Behind the Scenes of Nelson Mandela’s 70th Birthday Concert held in England, 1988 – Video

https://www.bitchute.com/video/3aovCvQJ46GB/

“This video takes a closer look at 1988 political concert held in the UK which was broadcasted across the world and viewed by 600 million people in the guise of celebrating Mandela’s 70th Birthday who was unknown at the time to push for the release of political prisoners and change in South Africa. It also discusses the people behind the event who were accused of child abuse and never investigated, namely Bishop Trevor Huddleston, President of the Anti Apartheid Movement which later became Action for South Africa (ACTSA).”

>>16299757

> terrorism will be viewed as the deliberate use of violence or the threat of violence against civilians with the intent of achieving a specific ideological or political objective.

>>16298818

>From the moment of the unbanning of the ANC, the whole organization was enveloped by the Anglo complex. Between February 1990, and the elections of April 1994, Anglo poured the sum of R364 million rand ($180 million) into the coffers of the ANC.

>At the same time, Tiny Rowland of the British multinational Lonrho was also funding the ANC. Lonrho is within the Rothschild orbit, and is a business partner of Anglo, with extensive interests in South Africa, covering gold, coal and platinum. The ANC was given $20 million by Lonrho to move their offices from Lusaka, Zambia to Johannesburg to consolidate their internal support. The idea was to set up a political machinery in South Africa, and that costs a lot of money.

Onslaught against the Peoples of SA - Part 1

https://youtu.be/7GhPmys_QFw

“ANC & SA Communist Party indiscriminate onslaught against the Peoples of South Africa during the 80's in the name of the struggle and justice. Since coming to power the violence has worsened and spiralled out of control!”

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>Judge Johann Kriegler [was a board member of Oppenheimer’s Urban Foundation] casually uses the word "breakdown" to describe the election he is running. He concedes that many ballots never left the warehouse, that polling places failed to open, that ballot boxes were stuffed "to a significant degree," that voting places often had no impartial monitors and that some election officials were partisan, if not crooked.

>But there is no doubt in South Africa that within a few days he will baptize the new democracy by pronouncing the required four-word benediction "substantially free and fair" over the results.

Judge Johann Kriegler

”Judge Johann Kriegler - 2011 IFES Democracy Awards” - https://youtu.be/6r5pjYNNu5I (embedded)

“Judge Johann Kriegler of South Africa accepts the 2011 Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award from IFES on Sept. 15. IFES presents the award each year to three individuals a Republican, a Democrat and a member of the international community who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to democracy and human rights. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida were also honored.”

https://www.wikimzansi.com/judge-johann-kriegler/

Johann Kriegler, a one-time human-rights lawyer in apartheid South Africa, headed his country’s transitional elections in 1994 and later served on its first Constitutional Court. Since retiring from that court he has, at the behest of the United Nations, the African Union and a number of governments and national and international NGOs, been engaged as an expert in many parts of the world, more specifically in electoral administration and dispute resolution as well as in training electoral administrators, judges, prosecutors and trial lawyers.

His involvement in these and other human-rights, good-governance and rule-of-law initiatives has extended from Timor-Leste through Maldives, Afghanistan, the Middle East and much of Africa to the Caribbean and Ibero-America. He has chaired international enquiries into judicial independence in Uganda and Malawi, audits of violence-torn presidential elections in Kenya and of Bangladesh’s criminal-justice system, an international tribunal into the Iranian massacre of political prisoners and the selection of electoral commissions for Iraq and Sierra Leone. In addition Judge Kriegler currently lectures in one or other of his fields of expertise, most recently in Libya, Sudan, Pakistan and Egypt.

At home in South Africa he conducts arbitrations and serves as a trustee of several human-rights NGOs: Freedom Under Law, of which he is founder chair, actively engages in strategic litigation defending the rule of law against executive abuse. He is an extraordinary professor of law at his alma mater, an honorary life member of the Johannesburg Bar and an honorary bencher of Gray’s Inn.

https://www.wikimzansi.com/johann-kriegler/

Johann Kriegler is a life-long human-rights lawyer who headed South Africa’s transitional elections in 1994 and was subsequently appointed a founding justice of the newly established Constitutional Court. Since completing his term in 2002 he has been engaged in some 40 countries on five continents — from East Timor through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Maldives and Libya to West and most of sub-Saharan Africa — on behalf of the UN, the AU, the Commonwealth and various international NGOs in electoral work, training judges and advocates, and conducting inquiries. He was a founder of the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights, currently chairs SECTION27 and Freedom Under Law while serving on the boards of a number of human rights/rule of law bodies, and from time to time conducts arbitrations/mediations.

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>>16326020

>He [Judge Johann Kriegler] was a founder of the Legal Resources Centre

Legal Resources Centre (LRC) – Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge (Both Jews) - Funded by Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller

https://lrc.org.za/about/history/

Together with our partners and supporters, we’ll apply more pressure domestically and internationally for visible results, placing substantive transformative change at the heart of our efforts.

Our legacy of fighting for freedom, social justice, and equality in South Africa will propel us, and help us reignite a truly transformative organization.

At the LRC, over the past 40 years in South Africa, we have, inter alia, played a significant role in dismantling apartheid, abolishing the death penalty and corporal punishment, advancing and protecting the constitutional rights of women, girls, and people with disabilities, and made important breakthroughs in healthcare and environmental justice, as well as established significant precedents in land and education rights.

