“JUAN O SAVIN SHARES INSIGHTS AND REVEALS WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD 3-8-21 Michael K Jaco”- https://youtu.be/yrvrWeW8VaM

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“South Africa: The Questions That Need to Be Asked” – Part 1dated March 2, 1987, at https://thenewamerican.com/south-africa-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked/. This is a very well written article providing background concerning South Africa however I am just posting a few excerpts in parts due to its length. The result was already known then.

The issue of South Africa is of concern to everyone, not just South Africans. Indeed, according to former British Foreign Secretary David Owen, it is over this issue “that the world faces its greatest challenge.” Faced with such a challenge, it is time for all concerned Americans to penetrate the haze of myths and misconceptions that has been deliberately created.

Instead of trying to create a great unitary state from the diverse elements within its borders, South Africa adopted in 1948 the policy of apartheid — or more properly, Separate Development — whereby each major population group was recognized as a nation entitled to develop its own political and social institutions separate from the others. According to this policy, each of South Africa’s ten major Bantu homelands would evolve into a self-governing, independent, democratic sovereign state.

In October 1976, the Republic of Transkei received its independence from South Africa, thereby becoming the first Bantu homeland to achieve sovereign status. The second Bantu homeland to receive its independence was the Republic of Bophuthatswana, which became autonomous in December 1977. The Republic of Venda became sovereign in September 1979; and, in December 1981, the Republic of Ciskei was born.

Although the rest of the world refuses to recognize these sovereign Bantu states, as of January 1987 there were six other Bantu homelands awaiting their turn for complete self-government: the National State of Gazankulu, the National State of Kangwane, the National State of Kwandebele, the National State of Kwazulu, the National State of Lebowa, and the National State of Qwaqwa.

Because South Africa is a “meeting place” between the First World and the Third World economies, it is not surprising that a gap exists between Black and White standards of living. What is surprising to many, however, is that the gap has narrowed substantially: From 1971-1980, the real income of Blacks increased by 40 percent while that of Whites actually decreased by three percent.

Even South Africa’s most severe critics will acknowledge that the country offers Blacks greater opportunities than does any other nation on the continent. As a consequence, millions of alien Blacks seek to enter South Africa every year, legally or illegally — in sharp contrast with conditions in Communist-held lands such as East Berlin, where a wall has been erected to prevent people from escaping.

Statistics released on March 28, 1980 gave a good indication of the Bantu lifestyle in the South Western Township (Soweto) near Johannesburg, where more than one million Blacks reside. The report revealed that Soweto had more than 1,600 Black-owned businesses, 300 churches, 314 schools, 115 soccer fields, 81 basketball courts, 39 children’s playgrounds, 4 soccer stadiums, 6 public swimming pools, 5 bowling alleys, 11 post offices, 6 libraries, 63 day-care centers, and 2 golf courses.

One of the best yardsticks for measuring the standard of living is the percentage of income that has to be devoted to the most essential item of all, food. Generally, the higher this percentage, the lower the standard of living. According to the 1984 report, South African Blacks spend an average of 45.1 percent of their household budget on food, which is virtually the same percentage that goes to food among the wage earners of Italy. In fact, South African Blacks spend a smaller percentage of their household income on food than do the populations of any other African country where comparisons were possible. (In many African countries comparisons were not possible because as little as six percent of the populations were employed in wage-earning jobs.)

South Africa’s State President Pieter W. Botha recently issued this challenge to the world: “It is the big lie that a Black government in Africa is, of necessity, a majority government. I challenge the world to contradict me. It is a sad fact that only a minute percentage of Blacks in Africa have obtained democracy, liberty and justice.”

Strife, famine, anarchy, and civil war are the hallmarks of Black Africa, and racism against non-Blacks is widely encouraged and institutionalized. Article 27 of the Liberian Constitution, for instance, declares that “only persons who are Negro or of Negro descent shall qualify by birth or by naturalization to be citizens of Liberia.”

“South Africa: The Questions That Need to Be Asked” – Part 2dated March 2, 1987, at https://thenewamerican.com/south-africa-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked/.

Free elections in the countries north of South Africa are non-existent, and the usual mode of changing governments in Black-ruled Africa is through violent revolution. In some cases, the deposed ruler is actually cooked and eaten by cannibals. A case in point is Major General Ironyi of Nigeria, who was actually eaten by the victorious tribe following his overthrow.

Toward the end of 1985, the Catholic daily Munno reported on conditions in Uganda: “The soldiers are once again on the rampage, shooting and knifing civilians, abducting women and young girls and taking turns to rape them.” According to Amnesty International, atrocities in Uganda routinely involve raping women and “crushing or pulling testicles of men.”

The reform program in South Africa is certainly genuine. But it has also made South Africa vulnerable to attack. The philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville once observed: “Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually that point at which it begins to reform itself.” This is also true for good governments, when they undergo reform in the face of charges and accusations that they are “bad” governments. Such a government undergoing reform in response to pressure and coercion is vulnerable because its action is widely perceived as a sign of weakness and as an admission of past wrong-doing. Not only has the Free World utilized South Africa’s reform process as the means to increase coercive tactics, but internal subversive groups have seized the opportunity to launch an unprecedented and bloody wave of revolution within South Africa.

Leonid Brezhnev stated in 1973: “Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends — the energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of central and southern Africa.”

Not only are the Soviets moving rapidly to surround the strategic Middle East, but they are also moving rapidly to conquer all of southern Africa. Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe are already in the hands of puppet dictators loyal to World Communism. There are also numerous Communist-bloc combat troops stationed in southern Africa, including some 40,000 Cuban troops in Angola alone. As a consequence of these ominous developments, South Africa finds herself completely flanked by hostile Marxist states, and the final battle for the control of southern Africa has already begun.

Of the many revolutionary groups operating against the Republic of South Africa, two predominate — the African National Congress (ANC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF). Since the former has been officially banned by the government for its open advocacy and employment of violence, the ANC’s main headquarters is located in Lusaka, the capital of Marxist Zambia. Situated next to the golf course of Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda’s palace are the buildings where ANC officials meet guests, supporters, and admirers. Yet the real action takes place in the bombproof, multi-story underground structure that houses the ANC’s National Executive Committee and the Soviet case officers. Within the confines of that elaborate shelter, ANC-Soviet personnel map out their “Active Measures” campaign against the Republic of South Africa.

In November 1982, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism issued a report, entitled Soviet, East German and Cuban Involvement in Fomenting Terrorism in Southern Africa. Among those who testified before the Subcommittee was Bartholomew Hlapane, a former member of the Central Committee of the SACP and of the National Executive Committee of the ANC. Hlapane, it should be noted, paid with his life for daring to tell the truth about the African National Congress. Shortly after giving his testimony before the Subcommittee, he was gunned down by an ANC assassin armed with a Soviet AK-47 assault rifle.

Hlapane testified: “No major decision could be taken by the ANC without the concurrence and approval of the Central Committee of the SACP. Most major developments were in fact initiated by the Central Committee.” He added: “The military wing of the ANC, also known as Umkhonto we Sizwe, was the brainchild of the SACP, and, after the decision to create it had been taken, Joe Slovo and J. B. Marks were sent by the Central Committee of the SACP to Moscow to organize arms and ammunition and to raise funds for Umkhonto we Sizwe.” Joe Slovo, a White South African and a Colonel in the Soviet KGB, is a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC and of the Central Committee of the SACP.

“South Africa: The Questions That Need to Be Asked” – Part 3dated March 2, 1987, at https://thenewamerican.com/south-africa-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked/

The acting head of the ANC is Oliver Tambo, who has repeatedly promised death and violence for South Africa. Although there is no firm evidence that Tambo is an official member of the SACP, he serves, along with two other top ANC leaders, Alfred Nzo and Yusuf Dadoo, on the Presidential Committee of the World Peace Council, a well-known Soviet front organization. Tambo has also attended official meetings of various Communist Parties around the world, and has even addressed some of those meetings to praise the goals of the world Communist movement.

Thus, by Tambo’s own admission there is a definite link between the Communists and his own ANC. On January 23, 1987, to quell concerns about the weapons that the ANC receives from the Soviet Union, Tambo stated: “Because we are getting arms from them for free does not mean we are mortgaging ourselves.” If the ANC really is not mortgaging itself to the Soviets, it can only be because it has already done so.

Of course, the symbolic leader and “martyr” of the ANC is Nelson Mandela, who has been serving a life sentence in prison since 1964 for plotting the violent overthrow of the South African Government. When brought to trial in 1964, Mandela confessed to writing books “on guerrilla warfare and military training” and admitted that he “planned violence.” Placed in evidence at the trial were documents in his own handwriting bearing such titles as Dialectical Materialism and How To Be A Good Communist.

In one document, Mandela wrote: “As in Cuba, the general uprising must be sparked off by organized and well-prepared guerrilla operations….” In another, he wrote: “We Communist Party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history….” And in still another: “The people of South Africa, led by the South African Communist Party, will destroy capitalist society and build in its place socialism….”

For the past few years, the South African Government has offered to release Nelson Mandela if only he would pledge to refrain from violence. Mandela has thus far refused to take that pledge. While he stays in prison, by his own choice, his wife Winnie serves as his mouthpiece and carries on with his revolutionary work.

The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, which investigated both the ANC and SWAPO (a terrorist group attacking South West Africa/Namibia), stated in its November 1982 report:

The evidence received by the Subcommittee is deeply disturbing. It suggests strongly that the original purposes of the ANC and SWAPO have been subverted, and that the Soviets and their allies have achieved alarmingly effective control over them. The demonstrated activities of these organizations, moreover, cannot easily be reconciled with the goal of liberation or the promotion of freedom. The evidence has thus served to illustrate once again the Soviet Union’s support for terrorism under the guise of aiding struggles for national liberation. It is past time to bring these facts to the attention of our policymakers, the American people, and the world at large.

The report also concluded:

The findings of the Subcommittee appear particularly relevant at a time when SWAPO and the ANC are being touted as the sole legitimate political forces and representatives of the people of Namibia and South Africa, respectively. Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and Iran are glaring and tragic reminders of our failure to fully comprehend and appreciate the motives, ideologies and interrelationships of those who sought political power under the guise of national liberation. These situations also serve as graphic examples of the terrible price which others have paid for our previous mistakes.

The United Democratic Front (UDF) was launched in August 1983 during an emotion-filled multi-racial rally at Cape Town. Although the UDF claims to be a nonviolent alternative to the violent ANC and to represent some 700 anti-apartheid groups, it is clearly an internal front for the banned ANC. The UDF was in fact launched amidst chants of “Tambo! Tambo!” The delegates at the founding meeting elected three well-known ANC supporters — Archie Gumede, Oscar Mpetha, and Albertina Sisulu — as UDF presidents. Among the 14 people elected as UDF Patrons were Nelson Mandela, Dennis Goldberg, Goven Mbeki and Walter Sisulu, all of whom are serving life sentences in prison for their terrorist activities.

“South Africa: The Questions That Need to Be Asked” – Part 4dated March 2, 1987, at https://thenewamerican.com/south-africa-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked/

Thabo Mbeki, head of the ANC’s Department of Information and Publicity, commented on the formation of the UDF: “The formation of the UDF is a very significant development…. This raises our struggle to a higher level.” Writing in the Council on Foreign Relations journal Foreign Affairs, Dr. Thomas G. Karis, a supporter of the ANC and clearly no friend of South Africa, hailed the launching of the UDF as “the best organized display of support for the ANC in almost a quarter of a century.”

The current leader of the UDF is Dr. Allan Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Dr. Boesak spearheaded the UDF’s first major drive by sponsoring the “One Million Signatures” campaign, ostensibly to gain support for the UDF, but in reality to gain recruits for the ANC. The campaign was exposed by the prestigious South African journal, The Aida Parker Newsletter, which termed it “One Million Signatures for Communism.” Regarding his own views, Dr. Boesak has stated: “I do not expect we will have the sort of classic Marxist textbook revolution people talk about. What we will have … is something of a Lebanon situation.”

Rounding out the anti-apartheid forces is the outspoken Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, who has publicly expressed his fondness for socialism. In 1979, for instance, Tutu declared: “I am a socialist — I detest capitalism. Capitalism is exploitive and I cannot stand that.” In February 1984, he claimed that “we will not have security and peace until we have justice, and we will not have that without the participation of the premier black liberation group, the ANC.” In November of that year, he predicted that, “if the Russians were to come to South Africa today, then most blacks who reject Communism as atheistic and materialistic would welcome them as saviors. Anything would be better than apartheid.” And in July 1986, in response to a speech by President Reagan on South Africa, the clergyman and Nobel Peace Prize recipient stated: “I am quite angry. I think the West, for my part, can go to hell.”

The Freedom Charter promised a utopia for South Africa: “The People Shall Share the Country’s Wealth!” “There Shall Be Work and Security!” “There Shall Be Houses, Security and Comfort!” “There Shall Be Peace and Friendship!” The method of bringing this worker’s paradise to South Africa was spelled out in detail. “The national wealth of our country, the heritage of all South Africans, shall be restored to the people,” by confiscation. “The mineral wealth beneath the soil, the banks and monopoly industries shall be transferred to the ownership of the people as a whole,” as Karl Marx advocated. “All other industry and trade shall be controlled to assist the well-being of the people,” as the basic tenets of scientific socialism dictate.

This Freedom Charter sounds as if it had been written by Communists because it was written by Communists. In testimony before the U.S. Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, former ANC and SACP executive member Bartholomew Hlapane said: “It is a document I came to know about, just having been drafted by Joe Slovo at the request of the Central Committee and finally approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party.”

The revolutionary forces of “national liberation” within South Africa are trying to “liberate” the non-White peoples by waging a systematic campaign of terrorism in the Black townships and by murdering the very peoples they claim to be liberating. Dominating the scene in that country are assassinations and intimidation of Black policemen and democratically-elected local Black officials, firebombings of Black-owned businesses, boycotts and strikes enforced by coercion, calls for nonpayment of rent, and the establishment of revolutionary Marxist “People’s Committees” and “People’s Courts.” The struggle is not Black versus White, but Black and White versus Red.

Black-on-Black civil war has gripped virtually every Black community in South Africa. At Crossroads, near Cape Town, decent Blacks have organized “vigilante” groups to defend themselves from crazed ANC-UDF mobs, and thousands of homes have been burned in pitched battles, leaving some 200,000 Blacks homeless. In Durban, Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi’s Inkatha members are openly battling the ANC-UDF Marxist “comrades.” And in Soweto, one resident recently told a Newsweek reporter that “Soweto is in a state of civil war. It’s no longer news to wake up in the morning and see bodies in the streets and the front yards.” It was in response to the breakdown of law and order, in fact, that the South African government imposed a state of national emergency.

“South Africa: The Questions That Need to Be Asked” – Part 5dated March 2, 1987, at https://thenewamerican.com/south-africa-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked/

Especially significant is the growing number of public executions of decent, moderate Blacks with the technique of “necklacing.” This technique calls for ANC-UDF radicals to place a rubber tire around a shackled victim’s neck. The tire is then filled with gasoline and set on fire. As the victim is engulfed in flames, the radicals gather around to taunt him with a callousness that defies human understanding.

Necklacing is a savage form of torture and murder. Yet, Winnie Mandela has boldly proclaimed: “With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.”

Despite the conservative image surrounding “Constructive Engagement,” [Dr. Chester] Crocker [CFR] is on record as endorsing the ANC radicals, saying that they qualified “in a generic sense” as a group of freedom fighters. Even President Reagan has taken a stand on South Africa that has won the approval of Andrew Young. In an open letter to Bishop Desmond Tutu in mid-1986, Andrew Young stated: “For Ronald Reagan to recognize the need to un-ban Black political leadership and release Nelson Mandela is an important commitment.”

The recent radical shift in U.S. foreign policy toward South Africa was signaled by the appearance of a 1984 article in Foreign Affairs by Dr. Thomas G. Karis. Karis praised the ANC and the UDF and concluded by declaring that the U.S. Government would like to see a South African Government led “by individuals like Frederick van Zyl Slabbert, the late Steve Biko, Desmond Tutu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela.”

The logical extension of this attitude was the passage of tough sanctions against South Africa by Congress in the fall of 1986. The proper phrase to describe the sanctions bill was ironically provided by Crocker himself, who told the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs on September 26, 1984:

We fail to see how waging economic warfare against the Government of South Africa can advance our goals or serve the interests of either the American people or the citizens of all races in South Africa…. There is an Orwellian perversity in proposing such measures in the name of liberal and humanitarian goals.

