozambique, Rwanda, Gabon and Togo - have no historical ties to the British Empire.

https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries

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45b4db No.20527282

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>>20527277

What is the Commonwealth? - BBC What's New

https://youtu.be/aWsvHuuV-qE

Feb 1, 2021

It's the second biggest inter-country organisation about after the United Nations, with a third of people in the world living in it.

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45b4db No.20527287

>>20527282

>>20527277

>>20527261

>>20527256

>>20526636

Danny Faure led teams to observe elections in Maldives, Antigua, Barbuda and Lesotho

Danny Faure, Former President of the Republic of Seychelles to lead Commonwealth Observers for Elections in Maldives

https://thecommonwealth.org/news/danny-faure-former-president-republic-seychelles-lead-commonwealth-observers-elections

22 August 2023

Former President of Seychelles, H.E. Danny Faure, will lead a team of Commonwealth election observers to Antigua and Barbuda for the country’s general election, scheduled for 18 January 2023.

https://thecommonwealth.org/news/commonwealth-team-observe-antigua-and-barbudas-2023-general-election

05 January 2023

The Commonwealth will deploy a team to observe the general elections in Lesotho, scheduled for 7 October, 2022. The group will be led by the former president of Seychelles, His Excellency Danny Faure.

https://thecommonwealth.org/news/commonwealth-observe-lesothos-general-elections

08 September 2022

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45b4db No.20527289

>>20527256

>>20527261

>>20527277

>>20527282

>>20527287

“Danny Faure named Chair of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth of Learning”

https://www.col.org/news/danny-faure-named-chair-of-the-board-of-governors-of-the-commonwealth-of-learning/

02 Mar, 2023

His Excellency Danny Faure, the Former President of the Republic of Seychelles has been named Chair of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on 2 March 2023.

As Minister of Education at the Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) held in 2000, HE Danny Faure mooted the idea of the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) and at the next CCEM held three years later, strongly advocated for COL to be the lead agency in implementing this initiative. He continued his interest and support for VUSSC through other cabinet posts and at international forums as a champion for small states.

COL President and CEO, Professor Asha Kanwar, commented on the appointment, “It is with great pleasure that I welcome His Excellency Danny Faure as the Chair of the COL Board of Governors. His wisdom and vast experience in education and sustainable development will add great value as COL continues to serve the Commonwealth.”

HE Danny Faure became the Fourth President of the Republic of Seychelles on 16 October 2016 where he served for four years. During his tenure, President Faure designated 30% of the Seychelles’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as Marine Protected Areas, making Seychelles a leader in marine protection. He inspired COL to advance the concept of the blue economy which was still in its infancy at the time. HE Faure was recognised by the African Union as “Champion for the Development of the Blue Economy” at the 11th Extraordinary AU Assembly Session in Addis Ababa in 2018. A year later, he was also awarded the National Geographic Society’s prestigious “Planetary and Leadership Award” at a National Geographic Awards Ceremony at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

His Excellency is currently the Patron and Chairperson of the Danny Faure Foundation which was launched in 2021 to promote sustainable development. He was made an Honorary Member of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa in 2022.

HE Danny Faure represented Africa on the COL Board of Governors from January 2014 to December 2016 during his tenure as Vice President of the Republic of Seychelles.

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45b4db No.20527308

>>20527261

>However, after listening to a rousing speech by France-Albert René on the radio, the decision was made. [Danny Faure] set out for Cuba

>President returned to the Seychelles in 1985, taking a role as an Assistant Curriculum Officer in the Seychelles Education Ministry, beginning his career in the Seychelles government.

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>>20527287

>>20527289

“Seychelles: The $50m scandal explained”

https://lexpress.mu/node/402539

December 13, 2021, 9:00 p.m.

Excerpts

Corruption, a botched privatization, a change in government, money from the Gulf, a former first lady arrested, a cache of arms and underlying fears of a coup. Seychelles is being rocked by the scandal of the missing $50 million.

Prominent Seychellois businessman and former political ally of late president Albert René, who ruled the country between 1977 and 2004, Mukesh Valabhji, was arrested in November along with his wife, Laura Valabhji, over a long-running scandal of $50 million missing from government coffers . Since then, the crisis has snowballed leading to more arrests, including that of René's widow and key political figures of the René regime.

The story of the $50 million starts in 2002, when the Seychellois economy was going through a balance of payments crisis fueled by heavy state spending, a lackluster tourism industry and strict controls on foreign exchange. Between 2000 and 2001, the country's foreign reserves had shrunk from $43.7 million to $30.2 million, the trade deficit doubled, and foreign debt galloping from an average of 30 percent of GDP between 1990 and 1998, to 74 percent of GDP by 2002. By that time, Seychelles had become one of the world's most indebted countries in per capita terms, mostly to the Paris Club and the African Development Bank. To help see Seychelles through this crisis, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) gifted the country $50 million to help the Seychelles Marketing Board (SMB) (today the Seychelles Trading Company) pay for its food imports. The problem was that none of the money actually made it to the government. Rather, it was allegedly siphoned off into a bank account at a Bank of Baroda branch in the UK. Referring to the case, Seychelles' Chief Justice Ronny Govinden said in court, “The funds were misappropriated and never included in the accounts of the Republic of Seychelles and as such were never available for their intended purpose, which was to assist in the national balance of payment deficit.”

After the arrest of the Valabhjis, a string of other arrests swiftly followed, turning it into a scandal that threatened to decapitate the old guard of the United Seychelles (US) – the successor of René's old SPUP. And this at a time when the US has found itself out of power for the first time since 1977 after it lost to Wavel Ramkalawan's LDS in October 2020. Since coming into power, despite having initially been conciliatory towards the US and former president Danny Faure, Ramkalawan has embarked on a much firmer line against it.

Also currently under arrest is Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, who in 2016 was made tourism minister to replace Alain St.-Ange, who left the post to try and become the Secretary General of the UN's World Tourism Organization only to successfully sue the Seychelles' government for $507,000 after it abruptly withdrew his backing for the post. In 2018, Loustau-Lalanne was made finance minister and – the problem for the US – he was handpicked by Danny Faure to be his running mate as vice-president in the 2020 election. A position seen as a step towards presidency and leadership of the US – after all, Faure's predecessor, James Michel, was René's vice-president, and Faure was Michel's.

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45b4db No.20527319

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“Sun and Shadows: How an Island Paradise Became a Haven for Dirty Money”: Seychelles

https://roape.net/2021/02/04/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-south-african-involvement-in-the-1986-seychelles-coup-plot/

February 4, 2021

If ever there was a place for which Somerset Maugham’s epithet about a “sunny place for shady people” was apposite, it is the Seychelles.[1] As a recent study remarked: “Seychelles, a thousand miles from anywhere, is an offshore magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.” Situated in the Indian Ocean, the 115 islands are 1,500 kilometres east of Africa. They lie on the major trade routes between Asia, Africa and Europe, and are also strategically near the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. No wonder they have been of interest to all the major powers. At the same time the Seychelles authorities have normally turned a blind eye to questionable financing. The most recent example of this saw a British businessman threatened with losing his castle after a judge questioned the probity of his Seychelles registered company. [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/simon-giles-rich-man-in-his-castle-is-facing-eviction-over-dirty-money-claims-7r28smq3m]

https://www.icij.org/investigations/offshore/sun-and-shadows-how-island-paradise-became-haven-dirty-money/

June 3, 2014

Eventually they made their way to the offices of Zen Offshore, one of dozens of firms on the islands that set up hard-to-trace “shell companies” for clients around the world. They explained that they represented an individual who served as a “liaison officer between the Zimbabwean government and the rich diamond mines.”

For anyone who understands the nexus of corruption and money laundering in resource-rich, economically poor countries, this statement should have raised suspicions. But before they could go further, a Zen Offshore representative cut them off.

“Yep, we don’t want to know that,” he said, chuckling. “If we have knowledge of that, we have to put it forwards. So I haven’t heard a word you said in the last couple of minutes.”

The operative went on to explain how the pair could set up a company in Seychelles and hide the identity of who was really behind it by creating a labyrinthine ownership structure, putting “a company inside a company inside a company.”

The Seychellois company would be controlled by a company in Dominica, which would be controlled by a company in Belize, and so on. Anyone trying to discover the real owner would never be able to follow the paper trail around the world.

The conversation can be quoted in exact detail because the would-be customers weren’t actually emissaries for a corrupt middleman in Africa. They were undercover journalists running a hidden-camera sting for an Al Jazeera television program. [“It just so happens that the pair’s enquiries take place in the Seychelles but, as they discover to their horror, they could just as easily be in any one of a number of offshore locations (or even in the major cities of Europe and the US) where anonymous companies can be set up for the express purpose of secretly moving money and keeping its origins hidden from prying eyes.” http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/11/201211714649852604.html.]

Their documentary, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAO035ivjUw, the message, “This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Terms of Service”] which aired soon after their visit, produced a ripple of scandal in one of the world’s most remote offshore havens, a place that’s gained a reputation as a magnet for Arab princes, Chinese investors, pirates, fugitives, mercenaries, mobsters — and outlanders who want to hide their money or disguise their business activities.

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45b4db No.20527344

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>This brief confirms that the US Embassy is part of the US intelligence community

“Seychelles and South Africa Strengthen Ties in 3rd Joint Commission for Cooperation (JCC) Mid-Term Review” – “After a 27-year hiatus, the USA reopened its embassy in Seychelles”

https://bnnbreaking.com/politics/seychelles-and-south-africa-strengthen-ties-in-3rd-joint-commission-for-cooperation-jcc-mid-term-review/

21 Oct 2023 06:40 EST

From the bustling cityscape of Pretoria, South Africa, to the serene beaches of Seychelles, an intricate dance of diplomacy is in full swing. On October 16-17, 2023, the mid-term review of the 3rd Joint Commission for Cooperation (JCC) between Seychelles and South Africa took place, marking a significant milestone in the relationship between these two nations.

The Seychellois delegation, led by the resident high commissioner, Claude Morel, sat across the table from South Africa's delegation, headed by Ambassador Tebogo Seokolo. The setting was not simply a meeting room, but a stage where the future of bilateral relations between these nations was being shaped. The agenda was comprehensive, touching on decisions made during the 3rd JCC held in Seychelles in 2022, evaluating their implementation, and identifying the challenges encountered.

It was not just about looking back. The delegates peered into the future, laying down timelines for the implementation of various cross-sectoral decisions. The goal: is to further strengthen the ties that bind Seychelles and South Africa. An agreement was reached to sign 14 memoranda of understanding in priority areas during the 4th JCC scheduled for 2024, signalling the nation's commitment to mutual progress.

Rekindling Diplomatic Relations: The USA and Seychelles

Parallel to the ongoing negotiations with South Africa, Seychelles saw a resurgence of diplomatic ties with the United States of America (USA). After a 27-year hiatus, the USA reopened its embassy in Seychelles, marking a return to a full-time diplomatic presence. The move is expected to facilitate easier access to embassy services for Seychellois citizens and streamline visa renewals within Seychelles, further enhancing the nation's global engagement.

In conclusion, these developments underscore the crucial role of bilateral and regional cooperation, infrastructure development, and diplomatic relations in promoting peace, stability, and economic growth in Southern Africa. The relentless pursuit of these objectives, despite the challenges, is a testament to the resilience and determination of these nations, lighting the way for a brighter, more peaceful future.

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cca204 No.20530361

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“Ekurhuleni downgraded to junk status, Tshwane placed on review”

https://youtu.be/EioDGQOnBAY

Mar 7, 2024

The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs says it is engaging Tshwane and Ekurhuleni officials following a decision by ratings agency Moody's to downgrade Ekurhuleni to junk status and place Tshwane on review. The decision comes after the two metros failed to submit their audited financial statements to the JSE last month. Both municipalities have committed to handing over the statements by the end of March. Local government expert Dr Harlan Cloete weighs in

2:49 – “Ekurhuleni is home to Africa’s biggest aviation hub, Oliver Tambo International Airport, and Tswane is the country’s administrative capital.

11:22 – “Before 1994, to destroy somehow is more easier than to build. Building is complex. If you look at the ANC , it has struggled from a revolutionary party into a modern party.

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cca204 No.20530363

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“'It's an issue around money’ - SA special forces leave government for private security business”

https://youtu.be/8CVbjzFhJhs

Mar 6, 2024

Eyewitness News looks into why so many highly qualified specialised police are leaving government behind for greener pastures in the private industry.

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cca204 No.20530368

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“MK Party Threatens Civil War and Anarchy if Denied 2024 elections Rights, Warns Visvin Reddy”

https://youtu.be/8jNzrGz0xWY

Mar 6, 2024

“Hear me very carefully, this country will be turned into civil war the day the #mkpartyis not allowed to campaign and to be on the ballot paper. No one will vote we will make sure that no one will vote” MK Party Visvin Reddy

“We are sending a loud and clear message that if these courts stop Mk there will be anarchy in this country there will be Riots like you've never seen in this country” Visvin Reddy

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cca204 No.20530661

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A pissed off South African!

“ANC has destroyed South Africa || Julius Malema border policy || Taxi violence and Crime!”

https://youtu.be/cwWrFIjSwZ4

Mar 7, 2024

0:28 – “The past 3 days, we haven’t had water in the area [Jo’burg].”

10:42 – “We live in a mafia banana State and if you guys don’t see it. If us as a community don’t come together, it’s us the people of beautiful South Africa that come together because these leaders are fucking destroying shit and they’re enriching their own fucking pockets. Guys, come on. They split us on racial lines. They have your white person and your black person fight. They have the man and the woman fight. They split us, Zulu vs Pedi. They have us fight while the top motherfuckers they in bed together. Steenhuizen and fucking Malema’s kids go to the same schools, bro.

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3f5110 No.20531756

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There's that Paris Club again

Paris Club

by Nanditha Saravanakumar

The Paris Club or the Club de Paris is an informal group of creditor nations established in 1956 in the French capital of Paris. The objective of this group is to address and arrive at solutions for the various debt and payment issues faced by debtor nations.

The club consists of two types of participants – members and observers. The members are the creditor nations, who send officials to attend the meetings. The observers are international institutions, NGOs, and other countries. As of 2022, the group had 22 member nations, most of which were OECD countries.

Members

Club de Paris currently has 22 members as of 2022, most of whom belong to the organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD). Here’s a list of the Paris club countries:

France

United States

Israel

Japan

Australia

Spain

Netherlands

Canada

Sweden

South Korea

Italy

Belgium

Germany

Ireland

Norway

Austria

Finland

United Kingdom

Denmark

Brazil

Russia

Switzerland

Functions

The main function of the Paris Club is to help the debtor nations with their payment problems. This is achieved in two ways – first, by offering credit facilities to eligible countries, provided they satisfy some conditions. Secondly, they support indebted countries by offering them solutions. This would, in turn, help the nations become more eligible to receive loans by making them more creditworthy. The Club de Paris functions to avert any debt crisis that might arise.

The group supports debtor countries undertaking financial and macroeconomic reforms by providing debt treatment. This is done through debt rescheduling or relief by postponement or debt service obligation reduction. Either way, this can be a huge relief for debt-ridden countries. The Paris club functions with six important principles: case-by-case, consensus, conditionality, solidarity, comparability of treatment, and information sharing.

Difference Between Paris Club And London Club

The London club is another informal group that was founded in 1976. It is similar to the Paris club, except for banks lending to countries instead of other countries. London club meeting procedures are similar to the Paris club but are mostly prolonged due to the higher membership.

Another difference between the two clubs is that major clients of the London club belong to Latin America and Asia. In contrast, the Club de Paris gets its clients from Sub-Saharan Africa. However, among the two, the latter is believed to be more proactive regarding debt rescheduling practices.

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4546fa No.20536065

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“Black On Black”

https://youtu.be/J1CYNxg_pgc

Mar 4, 2024

Politicians have convinced us to fight against each other, meanwhile we should be fighting against them and their inhumane actions towards us!

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9111e9 No.20537474

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>[Naledi Pandor:] So again we need to revive international solidarity as a pillar, we need to revive underground as a pillar, we need to revive armed struggle as a pillar and we need to ensure mass struggle as a pillar

>>20379836

>We rise to you as we did with Naledi Pandor’s father who was a mentor of mine in exile. A leader of our Communist Party then and of the ANC

>>20395003

“Minister Naledi Pandor co-chairs South Africa-Ghana Bi-National Commission, 11 Mar”

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/minister-naledi-pandor-co-chairs-south-africa-ghana-bi-national-commission-11-mar/ar-BB1jy2iT

Story by South African Official News • 9h

07 Mar 2024 (Government of South Africa) The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, will co-chair the Ministerial Segment of the South Africa-Ghana Bi-National Commission (BNC) with her counterpart, Ms Shirley Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana; on Monday, 11 March 2024.

The BNC provides an opportunity to strengthen and consolidate cooperation between the two countries and to exchange views on the latest developments in their regions, particularly in the areas of peace, security and economic development. Furthermore, the BNC will follow up on progress made in the implementation of the decisions taken during the inaugural session held in December 2021.

South Africa and Ghana share historical relations dating back to the days of the fights against colonialism and apartheid. Bilateral relations between the two countries have since grown exponentially. South Africa is one of the significant foreign direct investors in Ghana. There are over 100 South African companies registered in Ghana such as MTN, AngloGold Ashanti, Shoprite, Goldfields, Standard Bank, First National Bank, Barclays/Absa, Multichoice and South African Airways. These companies are employing more than 1 900 Ghanaians and 510 expatriates.

Over the past 10 years, South African companies have undertaken over 170 projects in Ghana, valued at approximately USD$1,4 billion in capital investment. South African companies are actively involved in the Ghanaian mining industry.

Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc.

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9111e9 No.20537502

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“Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president”: Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela

https://youtu.be/J9fVtdvx8Sc

Feb 14, 2024

The tension started within the ANC when Thabo Mbeki tried to prevent Jacob Zuma from becoming President.

5:24 – “Well our position at the National Intelligence Agency, I’m saying that because I was the Director General there, and the position of the Minister of Intelligence at the time, that was Lindiwe Sisulu, was that we should try and avoid by all means that the President of the country, that was Thabo Mbeki, should be seen in any way to be favouring the removal of Zuma as his Deputy. That he must bend over backwards to actually show the country the Alliance, the ANC that is not his intention to do that because our assessment was that if that is the perception that was going to divide the ANC down the middle, was going to divide the alliance down the middle and if the ANC is divided and is weakened, then as a governing party that is going to impact on governance and the rest of the things… When [Thabo Mbeki] was going to address parliament… I was crossing my fingers as I was sitting there that he shouldn’t conclude by saying he’s going to fire his Deputy because this is what we feared the most… but we all know that he actually fired [Jacob Zuma] in that speech.

8:06 – “Our assessment was that this now is going to create the real problem in the ANC. So that’s what happened.”

8:20 – “Yes, Polokwane [2007] was inevitable. When Zuma was fired, that set the tone for confrontation. 2009 also was inevitable. 2008 September also was inevitable when Thabo Mbeki is now recalled.”

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9111e9 No.20537521

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>Well our position at the National Intelligence Agency, I’m saying that because I [Vusi Mavimbela] was the Director General there

“Mavimbela: BRICS expansion proved a lot of naysayers wrong” – “more and more [Brazilian] people declare themselves as black”

https://youtu.be/M8ujCXY32co

Aug 24, 2023

SA's ambassador to Brazil, Vusi Mavimbela, says the BRICS expansion proved a lot of naysayers wrong.

5:18 – “I must say that to a very large extent, thanks to the leadership of President Lula and his Worker’s Party, and of course before him the process was already started in way with the former President Bolsonaro as to affirm an Afro Braziliars, black people in Brazil. You know the consequence of that, census after census in Brazil, more and more people declare themselves as black, as Afro Brazilian, that number has been increasing. The reason why it has been increasing is because there’s now affirmative action for black people… with President Lula’s articulation of this issue of blackness and the need to affirm blackness… The last census is that 54 to 55% of Brazilians are actually Africans, originally from Africa.”

Remember the Chinese in South Africa, among others, have also been classified as ‘black’ to receive benefits

“South Africa Chinese Citizens Reclassified As Blacks”

https://guardianlv.com/2014/04/south-africa-chinese-citizens-reclassified-as-blacks/

April 16, 2014

Chinese citizens of South Africa are once again being reclassified as blacks by the ruling government. A ruling by a high court in South Africa last week brought the reclassification of the Chinese people of South Africa into law and termed their race as black. The black term used in South Africa refers to Africans, Indians and other citizens who were discriminated against under the white apartheid rule.

https://serr.co.za/who-qualifies-as-black-in-terms-of-the-b-bbee-act-no-set-criteria-to-determine-racial

June 14, 2019

On 18 June 2008, the Chinese Association of South Africa approached the High Court with a request that South African Chinese people be included in the definition of “black people”. This relief was granted and, as such, “black people” for purposes of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) now refers to Africans, Coloureds, Indians and Chinese people.

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9111e9 No.20537526

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“Vusi Mavimbela Biography”: Former DG of National Intelligence Agency – Part 1

https://celebritybaze.com.ng/vusi-mavimbela-biography/

Vusi Mavimbela is a South African politician, diplomat, and author. He was a former soldier of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), and spent many years in exile during the apartheid era.

He later served as a top administrator and counsellor in the offices of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, two former presidents of South Africa.

We also worked as an ambassador to several countries, including Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland. He wrote a memoir titled Time Is Not the Measure, which chronicles his life and experiences in the struggle for liberation and democracy.

Vusi Mabimbela was born in 1954 in Vryheid, a town in norther KwaZulu-Natal, where he grew up in a large and poor family. He attended local schools and showed a keen interest in reading and writing from an early age. He also developed a political consciousness and joined the ANC Youth League when he was 15 years old.

In 1973, he enrolled at the University of Zululand to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree in African Studies and Political Science. He became involved in student politics and activism, and was elected as the president of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) branch on campus.

He also befriended Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, and was influenced by his ideas and vision. He participated in several protests and campaigns against the apartheid regime, and faced harassment and detention by the security forces.

In 1976, after the Soweto uprising, he decided to leave the country and join the ANC in exile. He crossed the border into Mozambique, where he met other young activists such as Solomon Mahlangu, Thomas Masuku, and Stephen Nkosi.

He underwent military training at the ANC’s camps in Angola, and became a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. He also received political education and intelligence training from the ANC and its allies in the Soviet Union and East Germany.

In 1981, he was sent to the United States as aprt of the ANC’s diplomatic mission. He studied at the Columbia University in New York, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs. He also travelled across the country, giving speeches and raising awareness and support for the ANC and the anti-apartheid struggle.

He met many influential figures, such as Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Randall Robinson, and forced strong ties with the African American community and other progressive groups. He returned to Africa in 1985, and continued to work for the ANC in various capacities until the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections in 1994.

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9111e9 No.20537535

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“Vusi Mavimbela Biography”: Former DG of National Intelligence Agency – Part 2

https://celebritybaze.com.ng/vusi-mavimbela-biography/

Mavimbela’s first major assignment after returning from exile in 1994 was to head the ANC’s Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS), which was responsible for the security of the ANC leaders and members, as well as the integration of the former liberation fighters into the new South African National Defence Force (SANDF). He also played a key role in the establishment of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which took over the domestic intelligence functions o fthe former National Intelligence Service (NIS). He was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of the NIA in 1995, and later as the Director-General in 1999.

As the head of the NIA, Mavimbela oversaw the collection, analysis, and dissemination of the domestic intelligence to protect the national security and interests of South Africa. He also coordinated the intelligence cooperation and exchange with other countries and regional bodies, such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU).

He was involved in the several peace and security initiatives, such as the mediation efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Sudan. He also dealt with various challenges and threats, such as rise of crime, corruption, terrorism, and espionage.

In 2005, Mavimbela left the NIA and jointed the Presidency as the Director-General and Secretary of the Cabinet. He served under President Thabo Mbeki, and later under President Kgalema Motlanthe, who succeeded Mbeki after his controversial recall by the ANC in 2008.

Mavimbela was the chief administrator and advisor of the Presidency, and was responsible for ensuring the effective functioning and coordination of the government departments and agencies. He also facilitated the communication and consultation between the Presidency and other stakeholders, such as the Parliament, the judiciary, the civil society and the media.

In 2009, Mavimbela was appointed as the Ambassador to Zimbabwe by President Jacob Zuma, who replaced Motlanthe after the general elections. He became the first ambassador to Zimbabwe since the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) between the ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC parties, following the disputed elections in 2008.

Mavimbela’s main task was to support and monitor the implementation of the Global Political Agreement (GPS), which was brokered by South Africa and the SADC to end the political crisis and violence in Zimbabwe. He also worked to strengthen the bilateral relations and cooperation between South Africa and Zimbabwe, especially in the areas of trade, investment, tourism, and infrastructure.

In 2013, Mavimbela was transferred to Swaziland as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Eswatini, as it is officially know. He represented South Africa’s interest and values in the small landlocked country, which is ruled by King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch. He also engaged with the Swazi government and civi society on various issues, such as human rights, democracy, governance, and development. –He also promoted the regional integration and solidarity within the SADC and the AU, and advocated for the resolution of the conflicts and disputes in the continent.

In 2017, Mavimbela was appointed as the Ambassador to Egypt. He is the head of the South African mission in Cairo, and the accredited representative to the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Arab League, and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).

Vusi Mavimbela got married to his wife, Nomsa, in 1982, while he was studying in the United States as part of the ANC’s diplomatic mission. They have four children, two sons and two daughters, who were born in different countries during their exile.

Their eldest daughter, Kalushi, was named after Solomon Mahlangu, a fellow MK soldier and friend of Mavimbela, who was executed by the apartheid regime in 1979. Their second daughter, Nandi, was named after Nandi Mandela, the daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Their sons are Vusi Junior and Thabo [named after Thabo Mbeki?].

Vusi Mavimbela has an estimated net worth of $36 million USD as of 2024.

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9111e9 No.20537574

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>>20537535

“Interview with the Ambassador of South Africa to Brazil, Your Excellency Mavimbela” – Part 1

https://www.doisniveis.com/2n-entrevistas/entrevista-com-o-embaixador-da-africa-do-sul-no-brasil-v-ex-a-mavimbela/

June 2, 2021

The overlapping nature of our histories brings the BRICS countries together. This history distinguishes the BRICS countries from the traditional powers. It is a history of struggle against colonialism, exploitation and underdevelopment in the spirit of Bandung, as expressed in the first ever Asia-Africa Conference in 1955. [“Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states—organized by Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan—which took place April 18–24, 1955, in Bandung, Indonesia. In all, 29 countries representing more than half the world’s population sent delegates… A 10-point “declaration on the promotion of world peace and cooperation,” incorporating the principles of the United Nations charter and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s Five Principles (“mutual respect” for other nations’ “territorial integrity and sovereignty,” nonaggression, noninterference in “internal affairs,” equality and mutual benefit, and “peaceful coexistence”), was adopted unanimously. https://www.britannica.com/event/Bandung-Conference]

The natural political convergence of three like-minded emerging economies, coming from three distinct geo-political regions of the world, resulted in the establishment of IBSA [India, Brazil and South Africa] in June 2003 by way of the Brasilia Declaration. Thereafter, the global financial crisis in 2008 catalyzed the emergence of the Brazil, Russia, India, China (BRIC) formation in 2009, with South Africa's membership in 2010 completing BRICS. Many in the international community questioned the relevance of IBSA following the hiatus in IBSA from 2011 to 2017, as the BRICS formation developed substantial momentum.

In October 2017, South Africa hosted the 8th IBSA Trilateral Ministerial Commission (ITMC) in Durban. The outcome of that engagement amongst the three countries was a resounding, consensual agreement that IBSA remained a relevant political voice in the international arena.

The IBSA Foreign Ministers have always maintained close relations, meeting annually in New York on the margins of the UN General Assembly sessions in September.

The IBSA Fund has, over the span of fifteen years, successfully promoted all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 21 partner countries through 27 projects to the approximate value of $35 million. In addition to receiving international awards, the work of the Fund has been recognized by the United Nations as the pre-eminent South-South Funding mechanism and a model for South-South cooperation for the international community to emulate.

In the context of global efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, most recently the World Health Organization (WHO) modeled its training program for its healthcare workers operating in far-flung, remote areas, on an IBSA-funded health project e-learning platform developed for Vietnam's rural healthcare workers.

IBSA has thus been successful in driving a twin-pronged agenda that addresses systemic and institutional governance challenges, whilst at the same time influencing change at the grassroots level. Its orientation in this regard continues to be people-centered and impact-driven.

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9111e9 No.20537590

>>20537574

“Interview with the Ambassador of South Africa to Brazil, Your Excellency Mavimbela” – Part 2

https://www.doisniveis.com/2n-entrevistas/entrevista-com-o-embaixador-da-africa-do-sul-no-brasil-v-ex-a-mavimbela/

June 2, 2021

More excerpts

Two Levels: In front of institutional problems faced in the Organization of African Unity (OAU), regional leaders released the Sirte Declaration in 1999, Libya, creating the African Union (AU). Later, the Constitutive Act of the African Union was signed in Lomé, Togo. Finally, South Africa held the first AU Summit in Durban, July 2002. How important are the regional integration and African Union on South African foreign policy?

Ambassador Mavimbela: Speaking at the 49th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 3 October 1994, shortly after his inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected Head of State, President Nelson Mandela stated that “We are part of the region of Southern Africa and the continent of Africa. As members of the Southern African Development Community and the Organization of African Unity, and an equal partner with other member states, we will play our role in the struggles of these organizations to build a continent and a region that will help to create for themselves and all humanity a common world of peace and prosperity”.

Two Levels: The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is formed by Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. Except for Namibia, they all make up the Common Monetary Area (CMA). South Africa is also the lead investor in those countries. So, how relevant is South African performance toward SACU's maintenance? Are SACU and CMA important tools of regional integration?

Ambassador Mavimbela: The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are primary vehicles for political and regional economic integration and are important in the promotion of equitable development, sustainable infrastructure development and industrialisation.

As you may be aware, SACU is the oldest functioning customs union in the world. [“the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) dates back to the 1889 Customs Union Convention between the British Colony of Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State Boer Republic. A new Agreement, signed on June 29, 1910, was extended to the Union of South Africa and the British High Commission Territories (HCTs), i.e. Basutoland (Lesotho), Bechuanaland (Botswana), and Swaziland, South West Africa (Namibia) "was a defacto member, since it was administered as part of South Africa" before it became a dejure member. The primary goal was to promote economic development through regional coordination of trade.” https://www.sacu.int/show.php?id=394]

South Africa and India submitted a proposal for a Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Waiver on 2 October 2020. The proposal is co-sponsored by 60 Members of the WTO and supported by over 100 members of the WTO, 175 Former Heads of State and Nobel Laureates, with a growing number of Members of Parliaments, medical personnel and citizens across the world. In February this year, all the countries in the African Union formally supported the Waiver request.

This initiative is an attempt to address inter alia, what has been called “vaccine apartheid ” ie the gaping disparity between rich and poor nations' access to coronavirus vaccines.

As you may be aware, South Africa's President. HE Cyril Ramaphosa, and the Prime Minister of Norway, HE Ms Erna Solberg, were appointed as the co-chairs of the ACT-A [Access to COVID19 Tools Accelerator] High-level Facilitation Council in September 2020, and South African and Brazilian diplomats have since undertaken several joint outreach initiatives in an attempt to overcome the ACT-A's financing gap. All G20 members, including Brazil, have been encouraged to make a contribution to this important program.

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3f5110 No.20537617

Canada #54 >>20536114

Alliance of Sahel States: Military Juntas of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali Create Joint Task Force Against Islamic Jihadists

by Paul Serran Mar. 7, 2024

The Sahel is a semi-arid region of western Africa below the Sahara desert to the north and above the southern tropical jungles to the south.

Historically, this was an area of heavy post-colonial French influence, but a string of coups-de-etats have all but completely erased Paris’ geopolitical clout.

Military junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have been both threatened and sanctioned by the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and by western powers alike.

The three beleaguered nations severed military ties with allies such as France and established a cooperation pact known as the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Now, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have set up a joint task force ‘to tackle security threats across their territories’ -- i.e. Islamic jihadists.

The news of the task force was given by Niger’s leader Moussa Salaou Barmou after a meeting with his counterparts.

The joint effort would indicate that the Sahel alliance will be a real thing.

Reuters reported:

“In a televised statement, Barmou said the new task force would be ‘operational as soon as possible to meet the security challenges’, but did not give further details on the size or remit of the force.

Violence in the region fuelled by the decade-long fight with Islamist groups linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic State has worsened since the three countries’ militaries seized power in a series of coups from 2020 to 2023.”

BBC reported:

“Groups linked to both Islamic State and al-Qaeda have killed thousands of people in the region in the past year.

[…] Violence in West Africa’s Sahel region has worsened in recent years despite the military governments’ promises to deal with the decade-long conflict with jihadist groups.”

The decade-old UN peacekeeping mission in Mali was also ordered to withdraw “without delay”, and completed the exit last December.

“The military regimes have strengthened ties with Russia, which has moved in to fill the void.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/alliance-sahel-states-military-juntas-niger-burkina-faso/

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9111e9 No.20537655

>>20537521

>President Bolsonaro

Correction: He was referring to President Cardoso and not Bolsonaro

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f660dc No.20551153

File: 3dc76bdda69c7bc⋯.jpg (810.68 KB,2482x1755,2482:1755,true_size_of_africa.jpg)

True size of Africa

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9111e9 No.20551514

File: 70e7fce0c8614e9⋯.jpg (41.52 KB,799x799,1:1,IMG_20210225_WA0079.jpg)

>>20537521

>I must say that to a very large extent, thanks to the leadership of President Lula and his Worker’s Party, and of course before him the process was already started in way with the former President Cardoso as to affirm an Afro Brazilians, black people in Brazil.

Vusi Mavimbela presented his letter of credence as the SA Ambassador to President Jair Bolsonaro

https://diplomaticinformer.com/on-22-february-2021-h-e-ambassador-vusi-mavimbela-to-the-federative-republic-of-brazil%F0%9F%87%BF%F0%9F%87%A6%F0%9F%87%A7%F0%9F%87%B7-presented-his-letters-of-credence-as-the-ambassador-extra/

On 22 February 2021, H.E. Ambassador Vusi Mavimbela to the Federative Republic of Brazil presented his letters of credence as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Africa to the Federative Republic of Brazil to H.E. President Jair Bolsonaro, in a ceremony held at Palácio do Planalto, of the Brazilian Presidency.

Formal diplomatic relations between South Africa Africa and the Federative Republic of Brazil were established in January 1948.

Recent bilateral relations between South Africa and Brazil formalised rapidly since the advent of a democratic South Africa. Brazil’s President FH Cardoso singled out improved relations with South Africa as a foreign policy priority, a sentiment since echoed repeatedly by Brazil’s Foreign Minister LF Lampreia.

The expansion of bilateral relations resulted in the mutual exchange of numerous high-level visits, most notably, the 1996 State Visit to South Africa by President Cardoso and the 1998 and 2000 State Visits to Brazil by President Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki, respectively.

President Cardoso, accompanied by a large delegation of Brazilian businessmen, paid an official visit to South Africa from 25 to 28 November 1996.

The appointment of Ambassador Otto A Maia during April 1996 to South Africa marked the first time ever that a career diplomat with the rank of Under Secretary-General was appointed as Brazilian Ambassador to any African country.

The Diplomatic Informer Magazine SA

wishes Ambassador Mavimbela

success in his new post during his ternure.

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9111e9 No.20551522

”TRANSFORMING THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE” – Part 1

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/criminal-justice/south-africa.pdf

Authors: Sandy Africa and Siyabulela Mlombile

Excerpts

In the late eighties, a series of secret meetings between the apartheid government’s intelligence structures and members of the ANC leadership eventually led to the preparations for negotiations that were to take place inside South Africa between the ANC and the apartheid government.

The ban on the ANC was lifted in February 1990, and several prominent leaders were released from long-term imprisonment owing to Mandela’s insistence shortly before this period. Nelson Mandela himself was released shortly afterwards, and with a number of ANC leaders from exile allowed into the country and together with leaders of the United Democratic Front (a broad, mass-based front of grassroots organizations inside the country) began to prepare for “talks about talks”. These took place in Cape Town May 2 - 4, 1990 and focused on how to begin the process of normalizing the political climate. Ironically, the apartheid security forces whose raison d’être had been the pursuit of members of the liberation movement were now in the role of ensuring their safe passage during the talks. This was all the more remarkable because technically, in terms of the legislation that existed at that time, the ANC leaders who were allowed free passage into the country could have been arrested and prosecuted for their role in the armed struggle. This, of course, did not happen.

This process of negotiating a new intelligence dispensation began before the country’s first democratic elections and continued thereafter. The outcomes were to find their expression in government policy and in new legislation establishing the intelligence services of the new democracy.

Changes within the intelligence structures of the South African Police Services have also been informed by the principled outcomes of the negotiation processes. In the immediate post-1994 period, the government’s policy agenda on law enforcement was shaped by two objectives: 1) to rehabilitate the police to ensure they became protectors of our communities; and 2) to mobilize South African citizens to participate in the provision of safety and security.

It is important, however, to state for the purposes of this discussion, that crime intelligence conducted by the police is also governed by the National Strategic Intelligence Act.

The new constitution establishes a framework for democratic civil-military relations. In terms of this framework, the Defense Force is non-partisan; it is subject to the control and oversight of the duly elected and appointed civilian authority, and it is obliged to perform its functions in accordance with the law.

This implementation has involved the amalgamation of six disparate intelligence entities from the apartheid services and the liberation movements into two new civilian intelligence structures

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9111e9 No.20551526

>>20551522

”TRANSFORMING THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE” – Part 2

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/criminal-justice/south-africa.pdf

Authors: Sandy Africa and Siyabulela Mlombile

Excerpts

In the first five years of South African democracy, the South African National Defense Force was still headed by a general from the apartheid era, who even at the time of the country’s first democratic elections, accused some leading ANC members, without providing evidence, of involvement in secret conspiracies intended to undermine the negotiation process.

It need not have surprised many when the same officer, some four to five years later handdelivered to President Mandela a highly classified intelligence report that implicated many key military officers from the ANC including his heir-apparent, as people plotting a coup. A judicial team appointed to evaluate that report effectively dismissed it as lacking credibility. This officer was replaced soon afterwards. Some individuals have expressed the concern that the report, as laughable as it became afterwards, nearly caused serious harm to the transformation process. Although the report had not gone through basic verification processes or through the NICOC, it had still somehow made its way to the head of state.

One of the challenges faced by the South African government in the course of the development of a new security dispensation has been the development of private intelligence structures. Some intelligence officers who left the services in the process of change continued to use their skills outside of the legally controlled framework. It has not been easy to effectively investigate their activities as some of these former officers still enjoyed sympathies from some members within the statutory intelligence services. While stringent laws and procedures existed to control activities of national intelligence structures, no similar restrictions existed to govern private intelligence activities. The government is currently preparing new legislation to address this anomaly.

VII. Key Lessons from the South African Transition

Every transition is unique, and it would be a mistake to assume that everything about the South African experience is relevant to the experiences of other countries. But the broad principles that guided the transformation of the South African intelligence services are worth at least considering… Some of the elements of such a program may include the following:

Reflect the envisaged ideal situation for the intelligence services in law and policy. If necessary, amend existing legislation, but if possible start off with a clean slate. Define the country’s security vision and framework in law.

Effectively market the essential elements of the new security dispensation to civil society, as well as within the intelligence services.

Use every new ”incident” of present day “abuses or violations” that is reminiscent of past behavior as an opportunity to accelerate reforms. Short term commissions of inquiry or ministerial task teams can be convenient and effective tools at the disposal of ministers.

VIII. Conclusion

Change is almost never easy; redirecting intelligence services from a repressive agenda to one upholding a new democratic dispensation is a mine-field. But the rewards are great. South Africa can now look back with pride on its achievement: the creation of an intelligence apparatus that is founded on democratic principles. We need to be ever vigilant, however; the nature of intelligence is such that the balance between secrecy and democracy will always be a fine one to strike.

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9111e9 No.20551528

>>20551522

>>20551526

”TRANSFORMING THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE” – Part 3

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/criminal-justice/south-africa.pdf

Authors: Sandy Africa and Siyabulela Mlombile

Excerpts

IX. Sources

Sandy Africa and Siyabulela Mlombile were both activists involved in the transition processes around the South African intelligence services. While they were appointed by the South African Intelligence Ministry to attend the Project on Justice in Times of Transition's Round Table Discussion on Guatemalan Intelligence Reform in March, 2000, they take personal responsibility for the contents of their input and this documents.

Sandy Africa is the General Manager of the South African Intelligence Academy, the corporate training facility of the National Intelligence Agency and the South African Secret Services. Previously she participated in a support capacity in the proceedings of the resolutions that were taken up in the new intelligence legislation. Ms. Africa was a founding member of the Military Research Group and the Policing Policy Group, both of which have established networks of progressive researchers and academics and lobby for democratic alternatives for security services. She was a lecturer in political science at the University of Durban-Westville and has done extensive research on security studies with the Center for Development Studies of the University of the Western Cape. Ms. Africa holds degrees from the University of Natal and the University of South Africa.

Siyabulela Mlombile is General Manager of Support Services in the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee, the statutory body which coordinates South African intelligence services. He is currently the Project Manager for setting up an Early Warning Center in the office of the President. Mr. Mlombile was a member of the Secretariat to the Ministerial Commission on Transformation of Defense Intelligence, the Secretariat to the Ministerial Intelligence Review Commission, and the Secretariat to the Heads of Civilian Intelligence Services. He served as Acting Company Commissar in an African National Congress military camp in Angola, and from 1990 to 1994 Mr. Mlombile was Deputy Head of the Intelligence Processing Unit of the Department of Intelligence and Security of the African National Congress. He received military training by the ANC in Angola and guerrilla military and intelligence training in the USSR. Mr. Mlombile holds a degree in Advanced Human Resources Management from the Technikon Witwatersrand and a Masters in Business Administration.

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9111e9 No.20551533

>>20551528

>Sandy Africa and Siyabulela Mlombile were both activists involved in the transition processes around the South African intelligence services. While they were appointed by the South African Intelligence Ministry to attend the Project on Justice in Times of Transition's Round Table Discussion on Guatemalan Intelligence Reform in March, 2000

“How the Scandal that Rocked Guatemala Threatens the Presidency”

https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/tracing-guatemala-customs-scandal-to-the-presidency/

30 Apr 2015

Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti have come under intense scrutiny for their potential links to one of the country’s biggest corruption scandals in recent years.

On April 16, authorities announced the arrests of the head of Guatemala’s Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT), Alvaro Omar Franco Chacon, and his predecessor, Carlos Enrique Muñoz Roldan, for their alleged participation in a customs fraud network.

Dubbed “La Linea,” or “The Line” by investigators, the network reportedly charged importers just 40 percent of standard import taxes, and received kickbacks of 30 percent. The importers kept the remaining 30 percent, meaning the government was receiving less than half of the tax revenue on imports that it would earn under normal circumstances. In addition to Franco and Muñoz, more than a dozen other individuals implicated in the corruption network were arrested in the sting.

However, Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office and the United Nation’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Comision Internacional contra la Impunidad en Guatemala – CICIG), which conducted the joint investigation, consider Baldetti’s then-private secretary, Juan Carlos Monzon, to be La Linea’s top boss. So far, Monzon has managed to avoid arrest.

La Linea’s alleged second-in-command, Salvador Estuardo Gonzalez Alvarez, is the president of a news corporation that owns Guatemalan newspapers Siglo 21 and Al Dia. According to elPeriodico, Gonzalez Alvarez — who was among those captured during the raid — is the son of former Guatemalan Defense Minister Marco Antonio Gonzalez Taracena.

ElPeriodico states that Gonzalez Taracena was Perez Molina’s boss when the president served in the now-dissolved Estado Mayor Presidencial (EMP), the intelligence wing of the presidency, similar to the United States Government’s National Security Agency. Gonzalez Taracena also reportedly assisted Perez Molina in designing his national security plan when he became president.

From the 1970s until the mid-1990s, a powerful contraband ring made up of corrupt military, police, and other government officials known as the Moreno network collected large sums of money by confiscating contraband shipments and forcing their owners to pay bribes in order to recover the goods, according to a 2003 Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) report (https://www.wola.org/sites/default/files/downloadable/Citizen%20Security/past/Poderesocultos.pdf) on illegal armed groups in Guatemala.

In the same report, WOLA listed Perez Molina as one of the leaders of a clandestine group within the military known as “El Sindicato.” El Sindicato was one of Guatemala’s “hidden powers,” or CIACS as they are known by their Spanish acronym, shadowy groups made up mainly of former military and intelligence officials that have their origins in the country’s civil conflict. Another prominent member of El Sindicato, according to WOLA, was General Roberto Letona Hora, who was also allegedly part of the Moreno network. WOLA noted the unusually high level of cohesion and fraternity among members of El Sindicato.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-president-to-prison-otto-perez-molina-and-a-day-for-hope-in-guatemala

September 4, 2015

after a unanimous 132-0 vote to strip the President of his immunity from prosecution, by a Congress not lacking in corrupt politicians, but which, with national elections looming on September 6th, suddenly found itself cornered and pressured by popular indignation and demands for justice

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9111e9 No.20551542

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>20551533

>Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti have come under intense scrutiny for their potential links to one of the country’s biggest corruption scandals in recent years.

>>20494555

>JUST IN: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Warns Of 'Dark Forces' In Anti-Crime Speech At CPAC

“US Vice President Joe Biden met with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina” (21 Jun 2014)

https://youtu.be/RBRCezAYw34

(21 Jun 2014) US Vice President Joe Biden met with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, who asked the US to start a temporary work programme for Guatemalan migrants and grant temporary protected status for Guatemalan migrants.

On Friday, the Obama administration moved to stem a flood of Central American children and families that has overwhelmed the US immigration system, sending Biden to the region to warn against the perils of the trip and announcing it will start to detain families at the border instead of releasing them on their own recognisance.

Speaking during a joint news conference with Perez Molina, Biden announced the launch of a 40 (m) million US dollar programme in Guatemala to "increase economic and educational opportunities for at-risk youth". The Obama administration pledged 93 million US dollars in new programmes to reduce violence in Central America.

The funding includes 40 million US dollars to reduce gang membership in Guatemala, 25 million US dollars to build 77 youth outreach centres in El Salvador and 18.5 million US dollars to build 77 youth outreach centres in Honduras.

Homicide, extortion, rape and gang recruitment have risen to epidemic levels in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in recent years.

The violence is seen as the key factor driving migrants north, with children making up an increasing proportion of the US-bound flow.

Biden also met with Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and high-ranking ministers from Honduras and Mexico.

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9111e9 No.20551545

>>20551533

>>20551542

“A tax man went after Guatemala's elites. Then they hit back.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/guatemala-politics-corruption/

Filed Dec. 7, 2021, 1 p.m. GMT

A Guatemalan official prosecuted powerful countrymen for millions in unpaid taxes. Soon, he was fired, arrested and charged with serious crimes. Reuters examines the pushback against efforts to end the corruption and impunity forcing many Central Americans to migrate.

When Juan Francisco Solorzano Foppa took over Guatemala’s tax agency in 2016, he took on a previously untouchable set of targets: officials, families and companies suspected of bilking much-needed revenue from the government.

The new tax chief purged more than 1,500 tax officers and arrested high-profile suspects, including elders of the country’s tight-knit business class. He wrested an unprecedented $100 million settlement from a major steel company, Aceros de Guatemala S.A., and busted a major hotelier for allegedly forging invoices.

Foppa, as the 38-year-old is widely known, this year found himself behind bars, in a case that even his adversaries acknowledge was largely fabricated. His arrest, and 22-day jail stay, was part of an ongoing backlash against some of the leaders of an anti-corruption movement that for a time pioneered efforts to end graft and impunity for powerful elites in Central America.

On May 19, as he drove to the gym, two men in a black SUV with no plates forced Foppa to pull over, he told Reuters. He filmed the encounter and broadcast it via Twitter. The men refused to identify themselves but kept Foppa from driving away. Then, police arrived to arrest him, locking him in the same cell block as a tattooed gang boss Foppa himself had jailed. The gangster, Foppa said, threatened to chop him into pieces.

At a later court hearing, a police report identified the men in the SUV as intelligence agents from the Interior Ministry. The allegations against Foppa, all of which he denied, were related to efforts he had made to register a new political party; the judge threw out the most serious charges and released him.

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9111e9 No.20551615

>>20537535

>[Vusi] Mavimbela’s first major assignment after returning from exile in 1994 was to head the ANC’s Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS), which was responsible for the security of the ANC leaders and members, as well as the integration of the former liberation fighters into the new South African National Defence Force (SANDF). He also played a key role in the establishment of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which took over the domestic intelligence functions o fthe former National Intelligence Service (NIS). He was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of the NIA in 1995, and later as the Director-General in 1999.

>>20551522

>In the late eighties, a series of secret meetings between the apartheid government’s intelligence structures and members of the ANC leadership eventually led to the preparations for negotiations that were to take place inside South Africa between the ANC and the apartheid government.

>This process of negotiating a new intelligence dispensation began before the country’s first democratic elections and continued thereafter. The outcomes were to find their expression in government policy and in new legislation establishing the intelligence services of the new democracy.

“Department Of State Security – National Intelligence Agency (Nia): Origins”

https://www.govline.co.za/department-of-state-security-national-intelligence-agency-nia/

January 15, 2022

The NIA was formed in 1994, the same year South Africa’s first multi-racial elections were held. It was created to take over from the domestic intelligence segment of the then National Intelligence Service (NIS) with the foreign intelligence functions being taken over by the South African Secret Service (SASS). Both the SASS and NIA were created as part of the Intelligence Act of 1994.

They were created out of the six intelligence organisations consisted of the NIS, Department of Intelligence and Security (ANC), Pan African Security Service (PAC), and the three intelligence services of Venda, Transkei and Bophuthatswana. These two new organisations would consist of a total of 4000 people with 2130 from the NIS, 910 from DIS (ANC), 304 from Bophuthatswana Intelligence and Internal Security Service (BISS), 233 from Transkei Intelligence Service (TIS), 76 Venda National Intelligence Service (VNIS) and the rest from the PASS (PAC).

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9111e9 No.20551629

>>20379849

>>20379919

>The concern that the history of the two republics be recorded before it is lost has been underscored by two experiences during my research. The first occurred when I approached officials at the Eastern Cape Legislative Buildings, Bhisho, and requested copies of official documents relating to President Lennox Sebe and Brigadier Gqozo, only to be told that none was available. The officials informed me that after the demise of the Sebe regime, all official documents of that era were burnt, and after Gqozo’s resigned as head of state, all documents of his time were placed in a room and no one knows what has happened to them!

>>20551615

It is curious that the documents of Ciskei was destroyed/missing and none of its intelligence operatives were amalgamated into the new South Africa.

“I UNDERMINED GQOZO, FORMER CISKEI SPY TELLS TRUTH BODY” – Intelligence Operatives were not amalgamated

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media/1996/9611/s961119n.htm

Nov 19, 1996

A former high-ranking officer in Ciskei military intelligence has admitted to undermining the homeland government of Brig Oupa Gqozo in the runup to the 1994 general election by leaking government secrets to the media.

Col Chris Nel, the former deputy chief of Ciskei military intelligence, said he continued to pass on information to journalists after Gqozo appointed him to find the source of the leaks.

Nel, a former member of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, was testifying at a special Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing on the 1992 Bisho massacre on Tuesday.

He denied suggestions that he had turned Gqozo against the African National Congress by feeding him false intelligence but admitted to undermining him in 1993 by leaking information.

He said he took these steps after Gqozo exerted pressure on the Ciskei Defence Force to carry out operations which he believed were not in line with the democratisation process underway in South Africa.

When Gqozo asked the defence force to train youths to defend headmen against attacks in the rural areas, he leaked details of the plan to the media.

He said he passed on the information to three Eastern Cape journalists: Andrew Trench (now in the Sunday Times London bureau), Patrick Goodenough (a freelancer); and Louise Flanagan (an investigative journalist now working for the Truth Commission).

Gqozo would "turn red" whenever he heard the journalists' names, Nel said.

Nel also told how he joined Ciskei military intelligence after being made redundant by the SA Defence Force's decision to shut down the CCB and other covert operations.

"People don't understand how CCB people feel. They were told they were useless idiots; told 'here is your money, don't speak to the media'."

As a member of the CCB he had testified before a commission of inquiry probing the murder of University of the Witwatersrand academic David Webster.

He had used the pseudonym Derek Louw, a variation on Derek Farrell, the name he used while working for the CCB.

Nel said after leaving the CCB he had been employed briefly by the Bophuthatswana Defence Force before being recruited to work in the Ciskei Intelligence Service in October 1991.

CIS had operated through a front company known as International Researchers before media reports on its "dirty tricks" led to its closure by deputy defence minister Wynand Breytenbach and army chief Gen Kat Liebenberg.

However, while other CIS members left Ciskei he and Col Ockert Swanepoel had remained behind to resuscitate Ciskei military intelligence.

Nel, who eventually went on to head the unit, is presently a senior staff officer in army intelligence at army headquarters in Pretoria.

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9111e9 No.20551658

>>20551522

>>20551526

>>20551528

>>20551615

>>20551629

>>20537502

> [Vusi Mavimbela] “Well our position at the National Intelligence Agency, I’m saying that because I was the Director General there, and the position of the Minister of Intelligence at the time, that was Lindiwe Sisulu, was that we should try and avoid by all means that the President of the country, that was Thabo Mbeki, should be seen in any way to be favouring the removal of Zuma as his Deputy. That he must bend over backwards to actually show the country the Alliance, the ANC that is not his intention to do that because our assessment was that if that is the perception that was going to divide the ANC down the middle, was going to divide the alliance down the middle and if the ANC is divided and is weakened, then as a governing party that is going to impact on governance and the rest of the things… When [Thabo Mbeki] was going to address parliament… I was crossing my fingers as I was sitting there that he shouldn’t conclude by saying he’s going to fire his Deputy because this is what we feared the most… but we all know that he actually fired [Jacob Zuma] in that speech.”

>>20537526

>[Vusi Mavimbela] later served as a top administrator and counsellor in the offices of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, two former presidents of South Africa.

“South Africa’s security sector is in crisis – reform must start now”

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/south-africas-security-sector-is-in-crisis-reform-must-start-now

21 JUL 2021

The failures of South Africa’s intelligence services and police, and the uninspiring performance of the military, reveal the absence of a coherent approach to national security. Each of these departments is in crisis. And those responsible for the judiciary, prisons and border management also face problems. Reasons include lack of vision, political interference and state capture, bad management, poor coordination, weak policy and insufficient accountability such as through Parliament.

It is clear that South Africa has an intelligence service in name only. This is reflected in the 2018 State Security Agency report of the high-level panel chaired by Dr Sydney Mufamadi.

There are several obvious things to do, such as removing political interference in senior appointments, further strengthening the prosecuting authority and focusing on competence rather than factional loyalty.

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9111e9 No.20551676

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>>20551522

>>20551526

>>20551528

>>20551615

>>20551629

>>20551658

>It is clear that South Africa has an intelligence service in name only. This is reflected in the 2018 State Security Agency report of the high-level panel chaired by Dr Sydney Mufamadi.

“High Level Review Panel Report on the State Security Agency”

https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201903/high-level-review-panel-state-security-agency.pdf

December 2018

Excerpts

We think it prudent to highlight here that our key finding is that there has been a serious politicisation and factionalisation of the intelligence community over the past decade or more, based on factions in the ruling party, resulting in an almost complete disregard for the Constitution, policy, legislation and other prescripts, and turning our civilian intelligence community into a private resource to serve the political and personal interests of particular individuals.

From about 2005, with the emergence of the divisions in the ANC, there has been a growing politicisation and factionalisation of the civilian intelligence community based on the factions in the ANC. This has been partly aggravated by the fact that many of the leadership and management of the intelligence services have come from an ANC and liberation struggle background and have seemingly, in some cases, not been able to separate their professional responsibilities from their political inclinations. This became progressively worse during the administration of the former President, with parallel structures being created that directly served the personal and political interests of the President and, in some cases, the relevant ministers. All this was in complete breach of the Constitution, the White Paper, the legislation and other prescripts.

Apart from its specific findings and recommendations, the Panel asked itself the question: ‘What went wrong?’ In answering this question, it must be said that the findings of the Panel do not impugn every member of the SSA and its management, but focus on the things that went wrong. It identified five high-level answers to this question:

Politicisation: The growing contagion of the civilian intelligence community by the factionalism in the African National Congress (ANC) progressively worsened from 2009.

Doctrinal Shift: From about 2009, there was a marked doctrinal shift in the intelligence community away from the prescripts of the Constitution, the White Paper on Intelligence, and the human security philosophy towards a much narrower, state security orientation.

Amalgamation: The amalgamation of National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and South African Secret Service (SASS) into the SSA did not achieve its purported objectives and was contrary to existing policy.

Secrecy: There is a disproportionate application of secrecy in the SSA stifling effective accountability.

Resource Abuse: The SSA had become a ‘cash cow’ for many inside and outside the Agency.

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9111e9 No.20551778

>>20457780

>>20483993

>cadre deployment system

>>20551658

>It is clear that South Africa has an intelligence service in name only.

>>20551676

“Ramaphosa wants the SSA where he can see it — but is that good for the country?”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-01-18-ramaphosa-wants-the-ssa-where-he-can-see-it-but-is-that-good-for-the-country/

18 Jan 2022

On Monday it was announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa has made good on a plan first announced in August 2021: to disband the State Security Agency (SSA) as a government department and move it under the wing of the Presidency.

For constitutional reasons the SSA still requires a Cabinet minister to helm it, so Mondli Gungubele will have to find extra space on his business cards to record the fact that he is now Minister in the Presidency: State Security, as well as being Minister in the Presidency: Communications.

Zizi Kodwa, another Ramaphosa loyalist whose position within the executive has apparently not been affected by Zondo Commission revelations that he received handouts from tech company EOH, will be Gungubele’s deputy.

The July 2021 unrest made plain what had already been advertised for some time: that the SSA was failing in what should be one of its core mandates — to head off what Ramaphosa termed an “insurrection” before it happened

When it was announced in August 2021, the University of Johannesburg’s Professor Jane Duncan warned that there were several aspects that should give us pause for thought.

Among them, the fact that there was no indication this would be a temporary arrangement; the reality that parliamentary oversight is harder when dealing with a president than a minister; and the fact that similar arrangements in both Botswana and Zimbabwe have been abused to help leaders maintain their grip on power.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/ramaphosa-appoints-new-state-security-agency-head-key-npa-appointments-40b51fb7-8de6-4fe4-bf8a-c41c67fea77e

Published Feb 28, 2022

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Thembisile Majola as the new director-general of the State Security Agency with effect from March 1, 2022.

Majola is a former deputy minister of energy and was South Africa’s ambassador to Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, Gambia and Guinea Bissau.

https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/ramaphosa-does-away-with-intelligence-ministry-ssa-to-report-directly-to-him-20210805

05 Aug 2021

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was replaced as minister of defence and military veterans by Speaker of Parliament Thandi Modise. Ramaphosa thanked Mapisa-Nqakula saying she “will be deployed to a new position”.

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b9f483 No.20552292

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>>20379812

>>20379826

>So again we need to revive international solidarity as a pillar, we need to revive underground as a pillar, we need to revive armed struggle as a pillar and we need to ensure mass struggle as a pillar.

>>20379836

>We rise to you as we did with Naledi Pandor’s father who was a mentor of mine in exile. A leader of our Communist Party then and of the ANC

>>20395003

>>20395018

>>20403282

>>20537474

“Viral Minister Naledi Pandor Speech on Israel Shocks the World!”

https://youtu.be/87fyilgnwng

Mar 10, 2024

0:17 – “We didn’t meet the Palestinian people on October 8th. We’ve been together in struggle for many many decades. The people of Palestine trained the freedom fighters of the liberation movement… This is a relationship of freedom fighters, of activists, of nations that share a history, a history of struggle for justice and freedom. We didn’t meet the Palestinian people yesterday. This country’s leaders in the course of struggle led by our then President Oliver Tambo did something no leaders have done before. Oliver Tambo went throughout the world… He went from country to country worldwide and said join us in solidarity… The concept international solidarity was coined through the work of Oliver Tambo as a facet of struggle.–”

3:30 – “As a Muslim, this is what I believe and I’m glad the African National Congress shares those values.”

8:38 – “I’ve already issued a statement alerting those who are South African and who are fighting alongside or in the Israeli Defense Force. We are ready when you come home we’re going to arrest you.

9:45 – “I’m going to ask you because here in Erasmia and Laudium I know many of you are significant business people. I want to ask you, join your country in building your country’s economy. Lots of you are investing all over the world but you’re not investing capital in your country and we need it desperately.”

11:23 – “On Hamas, let me explain this complication. Firstly, the policy ANC and government has always been that we support a two state solution. That Israel and Palestine should be two nation states living side by side in peace and security. In the final analysis, however, what eventually obtains will be determined by the people of Palestine. Right? Very, very important that we recognize that. Just as we determine the course of our own history, we must allow Palestinian people to do the same.

12:14 – “It’s also important that I say to you in terms of our foreign policy. Our foreign policy promotes peace and negotiation and I cannot, I cannot criticize Israel for killing women and children brutally and then say I praise Hamas for holding innocent Israelis hostage. We can’t do that. You can do it; you are an activist on the ground. I’m a member of a government, remember. I as the government member cannot be saying that.

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9111e9 No.20556704

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>>20551615

>>20551658

>>20551676

>>20551778

“Exclusive: South African minister [David Mahlobo] linked to rhino poaching”

https://youtu.be/5V720WR0jNo

Nov 13, 2016

“Five state ‘security threats’ that worried the Zuma administration: Former [state security] minister David Mahlobo testifies at state capture inquiry”

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-04-09-five-state-security-threats-that-worried-the-zuma-administration/

09 April 2021 - 15:47

The Jacob Zuma administration was concerned about five areas of domestic and foreign threats against the country during the time David Mahlobo was minister of state security.

Mahlobo, testifying at the state capture inquiry on Friday, said four domestic threats and one foreign had been identified in a classified “national intelligence estimate”.

Threats to the state’s authority

Mahlobo said the number one domestic threat was events and happenings that had the potential to undermine the functioning of the state.

They included elements of violent protests, violent industrial actions, taxi wars, violent protests in the education sector and the activities of private security companies.

“There is something very interesting to note on this first one. There is always an adjective that has been used because protesting is a constitutional right,” he said.

“But there is always a qualification ‘violent, violent, violent.’”

SA’s territorial integrity

This threat, Mahlobo said, was also classified under domestic. It involved the country’s porous borders, illegal migration and xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals.

Threat to wellbeing and safety of South Africans

Mahlobo said: “Those are the issues of want - your water, food, energy security, terrorism and extremism, gangsterism and narcotics.”

Threat to SA’s economy

The main concern in this regard, Mahlobo revealed, was the scourge of corruption. But illegal mining was also classified under the same umbrella, including wildlife poaching and the theft of ferrous and non-ferrous materials.

Foreign threats

Mahlobo said there was concern about the activities in SA of foreign intelligence services advancing their interests.

The government of the time was of the view that foreign intelligence services were working with “negative domestic forces” to scupper the ability of the state to govern the country.

Who were these “negative domestic forces”, asked evidence leader advocate Paul Pretorius.

“It is not a specific statement. Not everybody is a friend to SA. We do have enemies and that is how intelligence works. Even our own friends with whom we share certain things, they will never hesitate on matters of pursuing their national interest, including matters of dominance or economic advantage,” said Mahlobo.

“The duty for intelligence is to influence, get information so you can have an advantage. South Africa is not a small country and is very strategic in terms of its location, in terms of its resources and in terms of influence and leadership both at home and abroad.

“[Foreign intelligence services] must work on certain people so that wittingly or unwitting these people must pursue their national objectives.

“Nobody is immune from being recruited. They can recruit a minister, a president, a judge and a parliamentarian as long as they know the information and influence they need.”

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9111e9 No.20556722

>>20556704

>>20526583

>Water shedding: Paying for air | Carte Blanche | M-Net

“David Mahlobo 'meddled' in operational intelligence matters”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2021-05-20-david-mahlobo-meddled-in-operational-intelligence-matters/

20 May 2021 - 12:44

A state security agency (SSA) official testifying at the Zondo commission on Thursday detailed the extent to which former intelligence minister David Mahlobo was involved in operational matters.

The witness, testifying under the pseudonym Steven, said Mahlobo was involved in handling assets and signing off on operations.

Steven told the inquiry he had personal knowledge of Mahlobo's overreach because the two of them were close and he often visited the minister socially.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-19-former-state-security-minister-david-mahlobo-distances-himself-from-apartheid-assassin-and-jacob-zuma-poisoning-projects/

19 May 2021

He also referred to information peddlers, saying some were within the State Security Agency (SSA), who passed on information dotted with both truth and lies, and who could cause decisions to be made based on false information.

“It has led countries to war,” Mahlobo said.

“Intelligence is politicised,” Mahlobo replied, adding that he knew some viewed him as Zuma’s “henchman” and others had tried to have him removed from his position.

He said that like other government departments had problems, so too did the intelligence arena and it was not immune to the politics of the ANC.

“In intelligence, there will always be rogue elements,” Mahlobo said.

Pretorius referred to an affidavit by “Mr Y” who made mention of an SSA project, Operation Lock, that involved a safe house and the protection of apartheid policeman and assassin Eugene de Kock, who was released on parole in 2015.

De Kock had been assigned the codename “Mr Lock”.

Pretorius put it to Mahlobo that he reportedly had close personal involvement in this operation.

https://www.gov.za/news/media-statements/deputy-minister-david-mahlobo-addresses-2022-world-toilet-summit-19-nov-2022

Deputy Minister David Mahlobo addresses 2022 World Toilet Summit

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, David Mahlobo highlighted that South Africa has adopted a revolutionary approach under the theme – “It is not all about flushing”, as recognition that water is becoming a scarce resource globally due to challenges of drought and climate change, thereby impacting on the country’s ability to provide flushing toilets across the country.

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9111e9 No.20556769

>>20500729

>Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the first version of the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble

>>20556722

>He also referred to information peddlers, saying some were within the State Security Agency (SSA), who passed on information dotted with both truth and lies, and who could cause decisions to be made based on false information.

>>20452962

>Kgalema Motlanthe

>>20537535

>In 2005, Mavimbela left the NIA and jointed the Presidency as the Director-General and Secretary of the Cabinet. He served under President Thabo Mbeki, and later under President Kgalema Motlanthe, who succeeded Mbeki after his controversial recall by the ANC in 2008.

>>20500756

>Brett Kebble

“Advocate Vusi Pikoli's submission”

https://pmg.org.za/committee-meeting/9795/

20 January 2009

Excerpts

Adv Vusi Pikoli said that his legal team had submitted evidence to the Ginwala Commission and that it was contained in the Ginwala Report. Dr Frene Ginwala had vindicated him and restored his integrity and it had been an indication of the integrity of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the prosecutors who had reported directly to him. The vindication had been gratifying given the fact that the International Association of Prosecutors had awarded him with an award for prosecutorial independence. The Ginwala Report also concluded that he should be restored to office and it found him to be of unimpeachable integrity and credibility and that there had been a passion to conduct his function without fear or prejudice.

He had been shocked when he had learned that President Motlanthe had decided to fire him on the basis that he was not sensitive enough to matters of national security as he did not directly work with Intelligence. The President had also stated that neither his professional conduct, nor his professionalism, had been questionable.

Adv Pikoli noted that he had been a member of a national liberation movement and thus had exposure to the issues of security and due to his involvement with banned organizations and Mkonto we Sizwe, he had had to contend with ‘national security’ issues on a regular basis… His bona fides had further been strengthened when he started working as a special adviser to the late Minister of Justice, Dullah Omar, chaired a Ministerial Committee tasked with the investigation into the transformation of the civilian intelligence sector, and served as Deputy Chairperson investigating the transformation of the defence intelligence agencies. He noted that he had never claimed to be a security expert; but that the sufficient exposure he had received made him sensitive to national security issues. As Director-General (DG) of the Department of Justice, he had sat on the National Security Council of Directors General that discussed issues of national security and had also participated in a comprehensive security strategy for the Justice, Crime and Prevention Cluster. Thus he found it strange that the President ruled that he had been insensitive.

Adv [Vusi] Pikoli said that had the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) not investigated the murder of Brett Kebble then he would not have been fired and that his refusal to follow an unlawful instruction from the Executive had been a just decision as it would have been unconstitutional to follow the instruction. Had he not refused, then he would not have been relieved of his duties. He had done what had been expected of him constitutionally and that his submission to the Committee should not be seen as being done out of personal interest or for reinstatement, but to rectify a travesty of justice which the Committee had to address as Members had a challenge ahead of them.

Adv Pikoli stated that the Ginwala Report had noted that the investigation that led to the Browse Mole Report, had not been authorised by him. However, the criticism had been that Adv Pikoli should have stopped the investigation, informed the Minister and taken action against the former Head of the Directorate of Special Operations, Adv Leonard McCarthy… Ultimately it had been the President’s prerogative to reprimand the DSO Head.

However, the follow-up meetings with SAPS had come to naught as SAPS became an obstacle in the NPA’s investigation. The Ginwala Report dismissed the Selebi affair as the reason for Pikoli’s suspension, but he maintained that he had initially been suspended due to his refusal to halt the investigation into the Selebi affair.

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9111e9 No.20556785

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>>20556722

>>20556704

>David Mahlobo

David Mahlobo made it onto the ANC candidate list

“How the ANC went about compiling its [2024] election candidate list”

https://youtu.be/Ipii6CfvnoU

Mar 11, 2024

ANC leaders who still feature on the party’s candidate list, despite being implicated in state capture, are not off the hook just yet, at least according to party Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula.

Mbalula spoke to Newzroom Afrika after addressing a media briefing on how they went about compiling their election candidate list which has drawn criticism from the moment it was leaked on Friday. Vuyo Mvoko has more.

https://briefly.co.za/south-africa/182072-african-national-congress-defends-candidate-list-members-accused-corruption/

Monday, March 11, 2024 at 1:10 PM

The African National Congress is under fire for having a list of people accused of corruption as their candidates for the upcoming general elections

• The party's secretary general, Fikile Mbalula, defended the party's decision to place these members on their list of candidate

• South Africans were unaffected by the news, as many resolved to have the ruling party removed from power

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9111e9 No.20556813

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>>20556785

>>20452962

>>20537535

>>20556769

>Kgalema Motlanthe

>>20457780

>>20483993

>cadre Deployment

“Calibre of ANC candidates close to that of 1994 – Motlanthe”

https://youtu.be/raMc-k53Lu4

Mar 11, 2024

ANC electoral commission head Kgalema Motlanthe says he is confident about the list of candidates that were selected to represent the party after the 2024 elections. He says the calibre of leaders they have is close to that of 1994.

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3f5110 No.20558069

Updated ANC Bun

>>20242815 ANC sponsored violence in South Africa (video)

>>20362830 ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma

>>20379836, >>20379966, >>20379849 Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (video)

>>20395076 Research Paper 2022: Elites and economic policy in South Africa’s transition and beyond

>>20418277 Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa? (video)

>>20457780 Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced ‘all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres’ onto SA, collapsing economy (video)

>>20483993 The WhatsApp Group That Controls South Africa (video)

>>20484050 ANC Manifesto Launch: Spear and Lightning at the end of Cyril Ramaphosa speech (video)

>>20484878, >>20484891 Government invests R2.7bn in development near Waterfall City, WEF influence (video)

>>20492903 Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan (video)

>>20494573, >>20494579, >>20494594, >>20494605, >>20494642 RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination (Parts 1-5)

>>20494685 No, Anti-Apartheid Activist Chris Hani Wasn’t Killed by ANC Leaders”: Posted on the Jacobin website, written by Ronnie Kasrils

>>20516751, >>20525958 Violence, chaos erupts in Ekurhuleni council between EFF and ANC (video)

>>20516854 South Africa’s liberation war veterans are angry: here’s why

>>20516903 Only useful until democracy? Reintegrating ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa with lessons from Kosovo & Zimbabwe

>>20530361 Ekurhuleni downgraded to junk status, Tshwane placed on review (Video)

>>20530368 MK Party Threatens Civil War and Anarchy if Denied 2024 elections Rights, Warns Visvin Reddy (video)

>>20530661 A pissed off south African: ANC has destroyed South Africa; Julius Malema border policy; Taxi violence and Crime (video)

>>20556785 How the ANC went about compiling its [2024] election candidate list (video)

>>20556813 Calibre of ANC candidates close to that of 1994 – Motlanthe (video)

Updated BRICS Bun

>>20065199 (General Research #24627) West sees BRICS expansion as direct threat analyst

>>20177955 (Canada #51) Saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS – state media

>>20537521 Mavimbela: BRICS expansion proved a lot of naysayers wrong” – “more and more [Brazilian] people declare themselves as black” (video)

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3f5110 No.20558072

Updated Commodities Bun

>>19660255 Two Top Execs at South Africa's Port and Rail Operator Resign

>>19952053 Chronic congestion building along the east coast of South Africa

>>19692449 Africa Might Emerge As A Major Supplier Of Halal Food

>>20114651 (Canada #50) Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC

>>20115757 Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns

>>20114680 (Canada #50) Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up

>>20230322 South Africa seeks emergency external help to remedy dire situation across the nation’s ports

>>20279240 The Oil Market Is Making Plans For Red Sea Chaos To Last Weeks

>>20452927, >>20452931 South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising (Parts 1&2)

>>20484870 Oil discovered in South Africa (video)

>>20489038, >>20489042 Kinetiko: The Joint Venture

>>20489047, >>20489051 Dr. Mbendeni Humphrey Mathe

>>20489064, >>20489069, >>20489072 Africa Energy Corporation/Africa Oil Corporation/Canmex

>>20489101 Africa Oil announces the passing of Lukas H. Lundin

>>20489120 Sweden charges Lundin Energy executives with complicity in Sudan war crimes

>>20489520 Anglo American Completes 10-Ship Fleet Expansion

>>20521808, >>20521817, >>20521823, >>20521829 Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994 (Part 1-4)

>>20521841 The role of multinational corporations in South Africa: a political-economic perspective

>>20525965 The Real Reason TotalEnergies Sponsors AFCON Football Tournament (video)

>>20526583 Carte Blanche: Water shedding: Paying for air

>>20526594, >>20526597 NDB Spotlight: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project – Who Benefits? (Parts 1&2)

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3f5110 No.20558076

Initial Oppenheimer Bun

>>20242629 Harry Oppenheimer; did business with the Soviet Union (who trained and supported the ANC) during the Cold War and used Hollywood and the Royal Family to promote diamonds (video)

>>20434931 The "Old Money" Family That Controls Africa: The Oppenheimers (video)

>>20445854 Oppenheimer’s granddaughter backs RISE Mzansi with R15m

>>20484269 The Oppenheimer Family-The Richest Family in South Africa(Short Documentary) – Patrice Lamumba, DRC discussed (video)

Initial André Pienaar Bun

>>20500680 André Pienaar

>>20500683 The ‘CIA agent’ [André Pienaar] who never was, plus five talking points from ‘Vrye Weekblad’

>>20500696 Loyal to the Max – how the billionaire [André Pienaar] who was once in Jacob Zuma’s crosshairs saved ‘Vrye Weekblad’

>>20500713 South African [André Pienaar] at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider

>>20500816, >>20500822, >>20500826, >>20500835, >>20500846 “Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar (Parts 1-5)

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3f5110 No.20558078

Updated Cyril Ramaphosa Bun

>>20340636 “MTN Sued For Funding The Iranian Regime. It involves Cyril Ramaphosa, SA President, when he was MTN’s Chairman” (video)

>>20372592 Accountability Now seemed to have protected President Cyril Ramaphosa (video)

>>20457925, >>20457938 Is Cyril Ramaphosa a CIA spy? (Parts 1&2)

>>20462524, >>20462545 Then Cyril Ramaphosa’s aircraft was grounded in Poland: "Plot for Peace" Failure (video)

Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20445882 Red flags in SA DRC deployment: R2B, operational constraints, strategy, Rwanda - Prof Esterhuyse (video)

>>20446076 Rwanda Just Warned & Blocked UN Support For South Africa-led Force in Congo (video)

>>20446222 Rwandan government tried to silence opponents, Human rights watch report claims (video)

>>20446234, >>20446240 Rwanda's disappearing dissidents (Parts 1&2)

>>20446459 Paul Kagame

>>20446488 Rwanda's Kagame says he will run for fourth term • FRANCE 24 English (video)

>>20451268, >>20451271 The Dark Side of Rwanda’s Rebirth (Parts 1&2)

>>20451276 Rwandan President Kagame 'sparked 1994 genocide

>>20451301 Can Museveni [Uganda] and Kagame’s [Rwanda] renewed bromance inspire regional peace? (video)

>>20451317 Explainer-Why fighting is flaring in eastern Congo and threatening regional stability

>>20451326 Anti-Rwanda protests spread throughout eastern DRC

>>20451329 UN Security Council sanctions rebels in DR Congo as violence escalates

>>20451331 Rwanda and Uganda Commence Power Trade Through the 220kV 172 km Shango – Mbarara Power Interconnection

>>20451343 Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda

>>20463933 The surging violence in the eastern DRC (video)

>>20463991 Paul Kagame's Powerful Declaration: We Will Fight Like We Have Nothing to Lose! (video)

>>20522188 Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak

>>20522195 M23 Rebellion: Rwanda Protests AU Support for SADC Forces in DRC

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3f5110 No.20558081

Initial SSA/NIA Bun

>>20551522, >>20551526, >>20551533 Transforming the Intelligence Services: Some reflections on the South African experience (Parts 1-3)

>>20551615 Department Of State Security – National Intelligence Agency (Nia): Origins

>>20551629 "I undermined Gqozo, former Ciskei spy tells Truth Body" – Intelligence Operatives were not amalgamated

>>20551658 South Africa’s security sector is in crisis – reform must start now

>>20551676 2018: High Level Review Panel Report on the State Security Agency (attached .pdf)

>>20551778 Ramaphosa wants the SSA where he can see it — but is that good for the country?

>>20556704 Five state ‘security threats’ that worried the Zuma administration: Former [state security] minister David Mahlobo testifies at state capture inquiry

>>20556722 David Mahlobo 'meddled' in operational intelligence matters

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3f5110 No.20558083

Updated Violence and Crime Bun

>>19692458, >>19692463, >>19692470 ‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding (Parts 1-3)

>>20340605 “Open hunting ground: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding”

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>20362713 8 things you need to know about farm murders in South Africa (video)

>>20395068 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa’s “transformation’ – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc

>>20397875, >>20406078 South Africa’s Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to “Our People” (video)

>>20407598 Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice

>>20407726 Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2 (video)

>>20410783 (Canada #53) South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is “Inciting Violence”

>>20418196 We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages) (video)

>>20423259 South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report

>>20442095 KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings (video)

>>20445849 Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates (video)

>>20451446 Revealed: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA (video)

>>20452972 DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen

>>20457755 South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement

>>20464138 250 Ekurhuleni metro police workers have criminal records (video)

>>20494555 El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Warns Of 'Dark Forces' In Anti-Crime Speech At CPAC (video)

>>20494559 Hits or contract killings becoming a common occurrence in South Africa (video)

>>20516743 MK party member fatally shot in Umlazi (video)

>>20520797 How Haiti’s ‘Aid State’ Has Fueled Organized Crime

>>20520821 Kenya Agrees to Police Haiti’s Criminal Hurricane

>>20526083 Man killed, another injured in vigilante incident

>>20526578 Tackling child kidnappings in South Africa: Chad Thomas (video)

Updated Jacob Zuma Bun

>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)

>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)

>>20484031 He took the spear and stabbed himself with it’: Mbalula on Zuma and MK party

>>20501022 “Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen” (video)

>>20537502 “Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president”: Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela (video)

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3f5110 No.20558094

Notables are NOT Endorsements

coming up on 300

#12

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>19692436 Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality

>>19692443, >>19692449 South Africa: The Halal Kingdom, Although it holds the world’s smallest percentage of Muslims

>>19731387 (General Research #24226) Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo

>>19782011 Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

>>19782021 ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy

>>19782035 Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine

>>19821993 Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power

>>20027327 (General Research #24583) Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa

>>20362707 ‘Fake’ UN official allegedly received briefings from SA’s top security cluster

>>20242709, >>20242774 ony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world (Parts 1 &2 video)

>>20407571 How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states

>>20445866, >>20445869 Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution (Parts 1&2)

>>20452953, >>20452962 The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are (video)

>>20457742 SA unfazed by US Bill threat

>>20462673 Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Initial ICJ Suit Bun

>>20462676 Initial Maldives Bun | Initial Rwanda Bun

>>20510793, >>20510794 UNFPA staff concerned over headquarters' relocation from New York to Nairobi (Parts 1&2, video)

>>20510840 CIA Director Secretly Visits Kenya And Somalia To Discuss Regional Security (video)

>>20511103 Africacheck: “Coalition to fight misinformation”: South African elections (video)

>>20511116 Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance

>>20516774 South African intelligence and De Beers worked with the CIA in the early 60s

>>20516804 “South Africa: The Growing Influence of the Military”: CIA Document 1982

>>20516812 South Africa's 'paedophile' minister [General Magnus Malan] and a mysterious death (video)

>>20520896 US imposes new sanctions on Zimbabwe's President and other senior leaders

>>20525976 “Global Cooling is on the way! Give up your freedom NOW!” – Or is it global warming?

>>20537617 (Canada #54) Alliance of Sahel States: Military Juntas of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali Create Joint Task Force Against Islamic Jihadists

>>20552292 Viral Minister Naledi Pandor Speech on Israel Shocks the World (video)

>>20558069 Updated ANC Bun | Updated BRICS Bun

>>20558072 Updated Commodities Bun

>>20558076 Initial Oppenheimer Bun | Initial André Pienaar Bun

>>20558078 Updated Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20558081 Initial SSA/NIA Bun

>>20558083 Updated Violence and Crime Bun | Updated Jacob Zuma Bun

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f5d77a No.20562675

“ANC under fire for changing funding model for parties ahead of elections in May”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/anc-under-fire-for-changing-funding-model-for-parties-ahead-of-elections-in-may-f1687011-f963-4b12-9fa7-153288a0458d

Published Mar 12, 2024

The African National Congress (ANC) has come under fire over the Electoral Matters Bill with opposition parties accusing it of benefitting from new amendments on the funding of parties based on proportional representation.

Political parties said the ANC has changed the funding formula to get a bigger slice of the funding ahead of the elections.

They said the ANC used the guise of independent candidates to change the funding formula. They said in the Electoral Matters Amendment Bill, the ANC changed the funding model from 66.6% proportional representation and 33.3% equitable funding to 90% proportional representation and 10% equitable funding.

They said the funding model now favours the ANC. Political parties said they will challenge the bill n court.

They said the new amendments would give the ANC more financial support when it comes to funding of parties represented in parliament.

They said when the bill was brought to parliament for changes following the Constitutional Court judgment the ANC inserted provisions that would give it more access to financial resources.

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi said they had to amend five Acts to cater only for independent candidates.

Parliament on Tuesday passed the the bill.

The previous acts allowed for the funding of political parties and not independent candidates

In doing this work home affairs was guided by the Constitution.

Political parties said the Electoral Matters Amendment Bill was skewed in favour of the ANC.

But the ANC said the bill was necessary to comply with the judgment of the Constitutional Court.

“The bill now changes the funding formula of political parties, The current two-thirds proportional and one-third equitable funding model is being replaced by a 90% proportional and 10% equitable model. This takes us back to the funding model that was in place before the introduction of the Political Party Funding Act.

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f5d77a No.20562702

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“EPISODE 532 | Xolani Khumalo On Sizokthola,Moja Love, Threats, Police, Mafias, Cartels,Slyza Tsotsi” – Drugs

https://youtu.be/UEfyp2fyf88

Premiered Feb 22, 2024

15:55 – “You know, we are a different generation. We came from the same generation. Our parents were fighting Apartheid. That was their revolution but this one is ours. We have an alien chemical that is killing us and if we don’t do anything about it, who’s going to do something about it.

16:54 – “When we grew up, there were few people that we knew that were on drugs. When we grew up, you would just have your own fix but now we have a population of 3 million who are hobos and these guys were manmade. They were created by us. Then we label them and call them Nyaopes.

18:46 – “So the disadvantage is that with politics going on [in the government] you can’t really get your things right… It’s not about the cause [for the government]. So that is why I work closely with fathers from the hood who have united themselves and said with our money, with our cars, with our guns we’re going to fight this. The bodyguards I’m with now are the same fathers I’m referring to. They even older than me. I’m very young.

20:03 – “I can say my life is worthless, Joe. Let me tell you something, people die everyday and people forget about people that are dead but now for me it’s about, I don’t want to be an old man spending time with my kids but we can’t do anything. When you were there, what did you do? We’ve lost our country, we’ve lost our economy. What role did you play? What change did you make?”

24:05 – “The fact that we have illegal substances in this country, we have illegal people in this country. It means we don’t have systems that are functional or maybe the systems are there say that the people don’t allow them to work because you need human resource to make sure that things work… It needs people to operate.”

26:09 – “The cartels are not only in drugs. Taxi industry. Retail industry.”

27:41 – “Some of them will make stupid excuses like there are no jobs. No one was born with a job. Your create your own work… I work for myself now.

29:00 – “What we know is that heroin is not manufactured in South Africa, cocaine is not manufactured here, madrax yes. So the product comes in bulk from other countries… There’s someone who’s responsible for South Africa, there’s nine guys who are responsible for different provinces. Then there are sub regions… There are families involved… You know the series, “The Queen” [“The show revolves around the Khoza family, drug lords who hide their dealings behind their logistics company, and their conflicts with their competitors and the Tembisa Police Service.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_(South_African_TV_series)], that’s how things are done. People look at such things as entertainment. They don’t check the reality behind it but the fact is this thing is killing us. It’s destroying our future.

34:49 – “To be honest, the work that we’ve been doing, it has changed a lot of townships. We had an operation in Alrapark in Nigel. It’s a coloured area. We went there. We worked. Two weeks later we were called by the community anti-crime forum. He said wherever you go we are going with you. Why? You’ve changed our township. There are no drugs.

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f5d77a No.20562705

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>>20562702

>Then we label them and call them Nyaopes.

“Nyaope girl SA”

https://youtu.be/dGWjgeAaOR8

Oct 20, 2017

https://news.sky.com/story/bluetoothing-why-addicts-in-south-africa-are-injecting-each-others-blood-11388290

Wednesday 30 May 2018 06:44, UK

In the slums of Johannesburg in South Africa, a dangerous new method of drug-taking is catching on.

Sky's Africa correspondent John Sparks has witnessed the practice of "bluetoothing" - withdrawing blood after a hit and injecting it into a second person.

Addicts are taking nyaope (pronounced un-yop-pay), a cocktail of heroin, antiretroviral drugs and even crushed glass and rat poison, by injecting it, pulling blood back out, and taking it themselves.

Relief comes quickly in a slum called Diepsloot, as the drug they call nyaope starts to enter the blood stream.

It is a cocktail of heroin and other ingredients such as antiretroviral drugs, cleaning detergents and crushed glass and it has a near-instantaneous effect.

We watched a group of zombie-like figures involuntarily sway and stagger around this pockmarked place on the edge of Johannesburg.

But the high does not last for long: "Maybe an hour or two," said Jesus. "Sometimes less than an hour."

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f5d77a No.20562711

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>>20562702

>>20562705

“Cutting Edge | Drug addiction: 07 March 2023”

https://youtu.be/1SYH0YxgwlY

Mar 10, 2023

Cutting Edge recently interviewed an artisan, IT specialist, bricklayer and matriculant. Sadly, they are now known as nyaope boys. Drug addiction is diminishing much-needed skills in South Africa.

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9111e9 No.20565908

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>>20562702

>When we grew up, there were few people that we knew that were on drugs. When we grew up, you would just have your own fix but now we have a population of 3 million who are hobos and these guys were manmade. They were created by us. Then we label them and call them Nyaopes.

Just like the taxi wars

Caught on tape taxi boss murder - Bellville

https://youtu.be/jA7X3-K3QFg

Jun 4, 2014

“From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa (1987 - 2000)”

https://www.csvr.org.za/docs/taxiviolence/fromlowintensity.pdf

Vol. 4, May 2001

Jackie Dugard

Executive Summary

This report presents the results of a case study of South Africa's 'taxi wars', a series of violent conflicts that have marked the largely black-owned and black-operated minibus taxi industry since its deregulation in 1987. Prior to 1994, these taxi wars were relatively few in number… Since then, however, taxi violence has become more widespread, decentralised and criminal in character. Behind this shift are changes in the organisation of the taxi industry that broadly reflect the evolving relationship between state and society in post-apartheid South Africa.

This report sets out an historical overview of the taxi phenomenon during the period 1987-2000. It focuses on the development of the taxi industry and its associated violence in the late-apartheid era, up to the present day. Case material is drawn from an in-depth longitudinal study of taxi violence in the Cape Peninsula area, but the research findings reflect taxi violence more generally. The generalised findings can be summarised as follows:

Taxi violence has its roots in the policies of deregulation and destabilisation pursued by the apartheid regime during the late 1980s and early 1990s. [Was it the apartheid regime? Is it rather the intelligence apparatus >>20558081? It continues to destabilise the country]

As the state's control over the economy and society has weakened in the course of South Africa's transition, taxi associations have developed as informal agents of regulation, protection and extortion.

Violent taxi associations called 'mother bodies' have been allowed to develop and expand virtually unchecked by the authorities. These organisations are behind most of the violence that has come to be associated with the industry. Mother bodies have used their considerable firepower and weight to resist recent government attempts to re-regulate the taxi industry and they are symptomatic of more generalised rising levels of organised crime in post-apartheid South Africa.

Official corruption and collusion are major factors contributing to the continuation of taxi violence. In particular, the ownership of taxis by police and other government personnel directly aids criminality in the industry and exacerbates attempts to resolve the violence.

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9111e9 No.20565918

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>>20565908

>Taxi violence has its roots in the policies of deregulation and destabilisation pursued by the apartheid regime during the late 1980s and early 1990s. [Was it the apartheid regime? Is it rather the intelligence apparatus >>20558081? It continues to destabilise the country]

“South African police battle looters after days of taxi driver protests”

https://youtu.be/2bjhmVIqP34

Aug 8, 2023

“The taxi violence in numbers and how it impacts everyday South Africans”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/the-taxi-violence-in-numbers-and-how-it-impacts-everyday-south-africans-265ff7db-a4af-49f3-8e2c-79ecc5b60287

Published Aug 8, 2023

“A large body of evidence has been established which implicates those guilty of orchestrating the violence and disorder. Additional investigative resources from the City have now been made available to SAPS, to pursue the prosecution of those guilty of robbery, public violence and vandalism,” said JP Smith.

The impact of the taxi violence on education was immense.

The Western Cape Education Department said over 450,000 school pupils did not attend school on Monday due to the ongoing taxi violence wreaking havoc across the province.

The number has doubled from Friday’s 287,420 to 456,020, Western Cape Education MEC David Maynier said.

There are also several services affected, directly effecting residents.

As buses and taxis are having a stayaway, MyCiTi and Dial-a-Ride services and e-hailing services are affected.

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9111e9 No.20565928

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>>20565908

>>20565918

“Boss battles | Carte Blanche | M-Net”

https://youtu.be/vZvgVORgCAs

Aug 15, 2022 #carteblanche #taxiboss #taxidriver

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟭𝟰 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮.

We meet a taxi boss who serves a R50-bllion industry that more than two-thirds of commuters rely on daily. Shrouded in controversy, violence and conflict, South Africa’s taxi industry is pivotal to the economy. But this taxi boss lives in fear. His family needs bodyguards in their unnatural, sheltered world because of the ever-present target on their backs. In this world, innocence has long gone, and everyone is guilty of something in a bid to “protect” their routes, their lifeblood. South Africans often bear the brunt of the taxi wars. Now, Carte Blanche gets into the back seat to see life through a taxi boss’ eyes, and it isn’t long before bullets start to fly… With all the risks and mitigation measures put in place, the question remains: is it worth it?

“Taxi violence: SA's never-ending war”

https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/fridaybriefing/friday-briefing-taxi-violence-sas-never-ending-war-20240307

08 Mar 2024

The workings of the taxi mafia and its hitmen were pushed into the spotlight recently following the court appearance of five of the seven men accused of the 2023 murder of celebrated rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes and his friend, businessman Tebello "Tibz" Motsoane.

Two of the other suspects fled to Eswatini, where they were arrested. They have appeared in court as part of South Africa's bid to have them extradited.

The seven men represent all tiers of KwaZulu-Natal's seasoned taxi hitman industry - from alleged spotters to suspected shooters, and even an alleged coordinator.

The accused reportedly received R800 000 for the hit, which was distributed among them.

“Taxi violence erupts near Blue Route Mall in Cape Town as roads blocked after standoff”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/taxi-violence-erupts-near-blue-route-mall-in-cape-town-as-roads-blocked-after-standoff-51317a85-22ca-41da-8710-d21eb9368e8c

Published Mar 8, 2024

According to reports, it is believed minibus taxis were blocking Tokai Road, with more taxis arriving on the scene. Members of the public are unable to leave nor go in to the area.

According to witnesses, shots were being fired and police who arrived on the scene are closing the road from Main Road until the M3.

The incident comes two days after there was an active shooting in Retreat, resulting in a well-known taxi driver being shot in his taxi.

“Two killed as taxi violence resurges in Ekurhuleni, with strike action hobbling commuter services”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-03-08-two-killed-as-taxi-violence-resurges-in-ekurhuleni-with-strike-action-hobbling-commuter-services/

08 Mar 2024

The killings come against the backdrop of violence as the taxi industry went on strike in Ekurhuleni on Thursday, sparked by a dispute with a bus company which was awarded a contract to operate in the area.

The taxi industry demanded a 30% stake in the bus contract along those routes it claims to have opened and “nurtured” for many years.

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9fd881 No.20571002

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“2024 Elections | MK Youth League threatens election day disruption”

https://youtu.be/-tOVDuNS_hA

Mar 13, 2024

uMkhonto weSizwe Youth League has threatened to disrupt election day if their party is not on the ballot paper. Interim Youth Leader, Bonginkosi Khanyile, says they are prepared to lay down their lives for former President, Jacob Zuma, their presidential candidate. The youth formation has also sent a warning to MK leaders to refrain from plotting against Zuma.

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9fd881 No.20571006

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“Construction Mafia | Delft Housing Project halted”

https://youtu.be/D_ZrTrl8TJ0

Mar 14, 2024

One of Cape Towns biggest housing projects near Delft has been halted, and the contractor pulled out as a result of the construction mafia. The project was supposed to provide over 3 000 housing units - but, now it hangs in the balance. Private security is now being considered to assist in completing the project. At least 10 people have been killed due to the involvement of the mafia in a number of projects in the Cape Metro.

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9111e9 No.20571163

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>>20537535

>Mavimbela’s first major assignment after returning from exile in 1994 was to head the ANC’s Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS), which was responsible for the security of the ANC leaders and members, as well as the integration of the former liberation fighters into the new South African National Defence Force (SANDF). He also played a key role in the establishment of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which took over the domestic intelligence functions o fthe former National Intelligence Service (NIS). He was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of the NIA in 1995, and later as the Director-General in 1999.

“SANDF torture squad | Carte Blanche | M-Net”

https://youtu.be/QNWSAkGFR9U

Dec 5, 2023

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟯 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯.

This is a story about the bad and the brave and how an investigator on a dark journey exposes shocking secrets at the heart of the South African National Defence Force. It’s a story that starts on the Cape coast, and takes him from Simonstown in the Western Cape to Phalaborwa in the North and then to a military base in South Africa’s capital city, Pretoria. While still unresolved, the investigation exposes a grouping of elite soldiers and SANDF officials who appear to operate above the law, engaging in illegal campaigns involving torture, politics, spycraft and even murder.

6:08 – “We know very little about this Ethiopian businessman save that he was listed on a United States sanctions list as a financier for the Islamic terrorist group, ISIS. Yousef Kasim managed to get the police to investigate in what looks to him suspiciously like a State sanctioned abduction…. This reminds one of apartheid-style tactics, where you simply kidnap an individual and that’s it. That’s the last time you’ll hear or see of them.

16:26 – “So in November, the SANDF most senior military policeman Chief Warrant Officer, Raphael Ndawo, sidestepped his own employer and reached out to the Head of Afriforum’s private prosecrution unit, Gerrie Nel.

Hennie van Vuuren’s series, Russian Doll, where his investigation started with the Lady R.

Russian Doll — an assassination, abductions and the mystery of the Lady R

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-08-14-russian-doll-an-assassination-abductions-and-the-mystery-of-the-lady-r/

14 Aug 2023

A Russian Doll, Part Two — Who assassinated Frans Mathipa and how is the SANDF involved?

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-09-19-a-russian-doll-part-two-who-assassinated-frans-mathipa-and-how-is-the-sandf-involved/

19 Sep 2023

Russian Doll 3: EXPOSED — the SANDF ‘Torture’ Squad

https://www.opensecrets.org.za/russian-doll-3-exposed-the-sandf-torture-squad/

November 29, 2023

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9111e9 No.20571203

>>20571163

>>20500756

>Gerrie Nel

>>20500729

>>20556769

>Vusi Pikoli

>>20500683

>>20500696

>>20500768

>>20500816

>>20500822

>>20500846

>Scorpions

Gerrie Nel; founding head of Gauteng Scorpions and received an International Association of Prosecutors award

https://mg.co.za/article/2014-02-20-pistorius-prosecutor-nel-has-integrity-beyond-reproach/

20 FEBRUARY 2014

Nel was the founding head of the Gauteng division of the Scorpions in 1999.

He held the position until it was disbanded in 2009 and was said to be close to the then chief prosecutor Vusi Pikoli.

Highest praised

But the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) had only good things to say about Nel.

He received a special achievement award from the IAP for his "fierce pursuit of the vision of the National Prosecuting Authority's ideals to achieve justice in society".

The IAP were full of praise for Nel's gutsy achievements.

"It bears mentioning that the IAP is proud to have recognised the exceptional qualities of integrity, independence and perseverance that advocate Nel has displayed in the past," it said.

"It is hardly surprising that the NPA has chosen advocate Nel to lead the prosecution in another reportedly sensitive and difficult matter that would seem to require a prosecutor such as one with advocate Nel's track record."

Nel also enjoys some measure of celebrity status on social networking sites like Twitter, particularly after Pistorius's bail application in February last year.

https://www.iap-association.org/About

The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) is the only worldwide organization of prosecutors. It was established in 1995 and now has more than 183 organizational members from over 177 different countries, representing every continent, as well as many individual members.

The IAP was established in June 1995 at the United Nations offices in Vienna. The main impetus leading to its formation was the rapid growth in serious transnational crime; particularly drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud.

https://www.iap-association.org/About/IAP-Officers-and-Organs

The IAP Secretariat is based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

The IAP Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia is based in Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Federation.

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9111e9 No.20571247

>>20571203

>"It is hardly surprising that the NPA has chosen advocate Nel to lead the prosecution in another reportedly sensitive and difficult matter that would seem to require a prosecutor such as one with advocate Nel's track record."

“Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel [“Pit Bull”] leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind” – Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-01-31-private-prosecutions-inc-gerrie-nel-leaves-a-deeply-compromised-npa-behind/

31 Jan 2017

After 36 years as a state prosecutor, the man who put Oscar Pistorius behind bars is leaving public service. Tuesday’s announcement that Gerrie Nel was leaving the National Prosecuting Authority at 24 hours’ notice was unexpected – but even more surprising was the revelation that the “Pit Bull” was joining Afrikaner rights group AfriForum, effectively to set up a parallel prosecuting system to the NPA.

Speculation is that Nel will work closely with corruption-buster Paul O’Sullivan, who was brought on board by AfriForum last year to run an anti-corruption unit. At Tuesday’s press briefing Nel said he had not yet met O’Sullivan.

After O’Sullivan joined AfriForum in October 2016, however, he told an interviewer of the plan to prosecute cases. “We will force the state to make a decision to prosecute, or if they decide that they’re not going to prosecute, to issue a certificate that they’re not going to prosecute and then we will cherry-pick those cases, we will pick the ones that have the best evidence in them and we will prosecute them ourselves,” O’Sullivan said. “We will, in other words, run a parallel activity to the national prosecuting authority.”

Asked if that amounted to privatising the criminal justice system, O’Sullivan confirmed that it did. “But it’s necessary in South Africa because the criminal justice system has been captured by state-sponsored criminals,” he said.

There is reason to believe, however, that behind the scenes things have been considerably less rosy between Nel and the NPA.

Nel’s resignation on Tuesday must be viewed against the backdrop of the putrid and dysfunctional atmosphere that has pervaded the NPA for over a decade. No individual appointed to head this, an authority that should be the most important player in the Criminal Justice System, has ever served out a full term.

Instead the NPA has been mired in scandal and been accused of pursuing malicious, politically driven prosecutions (including that of Finance Minster Pravin Gordhan and former acting SARS Commissioner Ivan Pillay) while stonewalling, obstructing or ignoring politically sensitive cases, most notably Jacob Zuma’s 783 charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering.

Most recently Nel’s name cropped up among those cases Advocate Torie Pretoruis, Acting Special Director of the NPA’s Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU), has been tasked with investigating with regard to the so-called SARS “rogue unit”.

It was Pretorius who current NPA head, Shaun Abrahams, had claimed was keen to press charges against Pravin Gordhan, Ivan Pillay and former SARS Commissioner Oupa Magashula before these were later withdrawn as a vital piece of exculpatory evidence, the so-called Symington memorandum, had not been considered. In withdrawing the charges it became apparent also, through a series of letters Abrahams made public, that Hawks head Lieutenant-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza was livid that Gordhan, Pillay and Magashula would not be prosecuted.

Nel is no stranger to being hounded. In 2008 the seasoned prosecutor, then head of the Directorate of Special Operations (the Scorpions) and who was pursuing Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi at the time, was dramatically arrested by 20 armed members of SAPS outside his Pretoria home in front of his wife and children after they had returned from a holiday. The charges of fraud, defeating the ends of justice and perjury, were later withdrawn.

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9111e9 No.20571250

>>20571247

“Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind” – Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-01-31-private-prosecutions-inc-gerrie-nel-leaves-a-deeply-compromised-npa-behind/

31 Jan 2017

It was Nomgcobo Jiba who in 2007 and as a senior deputy director of public prosecutions with the NPA, along with her colleague advocate Lawrence Mwrebi, then head of the NPA’s commercial crimes unit, assisted then Gauteng deputy police chief, Richard Mdluli, to secure the warrant for Nel’s arrest. Mdluli spearheaded investigations into Nel during the Selebi saga, which proved as a proxy war for factions in the ANC.

It was also Nel who in 2005 had prosecuted Jiba’s husband, former Scorpions member Booker Nhantsi, who was convicted and jailed for stealing around R190,000 from a trust fund. President Zuma issued a presidential pardon for Nhantsi in 2012, thus expunging his criminal record.

In 2012 Jiba called on Mdluli’s assistance at a later labour court hearing after her suspension as acting NPA boss.

Jiba has, over the years, been seared by 12 judges on four benches in three massively high-profile matters, including for her role in the Zuma “spy tapes” matter, for her delays in the Freedom Under Law case regarding the dropping of charges including fraud and murder against former Crime Intelligence Head Richard Mdluli as well as her decision to charge KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head, Johan Booysen (who was investigating people close to President Zuma’s family).

Jiba was later charged with perjury and for lying under oath in the Booysen matter but new NPA head Shaun Abrahams withdrew the charges soon after taking office, claiming he had done so based on the decision of another prosecutor, Advocate Marshall Mokgathle. This was later contradicted, however, in an explosive affidavit by another NPA deputy, Willie Hofmeyr (since shafted to Legal Affairs, but more about that later), who claimed Abrahams had disregarded legal opinion from two other NPA prosecutors.

Mdluli has been at the centre of the erosion of the country’s criminal justice system and is seen as a key player in the obtaining of the “spy tapes” recordings relating to Zuma’s prosecution. Former prosecutor and now DA Shadow Minister of Justice, Glynnis Breytenbach, also felt the Jiba burn when she [Breytenbach] was suspended after penning a memorandum to Mwrebi that Mdluli should be prosecuted.

Mwrebi instructed Breytenbach to withdraw the charges, claiming that the Hawks did not have the “authority” to investigate intelligence funds Mdluli had been charged with abusing.

In essence the NPA has come to be viewed as the personal bodyguards of Jacob Zuma and his cronies against the criminal justice system.

So, from Vusi Pikoli’s suspension in 2007 (in the aftermath of a stand-off with the Scorpions and former president Thabo Mbeki with regard to charging Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi) to the appointment of the unsuitable Mokotedi Mpshe (who the courts have ruled was incorrect in withdrawing corruption charges against Jacob Zuma), the “irrational appointment” of Menzi Simelane, who was by replaced Jiba who was in turn replaced by Advocate Xolisi Nxasana, the NPA has never known stable leadership.

Nxasana, who was keen to review the withdrawal of Zuma’s charges as well as reinstitute charges against former Crime Intelligence Boss, Richard Mdluli, suddenly found himself the target of an investigation and resigned in 2015.

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9111e9 No.20571259

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>>20571247

>>20571250

“Public Protector interview: Mr Willam Andrew Hofmeyr, 11 August 2016”

https://youtu.be/8H4PjhMX-IY

“Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind” – Part 3

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-01-31-private-prosecutions-inc-gerrie-nel-leaves-a-deeply-compromised-npa-behind/

31 Jan 2017

In July 2014 Breytenbach, then a DA MP, in a speech during the Justice budget vote in Parliament said:

“The National Prosecuting Authority is an institution that should have no dirty linen to wash, let alone to be washed in public. Yet week after week we see it lurch from one damaging scandal to the next. Its reputation is in tatters. It is constantly in the news, and never for the right reasons. The public at large has no faith in the organisation to fulfill even its most basic mandate, and a budget of billions annually sees no real improvement in its daily functions. Millions are wasted on litigation for poor or no reasons,” said Breytenbach.

It was prosecutor Willie Hofmeyr, former head of the Special Investigating unit, Deputy Director and Public Prosecutions and head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, who outlined the current atmosphere at the NPA during his August 11 interview during Parliament’s Special Parliamentary Committee as one of 14 short-listed candidates for appointment as the public protector.

In the interview, Hofmeyr was asked what the scope of his work was at the NPA and why he wanted to leave. Hofmeyr responded that he was no longer able to do the job for which he had been recruited and for which he had the expertise, describing himself as “an efficient postbox”. Hofmeyr was moved by Abrahams to an obscure legal department doing a job, he told the committee, that only keeps him busy for about three hours a day.

Hofmeyr’s interview prompted activist John GI Clarke to write to then PP Thuli Madonsela in August 15, lodging a complaint against NPA head Shaun Abrahams for “maladminstration, misuse of official resources and abuse of authority because of his failure to make optimal use of the exceptional skills, ability, experience and commitment of one of his senior deputies, Mr Willie Hofmeyr.”

Clarke, a social worker, told Madonsela that he had clients who had lost faith in the criminal justice system.

“For example, the Amadiba community in the Eastern Cape with whom I have been working for over a decade still await justice after well documented failures by the SAPS and NPA to deal with conflict and violence that has led to several unsolved murders, going as far back as 2003,” said Clarke.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Nel said that one of the issues with regard to his perception of the “current management” is “it doesn’t only matter where people are not prosecuted, it also matters where people are prosecuted and matters are later withdrawn”.

This is an ill-disguised reference to the Gordhan et al case. It also emerged that Nel had been in discussion with Afriforum for at least a year. The beginning of the onslaught on Pravin Gordhan in February 2016 that continued throughout the year until the withdrawal of charges in October may have much to do with Nel’s move.

The NPA might still gun for Nel with regard to the “rogue unit” and his alleged role in bugging the offices of the then NPA who were investigating Selebi. Considering the manner in which the entire SARS rogue unit narrative has exposed a set of individuals who are close to President Zuma, his friends and Zuma family business associates, whoever comes for Nel had better make sure not a shred of evidence is missing or accidentally e-mailed to a witness.

Oscar Pistorius’ uncle Arnold, meanwhile, told TimesLive that the fact that Nel gave only 24 hours notice was evidence of “the character of a man who specialises in half truths”.

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9111e9 No.20571290

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>>20494559

>>20494573

>>20494579

>>20494594

>>20494605

>>20494685

>Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis

>>20500729

>>20500756

>>20556769

>Jackie Selebi and Brett Kebble

>>20571203

>>20571247

>>20571250

>>20571259

“Cases that made Gerrie Nel a star prosecutor”

https://youtu.be/y9v8_aV_-JM

Jan 31, 2017

“We put it to you: Four of Gerrie Nel’s most famous cases”: Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, Jackie Selebi, Brett Kebble, Oscar Pistorius

https://mg.co.za/article/2017-01-31-four-of-gerrie-nels-most-famous-cases/

31 JANUARY 2017

Nel made his career as a state advocate prosecuting some of South Africa’s most well-known court cases. Here are the four court cases that propelled him to success and gave him his reputation as a pitbull.

Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus

Nel was a junior prosecutor in Chris Hani’s murder trial in 1993. Derby-Lewis, an apartheid MP, and Janusz Walus, a Polish expat in South Africa, were charged for Hani’s assassination. Both Derby-Lewis, who died last year, and Janusz were convicted and imprisoned for Hani’s murder.

Jackie Selebi

In a memorable moment from the Selebi case, Nel boldly called the former top cop and Interpol head an “arrogant liar”.

“Mr Selebi, this is becoming more and more ridiculous. You know what this shows? That you are arrogant and that you lie,” Nel said at the time.

It was one of the most significant cases against a national police commissioner, and was in itself controversial. In the early hours of the morning of January 8 2008, Nel was arrested by 20 police officers at his home in front of wife and children. The fraud charges that were laid against him were later dropped, and suspicion emerged that the arrest was an attempt to disrupt the investigation into Selebi.

Two years later, Nel secured Selebi’s 15-year imprisonment for corruption. Selebi was released on medical parole in 2012, and died after a stroke in 2015.

Brett Kebble

The Brett Kebble murder case is still one of the most controversial prosecutions in the NPA’s history. The men accused of killing Kebble – Mikey Schultz‚ Nigel McGurk and Faizel Smith – signed agreements to be state witnesses in the case against Glenn Agliotti, thus avoiding prison sentences.

Kebble, a mining magnate who had ties to some in the ANC, was shot dead in 2005 in Johannesburg. Agliotti, a convicted drug dealer with alleged links to organised crime, was arrested in connection with the murder.

He was later acquitted after the NPA found that Kebble had orchestrated his own murder and the state had not brought sufficient evidence against him.

Agliotti, however, has had compliments for Nel, too. During the Selebi trial – Agliotti was good friends with the top cop – he said: “I don’t particularly like Mr Nel … and I say that with respect.”

[However, “High-profile prosecutor Gerrie Nel and his team of legal specialists have been removed from one of the biggest murder trials to hit South Africa - the killing of mining magnate Brett Kebble.” https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/prosecutor-taken-off-kebble-case-483090]

Oscar Pistorius

The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, who killed his fiancée Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 2013, brought Nel worldwide fame.

In court, he memorably brought Pistorius to tears and then told him to stop crying, cementing his reputation for being relentlessss in the courtroom.

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9111e9 No.20571440

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>>20571247

>It was Pretorius who current NPA head, Shaun Abrahams, had claimed was keen to press charges against Pravin Gordhan, Ivan Pillay and former SARS Commissioner Oupa Magashula before these were later withdrawn as a vital piece of exculpatory evidence, the so-called Symington memorandum, had not been considered.

>>20571259

>This is an ill-disguised reference to the Gordhan et al case. It also emerged that Nel had been in discussion with Afriforum for at least a year. The beginning of the onslaught on Pravin Gordhan in February 2016 that continued throughout the year until the withdrawal of charges in October may have much to do with Nel’s move.

“Pravin Gordhan Deserves Prison” and not retirement

https://youtu.be/dy5GgtpxbpQ

Premiered Mar 11, 2024

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-03-10-pravin-gordhans-half-century-of-public-service-draws-to-a-close/

10 Mar 2024

After some 53 years in activism, politics and public life, one-time pharmacist, Codesa delegate, tax boss and minister, Pravin Gordhan is calling it quits after the 29 May elections. It’s not a surprise — word in late 2022 was that President Cyril Ramaphosa had persuaded him to stay until the elections.

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is known for the phrase “connecting the dots” regarding State Capture when he linked key leadership appointments in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to state contracts, with billions of rands diverted from the public good into private pockets. At the time, Gordhan sat on the ANC back benches and served in the parliamentary State Capture probe after being fired as finance minister in the March 2017 midnight Cabinet reshuffle.

Gordhan’s departure comes at a time of flailing SOEs, including SAA, Eskom and Transnet, with criticism levelled at him for not building institutional capacity and his leadership style slated as micro-management.

Less in the public eye was Gordhan’s influence in Jacob Zuma’s 2018 exit from the presidency. It’s understood to be linked in no small way to changing attitudes in the South African Communist Party to which Gordhan belonged for most of his political life, which began in 1971 at the Natal Indian Congress.

The Department of Public Enterprises said on Friday that Gordhan’s announcement of his retirement come the 29 May poll was “emblematic of the minister’s desire to be candid so that all critical constituencies that related to his current portfolio are sufficiently informed about his plans”.

Rolling blackouts hit record levels in 2023, leaving South Africans without power for up to 12 hours a day, while the logistics crisis at ports and railways has negatively affected companies in sectors from mining to agriculture.

In 2018, Ramaphosa, who succeeded Zuma after his Valentine’s Day resignation, picked Gordhan as the public enterprises minister. As an ANC backbencher, he had spoken out about State Capture, which increasingly hit headlines amid the emergence of the #GuptaLeaks, a trove of thousands of emails showing links between the Gupta brothers and Zuma’s ministers and administration.

Gordhan was widely regarded as a politician with integrity; while as finance minister he introduced “haircuts” or spending discipline and ensured purse strings were closed to State Capture efforts. A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day “weekend special” stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.

Gordhan lasted until March 2017 when, while on an investment promotion tour abroad with his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, he was sacked in a midnight Cabinet reshuffle on the back of a fake intelligence report.

Crucially, this reshuffle was opposed by the SACP, first in January 2017 when the first rumours emerged, and then when it happened. It was one of the first public signals of the SACP’s chill towards Zuma, whom it had enthusiastically supported at the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane national conference and then in the 2009 election. Subsequently, the SACP played a key role in Zuma’s departure in a series of intense ANC NEC meetings that also led to the 2018 State of the Nation Address being delayed for a week.

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9111e9 No.20571475

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>>20571440

>In 2018, Ramaphosa, who succeeded Zuma after his Valentine’s Day resignation, picked Gordhan as the public enterprises minister.

>A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day “weekend special” stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.

>Gordhan lasted until March 2017 when, while on an investment promotion tour abroad with his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, he was sacked in a midnight Cabinet reshuffle on the back of a fake intelligence report.

>Crucially, this reshuffle was opposed by the SACP, first in January 2017 when the first rumours emerged, and then when it happened. It was one of the first public signals of the SACP’s chill towards Zuma, whom it had enthusiastically supported at the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane national conference and then in the 2009 election. Subsequently, the SACP played a key role in Zuma’s departure in a series of intense ANC NEC meetings that also led to the 2018 State of the Nation Address being delayed for a week.

Jacob Zuma: Johann Rupert threatened to shutdown the economy of South Africa if Pravin Gordhan was removed

https://youtu.be/XTiaIqcXL-8

Jul 16, 2019

Former president Jacob Zuma was testifying at the state capture inquiry.

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f17663 No.20571627

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“SA, Zimbabwe sign MOU on water supply”

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Mar 14, 2024

Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu and his Zimbabwean his counterpart Dr. Anxious Masuka have signed a memorandum of understanding that will ensure uninterrupted water supply to Musina by 2026.

The multi-year bulk water project will see treated water being transferred from the Beit Bridge Water Treatment Works into South Africa.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2011/03/29/beitbridge-water-project-launches-to-provide-better-sanitation

HARARE, March 29, 2011 - Since 2009, World Bank teams have been visiting Beitbridge, the gateway to the north of Zimbabwe for traffic from South Africa, to assess the water supply and sanitation problems confronting this important border town.

The hard work of the past two years was realized on March 4, 2011, with the launch of the Beitbridge Emergency Water Supply and Sanitation Project. Supported by a US$2.65 million grant from the World Bank in emergency assistance, the project aims to help Beitbridge avert further outbreaks of cholera and save lives.

Other organizations that came to Beitbridge’s rescue included UNICEF which provided 15 boreholes and monthly water treatment chemicals and World Vision which drilled 16 boreholes and completed water storage tank and water connection to some houses.

Mathewos Woldu said the World Bank believes the project would meet the twin goals of reliable and affordable service delivery and capacity improvement.

We expect all partners in this project to learn three important lessons: Number one – what a future successful rehabilitation of water and sanitation services, especially in small towns, will require in terms of financial, technical capacity, implementation arrangements that involve collaboration between Town Council and ZINWA; Number two – to draw useful lessons on how communities, the private sector, NGOs, and other local stakeholders can work with local and central government in the delivery of services; and Number three – particularly learn from the experiences of the Beitbridge project,” he said.

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f17663 No.20585215

“Killings are ‘economic sabotage’ [“related to water tenders”]: David Mahlobo”

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/mail-guardian/20240202/281646785028948

· 2 Feb 2024 ·

The deputy minister of water and sanitation has labelled as “economic sabotage” the countrywide murders that are thought to be related to water tenders. David Mahlobo was speaking to journalists during a press brief¬ing at this week’s ANC lekgotla when he made the statement, which came in the wake of the murders of Rand Water executive Teboho Joala and his bodyguard, who were shot during a back-to-school event in Zakariyya Park, south of Joburg, on Monday. Both men died of their injuries. Since 2022, several officials and rank-and-file employees at South Africa’s water authorities, and water and sanitation units at local level, have been murdered. ethekwini metro has been particularly affected by killings, as well as vandalism and the theft of infrastructure.

Without going into specif¬ics, Mahlobo said some employees had turned down promotions, ostensibly so that they could continue manipulating tenders or vandalising infrastructure, which would then necessitate repairs, generating tenders.

He said it was too early to tell whether the murders of Joala and his bodyguard were linked to other killings of department employees or those at the local level of water provision and maintenance.

In November, then acting deputy head of ethekwini water and sanitation Mthunzi Gumede resigned, saying the job was not worth his life.

This was three days after the acting senior manager for plants and logistics in ethekwini’s water and sanitation unit, Emmanuel Ntuli, was shot dead at his home.

Ntuli had been assigned bodyguards because of repeated threats to his life but they were not with him on the day he was killed.

In September, Khumbulani Khumalo, ethekwini’s manager for community services in the water and sanitation unit, was shot dead inside a municipal vehicle in Inanda.

Last February, Nkosinathi Amos Ngcobo, a superintendent for ethekwini’s water and sanitation unit, was fatally shot in his office in the municipal building.

In 2022, at least four employees working at ethekwini’s water and sanitation department were killed.

Referring to the country’s mafialike “business forums”, he said: “In certain areas, our projects are being stopped because certain people claim to be business people — they just come in and demand from each contractor a certain quantum of money.”

He said that attacks on infrastructure and vandalism, as well as other criminal acts, including the most recent murders, were not only affecting the department and its mandate but also the economy.

“Our water sector is not an exception [when it comes to criminal acts] and you can see it is on the rise.

“It is sabotage; it’s an economic sabotage and a counter-revolution. It can not be called a progressive way of doing business.” At the same brief¬ing, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala said his department was pushing the treasury to blacklist the two companies responsible for erecting the controversial Beitbridge border fence to stop them from doing government work. The 40km fence cost taxpayers R40 million in 2020 but most of it has been vandalised or stolen.

In March, during an oversight visit to the border, Zikalala said the fence, which was erected under his predecessor — Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille — was a “disaster” and those who were given government tenders to erect it should be held to account.

The fence was deemed unfit for purpose and investigations found there was wasteful expenditure during its construction.they found the government paid R17 million more than the market-related price for it.

“The issue of Beitbridge has been our mandate. We are grateful that the court has vindicated us that the two service providers who did that work should pay back some of the money that they got,” Zikalala said at the brief¬ing. He said the government would not tolerate shoddy work.

Recently, the Patriotic Alliance camped on the banks of the Limpopo River to stop immigrants attempting to cross to South Africa illegally.

The party claimed there were no South African National Defence Force or Border Management Authority personnel patrolling the area to deter those who were attempting to cross into the country.

Zikalala said the home affairs department and the Border Management Authority were involved in public-private partnerships in several problematic areas in an attempt to cut down on illegal crossings and tighten South Africa’s porous borders.

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898e42 No.20585580

“Who’s going to Parliament? A peek at the ANC’s [and MK’s] nomination list”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/whos-going-to-parliament-a-peek-at-the-ancs-nomination-list-5c2c57c2-42bf-4644-aa5e-cd1af560f67b

Published Mar 17, 2024

The African National Congress (ANC) is deploying some of its senior leaders to Parliament after the elections, but some of the veterans of the party are retiring.

ANC head of organising, Mdumiseni Ntuli will lead a group of new members to the National Assembly in the next term.

Ntuli was deployed to Luthuli House after the party’s national conference in 2022. Former Limpopo ANC provincial secretary Soviet Lekganyane, ex-Limpopo MEC for Sport Tandi Moraka, ANC Youth League first deputy secretary-general Tsakani Shiviti and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s former adviser Bejani Chauke are on the list to Parliament.

ANC Veterans League president Snuki Zikalala is also on the list.

Former South African ambassador to Cuba, Justice Piitso has been included on the list as part of new members of Parliament for the ANC.

Ex-Fees Must Fall leaders Nompendulo Mlkhatshwa and Fasiha Hassan will reunite in Parliament. Mkhatshwa has been a member of Parliament since 2019 and is chairing the portfolio committee on higher education.

Hassan was elected to the ANC National Executive Committee at the Nasrec conference in 2022. She is currently a member of the Gauteng provincial legislature.

South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) leader Richard Hlophe is on the list of new members going to Parliament.

Ministers who are on the list include Aaron Motsoaledi, Blade Nzimande, Senzo Mchunu, Enoch Godongwana, Thoko Didiza, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Bheki Cele, Mondli Gungubele, Ronald Lamola and Sihle Zikalala.

But some of the party members who were implicated in the Zondo report into State Capture have been included on the list to Parliament.

