“CIA Briefing to Secretary Shultz’s Committee on South Africa – 10 July 1986” - https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89G00720R000500060010-9.pdf. Attached is a copy and below are a few excerpts.

The ANC was first targeted by the Soviet Union in 1928, when Moscow instructed the South African Communist Part to penetrate the ANC. The SACP is strongly pro-Soviet and well-represented in the ANC’s leadership.

The Soviet Bloc provides almost all (over 90 percent) of the ANC’s military support and training. Most of the ANC’s military training is conducted by Cuban and East German military advisors at several camps in Angola…. We estimate that Moscow also provides the ANC with roughly half of its nonmilitary support; that is, about $25 million annually. The remainder comes from the Scandinavian state (Sweden in particular), the World Council of Churches, and various other international organizations such as the UN and OAU. (This can explain why the ANC was able to “kidnap” 2 defectors from the UN. Details can be found at this post, >>11050138 )

SACP officials also are in frequent contact with Soviet officials in various southern African and European capitals. Most ANC literature is written in London by SACP members and printed in East Germany. (It further mentions) the pervasive pro-Soviet, Anti-US line in ANC propaganda. (It continues until today)

The ANC maintains a diplomatic and propaganda apparatus designed largely to solicit support from the international community and which maintains offices in 38 countries, and a military wing. The military wing, encompasses over half the ANC membership and is largely based in camps in Angola, with clandestine facilities in states bordering South Africa. There are 500 Cuban and East German advisers and trainers attached to these camps.

In the last two years the ANC’s quest for legitimacy as the sole representative of the South African masses has registered particular success as Western governments have begun to consult with and acknowledge the ANC as a major actor – if not the major actor – in South Africa. (Yet ignoring Buthelezi of Inkatha who had a very large following in SA)

The SACP is a protégé of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, which funds and guides it. Moscow sees the ANC as a “progressive, well-disciplined revolutionary movement” and, going back to the Comintern days, has treated the ANC as its “natural ally” in the region deserving of financial, political, and military support. Moscow is actively working to expand its influence over the ANC which was founded by and continues to include significant elements that have nationalist agenda divergent from that of the SACP.

The Soviet Central Committee and other senior bodies appear convinced that the best way to advance Soviet interests in South Africa is by violence and armed struggle. Carefully directed violence, as Moscow sees it, will provoke counteraction and repression by the South African Government, which in turn will contribute to the polarization and politicization of the masses. Violence will disrupt the economy, lead to disinvestment by Western governments, and ultimately promote the collapse of the South African regime.

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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/08/magazine/oppenheimer-of-south-africa.html. This older article is worth the read, below are few excerpts.

Harry Oppenheimer has dined fairly often in the residences of African Presidents, such as Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, who recently welcomed him to Lusaka as an old friend. But when he was invited, along with his house guest Henry Kissinger last September to Libertas, the Pretoria residence of Prime Minister P.W. Botha, it was the first time he had dined there in 34 years.

He is also king of platinum, vanadium and uranium. Companies in his domain are leading producers of coal, steel, nonferrous metals, pulp and paper, automobiles, fruit, wine: You name it. They have major banking, insurance and real-estate holdings. In all, it has been estimated, they account for roughly half the value of South Africa's exports and half the value of the shares traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. And that is only South Africa.

Anglo American is the leading corporate presence in Zimbabwe. De Beers runs the diamond mines of Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania and - very discreetly - Angola, whose Government regularly finds itself under South African military assault. (Even more discreetly, De Beers has an arrangement with Moscow, which markets most of the Soviet Union's diamonds through the corporation's London-based Central Selling Organization.) On paper, Anglo American's holdings in Zambia remain enormous, although the dividends that can be banked outside Zambia are meager.

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

The Oppenheimer empire is not easily surveyed, for it is a Chinese puzzle of majority and minority holdings in companies that are directly or indirectly controlled through pyramided holding companies, which also have bewildering cross-holdings. (Thus, De Beers and Anglo American are the largest holders of each other's shares.) The Oppenheimer family interest is maintained through a firm called E. Oppenheimer and Son that owns 8.3 percent of Anglo American; this provides enough leverage, along with the personal holdings of the Oppenheimers as individuals, for the family to keep control.

Zach de Beer, a former member of Parliament and now an executive director of Anglo American.

And that is bound up in the world view passed on by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, the son of a Jewish cigar maker from Friedberg, Germany, who arrived in South Africa as representative of a small London diamond firm in 1902, at the age of 22, just eight months after the death of the empire builder Cecil Rhodes. Although no one could have known it at the time, Ernest Oppenheimer was Rhodes's successor. Ultimately he was to move the financial base of the new South African mining houses from London to Johannesburg and plunge into the development of the copperbelt in what is now Zambia, thereby extending the mining industry's reach to the borders of what was then the Belgian Congo.

He was still only 37 when, in the middle of World War I, he set up Anglo American. The American got into the name because half the capital came from Wall Street interests such as J.P. Morgan and Company, thanks in part to the efforts of a middleman named Herbert Hoover. (South Africa took over Namibia around that time. >>11591615 Coincidence?)

His (Harry Oppenheimer’s) friend Kenneth Kaunda first took a majority share in his mining companies in Zambia, and then, without notice, dismissed their Anglo American managements. A major investment in a copper mine in Zaire was a total write-off. He respects Robert Mugabe but takes the African leader's Socialist promises for Zimbabwe seriously.

The Reagan Administration bets on this possibility: that sweeping change in South Africa will come from the top down, that the agent of change is actually the white plutocracy.

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“Pic of Ramaphosa ‘signing airport deal’ with Oppenheimers sets tongues wagging” - https://citizen.co.za/news/news-eish/1878420/1pic-of-ramaphosa-signing-or-tambo-deal-with-oppenheimers/

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“Dan Ball Interview W/ One America News Network Chief White House Correspondent, Chanel Rion” - https://youtu.be/9STTUw8xS44

Antifa-Dominion connection

>>11692851

“Mosiuoa Lekota calls President Cyril Ramaphosa a “sellout”” - https://youtu.be/npR-XiqI9oQ

>>11480453 - As Steve Biko stated; “The whites have locked up within a small minority of themselves the greater proportion of the country’s wealth and if we have a mere change of face of those in government positions what is likely to happen is black people will continue to be poor and you will get a few blacks filtering through into this so called bourgeoisie in our society will be run almost as of yesterday.”