In his remarks on the Senate floor in opposition to the sanctions bill, Senator Jesse Helms noted that the measure “is not about segregation. It is not about the sharing of power, it is about the transfer of power … to a small minority elite. That elite is the Communist Party of South Africa.” Helms continued:

The intent of the new legislation is to recognize the Communist movement of South Africa as the legitimate and preferred successor to the present government of South Africa. The bill itself gives preference in almost every respect only to those opponents of the government and those groups that are deeply committed to the Communist Party of South Africa, an organization funded and controlled by the Soviet Union. The non-Communist leaders of the Blacks and non-Whites are treated as though they do not exist.

The Senator from North Carolina asked: “Why is it that the only persons mentioned by name in the bill are Communists? Why is it that the only parties referenced are precisely those parties which are under the total control and support of the international Communist movement?” Helms summarized the matter by stating frankly that the measure “is a bill for Communist rule” in the Republic of South Africa.

South Africa is a close friend and time-tested ally of the United States and, because of her geographic position and valuable mineral deposits, is strategically important to the survival of the Free World. South Africa has by far the best human rights record on the African continent. It is undergoing a genuine reform process, a process that has rendered that country more vulnerable to internal and external attack.

The Republic of South Africa is under attack by subversive forces that are clearly under the total control of Moscow. Those revolutionary forces are torturing and murdering the very peoples they claim to be liberating. Most important of all is the incontrovertible fact that our government is supporting those revolutionary forces. [Keep in mind that ANC members often fled to London]

“Polio vaccines and the origin of AIDS”- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7935079/

Although mass vaccination programs have resulted in the eradication of a number of human infectious diseases, vaccine contamination has been a persistent concern. In particular, it is now known that the early polio vaccines were contaminated with at least one monkey virus, SV40. The transfer of monkey viruses to man via contaminated vaccines is particularly relevant to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), since the causative agent of AIDS, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is thought to be derived from a simian precursor virus. Furthermore, human infection with this virus appears to be a relatively recent event. We hypothesize that the AIDS pandemic may have originated with a contaminated polio vaccine that was administered to inhabitants of Equatorial Africa from 1957 to 1959. The mechanism of evolution of HIV from this vaccine remains to be determined.

“‘Zondo met Zuma secretly’: Julius Malema vows to expose Deputy Chief Justice”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/zondo-met-zuma-secretly-julius-malema/

Have Zondo and Zuma been meeting behind closed doors? Julius Malema alleges that the esteemed judge has held 'secret discussions' with Msholozi.

Julius Malema hasn’t just put the cat amongst the pigeons – he’s dropped a lion in a birdcage, here. The EFF leader was in bullish mood after his assault trial was pushed back to July. However, despite being in the dock himself this week, Juju was keen to focus the spotlight back on DCJ Raymond Zondo and his dealings with ex-President Jacob Zuma.

Malema emerged from the Randburg Magistrate’s Court with a bone to pick. His court case was postponed, following two days where not a great deal was established. Tuesday’s proceedings were dogged by contradictory claims, before a four-month hiatus was declared by the judge on Wednesday. The 40-year-old was keen to shift attention elsewhere.

Referring to his infamous tea date with Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema explained that he wasn’t particularly friendly with uBaba. Instead, he claims the ‘high noon at Nkandla’ was a fact-finding mission – and he learned something about Zondo.

According to Malema, the head of the State Capture Inquiry held discussions with the former head of state about ‘matters of national interest’. The EFF leader was puzzled by this allegation, before saying ‘he would not disclose’ other bombshells with the media. Whatever substance lies behind this new campaign against Mr. Zondo, Juju won’t let this one go quietly.

“Listen, I don’t have a relationship with Jacob Zuma. I only met him to discuss matters of national interest. Zondo, a judge, has gone to the house of politicians to meet them, one-on-one. No judge should be doing that. Even in his own admission, the DCJ says he went to talk with the former president.”

“These matters must be discussed publicly, not exclusively. Why can’t Zondo tell us what was discussed? Nobody controls my diary. Not even my wife. I meet who I want to meet, if it is in the best interests of our country – then I will do it.”

“State Capture Commission: Brian Molefe’s R15 billion ‘blunder’”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/state-capture-commission-brian-molefes-r15-billion-blunder/

Former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe has admitted to the State Capture Commission that he irregularly increased the purchase price of 1 064 locomotives R38.6 billion to R54.5 billion.

Molefe continued giving testimony in relation to his suspicious business dealings during his tenure at Transnet between 2011 and 2015.

He revealed that while the Transnet board had agreed to the R38.6 billion, it was his then Group CFO Anoj Singh and former executive Siyabonga Gama who recommended that they hike the price of the locomotives to R54.5 billion.

Brian Molefe however revealed to the proceedings’ chairperson, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that all this was done without the necessary approval from Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown at the time. He also took responsibility for the blunder.

“Ultimately I am the CEO, chairperson, so I should take responsibility. However, none of these things were happening because it was a deliberate and intentional outcome that batch pricing was done and we did not have ministerial approval,” Molefe said.

“There was a failure in our systems, these things should have been pointed out during the assurance process. In a procurement like this, there are gates. There was supposed to be a gate not opened if the batch pricing was not correct.”

Trying to explain the exorbitant increases, Molefe told the commission that there was a number of reasons. He added that the bidders were willing to receive an amount of R49 billion.

“It was not an increase. It was a negotiated price with the bidders. It was a wrong use of terminology. It was unfortunate,” he said.

Molefe said that due to unforeseen circumstances, they had to add 10% of the contingency funds, which lead to the increase of R54.5 billion.

The State Capture Commission’s evidence leader advocate Anton Myburgh then asked Molefe who he thought should bear the responsibility for the “error”.

“I will carry the can. However, I submit it was not done intentionally and out of malice,” he responded.

“Matjhabeng’s 139 ‘Eskom farms’ worth R5 billion raises more questions than answers- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/matjhabengs-139-eskom-farms-worth-r5-billion-raises-more-questions-than-answers/

Last year’s decision by the Matjhabeng Local Municipality (Allanridge, Hennenman, Odendaalsrus, Ventersburg, Virginia, Welkom) to put up its 139 farms as collateral for its outstanding debt to Eskom raises more questions than answers.

The Mayor of Matjhabeng, Nkosenjani Speelman, was unable to provide any answers to the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) on Tuesday evening 9 March 2021, about what is currently being done with the farms.

The farms were offered as collateral after Eskom seized Matjhabeng’s bank account. The value of the farms is estimated at approximately R5 billion.

Speelman was evasive when it came to the farms and was unable to indicate whether the farms are being used to benefit the people of the area.

The Director-General of the Free State Department of COGTA, Mokete Duma, indicated that the farms were offered as collateral for debt that only amounts to R371 million. The Municipality owes Eskom more than R3 billion and a dispute about the matter is currently before the court.

It does not make sense for the Municipality to put up assets valued at R5 billion for debt of just R371 million.

Even the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, Thoko Didiza, was surprised about the Matjhabeng farms when the FF Plus enquired about it during question time in the National Council of Provinces on Tuesday.

The Municipality is effectively the biggest landowner in the district. The FF Plus is of the opinion that these farms should rather be sold so that the Municipality can pay off its debt.

The FF Plus demanded in parliamentary questions to Didiza and the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, that clarity must be provided on the current state of affairs.

“Gauteng Broadband Network project: AG finds R354 million irregular expenditure”- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/gauteng/gauteng-broadband-network-project-ag-finds-r354-million-irregular-expenditure/

The alarm bells are ringing with regard to the Gauteng Legislature e-government Department after the Auditor-General (AG) found R354 million in irregular expenditure relating to the Gauteng Broadband Network project (GBN-project), e-mail services and security.

It is ironic that these irregular expenses were incurred while the software used by the e-government Department is substandard, free software that may cause operational problems.

It was also found that the website’s user data cannot be recovered and, thus, it does not comply with audit requirements. It is clear that the Department is not functioning or being managed properly.

The abnormally high percentage of senior and management positions that are vacant and are, thus, filled by acting staff members for long periods of time undoubtedly plays a significant part in the qualified audit findings by the AG.

In addition, the ‘Email as a Service’ contract was irregularly extended due to the current management’s poor planning.

According to feedback provided by the Department, various investigations have been conducted, but the FF Plus maintains that if the senior positions had been filled by competent staff members, the AG’s findings would not have been necessary and misappropriation would not have occurred.

The FF Plus is also of the opinion that if the e-government Department does not take decisive action to ensure the effective functioning of the GBN-project and related services soon, these services will all collapse.

The ongoing problems with the system have a detrimental impact on the less fortunate and communities that have no internet access.

Libraries and other state institutions offer these internet services to the public. Students, learners and their parents are particularly dependent on this facility and are most affected when the services do not function properly.

Communities may not be denied the opportunity to receive vital correspondence, which could render them unable to complete school projects or prepare for exams.

The FF Plus is aware of the plan of action that the Department implemented to save it from going under and will closely monitor the situation to ensure that the proposed turnaround strategy is followed to a tee so as to prevent any further squandering of tax money.

“SA’s top 10 violent political slogans”dated 21 October 2013 at https://www.economicfreedomfighters.org/sas-top-10-violent-political-slogans/. Below are a few excerpts.

THE launch of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) last weekend saw its more formal message of radical socialism somewhat undermined by a banner which read: “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”

Good on them for qualifying “hate” in this way. The last thing anyone wants is a “cold killing machine” motivated by “partial hate”.

1. “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.”

RESPONSIBLE: EFF

BACKGROUND: The content of what appears to be an official banner from the EFF launch on October 13.

1. “There will be blood in the courtroom if they reinstate the charges.”

RESPONSIBLE: The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)

BACKGROUND: Said on February 20 2007, by Cosatu’s KwaZulu-Natal regional branch in response to the possibility the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) might reinstitute charges of fraud and corruption against the then-ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma.

1. Free State University vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen should be “shot and killed” because “he is a racist”.

RESPONSIBLE: The ANC Youth League

BACKGROUND: Said by Free State youth league chairperson Thebe Meeko in October 2009.

1. “…because Jacob Zuma is one of us, and he is one of our leaders, for him, we are prepared to lay our lives and to shoot and kill.”

RESPONSIBLE: Cosatu

BACKGROUND: Speaking on June 16 2008, newly appointed ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has said: “We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma”. Not to be outdone, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi would follow suit, at the funeral of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union’s vice president and ANC veteran Pretty Shuping on June 21.

1. ANC stalwart and former Education Minister Kader Asmal must “go to the nearest cemetery and die”.

RESPONSIBLE: The uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MVA)

BACKGROUND: Said in October 2009 in response to various public criticisms made by Asmal about Zuma’s administration.

1. “Kill the boer, kill the farmer.”

RESPONSIBLE: Numerous

BACKGROUND: Reminiscent of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army chant, “One settler, one bullet”, perhaps modern South Africa’s most infamous violent slogan, said by many since 1994.

1. “You must kill the bastards.”

RESPONSIBLE: South African Police Service

BACKGROUND: Directed to the police service and said by then deputy minister of safety and security Susan Shabangu, in April 2008 responding to questions by residents in Pretoria West, who were complaining about poor police performance.

1. “DA mischievous to visit Nkandla they will die KZN akudlawa pha and they must die like cockroaches!!!”

RESPONSIBLE: South African Student Congress Organisation (Sasco)

BACKGROUND: Said in November 2012, by former Sasco Nelson Mandela Metro University leader Sitha Gqoma, on Twitter. During the Rwandan genocide, Tutsis were referred to as “cockroaches”.

1. “… as Sasco we support and sing with our president Malema when he sings ‘kill the boer, kill the racist’.”

RESPONSIBLE: Sasco

BACKGROUND: A November 2012 poster put up at the Cape Town and Bellville campuses of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Elsewhere it read: “We as Sasco lament with all words possible the racism coupled with white tendencies in the faculty of engineering, and we further say that those white pigs must leave.”

1. “Awuleth’ Umshini Wami.”

RESPONSIBLE: President Jacob Zuma

BACKGROUND: In English it means “bring me my machine gun” and is the title of the cry that has been Zuma’s rallying song at nearly every party political gathering he has attended. Once Zuma was even joined in its singing by a gospel choir after a church service in his honour. When the song was used by those people who brutalised foreigners during South Africa’s recent spate of xenophobic attacks in May 2008, Zuma said: “Umshini wami belongs to the ANC. Who are these people abusing this song while they are doing wrong things.” Witnesses, however, were reported as saying: “When (Zuma) was campaigning to become president of the ANC, he said he would get rid of all the foreigners.”

Analysis of Malema’s statement after his court appearance concerning common assault charges- https://youtu.be/59A8jYj0n9g

Julius is pushing his agenda. Let’s analyze a few of his statements;

2:16 – “Your love for white people… will make you realize that we are actually in a more dangerous situation there was a life threatening incident in Senekal where live ammunition were shot at innocent women who were sitting inside the court buildings.” To learn more about the events at Senekal, view this video https://youtu.be/g0ByCuSFM2Y.

3:02 – “The ANC is led by a man [Cyril Ramaphosa] who killed innocent souls in Marikana. They have no respect for black life and they kill black people with ease.” You can get more info concerning Marikana at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/

3:36 – “I will never march with an ANC person.” Yet Julius was an ANC Youth League leader.

4:15 – “We should by now be having the people’s police.” Examples of community justice; “Mob Justice in South Africa-Community hands out justice to youngsters accused of drug abuse & theft” - https://youtu.be/hZmtiuDgVMw; “Rustenburg Herald Mob Justice” - https://youtu.be/qi2eOeOqTPY; The worst case “Totally horrifying – Children burnt alive in South Africa (Extremely NSFW)” at http://knowledgeglue.com/totally-horrifying-children-burnt-alive-south-africa-extremely-nsfw/

4:44 – “There is nothing to salute with this police who kill innocent children who shoot at innocent children. Children who are thirsty and hungry for education.” He seems to be unaware that a 35 year old bystander was apparently killed by a rubber bullet discharged by a policeman.

5:06 – “They [police] must first fall in love with the people of South Africa.” Yet the EFF had a slogan, “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” https://www.economicfreedomfighters.org/sas-top-10-violent-political-slogans/

5:31 – “They think black people can only be controlled with pain and blood because that’s what Apartheid did when it viewed black people.” Nope, it was the ANC and one can look as far back as Shaka Zulu.

9:43 – “The hypocrisy of this country will never get to me.” Probably because Julius is already a hypocrite. Let’s look at the following examples;

Article dated June 17, 2008 at https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/we-will-kill-for-zuma-404646 states; “"We are prepared to die for Zuma," Malema told a Free State rally. "We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma," Malema added at the end of his speech, while the crowd clapped hands and laughed.”

Article dated April 24, 2016, at https://newslexpoint.com/julius-malema-threatens-zuma-government/; “He [Julius Malema] says that he is willing to take up arms against Zuma’s government and “remove the parliament through the barrel of a gun” if they push them to do so.”

Article dated May 1, 2016, at https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/the-army-will-turn-against-zuma–julius-malema states; “"I am whispering to you, Zuma, wherever you are, those soldiers are going to turn their guns against you," Malema told supporters during a near two-hour speech in which he spoke without pause or a sip of water until his voice started to break.

"Leave office before the soldiers turn against you. The army is EFF."

The EFF was "not afraid" of Zuma, he said.”

Now Malema and Zuma are having tea.

Finally the last comment;

11:16 – “History will absolve us.” If Malema writes it.

Originally Midnight Riders #308 >>69398

Covid-19: Several European countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations over blood clot fears

Seven European countries – Denmark, Norway, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg – have suspended all or part of their AstraZeneca vaccine roll-out as a precaution while they investigate concerns relating to blood clots.

Danish health authorities on Thursday suspended all AstraZeneca vaccinations for two weeks after a 60-year old woman who had been vaccinated formed a blood clot and died.

The move "follows reports of serious cases of blood clots among people vaccinated with AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine", the Danish Health Authority said in a statement.

But it cautiously added that "it has not been determined, at the time being, that there is a link between the vaccine and the blood clots".

Norway soon followed suit, supending all AstraZeneca vaccinations.

Austria earlier announced it had suspended the use of a batch of AstraZeneca vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of "severe blood coagulation problems" days after receiving an anti-Covid shot.

Four other European countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg – have also suspended the use of vaccines from this batch, which was sent to 17 European countries and consisted of one million jabs.

Spain said Thursday that it has not registered any cases of blood clots related to AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine so far and will continue administering the shots.

Spanish Health Minister Carolina Darias said she had been informed of cases of blood clots among recently vaccinated people in Austria, but added that "so far, no causal relation between the vaccine and the blood clot events has been established", and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) was evaluating the situation.

http://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210311-covid-19-denmark-pauses-use-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-over-blood-clot-fears

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“"Prepare Yourself for What is Coming" | They Can't Hide This Anymore” - https://youtu.be/RIvAFSHlUVA

“VLOG 85: #WitsProtest - Toxic political culture feeds ongoing state violence against us!”- https://youtu.be/Yz60PYhsNx8. Well said!