Ministers Zizi Kodwa, and Gwede Mantashe were mentioned in the Zondo report, but the ANC said some of their members went to the party’s Integrity Commission and were cleared.

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan, Deputy Speaker Lechesa Tsenoli and Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula are part of a group of senior leaders of the ANC who are retiring after the polls.

Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pam Tshwete is also retiring after the elections.

National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson Amos Masondo and Minister in the presidency Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma are also not coming back to Parliament.

However, there are also a number of serving members of the ANC in Parliament who are not on the list and this includes the chairpersons of the portfolio committees.

However, Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel and long-serving ANC parliamentarian Mandla Mandela are not on the list of members to Parliament.

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, led by former president Jacob Zuma has a number of members who have been included on their list for Parliament. Zuma is number one on the list, while his daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is also high on the list.

Former minister of finance, under Zuma, Des van Rooyen will join a group of MK party members of Parliament.

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898e42 No.20585630

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>Former minister of finance, under Zuma, Des van Rooyen will join a group of MK party members of Parliament.

>>20571247

> In withdrawing the charges it became apparent also, through a series of letters Abrahams made public, that Hawks head Lieutenant-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza was livid that Gordhan, Pillay and Magashula would not be prosecuted.

>>20571440

>Gordhan was widely regarded as a politician with integrity; while as finance minister he introduced “haircuts” or spending discipline and ensured purse strings were closed to State Capture efforts. A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day “weekend special” stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.

>>20452962

>Nhlanhla Nene

“Van Rooyen takes on Gordhan”

https://youtu.be/4NDmzkqyjnI

Aug 30, 2016

Johannesburg, 29 August 2016 - Des Van Rooyen says Pravin Gordhan should subject himself to the Hawks' probe as he's not above the law. He said this earlier today - speaking in his capacity as a top member of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association.

2:23 – “The vets say they’re aware of a movement to occupy Luthuli House over the Gordhan issue and they’re warning they’ll be on guard to defend the ANC’s headquarters.

“Zuma right about van Rooyen’s academic qualifications: report”: Master’s Degree in Finance - Pravin Gordhan qualification: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/115560/zuma-right-about-van-rooyens-academic-qualifications-report/

4 Mar 2016

David (Des) van Rooyen has the highest academic qualification of all the finance ministers President Jacob Zuma has appointed during his term, Africa Check reported on Friday.

In December last year, President Jacob Zuma unexpectedly replaced then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with Van Rooyen, only to replace him four days later with former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, following aggressive reaction by the markets.

Van Rooyen took over as minister of co-operative governance from Gordhan.

Zuma has reportedly recently defended his choice of Van Rooyen, pointing out that Van Rooyen is a trained “finance and economic comrade” and more qualified than any minister he has ever appointed in the finance sphere.

According to Africa Check, which cited the government’s website, Van Rooyen has several certificates in governance and finance. He obtained a master’s degree in management from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2010. He also has another master’s degree in finance – specialising in economic policy – from the University of London. This was obtained in 2013 through distance learning.

According to his government profile, the highest academic qualification Gordhan holds is a bachelor of science in pharmacy from the University of Durban in 1973. Africa Check said it was unable to confirm this with the university, but would keep on trying.

Gordhan was also awarded two honorary doctorates: in commerce, by the University of South Africa and in law, by the University of Cape Town, both in 2007.

Nene has a bachelor of commerce honours in economics obtained at the University of the Western Cape in 2009. Nene also holds several certificates and diplomas in economics, according to his government profile.

The question could therefore be asked, according to Africa Check, whether Zuma’s qualification statement should not have been taken literally, but looked at from an academic angle.

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898e42 No.20585639

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>>20585580

>Ex-Fees Must Fall leaders Nompendulo Mlkhatshwa and Fasiha Hassan will reunite in Parliament. Mkhatshwa has been a member of Parliament since 2019 and is chairing the portfolio committee on higher education.

“Fallism’s Faultlines: The Paradoxes of “Fees Must Fall””

https://africanarguments.org/2021/06/fallisms-faultlines-the-paradoxes-of-fees-must-fall/

JUNE 16, 2021

Ntumba’s death rippled through South African society, sparking weeks of widespread student agitation, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. This latest wave of protest became known as Fees Must Fall 2.0. On the one hand, Ntumba’s death heaped further pressure on the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa’s long-serving governing party; on the other, it conveyed the party’s continued currency. Like Fees Must Fall 1.0, the new protests revealed a paradox: they undermined the ANC’s legitimacy while underlining its hegemony. The ANC emerges from the recent student protests no weaker electorally than it entered them, but its moral authority has suffered a further blow. The protests also revealed continuities between the tenures of current ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.

Fees Must Fall emerged at Wits University in October 2015. It was prefigured by Rhodes Must Fall, the campaign to decolonise the University of Cape Town (UCT), symbolised by the removal of a statue of twentieth-century imperialist, Cecil Rhodes.[1] Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall were similar in more than name: to the student protesters, exorbitant fees, like colonial statues, tokenised Black exclusion in democratic South Africa writ large. The two campaigns have thus become known as the “Must Fall” movement, driving the agenda of “Fallism”.

Nevertheless, as in 2015, the ANC nimbly diverted and parried the protest movement. No sooner than Fallists had arrived at the ANC’s headquarters, Ace Magashule—the party’s Secretary-General—redirected the marchers under his party’s banner to the Constitutional Court, also a stone’s throw from Wits. This repurposed march exemplified a confusion that has characterised Fees Must Fall from its inception: Fees Must Fall is both an escape from, and an embrace of, the ANC.

In 2021 as in 2015, many Fees Must Fall leaders were themselves members of the ANC’s youth structures. Their cries against austerity, university mismanagement and police brutality were conducted in ANC t-shirts. Former Fees Must Fall activists now represent the ANC in Parliament, legislatures and councils, and many more will campaign for the ANC in this year’s local government elections. Fallism has thus assumed increasing ambiguity over time. For ANC-aligned former student leaders, it has become a path to prominence in formal politics; a “struggle credential” for a new generation unable to invoke personal familiarity with anti-apartheid resistance.

https://www.thedailyvox.co.za/fees-must-fall-zuma-must-fall-1-4m-tweets-say-future-south-africa/

June 27, 2017

From the conversations on Twitter, we learn that FMF [Fees Must Fall] was a diverse movement with groups ranging from LGBT, to pro-Palestine and feminist communities propagating the meme. It was self-organising in that despite its beginnings in Johannesburg, conversation and actions spread throughout the country and further.

Interestingly, the data analysis reveals that messages spread through student movements, not through the mainstream media. While FMF made national and international news, and that coverage helped spread the meme, the media did not make up more than 11% of the discussion.

ZMF [Zuma Must Fall] was a very different movement. The conversation was dominated by the three main political parties: the ANC, the EFF and the DA. It appeared to be championed on social media predominantly by these polarised political voices, with people from diverse political and social backgrounds not very actively engaging. While Fees Must Fall wanted a reckoning for the past, Zuma Must Fall sought to forget it: the sentiment of the movement was one of reconciliation, arguing that the colonial past was not the issue, but rather an incompetent South African presidency.

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898e42 No.20585663

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>>20585639

>Fallism’s Faultlines: The Paradoxes of “Fees Must Fall”

>>20585580

>Ex-Fees Must Fall leaders Nompendulo Mlkhatshwa and Fasiha Hassan will reunite in Parliament. Mkhatshwa has been a member of Parliament since 2019 and is chairing the portfolio committee on higher education.

>>20571002

>Bonginkosi Khanyile, says they are prepared to lay down their lives for former President, Jacob Zuma, their presidential candidate.

“Bonginkosi Khanyile's trial gets underway”

https://youtu.be/xSlWVtn90o4

Aug 19, 2022

“MK Party appoints Bonginkosi Khanyile as new youth leader”: Former #FeesMustFall activist

https://www.sapeople.com/news/mk-party-appoints-bonginkosi-khanyile-as-new-youth-leader/

23-01-24 10:58

Former #FeesMustFall activist and July 2021 unrest suspect Bonginkosi Khanyile has been appointed the new national youth co-ordinator for Jacob Zuma’s new Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party.

The announcement comes in the wake of his dismissal from the Patriotic Alliance led by Gayton Mckenzie. Khanyile was expelled by his party last month after he was seen speaking at an MK rally.

His new role as leader of “Umkhonto we Sizwe youth ground forces (MK YGF) will be to co-ordinate and organise the youth to rally behind the MK party.

“Comrade Bonginkosi Khanyile has the right credentials and consciousness to lead efforts to overcome the myriad of challenges facing the youth of our country,” according to a statement released by MK acting secretary Thanduxolo Gorbachev Dyodyo.

Dyodyo said the decision was made after assessing the situation facing the youth in our country and which youth leader would be best suited and fit-for-purpose to lead.

https://briefly.co.za/107905-fees-must-fall-activist-bonginkosi-khanyile-appears-court-ready-die-zuma.html

August 26, 2021 at 9:22 PM

Bonginkosi Khanyile, 31, cut a confident figure in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Thursday, maintaining that his detention will not hinder his fight for former president Jacob Zuma to be released.

TimesLIVE [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-08-26-alleged-instigator-bonginkosi-khanyile-strong-and-ready-to-die-for-zuma/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1629991447] reported that the activist has been vocal on social networking platforms, allegedly rallying the masses to support Zuma, who is currently serving a 15-month jail term for contempt of court at the Estcourt Correctional Centre.

Khanyile's bail application has been postponed to 31 August. The EFF member conveyed to journalists that Zuma must be released. He was quoted saying:

“Even if we are facing a death sentence, even if we are about to be hanged, even in the gallows, we will say that on any platform because he was arrested in an undemocratic manner. That’s how he was arrested."

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898e42 No.20585674

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>>20585663

“#FeesMustFall's Bonginkosi Khanyile speaks out following his sentencing”

https://youtu.be/9hlPCmlKAQM

Jan 28, 2019

The FeesMustFall leader Bonginkosi Khanyile has been sentenced to 3 years correctional supervision in the Durban Regional Court. He pleaded guilty on charges of public violence, failing to obey police instructions and the posession of a dangerous weapon.

For more on the story we are joined from our Durban studio's by the man himself, Bonginkosi Khanyile.

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898e42 No.20585725

>>20585674

>>20585663

>>20585639

>>20585630

>>20585580

>>20571440

>>20571002

“EXPLAINER — what we know about Jacob Zuma’s new party”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-01-09-umkhonto-wesizwe-what-we-know-about-zumas-new-party/

09 Jan 2024

At the launch, Zuma said he could no longer vote or campaign for a Cyril Ramaphosa-led ANC and had opted to throw his weight behind the newly registered party, while stressing that he remained an ANC member.

“The new people’s war starts from today,” said Zuma, referencing the establishment of the ANC’s armed wing in 1961.

“The only crucial difference is that instead of the bullet, this time we will use the ballot.”

Khumalo registered the party but it has since emerged that Zuma might have been the brains behind its formation.

In a press briefing by the All African Alliance Movement (AAAM) on 5 January, Bishop Meshack Thebe revealed that Zuma had “mandated” Khumalo to register the party.

Thebe then quickly brushed it off by saying, “You did not hear it from me.”

At the launch of the party, Zuma said it was registered “with my knowledge and blessings”.

The party has not clearly articulated what it stands for and so far, it appears largely centred on Zuma’s grievances. The former president has described it as an attempt to save the ANC and “rescue our organisation from this un-ANC behaviour”.

At its launch, he railed against what he described as the role of “white minority capital” in the current ANC; how Ramaphosa’s campaign spending led to the party’s “stolen” 2017 conference, and how the party has been unfairly sidelining members through the step-aside rule.

“The single aim is to steer the ship of total liberation from colonialism back on course by uniting Africans across the country, the African continent and the African diaspora behind the battle for land, justice and radical transformation towards economic freedom.

“There can never be reconciliation without socio-economic justice and equality,” Zuma said.

Political analyst Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast said the ANC could be dealt a significant blow: “I initially thought the message that would be pitched by the MK would be confined to KZN, but now Zuma has joined forces with AAAM, meaning he’s joined forces with religious leaders, which is strategic as it is embedded throughout the length and breadth of the country.”

Speaking in Mpumalanga this weekend, Zuma was reported to have said, “We will win the elections by a two-thirds majority and then save and clean [up] the ANC. Eventually, we will decide if we go with the ANC or MK. We don’t hate the ANC, but the actions of leaders who have sold the party.”

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3f5110 No.20586389

Canada #55 >>20585239

Niger Junta Severs US Military Cooperation Agreement, Orders Troops and Civilian Personnel Out of the Country

by Paul Serran Mar. 17, 2024

After the African Sahel nations suddenly and rapidly kicked the French colonial power out, it does appear that the US troops and diplomatic influence may be heading the same way.

Spokesman for the Niger military junta, Major Amadou Abdramane, stated clearly, with no margin for interpretation: ‘The American bases and civilian personnel cannot stay on Nigerien soil any longer.’

The US was left scrambled on Sunday to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel.

The American military has hundreds of troops stationed at a major airbase in northern Niger.

The group flies over the Sahel region --- south of the Sahara Desert — in search of jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

Associated Press reported:

“Top U.S. envoy Molly Phee returned to the capital, Niamey, this week to meet with senior government officials, accompanied by Marine Gen. Michael Langley, head of the U.S. military’s African Command. She had previously visited in December, while acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland traveled to the country in August.”

According to State Department, talks were frank, but it does not seem that it has any leeway left to negotiate a deal to stay in the country.

“Niger had been seen as one of the last nations in the restive region that Western nations could partner with to beat back growing jihadi insurgencies. The U.S. and France had more than 2,500 military personnel in the region until recently, and together with other European countries had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance and training.”

In July, military forces ousted the country’s president and, mere months later, told French forces to leave.

“The U.S. military still had some 650 personnel working in Niger in December, according to a White House report to Congress. The Niger base is used for both manned and unmanned surveillance operations. In the Sahel the U.S. also supports ground troops, including accompanying them on missions. However, such accompanied missions have been scaled back since U.S. troops were killed in a joint operation in Niger in 2017.

It’s unclear what prompted the junta’s decision to suspend military ties. On Saturday, the junta’s spokesperson, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, said U.S. flights over Niger’s territory in recent weeks were illegal. Meanwhile, Insa Garba Saidou, a local activist who assists Niger’s military rulers with their communications, criticized U.S. efforts to force the junta to pick between strategic partners.”

Neighboring Sahel nations Mali and Burkina Faso have turned to Moscow for security support.

In Niger, the military also turned to the Russian mercenary group Wagner for help.

“Cameron Hudson, who served with the Central Intelligence Agency and State Department in Africa, said the incident shows the diminution of U.S. leverage in the region and that Niger was angered by Washington’s attempt to pressure the junta to steer clear of Russia. ‘This is ironic since one mantra of the Biden Administration has been that Africans are free to choose their partners’, he said.”

Major Amadou Abdramane, speaking on state television, said junta leaders met the U.S. delegation only out of courtesy and described their tone as condescending.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/niger-junta-severs-us-military-cooperation-agreement-orders/

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aa6bcc No.20589901

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“Internet outage South Africa: how long will the fix take?”

https://htxt.co.za/2024/03/internet-outage-south-africa-how-long-will-the-fix-take/

18th March 2024

It will take at least five weeks for a vital system of West African undersea internet cables to be fixed.

• The cables are believed to have been affected by deep ocean seismic activity which led to a widespread outage across Africa last week.

• In South Africa, some services have returned to normal, but spotty internet issues continue for many users.

According to West African connectivity provider Main One, “seismic activity” is the leading cause believed to have broken a vital submarine internet cable system in the region’s oceans, causing a widespread internet outage that has extended into South Africa and many other African nations.

Repairs to the cables in this area could take at least five weeks before completion, according to the communications regulator in Ghana, a country also impacted by the outages. Internet watchdog NetBlocks reported that residents of the Ivory Coast were the most affected by the underbreakage, with countries like Nigeria, Lesotho and South Africa the least affected by the internet outage.

According to Ben Roberts, Group CTIO for Liquid Intelligent Technologies, the WACS, Main One, ACE, and SAT3 cable systems were all affected in the West Africa outage.

The outage occurred late last week, with wide reports stating that it originated in West Africa, in the oceans near the Ivory Coast. Many South Africans struggled with internet connectivity following the breakage of multiple subsea cables in the area. Large telecoms like Vodacom and even international providers like Microsoft noted the outage and apologised to customers for disruptions.

“Our preliminary analysis would suggest some form of seismic activity on the seabed resulted in a break to the cable”, MainOne said, adding it would obtain more data when the cable is retrieved during repair,” it added.

The statements come after a recent and strikingly similar disruption to subsea internet cables in the East of Africa, specifically in the Red Sea. However, the incident in the Red Sea is being blamed on attacks on ships in the area by Houthi militants. SEACOM, the company’s whose cables were specifically affected said that repairs would have to wait until it received a license to operate in the dangerous area.

Some services have returned after the outage last week. As of Monday, Microsoft is no longer reporting any disruptions to Azure in South Africa. However, local users are still noting spotty internet issues, according to DownDetector.

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aa6bcc No.20590410

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“Rand Manipulation Exposed: How The Banks Screwed Trillions Over South Africa”

https://youtu.be/Bo7umSWdQFE

Nov 26, 2023

Twenty eight banks stand accused of illegally manipulating South Africa's currency to make huge profits for themselves, to the detriment of the South African economy. We explore what we know so far, how banks could have manipulated the Rand, and how the plot has affected South Africa's economy.

2:12 – “In 2016, Jacob Zuma who was the President of South Africa, had openly shared his suspicion that banks were manipulating the Rand and purposefully damagaing both his presidency and the economy.

3:36 – “Not one of the institutions voluntarily came forward to admit to their transgressions or repent for their sins. They were simply found out. This is what prompted the sorry is the hardest word to say apology from Barclayss Africa Group’s Maria Ramos who said, “We deeply regret that this conduct took place within our organisation. Thos who are found to have contravened the rules and conduct will in due course be held accountable.” Barclays Africa’s cooperation with the competition commission meant that its financial assets, Barclays Capital and Absa, were afforded leniency in the matter.”

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aa6bcc No.20590424

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>>20590410

“Rand manipulation saga I Competition Commission calls for tougher penalties on banks”

https://youtu.be/NSoahTRIBhA

Nov 22, 2023

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on Monday said the manipulation of the rand is part of the private sector's efforts to collapse the government.

This follows last week's Competition Commission Tribunal's announcement that it had entered into a settlement agreement with Standard Chartered, which "admitted liability" and agreed to pay an administrative penalty of R42.7 million.

There have been calls for tougher consequences against banking institutions that played a role in collusion by lenders to manipulate the rand from those who have found the R42.7 million settlement by the Commission to be a slap on the wrist.

Makgale Mohlala, Head of Cartels at the Competition Commission, joins us virtually to give the Commission's view.

“Leniency given to banks who admitted to currency manipulation”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/leniency-given-to-banks-who-admitted-to-currency-manipulation/

2 November 2023

The Competition Commission’s Head of Cartel, Mohale Mohlala, says the settlements reached with the banks that admitted to manipulating the currency are based on the size of their firms in the country.

This as the commission announced that it has entered into a settlement agreement with Standard Chartered, which acknowledged its liability and agreed to pay an administrative penalty of R42.7 million.

This sparked controversy, as some felt it was a slap on the wrist.

The commission is also investigating a number of other local and international banks, such as Absa, Standard Bank, Nedbank, Barclays, and Bank of America.

Mohlala says they will be lenient to those who come forward and call out others.

“So when you discuss settlements with those banks, there are considerations about the penalty, whether a penalty should be high or low. And some of those considerations include whether it’s strategically assisting your case of persecuting others. In other words, are they giving me evidence? Are they giving me witnesses? So when you get that, then you can’t punish them in a manner that is similar to the one in which you are punishing someone who has been found guilty,” says Mohlala.

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aa6bcc No.20590428

>>20590410

>>20590424

“South African banks cleared in landmark Rand manipulation case; Competition Appeal Court criticises ‘inadequate’ evidence”

https://www.biznews.com/sa-investing/2024/01/09/south-african-banks-cleared-rand-manipulation

9th January 2024

South Africa’s Competition Appeal Court dismissed the cases against most of the 28 banks accused of colluding to fix the rand in the New York foreign exchange market almost a decade ago, Business Day reported, citing the tribunal.

The court ruled in favor of South African lenders including Standard Bank Group Ltd., Nedbank Group Ltd., and FirstRand Ltd., and most of the foreign banks who faced the accusations, the Johannesburg-based newspaper reported on Tuesday. That leaves JPMorgan Chase & Co., BNP Paribas SA, HSBC Holdings Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG and Investec Plc to face trial, according to the report.

The court criticized the case brought by the Competition Commission, saying it was inadequate and lacked evidence, according to the report. It made no order on costs.

The currency-manipulation saga began in May 2015, when the commission alleged that banks colluded to rig the value of the rand against the dollar. The inquiry followed a global probe into currency manipulation that was exposed two years earlier, triggering investigations in the US and the UK, and resulting in billions of dollars in settlements.

South Africa’s antitrust-watchdog revived the case against banks in 2020 after compiling a charge sheet against the more than 20 lenders that allegedly colluded to fix prices and divide markets in the currency pair.

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aa6bcc No.20590433

>>20590410

>>20590424

>>20590428

“Rand manipulation case taken to ConCourt”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/rand-manipulation-case-taken-to-concourt/

6 February 2024, 16:57

The Competition Commission has approached the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal the judgment of the Competition Appeal Court (CAC) in the rand manipulation case.

The Appeal Court dismissed the Competition Commission’s charges against 17 local and international banks for alleged price fixing.

The Appeal Court ruled against only four banks expected to continue in the Commission’s case and possibly face prosecution through a trial. In its current application for leave to appeal, the Commission is appealing the CAC order to the ConCourt against 13 banks.

The Commission has also questioned the CAC’s ruling to release majority of the implicated banks without first allowing them to plead their defense.

“It is my believe that South Africans will not rest until their provided with answers whether or not these banks colluded and fixed the price of the rand/ dollar currency pair between the years 2007 and 2013. It is our strong belief that the appeal provides an opportunity to a full bench of justices at the Constitutional Court to make a determination whether the Competition Commission has jurisdiction of prosecuting companies that are outside the Republic of South Africa and whose anti-competitive conduct directly affects the citizens of the country and its economy,” says Competition Commission spokesperson Siyabulela Makunga.

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aa6bcc No.20590479

>>20590410

>>20590424

>>20590428

>>20590433

>>20571440

>Gordhan was widely regarded as a politician with integrity; while as finance minister he introduced “haircuts” or spending discipline and ensured purse strings were closed to State Capture efforts. A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day “weekend special” stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.

>>20585630

>In December last year, President Jacob Zuma unexpectedly replaced then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with Van Rooyen, only to replace him four days later with former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, following aggressive reaction by the markets.

>>20571475

“Political leaders question timing by FNB to close Zuma’s accounts”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/political-leaders-question-timing-by-fnb-to-close-zumas-accounts-84e51528-7e87-4b54-9604-7942bd6497df

Published Mar 17, 2024

Some political leaders have questioned the timing by FNB to close the bank account of former president Jacob Zuma’s with elections a few months away.

Zuma has been leading the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party for the last four months after he announced his support for the new party and is number one of the list of candidates for the party.

It was reported on Sunday that the bank was closing his account. This is the same account where the now defunct VBS Mutual Bank deposited a loan of R7.8 million to Zuma.

FNB said it was complying with an order of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal.

“FNB is complying with a specific order by the High Court (KZN division). However, given client confidentiality, FNB cannot comment further on any client’s specific bank accounts and treats all customers objectively and consistently,” said FNB.

African People’s Convention (APC) leader and former chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Themba Godi said it appeared that the banks have enormous power and this could render the democratic project meaningless.

He said there needs to be changes in how banks were regulated.

Godi said it was also unclear if this was an administrative decision or a political decision.

The APC leader said the timing was suspicious given the fact that the country was a few months away from the elections.

“The starting point is the suspicion around the timing. The bank exposes itself to be playing a political game. The powers that the banks have in our country is enormous and it renders our democratic practice meaningless. If they can do this to a former president who else is at their mercy.

“With Markus Jooste we haven’t heard his accounts being touched, but he has brought this country into disrepute,” said Godi.

There needs to be a regulatory framework where banks will not be able to do these things.

Former Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leader Letlapa Mphahlele said this raises eyebrows.

“FNB has reportedly issued a notice to terminate former president Jacob Zuma’s bank accounts in which his R7.8m VBS loan was deposited. The timing raises eyebrows. Only the most gullible among us think that the banks are impartial referees in the game of politics,” said Mphahlele.

The Sunday World reported that the bank said it was closing the account because Zuma is a politically exposed person.

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aa6bcc No.20590483

>>20590479

“MK party slams ‘politically motivated’ banks for Zuma account closure”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mk-party-slams-politically-motivated-banks-for-zuma-account-closure-33e85afc-53ce-4263-9043-231daee6536e

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024

The uMkhonto weSizwe party has hit back at FNB after it closed the accounts of former president Jacob Zuma.

FNB earlier said the decision to close his accounts was based on an order of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal.

But MK party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela said the decision was politically motivated and not based on reputational risk as claimed by the bank.

“The FNB's latest stunt of denying President Zuma access to much-needed banking services is not an isolated incident,” Ndhlela said.

“It is part of a concerted effort by banks to punish those that are viewed by the colonial establishment as enemies.”

He said financial institutions target those who are challenging the “colonial establishment”.

The MK party called on the bank to re-open the accounts of Zuma because the decision it was ill-advised. This goes to other banks who have targeted other individuals in a similar fashion, it said.

If banks refuse to open the accounts of these individuals, the party said it would urge its supporters to close their accounts with these banks.

The MK party will engage in mass action against banks to stop them from getting into the political space.

The party wants banks to stay away from politics and focus on their business.

Ndhlela said Zuma was not the only one who has been targeted by the banks, but they must not allow this to continue.

“It is common course that Dr Iqbal Surve and his companies including Sekunjalo Group - a shining example of black excellence [yet he is Indian] - have had their banking facilities arbitrarily closed by all the infamous Big Four gang of ABSA, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank, for a flimsy and nebulous reason of allegedly posing reputational risks to these financial institutions,” Ndhlela said.

“It is clear that they are a law unto themselves.”

He said they will force financial institutions to transform.

He said the courts must be fair when adjudicating on these matters as well.

People like Markus Jooste who have caused reputational risk to the banks because of their alleged crimes have not been touched by the banks.

“The courts have also not been helpful in confronting these racist, politically- motivated moves. When Nedbank appealed the Equality Court’s ruling that it reopens Sekunjalo Group's account(s), an all-white bench was allocated this case that is essentially about confronting the demon of racism that is rearing its ugly head within and across the banks,” Ndhlela said.

“Unsurprisingly, the Equality Court's ruling was overturned with the net effect that Nedbank can close Sekunjalo Group accounts,” he said.

“uMkhonto we Sizwe Party condemns this reckless, insensitive and unprecedented move by the Supreme Court of Appeal of appointing an all-white bench to hear a case against racism and calls for the judiciary to introspect and make amends.”

The MK party will push for the transformation of the sector.

They do not want banks to give its clients different treatment.. They must have the same rules for everyone.

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f5d77a No.20595578

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>>20464138

>250 Ekurhuleni metro police workers have criminal records

“How This Ekurhuleni Metro Police Officer Turned Into A Ruthless Hitman”

https://youtu.be/43mWKwmvitQ

Mar 19, 2024

This is a short story of Sebastian Groenewald, an Ekurhuleni Metro officer who lived a double life as a Hitman for hire and also a notorious gang leader.

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02eac0 No.20600883

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“The ANC Is Aching For Political Violence In KZN.”

https://youtu.be/F_UV_7NzFVs

Mar 20, 2024

ANC, IFP tensions spark fears of renewed violence in KZN

https://witness.co.za/news/kzn/2024/03/18/anc-ifp-tensions-spark-fears-of-renewed-violence-in-kzn/

18/03/2024

Attacks on ANC supporters during Saturday’s event commemorating the 110th anniversary of King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo’s death in kwaCeza outside Ulundi have sparked fears that rising tensions between the ANC and IFP could create instability within KwaZulu-Natal in the build-up to the May general election.

According to some reports, several ANC supporters who attended Saturday’s event received treatment in hospital after being attacked with sticks and other weapons on their way home.

The event, which was attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini, at one stage descended into chaos amid tensions between Economic Development MEC Siboniso Duma — who is also the ANC provincial chairperson — and Zulu nation prime minister Thulasizwe Buthelezi — who is the IFP mayor of the Zululand District Municipality and a member of the IFP’s national executive committee (NEC).

Tensions escalated when Duma aggressively grabbed the microphone from Buthelezi as he was introducing the Zulu monarch.

The amabutho responded by heckling their displeasure, moving closer to the stage and singing a battle cry.

University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) political expert Zakhele Ndlovu said the fact that the dispute which led to the violence was between senior leaders of the ANC and IFP was a major concern.

“For me, it means there is something wrong with the criteria used by the two respective political parties to elect leaders,” he said.

While the Zulu Royal House was above party politics, UKZN cultural expert Professor Sihawu Ngubane, said the province could be plunged into instability should political leaders in the province fail to handle issues around the Zulu monarchy with sensitivity.

The lack of understanding of Zulu Royal House protocols led to the escalation of tensions during Saturday’s event, Ngubane said.

Initially, Duma, who was the event’s programme director, wanted the King to be introduced by His Majesty’s imbongi (poet) instead of Buthelezi.

However, Duma subsequently allowed Buthelezi to introduce the King after the imbongi had turned down the ANC provincial chairperson’s requests.

According to witnesses, the ANC supporters who were injured during the fracas that unfolded after the event, were attacked by people wearing regalia resembling that of the amabutho.

Online publication Scrolla also reported that the victims were attacked by people wearing amabutho regalia.

ANC national spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, however, was adamant that the ruling party supporters were attacked by IFP backers

However, the IFP, which rejected the ANC’s claim that IFP members were involved in the attack of ANC supporters as “ANC propaganda”, said it found it insulting that the ruling party was blaming IFP supporters for Saturday’s violence “without offering any evidence”.

“Furthermore, let me point out the obvious. No IFP member, as far as we are aware, is in police custody.

“Therefore, labelling our members by such derogatory terms or accusing them of acts of violence without any proof is clear provocation, aimed at destabilising the province of KwaZulu-Natal, ahead of the crucial May 29 elections,” ANC national spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa said.

Hlengwa could not confirm or deny Bhengu-Motsiri’s claim that the two political parties have initiated talks to de-escalate the tensions.

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9111e9 No.20601460

“DR Congo’s reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition” – Part 1

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-africa/2024/03/dr-congos-reinstatement-of-death-penalty-faces-fierce-church-opposition

Mar 21, 2024

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – In a controversial move, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced the lifting of its 21-year moratorium on executions.

This drastic measure is a response to the surging violence and insurgent attacks in the nation’s eastern provinces. The government says it aims to deter collaboration with the M23 rebels by citizens, military, and police personnel.

The February 13 text signed by the Congolese Justice Minister, Rose Mutombo, notes that “acts of treachery or espionage have taken a heavy toll on both the population and the Republic in terms of the immensity of the damage suffered,” and therefore the reinstatement of capital punishment is meant to “rid our country’s army of traitors on the one hand, and to curb the upsurge in acts of terrorism and urban banditry resulting in the loss of human life on the other.”

Numerous members of the military – including top officers from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) armed forces – alongside lawmakers, senators, and influential business leaders from the eastern region, have been apprehended on charges of “aiding the adversary.”

These detentions have taken place against the backdrop of the ongoing hostilities between the DRC’s military and the M23 rebels. The Congolese army’s retreat and the capitulation of its supporting militias in the wake of the M23’s advances have raised alarms about the possibility of the rebels infiltrating the security ranks – often with the complicity of people charged with defending the country.

In reinstating the death penalty, the government has argued that the moratorium was “seen by all these offenders as a guarantee of impunity, because even when they were irrevocably condemned to capital punishment, they were assured that this sentence would never be carried out against them.”

The development has received significant pushback from rights organizations, including Catholic institutions and the leadership of the Church.

A leading Catholic prelate has particularly taken exception to the reinstatement of the death penalty in the DRC. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa condemned the new development as “a step backwards.”

In a March 17 interview with the French-language Catholic television channel, KTO, Ambongo said he found it “abnormal that a government that claims to be responsible could take such a decision.”

“This is a step backwards! I don’t think that a responsible government can raise such an option to punish people who are called traitors,” the cardinal said.

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9111e9 No.20601464

>>20601460

“DR Congo’s reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition” – Part 2

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-africa/2024/03/dr-congos-reinstatement-of-death-penalty-faces-fierce-church-opposition

Mar 21, 2024

He said he found it ironic that a death penalty should be passed on people considered traitors, whereas the greatest traitors are actually those in power.

Ambongo pointed out that when people in power “don’t serve the interests of the people, they are the ones we have to start considering as traitors, because they don’t assume the roles for which they have been entrusted, that is, service to the population.”

“I wouldn’t want us to take advantage of a vague notion of traitors to settle political scores,” the cardinal said.

Ambongo also serves as the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and is a member of Pope Francis’s Council of Cardinals.

Reacting to the reinstatement of capital punishment by the Congolese government, FIACAT – an international federation of mostly Catholic NGOs advocating for the abolition of capital punishment – said in a collective statement that they followed the development “with shock and dismay” and denounced “the dramatic consequences of a resumption of executions, in the event that this proposal were to be applied.”

“The signatory organizations recall that the application of the death penalty will have no effect on the ground apart from fueling false and dangerous ideas according to which the death penalty could contribute to putting an end to war and atrocities to Eastern DRC,” the FIACAT statement says.

The group said only the rule of law and the enhancement of justice can help fight impunity.

“The resumption of executions of those sentenced to death would mark a most regrettable step backwards in view of the positive efforts made by the Congolese authorities with a view to abolishing the death penalty since the establishment of the moratorium in 2003,” the statement reads.

More than 800 people sentenced to death are detained in DRC prisons. In 2022, courts handed down more than 163 death sentences. The same year, the country voted for the first time against the United Nations resolution for a universal moratorium on executions.

FIACAT argues that what has happened in the DRC is at variance with the general trend in Africa today. In 2023, 27 African states abolished the death penalty.

The group called on President Felix Tshsisekedi to reverse the legislation and instead focus attention on the “lethargy” that has characterized the dysfunctional judiciary system.

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9111e9 No.20601479

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“Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma [addressing Afrikaans white South Africans] || Leadership Summit 2024” – Part 1

https://youtu.be/2w0lRvA1ryw

Mar 20, 2024.

13:39 – “Thabo Mbeki and myself were sent by [Oliver] Tambo to go and meet the delegation from the government in South Africe sent by a man who was very strong who was the President… PW Botha. He sent 2 guys. It was the first meeting between us - the ANC - and government. He sent a man who was called Mike Louw… 2 in the intelligence of the government. He was with a man called [Maritz] Spaarwater. I think he was maybe #3 or #4 in the top levels of government and they said Dr Barnard said hello to you guys. I said fine. These 2 Presidents, Tambo and PW Botha, had asked us to come to this secret meeting to start discussing to stop the war and change this country.”

16:23 – “I remember an old story of a king who once ruled in South Africa, King Shaka. When his mother died, he declared that no telling of the soul, no eating, we must help to cry with him for his mother but what is a secret is that he had actually killed his mother… He had a very funny theory that he must no give birth to a child who is a boy. Any boy would be born must be killed. His logic was that if they grow, they become big, they will kill him in order to take over. As a result people began dying of starvation…

22:19 – “I’m saying this because this is an opportunity for me to say, we are all South Africans, we are together. We belong to this country.”

34:16 – “I then raised the matter in the Commissions, I said, I think you are not running the organisation properly and you are not running the country properly, this is not what I sacrificed my life for. Why are you doing this? I said this President of this organisation is actually not the President, the genuine one. Not genuine because somebody gave information about him in public that he has been given money to buy the position to be the President. When he went to the Commission because that allegation had been made, he was asked, “Did you get the money to pay for you to become a President?”… Under oath he said yes and therefore he was not the President that was elected honestly by numbers and I said I have a problem. Why did the leadership not talk to him? And I said this in the commission honestly. I said firstly this man is not a President. He’s a fake who was bought. When there was an attempt to investigate what was said, he also broke the law because when the Public Protector said answer these questions today, the following day he sacked Public Protector. You can’t have a man who thinks the country belong to himself. It’s totally out of order. You can’t remove a policeman because you are a President because he wants to arrest you. That’s not what I thought this country should be. There’s no man who has such a power. Not at all… Secondly, a man called McKensey said to him he’s a spy for the CIA and he said if you don’t agree, let us go to court. I’ll prove it to you, I’ve got evidence. He never said I’m not a spy for the Americans. Secondly, his former Comrade Terror Lakota in parliament… he said you were a spy… Nothing happened, the leadership of the ANC did nothing.”

39:44 – “I realised this organisation is no longer the organisation I joined, I was in all the time. This one, I call it the organisation of Ramaphosa. Not our resolution and therefore I took a decision, I can’t be ruled by this party under this man but I can’t keep on opening new parties like people do… So I decided to revive uMkhonto we Sizwe as a political party to rescue the ANC and rescue the country. That’s the reason why I took the decision. Mine is that we need a peaceful South Africa. We need all of us feel at home. It is in that process that I’ve been raising the issues because there is no equality in South Africa and I think it is our duty to work to create harmony.”

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9111e9 No.20601482

>>20601479

“Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma || Leadership Summit 2024” – Part 2

https://youtu.be/2w0lRvA1ryw

Mar 20, 2024

41:45 – “We need to sit like this and discuss and agree how do we correct this. We are all South Africans. I’ve had a lot of discussions with the brothers, the Khoisan, who have been rejected all the time. Why? They’ve got things to raise, they want peace. We all want peace. That’s why I said at my time, at my age, I would love that. Perhaps, we should not put politicians always to be the solver of all problems. Most of the time they create problems.”

45:36 – “I believe that there should be no oppression of one man by the other. We should always be free. We are all God’s children.”

48:42 – “Kids of 12-13 give birth to children. That can’t be. Why? Why don’t we stop it? We learn to live with it as if it’s normal. It’s not normal, it’s abnormal. If you do so, you are killing the nation.”

49:42 – “You can’t have the Minister of Police enjoying coming to us like this, nicely dressed and big black hat [Bheki Cele], only to tell us the crime has gone up. This time the crime has slightly gone down. He’s not telling us that he’s stopping crime in the country. There’s nothing of that report. You can’t have that. You can’t. I can be hated, I don’t care because we must build a nation, a decent nation, deal with other things properly, talk about things we are not happy about, sit down, agree, disagree, compromise, give and take. That’s how we can live.”

50:48 – “For me, I feel we are worse this time round than we were before freedom and to me it is the duty of all of us as South Africans to correct the wrongs. We can’t just stand and look. It is absolutely crucial. You cannot have a president who looks like a huge criminal and be proud that this is our Presdent.

52:12 – “We are told if you want to know what is democracy. We are told is a good country that rules with the majority agreeing on things then that’s fine. But there are laws that are being made. Laws which are not made by us, the majority… They are made by a minority that we take to put in Parliament who come from different political parties, representing different kind of ideologies and ideas and they’re making laws for us. We only do this so called majority rule once in 5 years, only when we vote. After that we vote for nothing. We are just sitting and looking. In my village, the chief who is younger than me ask me to come to their place where they sit. They said to me this law, you were in Parliament when this law was made that a man must marry another man. I was asked that because 2 men cannot produce a child, they have a right to buy a child because maybe they have money… I said that’s democracy. I said what democracy means the majority rules but you are told there’s a majority rule in South Africa but it’s actually not. There’s a majority rule once in 5 years. Every day it is the people who have their own ideas who are in Parliament who take decision. They don’t even consult you. Here majority rule is just in words not in reality.

1:00:51 – “I’m going to change the wrong laws. This democracy that allows kids to drink and small children to phone the police that my mother and daddy are beating me.”

1:08:55 – “The point I want to make really is that there is history that we went through, everybody. Not just between black and white, black and black. The man I was talking about here, Shaka, created a nation out of very, very tough kind of stuff. And in South Africa as well, it is not just black and white, black and black in particular. They still have problems among themselves.

1:14:38 – “We didn’t believe that killing another human being was our right and it si not up to this day. In fact, one of the things when MK is in government, we are going to discuss that issue. Should we abolish the death sentence or not because people are killing each other today like they’re just killing a chicken. We cannoth allow it and we must sit and talk. It must be a decision of the South African society that must say should we have it or not. Can we not stop the crime without the killing?”

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9111e9 No.20601502

>>20558081

>>20601479

>Thabo Mbeki and myself were sent by [Oliver] Tambo to go and meet the delegation from the government in South Africe sent by a man who was very strong who was the President… PW Botha. He sent 2 guys. It was the first meeting between us - the ANC - and government. He sent a man who was called Mike Louw… 2 in the intelligence of the government. He was with a man called [Maritz] Spaarwater. I think he was maybe #3 or #4 in the top levels of government and they said Dr Barnard said hello to you guys. I said fine. These 2 Presidents, Tambo and PW Botha, had asked us to come to this secret meeting to start discussing to stop the war and change this country.

>>20236804

>Sidney Frankel, a prominent South African Jew, accused of child molestation. “The true significance of the famous story about Cyril Ramaphosa removing a fish-hook from (National Party Cabinet minister) Roelf Meyer’s thumb is that their host on the day [during negotiations before the 1994 elections], Sidney Frankel, was chairman of Frankel Pollak, the largest stockbroker on the (then) Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Frankel acted as a facilitator of relationships between foreign and domestic business investors and government. By 1987 Frankel was well connected with the “left” in (the National Party) government – with people such as Gerrit Viljoen, Barend du Plessis and Roelf Meyer – and he began to reach out to the United Democratic Front.”

“Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold” – Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/1999-10-08-spy-comes-in-from-the-cold/

8 OCTOBER 1999

Former chief director of operations of the National Intelligence Service Maritz Spaarwater takes on a new role as researcher for the United Democratic Movement. Howard Barrell reports

The apartheid superspook who set up the top-secret meetings with African National Congress leaders in Switzerland in 1989 that led to a negotiated settlement in South Africa has broken cover and emerged as a researcher for the United Democratic Movement at Parliament in Cape Town.

Maritz Spaarwater, debonair former chief director of operations of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) under presidents PW Botha and FW de Klerk, has been a significant back-room figure in the UDM since its formation and is understood to have played a role in drawing up its main policy document.

Spaarwater, who was the Botha government’s contact man with Zambian ex- president Kenneth Kaunda, also met Swapo leader Sam Nujoma at the former Zambian leader’s official residence in the late 1980s, so initiating a set of contacts that led to a negotiated settlement in Namibia.

Spaarwater this week confirmed his entry into party politics, explaining that he thought the UDM alone had an agenda for the future. “The ANC, the Democratic Party and the National Party are still functions of the 1910 constitution. They are divisive. They are still fighting apartheid battles – the battles of the past,” he said.

Observers expect that, in his new role as researcher, Spaarwater will strengthen considerably the UDM’s presence in Parliament.

Described as highly intelligent and “a very smart cookie” by those who know him, Spaarwater’s research will feed the perspectives voiced by the party’s two key leaders, Bantu Holomisa and Roelf Meyer.

Spaarwater and Mike Louw, his immediate superior at the NIS during the Botha and De Klerk presidencies, are credited with having fought a long and lonely battle within the former apartheid intelligence services in the 1980s for an accommodation with the ANC and other liberation movements.

Their moment finally came on September 12 1989, when, through the intermediation of Stellenbosch University academic Willie Esterhuyse and in terms of a cunningly crafted resolution of the State Security Council, they met clandestinely with Thabo Mbeki, then head of the ANC’s international department, and Jacob Zuma, then the ANC’s head of intelligence, in a hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Their meeting is described in Allister Sparks’s book on progress towards a negotiated settlement in South Africa, Tomorrow Is Another Country. Spaarwater, supported by a team of three agents, made sure the meeting was secure and participated in these first vital exchanges.

Sparks reports Louw’s description of the first, tense encounter with the ANC representatives in his hotel room: “[Spaarwater and I] could hear them coming [down the passage], talking, and then they came around the corner and they could see us standing there. Thabo walked in and said, ‘Well here we are, bloody terrorists and for all you know fucking communists as well.’ That broke the ice, and we all laughed, and I must say that from that moment on there was no tension.

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9111e9 No.20601506

>>20601502

“Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold” – Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/1999-10-08-spy-comes-in-from-the-cold/

8 OCTOBER 1999

“When Louw and Spaarwater flew home the next morning, they had a clear message to deliver to [De Klerk]: the ANC was willing to negotiate.”

Subsequent meetings with the ANC involving Louw and Spaarwater followed, including those that made the arrangements for the return to South Africa from exile of the first ANC leaders in early 1990.

Spaarwater, Louw and their boss at the NIS, Nil Barnard, had been obliged to move cautiously in getting authorisation from the State Security Council for the first meeting. There were many in the political and security establishments who were violently opposed to contact with the ANC.

Their Aesopian proposal to the State Security Council read: “It is necessary that more information should be obtained and processed concerning the ANC, and the aims, alliances and potential approach- ability of its different leaders and groupings. To enable this to be done, special additional direct action will be necessary, particularly with the help of National Intelligence Service functionaries.”

Spaarwater said this week that his disillusion with apartheid had taken root in 1978 when it became clear to him that NP politicians’ claims that government policy would reverse the influx of black people to the cities was nonsense. Then serving in military intelligence with the rank of major, he resigned from the NP.

Later, as a colonel in military intelligence, he told a meeting of colleagues: “If I was a black in this country, I would be in Umkhonto weSizwe.” These views earned him “quite a lot of vilification and denigration”.

He resigned from military intelligence and joined the NIS where, it was clear to him, “there was more room for flexible thinking”.

His conviction that there had to be an accommodation with the ANC deepened when two states of emergency – one covering most major population centres in 1985, and a second across the entire country in 1986 – failed to quell popular unrest. “We in the NIS had warned they would not have the intended effect,” he said.

These states of emergency and some NP leaders’ belief in 1994 that their party would win South Africa’s first democratic election convinced him that “politicians have an infinite capacity for self- delusion”.

Intelligence sources say Spaarwater briefly served as head of domestic collections at the newly constituted National Intelligence Agency (NIA) under the current ANC government. But he fell victim to deep-seated suspicions among a few ANC leaders of intelligence officials from backgrounds different to their own.

“It’s a pity,” said one former ANC member now serving in the NIA. “He had a hell of a lot to offer.”

Spaarwater declined to comment on his reasons for leaving the security services.

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9111e9 No.20601511

>>20601502

>“The ANC, the Democratic Party and the National Party are still functions of the 1910 constitution. They are divisive. They are still fighting apartheid battles – the battles of the past,” he said.

“Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/constructing-union-south-africa-negotiations-contestations-1902-10

Industrialization and British imperialism in South Africa, driven by economic and political ambitions, and the individual actions of mining magnates like Cecil John Rhodes, resulted in a slow but steady expansion of manufacturing and transport infrastructure in late 19th and early 20th Centuries. After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, or Boer War), the British began focussing their attention on rebuilding the country, in particular the mining industry.

By the end of the 19th century, the indigenous peoples of South Africa had lost most their political and economic independence and the post-war systems left Black, Coloured and Indian people completely marginalised. The authorities imposed harsh taxes and reduced wages, while the British caretaker administrator encouraged the immigration of thousands of Chinese to undercut any resistance by African mineworkers. Black, Coloured and Indian resentment of government policies exploded in various rebellions and protests, but the British moved ahead with their plans for union.

The peace brought by the Treaty of Vereeniging, which had brought the Second Anglo-Boer War to an end, remained fragile. The Afrikaners found themselves in the ignominious position of poor farmers in a country where big mining ventures and foreign capital rendered them irrelevant. Britain's unsuccessful attempts to anglicise them, and to impose English as the official language in schools and the workplace particularly incensed them. Partly as a backlash to this, the Boers came to see Afrikaans as the volkstaal (people's language) and as a symbol of Afrikaner nationhood. Several nationalist organisations sprang up. However, when the Act of Union of 1910 brought together the previously separate colonies of the Orange Free State, Transvaal, Natal and the Cape to form the Union of South Africa, the British and the Boers (Afrikaners) put aside the bitterness of war in order to entrench White power and privilege at the expense of all Black South Africans.

In 1910, the South Africa Act was passed in Britain granting dominion to the White minority over Native (African), Asiatic (mostly Indian) and “Coloured and other mixed races”. This Act brought the colonies and republics - Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal and Orange Free State - together as the Union of South Africa. Under the provisions of the Act, the Union remained British territory, but with home-rule for Afrikaners. Each of the four unified states was allowed to keep their existing franchise qualifications and the Cape Colony was the only one which permitted voting by (property owning) non-whites.

The British Government was interested in creating a unified country within its Empire; one which could support and defend itself. It was necessary to have Afrikaner and English working together, especially following the acrimonious end to the Anglo-Boer War, and the satisfactory compromise that had taken eight years to reach. A union, rather than a federalised country, was more agreeable to the Afrikaner electorate since it would give the country a greater freedom from Britain. Louis Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts, both highly influential within the Afrikaner community, were closely involved in the development of the new constitution. Written into the new constitution was a requirement that a two-thirds majority of parliament would be necessary to make any changes to the constitution.

The British High Commission Territories of Basutoland (now Lesotho), Bechuanaland (now Botswana), and Swaziland were excluded from the Union because the British Government was worried about the status of the indigenous populations under the new constitution. It was hoped that, at some time in the (near) future, the political situation would be right for their incorporation, but at this time, they remained under direct rule from Britain.

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9111e9 No.20601525

>>20601506

>“When Louw and Spaarwater flew home the next morning, they had a clear message to deliver to [De Klerk]: the ANC was willing to negotiate.”

>He resigned from military intelligence and joined the NIS where, it was clear to him, “there was more room for flexible thinking”.

>>20372592

>[Former judge] Richard Goldstone… He was on the original Constitutional Court Bench in the new SA after 1994 and was involved in setting up the ICC in The Hague. [“After subsequent service at the international criminal tribunal, Goldstone was asked in 2009 to head a four-person team investigating allegations that Israel had violated international human rights during the Gaza incursion… [H]e felt compelled to recant his opinions about the 2008-09 Israeli invasion of Gaza in public.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/05/richard-goldstone-judge-gaza-report… Also “Richard Joseph Goldstone was born on October 26, 1938, in the Boksburg area near Johannesburg, South Africa, to a Jewish family of mixed English and Lithuanian ancestry, where his maternal grandfather was an Englishman and his paternal grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew who immigrated in the 19th century… From 1991 to 1994 he served as chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Public Violence and Intimidation, which became known as the Goldstone Commission, an independent judicial commission that investigated activities and people who posed a threat to the restoration of civil rights during the transition to post-apartheid South Africa… Goldstone presided over the International Tribunal from 1994 to 1996 and investigated war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.” https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2022-10-25-richard-goldston—the-judge-who-confronted-the-apartheid-regime-in-south-africa-and-angered-israel-in-the-gaza-strip.H1g315UrNj.html#google_vignette]

““The Night of the Generals”, De Klerk responded by clearing out the military old guard”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-11-apartheid-eras-last-president-fw-de-klerk-was-a-man-at-war-with-his-history/

11 Nov 2021

Instead he pivoted decisively in the direction of reform and on 2 February 1990 – just six months after his appointment – he made the famous announcement releasing Mandela and unbanning the ANC. He did so against the wishes of party hardliners such as Magnus Malan, who preferred a heavier security solution, but had the support of Pik Botha, the Foreign Minister, and other moderates such as Dawie De Villiers.

One of his first actions was to begin the process of dismantling the country’s six nuclear warheads, the first time that a sitting head of state has ever dissolved his country’s nuclear capability.

On 24 October, he further alienated the right of his party when he signed a peace accord with national liberation movements and appointed the Goldstone Commission into the prevention of public violence and intimidation. The commission provided 47 separate reports to the government, many of which exposed security force involvement in violence.

Once he had chosen his course, De Klerk was relentless. In 1992, he appointed General Pierre Steyn as Chief of the Defence Force and asked him to investigate and report on the workings of military intelligence structures. The Steyn Report was damning in its exposure of malfeasance by military intelligence and, in what came to be known as “The Night of the Generals”, De Klerk responded by clearing out the military old guard, placing six top-ranking officials on compulsory early retirement and 16 on compulsory leave.

Steyn would serve as the newly democratic South Africa’s first Secretary for Defence in the four years from 1994 to 1998.

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9111e9 No.20601552

>>20601525

>Instead he pivoted decisively in the direction of reform and on 2 February 1990 – just six months after his appointment – he made the famous announcement releasing Mandela and unbanning the ANC. He did so against the wishes of party hardliners such as Magnus Malan, who preferred a heavier security solution, but had the support of Pik Botha, the Foreign Minister, and other moderates such as Dawie De Villiers.

Keep in mind…

Nelson Mandela and the ANC never renounced violence

https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/nelson-mandela-a-candid-assessment

Most white South Africans rejoin that Nelson Mandela had no reason to seek revenge on anyone, nor any basis for extending forgiveness to his previous jailors. After all, as the most famous prisoner of the previous Apartheid government, he had been fairly tried and convicted of complicity in many murders, and he confessed to participation in 156 acts of terror, crimes that would certainly have earned him the death penalty in a great many countries. Moreover, his confinement was more than comfortable by any standards. During his legendary twenty-seven years in prison, Mandela communicated freely with his followers, and somehow managed to accumulate a considerable fortune. He was continually offered release by the white Apartheid government, but on one condition: that he renounce violence in pursuit of political reform. That is something he consistently refused to do.

Mandela was personally involved in the targeting and timing of terrorist bombings that took place during his imprisonment. Even a group as left-leaning as Amnesty International refused to grant Mandela political prisoner status because of the obviously violent character of his ideology and his actions. His African National Congress party ran a horrific camp for political prisoners in Angola, with daily torture and murder, often by the “necklacing” technique, whereby a gasoline-filled tire is placed around the neck of a victim and set ablaze. Virtually all the victims of this particular horror were blacks.

Within South Africa, on direct orders from Winnie and Nelson Mandela, the ANC targeted not only whites, but also black civil servants, teachers, lawyers, and businessmen—essentially anyone who imagined a post-Apartheid South Africa that differed from the one mandated by the Marxist ANC. Even simple black peasants who refused to carry out terror attacks were treated as enemies.

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9111e9 No.20601620

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>>20601482

>In fact, one of the things when MK is in government, we are going to discuss that issue. Should we abolish the death sentence or not because people are killing each other today like they’re just killing a chicken. We cannoth allow it and we must sit and talk. It must be a decision of the South African society that must say should we have it or not. Can we not stop the crime without the killing?

>>20516751

>The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight.

>The African National Congress (ANC) had no choice but to resort to armed struggle

>>20601552

Can Zuma change an organisation which was established for violence to become non-violent? Or is this a ruse?

“Former president Jacob Zuma addresses MK supporters”

https://youtu.be/JVcKfg_Pqsk

Mar 19, 2024

8:00 – “If you had to be a member of MK then, military wise, you had to take an oath and before this. There’s a document the MK established which I am sure you know it… This is the declaration of uMkhonto we Sizwe on our formation… “There comes a time in any nation where there remains only two choices: submit or fight… We shall not submit, we shall fight!”

10:47 – “It was absolutely necessary to any revolutionary to remember that we once had an organisation that had to rescue the ANC then, we now have to rescue our struggle now. So I don’t know why somebody said, “This is ANC.” No it is part of the ANC family, uMkhonto we Sizwe.”

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78cd27 No.20606500

“Markus Jooste the former Steinhoff CEO has died after reportedly shooting himself”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/markus-jooste-the-former-steinhoff-ceo-has-died-after-reportedly-shooting-himself-f58f95fe-1ecb-489c-8dbe-cefe99f5ee53

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2024

While details around Jooste's death remain the subject of a police investigation, it has been reported that Jooste shot himself on Thursday.

Jooste's death comes following a penalty of R475million imposed by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) after it found that he contributed to the publication of misleading or deceptive financial statements about the company.

According to Business Report, Steinhoff was rocked by an accounting scandal in 2017, with audit firm Deloitte confirming the accounting irregularities.

In October last year, the disgraced businessman appeal against a fine given by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) to the value of R15m, was upheld by the Financial Services Tribunal.

At the time, IOL reported that The JSE imposed “a public censure and the maximum permissible fine of R7,500,000 for Steinhoff’s consolidated financial statements for the 2015 and prior financial periods and for the 15 months ended September 30, 2016, which did not comply with IFRS and the Listings Requirements, and was incorrect, false and misleading in material aspects”.

Furthermore, the exchange also stated that Jooste would be given a “public censure and a permissible fine of R7,500,000 for his breaches of the listings requirements regarding the Steinhoff at Work transaction”.

In addition, Jooste was served with an arrest warrant by a German court last year.

According to Bloomberg, the Regional Court of Oldenburg issued the warrant.

Born in Cape Town in 1961, Jooste rose through the ranks of the business world with a combination of sharp intelligence, undeniable charisma, and an ambitious vision for the future.

His early career was marked by significant achievements in the South African corporate sector, leading him to the pinnacle of his profession as the CEO of Steinhoff International, a global retail conglomerate with operations across Europe, Africa, and Australasia.

The avid horse breeder in 2016 was reported to be one of Africa's richest people, worth $400 million, according to Wikipedia.

Under Jooste's leadership, Steinhoff experienced unprecedented growth, expanding its footprint through aggressive acquisitions and diversification strategies.

His ability to navigate complex international markets and merge differing corporate cultures under the Steinhoff umbrella was widely regarded as a testament to his business acumen.

However, Jooste's illustrious career took a dramatic turn in December 2017 when allegations of accounting irregularities surfaced, leading to his immediate resignation.

The revelation sent shockwaves through the financial world, wiping billions off Steinhoff's market value and sparking investigations by regulatory authorities across several countries.

In just one week around R160 billion of Steinhoff's value wiped off the markets in a matter of days

The scandal, often compared to the Enron debacle in its scope and impact, highlighted significant flaws in corporate governance and financial oversight.

The years following his departure from Steinhoff were marred by legal battles, public scrutiny, and the unravelling of Jooste's once unassailable reputation.

Accused of orchestrating a complex fraud that inflated profits and asset values, Jooste became a central figure in discussions about corporate ethics, responsibility, and the consequences of unchecked ambition.

IOL has reached out to the South African Police Service and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (also known as the Hawks) for comment.

This is a developing story.

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78cd27 No.20606502

>>20606500

“Former Steinhoff executive Stephanus Grobler appears in court”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/former-steinhoff-executive-stephanus-grobler-appears-in-court-168b2240-79c3-4153-83bc-83bb39619981

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024

Former Steinhoff executive, Stephanus Johannes Grobler, is appearing in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on charges relating to corporate fraud against Steinhoff International Holdings.

In a media statement, police spokesperson Brigadier Thandi Mbambo said the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as the Hawks) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) secured warrants of arrest against Grobler and Steinhoff chief executive officer, Markus Jooste.

"The exit routes were secured before the message of securing their attendance in court was shared with the defence to ensure that none of the suspects leave the borders," Mbambo said.

She said the suspects were expected to hand themselves over to police at the Pretoria Central police station on Friday, however, on Thursday, IOL reported that Jooste had died by suicide.

"After being notified of the arrest warrants, Mr Jooste allegedly committed suicide on the afternoon of March 21, 2024. Mr Grobler appeared in court this morning on the said charges," Mbambo said.

Western Cape police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Pojie said police were activated to attend to a shooting incident at about 2.40pm at Kwaaiwater Beach in Hermanus on Thursday.

“The deceased succumbed to a fatal gunshot wound to the head shortly after arrival at a private hospital. We can confirm that Hermanus SAPS opened an inquest docket for investigation,” he said.

Grobler and Jooste face charges of fraud, a pattern of racketeering activities and contravention of Financial Markets Act brought against Steinhoff International Holdings.

Jooste's death comes following a penalty of R475 million imposed by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) after it found that he contributed to the publication of misleading or deceptive financial statements about the company.

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78cd27 No.20606537

>>20551778

>Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was replaced as minister of defence and military veterans by Speaker of Parliament Thandi Modise. Ramaphosa thanked Mapisa-Nqakula saying she “will be deployed to a new position”.

“‘Don’t let them arrest me’: Speaker Mapisa-Nqakula files urgent High Court bid to interdict Minister Bheki Cele, NPA from arresting her”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/dont-let-them-arrest-me-speaker-mapisa-nqakula-files-urgent-high-court-bid-to-interdict-minister-bheki-cele-npa-from-arresting-her-f5c81298-3efa-4cce-be9e-8478e1becb49

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2024

Embattled Speaker of Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has launched an application for an urgent high court interdict against being arrested by the South African Police Service, amid an ongoing corruption investigation.

On Friday morning, the SABC reported that Mapisa-Nqakula had handed herself to police at the Pretoria Central police station, where she was anticipated to be charged and processed for court.

Mapisa-Nqakula, who was Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2021, is accused of receiving millions of rand in cash as bribes from a military contractor when she was defence minister. She has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

In court papers seen by IOL, Mapisa-Nqakula prays to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to interdict five respondents, including National Director of Public Prosecutions, advocate Shamila Batohi and Minister of Police Bheki Cele from instituting an arrest against her.

In part, the notice of motion reads: “Be pleased to take note that the above-named applicant (Mapisa-Nqakula) intends to make application on Tuesday 9 April 2024 at 2pm for an order in the following … interdicting and restraining the first to fifth respondents, or their agents, from arresting the applicant, whether under section 40 or 43 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 51 of 1977”.

The former minister of defence and military veterans was on Friday expected to appear in court for the alleged corruption, according to broadcasters eNCA and Newzroom Afrika.

On Thursday, IOL reported that Mapisa-Nqakula expressed her willingness to cooperate with law enforcement agencies, should they need to arrest her for the alleged corruption.

She said while she had not received any formal communication from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) about the arrest, she will cooperate with the authorities.

Mapisa-Nqakula said she also took leave of absence as Speaker and has informed Secretary to Parliament, Xolile George and President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The Speaker’s arrest was highly anticipated, following a raid at her house in Johannesburg early on Tuesday.

The raid was linked to a probe into alleged corruption during her term as defence minister.

“I wish to place it on record, that while the Investigative Directorate of the National Prosecution Authority conducted a search and seizure at my residence, there has been no formal notification of an arrest warrant or communication regarding an imminent arrest for me, neither to me nor my legal team,” Mapisa-Nqakula said in a statement at the time.

“My lawyers have, however, proactively informed the National Prosecution Authority of my readiness to comply and cooperate should the need arise.”

She said she has also decided to take special leave, given the nature of the allegations and speculation on her future.

She said this was to protect the integrity of Parliament.

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78cd27 No.20606606

>>20552292

>Naledi Pandor: "We didn’t meet the Palestinian people on October 8th. We’ve been together in struggle for many many decades. The people of Palestine trained the freedom fighters of the liberation movement"

“Bill that calls for full review of US relations with SA crosses first hurdle in US Congress”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-03-21-bill-that-calls-for-full-review-of-us-relations-with-sa-crosses-first-hurdle-in-us-congress/

21 Mar 2024

A bill that would call on the US government to comprehensively review US relations with South Africa crossed its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday when it passed the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on a voice vote.

The “U.S.- South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Act” is expected also to pass a more formal roll call vote in the committee on Wednesday and then to move to the full House of Representatives.

The bill would also require the Administration to report to Congress “explicitly stating whether South Africa has engaged in activities that undermine United States national security or foreign policy interests.”

Republican John James and Democrat Jared Moscowitz introduced the bill in February. It says that in contrast to its stated non-alignment, the ANC government has been siding with “malign actors”, building military and political ties with Russia and China and supporting Hamas, designated by the US as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation and a known proxy of Iran.

On Wednesday, James added an amendment which also criticised International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor for urging pro-Palestinian activists to demonstrate outside the Pretoria embassies of the five governments which support Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.

She did not name the countries but was understood to be referring to the US, UK, Germany, France and Canada.

James’s amendment was adopted by the committee but an amendment proposed by Republican Scott Perry, requiring the Administration to end all foreign aid to South Africa, was defeated.

James opposed Perry’s amendment, saying the US should not cut off its millions of dollars of health assistance to SA.

Anthony Carroll, retired adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, agreed, saying he was pleased to see Perry’s amendment defeated. “This would have stopped Pepfar funding and would have had catastrophic consequences,” he said, referring to the large US programme which has pumped billions of rands into helping SA fight HIV/AIDS for over two decades.

Gregory Meeks, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee was one of several members of his party who opposed the James bill altogether.

He said he was also concerned with some of Pretoria’s foreign policy stances but the US administration was seeking cooperation with South Africa, a key partner and an economic driver in Africa and the bill would thwart that cooperation.

He noted that SA had cooperated with the US to the extent of ensuring Russian President Vladimir Putin did not attend the BRICS summit in South Africa last year. He also said the James bill would duplicate the review of South Africa’s participation in Agoa – the African Growth and Opportunity Act – which has already been called for in a bill tabled by influential Democrat Senator Chris Coons.

Democrat Jonathan Jackson also opposed the bill saying it did not advance relations and that despite differences the US and SA should seek opportunities for cooperation. SA had a strong commitment to democracy and human rights. But Republican Michael McCaul, chairperson of the House Foreign Affairs Committee supported the bill, citing the joint naval exercise which SA conducted with Russian and China in February 2023.

Despite the progress of the bill in the House of Representatives, the Senate has not yet produced matching legislation and many Congress watchers doubt that it will.

Meanwhile Pandor is in the US trying to repair the damage to relations caused by South African government’s stance on the Russian war against Ukraine and Israel’s war against Hamas.

She has talked to the US Chamber of Commerce and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Howard College in Washington. Observers believe she has generally been doing well – except for one significant blunder.

This came when Dan Baer, Carnegie’s senior vice president for policy research, asked her about BRICS admitting four “authoritarian” governments — Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt — into the group last year..

She disputed his characterisation, asking “who makes these judgments? Because I don’t know, this assessment, that you’re making.” Pressed by Baer on whether Iran is authoritarian, she responded, “I don’t know whether they are an authoritarian regime.”

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b9f483 No.20606824

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“South Africa's most wanted| Collen Chauke| From ANC Councillor to Heist Kingpin| Mama Venus”

https://youtu.be/wICJIxJp7tU

Apr 4, 2022

“Heist kingpin story relived in movie” - Collen Chauke: “a former member of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto weSizwe”

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2017-02-10-heist-kingpin-story-relived-in-movie/

10 February 2017 - 11:35

The dramatic life of cash-in-transit heists mastermind Collen Chauke has been turned into an action film.

Chauke, a former member of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto weSizwe, became infamous when he was arrested in connection with a R12.6-million robbery from the SBV cash depot in Pretoria in October 1997.

Police further linked Chauke to 17 murders and 30 robberies in which R82-million was stolen.

Titled State Enemy No.1, the local film is produced by Elvis Nkosi and directed by Zuko Nodada.

Chauke died in 2003 at Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, of an unknown disease. While in prison in 2000, he converted to Islam and decided to change his name to Shiram Iman Dawood.

The film is funded by the Department of Trade and Industry, M-Net, National Film and Video Foundation and the National Empowerment Fund. Nkosi has previously produced films for Mzansi Magic and specialises in shooting music videos.

https://en.kinorium.com/2102747/

State Enemy No.1

"If one man defines justice for an entire community, he is at the same time villain and hero."

State Enemy no.1 is based on the true story of Collen Chauke, the Guerrilla arm of the African National Congress who became known as the cash transit kingpin. He decided to form his own gang to accumulate the riches he believes he deserves after having sacrificed his youth to the struggle.

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b9f483 No.20606902

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>>20606824

>>20562702

>You know the series, “The Queen” [“The show revolves around the Khoza family, drug lords who hide their dealings behind their logistics company, and their conflicts with their competitors and the Tembisa Police Service.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_(South_African_TV_series)], that’s how things are done. People look at such things as entertainment. They don’t check the reality behind it but the fact is this thing is killing us. It’s destroying our future.

>>20500928

>The MK sits the muscle of war in the country and to think that they are worth nothing, you need to look at the crime records in this country… but the biggest crimes happening in this country are in the hands of the military personnel who are trained in explosives, in bombs, in guns, etc. and they are not employed in the system. To think that MK is a joke, can only come from a person who does not know how military and war works.

Now there is a series.

“Soon Comes Night | Official Trailer | Netflix”

https://youtu.be/wgW8R6sPtLY

Jan 5, 2024

““Soon Comes Night” Review: In This South African Crime Drama, There Are No Heroes” – Collen Chauke

https://www.afrocritik.com/soon-comes-night-review-south-african-crime-drama/

What truly sets Soon Comes Night apart is its bold exploration of aspects of corruption and crime in South Africa which is often overlooked by other shows where there is little focus on the corruption within the government, and how this affects the crime rate in society.

On the back of the success of previous South African crime drama series – such as Queen Sono (2020), Justice Served (2022), and Ludik (2022) – comes Netflix’s latest offering, Soon Comes Night. Produced by Ochre Moving Pictures (Justice Served, Fatal Seduction) and directed by Thabang Moleya and Sanele Zulu, the series is inspired by the story of Collen Chauke who was once South Africa’s most wanted criminal. A former member of the African National Congress guerrilla (Umkhonto we Sizwe) and a local councilor, he was accused of 30 murders and 17 armed robberies of cash-in-transit vans that netted more than £8 million.

In the opening scene of the series, we are introduced to Alex Shabane (Kwenzo Ngcobo) and his crew as they rob a cash-in-transit truck. This is the first in a series of heists orchestrated by the former freedom fighter, in defiance of the law and as a way to get back at the corrupt system that impoverishes its people. Having been part of the apartheid struggles, Shabane’s new occupation as a criminal mastermind is an embarrassment for his former comrades (now in government) who offer him a deal; take up a cushy government job or go the way of the bullet.

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e25054 No.20607405

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>>20606500

>>20606502

Was it a suicide or did he know too much? Nobody heard a gun shot and there isn’t any police tape at the scene.

“Retracing Markus Jooste’s final footsteps to find answers on why now, why there?”

https://youtu.be/FwQQudRqIM0

Mar 22, 2024

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e25054 No.20607408

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>>20607405

“Styan: Jooste is taking a lot of information to the grave”

https://youtu.be/g2H86GTsyQ0

Mar 21, 2024

Author of 'Steinhoff: Inside SA's Biggest Corporate Crash' James-Brent Styan says there might be a lot of nervous people after Markus Jooste's alleged suicide. "There is no way a scheme that collapsed Steinhoff could have been orchestrated by one person."

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e25054 No.20607444

>>20607405

>>20607408

>"There is no way a scheme that collapsed Steinhoff could have been orchestrated by one person."

Steinhoff Scandal: "SARB [South African Reserve Bank] and Steinhoff cross-border transactions"

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/rip-former-steinhoff-ceo-markus-jooste-pays-the-ultimate-price-e44fcd09-d447-42b9-97f3-ac0ba7ec15c8

Published 12h ago

A source, who declined to be named, told “Business Report”: “Jooste thought he could keep the courts busy for many years.”

The death of Jooste, 63, born on January 22, 1961, comes just a day after the FSCA imposed a R475-million administrative fine on Jooste for accounting irregularities at the company – the biggest such penalty that the FSCA has imposed on an individual.

After Deloitte confirmed that Steinhoff had falsified its financial statements, the JSE fined Jooste about $880 000 (R16.5m) for violations of its listing regulations while the SARB in 2021 seized assets worth up to R1.4 billion from Steinhoff and from Jooste’s family trust. Jooste was also barred from holding office in listed companies for a period of 20 years.

Steinhoff International was liquidated last year after an accounting scandal brought it to its knees. In 2017, news broke of the country’s biggest corporate fraud amounting to €6.5bn (R134bn) which was explained as an accounting error. The fraud also cost the Public Investment Corporation close to R21bn of investments.

The FSCA said on Wednesday its administrative penalty on Jooste followed a thorough investigation of the former Steinhoff top executive. The FSCA also found former Steinhoff chief finance officer, Dirk Schreiber, guilty of publishing false, misleading, or deceptive statements about the company.

FSCA commissioner Unathi Kamlana said: “The imposition of a financial penalty of R475m on Markus Jooste comes after a thorough investigation found that Jooste and Dirk Schreiber made or caused the publication of misleading statements about Steinhoff. These are statements they knew or ought to have known were false, misleading or deceptive.”

The authority found that Jooste was in contravention of the Financial Markets Act pertaining to the publication of financial statements for the period of 2014 to 2016 as well as for the 2017 half-year period. It said the Steinhoff securities which were listed on the JSE and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange resulted in heavy losses for investors, including South African pension funds.

According to Kamlana, the FSCA was concerned that the “efficiency and integrity of financial markets” in South Africa had taken a knock from the behaviour of Jooste. For the period 2014 to 2016 and for the 2017 interim period, “the financial statements published for Steinhoff failed in material respect to provide useful information to investors, to lenders and other creditors and thereby concealing the true financial position” of Steinhoff.

“This meant that investors based their assessment of Steinhoff on false, incomplete or misleading information which resulted in material destruction of value estimated to run into hundreds of billions of rand, including losses suffered by pension funds. This type of behaviour is unacceptable, especially by senior executives,” said Kamlana.

Jooste, at the time of his death, was under investigation by the National Prosecuting Authority in a criminal case, in which he faced penalties of up to R15m or 10 years’ imprisonment, or both.

However, questions still remain unanswered about the SARB [South African Reserve Bank] and Steinhoff cross-border transactions after news broke this month that one of its former employees allegedly facilitated billions of Steinhoff rand out of South Africa via 16 exchange control applications.

The SARB told “Business Report” this week that: “All matters related to corruption or of a criminal nature were referred to the relevant law enforcement authorities in 2022, and the matter now resides with them.”

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e25054 No.20607453

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>>20607405

>>20607408

>>20607444

>>20571440

“Pravin Gordhan’s deathly legacy: A threat to SA’s economic future”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/pravin-gordhan-s-deathly-legacy-a-threat-to-sa-s-economic-future/ar-AA1kDJ3g

2023/11/27, 22:55:38

In the corridors of power, where decisions shape the destiny of nations, one man has emerged as front runner for the dubious honour of being the architect of South Africa’s economic chaos – Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan, at whose hands the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have all but collapsed.

In a young and emerging democracy, SOEs should play vital roles, such as contributing significantly to gross domestic product providing jobs, and supplying essential services to ensure the economic participation and inclusion of the people and businesses at all stages of the value creation chain.

Instead, there has been a systematic breakdown of almost every SOE in this country, to the point where privatisation becomes the only solution – but then, perhaps that is the end game after all? With our road, rail, shipping air and power networks in the hands of private business, they get to charge what they like and effectively control South Africa …

Gordhan, who appointed two of the most incompetent CEOs in SOE history, has managed to escape the scrutiny that any other public servant would face till now, although the shine on his crown is beginning to dim. Under ordinary circumstances, he would have been fired by now, or forced to resign, so what or who shields him from accountability?

Gordhan’s tenure as finance minister witnessed the approval of capital flight amounting to almost $200 billion (R3.7 trillion), including the notorious Steinhoff scandal. The rand has also suffered a 25% devaluation, yet he remains in a position of power. What makes him so untouchable?

Some argue that his support lies with the DA rather than the ANC. His alleged ties to an alleged “rogue unit” at the South African Revenue Service (Sars) and rumoured leverage over ANC members may explain part of his political survival.

However, Gordhan’s influence reaches its zenith through his connection with President Cyril Ramaphosa. Riding on his opposition to former President Zuma and the Gupta family, Gordhan emerged as a darling of the press and a symbol of resistance. However, his 5-year tenure has not delivered on the promises of job creation, Eskom’s recovery, or rand stabilisation. Quite the reverse, in fact.

Instead, Gordhan has swiftly removed black professionals, conveniently labelling them as Gupta associates, and filled key positions with those he deemed loyal.

Under Gordhan’s watch, the appointment of Portia Derby as the head of Transnet exemplifies his questionable judgment. Derby, with no significant management experience, has overseen a purge of talent and a collapse of Transnet. Similarly, Eskom’s woes are blamed on an incompetent CEO, deflecting attention from Gordhan’s role in these disastrous appointments.

Behind the scenes, Gordhan and his cabal are engaged in a silent war for the economic soul of South Africa.

With the upcoming elections potentially threatening the ANC’s grip on power, some speculate that losing power might be part of the plan. This strategy could allow the ANC to rid itself of both the Gordhan/Ramaphosa faction and the Zuma/Gupta faction, creating an opportunity for the party’s reconstruction and resurgence.

As South Africa faces a potential power shift, the aftermath may involve a dangerous backlash. The economic elite, with their wealth safely stashed offshore, may escape unscathed, leaving ordinary citizens to deal with the fallout of this political chess game.

The Gordhan legacy reveals a darker side of South African politics, appearing to show that individual economic interests take precedence over the well-being of the people.

The upcoming elections could mark a turning point, but the question remains: will the ANC, and South Africa, emerge stronger or succumb to the legacy of questionable leadership and economic manipulation? There is no more time left to tell, as the reckoning is here.

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f5d77a No.20636553

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>>20601479

>It was the first meeting between us - the ANC - and government. He sent a man who was called Mike Louw… 2 in the intelligence of the government. He was with a man called [Maritz] Spaarwater

>Secondly, a man called McKensey said to him he’s a spy for the CIA and he said if you don’t agree, let us go to court.

>>20601502

>>20601506

>Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold

“Gayton McKenzie releases sensational new book 'Kill Zuma by Any Means Necessary'”: Talks about Intelligence Involvement

https://youtu.be/blqfmhOm4to

Jun 17, 2018

3:09 – “Mike Louw and Maritz Spaarwater was sent, number one and number 4 in the national intelligence agency from South Africa. [Oliver] Tambo sent {Thabo Mbeki} and [Jacob] Zuma. They met at a hotel called Lucern in Switzerland… When they gave a report back, they gave 2 reports. Report number one is the ANC is willing to talk. Report two, we never heard of and that’s the report that we have is that whatever you do, you gotta get Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma removed from negotiations. They’re unmovable when it comes to the land issue and the aspirations of black people. You got to put somebody there that is pliable and they will make sure that the land still remain in our hands, sure there’s a Sunrise clause. Fast forward, the military intelligence together with foreign intelligence; CIA, Mossad and MI6 came up with an operation, Operation Scrum. Operation scrum had one thing in mind to make sure that these two gentlemen Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma does not sit at the negotiating table… Long story short… they’ve been removed and replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa.

8:02 – “What I’m saying to you is that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was put there in that position through extremely clandestine means. If it was forthright why do you wait for Mandela to leave? Why do you wait for Mbeki to leave?”

8:40 – “It was [Clive] Menell. The Menell is one of the biggest families in mining… Menell paid for [Ramaphosa’s] schooling through the Urban Foundation and when they were sitting, he gave them money to start NUM. The National Union of Mineworkers was started with money from Menell, [Harry] Oppenheimer and [Anton] Rupert. He has always been their boy.

16:03 – “Everything [at the airport] is Bidvest. Who’s these people that got evergreen contracts?” [An evergreen contract automatically renews on or after the expiry date. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/evergreen.asp]

17:57 – “I know I’m in for lots of insults but I know I have the proof. I’m not talking about people who are dead. I’m talking aoubt people who can talk for themselves.”

18:22 – He talks about watching the movie, “The Godfather”.

21:38 – “We are the only people in the world that has won a revolution and we don’t have land. Now people blame the farmers for [the land]. That is the biggest lie that has been told in this country and our politicians because some of them are clueless… when we speak about land. It’s not Afrikaner… 3-5% of our land is agricultural land. White farmers have been blamed for nothing here… The culprit is the mining houses.

25:19 – “I received them from the owner who wrote the files. So President Zuma does not have jurisdiction over these files, the Intelligence Minister does not have jurisdiction of these files. These files were not even given to me in this country. So these are my files. How I got it, it’s none of their business.”

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f5d77a No.20636634

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>>20636553

>>20590410

>Rand Manipulation Exposed: How The Banks Screwed Trillions Over South Africa

>Barclays Africa’s cooperation with the competition commission meant that its financial assets, Barclays Capital and Absa, were afforded leniency in the matter.

>>20590424

>>20590428

>>20571475

>Jacob Zuma: Johann Rupert threatened to shutdown the economy of South Africa if Pravin Gordhan was removed

>>20571440

>A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day “weekend special” stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.

“Download Kill Zuma By Any Means Necessary” written by Gayton McKenzie

https://idoc.pub/download/kill-zuma-by-any-means-necessarynodrm-ylyxekj5q3nm

2017

Excerpts

And that was why Minister Fikile Mbalula was about to have the following encounter with the then 66-year-old [Johann] Rupert in Stellenbosch at a wine auction in the first few months of 2017.

“I want you to go and tell your president that I looked after Mandela. But if he fires Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas, I will destroy this economy. My friends and I will make it look worse than Zimbabwe.”

It was no idle threat. The last time President Zuma had made an appointment to head the finance ministry that “the markets” did not approve of, South Africa’s main stock market, the JSE, lost somewhere in the region of R500 billion almost overnight and the rand plummeted to nearly R18 to the dollar.

Rupert, a member of the so-called Stellenbosch Mafia – a half-playful term that has attached itself to all the wealthy businessman from the town – also had a strong presence in the banking sector, especially Standard Bank, FirstRand, Nedbank and Absa.

The democratic government in 1997 commissioned the British investigating firm Ciex to look at this apparent theft of R26 billion in state money during apartheid. Ciex recommended that much of the money could indeed be recovered and was even willing to do the recovery itself – for a hefty fee.

Former British spy Michael Oatley has since revealed that it was Nelson Mandela himself who decided against recovering the funds – because he did not want to alienate the Afrikaners with whom apparently secret deals were agreed to prior to democracy.

Oatley told the Sunday Times: “When he learned of it, President Mandela ruled that moving against Absa, and effectively the Afrikaner financial nexus, was inconsistent with his policy of reconciliation [and with] secret prechange agreements,” he says. “By then, of course, Absa had made itself the ANC’s best friend.”

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f5d77a No.20636664

“ANC loses bid to deregister Zuma’s MK party”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/anc-loses-bid-deregister-zumas-mk-party/

26 Mar 2024 10:04 am

The court has found that the IEC acted within the prescribes of the law when registering the MK party.

The Electoral Court has found that the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) acted within the prescribes of the law when registering former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.

The African National Congress (ANC) wanted the Electoral Court to declare the MK party’s registration unlawful.

The Electoral Court has dismissed the ANC’s application.

Delivering a unanimous judgment on Tuesday, Judge Lebogang Modiba of the Electoral Court, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, ruled the ANC’s complaints lacked any merit, was not urgent and that the court did not have any jurisdiction to hear the case.

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f5d77a No.20636668

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>>20601511

>After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, or Boer War), the British began focussing their attention on rebuilding the country, in particular the mining industry.

“‘My soul is tired’ - Disgruntled community on the abandoned million-rand projects in Madibeng”

https://youtu.be/4bxQBOuZpbc

Premiered Mar 25, 2024

In previous years, the office of the Auditor-General named Madibeng Municipality as one of South Africa's worst-run municipalities. As the country heads towards the 2024 general elections, Eyewitness News took a trip to Madibeng.

5:46 - Douglas Maimani, Mayor; “But I must appreciate that – because these were Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) funded projects. In our current financial state of affairs, we may not have a reserve a reserve to immediately to finance the resuscitation. So we will depend on the role players or partners such as your mining sector who can come to our rescue. So we hard at work to get the funding made available from the private sector.

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f5d77a No.20636704

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>>20636668

>>20521808

>On 13 May 1993, Sanlam, an apartheid-era insurance company that was established in 1918 to advance Afrikaner economic empowerment, announced the sale of a 10% stake in Metropolitan Life. The 10% stake was sold for R137 million to Methold, a black-owned consortium that was led by Ntatho Motlana, a Soweto businessman and community leader who was the doctor for Nelson Mandela’s family.

>>20489047

>Phefo Power: Mbendeni Humphrey Mathe, Director and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) recipient

“Moeketsi Mbeki || The ANC sold us out long ago”

https://youtu.be/BNZBYDBdmGg

Premiered Mar 21, 2024

The ANC sold Black People out long ago says Moeketsi Mbeki, He takes us through the history of the journey to Freedom and struggle.

4:32 – “Many people naively think that black economic empowerment is there to advance black people, actually is there to do the opposite.

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e25054 No.20656616

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“Toxic Treasures: Unmasking The Gold Mafia of Penhalonga”

https://youtu.be/pBhSxcVSTtY

Mar 20, 2024

This documentary delves into the heart of Zimbabwe's historic mining town. Once a booming centre of gold production, Penhalonga now grapples with the lasting effects of the mining on its community and environment. Through captivating visuals and compelling stories, the documentary explores the town's complex past, investigates the present challenges, and unveils the uncertain future that lies ahead.

6:50 – “Nearly all communities earmarked for mining in Zimbabwe are distressed as a result of uncertain futures due to threats of displacement and excessive use of force by the State. Reports of intimidation, harassment and surveillance in these communities have been coming from all over Zimbabwe.

18:46 – “And all we see is Mr Sakupwanya spending a lot of money bringing people like Floyd Mayweather to Mabvuku so that he can punch a punchbag. That’s how the money is being spent.”

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e25054 No.20656623

“IEC identifies 42 candidates on multiple party lists”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/iec-identifies-42-candidates-on-multiple-party-lists/

26 March 2024, 06:36

The Independent Electoral Commission has disclosed that 42 candidates have appeared on more than one party list, implicating 39 parties in the issue.

Among them, one candidate was nominated as an independent and on a party list. The commission made this revelation after yesterday’s 17:00 deadline, by which political parties were required to inform the commission if their nominated candidates also appeared on another party’s list or were independent candidates.

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e25054 No.20656626

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“Race obsession is breaking the justice system”

https://youtu.be/dUsQjqAov6Q

Mar 26, 2024

In this video I discuss a recent event where a High Court judge in South Africa railed against the fact that two legal teams who appeared before him were white. He asked them to prepare arguments about their race. Constitutional Law expert, Koos Malan responded that this is an act absolutism, which is not permissable for a judge. Not only does such a move go against the grain of the basic principles of constitutionalism, it's an expression of anti-constitutional behaviour.

See Koos Malan's article here:

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/judges-are-just-judges-not-absolute-rulers

25 March 2024

Judge Mandlenkosi Percival Motha of the Gauteng High Court was so upset about the four white counsel – a senior and a junior on each side – in a case before him that on 16 February, he ordered the two seniors to explain in written heads arguments why an African advocate did not also appear in the case. According to the learned judge, the racial profiling of the legal teams may have been contrary to section 9(2) of the Constitution, which, among other things, provides for affirmative action.

Having acted in this way, Motha morphed into an applicant in his own self-initiated case instead of sticking to his judicial duties in the case before him. Moreover, Motha and some of his supporters seem to believe that judges have absolute power and can instruct lawyers about anything, regardless of whether it is related to the case before them.

Motha's instruction was inadmissible and manifestly improper.

The controversy involved the issue of so-called briefing patterns, specifically the alleged practice of a willful preference for white advocates. This has, according to Nkosana Mvundlena of the Black Lawyers Association (BLA), assumed such extreme proportions that black lawyers are starving for opportunities.

Periform Work Scaffolding Engineering (Pty) Ltd, an engineering firm, is the applicant in the case before Judge Motha, while the Commissioner of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission (the BEE Commission) is the respondent.

Adv. Johan Brand SC and Adv. Anna Granova of the Pretoria Bar acted for the BEE Commission and Adv. Arnie Subel SC and Adv. Johnny Klopper for the applicant.

What probably further dismayed Motha was that the state attorney, on whose behalf Mr. NR Baloyi was acting, had briefed Brand. How outrageous of the state attorney to brief a senior white male advocate who falls within the extreme category of untouchability under South Africa’s transformative caste system and then, on top of that, to act for the BEE commission, part of the high priestly order of the caste system?

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e25054 No.20656636

“Zuma barred from MK party candidacy by IEC due to criminal record”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/928923-2/

28 March 2024, 19:37

Former president Jacob Zuma will not be allowed to stand as a candidate for the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party in the 29 May elections. The Electoral Commission (IEC) made the announcement while briefing the media on the outcome of the public objection process that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

The Commission says 31 objections were received from the public, alleging that 8 candidates were not eligible to run for the ballot due to having a criminal record or a conviction.

Seven of these were dismissed.

The grounds for Zuma’s objection was his 15-month sentence handed down for contempt of court in relation to the State Capture inquiry in June 2021.

IEC Chairperson Mosotho Moepya says the Commission followed the letter of the Constitution, which stipulates that any person convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 12 months imprisonment without the option of a fine is disqualified from standing for elections.

“The Commission could only act within the confines of the law and the constitution this commission has written to the objectors, candidates and nominating parties to advise them of its determinations as required any objector, party or candidate aggrieved by the decision of the commission may appeal the decisions with the Electoral Court by the 2nd of April 2024.”

Former President Jacob Zuma still has an opportunity to challenge his objection at the Electoral Court by the 2nd of April, thereafter the Court will make its decision on the 9th of April.

Yet…

https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/23543/politicians-implicated-in-state-capture-where-they-are-now/

17 July 2023

Numerous top politicians and ministers implicated in the Zondo Commission’s inquiry into state capture remain in powerful positions.

The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, better known as the Zondo Commission, ran from August 2018 until August 2021.

Hearings took place for over 400 days, with over 300 witness testimonies and 1,438 entities sharing their information.

The Commission revealed staggering levels of corruption, maladministration, lobbying, and kickbacks at state institutions.

Many state-owned companies were involved in state capture, including Transnet, Eskom, Denel, the SABC, South African Airways, and the South African Revenue Service.

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f660dc No.20666240

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“Rising attacks on [South African] churches sparks security concerns”

https://youtu.be/ePcvG5nD-Qo

Mar 26, 2024

Don't be so heavenly-minded that you have no earthly good. Those are the words of Reverend Cyril Pillay. He's calling on church leaders to take proactive measures to protect congregants from crime. He was speaking ahead of Easter Weekend and in light of recent attacks on churches.

Even…

https://msn.com/en-us/news/us/alarming-trend-attacks-on-churches-skyrocket-by-800/ar-BB1j5aDE

2/29/2024

A Family Research Council (FRC) report found that attacks on churches in the U.S. increased nearly 800% between 2018-2023, indicating growing hostility.

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f660dc No.20666242

>>20666240

“[Christian] Persecution is Worsening”

https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/persecution-trends/

More than 365 million (one in seven) Christians face high levels of persecution for their faith – and persecution is becoming dangerously violent in countries on the World Watch List.

Attacks on churches and Christian properties sky-rocketed in 2023, as more Christians than ever recorded faced violent attacks.

Intense violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Political instability, war and extremism has created a perilous situation for Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Amid lawlessness, jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and Boko Haram have thrived. Weak governments fail to stop them. And militants attack Christian communities and churches with impunity.

Most Christians murdered for their faith in 2023 were killed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria accounted for nine out of 10 religiously-motivated murders. Christians were also killed in Congo (DRC), Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the Central African Republic (CAR).

Many more Christians have also been forced from their homes. Of 34.5 million displaced people across Sub-Saharan Africa, around 16.2 million are Christians.

Churches under attack

More than 14,700 churches or Christian properties such as schools and hospitals were targeted in 2023. It marked a six-fold increase compared with attacks recorded the previous year.

In China, at least 10,000 churches were closed. In India, Christian properties were raided by violent mobs. And in Algeria, where there were 47 official Protestant churches, only four remain open and they are now under intense pressure.

These attacks put huge pressure on Christian communities, sparking fear and insecurity. Even if believers do regroup in smaller numbers, they have limited leadership and few resources.

Forced from home

In 2023, more than twice as many Christians were forced to flee their homes compared to the previous year. Political instability, war, extremism and natural disasters have all driven believers from their homelands across the Middle East and North Africa.

Believers are often more vulnerable than other displaced people because of their faith. In countries like Syria, Christians are easy targets for violence. Extremists attack churches and leaders, and put pressure on Christians to move on.

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f660dc No.20666291

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>>20666240

>>20666242

The St James Church Massacre in South Africa, 25 July 1993, to advance a Political Agenda 1 of 2

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-rest-of-the-story-update-on-the-1993-st-james-massacre-in-capetown

Long-time readers will remember our reporting the vicious massacre at St. James Church in South Africa, just months before the "free and democratic" elections handed that nation over to Marxist terrorists in 1994. St. James, a multi-racial, evangelical church, was deemed a danger to the terror-mongers. During one evening service, five Pan-African Congress butchers [Azanian People's Liberation Army ("APLA"), the military wing of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania ("PAC"), https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/decisions/2000/ac200167.htm], armed with assault rifles and hand grenades attacked during worship, indiscriminately killing men, women and children. Some will also remember the heroism of Charl Van Wycke, Frontline Fellowship staffer who chased off the terrorists with a tiny, five-shot, two-inch revolver.

the irony of which is that the terrorist commander who gave the order to attack St. James was now a member of Parliament. Now the new government of South Africa is very popular with the liberal press and a big part of their propaganda campaign is the "Truth and Reconciliation" commission. Amnesty for terrorists is now routinely given (though the fate of the "fascist," "racist" former security forces of South Africa, who fought against the terrorists, is still in question).

https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org/persecution/the-st-james-massacre-23-years-ago

25th July, marks the anniversary of a dreadful atrocity in Cape Town, a terrorist attack on St. James Church of England, which left 11 people dead and over 50 wounded.

At about 7:30pm, on Sunday, 25th July 1993, while the congregation of 1,400 listened to a hymn of worship, a group of APLA terrorists burst into the church and opened fire with automatic weapons.

Four of the slain were Russian and Ukrainian sailors - Valentin Varaksa, Pavel Valujev, Andrey Kajl and Oleg Karamzin. Another victim was Guy Javens.

Several survivors expressed their amazement that more people had not been killed. Police investigators agreed. The M26 fragmentary hand grenades had nails attached to provide additional shrapnel. If Gerard had not covered the one grenade with his body more would have been killed. If another member of the congregation had not shot back, apparently wounding one of the terrorists, then many more would have been shot.

If one compares the St. James massacre with similar atrocities in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola and Sudan - it becomes apparent that many more people would have died had Charl not fired back. An official Commendation by the Police Commissioner N.H. Acker, stated: "On 25 July 1993, Charl Adriaan Van Wyk endangered his own life in warding off the attack perpetrated on the St. James Congregation in Kenilworth. His action in pursuing the suspects on foot and returning fire prevented further loss of life. One of the suspects was wounded in the incident and was later arrested."

When I saw the shocking carnage at St. James Church, it immediately brought similar bloody scenes flooding back into my mind. Over the last 38 years of missionary work, I have personally come across many similar atrocities, especially in Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. In August 1983, Frelimo troops killed 5 pastors and burnt down all 5 churches in Maskito village, Zambezia province, Mozambique. In September 1983, Frelimo troops killed over 50 Christians and burnt a church down in Pasura village. At Chilleso Evangelical Church, in Angola, Cuban troops shot 150 Christians during a church service. At New Adams farm in Zimbabwe, 16 missionaries and their children were murdered in November 1987.

Over 5 years, between 2010 and 2015, Muslim mobs and Boko Haram terrorists bombed and burned down 1,000 churches, killing 17,000 Christians in Nigeria. In Sudan, hundreds of churches have been bombed and burned. Many hundreds of churches have been attacked in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Ethiopia and Eritrea and all churches in Somalia were destroyed by 1993. One could continue to recount literally hundreds of similar atrocities against Christian churches, the fact is that churches have often been the target of Muslim extremists and Marxist terrorists.

In answer to the second question, as to what anyone could hope to accomplish through the attack at St. James, we must note that it is the aim of terrorists to instil fear in the hearts of their target community. To paralyse people into inactivity and non-resistance. To induce people to flee the country, or at least to be too afraid to fight back. An additional aim of terrorism is to provoke an unreasoned and extreme response, to provoke counter-terrorism, which would then be exploited for propaganda purposes.

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f660dc No.20666303

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>>20666291

The St James Church Massacre in South Africa, 25 July 1993: Advance a Political Agenda 2 of 2

https://www.frontlinemissionsa.org/persecution/the-st-james-massacre-23-years-ago

https://vimeo.com/280908520

Political Exploitation

In this context, it is shameful that some sought to exploit such tragedies to enhance their own public image or to promote inter-faith services. As I wrote in the following letter to a Cape newspaper:

Hypocrisy

"It is hard for us to take politicians or Archbishop Tutu seriously when they so shamelessly milk tragedies like the St. James massacre for media coverage and to advance their political agenda. I find it offensive that certain priests and politicians have cynically exploited the Sunday massacre for their own political ends.

"With the ANC's abysmal human rights record of placing landmines in farm roads, car bombs in public streets and limpet mines in shopping centres and restaurants, they are the last people who have the right to condemn violence. The thousands of victims of ANC necklace murders, petrol bomb attacks, stonings and shootings and those dissidents tortured in ANC concentration camps bear eloquent testimony to the ANC's real position on violence.

"As for Tutu - how could he barge into St. James and lie to the policemen on duty, claiming that he was the head of the denomination, in order to gain access to the site of the massacre? Most people are not aware that the Church of England in South Africa (CESA) is an entirely separate denomination from Tutu's Church of the Province of SA (Anglican) denomination. Yet surely Tutu is aware that he is not the head of the CESA!

"For Tutu to have gained access for his media entourage to St. James by deception and then to have desecrated the sanctuary by turning it into a media circus to exploit this tragedy for his image overseas is despicable.

"Other political activists in the guise of the priesthood have suggested that we use this opportunity for a 'reconciliation' service. St. James is a fully multi-racial church that has opened its doors to all races at all times. Our church has an outreach to Khayelitsha and offers Bible studies in Xhosa on a weekly basis. We have always worked for reconciliation; first to God and then to man. St. James does not have to use this tragic event to prove our commitment to reconciliation.

"The Church of England in South Africa is an Evangelical denomination which holds to the Inerrancy of the Bible as God's perfect Word. CESA holds to the full Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ and to His bodily Resurrection from the grave. We proclaim salvation by the Grace of God, through the Atonement of Christ, received by faith. For this reason, it would betray the martyrs who were killed on Sunday if we were to partake in an inter-faith service with those who reject this Gospel.

"The greatest tribute and memorial which we could erect in honour of the victims of the massacre would be for us to remain faithful to Jesus Christ and His Word, the Bible. May many more come to Christ in true faith and repentance."

Manipulation by High Profile Atrocities

I also noticed that every time the negotiation process stalled and reached a deadlock, some high profile atrocity occurred which was then used to accelerate the process of hurtling this country towards the transitional executive control which the socialist "liberation forces" so desired. Their expressions of outrage were hard to take seriously. Their actions, stained with the blood of thousands of innocent victims, spoke far louder than their words.

Just three weeks before the massacre 72 Russian and Ukrainian sailors had made public commitments to Christ.

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f660dc No.20666337

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>>20666303

>"It is hard for us to take politicians or Archbishop Tutu seriously when they so shamelessly milk tragedies like the St. James massacre for media coverage and to advance their political agenda. I find it offensive that certain priests and politicians have cynically exploited the Sunday massacre for their own political ends.

Pictures: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/04/africa/gallery/desmond-tutu/index.html

Archbishop Desmond Tutu became Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/tutu-and-his-role-truth-reconciliation-commission

A year after the attainment of majority rule, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was appointed chairman of the TRC. Its jurisdiction included providing support and reparation to victims and their families, and compiling a full and objective record of the effects of apartheid on South African society. Anybody who was a victim of violence was welcome to give his or her testimony before this newly constituted body. Perpetrators of violence could also give evidence and request amnesty from prosecution.

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f660dc No.20666348

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Tweets: https://abcnews.go.com/International/tutu-remembered-true-humanitarian-dedicated-human-rights/story?id=81943519

Pictures: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/04/africa/gallery/desmond-tutu/index.html

“The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu” 1 of 4

https://libertysentinel.org/the-real-legacy-of-desmond-tutu/

January 6, 2022

The announcement of the death of Anglican Bishop Desmond Mpulo Tutu on 26th December 2021, at age 90, has led to much outpouring of praise for this prominent prelate who has been described “the personification of the South African Freedom Struggle”, “An icon of the Freedom struggle”, “Hero of the Nation”, “The Nation’s pastor” and what the BBC called “The staunch and steadfast healer of a nation.”

- Cyril Ramaphosa described Tutu as: “An outstanding South African who has bequeathed us a liberated South Africa.”

- Pope Francis lamented the death of Tutu and praised him for promoting “racial equality and reconciliation.”

- Joe Biden declared that Tutu’s legacy will “echo throughout the ages.”

- Barack Obama released a statement calling Tutu a “Universal spirit.”

Disturbing Facts that Undermine the Narrative

- Promoting Abortion

- Marketing Marie Stopes Abortion Industry

- Rejecting the Inerrancy of Scripture

- Questioning the Virgin Birth

- Universalism

- In a report on 20.4.1986, Tutu was quoted as saying: “Every Christian must be a revolutionary. Jesus was a revolutionary.”

- Praising a Marxist Dictator

- Would Rather Go To The Other Place than a Homophobic Heaven

- Promoting Same Sex Marriages, Condoms and Ordination of Women as Priests

- Methodist Upbringing and Migration to Anglicanism

- When Desmond Tutu applied to join the Ordinance Guild, his application was turned down due to his debts. These were then paid off by wealthy industrialist, Harry Oppenheimer. In the 1960’s and 70’s he travelled widely internationally and benefited from grants to obtain his degree and Masters. His Master’s degree was on Islam in West Africa. (Rabble-Rouser for Peace; The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu by John Allen, 2006).

- Liberation Theology

- Ecclesiastical Platform for Political Issues

- Bishop of Lesotho

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f660dc No.20666367

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>>20666348

Pictures: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/04/africa/gallery/desmond-tutu/index.html

“The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu” 2 of 4

https://libertysentinel.org/the-real-legacy-of-desmond-tutu/

January 6, 2022

- In September 1977, at the funeral of Pan African Congress revolutionary, Steve Biko, Tutu stated that the Black Consciousness Movement was being used by God.

- Leader of the South African Council of Churches (SACC)

- The Tutu’s home in Orlando West was bought for them by an “anonymous foreign donor.”

- While he was in charge of the SACC it was revealed that one of its divisional directors had been involved in massive embezzlement of funds. At the 1981 Eloff Commission to investigate the misappropriation of SACC funds, Desmond Tutu used the opportunity to attack the South African government as “evil” and “unchristian.” It was suspected that the SACC was channelling funds to ANC and PAC revolutionaries.

- At a trial of Umkhonto We Sizwe (ANC terrorist wing) members, Desmond Tutu testified that, although he was committed to non-violence, he could understand why the ANC had turned to violence to overthrow apartheid. Desmond Tutu also publicly signed a petition calling for the release of ANC leader Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for acts of terrorism. This led to correspondence between Tutu and Mandela.

- In 1979 Desmond Tutu told foreign journalists that he supported an international economic boycott of South Africa. In 1980 the South Africa Council of Churches committed itself to supporting civil disobedience. On international speaking tours Desmond Tutu met UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, spoke at Westminster Abbey, met Pope John Paul II at the Vatican and was compared with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in America. However, Jerry Falwell and Pat Buchanan described him as a “communist sympathiser.”

- In 1983 Tutu became the Patron of the United Democratic Front (UDF) which was widely recognised to be the internal arm of the ANC.

- Desmond Tutu publicly praised the Mugabe ZANU regime takeover of Zimbabwe in 1980, declaring that the Kingdom of God had arrived in Zimbabwe! (Ecunews 11/1980).

- While stone throwing was injuring and killing people on the roads, Desmond Tutu was quoted in the Daily Telegraph of London, November 1984, as stating; “One young man with a stone in his hands can achieve more than I can with a dozen sermons.”

- In the Argus, (19.3.84) Desmond Tutu declared: “Thank God I am Black! White people will have a lot to answer for at the last judgement!”

- When US President Ronald Reagan refused to impose economic sanctions on South Africa, Desmond Tutu condemned Ronald Reagan as a “crypto-racist” and Reagan’s government as an “unmitigated disaster.”

- Welcoming Soviets as Saviours

- Communist China Provides “a Very Good Model”

- Socialist

- Marxist

- Condemning the West to Hell

- The Star (16.8.1985) quoted Desmond Tutu as stating: “Mandela is my leader and I am not going to be dictated to as to who should be my leader.”

- “No Room for Peaceful Struggle”

- Irresponsible Suggestions

- The Country was Burning Because of the UDF

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f660dc No.20666377

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>>20666367

Pictures: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/04/africa/gallery/desmond-tutu/index.html

“The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu” 3 of 4

https://libertysentinel.org/the-real-legacy-of-desmond-tutu/

January 6, 2022

- It was the very Soviets, who Tutu said he would welcome as saviours if they invaded the country, who were providing the landmines, limpet mines, car bombs and other weapons of terror, which were maiming and killing people in the streets of South Africa. Such as with the Church Street bombing of 1983.

- Not even the ANC’s call to make South Africa “ungovernable” could make Tutu to distance himself from the ANC as “the government-in-waiting.” In 1985 Desmond Tutu proposed a national strike.

- After the ceremony at St. Georges Cathedral, Tutu held an open-air Eucharist for thousands of people in the Cape showgrounds in Goodwood (where the Grand West casino stands today). He invited Allan Boesak and Albertina Sisulu to give political speeches.

- In 1990, I was invited to be a delegate at the National Council of Churches in Rustenburg. Desmond Tutu was chairing this event… It was disturbing that the National Council of Churches [NCC] could not even be honest about how many people were delegates and how many denominations were represented.

- The NCC gathered in Rustenburg, under the banner: Towards a United Christian Witness in a Changing South Africa.

- As I began: “We uphold the right to life of preborn babies …” there was an explosion of anger. Shouts and curses were directed at me, some by people wearing priestly and bishop garb!

- There was more anger when I read out: “we oppose the exploitative pornography industry. Families must be protected from pornography and perversion.” More shouts of hostility and anger was expressed at me.

- When I spoke against blasphemy and pornography, one of the delegates, Hugh Wetmore, of the Evangelical Fellowship of South Africa, stood up and actually declared that if we want freedom for the Bible and Christianity, we must allow equal freedom for pornography!

- Then I spoke of the need for parental control of education, of the teachers and textbooks. Politicians should not be allowed to interfere in the moulding of the minds of future voters. When I said that education should be Bible based, moral and character building, the same evangelical leader, Hugh Wetmore, declared that “out of love for our neighbour”, we need to allow equal access for Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism in the schools. This seemed quite inconsistent as exposing our children to false religion and deception hardly seems loving. All this was said amongst heckling, interruptions and insults.

- The Declaration that was finally issued from the NCC [National Council of Churches] at Rustenburg basically parroted the mainstream media narrative and rubber stamped the ANC agenda. This led to much controversy in the media as I published press statements and letters to the editor countering the disinformation and dishonest statistics put out by the NCC, pointing out that it was by no means “unanimous.” There had never even been an opportunity to vote on the Declaration. I was told that it was “Peter Hammond Contra Mundrum.” The whole world wanted an ANC-led South Africa and I was interfering!

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f660dc No.20666395

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>>20666377

Pictures: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/04/africa/gallery/desmond-tutu/index.html

“The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu” 4 of 4

https://libertysentinel.org/the-real-legacy-of-desmond-tutu/

January 6, 2022

- When, on 25 July 1993, APLA terrorists of the Pan African Congress (PAC) attacked the congregation of St. James Church of England, in Kenilworth, one of our mission workers, Charl van Wyk, shot back, wounding the terrorist who was machine-gunning the congregation. As the terrorists fled, Charl pursued the terrorists into the parking lot and fired at their getaway car.

- Although Police Commissioner N.H. Acker gave a Commendation to Charl van Wyk for his quick and courageous action which “prevented further loss of life,” Bishop Tutu chose to condemn the congregant who shot back! The Cape Times and Argus quoted Bishop Tutu saying that it is “just not on” for worshippers to come to church armed!

- Immediately after the St. James massacre, when the church sanctuary was sealed for investigation as a crime scene, Archbishop Tutu, with a media entourage, gained access to the site of the massacre by claiming to the policeman on duty that he was the head of the denomination! Most people were not aware that the Church of England in South Africa (CESA) is an entirely different denomination from Tutu’s Church of the Province in South Africa (Anglican denomination). As pictures of Desmond Tutu inside the bullet and shrapnel scarred sanctuary were published worldwide, the impression was gained that it was one of his churches that had been attacked. I received calls from people overseas asking how it was that “white supremacists” had butchered poor innocent Black people from Desmond Tutu’s denomination while worshipping in church! The Pan African Congress affiliation of the terrorist assailants was left out of most media reports. Also that most of the victims were whites in this multi-racial congregation. These facts were conveniently left out so as not to interfere with the narrative of Black victims and White villains. It did seem that Tutu exploited this tragedy for his image and narrative overseas.

- Desmond Tutu criticised the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Bishops, for being “too accommodating to conservatives” who wanted to eject US and Canadian Anglicans from the Anglican communion after they had taken an LGBTQ stance on ordaining openly gay priests and bishops and promoting same-sex marriages.

- Mandela gave Tutu South Africa’s Highest Award

- –From 1996 to 1998 Desmond Tutu was chairman of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Many saw this as a propaganda stunt, much like Stalin and Mao’s show trials to discredit the previous authorities. However, many in the ANC were horrified when revelations of ANC torture, attacks on civilians and other human rights abuses were also heard.

- It is completely understandable that secular humanists, liberation theologians and Marxists, globalists and those who support the New World Order are praising Desmond Tutu as a hero, freedom fighter, saint and global icon. It is understandable that many in the mainstream media support a political priest who supported so much of their agenda, including abortion, euthanasia, the LGBTQ agenda, socialism and globalism.–

Liberation theology is a totally unacceptable distortion of the Scriptures. Their gospel is Marxism, their kingdom is communism. Their freedom ends up in oppression, their evangelism is subversion and their missionaries are, in many cases, rioters and terrorists. This is neither a theology, nor a liberation.

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f660dc No.20666410

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f660dc No.20666419

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>>20666303

>>20666410

>>20666395

>>20666377

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>>20666337

“Desmond Tutu quits as Oxfam ambassador over aid agency's sex scandal”

https://youtu.be/ESyhgPOb4Uc

Feb 16, 2018

South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu stepped down as an ambassador for Oxfam on Thursday, citing disappointment at the British aid agency’s embroilment in a sex scandal involving staff in Haiti after a massive 2010 earthquake.

The 86-year-old Nobel Peace laureate pulled out of public life in 2010 due to his advancing years but had continued to represent Oxfam even in retirement.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/15/desmond-tutu-resigns-oxfam-ambassador-immorality-claims

Thu 15 Feb 2018 17.21 CET

The South African, who was regarded as a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement, has retired as a church leader but still continues to work with the Elders – a group of senior international figures.

Tutu’s resignation came amid fresh turmoil at the charity, which admitted on Thursday that it had rehired one of the workers it had sacked in a sexual misconduct scandal in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake.

The agency said in a statement it had identified that “one of those dismissed by Oxfam as a result of the sexual misconduct case in Haiti” was “subsequently hired by Oxfam as a consultant in Ethiopia”.

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f660dc No.20666492

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>>20666291

> the vicious massacre at St. James Church in South Africa, just months before the "free and democratic" elections handed that nation over to Marxist terrorists in 1994. St. James, a multi-racial, evangelical church, was deemed a danger to the terror-mongers.

>In answer to the second question, as to what anyone could hope to accomplish through the attack at St. James, we must note that it is the aim of terrorists to instil fear in the hearts of their target community. To paralyse people into inactivity and non-resistance. To induce people to flee the country, or at least to be too afraid to fight back. An additional aim of terrorism is to provoke an unreasoned and extreme response, to provoke counter-terrorism, which would then be exploited for propaganda purposes.

Pictures: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/11/africa/fw-de-klerk-death-intl/index.html

Significant Attacks Prior to the “Free and Fair” Elections of 1994

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/disbanding-1990-1991

On 2 February, F.W. De Klerk announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other political organisations.

https://anglicanmainstream.org/30th-anniversary-of-the-terror-attack-on-st-james-church-cape-town/#_ftn1

We were one of several “soft” targets that APLA attacked in 1992 and 1993. Sabelo Phama, APLA’S chief commander (Mphahlele 2002:79, 137, 161) sanctioned the following attacks on civilians: King Williams Town Golf Club (28 November 1992), killing four people; Highgate Hotel in East London[3] (1 May 1993), killing five people; St James Church Kenilworth (25 July 1993) killing eleven people; and Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory (31 December 1993) killing four people (Truth Commission Special Report. TRC Final Report Volume 2, Section 1, Chapter 7. sabctrc.saha.org.za).

This is what was happening in South Africa at the time.

Furthermore, the attack on St James must also be understood against the background of the transitional period to the 1994 national election that was marred by several major attacks, symbolised by Boipatong (17 June 1992),[4] Bisho (7 September 1992),[5] the World Trade Centre (1 April 1993),[6] the assassination of Chris Hani (10 April 1993), and Shell House (March 1994).[7] In particular, the assassination of Chris Hani fuelled riots throughout South Africa and drew international attention to the instability of the transition period in South Africa.[Murder of AWB members in Bophuthatswana {11 March 1994) can be included]

Bassie Mzukisi Mkhumbuzi, Gcinikhaya Christopher Makoma, Tobela Mlambisa, Sichumiso Nonxuba (the four members of APLA who attacked the [St James Church] congregation); Letlapa Mphahlele (who was operations commander of APLA and the mastermind behind the attacks on both the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory and the St James Church Congregation in Kenilworth); Sabelo Phama, (APLA’S chief commander) sanctioned the attack.

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/2000/201006ct.htm

The following day, the 27th August 1993 at 12 midnight, we attacked the Translux bus at Ghamka River bridge near Fort Beaufort town.

The operation was successful because the State President, then Mr de Klerk, was out of the country in Chile, he stated that there were parties that were going to withdraw from the negotiations and he also cancelled his official trip and came back to South Africa.

A few months later a date of the general election was set. This is my view of the political situation and it is how the incident was politically motivated."

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f660dc No.20666498

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f660dc No.20666518

>>20666492

>Letlapa Mphahlele (who was operations commander of APLA and the mastermind behind the attacks on both the Heidelberg Tavern in Observatory and the St James Church Congregation in Kenilworth)

Letlapa Mphahlele: ”Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) provide them [APLA] with military weaponry, limpet mines, a bazooka and ammunition”

https://sahistory.org.za/people/letlapa-mphahlele

Mphahlele and the other PAC members who were with him in prison were forced to rely on African National Congress (ANC) members for food and other supplies. Their appeal to the PAC’s army commissariat was ignored.

In January 1991, Mphahlele re-entered South Africa from Botswana. For a while, he hid in a rural area in Mmabatho, Bophuthatswana. From here, he went to Mabopane, visiting APLA underground units in Pretoria, the Witwatersrand and other areas in the Vaal region. He then made his way to Soweto, meeting APLA and PAC members and then went onto Mthatha in the former Transkei to inspect and address APLA units there as well.

From the Transkei, he travelled to Lesotho and then onto Swaziland, again on APLA business and back to the Transkei, via Lesotho. Whilst he was here, he heard of the military coup in the Transkei and the flight of its military leader, Bantubonke Holomisa. When Mphahlele phoned Sabelo Phama in Harare, it emerged that it was because of miscommunications between different APLA members. Mphahlele made his way back to Mthatha where he called a meeting of all the APLA commanders in the region. At this meeting, he gave orders for APLA members not to involve themselves in the coup and the ‘capture’ of the Ncise Military Base in the Transkei.

Following this incident, he decided to use the Transkei as his base. According to Mphahlele uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) provide them with military weaponry, limpet mines, a bazooka and ammunition. MK also gave military training to APLA cadres. Transkei police and soldiers were another source of weapons. Mphahlele was arrested at a police roadblock in Herschel and later in Mthatha with arms and ammunition but was released by sympathetic Transkei police officials.

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f660dc No.20666552

>>20666337

>Archbishop Desmond Tutu became Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

>>20666395

>From 1996 to 1998 Desmond Tutu was chairman of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. Many saw this as a propaganda stunt, much like Stalin and Mao’s show trials to discredit the previous authorities. However, many in the ANC were horrified when revelations of ANC torture, attacks on civilians and other human rights abuses were also heard.

TRC granted Amnesty to the St James Massacre Perpetrators

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media/1998/9806/s980611c.htm

June 11 1998

Pan Africanist Congress president Stanley Mogoba on Thursday welcomed the granting of amnesty to three of his party's former operatives who took part in the St James Church attack, but also reached out to the families of the 11 victims of the 1993 massacre.

Earlier on Thursday, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission announced that amnesty was granted to Gcinikhaya Makoma, Bassie Mzukisi Mkhumbuzi and Tobela Mlambisi on 11 counts of murder, 58 counts of attempted murder and the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.

"We are, at last, happy to see that the amnesty committee is releasing our cadres who have languished in prison for politically motivated activity," Mogoba said in a statement.

Last week three PAC cadres were granted amnesty for an attack on a disco in Newcastle in which a woman was killed.

Mogoba said the PAC rejoiced with the families of jailed PAC operatives, who were beginning to wonder if their children would ever be released from prison.

However, "in our joy, we do not forget the families of those who have been victims of our operations", he said.

"We acknowledge them and join them in our commitment to working for a South Africa that is free of violence and truly democratic."

Keep in mind that Bassie Mkhumbuzi was a member of the newly formed SA National Defence Force when he was on trial

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media/1997/9707/s970709e.htm

July 9 1997

Makoma was found guilty on 11 counts of murder and 58 counts of attempted murder in March 1995 and sentenced to 23 years' imprisonment.

Mkhumbuzi, a member of the SA National Defence Force, and Mlambisa are on trial facing similar charges relating to the attack.

The applications are being opposed by Dawie Ackermann, whose wife was killed, Lorenzo Smith and Ukranian sailor Dmitry Makogon, who lost both legs and an arm in the incident.

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f660dc No.20666568

>>20666552

>Earlier on Thursday, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission announced that amnesty was granted to Gcinikhaya Makoma, Bassie Mzukisi Mkhumbuzi and Tobela Mlambisi on 11 counts of murder, 58 counts of attempted murder and the unlawful possession of arms and ammunition.

“[Gcinikhaya] Makoma a Struggle casualty – witness”: Convicted of Murder

https://www.iol.co.za/news/makoma-a-struggle-casualty-witness-1223990

Published Jan 31, 2012

Convicted murderer Gcinikhaya Makoma was a “casualty of the revolution” who could not find a steady job because of his role in the 1993 St James Church massacre.

The attack had left a “stain” on his reputation, and he was even arrested and lost his work in 2002 when it was discovered who he was. This was the picture Makoma’s defence painted in mitigation of his sentence in the Western Cape High Court on Monday.

Last month, he was convicted, along with eight other men, of a string of charges – including murder, robbery and five counts of attempted murder – relating to a cash van heist in Parow in 2007.

Witness Theo Mabusela, a former PAC provincial leader, testified on behalf of Makoma, 36, on Monday, saying that he was politically active from 13. Both his parents had been PAC members.

According to Mabusela, Makoma was recruited into the Pan Africanist Students’ Organisation (Paso) when he was in high school, and received military training with the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (Apla), the PAC’s armed wing.

Makoma had been just 17 when he participated in the attack on St James Church in Kenilworth. Eleven people were killed and dozens more were wounded when the group attacked members of the congregation with assault rifles and hand grenades.

Makoma was sentenced to 23 years in jail, but after a full disclosure, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission granted him amnesty in 1998 after he had served five-and-a-half years of his sentence.

Despite questioning from Makoma’s advocate, Ellen Fitz-Patrick, about the massacre, Mabusela vehemently refused to talk about it, saying that it was a “closed chapter” that had been expunged from his record. He also declined to talk about his own role in organising the operation.

However, he said Makoma had been a “sacrificial lamb” and a “casualty of the revolution” because, while some Struggle stalwarts had prospered once South Africa became a democracy, many young foot soldiers, such as Makoma, could not find jobs.

But State advocate Greg Wolmarans put it to Mabusela that he had barely seen Makoma over the past 13 years and that he “didn’t know exactly what was going on in (Makoma’s) life”.

Mabusela acknowledged that, while he had not seen Makoma often, he sometimes visited his family home.

Fitz-Patrick said her client had no previous convictions and, that after democracy was established, he was meant to have been integrated into the SA National Defence Force, but had not been.

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f660dc No.20666582

>>20666568

>Theo Mabusela

>>20666518

>>20666552

Theo Mabusela Involvement in Operations Before the 1994 Elections

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/capetown/capetown_1heidel.htm

Before the attacks, I went to see and look at the three targets for myself, together with Maxebo, who was the unit driver and Siphiwo Mqweso. The arms and ammunition used in all three attacks, were supplied to us by members of the then PAC Regional Executive Committee, namely Theo Mabusela, Michael Siyolo and Richard Dala.

They knew that we were APLA soldiers in Cape Town to carry out certain operations. They were not aware, however, of when and where these operations were to take place. I am personally aware that the arms were supplied to Mabusela by Mqweso and that Mabusela had then made these arms available to us by leaving it in a safe house in the Makaza area in Khayelitsha.

I have since been told that Mqweso had been shot dead a week or so before the April 1994 elections by an unknown gunman. I understand that his death was the result of a political assassination.

The first operation took place at the Nyanga Army Base on 17 or 18 December 1993. Those involved were Sibeko, Mabala, Madasi, Jantjie, Maxebo and I. As far as I know, no one was killed in that operation.

The second operation took place when we attacked the Lingelethu West police station. This attack took place on the same day that we attacked the Nyanga Army Base and the attack involved the same members of the Unit. As far as I know, no one was injured or killed during that attack.

The third operation was the attack on the Heidelberg Tavern. I had been ordered by Nonxuba to attack the Heidelberg Tavern. He told me that it was a place frequented by members of the Security Forces.

https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/reports/volume3/chapter5/subsection60.htm

413 The attack at the Heidelberg Tavern was likened to that at St James’ Church five months earlier. Ballistics tests established that the same rifles had been used in both attacks. The internal commander of APLA, Mr Carl Zimbiri, later confirmed that the operation was carried out by an elite APLA unit called ‘The People’s Concern’. Six men were later arrested and charged, though charges against three of them were later dropped. The accused were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from twenty-four to twenty-seven years.

