/qresearch/ -Q Research South Africa #13: Election Issues Edition

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>[Mamphela Ramphele] was a founding board member of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa

“CONSTRUCTIVE POLITICS: The contributions of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)” Part 2

https://www.academia.edu/14801517/Constructive_politics_in_Africa_The_story_of_Idasa

Idasa organized discussions between the military forces on both the ANC and SA government side (1990). It also created forums for different sectors to consider their role in a new democracy -- Educators (1990); the Media; Youth (1992); Police (1993). Idasa also continued to organize a variety of face to face human contacts, such as Mandela’s face to face discussions with business leaders in the Orange Free State in April, 1992.

From 1993 to 1995, Idasa worked to educate millions of voters, including the military, and to create nonpartisan spaces that would build legitimacy for the electoral process. It also began to develop a sustained and continuing focus on grassroots citizen education through a new Training Centre for Democracy, launched in 1992.

In response, Ivor Jenkins and [Constand] Viljoen developed a project, funded by the Dutch, to open a dialogue with conservatives.

The Mandela meeting was followed by a second meeting between four white generals and Mbeki, Modise, Zuma, and other leaders of the ANC, and then a series of discussions. They resulted in an explicit attention to the concept of protection of minority rights. An Idasa-led delegation to Belgium and Switzerland looked at procedures for protecting minority rights.

The Politics of Construction

In 1993 and 1994 Slabbert and Boraine stepped down from leadership of Idasa. Slabbert took on an organizing role in the new Open Society Foundation, funded by the democracy philanthropist George Soros. Boraine, building on a series of conferences under the name “Justice in Transition” organized by Idasa in 1993 which had featured Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was appointed with Tutu to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC. Tutu chaired the TRC. Boraine served as the vice chair.

Wilmot James, an eminent young black sociologist, took on the job of executive director. In James’ view, the organization needed to develop new institutional platforms “to engage in politics without involvement in partisan or party politics.” James, who had studied in the United States and who was impressed with the monitoring and public interest roles nonprofit groups could play, founded a Public Information Centre in Idasa.

The ANC Whip of the Senate Office, 13 September, 1995

“The room fell silent. The ebullient greetings stopped in their tracks,” recalls Richard Calland, for many years director of PIMS. “‘So, Mamphela, from under which rock have you now crawled to return to us?’, asked the Reverend Arnold Stofile, ANC Chief Whip in the National Assembly.” The question was directed to Mamphela Ramphele, former leader in the Black Consciousness movement, one of the indisputable heroines of the anti-apartheid struggle now directing the newly formed Public Information Centre of Idasa.

Through PIMS, based in a new Cape Town office, Idasa began to make regular submissions to parliamentary committees on policy matters relating to transparency, accountability and democratic process in general. It also instituted or supported litigation to ensure compliance with constitutional principles. At the executive level, Idasa staff began to serve as consultants in departmental policy making processes in the organisation’s areas of expertise. It was also contracted to facilitate public participation processes such as public hearings for the Constitutional Assembly and hearings on proposed legislation and policies, such as the White Paper on Safety and Security.

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“CONSTRUCTIVE POLITICS: The contributions of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)” Part 3

https://www.academia.edu/14801517/Constructive_politics_in_Africa_The_story_of_Idasa

Idasa was a partner in the Public Service Management Development Programme.

The organization has also seen the constructive politics of democracy-building as involving increasing capacities of citizens, community organizations, and other nongovernmental organizations.

Idasa has always forged strong connections with other countries in Africa -- its signature event, the Dakar conference, held in Senegal with strong support from its president, was a vivid example. In the last several years, Idasa has become increasingly involved in assisting democratic processes in other African countries, as well as projects that cross borders.

Idasa, with two other partners, won a tender from USAID in 2002 for a two year project in Nigeria known as “the Programme for Civic Empowerment (PACE)”. The aim of the programme is to strengthen and build the capacity of Nigerian civil society in areas of electoral support, constitutional reform, transparency and peacebuilding

According to the EU observers, questionable practices in some regions after the first round of voting meant a failed election. But Idasa’s template was fundamentally different. It asked questions such as “what is minimally needed to make the democratic process move forward?”… Idasa was able to release a statement soon after the polls closed that the election, while not perfect, was definitely an advance. Idasa’s judgment had large impact on international opinion about the election’s credibility. It could well have been the key factor in the government’s holding of the next round of elections.

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>Slabbert took on an organizing role in the new Open Society Foundation, funded by the democracy philanthropist George Soros.

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>Judge Johann Kriegler

“Open Society Institute Mourns Loss of Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert”

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-institute-mourns-loss-frederick-van-zyl-slabbert-and-hadi-soesastro

May 18, 2010

The Open Society Institute mourns the loss of Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert on May 14, and Hadi Soesastro on May 4.

Van Zyl Slabbert was the founding chair of the Open Society Foundation of South Africa in 1993 and, four years later, became the founding chair of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. He also served for a number of years as member of the Global Advisory Board of the Open Society Institute.

Van Zyl Slabbert was a leading opponent of the apartheid system in South Africa. He had led the small parliamentary opposition until he resigned from parliament in 1986 because he considered that he could wage the struggle against apartheid more effectively outside that body. His association with the Soros foundations began the following year when he organized a delegation of Afrikaners to Dakar, Senegal, to meet members of the African National Congress in exile. He sought and obtained support from George Soros for that meeting, which is considered one of the important steps in the effort to persuade white South Africans that the country should make a transition to majority rule.

His death "is a loss to those of us in Africa who, through his selfless and unpaid contribution, learned from him and keep alive our beliefs in the possibility of attaining in our life time open, tolerant, just, and equitable societies," said Isabella Matambanadzo, former Zimbabwe program manager for OSISA.

Van Zyl Slabbert and Hadi Soesastro both made important contributions to the development of democracy in their own countries and both played important leadership roles in our efforts to promote open societies around the world. They will be greatly missed.

https://www.kas.de/en/web/suedafrika/veranstaltungen/detail/-/content/the-sa-electoral-system-time-to-revisit-the-van-zyl-slabbert-report-

The SA Electoral System: Time to Revisit the Van Zyl Slabbert Report?

Justice Johann Kriegler and Ms Raenette Taljaard on Good Governance

In the framework of the discussion series "The Constitution and Good Public Leadership", this event will deal with the right to vote and the proposals for reform made by the Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Commission.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/van-zyl-slabbert-commission-report-electoral-reform-january-2003

Cabinet resolved on 20 March 2002 that an Electoral Task Team (ETT) should be established to “draft the new electoral legislation required by the Constitution”. It should “formulate the parameters of new electoral legislation and draft it in order to prepare for the scheduled National and Provincial elections of 2004 or any earlier election, should the need arise” and include political parties in its consultations with stakeholders. Further, this Task Team was to be chaired by Dr F van Zyl Slabbert.

If nothing else, this proposal, if accepted, will keep an essential debate alive on the ways and means by which political accountability can be strengthened in the South African democracy. That this is necessary and important was seen as common cause by all the parties, NGOs and media respresentative with whom the ETT interacted.

Members subscribing to the above views;

Dr F van Zyl Slabbert (Chairperson)

Nicholas Haysom

Norman du Plessis

Dr Wilmot James

Professor Jorgen Elklit

Adv Rufus Malatji

Professor Glenda Fick

Dren Nupen

The report is attached

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>11 Commando was created by the British to counter the very mobile (mounted) Boer Recce Commandos & went toe to toe with the later during the Guerrilla War phase of the Anglo Boer War, November 1900 to May 1902 until the Transvaal Republic surrendered at Vereeniging on 31st May 1902

>Van Zyl Slabbert resigned from parliament in 1986

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>The Progressive Party transitioned to the Progressive Reform Party which became the Progressive Federal Party who are the Democratic Alliance today.

“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] -- Part 1

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

On 7 February 1986, Dr van Zyl Slabbert, leader of the “whites only” official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) announced his resignation from Parliament. This even captured an act of high drama and of tremendous symbolic value.

WHO IS Dr SLABBERT?

At the time of his walk-out from Parliament, Dr Slabbert enjoyed a high reputation in many quarters. He si the “blue-eyed boy” of the Imperialists -- US, Britain, etc. He was the guru (esteemed spiritual teacher) of the white liberal youth on the university campuses, the young white business executives and the white members of the various professions. He together with Chief Buthelezi formed the National Convention Movement. He even won the respect of a section of the liberatory movement who regarded Dr Slabbert as “a person you can talk to”. The PFP squeezed out as much political mileage as was humanly possible from Dr Slabbert, including the use of his reputation to set up the “VAN ZYL SLABBERT TRUST FUND” of some ten million rands.

BACKGROUND

Prior to his entry into Parliament, Dr Slabbert was a Professor of Sociology and a product of the Stellenbosch University, the hatchery of the Cape Nationalist intellectuals. His entry into parliamentary politics was almost accidental. His election victory in Rondebosch on 24 April 1974 came as surprise, not only to political observers, but also to himself. Hence it is reported that the moment of victory the thought foremost in his mind was: “Sweet, suffering grace, what am I going to do now?”

In a short space of 5 years Dr Slabbert was catapulted from a novice to leader of the PFP.

REASONS FOR METEORIC RISE OF Dr SLABBERT

The English-speaking white political parties have always endevoured to place at their head an AFRIKANER. This was so because of the hostility between the English-speaking and Afrikaans-speaking whites. The wounds of the Anglo-Boer War lay open for many decades. The suffering of the Afrikaners at the hands of the British Imperialism made them hate anything English with bitter intensity.

The English voters have always been a minority and political power would have evaded them for as long as they could not win Afrikaner support. The wily English employed a simple strategy. To capture Afrikaner voters, a charismatic Afrikaner leader was needed. At first it was General Botha, followed by General Smuts, the forgotten JNG Straus, Sir De Villiers-Graaf and Dr Jan Steytler. Colin Eglin’s spell as a leader of the Progress Party was the exception which proves the general pattern.

--When, therefore, Colin Eglin blundered by making an indiscreet telephone call to Don McHenry, the United States representative to the United Nations Organisation, the PFP leadership was only to happy to remove Colin Eglin as leader because Dr Slabbert was waiting in the wings.

As one newspaper columnist put it:

“He (Dr Slabbert) gave an aura of respectability to the PFP among the Afrikaner intellectuals which it had not enjoyed before, and on the Afrikaans campuses, the cause of progressive opposition to the government wax stronger. He was an easily saleable product…”

(Brian Pottinger, The Sunday Times, 09.02.86).

Within days of his assuming the mantle of leadership of the PFP the English press got busy with its favourite trade -- LEADER MAKING. Dr Slabbert was launched as the LEADER who would lead the white opposition from the desert to political power. The cult of VAN (as Dr Slabbert was called by his devotees) grew by leaps and bounds.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:24:47 7a6cdb (66) No.20971134>>20971143 >>20971150 >>20971152

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“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] -- Part 2

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

REACTION TO Dr SLABBERT’S RESIGNATION

Since the resignation of Dr Slabbert was a spectacular event, reaction came in fast and furious.

1. ENGLISH PRESS

Initially the English press was jubilant. It considered the act of resignation as a heavy body blow to the reform strategy of the government because it “was in effect an act of no confidence in the very existence of Parliament as it is now constituted… Dr Slabbert has decided to leave Parliament to deprive the government any possible credibility his presence may lend to its reform powers…”

However, in a matter of days, if not hours, the English press changed its tune. We can only assume that the top brass of the PFP had a chat with the newspaper policymakers. The Press now had to engage in the process of LEADER-UNMAKING. Rapidly, Dr Slabbert’s image began to tarnish. There were insinuations that Dr Slabbert had lost the “iron in his soul” and took the easy way out. There were accusations of betrayal and desertation. Harry Oppenheimer, the godfather of the PFP, in a press statement criticized Dr Slabbert.

2. Young white liberals who had been straining at the leash imposed on them by the conservative PFP leadership saw in Dr Slabbert’s resignation a signal for dramatic action to follow.

3. The ANC, which met a delegation of the PFP headed by Dr Slabbert, described his act as “very courageous”. It even hinted that Dr Slabbert’s decision to resign was influenced by the discussion between the ANC and Dr Slabbert.

4. A prominent UDF official stated that Dr Slabbert had “proven qualities of leadership which should not be wasted” and, therefore, Dr Slabbert could “possibly find a home in the United Democratic Front” (Post, 12-15 February 1986).

5. Bishop Tutu congratulated Dr Slabbert and described him as a “great politician”.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:25:46 7a6cdb (66) No.20971143>>20971150 >>20971152

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>>20971134

“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] -- Part 3

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

Dr SLABBERT’S INTERVIEW WITH PW BOTHA -- NOVEMBER 1985

While Dr Slabbert was occupied with interviews to the press, the radio and and TV, his moment of glory was fouled-up by the publication of a transcript of an interview between PW Botha and Dr Slabbert. The contents of the interview appeared in various newspapers. We urge our readers to study the interview very carefully and to keep newspaper cuttings of it.

It is a rare opportunity for members of the public to catch a glimpse of really what goes on behind closed doors between ruling class politicians belonging to “different” parties. The safety of privacy and being away from the public eye makes these politicians feel free to express their REAL VIEWS. More so, if they are unaware of the fact that their words are being recorded by a tape recorder.

We can do nomore than to select a few highlights from that interview.

1. Dr Slabbert was at pains to assure PW Botha that “the ANC can be beaten” and that he, PW Botha, could extract the teeth of the whole ANC story” (The Daily News, 19.02.86 and City Press, 21.02.86).

2. Dr Slabbert then warned that “the ANC should not be built up as an organisation which is so powerful that it can control all unrest” (City Press, 21.02.86).

3. When PW Botha stressed that there was no question of abolishing the Bantu system, Dr Slabbert’s reply was that he had no problem in drawing these State into negotiations process (The Daily News, 19.02.86). In other words, Dr Slabbert was quite prepared to recognize the various breeds of Bantustans as legitimate bodies with whom he was prepared to negotiate.

4. PW Botha insisted that the “self-determination of the whites should not be impaired. According to PW Botha, ‘self-determination’ meant the Group Areas Act, the separate and superior system of education provided fro the whites and the life of luxury and wealth enjoyed by the whites.

To all that Dr Slabbert’s reply was: “I have no problem.”

5. Dr Slabbert then accused the ANC and Buthelezi of each wanting to be the “the only bull in the kraal” i.e. to have a monopoly of power to the exclusion of all other organisations.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:26:48 7a6cdb (66) No.20971150>>20971152

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>>20971143

“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] -- Part 4

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE INTERVIEW

What strikes one immediately is the vast difference between Dr Slabbert’s version of the interview and the transcript of the tape recording. Most observers and commentators are agreed that Dr Slabbert’s version was far from the truth.

Then one gets the unmistakable impression from reading the interview that there you had two political leaders discussing the problems of the South African ruling class as CONCERNED MEMBERS OF THE THAT RULING CLASS.

Throughout the interview, Dr Slabbert appeared to be on the defensive, fumbling and respectful towards the aggressive PW Botha. As one newspaper reporter put it: “It was a conversation between nephew and favourite uncle.”

Dr Slabbert’s public image is that of a LIBERAL -- one who makes out that he is opposed to oppression, that he is the “friend of the people”. Politically speaking, he is the descendant of a long line of liberals – Dr John Phillip, Rose-Innes, Sauer, Merriman, Mr and Mrs Ballinger, Hofmeyer, Alan Paton, etc – all of whom had adopted a similar political stance in public. Yet, in truth, all of them used the art of deception to mislead the oppressed into believing that they were the champions of the oppressed.

We, of the Unity Movement and APDUSA, have consistently exposed these liberals as agents of Imperialism. We have exposed their forked tongues and their two faces. Dr Slabbert has conducted himself in the “best traditions” of his political forbears. As can be seen from the reaction to his resignation, he was able to deceive a section of the Liberatory Movement.

Unfortunately for Dr Slabbert, he has been CAUGHT RED-HANDED.

PUBLICLY, Dr Slabbert holds out that he is opposed to this entire rotten system of oppression. IN PRIVATE, he identifies himself with the ruling class. PUBLICLY, his stance on the ANC is: “a war against the ANC is a war against South Africa”. IN PRIVATE, he is planning how to defeat the ANC. PUBLICLY, he condemns apartheid. IN PRIVATE, he has “no problems” with the preservation of the vast priviledges of the whites. PUBLICLY, he resigns from Parliament but in the next breath he urges the PFP to continue with its work in Parliament.

He did not stop there. He went on to encourage the Indian and coloured sell-outs in the Tri-cameral parliament to sue it as a “forum for protest and opposition”. (The Daily News, 13.3.86). He says this notwithstanding the fact that close to 90% fo the Indian and coloured people have rejected these sell-outs and the Tri-cameral Parliament. Such is Dr Slabbert’s contempt for the oppressed people.

Dr Slabbert stands thoroughly exposed. In exposing himself, he has also reavelaed the TRUE NATURE OF LIBERALISM.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:27:33 7a6cdb (66) No.20971152

“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] -- Part 5

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

WHO IS THE OPPRESSOR?

We have always considered it to be of the utmost importance to identify and present to the people WHO THE OPPRESSOR IS. Not just a section of the oppressors but the whole gang of them. If people are called upon to struggle against oppression, the first task is to identify the oppressor. Then the people will know against whom they are to struggle.

Our view is: The oppressor is the official ruling lcass and it pack of henchmen -- the Bantustan “leaders”, the sell-outs in the Houses of ill-fame called Delegates and Representatives. The oppressor is the racism-ridden white worker and petty bourgeoisie born with golden spoons in their mouths. The oppressor is Imperialism – thos powerful and rich groups in countries like American, Britain, France, West Germany, Canada, Japan, etc. The oppressor is the big factory owner, bankers, mine owners and the land barons (Capitalism).

The political representatives of Imperial and Capitalism are the LIBERALS, one section of which is the Progressive Federal Party.

All this is very elementary and easy to grasp. What is important is that we APPLY this simple truth in our day-to-day activities. If we do this, not only will we be rendering the oppressed people a great service but we will also ensure that we do not fall prey to the antics of the modern-day Dr Jekylls and Mr Hydes.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:32:19 7a6cdb (66) No.20971176>>20971180 >>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

>For instance, in a little known effort of great importance, Idasa organized five high level trips for drafters of the new South African constitution to England, Switzerland, Portugal, the US, Canada, India, and Australia, in 1994 and 1995, with a group drawn from all the major parties.

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“Untold Story of George Soros’ Worldwide Soft Power Empire”

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230824/untold-story-of-george-soros-worldwide-soft-power-empire-1112859657.html

Elon Musk has confirmed X’s plans to sue NGOs funded by US financier George Soros over their alleged attempt to crack down on free speech. What’s the lawsuit about? Who is Mr. Soros? And how has his name come to feature so prominently in many of the most politically disruptive events of the first decades of the 21st century? Sputnik explains.

X CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell late Wednesday after confirming that his social media empire would “be filing legal action” to “stop” an attempted crackdown on free speech by politicians and George Soros-funded NGOs justified using trumped-up data on the number of "hate incidents" in the British Isles. “Can’t wait for discovery to start!” Musk wrote.

The billionaire did not elaborate, prompting users and media to speculate on the exact nature of the case.

Musk’s message was a response to a report [https://public.substack.com/p/soros-funded-ngos-demand-crackdown] by an independent Irish journalist accusing authorities in Ireland and Scotland of inflating statistics about “hate-based offenses” to pass a new “hate speech” law which would make it a criminal offense to possess “hateful material” on your person or in your home -- including up to a year in prison and a 5,000 euro fine for those refusing to hand over their digital device passwords to the authorities.

The crackdown is reportedly being backed by George Soros-funded non-government organizations (NGOs) accused of supporting a hardline censorship agenda, including by supporting police intervention and the seizure of personal phones and computers, as well as raids on the homes of the accused.

Soros-backed NGOs’ alleged attempts to influence Irish and Scottish government policy are a prime example of soft power.

Soft power, or the use of ideological, cultural, or economic influence rather than force to achieve one’s policy objectives, has been a primary tool of US and European foreign policy from at least the mid-1980s onward. After 1991, Western countries working to build the post-Cold War unipolar world order used soft power tools to spread visions of liberal democracy, free market economics, and "open societies" as "universal values" applicable to all nations. Countries refusing to adhere to these concepts have faced invasions, crushing sanctions, and coup d’états (among them Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine, just to name a few).

George Soros, 93, has been a staple of Western soft power campaigns for well over 40 years, and is perhaps the single most visible face of such efforts (although certainly not the first or only one). His Open Society Foundations spends around $1.5 billion a year from the financier’s vast hedge fund empire to fund “civil society” groups around the globe.

While conservatives often characterize Soros as a “leftist,” “communist,” or even “neo-Marxist,” his actions in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s reveal that he can best described as a standard social and economic liberal, promoting a vision of the world which both social conservatives and traditional leftists abhor -- that is, the spread of a neoliberal political, social, and economic order perhaps best exemplified by academic Francis Fukuyama in his famous 1989 essay "The End of History?" [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184]

The Hungarian-born hedge fund manager and financier got his start in soft power "philanthropy" in the 1980s, providing funding for groups promoting radical political, economic, and institutional reforms in the communist nations of Eastern Europe and the USSR. He quickly ramped up the scale and scope of his activities in the region after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989 and the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:33:20 7a6cdb (66) No.20971180

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>Elon Musk has confirmed X’s plans to sue NGOs funded by US financier George Soros over their alleged attempt to crack down on free speech.

“‘Falls short of demonstrating good cause’: Federal judge hands Elon Musk and X a discovery win in ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit against Media Matters”

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/falls-short-of-demonstrating-good-cause-federal-judge-hands-elon-musk-and-x-a-discovery-win-in-thermonuclear-lawsuit-against-media-matters/

Apr 27th, 2024, 11:17 am

A conservative federal judge in Texas known for repeatedly ruling that Obamacare was unconstitutional granted Elon Musk a discovery win in the X owner’s self-described “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters, the liberal group that accused the social media company of placing major brands’ ads “next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.”

Before Musk filed the federal lawsuit, he promised that it would be “thermonuclear” in strength. Musk claimed that Media Matters’ “blatant smear campaign” against X “falsely portrayed” it as a haven for hate and haters to defame the company and harm it financially following Musk’s forced purchase.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, rebuffed Media Matters’ attempt to keep the lawsuit from moving to the discovery phase, writing that the defendant “falls short of demonstrating good cause” to stay discovery pending a ruling on their motion to toss out the case on various grounds.

O’Connor said Media Matters’ claims of having several strong arguments in favor of dismissal weren’t enough for him to “deviate from” the “usual practice” in the Fifth Circuit.

Media Matters has argued that it makes no sense (other than judge-shopping) for the case venue to be in Texas, considering that the allegedly offending Media Matters statements were composed in Maryland and “published” in Washington, D.C., while X is in California. The defendant concluded that Texas jurisdiction “is unavailable” to Musk, “full stop.” The defendant has also asserted that Musk failed to state claim.

In March, a federal judge in California who happens to be the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer threw out a different Musk lawsuit, one that alleged the Center for Countering Digital Hate caused advertisers to flee by reporting that under Musk’s watch X was “overwhelmed with harmful content” after Musk “reinstated tens of thousands of accounts, including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists and spreaders of dangerous conspiracy theories.”

In that dismissal, which Musk is appealing, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the lawsuit was “about punishing” free speech that X’s owner didn’t like.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reminder-left-wing-megadonors-have-poured-money-into-media-matters-the-org-trying-to-starve-musks-x/ar-AA1kqwFH

Media Matters for America, the organization that has successfully targeted advertisers on billionaire Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has long been a beneficiary of donations from major institutional liberal donors and organizations connected to the Democratic Party, according to tax documents and grants.

Moreover, left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations granted the group $500,000 in 2021, according to its grant database. Soros also contributed $1 million to Media Matters in 2010, according to The New York Times.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:38:31 7a6cdb (66) No.20971200>>20971210 >>21422340 >>22432203 >>22560106

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>Wilmot James, an eminent young black sociologist, took on the job of executive director... founded a Public Information Centre in Idasa.

>Members subscribing to the above views; Dr Wilmot James

>>20917858

>Most of the [Legal Resources 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.”

“Wilmot James: Innovation and Justice in the World Today”

https://youtu.be/27Sajmo2LDw

Jun 10, 2013

On the Ford Foundation channel

2:23 -- “I was a member of the board of Ford [Foundation] from 1996 to 2008… I am absolutely delighted to be here and to see my family again.”

Wilmot James, PhD

https://pandemics.sph.brown.edu/people/wilmot-james-phd

Senior Adviser to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health

Biography

Dr. James, an internationally recognized thought leader in biosecurity, global health, and pandemic preparedness, is a Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center and a Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice.

Dr. James has served as Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Health in South Africa, and most recently held positions at Columbia University as Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and as Chair of the Center for Pandemic Research. He is a highly sought-after consultant for organizations such as the African Society for Laboratory Medicine and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and serves on the advisory board of Resolve to Save Lives. Dr. James will use his extensive experience to address public health and national security challenges in his role as senior advisor to the Pandemic Center.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:41:09 7a6cdb (66) No.20971210>>21422340 >>21455786 >>21507168 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22560106 >>22651676

>>20896981

>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.

>>20971200

“Dr. Wilmot James named as Chair of Wellcome Trust’s Climate Impacts Advisory Committee”

https://pandemics.sph.brown.edu/news/2023-07-26/wilmot-james-wellcome-trust-committee

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, July 26, 2023 - Today, the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health announced that Wilmot G. James, PhD, has been named Chair of Wellcome’s Climate Impacts Advisory Committee. He is appointed on a three-year term. Dr. James is a Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center and Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. The Climate Impacts Advisory Committee considers applications for the funding award, “Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible.”

Wellcome’s Climate Impacts Awards fund short-term, high-impact projects that combine evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement to make these impacts of climate change more visible. These projects will drive urgent climate policy and practice change at scale. The expert Committee, made up of a diverse group of scientists, policy-makers, communicators and community leaders convened the first meeting with an interim Chair, Professor Peter Diggle of Lancaster University, in early July. Dr. James will assume the Chair moving forward. The first round of awards will be announced shortly.

“I am honored to be asked to serve as Chair of this important committee, and to work with Wellcome’s expert team in this area. We need to urgently address the causes of climate change, as well as coming up with innovative solutions to limit the harm done to people’s health today. I am delighted as I am fortunate to be exposed to cutting edge policy proposals that build on the opportunities we have to improve people, animal, plant and planetary health,” said Dr. James.

Dr. Madeleine Thomson, Head of Climate Impacts & Adaptation at Wellcome, said:

“Our health is one of the first ways many of us will directly feel the impacts of climate change. The recent heatwaves are a reminder of this as people suffer from the extreme weather fueled by climate change all over the world.

“Not every climate impact on health is this visible. The purpose of these awards is to make the links clear and inspire solutions to help drive policy change.

“We are delighted to appoint Dr. James as Committee Chair and believe his leadership will help us in identifying high impact research that aims to protect people from the worst effects of climate change.”

As Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center at Brown University, Dr. James works with an interdisciplinary team, led by Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, that takes a holistic approach to pandemic preparedness. This no-stone-unturned approach expands beyond a typical epidemiological lens and includes, among its many priorities, examining climate change's impacts on biological emergencies and working to increase resilience to them. Dr. James’ position with the Wellcome Climate Impacts Advisory Committee will allow him to significantly bolster his expertise in this area and further contribute to the Pandemic Center’s goals in climate change.

“Our changing climate, and its contributions to the spread of infectious diseases, is having profound impacts on public health. Given the stakes of this issue, it was no surprise to me that Wilmot James was selected to Chair this distinguished committee. Dr. James is a top global leader on health security threats and has an impressive record of being able to solve tough problems. I look forward to the progress that his leadership will spur.” said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University.

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that works to improve health and save lives using science. They focus on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. The Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health strives to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience to pandemics, other biological emergencies, and the harms they pose to health, peace, security, and prosperity.

For more information about the Committee, the awards, or the application process, see Wellcome’s website, https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-impacts-awards.

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:48:28 7a6cdb (66) No.20971236>>20971240

>>20970999

>[Stéphén Dǻrori] Activist in Mapam and then founding member of Ratz prior to the formation of Meretz.

“Israel Political Parties: Meretz”

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/meretz-political-party

Meretz (“Energy,” in Hebrew) is a left-wing, social-democratic political party in Israel.

Meretz was originally founded in 1992 through a union of three other left wing political parties -- Ratz, Mapam and Shinui. Ratz’s leader, veteran Knesset member Shualmit Aloni was pegged as the new party’s leader on their electoral list.

On October 22, 2002, Meretz MK Uzi Even made history by becoming the first openly gay Member of Knesset. His term lasted less than three months, however, as the Knesset was dissolved in January 2003.

In December 2003, Meretz disbanded and merged with Yossi Beilin’s non-parliamentary Shahar (שח"ר) movement and became the Yachad (Hebrew: יח"ד) Party, which means “Together” and is also a Hebrew acronym for Social-Democratic Israel (Hebrew: ישראל חברתית דמוקרטית, Yisrael Hevratit Demokratit).

The party’s purpose was to unite a variety of dovish Zionist movements with the Labor Party. In March 2004, Beilin was elected party leader. In July 2005, the party changed its name to Meretz-Yachad. The party reverted to the name Meretz for the 2006 election, but the outcome was worse. The party won just five seats.

Meretz calls for an end to the occupation and for reaching an agreement that will lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. We believe that Israel should adopt the Arab League initiative and that the Israeli government should declare on its own initiative that it adheres to a political settlement based on the partition of the land based on the 1967 borders. Meretz calls for an immediate freeze on the settlement enterprise.

Meretz will fight for the defense of democracy and civic equality. Israel is a democratic state, a state of the Jewish people and a state of all its citizens. The status of every citizen without distinction on the basis of nationality must be equal. Meretz will fight manifestations of racism, nationalism and fascism. Meretz will fight against anti-democratic legislative initiatives, against the damage to the judicial system, the press, academia and freedom of expression.

Meretz offers a fair, just and transparent socio-democratic economic alternative , out of deep recognition of the state’s responsibility for its citizens. Meretz will promote a welfare state that includes regulation, effective supervision and promotion of workers’ rights. Will act to reform the tax system and to revolutionize the labor market. Meretz will lead a wide range of social services to the public in the fields of health, education, housing and welfare. Meretz will act to change the priorities of the state budget and will fight privatization.

Meretz will continue to lead the struggle for environmental justice. We will promote a policy of conservation versus development, protection of natural resources, and animal rights.

Meretz sees the education system as the most important resource for the establishment of a successful and successful society, and will work to promote free, equal and equal education for all Israeli children.

In the April 2019 election, Meretz won just four seats. Following the poor result, Meretz chose journalist and former MK Nitzan Horowitz as its new party leader. Horowitz is the first openly gay leader of a political party in Israel.

On July 25, 2019, Meretz agreed to form a joint list -- the Democratic Union – with the new Democratic Israel Party created by former Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The party won five seats in the September 2019 election.

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

In addition to being a full member of Socialist International and the Progressive Alliance, it has participated in Global Greens conferences.[44] In the international media, Meretz has been described as left-wing, social-democratic, dovish, secular, civil libertarian and anti-occupation.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israeli-arabs/meretzs-arab-mk-calls-for-direct-negotiations-with-hamas/2021/08/24/

August 24, 2021

Meretz’s Arab Minister [Esawi Frej] Calls for Direct Negotiations with Hamas

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▶ Anonymous 06/05/24 (Wed) 15:49:51 7a6cdb (66) No.20971240

>>20971236

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

Curiously, after the October 7 Hamas attack…

“Former general Golan [former Meretz MP] wins Israeli Labour party leadership”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-general-golan-wins-israeli-labour-party-leadership-2024-05-28/

May 28, 20242:32 PM EDT

JERUSALEM, May 28 (Reuters) - Israel's center-left Labour party elected as its new leader Yair Golan, a former general who won widespread acclaim for rescuing people during the Oct 7 Hamas attack, the party said on Tuesday.

Golan, a military reservist who formerly served as a member of parliament for the left-wing Meretz party, won 95% of the party vote.

He was hailed as a hero in Israel after he rushed on his own initiative to the area around Gaza on the morning of the Oct. 7 attack and rescued people from a music festival that had been overrun by Hamas gunmen in a deadly assault that led to Israel's massive ongoing retaliation.

The Labour party, once a dominant force in Israeli politics, has shrunk to a tiny rump, winning just four seats in the 2022 election that saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win an unprecedented sixth term.

In his campaign video, Golan said Israel could not continue on its current trajectory and that "together we can create an Israel that is free and democratic and strong." He invited voters to join "a journey to save the state."

https://www.jns.org/former-meretz-lawmaker-wins-labor-party-leadership-primary/

(May 29, 2024 / JNS)

Golan’s victory had been expected as the hard-left politician had led the polls over the other candidates---Avi Shaked, Azi Nagar and Itai Leshem.

Labor MK Naama Lazimi, who is facing criminal charges over her role in illegal anti-government protests, praised Golan: “I congratulate my friend Yair Golan on a resounding victory for the party leadership. His victory is the first step in building a large and united democratic camp that will bring tremendous news to the citizens of Israel and the state.”

As part of his campaign, Golan vowed to unify all left-wing parties into a single voting bloc. Recent polls indicate that if the Jewish state were to hold an election, the Labor Party and the far-left Meretz Party would win five and four mandates, respectively, in Israel’s 120-seat parliament.

There was some controversy about the primary’s results. Just hours before the vote, the Supreme Court accepted an appeal filed by Golan and the party, ruling that Tuesday’s results would be final and absolute.

The Tel Aviv District Court had previously ruled that the primary results would be “conditional” and require the party conference’s approval.

[Also this attack ended the strikes in Israel]

“The return of liberal Zionism?”

https://www.vox.com/23954323/return-of-liberal-zionism-israel

Dec 12, 2023, 11:00 AM UTC

The massacre by Hamas on October 7 and subsequent war in Gaza has created the conditions for something surprising: a resurrection of the liberal Zionist political tradition.

Prior to October 7, liberal Zionism appeared defeated: broken by the failure of the 1990s peace process and subsequent collapse of the left-wing Israeli parties that stood for its ideals. And on its face, this moment seems like a poor time for a revival.

This was not for lack of effort: In the 1990s, the spirit of liberal Zionism pervaded Israeli politics. The government passed two major new Basic Laws (the Israeli equivalent of constitutional amendments), historic protections for human rights that Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak famously termed a “constitutional revolution.” Around the same time, Israel reached two agreements with the Palestinians --- called the Oslo Accords — that created the Palestinian Authority as an interim step toward a full Palestinian state.

But the peace process collapsed into violence, making the 2000s a decade of nearly continuous war with Palestinians. Liberal Zionism was a casualty of these conflicts.

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▶ Anonymous 06/07/24 (Fri) 02:44:59 902e3f (83) No.20981086>>21455767 >>22366051

The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority in landmark election

With more than 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant African National Congress had received just over 40% in Wednesday’s election, after a massive drop in support.

June 1, 2024

By Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG --- The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.

With more than 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just over 40% in Wednesday’s election, well short of the majority it had held since the famed all-race vote of 1994 that ended apartheid and brought it to power under Nelson Mandela. The final results are still to be formally declared by the independent electoral commission that ran the election, but the ANC cannot pass 50%.

At the start of the election, the commission said it would formally declare the results by Sunday, but that could come earlier.

While opposition parties have hailed the result as a momentous breakthrough for a country struggling with deep poverty and inequality, the ANC remained the biggest party by some way. However, it will now likely need to look for a coalition partner or partners to remain in the government and reelect President Cyril Ramaphosa for a second and final term. Parliament elects the South African president after national elections.

“The way to rescue South Africa is to break the ANC’s majority and we have done that,” said main opposition leader John Steenhuisen.

The way forward promises to be complicated for Africa’s most advanced economy, and there’s no coalition on the table yet.

Steenhuisen’s Democratic Alliance party was on around 21% of the vote. The new MK Party of former President Jacob Zuma, who has turned against the ANC he once led, was third with just over 14% of the vote in the first election it has contested. The Economic Freedom Fighters was in fourth with just over 9%.

More than 50 parties contested the election, many of them with tiny shares of the vote, but the DA and MK appear to be the most obvious for the ANC to approach, given how far it is from a majority. Which coalition the ANC pursues is the urgent focus now, given Parliament needs to sit and elect a president within 14 days of the final election results being officially declared. A flurry of negotiations are set to take place and they will likely be complicated.

Steenhuisen has said his centrist party is open to discussions. The MK Party said one of their conditions for any agreement was that Ramaphosa is removed as ANC leader and president. That underlined the fierce political battle between Zuma, who resigned as South African president under a cloud of corruption allegations in 2018, and Ramaphosa, who replaced him.

“We are willing to negotiate with the ANC, but not the ANC of Cyril Ramaphosa,” MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndlela said.

MK and the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters have called for parts of the economy to be nationalized. The Democratic Alliance is viewed as a business-friendly party and analysts say an ANC-DA coalition would be more welcomed by foreign investors, although there are questions over whether it is politically viable considering the DA has been the most critical opposition party for years.

An ANC-DA coalition “would be a marriage of two drunk people in Las Vegas. It will never work,” Gayton McKenzie, the leader of the smaller Patriotic Alliance party, told South African media.

The ANC has also been blamed --- and now punished by voters — for a failure in basic government services that impacts millions and leaves many without water, electricity or proper housing.

Nearly 28 million South Africans were registered to vote and turnout is expected to be around 60%, according to figures from the independent electoral commission.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-africas-ruling-anc-brink-losing-majority-landmark-election-resul-rcna155007

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▶ Anonymous 06/09/24 (Sun) 00:52:22 902e3f (83) No.20991325>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

Cape Town Tells Port to Do Better After Being Ranked Last in World

By Paul Burkhardt (Bloomberg) --- June 7, 2024

The Port of Cape Town was urged to do better by the city that surrounds it after ranking last globally, even as South Africa’s state-run logistics firm took steps to improve performance.

The container terminal came 405th on The Container Port Performance Index 2023 that’s based on vessel time in port, the World Bank said in the report published Wednesday. State-owned Transnet SOC Ltd. is trying to bring in private operators and upgrade old equipment to curb the losses suffered by South Africa’s economy due to hampered mineral exports and ships waiting to unload.

“The inefficiencies at our port not only impede the flow of goods but also significantly hamper our economic growth,” the City of Cape Town said in a statement on Friday. It called for more integration of the private sector to boost performance.

The World Bank added 57 new ports to the index this year and South African harbors took up the last two spots with the Port of Ngqura coming in at 404th. Durban, the nation’s biggest terminal, was the eighth worst.

At a visit to Cape Town operations last month, Oscar Borchards, Transnet’s acting managing executive for terminals in the Western Cape province, described a plan to increase capacity. New equipment to load and unload ships will be able to operate in higher wind speeds, avoiding the problem of worsening weather when gusts force the port to shut.

A recent fruit export season was a challenging period when the need for upgrades “really hit us,” according to Borchards. “We are seeing changes already in terms of improvement, in terms of productivity,” he said. “As the equipment comes up and, and the technology comes into play step by step, it’ll improve.”

https://gcaptain.com/cape-town-tells-port-to-do-better-after-being-ranked-last-in-world/

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▶ Anonymous 06/13/24 (Thu) 00:30:26 902e3f (83) No.21013257>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

So ignore South Africa again and use the AGOA carrot with Angola?

General Research #25768 >>21013164

Angola pens a new military agreement with the US as Washington attempts to increase its influence in Africa

A military cooperation agreement signed last week by Angola and the US will “allow closer logistical assistance between the armed forces” of the two countries.

Tressa Guenov, US principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, and Afonso Carlos Neto, Angolan secretary of state for material resources and infrastructure of the ministry of defence, signed the agreement at the first meeting of the US-Angola Joint Defense Committee in Washington DC.

The two countries will also pursue a closer security relationship, a point of discussion for the next meeting of the committee, scheduled for 2025 in Luanda.

[See more: The US and Angola have finalised a US$1.3 billion infrastructure investment deal]

The two-day meeting was announced last week during a visit by Angola’s defence minister João Ernesto dos Santos to the Pentagon, where he met with his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin.

Ernesto dos Santos noted that the geopolitical area in which Angola is located requires special attention due to the deep historical, geographic, economic and cultural complexities of the communities it encompasses.

https://macaonews.org/news/lusofonia/angola-us-military-pact/

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▶ Anonymous 06/13/24 (Thu) 11:08:56 902e3f (83) No.21015673>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

General Research #25771 >>21015471

The Petrodollar deal has expired

As part of the effort to maintain the World Reserve Currency dominance of the US Dollar, Sec of State Henry Kissinger in 1974 brokered a 50 year deal with the Saudis for oil trade would be dominated by US Dollars.

This was needed after loss in confidence in the US Dollar after Nixon "temporarily" suspended the Gold Standard in August 1971.

Now there is no Gold Standard and there is no PetroDollar. Another crack in the dominance of the US Dollar.

BRICS News

🇸🇦 🇺🇸 Saudi Arabia's 50-year-old petrodollar agreement with the United States has expired, with no new agreement in place.

Saudi Arabia will now sell oil in multiple currencies, including the Chinese RMB, Euros, Yen, and Yuan, instead of exclusively in US dollars.

BRICS News

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1801061788160516147

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▶ Anonymous 06/23/24 (Sun) 20:42:50 902e3f (83) No.21072665>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

Grindrod chosen to develop box facility at Richards Bay

Sam Chambers June 21, 2024

Grindrod has been awarded a contract by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) to develop and operate a container terminal at Richards Bay, South Africa’s premier coal export facility.

The aim is to increase Richards Bay’s annual container handling capabilities from 50,000 to 200,000 teu.

South Africa is pressing ahead with a long-awaited port privatisation programme despite some ongoing problems with a first tender.

Earlier Transnet granted a 25-year contract to International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) to manage the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 2, the country’s largest container facility. However, this tender has since created a legal fight with APM Terminals heading to court to contest the decision.

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/grindrod-chosen-to-develop-box-facility-at-richards-bay/

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▶ Anonymous 06/26/24 (Wed) 18:37:37 902e3f (83) No.21090809>>21455767 >>22366056 >>22518653 >>22651670

Canada #59 >>21033661

Twelve states refuse to sign Zelensky ‘peace conference’ declaration

The UAE, India, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil are among the countries that have not supported the Swiss summit’s final document

Twelve countries attending the Swiss-hosted Ukraine ‘peace conference’ have refused to sign the final communique. This is based on the list of countries that approved the document, RIA Novosti reported on Sunday.

According to the list, Armenia, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the UAE are among the states that did not sign the declaration, as well as four organizations, including the UN and OSCE. Meanwhile, 79 nations, including Hungary, Serbia, Argentina, Türkiye, and Georgia, as well as four international bodies, joined Ukraine in endorsing the document.

The final communique has not yet been made public, but according to Reuters, citing a June 13 draft, it places the blame for the “war against Ukraine” on Russia, accusing it of causing “large-scale human suffering and destruction” and “creating risks and crises with global repercussions.”

The document calls for Ukraine’s territorial integrity “within internationally recognized borders” to be respected -- specifically, the restoration of Ukrainian control over the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, as well as access to sea ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The document also demands the release of all prisoners of war through a “complete exchange,” and the return of “deported and unlawfully displaced” Ukrainian children.

It is so far unclear why several attendees did not support the document. However, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said earlier on Sunday that any meaningful progress toward a peaceful resolution to the conflict would require Russia’s participation.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer earlier predicted that not all attendees would sign the declaration, because “it’s a question of the specific choice of words.”

Russia was not invited to attend the conference, and said it would not have taken part even if invited due to the exclusive focus on Kiev’s demands.

More than 160 participants were invited to the talks, but nearly half declined due to the absence of a Russian delegation. The final list of attendees included representatives from 92 countries and eight international bodies.

https://www.rt.com/russia/599384-twelve-states-refuse-ukraine-peace/

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▶ Anonymous 06/26/24 (Wed) 18:57:29 902e3f (83) No.21090889>>21455762 >>22366049

General Research #25853 >>21090852

US expanding bioweapons research in Africa -- Russia

Moscow claims to have proof of Washington’s activities on the continent

The US is expanding its biological military presence across Africa, Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov claimed on Tuesday. According to the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, the move comes after Russia halted the implementation of similar programs in former Ukrainian territories.

“Because Russia has managed to halt the implementation of biological warfare programs in Ukraine’s liberated territories, the Pentagon is forced to transfer incomplete research under Ukrainian projects to other regions,” Kirillov alleged.

He highlighted Africa as a new zone of interest for the US Defense Department and related agencies. The general mentioned the presence of Pentagon contractors in several African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Uganda, and South Africa.

“Washington uses outside actors to hide the objectives of research. These are contracting and intermediary organizations (Metabiota, Quicksilver, EkoHealth Alliance, more than 20 companies) and businesses of the so-called Big Pharma,” Kirillov claimed. Russia has documents confirming the rapid expansion of the US biological warfare presence in Africa continent, he added.

Kirillov cited several examples of alleged US activities, stating that “in October 2023, staff of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases conducted a large-scale survey of hantavirus samples from bats in Kenya’s natural hotspots. A year ago, US military biologists studied the effects of anti-malarial drugs on local populations.

“In January 2024, US officials from the Defense Department, the State Department, and the US Department of Health and Human Services met with the heads of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa to discuss the continent’s prospects for developing laboratory capabilities,” the general said.

At the end of last year, Kirillov said Russia had obtained documents proving that the US had conducted research on bioweapon components and highly dangerous pathogens in Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/africa/600036-us-expanding-bioweapons-research/

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▶ Anonymous 06/28/24 (Fri) 01:07:13 902e3f (83) No.21098663>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

MOL invests in African logistics company

Sam Chambers June 27, 2024

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is buying a 25% stake in Tanzania-based Alistair Group, a cross-border logistics company serving Sub-Saharan Africa. No price has been revealed.

Alistair Group has offices in eight countries in Southeast Africa. Its business centres on cross-border logistics services for truck transport of copper, cobalt, and other critical mineral resources produced in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia in inland Africa to coastal export ports. It is also engaged in customs clearance, warehouse operations, and cargo handling at ports. The company has a fleet of about 450 trucks and about 1,000 employees.

In a release today, MOL said it views Africa as region with significant growth possibilities and new business opportunities due to increasing population and abundant resources, including renewal energy potential.

https://splash247.com/mol-invests-in-african-logistics-company/

Anons, please keep in mind the order books for new ships in China, Korea, and Japan are so filled negotiations for newbuilds now won't have the keels laid until 2030

Ships require steel. DRC and even Zimbabwe can provide the iron, but steel making requires coal. South Africa has the coal, just keep an eye out not to get ripped off providing that coal

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▶ Anonymous 06/30/24 (Sun) 22:29:57 902e3f (83) No.21117041>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

Canada #60 >>21116020

Why does a NATO member suddenly want to join BRICS?

By Murad Sadygzade 29 June 2024

There are benefits and drawbacks to Türkiye potentially joining the bloc of emerging economies

At the beginning of this month, news of Türkiye’s desire to join BRICS drew global media attention. The announcement was made by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during his visit to China. “Of course, we would like to become a member of BRICS. Let’s see what we can achieve this year,” said the minister, as quoted by the South China Morning Post.

This issue was also discussed at the BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting in Nizhny Novgorod, attended by Türkiye’s chief diplomat, Hakan Fidan. Türkiye’s desire to join is not entirely new -- during the BRICS summit of 2018, where Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was a participant, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ankara could join in 2022. However, subsequent events on the world stage apparently delayed that ambition, and Ankara is only now showing renewed interest.

Why Does Türkiye Want to Join BRICS?

Türkiye shows significant interest in joining BRICS, seeing it as an important step toward enhancing its international influence and economic potential. This aspiration is driven by several key factors related to economic, political, and geostrategic aspects.

Possessing one of the largest economies in the region, Türkiye aims to diversify its economic ties and strengthen cooperation with rapidly developing countries. Joining BRICS would give Ankara access to a vast market and opportunities to increase trade and investment with the leading economies of the developing world. This is especially important in the context of global economic challenges and uncertainties, where diversifying partners becomes a key factor for sustainable growth.

Türkiye has repeatedly faced financial difficulties and restrictions imposed by Western financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Joining BRICS would provide Türkiye with access to the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement, allowing it to secure funding on more favorable terms and with fewer political commitments. This is particularly relevant for Türkiye, which seeks to maintain its economic independence and minimize external pressure.

Türkiye actively supports the idea of a multipolar world, where the balance of power is more evenly distributed among various regions and countries. BRICS, advocating for multipolarity and fair global governance, represents an attractive platform for Türkiye, which strives to enhance its political independence from Western countries and blocs such as the European Union and NATO.

In this context, it is also worth noting that Ankara views its desire to join BRICS as a gesture towards the EU, a bloc it once sought to join. This is confirmed by the words of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. During his visit to China, he noted that some European countries oppose Türkiye’s accession to the EU, and thus Turkish authorities see BRICS as an alternative platform for integration. “We cannot ignore the fact that BRICS, as an important cooperation platform, offers some other countries a good alternative. ... We see potential in BRICS,” he explained.

https://www.rt.com/news/600171-turkiye-nato-brics-membership/

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▶ Anonymous 07/03/24 (Wed) 18:06:27 902e3f (83) No.21132637>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

Canada #60 >>21131684

Kenya’s Fall From Grace: From US Major Non-NATO Ally to the Brink of Anarchy in DAYS

by Paul Serran Jul. 2, 2024

Something very strange is happening with the East African Republic of Kenya -- a flurry of activity at a geopolitical level that saw is rise and fall from grace in mere days.

On June 24, things were looking up for the William Ruto Government, as the US White House issued for the Secretary of State a Memorandum on the Designation of Kenya as a Major Non-NATO Ally.

“By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k) (the “Act”), I hereby designate Kenya as a Major Non-NATO Ally of the United States for the purposes of the Act and the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.).

You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal Register.

In the aftermath of the US troops being expelled from Niger, Kenya rose as the new key partner in the African continent.

But it wasn’t for free -- this development came in tandem with long-held negotiations for Kenyan police troops to be sent to Haiti to help stabilize the hellish situation on the Caribbean Island.

So it’s not surprising that ON THE VERY NEXT DAY, June 25, the first U.N.-backed contingent of Kenyan police arrived in Haiti, nearly two years after it urgently requested help to contain a surge in gang violence.

ABC News reported:

“A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to close for nearly three months.

It wasn’t immediately known what the Kenyans’ first assignment would be, but they will face violent gangs that control 80% of Haiti’s capital and have left more than 580,000 people homeless across the country as they pillage neighborhoods in their quest to control more territory. Gangs also have killed several thousand people in recent years.”

The Kenyans’ arrival marks the fourth major foreign military intervention in Haiti.

Unelected Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille thanked Kenya for its solidarity.

The U.N. Security Council had already authorized Kenya to lead the multinational police mission back in October 2023.

“President Joe Biden praised the arrival of the first contingent, saying that the mission overall “will bring much needed relief.”

‘The people of Haiti deserve to feel safe in their homes, build better lives for their families, and enjoy democratic freedoms’, he said. ‘While these goals may not be accomplished overnight, this mission provides the best chance of achieving them’.”

So far, so good -- but who would have thought that ON THE SAME DAY as the peacekeepers arrived in Port-au-Prince, Kenya fell into a state of near-anarchy with the relentless protests – that initially appeared to be against a tax hike legislation – ended up causing a ‘total shutdown’ of the country, saw parliament stormed and at least five people shot dead.

Since that day a week ago, President William Ruto conceded defeat to the protesters and said he would not sign the legislation -- but the situation has not improved.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/kenyas-fall-grace-us-major-non-nato-ally/

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▶ Anonymous 07/06/24 (Sat) 09:52:05 260fe3 (2) No.21147930

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Look at Elon

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▶ Anonymous 07/06/24 (Sat) 21:15:30 902e3f (83) No.21150246>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

Canada #60 >>21150138

Nigeria recalling gold reserves from U.S., U.K. as world increasingly abandons corrupt Western finance pyramid scheme

Saturday July 6, 2024

The global financial system appears to be in peril, which is prompting more and more countries to recall their gold reserves from countries like the United States and the United Kingdom.

The latest nation to claw back its gold from the West is Nigeria, which is reportedly repatriating 21 tons of gold amid ongoing economic concerns like runaway inflation and escalating geopolitical tensions.

In order to minimize the risk of major losses, Nigeria has decided that its gold is best stored domestically rather than in volatile places like the U.S. and the U.K. that appear to be getting dethroned by an emerging new world order.

"Economic indicators such as rising inflation, escalating debt levels, and geopolitical tensions have raised apprehensions among Nigerian policymakers about the stability of the U.S. financial system," reported The Star, quoting Nigerian officials.

This "strategic decision," to quote economist Fatima Abubakar, is one of many "proactive measures" that Nigeria is taking "to safeguard its wealth and strengthen its financial resilience."

"By bringing its gold reserves back within its borders, Nigeria not only asserts greater control over its financial assets but also demonstrates prudence in managing economic risks amidst global uncertainties," Nigerian officials further revealed. )

Nobody trusts the West anymore

India is another country that recently decided to bring its gold home as well. Reports indicate that the world's most populous nation recalled 100 tons of its gold from vaults in the United Kingdom.

Increasingly, non-Western countries are questioning the legitimacy of the Western stranglehold over money in general. They are also figuring out the West's gold and dollar reserves scam, which is used as a foreign policy tool to control the world.

A 2023 survey conducted by the World Gold Council (WGC) found that a "substantial share" of central banks is anxious about what comes next for the world after the U.S. and other Western nations froze about half of Russia's $650 billion gold and FX holdings following the invasion of Ukraine.

About 68 percent of banks polled told the WGC that they intend to keep their gold holdings within their respective countries' borders moving forward. Back in 2020 before the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "pandemic," only about 45 percent of central banks wanted to hold their gold reserves domestically.

"'If it's my gold, then I want it in my country,' has been the mantra we have seen in the last year or so," said Rod Ringrow, Invesco's head of formal institutions.

Currently and for a while now, the Federal Reserve private central banking cartel here in the U.S. has refused to divulge any information about the amount of gold held in its vaults. When asked back in March about it, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell "skirted questioning," to quote Great Game India.

Federal officials here in the U.S. are also refusing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records on gold holdings, which some believe suggests there is no gold at all in the vaults.

Headline USA reportedly filed the FOIA request, which also called for information about the amount of gold holdings before Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine. The Fed declined the request.

Back in 2019, long before COVID and the Russia-Ukraine war, Poland repatriated 100 tons of gold, as did Hungary and Romania. In the summer of 2017, Germany brought back about half of its gold reserves. Two years before that, Australia took steps to bring back half of its gold reserves as well.

https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/07/nigeria-recalling-gold-reserves-from-us.html

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▶ Anonymous 07/06/24 (Sat) 22:00:16 260fe3 (2) No.21150437

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Listen up

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▶ Anonymous 07/08/24 (Mon) 11:33:56 cd6431 (1) No.21159625>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

Canada's GoviEx Uranium's stripped of Niger mining rights

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/canadas-goviex-uraniums-stripped-niger-mining-rights-2024-07-05/

The company said it "reserves the right to challenge the decision to withdraw the mining rights before the competent national or international jurisdictions".

Orano said on June 20 that the Niger government, which came into power through a coup in 2023, had scrapped a mining permit for its subsidiary Imouraren. Niger possesses Africa's highest-grade uranium ores and is the world's seventh-largest uranium producer

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▶ Anonymous 07/09/24 (Tue) 18:43:27 902e3f (83) No.21168091>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

Canada #60 >>21160817

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso Sign Confederation Treaty, as France Loses Colonial Power and US Military Withdraws From Important Air Base

by Paul Serran Jul. 8, 2024

In a milestone symbolizing the loss by the Western colonial powers of political and military influence in the African Sahel region, the military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a new confederation treaty that they celebrate as a step “towards greater integration” between the countries.

The move comes as the United States’ military personnel completed their withdrawal from Niger’s Air Base 101, and is also leaving a separate, $100m drone base near Agadez in central Niger.

The three leaders held a a summit in the Nigerien capital of Niamey on Saturday, aiming to strengthen the mutual defense pact they established last year, the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Al Jazeera reported:

“The signing capped the first joint summit of the leaders -- Niger’s General Abdourahmane Tchiani, Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traore, and Mali’s Colonel Assimi Goita – since they came to power in successive coups in their bordering West African nations.

It also came just months after the three countries withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc in January.”

Niger’s Tchiani called ECOWAS ‘a threat’ to their states, after the economic bloc suspended the countries and imposed sanctions.

This treaty dashes ECOWAS leaders’ hope for the trio’s eventual return.

“’We are going to create an AES of the peoples, instead of an ECOWAS whose directives and instructions are dictated to it by powers that are foreign to Africa’, Tchiani said.”

Burkina Faso’s Traore said that western powers -- mainly France – seek to exploit the three nations.

“’Westerners consider that we belong to them and our wealth also belongs to them. They think that they are the ones who must continue to tell us what is good for our states’, he said. ‘This era is gone forever. Our resources will remain for us and our population’s’.”

The meeting of the three military leaders was held a day before ECOWAS met in the capital of Nigeria, and outlines their position of not returning to ECOWAS.

“The Niamey summit also came a day before the United States is set to complete its withdrawal from a key base in Niger, underscoring how the new military leaders have redrawn security relations that had defined the region in recent years.”

French troops completed their withdrawal from Mali in 2022, and from Niger and Burkina Faso last year,

While pushing out Western colonial powers, the military leaders in Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali have increasingly pursued ties with Russia.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/niger-mali-burkina-faso-sign-confederation-treaty-as/

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▶ Anonymous 07/25/24 (Thu) 10:50:29 902e3f (83) No.21289340>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

Botswana Eyes New Export Route To Exploit Huge Coal Resource

Bloomberg July 14, 2024

By Borges Nhamire, Matthew Hill and Mbongeni Mguni

Jul 13, 2024 (Bloomberg) --Three southern African nations signed a deal to proceed with a rail and port project to help land-locked Botswana export its massive coal reserves through Mozambique, although they still need to find the money to make it happen.

The African Development Bank has agreed to finance a feasibility study for the project, at a cost of about $4 million, Mateus Magala, Mozambique’s transport and communications minister, said Friday at a signing ceremony broadcast over state television.

The project involves upgrading existing rail lines running through the two countries and Zimbabwe, and building new connections. It also includes a new deep-water port south of Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, near a national park home to elephants and cheetahs.

Stranded Asset

Botswana has around 212 billion tons of coal reserves, according to the World Energy Council, and is eager to find ways to get it to market before the world’s efforts to transition to renewable energy renders it a stranded asset.

Read Also: Ships Sail For South African Coal After Russia Sanctions

The new port planned at Techobanine would cost as much as $1.5 billion according to a 2018 estimate, Magala said. It would also export coal from neighboring South Africa and Eswatini, as well as other commodities, he said by text message.

Mozambique’s a good option because South Africa’s ports are clogged, Eric Molale, Botswana’s transport and public works minister, said in comment streamed over the internet on Friday.

The plan --- which includes a 1,700 kilometer (1,060 miles) rail connection and has been mooted for decades without gaining much traction — faces major hurdles. Financing for new coal projects has become increasingly scarce, as banks shun the dirtiest fossil fuel.

In Mozambique, Ncondezi Energy Ltd. had planned a 300 megawatt coal power plant in the center of the country. It signed a construction contract with China Machinery Engineering Corp. in September 2021, hoping Chinese financing would follow. It didn’t.

The same month, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced his government would no longer fund foreign coal projects. And after months of uncertainty, Ncondezi ultimately dropped the coal project and reinvented itself as a solar power developer. In 2023, it changed it’s name to Solgenics Ltd.

https://gcaptain.com/botswana-eyes-new-export-route-to-exploit-huge-coal-resource/

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▶ Anonymous 07/27/24 (Sat) 11:15:46 7de5b5 (1) No.21302500

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▶ Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 15:53:42 175e34 (38) No.21373492>>21373494 >>21373500 >>21373507 >>21373517 >>21374398 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

“US sanctions three, including two based in SA, for expanding Isis in Africa”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/us-sanctions-three-including-two-based-in-sa-for-expanding-isis-in-africa/

24 Jul 2024

The United States (US) government has imposed sanctions on three individuals -- two of whom are based in South Africa – accused of expanding Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) activities in Africa.

The US Department of State said the three individuals are key financiers and enablers of Isis activities across central, eastern, and southern Africa.

According to the country, Isis leaders in South Africa historically used robbery, extortion, and kidnapping for ransom operations to generate funds for the group.

“They serve as critical links between far-flung Isis operations, allowing Isis leadership to leverage each affiliate’s capabilities to undermine peace and security in the region,” said US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller in a statement on Tuesday.