The death of Mthokozisi Ntumba at the alleged hands of police during a protest by Wits students, again brings into focus the violence by the state against citizens.

The predictable attempts by some on social media and in the mainstream media to dribble you by racialising this issue, is a distraction.

The real issue is the lack of political accountability and the toxic political culture that has corrupted & perverted key government institutions.

The South African Police Services resemble the very politicians you vote-in to run these institutions.

The people howling about this being about “race”, are some of the same people who will without irony vote in the same politicians and system brutalising citizens.

It’s time to call it out!

“Discussion | Foreign shopkeepers says police are not protecting them”- https://youtu.be/8SaivqTdbeE

“Shopkeepers in Durban say police are not protecting them, this after foreign shops have been targeted in recent days.”

“Zondo hears how Zuma used State Security Agency to deal with perceived enemies, including Ramaphosa”- https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2021-01-25-zondo-hears-how-zuma-used-state-security-agency-to-deal-with-perceived-enemies-including-ramaphosa/.

Former president Jacob Zuma allegedly used the State Security Agency's (SSA's) special operations unit to deal with his perceived enemies in the political arena, civil society and student movements.

Among those the SSA moved to frustrate was then deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, in his quest to replace Zuma as ANC president.

According to Sydney Mufamadi, the chairperson of the high-level panel into the SSA, the agency, among other things, tried to impede the distribution of CR17 T-shirts to the 2016 ANC January 8 anniversary rally held in the North West.

CR17 is the campaign that catapulted Ramaphosa to the ANC top position in December 2017 at the party's elective conference at Nasrec.

According to Mufamadi, the panel heard evidence how the SSA had also moved to impede the transportation of ANC supporters from Gauteng to the same 2016 January 8 birthday bash.

At the time, there were growing calls in the country for Zuma to vacate the Union Buildings amid multiple scandals, with Gauteng ANC structures viewed to be leading the charge.

Mufamadi also testified that a month after the SSA's manoeuvres against CR17, the focus shifted to the state of the nation address that February. The mission this time was to neutralise and penetrate the “Zuma Must Fall” movement.

Apparently, according to the SSA, there was intelligence that the movement had planned to stage a protest outside parliament, with the hopes of pulling a crowd of 5,000 people.

But after the agency infiltrated them, only 50 people turned out.

Other leading NGOs and pressure groups viewed as anti-Zuma in the country — such as the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) — were also infiltrated, the Zondo commission heard on Monday.

Popular student movement Fees Must Fall was also not spared infiltration by SSA rogue spooks. There was a special operations project for this mission, named “Project Academia”.

“We were told that the project was designed to intervene in the Fees Must Fall movement and influence the direction of the student movement,” said Mufamadi.

“The idea was to support what was called 'young bright minds' to be patriotic and to be strategically deployed to ensure stability and peace in our universities.”

“The ANC: A House Divided | Carte Blanche | M-Net”- https://youtu.be/KVDfWuf-zPQ

“From liberation movement to governing political party, the ANC came into a post-apartheid constitutional dispensation with a deeply entrenched culture of benefaction that looked after cadres. Carte Blanche examines how changing power structures and deep inequalities and exclusion from economic clout have fed the politics of patronage and power now straining the party’s unity. With a weak economy barely standing up to the onslaught of COVID-19 restrictions, defiance of the rule of law and corruption allegations are threatening to bring down the ANC’s house divided. The battle for party leadership is fought from the inside and at the very top. But at what cost to voters and the country?”

“Action, not cheap talking, is needed to eradicate corruption”- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/action-not-cheap-talking-is-needed-to-eradicate-corruption/

Despite slogans like “a good story to tell” and “a government that cares”, the ANC government has allowed looting, corruption and self-enrichment, which caused the country to deteriorate at the expense of millions of poverty-stricken South Africans.

According to Transparency International, corruption contributes to inequality and has a negative impact on the distribution of wealth. Corruption also negatively impacts economic growth, investment and taxation.

Corruption and the consequent poor service delivery are literally draining the life out of people while a select few benefit. Not too long ago, a young teacher died in an accident caused by a pothole.

Taxpayers do not get value for their money. On local government level, residents pay municipal rates and taxes, but there is no garbage disposal, no reliable water and power supply and sewage flows down the streets.

While basic service delivery is lacking and infrastructure is falling apart, businesses cannot sustainably create jobs and contribute to growing the economy. State revenue is shrinking and the poor are the ones hardest hit.

Those involved in corruption are undermining the rule of law, like municipal managers who disregard court orders and sabotage investigations. Former President Jacob Zuma even defied a ruling by the Constitutional Court.

There is nothing in South Africa that the ANC touched that is not in need of a turnaround strategy. Much more than cheap talking is needed to put an end to corruption. Action is needed.

Section 217 of the Constitution stipulates that when an organ of state awards contracts for goods or services, it must do so in accordance with a system which is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost-effective. But now it has become a fertile breeding ground for corruption.

Do away with legislation and regulations that make it possible for a culture of tenderpreneurs to flourish and ANC policy, like Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), that creates a favourable environment for corruption.

Take action against offenders. Not only against officials, but also against the politicians who stand idly by and look on as looting takes place, like with the Vrede Dairy Project.

Speed up the implementation of the Draft Public Procurement Bill and include a clause that requires all tenders and contracts of all three levels of government as well as of public enterprises to be disclosed to the public.

Implement a process, like the one in Australia, which allows for infrastructure projects to be developed in terms of legislation that is tabled in the relevant Legislature and is enacted quickly.

The ANC is running South Africa like a pyramid scheme and as a result, people will start taking initiative and following their own lead.

“BAD TO WORSE: SAPS have no powder, evidence bags or cars…”- https://youtu.be/1PB5Z84BCaI

“South Africa: A Rear Base for Jihadis” – Part 1dated 11 April 2018 at https://eeradicalization.com/south-africa-a-rear-base-for-jihadis/. Below are a few excerpts but it is worth reading in full.

According to recent reports, both Islamic State (IS) and Boko Haram have established training camps in South Africa.

There is history here. South Africa has a long tradition of jihadi groups and terrorist organizations operating training camps within its borders. Since the 1990s, Hamas, al-Qaeda and multiple Pakistani terrorist groups had more than a mere presence in South Africa – they were indoctrinating, recruiting and training South African Muslims. South Africa was also used as a rear base for laying low, preparing, and logistics.

Over the years the South African government has been aware of extremist activities within its borders. It observed them but did not respond. It is probably for just this reason that South Africa became popular with jihadi organizations and extremist groups.

As far back as 2004, for example, CBS News reported that South Africa was a logistical and financial hub for jihadi groups and that the CIA had concluded in a report that the country was being used as a rear base for al-Qaeda. At least one tier two or tier three al-Qaeda leader was in the country at that time, according to the report.

The South Africans Feroze Abu Bakar Ganchi and Zoubair Ismael make for an interesting case study. They were arrested in Gujrat, Pakistan after a 12-hour shootout on July 24, 2004. The two had traveled from Johannesburg to Lahore earlier that month and were planning to go to an al-Qaeda trainings camp in Shakai. They were arrested alongside Ahmad Khalfan Ghailani, a most wanted al-Qaeda operative who was involved in the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

In October 2004, Pakistan extradited the pair to South Africa. After two days of interrogation they were released and South African authorities declared that there was no threat of attacks in South Africa.

In January 2005 Ganchi and Zoubair were spotted in Indonesia and they were arrested again in March 2005 when they tried to cross the border with East Timo. This time the pair were accompanied by Muhsin al-Fadhli, who would go on to become one of the leaders of the Khorassan unit of al-Qaeda in Syria, where he was killed in 2015.

Another interesting case is Ibrahim Tantoush, a Libyan terrorist facilitator with links to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and al-Qaeda. In 2003 Tantoush arrived in South Africa using fraudulent South African identification documents issued under the false name of Abdel Ilah Sabri. While in South Africa Tantoush asked for asylum, which was granted in 2007 even though Tantoush had been named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) by the Unites States in 2004.

Hamas was an early player. It had already set up training facilities in the late 1990s. In July 1997 the first Hamas military training camp started operations in Mpumanlanga in Natal.

The backdrop and developments at that time can be seen in a leaked South African intelligence document from 1998. It notes “… International Islamic Militants who prefer to keep South Africa a rear base for military training, convalescence, fund raising, media and proselytizing. They have an understanding with the ruling ANC-SACP.”

In addition, in 1997 “there were talks that Hamas fighters could hide away in South Africa when it becomes to ‘hot’ for them abroad and vice versa for South African Mujahideen.”

The Hamas clandestine infrastructure abroad is aimed at training a hardcore group of activists for religious and nationalist activities, according to the South African intelligence document: “This infrastructure operates under cover of overt activity, including propaganda and education. Clandestine activists are also involved in overt activities.”

“South Africa: A Rear Base for Jihadis” – Part 2dated 11 April 2018 at https://eeradicalization.com/south-africa-a-rear-base-for-jihadis/

Another active player in South Africa is Iran. Another leaked South African Intelligence document, titled Iranian Intelligence Service (MOIS) Operational Target Analyses and written in 2010 by the National Intelligence Agency, reported that the Iranian intelligence service was involved in training South African citizens inside South Africa. According to the report, regular training sessions were held in the Zakariyya Park Madrassa in Johannesburg to prepare South African and foreign students for a possible jihad against “USA aggression in the Middle East”.

Several Pakistani citizens attended training sessions at another training facility on a farm near Port Elizabeth. A third facility in Kwazulu Natal was a special training camp focused on Muslim students. The facility was led by a South African Muslim with jihadi credentials and with links to the Taliban.

In 1992 a group of Arab Afghan fighters set up an organization called al-Khalifah in Peshawar, Pakistan. One of those involved was Abu Walid al-Masri, a kunya for Egyptian journalist and jihadi ideologue Mustafa Hamid. After the group was set up, the men left Peshawar and headed to the mountains of the Tribal Areas around the city. There they assigned “rulers for many Islamic countries”. The group became known as Jama’at al-Muslimin (JaM).

This group decided that it would be important to set up a rear base for jihadis in South Africa, as it was easy to travel from Pakistan to South Africa and from there onwards to Europe, especially the United Kingdom.

Using the kunya Abu Muntasir, Damra came to South Africa in 2000 after he was released from prison in Jordan in 1999. In South Africa he married a local woman and was contacted by Abu Hammam, the emir of the JaM. Abu Hammam asked Damra to join him in the United Kingdom, but first Damra was asked to go to South Africa and try to recruit new members for the JaM there. He worked together with another Jordanian, Ibrahim al-Rawashedeh aka Abu Suhayb, and Shahid Hazem.

Damra also set up a study center for Quranic teaching and Arab language courses near Cape Town in order to spread the ideology of the JaM. Although a group of men started working in the center, it never became fully operational as Damra got into trouble with his South-African in-laws, who accused him of dealing in drugs. Damra also had trouble with new restrictions that came into place after 9/11.

The Tunisian Ihsan Garnaoui was living in Germany when he decided to leave for Afghanistan/Pakistan in April 2001. He arrived in an al-Qaeda training camp in July 2001 and undertook basic training, followed by an explosives training course and an advanced weapons course. He then served as a trainer in Afghanistan until he received orders after 9/11 to return to Germany to prepare and carry out bombing attacks. His aim was to build an independent cell in Germany and carry out bomb attacks on U.S. and Jewish targets.

South Africa was a key staging post in this plan. With two forged South African passports in the names of Abram Mermud Shoman and Mallick Shoman, Garnaoui first travelled from Pakistan to South Africa.

Garnaoui stayed in South Africa and Lesotho from November 23, 2002 to January 18, 2003. He was at least in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Maseru. On January 16, 2003 he applied for a Schengen visa at the Belgian General Consulate in Johannesburg. He had bought a return ticket for Johannesburg-Brussels-Johannesburg.

Garnaoui also used his period in southern Africa to make his first preparations for the planned bomb attacks. He acquainted himself with sophisticated military grade binoculars, with an integrated digital camera, that he had bought in South Africa. In addition, he acquired wiring diagrams and instructions for the construction of detonators for explosives as well as a Motorola T-190 mobile telephone suitable for setting off a detonator.

While in South Africa, he also started to make contacts with acquaintances in Berlin whom he hoped would support him in carrying out the attacks.

“South Africa: A Rear Base for Jihadis” – Part 3dated 11 April 2018 at https://eeradicalization.com/south-africa-a-rear-base-for-jihadis/

For more than two decades terrorist groups have used South Africa as a place to recruit, train and equip and as a logistics hub. With a lax law enforcement regime and rampant corruption, South Africa is ideal for seasoned jihadis and terrorists.

Furthermore, the country’s diversity makes it possible for all kinds of people to blend in easily. The large Indian Muslim community in South Africa has close contacts not only with India but also with Pakistan. It is easy for Pakistanis and Afghans to set up training camps in South Africa and for South African Indian Muslims to travel to Pakistan to visit a training camp.

In fact, during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, one of the main threats was a terrorist attack coming from either the Horn of Africa or from the Afghanistan/Pakistan area. The porous borders and corruption were a reason for extra vigilance. A specific threat was related to a group of persons linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba who were given visas to travel to South Africa during the World Cup. In the same time period two Pakistanis were arrested in Zimbabwe and one was linked to the Mumbai attacks in 2008. They travelled on false Kenyan passports and were stopped at the border.

In sum, organizations like Islamic State and Boko Haram currently operating training camps and running logistics operations in South Africa fits perfectly in the standard picture over the course of decades.

Take note.

https://moguldom.com/136697/halal-economy-south-africa-among-top-5-global-producers-of-halal-products/ dated Jan 04, 2017 states;

South Africa has one of the continent’s smallest Muslim populations — between 1.5 and 3 percent, depending on who you ask — but has become one of the five largest producers of halal products worldwide, Africa Newsroom reported.

“The South African National Halaal Authority has helped other African countries set up halal certification including Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. The total value of the halal industry in 2012 exceeded $2 trillion a year including Islamic finance, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, logistics and fashion, Gulf Business reported.”

Also, don’t forget the Shari’ah compliant banks in South Africa, like https://www.fnb.co.za/islamic-banking/islamic-business-account/goldBusinessAccount.html and https://www.standardbank.co.za/southafrica/personal/products-and-services/bank-with-us/shari%CC%81ah-banking

“South African adherents of the terrorist group are already cropping up among insurgents in northern Mozambique.”dated 23 Jul 2020 at https://issafrica.org/iss-today/how-serious-is-the-islamic-state-threat-to-attack-south-africa. Below are a few excerpts.

[Naledi] Pandor seems to have let the cat out of the bag. A few weeks later, her defence counterpart Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula provided no details to Parliament about what if anything the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was doing or planning to do, in Mozambique. Speculation flourished, with suggestions that SANDF Special Forces and a maritime reaction squadron were already in or en route to the field.

And then last month Islamic State published an editorial on its al-Naba online bulletin in which it warned, in Arabic, that if South Africa intervened militarily in Cabo Delgado this ‘may result in prompting the soldiers of the Islamic State to open a fighting front inside its borders! – by the permission of God Almighty.’

Martin Ewi, ISS Regional Coordinator for Southern Africa in the ENACT organised crime project, agrees that the Islamic State threat should ‘not be taken lightly’ as the terror group has executed similar threats elsewhere. Ewi said Boko Haram warned Cameroon in 2014 not to join Nigeria and other Lake Chad Basin countries in a war against the terror group. When the government failed to heed the warning, several attacks were carried out in Cameroon.

Ewi said Islamic State has sleeper cells in South Africa and has recruited South Africans into its ranks. Some of these extremists fought with the group in Syria, some are involved in Cabo Delgado, and others are lying low in various cities in the country. He advises Pretoria to tighten border control and surveillance, identify vulnerable populations and critical infrastructure, strengthen regional intelligence sharing and reinforce early response mechanisms.

What is worrying is that direct links between Islamic State elements in South Africa and those in Mozambique have already been detected. For example, security sources have revealed that two accomplices of Islamic State suspects in South Africa were identified by South African officials in a photograph which the Cabo Delgado insurgents recently posted. The two are linked to legal cases underway in South Africa.

That being so, it does not seem far-fetched to worry that these or other Mozambique insurgents might cross into or return to South Africa with hostile intent. Pretoria faces a real dilemma. It seems to be damned if it does intervene and damned if it doesn’t, since staying out of Mozambique could see the insurgency there continuing to grow.

[The media wants to highlight how bad hired mercenaries are however they ignore the fact that South Africa is a breeding ground and safe haven for extremists.]