414 Mr Humphrey Luyanda Gqomfa [AM0949/96], Mr Vuyisile Brian Madasi [AM6077/97], Mr Zola Prince Mabala [AM5931/97], Mr Theo Thobile Mabusela [AM5731/97], Mr Nkosinathi Michael Siyolo [AM6139/97] and Mr Richard Madoda Dala [AM6138/97] applied for amnesty for the attack. (The latter three had been arrested but charges against them were dropped.) Gqomfa, Madasi, Mabala and Siyolo were granted amnesty.

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9fd881 No.20673087

>>20530368

“MK Party’s Visvin Reddy charged for inciting violence by NPA”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/mk-partys-visvin-reddy-charged-for-inciting-violence-by-npa/

03-04-2024 09:15

MK Party supporter Visvin Reddy says he is charged under the same Act used to charge former President Nelson Mandela.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has charged uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) member Visvin Reddy with inciting violence over claims he made about the courts and the elections.

Reddy became famous after he was captured on a video threatening that there would be riots “like you have never seen” if former President Jacob Zuma’s name was not on the ballot paper.

SAME ACT USED TO CHARGE MANDELA – REDDY

“I will be defending this charge in court through my legal team, where I believe the truth will be told. I am concerned that state resources seem to be used to eliminate political opponents,” said Reddy.

“This practice is reminiscent of the apartheid days, and I will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening. All those who know me can attest to the fact that I always preach peace and am a firm fighter for justice,” he said.

“This is the same act used to charge former President Nelson Mandela,” Reddy said, according to the Independent Online.

‘THE WILL BE ANARCHY IN THIS COUNTRY’

“The charge is based on a video clip that was deliberately and intentionally circulated by individuals who are threatened by the groundswell and phenomenal support of the MK party, supported by President Jacob Zuma,” he added.

In the video, which became viral, Reddy can be heard threatening violence if the MKP is not on the 29 May elections ballot sheets.

“No South African will go to the polls if MKP is not on the ballot,” Reddy shouted.

“We are sending a loud and clear message: if these courts, which are sometimes captured, stop MK, there will be anarchy in this country,” he said.

https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/mkps-reddy-charged-over-violent-rant-13b142ed-c195-4897-8dfc-ce15ef629868

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Reddy has been summoned to appear in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday (today). He was charged under [Riotous Assemblies] Act 17 of 1956 after the threatening comments he made outside the Durban High Court recently, where the MK Party was taken to court over the use of the name uMkhonto weSizwe and its spear and shield logo. The first appearance was in early March and it was postponed to last week when judgment was reserved.

“Reddy has explained his actions in follow-up social media releases. However, the ANC has continued to use state resources to carry out threats made by Ramaphosa to have Mr Reddy arrested. Mr Reddy has been a long-term activist since 1980. In fact, he held several meetings post the riots of 2021 to rebuild the trust of and quell the racial tension in the community in Phoenix,” said Chetty.

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9fd881 No.20673100

>>20673087

>[Riotous Assemblies] Act 17 of 1956

“Julius Malema vs Riotous Assemblies Act: Where the case has been won and lost”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-riotous-assemblies-act-did-he-win-eff/

04-07-2019 11:33

The North Gauteng High Court has handed down judgement in the case of Julius Malema vs the Riotous Assemblies Act. Juju was back in the dock to try and have the legislation declared unconstitutional after it was used to chastise him for inciting South Africans to occupy land in an illegal manner.

The official verdict – as in, the judgement on Julius Malema’s application to have the law invalidated – has failed. The 63-year-old act was drafted by the apartheid regime, in order to limit the number of public protests.

Malema argued that this law has no place in modern society, but the court didn’t agree with him, declaring the Riotous Assemblies Act as “constitutional”. In this respect, it was an eighth consecutive loss in court for the red berets and their controversial leader.

However, Juju is claiming victory because the particular section of the act he was charged under will now be reviewed in the Constitutional Court. Malema championed this as a success for his case and seemed happy that his party now had “one foot in the door” to get this law overturned.

Given that the original case has been dismissed – and they’ve been asked to pay even more costs for the legal proceedings – it’s hard to see past this being characterised as another loss in the dock for the EFF. Julius Malema may have his consolation goal – an audience with ConCourt – but this isn’t what he wanted to achieve on Thursday.

Riotous Assembly Act: The ConCourt judgment

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/riotous-assembly-act-the-concourt-judgment

27 November 2020

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609f46 No.20675815

[N]othing [C]an [S]top [W]hat [I]s [C]oming

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3f5110 No.20676091

Inefficient African Ports See Diverted Red Sea Traffic Slipping Away

By Colleen Goko (Bloomberg) — March 14, 2024

Africa’s inefficient and aging ports are hampering the continent’s chances of capitalizing on a surge in ship traffic that’s avoiding attacks by Houthi rebels through the Red Sea, logistics experts said.

The number of vessels sailing around the southern tip of Africa is up 85% from the first half of December, when the Iran-backed, Yemen-based terrorists intensified their attacks on ships, according to Clarksons Research. Some of the biggest beneficiaries are ports in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Namibia, all of which have seen volumes rise, manufacturing and logistics company Fictiv Inc. said.

“However, most ports in Africa are inefficient and not in the best condition to be able to fully realize all the benefits,” said Vinny Licata, Fictiv’s head of logistics. “This is could be a real opportunity for Africa, but several ports were already congested due to inefficiencies. Investments are needed to enable them to compete.”

Merchant ships have largely avoided the route that would ultimately take them through the Suez Canal since the attacks started. Last week, a missile strike killed three crew members, the first confirmed deaths since the attacks began.

Currently, Africa accounts for about 6% of global maritime trade, despite approximately 90% of its imports and exports being transported by sea, according to Freight Right Global Logistics Chief Executive Officer and Founder Robert Khachatryan.

Freight costs from Asia to the US East Coast are projected to increase by 20% to 30%, with delivery times extended by two weeks due to the longer route around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, said Khachatryan.

It’s here that South Africa’s port-infrastructure problems — ranging from equipment breakdowns to staff shortages — hurt its competitive advantage. Shipping companies using the Cape route for east-west trade have largely avoided having to restock and refuel at South Africa’s maritime hubs due to their inability to provide services.

“This shift has directly benefited strategically located ports like Toamasina in Madagascar, Port Louis in Mauritius, and Walvis Bay in Namibia, which lie along the east-west route connecting Asia with Europe” as ships avoid South Africa, Khachatryan said.

Countries with the capability to quickly scale up port and logistical operations — such as Morocco and Ghana — could accommodate the increased demand for maritime services.

“Their investment in port infrastructure in recent years positions them to manage the surge efficiently,” Khachatryan said. For other parts of Africa, “concerns arise from sea-piracy incidents near Somalia and Nigeria as vessels navigate around Africa,” he said.

Fragmented Politics

Rising traffic around the Cape of Good Hope could strengthen South Africa’s position in the BRICS club of nations and potentially in global trade negotiations in the longer term, said James Hill, CEO of MCF Energy Ltd.

“African policymakers may look at port-development strategies that will help to build intra-African and international connectivity,” Hill said. “Even after the conflict in Israel ends, the danger in the Gulf may continue as the Houthis may choose to retaliate against the US for their counterattack, meaning these benefits may continue.”

https://gcaptain.com/inefficient-african-ports-see-diverted-red-sea-traffic-slipping-away/

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f5d77a No.20677208

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>>20607408

As the interviewee stated at 1:09, “It’s surprising, I wouldn’t have thought this is the kind of guy to [commit suicide].”

“How South African Billionaire Christo Wiese Sued His Way Back Into The Billionaire Ranks | Forbes”: Steinhoff

https://youtu.be/ToOp3cyyhgo

Feb 9, 2023

Christoffel “Christo” Wiese exudes an air of calm that betrays no hint of the chaos that turned his world turned upside down for more than four years.

In December 2017, the then-76-year-old South African billionaire was informed about serious accounting fraud at retailer Steinhoff International, where he was both chairman and the largest shareholder. Those irregularities turned out to total $7.4 billion in falsified transactions over a span of nine years from 2009 to 2017, a PwC investigation found–making the Steinhoff affair the South African equivalent of the 2001 Enron debacle.

Steinhoff International had acquired Wiese’s discount clothing retailer, Pepkor, in 2015 for $5.7 billion in stock and cash; and he became its chairman a year later in May 2016. Wiese stepped down as chairman in mid-December 2017, soon after the accounting fraud was made public. While it was eventually proven that Weise had no role in the fraud, the 90% drop in the share price of Steinhoff–by far Wiese’s most valuable asset–pummelled his fortune, from an estimated $5.6 billion in March 2017 to $1.1 billion on the 2018 Forbes list of Africa’s billionaires and then off the ranks altogether by the time Forbes’ World Billionaires list came out a few months later that year.

Now, following a multi-year legal battle that ended in a $500 million settlement consisting of cash and stock, Wiese is back on Forbes’ newly released 2023 list of Africa’s billionaires, tied at No. 18 with an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion.

1:57 – “The thing that kind of sticks to my brain is, I read this interesting book called Steinheist which is about the accounting fraud at Steinhoff and it points out that in 2007 an analyst at the South African arm of JP Morgan put out a 56 page report highlighting the accounting issues and questions and concerns about transaction with Steinhoff. Then two years later in 2009, the book recounts a meeting that Wiese had with another analyst at another firm who had a 40 slide presentation detailing his concerns about shoddy transactions, suspiciously low tax rates, all kinds of things that didn’t add up. So in a sense I feel like Wiese was warned that there was something amiss with this company but yet six years after he met with his analyst, he sold his company to Steinhoff anyway. That’ll mean to say, he had it coming to him but it’s sort of interesting what we choose to pay attention to and what we choose to ignore.

4:12 – “Wiese is 81 years old, he basically said that he was shocked that this fraud made it past all of these gatekeepers; the internal auditors, the external auditors, the South African Reserve Bank, the foreign banks that were lending money to Steinhoff. For somebody whose fortune got mostly wiped out in 2018 and he went through four years of a lawsuit before settlement, he seems probably pretty much at peace with the world.

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f5d77a No.20677230

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>>20677208

>>20606500

>>20606502

>>20607408

>>20607444

>>20607453

>Gordhan’s tenure as finance minister witnessed the approval of capital flight amounting to almost $200 billion (R3.7 trillion), including the notorious Steinhoff scandal.

“BNC#6: [Christo] Wiese Q&A - Markus Jooste, last days of Steinhoff, Rainbow Nation and more”

https://youtu.be/vVML8hsGVH8

Mar 22, 2024

During his interview and Q&A session at BNC#6, renowned South African businessman Christo Wiese addressed the nation's pressing issues and potential pathways for progress. Wiese emphasised the need to address bureaucratic red tape hindering economic growth, advocated for privatisation of state-owned entities, and reflected on the complexities of corruption and justice in the country. Wiese also shared, for the first time, the story of when he first found out about the Steinhoff saga. Despite challenges, he remains cautiously optimistic about South Africa's future, urging proactive citizen engagement and a nuanced approach to governance.

13:31 – “My own wish list would be understand that privatisation of the lot of the State ownded entity is clearly the answer. Now we see signs of that, you know with the Arbit transaction and the just failed SAA take over that there is movement in that regard but I made the point that around the world that it had been established beyond doubt that the private sector can do most of government functions [with Steinhoff results?], if not all, much cheaper and better than the State can do it. I can recall there in the 1970s or 80s, I can’t remember, there was a study done by the Office of Budget Management in the White House that came to the conclusion that there was not a single function performed by the United States Federal government that could not be done at least 30% cheaper by the private sector.” [Yet… “In 1994 [government owned] Eskom had a “spare” capacity of 31%, and electricity in South Africa was among the cheapest in the world.” https://aidc.org.za/a-brief-history-of-eskom-1923-2015/]–

21:04 – Wiese responds to the Steinhoff question.

24:10 – “She said Christo, people say you must have known. I said, why? Why must I have known? The auditors didn’t know, the banks didn’t know, the Reserve Bank didn’t know, the regulators didn’t know, the rating agencies didn’t know, etc., etc. Why should I have known?” [Probably for the same reason, they were all in on it.]

31:36 – “[Markus Jooste’s lawyer] came and he said Jooste is threatening suicide and blah, blah, blah… he offered his resignation but you must decide whether you’ll accept it. My suggestion is we do not accept his resignation, I will call him to come back to the office and to help the people sort the mess out because he knows where all the bodies are buried as it turned out just about only he and those two guys in Germany. I phoned him, he was at his lawyers, I said this is my suggestion to you; come back, sort the mess out, then we’ll try to save the company. He said he’ll be there in 2 or 3 hours. That’s the last I ever heard of him, pever pitched. But here is the irony in retrospect, if he had come back and helped sort the problem out, the company could have been saved because the company had wonderful assets. Mainly the assets that I sold to the company… but from Jooste’s perspective, he would have gone to jail, he would be out now.

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f5d77a No.20677235

>>20677230

>“In 1994 [government owned] Eskom had a “spare” capacity of 31%, and electricity in South Africa was among the cheapest in the world.” https://aidc.org.za/a-brief-history-of-eskom-1923-2015/

“Eskom’s new tariff: Here’s how your monthly electricity bill will change”

https://www.citizen.co.za/business/eskom-new-tariff-heres-how-monthly-electricity-bill-change/

1 Apr 2024 07:00 am

Eskom tariffs increased by 12.74% on 1 April.

Fellow South Africans, brace yourselves for steep electricity prices as Eskom’s tariff increase kicks in.

Your electricity bill will look significantly different from April onwards after Eskom’s 2024/25 regulator-approved tariff came into effect on Monday. Electricity will now cost 12.74% more, thanks to the latest tariff increase.

The hike comes at a time when many households are struggling to survive on tight budgets amid high inflation.

Adding to last year’s 18.65% increase, the latest hike from Eskom means its tariffs have gone up by 33.8% in two years.

Du Plessis said while households on the lower end of the energy consumption spectrum may be slightly cushioned as Eskom ‘staggers’ the tariff increases – larger properties will be hit hard.

“As soon as they go over that 600kWh per month, their per unit electricity costs will be 70% more,” he told The Citizen.

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f5d77a No.20677244

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>>20677235

https://www.citizen.co.za/business/eskom-new-tariff-heres-how-monthly-electricity-bill-change/

The graph provides a view of Eskom’s tariff hikes plotted against inflation since 2000.

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e961e4 No.20682047

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>>20666518

>Following this incident, he decided to use the Transkei as his base. According to Mphahlele uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) provide them with military weaponry, limpet mines, a bazooka and ammunition. MK also gave military training to APLA cadres.

>>19782011

>Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

>>20552292

>“We didn’t meet the Palestinian people on October 8th. We’ve been together in struggle for many many decades. The people of Palestine trained the freedom fighters of the liberation movement…

>>20403286

>>20403282

>>20395003

>>20379966

>>20379836

>>20379812

>>20379826

“The historic Palestine and Pan-Africanist alliance with Letlapa Mphahlele”: “APLA cadres trained by Palestinians”

https://youtu.be/o0CYB0y7fHA

On the Africa4Palestine channel

Nov 2, 2020

#Africa4Palestine webinar series: Letlapa Mphahlele, former President of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Director of Operations of the PAC's armed wing, APLA and a South African liberation fighter joins the webinar series to talk about "The historic Palestine and Pan-Africanist alliance"

5:21 – “Of course, we were very very close to the Palestinians as a matter of fact because some of our cadres trained in Lebanon by the Palestinian comrades. That happened in 1980. A group of 30 people, APLA cadres, were trained by Palestinian comrades. They were there and they returned to Dar Es Salaam the following year, 1981. As a matter of fact among other things in the camps, we used to have current affairs discussion and the plight of Palestinians featured prominently. So actually being a freedom fighter, it was a priority that we had to understand other struggles going on and of course with the Palestinians, it was just natural that we were going to identify with them.

15:06 – “Comparing [Apartheid] South Africa to Israel is being unfair to South Africa. Even if we know that the 2 evils collaborated but in terms of intensity of evil, Israel by far surpasses Apartheid South Africa.”

28:08 – “Another thing which I just want to chip in, actually as a liberation movement we have suffered at the hands of Israeli-American conspiracy. There was a school in Tanzania, I think it was Morogoro Multi-Liberation College, cadres of APLA and MK used to do their medical training there but as a way of punishment, the US withdrew funding from UNESCO because it was a UNESCO school. Once they withdrew funding, especially cadres of the PAC - because by that time I think the ANC had withdrawn their cadres – had to suffer due to budgetary constraints. The target there was the Palestinians because the Americans were complaining that UNESCO was supporting the Palestinian cause. As a matter of fact, UNESCO is the only UN organisation that has recognised or given a Palestine full state status.”

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e961e4 No.20682050

>>20682047

>>20403286

“Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa’s Palestine embrace”

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/5/unpack-the-past-mandela-the-keffiyeh-and-south-africas-palestine-embrace

5 Dec 2023

Ten years after the anti-apartheid icon passed away, his embrace with Yasser Arafat and his donning of the keffiyeh remain powerful symbols of South Africa’s special warmth towards Palestine.

In late February 1990, 16 days after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela descended the steps of a plane in Lusaka, Zambia, which was home to the African National Congress’s exiled leadership at the time. A who’s who of leaders sympathetic to the ANC cause – from Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda to Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe – greeted the anti-apartheid leader with smiles and handshakes.

But the most emotional embrace of all came from a short, stout man with his trademark keffiyeh wrapped around his head: Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Pulling the 6-foot-4-inch tall Mandela’s face down towards him, Arafat placed kisses on Mandela’s cheeks.

Arthur Goldreich was one of the few in the ANC who had any battlefield experience. As Mandela writes in his autobiography: “In the 1940s, Arthur had fought with the Palmach, the military wing of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine. He was knowledgeable about guerrilla warfare and helped fill in many gaps in my understanding.” Goldreich went on to become a prominent critic of “the ‘abhorrent’ racism in Israeli society”.

In his recent book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries, Paul S Landau observes that while setting up MK, Mandela read Menachem Begin’s The Revolt: Story of the Irgun, about another Zionist paramilitary force in Palestine. The Irgun, wrote Landau, was even more radical than the Palmach and issued in 1944 “a public call to revolt”. Mandela’s handwritten notes show that he was impressed by their tactics. “The Irgun provided Mandela with an anti-state (anti-British) guerrilla model, and in its penumbra he first recorded the concept of a ‘prolonged struggle’ in connection with a coming guerrilla war,” wrote Landau.

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e961e4 No.20682073

>>20682047

>Another thing which I just want to chip in, actually as a liberation movement we have suffered at the hands of Israeli-American conspiracy. There was a school in Tanzania, I think it was Morogoro Multi-Liberation College, cadres of APLA and MK used to do their medical training there but as a way of punishment, the US withdrew funding from UNESCO because it was a UNESCO school. Once they withdrew funding, especially cadres of the PAC - because by that time I think the ANC had withdrawn their cadres – had to suffer due to budgetary constraints. The target there was the Palestinians because the Americans were complaining that UNESCO was supporting the Palestinian cause.

“U.S. Exits Corrupt, Communist-led UNESCO”

https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/foreign-policy/u-s-exits-corrupt-communist-led-unesco/

October 12, 2017

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fell from grace at astounding speed. From being touted as the Obama administration’s “global partner” in globalizing education just a few years ago, to facing a massive financial crisis and even a U.S. government exit today under President Trump, UNESCO is on track to become a byword for globalist corruption and tyranny. It also offers Americans a powerful example of how easy it is to restore ceded U.S. sovereignty and crush globalist schemes that undermine liberty, morality, self-government, and common sense. Israel also announced its departure.

Today, the U.S. State Department formally notified UNESCO boss Irina Bokova — an actual communist swamped in corruption scandals — that the United States is leaving the organization. In a statement, the U.S. State Department said the decision “was not taken lightly.” The reason for the decision, officials said, includes “U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO.” More on each of those important points in a moment.

Other major donor governments, reacting to UNESCO’s extremism and corruption, also withheld funding.

Among the most serious problems identified by critics around the world was UNESCO boss Bokova. Despite support from international communism and leading establishment globalists such as the Rothschild dynasty, among others, Bokova, a longtime communist operative from Bulgaria, has become infamous worldwide for lawlessness and corruption. She originally joined the Bulgarian Communist Party as a youth member, despite the party’s track record of mass murder and brutality. She later served in senior posts in the communist regime, which murdered hundreds of thousands of people — something for which she has never apologized. Her father was a high-ranking communist bigwig, too. That helped to secure Bokova’s spot at the KGB-controlled Moscow State Institute of International Relations, an elite training center for future communist spies and operatives.

On Israel, UNESCO has long been criticized for its bizarre obsession with demonizing the tiny Jewish state.

In fact, this is actually the second time the U.S. government has withdrawn from UNESCO. The agency’s extremism and hostility to basic liberties got so outlandish that, by 1983, President Ronald Reagan decided to formally cancel the U.S. government’s membership in the Soviet-dominated outfit, along with American funding for it.

President Reagan’s Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations Gregory Newell, meanwhile, said at the time that, despite frequent warnings from U.S. officials, UNESCO has “served anti-U.S. political ends.” Specifically, Newell cited “misguided policies,” including “collectivist” schemes that promote “group rights” at the expense of individual rights. He also blasted UNESCO’s promotion of licensing schemes for journalists, its obsession with imposing a “New International Economic Order” in which taxpayers in freer countries are fleeced so their wealth could be redistributed to the UN and oppressive Third World regimes, and numerous other problems.

The U.S. government re-joined UNESCO in 2003 under neoconservative President George W. Bush.

“The United States of America returns to UNESCO: A very large majority of Member States vote in favour”

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/united-states-america-returns-unesco-very-large-majority-member-states-vote-favour

30 June 2023

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e961e4 No.20682085

“Tanzania-South Africa: deep ties evoke Africa’s sacrifices for freedom”

https://theconversation.com/tanzania-south-africa-deep-ties-evoke-africas-sacrifices-for-freedom-202448

Published: April 3, 2023 3.57pm CEST

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan recently paid a state visit to South Africa aimed at strengthening bilateral political and trade relations. As the South African presidency noted, ties between the two nations date back to Tanzania’s solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle.

This history is an important reminder of the anti-colonial and pan-African bonds underpinning international solidarity with southern African liberation struggles. It’s also a reminder of the sacrifices many African countries made to realise continental freedom.

Among those who left South Africa to rally international support for the liberation struggle were then African National Congress deputy president Oliver Reginald Tambo, Communist Party and Indian Congress leader Yusuf Mohammed Dadoo, and the Pan Africanist Congress’s Nana Mahomo and Peter Molotsi.

Not many people will know that on 26 June 1959 Julius Nyerere, the future president of Tanzania, was among the speakers at a meeting in London where the first boycott of South African goods in Britain was launched. Out of this campaign, the British Anti-Apartheid Movement was born a year later. It spearheaded the international solidarity movement in western countries over the next three decades.

Tanzania’s support for South Africa’s liberation struggle needs to be understood as part of its broader opposition to colonialism, and commitment to the achievement of independence in the entire African continent. In 1958, Nyerere helped establish the Pan African Freedom Movement of Eastern and Central Africa to coordinate activities in this regard. This was extended to the Pan African Freedom Movement of Eastern and Central and Southern Africa at a conference in Addis Ababa in 1962. Nelson Mandela addressed the conference with the aim of arranging support for the armed struggle in South Africa. These efforts eventually led to the creation of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) in 1963.

In February 1961, James Hadebe for the ANC and Gaur Radebe for the PAC opened an office in Dar es Salaam representing the South African United Front. It was the first external structure set up by the two liberation movements.

In 1963, the ANC officially established its Tanzania mission, with headquarters in Dar es Salaam. A military camp for guerrillas of its armed wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) , who had returned from training in other African and socialist countries, was opened in Kongwa. The Tanzanian government donated the land.

Also stationed there were the armies of other southern African liberation movements – ZAPU, Frelimo, SWAPO and the MPLA.

In 1964, the PAC also moved its external headquarters to Dar es Salaam after it was pushed out of Lesotho. It established military camps near Mbeya and later in Mgagao, and a settlement in Ruvu. Both the PAC and the ANC held important conferences in Tanzania, in Moshi in 1967 and in Morogoro in 1969, respectively. These led to internal reorganisation and new strategic positions.

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e961e4 No.20682094

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>>20682085

“President Cyril Ramaphosa's Official Talk during the Tanzania State Visit | PresidencyZA”

https://youtu.be/eYtrTg3RvV4

Mar 16, 2023

2:08 – Cyril Ramaphosa: “South Africa counts the United Republic of Tanzania as amongst our dearest and most cherished friends. The support that Tanzania gave us in our struggle for freedom is unparalleled. In 2019, I had the honour of visiting the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Morogoro in Tanzania. The institution that is the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College bares testimony to the shelter, the comfort and support that was extended by Tanzania to our freedom fighters for over three decades. I was recently reminded of the extraordinary story of a group of nurses from South Africa that were smuggled out of South Africa in the early 60s to go and work in Tanzania and to train nurses in Tanzania, known as the 2019 Gales. They were receive by Julius Nyerere and ANC President, Oliver Reginald Tambo, and were then place in hospitals around the country to treat patients and to supervise local nurses.”

12:08 – Samia Suluhu Hassan: “The people of Tanzanie still hold vivid memories of your [Ramaphosa] visit to our country in August 2019 and we acknowledge and thank you for the momentous and historic visit which is a gesture of our long-standing friendship and solidarity built on the firm foundation led by our founding fathers, the late Nelson Mandela and our very own Juius Nyerere. We all know the valuable contribution these two leaders played on African liberation and unity as well as a struggle for global equality, justice and economic emancipation of the African continent. Tanzania values these historic relations which date back to the days of liberation struggle.”

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e961e4 No.20682104

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>>20682094

>In 2019, I had the honour of visiting the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Morogoro in Tanzania. The institution that is the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College bares testimony to the shelter, the comfort and support that was extended by Tanzania to our freedom fighters for over three decades.

“President Cyril Ramaphosa visits Morogoro in Tanzania”

https://youtu.be/og0WD_p6NPs

Aug 20, 2019

President Cyril Ramaphosa visits Morogoro in Tanzania, Mazimbu, 16 August 2019

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e961e4 No.20682129

>>20682050

>>20666492

Nelson Mandela’s February 11 1990 Speech: “Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts.”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2020-02-11-in-full-nelson-mandelas-february-11-1990-speech/

11 February 2020 - 11:15

We have waited too long for our freedom. We can no longer wait. Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. To relax our efforts now would be a mistake which generations to come will not be able to forgive.

The sight of freedom looming on the horizon should encourage us to redouble our efforts. It is only through disciplined mass action that our victory can be assured.

We call on our white compatriots to join us in the shaping of a new South Africa. The freedom movement is a political home for you too. We call on the international community to continue the campaign to isolate the apartheid regime.

To lift sanctions now would be to run the risk of aborting the process towards the complete eradication of apartheid. Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

Universal suffrage on a common voters’ role in united democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

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e961e4 No.20682139

>>20682129

>Nelson Mandela’s February 11 1990 Speech: “Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts.”

“Political Violence in the Era of Negotiations and Transition, 1990-1994”

https://sabctrc.saha.org.za/originals/finalreport/volume2/chapters/volume2_ch13.pdf

1 The Commission had considerable success in uncovering violations that took place before 1990. This was not true of the 1990s period. Information before the Commission shows that the nature and pattern of political conflict in this later period changed considerably, particularly in its apparent anonymity. A comparatively smaller number of amnesty applications were received for this period. The investigation and research units of the Commission were also faced with some difficulty in dealing with the events of the more recent past.

2 Two factors dominated the period 1990–94. The first was the process of negotiations aimed at democratic constitutional dispensation. The second was a dramatic escalation in levels of violence in the country, with a consequent increase in the number of gross violations of human rights.

3 The period opened with the public announcement of major political reforms by President FW de Klerk on 2 February 1990 – including the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, SACP and fifty-eight other organisations; the release of political prisoners and provision for all exiles to return home. Mr Nelson Mandela was released on 11 February 1990. The other goals were achieved through a series of bilateral negotiations between the government and the ANC, resulting in the Groote Schuur and Pretoria minutes of May and August 1990 respectively. The latter minute was accompanied by the ANC’s announcement that it had suspended its armed struggle.

8 The violence during the 1990s stemmed from intensification in the levels of conflict and civil war in KwaZulu/Natal. While the province had been plagued for five years by a low-level civil conflict, conflict intensified dramatically in the 1990s. The Human Rights Committee (HRC) estimates that, between July 1990 and June 1993, an average of 101 people died per month in politically related incidents – a total of 3 653 deaths. In the period July 1993 to April 1994, conflict steadily intensified, so that by election month it was 2.5 times its previous levels.

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e961e4 No.20682159

>>20682139

>The Human Rights Committee (HRC) estimates that, between July 1990 and June 1993, an average of 101 people died per month in politically related incidents – a total of 3 653 deaths. In the period July 1993 to April 1994, conflict steadily intensified, so that by election month it was 2.5 times its previous levels.

It never ended…

“Democracy and violence: the threat to South Africa’s elections”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231202212450/https://commonwealth-opinion.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/democracy-and-violence-the-threat-to-south-africas-elections/

https://commonwealth-opinion.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/democracy-and-violence-the-threat-to-south-africas-elections/

Feb 2, 2018

South African elections take place against a background of violence. The ruptures of the apartheid era have been carried over into post-apartheid society, leaving the country with a tragic reputation for beatings, murder and the abuse of women and children.

This climate of violence is carried over into political life, yet outside of South Africa this is little understood. Most international observers assume the miracle of the reconciliation ushered in by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ still prevails. Yet the evidence is that political murders and intimidation now disfigure South African politics. Violence and intimidation threaten the legitimacy of the 2019 general election. Unless these issues are recognised and confronted there is a risk that the democracy for which so much was sacrificed will be undermined.

Political killings

Murder appears to have become an entrenched element of South African politics. Three trends are likely to increase the threat in the coming years.

1. The erosion of ANC support

2. The ANC turns its internal violence outwards: towards its political rivals.

3. The rise of the professional hitman

Lessons from the 2014 general elections

1. Using and abusing state assets

2. The role of the state broadcaster: The state broadcaster, the SABC, is the largest newsgathering organisation in the country, with three of the four national free-to-air TV stations, 18 regional and national radio stations. It also broadcasts in all South Africa’s 11 official languages, plus Khoisan tongues !Xu and Khwe. It also has a long and sad history of being the tool of the ruling party.

3. Violence and intimidation

4. Election day and the Electoral Commission: This is reflected in the interviews undertaken for the CASE report, which suggested that the [Electoral] Commission was biased in favour of the ANC because of the partisan nature of the civil servants that it uses as its representatives at polling stations.

The international community played a major part in ending apartheid

The African Union, Commonwealth and the United Nations all have an interest in encouraging and supporting the people of South Africa in this regard. It is not enough to pay lip-service to this: as the evidence produced in this article demonstrates, there are serious concerns about the way in which violence and murder have become an integral part of the political process. As worrying are the trends exhibited in the run-up to the 2014 election. These showed how, in the weeks and months before the voting took place, the ANC used state resources to bolster its electoral chances, while dominating the state run media. On election day the Independent Election Commission failed to ensure that its ruling prohibiting campaigning was adhered to. The police stood by while clear violations were perpetrated.

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e961e4 No.20682169

“Age of Despair: the Unintegrated Forces of South Africa”: MK, APLA, SADF

https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/107/428/433/12513?login=false

Published: 05 June 2008

The purpose of this article is to account for the various protest actions by former combatants in the first twelve years of democracy in South Africa. The main argument is that many former combatants who were denied an opportunity to serve in the post-apartheid national defence force and others who served for short periods have failed to reintegrate successfully into civilian society.

However, unlike Lieutenant Sibusiso Madubela, who decided to deal with his grievances by shooting at his white colleagues, some former guerrilla combatants chose to resign from the SANDF. A former MK combatant who resigned said: ‘I joined the SANDF but later resigned. I cannot accommodate whites. They were my enemies and will remain like that.’83 Another former MK combatant who had resigned from the SANDF argued: ‘The army still resembled the apartheid army because our commanders were still white. Also it takes a bit of doing to accept whites as comrades; they were the enemy yesterday, today they are our friends – it does not make sense.’84

Through natural attrition – including dismissals, death, the expiry of contracts, resignations, retirement and voluntary severance packages – the SANDF lost 58,764 members. On 9 November 2004 only 13,557 former guerrilla combatants (4,244 APLA and 9,313 MK) were still serving in the SANDF. This was down from a total of 21,212 (6,421 APLA and 14,791 MK) combatants who had integrated into the SANDF between 1994 and 2002. There were 37,233 former SADF members (down from 82,705) and 5,402 (down from 11,039) former TBVC forces members. This meant that APLA had lost 2,177 members, MK 5,478, the SADF 45,472 and the TBVC forces 5,637 members. Thus, from the original 114,956 soldiers who integrated into the SANDF between 1994 and 2002, only 56,192 were still serving in the SANDF. There were 18,517 new recruits without any military background who had joined the SANDF since 1994.

The total number of former APLA and MK combatants (9,809) who were demobilized from the SANDF, combined with the total number (58,764) of combatants who initially joined the SANDF and later left for various reasons, meant that there were at least 68,573 people with the skills of violence outside the employment of the military. If the total number (10,999) of former APLA and MK who never reported for integration or demobilization is taken into consideration, the number is even higher. Furthermore, the number of genuine former combatants who for various reasons were excluded from the CPRs is unknown. Thus, South Africa has different categories of people who have received military training whose current status in society is unknown.

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e961e4 No.20687100

>>20682169

>Lieutenant Sibusiso Madubela, who decided to deal with his grievances by shooting at his white colleagues

“Shots fired at South African [Sibusiso Madubela’s] funeral”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/463778.stm

Saturday, October 2, 1999 Published at 17:20 GMT 18:20 UK

Police fired live ammunition into the air and used stun grenades on the crowd of mourners in a village near Umtata on the eastern cape.

The police say two people were injured.

The black army lieutenant who was being buried, Sibusiso Madubela, was shot by a fellow army officer after he had rampaged through his barracks killing seven white soldiers and a white civilian.

The incident highlighted racial tensions in the new South African army which is made up of the old white apartheid-era military and fighters from the armed wings of the black liberation movements.

The whole issue of Lieutenant Madubela's funeral itself generated heated debate. The government refused him a military burial.

The confrontation between police and mourners began when politicians from the radical Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) praised the dead soldier as a hero who was teaching white people a lesson and vowed to kill more of them.

Then they began firing a salute over the grave and the police, who had banned any such action, moved in to stop them.

The military says that he was disgruntled because his pay was docked when he went absent without leave.

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e961e4 No.20687109

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>>20682169

>However, unlike Lieutenant Sibusiso Madubela, who decided to deal with his grievances by shooting at his white colleagues, some former guerrilla combatants chose to resign from the SANDF. A former MK combatant who resigned said: ‘I joined the SANDF but later resigned. I cannot accommodate whites. They were my enemies and will remain like that.’83 Another former MK combatant who had resigned from the SANDF argued: ‘The army still resembled the apartheid army because our commanders were still white. Also it takes a bit of doing to accept whites as comrades; they were the enemy yesterday, today they are our friends – it does not make sense.’

>>20687100

This is a stark contrast compared to the 32 Battalion which was disbanded in the new South Africa.

“1st Announcement of the disbandment of SADF: 32 Battalion on SABC News (26 March 1993)”

https://youtu.be/QOwCKrqpaCI

May 21, 2013

Afrikaans news announcement (with English subtitles). Included are rare video footage on a short history of 32 Battalion.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/bloody-clash-on-the-lomba/

Twenty Brigade was at first commanded by Colonel Jock Harris, but as Modular began he was replaced by Colonel Deon Ferreira. Ferreira had more than a decade of experience fighting in Angola. He had taken command of 32 Battalion in 1979 and shown himself to be a hands-on commander. He accompanied units in the field and pioneered the way 32 Battalion fought. He developed the tactic of “butterfly” operations, whereby three infantry companies would establish a temporary base deep in enemy territory. Supported by a squadron of Alouette helicopters, two companies would conduct search and destroy operations while a third would defend the base. Using butterfly tactics, 32 Battalion cut a wide swath of destruction in Angola, doing untold damage to SWAPO and FAPLA in numerous operations. Ferreira became a legend in the SADF and made 32 Battalion famous in the global special forces community.

Thirty-Two Battalion was the brainchild of another South African Special Forces legend, Colonel Jan Breytenbach. Breytenbach had commanded the above mentioned 1975 raid, Operation Savannah. Later he convinced high command to take what remained of his force and form it into a permanent unit. Under his direction 32 Battalion was based in South West Africa and composed of white South African and black South West African soldiers. The battalion comprised a headquarters company, a recon and heavy weapons section, and seven infantry companies. Called “Os Terriveis” in Portuguese, “The Terrible Ones,” 32 Battalion played a key role in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.

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e961e4 No.20687116

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>>20687109

“2nd Announcement of the disbandment of SADF: 32 Battalion on SABC News (26 March 1993)”

https://youtu.be/hhVU0_iYc5s

May 21, 2013

1:05 – “Past and present members of the unit however feel sold out by what they call the politically motivated destruction of the best unit in the southern hemisphere. None feels stronger than the man who founded the unit and trained its first members, Colonel Jan Breytenbach…. [Jan Breytenbach] “I feel we’ve been betrayed, let down, because the politicians were using this unit as political ploy. I don’t think it is right because they bled for this country.””

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9fd881 No.20687409

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“Zimbabwe launches new gold-backed currency”

https://youtu.be/Gd082mwgXNM

Apr 6, 2024

Zimbabwe has introduced a new gold-backed currency which the central bank hopes will bring stability to the country’s economy. But as Columbus Mavhunga reports from Harare, economists and ordinary Zimbabweans have their doubts.

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9fd881 No.20687416

“South Africa gets rules for up to stage 16 load-shedding”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/531467-south-africa-gets-rules-for-up-to-stage-16-load-shedding.html

5 April 2024

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has approved guidelines for implementing load shedding up to Stage 16.

The regulator published the latest revision of the load-shedding Code of Practice, consolidating load-shedding stages into a single system from Stage 1 to Stage 16.

It was developed by experts from Eskom, the Energy Intensive User Group, metros, and the regulator itself, among others.

This is the third edition of the code. The second, published in 2017, had guidelines for load-shedding up to Stage 8.

The National Rationalized Specifications (NRS) Association submitted the new edition to Nersa for approval in May 2023.

The code aims to help Eskom and municipal distributors mitigate the impact of high load-shedding stages while preventing a grid collapse.

It also allows Eskom’s system operator and electricity distributors to take emergency action if necessary.

The Eskom System Operator is responsible for ensuring the stability of South Africa’s electricity grid and sets the level of load-shedding needed to do so.

Changes to the code include:

• The consolidation of the load-shedding stages into a single system from Stage 1 to 16;

• Clarification on methods for setting baselines for curtailment customers;

• Increased control of how load-shedding and load-curtailment are determined and carried out to improve grid stability and provide more certainty to curtailment customers;

• Giving curtailment customers the right to reduce consumption by 10 % per every two load-shedding stages, up to stage 10, 50 % of their load, or to go to essential loads, rather than being forced to essential loads after Stage 4;

• The specification of compliance and reporting requirements (general and real-time); and

• Guidance on implementing smart metering technology to reduce the impact of load-shedding on customers.

In May 2023, Eskom proposed new load-shedding guidelines up to Stage 16 to ensure that load-shedding beyond Stage 8 is carried out effectively if necessary.

“The NRS048-9 Revision 2 describes load-shedding stages up to Stage 8 and obligates all network operators (distributors and municipalities) to develop, publish and implement these schedules when instructed to do so by the System Operator,” it said.

“Beyond Stage 8, the System Operator will instruct each province to reduce by a fixed [megawatt] amount.”

“NRS048-9 Revision 3 proposes load-shedding schedules up to Stage 16 in order to make load-shedding systematic and orderly,” Eskom added.

The power utility’s proposal came after NRS chair Vally Padayachee revealed that the organisation had updated the load-shedding Code of Practice to go beyond Stage 8.

Amid concerns that load-shedding higher than Stage 8 might have been required in winter last year, Padayachee said an update to the code was necessary to protect the grid’s integrity.

He explained there would be a high probability of human error if Stage 9 load-shedding or higher was required without guidelines in place.

“Then the System Operator and municipal electricity distributors would have to use their own respective operating procedures to protect the national grid,” said Padayachee.

“In that environment, the propensity for human error is very possible.”

Failure to follow the code, or the absence of the necessary guidelines, could result in the grid frequency fluctuating above or below 50Hz — the frequency that keeps the grid alive.

If this were to happen, the grid could collapse, plunging the country into darkness. Restarting the grid is difficult and time-consuming, and South Africa could be without power for weeks if that happened.

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f5d77a No.20687870

“The PLO at 58 and the ANC at 110: how they evolved and where do they stand today?”

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220609-the-plo-at-58-and-the-anc-at-110-how-they-evolved-and-where-do-they-stand-today/

June 9, 2022 at 8:30 am

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is 58 years old this June, while the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 110th birthday last January. They are two of the longest liberation movements so far. They are as comparable as apartheid South Africa is comparable to its once close friend, Israel—who became another unique apartheid state in its own right.

The PLO was founded as a Pan-Arabism movement, envisioning the establishment of a unified Arab State on the former British Mandate in historical Palestine. The ANC, on the other hand, wanted to unify all black Africans under Pan-Africanism

The struggles the PLO and ANC went through began decades earlier, when the British Empire was ruling in both Palestine and South Africa. In Palestine, the British turned a blind eye to the Zionists’ emigration to Palestine and their 1917 infamous Balfour Declaration, made it the promised land of the Zionists, as if it was a land without people. In South Africa, the British were marginalising the indigenous population. Modern day Britain, incidentally this June, has just celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, without any regret to what its processor has done around the world.

Basically, apartheid denied the black South African majority (the indigenous population) the right to vote, separated them from Whites, and restricted every aspect of their lives including where they could live in their own country. The idea is rooted in an 1863 paper titled “The Negro’s Place in Nature” presented by James Hunt to London’s Anthropological Society claiming inferiority of the black race and they should be treated as such. That struck a chord with someone named Cecil Rhodes, (1853-1902) —a greedy and brutal English businessman turned politician. Rhodes conquered more African lands, further spreading apartheid beyond South Africa.

In Palestine the issue of apartheid was, incrementally, copied from South Africa and carefully applied to suit the times. After the creation of Zionist Israel, and by the 1960s, Israel was a close friend of apartheid South Africa, as both States faced increased rejection by the rest of the world.

When the South African apartheid system collapsed in the 1990s and Nelson Mandela was freed from 27 years in jail, Israel had already developed its own “modern” version of apartheid based on Pretoria’s standards. This is what promoted Mandela, while meeting Yasir Arafat for the first time in Zambia in February 1990, to describe him as a “hero” fighting against a “unique form of colonisation”. Mandela knew only too well the “uniqueness” of the Zionist occupation because he has just come out of it in his own country—South Africa.

By then, both the PLO and ANC had been “comrades” in arms sharing the set of ideals against what Pretoria shared with Tel Aviv— ideals of freedom, equality and independence. Decades earlier, when top ANC leaders fled South Africa to start the struggle from neighbouring African countries like Zimbabwe and Mozambique, they found support and help from the PLO, which had already been forced out of the West Bank after the 1967 Israeli occupation. During those years, Mandela had been in jail but, as a leader, he knew how people like Arafat, Gaddafi, Castro and Mugabe had been helping the ANC in its struggle.

The PLO and ANC also shared the fact that they were, initially, liberation movements seeking to free their respective peoples who were being forcefully removed from their ancestors’ lands by colonialists—an extension of the waning British Empire, as more former colonies became independent from British rule and the world turned against Western imperialism.

Unfortunately, both the PLO and ANC today are far removed from what they once stood for as freedom seeking organisations. The PLO, after signing the Oslo Accords in 1993, became the protector of the oppressor of the very people, the Palestinians, whom it wanted to liberate.

The ANC, on the other hand, once in power in South Africa, morphed into a corrupt entity accused of economic mismanagement affecting, principally, the majority of the blacks it once defended. Many see it as an organisation busy defending and preserving its top leaders’ privileges gained at the expense, and in the name, of its own people.

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78cd27 No.20696996

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>>20682047

>Another thing which I just want to chip in, actually as a liberation movement we have suffered at the hands of Israeli-American conspiracy. There was a school in Tanzania, I think it was Morogoro Multi-Liberation College, cadres of APLA and MK used to do their medical training there but as a way of punishment, the US withdrew funding from UNESCO because it was a UNESCO school. Once they withdrew funding, especially cadres of the PAC - because by that time I think the ANC had withdrawn their cadres – had to suffer due to budgetary constraints. The target there was the Palestinians because the Americans were complaining that UNESCO was supporting the Palestinian cause. As a matter of fact, UNESCO is the only UN organisation that has recognised or given a Palestine full state status.

>>20682073

>>20682085

>In 1963, the ANC officially established its Tanzania mission, with headquarters in Dar es Salaam.

>Also stationed there were the armies of other southern African liberation movements – ZAPU, Frelimo, SWAPO and the MPLA.

>In 1964, the PAC also moved its external headquarters to Dar es Salaam after it was pushed out of Lesotho.

UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 1

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

Excerpts

This document has been commissioned by the UNESCO Office for Southern Africa in collaboration with the SADC Secretariat. Dr Sannassee Raja Vinesh, from the SADC Secretariat and Julia Heiss and Phinith Chanthalangsy from the UNESCO Regional Office of Southern Africa coordinated the development of the document.

UNESCO would like to express its profound gratitude to the document’s lead author, Dr. Patrick Tom.

In 2018, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers approved the integration of Southern Africa Liberation History (SALH) in the school syllabus.

The Council also recommended the establishment of a Regional Working Group comprising of curriculum experts from all SADC member states with the mandate to determine the status of teaching of SALH and the extent of its inclusion in the school syllabus. In view of the importance of involving young people in the preservation of liberation history by integrating it into mainstream curricula, as highlighted by the SADC Ministers of Culture, this was a crucial step towards ensuring that young people are afforded an opportunity to engage with an authentic account of the struggle for liberation as a matter of cultural heritage rights (SADC and UNESCO 2021).

In addition, in 2020, in response to increasing requests to strengthen the teaching of liberation history and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) values in the region, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Regional Office for Southern Africa, in collaboration with the SADC Secretariat, commissioned a review of national curricula of secondary schools in SADC member states to determine the level of integration and teaching of SALH and GCED issues and values in secondary schools.1

Similar to global citizenship, there is no single definition of GCED, although the UNESCO Framework for GCED explains that:

GCED aims to be transformative, building the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that learners need to be able to contribute to a more inclusive, just and peaceful world. GCED takes “a multifaceted approach, employing concepts and methodologies already applied in other areas, including human rights education, peace education, education for sustainable development and education for international understanding” [UNSECO 2014, p.46] and aims to advance their common objectives. GCED applies a lifelong learning perspective, beginning from early childhood and continuing through all levels of education and into adulthood, requiring both ‘formal and informal approaches, curricular and extracurricular interventions, and conventional and unconventional pathways to participation. (UNESCO 2015, p.15)2

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UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 2

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

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In terms of SALH, it can be understood from the perspective that resistance to colonialism and apartheid continued from its inception and escalated after the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963, when African countries coordinated their fight against oppression and intolerance. Although they achieved independence and liberty through negotiations where possible, in countries where non-violent protests failed, they were forced to organize armed resistance. This led to the emergence of SALH through the operations of the Frontline States, a coalition of the independent states in the region formed in the 1970s to coordinate the liberation of the countries that remained under colonial rule and apartheid. The pressure increased in the 1980s after the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) was formed to promote economic liberation in southern Africa, and the removal of apartheid in Namibia and South Africa.

While these areas of education are significantly important globally, as SADC member states adopt GCED and SALH values to insert them into their educational curricula, the tide of intolerance, discrimination, racist violence, xenophobia, and border closures against refugees in the Global North reminds us that that the need to strengthen teaching of these values is universal and should be intensified to harmonize citizen education, pushing back negative political, economic, and social values. GCED is one of the strategic areas of UNESCO’s Education Sector and aims to empower learners of all ages to become capable of facing local and global challenges and taking actions that contribute towards a more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, and secure world (UNESCO 2017). As such, SALH can help contextualize GCED and reflect on issues of identity and cultural values within a historic context that strongly shapes current social structures in the SADC region.

The integration of SALH in teaching and learning in schools in SADC member states will thus play an essential role in:

1. Creating awareness on the background history of formerly colonized SADC member states with a view to informing them on the changing past and dynamics of the struggles of liberation and, later, decolonization and political and socio-economic development of these nations.

2. Helping learners to understand regional cooperation as evidenced by neighbouring countries’ solidarity and help in fighting the colonial systems and anti-colonial wars.

3. Promoting cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioural skills that are conducive to universal values, spirit of camaraderie (comradeship), and capacities to learn from history in contributing to the SADC identity, development, and integration.

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UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 3

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

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Table 1: Key learning outcomes for GCED and SALH

Learners acquire knowledge and understanding of colonialism and apartheid, its nature and impact in the context of their own and other societies, as well as regional and international solidarity in the struggle against colonialism and apartheid.

Learners acquire knowledge about the role of women in southern Africa liberation struggles (armed and non-armed struggles)

Learners reflect on assumptions of power relations and structures and factors that can promote or influence individuals to develop attitudes and behaviours that create and promote exploitation, human rights abuses, discrimination, and social and economic exclusion of the “other”.

Learners reflect on southern Africa liberation heroines, forms of women’s resistance, division of labour in armed liberation movements, contributions of different women to the liberations, including non-combat activities crucial for sustaining military action, and under representations of women in the liberation movements and their armed wings.

Learners work in groups to examine and reflect on their assumptions and the assumptions of those who promote and maintain, for example, oppressive structures, and can then reflect on what they would have done in such situations.

Learners experience empathy for those who suffered during colonial rule or continue to suffer due to colonial legacies, neo-colonialism, and global injustices; suffer under undemocratic and oppressive post-colonial governments; have been excluded or are being excluded; have suffered from discrimination and human rights abuses during colonial rule; or suffer from human rights abuses in the post-colonial period.

Learners understand the linkages between history and the social challenges of present time and develop an emotional and knowledge-based commitment to defending human rights and regional integration, as well as fighting discrimination and global injustices and supporting struggles for democratic governance in their society and region.

Learners act effectively and responsibly at local, national, and global levels for a more peaceful and sustainable world

Learners develop motivation and willingness to take necessary actions.

Learners raise awareness and monitor manifestations of various forms of discrimination and prejudice, while reflecting on their own values and actions and engaging in actions to influence their peer group or community in their everyday life.

Learners reflect on the actions of southern Africa national liberation fighters, civil rights activists, and religious leaders, including women who supported the liberation struggle.

Learners can then take up necessary actions against practices that promote discrimination, oppression, and exclusion, for example, showing solidarity with the victims or organizing and mobilizing others to take action against such practices.

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UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 4

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

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In addition, since SALH integration in the curricula is mostly still very limited in the SADC region, except in countries such as Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Namibia, United Republic of Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, it is crucial for member states to also strengthen the existing scope by identifying the most relevant entry points for anchoring SALH education. In particular, the following are crucial to solidify a SADC-wide action for GCED and SALH:

Education policies should support the implementation of GCED and SALH from pre-primary school to upper secondary. This ensures that appropriate values are inculcated at an early age.

Given the interconnectedness of GCED and SALH principles, both should be integrated into the formal curricula for pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools in SADC member states to ensure that both concepts are taught at all levels of schooling. At the same time, GCED and SALH values should be interwoven so that they cover local, regional, and global perspectives… Moreover, while most countries teach liberation history within their national boundaries, little is covered about the regional dimensions, dynamics, and solidarity of the liberation struggle.

While a combined and balanced approach to SALH education and GCED will ensure that both concepts achieve common learning outcomes in the curricula (see Table 1), it is also necessary to incorporate the teaching of SALH as a focus of the History curriculum, especially the regional dimensions, including solidarity, unity, and Pan-Africanism. As the curriculum review highlights, this may afford policymakers an opportunity to broaden the base for teaching SALH from a narrow national context to wider regional and global contexts. As a result, this would also help to ensure that the local and regional context of SALH and ubuntu informs the global context, and vice versa.

Reasons for emphasizing the building of GCED and SALH into existing subject areas rather than as a standalone subject include:

• GCED and SALH are interdisciplinary;

• At the core of GCED and SALH are several interconnected concepts, such as social justice and fairness, poverty, equality, identity and belonging, diversity, interdependence, globalization, and sustainable development;

• A holistic approach needs to be used to highlight the cross-disciplinary dimensions of GCED and SALH concepts. A holistic approach recognizes the significance of all aspects of learner development (the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical), and requires teachers’ engagement. It also ensures the covering of the local, national, and global dimensions of GCED and SALH.

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UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 5

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

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Table 2: Curriculum approaches

Whole school

• GCED and SALH are integrated throughout the formal education curriculum holistically.

• Does not only apply to the curriculum, but embeds GCED and SALH concepts in other aspects of school life as well, and in the school’s engagement with the community and other schools, among others.

• Focuses on the school as a whole and involves the entire school community, including learners, all school staff, parents, and the wider community.

• Everyone has a responsibility to ensure that the desired competencies and learning outcomes are achieved.

• Schools also incorporate teaching and learning for GCED and SALH through activities and practices such as experiential learning, extra-curricular clubs for learners, and collaboration with the community, thus enabling teachers, learners, parents, and community members to engage in the education process. In this case, it promotes active and participatory learning, an essential aspect of GCED and SALH.

• Building positive relationships between learners, school management, teachers and support staff, and the wider community enables the development of values, skills, and attitudes conducive to regional and global citizenship.

• Involves a significant proportion of teachers in the delivery of GCED and SALH.

Cross-curricular

• Helps learners to see the importance of GCED and SALH education from different approaches and perspectives.

• Two periods per week can be dedicated to project-based activities, including participating in school clubs and community activities, related to different topics relevant to GCED and SALH.

Teacher training in many countries does not yet reflect the modern competency-based curricula, which include GCED and SALH topics and methods. Yet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 4, Indicator C, emphasizes the supply of teachers who are pedagogically well-trained to teach. Teachers play a critical role in ensuring that learners receive good quality education, which in turn contributes to the learner’s empowerment, enabling them to play an active role in their communities and the world.

For them to empower learners, teachers themselves need to be equipped with skills, knowledge, behaviours, and values crucial for them to effectively deliver GCED and SALH, including around philosophical and cultural concepts and practices that are related to GCED and SALH, such as Ubuntu. In addition, they require ongoing support and motivation, specifically through the development of teacher training manuals and continuous professional development (CPD) programmes. Both should be developed and delivered by appropriate organizations, such as UNESCO and APCEIU working in partnership with research institutions, civil society organizations, and universities in the region with knowledge and experience of GCED and SALH.

A holist approach would ensure that before developing a teacher training programme on GCED and SALH, SADC, in partnership with UNESCO and the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), conducts an information-sharing workshop involving teachers, school management, education inspectors, and teacher educators relating to their needs and factors likely to constrain effective delivery, as well as interventions that may help to avert this and promote change.

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UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 6

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

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Good practice – Tanzania

Tanzania is a good example of a country that has managed to integrate both GCED and SALH education into the curriculum with notable success, and its approach may perhaps be employed as a best practice. SALH is included in the Form 4 (age level 14-15 years) History syllabus under the topic of Nationalism, through which, for example, learners are taught about the nation’s role in assisting freedom fighters from other SADC countries. They are also taken on a field trip to Mazimbu, Morogoro, where some of the fighters’ camps were located, which is now the site of Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College. This institution offers primary and secondary education for the African National Congress (ANC).6 Learners are encouraged to do research on the countries that Tanzania assisted to attain their liberation as well, and discuss and compare SADC countries’ national anthems and flags. They also give presentations in class, participate in debates, and write essays on different topics related to GCED and SALH, such as the Herero and Nama genocide in Namibia in the early 1900s.

Apart from Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, examples of educational institutions sited at SALH locations that are now used to demonstrate to learners the role that Tanzania played in supporting SADC countries’ independence are: Samora Machel Secondary School in Mbeya; Kaole Secondary School and Vocational Training Centre in Bagamoyo; Likuyu Sekamanganga Primary School; and Masonya Girls’ Secondary School. Using heritage sites to serve educational purposes contributes towards the sustainability of liberation history and informs the current generation about these struggles in a concrete and meaningful way.SADC and UNESCO (2021, pp.17-18).

Since 2019, UNESCO has been working with the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC), which is a SADC knowledge partner, to produce resource materials on SALH that focus on the regional dimensions of the national liberation struggle.7 These materials could be used in revising/developing the curricula to include SALH, and consist of:

• Module 1, entitled Youth in the liberation struggle and beyond, and resource materials developed for this module include a short introductory book in print and online, a video, and ongoing content for social media that has generated significant interest in the subject. The video is available at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wr4e922i4e6tpkt/AADypRgfNUqyDKXSrKE1xpZya?dl=0&preview=SADC_NLMHP_FINAL_+15+min.mp4.

• A two-page flyer for the National Liberation Movement Heritage (NLMH) programme summarizing the process for development of the other modules on various aspects of SALH.

• A related publication by UNESCO and SARDC entitled Preserving memory of African liberation through access to heritage archives. This is a preliminary survey profiling heritage archives and libraries in nine countries in southern Africa and is expected to launch in April/May 2021, in print and online.

The primary objective of the Hashim Mbita Project is to document the liberation history of southern Africa via collection, cataloguing, and compiling of oral texts and data in SADC region and beyond.

Southern African Liberation Struggles: Contemporaneous Documents 1960-1994 is published for SADC in nine volumes by Mkuki na Nyota in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania (2014). Editors are Arnold J Temu and Joel da Neves Tembe. The project was funded entirely by SADC member states and the patron of the project was the late Ambassador Brig-Gen Hashim Mbita, who was Secretary-General of the Liberation Committee of the OAU from 1972 to 1994. The volume documents the history of liberation struggles in southern Africa and covers Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as the role of countries outside the SADC region that played a key role in supporting liberation movements in Africa.

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UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States” – Part 7

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378394/PDF/378394eng.pdf.multi

© 2021 by UNESCO

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Another SADC publication to be launched in commemoration of SADC’s 40th anniversary is 40 years of SADC: Enhancing regional cooperation and integration (June 2021)

A reference source for those interested in the history of national liberation in southern Africa and the role of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Resources include more than 130 interviews of people in various southern African countries and outside the region who participated in the liberation struggle. The interviews are available at: https://nai.uu.se/library/resources/liberation-africa/interviews.html.

Relevant books and other resources on the role of the Nordic countries relating to liberation in southern Africa are available for download at https://nai.uu.se/library/resources/liberation-africa/publications.html.

African Activist Archive Project

This project is making the records of activists in the United States who supported African liberation struggles available online at: https://nai.uu.se/library/resources/liberation-africa/about-the-project-and-the-documentation.html.

Resources include 145 videos on liberation struggles in several southern African countries, available at: https://africanactivist.msu.edu/browse_results.php?category=media&field=type&member=Video&page=0.

The videos include the following two:

• Aluta Continua by Robert F. Van Lierop, Bob Fletcher, Richard Skinner, George Copeland, Filipe Nhancale – The video covers Mozambique’s liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rule (Duration: 34.08 minutes). Available at: https://africanactivist.msu.edu/video.php?objectid=210-807-10.

• A Cry for Freedom by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – The movie is about Namibia’s struggle for independence from South Africa’s illegal occupation of the country (Duration: 21.03). Available at: https://africanactivist.msu.edu/video.php?objectid=210-807-162.

The International Institute of Social History

The institute has extensive archival materials on anti-apartheid and southern Africa solidarity groups in the Netherlands. Further details on the archives are available at: https://iisg.amsterdam/files/2020-11/Collection%20guide-archives.pdf.

Resources include a web dossier on the history of the southern Africa solidarity movement: https://archief.socialhistory.org/en/collections/netherlands-against-apartheid-1948-1994.

The Robben Island Mayibuye Centre Archive

Provides a first-hand account of the political movement in South Africa. Available at: https://www.robben-island.org.za/.

Includes prisoner stories, which are available at: https://www.robben-island.org.za/stories.

The University of Western Cape Robben Island Mayibuye Centre Archive

The archive consists of multimedia collections depicting various forms of resistance against apartheid within and outside South Africa. Available at: https://mayibuyearchives.org/.

JSTOR

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa is a collection focused on the liberation struggles in southern Africa documenting colonial rule, international intervention, dispersion of exiles, and the global networks that supported the liberation struggle in the region. Emphasis is placed on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

Thames TV

An interview with President Julia Nyerere about the situation in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU63JccowUg.

Economic war – A video which looked at what Frontline States could do to protect themselves from the economic war which South Africa was waging against them. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHUzjbvk-Jc.

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“National Liberation Movements Heritage Programme - Youth in the Liberation Struggles”

https://youtu.be/aPkkGjmoyJ8

Dec 11, 2020 on the UNESCO channel

This is a trailer of the video produced as part of module 1, under the theme Youth in the Liberation Struggle.

UNESCO: “Youth in the liberation struggle and beyond”

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380357

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Corporate author : UNESCO Office in Harare [152], Southern African Development Community, Southern African Research and Documentation Centre

Document code : HAR/SHS/2021/5

ISBN : 978-1-77929-558-3

Collation : 44 pages : illustrations

Language : English

Year of publication : 2021

Type of document : book

THIS BOOK captures the last stages of independence in Southern Africa as a single storythat was anchored on unity and regional solidarity across borders. It explores the valuesof the youth then and how the youth of today can emulate them to address contemporarychallenges. This publication on Youth in the Liberation Struggle and Beyond,together witha short video and a widely accessed social media campaign, form the pilot Module 1 of aseries titled Respecting the Past, Building the Future, under the National LiberationMovements Heritage Programme.

This is the first Module in a series intended to provide resource material on theregional dimensions and linkages of national liberation movements in the SADC region. Theinitiative emerges from the Experts Meeting on this subject held 24-25 April 2018 inWindhoek, Namibia, organized by UNESCO ROSA and SARDC, and hosted by theGovernment of Namibia. The modules are designed in such a way that each one is completeand can be used separately or together with other modules. The proposed modules cover aninitial 12 aspects of Southern African Liberation History. Each Module and its componentsprovide a unique and accessible reference source that can be used for different purposes andadapted for various levels of education, as well as lifelong learning. The first module isIntroductory, presented in a short messaging format including stories, poems and proverbsto give a taste of the regional linkages and values of community as expressed in ubuntu.

Module 1 is about Youth. Exploring the age dimension can help to engagecontemporary youth in our shared history, as most of those involved in the nationalliberation movements were Youth, who often went to live in neighbouring countries andworked together across borders to remove colonial rule and apartheid from the region.The series will cover the shared narrative of working together, beginning with the liberationleaders whose names are known, and other people and topics will be presented in laterModules. One module cannot capture all SADC Member States or stories, and more canbe included and expanded in future, but all Modules are intended for use throughout SADCto facilitate understanding of the liberation heritage of the region. This resource materialseeks to share knowledge of the regional dimensions of the liberation period, the vision ofregional integration, and the values of inclusion, diversity, peace and tolerance.

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“Global Citizenship and Southern Africa Liberation History Education in Southern Africa: A 21st Century Socio-legal Perspective”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2207884

Received 10 Jan 2023, Accepted 24 Apr 2023, Published online: 18 May 2023

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This article presents key findings of a desktop study on the extent of integration of global citizenship education (GCED) and Southern Africa Liberation History (SALH) education in the secondary schools’ curricula in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Seychelles, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The aim of the study was to ascertain how education can be utilised as a tool to create future citizens who can think locally, regionally, and internationally as members of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and as part of the envisioned new world order. As such, the study sought to understand how GCED and SALH principles have been incorporated into the curricula of the selected countries.

In a progressively more globalised world, emphasis is increasingly being placed on the significance of attitudes, values and communication skills as crucial educational competencies required by individuals to optimally function as global citizens.

In Southern Africa, and the rest of the world, particularly in the context of the emergent new world order, people and society are greatly benefiting from the right to education in the rapidly changing 21st Century, which is influenced by the introduction of artificial intelligence, the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions, as well as radical indigenisation and transformation policies.

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“Impact and consequences of the current situation in the Gaza Strip/Palestine in all aspects of UNESCO's mandate: draft resolution” - UNRWA, “the main provider of education in the Gaza Strip”

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387432

9 November 2023

Conference : UNESCO. General Conference, 42nd, 2023 [898]

Document code : 42 C/COM.APX/DR.2

Collation : 4 pages

Language : English

Also available in : , Русский язык, Français, Español, 汉语

Year of publication : 2023

Type of document : programme and meeting document

UNESCO explained that “Among the many civilian victims in Gaza were 38 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the main provider of education in the Gaza Strip. The vast majority of these staff were teachers and educators.” Recent data by UNRWA shows that as of 30 October 2023 “67 UNRWA colleagues have been killed and at least 22 injured.”

UNESCO further explained that many of UNRWA’s 183 schools in Gaza, which welcomed nearly 300,000 pupils at the start of the last school year, have now been converted into shelters for the population. Recalling that “UNRWA’s nearly 13,000 staff are on the front line, carrying out vitally important work to help schoolchildren, education professionals and all those affected by the disaster. They must be able to continue their work and be protected from the fighting.”

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>We [ANC] didn’t meet the Palestinian people on October 8th. We’ve been together in struggle for many many decades. The people of Palestine trained the freedom fighters of the liberation movement…

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>Of course, we {PAC] were very very close to the Palestinians as a matter of fact because some of our cadres trained in Lebanon by the Palestinian comrades.

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Take note; PAC and ANC have admitted that they were trained by the Palestinians. Considering their past actions, is it any surprise that UNRWA staffers were accused of attacking Israel? https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-reveals-12-unrwa-staffers-it-says-took-part-in-oct-7-says-30-more-assisted/… Now UNESCO aims to radicalize the population of SADC.

“A Few Bad Apples: 8,000 UNRWA Teachers Rallied for Hamas Terrorist”

https://youtu.be/UREOYqnGULQ

Apr 2, 2024

Hillel Neuer speaks at the UN Human Rights Council to combat the myth that UNRWA is plagued by just "a few bad apples."

Full Remarks:

How fitting that this Council meets here in the Hall of Qatar, sponsored by the country now hosting Hamas terrorist chiefs in Doha luxury hotels.

In her report, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese urged funding of UNRWA, which she says is being “attacked.” Let us consider.

Yesterday, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini was next door to meet with the Swiss Parliament’s foreign affairs committee. They announced that I will be invited to brief them next. Here’s a preview of what I will say.

On February 10th, the world discovered the terror tunnel right below UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, with electric cables going from the UNRWA grid to power computer servers forming a Hamas intelligence center. Mr. Lazzarini responded: “UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters.”

Really? Because a week prior, on February 2nd, the Wall Street Journal reported: “In 2014, part of the parking lot at UNRWA headquarters in Gaza began sinking, likely from a Hamas tunnel dug beneath. ‘No one talked about what was causing the collapse,’ a former Unrwa official said, ‘but everyone knew.’”

I repeat: “Everyone knew.”

When it was revealed that numerous UNRWA employees took part in the massacre of October 7th, Mr. Lazzarini and his surrogates claimed, “It’s just a few bad apples.”

Really? In September 2011, Suhail al-Hindi, Chair of the UNRWA Staff Union in Gaza, and principal of an UNRWA boys school, was suspended for his role with Hamas. He was a member of the Hamas politburo with Yahya Sinwar.

In response, the entire UNRWA staff in Gaza, 8,000 teachers and school principals, went on strike for months to support this Hamas leader. UNRWA reinstated him. “A few bad apples”? No. UNRWA is rotten to the core.

Interesting history of UNRWA

https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-Relief-and-Works-Agency-for-Palestine-Refugees-in-the-Near-East

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), subsidiary agency created by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1949 to provide relief, health, and education services for Palestinians who lost both their homes and means of livelihood during the Arab-Israeli wars following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Beginning operations in 1950, UNRWA was originally headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, but was moved to Vienna, Austria, in 1978. In 1996 the General Assembly moved the agency to the Gaza Strip to demonstrate the Assembly’s commitment to the Arab-Israeli peace process. UNRWA’s member states include Belgium, Egypt, France, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and several Arab states of the Persian Gulf region; the Palestinian Authority (PA) has observer status.

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78cd27 No.20697140

>>20457925

>The Star’s sister paper, the Daily News is in possession of the highly classified intelligence report dated November 5, 2020, (referenced DMS: 10001242724)

“SCA ruling exposes State Security Agency's dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/sca-ruling-exposes-state-security-agencys-dubious-secrecy-tactics-and-anc-vulnerability-to-foreign-interests-0215458a-bdda-4a9c-b3c3-aef852a7a6fe

Published Apr 7, 2024

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The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling in favour of Independent Media, IOL, and journalist Thabo Makwakwa is a scathing indictment of the State Security Agency (SSA).

Pull back the layers of spook stories of US capture of prominent African National Congress (ANC) politicians, it is a judgment that reveals the insouciant misuse of the mechanisms of the SSA to spare fight internal battles of the ANC.

The leaked intelligence report, read together with the judgment of the SCA brings into focus a snapshot of a time of fierce internal contestation within the ANC, how the SSA is used to fight factional battles along the fault-lines within South African intelligence structures.

THE HIGH COURT GAG ORDER

In December 2021, IOL journalist Thabo Makwakwa was handed a purported intelligence report of the State Security Agency. This report was alleged to contain intelligence that United States intelligence had infiltrated the ANC and its leadership to such an extent that it could influence or subvert national policy.

Makwakwa asked those implicated in the report for comment, including officials from the SSA, the US Embassy, and the ANC.

Within 48 hours, the high court had ruled ex parte that Makwakwa was in unlawful possession of the report and that its publication would harm state security. He was interdicted from publishing the report.

Nearly two and a half years later, the Supreme Court of Appeal’s (SCA) ruling that the classification of the intelligence report was against the public interest and lacked sufficient grounds for such secrecy is a tremendous victory for the rights of the free press in South Africa.

SETTING A HIGH BAR OF PLAUSIBILITY

When it comes to misinformation, manipulation, selective leaks, and serving nebulous interests, intelligence agents play for the first team. Journalism, and the media is a theatre of operations in intelligence. Many journalists have been sold a dummy by intelligence operatives, and some have suffered career ending consequences as a result.

When we examine the intelligence reach into the media, we have to set a very high bar of plausibility to logically assess the veracity of the claims made, and whose interests those claims serve.

When a gift horse descends from the lofty heights of the intelligence heavens, journalists must be prepared to engage in an extended amount of equine dentistry.

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78cd27 No.20697146

>>20697140

“SCA ruling exposes State Security Agency's dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/sca-ruling-exposes-state-security-agencys-dubious-secrecy-tactics-and-anc-vulnerability-to-foreign-interests-0215458a-bdda-4a9c-b3c3-aef852a7a6fe

Published Apr 7, 2024

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It is almost a certainty that this intelligence report is what it purports to be; a bona fide intelligence report of the State Security Agency. We know this, because the SSA have made a claim to it as the owner thereof in a court of law.

To be accused of being a US collaborator within the ANC, or the liberation movement is a grievous accusation. It is an accusation that has been weaponised throughout the liberation struggle, at times baselessly used to smear and even mortally imperil the comrade against whom the accusation is made.

Having said that, we know that the US spies on South Africa. We know that they have reach into every political party, some to a greater extent than others. The US is not here to sell girl scout cookies. It has interests. To this end, it collects human and signals intelligence on an industrial scale.

With the passage of time, we can test some of the claims of the report against the objective reality of what has happened in South Africa over the last two and a half years. If it is true that a large-scale US intelligence operation within the ANC to influence the policy direction of South Africa exists, then it is a complete failure.

With those caveats in place, even with the more implausible elements of the intelligence report being shaved away by Occam’s razor, what remains in the story in the wake of the SCA’s judgment is a disturbing picture of the blatant weaponisation of the intelligence services, and the blurred lines between party and state.

The SSA is constitutionally barred from involving itself in the ANC internal political contestation. As the SCA’s judgment makes clear, this didn’t stop certain people from abusing SSA processes in this exact manner.

The SCA ruled that the report's classification as "secret" was unjustified and against the public interest, and that releasing the report to the public would not compromise national security. It overturned the order of the high court and set aside the interdict brought by the SSA against Independent Media, IOL and Makwakwa.

The Minister of State Security’s arguments before the high court were shocking indictments of the cavalier blurring of the lines between party and state. The Minister argued that the gag order should be imposed, not to protect the national security and sovereignty of the Republic of South Africa, but rather to stave off a threat to the stability of the ANC.

The real value of the IOL, Independent Media, and Thabo Makwakwa’s legal victory at the SCA is to reveal the SSA be open to abuse to achieve political ends of individuals and groupings inside the ANC.

Even if the SSA, which was moved into the Presidency in 2021, were to embark on a process of clearing those implicated by the report, it would then have to face serious questions as to how such a report could be accepted as a bona fide intelligence report.

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78cd27 No.20697149

>>20697140

>>20697146

“SCA ruling exposes State Security Agency's dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests” – Part 3

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/sca-ruling-exposes-state-security-agencys-dubious-secrecy-tactics-and-anc-vulnerability-to-foreign-interests-0215458a-bdda-4a9c-b3c3-aef852a7a6fe

Published Apr 7, 2024

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Either, senior ANC are corrupt proxies for US interests, or our intelligence structures are all too easily abused for factional purposes. It’s one, or the other, or a little bit of both.

The credibility of South Africa’s long-battered intelligence entities is pinned to the restructuring of the intelligence services according to the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill.

And even after the passage of this bill, who knows what skeletons may yet come tumbling out the closet as a result of years of weaponisation of the SSA, in whole or in part, by a procession of intelligence-linked ANC bigwigs.

There exists a delicate tension between balancing national security concerns with the public's right to information.

Security and intelligence structures are constitutionally mandated to protect national security and sovereignty of the Republic of South Africa. Constitutional rights such as freedom of expression, access to information, and the right to a fair trial serve as checks on the power of these agencies.

This equilibrium can only be maintained if the entropy of the ruling party is kept as far away as possible from the organs of state that are charged by the constitution to protect the sovereignty and security of the state and its people. There can be no space for interference of any party in the security apparatus of the state.

Perhaps the real lesson to be drawn from this judgment, besides the value of a free press, is that the ANC is inward looking, worn down to a nub of the spear it used to be. For some ANC leaders who seek to accrue or retain power, the organs of state serve as staging grounds for internecine battles for supremacy over a koppie that becomes smaller and smaller with every brutal factional engagement.

Not even the institutions that are charged with protecting the sovereignty of the Republic are off limits.

The irony is that wearing down such critical institutions really does make us ripe for capture by foreign interests, intelligence and otherwise.

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78cd27 No.20697153

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>>20697140

>>20697146

>>20697149

“'U.S. has sources within SA parties'”

https://youtu.be/XXlCE7JrC7o

Apr 7, 2024

A leaked SSA report has revealed how the United States obtained intelligence on the ANC, DA, EFF and IFP.

The ISS' Willem Els says for the U.S. to gather that much information, it shows that it has several informers in those parties.

“Leaked SSA report reveals US gathered intelligence on DA, EFF, IFP” and the ANC

https://www.ewn.co.za/2024/04/06/us-network-contacts-from-sa-major-political-parties-provides-it-intelligence-leaked-ssa-report

6 April 2024 | 3:24

The 17-page intelligence report dealt mainly with the US’s intelligence-gathering operation on the ruling party, the ANC. However, in his ruling, SCA Judge Taki Makgoka revealed the US was also keeping tabs on opposition parties, according to the report.

JOHANNESBURG - A leaked State Security Agency (SSA) report says the United States (US) has a network of contacts from the country’s major political parties that provide it with intelligence.

This includes mainly the African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance (DA), Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).

Snippets of the report were published in Friday’s Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling, which lifted a gag order on Independent Media from reporting on it.

The State Department has argued publication of the report would threaten national security, however, the SCA does not agree.

The 17-page intelligence report dealt mainly with the US’s intelligence-gathering operation on the ruling party, the ANC.

However, in his ruling, SCA Judge Taki Makgoka revealed the US was also keeping tabs on opposition parties, according to the report.

He said a section of the report stated the US Consulate in Durban had managed to successfully gather intelligence on the IFP, EFF, and DA.

Makgoka said under the recommendation section of the report, it said the US government cultivated good access within the ruling party in order to influence policy direction in the country and or how it could be subverted.

Makgoka cleared the way for the Independent Media Group to publish details of the report, saying he was not convinced this would threaten national security.

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a07eb8 No.20697246

>>20677244

Comparable to U.S. I turned off heat over a month ago…bill is still going up though only was heating about 900sf versus 1200sf and 1900sf years ago. We are so screwed.

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78cd27 No.20701318

>>20697140

>The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling in favour of Independent Media, IOL, and journalist Thabo Makwakwa is a scathing indictment of the State Security Agency (SSA).

“ANC officials in cahoots with US Intelligence” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/anc-officials-in-cahoots-with-us-intelligence-4c3a0098-e55c-4d83-9c57-b063c8329df6

By Thabo Makwakwa | Published Apr 7, 2024

AFTER a long and bruising court battle that ended with Independent Media winning the case against the State Security Agency (SSA), which sought to prevent the publication of the contents of the SSA report, the publication can reveal part one of the report which details the US and some ANC leaders’ involvement in collecting intelligence on ANC party dynamics.

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) overturned a high court ruling preventing Independent Media from publishing a report 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.

In the report, the SSA stated that the “Top Secret” document was a brief to inform the minister and deputy minister overseeing the SSA of the extent of the US collection efforts and outputs of the ANC, targeting certain individuals in the ruling party.

The report revealed that the US National Security Strategy has mandated US intelligence formations to identify and assess capabilities, activities and intentions of state and non-state entities to develop a deep understanding of the strategic environment and to warn of future developments.

"The Political Office of the US Embassy in Tshwane continues to gather information related to the ruling party, which is then sent to the US State Department. This brief confirms that the US Embassy is part of the US intelligence community, and has a network of ANC party officials who, wittingly or unwittingly, share privileged information," read the intelligence report.

According to the SSA report, the US Mission in South Africa has, over the years, created a comprehensive network of contacts and sources, and these sources' efforts have been successful in spying and acquiring information for US intelligence.

The report did not dwell on how these spies were being rewarded for providing intelligence to the US.

The document also stated that there was very close co-operation taking place between the US diplomatic community and the US intelligence community in South Africa to guard and enhance US economic and political agendas in targeted countries like South Africa.

"Foreign intelligence actors continue to monitor policy conceptualisation that may be initiated in the ruling party, the ANC, as it pre-empts government policy formulation and implementation. The intelligence brief focuses on US interests as collected by the political office in the City of Tshwane," the report said.

It further revealed that the US Embassy had access to prominent high-profile leaders in ANC provincial structures, which enables the US to gain insight into sensitive party-political intelligence.

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78cd27 No.20701321

>>20701318

“ANC officials in cahoots with US Intelligence” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/anc-officials-in-cahoots-with-us-intelligence-4c3a0098-e55c-4d83-9c57-b063c8329df6

By Thabo Makwakwa | Published Apr 7, 2024

Briefing the government on the extent of the US's interference in the country, the SSA informed the state that it was aware that the US had cultivated tangible intelligence within the ruling party.

This was to either influence policy direction in South Africa or determine how it could be subverted.

In December 2022, Independent Media approached US Embassy spokesperson David Feldmann for comment and he said this was not a US government document, and he was therefore unable to comment on it.

Quizzed on whether the US was working with prominent leaders within the ANC to spy on the party, the embassy did not comment.

The ruling party's then-national spokesperson, Pule Mabe, denied knowledge of the report and said the party had not been briefed by anyone about the document.

The SSA neither denied nor confirmed that the report belonged to both the government and US intelligence, but opted to seek a court interdict barring Independent Media from publishing the report, which was strange given that the publishing of the report would not have harmed South Africa’s national security.

After many years of speculations about prominent people working for the US intelligence agencies, the report showed how the US was able to infiltrate the ANC and government using certain leaders.

As a result, the US was able to use the leaders to change the policy direction in favour of the US.

While the state has the authority to classify documents, Independent Media understands that it may only do so in furtherance of its duties to preserve the peace, secure the well-being of the people of South Africa, maintain national security and defend and protect the Republic of South Africa to establish and maintain intelligence services and to prevent combat and investigate crime.

thabo.makwakwa@inl.co.za

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4546fa No.20701757

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>>20242709

>>20242774

Music continues to be used to manipulate people.

“UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay message for International Jazz Day 2023”

https://youtu.be/a-Q5jnHn-HA

Apr 29, 2023

In celebration of International Jazz Day 2023, Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General, gives a message about the spirit of jazz music to bring people together conveying a universal message of peace and inclusion.

0:51 – “We celebrate the communities that have united around the sounds of jazz to fight for freedom and dignity.

“Peace through jazz music”

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/august-november-2019/peace-through-jazz-music

7 August 2019

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Each year, on 30 April, music lovers around the world celebrate International Jazz Day to “honour jazz and its enduring legacy, as well as its power to bring people together,” says Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), which works to promote global peace, justice and rule of law.

Jazz events held each year in different countries around the globe culminate in the International Jazz Day, a star-studded musical concert in a major city. This year it took place in Melbourne, Australia. Other cities have hosted the event since 2012, when the UN headquarters in New York City hosted the inaugural.

In 2020 it will be the turn of Cape Town, South Africa. While the selection could be a recognition of a vibrant and creative local jazz industry—the city has its own annual jazz festival—it is also a reminder of the role music played in South Africans’ struggle for equal rights, as well as the enduring legacy of jazz across Africa.

“In celebrating jazz, the world celebrates more than the music,” UNESCO’s Corine Dubois told Africa Renewal. “It also celebrates creativity, partnerships and collaborations as much as freedom of expression.”

According to Ms. Dubois, jazz “promotes the Sustainable Development Goals…and fosters dialogue among cultures.”

The procession evoked the image of a grinning [Louis] Armstrong being feted in Léopoldville, now Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1960. There he was triumphally carried into a stadium by local fans ahead of a concert.

Mr. Armstrong’s visit to the Congo was one of his many to Africa and was part of the US government’s Jazz Ambassadors programme, which was created in 1956 at the height of the Cold War to promote American values and culture abroad. Jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington were dispatched around the world as cultural ambassadors.

“The weapon that we will use is the cool one,” Mr. Gillespie reportedly said, referring to his famous trumpet.

South African jazz developed its own sounds, styles and expressions, distinguishing itself from its American counterpart. The common thread between the two is that the activism of South African jazz culture during the apartheid era mirrors that of American jazz culture in the fight for civil rights.

In exile, during the apartheid period and later back in South Africa, musicians such as Mariam Makeba, trumpeter Hugh Masekela (affectionally referred to as the father of South African jazz) and pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand or the king of South African jazz) used their performances to express a yearning for freedom and equal rights.

More in South Africa than elsewhere, music was central to the struggle for freedom. The 2002 documentary Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, chronicles the power of music in rallying people against the apartheid regime.

The influence of jazz in Africa is felt in areas other than politics; just as in the US, it has inspired novelists and other writers, especially in French-speaking African countries.

“No other musical form has so consistently appeared in the Francophone African [literary] tradition,” writes Pim Higginson, a professor of French and francophone studies at Bryn Mawr, an American women’s liberal arts college, in the introduction to his 2017 essay Scoring Race: Jazz, Fiction, and Francophone Africa.

“In celebrating jazz, the world celebrates more than the music,” UNESCO’s Corine Dubois sums it up, adding that jazz fosters creativity, partnerships and freedom of expression. “It promotes the Sustainable Development Goals…and fosters dialogue among cultures.”

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4546fa No.20701764

>>20701757

UNESCO: International Jazz Day

https://www.unesco.org/en/international-jazz-day

As the great Nina Simone said, "Jazz is not just music, it is a way of life, it is a way of being, a way of thinking". The story of Jazz is written into the quest for human dignity, democracy and civil rights. It has given strength to the struggle against discrimination and racism. UNESCO believes in the power of Jazz as a force for peace, dialogue and mutual understanding and this is why in November 2011, the UNESCO General Conference proclaimed 30 April as "International Jazz Day".

This Day is intended to raise awareness of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for empathy, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people. Many governments, civil society organizations, educational institutions, and private citizens currently engaged in the promotion of jazz music will embrace the opportunity to foster greater appreciation not only for the music but also for the contribution it can make to building more inclusive societies.

Global Concert April 30, 2024

International Jazz Day 2024 will be hosted for the first time in the African continent, by the city of Tangier, Morocco. The celebration will last four days (27-30 April) and culminate in an All-Star Global Concert at Tangier’s Palace of Arts and Culture. It will feature performances by an international roster of artists from all corners of the globe, including master Gnawa musician Abdellah El Gourd of Morocco, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and iconic pianist Herbie Hancock. The concert will be livestreamed on April 30 on YouTube and Facebook.

The All-Star Global Concert will welcome the following artists: Claudia Acuña (Chile), Ambrose Akinmusire (United States of America), Lakecia Benjamin (United States of America), Richard Bona (Cameroon), Dee Dee Bridgewater (United States of America), Moreira Chonguiça (Mozambique), Shemekia Copeland (United States of America), Kurt Elling (United States of America), Antonio Faraò (Italy), Melody Gardot (United States of America), Jazzmeia Horn (United States of America), JK Kim (Republic of Korea), Magnus Lindgren (Sweden), Romero Lubambo (Brazil), Marcus Miller (United States of America), Yasushi Nakamura (Japan), Tarek Yamani (Lebanon).

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4546fa No.20701775

>>20701757

>Mr. Armstrong’s visit to the Congo was one of his many to Africa and was part of the US government’s Jazz Ambassadors programme

>>20701764

>>20701318

>This brief confirms that the US Embassy is part of the US intelligence community

“Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/12/louis-armstrong-and-the-spy-how-the-cia-used-him-as-a-trojan-horse-in-congo

Sun 12 Sep 2021 10.45 CEST

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It was a memorable evening: Louis Armstrong, his wife and a diplomat from the US embassy were out for dinner in a restaurant in what was still Léopoldville, capital of the newly independent Congo.

The trumpeter, singer and band leader, nicknamed Satchmo as a child, was in the middle of a tour of Africa that would stretch over months, organised and sponsored by the State Department in a bid to improve the image of the US in dozens of countries which had just won freedom from colonial regimes.

What Armstrong did not know was that his host that night in November 1960 was not the political attaché as described, but the head of the CIA in Congo. He was also totally unaware of how his fame had allowed the spy who was making small talk across the starters to gain crucial information that would facilitate some of the most controversial operations of the entire cold war.

“Armstrong was basically a Trojan horse for the CIA. It’s genuinely heartbreaking. He was brought in to serve an interest that was completely contrary to his own sense of what was right or wrong. He would have been horrified,” said Susan Williams, a research fellow at London University’s School of Advanced Study and author of White Malice, a new book which exposes the astonishing extent of the CIA’s activities across central and west Africa in the 1950s and early 60s.

Documents found by Williams in the archives of the UN during five years of research strongly suggest that the Armstrongs’ host, CIA station chief Larry Devlin, and other US intelligence officers posted to Congo used the cover of the musicians’s visit to get access to the strategically important and very wealthy province of Katanga, which had recently seceded. The US, though sympathetic to the agenda of the province’s leader, had not officially recognised the self-declared government there.

There was much of interest to the CIA in Katanga, ranging from senior officials with whom they could not otherwise meet to crucial mining infrastructure, with 1,500 tons of uranium and vast potential to procure more. Armstrong’s tour to Katanga was the perfect opportunity, so Devlin and others flew down from the capital with the musician and his famous band. “They needed a cover and this gave them one,” said Williams.

There was something else that Armstrong, who had pulled out of a similar tour to the Soviet Union three years earlier in protest at racism in the US, did not know. The CIA in the Congo, led by Devlin, was trying to kill the Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, 35-year-old Patrice Lumumba, fearful that he would lead the country into the Soviet camp. Historians now believe the nationalist leader wanted his country to remain neutral in the cold war.

Within two months of Armstrong’s tour, Lumumba was murdered in Katanga by officials of the breakaway province and police officers from Belgium. Mobutu would later consolidate his hold on Congo, and become a loyal US client.

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4546fa No.20701789

>>20682073

>>20696996

>>20697050

>>20701757

>>20701764

>>20701775

“How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin”

https://www.thecollector.com/jazz-cold-war-berlin-secret-weapon/

Apr 8, 2024

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For 40 years, Berlin remained an ideological battleground between the Stasi and CIA. The West used jazz diplomacy and broadcasts, activists smuggled records, and Stasi informers infiltrated music scenes.

During the Cold War, East Germany’s secret police deployed 90,000 spies and 100,000 informers to keep tabs on 6 million people. Beyond the Berlin Wall, the CIA employed jazz ambassadors to penetrate the Iron Curtain with their secret countercultural weapon. Voice of America broadcasts captured the airways to beam jazzy democracy into the Soviet zone. Musicians and activists also risked their lives to smuggle contraband records across the border. Meanwhile, Stasi spies infiltrated clubs to track down subversive influences and harvest information on real or imagined enemies of the state.

After a heated debate, the men decided that jazz, embedded in African American music traditions and popular among urban nightclubs, did not reflect German cultural values. During the Cold War, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) authorities showed confusion about whether jazz reflected a “people’s art” or a tool for Western infiltration. Under the previous Nazi regime, jazz became a voice of dissent and social decay.

Officially, the GDR banned jazz. This censorship failed to stop jazz from flourishing nationwide. Despite the risk, fans smuggled black-market jazz records across the border. Over the next decade, jazz played a vital role as a psychological weapon deployed by the CIA in the cultural Cold War. As the nuclear arms race escalated, Western intelligence agencies worked to undermine Soviet power on every level.

With the Civil Rights Movement in full swing and racial tensions increasing at home, the US State Department had a brilliant idea. They decided to send both black and white musicians as jazz ambassadors to play worldwide. Jazz diplomacy had a twofold purpose: to undermine the Soviet Union’s cultural superiority claims, and to show racial unity to combat Soviet propaganda about racial tensions in America.

Then, the CIA got involved. At the height of the Cold War, the CIA created the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). They sent “Goodwill Jazz Ambassadors” to export American jazz during the 1950s and 1960s.

The plan worked. When the State Department made black musicians the face of their Cold War foreign policy, they also gave entertainers to help shape politics back home.

While jazz could not physically dismantle the Berlin Wall, it inspired a spirit of individualism and resistance that drove political change. Together, jazz ambassadors, radio broadcasters, and German fans helped break the Iron Curtain open from the inside.

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4546fa No.20701818

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>>20242709

>>20242774

>>20682073

>>20696996

>>20697050

>>20701757

>>20701764

>>20701775

>>20701789

“Tricked Into Gangsta Rap”

https://youtu.be/05mat4sukb8

Mar 18, 2019

9:40 – “They got us suckered into the whole black vs white thing as they knew that would happen.

10:55 – “Instead of continuously exposing our youth to negative media that distorts their images of male-female relationships that undermines the stability of our families, communities and nation by encouraging violence, abuse and sexism as acceptable behaviours and perpetuates the cycle of low self-esteem of African-American youth.

17:18 – “Hip Hop is a weapon that has been deployed against us years ago. It has destroyed the black community and it has made us think that we are something that we are not… It’s not our culture.”

22:23 – “They’ll have to start fighting those who are knowledgeable now will have to start the whole civil rights movement again. Those who fail to learn the lessons of history or what, doomed to repeat them.

“Former CIA Agent Admits Agency Created Gangster Rap to ‘Fill Private Prisons’ By ‘Glamorizing Criminality’”

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/former-cia-agent-admits-agency-created-gangster-rap-to-fill-private-prisons-by-glamorizing-criminality/

June 12, 2022

John Homeston, a retired CIA agent, admitted this week on National Russian Television (NTV) that the CIA was behind the creation of gangster rap in the late 80s and 90s in order to “glamorize criminal behavior” and “fill private prisons.”

The government at the time spent “big money, serious money” on this covert operation designed to “further division” and “corrupt the American youth to nihilist, anti-establishment and anti-American ideologies”, he explained in a half hour interview.

Famous hip hop lyrics of the legendary hip hop outfit NWA were even scripted by a team of psychologists and war propagandists inside the CIA, according to the former agent. “F#ck the police,” and “When I’m called off, I got a sawed off / Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off,” and other anti-establishment lyrics were intended to unleash a wave of cynicism towards authorities, promote the use of narcotics, and glamorize the gangster life in the minds of impressionable young people.

The CIA worked in tandem with music industry elite to create a “funnel” in which young people would be indoctrinated with brainwashing gangster rap music, introduced to a life of crime, and then delivered to the highly profitable private prison system. In order to create this “funnel”, the CIA introduced music industry owners to the private prison industry.

Once the “funnel” was in place, the system was a lock.

Some of the biggest names in the music industry are in cahoots with private prison owners. The gangster rap music that young people listen to is not only meant to entertain, but is designed to verbally and visually support criminal behavior that funnel young people into these private prisons.

In 2021, Core Civic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, the biggest name in the private prisons industry, contacted 48 states offering to buy their prisons. There was one requirement of eligibility for the deal was particularly strange.

“An assurance by the agency partner that the agency has sufficient inmate population to maintain a 90% occupancy rate over the term of the contract.”

Corrections Corporation of America

Wait, what? What kind of legal and ethical measures can be undertaken to ensure the maintenance of a 90% occupancy rate” over the term of a contract?

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45b4db No.20706038

“Electoral court clears Zuma to run for parliament”

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-04-09-breaking-news-electoral-court-dismisses-iecs-decision-to-bar-jacob-zuma-from-parliament/

09 APRIL 2024 - 16:35

UPDATED 09 APRIL 2024 - 23:00

Big win for MK after IEC’s decision to bar former president overturned

The electoral court has set aside the decision by the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) to bar Jacob Zuma from running for parliament, in a decisive turn of events that paves the way for the former president to contest a seat in the National Assembly in the upcoming elections.

The order, handed down on Tuesday, came after the IEC endorsed objections to Zuma’s candidacy, citing his criminal record stemming from a 15-month jail term handed down by the Constitutional Court in 2021 for failure to comply with its order to appear before state capture hearings into high-level corruption during his presidency…

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45b4db No.20706042

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

“UK warns its citizens in SA about terror attack”

https://youtu.be/cuu0PRq61X4

Apr 9, 2024

Institute for Security Studies' Willem Els provides insights into the UK's terrorist attack alert issued for British nationals living in South Africa.

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4546fa No.20711136

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>>20236804

>>20242709

>>20242774

>Trevor Huddleston

>>20682129

>Nelson Mandela’s February 11 1990 Speech: “Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts.”

>>20682085

>Not many people will know that on 26 June 1959 Julius Nyerere, the future president of Tanzania, was among the speakers at a meeting in London,,. Out of this campaign, the British Anti-Apartheid Movement was born a year later.

>>20682094

“ARCHBISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON:SPEECH [LIVE 1990]” (Second concert)

https://youtu.be/EFYTT3RxSK8

The Late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston's speech,given at the 1990 Nelson Mandela:An International tribute to free South Africa concert. At Wembley stadium,London. 16.4.1990

2:51 – “The Nelson Mandela International Reception Committee initiated this historic event above all to provide a unique opportunity for Nelson Mandela himself to convey his message and that of the African National Congress to the world. Let all of us here in Wembley and all of you watching and listening across the world express our appreciation by committing ourselves anew to intensify our efforts until the evil of Apartheid is completely destroyed.

4:02 – “Trevor Huddleston has been a militant opponent of Apartheid.”

Father Trevor Huddleston

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/father-trevor-huddleston

In 1943 Huddleston was sent to the CR mission station in Rosettenville in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Priest-in-Charge of the CR’s Anglican Mission in Sophiatown and Orlando, Huddleston ministered in the townships between 1943 and 1956. In 1949 Huddleston was elected Provincial of the Community of the Resurrection in South Africa and was made Superintendent of St Peter’s School.

With the passing into legislation of the Group Areas Act in 1950, Huddleston, along with Nelson Mandela, Helen Joseph and Ruth First became involved in protests against forced removals in Sophiatown. This, along with his decision to close down St Peter’s rather than handing it over for government control under the Bantu Education Act, brought him in regular conflict with the authorities. As a result, in the 13 year period of working in South Africa, Huddleston gained a reputation as a respected priest and an anti-apartheid activist. This earned him the nickname ‘Makhalipile’ or dauntless one. During this time he developed close friendships with Mandela and Oliver Tambo.

In 1954 Huddleston gave Hugh Masekela his first trumpet, passing it on from Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong. He then asked the leader of Johannesburg Native Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masakela the basics of the instrument.

On 26 June 1959, Huddleston and Julius Nyerere addressed the founding meeting of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) which was held in London. In 1961, Huddleston became the Vice-President of the AAM, a position he held until 1981.

In 1987 he organised the Harare International Conference on ‘Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid’, which brought together leaders of the South African Liberation Movement. In 1988 Huddleston initiated the ‘Nelson Mandela Freedom at 70’ campaign which included the birthday concert at Wembley Stadium and the ‘Nelson Mandela Freedom March’ from Glasgow to London. On 18 July 1988, on the eve of Mandela’s 70th birthday, Huddleston and Archbishop Desmond Tutu addressed a rally of 200 000 at Hyde Park.

https://africaunauthorised.com/pervert-or-protector-of-the-poor/

But in the hubris of Huddleston’s birth-centenary, a dirty secret trickled out. In probing the Jimmy Saville affair, ‘Private Eye’ Magazine also requested information regarding allegations against Huddleston. They unearthed a report meant to be frozen until 2069 revealing Huddleston as a child molester.

It seems that when it came to those figures in British public life who were building careers and reputations on the back of bashing the beastly whites in Africa who were being horrible to the ‘natives’ none of the usual rules applied. No matter how evil their actions and no matter how defenceless these ‘Struggle Icons’ were able to misbehave with impunity. We will never know the exact number, but there is little doubt hundreds of British kids and God alone knows how many black kids, were sacrificed on the altar of anti-white zealotry. And no-one was brought to justice.

Maybe those who attended Huddleston’s commemoration found time to spare a prayer for those children defiled in his groping clutches…………..

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4546fa No.20711181

File: 12c303b24160ce6⋯.jpg (69.7 KB,793x556,793:556,Netherlands.JPG)

File: a835426eb937037⋯.jpg (56.17 KB,810x459,30:17,Louis_Armstrong_Hugh_Masek….JPG)

>>20711136

>In 1954 Huddleston gave Hugh Masekela his first trumpet, passing it on from Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.

>>20701775

>“Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo”

>>20701789

>“How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin”

>>20701757

>South African jazz developed its own sounds, styles and expressions, distinguishing itself from its American counterpart. The common thread between the two is that the activism of South African jazz culture during the apartheid era mirrors that of American jazz culture in the fight for civil rights.

>>20697034

>A reference source for those interested in the history of national liberation in southern Africa and the role of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).

>The institute has extensive archival materials on anti-apartheid and southern Africa solidarity groups in the Netherlands.

“Freedom Songs: the role of music in the anti-apartheid struggle”

https://antiapartheidlegacy.org.uk/heritage-arts-culture/history/articles/part-a-freedom-songs-the-role-of-music-in-the-anti-apartheid-struggle/

Image: Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands is singing Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, including ANC activist Barbara Masekela – Amsterdam 1982, Eduard de Kam. Siegfried, Detlef: Aporien des Kulturboykotts. Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung, ANC und der Konflikt um Paul Simons Album “Graceland” (1985-1988).

PICTURED, right: The young Hugh Masekela (furthest right) receives the trumpet from Satchmo [Louis Armstrong], a gift organised by Father Trevor Huddleson, an avid supporter of African jazz and founder of the Huddleson Jazz Band in 1954. Image: Jurgen Schadeberg – Six Decades of Jazz (Courtesy of Claudia Schadeberg www.jurgenschadeberg.com)

Many freedom songs have their stylistic origins in makwaya (choir), a popular style of choral music that combines southern African singing traditions with the form of Christian hymns imported from Europe. Hymns and work songs were often reworked and given new meanings for the anti-apartheid struggle.

This musical form often used short slogans, either in indigenous languages such as isiZulu and isiXhosa or English, repeated over and over in a ‘call and response’ style, over simple melodies. While some of these songs have identifiable composers, most were created and sung collectively, changing over time.

One of the most iconic songs from the anti-apartheid struggle was Nkosi Sikelel’i Afrika (God bless Africa). This was a hymn written by Enoch Sontonga in 1897 that became an anthem of the anti-apartheid movement. Since 1994, elements of this song have been incorporated into the post-apartheid South African national anthem. But during the apartheid era, this hymn was often sung at the start and end of anti-apartheid political meetings and rallies – not just in South Africa, but throughout the international anti-apartheid movement.

There are several important songs that mimic the sounds and rhythms of speeding (steam) trains, such as Hugh Masekela’s Stimela and song Shosholoza.

Trains symbolised the working lives of Black people in apartheid South Africa and the ways work disrupted family life, often separating parents from their children.

Trains took rural South Africans away to the cities to find work. Trains set the rhythm of the working day, as they transported people from the black townships, across the city to work. Trains also represented the journeys of migrant workers across the Southern African region, as men from Malawi, Namibia and Mozambique set off for periods of work in the mines and factories of South Africa.

Shosholoza started out as a song sung by migrant miners as they worked, the rhythm of the song helping sustain the exhausting and dangerous work of mining by hand.

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4546fa No.20711213

File: 7d1863093381a91⋯.jpg (157.52 KB,1256x630,628:315,Tutu_Huddleston.JPG)

>>20666348

>>20666367

>>20666377

>>20666395

>“The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu”

>>20666419

>“Desmond Tutu quits as Oxfam ambassador over aid agency's sex scandal”

>The 86-year-old Nobel Peace laureate pulled out of public life in 2010 due to his advancing years but had continued to represent Oxfam even in retirement.

>>20711136

>As the Priest-in-Charge of the CR’s Anglican Mission in Sophiatown and Orlando, Huddleston ministered in the townships between 1943 and 1956.

Trevor Huddleston inspired Desmond Tutu

https://mrdesmondmpilotutu.weebly.com/activist.html

At the age of twelve, in Johannesburg it was there where he met Trevor Huddleston, who was a parish priest in the black slum of Sophia town. “One day I was standing in the street with my mother when a white man in a priest’s clothing walked past. As he passed us he took off his hat to my mother. I couldn’t believe my eyes – a white man who greeted a black working class woman!” When he was fourteen Desmond caught the tuberculosis and was in hospital for two years. Every day father Huddleston came to visit him, which inspired his devotion to Christianity. Later, when asked why he didn’t hate whites, he replied that it was because he was fortunate in the whites he had met when he was young. Tutu knew that from that point he would have to do something about the injustice and little respect that black people had and for the equality of all people in South Africa

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4546fa No.20711275

File: fb5694326e412f4⋯.jpg (110.57 KB,1372x918,686:459,Tambo_Huddleston.JPG)

>>20711136

>In 1949 Huddleston was elected Provincial of the Community of the Resurrection in South Africa and was made Superintendent of St Peter’s School.

>>20711136

>On 26 June 1959, Huddleston and Julius Nyerere addressed the founding meeting of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) which was held in London. In 1961, Huddleston became the Vice-President of the AAM, a position he held until 1981.

Trevor Huddleston influenced Oliver Tambo

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803102015333

South African political leader and anti-apartheid activist who spent thirty years in exile before returning to his native country.

The son of a peasant farmer, Oliver Tambo was born at Bizana in the Transkei and educated at the Ludeke Methodist Mission School (1924–29), the Anglican Holy Cross Mission School (1929–33), and St Peter's Secondary School, Johannesburg (1933–38). The Anglican priest Father Trevor Huddleston (1913–98), a lifelong campaigner against apartheid, was a strong influence. After attending university at Fort Hare, Tambo took a correspondence course in law and became a teacher at St Peter's School. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 and became vice-president of its youth league the following year. From 1951 onwards Tambo practised as a lawyer in Johannesburg, rising within the ranks of the ANC to become its secretary-general in 1955.

Shortly afterwards, as he contemplated entering the priesthood, Tambo was arrested and detained (1956–57) on charges of treason, which were later dropped. In 1960, still officially banned from attending political meetings, Tambo escaped to London. As acting president of the ANC from 1967 and president from 1977, Tambo was for thirty years the effective head and international spokesman of a South African anti-apartheid government in exile, while its inspiring leader, Nelson Mandela, remained in gaol. Returning at last to South Africa in 1990, Tambo stepped down from the presidency of the ANC the following year on grounds of failing health, to be replaced by the newly released Mandela.

Picture: “Father Trevor Huddleston (1913 - 1998) bids farewell to his friend, South African politician Oliver Tambo (1917 - 1993) as he leaves Liverpool Street Station in London, bound for Africa, where he will take up his new post as Bishop of Masasi in Tanganyika (Tanzania), 8th September 1960. (Photo by Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)” https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/father-trevor-huddleston-bids-farewell-to-his-friend-nachrichtenfoto/825516126

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4546fa No.20711344

File: 450e216a4f48dcf⋯.jpg (123.29 KB,1093x746,1093:746,huddleston_Mandela_Tambo.JPG)

>>20711136

>>20711181

>>20711213

>>20711275

Trevor Huddleston: “to be a Christian is to be a socialist”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/life-trevor-huddleston-makhalipile-dauntless-one-victoria-vandiver-3-may-2018

The works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and Charles Gore, socialists and theologians respectively, became key ideas in the foundation of his beliefs. Huddleston stated, “I was like a babe in the woods, required to make sense of complex economic and political theory on the one hand and erudite Christian doctrine on the other…” (Villa-Vicencio, 1996). After wrestling with these ideas Huddleston came to realize, “I am convinced that to be a Christian is to be a socialist, and I like to tell my socialist friends it will do their souls good to read the New Testament story of Jesus” (Villa-Vicencio, 1996).

In 1939 Huddleston joined the Community of Resurrection, an Anglican religious order. Here, he discovered spirituality, which “is the engine that drives my life” (Villa-Vicencio, 1996). In 1943, he was sent to the Community of Resurrection mission station in Rosettenville, Johannesburg and was put in charge of the township of Sophiatown. The Community of the Resurrection had maintained a presence in Sophiatown for forty years. The work they contributed to the community included valuable work in the education of urban blacks.

Huddleston was successful in bonding with the people of Sophiatown due to his warmth and ability to connect in such a way as to relate naturally with Africans. Desmond Tutu witnessed Huddleston’s connection with the townspeople, “He was so un-English in many ways, being very fond of hugging people, embracing them, and in the way in which he laughed. He did not laugh like many white people, only with their teeth, he laughed with his whole body, his whole being, and that endeared him very much to black people … His office in Sophiatown would have very many street urchins playing marbles on the floor and the next moment when he had shooed them out he would be meeting ambassadors and high-placed officials and leading businessmen” (Allen, 2007, 17-18).

An example of the effect he had on the lives of the inhabitants of Sophiatown is the story of Hugh Masekela, a famous South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer, who has been described as “the father of South African jazz”. Masekela had come to the attention of Huddleston as a troubled youth… In response, Huddleston gave Masekela a trumpet and a teacher and ended up forming a band called the Huddleston Jazz Band. Masekela then explains that, “He met Louis Armstrong and told him about us and Louis Armstrong sent us a trumpet. We became news. The older musicians discovered us. Five of us are still professional musicians today” (Apartheid and all that jazz, Financial times, 2010).

Desmond Tutu stated, “Trevor Huddleston made sure that apartheid got onto the world agenda and stayed there. If you could say that anybody single-handedly made apartheid a world issue, then that person was Trevor Huddleston” (Reid, edited 2018).

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4546fa No.20711676

File: 48b85dedc6ce99e⋯.jpg (68.01 KB,850x400,17:8,quote_if_the_anc_does_to_y….jpg)

File: 870a016a7660f1b⋯.jpg (58.91 KB,639x632,639:632,7d764551e0116073577e3859ca….jpg)

>>20682159

>It never ended…

>“Democracy and violence: the threat to South Africa’s elections”

>>20701818

>“They’ll have to start fighting those who are knowledgeable now will have to start the whole civil rights movement again. Those who fail to learn the lessons of history or what, doomed to repeat them.”

>>20696996

>>20696998

>>20697001

>>20697005

>>20697014

>>20697025

>>20697034

> UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States”

>>20494559

>>20494573

>>20494579

>>20494594

>>20494605

>>20494642

>Chris Hani

"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history or what, doomed to repeat them"

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/tambo-quote-debunked-mandela-quote-unverifiable-hani-fearing

Mandela quote: “If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.”

The graphic is specific about the quote attributed to Chris Hani, dating it 29 October 1992. This was less than six months before the leader of the South African Communist Party was assassinated.

Chris Hani quote: “What I fear is that the liberators emerge as elitists who drive around in Mercedes Benz's and use the resources of this country to live in palaces and to gather riches.”

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4546fa No.20711880

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>>20711676

“The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the Battle against Corruption”

https://youtu.be/1ccDBs-uDys

Sep 29, 2022

21:21 – “Also if you look at one of the things I discuss in the book, the incidence of political murders that involve ANC councilors or ANC politicians… It’s basically that issue; if it’s my turn to eat, it’s my turn to eat. Anyone who blocks another comrade attempt to get his or her hand in the trough then… you’re more likely to be removed, to be taken out… that explains that the elective conferences have become very much a life and death matter for comrades fighting for leadership positions.

23:51 – [Quote from the book] “Tenders as well as easy access to municipal positions are the oil that greases the killing machines.

54:33 – “You can look at all of the whistleblowers that were involved in the Gupta exposure, in the state capture exposure. One of them… how ironic, is in exile in the UK where many ANC leaders were exiled by the Apartheid regime.

“‘The Enemy Within’: How ANC corruption ‘began under Mandela’”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-09-29-the-enemy-within-how-anc-corruption-began-under-mandela/

29 Sep 2022

Excerpts

“The incentive to be corrupt is so high, and nobody wants to kill that incentive,” said author and News24 columnist Mpumelelo Mkhabela at the virtual launch of his latest book, The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the battle against corruption.

ANC corruption didn’t begin under Jacob Zuma — it didn’t even start under Thabo Mbeki. It started under Nelson Mandela, writes Mkhabela.

“The ANC’s promise was; once it had destroyed the system of colonialism and apartheid, it would set up a new morality where corruption would be frowned upon,” said Mkhabela, in conversation with Davis during a Daily Maverick webinar on Wednesday.

However, “It wasn’t long after Mandela came into power that the ANC’s conviction against corruption was tested — and it failed,” he said.

Bantu Holomisa and Stella Sigcau

The party was confronted with allegations of corruption when former ANC member Bantu Holomisa accused Cabinet minister Stella Sigcau, in Mandela’s government, of being “on the take” — and of accepting a bribe from Sun International founder Sol Kerzner.

“The ANC didn’t take kindly to that, so what the party did was — Mandela, Mbeki and other high-profile leaders — made a decision that Holomisa was out of order, he was bringing the ANC into disrepute, and he shouldn’t be raising issues of corruption — and they decided to discipline him,” said Mkhabela.

The ANC expelled Holomisa in 1996 after he testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the alleged corruption, while the person against whom the allegations were made (Sigcau) remained in the Cabinet under Mandela’s administration, and under former President Thabo Mbeki’s administration.

This, Mkhabela believes, is the ANC’s first failed test against corruption.

“If this example was taken in isolation, perhaps it wouldn’t mean much. But it means a lot now in hindsight, because you can see the build-up of corruption from that moment where that decision to expel Holomisa was taken and the decision to protect Sigcau was taken,” he said.

“From then on, the ANC has always been on the side of the people who have been accused of corruption at the expense of the victims of corruption.”

This understanding, Mkhabela says, informed the book’s “devastating conclusion” that, “There is not a single member of the ANC who was ever expelled for stealing public money.”

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3f5110 No.20713802

Maersk Contests Transnet’s Pick for South African Port Partner

By Paul Burkhardt (Bloomberg) — April 8, 2024

A.P. Moller – Maersk A/S is contesting a process held by South Africa’s state logistics firm Transnet SOC Ltd. to find a partner to develop sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest container port.

International Container Terminal Services Inc. won the award to buy almost half of the main container terminal in the southeastern port city of Durban and operate it for 25 years. Maersk unit APM Terminals, which was among the companies that applied for and lost the bid, is challenging that decision through an interdict application in the Durban High Court.

“We wish to ensure that a proper, fair and compliant process has been followed,” Maersk said in a reply to questions Monday.

The court bid comes as South Africa seeks to improve the lagging performance of state-owned enterprises by boosting private participation. Transnet specifically seeks the turnaround of ports that are ranked among some of the worst in the world and increasing deliveries of its rail operations that drag on the nation’s mining sector.

The deal with ICTSI is the first major attempt to bring the private sector into the operation of the country’s ports.

“It is to be expected that a bidder would find reason to contest an outcome that is not in their favor,” Transnet said, adding that it followed due process to find a partner for its Durban Container Terminal Pier 2.

Transnet’s board on March 1 said it had concluded financial due diligence involved and approved the finalization of the contract with ICTSI, which is owned by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon.

ICTSI is opposing the challenge by Maersk, it said in an emailed response, declining to comment further on legal matters.

https://gcaptain.com/maersk-contests-transnets-pick-for-south-african-port-partner/

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45b4db No.20716126

>>20713802

The unions have demands but they are of course an arm of the ANC so they will most likely fall in line.

“South Africa’s Labor Unions Imperil Billionaire’s Port Takeover”; “Many labor unions, including Satawu, are closely aligned to the ruling African National Congress”

https://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-labor-unions-imperil-060000923.html

January 11, 2024

(Bloomberg) – South Africa’s powerful labor unions could scupper the nation’s plans to sell a stake in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest container port and have it operated by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon’s International Container Terminal Services Inc [ICTSI].

The United National Transport Union and South African Transport and Allied Workers Union [Satawu] are demanding that ICTSI agree to no job cuts for the duration of the 25-year contract, their general secretaries said. They submitted this and other demands to ICTSI and Transnet SOC Ltd., South Africa’s state port and freight-rail company, before December but say they have yet to get a response. Transnet says it has engaged with them.

Transnet on Wednesday awarded Koninklijke Vopak NV the right to build and operate at liquefied natural gas terminal at its east coast port of Richards Bay.

“The ultimate outcome of this process must enhance the productivity and efficiency of the port terminals,” said Ellis Mnyandu, spokesman for the Department of Public Enterprises, who said while the minister has met the leaders of both unions, the department doesn’t get involved in procurement processes. “There must be no job losses and the conditions of services must remain the same,” he added.

Many labor unions, including Satawu, are closely aligned to the ruling African National Congress, of which Gordhan is a member.

Under the agreement, ICTSI will pay an undisclosed amount for just under half of Durban Container Terminal Pier 2 and will run and expand the facility, which accounts for three-quarters of the volumes that passes through the port in the southeast of the country and 46% of the nation’s total port traffic.

Assets at the terminal are currently worth 2.5 billion rand ($134 million) and at the end of the contract, Transnet will buy the shares back from the partner, the South African company said. Before the deal can be concluded, agreements with labor must be finalized and a due diligence carried out in ICTSI, Transnet said.

“While the value of the planned transaction cannot be disclosed, the value to South Africa is clearly evident,” Transnet said. The terminal “has lost regional and global competitiveness due to outdated infrastructure and operational challenges,” it said, saying the purchase price will be invested in equipment.

In a 2022 World Bank index of container-port performance, Durban ranked 341st out of 348 and two other Transnet ports were in the bottom 11.

ICTSI, which operates terminals across six continents, was one of six bidders for the contract, Transnet said in July.

“ICTSI tipped to assume control at DCT 2 in Q2”

https://www.freightnews.co.za/article/ictsi-tipped-assume-control-dct-2-q2

02 Apr 2024

Despite submitting these demands to both ICTSI and Transnet, the unions are yet to receive a response, leading to uncertainties and tensions surrounding the takeover.

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45b4db No.20716134

File: 39df0574294cc16⋯.webp (221.84 KB,2464x1400,44:25,0x0_1_.webp)

File: 0576ae59fa71738⋯.webp (117.88 KB,1080x874,540:437,0x0.webp)

>>20713802

>ICTSI, which is owned by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon

“Enrique Razon Pushes Ahead Philippine Water And Other Infrastructure Projects” – 1 of 2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roellandingin/2022/10/13/enrique-razon-pushes-ahead-philippine-water-and-other-infrastructure-projects/

Oct 13, 2022,09:01pm EDT

Excerpts below

Philippine ports and casino billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. has a lot in the pipeline—literally and figuratively. By late October, a key component of a dam project that Razon’s privately held Prime Infrastructure Capital is building 30km east of Manila will be ready to start supplying 80 million liters a day to the capital, which suffers occasional water shortages. By 2025, the 26.7-billion-peso ($456 million) Wawa project—which includes an 84m-high dam—will provide 518 million liters daily, equivalent to 30% of the current supply for the eastern half of Metro Manila.

In 2017, Razon partnered with one of Australia’s biggest engineering firms, the BMD Group, in a Philippine company to build civil works for his projects and third parties. The following year, he secured a franchise from the legislature to distribute electricity in Iloilo city in the central Philippines. In 2020 and 2021, he began investing in solar power, paying 3.5 billion pesos for a 50% stake in project companies of Solar Philippines Power Project Holdings Inc. (SPPPHI) building up to 300 megawatts (MW) of solar capacity in Luzon. In June, his renewables energy unit announced joint venture plans with SPPPHI, led by Leandro Leviste, for what could eventually be the world’s biggest solar farm, with gross capacity of between 2,500MW and 3,500MW, with a projected cost of around $3 billion.

At present, Razon has two listed entities. There’s ports operator International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI), which has 34 terminals and projects in 20 countries, and Bloomberry Resorts, which runs Solaire Resort & Casino in Manila. The two underpin Razon’s estimated $5.4 billion fortune (as of early October).

Unlike other major dams, the Wawa project isn’t costing the government anything because it’s a business-to-business deal.

The project was first proposed in the early 1990s, but long stayed on a backburner, in part because the government doubted its feasibility. The situation changed after Razon in 2018 acquired a controlling stake in the joint venture looking to build the project. A year later, he firmed up a long-term agreement—and secured government approval—to sell water to Manila Water, one of two utilities that took over the privatized water system in the capital region. Razon says that Manila Water agreed to the offtake agreement “because they saw this was probably the easiest path to water supply.” In mid-2019, Razon recalls, “everybody was freaking out about a water shortage.”

Prime Infrastructure bought 25% of Manila Water in February 2020, not long after the utility’s shares plunged nearly 50% in a day following then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s angry threat to terminate the water concession ahead of its 2037 expiration. By mid-2021, Razon had invested 15.5 billion pesos in Manila Water, where he now has control and the chairmanship, holding 36% of shares and 52% of voting interests.

In the Philippines, infrastructure projects often have been stalled for years by complex regulatory approvals or court disputes. This hasn’t discouraged Razon. “We’re structured and organized to deal with government bureaucracy. That’s in our DNA,” he says in a video call from his office at Solaire Resort & Casino in Manila. “We’re very persistent, very aggressive. We don’t make crazy proposals. We study things very carefully.”

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45b4db No.20716136

>>20716134

“Enrique Razon Pushes Ahead Philippine Water And Other Infrastructure Projects” – 2 of 2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roellandingin/2022/10/13/enrique-razon-pushes-ahead-philippine-water-and-other-infrastructure-projects/

Oct 13, 2022,09:01pm EDT

Excerpts below

Jonathan Ravelas, a consultant and former chief market strategist at BDO Unibank, says the IPO would be an opportunity for investors to bet on future infrastructure projects that the country needed yesterday. And he likes Razon’s record of managing ports in tough places. “He knows the ins and outs of dealing with political and regulatory risks in the country and abroad,” Ravelas says. “It’s his brand.”

Unlike some others, Razon kept investing during the pandemic. On top of the Manila Water moves, he firmed up an agreement to buy, for an undisclosed amount, a majority stake in two companies belonging to the Udenna Group, which owns the concession for the large Malampaya offshore natural gas field. Udenna had acquired the two for a combined $1 billion. The field provides fuel to five power plants that produce 20% of Luzon’s electricity. (The government recently approved a key component of the deal that will pave the way for a Prime Infrastructure unit to assume full ownership and control of the Malampaya project operator by Nov. 1.)

In 1978, during martial law, his father lost his port management business to then-President Ferdinand Marcos’ brother-in-law, but reacquired control after Marcos fled in 1986. Razon’s father incorporated ICTSI and in 1988 successfully bid for a long-term government concession to run Manila’s only container port. Razon succeeded his father as chairman in 1995 and oversaw ICTSI’s global expansion. He diversified into gaming—winning one of four government licenses awarded in 2008 for integrated casino resorts in Manila. He completed the Solaire in 2013.

“That’s a different time altogether,” Razon says of his father’s travails under the elder Marcos’ one-man rule. “Things have evolved. Of course, you learn lessons along the way.” Since taking over ICTSI, Razon has sought to cultivate good relations with presidents by supporting their programs. “You always have to help the government because you’re helping yourself by improving the environment, the investment climate,” he explains, citing as an example the role played by big business leaders in buying and administering vaccines for free to help the government deal with the pandemic.

That seems to have worked out so well that some of Razon’s infrastructure wins are often attributed to his closeness to top leaders. “Well, that’s how it looks from the outside. But really, on the inside, it’s hard work dealing with the bureaucracy and whatever government is there,” he asserts.

He acquired 7.7% of California-based WasteFuel Global, founded to use technologies to make urban and farm waste into low-carbon fuels, and whose investors include Warren Buffett’s NetJets. Razon has set up a local unit in partnership with WasteFuel Global that aims to build a refinery to turn solid waste from landfills to fuel for planes and ships. “We’re looking at five to seven years for this but it’s got huge potential,” he says. “It’s gaining traction globally.”

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45b4db No.20716144

>>20716134

>>20716136

“Global Gaming’s lawsuit against Razon riddled with intrigue”

https://cdcgaming.com/commentary/global-gamings-lawsuit-against-razon-riddled-with-intrigue/

May 6, 2021 11:00 PM

Excerpts below

When Las Vegas-based Global Gaming Asset Management (GGAM) in late March took its pursuit of the Philippines’ second-richest man to the U.S District Court of the Southern District of New York, it was only a matter of time before its lawsuit began to reverberate through the casino industry.

Beyond the breaking news and the ugly allegations contained in the litigation, it is a reminder of the big profits and potential pitfalls inherent in the international gaming market.

Led by former Las Vegas Sands President and Chief Operating Officer William Weidner, GGAM is a casino development and management company and a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald. It once had Bloomberry Resorts and its wealthy chairman Enrique Razon under contract to manage the Solaire Resort and Casino in Entertainment City, Manila.