“Their destabilising impact spans much of sub-Saharan Africa, which underscores the need for the international community to continue to work together to share information on transnational Isis networks, their evolving financial methods, and measures to combat them.”

Threat to regional security and stability

The US Department of Treasury said the sanctions are due to the threat Isis poses to regional security and stability in central, eastern, and southern Africa.

“Treasury has targeted Isis’s efforts to expand operations and raise funds on the African continent with designations of South Africa-based Isis operatives, financial facilitators, and their business networks on 1 March 2022 and 7 November 2022, and a designation of a key Somalia-based Isis finance official on 27 July 2023,” the department said.

The sanctioned individuals are Abubakar Swalleh, who is based in South Africa and Zambia; Zayd Gangat, based in South Africa; and Hamidah Nabagala, who is based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Generating funds through crimes

According to the US Department of Treasury, Swalleh is an Isis operative who is involved in the physical transfer of funds from South Africa to the DRC.

Additionally, Swalleh allegedly facilitates the movement of Isis-affiliated people from Uganda to South Africa and vice versa.

“Mohamed Ali Nkalubo, a DRC-based Isis commander previously designated by the Department of State on 8 December 2023, relies on Swalleh to move funds and recruit members for Isis’s DRC affiliate. Swalleh moved to South Africa under Nkalubo’s direction, where he has been involved in robberies and kidnap for ransom,” the US Department of Treasury said.

Gangat is an alleged Isis facilitator and trainer.

Nabagala allegedly serves as an intermediary for Isis financial flows in central Africa. She allegedly funded the October 2021 Kampala bombing, which killed one and injured three others.

“In 2021, Ugandan authorities arrested an Isis operative who had received funding from Nabagala. She also sought to smuggle her three children out of Uganda to send them to Isis-affiliated camps in the DRC,” the department said.

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▶ Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 15:54:41 175e34 (38) No.21373494>>21373500 >>21373507 >>21373517 >>21374398 >>21441292 >>21453449 >>21455767

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>>21373492

“Security Risk Analyst, Andy Grudko unpacks the military training camp saga in Mpumalanga”

https://youtu.be/XTpjt7QZXZA

Jul 27, 2024

“95 Libyans arrested in breakfast raid at ‘military camp’ in Mpumalanga”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/military-camp-white-river-mpumalanga-libyan-nationals/

26 Jul 2024

Mpumalanga police arrested 95 Libyan nationals at a suspected military camp on a farm in White River on Friday morning.

While police have not yet made any allegations of extremism around the find of the camp, the 95 foreign nationals allegedly came to South Africa four months ago for what is believed to have been “security training”.

He revealed that illegal firearms, military equipment, cocaine, dagga, as well as other illegal substances, were confiscated during the joint take-down operation at the alleged military camp.

Isis SA cells named in US Treasury action against Isis

The discovery of the alleged training camp raises questions about South Africa’s border and national security.

Earlier this week, The Citizen reported that the United States (US) Treasury issued sanctions against three individuals allegedly working as financiers for a network associated with expanded Isis activities in Africa.

The two in South Africa are Abubakar Swalleh, described as a “South Africa- and Zambia-based ISIS operative”, and Zayd Gangat, “a South Africa-based ISIS facilitator and trainer”.

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▶ Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 15:55:23 175e34 (38) No.21373500>>21373507 >>21373517 >>21374398 >>21379910 >>21441292 >>21453449 >>21455767

>>21373492

>>21373494

“Libyan government breaks it silence over arrests of 95 of its citizens”

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/libyan-government-breaks-it-silence-over-arrests-of-95-of-its-citizens-cb632b94-7fca-4726-9fec-a4e5e2eef268

Published Aug 7, 2024

The Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) has broken its silence regarding 95 of its citizens arrested in SA at what is suspected to be a secret military camp almost two weeks ago.

The nationals are being charged with contravening the SA Immigration Act after provincial police raided a farm near White River in Mpumalanga last month, uncovering what appeared to be a secret military base for training the Libyan nationals.

Police had followed a tip-off from community members of Masoyi Village near the base.

Nearly two weeks after the arrest of its citizens, the Libyan GNU broke its silence, condemning the individuals for lying in their visa applications. Despite this, the government pledged to assist the South African authorities in resolving the issue and to support the suspects both diplomatically and legally.

In a letter addressed to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, and written in both Arabic and English, the Libyan GNU stated: “The GNU has tasked its military prosecutor and the Libyan embassy accredited to SA to communicate with the relevant authorities in Johannesburg to follow up on the circumstances of this case, stressing our readiness to participate in the investigations to uncover its circumstances and the parties behind it, while ensuring the safety of the detained citizens and their treatment in accordance with the relevant international agreements and procedures,” it read.

The Libyan government also said they would be investigating who had funded the trip.

The young-looking men were discovered to have misrepresented their intentions on their visa applications, claiming they intended to study in South Africa. However, it was later revealed that they were involved in training at an illegal military camp set up on a farm.

Home Affairs said the men entered the country with visas that were “acquired through misrepresentation in Tunis, Tunisia”.

“The visa cancellation means that all the affected Libyans are now undocumented foreign nationals,” said Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.

They were arrested during a police raid in the early hours of a Friday morning.

The Saturday Star reported this weekend that the men flew from Benghazi in their home country to Tunis in Tunisia where they applied and obtained visas to study in SA.

It is suspected that a Libyan businessman, who later deserted them at the camp, flew in the men. It has not yet been uncovered why he had brought them into SA; however, the men, who are still in custody, intimated that they were in the country to train as security officers.

A multi-agency investigation is under way at the camp.

Defence Minister Angie Motshega said she was expecting a full report on all the questions raised.

They were remanded in custody after their case was adjourned on Monday for further remand.

The investigations include rumours that the men terrorised the village community they were living nearby with some allegations of rape.

Addressing the media on Monday after court, Monica Nyuswa, the regional spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority’s Mpumalanga division, said the NPA, together with the police, were working tirelessly to ensure that the outstanding investigations were getting finalised.

“The matter had been postponed to get an Arabic interpreter initially, as well as for further investigations. When they appeared in court today, the Arabic interpreter was present in court. The investigations will determine whether more charges will be added and whether more arrests will be made,” she said.

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▶ Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 15:56:45 175e34 (38) No.21373507>>21373517 >>21374398 >>21441292 >>21453449 >>21455767

>>21373492

>>21373494

>>21373500

It is not the first…

“The Counterterrorism Conundrum: Exploring the Evolution of South Africa’s Extremist Networks”

https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/the-counterterrorism-conundrum-exploring-the-evolution-of-south-africa-s-extremist-networks

Oct 23, 2021

The ANC has often likened its history of struggle against the apartheid regime to that of the Palestinian liberation movement and associated militant organizations. This has raised concerns over the extent to which authorities would overlook the activities of militant groups in South Africa, especially since several high-profile Palestinian militants have received VIP treatment when visiting the country as late as the 2010s.13

A classified report allegedly drafted by the country’s National Intelligence Agency in 1998 noted the presence of Hamas delegates and affiliated individuals in the country. The report detailed these individuals’ fundraising efforts and attendance at conferences near Pretoria that were attended by members of other Islamist militant organizations such as the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front, [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah.14 The report stated that foreign Islamist militants “prefer[red] to keep South Africa [as a] rear base for military training, convalescence, fund raising, media and proselytizing,”15 claims that were later confirmed by the head of the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee in 2007.16 Kasrils, for his part, raised concerns in 2008 that al-Qaeda operatives were taking refuge in South Africa with the possibility of establishing networks.17

These assessments came after the arrest of two South Africans, Dr. Feroz Ganchi and Zubair Ismail, in a joint U.S.-Pakistani raid in Gujrat, Pakistan in 2004. Ganchi and Ismail were captured in the company of one of the perpetrators of al-Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and were alleged to have been planning attacks in South Africa at the time of their arrest.18 Then in 2007, the U.S. government sought to add two South African cousins, Farhad Ahmed Dockrat and Junaid Ismail Dockrat, to a list of UN sanctions on al-Qaeda and Taliban members.19 According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the cousins worked as al-Qaeda financiers who had “facilitate[ed] travel for individuals to train in al Qaida camps” in Pakistan.20

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▶ Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 15:58:19 175e34 (38) No.21373517>>21374398 >>21441292 >>21453449 >>21455767

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“Maandag, 29 Julie 2024. Insurreksie in Suid-Afrika”; Is the SA military involved regarding the illegal military camp?

https://youtu.be/VKv8s2NWw90

9:18 -- [Translation] “We know in April, and apparently these [Libyans] arrived here in April, that there was a group of young men greeted at OR Tambo Airport by an army general and a butch female sergeant major. They boarded military busses and then departed. We must ask if there is a connection between these 95 Libyans discovered in White River and this group that was greeted at the airport by an army general… We must accept that there is something more behind this. I do not have any evidence except that this was witnessed by one of my own senior members because he needed to remove his car from a VIP spot so that the bus can arrive to pick up the people.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 19:06:57 175e34 (38) No.21374398>>21441292 >>21453449 >>21455767

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“Acquitted SAPS whistleblower reveals secret military training camp cover-up…”

https://youtu.be/IQzVLKH7rYo

Jul 30, 2024

A not-guilty verdict was handed down today for South African Police Services (SAPS) Whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale - after almost two years of threats to her life liberty. This after she had been accused of spreading false allegations, circulating WhatsApp messages, and defamation. In this interview with BizNews, she goes into the agenda behind her malicious prosecution; and goes on to reveal how SMSes to former Police Minister Bheki Cele about secret military training camps were deleted from her phone while it was with the police; and how she was blocked by Zizi Kodwa, during his time as Deputy Minister for State Security in the Presidency, when she tried to follow up on the info shared on the secret military training camps. She also speaks about how she blew the whistle on firearms - meant for destruction - being stolen by police officers and sold back to the black market. Having lost her job in SAPS, Mashale now plans to start her own Whistleblower and Anti-Corruption Foundation.

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>The Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU)

Now South Africa has a government of national unity

“South Africa’s unity government: 4 crucial factors for it to work”

https://theconversation.com/south-africas-unity-government-4-crucial-factors-for-it-to-work-232533

Published: June 18, 2024 6.12pm CEST

Governments of national unity built on power-sharing arrangements are common in Africa and elsewhere in the world. Now South Africa also has a unity government, following the 2024 general election in which no party won a majority.

These governments foster stability through collaboration in grand coalitions. The premise is that in divided societies, stability can be achieved by elites working together in a power-sharing pact.

Whether political parties call them coalitions or governments of national unity, these are generally expedient solutions designed to mitigate political conflict or instability.

The ANC lost its majority but still won 40% of the votes in the May election, more than any other party. It has chosen to form a unity government, joined by the Democratic Alliance (previously the official opposition), the Inkatha Freedom Party, the Patriotic Alliance, Good and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.

The ANC retained the positions of president (Cyril Ramaphosa) and speaker (Thoko Didiza). The Democratic Alliance’s Annelie Lotriet was voted deputy speaker.

Unity governments are often seen as unsustainable. This can be due to factors around political culture, most notably elite political culture. These are the values, beliefs and attitudes that shape political elite behaviour within political institutions.

Negotiating South Africa’s seventh parliament has essentially been an elite pact. The voting public was not privy to the terms of the agreement. Political elites crafted the way forward for the seventh parliament.

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▶ Anonymous 08/09/24 (Fri) 15:57:16 bef4fa (14) No.21379928>>21379933 >>21379971 >>21379997 >>21405786 >>21416446 >>21439991 >>21455767 >>22366051

>Negotiating South Africa’s seventh parliament has essentially been an elite pact. The voting public was not privy to the terms of the agreement. Political elites crafted the way forward for the seventh parliament.

“South African Government of National Unity (GNU) -- 1994 – 1999” – History Repeating? 1 of 2

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/south-african-government-national-unity-gnu-1994-1999

From 27 April 1994 to 3 February 1997, South Africa was governed by a Government of National Unity (GNU) under the leadership of African National Congress (ANC). Clause 88 of the interim Constitution of South Africa provided for the establishment of the Government of National Unity. After the first democratic election in 1994, 19,726,579 votes were counted and 193,081 were rejected as invalid. The African National Congress (ANC) in alliance with the labour confederation COSATU and the South African Communist Party fell slightly short of a two-thirds majority. The Government of National Unity was established and headed by Nelson Mandela as a president and FW De Klerk as his deputy president. Mandela’s cabinet included ministers from other political parties as well as members of the National Party and Inkatha Freedom Party.

The notion of Government of National Unity, encompassing all political parties that enjoyed a threshold of 10 percent of support in the electorate, came from the ANC as one amongst many instruments to ensure inclusivity during the transition period from apartheid to democracy, 1990 - 1994. The mission of the GNU was to oversee a new South African Constitution, as well asto radically improve the quality of life of all people of South Africa. Recognising that gross human rights violations and atrocities had been committed during the apartheid period, the GNU established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The TRC sought to uncover the truth about past violations of human rights, facilitate reconciliation and grant amnesty, provided that perpetrators fully disclosed politically-motivated crimes and provided evidence that led to investigations and prosecutions. The GNU contributed immeasurably in improving the spirit of reconciliation in South Africa.

The National Party withdraws from the GNU

The National Party (NP) held its Federal Executive Committee where it decided to withdraw from the Government of National Unity with effect from 30 June 1996. On 3 June 1996, the NP under the leadership of F W de Klerk, who was also the Deputy President at that time, announced its withdrawal from the GNU. The main reasons cited by F W de Klerk was the exclusion of joint-decision making from the final constitution, the NP’s lack of influence on government policy, his retirement from politics in August 1996, and that the NP had adopted its new role as a fully fledged opposition party. The NP inaugurated a new leadership under Marthinus van Schalkwyk. Later, the NP ended its cooperation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on the ground of political bias.

From his speech during the debate of his budget vote on 3 June 1996 in Parliament, FW de Klerk, explained his decision to withdraw from GNU: “continued participation in the GNU was equivalent to a death sentence for even the broadest and mildest concept of Government based on consensus. Continued participation would be equivalent to detention on a kind of political death row. The survival of multi-party democracy, which depends on the existence of a strong and credible opposition, was being threatened by our continued participation in the GNU”.

The ANC, without reservations, accepted the NP’s announcement that it will withdraw from the GNU. Serious challenges faced the new government at that time included a stagnant economy with high and rising unemployment, high inequality between and within the different race groups and widespread poverty. To tackle these problems the government announced a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) in 1996, which was essentially social democratic in orientation and aimed at the empowerment of the poor. Subsequently, the government abandoned the RDP in favour of a Growth, Employment, and Redistribution (GEAR) policy that aimed at job creation through a neo-liberal focus on structural reform of the economy, trade liberalisation privatisation and the attraction of foreign investment. However, the Government of National Unity lapsed at the end of the first Parliament in 1999.

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“South African Government of National Unity (GNU) -- 1994 – 1999” – History Repeating? 2 of 2

https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Party-political-party-South-Africa

In June 1996 the National Party left the national unity government---its first time out of government since 1948. The party sought to recast its image by changing its name to the New National Party (NNP) in December 1998. In 1999, however, its support fell, and it won only 28 seats in Parliament. The following year the party formed the Democratic Alliance with the Democratic Party and the Federal Alliance, though the NNP withdrew in 2001. Later that year the party formed a pact with the ANC, its historic foe. After several years of declining popularity, in 2005 the party’s federal council voted to disband the party.

https://tpy.nelsonmandela.org/pages/part-i-democratic-breakthrough/forming-the-government-of-national-unity/3-1-the-path-to-a-government-of-national-unity

Although it took hard negotiation and intense debate for the ANC to accept the idea of a Government of National Unity , something like it was envisaged early on. In his Treason Trial testimony in 1960 Mandela acknowledged a phased transition to democracy as something that could be contemplated. The possibility was there in broad and vague outline in the document Mandela sent to President PW Botha in March 1989.107 That document drew on insight into the government’s thinking gained from the secret meetings with a government working group108; on discussions with his fellow prisoners from Pollsmoor; and consultations with the ANC leadership in exile.109

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▶ Anonymous 08/09/24 (Fri) 15:59:18 bef4fa (14) No.21379942>>21379997 >>21380026 >>21396682 >>21396714 >>21455762 >>21543498 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22646125 >>22651658

>the Inkatha Freedom Party

IFP ties to the ANC, Oppenheimer Family

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/i-grew-up-in-the-anc-youth-league--mangosuthu-buth

Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme was the founder of the African National Native Congress. He was also my [Mangosuthu Buthelezi] uncle.

I grew up in the ANC Youth League at the University of Fort Hare. I was taught by Professor ZK Mathews, I knew Dr John Langalibalele Dube, I was mentored by Inkosi Albert Luthuli, and I worked closely with Mr Oliver Tambo and Mr Nelson Mandela. My personal history cannot be extricated from the history of the liberation struggle, or from that of the African National Congress.

The younger generation is seldom told that Inkatha was founded on the original ideals of the ANC, from which we have never deviated. They are not told that Inkatha adopted the colours and symbols of the ANC because it was created to pick up where the ANC left off when it was banned and when its leaders went into exile.

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/malemas-oppenheimer-claims-bizarre--ifp

Forty-six years ago, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi secured R5 million from Mr Harry Oppenheimer through the Anglo American and de Beers Chairman’s Fund, and he used it to build the Mangosuthu University of Technology, opening the door to vocational training for black South Africans.

Since its founding in 1979, having started with just 15 students, MUT has produced more than 50 000 graduates from across South Africa and the SADC community. This is a credit to the IFP and its Founder. The R5 million Oppenheimer donation did not disappear in the hands of the IFP. It built MUT.

Based on their shared philanthropy, a lifelong friendship developed between Prince Buthelezi and Mr Oppenheimer, which continued down the generations. That is why Mr Nicky and Mr Jonathan Oppenheimer attended Prince Buthelezi’s funeral.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/oppenheimer-family-donation-relationship-ifp-history-elections/

22-05-24 12:34

Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Velenkosini Hlabisa says the R20 million donated by the Oppenheimer family, which is the third-richest in Africa, had no conditions attached to it.

Last Friday, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) released its latest report, which shows just how much political parties received in donations in the last quarter of the 2023/2024 financial year. In total, political parties declared a record R172 million. Notably, the affluent Oppenheimers and mining magnate and CAF president Patrice Motsepe, together with Main Street 1564 (Pty) Ltd, continue to donate millions to the country’s political parties.

https://www.pmbhotrust.co.za/about-harry-oppenheimer/

Mr Oppenheimer was committed to and actively participated in the field of social investment; many of the enterprises initiated by him continue to flourish today. In 1958, he established the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust to handle the social responsibility projects supported by the Oppenheimer family. At Anglo American, The Chairman’s Fund, established in 1973, initiates and finances projects which contribute to community development on a large scale, particularly in the arena of education.

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>Democratic Alliance

>>20970977

>Western Cape Progressive Party Youth Committee=> Progressive Reform Party->Progressive Federal Party=> now Democratic Alliance

>>21379928

>>21379933

>[New National Party] formed the Democratic Alliance with the Democratic Party and the Federal Alliance, though the NNP withdrew in 2001. Later that year the party formed a pact with the ANC, its historic foe.

DA ties to the Oppenheimer Family

https://liberalism.co.za/progressive-party/

It was also decided at the inaugural congress that a commission would be established that would draw up proposals for a new constitution for South Africa. This constitution would bring about non-racialism in governance and entrench individual rights, which were absent from the 1910 Constitution (Swart 1991, 77--78). Donald Molteno was a constitutional lawyer and civil rights champion at the time of the founding of the Progressive Party and joined the party to chair its constitutional policy commission. (Other commissioners on the party’s constitutional commission included the former chief justice of South Africa, Albert Centlivres, native representative Edgar Brookes, judge Leslie Blackwell, businessman Harry Oppenheimer, Selby Ngcobo, Richard van der Ross, Eugene Marais, former UP leader Koos Strauss, and Kenneth Heard [Swart 1991, 80].) He was previously a native representative in the House of Assembly. Molteno grew up in Cape Town with a tradition of liberalism in his family (Lewsen 1987, 101).

https://www.brenthurst.org.za/about-bl/harry-frederick-oppenheimer/

[Harry Oppenheimer] loved Parliament -- the cut and the thrust and the sense of power – and this was at a time when his then party, the United Party, felt they could easily become the government and were a real influence.

But though he was now out of Parliament he never lost his love for and involvement in politics. His view of the future of South Africa had always involved all South Africans and, in this regard, he was on the left wing of the old United Party. It would have surprised no one that he was the principal backer of the Progressive Party when it split form the United Party… my father’s support of the party and the principles it stood for (and Helen Suzman) never wavered, even though this support had a negative impact on Anglo American and De Beers. To him, some beliefs were more important than even these two great companies.

It was my father’s greatest political delight that he lived long enough to see democracy come to South Africa… my father’s political involvement went beyond South Africa. He may have been a South African first, but he was also an African and related to the continent as a whole. It is a great compliment to what he stood for that so many of Africa’s leaders could distinguish between a South Africa ruled in terms of apartheid and my father and his philosophy for Africa. I have always thought it worthy of note that during the days when Tanzania was leading the fight against apartheid my father would always stay in State House of the guest of President Nyerere whenever he visited Tanzania… He was, politically, ahead of his time in South Africa and he made sure the companies was associated with were as well.

Under his chairmanship, Anglo American and De Beers went through successful and difficult times, but they both remained -- and still remain – true to his, and his father’s, tenet of faith. Business had to do with more than just making money – especially in Africa and other developing countries – it had to make a real contribution to development.

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>I have always thought it worthy of note that during the days when Tanzania was leading the fight against apartheid my father would always stay in State House of the guest of President Nyerere whenever he visited Tanzania… He was, politically, ahead of his time in South Africa and he made sure the companies was associated with were as well.

ANC and other liberation movement military training camps were in Tanzania

https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv03445/04lv03446/05lv03463.htm

Once banned in 1960 the ANC* moved swiftly to establish a foreign mission under Oliver Tambo and to set up a military training programme. All available literature on guerilla warfare was studied, particularly with reference to China, Cuba, Algeria and Vietnam, and the first group received training from the Chinese. Another group of recruits was trained in Morocco in 1962. In 1963 and 1964 the first African MK* guerilla training camp was established in Tanzania at Kongwa, to be followed later by others at Mbeya, Bagamoyo and Morogoro, with Morogoro doubling up as the ANC's local headquarters. With the arrest of Wilton Mkwayi in 1964 Joe Modise took over as MK commander and he established additional camps in Angloa, Zambia and Uganda. He also organized training programmes in the Eastern Bloc, Cuba, Algeria, Egypt and Ethiopia. Despite reports of internal feuding (notably over the SACP*'s different political philosophy) which reputedly caused low morale in the Tanzanian camps in the 1960s and again in 1975, a number of incursions were made into South Africa.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/tanzanias-ruling-party-lauds-unsung-heroes-of-south-africa-s-liberation-struggle/2493887

04.02.2022

Tanzania’s ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party has hailed exiled members of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) party who sacrificed their lives during the liberation struggle against the apartheid regime.

Dorothy Mwamsiku, CCM chairwoman for the Morogoro region, said at a great personal cost to themselves, exiled members of the ANC who lived in Morogoro used every political weapon to defeat the divisive apartheid era and fight for freedom and democracy in their country.

The emergence of organized popular liberation movements across Africa after the Second World War was crucial for achieving independence for many African countries.

As a staunch opponent of colonial rule in Africa, Tanzania played a pivotal role in assisting other African nations in their liberation struggles.

Julius Nyerere, the architect of Tanzania’s independence and the country’s first president, was a key figure in the struggle against foreign domination and helped promote the concept of Pan-African unity.

Observers say that Tanzania’s support for the ANC’s liberation movement went beyond rhetoric as Nyerere encouraged unity and solidarity among Africans.

According to Mwamsiku, Nyerere, who dedicated his entire life to the wellbeing of humanity, played a very important role in the struggle for South Africa’s independence.

The country offered itself as a base for those fighting for liberation, including South Africa.

“These movements benefitted from the safety and stability of the country, as well as the experience and guidance they received from Tanzania, which by then had already achieved independence,” she said.

Although the most visible contributions to South Africa’s liberation struggle apparently came from Tanzania’s political elites, Mwamsiku said ordinary citizens, notably the people of Morogoro, were generally very supportive of the cause for freedom.

Mazimbu, which attracted a growing number of ANC exiles who flocked to the country after the 1976 Soweto uprising, also served as a political strategy center for the freedom fighters.

According to him, some of the top ANC officials as well as men and women who went on to lead South Africa after independence lived in Mazimbu throughout the liberation struggle.

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>Business had to do with more than just making money -- especially in Africa and other developing countries – it had to make a real contribution to development.

The Oppenheimers continuing their legacy

IFP, DA, African leaders, Ukraine, Brenthurst Foundation, etc. signed “The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”

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

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.

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/about/

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.

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>The ANC retained the positions of president (Cyril Ramaphosa)

Roelf Meyer signed Gdansk Agreement and is back in South Africa

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/roelof-petrus-roelf-meyer

Meyer practiced as an attorney in Pretoria and Johannesburg until 1980, a year after he became a Member of Parliament for the National Party (NP). Until his retirement from politics in 2000, he played an important and often prominent role in South African politics. His positions included Deputy Minister of Law and Order and of Constitutional Development (1986 to 1991) and Minister of Defence, of Communication and of Constitutional Affairs (1991-1996).

In May 1992 he formed part of the government delegation at talks with the ANC at Groot Schuur, Cape Town. He was the government’s chief negotiator in constitutional negotiations and established an effective working relationship with the ANC’s chief negotiator, Cyril Ramaphosa. The negotiations between Ramaphosa and Meyer paved the way for the first fully democratic elections in 1994, after which Meyer continued in his post as Minister of Constitutional Affairs in the Cabinet of the new President, Nelson Mandela.

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/news/south-africa-2035-the-good-bad-and-the-ugly/

It was against this background that, representing the In Transformation Initiative, I [Roelf Meyer] became involved in the development of the scenarios outlined in this book, along with the Brenthurst Foundation.

It is my hope that these scenarios will make our options clearer so that we make the right choices, in much the same way that Sunter’s scenarios helped move South Africa away from violent confrontation and towards democracy three decades ago.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-01-30-roelf-meyer-is-back-and-trying-to-help-save-sas-economy/

30 Jan 2019

Roelf Meyer became one of the best-known faces in South Africa during the transition to democracy when he led negotiations on behalf of the National Party with the ANC’s chief mediator, Cyril Ramaphosa. It’s 20 years since he left active politics to play a behind-the-scenes role in global conflict resolution. But Meyer is now working with the South African government once more: this time, to help jumpstart the economy.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-06-04-roelf-meyer-a-new-ruling-order-has-to-be-built-in-sa/

04 Jun 2024

We find ourselves in a similar situation today. Of course, it’s completely different in terms of background and history before the transition (in 1994). I’m not trying to replicate the two situations. (But it’s similar in that) we have a new administration coming into place after 30 years. We have to accept the election results and deal with the consequences. The previous six administrations were based on a departure point in which we had a clear ruling party. We have a new transition to make to a new administration in what will come up in the seventh administration. It’s new ground to address. Some things will stay the same. The most important thing will. There is no ruling party any longer. A new ruling order has to be built.

[Branko Brkic, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Maverick also signed the Gdansk Agreement]

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>>21380005

>It is my hope that these scenarios will make our options clearer so that we make the right choices, in much the same way that Sunter’s scenarios helped move South Africa away from violent confrontation and towards democracy three decades ago.

>Under his chairmanship, Anglo American and De Beers went through successful and difficult times, but they both remained -- and still remain – true to his, and his father’s, tenet of faith. Business had to do with more than just making money – especially in Africa and other developing countries – it had to make a real contribution to development.

>>21379942

>Mr Oppenheimer was committed to and actively participated in the field of social investment; many of the enterprises initiated by him continue to flourish today. In 1958, he established the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust to handle the social responsibility projects supported by the Oppenheimer family. At Anglo American, The Chairman’s Fund, established in 1973, initiates and finances projects which contribute to community development on a large scale, particularly in the arena of education.

“Clem Sunter: SA at economic crossroads -- Election ’24 parallels pre-94 watershed”

https://youtu.be/WQsY-x27M6k

Jul 11, 2023

1:26 -- “All the research was done by very clever people in Anglo like Michael O’Dowd and Bobby Godsell and by a superb London team led by one of the great futurists in the world, Pierre Wack, a Frenchman who had been head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch Shell.”

9:26 -- “I think it’s going to need a huge amount of support between government and private sector to produce that economy.”

South Africa is home to one of the world’s foremost scenario planners - an Oxford PPE and erstwhile top business executive who played a huge role in the late 1980s in steering the nation towards the High Road of negotiation, rather than a widely anticipated civil war. Now in his late 70s, futurist Clem Sunter’s passion for the country is undimmed. But he fears that today’s political and business leaders are not appreciating the arrival of the second watershed that was highlighted in the original High Road Low Road scenarios three decades back. In this absorbing interview he explains to BizNews’s Alec Hogg what’s really at stake in Election 2024. In short, that it’s “the economy, stupid…” and without a 1980s-type refocus, this time to promote entrepreneurship, all of the Young Democracy’s gains since 1994 will be lost and an economic wasteland awaits. - Alec Hogg

https://www.famousfaces.co.za/artists/clem-sunter/

Cape Town based Clem Sunter was voted by South African leading CEOs as the speaker who has made the most significant contribution to, and impact on, best practice and business in South Africa.

In July 2023, Clem predicted the Israeli Palestinian conflict, when Mossad, the Israeli Defence Force and the CIA failed to foresee it.

Born in England and educated at Oxford University, he moved to Zambia to work for Anglo American Corporation Central Africa before being transferred to Johannesburg. He spent most of his subsequent career in the Gold and Uranium Division, serving as its Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996 and he served as Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund.

In the early 1980s, he established a scenario planning function in Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg. With material gathered by his team members, Mr. Sunter put together a presentation entitled ‘The World and South Africa in the 1990s’ which became very popular in South Africa in the mid-1980s. In it, two scenarios were offered for South Africa: the ‘High Road’ of negotiation leading to a political settlement and the ‘Low Road’ of confrontation leading to a civil war and a wasteland. South Africa took the High Road.

Since 1987, he has authored or co-authored -- with Chantell Ilbury – more than 15 books, several of which have been bestsellers.

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Cape Town for his work in the field of scenario planning, a skillset which he continues to share with organisations worldwide.

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“New York speech: What are we fighting for?”

https://youtu.be/3HzapWBEIOk [Embedded]

Aug 7, 2024

Here is the speech I [Ernst Roets] delivered in New York City in July 2024, at an event hosted by the New York Young Republicans Club. I spoke about South Africa, the Afrikaners and our Western heritage. Finally, I share some ideas on how to answer the question: What are we fighting for?

Watch the full event, including speeches by Jack Posobiec and Raheem Kassam, and the Q&A we had together, on the channel of the NYYRC: https://youtu.be/1n3MSfdwI1o

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Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), cultural movement and political party in South Africa that derives its main support from the Zulu people. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Inkatha-Freedom-Party

“"WITHOUT BRITAIN THERE IS NO ZULU KINGDOM." ABBA AYALEW AMLAK”

https://youtu.be/jqxJrmCYNx0

Jun 27, 2024

7:58 -- “It was the British who instituted the Zulu kingdom forced it into our history, into our consciousness. Without Britain there is no Zulu Kingdom, there is no Zulu King, there is no Zulu history.”

https://www.anglozuluwar.com/images/Journal_14/Dunn,John.pdf

JOHN DUNN

Native chief, British spy and polygamous founder of a huge family.

John Dunn holds a unique position in South Africa for creating a new social dimension. He and his forty-nine wives produced one hundred and seventeen children and the extended family throughout the world, at the turn of the millennium, must have numbered many thousands.

To be a member of the ‘Dunn’s Descendants Association’ is a source of pride for those who claim descent from that remarkable man who started life in South Africa on the lowest rung of the ladder. Yet by the time he was forty years of age, he had become one of the richest traders in Zululand and Natal, as well as friend, adviser and treasurer to King Cetshwayo who rewarded him with huge amounts of land and the accolade of chieftainship. John Dunn was respected for his business acumen by the white settlers of Natal but despised for his polygamous lifestyle with Zulu women.

His knowledge of the Zulu mind and the way they fought their battles was of inestimable value to Lord Chelmsford, the Commander-in-Chief and later General Wolseley, his replacement. Dunn played a vital part in the eventual success of the campaign.

Having lost all his possessions during the war, he was granted one of the thirteen chieftainships (the others were Zulus) when King Cetshwayo was captured and deposed. Once again, he became the greatest landowner in the whole of Zululand. His is a story of ups and downs and playing off one side against the other. Despite his many reversals of fortune, he managed to stay on top.

Being married to a woman of mixed race was not acceptable in white society, so John and Catherine kept to themselves preferring to raise their children among Zulu folk. His preference for Zulus over white settlers brought him into contact with Cetshwayo, one of five sons of King Mpande. On 2 December 1856, Cetshwayo fortified his position as heir to his father by slaughtering three of his brothers and some ten to fifteen thousand of their followers. Much of the credit for Cetshwayo’s victory was due to John Dunn who supplied armed and mounted men. Thereafter, Dunn introduced Cetshwayo to the customs and technology of the white-man. His ability to see both sides of the coin enabled him to become a valuable go-between among Zulus and British. He was largely responsible for the political and economic change that came about in Zululand during the period 1857-1879.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 13:00:33 f655f1 (8) No.21396698>>21396704 >>21396714 >>21405857 >>21406188 >>21439861 >>21507100 >>21582568 >>21582652

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>The ANC retained the positions of president (Cyril Ramaphosa)

https://youtu.be/N1ZNGXN4GqM

Jan 21, 2024

When it comes to racial issues, is the enemy the colour of ones skin or the principal by which one lives by?

6:47 -- “They identify themselves as Bapedi [in Limpopo] but the founder of their family, of their nation, is a white man. Are they black or are they white?”

7:03 -- “Conrad Crouse who was sitting here on the couch next to me. He’s a white man. His father is a white man. His father is a white man. His father is Xhosa, a black man… Is he a white man? Is he a black man?”

10:46 -- “Now I’m going to be direct… How much poverty is in South Africa? The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires… Is the enemy the white man or is it the black man? Is the enemy race or is the enemy human selfishness and greed?”

15:06 -- “What is racism? And is it a problem? Or is the problem humanity and the darkness in our hearts?”

https://www.africa-ata.org/atm_zulu.htm

Rather, John Dunn's exceptional place in history rests on his prominent role in events that were crucially important in the shaping of modern South Africa.

John Dunn father was Robert Newton Dunn who was born in 1795 in Scotland.

The white traders readily adapted to African social and cultural norms. The scarcity of white women prompted nearly two thirds of the white traders to take black wives and concubines., The British traders also found it convenient to become petty chieftains and govern Port Natal.

Status in the Zulu kingdom was measured by the number of wives and cattle in an individual's possession.

And Dunn acquired an abundance of both. Between 1858 and 1878 John Dunn emerged as one of the most powerful chiefs in the Zulu kingdom. He ruled over nearly twenty five square miles of territory land six or seven thousand black subjects.

Dunn served Lord Chelmsford well and was named Military Intelligence Officer and awarded the local rank of commandant .

From 1898 onwards many of John Dunn's descendants were forced to leave Dunn's land and seek employment in Natal, the Transvaal and the Cape. The Diaspora has continued to the present day of Dunn's descendants having settled as far afield as the United Kingdom, Canada Australia and the United States of America.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 13:02:42 f655f1 (8) No.21396704>>21396714 >>21396724 >>21405857 >>21406188 >>21416431 >>21435296 >>21582568

“Lands with no private claims were deemed royal lands, and later, government property”

https://www.academia.edu/33972907/The_Colonial_and_Post_Colonial_Transformation_of_African_Chieftaincy_A_Historiography

The formalization of European imperialistic control over African territories saw the first encroachment on the nature and authority of the institution. Mahmood Mamdani, writing from a Marxist-inclined position in Citizens and Subjects noted that colonial rule brought with it European concepts of land ownership. 4 In the process, the colonialists made land synonymous with chiefly authority by investing all lands into the native political institutions of the communities in rural Africa. 5 Lands with no private claims were deemed royal lands, and later, government property, which was a deviation from African communal land ownership system. The colonialists therefore succeeded in transforming the ritual function of the chief into a political one. This enhanced chiefly authority over land was an aberration from the custom and practices of the people. It became “the foundation of native rule,” according to historian Mahmood Mamdani. 6 In a larger sense, Mamdani’s argument shows that this change enabled colonial powers to use chiefs as conduits to gaining concessions for the exploitation of resources for the good of the colonial metropole. He reflects that “chiefs were autonomous is not to say that they were independent.” 7 Thus, land re-organization not only empowered chiefs, but colonial powers as well. The reorganized political system based on new land tenure systems involving the colonial administrators and the chiefs was therefore a symbiotic economic relationship in which colonialists and chiefs acted together for their own mutual economic benefit.

Kofi Abrefa Busia also contended in The Position of the Chief in Asante that the African system was originally a non-feudal system. 8 Though not a Marxist, he viewed the influence of chiefs in colonial Africa through an economic lens. The right of usufruct, a practice undergirding African land tenure, was revoked in favor of a more Western system. Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance. This was simpler for the colonial authorities because there were only the chiefs to convince and not the whole tribe or community for access to resources.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 13:05:51 f655f1 (8) No.21396714>>21396724

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Then consider…

“Mangosuthu Buthelezi on the Ingonyama Trust Imbizo”

https://youtu.be/QBstkewHyZ4

Jul 4, 2018

“The Ingonyama Trust and its tenure challenges”

https://theconversation.com/zulu-land-dispute-ingonyama-trust-furore-highlights-the-problem-of-insecure-land-tenure-for-millions-of-south-africans-in-rural-areas-211365

Published: September 21, 2023 3.27pm CEST

The Ingonyama Trust was established in 1994 by the then KwaZulu Government to administer all land it held. It is a corporate entity and administers 2.8 million hectares of the land in KwaZulu-Natal. The territory was once administered by the erstwhile KwaZulu homeland. This followed a deal hammered out earlier to entice Buthelezi and his Inkatha Freedom Party to take part in the elections that ended apartheid. The province is a stronghold of the party.

The Zulu monarch is the sole trustee, even though the land is owned by the Zulu people. The king represents the people and the land must be managed for their benefit and welfare.

The trust is plagued with disputes for not involving the community in its business transactions. There has been little evidence of collective benefit for the community.

The disputes expose unequal profit from trust assets, privileging a select few, instead of all the communal land holders equally. To sum up crisply: the trust has treated communal land like privately owned land.

In 2022, the Supreme Court of Appeal directed the Ingonyama Trust to cease letting trust land to the land beneficiaries to whom the land belonged. It was ordered to repay the rent.

Traditional rule versus democracy

The misapplication of tenure under the Ingonyama Trust exemplifies structural conflict between trust tenure and customary traditional rule.

The trust applies a form of traditional despotic rule that can be at odds with democratic principles enshrined in the constitution. Under traditional despotic rule or authoritarian rule, customary law is interpreted in a way that naturally limits the need for community consultation, consent and participation in all decision-making related to the land from the “subjects”.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00020184.2023.2261386

This article discusses the implication of the 2021 CASAC v Ingonyama Trust judgment on South Africa’s land governance policy trajectories. It explores the extent to which there are missing links between policy imperatives, the legal system, court processes and socio-economic emancipation. It argues that the failure of the state in policy design and implementation has turned courts into contradictory sites of struggle for emancipating land rights… We show that current land policies, including the one involving the Ingonyama Trust, has an intersectional genesis that includes old apartheid legislation and policies, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, as well as legislature and other political deals (such as negotiations to bring about reconciliation) that cannot be easily undone by any one court judgment.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 13:08:13 f655f1 (8) No.21396724>>21405857 >>21455786 >>21582698 >>21650780 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

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>>21396714

“Land expropriation without compensation is here to stay: Ramaphosa”

https://youtu.be/FWgRQzqnlNQ

Aug 22, 2018

“Opposition parties want land expropriation without compensation back on the table”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/trending/783300/opposition-parties-want-land-expropriation-without-compensation-back-on-the-table/

19 Jul 2024

South Africa’s main opposition parties plan to revive a bid to amend the constitution to allow for land to be expropriated without compensation.

Former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party, the Economic Freedom Fighters and other leftist groups will bring the proposal before the National Assembly, MKP parliamentary leader John Hlophe told reporters in Cape Town on Thursday.

“We shall fight for expropriation of land without compensation for equitable redistribution,” he said.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 13:19:26 f655f1 (8) No.21396766

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“MR.BEAN (Rowan Atkinson) - Communist Britain?! Freedom of Speech?!”

https://youtu.be/xxWMhB4Cfm0

Aug 11, 2024

“Britain is turning into South Africa From schools to prisons, our state is crumbling”

https://unherd.com/2023/09/britain-is-turning-into-south-africa/

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Lately I’ve been questioning if the gulf separating the two countries is as vast as I assumed. At first it was just small things, sotto voce echoes of South Africa protruding into British life. A man begging from cars stopped at the traffic lights. An epidemic of urban homelessness. Universities renaming buildings to repudiate links with the past. A steady trickle of stories about police no longer bothering to investigate crimes. Now, a prison escape in the capital and parents scared to send their children to crumbling schools. Once I started paying attention, though, the resonances grew ever deeper. The media loves to measure Britain against the GDP of American states, European healthcare and Australian quality of life. This is supposed to be self-deprecating, but maybe it is more flattering than we care to admit. Analogies to South Africa can expose things that comparisons with rich countries leave obscured.

Consider the cloud of scandal and dysfunction which has settled over the UK’s privatised utilities, namely water, energy and railways. These services have increasingly been marked by cronyism, private gain, mismanagement and underinvestment, all familiar symptoms of corruption in South Africa. For years the water companies have been paying out huge dividends to shareholders, while racking up vast debt piles and spilling sewage on a daily basis. Last year, Govia Thameslink Railway was awarded a lucrative new contract, despite one of its subsidiaries, Southeastern, being caught defrauding the public purse of millions. Then again, bad trains may end up being the least of our problems, for the National Grid has warned that the UK may face power cuts in the coming winter, and is urging businesses to reduce their electricity use. There is a growing realisation that Britain does not have the grid capacity needed for the government’s decarbonisation plans.

It is becoming clear, in other words, that Britain’s post-Eighties regime of privatisation has led to a subtle form of the South African disease. The state fails to maintain and improve infrastructure, while allowing the asset-stripping of national wealth by private interests. Who needs criminal syndicates when you have hedge funds and private equity firms? There was something especially South African in ministers’ claims that Thames Water cannot be renationalised, despite its severe debt crisis, because doing so would scare away the foreign investors who prop up the UK’s economy.

evident during the Covid pandemic, when the genteel traditions of British corruption --- peerages in exchange for political and financial support — gave way to the handing out of state contracts worth billions to politically connected companies, often lacking relevant experience.

It is true that the UK economy’s voracious appetite for immigration, an easy source of cheap labour and consumers, resembles South Africa’s habit of exploiting migrants from elsewhere in Africa.

In South Africa, where 29 million people receive state welfare grants and only 7.4 million pay tax, the state is trapped in a doom-loop, with spending on social programmes hampering investment that could benefit the economy. But to look at projections for the British state’s ever-growing benefits, health care and social care bills, it seems we may be heading for a similar scenario.

Or to put it in terms a South African would understand: the British are gatvol.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 14:02:33 f655f1 (8) No.21396897>>21405895 >>21415718 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“DA wants answers after over 5 million dockets are closed”

https://youtu.be/ZW8HdjuUolE

Aug 11, 2024

The DA wants police management and Minister Senzo Mchunu to tell Parliament why over 5 million dockets have been closed since 2018, due to alleged insufficient evidence.

This includes over 76,000 murder and 61,000 rape dockets.

DA Member of Parliament Lisa Schickerling elaborates.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 14:04:54 f655f1 (8) No.21396905>>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“Human trafficking ring linked to SA nationals” who were arrested in Israel

https://youtu.be/j1q_SAV4L2E

Aug 10, 2024

Alarming revelations concerning a human trafficking ring linked to South African nationals in Israel came to light this month. Crime expert, Calvin Rafadi says that some of these people are lured with the promise of jobs. Meanwhile, some are trafficked for the trade of human organs.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/south-africans-and-nigerian-arrested-in-human-trafficking-raid/ar-AA1oakcP

Four South Africans and a Nigerian national were arrested for alleged human trafficking in Israel

Israeli investigators also rescued five South African women who were allegedly forced into prostitution

A report by News24 stated that Israel had a history of human trafficking for the sex trade as well as labour in agriculture and construction. Victims were predominantly from South and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 20:58:36 3c7624 (5) No.21398986>>21398994 >>21399005 >>21422340 >>21455762 >>21507168 >>22366049

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Next plandemic?

“Africa CDC to make declaration on Mpox outbreak”

https://youtu.be/3DBhKlrSxpk

Aug 12, 2024

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is this week expected to declare an Mpox emergency. This is after a new variant was found in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are also concerns that the virus might spread quickly beyond the DRC borders. Infectious diseases specialist Dr Richard Lessells weighs in.

https://www.krisp.org.za/people.php?fullName=Lessells%20R

About Dr. Richard Lessells

rjlessells@gmail.com +27 31 260 4898

I am a Clinical Research PhD Graduate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and am currently based at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies. I was funded by a fellowship from the Wellcome Trust and my research is focused on evaluation of TB and HIV diagnostics, with a particular interest in drug resistance.

Affiliations:

Group Leader: KRISP - KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, UKZN, Durban, South Africa.

Associate: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa Advanced Clinical Care (CAPRISA ACC), Durban, South Africa.

Associate: Infectious Diseases Department, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, UKZN, Durban, South Africa.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 20:59:31 3c7624 (5) No.21398994>>21399001 >>21399005 >>21422270 >>21422304 >>21422340 >>21455762 >>21507168 >>21507508 >>22366049

>>21398986

>I was funded by a fellowship from the Wellcome Trust

“Wellcome is now in official relations with the World Health Organization”

https://wellcome.org/news/wellcome-now-official-relations-world-health-organization

2 February 2018

Wellcome has been admitted as a non-state actor in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) by the WHO's Executive Board.

Wellcome can now work with the WHO and its partners towards shared goals in a more formal capacity.

'Official relations' means Wellcome can engage more directly with WHO processes, such as participating at sessions of its governing bodies, proposing agenda items and organising side events as a non-state actor.

Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome’s Director, says: "Improving health for everyone is something no one nation, organisation or sector can do alone. It requires strong leadership and partnership across borders and sectors. We look forward to working with WHO and all its partners in a more formal capacity towards shared goals in pressing areas such as universal health care, drug-resistant infections, climate change and health and being better prepared for inevitable epidemics."

Over the past three years, we have provided more than $8m in funding to WHO, supporting work such as:

• the successful Ebola vaccine trials in Guinea

• developing research ethics and governance processes

• research into the cultural contexts of health

• epidemic preparedness activities.

We will be sharing details about our joint work in due course.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 21:00:00 3c7624 (5) No.21399001>>21399005 >>21422270 >>21422276 >>21422340 >>21455762 >>21507168 >>21507508 >>22366049

“Wellcome Trust director takes World Health Organization role”

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/wellcome-trust-director-takes-world-health-organization-role

December 13, 2022

Infectious disease specialist who came to national prominence during Covid will become WHO chief scientist

The Wellcome Trust’s director, Sir Jeremy Farrar, is to take up the role of chief scientist at the World Health Organization next year.

Sir Jeremy, an infectious disease specialist who became one of the UK’s most high-profile scientists during the Covid pandemic, is stepping down towards the end of his second five-year term at Wellcome, having led the medical charity since 2013.

He will be replaced at Wellcome on an interim basis by Paul Schreier, Wellcome’s chief operating officer and a former deputy vice-chancellor at Macquarie University in Australia, at the end of February. A global search for the permanent chief executive began earlier this year.

Sir Jeremy, a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), whose recent memoir Spike: The Virus vs the People criticised decision-making in Downing Street at the early stages of the pandemic, was responsible for launching Wellcome’s new strategy in 2020.

This will focus the charity’s spending -- which will be about £1.6 billion next year – on funding discovery research projects to transform understanding of life, health and well-being, and supporting science-based solutions to address three of the most urgent health challenges facing us all: infectious disease, mental health problems, and the effects of climate change on health.

During Sir Jeremy’s time in office, Wellcome has also led innovations to promote healthy research culture, including the creation of longer career development “discovery” awards which will support individuals and teams for up to eight years, and the introduction of open access publishing mandates.

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▶ Anonymous 08/12/24 (Mon) 21:00:40 3c7624 (5) No.21399005>>21455762 >>22366049

>>21398986

>>21399001

“WHO emergency committee meets this week to discuss African mpox spread”

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/mpox/who-emergency-committee-meets-week-discuss-african-mpox-spread

The World Health Organization (WHO) has set an August 14 date for a meeting of its emergency committee to discuss developments regarding a surge of mpox activity in Africa and if the situation warrants a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

Some of the outbreaks in Africa involve the novel clade 1b strain that emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been battling a severe outbreak since 2022. Some of the DRC's neighboring countries, which hadn't confirmed any mpox cases before, are now reporting cases. Also, the parent clade 1 virus is spreading in the DRC and two other countries, and the global clade 2 mpox strain is fueling outbreaks in some of the DRC's regions and in other African countries.

Health officials are working to better understand the spread patterns and if there are differences in transmissibility and disease severity among the clades. The DRC's outbreak has been marked by sexual spread for the first time in the African region, along with household contact and suspected contributions from respiratory transmission.

For now, the countries lack vaccines and treatments to battle the virus.

Second emergency committee for mpox in 2 years

The upcoming emergency committee meeting will be the second to grapple with mpox. In June 2022, the WHO convened an emergency committee to address challenges with the international spread of the clade 2 virus and said the situation didn't at that point warrant a PHEIC. A month later, the group met again and wasn't able to reach a consensus, but WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, considered their advice and declared a PHEIC.

After the group met for the fifth time in May 2023 amid a steady decline in clade 2 cases, Tedros accepted the group's recommendation that the situation no longer constituted a PHEIC and that long-term challenges could be best handled with sustained response efforts.

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 16:36:01 07b319 (103) No.21405772

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>>21380026

>In July 2023, Clem predicted the Israeli Palestinian conflict, when Mossad, the Israeli Defence Force and the CIA failed to foresee it.

“Klaus Schwab | "The Next Step, You Do Not Even Have to Have Elections Anymore Because You Can Already Predict.”

https://rumble.com/v5aomqd-klaus-schwab-the-next-step-you-do-not-even-have-to-have.html?mref=r4f62&mrefc=3

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Klaus Schwab | "The Next Step, You Do Not Even Have to Have Elections Anymore Because You Can Already Predict. Why Do We Even Have to Have Elections? We Know What the Result Will Be?" - Klaus Schwab (1/19/2017)

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 16:40:06 07b319 (103) No.21405786>>21405857 >>21415763 >>21416446 >>21416600 >>21439991

>GNU

“GNU ‘best tactical option’, Ramaphosa tells ANC alliance partners”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2024-08-05-gnu-best-tactical-option-ramaphosa-tells-anc-alliance-partners/

05 August 2024 - 12:58

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that a government of national unity (GNU) was the best tactical option for the ANC to take the country forward after the party lost its outright majority during the May 29 general elections.

Ramaphosa was providing his political overview at the beginning of the party’s three-day national executive committee (NEC) lekgotla in Johannesburg on Sunday. The lekgotla took place after a three-day meeting of the NEC.

In attendance at the lekgotla was the leadership of the SACP, an ANC alliance partner which has previously slammed the party’s decision to include the DA and the Freedom Front Plus in the GNU, and preferred “a minority government with forces such as the EFF”.

Ramaphosa acknowledged the role played by the SACP in the struggle against apartheid, including the leading role it played in advancing the principle of nonracialism in theory and practice as the first political organisation to organise on a nonracial basis in South Africa.

“In many senses, we have entered uncharted territory,” Ramaphosa said.

“We have suffered a strategic setback that has far-reaching consequences and implications for how we are going to conduct the struggle for the fundamental transformation of South Africa.

The party said it remained firmly committed to the advance of the National Democratic Revolution and the achievement of a united, nonracial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa, said Ramaphosa.

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>>21405786

>GNU ‘best tactical option’, Ramaphosa tells

>ANC alliance partners

>The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires

>We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda.

>>21396724

>land expropriation without compensation

Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” Part 1

https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv03005/06lv03132/07lv03140/08lv03145.htm

Victory in the national democratic revolution is, for our working class, the most direct route to socialism and ultimately communism.

Socialism is a transitional stage on the road to communism, a still higher stage of human society.

The building of socialism and gradual development of communism cannot be achieved overnight in a sudden flash. In all countries where workers' power has triumphed, the realisation of socialism is a long and often difficult process.

Basing ourselves on the creativity, motivation and organisation of our working class and people, on the lessons and experience of our comrades in the socialist countries, and on the fraternal international relations that are a basic feature of world socialism, the South African working class possesses the weapons to develop rapidly on the road to a socialist and communist future.

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc

10 July 2020

In a recent exchange on Twitter Helen Zille wrote, in a moment of exasperation, that there are “more racist laws today than there were under apartheid. All racist laws are wrong. But permanent victimhood is too highly prized to recognise this”.

Unlike Zille who had tweeted an instant opinion all these authors had had plenty of time to consider what they were saying. Yet all seemed unable to recognise, let alone acknowledge, the sheer ubiquity and perversity of racial “law” in present day South Africa.

https://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/chapter-2-bill-rights

South Africa’s Bill of Rights

3. The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.

5. Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 16:55:07 07b319 (103) No.21405895>>21405905 >>21415763 >>21415951 >>21455762 >>21628891 >>21628918 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22651658

>>21396897

Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” Part 2

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc

At the time the ANC/SACP was convinced that the revolutionary moment had arrived and they would soon be able to seize power from the ‘white colonialists’ by force, and then implement their programme. This was again set out in the 1962 programme through the concept of the National Democratic Revolution. The SACP proposed that in order to “correct the legacy of colonialism” the judiciary, armed forces and civil service would be purged of racially disloyal elements; race quotas implemented in university admissions; stringent measures put in place to ensure state institutions were “fully representa-tive of the nature of the population of South Africa”, and various actions (from land seizures to nationalisations) pursued to ensure that the wealth of the country was returned to “the people” from whom it had been “stolen”.

The two concepts were adopted by the SACP (which meant by most of the ANC leadership as well) in late 1962 and then by the ANC as an organisation in 1969.

The ANC has pursued its goals through salami tactics, slice by slice, or what Cyril Ramaphosa is reported to have once described as ‘frog boiling’. In his memoirs the late IFP MP Dr Mario Oriani-Ambrosini recounted that during the negotiations over the final constitution Ramaphosa had told him “of the ANC's 25-year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive, which is done by raising the temperature very slowly…. He meant that the black majority would pass laws transferring wealth, land, and economic power from white to black slowly and incrementally, until the whites lost all they had gained in South Africa, but without taking too much from them at any given time to cause them to rebel or fight."

The “laws” used by the ANC to advance this agenda have included most obviously certain constitutional provisions, legislation, and (initially) white papers setting out binding government policy. Yet the ‘law’ has often been shifted in favour of the national revolution not by the introduction of new statutes, but by perpetual reinterpretation of previous ones. If the ANC was successfully challenged in the lower courts, a Constitutional Court dominated by its ideological allies would always be at hand to step in and get the NDR back on track.

If you wish to start adding up the ANC’s race laws -- and see how they all fit together - all these need to be enumerated.

For instance, the SAPS under Jackie Selebi introduced an Employment Equity Plan in 2000 [28] that set racial targets (50/50 at management level and 60/40 at other levels) and a 70/30 quota on recruitment at all levels. These targets were subsequently ratcheted upwards. The Intelligence Services were exempted from the EE Act, but ministerial regulations were issued [29] in this regard in 2003.

Within five years of first being elected into office the ANC had rid the state -at national and provincial level - of much of its most precious managerial, professional and technical skill. It had abolished the merit system in the appointment of civil servants, and most requirements for formal qualifications, and replaced this with a crude political patronage system. It had then exported these policies both to the parastatals and to local government after 2000. Apart from profiting a multiracial ANC elite hugely the effect of all this was to gut the capacity of the state while strengthening the private sector.

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 16:56:54 07b319 (103) No.21405905>>21455762 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22651658

Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” Part 3

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc

By 2000 the ANC had largely removed from power “the old classes and strata” while bringing all state and parastatal institutions under the control and direction of the party. The ANC could now turn its attention to the next stage of the national revolution, namely the transformation of the private sector, and the economy.

The last stage of the national revolution was the direct expropriation of fixed white-owned property, including land.

The report of the Truth & Reconciliation commission lists 17 race-based laws passed by the parliament of the Union of South Africa between 1910 and 1948 in pursuit of racial segregation. It lists a further 26 passed by the National Party between 1948 and the passage of the Extension of University Education Act No 45 giving effect to apartheid. After that there are a multiplicity of laws passed related to the government’s policy of separate development.

For a few precious years in the early to mid-1990s South Africa was, for the first and last time, a country without operative racial laws. Over the past 26 years though the ANC has put in place a web of binding racial requirements through constitutional provisions, legislation, white papers, regulations, charters, and party resolutions; as it has sought to advance through the different stages of the revolution, towards the goal of pure racial proportionality, everywhere.

The article above has documented some eighty of these, but this is not a complete list. It lists only a handful of regulations. By one count the ANC has incorporated racial requirements into ninety acts of parliament, excluding the Constitution, though many of these relate to the application of the “representivity” principle to the boards of statutory bodies. In addition, there are a number of judgments issued by the Constitutional Court, bending the interpretation of the Constitution in favour of the national revolution.

One of the characteristics of the ANC is that it demands moral compliance with its racial project. Every institution in society has to formulate a little “race law” of its own, setting out how it expects to achieve the racial goals the ANC has set for employment, and then submit an annual report in this regard to the Department of Labour. In 2019 the department received 58 of these reports from national government, 133 from provincial government, 184 from local government, 133 from State-owned enterprises, 298 from educational institutions, 566 from non-profit organisations, and 26 113 from the private sector.

Zille’s remark was certainly implausible and hyperbolic. But as it turns out, she was not (far) wrong. The real problem, inadvertently highlighted by the controversy, is that such a large part of the media, civil society, and the DA do not see the ANC’s race laws as a problem. In fact they are barely conscious that they exist at all. And yet it is simply impossible to understand South Africa’s predicament without reference to the ANC’s racial project, the plunder that this enabled, and the institutional and economic destruction that resulted.

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 16:59:31 07b319 (103) No.21405923>>21448567 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

Water tanker mafia; “New mafia causing chaos in South Africa”

https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/59903/new-mafia-causing-chaos-in-south-africa/

4 August 2024

The water tanker mafia is entrenching itself in many municipalities across South Africa, causing chaos by deliberately disrupting the water supply to secure tenders.

While this mafia has been prevalent in KwaZulu Natal for over a year, offshoots are starting to spring up in the economic hub of Gauteng, which prolonged water outages have plagued.

The use of water tankers in Gauteng has skyrocketed as increased demand for water and deteriorating infrastructure have seen multiple areas go weeks without the precious resource.

This has resulted in the rise of a ‘water tanker mafia’ that profits from these supply disruptions, with Tshwane being particularly hard hit.

Themba Fosi, head of utilities, regional operations, and coordination for Tshwana, said the municipality spends around R98 million on water tankers annually.

“The water tanker mafia is being felt across the city, particularly in Bronkhorstspruit where, in several instances, we found our valves being tampered with,” he said.

“There is a huge amount of vandalism, and you see this is manmade and not due to infrastructure failure. Eventually, this leads to water tankers being the order of the day.”

“We have instances where invoices from water tankers are questionable. This tends to be a challenge for us because, in some instances, documents are falsified.”

Fosi explained that there were numerous instances across Tshwane where water pipes and valves had been tampered with or broken.

“These are the things we have found out as the city and the Tshwane metro police department. We also receive tip-offs from the community that they have seen some water tanker guys doing some shady work at our reservoirs or fire hydrants.”

“That’s information that is coming through. However, we don’t have the capacity to conduct an intense investigation. We rely heavily on the police when cases are lodged through them so that they can conduct investigations for us.”

Water scientist Dr Anthony Turton warned that the collapse of infrastructure has resulted in the water tanker mafia being entrenched in South African municipalities.

“This is part of a new trend where we can see that our infrastructure is not in healthy shape at all, and politicians are only waking up now,” Turton said.

This crisis has been exploited by the water tanker mafia, which deliberately sabotages infrastructure to win or prolong contracts to supply water to affected areas.

“There is a thriving tanker mafia in KZN that actively sabotages the water infrastructure. They do this to continue and prolong their contracts with the municipalities to provide water tankers across communities that need water,” Turton said.

