“Police warn criminals in Kwanobuhle [Eastern Cape] that their acts will not be tolerated” – Shop owners killed, businesses attacked and looted- https://www.saps.gov.za/newsroom/msspeechdetail.php?nid=33649

EASTERN CAPE - The Acting District Commissioner, Brig Thandiswa Kupiso is warning those responsible in Kwanobuhle for senselessly attacking, stealing and looting businesses in unrelated incidents yesterday afternoon, 09 July 2021.

It is alleged that on Friday, 09 July 2021, criminals targeted several spaza shops resulting in loss of life and loss of property. Quick police response to curb further attacks resulted in police assisting other shops to close and some shop owners were also escorted out of the area for fear of their own safety. Public Order Police (POP) and the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) remained in the area to ensure stability and any further acts of criminality.

The motive for the attacks are suspected to be criminal in nature and investigations are continuing.

In the first incident, at about 12:00 on 09 July 2021, a business robbery occurred outside a shop in Sonto Street, Kwanobuhle. It is alleged that 3 armed suspects overpowered a shop owner who was walking to his vehicle. They took cash from him where after a scuffle took place between the owner and one of the armed suspects. The other two suspects then started shooting at the and in the process fatally wounding their own accomplice. The owner escaped unscathed. Sinethemba Leve (31) died from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body on the scene. A 9mm pistol was found in possession of the deceased.

In another unrelated incident, at about 14:30, another shop was allegedly robbed in Golomi Street. It is alleged that 3 armed suspects entered the shop and demanded money from the shop assistant. When he refused to hand over any money, the shop was set alight. As the victim ran out, he was shot at several times. Habtamu Bherina (32) succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

In another two incidents, two other males aged 27 and 26 years old also died when one shop was set alight and another shop looted by alleged robbers. At about 19:30, a shop in Bantom Street was looted by criminals and the owner, Dareba Badol (27) was also fatally wounded. Nkululeko Jonas (26) died of suspected smoke inhalation after his shop was set alight in Pilani Street, Kwanobuhle.

Due to swift police intervention, calm was restored in the area.

Police are investigating the robberies and murders as isolated incidents [yeah right!] and are appealing to the communities to assist them in tracing and arresting those suspects that are involved in these heinous crimes.

“Pro-Zuma protests | One person shot and killed” – Protests spread into Gauteng- https://youtu.be/Pj_1qGFoJy4

Sixty-two suspects have been arrested as pro-Zuma protests spread into Gauteng. A probe is underway to determine the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a 40-year-old man. eNCA’s Lindokuhle Xulu is in Alexandra in Johannesburg with the latest.

“Protests flare up in Hillbrow, Johannesburg”- https://youtu.be/jJPlDwSLqfo

eNCA reporter Nqobile Madlala is in Hillbrow, Johannesburg where protests flared up overnight.

“Zuma incarceration | More protests expected across KZN”- https://youtu.be/30TMoWUI2sI

Noteworthy statement;

1:20 – “ I want to tell you about something about this area that we’re in, the broader north coast area. So, it seems like those that are protesting are targeting the N2 which is a very strategic route as you know because it goes past Richard’s Bay and the port area. It goes all the way to the border as well. So it’s one that is very important in the economic sector and especially with the trucking sector as well because that’s where goods are transported back and forth. Something else that has come through now as well Morena, is some of our contacts around this area are sending us videos that were taken during the course of the night with small fires that been popping up on farms that are around here. You also know that the north coast is where you’ll find many of these plantations and farms and it seems that that is now also becoming one of the areas that is affected by these ongoing riots.”

“Discussion | Shops looted in JHB CBD”- https://youtu.be/cG-C7KnpQSI

Major-General Mathapelo Peters, SAPS head of communications speaks to #eNCA about the free-Zuma protests that have swelled into Gauteng

1:55 – “Also, in as far as the threat that we have been seeing on social media that there should be a widespread shutdown so we are monitoring as far wide as possible.”

2:30 – “Well different businesses have been targeted, different businesses were attacked, entry was forced by these criminals and some of these were unfortunately liquor stores. So we are just monitoring the situation and like I indicated, in fact, in Alexander, one of the people that were arrested because we arrested a total of just about 40 suspects in Gauteng alone. One of the people that were arrested for possession of suspected stolen property had a radio system in his possession. So it’s different businesses that are targeted.

“ZUMA finally comfirms he is part of AMABUTHO” - https://youtu.be/GEx_8DJT7xM. Take note: “Zulu amabutho (age sets or regiments) defended against raiders, provided protection for refugees, and, apparently, began to trade in ivory and slaves themselves.”… “During the 1820s European raiders joined Zulu amabutho in attacking areas north of the Swart-Mfolozi River and south of the Mzimkulu River, where in the mid-1820s French ships exported slaves. Francis Farewell’s raiders, in alliance with Zulu groups, seized women and children in the same area in 1828.” https://www.britannica.com/topic/amabutho

Remember the recent unrest in Swaziland/eSwatini. Is there a connection with regard to the violence in both countries?

“Explained: the Zulu connection to the eSwatini monarchy”dated Jul 1, 2021, at https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/explained-the-zulu-connection-to-the-eswatini-monarchy-c38d4db2-d0ff-5fbd-ad9f-b2dd36df3014

Durban - With protests turning violent in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, eSwatini, political leaders in South Africa have called on its government to offer their support to the people of the country.

Like most countries around Africa, leaders of monarchies often have ties to one another, much like the ties between South Africa’s Zulu monarch and the Kingdom of eSwatini.

King Mswati III, the current king of eSwatini and the head of the Swazi Royal household, was placed at the head of the table in April 1986 at the age of 18, making him the youngest ruling monarch in the world at the time.

Mswati’s father, King Sobhuza II, served as paramount chief until his death in 1982, leaving King Mswati to rule alongside his mother and one of King Sobhuza’s younger wives, Ntfombi Tfwala.

On February 15, 1953, King Sobhuza’s daughter Princess Mantfombi Dlamini was born to the House of Dlamini.

In 1973, after a traditional upbringing in the ways of the Swazi Royal Family, the princess was betrothed to King Goodwill Zwelithini, who would rule the Zulu Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 2021.

As part of the conditions of their marriage, seeing as the two were authorities in their respective countries, the Swazi palace said that Princess Mantfombi Dlamini was to become the king’s Great Wife.

The title would allow her male heir first place in the line of succession to the Zulu throne. The Zulu monarch agreed and the two married in 1977.

Queen Mantfombi Dlamini ruled until her death in April this year, just a few weeks after the death of her husband, King Zwelithini.

After the death of his parents, Misuzulu Sinqobile kaZwelithini, the oldest surviving son of Queen Mantfombi Dlamini and King Goodwill Zwelithini, officially became King of the Zulus on May 7, 2021.

The Swazi Royal family have forged other links with African dynasties in the past, including the marriage of King Sobhuza’s son, Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini, to the daughter of former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, Zenani Mandela-Dlamini.