The arrangement appeared to be profitable for both parties. GGAM bought an equity stake in the casino resort project. When that contract was terminated in 2011, the fireworks began. GGAM sued Bloomberry and Razon for millions in unpaid fees and eventually was awarded nearly $300 million by an arbitration tribunal in Singapore.

Razon has appealed and countered that the Philippines is the proper legal venue. It now appears his lawyers will have to make that argument in New York.

Razon is accused in the current lawsuit of pushing out GGAM following Solaire’s successful 2013 opening and using “his personal relationships in the Philippine stock market to unlawfully prevent GGAM from selling its equity interest in the project – an obstructive effort that continues to this day.” He’s also accused of hiding assets through a network of shell companies. Some of those assets are in the United States.

There’s much at stake for Bloomberry and Razon, but in this game, the risks aren’t limited to one side.

Bloomberry attorneys aren’t shy about reminding the court in filings of GGAM management’s own history in Asia – especially Macau, where Weidner once held a senior position for Las Vegas Sands. The protracted litigations have produced an investigative analysis by Spectrum Gaming Group that paints an ugly reminder that the impressive Sands Macau success story came at a cost.

Written in 2017, the report by Spectrum’s Fredric Gushin and Daniel Reeves raises issues about GGAM and Weidner’s business practices in the time leading up to the termination of the Solaire contract. “These issues included repeating various wrongful conduct that led to serious fines being imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) for willful violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act during the time Weidner served as President and COO,” the report summarizes.

“…During his tenure as COO with LVS, Weidner was also the senior executive that oversaw LVS’s Macau operations, the time during which the DOJ and the SEC investigated certain conduct and practices that took place in Macau that resulted in cumulative fines of almost $16 million being assessed against LVS.”

In a 2016 Cease and Desist Order to Las Vegas Sands, the SEC outlined failures by the company to “develop and maintain a reasonable system of internal accounting controls over its operations in China and Macau” during Weidner’s tenure. The SEC investigation found more than $62 million was improperly transferred from the company to a Chinese consultant. In 2017, Las Vegas Sands agreed to pay millions in penalties to settle the charges that it had willfully violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The report accuses Weidner and GGAM President for Asia Eric Chiu, a former Las Vegas Sands President of Asian Development, of being directly involved in the “conduct and decision-making that have been enumerated in the SEC and DOJ settlements.” It also outlines a pattern of activity that “proposed to repeat much of the same conduct at Solaire” that had placed Las Vegas Sands in big trouble.

The report also offers a stinging reminder of the scandal surrounding the Las Vegas Sands’ favorite high-rolling gambler Zhenli Ye Gon, a Chinese-Mexican businessman linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel. Ye Gon gambled millions at the Venetian in Las Vegas and other casinos and was known as the largest all-cash customer. But the failure of Las Vegas Sands to follow established rules led to the company paying $47 million as part of a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to settle federal charges.

As both sides trade body blows in the Southern District of New York, the sound promises to reverberate widely.

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45b4db No.20716150

>>20716134

>>20716136

>>20716144

“Bangladesh Bank Heist Exposes Laundering Links In Philippine Casinos”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/muhammadcohen/2016/04/12/philippine-flaws-exposed-in-bangladesh-bank-heist-casino-connection/

Apr 12, 2016,02:54am EDT

Excerpts below

Solaire Resort and Casino, controlled by Philippine billionaire Enrique Razon Jr, was among the destinations for US$81 million stolen from Bank of Bangladesh and routed to a Manila bank.

Funds looted from Bank of Bangladesh reaching Manila casinos exposes gaps in the Philippines’ framework to combat money laundering. Subsequent release of the Panama Papers reveals worldwide schemes to move and hide funds, putting the issue front of mind globally. Still-unfolding Bangladesh robbery details are proving an embarrassment to the Philippines on multiple fronts, but they also underscore how simple, and potentially beneficial, it would be for the nation’s casinos to get in line with international anti-money laundering standards.

To recap the tale, in early February, US$81 million illegally transferred from Bank of Bangladesh’s account at the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York made its way into phony accounts at Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation. Remittance company PhilRem Service converted funds from US dollars to Philippine pesos, and portions of the money, much of it in cash, reached casinos via junket promoters. Casinos and some junkets have promised to return stolen funds still in hand, but some has gone to winning players and US$17 million is missing somewhere between PhilRem and junket promoter Wong Kan Sin. Also known as Kim Wong, he’s also founder of Eastern Hawaii Leisure, running a casino remote northern Luzon’s Cayagan Special Economic Zone, which licenses on-site and online gaming, the latter almost by definition presenting difficulties in terms of knowing customers and their sources of funds.

It’s no accident that the unidentified thieves sent their money to the Philippines. Over the past 30 years, there’s been a global movement led by the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations to better monitor cross-border movement of money. Anyone that’s tried to send funds overseas knows these efforts accelerated in the wake of 9/11, aiming to thwart terrorism funding. (Perhaps some banker can explain how a 2% surcharge on overseas ATM withdrawals or credit card transactions fights terrorism.) The Financial Action Task Force based in Paris sets standards and oversees these efforts worldwide with regional groups monitoring efforts geographically. However it’s up to individual governments to enact and enforce appropriate laws.

The Philippines instituted its first anti-money laundering law in 2001 and has amended it three times, most recently in 2010. The AML law left intact the country’s bank secrecy laws, which prohibit disclosure of account information without consent of the account holder; a Philippine official concedes that only Switzerland and Lebanon still have similar laws.

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45b4db No.20716175

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File: 36ae80925a9bb89⋯.pdf (10.62 MB,Casino_Underground_Banking….pdf)

>>20716134

>>20716136

>>20716150

>>20716144

>The report also offers a stinging reminder of the scandal surrounding the Las Vegas Sands’ favorite high-rolling gambler Zhenli Ye Gon, a Chinese-Mexican businessman linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel.

“Casinos, Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and Transnational Organized Crime in East and Southeast Asia: A Hidden and Accelerating Threat” – 1 of 2

https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2024/Casino_Underground_Banking_Report_2024.pdf

January 2024

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Another example occurred in the Philippines, where a number of licensed casinos and junket operators and representatives were found to have played an important role in laundering approximately US $81 million stolen in a cyberattack attributed to the Lazarus Group80 from the Bangladesh Central Bank in 2016. While the money initially passed through banks and remittance companies, the paper trail disappeared after the money was transferred to casino junket operators, agents and players including Bloomberry Hotel and Resort’s Solaire Casino, Eastern Hawaii Leisure Company, Suncity junket, and Goldmoon junket (see below breakdown chart).

According to filings by the Bangladesh Central Bank with the New York Southern District Court in January 2019 as well as records in the Philippines, Alvin Chau was the direct recipient of a large portion of the stolen funds that were laundered through the Suncity junket in the Solaire Hotel and Casino.81

More specifically, the documents confirm that the money launderers had exchanged Solaire Casino chips worth 903.7 million pesos or US $20 million for an equal amount of non-negotiable Suncity junket chips which were then systematically transmitted through the junket operator as VIP rollings over several weeks and ultimately ended up in casinos in jurisdictions outside of the Philippines. This was later confirmed by Solaire’s lawyer during the associated Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations (Blue Ribbon Committee) hearings.82

Beyond the Bangladesh bank case, a 2023 study conducted by the Philippines’ Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) into suspicious transactions associated with casino junkets found multiple instances of junket operators failing to report on covered transactions, in breach of junket agreements.83 The study also observed a dramatic rise in the volume of suspicious transaction reports (STRs) which increased from 64 to 1,021 between 2021 and 2022, together with growth in the value of STRs which rose from US $16 million to more than US $170 million during the same period.84 According to discussions with regulatory authorities in the Philippines, the sudden increase is in part attributable to enhanced enforcement measures and reporting requirements as well as the crackdown on Macau SAR junket operators and developments in the e-junket space. Notably, several STRs examined in the study relate to predicate offences including drug trafficking as well as a criminal scam syndicate that was under investigation.85

These findings are consistent with reports by law enforcement authorities which have confirmed the use of junkets by drug traffickers for payment disbursement and money laundering, as well as by kidnappers in the Philippines for ransom payments.86 For instance, in 2018, Philippine authorities dismantled a synthetic drug manufacturing facility in Malabon City and arresting 9 suspects.87 According to law enforcement and criminal intelligence officials involved in the case, shipments of precursor chemicals sourced by the drug syndicate were arranged at a VIP room in Macau SAR while payments were subsequently arranged through a junket operator and disbursed using casino chips. –Concerningly, as reported by law enforcement, those arrested were known to have frequented integrated casino resorts in the Philippines, namely the Solaire Hotel & Casino, where Suncity VIP rooms were operating at the time--. It is also worth noting that Philippine regulatory authorities have cited a high level of non-compliance and non-cooperation during inspections of casino junkets operating in the country.88

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45b4db No.20716176

>>20716175

“Casinos, Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and Transnational Organized Crime in East and Southeast Asia: A Hidden and Accelerating Threat” – 2 of 2

https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2024/Casino_Underground_Banking_Report_2024.pdf

January 2024

Excerpts below

As described in the regional section of this report, in 2016, several Philippine-based casinos and junket operators and agents played an important role in laundering approximately US $81 million stolen in a in a Lazarus Group-attributed cyberattack from accounts of the Bangladesh Bank account held at the Federal Reserve of New York. According to filings by the Bangladesh Central Bank with the New York Southern District Court in January 2019, as well as records in the Philippines, Alvin Chau had been the recipient of a large portion of the stolen funds that were laundered through the Suncity junket in the Solaire Hotel and Casino.41,42 More specifically, the documents confirm that the money launderers had exchanged Solaire Casino chips worth 903.7 million pesos or US $20 million for an equal amount of non-negotiable Suncity junket chips, which were then systematically transmitted through the junket as VIP rollings over several weeks and ultimately ended up in casinos in jurisdictions outside of the Philippines. This was later confirmed by Solaire’s lawyer during the associated Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations (Blue Ribbon Committee) hearings.43 Beyond involvement in the Bangladesh Bank heist, Alvin Chau and Suncity are also understood to have helped facilitate sanctions evasion and oil smuggling using a sophisticated network of falsified vessel identities, ship-to-ship oil transfers, and various underground banking and money laundering schemes through Suncity associates connected to various sanctioned entities.44

Following Suncity’s implication in the Philippine senate inquiry and growing law enforcement and regulatory pressures in both the Philippines45 and China, in 2019 Suncity sold its Philippine-based proxy betting company to a fellow junket operator who was previously arrested for illegal betting in 2014 alongside an alleged senior 14k triad member who is understood to possess strong connections to the Hell’s Angels outlaw motorcycle gang in both Australia and Canada, according to law enforcement sources.

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45b4db No.20728955

“The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy” 1 of 3

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/news/the-gdansk-declaration-solidarity-for-democracy/

From 21-23 June 2023, the European Solidarity Centre and The Brenthurst Foundation staged a conference on 'Rolling Back Authoritarianism' in Gdańsk, Poland, the epicentre of political change in Poland and in Europe in the late 1980s. The event was attended by more than 50 leaders from Africa, Latin America, Poland and the Baltic States. At the end of the event, the Gdańsk Declaration was adopted unanimously. It lays out the commitment of all delegates to ending authoritarianism and introducing democracy, accountability and transparency. This is the full text of this historic declaration. The signatories are listed at the end of the document

From 21-23 June 2023, the European Solidarity Centre and The Brenthurst Foundation staged a conference on Rolling Back Authoritarianism in Gdańsk, the epicentre of political change in Poland and in Europe in the late 1980s.

This event took place as the world faced new challenges posed by contemporary authoritarian leaders and political systems and increasing assaults on democracy. The delegates were cognisant of the significance of meeting in a country adjacent to Ukraine which is the subject of an aggressive assault on democracy and sovereignty which is unacceptable to all freedom loving peoples.

The problem in Africa is not that we have too much democracy, as is sometimes claimed, but not enough.

Since nine out of ten Africans live under versions of authoritarianism, the struggle for democracy must involve all those outside government, in civil society including the media, academia, trade unions, churches and business. It may also involve those in government, given differences between ‘enlightened’ and ‘repressive’ authoritarians.

These struggles are not nationally determined and bound. Defending democracy requires common purpose – of solidarity – among democrats inside and outside all countries. Just as authoritarians have created their own financial, military and media networks that support each other, democrats have to do the same.

And nor are these struggles confined only to Africa. Democrats everywhere are under stress in maintaining these values and corresponding systems.

But first, democrats need to win the vote at home and to defend this victory. The history of Gdańsk, where the meeting was held, holds valuable lessons for those seeking to build free and open societies.

In 1980, the Gdańsk Agreement, comprising 21 points, reached accord between the government of the Polish People's Republic and the striking workers of the Lenin Shipyard. Signed in August 1980 by the government and the strike leader Lech Wałęsa, the Agreement led to the creation of the trade union Solidarity. As such it became an important milestone in the end of Communist rule in Poland and eastern Europe.

Similarly, this contemporary Gdańsk Declaration can be summarised in 21 points describing how oppositions and civil society can roll back authoritarianism and promote peace and democracy in undertaking to:

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45b4db No.20728959

>>20728955

“The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy” 2 of 3

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/news/the-gdansk-declaration-solidarity-for-democracy/

1. Support democratic struggles materially and morally, making the fight for democracy easier and safer.

2. Accentuate common interests between opposition groups and seek to find common ground over differences.

3. Commit to shared values and principles, before and after taking power, including transparency, accountability, and key policy precepts such as the protection of private property, and reform of the education and health systems. Act to continuously uphold freedom of speech and association, and basic human rights.

4. Commit to breaking down racial, ethnic, geographical and religious divides in building just, free and fair societies.

5. Establish a region-wide *Alliance of Democrats*, formed around shared values, which meets frequently to build trust, develop joint strategies, monitor electoral standards and practices, and share experiences.

6. Advance a common, clear and consistent narrative to address the needs and fears of the population.

7. Create economies of scale through joint party procurement.

8. Participate in regional election monitoring missions.

9. Defend against state capture by championing the independence of domestic and constitutional electoral agencies, and the judiciary.

10. Develop a common funding platform, internationally sourced and transparently managed, committing to spend 90% of funding raised within the country.

11. Jointly develop and share programmes for post-election reforms, since the goal is not only to remove the regime in power.

12. Call out and manage those corporations responsible for manipulating internet and data coverage

13. Ensure democracy and transparency in internal processes of governance, and channel support to leaders based on their popularity.

14. Commit to a path for equal gender representation.

15. Expose foreign funding and malfeasance, including disinformation and vote manipulation.

16. Encourage donors to calibrate their support for countries according to their democratic credentials.

17. Guard the capture of the vote and rivals through technology by creating and sharing cyber capacity.

18. Appeal to regional and international leaders and institutions to respond and provide leadership and engage with the opposition especially during times of crisis.

19. Speak on each other’s party platforms, and attend each other’s congresses as special guests.

20. Behave towards each other as fellow democrats, not deadly rivals, and seek those actions which imbue trust.

21. Openly share in, promote and celebrate each other’s successes in opposition as a collective win for African democracy, one election win at a time.

Governments have played a role in dividing opposition and continuing to rule. In so doing they follow a playbook of election malfeasance, including tampering of voter’s rolls and other forms of vote rigging, bribery, manipulation of the media, corruption and intimidation. A strong bloc of opposition groups – within countries and outside – is the best antidote to this, in building their own ecosystems for change and looking out for each other.

We recognise that freedom is not free. Democrats everywhere need to be united, and work together to reduce the costs and risks of this formidable if achievable task. We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda.

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45b4db No.20728978

>>20728955

>>20728959

>>20236804

>Roelf Meyer

>>20666348

>>20711136

>>20711275

>>20711344

>Anglican

“The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy” 3 of 3

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/news/the-gdansk-declaration-solidarity-for-democracy/

LIST OF ATTENDEES AND SIGNATORIES

1. Abbasali Haji, East Africa Capital, Tanzania

2. Adalberto Costa Júnior, Leader, UNITA, Angola

3. Alexander Kambili, Germany

4. Alfonso de Prat Gay, Former Minister of the Economy, Argentina

5. Amgad Faried Eltayeb Idris, CEO, Fikra Center for Studies and Development, Egypt

6. Andriy Marasin, former Senior Assistant Defense Attaché, Ukraine

7. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, Director of Institute of Political Science, University of Gdansk, Poland

8. Artis Pabriks, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Latvia

9. Atupele Muluzi, President, United Democratic Front, Malawi

10. Robert Kyagulanyi “Bobi Wine”, Leader, National Unity Platform, Uganda

11. Branko Brkic, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Maverick, South Africa

12. Christopher Clapham, Professor Emeritus, Cambridge, UK

13. Cynthia Appenteng, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Foundation, Liberia

14. David Coltart, Former Minister of Education, CCC, Zimbabwe (did not attend Gdańsk event, but signed afterwards)

15. Geordin Hill-Lewis, Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa

16. Gloria Uwishema Nsengiyumva, Human Rights activist, All for Rwanda, Rwanda

17. Greg Mills, Director, The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

18. Gregor Jaecke, Resident Representative, KAS, South Africa

19. Gregory Nemyria, Deputy Chair, Foreign Relations Committee, Rada, Ukraine

20. Holger Dix, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Germany

21. Ian Khama, Former President, Botswana

22. Illia Bozhok, Ukraine

23. Ivone Soares, Member of Parliament, RENAMO, Mozambique

24. Jawar Mohammed, Founder, Oromia Media Network, Ethiopia

25. Jędrzej Czerep, Head, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland

26. John Githongo, CEO, Inuka, Kenya

27. John Steenhuisen, Leader, Democratic Alliance, South Africa

28. Juan Carlos Pinzón, Former Defence Minister, Colombia

29. Kate Almquist Knopf, Senior Advisor, WestExec Advisors, US

30. Khemaies Jhinaoui, Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Tunisia

31. Kizza Besigye, President, Forum for Democratic Change, Uganda

32. Lech Wałęsa, Former President, Poland

33. Leopoldo Lopèz, Opposition Leader, Venezuela

34. Luis Franceschi, Assistant Secretary General, The Commonwealth, UK

35. Luke Pato, Bishop, Anglican Church of Southern Africa, South Africa

36. Lutero Simango, President Democratic Movement of Mozambique, Mozambique

37. Marcos Peña, former Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, Argentina

38. McHenry Venaani, President, Popular Democratic Movement, Namibia

39. Mpumelelo Mkhabela, Political Analyst, South Africa

40. Moeketsi Majoro, former Prime Minister, Lesotho

41. Mohamed Anwar Esmat Sadat, Leader, Reform and Development Party, Egypt

42. Oleksandra Matviichuk, Head of Centre for Civil Liberties, Nobel Laureate, Ukraine

43. Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President, Nigeria

44. Omer Ismail, Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Sudan

45. Paula Cristina Roque, Political Affairs Analyst, Portugal

46. Raila Odinga, Former Prime Minister, Kenya

47. Ray Hartley, Research Director, The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

48. Robin Auld, Artiste, south Africa

49. Roelf Meyer, CEO, In Transformation, South Africa

50. Roland Freudenstein, Vice-President, Globsec, Belgium

51. Sanyaolu Ayowole Oluwajuwon, African Action Congress, Nigeria

52. Tendai Biti, Former Zimbabwe Finance Minister, CCC, Zimbabwe

53. Tundu Lissu, MP, CHADEMA, Tanzania

54. Velenkosini Hlabisa, President, Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa

55. Venâncio Mondlane, MP, RENAMO, Mozambique

56. Winnie Odinga, EAC Member of Parliament, Kenya

57. Yulia Tymoshenko, former Prime Minister, Ukraine

58. Zitto Kabwe, Leader, ACT-Wazalendo, Tanzania

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45b4db No.20728996

>>20728955

>In 1980, the Gdańsk Agreement, comprising 21 points, reached accord between the government of the Polish People's Republic and the striking workers of the Lenin Shipyard. Signed in August 1980 by the government and the strike leader Lech Wałęsa, the Agreement led to the creation of the trade union Solidarity. As such it became an important milestone in the end of Communist rule in Poland and eastern Europe.

>>20728959

>We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda.

It is interesting that they mentioned “the end of Communist rule” as well as “We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda“ at the same time.

”Comrade” used in the French and the Russian Revolution; “often associated it with communism”

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

In political contexts, comrade means a fellow party member, commonly left-wing. The political use was inspired by the French Revolution, after which it grew into a form of address between socialists and workers. Since the Russian Revolution, popular culture in the West has often associated it with communism. As such, it can be used as a derogatory reference to left-wingers, akin to "commie". In particular, the Russian word tovarishch may be used as derogatory reference to Communists.

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45b4db No.20729001

>>20728978

>Kate Almquist Knopf, Senior Advisor, WestExec Advisors, US

“MEET THE CONSULTING FIRM [WestExec Advisors] THAT’S STAFFING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION” 1 of 2

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/

July 6 2021, 6:00 a.m.

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WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House.

FROM ITS HEADQUARTERS just blocks from the White House, a small, high-powered team of former ambassadors, lawyers, and Obama appointees has spent the past few years solving problems for the world’s biggest companies.

Less than six months into the Biden administration, more than 15 consultants from the firm WestExec Advisors have fanned out across the White House, its foreign policy apparatus, and its law enforcement institutions. Five, some of whom already have jobs with the administration, have been nominated for high-ranking posts, and four others served on the Biden-Harris transition team. Even by Washington standards, it’s a remarkable march through the revolving door, especially for a firm that only launched in 2017. The pipeline has produced a dominance of WestExec alums throughout the administration, installed in senior roles as influential as director of national intelligence and secretary of state. WestExec clients, meanwhile, have controversial interests in tech and defense that intersect with the policies their former consultants are now in a position to set and execute.

The arrival of each new WestExec adviser at the administration has been met with varying degrees of press coverage — headlines for the secretary of state, blurbs in trade publications for the head of cybersecurity — but the creeping monopolization of foreign policymaking by a single boutique consulting firm has gone largely unnoticed. The insularity of this network of policymakers poses concerns about the potential for groupthink, conflicts of interest, and what can only be called, however oxymoronically, legalized corruption.

WestExec does not affirmatively share its clients, and public financial disclosure forms only offer broad outlines. Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, says that government ethics laws written decades ago aren’t equipped to handle a situation in which a single firm launches 15 senior officials. “Yes, they’re employed by the government, I’ll grant you that. But are they actually working for the American people or not? Where does their loyalty lie?” said Clark. “The private sector can in essence co-opt the public sector.”

WestExec has also succeeded in getting tech startups into defense contracts and helped defense corporations modernize with tech; it worked to help multinational companies break into China. One of its collaborators is the defense-centered investment group Pine Island Capital Partners, which launched a SPAC, or “blank check” company,” last year. Tony Blinken advised Pine Island and was a part owner. (Michèle Flournoy, another WestExec co-founder, had her nomination to be secretary of defense nixed. President Joe Biden instead nominated Lloyd Austin, himself a former Pine Island partner but not a WestExec consultant.)

BLINKEN, NOW SECRETARY OF STATE, advised household names like telecommunications giant AT&T, defense contractor Boeing, shipping magnate FedEx, and the media company Discovery as a WestExec founding partner. He worked for Big Tech pillars Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Uber. He helped niche companies like speakers bureau GLG, art seller Sotheby’s, and biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences. Blinken also lists clients that are global investment firms and asset managers, like Blackstone, Lazard, Royal Bank of Canada, and the multinational conglomerate SoftBank — which does extensive business with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He even advised the consulting group McKinsey & Company. Though Blinken left WestExec in July 2020 — after The American Prospect inquired about the relationship — each of these businesses has an international profile that may impact his calculations as he implements Biden’s foreign policy.

Blinken also brought several of his key staff members at the State Department with him from WestExec. His senior adviser Julianne Smith, who listed Boeing and SoftBank as clients, earned $34,000 as a WestExec consultant while holding down a full-time role at the think tank German Marshall Fund.

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“MEET THE CONSULTING FIRM [WestExec Advisors] THAT’S STAFFING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION” 2 of 2

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/

July 6 2021, 6:00 a.m.

Excerpts

The firm also provided a comfortable place for Biden’s most powerful intelligence chiefs to wait out the Trump administration. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines had her name scrubbed from WestExec’s website early on, but she worked with the firm from October 2017 to July 2020, when she joined Biden’s transition team as foreign policy lead. According to a questionnaire completed before her confirmation hearing, she delivered “strategic advice” on “cyber norms; national security threats; and testing, evaluation, validation and verification of machine learning systems by the Department of Defense” to clients like Facebook, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, and Open Philanthropy. Deputy Director of the CIA David S. Cohen was an early member of WestExec’s “core team” alongside Haines and Blinken. But it’s impossible to know who his clients were, because an exemption for the spy agencies’ officials means that his disclosure is not publicly available.

“That exempts them from public accountability,” said Clark, the ethics expert at Washington University, “and that’s a problem because we can’t necessarily rely on internal controls and external, public disclosure.” A CIA spokesperson declined to share the companies Cohen worked for at WestExec.

Then there’s Chris Inglis, who the Senate recently approved as national cyber director. He earned $15,000 from the firm and worked for internet security outfit CrowdStrike and email encryption company Virtru.

Since its founding in 2017, WestExec’s focus has been to enhance the capabilities of defense, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies. It partners with the Silicon Valley venture firm Ridgeline, which describes itself as “mission-driven” — meaning that unlike some tech investors, which avoid working with the military, Ridgeline seeks out military products. Both Cohen and Inglis appeared on Ridgeline’s website, and through that partnership, Blinken invested in the venture group’s many portfolio companies. The obscure startups have kooky names (Agolo, Doodle, Wallaroo, etc.) but are innovating advanced technologies like drones, artificial intelligence, and robots. The alumni of WestExec are deeply engaged in emerging tech, which could lead to conflicts of interest as they take on policymaking roles that affect the contracts the government greenlights.

One of the administration’s most visible faces also worked at the firm. Jen Psaki, now the White House press secretary, was a senior adviser to WestExec, where she did crisis communications for the Israeli facial recognition software company AnyVision and advised the nonprofit Spirit of America.

Gabrielle Chefitz, a senior associate of WestExec, joined the Pentagon as special assistant to the under secretary of defense for policy. In June, Biden nominated WestExec senior adviser Celeste Wallander to be assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs.

The U.S. Agency for International Development administrator’s office is also full of the firm’s consultants. Colin Thomas-Jensen “advised WestExec and its clients on due diligence and navigating political risk in Sub-Saharan Africa,” and those clients included Boeing, SoftBank, and Delta Capital Management, a venture capital firm that specializes in financing litigation. In April, Thomas-Jensen joined USAID as national security director. That month, WestExec’s Latin America expert Michael Camilleri began serving as senior adviser to Administrator Samantha Power and as executive director of the agency’s Northern Triangle Task Force. As a WestExec consultant, he advised Blackstone, SoftBank, the Intel founder’s multibillion-dollar nonprofit Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the mineral extraction company Rio Tinto.

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45b4db No.20729087

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>>20556722

>He also referred to information peddlers, saying some were within the State Security Agency (SSA), who passed on information dotted with both truth and lies, and who could cause decisions to be made based on false information.

>>20728996

In political contexts, comrade means a fellow party member, commonly left-wing. The political use was inspired by the French Revolution, after which it grew into a form of address between socialists and workers. Since the Russian Revolution, popular culture in the West has often associated it with communism.

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>>20728978

“Unfiltered | How independent is SA media? 20 July 2023”

https://youtu.be/ixOaWoJApvc

Jul 20, 2023

“Roscoe Palm is the co-founder and a director of the Pan-African Institute for Socialism.” https://medium.com/@roscoepalm

Eventhough he is the co-founder and director of the Pan-African Institute for Socialism, it is interesting what he wrote about about the meeting in Gdańsk, Poland. There seems to be a tug of war of agendas at play here… Or is it?

“The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference” 1 of 6

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/the-oppenheimers-regime-change-conference-c99ce9ba-bbea-409a-9283-2d9d736c0ec5

By Roscoe Palm | Published Apr 10, 2024

In June 2023, against the historic backdrop of Gdańsk, Poland, a seemingly innocuous conference convened, purportedly aimed at "Rolling Back Authoritarianism" across the globe.

The conference was hosted by the Brenthurst Foundation, the plaything of apartheid mining capital oligarchs, the Oppenheimer family.

The 21-point declaration that was agreed to by the end of this conference paints a portrait of democratic struggle across Africa, with impassioned calls for solidarity and unity.

But scratch the surface, and the Gdańsk Declaration resembles a Pan-African program of regime change, overtly sanctioned by Western powers.

Now that we are in the thick of the elections period in South Africa, it is valuable to reflect on the outcomes of this conference, and see how this corresponds with what is happening in our political landscape at this moment.

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“The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference” 2 of 6

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/the-oppenheimers-regime-change-conference-c99ce9ba-bbea-409a-9283-2d9d736c0ec5

By Roscoe Palm | Published Apr 10, 2024

A ROGUES GALLERY OF REACTIONARIES

The Oppenheimer family, in concert with Western powers, is engaged in the reconstitution of Cold War and apartheid alliances. Invitees included delegates from RENAMO, the US-backed Mozambican group, and one of the agitants in the Mozambican civil war that claimed over one million lives through violence and famine, and displaced five million more.

UNITA were also present, another movement that merrily danced on the marionette strings of the United States and the Apartheid government in their brutal proxy war against Angolan and Cuban liberation forces.

Also in attendance, Kate Almquist Knopf, former director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an organization housed within the US Department of Defense, and current senior advisor to WestExec Advisors. This advisory firm is staffed by “senior national security professionals with the most recent experience at the highest levels of the US government”, including a former CIA director and a collection of former high ranking officials from the US national security and intelligence structures. The Brenthurst crowd are no strangers to US and Nato military intelligence types, who they frequently collaborate with.

The delegates, all in all 58 of them, represent a coming together of neo-colonial interests intent on subjugating African interests. The Oppenheimers’ grand strategy is to remake a continent where US-backed groups ascend to power by any means necessary. Desperate for relevance, these groups, like the Democratic Alliance in South Africa, currently wallow in opposition benches having contested and lost in free and fair democratic contests.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN DELEGATION

The attendance of Democratic Alliance (DA) leaders once again confirms the proximity of the Oppenheimers’ Brenthurst Foundation to the programmes and personnel of the Democratic Alliance. John Steenhuisen and Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis were present. So was Velenkosini Hlabisa, President of the IFP and moonshot pact partner of the DA.

Their presence is telling, at a conference that was ostensibly to “roll back authoritarianism”. If South Africa were a truly authoritarian state, the DA would not have access to the instruments of a constitutional democracy to hold power to account. The DA has on countless occasions won against the South African government in courts. So what were they there for, if not to roll back democratic progress?

Greg Mills is a man of many hats, chief among those that of a vainglorious, self-styled “'adventurer-academic' and 'soldier-analyst',” just one fedora and a bullwhip shy of being a living breathing Indiana Jones.

His day job is the Director of the Brenthurst Foundation. He also serves as Senior Associate Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Royal United Services Institute, which bills itself as “the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank”.

As a military advisor, Mills advised British Commander General David Richards during the illegal war of aggression in Afghanistan. He even wrote a book about his experience of actively partaking in an illegal war of aggression that contains “lessons which translates across borders and continents to Africa”.

Greg Mills is telling us with his chest out that he is a specialist in regime change who works for the Oppenheimers, the US, and Nato.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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45b4db No.20729097

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>>20729092

“The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference” 3 of 6

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/the-oppenheimers-regime-change-conference-c99ce9ba-bbea-409a-9283-2d9d736c0ec5

By Roscoe Palm | Published Apr 10, 2024

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE

Every halfway decent regime change operation needs a media and propaganda arm. Enter Branko Brkic, Editor of the Daily Maverick, who was also at the conference.

The Daily Maverick has been an uncritical cheerleader for Nato and US interests at almost any cost. Although there is nothing wrong with a publication taking an editorial line, the lengths to which the Daily Maverick / Brenthurst publication would go to push a regime change agenda in South Africa is shocking.

Brkic’s ideological orientation, and that of his publication is forged in the fires of his formative trauma - the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. This ideological orientation is reinforced by a coterie of fellow red scare sycophants.

The aforementioned international man of mystery, Dr Greg Mills, was also the Editor-at-large of the Daily Maverick. Copy from the Brenthurst Foundation ends up with regularity in the Daily Maverick, who by sleight of hand mask the true influence of the Oppenheimers’ Brenthurst Foundation. Mills’ and Ray Hartley’s pieces come with the disclosure that they are “with” the Brenthurst Foundation, but the implications thereof, that it’s an Oppenheimer front, Mills’ career as a military advisor, and Brenthurst’s entanglement with foreign military entities are not acknowledged.

Joining them to push pro-West narratives are old cold warriors like Peter Fabricius, as well as former US diplomat J. Brooks Spector.

Quick to condemn Russia, but very slow on the uptake when it comes to the just cause of Palestinians against the apartheid state of Israel, the Daily Maverick still frames this genocide as a “Israel-Palestine war” despite the asymmetrical nature of the atrocities still perpetrated against mainly women and children in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

The Daily Maverick is a publication that is not above publishing outright lies. “Defend Truth”, squeaks its American bald eagle banner. Whose truth, is the real question.

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>>20729087

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“The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference” 4 of 6

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/the-oppenheimers-regime-change-conference-c99ce9ba-bbea-409a-9283-2d9d736c0ec5

By Roscoe Palm | Published Apr 10, 2024

The so-called Eskom dirty dossier, an evanescent and fantastical spook story from the fever dreams of a discredited apartheid killer, proved to contain “no facts” according to News24. The story spun without reservation by Daily Maverick was that a mafia of politically connected elites were treating Eskom’s budget like a piggy bank. They spun a yarn of Russian collusion and ANC corruption, served up this disinformation as the red meat to its audience of white conservatives. It is still on the site as part one, with part two “coming soon”. “Our journalists are working on bringing you more information on this story.” Are they really?

It is telling that the refutation of the so-called dirty dossier came from News24, and in particular, a conservative journalist who shamelessly cheered as the Rand crashed on the back of the lies told by US Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigedy. These are people who perpetrated the big lie that South Africa was selling weapons to Russia. Journalism be damned, the structures that ensure that our compliance with international law such as the NCACC be damned with it.

While the African National Congress faces justifiable criticism for its shortcomings, of which there are many, Western interference in South African politics is unacceptable. The Oppenheimers’ Brenthurst Foundation and others like it seek to destabilize our constitutional democracy, employing media manipulation and political alliances to further their agenda.

A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

Organisations like the Brenthurst Foundation and the Daily Maverick are actively engaged in trying to draw South Africa into geopolitical conflict with the US and Nato. It is in their interest to see our constitutional democracy collapse, and have Uncle Sam ride into town to save us all from the Russians, the Chinese, the communists, the blacks, the other.

Again, to remind you, Greg Mills of the Daily Maverick even wrote a book about lessons learned from when he went on a four month invasion tour of Afghanistan.

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45b4db No.20729142

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>>20701789

>How Jazz Became a Secret Weapon in Cold War Berlin

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“Alone But Altogether - Bobi Wine and Sofia Grabovetska with String Mockingbird”

https://youtu.be/l2spLPuU0z4

Sep 28, 2022

In 2022, in the seventh month of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine, two African politicians, Zitto Kabwe and Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, joined The Brenthurst Foundation on a field-trip to Ukraine, the fifth by the Foundation since the war started.

At the conclusion of the visit, Robert, better known by his stage name Bobi Wine, recorded two solidarity songs in Lviv with the local band String Mockingbird, both featuring Sofia Grabovetska, and written by Greg Mills, Robin Auld and Bobi.

The production was managed in real time from Jenny Records in Lviv and Murray Anderson at Milestone studio in Cape Town.

“The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference” 5 of 6

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/the-oppenheimers-regime-change-conference-c99ce9ba-bbea-409a-9283-2d9d736c0ec5

By Roscoe Palm | Published Apr 10, 2024

And again, just to emphasise this point, the Brenthurst Foundation is a proxy of the Oppenheimer family.

The Brenthurst Foundation should be treated as the serious threat to constitutional democracy that they are. Some interventions are truly laughable, such as Greg Mills casting himself in the role of a white conservative Quincy Jones, to write and produce terrible “we are the world” songs, with Ugandan opposition leader and tone deaf vocalist Bobi Wine.

No really. That’s a real thing. If you love power rock crescendos, you may no longer if you find Greg Mills “Alone but together” music video on YouTube. [Embedded]

Perhaps, that’s why South African musician Robin Auld was also at the Gdańsk conference — to be the vocal coach of the counterrevolution.

Other interventions are more cynical, such as co-opting the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba to push a pro-Ukraine agenda. Having accompanied Mills twice to Ukraine, such a ploy seeks to imply that the cloth is still imbued with the essence of Desmond Tutu, and the moral rectitude of the cause surely beyond doubt.

Yes, Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine is ill-advised. But to frame it completely outside of the context of Nato expansion and US-backed colour revolutions right on its doorstep betrays a worldview that is completely out of step with history. An illegal war of aggression is what Russia does, not what Greg Mills partakes in. Genocide is what happened to white people. And a little bit in Africa in 1994. Not in Gaza. And we only make music videos for Ukraine. Not Haiti, Palestine or Assange.

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>>20729142

Another song…

“Brothers in Freedom - Bobi Wine and Sofia Grabovetska with String Mockingbird”

https://youtu.be/qQvIlKHLoEw

Nov 8, 2022

“The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference” 6 of 6

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/opinion/the-oppenheimers-regime-change-conference-c99ce9ba-bbea-409a-9283-2d9d736c0ec5

By Roscoe Palm | Published Apr 10, 2024

The Gdańsk Declaration's emphasis on "common interests" and "shared values" seeks to foster alliances among opposition groups, presenting a united front against established governments. I think that what it truly advocates for is the destabilisation of sovereign nations, exploiting internal divisions for geopolitical gain.

The call for a "region-wide Alliance of Democrats" echoes previous US interventions, reminiscent of Cold War-era tactics of backing opposition movements to sow discord and install compliant regimes. By leveraging financial support and media manipulation, the United States aims to engineer political upheaval under the guise of promoting democracy.

The declaration's strategic mention of "election monitoring missions" and "exposing foreign funding" reeks of neo-colonial interference, casting doubt on the legitimacy of African electoral processes while conveniently ignoring similar irregularities in Western democracies.

Underlying the Gdańsk Declaration is a deeply entrenched narrative of Western exceptionalism, where the imposition of Western-style democracy is heralded as the panacea for all societal ills. This narrative conveniently overlooks the complex historical and socio-economic factors unique to each African nation, reducing them to mere pawns in a geopolitical chess game.

The declaration's emphasis on opposition alliances and joint strategies bears resemblance to Cold War-era tactics, where Western powers sought to counter socialist influence by backing reactionary right wing movements worldwide. This thinly veiled agenda, now cloaked in democratic language, continues to promote Western hegemony under the guise of fostering democracy.

We must recognise the agenda of proxies of apartheid capital, US, and Nato interests, and their political and media collaborators, and reject their interference in African affairs.

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>>20728978

>Branko Brkic, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Maverick, South Africa

>Greg Mills, Director, The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

>>20729097

>Enter Branko Brkic, Editor of the Daily Maverick, who was also at the conference.

>The aforementioned international man of mystery, Dr Greg Mills, was also the Editor-at-large of the Daily Maverick.

Daily Maverick: QAnon and Shut down for 15 April 2024

“QAnon originated in South Africa - now that the global cult is back here we should all be afraid”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-26-qanon-originated-in-south-africa-now-that-the-global-cult-is-back-here-we-should-all-be-afraid/

“QAnon: How the world’s fastest-growing conspiracy theory is spreading to sa”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-27-qanon-how-the-worlds-fastest-growing-conspiracy-theory-is-spreading-to-sa/

“Decupleting from reality: Iqbal Survé and Piet Rampedi leave Earth for Planet QAnon”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-10-28-decupleting-from-reality-iqbal-surve-and-piet-rampedi-leave-earth-for-planet-qanon/

Curiously, https://www.dailymaverick.co.za gets redirected to https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/shutdown/ with the following message;

Daily Maverick

HAS SHUT DOWN

For today, 15 April 2024

Without Journalism,

our democracy and economy

will break down

Journalism helped save South Africa

Now we need your help

How you can support

Business [tab] Individual [tab] [for fund raising]

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File: 548ff113749d3fb⋯.webp (121.9 KB,1280x640,2:1,cropped_PAIS_Banner_NEW_c….webp)

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>Eventhough he is the co-founder and director of the Pan-African Institute for Socialism, it is interesting what he wrote about about the meeting in Gdańsk, Poland. There seems to be a tug of war of agendas at play here… Or is it?

The Pan-African Institute for Socialism (PAIS)

https://paisafrica.org/about-pais/

PAIS is a think tank and a platform that builds upon the vision of Pan-Africanists, Marxists, Socialists, Trade Unionists, Activists, and the Working Class to achieve meaningful change through socialism.

The following are key areas of work within PAIS:

1. Promote progressive and socialist ideas and thinking

2. Educate and develop progressive and socialist cadres and leaders

3. Promote socialist parties in African countries

4. Promote trade unionism and trade union unity

5. Promote women’s rights and Gender Equality

6. Build co-operatives

7. International solidarity

8. Mobilise around key campaigns such as for land, for jobs and for progressive policies

Our team

Dr Phillip Dexter

Dr Phillip Dexter is a political activist. He is the former General Secretary of the National Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU), a former member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, a former member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and served as a MP in the first and the fourth democratically elected parliaments of post-apartheid South Africa.

Roscoe Palm

Roscoe Palm has headed communications strategy for socialist political movements and candidates around the world, including Congressional primaries in the United States, campaign support for candidates in the UK, and South Africa.

Kwame Nkrumah quotes on their website;

“I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.”

“The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.”

“All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South Africa, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are AFRICANS, and belong to the AFRICAN NATION.”

“It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa can become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.”

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45b4db No.20729298

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>Kwame Nkrumah quotes on their website

Kwame Nkrumah: president of Ghana

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kwame-Nkrumah

Born: September 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]

Died: April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Romania (aged 62)

Title / Office: president (1960-1966), Ghana

prime minister (1957-1960), Ghana

prime minister (1952-1957), Gold Coast

Kwame Nkrumah (born September 1909, Nkroful, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died April 27, 1972, Bucharest, Romania) was a Ghanaian nationalist leader who led the Gold Coast’s drive for independence from Britain and presided over its emergence as the new nation of Ghana. He headed the country from independence in 1957 until he was overthrown by a coup in 1966.

Early years

Kwame Nkrumah’s father was a goldsmith and his mother a retail trader. Baptized a Roman Catholic, Nkrumah spent nine years at the Roman Catholic elementary school in nearby Half Assini. After graduation from Achimota College in 1930, he started his career as a teacher at Roman Catholic junior schools in Elmina and Axim and at a seminary.

Increasingly drawn to politics, Nkrumah decided to pursue further studies in the United States. He entered Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1935 and, after graduating in 1939, obtained master’s degrees from Lincoln and from the University of Pennsylvania. He studied the literature of socialism, notably Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and of nationalism, especially Marcus Garvey, the Black American leader of the 1920s. Eventually, Nkrumah came to describe himself as a “nondenominational Christian and a Marxist socialist.” He also immersed himself in political work, reorganizing and becoming president of the African Students’ Organization of the United States and Canada. He left the United States in May 1945 and went to England, where he organized the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester.

Meanwhile, in the Gold Coast, J.B. Danquah had formed the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) to work for self-government by constitutional means. Invited to serve as the UGCC’s general secretary, Nkrumah returned home in late 1947. As general secretary, he addressed meetings throughout the Gold Coast and began to create a mass base for the new movement. When extensive riots occurred in February 1948, the British briefly arrested Nkrumah and other leaders of the UGCC.

When a split developed between the middle-class leaders of the UGCC and the more radical supporters of Nkrumah, he formed in June 1949 the new Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP), a mass-based party that was committed to a program of immediate self-government. In January 1950, Nkrumah initiated a campaign of “positive action,” involving nonviolent protests, strikes, and noncooperation with the British colonial authorities.

From prison to prime ministry

In the ensuing crisis, services throughout the country were disrupted, and Nkrumah was again arrested and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. But the Gold Coast’s first general election (February 8, 1951) demonstrated the support the CPP had already won. Elected to Parliament, Nkrumah was released from prison to become leader of government business and, in 1952, prime minister of the Gold Coast.

When the Gold Coast and the British Togoland trust territory became an independent state within the British Commonwealth—as Ghana—in March 1957, Nkrumah became the new nation’s first prime minister. In 1958 Nkrumah’s government legalized the imprisonment without trial of those it regarded as security risks. It soon became apparent that Nkrumah’s style of government was to be authoritarian.

By a plebiscite of 1960 Ghana became a republic and Nkrumah became its president, with wide legislative and executive powers under a new constitution.

President of Ghana and afterward

The attempted assassination of Nkrumah at Kulugungu in August 1962—the first of several—led to his increasing seclusion from public life and to the growth of a personality cult, as well as to a massive buildup of the country’s internal security forces. Early in 1964 Ghana was officially designated a one-party state, with Nkrumah as life president of both nation and party. While the administration of the country passed increasingly into the hands of self-serving and corrupt party officials, Nkrumah busied himself with the ideological education of a new generation of Black African political activists. Meanwhile, the economic crisis in Ghana worsened and shortages of foodstuffs and other goods became chronic. On February 24, 1966, while Nkrumah was visiting Beijing, the army and police in Ghana seized power. Returning to West Africa, Nkrumah found asylum in Guinea, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died of cancer in Bucharest in 1972.

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45b4db No.20729360

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>>20728978

>Kate Almquist Knopf, Senior Advisor, WestExec Advisors, US

>>20729001

>>20729009

>MEET THE CONSULTING FIRM [WestExec Advisors] THAT’S STAFFING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

Kate Almquist Knopf

https://africacenter.org/experts/kate-almquist-knopf/

Director Emeritus

Kate Almquist Knopf served as director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense, from July 2014 to December 2021. Established by the U.S. Congress for the study of security issues relating to Africa, the Center serves as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, and the exchange of ideas. It aims to be an objective source of strategic analysis on contemporary and over-the-horizon security issues for African security sector professionals, policymakers, scholars, media, and civil society, as well as international partners.

Ms. Knopf has spent most of her career focused on the intersection of security and development in Africa. From 2001 to 2009, she held several senior positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development, including as assistant administrator for Africa, Sudan mission director, deputy assistant administrator for Africa, and special assistant and senior policy advisor to the administrator.

Ms. Knopf has also been a senior advisor for the Crisis Management Initiative, a conflict mediation organization founded by former Finnish President and Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari, and a visiting policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. Prior to federal service, she was chief of staff for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and for the Executive Office for Administration and Finance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She began her career at World Vision, an international nongovernmental organization.

Ms. Knopf holds an M.A. in international relations with concentrations in African studies and conflict management from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, and a B.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

Areas of Expertise

Peace Processes, Conflict-Affected Areas, U.S.-Africa Relations, U.S. Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Assistance, Sudan, South Sudan

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45b4db No.20732276

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>>20729142

>“Alone But Altogether - Bobi Wine and Sofia Grabovetska with String Mockingbird”

>>20729159

>“Brothers in Freedom - Bobi Wine and Sofia Grabovetska with String Mockingbird”

“Bobi Wine: The People’s President | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films”

https://youtu.be/Leqt5JhRa5A

Jul 17, 2023

“How Afrobeats Star Bobi Wine Took On Uganda’s Dictatorship”

https://www.grammy.com/news/interview-bobi-wine-the-peoples-president-2024-oscars

MAR 6, 2024 - 09:36 AM

"Artists are the new advocates of society," says the artist, who is the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Boby Wine: The People's President.' "This platform that we have is a very powerful platform that can change the world."

Bobi Wine has been shot at, tortured, beaten, and bombed in his quest to unseat Uganda’s dictatorial president Yoweri Museveni. But before he became the leader of the opposition in the East African nation of over 47 million people, he was the country’s biggest musical icon.

Born and raised in the Kamwokya slum in the capital city of Kampala, Robert Kyagulani began making music under the name Bobi Wine in the 1990s, rising to fame for charismatic lyricism and a style that incorporated influences from Afrobeats and dancehall. After an encounter with an unscrupulous policeman opened his eyes to Uganda’s corruption, he decided to shift his music’s focus.

“I decided to change my music from entertainment to edutainment. I started speaking for the ghetto people,” Kyagulani tells GRAMMY.com.

In the 2010s, Kyagulani took things even further by entering politics, winning a seat in Uganda’s national parliament and opposing the efforts of authoritarian president and former general Museveni. After the president successfully removed constitutional age restrictions to set himself up as president for life, Kyagulani decided to leverage his stardom and run for president to unseat Uganda's dictatorial leader and prevent him from winning an illegitimate sixth term.

Nominated for Best Documentary at the 2024 Oscars, Bobi Wine: The People’s President shows Bobi and his National Unity Platform struggle against an increasingly violent backlash from the regime in the leadup to the 2021 election. The documentary was directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp.

After all this, it’s a miracle Wine is still alive. In the three years since the election, in which Musuveni declared victory after taking down the country’s internet, Kyagulani says the film has been “a lifeline,” and that the international attention it’s received has held back the regime. Speaking to GRAMMY.com from Los Angeles ahead of the Oscars, Kyagulani says he’s adamant about what he’ll do when the regime eventually falls.

“When I become president – because I know someday I will – the first thing I will do in the first 100 days is to make sure I don't stay president.”

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45b4db No.20732287

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>>20729142

>>20732276

>>20729159

“DONT PAY OUR OPPRESSOR BY H.E BOBI WINE NEW SONG”

https://youtu.be/MesQcjTFeQY

Sep 20, 2021 #Expensive

Together with my friend Dr. Greg Mills and Robin Auld we recently did this song "Don't Pay Our Oppressor." The backing tracks were done in Cape Town, and the song recorded in Kampala.

Our message in the song is simple: foreign aid should be directed at uplifting citizens and not helping despots to cling to power. We call out the phenomenon of mis-directed aid which often-times helps despots more than needy citizens.

The song precedes a very important book being released by Dr. Greg Mills this October titled, #Expensive Poverty.

One in three Africans live in poverty yet the continent has received more than $1.2 trillion in aid over the last 30 years.

What can we do to turn our economies around? There simply must be a better way to develop Africa.

Spanning decades of experience across 40 African countries, Greg Mills seeks to understand why aid spending has had such a small impact on improving African lives. It also shows how aid can be a great disrupter for progress.

Why does aid fail and how can it work better? Find out in #ExpensivePoverty.

https://www.facebook.com/BrenthurstFoundation/videos/expensive-poverty-book-launch/899160974079761/

Greg Mills, Bobi Wine and Robin Auld sing "Don't Pay Our Oppressor" at the launch of the book Expensive Poverty.

0:18 – [Bobi Wine] “I am humbled. President Obasanjo, I’m humbled to be in front of you sir, an inspiration. It is not everyday in Africa that we have a former head of state not living in exile so you are such an inspiration. President Hichilema, I am humbled to be before you sir. You are a living example that it is actually possible all of us especially our generation have been watching you, watching the stuggles you go through for the peoples of Zambia… from prisoner to President and watching you swear in was a constant reminder that indeed it’s gonna be possible.”

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45b4db No.20732298

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>>20732287

>>20732276

The new Nelson Mandela?

“Oscar nomination gives Bobi Wine new hope of toppling Uganda’s regime”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/27/oscar-nomination-film-opposition-leader-robert-kyagulanyi-bobi-wine-the-peoples-president-uganda-yoweri-museveni

Tue 27 Feb 2024 06.00 CET

Excerpts

After years of repression, a film about Bobi Wine’s heroic stand against Yoweri Museveni has given new life to the opposition

When the Ugandan musician turned politician Bobi Wine ran for president, his 2020 campaign was thwarted by violent crackdowns by Yoweri Museveni’s regime. Since the election, Bobi Wine – whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – and his wife, Barbie, say that, from phone tapping to abductions of his supporters, things have been “pretty much the same” in many ways.

With one key difference: the release of the feature documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President.

Shot over five years, the film is a profile of Wine’s rise in politics and his run for the presidency, during which he endures military detention, torture and the loss of people close to him. The film was nominated for a Bafta and is up for best documentary feature at the Oscars.

Moses Bwayo, the co-director, says: “The morning the Oscars nomination was announced, Bobi and Barbie and their children had been under house arrest for over a week. But when the news came, the military and the police withdrew from their home.”

While the film was in production, Bwayo, like many other journalists covering Wine’s activism, was arrested, imprisoned and intimidated. In November 2020 he was shot in the face at close range with a rubber bullet in Kampala and there were two attempted kidnappings of his wife, before the couple fled the country for the US.

Wine says: “This film has given us another lease of life, because now we know that – as much as it’s brutal – the regime knows that the world is watching.” The documentary has caused the government to show “a little bit of restraint”, he believes.

In September, when the opposition politician and former MP went on a national tour of Uganda, his supporters were not met with the teargas or bullets that had become the norm. Wine says he plans to run again for president in 2026.

Barbie adds that the international acclaim is “giving people courage” to get involved with opposition politics because they “know that they’re not suffering in darkness”.

Bwayo describes making the film as a “deep labour of love”. Excited by Wine’s journey from the ghetto to parliament, and the 42-year-old’s ability to inspire young people through his music, Bwayo says: “I had to tell the history of our country at this moment.”

Once a revolutionary freedom fighter, President Yoweri Museveni has led Uganda since 1986. His government is frequently criticised for corruption and human rights abuses, and in 2017 the parliament in Kampala passed a bill removing the cap on presidential age limits, enabling his rule to continue.

“The first day I become president is the day Uganda ceases to be an authoritarian military regime,” says Wine, adding that he will implement a separation of powers between Uganda’s executive, judiciary and parliament. “Education, healthcare and agriculture would be our priorities.”

Considering Uganda’s poor record of press freedom, and the censorship of Wine’s music on the airwaves, it is unsurprising that there has been little coverage of the film in the Ugandan media.

But Wine describes the film as “very well known, especially among the young people”. Uganda has one of the world’s youngest populations, with 78% of people under 30; in the last election, more than 40% of voters were aged between 18 and 30.

This awareness is thanks to social media, which Wine says “taps into foreign news and brings it home and makes it mainstream news”. He adds that, ironically, the more restricted a piece of content is, the more people want to access it.

The US and UK have given many billions of dollars of development and military aid to Uganda in recent years, with Museveni long perceived as a key ally of the west in east Africa. But Wine is hopeful that the film will damage the reputation of Museveni’s government enough that foreign powers will reconsider this funding.

For Bwayo, the aim of the film is to shine a spotlight on the situation in Uganda, which the government has been “very smart at hiding from the world”.

The film-maker adds that the documentary is “a lifeline for Bobi and Barbie, and those close to them, and the Ugandan people who are fighting against this brutal, relentless military dictatorship”.

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45b4db No.20732371

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>>20728955

>From 21-23 June 2023, the European Solidarity Centre and The Brenthurst Foundation staged a conference on 'Rolling Back Authoritarianism' in Gdańsk, Poland

>>20728978

>Kate Almquist Knopf, Senior Advisor, WestExec Advisors, US

>>20729001

>>20729009

>>20729360

>Kate Almquist Knopf served as director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, an academic institution within the U.S. Department of Defense

>>20732298

>>20732287

Its partners include Africa Center for Strategic Studies.

Brenthurst Foundation: About Us

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/about/

The Brenthurst Foundation is on the frontier of new ideas and innovative actions for strengthening Africa's economic performance. Our activities are focused in three areas: encouraging key decision-makers and experts to share experiences and insights at private meetings and seminars; delivering relevant, practical policy advice to governments; and generating new thinking and thought-leadership to address Africa's development challenges.

Born in 2004, the Brenthurst Foundation was established by the Oppenheimer family to build on the work of the Brenthurst Initiative of 2003. This was a programme that instigated debate around policy strategies in South Africa to accelerate economic expansion. The debate continues across the continent, driven by the sharing of ideas, data, and experiences.

The Brenthurst Foundation is part of Oppenheimer Generations, a community consisting of a collection of autonomous but interconnected entities, each playing a critical and unique role to fulfil our long-term commitment of leaving our world better than how we found it.

“The Brenthurst Foundation Holds Annual Advisory Board Meeting In Morocco”

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/news/the-brenthurst-foundation-holds-annual-advisory-board-meeting-in-morocco/

21 October 2021

This week The Brenthurst Foundation was in Essaouira, Morocco, for its annual Advisory Board Meeting where we were graciously hosted by André Azoulay, Advisory Board member and Counsellor to H.M King Mohammed VI.

Rich with history, Essaouira was the perfect location for the first Advisory Board Meeting in two years.

Due to the city's port, which was founded in 1770, Essaouira was the most important trading post between Europe, Africa and the Americas until the first half of the nineteenth century.

As founder and president of the Association Essaouira-Mogadorm which was set up in 1992, André Azoulay has led a renaissance in Essaouira through a unique approach to sustainable development of the city based on its cultural diversity and spiritual legacy.

This approach to development provides many lessons for others and its success is a wonderful testament to the vision and leadership of André Azoulay.

The Advisory Board Meeting was attended by our Chairman, Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo; Jonathan Oppenheimer; Former President of Liberia and Nobel Laureate, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Former Minister of Trade and Professor INCAE in Costa Rica, Alberto Trejos; Former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma; Presidential Investment Envoy and Former Deputy Minister of Finance in South Africa, Mcebisi Jonas; Toben Brylle, Former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark to South Africa, in addition to The Brenthurst Foundation team led by Director Dr Greg Mills.

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78cd27 No.20732488

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>>20701818

>In 2021, Core Civic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, the biggest name in the private prisons industry, contacted 48 states offering to buy their prisons. There was one requirement of eligibility for the deal was particularly strange.

>“An assurance by the agency partner that the agency has sufficient inmate population to maintain a 90% occupancy rate over the term of the contract.”

>Corrections Corporation of America

“Prison For Profit | Trailer | iwonder.com”

https://youtu.be/HoWVHpcHka4

1:49 – “Remember: hatred is not something you are born with. You are taught to hate. The revenue of the prison is over $630 million. It’s in their interest to have crime rates go up. They say adapt or die. It’s all about money. It’s all about profit.

Watch the full film now on iwonder:

https://iwonder.com/titles/prison-for-profit-2d3a3c2e69e9993ccf80e086795e71ff

“Prison for Profit: Unearthing the Inhumane Conditions of South Africa's Privatised Prisons”

https://blog.iwonder.com/prison-for-profit-unearthing-the-inhumane-conditions-of-south-africas-privatised-prisons/

30 August 2023 . 12:49 PM

"Prison for Profit" is a chilling expose of the inhumane conditions in South Africa's privatised prisons.

Introduction:

"Prison for Profit," directed by Femke van Velzen, is a chilling 2019 documentary that delves into the shocking conditions at South Africa's privately-run Mangaung Prison. The film uncovers rampant inmate torture, neglect, and the constant fear of underpaid prison guards. In today's context, the documentary is especially significant as it sheds light on the inhumane consequences of prison privatisation, a controversial issue in many countries.

Synopsis:

The documentary takes us inside the walls of Mangaung Prison, a facility run by the multinational security company, G4S. It provides a stark portrayal of the cruel and inhumane conditions endured by the inmates, with stories of routine torture, abuse and medical neglect.

Key themes in the film:

• The dehumanising effects of prison privatisation.

• The prioritisation of profit over human rights and welfare.

• The systemic neglect and abuse within the criminal justice system.

Film Comparisons:

While other films on iWonder also explore the prison system, "Prison for Profit" offers a unique perspective by focusing on a prison in South Africa and the specific issue of privatisation.

Noteworthy Moments:

The testimonies of the former prison guards, who speak about their fear and the pressure to maintain control at any cost, are particularly impactful.

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45b4db No.20742923

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“Eswatini at risk of becoming a haven for hot money”

https://youtu.be/g7adkv2zVHQ

Apr 16, 2024

A leaked report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is warning that Eswatini is at risk of becoming a haven for hot money.

This is when funds move from one country to another for a short-term profit on interest rate differences or to capitalise on changes to exchange rates.

Open Secrets' Hennie Van Vuuren explains.

“The Swazi Secrets leak — part 1” – 1 of 3

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-the-swazi-secrets-leak-part-1/

16 APRIL 2024 - 00:30

On Saturday January 21 2023, Eswatini ’s leading human rights lawyer was assassinated in his living room. It was a quiet summer evening in a sleepy village on the hills not far from the capital Mbabane, and Thulani Maseko and his family were watching television when the unknown killer fired shots. This followed just hours after King Mswati III had warned in a public address to his traditional regiments that mercenaries would deal with those calling for democratic reforms, according to international NGO Human Rights Watch [https://web.archive.org/web/20240119200940/https:/www.hrw.org/news/2023/01/25/eswatini-activist-rights-lawyer-brutally-killed].

The lack of a credible independent investigation has fuelled speculation that agents of Mswati or his state murdered Maseko. He was, after all, a thorn in the side of the Swazi regime, holding together the pro-democracy Multi-Stakeholder Forum, an organisation challenging the one-man rule of Mswati.

Maseko was, by all accounts, the kind of person to lead a free Eswatini in future, and he would have been an able drafter of a democratic constitution. As it was, he had led many legal challenges to Mswati’s authority — including one taking on the king’s unilateral decree that Swaziland be renamed Eswatini on his 50th birthday, in April 2018. Mswati, it seems, had been inspired by a fantastical vision of command from God, leading him to declare the country a “monarchical democracy”.

Mswati’s paradoxical “monarchical democracy” is really a front for one-man rule. It offers the promise of a constitution and an elected parliament (the Tinkhundla). However, political parties are banned and the king’s powers are ultimately not fettered by the constitution. As opposition leader Lucky Dlamini wrote in Workers World News during the most recent parliamentary elections in September 2023: “The Tinkhundla elections remain meaningless as they serve to legitimise a powerless parliament that has no power to hold the executive accountable and has no legislative authority.”

This week the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and seven media partners, including Open Secrets, publish Swazi Secrets, based on more than 890,000 leaked documents that originate from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit. The leak is the largest of its kind from a financial intelligence unit in an African country. Reporting based on the leaks reveals the vulnerability of Swazi financial institutions to predatory behaviour by politicians and corporations alike.

The ramifications of this extend beyond the borders of Eswatini, with a risk that financial institutions may be manipulated with the intention of fuelling money laundering and organised crime across the region. South Africa would not be immune from this.

Mswati is a king in the mould of modern-day Emirati royalty: he and his family display an unfettered appetite for fast cars, fancy watches and designer garb. In contrast to lazy European royalty who have limited political power and survive largely on intergenerational wealth and public handouts, Mswati and his family are ostensibly in a phase of rapid accumulation and consumption aided by effective control of the state.

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45b4db No.20742924

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>>20742923

“Eswatini at risk of becoming hot money haven”

https://youtu.be/UKptulCR5Ac

Apr 16, 2024

The Africa Report's Olivier Holmey explains how the leaked report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists highlights the country's potential to become a haven for hot money.

“The Swazi Secrets leak — part 1” – 2 of 3

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-the-swazi-secrets-leak-part-1/

16 APRIL 2024 - 00:30

The royal purse is funded largely by the Swazi state and royal investment fund Tibiyo Taka Ngwane (Tibiyo). This cash cow was created under British colonial occupation to assist the government in providing for the needs of emaSwati. However, far from serving the broad public, its primary beneficiary today appears to be the royal household, a source close to the royal family tells Open Secrets.

The fund holds extensive shares across all major economic sectors. As the World Bank notes in a 2017 report, “Tibiyo owns urban property and farms on Title Deed Land and has become a vehicle for the royal ownership of most shares in Eswatini’s larger companies”.

Tibiyo is thus perhaps best understood as a royal empowerment vehicle that allows the king to muscle in on any form of legitimate economy activity. Its 2022 annual report lists 21 companies in which the king holds shares.

This is all particularly relevant when new licences are issued (think mobile telephony, gambling or tourism) and in the agricultural sector, where it is within the king’s power to seize land. There are obvious reasons why most corporations accommodate power by ensuring that the king or Tibiyo remain satisfied shareholders.

While Tibiyo claims that social investment is the core of its business and it strives to maximise wealth to develop the nation, the king is its sole trustee, and both he and the fund are exempt from paying tax.

The king is also believed to own direct shares in various entities, such as a lucrative 10% slice of MTN Eswatini, a subsidiary of the MTN Group. The company’s website does not name Mswati, but lists ownership of these shares to an “esteemed shareholder” — parlance for the king.

In contrast to the king’s wealth, the Swazi people largely live in poverty. A 2022 Bertelsmann Foundation report on democratic transformation found that 59% of people live in abject poverty, surviving on less than $2, or R37, a day. This served to fuel the pro-democracy protests that swept across Eswatini in 2021. The protests — a response to police brutality — were quickly followed by calls for democratic reforms in the country.

The response by Mswati’s government was swift and violent; 80 people were killed by security forces and hundreds injured, Amnesty International reported. In late June protests were banned and it was prohibited to deliver petitions to parliament. This was followed by a government directive ordering companies such as South Africa’s MTN to shut down telecom and internet services in an attempt to throttle communication during the most successful challenge to the monarchy in recent times.

During the stand-off BBC News interviewed young protesters, who drew attention to the extreme wealth disparity between the royal family and the Swazi people. “The poverty levels are scary. You can just see it as you’re driving on the road. Who even still lives in a stick and mud house now? … And then you’re [the royal family] going to flaunt your wealth every chance you get.”

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45b4db No.20742933

>>20742923

>>20742924

>>20537590

>SACU

“The Swazi Secrets leak — part 1” – 3 of 3

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-the-swazi-secrets-leak-part-1/

16 APRIL 2024 - 00:30

South Africa: big brother and bankroller

While the king relies on the largesse provided by Tibiyo and the state, Eswatini has a benefactor in South Africa. The Swazi lilangeni is pegged at parity to the rand through the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu).

The most recent financial year was a bumper period for Eswatini as its Sacu revenue nearly doubled to E11.75bn. This is the largest receipt yet from Sacu and largely paid by South Africa.

Despite this, Sacu revenue to Eswatini is on the decline. This suggests trouble ahead, given that the country continues to source the bulk of its income from the regional mechanism while public spending (including on the royal household) is on the increase. In an attempt to attract companies to set up shop in Eswatini, finance minister Neal Rijkenberg — who also owns the largest timber company in the country — has cut corporate taxes to 25%. However, there is little evidence that this has served to generate significant new legitimate economic activity.

https://neweralive.na/posts/eswatini-assumes-sacu-chairmanship

2022-07-18

King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Eswatini will assume the role of the chairperson of the Southern African Customs Union Summit, taking over from the President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi.

This is as the Kingdom of Eswatini assumed chairmanship of the SACU Summit, Council of Ministers and Commission, from 15 July 2022 to 14 July 2023.

Eswatini takes over from Botswana, who held the SACU chair from 15 July 2021 to 14 July 2022. The SACU chairmanship rotates amongst the member States, in alphabetical order, for 12-month increments.

This latest rotation means Eswatini finance minister Neal Rijkenberg will assume the role of chairperson of the SACU Council of Ministers, taking over from the minister of finance of Botswana, Peggy O Serame.

Principal secretary in the ministry of finance of Eswatini, Sizakele Dlamini, takes over as the chairperson of the SACU Commission from the secretary for economic and financial policy in the finance ministry in Botswana, Kelapile Ndobano.

Also, principal secretary in the finance ministry of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Nthoateng Lebona, is now chairperson of the finance and audit committee, taking over from the principal secretary of Eswatini, Sizakele Dlamini.

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45b4db No.20743038

>>20742933

>The most recent financial year was a bumper period for Eswatini as its Sacu revenue nearly doubled to E11.75bn. This is the largest receipt yet from Sacu and largely paid by South Africa.

>>20537590

>Ambassador Mavimbela: The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are primary vehicles for political and regional economic integration and are important in the promotion of equitable development, sustainable infrastructure development and industrialisation.

>As you may be aware, SACU is the oldest functioning customs union in the world. [“the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) dates back to the 1889 Customs Union Convention between the British Colony of Cape of Good Hope and the Orange Free State Boer Republic. A new Agreement, signed on June 29, 1910, was extended to the Union of South Africa and the British High Commission Territories (HCTs), i.e. Basutoland (Lesotho), Bechuanaland (Botswana), and Swaziland, South West Africa (Namibia) "was a defacto member, since it was administered as part of South Africa" before it became a dejure member. The primary goal was to promote economic development through regional coordination of trade.”]

>>20696996

>UNESCO: “Roadmap for integrating Global Citizenship and Liberation History in teaching and learning in SADC Member States”

“Time to pull the plug on SACU?” – 1 of 3

[European Union to the World Trade Organization (WTO) website is regarded as spam on this board]

25.10.2023

The EU is a strong supporter of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), and welcomes its significant progress since the creation in 1969.

The five SACU countries are active participants in the work of the WTO.

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/time-to-pull-the-plug-on-sacu

Published on 12 March 2015

Excerpts

The formula that determines how the customs and excise revenues gathered in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are distributed among its members looks, to a layperson, dauntingly complex. But this formula has had an enormous impact on the economic and even political development of the five SACU member states; South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland [Now Eswatini].

The impact has arguably been greatest on South Africa’s neighbours, the four smaller member states that are often referred to simply as the BLNS. But it has also had an impact on South Africa.

SACU was founded in 1910, the year the Union of South Africa came into existence, and is the oldest surviving customs union in the world. Originally it distributed customs revenue from the common external trade tariffs in proportion to each country’s trade..

So, South Africa received nearly 99%. Surprisingly, South Africa’s apartheid government radically revised the revenue-sharing formula (RSF) in 1969 after Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland had become independent. This gave each of the BLS members first 142% and later 177% of their revenue dues, calculated on both external and intra-SACU imports, with South Africa receiving only what was left. But this apparent economic generosity from Pretoria almost certainly masked a political intention to keep its neighbours dependent and in its fold, as the rest of the world was increasingly turning against it.

However, as Roman Grynberg and Masedi Motswapong of the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis pointed out in their paper, SACU Revenue Sharing Formula: The History of An Equation, the 1969 formula became increasingly unviable for South Africa as it had been de-linked from the common revenue pool. This threatened to burden Pretoria with a commitment to pay out to the BLS states more than the total amount in the pool.

The African National Congress government saw the dangers when it took office in 1994 and soon began negotiations with the BLNS states for a new formula. That was agreed in 2002 and implemented in 2004. But although the 2002 RSF eliminated the risk that the payouts to the BLNS might exceed the whole revenue pool, it actually increased the share of the pool accruing to the BLNS at the expense of South Africa – as Grynberg and Motswapong also observe.

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45b4db No.20743047

>>20743038

“Time to pull the plug on SACU?” – 2 of 3

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/time-to-pull-the-plug-on-sacu

Published on 12 March 2015

Excerpts

However, as Roman Grynberg and Masedi Motswapong of the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis pointed out in their paper, SACU Revenue Sharing Formula: The History of An Equation, the 1969 formula became increasingly unviable for South Africa as it had been de-linked from the common revenue pool. This threatened to burden Pretoria with a commitment to pay out to the BLS states more than the total amount in the pool.

The African National Congress government saw the dangers when it took office in 1994 and soon began negotiations with the BLNS states for a new formula. That was agreed in 2002 and implemented in 2004. But although the 2002 RSF eliminated the risk that the payouts to the BLNS might exceed the whole revenue pool, it actually increased the share of the pool accruing to the BLNS at the expense of South Africa – as Grynberg and Motswapong also observe.

Over the years the BLNS countries have grown increasingly dependent on the SACU revenue. It now funds 50% of Swaziland’s entire government revenue, 44% of Lesotho’s, 35% of Namibia’s and 30% of Botswana’s. Because of its own growing fiscal constraints, Pretoria launched a review of the formula in 2010. But this review got bogged down over major disagreements and seems to have gone nowhere.

Budget documents show that in 2014-15, South Africa paid out some R51.7 billion to the BNLS countries out of a total estimated revenue pool of R80 billion, and was projected to pay out R51 billion again in 2015-16. Kyle Mandy, a PricewaterhouseCoopers technical tax expert, told Parliament’s two finance committees last week that South Africa was paying about R30 billion a year more than it would otherwise under the SACU RSF. He said South Africa contributed about 97% of the customs revenue pool and received only about 17% of it.

The R51.7 billion payout to the BLNS this year represents about 5% of South Africa’s total of R979 billion in tax revenue, a substantial ‘subsidisation’ that was no longer affordable at a time of growing fiscal constraint, which had forced Nene to increase taxes, Mandy said.

He noted that the SACU revenue had allowed all but Namibia of the BLNS countries to set their taxes below South Africa’s. ‘This means South Africa is subsidising the BLS countries to compete with South Africa for investment with their more attractive taxes,’ he said in an interview.

‘This is not sustainable for anyone. It locks the BLNS countries into dependency on South Africa. They have neglected their own fiscal systems. But the moment that the revenue fluctuates, [as Nene’s budget predicted it would in 2016-17, dropping to R36.5 million], it puts them in a difficult position. When South Africa sneezes, they catch flu.’

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45b4db No.20743054

>>20743038

>>20743047

“Time to pull the plug on SACU?” – 3 of 3

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/time-to-pull-the-plug-on-sacu

Published on 12 March 2015

Excerpts

But what to do about this? Some, like political analyst Mzukisi Qobo, have called for a total overhaul of the SACU agreement, which would make explicit that SACU is a disguised South African development project. The development aid would become transparent and could be tied to conditions such as democratic government.

That is on the face of it an attractive solution, offering the opportunity of leveraging democracy in Swaziland, in particular, by placing a conditional foot on its lifeline of SACU revenues. But Grynberg warns that a sudden withdrawal of the vital direct budgetary support which SACU customs and excise revenues provides, could implode both Swaziland and Lesotho and provoke economic crises in Namibia and even Botswana.

Meanwhile, South Africa has benefitted from a ready market for its much larger manufacturing machine. Grynberg wrote in a more recent article for the Botswana journal, Mmegi, that the South African government was thinking of pulling out of SACU because it couldn’t get its way in the negotiations to revise the RSF; and because the 2005 Southern African Development Community Free Trade Agreement now gave it duty-free access to the BLNS countries without the need to pay the re-distributive SACU customs revenues.

It was only President Jacob Zuma who was preventing this, because he didn’t want to go down in history ‘as the man who crippled the Namibian and Botswana economies and created two more “Zimbabwes” – i.e. Swaziland and Lesotho – right on the country’s border.’ Pretoria’s decision had turned SACU into a ‘dead man walking, just waiting for someone to pull the switch and end its life.’

Grynberg strongly advised the BLNS to prevent this by accepting that the political reality that underpinned the RSF of SACU no longer existed. He says that it should be transformed into a purely development community without the formula, but with mutually agreed spending on development – mainly in the BLNS. He suggested, though, that this radical change would take at least 10 to 15 years to phase in.

All very well. But isn’t that what SADC is supposed to be already? Which suggests that it might be time to take the 105-year-old dead man off life support.

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45b4db No.20743061

>>20742923

>>20742924

>>20742933

“Swazi Secrets part 2: The construction kingpin” – 1 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-swazi-secrets-part-2-the-construction-kingpin/

16 April 2024 - 12:05

Excerpts

As chair of the Inyatsi group, Mitchelo Shakantu has built a business empire with stakes across the Eswatini economy. But Inyatsi Construction — the jewel in the crown — has been mired in controversy

There is a new generation of businesspeople with strong connections across Southern Africa who have become incredibly wealthy in Eswatini. They trade on royal favour and political connection and they are rich. They are building fortunes in this tiny country in a manner that the average emaSwati who survives on R35 a day could never imagine.

Inyatsi Construction (Pty) Ltd made a brief appearance during South Africa’s state capture period. It features in a report by Gobodo forensic investigators as one of the companies that profited from a Prasa contract awarded through an allegedly manipulated tender process. Inyatsi is chaired by controversial Zambian businessperson Mitchelo Shakantu, who has built a business empire with stakes across the kingdom’s economy.

Drawing from information from the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists’ (ICIJ) Swazi Secrets leak and senior sources within the country’s financial institutions, Open Secrets has dug a little deeper into the business fortunes of Eswatini’s construction kingpin.

A buffalo herd

Shakantu is married to Eswatini minister of foreign affairs Pholile Dlamini-Shakantu, who also served as justice minister from 2018 to 2023. According to Searchwork documents obtained by Open Secrets, Shakantu’s other wife, Colette Kgbang Shakantu, is believed to live in South Africa, where he and his family also own a number of properties.

Since joining Inyatsi in 2009, Shakantu has used the group – whose logo is an African buffalo – as a launchpad into other business ventures in the kingdom. These include the Clinic Group, which provides private health-care facilities and Eswatini Mobile, the second-largest private communications company in the country after MTN. Other holdings include Inyatsi Mining and Lidwala Insurance. Inyatsi also owns a 50% stake in the Maloma Colliery, a coal mine it bought from ANC funding front Chancellor House. The remaining stake in the colliery is equally divided between King Mswati III’s company, Tibiyo Taka Ngwane, and the state.

A jewel in the conglomerate’s crown is Inyatsi Construction Ltd, operating in seven African countries, including Eswatini, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia. The construction company, which is the recipient of large government tenders, has been mired in controversy, much of it reported in Swazi media.

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45b4db No.20743064

>>20743061

“Swazi Secrets part 2: The construction kingpin” – 2 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-swazi-secrets-part-2-the-construction-kingpin/

16 April 2024 - 12:05

Excerpts

The yellow brick road?

In 2013 contractors started work on the 43km Nhlangano-Sicunusa road project in southwestern Eswatini, close to the Gege border post. Expected to be completed in four years, the project was suspended following concerns of alleged corrupt activities during construction, after a significant investment of R500m. In December 2021, Inyatsi entered the picture and was awarded a contract for R647m to complete the project.

According to an act of parliament governing the public-private partnership between Inyatsi and the state and assented to by the king on November 4 2021, the Eswatini government, perhaps by some coincidence, entered a loan agreement with Inyatsi to borrow the amount of R647,378,644 to finance the construction of the road. This came one month before the announcement that Inyatsi had been awarded the contract of the same value. In addition, Inyatsi was granted an initiation fee equivalent to 2% of the cost of the project. While Open Secrets does not have the actual agreement signed between Inyatsi and the government, the act of parliament confirms the loan to the state by the construction company.

The implication would be that the government financed the project through a loan provided to it by the contractor awarded to complete the project. The agreed repayment structure, the “Inyatsi Construction Ltd and Government of Eswatini (Construction of Nhlangano-Sicunusa Road Project Private Partnership)” document shows, would occur through 27 instalments over 15 years commencing in December 2021 with an interest rate of prime plus 1.25% per annum.

Open Secrets obtained a memo dated December 29 2021 from the principal secretary of the minister of finance to the attorney-general requesting a final “vetting”. Annexures to the memo set out the loan repayment period and milestones. This indicates that the project would eventually attract more than R500m in interest and cost R1,160,776,401. Inyatsi would therefore in all likelihood benefit from profit generated in the construction process, as well as R500m in finance fees. None of the documents suggests the involvement of a third party such as a financial institution that would source the loan.

Open Secrets was unable to ascertain if Inyatsi did indeed pay the loan to the state.

Still, according to the documents provided, the agreements were signed off by finance minister Neal Rijkenberg and Mswati, and certified through an act of parliament.

When asked to provide comment on the loan, Inyatsi Group responded to Open Secrets through a letter from marketing and PR manager Ncobile Dlamini which states: “This is factually not correct We are bound by confidentiality clauses and cannot comment.”

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45b4db No.20743072

>>20743061

>>20743064

“Swazi Secrets part 2: The construction kingpin” – 3 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-swazi-secrets-part-2-the-construction-kingpin/

16 April 2024 - 12:05

Excerpts

A house fit for an ex-Zambian President

In mid-May 2018 news broke that Mswati had gifted land to former Zambian president Edgar Lungu – who has been the focus of allegations of corruption and investigations in Eswatini – to build a mansion in the country. Images of the architectural drawings for the mansion were leaked on Twitter at the time. They show the plot is situated in the sprawling Nkonyeni golf estate bordering the Usutu River, 50km outside Mbabane.

It was no small matter: the Times of Swaziland reported that construction of the mansion would allegedly cost $3.9m. Zambia’s minister of information & broadcasting at the time, Dora Siliya, confirmed the land was a donation to Lungu from the king and that it was normal practice for the Zambian president to receive gifts on international travels. Amos Chanda, Lungu’s State House spokesperson, reinforced the presidency’s position that it was a private affair between the two heads of state.

The president’s aide reportedly denied that the land had been developed, but information from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit (EFIU) would seem to suggest otherwise. Which raises the questions: if the land was a gift, how would Lungu raise the funds to construct a multimillion-dollar mansion? Who would pay for the construction costs?

Documents contained in the ICIJ Swazi Secrets leak provide some insight.

The leak shows that in December 2021, the Zambian Financial Intelligence Centre submitted a request for assistance to the EFIU to verify information related to allegations that Lungu had used the proceeds of corruption to build his Eswatini mansion. In response to the request, in February 2022, the EFIU found that there was no property in Swaziland directly linked to Lungu. However, documents show the EFIU did find evidence that linked Shakantu to the property. In its monitoring and analysis report, obtained by Open Secrets, the EFIU wrote: “The property in question Lot 225 Nkonyeni Golf Estate, allegedly bought by Dr Edgar Lungu to build a mansion is not registered under his name but the property is registered under the Link Trust, which is duly represented by Mr Mitchelo Shakantu, which in a way links Dr Lungu to Mr Shakantu …”

The Times of Swaziland reported in 2018 that the property was originally owned by Rudolph Investments (Pty) Ltd and the deed transfer, facilitated by law firm SV Mdladla & Associates, gave Inyatsi ownership. Open Secrets’ investigation could not find public records of this deed transfer.

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45b4db No.20743079

>>20743061

>>20743064

>>20743072

“Swazi Secrets part 2: The construction kingpin” – 4 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-16-swazi-secrets-part-2-the-construction-kingpin/

16 April 2024 - 12:05

Excerpts

Funds ‘being laundered’?

The ICIJ Swazi Secrets leak does provide evidence of SV Mdladla & Associates’ role in facilitating a different set of questionable financial transactions for Shakantu in 2017. One of these took place in June 2017, when the EFIU flagged suspicious transactions involving millions of emalangeni paid from the Swazi National Provident Fund (SNPF), via a SV Mdladla & Associates Nedbank account, to the personal accounts of Shakantu and his deceased business partner Victor Gamedze.

According to a report by the EFIU (then known as the Swaziland FIU, or SFIU) accessed by Open Secrets as part of the Swazi Secrets leak, the unit detected a June 2017 transfer of E50m from the SNPF to a Nedbank account of SV Mdladla & Associates, which then remitted E20m each to Shakantu and Gamedze. The remaining E10m was paid to Swazi Mobile, which Shakantu and Gamedze co-founded.

The SNPF claimed the money was paid for shares in Swazi Mobile, but the EFIU in its internal documents casts doubt on these claims, saying “it is not clear why 80% of the funds were deposited into personal accounts. The funds remitted into personal accounts makes the SFIU believe the funds are being laundered and the claim of buying shares by SNPF is a front to cover up an alleged illicit act.”

In October 2017 a similar transaction occurred, where SV Mdladla & Associates used a First National Bank account that received a transfer of E70m from the SNPF, according to the SFIU report. In the span of days this money was apparently disbursed, with E33m paid to accounts linked to Shakantu, E33m paid to accounts linked to Gamedze and the remaining E4m transferred to an African Alliance account. The latter company is close to the monarch’s financial affairs, and is listed as a banker to the royal company Tibiyo Taka Ngwane, according to its 2022 annual report.

The SFIU report goes on to suggest that Shakantu moved a portion of this money into a prime-linked account at the Swaziland Building Society and, when that institution inquired about the origin of the funds, he claimed the proceeds were from the sale of property.

The roaming buffalo

The allegations, taken collectively, suggest that Shakantu’s Inyatsi Group, on the face of it, may be linked to several questionable financial transactions that may require further investigation. Given the group’s footprints across Southern Africa, the Inyatsi Group looks set to expand its operations and influence. As the Swazi Secrets leak reveals, the influential Inyatsi Group has, it seems, operated with impunity precisely because the institutions of state in an ostensibly corrupt absolute monarchy have tolerated this. The question is for how much longer will this continue – and at what cost to the people of Eswatini?

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45b4db No.20743092

>>20742923

>>20742924

>>20742933

Part 1

>>20743061

>>20743064

>>20743072

>>20743079

Part 2

“Swazi Secrets part 3: How to capture a bank” – 1 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-17-swazi-secrets-part-3-how-to-capture-a-bank/

17 April 2024 - 08:00

Eswatini central bank red-flags Farmers Bank licence

Eswatini finance minister Neal Rijkenberg projects an air of ordinariness. His sensible suits, likely bought off the rack, are only rarely swopped out for Swazi traditional dress.

But Rijkenberg is far more colourful than his looks suggest. For a start, he is an evangelical pastor who has established an orphanage town for 400 children. He’s the owner of the country’s largest timber company, Montigny, sprawled over 80,000ha — just under 5% of Eswatini’s land mass. And he’s a loyal servant to King Mswati III, who awarded him with a second term of office in 2023 and who appointed him as chair of Silulu Royal Holdings — a company accused of “land grabbing” from the poor.

One of the most puzzling cases to coincide with much of Rijkenberg’s tenure as finance minister is the effort by Canadian brothers John and Alexander Asfar to establish a “Farmers Bank” in Eswatini.

While the operation may seem amateurish from the outside, it seemingly has sufficient political backing — including from the king, a 2022 Kroll report suggests — to hold a (one-year) temporary banking licence at present. While there is no evidence of Rijkenberg’s interference in the application process, the bank’s first branch in Eswatini was built in a remote area owned by a nonprofit linked to Rijkenberg and surrounded by Rijkenberg’s vast forest plantation.

This licence application was first lodged seven years ago with the Central Bank of Eswatini (CBE) which, to its credit, has vigorously opposed the awarding of the licence.

Who is behind Farmers Bank, what are its political connections and might it be a vehicle for questionable future financial transactions?

The Swazi Secrets leak provides some clues. The 890,000 leaked documents from the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit (EFIU) were obtained by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit devoted to publishing and archiving of leaks, and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and seven media partners including Open Secrets.

In addition, Open Secrets has obtained a copy of a 2022 independent investigation by the UK office of risk and risk advisory firm Kroll, commissioned by the CBE. The findings of this document are published here in the public interest.

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45b4db No.20743095

>>20743092

“Swazi Secrets part 3: How to capture a bank” – 2 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-17-swazi-secrets-part-3-how-to-capture-a-bank/

17 April 2024 - 08:00

Big boardrooms and bold claims

In June 2017 in the sleepy seaside town of George, South Africa, the board of directors of Farmers Bank decided to apply to the CBE for a commercial banking licence. A banking licence is a prize not easily obtained and, were they to be successful, they would hold one of only five such licences, together with Standard Bank, First National Bank, Nedbank and the local Eswatini Bank.

According to a scanned application in possession of Open Secrets, Farmers Bank suggested that, unlike other Swazi banks, it would not rely on local depositors from the country of 1.2-million people and rather seek to attract offshore capital. In contrast, the bank’s domestic operation would be to support farmers in Eswatini’s agricultural sector with loan facilities. That’s like an amalgamation of banks such as the Land Bank and Investec in South Africa — a highly unlikely business model.

However, the over-500-page licence application makes bold, curious claims that should have immediately set off alarm bells. First, it promised to deliver $2.5bn worth of investments into Eswatini. This is significant given that the kingdom’s GDP in 2023 was only $3.8bn.

Then there’s the bizarre claim that its office in George, known as the Worldwide Corporate Center, would boast “one of the most technologically advanced and biggest boardrooms in Africa”.

Open Secrets and the ICIJ have verified that these premises have not been occupied by Farmers Bank to date.

The first of two branches of Farmers Bank was built in the tiny hamlet of Bulembu in northwestern Eswatini (the other is in the commercial capital Manzini). Bulembu has a long history as a “company town” built to serve the now-defunct Havelock Asbestos mine. The road to Bulembu is at times impassable without a four-wheel drive and the town residents are primarily orphans and forest workers. This makes the Farmers Bank, with its green roof and bulletproof windows, a curious sight. When Open Secrets last visited the branch in 2022 there was no sign that it had ever been operational and the obligatory high-back office chairs were still wrapped in their plastic coverings.

Once owned by a British mining company, Bulembu is today run by nonprofit Christian organisation Bulembu Ministries, which Rijkenberg established and was a director of from 2005, before taking on the role of chair in 2018.

We have been unable to ascertain if Rijkenberg has retained that role but he has indicated in response to questions that Farmers Bank rented property from Bulembu and hence he recused himself from any decisions regarding the banking licence.

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45b4db No.20743101

>>20743092

>>20743095

“Swazi Secrets part 3: How to capture a bank” – 3 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-17-swazi-secrets-part-3-how-to-capture-a-bank/

17 April 2024 - 08:00

Enter the Canadians

The 2022 Kroll investigation has two primary findings. The first is that there were key gaps in Farmers Bank’s licence application, “relating to the source of initial seed capital and the bank’s ownership structure”. The report adds that, “despite repeated requests by the CBE and opportunities to provide the information, the Applicant has failed to provide a clear explanation and supporting documentation to address these gaps”.

Both Kroll and the EFIU investigated the two Canadian brothers behind Farmers Bank: John and Alexandre Asfar. The brothers make an appearance in South Africa in around 2015 and Alexander Asfar is believed to live in the luxurious Fancourt golf estate in George.

However, the two brothers have no history as bankers and John Paul Asfar has a chequered history of financial dealings in Canada where his Traveller’s Inn hotel chain was ultimately declared bankrupt. Prior to this he’d also dabbled in lobbying for casino licences. It remains unclear whether he repaid his creditors; as a local news article notes, “the chain ended up being dismantled as creditors moved in to recoup what they could”. A bankruptcy trustee estimated that John Asfar owed as much as C$68m. In 2009, immediately following the bankruptcy, he had promised to repay his debts and pledged C$70m to charity. At the same time, he stated his intent to leave Canada to concentrate on “helping needy people in Africa”.

John Asfar’s bankruptcy might go some way to explaining why the Kroll report notes that he has never supplied the CBE with a “fit and proper person” assessment and why he had — according to Kroll — written to Rijkenberg to intervene when this was required in the past. According to the report, “as at the date of this report, we understand that J Asfar’s assessment still remains outstanding”. A history of bankruptcy would almost certainly be a reason for the CBE to reject a banking licence application. In Eswatini, like most jurisdictions, a banking licence is a golden ticket which should only be given to individuals with impeccable credentials.

In addition to this, the Asfar brothers established a complex holding structure that did little to create a sense of transparency in the scheme. Farmers Bank was owned by a New Zealand entity called Worldwide Capital Corp, which was in turn owned by Canadian company Tetrillion. According to Kroll, both brothers were directors of all these companies. However, they failed to provide proof of who the ultimate beneficial owner of Tetrillion is, raising a red flag in the Kroll report.

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45b4db No.20743106

>>20743092

>>20743095

>>20743101

“Swazi Secrets part 3: How to capture a bank” – 4 of 4

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/africa/2024-04-17-swazi-secrets-part-3-how-to-capture-a-bank/

17 April 2024 - 08:00

A higher power intervenes

The second key finding of the Kroll report is critical of the CBE and suggests that the CBE made some decisions in awarding a licence because of “external pressure”. It notes that, “from documents reviewed by Kroll it is likely that third parties external to the CBE intervened in the process and issued instructions to the CBE to proceed with the granting of a licence to Farmers Bank and the subsequent extension of the licence. This is despite the fact that the CBE had identified concerns and deficiencies.”

The licence application process took several twists and turns. According to Kroll’s report, a CBE evaluations team recommended to the board of directors in 2017 that they reject the commercial banking licence as it would “tarnish the regulatory integrity of the Central Bank’s licensing policy.” In September 2018 a banking licence was issued (with certain conditions) following a “royal command” from the king. However, in October 2020, the CBE posted a public notice that it had revoked Farmers Bank’s commercial banking licence. Internal government and CBE records provided to Open Secrets show that a subsequent appeal process chaired by Eswatini minister of commerce, industry & trade Manqoba Khumalo led to the decision to reinstate the licence in January 2021.

One of the core reasons behind the CBE’s decision to revoke Farmers Bank’s licence in October 2020 was Farmers Bank’s board of directors’ inability to provide adequate proof of the origins of all the seed capital required to establish the bank. In addition, the Kroll report shows that, starting in 2019, the Asfars transferred R89m of the seed capital to purchase silver bullion from Rand Refinery in South Africa. However, the CBE was unable to verify the existence of the silver bullion.

Right of reply

Rijkenberg was sent a detailed set of questions which he declined to answer, as did the EFIU and CBE.

John Asfar responded without providing any specific answers but made a number of revealing statements in a rambling, error-filled letter which we quote from here: “The Leadership is now aware of your plan to not Libel and attack our Financial Institution but also the plan to destroy the economy of Eswatini. These acts will result in International Warrants being issued again, this time for Financing/Financial Terrorism as defined by the Act in Eswatini, and internationally.” He went on to add: “We will be going up the ladder and horizontally, and will be seeking to reverse take-over the different news platforms and legacy news agencies, with our corporate entities we registered in different jurisdictions as ‘WORLDWIDE NEWS’.”

Central bank integrity matters

Reading John Asfar’s rebuttal may leave the impression that these are not serious people — or perhaps not serious enough to operate a bank, even in a small jurisdiction such as Eswatini. However, what happens in the country matters to its people and the economies of the region.

South Africa has witnessed the subversion of banks during state capture — think Bank of Baroda — as a means to advance individual interests. It is a reminder of how political interference has the potential to damage the integrity of a country’s financial system. This has not happened yet in Eswatini’s absolute monarchy, largely because of the diligence of public servants in institutions such as the CBE and elsewhere, but it does not mean it is immune from this either.

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45b4db No.20743116

>>20743106

>the Kroll report shows that, starting in 2019, the Asfars transferred R89m of the seed capital to purchase silver bullion from Rand Refinery in South Africa.

Rand Refinery: “South Africa’s century-old gold refiner runs at 75% as mines dim”

https://www.mining.com/web/south-africas-century-old-gold-refiner-runs-at-75-as-mines-dim/

February 3, 2023 | 9:43 am

South Africa’s largest gold refiner is operating below capacity as output from local mines dwindles and supplies from elsewhere on the continent are scooped up by unaccredited rivals.

The 102 year-old Rand Refinery Ltd. in the east of Johannesburg — the only African refiner accredited with the London Bullion Market Association — is running at about 75% of capacity, said Chief Executive Officer Praveen Baijnath. While it still processes the output of its biggest shareholders — AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. Harmony Gold Mining Co. and Sibanye Stillwater Ltd. — about half of the continent’s gold, from artisanal and small-scale miners, goes to smaller unaccredited refiners.

“Our capacity is not fully utilized,” Baijnath said in an interview. “So should there be an increase in deliveries, we would be able to step up.”

That surplus capacity partly stems from the demise of South Africa’s gold industry, where output peaked decades ago. The plant was originally built to end the practice of shipping crude bullion to London from the vast Witwatersrand basin, the source of half the gold produced on earth. Now power outages are crippling the nation’s economy and threatening to hasten the end of those operations, the CEO said.

Rand Refinery also sources gold from Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania — the continent’s top producers — but much larger flows are ending up with smaller smelters that have sprung up across Africa. The plant aims to stay competitive by investing in new technology and improving the logistics of hauling gold dore from across Africa, including sometimes using charter flights, Baijnath said.

There’s currently no market pressure to curtail the refinery’s operations further, said Baijnath.

So far, the LBMA’s minimum output requirements and stringent rules around responsible sourcing have precluded other African refineries from gaining accreditation. That hasn’t prevented them from finding markets for their bullion in Dubai and some European countries, Baijnath said.

Many of those unaccredited plants are in South Africa, where illegal mining has long been a problem. The proliferation of some of those refiners could in turn be spurring gold smuggling across the continent, he said.

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45b4db No.20743143

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Swazi Leaks - Part 1

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Swazi Leaks - Part 2

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>>20743106

Swazi Leaks - Part 3

“Eswatini confirms data breach, disputes information validity”

https://youtu.be/vOSepXXN124

Apr 17, 2024

Eswatini government spokesperson Alpheous Nxumalo confirms to Xoli Mngambi that certain confidential government data was stolen but denies the validity of its details.

2:18 – “We are aware of an international syndicate and cartel that is sponsored by neocolonialism business people who still has interest in manipulating, exploiting and exporting mineral resources in Africa for their own benefit in overseas countries escpecially Western countries and Europe. This has happened in the Republic of the DRC, it has happened in the Republic of Zimbabwe, it has also recently happened in Ethiopia where these so called leaks landed in the hands of these cartels and reported it as if there is something critically to hide about bank transactions that are happening by individuals which are supposed to be protected, by the way, by the banking systems within the international framework.

6:21 – “You publish it as authentic documents that contains authentic information. Now you are turning the whole narrative because that’s exactly the purpose of those stolen document Mr Mngambi. The purpose of those stolen documents has got nothing to do with the contents there in but it’s got everything to do with the narrative that those who stole the documents seek to drive.

10:11 – “This country have got working system, financial systems, economic systems that are supported by international financial frameworks from both IMF and World Bank to ensure that people who want to come to the kingdom to open businesses, do comply. Not only with the laws of the country but also with expected international standards of how to do business with the country.

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45b4db No.20743195

>>20500680

>André [Pienaar] started his career at Kroll Inc in 1996 where he became the youngest managing director until the successful sale of the company to Marsh & McLennan.

>>20743092

>Open Secrets has obtained a copy of a 2022 independent investigation by the UK office of risk and risk advisory firm Kroll, commissioned by the CBE

>>20743143

“Welcome to the murky world of Kroll Inc - the private CIA”

https://www.smh.com.au/business/welcome-to-the-murky-world-of-kroll-inc-the-private-cia-20050625-gdlkpn.html

June 25, 2005 — 10.00am

They helped track down billions of dollars of treasure looted from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein. They finally proved that "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, found hanging under London's Blackfriars Bridge with bricks in his pockets, was murdered. They were hired by Prince Charles to find the "Princess Di tapes".

Move over James Bond, this is the real-life fantasy world of the thousands of former cops and spooks, bodyguards, forensic accountants, journalists and criminal lawyers who made up what claims to be "the world's foremost independent risk consulting company", Kroll Inc.

Not for nothing did a former executive of the company describe Kroll as "like a private CIA".

In the process, inevitably for a company employing large numbers of former CIA, FBI and Special Forces people, the company has occasionally been accused of misconduct - the bugging scandal in Brazil is just the latest in which Kroll Inc has been embroiled.

Founded in 1972 by a New York assistant district attorney, Jules Kroll, the company expanded aggressively across America and internationally into 60 countries. In Australia, Kroll formed an ongoing partnership with the accountancy firm Ferrier Hodgson.

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45b4db No.20743213

>>20743195

>Founded in 1972 by a New York assistant district attorney, Jules Kroll, the company expanded aggressively across America and internationally into 60 countries.

Jules Kroll: “The World’s Most Famous Private Detective Makes No Apologies”

https://time.com/6095957/jules-kroll-private-detective-profile/

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 7:00 AM EDT

About a decade ago, when his mansion in upstate New York started feeling too cramped for all his grandkids, Jules Kroll, the world’s most famous private detective, set out to build a bigger one on a neighboring parcel of land. The owner of the plot sensed an opportunity and tried to jack up the price. So Kroll looked into the neighbor’s past, he recalls with a smile as we stood at the back of the property one morning last spring. “The guy didn’t know who he was dealing with.” In the end, Kroll got the price he wanted.

He also made a point about the industry he pioneered. An investigator’s skills, he says, “are like any other weapons.” They can be used for good, for ill or simply for profit. Since he founded his first investigative firm in 1972, Kroll’s clients have included aggrieved governments, major corporations and a Wall Street fraudster who now resides in prison.

He has avoided interviews in recent years, partly because he is known for discretion, but also because his industry has lately been involved in more high-profile scandals than the Mafia. On behalf of one client in 2018, Kroll’s firm was caught using deception to defend the use of asbestos, a known carcinogen. The previous year, it had emerged that various private investigators, including Kroll’s firm, had worked for Harvey Weinstein, the former movie mogul who has since been convicted of rape.

To a legion of critics, the ghoulishness of the Weinstein affair alone was reason to deny Kroll that opportunity. Yet his field is only growing, in numbers and in power. As of 2019, there were 36,200 licensed private eyes in the U.S. alone, according to the Department of Labor. So many of them have studied under Kroll that a historian once referred to him as “the Johnny Appleseed” of the private-investigations industry. “We are everywhere,” says one of his former employees and acolytes, Tyler Maroney, who now runs his own investigations firm in New York. “There are thousands of us out there who are Kroll alumni.”

Their work has never been more prominent—or controversial. The last two U.S. presidential elections have both been shaped by the kind of political dirt that private detectives excel at gathering. The 2016 race was tainted by the dossier of lurid claims against Donald Trump, assembled (for a price) by Christopher Steele, a former British spy, and shopped to reporters by a private-intelligence firm before some of its key claims and sources were discredited.

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45b4db No.20743284

>>20743143

> these so called leaks landed in the hands of these cartels and reported it as if there is something critically to hide about bank transactions that are happening by individuals which are supposed to be protected, by the way, by the banking systems within the international framework.

>>20607444

>SARB [South African Reserve Bank] and Steinhoff cross-border transactions after news broke this month that one of its former employees allegedly facilitated billions of Steinhoff rand out of South Africa via 16 exchange control applications.

>>20743106

>The second key finding of the Kroll report is critical of the CBE and suggests that the CBE made some decisions in awarding a licence because of “external pressure”.

>John Asfar responded without providing any specific answers but made a number of revealing statements in a rambling, error-filled letter which we quote from here: “The Leadership is now aware of your plan to not Libel and attack our Financial Institution but also the plan to destroy the economy of Eswatini. These acts will result in International Warrants being issued again, this time for Financing/Financial Terrorism as defined by the Act in Eswatini, and internationally.” He went on to add: “We will be going up the ladder and horizontally, and will be seeking to reverse take-over the different news platforms and legacy news agencies, with our corporate entities we registered in different jurisdictions as ‘WORLDWIDE NEWS’.”

>>20743195

>>20743213

Is the 2022 Kroll investigative report doing damage control to hide the real dirt?

Eswatini: “Bank 'secrecy' ruling a blow for transparency, media freedom” (2019)

https://africanlii.org/articles/2019-05-09/carmel-rickard/bank-secrecy-ruling-a-blow-for-transparency-media-freedom

9 May 2019

The High Court of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) has upheld and defended the secrecy surrounding that country's central bank. The court had been asked by the governor of the central bank for an interdict preventing a local newspaper from reporting on a leaked confidential document relating to Farmer Bank, Eswatini's newest financial institution. When the Times asked the governor a number of questions relating to the central bank's investigations on whether to grant the banking licence, he demanded an undertaking that 'the report' would not be published. And when the undertaking was not given, the bank went to court. The judge accepted that strict confidentiality had to be preserved 'at all costs' and that any leak could upset the country's financial stability and impact on central banks 'worldwide'.

Swaziland (now Eswatini) is hardly known as a land where transparency and free speech enjoy much value. Now the country's High Court has helped maintain this reputation with a decision effectively closing down media investigation into the people behind Eswatini's new Farmers Bank.

In January 2019, the Central Bank of Eswatini brought an urgent application against the Times newspaper. Heard by Judge Nkosinathi Maseko, the application was intended to prevent the Times from using information contained in a confidential report on the licence application of Farmers Bank.

Investigative journalist Welcome Dlamini had obtained the report, prepared by the central bank's financial regulation department, while he was working on a story about Farmers Bank. The central bank maintained that the law provided for strict security and confidentiality about all its business and that for an employee or former employee to have 'leaked' the document to the media was unlawful.

Judgement: Central Bank of Eswatini v African Echo (Pty) Ltd (57/2019) [2019] SZHC 69 (10 April 2019)

https://web.archive.org/web/20210211010247/https://swazilii.org/sz/judgment/high-court/2019/69-0

15. The Applicant has a right to the relief sought, particularly because the information sought to be published was obtained by means of unlawful intrusion upon the privacy of the Applicant. The nature of the information sought to be published is confidential and would cause irreparable harm to the Applicant, Farmers Bank and to the integrity of the financial systems of the country. It is in the interests of banking regulation, that confidentiality be preserved at all costs, given its potential consequences on the regulation of banking services within the country and beyond. A disclosure of such information, has the potential of upsetting the banking sector and create an adverse risk with corresponding Central Banks world-wide.

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45b4db No.20743308

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“The clash at Natcon Brussels”

https://youtu.be/BqZSgZpctxE

Apr 18, 2024

A strange event transpired at the National Conservative (NatCon) conference in Brussels in April 2024. We are at the conference when it happened. Here is an overview of the events.

“Mayor sends police to ban and shut down NatCon Brussels conference as Antifa gathers outside”

https://humanevents.com/2024/04/16/brussels-police-storm-national-conservatism-conference-move-to-shut-it-down

04/16/2024

Authorities have stated that they ordered the event to be shut down to "guarantee public safety" after leftists had allegedly threatened to protest it "violently."

One speaker at the event, Ralph Schöllhammer, told Human Events, “It is very frustrating that nobody within the Brussels media and political establishment can be found to defend a conference whose participants are trying to foster an open debate about the future of Europe and that includes elected MEPs. This is precisely what is meant by ‘defending democracy’ by the Left and their supporters in the legacy media: shut down any opinion that differs from their own.”

Antifa protesters gathered outside to confront attendees when they exited the building.

Mayor of the area of Brussels where the conference was held, Emir Kir, stated: "I issued an order from the mayor to ban the 'National Conservatism Conference' event to guarantee public safety.”

"In Etterbeek, Brussels City and Saint-Josse, the far-right is not welcome."

This will have been the third venue that NatCon would be kicked out of after Brussels mayors rejected the first two options.

Nigel Farage, ex-leader of the Brexit Party in the UK, gave the opening address, commending the owners of the venue that did allow NatCon to host its event, and reported that the owners were threatened for doing so.

"We give huge thanks to the Tunisian owner of this business for his courage and allowing free speech to take place…They've told this Tunisian owner, who believes in free speech, that if he carries on with this conference, they'll make sure he will go out of business," he said.

Also slated to speak were former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, per The Independent.

Farage likened the police action to the "old Soviet Union."

"At the meeting, over the next two days, you’ve got the prime minister of Hungary, you’ve got a bishop, you’ve got members of the European royal families coming, well-known international businessmen and women, politicians, leaders of parties that will win European elections in countries this year in June.

"And yet, because they are questioning ever-closer union, because they are questioning globalism, they are literally being shut down."

The police also reportedly blocked lawyers for the host of the event, Edmund Burke Foundation, from entering the building, along with Members of the European Parliament.

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45b4db No.20743312

>>20743308

“NatCon Triumphs In Brussels”

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/natcon-triumphs-in-brussels

APR 17, 2024

NatCon was very fortunate to have on its side lawyers from the international division of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the Christian legal organization that defends freedom of religion cases. ADF’s Paul Coleman, the British lawyer who directs ADF International, was there to speak, but Jean-Paul is Belgian, and lives and works in Brussels. When the municipal authorities came after NatCon, Jean-Paul took the case.

He told me this afternoon that things were utterly uncertain yesterday. Normally it takes days even for emergency petitions to the Belgian High Court to be approved. NatCon didn’t have days. If the petition had not been accepted, or if it failed, there would have been no Day Two of the two-day conference.

It was late in the evening, and nobody knew anything. Jean-Paul decided to pray. At 10:30 came a call summoning him to his country’s Supreme Court.

Jean-Paul told me he had no time to prepare, and no time to anticipate what the court’s questions would be. He showed up around midnight, and presented the case. Hours later, deep in the night, the court issued its verdict: the conference could go on. The doors of the Claridge venue opened at eight this morning, and today’s conference went off smoothly.

Jean-Paul told me that it was something close to a miracle that we prevailed — not so much because of the merits of the case (which were considerable), but because the court agreed to hear the case at such an hour, on such short notice. In conversation, the lawyer told me he thanks God for hearing his desperate prayer upstairs in the dance hall. He gives glory to God for the verdict.

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45b4db No.20766516

“Inside the corporate investigations business”

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-12-12/inside-the-corporate-investigations-business/

Published December 12 2017

The corporate investigations industry is by its very nature a secretive business, but it has recently and reluctantly come out of the shadows.

Last year a private spy, Christopher Steele, was forced to flee his home, following the leak of a dossier he had compiled on President Donald Trump. The former MI6 Russia hand had started his own security firm, Orbis Intelligence and had compiled an account of collusion between the Kremlin and Trump’s presidential campaign. Trump has repeatedly denied any such collusion. Steele, for his part, was recently reported as saying that he believed 70-90% of what was in the dossier was accurate. Then, in early December 2017, the Intercept reported that President Trump is considering creating a global network of private spies, due to his much-vaunted distrust of the Central Intelligence Agency and the larger US intelligence network. The industry is in demand.

One key distinguishing factor is that corporate investigations firm are often staffed and run by former spies and veterans of special forces, even if they work alongside graduates, accountants and lawyers.

Some of the companies even have private military arms – a legacy of hoovering up contracts in post-invasion Iraq or protecting shipping against Somali pirate gangs. Other still have veterans of the nervous ‘90s in Russia, where blue chip businesses vied with mafia gangs for control of vast swathes of natural resources. It is an industry which could be said, quite literally, to have skeletons in its closet.

Despite that, it is still a world that is less BBC spy series Spooks, more US legal series Suits. At drinks receptions in corporate law firms or arcane legal panels in former Soviet states, you will often find the directors of these companies mixing with partners in magic circle law firms, private bankers and fixers.

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45b4db No.20766528

>>20743213

>So many of them have studied under Kroll that a historian once referred to him as “the Johnny Appleseed” of the private-investigations industry. “We are everywhere,” says one of his former employees and acolytes, Tyler Maroney, who now runs his own investigations firm in New York. “There are thousands of us out there who are Kroll alumni.”

“Private Spies: Inside the Covert World of Spooks for Hire” 1 of 2

https://spyscape.com/article/private-spies-inside-the-covert-world-of-spooks-for-hire

Private 'spies for hire' are increasingly being used to gather evidence for multimillion-pound legal battles at London's Royal Courts of Justice, a hive of global corporate litigation relying on an intelligence industry valued at more than £15bn ($18bn) worldwide.

Unlike private investigators in much of the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Britain's private eyes are not licensed. Many are former spies, servicemen, or police officers trained at taxpayers’ expense in covert operations and, according to The Sunday Times, "After switching to the private sector, these ex-military use these skills to defend autocratic states, oligarchs, and wealthy businesses."

Ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele also reluctantly earned his 15 minutes of fame in 2017 when his Trump dossier found its way onto BuzzFeed’s website. Steele, who founded London’s Orbis Business Intelligence, was under contract for Fusion GPS, a DC-based ‘opposition research’ firm run by ex-Wall Street Journal reporters. Private spies, it seemed, were lurking everywhere.

Here’s a smattering of the best and some of the more unusual.

Kroll (New York HQ)

Kroll is the granddaddy of corporate intelligence firms, founded in 1972 by Jules Kroll to help clients uncover kickbacks, fraud, and corruption. Boris Yeltsin’s government contracted Kroll in 1992 to track down missing billions removed from the Soviet Union before the August 1991 putsch on the Russian White House. The Kuwaitis asked Kroll to find Saddam Hussein’s secret bank accounts. Even grandad has to swing with the times, however. In addition to security and investigation services, Kroll now provides background checks on Instagram influencers.

K2 Integrity (New York HQ, 350+ staff, int’l offices in London and Geneva)

Founded by Kroll’s sons, Jeremy and Jules, K2 Integrity focuses on corporate intel, serving lawyers, banks, and sometimes celebrities. Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein hired K2 to dig up info on women who accused him of sexual misconduct. In 2018, K2 paid substantial damages after hiring an ex-TV producer to spy on anti-asbestos activists for four years while posing as a filmmaker. The espionage was on behalf of clients with interests in the asbestos industry, court documents show.

Surefire Intelligence (HQ unclear, number of staff unknown)

In the murky world of private spying, Surefire Intelligence is in a category all its own. California’s Jacob Wohl, born in 1997, is accused of creating a bogus company called Surefire Intelligence to frame former FBI Director Robert Mueller. (Yes, you read that correctly.) The self-described hedge fund manager denies ties to Surefire but NBC reported that a company phone redirects to Wohl’s mother. Bellingcat journalists found the email 'jacob.wohl@nexmanagement.com' linked to Surefire’s website domain.

Booz Allen Hamilton (Virginia HQ, apx 27,000 staff and int’l offices)

Booz Allen Hamilton, with a long history of consulting, is one of the US National Security Agency’s main contractors. The company will be better known to some as the former employer of Edward Snowden. The whistleblower fled his job at Booz in Hawaii. In addition to NSA work, the private intelligence company offers IT, background checks, and analysis of cyber threat trends.

Constellis Holdings (Virginia HQ, 16,000 staff, int’l offices in Kabul, Baghdad & Saudi)

Constellis, owner of the security company once known as Blackwater, had a revenue of $1.7bn in 2020. It conducts investigations and works with the Department of Defense and US Homeland Security. In an advertisement for a Senior Research Analyst, based in Kabul or Baghdad, Constellis said it was looking for someone who could analyze all-source intelligence focusing on insurgent capabilities; monitor and analyze threat intelligence; and use a Glock-19.

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45b4db No.20766534

>>20766528

“Private Spies: Inside the Covert World of Spooks for Hire” 2 of 2

https://spyscape.com/article/private-spies-inside-the-covert-world-of-spooks-for-hire

AggregateIQ (Victoria, Canada, an estimated 20 staff)

Founded in 2013, AIQ delivers data intelligence and has an office on the west coast of Canada. Britain’s 2016 Brexit vote pushed AIQ into the limelight. In 2018, it was disclosed that pro-Brexit campaign groups had paid AIQ millions to design software aimed at influencing voters through social media - a breach of UK election rules. A Facebook executive testified before a UK Select Committee in 2018 that Vote Leave and BeLeave targeted exactly the same audiences on Facebook via AIQ. The company denies mishandling personal data and any wrongdoing.

Hakluyt, offices in London, New York, and nine other locations worldwide

London is teeming with publicity-shy private firms from Steele’s Orbis to Aegis and Control Risks. The death of MI6 informer Neil Heywood in China in 2012, however, put the spotlight on Hakluyt, sometimes referred to as a ‘convenient rest home for spies’. Heywood was a consultant for Hakluyt, founded by ex-MI6 officers. The firm’s strategic advisers include ex-finance ministers from Argentina and South Africa [referring to Trevor Manuel, https://hakluytandco.com/international-advisory-board/], a smattering of lawyers and bankers, the ex-chiefs of Coca-Cola and Rolls-Royce, and Sir Iain Lobban, ex-director of GCHQ - Britain’s NSA equivalent. Clients include Shell and BP oil. The NYC office is on Madison Ave. but if you have to ask for the address, you’re probably not getting through the bullet-proof door.

Black Cube (London, Madrid, Tel Aviv)

Founded in 2010 by two ex-Israeli military intelligence officers, Black Cube is known for its cutting-edge methods. Clients include UK tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz. But Black Cube also has a reputation for bumbling, aggressive tactics that can blow up, the Wall Street Journal reports. In 2019, agents were exposed for a smear effort against financier George Soros. In 2016, two employees were arrested in Bucharest for spying and sentenced to probation. Black Cube’s work with Tchenguiz was tied up in lawsuits, countersuits, and a settlement, and its agents were later called out for using fake IDs to meet actress Rose McGowan and extract info for Harvey Weinstein. Is it possible Black Cube’s website inspired Surefire?

Earth League International (Italy and Los Angeles)

There are plenty of private intelligence agencies in Europe, including Groupe GEOS in France, but Andrea Crosta’s Earth League International stands out as one of the more unique. Crosta’s team has helped bring down one of the most high-profile, illegal enterprises on the planet - the trade in elephant ivory. Environmental crime funds terrorist groups and militias, so Crosta uses his background in technology and Homeland Security to catch smugglers, poachers, and other criminals.

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45b4db No.20766551

>>20766534

>Hakluyt, offices in London, New York, and nine other locations worldwide

>>20766528

>K2 Integrity

>>20500680

> In 2004, André founded G3, an international consulting firm that advises global companies and international law firms on cybersecurity. In 2011, he sold G3 to Europe’s leading technology investment holding company.

Hakluyt: “Inside the secretive firm helping Labour to woo the City”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/09/19/labour-former-mi6-spies-hakluyt-charm-city-election/

19 September 2023 • 7:58pm

The firm has several high-powered figures on the payroll including some with links to the party

Founded by a group of former MI6 spies after the Cold War, the advisory and consultancy firm – which takes its name from Richard Hakluyt, the Elizabethan geographer – gained a reputation at one stage for recruiting old spooks who wanted to top up their pensions.

Today, however, the “about us” page on Hakluyt’s website reads more like a who’s who of the establishment, boasting former chairmen of multinational companies, retired diplomats, and globetrotting bankers.

Hakluyt is chaired by Lord Deighton, the influential businessman and former minister in David Cameron’s government, who is also chairman of Heathrow Airport and the Economist Group.

He is one of several high-powered figures on the payroll, alongside former Unilever boss and chairman Niall FitzGerald, immunologist and government adviser Professor Sir John Bell, former HSBC chairman and current Abrdn chairman Sir Douglas Flint, former GCHQ director Sir Iain Lobban, former Sony chairman Shuzo Sumi and Mark Wiseman, a former managing director at Blackrock, all of whom are members of the international advisory board.

Meanwhile, recent hires from the world of politics include Dan Rosenfield, a former civil servant who served as Boris Johnson’s chief of staff, Sir Oliver Robbins, the civil servant who was Theresa May’s “Brexit sherpa” and Jamie Hope, a former security advisor to Liz Truss.

Chris Inglis, a former deputy director of the US National Security Agency and Joe Biden’s first National Cyber Director, joined last month.

Look closely, and you will also find several links with the Labour Party.

Varun Chandra, Hakluyt’s media-savvy managing director, has links to Labour and worked at Lehman Brothers before helping Sir Tony Blair set up his old advisory firm.

In a rare interview years ago, one Hakluyt insider said: “We are there to answer specific questions — what the real agenda is, who is in whose pocket and what is the role of certain people.”

One person who works in the legal profession, and has had dealings with Hakluyt’s nature of work, compares it to intelligence gatherers such as K2 Integrity and G3, pointing out that although they are surrounded by mystique, what they do is above-board and tends to involve preparing high-level summaries for clients.

“There’s a bit of a formula,” the lawyer says. “They are usually packed with former spooks and have boards full of lords and ladies of the realm.

“The spooks gather intelligence and the lords and ladies ensure it has respectability.”

The company was linked in 2011 to Neil Heywood, a British businessman whose sudden death in China triggered suspicion.

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45b4db No.20766568

>>20500683

>Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos (Pienaar’s wife, Teresa Carlson, is a former vice-president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector business).

>>20500713

André Pienaar: “PENTAGON AUDIT FOUND CONNECTION BETWEEN MATTIS-ERA DEFENSE DEPARTMENT AND AMAZON-LINKED BRITISH CONSULTANT”

https://theintercept.com/2021/06/14/pentagon-defense-department-amazon-mattis/

June 14 2021, 4:40 p.m.

Excerpts

As the Defense Department eyed a $10 billion JEDI contract for tech giants, Mattis adviser Sally Donnelly hid financial ties to André Pienaar, whose firm has done business with Amazon.

A CLOSER INSPECTION of a Pentagon audit last year shows that Sally Donnelly was serving as a senior adviser to former Defense Secretary James Mattis when she received more than $1 million in payments for her share of an Amazon consulting firm from British financier André Pienaar — not from an American investor, as previously reported. One of those payments arrived the same month Pienaar and his partner, former Amazon executive Teresa Carlson, attended a dinner meeting with Donnelly and Mattis as the Pentagon was developing a $10 billion contract for cloud computing services that Amazon sought.

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract has been subject to numerous investigations and lawsuits regarding the Pentagon’s alleged preferential treatment of Amazon while drafting the solicitation and surprise decision to issue the $10 billion award to Microsoft in October 2019. Prospective bidders like Oracle were incensed that the solicitation’s terms supposedly favored Amazon, while Amazon has argued that former President Donald Trump’s contempt for Jeff Bezos and purported intervention in the program tipped the scale to Microsoft. The Bezos-owned company is currently challenging the JEDI contract in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, delaying the program so significantly that military services have begun pursuing their own cloud service agreements with Amazon, Microsoft, and others. The Defense Department may now decide to abandon the JEDI program altogether.

The revelation that Pienaar was the true buyer of Donnelly’s 80 percent share of the consulting firm, SBD Advisors, was buried in an audit released last year by the Pentagon’s inspector general into alleged ethical misconduct in the JEDI procurement. The audit has received little public attention despite adding a new twist in the myriad of ethical concerns surrounding the contract and a military-industrial complex that was made even more powerful by the pipeline of Trump-era defense officials to Donnelly’s new firm, Pallas Advisors.

Pallas Advisors, which Donnelly founded in 2018 with Tony DeMartino, former deputy chief of staff to Mattis, who also worked as the managing director at SBD Advisors, has become a haven for Trump-era Defense Department officials. Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Bob Daigle, Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer Essye Miller, and Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Sue Gordon are all on staff or the firm’s advisory board. Separately, President Joe Biden’s Senate-confirmed Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ron Moultrie is a former Pallas Advisors board member.

Donnelly sold her majority share in SBD Advisors, which helped educate Amazon and other clients on the inner workings of the Pentagon, in January 2017, prior to joining Mattis in the Defense Department. (Donnelly had intimate knowledge of the Department of Defense as a result of her work in the early 2010s running the Washington office for Mattis, then head of U.S. Central Command.) It wasn’t until the summer of 2018, shortly after Donnelly left the Pentagon to start Pallas Advisors, that a possible conflict of interest involving the payments from the sale came to light.

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45b4db No.20766601

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>>20500680

>>20500729

>>20500756

>>20500816

>>20743195

>>20743213

>Kroll

“Andre Pienaar: International Man of Intelligence” – He established the Scorpions while working for Kroll

https://youtu.be/gG0WT03cSo4

Premiered Mar 24, 2022

Andre Pienaar is the founder and CEO of C5, a venture capital firm operating at the intersection of commerce and government. On the boards of companies in 4 different countries, this British national [born in South Africa] shows a passion for America's strength and excellence greater than many of his U.S.-born colleagues. Tune in to hear how this national security and intelligence expert found himself labeled as a 'conniving intelligence officer,' and an 'evil foreign agent,' by the president of one major nation, all while working in pursuit of what he calls mission capital.