Together with our supporters, we will continue to honor our legacy.

“The founding of…the LRC in 1979, by Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge…represented the triumph of an idea – the belief that lawyers had an especial role and a particular responsibility in the face of gross injustice.”

– Justice Cameron | Justice at the Constitutional Court

>>16303484

>“Jewish people played a critical role in ending apartheid in South Africa.”

Arthur Chaskalson

A prominent human rights lawyer, Chakalson served on the defense team of the Rivonia Trial. With the help of Jack Greenberg, the Jewish Direct-Counsel of the NAACP, Chakalson established the Legal Resources Centre which was funded by Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller monies. He later became President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and then Chief Justice.

Sydney & Felicia Kentridge

A legal power-couple, the two were life-long activists against Apartheid and served as legal defense for Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Albert Luthuli. Together, they were co-founders of the Legal Resoucers Centre. The South African General Bar Council named the Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award in their honor.

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>>16326071

Legal Resources Centre (LRC) - Professor Michael Katz (Jew), Trustee

https://lrc.org.za/patrons/patron-alpha/

Professor Michael Katz is a practicing attorney and chairman at Edward Nathan Sonnenberg (ENS) Africa, specializing in corporate and commercial law. Professor Katz also teaches company law at Witwatersrand University. He has published numerous articles, chapters and papers on legal and fiscal topics and co-authored the Butterworths Company Law Precedents (four volumes) and South Africa’s contribution to the United Nations and Harvard University’s Corporate Law Tools Project. He is also a trustee of numerous trusts including The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, The Constitution Hill Trust, and The Constitutional Court Trust.

Prof Michael Katz wins Chambers Lifetime Achievement Award

https://www.wits.ac.za/news/sources/alumni-news/2022/prof-michael-katz-wins-chambers-lifetime-achievement-award.html

The awards statement read: “With a reputation that reaches across Africa and beyond, Michael Katz has been a pioneering figure in the corporate and transactional market in South Africa for many years. As chair of one of the continent’s most recognised legal brands, ENSafrica, he is routinely lauded by commentators, both for his immense experience and his role in the transformation of the South African legal sector. In addition to leading his firm, he is a recognised scholar and thought leader on company law and regularly provides expert commentary on legislative changes, such as the Companies Amendment Bill, 2021. His recognition this year comes off the back of a host of positive feedback from market observers, with some labelling him ‘the doyenne’ and ‘Godfather’ of the South African M&A market, while others noted him as ‘world-renowned’ figure.”

Currently he serves as Honorary Professor and course director for Advanced Company Law at Wits and was awarded an honorary doctorate in law in 1998 for “being imbued with an ethic of service”.

His other career highlights include chairperson of the Katz Commission of Inquiry into the South African tax system in 1995; chairperson of the Tax Advisory Committee; member of the Security Regulation Panel; member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance; chairperson of the Committee for the re-structuring of the JSE; and chairperson of the Specialist Committee on Company Law.

In 2020 Professor Katz was asked by the president of South Africa to be a board member of the national Solidarity Fund, set up to support medical response and relief efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was awarded the Absa Business Icon Award at the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards in 2020.

Professor Katz is a member of a number of boards and was Chairman of the Board of the National Housing Finance Corporation Limited which was established by government to enable affordable finance for low-cost housing. Professor Katz is a trustee of a number of trusts including the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, the Legal Resources Trust, Constitutional Court Trust, Donald Gordon Foundation, Constitution Hill Trust, the FIFA World Cup Legacy Trust and South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. He has been mentioned for many years in legal periodicals as a leading South African lawyer. He is the course director of Advanced Company Law I and II at the Mandela Institute.

“We are truly honoured to work alongside such an admirable leader and colleague who has accomplished so much and changed the face of law in South Africa," said Mzi Mgudlwa, ENSafrica‘s chief executive.

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Gill Marcus (Jewish)

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/marcus-gill

Gill Marcus was born in South Africa in 1949; her parents had also been born in South Africa, but her grandparents had immigrated from Lithuania.

While conscious and proud of her Jewish heritage, Gill Marcus is not religious in any active sense.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/gill-marcus

Gill Marcus was born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in Johannesburg, where she attended Barnato Park High School for Girls. Her parents,both accountants who belong to the banned Communist Party (CP), emigrated to Britain with their four children in 1969.

Marcus went on to study for a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits), but then decided to study Industrial Psychology, a degree she completed in London when her parents decided to leave South Africa in 1969. She resumed work with the ANC in 1970 when she worked for the party’s Department of Information and by 1976 she had become the editor of the ANC’s weekly bulletin, the Weekly News Briefing that enabled ANC members and supporters worldwide to stay in touch with political developments inside South Africa. Meanwhile her father, who had been the accountant for the law firm of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, acted as the ANC regional treasurer in Tanzania.

Marcus later went into exile where she spent her time clipping South African newspapers for the ANC and discussing radical politics. On her return from exile in 1990, after the unbanning of the ANC and other political organisations, Gill took up a post in the ANC's Department of Information and Publicity where she quickly became one of the ANC's more prominent voices. In July 1991, she was elected into the ANC’s National Executive Committee and was co-opted to the national working committee. Before the 1994 elections, she trained ANC media workers and voter educators and accompanied Nelson Mandela on his election campaign into the provinces. Gill played a leading role in determining media policies for the ANC in the run up to the 1994 elections.

