“DA is disturbed by claims that Afrikaans-speaking students are not allowed to speak Afrikaans”- https://youtu.be/HeCTRpDT3pw

“The DA says it is disturbed by claims that Afrikaans-speaking Stellenbosch University students are not allowed to speak their mother tongue. DA leader John Steenhuisen visited Stellenbosch University on Wednesday after reports that students were banned from speaking Afrikaans at their residences and on campus. However, Stellenbosch University has issued a statement denying this. Joining me now is Leon Schreiner, Western Cape MEC for Public Administration and Khule Duma, former leader of Open Stellenbosch.”

Keep in mind.

https://www.silverbaytrans.com/post/15-facts-and-history-about-the-afrikaans-language states;

Afrikaans is one of the official languages of South Africa and Namibia. It stems from a rich and diverse culture and it has more than 7 million people speaking this language in South Africa alone.

The language was established in the 17th century by the descendants of European colonists, Khoisan people, African, and Asian slaves. It was established as a need to communicate across different cultures. This is why, even though it is mainly Dutch, it also has been influenced by other languages as well.

While approximately 7 million people speak Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia, there are around 23 million speakers of this language all over the world.

Most people that speak Afrikaans aren’t white today and whites only makeup 40% of the ratio. The rest of it includes black people and also people of mixed races.

>>13225044 - Take note.

“Afrikaans must fall at Tuks – EFF”dated Feb 17, 2016, at https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/afrikaans-must-fall-at-tuks-eff-1985652 states;

The University of Pretoria will feel the wrath of the EFF student command (EFFSC) if it does not change its language policy with immediate effect.

The party on Tuesday threatened to bring the institution to its knees should its demands regarding languages not be met.

He [Kabelo Mahlobogwane, EFFSC Tuks leader] told the Pretoria News the issue was first submitted with other demands during the #FeesMustFall protest last October. “It’s been too long.

“Students protests use of Afrikaans as a teaching language in South Africa” dated Feb 24, 2016, at https://youtu.be/dolLuO9hM5s [embedded]

“Students at the University of Pretoria, South Africa are up in arms over the use of Afrikaans as an official teaching language. Following days of violent protests, the university administration has reportedly resolved to conduct all lessons in English only. CCTV's Julie Scheier has the story”

“Student protests | Universities shutdown”- https://youtu.be/HvLNMmK17xQ [today]

“eNCA's Silindelo Masikane reported from the streets of Braamfontein.”

They shut down businesses as well.

“Unisa students join call for free education”- https://youtu.be/mymrvnmga0w [today]

“eTV news and sports reporter Pule Letshwiti-Jones spoke with student protestors at Unisa.”

South Africa involvement in Yemen and German Connection as well as the Mozambican conflict

“Mozambique conflict | Profiting from conflict" - https://youtu.be/oRroswKLnQk

“Open Secrets alleges that in 2015, South African weapons manufacturers exported military hardware to countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, which ended up in play in the Yemen conflict. Makhosonke Jele, the Head of the Secretariat of the National Conventional Arms Control Committee, spoke with eNCA's Thulasizwe Simelane.”

Rheinmetall is mentioned and below are few excerpts from the Open Secrets report found at https://www.opensecrets.org.za/report-profiting-from-misery-south-africas-complicity-in-war-crimes-in-yemen/;

These exports come from many South African companies. However, this chapter deals primarily with the evidence that armaments exported by Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) – the South African subsidiary of the German arms giant Rheinmetall – have been deployed in Yemen.

The focus on RDM is motivated by two factors. Firstly, there is compelling evidence that fragments of RDM munitions were found at the site of an attack on the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen, an attack that targeted civilians and first responders. Secondly, RDM is one of several Rheinmetall subsidiaries around the world implicated in exporting weapons to the Saudi coalition despite a German ban prohibiting German firms from exporting directly to Saudi Arabia. This raises the possibility that South Africa, despite its self-professed commitment to rigorous arms control, is being used by companies like Rheinmetall to circumvent arms bans in their home countries that aim to protect human rights.

Before we turn to the evidence against RDM, it is necessary to explore its history and that of its majority shareholder, Rheinmetall. Doing so reveals Rheinmetall’s dubious history in Germany, as well as close and intricate ties with the apartheid-era military establishment.