What is an interesting statement from the article at >>11692851 is this; “He (Sir Ernest Oppenheimer) was still only 37 when, in the middle of World War I, he set up Anglo American. The American got into the name because half the capital came from Wall Street interests such as J.P. Morgan and Company, thanks in part to the efforts of a middleman named Herbert Hoover. The Anglo got there as a substitute after the idea of calling it the African-American Corporation had been shot down by the American partners, who cabled: African-American would suggest on this side our dark-skinned fellow countrymen and possibly result in ridicule. Yet, clearly, there was from the start a vision of a Western economic order extending from the other side of the Atlantic into the heartland of the continent.”

When did America start using the term, “African American”?

“Serbian Warning: What Happened When Their Elections Were Stolen in 2000” - https://youtu.be/748_YY0TB6E

America listen to him and take heed!

It can be viewed at this link as well, https://www.brighteon.com/65cd27d8-e7ae-478d-a1a3-ef3d80126acc.

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>>11749942

“Tsafendas and the tapeworm“ at https://www.newframe.com/tsafendas-and-tapeworm/ states;

It suited the apartheid narrative to label Verwoerd’s assassin as deranged rather than what he was, a freedom fighter who had slipped under the regime’s radar.

“The tapeworm made him do it.” For decades this has been a common South African refrain – repeated from schools to watering holes – to dismiss Dimitri Tsafendas’s 1966 assassination of apartheid’s architect, Hendrik Verwoerd, as nothing more than the deranged actions of a man ruled by an intestinal parasite.

But Tsafendas – politicised early as an anti-fascist, anti-colonial communist – did not mention the tapeworm in the two statements he made to police after the assassination.

Madness had been previously used to dismiss the 1960 assassination attempt on Verwoerd by David Pratt, a British-born farmer whose family had moved to South Africa when he was four years old. Pratt, whose bullets Verwoerd survived, had strong links to the National Liberal Club in London.

Also: ‘Ek is Spyt’ - https://www.netwerk24.com/Stemme/Aktueel/ek-is-spyt-20161015. Below are excerpts translated into English.

But was Tsafendas really irresponsible during his attack on Verwoerd? People are still wondering about it. One of them is Gavin Cooper, the son of Tsafendas' lawyer. In a biography of his father, "Under Devil's Peak", which appeared earlier this year, Cooper jr. discusses the possibility that Tsafendas eventually fooled his legal team with his tapeworm story. He says his father questioned the reasons why Judge Beyers prevented him from calling the state's main witness, a prof. Van Wyk, to comprehensively cross-examine his dramatic reversal that Tsafendas was indeed "certifiable" - and therefore irresponsible. After all, that was not the state's case at the start of the trial on October 17, 1966.

"What was behind Beyers' strange refusal?" wanted his father to know.

Cooper also discusses the "revelations" by a number of investigators - he calls them by name - who independently would have found that Tsafendas was, among other things, a member of the Communist Party; that his act was in fact politically motivated (unlike what he had shown investigators to do); that over a long period of time he developed the fine art of inventing his tapeworm story to various psychiatrists; that the influential Genl. Lang Hendrik van den Bergh was certainly aware of Tsafendas's dangerous intentions before the murder of Verwoerd, but allowed him to perpetrate it.

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Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) for Socialism

“The DANGER of the new Expropriation Bill | Anthea Jeffery (IRR)” - https://youtu.be/7cOQ2v8PMo4

https://dailyfriend.co.za/2020/10/15/dont-drink-the-kool-aid-on-this-expropriation-bill-either/. (Knowing that the municipalities are bankrupt, I can understand why they want to make the process easy for themselves). Below are a few excerpts.

Even without the EWC constitutional amendment bill, the Expropriation Bill (the Bill) will allow property of many kinds – not only land – to be confiscated by municipalities and other organs of state for no or inadequate compensation.

Under the Bill, a municipality which wants to expropriate residential or other land – say, to reduce spatial apartheid and build RDP houses – must begin by investigating the property and negotiating for its purchase with the owner. If no agreement is reached, the municipality may issue a notice of its intention to expropriate. In this document, it must invite representations on the proposed expropriation and the compensation to be paid. The municipality is obliged to consider any representations received, but it need not respond to them or give reasons for rejecting them.

The date for the transfer of ownership could be a mere week after the service of the notice (the only time limit in the Bill is that this date ‘must not be earlier than the date of service’ of the notice).

The owner may seek mediation or apply directly to the courts to challenge the validity of the expropriation (whether it is really ‘in the public interest’) and the amount of compensation offered (if this is truly ‘just and equitable’). However, most people will lack the means for such legal challenges and will find them particularly difficult to mount if they have already lost ownership and possession of their homes or other key assets.

Expropriated owners will also, it seems, bear the onus of proving that the compensation offered is insufficient – and may have to pay much of the municipality’s legal costs, as well as their own, if they fail to convince the presiding magistrate or judge of this.

Under the Bill, law-abiding home owners will have fewer rights than criminals illegally using a warehouse they own to store heroin and other drugs.

The Bill has enormous ramifications for the 1 million white and 8.7 million black South Africans who own houses, as well as for the roughly 17 million black people with informal rights to plots held in customary tenure.

https://dailyfriend.co.za/2020/11/26/bee-and-the-expropriation-bill-to-complete-the-revolution/ states;

Contrary to what many commentators seem willing to believe, the Expropriation Bill is not about land reform, while BEE is not about advancing the black majority.

Both the Expropriation Bill and BEE are intended to give the SACP/ANC alliance and their loyal cadres effective control over the economy. This, as Mr Magashule (>>11737824) states, is what is needed to ‘complete the revolution’ and so achieve the socialist ‘nirvana’ to which the alliance has been advancing by incremental steps since 1994.

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Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans Report – April 26, 1976

The activities of intelligence agencies seemed to have gotten much worse these days.

“Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities” at https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm states;

In 1973 the Senate Watergate Committee investigation revealed that the executive branch had directed national intelligence agencies to carry out constitutionally questionable domestic security operations. In 1974 Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Seymour Hersh published a front-page New York Times article claiming that the CIA had been spying on anti-war activists for more than a decade, violating the agency’s charter. Former CIA officials and some lawmakers, including Senators William Proxmire and Stuart Symington, called for a congressional inquiry.

The +/- 400 page final report can be found at https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_II.pdf. Below are a few excerpts.

Many agencies, departments or bureaus of the Federal Government have an intelligence function. Of these, the Committee spent the overwhelming preponderance of its energies on five: FBI, CIA, NSA, The national intelligence components of the Defense Department (other than NSA), NSC and its component parts.

It has become clear from our inquiry, moreover, that intelligence excesses, at home and abroad, have been found in every administration.

But if the foundation is unsound or remains unfinished – or if intelligence agencies continue to operate under a structure in which executive power is not effectively checked and examined – then we will have neither quality intelligence nor a society which is free at home and respected abroad.

If we can lose our liberties from a too-powerful Government intruding into our lives through burdensome taxes or an excess of regulations, we can surely lose them from government agencies that collect vast amounts of information on the lawful activities of citizens in the interest of “domestic intelligence.” The Excessive breadth of domestic intelligence operations investigated by the committee and many of the techniques used against Americans can severely chill First Amendment rights and deeply infringe upon personal privacy.

Speech and political ideas are often unsettling. But it is only through free debate and the free exchange of ideas that the people an inform themselves and make their government responsive. And it is through the protection of privacy that we nourish the individual spirit. These are the characteristics that set us apart from totalitarian regimes.

To be worthy of our forebears and ourselves, we need only have the courage to keep to the course. By bringing the intelligence arm of the government within our constitutional system, correcting abuses, and checking excesses, we will enable the proper range of intelligence activity to go forward under law in the service of the county.

List of noteworthy contents

• Intelligence Activity: A New Form of Government Power to Impair Citizens’ Rights

• The Number of People Affected by Domestic Intelligence Activity

• Too Much Information is Collected For Too Long

• Covert Action and the Use of Illegal or Improper Means

• Ignoring the Law

• Deficiencies in Accountability and Control

• The Adverse Impact of Improper Intelligence Activity; General Efforts to Discredit, Media Manipulation, Distorting Data to Influence Government Policy and Public Perceptions, “Chilling” First Amendment Rights, Preventing the Free Exchange of Ideas

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>>11871198

“War Between The White House and CIA?” - https://youtu.be/AEQIdn4Pi2s

John F, Kennedy issued National Security Action Memorandum 57, which took away the CIA's power. Though the order was signed, it was never enacted. After Kennedy's assassination, it's just been sitting on the books for sixty years. Now President Trump has pulled the trigger, and the Deep State is scrambling. Has war broken out between the CIA and America's Constitutional government?

God bless and protect President Trump!

“The Root of African Dysfunctional Behavior!” - https://youtu.be/aQ8k12KPrF0

A South African, Muzi Nkosi, shares his experiences.

“It takes a village to raise a child is a famous African proverb that unfortunately ruined the lives of generations of Africans. We find out how in this video.”

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British Royals and Thabo Mbeki “Commemorate” the 100 Year Anniversary of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa

“SOUTH AFRICA: QUEEN ELIZABETH II - STATE VISIT” - https://youtu.be/EEiuWnYHY3E

People are still waiting for the apology from Queen Elizabeth. The royals do appear to be gloating.

>>12009196

"12.13.20: Our COUNTRY tis of THEE?? or CHyN@'s? Starting to ALL make sense now!" - https://youtu.be/G325Kf8c-iE

>>12020907

CCP member list

>>12009196

“Secy. Pompeo: China seeks to hijack American academia” - https://youtu.be/MihWmrVakWc

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>>12009196

“China reportedly trying to make super soldiers; Gen Keane reacts” - https://youtu.be/KBEYOZzoThA

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>>11980500

“State Dept. shines spotlight on plight of Uyghur Muslims in China” - https://youtu.be/HSF64wxqOcI

>>12010792

Farm Murders in South Africa

“Against the Boer” - https://youtu.be/Xnnj4qchVPI

South Africa Today News created a special link to report on farm murders as it is so prevalent. - https://southafricatoday.net/tag/farm-attack/.

“33 Farm attacks and 10 farm murders in South Africa – November 2020” at https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/33-farm-attacks-and-10-farm-murders-in-south-africa-november-2020/ states;

During November 2020 there were thirty three farm attacks and ten farm murders in South Africa, whilst three farm attacks were successfully averted. During October 2020 there were 42 farm attacks and 7 farm murders in South Africa, whilst 5 farm attacks were successfully averted. The onslaught against the white minority, especially farmers, continues unabated with no action from government.

During September 2020 there were 48 farm attacks and 5 farm murders in the country and one attack was successfully averted.

Farm attacks and farm murders – the year so far:

November 2020- 33 farm attacks, 10 farm murders.

October 2020- 42 farm attacks, 7 farm murders.

September 2020- 48 farm attacks, 5 farm murders.

August 2020- 52 farm attacks, 9 farm murders.

July 2020- 55 farm attacks, 9 farm murders.

June 2020- 56 farm attacks, 7 farm murders.

May 2020- 15 farm attacks, 4 farm murders.

April 2020- 17 farm attacks, 1 farm murder.

March 2020- 35 farm attacks, 6 farm murders.

February 2020- 31 farm attacks, 8 farm murders.

January 2020- 17 farm attacks.

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“The miracle of Blood River”- http://labuschagne.info/the-miracle-of-blood-river.htm#.X94q6NhKhPY. An incredible part of South Africa’s history. Below are a few excerpts.

Today, on a Sunday 175 years ago an event began which changed the history of South Africa. In a roundabout way, it was an event that changed the history of the world. It was the start of perhaps the most dramatic event in the blood-stained pages of our country’s past. And it was the start of a day that may never be forgotten as long as blood flows through the veins of the Afrikaner nation.