8:43 – “We are investing behind the innovation of core and key missions in the national security space and increasingly, national security permeates every aspect of life. Everything is interlinked and to have an effective national security in the US and in the United Kingdom and across our allies, we need very strong public-private partnerships and we need the government and private sector to work very closely together on the key issues and the key challenges of national security.

15:13 – He talks about General Mattis.

19:10 – “Just for the record I am not representing the CIA. The CIA is a great institution and a great force for good in the world and I’ve had the priviledge of knowing some highly accomplished CIA officers but myself, I had no affiliation with the CIA.”

19:32 – “So, one of the things I did in my career was to help investigate grand corruption and this came about because of my role in Kroll Associates when I was a young Managing Director at Kroll Associates. I had the most extraordinary assignment. Nelson Mandela, just after he got elected as South Africa’s first democratically elected President, asked me to help prepare the new democracy in South Africa to deal with organised crime and corruption and as a result of that we established a new stand-alone law enforcement unit which was called the Scorpions or more formally, the Director of Special Operations. We had tremendous support from both the US and the UK governments for this initiative as part of their support for democratic South Africa.

23:09 – “I’ve always had the priviledge of working with good people and if you’re part of a community of really great people that is one of the best forms of support. When we put together the Scorpions for Nelson Mandela, I had Tom Cash who was one of the most legendary Drug Enforcement Agency officers working with us. He was the guy that arrested General Noriega in Panama. I brought [?] who led all of the FBI’s investigations into Italian organised crime. I had Norb Garrett who was the director of the Near East for the CIA after his retirement. Anthony [?] was one of the leading Mi6 officers, one of the most experienced Mi6 officers in Africa. Mandela was delighted that we were able to convene professionals of this stature because he wanted the new democracy to have the benefit of the best leaders in law enforcement and combatting organised crime.

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45b4db No.20766607

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>>20500768

>“Bring back the model of the Scorpions: Mbalula”

“MK party: Kremlin’s Spear; Ramaphosa’s “unlawful” Putin deal freed Zuma - André Pienaar” – FBI, Scotland Yard and UK trained the Scorpions

https://youtu.be/-69ntQ5MXYc

Mar 4, 2024

André Pienaar is a venture capitalist, CEO, and founder of C5 Capital, a firm with a diverse portfolio spanning the cybersecurity, space, and nuclear power industries. He is also one of the co-founders of the Scorpions, which, according to Pienaar, was one of the most successful law enforcement units. However, it was dismantled by former President Jacob Zuma after the Scorpions started investigating Zuma and the Commissioner of Police, Jackie Selebi, for corruption. Pienaar was accused by Zuma of being a CIA spy, a claim that Pienaar says in an interview with Biznews, “placed a marker on me and my family as a form of intimidation.” Now, 15 years after the disbanding of the Scorpions, Pienaar has decided to fight back. He shares some details of the events in a recent article in National Security News and is planning to reveal more in an upcoming book scheduled for publication in August titled: “Mandela’s Untouchables – The Scorpions and the Fight for Justice in South Africa.” Pienaar alleges that Zuma has ‘Russian masters’ and that the uMkhonto weSizwe (ML) party is a proxy of the GRU, Russia’s Military Intelligence Service. He describes it as one of the most dangerous and predatory intelligence organisations in the world that “will undoubtedly try to interfere in the South African elections.” Pienaar also accuses President Cyril Ramaphosa of having done an “unlawful” deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Russia Africa summit in St Petersburg in 2023 to keep Zuma out of prison. Regarding the potential reinstatement of the Scorpions,” Pienaar remarked that it was possible. However, it would take great political will to fight organised crime in the country. The process should be started, he says, by giving Zuma his day in court and by sending him back to prison to complete his sentence for contempt of court after failing to appear before the Zondo Commission into corruption.

1:00 – “The story of the Scorpions is a really important untold story for South Africa but also for the world. The Scorpions is a great South African success story. It is an integral part of the history of our democracy in South Africa, it is tribute to the leadership of the ANC at the time… It’s an example of how South Africa can build successful alliances with other democracies… It’s also highly relevant for the international community today because all democracies are struggling with a question of police reform… compatible with human rights and that supports social justice… The Scorpions is a very successful example of police reform. Very uniquely, we innovated law enforcement because in the Scorpions brought together a combination of intelligence officers, detectives and prosecutors in one unit… This very close integration between prosecutors, intelligence officers and law enforcement officials made the Scorpions one of the most successful law enforcement units not only in South Africa and Africa but worldwide.

24:09 – “[Scorpions] was a very unique experience at the dawn of democracy when everyone was rallying to help South Africa. The US government took 50 young black graduates and put them through a full training course at the FBI academy at Quantico and this group of young graduates were the first foreign attendees of the FBI academy who were given a full training course like they were FBI officers. Scotland Yard and the United Kingdom did the same thing… All of this was in the open, there was nothing clandestine about this and all of this was approved by President Mandela’s government.

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45b4db No.20766618

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>>20766607

>Scorpions

“Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Official Music Video)”

https://youtu.be/n4RjJKxsamQ

Additional CIA connections to “Scorpions”: Iraqi paramilitary group and a German band

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201579.html

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Excerpts

Before the war in Iraq began, the CIA recruited and trained an Iraqi paramilitary group, code-named the Scorpions, to foment rebellion, conduct sabotage, and help CIA paramilitaries who entered Baghdad and other cities target buildings and individuals, according to three current and former intelligence officials with knowledge of the unit.

The CIA spent millions of dollars on the Scorpions, whose existence has not been previously disclosed, even giving them former Soviet Hind helicopters. But most of the unit's prewar missions spray-painting graffiti on walls; cutting electricity; "sowing confusion," as one said were delayed or canceled because of poor training or planning, said officials briefed on the unit. The speed of the invasion negated the need for most of their missions, others said.

After Baghdad fell, the CIA used the Scorpions to try to infiltrate the insurgency, to help out in interrogations, and, from time to time, to do "the dirty work," as one intelligence official put it.

In one case, members of the unit, wearing masks and carrying clubs and pipes, beat up an Iraqi general in the presence of CIA and military personnel, according to investigative documents reviewed by The Washington Post and according to several defense and intelligence officials.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/scorpions-cia-most-controversial-album-cover/

Sun 6 November 2022 17:30, UK

However, there are several controversies surrounding the [Scorpions], and the first comes from their track ‘Wind of Change’, which was released from their 11th studio album Crazy World. The song became a protest song towards the end of the 20th Century as the Cold War finally began to die. It served as a rallying cry to Eastern Europeans as the grip of the Soviet Union started to lessen in intensity.

However, within the song lies an alarming conspiracy theory. Some have suggested that the CIA had actually written the song to help destabilise the Soviet Union. Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe explored the idea in his podcast named after the song. Keefe “imagined it being like some big international spy thriller if it had been directed by the Coen Brothers.”

He chased down the clues and tried to get the secret intelligence agency to open up about whether someone within the CIA had indeed written the song. Keefe noted that the Soviet Union had a suspicious eye on rock music, as they knew it had the power to incite social dissent. He said: “Soviet officials had long been nervous over the free expression that rock stood for and how it might affect the Soviet youth. The CIA saw rock music as a cultural weapon in the cold war. Wind of Change was released a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and became this anthem for the end of communism and reunification of Germany.”

Yet the ‘Wind of Change’ conspiracy is not the only controversy surrounding Scorpions. Their fourth studio album Virgin Killer features one of the most (if not the most) controversial album covers of all time. It depicts a naked prepubescent girl with her genitals only covered by a shattered glass effect. It led to much uproar in many parts of the world, including the UK and the US.

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45b4db No.20766660

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>>20766618

>Wind of Change was released a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and became this anthem for the end of communism and reunification of Germany.”

>>20701789

>Beyond the Berlin Wall, the CIA employed jazz ambassadors to penetrate the Iron Curtain with their secret countercultural weapon.

>>20242709

>Tony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world

“Tony Hollingsworth - Tribute Inspirations - The Wall: Live In Berlin”

https://youtu.be/O5H7LHjRtsM

Tony Hollingsworth Biography and List of Concerts

https://tonyhollingsworth.com/?q%3Dcontent/walllive-berlin%23:~:text%3DThe%2520Wall%253A%2520Live%2520in%2520Berlin%2520was%2520watched%2520by%2520a%2520live,Brandenburg%2520Gate%2520and%2520Potsdamer%2520Platz.

Tony has over 30 years of experience working with companies, governments and foundations at the intersection of communications, media and popular culture. His credits range from, conceiving and producing the global media campaign that reached 600m and re-positioned Nelson Mandela from “black terrorist leader” to “black leader” to, consulting for the US White House on a public campaign in a response to 9/11.

His campaigns have repositioned brands, profiled important issues, and raised over $21m for causes (Amnesty International, Red Cross, the Anti-Apartheid Movement and children’s charities). He has worked with most of the world’s major broadcasters from the BBC to RTVE, from ABC and Fox to Globo, from SABC to NHK and his work has been supported by governments, major corporations and UN agencies.

Tony has taken the roles of consultant, entrepreneur, CEO/Director, Executive producer/Producer and run project companies in the UK, USA, Japan, Spain, Germany, Russia and South Africa through which he has financed and produced nine global cross-media projects. Some are considered historic (e.g. “Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute” and “The Wall - Live in Berlin”). All achieved their communication and marketing objectives, produced creatively-successful global broadcasts, CSR/sponsorship opportunities, merchandising and sell-through products, and assembled an incredible array of talent able to punch a hole in media schedules. Tony has worked with well over 200 of the world’s top creative artists from Stevie Wonder to Ravi Shankar, from Denzel Washington to Natalie Portman, from Samuel L Jackson to Keith Haring.

Summary Biography

GLC Festivals and Concerts

Looking East & West Conferences

Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

The Wall: Live in Berlin

Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute to a Free South Africa

The Simple Truth: Concert For Kurdish Refugees

Guitar Legends

The Great Music Experience

The Greatest Music Party in the World

Saint George, The Bell & The Dragon

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45b4db No.20766676

>>20766534

>>20766551

>Hakluyt

“Inside the secretive business of geopolitical advice”

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/10/05/inside-the-secretive-business-of-geopolitical-advice

Oct 5th 2023

These are anxious times for the bosses of Western multinational companies. After decades of being wooed by governments the world over, many now live with an ever-present fear of being caught in the crossfire of fraying geopolitical relations. An increasingly assertive China has now taken to slapping exit bans on the executives of foreign firms. The latest example came on September 29th, when a Hong Kong-based restructuring consultant at Kroll, an American advisory firm, was reported to have been barred from leaving the mainland.

Doing business in China is far from the only source of worry. American chief executives are contending with the regulatory zeal of Brussels just as their European counterparts are dealing with a more interventionist America. Both groups are trying to tap the cash gushers of the Gulf without appearing to cosy up to its authoritarian rulers. A diplomatic spat between Canada and India over the alleged assassination of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil will have sent shivers down the spines of many Western business grandees. Trouble, it seems, is everywhere.

Luckily, an industry of consiglieri is at hand to help multinational firms traverse these treacherous waters. Although geopolitical advisers have existed for decades, demand for their services is now soaring, thanks to the growing complexity of doing business abroad. Bankers, lawyers and management consultants are pouring into the field. What was once a niche and secretive business is entering the mainstream of professional services.

Retiring statesmen have long sought to cash in on their knowledge and foreign connections. In 1982 Henry Kissinger, previously America’s secretary of state, set up Kissinger Associates to that end. Later administrations produced their own equivalents, from McLarty Associates and Albright Stonebridge Group to WestExec Advisors and plenty more. All are packed full of former government luminaries.

Lee Feinstein, a one-time ambassador who now works for McLarty, notes that many clients value advice from those who have been “in the room where it happens”. The exact services these firms offer are opaque and vary between them, but generally range from gauging the policy intentions of foreign governments to helping open doors for companies that want to sell or manufacture in a new market.

Spooky action at a distance

Such “formers” are not the only source of specialist counsel available to multinationals. Geopolitical consultancies like Eurasia Group and Oxford Analytica rely less on retired bigwigs and more on professional analysts who monitor global affairs and provide briefings to clients. (EIU, The Economist’s sister company, competes in this business.) Another flavour of service is provided by Hakluyt, a firm founded in 1995 by former British spooks. It sources intelligence from a global network of associates with connections in high places, and offers clients the inside scoop on anything from a regulator’s opinion of a possible takeover to the probity of a potential supplier. Geopolitics now permeates nearly everything it does, says Varun Chandra, the firm’s managing partner. (The chairman of Hakluyt is also chairman of The Economist’s parent company.)

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45b4db No.20766704

>>20766534

>>20766551

>>20766676

>Hakluyt

Are nations really sovereign if one looks at the backgrounds of certain of its people?

Hakluyt Team 1 of 3

https://hakluytandco.com/team/?location=emea#team-listing-wrapper

Patrick Bateman

Pat joined Hakluyt in 2018.

Before then, he was an adviser to former UK Prime Minister Theresa May, a senior associate with Boston Consulting Group in London, a research fellow for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, a solicitor with the international law firm, Allens, and a speechwriter for former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

Pat is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Sydney, and also chairs his alumni association, Rhodes Scholars in Britain.

Alex Canfor-Dumas

Alex joined Hakluyt in 2021.

Prior to Hakluyt, he was a partner at Flint Global, the policy and regulatory consultancy. Earlier in his career, he worked in the office of the prime minister of Uganda; at Bain & Company, where he supported corporate and private equity clients; and for former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Varun Chandra

Varun joined Hakluyt in 2014 and serves as the company’s managing partner.

Prior to Hakluyt, he worked in investment and merchant banking. Trained at Lehman Brothers, he went on to help build a regulated advisory firm for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Alexandra Davison

Alexandra joined Hakluyt in 2018. She works in our quality control and compliance team.

Before Hakluyt, she was a diplomat in the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, serving in Warsaw, Brussels, Geneva, London and New York, and specialising in EU and UN negotiations. She also worked in the Treasury on EU budget negotiations during the financial crisis.

Dominic Evans

Before Hakluyt, he was a journalist with Reuters. Over three decades, he reported from Dubai, Cairo, Amman and Riyadh, and ran Reuters bureaux in Lebanon and Turkey.

He was also a political correspondent in London and deputy editor for the Middle East.

Thomas Ellis

Prior to Hakluyt, he worked at Lloyds Banking Group, including as director of business banking. Before then he was an official in the UK Cabinet Office, and worked in 10 Downing Street under Prime Minister Tony Blair. He also spent time on secondment to the government of Queensland, Australia.

Andrew France OBE

Andrew has been an adviser to Hakluyt since 2015.

He was previously deputy director for cyber defence operations at GCHQ. During his 30-year career with the agency, he helped develop the UK’s national cyber defence strategy, with responsibility for both policy and operational delivery.

After leaving GCHQ in 2014, Andrew was the co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, the leading cyber security technology company.

Jamie Hope

Jamie joined Hakluyt in 2023.

Before Hakluyt, he worked in UK politics as an adviser to three prime ministers and several cabinet ministers. He specialised in national security, geopolitics and international negotiations.

Jamie has also worked on a number of political campaigns in the UK, including two successful general election campaigns.

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45b4db No.20766707

>>20766704

Hakluyt Team 2 of 3

https://hakluytandco.com/team/?location=emea#team-listing-wrapper

Elizabeth Kennedy

Elizabeth joined Hakluyt in 2020.

Before Hakluyt, she was in the industrial and real estate M&A teams at Lazard Financial Advisory. She previously worked for the UK Treasury, Department for International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and for the European Commission. She has been based in Afghanistan, Rwanda and Lebanon.

Justin Kuruvilla

Justin joined Hakluyt in 2022.

Prior to Hakluyt, he worked as a technical director for cyber security operations at the US Department of Defense (DoD), which included a secondment to the UK National Cyber Security Centre. He began his career as a cyber security consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Justin is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University.

Sir Iain Lobban KCMG CB

Iain has been an adviser to Hakluyt since 2015.

He previously spent 30 years with the UK government, including as director of GCHQ, where he led the agency’s work on cyber-defence, counter-terrorism, military campaigns overseas, and serious crime.

Iain has also advised the Australian prime minister on the country’s first cyber security strategy, and is a visiting professor at King’s College London.

Joao Marques de Almeida

Joao has been an adviser to Hakluyt on EU affairs and other issues since 2013.

He previously spent six years as a political adviser to Jose Manuel Barroso, the former president of the European Commission, focusing on a wide range of foreign policy issues. Before that, he worked for the Portuguese defence ministry.

Sir Robin Niblett KCMG

Robin joined Hakluyt in 2022 as a senior adviser on geopolitics and international affairs.

Before Hakluyt, he was director and chief executive of Chatham House for fifteen years. He was previously executive vice president of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).

Robin’s commentary and analysis have been published in a range of journals and newspapers, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Financial Times and The Washington Post. He is also co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics.

Sir Oliver Robbins KCMG CB

Olly joined Hakluyt in 2023 and leads our coverage of corporate clients across EMEA.

He joined from Goldman Sachs, following over two decades as a British civil servant. He has advised four prime ministers, during a career spanning economic policy and the 2008 financial crash, public service reform and spending, corporate finance on the public/private boundary, counter-terrorism and geopolitics. He has also led international negotiations covering the G8, 5-Eyes Intelligence Alliance, and EU withdrawal.

In 2019, Olly was appointed the first ever Heywood Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government in the University of Oxford.

Claire Thomas

Claire is an adviser to Hakluyt, and supports clients on senior hires and succession planning.

Between 2008 and 2019, she was the chief human resources officer at GlaxoSmithKline. Before then, she worked for the Ford Motor Company.

A previous recipient of the European Business Woman of Achievement Award, Claire has also been a non-executive director at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Julian Warczinski

Julian joined Hakluyt in 2022 and works with corporate and financial sponsor clients in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Prior to Hakluyt, he was the foreign policy adviser to the leader of the Christian Democratic Union political party in Germany. Before then, he held various positions in the German government, and he has also worked in the automotive industry.

Julian is a graduate of Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Oxford.

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45b4db No.20766709

>>20766704

>>20766707

Hakluyt Team 3 of 3

https://hakluytandco.com/team/?location=emea#team-listing-wrapper

Tom Weston

Tom joined Hakluyt in 2009 and serves as a director of the firm, having previously led our business on the west coast of the US.

Before Hakluyt, he worked at McKinsey & Co, mostly based in London but also in Hong Kong and Johannesburg.

Tom is a business fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and a trustee of a charitable foundation supporting development in Africa. He has an MBA from Stanford.

Jeremy Wood

Jeremy joined Hakluyt in 2018.

Prior to Hakluyt, he was a director at Deloitte’s cyber risk services practice, where he spent just under a decade working on advisory and implementation projects, including a secondment as the chief information security officer of a major utility.

Jeremy began his career in cyber security at BP.

Kayo Yoshida

Kayo joined Hakluyt in 2023.

Before Hakluyt, she worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where she focused on equity investments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. She began her career at JPMorgan, where she worked on M&A advisory in Japan and the US. She has been based in Serbia, Tajikistan and Ghana as well as Japan during her career.

Kayo is a graduate of Tufts University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

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45b4db No.20766841

>>20766707

>Hakluyt: Sir Iain Lobban KCMG CB

>>20500680

>André Pienaar is the Chief Executive and the Founder of C5, a specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy with offices in Washington DC, London and Luxembourg.

Sir Iain Lobban: “Former head of GCHQ advising Shell and private intelligence firm [C5 Capital]”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/05/former-head-gchq-sir-iain-lobban-adviser-shell-hakluyt

Thu 5 Nov 2015 12.03 EST

A former head of GCHQ has become an adviser to Shell and an influential private intelligence company after retiring from the UK’s electronic eavesdropping agency late last year. Sir Iain Lobban’s consultancy with Shell and the holding company of Hakluyt & Co, a boutique corporate intelligence firm established by former MI6 spies, are among a series of private sector jobs the retired spook has taken up over the past year. Both roles are expected primarily to involve advising on risk and cybersecurity.

Lobban has also accepted advisory positions at companies including C5 Capital, a multimillion-dollar venture capital fund focused on cybersecurity, and Cambridge Security Initiative, an intelligence consultancy established by Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6 between 1999 and 2004. According to its website, recent clients of CSi include UK and US government agencies.

The advisory committee on business appointments (Acoba), which reviews the jobs taken by former ministers and crown servants after they leave their posts, has approved each of the new roles on the condition that Lobban does not draw on privileged information available to him while in office, or advise on business dealings “relating directly to the work of GCHQ” for 12 months.

Between April and September, the committee published details of Lobban’s appointments on its website. Rules explain that for two years after leaving office, a crown servant should not become personally involved in lobbying the UK government. There is no suggestion Lobban has breached any rules of the advisory committee.

Details of the latest appointments come after the Guardian reported this week that Sir John Scarlett, the head of MI6 from 2004 to 2009, and Lord Carlile, the government’s independent reviewer of national security policy in Northern Ireland, have each received £400,000 in dividends from a company they co-own.

On Monday, Carlile defended the security and intelligence agencies and their bulk surveillance powers. His intervention came ahead of the government’s publication on Wednesday of controversial draft legislation that permits mass surveillance activities by intelligence agencies and police.

Lobban, who was at the helm of GCHQ as it came under intense pressure following the publication of Edward Snowden’s revelations, defended bulk interception powers in July during a lecture he gave at King’s College London, where he is a visiting professor

From time to time, Shell has drawn on the services of Hakluyt, the Mayfair-based intelligence company. Separately from his work with Shell, Lobban will sit on the advisory board of Hakluyt’s holding company, the Holdingham Group, alongside senior business figures including the former chairmen of Rolls-Royce, GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever.

Earlier this year, Standard Chartered bank announced it had appointed Lobban as an adviser to its financial crime risk committee. Lobban is also advising the Australian government on a national cybersecurity review.

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45b4db No.20766881

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>>20500680

>>20766707

>>20766841

Sir Iain Lobban: Operating Partner, C5 Capital

https://www.c5capital.com/team/sir-iain-lobban/

https://web.archive.org/web/20200515110954/https://www.c5capital.com/team/sir-iain-lobban/

Sir Iain was the Director of the British Security and Intelligence agency GCHQ from mid-2008 to late 2014, having previously served as its Director-General of operations from 2004. His tenure represented more than ten years of operational delivery in counter-terrorism, cyber-security, support to Defence, and the prevention and detection of serious crime. He set new direction in Cyber Security for innovative partnerships internationally, with the private sector and with academia. Sir Iain now focuses on the advocacy and demystification of Cyber Security, providing strategic advice and personal perspective, nationally and internationally, to governments and businesses. He is also active in entrepreneurship, in the broadest sense of the word.

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45b4db No.20766886

>>20766601

>>20766607

>>20500680

>>20766881

André Pienaar: Founder, CEO and Head of Investor Relations, C5 Capital

https://www.c5capital.com/team/andraee-pienaar/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230602021113/https://www.c5capital.com/team/andraee-pienaar/

Born in South Africa, with a professional career in the UK and US, André Pienaar is a cybersecurity, space and energy expert and investor. As the Chief Executive and Founder of C5 Capital, he seeks out opportunities to grow companies in these sectors. In addition, he is a philanthropist who devotes his energy to international efforts to promote peace and global security, protect children, honor veterans and pursue scientific causes. André began his career at Kroll, Inc., and was its youngest managing director until the successful sale of the company to Marsh & McLennan. In 2004, he founded G3, an international consulting firm that advises global companies and international law firms on cybersecurity. In 2011, he sold G3 to Europe’s leading technology investment holding company. André currently serves on several boards, including BlueVoyant in the United States, Ionir in Israel, the Haven Group in Luxembourg and ITC Secure in the United Kingdom. His previous board memberships include Omada, Balabit and Shape Security, which C5 Capital successfully exited. He also is the primary investor in Vrye Weekblad, an iconic investigative newspaper based in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition to his corporate board memberships, André serves on the Advisory Council of the United States Institute for Peace, a U.S. government agency dedicated to global conflict resolution and is a member of the Atlantic Council Task Force on Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. He developed and stood up the Cyber Alliance to Defend Our Healthcare, a voluntary coalition of 36 cybersecurity companies to protect the healthcare sector from cyberattacks during global pandemics. André’s philanthropic activities include serving as a Director of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) and the Limitless Space Institute (LSI) a non-profit organization that cultivates leaders and develops technologies that enable space exploration. He advised the 6th Duke of Westminster on the establishment of the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) in the United Kingdom as a state-of-the-art center for the rehabilitation of injured British military veterans. André holds two law degrees and a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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b9f483 No.20777565

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>>20677230

>>20677208

>Then two years later in 2009, the book recounts a meeting that Wiese had with another analyst at another firm who had a 40 slide presentation detailing his concerns about shoddy transactions, suspiciously low tax rates, all kinds of things that didn’t add up. So in a sense I feel like Wiese was warned that there was something amiss with this company but yet six years after he met with his analyst, he sold his company to Steinhoff anyway. That’ll mean to say, he had it coming to him but it’s sort of interesting what we choose to pay attention to and what we choose to ignore.”

>>20607408

>Author of 'Steinhoff: Inside SA's Biggest Corporate Crash' James-Brent Styan says there might be a lot of nervous people after Markus Jooste's alleged suicide. "There is no way a scheme that collapsed Steinhoff could have been orchestrated by one person."

“[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Christo Wiese on Steinhoff | Carte Blanche | M-Net” (2018)

https://youtu.be/A9ALrot2W_I

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟱 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴.

For years, analysts, banks and rating agencies promoted global retailer Steinhoff as a sound investment. With 40 brands under its belt, and operating in over 30 territories, the retail giant was one of the top performers on world markets. That is until the house of cards came tumbling down. Billionaire businessman and former chairman of the company, Christo Wiese, is suing Steinhoff for R59 billion. But was he really unaware of the accounting fraud and financial irregularities happening right under his nose? We put Wiese in the hot seat.

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b9f483 No.20777577

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>>20766881

>Sir Iain Lobban

>>20766886

>André serves on the Advisory Council of the United States Institute for Peace, a U.S. government agency dedicated to global conflict resolution and is a member of the Atlantic Council Task Force on Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. He developed and stood up the Cyber Alliance to Defend Our Healthcare, a voluntary coalition of 36 cybersecurity companies to protect the healthcare sector from cyberattacks during global pandemics.

“Spy masters, pandemics and the revolving door”

https://youtu.be/4FdUn8BQi8Y

May 7, 2020

“Britain’s Profiteering Spymasters Ignored the Country’s Biggest Threats”

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/29/britains-profiteering-spymasters-ignored-the-countrys-biggest-threats/

October 29, 2020

Almost all of Britain’s former spy chiefs are personally profiting from working for cyber security and energy companies after retiring from the U.K.’s major intelligence agencies.

In May, Declassified UK revealed that since 2000, nine out of 10 former chiefs of MI6, MI5 and GCHQ have taken jobs in the cyber security industry, a sector they promoted while in office as key to defending the U.K. from the “Russian threat.”

The burgeoning and profitable cyber industry in the U.K., where former spy chiefs gain employment, is now worth over £8-billion. Sir Iain Lobban, who ran GCHQ from 2008 to 2014, has become director or adviser to 10 private cyber or data security companies since leaving office. His own consultancy, Cyberswift Limited, had over £1-million in assets by the end of 2018, four years after he left GCHQ.

The “revolving door” between government and industry is meant to be regulated for conflicts of interest by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA). However, Declassifiedcan find no evidence that an intelligence chief has ever had an ACOBA application rejected. This allows them to lobby their old agencies on behalf of their private interests after they leave office.

One former MI6 head, Sir John Scarlett, was given “unconditional approval” by ACOBA when he became an adviser to a major oil company in 2011, meaning he was immediately free to lobby his former colleagues in intelligence and parliament on behalf of the firm.

The last three heads of MI6 all joined oil or gas-producing companies, which are among the world’s largest contributors to climate change, after they left the service. Declassified can reveal that former MI6 chief, Sir Richard Dearlove, has earned more than £2-million from his role on the board of American oil and gas company, Kosmos Energy, which was until 2018 registered in the tax haven of Bermuda.

Climate change has also been largely ignored by the security agencies, evidence suggests, despite the U.K. government last year recognizing it as a “security risk,” adding, “There is no doubt that climate-related security challenges are real. They are here. They are now.”

Russia and cyber attacks have been evoked as the pre-eminent threats to the U.K. public, alongside terrorism, in countless public interventions by intelligence chiefs. Russia engages in offensive cyber operations, as do Britain and its allies, but the constant evocation of a threat from Russia, often without real evidence and amplified in the media, has helped U.K. security agencies accrue permissive investigatory powers and larger budgets, directly benefiting the private cyber and arms industry.

Robert Hannigan was GCHQ’s director from 2014 to 2017, establishing the National Cyber Security Centre as part of GCHQ in 2016, while being responsible for the U.K.’s first cyber strategy in 2009. Three months after he stepped down from GCHQ, in July 2017, Hannigan publicly warnedthat “a disproportionate amount of mayhem in cyber-space” was coming from Russia, and called for “pushback”.

The following month, Hannigan became chair of the European advisory board of BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity firm producing products to protect businesses against “sophisticated cyber attackers”, including nation state actors. In 2018, Hannigan became chair of BlueVoyant International.

Hannigan’s predecessor, Sir Iain Lobban, who ran GCHQ from 2008 to 2014, has joined or advised no less than 10 cyber or data security companies since leaving office, including Hakluyt Cyber, Prevalent AI, and C5 Capital.

Before Lobban, GCHQ’s director was Sir David Pepper, who managed the agency from 2003 to 2008. After leaving GCHQ, Pepper joined the advisory board of Thales, an arms and cyber security company, and became a strategic adviser to Defence Strategy and Solutions, which helps arms firms secure government contracts.

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b9f483 No.20777598

File: eab282a6f1ede53⋯.jpg (34.69 KB,866x461,866:461,Declassified_UK_Logo.JPG)

File: ba62e64b83dd224⋯.png (21.7 KB,998x600,499:300,Daily_Maverick.png)

File: 647a960639c9fc8⋯.png (801.12 KB,958x2814,479:1407,Britain_s_Profiteering_Spy….png)

File: d3eb3a738a18fcb⋯.jpg (85.07 KB,883x654,883:654,Sir_John_Scarlett.JPG)

File: 647a960639c9fc8⋯.png (801.12 KB,958x2814,479:1407,Britain_s_Profiteering_Spy….png)

>>20777577

>>20729192

It is interesting that the Declassifed UK logo in the video is identical to the Daily Maverick.

and snapshots taken of https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/29/britains-profiteering-spymasters-ignored-the-countrys-biggest-threats/

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b9f483 No.20777607

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>>20777577

>Before Lobban, GCHQ’s director was Sir David Pepper, who managed the agency from 2003 to 2008. After leaving GCHQ, Pepper joined the advisory board of Thales, an arms and cyber security company, and became a strategic adviser to Defence Strategy and Solutions, which helps arms firms secure government contracts.

“Hacktivity 2012 - Sir David Pepper - Cyberspace and Beyond - Evolution in Action”

https://youtu.be/dz3fJyLXpLw

Nov 22, 2012

25:38 – “Companies also need to think about external collaboration which may in fact be more difficult and the driving force here I think is the need for collective defense because a lot of the threats are threats in common and so collaboration and information sharing is essential if companies can defend themselves effectively.”

25:57 – “To be effective in countering threats, countries have to collaborate.”

Sir David Pepper: “French defence group [Thales] hands advisory role to former head of GCHQ”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-defence-group-hands-advisory-role-to-former-head-of-gchq-gzcpxm8qcc7

Tuesday October 06 2009, 1.01am BST

Sir David Pepper, the former head of GCHQ, the Government’s top-secret listening post, has been appointed as a senior adviser to Thales, the defence and aerospace giant.

Sir David, who retired in July 2008 after five years running the signals intelligence centre, is to become a member of the group’s UK advisory board.

His appointment comes as defence companies make a pre-emptive attack against widely anticipated government cuts to their industry. Last month Thales was among a group of leading defence companies that released a report highlighting the beneficial impact its members have outside their traditional role of supporting the Armed Forces and protecting British troops.

https://www.theregister.com/2009/10/02/gchq_pepper_thales/

Fri 2 Oct 2009 // 12:26 UTC

Thales UK's CEO Alex Dorrian said Pepper will help the firm grow its national security and resilience businesses.

Pepper said: "Thales UK is a very successful British company; many of its 8,500 people work on critical security systems for the UK government. It encompasses a fascinating array of technological and engineering capabilities, and I am delighted to be joining its advisory board."

His contacts are no doubt valuable to a contractor seeking access to the growing national security budget.

The Thales UK job is Pepper's second appointment since leaving the GCHQ "Doughnut" in Cheltenham. In October he became a non-executive director of Gloucestershire County Council, which was approved on condition he does not lobby ministers or civil servants for 12 months.

An ABCA spokeswoman said the same conditions apply to his Thales appointment.

The ABCA's goals are to "avoid the risk that an employer might gain an improper advantage by appointing a former official who holds information about its competitors, or about impending government policy" and "avoid any suspicion that an appointment might be a reward for past favours".

It's unknown is whether Thales UK is a GCHQ contractor or whether it was granted any business by Pepper. Of course, even the existence of the agency's technology contracts is completely secret, so it's likely we will never know.

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b9f483 No.20777614

>>20777607

>Thales

“How Weapons Wound Democracy”

https://youtu.be/bQQFZw9ccoo

Jan 2, 2019

Thales is known for their bribes.

“The South African Arms Deal” – Thales – Part 1

https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/the-south-african-arms-deal/

May 5, 2017

How did post-apartheid South Africa succumb to one of the most infamous and long-lasting corruption scandals in recent memory? The allegations, that European arms companies and leading South African politicians manipulated the procurement process for an arms deal worth USD 5 billion at the time in return for bribes of as much as USD 300 million from the seller companies, have dogged former President Jacob Zuma (2009-2018) since the early 2000s and led to investigations in five jurisdictions. Yet most of the decision-makers involved in the Strategic Arms Procurement Package episode have escaped justice, and the most promising revelations uncovered by investigators have never been fully developed into prosecutions. After only two convictions, the arms deal has left a legacy of impunity in one of Africa’s most promising young democracies.

Key Facts

Buyer country: South Africa

Selling countries and companies:

 BAE Systems (United Kingdom)

 Saab (Sweden)

 Thomson-CSF (France) [Thales]

 Thyssen-Krupp, Blohm+Voss, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Ferrostaal (Germany)

 Agusta (Italy)

Year of Procurement Decision: 1999

The equipment sold:

 4 MEKO A200 patrol corvettes

 3 Type 209 Submarines

 27 Gripens (Dual-Seat)

 24 BAE Hawk 100 Trainers

 30 Agusta A109 light utility helicopters

Initial price: South African Rand (ZAR) 29.99 billion (in 1999) or USD (1999) 5 billion

Total sum involved in corruption allegations: USD 300 million

Dramatis Personae

Jacob Zuma – deputy president of South Africa (1999-2005) at the time the deal was negotiated and president (2009 – 2018); allegedly took bribes to facilitate the deal. On trial for fraud, racketeering, and money-laundering.

Joe Modise – South African Minister of Defense (1994-1999, died 2001).

Shabir Shaik – Zuma’s personal aide; convicted of soliciting bribes.

Tony Yengeni – ANC parliamentarian leader; convicted of fraud, stemming from bribe-taking.

Fana Hlongwane – defense consultant and advisor to former defense minister Joe Modise; allegedly received bribes to help facilitate the deal.

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b9f483 No.20777617

>>20777614

“The South African Arms Deal” – Thales – Part 2

https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/the-south-african-arms-deal/

May 5, 2017

The Arms Deals

While some components of the Strategic Arms Procurement Package were first discussed in modernization programs dating back to the last days of apartheid, the requirements approved in 1998 by parliament derived from the results of an all-services defense review launched in 1995. In this process, the navy made it known that it wanted to re-establish South Africa’s role as a regional maritime power through the acquisition of new surface combatants as well as an upgrade to aging French submarines. The air force entered the review needing replacements for both a cheap advanced trainer and a new medium fighter.

The review concluded that the primary function of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) would be to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the post-apartheid nation. This rather conventional goal, was therefore used to justify a conventional acquisitions policy. The defense review prescribed a recapitalization of a blue water navy, new fighter trainer and multi-role combat aircraft, and new helicopters for the air force and navy. Nonetheless, the review was not an unconditional endorsement of this list; it also concluded that the recapitalization should be balanced against the more pressing need to address security threats posed by poverty, crime, unemployment, and the legacy of apartheid. Critically, parliamentary approval of the defense review was not to amount to approval of the recommended force design. The South African government ultimately ignored that requirement and treated parliamentary approval of the review as sign-off on the arms package.

The European consortia which won the resulting tenders, collectively known as the Strategic Arms Procurement Package, came to South Africa during a period of thin demand, market consolidation, and chronic oversupply. In this environment, corruption was evidently a price worth paying to secure a foothold in the new market, and even some of the losing bidders, such as Daimler Benz Aerospace, were later found to have provided bribes.

Corruption Allegations

The alleged corruption associated with the package was meant to give each bidder an advantage in the requirements-setting and tender processes. BAE’s offerings for the fighter trainer aircraft tender, the Hawk and Saab Gripen, were originally eliminated in March 1997 on cost grounds, but became viable after a controversial revision of requirements later that summer. –In particular, then-defence minister Joe Modise (who died in 2001) unilaterally decided to remove cost as a consideration for the package of fighter and trainer aircraft, which was ultimately awarded to BAE Systems and Saab for the Gripen fighter aircraft (Saab/BAE) and the Hawk trainer (BAE). The bribes were allegedly offered in cash, in gifts, and in preferential selection of industrial partners.

Investigations and Outcomes

Questions of wrongdoing emerged in September 1999, shortly after the deals were signed earlier that year, when parliamentarian Patricia de Lille produced a dossier of allegations. The Auditor-General, Shauket Fakie, found the next year that proper procurement practices had not been followed correctly and recommended an investigation. Resulting prosecutions led to the conviction of Tony Yengeni, an African National Congress (ANC) MP and chair of the joint standing committee on defence during the deal’s negotiation, of fraud, and that of Shabir Shaik, deputy-president Jacob Zuma’s financial aide, for soliciting a bribe for Zuma.

Zuma avoided prosecution as long as he remained an influential politician. In 2006 and 2008, charges against him were first set aside and then withdrawn by the prosecutor. At first, it appeared he would pay a political price for his alleged involvement, having being dismissed as deputy president by Thabo Mbeki in 2005. But in 2007, he won over the ANC and secured a comeback, becoming the new president himself in 2009.

In 2011, a new commission of inquiry headed by Justice Willie Seriti was established, but concluded in a report published April 2016 that no new charges should be brought. That report was criticized by opposition parties and watchdog NGOs for having barely conducted any real investigation. In October 2017, following appeals by the opposition Democratic Alliance party, the courts reinstated charges against Zuma. The reinstated charges contributed to a deterioration in his political support, leading to his resignation in February 2018 and replacement by Cyril Ramaphosa. The following year, the findings of the Seriti Commission were set aside by the North Gauteng High Court.

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b9f483 No.20777619

>>20777614

>>20777617

“The South African Arms Deal” – Thales – Part 3

https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/the-south-african-arms-deal/

May 5, 2017

As of mid-2020, Zuma’s trial continues. He faces charges of fraud, racketeering, and money-laundering; prosecutors allege that he received USD 34,000 each year after 1999 from Thales as payment to protect the company from investigations.

Meanwhile, both the United Kingdom and the United States opened general inquiries into BAE’s use of bribery in securing contracts. The British investigation determined that BAE had paid roughly GBP 115 million in bribes to secure the deal, and had acted through numerous middlemen such as Richard Charter, a consultant, and John Bredenkamp, a Zimbabwean rugby player and later suspected arms dealer. The British investigation was terminated in 2010 after BAE acknowledged a “serious accounting offence” and settled with the Serious Fraud Office for GBP 30 million. The United States settled with BAE in the same year, demanding USD 400 million for violations of laws that barred bribes paid to secure deals in Saudi Arabia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and other countries.

An investigation in Germany was active at least from 2006 to 2010, and focused on possibilities of wrongdoing at MAN Ferrostaal and ThyssenKrupp. Leaked correspondence between investigators suggested that ThyssenKrupp had paid ZAR 6 million to Yengeni to secure the frigate deal. An independent audit of MAN Ferrostaal from 2011, acquired by German journalists, suggested that the company paid ZAR 300 million in total bribes to secure the submarine contract. The audit named two middlemen, Tony Georgiades and Tony Ellingford, each of whom claimed access to senior ANC officials and were paid fees of EUR 16.5 million. These considerations have not been taken up by a court.

In 2010, investigative journalists in South Africa revealed that the chief of the SANDF at the time of the deal, Siphiwe Nyanda, had received a loan from Hlongwane in 2005 to buy a house. The loan had been written off in 2009 when Nyanda became minister of communications. Hlongwane had given Nyanda a job in the interim years as head of the former’s group of companies, Ngwane Defence.

Finally, in June 2011, Saab publicly announced that BAE, its marketing partner for the Gripen combat aircraft, had used a Saab subsidiary without its knowledge to pay out bribes, including ZAR 24 million between 2003 and 2005.

Only two convictions, those of Tony Yengeni and Shabir Shaik, have been made in relation to the Strategic Arms Procurement Package, yet allegations continue to taint Zuma, his former boss Thabo Mbeki, and various other agents and participants. The Seriti Commission ultimately recommended that no new charges should be brought, although the commission’s credibility has been questioned given the resignation of two of its original members.

The U.S. and UK investigations led to corporate settlements without establishment of personal responsibility. The German investigation ultimately cleared ThyssenKrupp, although a parallel probe unrelated to South Africa led to the conviction of two executives for fraud.

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b9f483 No.20777632

File: 699c7d8d6253ad4⋯.jpg (128.5 KB,1387x805,1387:805,Alex_Cresswell_Thales.JPG)

>>20777614

>BAE Systems (United Kingdom)

>Thomson-CSF (France) [Thales]

>>20777617

>>20777619

Alex Cresswell, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Thales UK

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/thales-executive-committee/alex-cresswell

Alex Cresswell is a graduate of Southampton University in the UK, with Honours degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics.

He began his career at BAE Systems before joining Thomson-CSF (now Thales Communications) in 1992, firstly occupying various positions in Business Development and Strategy, then as Director of UK Programmes.

In January 2002, he was appointed Director of Major Systems for Aerospace business within Thales UK. From 2005 to 2007, he became VP of ISTAR and UAV systems within Thales’s Aerospace Division. Between 2007 and 2010, he was leading Land & Joint Systems activities within Thales UK.

In 2010 he was appointed as Director of the Land Defence division. In February 2013, Alex Cresswell was promoted as Executive Vice-President, Land Defence and Air Systems.

In February 2020, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Thales UK.

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b9f483 No.20777635

>>20777632

“‘I’m not profiting from misery. I’m averting more’ – Thales’s UK boss on making missiles for Ukraine”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/26/im-not-profiting-from-misery-im-averting-more-thaless-uk-boss-on-making-missiles-for-ukraine

Tue 26 Mar 2024 15.00 CET

Whether manufacturing drones or printing British blue passports, the defence contractor is flying high in a geopolitically risky climate

For a “ferocious remainer”, Alex Cresswell is remarkably proud of his blue passport.

His aerospace-to-defence-and-security business is four years into a Home Office contract to produce the passports, after Gemalto (acquired by Thales) undercut the furious incumbent, De La Rue, to win the contract.

“It’s extremely important because it puts us in every citizen’s pocket,” says Cresswell. “We don’t hold citizen biometric data and our cyber¬security was good enough that the risk of being breached was [low]. These were the reasons we won: ironically, because we were producing a more sovereign solution than the incumbent British company.”

Although not a household name in the UK, Thales jostles with the titans of defence and aerospace across Europe – Boeing, Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo among them. The group, which counts the French government as its biggest investor, raked in revenues of €18.4bn (£16bn) in 2023. In the UK – one of the company’s biggest markets, where it employs 7,000 people – sales rose 18% to €1.2bn.

Thales’s disciplines are varied: there’s weapons-making, including missiles and launchers; the contract for sonar systems for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines; designing the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers; and space operations in Oxfordshire and Bristol, working on the Lunar Gateway (in effect a service station for deep space travel in the moon’s orbit). Much of its output is deeply technical: radar systems and cybersecurity kit.

In Britain, defence accounts for most of its business – and is growing rapidly. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine in February 2022, the group’s shares have gained more than 80%, its value has swelled to €33bn and its order book has reached a record high, at €45bn.

Missiles made by Thales in Belfast have been supplied – via the Ministry of Defence (MoD) – to fighters in Ukraine, to shoot down Russian jets, drones and helicopters, and to hit tank targets. “They’ve been used to great effect in defending Ukraine,” Cresswell says. Sales have doubled since just before Moscow’s invasion, and he expects them to double again in the next two years.

So does he have any qualms about benefiting from a war in which thousands have died? “I don’t see that I’m profiting from misery. I see the opposite: by being prepared, I’m averting more misery.”

The company has a joint venture with Israel’s Elbit to deliver unarmed Watchkeeper drones to the British army.

His office, moments from Buckingham Palace, was General de Gaulle’s wartime headquarters, and an inscription on the exterior declares: “Vive la France!”

“We should be preparing ourselves much more for the threat that is posed to our society. History shows that by preparing, we’re less likely to be in a conflict,” says Cresswell. “I haven’t felt as uncomfortable and uncertain about the threat to the UK as I have since the end of the cold war.”

It was against that backdrop that Cresswell’s future was forged. His father was a production chemist working on the commissioning of factories and refineries. The job moved Cresswell around, giving him a “Heinz 57 schooling”, in Cambridgeshire, South Africa, the US and Hertfordshire.

Thales is in line to benefit as technology makes warfare both more complex and less about boots on the ground. Last month, the defence secretary, Grant Shapps, awarded it a £1.9bn contract to use AI to predict when maintenance is needed to keep British warships and submarines at sea for longer, amid concerns about the amount of time Royal Navy vessels have spent in port due to malfunctions.

Its AI is also being used to support air traffic controllers in optimising flight sequencing, reducing fossil fuel burn in the process. But Cresswell cautions: “There are rules of engagement and accountability: you’re not going to have a machine making decisions to use lethal force.”

Thales also finds itself at the centre of an international tug of war over the Aukus pact – the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US.

Australia scrapped a submarine project with France when it joined Aukus, angering Thales’s benefactor. But Cresswell says Thales has sovereign status in all three Aukus countries, and he has high-level security clearances. He adds that the pact is attracting talent, as the “most exciting” event since the 1958 US-UK nuclear weapons treaty.

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b9f483 No.20777672

>>20777617

>In particular, then-defence minister Joe Modise (who died in 2001) unilaterally decided to remove cost as a consideration for the package of fighter and trainer aircraft, which was ultimately awarded to BAE Systems and Saab for the Gripen fighter aircraft (Saab/BAE) and the Hawk trainer (BAE).

>In 2011, a new commission of inquiry headed by Justice Willie Seriti was established, but concluded in a report published April 2016 that no new charges should be brought.

>>20777619

>The British investigation determined that BAE had paid roughly GBP 115 million in bribes to secure the deal, and had acted through numerous middlemen such as Richard Charter, a consultant, and John Bredenkamp, a Zimbabwean rugby player and later suspected arms dealer.

>>20494559

>>20494573

>>20494579

>>20494594

>>20494605

>>20494642

>>20571290

>Janusz Walus

“Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal”

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014-10-08-chris-hani-murdered-because-he-was-an-obstacle-to-the-arms-deal/

By Sapa - 08 October 2014 - 21:06

Former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was allegedly assassinated for fear he would expose former Defence Minister Joe Modise’s involvement in the multi-million rand arms deal, said arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne at the Seriti Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday.

Crawford-Browne has made a number of allegations in his testimony at the inquiry established to investigate allegations of fraud and corruption in the R70 billion arms deal in 1999.

Crawford-Browne testified that there were allegations that when Hani was assassinated in 1993, he was on the verge of exposing former defence minister Joe Modise’s involvement in, and corruption relating to, the arms deal.

"It has been alleged that Mr Janusz Walus was ultimately employed by the [British arms manufacturer] BAE, perhaps by way of John Bredenkamp, the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean who was the second-largest recipient of those BAE bribes," he told the inquiry.

He said blaming Clive Derby-Lewis for Hani's murder was merely a red herring to blame white right-wing elements, diverting attention from the British arms industry.

Derby-Lewis was convicted of conspiring to kill SA Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani by providing the gun Polish immigrant Walus used to kill him in the driveway of his home in Boksburg, on the East Rand, on April 10, 1993.

The 78-year-old former Conservative Party MP, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, has served more than 20 years of his sentence.

Derby-Lewis was initially sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment when the death penalty was abolished in 1995. He has been repeatedly denied parole.

Modise was poisoned, the commission also heard.

"I was told by Bheki Jacobs six weeks before Mr Modise died that he was being poisoned, and that his death would be ascribed to cancer," arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne told the inquiry's hearings in Pretoria.

"Mr Modise was known to have many enemies and it is also known there was considerable animosity between him and Mr Chris Hani dating from their times in exile."

Bheki Jacobs, also known as Uranin Vladimir, Hassan Solomon, and Hassan Osman, died at his mother's home in 2008 after a six-month battle with cancer.

Crawford-Browne said Jacobs was an African National Congress functionary, trained in the Soviet Union as an intelligence operative.

In 2003, Jacobs was arrested, and later exonerated, for allegedly plotting an assassination. The charge of conspiring to commit murder was watered down and finally dropped.

At the time, Jacobs reportedly believed his one-time comrade and later nemesis, Mo Shaik, to be behind his surprise arrest. They had both been involved in the ANC's intelligence structures in the early 1980s.

On Wednesday, Crawford-Browne said Jacobs told him that an investigating team's report into the arms deal was being doctored pending Modise's death "so that dead men can tell no tales".

"I have now consequently reported the allegations of poisoning to the deputy commissioner of police in the Western Cape, but no action was taken," he said.

The commission was appointed by President Jacob Zuma three years ago to investigate alleged corruption in the arms procurement deal.

The government acquired, among other hardware, 26 Gripen fighter aircraft and 24 Hawk lead-in fighter trainer aircraft for the air force, and frigates and submarines for the navy.

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b9f483 No.20777708

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Thales continued to flourish in South Africa.

“Thales sets up new SA subsidiary”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/thales-sets-up-new-sa-subsidiary/

5th May 2009

Thales, the French defence and aerospace giant, is registering a new South African subsidiary to be known as Thales South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

The Star newspaper reported over the long weekend that its previous local office, Thales International, also known as “Thint” ceased to exist on Thursday.

Thales International was a co-accused with President-elect Jacob Zuma in a corruption case linked to the 1999 Strategic Defence Package.

The paper adds charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering were formally withdrawn against Thint (Pty) Ltd and Thint Holding in the Durban High Court on April 7, the day the NPA dropped its case against Zuma.

“Eight days later, the warrant of arrest granted in February 2005 for Thales International`s former head, Alain Thetard, was cancelled by Judge Kate Pillay in the Durban High Court,” The Star adds.

Thales International attorney Ajay Sooklal says the “mist” hanging over his client’s head has cleared and the company can move on.

Thales International CE Pierre Moynot, who retired Thursday, told the paper the winding up of the business and the establishing of a new company “has nothing to do with trying to ‘launder` or rehabilitate a company whose image has been badly damaged.”

“We always wanted to do it,” he said.

When parent company Thomson-CSF was rebranded in December 2000 as Thales internationally, its South African subsidiaries, including African Defence Systems (ADS), were also supposed to reflect the name change, says Moynot.

He had resisted, however. “We were in court remember. We thought if we changed (our name) while in court, it might not be felt well.” Moynot said it was decided to leave the name as it was and to change it when all had been settled.

“We never had any doubt that it would be settled. Honestly. There was nothing real (in the charges).”

He adds that at the time there was another company called “Thales” in South Africa – Thales Advanced Engineering (TAE) – and thus it was decided to use the name “Thint”, a contraction of Thales International.

TAE has since rebranded itself as Protoclea and tha name “Thales” has fallen into disuse, allowing the French multinational to acquire the usage rights.

Thales currently has an 80% shareholding in ADS, with the rest owned by General Lambert Moloi’s Futuristic Business Solutions. Thales upped its shareholding in ADS when it paid R20 million for the 20% previously owned by Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Group, The Star added. Moynot says the BEE (black economic empowerment stake in ADS is to be increased soon.

Christian Lamoureux, currently CE of ADS, is tipped to head Thales SA.

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b9f483 No.20777719

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>Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) recipient

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“Thales beds down new BEE partner”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/thales-beds-down-new-bee-partner/

23rd September 2010

A consortium led by Batsomi Investment Holdings will be Thales South Africa’s (TSA) new black empowerment partner. Batsomi is chaired by Jacob Modise, currently also CE of the state Road Accident Fund and a director of some 48 companies. The deal, the value of which was not disclosed, takes TSA a step closer to attaining BEE Status Level 5 recognition by year-end.

TSA says Botsomi will hold a 26% Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) stake in TSA, the holding company of the French defence and aerospace group’s three South African operating subsidiaries, Thales Defence Systems (Pty) Ltd (TDS, previously African Defence System), Thales ATM (Pty) Ltd (previously Flightcraft and Racal), and Thales Security Solutions & Services (Pty) Ltd.

Thales employs 450 staff in Africa and had an order intake of 450 million euro last year. TSA has 300 employees and annual revenues of ~R450 million with 75% of that coming from defence and 85% sourced in South Africa.

Batsomi holds 85% of the BEE consortium and a to-be-formed broad-based BEE Trust the remainder. Thales says the beneficiaries will be South African military veterans. In addition to this BEE deal, TDS already has a 20% BEE partner in the shape of Futuristic Business Solutions.

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b9f483 No.20777722

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“South Africa: Thales wins a R1.8 billion signalling contract for one of the largest rail infrastructure projects in Africa”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/south-africa-thales-wins-a-r18-billion-signalling-contract-for-one-of-the-largest-rail-infrastructure-projects-in-africa/

29th May 2013

Thales, one of the world’s major players in transportation systems, is proud to announce that it has been awarded a contract to supply a rail signalling solution to the Western Cape Region of South Africa that will cover 250 km of the province’s passenger rail system.

This contract has been signed between the Thales-Maziya consortium and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA).

The new rolling stock programme is one of the largest rail infrastructure projects on the African continent. The project will include the modernization of the rail signalling, communications and train management systems, covering 46 train stations over the highly populated area in the Western Cape Region. This state-of-the-art signalling system will enable highly reliable operations and improved passenger services and comfort.

Our consortium partner Maziya brings the infrastructure, civil works and power supply expertise.

Additionally, Thales is committed to transferring capabilities to assure the creation of local competencies in the rail signalling domain. Thales will also be engaged in the support to the local communities, not only by the use of local manpower, labour and supplies but also by the creation of initiatives towards the support and the development of the underprivileged communities.

Justice Tootla, Deputy CEO of Thales South Africa said: “Being part of the country’s major ground transportation projects is very exciting and we are committed to delivering solutions that positively impact the communities and the country’s development. As local players forming part of a continuously innovative global company, we are able to match the local industry challenges with our global technology advancements. The provision of an integrated rail signalling system to the country’s Western Cape Province will ensure efficiency and reliable investments, contributing to a fast developing continent.”

This major award confirms Thales worldwide leadership in the Transport Systems business with the capacity to both deliver greenfield projects and upgrade existing infrastructures with minimum service disruptions for optimised performance and safety”.

About Thales

Thales is a global technology leader for the Defence & Security and the Aerospace & Transportation markets. In 2012, the company generated revenues of €14.2 billion with 67,000 employees in 56 countries. With its 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers and local partners. www.thalesgroup.com

About Thales South Africa

Serving the Ground Transportation, Civil Aerospace, Defence and Security sectors, Thales is a major contributor to the South African economy as employer, manufacturer, exporter and developer of new technologies and skills. With facilities in Gauteng and Cape Town, Thales South Africa (TSA) employs over 200 people, reflecting the diversity of South Africa within the company. With equity ownership of 26% Black Shareholding and adherence to the B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice.

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b9f483 No.20777728

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Thales: “Africa – Security”

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/africa-security

Thales provided security solutions for King Shaka International Airport in South Africa and for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Thales has as well provided 9 African countries with control systems for identification documents.

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b9f483 No.20777733

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“ATNS selects Thales to provide radars, equipment to modernise air traffic management”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/aerospace/aerospace-aerospace/atns-selects-thales-to-provide-radars-equipment-to-modernise-air-traffic-management/

10th March 2016

South Africa’s air navigation service provider Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has selected Thales to supply radar systems and distance measuring equipment (DME) to several sites in the country in an effort to keep up with South Africa’s growing air traffic.

Thales on Wednesday announced that it will supply Wide Area Multilateration (WAM), Star NG (Next Generation) primary radars and RSM 970 secondary radars. The WAM system will be deployed to provide surveillance over the entire Northern region of South Africa. Radars will be deployed to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport, Cape Town, Durban and Blesberg in KwaZulu-Natal.

These surveillance systems will be integrated into ATNS’s existing Thales TopSky Air Traffic Management System.

Thales added that DME systems will be deployed to 31 sites across South Africa where they will ensure high accuracy en-route and terminal aircraft guidance.

Together, these technologies will improve ATNS’ capability to offer airlines RNAV routes for faster and shorter trajectories, lower fuel consumption, and reduced carbon emissions. (RNAV or Area navigation is a method of instrument flight rules (IFR) navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons, rather than navigate directly to and from the beacons.)

In addition to the supply, installation and commissioning of the new air traffic hardware, these contracts provide for a long term support and maintenance agreement.

Thabani Mthiyane, CEO of ATNS, said that “ATNS has invested in the acquisition of new and advanced technology for Air Traffic Management to replace the current national Air Traffic Management Automation system. Through this programme, ATNS will enter a new era of operational technology advancement for the benefit of the ATM community. The South African aviation infrastructure is considered to be one of the best in the world, contributing to the country’s aviation safety record. It is, therefore, imperative that we continue to invest wisely in this infrastructure to support the country’s overall transport infrastructure”.

Justice Tootla, Thales South Africa Systems, CEO, said that, “South Africa is one of the fastest growing ATM regions in the continent. As a result of Thales’ commitment to aligning our product roadmaps with international standards, Thales navigation and surveillance solutions will allow ATNS to deploy a truly future-proofed technology capable of not only dealing with the issues and challenges of Africa today, but also capable of growing and adapting as the airspace becomes more complex.”

Thales noted that over the past decade, African air traffic has increased exponentially, with South Africa being one of the busiest airspaces in the continent.

In May 2013 Thales announced it had been awarded several contracts to upgrade some of South Africa’s air traffic management infrastructure, replacing legacy equipment with its TopSky air traffic control (ATC) systems. The company was also contracted to install Thales RSM 970 S radars at the Wakkerstroom, Potgieterus and Rhodes sites.

ATNS is the sole provider of air traffic, navigation and training services within South Africa and some parts of Africa and is responsible for 10% of the world’s airspace.

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b9f483 No.20777742

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“Thales positive about SANDF projects”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/thales-positive-about-sandf-projects/

17th March 2016

Thales is expecting to benefit from extensive South African National Defence Force (SANDF) contracts, and hopes to supply vessel combat management suites and radars for Projects Biro and Chutney.

Justice Tootla, CEO of Thales South Africa Systems, told defenceWeb that his company is hopeful regarding Biro, which calls for three offshore and three inshore patrol vessels for the South African Navy. Thales would offers its services as a systems integrator to shipyards and provide the combat management systems, as it did with the SA Navy’s four Meko frigates.

As it has a strong combat management systems background, Thales South Africa is currently doing integration work on the French Navy FREMM frigates, and provided equipment for the FREMM that was delivered to Egypt last year. This involves providing bridge equipment for these vessels.

Tootla said that although SANDF spending has been “very subdued” due to the limited defence budget, the 2014 Defence Review could see more participation from Thales. At the moment Thales South Africa has support contracts in place with the SANDF as it has done work on the Meko frigates, provided surveillance and communications equipment (Squire radars and Sophie thermal imagers amongst other items) to the Army under Project Cytoon, and supplied artillery fire control systems to the Army under Project Klooster.

–On the defence side, Tootla said Thales South Africa Systems has increased its exports into the Middle East, after focussing on this area several years ago. He said there is a strong export pipeline in the Middle East, with a number of recent orders. Most exports are on the landward side, for equipment like the company’s AS4000 artillery fire control system, which was also used for Project Klooster.

Thales South Africa has been active on the commercial side and recently signed a large contract with South Africa’s Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) company to provide radars and other air traffic management (ATM) equipment. Tootla said this is a two to three year project. The company’s relationship with ATNS goes back more than 30 years, as it has supplied various air traffic management systems that have been progressively upgraded as technology and regulations change. For instance, ATNS awarded Thales a contract in 2013 for its TopSky ATM system.

Thales was awarded a contract by construction company Basil Read to supply an instrument landing system (ILS), DME equipment and a Doppler VHF Omni-directional Radio Range system (DVOR) for the new airport at St Helena, which should be opened around May this year. This was a collaboration between Thales UK and Thales South Africa.

Thales has also provided air traffic management equipment to countries like Namibia, Mauritius and Kenya. Egypt this month awarded the company’s regional division a contract to replace and renew its air traffic management systems at Hurghada and Taba International Airports, with the French division supplying TopSky -ATC, TopSky – Tower, primary and secondary radars, and communication systems.

Tootla told defenceWeb that Thales had recently branched out into security and transport, and is active in the rail sector. The company provided the ticketing system for the Gautrain, and is upgrading it so that passengers can use their credit cards to pay for rides in addition to Gautrain Gold Cards. The South African division is also working on train signalling systems for 42 stations in the Western Cape. This R1.8 billion five year contract has been underway for the last two years for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa).

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b9f483 No.20777769

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“The Spy Officer; This Is How the French Defence Industry Giant 'THALES' Penetrated the United Nations Deals” – Part 1

https://www.alestiklal.net/en/article/the-spy-officer-this-is-how-the-french-defence-industry-giant-thales-penetrated-the-united-nations-deals

2 years ago

An investigation by the French Mediapart website published on November 14, 2021, revealed that France's defense and electronics firm Thales has inducted a spy in one of the most strategic and sensitive offices of the United Nations.

An investigation by journalists Yann Philippin and Antton Rouget concluded that from 2016 to 2019, Philippe Schifferling, a reserve officer in the French army at the United Nations, worked covertly with the Thales Group, according to Mediapart documents.

The investigation also revealed that all actions taken by Schifferling for the benefit of the Thales group at the United Nations office were with the knowledge of prominent figures in the French state, in a scandal that tarnished the reputation of the government of French President Emmanuel Macron and its defense industry together.

The French army loaned Major Philippe Schifferling after his retirement free of charge to provide his services to the United Nations, and his co-workers thought he was receiving his salary from his state, but in fact, the experienced officer was working for and getting paid by the French arms manufacturer Thales, according to documents reviewed by Mediapart.

The French Major was working in the Technology and Communications Department of the Security Council, which was responsible for planning the arms deals signed by the organization in order to support peacekeeping missions deployed in all conflict areas around the world.

Thales was sending remittances to Schifferling in order for him to spy on UN plans, to pressure its officials to acquire arms deals for Blue Beret Soldiers’ missions around the world.

According to the investigation, Schifferling was in direct contact with the heads of the French defense giant, who he used to inform on a weekly basis of the latest developments in the arms deals that were being conducted behind the scenes of the international organization.

Even the French agent was well known to the most senior officials in the French Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, who were tasked with securing a secret cover for his work, according to Mediapart.

Although the French firm Thales works in the field of designing and building electrical systems and providing services for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets, a recent report described it as one of the largest arms manufacturers in Europe.

Mediapart says that Major Schifferling worked from September 2016 to September 2017 to influence international structures and decisions, in order to enable the French Thales Group to obtain major arms deals. He even intervened to modify and tailor several arms deals to its size.

The investigation added that Schifferling's work brought the Thales Group huge financial profits, where the client focused on keeping the group updated with all the details of secret arms deals to the United Nations, even that was in conjunction with the stages of cooking between the offices of the Security Council.

After two years of secret service in the halls of the Technology and Communications Department of the United Nations Security Council, the French Ministry of Defense refused to renew the legal cover for the mission of intelligence agent Schifferling.

Which forced Schifferling to return to the French capital, Paris. However, he managed to return again to the United Nations headquarters in New York, but this time as a direct UN employee. Consequently, he returned to work for Thales for a new period from 2017 to 2019.

According to Mediapart, Schifferling's mission, relations and coordination expanded during this period to lobbyists on NATO and the European Union.

In 2018, the French spy handed over to Thales Group a number of super-secret documents on a topic related to the extension of the mission of the United Nations Organization in Mali.

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b9f483 No.20777776

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“The Spy Officer; This Is How the French Defence Industry Giant 'THALES' Penetrated the United Nations Deals” – Part 2

https://www.alestiklal.net/en/article/the-spy-officer-this-is-how-the-french-defence-industry-giant-thales-penetrated-the-united-nations-deals

2 years ago

The Mediapart investigation revealed that Schifferling's mission should have been kept secret, but the French court's investigations that pursued the Military Industries Group on charges of bribery and illegal pressure exposed the mission of the French agent within the United Nations.

The exposure of the secret mission dates back precisely to the moment when Thales decided to get rid of Agent Schifferling, as he was unable to extend his mission to the United Nations again, he demanded that he be incorporated into the group, which was rejected by its management.

After that, Thales severed all ties with Schifferling, in return for a large financial bribe, Thales gave him to ensure his silence.

But this bribe was exposed by an employee in the export deal planning department, she reported it to the head of the French group's ethics office, Dominique Lamoureux.

Three months later, Lamoureux was retired, the employee in the export deals planning department was dismissed, under the pretext of insulting her department head, who was one of those involved in the bribe.

It is noteworthy that France experienced the highest growth rate in arms exports, and arms sales increased by 72% between 2015 and 2019 compared to the previous period between 2010 and 2014.

Which is rather clear evidence of the success of the French spy's mission, who was supervising the arms deals that the United Nations was conducting to support its missions on the ground, which, during that period of time, belonged to the French firm Thales.

It is noteworthy that France plays a pivotal role in global arms exports, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), since the Arab Spring protests in 2011 until today, France has been among the world's top 5 arms exporters.

Statistics also indicate that French arms exports quadrupled between 2012 and 2018.

A French government report had previously shown that the proportion of French arms sales to the Middle East doubled in 2017, Arab countries received 60% of all French arms sales.

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b9f483 No.20777806

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“South African Ex-President Zuma & Thales' Arms Deal Corruption Case Explained”

https://en.sputniknews.africa/20230417/south-african-ex-president-zuma–thales-arms-deal-corruption-case-explained-1058663872.html

15:24 17.04.2023

The corruption case related to the arms deal was first presented to the court in 2005, but it has been repeatedly postponed and has been mired in legal challenges and political controversy. Just a few weeks before Zuma became president in 2009, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dropped the charges against him due to legal technicalities.

Despite this, seven years later, during Zuma's presidency, the High Court declared that the decision taken in 2009 to drop the charges unreasonable and asked the NPA to review the case again. The South African Supreme Court of Appeal supported the ruling in 2017.

In March 2018, the month after Zuma stepped down from the presidency, the National Prosecuting Authority officially refiled the charges against him. Since then, the case has been postponed several times for various reasons, including Zuma's defense team's petition to have state prosecutor Billy Downer removed from the case over claims of bias and leaking the ex-president's confidential medical information to the media.

The trial in the arms deal case was last heard in January, when the judge that had been overseeing the case, Piet Koen, recused himself. The proceedings were then adjourned until April 17, with Judge Nkosinathi Chili taking over the proceedings.

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b9f483 No.20777830

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“Zuma back in court today for corruption trial” – Part 1

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/npa-push-jacob-zuma-arms-deal-trial-proceed/

24 Oct 2023 04:52 pm

Former President Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales are set to return to the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.

This comes after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last week unanimously dismissed Zuma’s bid to challenge the enforcement of the ruling invalidating his private prosecution of state advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.

Zuma had sought to overturn a high court judgment that effectively prevented Downer and Maughan from having to face prosecution.

“These emphatic and repeated dismissals of Mr Zuma’s pillars are fatal to his current attempt to resurrect them to avoid his day in court,” the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) argued in papers filed at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg.

Downer made it clear the NPA will push for the former president’s trial to proceed, despite whatever appeals may follow his 26 October bid to again force the prosecutor’s removal, if that bid is (again) unsuccessful.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi said the matter was set down for hearing on 15 August 2023 but was unexpectedly removed by the Judge President Mandisa Maya a day before the hearing, a decision which was reversed after a meeting between her and the parties.

“It will be remembered that it was on the basis of this application that Judge Koen recused himself from the trial in January 2023 after considering the written arguments of both parties.”

The former president’s legal team had raised 14 grounds for Downer to be recused including his claim the prosecutor had been party to the unlawful leaking of court papers – containing a sick note from his military doctor Brigadier Mcebisi Mdutywa to Maughan.

In January this year Koen announced his decision to recuse himself from the matter for the “strong views” he made when he dismissed Zuma‘s bid to get arms deal prosecutor, Downer, removed from the corruption and fraud trial.

Earlier this year, the NPA wanted the Pietermaritzburg High Court to step in citing the “unreasonable” delays it said the former president was causing in the arms deal corruption case.

The case was last in court in April when it was on the roll for the trial to finally get underway.

However, it was postponed again after Zuma brought a fresh bid for Downer, who is leading the prosecution against him, to be recused.

While the SCA dismissed the second application for leave to appeal by Zuma, the former president tried to get Judge President Maya to intervene and filed a reconsideration application.

In the State’s answering affidavit, Downer argued Zuma’s ultimate aim was “to avoid at all costs to have his day in court”.

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b9f483 No.20777841

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“Zuma back in court today for corruption trial” – Part 2

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/npa-push-jacob-zuma-arms-deal-trial-proceed/

24 Oct 2023 04:52 pm

18 years and still no trial

Downer said Zuma made his first appearance in the dock for the arms cases in 2005 and that almost 18 years later, the first witness is yet to take the stand.

However, Manyi said Zuma was not to blame: “It is interesting, though, to mention the observation that in their judgment, a date of 2005 is mentioned as if since then it was President Zuma’s fault that the case was not sitting. That statement on its own seems to have put aside the fact that more than once the NPA decided not to prosecute.

“All of sudden you have a summary statement that gives an impression that his excellency President Zuma has been delaying the trial, So, indeed the lawyers will look into all that, but on the face of it, it’s the typical Zuma law in action,” Manyi said.

Charges

The 81-year-old Zuma and French arms manufacturer, Thales, are facing multiple charges including fraud‚ corruption, money laundering, and racketeering, in connection with the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal procurement concluded in the late 1990s while he was vice president.

It is the State’s case Zuma was kept on a corrupt retainer by his former financial advisor, Schabir Shaik, who then used his political clout to further his own business interests.

The NPA also claimed Shaik facilitated a R500 000 a year bribe for Zuma from French arms company Thales, in exchange for his “political protection” from a potentially damaging Arms Deal inquiry.

Zuma and Thales have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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b9f483 No.20777854

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“Former President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial | 26 October 2023”

https://youtu.be/XJ90XdeCfTU

Streamed live on Oct 26, 2023

The arms deal fraud and corruption trial of former president Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales will be back at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Zuma is expected to lead arguments in his latest application to have state prosecutor advocate Billy Downer removed as lead prosecutor from his trial. Zuma earlier this month lost his appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal against the enforcement order of a ruling which set aside his private prosecution of Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-10-26-judgment-reserved-in-zumas-latest-attempt-to-remove-billy-downer/

26 October 2023 - 19:43

“We asked the NPA to remove him. They said no. We appealed to his conscience. He said no. We are saying please find another prosecutor but don’t be blind to the (fact that) the NPA is a crime scene,” Mpofu said, referring to the fact that the NDPP had supported Downer, and was paying for his defence in the private prosecution.

Downer, who attempted to make submissions on the issue, was shouted down by Mpofu who said “he is accused number one … we can’t be listening to him”.

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b9f483 No.20777868

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The saga continues…

“ExaminIng Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case”: Case was removed from the roll, arms deal pre-trial scheduled for May 17, 2024

https://youtu.be/GHFQez0jMUY

Apr 17, 2024

Legal analyst Nthabiseng Dubazana dissects the private prosecution case of former president Jacob Zuma against Adv. Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan. The case was removed from the roll by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/private-prosecution-downer-maughan-alive-zuma-foundation/

18 Apr 2024 06:36 am

The Jacob Zuma Foundation says former President Jacob Zuma’s private prosecution of prosecutor Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan is far from over.

On Wednesday, his private prosecution of prosecutor Downer and Maughan was removed from the roll by Judge Nkosinathi Chili in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) High Court in Pietermaritzburg.

The arms deal has been postponed to 17 May for a pre-trial.

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-03-20-jacob-zuma-fails-to-remove-billy-downer-but-will-appeal-again/

20 MARCH 2024 - 12:14

On the suggestion of judge Nkosinathi Chili, both sides agreed to postpone the trial to ‘a pretrial conference’ on May 17

Former president Jacob Zuma has again failed to remove lead prosecutor advocate Billy Downer from his arms-deal corruption case.

But more appeals are in the offing and the matter has still not been set down for trial for the hearing of evidence.

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b9f483 No.20777881

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“Jacob Zuma v ANC: MK Party triumphs in high-stakes trademark & logo court case | 2024 election”

https://youtu.be/6WC1Drz2pbw

Apr 22, 2024

Join Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh to explore the MK Party's significant courtroom victory over the ANC in a trademark dispute. We outline the case's context, dissect the legal arguments, and analyze the court's decision. Our experts discuss the ruling's impact on South Africa's political and legal landscapes, exploring its implications for both parties involved. Tune into SMWX for a concise and insightful examination of this pivotal case.

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b9f483 No.20777886

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“Zuma betrayed us – Makgoale”

https://youtu.be/lb0EvQns8lc

Apr 22, 2024

ANC veteran Omry Makgoale says former president Jacob Zuma has betrayed the ruling party by starting the uMkhonto weSizwe Party. "He wants to defeat and kill the ANC. We are disappointed, we feel betrayed."

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cca204 No.20781240

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>Cresswell says Thales has sovereign status in all three Aukus countries, and he has high-level security clearances.

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>“RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination”

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>“Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal”

“Evelyn Groenink launches her much-awaited book”

https://youtu.be/4B70RwDVmds

Mar 14, 2018

The media twists her story concerning the reason why it took her so long to publish the book. [Watch the video and then read the article below.]

2:28 – “She says that by its very nature the arms industry is corrupt and operates behind a veil of secrecy

“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 1

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

Clive Derby-Lewis, co-conspirator in the murder of South African freedom struggle hero Chris Hani in 1993, was once again denied parole, for the third time, in January this year. Whilst Chris Hani's family and many old friends and comrades applaud the decision to 'let him rot', some ask how much Derby-Lewis actually knew about the murder. One of these voices is Evelyn Groenink, who investigated the Chris Hani murder case -and several others- for years. Her research, which unearthed arms trade links to both the Hani and September murders, was published only in the Netherlands, in a language largely foreign to the international community. The history of a story that could not be told.

–ANC representative Dulcie September was killed in Paris in 1988, when talks about future arms contracts between France and the ANC were on the agenda; SWAPO- man Anton Lubowski, ditto, in front of his Windhoek home in 1989, shortly after befriending an arms- and diamonds dealer; and the ANC's beloved Chris Hani was murdered in 1993 (one year before the first democratic elections in South Africa), in the midst of massive bribe-offering by arms dealers to key people in the ANC military.

In all three cases, I was told by people close to the victims that they had been 'obstacles'. Dulcie September had been "fighting with important people." Lubowski "had not wanted to do what [certain businessmen] wanted." Hani "would not allow the corruption of the ANC's guerrilla army,MK" In the late eighties and early nineties, when South Africa and neighbouring Namibia transitioned from apartheid rule to democracy and sanctions were lifted, dozens of international businessmen had flocked to the impending new ANC and SWAPO governments to buy up resources and sell arms.–

In Namibia, Namibian, French, Italian, Israeli and American diamond buyers had entered the post-sanctions scene and arms dealers started approaching the ANC in South Africa as early as 1991.

September, Lubowski and Hani had objected to, respectively, a nuclear military technology exchange; a set of oil-, diamonds- and casino rights deals; and the now notorious South African arms deal. I wrote about these things, in Mail & Guardian and elsewhere.

Official police investigations identified all three murders as motivated by apartheid hate and perpetrated by death squads or (in the case of Hani) right-wing extremists. This official narrative is still dominant in South Africa: puzzlingly so, considering that, in two of the three cases, high ranking ANC- and SWAPO officials have suggested that the truth should indeed be sought on the terrain of shady contracts. Former ANC deputy minister of foreign affairs, Aziz Pahad, is on record confirming that "Dulcie [September] stumbled on nuclear issues". SWAPO's Haage Geingob told a journalist that Anton Lubowski, on the day of his murder, was sorting out highly sensitive 'financial matters'.

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cca204 No.20781279

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>Now the new government of South Africa is very popular with the liberal press and a big part of their propaganda campaign is the "Truth and Reconciliation" commission.

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>Archbishop Desmond Tutu was appointed chairman of the TRC

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>TRC granted Amnesty to the St James Massacre Perpetrators

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>“MK party: Kremlin’s Spear; Ramaphosa’s “unlawful” Putin deal freed Zuma - André Pienaar” – FBI, Scotland Yard and UK trained the Scorpions

“Incorruptible – The story of the murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani”

https://youtu.be/n3vv5s9EeXc

Apr 24, 2018

“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 2

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

In the case of Chris Hani, former comrades explained to me how he was an obstacle to the USD$ 60 million arms deal that was being negotiated with others in the ANC leadership at the time. From the police docket in the case, I found that a crucial part in the Hani murder was played by Peter Jackson, a chemicals transporter with arms trade connections, who was the employer of Hani's convicted murderer Janusz Walus, and who seemed to have been telling Walus what to do. The police had been kept from investigating Peter Jackson by a written instruction from the Security Police that read: "Inligting oer Peter Jackson sal nie opgevolg word nie".

All this, I published. But only in Dutch, never in English: the South African publication was prevented through legal and physical threats to the publisher. In a lecture for the University of the Witwatersrand, Jacana publisher Maggie Davey questioned the reasons why she was unable to publish. "These questions are […] about how truth can be covered up and how the interests of a few powerful constituencies can shift and shape our understanding of history".

I published several stories

I published several stories about the arms deal - and mafia links to the Dulcie September and Anton Lubowski murders in the South African Mail & Guardian. The full story of all three murders and their 'dodgy deals' background was told in my book 'Dulcie, a woman who had to keep her mouth shut' published in 2001, in Dutch, in the Netherlands - the same book that Jacana's Maggie Davey had wanted to publish in South Africa. (An unpublished translation of the book was made available in South Africa to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the South African 'FBI', the Scorpions.) The Anton Lubowski story was captured in a South African investigative journalism training manual; the Dulcie September investigation was published in the Rhodes Review (of Rhodes University in Grahamstown, also South Africa) and the story about the arms trade links in the Chris Hani case was published in ZAM Magazine in the Netherlands in 2005. But, strangely, every time the stories are published, or discussed, they fall into a big silence. The pattern is usually the same. I publish, there are some responses (like a police force pledging to reopen the case), one interview with a newspaper or radio station, then - nothing. After a while, every single darn time, the official narrative is back. In 2010, eleven years after I first published the first September and Lubowski stories in Mail & Guardian, the Dulcie September memorial lectures at the University of the Western Cape reverted neatly back to the 'extremist death squad' story.

In 2011, the repeated admission by former foreign minister Aziz Pahad that September was killed over 'nuclear issues' (first made to me in 1995 and now re-recorded by a French investigative documentary maker) made it again to Mail & Guardian. Nevertheless, the Cape Times in 2012 again only spoke of 'apartheid death squads' as the culprits. The story 'The Lubowski files', published prominently by Mail & Guardian in 1999, cannot even be found on their website anymore.

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cca204 No.20781322

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>The arms deal has been postponed to 17 May for a pre-trial.

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>We are saying please find another prosecutor but don’t be blind to the (fact that) the NPA is a crime scene,” Mpofu said, referring to the fact that the NDPP had supported Downer, and was paying for his defence in the private prosecution.

“Thales, a subject of a book titled "Incorruptible" by Evelyn Groenink”

https://youtu.be/YZzZm6TOhsQ

May 21, 2019

“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 3

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

'The world is a dangerous place, you know'

In the case of the Chris Hani investigation, South African publisher Jacana was made to fear bankruptcy by arms dealers' lawyers, some of whom threatened expensive pre-publication litigation. Military vehicles dealer Witold Walus, brother to Janusz Walus, sued for real.

Violence was threatened by NIA operative Michael Buchanan, who said he would 'klap' me, and 'beat up' the publisher. Interestingly, Buchanan also said he would 'bring Gerrie Nel and the Scorpions', with whom he said he had a good relationship. (If so, it might explain why Gerrie Nel, in spite of a promise to take up the Hani case again, never did.)

Then there was former foreign minister Pik Botha, who was so upset about the claims by some sources that he had been party to arms deals, that he kept phoning Jacana for hours at the time, explaining how only a 'sick, perverse and criminal mind' could think such things. During one of these phone calls he also told Jacana's Maggie Davey sternly that 'the world is a dangerous place, you know.'

As a result, all that most South African citizens know about the Chris Hani murder, is that two right-wingers, Polish immigrant Janusz Walus and ultra-conservative former Mayor of Krugersdorp, Clive Derby-Lewis, are to blame. The two are still in jail. There is a massive popular outcry every time even a mention is made of amnesty or health parole.

So why not simply give up and accept the official dominant narrative? Nothing will bring the dead back to life. And why not blame apartheid and racists? There was apartheid, there still are violent racists, and both have inflicted trauma on South Africa and the world. What does it matter if they are blamed for a few more things?

It matters, because the story of freedom fighters who stumbled upon corruption and wanted to stop it is worth telling. The African continent is often perceived as endemically corrupt. How can that perception change if stories such as these are silenced? I recall a young woman in Cape Town, who, after I spoke about my book to a small audience, looked at me almost reproachfully and asked: "But where is that book? I want to read that book!"

So here it goes, one more time.

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cca204 No.20781327

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“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 4

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

'I want to read that book'

Dulcie September had been on the trail of nuclear military technology exchanges between France and the South African government. She had had meetings with sources in the arms trade whom she kept secret even from her private secretary, had phoned the highest regions in the ANC to come and stop what was going on, had planned to inform the anti-apartheid arms sanctions campaign, and had been shot, very professionally, five times in the head, before she could go any further. Aziz Pahad had confirmed to me, in 1995, that she had "stumbled on nuclear issues". All this had been published in 1998 in the Mail & Guardian.

There was a ripple in the silence following this article when Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigator, detective Jan Ake Kjellberg (who had been seconded to the TRC by the Swedish government) tried to take the matter further. However, right after he had gone to France to follow up on the arms deal trail in the Dulcie September case, he was fired and sent home to Sweden. Kjellbergs reports are contained in boxes that have been moved to the National Intelligence Agency's custody, where they remain inaccessible to the public to date.

The same arms wheeler dealer whom Kjellberg and I had investigated in the Dulcie September case had befriended SWAPO-man Lubowski a few months before his murder. The arms dealers' name was Alain Guenon. He had high-profile links with the presidential Mitterrand family in France and had also, posing as a socialist supporter of ANC and SWAPO, managed to become an advisor to the ANC's Winnie Mandela and Tokyo Sexwale. Another 'friend' who had become close to Anton Lubowski at more or less the same time as Guenon was Vito Palazzolo, the Italian banker sought by Italian (and other) authorities for mafia-links and money laundering.

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cca204 No.20781335

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“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 5

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

Casino rights

Unbeknownst to Anton Lubowski however, Guenon, and Palazzolo knew each other: they were later identified by the international research agency Kroll as long standing business partners in a diamond mine in Angola. Both were (also secretly) good friends of the rogue, smuggling, apartheid military establishment.

Guenon was linked to Military Intelligence's Directorate for Covert Collection (DCC) through a joint partnership with the DCC's operative Rob Colesky in a front company in Namibia, Spectrum Furniture. The company was selling furniture to SWAPO for their new government offices. It was this furniture deal that came with a 'facilitation fee' for Lubowski, in cheques that were later proven to originate from South Africa's military intelligence.

According to two independent sources in Windhoek, the 'facilitation fee' was at the core of the financial issues that Lubowski was 'sorting out' on the day of his murder. Friends of Lubowski also confirm that Palazzolo and Guenon had demanded that the SWAPO advocate deliver certain business contracts in the fields of casino rights, diamonds, and oil transport to them. They report that Lubowski had told them, in distress, that he "didn't want to do all that these people wanted from him". But how to say no, when he had already accepted their - later shown to be tainted - money?

Still, Lubowski worked the entire day of his murder on the books that contained entries related to the 'facilitation fee' he had accepted, and he told his comrade, fellow SWAPO-leader Haage Geingob, in a very private conversation about the 'financial issues'. It was at the end of this day, after the DCC's Rob Colesky had visited his house to ask what time Lubowski would be home, that 'the people's lawyer' was shot dead in his front yard. Colesky would later surface again as a fellow director in several of South African arms deal middleman John Bredenkamp's companies.

The TRC attributed both the September and Lubowski murders to an apartheid 'death squad' called the Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB), and, in Lubowski's case, specifically to individuals within this CCB who had been former policemen in South Africa. However, the former policemen who were named in the case (Chappies Maree, Staal Burger, Calla Botha, Slang van Zyl, among others) had no record of ever having carried out, or organized, professional murders. Their records consisted of harassment, beatings, torture and other 'dirty tricks'.

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cca204 No.20781343

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“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 6

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

Skills of a certain kind

Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani (and also David Webster, the academic who had -according to Mail & Guardian's predecessor, the Weekly Mail - stumbled on South African military intelligence smuggling operations near the Kruger Park, and whose murder in 1989 was similarly attributed to 'the CCB') were cornered in a spot without witnesses, shot in the head, and died immediately. Carrying out such a murder needs skill and experience of a kind that an average South African policeman simply did not possess.

Former military Special Forces operative Guy Bawden confirmed in an interview in the late nineties that he and his fellow soldiers did not think highly of 'the CCB'. "We were laughing at these CCB policemen. They were parading around, sweating and in wigs, in the heat in the frontline states. We knew that they were just a label. For when an operation needed to be denied." South African Special Forces operatives were often mercenaries, and they were indeed used, sometimes privately, for operations that needed to be denied. Irish mercenary Donald Acheson, of Special Forces army battalion Recce 3, was identified in a Namibian inquest as Lubowski's real assassin.

He disappeared in 1991 and is now thought dead. An army buddy of Acheson's (name known to ZAM) has told a confidante that he was also involved in the Lubowski murder and that the order came from a South African government minister who felt that Lubowski was 'messing with his business'.

Like the Afrikaans policemen in 'the CCB', the man officially identified as the murderer of Chris Hani, Janusz Walus, was also no professional hit man. Witnesses who identified a second man on the scene of the crime, a man with actual secret service and gun runners links, probably had something to say worth listening to. "But police came at night to scare the children, mess up my place and tell me that I should stay away from trying to testify", recounts a witness who saw the second murderer. "I gave up after that".

The Chris Hani murder docket shows to which extent the murder investigation was manipulated to result in the sole convictions of Walus and Derby-Lewis. Not only did the investigating officers ignore witnesses like the neighbour quoted above, they also refrained from interrogating Janusz Walus' employer, chemical trucker Peter Jackson. The Security Police ("who were in charge of the investigation," according to Brixton Murder & Robbery Squad's chief inspector Michael Holmes), told Holmes' men not to bother exploring the man or his arms trade and secret service contacts. This, even though a list of these contacts (including an Armscor man called Colin Stier) is also neatly contained in the docket. "Jackson is cooperating fully and does not need to be questioned," the instruction to the police officers says. Another police instruction, on the authority of Security police Captain J.H. de Waal, states that "information about Peter Jackson will not be followed up".

Walus' diary, prominently listing several reminders to 'Phone Peter' in the run-up up the murder, has disappeared from the docket altogether, though a copy of it (missing the page of the week of the murder itself) is still there.

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cca204 No.20781351

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>Department Of State Security – National Intelligence Agency (Nia): Origins

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“Essay | Chris Hani murder revisited” – Part 7

http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/20150317122554/http://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-11/202-essay-chris-hani-murder-revisited

Chronicle #11 / By Evelyn Groenink

TUESDAY 17/03/2015

NIA assistance

What also casts doubt on the police findings is the fact that the murder scene in the Hani case was, within seconds of the shooting, professionally shielded by a self-confessed operative of the National Intelligence Agency. Michael Buchanan, who happened to live right opposite Chris Hani, was first to arrive in the yard where he lay shot. (In the world of secret services, it is customary that a technically trained operator 'sweeps' the murder scene, to prepare it for the police only to find what they're supposed to.) Buchanan, in a telephone conversation with me, and later in a faxed written statement, did not go into his actual role at the scene, but stated clearly that he worked for the "new intelligence service" and that he had "helped avert civil war." (It was also Buchanan who threatened violence and "Gerrie Nel and the Scorpions" against both Jacana and myself.)

Chief Inspector Michael Holmes of the Brixton Murder and Robbery Squad was, throughout, (weirdly) happy with the 'assistance' his team had received from the Security Police. "We didn't need to look at all the evidence," he told me, "because the Security Police put everything we needed in a box for us to work with." An important part of that evidence was the 'right-wing gun' that was used in the murder, that originated from violent right-wing extremist Piet 'Skiet' Rudolph's armory. The gun had been procured by Clive Derby-Lewis upon Janusz Walus' insistence. "Clive was asked repeatedly by Walus to get him a gun and that's what he did" Inspector Holmes told me.

There is no indication that Derby-Lewis ever did anything else and actually, by procuring a 'right-wing gun', Derby-Lewis worked to cement the cover story of a plot of a few right-wing individuals, rather than to assist with the actual murder. Walus didn't need a gun: according to the case docket, he already owned four guns at the time. His, Walus', successful insistence on getting a right-wing gun, went a long way to paint the hapless right-wing fanatic Derby-Lewis as the 'mastermind' of the Hani murder. (Ironically, Clive Derby-Lewis may well be under the impression that he was, in fact, a mastermind. He did get the gun, after all.)

A big debt

The one who knows, if not the whole truth, at least more of it, is without doubt Janusz Walus. So why doesn't he talk? Perhaps because he knows that it wouldn't help him - after all, he was still part of the murder plot and it would be unlikely that he would be freed? Or because he has a sister, other relatives and friends in South Africa, among whom a brother who maintains excellent relations with the SA military? Or is it the debt that his family, according to Peter Jackson, still owes to Walus's former boss? Jackson had 'helped' the Polish immigrants during the apartheid years to set up and run a glass cutting factory in the Qua Qua bantustan. "The Walus family incurred a big debt to me in the process," Jackson told me, on the one occasion when I managed to pin him down. "Walus was paying it off to me on their behalf."

Maybe it is only Janusz Walus who could still rescue this story from falling into a big silence again.

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cca204 No.20781359

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>The arms dealers' name was Alain Guenon. He had high-profile links with the presidential Mitterrand family in France and had also, posing as a socialist supporter of ANC and SWAPO, managed to become an advisor to the ANC's Winnie Mandela and Tokyo Sexwale.

“Sexwale urges Hani killers to come clean”

https://youtu.be/yOQdMkw2e4U

Apr 10, 2013

The ‘white’ woman, Gill Marcus, at the scene of Chris Hani’s murder eventually became the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank. “She ran the ANC’s Department of Information and Publicity until 1994 and played a leading role in determining media policies for the ANC in the run-up to the first democratic elections in 1994.” https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/marcus-gill

5:51 – “A gun was stolen from the airforce because the weapon that shot at Chris was an airforce weapon.”

“The Many Truths of Tokyo Sexwale” – Part 1

https://www.zammagazine.com/arts/551-the-many-truths-of-tokyo-sexwale

Evelyn Groenink

06 October 2015

Mosima Gabriel ‘Tokyo’ Sexwale once told a South African business magazine that he achieved his present enormous wealth –estimated at over US$ 200 million- by simply “striking it very lucky” as soon as he started operating a diamond mine in Angola: he had, he said, immediately hit a large diamond layer. For the rest, he humbly added, he was just a “struggle veteran,” a close comrade of legendary anti-apartheid freedom fighter Chris Hani and more or less –that is in the words of his friend, French oil and diamond tycoon Jean Yves Ollivier- a ‘spiritual son’ of Nelson Mandela (1).

The words ‘anti-apartheid struggle’ and ‘Nelson Mandela’ were not predominant in my mind, however, when, one morning during the late nineties at his Mvelaphanda Diamonds head office in Rosebank, Johannesburg, Tokyo Sexwale warned me against doing any further investigations into the murder of Chris Hani, who had been assassinated several years before, in 1993. “I know many journalists,” Sexwale told me at that occasion in what seemed like an attempt at a fatherly tone of voice. “And I know that journalists don’t know how to protect themselves. It is very easy to organise something like a car accident to happen to them. And I called you to tell you that there are people in the intelligence services who don’t like what you are doing at all. I thought I should warn you.”

As I was still reeling from what I was hearing, sitting on a plastic chair in the Mvelaphanda kitchen –since for some reason we could not have this conversation in his office-, Sexwale then proceeded to admonish me that I should never tell anybody about what he just said. “Or we will no longer be friends.”

But we had never been friends.

I had interviewed Sexwale in the months before that about his close friendships, post-struggle, with foreign oil-and-diamond tycoons and even arms dealers. I had asked him particularly about his friendship with Alain Guenon, a man whose name I had encountered whilst investigating the murders of ANC representative Dulcie September in Paris in 1988; Namibian liberation movement SWAPO lawyer Anton Lubowski in 1989; and now also Chris Hani (2).

Arms deals and foreign businessmen

I had no hard evidence showing that Guenon had killed anybody. But I had interviewed French foreign legion mercenaries and others who knew of him as a middleman between South African apartheid military intelligence and French arms interests. I had established that Guenon had negotiated arms deals between French businesses and representatives of both the old apartheid and the new governments in South Africa; in the case of the new ANC government, Tokyo Sexwale had played a role. I also had testimonies from close associates of French-based anti-apartheid activist and ANC representative Dulcie September that she had firmly opposed French arms deals –particularly also when it came to such deals with the ANC- before she had been murdered in 1988.

I had also published about Guenon’s short-lived friendship with Anton Lubowski shortly before the latter was assassinated a year later; about Guenon’s diamond interests in Namibia and Angola; his Angolan mining partnership –according to UK based investigative agency Kroll- with Italian mafia money man Vito Palazzolo; and about his close contacts with the South African military intelligence unit that in all likelihood supervised the Lubowski murder.

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cca204 No.20781361

>>20781359

“The Many Truths of Tokyo Sexwale” – Part 2

https://www.zammagazine.com/arts/551-the-many-truths-of-tokyo-sexwale

Evelyn Groenink

06 October 2015

I had then asked Sexwale about his own friendship with Guenon, who had –posing as a French Socialist Party member and anti-apartheid supporter- infiltrated many in the ANC community in Johannesburg in the early nineties. Guenon had become a close associate of Winnie Mandela, impressing her and many around her with talk of diamonds; he had then helped set up a few returning exiles and former prisoners in houses and businesses in Boksburg, an (as it turned out later) heavily military-intelligence monitored town to the south of Johannesburg. Chris Hani and Tokyo Sexwale had been among the ANC people thus ‘helped.’

According to ANC talk at the time the two, Sexwale and Hani, had only met for the first time during these days; ANC politician Mondli Gungubele was overheard telling people that he had been the one who had introduced them to one another.

Being ‘open’

When interviewing Tokyo Sexwale about these early days, I had asked him if his diamond interests had perhaps also been helped along by Guenon. Or by Vito Palazzolo, who had been involved with the diamond company Trans Hex before it was taken over by Sexwale. Or by Guenon’s very senior friend oil-and-diamond-and arms tycoon Jean Yves Ollivier. Olivier was and is a kingpin of the ‘Francafrique’ power network in Africa, a ‘person of interest’ in France’s arms-for-oil-for-money-for- French politicians ‘Angolagate’ scandal; and ‘godfather’ to many an African dictator presiding over rich natural resources. It was just remarkable how Ollivier’s and Tokyo’s friendship had developed simultaneously with Tokyo’s ‘luck’ in striking diamonds.

In a previous interview, Sexwale had made no secret of his friendship with Ollivier and neither had he denied having been close to Alain Guenon. “I looked up to this man, he was an important advisor,” he had told me. “I am so shocked by what you are saying now. We never suspected that such a man could have links with the enemy.”

Sexwale was probably right that he wouldn’t have known about the ‘apartheid’ side of Guenon, at least initially. But the warning I received in the Mvelaphanda kitchen meant at the very least, that he wouldn’t want anybody else to know about that either, as much as he wouldn’t want anybody else to know that his ‘lucky wealth’ might have had something to do with his remarkable friendships. Particularly not when others, who had rejected discussions with foreign businessmen in the arms and diamond sectors, had ended up dead. “Yes, there were those who refused to have any part in such discussions and those like me who were more open,” he had said to me in a previous interview, taken place just before that strange morning in Rosebank.

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cca204 No.20781365

>>20781359

>>20781361

“The Many Truths of Tokyo Sexwale” – Part 3

https://www.zammagazine.com/arts/551-the-many-truths-of-tokyo-sexwale

Evelyn Groenink

06 October 2015

A million houses

As far as Sexwale’s role in the anti-apartheid struggle itself, there is no doubt that he was once a firebrand, ready to fight the regime that was oppressing him as a black person. He had participated in the Black Consciousness movement and gone into exile. He had received military engineering training in the Soviet Union in 1975, after which he had returned to South Africa in 1976 with the instruction to carry out a military operation against the apartheid regime. He had however been arrested before he had been able to carry out his instructions and had then been in jail on Robben Island until he was freed in June 1990, four months after Nelson Mandela.

After the initial settling period back in Johannesburg and Boksburg, playing a political role in the local ANC and helping to enable the acquisition of missile parts from French-led arms company Advanced Electronics and Engineering –where Guenon was a middleman- for the ANC in 1992, Tokyo Sexwale was appointed prime minister for the Gauteng province around Johannesburg in 1994, a position he held for the next four years. During that time he became most famous for his promise to build no less than a million houses at a rate of 150 000 per year in the province. The plan had been proposed to him by yet another foreign businessman: Bart Dorrestein of construction company Stocks & Stocks, which had built the ‘Lost City’ addition to South Africa’s homeland gambling-and-entertainent Valhalla Sun City and was now building a gambling house in Namibia (where, incidentally, mafia man Vito Palazzolo had earlier applied to obtain casino rights.)

However, to build that many houses in so short a time was as impossible as it was bizarre. Additionally, -even if by some miracle these houses were going to be built in time-, to expect one million penniless people to then carry the cost in mortgage debts was asking for a credit crisis. The craziness of the endeavour gravely annoyed realistic ANC leaders like Joe Slovo, the then national housing Minister, who was trying hard to implement more practical affordable housing strategies for the countries’ poor majority. The fact that it was never carried out surprised no one.

Legion d’Honneur

Tokyo Sexwale was back in the limelight in 1995, when he was given France’s prestigious ‘Legion d’Honneur’ medal. Observers in that country never found out for which merits for the French nation Sexwale was thus honoured, but reckoned it must have had to do with his friendship with Jean-Yves Ollivier (It was from that time the French secret service newsletter Africa Intelligence started nicknaming him ‘frenchie.’). Two years later, in 1997, Sexwale –together with fellow Jean-Yves Ollivier associate Sivule Xayiya- founded Mvelaphanda Diamonds and started becoming very, very rich indeed.

Perhaps it is only apt and fitting that, in 2015,Tokyo Sexwale is a candidate to follow in the footsteps of yet another foreign businessman -Sepp Blatter- and create some positive publicity for the troubled FIFA organisation. Sexwale is certainly charismatic and charming enough to do that. He also probably needs a break from a recent acrimonious divorce, featuring a fight about a house donated to him by Jean Yves Ollivier and tales, -also reported in South Africa’s Sunday Times but sadly not available online-, of Tokyo threatening household staff with guns whilst saying ‘he was trained to kill in Russia.’

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cca204 No.20781369

“Book review – The man who killed Hani “ written by Michal Zichlarz

https://www.news24.com/News24/Book-review-The-man-who-killed-Hani-20150429

14 Jul 2013

Michal Zichlarz left Poland to visit SA in 2010 to write a book about Janusz Walus, the Polish immigrant who’d taken it on himself to kill Chris Hani 20 years ago. That book, Killing Hani, has now been published in his home nation

[Walus] emigrated to South Africa before martial law was declared in Poland in December 1981. He met Johan Fourie, a national intelligence agent, and befriended politicians Clive Derby-Lewis and Eugène Terre’Blanche.

Walus told me: “When I came to South Africa, I didn’t know much about the country. I knew a little from the letters of my brother, who had already been there. Even the trip was a great adventure to me as Poland back then was in a deep crisis.

“And South Africa back then? It’s a pity you couldn’t see it. Apartheid? Racism? Just propaganda that was even stronger in western Europe than in the communist countries, which had their own apartheid.”

Walus denies his killing of Hani was a product of racism: “I believe racism is a kind of paranoia and a political tool.

“The Oxford dictionary had a different definition for racism in the 1980s than it did in the 1990s. This term has changed its meaning. If you want to talk about it, you should first give me a definition of racism. But we can’t talk about it, can we? We live in the world of political correctness.”

As for Eugene Riley, the Civil Cooperation Bureau agent who was killed in suspicious circumstances in 1994 after probing the Hani assassination, Walus maintained: “I don’t know Riley. It was a time of complete chaos in the secret service.” Riley had reportedly discovered that Hani’s assassination was part of a bigger plot.

As for Poland, Walus is today a hero for some fringe far-right political groups. They have a “Send an Easter postcard to Walus” campaign every year.

Most don’t know all the details of his case. To them, he is associated with the fight against communism and Hani is seen as someone trained by people from the KGB (security agency for the former Soviet Union) and the Stasi (security agency for the former East Germany).

One artist, Olaf Jasinski, even recorded a song for Walus, with the title: Hold On Brother.

On April 10 this year, in some Polish cities – Poznan, Gdansk, Lodz and Stalowa Wola – they waved banners saying: “Freedom for Janusz Walus”, “Janusz Walus, political prisoner”. This was barely noticed by the mainstream media, as April 10 is also the day, three years ago, when the plane carrying president Lech Kaczynski and more than 90 others crashed in Russia.

When I sent Walus one of the first copies of my book, he hated the cover. “It’s such a shame my face had to be shown in such colours. I don’t want to be connected to the ANC.”

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cca204 No.20781390

>>20781359

>“Sexwale urges Hani killers to come clean”

>https://youtu.be/yOQdMkw2e4U

>Apr 10, 2013

>5:51 – “A gun was stolen from the airforce because the weapon that shot at Chris was an airforce weapon.”

>Tokyo Sexwale: "I called you to tell you that there are people in the intelligence services who don’t like what you are doing at all. I thought I should warn you."

It is curious that Tokyo Sexwale was arrested in the US later the year after making this statement. Were they threatening him?

“Tokyo Sexwale arrested in USA for apartheid-era ‘terrorism’”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/tokyo-sexwale-arrested-in-us-for-apartheid-era-terrorism/

29-10-2013 08:17

ANC fumes as leading SA businessman and anti-apartheid stalwart detained at New York’s JFK due to outdated American ‘terror list’ that still included the names of many senior ANC leaders including, until recently, Nelson Mandela.

A major embarrassment for South Africa as well as for the USA unfolded at the weekend as former Cabinet member and struggle icon Tokyo Sexwale was arrested at John F Kennedy Airport in New York – all because his name has never been removed from an apartheid-era ‘terrorist’ watch list.

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cca204 No.20781553

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>>20766618

>“Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Official Music Video)”

>https://youtu.be/n4RjJKxsamQ

>>20236804

>>20242709

>>20711136

>>20711181

>>20711213

>>20711275

>>20711344

>Bishop Trevor Huddleston

Take note: Harold Macmillan made the famous "Wind of Change" speech at the Cape Town parliament, 3 February 1960. Ironically, the same title of the Scorpions song.

“PM Harold Macmillan - Wind of Change Speech at the Cape Town Parliament - 3 February 1960”

https://youtu.be/c07MiYfpOMw

17:31 – “The struggle is joined and it is a struggle for the minds of men.

33:42 – “All nations are now interdependent upon one another and this is generally recognised through the Western world. I hope that in due course the countries of communism will recognize it too.”

Archive of Anthony Sampson: ANC’s rule was planned in advance

https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/3302

Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson: On leaving Oxford, and having spent some months working as a printer, he accepted an invitation to Johannesburg, South Africa, from a former fellow student at Oxford, Jim Bailey, founder and owner of a new black magazine, African Drum (later Drum), then in need of a business manager. Within weeks of his arrival in 1951 he found himself the editor. Here he met Trevor Huddleston, then a priest in Sophiatown, and Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and other African National Congress activists as the organisation was preparing for its Defiance Campaign of passive resistance against apartheid. Though he returned to England in 1955, his active links with Drum continued into the 1960s. He maintained his commitment to the anti-apartheid movement and was a frequent visitor to South Africa.

For four years in the late 1950s he was the Observer's 'Pendennis' columnist. He followed the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, on several trips abroad, including his tour of Africa in early 1960, reporting for the Observer. He was later to write the first biography of Macmillan (Macmillan: A Study in Ambiguity (London: Allen Lane, 1967).

During the renewed wave of resistance inside South Africa to apartheid in the 1980s, and following exchanges between Sampson and Oliver Tambo, President of the ANC in Lusaka, Sampson, David Astor and others formed a committee to facilitate talks between British businessmen, politicians and the ANC. The intention was to bring pressure on Pretoria for reform and to show that the business community accepted that the ANC would be key to political reform in the South Africa of the future. Sampson's 'Anatomy' contacts proved valuable here and he made full use of them. These activities led to further initiatives, in particular an idea of Sampson's for a conference on the future rule of law in South Africa between ANC lawyers and senior legal experts from South Africa which was held at Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, in Oxfordshire, in June 1989. Another initiative was the South African Advanced Education Project which was set up in 1986. David Astor received a message from Oliver Tambo asking if he could help with training for young ANC people who would be needed for positions in government after apartheid [ANC rule planned well in advance]. Astor provided money, and further funding came from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, and Shell. When the ANC was unbanned four years later, the need for such training became even more urgent. The British government, the EU and other donors channelled funds through the SAAEP and the British foreign and civil services provided top-level access and lectures for trainees.

In late 1989, banned from South Africa for his criticism of the regime, Sampson applied for a visa and was surprised to be granted one. But South Africa by then wanted the world to know how rapidly the political situation was changing. He found himself in South Africa in February 1990 when Nelson Mandela was released. He met Mandela again then and on a number of subsequent occasions and returned to South Africa in 1994 to report on the first democratic elections and the victory of the ANC. In 1995 he was commissioned to write an authorised biography of Mandela. In 1999, as Mandela retired as President, Mandela: The Authorised Biography (London: HarperCollins, 1999) was published.

Sampson was chairman of the Society of Authors from 1992 to 1994. From 1995 he was a member of the international advisory board of Independent Newspapers (from 1999, Independent News and Media). In 1993 the Observer was sold to the owners of the Guardian, the Scott Trust. Sampson became a trustee, representing the interests of the Observer for three years. This was a traumatic time for the Trust, and the newspaper, during which three editors were dismissed.

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cca204 No.20782147

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>>20494579

>Ramon, a double agent (working for the NIS but notionally employed by the ANC Intelligence Dept – his real name was Mohammed Amin Laher – was able to prove that the NIS had had advance warning of the Hani assassination, including its date, and also attested that ANC Intelligence was equally aware of the plot, in which some of its own agents were involved. Indeed, Ramon’s NIS handler, Eugene Riley,

>Ramon was extremely nervous and hid himself both physically and under various aliases. He completely evaded the TRC inquiry into the assassination and simply disappeared. Eugene Riley was himself killed by an unknown assassin only eight months after Hani. Riley’s girlfriend, Julie Wilken, testified that she had typed out Riley’s reports showing advance knowledge of the assassination.

>>20781369

>As for Eugene Riley, the Civil Cooperation Bureau agent who was killed in suspicious circumstances in 1994 after probing the Hani assassination, Walus maintained: “I don’t know Riley. It was a time of complete chaos in the secret service.” Riley had reportedly discovered that Hani’s assassination was part of a bigger plot.

Message on Eugene Riley’s grave

JULIE WILKEN

THE PAGAN-BITCH RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF EUGENE RILEY…. WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY GERT MARAIS ACCOMPANIED BY CHARLIE LANDMAN, FERDI BARNARD, CORRIE GOOSEN AND AMIN LAHER ON THAT FATEFUL NIGHT …..JULIE OPENED THE DOOR FOR THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!

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cca204 No.20782165

>>20782147

> FATEFUL

Correction: The word is "FATAL" AND NOT "FATEFUL"

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f5d77a No.20782654

>>20558078

“Asylum seekers fearful after Britain approves Rwanda deportation bill”

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/asylum-seekers-fearful-after-britain-approves-rwanda-deportation-bill/ar-AA1nvSah

4/23/2024

Asylum seekers in the British city of Derby expressed fear and concern on Tuesday after prime minister Rishi Sunak's latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda was finally passed by Parliament.

Approval came just hours after Sunak pledged that deportation flights would start within the next 10 to 12 weeks.

The plan is part of a key policy promise he made to tackle illegal migration, but had been held up repeatedly by the unelected House of Lords.

On Monday, Sunak told the upper house of parliament he would force through the new legislation despite its opposition, which has stalled approval for two months.

The parliamentary logjam was finally broken just after midnight when the Lords “recognised the primacy” of the elected House of Commons and dropped the last of its proposed amendments.

This cleared the way for the bill to become law.

Among the asylum seekers in Derby, some had already received letters from the Home Office warning that they are at risk of removal to Rwanda.

"I'm very stressed. I don't know what to do. All I can think about is this letter and Rwanda," said Hamza, an asylum seeker from Iran.

Other asylum seekers told Britain’s Sky News that they would never have come to Britain if they knew they would be getting deported to Rwanda.

"If, you know, before I came here they say that they (will) send me to Rwanda, I never (would have) come here," said asylum seeker, Fahed, who claimed he was tortured in Sudan.

Masoud, an asylum seeker from Iran, said he would advise other asylum seekers not to come to the UK in light of the threat of being deported to Rwanda.

Afghan refugee, Fatima, said she did not regret coming to Britain as she had worked with the Americans and feared she would be killed by the Taliban.

However, she was tearful at the prospect of being sent to Rwanda, saying it was “not fair, especially for someone who came from Afghanistan".

The government plans to deport to Rwanda some of those who enter the United Kingdom illegally as a deterrent to migrants.

The number of people arriving in Britain on small boats soared to 45,774 in 2022 from just 299 four years earlier.

Despite Parliament's approval of the legislation, further court challenges may still delay the deportation flights, with migrant advocates vowing to continue the fight against it.

Approval of the legislation was swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organisations.

Both the UN refugee agency and the Council of Europe on Tuesday called for Britain to rethink its plans because of concerns that the legislation undermines human rights protections and fears that it will damage international cooperation on tackling the global migrant crisis.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rwanda-bill-to-become-law-in-major-illegal-migration-milestone

UK government efforts to stop the boats and tackle illegal migration took a major step forward, after the Safety of Rwanda Bill completed its passage through Parliament overnight, Monday 22 April.

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f5d77a No.20782662

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>>20782654

Is Africa now part of the United States of the World? Like the US, illegals are being shipped to different ‘States’. One wonders if Britain will be relocating its foot soldiers with the illegals as well.

“Britain looks to add Botswana to list of destinations to deport illegal migrants”

https://youtu.be/8D9phsFGeBo

Apr 23, 2024

Botswana Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Lemogang Kwape, says his country was approached by Britain to be one of the countries to deport illegal migrants.

This comes after the U.K. passed a bill, which was previously prevented from moving ahead by a court, to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Kwape says Gaborone is in no position to accept more migrants.

4:19 – “In our interactions [with Britain concerning illegal migrants], Afghanis were mentioned.

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f5d77a No.20782667

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“Anarchy is brewing - be prepared!: General Roland de Vries”

https://youtu.be/68XFFx8O6bc

Apr 24, 2024

South Africa is a tinderbox waiting for a trigger to explode into violence and destruction. That is the warning from retired General Roland de Vries, the former Deputy Chief of the South African Army. In this interview with BizNews, he shares his in-depth assessment of the threat environment - and lists the possible trigger events for anarchy in election year. The general warns that the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government does not have the capability to protect its citizens adequately – and that it is up to the broader community to protect itself. He also gives his take on coalitions - and expresses concern that "we are going to see political infighting happening as never before and this will cause major political instability in our country". Meanwhile, General De Vries has, over the past seven years, helped over 80 communities develop their own community safety plans to empower themselves.

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f660dc No.20794415

>>20743213

>>20743195

“Kroll Expands Partnership with CrowdStrike for Advanced Cyber Security Offerings”

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221110005740/en/Kroll-Expands-Partnership-with-CrowdStrike-for-Advanced-Cyber-Security-Offerings

November 10, 2022 09:27 AM Eastern Standard Time

Kroll’s elite threat monitoring and incident response capabilities are now available using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform

NEW YORK(BUSINESS WIRE)Kroll, the leading independent provider of global risk and financial advisory solutions, today announced that it is partnering with CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data. This partnership expansion will enable joint customers worldwide to leverage Kroll’s advanced IR and remediation capabilities, on-demand and with the Kroll Responder managed detection and response service. Customers can now also benefit from the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and Kroll’s advanced SOC capabilities needed for enhanced situational awareness, proactive threat hunting, fully integrated digital forensics and incident response to ensure rapid response and remediation of threats.

Kroll is a pioneer in digital forensics and incident response, conducting over 3,000 incident response investigations every year. Kroll’s elite threat monitoring and frontline threat intelligence service is fully integrated with the Kroll Responder MDR service to provide true incident detection, investigation, containment and remediation. The Responder service leverages leading security technologies, and the addition of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform provides organizations with the assurance of best-in-class security in protecting their business.

Marc Brawner, Global Head of Managed Services for Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, said: “We are excited to extend Kroll’s elite threat monitoring and incident response capabilities to CrowdStrike Falcon customers around the world. Kroll is committed to delivering the best security outcomes by combining deep cyber expertise with a trusted global cyber security leader like CrowdStrike. Adversaries are relentless, and together, we can help more organizations reduce risk and focus on their business. We will continue participating and contributing to the wider cyber security ecosystem through integrations and alliances with leading technologies and solutions in the industry.”

Michael Rogers, Vice President of Global Alliances at CrowdStrike, said: “CrowdStrike believes that a collaborative cyber security ecosystem should work together to meet the complex needs of organizations. We are delighted that Kroll shares our philosophy and by working together, we are providing the best means of defense against increasingly tenacious threat actors. Recognizing the intensified cyber threat environment, CrowdStrike and Kroll are jointly committed to enhance the cyber resilience of organizations.”

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f660dc No.20794421

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“De Beers to relocate its auction headquarters to Botswana”

https://youtu.be/h9Ta0ei_Rvc

Apr 28, 2024

Diamond mining company group De Beers plans to relocate its auction headquarters from Singapore to Botswana. This follows a similar move by the company in 2013, where Global Sightholder sales were moved from the United Kingdom to Gaborone. The group says this is an effort to streamline operations while supporting development in that country.

Pan-African activist, Adv. Sipho Mantula unpacks the kinds of benefits this reinforces for the Batswana.

“De Beers Moving Auctions Head Office to Botswana”

https://rapaport.com/news/de-beers-moving-auctions-head-office-to-botswana/

APRIL 25, 2024

De Beers will relocate its auctions headquarters from Singapore to Gaborone, Botswana, amid cost-cutting efforts at the diamond miner.

“The relocation supports De Beers’ focus on streamlining its operations and enhancing the efficiency of its activities, while also facilitating further development of the diamond sector in Botswana,” the company said Thursday.

The De Beers Group Auctions business, which sells around 10% of the company’s rough-diamond production, will pause operations and sales events until the move is complete. The process will take place over the coming months, the miner added.

The change will mean the auctions business is in the same location as Global Sightholder Sales (GSS), the De Beers trading unit that oversees sales to sightholders and accredited buyers. This moved to Gaborone from London in 2013.

Bringing the two functions to the same city will enhance efficiency, strengthen partnerships, and support the development of diamond-industry skills in Botswana, the company explained.

“I am very pleased that we are consolidating our global diamond-trading business under one roof,” said De Beers CEO Al Cook. “Our Global Sightholder Sales business has successfully operated in Botswana for 11 years, so it is a logical and positive move to transfer our auctions business to the country. This move will drive cost efficiencies and support our customers’ needs.”

Anglo American, De Beers’ parent company, has said it planned to reduce the diamond miner’s annual overheads by $100 million following losses in the second half of 2023.

The news also comes amid ongoing talks over a final deal between De Beers and the Botswana government following the signing of heads of terms in October 2023.

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f660dc No.20794429

>>20794421

Rather. Is De Beers relocating due to this?…

“De Beers loses big time in the Singapore courts” – Part 1

https://asiaconverge.com/2023/02/de-beers-loses-patent-case-in-singapore-courts/

27th February 2023

For many diamond industry watchers, De Beers was always too big a player to pick up a fight with. It has eliminated competition ruthlessly, as the following paragraphs will show. At times, it has also promoted proposals that conceal its real intent. And at times, it has claimed patent rights over products and processes what were based on misleading claims, or figments of the imagination, depending how you look at De Beers.

The diamond cartel known as De Beers received a rude setback from the Singapore courts on Friday, February 17, 2023, That is when The Singapore Court of Appeals rejected the claim of Element Six, part of the De Beers group, that it held patents that should be enforced against IIa Technologies, a Singapore based company, and one of the largest producers of lab grown diamonds in the world.

Element Six/De Beers lost its first patent on February 7, 2020, when the Honourable Justice Valerie Thean found that its Singapore patent number 110508 (“SG508”) was invalid and ordered the patent to be revoked. SG508 related to the heat treatment of CVD diamonds to change its colour. Details of this revocation can be found at https://www.2atechnologies.com/post/iia-technologies-successfully-invalidates-key-element-six-patent.

De Beers/Element Six then went on to defend its other patent, in order to ensure that the IIa manufacturing facility was shut down.

However, on 17 February 2023, the Singapore Court of Appeal comprising the Honourable Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, Justice of Appeal Judith Prakash and Justice of Appeal Steven Chong unanimously found that the other Element Six’s patent in the suit, Singapore patent number 115872 (“SG872”) was invalid. It ordered the full revocation of the patent. SG872 concerned the production of CVD Diamond material for use as gems and in optical applications. A copy of the judgement can be downloaded from https://www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2023_SGCA_5 . The Court of Appeal is the final appellate Court in Singapore. Its decision is final in this matter.

In its 126 page decision issued on February 17, 2023, the Court of Appeal found that SG872was invalid on two grounds of insufficiency and therefore should be revoked in full. In its decision, the Court of Appeal also overturned the High Court of Singapore’s finding of infringement.

Stated Prof. D. S. Misra, CTO of IIa Technologies “Not only have the patents been revoked but we are especially grateful that Court of Appeal has overturned the findings of infringement as well. While the past seven years have been long, we do feel fully vindicated now that the process has been finally concluded in IIa Technologies’ favor.”

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f660dc No.20794464

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“De Beers loses big time in the Singapore courts” – Part 2

https://asiaconverge.com/2023/02/de-beers-loses-patent-case-in-singapore-courts/

27th February 2023

The origins

The fight with IIa Technologies began when it decided to go against De Beers and begin manufacturing lab-grown diamonds. That would have hit De Beers’ grip on the world of earth mined diamonds which it had covetously guarded for over a century.

In a desperate attempt to safeguard its diamond empire, Element Six of De Beers issued a statement (https://www.e6.com/en/about/News/IIA-Appeal) claiming that it “holds several patents in many other jurisdictions around the world and the appeal decision represents a very surprising outcome in light of the findings from the initial litigation and Element Six’s well established international patent portfolio in this field. Element Six notes that the decision is specific to Singapore and does not apply in other jurisdictions in which it holds similar patents.e Beers had tried to ensure, time and again, that no player would enter the diamond market without its concurrence.”

Evidently, De Beers will try to muscle its way through in other regions, trying to prevent the proliferation of lab grown diamonds. How this will play out in other regions, especially in India, will be interesting. India, it must be said, has become a major hub for cutting and polishing lab grown diamonds (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/11/lab-grown-diamond-dreams-of-bakul-limbasa/).

A private army for mugging

In order to achieve this, it first created a private army under the leadership of Sir Percy Sillitoe. He was contacted by the office of Harry Oppenheimber (who headed the De Beers cartel) in December 1953. Sillitoe was a key player in creating the private army that De Beers formed – meticulously documented by Edward Jay Epstein in his book on how De Beers created its diamond empire (http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap14.htm).

Epstein explains how “Sillitoe had been, until November of 1953, the head of the British counterespionage service known as MI-5. During the Second World War, he had organized one of the most ingenious spy operations in the history of espionage. It was called the double-cross system, and it involved converting all the German spies in England into British double agents. Since the Germans accepted the reports of these spies as bona fide intelligence, Sillitoe and his double committee, which included Harry Oppenheimer’s tutor at Oxford, Sir John Masterman, were able to feed the Germans a false picture of British activities. After the war, Sillitoe worked closely with American and French intelligence.”

“Sillitoe proposed that a few diamonds be radioactively “labeled” with an invisible [radioactive] paint and then be conspicuously left around in areas where employees were likely to steal them. Assuming that the radioactive bait would be snatched up, a Geiger counter would click the moment the diamond passed through the gates of the compound. The thief then would not be arrested but followed, and in time the radioactive diamond would be sold to an intermediary. The intermediary could then be followed with the Geiger counter. Once located, he could be turned into an informer,” explains Epstein.