“The Spy Cables: A glimpse into the murky world of espionage” - https://youtu.be/UZbHpzvVGuw

“The Spy Cables: A glimpse into the world of espionage” – including South Africadated 23 Feb 2015 at https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/2/23/the-spy-cables-a-glimpse-into-the-world-of-espionage.k Below are a few excerpts.

A digital leak to Al Jazeera of hundreds of secret intelligence documents from the world’s spy agencies has offered an unprecedented insight into operational dealings of the shadowy and highly politicised realm of global espionage.

Over the coming days, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit is publishing The Spy Cables, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper.

Spanning a period from 2006 until December 2014, they include detailed briefings and internal analyses written by operatives of South Africa’s State Security Agency (SSA). They also reveal the South Africans’ secret correspondence with the US intelligence agency, the CIA, Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Russia’s FSB and Iran’s operatives, as well as dozens of other services from Asia to the Middle East and Africa.

Among the revelations, the Spy Cables disclose how:

• Israel’s Mossad told its allies that Iran was not working to produce nuclear weapons just a month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned it was barely a year from being able to do so;

• The CIA made attempts to contact Hamas directly despite the US government listing the Palestinian group as a “terrorist organisation”;

• Britain’s MI6 sought South African help in an operation to recruit a North Korean official who had previously refused their cash; and

• South African and Ethiopian spies struggled to “neutralise” an assassination plot targeting a leading African diplomat.

Following the 9/11 attacks, South African spies were flooded with requests related to al-Qaeda, despite their own intelligence gathering and analysis telling them that they faced minimal direct threats from such groups, and that the main threat of violence on South African soil came from domestic far-right groups.

The South Africans’ focus on Iran was largely a result of pressure from other nations, and the leaked documents also report in depth on alleged efforts by Iran to defeat international sanctions and even its use of Persian rug stores as front companies for spying activity.

Unlike the Edward Snowden documents that focus on electronic signals intelligence, commonly referred to in intelligence circles as “SIGINT”, the Spy Cables deal with human intelligence, or “HUMINT”.

It has not been easy to decide which Spy Cables to publish, and hundreds will not be revealed.

We believe it is important to achieve greater transparency in the field of intelligence. The events of the last decade have shown that there has been inadequate scrutiny on the activities of agencies around the world. That has allowed some to act outside their own laws and, in some cases international law.

The Spy Cables also reveal that in many cases, intelligence agencies are over-classifying information and hiding behind an unnecessary veil of secrecy. This harms the ability of a democratic society to either consent to the activities of their intelligence agencies or provide adequate checks and balances to their powers.

“The Spy Cables: Decoded - Episode one”dated Feb 27, 2015, at https://youtu.be/ay6GPlkvckY

“The Spy Cables captured headlines the world over – and was described as massive and unprecedented in newspapers as far afield as China as South America. Evidence that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu misled the United Nations lead news in a number of countries. The CIA’s desire to talk to Hamas; snooping on the head of Greenpeace; a plot to kill the head of the African Union; all grabbed global attention. In the first of two programmes, we assess the impact of Al Jazeera’s release of hundreds of classified documents – ranging from confidential to top secret - the widest-ranging leak of intelligence papers ever. Presenter: David Foster Guests: David Maynier, in Cape Town - Member of South African Parliament and opposition Deputy Minister of State Security. Justice Malala, in Johannesburg - political analyst Ferial Haffajee, on set - the editor of the South African weekly newspaper, The City Press For more on The Spy Cables visit www.aljazeera.com/spycables More on our website: http://aljazeera.com."

“The Spy Cables: Decoded - Episode two”dated Feb 27, 2015 at https://youtu.be/TZCx0Ytn6WM

In the second of two programmes, we examine the impact of The Spy Cables on global espionage and South Africa's relations to the rest of the world. What do The Spy Cables tell us about how intelligence agencies communicate to each other and what effect will the leak have on international relations?

“Spy Cables expose 'desperate' US approach to Hamas” and the Full Spy Cables Play List”- https://youtu.be/Uba-qg8GI3g

To access the full play list of 20 videos regarding the Spy Cables on Al Jazeera go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmxihGBB1-o&list=PLzGHKb8i9vTxVn96LFFckTm_PiyH6m50N. It is worth watching them all.

“A leak of hundreds of secret intelligence papers from agencies all over the world, offering a glimpse into the murky world of espionage. Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper, is publishing an array of articles, analyses exploring the stories contained within the documents. The Spy Cables include papers written by intelligence agencies the world over, including: Israel’s Mossad, Britain’s MI6, Russia’s FSB, Australia’s ASIO and South Africa’s SSA.”

“Protesting students threaten eNCA crew” – “the EFF in particular”- https://youtu.be/tmsIUb4Ae4Q

“There were scenes of intimidation in Johannesburg. Protesting students pushed our reporter Slindelo Masikane and threatened our crew.”

0:14 – “We have been intimidated, we have been harassed. Students from the EFF student command in particular are intimidating other students and not allowing them to speak to us.”

[Student protests in South Africa seem to be the latest distraction.]

“Unpacking the CR17 presidential campaign” – ANC implicated including Cyril Ramaphosa- https://youtu.be/ekpRzIEN-Vc

“In August 2019, then DA leader Mmusi Maimane told parliament about the BOSASA and the donation made to the CR17 presidential campaign. To unpack this, Thami Ngubeni is joined by Mmusi Maimane, One SA Movement Leader.”

“27 traditional leaders killed in 3 years”- https://youtu.be/Zj6kOg_t4N0

“The KwaZulu-Natal government wants answers from police management over the spate of murders of traditional leaders. In the latest incident, Inkosi Manqoba Mkhize and his aide were gunned down in Howick this weekend.”

“TB Prevalence Survey | Extent of SA's tuberculosis problem” – Prepping for more vaccines?- https://youtu.be/mHJ6dZYdkKI

“At last there is a full picture of just how many TB cases there are in South Africa. The first ever tuberculosis prevalence survey in South Africa was carried out between 2017 and 2019. It shows we have far more cases than previously believed, many of them undiagnosed.”

Noteworthy statement;

0:50 – “Well by going out and screening every single person in this large study regardless of whether they have symptoms, we found that many people who don’t feel that sick actually have the TB bacteria in their respiratory tract and they may be coughing it up.”

“US Special Operations Deployed Against ISIS in Mozambique: Embassy”- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-special-operations-deployed-against-isis-in-mozambique-embassy_3736308.html

U.S. special operations forces were deployed to Mozambique on a mission to assist the country in its counter-terrorism operations against an offshoot of the ISIS terrorist group.

“The United States is committed to supporting Mozambique with a multifaceted and holistic approach to counter and prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism,” the U.S. Embassy in Maputo said in a statement on Monday. “This approach addresses socioeconomic development issues as well as the security situation.”

The statement further added that “civilian protection, human rights, and community engagement are central to U.S. cooperation and are foundational to effectively counter [ISIS] in Mozambique.” The ISIS terrorist group first emerged in 2004 in Iraq and Syria.

U.S. Special Operations Command Africa will provide training as well as “government-provided medical and communications equipment” in Mozambique, located on the southeastern coast of Africa.

It comes after a UK-based NGO, Save the Children, reported that children as young as 11 have been beheaded by terrorists in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. The group did not say who was behind the attack, although ISIS-linked terrorists are fighting a conflict in the area.

“We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him,” a 28-year-old woman told the NGO. “We couldn’t do anything because we would be killed too.”

According to the group, about 670,000 people have been displaced inside Mozambique due to the conflict. More than 2,600 people have died.

“Save the Children is outraged and deeply saddened by reports that children are being targeted in this conflict. Every child has the right to life and safety, and children must be protected under all circumstances, including war and armed conflicts. For the children who may have witnessed their siblings being murdered, their suffering could last for years,” wrote Save the Children.

In November, meanwhile, more than 50 people were reportedly beheaded by Islamist terrorists, state media reported.

The U.S. State Department, in a March 11 update, said that ISIS in Mozambique—known as Ansar al-Sunna or “al-Shabaab in Mozambique”—was designated as a foreign terrorist organization and also declared its leader, Abu Yasir Hassan, as designated terrorists.

“Since October 2017, ISIS-Mozambique, led by Abu Yasir Hassan, has killed more than 1,300 civilians, and it is estimated that more than 2,300 civilians, security force members, and suspected ISIS-Mozambique militants have been killed since the terrorist group began its violent extremist insurgency,” said the State Department. “The group was responsible for orchestrating a series of large-scale and sophisticated attacks resulting in the capture of the strategic port of Mocimboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado Province.”

“Four years since former president Zuma declared free education government policy”- https://youtu.be/HIbsxvgdi_8

“Free education became more than just a dream with the ANC's 2007 Polokwane Conference resolution. Ten years later former president Jacob Zuma declared free education a government policy, as he was on his way out as president of the party and the country. But four years after the bombshell announcement, students are still on the streets fighting for its implementation.”

“Human Rights Watch reports atrocities in Uganda”- https://youtu.be/ATMN0PxDdUM

“Human Rights Watch is calling for an end to enforced disappearances and abductions in Uganda. It says opposition supporters, including children, are being abducted or held without trial. To discuss this further, is NBS Journalist Daniel Lutaaya.”

“Uganda: End Enforced Disappearances of Opponents” - https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/11/uganda-end-enforced-disappearances-opponents. Below are a few excerpts.

Ugandan authorities should take immediate steps to end the ongoing abductions by suspected state agents and cease the unlawful detention without trial of opposition supporters, Human Rights Watch said today.

On March 4, 2021, Internal Affairs Minister Jeje Odongo presented a list to parliament of 177 people in military detention who had been arrested between November 18, 2020, and February 8, 2021, allegedly for “participating in riots,” “possession of military stores,” and “meetings planning post-election violence.” On March 8, in a public letter to the media, President Yoweri Museveni said that 50 people are being held by the Special Forces Command, a unit of the Ugandan army, for “treasonable acts of elements of the opposition.”

On November 18, security forces had clamped down on protesters demanding the release of the then-detained opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine.

“The recent spate of enforced disappearances has only compounded the intense climate of fear in Uganda following the recent violent national elections,” said Oryem Nyeko, Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The authorities should urgently investigate these disappearances and other abuses and hold those responsible, including members of security forces, to account.”

Between February 17 and March 3, Human Rights Watch spoke with 10 relatives of people abducted, witnesses, opposition members, and civil society members, in Kampala. Witnesses described how armed men picked up people off the streets or from their homes and took them away in unmarked vans without numbered license plates; commonly referred to in Uganda as “Drones.” Human Rights Watch spoke to victims who said that their abductors beat and detained them in “safe houses” and questioned them about their political affiliation or their role in the protests, then dropped them off at random locations. The circumstances of many others who were abducted and taken to safe houses is unknown.

On March 5, Kyagulanyi’s party, the National Unity Platform, said that 423 members and supporters had been abducted and were still missing, and another 41 had been released by their abductors.

On February 8, media reported that Ronald Segawa, who had been missing since late January, was found dumped unconscious at the Mulago hospital morgue in Kampala. The next day Kyagulanyi shared pictures of Segawa’s scarred body on Twitter during a visit to him in a hospital, saying that he had been burned, electrocuted, and had his fingernails plucked out allegedly for campaigning for Kyagulanyi.

The January 14 elections were characterized by widespread violence and human rights violations during which security forces clamped down on opposition members and journalists, violently arresting scores of people, including Kyagulanyi and Patrick Amuriat, another presidential candidate, multiple times. The authorities also shut down the internet for five days, and blocked access to social media websites for a month.

“Tanzanian President John Magufuli dies at 61” - https://youtu.be/gQyaLN1mpBY

“Tanzania's Covid-denying president, John Magufuli, dies aged 61”- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/17/tanzanias-president-john-magufuli-dies-aged-61

Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, one of Africa’s most prominent Covid-19 deniers, has died after a two-week absence from public life that prompted speculation that he had contracted the disease.

Magufuli’s death was announced on Wednesday by the country’s vice-president, Samia Suluhu, who said the president died of heart failure. He was 61.

“The president of the United Republic of Tanzania, the honourable Dr John Pombe Joseph Magufuli … [has] died of a heart condition, at hospital Mzena in Dar es Salaam, where he was receiving treatment,” she said on state broadcaster TBC.

Magufuli, a divisive figure who won a second term in October in an election marred by violence and allegations of fraud, had not been seen in public since 27 February, leading many to believe that he was sick and possibly incapacitated. He had a history of heart problems and wore a pacemaker.

But the number of deaths of people experiencing breathing problems reportedly grew and, earlier this month, the US embassy warned of a significant increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Tanzania since January. Days later, the presidency announced the death of John Kijazi, Magufuli’s chief secretary.

Soon after, the death was announced of the vice-president of the semi-autonomous island region of Zanzibar, whose political party had earlier reported that he had Covid-19.

Evidence suggests Tanzania was hit hard by a recent surge of infections across southern and parts of eastern Africa brought on by the spread of a new and more transmissible variant of the virus from South Africa. [They forget that the South African variant works better than the vaccines, “COVID-19 2nd wave variant neutralises itself: Nzimande”- https://youtu.be/AusedwprJEw]

Keep in mind.

“Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has dismissed the coronavirus test kits after they had returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw.” https://guardian.ng/life/goat-sheep-and-paw-paw-test-positive-for-coronavirus-in-tanzania/]

“Former Eskom CFO has confirmed that meetings took place with Gupta-linked Regiments Capital”- https://youtu.be/9qfwTJDOTnU

“Former Eskom CFO Anoj Singh has confirmed that meetings took place with Gupta-linked Regiments Capital and McKinsey before his appointment to the power utility. This comes after Former Trillian Financial Advisory CEO, Mosilo Mothepu told the state capture commission that she was introduced to Singh before he was hired. Trillian and Mckinsey received R1.6 billion from Eskom, in a contract that was found to have been irregular. McKinsey paid around R1 billion back to the power utility and admitted that the tender did not follow the correct processes.”

“Malema, South Africa’s enfante terrible visits TB Joshua” - Synagogue of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria dated August 10, 2013 at https://disnaija.com/malema-south-africas-enfante-terrible-visits-tb-joshua-3/.

Julius Sello Malema, leader of South Africa’s political movement, the Economic Freedom Fighters will be visiting Nigeria’s preacher, TB Joshua in the Synagogue of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria.

The visit will begin today and end on 15 August.

News about the visit was disclosed on the Facebook page of the EFF.

“Commander in Chief, Fighter Julius Malema will lead a delegation from the Central Command Team of the EFF in this spiritual visit to meet and create friendship with this son of Africa and his congregation: and ask for blessings for the journey ahead”, said the statement.

EFF said its leader, in meeting Joshua for blessings will be following the footsteps of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who visited Joshua’s church in 2011.

Joshua’s Synagogue has been attracting a throng of VIPs from across Africa.

Other former visitors include Zimbabwe’s outgoing prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Late Ghananian president John Atta Mills, Malawi President Joyce Banda and King Goodwill Zwelithini.

Malema, born 3 March, 1981 was a former youth leader of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress.

After a series of suspensions from the party for hate speeches and for sowing racial discord in the party, he was expelled in 2012.

In September 2012 he was charged with fraud and money laundering.

He appeared before the Polokwane Magistrates Court in November 2012 to face these charges, plus an additional charge of racketeering.

The case was postponed to 23 April 2013, and then to 20 June. The State has proposed the trial date be set for 18 to 29 November 2013.

Malema founded the EFF in July this year. He is EFF’s president.

“All the times prophet [T.B. Joshua] has met with African leaders”dated 10/25/2017 at https://www.pulse.ng/communities/religion/tb-joshua-all-the-times-prophet-has-met-with-african-leaders/n8rwkh3. Below are a few excerpts.

We look at various meetings between the SCOAN founder and powerful politicians.

George Weah. On Sunday, October 22, 2017, the presidential candidate in Liberia attended a service at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos.

Senator Yormie Johnson. This Liberian prominent presidential candidate was also at the same Sunday service with Weah.

Goodluck Jonathan. In 2014, the former President Goodluck Jonathan [of Nigeria] visited the site of the collapsed SCOAN building. He was met by the prophet, who showed him around the site. The incident killed at least 86 persons, mostly South Africans.

John Magufuli. Dr Magufuli is not just Tanzania’s President, reportedly he is also an Emmanuel TV partner and a regular visitor to SCOAN.

John Atta Mills. In 2009, the late President of Ghana announced that he had been a member of SCOAN for over 10 years.

Others include:

Julius Malema

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

King Goodwill Zwelithini.

Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai.

Malawi President Joyce Banda.

King Koshi Kgabo Moloto of the Limpopo Kingdom in South Africa.

Gabonese President, Mr Omar Bongo.

Former President of Congo, Mr Pascal Lissouba.

Former President Andre Kolimba of the Central African Republic.