Some of the events that I am about to tell of are poorly known. But this, to the tribute of those who were there – and to the glory of the Hand which protected them, is the story of what took place:

That same night, the Zulu impies had swept across the length of the upper Tugela river. They fell upon the unsuspecting encampments of families across a huge distance. It was totally unexpected. In the darkness, that evening became the sum of all nightmares as unspeakable cruelties were committed. While men fought desperately in the darkness against an unseen foe, they were overcome by sheer force of numbers. Pregnant women were cut open, and children and babies were swung by their feet to have their brains bashed in against the wagon wheels. In that one night 500 men, women, children and servants were butchered. Their bloodied bodies with drawn-out entrails were found among the charred remains of their burnt out tents and wagons the next day. It was a crime and a tragedy in that small community which was so great that words could not be found to express emotions.

Dingane commanded the most fearsome army in the history of Africa south of the Sahara. For two generations they had swept the southern and central parts of southern Africa, killing and murdering as far as they went. Entire nations were driven to the brink of extinction. In the Mfecane, or great cleansing, the vast interior had in fact become uninhabited by humans, except for a few miserable starving souls who tried to survive in the isolated mountain regions. They were already driven to the extremes of cannibalism as a result of these deprivations.

Accordingly, when the spring rains came, a fighting force was assembled. The pioneers had no army. They were simply farmers, sons, fathers and grandfathers who had to defend heir families with every fibre of their strength. Even so, only 470 men could be assembled. With them came their 150 strong service core of ex-slaves and servants who would not be there to fight, but only to handle the livestock and move supplies.

There were thousands upon thousands of them. So many that not even the Zulu commanders could count them. As many as 30,000 warriors were assembled, some history books say. Uncle Gert’s grandfather held that after both calculation and from his impression as a whole, the number might have been far larger yet. The odds were at least 63 to 1 – if they were lucky.

During this time of confusion the Voortrekkers took possession of the land of Natal which they had fairly bought from the Zulu king months ago. A year after their deputation had been treacherously murdered by the Zulu king they discovered the skeletons of their fallen governor with the deed of sale still in his leather pouch.

This day continues to be remembered for divine deliverance in a battle which the settlers never could have won on their own.

That they survived, could only be accounted to divine intervention. The Battle of Blood River, he pointed out, pointed not to the triumph of white over black. In stead, it marked the triumph of the light of civilization over the cruelty and barbarism.

As for king Dingane, he died as he had lived – assassinated as a back-stabbing traitor, just the way that he himself had assassinated his own half-brother Chaka before. His successor, Mpanda, remained a loyal friend of the Andries Pretorius, the victor of Blood River. Between the two they signed a treaty of “everlasting friendship.”

In the end victory came to the pioneers not because they were good, but simply because God was great.

>>12094625

The Vow

Gathered round their spokesman, where he was standing on a small ship’s cannon, they renewed their covenant for the last time. His words must have sounded grave and hollow in the suffocating mist as he made his famous deal with God and spoke words that have been echoing across the ages ever since:

“At this moment we stand before the Holy God of heaven and earth, to make a promise if He will be with us and protect us, and deliver the enemy into our hands so that we may triumph over him, that we shall observe the day and the date as an anniversary in each year, and a day of thanksgiving like the Sabbath, in His honour, and that we shall enjoin our children that they must take part with us in this for a remembrance even for our posterity.”

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South Africa’s Dark Criminal Underworld – Gangster’s Paradise

“The Agliotti Story” - https://youtu.be/brVbQiAjig0, >>12145195

“Case of Czech Gangster Reveals South Africa’s Dark Criminal Underworld” - https://world.time.com/2013/12/27/case-of-czech-gangster-reveals-south-africas-dark-criminal-underworld/. Below are a few excerpts.

A Czech gangster likened both to Al Capone and James Bond is in the dock in South Africa, but his case shines a light on police corruption and the country's vast criminal underworld

Rainbow nation or not, South Africa is battling a crime epidemic. Even as the country was in mourning for their beloved hero Nelson Mandela, Radovan Krejcir, a Czech businessman and fugitive, made headlines this month when he was denied bail. The towering 45-year-old — he stands well over 6’2 and is built like a truck — was arrested in November on charges of kidnapping and assault in connection with a botched 24 million rand ($2.3 million) crystal meth deal. He appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court, just outside Johannesburg, alongside his co-accused Desai Lupondo, an associate, and Samuel Maruping and Machache Nthoroane, two burly suspended members of the Hawks, South Africa‘s elite crime-fighting division.

Krejcir’s case, a glimpse into a world of narco-trafficking and crooked cops, epitomizes the widespread belief Johannesburg is a gangsters’ paradise. “Since the early 90’s there has been a consolidation of criminal networks in South Africa, focusing on the main urban centers, like Johannesburg,” says Mark Shaw, an organized crime researcher at the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies, a policy think-tank. “Organized crime is not new,” says Shaw, “but it has become much more complex, with much more foreign connections than it had before.”

South Africa, the continent’s largest economy, experienced its organized crime boom after the end of apartheid, when borders opened after years of global isolation. With lawmakers focused on nation-building, not policing, syndicates flourished, taking advantage of the country’s sophisticated banking system and transportation infrastructure. After Nigeria, South Africa has the highest level of illicit financial outflows in the continent, growing from US$1.29 billion in 2002, to a staggering US$23.73 billion in 2011, reported Global Financial Integrity, a Washington-based research organization, in 2013.

Organized crime is so entrenched the country it warps the very authorities appointed to fight it. In 2010, Jackie Selebi, the former national commissioner of the South African Police Service, was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 15 years in prison having accepted a bribe from convicted drug-dealer Glenn Agliotti. One year later, his successor, Bheki Cele, stepped down amid allegations of graft.

Given the corruption in South Africa’s police force, it may be the tax man that poses the greatest threat to Krejcir. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) filed a court order in November alleging Krejcir has over 200 million rands (US $19.1 million) of undisclosed financial transactions, which “will have substantial tax implications,” according to SARS spokesman Adrian Lackay. In the documents submitted to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, SARS says Krejcir was doing business with Glenn Agliotti, a convicted drug dealer, and George Smith, who is accused of killing strip club king Lolly Jackson.