To the outsider, RDM may seem to be a young gun in the South African arms industry - proudly homegrown with only a hint of German influence in the appointment of successive German CEOs. However, to understand the company it is necessary to step back and look at the German arms behemoth Rheinmetall, which holds 51 percent of the total shares in RDM (the balance is held by the South African state). This reveals a history of profiteering from war and injustice that is deeply embedded in Rheinmetall’s institutional make-up.

By 1936 when Hitler’s Nazi Party was in full control of the German economy, Rheinmetall merged with one of the most important train and engine manufacturers in fascist Germany, August Borsig GmbH, to become Rheinmetall-Borsig AG. Just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, all German arms factories – including Rheinmetall-Borsig – were brought under the direct control of the armed forces of Nazi Germany. During the six-year long war Rheinmetall-Borsig was the second biggest supplier of weapons to Hitler’s war machine.

Between 1939 and 1945, Rheinmetall used the German concentration camp system to exploit prisoners. Through slave labour inmates were forced to manufacture weapons, set up underground arms production facilities and supplement other Rheinmetall factories. The Nazi state’s hundreds of slave labour camps across Europe provided free labour to large German companies like Rheinmetall which generated enormous profits from the exploitation of prisoners in concentration camps. Rheinmetall was not the only German arms corporation to have exploited slave labour during the Second World War, but it is known as one of the ‘greatest offenders’.

[All it tells me is that the puppets have changed and not the government.]

“ArcelorMittal tragedy | Numsa demands inquiry” dated 24 February 2021 at https://youtu.be/B6o9wdT0CYY

A burial site for workers. That's how Numsa describes ArcelorMittal South Africa. Last week the bodies of three workers were retrieved after being buried in a massive pile of rubble for hours in the Vaal [Vanderbijlpark plant]. eNCA's Silindelo Masikane has the details.

Is it coincidence that the following happened?

“Peet Snyders, head of ArcelorMittal Vanderbiljpark plant, mowed down in hail of bullets”- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/gauteng/peet-snyders-head-of-arcelormittal-vanderbiljpark-plant-mowed-down-in-hail-of-bullets/

Mr Peet Snyders (47), head of the ArcelorMittal plant in Vanderbiljpark, was shot and killed on Thursday 17 March 2021, in a planned assassination hit carried out by four black men with balaclavas.

Kobus Verster, CEO of ArcelorMittal, issued a media statement after the murder in which he said Mr Snyders was driving home in his car when the attack was carried out at the intersection of Delfos street and Hertz Boulevard in Vanderbiljpark.

A SAPS spokesperson confirmed the attack and said Mr Snyders was declared dead at the scene. He confirmed there were 4 attackers wearing balaclavas.

It is widely speculated that the murder on Mr Snyders has something to do with his position as head of the ArcelorMittal plant in Vanderbiljpark.

Mr Snyders leaves his wife and 2 children behind.

Below are a few excerpts from https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/arcelormittal-exits-pandemic-with-shift-to-younger-generation/articleshow/80858969.cms dated 11 February 2021.

ArcelorMittal named Aditya Mittal its new chief executive officer, marking a generational shift as a leaner steelmaker emerges from the pandemic.

The 45-year-old served a two-decade apprenticeship under his father Lakshmi Mittal, who becomes executive chairman of the steelmaking giant he founded in 1976. During that period, the new CEO made his mark, spearheading the $34 billion takeover of Arcelor in the steel industry’s biggest-ever deal.

Lakshmi Mittal, the billionaire steel magnate who owns 36% of the company, is stepping back from day-to-day operations as ArcelorMittal rewards investors with a revived dividend and series of share buybacks after years of focusing on debt reduction. Mittal, who was once the U.K.’s richest man, built the company from a rolling mill in Indonesia in 1976, before transforming the industry with the takeover of his largest rival 30 years later.

Aditya Mittal, who previously worked in Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment bank, played a key role in driving the acquisition of Arcelor in 2006. His plan catapulted Mittal from being the owner of older plants, mainly in emerging markets, to the world’s biggest and most advanced steelmaker. It also lumbered the company with debt that it’s spent the past 15 years trying to escape from.