After the election, she was elected to parliament and quickly established a reputation for her efficiency in her position as chairperson of the parliamentary joint Finance committee. This is a position she held from June 1994 until June 1996 when she was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. On the 1st of July 1999, Gill was appointed as Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, the first woman to hold such a position. Marcus has also held senior positions in the private sector, including serving on the boards of the mining company becoming chairperson of Absa Bank in (2007), Western Areas and the Absa Group. Marcus’ more recent achievements have included being made professor of policy, leadership and gender studies at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (2005) and governor of the Reserve Bank (2009-2014).

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Gill Marcus – Links to Mining Companies, including Glencore

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/wals-gill-marcus-joins-gold-fields-board-as-nonexec-director-2007-02-14/rep_id:3650

Western Areas chairperson Gill Marcus had been appointed as a nonexecutive director of Gold Fields with immediate effect, the company said in a note to shareholders on Wednesday.

This follows a successful takeover bid by Gold Fields for the smaller gold-miner, which became a fait accompli in late January, after 94% of Western Areas shareholders tendered their shares into Gold Fields' all share offer of 35 of its own shares for every 100 Western Areas shares.

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/gill-marcus-steps-down-from-gold-fields-board-2009-07-21/rep_id:3650

South African mining company Gold Field reported on Tuesday that Gill Marcus would resign from its board, effective from July 20.

Marcus’ resignation followed her appointment as Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, effective from November, when she replaces Tito Mboweni.

https://talent4boards.com/glencore-announces-gill-marcus-board-independent-non-executive-director/

Glencore plc (LSE:GLEN), announces the appointment of Gill Marcus as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2018.

Ms Marcus was the non-executive chairperson of the Absa Group from 2007 to 2009. She has also been a non-executive director of Gold Fields Ltd and Bidvest .

Ms Marcus has acted as chairperson of a number of South African regulatory and supervisory bodies, including the Financial Services Board and the Standing Committee for the Revision of the Banks Act. She has also served as a non-executive director of the Advisory Board of the Auditor General and was a member of the Millennium Labour Council.

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities. The Group’s operations comprise around 150 mining and metallurgical sites, oil production assets and agricultural facilities.

With a strong footprint in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, Glencore’s industrial and marketing activities are supported by a global network of more than 90 offices located in over 50 countries.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, oil and food processing sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities. Glencore’s companies employ around 155,000 people, including contractors.

>>16329126

Mostly Lithuanian Jews with ties to communism were heavily involved in the ANC;

• Its founding

• Writing of its Freedom Charter

• The establishment of its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Once the ANC gets into power, the Jews attain key positions in government and get involved in international affairs.

>>16303484

>“90% of all Jews in South Africa are Litvaks [Lithuanians]” - https://vilnews.com/2011-01-litvaks-in-south-africa

The Jewish Museum in Cape Town offers visitors a journey back in time. Most museums do. The striking feature of this museum, however, is that the journey to the past also brings us to a completely different part of our world, from Africa's southern tip to a seemingly modest little country far to the north, to a country where around 90% of South Africa's Jewish population has its roots (there are today about 80,000 Jews in South Africa).

The museum's basement is dominated by a village environment (shtetl) from the late 1800s. A few houses are reconstructed in full scale, and you can clearly see how people lived and co-existed at the time. The village is called Riteve. It was recreated in the museum on the basis of entries made in the 1990s by a group of experts who went from South Africa to Lithuania to find traces of the family of the museum's founder, Mendel Kaplan.

The village is called Rietavas in Lithuanian. It is there to this day, less than a half hour drive from Klaipeda, at the highway direction Kaunas and Vilnius. The Kaplan family emigrated from here in the 1920s, while the village's population was still 90% Jewish. Today, no Jews live in Rietavas.

>>16298907

>As it turned out, it housed in its offices far more power than most government buildings. Indeed, Oppenheimer even had a private treaty with the Soviet Union, although the terms have never been publicly revealed.

>>16332080

>The village is called Riteve. It was recreated in the museum on the basis of entries made in the 1990s by a group of experts who went from South Africa to Lithuania to find traces of the family of the museum's founder, Mendel Kaplan.

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Mendel Kaplan

A prominent industrialist who fought apartheid, Kaplan served as chairman of the Jewish Agency, Keren Hayesod’s World Board of Trustees, the Jerusalem Agency and National chairman of the United Communal Fund of South Africa and the Israel United Appeal. He was also vice president of the South African Jewish Board of deputies. In 2000, he was the founder of the South African Jewish Museum, which was opened by Nelson Mandela.

“Homeward Bound : Operation Exodus Lends Support to Soviet Jews in Their Return to Israel” – Mendel Kaplan (South African)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-11-vw-81-story.html

[Soon after the release of Mandela and the Soviet Union “collapsed” a year later in December 1991. The attached image of a truck with the words, "From Russia with Love", which was taken at about 3:17 of the video located at https://youtu.be/9_IRzvtqB7I - was it not during the so called Cold War?]

Kaplan, a steel and wire manufacturer who doubles as chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, is in Los Angeles on a private trip. But he concedes it is almost impossible to extract himself completely from the complex operation behind “another great moment in Jewish history, the ingathering of the last reservoir of Jews left in the world.”