“Putin says "it takes one to know one" after Biden calls Russian president a "killer"”- https://youtu.be/ySix1puDlCQ

Excellent response!

“Julius Malema: the man who scarred South Africa”dated 10 Feb 2012 at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/10/julius-malema-south-africa-anc. Below are a few excerpts.

In the mid-90s, I went away for three years to study, and in the time after I came back, things began to change fast. The ANC was governing and it was proving hard for them. Slowly, through a fog of denial, the organisation was edging towards the terrifying knowledge that it was not the master of South Africa's destiny. It could not contain unemployment to acceptable levels – between 1980 and 1995, the national rate of joblessness grew from less than 10% to 17.7%, then accelerated to 27.1% in 2003 – and it could not switch on the tap of foreign investment. In 1996, it adopted economic policies made-to-Washington-order – liberalising the economy, cutting the fiscal deficit, planning to privatise utilities – but the gush of foreign money never followed. Nor could the ANC switch off the tap of crime. While daily life among the poor probably grew less violent, the country's middle-class suburbs were subjected to a wave of carjackings and armed robberies it seemed powerless to stop.

In retrospect, the catalyst came in 2005 when President Mbeki fired his deputy, Jacob Zuma, ostensibly because Zuma stood accused of corruption, but also to clear the way for Mbeki to choose his own successor. Instead of meekly accepting his banishment, Zuma fought back. He did so with populist swagger, presenting himself as a wronged son of the soil, and invited a broad swath of the disaffected to follow him.

Zuma gathered behind him a coalition of all those in the ANC-led alliance whom Mbeki had stung, wounded and left out in the cold, a considerable and diverse bunch ranging from the trade union movement and the Communist party to an assortment of regional and ethnic business interests. The insurgency Zuma led thus resembled a garish and motley carnival.

The fight between Zuma and Mbeki threatened not only to tear the ANC apart; it appeared also to be corrupting the South African state. Senior officials in the intelligence ministry were found to have followed and monitored Mbeki's lieutenants. The various political factions vying for power were connected to webs of opaque business interests.

Undisputed, though, is that Malema was a militant and very successful political activist at high school… Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists. Absorbed in politics, he failed his final year of school, but kept passing each new political test with flying colours, becoming the provincial leader of the ANC Youth League in his home province of Limpopo in 2007.

More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone. He brought a scent of menace to national politics. In the blunt, crude insults he threw at Mbeki, white journalists and others were suggestions of violence. And then, in the heat of the ANC's battle for succession, he declared publicly that the youth were not only prepared to die for Zuma, they would kill for him, too. Again, Zuma merely muttered about youthful exuberance.

If Malema was indeed a cartoon character, he was among those that refuse to die, reappearing more dogged and menacing and larger each time, his lean face now chubby, his flat stomach an ample belly. He built a garish house in Sandton, the wealthiest district of Johannesburg.

The once scruffy youth became a stickler for sartorial decorum. Sitting in a hotel lobby in Caracus, Venezuela, in 2010, where he hoped to meet with President Hugo Chávez, Malema upbraided his biographer, Fiona Forde, for her open sandals and her black and brown leather bag.

At one point, the revenue service muttered something about investigating his riches, but appeared not to act. News broke in 2011 that the detective arm of the police was about to arrest him on charges of corruption, but nothing materialised. There are two schools of thought. One is that powerful ANC factions find Malema useful enough to protect him – in which case this once noble liberation movement has truly lost its soul and become nothing more than a scramble for office and its rewards. The other suggestion is perhaps more interesting: that the ANC took so long to stop Malema because what he says resonates with both rank-and-file members and growing numbers of ordinary people. In other words, while the ANC suffered serious damage from not stopping him, it sensed that it also needed him.

Here is where Malema comes in. He dips into the ANC's history and takes from it old and familiar ideas: nationalisation of mines, expropriation of land. With these, he reminds South Africans of the deepest meaning of "national liberation": the idea that a people is in charge of its fate.

US, UK, Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert, etc. involvement in South Africa

“Sampie Terreblanche: White South Africans Will Have to Make Some Sacrifices” dated Aug 7, 2013, at https://youtu.be/IKclKzGBR1Q.

“How was Communist Mandela changed?” dated 15 April 2016 at http://laafriquemedia.biz/blogs/post/536/julius-malema-groomed-to-become-the-illuminati-s-next-chosen-di. Below are a few excerpts.

In January 1990, two weeks before he was released from his long captivity on Robben Island Mandela said: “The nationalization of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the ANC, and the change or modifications of our views in this regard is inconceivable.”

Mandela was assuring his comrades in the African National Congress that he remained loyal to the socialist economic program enshrined in their mid-1950s Freedom Charter. The ANC would, he promised, give back to the people of South Africa the riches that wealthy whites had stolen from them under British colonial rule and the years of Afrikaner-led apartheid.

Four years later, he would become president of all South Africa and did exactly the opposite of what he promised the blacks. The ANC gave up nationalization and a radical redistribution of wealth. They removed exchange controls, allowing the largest corporations and richest whites to send their money abroad and instead of introducing Soviet styled Socialism, they went for a Scandinavian model. The result? South Africa now suffers a greater gap between rich and poor, white and black, than under apartheid.

What made Mandela sell out the Blacks?

Prof Sampie Terreblanche explains it in his book Lost in Transformation: South Africa’s Search for a New Future Since 1986 (2012)

As he tells it, there was basically a quiet capitalist coup, and its chief organizer was South Africa’s leading industrialist and one of the world’s richest men, Sir Harry Oppenheimer, the former chairman of the Anglo-American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines and Dr Anton Rupert, the cigarette billionaire and on Forbes’ list of the 500 richest people in the world.

In an interview with Fazila Farouk in 2013 Prof Terreblanche said that the USA played a major role in tandem with Oppenheimer and his Brenthurst Group. The Americans – first under George H.W. Bush and increasingly under Bill Clinton – threatened the ANC “in a rather diplomatic way” and told them “if you are not going to accept our proposals, we can destabilize South Africa.” Terreblanche also speculated that the Americans passed money “under the table.”

Said Prof. Terreblanche: “In November 1993, South Africa was governed by the Transitional Executive Committee, the TEC. There (were) eight National Party members and eight senior members of the ANC and they had a meeting to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of US$850mn, that we needed for the transition and IMF – of course everything was arranged – was prepared to give the loan, but they had a document, “Statement on Economic Policy”. They said, yes, we will give you the money, if everyone, all 16 sign the document. And if one reads that document, “Statement on Economic Policy”, carefully, it is GEAR [Growth, Employment and Redistribution] in embryo form. It is the neoliberal policy. And so, the ANC had no choice.”

Of course Malema has been seen speaking to their old pal Lord Robin Renwick former UK ambassador to SA before 1994, Vice-chairman of JP Morgan and a member of the boards of directors of amongst others, BHP Billiton, Harmony Gold, British Airways, Excelsior Mining, SAB Miller and Gem Diamonds. Of course Malema is talking the biggest load of crap whilst over there…like “Rhodes started a black genocide in South Africa”…

Say what? Rhodes killed 34,000 white women and children in SA. White population numbers went from 2million at the time of Rhodes’ death to about 5 million today. Black numbers went from 2 million to 50 Million today. Exactly who was genocided here?

The South African government has made laws which deny all survival rights to White South Africans: This small 3,4 million strong minority in South Africa is denied food-aid, land-rights, jobs and even denied public housing in their own historic suburbs.

Today 1 million white people (70% of them are children & elderly people) out of the 3.4 million white population in South Africa are living in poverty because of White men/women were barred from the public and private-sector job markets in South Africa by the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act tabled by the white British communist Rob Davis.

“Exclusive eNCA investigation unearthed disturbing criminal history behind Jantjie.” [interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial] – World leaders were there- https://youtu.be/m5ptQvMtppY… Oh the irony!!!

December 13 -We can reveal that the sign language interpreter at the Nelson Mandela memorial, is an accused killer. Thamasanqa Jantjie was charged with murder, attempted murder and kidnapping. eNCA investigative reporter Karyn Maughan has found he has also faced rape, theft and assault charges. This poses serious questions about security arrangements at Tuesday's memorial service.

“Julius malema insults bbc journalist” dated April 8, 2010, at https://youtu.be/Uj35x73sIVA. Yet the British still welcomes him with open arms.

“JULIUS MALEMA – GROOMED TO BECOME THE ILLUMINATI’S NEXT CHOSEN DICTATOR IN SOUTH AFRICA.”– dated July 26, 2016, at https://www.radiofreesouthafrica.com/julius-malema-groomed-become-illuminatis-next-chosen-dictator-south-africa/

21 Years after Apartheid and he is still going on about “Apartheid ” and “racism” . The biggest racist is Malema and his followers instigating to murder whites because of his dreadful hate he carries within himself.

He is nothing more than a black racist Hitler, Amin, Stalin, etc. A man based on race and hatred No respect for or value of human life whatsoever. However that is just what the British Elite want. Another raving lunatic in power to keep another African country in ruins so they can continue sacking its resources and lending money at high interests rates to it… and still pretend to have the “moral high ground”. “Win win for the British money power, so what if you are called impotent and rubbish… it is shekels that matter!” These facts , and this part captured on video , was played for the world to see , but was never actively reported on, thus it stands to reason, that it was downplayed and conveniently ignored by the very South African news networks that reported on the incident, and disseminated the visuals globally.

Julius Malema now is back in Britain among those same white “rubbish” – and when you look who he is going to meet and address there, then it certainly raises a few eyebrows…Royal Institute of International Affairs, Oxford Union, Pan African People’s Movement in Tottenham and attend the African Enterprise Awards at the London Capital Club…all affiliated or connected to Rhodes/Milner’s Round Table Group.

Malema is being hosted by the “Who’s who” of the Illuminati in London where the corrupt South African ambassador Obed Mlaba, a Zulu and former mayor of Durban, is seen as a Zuma crony. The message to the ANC is simple:” Your time is up. Mlaba is the man who was investigated together with Mike Sutcliffe for gross corruption and the destruction of the once beautiful city of Durban.”

“It is South African students who lead the struggle against white supremacy – a supremacy that divides the country and excludes indigenous populations. “These was said last night by Julius Malema to a packed hall at the Oxford Union, Oxford University’s debating society, reported Netwerk24.

Malema, who has a close relationship with Winnie Mandela, said that former president Nelson Mandela deviated from the Freedom Charterwhen he divorced Madikizela-Mandela because he went to live in a house that whites (the Oppenheimers) had donated to him. “To complain that Mandela renounced the struggle, is pointless. He knew that the struggle was not over. He left it for us. We will do it. We will not compromise.”

Malema used Cecil John Rhodes as an example of white supremacy. “Rhodes took our land. Rhodes started a system that led to black genocide,” he said.

Malema said this was why black students started the “Rhodes must fall “ campaign – after the EFF’s speech in parliament.

For a long time now Malema has been threatening to nationalize the Illuminati’s gold mines, businesses and seize their land. His latest stint was to threaten to occupy all the ABSA banks. ABSA was created by the Afrikaner Broederbond and the Pierneef paintings in its head office belongs to the Afrikanerbond. ABSA is of course the biggest bank in South Africa and belongs to the British Barclays Bank, the Illuminati’s personal bank. Circles within circles, like Russian dolls. “We are going to occupy all the ABSA branches”– Malema

If I was the ANC I would get very worried about saving my skin. The message here is that the ANC is so corrupt, greedy and busy stealing the country into bankruptcy that they have not noticed that they have fallen out of favor with their Round Table Illuminati bosses in the UK and the US. The ANC’s love affairs with criminal and terrorist scum like Sudanese dictator Omar al Bashir, Hamas leader Kaled Mashaal and their general reluctance to toe the line doesn’t help much either.

“Republic of Congo elections”- https://youtu.be/W26zEbpGcLs

“Congolese will vote in presidential elections on Sunday. Most citizens have only ever known one head of state during their lives: Denis Sassou Nguesso, whose grip on power looks set to continue.”

“50 people were reportedly beheaded by Islamist insurgents in northern Mozambique”- https://youtu.be/70_L_EHU1F8

“Throughout 2020 the violence in northern Mozambique has been escalating, and in November more than 50 people were reportedly beheaded by Islamist insurgents. For more on this, Menzi Ndlovu Senior Analyst at Signal Risk elaborates.”

Shares info regarding US involvement to help the Mozambique.

“Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu calls for change of COVID-19 approach”- https://youtu.be/9ft2R7MNG0k

“Government wants to enforce new BEE rules at banks, insurers and funds”- https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/476484/government-wants-to-enforce-new-bee-rules-at-banks-insurers-and-funds/. Below are a few excerpts.

Deputy Finance minister David Masondo says that the South Africa’s financial and asset management sector will see a transformation push through the introduction of the draft Conduct of Financial Institutions Bill.

Speaking in a BusinessDay webinar, Masondo said that changes included in the bill will make transformation an explicit function of the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA).

Masondo said it will also be a requirement for financial institutions, such as banks, to have transformation plans that demonstrate their compliance with existing Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) legislation.

The FSCA will also be given authority to enforce compliance, he said. The FSCA will be empowered to enforce and regulate:

Transformation;

Operations;

Culture;

Product Design;

Selling;

Marketing;

Internal Procedures.

The FSCA has regulatory power over any financial institutions that are licensed in terms of a financial sector law, including banks, insurers, retirement funds and administrators, and market infrastructures.

“From the side of the state, what motivates us, what informs what we’re doing is a constitutional imperative for transformation,” he said. “The equality clause in the constitution requires the state to undertake measures to transform South Africa in all facets of our society. We are also motivated by inclusive growth.”

In earlier phases, BEE was generally focused on the procurement relationship between the state and providers of products of services to it, said Piet le Roux, Sakeliga chief executive.

“Lately, in codes such as the legal sector code, BEE regulation jettisons the requirement of the state as a transacting party.

“The new approach is to regulate for BEE requirements regardless of state involvement, which poses serious implications for freedom to trade and freedom to procure professional services,” Le Roux said.

The shift in thinking around BEE is being driven by the Employment Equity Amendment Bill, which aims to accelerate the rate of transformation in South Africa.

The bill, which is currently before parliament, will empower the minister of Labour to regulate the setting of sector-specific employment equity targets across most of South Africa’s major industries.

“13-year old Gabisile Shabane two-year-old cousin Nkosikhona Ngwenya murdered for their body parts”- https://youtu.be/CIDhx5_zEDs

“Our reporter Mweli Masilela gives us more details on the story he has been following of 13-year old Gabisile Shabane and her two-year-old cousin Nkosikhona Ngwenya who were both kidnapped and murdered, reportedly for their body parts to be used for muti [traditional medicine].”

“Proposal for a basic income for all”- https://youtu.be/p3CFNYGJlqo

“Neil Coleman, Co-director of the Institute for Economic Justice, spoke with eNCA Thembekile Mrototo.”

Noteworthy statement;

3:05 – “Well, when you live in a society as unequal as ours in which the vast majority of people have very little and which a small grouping, you know, the top 1% and 0.1% command such a massive proportion of the country’s wealth. It’s inevitable that there has to be a process of redistribution. It can either be orderly and it can be done in a way which is within you know agreed processes and systematically reduce those gaps or it can be done in a way which is more chaotic.”

Neil Coleman’s biography at https://www.iej.org.za/our-team/;

“Neil Coleman is a Senior Policy Specialist at the IEJ. He has been an activist, strategist and policy researcher in the South African Mass Democratic Movement, United Democratic Front, Tripartite Alliance and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) since the late 1970s, and a COSATU official between 1989-2017. He participated in the constitutional negotiations, headed COSATU’s parliamentary office, was special advisor to Department of Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel and Strategies Co-ordinator in the COSATU Secretariat. Neil led Labour’s delegation in the national minimum wage negotiations 2015-2017.”

Institute for Economic Justice received funding from; Young Scholars Initiative, Open Society Foundations, Yellowwoods, Oxfam, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, International Labour Organization, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, National Economic Development and Labour Council and Centre of Human Rights at University of Pretoria.

Partnerships of Institute for Economic Justice at https://www.iej.org.za/partnerships-build-power/ states; “By acting as a research and policy hub, the IEJ builds links between the research community and the labour movement, progressive civil society and activist organisations, and elements within the state and business. Our research agenda is developed in an ongoing collaboration with these social partners, and the project outputs are made accessible and appropriate for policy work. In South Africa, such an organic relationship between an economics research institute and organisations with a mass constituency is unique.”