But for every gangster South African authorities put behind bars, there will be many more in the future. Gastrow says the illicit market is shifting to China, where its rapidly growing middle class is fuelling worldwide demand. That means African countries will be, more than ever, key transit points. South Africa, with its world-class infrastructure, is the ideal location for international criminal syndicates catering to East Asia. “It’s well located, has airports, banking, a high standard of life,” says Gastrow, “it’s just that attractive of a haven.”

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>>12116301

“Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa's Underworld” - https://youtu.be/jovJrpHrTvI

“When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mark Shaw reveals in this highly original and informative book, the ‘upper world’ sails perilously close to the underworld.”

“Grim child murder figures in SAfrica spark outrage”- https://youtu.be/O8UuZdjZvBI

“Around 1,000 children are murdered every year in South Africa, nearly three a day. Many children are victims of homicides that are not investigated properly, not prosecuted or completely missed by authorities.”

“In South Africa, Child homicides show violence ‘entrenched’” - https://apnews.com/article/homicide-cape-town-africa-south-africa-only-on-ap-fb11beaaedfe580c3c3b2c3cd5cbde6d. Below are a few excerpts.

There was, she says, the case of a 9-month-old child who had seizures after being dropped off at day care. Though rushed to the hospital, the child died.

Doctors found severe head injuries and told the mother to go to the police, but no one followed up. The mother never reported the death. When investigators tried to revive the case nearly two years later, the baby had long been buried and the evidence was cold.

Joan van Niekerk, a child protection expert, recounts numerous cases tainted by police ineptitude and corruption.

“I sometimes go through stages when I am more angry with the system than I am with the perpetrators and that’s not good,” she said. She said justice for children in South Africa is unacceptably “hard to achieve.”

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>>12212965

“Instagram playboy is also the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea | The Economist”- https://youtu.be/nA_p4–ZFIo

Yet U.S. Department of State at https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-equatorial-guinea/ states;

The United States established diplomatic relations with Equatorial Guinea in 1968, following the country’s independence from Spain.

Equatoguineans visit the United States under programs sponsored by the U.S. Government, U.S. oil and gas companies, and U.S. educational institutions. The Embassy also sends five to ten Equatoguineans on short-term exchanges to the United States under programs such as the Mandela Washington Fellowship and the International Visitor Leadership Program each year. U.S. companies have very active corporate social responsibility programming in education, health, and the environment, and support efforts to combat malaria and address maternal health. Every year the U.S. Embassy provides small grants to support efforts to promote greater respect for human rights and democracy, education, and entrepreneurship. U.S. universities conduct environmental research and conservation programs, in collaboration with the local government and other partners.

Equatorial Guinea has used its oil wealth to expand its foreign presence, establishing diplomatic missions in other countries. Equatorial Guinea and the United States belong to a number of the same international organizations, including the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, the International Civil Aviation Organization, International Maritime Organization, and the Universal Postal Union. The country also is an observer to the Organization of American States and World Trade Organization. Equatorial Guinea began a two-year term as a non-permanent member on the United Nations Security Council on January 1, 2018 that concluded on December 31, 2019. Equatorial Guinea is a member of both the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).

“Bill Gates-backed plan to dim the sun quietly moves forward”

They are concerned about carbon monoxide but now they are intentionally polluting our atmosphere. These people need to be stopped!! Below are a few excerpts of https://www.wnd.com/2020/12/bill-gates-backed-plan-deploy-sun-dimming-quietly-moves-forward/.

He's also known for wanting to save us from ourselves.

Now, apparently, he wants to save us from the sun.

However, while you may have been paying attention to his efforts on vaccination and lockdowns, you may not have noticed that one of Gates' most controversial causes just got a go-ahead: A project that would help block out the sun.

According to Reuters, a Harvard University project plans to test out a controversial theory that global warming can be stopped by spraying particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sun's rays.

The project represents one of the most controversial aspects of what's known as "geoengineering" – the idea that, to tackle issues like climate change, massive aspects of our ecosystem can be played with or changed. In this case, it would involve reflecting some of the sun's rays to stop them from reaching Earth.

"In a small step, the Swedish Space Corporation agreed this week to help Harvard researchers launch a balloon near the Arctic town of Kiruna next June. It would carry a gondola with 600 kg of scientific equipment 20 km (12 miles) high."

The Harvard team, whose project is known as SCoPEx, is funded in large part by Gates, according to an August report in the U.K. Daily Mail. (Which gave the subject the wordy title: "Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming… but critics fear it could trigger calamity")

But then again, Gates lives in this dream world where his advice on pandemics and global warming is given equal weight as his time developing Windows.

In short, Bill Gates doesn't have a particularly great handle on COVID, much less the current vaccine process. He panders to China. His work on the vaccine has been desultory at best. And now, what he wants us all to believe is that he's got a handle on everything – including blotting out the sun to make the world cooler.

Get the economics on business-killing lockdowns together, Bill. Then we'll see about your geoengineering gambit.

“Children Raised on Farms Develop Better Immune Systems” - https://youtu.be/vQ14PEz8stg

Sounds like herd immunity to me… End the COVID restrictions!

“Those pesky ancestral spirits in this lock down | Only in South Africa” - https://youtu.be/r9KW2P3eYIw

“‘It has increased sharply’ – How many South Africans receive social grants?”at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/how-many-people-receive-social-grants-south-africa-sassa/ states;

The total number of South Africans receiving permanent social grants from SASSA has increased six-fold over the past 25 years. That’s according to figures released by the Social Development Department, after the DA raised the issue in a set of Parliamentary questions. The totals, when analysed fully, make for a sobering read.

It’s estimated that roughly one in three citizens rely on some type of social grant to survive. The figures have somewhat plateaued over the past decade – but since the turn of the century, the number of people receiving payments from SASSA has only had one annual decline. Even that was marginal…

 Around 31% of South Africans rely on permanent grants every month to make ends meet.

 That means more than 18 million people receive some form of permanent grant payment.

 This figure was just 7% in 1996 and reached 20% in 2005.

 Since 2011, the number has always hovered above the 30% mark.

 These figures don’t include temporary R350 grant recipients – about seven million citizens got an SRD payout in 2020.