In his Jewish Agency role, the bluff, no-nonsense Kaplan is at the focal point of a worldwide campaign to raise $600 million over the next three years to pay for the unprecedented and controversial flood of Jews leaving the Soviet Union for Israel. Jewish communities in the United States are expected to raise more than two-thirds of this amount, some $420 million. In Los Angeles, the goal is $36 million.

Based on the number of Soviet Jewish families who have requested resettlement in Israel, Kaplan estimates that 600,000 to 700,000 currently are eligible to come to Israel. In Los Angeles, officials orchestrating the local fund-raising drive acknowledge the influx of Soviet Jews involves explosive issues, such as where they settle in Israel and the long-running uprising of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, taken by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War.

Kaplan admits there has been a hurry-up nature to the resettlement program because the influx from the Soviet Union has been much greater than expected. In February, the Jewish Agency estimated that 70,000 Jews would come to Israel this year, and that number had been bumped up from 33,000 last fall. Now the agency is planning for 150,000 Jews to arrive in 1990.

Black South Africans are already in their homeland, he says, whereas Soviet Jewish emigration to Israel is another act in the age-old Jewish search for a homeland.

“South Africa - Mandela Pays Tribute To Jews”

https://youtu.be/18GeelXaOaA

“(7 May 1994) South African President elect Nelson Mandela this morning attended a service at the Sea Point Synagogue outside Cape Town. Addressing several hundred people outside the synagogue after a hour long service Mr Mandela paid tribute to the Jewish community for their role in the struggle against apartheid. He said the anc would give priority to uplifting the plight of the african, indian and coloured community. In a rare scene members of the Jewish community sang praises to Mr Mandela and shouted "one mandela, one president".”

>>16303484

>“Jewish people played a critical role in ending apartheid in South Africa.”

“A Tribute to Arthur Goldreich” - https://youtu.be/62W5snx7fRg

Arthur Goldreich – Links to Palmach/Haganah (Jewish Terrorism) and ANC Military Wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

"In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah. He returned to South Africa and became a successful artist. Together with fellow activist Harold Wolpe, he used SACP funds to purchase Liliesleaf Farm, also aiding the armed wing MK. After escaping from prison, he left to live in Israel."

>>16334165

>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“Jewish Defense Organizations: History of the Haganah” - https://youtu.be/vonmcopF-a8

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 1

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the forerunner of the Israeli army. While the Haganah boasts of its heroic acts and looks down on similar right-wing groups, its history also includes dark operations it would prefer not to mention

These scathing words were published in the Labor movement daily Davar 81 years ago. A few weeks earlier, in the summer of 1939, members of the Haganah – the underground, pre-independence army of Mandatory Palestine’s Jews, founded by the movement’s members – had murdered two men and a woman, and injured a young girl and a toddler. All of them were innocent Arabs from the village of Lubya in the Lower Galilee, shot dead at home in the dead of night.

The murders, described as a revenge attack for the killing of a Jew by villagers in Lubya, was carried out by members of the Haganah’s special ops unit. Each man who took part in the mission has a place of honor in the local history books: The most senior was Yigal Allon, who later headed the Palmach (the Haganah’s elite strike force), and became an Israel Defense Forces general and education and foreign minister.

The operation’s organizer was Nahum Shadmi, a senior Haganah member and a future IDF colonel and president of a military appeals tribunal, as well as a Mapai Party activist (Mapai was the forerunner of the Labor Party). His son Issachar was commander of the Border Police brigade whose members committed the 1956 massacre in the Arab town of Kafr Qasem.

This month marks the centenary since the founding of the Haganah. Its pre-1948 actions included assisting with illegal Jewish migration to British Mandatory Palestine; covert overnight construction of new settlements (the “Tower and Stockade” operations); dispatching operatives – such as Hannah Szenes – into Nazi-occupied Europe or commandos to Vichy-controlled Lebanon; as well as other heroic feats that have become part of this country’s legacy.

But there is another aspect to the Haganah that will not feature prominently in the centenary celebrations, and which is not well known to the public or part of the high school curriculum. This aspect has been excluded from museums, parades, and the official and state-sanctioned history books. It shows that the hallowed “purity of arms” concept was interpreted very loosely by the organization that gave birth to the IDF.

“Now, after 100 years, it’s time to talk about these chapters as well,” says Peleg Levy, a documentarian who has interviewed hundreds of veterans over the last decade – including members of right-wing and left-wing underground organizations – as part of a project documenting Israel’s history. They told him about assassinations, reprisals and terror attacks attributed to the Haganah. Among the wider public, such operations are normally only associated with the right-wing Irgun and Lehi organizations.

“If there’s a Lehi conference in which they don’t talk about the assassination of Folke Bernadotte [the Swedish diplomat murdered by Lehi members in 1948], people will complain. If the Irgun holds one in which they don’t talk about the King David Hotel operation, people will jump on them. So why do they allow the Haganah to write its history without talking about similar things their people perpetrated?” Levy asks.

Later in our conversation, he notes that the Labor movement called members of these two underground groups “terrorists,” while taking pride in the “purity” of the Haganah organization’s actions and stressing that their methods were different.