Latest headlines concerning the riots in South Africa

“Riots: Watch six killed, hundreds arrested in KZN and Gauteng” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/riots-watch-six-killed-hundreds-arrested-in-kzn-and-gauteng/

“Watch: KZN communities take up arms – and FIGHT BACK against looters” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-riots-latest-updates-kzn-looters-fight-back-community-guns/

“Riots WATCH: Where is SANDF as citizens protect suburbs?” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/durban-riots-watch-where-is-sandf-as-citizens-protect-suburbs-hotspots/

“Watch: Looters rob SANBS blood bank during Ramaphosa’s address” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-news-riot-updates-tuesday-13-july-looters-rob-sanbs-blood-bank/

“Violent protests: Nine people killed, four officers injured, 489 arrested” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-violent-protests-nine-people-killed-four-officers-injured-489-arrested/

“Watch: PMB looter fails to get massive TV into his car” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/offbeat/watch-latest-riots-updates-south-africa-looter-tv-set-car-watch/

“N3 highway – which connects Gauteng and KZN – now CLOSED entirely” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-latest-traffic-news-kzn-gauteng-n3-highway-closed-how-long-for/

“Riots latest: SAPS left red-faced as arrested looter ‘runs away’” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-riots-latest-saps-arrested-looter-escapes-video/

“Riots update: Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile, under investigation for ‘inciting violence’” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-news-riots-updates-duduzile-zuma-sambudla-who-is-zumas-daughter/

“Riots WATCH latest: Residents STILL protecting suburbs as mobs loot” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-durban-riots-watch-latest-residents-still-protecting-suburbs-as-mobs-loot/

“BREAKING: 10 people dead after stampede at Ndofaya Mall in Soweto, says Makhura” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-ndofaya-mall-stampede-meadowlands-soweto-10-dead-david-makhura-gauteng-13-july-2021/

“Video: Shops still looted in Port Edward amid violent protests” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/video-breaking-violent-protests-update-shops-still-looted-in-port-edward/

“Metro police watch: Were the officers looting or not?” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-metro-police-looting-watch-were-the-officers-looting-or-not/

“Watch: Brookside Mall in PMB on fire- protestors looting as fire blazes” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-watch-brookside-mall-in-pmb-on-fire-protestors-looting-as-fire-blazes/

Last but not least.

“Riots latest: Outrage as vaccination centres ‘forced to close’” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/riots-latest-south-africa-vaccination-centres-closed/

Yet

“‘Sheer criminality’: ANC condemn riots but ‘share Zuma supporters’ pain’” - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/kzn-gauteng-riots-protest-looting-latest-news-anc-nec-duarte-free-jacob-zuma/

“Ramaphosa: Riots will threaten food security ‘within a matter of weeks’”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/president-cyril-ramaphosa-kzn-gauteng-riots-latest-news-breaking-zuma-protests-address-sandf-monday-12-july/

Ramaphosa said that riots in KZN and Gauteng have put food and medicine security in jeopardy, with the most vulnerable set to bear the brunt.

Addressing the nation for the second time in consecutive days, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned that recent violence and damage to infrastructure caused by criminals participating in riots in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng since Saturday is soon going to lead to severe food and healthcare shortages, with trucks and supply chains, as well as businesses having fallen victim to vandalism and looting.

Earlier on Monday, Ramaphosa deployed the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to provide to members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) as they try and combat rampant looting and vandalism, which Ramaphosa said may spill over to other provinces.

RAMAPHOSA WARNS OF FOOD AND MEDICINE SHORTAGES

A stoic Ramaphosa said that the looting and vandalism caused during the riots has left the South African public feeling deeply afraid.

“Many South Africans are tonight counting the cost to their livelihoods and property, their shops and businesses that have been destroyed and burnt down. They are also counting the cost to their security. Many are feeling anxious and afraid tonight,” he said.

“[The violent riots] started with the burning of trucks at Mooi River on Saturday, and was followed by the blockading of roads and looting of shops in the north of KZN,” he said. “Our sick cannot get help from pharmacies, food doesn’t reach shelves, and health workers cannot get to work. We are facing food and medication insecurity within a matter of weeks.”

Ramaohosa said that despite South Africa’s constitution affording the public with the right to protest, the abuse of this right – as has been the case during the last few days – only serves to further threaten the country’s most vulnerable people.

“Constitutional law guards against the abuse of power and protects the poor and the vulnerable – it enables our society to function and enables our economy to function. The victims [of those abusing this right] – workers, truck drivers, business owners, families of those who have lost their lives – have done nothing wrong whatsoever. The poor and the marginalised bear the ultimate brunt of the chaos that is underway,” he said.

VACCINE ROLLOUT FURTHER DELAYED

Ramaphosa said that with supply chains placed in dire jeopardy, Ramaphosa said that it is a matter of “vital importance that we restore calm and stability to all parts of the country without delay”. COVID-19 vaccination sites were forced to close in both provinces on Monday, further delaying South Africa’s slow rollout strategy in KZN and Gauteng.

“It is vital that we prevent any further loss of life or injury. It is vital that we protect property and safeguard social and economic infrastructure,” he said.

Ramaphosa said that as of Monday night, 166 suspects have been arrested in KZN, and 323 have been apprehended in Gauteng in relation to incidents relating to looting, vandalism and destruction of property.

“Eskom and Metrorail temporarily suspends services amid violent protests”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-eskom-and-metrorail-temporarily-suspends-service-amid-violent-protests/

Eskom and Metrorail said it has temporarily suspended services in areas affected by protests for the safety of their employees.

Eskom and Metrorail have temporarily suspended services in Gauteng due to the violent protests taking place.

THIS COMES AMID VIOLENT PROTEST BY SO-CALLED ZUMA SUPPORTERS

In a statement, Eskom said they have temporarily suspended services in areas affected by community protests for the safety of their employees and contractors.

“Eskom conducts its business with the principle that “No operating condition or urgency of service justifies exposing anyone to negative risks arising out of Eskom’s business or cause them injury or damage the environment.

The safety of our employees and contractors remains our number one priority and a major concern, and it is with that that we have decided to suspend all services that will require our employees and contractors to enter areas that will put their lives at risk.

Eskom furthermore said customers who have logged faults are requested to be patient as they might experience delays in response time to resolve their faults.

“We will monitor the situation and attend to network faults affecting significant areas and also supplies to critical installations, such as hospitals but not at the expense of our employees and contractors.

Meanwhile, Metrorail also said in a statement no train services will operate in all it corridors on Monday.

It said this is due to the chaotic scenes witnessed in Johannesburg and now spilling over, affecting its operational areas.

“Suspending the train services is not only in the Metrorail’s interest but also in the interest of the safety of all its critical assets-loyal customers and employees that deserve a safe and secure operational environment.”

This comes amid the sporadic violent protests that in Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal by so-called Jacob Zuma supporters.

Violent rioters burned and looted shops and businesses and blocked roads in widespread riots across Durban and areas of Gauteng on Sunday evening.

State Security Agency want to blame the ‘right-wing’… Again! Bheki Cele rather threatens community members than the rioters.

The fox guarding the hen house!

“‘Ex-SSA agents, right-wing extremists may be leading these riots’ – [State Security Agency] minister” and Bheki Cele “warned community members ‘not to take the law into their own hands’”- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-latest-riots-news-ssa-minister-who-caused-looting/

SSA Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has confirmed that her department is investigating some serious allegations about who is really behind this wave of riots.