Sillitoe along with De Beers hired a mercenary – Fred Kamil, a Lebanese trader who knew how to negotiate with smugglers. The idea was to use him as a bait to ambush people who tried to sell diamonds outside the De Beers network. “Many of the ambushes were bloody affairs. A caravan of a dozen or so Mandango tribesmen would emerge from the jungle in Sierra Leone and head for the bridge across the Mao River, which was the Liberian border. Suddenly, mines and flares would be detonated all around them. Then Kamil’s mercenaries would open fire with hunting rifles. The tribesmen, who were not hit, would instantly surrender, and turn their diamonds over to the mercenaries. It was a “diamond war,” Kamil later explained in his account of these exploits,” explains Epstein.

By 1957, says Epstein, Sillitoe decided that he had successfully completed his mission for the De Beers diamond cartel. He quietly disbanded his International Diamond Security Organization, though many of his agents and mercenaries continued working directly or indirectly for the cartel. That was De Beers way on controlling the diamond markets.

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f660dc No.20794466

>>20794429

>>20794464

“De Beers loses big time in the Singapore courts” – Part 3

https://asiaconverge.com/2023/02/de-beers-loses-patent-case-in-singapore-courts/

27th February 2023

The Kimberley process

By the 1990s, the De Beers cartel faced another challenge. This time it was from Russia, which had begun to pump diamonds into the markets. Many of them were cut and polished in India. While no concrete evidence is available, many diamantaires say that De Beers pointed out such renegades from India to the country’s law enforcement agencies, who in turn picked them up, seized their consignments, and even imprisoned them. In order to greater force to such law enforcement agencies, it managed to steer through the UN a move against what it called “blood diamonds”. These were essentially diamonds sourced from outside the De Beers network. Russian diamonds too got clubbed with such “blood diamond” categorisation.

In 2003, the De Beers cartel introduced the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) to prevent “conflict diamonds” from entering the mainstream rough diamond market by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 55/56 following recommendations in the Fowler Report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler_Report). The process was set up “to ensure that diamond purchases were not financing violence by rebel movements and their allies seeking to undermine legitimate governments.” Using the UN resolutions, De Beers skillfully managed to get the consent of most diamond trade participants to adopt the KPCS. These included producers, exporters, and importers (including diamond cutters and polishers). This is a certification process ‘agreed’ upon by It requires all producers to offer to all players all data (that must be auditable) relating to where the diamonds were mined, or whether they were produced from illegal mines and unauthorised sources (https://asiaconverge.com/2011/05/what-you-didnt-know-about-de-beers-and-diamonds/).

As of December 2009, the KPCS had 49 members, representing 75 countries, with the European Community and its member states counting as an individual participant.

However, De Beers did not get its own diamonds through this certification process. That led to charges that De Beers was the biggest dealer in conflict diamonds, and not surprisingly, there was an agitation outside the office of one of the largest sight holders of De Beers condemning the role of the cartel in peddling blood diamonds (http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10587) .

Today, the KPCs is almost ineffectual, and more countries began to understand the ‘duplicitous’ role that De Beers had been playing all along.

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f660dc No.20794470

>>20794429

>>20794464

>>20794466

“De Beers loses big time in the Singapore courts” – Part 4

https://asiaconverge.com/2023/02/de-beers-loses-patent-case-in-singapore-courts/

27th February 2023

Lab grown diamonds

Then came the biggest challenge to De Beers. The advent of lab grown diamonds. Experimentation with growing diamonds in laboratories had been known of for several centuries (Read Epstein’s account at http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap15.htm). But these were too small and expensive. Then in 1954, the General Electric scientists began feeding graphite into the press. After enormous amounts of pressure were applied, they recovered minute diamonds-one millimeter in length. Under Xray examination, it became clear that the amorphous carbon molecules in graphite, which resembled a hairnet, had been rearranged under the heat and pressure into a tetrahedron diamond structure. These were not false diamonds; they were the same as mined diamonds. in February of 1955 General Electric decided to issue a press release outlining its achievements in diamond synthesis. De Beers was alarmed. After first attempting to litigate the patent rights, De Beers finally agreed to pay General Electric some $8 million plus royalties for the right to manufacture diamonds under the process invented by General Electric.

Then came Russia with its own version of lab grown diamonds. And then came IIa Technologies, which introduced a process that was far more cost effective and could actually become a threat to the entire earth mined diamond business.

That would explain De Beers’ desperate attempts to stop IIa in its tracks by claiming patent infringement.

It could also explain why De Beers has been backing Standard Chartered in making life miserable for Jatin Mehta, because he was the visionary whose plans were implemented by his son in setting up IIa Technologies (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/07/jatin-mehta-sues-debeers-stanchart-kroll-for-5-bn/) in collusion with Standard Chartered Bank and Kroll Advisory (https://asiaconverge.com/2023/02/stanchart-tries-to-break-indian-bankingranks/). But Jatin Mehta is not giving up the fight. It has filed a suit against the trio in the Surat Court (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/07/jatin-mehta-sues-debeers-stanchart-kroll-for-5-bn/).

Grant Thornton (GT) has now taken the fight to the UK courts, where too the next round of the battle will continue. Dubious documentation is one of the issues that will crop up in these court battles as well. De Beers has already lost the case in Antwerp against Jatin Mehta, where he was accused of switching earth mined diamonds with lab grown diamonds. On 22 February 2018 the case was closed by The Council Chamber of the Court of First Instance of Antwerp when no evidence could be produced.

Having lost the Singapore case, De Beers will find it increasingly difficult to throttle the lab grown industry. Maybe, it had anticipated such an outcome, when it set up Element Six to make lab grown diamonds itself. If you cannot defeat your enemies, it may be a good idea to join them.

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f660dc No.20794479

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“De Beers Diamond Company & Black Labour (In "Diamond Road" documentary)”

https://youtu.be/XETdnQFT9VM

Aug 13, 2008

0:49 – [Nicky Oppenheimer] “This indeed is a splendid occasion and it’s fantastic for De Beers to have played a role in this process and getting us where we are today… it’s particularly important to appreciate what diamonds have done for South Africa.

“Indian diamond industry in a tizzy — Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll” – Part 1

https://asiaconverge.com/2022/07/jatin-mehta-sues-debeers-stanchart-kroll-for-5-bn/

31st July 2022

Excerpts

For most market watchers in India, Jatin Mehta is a renegade, an absconder from Indian law (https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/cbi-files-two-fresh-firs-against-absconding-diamantaire-jatin-mehta-207129-2019-06-11) , and a person who has defrauded Indian banks to the tune of Rs.6,500 crore through two of his companies Winsome Diamonds and Forever Diamonds (https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/winsome-diamonds-fraud-case-jatin-mehta-might-have-moved-to-montenegro/article30790493.ece).

But on 24 June 2022, Mehta hit back. In an appeal filed before the Surat Civil Court (Special Civil Suit No. 120-2022), he sued De Beers, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Kroll. The claim prepared on 27 May 2022, outlines how the three conspired over a number of years to destroy Mehta’s business and his and his family’s reputations. Media lapped up this news, especially those in regional languages (a more complete list of media coverage can be downloaded from Jatin-Mehta-case_media-coverage)

Says Swadeep Singh Hora, Advocate for Mehta, “Jatin Mehta suit provides clear and irrefutable evidence of the conspiracy carried out by De Beers, Standard Chartered Bank and Kroll and has been filed to recover fully what was damaged.”

The case threatens to unwind allegations of fraud levelled by the CBI against Indian bankers. It could also reopen the entire Winsome outstanding to Indian banks – which according to the suit filed by Mehta, was an accident, and not a fraud, and that the actual defaulters had agreed to make good the money.

It could also raise questions about the willingness of the RBI, the government investigation authorities and banks to allow SCB to nominate Kroll as the audit firm, overriding the three names that the consortium of banks had recommended at the Joint Lenders’ Meeting on 14 May 2013. In Para 87 of the suit filed in the court, it explains how the lenders jointly decided that basis the quotes received from 3 audit firms namely Haribhakti & Co., Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Ernst & Young (EY), work would be shortly awarded to the selected firm.” Kroll was not recommended. But SCB “unilaterally decided to induct Kroll.”

Finally, the court documents throw the spotlight on the activities of De Beers and SCB. As the court documents state (para 10), “SCB has a long-established relationship with the diamond industry specifically – De Beers Group and continues to play a leading and active role with De Beers and has large exposure in the diamond industry. SCB acts in close coordination with De Beers. Worldwide SCB funds diamond manufacturing companies, sight holders and traders, which is done in close coordination with De Beers.”

De Beers own conduct in the diamond trade is certainly not unblemished. Even in India. It may be recalled that the government finally terminated its own agreement with De Beers by winding up Hindustan Diamond Corporation in 2016 (https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/winding-up-of-hindustan-diamond-company-private-limited/). In this cased too, the government was convinced that De Beers had misled it.

Moreover, in sharp contrast with earlier governments that allowed De Beers to influence many of its policies, the present government has given lab-grown diamonds great support, realising that India’s interests are best served by creating alternative sources of supply for roughs. Using the cover of the Kimberley Process (something this author has questioned for years — https://asiaconverge.com/2011/05/543/) De Beers had got the government to send its law enforcement authorities to arrest diamantaires who procured (cheaper and better) roughs from Russia, Angola and other places which sold these gemstones outside of the DeBeers channels. Effectively, the plans that got Mehta to fall foul of De Beers are now being ratified by the Indian government.

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f660dc No.20794495

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>>20743195

>Welcome to the murky world of Kroll Inc - the private CIA

>>20743213

>An investigator’s skills, he says, “are like any other weapons.” They can be used for good, for ill or simply for profit. Since he founded his first investigative firm in 1972, Kroll’s clients have included aggrieved governments, major corporations and a Wall Street fraudster who now resides in prison.

>>20766601

>“Andre Pienaar: International Man of Intelligence” – He established the Scorpions while working for Kroll

“Indian diamond industry in a tizzy — Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll” – Part 2

https://asiaconverge.com/2022/07/jatin-mehta-sues-debeers-stanchart-kroll-for-5-bn/

31st July 2022

Excerpts

Kroll, SCB and De Beers

Kroll, on the other hand, as para 11 of the Mehta suit before the Surat Court states, has often been “used by De Beers to provide information on its competitors, to verify profiles, undertake gathering of information of buyers and sight holders. The customer profile of De Beers is submitted to Kroll Associates UK to verify the same as per requirements of Supplier of Choice Policy of De Beers. As part of the process, Kroll checks whether the DTC sight holder [DTC is the trading arm of the De Beers conglomerate] profiles represent an accurate reflection of the sight holder’s business. . . . . . Even in 2014, when De Beers’ price data was leaked, it appointed Kroll to get to the bottom of the breach. Kroll has also been used by De Beers to provide intelligence on its competitors and use the intelligence to damage the business interests of its competitors. That would explain why SCB and Kroll worked together to prepare an entire report against Winsome, which was used to file cases against Winsome. It also explains why despite not being on the list of the three audit firms recommended by the consortium of banks, it took up the assignment in the face of this gross irregularity.

Even this job wasn’t done well. Court pronouncements in Antwerp were ignored {the suit mentions in Para 63 that “on 22nd February 2018, the President of the Council Chamber of the Court of First Instance, Antwerp, accepted the Public Prosecutor’s final writ and decided that there was no reason to prosecute in the case.” This is what De Beers and its associates were rooting for in an alleged “diamond switching” case.

Kroll ignored the well-known fact that as 12 of the 13 UAE based customers of Winsome and Forever’s were based in the Sharjah (Free Zone Establishment) and one was based in Ras al Khaimah (Free Zone Establishment). Yet Kroll went to Dubai to check on the details of the 13 players. It would appear to be a deliberate non-application of mind.

In Para 148, the suit states, “On 28th January 2014, SCB fi led a complaint with economic offence of Mumbai Police. The said complaint relied copiously on the Kroll Report. As it later turned out the Mumbai Police found no cognizable offence disclosed in the said complaint. This is apparent from minutes of JLM [Joint Lenders’ Meeting] dated 12th April 2016.”

Similarly, Kroll did not even refer to the findings of the Sharjah courts (October to December 2014) which had delegated Accounting/Banking Experts to look over the accounts of the UAE customers. After careful evaluation, all Accounting/Banking Experts verified that the defaulting customers owed money to both of the companies (Winsome and Forever). Therefore, the Sharjah courts decided in favour of Winsome (para 173 of the suit). Instead, Kroll makes allegations about the 13 defaulters, which were just not true. Kroll did not allow even the banks to study its report despite requests. In Para 165 of the suit it records that on 25 May 2015, Winsome sent a letter to SCB “We, once again request you to provide us with a copy of Kroll Report,” Suitable action was not forthcoming.

Now the suit before the Surat City Civil Court threatens to rip the veil apart for all the three – De Beers, SCB and Kroll.

It will be very interesting to follow the way events now unfold.

SCB replies on the evening of 31 July 2022: “As the matter is sub-judice, we prefer to refrain from making any comments. The Bank will suitably respond before the Court.”

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f660dc No.20794504

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“Anglo American Reportedly Mulling Sale of De Beers”

https://www.jckonline.com/editorial-article/anglo-american-sale-de-beers/

April 25, 2024

Anglo American has held discussions related to a possible sale of De Beers, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.

The Journal reported that Anglo been talking with “luxury houses and Gulf sovereign-wealth funds” about possibly selling its 85% stake in the diamond miner. (The other 15% is held by the government of Botswana.)

“Anglo has signaled to potential suitors that it is open to offers,” said the Journal, quoting unnamed sources. “An eventual buyer might be a combination of a luxury house and a financial investor.”

FT similarly reported that “Anglo American has sounded out potential buyers of De Beers including Gulf sovereign-wealth funds, luxury houses, and wealthy individuals in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

Both De Beers and Anglo declined comment.

De Beers’ poor 2023 results have sparked significant speculation about its fate, especially after Anglo wrote down the company’s book value by $1.6 billion in February.

Anglo American has owned 85% of De Beers’ since 2012, after the Oppenheimer family sold Anglo its 40% stake. Before that, the two companies were generally considered corporate siblings, as Anglo was founded by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the former chair of De Beers. For decades, Anglo and De Beers were linked through an intricate series of cross-holdings, which were unwound when De Beers went private in 2001.

Reports of a possible De Beers sale come amid news that Anglo may itself be sold. On Wednesday, Anglo confirmed that BHP, the world’s largest mining company, has made an “unsolicited, nonbinding” $39 billion all-stock bid for Anglo, which is conditional on the company selling its Anglo American Platinum Ltd. and Kumba Iron Ore units.

Anglo gave BHP until May 22 to make a final offer. Its statement added: “There can be no certainty that any offer will be made nor as to the terms on which any such offer might be made.”

The Wall Street Journal story about De Beers said, “Anglo’s discussions about selling the diamond unit are believed to have been separate from [BHP’s] takeover bid.”

In a statement, Melbourne, Australia–based BHP said that if its offer is accepted, “Anglo American’s other high-quality operations, including its diamond business, would be subject to a strategic review post-completion.”

A memo to De Beers Group employees obtained by JCK said that “whilst [news of BHP’s bid] may be unsettling for many in Anglo American and De Beers, it is vital that we all remain focused on our jobs. Above all, we must continue to put safety first. We have a strong Origins strategy and an important plan for 2024 which we need to deliver.”

De Beers asked employees in the memo to “not be drawn into discussing this proposal with external stakeholders, or commenting upon it on social media or other channels.”

BHP has previously dabbled in diamonds; for 14 years it was the majority owner of Ekati, the first diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It sold its stake in Ekati in 2012, as part of a larger exit from the diamond industry.

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f660dc No.20794509

>>20794495

>>20794504

>Anglo American has owned 85% of De Beers’ since 2012, after the Oppenheimer family sold Anglo its 40% stake.

“United Kingdom Kroll to Vet De Beers’ Customers” [2005]

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/corporate-intelligence/2005/10/28/kroll-to-vet-de-beers–customers,16073756-art

28.10.2005

The American investigative firm Kroll is going to examine the background of De Beers’ clients Early this month the world diamond giant De Beers told its buyers that the information they provided it would be screen annually by the London office of Kroll.

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f660dc No.20794631

>>20794504

>On Wednesday, Anglo confirmed that BHP, the world’s largest mining company, has made an “unsolicited, nonbinding” $39 billion all-stock bid for Anglo, which is conditional on the company selling its Anglo American Platinum Ltd. and Kumba Iron Ore units.

“South African minister lashes out at BHP over previous merger”

https://www.cityam.com/anglo-american-mulls-bhp-offer-in-possible-mining-mega-deal/

Thursday 25 April 2024 1:21 pm

South Africa’s minerals resources minister has warned that his country’s previous experience with BHP, the world’s largest miner, was “not positive” in the wake of the group’s mega-deal bid for Anglo American.

Gwede Mantashe has told the Financial Times that he did not back the £31.1bn bid as BHP’s 2001 merger with South Africa’s Billiton “never did much for South Africa.”

–“What we saw is that it dumped coal and then created a small company called South32, which is now marginal,” he added, clarifying that his comments were not an official government position.

Mantashe’s comments come following this morning’s news of the blockbuster “highly conditional” all-stock offer for Anglo American by BHP.–

In a statement to the London Stock Exchange today, Anglo’s board said it was reviewing a £31.1bn all-share offer for a buy-out by the world’s largest mining company, preceded by de-mergers by Anglo of its entire shareholdings in its Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and Kumba Iron Ore businesses, both listed in South Africa.

The combined entity would retain BHP’s global listings on the Australian, London, South African and New York exchanges and Anglo American shareholders would be able to benefit from the BHP’s monthly share trading liquidity of approximately $10bn (£7.9bn).

The deadline will only be extended with the consent of the Takeover Panel.

Rumours of a takeover bid for Anglo American have been swirling for some time, as the company has suffered at the hands of subdued prices across several major business units, including platinum metals and diamonds.

Earlier this week, the company reported that its De Beers diamond division was left battered and bruised at the hands of a near-total bottom-out in consumer demand for diamonds at the end of last year, causing a massive inventory over-supply.

Anglo does however have a major stake in global copper and owns some of the highest-yielding sites in South America.

The proposed deal could be the largest and most influential for the mining sector since London-listed Glencore’s acquisition of Xstrata in 2013.

Anglo is reportedly being advised by Centerview, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, while USB and Barclays are advising BHP on the proposal.

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898e42 No.20799315

>>20794504

>>20794631

“Activist-led Elliott builds $1bn stake in Anglo American amid BHP takeover bid”

https://www.biznews.com/investing/2024/04/29/elliott-1bn-stake-anglo-american

29th April 2024

Elliott Investment Management has acquired a $1 billion stake in Anglo American Plc amid a takeover bid by BHP Group Ltd. The activist hedge fund, led by Paul Singer, holds approximately 33.6 million shares through derivatives. This investment places Elliott among Anglo American’s top 10 shareholders. BHP’s proposed acquisition values Anglo at £31.1 billion, although Anglo asserts this undervalues the company. Elliott’s history includes influencing companies to take actions like share buybacks.

Elliott Investment Management has built a roughly $1 billion stake in Anglo American Plc, the UK-listed miner that’s received an unsolicited takeover approach from Australia’s BHP Group Ltd.

The activist hedge fund led by Paul Singer has exposure to almost 33.6 million Anglo American shares via derivatives, according to a UK regulatory filing Friday that confirmed a report by Bloomberg News. The firm amassed the 2.5% holding over recent months, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential information.

The investment puts Elliott among Anglo American’s 10 biggest shareholders, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Anglo American shares jumped as much as 6.3% in London after Bloomberg News reported the stake.

Elliott also has a 0.07% short position in BHP, a separate filing shows. Representatives for Elliott and Anglo American declined to comment.

Elliott’s presence in Anglo American’s stock emerges with the mining company the subject of takeover interest from BHP. The Australian miner has proposed an acquisition that values its smaller rival at £31.1 billion ($38.9 billion) and would create the world’s top copper producer. Bloomberg News reported BHP’s approach on Wednesday. Anglo American said the proposal significantly undervalues the company.

Singer’s firm is known for stepping in to beaten-down stocks and then pushing companies to take measures ranging from share buybacks to outright sales of the business.

“We like to see value-driven investors in the register,” said Giuseppe Bivona, chief investment officer at another activist, Bluebell Capital Partners, which built a stake in Anglo American in February. The company “is surely worth much more than BHP is offering.”

Anglo American has long been viewed as a potential target among the largest miners, particularly because it owns attractive South American copper operations at a time when most of the industry is eager to add reserves and production.

But suitors have been put off by its complicated structure and mix of other commodities, as well as its deep exposure to South Africa. In February, Anglo American reported a steep drop in profit and lowered its dividend on the back of falling demand for diamonds and platinum group metals — commodities that are unique to its portfolio.

Elliott took a sizable position in BHP in 2017 and pushed it to spin off certain oil assets. In 2021, the miner struck deals that extended its withdrawal from fossil fuels, including a sale of oil and gas operations to Woodside Petroleum Ltd.

Singer’s firm has been involved with other metals companies as well. In 2022 Elliott held talks with Kinross Gold Corp. that resulted in the miner announcing a $300 million share buyback. And it’s the majority shareholder in Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp., which provides financing for mining companies. It’s also setting up a new venture, Hyperion, to invest in mining assets.

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898e42 No.20799346

>>20799315

U.S. billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital: “The Real Story Of How A Hedge Fund Detained A Vessel In Ghana And Even Went For Argentina's 'Air Force One'” 1 of 2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/10/05/the-real-story-behind-the-argentine-vessel-in-ghana-and-how-hedge-funds-tried-to-seize-the-presidential-plane/

Oct 5, 2012,06:50pm EDT

In their drive to extract full compensation from the Argentine government, a hard-nosed bunch of distressed debt investors have gone to impressive lengths. They’ve pursued the country’s assets around the globe, attempting to seize the presidential plane and menacing the Argentine booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Now they have a big and bizarre fish on the hook: an Argentine naval vessel. NML Capital, a subsidiary of U.S. billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital, this week won an injunction in Ghanaian superior court to hold the ARA Libertad in the port city of Tema, on the outskirts of the African nation’s capital.

UPDATE: Argentine weekly Perfil reported on Friday that the Argentine state filed a motion before the Supreme Court of Ghana in order to annul the injunction won by NML. Ace Ankomah, lawyer for NML in Ghana, indicated the court scheduled a hearing on the matter for Tuesday October 9 before the commercial division of the high court where the first legal proceeding had started. Ankomah added that if Argentina pays a bond, the boat is free to go.

The 103-meter-long sailing ship, which is used as a training vessel for naval cadets, had left Buenos Aires on June 2 and was carrying a reported total crew of 220, including 69 members of the Argentine Navy and 110 students. New York judge Thomas Griesa awarded NML $1.6 billion from Argentina in a lawsuit that the fund filed after it opted not to accept two separate restructuring offers in 2005 and 2010 on the $100 billion in debt that the country defaulted on a decade ago.

The vessel has not been seized, as some media reported, but rather detained, with its crew on board and following their daily routine, the Argentine Navy confirmed to Forbes. ("They've been treated very well by the locals," a naval spokesman said.) Ghana’s courts will now have to decide whether previous rulings in the U.S. and the U.K. are sufficient to move ahead with NML’s case against Argentina. The West African nation ranks 52nd in the CFS’ rule of law index, well above major emerging nations like Brazil, Mexico, and China, and even above so-called advanced countries like Spain, Portugal, and Brazil.

The case is but the latest attempt in a tenacious campaign by the debt holders to seize Argentine assets abroad. In a statement, the Argentine foreign ministry said that “vulture funds had crossed a new limit in their attacks” toward the country, qualifying the latest move as “a trick by the unscrupulous financiers.” The ministry also said that attempting to seize the vessel is a violation of the Vienna Convention’s clause on diplomatic immunity, and called it an attempt at extortion.

Elliott Capital and other holdout bondholders have been tracking Argentine assets, financial and physical, closely, sources said. Back in 2007, a group of bondholders discovered that the Tango 01, Argentina’s presidential airplane, would be in the U.S. for scheduled maintenance and pilot training. They moved to get a court to keep the plane grounded after it landed and to seize fuel money the pilots were expected to bring in cash. The government of the late Nestor Kirchner was warned of the move, though, and cancelled the trip. It then countersued in the U.S. getting California judge William Alsup to declare the presidential Boeing 757/200 was immune from seizure.

It’s not only vehicles they were after. In 2009, Argentina was preparing a stand at the world’s largest book trade convention, the Frankfurt Book Fair. Rumors that assets could be seized forced Argentine to register its stand under a private individual rather than the state, and a showcase of works of art requested by German curators was withheld given concerns they would be seized. A year later, a Tango 01 trip to Germany was cancelled just as Buenos Aires was warned it would be seized.

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898e42 No.20799351

>>20799346

U.S. billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital: “The Real Story Of How A Hedge Fund Detained A Vessel In Ghana And Even Went For Argentina's 'Air Force One'” 2 of 2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/10/05/the-real-story-behind-the-argentine-vessel-in-ghana-and-how-hedge-funds-tried-to-seize-the-presidential-plane/

Oct 5, 2012,06:50pm EDT

Holdout bondholders have also gone after the assets of prominent Argentine politicians, including Nestor Kirchner, his wife and current president Cristina Kirchner, and 136 members of her administration, including most of the cabinet. In 2010, Singer’s Elliott got Judge Griesa, who consistently rules against Argentina, to ask Bank of America to disclose all information related to their personal accounts. Elliott has even gone after Argentina’s foreign exchange reserves, coming close to seizing $105 million held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

While most of their attempts to grab Argentine assets have failed in court, Elliott and other distressed debt investors have recorded some victories. Having bought the debt originally for pennies on the dollar, their strategy is to pursue aggressive means to recover a greater amount.

This year, Elliott subsidiary NML and EM (owned by former billionaire Kenneth Dart) got a judge to award them assets of Argentina’s Banco Hipotecario worth approximately $23 million.

Argentina has been cast out of international debt markets since its default in 2001-2002, after its economy imploded. Years of following IMF policies and a hard peg to the dollar caused the meltdown, as Argentina saw its currency devalue 400% and its economy plunge. As it emerged from those depths, it restructured its debt, first in 2005, and then in 2010, with approximately 93% of bondholders accepting the harsh new terms. Between holdout bondholders and the Paris Club of rich nations, somewhere between 7% and 8% of the original amount remains outstanding.

The country has vowed to fight those remaining bondholders. They accused NML of using the Cayman Islands to avoid legal and tax issues (“a [tax haven] that has been denounced by the G20 and the UN”). “It is President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s decision not to cede to the extorsive international and domestic attempts pursued by these vulture funds,” charged the foreign ministry. Given Argentina's recent track record, it doesn't seem like they'll budge.

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898e42 No.20799414

>>20799315

>>20799346

>>20799351

“Elliott Management's Sumitomo stake reflects growing activism in Japan”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/04/30/companies/japan-shareholder-activism/

Apr 30, 2024

Elliott Management buying up a sizable stake in Sumitomo is the latest in a string of Japanese deals for the firm, and reflects the growing influence of activist investors in the country.

Elliott has built a "large” holding in Sumitomo after investing "several tens of billions of yen” in the trading house backed by Warren Buffett. Founded by billionaire Paul Singer, Elliott also recently invested in developer Mitsui Fudosan, after previously targeting Toshiba, SoftBank Group and Dai Nippon Printing.

Activist investor campaigns are becoming more commonplace as the government and institutions such as the Tokyo Stock Exchange encourage companies to better manage balance sheets and boost shareholder returns.

"Before, activist investors weren’t very successful, as companies and entrepreneurs were quite uncomfortable dealing with them,” said Jeff Acton, a partner at BDA Partners in Tokyo. "However, the tone has changed and activists are having a more constructive, more gentle approach. That’s helping drive the success rate for their campaigns, and more deals are getting done.”

Among recent activist campaigns, Japan’s Seven & I Holdings — under pressure from activist investor ValueAct Capital Management — is considering a listing of the Ito Yokado supermarket chain and eventually splitting it off from the more profitable and faster-growing 7-Eleven franchise.

Toshiba is another, taken private in September in a ¥2 trillion ($12.9 billion) buyout, one of the biggest of last year, after also coming under pressure.

"It may be an opportune time for activist investors in Japan as they put pressure on Japanese corporates,” said Akio Katsuragi, co-founder of Crosspoint Advisors in Tokyo. "In Japan, activists were generally viewed as enemies of the companies with their goal to make short-term profits. These days, some of the activists are offering ideas that may benefit other shareholders.”

The rise in activism comes amid a boom in deal-making, with the volume of mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies climbing 30% to about $145 billion over the past 12 months, turning the country into a hot spot, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The yen has weakened over 12% in that period, at one point Monday falling past ¥160 per dollar for the first time since 1990.

That hasn’t stopped some from casting out overseas. Tokyo-based Renesas Electronics in February agreed to buy software firm Altium for 9.1 billion Australian dollars ($6 billion) — the biggest-ever acquisition of an Australian-listed company by a Japanese buyer. Sekisui House expanded in the U.S. by snapping up builder MDC Holdings Inc. for $4.9 billion.

"Deal-making activity in Japan is increasing — Japanese companies have piled up abundant cash,” said Katsuragi. "Organic business growth is tough to do in Japan as the population is shrinking. They need to grow via acquisitions both domestically and internationally.”

A major potential deal involves Nippon Steel, which wants to buy United States Steel in a move that would create the world’s second largest steel company. That plan, however, is facing strong opposition in the U.S.

"Japan is going through a phase in which companies, regulators and investors are focused on improving shareholder returns and corporate governance,” BDA’s Acton said. "That’s a big driver for M&A. The current deal-making boom we’re seeing in Japan is likely just the beginning of a golden age for M&A in the next five to 10 years.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/elliott-management-builds-large-stake-in-warren-buffett-favorite-sumitomo-report/ar-AA1nQUho

Elliott Management, which was started by billionaire investor Paul Singer in 1977, is known for its activist campaigns against top companies including Samsung and Paypal.

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898e42 No.20799568

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“The truth about NHI exposed”

https://youtu.be/CRiRwu6_AOc

Apr 25, 2024

AfriForum exposes why the ANC government’s motivation for demanding National Health Insurance is false.

It is all but certain that NHI will destroy the financing of the private healthcare system if fully implemented, yet the government seems okay with this, because in their view the private sector does not help the poor. However, there are hundreds of private clinics in townships across South Africa who focus especially on offering affordable healthcare to uninsured patients.

AfriForum visited the Unjani Clinic Diepsloot and found that many patients are willing to pay reasonable fees for private healthcare instead of visiting the public clinic, where service delivery is insufficient. Instead of redistributing healthcare from rich to poor patients, NHI will probably only destroy existing private healthcare offered to poor communities.

www.jougesondheid.co.za

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45b4db No.20833168

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“Big Pharma's Africa exit a tough pill to swallow”

https://youtu.be/PwWsfL-ClTU

May 6, 2024

Big Pharma has been fleeing Africa. Glaxo Smith-Kline, Bayer, Sanofi and recently Moderna have left markets on the continent. This has left countries like Nigeria with bitterly high medicine prices. But, it could also prove to be an injection for local producers. There are concerns, however, that it may boost the illicit trade.

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2024-04-30-lenias-hwenda-big-pharmas-exit-from-africa-a-blow-for-access-to-medicines/

30 April 2024 - 05:00

The pharmaceutical companies mention challenges ranging from excessive taxation and power supply problems to a generally rising cost of doing business. GSK, which has been operating in the African market for more than 51 years, started the trend in August 2023 when it exited Nigeria, where it had been the second biggest manufacturer.

GSK ceased operations by terminating its marketing and distribution agreement, saying that in the future it would operate through third-party distributors to bring essential medications and vaccines such as HPV vaccines and oncologics like augmentin, to African patients. Among the challenges GSK says prompted its exit from Nigeria were the limited ability to access foreign currency, difficulty doing business, excessive bureaucracy, multiple taxation and malpractice within the industry.

Sanofi, also one of the largest and oldest corporations operating in the African market, followed suit three months later, citing similar challenges. Its commercial operations, including promotion and distribution, were to be handled by a yet-to-be-named third party starting in February 2024.

Bayer has taken a similar path in Kenya, attributing its decision to exit direct distribution in the country to a “financial and strategic recalibration” taking place within the corporation as it navigates mounting global economic pressures and changing market demands.

Now Moderna has announced that it is halting the establishment of a vaccine facility in Kenya, attributing its change of plans to financial and strategic considerations to improve the company’s business performance.

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45b4db No.20833325

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>>20833168

“Shell LEAVES South Africa After 122 Years! (Thanks BEE)”

https://youtu.be/0I-w_xpKVn0

Premiered 12 hours ago

Shell is leaving South Africa due to a fallout with their BEE partner, which is owned by the ANC. The BEE partner valued their share in Shell at 4 billion rand and demanded the cash, but Shell refused. The ANC's greed for dividends and the grift of BEE are causing foreign companies to see South Africa as a risky investment. The lack of regulatory certainty and policy stability in South Africa is a major concern for businesses.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/shell-confirms-downstream-exit-amid-calls-for-broad-ownership-in-sa-s-liquefied-energy-sector/ar-BB1lVZBy

2024/05/06

After pausing its South Africa refinery operations in 2022, petrochemicals giant Shell yesterday confirmed that it was exiting its downstream operations from the country amid a bitter row with its BEE partner, Thebe Investment.

Shell’s exit from South Africa has raised alarm bells of further impending corporate departures from the country.

BHP’s bid for assets of Anglo American excluding its platinum group metals (PGMs) and iron ore operations could also pave the way for the Johannesburg and London-listed firm departing, while BNP Paribas has also put an end to its banking venture.

Media reports over the weekend, however, said Shell was embroiled in a bitter row with Thebe Investments over a R3.7 billion stake in the company.

“We have to clear up issues over the next few days and come up with a position which basically will confirm the company’s exit from South Africa,” a source with Shell South Africa said early yesterday.

While Shell has been scaling down its downstream operations elsewhere, the dispute with Thebe is seen to have fast-tracked the decision to depart the SA operations.

Amid the growing departures of companies from SA, analysts are calling for the administration that emerged after the May 29 election to aggressively market and position South Africa as a worthy and lucrative investment destination.

Many investors have been spooked by SA’s declining infrastructure sector which has forced miners and other operators to curtail capital, retrench thousands of workers and close some shafts.

“The dispute between Shell and its BEE partner also sheds light on broader issues within corporate-government relations,” Masuku said.

“Companies like Shell wield significant economic influence, and disputes of this nature underscore the complexities of balancing commercial interests with broader societal goals, such as economic empowerment and community development.”

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45b4db No.20833334

>>20833325

>BHP’s bid for assets of Anglo American excluding its platinum group metals (PGMs) and iron ore operations could also pave the way for the Johannesburg and London-listed firm departing, while BNP Paribas has also put an end to its banking venture.

>>20833168

“South African unions urge Anglo holders to reject BHP bid”

https://www.mining.com/web/south-african-unions-urge-anglo-holders-to-reject-bhp-bid/

May 7, 2024 | 7:48 am

South Africa’s biggest labor union federation urged local shareholders, including the powerful Public Investment Corp., to oppose BHP Group Ltd.’s bid to buy Anglo American Plc.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, which includes the National Union of Mineworkers among its members, said a deal wouldn’t be in the national interest. South African shareholders hold about 26% of Anglo, with the PIC owning 8.4%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

BHP’s proposal to acquire Anglo on April 25 raised the ire of some members of South Africa’s government, including Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe. The Australian company responded by deploying a senior team including its chief executive officer to South Africa to win over government officials, regulators and local Anglo shareholders.

BHP’s proposal includes a plan for Anglo to spin off its Johannesburg-listed platinum and iron ore units before an eventual takeover of the remaining assets. Anglo, founded in Johannesburg in 1917, also owns manganese and diamond mines in South Africa. While the miner was the bedrock of the South African economy for decades, it shifted its headquarters to London in the late-1990s.

Anglo rejected the initial bid, but BHP is expected to make an improved offer, Bloomberg has reported. The PIC, which manages the pensions of government workers, has said it will assess any BHP offer.

“Cosatu is deeply concerned about the possible sale of Anglo assets in South Africa to BHP,” the union federation said in comments sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday. “It is critical that South African shareholders, including the PIC, ensure these assets remain South African-owned.”

Cosatu is a key ally of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress and President Cyril Ramaphosa was a co-founder of the National Union of Mineworkers. The bid from BHP comes before a national election later this month, which could see the ANC lose its majority for the first time since winning power in 1994.

The presidency has rejected the premise that BHP’s approach is vote of no-confidence in South Africa, after the opposition presented the bid as a stinging rebuke of the government’s handling of the economy in a country with one of the world’s highest unemployment rates and deteriorating infrastructure.

–“These companies were built on the back of South African mine workers and pension funds,” Cosatu said. “The profit they generate is needed to grow the economy and create decent jobs.”

BHP is targeting Anglo for its South American copper mines, which would make it the world’s biggest producer of the key metal.–

Anglo’s South African operations have been hamstrung by fractious labor relations, power outages and the deterioration of the national freight rail company. Its Kumba unit has had to stockpile the steelmaking raw material because there aren’t enough trains to take it to a port.

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45b4db No.20833361

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>>20728955

>>20728959

>>20728978

>Ray Hartley, Research Director, The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

“Ray Hartley on SA's Russia relations | Carte Blanche | M-Net”

https://youtu.be/Zw-kxR3P8WQ

May 29, 2023

In this extended interview, Research Director at the Brenthurst Foundation, Ray Hartley speaks to Masa Kekana about why South Africa's non-aligned stance on the war in Ukraine could do more harm than good. He also tells us what some of the major concerns around our ongoing flirtations with Russia are.

0:10 – “The Brenthurst Foundation tries to provide rational economic policy advise to governments on their request and also produce publications and opinion articles that try and strengthen making rational policy choices.”

11:55 – “The first groupings of ANC exiles that went for training in Russia were trained in Ukraine at Odessa and other places in Ukraine.

Ray Hartley: Research Director, The Brenthurst Foundation

https://kyivindependent.com/author/ray-hartley/

Ray Hartley is the research director of the Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based think tank established in 2004 by the Oppenheimer family to strengthen African economic performance

https://www.globalafricanetwork.com/company-news/ramaphosa-path-to-power/

Ray Hartley worked as an administrator at the CODESA negotiations, which ended apartheid. He has covered the unfolding drama of the new South Africa as a political correspondent, travelling extensively with Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.

Hartley was the founding editor of The Times and editor of South Africa’s largest newspaper, The Sunday Times, from 2010 to 2013. He is author of Ragged Glory: The Rainbow Nation in Black and White and editor of the essay collection How to Fix South Africa.

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/people/ray-hartley/

Research Director, The Brenthurst Foundation

Ray Hartley is the Research Director of the Brenthurst Foundation. Ray has a postgraduate honours degree from Rhodes University where he studied African politics and journalism.

Ray was an anti-apartheid activist in the United Democratic Front while serving on the executive of the National Union of South African Students. He later worked for the Human Awareness Programme, an NGO which provided training and advice to activists. He then worked as an administrator in the Codesa constitutional negotiations that ended apartheid. After a stint as the boxing correspondent of the then Weekly Mail, he joined Business Day and then the Sunday Times. He covered the Nelson Mandela presidency, travelling the world with him and witnessing the birth of the new, democratic South Africa.

He has edited several prominent South African newspapers and online publications, including the Sunday Times, The Times, Rand Daily Mail and BusinessLIVE.

Ray is the author of Ragged Glory: The Rainbow Nation in Black and White, which tells the story of the first two turbulent decades of democracy in South Africa. He wrote The Big Fix: How South Africa Stole the 2010 World Cup and Ramaphosa: The Man Who Would be King. Ray also authored chapters in Better Choices and In The Name of the People and is co-author of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Scenarios for South Africa's Uncertain Future

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45b4db No.20833390

>>20833334

>Anglo, founded in Johannesburg in 1917, also owns manganese and diamond mines in South Africa. While the miner was the bedrock of the South African economy for decades, it shifted its headquarters to London in the late-1990s.

>>20833361

>He has edited several prominent South African newspapers and online publications, including the Sunday Times, The Times, Rand Daily Mail and BusinessLIVE.

Anglo America owned/owns Rand Daily Mail and the Sunday Times

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

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

At South African Associated Newspapers (Saan), the Mail, the Sunday Times and the Sunday Express were the main users of the company’s production, management, circulation and advertising departments.

The Mail was the cornerstone of a shared news service which operated under the title of the South African Morning Newspaper Group. The Mail and its sister morning papers pooled their news services, enabling all the papers to have access to the work of all their reporters — between 250 and 300.

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

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

But the real damage caused by that ill-considered shameful closure of the Mail has been visited on the practice of journalism in South Africa. Australian and some British papers profited when the Mail closed and some of its best journalists [more like propagandists] emigrated.

Just 20 years ago, the Anglo American Corporation closed the Rand Daily Mail, South Africa’s liberal daily newspaper that had consistently opposed apartheid since the Nationalists came to power in 1948

Journalists’ enthusiasm for the paper was legendary and frequently resulted in reporters working way beyond the call of duty and on occasion placing themselves in dangerous situations.

Their conduct led to two American academics, journalism studies Professor John C Merrill and assistant Professor Harold A Fisher, in 1980 listing the Mail in their selection of 50 of the World’s Great Dailies.

A few were African National Congress cadres engaged in underground activities but they tried hard not to embarrass the paper and seldom did.

https://allafrica.com/stories/200608230258.html

23 AUGUST 2006

CYRIL Ramaphosa brokered a landmark deal with Anglo American in 1996, to buy a 35% stake in Johnnic Holdings through the National Empowerment Consortium. The deal promised much for the country's private media landscape, and particularly for black ownership and empowerment. At its core, it offered black shareholders a worthwhile stake in a company that owned the largest, and arguably most influential, newspaper in the country, the Sunday Times. But little of that early promise has materialised, and it has certainly failed to spread into a wider black holding in the listed media industry. Of the major media groups listed on the local bourse, radio powers Kagiso Media and Primedia are the only empowered operations.

Some of the country's major media groups have not, unlike the mining and financial-services sectors, had the business incentive to undertake empowerment transactions on an equity level, as government is in most cases not a client.

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45b4db No.20833412

>>20833361

>Ray Hartley is the research director of the Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based think tank established in 2004 by the Oppenheimer family to strengthen African economic performance

>>20833390

>Anglo America owned/owns Rand Daily Mail and the Sunday Times

>>20794479

>[Nicky Oppenheimer] “This indeed is a splendid occasion and it’s fantastic for De Beers to have played a role in this process and getting us where we are today… it’s particularly important to appreciate what diamonds have done for South Africa.”

>>20794504

>Anglo American Reportedly Mulling Sale of De Beers

Nicky Oppenheimer “joined the Anglo-American Corporation in 1968”

Nicky Oppenheimer – a South African businessman and conservationist – joined the Anglo-American Corporation in 1968, serving as a director from 1974 until his retirement in 2011 and as Deputy Chairman from 1983 to 2001. In 1985, Nicky became Chairman of the Diamond Trading Company and Deputy Chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines. He was Chairman of the De Beers Group from 1998 to 2012. Nicky was educated at Harrow School London and University of Oxford where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

As Chairman of Oppenheimer Generations, Nicky continues his long and respected legacy of environmental and conservation leadership by serving on the board of Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve [https://tswalu.com/]. Nicky is also a keen supporter and sponsor of the Oppenheimer Research Conference, which brings together preeminent individuals and organisations from the natural and environmental science industries across the world.

In 2005, Nicky and Jonathan established the Brenthurst Foundation [https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/], to reflect the family’s contribution to the debate around strategies and policies for strengthening Africa’s economic performance. As a Trustee of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, Nicky believes in education investment and that every South African has the right to a high standard of education at all levels.

Nicky holds a Doctorate in Technology, honoris causa, from the Technikon Witwatersrand in South Africa; the first recipient from the public and private sector and an Honorary Fellowship from the London Business School. Nicky is also a recipient of the Presidential Order of Honor from His Excellency the President of the Republic of Botswana, Mr. Festus Gontebanye Mogae.

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45b4db No.20833436

>>20833390

>CYRIL Ramaphosa brokered a landmark deal with Anglo American in 1996, to buy a 35% stake in Johnnic Holdings

>>20833334

>Cosatu is a key ally of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress and President Cyril Ramaphosa was a co-founder of the National Union of Mineworkers.

“Johnnic's deal under scrutiny”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/johnnics-deal-under-scrutiny-742592

Published Nov 28, 2005

Johannesburg - The Securities Regulation Panel (SRP) is investigating allegations that Nafhold, Sanlam, Old Mutual, Coronation Capital and the Johnnic board have acted in concert to achieve control of Johnnic.

If the SRP finds that some or all of these parties have acted in concert, they may be obliged to make an offer to all Johnnic shareholders.

Details of the allegation are referred to in the circular to Johnnic shareholders that was issued on Friday and contains the details of the R675 million proposed acquisition of Nafhold by Johnnic.

Nafhold's primary asset is its 25 percent stake in Tsogo Investment Holdings, which in turn has 51 percent of Tsogo Sun Holdings. Tsogo Sun has gaming and hotel interests including Montecasino and the Southern Sun group.

The proposed transaction will increase Johnnic's effective shareholding in Tsogo Investment Holdings to 34.5 percent.

The allegation represents the latest legal battle in a war for control of Tsogo Sun that has resulted in Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) and the Johnnic board making several approaches to various regulatory bodies including the SRP, the competition tribunal, the gaming board and the high court.

In addition to the allegation that various parties were acting in concert, HCI applied to the SRP to postpone the release of Johnnic's Nafhold circular.

The SRP refused the application to postpone the circular. In terms of the ruling, which was made last Friday, Johnnic was obliged to include reference to HCI's allegations in its circular as well as the possible consequences of the investigation by the SRP.

The circular refers to the allegation of "the possibility that a number of parties are acting, or have acted, in concert for the purposes of an affected transaction in the securities of Johnnic".

According to the circular, Old Mutual holds 12.5 percent of Johnnic, Coronation holds 11.39 percent and Sanlam has 5.85 percent. Mercanto, on behalf of HCI, holds 40 percent.

If the Nafhold transaction is approved by Johnnic shareholders at a meeting on December 12, Nafhold, or the vendors of Nafhold, will receive 33 million Johnnic shares and R307.7 million cash.

The 33 million shares, which are likely to be issued only in several weeks' time after certain conditions have been met, represent 16.5 percent of Johnnic's enlarged equity base. When the shares have been issued, HCI's holding will reduce to 33 percent.

At the Johnnic shareholders' meeting on December 12, shareholders will also be asked to vote on the appointment of four HCI representatives to the board.

Yesterday HCI chief executive Johnny Copelyn said he would not disclose his company's view on the proposed Nafhold transaction and indicated that he wanted to see more information. Johnnic's share price was unchanged at R12.40 on the JSE yesterday. The real estate sector fell 0.21 percent.

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45b4db No.20833449

>>20833436

“Both sides of the story: Johnnic vs HCI”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/opinion/both-sides-of-the-story-johnnic-vs-hci-753377

Published Jul 13, 2005

Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) started buying into Tsogo Investment Holdings (TIH) over two years ago. TIH had a 51 percent holding in Tsogo Sun, the lucrative casino company with five casinos and Southern Sun Hotels to its name. The other shareholder in Tsogo Sun, with 49 percent, is SABMiller, the beer company.

TIH had a number of shareholders that HCI, and later Johnnic, could approach in order to buy more shares. Its shareholders included Fabcos Investment Holdings (FIH), Nafcoc Holdings and African Renaissance.

Johnnic, which had long had dealings with Tsogo, entered the fray for real in October, when it negotiated to buy half of FIH's stake in TIH. HCI quickly did a similar deal with FIH.

By March this year, Johnnic said it had convinced Nafhold to sell its 25 percent stake in TIH to Johnnic. Johnnic is also eyeing African Renaissance's remaining stake in TIH.

In the meantime, HCI convinced some of Johnnic's largest shareholders to sell their stakes to HCI. With 30 percent of Johnnic in hand by May, HCI tried to force three of its directors on to Johnnic's board and take control of TIH in that way. Johnnic's shareholders said no, but Gold Reef Casino Resorts, which had been friendly to Johnnic, was wooed by HCI into selling its Johnnic stake to HCI. Gold Reef was promised HCI's backing if it tried to buy SABMiller's stake in Tsogo Sun.

HCI, with 40 percent of Johnnic, was forced to make a mandatory offer to Johnnic minorities, which has yet to be voted on. The offer was R9.75 a share.

Johnny Copelyn, the chief executive of Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI), spoke to Renée Bonorchis. Here's what he said.

By December we had bought the final piece of Tsogo Investment Holdings (TIH), 19 percent from Fabcos Investment Holdings (FIH), to give us control. Two and a half years ago HCI decided it wanted to get into Tsogo Sun and started investing.

We are struggling with the fact that Johnnic is trying to disrupt HCI's acquisitions.

First, Johnnic has spent time bad-mouthing HCI, saying that we don't have enough empowerment credentials, that we're predatory and that we are paying too much for the assets we are buying. And then there has been extraordinary interference with our transactions.

Johnnic tried to get Nedbank to refuse HCI shares as security and kicked up a fuss with the gaming board and the Securities Regulation Panel.

HCI must make an offer to Johnnic for its FIH stake, but Johnnic has no intention of taking the offer. The gaming board says Johnnic should be seen as empowered, but that's only because HCI has a stake in Johnnic. And yet Johnnic is opposing HCI's gaming board approval.

The fight is not about the control of Johnnic, it's about TIH.

Johnnic is portraying it as being about the control of Johnnic, with them as the innocent party and competing with HCI. But nothing could be further from the truth.

From our point of view the hostile takeover is of TIH and it is largely completed.

I think we will succeed because you can't dislodge us from Johnnic. The board needs to change its hostile attitude, but we haven't considered getting rid of chief executive Christine Ramon in any way.

If Johnnic gets Nafhold's and FIH's stakes, it will hold 44 percent in TIH. We will, through Johnnic, have about one-third of its stake, so we will have about 15 percent. Add that to our 51 percent of TIH and we'll have 66 percent altogether.

Johnnic also can't issue shares to SABMiller for its stake in TIH. All of its hopes and dreams require HCI's permission.

HCI is not a bidder for SABMiller's shares. We believe the transaction is too big - it could run to over R5 billion and we'd become a pyramid.

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45b4db No.20833454

>>20833436

>>20833449

“Ramaphosa leaves Johnnic's board”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/ramaphosa-leaves-johnnics-board-743300

Published Jan 10, 2006

Johannesburg - Almost nine years after assuming the position of chairman of Johnnic, which was the great black economic empowerment hope of the mid-1990s, Cyril Ramaphosa announced yesterday that he was resigning from the Johnnic board with immediate effect.

The decision was regarded as inevitable following the appointment of four Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) representatives to the board at last month's contentious meeting of Johnnic shareholders.

The appointment of the four representatives was successful despite the Johnnic board's recommendations to the shareholders that they vote against them. With 49 percent of the shares in issue and accounting for just over 50 percent of the shares represented at the December shareholders' meeting, HCI was assured of victory.

Yesterday Johnnic announced that in addition to Ramaphosa, Colin Brayshaw, Tommy Oliphant and Patrick Burton would all be resigning with immediate effect. "Since Johnnic has acquired a new controlling shareholder, we feel it is only proper to resign to enable the new controlling shareholder to appoint a new chairman and their own directors," Ramaphosa said.

"We would like to take this opportunity to wish Johnnic, its board, management and staff the very best for the future."

Although the resignations were expected, analysts expressed surprise at the speed with which they were announced. The first board meeting since the fractious December shareholders' meeting is only scheduled for next Tuesday.

At this meeting the four HCI representatives will be accompanied by outgoing chief executive Christine Ramon and Connie Molusi, the chief executive of Johncom.

The announcement has fuelled speculation that HCI will soon move to create a more effective structure to house its expanding interests in the hotel and gaming industry held through various indirect stakes in Tsogo Sun Holdings.

One empowerment analyst said the original 1995 plans for Johnnic to become an industrial conglomerate controlled by black shareholders were doomed to fail when New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) forced itself into the extremely complex negotiating process between the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) and Anglo American. Ramaphosa represented Nail.

"The inclusion of Nail, which dominated the NEC, led to considerable disruption and changed the nature of the Johnnic beast," remarked one analyst.

The original plan would have seen Johnnic develop its industrial interests, chiefly around SAB, Premier Foods and media assets.

This was soon changed to a focus on media and communications, with MTN set to play a dominant role. A major difficulty for all the empowerment partners involved was the lack of funding and the price at which the deal was struck. Money made by Johnnic has gone to the pension funds that were able to pay cash for their stakes and to institutions that funded the empowerment partners.

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45b4db No.20833468

>>20833412

>>20833436

>>20833449

>>20833454

“Anglo was the big winner in the sad Johnnic saga”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/anglo-was-the-big-winner-in-the-sad-johnnic-saga-743275

Published Jan 10, 2006

It is difficult to determine at exactly what stage Johnnic Holdings was doomed not to be the great black economic empowerment hope that we all thought it would be back in 1995, when negotiations between a variety of black and union-related organisations and Anglo American commenced.

It could have been back at the company's birth in 1995, when Anglo held out for the prevailing market price for a selection of its key industrial interests. There was considerably more uncertainty about the future of black empowerment back then and considerably less commitment to transformation from the corporate sector.

In hindsight, the major beneficiary of the Johnnic empowerment transaction was Anglo. It was able to clean up its unwieldy portfolio of assets ahead of the transfer of its primary listing as a focused mining house to the London Stock Exchange, where investors would have frowned on the wide spread of assets.

The corporation was able to offload a large chunk of these non-mining assets at the prevailing market price thanks to the ambitious dreams of some key black empowerment players at the time. Not only did Anglo sell them at market price but it subsequently claimed all sorts of brownie points from the government for doing so. This divestiture was followed by all manner of restructurings.

Ironically, one of the early decisions was to sell off the extremely attractive stake in SAB, which at the time held 100 percent of Tsogo Sun. Another irony is that Marcel Golding, the current executive chairman of Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI), who headed the Mineworkers' Investment Company at the time, has attempted to move in on Johnnic a number of times.

And, of course, another irony is that with the fact that HCI (in which the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union and its investment arms have a combined shareholding of at least 42 percent) now holds 49 percent of Johnnic, this may be the closest Johnnic has ever been to being owned by unions.

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45b4db No.20833493

>>20833361

>“The Brenthurst Foundation tries to provide rational economic policy advise to governments on their request and also produce publications and opinion articles that try and strengthen making rational policy choices.”

>>20729092

>Greg Mills is telling us with his chest out that he is a specialist in regime change who works for the Oppenheimers, the US, and Nato.

>>20728978

>Greg Mills, Director, The Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa

I found this opinion piece at Kyiv Independent written by Ray Hartley and Greg Mills.

Ray Hartley, Greg Mills [Brenthurst Foundation]: “Opinion: A Russian victory in Ukraine would be bad for Africans” 1 of 2

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-a-russian-victory-in-ukraine-would-be-bad-for-africans/

March 5, 2024 1:07 PM

Nineteen-thirty-eight is an apposite metaphor for 2024, of a world poised on the brink of a devastating war. The pieces are all there: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. increasingly divided and isolated, the Middle East divided along sectarian and tribal lines, a resurgent populism in Latin America, and an Africa slowly sliding off the map into state failure, military juntas, and regional wars.

This state of affairs should not be someone else’s business. Critical choices about defense, foreign policy, national posture, and the allocation of spending by leadership and publics alike will determine a future either of war or peace. For those on the periphery of the global economy, on the margins of the concern of richer states and publics, this carries even greater possible costs.

Contrary to popular impressions, much of Africa is on Ukraine’s side. Twenty-eight African countries voted for the February 2023 UN General Assembly resolution calling for Russia to halt its invasion and withdraw its forces from Ukraine. Most of them are democracies, while most of the 17 African countries that abstained or voted against the resolution are, with a few democratic exceptions like South Africa and Namibia, authoritarian or hybrid regimes. This voting pattern was reproduced during subsequent UN resolutions on Ukraine.

Alexei Navalny’s murder should make it clear what sort of regime is Vladimir Putin’s, as should his army’s ghastly acts against Ukrainian civilians. Russia is today antithetical to basic human rights and freedoms. Its actions are familiar to many post-colonial societies traversing the same tricky path that Ukraine has had to negotiate over the last 30 years in breaking the shackles of Russian imperialism.

There is fertile ground for Ukraine’s case since the majority of Africans want to live in circumstances similar to those in Ukraine, not Russia. Two-thirds of Africans consistently prefer democracy to other forms of government, as polled by Afrobarometer. Yet over 90% of Africans live under a version of authoritarian regime.

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45b4db No.20833498

>>20833493

Ray Hartley, Greg Mills [Brenthurst Foundation]: “Opinion: A Russian victory in Ukraine would be bad for Africans” 2 of 2

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-a-russian-victory-in-ukraine-would-be-bad-for-africans/

March 5, 2024 1:07 PM

Three key actions stand out in developing an appropriate African narrative for Kyiv:

Transforming the narrative. The true cost of a Ukrainian failure needs to be made clear by Kyiv both in terms of the democratic and economic consequences. Ukraine’s is a profoundly anti-colonial struggle against a ruthless aggressor. If Ukraine were to lose the war in the long term, the strategic implications for the democratic world would be both profound and negative. Ukraine would become a non-independent state. The current leadership of Ukraine would be killed, convicted, or forced into exile. In so doing, they and NATO (as the proxy for the West, and not Russia, would be made guilty of the war.

In installing a puppet president heading a government made up of Ukrainians loyal to Russia, Ukraine’s independent media would be silenced, and no political opposition would be permitted. Of particular interest to Africa, Ukraine’s economy would be made completely dependent on Russia, together dominating the global export of grain and thereby weaponizing the commodity with severe implications for import-dependent economies.

Side with democracies everywhere. If the West and Ukraine want Africans to side with them, given that Russia’s invasion is an assault on the rules-based international order that underpins democratic freedoms and values, then they need to stand with African democrats (and citizens) who are fighting for the same freedoms and values in their contexts. These values and principles must matter for African lives equally, not just Ukrainian (or European) lives. For Ukraine, specifically, this means choosing your allies and friends carefully in Africa and avoiding those who represent – and sometimes very publicly defend – Russia.

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45b4db No.20833513

>>20833493

>>20833498

I forgot to include the the third key, here is the full 2 of 2 of the article.

Ray Hartley, Greg Mills [Brenthurst Foundation]: “Opinion: A Russian victory in Ukraine would be bad for Africans” 2 of 2

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-a-russian-victory-in-ukraine-would-be-bad-for-africans/

March 5, 2024 1:07 PM

Three key actions stand out in developing an appropriate African narrative for Kyiv:

Transforming the narrative. The true cost of a Ukrainian failure needs to be made clear by Kyiv both in terms of the democratic and economic consequences. Ukraine’s is a profoundly anti-colonial struggle against a ruthless aggressor. If Ukraine were to lose the war in the long term, the strategic implications for the democratic world would be both profound and negative. Ukraine would become a non-independent state. The current leadership of Ukraine would be killed, convicted, or forced into exile. In so doing, they and NATO (as the proxy for the West, and not Russia, would be made guilty of the war.

In installing a puppet president heading a government made up of Ukrainians loyal to Russia, Ukraine’s independent media would be silenced, and no political opposition would be permitted. Of particular interest to Africa, Ukraine’s economy would be made completely dependent on Russia, together dominating the global export of grain and thereby weaponizing the commodity with severe implications for import-dependent economies.

Side with democracies everywhere. If the West and Ukraine want Africans to side with them, given that Russia’s invasion is an assault on the rules-based international order that underpins democratic freedoms and values, then they need to stand with African democrats (and citizens) who are fighting for the same freedoms and values in their contexts. These values and principles must matter for African lives equally, not just Ukrainian (or European) lives. For Ukraine, specifically, this means choosing your allies and friends carefully in Africa and avoiding those who represent – and sometimes very publicly defend – Russia.

Prepare together for a post-war world by advocating for the establishment of war crimes tribunals, just as Nuremberg was first discussed in 1942. Again, such measures demand even-handedness in dealing with grave violations of international law (for instance, by Russia, by African dictators/oppressors, or in the Middle East) without fear, favor, or hypocrisy.

Timothy Snyder says that “To become better, a country must lose its last colonial war.” The opposite also holds true. Russia is not going to lose its colonial war in Ukraine without citizens elsewhere being willing to pay a price for the maintenance of their own freedoms, including democrats in Africa.

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45b4db No.20833524

File: ff6dcbe6e70b806⋯.jpg (91.27 KB,935x435,187:87,Kyiv_Independent.JPG)

>>20833493

>>20833513

The Kyiv Independent: Our Story

https://kyivindependent.com/about/

The Kyiv Independent is Ukraine’s fastest-growing English-language media outlet, created in November 2021, just three months before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent was born out of a fight for freedom of speech. It was co-founded by a group of journalists who were fired from the Kyiv Post, then a prominent newspaper, as the owner attempted to take the newsroom under control and end its critical coverage of Ukrainian authorities.

The team’s resilience and uncompromising reporting quickly made the Kyiv Independent a key source of news from Ukraine for millions of people around the world.

We are continuing to grow and learn. In a world where disinformation and propaganda are weapons of war, we aim to continue to be able to put up a good fight for truth.

They have a long list of staff members. Below are a few.

Olga Rudenko

Editor-in-Chief

Olga Rudenko is the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent, an award-winning media start-up launched in November 2021 by the former editorial team of the Kyiv Post. Olga is the former deputy chief editor of the Kyiv Post. She has written for global publications, and was a fellow at the Chicago Booth School of Business in 2021. She was featured on the cover of Time magazine in May 2022 as one of the publication’s Next Generation Leaders, and won the Women of Europe award in the “Woman in Action” category in December 2022.

Jakub Parusinski

Director of KI Insights

Jakub Parusinski is the Director of KI Insights. Jakub is a former CEO of Kyiv Post. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and spent 3 years at McKinsey’s London office, where he managed the EMEA hub for Advanced Analytics. Jakub works a media consultant and lecturer on media business at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Chris York

News Editor

Chris York is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. Before joining the team, he was head of news at the Kyiv Post. Previously, back in Britain, he spent nearly a decade working for HuffPost UK. He holds an MA in Conflict, Development, and Security from the University of Leeds.

Elsa Court

News Editor

Elsa Court is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She was previously an intern at the Kyiv Post and has a Master’s in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from Utrecht University. Before joining the Kyiv Independent, she worked at the Netherlands Red Cross programme to arrange hosts for Ukrainian refugees and as a freelance writer and editor. Elsa is originally from the UK and is based in the Netherlands.

Nate Ostiller

News Editor

Nate Ostiller is a News Editor. He works on special projects as a researcher and writer for The Red Line Podcast, covering Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and focused primarily on digital misinformation, memory politics, and ethnic conflict. Nate has a Master’s degree in Russian and Eurasian Studies from the University of Glasgow, and spent two years studying abroad at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Originally from the USA, he is currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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45b4db No.20833601

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>>20236804

>Sol Kerzner (of Jewish descent) is in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black book. He owned Sun City, also known as Sin City, in former South Africa’s Bantustan, Bophuthatswana.

>>20395068

>>20395076

>>20711880

>>20833436

>>20833449

>>20833454

>>20833468

>Tsogo Sun

“Tsogo Sun 2024 Group Campaign”

https://youtu.be/neaBg337F1s

Feb 29, 2024

Tsogo Sun: “Where it all began”

https://hotels-iar.southernsun.com/reports/tsogosun-hotels-iar-2020/group-overview-through-the-years.php

1969

South African Breweries Limited (‘SAB Limited’) and hotelier, Sol Kerzner, partnered to create Southern Sun Hotels (‘Southern Sun’), the largest hotel group in the southern hemisphere at the time. Southern Sun commenced operations with six hotels, including the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga Rocks, Durban, and was subsequently involved in the development of many of the most prestigious hotels of the era, including the Cape Sun, Sandton Sun and Sun City. Southern Sun expanded through the acquisition and development of hotels in South Africa and neighbouring countries, throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

1983

The casino interests of Southern Sun, including the newly built Sun City operations, were separated from its hotel business into what later became Sun International. Southern Sun retained the South African hotel operations during a difficult time for the hotel industry in South Africa as international sanctions against the apartheid government resulted in a severe contraction in demand.

1985

Southern Sun expanded to 26 hotels. It then acquired the Holiday Inn South Africa hotel group, thereby establishing a countrywide distribution of 49 hotels, in both the upmarket and mid-market segments.

1991

Southern Sun was delisted from the JSE and became a wholly owned subsidiary of SAB Limited. Southern Sun entered into a joint venture with Accor SA, the French hotel group, to develop the Formula1 and Formula Inn range of hotels in South Africa and the first of 23 hotels opened the next year.

1994

The mid-1990s saw a rejuvenation for Southern Sun as the hotel business was transformed through the introduction of the successful ‘Jumbo Jet’ strategy, which changed the portfolio to concentrate on mid-market and economy hotels rather than deluxe products. This, combined with the opening of the South African economy after the end of apartheid, saw a dramatic increase in occupancy rates and profitability.

1996

Southern Sun formed a joint venture with a consortium of B-BBEE investors to form Tsogo Sun, to pursue casino licence opportunities afforded through the enactment of the National Gambling Act which regulated gambling activities and promoted uniform standards in relation to gambling in South Africa. Early success saw the Tsogo Sun Group awarded casino licences in Mpumalanga (Emnotweni Casino in Mbombela and The Ridge Casino in Emalahleni) and most importantly the Montecasino licence in Fourways, Johannesburg. These were followed by the successful applications for Suncoast Casino in Durban and Hemingways Casino in East London.

The Tsogo Sun Group expanded its hotel operations into the rest of Africa.

1999

Southern Sun acquired a 50% interest in a consortium with Liberty called The Cullinan which owned three hotels.

2003

The Tsogo Sun Group entered into a landmark empowerment deal, through which the hotel and casino businesses were housed under one entity owned 51% by an empowerment consortium and 49% by SABMiller plc. Through a series of transactions and acquisitions, HCI acquired the various empowerment shareholders’ interests in Tsogo Sun and remains Tsogo Sun Hotels’ controlling shareholder.

2020

COVID-19, which has swept across the globe resulted in the deactivation of the vast majority of the group’s hotels in order to protect the health of our guests and employees, a black swan event never before experienced in the group’s long history.

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45b4db No.20833641

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>>20833601

>Sol Kerzner

“Sol Kerzner, pugnacious businessman who developed the controversial gambling resort Sun City – obituary”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/03/22/sol-kerzner-hard-nosed-businessman-developed-controversial-gambling/

22 March 2020 • 4:12pm

His tropical version of Las Vegas came to be known as ‘Sin City’ thanks to all the white politicians spotted there with their mistresses

Sol Kerzner, who has died of cancer aged 84, was for many years reckoned Africa’s richest and perhaps most controversial businessman; his hotels, gambling and leisure empire eventually embraced luxury resorts all over the world, but he was always associated with the creation in his native South Africa of one of the most conspicuous symbols of the apartheid era, Sun City.

In the late 1970s South Africa was a rigidly conservative place that prohibited even such mild diversions as betting or the opening of cinemas on Sundays.

His solution, which had about it a touch of unscrupulous genius, was to create a den of relatively harmless iniquity in one of the semi-autonomous black homelands north of the Cape, Bophuthatswana, which had no laws against gambling. In its desert landscape he built a sort of tropical version of Las Vegas, albeit one marked by his own brand of excess and remarkable architectural vulgarity.

The hotels, slot machines and Gary Player-designed golf course of Sun City, as he named it, proved irresistible to well-heeled South Africans. Soon, each year one and a half million of them were making the two-hour trip from Johannesburg and Pretoria, many on the coaches that Kerzner provided, often drawn by the rare opportunity to see entertainers such as Frank Sinatra (to whom Kerzner paid $2 million for a week’s engagement in 1981).

Other singers felt less able to connive at this subversion of the principle that they would not perform in apartheid South Africa and recorded a hit single entitled Sun City (1985), with its chorus of “I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City”.

The resort’s attractions also included pornographic films on the hotel televisions, topless chorus lines and the opportunity for races to mix and socialise; the frequency with which white politicians were seen there with black mistresses was just one reason it was dubbed “Sin City”.

Such witticisms did not prevent SunBop, the company that ran the development, from increasing in value from £40 million in 1985 to £600 million by 1992, nor did they deter Kerzner from building another 13 casinos elsewhere in the homelands.

In 1992 Kerzner opened a £150 million-extension to this cash cow, the Lost City.

At precisely half past eight every evening, the whole complex was gently rocked by a mock earthquake. Kerzner publicised the new venture by hosting that year’s Miss World competition there.

In 1989 he admitted having paid a bribe of two million rand (worth nearly £770,000 today) to Chief George Matanzima, the prime minister of Transkei, in return for acquiring exclusive gaming rights in the homeland. He was briefly forced to resign from the board of his company, but the scandal soon seemed to have been brushed under the carpet, and he quickly managed to establish good relations with the ANC when it took power in the early 1990s.

An explanation for both these things emerged in 1996, when Nelson Mandela admitted that Kerzner had given his party another two million rand just before the 1994 election, but he denied allegations that it had played any part in the earlier charges against Kerzner having been dropped. Most observers felt, however, that Kerzner had once again proved himself a masterful judge of human weakness.

Solomon Kerzner was born in Troyeville, a suburb of Johannesburg, on 23 August 1935. His parents were Jews from Ukraine who had emigrated to South Africa at the end of the 1920s. There they opened a café, and later ran a boarding house.

https://travelindustrytoday.com/sol-kerzner-1935-2020-hotelier-left-indelible-mark-on-global-hospitality-industry/

In 1994, following the first democratic elections in South Africa, Kerzner – now a celebrity in South Africa – was asked by newly elected President Nelson Mandela to arrange the VIP function for the Presidential inauguration, which was attended by most of the world’s leaders and heads of state. It was a special occasion that cemented Kerzner’s close relationship with the iconic world statesman, who said of Sol: “He makes a difference everywhere he goes. Sol, thank you for changing our world!” Kerzner enjoyed a friendship with Mandela until his passing in 2013.

More can be read at;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8144647/As-Sol-Kerzner-dies-aged-84-RICHARD-KAY-looks-riotously-louche-life.html

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45b4db No.20833677

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>>20833641

>Other singers felt less able to connive at this subversion of the principle that they would not perform in apartheid South Africa and recorded a hit single entitled Sun City (1985), with its chorus of “I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City”.

“Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City”

https://youtu.be/aopKk56jM-I

Jan 26, 2009

Not long after Band Aid and We Are The World focused musical attention on poverty and famine, a collection of artists took a similar approach in the struggle against apartheid. The initiator was Steven van Zandt - erstwhile guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band - who whipped up dozens of musicians to work on the project. They included Peter Gabriel, members of U2, Springsteen himself, Hall and Oates, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Run DMC, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne and Keith Richards. Van Zandt wrote and produced the song and it reached the top 40 in several European nations, though not in the US.

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45b4db No.20833701

File: bb15c87840fd31c⋯.jpg (121.37 KB,997x784,997:784,Steven_Van_Zandt.JPG)

>>20833677

>The initiator was Steven van Zandt

“Stevie Van Zandt: 'You're going to see violence in my country that you haven't seen since the Civil War'”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/stevie-van-zandt-interview-b1930844.html

Saturday 02 October 2021 08:51 BST

Excerpts

Legendary rock star, Stevie Van Zandt has released a memoir exploring a lifetime in rock ‘n’ roll. He talks to Sam Moore about Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Sopranos’ and busting Nelson Mandela out of prison

“The Republican Party no longer believe in democracy, equality, science, and are quite brazenly bragging about being white supremacists.” Stevie Van Zandt, sideman to Bruce Springsteen on stage and to Tony Soprano on screen, is angry, sad and scared for the future. The vocal opponent of Donald Trump is not letting the Democrats off the hook, either. “They are pathetic and weak and it’s just sad because they’re not warriors in a war.”

Politics has taken up a lot of Van Zandt’s life since he infamously left the E Street Band in 1984, both to pursue a solo career and to try and get Nelson Mandela out of jail and end apartheid in South Africa. He also accidentally found his way onto revolutionary TV show The Sopranos, playing Mafia consigliere, Silvio Dante, and leading Netflix’s first foray into original programming with Lilyhammer. It’s been a ride, and the charming and charismatic guitarist has explained it all his newly released autobiography, Unrequited Infatuations.

He remains immensely proud of cultivating his music and platform to free Mandela, and putting pressure on the South African government and the Western banks and politicians that backed apartheid. “We went up against the unholy trinity of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Hermut Kohl,” he says, before passionately reliving the struggle to make the world a better, more human place. “We drew up a strategy to take down the South African government and point by point, stage by stage, we did it.” He leans closer to the camera. His brown eyes are alight, a rebellious smirk on his face. All these years later, he still takes delight in sticking it to the man.

“We strategised how to get economic sanctions, which was the home run,” he continues. “The sports boycott was already in place thanks to [tennis legend and the only Black man to win Wimbledon] Arthur Ashe, so we bridged that gap with the cultural boycott and were able to raise enough consciousness to protect that sanctions bill when it went to President Reagan – who we knew was going to veto it because he supported apartheid. We raised the consciousness enough that congress overrode Reagan’s veto, which was a big, big, big deal and the first time that ever happened. Then we knew we had a victory and the banks cut them off and they had to release Mandela. [The movement] was amazingly successful which is rare when you’re engaged in international liberation politics.”

Where Van Zandt looks back with pride on the triumphs of ending apartheid in the 1980s, he’s nervous about the current political climate in America. The last 18 months have seen race riots, voter suppression and supporters of Donald Trump storm the US Capitol Building in an attempt to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Van Zandt shakes his head. “At this point in America, we are somewhere you wouldn’t believe. We’re being thrown back to the 1950s. It’s embarrassing. They’re passing laws in states that say democracy no longer matters. They’re trying to suppress the Black vote, the Latino vote.” Apartheid is two years older than Van Zandt, and he was born before Black people could vote. This lived experience of injustice is perhaps why his language becomes apocalyptic: “You’re going to see violence in my country that you haven’t seen since the Civil War. It’s looking like a really dangerous moment, so I am nervous if we break out into violence, I don’t know where that’s going to stop.”

Van Zandt also found similarities between working for Springsteen and his later TV boss, Sopranos creator, David Chase. “They are both tough – very, very tough”, he says, breaking into a grin. But though he took on Reagan and Thatcher and won, Van Zandt is afraid to commit when I ask who is tougher. “I’ll call it a tie,” he says. “They’re not complete dictators, more benevolent dictators. They both have very specific things in mind and are absolute perfectionists.

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45b4db No.20833708

File: bb15c87840fd31c⋯.jpg (121.37 KB,997x784,997:784,Steven_Van_Zandt.JPG)

>>20833677

>The initiator was Steven van Zandt

“Stevie Van Zandt: 'You're going to see violence in my country that you haven't seen since the Civil War'”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/stevie-van-zandt-interview-b1930844.html

Saturday 02 October 2021 08:51 BST

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Legendary rock star, Stevie Van Zandt has released a memoir exploring a lifetime in rock ‘n’ roll. He talks to Sam Moore about Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Sopranos’ and busting Nelson Mandela out of prison

“The Republican Party no longer believe in democracy, equality, science, and are quite brazenly bragging about being white supremacists.” Stevie Van Zandt, sideman to Bruce Springsteen on stage and to Tony Soprano on screen, is angry, sad and scared for the future. The vocal opponent of Donald Trump is not letting the Democrats off the hook, either. “They are pathetic and weak and it’s just sad because they’re not warriors in a war.”

Politics has taken up a lot of Van Zandt’s life since he infamously left the E Street Band in 1984, both to pursue a solo career and to try and get Nelson Mandela out of jail and end apartheid in South Africa. He also accidentally found his way onto revolutionary TV show The Sopranos, playing Mafia consigliere, Silvio Dante, and leading Netflix’s first foray into original programming with Lilyhammer. It’s been a ride, and the charming and charismatic guitarist has explained it all his newly released autobiography, Unrequited Infatuations.

He remains immensely proud of cultivating his music and platform to free Mandela, and putting pressure on the South African government and the Western banks and politicians that backed apartheid. “We went up against the unholy trinity of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Hermut Kohl,” he says, before passionately reliving the struggle to make the world a better, more human place. “We drew up a strategy to take down the South African government and point by point, stage by stage, we did it.” He leans closer to the camera. His brown eyes are alight, a rebellious smirk on his face. All these years later, he still takes delight in sticking it to the man.

“We strategised how to get economic sanctions, which was the home run,” he continues. “The sports boycott was already in place thanks to [tennis legend and the only Black man to win Wimbledon] Arthur Ashe, so we bridged that gap with the cultural boycott and were able to raise enough consciousness to protect that sanctions bill when it went to President Reagan – who we knew was going to veto it because he supported apartheid. We raised the consciousness enough that congress overrode Reagan’s veto, which was a big, big, big deal and the first time that ever happened. Then we knew we had a victory and the banks cut them off and they had to release Mandela. [The movement] was amazingly successful which is rare when you’re engaged in international liberation politics.”

Where Van Zandt looks back with pride on the triumphs of ending apartheid in the 1980s, he’s nervous about the current political climate in America. The last 18 months have seen race riots, voter suppression and supporters of Donald Trump storm the US Capitol Building in an attempt to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. Van Zandt shakes his head. “At this point in America, we are somewhere you wouldn’t believe. We’re being thrown back to the 1950s. It’s embarrassing. They’re passing laws in states that say democracy no longer matters. They’re trying to suppress the Black vote, the Latino vote.” Apartheid is two years older than Van Zandt, and he was born before Black people could vote. This lived experience of injustice is perhaps why his language becomes apocalyptic: “You’re going to see violence in my country that you haven’t seen since the Civil War. It’s looking like a really dangerous moment, so I am nervous if we break out into violence, I don’t know where that’s going to stop.”

Van Zandt also found similarities between working for Springsteen and his later TV boss, Sopranos creator, David Chase. “They are both tough – very, very tough”, he says, breaking into a grin. But though he took on Reagan and Thatcher and won, Van Zandt is afraid to commit when I ask who is tougher. “I’ll call it a tie,” he says. “They’re not complete dictators, more benevolent dictators. They both have very specific things in mind and are absolute perfectionists.

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3f5110 No.20833820

>>20833168

First of all, screw all those companies. Generic versions of a great many of those medications can be obtained from companies in Belize

Second, who would want anything Moderna makes after their participation is experimental gene therapy rebranded as a "vaccine" for Covid?

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3f5110 No.20833831

ANC Bun Part One

>>20242815 ANC sponsored violence in South Africa (video)

>>20362830 ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma

>>20379836, >>20379966, >>20379849 Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (video)

>>20395076 Research Paper 2022: Elites and economic policy in South Africa’s transition and beyond

>>20418277 Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa? (video)

>>20457780 Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced ‘all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres’ onto SA, collapsing economy (video)

>>20483993 The WhatsApp Group That Controls South Africa (video)

>>20484050 ANC Manifesto Launch: Spear and Lightning at the end of Cyril Ramaphosa speech (video)

>>20484878, >>20484891 Government invests R2.7bn in development near Waterfall City, WEF influence (video)

>>20492903 Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan (video)

>>20494573, >>20494579, >>20494594, >>20494605, >>20494642 RW Johnson: The New South Africa’s original sin – Chris Hani assassination (Parts 1-5)

>>20494685 No, Anti-Apartheid Activist Chris Hani Wasn’t Killed by ANC Leaders”: Posted on the Jacobin website, written by Ronnie Kasrils

>>20516751, >>20525958 Violence, chaos erupts in Ekurhuleni council between EFF and ANC (video)

>>20516854 South Africa’s liberation war veterans are angry: here’s why

>>20516903 Only useful until democracy? Reintegrating ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa with lessons from Kosovo & Zimbabwe

>>20530361 Ekurhuleni downgraded to junk status, Tshwane placed on review (Video)

>>20530368 MK Party Threatens Civil War and Anarchy if Denied 2024 elections Rights, Warns Visvin Reddy (video)

>>20530661 A pissed off south African: ANC has destroyed South Africa; Julius Malema border policy; Taxi violence and Crime (video)

>>20556785 How the ANC went about compiling its [2024] election candidate list (video)

>>20556813 Calibre of ANC candidates close to that of 1994 – Motlanthe (video)

>>20562675 ANC under fire for changing funding model for parties ahead of elections in May

>>20571002 From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa 1987 - 2000 (video)

>>20585580 Who’s going to Parliament? A peek at the ANC’s [and MK’s] nomination list

>>20585639 Fallism’s Faultlines: The Paradoxes of “Fees Must Fall

>>20585663 MK Party appoints Bonginkosi Khanyile as new youth leader (video)

>>20600883 ANC, IFP tensions spark fears of renewed violence in KZN (video)

>>20601502, >>20601506 Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold (Parts 1&2)

>>20601552 Nelson Mandela and the ANC never renounced violence

>>20636664 ANC loses bid to deregister Zuma’s MK party

>>20636668 Disgruntled community on the abandoned million-rand projects in Madibeng (video)

>>20666291, >>20666303, >>20666552 The St James Church Massacre in South Africa, 25 July 1993

>>20666337 Archbishop Desmond Tutu became Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

>>20666348, >>20666367, >>20666377, >>20666395 The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu (Parts 1-4)

>>20666419 Desmond Tutu quits as Oxfam ambassador over aid agency's sex scandal (video)

>>20666492 Significant Attacks Prior to the “Free and Fair” Elections of 1994

>>20666582 Theo Mabusela Involvement in Operations Before the 1994 Elections

>>20682047 The historic Palestine and Pan-Africanist alliance with Letlapa Mphahlele: “APLA cadres trained by Palestinians” (video)

>>20682050, >>20682129 Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa’s Palestine embrace

>>20687109, >>20687116 Announcement of the disbandment of SADF: 32 Battalion on SABC News (26 March 1993)

>>20687870 The PLO at 58 and the ANC at 110: how they evolved and where do they stand today?

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3f5110 No.20833835

ANC Bun Part Two

>>20697140, >>20697146, >>20697149 SCA ruling exposes State Security Agency's dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests (Parts 1-3)

>>20697153 Leaked SSA report reveals US gathered intelligence on DA, EFF, IFP and the ANC (video)

>>20701318, >>20701321 ANC officials in cahoots with US Intelligence (Parts 1&2)

>>20711880 “The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the Battle against Corruption” (video)

>>20716126 “South Africa’s Labor Unions Imperil Billionaire’s Port Takeover”; “Many labor unions, including Satawu, are closely aligned to the ruling African National Congress”

>>20781553 Archive of Anthony Sampson: ANC’s rule was planned in advance

>>20799568 The truth about NHI exposed (video)

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3f5110 No.20833836

Initial Brenthurst Foundation Bun

>>20728955, >>20728959, >>20728978 The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy (Parts 1-3)

>>20732371 Brenthurst Foundation: About Us

>>20833493, >>20833513 Ray Hartley, Greg Mills [Brenthurst Foundation]: “Opinion: A Russian victory in Ukraine would be bad for Africans

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3f5110 No.20833837

Updated Commodities Bun

>>19660255 Two Top Execs at South Africa's Port and Rail Operator Resign

>>19952053 Chronic congestion building along the east coast of South Africa

>>19692449 Africa Might Emerge As A Major Supplier Of Halal Food

>>20114651 (Canada #50) Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC

>>20115757 Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns

>>20114680 (Canada #50) Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up

>>20230322 South Africa seeks emergency external help to remedy dire situation across the nation’s ports

>>20279240 The Oil Market Is Making Plans For Red Sea Chaos To Last Weeks

>>20452927, >>20452931 South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising (Parts 1&2)

>>20484870 Oil discovered in South Africa (video)

>>20489038, >>20489042 Kinetiko: The Joint Venture

>>20489047, >>20489051 Dr. Mbendeni Humphrey Mathe

>>20489064, >>20489069, >>20489072 Africa Energy Corporation/Africa Oil Corporation/Canmex

>>20489101 Africa Oil announces the passing of Lukas H. Lundin

>>20489120 Sweden charges Lundin Energy executives with complicity in Sudan war crimes

>>20489520 Anglo American Completes 10-Ship Fleet Expansion

>>20521808, >>20521817, >>20521823, >>20521829 Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994 (Part 1-4)

>>20521841 The role of multinational corporations in South Africa: a political-economic perspective

>>20525965 The Real Reason TotalEnergies Sponsors AFCON Football Tournament (video)

>>20526583 Carte Blanche: Water shedding: Paying for air

>>20526594, >>20526597 NDB Spotlight: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project – Who Benefits? (Parts 1&2)

>>20571627 SA, Zimbabwe sign MOU on water supply (video)

>>20656616 Toxic Treasures: Unmasking The Gold Mafia of Penhalonga (video)

>>20676091 Inefficient African Ports See Diverted Red Sea Traffic Slipping Away

>>20677235, >>20677244 Eskom’s new tariff: Here’s how your monthly electricity bill will change

>>20687416 South Africa gets rules for up to stage 16 load-shedding

>>20743116 Rand Refinery: “South Africa’s century-old gold refiner runs at 75% as mines dim”

>>20794421 De Beers Moving Auctions Head Office to Botswana

>>20794429, >>20794464, >>20794466, >>20794470 De Beers Moving Auctions Head Office to Botswana (Parts 1-4)

>>20794479, >>20794495 Indian diamond industry in a tizzy — Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll

>>20794504 Anglo American Reportedly Mulling Sale of De Beers

>>20799315 Activist-led Elliott builds $1bn stake in Anglo American amid BHP takeover bid

>>20833168 Big Pharma's Africa exit a tough pill to swallow (video)

>>20833325 Shell LEAVES South Africa After 122 Years

>>20833334 South African unions urge Anglo holders to reject BHP bid

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3f5110 No.20833841

Updated Oppenheimer Bun

>>20242629 Harry Oppenheimer; did business with the Soviet Union (who trained and supported the ANC) during the Cold War and used Hollywood and the Royal Family to promote diamonds (video)

>>20434931 The "Old Money" Family That Controls Africa: The Oppenheimers (video)

>>20445854 Oppenheimer’s granddaughter backs RISE Mzansi with R15m

>>20484269 The Oppenheimer Family-The Richest Family in South Africa(Short Documentary) – Patrice Lamumba, DRC discussed (video)

>>20729087, >>20729092, >>20729097, >>20729112, >>2079142, >>20729159 The Oppenheimers’ Regime Change Conference (Parts 1-6)

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3f5110 No.20833844

Updated André Pienaar Bun

>>20500680 André Pienaar

>>20500683 The ‘CIA agent’ [André Pienaar] who never was, plus five talking points from ‘Vrye Weekblad’

>>20500696 Loyal to the Max – how the billionaire [André Pienaar] who was once in Jacob Zuma’s crosshairs saved ‘Vrye Weekblad’

>>20500713 South African [André Pienaar] at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider

>>20500816, >>20500822, >>20500826, >>20500835, >>20500846 “Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin’s GRU”; written by Andre Pienaar (Parts 1-5)

>>20743195 Welcome to the murky world of Kroll Inc - the private CIA

>>20743213 Jules Kroll: “The World’s Most Famous Private Detective Makes No Apologies”

>>20766568 André Pienaar: “Pentagon audit found connection between Mattis-era Defense Department and Amazon-linked Britisj consultant

>>20766601 “Andre Pienaar: International Man of Intelligence” – He established the Scorpions while working for Kroll

>>20766607 MK party: Kremlin’s Spear; Ramaphosa’s “unlawful” Putin deal freed Zuma - André Pienaar – FBI, Scotland Yard and UK trained the Scorpions (video)

>>20766676 Inside the secretive business of geopolitical advice

>>20766886 André Pienaar: Founder, CEO and Head of Investor Relations, C5 Capital

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3f5110 No.20833845

Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20445882 Red flags in SA DRC deployment: R2B, operational constraints, strategy, Rwanda - Prof Esterhuyse (video)

>>20446076 Rwanda Just Warned & Blocked UN Support For South Africa-led Force in Congo (video)

>>20446222 Rwandan government tried to silence opponents, Human rights watch report claims (video)

>>20446234, >>20446240 Rwanda's disappearing dissidents (Parts 1&2)

>>20446459 Paul Kagame

>>20446488 Rwanda's Kagame says he will run for fourth term • FRANCE 24 English (video)

>>20451268, >>20451271 The Dark Side of Rwanda’s Rebirth (Parts 1&2)

>>20451276 Rwandan President Kagame 'sparked 1994 genocide

>>20451301 Can Museveni [Uganda] and Kagame’s [Rwanda] renewed bromance inspire regional peace? (video)

>>20451317 Explainer-Why fighting is flaring in eastern Congo and threatening regional stability

>>20451326 Anti-Rwanda protests spread throughout eastern DRC

>>20451329 UN Security Council sanctions rebels in DR Congo as violence escalates

>>20451331 Rwanda and Uganda Commence Power Trade Through the 220kV 172 km Shango – Mbarara Power Interconnection

>>20451343 Nile Equatorial Lakes Subsidiary Action Program Coordination Unit (NELSAP-CU) headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda

>>20463933 The surging violence in the eastern DRC (video)

>>20463991 Paul Kagame's Powerful Declaration: We Will Fight Like We Have Nothing to Lose! (video)

>>20522188 Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak

>>20522195 M23 Rebellion: Rwanda Protests AU Support for SADC Forces in DRC

>>20782654 Asylum seekers fearful after Britain approves Rwanda deportation bill

>>20782662 Britain looks to add Botswana to list of destinations to deport illegal migrants

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3f5110 No.20833846

Violence and Crime Bun Part One

>>19692458, >>19692463, >>19692470 ‘Open hunting ground’: South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding (Parts 1-3)

>>20340605 “Open hunting ground: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding”

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>20362713 8 things you need to know about farm murders in South Africa (video)

>>20395068 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa’s “transformation’ – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc

>>20397875, >>20406078 South Africa’s Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to “Our People” (video)

>>20407598 Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice

>>20407726 Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2 (video)

>>20410783 (Canada #53) South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is “Inciting Violence”

>>20418196 We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages) (video)

>>20423259 South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report

>>20442095 KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings (video)

>>20445849 Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates (video)

>>20451446 Revealed: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA (video)

>>20452972 DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen

>>20457755 South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement

>>20464138 250 Ekurhuleni metro police workers have criminal records (video)

>>20494555 El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Warns Of 'Dark Forces' In Anti-Crime Speech At CPAC (video)

>>20494559 Hits or contract killings becoming a common occurrence in South Africa (video)

>>20516743 MK party member fatally shot in Umlazi (video)

>>20520797 How Haiti’s ‘Aid State’ Has Fueled Organized Crime

>>20520821 Kenya Agrees to Police Haiti’s Criminal Hurricane

>>20526083 Man killed, another injured in vigilante incident

>>20526578 Tackling child kidnappings in South Africa: Chad Thomas (video)

>>20565908 From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa 1987 - 2000 (video)

>>20565918 South African police battle looters after days of taxi driver protests (video)

>>20565928 Taxi violence: SA's never-ending war (video)

>>20571002 Construction Mafia: Delft Housing Project halted (video)

>>20571163 M-NET Carte Blanche: Construction Mafia, Delft Housing Project halted (video)

>>20571203 Gerrie Nel; founding head of Gauteng Scorpions and received an International Association of Prosecutors award in 2014

>>20571247, >>20571250, >>20571259 Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel [“Pit Bull”] leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind (Parts 1-3)

>>20571290 Four of Gerrie Nel’s most famous cases”: Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, Jackie Selebi, Brett Kebble, Oscar Pistorius (video)

>>20571440 Pravin Gordhan Deserves Prison” and not retirement (video)

>>20571475 Jacob Zuma: Johann Rupert threatened to shutdown the economy of South Africa if Pravin Gordhan was removed (video)

>>20585215 SA, Zimbabwe sign MOU on water supply

>>20585674 #FeesMustFall's Bonginkosi Khanyile speaks out following his sentencing (video)

>>20595578 How This Ekurhuleni Metro Police Officer Turned Into A Ruthless Hitman

>>20601460, >>20601464 DR Congo’s reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition (Parts 1&2)

>>20606537 ‘Don’t let them arrest me’: Speaker Mapisa-Nqakula files urgent High Court bid to interdict Minister Bheki Cele, NPA from arresting her

>>20656626 Race obsession is breaking the justice system

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3f5110 No.20833849

Violence and Crime Bun Part Two

>>20673087 MK Party’s Visvin Reddy charged for inciting violence by NPA

>>20673100 Julius Malema vs Riotous Assemblies Act: Where the case has been won and lost

>>20706042 UK warns its citizens in SA about terror attack (video)

>>20782667 Anarchy is brewing - be prepared!: General Roland de Vries (video)

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3f5110 No.20833850

Updated Jacob Zuma Bun

>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)

>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)

>>20484031 He took the spear and stabbed himself with it’: Mbalula on Zuma and MK party

>>20501022 “Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen” (video)

>>20537502 “Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president”: Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela (video)

>>20585630 Zuma right about van Rooyen’s academic qualifications: report”: Master’s Degree in Finance - Pravin Gordhan qualification: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (video)

>>20585725 EXPLAINER — what we know about Jacob Zuma’s new party

>>20601479, >>20601482 Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma [addressing Afrikaans white South Africans] || Leadership Summit 2024 (video)

>>20601620 Former president Jacob Zuma addresses MK supporters (video)

>>20656636 Zuma barred from MK party candidacy by IEC due to criminal record

>>20706038 Electoral court clears Zuma to run for parliament

>>20777806 South African Ex-President Zuma & Thales' Arms Deal Corruption Case Explained

>>20777830, >>20777841 Zuma back in court today for corruption trial (2023)

>>20777854 Former President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial - 26 October 2023 (video)

>>20777868 “ExaminIng Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case”: Case was removed from the roll, arms deal pre-trial scheduled for May 17, 2024 (video)

>>20777881 Jacob Zuma v ANC: MK Party triumphs in high-stakes trademark & logo court case (video)

>>20777886 Zuma betrayed us – Makgoale (video)

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3f5110 No.20833872

Notables are NOT Endorsements

coming up on 600

#12-A

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>19692436 Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality

>>19692443, >>19692449 South Africa: The Halal Kingdom, Although it holds the world’s smallest percentage of Muslims

>>19731387 (General Research #24226) Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo

>>19782011 Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

>>19782021 ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy

>>19782035 Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine

>>19821993 Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power

>>20027327 (General Research #24583) Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa

>>20362707 ‘Fake’ UN official allegedly received briefings from SA’s top security cluster

>>20242709, >>20242774 ony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world (Parts 1 &2 video)

>>20407571 How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states

>>20445866, >>20445869 Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution (Parts 1&2)

>>20452953, >>20452962 The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are (video)

>>20457742 SA unfazed by US Bill threat

>>20462673 Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Initial ICJ Suit Bun

>>20462676 Initial Maldives Bun | Initial Rwanda Bun

>>20510793, >>20510794 UNFPA staff concerned over headquarters' relocation from New York to Nairobi (Parts 1&2, video)

>>20510840 CIA Director Secretly Visits Kenya And Somalia To Discuss Regional Security (video)

>>20511103 Africacheck: “Coalition to fight misinformation”: South African elections (video)

>>20511116 Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance

>>20516774 South African intelligence and De Beers worked with the CIA in the early 60s

>>20516804 “South Africa: The Growing Influence of the Military”: CIA Document 1982

>>20516812 South Africa's 'paedophile' minister [General Magnus Malan] and a mysterious death (video)

>>20520896 US imposes new sanctions on Zimbabwe's President and other senior leaders

>>20525976 “Global Cooling is on the way! Give up your freedom NOW!” – Or is it global warming?

>>20537617 (Canada #54) Alliance of Sahel States: Military Juntas of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali Create Joint Task Force Against Islamic Jihadists

>>20552292 Viral Minister Naledi Pandor Speech on Israel Shocks the World (video)

>>20558069 Updated ANC Bun | Updated BRICS Bun

>>20558078 Updated Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20558081 Initial SSA/NIA Bun

>>20586389 Niger Junta Severs US Military Cooperation Agreement, Orders Troops and Civilian Personnel Out of the Country

>>20606606 Bill that calls for full review of US relations with SA crosses first hurdle in US Congress

>>20682073 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

>>20697117 A Few Bad Apples: 8,000 UNRWA Teachers Rallied for Hamas Terrorist (video)

>>20701775, >>20701789 Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo

>>20729192, >>20777598 Daily Maverick: QAnon and Shut down for 15 April 2024

>>20729208 The Pan-African Institute for Socialism (PAIS)

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3f5110 No.20833875

#12-B

>>20743038, 20743047, >>20743054 Time to pull the plug on SACU (Parts 1-3)

>>20743308, >>20743312 Mayor sends police to ban and shut down NatCon Brussels conference as Antifa gathers outside (video)

>>20777614, >>20777617, >>20777619 “The South African Arms Deal” – Thales (Parts 1-3)

>>20777708 Thales sets up new SA subsidiary - 2009

>>20833831 ANC Bun Part One

>>20833835 ANC Bun Part Two

>>20833836 Initial Brenthurst Foundation Bun

>>20833837 Updated Commodities Bun

>>20833841 Updated Oppenheimer Bun

>>20833844 Updated André Pienaar Bun

>>20833845 Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20833846 Violence and Crime Bun Part One

>>20833849 Violence and Crime Bun Part Two

>>20833850 Updated Jacob Zuma Bun

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3f5110 No.20844882

Peru Port Dispute Escalates as COSCO Insists on Original Terms

Reporting by Marco Aquino; Writing by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Richard Chang Reuters May 7, 2024

LIMA, May 7 (Reuters) – The Chinese state-owned company at the center of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru’s Pacific coast insisted on Tuesday on terms agreed with the government, as some local officials have sought to backtrack on the deal.

Hong Kong-based Cosco Shipping Ports will defend its legal rights to provide services as the exclusive operator of the deepwater Chancay Port Terminal under “terms that were agreed at the beginning of this investment,” the firm said in a statement.

Cosco added that the legal controversy has harmed the project and cautioned against imposing new rules on ports that some regulators have said they might consider.

Peru’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cosco began developing Chancay port in 2019 as a hub in the South American Pacific and key growth driver for Peru. In 2021, Peru’s National Port Authority (APN) awarded Cosco the exclusive right to run Chancay, but said in March that it never had the legal authority to grant it. It blamed an “administrative error” and requested that a judge void the terms.

Cosco responded at the time that it was evaluating the impact of the decision. Since then, Peruvian lawmakers have pushed to allow for the exclusive provision of port services by private companies and Economy Minister Jose Arista has said the original port deal should be respected.

Cosco, which provides marine transportation services, is expected to invest some $1.3 billion on the first stage of the $3.5 billion project, with more than 70% of construction completed.

Last month, Cosco sent a letter to Peru’s economy ministry requesting a six-month negotiation to amicably resolve the dispute without resorting to international arbitration, which Arista said had been received.

At the time, he said he expected to reach a deal and avoid arbitration.

In its statement on Tuesday, Cosco noted that the ministry had yet to respond to its letter, proposing an “institutional channel” for talks. But it also said it has taken a first step toward invoking an arbitration process allowed for by a Chinese-Peruvian trade pact.

https://gcaptain.com/peru-port-dispute-escalates-as-cosco-insists-on-original-terms/

things like this are why I warned of letting China have a hand in the Port of Durban

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b9f483 No.20847902

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>>20833436

>>20833449

>Johnny Copelyn

>>20833601

Johhny Copelyn: “Union maverick’s road to ‘BEE’ riches” – Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/2016-06-03-00-union-mavericks-road-to-bee-riches/

3 JUNE 2016

Johnny Copelyn is a walking contradiction.

A labour movement stalwart with a history entangled with that of a socialist-oriented trade union, he now heads a JSE-listed investment company and is, by his own account, “embarrassingly” rich, with net wealth of just under R1-billion.

That company, seeded with union member money, has successful investments in casinos and media – whereas the clothing and textiles industry, where its roots lie, is in severe distress. Copelyn is criticised for being a white person who has built up a vast personal fortune on the foundations laid down for black economic empowerment (BEE).

Copelyn, as the chief executive of investment holding company Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI), manages a range of investments including a large stake in casino group Tsogo Sun, Seardel (which owns e.tv and OpenView HD) and Golden Arrow Bus Services.

Reconciling the contradictions and complexities of these matters is no easy task. And it’s perhaps for this reason that, in his recently launched book Maverick Insider, Copelyn cuts his personal memoir 20 years short and avoids tackling much of the controversy he has faced since. Even so, one thing his book does show is that Copelyn does not shy away from confrontation.

It details through his eyes the transformation of the labour movement in South Africa between 1970 and 1996, in which he was instrumental.

It takes you from his early days as the national organiser for the Textile Workers’ Industrial Union and as general secretary of the South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) to becoming the chief executive officer of the Sactwu Investment Company, while also being an MP between 1994 and 1997.

Copelyn then took up his position as chief executive officer of empowerment investment holding company HCI, controlled by union investment companies. This is where the story ends – at least as far as the book is concerned.

the new government ushered in economic empowerment opportunities for black South Africans. And, while deciding whether the union should take up such opportunities, which was an “idea that appeared to contradict the very purpose of the trade union movement”, it was not the first difficult idea Copelyn had presented to Sactwu and convinced it to accept.

The Sactwu Investment Company, with Copelyn at the helm, started with R2-million in union savings and a R13.6-million loan from the Industrial Development Corporation to invest as empowerment shareholders in Real Africa Investments Limited, a JSE-listed company.

The next investment was an empowerment opportunity in MTN. Third was the company’s participation in broad-based black-owned companies (the idea of now-billionaire mining magnate Patrice Motsepe) that would go on to bid successfully for casino licences.

“Our successes soon resulted in the union investment company being worth several hundred million rands,” Copelyn writes, adding that he and the chief financial officer, Mohamed Ahmed, soon “were earning money we found embarrassing”.

In 1997, Copelyn and Marcel Golding, who headed the National Union of Mineworkers’ investment arm, took up executive roles in HCI. Each had reversed a number of assets acquired for Sactwu and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and exchanged this for shares in HCI, which gave the union investment companies control of it.

Copelyn’s high net worth has seen him being accused more than once of being among a handful of white South Africans who have gained a large personal fortune thanks to BEE.

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b9f483 No.20847905

>>20847902

Johhny Copelyn: “Union maverick’s road to ‘BEE’ riches” – Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/2016-06-03-00-union-mavericks-road-to-bee-riches/

3 JUNE 2016

One of his critics, political economy professor Patrick Bond, has described him as “another white man nicely empowered by BEE”. In the past Bond has said that Golding and Copelyn, as the heads of HCI, were getting involved in “easy-money casinos, cellphone and television deals”.

He has also argued that trade union investment arms bring no additional value other than to front for large mineworker and clothing worker pension funds, “for which they paid themselves generous individual finder fees, quickly becoming multimillionaires”.

Bond’s comments, although written some years ago, still seem to get Copelyn’s goat. In his book, he describes Bond as “exceptionally self-righteous” and someone whose criticisms are not particularly well developed. He notes that many unions have investment arms but none has operated as openly as HCI.

Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings say in a recent paper, Trade Unions: The State and “Casino Capitalism” in South Africa’s Clothing Industry, that “the focus of union investment on high-end property, media, hotels and especially casinos indicates that there was not much ‘social’ about the form of capitalism it typically engaged in”.

Sactwu has 85 000 members, down from more than 180 000 in 1991, but unionisation among workers has been on the decline generally.

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b9f483 No.20847912

>>20847905

>Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings say in a recent paper, Trade Unions: The State and “Casino Capitalism” in South Africa’s Clothing Industry

“Trade unions, the state and ‘casino capitalism’ in South Africa's clothing industry”

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.1080/03056244.2015.1085379

March 2016

Relationships between trade unions, the state and capital in South Africa have changed dramatically, especially in the clothing sector. The clothing workers’ union became heavily dependent on its political alliances with the governing party, not only for the regulation of wages and industrial policies, but also for Black Economic Empowerment policies that helped it to acquire massive shareholdings, including in the largest clothing manufacturer. In terms of both its exposure to capitalist risk and its investments in the casino industry specifically, the union acquired a stake in ‘casino capitalism’, whilst relying on government to stack the odds in its favour.

Introduction

In the 1980s and early 1990s, South Africa's trade unions mobilised for political change, challenged managerial despotism on the shop floor and secured improved working conditions and higher wages (Baskin 1991; von Holdt 2003). After the transition to democracy, unions’ political influence expanded, both through the participation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Tripartite Alliance with the governing African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), and through the participation of union members, shop stewards and officials in ANC and SACP structures. Trade unions expanded their institutional power through corporatist institutions, especially the sectoral bargaining councils established under the 1995 Labour Relations Act (LRA). Unions’ organisational capacity also expanded. By the early 2000s, COSATU and its affiliates had more than 1800 full-time officials, a dedicated parliamentary office and a research wing (Webster and Buhlungu 2004). At the same time, critics charged, workplace organisation weakened and unions’ officials with their many perks became more and more distanced from the unions’ members, resulting in wildcat strikes and exacerbating challenges of ‘ungovernability’ in the workplace (Bramble and Barchiesi 2003; Buhlungu 2010; Buhlungu and Tshoaedi 2012). COSATU itself disputed such analyses (COSATU 2010), but events in the mining sector in 2012–2014 gave these criticisms renewed credence. Disaffected platinum mineworkers defected from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), hitherto the largest union in COSATU, and joined the rival Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). This led to the Marikana Massacre in August 2012 (Alexander 2013) and a long and bitter strike in the first half of 2014.

In late 2014, simmering ideological tensions within COSATU came to the boil, resulting in the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and, in early 2015, COSATU's general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi. NUMSA, the largest manufacturing union, had declined to support the ANC during the 2014 elections. It was also recruiting members in other sectors, challenging other unions. As of April 2015, NUMSA was in discussions with AMCU and other non-COSATU aligned unions over the formation of a rival federation and political party. But the other large union in the manufacturing sector, the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU), opted to stay in COSATU.

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b9f483 No.20847925

>>20847902

>>20847905

“Dirk Hartford: Reviewing Johnny Copelyn’s autobiography – Maverick Insider” – Part 1

https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2016/05/13/dirk-hartford-reviewing-jonny-cpelyns-autobiography

13th May 2016

HCI co-founder Johnny Copelyn has packed a lot into his 65 years. From trade unionist to one of the most successful of the New South Africa’s entrepreneurial stories, his was an unusual path now documented in an aptly named autobiography. Dirk Hartford, who penned this excellent review, is also an “insider” having observed Copelyn from close up during his own activist, journalist and entrepreneurial endeavours. – Alec Hogg

By Dirk Hartford

No-one else but Johnny Copelyn, the billionaire boss of HCI, could launch his memoir in front of several hundred trade unionists at the head-office of Cosatu’s key industrial affiliate SACTWU with the Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel introducing him.

For Copelyn has been central to so many critical and cutting edge developments in the past 45 years that its hard to imagine our history in several important respects without him. He was in the thick of things in the workers struggle after its reemergence in the Durban strikes of 1973 till he left trade unionism to go to Parliament in 1994 as one of 20 people on Cosatu’s slate with the ANC.

He was the first to see the opportunity for a trade union investment company in the new non-racial capitalist environment and the Sactwu Investment company/HCI which resulted has far and away been the most successful of the trade union investment vehicles and of BEE in general. The unionists at the launch came not to bury him but to praise him.

His memoir, “Maverick Insider – a struggle for union independence in a time of national liberation” – covers his trade union and political life till he embarked on the business path in his mid forties. Its a story of a third generation Lithuanian Jew from Joburg, politicised by the jewish socialist youth organisation Habonim, who turned to left wing ideas at Wits University and then to the emerging workers movement in Durban.

His was a key voice in Fosatu and then Cosatu in the 80’s who argued for utilising every gap, especially legal and institutional, that the repressive situation offered to advance workers rights and organisation as opposed to those who sort to boycott official structures and struggle outside of these parameters. Effectively using the law and precedent to stake out new rights for workers, many of the new unions registered with the state and participated in existing industrial councils while others opposed this as a matter of principle.

Perhaps his crowning achievement was the central role Copelyn played, through two major and complex merger processes, in finally getting the disparate racially based unions organising in the clothing and textile industries mainly among indians in KZN and coloureds in the western Cape to unite in one national industrial union known today as the SA Clothing and Textile Workers Union. By the late 80’s Sactwu was the third biggest union in Cosatu after the Num and Numsa.

Sactwu was the union which initiated the Workers Charter campaign in Cosatu to ensure workers rights would be respected in a future democratic South Africa and many of its core demands were incorporated into the RDP and the Bill of Rights.

An enthusiastic chess player, Copelyn played union and later business politics like a chess game – strategically and decisively, often thinking10 steps ahead of the next move his opponents were concentrating on.

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b9f483 No.20847931

>>20847925

“Dirk Hartford: Reviewing Johnny Copelyn’s autobiography – Maverick Insider” – Part 2

https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2016/05/13/dirk-hartford-reviewing-jonny-cpelyns-autobiography

13th May 2016

In 1994 he was also among the 20 Cosatu leaders who went into our first democratic parliament under Mandela as part of the ANC slate. It was during this time that Copelyn, ever the pragmatist and knowing full well that there was no intention on the part of the ANC to challenge the capitalist system, birthed the trade union investment vehicle idea with R2 million loaned by the union. Today HCI alone is worth R12.5 billion and the empire he created spans sectors cross the board including gambling, hotels, media, mining, gaming, property and wine, as well as several other listed vehicles.

Many of his former union comrades, like Yunus Shaik, the late Virginia Engel, Jabu Ngcobo, Freddie Magugu, Rachel Watson, Elias Mphande and Les Maasdorp, are still actively involved with him in HCI. Others, like Ebrahim Patel and Lionel October, are leaders in government. Others, like Andre Kriel and Ronald Bernikow, are still in the union or the CCMA. All can be relied on to have his back, as he has watched out for theirs over the years. And that is why he alone of all the comrades turned capitalists can still confidently go back to his old stomping ground at Sactwu to launch his memoir.

It is a pity that Copelyn’s memoir stops at the point where his business dealings took off twenty years ago for it is in the business sphere that his formidable strategic and negotiating skills really took off enabling him to make not only himself and his close comrades unbelievably rich, but also his old union. But that story, with all its intrigues, lessons and controversies, will have to await his sequel.

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b9f483 No.20847952

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>>20833468

>Marcel Golding

>>20847902

>In 1997, Copelyn and Marcel Golding, who headed the National Union of Mineworkers’ investment arm, took up executive roles in HCI.

>>20847925

>Johnny Copelyn, the billionaire boss of HCI, could launch his memoir in front of several hundred trade unionists at the head-office of Cosatu’s key industrial affiliate SACTWU with the Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel introducing him.

“Boardroom emotions run high as Golding resigns as HCI chair”

https://youtu.be/Jq2A-GQNVj4

Oct 31, 2014

“'Greed, power and ignorance - why Copelyn tried to nail me': Golding” – Part 1

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/business/2014-11-02-greed-power-and-ignorance-why-copelyn-tried-to-nail-me-golding/

02 November 2014 - 02:08

Marcel Golding, who resigned as chairman of e.tv parent company Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) this week rather than face a disciplinary hearing, says he has been "the bulwark" against attempts by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (Sactwu) to interfere in the editorial direction of the "no fear, no favour" broadcaster.

Sactwu is a 30% shareholder of HCI, which Golding launched in 1997 alongside his great friend Johnny Copelyn - a relationship that has gone spectacularly sour in recent weeks.

On Thursday, a fragile truce between Copelyn and Golding appeared to have been struck as both appeared at HCI's AGM, and jointly pledged that neither would "make further statements about the sad decline in our partnership". Copelyn, often depicted as stone-hearted, broke down at the AGM, resting his head on his hands, overcome by emotion.

But the damage, it seems, had already been done, with perhaps the most devastating claim being that Sactwu tried to secretly direct coverage on e.tv to please politicians rather than provide "independent" news.

Asked why Copelyn was apparently so keen to trash him, Golding cited a "whole range of reasons". "People want control, they want power. It's a lethal cocktail. Greed, power and ignorance."

Golding, who as deputy to National Union of Mineworkers boss Cyril Ramaphosa in the 1980s was a stalwart of the trade union movement, responded that there was "no need" to raise his concerns with Sactwu because he'd been highlighting these concerns for months. Sactwu, he said, knew all about them.

"I'd been dealing with them all the time on this, telling them, 'I'm not prepared to do this, I'm not prepared to do that'".

One of the things he was not prepared to do was obey an "instruction" by Kriel that e.tv cover a speech by Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel. Kriel sent him an SMS saying, "We require e.tv to cover it live."

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b9f483 No.20847954

>>20847952

“'Greed, power and ignorance - why Copelyn tried to nail me': Golding” – Part 2

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/business/2014-11-02-greed-power-and-ignorance-why-copelyn-tried-to-nail-me-golding/

02 November 2014 - 02:08

Golding said the fact that he still wanted to offer this alleged "enemy of media freedom" a juicy commercial proposition did not mean he was ignoring its attempts to dictate e.tv's coverage .

"Kriel's text telling us to cover Patel's lecture - did we do it? No," said Golding.

But why would he want people who do not understand media freedom as partners in a media venture?

"There are two issues here. One is a commercial issue. The other is the actual day-to-day operation where I've been the bulwark against their attempts to interfere," he said.

The point of his meeting with Sactwu was "to look at a commercial transaction that made sense to everyone" - namely, the purchase of HCI's media business. Given that Sactwu owns 30% of HCI and 30% of the underlying media business, this could not have been done without them, said Golding.

This week, in a letter to e.tv and eNCA staff, Copelyn said the union would have agreed to Golding's partnership proposal if it had not been for its "disillusionment" when it became aware of his "secret" purchase of R24-million worth of shares in the TV set-top box maker Ellies.

What makes this drama so alarming is that for many, Copelyn and Golding were an indestructible partnership.

Copelyn's view was that Golding was suspended from HCI because he "concealed" the Ellies share transaction from the company and its board.

Golding said this was just an excuse to get rid of him because he would not allow e.tv to be used for government propaganda. Copelyn was afraid that his obdurate stance on this issue would endanger HCI's relations with the government and affect its business interests.

"I was open and honest and disclosed everything," said Golding. And, importantly, two months later, Copelyn and HCI had not done anything about it.

"If they thought it was so serious, why didn't they act immediately? Instead they first tried to get me to leave, to do this, to do that. When I didn't, only then did they say, 'OK, listen, now we're going to bring the Ellies charge against you.'"

But surely the bottom line is that he committed a breach of governance by not getting board approval?

No, he said. This was the way entrepreneurs did things. If he and Copelyn had stuck religiously to the rule book on corporate governance and submitted every intended share transaction for board approval before doing anything, they would have lost opportunities and never have been able to build HCI into an R18-billion company.

Golding disclosed his share buying only when it reached a threshold that compelled him to do so, because he did not want to alert the market to the fact that Sabido (which owns e.tv) was interested in Ellies.

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b9f483 No.20847964

>>20847905

>One of his critics, political economy professor Patrick Bond, has described him as “another white man nicely empowered by BEE”. In the past Bond has said that Golding and Copelyn, as the heads of HCI, were getting involved in “easy-money casinos, cellphone and television deals”.

“etv: emails show who really runs the show” – Part 1

https://groundup.org.za/article/media-meltdown-emails-disclose-who-really-runs-south-african-show_2394/

28 October 2014 | Patrick Bond

A credibility crisis in South Africa’s independent media is unfolding this week, writes Patrick Bond.

There is a risk that fewer than a half-dozen managers will destroy the waning integrity – and at minimum, the ownership structure – of the country’s most popular tv news station, eNews, which had aspired to become Africa’s answer to Al-Jazeera.

Seven months ago, Marcel Golding, a former National Union of Mineworkers deputy general secretary who served under Cyril Ramaphosa 25 years ago, and until Monday ran eNews, received a string of emails from a behind-the-scenes fixer, Yunis Shaik. These astonishing emails were lodged in papers at the Cape Town Labour Court last Friday by Golding, in his failed last-gasp bid to save his eNews leadership.

The documents prove that six weeks before this year’s national election, Shaik told Golding and his wife, eNews executive Bronwyn Keene-Young, that their nightly national broadcast should give “lead story” coverage to President Jacob Zuma for the opening of the R3 billion De Hoop Dam in the country’s northeast, most minerals-rich region.

The intermediary between Zuma and Shaik was Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel, former general secretary of the SA Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Sactwu). Within the eNews holding company, Shaik’s main protectors were the founding and current Sactwu general secretaries, Johnny Copelyn and Andre Kriel – all close pals of Golding until recently. Not anymore.

March 24 was a flashpoint moment, as Shaik wrote, “I got a call from Minister Patel today. He says President Zuma this day opened a new dam. The building of dams is a big issue and has big impact on our country for supply of water etc. He wants for us to cover it tonight.”

When after two days eNews had only mentioned the De Hoop Dam fleetingly on the morning show, Shaik emailed Keene-Young again, frustrated: “I received three sms[es] from Ebrahim and a phone call which gave rise to me sending an email to Marcel and yourself… after receiving another phone call from Ebrahim, and you and Marcel [are] still not available.”

This deal was not trivial, for eNews’s 2.5 million nightly viewers are an audience 2.5 times greater than the SA Broadcasting Corporation’s English-language news show.

During eNews’s 2012 London launch, Conroy reportedly said it would “become the Al Jazeera of Africa.” But now, Patel’s “ham-fisted attempt at Stasi-style propaganda” – as the Sunday Business Times described the abuse of power at eNews – makes transparent “just how wafer-thin the line really is between powerful people seeking propaganda and the information dished out to the public.”

Golding’s main ally on the board of directors of eNews’ holding company was former Minister of State Enterprises Barbara Hogan. When she resigned on Sunday, she confirmed the interference: “I am mindful of the briefing that Yunis Shaik gave me when he claimed that Sactwu … had lost patience with the editorial practices of eTV, citing the failure to give prominent coverage to Minister Ebrahim Patel’s economic pronouncements, as an instance of such dissatisfaction.”

As South Africa prepares for digital tv migration, the Set-Top Box ‘STB programme’ was Golding’s attempt to garner state support for a combined, fee-based cable news and internet access system in which he was simultaneously investing just over R24 million, in order to ensure eNews had control over rapid STB retail installation. However the share price of the local electronics firm he favoured, Ellies, soon tanked, resulting in sufficiently large losses that Copelyn and Shaik allegedly had a pretense for dismissing Golding this month, for dereliction of duty, gross negligence, dishonesty, and breaches of fiduciary duties and ethics policy.

(Whether true or not, media activists insist the STBs – costing around R1000 – be provided by the state as a free universal lifeline service so as to enhance information access.)

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b9f483 No.20847967

>>20847964

“etv: emails show who really runs the show” – Part 2

https://groundup.org.za/article/media-meltdown-emails-disclose-who-really-runs-south-african-show_2394/

28 October 2014 | Patrick Bond

Golding rebutted that in reality, the STB programme was trivial and the fall-out with other eNews owners occurred because of the Sactwu/Patel attempt to force the broadcaster to adopt a pro-ANC political agenda.

What kind of propaganda would Patel want dished out on national television? He certainly would not want eNews to mention the De Hoop Dam’s cost overruns (130 percent) or controversies surrounding its main beneficiaries, platinum mines, which get 60 percent of the new water supply. A year ago, such information catalyzed sell-out accusations against Zuma by the United Democratic Movement.

Other De Hoop Dam victims are downstream, in water-starved Mozambican communities and in the Kruger National Park. There, park officials joined by progressive environmentalists and water-sector NGOs firmly opposing De Hoop’s diversion of water to the mines.

Worst of all, though, would be a national news show providing rudimentary class analysis of infrastructure’s costs to ordinary people, judging from Patel’s diversionary arguments on SABC during the controversial passage of his fast-track infrastructure legislation earlier this year.

Early on, it was obvious that foreign mining houses will be the winners of Patel’s high-carbon, export-oriented Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission, and that poor people would lose through much higher electricity, water and transport prices.

In Parliament, no one I encountered in a hearing could rebut concerns about Patel’s excessive haste, especially after a recent round of infrastructure white-elephant breeding that included World Cup soccer stadiums, Johannesburg e-toll system, luxury airport spending, the Gautrain, and many others.

The eNews team does have talented journalists, without question, and e.tv shows are often critical of government. But this particular series was sufficiently happy-faced that the broadcasts now feature prominently on Patel’s government website. The eNews overview report on infrastructure is one of the worst cases, celebrating two parastatal corporations’ most destructive mega-projects: Eskom’s two R120 billion coal-fired power plants and Transnet’s R350 billion rail, oil pipeline and shipping expansion.

Like Cyril Ramaphosa’s incriminating emails to Lonmin on 15 August 2012, Golding’s revelations and resignation force us into an awareness of just how closely the current ruling crew’s deracialised configuration of power across economy, politics and journalism resembles the elite’s pre-1994 structure.

And if so, then this media meltdown can only add fire to your belly, as you demand that the full crony-capitalist implications of the scandal be considered.

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b9f483 No.20847996

>>20847964

>their nightly national broadcast should give “lead story” coverage to President Jacob Zuma for the opening of the R3 billion De Hoop Dam in the country’s northeast, most minerals-rich region.

>>20847902

>Third was the company’s participation in broad-based black-owned companies (the idea of now-billionaire mining magnate Patrice Motsepe)

“De Hoop Dam; STEELPOORT, MPUMULANGA, SOUTH AFRICA”

https://arq.co.za/?p=2248

At 85 m in height and comprising approximately 1 million m3 of concrete, De Hoop Dam is the largest RCC dam in South Africa.

De Hoop Dam provides the bulk storage for Phase 2A of the Olifants River Water Resources Development Project (ORWRDP), which augments water supply in Limpopo Province. Water is to be supplied primarily to the mining industry in the Steelpoort area.

De Hoop Dam was constructed in high workability RCC and saw the first full implementation of IVRCC; RCC that can be compacted directly against the formwork using poker vibrators, without additional grout.

http://thenewage.co.za/22319-1024-53-Steelpoort_at_war_with_miners

https://web.archive.org/web/20110721034457/http://thenewage.co.za/22319-1024-53-Steelpoort_at_war_with_miners

Jul 6 2011 8:32AM

There are more than 100 mines operating from Lydenburg, Steelpoort, and Burgersfort up to Lebowakgomo. Steelpoort is home to Dwarsrivier chrome mine owned by Assmang, Tweefontein chrome mine owned by Samancor, Two Rivers and Modikwe platinum mines managed by Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Minerals , as well as Mototolo platinum mine and the Lion Ferrochrome smelter, both owned by Xstrata.

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b9f483 No.20848003

>>20847996

>http://thenewage.co.za/22319-1024-53-Steelpoort_at_war_with_miners

>https://web.archive.org/web/20110721034457/http://thenewage.co.za/22319-1024-53-Steelpoort_at_war_with_miners

>Jul 6 2011 8:32AM

More info in the article

“Steelpoort at war with miners”

Steelpoort, a mining town on the borders of Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, is supposed to be a melodious story of development but it seem to be tense.