Despite this, the Haganah has a list of blemishes to its name, ones that former members would be only too happy to expunge from memory. They never took responsibility for most of these operations, making do with some general condemnation or blaming rogue elements in the organization. This is how the murder in Lubya was described in Davar. The paper said, without noting the identity of the perpetrators, that this act was “a horrific murder, attesting to the perpetrators’ loss of any ability to distinguish [innocents] and their lack of any human sensitivity. These shots, which killed elderly people, women and a baby, show that we are on a dark slope, sliding toward an abyss.”

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>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“Notes from the (Jewish) Underground, Haganah Youth” - https://youtu.be/Fj8iujgXbsY

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 2

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

‘Nest of killers’

Nine years later, in January 1948, Haganah members were involved in an operation that, over 70 years on, appears never to have been thoroughly investigated.

It’s unlikely that most people reading this will have heard of the Semiramis Hotel bombing in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood by the Haganah’s Moriah battalion. This may be due to the fact that it occurred at the height of the War of Independence, which was marked by many violent acts. However, it’s probable that the writers of Haganah history deliberately chose to minimize any mention of this incident – as many right-wingers believe.

The blast was meant to hit the headquarters of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of the Arab militias fighting Jewish forces in the Jerusalem area. A squad of Haganah soldiers gained entrance to the hotel’s basement and placed explosives there before detonating them. Husayni was not in the building, but dozens of Arab civilians were. The exact number of dead and injured is unknown to this day. According to one report, 26 people were killed and a further 60 injured.

Most of the dead were from the Christian Abu Suawan family, including women and children, as well as the Spanish vice-consul to Jerusalem, who was living in the hotel. Davar reported the incident the next day and, like before, did not provide its readers with the full picture. “The Haganah blew up Arab militia headquarters in Jerusalem,” the headline read. “This was one of the nests of killers in Jerusalem,” the paper declared.

Another building was blown up by the Haganah some two years earlier, in February 1946. This was part of a Palmach operation targeting British police stations across the country. Three British women and a child were killed in the explosion. “Over the years, Haganah leaders and the pre-state Jewish community accused us of being irresponsible in carrying out such attacks and yet here, Haganah members were the first to hit British women,” wrote Natan Yellin-Mor, a Lehi leader who later became a peace activist.

Due to a rise in the number of Jewish women being raped by Arabs at the time, “the Palmach decided to retaliate according to the biblical injunction to chop off a thief’s hand – or, in this case, the organ used to commit the crime; in other words, to castrate him,” Mossad member Gamliel Cohen wrote years later, in a book describing the first undercover operations in which Jews dressed up as Arabs.

The official website of the Palmach describes the castration incident as one of “the exceptions, an extremely cruel one,” committed by its members in those years. This operation was initiated by Allon and carried out by Yohai Ben-Nun (a future naval commander), Amos Horev (a future IDF general and president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) and Yaakov Cohen (later a member of all three intelligence agencies). “The instructions were that the castrated man should remain alive, walking around with his injuries in order to deter others,” the Palmach website explains. The team was briefed by a doctor in Afula on how to perform this “operation.”

>>16334165

>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“Zipporah Porath - The Oath of Allegiance” - https://youtu.be/4VUSFOJ0ZfE

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 3

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

Sacrifices in the name of immigration

The 80th anniversary of one of the most lethal events in the history of the Zionist movement will be marked in six months’ time: the bombing of the British ship Patria on November 25, 1940 – an incident that also failed to lead to any expressions of remorse by the Haganah, even though its members were the perpetrators. The plan was to prevent the expulsion of some 2,000 illegal immigrants, who the British were deporting from Haifa to a detention camp in Mauritius. However, the damage wrought by the blast was so immense that the ship sank along with some 250 passengers.

Instead of relating to the affair as a tragedy that warranted the investigation of its perpetrators, the Labor movement insisted on turning it into a symbol, its victims turned into martyrs sacrificed on the altar of defending the homeland, with no note of who was actually responsible for their deaths.

Berl Katznelson, the ideological leader of the labor movement, wrote the next day to Shaul Avigur, one of the Haganah’s leaders: “Know that the day of the Patria sinking is for us like the day of [the 1920 fall of] Tel-Hai,” thus trying to assign to the event foundational national status. He added that the Patria operation was “the biggest Zionist action in recent times.” Yitzhak Tabenkin, among the leaders of the Kibbutz Movement, called the victims “heroic unknown soldiers.”

Eliyahu Golomb, the undeclared head of the Haganah, also spoke about the incident in the same vein. “For me, the day of the Patria is not a black day, nor the blackest day,” he said. “These were sacrifices made in the name of immigration, for our right to immigrate. These victims were not without meaning.”

The massacre committed by members of the Palmach’s Third Battalion in the village of Ein al-Zeitun, near Safed, was also ultimately glossed over. Today, every history buff in Israel knows about the April 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, carried out by right-wing underground members. But few have heard about the one a month later by underground members of a left-wing organization. They conquered the village and imprisoned dozens of Arab combatants. Two days later, on May 1, they executed them with their hands bound.

In 1939, the Jewish Agency’s political department issued a “Thou shall not murder” decree, signed by the most senior spiritual leaders of the age, in which they warned against Jews killing Jews. The decree was aimed at the Irgun organization, which had murdered Jews it deemed “traitors.” But these leaders ignored the fact that the Haganah also executed Jews and non-Jews who it identified as traitors and informants, says Gili Haskin, a tour guide who wrote a Ph.D. thesis about the “purity of arms” concept in those days.