Ayanda Dlodlo, the current chief of the State Security Agency, has gone on record with a bold claim today. The minister believes that those involved in organising riots in KZN and Gauteng may have links to the SSA itself, and she’s also entertaining the possibility of ‘right-wing extremism’ as a root cause for looting.

AYANDA DLODLO REVEALS ‘WILD ALLEGATIONS’ ABOUT LOOTING RINGLEADERS

The frank admissions from Dlodlo come as something of a surprise. She has backed her department comprehensively, claiming that the SSA already ‘did well’ to prevent further rioting, saying they can’t be blamed for ‘spectacular failures’:

“The machinery was working in overdrive, but no there was not a spectacular failure from intelligence. A lot more looting could have happened, but that was prevented, because the police acted on the information they have received. We are also looking into the possibility of ‘right-wing extremism’ behind these protests”

“We collect the information for our clients – in this case, police – who then do what it is that they need to do with that info. We have also received information that former SSA agents and senior ANC leaders [they are not right-wing extremists] are part of plans planning the protests and these allegations are in the process of being investigated.” Ayanda Dlodlo

BHEKI CELE RESPONDS TO SA RIOTS

Bheki Cele, meanwhile, has warned community members ‘not to take the law into their own hands’. On Monday, videos emerged which revealed how local groups are banding together to fight back against those partaking in the riots. The Police Minister, however, has encouraged ‘cooperation over confrontation’.

“While the intervetion of some communities to actively stop the mass lootings, has been commended, we encourage communities not to take the law into their own hands and continue to work with the police.”

“The involvement of other stakeholders is also critical in the fight against lawlessness and in this regard, we have already engaged the leadership of private security companies, in an effort to increase better working relations with the police.”

 Minister Cele also echoed sentiments shared by Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday, referring to possible food shortages.

“As Ministers in the Cluster, we have the responsibility to assert the authority of the State and to safeguard our territorial integrity and sovereignty of the republic. If these acts of violence continue unabated, we run the risk of running out of basic foodstuffs and that would be disastrous for the country.” | Bheki Cele

“Watch Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng warning us”- https://youtu.be/ejXO9UZi00I

6:18 – “If you dissect an incident like Marikana properly, that will provide you with a recipe, for want of a better expression, for the dissection of all fundamental South African problems and then and only then will you find a solution.”

“00DEZZ - SERIOUS - Cyril takes Control of SSA. Adriaan Basson makes a very important statement.” - https://youtu.be/bpNZwaRv3dk

Source;

https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/fridaybriefing/friday-briefing-paying-the-price-the-challenges-whistleblowers-face-after-raising-the-alarm-20210806

“Tuesday, 3 August 2021 T.I.A. This Is Africa”- https://youtu.be/Fadal4N3udU

He is sending a warning using Rwanda as an example.

Noteworthy statements

2:05 – “In Africa, leaders will do anything. Firstly to gain power and secondly to stay in power. Many of them would have used any means possible to retain their position of power or as president.”

3:18 – “Last night, I was watching a very very interesting piece on the Rwandan genocide. Where the current President Paul Kagame and we know about the history how he went out of the country where he actually went into hiding in Uganda with a force of 3 000 people to be trained by the Uganda armed forces. And always there was the story that Paul Kagame had the foresight to see genocide coming because of how it was propagated and how the hatred between the Hutus and the Tutsis was even promoted encouraged from every political stage and even radio and television in that country of Rwanda. We all know that there was a plane crash on which the president of Rwanda died. And that very night when that plane crashed, the genocide started. The plane crash was the spark. That was the trigger mechanism that puts it all off. It is interesting that the previous president wanted to stay over in the neighbouring country where they had some discussions, meetings and stuff and how he was refused permission to stay until the next day. And the excuse was that there was no preparation made to have him as president there. That night, despite his own misgivings and worries… having the plane flying at night. And while he was descending, they were hit by a missile and the plane crashed. The plane crash was caused by a missile, a Russian SAM-7, soldier to air missile, which was actually coming from Uganda where the opposition leader of the time Paul Kagame was in hiding… Less than 10% were killed by rifles but by blunt instruments, pangas, every sharp thing, anything that can kill a person was used.”

7:16 – “Paul Kagame came back with his force of 3 000 men and he established calm and order and became the current reigning president [of Rwanda]… but it sounds quite true to me, it sounds African… and that’s also what is happening in our own country. So behind the scenes we saw that Paul Kagame was willing to sacrifice a million of his own people in order to gain power. Sacrifice a million people?”

9:20 – “Again we have to look at the plane [from South Africa] that visited Zimbabwe in 2020. Military plane. The members on board were all members of the RET group, Radical Economic Transformation group. Some of them with no reason to be in Zimbabwe. The same people who are now being accused of corruption, looting, theft, state capture. The Magashules and the Zumas. All those people are involved. And suddenly overnight, not exactly overnight but in a very short period of time, the violence in KwaZulu-Natal erupted. It took everybody by surprise, even the reigning president and the government, the police forces, the defence force. It took everyone by surprise. If it wasn’t for civilians who stood up, the damage and the death rate would have been much higher. Civilians did the work of the police and now afterwards the police want to charge them and disarm them. Meanwhile we are hearing things that it was planned to lay their hands on certain stuff.”

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>Last night, I was watching a very very interesting piece on the Rwandan genocide. Where the current President Paul Kagame and we know about the history how he went out of the country where he actually went into hiding in Uganda with a force of 3 000 people to be trained by the Uganda armed forces.

“Paul Kagame is a very bad man” – Part 1dated Jun 22, 2015, at https://www.paulkagame.info/paul-kagame-is-a-very-bad-man/. Below are excerpts.

In the mid 1990s, a Ugandan Journalist who attempted to write a biography on Kagame had all his materials and photographs sieved by Rwandan intelligence agents on behalf of the then Vice President Kagame.

In or about 1976, Kagame joined the Uganda Police force, something he has been careful to keep out of the public’s knowledge. Information gathered from a source on Dec 13, 2008 states that in that period, Kagame lived in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu along with other Tutsis.

The source believes they were working as spies on behalf of Museveni’s FRONASA. Considering how many FRONASA men had been infiltrated into Idi Amin’s State Research Bureau national intelligence agency in the 1970s and Kagame’s penchant for intelligence and other covert work, the Uganda Record can only speculate whether Kagame as a Uganda Police office might have doubles as a State Research Bureau operative as well.

In Feb 1979, when the Tanzania-Uganda war reached Mbarara town in western Uganda, Kagame joined FRONASA, or openly joined FRONASA. What Kagama did under FRONASA between 1979 and 1980 or where he was based or deployed is also not clear or public.

Kagame’s ruthlessness

He emerges again in the records as one of the “original 27” or “original 36” or “original 41” men that Museveni says he invaded the kabamba Infantry Training School with on Feb 6, 1981, as a new guerrilla force known as the Popular Resistance Army (PRA).

During that Feb 6, 1981 attack, three PRA guerillas Hannington Mugabi, Jack Muchunguze, and Paul Kagame received slight injuries.

After the PRA merged with the Uganda Freedom Fighters of the former President Yusufu Lule on June 9, 1981 to form the National Resistance Army (NRA), Kagame was appointed to head the NRA tribunal in Luwero Triangle.