IEJ is a part of Budget Justice Coalition South Africa and Tax Justice Network Africa. They work with local organisations and groups; African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, Alternative Information Development Centre, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Chris Hani Institute, Congress of South African Trade Unions, Institute for African Affairs, Labour Constituency at National Economic Development and Labour Council, National Minimum Wage Research Initiative at University of the Witwatersrand, National Labour and Economic Development Institute, Oxfam South Africa, Rethinking Economics for Africa, various student chapters, SECTION27, School of Economics and Finance at University of the Witwatersrand, South African Chair in Industrial Development at University of Johannesburg, South African Federation of Trade Unions and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies.

The IEJ also works with a range of individual academics, researchers and activists.

International organisations we work with include, Center for Economic and Social Rights, International Labour Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Institute for Public Policy Research, Rethinking Economics, TrustAfrica and Tax Justice Network Africa.

“Lobby groups vow to halt gas and oil exploration along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline” by foreign companies- https://youtu.be/apy-uetnYCY

“The South Durban Environmental Alliance and 47 other lobby groups have vowed to halt gas and oil exploration, expected to begin along the KwaZulu-Natal coastline. The Department of Mineral Resources granted permission for exploration drilling in December last year. The environmental lobby groups say this will further contribute to climate change and ocean degradation.”

“DRC Conflict I Nearly 200 people killed since January”- https://youtu.be/RCFteXLNrtU. A very good discussion.

“The United Nations refugee agency says nearly 200 people have been killed since January by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aimé Zonveni is the Editor of the Kinshasa Times. He joined us to explain the complex conflict ravaging that part of the country.”

“Human Rights Watch calls for an AU hybrid court to address human rights violations in South Sudan”- https://youtu.be/CdrTbCpquIg

“Human Rights Watch has urged South Sudan to establish a hybrid court with the African Union to address human rights violations in the country. The rights body asked South Sudan to heed last week's call by the UN Security Council to support the protection of civilians and stop interfering with the UN peacekeeping mission's monitoring of human rights abuses in the country. Nyagoah Tut Pur is a South Sudan researcher in the Africa Division, Human Rights Watch. She joined us ZOOM from Nairobi, Kenya.”

“Cadre deployment: AfriForum applies to Zondo commission to cross-examine Ramaphosa”- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/cadre-deployment-afriforum-applies-to-zondo-commission-to-cross-examine-ramaphosa/

The civil rights organisation AfriForum on 22 March 2021, filed a formal application to the Zondo commission on state capture in terms of which a ruling is requested to subpoena Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the commission.

AfriForum specifically asks that Pres. Ramaphosa be questioned about the ANC’s cadre deployment policy and also requests that AfriForum be afforded an opportunity to make submissions in this regard to the commission and also itself to cross-examine the president.

The application results from the fact that Pres. Ramaphosa was chairperson of the ANC’s cadre deployment committee from 2013 to 2016. During this time, several individuals who today are accused of corruption and state capture were appointed to key positions on the ground of their loyalty to the ANC.

Ernst Roets, Head of Policy and Action at AfriForum, explains that the ANC’s cadre deployment policy probably is the most important contributing factor to corruption and state capture.

“The ANC is outspoken about its approach that loyalty to the party is a decisive factor as far as appointments to key positions in the government are concerned. Apparently, this carries even more weight than merit and the ability to do the work. What is cloaked in secrecy, however, is exactly what this committee has been doing, and what individuals have been appointed to key positions on the ground of their loyalty to the party,” Roets says. He adds that this policy covers not only deployments in key positions but also the redeployment of party loyalists.

Individuals in connection with whom AfriForum wants to put questions to Pres. Ramaphosa include the following: Brian Molefe, Dudu Myeni, Pravin Gordhan, Lucky Montana, Jeff Radebe, Joseph Phungula, Sifiso Buthelezi, Thuli Madonsela, Kady Muteba, Patello Lebbaka, Francois van Eeden, Lynette Brown, Nicholas Linnel, Nhlanhla Nene and Modise Motloba.

“A multi-million rand dairy project in a state of collapse in Port St Johns”- https://youtu.be/BS-HXPYq3S8

“A multi-million rand dairy project in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape is in a state of collapse. Following reports of massive livestock losses at the Mantusini Dairy Farm last year…. The Rural Development and Agrarian Reform department introduced an investor to the project. The investor has since disappeared, leaving the livestock to starve to death.”

And the government wants to have more control?

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South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) connections include Right 2 Know, Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA), the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

https://sdcea.co.za/about/ states;

South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) is an environmental justice organization based in South Durban, South Africa. It is made up of 19 affiliate organizations and has been active since its formation in 1995. It is a non-government organization existing solely on finances sourced from funders and sponsors in order to remain totally independent. It makes no profit and exists solely for the benefit of the people it represents. It is a vocal and vigilant group active in lobbying, reporting and researching industrial incidents and accidents in this area.

It continuously struggles for clean air, water and soil and for the alleviation of environmental racism and poverty. SDCEA works with and is located in South Durban Community; this makes it easier for community members to convey their problems to us. The people of South Durban are SDCEA’s target audience as they are immersed in the polluted basin and directly affected by the numerous negative consequences.

The motto of SDCEA is: The Right to Know, The Duty to Inquire, The Obligation to Act.

[The list of organisations can be found at https://sdcea.co.za/steering-committee/.]

https://www.corruptionwatch.org.za/kayla-norsworthy-is-leading-by-example/ states; “Just two years out of school, 20-year-old Kayla Norsworthy is intent on making her mark in her community. She recently became a member of R2K – the Right 2 Know campaign – where she works with other young people in her area. She's also a member of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA), an NGO and umbrella body of organisations that lobby for better environmental conditions, and research and report on industrial accidents.” [Take note, Right 2 Know is funded by George Soros and others, https://www.r2k.org.za/about/donors/]

SDCEA do not seem to list their donours however per https://www2.fundsforngos.org/environment-conservation-climate-change-and-ecology/action-24-call-for-proposals-small-grant-facility-to-foster-broader-public-participation-on-environmental-issues-in-south-africa/; “Through the Action 24 Small Grant Facility, Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA), the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) are looking to support local initiatives that aim to engage with the South African Legislature, i.e. the Provincial Parliaments and/or the Parliament of South Africa, to address specific environmental or climate change related issues.”

SAIIA’s website at https://saiia.org.za/about/funders/ states; “Our work is made possible through grants from international governments, multilateral organisations, private foundations, as well as local corporate, diplomatic and institutional members.” It includes; The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, USAID, Chatham House, Embassy of Finland, EU, United Nation’s Education Fund, US Department of State, Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, Danish Embassy, Embassy of Japan, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and many more.

FTFA’s website at https://trees.org.za/our-partners/, states that their partners include; Absa, AngloAmerican, Bowmans, Climate Reality Project, Cummins, Ethekwini Municipality, EU, FirstRand, Investec, Konica Minolta, National Lottery, Nedbank, Volkswagen Financial Services, Nelson Mandela Foundation, SAIIA, Avis, Google, kulula.com, Lenovo, Rhodes University, Zapier and many more. It received endorsements from 4 different South African government departments.

“Discussion | Recent attacks on foreigners”- https://youtu.be/A6WQ4wLSQ5Y

“It’s been more than 12 years since more than 60 people were killed in deadly xenophobic attacks across the country. Hundreds more were injured and thousands who fled their homes were forced to live in makeshift refugee camps, community halls and police stations.”

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”Action 24 Project” on SAIIA websiteat https://saiia.org.za/youth/action-24-project/ states;

We’re a proud partner of the Action 24 project – an initiative that aims to strengthen environmental governance and civic participation, in order to advance decarbonised sustainable and inclusive development in South Africa.

Food and Trees for Africa, the African Climate Reality Project and the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance are also partners in the project, which is co-funded by the European Union.

The project is working towards empowering civil society, media, youth and women groups to more effectively engage with the legislature (Parliament and the provincial legislatures) on laws and oversight, to achieve a healthier and safer environment, improved livelihoods and resilience to climate change.

Action 24 aims to foster more bottom-up, participatory decision-making processes on environmental issues, and encourage citizens to seek effective representation from the legislative institutions, using them to improve service delivery by the government.

“Land Reform in SA | Public hearings on land expropriation without compensation under way”- https://youtu.be/5GHDWR4zsjA

“Public hearings are being held today about amending the Constitution to expropriate land without compensation. An ad-hoc committee is hearing verbal presentations from individuals and organisations.”

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Yet.

“Growing concern over black farmers evicted on government land: Thapelo Mohapi”- https://youtu.be/PwTUNM646oE

“The future of farmers evicted on government land hangs in the balance, along with their businesses. According to Business Day, the eviction of farmers from their profitable farming enterprises by "rogue officials" of the department of agriculture, rural development & land reform has resulted in claims of more than R2bn being instituted against the department. This figure is contained in the 2019/2020 report of the auditor-general. Farmers say this goes against the government's plans to release 700 000 hectares of state land on a 30-year leasehold to black farmers. Abahlali baseMjondolo says this is disappointing after more than 20 years of democracy. General Secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo, Thapelo Mohapi joins us now via Zoom”

“Kamala is Coming - You Heard it Here”- https://youtu.be/oSn4S2xkmyw

“State Capture Inquiry | AfriForum wants Cyril Ramaphosa to answer on ANC's cadre deployment policy”- https://youtu.be/ahTRye7-ZBc

“Lobby group AfriForum has applied to the State Capture Commission to cross-examine President Cyril Ramaphosa about the ANC's cadre deployment policy. Ramaphosa was chairperson of this committee from 2013 to 2016. It was during this time that several individuals who are now accused of corruption and state capture were appointed to key positions by the ANC. The lobby group's Head of Policy, Ernst Roets says as Ramaphosa led the committee during this time, he should therefore answer to why certain people were appointed to key positions. Roets says the individuals they want to question Ramaphosa about include Brian Molefe, Dudu Myeni, Pravin Gordhan, Lucky Montana, Jeff Radebe, Lynne Brown and Nhlanhla Nene. We now have him live via SKYPE”

“Japanese Embassy hands over a training centre for non-revenue water management in South Africa”- https://youtu.be/QAS-O1eKvpI

“The Japanese Embassy in South Africa has officially handed over a training centre for non revenue water management to Water Affairs and the Human Settlements department in Roodeplaat, east of Pretoria. This facility will be used to train water technicians from different municipalities to tackle water leakages. The Japanese International Cooperation Agency funded the project.”

>>13276419 - Embassy of Japan is also mentioned as one of the funders of SAIIA.

“NYT: Bill Gates Repeatedly Met With Jeffrey Epstein | Velshi & Ruhle | MSNBC” dated Oct 15, 2019- https://youtu.be/WnKQ4tzg7ow

“A new report is shedding light on a surprising relationship between the late Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates. New York Times columnist James Stewart joins Stephanie Ruhle with reporting on their meetings and to discuss his new book, “Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law.” Aired on 10/15/19.”

It is interesting that they implicate one of its founders as MSNBC stands for Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company.

Coincidentally,

“The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.” https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

“Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.” https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html

Among the “players” were “the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention”, “Deputy Director of the CIA during the Obama term”, CDC, Johnson & Johnson and Lufthansa Group Airlines. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340236453_The_Event_201

Distracting people from the real issues?

“All roads leading to Roodepan in Kimberley closed as residents demand services”- https://youtu.be/DVOMAP0iPgM

“All roads leading to Roodepan in Kimberley in the Northern Cape are closed. Residents from Roodepan and those from the surrounding informal settlements have blockaded roads with burning tyres and other debris. They say sewerage continues to flow along the streets, refuse is not collected and their houses are flooded.”

“SA companies supplied Saudi Arabia and UAE with weapons before Yemen civil war - Open Secrets”- https://youtu.be/eOr0GKXFy3g

“Civil society group Open Secrets has revealed that South African companies supplied weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE before and after the civil war broke out in Yemen. The group says the National Conventional Arms Control Committee has failed to uphold the law. Hennie van Vuuren, the director of Open Secrets.”

“African Perspective | In conversation with Bobi Wine [Uganda’s opposition leader]”- https://youtu.be/0NoJV0KjLIQ.

“Uganda's opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi has called on the Chief Justice of Uganda's Supreme Court to resign. In an exclusive interview with the SABC, Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine says Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo has shamed the court. The Chief Justice has been accused by another court justice of giving her unlawful instructions in a matter before the court relating to the disputed January 2021 elections. The electoral commission declared President Yoweri Museveni the victor of the disputed elections, which the African Union is yet to pronounce on its credibility. South Africa too has been silent on the elections which have been marred by violence, but Kyagulanyi tells me - silence sometimes means complicity.”

“BEWARE! Cyril-loving NGOs, farmer eviction halted and more..”- https://youtu.be/3wU7LSHYFoc

The list of endorsements of “Defend Our Democracy” can be found in the article, “National campaign set up to stop Zuma from ‘assailing the Constitution’ and to fight ‘unrestrained, large-scale looting’”, at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-03-18-national-campaign-set-up-to-stop-zuma-from-assailing-the-constitution-and-to-fight-unrestrained-large-scale-looting/ which include; Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Black Lives Matter Foundation, COSATU, MK National Council, The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, etc..

He further discusses “Mixed reactions to JCC [Judicial Conduct Committee] order that CJ [Chief Justice] Mogoeng apologise” for stating “as a Christian made it impossible to be opposed to the state of Israel.” https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mixed-reactions-to-jcc-order-that-cj-mogoeng-apologise/

“Do not get bamboozled by ANC factionalism.”- https://youtu.be/gPG–ajMdcY

“Masterminds behind Bell Pottinger's Gupta PR campaign lose bid to block legal action”- https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/masterminds-behind-bell-pottingers-gupta-pr-campaign-lose-bid-to-block-legal-action-20210324. Below are a few excerpts.

Victoria Geoghegan and Nick Lambert, the former Bell Pottinger executives who became the public faces of the British PR company’s disastrous campaign for the Gupta family in SA, have lost an application to strike out disqualification proceedings against them in the UK.

This means that the case against Geoghegan and Lambert will proceed to trial, where a judge will hear evidence about whether they should be disqualified from acting as directors of companies for between two and 15 years.

Geoghegan and Lambert both worked on Bell Pottinger’s PR campaign for Gupta-owned Oakybay Investments, which was conceived to shield the Gupta family and their allies from criticism by claiming that allegations of corruptions were part of a racist plot to undermine economic transformation.

But after emails between the PR firm and the Gupta family were leaked as part of the #GuptaLeaks, the PR mavens faced a barrage of criticism.

Geoghegan and Lambert, who now both work for London-based PR company Thoburns, had asked a UK court to rule that they were not directors of Bell Pottinger LLP (Limited Liability Partnership) at the time that they were working on the Oakbay account, they should not be facing a disqualification hearing as they were not responsible for the company’s management.

But in a ruling handed down on Tuesday, Justice Michael Green said that any member of an LLP is “potentially liable to face disqualification proceeding,” and members did not need to sit on board level.

The ruling means that the disqualification hearing can go ahead.

“Fine Town plunged into darkness for the past two years”- https://youtu.be/orAoFFUcwg4

“Plunged into darkness for the past two years. That's the plight of Fine Town residents, south of Johannesburg. They say Eskom failed to fix a damaged transformer. Each household contributed money to have it replaced. However, it was removed by the power utility, alleging illegal connections. But now even those not guilty, are being punished. As Maageketla Mohlabe reports.”

“State Capture Inquiry has abandoned all hope of getting Zuma to testify”- https://youtu.be/2yq-vbS11_k

“The State Capture Commission has abandoned all hope of getting former President Jacob Zuma to testify before Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. Senior Counsel Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says the commission wants punitive measures against Zuma for being in contempt of court. The commission's urgent Concourt application was heard this morning with a request that Zuma is jailed for two years.”

“Service delivery protests intensify in Kraaifontein”- https://youtu.be/fsbKX0eU99o

People throwing stones, burning vehicles, causing property damage, etc.

Noteworthy statement.

2:15 – “Also their budget has been slashed quite drastically by government… also there’s seems to be political parties motivating this protest. We have heard from Malusi Booi earlier on also mentioning that here in Kraaifontein, it seems like much of the protesters were mobilized by the ANC. It seemed that later on the EFF here in Kraaifontein started to recruit more of its members to mobilize against the lack of service delivery.”

Keep in mind, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is the ruling party in the Western Cape.

"They didn't see Magufuli coming", President Chakwera's intriguing speech in honour of Magufuli- https://youtu.be/8_nwIiUJl-8

Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera Pays tribute to the late Magufuli

“Whistle-blower Athol Williams speaks about marginalisation, and bribery attempts to silence him.” - Bain | State Capture- https://youtu.be/KW5kwoDpEUA

“It has been a long and burdersome road for whistle-blower, Athol Williams, who was appointed at Bain to help restore the credibility of the company and oversee the firm’s internal investigation into its role in the destruction of SARS [South African Revenue Service]. He resigned from the U.S company in 2019, barely six months into the job. Since his departure and willingness to lift the lid on corruption, he has experienced persecution, marginalisation, and bribery attempts to silence him.”