Haskin wrote in an article that the executions carried out by the Irgun and Lehi groups were overt and publicized, whereas the ones carried out by the Haganah were surreptitious, performed by special ops teams.

>>16334165

>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“שיר הפלמח - The Hymn of Palmach” - https://youtu.be/JYUh1KqtVVs

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 4

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

'No clean hands'

The first Jew to be executed by the Haganah was Baruch Weinschell, who was accused of giving the British information about illegal immigration. He was killed in October 1940, in Haifa. Oscar Opler, a kibbutznik from the Lower Galilee, was also executed. He was a British informant who had revealed the location of hidden weapons and was subsequently condemned to death by the Haganah. Moshe Savtani was exposed as an informant and shot in the stairwell of his house by the Haganah. He died of his wounds in hospital. Yitzhak Sharansky from Tel Aviv, Baruch Manfeld from Haifa and Walter Strauss and others also fell victim to internal assassinations by Haganah members.

Such operations continued right up to the establishment of the state. At the end of March 1947, Mordechai Berger, who worked in the Mandatory police’s traffic division, was murdered in the street after being suspected of divulging information about the Haganah to the British. “The assailants gagged him and hit him over the head with clubs. Berger fell bleeding,” wrote Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, an Irgun member who later researched the history of Mandatory Palestine.

“None of the organizations emerges with clean hands from this dark matter,” Haskin wrote. He added that the fingers of right-wing organization members were lighter on the trigger, but emphasized the role of Haganah members in assassinating Jews.

In this context, one cannot ignore the first political murder of a Jew in Mandatory Palestine. The victim was Jacob de Haan, a strange character and proud poet who became ultra-Orthodox and an anti-Zionist, talking with Arabs about the possibility of revoking the Balfour Declaration. Haganah member Avraham Tehomi and other associates were believed to be behind de Haan’s assassination on a Jerusalem street in June 1924.

The Haganah, meanwhile, killed British officer William Bruce, who was shot in Jerusalem at the end of Simchat Torah, in October 1946. “A British inspector was murdered last night while walking alone in Jerusalem, wearing civilian clothes,” Haaretz reported the next day.

Exceptionally for those days, the perpetrators were members of the Palmach: the Haganah’s commando force had been set up in 1941, cooperating with the British in its early years. The murder was in response to Bruce’s abuse of Palmach prisoners in a British prison a few months earlier.

Peleg Levy’s documentary project included an interview from 2010 with the commander of that operation, Aharon Spector. He told Modi Snir and Levy that he had followed Bruce with the intent of punishing him. “I waited for him, he sensed he was a target,” he recounted. The assassination was preceded by a trial by a special Palmach court, which sentenced Bruce to death. According to Spector, the order came from Yigal Allon.

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>In this context, one cannot ignore the first political murder of a Jew in Mandatory Palestine. The victim was Jacob de Haan, a strange character and proud poet who became ultra-Orthodox and an anti-Zionist, talking with Arabs about the possibility of revoking the Balfour Declaration. Haganah member Avraham Tehomi and other associates were believed to be behind de Haan’s assassination on a Jerusalem street in June 1924.

“General Smuts Addresses The Mother Of Parliaments In London (1942)” - https://youtu.be/8fcQ5gD_7UA

Jan Smuts – League of Nations, United Nations, Balfour Declaration and World Wars

”THE PREAMBLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER: THE CONTRIBUTION OF JAN SMUTS”

https://www.academia.edu/es/39825987/The_Preamble_of_the_United_Nations_Charter_The_contribution_of_Jan_Smuts

While South Africa is in the process of taking its seats in the international organisations tasked with supervising the protection of human rights, it is perhaps worth considering the central role which that country has played in the development of the United nations human rights machinery.

This intense and eventually stormy historical relationship between South Africa and the United Nations is nowhere captured better than in the life of General Jan Smuts (1870-1950), South African premier from 1919-1924 and 1939-1948.

One the one hand it is difficult to identify any individual who has made a more consistent contribution towards bringing the idea of some kind of world government, which concerns itself with human rights on the global level, to life. Smut provided the model on which the forerunner of the United Nations, the League of Nations, was built and helped to draft its Covenant; he largely wrote the Preamble for the Charter of the United nations and played a substantial role in shaping the rest of its contents.

“Smuts was the driving force behind the Balfour Declaration”

https://www.sajr.co.za/smuts-was-the-driving-force-behind-the-balfour-declaration/

It is perhaps worth noting that South Africa’s prime minister, General Jannie Smuts, always harboured an affection for the Jewish people

Smuts was the driving force of what became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which became one of his dearest causes. He encouraged (British Prime Minister) Lloyd George and his foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, to issue the Declaration.

“Jan Smuts: The warrior-statesman” – (only individual to have signed the peace treaties after both World Wars)

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/jan-smuts-warrior-statesman

In 1919, Smuts attended the Paris Peace Conference that formally ended the First World War.

Second World War: On the renewal of global conflict, he again joined the Imperial War Cabinet. Such was his influence at this time that a plan was hatched for Smuts to take over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, should anything happen to Winston Churchill.