This tribunal executed captured soldiers of the UNLA government army and tried and executed NRA guerillas suspected of being Agents of the UPC government of Milton Obote. Rather than use bullets for the firing squad, the NRA used small, blunt hoes called “Akafuni” to bludgeon their victims in the head.

Kagame’s ruthlessness earned him the nickname “Plato” among his fellow NRA guerillas.

When the NRA cut off western Uganda in Aug 1985 following the military coup that overthrew the Obote government, Kagame was transferred to the NRA’s new headquarters in Fort Portal town.

In Aug 1985, the NRA hijacked a Uganda Airlines Fokker Friendship F-27 aircraft after it landed at the airfield as Kasese town, about 74 km west of Fort Portal. It was Kagame who the NRA charged with handling the hijack.

Coordinating the hijack from Entebbe International Airport had been NRA guerillas Winnie Byanyima and Lt. Fred Mwesigye who was a secret NRA guerilla but working as a UNLA intelligence officer based in Entebbe.

In this same period in 1985, the NRA set up a roadblock at the Katunguru bridge area along the Kasese-Mbarara road in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda.

“Paul Kagame is a very bad man” – Part 2dated Jun 22, 2015, at https://www.paulkagame.info/paul-kagame-is-a-very-bad-man/. Below are excerpts.

The UNLA sent a contingent of soldiers to reinforce Kasese town. These UNLA troops then traveled in trailers to the area.

The troops were ambushed and surrounded by the NRA at the Katunguru roadblock. The NRA officer, Paul Kagame, ordered the trailers to be locked up with all the UNLA solders inside.

Several days later, a major stench came out of the trailers and when it was opened, the decomposing bodies of the UNLA soldiers lay on the floors.

Kagame’s at the NRA’s Military Intelligence Directorate

After the NRA seized state power in 1986, Kagame was deployed at the Military Intelligennce headquarters at Basiima Lhouse as an intelligence officer.

He rose in office to become the head of administration in the Directorate of Military Intelligence. He shared an office cubicle with another NRA intelligence officer, Aronda Nyakirima.

As director of administration in the NRA’s Military Intelligence, an NRA intelligence officer, Lt. Kenneth Kanyogonya, recalls an incident in which he, Kanyogonya, investigated an NRA officer called Alex who had brought into Uganda a machine that printed fake bank notes.

Kanyogonya had Alex arrested and he reported the case to Kagame. That afternoon, Kagame ordered the release of Alex and sharply rebuked Kanyogonya, ordering him to leave matters alone that were none of his business.

Lt. Kanyogonya, today a Kampala businessman, says he marvels when he reads and hears the many reports that portray Paul Kagame as “incorruptible”.

In 1990, the army sent Kagame to the United States’ military college at Fort Leavenworth for advanced military instruction.

Intrigue and murder within the RPF

Late in Oct 1990, more than three weeks into the invasion of Rwanda by a Tutsi-led guerrilla faorce, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), a mutiny or infighting of some form took place.

The overall commander of the RPA invaders, Maj. Gen. Fred Rwigyema, was shot dead in the back of his head, reportedly by a clique in the RPA led by Maj. Dr. Peter Bayingana, Maj. Crhis Bunyenyezi and Maj. Frank Munyaneza.

Hundreds of RPA guerrillas were massacred by their fellow RPA guerrillas and their bodies thrown into the Akagera River. It was the first report of bodies floating down the Akagera River.

After Rwigyema’s death, Maj. Gen. Salim Saleh, the former army commander and younger brother of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, personally took Kagame to the RPA headquarters inside Rwanda whereupon Kagame took charge of the shattered force and reorganised it.

“Paul Kagame is a very bad man” – Part 3dated Jun 22, 2015, at https://www.paulkagame.info/paul-kagame-is-a-very-bad-man/. Below are excerpts.

In its early days, the RPF – the political and administrative wing of the RPA – tried to allay fears of Rwanda’s Hutu majority that he RPF was a Tutsi force bent on seizing power and installing a Tutsi-only regime.

A number of Hutu, including a Col. Alexis Kanyarengwe were recruited and given prominent positions in the RPF. Kanyarengwe, a former Rwandan army officer who had fallen out with and been jaled by President Juvenal Habyarimana, was named the RPF’s Chairman.

However, on May 17, 1991, John Shyirambere Barahinyura, head of the Information and Research, RPF and a Hutu, resigned from the RPF “after finding out the RPF has no other intentions fro Rwanda other than being in power.”

In his statement of resignation, Barahinyura said: “Nobody can take orders from Kanyarengwe without first asking Paul Kagame.”

On Jan 29, 1991, a Kampala newsletter, the Shariat, reported that Kagame had been injured in fighting in Rwanda or in some kind of assassination attempt.

On July 28, 1991, the deputy commander of the RPA at the time of the its invasion of Rwanda on Oct 1 1990, Lt. Col. Adam Wasswa, died in a car accident at Lyantonde town in south-central Uganda where he and Kagame were in the same Toyota Landcruiser traveling for an RPF High Command meeting inside Rwanda. A one Captain Kairangwa also died in the accident.

Adam Wasswa’s family lived in Mbarara and he had been recruited into FRONASA in 1979 by Yoweri Museveni. Wasswa was a Rwandan Tutsi royal and was close to and supported the ambitions of the ousted Rwandan King Kigeli V.

The Citizen newspaper of Kampala commented on Jan 3 1991: “The Rwandese Patriotic Front which stormed Rwanda on October 1, 1990… are said to be tied up in a historical power struggle. Reports reaching The Citizen say that RPF is divided on three ethnic groups within the Tutsi tribe. It is alleged that among the Tutsi there are three different groups each with its own objectives.

“The groups are referred to as Abega, Abanyiginya and the commoners. It is further alleged that Abanyinginya are the true Kings of Rwanda… Reports further say that after the death of the top three commanders, Major Paul Kagame who is said to be unacceptable to the Abanyiginya led by Kigeli the last king of Rwanda and Major Adam Wasswa. It is alleged that [the] King Kigeli group has played a very significant role disorganising the RPF, distorting the whole cause to a mere power struggle… On [the] Uganda side, it is reported that from Kamweezi through Kishuro hills down Kahondo valleys [valley] insecurity is on the increase.”

A strong rumour had persisted among Rwanda’s Tutsi ever since Adam Wasswa’s death that he was, in fact, killed by Kagame and he did not die in a car accident. However there are no independent details to confirm or refute this belief.

Rose Kabuye’s revelations about the RPF’s methods and beliefs

In 1993, for reasons not clear, Kagame ordered the arrest and jailing of Lt. Rose Kabuye, on the most prominent femail RPF guerillas. She spent a year in the RPF jail.

Kabuye had left Uganda as a Lieutenant in the NRA at the time of the Oct 1, 1990 invasion. She was one of the RPF officers involved in the preparations and discussions that became the Arusha II peace talks in 1993 in Arusha, Tanzania.

“Paul Kagame is a very bad man” – Part 4dated Jun 22, 2015, at https://www.paulkagame.info/paul-kagame-is-a-very-bad-man/. Below are excerpts.

One part of the RPF prison was called the “university”, for those prisoners condemned to die. Kabuye was in the prison designated for RPF officers.