“Koko wants answers from Ramaphosa” | State Capture- https://youtu.be/QPfPMhM1x_Q

“Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko claims President Cyril Ramaphosa interfered in the affairs of Eskom by instructing the board to dismiss him.”

“Palma Attack| Around 60 people unaccounted for in Mozambique”- https://youtu.be/k1zc_xkQcz4

“Details are emerging of the scale of the attack by hundreds of militants who stormed a town in northern Mozambique last Wednesday. For more on the story let us now bring in our foreign editor Sophie Mokoena.”

>>13321705 - She mentioned South Africa’s involvement in CAR (Central African Republic).

“Background with regard to SANDF in Central African Republic”- https://igd.org.za/infocus/4399-was-the-sandf-deployment-in-the-car-justifiable.

The motives behind the involvement of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in the Central African Republic (CAR) remains contested. Thirteen South African soldiers lost their lives in the CAR following confrontations with elements of the Seleka rebel group, who marched on Bangui, the capital of the CAR, on 23 March 2013 to oust the former president, Francois Bozize.

The rebels accused Bozize, who also seized power through a coup d’état in 2003, of breaching a peace accord that was signed in Libreville in January 2013, following an earlier offensive in December 2012. French troops and soldiers of the regional Central African Multinational Force (FOMAC) were also present in the Bangui during the rebel offensive that led to the ousting of Bozize and the deaths of the South African soldiers. However, only SANDF forces were engaged by the Seleka rebels, prompting accusations and speculations that South African soldiers had been deployed in the CAR to protect Bozize and the business interests of the ruling ANC.

The SANDF has maintained a military base in Bangui since 2007, as part of a deployment under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the governments of South Africa and the CAR. On 23 March 2013, the South African soldiers stationed in Bangui came under fire from the Seleka rebels as the latter advanced towards the presidential palace. The nine-hour battle, which failed to halt the overthrow of Bozize and his subsequent exile to neighbouring Cameroon, resulted in the death of 13 South African soldiers, while 27 others were wounded. One of the wounded soldiers later died in a military hospital in Pretoria, bring the total number of casualties on the South African side to 14 soldiers.

In the wake of the CAR debacle, President Jacob Zuma’s government defended its position that the deployment of SANDF forces was strictly in line with the bilateral accord signed in 2007 and renewed in 2012, in terms of which South Africa was to assist in capacitating the CAR military and to assist in planning the disarmament, demobilisation and re-integration (DDR) of rebel groups. However, opposition political parties, political commentators, as well as the South African media have been united in questioning the government’s motive for deploying troops in the CAR, with some alleging that the soldiers had been in the CAR to protect the business interests of ANC politicians and other business individuals. The Mail & Guardian, for example, published an expose claiming that “the lure of arms deals and diamonds – and possibly other mineral resources – sucked the ANC into the Central African Republic”.

“Central African Republic: Is this what our soldiers died for?” - Part 1dated 28 March 2013 at https://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-28-00-central-african-republic-is-this-what-our-soldiers-died-for/

South African military involvement in the Central African Republic has from the start been entwined with ANC-linked deals, raising questions about the motivation for the disastrous deployment of South African troops to the troubled country.

The figure at the centre of the web is the politically connected businessperson and fixer Didier Pereira.

Pereira is currently partnered to the ANC security supremo and fundraiser, Paul Langa, and former spy chief Billy Masetlha. Their group has initiated several business projects in CAR, including some involving diamonds

Previously, he partnered with ANC hard man Joshua "General" Nxumalo and the ANC funding front, Chancellor House, in an initiative that involved security and attempts to gain a diamond export monopoly in the CAR.

Pereira, originally from Congo-Brazzaville, is a special adviser to the recently toppled CAR president, François Bozizé.

He has maintained business ties with powerful ANC security and intelligence figures during both the Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma presidencies.

Although the ANC figures who Pereira does business with has changed between presidencies, the nature of his dealings have remained consistent.

Quid pro quo?

As the security situation in the CAR deteriorated in October last year, Pereira brokered direct access to Zuma for Bozizé's son and CAR defence minister, Francis Bozizé, in a bid to "unlock a sensitive weapons delivery issue", the specialist publication Intelligence Online reported recently.

Bozizé Jnr does not appear to have got what he came for because of South Africa's statutory weapons trade controls, but Pereira's reported role as a facilitator of this key meeting is noteworthy.

A CAR diplomat in Pretoria, who did want to be named because of the fluid political situation back home, said that Pereira had lived in South Africa for "more than 20 years" and that he was a recognisable figure among embassy staff.

He also previously partnered with a notorious Zimbabwean arms dealer, John Bredenkamp, according to sources with a detailed knowledge of the central African region and company searches in South Africa.

Other South African-linked interests in the CAR include the Canadian-based gold exploration and mining company, Axmin. Its president and chief executive, George Roach, was also associated with UraMin, a politically well-connected uranium prospecting company, which is said to have enjoyed Thabo Mbeki's backing when it won a concession in the CAR.

The concession was later sold to the French nuclear multinational, Areva.

The oil exploration company, DIG Oil, which also enjoyed Mbeki-era political support, has an oil concession in the south west of the country.

“Central African Republic: Is this what our soldiers died for?” - Part 2dated 28 March 2013 at https://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-28-00-central-african-republic-is-this-what-our-soldiers-died-for/

To the rescue

Bozizé's rule of the CAR has been precarious after he toppled his predecessor, Ange-Félix Patassé, in a coup in 2003, which was condemned at the time by both Mbeki and his then-deputy, Zuma.

Bozizé won an election in 2005 that excluded Patassé from the ballot, but his grip on power was soon threatened by Patassé-linked rebels. As Bozizé's military situation worsened, he sought help from South Africa.

A joint South African Defence Force (SANDF) and defence department "fact-finding mission" went to the CAR in January 2006. A flurry of diplomacy between Pretoria and Bangui in April that year culminated in the then-defence minister, Terror Lekota, signing a co-operation agreement in defence, minerals and energy at the end of that month, which he followed up with an "onsite assessment" trip to the CAR in May.

Pereira was quick off the mark. On May 18, a week after Lekota's return, he signed a memorandum of understanding with the CAR mining ministry. It envisaged the creation of a public-private partnership, Inala Centrafrique, according to documents of Inala and its business partners, which were obtained by the Mail & Guardian.

ANC stake

Inala Centrafrique was formally registered in August 2006. Over time, its shareholding was settled at a 35% stake for the CAR government and 65% going to a South African company, Serengeti Group Holdings. The latter was majority-owned by Nxumalo, whose notoriety during the ANC underground days was underscored by his part in the Virodene vitamins-for-Aids scandal.

Significant stakes also belonged to Pereira and the Chancellor House Trust, share registers show.

An Inala Centrafrique business proposal to the CAR government, dated July 6 2007, retrospectively confirmed that “the joint venture is a culmination of the accord signed by both … Mbeki … and Bozizé … during the meeting of the governments in South Africa in … 2006 for the two countries to work together.”

It identified Nxumalo as chief executive and Pereira as chief operations officer.

While this deal was being hammered out behind the scenes, South Africa signed a formal, five-year defence co-operation agreement with the CAR on February 11 2007, involving both the deployment of South African troops and the provision of military equipment.

Zuma renewed the agreement in December last year, on the grounds of which, in the face of the growing crisis, he ordered a reinforcement of troops to the CAR in January this year.

“Central African Republic: Is this what our soldiers died for?” - Part 3dated 28 March 2013 at https://mg.co.za/article/2013-03-28-00-central-african-republic-is-this-what-our-soldiers-died-for/

Diamonds and arms

The Inala Centrafrique joint venture between the CAR government and Pereira, Nxumalo and the Chancellor House Trust was primarily a mechanism to buy diamonds from the CAR's small-scale miners.

But the plan had two other elements, which, if implemented, would give Inala and its ANC-linked shareholders total dominance of the CAR's diamond market.

The first was an initiative to create and equip, on behalf of the state, a police des mines, or mining police, to combat illegal diamond dealing.

The second element, it appears from the documents and an interview with a would-be Inala business partner, was for Inala to be granted an export monopoly by the CAR government.

In other words, although its majority shareholding was privately held, Inala would have been endowed with part of the form and function of a state agency: a national diamond exporter with an associated police enforcement arm.

Dividends of more than $800-million over 10 years were envisaged.

In a further example of the conflation of South African state and ANC party interests, a Serengeti subsidiary partnered with a South African armoured vehicle business, Mechanology, in September 2007 to revamp decommissioned armoured vehicles that the SANDF had offered to donate to Bozizé.

The armoured vehicle deal broke down, apparently because there was a dispute over who would pay for the refurbishment.

Inala's attempts to control the CAR diamond mining industry fizzled out by March 2008.

New ANC partners

By then, the Zuma-linked faction of the ANC's security and intelligence apparatus appears to have inherited the relationship with Pereira from Serengeti.

At about the same time that Serengeti dropped the ball on the armoured vehicles and the Inala diamond deal collapsed, a company called Bagamoyo Investment Holdings was formed with Pereira as a founding director.

Chief among Pereira's co-directors in Bagamoyo is Langa who, like Nxumalo before him, comes with a heavy-hitting ANC security and intelligence pedigree, but also with strong whiffs of controversy.

He was suspended and later dismissed as chief executive of the Robben Island Museum after a forensic audit found a R25-million hole in the company accounts back in 2008.

Langa was head of security co-ordination at ANC headquarters in the late 1990s. His Zonkizizwe group of companies appear to perform both security and fundraising functions for the ANC.

Other directors in Bagamoyo included:

• Fabien Singaye, a former Rwandan diplomat who served as Bozize's personal adviser and is alleged to have played a central role in the purchase of CAR uranium assets by UraMin, a company with a number of South African links; and

• John Robertson, an IT specialist who works with Langa in the Zonkizizwe controlled Tsohle Technology Holdings.

Masetlha confirmed that Baga¬moyo was set up to exploit opportunities in CAR.

Masetlha said: "Our role was to try and engage South African business persons to invest in the area. Pereira happened to be one of the people who knew CAR well. I agreed to get involved and spoke to Paul []."

Masetlha, who is recovering from a long illness, said he was hazy about the details but added that Lazarus Mbethe was brought in as well, because of his business acumen.

Masetlha, Pereira, Langa and Mbethe appear as directors in two other shelf companies, Evening Star Trading 665 and Universal Pulse Trading 117, both set up in November 2006.

Mbethe is heavily involved in mining. He was part of the Pitsa ya Sechaba consortium that partnered with Chancellor House and the Russian company, Renova, to form United Manganese of Kalahari, which controversially got manganese rights in Northern Cape.

Masetlha said he and his partners were trying to get involved in stabilising the country through development. Projects he recalled included the refurbishment of a hotel, which is understood to have been the Oubangui Hotel, with which Pereira has also been associated.

He confirmed Langa had been "there on the ground" frequently – "he's been in and out" – and had concerned himself particularly with security issues.

Most significantly, Masetlha confirmed the group had an interest in diamonds from the region and had owned a barge to be used for alluvial diamond mining somewhere upstream on the Ubangi River where the group had a diamond concession.

He said the group had also discussed upgrading some of the main roads and the airport, but little progress had been made because of the instability in the country.

"The problem was security … the SA government got involved in trying to help Bozizé at least beef up his personal protection," said Masetlha.

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>Fabien Singaye is mentioned in the article who seems to be the son of “one of the principal Rwandan genocidaires”, Felician Kabuga.

“Felicien Kabuga: The man who put hate on Rwanda's airwaves | The Listening Post”- https://youtu.be/0qZBDmnsfQM. A great video.

Noteworthy statements

23:16 - “By that stage, Kabuka’s trail had once again gone cold and for the most part it would stay cold for the next 17 years.”

24:08 – “One of the lessons learned from the Kabuga case, outside of the substance what happened in 1994 and his role, is the willingness of people to ignore inhumanity for financial gain and what I mean by that is the only way Kabuga could have remained at large for all these years is through a network of support. And that network of support was only viable based on, in my view, on corruption.”

“Felician Kabuga lawyers fighting extradition” dated May 26, 2020, https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/felician-kabuga-lawyers-fighting-extradition-2709802

Following the surprise arrest of one of the world’s most wanted fugitives and alleged financier of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi Felicien Kabuga, on May 16 in Paris, the drama has now moved to court.

Mr Kabuga, was arrested in an apartment in the Paris suburb of Asnieres-Sur-Seine on May 16, after evading justice for 26 years.

With him in court were his sons Gilbert Kabuga, Fabien Singaye and his son-in-law Leon Habyarimana.

Kabuga’s defence lawyers, Mr Bayon and Emmanuel Altit, said in a statement that their client wished to be tried in France on grounds of ill-health and was opposed to his transfer to the IRMCT in Arusha.

“It is unacceptable that Kabuga is presented as one of the principal Rwandan genocidaires by a joint press release to the prosecution and the national gendarmerie disseminated on May 16, when his trial did not take place. The same goes for the national gendarmerie which, obviously, disseminated an image taken at its place of arrest without consent,” the statement reads.

Mr Altit also represented former Ivorian president, Laurent Gbagbo.

“Felicien Kabuga pleads not guilty to Rwanda genocide charges”- https://www.africanews.com/2020/11/12/felicien-kabuga-pleads-not-guilty-to-rwanda-genocide-charges/

The alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday as he made his first appearance at a UN court after a quarter of a century on the run.

Once one of Rwanda's richest men, Kabuga allegedly helped set up hate media that urged ethnic Hutus to "kill the Tutsi cockroaches" and funded militia groups.

Now in his 80s, he was arrested in France in May and transferred to the court in The Hague in October to face charges of a key role in the killing of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The frail Kabuga sat in a wheelchair behind a glass screen in the courtroom, wearing a coronavirus mask. A court official helped him adjust his headphones.

His defense lawyer Emmanuel Altit said Kabuga was "very tired" and "preferred not to speak" when asked by judge Iain Bonomy if the former businessman wanted to enter a plea.

"Given the situation, I would be grateful if you could consider this lack of response as a plea of not guilty on all the counts, under the rules and procedures," Altit told the court.

Kabuga, who until his arrest near Paris was one of the world's most wanted men, had already denied the charges in his court appearances in France.

The Rwandan faces seven counts including genocide, incitement to genocide, extermination, and persecution.

The UN court will later decide if he will be transferred to its branch in Tanzania for trial.

The UN says 800,000 people were murdered in a 100-day rampage that began in April 1994 in Rwanda, in scenes of horror that shocked the world.

An ally of Rwanda's then-ruling party, Kabuga allegedly helped create the Interahamwe Hutu militia group and the Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), whose broadcasts incited people to murder.

The lengthy indictment, read out by a court official, said that "RTLM broadcasts contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of persons identified as Tutsi civilians."

The radio station also identified the hiding places of Tutsis where they were later killed, it said.

Kabuga controlled and encouraged the station's content, failed to stop the broadcasts, and defended it when the minister of information criticized the broadcasts, the indictment said.

He is also accused of helping to buy machetes that were distributed to militias and ordering them to kill Tutsis.

Kabuga spent years on the run using a succession of false passports, with investigators saying that he had been helped by a network of former Rwandan allies to evade justice.

Kabuga was initially to be transferred to the UN court's facility in Arusha, Tanzania, which took over the ICTR's duties when it formally closed in 2015. [Is the death of Tanzania's president related?]

But a UN judge ruled he should first be taken to the court's Hague branch for a medical examination, and it was not immediately known when or if Kabuga might be transferred to Arusha.

“'Blind' France bears responsibility in Rwanda genocide, report says”- https://youtu.be/4rrXPS5fAx4. Interview with a Rwandan journalist, Ivan R. Mugisha.

“France bears 'overwhelming' responsibility for Rwanda genocide, report” - https://www.africanews.com/2021/03/26/france-bears-overwhelming-responsibility-for-rwanda-genocide-report-says/. Below are a few excerpts.

France was "blind" to the genocide preparations in Rwanda in 1994 and bears "heavy and overwhelming responsibilities" in the tragedy, a report by French historians said but they found no evidence of French complicity.

The report published on Friday concluded "France failed Rwanda" between 1990 and 1994 and highlighted Paris' blindness to the "racist, corrupt and violent" regime.

The report concluded that in July 1994 "murderers but also the masterminds of the genocide" were in a safe zone established by French forces in the west of the country "who the French political authorities refused to arrest."

The report stressed the responsibility laid on the former socialist president François Mitterrand, who was in office at the time of the genocide.

Mitterrand and his inner circle were also fearful of the encroachment of English-speaking influence into francophone Africa under influence from Uganda and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) of Kagame.