Bridgette Masango is the DA’s shadow minister for Social Development. She has wasted little time on pinning this stagnation on ANC policy, blaming the government for ‘impoverishing’ its people before a pandemic even had the chance:

“The only worthwhile conclusion that can be drawn is that South Africans are increasingly going into poverty due to a failing ANC government and its policies. The data clearly indicates that the ANC government and its policies have had an active hand in impoverishing South Africans long before global economic implosions, State Capture or COVID-19 did.”

“These policies and strategies – often hailed as economic saviors that will invigorate the economy and provide jobs aplenty – serve only the corrupt and politically connected. The callous way South Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable are being treated, proves that the only interest the government has regarding the poor, are their votes.”

“2019 World Economic Forum on Africa I Minister Naledi Pandor” - https://youtu.be/TQDFjD3DWvo

“SA diplomats behaving badly: DIRCO lumped with R10m bill for ‘property damage’”at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/what-sa-diplomats-cost-dirco-property-damage-bill/ states;

This behaviour falls way short of the standards set by DIRCO: South African diplomats have racked-up an eye-watering 'property damage' bill.

DIRCO Minister Naledi Pandor has revealed that the ministry has had to pay out almost R10 million in lost deposits since the end of 2015, due to the allegedly ‘reckless behaviour’ of some South African diplomats. Scores of properties rented for our officials have refused to pay back the cash – mainly because of property damage caused by the tenants.

The shocking admission came during Pandor’s response to a Parliamentary question. The DA raised the issue in 2020, and the minister came clean about the extent of the costs. Put it this way, their behaviour hasn’t been very… diplomatic:

 DIRCO has lost deposits from 101 properties rented abroad for diplomatic purposes.

 All of these transgressions have taken place over the last five years.

 A total of R9 393 429 has been lost due to damages to property, deposits being used by landlords for maintenance work and repair of damages, or the leases being terminated by mission outside the terms and conditions.

Darren Bergman is the DA’s Shadow Minister for DIRCO. He initially posed the question after SA’s consul-general in Los Angeles, Thandile Sunduza, made headlines for all the wrong reasons last year. The former MP is accused of rejecting 30 properties offered to her, as she was ‘hellbent’ on securing a pad in Beverley Hills.

Her list of demands for one landlord was made public. It included importing furniture from abroad and making drastic changes to kitchen cupboards and wall units. Though Sunduza isn’t implicated in any property damage, the diplomat’s behaviour has now directed attention towards an alarming trend: Some of our dignitaries think they’re on their jollies…

Bergman, meanwhile, has told DIRCO he is far from impressed with these latest developments…

“Our diplomats should be held directly responsible for the damages they cause. This embarrassing issue is clearly illustrated in the ongoing Los Angeles saga where the consul-general there, Thandile Sunduza, has yet to find a suitable property to call home. How many vaccines or PPE could have been bought had this money not been thrown in the water?”

“With South African diplomats clearly showing a history of being terrible tenants, is it any wonder we’re having trouble renting a home for Sunduza? These negligent and reckless diplomats – who through their actions are painting South Africans in a bad light – are directly contravening their mandate to build brand South Africa.

[This happens when one has a terrorist organisation ruling one’s country.]

"Robert David Steel, Simon Parkes and Charlie Ward." - https://youtu.be/-R6q70LTidY

An interesting discussion about current events in the US.

Fight for Trump, God Bless America!

"Robert Steele We have it all" - https://youtu.be/6Gcw_TBx9qA

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“AMERICA'S TOP OWNER OF FARMLAND: BILL GATES – IN CONTROL OF FOOD”at https://www.bitchute.com/video/hG4z9qTpAcaX/ explains their intentions well.

https://cagj.org/agra-watch/ states;

AGRA Watch is a grassroots, Seattle-based group challenging the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s questionable agricultural programs in Africa, including its Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The Gates Foundation and AGRA claim to be “pro-poor” and “pro-environment,” but their approach is closely aligned with transnational corporations, such as Monsanto, and foreign policy actors like USAID. They take advantage of food and global climate crises to promote high-tech, market-based, industrial agriculture and generate profits for corporations even while degrading the environment and disempowering farmers. Their programs are a form of philanthrocapitalism based on biopiracy.

Below are a few excerpts from“The Man Behind the Curtain: The Gates Foundation’s Influence on the UN Food Systems Summit”at https://cagj.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Man-Behind-the-Curtain-The-Gates-Foundations-Influence-on-the-UN-Food-Systems-Summit.pdf or attached.

In December 2019, Agnes Kalibata, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), was appointed as Special Envoy to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit by the Secretary General of the United Nations.1 Following this event, 176 civil society organizations and farmer groups from 83 countries sent an open letter to the UN Secretary General António Guterres to withdraw the appointment of Kalibata due to her close ties to corporate actors. This letter was followed up by a second statement signed by over 500 organizations, academics, and social movements, raising concerns about both this nomination, and about the overall approach of the Summit.

Civil society organizations argue that the appointment of Ms. Kalibata reflects a clear conflict of interest given that AGRA promotes the interests of agribusiness. CSOs argue that her appointment “is fundamentally at odds with the UN Charter and with intergovernmental decisions on sustainable development, the climate emergency, and the eradication of poverty and hunger. It will provide transnational corporations (TNCs) preferential access to the UN system and permanently associate the UN with TNCs, some of whose core activities have caused and/or worsened the social, economic and environmental crises the world faces.” This concern over Kalibata’s nomination has been largely borneout by Kalibata’s top-down approach to organizing the Summit and her exclusion of those most affected by food insecurity and malnutrition in the planning process.

In response to the two civil society letters, twelve individuals representing several development banks, academic institutions, and the private sector, sent a letter to the UN Secretary General to support Kalibata’s nomination to this position.4 This letter emphasized Dr. Kalibata’s leadership skills, work ethic, capacity to listen, and other qualities. AGRA Watch analyzed the signatories and found that out of 12 total signers, 11 had past or current connections to the Gates Foundation. In some instances, the organizations were directly funded by the Gates Foundation, and in others, the Gates Foundation funded specific programs in which the signers had played roles. One organization was funded by AGRA, which is funded by the Gates Foundation

Sheryl Hendriks was Program Chair at the University of Pretoria conference enabled by a BMGF [Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation] grant, titled “Advancing agricultural transformation in Africa: Capacity strengthening in policy analysis”.