Kabuye, during her detention, told her guards that during the Arusha peace talks with Habyarimana’s government she personally pushed for the RPF to be given the Ministry of Internal Affairs even it did not get any other ministry.

The RPF felt that the Interior ministry controlled all the vital grassroots local government institutions they needed to reach the common people.

She handled logistical and administrative work in Mbarara for the RPA during the first weeks of the October 1990 invasion.

Kabuye, while in prison, said that one of the strategic plans of the exiled Tutsis after 1959 waas to select beautiful girls to marry rich Ugandans. Then once they got children, the Tutsi women would discreetly poison their Ugandan husbands and inherit the money and property.

Some of the money was to be used to educate the young refugees in camps in Uganda. That is why, said Kabuye to her guards, most beautiful Tutsi women in Uganda are almost all widows.

RPF takeover and Paul Kagame’s reign of terror

The RPF guerrillas took power in Kigali in July 1994 in an assault on the capital led by Col. William Bagire and the field operation commanded by the Lt. Col. Stephen Ndugute Ndugute had been a Marine in the 1970s Uganda Army of President Idi Amin.

Kagame was named Vice President and Chariman of the RPA High Command. Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiro, who today is director of Rwandan state security, the National Security Service, was the spokesman of Maj. Gen. Kagame.

In the parts of Rwanda that the RPF rebels controlled in 1992 to 1993, massacres of Hutu civilians were widely known but litte reported in the major western news media. A man called Rubulika Kayongo was the Mayor of Kyaruhogo; he and a Colonel Twahirwa Dod coordinate the massacres because of their ruthless ness.

Massacres of Huts and seizure of their land continued after the RPF took power. At an army barracks at Karangazi, Hutus killed were concealed in a pit in the barracks covered by wooden boards. The barracks is located in the middle of a wooded and forested area.

As vice president and Minister of Defence, Kagame used to visit the Karangazi army barracks and he knew about the massacre of the Hutu there.

According to Maj. Furuma Alphonse, a former officer of RPF, in an open letter to President Kagame, “From the time Arusha Peace Agreement was being negotiated up to as late as 1996, you [Kagame] carried out a deliberate policy of using all means possible to reduce the Hutu population in the Umutara, Kibungo and Bugesera regions”.

These Hutu areas were deliberately resettled by Tutsi returnees from Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi respectively. Families of many top RPF leaders are among those who were resettled here.

“Paul Kagame is a very bad man” – Part 5dated Jun 22, 2015, at https://www.paulkagame.info/paul-kagame-is-a-very-bad-man/. Below are excerpts.

In 1995, Sixbert Musangamfura, a former director of Rwanda’s intelligence services, issued a statement to the press in Nairobi, Kenya saying he had information on the killings of 312,726 Hutu who were then buried in over 300 graves.

Theoneste Majoro Lizinde, a Hutu who joined the RPA about a year before they took power, became the Commandant of the RPA’s General Headquarters. It was he who actually planned the RPA war in detail in its final phase.

After the RPF formed a government, he was part of the army but later fled to Nairobi after falling out with the government.

A sergeant called Jean Pierre of the RPA’s Directorate of Military Intelligence was dispatched by the Director of the RPA’s Military Intelligence, Lt. Col. Jackson Rwahama, to search for Lizinde in Nairobi.

Jean Pierre was a Rwandan Tutsi who had grown up in Mushiha in Burundi, Lizinde was then gunned down in Nairobi by Jean Pierre and other Kagame’s agents.

A Hutu and former Interior Minister under the RPF, Seth Sedashonga, at that time in exile in Nairobi and who also was to be gunned down on Kagame’s orders, told the British newspaper the Sunday Express whom he thought could have killed Lizinde.

“There is no doubt who sent the assassins. A Rwandan diplomat was arrested nearby, carrying a pistol. So why should Protector kagame want to kill his former colleagues in the rebel movement and in government? “Because I and Sixbert know too much. We know there is a deliberate poilice of ethnic cleansing. We know they are attempting social engineering on a vast, murderous scale. Why? First, to instill terror. Then to even up the population figures. Look at the Rwandan equation: how can a minority tribe of 1+ million govern a country dominated by a tribe of enemies who out number them three to one?” He pauses, and looks back at their lists that litter the table and patio. They want to make it Hutus 50 per cent, Tutsi 50 per cent. But to do that they will have to kill a lot of Hutus.” (Sunday Express, April 21, 1996)

Sixbert Musangamfura added: “When I was in charge of civilian intelligence I started to make a list. I had a network of informers, and soon saw that something bad was going on. By the time I left in August 1995, we had the confirmed names, dates and methods of killing of 100,000 people. But the killing still went on after I fled, and we are investigating the fates of another 200,000 people.” (Sunday Express, April 21, 1996)

In one of its March 1999 editions, The Rench newspaper Liberation described the disappearance of College St Andre in Kigali. Liberation disclosed that more the 100,000 Hutus had been burnt in crematorium created by the RPF in Mutara. SOS Rwanda-Burundi was the first compile a list of criminal of the RPF.

There have been many more reposrt of Kagame’s atrocities going back into the 1980s and 1990s, including the Kibeho Hutu refugee camp in 1995 to the gunning down or disappearance without a trace of many Tutsi RPF army officers, to the gunning down of journalists and the recent attempt to murder Lt. Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa.

8,000 Hutus were massacred by the RPF in the Kibeho camp in southwest of Rwanda in April 1995. The Shariat newspaper, reporting on the gruesome massacre of Hutus in 1995, said:

“Before RPF attacked Rwanda, there was no time in the history of that country when any government ever surrounded defenceless civilians there and bombed dead 8,000 of them as RFP recently did at Kibeho camp in south western Rwanda…”

“President Kagame sheds light on troop deployments in CAR”dated August 6, 2021, at https://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/president-kagame-sheds-light-troop-deployments-car. Below are excerpts.

The Rwandan forces deployed in the Central African Republic (CAR) under a UN mandate and those under a bilateral arrangement with Bangui serve the same purpose, President Paul Kagame noted on Thursday, August 5.

President Kagame noted this in Kigali while addressing a news conference together with CAR President, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who had just begun his four-day state visit to Rwanda.

His comments came a day after Rwanda started deploying an additional infantry battalion of 750 military personnel to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA). With the latest deployment, Rwanda now has three battalions and a Level 2 hospital deployed under MINUSCA.

Last December, Rwanda quickly deployed Special Forces under a bilateral arrangement on defence to bolster the Central African Republic’s armed forces.

“Both deployments serve the same purpose, differently,” Kagame said, explaining that the force protection troops deployed on December 20, 2020 came in as reinforcement of Rwanda’s UN deployments in the country.

Both Kagame and Touadéra agreed that given the situation in and around Bangui at the time, when the country was heading to a presidential election and a rebel coalition was advancing with speed intent on disrupting everything and causing mayhem, speed was of the essence.

The dimension of the bilateral arrangement, Kagame said, brought in more speed and action “than the other one.”

“There was a sense of urgency when we deployed under the bilateral arrangement. Everyone thought that if we had to wait for the other force (UN force), it might take longer to arrive than the actual need for action in terms of time,” Kagame said.