He added that these tanker suppliers do not source their water from safe, potable sources. Instead, they take unsafe water from dams or rivers as they are paid per tanker.

“These elements thrive on chaos, and they need to be investigated with urgency.”

This mafia is among several groups with a vested interest in ensuring the supply of water is disrupted in South Africa. Turton warned that other groups see these disruptions as a way to foment social unrest.

“It is well-known across South Africa that the tanker mafias are very well entrenched,” he said.

“But, realistically, there are many vested interests in disrupting the system that may serve the interests of certain entities but not the national interest.”

He mentioned that acts of sabotage on water infrastructure are often a precursor to widespread social unrest.

“What we do know is during the 2021 looting in KZN, the precursor to that was tampering with valves and infrastructure. In fact, they destroyed valves in some municipalities.”

“We have seen videos of activists damaging water valves and infrastructure during recent unrest in Durban.”

“This could well be a part of a trend, and it is important we get on top of this. This has the potential to be a national security concern.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 17:50:26 07b319 (103) No.21406188>>21416431 >>21416552 >>21435296 >>21439918 >>21453990 >>21455762 >>22366047 >>22401838 >>22518643 >>22560403 >>22595446 >>22651660

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>The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires

>The right of usufruct, a practice undergirding African land tenure, was revoked in favor of a more Western system. Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance. This was simpler for the colonial authorities because there were only the chiefs to convince and not the whole tribe or community for access to resources.

“Mine accused of disregarding obligations” but the government is complicit

https://youtu.be/AiZEk2UcgX8

Jul 30, 2024 #SABCNews

The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002 requires South African mining companies to submit Social and Labour Plans to develop communities where they wish to operate, as a condition of granting them mining licences.

In the past 30 years, South Africa has seen many mining communities clashing with companies which they accuse of failing to comply with the law. [The Limpopo community of Atok, outside Burgersfort, is one such community which accuses the Bokoni Platinum mine - owned by African Rainbow Minerals (owned by Patrice Motsepe, Cyril Ramaphosa’s brother-in-law) since 2022 - of disregarding their obligations to transform their community. The company however, says it has been meeting its social responsibility obligations, and the majority of its workers are locals. https://omny.fm/shows/sabc-news-podcasts-playlist/thobela-hlokwa-residents-in-atok-outside-burgersfo]

SABC News Reporter Koketšo Motau has the story.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/04/16/we-know-our-lives-are-danger/environment-fear-south-africas-mining-affected

April 16, 2019

“We Know Our Lives are in Danger”: Environment of Fear in South Africa’s Mining-Affected Communities

Other mining areas in South Africa, including Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, and Northwest provinces have had experiences similar to that of Xolobeni. While Bazooka’s murder and the threats against Nonhle have received domestic and international attention, many attacks on activists have gone unreported or unnoticed both within and outside the country.

https://groundup.org.za/article/mining-affected-communities-demand-more-development-in-their-towns/

8 February 2024

“While government is busy engaging only with business people about mining, the very communities that are affected by mining activities have been left out. So we are holding this summit to create a platform for communities to voice and discuss the issues they face,” he said.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-are-the-menell-family-eff-question-links-to-ramaphosa/

The Urban Foundation is credited for transforming Ramaphosa from aspiring lawyer to mining magnate.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Urban_Foundation

Urban Foundation was established by people who had mining interests; Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and Clive S. Menell.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/

In August 2012, workers at the Marikana mine in Rustenburg staged a protest regarding their rights for a pay rise. After a week of demonstrations, the situation spiralled out of control, as police opened fire on the protesting miners, killing 34 of them.

At the time, Cyril [Ramaphosa] was a non-executive director of Lonmin. His company Shanduka was a minority shareholder in Lonmin, so this meant their profits were very much part of his business too.

He sent his emails on 15 August 2012, just a day before the 34 were gunned down. His choice of language -- and subsequent suggestion that then-minister of police Nathi Mthethwa would be getting involved – has always been a sticking point for his critics.

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▶ Anonymous 08/13/24 (Tue) 18:09:57 07b319 (103) No.21406275>>21455762 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

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“Total’s gas exit - PetroSA blunder loses SA R80bn investment, R100bn in lost taxes”

https://youtu.be/8MInnkm35u4

Jul 30, 2024

SA’s Government of National Unity faces a major stress test after oil major Total yesterday announced its exit from a highly prospective gas field off the Southern Cape coast. The French multinational and its partners had already invested R8bn in exploring the field, around 10% of the total investment to get a project of this size operational. JSE-listed company HCI is a 10% shareholder in the abandoned field. DA shadow minister James Lorimer has been regularly updating the BizNews community on SA’s oil and gas story. He explains to BizNews editor Alec Hogg how Total’s exit from the Brulpadda and Luiperd fields will cost the country at least R100bn in foregone tax revenues and calls for the cause - a dysfunctional PetroSA - to be urgently addressed.

https://totalenergies.com/news/press-releases/south-africa-totalenergies-exits-offshore-blocks-11b12b-and-567

Paris, July 29, 2024 - Following the decision of the partner CNRI to withdraw from Block 11B/12B, TotalEnergies also announces its withdrawal from this block, off the Southern coast of South Africa, in which its affiliate TotalEnergies EP South Africa holds a 45% interest.

TotalEnergies entered into Block 11B/12B in 2013 and made two gas discoveries, Brulpadda and Luiperd, which could however not be turned into a commercial development as it appeared to be too challenging to economically develop and monetize these gas discoveries for the South African market.

TotalEnergies has also decided to exit from offshore exploration Block 5/6/7 where TotalEnergies EP South Africa currently holds a 40% interest.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 13:34:25 7a2a98 (20) No.21415718>>21415763 >>21415951 >>21512801

>>21396897

>DA wants answers after over 5 million dockets are closed

“Farm attacks and murders are terrorism and sabotage” [Translated]

https://www.tlu.co.za/plaasaanvalle-en-moorde-is-terreur-en-sabotasie/

June 26, 2024

TLU SA declares that farm killings can no longer be considered a crime, but terrorism and sabotage.

"When a farmer and his workers, or any innocent citizen is hunted down with AK47s and R4 or R5 assault rifles and shot in cold blood, we realize that this is not ordinary crime, it is a terrorist attack and an act of sabotage against the country," says Bennie van Zyl, general manager of TLU SA.

"These incidents are not just a statistic that can be added by chance while the country's politicians in parliament are busy with egg dances for positions of authority," says Van Zyl. "Criminals and those awaiting trial bully each other to compete for a seat in the highest house of the land where this injustice against citizens has been ignored until now and has become commonplace."

The state has a constitutional responsibility to ensure the safety of its residents, financed by tax payments.

The recent attack on the farmer Francois Oosthuizen in KwaZulu-Natal, where he and two of his workers were attacked with assault rifles in their vehicle, can no longer simply be considered a crime. TLU SA asks: Is this not a war? Farmers, their families and workers can no longer carry out their duties to cultivate the land and produce food while he has to constantly look over his shoulder, knowing that at any moment, like so many of his predecessors, he will be just another victim of terrorist attack or sabotage can be Self-defense is no longer even an option because law-abiding citizens of this country are held hostage by criminals, and the SAPS' actions sometimes strengthen the criminals' hands and criminals know that they may never be found guilty.

Since 2019, the government has failed to effectively implement the National Rural Security Strategy. The serious injury of Oosthuizen, like many others, must not be dismissed as just another crime statistic. Here, a food producer was taken out of action with serious financial losses, not to mention the trauma and hospitalization that changed his entire life permanently. All this while the state remains absent.

Every commercial farmer's contribution to the nation's food supply is critical. If a farmer is eliminated, the food supply of around 2,000 people is threatened. Any responsible government will know that commercial farmers are an indispensable asset and must be protected at all costs. Food on the table is surely the greatest strategic asset of any country, and without it the country will grind to a halt.

Voters have clearly indicated that they are dissatisfied with the current government, and especially the poor security conditions. A new government of national unity will have to step in urgently, because it is unacceptable that South Africa, and specifically our farmers and their workers, suffer from security conditions.

We urgently need an effective and responsible new minister of the SAPS who will show the political will to take his task seriously, the SAPS will purge corrupt elements, including the criminals in its own ranks, ensuring that the SAPS, through effective work , now fulfills his civic responsibility by creating a safe state where citizens can live and work and that it is not this minister's job to serve an ideology or pamper crime with soft hands.

While this statement focuses on farm attacks, we recognize that crime across the country is out of control and no one is spared. The political will to address crime is largely absent. The government's constitutional responsibility to ensure crime prevention and combat has been largely absent for the past 30 years. South Africa's residents must be more purposeful from now on and consistently make their voices heard about the poor crime management of the past three decades and denounce it. Stop terror and sabotage and don't soften it to crime. This is much worse.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 13:40:19 7a2a98 (20) No.21415763>>21512801

>>21415718

>Farm attacks and murders are terrorism and sabotage

>the ANC's 25-year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive

>>21405786

>GNU ‘best tactical option’, Ramaphosa tells ANC alliance partners

>The party said it remained firmly committed to the advance of the National Democratic Revolution

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

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic#_ftnref11

20 June 2018

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

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

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

Although a key reason for targeting white farmers was ideological --the start of an offensive designed to “seize the land” from the “white colonialists” - the ANC still remained formally committed to the principle, enshrined in the Geneva conventions, that MK would not directly target white civilians.

The ANC NEC’s January 8th statement of 1986, delivered by Tambo, stated that “the charge we give to Umkhonto we Sizwe and to the masses of our people is attack, advance, give the enemy no quarter--an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!”… Tambo added that MK had also “taken the armed struggle both into the Bantustans and into the enemy rural military zones, striking blows that have worried the enemy and its puppets.” He then stated:

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

In a broadcast on Radio Freedom on 21st October 1985 the ANC… exhorted farm workers to do the following:

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

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

Dubula! Dubula! Dubula nge s'bhamu

Dubul' ibhunu

Dubula' Dubula Dubula nge s'bhamu

Mama, ndiyeke ndidubul' ibhunu

Dubula' Dubula' Dubula nge s'bhamu

Ziyareypa lezinja

Dubula! Dubula! Dubula nge s'bhamu

[Shoot! Shoot! Shoot them with a gun

Shoot the Boer

Shoot! Shoot! Shoot them with a gun

Ma, let me "shoot the Boer

Shoot! Shoot Shoot them with a gun.

These dogs rape us

Shoot shoot shoot them with a gun.]

The intention was to focus initially on capturing the state machinery - through a combination of cadre deployment and pushing out of white officials and officers - before eventually turning, in the final stage of the National Democratic Revolution, to an ultimate solution of the land question in South Africa.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 13:47:32 7a2a98 (20) No.21415804>>21422250 >>21435305 >>21435327

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“MK party replaces 18 MPs”

https://youtu.be/9crO7CvEHl8

Aug 8, 2024

Umkhonto we Sizwe party is replacing 18 of its members of the National Assembly.

The bulk of them were sworn-in less than two months ago on 25 June.

MK party's spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela says many of those who were on the list were not supposed to be there in the first place.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 14:19:26 7a2a98 (20) No.21415951

>For instance, the SAPS under Jackie Selebi introduced an Employment Equity Plan in 2000 [28] that set racial targets (50/50 at management level and 60/40 at other levels) and a 70/30 quota on recruitment at all levels. These targets were subsequently ratcheted upwards.

>>21415718

>Is this not a war?

“Anarchy in RSA; Action Society deeply concerned with criminal cases being closed without results”

https://actionsociety.co.za/anarchy-in-rsa-action-society-deeply-concerned-with-criminal-cases-being-closed-without-results/

13 August 2024

Action Society is deeply concerned with the latest revelation of unsolved crimes in South Africa. Between 2018 and 2024, 76 655 murders and 40 089 attempted murders in South Africa were closed and went unsolved; these cases were closed, placed in storage and never opened again. Rape cases that go unsolved totaled up 61 740 with unsolved sexual assault cases numbering at 5 523. The worst number was unsolved aggravated robbery cases which totaled at 256 162 and unsolved kidnapping cases coming in at 9 114.

To make matters even worse, South Africa has a shortage of 8 500 detectives and 527 voluntarily left the force from October 1 2023 to July 19 2024, making it almost impossible for these crimes to be solved.

“This is a massive issue. We have repeatedly stated that we need to stop focusing only on the poorly trained troops on the ground. But we need to ensure there are specialised personnel that can investigate these cases to the very end and bring justice to victims,” said Action Society spokesperson, Juanita du Preez.

The crime trends in South Africa keep on heading toward a state that resembles complete anarchy. It seems as though some, but definitely not all, members of our police sit with their boots on their desks, awaiting their latest paychecks while South Africans suffer and fear for their lives. There are many great cops who have a great passion for their work and are very good at it, but a rotten few give them a bad name.

“Over recent years South Africa has come to resemble a type of war zone and nobody feels safe in their homes anymore. Political appointments in police ranks have robbed the South African Police Service (SAPS) of the skills to solve crime,” said Juanita du Preez.

Much of this can be attributed to the previous minister of policies’ disastrous handling of crime and police resources in South Africa. Under his auspices, crime in South Africa went into a complete downward spiral and trust in police plummeted to an all time low with political interference coupled with an incompetent team.

“The sheer number of unsolved cases are almost unfathomable. How can things have been allowed to get this bad? However there is light at the end of the tunnel as we have a new minister of police at the helm, but he has a very big mess to clean up. We have already reached out to minister Mchunu with our suggested solutions on how we can ameliorate the crime situation in the country. We trust that he is the right man for the job and that our partnership can be fruitful and make our beautiful country safe once again for all South Africans,” concluded Juanita du Preez.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 16:11:27 7a4c61 (5) No.21416431>>21454242 >>21543498 >>21582652 >>22352777 >>22575262

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>Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance. This was simpler for the colonial authorities because there were only the chiefs to convince and not the whole tribe or community for access to resources.

>Business had to do with more than just making money -- especially in Africa and other developing countries – it had to make a real contribution to development.

>While government is busy engaging only with business people about mining, the very communities that are affected by mining activities have been left out.

Mervyn King: “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

https://youtu.be/WNV_DNM3s9E

Jun 18, 2023

https://www.mervynking.co.za/

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes.

He has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Universities of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Leeds in the UK, an honorary Doctorate from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and a honorary Doctorate in Commerce from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II, III and IV, and Chair of the Good Law Foundation.

He is Chair Emeritus of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in London and of the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years and a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris for seven years.

He is chair of the African Integrated Reporting Council and chair of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa.

He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally from the ICGN, the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance, the Indian IOD and the Regenesys Business School. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; of the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, of the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Chartered Director of South Africa.

He has been a chair, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges.

He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in over 60 countries and has received many awards from international bodies around the world including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges and the International Federation of Accountants.

He is the author of five books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being “The Auditor. Quo Vadis.”

He sits as an arbitrator and mediator internationally.

https://caribbeangovernance.org/blog/10680356

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.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 16:15:25 7a4c61 (5) No.21416446>>21416552 >>21416600 >>21422245

>GNU ‘best tactical option’, Ramaphosa tells ANC alliance partners

“DA remains ANC’s ‘guest in the GNU, not its coalition partner’: Mokonyane lashes out at Zille”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/helen-zille-comments-on-gnu-rattles-anc/

1 Aug 2024

“From the beginning, Cyril Ramaphosa came up with this notion of a government of national unity, which he thought would be a better way to sell the concept of a coalition to his own party,” said Zille.

“However, this is not a government of national unity because a GNU would bring all parties together, including the EFF and the MK party, which it did not. But it still gave the president the fig leaf he needed to attract smaller parties that said they wouldn’t be in a coalition with the DA. The truth is, we are actually in a coalition because a coalition means that if a party withdraws, the government falls.”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2024-08-02-da-remains-ancs-guest-in-the-gnu-not-its-coalition-partner-mokonyane-lashes-out-at-zille/#google_vignette

02 August 2024 - 18:14

The ANC has lashed out at DA federal council chair Helen Zille, telling her that her party remains the ANC’s guest in the government of national unity and not its coalition partner.

The GNU was conceptualised and is led by the ANC which invited other political parties to be a part of it, the party’s leaders have said.

The party called comments by Zille on the GNU reckless and not in keeping with someone who was an invited guest.

But Mokonyane, and the party’s head of election Mdumiseni Ntuli, said the situation the ANC found itself in was a result of the “will of the people” which produced electoral results that failed to give one single political party an outright majority.

“I think we have embraced the GNU and we're leading it. Of course we understand that the GNU is going to remain a very contested terrain. It's not surprising the behaviour of Helen Zille for instance. All that she does and what she says, this is going to be a contested terrain. We said this right from the onset when we were arguing that it is the ANC that has invited everybody into the GNU, including the DA,” said Ntuli.

“So at times it sounds arrogant when we say it is the ANC-led GNU, but practically and in theory it's what it meant because we conceptualised this idea, we sold it to parties. Each one of them agreed and assented to the document on the statement of intent.

“What we have accepted as the ANC is that it’s going to be a contested terrain. The opposition is not going to [lay low] including those in the GNU because everybody wants to set the agenda for this country to prepare for 2026 and 2029.” [What is planned?]

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 16:42:28 7a4c61 (5) No.21416552>>21454149 >>22552961 >>22560403

>The Urban Foundation is credited for transforming Ramaphosa from aspiring lawyer to mining magnate.

>Urban Foundation was established by people who had mining interests; Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and Clive S. Menell.

>>21416446

>the situation the ANC found itself in was a result of the “will of the people”

“Will of the People” reminds me of…

“An insider’s explanation of the difference between a “free and fair” election and a “will of the people” election--Kriegler deputy’s memoir”

[Take note; Johann Kriegler served on the Transvaal board of the Urban Foundation. Kriegler served intermittently as an acting judge between 1976 and 1983, and in 1984 he was appointed permanently as a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. [1] He was an acting judge in the Appellate Division from 1990 until 1993, when he was elevated permanently. https://wikimili.com/en/Johann_Kriegler#cite_note-:3-3]

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:

“Why would anyone want to run a free and fair election that will remove them from power? . . . Enter the election-monitoring division, whose primary job is to ensure that the election is free and fair. . . .

What constitutes a free and fair is a major issue for us. The high level of violence can have a major effect. In short, the tense situation in Bophuthatswana can jeopardize everything.

Declaring an election free and fair depends on a number of considerations, but chief among them is the ‘freedom of voters to vote in secret, free from violence and coercion’, and ‘access to secure voting stations’.

Since his appointment, Steven Friedman and his information and analysis department have been monitoring the situation closely. 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.

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 16:53:49 7a4c61 (5) No.21416600

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“Africa seeks clarity on GNU: Sophie Mokoena weighs in”

https://youtu.be/vFtBom79Ud0

Aug 9, 2024 #SABCNews

The ANC says many of its friends on the continent want clarity on the Government of National Unity.

Addressing representatives of different missions in South Africa, the ANC First Deputy Secretary General, who is also chair of Subcommittee on International Relations, Nomvula Mokonyane, sought to reassure diplomats that the country's foreign policy will not change.

0:22 -- “ANC is the oldest liberation organisation on the continent and in fact even globally. When you look at political parties, ANC is a very very formidable, well known party… The party has been there since 1912 and it has got relations particularly with socialist organisations or parties in other regions on the continent with all those parties, the former liberation organisations… Most of the political parties on the continent and the struggle was modeled or was adopted by many countries following the launch of the African National Congress after 1912. Therefore there’s so much belief and understanding that the ANC, particularly South Africa in this case, must always provide leadership on specific African issues particularly when you look at a fight to ensure that there’s total liberation, economically as well on the continent… Now Africa is saying but, hang on, will this be possible for the ANC to lead us or to make meaningful input… for total liberation or emancipation because the issue of the economy… the land question, the minerals of the continent.”

4:02 -- “Just in closing, we know the Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula, will meet his counterparts from liberation parties in the SADC region. What will be on that agenda?… He is going to try and take all these parties on board. When you look at a country like Angola and that’s what the President did yesterday when he met his counterpart from MPLA who is the President also of that country. FRELIMO in Mozambique, they will have to take the leadership on board. SWAPO, you have CCM from Tanzania, Zanu-pf and also you have Botswana and therefore he is going to take these sister parties on board but also indicate to them how they arrived at this decision and going forward, how are they going to manage this decision. But I think above all how do they hope to claw back power.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/15/24 (Thu) 16:59:27 7a4c61 (5) No.21416619

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“Nyhontso: PAC didn't sell out to GNU”

https://youtu.be/S3OZ3p_xZXE

Aug 14, 2024 #Newzroom405

Pan Africanist Congress president Mzwanele Nyhontso joins #Newzroom405's Xoli Mngambi in the studio. He's here to respond to the party's former deputy secretary general Mbuso Dlamini who rejected the party's participation in the government of national unity calling it a sell-out deal between the ANC and the DA.

Nyhontso says Dlamini is no longer a PAC member as he hasn't been renewing his membership and the party moved on without him. He also rubbishes claims that the party sold out.

"We are not participating in the GNU because we are sellouts. We were invited to come and form a government because services need to be delivered," he says.

https://sundayworld.co.za/politics/pac-lashes-party-president-nyhontso-for-joining-sell-out-gnu/

PAC deputy secretary Mbuso Dlamini came out with guns blazing this week, denouncing the participation of the party in the government of national unity (GNU).

His criticism comes after the ANC, DA, IFP, FF Plus, PAC, PA and other smaller parties formed the GNU. Dlamini stated that his party was rejecting the GNU. It was also rejecting the participation of the PAC president, Mzwanele Nyhontso, in it.

“We as the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania wish to distance ourselves from the so-called government of national unity and Mzwanele Nyhontso’s participation in it under the name of PAC, as the minister of land and rural development. PAC vehemently rejects the sell-out deal between the ANC and the DA that was made after the elections on 29 May 2024.

“To us the GNU is nothing …but a secret merger between proponents of settler colonialism and capitalism [and] their black puppets to preserve and advance their interests. They do this than put the interests of the marginalised African first,” said Dlamini.

He said the PAC was rejecting any deal that seeks to put “the oppressor and the oppressed together to govern the country.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:31:06 f136fc (9) No.21422245>>21422250 >>21435199

>>21416446

>DA remains ANC’s ‘guest in the GNU, not its coalition partner’: Mokonyane lashes out at Zille

>this is not a government of national unity because a GNU would bring all parties together, including the EFF and the MK party, which it did not

“GNU talks were on a knife-edge --- Alan Winde on how Floyd Shivambu ‘saved South Africa’”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-08-13-gnu-talks-were-on-a-knife-edge-alan-winde-on-how-floyd-shivambu-saved-south-africa/

13 Aug 2024

Describing the formation of the new government, Alan Winde, Western Cape premier and a member of the Democratic Alliance’s negotiating team in the post-election period, said the EFF and MK party were inadvertently forcing the GNU to work.

lan Winde, one of the Democratic Alliance (DA) negotiators for the Government of National Unity (GNU), has repeated DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille’s claim that EFF Deputy President Floyd Shivambu “saved South Africa” when he called for a caucus break during the first sitting of the new National Assembly, which allowed the DA and the African National Congress (ANC) to sign a coalition agreement.

Winde, who in June was sworn in as Western Cape premier for a second term, addressed the Cape Town Press Club on Tuesday about the GNU and coalitions.

He said he was asked by DA leader John Steenhuisen to be part of the coalition negotiations alongside party veterans including Zille and Siviwe Gwarube, who is now the basic education minister.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:33:01 f136fc (9) No.21422250>>21435199 >>21435305 >>21435327

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>>21415804

>MK party replaces 18 MPs

>>21422245

>GNU talks were on a knife-edge --- Alan Winde on how Floyd Shivambu ‘saved South Africa’

“WATCH | Floyd Shivambu dumps EFF for MK Party”

https://youtu.be/i-j4uRjY5Hg

Aug 15, 2024

https://www.ewn.co.za/2024/08/15/manyi-believes-mk-party-better-equipped-to-recapture-the-country

15 August 2024 | 11:48

Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) member of Parliament Mzwanele Manyi says the newly formed Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is better suited to recapture the country from what he describes as "imperialists".

Manyi and EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu announced their resignation from the EFF earlier on Thursday, as they’ve decided to join the MK Party.

He believes former president Jacob Zuma’s party is more equipped to implement land expropriation without compensation, and policies similar to those of the EFF.

When Manyi left the African Transformation Movement (ATM) to join the red berets in May last year, he praised the EFF as a well-oiled machine capable of bringing about transformation.

But having now left the EFF to join the MK Party, he has cited the same reason for his departure from the red berets.

"Exactly what I said about the EFF, multiply that by two with the MK Party. For all those reasons, MK Party is head and shoulders in terms of state of readiness to take over the country. You could see that this is a serious party with momentum."

Shivambu, who also announced his departure from the EFF, refused to disclose what influenced his crossover to the MK Party.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:38:48 f136fc (9) No.21422270>>21422276 >>21422304 >>21422340 >>21507168 >>21507508

>Jeremy Farrar, Wellcome’s Director, says: "Improving health for everyone is something no one nation, organisation or sector can do alone. It requires strong leadership and partnership across borders and sectors. We look forward to working with WHO and all its partners in a more formal capacity towards shared goals in pressing areas such as universal health care, drug-resistant infections, climate change and health and being better prepared for inevitable epidemics."

>Over the past three years, we have provided more than $8m in funding to WHO, supporting work such as the successful Ebola vaccine trials in Guinea

>>21399001

>The Wellcome Trust’s director, Sir Jeremy Farrar, is to take up the role of chief scientist at the World Health Organization next year.

Jeremy Farrar “Fighting pandemics should be funded 'like the military'”

https://www.wired.com/story/pandemic-threat-wellcome-trust-zika-ebola/

Apr 13, 2016 10:44 AM

Governments around the world need to invest in defending against pandemics such as Ebola and Zika in the same way they invest in the military, says the head of biomedical research charity the Wellcome Trust. "We spend gazillions to defend ourselves from military attacks, but from the beginning of the twentieth century far more people have died from infection. We are hugely vulnerable from a public health perspective," explains Jeremy Farrar, an expert on infectious diseases.

Funding such defences cannot be left in the hands of private companies, he argues, just as we don't expect the free market to fund aircraft carriers. "This is public health. Private pharmaceutical companies will make -- quite rightly – decisions based on potential commercial return. This has to be incentivised by governments, taxpayers and philanthropy, then industry has to be persuaded that it's in their interest. Otherwise we are leaving a potentially disastrous situation in the hands of the marketplace."

Farrar, who is speaking at WIRED Health on 29 April, described sudden outbreaks of diseases with no known vaccines or treatments as the new normal.

"We've had Ebola for the last two to three years, now Zika. Since 1998 I've been involved in about eight major epidemics including SARS and bird flu. This is the new world. These are not rare events," Farrar explains.

Diseases are more likely to spread these days because of a number of factors. Firstly, the world is more connected, which means people travel more frequently. Secondly, increasingly dense populations mean more interactions between humans and animals, where most diseases originate. Climate change also plays a role, with rising temperatures and humidity providing the perfect breeding ground for disease carriers. "With no drugs, no vaccines and no diagnostic tests, an outbreak goes from being a relatively small affair to 30,000 people," he adds, referring to Ebola in West Africa, which quickly claimed more than 11,300 lives.

Beyond the human cost, there is a massive financial cost to epidemics and pandemics, estimated at $60 billion (£42.17 billion) annually. Many of these costs fall on the private sector, through increased insurance claims and a fall in tourism. "The impacts on societies if we don't get prepared in terms of business disruption and economic loss, are huge," Farrar says.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:40:33 f136fc (9) No.21422273>>21422276 >>21435199 >>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

“Africa CDC Declares Mpox A Public Health Emergency of Continental Security, Mobilizing Resources Across the Continent”

https://africacdc.org/news-item/africa-cdc-declares-mpox-a-public-health-emergency-of-continental-security-mobilizing-resources-across-the-continent/

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 13 Aug 2024 -- The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has officially declared the ongoing Mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), marking the first such declaration by the agency since its inception in 2017.

This declaration, under Article 3, Paragraph F of the Africa CDC Statutes, empowers the organization to lead and coordinate responses to significant health emergencies. The statute mandates Africa CDC to “coordinate and support Member States in health emergency responses, particularly those declared PHECS or Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), as well as health promotion and disease prevention through health systems strengthening, addressing communicable and non-communicable diseases, environmental health, and Neglected Tropical Diseases.”

The declaration will enable the mobilization of resources across affected countries, unlocking essential funding, strengthening Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), boosting surveillance and laboratory testing efforts, and enhancing human resource capacities to respond effectively to Mpox through a One Health approach.

Africa CDC Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya emphasized the urgency of swift and decisive action: “Today, we declare this PHECS to mobilize our institutions, our collective will, and our resources to act---swiftly and decisively. This empowers us to forge new partnerships, strengthen our health systems, educate our communities, and deliver life-saving interventions where they are needed most. There is no need for travel restrictions at this time.”

https://africacdc.org/people/dr-jean-kaseya/

H.E Dr. Jean Kaseya was appointed Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC) during the thirty-sixth African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in February 2023.

Before assuming his role as Director-General of Africa CDC, Dr. Kaseya had a distinguished career, holding multiple significant roles. At the national level, Dr. Kaseya has been entrusted with significant responsibilities, contributing his expertise to the health initiatives of his home country. These roles have included serving as a Senior Adviser to President Laurent Desire Kabila at a ministerial level, where he played a vital role in shaping healthcare policies and strategies. Additionally, he has taken on roles such as the Head of Routine Immunization within the National Expanded Programme on Immunization, showcasing his dedication to enhancing healthcare delivery at the grassroots level.

On the international stage, he has worked with prominent organisations such as UNICEF, Gavi, CHAI, and the World Health Organization, where he has been instrumental in driving forward various health initiatives of continental significance. Dr. Kaseya is a devoted family man and a proud father of three daughters.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:42:36 f136fc (9) No.21422276>>21422284 >>21422304 >>21435199 >>21440018 >>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

>>21399001

>>21422270

>>21422273

“WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/who-declares-mpox-outbreaks-in-africa-a-global-health-emergency-as-a-new-form-of-the-virus-spreads/ar-AA1oQrpG

8/15/2024

The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading. Few vaccine doses are available on the continent.

Earlier this week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the mpox outbreaks were a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international help to stop the virus’ spread.

“This is something that should concern us all … The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

“We are now in a situation where (mpox) poses a risk to many more neighbors in and around central Africa,” said Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group. He said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3-4%.

https://covid19commission.org/salim-abdool-karim

Caprisa Professor for Global Health in Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health (USA)

Salim S. Abdool Karim, FRS, is a South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist widely recognized for scientific contributions to HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, and CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University, New York. He is the Chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard University, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Cornell University and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He previously served as President of the South African Medical Research Council.

Dr. Abdool Karim is ranked among the world’s most highly cited scientists by Web of Science. He serves on the Boards of several journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Global Health, Lancet HIV and mBio. He is the Chair of the UNAIDS Scientific Expert Panel and the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV. He is a member of the WHO TB-HIV Task Force.

His awards include the African Union’s “Kwame Nkrumah Award” Africa’s most prestigious scientific award and the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. He is member of the US National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:44:24 f136fc (9) No.21422284>>21422288 >>21422304 >>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

>>21422276

“Vaccine Maker Shares Soar After WHO Declares Health Emergency Over Africa Mpox Outbreak”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/vaccine-maker-shares-soar-after-who-declares-health-emergency-over-africa-mpox-outbreak/ar-AA1oQv81

8/15/2024

Shares of Danish company Bavarian Nordic jumped as much as 17% during early trading in Copenhagen on Thursday, though gains fell to around 11% as trading continued.

The rally extends a climb of around 12% from the day before, when the WHO joined Africa’s top public health body in declaring a growing mpox outbreak a public health emergency.

Bavarian Nordic is one of the only companies in the world with an approved mpox vaccine and in practice it is the only company as the shot it manufactures is the preferred choice of global health authorities by far on account of the much lower risks of negative outcomes associated with it.

Bavarian Nordic sells the vaccine under three brand names worldwide---Jynneos, Imvamune and Imvanex—and U.S.-traded shares of the company were up nearly a third (33%) during premarket trading early Thursday morning.

Shares for Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions, which acquired smallpox vaccine ACAM2000 from French pharma giant Sanofi in 2017---smallpox is related to mpox and the shot is believed to protect against it as well—had soared nearly 12% by market close on Wednesday, though shares dipped more than 3.5% during premarket trading Thursday.

Tonix Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. firm with an experimental shot in early-stage trials for horsepox with the potential for further applications to smallpox and mpox, also dipped 3.6% during premarket trading, paring gains of 2.7% from the day before.

What Treatments Are There For Mpox?

There are few specific treatments approved for mpox and many have not been extensively tested on the disease given the lack of cases. Those approved for smallpox, which was eradicated in 1980, have even less data, though the similarities between the two viruses mean therapies that work for one are likely to have at least some impact on the other. While they cannot prevent infection, therapies can help save patients, reduce symptoms and disease progression and potentially lower the risk of onward transmission. Antiviral drug tecovirimat has been approved for use against smallpox based on animal tests and while not authorized to treat mpox patients in the U.S., the drug was made available for this purpose under emergency protocols during the 2022 outbreak. The drug, marketed as Tpoxx by Siga Technologies, is still undergoing testing to be approved specifically for mpox. Siga shares were up nearly 27% at market close on Wednesday and were up more than 1% in premarket trading on Thursday.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:45:16 f136fc (9) No.21422288>>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

>>21422284

>Bavarian Nordic

“Bavarian Nordic says it can supply 10M mpox jabs by end of 2025”

https://www.politico.eu/article/bavarian-nordic-says-it-can-supply-10m-mpox-jabs-by-end-of-2025/

August 15, 2024 12:41 pm CET

The company said it is waiting to receive orders.

Bavarian Nordic can provide 10 million doses of its mpox vaccine to African countries by the end of 2025 to help them deal with the latest global public health emergency, the vaccine manufacturer’s CEO said.

“We have inventory and we have the capabilities. What we’re missing are the orders,” Paul Chaplin told Bloomberg.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said it needs 10 million doses to control the outbreak, which has spread from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to neighboring countries in recent weeks.

The Danish drugmaker and the European Commission have already donated more than 200,000 doses. Chaplin said the company has 300,000 doses ready for shipping immediately and could provide 2 million doses to Africa by the end of this year.

“We are in late August already, so it really does need some speed in the decision making to be able to do that,” he said.

Stockpiles of the vaccine are also held in other places, in preparation for future outbreaks. The European Union signed a contract for 2 million doses in November 2022 , while some countries in Europe also hold national stockpiles. The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) this month issued an order to Bavarian Nordic to replenish its stocks of the vaccine.

The World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern on Aug. 14. A more deadly strain of the virus, spreading among children and via sexual contact, is of particular concern, WHO officials said.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 14:51:19 f136fc (9) No.21422304>>21440018 >>21455762 >>22366049

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>>21422276

>Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group

>>21422270

>Ebola

>>21422284

>Vaccine Maker Shares Soar After WHO Declares Health Emergency Over Africa Mpox Outbreak

“COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic: lessons learnt for other neglected diseases and future threats”

https://gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/8/6/e011883.full.pdf

Received 29 January 2023

Accepted 9 March 2023

Authors; Peter J Hotez ,1 Sarah Gilbert,2 Melanie Saville,3 Lois Privor-Dumm ,4 Salim Abdool-Karim ,5 Didi Thompson,3 Jean-Louis Excler ,6 Jerome H Kim6

SUMMARY BOX

⇒ Based on the recent track record of successes for new Ebola and COVID-19 vaccines, accelerating next generation global health and pandemic threat vaccines will require a multidimensional approach that advances several vaccine technologies---messenger RNA, adenovirus, inactivated virus, nanoparticle and protein vaccines—simultaneously.

⇒ Low and middle-income country (LMIC) vaccine producers must be prioritised for financial and technical support early on, along with the multinational pharma companies.

⇒ These LMIC vaccine producers must be encouraged to pursue vaccines based on their existing capabilities, but also afforded opportunities to produce new technology vaccines along with support for rapid scale-up of production.

⇒ The system of stringent regulatory authorities must be extended to national regulatory authorities (NRAs) in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

⇒ Capacity building for regulatory science in LMICs is paramount.

⇒ A United Nations (UN) Pandemic Treaty and Group of 20 (G20) nations, especially the large middleincome G20 countries, should support LMIC vaccine producers and NRAs through better organised and funded initiatives.

⇒ In parallel, the UN Pandemic Treaty, G20 nations and civil societies must acknowledge the threat of rising antivaccine disinformation and its evolution into a wide-ranging and dangerous ecosystem, and seek solutions through international cooperation to combat it while maintaining or restoring trust among their populations

Attached is Salim Abdool Karim record which can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-2133 which contains employment, education, membership, service and a list of his 454 works.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 15:02:58 f136fc (9) No.21422340>>21440018 >>21455762 >>21507168 >>21526942 >>21526947 >>21526985 >>22366049

>Wellcome Trust

“WHO, Bill Gates and Wellcome Trust’s Global Vaccine Fund Lacks Transparency and Accountability”

https://expose-news.com/2022/10/11/gates-wellcome-trusts-global-vaccine-fund-lacks/

October 11, 2022

Working closely with the World Health Organisation (“WHO”), four global health organisations -- the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, The Wellcome Trust and CEPI – played a central role in creating the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator (“ACT-A”). And a consortium operated by Gavi, CEPI and UNICEF named COVAX is the vaccine pillar of ACT-A.

Throughout the spring and summer of 2020, the four global health organisations poured money into vaccine development and lobbied governments to pour money into them and their ACT-A initiative. However, from its inception, ACT-A has lacked transparency and accountability an investigation by Politico and Welt has found.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969

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.

Gavi was founded in 1999 with $750 million from the Gates Foundation to strike vaccine deals with pharmaceutical companies for low-income countries. The vast majority of its financing is made up of donations from governments. The organization focuses solely on immunization and its board is made up of multiple representatives from the global south.

In July, CEPI announced it would donate $66 million to Clover Biopharmaceuticals to help the company through its clinical trials. CEPI, Wellcome and the Gates Foundation invested up to $449 million in Oxford University --- including partnerships with the school and other companies — for vaccines. Wellcome granted $2.4 million to the Wits Health Consortium in South Africa to help with research on detecting and surveilling Covid.

Oversight and political leadership for ACT-A came through the facilitation council, a committee co-hosted by the WHO and the European Commission that included representatives from various countries, including the consortium’s co-chairs, South Africa and Norway.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 15:40:05 175e34 (38) No.21422472>>21422477

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“Namibia removes 31 countries from visa-exempt status”

https://youtu.be/JyFJ2ryWiGw

Aug 16, 2024

0:54 -- “I think the tourist industry in South Africa is watching what’s happening in Namibia and it appears that South Africa wants to follow suit on the decision to impose visa restrictions.”

“Namibia to start enforcing visa on arrival for non-reciprocal countries next year”

https://thebrief.com.na/2024/06/namibia-to-start-enforcing-visa-on-arrival-for-non-reciprocal-countries-next-year/

June 27, 2024

Namibia is set to start implementing visas on arrival for citizens of countries that have not reciprocated the country’s exemption gestures from April 1, 2025.

Visitors can apply online or obtain visas upon arrival.

This comes as last month, Namibia resolved to introduce entry visa requirements for countries that have not reciprocated its visa exemption policy.

Information, Communication and Technology Minister, Emma Theofelus, made the announcement on Thursday after Cabinet approved the move through Cabinet Decision No. 8th/21.05.24/002.

“Visa fees will be introduced with N$1,600 for non-African Union (AU) members and N$1,200 for AU members still requiring visas on arrival. Visa prices are subject to annual review based on currency exchange rates,” she said.

To streamline arrival processes, the visa on arrival form will be merged with the arrival form, and departure forms will be discontinued.

“This will allow for increased staffing at arrival counters.”

Namibia used to have visa exemptions for around 55 nations, with only 18 of those having reciprocated the exemptions.

Notably, 18 countries such as Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and others will remain unaffected by the changes, as they have reciprocal visa agreements with Namibia.

However, 31 countries could be impacted by the new visa requirements.

These include nations such as Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Uzbekistan.

The decision aims to foster equal treatment among nations regarding visa regulations.

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▶ Anonymous 08/16/24 (Fri) 15:41:01 175e34 (38) No.21422477>>21435214

>>21422472

While…

“Namibia and Botswana remove a barrier to freedom of movement, abolish the use of passports”

https://theexchange.africa/countries/namibia-botswana-abolish-passports/

One of the main initiatives of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which aims to remove barriers to Africans’ freedom of movement, employment, and residence on their continent, is the free mobility of Africans within it.

With the intention of encouraging the Member States to issue visas to improve the free movement of African nationals on the continent, the project tries to change Africa’s laws, which remain largely restrictive on the movement of people despite political vows to remove borders.

Once fully embraced by all Member States, the free movement of people within Africa is expected to have many important positive effects, including an increase in intra-African trade, commerce, and tourism; easier labour mobility; knowledge and skill sharing within Africa; the promotion of pan-African identity, social integration, and tourism; an improvement in trans-border infrastructure and shared development; the encouragement of an all-encompassing approach to border management; and the promotion of the rule of law, human rights, and shared development

Nationals of Namibia and Botswana will no longer require passports to travel between the two nations after the presidents of those nations decided to open their borders to one another.

https://publicsectormag.net/2023/02/26/namibia-botswana-abolish-passports-for-citizens-crossing-border/

February 27, 2023

National leaders of Botswana and Namibia have signed an agreement that will allow their citizens to cross the two countries’ border without passports.

Starting immediately, citizens of the two southern African countries will only be required to produce their identity cards at crossing points.

Namibian President Geingob says the move is a key step toward integration among countries of the Southern African Development Conference (SADC), and ultimately the entire continent.

“We are taking the first steps towards realization of (the) SADC Protocol on the facilitation of movement of persons, not only goods but persons,” Geingob said. “In the same vein, steps like these could form a foundation whose stepping stones may lead to the path in inspiring Africans to attain continental integration.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/18/24 (Sun) 16:44:38 bef4fa (14) No.21435199>>21435327 >>21440018

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>Floyd Shivambu

>Mpox

Is this part of the reason why they changed the virus name from monkeypox to mpox? They don’t want to have a backlash?

“Protesters trash H&M stores in South Africa over 'coolest monkey in the jungle' jumper racism row”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/protesters-trash-h-m-stores-in-south-africa-over-coolest-monkey-in-the-jungle-hoodie-racism-row-a3739406.html

16 January 2018

Shocking video shows protestor tearing down displays

South African activists have trashed a number of H&M stores in response to a recent row over a "racist" hoodie sold by the high street retailer.

Video footage shows protestors tearing down stands, knocking over mannequins and throwing clothing around at a store in the Menlyn Park store, in Pretoria.

Police resorted to using rubber bullets on protests, as violent action reportedly spread to at least six shopping centres throughout the country after H&M apologised for using an image of a black child modelling a hoodie with the slogan “coolest monkey in the jungle”.

Floyd Shivambu, a spokesman for the socialist Economic Freedom Fighters party, praised the action on Twitter, claiming H&M was "facing consequences for its racism".

He wrote: "The [H&M] nonsense of a clothing store is now facing consequences for its racism…

"Well done to Fighters who physically confronted racism."

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▶ Anonymous 08/18/24 (Sun) 16:48:23 bef4fa (14) No.21435214>>21435296

>>21422477

>One of the main initiatives of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which aims to remove barriers to Africans’ freedom of movement, employment, and residence on their continent, is the free mobility of Africans within it.

People prefer ‘apartheid’

“Miss SA xenophobia controversy sparks tribalism debate”

https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/style-beauty/miss-sa-xenophobia-controversy-sparks-tribalism-debate-5a5f67a4-3899-48bd-863f-480b7779b353#google_vignette

Published Aug 5, 2024

The 2024 pageant stirred controversy when finalist, Chidimma Adetshina faced xenophobia after it was discovered that she has a South African mother who is of Mozambican descent and a Nigerian father.

The xenophobic backlash began on social media, with critics questioning her citizenship status and her right to represent South Africa in the pageant, arguing that only South African born individuals should compete.

These views reflect the broader xenophobic attitudes in South Africa, where immigrants are often blamed for various social and economic problems. Adetshina’s experience identifies the difficulties immigrants face in being fully accepted, even when they hold legal status and contribute positively to the country.

Furthermore, the impact of xenophobia on the Miss South Africa pageant has led to a conversation about tribalism.

Tribalism is when one strongly identifies with a specific group like a tribe or ethnic community, prioritising the interests and needs of that specific group over others, which leads to exclusion or conflict with other groups.

https://www.arise.tv/updates-on-chidimma-adetshinas-citizenship-status-to-be-provided-through-parliament-says-south-africa-home-affairs-minister/

17:04, 16th Aug, 2024

South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, has said that the investigation into the citizenship status of Chidimma Adetshina is “active and ongoing”, and updates will be provided only through official channels, including in Parliament.

Schreiber confirmed this on Thursday while addressing news surrounding Adetshina, who was forced to withdraw from the Miss South Africa competition amidst backlash and accusations of not being South African.

Adetshina then decided to step back from the competition for her family’s safety, although she remains a figure of public interest as the investigation continues.

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▶ Anonymous 08/18/24 (Sun) 17:03:28 bef4fa (14) No.21435296>>21439918

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>>21435214

>Miss SA xenophobia controversy sparks tribalism debate

>Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance.

>The Urban Foundation is credited for transforming Ramaphosa from aspiring lawyer to mining magnate.

>In 1993 and 1994 Slabbert and Boraine stepped down from leadership of Idasa. Slabbert took on an organizing role in the new Open Society Foundation, funded by the democracy philanthropist George Soros.

>The ANC retained the positions of president (Cyril Ramaphosa)

>Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.

https://ourconstitution.wethepeoplesa.org/cyril-matamela-ramaphosa/

Cyril Ramaphosa: Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly that was responsible for drafting the democratic constitution.

The South Africa’s citizens were not involved in the drafting of its constitution.

George Orwell: 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'

“Miss SA Controversy | SAHRC warns against xenophobic comments about Chidimma Adetshina”

https://youtu.be/BaUkYK6GB6o

Jul 31, 2024 #SABCNews

Let's take you back to our top story now; a petition has emerged calling for the disqualification of Chidimma Onwe Adetshina from the Miss South Africa pageant.

Adetshina, a 23-year-old beauty queen, was born to a Nigerian father.

To speak more on this, let's welcome Sandra Makoasha South African Human Rights Commission Commissioner.

1:07 -- “It’s also important and we note and warn members of the public against sexist, xenophobic and racist comments which fall foul of the Constitution as well as the equity act especially the prevention of unfair discrimination. We also would like to encourage members of the public to adhere to the South African Social Media Charter which is a great document for guiding them in these type of actions.”

4:53 -- “We are hearing within this particular instance that a lot of concern also leveled at the fact that black on black hate is still very much prominent amongst our communities.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/18/24 (Sun) 17:05:45 bef4fa (14) No.21435305>>21435327 >>21455773 >>22366061

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>>21415804

>>21422250

The drama continues…

“MK founder spills the beans, unmasks Zuma’s real agenda…”

https://youtu.be/tph33-OaLKw

Aug 17, 2024

The real founder of the MK Party, Jabulani Khumalo, is laying criminal charges against former President Jacob Zuma. In this interview with BizNews, he describes how a discovery during the past week has left him no choice. “So this will be the second case of fraud against President Jacob Zuma and his family because he is doing this because he thinks he's a God of South Africa or of the world, I don't know.” Khumalo goes on to reveal how MK has been hijacked by Zuma's cronies. “So I'm thinking that Zuma is now creating a cabal that is going to finish the country. Because if you put corrupt people together, what are you bringing? What are you doing?” Khumalo tells the full story of the founding of MK, how Zuma became involved, and how he reneged on a deal not to bring in “tainted” people. “…he agreed that if Umkhonto we Sizwe wants to move forward, we should be using people with good names, people who would want to work for the community, people who are clean, who are not going to cause us problems with all these corruption cases…But as we moved on, he brought in his daughter…his daughter started to be crazy and started making lots of problems within the organisation…I never registered (MK) for Zuma's cronies to come back and fight the State, to continue where they started looting.” As for Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu joining MK, he says: “I don't believe - even in my sleep - that Floyd and (CIC Julius) Malema will ever be split. This could be orchestrated for us to be fooled and to lose the MK without knowing.”

5:07 -- “We had an agreement with [Jacob Zuma]. The first agreement was that in uMkhonto we Sizwe we don’t want people… whose name are in the State Capture, whose name is being announced on certain corruptions. We don’t want those people.” [Is Zuma not guilty of this?]

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▶ Anonymous 08/18/24 (Sun) 17:08:44 bef4fa (14) No.21435327>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

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Is Floyd in the MK to spread the EFF ideology?

“EFF expands to neighbouring African countries”

https://youtu.be/rmMM33W8-Ag

Aug 18, 2024

The EFF has expanded its footprint to neighbouring countries such as Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Eswatini. EFF Zimbabwe leader Innocent Ndibali and Eswatini leader Nombulelo Motsa speak to Aldrin Sampear about the resignation of the former president, Floyd Shivambu.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:38:34 175e34 (38) No.21439726>>21439750 >>21439790 >>21439801 >>21439819 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

“South Africa on the edge over political ‘assassinations’”

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/south-africa-on-the-edge-over-political-assassinations--4725202

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

South African politicians have become targets of assassination in recent months, throwing the country’s leadership on the edge.

The latest victim, Moshe Mphahlele, was the Johannesburg regional leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the opposition movement led by firebrand Julius Malema. He was shot dead in Gauteng, the metropolitan region that covers Johannesburg, during a protest on August 3.

The assassination of Mr Mphahlele adds to the list of political figures who have been brutally silenced.

The motive or even the killers remain unknown but EFF leader Julius Malema alleged that those responsible for the death of the party’s regional deputy secretary returned to the scene to “contaminate” it.

Leading up the May 2024 elections, South Africa saw a significant increase in assassinations, with a total of 40 recorded since the previous years. These attacks predominantly targeted local officials, politicians, and activists.

Moreover, there were 35 assassinations in the first four months of 2024, including 10 targeting politicians, averaging approximately one hit every two weeks.

This is according to information provided by Rumbidzai Matamba, an analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, who has been conducting research on assassinations in South Africa.

Ms Matamba’s 2024 report, co-authored with researcher Chwayita Thobela, highlights a total of 488 politically motivated assassinations that occurred between 2000 and 2023. The report defines “political assassinations” as the deliberate killing of politicians, councillars, public servants, administrators, political activists, whistleblowers, and other members of civil society for ideological or strategic reasons.

Ms Matamba believes ANC members have been the primary targets of political assassinations. “The significance of the ANC’s factional politics is that the overwhelming majority of the cases in the GI-TOC database were killing of ANC members, mostly commissioned by other ANC members, making it largely an intraparty problem, while an average of just two cases per year involved other political parties,” she said.

South Africa has experienced a concerning increase in politically motivated violence, with the number of politically-linked assassinations steadily rising since 2010. According to the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, 31 political assassinations were recorded in 2023.

It was noted that violence tended to increase following national elections in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019, leading to a surge in killings.

“It’s the paid assassins who are arrested, not those who plan, those who pay,” said Thami Ntuli, chairman of the South African Local Government Association.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:43:34 175e34 (38) No.21439750>>21439790 >>21439801 >>21439819 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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>>21439726

>Ms Matamba’s 2024 report, co-authored with researcher Chwayita Thobela

“The Politics of Murder: Criminal Governance and Targeted Killings in South Africa”

https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rumbi-Matamba-Chwayita-Thobela-The-politics-of-murder-Criminal-governance-and-targeted-killings-in-SA-GI-TOC-May-2024.pdf

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MAY 2024

Over the past decade, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has documented a staggering 108% increase in targeted killings in South Africa, as observed through its South Africa Organized Crime Observatory (SA-Obs).1

South Africa has a history of political violence. Political killings in South Africa can be seen as a function of criminal governance in the country.

The hitmen behind South Africa’s contract killings have become more daring, incidents more public and victims more high-profile. The masterminds and the hitmen who carry out their orders appear to be emboldened by the minimal repercussions of their actions and the dwindling public outcry, as the sheer frequency of events diminishes the impact of individual tragedies. Contract killers also seem to show little regard for the collateral consequences of their actions, carrying out assassinations in the presence of children, as in the recent killing of Rand Water executive Teboho Joala,3 and turning churches and restaurants into crime scenes. Coupled with the deficiencies in South Africa’s overburdened criminal justice system, where only about 15% of all murders are solved, the picture that emerges is one of a situation that is barely contained.4

The personal impact of these killings on individuals, families and communities is of course incalculable, but politically motivated assassinations have a particularly detrimental effect on governance and democracy, with violence used as a means of silencing opponents, controlling the struggle for succession, infiltrating local governance and influencing political outcomes.7 Understanding this impact is particularly critical in the context of South Africa’s 2024 general elections.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:51:17 175e34 (38) No.21439790>>21439801 >>21439819 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

>>21439726

>>21439750

>only about 15% of all murders are solved

“Six men shot and killed in uMlazi”: "some of the weapons were from leftover arms caches from the unrest in the early 1990s, while others were obtained through thefts from law-enforcement authorities"

https://www.iol.co.za/news/six-men-shot-and-killed-in-umlazi-0238a0e7-ebaa-4310-a66f-d369e64c61b8

Published Aug 18, 2024

On Saturday night six men were killed in an informal settlement in Section V6 in uMlazi, south west of Durban.

In November last year, following another mass shooting, financial and organised crime investigator from IRS Forensic Investigations South Africa, Chad Thomas, said the main reasons for mass shootings in the province was the easy proliferation of weapons.

He said some of the weapons were from leftover arms caches from the unrest in the early 1990s, while others were obtained through thefts from law-enforcement authorities.

“KZN has a culture of violence and it has become very easy to settle scores through murder for hire,” said Thomas, adding that we were living at a time where accountability was at a low and perpetrators believed that there would be no consequences for their actions.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:52:09 175e34 (38) No.21439801>>21439819 >>21440220 >>21447299 >>21447329 >>21447333 >>21447349 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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>>21439726

>>21439750

>>21439790

“Businesses in Mthatha close down due to alleged extortion”: “We find out everybody is in fear”

https://youtu.be/Y4Ib9ifBhpc

Aug 19, 2024

There are growing concerns about businesses closing down in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape due to alleged extortion. President of the Eastern Cape Chamber of Business Vuyisile Ntlabathi says it's hard for victims to come forward because their lives are in danger.

4:56 -- “There’s a huge network of these criminals and they have infiltrated the police service big time.”

5:31 -- “It started when there was this big, huge illegal occupation of the government buildings. It actually started there. Now it has escalated. Even then, there were police officials that were involved. So it’s huge… so much damage has happened and the police is highly infiltrated… people have no confidence with the local police.”

7:17 -- “Those guys are heartless. What they want is money and they shoot to kill. You can imagine the types of guns they are wielding here around town which we cannot even find them when you see the President[‘s]… VIP protection wielding that kind of guns here. They’ve got the high power guns… I don’t know whether they’re licensed to do that but they display that in public. We find out everybody is in fear.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:53:44 175e34 (38) No.21439810>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

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“Govt accused of awarding security tenders to non-compliant companies”

https://youtu.be/kxzi0InM16U

Aug 18, 2024

Members of the South African Cleaners Security and Allied Workers Union have been camping outside the Gauteng Health Department for over 12 weeks, after a security company contracted to the department dismissed them. The company allegedly deducted UIF from employees, but never made contributions. Union General Secretary, Andries Potsane, claims the government is awarding these security tenders to non-compliant companies.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:54:45 175e34 (38) No.21439819>>21439861

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“South Africa -- The Deadliest Country in the World!”

https://youtu.be/8_JgAHdyaxU [Embedded]

Jul 26, 2024

Lions, gun battles, disease, murders! I survived them all, but how?

0:12 -- “Growing up in South Africa was an exercise in survival. There’s a reason I’ll never go back to South Africa.”

14:50 -- “I’ve had friends murdered in South Africa… The most devastating was somebody I grew up with, a young girl who was a like a little sister to me and it really sucked a lot because I kind of knew this was coming. I knew she was having trouble with a stalker in South Africa, an ex-boyfriend who was a stalker. Somebody that she’d been dating and you know there’s a big cultural… difference because he was quite traditional African culture and she was from the Netherlands. She grew up in South Africa, she was South African but her family was from the Netherlands… She didn’t really quite understand how traditional African culture can be sometimes. The fact of the matter… they broke up and he was doing that whole ‘no one else is allowed to have you if I can’t have you’ type… of nonsense. When I met her in China, she came for a wedding and I was there… I warned not to go back. I said, “Listen this sounds dangerous, this sounds bad. Don’t go back to South Africa. Stay here in China or go to Europe.” But she went back and two weeks later she was murdered in a very horrific way by this stalker.”

“My Mom was Kidnapped at Gunpoint!”

https://youtu.be/lVNu-tJR0dg

Aug 5, 2021

“Rescued from a Murderer! How My Dad Saved my Mom!”

https://youtu.be/5-nVweRrz2k

Aug 11, 2021

Few of the messages posted below his video;

@Clark_Kent_ZA

Black South African and serpentza is spot on. Every member of my family has been robbed. I was robbed at knife point, experienced a break-in and nearly got hijacked by fake police.

@stephanterblanche4597

South African here. Survived 4 attempted hijackings, one home invasion (beaten to a pulp), a shootout when the restaurant I was eating at was robbed, 3 explosions (during apartheid when the ANC's terrorism campaign was in full force). Lost a colleague who was robbed in his house and hacked to death with an axe.

@wifegrant

The day before I immigrated to the US, there was a armored truck robbery by the bank I was at. The guy at the ATM next to me was shot in the leg. In the 90's, we had multiple farm attacks on our farm. My parents would sit at the windows in the dark house and shoot at the people shooting at our house with AK's. We hid under our beds as kids whenever that happened. It happened a few times. Twice they shot at our house after putting our fields on fire. I've seen bodies twice while walking to school in the morning too. Our neighbors were murdered. The wife was "assaulted" and they both were decapitated with barbed wire.

@michaellawson6533

I lost 13 friends and acquaintances in 9 years through murder. I got away twice. Burgled 6 times in 2 years, lost 300 beehives to political arsonists and finally left South Africa. Glad to be in a safer place now.

@capet5593

My family and relatives have been carjacked, home envisioned, attacked, robbed at gunpoint, shot at. You will always know someone in your circle where this has happened. Winston is not exaggerating.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 12:59:08 175e34 (38) No.21439861>>21454006 >>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

>>21439819

>She didn’t really quite understand how traditional African culture can be sometimes. The fact of the matter… they broke up and he was doing that whole ‘no one else is allowed to have you if I can’t have you’ type… of nonsense

>Status in the Zulu kingdom was measured by the number of wives and cattle in an individual's possession.

Women/girls are regarded as possessions in Africa

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10091185/

Gender-based violence -- An increasing epidemic in South Africa

South Africa is considered to be the rape capital of the world with 10 818 rape cases reported in the first quarter of 2022.1 The rate at which women are killed by intimate partners in this country is five times higher than the global average.2 Gender-based violence (GBV), a widespread and common occurrence in SA, is deeply ingrained in homes, workplaces, cultures and traditions.

Why is GBV so prevalent in South Africa? Is it because of the way males are brought up to exert power and control over vulnerable women? South Africa is well known as a very patriarchal country and many cultural and traditional events and activities entrench this patriarchal behaviour reinforcing power over women… The issue of consent is blurred with Lobola where many wrongly assume that the woman now belongs to a man (a possession that he can use as he pleases).

https://briefly.co.za/37583-all-details-lobola-what-lobola-lobola-letter-sample-wear-ceremony-more.html

Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 4:15 PM

Did you know lobola and lobolo mean the same thing in South Africa?

Lobolo or lobola is practised in the Swazi, Zulu, Silozi, Xhosa, Shona, Ndebele, and other South African communities. During a lobola ceremony, bridewealth or bride price is paid to the bride's family.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060788/

In some African countries, for example South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, D.R.Congo, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Lesotho, the tradition of paying lobola or a “bride price” is very common.

https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/domestic-violence-in-south-africa/

In the rural communities of South Africa, girls as young as twelve enter into forced marriages with older men (see Mwambene and Sloth-Nielsen, 2011). The perceived financial gains from Lobola (the bride price) encourages parents to marry off their daughters at an early age, undermining their human rights (Sibanda, 2011).

https://www.mewc.org/index.php/gender-issues/human-rights-of-women/2534-zimbabwe-girl-married-off-at-14-her-father-paid-70-as-lobola

ZIMBABWE: Girl Married Off at 14: Her Father Paid $70 as Lobola

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Marange who was married off to a geriatric member of the largest polygamist Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect --- but was lucky to escape, this week bared her soul and exposed the torturous abuse she encountered at the hands of the churchman and her own father.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 13:06:39 175e34 (38) No.21439918>>21439991 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

>>21435296

>black on black hate is still very much prominent amongst our communities

>While government is busy engaging only with business people about mining, the very communities that are affected by mining activities have been left out.