The steelmaker has focused on consolidation, selling its North American operations to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and shuttering an unprofitable furnace in Poland. It also sold most of its stake in the beleaguered Ilva mill to the Italian government.

ArcelorMittal reported fourth-quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $1.73 billion.

“Farm murderers of the van den Berg couple were transported to their farm with an ambulance”- https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/free-state/farm-murderers-of-the-van-den-berg-couple-were-transported-to-their-farm-with-an-ambulance/. Below are a few excerpts.

The murderers of farming couple Sakkie and Ina van den Berg were transported to their farm Blouboswes at Boshoff in the Free State with an ambulance. This evidence was given before the Bloemfontein High Court on Tuesday 6 March 2021, by Colonel Babane Skota of the Police’s Organised Crime Unit in the Free State.

Skota was testifying about a warning statement given by one of the accused in the case, Thami Terence Kat, on 16 July 2019. Kat, Johannes Sekgoro, Leepile Daniel Sidasi and Daniel Tshekiso Seloane are currently standing trial for the murder of Sakkie (67) and Ina (62).

The attack and murder on the couple happened on 12 July 2019.

Before we go further, we have to point at the sick mentality of using an ambulance to go and commit a murder. This deed which would be against even war laws points to the total lack of any values that is so prevalent amongst “our people” in South Africa.

A job is just a job to them. Even being an ambulance worker is not sacrosanct and regarded as a noble profession aimed at saving lives. At least one ambulance driver was willing to participate in an ethnic cleansing attack like the attack and premeditated murder on the Van den Berg couple.

We just hope incidents like this will be widely shared on social media because some of us have long said that there is an ethnic cleansing campaign and slow war being conducted against the white minority in South Africa, carried out by criminals but actively encouraged by the ANC and EFF.

The couple’s bakkie was later found abandoned at the Caledon River. Fingerprints found on the bakkie led to the arrest of the suspects. According to the statement Colonel Skota took from Kat, the attack group asked an ambulance driver they knew to drop them at the farm gate of the Van den Berg farm.

The attackers overpowered Sakkie at the farm gate when he arrived and forced him to the farm house where they also overpowered Ina. They ransacked the house and collected valuables.

Skota testified that Kat stated in his warning statement that Seloane said they can’t leave the couple alive. He went back into the house and shot Sakkie and Ina to death.

Earlier Warrant Officer Van Rhyn, investigating officer, testified that he found the murder weapon, a revolver, in a ” trommel” in the backyard of Kat’s mother in Bloemfontein on 24 July 2019. Ballistic tests linked the firearm to the murder of the Van Den Berg couple.

On further investigation it was found that the gun was stolen from another farm belonging to a Mr Lotz of Boshof in the Free State.

Mr Lotz already passed away at the time the gun was found but his wife told WO Van Rhyn that the gun was stolen from the farm during the time Seloane worked on the farm.

This proves another point and that is that many farm workers are involved in attacks on farms, either directly involved or giving information out to attack teams.

This phenomenon is common these days because the ANC and EFF are propagating that all white people stole the land they are on and all the land actually belongs to the black majority – although this can’t be proven historically. Farmers must be aware of the new reality and be careful of what information their workers have of them and their movements.

We as the white minority has always faced a slow war against us in this country but due to liberal indoctrination – liberals classify farm attacks as mere ” ordinary crime ” – we have never realised the full truth.

It is incumbent upon us to help spread the truth on social media. Silence is complicity.

“Xoli Mngambi in conversation with Derek Hanekom on faction battles in the ANC” - https://youtu.be/mc5TG70kl44

“ANC supporters of President Cyril Ramaphosa are hitting out at the so-called "radical economic transformation" faction. This faction supports ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. The tension between the two groups is growing ahead of a scheduled National Executive Committee meeting this weekend. For more on this, Xoli Mngambi is joined by Derek Hanekom, a member of the NEC.”

“South Africa beware: Ace Magashule’s RET faction will fight to the bitter end” Part 1- https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-03-22-south-africa-beware-ace-magashules-ret-faction-will-fight-to-the-bitter-end/. Below are a few excerpts.

South Africans, including the mass of ANC members, cannot allow the advances since 2017 to be squandered, and for the constitutional order to be subverted. The campaign against this assault on our democracy should be intensified, involving all sectors of society.