That’s why, he indicated, CAR which was under pressure of rebel groups operating and moving fast and trying to destabilise the country which was moving towards elections requested for, and was given quick support.

“They (rebels) were threatening the capital. MINUSCA was there. I am sure they didn’t want this to happen (and) that the rebels would overrun the city of Bangui and derail the elections but maybe they were still studying…”

“And we couldn’t give orders to our troops that were under the UN because they are under the command of the UN and have different rules of engagement. We were more comfortable having this arrangement and, by this, we were able to deploy forces faster and to serve the same purpose the UN was supposed to be serving.”

The UN mission’s rules of engagement were slow, the two leaders acknowledged, yet there was a problem on the ground that required immediate action.

Touadéra said: “In this urgency, you know, it’s true there are UN forces and these forces have their rules of engagement. It was urgent for us because the conflict there (in CAR) is not a conventional conflict.”

The rebels, he noted, are not like a regular army that is easily recognised and separated from the population.

“It was, therefore, necessary to reinforce our forces which were under reconstruction.”

This is why, Touadéra said, his government found it necessary to activate its means of bilateral cooperation and as such contacted the Rwandan government for support in quickly countering and repulsing the rebel advance.

The participation of Rwanda’s special forces, Touadéra noted, was critical in blocking the advance of the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) rebel alliance led by former president François Bozize.

Tensions in the country rose recently after Bozizé’s candidacy for national elections was rejected last year by the country’s highest court.

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"Thicker Than Water: The Shaik brothers: Shamin (Chippy), Schabir, Yunis and Moe"dated 2009-10-10 at http://armsdeal-vpo.co.za/articles14/in_intelligence.html

By 1980, Shaik and his brother Yunis had gone to Swaziland and set up their first contacts with the ANC. [Remember, the recent violence started in Swaziland/eSwatini before it began in South Africa. >>14106215

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In 1984, Shaik and his unit were called to Swaziland and told to create infrastructure to "support and sustain" ANC underground leader Ismail Ebrahim, who was meeting internal leaders ahead of the movement's 1985 Kabwe Conference. The instruction came from Jacob Zuma, then leader of the ANC's southern command, which covered then KwaZulu and Natal.

Says Yunis: "Along the line the Security Branch became aware of Ibi's presence. We had been instructed to protect him at all costs, even if it meant we had to go into detention. Through an elaborate process Moe managed to get Ibi out. He couldn't get himself out and was captured."

Ironically, it was their horrific treatment that led to Shaik's arguably greatest coup: turning Security Branch officers to work for the ANC.

A policeman gave Shaik access to Security Branch files, allowing him to trace informers and identify threats to ANC cells and operations.

Shaik copied the files and got them to London where they were handed over to Zuma. Shaik was instructed to continue with the operation, which became known as "Project Bible", developing the counter-intelligence network.

Bible not only undermined Security Branch operations against the ANC but gave Shaik massive currency within the ANC and its above-ground allies like the United Democratic Front and Natal Indian Congress, earning him the friends and enemies he has within the ANC today.

Shaik's unit became involved in Operation Vula, aimed at preparing for the return of ANC leaders to South Africa. The operation was blown in 1990 and the Security Branch became aware that it had been infiltrated. Shaik went underground again, surfacing only when negotiators secured "amnesty" for the Vula team.

He was deployed as part of the ANC team during the Codesa negotiations in the early 1990s.

Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils says Shaik was "very key" during this period.

"He showed himself to be extremely skilful. Moe went through that period of debate and interaction through the negotiations, helping to draft the principles for security legislation and the interim constitution. He was at the rockface of fashioning the legislation for the security sector and in the amalgamation process in 1994," he says.

"He did a very good job. He was central to the process of amalgamation of intelligence agencies from the apartheid system and the liberation movement, to the negotiations process," says [Sunny] Singh.

He [Moe Shaik] underwent intelligence training in the then East Germany while running the ANC's Project Bible.

“Night of the generals; Increasing surveillance of ANC dissidents and burglaries of journalists and activists point to paranoia at the top” (Part 1)dated 1st April 2016 at https://www.africa-confidential.com/index.aspx?pageid=7&articleid=11606

A veteran of the pre-liberation African National Congress armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK, Spear of the Nation), General Siphiwe 'Gebuza' Nyanda doesn't scare easily. Yet when a well armed hijacker decided on 23 March to make off with his Porsche luxury car, he didn't offer any resistance. Nyanda survived without a scratch and the car was found without serious damage a few hours later. Another random hijacking? Perhaps, but it has emerged that Nyanda is the spokesman for a group known as Senior Commanders and Commissars of the ANC's former military wing.

Just days before the attack, this group published a memorandum highly critical of President Jacob Zuma's style of government (AC Vol 57 No 6, Gordhan and Zuma slug it out). It ran through the familiar charge sheet: December's damaging and arbitrary sacking of Nhlanhla Nene as Finance Minister; the orchestrated harassment of current and previous Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan by the Hawks, the specialist police unit. Then the group declared its support for Mcebisi Jonas, who said that the Gupta family had offered him the post of Finance Minister before Zuma sacked Nene (AC Vol 55 No 11, A loyalist cabinet and Vol 57 No 4, Zupta Inc.).

Then came the coup de grâce which removed any ambiguity about the group's intentions. The memo concluded, '…in the light of the many challenges facing the ANC and the state, we further call for the leadership of the ANC to urgently convene a special National Conference.' In today's febrile political climate, the idea of a special ANC conference would have but one aim: to sack Zuma from the presidency, a rerun of the recall of ex-President Thabo Mbeki at the Polokwane National Elective Conference of 2007.

Fighters fight back

The call had special weight, given Nyanda's history as an MK commander. The other signatories had their standing, too, both as liberation fighters and security apparatchiks who had fallen foul of Zuma. Riaz 'Mo' Shaik, former MK fighter and then head of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), was a long-time Zuma ally. Indeed, his brother Schabir Shaik was a close business ally of Zuma's and was gaoled for involvement in 1999's US$6 billion arms procurement scandal (AC Vol 52 No 25, High unit costs).

Also among the signatories was another former NIA boss, Gibson Njenje (AC Vol 52 No 14, Zuma and the securocrats). Both Shaik and Njenje split with Zuma after they had tried to block what they saw as the Gupta family's growing power. Amid the rising chorus of Zuma critics, Nyanda's group is the most forthright and probably carries the most political weight. For some, that could mean that the theft of his car was the first warning shot. There's no sign that he and his battle-hardened friends are ready to back off.

A more prosaic sign of skulduggery was a break-in at the Helen Suzman Foundation on the afternoon of 20 March (AC Vol 44 No 9, Looking down the line). Again, the timing was important: it was three days after the Foundation had filed an application with the Pretoria High Court for the suspension of Lieutenant General Berning Mthandazo Ntlemeza as Director of the Hawks anti-corruption unit. Among the claims in the application is that Ntlemeza was found to have lied under oath by Judge Elias Matojane in the Gauteng High Court.

As Ntlemeza is a key ally of Zuma's and has played a leading role in the Hawks' bizarre pursuit of Gordhan for setting up an 'illegal fiscal monitoring unit' at the South African Revenue Service, the Foundation's application has great resonance currently. This month's robbers padlocked the Foundation's security guard to the railings outside the building, then carried away several computers, hard disk drives and paper files. They seemed to have a clear objective.