It has been brewing for a long time.

“The real black-on-black violence in South Africa”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2015/04/20/the-real-black-on-black-violence-in-south-africa/

20th April 2015

Foreign nationals have become collateral damage in a standoff between the ANC and the masses.

On Thursday 16 April, a peace march was organised by the South African government and various NGOs against recent attacks by local South Africans on mainly black foreign nationals. This trumped-up PR exercise was met with an opposing march by local protesters, one of whom was quoted as saying: ‘Our government doesn’t listen to us, and that’s why we’re doing this.’ Police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse counter-protesters and several arrests were made.

Attacks on foreigners erupted in Durban over the Easter period. To date, seven lives have been lost and over 1,000 foreign nationals have been driven out to makeshift camps in sports grounds near the South Africa Indian suburbs of Chatsworth and Isipingo. It is commonly thought that the violence broke out because of inflammatory remarks made by the Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelithini, three weeks ago. But, in reality, anti-foreigner sentiment has been simmering in South Africa over a much longer period.

Back in 2008, after the killing of 62 foreign nationals during a wave of violence, then president Thabo Mbeki said South Africa ‘bowed its head in shame’. He promised that he would do everything in his power to prevent similar attacks in the future. However, attacks on black foreign nationals have continued over the intervening years. Three months ago, Soweto erupted into violence after a Somali shopkeeper shot dead a young South African boy who was trying to steal from his shop. The current violence appears to have been sparked by a similar incident in Durban.

Black-on-black violence was one of the hallmarks of the Apartheid era, and was thought then to have been provoked by the white nationalist government in order to undermine the anti-Apartheid African National Congress (ANC). But what is motivating the new wave of black-on-black violence? [It never ended]

The media and the NGOs accuse the locals of xenophobia, or, more recently, ‘Afrophobia’, as the targets are mainly foreign nationals from other African countries.

Migrants and refugees, fleeing their own wartorn and poverty-stricken countries, have poured into already overcrowded settlements and are competing with the locals for scarce employment opportunities. To make matters worse, most grassroots organisations were closed down after the ANC came to power in 1994, meaning today there is no forum in which these issues can be properly debated or resolved.

After all, while foreign nationals have been waiting for a government response to their plight for the past three weeks, native South Africans have been sidelined and ignored by the ANC for most of the party’s 21-year reign. With no alternative, with no viable political opposition to vote for, some have lashed out. The resulting violence is best understood as a desperate bid on the part of South Africa’s ignored masses to be heard.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 13:17:44 175e34 (38) No.21439991>>21455786 >>22364905 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22601208 >>22632198 >>22651676

>>21439918

>On Thursday 16 April, a peace march was organised by the South African government and various NGOs against recent attacks by local South Africans on mainly black foreign nationals.

>GNU

>Tutu chaired the TRC. [Alex] Boraine served as the vice chair.

NGOs became ‘Now Government Officials’ in the ‘new’ South Africa: “NGOs shifted their attention to policy research, first for the ANC and subsequently for the Government of National Unity” [1999]

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/south_africa_anti-apartheid_ngos_in_tran.pdf

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 10, No. 1,1999

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. Nonetheless, although prime responsibility for reconstruction rests with the state, it has been acknowledged that "irrespective of how much a government may regard itself as being a 'people's government,' implementation of its programme and projects, without participation of the civil society, will tend towards a top-down approach, with its inherent disadvantages" (Currin, 1993, p. 168). Accordingly, the value of NGOs concerned with people-centered development, socioeconomic upliftment, and service delivery has been recognized. Beyond this, NGOs that have turned to playing the part of watchdog over democratic practices have been supported by a range of donors (such as the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]) concerned about strengthening civil society through "democracy and governance" programs (consider Clayton, 1996).

Overall, there has been a move to develop carefully constructed programs and projects (often demand driven) and to address policy issues. During the 1990s, as the transition unfolded, a number of NGOs shifted their attention to policy research, first for the ANC and subsequently for the Government of National Unity (see Kraak, 1995). In particular, there has been much concern about land issues, labor reforms, what the post-apartheid social services (health, education, safety, and security) should look like, and with the structure of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 13:21:12 175e34 (38) No.21440018>>21440022 >>21440042 >>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

>>21422276

>>21422304

>Salim Abdool Karim

>>21422340

>“WHO, Bill Gates and Wellcome Trust’s Global Vaccine Fund Lacks Transparency and Accountability”

>>21435199

“Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown” -- Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/mpox-brace-yourself-for-another-lockdown-7e74652d-420a-4fe6-92ac-ea9f6d45176e

Monday, August 19, 2024

The dreaded Professor Salim Karim has resurfaced on the public stage, the Lockdown is on the horizon.

The Bill Gates funded Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has this week declared Monkey-Pox (MPox) as a public health emergency.

Africa CDC Director General Dr Jean Kaseya said: ‘Today, we declare this PHECS to mobilize our institutions, our collective will, and our resources to act---swiftly and decisively.

This empowers us to forge new partnerships, strengthen our health systems, educate our communities, and deliver life-saving interventions where they are needed most. There is no need for travel restrictions at this time.’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) followed suit declaring Monkey-Pox a public health emergency of international concern, ‘new sexually transmissible strain of the monkeypox virus, is an emergency, not only for Africa, but for the entire globe’.

One wonders if Monkey-Pox as a public health emergency on the African continent, is a play on words, considering that many disparagingly refer to us Africans as monkeys.

To add insult to injury, the MPox is allegedly sexually transmitted, the same claim as with HIV -- AIDS. When will we Africans stop being portrayed as the wretched of the Earth!

Let’s not forget the Small-Pox outbreak falsely attributed to dirty blankets and which wiped out almost the entire population of the Khoi in the Western Cape province of South Africa and paved the way for the colonisation of the Cape.

I fear that this ‘public health emergency’ will soon morph into a National State of Disaster, plunging the entire country into yet another Lockdown, at the whims and mercy of the ‘expertise’ of Prof Karim. During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Prof Karim played a pivotal role as Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19.

I requested Prof Karim to appear in court and produce (within 14 days) an isolated and purified physical sample of the SARS Cov-2 virus (not a culture isolate or any mixture within which the supposed virus is, nor photograph or the RNA-sequence only) to me at a place and with security measures of his choice.

I was flabbergasted to learn that Prof Karim informed my attorney that he (Karim) does not work in that position anymore, and that we should not request such information from him nor from the President, according to him such a request should rather be directed only to Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the then Minister of COGTA.

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 13:21:57 175e34 (38) No.21440022>>21440042 >>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

>>21440018

“Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown” -- Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/mpox-brace-yourself-for-another-lockdown-7e74652d-420a-4fe6-92ac-ea9f6d45176e

Monday, August 19, 2024

The Lockdown means the suspension of constitutional democracy and the Bill of Rights. The 2020 Lockdown turned this country into an open-air prison ruled by dictate, where ‘effective midnight tonight’ was Ramaphosa’s favourite despotic refrain!

Lockdown is a prison term, meaning confining prisoners to their jail-cells, however, it has recently been commandeered as a term for a public health emergency.

The Covid-19 vaccine roll-out was a mass public medical experiment, the like of which has never been conducted before. There are many reports of Covid- 19 vaccine injuries.

Surely, these necessitate an independent public investigation, a commission of inquiry akin to the Zondo-Commission before we plunge into another Lockdown and mass vaccinations.

The Gates Foundation is heavily invested in the vaccine industry, which is always the go-to treatment for any so-called virus outbreak, hence a vaccination drive for Mpox is sure to follow.

Prof Karim is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- need I say more? [https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/scientific-advisory-committee ]

Believe it or not, SARS-Cov-2 virus has not been proven to exist. On Feb. 16, 2016, the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in Germany, in a dispute between two virologists on the existence of the Measles Virus, ruled that the methods employed to determine whether the virus exists or not, were invalid.

The method that virologists use to prove the existence of viruses, are what they refer to as cell- culture. The technique roughly works as follows - a swab is taken from a suspected infected person, then placed in monkey kidney cells amongst other chemicals.

When there is a reaction, usually the cell dies, that reaction is attributed to the presence of the said virus. The problem with this experiment is how do you discount the probability that the effect or reaction was not caused by the other elements. Where is the experiment where only the so-called virus is present?

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 13:24:53 175e34 (38) No.21440042>>21455762 >>21502802 >>22366049

>>21440018

>>21440022

“Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown” -- Part 3

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/mpox-brace-yourself-for-another-lockdown-7e74652d-420a-4fe6-92ac-ea9f6d45176e

Monday, August 19, 2024

People often ask, ‘if you say that there might not be a virus, then why are people dying or getting sick’? Sickness and or death is not proof of the existence of a virus, thus the need for medical and post-mortem investigations. There are many different causes of sickness and death, it is not just viruses.

The Lockdown was accompanied by an aggressive media campaign, which influenced public perceptions.

I personally took a case to court under the slogan ‘Show Us The Virus’ , as mentioned above, to this day no proof was ever produced; the court, instead, dismissed the case with punitive costs orders against me - for daring to ask such a question; without compelling Ramaphosa, the Minister of Health and Prof Salim Karim to provide proof of the virus they claimed to exist.

‘He who makes a claim should prove it!’ This simple legal maxim was violated when the courts ruled against me!

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 13:51:37 175e34 (38) No.21440220>>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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>It started when there was this big, huge illegal occupation of the government buildings. It actually started there. Now it has escalated. Even then, there were police officials that were involved. So it’s huge… so much damage has happened and the police is highly infiltrated… people have no confidence with the local police.

“KZN Shootout I Police officer among KZN robbery suspects: Colonel Netshiunda”

https://youtu.be/SKZw6Q4Ovzw

Aug 19, 2024 #SABCNews

KwaZulu-Natal police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has expressed concern over the use of police uniforms to commit crimes. This follows a shootout in Lindelani, Durban, yesterday, where suspects dressed in police uniforms were involved in a confrontation with the police. The incident resulted in three fatalities, including an on-duty police sergeant from Kwa-Mashu Police Station. Three suspects are still on the run. The suspects were linked to an earlier robbery in Richmond Farm. For more on this, we're joined by KwaZulu-Natal SAPS Spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda.

2:00 -- “We have had incidents where people were robbed by people masquerading as police officers but in this case, there were real police officers with real police uniform because one of those who were wounded was a sergeant working at Kwa-Mashu Police Station who was on nightshift duty on Saturday night then instead of going home to rest, he joined his gang for an armed robbery. It is concerning that we’ve got police officers who are working with criminals. So that defeats the purpose that maybe some of the operations we plan are known by criminals before we can execute them. Simply because they’ve got their friends in the force.”

6:38 -- “It emerged of course that amongst those fatally wounded in a shootout in the province was in fact an on duty officer. Raising all manner of questions around the extent to which officers themselves may very well be involved in the proliferation of crime in places like KZN.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 14:31:17 175e34 (38) No.21440497>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

“South Africa’s state capture database disaster”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/555961-south-africas-state-capture-database-disaster.html

18.08.2024

Anonymous sources have rubbished claims that investigators can’t access Zondo Commission evidence due to a technical problem with a database, alleging they are being actively blocked from seeing the information.

This is according to Rapport, which cited sources with insider knowledge of the work conducted by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and its specialist anti-corruption Investigating Directorate.

It follows a News24 report last week that evidence stored in the database had become inaccessible due to a “lack of maintenance”.

For two years, the NPA and its Investigating Directorate (ID) have been begging the Ministry of Justice for full access to the database.

However, the NPA said an expert who worked for the Zondo Commission told them the data was no longer accessible due to lack of maintenance.

According to Rapport’s report, the NPA and ID struggled to get their requests for evidence attended to even while the database was accessible.

Some requests were never handled, while others took weeks or months to get a result. Information that was eventually handed over was often filtered, one source told the paper.

Losing access to the data entirely raises questions about future prosecutions of individuals and institutions who were implicated in state capture.

The NPA said the justice ministry is now procuring another provider’s services to restart access. The ID has also sought the services of experts to help the NPA regain access to the evidence.

By December 2020, the commission said it had collected an exabyte (one billion gigabytes) of data.

It had issued 2,736 summons and interviewed 278 witnesses, generating 51,669 pages of recorded transcripts, and collected 159,109 pages of affidavits and other evidence exhibits

According to the commission’s website, the inquiry cost the taxpayer almost R1 billion --- far more than any prior South African judicial inquiry.

This is not the first time this year that technical problems have been blamed for the loss of crucial evidence.

In February, the ANC said a broken laptop was to blame for failing to hand over records and documents relating to its cadre deployment committee meetings between 2012 and 2018.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the laptop of an official in the deputy secretary’s office had crashed in June and that he had deleted emails that likely contained data over the year

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▶ Anonymous 08/19/24 (Mon) 16:41:03 175e34 (38) No.21441292>>21453449 >>21455773 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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There is a cover-up.

“[BREAKING NEWS] White River Raid | State withdraws criminal case against 95 Libyan nationals”

https://youtu.be/JBnlbRc356A

Aug 15, 2024

0:46 -- “[These 95 men were] quite upbeat. They knew that this was going to be happening this morning here in court.”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/actionsa-disappointed-over-withdrawal-of-charges-against-95-libyans/

16 August 2024, 10:22

Action SA has expressed concern on the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) decision to withdraw the charges against 95 Libyan nationals.

They are now set to be deported to Libya.

Party leader Herman Mashaba says the NPA has failed South Africans.

“Our court system should have really established the identities of each and every one of them to understand why they’ve decided to come and do military training in South Africa, what were they aiming to do.

“So for us as South Africans now all of a sudden no one is telling us why these people contravened our immigration laws, why were these people doing military training on the grounds of SA. And our government just decided to send them back to Libya. And I think we’ve got to be really careful and question this as SA,” he adds.

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-08-16-many-questions-remain-unanswered-after-charges-against-libyans-are-withdrawn/

16 August 2024 - 06:00

However, here are some of the questions the NPA has not answered about this:

• What representations did the lawyer make that formed the basis of the NPA's decision to withdraw the charges?

• If the NPA says there was no prospect of successful prosecution in the matter of the Libyans and there was not enough evidence, on what basis handing over the suspects to Home Affairs?

• What does this withdrawal mean for the investigation against other people who were part of the alleged illegal activities discovered at the camp?

• Why did the NPA decide to withdraw the case rather than allow the court process to conclude even if it led to deportation?

• On what basis are the police investigating other individuals involved in the camp if the NPA insists there was no crime committed?

• What made the NPA come to the conclusion that there was no prospect of success when it had right at the beginning believed that there was a misrepresentation by the Libyans?

Before magistrate Eddie Hall granted the request by the state to withdraw the charge, officials from the department of home affairs came inside court with large files in boxes containing the names of the 95 men while the court was in session.

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▶ Anonymous 08/20/24 (Tue) 12:54:55 7a2a98 (20) No.21447299>>21447329 >>21447333 >>21447349

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“Businesses in Mthatha shut down due to extortion”

https://youtu.be/j3oX2CYeOaM

Aug 20, 2024

There are growing concerns as businesses in Mthatha, Eastern Cape are forced to shut their doors due to extortion. A well-known medical practice had to permanently close due to criminal activities in the town. Newzroom Afrika's Ntsiki Nohiya has more.

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▶ Anonymous 08/20/24 (Tue) 13:01:12 7a2a98 (20) No.21447329>>21447333 >>21447344 >>21447349

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>>21447299

“EXTRA: Extortion City with Randolf Jorberg | Carte Blanche | M-Net”

https://youtu.be/LNwDLpT67Cg

Aug 8, 2024 #carteblanche #nightlife #southafrica

It was a murder that outraged regulars at a popular night spot on Cape Town's Long Street; a senseless killing meant as a message for the owner and a reminder of the violence of those demanding protection money. In 2015, former Beerhouse owner, Randolf Jorberg, paid his last respects to a trusted doorman and finally gave in to the demands of the extortionists. But after living with a deep sense of injustice, he sat down with Govan Whittles to finally give a detailed account of what led to his doorman's death, and how Cape Town's underworld continues to operate.

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▶ Anonymous 08/20/24 (Tue) 13:02:25 7a2a98 (20) No.21447333>>21447344 >>21447349

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>>21447299

>>21447329

“Killings in Khayelitsha | Carte Blanche | M-Net”

https://youtu.be/5Y_H0okb3cM

Aug 19, 2024 #carteblanche #southafrica #news

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟴 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.

In June this year, four-year-old Enzokuhle Dladlu was playing outside on the street in Khayelitsha when four gunmen entered a barbershop in her neighbourhood and opened fire. One man and three children were killed in the shooting: Enzokuhle was one of them. In Khayelitsha, these mass shootings have become tragically common as rival gangs force businesses and civilians alike to pay protection fees or risk being killed. In a new report, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime has identified four growing extortion economies in the province, including transport, construction and township economies. Carte Blanche examines how protection rackets in Khayelitsha are expanding their illicit business portfolio, targeting street vendors, spaza shops, and even churches.

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▶ Anonymous 08/20/24 (Tue) 13:05:40 7a2a98 (20) No.21447344>>21447349

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>>21447333

>In a new report, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime has identified four growing extortion economies in the province, including transport, construction and township economies. Carte Blanche examines how protection rackets in Khayelitsha are expanding their illicit business portfolio, targeting street vendors, spaza shops, and even churches.

>>21447329

“THE SHADOW ECONOMY: UNCOVERING CAPE TOWN’S EXTORTION NETWORKS”

https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jenni-Irish-Qhobosheane-The-shadow-economy-Uncovering-Cape-Towns-extortion-networks-GI-TOC-April-2024.pdf

APRIL 2024

Extortion is a rapidly worsening problem throughout South Africa. This is the first in a series of reports tracking its spread across the country. The Western Cape, an economic hub with a long history of gang violence and extortion, is particularly hard hit. The City of Cape Town is host to a menacing shadow economy, with money, services and goods being extorted from an increasingly wide range of businesses, including spaza shops, nightclubs, construction and transport companies, as well as individuals.

The issue has been widely reported in the media and it is clear that many people are justifiably concerned. However, the reality of the situation is far more serious than is perhaps realized. Extortion is growing rapidly and spreading throughout the city, and the groups involved are highly organized. The range of sectors and people affected is widening: from street vendors selling their wares in Mitchells Plain or Khayelitsha, to the owners of bars and restaurants in the city centre; from construction companies building roads or houses, to municipal workers and contractors providing basic services. In certain parts of the city, even private vehicles have become targets.

The GI-TOC has identified four main extortion economies for the focus of this report:

■ The central business district (CBD) night-time extortion economy. While initially focused on the city’s night-time economy, extortion activities have expanded to include other businesses, such as restaurants and coffee shops.

■ Cape Town’s construction mafia. These groups target infrastructure projects and the construction sector. Methods have been copied and adapted from KwaZulu-Natal, and similar extortion practices have spread to other parts of the country.

■ The transport extortion economy. This has long existed within the minibus taxi industry in Cape Town, but has expanded in an unprecedented way to include buses, private transport and even private vehicles.

■ The township enterprise extortion economy. This focuses on formal and informal businesses and individuals operating particularly in the Cape Flats, including the townships of Khayelitsha, Gugulethu and Nyanga.1 It also targets municipal workers and contractors.

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▶ Anonymous 08/20/24 (Tue) 13:06:53 7a2a98 (20) No.21447349

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“ANC wants soldiers deployed to EC to deal with extortion”

https://youtu.be/ZVyd_2TcLH8

Aug 19, 2024

Eastern Cape ANC is calling on the government to deploy soldiers in crime hotspots in the province following a surge in extortion cases in places like Mthatha and Gqeberha. Provincial spokesperson Loyiso Magqashela says there's a R1 billion road being constructed by Sanral in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality that has been blocked by individuals extorting money from the service provider.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/787245/criminal-mafias-standing-in-the-way-of-south-africas-big-turnaround/

19 Aug 2024

The escalation of the prevalence and severity of criminal extortion groups targeting construction sites across South Africa continues to impede the country’s economic potential.

“Extortion in the construction sector has reached worryingly high levels, derailing and delaying projects worth billions of rands,” said national project manager of Business Against Crime South Africa (BACSA), Roelof Viljoen.

What started off as a few “business forums” in KwaZulu-Natal invading and extorting construction sites in around 2014/15 (as outlined by a report by Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime) has now morphed into a national crisis of booming “construction mafias.”

According to the State Investigating Unit (SIU), the “construction mafia refers to extortion groups that typically seek to forcefully extract protection fees from local construction companies and contractors or extort a portion of the cost of an infrastructure project, or that specific individuals affiliated with the mafia are recruited to work on the site.”

“At the outset of a project, they invade the construction site, walk into site offices [very often] heavily armed and threaten individuals or their families,” explained construction attorney, Euan Massey.

“No progress can take place until their demands are dealt with [which] can also extend to violence and in the worst cases, has resulted in murders,” he added.

Irish-Qhobosheane explained that most mafias posing as legitimate “business forums” demand 30% of the contract value of the project as “protection” against violence and work stoppages.

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▶ Anonymous 08/20/24 (Tue) 17:04:33 7a2a98 (20) No.21448567

>>21405923

>Water tanker mafia; “New mafia causing chaos in South Africa”

“STRATEGIC ORGANIZED CRIME RISK ASSESSMENT: SOUTH AFRICA”

https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GI-TOC-Strategic-Organized-Crime-Risk-Assessment-South-Africa.pdf

SEPTEMBER 2022

Since 1994, organized crime has exploited both the shortcomings of the political transition and the opportunities afforded by globalization, leading to a flourishing of crime at all levels of society, which has had severe consequences for the state, and which we evidence through an overview of the 15 main illicit markets currently active in South Africa today. Examining these markets provides several insights into the key traits of organized crime in South Africa and the context of South African organized crime at the local, state and international level. The state’s response to organized crime, which is a key part of this context, is assessed in detail. The section concludes with suggestions as to how to prioritize a response.

South Africa faces a complex, hybrid criminal threat. Having originated in highly constricted conditions under apartheid, in three decades organized crime has spread across the country and forged links around the world. It has been quick to seize opportunities, robust in the face of (often weak) law enforcement pressure and assertive in protecting its spheres of influence. But organized crime in South Africa is not an insurmountable challenge, and a well-led and resourced law enforcement strategy would pay quick dividends.

Our assessment of 15 illicit markets traces how organized crime has flourished in South Africa and highlights its profound social, economic and political harms. Violence -- always present in society – has become embedded in the evolving criminal economy; depredation of the natural environment and critical infrastructure has run rampant; and entrenched gangs and extortion networks have sought to establish criminalized forms of governance that operate beyond the remit of the state monopoly. Its victims can be found across the social spectrum, but invariably South Africa’s poorest citizens have suffered the most.

The state’s means of response -- its institutions – have been left weakened and corrupted after a decade of state capture that saw elite corruption become endemic and crippled essential service delivery. Efforts to tackle corruption and crime have been more recently hampered by the coronavirus pandemic, which has not only diverted state resources and attention, but also presented an opportunity for criminals to expand illicit enterprises and strengthen their control over territory and people alike.1

The three phenomena identified above -- the growth of organized crime, rise of elite corruption and erosion of state institutions – have often overlapped and intersected in South Africa’s past, but now have converged to form a self-sustaining, self-protecting and self-expanding criminal economy. Although many markets remain highly violent and liable to fragmentation, they are underpinned by robust criminal incentives and mechanisms that have consistently fuelled growth and criminal expansion.

There have also been indications that some politicians and even police in the specialized unit are complicit in stock theft.

According to underworld sources involved in the organized violence market, the police are complicit in assassination, receiving payment from gang bosses in exchange for guns and obstructing investigations (by ‘losing’ evidence, for instance).

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 11:10:15 7a6cdb (66) No.21453449>>21453450

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“'Process of issuing visas for the 95 deported Libyan nationals fraught with irregularities'” 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/q_JiH0Bw1-g

Aug 20, 2024 #SABCNews

This has been revealed by Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber, and his team, which has briefed Parliament's Home Affairs Portfolio Committee on a range of issues.

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/visas-of-95-libyans-handwritten-irregularity-flagged/

20 Aug 2024 03:17 pm

The study visas issued to the 95 Libyans found at the Milites Dei Academy in Mpumalanga were handwritten due to the system at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation’s (Dirco) mission in Tunis being offline.

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs recently received a report on the investigation into the 95 Libyans who have now been deported.

In total, 100 Libyans were granted visas. However, three were deported on arrival following interviews by immigration officials at OR Tambo International Airport. The other two never made it to South Africa.

The 95 Libyans entered the country on different dates and in groups through OR Tambo International Airport.

The first group of 24 entered the country on 25 April, the second group of 24 entered the country on 26 April, the third group of 24 on 24 May, and the last group of 23 on 29 May 2024.

They were all issued study visas and were meant to stay in the country for six months, until December 31.

95 Libyans: investigation results

• Application forms used were outdated and did not comply with the forms prescribed in the Immigration Regulations

• There was no indication on some application forms that the applicants were applying for study visas, however, the official decided to grant study visas

• Critical information was omitted, such as the place of birth in some cases and the addresses of the applicants for their country of origin

• The applications did not contain any proof of sufficient funds as prescribed

• A preliminary check of a Momentum Membership indicates that the membership certificate is fraudulent (This was done telephonically)

• The Certificate of Criminal Status (Police Clearance) was not verified during the processing of the application

• The agent submitted the applications. None of the applicants appeared in person

According to the report, the official at the Tunis embassy who processed the visa applications did not consult, seek advice and receive confirmation from the Department of Home Affairs before approving the visas.

Dirco said it had launched an investigation. Officials from the department, state security agency and home affairs will be travelling to Tunis to look at the submitted documentation.

The Libyans were deported at the weekend, and their country paid for their travel back home.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 11:10:48 7a6cdb (66) No.21453450

>>21453449

“'Process of issuing visas for the 95 deported Libyan nationals fraught with irregularities'” 2 of 2

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/visas-of-95-libyans-handwritten-irregularity-flagged/

20 Aug 2024 03:17 pm

Libyans in South Africa

According to Border Management Authority commissioner Dr Mike Masiapato, 588 Libyans entered South Africa through the OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) and the Cape Town International Airport between 1 January and 14 August 2024.

Of the 588 Libyans who entered South Africa, 463 departed through these airports.

As of 14 August, 125 Libyans are still in the country.

Since the discovery of the military training camp, 114 Libyans entered the country, 97 of them have since left.

The country’s intelligence has expressed concern over the influx of Libyans entering the country. All ports of entry are now on high alert for Libyans.

National security at risk

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber told the committee that as long as the department’s system was outdated, paper-based and manual, it remained vulnerable to fraud.

Schreiber said the department could not even audit the system, even if it wanted, due to the outdated system.

He said: “How can South Africa regard ourselves as a serious nation when we still allow entrance into our country based on hand-written documents that even a child could forge?

“How can South Africa regard ourselves as a serious nation when we fail to use modern technology like machine learning that can verify the authenticity of a document better than any human being ever could?

“Which person on earth could justify the use of such an antiquated, broken and vulnerable system when we live in the year 2024, with technology at our fingertips that could instantly solve every one of these problems?

“Incidents of identity theft, long queues, visa fraud and corruption will keep happening, over and over and over again, forever, if we fail to digitally transform Home Affairs.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:25:43 56c54e (29) No.21453971>>21453975 >>21489537

>DA ties to the Oppenheimer Family

>IFP, DA, African leaders, Ukraine, Brenthurst Foundation, etc. signed “The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”

>[ANC] has chosen to form a unity government, joined by the Democratic Alliance (previously the official opposition), the Inkatha Freedom Party, the Patriotic Alliance, Good and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania.

“Brenthurst Foundation paid for DA leader’s trip into Ukraine” Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-07-brenthurst-foundation-paid-for-da-leaders-trip-into-ukraine/

07 May 2022

DA leader John Steenhuisen has confirmed that his six-day “fact-finding mission” to Ukraine, which ended on Friday, 5 May was funded by the Brenthurst Foundation.

John Steenhuisen will arrive back in South Africa on Saturday following a nearly week-long visit to Ukraine on a fact-finding mission.

In a WhatsApp message after his arrival in Warsaw on Friday afternoon, Steenhuisen said it’s “been a very gruelling trip to be honest”.

Steenhuisen earlier refused to disclose details about the funding of his trip or the names of his travel companions.

Brenthurst Foundation director Greg Mills said the foundation funded Steenhuisen’s trip with its photographer Richard Harper.

He said the foundation’s aim was to provide “a level of education” about international issues.

“The role of the foundation is to expose people to best and worst practices,” he said.

The foundation has funded a number of trips for politicians from across the spectrum, such as the monitoring mission during the Somaliland elections last year. The foundation covered that trip as well which Steenhuisen declared in the register of members’ interest.

Steenhuisen came under fire this week as questions were asked about who backed the trip, but he has only been willing to disclose that it was a “private funder”.

Mills cited security reasons for the secrecy while they were in Ukraine. “When you’re in a place like Ukraine you have to be discreet about your movements,” he said. Ukraine has been under attack by Russia for over two months and a lot of the country’s civilian architecture has been destroyed.

Mills had been to Ukraine twice before in two months, and the idea for Steenhuisen to join him had come up while in conversation.

“The importance of taking John is that there is a parliamentary voice. It’s incredibly admirable. How many politicians would put themselves in harm’s way?”

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:27:07 56c54e (29) No.21453975>>21489537

>>21453971

“Brenthurst Foundation paid for DA leader’s trip into Ukraine” Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-07-brenthurst-foundation-paid-for-da-leaders-trip-into-ukraine/

07 May 2022

“This is a war for freedom,” [Steenhuisen] said in a video message on his timeline [https://x.com/Our_DA/status/1521170141312126977]. “Ukraine has now become the new frontier of freedom in the world, in the battle against tyranny and imperialism. It is important that we understand, particularly in Africa, what the impact of this war on our continent and especially in South Africa will be.”

Ukrainian ambassador to South Africa, Liubov Abravitova said she saw Steenhuisen when he applied for a visa, but that her government had nothing to do with the organisation of the trip.

She said, however, that there was a longstanding invitation for National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, from her Ukrainian counterpart to visit.

Steenhuisen failed to inform the South African authorities of his travels -- something that is not a legal requirement, but which the Department of International Relations and Cooperation has encouraged citizens to do when they go to conflict zones.

The DA leader said, however, that the department “has actively sabotaged meetings with role-players” before. During his last trip to the Middle East some meetings he had set up in with Palestinian authorities were cancelled due to what he believed to have been South African government interference.

Following the visit he will report back to his party, Parliament, civil society and international foreign policy think-tanks.

The Brenthurst Foundation was established in 2004 by the Oppenheimer family to build on the work of the Brenthurst Initiative, which was a programme that “instigated debate around policy strategies in South Africa to accelerate economic expansion”.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:30:57 56c54e (29) No.21453990>>21453995 >>21454006 >>21454020 >>21454032 >>21454191

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>Marikana

“2024 Marikana Massacre Memorial Lecture” Part 1

https://youtu.be/6oN-tKmn7yc

Streamed live on Aug 7, 2024

“The Marikana Massacre 16/08/2012 exposed South Africa’s Fake Democracy and Fake Revolutionaries” displayed behind the podium. Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala makes an interesting speech.

57:30 -- Introducing guest speaker Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala

1:00:50 -- Dr Tshabalala starts her speech, it is worth listening to it. Key points:

• “The talk is really aligned to the fake democracy, not just of South Africa but of this continent.”

• She discusses the chronology on what happened leading to 1994, the “Madiba miracle” and “the Rainbow nation, there is not even black in that colour by the way”. This includes;

o 1959 -- the international Anti-Apartheid Movement was formed.

o 1960 -- British Prime Minister Macmillan addressed the parliament in Cape Town in a speech that was dubbed “The Winds of Change”.

o The same year, 1960, Sharpeville massacre occurred -- “Macmillan was in operation”.

o That same year, 1960, the ANC and PAC was banned -- “Macmillan was in operation”.

o Jumped to 19 September 1976 -- Ian Smith of Rhodesia meets with Henry Kissinger to talk about majority rule in Rhodesia. “Who engineered the so called Mugabe miracle of 1980? America, England and their network of evil.”

o The following year in South Africa 1977, The Urban Foundation dubbed the thinktank was founded by Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and Clive Menell. This foundation introduced for the first time neoliberal housing. “Before 1977 no African was enslaved what we call a bond. Housing was the responsibility of government. You paid rent which was peanuts really. They introduced it because they were already preparing for the new South Africa.”… “A house of 1 000 000 take 20 years to pay off but it takes a car of 1 000 000 to pay off in 5 years to pay off. Madness.”

o “In 1982, Harry Oppenheimer meets Henry Kissinger to talk about majority rule and transition after Apartheid. I hope you see not even white South Africans are represented here. Its capital talking to a mass murderer who runs capital, Henry Kissinger of the United States.”

o Same year, 1982, Mandela was released from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison. “I love history, it does not lie.”

o 1983, Oppenheimer controls the Chamber of Mines. “He is involved in the establishment of the National Union of Mineworkers [NUM] and Cyril Ramaphosa is put in charge after going overseas.”

o Same year, 1983, the UDF (United Democratic Front) was formed. Oppenheimer founded and funded them.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:31:41 56c54e (29) No.21453995>>21454006 >>21454020 >>21454032 >>21454054 >>21454066 >>22560377

“2024 Marikana Massacre Memorial Lecture” Part 2

https://youtu.be/6oN-tKmn7yc

Streamed live on Aug 7, 2024

o 1984, Hendrik van der Merwe, director for the Centre of Intergroup Studies at UCT begins his mediation between the Apartheid regime and the ANC. “That’s the year we were doing mass funerals in this country. Where Soweto was burying 100s. Pretoria was burying 80. Cape Town was burying 100s. People were dying.”

o Same year 1984, Hendrik van der Merwe, starts meeting Mandela in Pollsmoor Prison.

o 1985 was the era of the ‘young lions’… “We really believed we were going into a revolution. I thing that’s what sad about it.”

o “September 1985, delegation of white businessmen led by Gavin Relly, Anglo America, and Zach de Beer, Progressive Party funded by Oppenheimer. They meet a list of Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Chris Hani, Mac Maharaj and Pallo Jordan in Zambia. Why have they not been telling us, I was part of MK then? Why are they not addressing us in the camps and saying guys we are negotiation? You know what they used to say to us in the camps then, “We shall never negotiatiate. We have learned from the mistakes of everybody else. That’s selling out comrades”… That’s what Joe Modise was telling us at the time.”

o “In 1988, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet, they sign an agreement. I am trying to show you who is in power. That agreement they signed what took our camps out of Angola to Uganda and Tanzania further away from the enemy we were fighting. Who took the decision? Reagan and Gobachev. We are just parcels but what they use as an excuse? “Let Namibia go.””

o “In 1989, the South African Reserve Bank Act is passed. Can I tell you?… South African Reserve Bank shall operate in secrecy.”

o 1990, the Independent Development Trust (IDT) established, taking over the think tank called the Urban Foundation. Anton Rupert and Clive Menell chairs it.

o 1990, the Gencor Executive Chairman, Derek Keys, is appointed as Minister of Trade and Industry. “It was the first time they allow a minister who’s not National Party trained to ascend the reigns.”

o 1991, they pass the VAT {Value Added Tax).

o Same year 20 December 1991, CODESA starts. “13 April 1992, Mandela shocks us. I’m divorcing Winnie [Mandela] because Winnie was not faithful.” She suggests that the ANC is paying Mandela’s children off to keep quiet. “The big issue of this is when Mandela made that announcement, he then… moves in with the Menell family and Clive Menell is one of the founders of the Urban Foundation which was started in 1977 and also aligned with NUM formation.”

o “September 1992, the former Gencor Executive Chairman and former Minister of Trade and Industry is appointed Minister of Finance. It is said here, “The financial takeover is completed.”… Why do you think we haven’t moved an inch in terms of prosperity since ‘94? Do you know teachers argue that at least during Apartheid you had an increase, some of them say twice a year. It’s not happening… They took a [$850 million] loan from the IMF to pay off the Apartheid debt.”

o “1992, the leader of the South African Communist Party, Joe Slovo, comes with what is called the “Sunset Clause” which means the coalition government will be put in place following the democratic election but it included guarantees and those guarantees were to keep the economic state as is.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:36:09 56c54e (29) No.21454006>>21454020 >>21454032 >>21454054 >>21454149 >>21582568

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>my father [Harry Oppenheimer] would always stay in State House of the guest of President Nyerere

>>21379982

>ANC and other liberation movement military training camps were in Tanzania

>>21439861

>Women/girls are regarded as possessions in Africa

“2024 Marikana Massacre Memorial Lecture” Part 3

https://youtu.be/6oN-tKmn7yc

Streamed live on Aug 7, 2024

o “April ’93, Chris Hani is gunned down in cold blood… It means that Chris Hani was against the “Sunset Clause”. He started opening his big Xhosa mouth.”

o “In April ’94, we ushered into the so-called “Madiba Miracle”.”

o “I put a question to you. Why zoom in on the mines? Why was it formed with Oppenheimer money? Why is being controlled by Oppenheimer? I put a question to you. Has it never crossed your mind the NUM officials, the ANC officials and the Lonmin officials, there was still another hand behind?… I still want to know, who of the worst agreed to this shooting, this cold blooded killing? Because they would not do it if their handlers had not said, “go ahead.”

o “For years COSATU was nothing but a gate keeper… They delayed worker’s struggle… Whoever funds the ANC, funds COSATU.”

o “How is Starbucks making more money out of each cup of coffee than those coffee growers?… How are you paying more for South African gold than the British pay?”

o “How is it that… in all the exile years of the so-called liberation movements of South Africa, the ANC got 99.9% of the lion’s share of support? You know, only China supported the PAC. People were starving in PAC camps in case you were not aware… The whole world supported the ANC.”

o --“You will see they chose for you. You also know that the release campaign was also started by Oppenheimer? I hope you know.”---

o Kwame Nkrumah said, “Do not go the IMF, World Bank route because if you do, you will be enslaves forever.”

o “Only 5% of that money [$30 trillion] is direct government corruption, 30% is criminal activity but 65% are corporate crimes which we don’t call out. Tax evasion, tax avoidance, profit shifting. We started hating Zuma because the Rand started falling but what’s the expose now? The banks colluded from 2006 before he came into power to around 2013 tampering and lowering the Rand.”

o “All that I have read here happens with a very intelligent process called “dumbing down of the mind”. Do you think it is an accident that the pass rate in South Africa is 33%? It’s not… The battle for the mind is the biggest battle.” [Macmillan did mention something similar in his 1960 speech, “Wind of Change”; “The struggle is joined and it is a struggle for the minds of men.” (https://youtu.be/c07MiYfpOMw) Embedded]

o “Neoliberalism… What is it actually?… It is not capitalism. Capitalism was founded by Adam Smith… Neoliberalism came out of the 2nd World War… Before the end of the 2nd World War, 1945, any economist who talked of neoliberalism was classified as an Anarchist. I hope you remember that… Neoliberalism says, [1] government is nothing but a post office between capital and the people… [2] let capital flow… [3] whoever wins the majority, is the one that rules.”

o “Stop making television your outlet for information. That’s in English, it’s called disinformation or misinformation.”

o “The mess in which we live is not accidental. Somebody paid somebody and somebody paid somebody for us to end up in this nonsense that we live in right now called freedom. It happens with every other country… So they have 2 ways to deal with an Africa. If they can change your mind, they will - Mandela’s was changeable. If they can’t change your mind like Steve Biko, they kill you.”

o “The ANC’s given us a youth that more sexual than intelligent. Youth that drinks more than they think. Young people that know more about American than Africa, their own country.”

o “That’s where patriarchy and abuse creeps in exactly. Remember, it happens at country level. Whoever pays for the South African election, owns us. Whichever man pay for you, owns you women.”

o “Can we continue fighting to make sure that every known official… every Lonmin official, every ANC official that was involved in this murder is finally brought to book… Can we bring Marikana back to the table? They want us to forget about it. Marikana is proof that the ANC anti-black. They want it silenced.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:44:21 56c54e (29) No.21454020

>“In 1988, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet, they sign an agreement. I am trying to show you who is in power. That agreement they signed what took our camps out of Angola to Uganda and Tanzania further away from the enemy we were fighting. Who took the decision? Reagan and Gobachev. We are just parcels but what they use as an excuse? “Let Namibia go.””

>>21380026

>“All the research was done by very clever people in Anglo like Michael O’Dowd and Bobby Godsell and by a superb London team led by one of the great futurists in the world, Pierre Wack, a Frenchman who had been head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch Shell.”

Additional chronology of South Africa before 1994:

• 1961, South Africa received its so-called Independence, a year after MacMillan’s “Wind of Change” speech

• https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/chronology-meetings-between-south-africans-and-anc-exile-1983-2000-michael-savage

1985 Chairmen of leading corporate groups (Sir Timothy Bevan (Barclays Bank), Lord Barber (Standard Bank), Evelyn de Rothschild (Chair of Rothschild’s), George Soros, with representatives of Shell, Courtaulds, BP and Gold Fields and (from SA) Tony Bloom (Premier Group) and Chris Ball (Barclays), invited by Anthony Sampson to lunch at the Connaught Rooms, London, to meet with Oliver Tambo, in London.

(Anthony Sampson, The Anatomist, p. 228).

Sampson 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).

https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/3302

• Date: May 29, 1988

Place: Foreign Ministry Guest House, Moscow

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

Anatoly Adamishin, Deputy Ministre, USSR MFA

Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

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

Soviet interpreter

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

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

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

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2655201 [As posted on previous SA threads but the document is now removed from the internet]

From 1981-1989, [Chester Crocker] was U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs. As such, he was the principal diplomatic architect and mediator in the prolonged negotiations among Angola, Cuba, and South Africa that led to Namibia’s transition to independence, and to the withdrawal of Cuban forces from Angola.

https://www.usip.org/publications/2007/01/leashing-dogs-war

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:46:17 56c54e (29) No.21454032

>Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala

Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala Biography

https://mamakhanyisilelt.com/

I am Khanyisile, Litchfield-Tshabalala (Dr -- PhD and Rear Admiral Junior Grade, Retired); a Facilitator, Trainer, Public Speaker, Writer, and a Consultant on Illicit Financial Flows and Tax, International Finance Institutions’ transparency, accountability, and community engagement. This includes social accountability. What sets me apart from my peers, is that I love Afrika above my own family. And this is a known fact to all who have interacted or worked with me. A veteran of uMkhonto WeSizwe, and an exiled freedom fighter, I came back and joined the SA Navy, where I rose to being the first Female Admiral in the history of the SA Navy. I am now a Retired Admiral.

https://www.pa.org.za/person/khanyisile-litchfield-tshabalala/

Ms Litchfield-Tshabalala was a member of the ANC before joining the EFF.

She also has a masters degree in criminology from UNISA, and is in the process of completing her PhD with the Atlantic Internation University in Hawaii [Now completed].

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:51:57 56c54e (29) No.21454054>>21454066 >>21507050 >>22560377

>Gencor Executive Chairman, Derek Keys

>We started hating Zuma because the Rand started falling but what’s the expose now? The banks colluded from 2006 before he came into power to around 2013 tampering and lowering the Rand.

Take note; the Rand value dropped prior to Mandela changing his mind about nationalism.

“Keys to unlock the South African economic shackles: The former head of Gencor is trying to bring Pretoria and the ANC together to repair the country's battered economy, John Carlin reports” [1992]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/keys-to-unlock-the-south-african-economic-shackles-the-former-head-of-gencor-is-trying-to-bring-pretoria-and-the-anc-together-to-repair-the-country-s-battered-economy-john-carlin-reports-1560461.html

Friday 30 October 1992 00:02 GMT

DEREK KEYS, South Africa's Minister of Finance, Trade and Industry, has a stack of filthy pictures. Nothing that would be sold next to a certain book by Madonna, you understand, just a stark representation of how bad the state of his country's economy is.

The pictures - graphs of dire economic trends actually - have proved formidable shock tactics, helping Mr Keys to earn a good deal of respect and trust from Nelson Mandela.

Last month, the president of the African National Congress told the Johannesburg Star of a briefing he had received from the head of the ANC's economics department after a meeting with Mr Keys. 'He brought a statement from Keys which is well- considered and spells out in detail the actual state of our economy. And I got frightened,' Mr Mandela said. This from the man who precipitated a stock- market crash two days after his release from prison in early 1990 when he reaffirmed the commitment of his movement to nationalisation. Today, Mr Mandela has dropped the dreaded 'N-word' from his lexicon altogether.

'When Mr Mandela made his first speech after coming out, everybody immediately had to reassess their positions. Since then there's been a great improvement in the ANC focus in terms of economic systems. And that has come about because they have got acquainted with what the problem is, what means are likely to be at their disposal for addressing it.'

Mr Keys came to the job - and politics - in May, responding to a request from President F W de Klerk to give up his post as executive chairman of Gencor, South Africa's second-largest mining finance house, and take over the management of the national economy.

There is a strong sense that, while Mr Keys is not privy to all the secrets of state concerning the National Party's central obsession with retaining a strong grip on power in 'the new South Africa', he is left very much to his own devices in the economic terrain.

One task he has set himself - and he defined its resolution as critical to the pursuit of economic growth - involves active political engagement 'to stop the economic civil war'.

The way to stop the war, Mr Keys believes, is through consultation. 'In my maiden speech I mentioned 'the golden triangle' which is a hallmark of all societies that have managed to turn in above-average economic performances - by which I mean the establishment of a consensus between business, labour and the state.'

Substantial difficulties exist in realising this concept at this time, Mr Keys said - specifically, political difficulties. But progress is being made. He recently met leading representatives of business and the ANC-allied Congress of South Africa Trade Unions, with the objective of establishing a national economic forum, a notion rejected by the government before Mr Keys assumed his position.

Mr Keys said he was particularly encouraged on this score last month when he and Tito Mboweni [who later became the Governor of the South African Reserve Bank], a leading ANC economist, shared a platform at a conference in London. 'When it came to the aspect of looking towards the future, his and my speech could have been exchanged without anyone in the audience noticing.'

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 14:56:22 56c54e (29) No.21454066>>22560377

>>21454054

>Derek Keys: "to stop the economic civil war"

>>21380026

>“In 1989, the South African Reserve Bank Act is passed. Can I tell you?… South African Reserve Bank shall operate in secrecy.”

“Gencor fades, but scars remain”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/gencor-fades-but-scars-remain-743970

Published Feb 5, 2006

Cape Town - Gencor, the now dormant investment holding group, is a pale shadow of its former self.

On January 16 the company announced that it would seek voluntary winding up now that a high court bid by a tribal authority to force it to pay for the environmental rehabilitation of the asbestos-contaminated town of Heuningvlei and the Bute mine in North West had been settled.

The company was no stranger to empowerment; in the 1960s, Afrikaner nationalists [a select few] encouraged Anglo American to sell assets to a forerunner of Gencor, which went on to produce Sappi, Gold Fields and Implats, among others.

[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”. (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)]

With the prospect of an ANC-led government coming to power in 1994, Gencor was unbundled and its assets sold off.

Derek Keys, a former Gencor chief executive and the finance minister in the government of national unity, persuaded the then governor of the Reserve Bank, Chris Stals, to authorise Gencor to ship $2.1 billion abroad to buy Billiton from Royal Dutch Shell.

Months later Keys retired as finance minister to become the chairman of Billiton. After several asset shuffles and purchases, Billiton became BHP Billiton, one of the world's largest minerals companies.

Yet it was not for the enormous wealth that it generated that Gencor would be remembered in its dying days. The company had an appalling record of human rights abuses and an equally terrible safety record. As a gold producer, it had among the highest numbers of deaths and disabling injuries.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:16:32 56c54e (29) No.21454149>>21454157 >>21454162 >>21454171 >>21454177 >>21454182 >>21454191 >>21454204 >>22627619 >>22632198

>So they have 2 ways to deal with an African. If they can change your mind, they will - Mandela’s was changeable. If they can’t change your mind like Steve Biko, they kill you.

>my father [Harry Oppenheimer] would always stay in State House of the guest of President Nyerere

>>21379982

>ANC and other liberation movement military training camps were in Tanzania

>>21416552

It reminds me of this…

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 1

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

Excerpts below

The revolutionary developments in South Africa culminating in the April 27, 1994 general elections and the handing over of political power to the Communist-controlled ANC have been gaining momentum since the assassination on the 6th September 1966 of Dr H F Verwoerd, the South African Prime Minister, by the Communist Demetrio Tsafendas. And it is therefore well to look afresh at the developments in their historical contexts.

How successful this government was, may be seen from the evidence by opponents and enemies of Dr Verwoerd, for example that of the now defunct Rand Daily Mail, which on July 30, 1966 (five weeks before the assassination of Dr Verwoerd) wrote as follows:

Surfeit of Prosperity

Rand Daily Mail -- July 30, 1966 [Rand Daily Mail was owned by Anglo American. (https://hsf.org.za/publications/focus/issue-39-third-quarter-2005/the-rand-daily-mail-convenient-scapegoat)

“At the age of nearly 65 Dr Verwoerd has reached the peak of a remarkable career. No other South African prime minister has ever been in such a powerful position in the country. He is at the head of a massive majority after a resounding victory at the polls. The nation is suffering from a surfeit of prosperity and he can command almost unlimited funds for all that he needs at present in the way of military defence. He can claim that South Africa is a shining example of peace in a troubled continent, if only because overwhelming domestic power can always command peace.

This strong position was achieved by Dr Verwoerd under a policy of separate development (apartheid). The living standards of blacks were rising at 5,4% per year against that of the Whites at 3,9% per year. In 1965 the economic growth rate was the second highest in the world at 7,9%. The rate of inflation was 2% per annum and the prime interest rate 3% per annum. Domestic savings were so great that South Africa needed no foreign loans for normal economic expansion.

It was plain that in these circumstances South Africa was poised to become the dominating and unifying force in Southern Africa against the British-American-supported terrorist onslaught on the Portuguese territories of Mozambique and Angola and on Rhodesia and South West Africa.

It is well to recall that, for instance, the Frelimo terrorists received substantial financial support from the Ford Foundation of the USA, acting most likely as a front for the CIA and the State Department and that the ANC, while banned in South Africa, had its head office in London; and almost every Communist who left South Africa for safer ground, did not go to the Kremlin, but to London. And unquestionably, the Anti- Apartheid Movement (more correctly: the Anti-Afrikaner Movement) in Britain was a British Secret Service operation against South Africa -- not forgetting that the US and Britain in an act of war already in 1961 instituted an arms boycott against South Africa; and that the USA was behind Liberia and Ethiopia’s application to the International Court in 1961 to break South West Africa’s ties with South Africa.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:17:36 56c54e (29) No.21454157>>21454162 >>21454171 >>21454177 >>21454182 >>21454191 >>21454204 >>21512748

>>21454149

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 2

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

Notwithstanding the British and American influence in international affairs, South Africa was growing stronger and stronger.

From the Book -- Verwoerd is Dead by Jan Francois Botha

In the history of South Africa his name will live for ever as the leader, who, when his country was threatened with internal disorder and with economic sanctions, boycotts and open aggression from overseas, stood as a symbol of defiance, and the will and determination to survive.”

It was evident that the British-American tactics had failed and that the direct opposite of what they were trying to achieve was actually taking place.

Dealing with the anticipated decision for the return of South Africa to the Commonwealth after the April 27 election, the author (Jack Viviers) said that if FW de Klerk would be a party to such a decision “it would remove a large part of the hate from the view held by a considerable number of influential Britons on Afrikaners”. This animosity is a seldom acknowledged fact, the usual thing being to accuse the Afrikaners of “still fighting the Boer War”. The article reads further: “The attitude of the British, particularly the mandarins of the British Foreign Office, who were in the vanguard of the fight against the National Government, was explained to me by an equally influential Brit… Lord Deedes, former editor of the Daily Telegraph… ” So the British government was fighting the South African government -- a continuation, by other means, of the Boer War. [Does this explain the farm murders that continue until today/]

What follows this remarkable admission by Lord Deedes is even more remarkable. “While South Africa grew to become the economic giant of the continent, the other members of the Common-wealth virtually sank into poverty. This was the complete opposite of what they had hoped. That South Africa, under an Afrikaner government with their policy of apartheid, and no relations with the Commonwealth, should have become the economic giant of Africa was making the British Foreign Office and the US State Department to think what they had thought was unthinkable.

It was evident that Dr Verwoerd was winning the cold war conducted against the Afrikaner government of South Africa from the British Foreign Office and the US State Department.

South Africa’s increasingly powerful position in the sub-continent foreshadowed a Southern Africa of White-controlled governments, economically and militarily equal to any threat or adventure from outside and also to the challenge of the communist-led and British-American supported terrorists operating in Southern Africa. (Significantly, the first terrorist attack by Swapo took place within three weeks after the assassination of Dr Verwoerd, as if they were waiting for the event).

As has been the practice of imperialists even in the days of the Roman Empire, the present-day American and British imperialists latch on to the rich minorities in other countries. And this was also done in South Africa. The representative of the New York Herald Tribune, Arnold Beichman, wrote in the Johannesburg Sunday Times (20th June, 1965) that ‘prominent businessmen and industrialists in South Africa exert great pressure on the Prime Minister in the hope that he and his Cabinet would stop their anti-American speeches… Among the business groups which have expressed their dissatisfaction in private circles were prominent insurance companies, banks and liquor undertakings in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:18:32 56c54e (29) No.21454162>>21454171 >>21454177 >>21454182 >>21454191 >>21454204 >>21454242 >>21454308

>>21454149

>>21454157

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 3

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

Having identified these three types of businesses, Beichman came so close to naming the specific businesses that it was not necessary to say that the spokesmen were A D Wassenaar of SANLAM (insurance), Jan Marais of Trust Bank, and Anton Rupert of Rembrandt (liquor) -- all three having had strong British and American connections. Wassenaar was married to the daughter of a former Lord Mayor of London, and he was a founder member of the Council of Foreign Relations front organisation, the United States-South Africa Leader Exchange Programme (USSALEP). Jan Marais boasted that his bank was run on American lines and that he was constantly visiting the USA.

Rupert was not only a founder member of USSALEP, but the key figure in its founding. He was financed by the Rothschild group in getting his tobacco concern on a sound basis and in acquiring tobacco interests such as Rothmans in Britain. Although strongly anti-British during World War II, he soon loosened his ties with the Afrikaner nationalists and became an exponent of a Pax Americana, hosting Bobby Kennedy on his visit to South Africa in 1961 and in various ways demonstrating his identification with British-American objectives.

These Afrikaans-speaking businessmen, in their movement away from their Afrikaner nationalist compatriots, inevitably moved closer to the internationalist Anglo-American financial interests, represented by Harry Oppenheimer’s Anglo- American Corp., which constituted the core of hostility to Afrikaner nationalism, and which was the successor to the financial interests that forced Britain in the war against the Boer republics in 1899-1902. (See J A Hobson: The War in South Africa, James Nisbetl, London, 1900)

Dr Verwoerd had been preparing to meet the challenge from these quarters and for this reason he unofficially instituted an investigation into the Anglo-American Corp. under the leadership of Prof Piet Hoek. The Hoek report was a very thorough job, and was privately circulated late in1965, early 1966, and evidently Oppenheimer, Rupert and others had been aware of the investigation. When Dr Verwoerd, on the 25th January 1966 said in Parliament: “We shall oppose the power concentrations and monopolies which occur in our country, and which constitute a real danger”, it was an oblique but unmistakable reference to the Hoek Report. Those who were involved in ‘the power concentrations and monopolies” knew what this would mean to their interests. And consequently they would have thought of ways to stop it.

The Oppenheimer empire had complete control of the English newspapers in South Africa, and they dutifully conformed to the requirements of protecting the money power interests and of promoting the British-American objectives in Southern Africa against Afrikaner nationalism.

These were the forces and the most prominent persons ranged against Dr Verwoerd and the policy of separate development in the ‘sixties. Dr Verwoerd was at the peak of his power, having successfully overcome the diplomatic and economic effects of leaving the Commonwealth in1961; uniting the white nation as never before; succeeding in creating an economic boom of unprecedented proportions; launching a program of military preparedness; crushing the Rivonia Slovo-Mandela-Communist plan of overthrowing the government by violent means; refusing to institute economic sanctions against the Rhodesian government of (an Smith after UDI and giving the Rhodesians moral and other support; practically annihilating the parliamentary opposition in the March 1966 general elections; and, very important, having the possibility of foreign intervention eliminated as a result of the International Court verdict in South Africa’s favour on the South West Africa issue.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:20:47 56c54e (29) No.21454171>>21454177 >>21454182 >>21454191 >>21454204 >>21526985

>>21454149

>>21454157

>>21454162

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 4

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

They had been so sure of getting a verdict against South Africa on the South West Africa [now Namibia] issue that three days before the announcement of the Court’s verdict on the 18th July, 1966, the American Ambassador to South Africa delivered an aide memoire to Dr Verwoerd’s government that the USA would accept the Court verdict and expected the contending parties to abide by it.

The implication of this was that if Dr Verwoerd had refused to abide by an adverse verdict it would have constituted cause for military intervention by the USA in the guise of the United Nations Organisation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in anticipation of a court verdict against South Africa having the year before provided what the Chicago Tribune had called a “battle blueprint” entitled “Apartheid and United Nations Collective Measures” by Amelia Leiss for military operations against South Africa. The Carnegie Endowment has been documented “as a powerful policy- making force inside the State Department” (Freeman Digest, June, 1984).

With the court verdict going against the US expectations, the whole elaborate scheme devised for acting against South Africa with the object of ending Dr Verwoerd’s rule, came to an abrupt end, leaving Dr Verwoerd very much stronger than before and his opponents completely frustrated.

This development must be seen as the failure of the ultimate plan for stopping Dr Verwoerd, all other possibilities having been previously eliminated: the parliamentary opposition of the former United Party and the former Progressive Party, enjoying American and British support, had been rendered impotent through the loss of support; the Communist-inspired plans of overthrowing the government by violent means had been effectively thwarted by the clean-up of the Rivonia gang, ending in the conviction of Nelson Mandela and his cohorts; the break-up of the SA Communist Party cells and the arrest and conviction of its leader, ex-Rhodes scholar, Abraham Fischer, The only remaining option for stopping Dr Verwoerd was foreign intervention on the question of South West Africa, on the grounds of an anticipated international Court verdict against South Africa.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:21:31 56c54e (29) No.21454177>>21454182 >>21454191 >>21454204

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 5

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

When this failed in July 1966, there was only one option left -- put an end to Dr Verwoerd’s life. Cillie – Rupert and “Verwoerd must go” plan.

Nine days before the assassination of Dr Verwoerd The Sunday Tribune (Durban) published a front page report banner headlined ‘Verwoerd must go’ plan: Cape Nats back Anton Rupert” It will be noticed that it is alleged that Piet Cillie, editor of Die Burger spearheaded the campaign and that Rupert was to replace Dr Verwoerd. It is stated that “There has been a carefully planned operation to isolate Dr Verwoerd and force a show-down” Neither Rupert nor Cillie ever repudiated this sensational report in public.

Paragraph 86: “lt is impossible to establish with any certainty exactly what was said. However there is no doubt that Dr Verwoerd’s death was mentioned on that morning, three days before his death. What makes these incidents more than a coincidence is the fact that this was said at the ship which was visited daily for almost 40 days by the man who killed Dr Verwoerd, where he bought a pistol and tried to buy a knife which he wanted to use -- according to at least one statement made by him subsequently – to kill Dr Verwoerd.

The fact that Dr Verwoerd’s death was mentioned at that ship was probably more than pure coincidence’. Although significantly saying: ” That the fact that Dr Verwoerd’s death was mentioned at that ship was probably more than pure coincidence”, the Commissioner, strangely, did not go into this any further! If it was not coincidence, then of course it pointed to prior knowledge of Dr Verwoerd’s impending death. Yet the Commissioner just left it at that, and for instance did not even inquire into the connections of the Eleni, which incidentally left Table Bay harbour on the day of the assassination.

This was made more intriguing by another incident. On the day of the assassination, September 6, The Evening Standard of London carried the following report: “Young man on Dieppe-Newhaven ferry asked if there was any news of the Verwoerd’s assassination -- last Friday (i.e.2nd September). Man he asked was Mr Allan Lomas, New Liberal candidate for Islington East in last General Election. Mr Lomas said today: “I was waiting to buy newspaper and coffee when young man asked – because he had no change to buy a paper – whether there was any report on Verwoerd assassination. I scanned paper and said he could borrow it as I was finished. I looked in Sunday papers and made inquiries about any attempts on Dr Verwoerd’s life but of course found nothing.”