He was appointed a British field marshal in May 1941 and signed the peace settlement that eventually ended the fighting. This makes Smuts the only individual to have signed the peace treaties after both World Wars.

https://www.change2100.com/contents/en-us/d87.html

…The concept of a National Jewish Home in Palestine as set forth in the Balfour Declaration was approved by the League of Nations Council on July 24, 1922, and endorsed by a joint resolution of the United States Congress on June 30, 1922. The "Mandate for Palestine" was issued by the League of Nations…

…Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country…

>>16334683 - Haganah caused atrocities which were never investigated but, instead, they were integrated into the Israeli government. Would you prefer these sauces?

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>>16334165

>"In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah. He returned to South Africa and became a successful artist. Together with fellow activist Harold Wolpe, he used SACP funds to purchase Liliesleaf Farm, also aiding the armed wing MK. After escaping from prison, he left to live in Israel."

>>16332096

>A prominent industrialist who fought apartheid, Kaplan served as chairman of the Jewish Agency

Haganah Atrocities

https://spanishhalyon.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/the-original-terrorists/

June 30, 1924

Dutch Jew Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

Shlomo Nakdimon; Shaul Mayzlish (1985). Deh Han : ha-retsah ha-politi ha-rishon be-Erets Yisraʼel / De Haan: The first political assassination in Palestine (in Hebrew) (1st ed.). Tel Aviv: Modan Press. OCLC 21528172.

Marijke T.C.Stapert-Eggen. «The Rosenthaliana’s Jacob Israel de Haan Archive». University of Amsterdam Library.

November 25, 1940

Haganah kill 250 Jews and 7 non-Jews.

«Jews fleeing Europe in 1940 were refused entry in to Palestine by the Jewish Agency because a large number were elderly and children. The passengers were transferred to Mauritius.

«The Jewish Agency…..decided to use the lives of the immigrants for a gamble with a drastic, dramatic act aimed at achieving political goals. Haganah activists took an enormous explosive charge into the ship despite the danger to the lives of the 1,783 people. The ship blew up. The British did all they could to save the passengers, but the number of victims nonetheless reached 257. The following day the Jewish Agency declared that the act was carried out by the passengers themselves in protest.» (Christopher Sykes, p. 269)

Saliha massacre

70 Lebanese civilians from the village of Saliha were herded into the village square and machine gunned to death by members of the Haganah Jewish militia. They did this after being told that no harm would come to them. It was later claimed that the corpses were left there for four days and the Haganah returned to bulldoze their bodies towards the mosque. And blew it up.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/1998/May-14/25712-zionisms-first-lebanese-victims-remembered.ashx

“In September 1948, when the first Arab-Israeli war was at its height, around 70 Lebanese civilians from the village of Salha were herded into the village square and machine gunned to death by members of the Haganah Jewish militia, the forerunner to the Israeli army.”

>>16338657

“The crimes of 1948: Jewish fighters speak out” – Haganah

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crimes-1948-jewish-fighters-speak-out

More than 60 years after these events, the combatants express little remorse: the territory needed to be liberated to found the Jewish state and there was no room for Arabs

For the Israelis, 1948 represents the high point of the Zionist project, a major chapter in the Israeli national narrative when the Jews became masters of their own fate and, above all, succeeded in realising the utopia formulated 50 years earlier by Theodor Herzl – the construction, in Palestine, of a state of refuge for the "Jewish people".

For the Palestinians, 1948 symbolises the advent of the colonial process that dispossessed them of their land and their right to sovereignty – known as the “Nakba” (catastrophe, in Arabic).

In theory, Israeli and Palestinian populations disagree over the events of 1948 that drove 805,000 Arabs into forced exile. However, in practice, Jewish fighters testified early on to the crimes of which they perhaps played accomplice, or even perpetrator.

Yosef Nahmani, a senior officer of the Haganah, the armed force of the Jewish Agency that would become the Army of Defence for Israel, wrote in his diary on 6 November 1948: “In Safsaf, after the inhabitants had hoisted the white flag, [the soldiers] gathered the men and women into separate groups, bound the hands of 50 or 60 villagers, shot them, then buried them all in the same pit. They also raped several women from the village. Where did they learn such behaviour, as cruel as that of the Nazis? […] One officer told me that the most ferocious were those who had escaped the camps."

In 1949, the Israeli writer and politician, Yizhar Smilansky, published the novella Khirbet Khizeh, in which he described the expulsion of an eponymous Arab village. But according to the author, there was no need to feel remorse about that particular chapter of history. The “dirty work” was as a necessary part of building the Jewish state.

Other works were published but few as realistic as Netiva Ben-Yehuda’s trilogy, The Palmach Trilogy, published in 1984, recounting the events of a three-month period in 1948. A commander in the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Haganah, she evokes the abuses and acts of violence perpetrated against Arab inhabitants and provides details of the massacre at Ein al Zeitun, which took place around 1 May 1948.

The Deir Yassin massacre

On 4 April 1972, Colonel Meir Pilavski, a former Palmach fighter, was interviewed by Yediot Aharonot, one of Israel’s three largest daily papers, on the Deir Yassin massacre of 9 April 1948, in which nearly 120 civilians lost their lives. His troops, he claims, were in the vicinity at the time of the attacks, but were advised to withdraw when it became clear the operations were being led by the extremist paramilitary forces, Irgun and Stern, which had broken away from the Haganah.