When pronouncements by the secretary-general of the African National Congress on Gagasi FM that the Democratic Alliance was “the enemy of the National Democratic Revolution” and that voting with the party in favour of an inquiry into Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness to hold office, was “sleeping with the enemy” came to public attention beyond the radio’s listenership, the first question that came to mind among many ANC members was, do we still have an organisation?

While in 2017 the ANC argued that electoral outcomes could place “into positions of authority, forces that can stealthily and deceitfully chip away at the progressive realisation of a National Democratic Society”, it also recognised that the ANC itself could wreak untold damage on the cause of social transformation. The 2017 Strategy and Tactics document acknowledges that “it cannot altogether be ruled out that the liberation movement itself can be so corrupted — in terms of its objectives, policies, value systems as well as composition and conduct of its leadership — that it becomes a bed of counter-revolutionary infestation”.

The conceptual confusion aside, what irked many ANC members is that the secretary-general sought to distance himself from the guidance that the officials (so-called Top Six) recently gave to the ANC caucus in Parliament. This was on whether or not to institute a formal parliamentary inquiry into the fitness of the Public Protector to hold office, given the report of the panel set up by the Speaker of the National Assembly, which had found prima facie evidence of incompetence and misconduct.

And so, a trend is emerging where the secretary-general of the ANC is starting to stick out like a sore thumb among his peers and across the movement. This seems to form part of a wider campaign to undermine the structures of the ANC.

The so-called Radical Economic Transformation (RET) faction has announced that it is holding meetings; and one of its leaders, incidentally, working in the secretary-general’s office, has released a “basic document” that calls for “a return of the ANC to its socialist ideological orientation”, whatever this means, under current global and domestic conditions.

It is not the first time that the ANC has experienced the emergence of an organisation within the organisation. As with the PAC in 1958 and the Group of 8 in the 1970s, this ultimately led to rupture. The elephant does take long to turn — or to use a different metaphor — the fruit was allowed to ripen and drop at the slightest shake of the tree.

“Xoli Mngambi in conversation with Carl Niehaus” - https://youtu.be/7rN1hpirPsk

“ANC member Carl Niehaus says he believes that all ANC members have to work together to implement the economic policy programme of the ANC which is radical economic transformation as it states in the resolutions that were taken at the 54th national conference.”

“South Africa beware: Ace Magashule’s RET faction will fight to the bitter end” Part 2- https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-03-22-south-africa-beware-ace-magashules-ret-faction-will-fight-to-the-bitter-end/. Below are a few excerpts.

But the situation may be more serious than this generous interpretation, and so, debate on content issues may be pointless, as policy is but a ruse to hide something else. Veterans of the ANC and other respected individuals and organisations in the Defend our Democracy campaign identify the threat to include defiance of the Constitutional Court, and they argue that it “goes beyond that posed by an individual [and] illustrates how that individual embodies a political culture fundamentally antithetical to democracy: the cult of personality, rule by factional dictate, nepotism, and totalitarianism in a securitised state”.

According to the Defend our Democracy campaigners, this threat is characterised by the looting which has weakened the state and undermined the economy. Proceeds of corruption are being used both for personal enrichment and to “enable a well-organised cartel” to stall prosecution of beneficiaries of corruption and state capture. Further, a private militia and a wider network have been mobilised to amplify unlawful defiance of the courts by the former president.

Conspiracy theories abound, with reports of units trained in sabotage and assassination, and strange coincidences such as the attempt to incite violence against foreigners in KwaZulu-Natal by elements of the very same private militia, and the fire in Parliament after the vote on the Public Protector. Some of these theories may be without basis.

But it cannot be ruled out that South Africa’s own Savimbis and Dhlakamas — who destabilised Angola and Mozambique with the support of the erstwhile SA Defence Force and its Military Intelligence — are crawling out of the woodwork and showing their true colours.

In these efforts, the battles must be deftly chosen, and the timing of each fight must be appropriate. Care must be taken not to allow the saboteurs to dictate the “what, when and how” of engagement. The fish should not be allowed to twist, turn and muddy the waters so as to slip out of the grip of the justice system.

Lest we forget: the beneficiaries of corruption and state capture will not give up without a fight. South Africa cannot afford to be complacent!