“Night of the generals; Increasing surveillance of ANC dissidents and burglaries of journalists and activists point to paranoia at the top” (Part 2)dated 1st April 2016 at https://www.africa-confidential.com/index.aspx?pageid=7&articleid=11606

Come in Number One

Accusations and suspicions extend far beyond these two cases. Senior ANC officials have told Africa Confidential that their telephones are bugged. Some National Executive Committee members said they believed conversations were being monitored by State Security Agency (SSA) officials who pass the information to Zuma's office.

'Senior ANC members are so paranoid that Number One [Zuma] is listening to them that they prefer not to have conversations on their cell phones,' said a former intelligence officer. An ANC provincial leader said that 'the preferred communication is via WhatsApp. That is the safest. No one can really monitor that.' There is also a long-held belief that state security officers have been used as proxies to settle internal battles in the governing party. Several senior South African Communist Party members, including Blade Nzimande, have complained bitterly that their telephones are being monitored.

The State Security Minister, David Mahlobo, insists that that the interception of citizens' phone calls 'is lawful and South Africa's intelligence services can only bug people when there is good reason to do so'. Having headed the ANC intelligence organisation during the struggle against apartheid, Zuma knows a lot about surveillance.

The training and assistance ANC intelligence operatives received from East Germany's State Security Ministry, the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, commonly known as the Stasi, instilled a lasting ethic. Zuma takes a close interest in the intelligence chiefs: he ensures they are part of his inner circle, either from KwaZulu-Natal or people who owe him politically.

The reputation of the intelligence services is suffering in other ways. Last Christmas, there was a series of burglaries at the SSA headquarters in Pretoria. At least 50 computers were stolen from Defence Intelligence Headquarters at the same time, the local press reported. On 26 December, more than 50 million rand (US$3.2 mn.) in cash was stolen from a safe on the premises. Two agency officials were arrested and on are on bail but there is no news of the missing millions. An SSA insider said that the case was not as 'clear-cut' as it seemed and heads were likely to roll in the coming months. 'For now, no one inside the Agency is saying anything and we are watching the next move in the state's case and want to hear what the arrested officials will be arguing in court.'

At the same time, there is a crisis in the parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence services. Zuma has been eager to appoint another old ally, Cecil Burgess, as Inspector General of Intelligence (IGI), a post which is meant to hold the services to account and report to Parliament. It was soon clear that the opposition to his appointment meant that it would not receive the necessary two-thirds support in the House.

Accordingly and at the last minute, the ANC Chief Whip withdrew the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence's report supporting the appointment. Earlier, the Speaker, Baleka Mbete, had written to all parties, pleading with the opposition to put aside their differences and fill the important post.

This was the ANC's third attempt to have the report adopted and the second to end in a withdrawal. The IGI oversees the SSA as well as military and police criminal intelligence, investigates illegal espionage and keeps a check on intelligence operatives both at home and abroad. The post has been vacant for a year and the list of uninvestigated complaints is piling up.

“Night of the generals; Increasing surveillance of ANC dissidents and burglaries of journalists and activists point to paranoia at the top” (Part 3)dated 1st April 2016 at https://www.africa-confidential.com/index.aspx?pageid=7&articleid=11606

State Security Minister Mahlobo had left it to Mbete and the new acting Chief Whip, Dorris Eunice Dlakude, to get cross-party support for their candidate as he has been too busy keeping tabs on the President's detractors before next year's bruising ANC leadership battle.

In January. it emerged that Zuma had met members of the parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence and had made it clear he wanted to see former ANC MP Cecil Burgess appointed as IGI. While the Committee recommends a candidate for this powerful post to the President, Zuma has the final say before the recommendation goes to Parliament for ratification or rejection.

Zuma is set on appointing Burgess, who showed his loyalty to him and the ANC when he used his lawyer's wit to steamroll the controversial Protection of State Information Bill – widely derided as the 'secrecy bill' – through Parliament in 2013 (AC Vol 55 No 16, Jobs for the boys – and girls). Burgess is a former ally of the Cape Town Mayor, Patricia de Lille, and was an MP for her now-defunct party, The Independent Democrats.

Burgess defected to the ANC in 2005 and rose quickly up the ranks, chairing Parliament's special ad hoc committee on the Information Bill. He also chaired the ad hoc committee that found no wrongdoing on the part of the President when it looked into the spending of taxpayers' money on upgrading his homestead at Nkandla (AC Vol 56 No 5, No-fly zone for legal eagles).

Burgess is Zuma's favourite for the post on a shortlist of eight that included former MK veterans such as Clinton Davids. In June, the ANC could not get Parliament's approval. Not everyone in the party was happy with the choice: some saw Burgess as a pro-Zuma hawk and others said he had no history in the ANC's underground structures. The Intelligence Committee denied that Zuma has applied pressure over the appointment. Zuma's special pleading was reported in the Committee's confidential proceedings.

The Intelligence Committee is one of the few that meets behind closed doors. Cornelia 'Connie' September, the veteran trades unionist and former Human Settlements Minister who chairs the Committee, argues that opposition politicians don't understand the sensitive nature of the Committee's work. The Democratic Alliance's John Steenhuisen lambasts the selection process, arguing that Burgess isn't qualified for the job. He wants legislation to ensure the post is filled by a retired judge. That would 'prohibit the back-alley lobbying, cadre deployment and political interference', he says.

The sudden resignation on 2 March of the ANC Chief Whip, Stone Sizani, pointed to the high stakes in the row over the IGI. He was seen as not supporting Burgess's appointment and therefore as hostile to Zuma. The ANC has now referred the matter back to the Committee to 'ensure there is sufficient consultation around the candidate'.

“Night of the generals; Increasing surveillance of ANC dissidents and burglaries of journalists and activists point to paranoia at the top” (Part 4)dated 1st April 2016 at https://www.africa-confidential.com/index.aspx?pageid=7&articleid=11606

Mahlobo on the rise

Politicians across the political divide were shocked by the 2014 appointment of Mahlobo, an unknown civil servant from Mpumalanga who was parachuted in to head the powerful SSA and who, says the SSA website, 'was sent by the ANC to China for Political Education'. In the past, senior ANC National Executive members, such as Lindiwe Sisulu and Ronnie Kasrils, held the portfolio. Mahlobo worked under Kasrils as a Director at the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry from 2002 until Kasrils left in 2004, and for two years thereafter. He is now seen as one of Zuma's closest lieutenants and staunch defenders on the National Executive Committee and shielding Zuma from the Nkandla homestead fiasco. Mhlobo has been vocal about the ANC leadership battle.

In 2015, Mahlobo came under fire for jamming mobile telephone and internet services during the opening of Parliament (AC Vol 56 No 4, A rowdy state of the nation). He travels abroad regularly with Zuma and was one of the few ministers to accompany him to Russia in 2014 to meet President Vladimir Putin. Those meetings are understood to have included discussions about Russia's multi-billion dollar bids for contracts to expand South Africa's nuclear power industry, an issue of great sensitivity to international intelligence agencies.