“Loadshedding returns; Eskom's 3-month outlook - Free Marketeers”- https://youtu.be/Ll4K_dgpzak. A very good discussion about Eskom – past ,present, future, competence, corruption, etc..

The link to the video was retrieved from this article, “Eskom: Expert fears ‘Stage 8 load shedding’ coming this winter”, at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/when-will-south-africa-get-stage-8-load-shedding-eskom-schedule/ which states;

Eskom is determined not to be upstaged by COVID-19 - and a senior energy analyst believes there's a 'Stage 8 load shedding spectacular' to come in 2021.

Earlier on Monday evening, Eskom confirmed that they would be suspending load shedding for the week ahead. However, the relief is likely to be temporary – and the bigger picture looks quite daunting. Ted Blom, a leading energy expert and an outspoken critic of the utility, now firmly believes that STAGE 8 cuts are coming for Mzansi.

Blom spoke to the Free Market Foundation’s Chris Hattingh during the latest episode of the Free Marketeers podcast. He claims that Eskom will frequently lie about the extent of their load shedding schedules, implementing Stage 3 cuts disguised as Stage 1 instead. On that basis, Blom predicts that Stage 8 outages could secretly come into effect:

“Eskom is understating the amount of power it’s actually shedding. When Eskom says we are having Stage 1 load-shedding or shedding 1 000 MW, to the economy it is in fact a 3 000 MW shortage. If you add the numbers, it’s the 2 000 MW from the interruptible [factors], plus 2 000 MW from the public, plus the residual for which they are over 2 000 MW.”

“That in fact takes us to about Stage 5 load-shedding… if Eskom was more transparent and honest in its dealings with the public. I feel quite comfortable saying that I will not be surprised that between now and the end of winter we will experience Stage 6 load-shedding, pretty much for certain, and even Stage 8 or above is a possibility.”

Ted Blom

Stage 8, the worst-case scenario, allows for 8 000MW to be shed from the grid. This is double the amount allocated to Stage 4. Under Stage 8 load shedding, some suburbs and towns could expect to be left in the dark for up to 12 hours per day – although this amount could vary according to municipal suppliers and allocations.

This is the closest known stage South Africa could withstand before a complete collapse of the energy grid takes place. In 2018, Eskom first punted the idea of Stage 8 cuts – which were met with derision and anxiety in equal measure. Now, one of the country’s leading energy experts is ‘pretty much certain’ the worst of load shedding is yet to come.

South Africa reached Stage 6 power cuts in December 2019 – the worst single blackout in our democratic history.

"Expropriation Without Compensation, without amending the Constitution - Anthea Jeffery" - https://youtu.be/ZC49ZX60Y0s

“UN concerned about humanitarian crisis in northern Mozambique”- https://youtu.be/CEl_x-gghzs

Address the cause and not the symptom!

"Joe Biden presidency: Here’s what the future holds for Africa"at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/president-joe-biden-south-africa/ states;

According to Marie Wilke, the head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Africa Practice, “African leaders appear to be banking on the support of their ally and champion, the US Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)”.

Wilke explains that the CBC “has the ear of the Biden administration and has previously advocated for the unilateral extension of AGOA market access concessions”.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation said after the US election they celebrate the fact that Trump won’t be “undermining democratic institutions and [bring] the most powerful office in the world into disrepute for another four years”.

“Now begins the daunting task for the US of undoing the Trump administration’s deepening of racism, sexism, xenophobia, Afrophobia and many other intersecting vectors of prejudice and hatred”.

Furthermore, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the South African government was looking “forward to working with [President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris] and deepening [SA’s] bonds of friendship and cooperation”.

As, "CBC Chair Issues 116th Congress Report" dated December 28, 2020, at https://cbc.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2260 states;

"Next year, CBC will celebrate 50 years as the “Conscience of the Congress.” It is only fitting that the Caucus will be even larger and more powerful, with 59 Members to start before three of our very own Members join the historic Biden-Harris Administration. Under the leadership of Chair Joyce Beatty, the CBC will enjoy even greater opportunities to advance a Black agenda in the 117th Congress."

[Thick as thieves]

”F.W. de Klerk’s Betrayal”

“My Visit to former State President PW Botha for 5 Days in 2006” at http://historyreviewed.best/index.php/my-visit-to-former-state-president-pw-botha-for-5-days-in-2006/ states;

PW Botha was extremely angry with his successor F. W. De Klerk. PW Botha told a number of people the same things that he told me. He said that F. W. De Klerk had sold out the country in return for his Nobel Prizes. He mentioned specifically the organisation B’Nai B’rith as rewarding him financially for selling out the country. I think he gave the figure of R1 million.

I found PW Botha to be lucid and in good health during my visit. He had a good memory and talked with ease. At the time of my visit I had published on my website that Die Rapport newspaper had an order to NEVER publish any articles about PW Botha. I was therefore extremely surprised when during my visit suddenly a Rapport journalist and photographer arrived to interview PW Botha – perhaps in an attempt to discredit my website and what I had written.

PW Botha was in great health, it was therefore quite a shock to me that he died suddenly, 11 days after I had left.

The Mass Media had tried to portray PW Botha as being old and senile, but this was complete nonsense. I spoke to him daily and he was in great shape for a man his age.

As “30 Years Since F. W. de Klerk’s Great Betrayal” at https://freewestmedia.com/2020/02/10/30-years-since-f-w-de-klerks-great-betrayal/ states;

As even liberal and left-wing commentators agree, South Africa has been looted into bankruptcy by the radical ANC-Communist Party movement. On the thirtieth anniversary of its unbanning, Ilana Mercer places the blame for the catastrophic conditions in the country squarely on its last white president, F.W. de Klerk, and his calculated betrayal of his own people and constituents.

A constellation of circumstances had aligned to catapult de Klerk to a position of great power. A severe stroke forced the “The Crocodile,” President P. W. Botha, from power in 1989. Nothing in the background of his successor, President, F. W. de Klerk, indicated the revolutionary policies he would pursue.