The tension – between mining houses and local communities over employment and business opportunities – has got to a point where mining managers are even scared to drive into the nearby villages, particularly at night.

When visiting the town last weekend, The New Age tried to arrange evening meetings with the managers but was told it would be impossible and extremely risky.

“I don’t think it will be advisable to do that because of the tension in the area. It will be hard for our employees to drive around,” warned Songezo Zibi, spokesperson of Xstrata Alloys, a day before the visit.

Xstrata is one of the big companies operating in the area. Some community representatives alleged that they felt the negative impact of the mining activities with no economic benefit.

Two months ago, more than 2000 community members from the surrounding villages of Ga-Malekane, Ga-Mampuru, Tukakgomo and Maandagshoek organised a march and barricaded roads outside the Two Rivers Mine at Maroke in the Sekhukhune area. They burnt cars and stoned several passing vehicles.

Another episode of violence erupted at Platinum Australia’s Smokey Hills near Maandagshoek. Kobus Jansen van Rensburg, who was employed by JIC Mining Services, was killed when the minibus he was travelling in on his way home was attacked by an angry mob.

There are more than 100 mines operating from Lydenburg, Steelpoort, and Burgersfort up to Lebowakgomo. Steelpoort is home to Dwarsrivier chrome mine owned by Assmang, Tweefontein chrome mine owned by Samancor, Two Rivers and Modikwe platinum mines managed by Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Minerals , as well as Mototolo platinum mine and the Lion Ferrochrome smelter, both owned by Xstrata.

Mining activities around the area have been centred on chrome and platinum for a long time. Collections of mining dumps on nearby mountains bear testimony.

About 2 million people are said to be living in the villages that have no electricity, clean water or proper roads. About 90% of young people in the Steelpoort areas are said to be unemployed.

Most communities rely on the heavily polluted Tubatse River that cuts through villages, for water. The river runs up to the Lepelle River.

Explaining why it is important to meet them during daylight, Moffet Mabelane, a corporate social responsibility manager at Xstrata Alloys, said managers were being targeted by angry community leaders.

“They want to influence the recruitment process. They demand that all available posts should be allocated to the locals. They say we should make broad-based black economic empowerment a reality and also demand that magoshi (local chiefs) refrain from employment and tendering processes,” said Mabelane.

A senior mine manager who refused to be identified said he was attacked at some point only to be rescued by ex-employees who happened to know him.

Mabelane said Xstrata had adopted 18 communities and about 38 schools . He said the company was addressing most of the concerns through a tripartite forum, consisting of representatives from the company, communities and trade unions.

He said the total commitment from Xstrata for community projects in the Lydenburg, Burgersfort and Steelpoort areas stood at R35m over the next few years. This includes projects in progress and those that will soon start.

But for Jerry Tshehlakgolo, chairperson of the Sekhukhune Land and Mining Community Based Forum, the mines were reneging on their promises.

“They are so reluctant. They undermine black communities. They keep on promising us this and that. They are not delivering.

“And because of that, those killings won’t stop, we will fight them,” he said.

Another community leader, Teddy Thobakgale, said the same pressure was applied to local municipalities.

“There is a divide and rule kind of attitude from local government officials. “They are treating us like rebels and we are prepared to do anything to vent our frustrations,” he said.

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b9f483 No.20848011

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>>20848003

And it continues…

“Tension brewing between mine company and local residents in North West”

https://youtu.be/a8zRajoEd_k

May 4, 2024

Non-governmental organization Mining Affected Communities United in Action - MACUA - says the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy is to be blamed for the tensions brewing in Mononono Village near Moruleng in North West. This follows Ikwezi Vanadium's alleged continued presence in the area. Ikwezi has refuted allegations of mining exploration activities in the community's grazing land. The community is demanding that the mining company rehabilitate all their grazing land that was excavated during the collection of samples and also remove all its equipment and security from the area. Tensions between the community and Ikwezi Vanadium have led violent clashes.

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b9f483 No.20848018

>>20848011

More…

“Glencore says Rhovan vanadium operations near Brits disrupted by community protests since 29 April”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-05-06-glencore-says-rhovan-mine-near-brits-hit-by-protests-since-29-april/

06 May 2024

Glencore has confirmed that its Rhovan vanadium mining and processing operations near Brits in North West have been disrupted by ‘community protesters’ since 29 April. It is the latest example of such unrest affecting the operations of a major global mining company in South Africa.

Glencore Ferroalloys confirms that without any prior notice, and without permission in terms of the Gatherings Act, No. 205 of 1993 (Gatherings Act), community members of the Bakwena Ba Mogopa community in Bethanie unlawfully blocked the R556 road leading to its Rhovan Operations,” the global mining and trading giant said in response to Daily Maverick’s queries.

“The roads leading to the Rhovan operations have been blocked by the group of protesters since Monday, 29 April 2024. This blockade has had the effect of preventing both access to and exit out of the Rhovan Operations by staff and contractors. This unlawful restriction has had a negative effect on the ability of the Rhovan Operations to continue with its normal operations.”

Glencore said no grievances or demands have been formally made and it was not clear who was speaking for the “community”.

This fits a pattern of such outbreaks of social unrest in mining communities which periodically disrupt the industry. Often shadowy elements and “procurement mafias” gin up “community protests” in a bid to shake down mining companies. It is also the case that communities have legitimate grievances which are exploited for such purposes.

But this incident seems to stand out for its duration – it has been rumbling on for more than a week – and the apparent lack of clarity around the demands.

Daily Maverick was alerted to the saga by an email sent by a source.

“Tensions are running high. No talks are happening. Police presence is worrying. We don’t want another Marikana,” the source said.

Attempts to follow up with the source have been unsuccessful.

“Despite this unlawful conduct, Rhovan management has reasonably indicated to the leaders of the protest, as with any stakeholders, that they are prepared to engage with all aggrieved parties through existing and recognised structures,” Glencore said.

“However, no such engagements can take place in the face of hostile and unlawful behaviour. To date, Glencore has not received any formal correspondence tabling the grievances or demands of the protesters or explaining exactly who are the bodies (if any) they represent.”

The SABC has reported that the protesters want mine management to prioritise local jobs.

It is also the latest such incident to rock a major global mining company in South Africa, raising the “investment risk” profile of the country in unflattering ways.

Richards Bay Minerals, a unit of global mining group Rio Tinto, has faced such unrest in the past – unrest that put a $463-million expansion project on hold.

Such protests seem to have ebbed over the past year in flashpoint regions in North West and Limpopo, but industry executives have warned that they expect them to possibly flare up in the run-up to the 29 May elections.

Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman said last month that “community members” were even extorting the industry to sponsor golf days.

The incident unfolding at Glencore may be a one-off, or it could be a sign that things are heating up.

“Glencore Ferroalloys will continue to work with all affected stakeholders and authorities to come to a peaceful solution, and affirms its commitment to uphold human rights, by dealing with the community safely and transparently,” Glencore said. DM

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b9f483 No.20848040

>>20847902

>>20847905

>>20847925

>>20847931

>>20847952

>>20847954

>>20847912

>After the transition to democracy, unions’ political influence expanded

“Johnny Copelyn: After “disastrous Zuma years” HCI intends playing role in SA’s resurrection”

https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2019/08/12/johnny-copelyn-zuma-years-hci

12th August 2019

Excerpts

Annual reports tell us everything about a company. They are the single document where boards of directors report to the owners of the company. Given its relevance, it still amazes me how some company leaders outsource the writing of their letters to shareholders, the most important part of any annual report. Because investing in the shares of a company is entrusting savings to those leading the business. And to trust someone, we need to understand what makes them tick. One of the better examples of authenticity you’ll find is the latest shareholder letter by HCI’s chief executive Johnny Copelyn, the key portion of which is republished below. Copelyn was named among those business leaders who donated money, in a personal capacity, to Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC presidential campaign. After reading what he shared with his shareholders, the HCI faithful may well be asking him at the forthcoming AGM why the company, too, did not make a donation. – Alec Hogg

By John Copelyn

Efforts by factions of the ruling party to undermine their own president, and suggest he is failing to uphold the party line on such policies, will force us all to be more assertive to avoid the retreat of government from doing what has to be done.

Lawlessness across our businesses has meant endless disruptions of our coal business by various community-based groups seeking to force us to employ people chosen by such protesters (even though there are no vacancies to fill); and demands by traditional authorities to pay tributes and benefits on the basis that we are exploiting their “traditional domain”.

The lawlessness has resulted in an endless stream of armed robberies on our buses where passengers are relieved of their possessions at gun point; strikes demanding double digit increases which turn violent; burning of buses and the like.

This is definitely not a place for sissies.

Nevertheless, we absolutely must prevail against these forces. This is a moment where good people need to heed the call to action. We can rebuild what has been destroyed by opportunists and the scars on our backs can make us more determined, rather than naively trusting, as we may once have been.

HCI fully intends to play a role in this resurrection. We are a product of the post-apartheid dispensation in our country. We do not want to pretend otherwise.

It is our special responsibility to demonstrate ourselves as an exemplary BEE entity. And we are that. We have built new businesses rather than just being carried along in other people’s enterprise; we create new jobs, build new hotels, office blocks, shopping centres, warehousing, studios, and convert dilapidated and often vandalised buildings into refurbished inner-city residences.

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b9f483 No.20848043

“HCI’s Johnny Copelyn and Impact strike ‘smart oil deal’” in Namibia

https://www.hci.co.za/2024/01/14/hcis-johnny-copelyn-and-impact-strike-smart-oil-deal/

January 14, 2024

The transaction with TotalEnergies allows exploration company to keep half its stake in two Namibian fields.

Exploration company Impact Oil and Gas, half-owned by JSE-listed Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI), has struck a deal with giant TotalEnergies, allowing it to keep half its stake in two Namibian deep-sea fields and benefit from oil flow in a number of years’ time.

The deal, probably struck partly by SA’s Johnny Copelyn, CEO of HCI, was “very smart”, said Piet Viljoen, executive director of Merchant West Investments.

It allows HCI to own about 4% in the oilfields and one day make money when the oil is pumped.

Copelyn, who declined to speak to the media as Impact is doing so, is known as a world-class negotiator.

HCI, a BEE investment holding company, owns a 49.2% stake in Impact, which until last week held a 20% stake in the oilfield off the coast of Namibia, Venus, or Block 2193B, and an almost 19% stake in a nearby field, Block 2192. Both are about 8,000km².

Due to its shareholding in Impact, HCI had about a 10% stake in the two offshore fields in a country far more committed to developing the fossil fuels than SA is.

In 2022, oil publication Upstream reported that Venus was very oil rich, and cited a confidential report by consultancy Wood Mackenzie that it could have more than 3-billion barrels of recoverable oil.

HCI’s share price rose to more than R240 in the past year on speculation the Venus field held enormous amounts of oil, with some reports reading the field was one of the biggest finds of its kind.

Impact, a London-based firm committed to exploring the coasts of Africa for oil and gas, lacked the hundreds of billions of dollars to invest in developing Venus and the neighbouring oil block.

TotalEnergies holds the highest stake in the fields, followed by QatarEnergy, leaving Namibian state-owned oil company Namcor holding minority stakes of 10% and 15% respectively.

But Copelyn and Impact managed to sell half of their stakes in the two blocks in a deal that will allow them to now own 9.5% per field, without putting up upfront cash in to develop them.

In terms of the deal, TotalEnergies, which bought half the Impact stake, will provide Impact with a loan for all the costs of exploring and developing their stakes until oil is pumped. Impact will then repay the French company an interest-free loan from proceeds of the oil.

Impact will also be reimbursed for its share of the past costs incurred in appraising the blocks, which is estimated to be about $99m (R1.8bn).

The share price of the other major shareholder of Impact, Canadian listed Africa Oil Corp, rose on the deal.

Venus is expected to only start pumping oil by 2028, according to Upstream.

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b9f483 No.20848053

>>20848003

>>20847996

>Samancor

Ehlobo Resources/Samancor Chrome: “BEE partner 'just a front' for UK firm”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2009-09-01-bee-partner-just-a-front-for-uk-firm/

01 September 2009 - 20:28

INVESTMENT holding company Ehlobo Resources is again embroiled in controversy around the equity ownership of mining giant Samancor Chrome.

The department of minerals and energy has confirmed that it is probing allegations of fronting in the empowerment component of Samancor - one of the world's largest ferrochrome producers.

Ehlobo Resources, which holds half the shares in empowerment consortium Batho Barena, was a key player in securing the consortium a 28percent stake in Samancor.

Questions have been raised as details of the government's investigation into Samancor's shareholding were revealed in court papers filed at the Johannesburg High Court.

The deal between Samancor's holding company, Kermas SA, and Batho Barena, which was one of the country's biggest empowerment deals when it was concluded in 2006, has been fraught with difficulties for several months. The latest wrangle involves a court bid by Ehlobo Resources to get rid of its shares in Batho Barena.

The court papers include a notice from the department to cancel Samancor's mining rights after it received information that the company "misrepresented" its BEE shareholding in its application to convert old-order mining rights to new ones.

"The basis for this notice is that Samancor Mining Company has knowingly and intentionally furnished false, misleading and unlawful information regarding its equity ownership," the notice, dated September 12, reads.

On Friday, two of the department's officials confirmed that an investigation into Samancor's shareholding was ongoing, but that its mining rights had not yet been cancelled.

In earlier correspondence from the department, director-general Advocate Sandile Nogxina claims to have information indicating that Ehlobo Resources has been fronting five percent of its stake - indirectly held through Batho Barena - in Samancor for British Virgin Islands company Kermas BVI and not BEE shareholders, which was required to get new mining rights and to convert old rights.

Samancor is owned by Kermas SA, which has three major shareholders, the empowerment consortium which holds 28percent, as well as foreign companies Kermas BVI and International Minerals Resources (IMR), which each hold 32.5percent.

But Samancor chief executive Jürgen Schalamon denied that the company was involved in any fronting.

"We, as Samancor Chrome, definitely didn't do any fronting or fraud," he said.

He said Samancor is merely the daughter company of Kermas SA, and did not have "anything to do with the location of the shares in Batho Barena or in Kermas SA".

One of Ehlobo Resources's founders, Alistair Ruiters, also denied the allegations.

"There's never been any fronting. We've held five percent of the shares for allocation to other BEE groups and for the last 12 months we've been in discussions with the unions to increase the workers's share," he said.

Ruiters, who said he was unaware of the department's investigation, confirmed that the shares were held on behalf of Kermis BVI.

But Rafique Bagus, a co-founder of Ehlobo Resources, who is spearheading the current court action, said all of the relevant board members were aware of the investigation by the department.

"We've all been asked to make representations to the department of minerals and energy in respect of the allegations and have done so."

"In respect of any misconduct with respect to BEE, where I became aware of any arrangements that were contrary to what the intent of the [Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development] Act was, I acted immediately," Bagus said.

Earlier this year, Business Times reported on another scandal in the deal when Ruiters was accused by smaller stakeholders in the empowerment consortium of trying to short-change impoverished communities of their fair share in the BEE deal after he offered them reduced prices for their shares.

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b9f483 No.20848060

>>20848053

>>20848003

>>20847996

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

A profit-shifting scheme and other dodgy deals orchestrated by the ‘world’s richest Croatian’ have allegedly been used to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars offshore out of Samancor Chrome. Now the Johannesburg High Court is being asked to pry open the privately-owned mining company’s books as a first step towards a massive damages claim from its workers.

Theft and corruption totalling over $500-million (about R7.5-billion now) is being alleged in court proceedings pitting workers against Samancor Chrome, one of South Africa’s major privately-owned mining and minerals processing companies, and its previous owner and chair, Croatian billionaire Danko Končar.

It is alleged that Končar and his associates spirited billions of rand abroad in a transfer pricing scheme, sold assets while secretly pocketing most of the proceeds, got paid secret management fees, and anonymously earned facilitation fees as ostensibly independent middlemen between Samancor and an Australian mining company.

Končar, Samancor executives and a number of alleged co-conspirators are yet to respond to allegations in court – and may throw a different light on the evidence presented so far.

The case is being brought by the Association of Mining and Construction Union (Amcu) and rests on testimony from a whistle-blower, former Samancor director Miodrag Kon, who is supporting the court challenge with a treasure trove of internal documents and emails.

Kon has asked the court to keep his whereabouts secret “due to concerns regarding my personal safety”.

He alleges in a court affidavit that Končar, through his company Kermas, extracted as much as $500-million in only five years between 2005 and 2010.

Amcu general secretary Jeff Mphahlele claims in a separate affidavit that the damage may ultimately have been as much as $1.9-billion. He does not state the basis for the estimate, but it appears he also took into account what happened after 2010.

Mphahlele charges that had the money been paid out as dividends instead, a Samacor employee share ownership scheme would have received $100-million.

Končar bought Samancor with the assistance of International Mineral Resources (IMR), a company owned by three controversial Kazakh oligarchs, Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov. IMR partially paid for Končar’s acquisition of Samancor in 2005 and subsequently bought out his entire interest to own 77% by 2010.

Despite their support for him in 2005, evidence before the court shows that Končar allegedly even ripped off the Kazakhs before getting bought out.

He went on to secretly control a Finnish multinational partially built on Samancor-related assets and run by ex-Samancor executives. Shenanigans there recently saw Finnish authorities slam Končar with a mind-boggling fine of €110-million (about R1.8-billion).

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b9f483 No.20848066

>>20848060

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

Selling assets on the cheap

The crudest and most brazen alleged scheme to extract money from Samancor was the sale of 50% of a subsidiary, Tubatse Chrome, to Chinese state-owned conglomerate Sinosteel in 2007.

Sinosteel paid $225-million, but a staggering $125-million (R1.9-billion now) of that did not go to Samancor at all. Instead it ended up in the London bank account of Kermas, Končar’s company registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Kon has provided Samancor’s annual report for the 2008 financial year where the proceeds from the sale are recorded as R683-million. At the most favourable exchange rate recorded in May 2007, the month of the deal, this came to $100-million.

More damning is an email chain confirming receipt of payment which makes it clear that Samancor’s banker, Nedbank, and the company’s management were well aware of the money being diverted.

In the email chain a Nedbank manager alerts Wessel Erasmus, a Samancor veteran who became chief financial officer when Kermas took over, that $100-million has been received in Samancor’s account.

A few minutes later the Nedbank manager sends another email: “I can also confirm that Nedbank London has received USD 125-million on the account for Kermas.”

Samancor’s Erasmus then forwards the good news to Končar.

Jürgen Schalamon, the German Samancor chief executive installed by Kermas in 2005, was also copied into this discussion. He at the time had a 1% interest in Kermas in the British Virgin Islands, according to other documents in the court file.

The Sinosteel deal was accompanied by a confidential distribution agreement whereby Kermas became the sole marketing agent for Tubatse products and was guaranteed a steep 9% commission margin. This right, which got sold to a Sinosteel subsidiary for a 50/50 profit share, was just a smaller version of what was happening at Samancor itself.

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b9f483 No.20848073

>>20848060

>>20848066

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 3

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

The big profit shift

A more complex and audacious transfer pricing scheme accounts for most of the alleged damage at Samancor. It was also allegedly kept in place after Končar sold the company to IMR – and allegedly remains in place to this day.

The scheme is a form of profit shifting where a company pays a related party far too much for services based in another jurisdiction, usually a tax haven.

Sometimes the service is even fictitious.

It is a form of tax evasion, but in the case of Samancor it was also allegedly a way for Končar to steal millions from Samancor and its minority shareholders – with the complicity of at least two directors.

The alleged transfer pricing scheme started after Končar’s Kermas bought Samancor from BHP Billiton and Anglo American for $469-million in 2005.

In the same year, Končar registered a company called Samchrome in Malta and made it the sole international distributor of Samancor products with a huge guaranteed commission of 9%.

The evidence indicates that Samchrome was owned by another Maltese company, Chrome Holdings, which was in turn owned by Kermas. This is according to an email that Končar sent his accountant.

Kermas technically belongs to Danica Zagmester, Končar’s cousin, but it is effectively his investment vehicle for a variety of holdings across the world. When Kermas set up a secret agreement with IMR in 2005 to back the purchase of Samancor, Končar was the sole signatory on behalf of Kermas.

Another director of Samancor, Branislav Lazovic, owned a 5% share in Kermas while Schalamon, the Samancor chief executive installed by Kermas, owned 1%.

Končar’s cousin apparently later bought out Lazovic to own 99% by 2010. Kermas was at this point already a player in the Russian and Turkish chrome mining sectors as well as refining in Germany.

According to Kon’s affidavit in the court application, “Samchrome Malta had no employees. They performed no actual marketing services and gave little if any value. It sold almost all or all material through sub-agents.”

Kon’s claim that Samchrome had no employees is backed up by the complete absence of any employment-related expenses in Samchrome’s accounts. Even telephone costs were zero – strange for a company that is meant to be managing global trade for a major mining group.

Financial statements for Samchrome now contained in the court record show that the Maltese office was nonetheless making a killing.

In the 2006 financial year, its first year of operation, it had profits of $29.9-million and it paid out a dividend – to Končar, Lazovic and Schalamon – of $19.4-million. In the 2007 financial year its profits were $73.2-million.

To understand how effective this profit shifting was, Samchrome profits have to be compared to Samancor in South Africa.

According to Samancor’s annual financial statements from 2008, also in the court file, the company had profit of R1.4-billion in the 18 months ending December 2007. The Samchrome Malta profit for just part of this period (the 12 months up to the end of June 2017) was roughly R500-million.

In other words, the Malta marketing company was sucking up more than a third of Samancor’s profits – allegedly in exchange for nothing.

The outsized nature of the 9% commission being paid to Malta by Samancor is illustrated by the fact that, back in 2005, BHP Billiton initially acted as the marketing agent for a 2.5% commission after selling its share of Samancor to Kermas.

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b9f483 No.20848080

>>20848060

>>20848066

>>20848073

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 4

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

The Samchrome Malta setup would have evaded taxes in South Africa, but also robbed the minority shareholders of Samancor, including an employee share ownership scheme and other BEE partners brought onboard in 2006.

If the allegation holds up, the company in which the workers own shares (Samancor) is effectively ceding profits to another company in Malta they have no stake in, allegedly in exchange for nothing.

This, and other dealings that profited Kermas to the detriment of other shareholders, is the basis for Amcu’s case.

The Johannesburg High Court is now being asked to make a precedent-setting order: for Samancor, a private company, to open its books and prove, if it can, that these allegations against Končar and others are false.

This would be the first step towards a potential damages claim on behalf of workers for the $100-million calculated by economist Dick Forslund, who is working with Amcu, on behalf of the Alternative Information and Development Centre, a Cape Town-based NGO and Richard Spoor attorneys, as the dividends workers were deprived of.

Cut us in

The transfer pricing arrangement would not be unique. The difference with Samacor is that it was not the company itself benefitting from tax evasion, but largely a single individual sucking out millions to the detriment of Samancor itself as well as other shareholders.

The alleged scam dawned on the other shareholders along the way. IMR (the oligarchs) bought 32.5% of Samancor from Kermas in 2017 and were involved in Kermas’ acquisition of Samancor from the beginning. They nonetheless seemed to be in the dark about how 9% of the company’s revenues were being given to their partner Končar.

In February 2009 IMR seemingly realised that they were being fleeced. They directed a letter Samancor asking for a signed copy of the Malta agreement.

“Would you also please let us have copies of all and any of the board resolutions by Samancor in which the marketing agreement was discussed prior to its conclusion as well as the enabling resolution (which we assume exists).”

IMR continued: “Would you also please advise whether any person (and more particularly Dr Danko Konchar) gave notice in terms of Section 234 of the Companies Act No 61 of 1973 (as amended) of his interest in Samchrome Limited, Malta?”

Emails also show how the largest member of Samancor’s BEE consortium was incensed by being constantly cut out of the Malta largesse.

The BEE consortium called Batho Barena was put together in 2006 and the major BEE shareholder was Ehlobo Resources which had a 14% share in Samancor.

–Ehlobo was created by Alistair Ruiters, formerly director general in the department of trade and industry. His partner in Ehlobo was Mohammed Bagus, also a veteran of the department.

In June 2008 Bagus emailed Ruiters to complain.–

“We have been promised some cash from Malta since December 2006,” wrote Bagus.

“We learnt… at the last board meeting that Malta has issued a dividend. You confirmed to me that Danko has taken $70m for himself. I asked the question to our entitlement to 4% of the economic interest in Malta and you indicated that this won’t happen.”

Bagus was at the time parting ways with Ruiters and Ehlobo. Ruiters would, however, stay on as a Samancor director and participate extensively in Končar’s other endeavours, ultimately becoming chief executive of the Finnish company Ruukki (subsequently renamed Afarak), which Končar would build after leaving Samancor.

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b9f483 No.20848091

>>20848060

>>20848066

>>20848073

>>20848080

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 5

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

According to Kon’s affidavit, and supporting documentation, even the 9% being siphoned off by Samchrome in Malta was not enough for Končar and co.

A further email in the court record shows Samancor chief executive Schalamon negotiating a chrome ore sale with Mogale Alloys in 2007 where another Končar marketing company called RCS sells the ore.

He wrote to Kurt Maske, then a BHP Billiton employee working at Mogale: “It is important NOT to mention RCS with anybody in Samancor ‘cause as you know the parent company of Samancor also has other shareholders and in this case we are using not Samchrome as the agent for the [ferrochrome].”

Maske would later join Samancor and from there also join the Finnish Ruukki group alongside Končar and his associates. Both RCS and Mogale were later acquired by Ruukki as well.

Enter the oligarchs

IMR, belonging to the three oligarchs, first bought 32.5% of Samancor from Kermas in 2007 and then bought out Končar’s stake entirely in November 2009 after demanding an explanation for the Maltese arrangement.

Their involvement predates this as they initially gave Končar a loan to help pay for Samancor in 2005.

Their initial loan agreement, however, shows that it was always IMR that would control Samancor in the end.

A memorandum of agreement between Samancor and IMR stated that they would be “equal partners” in Samancor and that IMR would be treated as if it was a 45% shareholder despite not officially owning any shares. The reason for IMR not simply buying Samancor itself is unclear, but a source close to the lawsuit speculates it might have been to ensure Competition Commission approval.

In 2007 IMR not only bought out Kermas, but also Ehlobo’s 14%.

It sold half of the 14% to Holgoun, a local BEE outfit belonging to husband-and-wife team Sivi and Vanessa Gounden. The other half was “warehoused”, but it is unclear for whose benefit.

What followed IMR’s buyout of Končar and Ehlobo was not the end of the transfer pricing scheme, but a reconstitution of it to cut IMR into the action.

A new Samchrome was created in Dubai and took over the 9% commission.

A letter from Končar to both Samchromes states: “To the extent necessary, SamChrome Dubai hereby agrees to abide by the existing transfer pricing rulings relating to the Distribution Agreement.”

IMR, via Dubai, ultimately took over Kermas’ role as the exclusive marketer of Samancor products. Malta has a 4% corporate tax rate while Dubai’s rate is 0%.

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b9f483 No.20848101

>>20848060

>>20848066

>>20848073

>>20848080

>>20848091

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 6

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

The ‘king of chrome’

Končar has had a storied career, owning and managing major mining and metals companies from Russia to Germany, South Africa and, most recently, Finland. He has been dubbed the “king of chrome” in his native Croatia and is reportedly the richest Croatian in the world.

He has evidently taken the kind of corporate manoeuvring he carried out in South Africa to a whole new level.

In 2019 he was slapped with the €110-million fine by Finnish authorities for secretly taking control of Afarak, a listed Finnish mining and alloys group previously known as Ruukki.

This audacious scheme was first unveiled by the Panama Papers and involved Končar exercising 70% of Afarak’s voting rights through a network of ostensibly unrelated shareholders despite directly owning only 28% of the company.

Maintaining his known ownership below 30% was crucial since stock exchange rules force a shareholder to make a mandatory offer to buy out all other shareholders if they cross the 30% shareholding threshold. His fine stems from evading this requirement.

Končar’s time in South Africa is inextricably linked to Ruukki/Afarak. The Finnish company’s major assets come from South Africa, mostly relate to Samancor and were brought to the table by Končar immediately after he left Samancor behind.

Some of his colleagues in South Africa also joined him in packing their bags for Finland.

Back at Samancor there is also a slew of other serious allegations against Končar following the same alleged pattern of self-dealing to the detriment of Samancor and its minority shareholders. At least one ultimately leads back to Finland – via Australia.

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b9f483 No.20848109

>>20848060

>>20848066

>>20848073

>>20848080

>>20848091

>>20848101

“The great Samancor ‘heist’” – Part 7

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-02-the-great-samancor-heist/

02 Oct 2019

Sylvania

One of the suspect deals that allegedly enriched Končar and other Samancor insiders was a series of dump reprocessing agreements with Australian mining company Sylvania.

In 2006 and 2008 Sylvania was awarded the rights to extract residual chrome (which would be sold to Samancor at prearranged prices) as well as platinum from Samancor’s mine tailing dams. These deals were, according to Kon, improper in a way that not only implicates Končar and Lazovic, but also Samancor executives and Ehlobo, the BEE partner.

With each new deal, Sylvania issued shares to a mysterious facilitator called Portpatrick for “securing the rights”. This was openly recorded in its annual reports without any clarification about who Portpatrick is or what it did. According to Kon, Portpatrick is in fact a front for Končar and Lazovic.

He claims they ultimately got 14 million Sylvania shares via companies in Liechtenstein for giving the Australian outfit very generous access to Samancor’s tailings – without telling the other shareholders about it.

The Sylvania deals appear also to have benefitted Ehlobo because the company simultaneously became the 26% BEE shareholder in Sylvania’s South African operations. Its founder, Ruiters, was on the Samancor board as the deals were negotiated and was then a shareholder on the other end of the table.

Ruiters went on to become chief executive of Afarak, Končar’s Finnish company.

The case brought by Amcu for Samancor to open its books is in terms of section 163 of the Companies Act dealing with “relief from oppressive or prejudicial conduct or from abuse of separate juristic personality of company”.

This section permits a shareholder, in this case Ndizani Workers’ Trust, the employee share ownership scheme of Samancor, to take a company to court for a variety of actions against shareholders’ interests.

Amcu specifically wants an accounting for all transactions related to the Malta and Dubai marketing companies as well as Sylvania and Sinosteel.

If the court grants that and the information confirms its suspicions, the union will use it both to sue for damages and seek an order for the replacement of Samancor directors.

However, the court papers were filed only on Wednesday, meaning Samancor, Končar and company have yet to provide their version. Kon’s damaging claims are likely to be fiercely contested. DM

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b9f483 No.20848150

>>20848053

>One of Ehlobo Resources's founders, Alistair Ruiters

>>20848060

>>20848066

>>20848073

>>20848080

> Ruiters would, however, stay on as a Samancor director and participate extensively in Končar’s other endeavours

>>20848091

>>20848101

>>20848109

>>20847912

>After the transition to democracy, unions’ political influence expanded, both through the participation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Tripartite Alliance with the governing African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP)

>the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU), opted to stay in COSATU.

Unions = gangs

Alistair Ruiters has ties to South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu)

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/rex-trueform-building-declared-a-provincial-heritage-site-19423759

Published Feb 21, 2019

Now based at the South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) Worker Health Programme, around the corner, [Greg] Hoedemaker cut his teeth in the union movement as a shop steward.

He was born in Grassy Park and finished Standard 5 at EC Primary School. His life nearly took a wrong turn as he fell in with a gang. It’s when he became friends with the Ruiters brothers that his life changed and his political activism grew.

Dr Alistair Ruiters later became director general of the Department of Trade and Industry.

https://za.linkedin.com/in/gregory-hoedemaker-a4702ab9

[Gregory Hoedemaker] I work as the training manager at the SACTWU Worker Health Program. This is an NGO that is trade union based and serves members of the trade union Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union.

https://www.marketscreener.com/insider/ALISTAIR-PAUL-RUITERS-A0GOBX/

Alistair Paul Ruiters is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Ruukki South Africa Pty Ltd., Chairman at Mogale Alloys Pty Ltd., Chairman at Ehlobo Holdings Pty Ltd., Director at Ehlobo Capital Pty Ltd., Director at Accor Services South Africa, and Director at Karibo Coal Pty Ltd.

He was previously the Chief Executive Officer & Director at Afarak Group SE, Chairman at National Empowerment Fund, and Director at Chromex Mining Ltd.

He also held various non-executive director positions at Traxys Africa Holdings Ltd.

and Sylvania Platinum Ltd.

He was the Director General at South Africa Ministry of Trade & Industry from 2000 to 2005.

He holds a doctorate degree from the University of Oxford and an undergraduate degree from the University of Cape Town.

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7b3fb8 No.20848716

>>20848150 https://www.textchan.com/txt/cp/res/166.php#179

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3f5110 No.20848933

>>20848716

Why does that link have /cp/ in it?

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7b3fb8 No.20849719

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3f5110 No.20852640

Canada #58 >>20852532

Asia Embraces Coal As The U.S. Rejects It

Authored by Vijay Jayaraj via RealClear Wire Saturday, May 11, 2024

Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations have backpedaled on big promises made at international climate conferences to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels.

Vietnam's projected 2024 growth rate for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stands at 5.8%, the sixth highest in Asia. Among the biggest contributors to GDP is the industrial sector (38 percent), especially manufacturing. S&P Global has noted a considerable improvement in Vietnam’s manufacturing sector in the fourth quarter of 2023 and is expecting Vietnam to perform well this year.

Electricity is a cornerstone of manufacturing operations in Vietnam. In 2023, coal produced more than 40% of all electricity in the country, while the country’s abundant hydro reserves contributed around 30%. Natural gas accounted for about 10%.

However, 2024 is expected to see a shortfall in hydroelectric generation because of less rainfall. Simultaneously, electricity production with natural gas is being complicated by forecasts of higher gas prices. Bloomberg reports that state-run PetroVietnam Gas “recently decided not to purchase a cargo for June due to high offer prices.”

So, the heavy lifting to meet power demand must now come from coal. The country is urging coal miners to maximize production before demand reaches peak in the summer months. The country’s prime minister has asked for an increase in coal exploration as well, signaling a sustained interest in the medium to long-time reliance on coal.

Vietnam’s move to increase coal use was inevitable. It cannot continually risk a huge demand-supply gap whenever dams go dry or gas prices skyrocket. The growth rate of power demand from expanding industries is increasing at a fair pace, and energy security is critical in ensuring manufacturing’s positive trend.

Similar patterns across Asia

Across Asia, a similar phenomenon is unfolding. The regional coal resurgence can be attributed to the rapid economic growth in these countries. China, the world's largest coal consumer, witnessed a rise in consumption in 2024. Earlier this year, reports showed the construction of dozens of new coal plants in China. In 2023, the country accounted for 95% of the construction of the world's new coal power plants. There are a total of 1,142 operating coal-fired plants in China, which is five times more than in the U.S.

India, another major player in the Asian energy market, also saw an increase in coal imports and production. India has increased its spending on infrastructure, with an expected rebound in demand for coal-based steel and raw material manufacturing. Indonesia has 254 operational coal-fired power plants and 40 new plants under construction. Japan, too, is a big consumer of coal, being the top importer of Australian coal in recent years.

Like Australia, the U.S. has been a top source of coal imports for these Asian countries. S&P Global says, “U.S. metallurgical coal exports have seen growth fueled by Asian demand over the past few years. The potential for seaborne volumes to grow hinge on expansions in blast furnace steelmaking and met coke production in India, China, and Southeast Asia.” New mines such as Arch Resource's Leer South and the AMCI, POSCO, and Itochu-led Allegheny Met's Longview mine will play a role in meeting this demand from Asia.

Ironically, U.S. miners can meet Asian needs while their government rejects them as a fuel source for cheap electricity!

The advancement of recent emission-reduction targets for U.S. industry, as well as restrictions on the export capacity of natural gas by the Biden administration, is quite astonishing in light of the ongoing expansions in fossil fuel capacity by various Asian nations.

The quality of life for millions of Americans could very well decline in return for zero environmental benefits as that of Asians improves.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/asia-embraces-coal-us-rejects-it

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3f5110 No.20853945

UK Supreme Court Decides Case Over $43M of Silver from WWII Shipwreck

Published May 10, 2024 5:44 PM by The Maritime Executive

South Africa has won a long-running legal battle against a United Kingdom company over a silver treasure valued at $43 million that was salvaged from the wreck of a commercial ship sunk by the Japanese during World War II. The ss Tilawa is said to be the only cargo-passenger liner attacked in the Indian Ocean during World War II and has become known as the “Indian Titanic” due to the loss of 280 people.

The UK Supreme Court issued the verdict on the case after a British company Argentum Exploration laid claim to the silver that was recovered from the seabed in 2017. The company sought to be recognized as the voluntary salvor meaning that it could seek compensation for the recovery.

The silver bullion was part of the cargo that sank to the bottom of the ocean when the merchant ship Tilawa was hit by two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine on November 23, 1942. The silver was sold by the government of India and being transported to the South African mint to be used for coinage.

Built in England in 1924, the 137-meter (450-foot) vessel was owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company. The passenger/cargo liner was sailing from Bombay (Mumbai) India to Durban, South Africa carrying 732 passengers, 222 crew, and 6,472 tons of cargo, including 2,364 bars of silver bullion when it was hit.

A total of 280 passengers and crew died while 687 passengers were rescued by two ships nearby. The incident has been described as one of the deadliest in history, resulting in the ship frequently being called the “Indian Titanic.”

Argentum, a company owned by hedge fund boss Paul Marshall, organized the salvage operation after the wreck was located in 2017. It deployed the salvage vessel the MV Seabed Worker to lift the bullion at a depth of approximately 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from the seabed. The silver was transferred onto another vessel, MV Pacific Askari, and transported to the UK, as Argentum believed the silver belonged to the UK government. The company went ahead to declare the find to the Receiver of Wreck as required by the Merchant Shipping Act.

A legal battle ensued after it was determined that the silver was the property of the South African government. Argentum sought compensation for the recovery. Under maritime law, it is possible to make a claim for voluntary salvage, which means a salvor can make a claim regardless of whether the owner of the property requested or consented to the salvage operation.

Initially, the High Court and Court of Appeal in the UK ruled in favor of Argentum, which argued that the silver was “in use or intended for use for commercial purposes” when it was being carried at sea in November 1942. South Africa as a foreign state sought sovereign immunity.

In its ruling, the UK Supreme Court held that the silver was not in use nor intended for use for commercial purposes. “Therefore, South Africa is entitled to immunity from Argentum’s claim against the silver,” said the judges in the 45-page ruling.

The judges held that the silver was procured for the production of coin for both the Union of South Africa and Egypt and that it was likely that the greater part of the consignment on board the vessel would be used for Union coinage. The intended use of the silver was therefore for a predominantly sovereign purpose. Last month, the two sides however reached a confidential, out-of-court settlement.

The case also helped to renew attention on the tragic plight of the Tilawa. Two organizations, the S.S.Tilawa Foundation and Tilawa 1942 seek to preserve and tell the story.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/uk-supreme-court-decides-case-over-43m-silver-from-wwii-shipwreck

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353a01 No.20854591

The whole problem w sirius was xm sats getting jammed by 2 oersians dabbing in a white car gg

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da3957 No.20856427

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Corporations are the protected ‘citizens’ as it is easily controlled and can be in every country. In the end, corporations benefit from activism… It is not about the people but companies.

“Prof. Mervyn King | Virtual Address | The Conscious Leadership & Ethics Summit 2023”: THE KING REPORTS: KING I, II, II AND IV - “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

https://youtu.be/WNV_DNM3s9E

Jun 18, 2023

Prof. Mervyn King welcomes delegates of the 2023 Summit. He is the founder and Patron of the Good Governance Academy as we as the former judge of South Africa.

0:39 – “From the middle of the 19th century until today, we followed the dictum of the primacy of the shareholder on the false premise that the shareholders were the owners of the company. It was a myth because you cannot own the assets of the company. It’s the company’s own assets.”

1:36 – “By 1987, we knew that planet earth had become degraded and in fact the profit of majority of companies was being subsidized by society and the environment. That’s the difference between right and wrong.”

2:06 – “The company, the limited liability company, is a person in law but it is incapacitated as a 3 years child… He or she cannot think and the guardian of that child has to think for it.

7:04 – “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world.

https://caribbeangovernance.org/blog/10680356

21 Jun 2021 2:40 PM

Long before the western world adopted ESG as a buzzword in corporate Governance, Professor Mervyn King and his counterparts in South Africa had embraced and develop principles and frameworks for embracing practices that went beyond the financial bottom line.

The King I report, produced in 1994, a mere two years after the publication of the seminal work by Sir Adrian Cadbury and his team in 1992, highlighted effective and ethical leadership, sustainability in terms of economic, social and environmental performance; and good corporate citizenship as the key elements which should guide directors in fulfilling their oversight role. Like other Codes of Corporate Governance, the King Reports are not mandatory by law, but are principles which are adopted by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for all companies on an ‘apply and explain’ basis.

The first Code was produced for South Africa at a historic point in the country’s development as it was transitioning out of the apartheid system. Prof King, Senior Council and retired Judge of South Africa’s Supreme Court was asked to lead this task, and so his leadership saw his team develop a Code which has since seen three revisions deemed King II, King III and King IV.

The King III report also embraced emerging global governance trends such as: Alternative dispute resolution; Risk-based internal audit; Shareholder approval of non-executive directors’ remuneration; and Evaluation of board and directors’ performance.

Foresight can also be found in the King III report, which long before the pandemic and the focus on business continuity, the King Committee had incorporated a number of new principles relating to: IT governance; Business Rescue; and also, the Fundamental and affected transactions in terms of director’s responsibilities during mergers, acquisitions and amalgamations.

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da3957 No.20856431

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History repeats when no one learns from it… The ANC was regarded as a terrorist organisation but later the narrative changed to ‘freedom fighters’.

Candace Owens: “This Is HUGE. Putin Exposes The CIA.”

https://youtu.be/5BdtMv-vyn0

Premiered Feb 9, 2024 Candace Owens Podcast

In his interview with Tucker Carlon, Vladimir Putin alleges that the CIA controls our Presidents. We already knew that due to the deep state's reaction to Trump, who they didn’t expect. But now, Putin is confirming it. They are dumbing down and drugging Americans en masse while overthrowing governments worldwide. But to what end?

9:59 – “They got behind the Azov battalion. They said we don’t consider them a far right group anymore, people that are wearing Nazi symbols. We don’t consider them a far-right group anymore, we consider them freedom fighters. What does that tell you about the ADL? That they are part of a propagandist arm that they work for the state and at their core they are Marxists… They want to censor speech and control speech. They are all fraudulent groups.”

24:22 – “We are dumb, diluted and drugged. In fact… they’re creating slave colonies all throughout Europe and the United States. We have become slaves to our government because they have pushed through Marxist principle and that’s what Marxism is all about… constantly keep us angry about something; the proletariat, the working class, white vs black, short vs tall, women vs men.”

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3f5110 No.20870715

Canada #58 >>20867403

Trudeau government pledges $1.7 million to target pro-family African nations with LGBT propaganda

Trudeau's Liberals, including MP Anita Vandenbeld, and LGBT activists are increasingly targeting majority-Christian African countries that pass laws protecting their societies from homosexual and gender ideology.

Clare Marie Merkowsky Tue May 14, 2024

OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian Liberal government has promised $1.7 million in taxpayer dollars to push the LGBT agenda abroad and to target pro-family laws in Africa.

On May 9, Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld, parliamentary secretary for International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen, pledged $1.7 million to international groups devoted to promoting the LGBT agenda worldwide.

“We know that groups who oppose 2SLGBTQI+ rights [sic] are increasingly well-funded and globally co-ordinated,” Vandenbeld said at the conference hosted by the “Dignity Network,” a coalition of Canadian groups that push LGBT ideology around the world.

At the conference, LGBT activists complained that while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises funds for the LGBT movement, the funds are slow to arrive.

According to Vandenbeld, $1 million of the funding will be spent on a U.S.-led research project that aims to stop “stigma” and “discrimination” against so-called “2SLGBTQI+ people.”

The remaining $700,000 in taxpayer dollars will be given to the “Rainbow Railroad,” a Toronto-based LGBT group.

The funding is only the Trudeau government’s most recent bid to push homosexual and gender ideology.

Trudeau’s 2024 budget features plans to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to promote LGBT ideology at home and abroad and to expand “equity groups” in the workforce to include people who identify as “2SLGBTQI+.”

The conference attendees also called for more funding and activism against pro-family laws, especially in Uganda and Ghana.

While Western counties have embraced the LGBT ideology, many African countries have passed legislation to prevent the LGBT agenda from infiltrating their countries.

In March 2023, the Christian-majority country of Uganda voted to strengthen its commitment to Biblical marriage and sexuality by passing legislation that further criminalizes sodomy and other depraved behaviors.

This February, Ghana passed a bill outright banning LGBT behavior and activism, as well as homosexual adoption.

Included in Ghana’s bill are proposed criminal penalties for those who engage in homosexual acts or promote such acts. This includes a ban on same-sex “marriage,” same-sex adoption, and other public displays of homosexual or transgender behavior. The bill also seeks to clamp down on transgender ideology by banning mutilating procedures for gender-confused individuals.

The Catholic bishops of Ghana strongly support the law, while the far-left, pro-LGBT United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has attacked it and urged Ghana’s president not to sign it into law.

Africa’s continued resistance to the acceptance of sodomy has led pro-LGBT international bodies and countries including the United States government, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Bank to attempt to force countries in the region to abandon their principles or face financial or economic consequences.

In October, U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration announced that Uganda would be axed from its “African Growth and Opportunity Act” program after approving its new anti-sodomy law. In August, the World Bank took similar action when it froze loans to Uganda over the latter’s unwillingness to embrace sodomy.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-government-1-7-million-target-pro-family-african-nations-lgbt/

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cca204 No.20886888

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>>20856427

>“Prof. Mervyn King | Virtual Address | The Conscious Leadership & Ethics Summit 2023”: THE KING REPORTS: KING I, II, II AND IV - “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

>Long before the western world adopted ESG as a buzzword in corporate Governance, Professor Mervyn King and his counterparts in South Africa had embraced and develop principles and frameworks for embracing practices that went beyond the financial bottom line.

This is brilliant!

“ "Populism Is Democracy!" My Oxford Union Speech vs Nancy Pelosi | The Winston Marshall Show #015”

https://youtu.be/uKGf8VKOrA4

May 13, 2024

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi did not enjoy this speech.

I was invited to debate her at the Oxford Union on Thursday 25th April 2024.

The motion was "Populism Is a Threat To Democracy". She argued in favour of the motion. I took the opposition.

It is not populism that is the threat. The real threat comes from the elites.

7:59 – “The farmer revolts from Netherlands to Germany, France, Greece to Sri Lanka, farmers have taken their tractors to the road to protest ESG policy that’s floated down to us from those all-knowing infallible elites of Davos.

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cca204 No.20886893

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>>20856427

>>20886888

Mervyn King: “We can be proud of South Africans that the King report is used as a template around the world on governance.”

https://youtu.be/UTRpDNWd_O8

Nov 20, 2018

Join Professor Mervyn King for an eye-opening one-day seminar in which he will unpack everything you need to know to about the concepts of King IV and how to ensure good Corporate Governance in your business Integrated reporting, inclusive and sustainable capitalism are major shifts in the corporate world. Mervyn King will deal with these concepts which will resonate in King IV. He will also deal with the outcomes and “apply and explain” regimes of King IV.

Thanks to the King Code of Good Governance, South Africa leads the world in Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting legislation. This is due almost solely to the prescience and perseverance of the legendary Professor Mervyn King.

1:01 – “I was a judge as you know and I resigned over matters of conscience and once a judge always a judge but I had a big corporate legal practice. So many of my clients asked me to go on their boards as a non-executive director and from there I became chief executive of companies. I ended up chairing companies listed in London, Europe and South Africa. … I at the moment chair the Internantional integrated Reporting Council which is a body formed at the beginning of 2010 where there was a realisaion by the International Federation of Accountant and the United Nations on Governance and Oversight of which I was a chairman and the Global Reporting Initiative which had standards for reporting on the so-called intangible assets in the company… Sustainability Reporting was born at the end of the 20th century, turning to the 21st century, and I became the chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative.

3:17 – “We can be proud of South Africans that the King report is used as a template around the world on governance.

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cca204 No.20886900

>>20886893

>I at the moment chair the Internantional integrated Reporting Council which is a body formed at the beginning of 2010 where there was a realisaion by the International Federation of Accountant and the United Nations on Governance and Oversight of which I was a chairman and the Global Reporting Initiative which had standards for reporting on the so-called intangible assets in the company… Sustainability Reporting was born at the end of the 20th century, turning to the 21st century, and I became the chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative.

“IIRC APPOINT MERVYN KING AS CHAIRMAN TO LEAD NEXT STEPS OF INTEGRATED REPORTING FRAMEWORK”

https://integratedreporting.ifrs.org/news/iirc-appoint-mervyn-king-as-chairman-to-lead-next-steps-of-integrated-reporting-framework-2/

11 October, 2011

The International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) announces the appointment of Professor Mervyn King, Chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance and formerly IIRC Deputy Chairman, as the new IIRC Chairman to take Integrated Reporting into its next phase of development.

Professor King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship; Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria; Visiting Professor in the Rhodes Investec Business School; and has an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand. He chaired the United Nations Committee on Governance and Oversight; has been Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative and is the author of Transient Caretakers (with Teodorina Lessidrenska) and The Corporate Citizen.

Professor King’s appointment follows the announcement that Sir Michael Peat retires as Principal Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall after 18 years in the Royal Household. While working for The Prince of Wales, Sir Michael has helped to establish The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and has been the IIRC Chairman since its inception.

The IIRC brings together world leaders from the corporate, investment, accounting, securities, regulatory, academic and standard-setting sectors as well as civil society. The IIRC aims to forge a global consensus on the direction in which reporting needs to evolve, creating a framework for reporting which brings together material information about an organisation’s strategy, governance, performance and prospects. Integrated Reporting will provide a clear and concise representation of how an organisation demonstrates stewardship and how it creates and sustains value.

https://integratedreporting.ifrs.org/the-iirc-2/

The International Integrated Reporting Framework and Integrated Thinking Principles have been developed and are used around the world, in 75 countries, to advance communication about value creation, preservation and erosion.

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cca204 No.20886905

>>20886888

>>20886893

>>20886900

“IIRC welcomes World Economic Forum white paper: Seeking Return on ESG - Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society”

https://integratedreporting.ifrs.org/news/iirc-welcomes-world-economic-forum-white-paper-seeking-return-on-esg-advancing-the-reporting-ecosystem-to-unlock-impact-for-business-and-society/

24 January, 2019

The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) welcomes the publication of the World Economic Forum (WEF) white paper, ‘Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society’, today (Thursday 24 January), in which the IIRC has been a partner.

The consensus behind the 80 bodies – including WEF Managing Director Richard Samans – that came together to form the IIRC, was the urgent need to build a holistic ecosystem based on the concept of value creation, truly integrating financial and non-financial information.

The new White Paper highlights the two year-project to align major sustainability frameworks with financial reporting convened by the International Integrated Reporting Council, as a major effort to bring greater clarity, comparability and coherence to the reporting landscape for multi-capital or environmental, social governance (ESG) data.

Commenting from Davos on the release of this white paper, IIRC CEO Richard Howitt said, “What we have witnessed at Davos this year, is a clear indication that investors are increasingly taking multi-capital, ESG information seriously – looking at it integrated with financial information.

“However, as this report indicates, investors and businesses alike continue to find that the reporting landscape is confused – meaning report users are struggling to truly understand the future viability and sustainable development potential of an organisation through the information currently provided.

“We welcome the support this white paper gives to the IIRC-led ‘Better Alignment Project’ launched in late 2018 as a means of building a more aligned reporting landscape and commit to working with partners including the WEF as this project develops.”

In November 2018, participants of the Corporate Reporting Dialogue – which is convened by the IIRC – announced a ground-breaking two-year project, bringing together the major players in the corporate reporting field to drive better coherence and clarity in the reporting landscape – with the ultimate goal of integrating ESG and financial information.

The continued voluntary uptake of integrated reporting in 70 countries around the world indicates that markets now believe that businesses must communicate holistically – across financial, manufactured, social, natural, human and intellectual information.

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cca204 No.20886908

>>20886905

>‘Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society’

“Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society” 1 of 3

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_ESG_Report_digital_pages.pdf

Because of the inherent value of more useable ESG data and its importance in helping solve pressing societal problems, this topic demands swift attention. However, standards development has not always been a quick process, and the universe of metrics is large—expanded by topics that are material only to specific industries.

Next Steps Taking its cue from these findings, the ‘Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ effort aims to catalyse delivery on the three action areas identified as critical to maximising system-level progress. To achieve this, the effort, in collaboration with the community, will advance on a number of fronts in 2019:

1. Develop and publish an interactive ecosystem map highlighting vital stakeholder groups in the reporting ecosystem and the activities of organizations within those groups. The map should help the community better understand the complex global system of players influencing ESG disclosure—including those from nonOECD countries—and enable players to act in a more coherent, cohesive manner.

2. Draw on the World Economic Forum’s platform to promote effective, active cross-system dialogue between different stakeholder groups within the reporting ecosystem. This endeavour can help inspire action towards shared goals, and better support the community in addressing the fundamental ESG data needs of investors, companies and other data end-users.

3. Support actors and initiatives in the field of ESG reporting that seek to advance the reporting landscape. This will include providing a community perspective on how to better improve comparability of reported data through tightened and aligned methodologies for metric measurement.

Other efforts of the Forum are already looking to support companies in capturing the value of the ‘S’ in ESG. The Forum’s GrowInclusive platformxiv—an initiative launched in 2018 in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre and the World Bank Group—aims to help organizations better understand how to derive business benefits from more socially inclusive business practices.

Additional avenues remain to be explored beyond the issues highlighted in this first paper, to better unlock the impact that an ESG focus enables, building on the burgeoning work at the World Economic Forum on sustainable investment and the new economy.

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cca204 No.20886909

>>20886908

“Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society” 2 of 3

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_ESG_Report_digital_pages.pdf

‘Building an Effective Ecosystem for ESG’ is a collaboration between the Forum and a coalition of its members and partners, guided by a Project Steering Committee and supported by a wider Project Advisory Group, dedicated to capturing leading insights and perspectives from across industries and geographies.

Project Steering Committee

Allianz SE Günther Thallinger Member of the Board of Management, Investment Management, ESG

BASF SE Dirk Voeste Vice President, Sustainability Strategy

BlackRock Tariq Fancy Chief Investment Officer, Sustainable Investing

Boston Consulting Group Wendy Woods Senior Partner and Managing Director, Global Leader—Social Impact Practice

Greentech Capital Advisors Jeff McDermott Managing Partner

International Finance Corporation Ethiopis Tafara Vice President for Legal, Compliance Risk and Sustainability, and General Counsel

Novartis Sonja Haut Manager, FES Impact Valuation, Integrated Reporting

Novo Nordisk A/S Susanne Stormer Vice President, Corporate Sustainability

UBS Switzerland AG Simon Smiles Group Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer—Ultra High Net Worth

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cca204 No.20886922

>>20886908

>>20886909

>>20848003

>Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Minerals

>>20886893

>I became the chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative.

>>20590424

>>20794470

>>20794479

>Standard Chartered

“Seeking Return on ESG: Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society” 3 of 3

https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_ESG_Report_digital_pages.pdf

Project Advisory Group and additional contributors from Project Steering Committee organizations

African Rainbow Minerals Nerine Botes-Schoeman Executive, Sustainable Development

Allianz SE Soňa Stadtelmeyer-Petru Giorgio Ripamonti Alexandra Blickling ESG & Responsible Investing Lead Senior Underwriter, Financial Lines Senior Consultant

Allianz Global Investors Dr. Steffen Hörter Glens Olivers Andersons Eugenia Unanyants-Jackson Global Head of ESG Global ESG Investments Global Head of ESG Research

ArcelorMittal Alan Knight Group Head, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development

Barclays PLC Vedant Walia Head of ESG Reporting

BASF Christian Heller Tanja Castor Senior Manager, Corporate Sustainability Strategy Senior Expert, Corporate Sustainability Strategy

Bata Lucia Lot Group Director, Corporate Social Responsibility and Communication

Bloomberg LP Curtis Ravenel Global Head, Sustainable Business and Finance Boston Consulting Group Douglas Beal Director, Social Impact

BP Dominic Emery Vice President, Group Strategic Planning

CSRHub Cynthia Figge Chief Executive Officer

EQT AB Therése Lennehag Head of Sustainability

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Tim Mohin Chief Executive Officer

Greentech Capital Advisors Angelica Nikolausson Vice President

Honda Motor Japan Akira Kimura Head of Corporate Planning

HSBC Rebecca Self Chief Financial Officer, Sustainable Finance

IKEA Group Peter Jones Head of Sustainability Analytics and Impact

International Finance Corporation Irina Likhachova Atiyah Curmally Senior Communications Officer, Sustainability Senior Environmental Specialist

International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) Richard Howitt Chief Executive Officer

Lazard Asset Management Rohit Chopra Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Equity Fund

LGT Impact En Lee Partner, Head of Asia Pacific

Lloyds Banking Group James Wilde Group Head of Sustainability

Marubeni Corporation Masayuki Hashimoto General Manager, Sustainability Management

Philips International Simon Braaksma Senior Director of Group Sustainability

responsAbility Investments AG Pedro Fernandez Senior Social and Environmental Officer

Siemens AG Markus Strangmüller Vice President, Sustainability Management

Standard Chartered Bank Simon Connell Head,

Sustainability Strategy Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Jeffrey Hales David Post Chair of the SASB Standards Board Director of Research

Target Corporation Kate Mohan Corporate Responsibility Executive

UBS Switzerland AG James Purcell Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Global Wealth Management

Volkswagen AG Ralf Pfitzner Global Head of Sustainability

Walmart Katherine Neebe Senior Director, ESG, Trust and Transparency

World Benchmarking Alliance Gerbrand Haverkamp Executive Director World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Rodney Irwin Managing Director

Zurich Insurance Group Linda Freiner Group Head of Sustainability

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cca204 No.20886931

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>>20886888

>“The farmer revolts from Netherlands to Germany, France, Greece to Sri Lanka, farmers have taken their tractors to the road to protest ESG policy that’s floated down to us from those all-knowing infallible elites of Davos.”

>>20886893

>Mervyn King: “We can be proud of South Africans that the King report is used as a template around the world on governance.”

>>20886905

>“IIRC welcomes World Economic Forum white paper: Seeking Return on ESG - Advancing the Reporting Ecosystem to Unlock Impact for Business and Society”

“Davos 1999 - Nelson Mandela”

https://youtu.be/vN6FBVeSuJA

Dec 9, 2013

3:38 – [Klaus Schwab] “The World Economic Forum takes great pride in having accompanied you and all South African, our friends, over the last decade. In the late 80s and early 90s we were searching for ANC officials living in exile camps and integrated them already at that time into our community.

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cca204 No.20886945

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>>20886922

>LGT Impact En Lee Partner, Head of Asia Pacific

En Lee, Managing Director, Head of Sustainable & Impact Investments, Asia LGT

https://youtu.be/pLBiLCHd9WE

https://www.ypo.org/profile/en-lee/

En Lee is the Head of Sustainable and Impact Investments in Asia at LGT, the world’s largest family-owned private banking and asset management group with over USD230 billion in assets under management. He leads and manages the regional impact investment portfolio in Southeast Asia and China, serving on the boards of several organizations in Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. He is a Partner of Lightrock, LGT’s global impact investing platform, and a member of LGT’s Global Sustainability Board. Prior to LGT, Lee was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs advising investment funds.

A recognized industry pioneer, Lee serves on the World Economic Forum ESG Advisory Group, Asia Investor Group on Climate Change, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore Sustainable Finance Working Group. He is an Advisory Committee Member of the Triple P Financial Inclusion Fund, a Steering Committee Member of the Harvard Impact Investing Group, and an Entrepreneur In Residence at INSEAD. Lee graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and is a CAIA Charterholder. He was selected as an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and YPO.

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cca204 No.20886949

File: 611f4de946ba64a⋯.jpg (94.98 KB,1728x859,1728:859,H_S_H_Prince_Max.JPG)

>>20886945

About LGT: “A journey through 900 years of the Princely House of Liechtenstein”

https://www.lgt.com/global-en/about-lgt/our-owner

A journey through 900 years of the Princely House of Liechtenstein

The history of the owner family of LGT has been closely connected with the country of Liechtenstein ever since Prince Karl I (1569 to 1627), the first Prince of Liechtenstein. Today, Liechtenstein is one of the most economically successful states in the world.

The Princely House of Liechtenstein has always been entrepreneurial. Acquiring and managing land was the backbone of the family business in earlier centuries. Later, the family diversified into other economic sectors. With skill, innovative spirit, long-term perspective, a great deal of discipline and a little bit of luck, the Princely House built up successful companies in various industries. Thanks to a smart diversification strategy, the family overcame numerous crises and setbacks, preserving its wealth over generations. To this day, it continues to emphasize diversification, with its company and investment portfolio ranging from agriculture and forestry to alternative energy production and successful financial institutions.

Its values and traditions are as important to the Princely Family as they were nine centuries ago. These include respect, friendliness, entrepreneurial commitment, a long-term and holistic perspective, and the relentless pursuit of quality, innovation, and improvement. These values shape LGT as well.

The members of the Princely Family are successful entrepreneurs. But they are also more than that. Many famous regents, diplomats, and officers, but also builders, philanthropists and art collectors bear the name Liechtenstein.

The princely companiesA broadly diversified portfolio of companies

"Preserving values for the next generation" is a recurring theme in the history of the Princely Family of Liechtenstein. Today, in addition to LGT, the family's assets include agriculture and forestry in Austria, numerous properties, a production company for container seedlings, and the largest US hybrid rice producer. As disparate as these industries are, the companies share three characteristics: they are managed according to the family values, operate sustainably, and healthy growth is more important than making a quick profit.

https://www.lgt.com/global-en/about-lgt/our-company#id_19518_19520

Foundation Board

H.S.H. Prinz Max von und zu Liechtenstein Chairman LGT Group Foundation

H.S.H. Prinz Hubertus von und zu Liechtenstei

Karen Fawcett

Helen Louise Heslop

Mark Jordy

Dr. Peter Nussbaum

Thomas Piske

Gunn Wærsted

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cca204 No.20886963

File: 498caff14c1d2b6⋯.jpg (102.58 KB,1836x669,612:223,Lightrock_Prince_Max.JPG)

>>20886945

>He is a Partner of Lightrock, LGT’s global impact investing platform

>>20886949

>H.S.H. Prinz Max von und zu Liechtenstein Chairman LGT Group Foundation

Lightrock: About Us

https://www.lightrock.com/about

The evolution towards ‘sustainable capitalism’ has accelerated across all investing classes including venture capital, private equity, and public equity. Lightrock is an impact investor that seeks to achieve financial as well as societal and environmental returns by investing in businesses that contribute positively to humankind and the planet. Since Lightrock's impact investing efforts have been initiated by its Founder and Chairman Prince Max von Liechtenstein, the organization aims to leverage its pioneering position and experience to scale and mainstream impact investing across asset classes over the next decade.

"An impact mindset around global megatrends combined with pioneering expertise and deep local context allows us to identify and nurture scalable high-impact business solutions to global challenges, and to build portfolios that are relevant and well-balanced from a risk and return perspective.”

Prince Max von Liechtenstein, Founder and Chairman

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cca204 No.20886967

>>20886949

>>20886963

“H.S.H. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein, Curriculum Vitae”

https://www.lgt.com/resource/blob/32654/eaca0cd70ee9e3863693a3e001547084/cv-h-s-h-prince-max-von-und-zu-liechtenstein-en-data.pdf

Name H.S.H. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein

Year of birth 1969

Nationality Liechtenstein

Education

▪ 1988 Swiss school-leaving diploma from the Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium grammar school

▪ 1989–1993 Studies in Business Economics at the European Business School

▪ 1997–1998 MBA at Harvard Business School

Professional career

Internships during studies with the following:

▪ 1988–1989 LGT ▪ 1990 James D. Wolfensohn

▪ 1991 News Corporation

▪ 1992 Bain & Company

▪ 1993–1996 Investment Analyst and Associate at JPMorgan Partners, New York

▪ 1998–2000 Associate and Associate Director of Industri Kapital in London and Hamburg

▪ 2000–2003 Director of JPMorgan Partners in London and Munich

▪ 2003–2006 Head of JPMorgan Partners’ German office

▪ 2006–2020 CEO LGT ▪ since 2007 Member of the Foundation Board of LGT Venture Philanthropy

2016–2021 Member of the Board of Directors of LGT Impact, founded for the for-profit investments of LGT Venture Philanthropy (since 2021 Lightrock)

▪ since 2021 Chairman of Lightrock

▪ since 2021 Chairman of LGT Group Foundation

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cca204 No.20887003

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>>20886922

>ArcelorMittal Alan Knight Group Head, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development

>>20833601

>SABMiller plc

Alan Knight

https://youtu.be/-KbIsXxiVlY

May 19, 2017

Alan Knight, CR GM, talks about steel's contribution to the circular economy and our carbon challenge.

https://carbon-forward.com/speaker/knight-alan/

Alan has over 30 years’ experience of working with global companies and governments on sustainability. In April 2021 he joined Drax as the Group Director of Sustainability. Drax’s ambition is to be the world’s first carbon negative power station and is the largest producer of biomass for energy.

Prior to that, for seven years was in the steel and mining sectors as the Global Head of Sustainable Development for ArcelorMittal. He was Co-chairman of Responsible Steel and served on the steering board of the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance. Alan created and chaired the Ebola Private Sector Mobilisation Group, which was a collaboration of over 100 companies sharing best practice and coordinating the corporate response to Ebola in West Africa. For this he was made a Clinton Global Citizen honouree in 2015.

Alan has also served as the Sustainability Director for Business and the Community (BITC) where he oversaw all their Corporate Sustainability Programmes. He advised the Virgin Group on sustainable development for seven years. He worked with global companies as diverse as B&Q where he led their entire Sustainability programme for 10 years. He was instrumental in founding and developing the Forest Stewardship Council. He held similar roles in the Parent company Kingfisher and SABMiller, the multibillion brewery company.

For nine years he was a commissioner of the Sustainable Development Commission and introduced the concept of “choice editing” into the product policy debate. He was awarded an OBE in June 1998, in 2005 the US-based Rainforest Alliance presented him with a lifelong award and in 2013 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Environment.

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cca204 No.20887017

>>20833601

>1969

>South African Breweries Limited (‘SAB Limited’) and hotelier, Sol Kerzner, partnered to create Southern Sun Hotels (‘Southern Sun’), the largest hotel group in the southern hemisphere at the time.

>2003

>The Tsogo Sun Group entered into a landmark empowerment deal, through which the hotel and casino businesses were housed under one entity owned 51% by an empowerment consortium and 49% by SABMiller plc.

>>20887003

>He held similar roles in the Parent company Kingfisher and SABMiller, the multibillion brewery company.

SABMiller History

https://www.company-histories.com/SABMiller-plc-Company-History.html

SABMiller plc ranks as the world's second largest brewer in terms of volume, trailing only Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Although now based in London, the company owns no breweries in the United Kingdom. Its true home country is South Africa, where The South African Breweries Limited (SAB) was founded in 1895 and where SABMiller today holds an impressive 98 percent share of the beer market. The firm operates seven breweries in South Africa, where it sells 14 brands of beer, including local lager Castle (the best-selling beer in Africa), SABMiller import brands Pilsner Urquell and Miller Genuine Draft, and one foreign brand brewed under license–Amstel. The company also maintains a major presence in the South African soft drink market through a 74 percent interest in Amalgamated Beverage Industries Ltd., the country's largest bottler and distributor of the Coca-Cola line of products, and full ownership of Appletiser South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., a producer of nonalcoholic sparkling fruit juices. In addition, SABMiller owns a 30 percent stake in Distell Group Ltd., the leading distributor of wines and spirits in South Africa, and 49 percent of Tsogo Sun Holdings (Pty.) Ltd., an operator of hotels and casinos in southern Africa.

SABMiller History

https://www.company-histories.com/SABMiller-plc-Company-History.html

SABMiller plc ranks as the world's second largest brewer in terms of volume, trailing only Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Although now based in London, the company owns no breweries in the United Kingdom. Its true home country is South Africa, where The South African Breweries Limited (SAB) was founded in 1895 and where SABMiller today holds an impressive 98 percent share of the beer market. The firm operates seven breweries in South Africa, where it sells 14 brands of beer, including local lager Castle (the best-selling beer in Africa), SABMiller import brands Pilsner Urquell and Miller Genuine Draft, and one foreign brand brewed under license–Amstel. The company also maintains a major presence in the South African soft drink market through a 74 percent interest in Amalgamated Beverage Industries Ltd., the country's largest bottler and distributor of the Coca-Cola line of products, and full ownership of Appletiser South Africa (Pty.) Ltd., a producer of nonalcoholic sparkling fruit juices. In addition, SABMiller owns a 30 percent stake in Distell Group Ltd., the leading distributor of wines and spirits in South Africa, and 49 percent of Tsogo Sun Holdings (Pty.) Ltd., an operator of hotels and casinos in southern Africa.

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cca204 No.20887022

>>20887003

>Alan created and chaired the Ebola Private Sector Mobilisation Group, which was a collaboration of over 100 companies sharing best practice and coordinating the corporate response to Ebola in West Africa. For this he was made a Clinton Global Citizen honouree in 2015.

ArcelorMittal: “Help with a health emergency” – 2014 Ebola outbreak

https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/media/cases-studies/help-with-a-health-emergency

Our operation was commended for its response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa

ArcelorMittal was recognised by the Clinton Global Initiative for our leadership in responding to the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa, which is now accepted as the most extensive outbreak in the nearly four-decade history of the disease.

With mining operations in Liberia, we were at the heart of one of the areas most severely affected by Ebola, but the company resolved to continue business as usual. Working hard to understand the virus and protect our employees, we hired experts to advise the company, mobilising specialist medical equipment, and putting a management committee, procedures and systems in place.

But we recognised that our response would be more powerful if we were not acting alone, so we founded the Ebola Private Sector Mobilisation Group (EPSMG). This was initially a platform for sharing information between companies to help combat Ebola, which quickly grew to include international advocacy for a global response to the Ebola outbreak, and the mobilisation of in-country resources to support humanitarian and healthcare first responders. At the peak, more than 100 companies, and almost 50 public bodies and NGOs participated in the EPSMG from a wide range of sectors and countries.

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cca204 No.20887028

>>20887003

>>20887022

“Environment Minister Barbara Creecy faces legal action over yearslong air pollution by ArcelorMittal”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-08-17-environment-minister-barbara-creecy-faces-legal-action-over-yearslong-air-pollution-by-arcelormittal/

17 Aug 2023

Eco-justice groups on Tuesday, 15 August announced they were suing the minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment, Barbara Creecy, and the National Air Quality Officer (NAQO) for permitting almost two decades of air pollution by the continent’s largest steel supplier, ArcelorMittal South Africa (Amsa).

In an email announcing the legal action, the groups stated that Creecy and the NAQO had permitted Amsa to comply with standards that are three to seven times weaker than the 2015 emission standards, which are health-based standards that protect people living near polluting industries.

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cca204 No.20887035

>>20887022

>>20887028

“ArcelorMittal SA sounds warning to labour as it mulls closure of steel operations”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-05-02-arcelormittal-sa-sounds-warning-to-labour-as-it-mulls-closure-of-steel-operations/

02 May 2024

The company will make a final decision by August on whether to keep open or shut down its loss-making long-steel operations in Vereeniging and Newcastle. ArcelorMittal has argued that curbing above-inflation pay rises in the steel industry is required to keep operations financially sustainable.

As SA’s struggling steel industry is locked in pay rise negotiations with trade unions and races against time to stabilise labour relations, the country’s largest steel maker has fired a two-fold warning to workers.

ArcelorMittal has urged SA’s nearly 400,000 steel workers to either moderate their pay rise expectations and sympathise with the industry’s difficult financial situation or continue to push for high pay rates and risk job losses.

ArcelorMittal SA CEO Kobus Verster is emphatic that the steel industry’s heydays — when steel companies were profitable and could easily pay above-inflation wages — are long gone.

But workers and their representative trade unions are not adjusting to the new, hard reality, Verster said.

And now, ArcelorMittal, which employs over 9,000 workers and contractors (paying them at least R5-billion annually), is at risk of shutting down its loss-making long-steel operations in Vereeniging (Gauteng) and Newcastle (KwaZulu-Natal).

At a generic level, ArcelorMittal wants to see state-owned transport group Transnet move fast with implementing reforms to its port and rail operations. The dysfunction and unreliability of Transnet’s rail network have meant that ArcelorMittal is transporting raw materials to its factories by road, which is more expensive.

ArcelorMittal relies heavily on Transnet Freight Rail to transport 91% of the iron ore and 100% of the coking coal consumed at its Newcastle and Vanderbijlpark factories to produce steel.

Then there are Eskom’s blackouts, which delay ArcelorMittal’s steel production process. Higher stages of load shedding mean that its factory in Vanderbijlpark is, at times, asked by the power utility to engage in load curtailment for eight hours a day. This effectively reduces its use of electricity.

Fixing Transnet and Eskom, entities that have been dysfunctional for more than a decade, will not happen overnight.

ArcelorMittal has been criticised for being naive in believing that logistic and energy reforms could be delivered by the government within the six months that it has deferred its shutdown decision.

Asked about this, Verster would only say that he remains positive about the ongoing discussions with Transnet, Eskom and government officials, saying that talks are “very proactive and solutions-driven”. He said ArcelorMittal would not keep its long-steel business open “based on promises”.

If ArcelorMittal decides to keep its long-steel operations open, big investment plans are in the offing. These include ArcelorMittal reducing its reliance on Eskom by making investments in renewable energy sources, as part of its 2030 decarbonisation plan. This entails the company building a 200MW renewable energy facility at its Vanderbijlpark plant, making use of the land available.

Werner Venter, the chief technology officer at ArcelorMittal, said the renewable energy facility will power its factories and reduce Eskom-related electricity costs and ArcelorMittal’s emissions.

“We are hoping to break ground on the project in 2024. There are already permit, environmental and local authority approvals. We are just waiting for a grid connection from Eskom,” said Venter.

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cca204 No.20887041

“Sex abuse scandal [during the Ebola reponse in Congo] rocks World Health Organization, but what now?”

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2021/9/29/WHO-rocked-by-Ebola-sex-abuse-scandal-in-Congo

29 September 2021

A damning report [https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/final-report-of-the-independent-commission-on-the-review-of-sexual-abuse-and-exploitation-ebola-drc] has found that the World Health Organization failed to prevent and tackle widespread sexual abuse during the Ebola reponse in Congo – a probe triggered by an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation [https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2020/09/29/exclusive-more-50-women-accuse-aid-workers-sex-abuse-congo-ebola-crisis].

WHO staff knew of allegations in early May 2019, but it wasn’t until October 2020 that an independent commission was established – a month after our investigation was published. It featured more than 50 women who said they had been lured into sex-for-work schemes. Additional reporting turned up more than 20 other victims.

Six victims reacted to the report on Wednesday, telling The New Humanitarian that investigators – paid for by the WHO (the commission chairs worked pro bono) – had failed to explain what its findings could mean. One woman said multiple investigators hounded her each day, asking her to relive details of the alleged abuse she suffered from a WHO worker.

Although the commission was established in October 2020, it took investigators nearly seven months to start interviews in Congo, where Ebola killed some 2,300 people in Ituri and North Kivu provinces between August 2018 and June 2020 – the second deadliest outbreak ever.

The commission’s investigators confirmed that alleged victims were promised jobs in exchange for “relationships”, or were sexually exploited to keep jobs in the response.

“To get ahead in the job, you had to have sex… Everyone had sex in exchange for something. It was very common,” one woman told investigators, according to the commission’s 35-page report, published on Tuesday.

Combined, reporters with The New Humanitarian and the commission’s investigators interviewed some 150 victims. At least nine said they had been raped, including a 13-year-old girl. The allegations involved both national and international WHO staff.

The widespread sexual abuse allegations against the WHO are the latest in a string of repeated sex scandals that have plagued the UN for decades. Despite pledges of “zero tolerance”, allegations against UN workers and peacekeepers continue to mount. And despite pledges of a “survivor and victim-centered” approach, little is often done for victims.

Some critics questioned the independence of the commission’s investigation and noted that many of the allegations were criminal.

“The process itself is the opposite of justice,” said Paula Donovan, co-director of the AIDS-Free World and its Code Blue Campaign, which seeks to end impunity for sexual offenses by UN personnel. “The UN is the only institution in the world that is allowed to investigate itself. WHO's head handpicked experts to lead a commission to look into criminal allegations against the agency's personnel and senior officials.”

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cca204 No.20887045

>>20887041

“Internal documents show the World Health Organization paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each”

https://apnews.com/article/congo-who-sexual-abuse-ebola-f0720f9c241102a220a8d5b4a7fe52cf

November 14, 2023

LONDON (AP) — Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization’s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency’s history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly Ebola outbreak.

According to an internal WHO report from Dr. Gaya Gamhewage’s trip in March, one of the abused women she met gave birth to a baby with “a malformation that required special medical treatment,” meaning even more costs for the young mother in one of the world’s poorest countries.

To help victims like her, the WHO has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by officials working to stop Ebola. That amount per victim is less than a single day’s expenses for some U.N. officials working in the Congolese capital — and $19 more than what Gamhewage received per day during her three-day visit — according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The amount covers typical living expenses for less than four months in a country where, the WHO documents noted, many people survive on less than $2.15 a day.

The payments to women didn’t come freely. To receive the cash, they were required to complete training courses intended to help them start “income-generating activities.” The payments appear to try to circumvent the U.N.'s stated policy that it doesn’t pay reparations by including the money in what it calls a “complete package” of support.

Many Congolese women who were sexually abused have still received nothing. WHO said in a confidential document last month that about a third of the known victims were “impossible to locate.” The WHO said nearly a dozen women declined its offer.

The total of $26,000 that WHO has provided to the victims equals about 1% of the $2 million, WHO-created “survivor assistance fund” for victims of sexual misconduct, primarily in Congo.

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cca204 No.20887048

>>20887041

>>20887045

And the WHO should manage pandemics?

“Don’t ignore the real threat of the WHO pandemic treaty”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/16/dont-ignore-the-real-threat-of-the-who-pandemic-treaty/

16 May 2024 • 6:15pm

The crunch is coming. Later this month, global health ministers will decide in Geneva whether to endorse the proposed new World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic treaty.

This treaty actually stems from a British initiative by the then-prime minister Boris Johnson in March 2021. In a joint article with other leaders, he argued that the world needed a more coordinated approach to managing pandemics in future.

Sadly, since then the Government has never set out its actual negotiating objectives. This was a mistake.

The failure to do this on the pandemic treaty has unfortunately created suspicion about what the Government is really trying to do and what it is willing to defend – all the more so as the conclusion approaches. That’s why the lead minister, Andrew Stephenson MP, was reluctantly forced to the House of Commons on Tuesday.

It lies in the actual point of the treaty: the creation of a new system of pandemic management under the WHO authority and binding under international law.

The director general of the WHO, Dr Tedros, can declare the existence of a pandemic. Member states take on an obligation to cooperate with the WHO “to the fullest extent possible”, to share information and “pandemic-related health products”, to establish a supply chain network, and much more – and of course to fund it. This is all new.

And that is the problem with this treaty, too. Our sovereignty is not formally affected, but we are taking on an international law obligation to work with the WHO system. When the next pandemic comes, government lawyers, MPs, and commentators will say “you must do what the WHO says, or you are breaking international law”.

This would matter less if we could be confident of the neutrality and competence of the WHO. In fact we can be confident of no such thing: it has a track record of incompetence, poor decision-making, and politicised conduct, not surprising considering the extent of China’s influence. Giving it a blank cheque is highly risky.

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3f5110 No.20887657

>>20848109

OK, now it's five years later. Is the case ongoing or was a verdict reached?

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da3957 No.20891643

>>20848060

>Končar bought Samancor with the assistance of International Mineral Resources (IMR), a company owned by three controversial Kazakh oligarchs, Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov.

>>20848066

>>20848073

>>20848080

>>20848091

>>20848101

>>20848109

>“The great Samancor ‘heist’”

>>20887657

An update concerning the court case, AMCU vs Samanco, is mentioned in this recent article.

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 1

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The Vision and RGS consortiums are battling it out to buy the bank debt that would give them control over Tongaat Hulett. Both have a somewhat controversial pedigree.

Vision includes a financier who spent a chunk of his career in the service of three notorious Kazakh oligarchs known as “The Trio”; it also includes a company implicated in Pakistan’s so-called “sugar mafia” cartel scandal. Both deny any wrongdoing.

• RGS is part of the Mozambican Gulamo group, previously called out for its closeness to the ruling Frelimo party. It has in the past been linked to some unsavoury characters, although the company says these links are either erroneous or innocent.

• Meanwhile, other sugar industry heavyweights have weighed in following a damning judgment which found that the Business Rescue Practitioners had illegally withheld statutory payments worth nearly R2-billion.

Things have been sour for sugar giant Tongaat Hulett since 2019, when a new management team uncovered accounting failures and alleged fraud that led to a R12-billion reversal in the company’s valuation.

The criminal trial of key former directors is yet to get properly underway.

With a group of banks holding the company over a barrel of debt, there have been increasingly desperate efforts at keeping alive a business that supports thousands of jobs, especially in KwaZulu Natal.

What has emerged and is of particular concern is the opaque nature of the various deals cooked up between management, the lender banks, state funders such as the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), as well as, latterly, the business rescue practitioners (BRP’s).

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da3957 No.20891662

>>20891643

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 2

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

The failed Rudland gambit

First, there was the attempt in early 2022 by Tongaat Hulett management to hand control of the company to the controversial Rudland family of Zimbabwe. That attempt was abandoned following disclosures by amaBhungane and the Takeover Regulation Panel that linked tobacco mogul Simon Rudland to the deal.

Incredibly, banks and lawyers for the deal gave it a clean bill of health.

Rudland has since been singled out in the Al Jazeera “Gold Mafia” exposé as one of the alleged kingpins of a Zimbabwean money laundering and gold smuggling network, though he has denied this and threatened to sue Al Jazeera.

Following the collapse of the Rudland deal, Tongaat Hulett was placed in voluntary business rescue while the BRPs sought a buyer who could inject enough cash to keep the banks (who were still owed about R7-billion) at bay.

But the Rudland experience – and the fact that sugar is known in the region as a risk commodity for trade-based money laundering – suggests a need for close scrutiny of anyone seeking control of such a strategic company.

Preferred Bidder

In July the BRP’s announced the preferred bidder: Kagera Sugar, a little-known Tanzanian producer run by multi-millionaire brothers Seif Ali Seif and Nassor Seif which had submitted a R3.56-billion bid.

There followed a furious lobbying and media campaign, by two other bidders in particular.

One was the Zimbabwean Sovereign Wealth fund, which falls under the ministry of finance where President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s son Kudakwashe (34) has been appointed deputy minister. The fund had attempted to make a bid for Tongaat’s Zimbabwe assets, but was rebuffed by the BRP’s, who did not want to break up the company whose Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe sugar operations are not financially distressed.

Indeed, part of the parent company’s woes stem from its inability to access profits from Zimbabwe because of the country’s exchange control restrictions, and sugar industry insiders say vultures are still circling trying to pick up the Zimbabwean assets for next-to-nothing.

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da3957 No.20891671

>>20891643

>>20891662

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 3

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Blurry Vision

The other party aggrieved by the selection of Kagera was the Vision consortium (previously dubbed the Terris consortium), a rival bidder characterised by various somewhat opaque offshore constituents, although its lawyers say there is nothing unusual about this.

Vision’s front man in South Africa is IT mogul Robert Gumede, represented via Guma Agri and Food Security Ltd (Mauritius).

Alongside Guma in the consortium is Amre Youness’s Terris AgriPro, also registered in Mauritius, which is owned by the Terris Fund SPC registered in the Bahamas, of which, the lawyers disclose, Youness is the ultimate beneficial owner.

Youness, notably, was a longtime consultant to three central Asian oligarchs: Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, also known as the Trio, and at the time served as chair of two of their South African investments, Shaftsinkers and Samancor Chrome, held through their investment company International Mineral Resources BV (IMR).

One of the Trio’s more significant brushes with notoriety came via the London listing of, and subsequent investigations into, their commodities group: Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC).

Both the listing and the investigations eventually came to naught, but some flavour of the frisson surrounding ENRC and its founders is provided by a Financial Times investigation into the mysterious deaths of three South Africans [https://www.ft.com/content/7dc13ec9-721c-41a7-8423-daeb9a743e9a].

Youness, through the consortium’s lawyer, insisted that IMR Management Services (IMSL) where he was for a time the chief executive, was a completely separate and distinct entity and acted only as a corporate advisor to International Mineral Resources BV in a consulting capacity.

“Mr. Youness had zero involvement with any of these allegations… Raking up and relying on outdated, unverified, and unproved allegations against the ENRC principal shareholders, in order to cast doubt on Mr. Youness’ character, is unfair and unprofessional.”

The technical partner in the consortium, Pakistan’s Almoiz Industries, was slammed by a Pakistan Sugar Inquiry Commission report in May 2020, which accused the company – among others in the nation’s so-called “sugar mafia” – of cheating both farmers and the tax authorities. The consortium’s lawyer alleges these allegations were politically motivated and says they came to nothing.

Undisclosed Zimbabwean interests are represented by Mauritian company Remoggo PCC, described as an investment holding firm with a portfolio of investments in Zimbabwe and the region. Rutenhuro Moyo is the Managing Partner at Remoggo and has served on the board of Tongaat Hulett’s Zimbabwe subsidiary Hippo Valley Estates since 1 August 2020.

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da3957 No.20891682

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 4

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Kagera blocked

Following the nod for Kagera, the Vision group wrote to the BRPs objecting to the decision and also to the IDC, which it accused of favouring Kagera with funding while refusing to consider Vision.

The IDC was persuaded to conduct an internal inquiry, which led to a senior executive resigning, allegedly for approving a funding commitment for Kagera without the necessary authority.

By October, Kagera appeared to be struggling to raise finance and a new name appeared: the Mozambican family owned RGS Group, which reportedly submitted a R6-billion bid, almost double that of the preferred buyer.

That left the process somewhat in limbo, until a City Press article on 5 November trumpeted, “Robert Gumede’s consortium takes control of Tongaat Hulett” [https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/gumedes-consortium-takes-control-of-tongaat-hulett-20231104].

The story suggested that Vision had outsmarted everyone by doing a deal directly with the lender group of banks by buying Tongaat Hulett’s debt (at a discount) in order to assume a controlling position as the largest creditor.

This would effectively block everyone else because Vision/Terris would have the majority vote at the creditors meeting to approve the business rescue plan.

“Terris Sugar now holds over 80% of creditors’ votes and any bidding company only required 75% of the votes to succeed. It will still inject the R3.6 billion required for the company’s assets,” the paper proclaimed.

It seemed the deal was sewn up.

Not so fast

However, to clinch the deal Vision had to come up with the money.

We know from subsequent court papers that on 3 November the Lender Group notified the BRP’s that they had reached agreement with the Vision parties. This transaction was seemingly never consummated. A new agreement on 20 November 2023 apparently made provision for payment to be made by Vision to the banks by no later than Wednesday 6 December.

That was two days before the date announced by the BRP’s – Friday 8 December – on which creditors would have to vote for one of two rescue plans for Tongaat Hulett: that of Vision/Terris or the competing offer of Mozambique’s RGS, owned by the powerful Gulamo family.

As of Thursday morning on 7 December, the advocate appearing in the Durban high court on behalf of Vision was forced to tell Judge Rashid Vahed that no money had been paid to the banks.

He was eager to assure the court – and a courtroom full of opposing lawyers – that the money was “still available” and that Vision’s bid was still on the table. No payment had been made, he tried to suggest, because of what he termed the current “uncertainties”.

But what were these “uncertainties” and how did they end up in front of Judge Vahed?

To understand that we need to take a step back and examine how the South African sugar industry is regulated.

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da3957 No.20891696

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

>>20891682

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 5

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

SASA and the Sugar Industry Agreement

Sugar production is important to the South African economy. Evidence before court was that the industry generates in excess of R18-billion annually and creates between 65 000 and 85 000 direct jobs, along with 350 000 indirect jobs.

As Judge Vahed noted, sugar is particularly significant for the rural areas where cane is grown and local economies are boosted by the proximity of sugar mills and the infrastructural support they bring.

Because sustaining the sugar industry is a matter of national importance, the South African Sugar Association (SASA) has been given statutory recognition and powers via the Sugar Act and the Sugar Industry Agreement.

Sugar is globally oversupplied and South Africa is vulnerable to dumping by international producers – the import of cheap sugar at prices that undercut the price at which the local industry can viably produce.

To counter this threat the government imposes anti-dumping duties on imported sugar in order to shield domestic producers.

In addition, the Sugar Industry Agreement creates a revenue-sharing regime through which local sugar production is regulated.

As the judge highlighted, “The revenue-sharing arrangement is based on the central and overarching principle that the growers, the millers, and the refiners should all benefit from an equitable division of the proceeds of the domestic market, and all be insulated against the risk of the export market.”

The overproducer

Tongaat Hulett is an overproducer against its regulated quota and must pay into the general fund for redistribution to other growers, millers and refiners.

The internal transfers that are managed by SASA can be large.

Around the time it was placed in business rescue, Tongaat Hulett received an assessment of levies from SASA amounting to more than R400-million.

It did not pay.

Following the institution of business rescue, the BRP’s took the view that they were entitled in law to suspend these payments, and so the bill owed by Tongaat Hulett has grown to almost R2-billion according to SASA (although this figure may be subject to dispute).

These debts have a knock-on effect in the industry. In court papers another large producer, Illovo Sugar, said that Tongaat Hulett’s non-payment had, as of 31 March 2023, caused lllovo to suffer a loss of R153-million.

Illovo told the court, “The threat of non-payment by THL [Tongaat Hulett Ltd] is even more immediate and serious for smaller millers and growers… [the] business rescue plans refer to the human and social catastrophe… if THL is placed into immediate liquidation… The elephant in the room is the greater human and social catastrophe that will be caused by THL if it again fails to pay its redistribution obligations which will drive the entire sector into ruin, beginning with small scale growers.”

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da3957 No.20891709

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

>>20891682

>>20891696

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 6

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Litigation

The industry was so concerned about Tongaat Hulett’s non-payment that in June this year another big player, RCL Foods, lodged an urgent interdict to stop the business rescue practitioners from convening a meeting of creditors to consider the rescue plan that was then on the table because it did not make provision for the outstanding levies to be recovered.

That interdict was withdrawn only because the BRP’s postponed the creditors meeting and promised to pursue a high court ruling on whether, as they claimed, the business rescue provisions of the Companies Act allowed them to suspend payments and treat SASA as just another unsecured creditor which might get paid a few cents to the rand when the business was finally sold or liquidated.

That issue ended up before Judge Vahed. On 29 November, by agreement with the parties, he handed down a one line ruling dismissing the BRP’s case with costs and giving notice that the full judgment would be handed down on Monday 4 December 2023.

The urgency to obtain clarity on whether Tongaat Hulett was entitled to withhold those levies was based on a deadline set by the creditors for the business rescue plans to be published by 29 November, in order to ensure that a vote on these plans could be held by Friday 8 December.

The ruling should have given the BRP’s pause, despite the absence of a full judgment.

Potentially it instantly punched an extra R2-billion hole in Tongaat Hulett’s balance sheet and called into question the business rescue process.

Instead, the practitioners published two plans – the Vision plan and the RGS plan – in which they maintained that the court was wrong to dismiss their application and that they intended to appeal.

A damning judgment

When the full judgment was published on 4 December it eviscerated the BRP’s case.

It found Tongaat Hulett’s obligations to SASA were statutory (derived from law) not contractual, and therefore could not be suspended by business rescue. “To put it bluntly: if a company cannot comply with its statutory obligations, then it cannot be rescued and must seek liquidation.”

Judge Vahed found that, given that payments had been suspended in breach of the legal obligations, SASA must receive preference (priority) in the business rescue: “This is a consideration which the practitioners ought to take into account when determining whether the business is capable of rescue or whether a better return will result in liquidation.”

Given this ruling, RCL Foods and SASA launched urgent applications to stop the creditors’ planned Friday 8 December vote in favour of the Vision or RGS business plans.

In court papers they argued that both plans put forward by the BRP’s were unlawful in that they did not recognise and encompass the statutory obligations towards SASA.

At an urgent hearing in front of Judge Vahed on Thursday morning, counsel for the BRP’s agreed the vote would have to be postponed, but only until Thursday 14 December, because the Industrial Development Corporation, which has been funding the business rescue, was going to shut off the taps.

The interdict will now be argued on Wednesday 13 December and Vahed will have to give a snap judgment on whether the vote can go ahead the next day.

Meanwhile the swirl of questions around the players and process is only getting louder.

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da3957 No.20891719

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

>>20891682

>>20891696

>>20891709

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 7

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Questions for the BRP’s

The Mozambican bidder, RGS, has delivered an extraordinary series of allegations, in effect accusing the BRP’s of manipulating the rescue process [https://amabhungane.org/stories/tongaat-hulett-bidder-in-scathing-attack-on-business-rescue-process/].

But RGS is not the only critical voice.

In its urgent interdict to stop the vote, RCL Foods was scathing about the BRP’s decision to publish the two rescue plans despite Vahed’s judgment.

RCL stated, “Quite apart from demonstrating an alarming contempt for the order, this attitude demonstrates an unwarranted degree of arrogance on the part of the practitioners or those entities who may be driving the business rescue process, be they the lender group… or the competing bidders under the two plans.”

It noted that even before receiving the full judgment the BRP’s expressed the opinion they were still entitled to suspend the statutory obligations: ”Their belief or opinion is legally irrelevant, and their willingness to conduct themselves by privileging their opinion over an order of court Is wilful self-help, which our courts have repeatedly deprecated.”

By this RCL meant the BRP’s were endeavouring to go ahead and make an omelette that could not later be unscrambled.

In their provisional answer (both sides will file more complete papers ahead of argument on 13 December) BRP representative Gerhard Albertyn said they still believed the proposed rescue plans were lawful and viable.

“Their terms and/or implementation will not cause SASA or RCL irreparable harm… On the contrary, preventing… the vote… will likely lead to THL’s liquidation — laying to waste all the work done and the money expended in the business rescue, and redounding to the permanent and unjustifiable prejudice of THL, its creditors, employees. shareholders and other affected persons, as well as the sugar industry and the public at large.”

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da3957 No.20891732

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

>>20891682

>>20891696

>>20891709

>>20891719

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 8

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Rather liquidate?

However, in an affidavit in support of RCL Foods Illovo Sugar took aim at the business rescue outcomes, pointing out that Tongaat Hulett’s liabilities have increased by over R3-billion in 6 months.

“THL’s state of insolvency is rapidly increasing,” Illovo alleged.

It noted that according to the first business rescue plan published by the BRP’s on 31 May

2023, Tongaat Hulett had assets to the value of R5.897 billion and liabilities in the amount of R9.882 billion as of 30 April 2023.

Now, according to the RGS and Vision plans published at the end of November, liabilities as of 31 October 2023 have increased to R13.059 billion, while there has been no increase in the value of the assets.

Notably, this deterioration flowed from Tongaat Hulett’s debt to the IDC for loans made since the commencement of the business rescue. This had increased from R613 million to R2.118 billion.

The other major liability was indebtedness to SASA, which had grown to R1.6-billion according to figures contained in the rescue plans.

Illovo said there were still many regulatory, procedural and financing hurdles: “The business rescue proceedings therefore may continue for many months, or even years.”

Illovo alleged there was a real risk that Tongaat Hulett might be unable or unwilling to pay the outstanding industry levies, and that “the harm that this would cause to participants in the sugar industry will certainly be irrecoverable, and may, for many of the participants in the industry be irreparable.”

On the other hand, Illovo argued that if Tongaat Hulett were to be liquidated, its productive capacity would be taken over by a new miller who would immediately be required to honour any new redistribution payments: “That scenario would be infinitely preferable to the sugar industry as a whole than the “business rescue” process envisaged, in respect of which ongoing obligations heap up with no realistic prospect of being discharged, to the catastrophic prejudice of the industry as a whole and to the benefit only of THL’s secured lenders.”

In its replying affidavit the Sugar Association was unequivocal: the BRP’s decision to suspend payments to SASA was ruled unlawful by Judge Vahed, which in turn rendered the business plans unlawful. SASA must be paid, finished and klaar.

SASA also took aim at the banks, stating: “It appears that the proposed business plans are focused on the rights and interests of the Lender Group, not all creditors.

“First and foremost as consistently stated, a vote cannot take place on an unlawful plan. Second, it is not SASA or RCL that is pushing THL into liquidation it is the Lender Group that are doing this.

“That is because they insist on payment of their debts to the detriment of the entire sugar industry, not just THL. In effect this statement seeks to hold SASA hostage: SASA must forego its statutory rights in favour of the Lender Group’s contractual rights or be branded as the cause of THL’s liquidation. This is factually unsustainable and legally untenable.”

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da3957 No.20891742

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

>>20891682

>>20891696

>>20891709

>>20891719

>>20891732

>>20887657

Here is the update concerning AMCU vs Samancor court case.

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 9

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Some unresolved questions about Vision

While Amre Youness from Terris has distanced himself from any negative association with the Kazakh oligarchs, his own responsiveness to allegations of corporate manipulation has been called into question.

His name came up in a 2019 case lodged by the Association of Mining and Construction Union (AMCU), in which Youness was cited as the Third Respondent, with Samancor being the main target.

In that case, a former Samancor director turned whisleblower, Miodrag Kon, described various ways in which money was allegedly siphoned out of Samancor to the detriment of the company and minority shareholders, including via “marketing fees” paid into an offshore entity called Samchrome in which a former shareholder allegedly had a beneficial interest.

In his affidavit, Kon states that “in 2006, I started to be uncomfortable with what was going on at the company… I approached Ahmed Youness… [from IMR] questioning Samancor’s and their own disadvantageous relations with Samchrome Ltd Malta.”

Kon attested, “As a manager of shareholder relations, I travelled to London for a meeting with the Chair of the Board, Mr Youness… Mr Youness told me at the meeting that he already knew that [the former shareholder] had taken out “500 million dollars”… I saw no action taken by Mr Youness after this meeting.”

–The payment of marketing fees was later transferred to another company, Samchrome FZE Dubai.

Kon stated, “It is my understanding that Samchrome FZE Dubai continues to provide marketing services to Samancor on the same or similar terms. I believe this is to the prejudice of Samancor’s minority shareholders as 9% is far too high a fee for the services actually rendered.”–

–The lawyer for the Vision/Terris consortium pointed out that the papers were never served on Youness and that he never had an opportunity to rebut the allegations because this lawsuit was withdrawn.

The suit was terminated in response to an agreement by Samancor in July 2021 to appoint audit firm BDO to conduct an investigation. BDO found no wrongdoing, but its confidential report is still the subject of litigation by AMCU.

The consortium lawyer said that “Mr. Youness has no knowledge of the BDO report or of the status of the agreement with AMCU. Mr. Youness has no knowledge of Mr. Kon’s allegations, all of which took place long before Mr. Youness was involved. Mr. Youness had no involvement in the creation of the marketing agreement… However, it is worth noting that a margin of 9% is nothing more than a complete fantasy. The typical net profit margin of a trading business is closer to 1%, which was the case for Samchrome.”

She added: “Your determination to smear Mr. Youness is unprofessional and defamatory. Mr Youness is a respected international investor who is part of a consortium that is seeking to save a major South African corporation.”

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da3957 No.20891751

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

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>>20891742

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 10

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

And Almoiz, Vision’s technical partner

On the face of it, the Pakistani Sugar Commission report is pretty damning [https://propakistani.pk/2020/05/22/explosive-sugar-inquiry-report-made-public-by-the-govt/], but the lawyer for the Vision consortium told us that “nothing ever came out of the commission. It was widely criticized for being politically motivated, flawed and lacking credibility… No convictions (even against the targeted political group) were ever achieved, and not a single charge was formally leveled against any other party, let alone Almoiz.”

She said that the World Bank’s compliance arm has carried out its independent diligence on the Sugar Commission allegations and concluded that not only could it continue to collaborate with Almoiz, but that it would also proactively work to expand its relationship with the Group.

The report did, however, produce some action.

The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) conducted raids at the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) and imposed penalties totalling Rs44 billion on the PSMA and its member sugar mills – including Almoiz – for their alleged involvement in cartelisation.

“Cartelisation in the sugar industry appears to be compulsive or pathological where players collude and engage in collusive practices as a means to an end,” the majority wrote in the infringement decision.

The finalisation of this case has been delayed by the failure to appoint a chair of Pakistan’s Competition Appellate Tribunal, but this has recently been remedied and the Tribunal has announced it will be hearing the case.

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da3957 No.20891773

>>20891643

>>20891662

>>20891671

>>20891682

>>20891696

>>20891709

>>20891719

>>20891732

>>20891742

>>20891751

>>20848003

>Patrice Motsepe

“Analysis: Who is behind the Tongaat Hulett bid battle?” – Ties to Samanco and Khazak Oligarchs – Part 11

https://amabhungane.org/analysis-who-is-behind-the-tongaat-hulett-bid-battle/

December 13, 2023

Finally, questions about the other bidder: Mozambique’s RGS

Perhaps most notoriously, the Gulamo family, which owns RGS, features in a 2010 Wikileaks dump of US embassy cables (specifically this one from 2004 [https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/04MAPUTO1658_a.html]) which purported to link the Gulamo family to the drug trade.

RGS executive chair Aquil Rajahussen has convincingly argued that the US diplomat got it wrong, confusing the Gulamo family with alleged drug dealer Gulamo Rasul Moti.

Rajahussen told amaBhungane, “The individual in question is not Rasul Gulamo. His FIRST name is Gulamo, and to the best of my knowledge, his surname, is Rassul… I want to clarify that I have no relationship with this individual… The first I learned about him was through WikiLeaks. I have never met him… Given the prominence of our family, the media would not have failed to mention an association if one existed.”

“We have no involvement in contraband or anything deemed unlawful under the laws of Mozambique or Islam; Further, there have never been any credible allegations to the contrary.”

That is perhaps not quite 100% accurate.

In 2017, the Gulamo family – and in particular Aquil Rajahussen – were implicated in an alleged money laundering scheme on behalf of former Minister of Mines and Geology for the Republic of Guinea, Mahmoud Thiam.

Thiam was sentenced in the US to seven years in prison for laundering bribes paid to him by executives of China Sonangol International Ltd. and China International Fund, SA.

Thiam used some of the Chinese bribe money to buy a $3.75 million estate in Duchess County, New York.

A Gulamo group company, Sociedade Saboiera De Nacala Lda, was allegedly used to launder the cash. The agent of Sociedade was Aquil Rajahussen, described as Thiam’s friend.

Two tribunals, the US court and the London court of international arbitration appeared to find that Rajahussen knew that Thiam was using Sociedade Saboiera De Nacala to conceal the transfer of funds.

Rajahussen denies this.

He explained, “Mahmoud Thiam was indeed a long-time acquaintance from our youth, and we maintained a friendly relationship over the years. However, it is crucial to clarify that I was neither involved nor implicated in any of his schemes or engaged in any business dealings with China Sonangol International, China International Fund, SA, VALE S.A., or BSG RESOURCES LIMITED, as mentioned in your inquiry. I became aware of his illegal activities only at the time of his prosecution.”

Rajahussen said that Thiam had sought a loan to buy the property but that he had instead decided to personally purchase the property, allowing Thiam to lease it on the understanding that he had an option to buy when he had the necessary funds.

“During the subsequent legal proceedings against Thiam, our arrangement came under scrutiny. While I was not directly involved in the proceedings and unaware of the findings, the authorities attempted to attach the property, claiming it belonged to Thiam. I contested this order, asserting that the property was rightfully mine and presented all such evidence necessary to prove as such to the courts. I succeeded in winning the case in the State of New York.”

–Rajahussen does not deny his closeness to the ruling Frelimo party in Mozambique.

“I, like Patrice Motsepe [and the ANC], am openly a member of the Frelimo Party. I believe that being a member of a political party is a legal and permissible act in both SA and Mozambique.–

Similar to Patrice Motsepe, I engage in lawful contributions to political campaigns. “Importantly, my company has no need for reliance on political favours. We do not conduct business with the government, nor do we participate in government tenders. We make absolutely no revenue from government revenues.”

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da3957 No.20891806

File: 0eafdfdb2ecec94⋯.jpg (84.17 KB,606x851,606:851,AMCU_vs_Samancor_1.JPG)

File: 3d253efb4b2d7d8⋯.jpg (55.33 KB,523x707,523:707,AMCU_vs_Samancor_2.JPG)

>>20848060

>Končar bought Samancor with the assistance of International Mineral Resources (IMR), a company owned by three controversial Kazakh oligarchs, Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov.

>>20848066

>>20848073

>>20848080

>>20848091

>>20848101

>>20848109

>The great Samancor ‘heist’

>>20891671

>Youness, notably, was a longtime consultant to three central Asian oligarchs: Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, also known as the Trio, and at the time served as chair of two of their South African investments, Shaftsinkers and Samancor Chrome, held through their investment company International Mineral Resources BV (IMR).

>>20891742

>The lawyer for the Vision/Terris consortium pointed out that the papers were never served on Youness and that he never had an opportunity to rebut the allegations because this lawsuit was withdrawn.

>The suit was terminated in response to an agreement by Samancor in July 2021 to appoint audit firm BDO to conduct an investigation. BDO found no wrongdoing, but its confidential report is still the subject of litigation by AMCU

“AMCU vs Samancor and Others – Full Pleadings”

The 582 page court application can be found at this link; https://richardspoorinc-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/onedrive_rsinc_co_za/EhgIUKLHmPNPiAfhkBOryA4Bf2E5KVJvdAHOfyusETOJMQ?e=XMDemi

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da3957 No.20891832

File: 8cca605c6c4747a⋯.jpg (93.21 KB,834x666,139:111,Bethel_Strydom.JPG)

>>20848060

>Končar bought Samancor with the assistance of International Mineral Resources (IMR), a company owned by three controversial Kazakh oligarchs, Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov.

>>20891671

>Youness, notably, was a longtime consultant to three central Asian oligarchs: Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, also known as the Trio,

>One of the Trio’s more significant brushes with notoriety came via the London listing of, and subsequent investigations into, their commodities group: Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC).

>Both the listing and the investigations eventually came to naught, but some flavour of the frisson surrounding ENRC and its founders is provided by a Financial Times investigation into the mysterious deaths of three South Africans [https://www.ft.com/content/7dc13ec9-721c-41a7-8423-daeb9a743e9a].

“FBI investigating deaths of two Kazakh oligarch whistleblowers in a Route 66 motel who were initially thought to have died of malaria but could have been poisoned”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8693293/FBI-investigating-deaths-two-Kazakh-oligarch-whistleblowers-Route-66-motel.html

Published: 10:38 BST, 3 September 2020 | Updated: 17:56 BST, 2 November 2020

Excerpts

• James Bethel and Gerrit Strydom were found dead in motel in Springfield in 2015

• Chances of two men dying of malaria at same time dubbed 'almost certainly nil'

• Bethel and Strydom worked for miner Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation

• ENRC is in the midst of criminal corruption investigation by Serious Fraud Office

• It is understood that men, who left in 2015, were seen as potential witnesses

The FBI is investigating the mysterious deaths of two potential witnesses in a corruption probe into a £20billion mining giant lead by three Kazakhstan oligarchs.

James Bethel, 44, and Gerrit Strydom, 45, were originally believed to have died of cerebral malaria when their bodies were discovered in a motel in Springfield, Missouri, in May 2015.

The FBI has since taken over the investigation - which was never officially closed - from Springfield police.

This comes as a new book by Tom Burgis reveals that the probability that the two men would die of malaria at the exact same time were very small.

Sam Wassamer of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said: 'The likelihood of two separate people developing the disease at the exact same time and dying the same night is almost certainly nil.'

Genetic analysis ruled out the theory that the men were bitten by the same mosquito - which was the only plausible way the initial cause of death could have been explained.

Mr Bethel and Mr Strydom, both from South Africa, were senior officials in Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation's interests in Africa.

The company is in the midst of a criminal corruption investigation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office and it is understood that the men - who left the company in 2015 - were seen as potential witnesses.

The SFO - whose bribery investigation focuses on the company's mines in Africa - had reached out to Mr Bethel before he and Mr Strydom left Johannesburg and flew to Chicago via Amsterdam, sources said. The pair took a trip along Route 66 on Harley-Davidson motorcycles which they hired.

They were found dead in their room by staff at the La Quinta Inn.

The CDC found malaria in blood and tissue samples samples sent off by a local medical examiner. Fears that the samples were unreliable have now emerged, the Financial Times reports.

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da3957 No.20891844

>>20891742

>The suit was terminated in response to an agreement by Samancor in July 2021 to appoint audit firm BDO to conduct an investigation. BDO found no wrongdoing,

>>20891832

>The SFO - whose bribery investigation focuses on the company's mines in Africa - had reached out to Mr Bethel before he and Mr Strydom left Johannesburg and flew to Chicago via Amsterdam

Court cases against the Kazakh oligarchs and other mining companies tend to be terminated.

“Serious Fraud Office drops 10-year corruption inquiry into Kazakh miner ENRC”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/24/serious-office-drops-corruption-inquiry-kazah-miner-enrc-rio-tinto-investigation-uk

Thu 24 Aug 2023 20.19 CEST

UK agency also shuts other high-profile cases including Rio Tinto investigation

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has abandoned a criminal investigation into the Kazakh mining group ENRC, ending a decade-long corruption inquiry mired in controversy.

The SFO updated its website on Thursday with a notice that it had closed the case after concluding there was “insufficient admissible evidence” to prosecute the company.

In a series of updates released on the same day, the agency said it had dropped three other investigations, including an inquiry opened in 2017 into suspected corruption involving the Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto.

The decision to end multiple high-profile investigations comes as the SFO’s director, Lisa Osofsky, prepares to step down from the embattled agency in September and hand the reins to a former Metropolitan police chief.

Closure of the case against ENRC concludes a complex investigation that has hung over the agency and led to a bitter legal battle over its handling of the inquiry.

Launched in April 2013, the SFO’s investigation focused on allegations of bribery and fraud relating to ENRC’s acquisition of mining contracts in Africa.

In 2021, the company – which was co-founded by three Kazakh oligarchs – brought a £70m lawsuit against the SFO at the high court, alleging the agency had mishandled the investigation and committed misfeasance in public office.

Although the agency was largely cleared of wrongdoing in the case last year, other aspects of its conduct were criticised by the judge and it faces civil proceedings relating to ENRC’s claim.

The anti-graft group Spotlight on Corruption raised concerns that ENRC’s civil litigation may have contributed to the SFO’s decision to drop its case.

Helen Taylor, a senior legal researcher at the group, said: “The SFO should clarify whether the multiple legal actions the agency and its staff have faced from ENRC played a role in this decision.

“Concerns have been raised that the litigation around this investigation has had a chilling effect on public scrutiny of the company’s conduct and closed down the opportunity for those affected by alleged corruption to have their voices heard in court.”

An SFO source said the litigation had not influenced its decision.

In the update to the case profile on the SFO’s website, the agency explained the investigation into ENRC had been dropped due to a lack of evidence that could be admitted into court.

“As a responsible prosecutor, we must ensure all our cases meet the stringent evidence and public interest tests set by the code for crown prosecutors,” it stated.

“Following our latest review of the investigation, we concluded that we have insufficient admissible evidence to prosecute, and closed the case.”

A spokesperson for the mining group said: “ENRC is pleased that the SFO has finally closed its investigation and that the SFO is taking no further action in respect of this matter.”

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da3957 No.20891847

“Congo suspends ERG [Eurasian Resources Group] subcontractors at major cobalt mine” owned by the Kazakh oligarchs

https://www.mining.com/web/congo-suspends-erg-subcontractors-at-major-cobalt-mine/

April 4, 2024 | 5:12 am

Excerpts

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended nine subcontracting companies working at mines run by Eurasian Resources Group, as the cobalt and copper producer faces fresh complications in the country.

The government first announced the ban on March 14, alleging that the firms aren’t controlled by Congolese nationals as required by law. The regulator said Tuesday the sanctions are still in place, after meeting with Kazakhstan-backed ERG last week.

ERG “must appoint real companies with real Congolese shareholders,” Miguel Kashal Katemb, director general of the Regulatory Authority for Subcontracting in the Private Sector, said by phone.

The allegations mark the latest sign of frayed relations between ERG and the Central African nation. The country supplies more than three-quarters of the world’s cobalt and is the second-largest copper producer, giving it an important role in the energy transition. The government says it’s striving to generate greater domestic benefits from its critical resources which are mined by international companies.

State-owned miner Gecamines wants to take over some of ERG’s assets, saying the firm has been slow to develop them. The government has also halted activity at one of the company’s copper projects amid accusations of environmental damage.

Project shareholders

The latest measures affect firms with contracts at ERG’s two operating projects in Congo: Metalkol, which was the world’s fourth-biggest source of cobalt last year, and Frontier, which produced more than 100,000 tons of copper in 2023.

Metalkol paid almost $180 million to the subcontractors in 2023, the regulator said, adding that the figure rose to about $250 million including other projects such as the Frontier copper mine.

–Legislation passed in 2017 reserves the subcontracting market for businesses majority-controlled by Congolese nationals. More than 50% of the shares in all the companies singled out by Kashal – including Etalon, Roche Solide and Surtek – are held by Congolese individuals, according to corporate filings.

“These shareholders are just on paper, they are not in the operations, they are not managing the companies,” he said.

ERG itself is 60% controlled by Alexander Machkevitch, Patokh Chodiev and the heirs of their late co-founder, Alijan Ibragimov. The Kazakhstan government owns the remaining 40%.

Similar actions

Kashal took similar action in February at the Sicomines copper-cobalt joint venture – which is at the heart of Congo’s minerals-for-infrastructure deal with China. His agency ordered the removal of three Chinese subcontractors from the project.

Congo’s leaders made several attempts last year to regain potentially lucrative yet undeveloped permits from ERG, with Gecamines variously offering to buy some licenses, terminating the Swanmines joint venture and demanding the return of its permit for the Kalukundi copper-cobalt concession. ERG is fighting the cancellation in court.

The government has also suspended the firm’s Boss Mining copper-cobalt mine since May, citing environmental and safety concerns.

In October, ERG announced an $800 million revamp of its dormant Comide project, which it said will produce copper and cobalt in Congo for about 20 years once a processing plant is completed next year.

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da3957 No.20891860

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>>20891847

Then there was a coup attempt in the DRC over the weekend. Coincidence?

“Congolese Army Foils Coup Attempt In Kinshasa, Arrests Perpetrators”

https://youtu.be/YI5Waqc1txM

“At least three U.S. citizens - accused of being CIA agents - are arrested in Congo after failed coup: Three people killed in shootout at presidential palace and home of close ally” – Part 1

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13436591/congo-cia-americans-coup-kinshasa.html

Published: 01:00 BST, 20 May 2024 | Updated: 07:39 BST, 20 May 2024

Excerpts

• Three US citizens seized by government forces in the Congolese capital Kinshasa after 'failed coup attempt'

• Two bloodied and battered men pleaded for mercy following their arrest

• This is a breaking news story

Three Americans have been arrested over their alleged involvement in a failed coup in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Video shows what is thought to be two of the men groveling for mercy on the ground as they were surrounded by government forces following a shootout in the capital Kinshasa on Sunday.

Reports in local media suggested the arrested men were CIA operatives although the US ambassador in the city was keen to distance the US from any involvement.

'I am shocked by the events this morning and very worried by the reports of American citizens allegedly being involved,' Lucy Tamlyn, the US ambassador to the DRC, posted on X, formerly Twitter.

'Rest assured that we are cooperating with authorities in DRC to the fullest extent possible, as they investigate these criminal acts and hold accountable any American citizen involved.'

The United Nations’ stabilization mission in the DRC said that its chief, Bintou Keita, condemned the incidents in the strongest terms and offered her support to the Congolese authorities in a post on X.

The DR Congo military named the coup leader as Christian Malanga, 41, a US educated former refugee who was a 'naturalized American' and had been 'definitively neutralized' by the security forces.

His son Marcel was among those accused of taking part and seized by the military as they retook control.

Footage on social media showed a passport allegedly seized from one of the Americans bearing the name Benjamin Zalman-Polun, a 36-year-old born in Maryland.

Zalman-Polun reportedly has a background as a cannabis entrepreneur and had been previously linked to Malanga.

The military said it thwarted the 'attempted coup' involving 'foreigners and Congolese' near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa.

It happened in the early hours of the morning outside the residence of Economy Minister Vital Kamerhe, in the Gombe area in the north of the capital, near the Palais de la Nation that houses the president's offices, a spokesman said.

Later on Sunday, army spokesman General Sylvain Ekenge said a British man were part of the group involved in the operation.

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da3957 No.20891889

>>20484269

>just two months after the inauguration of Patrice Lumumba as the first democratically elected president of Congo, he was executed by hanging in a coup which was financially backed and formed by the De Beers company [when Harry Oppenheimer was its Chairman] and the CIA… Patrice Lumumba was very critical of the colonial mining arrangements in Africa

>Just two months after Lumumba took office as president he was arrested and hanged on falsified charges of war crimes and genocide. Then shortly after his death, he was quickly replaced by a man named Mabuto Sese Seko who was a ruthless dictator who had business dealings and arrangements with Ernest Oppenheimer and the De Beers empire. This was one of the moments that showcased how much power the Oppenheimer family had throughout the continent of Africa and the extent that they’ll go to keep that power and also their wealth.“

>>20891847

>>20891860

Same playbook with different players?

“At least three U.S. citizens - accused of being CIA agents - are arrested in Congo after failed coup: Three people killed in shootout at presidential palace and home of close ally” – Part 2

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13436591/congo-cia-americans-coup-kinshasa.html

Published: 01:00 BST, 20 May 2024 | Updated: 07:39 BST, 20 May 2024

Excerpts

Malanga moved to Salt Lake City as a 15-year-old refugee with his family in 1998 but returned to Congo in 2006 where he served in the military, and stood for parliament in 2011 only to be arrested two days before the poll.

He attempted to build his United Congolese Party in exile after returning to the US in 2012 and was accused by Congolese intelligence of plotting the assassination of then president Joseph Kabila.

Videos on social media showed men in fatigues arriving at the Palais de la Nation, brandishing flags of Zaire - the name of the Democratic Republic of Congo under the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, who was overthrown in 1997.

'The time has arrived, long live Zaire, long live the children of Mobutu,' a man who appeared to be the head of the group said in Lingala, a language spoken in parts of the DRC.

'Felix has fallen… we are victorious,' he added.

The group was made up of 'several nationalities', Ekenge said, and that four attackers including Malanga were killed.

'We also have a naturalized British subject, the number two of the group,' the spokesman added.

The central-African country has been racked by violence from paramilitary groups attempting to control its mineral-rich resources.

US interest in the country has grown because of its huge reserves of cobalt and other minerals increasingly seen as crucial to a global green energy transition.

But human rights organizations have described the country's humanitarian situation as a 'silent genocide', with families forced into brutal and slave-like conditions to extract the minerals by warring militias.

In February a US representative to the UN slammed the DRC for collaboration with the FDLR militia, warning it threatened all-out conflict with neighboring Rwanda.

'We condemn any group that espouses genocide ideology and recognize that the FDLR remains a significant security threat to Rwanda,' Robert Wood told the UN Security Council.

The attack took place just hours before the US announced it would comply with an order from the government of Niger to remove its troops from the West African country by the middle of September.

Last month neighboring Chad threatened to expel US troops amid alarm about waning US influence on the continent in the face of aggressive Chinese and Russian diplomacy.

But the US has a long history of clandestine military operations in Africa including in Congo where the CIA conspired to assassinate Patrick Lumumba, the country's first democratically elected leader who was killed in 1961.

The Intercept reported in 2022 that US trained officers had led seven coups attempts in the previous 18 months targeting countries including Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Mauritania, and Gambia.

Four years ago former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau told a colleague he had been given a contract by the State Department to overthrow the government of Nicholas Maduro, shortly before the mercenary was arrested in Venezuela.

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3f5110 No.20892496

>>20891889

Keeping this in mind:

Rio Tinto’s 26-year struggle to develop a massive Arizona copper mine

By Ernest Scheyder April 19, 2021

April 19 (Reuters) - Mining giant Rio Tinto Plc (RIO.L) has tried for more than a quarter century to launch Arizona’s Resolution copper project, which would be one of the world’s largest underground mines. The company and minority partner BHP (BHPB.L) have spent $2 billion but have yet to produce any copper, a key material used to make electric vehicles.

The mine was put on hold by the Biden administration last month amid opposition from Native American groups and environmentalists. Local leaders and many residents support the mine

because of its economic benefits.

Here's a history of the project since copper was found there more than two decades ago.

1995 - A large copper deposit is discovered near Arizona's Oak Flat Campground, which some Native Americans consider the home of deities.

2004 - Rio and BHP form the Resolution Copper Co to explore the deposit.

2005 - The San Carlos Apache tribe and others voice opposition to the project on religious and cultural grounds. They worry the project will destroy Oak Flat with mining methods that create a massive crater.

2009 - Rio begins digging a 7,000-foot (2.1 km) mine shaft - the deepest in the United States - a process that takes five years.

2013 - Rio and BHP start the U.S. permitting process after spending more than $750 million to collect engineering data.

2014 - U.S. President Barack Obama signs a Pentagon funding bill approved by Congress that includes a clause - added at the last minute by then-Senator John McCain, of Arizona - to give Rio the campground and surrounding acreage in exchange for land it owns nearby. The law stipulates that the land swap cannot occur until an environmental report is published.

2017 - A Rio Tinto executive tells Congress the company would smelt copper mined from Resolution in Utah, addressing fears that the Arizona copper could be shipped to China for processing.

2019 - The San Carlos Apache Tribal Council votes unanimously to oppose Resolution.

May 2020 - Rio sparks a public outcry after it destroys ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in Australia. Several executives are forced out.

January 2021 - President Donald Trump’s administration publishes an environmental report on the Resolution project five days before leaving office. The move starts a 60-day countdown

for the government to give Rio the land.

February 2021 - A U.S. federal judge rules against Native Americans

who had sued to block the land transfer.