“IMF Governance Reform: A Discussion on the Recommendations of the Committee” at Brookings Institution [Trevor Manuel/George Soros/etc.]dated 24 April 2009 at https://www.brookings.edu/events/imf-governance-reform-a-discussion-on-the-recommendations-of-the-committee/

The global financial crisis has placed the role and resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the forefront of policy discussions. From the G-20 Summit to the upcoming Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF, policy-makers are focused on how IMF reform might ensure more effective monitoring of the global economy and help avoid future crises. A recent report by the Committee on IMF Governance Reform, chaired by Trevor Manuel, minister of finance for the Republic of South Africa, recommends steps to reform and strengthen the Fund to more adequately reflect the new global economy and increase its effectiveness and legitimacy.

On April 24, the Brookings Institution hosted a conversation on the committee’s recommendations for broader global economic governance and financial challenges, including proposals for a new global reserve currency. A panel discussion featuring Trevor Manuel; George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management and founder of the Open Society Institute; Jose Antonio Ocampo, professor at Columbia University; and Eswar Prasad, Brookings senior fellow, followed. Kemal Derviş, vice president and director of Global Economy and Development at Brookings, provided introductory remarks and moderated the discussion.

Transcript of the attached audio can be found at this link, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/20090424_imf.pdf.

Noteworthy comments;

Mr. Manuel: When Dominique called me just under a year ago and asked me to chair this he gave us a mandate until the Spring Meetings this year and we put a team together that probably is as representative as you could have, Governor Zhou, Governor of the People's Bank of China, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Finance Minister of Indonesia, Guillermo Ortiz, the Central Bank Governor in Mexico, Amartya Sen, Mohamed El-Erien, and then Ken Dam, Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution and a professor at the University of Chicago], and Bob Rubin. This was the team given about 10 months to try and put a report together.

Mr. Soros: As far as the rearrangement of voting, it's a slow process and it ought to be really faster, and I think particularly the rise of China, I anticipate that that will actually accelerate in this crisis, and therefore China needs to be drawn in to play a much more active role in multilateral arrangements because otherwise they will be all bilateral and we'll make the multilateral institutions, the international institutions, far less relevant. So the relevance of the IMF and the international financial institutions very largely depend on how engaged China is. At the moment, it hasn't yet happened.

Mr. Prasad: This is a report that needs to be taken far more seriously than it has, not necessarily because it has any proposal that is particularly innovative or particularly radical, but because it puts together a set of proposals that have been on the table for a while and fleshes them out in a particularly important context, and the context right now is critically important because we are at a time of sea change not just in the world economy, but in terms of the institutions that govern the world economy and clearly the IMF as per the G-20s wishes is going to be playing a central role in the functioning of the global economy both in terms of macroeconomic and financial stability and surveillance thereof, and therefore we need a strong IMF.

Mr. Dervis: We were negotiating an IMF agreement and part of it had to deal with public sector wages, and because things were done in a certain way, I'm not saying that the IMF was saying this is the way we should do it, but they prepared what's called a side letter, and side letters for those of you who have encountered them were letters that were not published. They were really secret documents. The idea was that I would sign a secret document about wages with the IMF mission. And even when we think about that, there is free bargaining between the government, the public authority and a union, and then somewhere in some drawer there is a secret document that would limit what we can give as a wage increase. Totally wrong.

Mr. Chen: We looked the last time at the Asian crisis, only those poor Asian countries listened to the IMF and the IMF really did more harm than good. So the question is this. Now we give the IMF a big responsibility

“ROTHSCHILDS IN SOUTH AFRICA: TREVOR MANUEL”dated November 2, 2014, at https://www.europeanknightsproject.com/rothschilds-south-africa-selfbeskikking/

From the Rothschild Group:

Rothschild is pleased to announce the appointment of Trevor Manuel as a senior advisor to the Group worldwide and Deputy Chairman of Rothschild in South Africa, with effect from 1st October 2014. Mr. Manuel will be based in Rothschild’s Johannesburg office and will work closely with its South African team, developing the group’s business in Africa. Manuel was most recently minister in the presidency responsible for the country’s National Planning Commission. He retired from public office earlier this year, having served 20 years in senior government positions.

Nevertheless, Trevor Manuel is known as the only (relatively) competent minister the ANC has ever produced. No wonder they pushed him sideways to the point that he resigned and joined the other side. All you have to do to get fired from the ANC is to do your job and show a bit of competence. His Damascus moment and resignation from the ANC followed a spat with the ANC’s former spin-doctor Jimmy Manyi after Manyi said there were too many coloureds in the Cape and suggested they be forcibly relocated over the rest of South Africa in Apartheid forced removal fashion. Manyi is a total idiot suffering from foot in mouth disease..

It is common knowledge that Manuel’s wife, Maria Ramos is CEO of Barclays South Africa, the group who sponsored the ANC under the FNB logo during Apartheid. Of course they denied that they had anything to do with FNB, but when the FNB branch in Oshakati was bombed in 1988 the Barclays boss suddenly arrived. Barclays now owns ABSA the Afrikaner Broederbond’s bank. That’s right. Trevor Manuel’s missus is the head of the Afrikaner Broederbond’s bank.

The mining and commodities giant Glencore merged with Xtrata mining company a year and a half ago and guess who owns Glencore? Why the Rothschilds of course. They own more ships than the British Royal Navy. Glencore is known for their backhand dealings and smuggling of oil from Iraq to South Africa violating UN sanctions during Apartheid. To tell you the truth, they smuggled everything from oil and uranium to weapons. They are still involved with a lot of controversies all over the world, but most notably in Africa like the Congo where their Luilu copper refinery pumps acid into the rivers and Zambia where their Mopani mine is polluting the air with Sulphur Oxides.

“His stewardship of the South African economy under successive presidents and his variety of roles in various global multilateral institutions puts him in a rarified peer group.” Manuel said he was looking forward to helping develop the Rothschild franchise in Africa.

As a reminder

“ROTHSCHILDS IN SOUTH AFRICA: ANTON RUPERT”dated November 2, 2014, at https://www.europeanknightsproject.com/rothschilds-south-africa-selfbeskikking/

The Rupert & Rothschild partnership was formed in 1997 by the late Dr Anton Rupert of South Africa and the late Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France. Their vision and guiding principles were carried forward by their sons, the late Anthonij Rupert and Baron Benjamin de Rothschild. Today the Rupert family and Baron Benjamin de Rothschild share this prestigious partnership in wine production. At the foot of the spectacular Simonsberg mountain in the Franschhoek Valley lies the historic French Huguenot farm Fredericksburg, established in 1690 and now home to Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons. It was in this valley over 300 years ago that the early French Huguenots first discovered a terroir similar to that of certain winegrowing regions in France. Hence their decision to settle and cultivate vineyards here.

In addition to the Rupert & Rothschild families striving to produce world-class wine, they are deeply committed to the preservation and conservation of the environment. This resulted in Rupert & Rothschild Vignerons being the first winery in South Africa to be awarded ISO14001 Environmental Management Certification. Benefits of the system include the creation of an improved and safer working environment, reduced costs and improved efficiency as well as customer and public confidence that the company is committed to meeting its environmental responsibilities. The winery also has HACCP Certification.