In May 1959 he went to Britain and while there he was noticed in the company of leftists. Tsafendas said that some of these persons in private raised the possibility of having the Prime Minister of South Africa shot. Less than a year later in April 1960 Dr Verwoerd was, at short range, shot twice in his face by David Beresford Pratt, who had also been to Britain and had been involved in political activities of the Liberal Party. Miraculously Dr Verwoerd survived this attempt on his life.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:23:01 56c54e (29) No.21454182>>21454191 >>21454204

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 6

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

This is of the same quality as the second paragraph of the Chapter of the Commission’s report entitled “Were there accomplices?” It reads as follows: “The Commission could find no evidence which could justify a finding that there were accomplices”.

In itself this would have caused eyebrows to raise, but what made it more suspect was the remarks of the man who had appointed the Commission, B J Vorster, Dr Verwoerd’s successor. The day after the assassination (September 7) The Star (Johannesburg) had a headline: “No sign of assassination plot. This was the work of a lone killer says Vorster”.

Apart from this flagrantly irresponsible and grave infringement on the province of the subsequently appointed Commission of Enquiry, Vorster’s role as Minister of Justice and therefore of Security, making him responsible for the security of Dr Verwoerd, is extremely questionable. It is the more questionable in view of his role in subsequently systematically destroying the foundations upon which Dr Verwoerd had built.

Another example of his handling of the events after the assassination centred on a press report that the Security Police had had a file on Tsafendas, and that when the head of the Security Police was phoned on the day of the assassination he in a short while had a file with him. The amazing thing that then happened was that Vorster issued a statement that “the report that the Security Police had a file on Tsafendas was devoid of all truth’. This was an evident cover-up as it was later revealed that the Security Police had had no less than four files on Tsafendas.

But only one was available from a room with “dead files”. One had been destroyed without authority, another had also been destroyed, and the fourth was completely missing. Vorster’s statement denying that there was a file was therefore calculated to mislead the public Vorster protected.

The revelations about the various files came only after Vorster, in the emotional atmosphere subsequent to the assassination, had been elected to succeed Dr Verwoerd.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:25:33 56c54e (29) No.21454191>>21454204

>In 1982, Harry Oppenheimer meets Henry Kissinger to talk about majority rule and transition after Apartheid.

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 7

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

Vorster, unknown to most of his supporters, was on friendly terms with Anton Rupert, who was allegedly involved in the “Verwoerd must go plan”. And Vorster, Rupert and other financial imperialists subsequently worked together in destroying what Dr Verwoerd had built.

It was later revealed in two books -- South Africa Inc. and E Oppenheimer and Son – that Vorster had had cordial relations with Harry Oppenheimer of Anglo-American – something that would have destroyed his chances of succeeding Dr Verwoerd, had it been known to the majority of the National Party Caucus.

who benefited from the death, then there are several obvious candidates.

The first is Vorster and his immediate associates, who were put at the levers of power -- an immense gain both personally and politically. The second group is the Verwoerd opponents in the National Party, like Anton Rupert and Piet Cillie. The third is the money powers with in the lead Harry Oppenheimer and Anton Rupert, who opposed Dr Verwoerd and knew that he was going to limit their monopolistic operations.

Most Important

The fourth, and perhaps the most important is the British-American powers behind the ANC, who were out to break the Afrikaners’ political power and get South Africa in line with the other Communist-controlled Southern African States of Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Tsafendas undoubtedly was a Communist, but it is not to the Soviet and the KGB that one must look for clues to the assassination of Dr Verwoerd. Tsafendas’ Communist leanings was a useful shield behind which others in Britain, the USA and probably also Israel, as well as some in South Africa operated. For all of these Dr Verwoerd constituted a stark obstacle to their aims. In his adherence to principles he was gaining in power and international stature.

All but Black majority rule

What must be noted is that the government formed by the new State President is all but representative of Black majority rule. The government presently consist of 27 ministers and 12 deputy ministers, apart from the President and two deputy presidents. Of the 18 ANC representatives in the Cabinet appointed by the President at least 10 are members of the Communist Party, and several more suspected Communists. And of the nine deputy ministers representing the ANC at least four are Communists. The significance of this is that the South African Communist Party (SACP) on its own would not have been able to get a single member of parliament elected, yet it is in a commanding position in the government -- in the name of majority rule!

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:27:16 56c54e (29) No.21454204

“THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. H.F. VERWOERD: British-American Scheming and The Founders of the New South Africa” [1994] Part 8

https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/dr-hf-verwoerds-murder-haunting-naspers/

By Jaap Marais

This is of particular significance in view of the existence and operations of “the creeping coup” in the SACP revealed by The International Freedom Foundation in April 1991. It was initiated in the early eighties by Slovo, Maharaj, Kasrils and the deceased Hani “to capture every senior position within the ANC”. international Freedom Foundation said that this process was “virtually complete”.

The Foundation revealed that only eight of the 35 member National Executive Committee (NEC)of the ANC were not Communists before the release of Mandela. After Mandela and Sisulu had joined the NEC the ratio was 26 Communists against ten non-Communists. The operations of this “creeping coup” are probably behind the late appointments of Communists as Ministers and deputy ministers.

Oppenheimer further said that Mandela had sought his approval of two Cabinet appointments -probably those of Derek Keys and Pik Botha, the former having come from one of the companies closely associated with Oppenheimer and the latter being a Freemason who is a holder of The Order of Malta (in the company of Dr Piet Koornhof, former Cabinet Minister and ambassador). Both departments -- Finance and Mineral and Energy Affairs – are close to the heart of the money powers in South Africa and it is most likely that Oppenheimer would have sought to have “his men” appointed.

The national unity of the government trumpeted by Mandela is a fiction, as may be seen from the fact that in the April election only 2% of Blacks voted for the NP, the Democratic Party and the Freedom Front, while only 3% of Whites voted for the ANC. The near disastrous economic position of the country and the absence of respect for law and order in the wake of incessant “change” and “reform” make an orderly transition to a radically new constitutional set-up impossible.

The “government of national unity” is doomed to fall apart. The new situation presents a formidable challenge to the Afrikaners and their English speaking White compatriots. The hardcore of the Afrikaner people is accepting that the new constitutional set-up will not last long and will lead to ethnic friction and political disintegration, a matter to be dealt with separately in a subsequent review.

The spirit of rejection and resistance among Afrikaners, which was treacherously deflected by Gen Constand Viljoen and his cronies, is again rising. And there is capable leadership outside Parliament to wield it into a force.

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>>21454162

>Dr Verwoerd had been preparing to meet the challenge from these quarters and for this reason he unofficially instituted an investigation into the Anglo-American Corp. under the leadership of Prof Piet Hoek. The Hoek report was a very thorough job, and was privately circulated late in1965, early 1966, and evidently Oppenheimer, Rupert and others had been aware of the investigation.

>>21416431

>“The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

1966 Hoek Report about Anglo American Part 1

https://archive.org/details/HOEK-REPORT/page/n5/mode/2up

https://ia904703.us.archive.org/28/items/HOEK-REPORT/HOEK-Verslag-prof-1966.pdf

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The Hoek Report/ Die Hoek Verslag covers an audit into capitalist ownership of the South African Economy. It was to be chaired in the South African Parliament on the 6th September [1966] by President Hendrik Verwoerd but he was assassinated on the day and the National Party hid the document's findings from the public.

First page of the document is an article, a portion is translated;

In the Stock Exchange Yearbook of 1975, the following facts came to light in connection with some of the Oppenheimer companies:

• Anglo-American Corporation paid more than 10 percent tax in just one year in the period 1970 to 1974. On a profit of R83 million in 1974, he paid less than R5 million tax -- about 6 percent instead of the normal company tax of 49 percent.

• Rand Selections did not even pay 2 percent tax in any single year of the period 1970 to 1974. In 1974 its profit was R46 million.

The Hoek report was completed in 1968, but it was never allowed to circulate in wide circles. Prof Piet Hoek, deputy manager of Yskor, was the compiler.

He was instructed to investigate Mr. Oppenheimer's money power in the sixties by the late Dr. H.F. Verwoerd. The report was completed after Dr. Verwoerd's death.

Reportedly, Mr. Vorster later completed interest for the report. Furthermore, it was learned that Gen. H.J. van den Bergh, head of Boss, multiplied the report.

When the report was used at a meeting in the Northern Transvaal in the 1970 election, a court order against an English Sunday newspaper prohibited them from publishing anything about the report.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 15:49:49 56c54e (29) No.21454308>>21455762 >>21467416 >>21467430 >>21467438 >>21467487 >>21467561 >>21582652 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

>IFP, DA, African leaders, Ukraine, Brenthurst Foundation, etc. signed “The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”

>>21454162

>When Dr Verwoerd, on the 25th January 1966 said in Parliament: “We shall oppose the power concentrations and monopolies which occur in our country, and which constitute a real danger”, it was an oblique but unmistakable reference to the Hoek Report.

1966 Hoek Report about Anglo American Part 2

https://archive.org/details/HOEK-REPORT/page/n5/mode/2up

https://ia904703.us.archive.org/28/items/HOEK-REPORT/HOEK-Verslag-prof-1966.pdf

Portion of the Hoek Report translated into English:

3. (2) The demand for labour is necessarily where the work is and in terms of factory, construction and services, the employment is mainly where capital is invested in activity.

Through a mode of functioning that makes it practically impossible to be publicly noticed and exposed without comprehensive coordinated scrutiny, a large capital and activity power concentration group, notably the AAC [Anglo American Corporation] group, as will be demonstrated herein, has acquired a position in our country where it has engaged more than 900 companies under their sphere of influence that include some of the largest in our country. For practical purposes, this group gained control over the mobilisation of probably the bulk of the private sector's capital, with its consequent influence on the influx into and concentration of Non-Whites in particular areas.

Not only the well-known political views of the controllers of AAC in Southern Africa, but also the international financial interests in its share capital that undoubtedly have controlling influences in AAC, will have no loyalty to the interests of separate nations in Southern Africa; on the contrary, it may pose further dangers, especially if the historical actions of international banks and international capital are related to revolutions and riots, for example, the organising and financing of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and where it is related to the preoccupation of international capital with the eradication of national borders and distinctions. In short, the international capitalist's philosophy makes nations work for international capitalism---the philosophy of the nationalist makes capital work for the nation.

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 20:55:33 902e3f (83) No.21455762>>21455786

Initial ANC Bun

>>21379942 IFP ties to the ANC, Oppenheimer Family

>>21379971 DA ties to the Oppenheimer Family

>>21379982 ANC and other liberation movement military training camps were in Tanzania

>>21379997, >>21380005 IFP, DA, African leaders, Ukraine, Brenthurst Foundation, etc. signed “The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”

>>21405857, >>21405895, >>21405905 Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” (Parts 1-3)

Initial Commodities Bun

>>20991325 Cape Town Tells Port to Do Better After Being Ranked Last in World

>>21013257 Angola pens a new military agreement with the US as Washington attempts to increase its influence in Africa

>>21072665 Grindrod chosen to develop box facility at Richards Bay

>>21098663 MOL invests in African logistics company

>>21159625 Canada's GoviEx Uranium's stripped of Niger mining rights

>>21289340 Botswana Eyes New Export Route To Exploit Huge Coal Resource

>>21406188 Mine accused of disregarding obligations” but the government is complicit (video)

>>21406275 Total’s gas exit - PetroSA blunder loses SA R80bn investment, R100bn in lost taxes (video)

>>21454242, >>21454308 1966 Hoek Report about Anglo American (Parts 1&2, includes .pdf)

Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>21090889 (General Research #25853) US expanding bioweapons research in Africa -- Russia

>>21398986 Africa CDC to make declaration on Mpox outbreak (video)

>>21398994 Wellcome is now in official relations with the World Health Organization

>>21399001 Wellcome Trust director takes World Health Organization role

>>21399005 WHO emergency committee meets this week to discuss African mpox spread

>>21422273 Africa CDC Declares Mpox A Public Health Emergency of Continental Security, Mobilizing Resources Across the Continent

>>21422276 WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads

>>21422284, >>21422288 Vaccine Maker Shares Soar After WHO Declares Health Emergency Over Africa Mpox Outbreak

>>21422304 COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic: lessons learnt for other neglected diseases and future threats (with .pdfs)

>>21422340 WHO, Bill Gates and Wellcome Trust’s Global Vaccine Fund Lacks Transparency and Accountability

>>21440018, >>21440022, >>21440042 Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown (Parts 1-3)

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 20:56:01 902e3f (83) No.21455767>>21455786 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

Initial Elections Bun

>>20970850, >>20970854, >>20970855 UDF celebration to reawaken active citizenry (Parts 1-3)

>>20981086 Associated Press: The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority in landmark election

>>21379910 South Africa’s unity government: 4 crucial factors for it to work

>>21379928, >>21379933 South African Government of National Unity (GNU) -- 1994 – 1999” – History Repeating? (Parts 1&2)

>>21380026 Clem Sunter: SA at economic crossroads -- Election ’24 parallels pre-94 watershed (video)

Initial Mpumalanga Military Camp Bun

>>21373494 “95 Libyans arrested in breakfast raid at ‘military camp’ in Mpumalanga” (video)

>>21373500 “Libyan government breaks it silence over arrests of 95 of its citizens”

>>21373507 The Counterterrorism Conundrum: Exploring the Evolution of South Africa’s Extremist Networks

>>21373517 “Maandag, 29 Julie 2024. Insurreksie in Suid-Afrika”; Is the SA military involved regarding the illegal military camp? (video)

>>21374398 Acquitted SAPS whistleblower reveals secret military training camp cover-up (video)

Initial Russia and Ukraine Bun

>>21090809 (Canada #59) Twelve states refuse to sign Zelensky ‘peace conference’ declaration

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 20:56:18 902e3f (83) No.21455773>>21455786

Initial Violence and Crime Bun

>>21373492 “US sanctions three, including two based in SA, for expanding Isis in Africa”

>>21396897 DA wants answers after over 5 million dockets are closed (video)

>>21396905 Human trafficking ring linked to SA nationals” who were arrested in Israel (video)

>>21405923 Water tanker mafia; “New mafia causing chaos in South Africa”

>>21439726 South Africa on the edge over political ‘assassinations

>>21439750 The Politics of Murder: Criminal Governance and Targeted Killings in South Africa

>>21439790 Six men shot and killed in uMlazi: some of the weapons were from leftover arms caches from the unrest in the early 1990s, while others were obtained through thefts from law-enforcement authorities

>>21439801 Businesses in Mthatha close down due to alleged extortion”: “We find out everybody is in fear" (video)

>>21439918 The real black-on-black violence in South Africa

>>21440220 KZN Shootout: Police officer among KZN robbery suspects (video)

>>21441292 White River Raid: State withdraws criminal case against 95 Libyan nationals (video)

Initial Jacob Zuma Bun

>>21435305 MK founder spills the beans, unmasks Zuma’s real agenda (video)

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▶ Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 20:58:10 902e3f (83) No.21455786

Notables are NOT Endorsements

passing 150

#13

>>20971056, >>20971069, >>20971071 The contributions of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) (Parts 1-3)

>>20971100 Open Society Institute Mourns Loss of Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert

>>20971176 Untold Story of George Soros’ Worldwide Soft Power Empire

>>20971210 Dr. Wilmot James named as Chair of Wellcome Trust’s Climate Impacts Advisory Committee

>>21015673 (General Research #25771) The Petrodollar deal has expired

>>21117041 (Canada #60) Why does a NATO member suddenly want to join BRICS?

>>21132637 (Canada #60) Kenya’s Fall From Grace: From US Major Non-NATO Ally to the Brink of Anarchy in DAYS

>>21150246 (Canada #60) Nigeria recalling gold reserves from U.S., U.K. as world increasingly abandons corrupt Western finance pyramid scheme

>>21168091 (Canada #60) Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso Sign Confederation Treaty, as France Loses Colonial Power and US Military Withdraws From Important Air Base

>>21391823 Ernst Roets New York speech July 2024: What are we fighting for? (video)

>>21396724 Opposition parties want land expropriation without compensation back on the table (video)

>>21435327 EFF expands to neighbouring African countries (video)

>>21439810 Govt accused of awarding security tenders to non-compliant companies (video)

>>21439861 Women/girls are regarded as possessions in Africa

>>21439991 NGOs became ‘Now Government Officials’ in the ‘new’ South Africa

>>21440497 South Africa’s state capture database disaster

>>21455762 Initial ANC Bun | Initial Commodities Bun | Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>21455767 Initial Elections Bun | Initial Mpumalanga Military Camp Bun | Initial Russia and Ukraine Bun

>>21455773 Initial Violence and Crime Bun | Initial Jacob Zuma Bun

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▶ Anonymous 08/22/24 (Thu) 17:30:29 07b319 (103) No.21461134>>22366049 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

[pop]YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

“Mthatha Extortion | Extortion gets out of hand in Mthatha”

https://youtu.be/_dleMe8rAe4

Aug 21, 2024 #SABCNews

Extortion is getting out of hand in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. Criminal syndicates in Mthatha are demanding protection money from businesses, schools and healthcare facilities. This has resulted in businesses shutting down and doctors and school principals going into hiding after being threatened for not paying. Several business owners fear reporting extortion to the police. Now Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been roped in to help. Last week, during Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's imbizo, the residents of Mthatha West accused the police of working with the criminals. For more on this matter, we're now joined virtual by the National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola and the President of the Eastern Cape Chamber of Business, Vuyisile Ntlabathi.

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▶ Anonymous 08/22/24 (Thu) 19:06:22 902e3f (83) No.21461572>>21502802

General Research #26297 >>21461535

South African group refutes WHO’s declaration of an mpox emergency and warns the public about the risks of the vaccines

The South Africa “Vaccine” Injury Medico-Legal Study Group (“SAVIMS”) has released a press statement to say that it does not support the Africa CDC and World Health Organisation declaration of a global health emergency for monkeypox, now known as mpox.

Additionally, they have warned about the recommended live virus vaccines, Jynneos and ACAM2000: The vaccines are experimental use for monkeypox, as they were originally intended for smallpox; there are reported serious adverse effects; and, they contain live viral strains, which may potentially instigate a resurgence of the eradicated smallpox virus.

“We warn members of the public about the inherent risks of taking any vaccine, including those proposed for mpox, of which the effectiveness and safety have not been reliably determined … There can be no justification for a vaccine with unknown adverse effects,” SAVIMS says.

https://expose-news.com/2024/08/22/south-african-group-refutes-whos-declaration/

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:23:29 56c54e (29) No.21467416>>21467430 >>21467438 >>21467487 >>21467561 >>21582652 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

>>21454308

More Portions of Hoek Report Part 1

[Here are more portions of the document. People already knew the outcome then]

[Below, the author took an excerpt from the 1965 year report of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited: pg 47 (No translation was necessary)]

“The resources of the Group are mainly in mining in Southern and Central Africa -- gold, diamonds, copper, coal and other minerals. In recent years, while the Group has opened offices in Salisbury, Lusaka, New York, Melbourne and Toronto. It has made a substantial investment in the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company, a leading Canadian producer of copper and zinc, and through Charter Consolidated in Tronoh Mines, an important mining company in Malaysia. The Group is prospecting for minerals in many countries in Africa and also on a considerable scale in North American and Australia. It has interests outside mining in the United Kingdom and on the continent of Europe. In Southern Africa the Group has greatly broadened the range of its interests in basic and manufacturing industries and has developed substantial new interests in construction and engineering, merchant banking and investment trusts, property development and other commercial fields.

The Corporation’s investments are held mainly through a number of investment companies with specific fields of interest -- Anglo American Investment Trust for the diamond mining and marketing companies; Orange Free State Investment Trust and West Rand Investment Trust for the gold mining companies in those areas; Anglo American Industrial Corporation which was formed in 1963 to consolidate the industrial holdings of the Group; and, on a geographical basis, Zambian Anglo American and Anglo American Rhodesia. Coal interests are held chiefly through African and European and Vereeniging Estates, while Rand Selection Corporation hold a diversified spread of investments similar to those of the Corporation itself.”

[Below is an English translation.]

It is regularly reported in the Press that British and American investments in South Africa yield a very favourable return compared to the return on their investments in other countries. It has also been referred to in previous paragraphs to the appreciation of the shares of many investment companies and that this appreciation is in no small part due to withheld profits (additionally tax-free in the case of investment companies) and the resulting growth. Foreign shareholders can therefore also make large so-called "capital gains" on shares in South African companies, at the expense of the South African taxpayer.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:26:32 56c54e (29) No.21467430>>21467438 >>21467487 >>21467561 >>21467590 >>21479084 >>21507050 >>21512748 >>21582652 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

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>>21454308

>>21467416

“World Citizen | Leadership Development Qualities - AIESEC”

https://youtu.be/1E-YEj-6ZWU

Jul 10, 2020

More Portions of Hoek Report Part 2

[English translation below. Sound familiar? South Africa became a “bantustan” controlled by the international capitalists.]

With regard to capital, it is felt that white suffrage-carrying private capital should not be allowed in the bantustans, for the following reasons:

a) This would be an unnecessary and dangerous departure from existing Government policy.

b) It would grant established rights to whites which cannot be eliminated without unrealistic countermeasures and artificial fixation of terms, after which the white man would have to withdraw and the bantu will take over. At the end of a set term, a successful business may go to waste very quickly through the unavailability of competent bantu entrepreneurs. Due to the variety of industries that make up a country's economic development, a variety of knowledge and management capacities are needed, about which there can be no certainty that the bantu will possess it upon expiry of a predetermined term. The need for a set term can only apply to short-term projects, and will undoubtedly result in overcropping.

c) With the ability, as a entrepeneur, that the bantu has so far revealed, white capital participation, either in full or on a "partnership basis," may not be withdrawn for centuries without suffering bankruptcies and unemployment, unless the white capital enterprises are just taken over again by other whites. This may presuppose permanence. Especially developmental interests that sometimes have to be of a long-term nature to become successful will hardly attract white entrepreneurial capital if it is forced to retire even after a fairly long term and even at market value.

If white capital were allowed on a "partnership basis" without provision for eventual withdrawal, it would inevitably lead to integration and thwarting of our policies; it would negate our country policy.

d) With our knowledge of the bantu's governance capacity and lack of knowledge, white private capital, even with whatever reservations, would eventually take on a permanent nature and any restrictions or reservations would become meaningless, so that the economy of the territories would then be in danger of being controlled by large investors and possibly internationalists or "world citizen" institutions over time.

e) White private capital allowed on such a basis would not allow the bantu entrepreneur any chances of concurrence and he would be left with no possibilities to play a role other than an artificial or subordinate in his territory's economy. That the ex-Protectorates are throwing themselves open to private investment does not mean that the RSA should do so in its bantu areas. We protect the bantu from unwarranted competition against him, with his limited development, he will not be up to it; And our policy is pertinently aimed at preserving for him his own homeland and the institutions that will be brought about by its development, as opposed to permanent or prolonged integration into projects in which the white man remains the boss.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:28:23 56c54e (29) No.21467438>>21467459 >>21467487 >>21467561 >>21479095 >>21479142 >>21507100 >>21512748 >>21516678 >>21543498 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

“South Africa’s state owned companies: a complex history that’s seldom told” Part 1

https://theconversation.com/south-africas-state-owned-companies-a-complex-history-thats-seldom-told-120152

Published: July 18, 2019 4.40pm CEST

The problems of South Africa’s state owned enterprises are in the headlines every day. Yet many have existed for over 80 years.

Why were they established in the first place and how have they survived this long? Their histories provide clues for their successes and failures.

State owned enterprises in South Africa date back to the 19th century when Paul Kruger’s Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek tried to promote local industries to stave off British control. Kruger’s government erected high tariffs against imports of many consumer goods as well as industrial goods used by the mining industry. At the same time it handed out monopoly concessions for local manufacture. In most cases, foreign capital still managed to control these enterprises -- the most important for railway service and electricity generation for the mines.

Kruger’s aim of fostering economic independence through local industries was utterly defeated with the British victory in the [Anglo-Boer] War in 1902. But the connection between economy and state lived on through the railway and electricity concessions. By the 1920s, the expanding railway enterprise -- the South African Railways and Harbours, now Transnet – needed more and cheaper electricity, and steel for rails. In 1923, the Smuts government established the Electricity Supply Commission (now Eskom) in part to serve the railways and also the growing mining industry.

In 1928, Prime Minister Barry Hertzog established the Iron and Steel Corporation (ISCOR [or YSKOR]) to produce cheap steel rails for the South African Railways and Harbour and to create some independence from the profit-seeking European steel makers.

Although both Eskom and Iscor were established under state auspices, they enjoyed only tepid government support and faced stiff competition. They were established at a time when nearly all industrial goods and many consumer goods were imported at great cost. In the case of electricity, the major market -- the Rand gold mines – was already under contract to the private Victoria Fall Power Company . And in the case of steel, a European cartel of steel makers was ready to dump cheap steel on the South African market in order to kill off local production. Some foreign firms established small operations inside the country, but with profits still flowing back to overseas investors.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:31:42 56c54e (29) No.21467459>>21467487 >>21467561 >>21507100 >>21512748 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

“South Africa’s state owned companies: a complex history that’s seldom told” Part 2

https://theconversation.com/south-africas-state-owned-companies-a-complex-history-thats-seldom-told-120152

Published: July 18, 2019 4.40pm CEST

By 1948, Eskom had succeeded in expropriating the private company with assistance from the largest mining company in the country -- Anglo-American Corporation – which provided money for the buy-out. Eskom then linked all power stations in the country into a national grid allowing for cheaper production of electricity and lower prices to its customers.

Similarly, Iscor was able to eliminate competition through partnerships with the Anglo American Corporation. Iscor needed to find local engineering firms that would process its raw steel into war materiel. Many were either foreign or were owned by the Lewis and Marks investment company that also operated a competing steel company, Union Steel.

In 1945, Anglo American -- which became Iscor’s partner in all of the major engineering firms – bought out the company. Since Anglo was principally a customer for their goods, it was interested in low prices and not in reaping profits through steel manufacture.

The change of government in 1948 led to a brief change in policies toward the state corporations. The Nationalist government, wary of foreign and even local capital and suspicious of the state corporations’ ties to Anglo American, initially refused to provide the funds for further expansion of either Iscor’s or Eskom’s facilities. Partnerships with the local engineering firms were likewise ditched.

But by the early 1950s, realising the advantages to such arrangements, the government relented and the old ties were renewed, leading to massive increases in production by both firms. In addition, the government looked the other way as it became apparent that black workers were being used extensively at both firms -- and even as semi-skilled workers at Iscor – yielding a wage bill that was less than a quarter what it was for whites.

Yet this structure could not survive the flight of capital and the enfranchisement of the workforce that followed the democratic transition of the 1990s.

Iscor’s former partners fled to more lucrative parts of the world and the steel corporation was sold to private interests; and Eskom faced an expanding demand for residential electricity without the financial and marketing support of the mining houses.

This article is based on a book -- Manufacturing Apartheid: State Corporations in South Africa – written by Nancy L Clark. Published in 1994, it is now out of print.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:36:56 56c54e (29) No.21467487>>21467502 >>21467561 >>21489537

>It was against this background that, representing the In Transformation Initiative, I [Roelf Meyer] became involved in the development of the scenarios outlined in this book, along with the Brenthurst Foundation.

“The Role of the Business Elite in South Africa’s Democratic Transition: Supporting an Inclusive Political and Economic Transformation”

https://berghof-foundation.org/files/publications/South_Africa_Paper_8_Final_Layout_v2.pdf

2015

This paper provides insight into the role played by a part of the private sector which came to constitute a fairly unique elite in supporting the negotiation of a new political settlement in post-apartheid South Africa. To support this process, and to help engineer a political settlement that supported statebuilding in the interests of a peaceful political and smooth economic transformation, business steadily became both a conduit and part of negotiations, the political settlement that ensued, and the statebuilding efforts that followed the first democratic elections in 1994 and continue to this day. In the process, its role and position has evolved and a myriad of positive contributions have been made en route, however, but persistent socio-economic deficits belie the full-bodied success of the transformation that both enabled the inclusivity of the process itself and promised prosperity and development as tangible outputs.

About the Publication

This paper is one of four case study reports on South Africa produced in the course of the collaborative research project ‘Avoiding Conflict Relapse through Inclusive Political Settlements and State-building after Intra-State War’, running from February 2013 to February 2015. This project aims to examine the conditions for inclusive political settlements following protracted armed conflicts, with a specific focus on former armed power contenders turned state actors. It also aims to inform national and international practitioners and policy-makers on effective practices for enhancing participation, representation, and responsiveness in post-war state-building and governance. It is carried out in cooperation with the partner institutions CINEP/PPP (Colombia, Project Coordinators), Berghof Foundation (Germany, Project Research Coordinators), FLACSO (El Salvador), In Transformation Initiative (South Africa), Sudd Institute (South Sudan), Aceh Policy Institute (Aceh/Indonesia), and Friends for Peace (Nepal). The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Berghof Foundation, CINEP/PPP, or their project partners. To find more publications for this project please visit www.berghof-foundation.com. For further information, please contact the project research coordinator, Dr. Véronique Dudouet, at v.dudouet@berghof-foundation.org.

About the Authors

Nel Marais is a former senior intelligence officer. He was seconded to the Department of Constitutional Affairs, South Africa, in the early 1990s, where he served the negotiation process and structures with intelligence assessments on developments that could have disrupted the political transformation process in South Africa. He currently heads Thabiti, an international risk consultancy company.

Jo Davies has worked as a lecturer at the University of the Transkei; a translator at the South African Department of Arts and Culture; and a researcher and operational analyst within the post-1994 South African intelligence services. She is currently an independent consultant and analyst on a range of political and social issues.

This project has been funded with support from the International Development Research Center in Ottawa.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:39:39 56c54e (29) No.21467502>>21467561 >>21489537 >>21650780

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>>21467487

> About the Author: Nel Marais

Brenthurst Foundation: Our people: Dr Nel Marais

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/people/dr-nel-marais/

Managing Director, Thabiti

After working as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Pretoria and the Institute for Strategic Studies, Nel Marais joined the South African Defence Force where he served as a Military Intelligence officer. During the 1980s, he joined the South African National Intelligence Service, during which time he specialised in both political and economic intelligence issues. He obtained his doctorate in 1986.

Later, Nel was seconded to the Department of Constitutional Affairs where he served the negotiation process and structures with intelligence assessments. In 1994 he became a member of the newly-formed South African Secret Service (SASS). In his capacity as Research and Analysis Manager, he interacted with numerous foreign intelligence services, political leaders and members of the South African government.

Nel resigned from government at the end of 2000 and established his own consultancy company called Thabiti. The company focuses on risk management, business intelligence, as well as business facilitation. He works closely with government officials and private business entities in Africa and other parts of the world.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 17:54:08 56c54e (29) No.21467561

“Reflections on South Africa’s Restructuring of StateOwned Enterprises”

https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/suedafrika/07164.pdf

March 2002

Critics and supporters of privatisation both point out that the last decade has seen the increased use of privatisation as a policy instrument for economic development throughout the world. This process has been part of a broader process of economic restructuring that has taken place over the last two decades (Rondinelli & Iacono, 1996:1; Van der Hoeven & Sriraczki, 1997:1; Pape, 1998; Reconstruct, 1998). Rondinelli and Iacono (1996) estimate that at least 80 countries went through a privatisation process in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This process of economic restructuring is often referred to as globalisation or, by critics on the left, as neo-liberal globalisation (Pape, 1998; Reconstruct, 1998).

A common term used for these processes, in developing countries and countries in transition from a command economy to a market economy, is “structural adjustment programmes” (SAPs) (Rondinelli & Iacono, 1996:1). In the industrialised countries these programmes go by different names. One term used very often refers to the “austerity programmes” implemented in industrialised countries (Reconstruct, 1998; Pape, 1998).

In South Africa privatisation arrived in 1987, when the then National Party government started a process of selling off many state-owned enterprises (SALB, 1989). The ANC-led government in the post-apartheid period included privatisation as part of its economic policy instruments and provided continuity to the process started in 1987.

The global economy of the 1990s was, and still is, dominated by the forces that drove market economies after the collapse of the socialist economies in Eastern Europe. This, combined with the prevalence of conservative neo-liberal governments in the North, home of many multinational enterprises, placed many constraints on the South African government and contributed to determining the way it would interpret the role of the state and government (Pape, 1998).

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 18:00:45 56c54e (29) No.21467590>>21467596 >>21467604 >>21479095 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22583534 >>22651658

>>21467430

> It would grant established rights to whites which cannot be eliminated without unrealistic countermeasures and artificial fixation of terms, after which the white man would have to withdraw and the bantu will take over. At the end of a set term, a successful business may go to waste very quickly through the unavailability of competent bantu entrepreneurs.

”Some of the fallacious policies implemented by the ANC, [Moeletsi] Mbeki maintains, include BBBEE and affirmative action”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-02-17-the-ancs-five-deadly-sins-and-what-the-future-holds-for-sa-beyond-the-2024-elections/

17 Feb 2024

His late father was Govan Mbeki and his brother is former president Thabo Mbeki, both leading intellectuals and important figures in the formation and growth of the ANC. However, businessman and independent political analyst Moeletsi Mbeki is adamant that the ANC has committed what he calls five “mortal sins” during its 30 years in power.

Some of the fallacious policies implemented by the ANC, Mbeki maintains, include BBBEE and affirmative action. These, he says, have broadened the black middle class, but have alienated all the other races and led to stagnation in the economy.

“The ANC adopted the BBBEE policies that were started by business to ingratiate itself with the new ANC rulers by giving money and shares to individuals like Dr Nthato Motlana, Cyril Ramaphosa, Patrice Motsepe, Saki Macozoma, Tokyo Sexwale and other individuals connected to the ANC.

“It also created a black middle class using affirmative action policies by creating jobs and perks in the state, and offering early severance packages to whites who were in the public sector. Those who took up those jobs did not have the capacity or skills to run the departments that they were now in charge of.

“You see this when things are falling apart in the public sector. The classic example of this failure is in municipalities -- many in this country are on the verge of collapse, and others have already collapsed and cannot deliver services,” said Mbeki.

“The ANC could still have created the black middle class by making available opportunities for them to be productive industrialists, farmers, artisans and small business owners who would build the country, and create wealth at the same time.

“The current forms of BBBEE and affirmative action, as implemented, confirms the stereotype that blacks are inferior to whites and they cannot create wealth on their own, and thus need white handouts to survive.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 18:01:57 56c54e (29) No.21467596>>22366046 >>22518640 >>22651658

>>21467590

“Billions in bailouts for failing SOEs in South Africa -- Government’s latest spin”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/736287/billions-in-bailouts-for-failing-soes-in-south-africa-governments-latest-spin/

6 Dec 2023

The government plugging billions of rands in bailouts into failing state-owned enterprises is a sign of its commitment and “strategic intent” to turning things around and making these groups financially sustainable, says Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

The South African government has injected billions of rands into state companies over the years, but continues to get very little out of them. The latest findings by the Auditor General of South Africa delivered only one clean audit for the country’s state-run companies.

Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke, on 29 November 2023, tabled the audit outcomes for the national and provincial government for the year to end March 2023.

The audit highlighted that while there was a trend of improvement for smaller parastatals and some government departments, SA’s key SOEs again underperformed.

Out of the 19 major SOEs that are expected to operate like businesses and generate profits, only one -- the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) – managed to receive a clean audit.

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▶ Anonymous 08/23/24 (Fri) 18:04:42 56c54e (29) No.21467604>>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

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>>21467590

“African governments incompetent and unethical -- Senou”

https://youtu.be/55Bl2qCLPgQ

Aug 22, 2024

Over the past year, Africa has seen a surge in civilian-led resistance movements, with the most recent anti-government protests seen in Kenya. The Holding Opinion and Public (THOP) founder Kwame Senou says governments are not trusted because they are not seen as competent and ethical.

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▶ Anonymous 08/25/24 (Sun) 14:14:34 175e34 (38) No.21479084>>21507050

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>>21467430

>so that the economy of the territories would then be in danger of being controlled by large investors and possibly internationalists or "world citizen" institutions over time.

“Bill Gates: I Am A #GlobalCitizen”

https://youtu.be/xsJwHK2_OOQ

Apr 20, 2015

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▶ Anonymous 08/25/24 (Sun) 14:17:41 175e34 (38) No.21479095>>21479142 >>21507168 >>21512748 >>21516678 >>21543498

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>State owned enterprises in South Africa date back to the 19th century when Paul Kruger’s Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek tried to promote local industries to stave off British control.

>Kruger’s aim of fostering economic independence through local industries was utterly defeated with the British victory in the [Anglo-Boer] War in 1902.

>>21467590

The British Queen never apologised for the Boer War.

“Queen Elizabeth commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War” (11 Nov 1999)

https://youtu.be/lehEVApjQo4

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II began a state visit to South Africa on Wednesday with a welcoming ceremony in Pretoria.

As the country commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer war, the British Queen was expected to express sorrow at the suffering of all people during the conflict.

This was the second state visit to South Africa by the British Queen in five years.

Queen Elizabeth II greeted Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's second freely elected president, in a welcoming ceremony in Pretoria.

A presidential guard stood to attention as the monarch, making her second state visit since the end of white minority rule, received a 21-gun salute.

During the conflict, the British military placed tens of thousands of Afrikaner women and children in concentration camps.

Conservative Afrikaner leaders had called on their followers to protest against the ceremony.

The Boers, descendants of the region's mainly Dutch settlers, fought the British from 1899-1902.

During the war, Britain seized the Transvaal and Orange Free State from Boer settlers.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"We demand an apology, an acknowledgement of what the British had done during the war. Similar to what the Germans had to do. And we would even like to take the Queen to Bloemfontein and expect her to kneel, to bend down at the monument and apologise in the manner like the German Chancellor did in Israel."

SUPER CAPTION: Leon Strydon, Herstigte Nasionale Party

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▶ Anonymous 08/25/24 (Sun) 14:26:52 175e34 (38) No.21479142>>21507100 >>21507168 >>21512748 >>21516678 >>21543498

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>>21479095

>Kruger’s aim of fostering economic independence through local industries was utterly defeated with the British victory in the [Anglo-Boer] War in 1902.

>>21391823

>What are we fighting for?

--Paul Kruger’s Letter to General Louis Botha: “Find in the past all the good and fair…” [English Translation]==

https://www.news24.com/News24/Soek-in-die-verlede-wat-goed-is-20010212

Valued General,

It is a great privilege to be able to acknowledge the receipt of your cablegram, held in Pretoria from 23 to 25 May, passed on to me.

In all trepidation and sorrow that is my fate, these greetings made me thankful.

And wholeheartedly, I thank all those who thought of their old State President where they came together to deliberate on the present and the future, thereby showing that they have not forgotten the past.

For, whoever wants to create a future must not lose sight of the past.

Therefore: Find in the past all the good and fair discovered in it, then form your ideal and strive to realise that ideal for the future.

It's true: Much of what's been built up is currently destroyed, damaged, and levelled. But with unity of purpose and unity of strength that which has been pulled down can be built again.

It makes me equally grateful to see that the unity, the uniform, prevails within you.

What I myself will yet behold or experience of it lies in God's hand.

Born under the English flag, I don't wish to die under it.

I have learned to rest with the bitter thought that in exile, I will close my eyes in the strange, almost entirely alone, far from blood-relations and friends whom I will probably never see again, far from African soil that I will never enter again, far from the land to which I have devoted my life to open it to civilization and where I see a nation of my own developed.

But the bitterness will be mitigated if I can continue to cherish the conviction that the work begun will be continued. Because then the hope and the expectation that the end of the job will be good, will keep me standing. So be it.

From the bottom of my heart I salute you and all the people.

Villas des Prierriers 17,

Clarens(Vaud), Switzerland, June 29, 1904.

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▶ Anonymous 08/27/24 (Tue) 13:14:56 7a6cdb (66) No.21489537>>21489585 >>21507168

>Brenthurst

“A Divine Right to Look Human: Brenthurst and Beyond” -- “there was a recommendation to create a National Health Service”

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38673-2_5

29 July 2023

Penn’s experiences in Britain helped shape his vision for his own plastic surgery unit in Johannesburg, the Brenthurst Red Cross Military Hospital for Plastic Surgery, the focus of Chapter Five. Discussed here is the establishment of the hospital under the patronage of the wealthy and influential Oppenheimer family, the hiring of key members of staff and the efforts at surgical reconstruction. The hospital was also the site of an important technological development in the treatment of maxillo-facial injury---the Brenthurst Splint. Evident too is the segregation within the Union Defence Force. Although the exigencies of war meant that segregation on the front lines could not always be adhered to, boundaries were easier to maintain on the home front when treating those not faced with life-threatening injuries such as soldiers undergoing reconstructive surgery. Simultaneously there was a recommendation to create a National Health Service providing equal access to health care. Penn’s work at Brenthurst can therefore be contextualised by the constant tension between segregationist ideology and the idealised vision of medicine and the provision of universal health care. At the end of the War, Penn travelled to the United States, the new centre for the professionalisation of and innovation in plastic and reconstructive surgery. The sum of his experiences thus far also buttressed the establishment of his civilian practice, the Brenthurst Clinic.

The title is paraphrased from Jack Penn’s published autobiography, The Right to Look Human, as well as the quote appearing on the tapestry commissioned for the Brenthurst Clinic.

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

Jack Penn (14 August 1909 -- 27 November 1996), M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.(E.), Mil. Dec. M.B.E., S.M., was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, sculptor and author, who was also for a time a member of the President's Council in South Africa.

Penn was born in Cape Town in 1909

Married in 1934 Diana Malkin, Penn and his wife went to the United Kingdom, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1935. He worked successively at the Orthopaedic Centre in Liverpool, at the then new British Postgraduate School in London, as acting Senior Surgeon at a County Council hospital in London, and as Resident Surgical Officer at the Royal Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury. He also spent part of 1937 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, in the United States of America, then returning, with a short spell in London, to Johannesburg, where he was offered a part-time appointment as lecturer in Clinical Anatomy by Prof. Raymond Dart at the University of the Witwatersrand.[1]

Penn enlisted as a part-time officer with the rank of major in the Union Defence Force (predecessor of the South African Defence Force [The South African Defence Force (SADF) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Defence_Force]), being called up in 1939 as a major attached to the 7th Field Ambulance. In this capacity he went to London to help with war casualties in need of plastic and reconstructive surgery, notably during the Battle of Britain… Returning to South Africa, he founded and was commander in charge of the Brenthurst Military Hospital. Severely damaged by fire in 1944, Brenthurst was restored and returned to its owner, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.[1]

Oppenheimer made possible a new Chair of Plastic, Maxillo Facial and Oral Surgery, and Dr Penn, at the age of 35, was appointed first professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand. His academic positions included visiting professorships at Oxford, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, UCLA, New York, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and the Taiwan Army Medical Centre.[2]

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▶ Anonymous 08/27/24 (Tue) 13:21:35 7a6cdb (66) No.21489585>>21512748

>The Hoek Report/ Die Hoek Verslag covers an audit into capitalist ownership of the South African Economy. It was to be chaired in the South African Parliament on the 6th September [1966] by President Hendrik Verwoerd but he was assassinated on the day and the National Party hid the document's findings from the public.

>>21489537

>segregation within the Union Defence Force.

And people tend to refer to HF Verwoerd (Prime Minister 1958-1966) as the ‘architect of apartheid (separateness)’.

“A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF UNION DEFENCE FORCE OPERATIONS DURING THE AFRIKANER REBELLION, 1914-1915”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/2019-05/a_critical_analysis_of_union_defence_force.pdf

The South African entry into the First World War, as part of the British war effort, required the invasion of German South West Africa (GSWA) in order to secure strategic Imperial objectives. The initial invasion of GSWA was repulsed at Sandfontein during September 1914 and became the first operational reverse for the Union Defence Forces (UDF) during the First World War. However, in addition to a seemingly prevalent external German threat following this operational loss, South Africa faced a second, more serious, internal threat. The socioeconomic realities of early-twentieth-century South Africa, felt most keenly in rural Afrikaner society, in addition to the Union’s entry into the war, which further magnified the rift between the competing interests of Afrikaner nationalists and the Union government loyal to the Crown, triggered the outbreak of an Afrikaner Rebellion in September 1914. As a result, the operational focus of the UDF shifted immediately from the invasion of GSWA to the internal military threat posed by Afrikaner rebel forces. The Afrikaner Rebellion became the first conventional military deployment of the UDF within the borders of South Africa to suppress an internal revolt. The UDF harnessed its operational and tactical mobility by operating from the central position, along internal lines of communication, in order to swiftly deal with the rebel threat.

The Union of South Africa found itself in a precarious position at the outbreak of the First World War. The UDF was still in its developmental stage and was untested as a cohesive fighting force. The Union of South Africa was a dominion of Britain and when the British Empire declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the Union was in effect also at war with Germany. The British Empire requested the Union of South Africa to invade GSWA, capture its seaports and destroy its wireless communication stations.

Louis Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts1 supported the British war effort but JBM Hertzog contested the assumption that the association with the British Empire constituted an automatic involvement in the war. Botha’s motion for the invasion was passed in Parliament on 10 September 1914 by 91 votes to ten. The Union officially entered the First World War on 14 September 1914.

The Afrikaner Rebellion coincided with the South African campaign in GSWA. The entrance of the Union into the Great War resulted in an upsurge of emotion among the Afrikaner people. Many of the past tensions, anger and sadness which dated back to the South African War or prior had resurfaced.

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

South West Africa[b], renamed to Namibia[c] from 12 June 1968, was an occupied part of the Union of South Africa and later the Republic of South Africa from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia.

A German colony known as German South West Africa from 1884 to 1915, it was made a League of Nations mandate of the Union of South Africa following Germany's defeat in the First World War. Although the mandate was repealed by the United Nations on 27 October 1966, South African control over the territory continued despite its illegality under international law.[6] The territory was administered directly by the South African government from 1915 to 1978, when the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference laid the groundwork for semi-autonomous rule. During an interim period between 1978 and 1985, South Africa gradually granted South West Africa a limited form of home rule, culminating in the formation of a Transitional Government of National Unity.

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▶ Anonymous 08/28/24 (Wed) 11:34:12 84388a (1) No.21494591

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US Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dane Wigington: Is Climate Engineering Real?

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▶ Anonymous 08/28/24 (Wed) 13:47:36 7a2a98 (20) No.21495015>>21582652 >>21650780

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“The Citizens Are Fed Up!”

https://youtu.be/g81KHCfZOMY

Aug 27, 2024

They made their complaints known to the President and this is what happened.

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▶ Anonymous 08/28/24 (Wed) 13:47:42 97cfef (1) No.21495017

Cry about it nigga

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▶ Anonymous 08/29/24 (Thu) 13:23:00 7a6cdb (66) No.21500583>>21500613 >>21507050 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“ATM calls for Parliamentary inquiry into alleged rand manipulation”

https://youtu.be/AvBm0bz0poY

Aug 26, 2024

“ATM's Vuyo Zungula calls for rand manipulators to be held accountable by Parliament”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/atms-vuyo-zungula-calls-for-rand-manipulators-to-be-held-accountable-by-parliament/ar-AA1pyTkG

2024/08/28

African Transformation Movement (ATM) leader Vuyo Zungula has called for those responsible for the rand manipulation to face the wrath of the law.

It is alleged that more than 28 banks conspired to fix the value of the South African rand more than a decade ago.

The Competition Commission held hearings in November 2023 into the rand manipulation saga.

In February, the commission said the fight over the manipulation of the rand was headed to the Constitutional Court after it appealed the judgment of the Competition Appeal Court.

On Monday, Zungula announced that his party has formally requested Parliament to establish a commission of inquiry to further investigate the ongoing scandal.

In a letter dated August 26, Zungula specifically called for Speaker Thoko Didiza’s intervention through a draft resolution to address the alleged manipulation of the rand by financial institutions.

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/rand-manipulation-impacted-sa-workers-exporters-and-remittances-heavily-1b2bac3c-1e59-4e9e-9d25-f2bdce111211

Published Nov 22, 2023

Standard Chartered Bank last week agreed to pay R42.7 million in settlement for manipulating the rand through fixing bids, offers and trades in alliance with other banks between 2007 and 2018.

In 2017, Citibank also paid R69.5m in settlement with the Competition Commission for similar charges, while 26 other banks are appearing before the Competition Tribunal for this.

The Competition Commission has put up a value of R1 trillion as the value of the manipulated foreign exchange trades by the banks.

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▶ Anonymous 08/29/24 (Thu) 13:27:36 7a6cdb (66) No.21500613>>21507050 >>21540965 >>21542269 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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>>21500583

“19 banks still on the hook in South Africa’s rand manipulation case”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/finance/757647/19-banks-still-on-the-hook-in-south-africas-rand-manipulation-case/

5 Mar 2024

The commission is still pursuing its case against 19 of the initial 28 banks identified in the investigations.

The fate of 13 banks hinges on the ConCourt’s decision -- while six other banks are compelled to answer for their involvement.

The commission said it will not appeal the CAC order in respect of four banks -- Nedbank Group Limited, FirstRand Limited, Credit Suisse Group, and Standard New York Securities Inc.

Of the 28 banks initially pursued by the Competition Commission:

3 Applied for leniency: Barclays Plc, Barclays Capital and Absa Bank Ltd

2 Settled, fined: Citibank N.A and Standard Chartered Bank

4 Appeals not upheld: BNP Paribas, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Credit Suisse Securities and HSBC Bank Plc

2 Did not appeal: Investec Ltd and Investec Bank Ltd

4 Case dropped: Nedbank Group, FirstRand Limited, Credit Suisse Group and Bank of

America, N.A

13 Appeals upheld, pending ConCourt: Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Designated Activity Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Nomura International PLC, Commerzbank AG, Macquarie Bank Limited, HSBC Bank, USA National Association, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc, Bank of America, National Association, Nedbank Limited, FirstRand Bank Limited, and Standard Americas, Inc.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/741065/south-africas-rand-manipulation-case-falls-apart/

9 Jan 2024

--The Competition Appeals Court has dismissed the Competition Commission’s rand manipulation case against the majority of banks – both local and international – accused of rigged trades involving the rand/dollar pair.---

See attachment for full ruling.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/749186/rand-manipulation-case-against-major-banks-heading-to-the-constitutional-court/

6 Feb 2024

The Competition Commission says it has approached the Constitutional Court of South Africa for leave to appeal the Competition Appeal Court’s (CAC) judgment from January 2024 that largely dismantled its case of rand manipulation against major banks.

The commission has been pursuing a case against 28 banks since 2015, including the big local banks and many other international banks, alleging that these groups colluded with each other to fix the foreign exchange rate in respect of the US Dollar and the South African Rand currency pair.

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▶ Anonymous 08/29/24 (Thu) 19:32:43 7a6cdb (66) No.21502802>>21502814 >>21502837 >>21507050 >>21507100 >>21507168

>mpox

“DAVID MARTIN: MONKEYPOX THE COVER STORY”

https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/david-martin-monkeypox-the-cover

Aug 18, 2024

In 2021 NTI predicts a laboratory engineered vaccine resistant Monkeypox outbreak with 271 Million deaths. This is a coverup for the fatalities of the Covid injected. WHO is a criminal organization led by Bill Gates, Rockefellers and the Wellcome Trust.

Dustin Moskovitz sponsored the live pandemic simulation of the laboratory engineered vaccine resistant Monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak with 3.2 Billion cases around the world and 271 million deaths. He is the founder of Open Philanthropy and wants CRISPR gene editing technology used on all humanity.

STATEMENT FROM NTI:

We are grateful to Open Philanthropy. The exercise and report would not have been possible without their generous support.

Executive Summary:

In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures and explored opportunities to improve capabilities to prevent and respond to high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

https://x.com/SpartaJustice/status/1824951276796355025

In the video;

16:34 -- “We have to go back to 1913 to understand this crime and specifically… we have to look at the Rockefeller Foundation and then a few years later the Wellcome Trust which became the colluding parties that authorised the idea that allopathic medicine becoming the agency through which behaviour modification can be done through medicine… If you look at the Wellcome Trust going into the Second World War, it was very explicitly the commercial offense of the United Kingdom on the German pharmaceutical chemical industrial complex… The Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome Trust became the organising entities which ultimately in 1947 put the World Health Organisation on the map… They wrote into the United Nations Charter the absolute liability shield from all criminal prosecution in perpetuity for any person associated with the World Health Organisation and any of its activities… It is important to realise when we talk about the World Health Organisation, we are not talking about an institution in the United Nations, we are talking about a criminal conspiracy that has been put into place by 2 foundations who had a commercial interest in building a criminal liability shield for themselves. That’s what it is.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/29/24 (Thu) 19:34:05 7a6cdb (66) No.21502814>>21502837 >>22366049

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>In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered…

“Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats” -- Scenario: Monkeypox

https://youtu.be/SLQ5rz9xCl4

Nuclear Threat Initiative channel

Nov 23, 2021

6:45 -- ‘Fiction’ scenario video about Monkeypox

In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures---exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

This report, "Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats: Results from the 2021 Tabletop Exercise Conducted in Partnership with the Munich Security Conference," written by Jaime M. Yassif, Ph.D., Kevin P. O’Prey, Ph.D., and Christopher R. Isaac, M.Sc., summarizes key findings from the exercise and offers actionable recommendations for the international community.

The report launch on November 23, 2021 was chaired by NTI | bio Interim Vice President Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg and featured remarks from Twist Biosciences CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Emily Leproust, and NTI | bio Senior Fellow Dr. Jaime Yassif.

Learn more about the event: https://www.nti.org/events/report-launch-strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/

Read the report: https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/

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▶ Anonymous 08/29/24 (Thu) 19:36:39 7a6cdb (66) No.21502837>>21507168 >>21507508

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>>21502814

>Read the report: https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/

Report: “Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats”

See attachment

NTI recognizes the critical importance of strengthening the global biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architecture. To that end, NTI is focused on catalyzing the development of stronger international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness capabilities so the world is better able to prevent and respond to future biological risks. To address important gaps in key areas, NTI is working with international partners:

• To establish a new global biosecurity entity dedicated to reducing emerging biological risks that can accompany certain technology advances. Its mission will be to reduce the risks of catastrophic consequences due to accidents, inadvertent misuse, or deliberate abuse of bioscience and biotechnology by promoting stronger global biosecurity norms and developing tools and incentives to uphold them.

• To explore the possibility of establishing a new Joint Assessment Mechanism to investigate highconsequence biological events of unknown origin. This new mechanism would operate at the “seam” between existing mechanisms---including World Health Organization (WHO) outbreak investigation capabilities and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Mechanism for investigating alleged deliberate bioweapons use—thereby strengthening UN system capabilities to investigate pandemic origins.

• To advocate for establishing a catalytic, multilateral financing mechanism for global health security and pandemic preparedness. The goal is to accelerate sustainable biosecurity and pandemic preparedness capacity-building in countries where resources are most needed.

Few of the Participants;

Dr. Beth Cameron, Senior Director, Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense, U.S. National Security Council

Mr. Luc Debruyne, Strategic Advisor to the CEO Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness

Dr. Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D Janssen Research & Development

Dr. Chris Elias, President, Global Development Division Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust

Dr. George Gao, Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

Dr. Margaret (Peggy) A. Hamburg, Interim Vice President, Global Biological Policy and Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

Dr. John Nkengasong, Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Sam Nunn, Founder and Co-Chair Nuclear Threat Initiative Former U.S. Senator

Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme

Dr. Petra Wicklandt, Head of Corporate Affairs Merck KGaA

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 13:51:59 07b319 (103) No.21507050>>21507053 >>21507100 >>21507168 >>21512748 >>21512801 >>21512811 >>21526985 >>21543428 >>21543498 >>21582698

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>We have to go back to 1913 to understand this crime…

>>21454054

>economic civil war

>>21500583

>>21500613

>rand manipulatiom

>>21502802 - Now a bio-war

>>21479084

>>21467430

>internationalists or "world citizen" institutions

One should look back even futher…

“The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes”: “a scheme to take the government of the whole world” 1902 -- Part 1

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1902-The-Last-Will-and-Testament-of-Cecil-J.-Rhodes-by-WT-Stead-editor-Review-of-Reviews-Office-London-1902.pdf

Once every year " Founder's Day " will be celebrated at Oxford ; and not at Oxford only, but wherever on the broad world's surface half-a-dozen old " Rhodes scholars " come together they will celebrate the great ideal of Cecil Rhodes the first of modern statesmen to grasp the sublime conception of the essential unity of the race.

Cecil Rhodes, in the current phrase of the hour, was an empire maker… He was a man apart. It was his distinction to be the first of the new Dynasty of Money Kings which has been evolved in these later days as the real rulers of the modern world… But although there have been many wealthier men, none of them, before Mr. Rhodes, recognised the opportunities of ruling the world which wealth affords its possessor. The great financiers of Europe have no doubt often used their powers to control questions of peace or war and to influence politics, but they always acted from a strictly financial motive… But Mr. Rhodes inverted the operation. With him political considerations were always paramount. If he used the market he did it in order to secure the means of achieving political ends. Hence it is no exaggeration to regard him as the first he will not be the last of the Millionaire Monarchs of the Modern World--.

He was the founder of the latest of the dynasties which seems destined to wield the sceptre of sovereign power over the masses of mankind.

Mr. Rhodes was more than the founder of a dynasty. He aspired to be the creator of one of those vast semi-religious, quasi-political associations which, like the Society of Jesus, have played so large a part in the history of the world. To be more strictly accurate, he wished to found an Order as the instrument of the will of the Dynasty, and while he lived he dreamed of being both its Caesar and its Loyola

" the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars." He then asks himself what are the objects for which he should work, and answers his question as follows : " The furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream ! but yet it is probable. It is possible."

I believe until the world comes to its senses you should declare war I mean a commercial war with those who are trying to boycott your manufactures that is my programme. You might finish the war by union with America and universal peace, I mean after one hundred years, and a secret society organised like Loyola's, supported by the accumulated wealth of those whose aspiration is a desire to do something

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 13:52:32 07b319 (103) No.21507053>>21507100 >>21507168 >>21512748 >>21512801 >>21512811 >>21526985 >>21543428 >>21543498 >>21582698

“The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes”: “a scheme to take the government of the whole world” 1902 -- Part 2

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1902-The-Last-Will-and-Testament-of-Cecil-J.-Rhodes-by-WT-Stead-editor-Review-of-Reviews-Office-London-1902.pdf

What an awful thought it is that if we had not lost America, or if even now we could arrange with the present members of the United States Assembly and our House of Commons, the peace of the world is secured for all eternity ! We could hold your federal parliament five years at Washington and five at London. The only thing feasible to carry this idea out is a secret one (society) gradually absorbing the wealth of the world to be devoted to such an object.

Fancy the charm to young America, just coming on and dissatisfied for they have filled up their own country and do not know what to tackle next to share in a scheme to take the government of the whole world !

It would have been better for Europe if he had carried out his idea of Universal Monarchy; he might have succeeded if he had hit on the idea of granting self-government to the component parts. Still, I will own tradition, race, and diverse languages acted against his dream ; all these do not exist as to the present English-speaking world, and apart from this union is the sacred duty of taking the responsibility of the still uncivilised parts of the world. The trial of these countries who have been found wanting such as Portugal, Persia, even Spain and the judgment that they must depart, and, of course, the whole of the South American Republics. What a scope and what a horizon of work, at any rate, for the next two centuries, the best energies of the best people in the world ; perfectly feasible, but needing an organisation, for it is impossible for one human atom to complete anything, much less such an idea as this requiring the devotion of the best souls of the next 200 years. There are three essentials : (i) The plan duly weighed and agreed to. (2) The first organisation. (3) The seizure of the wealth necessary.

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

Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world's most prestigious international scholarship programs.

Rhodes Scholars have achieved distinction as politicians, academics, scientists and doctors, authors, entrepreneurs, and Nobel Prize winners. Many scholars have become heads of state or heads of government, including President of the United States Bill Clinton, President of Pakistan Wasim Sajjad, Prime Minister of Jamaica Norman Manley, Prime Minister of Malta Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister Of Canada John Turner, and Prime Ministers of Australia Tony Abbott, Bob Hawke, and Malcolm Turnbull.[7] Other notable Rhodes Scholars include Nobel Prize-winning scientist Howard Florey, Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence, Australian High Court Justice James Edelman, journalist and American television host George Stephanopolous, astronomer Edwin Hubble, author Naomi Wolf, musician Kris Kristofferson, Jamaican Minister of Finance Nigel Clarke, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, film maker Terrence Malick, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly and President/CEO of Navigation Capital Partners David K Panton.

More; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 14:01:44 07b319 (103) No.21507100>>21507168 >>21512748 >>21516678 >>21543428 >>21543498 >>21582698 >>21650780 >>22390070

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>The seizure of the wealth necessary

>JOHN DUNN

>Paul Kruger

Cecil Rhodes: “British South Africa Company (BSAC)” -- “The British government guaranteed the BSAC a monopoly”

https://samepassage.org/british-south-africa-company-2/

British South Africa Company (BSAC, BSACO, or BSA Company), a mercantile company based in London that was incorporated in October 1889 under a royal charter at the instigation of Cecil Rhodes, with the object of acquiring and exercising commercial and administrative rights in south-central Africa. The charter was initially granted for 25 years, and it was extended for a 10-year period in 1915.

The BSAC’s function was to take the risk of extending the infrastructure of modern capitalism (including railways) into south-central Africa for the benefit of the British but without the costs falling on the British taxpayer. Unlike normal companies, the BSAC was permitted to establish political administration with a paramilitary police force in areas where it might be granted rights by local rulers. It was also allowed to profit commercially through its own operations or by renting out land, receiving royalties on the mining of minerals, levying customs duties, and collecting other fees.

The British government guaranteed the BSAC a monopoly where it operated and, as a last resort, was prepared to support it militarily against rival European powers or local rebellions. The consent of local African rulers was frequently misrepresented or evaded, and company operations initially consisted of blatant acts of military conquest. In effect, the profits earned by Rhodes and his associates from established Southern African diamond and gold interests were speculatively reinvested in the BSAC and thus in the conquest of regions of Africa where land, looted cattle, gold, other minerals and assets, and the labor of Africans might be exploited.

In 1890 the BSAC invaded Mashonaland with a force of “Pioneers,” and in 1893 it attacked the Ndebele kingdom, Matabeleland, creating the basis for the colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). BSAC concession seekers operated north of the Zambezi River, their territorial acquisitions being halted only in Katanga, by rivals financed by King Leopold II of Belgium. The area that was appropriated became Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). An attempt to take control over parts of Mozambique in 1890--91 was thwarted by the Anglo-Portuguese Convention of 1891, and a later attempt to secure the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) also failed. The participation of the BSAC in the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of December 1895 and its misgovernment in Matabeleland (culminating in the “Rising,” a serious and expensive rebellion by the Ndebele in 1896, which was put down only by the intervention of British troops) produced a review of the BSAC’s charter, but it was permitted to continue. A rising in the Ngoni people in Northern Rhodesia was suppressed during 1897–98.

After 1897 the BSAC administered the two Rhodesias, encouraging the immigration of white settlers with exaggerated tales of gold deposits. When these claims were proved to be overstated, settlers were encouraged as farmers. Company rule ended in Southern Rhodesia in 1923, when the white settlers were granted responsible government, and in Northern Rhodesia in 1924, when the British Colonial Office assumed control. The company retained its commercial assets, however, and its mineral rights in Northern Rhodesia became a valuable source of revenue following the development of the copper-mining industry in that territory between World Wars I and II. On the eve of Zambia’s independence in 1964, the company was forced, by the threat of expropriation, to assign its mineral rights to the local government. The company merged with two other companies to form Charter Consolidated, Ltd., in 1965.

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol123rb.html

Much has been written about the events of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), yet very little has been said about the 'Rhodesian' element in that conflict. This is surprising, considering that the 1896 Jameson Raid was launched from that direction. There had been a longstanding animosity across the Limpopo since the territory was colonised by Rhodes' British South Africa Company (BSACo) and the build-up of imperial forces along this border was specifically mentioned in the official correspondence prior to the formal Declaration of War. It would seem that these events have been forgotten for want of spectacular military blunders and a dearth of contemporary media coverage. Clearly the role of media hype is not a new phenomenon.

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 14:23:06 07b319 (103) No.21507168>>21507174 >>21507508 >>21512748 >>21512801 >>21516678 >>21543428 >>21543498 >>22366049

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>requiring the devotion of the best souls of the next 200 years

>>21507100

>>21489537

>the idealised vision of medicine and the provision of universal health care

>Wellcome Trust

>Cecil Rhodes

Wellcome Trust, etc. History and Association to the Coronavirus - Part 1

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=8136

Lord Pirbright (Rothschild) and his banker cousins at N.M. Rothschild & Co. were godfathers of the 2nd Boer War concentration camps (1899-1902) to drive the French, Dutch and Germans out of South Africa

New Evidence: Leading London Jews were running the first modern war concentration camps where over 60,000 whites and blacks died, including more than 14,000 mostly white children who were subjected to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (now Wellcome Trust--Coronavirus funder and GlaxoSmithKline) vaccine experiments

Pirbright also coached Henry S. Wellcome and Sir Henry M. Stanley in their rapacious acquisition of valuable African poisons and cures used in extensive vaccine experimentation on human beings---including black and Boer (German, Dutch and French) prisoners they had put in concentration camps and performed fatal Wellcome Trust drug experiments. Pirbright gave Cecil Rhodes an almost free hand in the British South Africa Company to write laws, collect taxes and run his own police force in their new British Imperial-Fascist Corporatism model for reorganizing the British Empire while continuing to control the resources of their colonies, even after Home Rule was implemented (like Rio Tinto -- global mining company [including uranium] that is also a Rothschild creation for the British Crown that the Monarch controls to this day), Viscount Alfred Milner, co-founder of the Pilgrims Society, was Rio Tinto chairman from 1923-1925, and earlier a director for many years.

(FEB. 20, 2020)---Once we discovered that the Coronavirus was created and patented (U.S. Pat. No. 10,130,701) by “The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Pirbright, Surrey,” we were compelled to learn more about this Pirbright organization and the village of Pirbright.

One of our conclusions from this investigation is that The Pirbright Institute is very evidently part of the Pilgrims Society’s 200-year Rhodes-ian plan to create an un-elected one-world government where America is made subservient to the Pilgrims Society and its United Nations. As we are just now discovering, Rhodes had a mentor for his 200-year plan.

The Pirbright Institute has close affiliations with vaccine pharmaceuticals including British Merial (originally a joint venture between drug companies U.S. Merck and French Sanofi-Aventis), German Boehringer Ingelheim, British Wellcome Trust, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation are the two largest investors in pharma research on the planet and heavily fund The Pirbright Institute.

On Oct. 03, 1893, Lord Pirbright inherited a substantial sum in those days---about £350,000—as residuary legatee of his mother Henrietta Samuel’s estate. He used these funds to fund great mischief, including purchasing the land in the greater Pirbright area on land that today houses MOD (Ministry of Defense) facilities associated with British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), including The Pirbright Institute, essentially controlled by the Wellcome Trust and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—two key funders of the Pirbright Institute along with U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Cobbett Hill Earthstation, that are both adjacent to the Army Training Center -- Pirbright land acquired by the Army in about 1875.

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 14:24:12 07b319 (103) No.21507174>>21507508 >>21512748 >>21512801 >>21543428 >>21543498 >>22366049

>>21507168

Wellcome Trust, etc. History and Association to the Coronavirus - Part 2

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=8136

Cecil John Rhodes now appears to have taken his new-world order orders from Henry de Worms 1st Lord Pirbright, his mentor.

Lord Pirbright also bankrolled Henry Wellcome’s meteoric rise in the pharmaceutical business as well as Sir Henry M. Stanley’s expeditions to Africa to collect new cures and poisons for Henry Wellcome, as well as secure west African mining rights for Belgium King Leopold II, the British South Africa Company and his protégés Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Winston Churchill and John Buchan, among others.

The British South Africa Company would empower Rhodes to run South Africa as a corporation with its own laws, taxes and police force. This profligate governance model eventually led to Milner and Roberts establishing the world’s first concentrations camps in the 2nd Boer War. Over 60,000 souls, including 14,000 children were murdered in these barbaric camps via suspicious outbreaks of measles, typhoid and dysentery. Family described to our researchers that children with even sniffles were taken away from their parents and never returned, presumed murdered. Notably, Henry Wellcome supplied his medicine chests full of experimental vaccines to the British Army that were used in these death camps.

Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer conspired with Henry (Rothschild) de Worms, Henry Wellcome and Cecil Rhodes to secure British monopolies in South Africa over diamond and gold mining, and pharmaceuticals. His expeditions into Africa were bankrolled by The Daily Telegraph (Lord Burnham), The Daily Mail (Lord Northcliffe),The New York Herald, The Morning Post (Winston Churchill’s employer) and Henry (Rothschild) de Worms 1st Lord Pirbright, among others.Stanley chose to be buried in Pirbright, Surrey, UK, the home of his long-time political and financial sponsor, Lord Pirbright.

Henry Solomon Wellcome (an American) founded the Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Burroughs & Co. pharmaceuticals and chemicals company (now GlaxoSmithKline). Promoted fascist imperialism. Co-founded the Pilgrims Society (1902). Bankrolled The First Imperial Press Conference, 1909, Co-founded the Empire Press Union (1909) and British MI5, MI6 and GC&CS now GCHQ from newspapermen of the Empire.

The Wellcome Trust today is the second largest grant funder in the world, second only to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with whom the Wellcome Trust is teamed at The Pirbright Institute.

Wellcome helped finance Stanely’s expeditions. Stanely also helped Belgium’s Prince Leopold II secure the Congo for the Rothschilds and De Beers’ diamond and gold interests.

Wellcome and Stanley were both born promoters who used the corridors of power to secure their wealth and influence. Wellcome Trust today is the second largest grant-maker in the world after The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The unmistakable commonality here in Britain’s new corporatist-fascist imperial plan for the new British Empire was to have unanimity of vision and direction across banking (dominated by Rothschilds), pharma (dominated by Wellcome), government (controlled ultimately by the Pilgrims Society), Wireless Technology (controlled by the Marconi Wireless monopoly), propaganda (controlled by the Empire Press Union) and information (controlled by MI6, MI5, GC& CS, renamed GCHQ).

The Pirbright Institute records show that it is heavily financed by Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates, the European Commission, the World Health Organization and U.S. DARPA. In addition to Wellcome, the pharmaceutical AstraZenica provides vaccine research funding also.

American and British Pilgrims Society, newspapers, intelligence, tech and banks must confess that they are using Crown-controlled QinetiQ and SERCO to get over $18 billion in U.S. defense contracts to build bio-weapons at The Pirbright Institute, Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca, Crown Agents and Senior Executive Service (SES) to kill us.

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 15:44:58 07b319 (103) No.21507508

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>Sir Jeremy Farrar, former Director, Wellcome Trust… Now WHO Chief Scientist

“Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar, Keynote speech, Rhodes Healthcare Forum”; “no such thing as being apolitical”

https://youtu.be/_hSceV1uhgU

Mar 21, 2019

6:59 -- “We should thank all Americans for giving us Henry Wellcome. It’s what you get if you give somebody a knighthood, they come to your country and they give you lots of money. So Henry Wellcome as an American and we’d never forget that because we are in the UK as an accident history and as we keep saying to the UK government… We don’t have to be here in the UK which is a very important message.”

7:22 -- “Although Wellcome is 80 years old, it had a fantastic history and I think on a remarkable trajectory. The reason I came back was twofold. One is, I was not aware of so many organisations that emotionally and by what they did brought together the three things that I think ultimately matter if you’re going to make the world a better place… coming together of science, innovation and putting science and innovation in the context of society.”

Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar - Director of the Wellcome Trust speaks on 'The role of academia in promoting health for all' at the 4th Rhodes Healthcare Forum.

0:00 -- Introduction

0:38 -- potted history

6:11 -- World Trust

9:03 -- Global

10:54 -- Progress

11:36 -- Success

13:17 -- The world is changing

15:50 -- Travel communication

16:50 -- Global health

18:09 -- Challenge to knowledge - “the anti-vaccine movement is a very good example”

19:13 -- Climate change – “a huge impact on health”

21:04 -- New global public health – “ultimately it is both a health issue and critically an economic and governance and political issue and I don’t think the academic community can stand on the sidelines and think we are or were apolitical reason my view no such thing as being apolitical.”

22:28 -- Universal healthcare – “This is universal healthcare” showing pictures of people in hazmat suits and discussing the outbreak of ebola.

23:32 -- The environment – discussion; evacuating a guy in the DRC in a Ukrainian helicopter, “run by somebody called [?] from Kiev in Ukraine.”

24:21 -- Universal health coverage

25:10 -- The future of academia – “Whatever that is; environment, demographics, nutrition, genetics, governance, politics to shape the world of it will be and not of what it is today and to appreciate the decisions you make are not going to be passive, they will influence the trajectory of the next 30 to 40 years.”

27:42 -- Funding academics

30:21 -- Challenges for academics

30:55 -- Innovation – “It comes back to Wellcome… we should be here forever… we have a role to play in liberating and providing patient capital.”

33:20 -- Global Mental Health

36:27 -- Interdisciplinary Research

37:25 -- Indepth Expertise

39:06 -- Africa

39:46 -- Shift of centre of gravity – “Like open skies changes and vis-à-vis travel, I think those are also hugely part of it.”

42:39 -- Advocacy

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 16:37:46 175e34 (38) No.21507727>>21507741 >>21512801 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22651658

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“South Africa, Israel and the ANC's distorted sense of morality”

https://youtu.be/TmKER1WNT8w [embedded]

Aug 30, 2024

When the ANC-led South African government took Israel to the ICJ, they claimed that they have a moral duty to act, and that they are consistent in their condemnation of atrocities and the application of international law. Yet, any person who spends a few minutes to investigate the ANC and the South African government's policies and conduct would see that in as far as they do in fact have a sense of morality, it is a distorted sense of morality at best.

In this video I evaluate the South African government's reaction to the conflict in the Middle East, it's voting record at the United Nations, it's relations with several states deemed to have committed atrocities (including Iran, Syria and North Korea) and also it's response to atrocities in South Africa. In this regard the ANC and it's ideological allies' reaction to farm murders and to hateful chants toward farmers should be pointed out in particular.

It's also worth mentioning that advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has argued at the ICJ that Israel has genocidal intent, among others based on songs sung by Israeli soldiers, but has also argued in South Africa that there is nothing wrong with chants like Kill the Boer, kill the farmer, because the context within which the chants are made has to be considered.

Watch the full ICJ case [Jan 11, 2024] here: https://youtu.be/MOW_1exsHE8

Watch the full Kill the Boer case [Sep 4, 2023] here: https://youtu.be/KsqzkP14pCk

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▶ Anonymous 08/30/24 (Fri) 16:40:39 175e34 (38) No.21507741>>22366046 >>22459238 >>22518640 >>22651658

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>>21507727

Report: “South Africa and the African National Congress’s History of Supporting Abusive Regimes”

https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/south-africa-african-national-congresss-history-supporting-abusive-regimes-joshua-meservey

Jan 19, 2024

The South African government has been an aggressive critic of Israel for decades and is now leading the international condemnation of the Israeli response to Hamas’s October 7 terror attack. South Africa filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for alleged crimes, including genocide, against the Palestinians.1 Pretoria’s press release announcing the case declared that “South Africa is under a treaty obligation to prevent genocide from occurring.”2 The party that has ruled South Africa since the end of Apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC), applauded the filing and said that it “signifies [South Africa’s] unwavering commitment to justice, human rights, and the principles enshrined in international law.”3

But a review of South Africa’s foreign policy, namely its voting record at the United Nations, demonstrates that for decades Pretoria and the ANC have remained silent on some of the world’s worst abuses and have supported regimes with appalling human rights records.

From 1994 through October 2023, South Africa was eligible to vote on 111 contested draft resolutions condemning countries other than Israel for human rights violations in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and its predecessor, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR).4 Given this opportunity to demonstrate its fidelity to human rights, Pretoria responded largely with inaction when Israel was not the subject. South Africa abstained on 75 of the 111 motions (68 percent), voted against 17 motions (15 percent), and voted in favor of 19 motions (17 percent).5 It did not sponsor any of these contested draft resolutions.6

Pretoria sometimes goes beyond abstention on some of the world’s worst injustices and provides diplomatic protection and support to abusive governments.

Later, in the name of “quiet diplomacy,” South African president and ANC leader Thabo Mbeki downplayed the crisis in Zimbabwe and shielded Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe from international pressure, including from the Southern African Development Community.23

Pretoria has also demonstrated a selective concern for human rights in other ways. In 2015, it ignored its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by hosting then Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir despite an ICC arrest warrant for three counts of genocide, among other crimes.27 That genocide likely killed over 300,000 people and displaced over two million.28

In addition, the ANC hosted a Hamas delegation in early December 2023, less than two months after the terrorist group launched the surprise attack on Israel that killed over 1,100 men, women, and children and included rapes, beheadings, and kidnappings.

Unworthy of the World’s Moral Regard

Pretoria and the ANC are likely using their status as a global voice of conscience---a vestige of the anti-Apartheid struggle—to earn credibility and international support for their ICJ case against Israel. Yet South Africa has declined to condemn some of the gravest human rights abuses of the modern era and has often proactively tried to shield some of the world’s most violent governments. This record of selective and often callous disregard for human rights should provoke global skepticism of any human rights position South Africa adopts, including on Israel.

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▶ Anonymous 08/31/24 (Sat) 14:32:07 7a2a98 (20) No.21512387>>21512801 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“Violent crimes on the increase”

https://youtu.be/so-R0Bi1jDY

Aug 30, 2024

Violent crimes such as murder, rape and hijackings have increased.

And these categories of crime have the potential to significantly affect the country’s already struggling economy.

That's the stark warning from Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.

He released the country's crime stats for the first half of the year in Cape Town earlier today.

2:12 -- “We are living in a very dangerous country. Just to give you an idea, we’re talking about 3 murders per hour in South Africa. These are war zone rates that we’re actually talking about.”

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▶ Anonymous 08/31/24 (Sat) 16:33:27 7a2a98 (20) No.21512748>>21516678

>And people tend to refer to HF Verwoerd (Prime Minister 1958-1966) as the ‘architect of apartheid (separateness)’.

“The First Pan-African Conference [from 23 to 25 July 1900]” - “injustices in Britain’s African and Caribbean colonies”

https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-politics/first-pan-african-conference/

On 24 September 1897, Henry Sylvester Williams had been instrumental in founding the African Association, in response to the European partition of Africa that followed the 1884-5 Congress of Berlin. The formation of the association marked an early stage in the development of the anti-colonialist movement and was established to encourage the unity of Africans and people of African descent, particularly in territories of the British empire, concerning itself with injustices in Britain’s African and Caribbean colonies. In March 1898 the association issued a circular calling for a pan-African conference. Booker T. Washington, who had been travelling in the UK in the summer of 1899, wrote in a letter to African-American newspapers:

“The object and character of the Pan-African Conference is best told in the words of the resolution, which was adopted at the meeting referred to, viz: ‘In view of the widespread ignorance which is prevalent in England about the treatment of native races under European and American rule, the African Association, which consists of members of the race resident in England and which has been in existence for nearly two years, have resolved during the Paris Exposition of 1900 (which many representatives of the race may be visiting) to hold a conference in London in the month of May of the said year, in order to take steps to influence public opinion on existing proceedings and conditions affecting the welfare of the natives in various parts of Africa, the West Indies and the United States.’’

In September, the delegates petitioned Queen Victoria through the British government to look into the treatment of Africans in South Africa and Rhodesia, including specified acts of injustice perpetrated by whites there, namely:

1. The degrading and illegal compound system of labour in vogue in Kimberley and Rhodesia.

2. The so-called indenture, i.e., legalized bondage of African men and women and children to white colonists.

3. The system of compulsory labour in public works.

4. The “pass” or docket system used for people of colour.

5. Local by-laws tending to segregate and degrade Africans such as the curfew; the denial to Africans of the use of footpaths; and the use of separate public conveyances.

6. Difficulties in acquiring real property.

7. Difficulties in obtaining the franchise.

The response eventually received by Sylvester-Williams on 17 January 1901 stated:

“Sir. I am directed by Mr Secretary Chamberlain to state that he has received the Queen’s commands to inform you that the Memorial of the Pan-African Conference requesting the situation of the native races in South Africa, has been laid before Her Majesty, and that she was graciously pleased to command him to return an answer to it on behalf of her government.

2. Mr. Chamberlain accordingly desires to assure the members of the Pan-African Conference that, it settling the lines on which the administration of the conquered territories is to be conducted, Her Majesty’s Government will not overlook the interests and welfare of the native races. Days later, Victoria responded more personally, instructing her private secretary, Arthur Bigge, to write, which he did on 21 January -- the day before the Queen died. Although the specific injustices in South Africa continued for some time, the conference brought them to the attention of the world.

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▶ Anonymous 08/31/24 (Sat) 16:47:00 7a2a98 (20) No.21512801>>21512811

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>It's also worth mentioning that advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has argued at the ICJ that Israel has genocidal intent, among others based on songs sung by Israeli soldiers, but has also argued in South Africa that there is nothing wrong with chants like Kill the Boer, kill the farmer, because the context within which the chants are made has to be considered.

>“We are living in a very dangerous country. Just to give you an idea, we’re talking about 3 murders per hour in South Africa. These are war zone rates that we’re actually talking about.”

“Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? - George Orwell's Warning to the World” - “Don’t let it happen, it depends on you.”

https://youtu.be/vEMlvpMY7yw

Aug 7, 2021

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▶ Anonymous 08/31/24 (Sat) 16:53:03 7a2a98 (20) No.21512811

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>>21512801

>I believe until the world comes to its senses you should declare war I mean a commercial war with those who are trying to boycott your manufactures that is my programme. You might finish the war by union with America and universal peace, I mean after one hundred years, and a secret society organised like Loyola's, supported by the accumulated wealth of those whose aspiration is a desire to do something

>if even now we could arrange with the present members of the United States Assembly and our House of Commons, the peace of the world is secured for all eternity!… The only thing feasible to carry this idea out is a secret one (society) gradually absorbing the wealth of the world to be devoted to such an object.

“JFK | Secret Societies Speech | Long Version” [April 27, 1961]

https://youtu.be/pfzJaLXujTE

6:36 -- “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announcement need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control.”

8:22 -- “In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosure to the enemy. In times of “clear and present danger,” the courts have held that even the privileded rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public’s need for national security. Today no war has been declared and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired. If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. –If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent. It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions – by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper.---“

9:55 -- “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence – on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.”

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▶ Anonymous 09/01/24 (Sun) 12:54:58 7a6cdb (66) No.21516678

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>State owned enterprises in South Africa date back to the 19th century when Paul Kruger’s Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek tried to promote local industries to stave off British control.

“British Concentration Camps: Second Boer War of Independence”

https://youtu.be/8wR-HXyBljc

Oct 28, 2022

The concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War were formed by the British army to house the residents of the two Boer republics of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. They were established towards the end of 1900, after Britain had invaded the Boer Republics.

The suffering experienced in the camps left a lasting legacy of bitterness amongst the Boers. Between 18,000 and 28,000 Boers died, 80% of them children. Less known are the "native" refugee camps, which functioned as forced wartime labour camps, and are today known as African concentration camps. About 20,000 African people also died in the concentration camps.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3069/3069-h/3069-h.htm

THE GREAT BOER WAR

By Arthur Conan Doyle

September 1902

Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer---the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.

Look at the map of South Africa, and there, in the very centre of the British possessions, like the stone in a peach, lies the great stretch of the two republics, a mighty domain for so small a people. How came they there? Who are these Teutonic folk who have burrowed so deeply into Africa? It is a twice-told tale, and yet it must be told once again if this story is to have even the most superficial of introductions. No one can know or appreciate the Boer who does not know his past, for he is what his past has made him.

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▶ Anonymous 09/01/24 (Sun) 14:37:18 07b319 (103) No.21517065>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

“27 justice department officials dismissed for misconduct”

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-08-27-27-justice-department-officials-dismissed-for-misconduct/#google_vignette

27 August 2024 - 14:58

Offences included fraud, theft, sexual harassment and absenteeism

The department of justice and constitutional development has dismissed 27 officials for misconduct.

Spokesperson Kgalalelo Masibi said the department is dealing with 81 appeal matters regarding 55 dismissals, 25 suspensions and one warning.

Masibi said the appeal matters were lodged by officials found guilty of misconduct.

The offences include fraud, theft, sexual harassment, bringing the department into disrepute, absenteeism, abuse of state vehicles and insubordination, the department disclosed.

“Out of 81 appeals lodged, the department has to date finalised 31 appeal matters. There were 27 dismissals upheld and four reduced sanctions,” Masibi said.

She said all the outstanding appeal matters are being processed expeditiously.

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▶ Anonymous 09/01/24 (Sun) 14:37:56 07b319 (103) No.21517068>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“Increase in murder cases in NW”

https://youtu.be/Vt2ydNcYfoA

Sep 1, 2024

North West is one of the provinces seeing an significant increase in murder cases, going by the recent crime statistics released by the police ministry. Some of the province's residents say they live in constant fear. Refiloe Seboko reports.

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▶ Anonymous 09/01/24 (Sun) 19:28:48 7a6cdb (66) No.21518362>>21527941 >>22366061

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“Discussion | Another delay in Zuma's arms deal case”; "the arms trade is responsible for about 40% of world corruption… controls the politicians in Europe and… US"

https://youtu.be/zdreQNWxFhg

Sep 1, 2024

Former president Jacob Zuma recently appeared in the Pietermaritzburg High Court for a pre-trial hearing in the long-running arms deal corruption case, nearly 25 years after the scandal first emerged.

Despite progress in May, when Judge Thoba Poyo-Dlwati scheduled the trial for six weeks between April and September next year, further delays have surfaced.

To shed more light on the ongoing obstacles, we are now joined by arms deal and corruption activist, Terry Crawford-Browne.

2:52 -- “In 1998, I learned that BAE was laundering bribes via two Swedish trade unions to the ANC ahead of the 1999 election. Through a contact in London, I asked the British government to investigate. Scotland Yard was appointed to do so and it came back, it was not illegal in English law to bribe foreigners at that stage and therefore there was no crime for Scotland Yard to investigate. So there was that cover up. That then however led to the Serious Fraud Office in Britain opening an investigation of BAE bribes to Saudi Arabia, South Africa and six other countries and Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006 then squelched the whole thing saying, “it violated British national security.” So it’s not just our government that is covering it up. There are governments in Europe as well; the British, the Germans, the Swedes… because I am sad to say it has been estimated that… the arms trade is responsible for about 40% of world corruption that can be traced back to the arms trade. So it’s a hugely corrupt business but it controls the politicians in Europe and also in the United States.”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/zumas-delay-tactics-prove-effective-in-arms-deal-case/

30 Aug 2024

Charged with French arms company Thales for fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering, linked to the 1999 multi-billion-rand defence procurement project, Zuma’s pre-trial hearing yesterday resumed at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg, with his defence again pushing for the recusal of prosecutor Billy Downer.

Breaking from his earlier undertaking of not giving reasons on Downer’s non-recusal, Judge Nkosinathi Chili said “exceptional circumstances” existed that justify him providing reasons for the decision, that he would provide on 11 September.

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▶ Anonymous 09/02/24 (Mon) 00:43:29 902e3f (83) No.21519608>>21526890 >>21526892 >>21526896 >>21526900

Djibouti Planning To Offer Ethiopia Port Access To Ease Tensions

By Mohammed Omar Ahmed Bloomberg August 31, 2024

Aug 31, 2024 (Bloomberg) --Djibouti’s government plans to offer Ethiopia exclusive access to a new port to defuse tensions sparked by the landlocked nation’s ambitions to have a direct route to the sea.

Ethiopia triggered a diplomatic row in January when it unveiled a proposal to recognize the semi-autonomous state of Somaliland as a sovereign nation, in return for access to a harbour on the Gulf of Aden. Somalia, which regards Somaliland as part of its territory, opposed the plan and relations between the two countries have deteriorated since then.

Djibouti, which shares borders both Ethiopia and Somaliland, is “on the verge of proposing” to Ethiopia an alternative route to the Gulf of Aden, Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf said in an interview with the BBC, broadcast on Friday.

“We are offering 100% management for a port in the north, a new corridor that is already built” in Tadjoura on the Horn of Africa nation’s coast, he said. Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh came up with the proposal to “find a way for dialogue” stop an escalation in tensions in the Horn of Africa region, he said.

"Djibouti is ready to offer Ethiopia 100% port access to defuse regional tensions," the foreign minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf told me in an exclusive interview on #FocusOnAfrica. Coincidentally he is also one of four men vying to succeed AU Chair Moussa Faki next year. pic.twitter.com/Dl6auW99Q9

--- Waihiga Mwaura ?? (@WaihigaMwaura) August 30, 2024

Somalia has responded to the standoff with Ethiopia by signing a military cooperation pact earlier this month. Egypt has subsequently begun supplying arms to Somalia and will provide training to its troops, according to the Somali government.

Egypt has tense relations with Ethiopia over that country’s construction of a giant hydropower dam on a tributary of the Nile River. The authorities in Cairo are concerned that the Ethiopian reservoir risks reducing the flow of the Nile, on which Egypt depends for almost all of its fresh water.

Djibouti, situated on a global shipping choke-point that links the Red Sea and the Suez Canal to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, is concerned about growing tensions in the region, Youssouf said.

“Although Djibouti is a stable country, quite safe, we cannot say that tensions in the neighboring countries do not affect us,” he said. It would be a “major source of concern” if the crisis in the region escalates further, the minister said.

Djiboutian leader Guelleh plans to meet regional leaders at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that takes place in Beijing next week to discuss the issue, Youssouf said.

Ethiopia would be the first country to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign state. No other nation has done that since the state proclaimed its independence from Somalia in 1991.

Somaliland warned on Thursday that the military assistance that’s being provided by Egypt to Somalia risks destabilize the region, and may have “far-reaching and catastrophic consequences.”

“We call upon the international community to urgently condemn this potentially dangerous move by Egypt,” it said in a statement.

https://gcaptain.com/djibouti-planning-to-offer-ethiopia-port-access-to-ease-tensions/

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 15:43:44 07b319 (103) No.21526890>>21526892 >>21526896 >>21526900

>>21519608

Turkey is also involved

“Egypt sends military aid to Somalia as tensions soar with Ethiopia”

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/08/egypt-sends-military-aid-somalia-tensions-soar-ethiopia

Aug 28, 2024

Tensions in the region are high following the signing of a controversial agreement between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland as several countries including Egypt and Turkey seek a foothold in Somalia.

Egypt delivered military equipment to Somalia on Tuesday amid rising tensions in the Horn of Africa region following a controversial deal struck between neighboring Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year.

Three diplomatic and Somali government sources confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday that two Egyptian military planes carrying weapons and ammunition landed at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning.

Local reports said two Egyptian C-130 aircraft arrived in the Somali capital. The Egyptian and Somali governments have not commented on the news.

Background: The arrival of military equipment to Somalia comes nearly two weeks after Egypt and Somalia signed a defense pact and a military cooperation protocol.

The pact was signed during an Aug. 14 visit by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to Cairo, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

In a press conference following the meeting, Mohamud hailed the pact as a “testament to a future of common defense against the international terrorism we are combating both at home and abroad.”

The Egyptian leader further said he was ready to deploy troops to the current African Union peacekeeping force (ATMIS) stationed in Somalia, but “only if we are asked to.”

Details of the defense pact were not made available to the public.

Egypt is preparing to support the AU Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), which is set to begin its mission in January 2025, replacing ATMIS, whose mandate expires at the end of 2024.

The AU's Peace and Security Council confirmed in an Aug. 1 communique Egypt’s plan to join the AUSSOM and send troops to Somalia as part of the new mission that aims to support the East African country in the face of security challenges.

Egyptian-Somali relations have steadily grown since Mohamud’s election in June 2022. Cairo sought Mogadishu’s support in its dispute with Addis Ababa over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Egypt has also backed Somalia in its dispute with Ethiopia after the latter struck a deal with Somaliland in January, giving landlocked Ethiopia access to the Red Sea via the port of Berbera in Somaliland, and in exchange, Addis Ababa would recognize the breakaway region as an independent state.

In contrast, Egypt has been engaged in a more than decade-long dispute with Ethiopia over the latter’s controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which it is building on the Blue Nile.

The dam, whose construction began in 2011, has caused serious concern among Ethiopia’s downstream neighbors, including Egypt, which fears it will affect its share of Nile waters, on which it depends almost entirely to meet its drinking and agricultural needs.

Ethiopia says the $4.6 billion project is vital for its economic development and efforts to pull millions of people out of poverty.

Somalia-Ethiopia tensions: Somalia has vehemently rejected the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal, which it deemed a violation of its territorial integrity.

Somalia recently threatened to expel thousands of Ethiopian troops stationed in the country as part of ATMIS unless Ethiopia scraps its deal with Somaliland, Somali national security adviser Hussein Sheikh-Ali told Reuters back in June.

In another move further deepening the Somali-Ethiopian dispute, the Somali Civil Aviation Authority earlier this month warned it would suspend Ethiopian Airlines' flights to Somalia after the air carrier allegedly replaced the names of Somali airports with codes on its booking systems and websites. The authority viewed the move as a “violation of its sovereignty.”

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 15:44:35 07b319 (103) No.21526892>>21526896 >>21526900

>>21519608

>>21526890

“Regional water war looms as Ethiopia ignites new crisis”

https://www.egyptindependent.com/regional-water-war-looms-as-ethiopia-ignites-new-crisis/

August 22, 2024

Ethiopia’s final filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) might pose significant threats to Egypt.

Egyptian water expert Abbas Sharaky has issued a grave warning regarding Ethiopia’s commencement of the fifth and final filling of the GERD on July 17, which he asserts could have severe repercussions for Egypt.

The goal of this final filling is to reach the dam’s middle corridor to a height of 640 meters above sea level.

If the current filling rate continues, the total storage is projected to reach approximately 64 billion cubic meters by mid-September.

The dam’s turbines are currently releasing only a fraction of the incoming water, with just 50-70 million cubic meters being discharged daily compared to the 500-600 million cubic meters flowing into the dam.

Sharaky has outlined the potential threats arising from Ethiopia’s actions, classifying them into both water-related and economic categories.

Any water retained in the GERD, regardless of the quantity, would have otherwise flowed into Sudan and Egypt, he stressed.

This year alone, an estimated 23 billion cubic meters of water have been lost due to the dam’s filling. This direct loss, if utilized for agriculture, could have generated significant economic benefits.

Egypt would then be compelled to undertake substantial measures to mitigate the negative impacts of the GERD’s filling. These measures include reducing rice cultivation by 1.1 million acres, constructing wastewater treatment plants, lining canals, implementing modern irrigation systems, expanding greenhouses, and drilling numerous groundwater wells.

This would also deplete the reserves of the Aswan High Dam.

Sudan could also face significant challenges, including disruptions in dam operations, the cessation of flood-reliant agriculture, and decreased agricultural productivity due to the dam’s impact on sediment, groundwater levels, and production costs.

And even Ethiopia itself would not be immune to the consequences.

Additional arable lands would be submerged, despite the lack of agricultural activities in the area even after five years of filling. Mining regions would also be affected by rising water levels, and the full capacity of the dam’s turbines would remain unutilized.

https://apnews.com/article/f2c30802d80247efa6872d5852882057

But the Nile is different: few nations rely so completely on a single river as much as Egypt does. The Nile provides over 90 percent of Egypt’s water supply. Almost the entire population lives cramped in the sliver of the Nile Valley. Around 60 percent of Egypt’s Nile water originates in Ethiopia from the Blue Nile, one of two main tributaries.

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 15:45:27 07b319 (103) No.21526896>>21526900

>>21519608

>>21526890

>>21526892

“Egypt Addresses the UN Security Council on Ethiopian Dam Developments”

https://egyptianstreets.com/2024/09/01/egypt-addresses-the-un-security-council-on-ethiopian-dam-developments/

September 1, 2024

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdel-Atty, addressed the Chairman of the United Nations Security Council regarding the fifth phase of filling the Renaissance Dam on Sunday, 1 September, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Abdel-Atty expressed Egypt’s firm rejection of Ethiopia’s unilateral policies, which violate international law and breach the 2015 Declaration of Principles Agreement between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. He emphasized that these policies also breach the Security Council’s presidential statement of September 15, 2021.

The minister also condemned the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s claims about reserving Blue Nile waters and completing the dam’s concrete structure, describing them as “unacceptable and detrimental to regional stability.”

In his address, Abdel-Atty highlighted that, after 13 years of earnest negotiations, it has become evident that Addis Ababa seeks to use negotiations as a pretext while solidifying its unilateral policies.

Abdel-Atty also warned that Ethiopia’s illegal policies could have severe repercussions for Egypt and Sudan.

Despite the challenges posed by the dam and efforts by Egypt to mitigate its effects, the country remains vigilant and prepared to take all necessary measures to safeguard its interests and those of its people under the UN Treaty.

In July, the Ethiopian government announced its intention to move forward with the fifth filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir this month, even as negotiations with downstream countries have yet to reach an agreement on the dam’s operational protocols.

The 2015 Declaration of Principles, signed in Khartoum by Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan, established key provisions: the GERD should not cause significant harm to any of the three countries; the dam should promote economic development and cross-border cooperation; and operational agreements must be in place before any reservoir filling.

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 15:46:56 07b319 (103) No.21526900

“Egypt and Somalia to hold military drills in show of force”

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/middleeast/egypt-and-somalia-to-hold-military-drills-in-show-of-force/ar-AA1pRLvz

02/09/2024

Egypt and Somalia are to hold joint military exercises in the Horn of Africa nation, in what appears to be a show of force that could increase tension between the two Arab League members and Ethiopia, security officials told The National on Monday.

The war games, which are expected to be held this month, will involve ground, air, and naval forces, regional security sources close to Cairo said. They declined to disclose the start date, duration or the number of troops to be involved.

"The drills will send a clear and loud message about our firm commitment to co-operate and protect Somalia," one of the officials said. "They'll mean much more than just war drills."

News of the joint war games broke only a day after Egypt said it had written to the UN Security Council to protest against what it regarded as Ethiopia's unilateral policies over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Cairo rejects Ethiopia's plan to move ahead with completing construction of the dam and filling its reservoir without consulting downstream nation Egypt, the letter written by Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Atty said. Those policies threaten regional stability, it added.

Egypt and Ethiopia have been at loggerheads for more than a decade over the construction of the massive Nile dam, which Cairo says will reduce its vital share of the river's waters.

“Egypt has negotiated in good faith [with Ethiopia] for 13 years. The negotiations have been halted after it became clear to everyone that Addis Ababa wanted them to continue indefinitely as a cover while it created a de facto situation on the ground,” the letter said.

News of the military drills came less than a week after Egypt began sending troops, arms and military hardware to Somalia under the provisions of a military co-operation agreement signed last month.

Ethiopia was deeply angered by the move that it said would destabilise the Horn of Africa region and take it into “uncharted waters”.

Somalia called the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal an assault on its sovereignty and said it would block it by all means necessary. It has also threatened to send home an estimated 10,000 Ethiopian troops who are in Somalia as part of a peacekeeping mission to fight Al Shabab militants, if the deal is not cancelled.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has repeatedly said the impact of the dam on his country amounts to an existential threat that cannot be ignored. Talks between the two countries have failed to reach a diplomatic solution.

A possible outbreak of hostilities between Egypt and Ethiopia would further destabilise the Horn of Africa, as well as the larger East Africa region, already shaken by a 16-month civil war in Sudan that has created a severed displacement crisis, with two million of the 10 million displaced having fled to neighbouring nations.

Attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, have contributed to the instability in the region, with world powers vying for a foothold in the strategic stretch of water.

The attacks on shipping have also significantly reduced Egypt's foreign currency revenue from the Suez Canal, which links the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and earns Egypt billions of dollars a year in transit fees.

Egypt, a mainly desert country with a population of 106 million, depends on the Nile for almost all of its freshwater needs. Considered one of the world's driest nations, it claims any reduction in its share of the Nile waters would upset its delicate food balance and wipe out hundreds of thousands of agricultural jobs.

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 16:03:04 07b319 (103) No.21526942>>21526947 >>21526985 >>22366049

>>21422340

The Gates Foundation was in Ethiopia recently.

Gates Foundation: “What did Mark Suzman learn in Ethiopia?”… “foundation’s Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, the first office we opened on the continent 12 years ago”

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/ethiopia-health-mark-suzman

Aug 07, 2024

By Mark Suzman

In May, I spent a week visiting partners, grantees, and colleagues in Ethiopia. It’s hard to believe that my last trip to the country was in 2018. The world has changed so much since then, and perhaps even more so in Ethiopia.

In the first two decades of this century, Ethiopia made remarkable progress toward its health and development goals, including improvements in maternal and newborn health, vaccination rates, agricultural productivity, and financial inclusion. Since then, communities there have been dealt some major challenges---including COVID-19, drought, floods, and a major conflict—which have disrupted hard-won gains in health and development.

But, as I saw first-hand, one thing has not changed: Ethiopia’s incredible potential for progress. Getting back on track will require resilience and creativity, two things Ethiopians have in abundance.

Twelve years of partnership in Ethiopia

I started my trip with an energizing visit to the foundation’s Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, the first office we opened on the continent 12 years ago. Here I am with my colleagues there, who are true exemplars of how our foundation aims to work with local partners. Throughout the trip, I heard from grantees, partners, senior members of government, and the wider donor community about just how unique and trusted our relationships are in Ethiopia.

I met with the staff to learn what was top of mind for them, including what we mean when we say “Impact First,” how we balance urgency and patience, and how our regional and country offices can have even greater impact. 

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 16:04:17 07b319 (103) No.21526947>>21526985 >>22595446

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>>21422340

>>21526942

“Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reappointed as WHO Director General”

https://youtu.be/ICS65nL5E_s

May 25, 2022

1:16 -- “He is the first African to lead the agency and the only Director General not qualified as a medical doctor.”

“Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates”

https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful-doctor/

May 4, 2017 12:00 pm CET

The software mogul’s sway over the World Health Organization spurs criticism about misplaced priorities and undue influence.

Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda, one that could grow as the U.S. and the U.K. threaten to cut funding if the agency doesn’t make a better investment case.

Concerns about the software billionaire’s sway --- roughly a quarter of WHO’s budget goes toward polio eradication — has led to an effort to rein him in. But he remains a force to be reckoned with, as WHO prepares to elect one of three finalists to lead the organization.

Already a decade ago, when Gates started throwing money into malaria eradication, top officials --- including the chief of the WHO’s malaria program — raised concerns that the foundation was distorting research priorities. “The term often used was ‘monopolistic philanthropy’, the idea that Gates was taking his approach to computers and applying it to the Gates Foundation,” said a source close to the WHO board.

“He is treated liked a head of state, not only at the WHO, but also at the G20,” a Geneva-based NGO representative said, calling Gates one of the most influential men in global health.

However, his sway has NGOs and academics worried. Some health advocates fear that because the Gates Foundation’s money comes from investments in big business, it could serve as a Trojan horse for corporate interests to undermine WHO’s role in setting standards and shaping health policies.

Dues paid by member states now account for less than a quarter of WHO’s $4.5 billion biennial budget. The rest comes from what governments, Gates, other foundations and companies volunteer to chip in. Since these funds are usually earmarked for specific projects or diseases, WHO can’t freely decide how to use them.

In January, 30 health advocacy groups penned an open letter to WHO’s executive board protesting against making the Gates Foundation an official partner of the agency because its revenue comes from investments in companies that are at odds with public health goals, such as Coca-Cola.

Gates’ influence over the WHO was called into question once again during the race to succeed [Margaret] Chan as its director general.

The final three candidates include Sania Nishtar, a cardiologist from Pakistan who has pledged to take the agency “back to its former glory”; David Nabarro, a British physician and former U.N. special envoy for Ebola; and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has served as health minister and foreign minister in the Ethiopian government.

Tedros, who like many in Ethiopia goes by his first name, is supported by the African Union. He has promised to reform the organization to better deal with crises like Ebola and to push for universal access to health care all over the world.

Last year, a French diplomat suggested that Gates also supports Tedros, having funded health programs in his country when he was health minister. Several foundation officials have denied this, saying that the foundation cannot take a position given that it is not a voting member country and thus has to remain neutral.

One big unknown is what will happen with the foundation’s money once it meets its target of eradicating polio, which started in the late 1980s and now appears to be nearing its goal. Chan has warned that if the polio money dries up in 2019, the global health body will be on the lookout for even more money.

“The foundation’s impact on the WHO is enormous,” said Garrett, of the Council on Foreign Relations. “If they weren’t there, if they walked away with their money, the deleterious impact would be profound, and everyone is all too aware of that.”

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 16:14:56 07b319 (103) No.21526985>>22366049

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>>21526947

>Some health advocates fear that because the Gates Foundation’s money comes from investments in big business, it could serve as a Trojan horse for corporate interests to undermine WHO’s role in setting standards and shaping health policies.

>Rhodes scholar

>Helen Suzman

“Suzman on public health setbacks”

https://youtu.be/QEoz15yuHlM

Mar 2, 2023

1:50 -- “The inevitability that there will be another virus and pandemic at some point.”

Mark Suzman; CEO at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African, Rhodes Scholar, Helen Suzman is his great aunt

https://theorg.com/org/bill-melinda-gates-foundation/org-chart/mark-suzman

A native of South Africa, Suzman joined the foundation in 2007 as director of Global Development Policy & Advocacy, becoming president of Global Policy & Advocacy in 2012 and taking on the additional responsibilities of the foundation’s first chief strategy officer in 2016. As president, he helped build and manage the foundation’s growing global presence in Europe, Africa, India, and China, as well as overseeing all government relations, philanthropic partnerships, and strategic communications in the United States and globally. As chief strategy officer, he led an overhaul of the foundation’s approach to developing and measuring strategic priorities.

Before joining the foundation, Suzman held multiple positions at the United Nations, including senior advisor for policy and strategic communications in the Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan and policy director at the United Nations Development Program. Prior to that, he was a correspondent for the Financial Times, serving in Johannesburg, London, and Washington, D.C. He holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/mark-suzman/

Mark Suzman was born in South Africa. Suzman’s great aunt was Helen Suzman, an anti-apartheid activist who served in the South African Parliament for 36 years. Suzman himself lived through apartheid and personally knew anti-apartheid campaigner and later democratically elected President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. 5

https://www.brenthurst.org.za/about-bl/harry-frederick-oppenheimer/

But thought [Harry Oppenheimer] was now out of Parliament he never lost his love for and involvement in politics. His view of the future of South Africa had always involved all South Africans and, in this regard, he was on the left wing of the old United Party. It would have surprised no one that he was the principal backer of the Progressive Party when it split from the United Party. Sadly, at that time, not many other South Africans shared his political beliefs and in no time, the party was reduced to being represented in Parliament by only Helen Suzman (though many would have claimed she was worth more than the rest of the Opposition put together!). But my father’s support for the party and the principles it stood for (and Helen Suzman) never wavered, even though this support had a negative impact on Anglo American and De Beers. To him, some beliefs were more important than even these two great companies.

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▶ Anonymous 09/03/24 (Tue) 20:13:26 7a6cdb (66) No.21527941

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>>21518362

>That then however led to the Serious Fraud Office in Britain opening an investigation of BAE bribes to Saudi Arabia, South Africa and six other countries and Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006 then squelched the whole thing saying, “it violated British national security.” So it’s not just our government that is covering it up. There are governments in Europe as well; the British, the Germans, the Swedes… because I am sad to say it has been estimated that… the arms trade is responsible for about 40% of world corruption that can be traced back to the arms trade. So it’s a hugely corrupt business but it controls the politicians in Europe and also in the United States.”

>French arms company Thales

“RFK Jr.: Who Really Profits from The Ukraine War?”

https://youtu.be/LD6kvDHbIYY

Jan 6, 2024

Few people understand what the war in Ukraine means for big business---namely, opportunity. It’s not just the weapons and reconstruction contracts. Ukraine’s vast agricultural lands—among the most fertile in the world—are up for grabs, and American companies like BlackRock are at the front of the line.

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

Thales: 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.

It was against that backdrop that [Alex] 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.

He began his career with eight years at British Aerospace (now BAE) in Stevenage as a guided weapons systems engineer. He joined what would become Thales in 1992, holding various positions, including running its land defence division. In early 2020, he took on the top UK job.

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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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 07:33:11 902e3f (83) No.21540949

General Research #26389 >>21540948

A fire in a school in Kenya has killed 17 students and seriously burned 13 others, police say

BY EVELYNE MUSAMBI Updated 2:23 AM EDT, September 6, 2024

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) --- A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya killed 17 students and seriously burned 13 others, police said Friday.

There are fears that the death toll may rise, police said.

The cause of the fire Thursday night at Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri county was being investigated, police spokesperson Resila Onyango said.

“We are investigating the cause and will take necessary action,” she said.

President William Ruto called the news “devastating” and said action would be taken against those responsible.

“I instruct relevant authorities to thoroughly investigate this horrific incident. Those responsible will be held to account,” he wrote on the social media platform X.

His deputy, Rigathi Gachagua, urged school administrators to ensure that safety guidelines recommended by the education ministry for boarding schools are being followed.

School fires are common in Kenyan boarding schools, where many students stay because parents believe it gives them more time to study without long commutes.

Some fires have been started by students during protests over the workload or living conditions. In 2017, 10 high school students died in a school fire in the capital, Nairobi.

https://apnews.com/article/kenya-school-fire-nyeri-7017997f40514fefe817a820a7f6c6c9?

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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 07:51:14 902e3f (83) No.21540965>>21542269

>>21500613

I'd love to know the reason the case against Bank of America N.A. was dropped

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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 15:08:38 7a6cdb (66) No.21542269>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

>>21500613

>>21540965

It is still appealing Bank of America, just under different names due to technicalities.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/banking/524066-competition-commission-taking-banks-to-constitutional-court-over-alleged-rand-manipulation.html

6.02.2024

There are noteworthy technicalities here --- it is appealing the Nedbank Limited ruling, not Nedbank Group; and FirstRand Bank Limited, not FirstRand Limited.

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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 18:34:27 7a6cdb (66) No.21543428>>21543498 >>21543535

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>>20970955

>Beit Trust Scholarship

>Beit Trust

>January 1983

>The Trust was initially set up in 1906 by the Will of Mr Alfred Beit, a brilliant financier and a director of the British South Africa Company with many interests including the development of Rhodesia’s railway system.

>>21507100

>>21507168

>>21507174

>British South Africa Company

>Cecil Rhodes

Beit Trust

“Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarships (2024/ 2025)”

https://youtu.be/kEtgvps3FoM

Dec 5, 2023

https://beittrust.org.uk/beit-trust-history/

The Trust was established in 1906 by the Will of Alfred Beit, a financier and philanthropist. He had many interests, including the development of the railway system in Southern Africa. On his death in 1906, at the age of 53, he left a substantial legacy to a wide range of charitable causes.

The Original Terms of the Will

Under The Railway Fund’s original terms of reference, the Trust funded the construction of most of the great bridges of Southern Africa -- over the Limpopo at Beitbridge, on the border of Zimbabwe and South Africa; over the Save in Zimbabwe; over the Kafue in Zambia; over the Luangwa on the Great East Road from Zambia to Malawi; and the Otto Beit Bridge (above), opened in 1939, which spans the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe at Chirundu. Over four hundred smaller or low-level bridges were also built, which still provide much needed communication in rural areas.

Alfred Beit laid down the Trust’s objectives in his Will. These were re-emphasised in The Beit Trust Act 1954. The Trust’s benevolent mandate is exclusively for Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

https://beittrust.org.uk/beit-trust-organisation/

We have supported over a hundred Beit Scholars at universities in the UK and South Africa, as well as regional training for surgeons from ZZM.

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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 18:47:42 7a6cdb (66) No.21543498>>21543509 >>21543535

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>Alfred Beit

>British South Africa Company

>Cecil Rhodes

>Oppenheimer family

>Anglo-Boer War

>Mervyn King: “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

Alfred Beit (1853-1906) founded the British South Africa Company and funded Rhodes Scholarship

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/alfred-beit

Alfred Beit was a British gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia, and the Rhodes Scholarship, named after his employee, Cecil Rhodes.

Born and brought up in Hamburg, Germany, he was the eldest son and second of six children of an affluent Jewish-German citizen of Hamburg. His younger siblings included Otto Beit. Alfred was an unpromising scholar and was apprenticed to Jules Porgès & Cie, the Amsterdam diamond firm where he developed a talent for examining stones.

Beit was sent to Kimberley, South Africa in 1875 by his firm to buy diamonds---following the diamond strike at Kimberley. He became a business friend of Cecil Rhodes through his role in the Kimberley Central Company. Beit was captivated by Rhodes' talk of 'big schemes'. Together, they proceeded to buy out digging ventures and to eliminate opposition such as Barney Barnato. He rapidly became one of a group of financiers who gained control of the diamond-mining claims in the Central, Dutoitspan, and De Beers mines. Rhodes was the active politician and Beit provided a lot of the planning and financial backing.

He imported mining engineers from the USA and was among the first to adopt deep-level mining. Rhodes purportedly was granted concessions by Lobengula, as a result of which Beit founded the British South Africa Company in 1888.

Beit became life-governor of De Beers and also a director of numerous other companies such as Rand Mines, Rhodesia Railways and the Beira Railway Company.

Inspired by Rhodes' imperialist vision, he took part in the planning and financing of the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of late 1895 which was intended to trigger a coup in the South African Republic in the Transvaal. As a result of this debacle, Rhodes resigned as Prime Minister, and both he and Beit were found guilty by the House of Commons inquiry. Beit was obliged to resign as director of the Charter Company, but was elected vice-president of the British South Africa Company a few years later. With the death of Rhodes in 1902, Beit, as one of the trustees, helped control the enormous estate, currently being helped by the Oppenheimer family of De Beers and Anglo-American.

During his lifetime, Beit made generous donations for scientific work and education. In 1905 he founded a chair of colonial history at the University of Oxford, which is now the Beit Professor of History of the British Commonwealth. In 1906 he made the donation of two million mark to the stock capital of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, a charity dedicated to spend its interest for the benefit of a precursor of the University of Hamburg.

In recognition of his bequests the Royal School of Mines, a faculty of Imperial College London, erected a large memorial to Beit flanking the entrance to its building. The Imperial College residential halls on Prince Consort Road was named Beit Hall after him.

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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 18:49:29 7a6cdb (66) No.21543509>>21543535

>>21543498

>In recognition of his bequests the Royal School of Mines, a faculty of Imperial College London, erected a large memorial to Beit flanking the entrance to its building. The Imperial College residential halls on Prince Consort Road was named Beit Hall after him.

“Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders”

https://quillette.com/2022/01/21/imperial-college-londons-campaign-to-libel-its-own-founders/

21 Jan 2022

The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College.

Imperial College London was founded in 1907. It is one of the top 20 universities in the world, and among the leading technical universities in Europe. Two individuals were central to its foundation.

The first is 19th-century English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, who became known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” due to his singularly strenuous advocacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas. In South Kensington, he collected the pieces from which Imperial was later assembled: the Royal School of Mines, The Royal College of Science, and the City and Guilds of London Institute. Although he died before the creation of Imperial College, Huxley is described by his biographer Cyril Bibby as its “chief builder.”

The second main founder is Alfred Beit, a German Jew who made his fortune from diamond and gold mining in South Africa. Beit, who moved to London in 1889, was one of the first to see the desirability of creating a new science university in London to compete with developments in Germany. Together with his business associate Sir Julius Wernher, they provided the financial backing necessary to secure the construction of Imperial College. Beit died in 1906, a year before the opening, but the family connection was sustained through his brother Otto, who inherited part of Alfred’s fortune. In 1931, the Rector of Imperial College, Sir Henry Tizard, wrote in the journal Nature: “Practically the whole of the endowment of the College since its incorporation has been provided by Sir Julius Wernher, Mr Alfred Beit and Sir Otto Beit.”

Up to October 26th, 2021, when the Imperial History Group published a report aimed at examining “the history of the College through its links to the British Empire, and to report on the current understanding and reception of the College’s legacy and heritage in the context of its present-day mission,” Huxley had been revered by the College. (For example, it held a celebratory conference in 1995 on the centenary of his death.) The generosity of Alfred Beit, and the continuing generosity of the Beit family up to the present time, has been gratefully acknowledged at regular intervals, notably in 2007 by the Rector Sir Richard Sykes, when the College celebrated its own centenary. And yet, despite no new pertinent facts emerging, the History Group suddenly has proposed, among other things, that Imperial College disown its two main founders. Specifically, the report authors recommended that “the bust of Huxley should be moved from the building for preservation … and the building should be renamed,” and that “Beit Quad and Hall are renamed subject to consultation with students. The consultation should clarify the history and then gather and understand any strong objections. This is not intended to be a majority vote which is not always representative and inclusive.”

However, the standout recommendations in the report may be described as negative: Huxley is charged with “scientific racism,” and espousing “a racial hierarchy of intelligence,” while Beit is denounced for “the treatment of workers during the expansion of the Kimberley mines [in South Africa].” Yet it is difficult to find the reason for the sudden change in the College’s attitude toward its founders.

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▶ Anonymous 09/06/24 (Fri) 18:54:12 7a6cdb (66) No.21543535

>>21543428

>>21543498

>>21543509

“Imperial [College] commits to ‘ambitious understanding’ of history”

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/234096/imperial-commits-ambitious-understanding-history/

25 February 2022

Imperial has responded to a community dialogue and independent report into its history, pledging to deepen understanding of its past.

President’s Board, representing the College’s leadership, met this week to consider how to respond to the History Group’s report and feedback received on the report and its recommendations from Imperial staff, students and alumni during the subsequent community dialogue.

The College will consider a joint name for its Huxley Building - named after biologist Thomas Henry Huxley - with the aim of adding the name of a pathbreaking scientist from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic background. While the name and bust of Huxley will be retained, it will be clearly put into a fuller context in order to provide everyone with a more complete understanding of Huxley’s complex character and achievements as well as his flaws, including his racially prejudiced writings. Historical context will also be provided for any person whose name is added jointly.

A similar approach will be adopted for the Beit Building and statue, with a focus on providing a fuller understanding of the Beit brothers’ impact in southern Africa. The College will consult with students and explore whether to add an African scientist to the building’s name.

In partnership with the Beit Trust, the College will also seek to redirect its Beit Scholarships to African scientists. This follows Imperial’s new scholarship fund for Black and other underrepresented students, launched last year.

The names of key buildings, including those named after Thomas Henry Huxley or Alfred and Otto Beit, will be retained, but the College will launch an ambitious project to put these figures into context and clarify their histories, the Board concluded.

The College will find new, prominent ways of ensuring that their complexities are fully understood alongside the College’s modern values. This will include acknowledging both their positive contributions to science and to Imperial in parallel with the ways in which they have furthered historic injustice or hampered progress towards racial equality.

Acknowledging the precedent set by the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, Imperial will explore the possibility of jointly naming some buildings, signaling its commitment to ensuring a broader range of people are recognised on campus.

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▶ Anonymous 09/09/24 (Mon) 17:25:20 07b319 (103) No.21558287>>21558373 >>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“Police not succeeding in dealing with extortion -- Mofokeng”

https://youtu.be/9UimXkhzIzc

Sep 9, 2024

Security analyst Prof. Jacob Mofokeng says it's not true that the police are succeeding in defeating the scourge of extortion in South Africa. He adds that extortion crimes are underreported because people do not have trust in the police.

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▶ Anonymous 09/09/24 (Mon) 17:39:20 07b319 (103) No.21558373>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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>>21558287

“Extortion Crimes | Understanding SA's widespread extortion crisis”

https://youtu.be/EFGET8TcAl0

Sep 9, 2024

National Commissioner of the South African Police Service General Fannie Masemola has warned would-be criminals that attacks on police officials will not be tolerated.

This was after an attack on a member of the National Intervention Unit at a base of the unit in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. extortion in townships is carried out by organised crime elements

Members of the base are investigating allegations of extortion in the area. Masemola has also lamented the underreporting of extortion cases in the Eastern Cape.

Extortion incidents have reportedly spiralled out of control in Mthatha, with businesses and schools regularly targeted by criminals demanding protection fees.

Last week, traditional leader Dalinzolo Mareke, who was implicated in alleged extortion cases, was killed during a shootout with police.

To help us understand the extortion crisis, we're now joined virtually by the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police Ian Cameron and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime's senior analyst Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane.

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▶ Anonymous 09/09/24 (Mon) 18:18:30 07b319 (103) No.21558561>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“How OUTA exposed R898 million “tender manipulation” by French multinational”

https://youtu.be/dbsYYyMOE50

Sep 9, 2024

A French multinational company has become embroiled in a third tender controversy, this time to produce “smart driving licence cards” at an inflated cost of R898,597 million - nearly double the budget. In this interview with BizNews Wayne Duvenhage, the CEO of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), describes how the findings of its investigation into the tender led to Transport Minister Barbara Creecy’s decision to refer it to the Auditor-General (AG) for further investigstion. The same company recently had its R115-million contract with Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) terminated. And there have been delays in its delivery on a Home Affairs contract. Meanwhile, more whistleblowers are coming forward with inside information on the latest tender awarded to the company. “So the more evidence we gather, the more we'll pass over to the Auditor General. Hopefully then to the police and what we're actually asking for the authorities and the Minister is don't only cancel this tender, find out who in your department is involved, have disciplinary hearings, fire them if need be and then don't stop there, have them charged for the criminal conduct that they have instituted.”