March 2021 - President Biden blocks the land swap by rescinding Trump's publication of the environmental study. Meanwhile, U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, introduces a bill to overturn the part of the 2014 bill that allowed the land swap - considered by Native American leaders the best hope for blocking the mine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/rio-tintos-26-year-struggle-develop-massive-arizona-copper-mine-2021-04-19/

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3f5110 No.20892579

File: b620ea95a8e702b⋯.png (1.07 MB,750x900,5:6,1652567739019.png)

>>20892496 (me)

Big push for electric vehicles, but from what I can see not really a demand.

A bit of steel from iron ore that has to come from somewhere in the frames, but moving towards mostly aluminum in certain frame parts, and the door frames, things like that.

Aluminum is also cast as part of the housings of electric motors. Those same motors need copper windings. Copper wires to connect everything.

Lithium and cobalt for the batteries that have a replacement cost of between $5K USD and $10K USD each. Six such batteries in a Tesla.

Minerals found in Katanga include copper, cobalt, zinc, cassiterite (the chief source of metallic tin), manganese, coal, silver, cadmium, germanium (a brittle element used as a semiconductor), gold, palladium (a metallic element used as a catalyst and in alloys), uranium, and platinum. The region west of Lake Kivu contains cassiterite, columbotantalite, wolframite (a source of tungsten), beryl, gold, and monazite (a phosphate of the cerium metals and thorium). Lake Kivu also harbours vast reserves of methane, carbonic, and nitrogen natural gases. There are deposits of iron ore and gem-quality diamonds in south-central Congo, while the central regions are rich in industrial diamonds. In the northeast there are gold, coal, and iron-ore deposits; there are prospective deposits of gold, monazite, and diamonds in the northwestern regions as well. Coastal Congo contains bauxite, gold, and offshore deposits of petroleum. The limestone deposits that occur throughout the country are considered to be among the richest in Africa.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Democratic-Republic-of-the-Congo/Resources-and-power

Arizona: Heavy regulations, Labour Unions

DRC: Kids are cheap labour

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3f5110 No.20893061

File: 0738403d827d115⋯.png (570.46 KB,900x1470,30:49,TOP_50_Q1_2024.png)

The top 50 biggest mining companies in the world

April 5, 2024

At the end of the first quarter 2024, the MINING.COM TOP 50* ranking of the world’s most valuable miners had a combined market capitalization of a shade under $1.4 trillion, down $13 billion since the start of the year.

The historic gold run and copper’s comeback, now up 14% and 12% so far in 2024, only kicked into a higher gear after the end of the March quarter, but copper and gold counters nevertheless dominate the best performer list for Q1.

The lacklustre combined performance of the sector’s majors came despite the revival in the bellwether metals, but the broader market has been a mixed bag in 2024.

Aluminium is trading not far off 52-week highs, but zinc seems unlikely to breach $3,000 a tonne any time soon and cobalt is bobbing along historic lows below $30,000 a tonne.

Nickel has been bumped up after lows in the mid-$15,000s last year, but remains firmly stuck in bear territory and lithium’s 2024 good fortune also looks in danger of petering out.

Sentiment towards PGMs has hardly improved with both platinum and palladium drifting lower in 2024. Even iron ore prices back above $100 a tonne – the bread and butter of the diversified majors – was not enough for investors to jump back into the sector.

Gold, copper boost

First Quantum Minerals with market valuation up 58% in US dollar terms, made a welcome return at position 44 after dropping out at the end of last year following the closure of its Panama mine.

Amman Mineral continued its astounding run – the Indonesian copper and gold miner has added 380% in value since its July listing and could soon vie for a place in the 10.

Lundin Mining joins the top 50 for the first time jumping five places to 48 and is already climbing thanks to the red metal approaching 14-month highs. Lundin’s 25% rise in 204 also restores Vancouver as the number one location among top 50 headquarters after Pilbara Minerals’ exit this quarter.

Anglogold Ashanti re-entry boosts the number of precious metals miners in the top tier to 10 and their collective value to $183 billion.

China’s Yintai Gold, which in February picked up Canada’s Osino Resources, could also challenge for a position in the upper echelon from its current 54th position should gold continue to rally, but long term top 50 participant, KGHM has a hill to climb to make it back despite shares in the Polish mining company rising 15% year to date.

Diversified drubbing

While the top 50 mining companies as a whole drifted sideways during the quarter, the largest diversified companies faced headwinds going into 2024 and uncharacteristically some of the biggest names in mining feature on the worst performer list for the quarter.

The only $100bn companies in the ranking – BHP and Rio Tinto – were both down by double digits at the end of Q1 and Glencore’s rerating over the past couple of years went into reverse with declines of 9% in 2024.

Anglo American stock had a fairly uneventful Q1 2024 after the sharp H2 2023 sell-off sparked by copper guidance, PGM and South African power woes, and despite the bad news from its Woodsmith fertiliser project in England.

Nevertheless the counter has dropped below a $30 billion market cap for the first time since the outset of the pandemic and losses for the past 12 months top 30%. Rumours that Glencore may be interested after the Swiss behemoth’s bid for all of Teck Resources fell through have died down, probably for the right reasons.

More:

https://www.mining.com/top-50-biggest-mining-companies/

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d9d524 No.20895547

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>>20887048

>It lies in the actual point of the treaty: the creation of a new system of pandemic management under the WHO authority and binding under international law.

>>20799568

“The NHI Is Here! Is South Africa Finished?”

https://youtu.be/z-h0AYnJ4jk

Premiered May 15, 2024

https://southafrica.un.org/en/268758-united-nations-south-africa-statement-signing-south-african-national-health-insurance-bill

15 May 2024

"In line with our Cooperation Framework, technical inputs, and advocacy interventions with Government, the UN believes that the inclusive and progressive implementation of the NHI law and other social protection measures will accelerate the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 3.8 to achieve Universal Health Coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services, for all, and promote health and well-being across all ages”, said Nelson Muffuh, the UN Resident Coordinator in South Africa.

Pretoria, 15 May 2024 – The United Nations (UN) in South Africa welcomes the signing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill into law and considers it as a significant milestone in the journey towards universal health care that leaves no one behind. In line with social protection aspirations, the law is intended to ensure that all those who live in South Africa have access to quality healthcare services, regardless of their socio-economic status through the establishment of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the NHI Bill into law subsequent to stakeholder consultations and its approval by the National Assembly (NA) in June 2023 and, the National Council of Provinces (NCoPs) in December 2023. The newly enacted NHI law aims to ensure nationwide access for all to healthcare services in accordance with the constitution of South Africa.

The UN Country Team in South Africa through the World Health Organization (WHO) has assessed that the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has brought not only a sense of urgency to efforts to strengthen the South African health systems but has also demonstrated the centrality of pandemic preparedness and Universal Health Coverage, and especially Public Health Coverage and Public Health Security to the attainment of Health for All. The UN is convinced that the passing of the NHI law and its subsequent consultative implementation is a step in the right direction.

Dr. Fabian Ndenzako, the Officer In charge for WHO South Africa, said that “the signing of the NHI law reaffirmed South Africa's commitment to prioritize the health and well-being of its people. This has come in the wake of the country’s earlier endorsement of the most ambitious and comprehensive political declaration on health at the UN High-Level Meeting on UHC in September 2019 and again in September 2023.”

The UN once again commends the Government and people of South Africa for taking this bold step and avails itself to continue to offer technical support in implementing the NHI law for the benefit of all those who live in South Africans.

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d9d524 No.20895552

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“2024 Elections | MK Party calls judiciary into question after Concourt ruling on Zuma's eligibility”

https://youtu.be/FqgDE_nB6Bg

May 20, 2024

Former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to stand for this month's elections. This after the Constitutional Court overturned the order of the Electoral Court that found that his sentence and conviction was not a sentence and conviction as envisaged in a section of the Constitution. The apex court has found that the Zuma will only be eligible to stand after five years have lapsed following the completion of his sentence. The section declares as ineligible any person that was convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 12-months imprisonment without the option of a fine. MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela joins us now for reaction on the constitutional court judgment on Zuma's Eligibility to run for elections this year.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mk-party-may-approach-un-human-rights-committee-following-concourt-ruling-against-zuma-4d2cff90-4acc-4c0c-ab79-82b5cbe8bcd7

TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2024

Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela says their leader Jacob Zuma will pursue all possible ways, including approaching the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), to have the Constitutional Court ruling overturned after it disqualified him from participating in the National Assembly after the elections.

On Monday, the ConCourt, chaired by Justice Leona Theron, ruled that Zuma will not participate in Parliament until five years after his sentence was completed.

This means Zuma will have to appoint an MKP member who will head to Parliament.

Days before the matter could be heard in court, Zuma filed for counter-application to have six justices removed when the court heard his matter, but it was dismissed.

This was after the Electoral Commission of South African (IEC) filed an urgent application to challenge Zuma's eligibility in Parliament.

Speaking to IOL, the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s associate professor of law, Karthy Govender, who is also a former SA Human Rights Commissioner, said: "in my view, I just wonder if this is not a publicity stunt, because the Constitution is fairly clear that the Constitutional Court is the highest court on constitutional matters."

Govender said it was mostly unlikely for the UNHRC to hear the matter because the South African Constitution does not allow any other court overriding the apex court.

"I am not sure on what basis they are doing it, but I assume it is to tell people that there is still another appeal, but in terms of our Constitution, that is not correct," he said.

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d9d524 No.20895756

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>>20895552

“Electoral Court was wrong on Zuma decision – Kriegler”

https://youtu.be/mvkyJ028E7c

May 20, 2024

The ConCourt found that MK party leader Jacob Zuma is not eligible to contest elections for parliament. Retired ConCourt Justice Judge Johann Kriegler says the Electoral Court was wrong in making the 'unprecedented' decision on Zuma.

This is the same guy who…

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/03/world/south-african-vote-voting-was-election-fair-voting-chief-satisfied.html

May 3, 1994

Judge Johann Kriegler casually uses the word "breakdown" to describe [South Africa’s first democratic] election he is running.

He concedes that many ballots never left the warehouse, that polling places failed to open, that ballot boxes were stuffed "to a significant degree," that voting places often had no impartial monitors and that some election officials were partisan, if not crooked.

But there is no doubt in South Africa that within a few days he will baptize the new democracy by pronouncing the required four-word benediction "substantially free and fair" over the results.

"From the outset the commission had no illusions that it could mount a really efficient election," the judge said today during an intermission from the crises that still beset the counting of votes. "It is an Africa-style election. It is not to be measured by European or North American standards. What we're trying to do is put together a credible test of the will of the people." Perception Is the Key

In the end, he allowed, it is less important whether the election was really free and fair than whether people accept the outcome as a national verdict on their future.

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d9d524 No.20895770

>>20895756

>Retired ConCourt Justice Judge Johann Kriegler

>>20886893

>[Mervyn King, former Judge of the Supreme Court of SA] "We can be proud of South Africans… used as a template around the world"

Judges have a tendency to enforce the “will of the people”.

“An insider’s explanation of the difference between a “free and fair” election and a “will of the people” election–Kriegler deputy’s memoir”

https://africommons.com/2015/11/free-and-fair-election-kenya-kriegler/

Posted on November 7, 2015

In his book Birth: the Conspiracy to Stop the ’94 Election, Peter Harris, a South African lawyer who was in charge of the “election-monitoring division” of that country’s Independent Electoral Commission in 1994 (under Johann Kriegler, later appointed by President Kibaki to head Kenya’s 2008 IREC or “Kriegler Commission”, charged under Kenya’s 2008 post-election settlement with, inter alia, investigating the failed presidential vote) elaborates:

“Their final talks will be to produce a report that will help the commissioners make a finding on whether the election was free and fair and a reflection of the will of the people.

“I rather like the ‘will of the people’ bit; it reminds me of one of those classic legal catch-all clauses that provide an escape route if all else fails. It is a bit like ‘sufficient consensus,’ that famous methodology for reaching agreement at constitutional negotiations. In real terms this means if the ANC and the National Party agree there was ‘sufficient consensus’, then bugger the rest. The real reason I like ‘the will of the people’ is because, as we hurtle closer to this election, it is clear to me that there is a lot that can, and probably will, go wrong.”

Under Kenyan law under the 2010 Constitution, as in effect for the last election in 2013, this issue of potential circumlocution about election shortcomings is solved: the Constitution mandates a “free and fair” minimum standard. I have written previously that I had picked up on discussion in Washington ahead of the 2013 Kenyan election harking back to the “will of the people” hedging language used by Westerners in reference to Moi’s re-elections in the 1990’s.

I ended up in an indirect disagreement through the pages of Africa in Fact magazine with the spokesmen for the Western government-funded election observation missions (the Carter Center from the US and the EU mission) about the significance of the conspicuous absence of reference to the higher (and legally mandated) standard in their Preliminary Statements following the voting.

–The titular conspiracy that the Harris memoir discloses, but does not explain in detail, is that hackers penetrated the electoral commission ICT systems and changed vote tallies in progress. And that the fraud was discovered by the embedded IFES (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) team funded by the U.S., addressed internally within the Electoral Commission and not disclosed at the time.

The hackers were adding votes for third parties apparently not to disrupt the ANC’s win, but rather to manipulate the overall percentage seemingly to avoid letting the ANC have the parliamentary margin to change the new constitution.–

The South African Electoral Commission suspended the vote tally without explaining about the infiltration of the system. A technology work around was created but the overall control system for handling the count broke down. Through heroic logistical efforts, intricate private political negotiations and with the grace of fortunate “communications” efforts, the election process was “saved” to the extent of being accepted as a rough approximation of the “will of the people” in the context of moving from majority rule in an electorate of 22 million from the existing system of rule determined by competition among no more than a 3 million voter privileged minority. Close enough for “horseshoes or hand grenades” as we say. Close enough to an actual count of each individual’s vote for a “free and fair” election? Not so much.

In South Africa in 1994 there was an understood consensus that the purpose of the first broadly democratic election was to transfer power from the minority National Party the majority ANC while containing conflict from other factions “white” and “black”. The time allocated and resources available made a free and fair election as such wholly beyond the potential of the endeavor.

Thus the situation in South Africa in 1994 was radically different than the electoral management task presented to the Kenya’s ECK and IEBC (and IFES) in 2007 and 2013.

In 2013 Judge Kriegler was back in Kenya some and was a frequent public commentor on contentious matters involving politics and the electoral commission. It would seem easy to argue that his approach and expectations in Kenya leaned too heavily on the very dissimilar task he faced in his electoral commission experience in South Africa.

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c40c48 No.20896966

>>20895547

>The UN once again commends the Government and people of South Africa for taking this bold step and avails itself to continue to offer technical support in implementing the NHI law

“Doctors, businesses and unions get ready for war over the NHI”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/771743/doctors-businesses-and-unions-get-ready-for-war-over-the-nhi/

14 May 2024

Business Unity SA (BUSA) says it is considering taking legal action if President Cyril Ramaphosa signs the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill into law during a planned ceremony in front of the Union Buildings on Wednesday (15 May).

This will be one more legal challenge to the imminent laws, besides the processes promised by trade union Solidarity and opposition parties in their fight against the laws.

The presidency said on Monday (13 May) that the signing of the bill “directs the transformation of the South Africa’s health care system to achieve universal coverage for health services and, through this, overcome critical socio-economic imbalances and inequities of the past.”

However, the move by the government goes against criticisms and dissatisfaction with the bill’s present state coming from all sectors of society, including businesses, the healthcare industry, worker unions and even legal experts.

These groups have been urging Ramaphosa to return the legislation to Parliament rather than giving his approval, citing major constitutional shortcomings and warning of irreversible damage to the country’s healthcare sector, particularly private healthcare.

In February, Coovadia told eNCA that whilst he appreciated that it was election season, the government needed to make commitments “that the country and fiscus can afford.”

“We believe that universal healthcare can be achieved with the optimal use of resources that are both within the public and private sectors,” but “the bill, as it is currently drafted, talks about the single fund model – a fund run by (the) government that will effectively have a monopoly on healthcare for citizens in this country.”

The South African Health Professionals Collaboration (SAHPC) said that it was concerned about the signing of the bill.

The group is a collective of nine medical, dental and allied healthcare practitioners’ associations representing more than 25,000 dedicated private and public sector healthcare workers.

“Our input and insights were ignored,” it said. SAHPC said it is also preparing a legal challenge.

SAPHC also believes its members’ concerns and recommendations throughout the parliamentary process were systematically ignored, raising serious questions about the fairness and effectiveness of the democratic process.

Dr. Simon Strachan, a spokesperson for the SAHPC, said: “Our members have made submissions at every stage of the legislative process, dating back to the release of the green paper in 2011. It is disheartening to see our efforts to contribute to a more robust, workable and patient-centric healthcare system being ignored.

“Where we are now is unprecedented, and we believe that the NHI, in its current form, will reverse, rather than progress, equitable, quality healthcare in South Africa. We have no doubt that the NHI Bill will be challenged in the courts, and we are currently exploring all our options in this regard.

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c40c48 No.20896981

>>20896966

>>20895547

“How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response — with little oversight”; “they used their clout with the World Health Organization”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969

09/14/2022 10:00 PM EDT

Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world. But they lacked the scrutiny of governments, and fell short of their own goals, a POLITICO and WELT investigation found.

From America to Europe to Asia, they veered from minimizing the threat to closing their borders in ill-fated attempts to quell a viral spread that soon enveloped the world. While the most powerful nations looked inward, four non-governmental global health organizations began making plans for a life-or-death struggle against a virus that would know no boundaries.

What followed was a steady, almost inexorable shift in power from the overwhelmed governments to a group of non-governmental organizations, according to a seven-month investigation by POLITICO journalists based in the U.S. and Europe and the German newspaper WELT. Armed with expertise, bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, the four organizations took on roles often played by governments — but without the accountability of governments.

While nations were still debating the seriousness of the pandemic, the groups identified potential vaccine makers and targeted investments in the development of tests, treatments and shots. And they used their clout with the World Health Organization to help create an ambitious worldwide distribution plan for the dissemination of those Covid tools to needy nations, though it would ultimately fail to live up to its original promises.

The four organizations had worked together in the past, and three of them shared a common history. The largest and most powerful was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world. Then there was Gavi, the global vaccine organization that Gates helped to found to inoculate people in low-income nations, and the Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multibillion dollar endowment that had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years. Finally, there was the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, the international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017.

Key takeaways

1 The four organizations have spent almost $10 billion on Covid since 2020 – the same amount as the leading U.S. agency tasked with fighting Covid abroad.

2 The organizations collectively gave $1.4 billion to the World Health Organization, where they helped create a critical initiative to distribute Covid-19 tools. That program failed to achieve its original benchmarks.

3 The organizations’ leaders had unprecedented access to the highest levels of governments, spending at least $8.3 million to lobby lawmakers and officials in the U.S. and Europe.

4 Officials from the U.S., EU and representatives from the WHO rotated through these four organizations as employees, helping them solidify their political and financial connections in Washington and Brussels.

5 The leaders of the four organizations pledged to bridge the equity gap. However, during the worst waves of the pandemic, low-income countries were left without life-saving vaccines.

6 Leaders of three of the four organizations maintained that lifting intellectual property protections was not needed to increase vaccine supplies – which activists believed would have helped save lives.

Behind the numbers: How we analyzed Gates’ and partners’ global influence: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/covid-pandemic-data-analysis-influence-00055069

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c40c48 No.20897009

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>>20887048

>>20895547

>>20896966

>>20896981

Ramaphosa would probably sign the pandemic agreement as well.

“Ramaphosa dines with Bill Gates”

https://youtu.be/GtX2R5vmCDs

Feb 10, 2019

“Plea to African Union: Halt votes on WHO pandemic agreement and international health regulations amendments” 1 of 4

https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-plea-to-african-union-halt-votes-on-who-pandemic-agreement-and-international-health-regulations-amendments/

17 MAY 2024

Dear Ministers of Health in Africa

The Pan-Africa Epidemic and Pandemic Working Group calls on the African Union to table a motion to postpone the votes for the draft World Health Organisation (WHO) Pandemic Agreement and amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).

The working group is a network of senior African academics from a variety of disciplines committed to advocating for sound public health policies at the national, regional and global levels.

It has come to our notice that the WHO is finalising negotiations on the draft Pandemic Agreement (formerly called the Pandemic Treaty) and amendments to the IHR. These instruments are designed to provide the WHO with new and greater powers. More specifically, they would give the WHO director general authority to personally declare a public health emergency of international concern, and thereafter to exercise unprecedented sweeping powers over all state parties to the proposed instruments.

We are particularly concerned about five issues.

1. Conflicts of interests

The WHO is significantly privately funded by corporations and individuals based in wealthy countries who directly benefit from the pharmaceutical and digital health aspects of the proposals in the two instruments. In addition, much of WHO’s programme is now determined by its largest funders — wealthy countries with strong Pharma sectors (US and Germany), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through specified funding under which the WHO works for the purpose for which the funding was given. As such, the views of the vast majority of states have very little impact on the actual operations of the WHO, and this is a clear erosion of their national sovereignty.

2. Poor WHO Covid-19 response track record

The WHO’s track record in the Covid-19 response is poor, including:

• Policies such as lockdowns that have been previously acknowledged by the WHO itself to cause significant collateral harm, and having disproportionately negative effects on low-income populations and countries in Africa;

Discouraging the use of affordable repurposed drugs and promoting new drugs under Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA);

• Promoting mass and often mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 of African populations known to be very low risk due to young age and already having immunity, thereby diverting resources from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/Aids and other urgent health problems on the continent, and violating the right to informed consent;

Inaction and lack of accountability regarding vaccine injuries and deaths;

• Disruption of economies and education, entrenching future poverty and multi-generational inequality, and expanding national debt directly correlated to the debt crisis in Africa today; and

Promoting censorship in the guise of tackling “misinformation” and “disinformation”, thereby stifling civil liberties and academic freedom.

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c40c48 No.20897011

>>20897009

“Plea to African Union: Halt votes on WHO pandemic agreement and international health regulations amendments” 2 of 4

https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-plea-to-african-union-halt-votes-on-who-pandemic-agreement-and-international-health-regulations-amendments/

17 MAY 2024

Thus, the Covid-19 response has already centralised control, and further concentrated wealth in high income countries while impoverishing low-income populations, including those in Africa. It has expanded an increasingly colonialist agenda in Africa with substantial negative economic, human rights, socio-cultural and political consequences.

The lockdown regulations were a class-based and unscientific instrument, disproportionately harmful to lower-income people and useless for crowded informal settings as in urban parts of Africa. At the same time, African governments were subjected to intense pressure to merely adhere to protocols formulated outside the continent and in total disregard of their demographic, economic and climatic contexts. This rendered them powerless on public health matters in their own jurisdictions, which was tantamount to the eroding of their health sovereignty with predictable and harmful consequences.

It is therefore evident that the WHO Pandemic Agreement and Amendments to the IHR, if signed in their current form by the requisite number of WHO member states in May/June 2024, will entrench all the measures above in international law, institutionalising the withdrawal of health sovereignty and economic sovereignty from African states.

3. Procedural injustice, democratic illegitimacy and inequitable outcomes

The adoption of any amendments to the IHR at the 77th World Health Assembly in May 2024 are being processed in an unlawful manner. Article 55(2) of the IHR sets out the procedure for amending these regulations:

The text of any proposed amendment shall be communicated to all states parties by the director general at least four months before the Health Assembly at which it is proposed for consideration.

The deadline for the WHO’s director general to circulate the package of proposed amendments to the IHR to state parties lawfully in advance of the 77th assembly was 27 January 2024, and yet the text is still being negotiated, with a version released to the public in mid-April 2024. As such, the agenda item of passing the amendments to the IHR cannot be legitimately tabled at the assembly, as tabling it without complying with the requisite four-months rule would jeopardise procedural justice, democratic legitimacy and equitable outcomes for all.

The review time is essential for each state party to assess national health, financial, legal and human rights implications, and the abrogation of this rule by the WHO disproportionately discriminates against lower-income countries with fewer resources to rapidly assess such consequences. The Pandemic Agreement, also still under negotiation, was intended to be delivered by 29 March 2024, for a similar intent of providing time for reflection prior to commitment to vote.

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c40c48 No.20897018

>>20897009

>>20897011

“Plea to African Union: Halt votes on WHO pandemic agreement and international health regulations amendments” 3 of 4

https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-plea-to-african-union-halt-votes-on-who-pandemic-agreement-and-international-health-regulations-amendments/

17 MAY 2024

4. The inadequacy of a one-size-fits-all approach

Flexibility and careful public health planning are crucial given the highly diverse economic, demographic, cultural and environmental factors that render the current WHO one-size-fits-all approach grossly inadequate. In particular, African societies continue to heave under the burden of preventable diseases such as infections including malaria, HIV/Aids and tuberculosis, along with a high prevalence of malnutrition which fuels high death rates from the above diseases. As such, placing a financial burden on these societies through non-priority globalised pandemic preparedness initiatives is an instance of misplaced priorities and intrinsically inequitable.

Furthermore, the WHO is laying inordinate emphasis on pandemic preparedness in terms of the framework it used at the height of Covid-19. As such, it does not address the manner in which the most vulnerable in societies were dragged deeper into poverty from this centralised approach with an emphasis on costly pharmaceutical interventions and discouragement of the use of affordable repurposed therapeutics while ignoring building of resilience through nutrition and sanitation. It is noteworthy that a tiny minority became markedly wealthier from the centralised approach, thus entrenching global inequity [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/28/wealth-of-the-1percent-hits-a-record-44-trillion.html].

5. Exaggerated urgency for the Pandemic Agreement and amendments to the IHR

The WHO has consistently asserted that urgency in enhancing the world’s capacity to address pandemics through instruments such as an amended IHR and the draft Pandemic Agreement is justified by a rising risk and burden of infectious disease outbreaks from pathogens transferred from animals to human beings. However, a report from the University of Leeds [https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/228/rational-policy-over-panic] released in early 2024 has demonstrated this to be a markedly exaggerated claim. According to that report, the evidence bases on which the WHO and partner agencies including the World Bank and G20 have relied actually demonstrate that the risk of naturally-derived outbreaks is not currently increasing, and the overall burden is probably declining. This suggests that current mechanisms are indeed working relatively effectively, and changes must be viewed carefully, without undue urgency.

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c40c48 No.20897025

>>20897009

>>20897011

>>20897018

“Plea to African Union: Halt votes on WHO pandemic agreement and international health regulations amendments” 4 of 4

https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-plea-to-african-union-halt-votes-on-who-pandemic-agreement-and-international-health-regulations-amendments/

17 MAY 2024

Our Petition

In view of the foregoing considerations, we call on the African Union to table a motion at the 77th World Health Assembly in May 2024 to halt the process of enacting the draft Pandemic Agreement and Amendments to the International Health Regulations until the following measures have been put in place:

• Affirm and respect the right of African states to freely prepare their own context-sensitive approaches to public health crises.

Facilitate a transparent and accountable review of the role of Western-based international governmental and non-governmental health entities in the WHO’s operations and policies. Such a review must ensure the full participation of African countries, because they are the bearers of the major health burdens.

• Facilitate a re-orientation of international public health to a population-based and disease burden-based approach in line with the WHO’s own stated commitment to primary health care entailing the robust participation of communities.

Yours sincerely

• Dr Carlos Cardoso, director of the Centro de Estudos Sociais Amilcar Cabral (Amilcar Cabral Centre for Social Studies), Bissau. carlos.cardoso28@gmail.com

• Dr Fernandes Wanda, coordinator of the Centre for Social and Economic Research, Faculty of Economics, Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola. fernawan@hotmail.com

• Professor Francis E Onyango, associate professor of paediatrics and child health, Uzima University, Kisumu, Kenya. onyangof@yahoo.com

• Professor Olutayo C Adesina, professor of history, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. olutayo27@gmail.com

• Professor Pedrito Cambrao, assistant professor and the scientific deputy at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Zambeze (UniZambeze), Mozambique. Prof.Pedrito@hotmail.com

• Professor Reginald MJ Oduor, associate professor of philosophy, University of Nairobi, Kenya. rmjoduor@gmail.com

• Dr Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, senior lecturer and head of department of History and Politics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. mcgyamfi@yahoo.com

• Professor Wellington Oyibo, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria. wellao@yahoo.com

Professor Divine Fuh, associate professor of social anthropology and director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town, South Africa. divine.fuh@uct.ac.za

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e25054 No.20898294

File: 35a7ac1727e3049⋯.pdf (9.95 MB,South_Africa_NHI_Health_Pl….pdf)

>>20897009

>Ramaphosa dines with Bill Gates

>>20896981

>>20896966

>>20895547

“South Africa NHI Health Plan 2009 Bill Gates”

https://archive.org/details/south-africa-nhi-health-plan-2009-bill-gates

National Health Insurance Plan for South Africa

Prepared by the Task Team on National Health Insurance on behalf of the Health and Education Sub-Committee

DATE: 16 February 2009

This project was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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aa6bcc No.20908601

>>20895756

>>20895552

The double standards

“IEC Silent on Investigation into ANC Ezulweni Investments Settlement”

https://www.polity.org.za/article/iec-silent-on-investigation-into-anc-ezulweni-investments-settlement-2024-05-09

9TH MAY 2024

ActionSA notes with disappointment the silence from the IEC relating to its proclaimed investigation into the R102 million debt settlement with Ezulweni Investments.

Following the 12 March confirmation by the IEC Head of the Party Funding Unit confirming an investigation into the ANC, ActionSA wrote to the IEC again on 18 April to convey the imperative that the investigation be concluded before the elections. No response has been received to date.

The Constitutional Court was explicit about the fact that voters must exercise their choices with the information of how political parties are funded. Given that this investigation relates to the ANC's December 2023 declaration of the debt settlement, it is reasonable that the IEC should conclude this investigation ahead of the South Africans going to the polls on 29 May.

The IEC investigation follows ActionSA persistently raising the matter following the disclosures of R10 million in the quarter in which the ANC claims to have settled the debt. ActionSA’s contention in it's complaint to the IEC is that it was common cause that the ANC was unable to pay the salaries of striking workers last year. Its announcement, just a few months later, that it has settled R102 million in debt, with only R10 million of declared donations, produces the likelihood that the settlement was unlawful in terms of the Party Funding Act.

Funding Act and nor can they limit their attention to harassing law-abiding political parties, that are making disclosures. When a party is operating beyond its declared means, like the R102 million debt settlement with R10 million donations disclosed, the IEC must act to defend the principle of transparency that underpinned the Constitutional Court judgement that paved the way to party funding legislation. The focus on who donates to political parties continues to miss the point that many political parties are campaigning in this election with levels of funding that are inexplicable against their disclosures.

As long as political parties, especially those with a propensity to commit the more serious crimes of fraud and corruption, continue to experience impunity for undeclared income, party funding legislation will only give South Africans a partial picture of the truth.

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aa6bcc No.20908620

>>20372592

>“Accountability Now lays charges against public protector [Busisiwe Mkhwebane]” [Aug 6, 2019] - https://youtu.be/FvDC7sfGEFM. He states that “she is seen as a tool of the Zuma faction in the ANC which is making life miserable for inter alia, Pravin Gordhan and the President [Ramaphosa] himself.”

>>20908601

>The double standards

The plot thickens

“IEC chair, ANC officials implicated in plot to deregister ATM party”

https://sundayworld.co.za/news/iec-chair-anc-officials-implicated-in-plot-to-deregister-atm-party/

12th May 2024

The Electoral Court has received a written complaint implicating Mosotho Moepya, the chair of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), of conspiring with ANC members to sabotage the opposition party, African Transformation Movement (ATM).

The complaint was submitted to the court on Thursday by a former ANC researcher in the Western Cape legislature, advocate Winston Erasmus, through his lawyers, SAM Attorneys.

He asserts that the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, under the leadership of former president Jacob Zuma, is currently under attack with the usage of the same script.

According to the complaint which Sunday World has seen, Erasmus stated that the primary reason the ANC targeted the ATM was the false belief that Zuma and former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule were behind the party’s formation.

He alleged that Moepya, whom he was told was just “a contact person at the IEC,” was part of a meeting that took place at the City Lodge Hotel in OR Tambo International Airport on May 4, 2019, where the plot to sabotage the ATM was birthed and discussed.

Erasmus further told the Electoral Court in his complaint that he covered the costs of the meeting’s hotel room.

He included his bank records in the complaint, which he said were evidence of his version of events.

He alleged that two former ANC members of parliament allegedly organised the meeting.

They are, according to Erasmus, Leonard Ramatlakana, a member of parliament’s police standing committee at the time, and Hlomane Patrick Chauke, the chairperson of the portfolio committee on home affairs, which oversaw the IEC.

He alleged that Ramatlakana told Moepya in that meeting that President Cyril Ramaphosa was “very unhappy with the manner in which the ATM was registered,” as the party was the brainchild of Zuma and Magashule, conceived after the 2017 ANC elective conference, where Ramaphosa was elected as the party president.

Erasmus alleged that Ramatlakana told Moepya that Zuma and Magashule “plotted to use millions of church members to effect a regime change project against the president”.

Church groups, particularly the South African Council of Messianic Churches in Christ, helped form the ATM.

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/atm-weighs-options-on-deregistering-adc9d763-5239-4523-87e0-53884468e3f4

Published Aug 15, 2023

This comes after ANC leader in the Western Cape, advocate Winston Erasmus, in his letter to ANC Western Cape provincial secretary Neville Delport, relayed his suspicions of an elaborate plot by certain ANC leaders, including Richard Dyantyi, to get the ATM de-registered from the IEC.

Dyantyi has come under fire for his role as chairperson of the Section 194 inquiry into advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office.

Early this month, Erasmus filed an application for Dyantyi to recuse himself following revelations that he was part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s CR7 team. He has also been accused of soliciting a bribe from Mkhwebane’s husband, David Skosana, along with the late ANC MP Tina Joemat-Pettersson and ANC Chief Whip Pemmy Majodina.

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3f5110 No.20909813

Hey Cyril, you wouldn't sanction Russia so we have to cancel your AGOA to look good to the voter base back home. I'm sure you understand. How about some loans?"

Canada #58 >>20902152

US profits from climate change loans to poor countries -- media

A program billed as fighting global warming has reportedly funneled back billions of dollars to wealthy nations

22 May, 2024

A program that ostensibly helps developing nations deal with the effects of climate change has reportedly generated windfall profits for Japan, the US, and other wealthy countries, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The gains stem from a pledge to provide $100 billion a year to help poor nations cope with climate change and undertake projects to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report, which cites an analysis of UN and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data. Benefactor countries have channeled money from the program back into their own economies, reaping billions of dollars in profits, it says.

Japan, the US, France, Germany, and other wealthy nations have made the initiative a money-making opportunity by extending loans at market rates – rather than giving grants or low-interest financing – or insisting that the recipients hire their companies to carry out the projects. Reuters said it identified nearly $22 billion in loans and grants that came with such strings attached.

“Offering climate loans at market rates or conditioning funding on hiring certain companies means that money meant for developing countries gets sent back to wealthy ones,” Reuters said. Liane Schalatek, associate director with Germany’s Heinrich-Boll Foundation policy think tank, called the tactics “deeply reprehensible.” She added, “Climate finance provision should not be a business opportunity.”

The funding pledges were first made in 2009, supposedly to help poor countries that were disproportionately harmed by climate change. Roughly $353 billion was paid from 2015 through 2020. Reuters said more than half of that money came in the form of loans, which indebted poorer nations used “to solve problems largely caused by the developed world.”

Andres Mogro, Ecuador’s former director of climate initiatives, said the program heaped a new wave of debt on the global south. “It’s like setting a building on fire and then selling the fire extinguishers outside.”

Ritu Bharadwaj, a researcher at the UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development, told Reuters that the benefits reaped by developed nations have overshadowed the program’s primary objective of supporting climate action in poorer countries. “This is a classic example where a bad loan, which has been given to a country in the garb of climate finance, will create further financial stress.”

https://www.rt.com/news/598074-wealthy-nations-profit-from-climate-loans/

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e25054 No.20917770

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>20895756

>>20895770

>difference between a “free and fair” election and a “will of the people” election–[Johann] Kriegler deputy’s memoir

>>20886893

>We can be proud of South Africans… a template around the world.

South Africa’s ‘template’ was certainly spread around the world. Judges are the activists adjusting laws for certain agendas and undermining the sovereignty of nations. Even Mike Johnson stated recently that the justice system has been ‘weaponized’, https://youtu.be/FVC1JuWsUJU (embedded).

“Justice Johann Kriegler retires as Chair of Freedom Under Law” – Part 1

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/justice-johann-kriegler-retires-as-our-chair–ful

1 August 2023

After 15 years as Chair of Freedom under Law, Justice Johann Kriegler conveyed to its Board at its biennial meeting on 30 July 2023 that he wishes to step down as a director and Chair.

Justice Kriegler served on the first Constitutional Court of South Africa, retiring in 2022 at the age of 70. His illustrious career included 25 years at the Johannesburg Bar (he was elected its leader), then 10 years as a High Court and Appellate Division judge, followed by his eight years on South Africa’s top court. He gave up the first two years of his retirement to a two-year acting judicial appointment chiefly engaged in judicial education (for aspirant judges, induction orientation for new appointees and continuing education for lower and superior court judges) and the training of public prosecutors.

Justice Kriegler co-drafted the South African judicial code of conduct. He has been involved in training judges from a number of countries – ranging from Hong Kong and Iraq to Sudan, Namibia and Swaziland – with an emphasis on constitutional, human rights and electoral dispute adjudication. For almost 40 years Kriegler, the honorary patron of advocacy training in South Africa, has been actively involved in training practising advocates across the common-law world.

Justice Kriegler headed the Independent Electoral Commission through South Africa’s liberation elections in 1994 and was instrumental in establishing its first permanent elections agency, which he chaired for a number of years. Subsequently he has engaged in electoral missions, often in war-torn places, under the auspices of the United Nations, the African Union and other international agencies. These range from Timor-Leste, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 2008 he headed a six-month African Union-sanctioned international audit of Kenya’s violence-torn 2007 presidential elections and in 2010/11 spent some nine months in Afghanistan adjudicating electoral disputes arising from hotly contested legislative elections.

Over the years Justice Kriegler has participated in a wide range of international missions relating to legal and related matters of public concern on behalf of such agencies as the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the International Bar Association (IBA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), e.g. investigations into judicial independence in Palestine (2000), Malawi (2002) and Uganda (2007) and trial observer missions in Zimbabwe (2004). He has lectured in recent years on judicial and electoral matters in Angola, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mexico, Namibia, the Netherlands, Palestine, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, the West Indies, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Before the advent of democracy in South Africa, Justice Kriegler was involved in establishing various human rights and public interest advocacy bodies opposed to the apartheid system of the time. He was involved with advocacy/transformation training with the Black Lawyers’ Association (BLA) from the early 1980s, a founding trustee of the Legal Resources Centre (1978) (the first and still the most important public-interest law practice in sub-Saharan Africa), and the founding chair of Lawyers for Human Rights (1981). He has served as an advisory board member of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria.

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e25054 No.20917789

>>20917770

“Justice Johann Kriegler retires as Chair of Freedom Under Law” – Part 2

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/justice-johann-kriegler-retires-as-our-chair–ful

1 August 2023

Between international missions he has served an array of human-rights causes. These have included a number of non-governmental organisations, notably the Aids Law Project (now named Section27), which forced the South African government to abandon its Aids-denialist policy; the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, involved in youth development; and of course as founding Chair of Freedom Under Law. Interspersing arbitrating in commercial disputes with electoral and judicial missions to many African states and other emergent democracies, Justice Kriegler has trained dozens of electoral administrators and adjudicators in running successful elections and introduced numerous judges to principled thinking founded on the rule of law and respect for the individual.

Justice Kriegler is the author of a standard textbook on criminal procedure and has lectured in recent years on judicial and electoral matters on five continents. He is an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, honorary consulting editor of Butterworths Constitutional Law Reports and a member of the editorial advisory council of the Journal of South African Law. He is an honorary life member of the Johannesburg Bar and an honorary bencher of Gray’s Inn, London.

Perhaps the most accurate summary of his career as a lawyer and judge is to be found in the speech given by then Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson to mark Justice Kriegler’s retirement from the Constitutional Court in 2002, as follows:

"His career first at the Bar and then on the Bench has been one of great distinction. A leading advocate, chairman of the Johannesburg Bar Council, a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division, a judge of the Appellate Division, and finally a judge of this court. As if that were not enough he also chaired the Independent Electoral Commission which supervised our first democratic elections, was a founding and active trustee of the Legal Resources Trust, a founder and active participant in the affairs of Lawyers for Human Rights, is the author of a leading text book on criminal law, and has taken an active role in the training of advocates, magistrates and judges… When the Legal Resources Centre was established he became one of the founding trustees. When he was later appointed to the Bench he continued to be a trustee, attending its meetings and encouraging the young people who worked there and even some of the older ones. The Legal Resources Centre proved to be a source of trouble to the government and it wanted to do something about that. But it was embarrassed by the fact that its trustees consisted of many distinguished lawyers and even judges. And so messages went out to them, some subtle and some not so subtle. The message to Justice Kriegler was far from subtle. It was direct, from a person of great authority, and it was made clear what was expected of him. His response was equally direct. You can do your damnedest but I will not resign. And he did not. Fortunately most of the other trustees took a similar view and the LRC lived on.

Freedom under Law is proud to have been led by such a brave and honourable combatant for the rule of law. It wishes Justice Kriegler and his wife, Betty Welz, who herself has given so much of the past 15 years to promoting FUL’s work, well in the time they will have together.

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e25054 No.20917814

>>20236804

>By 1987 Frankel was well connected with the “left” in (the National Party) government – with people such as Gerrit Viljoen, Barend du Plessis and Roelf Meyer – and he began to reach out to the United Democratic Front.”

>>20379919

>increased attacks on the citizens of Ciskei by the United Democratic Front [which the ANC helped to resurrect a few months ago] and the African National Congress.

>>20500876

>When the United Democratic Front then was banned, Johann Rupert and I had dinner that evening with FW [de Klerk] at the Nelson Hotel. He hadn’t been consulted he said and would have opposed the ban. Things would’ve been done very differently if he took over. When FW did take over from PW as leader of the National Party, I arrange for him to meet Margaret Thatcher who promised him full support from her if he released Mandela and abolished Apartheid.

>>20551522

>with a number of ANC leaders from exile allowed into the country and together with leaders of the United Democratic Front (a broad, mass-based front of grassroots organizations inside the country) began to prepare for “talks about talks”.

>>20666367

>In 1983 Tutu became the Patron of the United Democratic Front (UDF) which was widely recognised to be the internal arm of the ANC.

>>20833361

>Ray was an anti-apartheid activist in the United Democratic Front

“Justice Johann Kriegler retires as Chair of Freedom Under Law” – Part 3

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/justice-johann-kriegler-retires-as-our-chair–ful

1 August 2023

The Board has elected as its new chairman Justice Azhar Cachalia, a director since 2021.

Justice Cachalia has recently retired as a senior judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, on which he had served for 15 years, with two court terms spent on the Constitutional Court. Previously he had served for five years on the High Court in Johannesburg. He was a founder and leading member of the United Democratic Front. He was subjected to a number of banning orders and periods of detention without trial. Justice Cachalia qualified as an attorney, becoming a partner in the leading Johannesburg firm of Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom.

After 1994 Justice Cachalia served as an adviser to the Constitutional Assembly and the convenor of the legal team drafting the new Police Act. Appointed Secretary for Safety and Security, he was chief policy adviser to the Minister for Safety and Security. He thereafter returned to professional practice as an attorney before being appointed a judge. He has also been an executive committee member of the International Commission of Jurists, served on the Soros Foundation, and is a visiting professor at Rhodes University and a member of the editorial board of the South African Law Journal.

Personal statement from Justice Johann Kriegler re Freedom Under Law

FUL can, with due modesty, claim success in a long list of notable interventions where the Rule of Law has been at stake, for instance regarding Richard Mdluli, Berning Ntlemeza, Nomgcobo Jiba, Shaun Abrahams, John Hlophe, Tom Moyane and Nkola Motata – all household names today. In addition, FUL recently published an in-depth report on the Judicial Service Commission, whose dereliction of its constitutional duty triggered FUL’s founding, and it is currently looking at the disciplinary performance of the Legal Practice Council. It is also involved in a number of ongoing court cases.

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e25054 No.20917851

>>20917770

>Johann Kriegler: a founding trustee of the Legal Resources Centre (1978) (the first and still the most important public-interest law practice in sub-Saharan Africa)

>>20494642

>>20781327

>>20781359

>>20781361

>>20781365

>Tokyo Sexwale

“Geoff Budlender, a raconteur and mensch whose work in human rights ‘is bigger than Mount Kilimanjaro’” [Legal Resources Centre] – Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-02-geoff-budlender-a-raconteur-and-mensch-whose-work-in-human-rights-is-bigger-than-mount-kilimanjaro/

02 Dec 2021

The famed lawyer’s cases range from the abolishment of the death penalty in South Africa to the countrywide roll-out of antiretroviral medication.

Along the Garden Route’s winding, tree-canopied roads their friendship formed. It was December 1970. Steve Biko was catching a ride from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) with a progressive young law student named Geoff Budlender.

“I mean, it was a nine- to ten-hour trip,” says Budlender. “A wonderful way to get to know somebody. So Steve had a big influence on my life. He made me understand how different the black experience was from the white experience. His Black Consciousness philosophy was completely persuasive. He opened my mind to a different view of the world.”

This was him elaborating on South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre (LRC), which he co-founded in 1979, and its dealings with a perplexed apartheid regime. The LRC represented vulnerable people for free, often in high-impact cases against the government. It continues this work today.

Budlender recruited [The chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission, Professor Bongani] Majola to work at the LRC in 1996. Majola adds that Budlender has been a mentor to scores of young human rights lawyers in South Africa.

Budlender grew up in a comfortable middle-class home in the suburb of Mill Park, where he matriculated at Grey High School. During his first year at the University of Cape Town in 1968, he was among 600 students who occupied the university’s Bremner Building for nine days, following the termination of anthropologist Archie Mafeje’s teaching contract due to pressure from the apartheid government. At the time, he joined the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students, better known as Nusas.

After finishing studying in 1975, Budlender articled at a Johannesburg firm specialising in political defence, working, among others, on the trial of ANC veteran Tokyo Sexwale, who had been charged under the Terrorism Act. In 1978, a trip to the US revealed to him that the law could do more than defend – that it could bring about change.

He recollects: “In America, I saw public interest lawyers fighting for human rights in various kinds of ways, actively engaging with issues and trying to change the law. That seemed to me a really useful thing. And so back in South Africa, a small group of us came together…”

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e25054 No.20917858

>>20917789

>the speech given by then Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson to mark Justice Kriegler’s retirement from the Constitutional Court in 2002

>>20917851

“Geoff Budlender, a raconteur and mensch whose work in human rights ‘is bigger than Mount Kilimanjaro’” [Legal Resources Centre] – Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-02-geoff-budlender-a-raconteur-and-mensch-whose-work-in-human-rights-is-bigger-than-mount-kilimanjaro/

02 Dec 2021

In 1979 Budlender, and fellow prominent lawyers Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge founded the LRC.

He recalls: “Government was completely perplexed, because here were people working inside the law, with the law, but challenging them through the law, and they didn’t quite know what to do about it.”

Most of the centre’s funding was from outside South Africa. “The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer.”

Inside Budlender’s office, a big placard commemorates another landmark case: the 2002 Constitutional Court judgment decreeing that the antiretroviral drug, nevirapine, be made available to HIV-positive pregnant women, following a bitter dispute between activist organisation the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and then-president Thabo Mbeki’s Aids-denialist government. Effectively, the case broke Aids denialism’s back, paving the way for antiretrovirals to be widely rolled out across South Africa, ensuring the lives of millions of people were prolonged.

Majola also reflects on the case: “Geoff did so much work, he even approached the makers of nevirapine, a German manufacturer, who then offered to give the drug to South Africa for free. But there was so much hostility towards the litigation team.

Peter Mokaba, who was then, I think, a deputy minister, even bought a newspaper full spread where he said: ‘This is poison that the Legal Resources Centre wants to give to our people.’ So the case went to court; the High Court in Pretoria. And the court found against government, which then promptly appealed directly to the Constitutional Court.”

Heywood adds: “Look, I still think it’s probably the most important case that the Constitutional Court has ever dealt with. It’s certainly the most important case if you measure its impact on lives saved. Today we have 5½ million people who are on antiretroviral treatment and who remain well and alive as a consequence.”

Budlender lives in Claremont, Cape Town, with his wife, sociologist Dr Aninka Claassens, of UCT’s law faculty. He has four children, and four grandchildren.

With humour, he recalls courting Claassens in the rural village of Driefontein: “It was in the former Eastern Transvaal, there was this community called Driefontein that had been threatened with forced removal. I was the lawyer representing them, and she had started work for the Black Sash, which took her there. So I ended up pursuing her around the village of Driefontein…”

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e25054 No.20917874

>>20372592

>Judge Ian Farlam is a retired Judge of Appeal who is best known for his work on the Marikana Commission of Inquiry. [Read Marikana controversy (implicating Cyril Ramaphosa) at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/]

>>20917851

>>20917858

>Geoff Budlender

>>20917858

>Most of the centre’s funding was from outside South Africa. “The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer.”

Adv Geoff Budlender, SC; Member of the Marikana Commission

https://www.justice.gov.za/comm-mrk/index.html

Chairperson of the

Commission

Judge Ian Gordon Farlam,

Retired judge of the Supreme

Court of Appeal

Secretariat: Adv Phuti Setati

Additional members:

- Adv Bantubonke Regent Tokota, SC - Advocate Pingla Devi Hemraj SC

Evidence Leaders:

- Adv Mathew Chaskalson, SC

- Adv Geoff Budlender, SC

- Adv Charles Wesley

- Adv Kameshni Pillay

- Adv Matthews Mojapelo

- Adv Thantaswa Lupuwana

- Adv Ashley Mjikeliso

(Co-ordinator, Evidence Leaders)

- Mr Dovhani Mphephu

(Instructing State Attorney, Johannesburg)

The Marikana Commission of Inquiry (Commission) was appointed by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Jacob Zuma, in terms of section 84(2)(f) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996, on 23 August 2012.

Its mandate arising from the Terms of Reference promulgated on 12 September 2012 is to investigate matters of public, national and international concern arising out of the tragic incidents at the Lonmin Mine in Marikana, in the North West Province which took place on about Saturday 11 August to Thursday 16 August, 2012 which led to the deaths of approximately 44 people, more than 70 persons being injured, approximately 250 people being arrested.

The President appointed Honourable Judge Ian Gordon Farlam, a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal as Chairperson of the Commission and Adv Bantubonke Regent Tokota, SC and Advocate Pingla Devi Hemraj SC, as its additional members.

https://www.justice.gov.za/comm-mrk/about.html

The Chairperson has accordingly designated the following persons as Evidence Leaders of the Commission:

1. Adv Mathew Chaskalson, SC

2. Adv Geoff Budlender, SC

3. Adv Charles Wesley

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e25054 No.20917884

File: 8802967b9927b51⋯.jpg (70.63 KB,1131x877,1131:877,Judges_Matter_Sponsors.JPG)

>>20917874

>Adv Mathew Chaskalson, SC

>>20917789

>>20917858

>Arthur Chaskalson

“ADVOCATE MATTHEW CHASKALSON SC”

https://www.judgesmatter.co.za/advocate-matthew-chaskalson-sc/

Ethnicity: White

Date of Birth: August 1963

Key publications:

• Constitutional Law of South Africa (Juta, 1996; revision service 1997 – 2008)

• South African Mineral and Petroleum Law(Juta, 2006; revision service 2006 – 2008)

• Book Chapter: Democracy and Constitutionalism: the Role of Constitutional Interpretation in van Wyk (ed) Rights and Constitutionalism: The New South African Legal Order (Juta, 1994)

• ‘The Problem With Property: Thoughts on the Constitutional Protection of Property in the United States and Commonwealth” 1993 SAJHR (388 – 411)

After completing all his qualifications (with distinction) at Wits University, Chaskalson spent a short stint (1990-1991) as a candidate attorney at Johannesburg mining law firm Bell Dewar Hall (now Fasken). He returned to Wits Law School to take up a lecturer position at from 1992 to 1994.

In 1995 he headed up the Constitutional Law Project at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, still at Wits. It was during this time that Chaskalson made extensive contributions to early ideas on the new Constitution of South Africa.

His article, ‘The Problem With Property, provided framing ideas on the interpretation of the ‘property clause’ in the Constitution. It was referred with approval by the Constitutional Court in FNB v Minister of Finance, the leading authority (so-called locus classicus) on the meaning of property in terms of the Constitution. In the same judgment, three of Chaskalson’s articles are listed as “significant contributions” in the field of constitutional property.

Several of his other academic writings on the constitutional law have influence other spheres of the law, including mining law, land law, language rights in the Constitution.

He was general editor of Constitutional Law of South Africa, a treatise on South African constitutional law, and has been referred to in numerous judgments. Similarly, he contributed to South African Mineral and Petroleum Law, the leading publication in the field, and which is often cited by the courts.

Later in his legal practice, Chaskalson worked extensively on confronting the pervasive problem of corruption and state capture in South Africa. He was one of the evidence leaders in the State Capture Commission, which was set up to investigate acts of grand corruption during the Zuma era. His focus was on the illegal money flows, and his workstream recovered R875 million from global consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

The son of former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, advocate Chaskalson has volunteered as an advocacy trainer from 2007 to date. In 2011 he was founding member of the Victoria Mxenge Group of Advocates, which was a nascent project to effect racial, gender and diversity transformation in the advocates’ profession. He was later a founding member and advocacy trainer at the Pan African Bar Association of SA (PABASA).

Chaskalson was the first of those legal practitioners recruited as part of Zondo’s new approach. He served as an acting justice on the Court from the last term of 2023 to the end of the first term of 2024. At the time of the April 2024 JSC, he has not yet issued a judgment.

While Chaskalson is highly regarded as a leading light in the field, and an expert legal practitioner with wide influence over broad areas of the law, he has limited judicial experience. While this is not a legal impediment to his candidacy, it forces the JSC to think broadly about the experience and qualities needed for the Constitutional Court at this time. Recent academic criticism of the Court (see L. .Loxton ‘The Dangerous Powers of South Africa’s ‘Super Appellate Court’ CCR (2023)Vol.13, 291–325) suggests that the Court has struggled with marrying its constitutional law and commercial law minds. Chaskalson’s broad experience seems to fill that gap. Will the JSC recognise this?

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>>20917770

>Johann Kriegler: a founding trustee of the Legal Resources Centre (1978) (the first and still the most important public-interest law practice in sub-Saharan Africa)

>>20917858

>In 1979 Budlender, and fellow prominent lawyers Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge founded the LRC.

>Most of the centre’s funding was from outside South Africa. “The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer.”

Legal Resources Centre; Board of Directors - Part 1

https://lrc.org.za/who-we-are/

Ashley Francis

EXECUTIVE FINANCE DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

In the past he has worked as chief financial executive at Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (Pty) Ltd and was the co-founder and managing director of Biotech Fuels (Pty) Ltd.

Ashley has also worked as an independent consultant and was part of a turnaround team at Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape.

Christopher Stone

CHRIS STONE IS A PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE OF PUBLIC INTEGRITY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S BLAVATNIK SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

He is an expert in institutional strategy and public-sector reform globally, with a special focus on systems of justice. From 2012 to 2017 Chris served as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), helping to strengthen civil society as a force for political pluralism in more than a hundred countries worldwide.

Prior to joining OSF, he was the Guggenheim Professor of the Practice of Criminal Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he led both the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.

Chris began his legal career in 1982 as a public defender in Washington, DC, and later helped found both the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the New York State Capital Defender Office. From 1994 through 2004, he served as president of the Vera Institute of Justice, an incubator of innovation for the justice sector, expanding the Institute’s work with government reformers in the UK, South Africa, Russia, Nigeria, India, China, Chile, and Brazil.

He is the recipient of an honorary OBE for his contributions to criminal justice reform in the United Kingdom.

Joy-Marie Lawrence

JOY-MARIE LAWRENCE IS A LAWYER, BUSINESSWOMAN, EXECUTIVE INTEGRAL COACH AND CHARTERED DIRECTOR

She has been a fellow of the Institute of Directors of South Africa since 2009. She is the founder and CEO of Boardvisory – a niche advisory firm specialising in Board-level engagements. Joy-Marie has been a trustee of the Legal Resources Centre since 2013.

She completed her legal articles at Webber Wentzel in 1998. Her corporate experience includes the Telecommunications sector (MTN Group), media and broadcasting (SA Broadcasting Corporation) and the IT sector (Business Connexion), with her last corporate role as group executive for EOH in Cape Town.

Her current directorships include non-executive director of WDB Investment Holdings, advisory board member of the UCT Graduate School of Business Advisory Board and non-executive director of TEKANO. She was previously one of the founding board members and subsequently the chair of the South African National Space Agency (SANSA).

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>>20917901

Legal Resources Centre; Board of Directors - Part 2

https://lrc.org.za/who-we-are/

Justice Lex Mpati

CHANCELLOR OF RHODES UNIVERSITY

Justice Lex Mpati is currently the Chancellor of Rhodes University, his alma mater.

Lex Mpati joined the Legal Resources Centre (Makhanda) as in-house counsel in 1989. He served as a judge in the Eastern Cape High Court from 1997 to 2000. He was later appointed as a judge of appeal for the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa. He ascended to deputy president of the Supreme Court of Appeal and ultimately the president of the SCA from 2008 – 2017.

Lumka Mlambo

FUND PRINCIPAL AT THE SA SME FUND

Lumka Mlambo is currently a fund principal at the SA SME Fund, a fund of funds manager focusing on supporting SMEs in South Africa.

Previously she was with investment holding company Identity Capital Partners and prior to that was part of the investment banking team at JPMorgan, both in the London and South African offices.

Lumka has served on numerous private sector and non-profit boards of directors.

Marjorie Da Silva

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL OF INSURANCE AT THE AFRICAN LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY (ALU)

Marjorie is the executive director of the School of Insurance at the African Leadership University (ALU).

She is a non-executive director of several companies including Bidvest Life Ltd., Rand Mutual Assurance, and the South African Mathematics Foundation.

Marjorie was a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in London, UK for eight years and served as its president from 2017 – 2018.

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>>20917903

Legal Resources Centre; Board of Directors - Part 3

https://lrc.org.za/who-we-are/

Professor Michael Katz

PROFESSOR MICHAEL KATZ IS A PRACTICING ATTORNEY AND CHAIRMAN AT EDWARD NATHAN SONNENBERG (ENS) AFRICA.

Michael also teaches company law at Witwatersrand University. He has published numerous articles, chapters and papers on legal and fiscal topics and co-authored the Butterworths Company Law Precedents (four volumes) and South Africa’s contribution to the United Nations and Harvard University’s Corporate Law Tools Project. He is also a trustee of numerous trusts including the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, the Constitution Hill Trust, and the Constitutional Court Trust. [He was also part of the negotiations into the new dispensation.]

Mziwandile Ezra Davids

CHAIRMAN OF CORPORATE/M&A AT BOWMANS

Ezra Davids is chairman of Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions at Bowmans specialising in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities law.

Ezra is the most recent chairman of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Law School of the University of Cape Town. He is also a director of Freedom Under Law (a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law in Southern Africa), and a patron of the Student Sponsorship Programme (a non-profit organisation that places and enables academically talented, low income students to excel in South Africa’s best high schools).

Ezra was the first practising African lawyer to be featured on the front page of the American Lawyer.

Nersan Govender

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

Thandi Orleyn

CHAIRMAN OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

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e25054 No.20917955

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>>20917920

>Thandi Orleyn

>CHAIRMAN OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

>>20917858

>Most of the centre’s funding was from outside South Africa. “The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer.”

>>20794479

>“De Beers Diamond Company & Black Labour (In "Diamond Road" documentary)”

>https://youtu.be/XETdnQFT9VM (Embedded)

>Aug 13, 2008

>0:49 – [Nicky Oppenheimer] “This indeed is a splendid occasion and it’s fantastic for De Beers to have played a role in this process and getting us where we are today… it’s particularly important to appreciate what diamonds have done for South Africa.”

The Irony, as the documentary states, De Beers made use of the pass laws and they "shaped many of the systems of which Apartheid was later based."

Thandi Orleyn

https://www.blackentrepreneurprofile.com/people/person/thandi-orleyn/

Company: Peotona Group Holdings Ltd.

Position: Co-Founder

Industry: Investment Firm

Country: South Africa

Thandi is a senior partner with Johannesburg-based attorneys, Routledge Modise Moss Morris (RMMM) and heads up its Employment and Labour Law Department. She is also a co-founder of Peotona Capital, the women’s investment company that owns a 16% share in Ponahalo Investment Holdings, a new generation black empowerment company. Ponahalo Investment Holdings holds a joint 50% stake in Ponahalo that owns 8% of the South African unit of De Beers, the world's top diamond miner, and is buying part of cement maker Lafarge SA's operations.

She was admitted to practise in 1984 and, for the following 10 years, worked at the Legal Resources Centre - which focus is public interest and human rights law – specialising on the training, development and support of paralegals and advice centres. During this period, she also conducted litigation against various organs of the Apartheid state in such matters as pass laws, the state of emergency legislation, forced removal and unfair dismissals.

She later trained as a mediator and arbitrator, joining the Independent Mediation Service of SA (IMSSA) as its National Director in 1995, providing strong strategic leadership at a time when South Africa was moving from an Apartheid state to a democratic country. An example of one of the many challenges she faced during this period was negotiating and mediating with international donors in convincing them to continue supporting IMSSA, a move that reached a satisfactory conclusion allowing it to maintain its crucial role in the dispute resolution environment.

South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) was established as a statutory body in 1996 under the terms of the Labour Relations Act to resolve labour disputes. A year later, Thandi was appointed its National Director with a R100-million start-up budget and a 1 000-strong team fully reliant on IT for its success.

Of note and included on the auspicious list of high profile cases upon which she has personally been called upon to mediate are the latest SAA strike, Chamber of Mines/ National Union of Mineworkers 1997, Transport Industry/ SATTAWU and other Unions 1998-1999, and various land disputes in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West and Free State provinces.

Thandi has conducted training in conflict resolution in countries as far flung as Burundi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia; facilitated stakeholder participation in the Burundian mediation under former President Nelson Mandela; in preparation for the World Conference against Racism; and in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, as well as conducted a labour legislative review in Mauritius on behalf of the ILO.

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>>20917903

>>20917920

>>20917955

Legal Resources Centre: Professor Harvey Dale, Patron

https://lrc.org.za/who-we-are/

PATRON OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

Professor Harvey Dale is a distinguished legal scholar and a dedicated advocate for social justice. He has a career that spans over four decades, Professor Dale has made immense contributions to the law field, particularly in the realm of public interest law and access to justice.

The renowned expert in international tax law, began examining the viability of creating a program that studied the legal issues affecting nonprofit organisations. He is also eulogised for his advisory roles for groups in South Africa, Russia, Mexico, Australia, China and the United Kingdom on his law speciality.

Professor Dale hails from a deep sense of commitment to community service, he pursued his education at Cornell University, and Havard Law School, where he excelled academically with a Juris Doctor-Cum Laude and further demonstrated interest in using the law as a tool for constructive change.

In every part of his career, he has held various positions, that includes serving as a faculty member at prestigious law schools and a practicing attorney with speciality in non-profit organisation and philanthropy law. His expertise in these areas has been instrumental in shaping legal frameworks that empowers the marginalised communities and promote equal access to legal resources.

Professor Dale’s commitment for social justice led him to become a patron of the Legal Resources Centre, where he plays a pivotal role in advancing the LRC’s mission to provide legal assistance to the marginalised. His leadership and guidance helps the LRC to expand its reach and impact, ensuring that vulnerable populations have the representation they need to navigate the complexities of the legal system.

In addition to his professional achievements, Professor Dale is widely respected for his integrity, compassion and unwavering dedication to serving others. His indelible imprint on the legal landscape continues to inspire generations of legal luminaries and activists, urging them to harness their expertise for the betterment of society.

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e25054 No.20917982

>>20571250

>Freedom Under Law

>>20917770

>>20917789

>>20917814

>Justice Johann Kriegler retires as Chair of Freedom Under Law

Sir Sydney Kentridge: Legal Resource Centre Patron and Board Member of Freedom under Law

https://lrc.org.za/who-we-are/

PATRON OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

Sir Sydney Kentridge is a luminary within the legal realm, he is renowned for his unwavering commitment to justice and equality. Armed with a profound sense of social responsibility, Sir Kentridge embarked on a legal odyssey that would shape South Africa’s legal landscape for generations to come.

He is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand, Sydney Kentridge honed his legal prowess before being admitted to the bar in 1948. He championed the marginalised and oppressed, fearlessly representing clients facing persecution during the apartheid era. Sir Kentridge’s tireless advocacy earned him ubiquitous acclaim, that positions him as a stalwart defender of Human Rights.

As a patron of the Legal Resources Centre, his visionary leadership remains instrumental in advancing the LRC’s mission to provide legal aid to those in need, ensuring equitable access to justice for all South Africans. Over and above his contributions to the LRC, Sir Kentridge’s impact reverberates all around the legal profession. His mentorship successfully nurtured countless aspiring lawyers, while his efforts to shape the legal precedents have safeguarded the rights and freedoms of individuals across the nation.

To date Sir Sydney Kentridge’s legacy endures as a testament to the transformative power of the law. His unwavering integrity, boundless compassion and steadfast commitment to justice, continues to serve as an enduring inspiration to all who strive for a more just and equitable society.

https://www.freedomunderlaw.org/board-member/sir-sydney-kentridge-kcmg-kc/

Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG KC

Sydney Kentridge was initially a member of the Johannesburg Bar: a highly successful general practice included several significant political matters — inter alia the Sharpeville inquiry (1961), the Treason Trial (1961), the Steve Biko inquest (1977), the trial of the Dean of Johannesburg (1971) — and he later moved to practise in London. A longtime member of Brick Court Chambers, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1984 and a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 1985, retiring from full-time practice in 2013. He was knighted in 1999 for his international human-rights work. He has sat as a judge of appeal in Botswana, as a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey and as an Acting Justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court.

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>>20917901

>>20917903

>>20917920

>>20917955

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>>20917982

Legal Resources Centre; Advisory Board Members

https://lrc.org.za/who-we-are/

Judge President Dunstan Mlambo

PATRON OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

Judge President Dunstan Mlambo is a distinguished legal luminary known for his unwavering commitment to justice and the rule of law. He has a stellar career spanning decades, furthermore he served with distinction in various capacities within the judiciary of South Africa. Judge President Mlambo’s keen legal acumen, accompanied with his steadfast dedication to upholding constitutional principles, has earned him vast respect in both national and international peripheries.

As a champion of human rights and equality, he is eulogised for his indelible mark on the legal landscape, which shapes jurisprudence and advances the cause of justice for all. In addition to his esteemed judicial role, he has actively contributed to the advancement of the legal scholarship and advocacy.

Judge President Mlambo, serves as an advisory member of the Legal Resources Centre where he plays a pivotal role in promoting access to justice and defending the rights of the marginalised. In the course of his illustrious career, Judge President Mlambo has presided over landmark cases that helps to shape legal precedent and safeguards the constitutional rights of South Africans. His leadership and expertise are instrumental in fostering a more equitable and just society, earning him widespread acclaim and admiration within the legal fraternity and beyond.

Judge Mahendra Chetty Ramasamy

PATRON OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

Judge Mahendra Chetty is an esteemed member of the Legal Resources Centre’s advisory board and he is renowned for his exemplary career in the legal field. Born and raised in South Africa, Judge Chetty pursues his passion for justice and equality through law. With a distinguished academic background, he has acquired his law degree from a prestigious institution before embarking on a journey that is marked by dedication to upholding the rule of law.

In addition to his judicial duties, Judge Chetty has actively contributed to legal advocacy and reform efforts. His involvement with the Legal Resources Centre‘s advisory board underscores his dedication to advancing the cause of justice and promoting the rights of the disadvantaged communities. Whether presiding over cases or advocating for systemic change, Judge Chetty remains steadfast in his pursuit of a more just and equitable society.

Judge Taswell Papier

PATRON OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE

Judge Taswell Papier is an esteemed legal professional with extensive experience in the field of law and justice. He is currently serving as an advisor for the Legal Resources Centre, where he brings a plethora of knowledge and expertise with his role.

Throughout his career, Judge Papier has demonstrated a profound dedication to serving the public interest and promoting social justice. His tireless advocacy for human rights and constitutional principles has earned him vast recognition and respect within and beyond the legal community.

Judge Taswell Papier’s unwavering commitment to the rule of law and his steady pursuit of justice makes him a valuable asset to the Legal Resources Centre, where he continues to contribute his expertise to advance legal rights and social equality.

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e25054 No.20918026

>>20571250

>Freedom Under Law

>>20917920

>Mziwandile Ezra Davids: He is also a director of Freedom Under Law (a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law in Southern Africa)

>>20917770

>>20917789

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>>20917982

>>20372592

>Cyril Ramaphosa

Freedom under Law [the irony]: International Advisory Board – Part 1

https://www.freedomunderlaw.org/international-advisory-board/

The recent high rate of attrition among members of the International Advisory Board has reduced its membership considerably. Previously only two members had been lost – in 2009 Cyril Ramaphosa, now South Africa’s President and the Board’s Founding Chair, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Steyn, PC, died in 2017.

In the last few years have seen the loss of Judge Nathaniel R. Jones (1926-2020), Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (1935-2021), The Hon. Soli Sorabjee, SC (1930-2021) and Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu (1931- 2021).

While mourning all these remarkable individuals, Freedom Under Law remains grateful for their willing support so generously given. In good times and bad, it has been heartening to be able to rely on their encouragement. In January 2024 FUL was honoured to welcome two internationally regarded retired judges, each known in particular for speaking out on the rule of law, judicial independence and the protection of human rights by both international law instruments and domestic constitutions as members of its International Advisory Board. They are former Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay of Zimbabwe and Justice Michael Kirby of Australia.

The Rt Hon the Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC

Shami Chakrabarti, since 2016 a member of the British House of Lords, was the Director of the civil-liberties and human-rights group Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 until 2016 and thereafter Shadow Attorney General in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Shadow Cabinet.

Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG KC

Jeffrey Jowell, a member of the British Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, was the inaugural Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London and is a practising barrister at Blackstone Chambers, with particular interests in constitutional and administrative law and human rights. He is Emeritus Professor of Public Law at University College London, where he was previously Dean of the Law Faculty and a Vice Provost. Educated at the Universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Harvard, he is a leading authority on public law and has advised on a number of national constitutions. He was knighted in 2011 “for services to human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe”.

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>>20666367

>>20917851

>>20917982

>Steve Biko

>>20917901

>From 2012 to 2017 Chris served as president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF)

>>20918026

Freedom under Law: International Advisory Board – Part 2

https://www.freedomunderlaw.org/international-advisory-board/

Dr Mamphela Ramphele

Mamphela Ramphele has been a student activist, a medical doctor, a community development activist, a researcher, a university executive, a director of companies, a party-politician and a global public servant and is now an active citizen in both the public and private sectors. Dr Ramphele has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, as one of four Managing Directors of the World Bank and as chairperson of several companies. She was a founding board member of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa and the founder of the Citizens Movement and is currently a trustee of both the Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko Foundations. She is the author of several books and publications on socio-economic issues in South Africa and has received numerous national and international awards acknowledging her leading role in spearheading projects for disadvantaged people in South Africa and elsewhere. [She was married to Steve Biko]

Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay

Anthony Gubbay obtained his BA degree at Wits and an MA and LL M at Cambridge. He joined the Bar in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in 1957. In 1959 he was part of a team defending 100 members of the-then African National Congress of Southern Rhodesia in a challenge to the detention of 100 of its members without trial. Building an extensive practice he served as President of the Income Tax Appeal Tribunal and also the Patents Tribunal.

In 1977 he was appointed to the High Court in Bulawayo, and thereafter to the Appellate Division in Harare. Justice Gubbay played an important role in the post-democratic court led first by Chief Justice John Fieldsend and thereafter Enoch Dumbutshena. Serving five times as Acting Chief Justice, Gubbay was appointed Chief Justice in 1990. He served in that position for 11 years, delivering a series of ground-breaking judgments affirming human rights. These ranged from freedom of speech and from arbitrary arrest to decriminalising homosexuality and asserting land rights.

In 2001 he was forced from office. The Supreme Court was allowed to be invaded, and he was threatened. He was replaced by a High Court judge, Godfrey Chidyausiku, who had served as a deputy minister, acting attorney-general and member of the Politburo of the ruling party.

Gubbay has received wide international recognition. He is an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, a patron of the Association of Commonwealth Judges and Magistrates and was appointed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

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>>20682047

>cadres of APLA and MK used to do their medical training there but as a way of punishment, the US withdrew funding from UNESCO because it was a UNESCO school.

>>20918026

>>20918037

“Former High Court judge Michael Kirby will marry his partner of fifty years | Sunday Extra”

https://youtu.be/yjl0IscLsgI

Feb 9, 2019

This week, fifty years after they met, former High Court judge Michael Kirby and his partner, Johan van Vloten, will marry in a civil ceremony.

Michael spoke to Sunday Extra’s Hugh Riminton about why 1969 was the year that made him.

3:19 – “You weren’t a shrinking violet on any level. You went into university and you were prominent in university life. You were the president of the Student Representative Council. You were the head of the University of Sydney Union. You were living a life that was gathering attention to yourself… In that time, did you have to still sustain your part of the deal?… [Kirby] Yes and in fact I now know that quite a few of the people who were in student politics were gay.

Freedom under Law: International Advisory Board, Justice Michael Kirby – Part 3

https://www.freedomunderlaw.org/international-advisory-board/

Michael Kirby is an international jurist, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96); President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-96) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009).

He has undertaken many international activities for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the OECD and the Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has also worked in civil society, being elected President of the International Commission of Jurists (1995-8). His recent international activities have included a member of the Eminent Persons Group on the Future of the Commonwealth of Nations (2010-11); Commissioner of the UNDP Global Commission on HIV and the Law (2011-12); Chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on DPRK (North Korea) (2013-14); and Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Essential Healthcare (2015-16). He is also heavily engaged in international arbitrations; domestic mediations; and teaching law. He is an Honorary Professor at 12 Australian and overseas universities.

In 1991 he was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. In 1998, he was named Laurette of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education. In 2010 he was named co-winner of the Gruber Justice Prize. In 2011 he received the inaugural Australian Privacy Medal. The honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws and Doctor of the University have been conferred on him by universities in Australia and overseas.

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>>20917974

“Michael Kirby calls for freedom from religion | Matter of Fact”

https://youtu.be/snlQp3bPrl4

Oct 4, 2018

Former High Court justice Michael Kirby, an advocate for LGBTQI rights, speaks to Stan Grant about possible new religious freedom laws which he says might isolate and humiliate minorities.

Kirby, Michael — "Judicial Activism: Power Without Responsibility? No, Appropriate Activism Conforming to Duty" [2006] MelbULawRw 18; (2006) 30(2) Melbourne University Law Review 576

https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2006/18.html

[…Developing ideas expressed in his 2003 Hamlyn Lectures on the same topic, the author asserts that creativity has always been part of the judicial function and duty in common law countries. He illustrates this statement by reference to the Australian Communist Party Case, and specifically the reasons of Dixon J, often cited as the exemplar of judicial restraint. He suggests that ‘judicial activism’ has become code language for denouncing important judicial decisions with which conservative critics disagree. By reference to High Court decisions on the meaning of ‘jury’ in s 80 of the Australian Constitution and cases on constitutional free speech, legal defence of criminal accused and native title, he explains the necessities and justifications of some judicial creativity…]

NOSTALGIC THOUGHTS

It is a special pleasure for me to present these thoughts in a session chaired by Sir John Young. It is 30 years since I first met him in his chambers in Melbourne as Chief Justice of Victoria. I had just been appointed to chair the Australian Law Reform Commission, a new federal agency established to advise on the reform of federal laws. I had the privilege of meeting the distinguished judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria who were members of the Chief Justice’s Law Reform Committee. They included Sir Oliver Gillard, Sir Murray McInerney and Mr Justice Cliff Menhennitt. They were fine and talented judges. I learned much from them and from Sir John Young himself.

Dixon J has been praised for his adherence to the legal method. However, like all great judges of the common law tradition, he knew that the law cannot stand still. It moves and adapts to changing circumstances and different times. Those who deny this fact are wilfully blind to the realities of the judicial tradition to which we, the people of Britain, the United States and Australia, are heir. In our legal system, the judges are law-makers. They are not law-makers in the bold tradition of the other branches of government — the legislature and the executive. But law-making is part of the judicial function. Let there be no mistake about this.

To the blind or false-sayers who ignore or deny these simple facts, a question must be posed. Where else did the common law of England and its offshoots in America and Australia come from, if not from the judges? Look around the room of any judge or lawyer of our tradition and you will find bookshelves full of casebooks with legal exposition, explanation and development. It is not that the judges cannot help themselves. It is that, being a judge in our legal system necessarily involves the office-holder in a creative function. Recorded in those law books, indeed found on virtually every page, are the legal principles that form the bedrock of our system of law and precedent. It is as well that these home truths should be stated at the beginning of this conversazione so that those who live in the dream world where judges make no law can be given a rude awakening. Let them throw off their slumbers and be alert to the reality that surrounds them, if only they will look.

Nostalgic dreams of judges without choices, devoid of creativity, abjuring all ‘activism’, may be found in fairy stories. But for judges, lawyers and citizens who are obliged to live in the real world, it is necessary to face up to the requirements of judicial choice.

I did not think, so long after I was taught these basic rudiments about judicial choice, by my great professor and teacher of jurisprudence Julius Stone, that I would be obliged to come to an intellectual occasion to repeat the self-evident truths that he imparted nearly 50 years ago at the Sydney Law School. Stone was a disciple of Roscoe Pound. Indeed, Stone was almost appointed Dean of the Harvard Law School in succession to Pound in the 1930s. Had that happened, we would, to our great disadvantage, have lost the impact of his intellect and teaching in the Southern Hemisphere. But he came to these parts. He taught the truths that Roscoe Pound had taught. He made us face the realities of judicial choice. He required his students to acknowledge those realities. The students went on to become judges, lawyers and law teachers. The mask or blindfold of choice-free legal and judicial activity was cast aside. The debate moved to a higher plane.

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e25054 No.20918080

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>>20918073

>Stone was a disciple of Roscoe Pound. Indeed, Stone was almost appointed Dean of the Harvard Law School in succession to Pound in the 1930s. Had that happened, we would, to our great disadvantage, have lost the impact of his intellect and teaching in the Southern Hemisphere. But he came to these parts. He taught the truths that Roscoe Pound had taught.

“Lecture 3: Sociological Jurisprudence”

https://youtu.be/eR_jO1nOhYc

May 9, 2019

Roscoe Pound; “inspiration of the Progressives”

https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/pound-and-the-law

Roscoe Pound (born on October 27, 1872, in Lincoln, Nebraska; died on July 1, 1964, in Cambridge, Massachusetts), practically unknown among the general American population today, was the most famous American jurisprudential thinker of the first half of the twentieth century. He was also the greatest twentieth-century dean of the Harvard Law School (1916–36). Through his work in building faculty and programs and in seeking international students, he made Harvard the first of the world-class American law schools. His name now graces one of Harvard’s buildings, an honor accorded to only a handful of legal greats. Pound was the principal architect of a legal philosophical approach he called “sociological jurisprudence,” which sought to make the law more responsive to changes in society, while still maintaining its authoritative traditional and moral character. Pound is the spiritual father of the still dominant school of American legal thought now known as “legal realism,” but he might have regarded legal realism as a prodigal son.1

Pound’s training as a natural scientist, and as a Darwinist under the influence of Bessey, predisposed him to see the law in terms of organic growth and to understand that only those parts of the law should survive that were useful.

Whether or not Pound’s sociological jurisprudence, and his inspiration of the Progressives in the beginning of the century, led inevitably to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, in The Ideal Element in the Law, Pound argues convincingly that the welfare state (or the “service state” as he calls it) cannot do everything.

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e25054 No.20918094

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>>20918026

>the Board’s Founding Chair, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Steyn, PC, died in 20

>>20918037

>>20918044

“South African born British jurist and life peer Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn died at 85”

https://youtu.be/HzqyC_FrlVo

Nov 29, 2017

Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn, PC was born on 15 August 1932 and died on 28 November 2017. He was a South African/British jurist, and until September 2005 a Law Lord. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.As a result of his opposition to apartheid in his native South Africa, he settled in the UK in 1973 joining the English Bar and building a distinguished international commercial law practice.

“Freedom Under Law: Tribute to the Rt. Hon. The Lord Steyn, P.C”

https://www.freedomunderlaw.org/2017/12/04/freedom-under-law-tribute-to-the-rt-hon-the-lord-steyn-p-c/

4 December 2017

Freedom Under Law regrets that the founding Chair of its International Advisory Board, Lord Steyn, died in London on 28 November 2017.

Johan van Zijl Steyn was born at Stellenbosch in 1932, his father a founding member of its Faculty of Law. His grandfather was a Boer fighter, imprisoned in the camp at Green Point, Cape Town and exiled to Sri Lanka, where he and four others escaped by swimming ashore from their ship in the notoriously shark-infested Colombo Harbour. They returned via Russia, Europe and what is now Namibia to their astonished fellow commando-members in the Free State. It is said that the latter refused to believe them, given the flatness of the earth.

Lord Steyn studied law at Stellenbosch, and as a Rhodes Scholar at University College, Oxford. Returning to South Africa, and to practice at the Cape Bar, he took silk at the age of 38 in 1970. In later years, he looked back on what is to be learnt from how a government without effective constitutional limitation on its exercise of power “by and large could and did achieve its oppressive purposes by a scrupulous observance of legality. It made an indelible impression on me.”

In 1972 he left South Africa. He began practice anew in London. Quickly he overcame the disadvantages of an unconnected outsider and built up a leading commercial practice. In just six years he became a Queen’s Counsel, and in January 1985 he was offered an appointment by the Lord Chancellor to the select ranks of the Commercial Court. Self-deprecatingly he ascribed his appointment to a simple error in persona: whenever the Lord Chancellor, then Lord Hailsham, met him he called Steyn “Charles”.

After seven years he was elevated to the Court of Appeal and very shortly thereafter was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and a member of the Privy Council.

Lord Steyn is widely regarded as one of the most influential and creative judges of our time. He delivered leading judgments covering a wide range of legal fields. Of course his reputation as a pre-eminent commercial lawyer made this likely in the areas of contract, arbitration and international trade. So, too, his contribution to greater legal harmonisation in Europe, drawing in his own life on scholarship and practice in both civil law and common law systems.

Lord Steyn has been described in these words by a leading UK constitutional lawyer, Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell (also a member of FUL’s International Advisory Board): “Fiercely independent, he would sometimes dissent sharply from his brethren when he was unable to persuade them. Ultimately a man of the highest values, and most steadfast commitment to equality, the rule of law and constitutionalism.”

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e25054 No.20918103

>>20917903

>Justice Lex Mpati

>CHANCELLOR OF RHODES UNIVERSITY

>>20918037

>Dr Ramphele has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town

>>20917920

>Ezra is the most recent chairman of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Law School of the University of Cape Town. He is also a director of Freedom Under Law (a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the rule of law in Southern Africa)

>>20917901

>Ashley Francis

>EXECUTIVE FINANCE DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

“Ex-UCT chair hits back at ‘untested’ panel report [chaired by retired Supreme Court of Appeal president Judge Lex Mpati]”

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/ex-uct-chair-hits-back-at-untested-panel-report-7a10f728-d9b5-4f1f-9316-413c85f02a2e

Published Nov 6, 2023

One-sided, unverified and untested is how former UCT council chairperson Babalwa Ngonyama has described a report by the independent panel chaired by retired Supreme Court of Appeal president Judge Lex Mpati, which she said has led to the unlawful damage and defamation inflicted upon her dignity, reputation and character.

Ngonyama, who was according to the report “placing” UCT at risk, said the panel denied her the right to respond to allegations levelled against her.

The long-awaited report which was made public by the university last week recommended that Ngonyama be reported to the appropriate regulatory authorities for “failing to perform her fiduciary duty to UCT”.

The alleged failure in her fiduciary duty included not holding former vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng to account following complaints against her in an Ombud Report and necessary steps to terminate her contract.

According to the panel, UCT’s governance crisis was due to Ngonyama and Phakeng’s conduct.

Among other things, they are alleged to have breached the council’s code of conduct and degraded HR function.

In several cases, according to the report, Ngonyama also had a direct role in the resignations of academics including Professor Loretta Feris and teaching deputy vice-chancellor Professor Lis Lange.

“The HR function was degraded and misused by the VC and the chairperson of council (Ngonyama) to advance their own interests, instead of UCT’s. It was enlisted to terminate the contracts of senior executives unfairly, placing UCT at risk. There were also reports of instances where appointments appear to have been made, and performance awards apparently granted, which were undeserved,” it said.

Ngonyama’s response to the findings and recommendation was that a legal review process was pending in the Western Cape High Court to challenge the lawfulness, fairness of the process and the nature and extent of the panel’s powers.

She expressed that she was alarmed that the panel chose to release the final report while the court review process was pending.

“I strongly deny the allegations made against me in the report which is the very reason that I have challenged the basis of the findings in the legal review process. They are one-sided, unverified and untested, leading to the unlawful damage and defamation inflicted upon my dignity, reputation and character, which is profound. I eagerly anticipate the resolution of the legal review process in the Western Cape High Court,” she said.

Ngonyama said while the panel was appointed to investigate broader governance issues at UCT, the process was “morphed to target a few individuals”.

“It is one thing to focus on improving governance at UCT, it is a completely different matter to use the process to lay blame. I remain aggrieved by the manner the panel chose to proceed with the process, without providing me the opportunity to test the evidence against me, something which conflicts with the basic tenet of procedural fairness.

“In only one (Ngonyama’s) case where serious allegations had been made, did the witness not appear, and adverse findings were made against her in the Interim Report to Council on 18 May 2023.

“She has since instituted review proceedings against UCT and the panel in the high court.”

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e25054 No.20918144

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>>20494594

>The TRC was too loaded with ANC-aligned personalities to look anywhere else but on the right.

>>20666291

>the irony of which is that the terrorist commander who gave the order to attack St. James was now a member of Parliament. Now the new government of South Africa is very popular with the liberal press and a big part of their propaganda campaign is the "Truth and Reconciliation" (TRC) commission. Amnesty for terrorists is now routinely given (though the fate of the "fascist," "racist" former security forces of South Africa, who fought against the terrorists, is still in question).

>>20918026

>Cyril Ramaphosa

>>20895756

>>20895770

>>20917770

>>20917789

>[Johann Kriegler] also chaired the Independent Electoral Commission which supervised our first democratic elections

>>20917851

>>20917858

>>20917901

>>20917903

>>20917920

>>20917955

>>20917974

>>20917982

>>20918000

>>20908620

>IEC chair, ANC officials implicated in plot to deregister ATM party

“Janet Love - Legal Resources Centre”

https://youtu.be/AMyotldQgTs

Mar 2, 2010

Janet Love, Director of the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa, discusses transitional justice in post-conflict areas. This event Peace versus justice? Understanding transitional justice in fragile states was held on the 9th October 2009, from 13.00-14.30 at ODI's offices in London. She discusses the TRC

“President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the appointment of civil servant and former anti-Apartheid activist Janet Love [was the national director of the Legal Resources Centre] as a commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).”

https://www.polity.org.za/article/janet-love-appointed-as-an-iec-commissioner-2023-10-13

13TH OCTOBER 2023

Love is one of five commissioners appointed for a term of seven years.

The appointment is in accordance with the Electoral Commission Act which indicates that the appointment be made on the recommendation of the National Assembly.

Following a series of interviews, a shortlist of eight candidates was submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and on September 12 the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs recommended the approval of Love’s nomination by the National Assembly, which agreed to the nomination of September 19.

The panel conducting the interviews included the Chief Justice, the chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission, the Public Protector and the chairperson of the Commission for Gender Equality.

Along with serving as a part-time commissioner in April 2016 and full-time as the Commission’s vice-chairperson in November 2018, Love was the national director of the Legal Resources Centre and served as a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress in the first democratic Parliament from 1994 to 1999.

Love also formed part of the 22-member Constitutional Committee of the Constitutional Assembly, responsible for steering the Constitution-making process.

“Having played a major role in fighting for freedom as an anti-Apartheid activist in the 1970s, Ms. Love returned to South Africa in 1990 and became involved in negotiating South Africa’s new Constitution and establishing the first democratic government,” said Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.

“President Ramaphosa wishes Ms. Love well in her new capacity in the service of the nation and in an institution which is critical to the integrity and vibrancy of our democracy,” he said.

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e25054 No.20918157

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>>20918144

>>20908620

>>20908601

>>20895552

==Jacob Zuma’s recent court cases; Janet Love and Recusal of 6 Constitutional Court Justices

“Zuma and MK party calls for six Constitutional Court Justices to recuse themselves”

https://youtu.be/3aXpeOK9-38

May 4, 2024

Jacob Zuma and the Umkhonto weSizwe party have called for six Constitutional Court Justices to recuse themselves, from hearing the IEC's matter involving the former president. According to Zuma, Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo alongside judges Madlanga, Majiedt, Mhlantla, Theron, and Tshiqi are all tainted by bias - and are therefore not fit to hear the matter involving him and his new party MK.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/concourt-dismisses-zumas-application-for-justices-to-recuse-themselves-d37678bb-7131-419e-bdc5-28a0e670753d

Published May 10, 2024

The Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s application to have the justices recused from the appeal case by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC).

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-05-21-concourt-stamps-zumas-ticket-to-political-wilderness-throws-mk-into-uncharted-waters/

21 May 2024

The decision by the Constitutional Court upholding the Electoral Commission’s decision to bar former president Jacob Zuma from being an MP has major consequences for Zuma, uMkhonto Wesizwe, the IEC, one of its commissioners and the Electoral Court.

There have been very few cases in which the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) had its credibility tested in the way it was over the last few weeks.

–Never before had a former president won an Electoral Court ruling overturning a decision of the IEC.

It is also extremely rare for one of its commissioners to be accused of bias in public and in court, in the way in which former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party made claims against Janet Love.–

The finding by the Constitutional Court, that her comments that a person who had been sentenced in the last five years to a term of more than 12 months in prison, were not directly about Zuma, must surely allow her to remain in her job.

If the court had found against Love, there would have been intense pressure on both her and the IEC. Some parties (including MK) might well have argued that all of the decisions in which she was involved would have to be revisited.

It would have been the first time a commissioner on the IEC had suffered a finding against them of bias (Pansy Tlakula did resign from the IEC after a scandal around a tender for office equipment, but not because of bias).

However, the IEC and the Constitutional Court will not be immune from further political attacks.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/zuma-claims-judges-render-sentences-even-without-a-case-when-they-dislike-you/ar-BB1mHxzl

2024/05/20

Zuma claims: ‘Judges render sentences even without a case when they dislike you’

Jacob Zuma, leader of the MK Party, firmly believes that IEC Commissioner Janet Love’s remarks concerning eligibility for the elections specifically targeted his candidacy.

They assert that she, and possibly the IEC, prematurely formed a biased opinion, making it impossible for them to reach a fair and impartial decision.

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e25054 No.20918172

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>>20918026

>Previously only two [Freedom under Law] members had been lost – in 2009 Cyril Ramaphosa, now South Africa’s President

>>20917858

>In 1979 Budlender, and fellow prominent lawyers Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge founded the LRC.

>He recalls: “Government was completely perplexed, because here were people working inside the law, with the law, but challenging them through the law, and they didn’t quite know what to do about it.”

>Most of the centre’s funding was from outside South Africa. “The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer.”

>>20917982

>Sir Sydney Kentridge: Legal Resource Centre Patron and Board Member of Freedom under Law

>>20918073

>In our legal system, the judges are law-makers.

>>20918157

They wrote the constitution, the laws and rule South Africa… Now they do not want to give the citizens of South Africa to choose their leader.

“Ask a Politician: MK Party says Zuma will be President of SA again”

https://youtu.be/eVWSSCU3Dkk

May 23, 2024

On Ask A Politician, Newzroom Afrika looks at a party that has made inroads in provinces like KwaZulu-Natal since its formation last year. The MK Party is one of the new entrants in the 2024 May polls. Umkhonto weSizwe has been in and out of courts since its inception but this morning we reflect on the plans the Party has for South Africa.

Newzroom Afrika's Aldrin Sampear speaks to MK Party’s Economic Policy Expert, Dr Thanti Mthanti.

21:35 – “It is very interesting with that case. The IEC appealed a judgement that had not been issued. The Constitutional Court agreed to hear an appeal on a judgment that had not been issued. What was the logical basis of that?… The only reason that case was being taken up before a judgment is even issued was to ensure that the President does not appear on the Parliamentary list and to deny ordinary South Africans their right to choose him as their leader if they so choose. If that is not electoral interference, what is electoral interference?

22:48 – “Our Manifesto is very clear that one of the things we seek to do is to move away from constitutional supremacy to parliamentary sovereignty. I think it’s very clear that’s not something we hiding but with this case and a lot of ridiculous judgments that have been issued against President Zuma that is why a lot of people say there’s a Zuma law in this country… Who hears an appeal without the judgment? Who agrees to hear it? Unless they’ve got a particular objective which is to make sure that they can hear the case as quickly as possible because they wish to issue a particular judgment that serves whoever’s interest.

https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/cyril-ramaphosa-1952

Cyril Ramaphosa (1952 - ) Awarded [The Order of the Baobab in Silver] for:

His invaluable contribution to the multiparty negotiations and convening the Constitutional Assembly to draft the new Constitution during the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/07/01/the-meaning-of-jacob-zumas-15-month-prison-sentence

In 1995, a year after his election to the presidency had brought an end to white rule, Nelson Mandela spoke to the assembled judges at the opening of South Africa’s Constitutional Court. “We expect you to stand on guard not only against direct assault on the principles of the constitution,” he said, “but against insidious corrosion.”

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3f5110 No.20920034

General Research #25657 >>20919852

No Deal: W.H.O. Fails to Secure Global Pandemic Treaty

Simon Kent 26 May 2024

No deal. That was the message for World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday after his proposed global pandemic treaty was rejected after two years of closed-door meetings in Geneva, Switzerland.

AP reports Roland Driece, co-chair of W.H.O.’s negotiating board for the agreement, acknowledged countries were unable to deliver an agreed proposal. W.H.O. had hoped a final draft treaty could be agreed on at its yearly meeting of health ministers starting Monday in Geneva.

“We are not where we hoped we would be when we started this process,” he said, adding that finalizing an international agreement on how to respond to a pandemic was critical “for the sake of humanity” even as a host of countries disagreed with the basic principle that unelected, unaccountable, health bureaucrats could somehow decide major global decisions on government policies.

Earlier this month, U.S. Republican senators wrote to the Biden administration, arguing the draft treaty focused on issues like “shredding intellectual property rights” and “supercharging the WHO.” They urged Biden not to sign off.

Driece said the World Health Assembly next week would urge participants to make “the right decisions to take this process forward” to one day reach a pandemic agreement “because we need it.”

Addressing a sullen final day of negotiations, the W.H.O. chief insisted, “This is not a failure.”

“We will try everything — believing that anything is possible — and make this happen because the world still needs a pandemic treaty,” Tedros said. “Because many of the challenges that caused a serious impact during COVID-19 still exist.”

Despite the desire of W.H.O. career bureaucrats to push ahead with the scheme, Britain’s department of health had already said it would only agree to an accord if it adhered to British national interest and sovereignty.

The co-chairs of the treaty-drafting process didn’t specify what caused the logjam, but diplomats have said vast differences remained over sharing of information about pathogens that emerge and the sharing of technologies to fight them, the AP report sets out.

Precious Matsoso, the other co-chair of W.H.O.’s negotiating board for the pandemic treaty, said there was still an opportunity to reach agreement and efforts would go on — despite the inability to reach a deal on Friday.

“We will make sure that this happens, because when the next pandemic hits, it will not spare us,” she said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/26/no-deal-w-h-o-fails-to-secure-global-pandemic-treaty/

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>>19636067

BV Triple-A here

foreign qresearch threads have been uploaded to >>>/qnotables23/

That board contains the first half of 2023. All notable posts were re-posted, this also means that the official 8kun archives have these images and videos and PDFs again as well.

o7

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3f5110 No.20943496

ANC on course to lose majority

Farouk Chothia, BBC News, Johannesburg 31 May 2024

South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is on course to lose its majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power 30 years ago, partial results from Thursday's parliamentary election suggest.

With results from more than 50% of voting districts counted so far, the ANC is leading with 42%, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with 23%.

The the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) of former President Jacob Zuma has received nearly 11% of the vote and the Economic Freedom Fighters party, nearly 10%.

Final results are expected over the weekend.

Many voters blame the ANC for the high levels of corruption, crime and unemployment in the country.

The respected Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the News24 website have projected that the party's final vote will be around 42%, a big drop from the 57% it obtained in the 2019 election.

This would force it go into a coalition with one or more of the other parties in order to form a majority in parliament.

The DA has liberal economic policies, while both the EFF and MK favour more state intervention and nationalisation, so the choice of partner would make a huge difference to South Africa's future direction.

It is unclear whether President Cyril Ramaphosa will remain in power, as he could come under pressure from the ANC to resign if the party gets less than 45% of the final vote, said Prof William Gumede, chairman of the non-profit Democracy Works Foundation.

"The ANC could turn him into a scapegoat, and a faction within the party could push for him to be replaced by his deputy, Paul Mashatile. The EFF and MK are also likely to demand his resignation before agreeing to any coalition with the ANC," Prof Gumede told the BBC.

South Africans do not directly vote for a president. Instead they vote for members of parliament who will then go on to elect the president.

The influencers rallying South Africa's youth to vote

Cynthia voted for Nelson Mandela. Now she's abandoning his successors

The initial results show that the ANC is suffering heavy losses to MK, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, where Mr Zuma's party has been leading with 43% of the vote to the ANC's 21%.

Mr Zuma caused a major shock when he announced in December that he was ditching the ANC to campaign for MK.

KwaZulu-Natal is the home region of Mr Zuma, and the province with the second-highest number of votes, making it crucial in determining whether the ANC retains its parliamentary majority.

Although Mr Zuma has been barred from running for parliament because of a conviction for contempt of court, his name still appeared on the ballot paper as MK leader.

If MK wins KwaZulu-Natal, it would be a "major upset" and herald the "potential decimation" of the ANC in the province, Prof Gumede said.

The ANC also risks losing its majority in the economic heartland of Gauteng, where the party currently has 36% to the DA's 29%.

Wednesday's election saw long lines of voters outside polling stations late into the night across the country.

According to the electoral commission, the last polling station closed at 0300 on Thursday morning local time.

One electoral official in Johannesburg told the BBC the queues were reminiscent of the historic 1994 election, when black people could vote for the first time.

Sifiso Buthelezi, who voted in Johannesburg's Joubert Park - the biggest polling station in South Africa - told the BBC: "Freedom is great but we need to tackle corruption."

Change has been a recurring sentiment, especially among young voters.

"The turnout amongst them was high, and they voted against the ANC," Prof Gumede

More:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjll8nr6962o

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3f5110 No.20952724

Central African Republic accuses a European NGO worker arrested last week of spying

Authorities in the Central African Republic are investigating a European aid worker who was arrested last week in a restive area of the country on spying charges

By JEAN FERNAND KOENA Associated Press and MARK BANCHEREAU Associated Press May 31, 2024, 2:38 PM

BANGUI, Central African Republic – Authorities in the Central African Republic are investigating a European aid worker who was arrested last week in a restive area of the country on spying charges, the public prosecutor's office said.

Martin Joseph Figueira, a consultant for the American nongovernmental organization FHI360, is being accused of being in communication with armed groups to plot a coup, thereby jeopardizing national security, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office.

He also allegedly incited "hatred and revolt” against the country's military, supported subversive groups and used false documents.

Figueira holds a Belgian and a Portuguese passport, the statement said. In his Belgian passport he goes under the name of Martin Joseph Edouard.

FHI360, a public health NGO that manages projects related to family planning and reproductive health, confirmed that one of their workers is in the custody in Central African Republic.

“We are working to secure our consultant’s immediate release,” the NGO's spokesperson Jennifer Garcia told The Associated Press.

Figueira was arrested last week in Zemio, a town in southeastern Central African Republic that has been plagued by fighting between local ethnic militias and anti-government rebels for over a decade.

“He was caught red-handed,” asserted a special advisor to the president, Fidèle Gouandjika, without elaborating.

Authorities have warned foreign NGO workers against taking part in activities that could jeopardize national security or face judicial proceedings.

On Saturday, the military was deployed to Zemio, after more than six years of absence from the town. The Russian mercenary group Wagner, which for years has had a significant a presence in Central African Republic, was also deployed there to train local militias and recruit them for the army.

The mercenaries also guard the country’s gold and diamond mines, have helped to hold off armed rebel groups and keep President Faustin-Archange Touadera, who has been in office since 2016, in power. Wagner's fighters have been accused by rights groups and civilians of committing abuses and exploiting the country's resources.

Central African Republic has been in conflict since 2013, when predominantly Muslim rebels seized power and forced then-president, François Bozizé, from office. Mostly Christian militias fought back. A 2019 peace deal helped slow the fighting but six of the 14 armed groups that signed later left the agreement.

A U.N. peacekeeping mission and Rwandan troops are currently deployed in Central African Republic to try to quell the violence and protect civilians.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/central-african-republic-accuses-european-ngo-worker-arrested-110723806

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3f5110 No.20952772

>>20952724 (me)

That NGO FHI360 is also in South Africa:

South Africa

Started work in 1992

For decades, FHI 360 has been a strategic partner to the government of South Africa. Our projects have focused on key human development priorities, such as:

Improving reproductive health

Increasing family planning options

Preventing the spread of HIV

Strengthening nutritional assessments

Providing counseling and support services

Enhancing the capacity of national and local organizations

Developing policies and guidelines that promote health and well-being

Promoting educational opportunities for youth

FHI 360 has served as a leader in the integration of water and sanitation interventions with home-based palliative care. We also strengthen the capacity of the government and civil society to provide high-quality sexual and reproductive health services and deliver primary health care through mobile service units.

We have strengthened civil society organizations by pioneering the integration of grants management and capacity development. Our expertise in capacity development includes program design and management, grants management, financial management and compliance, governance, human resources and strategic planning, resource mobilization, and monitoring and evaluation.

Our work in secondary education and community service is cultivating new leaders through programs that emphasize democracy, ethics and people-centered development.

Engaging stakeholders is an important part of our work. We maintain strong partnerships with government agencies, universities, nongovernmental organizations and local community-based groups. We collaborate to conduct research, implement programs and deliver technical assistance. And, we connect various stakeholders so they can design programs that respond to needs, align with national strategies, leverage the efforts of other actors and contribute to real improvements in health systems.

https://www.fhi360.org/countries/south-africa/

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3f5110 No.20957674

Canada #59 >>20956365

Elevated Risk Of Epilepsy, Appendicitis In Children After COVID-19 Vaccination: Study

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times Saturday, Jun 01, 2024 - 09:00 PM

Children who received the AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines faced an elevated risk of epilepsy and appendicitis, according to a new study.

Pfizer recipients were also more likely to suffer from demyelinating disease or heart inflammation, researchers found.

Dr. Julia Hippisley-Cox, a professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, and colleagues obtained data from a national database on COVID-19 vaccination, mortality, hospital admissions, and COVID-19 infections. They wanted to look at the link between COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Moderna with 12 outcomes, including the heart inflammation condition called myocarditis.

In the primary analysis, researchers found 12- to 17-year-olds who received Pfizer’s vaccine were at increased risk of myocarditis, with an additional three cases per million versus the expected rate after a first dose, and an additional five cases per million after a second dose, and hospitalization with epilepsy, with an additional 12 cases per million after a second dose. Females in the age group also faced an increased risk of demyelinating disease after receiving a second dose of the vaccine.

Researchers also identified a “substantially increased risk of hospitalization with epilepsy” among females after receipt of a first dose of AstraZeneca’s shot, with 813 more hospitalizations with epilepsy than expected per million doses, and an elevated risk of appendicitis after a second dose of the vaccine, with 512 excess events per million doses.

While no excess events were found among Moderna recipients, the study lacked the power to detect statistically significant issues, due to few children in the UK receiving Moderna’s vaccine. Further, no elevated risks of the 12 issues were found among 5- to 11-year-olds.

A secondary analysis, involving matching some of the vaccine recipients to unvaccinated children, confirmed an increased risk among 12- to 17-year-olds of hospitalization with epilepsy following Pfizer vaccination, and elevated risks of severe allergic shock and appendicitis in the age group following Pfizer vaccination. No increased risks of any outcome were identified among minor Moderna or AstraZeneca recipients. But among a group of 18- to 24-year-olds studied, elevated risks of a number of conditions were found, including myocarditis, immune or idiopathic thrombocytopenia, epilepsy, and acute pancreatitis.

The study was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research School for Primary Care Research. Multiple authors declared conflicts of interest, including funding from Moderna and AstraZeneca. Limitations included reliance on hospital admission codes and death certificates.

The authors said that their findings “support a favorable safety profile of COVID-19 vaccination using mRNA vaccines in children and young people aged 5-17 years.” The Pfizer and Moderna shots utilize messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology.

Dr. Hippisley-Cox, the study’s corresponding author, did not return a request for comment seeking data on the position. The authors cited in part how they found unvaccinated children faced increased risks of some of the outcomes, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

Udi Qimron, a professor at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, said that the authors wrongly downplayed the risks associated with the vaccines.

“It’s not surprising to learn that some of the study’s authors have financial ties to Moderna and AstraZeneca and/or have served on various UK and Scottish Government COVID-19 advisory groups. One author was even a member of AstraZeneca’s Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Taskforce and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. The conflict of interest in this case is significant,” Mr. Qimrom, who was not involved in the paper, told The Epoch Times via email.

“It is concerning that respected scientific platforms are being used to cover up mistakes and wrongdoing, particularly the coercion and immense societal pressure to vaccinate young children. This should never have been done,” he added. “It is disheartening to see scientific journals collaborating with such practices, which undermines public trust in scientific research, especially when it involves the health and safety of children.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/elevated-risk-epilepsy-appendicitis-children-after-covid-19-vaccination-study

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cca204 No.20961599

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>20943496

>>20895756

>>20895770

>>20918144

>>20918157

“MK Party reiterates call for a revote”

https://youtu.be/UuJ81D5EQFk

Jun 3, 2024

The MK Party has once again reiterated its call for a revote, stating that it will not accept the outcome and results of the 2024 General Elections. This past weekend, former president Jacob Zuma threatened to take legal action over allegations of election irregularities. Zuma spoke after his party announced that it had submitted evidence to the independent electoral commission proving its allegations of widespread irregularities and alleged election rigging. Yesterday, key members of the MK Party boycotted an official address by the IEC.

MK party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela speaks to Newzroom Afrika's Aldrin Sampear.

2:27 – “Janet Love goes and stands there and refers to the people's mandate.What people is she referring to?

2:41 – “There were boxes that were found in a form of ballot boxes that were found burnt in Mpumalanga with votes in them and then we need to take things nonchalantly. What is the rush? They know very well that they’ve got until Wednesday to make a declaration.”

5:17 – “This is what is happening here. Firstly, you have seen it with the DA having sent a letter to the US Foreign Secretary where they raised that a MK-ANC-EFF alliance in effect or a coalition thereof would be detrimental to their agenda. Now why send an email to the US? The same company that was involved here is also US based and owned by a certain country’s citizens… When that system was down, certain votes were allocated to a specific party… We’d force the implementation of all our policies and that would be detrimental to the DA and their handlers.”

7:33 – “There is foreign interference in our elections.”

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cca204 No.20962016

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>>20961599

>>20918144

>>20918157

“Mount calls for Janet Love to be arrested after rigging votes, aiding ANC&DA,WC parties toyitoying”

https://youtu.be/B4YoRRnZMwg

Jun 1, 2024

https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02426/05lv02548.htm

As a university student at Wits Janet Love became involved with SAVS, NUSAS, the SRC and the Wages Commission. Her first contacts with the ANC were in 1975/76 but she only formally joined in 1977 in Lesotho.

She went into exile for ten years. She ran the SACTU office in London for two years and then worked for the ANC Political Mission in Lusaka and Angola. She was part of MK and underwent military and intelligence training in Cuba.

She returned to SA to become support for Operation Vula.

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cca204 No.20962044

>>20918144

>>20918157

>>20961599

>>20962016

“Congolese opposition calls for withdrawal of ANC’s Janet Love from ‘fraudulent’ DRC voter registration audit”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-05-29-congolese-opposition-calls-for-withdrawal-of-ancs-janet-love-from-fraudulent-drc-voter-registration-audit/

29 May 2023

Four Congolese opposition candidates have called for the withdrawal of Janet Love, former vice-chairperson of the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC), from the audit of this year’s voter registration in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), saying she ‘has helped legitimise the fraudulent fabrication of an electoral register’.

Janet Love insists the DRC voter registration she helped audit was “transparent and credible”.

Martin Fayulu, head of the Commitment for Citizenship and Development party (Ecide) – who most outside observers believe won the 2018 elections, as well as Moïse Katumbi, head of Ensemble pour le Changement; Matata Ponyo, head of Leadership et Gouvernance pour le développement (LGD); and Delly Sesanga Hipungu, head of Envol; all signed a letter to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, calling on the ANC to pull Love, a member of the ANC, out of the DRC audit.

They said they were “dismayed by Ms Love’s endorsement of the electoral process in the DRC” and noted that civil society, the Catholic and Protestant churches, the “entire political class” and all the people of DRC except the government, had rejected the just-completed voter registration as a “masquerade only benefitting those in power”.

In the letter, copied to the Presidency and the Speaker of the National Assembly, the candidates complained that the DRC political opposition and civil society had been completely excluded from the voter registration process, preventing them from verifying if it was conducted properly and fairly.

Fayulu also told Daily Maverick the opposition suspected that the Independent National Electoral Commission (Ceni) had inflated voter numbers in President Félix Tshisekedi’s strongholds and suppressed them in opposition strongholds.

The opposition had no way of knowing if some voter registration machines might even have been delivered to private homes where fictitious voters could have been registered, Fayulu said.

Fayulu said he believed that Love, who retired from the IEC in April, had been chosen for the audit in what he called “collusion” with Ceni president Denis Kadima, who he said knew her from South Africa where he once headed the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa.

Fayulu regards Kadima as totally partisan, noting that he comes from the same UDPS party, the same village and the same tribe as Tshisekedi. He and the other three presidential candidates said Ceni should have commissioned a “reputable international firm” of auditors to audit the voter registration instead.

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3f5110 No.20969241

Final ANC Bun Part Two

>>20697140, >>20697146, >>20697149 SCA ruling exposes State Security Agency's dubious secrecy tactics and ANC vulnerability to foreign interests (Parts 1-3)

>>20697153 Leaked SSA report reveals US gathered intelligence on DA, EFF, IFP and the ANC (video)

>>20701318, >>20701321 ANC officials in cahoots with US Intelligence (Parts 1&2)

>>20711880 “The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the Battle against Corruption” (video)

>>20716126 “South Africa’s Labor Unions Imperil Billionaire’s Port Takeover”; “Many labor unions, including Satawu, are closely aligned to the ruling African National Congress”

>>20781553 Archive of Anthony Sampson: ANC’s rule was planned in advance

>>20799568 The truth about NHI exposed (video)

>>20908601 IEC Silent on Investigation into ANC Ezulweni Investments Settlement

>>20908620 IEC chair, ANC officials implicated in plot to deregister ATM party

>>20918144 President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the appointment of civil servant and former anti-Apartheid activist Janet Love [was the national director of the Legal Resources Centre] as a commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)

>>20943496 ANC on course to lose majority

>>20962016, >>20962044 Mount calls for Janet Love to be arrested after rigging votes, aiding ANC&DA,WC parties toyitoying (video)

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3f5110 No.20969244

Final Commodities Bun

>>19660255 Two Top Execs at South Africa's Port and Rail Operator Resign

>>19952053 Chronic congestion building along the east coast of South Africa

>>19692449 Africa Might Emerge As A Major Supplier Of Halal Food

>>20114651 (Canada #50) Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC

>>20115757 Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns

>>20114680 (Canada #50) Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up

>>20230322 South Africa seeks emergency external help to remedy dire situation across the nation’s ports

>>20279240 The Oil Market Is Making Plans For Red Sea Chaos To Last Weeks

>>20452927, >>20452931 South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa’s investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising (Parts 1&2)

>>20484870 Oil discovered in South Africa (video)

>>20489038, >>20489042 Kinetiko: The Joint Venture

>>20489047, >>20489051 Dr. Mbendeni Humphrey Mathe

>>20489064, >>20489069, >>20489072 Africa Energy Corporation/Africa Oil Corporation/Canmex

>>20489101 Africa Oil announces the passing of Lukas H. Lundin

>>20489120 Sweden charges Lundin Energy executives with complicity in Sudan war crimes

>>20489520 Anglo American Completes 10-Ship Fleet Expansion

>>20521808, >>20521817, >>20521823, >>20521829 Black Economic Empowerment Transactions in South Africa after 1994 (Part 1-4)

>>20521841 The role of multinational corporations in South Africa: a political-economic perspective

>>20525965 The Real Reason TotalEnergies Sponsors AFCON Football Tournament (video)

>>20526583 Carte Blanche: Water shedding: Paying for air

>>20526594, >>20526597 NDB Spotlight: The Lesotho Highlands Water Project – Who Benefits? (Parts 1&2)

>>20571627 SA, Zimbabwe sign MOU on water supply (video)

>>20656616 Toxic Treasures: Unmasking The Gold Mafia of Penhalonga (video)

>>20676091 Inefficient African Ports See Diverted Red Sea Traffic Slipping Away

>>20677235, >>20677244 Eskom’s new tariff: Here’s how your monthly electricity bill will change

>>20687416 South Africa gets rules for up to stage 16 load-shedding

>>20743116 Rand Refinery: “South Africa’s century-old gold refiner runs at 75% as mines dim”

>>20794421 De Beers Moving Auctions Head Office to Botswana

>>20794429, >>20794464, >>20794466, >>20794470 De Beers Moving Auctions Head Office to Botswana (Parts 1-4)

>>20794479, >>20794495 Indian diamond industry in a tizzy — Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll

>>20794504 Anglo American Reportedly Mulling Sale of De Beers

>>20799315 Activist-led Elliott builds $1bn stake in Anglo American amid BHP takeover bid

>>20833168 Big Pharma's Africa exit a tough pill to swallow (video)

>>20833325 Shell LEAVES South Africa After 122 Years

>>20833334 South African unions urge Anglo holders to reject BHP bid

>>20887035 “ArcelorMittal SA sounds warning to labour as it mulls closure of steel operations”

>>20891844 Serious Fraud Office drops 10-year corruption inquiry into Kazakh miner ENRC

>>20891847 Congo suspends ERG [Eurasian Resources Group] subcontractors at major cobalt mine owned by the Kazakh oligarchs

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3f5110 No.20969245

Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>20056501 (Canada #50) Here We Go: CDC Issues Health Alert Over Deadly, Fast-Spreading Strain of Monkeypox

>>20562702 Xolani Khumalo On Sizokthola,Moja Love, Threats, Police, Mafias, Cartels,Slyza Tsotsi” – Drugs (video)

>>20562705 Nyaope girl SA (video)

>>20562711 Cutting Edge: Drug addiction: 07 March 2023 (video)

>>20887048 Don’t ignore the real threat of the WHO pandemic treaty

>>20895547 The NHI Is Here! Is South Africa Finished? (video)

>>20896966 Doctors, businesses and unions get ready for war over the NHI

>>20896981 How Bill Gates and partners used their clout to control the global Covid response with little oversight; “they used their clout with the World Health Organization”

>>20897009, >>20897011, >>20897018, >>20897025 Plea to African Union: Halt votes on WHO pandemic agreement and international health regulations amendments” (Parts 1-4)

>>20898294 South Africa NHI Health Plan 2009 Bill Gates (with attached .pdf)

>>20920034 General Research #25657 No Deal: W.H.O. Fails to Secure Global Pandemic Treaty

>>20957674 (Canada #59) Elevated Risk Of Epilepsy, Appendicitis In Children After COVID-19 Vaccination: Study

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3f5110 No.20969247

Final Jacob Zuma Bun

>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)

>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)

>>20484031 He took the spear and stabbed himself with it’: Mbalula on Zuma and MK party

>>20501022 “Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen” (video)

>>20537502 “Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president”: Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela (video)

>>20585630 Zuma right about van Rooyen’s academic qualifications: report”: Master’s Degree in Finance - Pravin Gordhan qualification: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (video)

>>20585725 EXPLAINER — what we know about Jacob Zuma’s new party

>>20601479, >>20601482 Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma [addressing Afrikaans white South Africans] || Leadership Summit 2024 (video)

>>20601620 Former president Jacob Zuma addresses MK supporters (video)

>>20656636 Zuma barred from MK party candidacy by IEC due to criminal record

>>20706038 Electoral court clears Zuma to run for parliament

>>20777806 South African Ex-President Zuma & Thales' Arms Deal Corruption Case Explained

>>20777830, >>20777841 Zuma back in court today for corruption trial (2023)

>>20777854 Former President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial - 26 October 2023 (video)

>>20777868 “ExaminIng Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case”: Case was removed from the roll, arms deal pre-trial scheduled for May 17, 2024 (video)

>>20777881 Jacob Zuma v ANC: MK Party triumphs in high-stakes trademark & logo court case (video)

>>20777886 Zuma betrayed us – Makgoale (video)

>>20895552 2024 Elections: MK Party calls judiciary into question after Concourt ruling on Zuma's eligibility (video)

>>20895756, >>20895770, >>20895770 Electoral Court was wrong on Zuma decision – Kriegler (video)

>>20918157 Jacob Zuma’s recent court cases; Janet Love and Recusal of 6 Constitutional Court Justices (video)

>>20918172 Ask a Politician: MK Party says Zuma will be President of SA again (video)

>>20961599 MK Party reiterates call for a revote (video)

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3f5110 No.20969264

Final

Notables are NOT Endorsements

#12-A

>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town

>>19692436 Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality

>>19692443, >>19692449 South Africa: The Halal Kingdom, Although it holds the world’s smallest percentage of Muslims

>>19731387 (General Research #24226) Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo

>>19782011 Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: “Palestine is our generation in South Africa”

>>19782021 ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy

>>19782035 Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine

>>19821993 Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power

>>20027327 (General Research #24583) Harvard’s Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa

>>20362707 ‘Fake’ UN official allegedly received briefings from SA’s top security cluster

>>20242709, >>20242774 ony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston’s ‘blessing’ to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world (Parts 1 &2 video)

>>20407571 How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states

>>20445866, >>20445869 Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution (Parts 1&2)

>>20452953, >>20452962 The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are (video)

>>20457742 SA unfazed by US Bill threat

>>20462673 Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Initial ICJ Suit Bun

>>20462676 Initial Maldives Bun | Initial Rwanda Bun

>>20510793, >>20510794 UNFPA staff concerned over headquarters' relocation from New York to Nairobi (Parts 1&2, video)

>>20510840 CIA Director Secretly Visits Kenya And Somalia To Discuss Regional Security (video)

>>20511103 Africacheck: “Coalition to fight misinformation”: South African elections (video)

>>20511116 Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance

>>20516774 South African intelligence and De Beers worked with the CIA in the early 60s

>>20516804 “South Africa: The Growing Influence of the Military”: CIA Document 1982

>>20516812 South Africa's 'paedophile' minister [General Magnus Malan] and a mysterious death (video)

>>20520896 US imposes new sanctions on Zimbabwe's President and other senior leaders

>>20525976 “Global Cooling is on the way! Give up your freedom NOW!” – Or is it global warming?

>>20537617 (Canada #54) Alliance of Sahel States: Military Juntas of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali Create Joint Task Force Against Islamic Jihadists

>>20552292 Viral Minister Naledi Pandor Speech on Israel Shocks the World (video)

>>20558069 Updated ANC Bun | Updated BRICS Bun

>>20558078 Updated Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20558081 Initial SSA/NIA Bun

>>20586389 Niger Junta Severs US Military Cooperation Agreement, Orders Troops and Civilian Personnel Out of the Country

>>20606606 Bill that calls for full review of US relations with SA crosses first hurdle in US Congress

>>20682073 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

>>20697117 A Few Bad Apples: 8,000 UNRWA Teachers Rallied for Hamas Terrorist (video)

>>20701775, >>20701789 Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo

>>20729192, >>20777598 Daily Maverick: QAnon and Shut down for 15 April 2024

>>20729208 The Pan-African Institute for Socialism (PAIS)

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3f5110 No.20969265

#12-B

>>20743038, 20743047, >>20743054 Time to pull the plug on SACU (Parts 1-3)

>>20743308, >>20743312 Mayor sends police to ban and shut down NatCon Brussels conference as Antifa gathers outside (video)

>>20777614, >>20777617, >>20777619 “The South African Arms Deal” – Thales (Parts 1-3)

>>20777708 Thales sets up new SA subsidiary - 2009

>>20833831 ANC Bun Part One

>>20833836 Initial Brenthurst Foundation Bun

>>20833841 Updated Oppenheimer Bun

>>20833844 Updated André Pienaar Bun

>>20833845 Updated Rwanda Bun

>>20833846 Violence and Crime Bun Part One

>>20833849 Violence and Crime Bun Part Two

>>20891860, >>20891889 At least three U.S. citizens - accused of being CIA agents - are arrested in Congo after failed coup (Parts 1&2)

>>20918103 Ex-UCT chair hits back at ‘untested’ panel report [chaired by retired Supreme Court of Appeal president Judge Lex Mpati]

>>20952724, >>20952772 Central African Republic accuses a European NGO worker arrested last week of spying, same NGO is in South Africa

>>20969241 Final ANC Bun Part Two

>>20969244 Final Commodities Bun

>>20969245 Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>20969247 Final Jacob Zuma Bun

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3f5110 No.20969284

Fresh Bread

>>20969267

>>20969267

Q Research South Africa #13: Election Issues Edition

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3f5110 No.20969288

File: a308f34fb1d2094⋯.jpg (230.05 KB,1000x693,1000:693,bakery_feasibility_study.jpg)

Fresh Bread

>>20969267

>>20969267

Q Research South Africa #13: Election Issues Edition

Please venture to fresh bread, going to have this one locked

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