The report tells of French decision-makers trapped in "post-colonial" thinking who supported the "racist, corrupt and violent" regime of Habyarimana facing to a Tutsi rebellion considered as directed from English-speaking Uganda.

Macron ordered the creation of the commission in May 2019 to analyse France's role in Rwanda from 1990-1994 through archival research.

France notably led Operation Turquoise, a military-humanitarian intervention launched by Paris under a UN mandate between June and August 1994. Its critics believe that it was in reality aimed at supporting the genocidal Hutu government.

And there have also been repeated accusations that authorities in Paris helped suspects in the Rwanda genocide to escape while under French military protection.

The report has been submitted to Macron, who has taken tentative steps to come to terms with once taboo aspects of the country's historical record.

Paris also said the return of a French ambassador to Kigali in the coming months would be an additional step to normalising relations.

The commission chaired by historian Vincent Duclert was set up in 2019 by Macron, who has shown his eagerness to develop certain sensitive historical files.

“Palma Attack | Mozambique insurgency requires urgent regional response: Willem Els”- https://youtu.be/RQlyxqzreDw

“The ISIS linked group that attacked the town of Palma in northern Mozambique, has raised concerns among South African security experts, with many of them calling for SADeC to intervene and counter the possibility of any terror attacks on South Africa. To unpack the latest in Mozambique we now joined via zoom by Willem Els, Senior Training Co-ordinator at the Institute of Security Studies.”

8:32 – “It started off as a very localized insurgency, grievances of localized people. As they grew in force as they grew in successes, they were joined by foreign fighters from especially Tanzania, as far as Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, DRC and even South Africa. So that turned into a regional challenge because those people will return to their countries.”

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“5 Pakistani Intelligence Agency ISI Trained Operatives Linked To ISIS And New Year’s Terrorist Shooting Arrested in South Africa”dated Aug 1, 2020, https://newscomworld.com/2020/08/01/5-pakistani-intelligence-agency-isi-trained-operatives-linked-to-isis-and-new-years-terrorist-shooting-arrested-in-south-africa/

5 Pakistani Intelligence Agency ISI trained Operatives including a Somali and an Ethiopian and 3 Pakistanis linked to kidnapping, extremism syndicate of IS and New Year’s Eve Melville terrorist shooting were arrested in a Kliprivier house south of Johannesburg.

Pakistan is already in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Grey list and is undergoing scrutiny. However more and more terror links of Pakistan are getting exposed now.

A big breakthrough for South African authorities. The dirty Pakistan Intelligence Agency ISI that is known for their terrorist activities not just in Pakistan but all over the globe including 9/11 in New York, were found involved in running operational sleeper cells in South Africa under the supervision of Pakistan High Commission Defense and culture center for last twenty years according to the sources of South African authorities.

South African authorities have found credible evidences that these operational sleeper cells were used for smuggling drugs and heroin, arms and ammunition and human trafficking. The following people were involved in running ISI’s sleeper cells: Tari Bab, Raja Nawazish, Ayub Kashmiri, Maulana Saifi, Nomi Butt, Asif Dog Wala, Mian Naseer Brothers, Ahmed Raza Burts Wala, Chaudry Naar, Malik Haroon. These people were responsible for smuggling drugs and heroin, money laundering and all illegal activities in South Africa as well.

“00DEZZ - Call from Rupert chaired company for stricter lockdowns over Easter. Who's the Boss??” - https://youtu.be/q45UV8XtCKU

“Johann Rupert-chaired Remgro calls for stricter lockdown restrictions ahead of Easter weekend”- https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/remgro-calls-for-stricter-lockdown-restrictions-ahead-of-easter-weekend-20210329. Below are a few excerpts.

Investment company Remgro has called for stricter lockdown regulations to avoid a third Covid-19 wave, as South Africa heads into the Easter weekend.

The country has been in lockdown for a year, during which the regulations have ranged from a strict level 5, to the current level 1. The first wave peaked in July 2020, while the second wave came in December.

A possible third wave could be challenging for private hospital groups, whose revenues were impacted during the hard lockdown early last year.

“00DEZZ - NDZ vs Cyril Ramaphosa. Who will win the contest between the heavyweights?” - https://youtu.be/26GzROklVM0

“Dlamini-Zuma clobbers Ramaphosa over Rupert”- https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/dlamini-zuma-clobbers-ramaphosa-over-rupert-abd5c40a-cd8a-4c13-82d8-e7150723ac1c. Below are a few excerpts.

THE ANC’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Sunday turned into a heated show of force when some of the ANC's top guns took President Cyril Ramaphosa to task over his close proximity to billionaire businessman Johann Rupert, and his failure to implement radical economic transformation (RET).

The Daily News obtained further information last night from highly-placed sources in the party, who revealed that senior ANC NEC member and Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma shook the NEC when she asked Ramaphosa why he had failed to implement the ANC’s RET policies that were officially adopted at the party's previous elective conference.

Dlamini-Zuma is said to have also questioned Ramaphosa's “nearness" to Rupert, who was reported by the Daily News to have instructed the ANC president and his trusted battalions to remove the party’s secretary-general, Ace Magashule.

At this point, the NEC meeting apparently degenerated into chaos when Dlamini-Zuma asked the president to explain himself.

"The meeting turned sour when Dlamini-Zuma asked the president to explain his close relationship with Rupert. Those loyal to Ramaphosa roared in protest, saying that Dlamini-Zuma was attacking the president", said a source.

Another source added that it was the first time Ramaphosa had been cornered and requested to explain himself, which brought to light the glaring degree of deep divisions within the ANC.

“This meeting was emotionally draining for some of us. It was the first time the president was openly told to explain himself, and it left us with a clear indication of just how deeply divided the ANC is,” said the source.

“The integrity report almost collapsed the meeting. Different views were placed before the meeting, and others suggested that if Magashule was suspended, the president must also step aside as he is also being investigated by the courts and the ANC itself,” said the source.

In August 2020, former president Jacob Zuma tore into Ramaphosa, accusing him of betraying the ANC and of being helpful to those who were determined to build a counter-revolutionary party. Zuma said Ramaphosa “played into the hands of those who seek to destroy the ANC and build a counter-revolutionary party under the guise of fighting corruption”.

“You write, for your own desires to plead for white validation and approval, the worst betrayal of Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and others who sacrificed their own freedom for the ANC. With your pen, you desecrate the graves of young men and women who lived and died cruel deaths at the hands of apartheid security forces and mercenaries," Zuma wrote in a letter addressed to Ramaphosa.

Zuma said Mbalula informed him that at this event Rupert had told Mbalula, who was the Sports minister at the time, that should he remove Pravin Gordhan as Finance minister he and others “would shut down the economy” and collapse the rand.

“Indeed they did interfere with the rand,” Zuma said, telling the commission that one person had this year admitted to this.

In December 2019, the Sunday Independent reported that Ramaphosa and his business allies were going out of their way to privatise state-owned enterprises and destroy black-owned companies funded by the Public Investment Corporation as part of a bigger plot to turn voters against the ANC in favour of a coalition of almost all opposition parties except the EFF.

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>>13315239

It is interesting that the conflict in Mozambique commenced again soon after the death of the President Magufuli. Take note, Tanzania borders the affected area.

This reminds me of the murder of Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, where the terrorist attacks by SWAPO commenced soon after his death.

“Court rules Free State ANC PEC election unlawful”- https://youtu.be/2Bk6ywofG2U

“eNCA's Siphamandla Goge reports.”

0:10 – “Disgruntled members of the provincial party challenged the PEC’s election saying audits of ANC branches didn’t happen. Meanwhile it’s all eyes on the embattled ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule next move. He now has 30 days to step aside or face suspension amid corruption charges.”

5:09 – “Remember, the Free State province is his home province that is his political turf that is where his political allies are. He has the support in the Free State. There are some other members of the ANC in the Free State who do not support him.”

“Sparks fly as Magashule faction comes under fire”- https://sundayworld.co.za/breaking-news/sparks-fly-as-magashule-faction-comes-under-fire/

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule is against the ropes following a blistering attack on his leadership by former president Thabo Mbeki and supporters of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

On Saturday, Mbeki told a heated ANC national executive committee (NEC) meeting that Magashule was a divisive figure compared to the former secretary-generals of the party, including Sol Plaatjie.

Mbeki added that if the ANC was serious about radical socio-economic change, it has to improve its leadership.

“He (Mbeki) was saying if you look at the stature of the of the office of the secretary-general in the past, the standard dropped under Magashule,” an NEC member said.

“Mbeki went for him (Magashule),” the member added.

Magashule’s allies in the socalled radical economic transformation (RET) faction also came under heavy attack, with calls for some of its key figures, including Carl Niehaus, to be expelled.

This was despite Ramaphosa’s opening address calling on unity and renewal of the organisation.

The first day of the gathering (Friday) kicked off to a stormy start after a discussion was started by Ramaphosa’s allies on the conduct of the RET faction.

There were also renewed calls for Magashule to step aside, while his supporters mounted a strong pushback against eff orts to oust the former Free State premier from his powerful position.

But it was the unprecedented attacks on Magashule and the RET faction that took centre stage in the early parts of the meeting, which ends today.

ANC head of economic transformation Enoch Gondongwana and Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Thabang Makwetla led the charge against Magashule’s backers, calling for the Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) to be disbanded.

NEC members who att ended the meeting said Makwetla raised objections with the conduct of the MKMVA – vocal supporters of Magashule – condemning their camping outside former president Jacob Zuma homestead to block attempts to arrest the former statesman for his defiance of the Constitutional Court. So bruising was the onslaught on the RET forces that calls were made for expulsion of its key figures, including spokesperson Carl Niehaus.

“Makwetla pushed that MKMVA must be dissolved. He said they were outside Zuma’s house wearing military gear. He asked what would happen if the former soldiers of the South African Defence Force would do the same,” an NEC member said.

“Makwetla said Carl must be expelled. Godongwana said RET forces must be disciplined. Godongwana also said the DA was not the enemy,” the member said, adding that Godongwana’s comments on the DA were understood to mean the RET forces were now seen as an “enemy” within the ANC.

However, former labour minister Mildred Oliphant was among Magashule’s supporters who objected to the dissolution of the MKMVA, saying the organisation, unlike Makwetla’s MK National Council, had been a party decision. ANC national youth task team co-ordinator Thandi Mahambehlala, a staunch Magshule backer, argued that the ANC should not be selective in dealing with factions, saying groupings of veterans outside formal structures of the party and foundations such as the Kathrada Foundation should also be reined in.

Attacks on Magashule’s supporters started early in the week, with the ANC in the Eastern Cape, a stronghold of the Ramaphosa, Godongwana and the party policy guru Joel Netshitenzhe – known Mbeki supporters – and ANC presidency head Sibongile Besani, saying the RET was no longer just a faction but a splinter from the ANC.

Sharp divisions also emerged when a call for Magashule to step aside was repeated by Godongwana, Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and former state security minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba.

ANC spokesperson Dakota Legoete, ANC NEC members Tony Yengeni, Joe Maswanganyi and Mahambehlala pushed back against attempts to ice Magashule.

The continued stalemate between the two groups saw former mineral resources minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi call for a vote on major issues, a suggestion that was shot down.

“AfriForum calls for Cele’s dismissal”- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/afriforum-calls-for-celes-dismissal/

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has written to Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa, calling for Bheki Cele, the Minister of Police to vacate his office.

AfriForum is of the opinion that Cele has repeatedly shown through his actions, negligence and statements that he is not fit for such a cardinal role in a country that is paralysed by crime.

The recent disclosure that the internal systems of the South African Police Service (SAPS) that are used to file exhibits, amongst others, and the system on which firearms are issued to members of the police have been non-functional for months, is only one such example.

The systems were switched off following months of alleged defaulting by the police. Furthermore, the SAPS apparently did not heed court orders and other structures of authority regarding payment for these systems. The fact that these systems are not functioning properly is detrimental to the entire criminal justice system.

“Cele’s bullying attitude when he gets involved in police operations is imitated by many of his subordinates, with the result that the SAPS acts violently towards members of the public for unfounded reasons on a regular basis. AfriForum has assisted numerous citizens and has also helped to sue the SAPS for damages,” said Marnus Kamfer, AfriForum’s Legal and Risk Manager for Community Safety.

“During a recent television interview, the Minister even admitted that he did not know who the Head of Crime Intelligence was. His attitude is careless and his personal views overshadow his judgment to do his work properly. The SAPS is crumbling under his leadership,” Kamfer concluded.

AfriForum has launched a campaign to canvass the public’s support in putting pressure on the president to get rid of the Minister.

“New draft law brings much stricter rules against discrimination. Here's what you need to know”- https://www.businessinsider.co.za/pepuda-amendment-wants-to-broaden-the-scope-of-discrimination-and-involve-employers-2021-3

Under a new draft law, companies would have to show they had taken "reasonable steps" to prevent discrimination by employees if they want to avoid facing the legal consequences alongside those employees.

At the same time, the definition of discrimination would be broadened – and the need for intentional action dropped – so that an employee who undermines the dignity of a person in a protected class, even by accident, would create corporate liability.

Those changes are proposed in an amendment Bill for the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (Pepuda) published by the department of justice and constitutional development last week.

Large sections of the 20-year-old Pepuda are still not in operation, because of the "regulatory burden on placed on all sectors of society, both public and private" where it tries force the promotion of equality, the justice department says.

The amendments make the law more realistically implementable, the draft amendment seeks to "[c]larify and reduce certain duties" for the state.

Companies, on the other hand, face greater responsibilities.

If the amendment passes in its current form, employers and employees acting in the course of their work would be equally liable for unfair discrimination by an employee, and action would be possible against "either or both of them unless the person took reasonable steps to prevent the worker, employee or agent from contravening" the law.

Discrimination would be easier to prove too. Under the draft law discrimination would newly include:

• encouraging someone else to discriminate

• causing prejudice

• undermining dignity

Discrimination could be found whether or not it had been intentional, ad could be direct or indirect.

The definition of equality too would get an upgrade, to include "equal right and access to resources, opportunities, benefits and advantages."

Pepuda outlaws unfair discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age disability, language, religion, and other specific grounds, but also contains catch-all definitions dealing with any discrimination that causes systemic disadvantage.

“Nandos vs. Santam - an epic ad-dual”- https://youtu.be/EhM8HF7uzSs

“In 2012, Santam (a South African insurance company) aired an ad featuring Sir Ben Kingsley. In April that year Nandos released a spoof of the ad, using it to promote their menu options. The result was an ad-dual like none other…”

“Watch Now: Naked woman ‘stars’ in hilarious SA parliament meeting”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-now-naked-parliament-meeting/. Video is provided in the article.

South Africans got some light entertainment when a naked woman walked in while a traditional leader was in a meeting with parliament.

A hilarious “unholy” video of an unwitting naked woman walking into a Parliamentary committee Zoom meeting has gone viral on social media, embarrassing the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.

But the video has provided enormous light relief for South Africans who have shared the images of the naked woman in the parliament meeting widely, even if the chair of the meeting, Faith Muthambi, thought the image was “unholy”.

In the video, committee member Nkosi Mhlangu is busy talking about medical officers who are having problems being paid. He then turns around and notices the naked woman and says “that is not clear” and covers his eyes, as if it will make the image disappear from the minds of the viewers.

“It is not clear,” he repeated.

Muthambi then interjects: “Nkosi (chief) the person behind you is not properly dressed. We are seeing everything…yho.”

“Please Nkosi, did you tell them you are in a meeting. It is very disturbing what we are seeing…and Nkozi Mhlangu, it is not happening for the first time. Whenever we meet you for the first time we see these unholy pictures. You are live on TV,” she said.

Mhlangu responded that he was “very sorry chair”.

“I was focussing on the camera. I did not know there was somebody behind me, sorry, sorry, sorry. I am so embarrassed chair,” he said.

Mathumbi then added that the same thing had happened in a meeting with another traditional leader in the North West.

Following the meeting Mathumbi issued a statement saying the COGTA parliamentary committee was “outraged” and embarrassed by the appearance of the naked woman in the video and that she planned to address the issue with the National House of Traditional Leaders.

“The naked woman was not part of the meeting. She was in the same room where the participant in the meeting was. We regret and condemn the incident in strongest terms,” Mthumbi said.

“It is regrettable that this kind of footage, which is embarrassing the committee, happens for the second time in meetings between the committee and the NHTL.”

“Blue Light brigade - Oh how important our policticians are!!!”- https://youtu.be/pNdyEkZ5EdQ

“About time we all film the reckless driving of the "so important" blue light brigade!! In a country where the richest people are all politician's and their families…this is why we pay our taxes!!”

“Nando’s Blue Light Brigade”- https://youtu.be/SbDgJN-j-PM

Nando’s mocking the South Africa’s ministers.