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▶ Anonymous 09/11/24 (Wed) 13:12:09 7a2a98 (20) No.21570343>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“Extortionists have better intelligence than SAPS -- Allis”

https://youtu.be/oObl0TzqQMY

Sep 10, 2024

Criminal Law expert Ian Allis suggests that the lack of resources to fight crime within SAPS has given extortion syndicates an upper hand. Allis claims that these syndicates have better intelligence than the police.

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▶ Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 03:27:27 902e3f (83) No.21581266

South Africa Investigates Pharmaceutical Bottles Washing Ashore Amid Uptick in Cargo Losses

Mike Schuler September 12, 2024

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) is actively investigating the source of pharmaceutical bottles washing up along the country’s eastern coastline. The incident comes amid a surge in container losses from cargo vessels traversing the Indian Ocean around the Cape of Good Hope.

“We are aware of pharmaceutical bottles containing pills that have been washing ashore in the Port Alfred, Kenton, Cannon Rocks, and Boknes areas since Monday, September 9, 2024,” said a SAMSA spokesperson. The authority is working with an Incident Management Systems (IMS) committee, including various government departments, to identify, analyze, and safely dispose of the products.

The influx of medicinal products coincides with reports of several cargo vessels collectively losing nearly 200 containers in the past eight weeks amid a series winter storms. SAMSA confirmed that vessels involved include the MV Benjamin Franklin, MV CMA CGM Belem, MV Maersk Stepnica, MV Rio Grande Express, and MSC Antonia.

“These incidents highlight the risks posed by severe weather conditions and the challenges of responding to coastal shipping emergencies,” SAMSA explained. The authority is actively monitoring the coastline and collaborating with local authorities to track any further containers or goods that might wash ashore.

The incidents coincide with an increase in vessel traffic around the Cape of Good Hope, attributed to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. SAMSA assured that vessel owners are cooperating fully and have committed to undertaking clean-up operations if necessary.

As investigations continue, coastal residents are advised to report any unusual findings to local authorities and refrain from handling unidentified substances.

https://gcaptain.com/south-africa-investigates-pharmaceutical-bottles-washing-ashore-amid-uptick-in-cargo-losses/

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▶ Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 12:36:10 7a2a98 (20) No.21582568>>21582652 >>22366061

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>Status in the Zulu kingdom was measured by the number of wives and cattle in an individual's possession.

>Lands with no private claims were deemed royal lands, and later, government property, which was a deviation from African communal land ownership system. The colonialists therefore succeeded in transforming the ritual function of the chief into a political one.

>Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance.

>“That’s where patriarchy and abuse creeps in exactly. Remember, it happens at country level. Whoever pays for the South African election, owns us. Whichever man pay for you, owns you women.”

“Jacob Zuma’s Daughter Becomes the 16th Wife of Eswatini's King | Vantage with Palki Sharma”

https://youtu.be/IlzBbAZYiIc

Sep 4, 2024

Jacob Zuma’s Daughter Becomes the 16th Wife of Eswatini's King | Vantage with Palki Sharma

A daughter of South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma was among hundreds of women and girls who danced for the king of Eswatini in a traditional ceremony, confirming her engagement to the monarch. 56-year-old King Mswati chose 21-year-old Nomcebo Zuma who will be his 16th wife. The kingdom justifies this as tradition. But is it culture or a grotesque power dynamic? Palki Sharma tells you.

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▶ Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 12:37:04 7a2a98 (20) No.21582571>>22366061

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“Zuma's arms deal trial postponed yet again”

https://youtu.be/Os_ABWfDfnA

Sep 11, 2024

Former president Jacob Zuma's arms deal trial has been postponed yet again.

Zuma and his co-accused the French arms manufacturer Thales will be back in court on 6 February 2025.

That's when the Judge Nkosinathi Chili will hear arguments on the former president's application for leave to appeal his dismissal of Zuma's second attempt to remove lead prosecutor Adv. Billy Downer from the case.

Newzroom Afrika's senior politics reporter Ziyanda Ngcobo has more.

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▶ Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 13:02:05 7a2a98 (20) No.21582652>>21582698

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>>21582568

>The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires

>>21416431

>Mervyn King: “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

>Hoek Report

“What Aristotle Knew About Oligarchy That We Forgot”

https://youtu.be/HMguSl8PHS4

Sep 11, 2024

How do the wealthy few come to rule, and why does it matter? Aristotle tackled these questions 2300 years ago, and his answers are still eye-opening today.

In this video, we explore Aristotle's book "Politics," where he breaks down different types of government, including oligarchy - when the rich call the shots. Aristotle didn't just theorize; he studied 158 constitutions from Greek city-states and beyond, giving us deep insights into how governments really work.

Following our last video on tyranny, we now turn to oligarchy, another system Aristotle saw as problematic. We'll examine how leadership based on merit can gradually shift into rule by the wealthy, and the various forms this can take. Aristotle's keen observations help us spot the signs of wealth steering the ship of state, even in seemingly democratic systems.

We'll also discuss Aristotle's thoughts on the fall of oligarchies. How did these regimes topple if money speaks louder than the voices of ordinary citizens? Aristotle's analysis of how money and power intertwine is as relevant now as it was in ancient Greece. His insights shed light on political dynamics that continue to shape our world today.

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▶ Anonymous 09/13/24 (Fri) 13:23:33 7a2a98 (20) No.21582698

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>>21582652

>The seizure of the wealth necessary

>>21507100

>>21396724

“The Timeless Truth About Tyranny According to Aristotle”

https://youtu.be/2gkYbrzMAE4

Aug 8, 2024

Is your government slowly becoming tyrannical? Aristotle warned us 2,300 years ago.

In this eye-opening exploration of Aristotle's analysis of tyranny, we delve into the timeless insights of one of history's greatest political thinkers. Drawing from Aristotle's great work "Politics," we uncover the mechanisms of tyrannical rule that are as relevant today as they were in ancient Greece. Discover how Aristotle's experiences with the Thirty Tyrants of Athens and his personal relationship with the tyrant Hermias shaped his understanding of unjust rule.

Learn the tactics tyrants use to rise to power and maintain their grip on society - from manipulating public opinion to undermining social trust. We'll explore the true nature of tyranny according to Aristotle, how tyrants differ from legitimate rulers, the ways tyrannies often come to power, Aristotle's list of tyrannical tactics, many still used today, and why Aristotle believed all tyrannies are doomed to fail.

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 14:01:53 175e34 (38) No.21628167>>21628174 >>22366056 >>22518653 >>22651670

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“South Africa: Outrage as Russia's Naval Ship Docks at Cape Town | Firstpost Africa”

https://youtu.be/NwsGWZe0ot0

Premiered Sep 6, 2024

South Africa: Outrage as Russia's Naval Ship Docks at Cape Town | Firstpost Africa

The recent docking of a Russian navy ship at Cape Town harbour has triggered outrage. The Ukrainian Association of South Africa has expressed anger saying the incident calls into question South Africa's purported neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Democratic Alliance, President Cyril Ramaphosa's coalition partner, has also condemned the incident as "cosying up to Russia". Amid the outrage, the South African National Defense Force said the Russian vessel docked for re-supply purposes. South Africa and Russia share decades-long ties. Both countries are also BRICS partners. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has also refused to criticise Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Watch this video for details.

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 14:03:14 175e34 (38) No.21628174>>21628178 >>21628184 >>21628193 >>22366056 >>22518653 >>22651670

>>21628167

“South Africa snubs US Defence while welcoming Russia at Pretoria Aerospace Expo”

https://youtu.be/39di3tpuEbQ

Sep 18, 2024

The United States has officially withdrawn from the African Aerospace and Defense Expo (AAD), currently taking place at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in South Africa. Emma Powell, the DA’s Shadow Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, attributes the US’s withdrawal to the South African Department of Defence’s failure to confirm diplomatic immunity and privileges for the US delegation during their visit.

In an interview with National Security News, Powell described the delay in securing these essential guarantees for the US---an important trade and economic partner—as either a staggering display of incompetence or an act of sabotage. In stark contrast, she noted that Russia aircraft, despite its ongoing war in violation of international law, has been invited to showcase some of its aircraft at the expo.

https://www.aadexpo.co.za/

Emma Powell

https://www.vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-politics/2024-04-12-emma-powell-itll-get-hot-in-the-kitchen-in-the-next-8-weeks/

She quit and moved to Italy to teach English at Deloitte in Milan, but she returned in 2012 when she was offered a job in the City of Cape Town administration where Patricia de Lille became mayor.

Powell says she's a radical feminist.

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 14:03:55 175e34 (38) No.21628178>>22366056 >>22518653 >>22651670

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>>21628174

>https://youtu.be/39di3tpuEbQ

Embedded

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 14:05:25 175e34 (38) No.21628184>>21628193 >>22366051

>>21628174

>Deloitte

>Emma Powell

“ANC is up in arms over DA’s ‘provocative’ letter to the United States” from Emma Powell

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/anc-is-up-in-arms-over-das-provocative-letter-to-the-united-states/

11 Mar 2024

The Democratic Alliance has asked for increased Western support in monitoring the 2024 elections.

The uproar caused by a Democratic Alliance (DA) letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for increased Western support in monitoring the May polls has led to two leading political analysts perceiving the move differently.

This comes against the background of the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) having a limited budget to deal effectively with possible security breaches like hacking -- which has been seen in previous US elections.

Dear America

In a letter to Blinken, sent through US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben E Brigety, DA MP and shadow minister for international relations Emma Louise Powell said the party wanted “to sharpen our appeal to the international community in helping to ensure the integrity of the upcoming elections”.

Assistance requested by the DA from the US includes:

• An increased contingent of international observers to monitor the 2024 polls with resources made available “to bolster the deployment of additional, independent, domestic observers”; and

• Empowering of civil society organisations to provide voter education and capacity-building for domestic monitors.

“Your country can help to safeguard against any attempts to disrupt the democratic process or negatively influence the South African electorate through misinformation and disinformation campaigns,” said Powell.

https://explain.co.za/2024/03/11/das-calls-for-us-and-eu-election-help-raise-eyebrows/

The letter, written by the DA’s Shadow Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Emma Powell, calls on the US and some EU countries for support in observing the upcoming national elections on 29 May 2024, voter education and establishing a parallel vote tabulation (PVT) system. The DA believes that the plummeting (according to polls) support for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the rapid rise of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto We Sizwe party (MK) pose a significant threat to democracy and the rule of law. “We are of the view that MK poses a substantive risk to the continued peaceful nature of our political discourse as a nation,” said the letter.

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 14:07:09 175e34 (38) No.21628193>>22366076 >>22518689 >>22560569 >>22575215 >>22575262 >>22651671

>>21628174

>Deloitte

>>21628184

“How Deloitte masked scandals in business and politics”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/05/news/how-deloitte-masked-scandals-business-and-politics

March 5th 2019

The story of Deloitte and the Duffy affair is important because it highlights how the Big Four auditing giants can be open to corruption and political influence. And how they’re often not objective or neutral.

Deloitte is the largest of the Big Four -- which also includes KPMG, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Together, these four firms form a powerful cartel that wields tremendous clout in the finance, business and government circles worldwide. Their influence seeps into every aspect of the economy.

Indeed, collectively, the Big Four audit 490 of the S&P 500 companies. In turn, they’ve evolved into huge conglomerates themselves -- with combined 2017 revenues of US$134-billion, employing 945,000 people around the world. In fact, according to Forbes, Deloitte is the fourth-largest private company in America.

Moreover, the Big Four are important because modern societies rely on accountants to verify financial records for shareholders, thereby safeguarding the economy at large. “An audit is about a public good,” says Natasha Landell-Mills, a partner with the London, UK-based investment firm, Sarasin & Partners LLP, and a critic of the profession.

Today, however, the Big Four are facing a crisis of credibility of their own making, embroiled in scandal after scandal in multiple jurisdictions. Increasingly, they stand accused of turning a blind eye, and even enabling, corporate fraud and questionable accounting. They’ve also emerged as central players in the creation and abuse of offshore tax havens. And they've become champions of the privatization of government services. And yet they “perform their duties with relative impunity,” writes Richard Brooks, a British journalist in his recent book, Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism. “They are free to make profit without fearing serious consequences of their abuses.”

In Canada, court cases, scandals and insights from experts suggest Deloitte is the most egregious of the lot. “Deloitte sells the public an image that they are wonderful, they’re up-to-date, they are professional, they are experts,” says Prem Sikka, an accounting professor at the University of Sheffield in the UK whom I spoke to when researching my Globe article. “But at the same time, there is a dark side.”

Founded in the UK in the late 1800s, Deloitte is now a privately-held giant with global revenues of (US) $43.2-billion, 264,000 employees in 150 countries and headquartered in London, England.

“Deloitte dragged into South African state corruption scandals”, 22 Oct 2019, https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/347850/deloitte-dragged-into-south-african-state-corruption-scandals/

“Auditing giant Deloitte’s R260m Tongaat Hulett settlement ‘pathetic’ -- Logan”, 24 Feb 2023, https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/companies-and-deals/auditing-giant-deloittes-r260m-tongaat-hulett-settlement-pathetic-logan/

“Deloitte agrees to pay out up to R1.3bn in compensation to claimants against Steinhoff”, 15 Feb 2021, https://www.news24.com/Fin24/deloitte-agrees-to-pay-out-up-to-r13bn-in-compensation-to-claimants-against-steinhoff-20210215

“Deloitte Fined Record $19M Over Audit Failures”, Sept. 18, 2020, https://www.cfo.com/news/deloitte-fined-record-19m-over-audit-failures/656213/

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 16:27:13 175e34 (38) No.21628813>>21628891 >>21628918 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

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“BELA [Basic Education Laws Amendment] BILL : Everything you need to know”

https://youtu.be/WRJARxeKBIw

Sep 15, 2024

Most people do not fully understand what the BELA bill, that was signed into law on the 13th of September entails. It is also not understood what this bill means for their and their children's future.

In this video, I shall be doing an in-depth, but easily understandable explanation of what the bill entails in its entirety.

Additionally

https://filestore.referendums.co.za/1e201957-b5db-4627-89b4-8b61ea789344/BELA_D-Bill.pdf

any parent who, without just cause and after a written notice from the Head of Department, fails to comply with subsection (1)[,] is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding [six] 12 months, or to both a fine and such imprisonment, alternatively a court may impose a sentence within the court’s discretion as contemplated in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act;’’; or

any other person who, without just cause, prevents a learner who is subject to compulsory attendance from attending [a] school[,] is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding [six] 12 months, or to both a fine and such imprisonment, alternatively a court may impose a sentence within the court’s discretion as contemplated in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act;’’; and

Clause 39 seeks to amend section 61 of the SASA to extend the powers of the Minister to make regulations on the management of learner pregnancy

https://referendums.co.za/@belabill

The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill B2B-2022 proposes:

1. Many controversial proposals that the public have opposed at every turn.

2. Granting open-ended powers to the Minister to create regulations without describing procedures by which the proposed regulations will be enforced, which could provide a back door for comprehensive sexual education and mandatory vaccination.

3. To enable government to dictate one-size-fits all curricula, language, and admissions policy and more, thereby centralizing control of all educational modalities, including Home Education, which are providing viable alternatives to the government school system.

4. Criminalizing parents and sending them to prison for twelve months, or charging them a hefty fine for even minor transgressions like forgetting to register their child in time!

5. Reducing the power of school governing bodies.

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 16:35:02 175e34 (38) No.21628891>>21628918 >>21628958 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22651658

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>Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive”

>>21628813

“STATEMENT ON THE ANC NEC & NEC LEKGOTLA OUTCOMES (1 --6 AUGUST 2024)”; NDR, Health Education

https://www.anc1912.org.za/statement-on-the-anc-nec-nec-lekgotla-outcomes-1-6-august-2024/

8 August 2024

The ANC NEC characterised the outcomes of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections as a significant setback for the national democratic revolution (NDR) since the 1994 democratic breakthrough. In the engagements with our Provinces as well as the ANC’s Alliance partners (SACP, COSATU and SANCO), this NEC conclusion has been reaffirmed as a correct characterization of the profound nature of the setback: significant, fundamental, and strategic.

The National Dialogue will seek to foster national cohesion and social compact as we champion the NDR, consolidate the gains of democracy and accelerate realisation of the objectives of the National Democratic Society as highlighted in the ANC Strategy and Tactics document.

The issue of unity was raised with acknowledgement that each Alliance partner is free to raise issues, including those pertaining to differences of political perspectives but that we remain united on the strategic orientation of the NDR.

On Basic Education: The Lekgotla supports strengthening ongoing initiatives to improve reading and numeracy of learners in public schools, and curriculum reforms to ensure school leavers are equipped to play a productive role in the economy and society. It resolved on the significance of the BELA Bill [signed on 13 September 2024] being enacted as law, strengthening the school nutrition programme to address hunger and learning outcomes, completing the process of eradication of pit latrines in schools, improve provisions on scholar transport, integration of ICT (coding, robotics, AI) into our curriculum, strengthening teacher development and support, ensure universal access to quality early child development by 2030, and fast track certification from grade 9.

On Post-School Education and Training: The Lekgotla resolved on the finalisation of the implementation of the student funding model, turnaround strategy for NSFAS, funding for the missing middle, PPP in delivering student accommodation, aligning basic and higher education curriculum with economic and skills demand, and strengthen and promote TVET and Community colleges.

On Health: The Lekgotla reaffirmed the phased implementation of the NHI [signed on 15 May 2024], prioritising the establishment of the NHI Fund and Section 57 Committees, investing in public health facilities, and escalating the implementation of the National Health Information System.

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 16:38:56 175e34 (38) No.21628918>>21628929 >>21628958 >>21650780

“AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 55TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS” -- Part 1

https://www.anc1912.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ANC-55th-Conference-Resolutions-Strategy-Tactics.pdf

16-20 December 2022

1. This strategic objective derives from the character of the national democratic revolution and the three basic and inter-related contradictions of national oppression, class super-exploitation directed at Black workers and the oppression of women.

2. The vision, values and principles of the national democratic society we seek to create are well articulated in the basic documents of the ANC such as the African Claims, the Women’s Charter, the Freedom Charter and the Strategy and Tactics document and they are enshrined in the Constitution of our country.

3. For the ANC to be an effective instrument and powerful vehicle for fundamental transformation or radical change, its members must distinguish themselves as the most loyal, ethical, committed and capable servants of the people of South Africa and agents for change in the struggle to build a better Africa and a more equitable global order, in line with the movement’s longstanding tradition of Pan-Africanism and International Solidarity. The matter of the quality of an ANC members has become a strategic question upon which the survival and success of the movement depends.

5. On the Global Balance of Forces -- The Conference identified some distinct developments and dynamic shifts that are reshaping the global order and influencing the prospects of Africa’s Renaissance as well as the future of the national democratic revolution in South Africa:

5.1 We live in an international era characterised by contradictory political-economic trends. On the one hand, there is a deepening crisis of neo-liberalism and a resurgence of populism and right-wing nationalism in the Global North… Most significantly, the ANC welcomes the victory of the progressive forces in the recent Brazilian elections. This victory augurs well for the strengthening BRICS and other progressive forces in the Global South.

5.2 The ongoing war in Ukraine has strategic geopolitical and economic consequences for all the peoples of the world. This can no longer be described simply as a Russia-Ukraine war -- it is primarily a conflict between the US and US-led NATO military alliance and Russia in pursuit of the objectives of the Wolfowitz doctrine. According to this doctrine, the US should not allow that any country in the world should have the possibility, in the post-Cold War period to challenge its interests and hegemony. In this regard, its geopolitical strategy has identified Russia and China as the two powers that must be contained. The dividends of peace and globalisation promised at the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a human security ethos towards the new millennium, have been shattered. The doctrine of unilateral domination of every region, is being advanced not through multilateralism and equitable globalisation, but through expansionist military strategies, a persistent unjust and unequal global trade and economic architecture and through regime change. There is a conspicuous failure of the current global multi-lateral institutions to resolve conflicts fairly, justly and equitably in order to safeguard the interests of all nations. The Ukraine war has caused major disruptions to people’s lives all over the world – the disruption of supply chains of food, fuel, fertilizer and energy, sky-rocketing inflation, the cost-of-living crisis at a global scale and the threat of nuclear escalation. This war must come to an end now!

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 16:39:53 175e34 (38) No.21628929>>21628958

>>21628918

“AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 55TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS” -- Part 2

https://www.anc1912.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ANC-55th-Conference-Resolutions-Strategy-Tactics.pdf

16-20 December 2022

5.3 The ANC’s attitude and posture regarding conflicts and wars has been shaped over many years of struggle. During the anti-apartheid struggle, the ANC has been part of the nonaligned movement. We are also part of the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial forces… We want a peaceful, just and more equitable global order. Under the leadership of the ANC, South Africa will continue to lead peace-keeping missions and contribute to negotiated resolution of conflicts as part of building a better Africa and a better world.

13. The delegates to the 55th National Conference are at one: South Africa and the ANC, are at a moment of fundamental consequence. This moment requires clarity of thought, firm conviction and courage, decisiveness as well as an unshaken commitment to the ideals that have inspired gener ations of South Africa’s freedom fighters who sacrificed and suffered so that our country can be free, and our people can live as equals, with their human dignity fully restored. We shall not allow the gains of our democracy to be eroded and reversed. We shall not allow the radical socio-economic transformation of our country to be aborted. Nor shall we allow the fundamental renewal of the ANC to be stopped or sabotaged.

14. The democratic renewal of our country and the fundamental transformation of our society and economy is a strategic goal from which the ANC will not retreat. As our country undergoes significant macro-social changes and the world experiences multiple disruptive transitions, the ANC and the progressive forces need to re-invigorate a vision of what it means to be progressive in the 21st century - with respect to strategy and tactics, policy, and methods of organisation -- placing the well-being of all of humanity and the planet at the centre of our political life

We dare not fail!

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▶ Anonymous 09/20/24 (Fri) 16:43:16 175e34 (38) No.21628958

>>21628891

These attachments should have been posted in the below posts.

>>21628918

>>21628929

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▶ Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 20:36:25 07b319 (103) No.21650707>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

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“Paul O’Sullivan: Once respected CEO Mike Lomas back in SA to ’fess up on R1.4bn Eskom fraud”

https://youtu.be/yxHFC0ou7S4

Sep 20, 2024

Ace forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has landed another big fish in a six year investigation into a R1.4bn Eskom fraud. One of the key facilitators of the heist, former Group Five CEO Mike Lomas, today landed at OR Tambo after losing his case against extradition from the UK. Lomas’s return to SA will accelerate the State’s criminal trial against massive Eskom tender winner Tony Trindade of Tubular Construction and his internal accomplice, Kusile contract manager Frans Hlakudi. O’Sullivan spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

20:36 -- “–It’s amazing how the banks assisted in all this money laundering. It’s mind-blowing, in fact, that the banks in South Africa have been so readily able to assist in the money laundering of these criminals and it leaves me no doubt that it’s the conduct of the banks like that, and the lawyers by the way. Law firms that knowingly get paid with the proceeds of crime but are quite happy to receive that money and quite happy to perform services for that money, those are the type of people that have got South Africa onto the grey list and those are the type of people that I would also like to see going down with people like Trindade and Hlakudi. But unfortunately, it seems they get away with it.”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/fugitive-eskom-kusile-corruption-michael-lomas-extradited-court-video/

20 Sep 2024

The corruption case against Michael Lomas has been postponed to 27 September when the fraud-accused British national will appear at the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court for a formal bail application.

The former Kusile Power Station contractor’s brief appearance at the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Friday afternoon followed his successful extradition to South Africa.

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▶ Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 20:37:30 07b319 (103) No.21650708>>21650713 >>21650780 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651676

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“South Africa: Ramaphosa's Minister Says US Shouldn't Lecture Pretoria | Firstpost Africa”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMv17Ky8Rdo

Sep 20, 2024

South Africa: Ramaphosa's Minister Says US Shouldn't Lecture Pretoria | Firstpost Africa

Geopolitical developments worldwide are complicating the already complex relationship between South Africa and the United States. South Africa's Foreign Minister, who recently concluded a visit to Washington, has asked the US not to tell his country what to do. The South African minister's visit came amid reports of Israeli diplomats lobbying US lawmakers to pressure South Africa to drop its genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Earlier this week, even Tanzania rebuked the US for alleged interference in its internal affairs. Ties between America and South Africa also worsened when Pretoria chose to opt for a "neutral" stance over Russia's war in Ukraine. In fact, South Africa views Russia and China as friends rather than enemies. Is the US losing the race for influence in Africa?

https://www.trtafrika.com/africa/we-dont-expect-us-to-tell-us-what-to-do-sa-foreign-minister-18210290

19 Sep 2024

South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola has concluded his tour of the US, where he said that Washington “should not tell” his country what to do.

Lamola engaged key stakeholders in Washington, including the House of Representatives subcommittee on Africa, the Congressional Black Caucus, the US Chamber of Commerce and bipartisan think tanks, Phiri said.

"Moving forward, efforts to sustain important engagements regularly in a structured system will be explored at a high political level," Lamola said.

Addressing the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 53rd Annual Legislative Conference in Washington last week, Lamola said: "Let us engage on differences but we may agree to dis agree."

"We will not tell the US what to do and we expect the US not to tell us what to do," he said.

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▶ Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 20:38:54 07b319 (103) No.21650713>>21650780 >>22366076 >>22518689 >>22651667 >>22651676

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>>21650708

In contrast

“Ramaphosa meets with South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk, other investors”

https://youtu.be/eW_CjTvE4D0

Sep 24, 2024

President Cyril Ramaphosa has met with South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk in New York. After a day, this focused entirely on engagement with American businesses and investors to move the country's tepid economy forward.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/561999-ramaphosa-meets-with-elon-musk.html

24.09.2024

News of the meeting comes after Ramaphosa revealed earlier this month that the South African government was in talks with Musk’s SpaceX regarding its satellite communication service Starlink.

“I have had discussions with him and have said, Elon, you become so successful and you’re investing in a variety of countries, I want you to come home and invest here,” said Ramaphosa.

“He and I are going to have a further discussion.”

Starlink needs network, service, and spectrum licences from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to launch locally.

However, uncertainty surrounding South Africa’s rules regarding local ownership of communications services presents a hurdle.

Currently, regulations require that a licensee operating a national network or selling Internet services nationally must be 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups.

The uncertainty stems from new regulations Icasa published in 2021, which included provisions that changed this requirement to 30% black ownership.

However, following industry backlash, Icasa suspended these specific provisions when it published the regulations.

It may put them into force at any moment or withdraw them entirely. Currently, there is no clarity from the regulator on what it intends to do about the controversial regulations.

Moreover, Icasa has not issued new communications network and service licences for 14 years.

Starlink could only obtain these by buying them from someone or acquiring a company that has licences, or by working through a local company that already possesses the required licences.

Should it wish to operate in South Africa directly, it would need to establish a local entity with a BEE partner.

This is so the ownership and control of the relevant licences could be transferred to Starlink.

Icasa will only approve such a transfer if the receiving entity meets its ownership requirements.

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▶ Anonymous 09/24/24 (Tue) 20:51:34 07b319 (103) No.21650780

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“Why Aristotle Feared Democracy (and so Should You)”

https://youtu.be/rKstmdkYUBQ

Sep 18, 2024

This sounds so much like South Africa. Consider the exploitation of mineral wealth over the centuries, push for ‘majority’ rule, Julius Malema, expropriation without compensation, etc..

It seems that the corporations/liberals who arranged for the ANC (communists, socialists) to take over the country as the supposed ‘majority ruler’ are turning on each other. The same players who were involved in negotiations prior to 1994 are back again; Roelf Meyer, Oppenheimer family through the signing of the “Gdansk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”, as well as intelligence and corporations if you consider that a former SA intelligence officer is working for an Oppenheimer organisation and that WestExec Advisors is the only American signatory on the Gdansk Declaration as they “represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House… 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.” https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/

I have a sense that many conservatives in South Africa are sitting on the sidelines until the liberals/communists/etc. destroy themselves and the country so that they can rebuild from out of the ashes.

America learn from South Africa to prevent yourselves from getting to this point.

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▶ Anonymous 10/12/24 (Sat) 01:29:39 902e3f (83) No.21749756

Any South Africa anons near or been near the Port of Durban?

I'm curious to know if any construction is going on there

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▶ Anonymous 10/17/24 (Thu) 20:42:45 902e3f (83) No.21783796

How's the Order Books for Denel?

Canada #64 >>21782560

Italy's Meloni On Israel Arms Embargo: "We Have Blocked Everything"

The Italian government has imposed the strictest arms embargo on Israel among any European nation, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni having confirmed before the Italian senate that all new arms deals were blocked within weeks of the start of Israel's military offensive in Gaza.

"After the start of [Israeli military] operations in Gaza, the government immediately suspended all new export licenses, and all agreements signed after October 7th were not implemented," Meloni said on Tuesday.

She further described that licenses authorized before the war are being "analyzed on a case-by-case basis by the competent authority at the foreign ministry."

"We have blocked everything," the Italian leader said while acknowledging that her government's ban is "much more restrictive than that applied by our partners---France, Germany and the United Kingdom."

Pro-Israel sources as well as Jewish news agencies in the West have described Italy's rhetoric as "increasingly hostile" toward Israel of late, particularly after the escalation of war in Lebanon.

Meloni in her Tuesday address made reference to ongoing controversy surrounding Israeli forces targeting troops of the UN Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL). Italy and Ireland tend to be Europe's largest contributor of troops to the peacekeeping team which has its command HQ in south Lebanon.

Two UNIFIL troops have been wounded by Israeli forces (IDF) thus far. "Even if there have been no casualties or extensive damage, I think that Israel’s attack on UNIFIL cannot be considered acceptable," the Italian premier said. "We believe that the attitude of the Israeli forces is completely unjustified," she emphasized.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has countered by saying that the real problem is that Hezbollah terrorists are exploiting positions surrounding UNIFIL outposts.

Israel has called on the UN peacekeepers to leave while accusing UNIFIL of allowing Hezbollah to relentlessly bombard northern Israel with missiles from territory under its watch. Meloni meanwhile also unveiled plans to soon visit Lebanon.

As for whether arms embargos on Israel will grow among European countries, Frances is currently in embroiled in a public spat with Israeli leadership. Top German leaders have also of late blocked the sale of weapons to Israel.

The German government has insisted that there is no official arms embargo in effect. Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently vowed that more weapons will be sent to Tel Aviv soon.

However, Politico has highlighted: "Arms export decisions are approved by the Federal Security Council made up of senior ministers. Bild reported that Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock --- Green politicians who are in governing coalition with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats — withheld approval for arms exports in the council pending assurances from Israel that it would not use German weapons in a genocide."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/italys-meloni-israel-arms-embargo-we-have-blocked-everything

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▶ Anonymous 10/21/24 (Mon) 07:03:49 902e3f (83) No.21803546>>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

New China-Backed Megaport Set to Transform South American Trade

Reuters October 19, 2024

LIMA, Oct 18 (Reuters) -- Peru’s massive Chancay port, which authorities hope will become a major shipping hub for South America-Asia trade, will ship two container ships a week beginning late next month, an executive for port operator Cosco Shipping said on Friday.

After the port’s inauguration in mid-November, it will initially cover a direct route to Shanghai and then may ship to other points in the Asian market, depending on demand, said Carlos Tejada, general manager of Hong Kong-based Cosco’s local subsidiary, Cosco Shipping Chancay Peru.

“At the end of November, we will begin the stage known as ‘test conditioning,’ which we expect to run until May. However, during this soft launch phase, we can already handle actual cargo, with two direct vessels per week,” the executive told reporters following a Peruvian-Chinese business forum.

Tejada said that cabotage routes will be opened with smaller ships from Colombia, Ecuador and Chile, whose cargo will later be shipped to Asia from Chancay, initially in ships carrying up to 14,000 containers, which will then be progressively increased to larger vessels holding up to 24,000 containers.

Cosco Shipping Ports owns and will operate the port with a 60% stake, with the remaining 40% held by Peruvian miner Volcan, which is controlled by Glencore.

https://gcaptain.com/new-china-backed-megaport-set-to-transform-south-american-trade/

And there it is…Glencore

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▶ Anonymous 11/03/24 (Sun) 15:26:29 7a6cdb (66) No.21889755

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Are liberation movements losing power in SADC?

https://youtu.be/NqJUGzmrQ4A

Nov 2, 2024

The Botswana Democratic Party lost its parliamentary power after 58 years in power. This has raised questions about liberation movements and their relevance in Southern Africa. International relations specialist at the University of Dundee in Scotland Musa Mdunge weighs in on these recent political shifts.

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▶ Anonymous 11/03/24 (Sun) 15:30:40 7a6cdb (66) No.21889787

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While BRICS has Afrikaans on its bank note, South Africa wants to ditch Afrikaans

It is curious that the BRICS bank note has “Republiek van Suid-Afrika” which is in Afrikaans.

“Unifying through language: time to ditch Afrikaans in schools”

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/unifying-through-language-time-to-ditch-afrikaans-in-schools-92b7c000-b135-4658-9d4a-fc5a5c2610bd

Published Nov 1, 2024

In the wake of South Africa's long and complex struggle against apartheid, the call for genuine transformation in education is more pressing than ever. One of the critical conversations that needs to take place is whether Afrikaans should continue to hold a place in our school curricula. As a language that has deep historical ties to colonialism and oppression, banning Afrikaans from schools could be a significant step toward fostering an inclusive, equitable educational environment that truly reflects the diverse fabric of our nation.

Historical Context

Afrikaans, a language derived from Dutch, has long been associated with the apartheid regime, serving as a symbol of exclusion for many non-Afrikaans-speaking communities. The language was used as a tool of oppression, reinforcing racial divisions and marginalising those who did not speak it. Even after the fall of apartheid, Afrikaans remains a contentious subject, representing a legacy that continues to alienate many learners in our schools. The persistence of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in various institutions perpetuates an educational system that fails to address historical injustices.

“Afrikaans Phased Out”

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/04/18/afrikaans-phased-out/

April 18, 2019

South Africa’s University of Pretoria has begun phasing out Afrikaans as its official teaching language and replacing it with English. This move is the result of a 2016 decision made in response to student protests that decried Afrikaans as a barrier to black students’ learning and sense of belonging at the university.

South Africa has eleven official languages, including Indigenous languages like Zulu, Xhosa, and Sepedi as well as Afrikaans and English, which were both introduced by colonizers.

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▶ leper$hillin 11/03/24 (Sun) 16:40:19 064177 (1) No.21890316

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▶ Anonymous 11/03/24 (Sun) 17:32:52 902e3f (83) No.21890786>>22366049

Canada #65

Kenya gives far-left Gates Foundation special legal exemptions to push its agenda

by Calvin Freiburger Sat Nov 2, 2024

The government of Kenya has extended special legal privileges, including immunity from lawsuits and exemption from various requirements, to the Gates Foundation, which is heavily focused on curbing population growth around the world.

(LifeSiteNews) -- The government of Kenya has granted the far-left Gates Foundation broad immunity to operate in the country, ostensibly in the name of its various charitable causes but raising concerns that it will be used to further the organization’s pro-abortion population-control agenda.

Business Daily Africa reports that in a legal notice published October 4, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi announced that the government had entered into a cooperative agreement with the foundation (known as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation prior to the couple’s 2021 divorce) for its work in support of “agriculture, healthcare, immunization, nutrition, sanitation, financial services, gender equality [sic], and family planning [sic].”

As such, the foundation is being granted protection under Section 11 of the Privileges and Immunity Act, which gives designated individuals and entities immunity from lawsuits connected to their official duties, taxes on payment for their work in connection to those duties, from national service obligations, and from immigration restrictions.

However, the Gates Foundation is notorious for its work advancing causes around the world that are far less innocuous than distributing medicine and technology. Over the years, it has spent heavily on abortion and contraception in the name of “family planning,” climate alarmism, and digital ID surveillance, as well as partnering with the United Nations Population Fund. Its founder, Microsoft chief Bill Gates, also appointed himself a public health expert during the COVID-19 pandemic despite his lack of formal medical training, using his influence to promote lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

In 2011, Bill and Melinda Gates explained to Forbes that their “humanitarian” work to extend lifespans in third-world nations is motivated in part by the hope of reducing population size, believing that parents in those nations have large families not because they want eight or more children, but because they expect some to die early. So “if a mother and father know their child is going to live to adulthood, they start to naturally reduce their population size.”

With a current population of 56 million and a growth rate of 2.28%, Kenya has long been a target of population control activists. “Although the fertility rate is less than half of what it was decades ago, Kenya still sees rapid population growth,” according to World Population Review. “This is because there are many more families in Kenya today because of high fertility rates in the past, so women are having fewer children but there are more families having kids. Additionally, Kenyan life expectancy is increasing.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/kenya-gives-far-left-gates-foundation-special-legal-exemptions-to-push-its-agenda/

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▶ Anonymous 11/10/24 (Sun) 15:49:55 b65844 (1) No.21956756

Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 239b20 No.89777 📁

Jan 19 2018 00:39:17 (EST)

Anonymous ID: 4bb19b No.89736 📁

Jan 19 2018 00:37:26 (EST)

>>89725

THANK YOU Q

FROM CANADA TOO IM SURE THIS WILL EXPOSE OUR CORRUPTION AS WELL!

>>89736

The 'CURE' will spread WW.

Have FAITH, Patriot.

trips confirm

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▶ Anonymous 11/21/24 (Thu) 23:48:26 902e3f (83) No.22034368>>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

Canada #66

Nigeria's Richest Man Confronts "Oil Mafia" With New $20B Refinery

By Alex Kimani of OilPrice.com Thursday, Nov 21, 2024

Two months ago, Nigeria’s beleaguered energy sector witnessed a very significant event: the Dangote Oil Refinery began producing gasoline and selling it domestically to Nigeria's state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), marking the first time in decades Africa’s largest oil producer is refining its own crude. The state-of-the-art $20 billion refinery was launched in January 2024, but only began producing gasoline in September, expected to reach full operations in November. The giant refinery has a capacity to process 650,000 barrels of crude per day, more than enough for the country’s needs. To sweeten the deal further, the facility is buying crude and selling refined fuels in Nigeria in the local currency, saving the country’s much-needed foreign exchange, especially the US dollar.

Unfortunately for Aliko Dangote, Africa’s second richest man and owner of the refinery, his bold move has put him on a collision course with what he refers to as Nigeria's ‘oil mafia’.

"I knew there would be a fight. But I didn’t know that the mafia in oil, they are stronger than the mafia in drugs," Mr Dangote told an investment conference in June.

"They don’t want the trade to stop. It’s a cartel. Dangote comes along and he’s going to disrupt them entirely. Their business is at risk,” says Mr Emmanuel, a Nigerian oil expert.

According to the BBC, since oil was discovered in the West African nation in 1956, the country’s downstream sector has largely been a cesspit of shady deals with little accountability by the NNPC. For decades, Nigeria has been producing and exporting its crude which is then refined abroad. NNPC swaps Nigeria’s crude oil for refined products, including petrol, which are shipped back home. Incredibly, it only started publishing its accounts five years ago, despite the fact that oil revenue accounts for nearly 90% of Nigeria’s export earnings. In other words, until recently, only the NNPC knew exactly how much money changed hands and who was involved in these "oil swaps".

Dangote’s new refinery should definitely be a boon for the country. Unfortunately, its arrival has coincided with developments completely out of his control. Since the 1970s, the NNPC has been subsidizing fuel prices for local buyers. Every year, the state-owned firm has been gradually clawing this money back by depositing lower royalty payments with the Nigerian treasury. However, Nigeria’s new President Bola Tinubu was forced to scrap the subsidy in 2023 after it cost the government $10bn, more than 40% of the total money it collected in taxes. Further, he stopped the policy of artificially propping up the value of the naira, and let market forces determine its value. Nigerians are now paying ~$2.30 per gallon of gasoline, dirt-cheap by U.S. standards but triple what they were paying just a couple of years ago.

Meanwhile, the oil and gas multinational divestment from the Niger Delta that kicked off over a decade has hit a peak. Numerous oil and gas majors have exited the Nigerian market over the past few years despite Africa’s largest economy opening its doors for wider exploration courtesy of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021. Nigeria’s oil production has declined to 1.3 million barrels per day currently from around 2.1 million barrels per day in 2018.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nigerias-richest-man-confronts-oil-mafia-new-20b-refinery

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▶ Anonymous 12/02/24 (Mon) 23:23:25 902e3f (83) No.22096227

South Africa? When Washington tries to give you grief about Rule of Law or some other crap related to running your own country or sanctions on BRICS partners please remember this comes from the people who said "No One is above the Law" trying to go after Donald Trump.

Breaking: Joe Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden in Gun and Tax Cases--And Any Federal Crimes From 2014 Through 2024

by Kristinn Taylor Dec. 1, 2024

After many denials he would do so, Joe Biden granted his son Hunter Biden a blanket pardon in the federal gun and tax cases against him Sunday night. The pardon, which covers any federal crimes by Hunter from 2014 to 2024, ends a case that was blown open by IRS whistleblowers who spoke out after the Biden Justice Department slow-walked an investigation into Hunter, allowing the statute of limitations to pass on some charges and offering Hunter a sweetheart plea deal that was ultimately rejected by an incredulous federal judge in Delaware resulting in the appointment of a special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in the case. Incredibly, Garland appointed the same federal prosecutor who sabotaged the Hunter case, Robert Weiss, to be special counsel.

The pardon absolves Hunter of any possible drug involvement, sex trafficking, lobbying, bribery, foreign agent or other crimes involving Ukraine and several other foreign governments or companies including China. The start date of 2014 coincides with the year Hunter joined the board of the Ukraine energy firm Burisma in an influence peddling scheme alleged to have involved Joe Biden.

Hunter was later convicted on three felony charges related to the purchase of a gun in June of 2024 (AP excerpt):

Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.

…Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.

In September, Hunter pled guilty to tax charges (NPR excerpt):

President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, pleaded guilty Thursday to tax charges in a surprise move just before jury selection was set to start in his federal criminal trial in Los Angeles.

The last-minute change of plea headed off what would likely have been a painful legal and personal ordeal filled with sordid details of the younger Biden’s life when he was addicted to crack cocaine.

The case centered on Biden’s failure to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, even as he spent millions of dollars on what prosecutors described as an “extravagant lifestyle” replete with escorts, luxury hotels and a sex club membership.

…Hunter Biden was facing nine counts in the Los Angeles case: three felony counts for tax evasion and filing false returns, plus six misdemeanor counts.

Attorney Mike Davis noted a few days ago that once pardoned, Hunter could no longer invoke his 5th Amendment rights if called to testify in matters related to Biden family corruption, “If Biden pardons someone--like, say, Hunter or Jack Smith–they can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress or grand juries. If those pardoned refuse to testify, they can face new charges for criminal contempt.”

If Biden pardons someone--like, say, Hunter or Jack Smith–they can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment’s right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress or grand juries.

If those pardoned refuse to testify, they can face new charges for criminal contempt.

--- Mike Davis (@mrddmia) November 26, 2024

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/breaking-joe-biden-pardons-son-hunter-biden-gun/

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▶ Anonymous 12/05/24 (Thu) 19:26:28 902e3f (83) No.22113893>>22366060 >>22518655 >>22651672

General Research #27070

McKinsey & Company Africa to Pay Over $122M in Connection with Bribery of South African Government Officials

Thursday, December 5, 2024

McKinsey and Company Africa (Pty) Ltd (McKinsey Africa), which operates in South Africa as a wholly owned and controlled subsidiary of international consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc. (McKinsey), will pay over $122 million to resolve an investigation by the Justice Department into a scheme to pay bribes to government officials in South Africa between 2012 and 2016. The guilty plea of a former McKinsey senior partner who participated in the bribery scheme was also unsealed. The Justice Department’s resolution is coordinated with prosecutorial authorities in South Africa.

McKinsey Africa entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the department in connection with a criminal information filed in the Southern District of New York charging the company with one count of conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Vikas Sagar, a former senior partner of McKinsey who worked in McKinsey Africa’s South Africa office, previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA.

According to court documents and admissions, McKinsey Africa, acting through a senior partner and for the benefit of McKinsey, agreed to pay bribes to then-officials at Transnet SOC Ltd. (Transnet), South Africa’s state-owned and state-controlled custodian of ports, rails, and pipelines, and at Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. (Eskom), South Africa’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company. Between at least 2012 and 2016, McKinsey Africa obtained sensitive confidential and non-public information from Transnet and Eskom regarding the award of lucrative consulting contracts and submitted proposals for multimillion-dollar consulting engagements, while knowing that South African consulting firms with which McKinsey Africa had partnered would pay a portion of their fees as bribes to officials at Transnet and Eskom. As a result of the bribery scheme, McKinsey and McKinsey Africa earned profits of approximately $85,000,000.

“McKinsey Africa bribed South African officials in order to obtain lucrative consulting business that generated tens of millions of dollars in profits,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “As a consequence, McKinsey Africa has agreed to pay a criminal penalty of more than $122 million. The resolution announced today --- the department’s third coordinated resolution with South African authorities in only two years — is evidence that our International Corporate Anti-Bribery (ICAB) initiative, which we announced in November 2023, is bearing fruit. Through the ICAB, the Criminal Division remains committed to strengthening its international partnerships, including in South Africa, to combat corruption.”

“McKinsey Africa participated in a yearslong scheme to bribe government officials in South Africa and unlawfully obtained a series of highly lucrative consulting engagements that netted McKinsey Africa and its parent entity McKinsey & Company approximately $85 million in profits,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “The scheme was carried out by a senior partner at McKinsey and allowed McKinsey Africa to repeatedly get awarded consulting contracts through corruption and bribes at two different state-owned entities in South Africa. This office and our law enforcement partners will continue our fight against American companies that seek to gain an unfair business advantage by supporting corrupt political officials overseas, no matter the industry, no matter the country, and no matter how prominent or profitable those companies may be.”

“This settlement underscores our unwavering commitment to holding companies accountable that willfully engage in corrupt activities around the world,” said Assistant Director Chad Yarbrough of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division. “McKinsey Africa engaged in a serious and long-running bribery scheme to secure contracts by corrupting government officials. This misconduct is a blatant violation of law and a breach of public trust. No matter what country the crime occurs in, the FBI will always work closely with our international partners to root out corruption.”

“McKinsey Africa will pay over $122 million, a clear indication that corruption comes at a significant cost,” said Inspector in Charge Eric Shen of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Criminal Investigations Group. “The resolution of this case underscores that justice has no borders, and those who engage in bribery and conspire to commit crimes will be held accountable. The Postal Inspection Service is committed to ensuring that government resources and international partnerships serve the public good and are never exploited for personal or corporate gain.”

Pursuant to the DPA, McKinsey Africa has agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $122,850,000. The Justice Department has agreed to credit up to one-half of the criminal penalty against amounts McKinsey pays to authorities in South Africa in related proceedings. In addition, both McKinsey and McKinsey Africa have agreed to, among other things, continue cooperating with the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in any ongoing or future criminal investigation arising during the term of the DPA. McKinsey and McKinsey Africa have also agreed to enhance their compliance program where necessary and appropriate and to report to the government regarding remediation and implementation of their enhanced compliance program.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/mckinsey-company-africa-pay-over-122m-connection-bribery-south-african-government-officials

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▶ Anonymous 12/06/24 (Fri) 01:14:07 c34254 (1) No.22115566

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▶ Anonymous 12/15/24 (Sun) 22:38:38 902e3f (83) No.22171367

Canada #68

Ghana Introduces Biometric Border Entry At Primary Airport

Ghana has upgraded its border management capabilities with the introduction of a biometric-based system to facilitate immigration controls.

The launch of the system which comes with high level security, transparency, and efficiency at all points of entry, was accompanied by the unveiling of e-gates at Terminal 3 of the country’s principal airport -- the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra.

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, who presided over the launching ceremony early this month, said the rollout of these facilities mark a “fundamental leap forward” in the country’s border management apparatus.

The project has been ongoing for years, with Bawumia explaining it has taken four years since Margins Group was contracted, according to The Ghana Report. Gemalto installed biometric gates at KIA in 2018 under an $18 million contract, prior to becoming Thales. But as a World Bank document from 2019 shows, the e-gates needed to be moved from Terminal 2 to Terminal 3, adding several million dollars more to the project’s overall cost. Margins Group has also worked with Gemalto (Thales) on smart cards for the banking industry.

Margins Group makes the new Ghana Card, which functions as a travel document in some situations, and therefore will be read by the biometric gates. The gates scan the travellers’ ID document to open a first set of doors, and perform a biometric match to open a second set, similar to models made by Thales.

Bright Simons, VP of think tank Imani Africa, writes for MyjoyOnline.com that Thales completed an installation of gates in 2020, and that the total project cost has ballooned to $240 million.

“The global travel landscape is evolving rapidly, with innovations such as biometric e-gates and Digital Travel Credentials becoming the new standard. Ghana has embraced these global advancements, integrating biometric verification and Digital Travel Credential technologies into a single platform,” the VP said during the launching ceremony as reported on his website.

“This dual capability positions Ghana as a pioneer in intelligent border control, aligning with global standards while placing us ahead of many advanced nations.”

Bawumia, who lost the race to become Ghana’s next president following Saturday’s elections, said the newly unveiled e-gates are designed with “cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, biometrics, and real-time data processing to create a frictionless and secure travel experience.”

Underscoring the importance of the new system for Ghanaians and foreign travellers, the VP said it will lead to faster clearance at border points, ensure smooth entry into the country, ensuing a seamless and hassle-free experience.

Bawumia said novelties like these find their relevance in other digital transformation projects the country has successfully implemented such as the Ghana Card which today makes it easy for the country to integrate digital services. The Ghana card, by the way, is also used as a travel document by Ghanaians.

“The Ghana Card has also become a critical tool for national security, supporting law enforcement and other agencies. Notably, the Ghana Card was recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as a valid e-passport card. Since this recognition, Ghanaians have been able to travel to Ghana, across 197 countries and access over 44,000 airports worldwide with just their Ghana Card,” Bawumia recalled.

He assured that Ghanaians that after the introduction of e-gates at Kotoka, the facilities will be extended to other airports across the country such as those of Tamale and Kumasi, as well as to all other points of entry into the country.

Earlier this month, Ghana also launched its new chip-embedded passport with enhanced security features to combat identity theft and improve travel experience.

AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Before CBDCs and tokenization can be truly implemented on a mainstream scale, digital IDs need to be in place; and this is another example of this transpiring. This is yet another example of the early foundation for the mark of the beast system taking root.

https://winepressnews.com/2024/12/13/ghana-introduces-biometric-border-entry-at-primary-airport/

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▶ Anonymous 12/22/24 (Sun) 01:00:10 902e3f (83) No.22207335>>22366049

Canada #68

Coalition of Over 30 Attorneys Representing Over 1,500 Remdesivir Victims Blast ABC with Cease and Desist Over Dangerous ‘Miracle Cure’ Claim in New Show

by Jim Hᴏft Dec. 21, 2024

A coalition of over thirty attorneys representing more than 1,500 individuals harmed by the failed Ebola drug Remdesivir (also marketed as Veklury®) has sent a scathing cease-and-desist letter to ABC.

The letter demands the immediate removal of content from the pilot episode of ABC’s new medical drama, Doctor Odyssey, which portrays Remdesivir as a “miracle cure.”

The legal demand obtained by The Gateway Pundit accuses ABC of promoting the drug through misleading and dangerous claims, potentially influencing viewers to trust and pursue treatments that have caused severe harm, including acute kidney injury, liver damage, and even death.

It should be noted that in November 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised against the use of remdesivir in hospitalized patients, citing evidence suggesting it had little or no effect on mortality or other important outcomes.

In September 2022, lawsuits were filed against three California health care providers on grounds they used failed Ebola drug Remdesivir on patients without obtaining informed consent, resulting in the wrongful deaths of several patients

The attorneys, led by Jamie Scher, Stephen Scher, and Michael Hamilton , argue that their clients, many of whom suffered life-altering injuries, were coerced into using Remdesivir under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) guidelines.

They claim these individuals were denied informed consent due to misinformation and the deliberate withholding of critical risk factors.

The letter outlines a series of demands, including:

Immediate Removal: Dub or delete any mentions of Remdesivir from Doctor Odyssey.

Financial Transparency: Disclose any agreements between ABC and the drug’s manufacturer, Gilead Sciences.

Victim Compensation: Establish funds for individuals harmed by Remdesivir after viewing the misleading content.

Public Apology: Broadcast an apology across ABC-affiliated stations, warning viewers about the drug’s risks.

Failure to meet these demands by December 31, 2024, will result in legal action, according to the attorneys.

Read the full emergency demand cease and desist letter:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/coalition-30-attorneys-representing-1500-remdesivir-victims-blast/

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▶ Anonymous 12/27/24 (Fri) 17:06:06 d3d80f (1) No.22237206>>22243490

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▶ Anonymous 12/28/24 (Sat) 16:02:13 902e3f (83) No.22243490

>>22237206

State your evidence

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▶ Anonymous 01/06/25 (Mon) 19:38:22 902e3f (83) No.22303946>>22366049

Canada #69

Hohmann: Bill Gates Unleashes Plan for New Series of Gene-Based Injections that Will Target Africa

by Jim Hoft Jan. 6, 2025

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is rolling out a plan to use Africans as guinea pigs for an expanded series of new genetically altering mRNA injections.

He calls them vaccines but we know they are not vaccines, at least not in the traditional meaning of the word. U.S. courts have even ruled that mRNA serums don’t qualify as vaccines.

The Covid vaccines, the first to use this technology, have been an unmitigated disaster.

But that hasn’t stopped Gates from pushing more of these gene-based jabs on the world.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $40 million initiative to support the production of messenger mRNA vaccines in Africa.

During that pandemic, African nations were often the last to receive Covid jabs. It worked to their benefit as fewer Africans died of Covid, per capita than Westerners.

Yet, the power of money never ceases and so Gates presses on in his efforts to vaccinate the world against every disease imaginable. And Africa will be Ground Zero for the plan.

Gates and his foundation hope to expand the testing of the mRNA injections on Africans before they are rolled out globally.

The funding will aid several manufacturers, including Senegal’s Pasteur Institute, in developing mRNA injections for the people of Africa.

Bill Gates emphasized the potential of mRNA technology to combat diseases like Rift Valley fever and tuberculosis while building Africa’s capacity for vaccine development.

Of course, no one is raising the question of why sub-Saharan African populations generally fared better than European, American, and Asian populations during the Covid pandemic. If the vaccines had worked, it should have been the opposite, because it was the African nations that were far less vaccinated with the Covid injection that the populations in North America and Europe.

The bottom line is this: The more one can stay away from Bill Gates and his toxic mRNA jabs, the better their chances of living a healthy and normal life.

Gates is driven by profit and by his insatiable desire to depopulate the world. Only a government that truly hates its own people would unleash on them Bill Gates and his poisonous death jabs.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/hohmann-bill-gates-unleashes-plan-new-series-gene/

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▶ Anonymous 01/08/25 (Wed) 19:28:54 902e3f (83) No.22316940>>22366049

General Research #27295

Drone expert roped in to assess conditions of Stilfontein illegal miners

8 Jan 2025 12:13 pm

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) says funding has been secured for a drone to examine the conditions at the abandoned mine in Stilfontein, North West, where illegal miners are still underground.

Rescue operations are ongoing at the mine, three months after law enforcement intensified efforts to curb illegal mining as part of Operation Vala Umgodi.

The mine features three primary entry and exit points: Margaret Shaft, Buffelsfontein Shaft 10, and Buffelsfontein Shaft 11.

To date, at least 1 500 illegal miners, known as zama zamas, have been arrested, and nine bodies have been recovered.

However, hundreds of miners remain underground in an attempt to evade capture.

Human rights activists have since raised concerns about the underground conditions, amid claims that zama zamas have run out of food and have resorted to cannibalism due to severe starvation.

Following a site visit by Macua along with the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee (SSC) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on Tuesday, a proposal has been made to government for drone technology to be used in order to help retrieve the miners.

Macua revealed that money has been raised to hire a drone expert to assess the ongoing situation underground.

The mine features three primary entry and exit points: Margaret Shaft, Buffelsfontein Shaft 10, and Buffelsfontein Shaft 11.

“The video footage obtained through this drone inspection will be instrumental in providing all concerned parties, and possibly including the court, with a clearer understanding of the conditions faced by the trapped miners.

“The footage that can be obtained by the drone will serve to illuminate the circumstances underground, thereby facilitating informed decision-making about the urgency of the rescue operation, which the state has dragged its feet for the past two months,” Macua spokesperson Magnificent Mndebele said in a statement.

Mndebele said the non-governmental organisation (NGO) hopes the evidence obtained will be made available for joint assessment by all parties involved in the rescue efforts upon completion of the drone operation.

“This process will be conducted in an open and transparent manner to ensure fairness and accountability.”

Pulley system fails

This was not the first proposal that Macua has suggested to the state, according to Mndebele.

He indicated that when the pulley system was destroyed two weeks ago, an offer was made to lower a cellphone underground to record the conditions and gain a better understanding of the situation.

“However, this proposal did not materialise as the pulley system, which was needed to send down the camera, was destroyed shortly after we made the request.”

Mndebele added that the mining rights activist group remain committed to ensuring that the right to life of those trapped underground is protected.

ConCourt to help Stilfontein illegal miners?

Macua has also decided to approach the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) with an urgent application concerning the miners.

The organisation wants the apex court to order the government to provide food, water, and medical supplies to the zama zamas, warning that the situation has reached crisis levels.

Previously, two applications by Macua and the Society for the Protection of our Constitution were dismissed by the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/drone-expert-conditions-stilfontein-illegal-miners/

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:26:03 07b319 (103) No.22352614>>22352625 >>22352643 >>22352670 >>22352717 >>22354474 >>22366053 >>22518650

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Keeping track of the Mozambican crisis?

“Mozambique swears in new parliament despite protests and the opposition's ceremony boycott | DW News”

https://youtu.be/BwTwQr5u0Kc

“Katzenellenbogen: SA faces a diplomatic dilemma as Mozambique teeters on the brink”

https://www.biznews.com/africa/2025/01/09/katzenellenbogen-mozambique-sa

9th January 2025

In the face of widespread doubts about the credibility of the Mozambique election held last October, which was followed by three months of violent protest, President Daniel Chapo will be sworn in next week.

The country’s main opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, who fled the country after two aides were shot dead, plans to return home tomorrow from exile. He has promised more protests until there is “electoral truth.”

Mozambique will be South Africa’s big foreign policy headache this year. Our sizable economic and security interests are seriously at stake in Mozambique. But it is unlikely that Pretoria and the region are prepared to abandon their liberation-era ally, Frelimo. This might be required to bring about stability and protect our interests.

The source of much of South Africa’s and the region’s diplomatic bind on Mozambique is that they speedily gave the thumbs-up to the election. The election observer missions from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union said the elections were well run and South Africa automatically endorsed that. After all, these are African institutions and ones that Pretoria feels it should support, no matter what.

By contrast, the European Union election observer mission said the count was flawed. Instead of looking into that, Pretoria stuck to its position.

Mozambique elections have been flawed in the past, but the latest has set off massive public violence reflecting deep dissatisfaction and mistrust of Frelimo.

Big South African interests are at stake here. We get most of our gas from Mozambique, we rely on the country’s ports, and South African companies are involved in almost all sectors of the economy.

Since the election, Sasol has cut back on gas production in Mozambique. In November the South African ports, terminals and logistics company, Grindrod, suspended its operations in Maputo and Matola. South Africa’s border posts with Mozambique have been intermittently closed, and the economy is grinding down.

The massive breakouts from prisons last month have raised alarm bells about a breakdown in law and order, and more generally of the government.

The ANC’s partners in the Government of National Unity have no leverage over key foreign policy decisions. They can push in public, but they have deliberately been kept well away from the ANC turf of foreign policy.

On the Middle East, we are bold and decisive, and uphold what Pretoria thinks is the moral high ground. Our stance on Mozambique and Zimbabwe, over the years, has pretty much shown that we are more committed to dealing with the easy targets, where we can grandstand.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:28:36 07b319 (103) No.22352625>>22352643 >>22352670 >>22352717 >>22354474 >>22359140 >>22366053 >>22518650

>Our sizable economic and security interests are seriously at stake in Mozambique. But it is unlikely that Pretoria and the region are prepared to abandon their liberation-era ally, Frelimo.