Botha, before de Klerk, had, by and large, already dismantled the most egregious aspects of apartheid.

Thus, with de Klerk’s collaboration, and under the wing of the American eagle—in particular, U.S. negotiators like Herman Cohen, under-secretary of state for Africa—the Afrikaner, Anglo and Zulu minorities were ordered to forgo minority veto power, meaningful power-sharing and checks on power in the form of a second chamber. Substantive devolution of authority to the regions of South Africa was also denied.

“When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989,” writes du Toit, “along with a series of governments in the Eastern Bloc, [de Klerk] knew it was a matter of time before the Soviet Union fell, and with that the ANC’s biggest support base. De Klerk recognized the moment to move forward.”

Let me see if I grasp the logic of a surrender without defeat:

The ANC’s biggest backer, the USSR, was on the verge of collapse. Therefore, goes the author’s logic, the time was ripe to surrender South Africa to the Soviet Union’s satellite, the ANC? This is worse than a non sequitur. It’s nonsense.

At the time de Klerk, pushed by American negotiators, gave away the store, the ANC heroes were a ragtag bunch of exiled has-been communists, scattered all over Africa and Europe; monosyllabic, apathetic, oft-inebriated men, whose main admirers were their Swedish groupies.

“Nelson Mandela meets Charlize Theron” - https://youtu.be/qttM2yIwylI

“Charlize Theron, Donor of ANC”at https://www.dievryburger.co.za/2013/03/charlize-theron-donateur-van-anc/ states;

[Translated into English]

Charlize Theron is one of the single largest private donors of the ANC.

From 1996 to 2008 she contributed R3.6 million to the ANC's election campaigns. She also donated R250 000 to the ANC's women's league and youth league.

The report of the contributors was only published until 2009. According to the report of the office of the Director-General of the Treasury of 2004, it is revealed that Theron's AfricaOutreach Project will donate an annual donation of R800 000 to the Youth League as part of the running costs. It can therefore be assumed that she continues with her contributions.

Theron doesn't just make monetary contributions. In 2010, her Africa Outreach Project made an offer to Julius Malema's legal team to assist with legal advice in its case against AfriForum. Although the offer was declined, Charlize made a personal contribution of an undisclosed amount to Malema's legal fund.

“Zuma lauds Theron’s WEF [World Economic Forum] crystal award” dated 23 January 2013 at https://mg.co.za/article/2013-01-23-zuma-we-are-proud-of-our-charlize-theron/ states;

"We are proud of our Charlize," Zuma said about Theron's award for her humanitarian work.

"She has succeeded in an extremely competitive environment, and is a visible and hardworking ambassador for her country."

The Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project finances programmes designed to prevent the spread of HIV among young Africans, particularly in South Africa.

Zuma said he met Theron on the sidelines of the conference in Switzerland on Wednesday, and she briefed him on her work.

"I assured her that South Africans love her and wish her all the best," he said. "We wish her success in every venture she undertakes."

“Explosive claims about ANC at state capture inquiry”- https://youtu.be/lepxnN13M8o

“State Security Agency's Acting DG, Loyiso Jafta has taken the stand at the State Capture Inquiry.”

“Malawi court's ruling against former President Mutharika: Daniel Mababa”- https://youtu.be/MvSpWKkVOQo

“Malawi’s High Court has dismissed former President Peter Mutharika’s application to gain access to his bank accounts. His accounts were frozen by the country's anti-corruption body pending trial. The former president's bank accounts, as well as those of his wife, Gertrude, were frozen last August. This after the Anti-Corruption Bureau or ACB accuses him of benefiting from a $6.6 million cement scandal. Malawian News Analyst and Editor, Daniel Mababa spoke to SABC news from Lilongwe explaining the court decision and how it believed people close the former President abused their power using Mr. Mutharika’s name and tax reference to import goods free of government duties.”

“Identity of secret witness leaked | State Capture Inquiry”- https://youtu.be/9Y8QIg9QCyA

“The secret identities of two state capture witnesses have been leaked illegally. This as one, known only as Ms K, continued testifying about the State Security Agency. eNCA's Barry Bateman has the details.”

"African vs Western corruption, how they differ, how this affects you, what should we do about it?"- https://youtu.be/nfoW5giu97U

With the below comment.

The biggest hurdle we have from bettering our political position in South Africa is our understanding of African politics and culture. We view our problems through a Western cultural lens. We analyze the politics of South Africa using Western cultural norms and values. This will never work. The only way to work towards workable solutions in South Africa is to UNDERSTAND AFRICAN cultural norms and values.

Last week I made a viral tweet that only touched the surface of the fundamental difference between African and Western corruption.

The tweet read as follows:

"The difference between Western corruption and African corruption: Corrupt Western government officials will regularly steal milk from the farmer, but not so much that it discourages him from being a productive farmer. African ones will steal all the cows and slaughter them."

Today I am doing a full podcast to explain the problem in detail, how this affects you, and what you can do about it. Let's work together to find solutions. We need to be armed with the knowledge to tackle this problem, and that's why I am doing this podcast: to arm YOU with that knowledge!

“Nigerian economist poised be first African, first female WTO chief after Biden reverses Trump’s opposition”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/africa/nigerian-economist-poised-be-first-african-first-female-wto-chief-after-biden-reverses-trumps-opposition/

Washington has given its support to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the top position at the WTO, ending a month long deadlock. The move represents yet another split with the previous administration.

Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is poised to become the next head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after US President Joe Biden’s administration gave her its “full support” on Friday.

If she is confirmed, Okonjo-Iweala will be both the first African and the first woman to hold the position.

The US move is another change of direction from the Trump administration, which had paralyzed the selection process by throwing its weight behind South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee, in opposition to many other member states.

Yoo pulled out on Friday after consulting with the new US administration, her main backer up to this point, leaving the door open for Okonjo-Iweala to assume the WTO’s top post.

The 66-year-old Okonjo-Iweala trained as a development economist, acquired degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, and was previously the managing director at the World Bank.

In her home country of Nigeria, she was the first female foreign minister as well as holding the position of finance minister twice.