The “liberators” certainly want to help their “struggle” buddies.

“Mozambique: Frelimo and ANC to strengthen links as Lindiwe Zulu-led delegation arrives from South Africa”

https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-frelimo-and-anc-to-strengthen-links-as-lindiwe-zulu-led-delegation-arrives-from-south-africa-213523/

05 Apr 2022

The main items on the agenda of visiting delegation led by Comrade Lindiwe Zulu, chairperson for the African National Congress’s Subcommittee on International Relations and South African Minister of Social Development, were strengthening the historic ties of brotherhood, friendship and cooperation that exist between Frelimo and the ANC, and the analysis of the political, economic and social situation in their respective countries.

Greeting the delegation on Monday (04-04), Frelimo Secretary General Comrade Roque Silva Samuel said that the visit would reinforce and consolidate the existing relations of cooperation between the two parties and peoples, which date back to the time of the founding of the Mozambique Liberation Front.

The Comrade Secretary General underlined that friendship and cooperation between Frelimo and the ANC dates back to the struggles against the apartheid regime in South Africa and the Portuguese colonial yoke in Mozambique, reviving memories of the need to continue to fortify and consolidate relations with a view to the future, and paying particular attention to youth -- the assurance of the continuing prevalence of both political parties.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mozambique-opposition-leader-returns-exile-police-fire-tear-117494799

January 9, 2025

Frelimo has often been accused of rigging elections since Mozambique held its first democratic vote in 1994 following a bloody 15-year civil war Frelimo fought against rebel group Renamo, which is now an opposition party that Mondlane once belonged to before breaking away.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:31:07 07b319 (103) No.22352643>>22352670 >>22352717 >>22354474 >>22366053 >>22389023 >>22389166 >>22389871 >>22518650

>On the Middle East, we are bold and decisive, and uphold what Pretoria thinks is the moral high ground. Our stance on Mozambique and Zimbabwe, over the years, has pretty much shown that we are more committed to dealing with the easy targets, where we can grandstand.

>The “liberators” certainly want to help their “struggle” buddies.

“Mnangagwa Missing In Action On Moza Crisis”

https://thenewshawks.com/mnangagwa-missing-in-action-on-moza-crisis/

10 Jan 2025

While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is hand-wringing at home on his annual leave as the current Southern African Development Community (Sadc) chairperson -- weak and compromised by his undiplomatic indecent haste to endorse President-Elect Daniel Chapo before official results were announced; an unconstitutional conduct, Mozambique is undergoing renewed burning at a destructive pace.

Mondlane rejected Chapo’s disputed election as a fraud in the 9 October 2024 election, triggering a wave of violence and chaos.

Hundreds of people have been killed and the local economy disrupted with powerful impact on the region.

South Africa has deep economic interests in Mozambique and thus a vested interest in its affairs, just like Zimbabwe.

Zanu PF and Frelimo have close ties dating back to the 1970s liberation struggle. Mozambique helped liberate Zimbabwe.

The raging deadly conflict has disrupted economic and trade activities, particularly freight transportation, internally in Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Zimbabwe, which relies 70% on the Beira Corridor for its imports and exports, is one of the worst affected.

The Beira corridor guarantees energy security to Zimbabwe as its main fuel supply route and one of the main supply routes for fuel in transit to Zambia, Malawi and the Congolese region of Katanga.

In a desperate bid to create a fait accompli, the Zimbabwean leader even congratulated Chapo before official results were announced, practically declaring him the winner, which is unlawful and a diplomatic abomination.

As the situation deteriorated amid the shock defeat of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party, in power for 58 years, by President Duma Boko’s Umbrella for Democratic Change, and the rise of the opposition and retreat of former liberation movements across the region, Mnangagwa called for a Sadc extraordinary summit in Harare to tackle the Mozambican crisis.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:35:18 07b319 (103) No.22352670>>22352681 >>22352690 >>22354474 >>22358458 >>22359796 >>22364834 >>22364905 >>22366053 >>22418103 >>22418116 >>22418134 >>22418148 >>22418174 >>22418303 >>22426334 >>22518650

>>22352643

And the world is also scrambling to protect their interests.

“US Intelligence arrives in South Africa to discuss Mozambique -- report”

https://clubofmozambique.com/news/us-intelligence-arrives-in-south-africa-to-discuss-mozambique-report-272794/

17 Dec 2024

Last week, US intelligence officials arrived in South Africa to engage in discussions with their counterparts regarding the escalating situation in Mozambique. The country is currently experiencing rising political tensions and the threat of a popular uprising as it awaits the findings of an inquiry into October’s national election, which the ruling party, Frelimo, won amid significant controversy.

The US officials arrived on a C-17 Globemaster plane, which landed at Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIL). According to sources from Rapport, meetings with the South African National Intelligence Coordinating Committee (NICOC) were held at this location. NICOC comprises representatives from state security, defence, crime intelligence, and the financial intelligence center, with additional departments potentially involved.

For the past few years, the US has maintained a training team in Mozambique, assisting with the training of a specialist response unit within the Mozambican army. This ongoing support underscores the strategic importance of Mozambique to US interests in the region.

Simultaneously, a British Air Force Airbus A400M landed in Gaborone, Botswana, on Friday, with its call sign indicating an emergency operational flight. Aviation sources reported that several meetings have taken place at Lanseria Airport in recent days to discuss the emergency evacuation of various embassies and foreign nationals in Mozambique. These forward teams in South Africa are ensuring that there is sufficient fuel at Lanseria for additional flights to temporarily house their countrymen who may need to be evacuated from Mozambique before flying out of the country.

The United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are also involved in these contingency plans. Should the need arise, operations will be coordinated from South Africa and Botswana. Insiders in the intelligence community have indicated that the Americans and other embassy staff in Mozambique are already engaged in contingency planning in anticipation of the constitutional council’s verdict on the election, which is expected shortly before Christmas.

This coordinated effort highlights the international community’s concern over the stability of Mozambique and the potential for widespread unrest. The involvement of multiple agencies and the strategic planning for emergency evacuations underscore the seriousness of the situation and the commitment to ensuring the safety of foreign nationals and embassy staff in the region.

In April, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the extension of the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) deployment in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province until December 31, 2024. This strategic decision is part of South Africa’s commitment to combating the escalating acts of terrorism and violent extremism in the region.

The extension, involving 1,495 SANDF personnel, aligns with South Africa’s international obligations under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to support Mozambique’s fight against insurgent groups. The announcement was made through a communication to the South African Parliament, which was later quoted by the SAVANA newspaper.

President Ramaphosa’s letter to the Parliament, dated April 15, clarifies that the deployment is not merely an extension but a necessary legal cover for the forces already stationed in Cabo Delgado, whose mandate concluded on the same date. The operation, named “Vikela” -- a Zulu term meaning “defend” – will continue to safeguard the northern regions of Mozambique from insurgent activities.

Despite the initial plans for withdrawal, as evidenced by a farewell parade on April 7 and subsequent readiness evaluations, the South African contingent will now remain active in Mozambique until the end of the year.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:36:44 07b319 (103) No.22352681>>22352690 >>22352777 >>22354474 >>22358458 >>22366053 >>22518650

>And the world is also scrambling to protect their interests.

“Mozambique: Chaos on Monday? Big Money at Stake, But Youth Can Bring Change”

https://allafrica.com/stories/202412230047.html

23 December 2024

Demonstrations cost big projects $1.7 bn but give local people more power, and may encourage renegotiation

Mozambique has become an extractive economy, with foreign owned mines and industries exporting raw materials and profits. This made the owners and their Frelimo partners rich and powerful. But the two months of demonstrations have changed that power. The fall in share prices of nearly £2bn of the big investors shows just how profitable the "big projects" are, and shows how much more government and local people could earn from those resources.

During the election campaign, on 15 September, former president Joaquim Chissano called for the renegotiation of natural recourse contacts. He had negotiated some of those contracts, and is effectively admitting he gave too much away. And several of those contracts are now about to expire and must be renegotiated.

The Mozal aluminium smelter was the first of the big projects and opened in 2000. It is now owned by the Australian company South32. The company imports alumina and smelts it into aluminium using Cahora Bassa electricity. The original cost of Mozal was $2bn, but its owners paid only $1bn. The other $1bn was the World Bank and five national development agencies. South32 pays only $15mn per year in taxes and royalties, and Mozambique gains little from its "development" project.

In the past five weeks demonstrators have blocked the roads and disrupted the supplies of alumina. In those five weeks the share value of South32 has dropped by $1.5bn - more than the amount that the company invested. And the cut in the production is expected to be only temporary. Clearly this is a hugely profitable project for South32.

But renegotiations have already started, because the Cahora Bassa electricity contract ends in 2025. Much of the aluminium is exported to Europe, and the EU will begin to impose import carbon duties in 2026. This will make aluminium made with carbon free Cahora Bassa electricity much cheaper than aluminium made from gas or coal which contains carbon. So negotiations are under way to continue to use Cahora Bassa electricity at a higher price. At present, government gains so little from Mozal that it could allow the smelter to close, and sell Cahora Bassa electricity to another exporter.

Meanwhile Syrah Resources, also from Australia, is a major graphite produce at Balama in Cabo Delgado. It received a $150mn loan in November from the US government, but disruption forced it to temporarily close the mine on 12 December. In one week since then, Syrah lost $110mn in share value.

Nearly all resource companies operating in Mozambique made promises to local people which were never kept and which became long-standing grievances which were incorporate into local post-election protests. But for a few companies, quick response meant there was no damage. Kenmare's heavy sands mine in Moma came under pressure from local people because Kenmare had promised to build a bridge to link local communities, but never did. In a week Kenmar's value fell $40mn, much more than the cost of the bridge. Kenmare quickly promised to the build the bridge.

And at the gas project on the Afungi peninsula, TotalEnergies had rehoused people forced to move from Afungi, but not compensated people who lost farmland and livelihoods there. There were 2000 protesters, some with placards demanding land. On 11 December TotalEnergies offered land and settled the protests.

What the protests make clear is how they push down the share price of these companies. Local people have power to demand changes. And these price falls show that Chissano is right, and resource deals can be renegotiated. Government has power too.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:38:24 07b319 (103) No.22352690>>22354474 >>22366053 >>22518650

>>22352681

“Amid Mozambique’s Spiraling Crisis, What Role Can the U.S. Play?”

https://www.usip.org/publications/2025/01/amid-mozambiques-spiraling-crisis-what-role-can-us-play

January 7, 2025

Since its October general election, Mozambique has been experiencing spiraling, deadly political violence. Many Mozambicans, including the leading opposition candidate, saw the victory of the ruling Frelimo party as fraudulent. Frustration with decades of single-party dominance is mounting. Today, some Mozambicans are looking to international help to save their country, one of the poorest in the world, from a possible return to war. Time is of the essence for such diplomatic intervention. Given that few African countries receive as large a U.S. development commitment as Mozambique, the spotlight is on the United States.

For years, Mozambique was not a U.S. priority in Africa --- but that has changed. The U.S. Development Finance Corporation and the Export-Import Bank have committed billions of dollars to projects in the southeast African nation. U.S. bilateral aid exceeded $550 million in 2023, among the highest in Africa, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a $537 million compact with Mozambique the same year. In 2022, Mozambique was among the few countries selected to receive focused attention and aid through the Global Fragility Act and the Department of Energy is financially backing a Mozambican lithium mine. Exxon Mobil is looking to finalize a $30 billion natural gas project in Mozambique.

U.S. and other foreign investment materialized after national reconciliation that ended decades of war. Starting two years after its 1975 independence from Portugal, Mozambique suffered decades of war --- which took the lives of one million Mozambicans — between the Frelimo government and the rebel Renamo force. The Cold War’s end took steam out of the conflict and a peace agreement facilitated by the Mozambican Church Council, the Rome-based Catholic lay Community of Sant’Egidio and others was struck, followed by a major United Nations peacekeeping operation, with democratic elections being held in 1994. Frelimo candidates have won every presidential election since.

Mondlane, an evangelical pastor, has called for his followers to demonstrate peacefully and expressed willingness to negotiate a political resolution to the conflict. Elements of Frelimo are reportedly agreeable to a power-sharing arrangement, essentially voiding the election that could be rerun after the election apparatus is fundamentally reformed. The negotiated end of the war between Frelimo and Renamo provides some hope that the parties could agree to reform the government so that Frelimo doesn’t maintain its unchecked state power to repress legitimate political opposition. Mondlane is looking to the international community to help broker political negotiations, as it has before.

After the Constitutional Council ruling, neighboring South Africa, with much to lose if the Mozambican conflict intensifies, offered to facilitate dialogue. It makes some sense for the SADC countries that are providing troops to improve security in Cabo Delgado --- Angola, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Tanzania, and Namibia — to play a role in a political dialogue, though they appear biased, as a SADC election observation team failed to note election irregularities.

There is one reason for the U.S. to consider an active role in trying to resolve the Mozambican crisis: it has substantial interests, underscored by its Mozambican investments, in not seeing the country return to war, which would bring incalculable human suffering. The U.S. could be more impactful than others in mediation efforts, as its investments provide it leverage over the parties, particularly the government, to stay on a new, more politically and economically inclusive course. The MCC compact, for example, can and should be voided if there aren’t substantial improvements in Mozambican governance. This leverage is more effective the closer the U.S. is to negotiations. Any such effort should respect Mozambican sovereignty and could build on a recent U.S. success in averting an African political crisis in Senegal, where it worked with others to stop its president from changing the constitution to extend his rule.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:46:32 07b319 (103) No.22352717>>22352736 >>22352744 >>22354474 >>22358458 >>22359140 >>22365335 >>22366053 >>22369220 >>22388925 >>22388966 >>22389023 >>22389166 >>22389207 >>22389871 >>22459238 >>22460922 >>22461039 >>22518650

>>22352643

“From liberators to enemies of the people”

https://www5.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambique/sites/www.open.ac.uk.technology.mozambique/files/files/Zit%20-%206%20Dec%20-%20From%20liberators%20to%20enemies%20of%20the%20people.pdf

December 6, 2024 .

All this speaks to a deep-seated resentment against Frelimo and, more generally, the people in power, which has been unleashed by the dispute over the election results. The party is seen, not without justication, as having kept the masses poor and deprived while making money for itself and its elites. If Frelimo did not know it before, it is discovering that people have a lot to be angry about.

“Swapo could be the next former liberation movement to lose its grip on power”

https://www.namibian.com.na/swapo-could-be-the-next-former-liberation-movement-to-lose-its-grip-on-power/

12 November 2024

The main unstated aim of the former liberation movements of southern Africa -- an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries – has always been to help each other stay in power.

Until recently, they had been doing a pretty good job of it as all had remained in power since independence.

In May, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its simple majority in South Africa’s legislative elections and was forced to form a Government of National Unity with several other parties.

In October, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had been in office since independence from Britain in 1966, was unexpectedly trounced in general elections.

Now general elections are looming in Namibia on 27 November, and some analysts predict that the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, now the Swapo Party of Namibia (Swapo), in power since independence from South Africa in 1990, could go the way of the ANC or BDP -- or, less pleasingly, Frelimo.

https://www.mmegi.bw/opinion-amp-analysis/namibias-2024-elections-a-loud-warning-bell-for-liberation-movements-a-missed-opportunity-for-the-opposition/news

Friday, January 10, 2025

Namibia’s 2024 elections laid bare SWAPO’s waning dominance, reflecting the broader challenges facing liberation movements across Africa.

However, SWAPO’s victory, which, by the way, was marked by allegations of irregularities, was far from emphatic. In fact, the party’s reduced majority in Parliament and the significant loss of voter confidence highlight a growing dissatisfaction with its leadership and an increasing appetite for change among the electorate. To put things in perspective, at its peak in 2014, the party secured an overwhelming 80% of the vote in the parliamentary election and a supermajority in Parliament, holding 77 out of 96 seats. In 2024, the party went into the elections with 63 parliamentary seats, following a poor showing five years earlier, but emerged with only 51. This means the party managed to retain control of Parliament by only three seats. Even more tellingly, some of SWAPO’s most prominent figures lost their parliamentary seats. According to The Namibian, nine Cabinet ministers failed to secure seats. At the presidential level, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah secured re-election with 58% of the vote to become the first female President of Namibia.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:51:45 07b319 (103) No.22352736>>22352777 >>22354474 >>22364834 >>22364905 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

>In October, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had been in office since independence from Britain in 1966, was unexpectedly trounced in general elections.

“Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/diamonds-dispossession-and-democracy-in-botswana/diamond-dependent-economic-wealth/A6AFD8ABD48D76F0FC0480588C2A48C8

05 April 2013

From the outset, diamonds, the De Beers corporation, economic growth and the government have been closely interlinked in Botswana. De Beers had begun exploration work in the protectorate in 1955, and ‘shortly before independence’, corporate chairman Harry Oppenheimer told Seretse Khama ‘in confidence’ that viable diamond deposits existed at Orapa in Central District. This potentially momentous news was not publicly announced, however, until 1967 (Masire, 2006: 204). The De Beers Botswana Mining Company (Debswana) was established to develop the site in 1969. Production of high quality, kimberlite gems, in low-cost, open-cast operations, began in 1971 and expanded further at that site in 1979. Another mine opened at Letlhakane in 1979, followed by Jwaneng, the largest and richest in 1982. By the turn of the century Jwaneng was reputedly the world's richest and most profitable diamond mine. A fourth, Damtshaa, came on stream soon afterwards. Diamonds also existed at Gope, inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), from where San/Bushmen have been uprooted, in 1997 and in 2002.

The value of diamond exports rose from $43 million in 1976 to some $1400 million in the mid-1990s, when minerals, mostly diamonds, represented around 35 per cent of GDP (Jefferis, 1998: 303). In 2002, Botswana's total diamond sales amounted to $1.8 billion and it typically produces around 25 per cent by value of the world's rough diamonds (The Ecologist, 2003).

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 14:54:25 07b319 (103) No.22352744>>22352777 >>22365335 >>22366047 >>22388925 >>22518643 >>22651660

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>Swapo Party of Namibia (Swapo), in power since independence from South Africa in 1990

Namibia’s Major Oil and Gas Developments

https://youtu.be/y8yf75oA1q4

Dec 19, 2024

“Namibia’s Oil & Gas Sector: Major Updates in December 2024”

https://www.ibn.co.za/blog-and-news/nam-oil-gas-dec-2024/

Introduction

Namibia’s oil and gas sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by significant advancements and international collaborations. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the latest developments from key players in the industry, showcasing Namibia’s emerging status as a global energy hub.

Global Petroleum Advances Farm-In Negotiations for Namibia’s Walvis Basin

QatarEnergy Expands Offshore Exploration Footprint in Namibia

88 Energy Progresses Exploration Activities in Namibia’s Owambo Basin

Galp Announces Light Oil and Gas-Condensate Discovery in PEL83 Block

Conclusion

Namibia’s oil and gas sector is entering a transformative phase, driven by major discoveries, strategic acquisitions, and collaborative ventures. From Global Petroleum’s advancements in the Walvis Basin to QatarEnergy’s strategic expansion and Galp’s Mopane discovery, Namibia is solidifying its position as a key player in the global energy landscape. The future holds immense promise as these projects continue to shape the nation’s energy potential.e Namibia their dream destination, be them private clients or large corporations alike!

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 15:01:21 07b319 (103) No.22352777>>22353015 >>22353185 >>22354474 >>22358458 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

>>22352744

>Namibia their dream destination, be them private clients or large corporations alike!

>>22352736

>From the outset, diamonds, the De Beers corporation, economic growth and the government have been closely interlinked in Botswana.

>>22352681

>Mozambique: Chaos on Monday? Big Money at Stake

>>21416431

>Mervyn King: “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.

>We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda.

They blamed Apartheid but it always was and is big money.

Institute of Directors South Africa: The IoDSA History -- Harry Oppenheimer, Basil Hersov, Mervyn King…

https://www.iodsa.co.za/general/custom.asp?page=History

1960

• The Institute of Directors in London established a branch in South Africa to canvass the business community to join the London institute.

• Harry Oppenheimer was appointed as the first President.

1985

• The IoDSA was incorporated as a Section 21 company under the Companies Act, 1973.

• Basil Hersov was appointed as President.

1991

• The first Chief Executive of the IoDSA was appointed, Richard Wilkinson.

1992

• The IoDSA Council approached Prof. Mervyn King with a mandate to form a committee responsible for drafting guidance on corporate governance for South Africa.

• The King Committee was established under the auspices of the IoDSA. The IoDSA provides financial and human resources; as well as administrative and operational infrastructure (which it continues to do).

1994

• The first King Report on Corporate Governance (King I) was issued and the King Committee assigned ownership of this and future reports to the IoDSA.

2001

• The IoDSA established a Director Development service offering.

• Reuel Khoza was appointed President, with Mervyn King as First Vice President. (Both continue to serve in these positions till present day)

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 15:52:38 07b319 (103) No.22353015>>22353027 >>22353185 >>22358458 >>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

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>>22352777

>The Institute of Directors in London established a branch in South Africa to canvass the business community to join the London institute.

Institute of Directors: London

https://www.iod.com/about-iod/

Influence

Be heard by the people that matter. Share your views to help us represent directors’ issues and concerns to UK government, regulators and the business and mainstream media.

The IoD has been at the heart of business since its formation in 1903. The Royal Charter, awarded in 1906, charged the IoD with promoting free enterprise, lobbying government and setting standards for corporate governance. Today, we remain the authority on entrepreneurialism, professionalism in business and good governance in the UK and beyond.

https://www.iod.com/app/uploads/2022/03/IoD_Royal-Charter-3c45573e09f3066dda603aa93337eefd.pdf

The Institute of Directors was formed on 29 April 1903. On 16 July 1906, The Institute of Directors was constituted a Body Corporate and Politic by Royal Charter. This Supplemental Royal Charter came into force on 11 February 2004.

2. The objects of the Institute are:

(a) to promote for the public benefit high levels of skill, knowledge, professional competence and integrity on the part of directors, and equivalent office holders however described, of companies and other organisations;

(b) to promote the study, research and development of the law and practice of corporate governance, and to publish, disseminate or otherwise make available the useful results of such study or research;

(c) to represent the interests of members and of the business community to government and in all public fora and to encourage and foster a climate favourable to entrepreneurial activity and wealth creation; and

(d) to advance the interests of members of the Institute, and to provide facilities, services and benefits for them.

3. Without limiting its capacities at law as a chartered corporation, the Institute shall have the following powers for pursuing its objects:

(h) to establish and support any company or other body, and to co-operate with other bodies or

organisations or to engage in joint activities of any kind, which may advance the objects of

the Institute;

(i) to act as trustee, personal representative, director or agent of any kind and for any purpose;

(j) to exercise any power of the Institute for any consideration of any kind or for no consideration and to do so in any part of the world; and

9.(a)The By-Laws scheduled to this Our Supplemental Charter shall be the By-Laws of the Institute until revoked or amended in accordance with the provisions of this Our Supplemental Charter. The By-Laws may be revoked, amended or added to by a resolution (passed by a simple majority) of the members of the Institute voting personally or by proxy at a General Meeting of which proper notice has been given in accordance with the By-Laws specifying the proposed revocations, amendments or additions, but no such revocation, amendment or addition shall be effective unless allowed by Our Privy Council.

12. And We do hereby, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, grant and declare that these Our Letters or the enrolment or exemplification thereof shall be in all things good, firm, valid and effectual according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed and adjudged in all Our Courts or elsewhere in the most favourable and beneficial sense and for the best advantage of the Institute, any mis-recital, non-recital, omission, defect, imperfection, matter or thing whatsoever notwithstanding.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 15:54:20 07b319 (103) No.22353027>>22353185 >>22366049

>>22353015

>help us represent directors’ issues and concerns to UK government, regulators

Keith Donnelly, Head of Emergency Preparedness, NHS Trust (BHRUT): “The pandemic demonstrated how dedicated, innovative, and flexible we can all be”

https://www.iod.com/resources/inclusion-and-diversity/rolemodel-keithdonnelly/

9 January 2024

As Head of Emergency Preparedness at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT), Keith Donnelly was at the heart of the NHS response to the pandemic. His experience inspired him to take on volunteering roles and get more involved with the IoD to expand his network and open the door to future possibilities.

I studied biochemistry at university to become a forensic scientist but soon realised I was more of a people person. After several years working in hospitality roles in upmarket hotels, I recognised that I got a lot of satisfaction from managing difficult situations -- power failure, floods, fire evacuations and even bomb threats. This inspired me to go back to university for a Masters in Crisis & Disaster Management.

With this new qualification I joined the NHS as a Fire, Health & Safety Officer and moved through the ranks to become Head of Emergency Preparedness for my current NHS Trust in 2019. In the same year, I had to knock on the door of the Chief Medical Officer to highlight something that was going on in Wuhan, China.

It was always a dream of mine to join the IoD after I was impressed by the look of the 116 Pall Mall building on a trip to London from Northern Ireland, where I grew up. I became a member of the IoD in 2018 because I was keen to develop my leadership skills and to surround myself with leaders from a wide cross section of industries. For the first two years, my membership had absolutely no impact on me beyond a monthly direct debit leaving my bank account!

Then, in 2020 I saw a role advertised with a London Branch and now I am both a member and the Membership Ambassador for the London region. The IoD has a fantastic Member Relations team who make my job pretty easy, but I try to challenge where I need to, support where I can, and generally get stuck in, whether its processes, events, or just conversations. It’s my job to support the member journey from first contact through to onboarding, and ongoing engagement.

I would encourage people who work in public sector organisations like the NHS to join the IoD. As well as the practical benefits of membership I have developed amazing networks and made some really great friends. Do it, and use it! You are not just your job or role or responsibility, you are yourself. Unlike industry-aligned organisations, the IoD exposes you to different people from different backgrounds, different ideas, and maybe different opportunities.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 16:22:42 07b319 (103) No.22353185>>22353226

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>>22352777

>1991

>• The first Chief Executive of the IoDSA was appointed, Richard Wilkinson.

>>22353015

>>22353027

“In memory of RICHARD WILKINSON”

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.iodsa.co.za/resource/collection/D8C0F9B8-6AAE-4D9E-9406-C6CA4F29B4AC/IODSA_Q3_2021_online.pdf

The IoDSA pays tribute to its first Chief Executive Officer, who served the IoDSA from 1991 to 2003.

The legacy of Richard Wilkinson’s 12-year career with the Institute of Directors lies first and foremost with the Institute’s initiative on corporate governance both in terms of the first King Report published in November 1994 and the second King Report published in March 2002.

It was on a visit to London at the beginning of 1992 that Richard Wilkinson met Sir Adrian Cadbury at the IoD in London and learnt that he was about to publish his committee’s work on the financial aspects of corporate governance.

From that discussion the King Committee was formed at the instance of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa. Throughout the discussions and debate surrounding the first and second King Reports on corporate governance the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa acted as the Committee’s Secretariat under the leadership of Richard Wilkinson.

On his retirement, Richard mused over the many long hours that he had put in at the IoDSA particularly at times of great pressure such as when the finalisation of the King I and King II Reports required a great deal of midnight oil burning.

Richard also reflected on the amazing swing of fortunes of the IoDSA during his tenure from where there was a shoestring budget and few funds to a situation at the end of 2003 where the balance sheet showed several millions of Rands of assets and a completely different IoDSA to that which he had joined as Executive Director in 1991.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 16:30:46 07b319 (103) No.22353226>>22366047 >>22518643 >>22651660

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>>22353185

>Sir Adrian Cadbury

“Sir Adrian Cadbury: Pioneer of good practice in corporate governance who also guided the family firm through the turbulent 1980s”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sir-adrian-cadbury-pioneer-of-good-practice-in-corporate-governance-who-also-guided-the-family-firm-through-the-turbulent-1980s-10493807.html

09 September 2015

Sir Adrian Cadbury was an Olympic rower who went on to run the family business and producing the 1992 Cadbury Report, which became the cornerstone of corporate governance at home and abroad. In a business career spanning six decades he took up senior roles at the Bank of England, the Confederation of British Industry and IBM, while maintaining his family's Quaker traditions, promoting local charities around Birmingham and funding the construction of Aston University. He was once described as "the City's own social worker".

Reflecting his own beliefs, Cadbury's report displeased some entrepreneurs who felt their wings were being clipped and that they were being told how to run their companies. With British business acquiring a questionable reputation in the 1980s boom, the report followed a number of high-profile scandals, and the report, Cadbury said, "reflects a climate of opinion which accepts that changes are needed."

Cadbury's report advocated a clear division of responsibilities at the head of a company so that no one individual had too much power, though it stopped short of mandatory separation of chairman and chief executive. Boards, it said, should have independent non-executive directors of sufficient calibre and number to carry significant weight in a public company's decisions, with clear disclosure of directors' emoluments.

He was distraught, having retired, at the controversial takeover of Cadbury by Kraft in 2010, and made the family's feelings known in a letter to The Daily Telegraph. "A bidder can buy a business. What they cannot acquire is legitimacy over the character, values, experience and traditions on which that business was founded and flourished."

At 36 he was made chairman in preference to two older and more experienced family members. He saw the need to change, with the ever-evolving mechanisation of plants and the fast-moving world of advertising and branding. He employed McKinsey, the management consultants, who recommended diversifying and reforming the autocratic management structure into a federation of smaller enterprises.

With Cadbury wanting to break into the US market, and Lord Watkinson, chairman of Schweppes, wishing to diversify, the companies merged in 1969.

During the 1980s, the golden age of aggressive takeover bids, Cadbury Schweppes fought off corporate raiders like the US investor General Cinema, which held a large stake in the company for a few years. During Cadbury's tenure, the company retained its independence and prospered. In 1978 it acquired Peter Paul, the US's third largest chocolate manufacturer, for $58m, which gave it a 10 per cent share of the world's largest confectionery market.

In 1982, with trading profits greater outside the UK for the first time, Cadbury Schweppes took over apple-juice processors Duffy-Mott and Canada Dry (1986). Cadbury was thwarted in his attempt to acquire Rowntree's because of UK competition law but he did succeed in acquiring Trebor Bassetts in 1989.

Cadbury retired in 1990, with vastly increased turnover and higher profits but the workforce more than halved, to 17,000.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 20:07:19 07b319 (103) No.22354474>>22354477 >>22354481 >>22354490 >>22354496 >>22366053 >>22518650

>For the past few years, the US has maintained a training team in Mozambique, assisting with the training of a specialist response unit within the Mozambican army.

Consider history… Russia has always been a convenient scapegoat but the West and big business never stopped being involved. Remember, the Oppenheimers, through De Beers, continued to do business with Russia during the so called Cold War. Also Nelson Mandela married Samora Machel’s wife.

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 1

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

In the 1960s, the Mozambicans threw off Portuguese colonialism. Now, guerrillas are fighting to free their country from Soviet imperialism and an insane ruler.

It was late in the afternoon of June 13, 1985… After hiking some 10 miles through the dry bush, my two guides indicated we were approaching a Renamo camp.

When I walked into the camp, a grisly scene awaited me. An executioner had fired the shot, performing a coup de grâce on a captured spy of Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front), the Soviet-backed Marxist insurgency that had gained power upon Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975.

In September of 1984, I spent two weeks along Mozambique's border waiting for a Renamo patrol to come and take me inside. It never came---too much fighting in the area with government troops—and I didn't get in, although I later learned that an intelligence report had been filed with the US government alleging that I had. It was a set-up, I am convinced, by the Mozambique lobby in the State Department, a lobby desperately seeking support for the Communist government of Mozambique and hysterically hostile toward Renamo. It is this lobby within the Reagan administration that was responsible for the wining and dining of Samora Machel, the Communist ruler of Mozambique, in Washington, in September 1985.

This hostility seems bizarre only if one thinks the purpose of the State Department is to diplomatically defend the national interests of the United States. The mystery vanishes when one remembers that the State Department is a bureaucracy and that the primary purpose of any bureaucracy is to perpetuate and enhance itself. The State Department has evidently convinced itself that it will be a wonderfully prestigious feather in its bureaucratic cap for it to "wean away" Machel from the Soviets and into the "American camp," using its great diplomatic skills and promises of vast foreign aid, bank loans, and International Monetary Fund credits.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 20:07:54 07b319 (103) No.22354477>>22354481 >>22354490 >>22354496 >>22366053 >>22518650

>>22354474

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 2

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

Frelimo had been formed by the union of three Mozambican nationalist movements in June 1962 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with Dr. Eduardo Mondlane as its leader. In 1964, Frelimo had initiated an armed campaign against Portuguese colonial rule.[Take note; “He was Venâncio Mondlane, a distant kinsman of Eduardo Mondlane, the first president of Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique).” https://clubofmozambique.com/news/venancio-mondlane-is-mozambiques-political-challenger-what-he-stands-for-by-luca-bussotti-273562/]

Both Mondlane---a US-educated physician and an official with the United Nations—and Filipe Magaia, Frelimo's military commander, were opposed to Marxism and were particularly suspicious of the Soviets. A rivalry developed between Magaia and Samora Machel, a stridently fanatic Maoist who had joined Frelimo in 1963. In October of 1966, Machel and his supporters murdered Magaia, whereupon he assumed Magaia's position as military commander. When a pro-Soviet Frelimo faction assassinated Mondlane in February 1969, Machel switched from Maoist to Soviet Marxist, becoming, with Soviet backing, the overall political and military leader of Frelimo. The liberation movement was transformed into a "revolutionary vanguard," and any leaders still clinging to Mondlane's original goals of pluralistic democratic tolerance, and not espousing Soviet Marxism-Leninism, were either killed or expelled.

When the jails quickly overflowed, Machel set up "reeducation centers"---concentration camps that he called "laboratories for the transformation of man." The camps were run by SNASP (the Popular National Security Service), trained and organized by East Germans. This agency also operated the "People's Revolutionary Military Tribunals," responsible for filling up the laboratories with "infiltrados" (fifth-columnists) and "counterrevolutionary parasites." US and other national intelligence estimates state that 200,000--300,000 Mozambicans have been imprisoned in Machel's Gulag, where well over 75,000 have died.

Then, on October 17, 1979, leading an assault upon a Frelimo army encampment, Andre Matsangaisse was killed. As Dhlakama assumed command of the now demoralized and stunned guerrillas, the situation for the insurgency suddenly looked very bleak. Rhodesia was soon to be transformed into Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe taking the reins of power from Ian Smith. Once that happened, Mugabe, a friend of Samora Machel's and fellow Marxist, would immediately close the border on Renamo. A new sanctuary was needed, and quickly. Only one option was really viable, and for a black African it was not pleasant. But it was necessary: Dhlakama asked Cristina to contact the South Africans.

Through Rhodesian friends, Cristina was soon in touch with South African Military Intelligence (SAMI, or "Sammy"). In April 1980, a few days before Mugabe took over, Cristina and his staff left Odzi to set up camp and the Voice of Free Africa radios at Phalaborwa in the northern Transvaal of South Africa, just outside Kruger National Park, which borders Mozambique. Working with South African officer Col. van Niekerk, Cristina organized regular air drops, of medical supplies and Soviet arms captured in South African raids of anti-South African guerrilla camps in Angola, to Dhlakama's base inside Mozambique.

Renamo was back in business. And business was improving. Dhlakama's position as "President and Supreme Military Commander" of Renamo was unquestioned, for he was proving to be quite talented as a guerrilla leader. Establishing a string of small bases throughout the country, Renamo began attracting thousands of volunteers. A large portion of support came from the "regulos," traditional rural village chiefs upon whom Machel was waging war in his crazed effort to create "a new socialist man" in Mozambique.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 20:09:07 07b319 (103) No.22354481>>22354490 >>22354496 >>22366053 >>22518650

>>22354474

>>22354477

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 3

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

The Renamo message was one of Mozambican nationalism versus Soviet colonialism; of defending and respecting the traditions and beliefs of the various Mozambican cultural and religious communities (of a population of more than 13 million, about 12 percent are Christian, twice that are Sunni Moslem, and the remainder native animists) versus a violent contempt for them; of democracy versus Marxist dictatorship; and of the right of every Mozambican to earn his living as he sees fit versus forced communal slavery.

The message also came out of the barrel of a gun, pointed at the economy and Frelimo's capacity to govern. The key targets became the railway lines from Maputo and Beira to Zimbabwe; the oil pipeline from Beira to Mutare in Zimbabwe; the main paved roads, especially along the coast; and the power lines from the Cabora Bassa dam on the Zambezi, which supplies South Africa with 12 percent of its electricity. The power lines were first cut in November of 1980 and twice in 1981. Then Zamco, the South African company that operates Cabora Bassa, made a deal with the guerrillas for an undisclosed amount of money, and the attacks ceased.

Da Costa's files list the Soviet presence in Mozambique as 4,000 to 5,000 men, mostly military, under the command of Col. Anatoli Shadrin, of the KGB. They list about 1,000 East Germans, headed by Gen. Gunter Weinrich of the East German Security Police, and some 4,000 Cubans, again mostly military, under Col. Haras Sanchez of Castro's DGI (Cuban Secret Police).

Machel began turning desperately to the West for help, claiming he was "disillusioned" with Marxism and the Soviets. He even contacted the South Africans: would they sell out Renamo if he would sell out the ANC (African National Congress), an anti-South Africa rebel group headquartered in Maputo.

Pik Botha, South Africa's foreign minister, leaped at the offer. Botha (no relation to the South African president, P.W. Botha) was part of a faction in South Africa's government that thought it more in South Africa's interest to have impoverished and emasculated pro-Soviet Marxist states for neighbors---to maintain a siege mentality among white South Africans, to elicit Western sympathy, to have militarily weak neighbors chaotically disrupted by dissension and insurgency—than reinvigorated democracies led by independent leaders.

Besides, to have the world press film the leader of Soviet Mozambique smiling and shaking hands with the president of South Africa as they jointly signed a mutual nonaggression treaty would be for South Africa, the world's pariah, a major public relations coup. And that is just what happened, at the train crossing at Nkomati on the South African side of the border, on March 16, 1984.

Shortly thereafter, the ANC was forced to move its headquarters to Lusaka, Zambia, and Renamo's supply base at Phalaborwa was closed down. Air drops to Gorongosa ceased---but not before the head of SAMI, Gen. Pieter der Westhuizen, infuriated at what he considered a sellout by Pik Botha, was able to organize a massive resupply of military equipment to Renamo before the accord was signed. Although SAMI continued low-level contact with Renamo after the signing—which Pik Botha admitted this past September—Dhlakama was on his own.

Most of the Mozambican people were as well. In many parts of the country, no rain had fallen for three years. Much of the famine aid sent by US and international relief agencies went to feed the Frelimo army (just as in Ethiopia). By mid-1984, international relief officials estimated that 170,000 Mozambicans had died of starvation and disease since the drought began.

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 20:10:07 07b319 (103) No.22354490>>22354496 >>22366053 >>22518650

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“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 4

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

"Things are much better with Renamo controlling the border and this entire area," I was told. "Now, many people come for our fish. Frelimo tried to control everything, nobody could have private business. With Renamo, we have freedom, confidence---Renamo likes us to have private business. Oh, yes, things are better now!"

In all my sojourns with anti-Soviet guerrillas, I have never met any more explicitly pro-capitalist than those of Renamo. Many of them are right out of the bush with little formal education, but they have an intuitive grasp of the necessary connection between political and economic freedom.

For the Renamo guerrillas like Conrad and many others to whom I talked, communism and socialism means collectivism: property and possessions owned in common; being treated not as an individual but as a member of a work or social unit. Capitalism is synonymous with individual freedom to them: freedom to own and use things individually, freedom to open your own store, freedom to work at a job you wanted (and not one the state tells you to work at), freedom to quit a job you don't like and find another.

Capitalism also means political freedom to them---democracy. "Who chose Samora Machel to be leader of Mozambique?" asked Manuel, the leader of a Renamo patrol I accompanied. "He chose himself—he is a dictator, he gives orders, everyone else must obey. Renamo wants democracia, where people can choose the leader they want."

Renamo's popular support is increasing among the Mozambican people, particularly throughout the countryside. In April 1984, within a month of the Nkomati Accord, Renamo had moved into Cabo Delgado province, whose Makonde tribe inhabitants had formed the backbone of the Frelimo army. With disaffection toward Machel deep, they began assisting and joining Dhlakama's men in droves. Renamo was now operating effectively in all 10 provinces of the country. A British intelligence report of September 1984 stated that Frelimo had virtually lost most of Mozambique north of the Save River (three-fourths of the country). Peasants in Tete province, for instance, were "almost irretrievably disillusioned with Frelimo," having "turned to arms in much the same way their fathers became Frelimo fighters against colonial rule."

Supporting the claim that Frelimo is riddled with "countless" Renamo informers, in Zambezia and elsewhere, a recent British intelligence estimate reported that "many MNR [Renamo] commanders are former Frelimo cadres who still have well-placed friends in Frelimo. The MNR consistently obtains information about personnel, arms and food movements throughout the country. The ambush and sabotage success rate is high."

According to South African newspaper reports and my own interviews with Mozambican refugees, in several areas deserting Frelimo soldiers have formed marauding gangs; starving young male villagers have resorted to banditry; and Frelimo assassination teams disguised as Renamo soldiers have taken to indiscriminately killing villagers (particularly those suspected of being Renamo sympathizers)---the same technique used by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to smear the Contras—all of which are reported by Maputo as "Renamo atrocities.

By the end of August, Johannesburg newspapers were reporting an "avalanche" of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Mozambique into South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland, portraying Mozambique as a land "torn apart by war and starvation," a country of "panic and chaos…on its knees." Accompanying the reports were pathetic pictures of decaying corpses killed by Soviet land mines that the Mozambique government had ordered strewn along the border to stanch the flow of refugees out of the country. "Frelimo says we must stay in Mozambique so that we can all die together," one story quoted refugee Daniel Mahanuki. "If we return to Mozambique, Frelimo will put us in jail. They also shoot us."

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▶ Anonymous 01/14/25 (Tue) 20:11:11 07b319 (103) No.22354496>>22358458 >>22359796 >>22364834 >>22364905 >>22366053 >>22418103 >>22418116 >>22418134 >>22418148 >>22418174 >>22418303 >>22426334 >>22426401 >>22460699 >>22461039 >>22518650

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 5

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

That this thrilling prospect of a democratic liberation movement overthrowing---for the first time in history—a Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is looked upon with horror by most Western governments, including the Reagan administration, is one of the most Kafkaesque and revealing geopolitical facts of our day. A weird coalition of US, British, and South African diplomats, businessmen, and bankers has emerged, desperate to support Samora Machel. British officers are now training Frelimo soldiers in counter-insurgency operations in Zimbabwe. South African soldiers are reportedly guarding Frelimo installations in civilian garb. Tiny Rowlands, the British millionaire whose Lonrho Company has extensive holdings in southern Africa, is one of Jonas Savimbi's principal supporters—and also one of Samora Machel's. Harry Oppenheimer, South Africa's wealthiest businessman, held a secret meeting with Machel in London in October 1983 and is anxious to have his Anglo-American Corporation gain lucrative contracts with the Frelimo government. David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, and Melvin Laird, secretary of defense under Richard Nixon, recently went to Maputo and came back with glowing tales of what money they could make with Machel. When Sen. Robert Kasten (R--Wis.) blocked the State Department's efforts to send military aid to Frelimo, Laird put "enormous" pressure on Kasten to relent, according to a chief aide to the senator.

The US State Department now bears responsibility for prolonging the bloodshed in Mozambique by frantically propping up Machel when he is on his last legs instead of calling for a negotiated ceasefire and the democratization of the country. So serious is the department in its efforts to woo Machel that in September the dictator was invited to Washington, where he was welcomed into the White House to plead his case for continuing US aid directly to President Reagan. During Reagan's years in office, Machel's government has received some $60 million in US "humanitarian" aid, and more has already been authorized.

As Dhlakama himself explained to me when I interviewed him in 1984 via radio, Renamo has two primary objectives for Mozambique: "First is to free ourselves from Soviet colonialism. The Soviet Union is the world's curse.…Second is to free ourselves from the tyranny of Marxism. There are no freedoms of any kind in Mozambique today---of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly—none. We want to bring those freedoms to the Mozambican people. We want each Mozambican to peacefully conduct his life and earn his living as he sees fit—instead of being told his purpose in life is to work for the benefit of the state and of Samora Machel."

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▶ Anonymous 01/15/25 (Wed) 15:14:07 07b319 (103) No.22358458>>22358474 >>22358624 >>22366053 >>22518650

>>22352681

>Mozambique: Chaos on Monday? Big Money at Stake

>The main unstated aim of the former liberation movements of southern Africa -- an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries – has always been to help each other stay in power.

>>22352777

>>22353015

>>22354496

>That this thrilling prospect of a democratic liberation movement overthrowing---for the first time in history—a Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is looked upon with horror by most Western governments, including the Reagan administration, is one of the most Kafkaesque and revealing geopolitical facts of our day. A weird coalition of US, British, and South African diplomats, businessmen, and bankers has emerged,

“UK Court rules that Mozambique is owed over $2billion in hidden debt case”

https://debtjustice.org.uk/news/uk-court-rules-that-mozambique-is-owed-over-2-billion-in-hidden-debt-case

31 Jul 2024

This week a UK Court ruled that United Arab Emirates company Privinvest owes over $2 billion to Mozambique in a debt scandal which dates back to 2014. Mozambique campaigners the Forum de Monitoria do Orcamento (FMO -- Budget Monitoring Forum) have welcomed the judgement as “A great victory” but one that “does not close the chapter of criminal liability of those involved”.

Mr Justice Robin Knowles found that Privinvest paid significant bribes to secure contracts to supply boats and equipment to state owned companies in Mozambique. The deal was funded by $2 billion of loans from the London branches of Credit Suisse and VTB Capital. Bankers working for Credit Suisse have previously admitted to receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks to arrange the deals.

Mozambique’s former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, is awaiting trial in the US in a case relating to the scandal.

Some of the loans were given in secret, and they caused an economic crisis which is estimated to have cost Mozambique $11 billion -- $15 billion. All the loans were found to be illegal under Mozambique law, because they did not get parliamentary approval. However, as is often the case, the loans were governed by UK law. Therefore, in 2019 the Mozambique Attorney General began legal action against Privinvest, Credit Suisse and other parties to the deals. Out-of-court settlements were reached with everyone other than Privinvest.

In passing his judgement, Justice Knowles said “The scale and nature of what was able to happen in this case presented systemic threat to Mozambique’s economy.” He ordered Privinvest to pay $825 million to Mozambique to cover debt payments the government have already made over the deals, and said Privinvest is liable for $1.5 billion of future debt payments arising from the contracts. However, Privinvest has said it will appeal the ruling. And there are major doubts as to whether Privinvest have the money, and if so whether Mozambique will be able to make them pay up.

Debt Justice have campaigned in solidarity with FMO since 2016, seeking to get the UK to take responsibility for the actions of London-based banks, and measures to prevent such scandals happening again. In 2021 the Financial Conduct Authority fined Credit Suisse $200 million, alongside further fines by the US and Swiss authorities. However, all of this money went to the UK Treasury, none to help people in Mozambique affected by the devastation caused by the loans.

Debt Justice has called for the UK to pass legal changes so that loans given to governments have to be publicly disclosed when they are given. The UK government refused, and instead funded a voluntary scheme for banks to disclose the existence of loans. Under the scheme, just two banks disclosed six loans, while an estimated $30 billion of lending to lower-income countries has remained hidden. The voluntary scheme has effectively come to an end, meaning that the bulk of lending by Western banks to lower-income countries remains hidden.

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▶ Anonymous 01/15/25 (Wed) 15:16:13 07b319 (103) No.22358474>>22358624 >>22366053 >>22518650

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“When debt and terrorism intersect: the case of Mozambique”

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/when-debt-and-terrorism-intersect-the-case-of-mozambique

19 March 2024

Mozambique’s rocky road from grand corruption to a debt settlement offers hope, but the scars of mismanagement run deep.

Financial mismanagement, bribery and corruption tied to Mozambique’s ‘hidden debt’ scandal have tipped the country into fiscal catastrophe. At the same time, an insurgency in the north has killed 4 000 people, displaced 946 000 and caused a humanitarian disaster. Recognising the links between these two crises is fundamental to restoring stability in the country.

In 2016, Mozambique was rocked by a scandal involving secret loans amounting to about US$2 billion -- meant for state fishery projects – that were secured with undisclosed government guarantees. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) subsequently withdrew fiscal aid to the country, triggering a sovereign debt default that led to a currency collapse. By 2022, Mozambique’s debt-to-GDP ratio had soared to 101%, signalling an alarming level of indebtedness that the country was unable to manage.

In October 2023, a deal was reached that resolved the dispute over Credit Suisse’s involvement in the loan scandal. The agreement absolves Mozambique of substantial debts owed to Credit Suisse under a tainted loan agreement with the state-owned company ProIndicus.

But the fallout has been massive, surpassing US$11 billion in costs from direct expenditures and payments made, as well as losses from economic slowdown. A 2021 research report shows that this economic devastation has pushed a staggering 1.9 million people into poverty.

Rarely considered though is the scandal’s effect on the violent insurgency led by Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic State of Mozambique Province that broke out in Cabo Delago in 2017. The roots of the insurgency stem from socio-economic marginalisation, corruption and weak governance, which contribute to perceptions that the central government neglects its northern communities.

A recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report reveals that in sub-Saharan Africa, economic marginalisation, poverty and lack of access to essential services are significant drivers of violent extremism. All of these worsened with Mozambique’s debt scandal. Insurgents capitalise on such situations, exploiting grievances caused by state deficiencies.

There is a clear correlation between Mozambique’s high debt levels and the growth of violent extremism. The insurgency has further destabilised economic conditions, making debt repayment increasingly arduous.

A 2019 UNDP report estimates that between 2007 and 2016, the impact of terrorism on African countries’ gross domestic product, loss of informal economic productivity, increased security expenses, and refugee/displaced persons cost over US$119 billion. A Public Integrity Center study puts the fiscal impact of Mozambique’s conflict at US$1.69 billion between 2018 and 2022.

Stability in Mozambique also requires that those accused of corruption be held accountable. ISS Consultant Borges Nhamirre says that, ‘After much pressure from civil society and Western donors, Mozambique initiated multiple judicial processes to hold some of the people involved in the hidden debt scandal accountable. But this effort was selective, leaving out the top leaders.’ Ultimately, a lack of political will has prevented justice from being served.

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▶ Anonymous 01/15/25 (Wed) 15:49:00 07b319 (103) No.22358624>>22366053 >>22518650

>>22358458

>>22358474

“Mozambique’s Hidden Debt Scandal”

https://corruption-tracker.org/case/mozambique-hidden-debt-scandal

Published on

October 18, 2022

(updated August 13, 2024)

In 2011, Abu Dhabi Mar, a company of the Privinvest Group, proposed a project for securing Mozambique’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ, the first 200 sea miles off the coast) to the President of Mozambique. Three Mozambican firms, ProIndicus, Empresa Moçambicana de Atum (Ematum), Mozambique Asset Management (MAM), received USD $2 billion loans (given by Credit Suisse and VTB Capital on signature of the Mozambican Finance Minister) for a shared shipbuilding, fishing and maritime surveillance project from the government in 2014. Parliament was expected to guarantee the sum, but it was never consulted. Instead, a staggering USD $1.65 billion was funnelled into military and naval equipment from Privinvest, supposedly for the project’s development. What was meant to purchase fishing vessels appears to have been diverted to finance weapons instead. As a result, the project never materialised, nor did it fulfill its capabilities to “develop” the fishery within the EEZ as advertised.

Seller country

France

Seller company

Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) (PSAL), Privinvest Shipbuilding Investments LLC (PISB), Abu Dhabi Mar Investments LLC (ADM), Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), Logistics International SAL (Offshore), Logistics International Investments LLC

Buyer country

Mozambique

Goods category

Aircraft, Surveillance Equipment, Warships, Intellectual Property Rights, Drones

Equipment sold

ProIndicus Project (provider: PSAL, transformed into PISB) - 16 radar stations (6 manned, 10 unmanned) - 36 DV15 interceptor vessels - 3 WP18 strike-craft vessels - 3 HSI32 offshore patrol vessels - 6 Remos GX light maritime patrol aircraft - central command and control site, training centre - satellite surveillance system - training & maintenance of all above

EMATUM Project (provider ADM) - 3 Ocean Eagle 43 Trimaran patrol vessels - and their associated camcopter drones - equipment for land operations centre - training and spare parts for the above

MAM Project (provider PISB) - maintenance, repair and assembling sites for vessels of ProIndicus & EMATUM deals. - vessel components to be delivered by PISB

Deal value

(2 billion US$ loan to 3 Mozambican firms -> debt scandal) 1,651 million US$ of which to Privinvest -> arms deal part

Sum involved in corruption

USD 713 million overbilling (whole debt scandal within the three firms, see Kroll report) 200 million US$ bribes by Privinvest towards Mozambican officials (including campaign donations to president's party) and Credit Suisse bankers (who pleaded guilty over ~USD 50 million bribes) + offsets (real estate, a new maritime agency, a diamond mine, a TV station, a bank and a prepaid mobile phone card business), payments to Mozambique’s ruling party, payments to politically exposed persons

Start year

2013

Outcome status

Trial Closed - Some Convictions, Out of Court Settlement

Actors

• Filipe Nyusi: current President of Mozambique, Defence Minister during time of alleged corruption

• Armando Emilio Guebuza: Mozambican President at the time

• Manuel Chang: Mozambican Finance Minister at the time

• Iskandar Safa: head of Privinvest

• Andrew Pearse, Detelina Subeva, Surjan Singh: Swiss bankers who pleaded guilty on receiving bribes

• Jean Boustani: Chief Trader at Privinvest

• Antonio do Rosario: Managing Director of MAM, Pro Indicus, Ematum, Director of Economic Intelligence at SISE (Mozambique’s Security and Intelligence Service)

• Pro Indicus: Mozambique state-owned company, defence and security company to protect the Mozambican EEZ at sea, in liquidation process

• MAM Mozambique Asset Management: Mozambique state-owned company, should offer maritime repairs, in liquidation process

• Ematum: Mozambique partly state-owned company, fishing processing and selling of tuna, in liquidation process

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▶ Anonymous 01/15/25 (Wed) 17:25:27 07b319 (103) No.22359108>>22359140 >>22366053 >>22518650

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“The deadly protests in Mozambique explained”

https://youtu.be/ND1XWBPoXVY

Jan 14, 2025

Mozambique's escalating civil unrest began after its October 2024 election was clouded by allegations of rigging against the winners. An ongoing police crackdown on protesters has caused more than 300 deaths. Sky’s Yousra Elbagir explains what’s happening in the country.

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▶ Anonymous 01/15/25 (Wed) 17:30:27 07b319 (103) No.22359140>>22366053 >>22518650

>The main items on the agenda of visiting delegation led by Comrade Lindiwe Zulu, chairperson for the African National Congress’s Subcommittee on International Relations and South African Minister of Social Development, were strengthening the historic ties of brotherhood, friendship and cooperation that exist between Frelimo and the ANC, and the analysis of the political, economic and social situation in their respective countries.

>Greeting the delegation on Monday (04-04), Frelimo Secretary General Comrade Roque Silva Samuel said that the visit would reinforce and consolidate the existing relations of cooperation between the two parties and peoples, which date back to the time of the founding of the Mozambique Liberation Front.

>>22359108

“President Ramaphosa attends the Presidential Inauguration in Mozambique”

https://dirco.gov.za/president-ramaphosa-attends-the-presidential-inauguration-in-mozambique/

15 January 2025

Media Statement

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Maputo today, 15 January 2025, to attend the inauguration of the President-Elect of the Republic of Mozambique, His Excellency Daniel Chapo, following the Presidential, Legislative and Provincial Elections, which were held in Mozambique on 9 October 2024.

The inauguration of President-Elect Chapo provides an opportunity for all the people of Mozambique to work together towards peace, democracy and development.

President Ramaphosa is looking forward to working closely with President-Elect Chapo in further strengthening the existing strong fraternal relations between the two countries and looks forward to seeing Mozambicans come together in the spirit of unity and cooperation as they build a brighter future.

President Ramaphosa will be accompanied by Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola; and Minister in The Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.

Media enquiries: Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President -- media@presidency.gov.za

Issued by: The Presidency

Pretoria

www.thepresidency.gov.za

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▶ Anonymous 01/15/25 (Wed) 19:57:38 7a6cdb (66) No.22359796>>22364834 >>22364905 >>22366046 >>22390070 >>22418103 >>22418116 >>22418134 >>22418148 >>22418174 >>22418303 >>22426334 >>22518640 >>22651658

>>22354496

>A weird coalition of US, British, and South African diplomats, businessmen, and bankers has emerged

>US Intelligence arrives in South Africa to discuss Mozambique -- report

Remember

“ANC officials in cahoots with US Intelligence”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/anc-officials-in-cahoots-with-us-intelligence-4c3a0098-e55c-4d83-9c57-b063c8329df6

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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▶ Anonymous 01/16/25 (Thu) 17:28:29 7a6cdb (66) No.22364834>>22364905 >>22365191 >>22365335 >>22366053 >>22518650

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>For the past few years, the US has maintained a training team in Mozambique, assisting with the training of a specialist response unit within the Mozambican army.

>>22352736

>the De Beers corporation, economic growth and the government have been closely interlinked in Botswana.

>>22354496

>A weird coalition of US, British, and South African diplomats, businessmen, and bankers has emerged

>>22359796

>there was very close co-operation taking place between the US diplomatic community and the US intelligence community in South Africa

CIA Document: Mozambique’s Accord with South Africa: Genesis and Prospects [June 1984]

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85S00317R000100150001-3.pdf

Because of Washington’s close Identification with the process leading up to Nkomati, the accord opens up new opportunities for Western, and especially US, interests in Mozambique. Additionally, if, as we expect, the holds and provides at least a modest improvement in Mozambique’s political and economic plight, the standing of the United States in black Africa should be enhanced. [Is it now backfiring?]

In our judgment, the precarious security situation also rendered ineffective Maputo’s efforts to acquire largescale developmental economic assistance from the West, the publicly stated principal Objective of Machel’s visit to Western Europe in October 1983.

When the congress was held in late April 1983, moderates led by Machel seized the initiative and proposed a modification of Marxist economic doctrine that was intended to give a freer had to the private sector -- particularly in agriculture – according to US Embassy reporting. The move apparently outmaneuvered the rigid ideologues, led by number-two party leader Marcelino do Santos, and many party radicals lost their key economic policymaking positions.

Although party leaders still used Marxist rhetoric and adopted radical postures in the international arena, we believe that they pressed for more pragmatism on domestic economic issues.

Although comprehensive data are lacking, the US Embassy reports that the Mozambican economy has undergone a catastrophic decline since the country achieved independence in 1975. During 1975-78, GDP fell by 33 percent, according to our estimates. We believe that GDP, by 1982 judged to be less than $1.5 billion, fell by a further 18 percent during 1983, largely because of the inefficiency and disincentives of Mozambique’s pursuit of unrealistic socialist policies.

Mozambique’s hostilities toward South Africa also deprived the new regime of its most important source of income. Under an agreement reached in 1909 with Portugal, South Africa [under British rule] would use the port of Maputo for almost half of the imported goods intended for its gold mining region in return for the right to recruit miner in southern Mozambique. At independence, about 118,000 Mozambican miners worked in South Africa and remittances from their salaries, in addition to transit fares and spending by South African tourists, represented most of Mozambique’s external income. However, according to South African press sources only 45,000 or so Mozambican miners are now left in South Africa, tourism has ceased and transportation is greatly reduced.

Flagging enthusiasm for Marxist doctrine at home was paralleled by growing dissatisfaction with Moscow. Foreign diplomats in Maputo noted that continued guerilla successes, despite heavy infusions of Soviet military equipment and training -- at least $240 million worth in 1983 alone – and a sizable Soviet, East German, and Cuban advisory presence, had led Maputo to question the efficacy of Moscow’s military assistance. [Today, should we replace Soviet, East German, Cuban with US, British, South African, etc.?]

In our judgment, the key fissure within the ruling party, FRELIMO, has been between pro-Soviet ideo- logues led by party Secretary General Marcelino dos Santos and the pragmatic nationalists led by Presi- dent Machel. [https://www.mozambiquehistory.net/marcelino.php]

US Embassy reporting indicates most African countries are aware of the deep US involvement in helping to bring Pretoria and Maputo together.

In the less likely event that the fragile arrangement between Mozambique and South Africa should break down and the cycle of violence start up again, the impression in the region of US-South African collusion would lead many black Africans to hold the US responsible and would constitute a minor setback to US interests.

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▶ Anonymous 01/16/25 (Thu) 17:47:18 7a6cdb (66) No.22364905>>22364907 >>22365335 >>22366046 >>22518640 >>22651658

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> 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.