From then on, the debate would focus on the events at Deir Yassin, to the point of forgetting the nearly 70 other massacres of Arab civilians that took place. The stakes were high for the Zionist left: responsibility for the massacres would be placed on groups of ultras.

As for the massacres, for some, the acts were merely part of the “cleansing” operations, since the leaders of the Zionist movement had authorised them to “cross this line”, in certain cases. The “line” was systematically crossed when inhabitants refused to leave, put up resistance, or even fought back.

More than 60 years after these events, the combatants expressed little or no remorse. According to them, it was necessary to liberate the territory promised by the UN in order to found the Jewish state, and this meant there was no room for Arabs in the national landscape.

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“Judging the Judges After Transition: The Kenyan Experience” – Albie Sachs Speaking, Presented by Sujit Choudhry

https://youtu.be/GPBpbHnCPiU

“On April 16, 2013, the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law and the NYU African Law Association brought Albie Sachs, Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, for a lecture on the reform of the Kenyan judiciary. A panel discussion followed with Professor Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Professor Sujit Choudhry, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.”

4:38 – Choudhry: “Albie’s talk today about the Kenya experience, in a way is sort of a soft launch for a large international research project that we are participating at NYU on what to do with judges after transitions and political transitions… It is not a problem confined to Kenya, it is a pervasive problem in many transitional democracies. And this is a project that we are working on with the Bingham Centre for Rule of Law.”

5:52 – Albie: “Late in 2010, in a very large hall in Nairobi, the Chair of the Electoral Commission got up to announce the results of a very hotly contested presidential campaign part of the general elections in Kenya and he stood and he said, not giving you the exact figures but it was something like this. “Nairobi, Kebaki 544,399; Odinga 495,232. Somebody stood up, those are not the figures that I sent in. The officer went on… My informant told me that we saw that, the way she put it, saw the elections being stolen on television. The next day, the final tally was announced and in the evening without any of the ceremonies or the people attending and the fanfare, almost in secret, the winner declared by the head of the election agency was sworn in. There was mayhem after that. People went out into the streets, members of one party starting attacking other members of another party. It extended beyond that.”

8:38 – Albie: “It was in the areas where there been the most living together, where the people were the most interactive, mixed up, living cheek by jowl. That’s where the most vicious attacks took place and it went on for days. And gangs roamed with pangas and they burnt down houses. Chopped up people.”

9:26 – Albie: “And the question was asked but if you saw the elections being stolen on TV and you had slam dunk evidence, why didn’t you go to court? Kenya has a judiciary that has buildings, very erudite judges. Why didn’t you go to them? And the opposition party that claimed that the elections have been stolen from said, it would have been a total, total waste of time. No matter how powerful the evidence, how compelling, the judges would have found a way to twist the facts, to twist the law and to ensure that Kebaki was confirmed as president.” [Does this not sound familiar?]

17:12 – Albie: “The team of the [Kenya judges and magistrates vetting] board includes 3 Kenyan lawyers, 3 Kenyan non-lawyers and 3 foreign judges. In fact, judges they say of some distinction from commonwealth countries who going to participate as full members of the board. A friend of mine, Lord Stephen Sedley [father was a Jewish immigrant, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sedley] a wonderful judge from the court of appeal in England, retired had agreed. He’d helped with the drafting of the regulations… I had some contact with Kenya and the judiciary having been invited about 10 years before that to attend a meeting in which a number of judges and others were considering the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission in Kenya and they wanted to hear about the South African experience.”

1:04:56 – Albie: “The strongest argument in his favour was that he [Willy Mutunga] had never been a judge, he had been a law professor, he had been imprisoned, he had been part what they called a second liberation. So he was appointed chief justice, a strong new supreme court was established, the judicial service commission became truly independent, that’s choosing judges properly and they managed to get 2.5 times the budget they got before. And so our vetting process was just part and parcel and I think this is a very important aspect of transitional justice.”

1:06:21 – Albie: “The revolution in a way was created through the constitution. There was a revolution and the constitution came afterwards to deal with the past.”

>>16386558

>“Judging the Judges After Transition: The Kenyan Experience” – Albie Sachs Speaking, Presented by Sujit Choudhry

“Sujit Choudhry Talks About the Center for Constitutional Transitions | NYU Law”: https://youtu.be/vocvUJ-QLjA

Sujit Choudhry

https://sujitchoudhry.com/

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Sujit Choudhry practices constitutional law, both in Canada and globally

A constitutional law resource for counsel, governments, and businesses

Sujit Choudhry has a broad public law practice on questions of constitutional law, administrative law, public international law and international human rights law, in the Canadian courts, including in judicial reviews, appeals, and arbitrations. He frequently appears as counsel, including in the Supreme Court of Canada. He also has an extensive counsel practice. Choudhry is often retained by other lawyers across Canada to work with them on complex constitutional cases, including to serve as co-counsel. He also holds the Q.Arb designation from the ADR Institute of Canada.

Democracy support, constitutional reform and peace processes

Choudhry is an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law. He has been an advisor to democracy support, constitutional reform, and peace processes for over 20 years, including in Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

“Canada Fines Glencore-Controlled Miner Over Business With Dan Gertler In Congo, WSJ”

https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2018/12/17/canada-fines-glencore-controlled-miner-over-business-with-dan-gertler-in-congo-wsj/

December 17, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reported that a Glencor subsidiary will be fined $ 22 million for its activities in the Congo in 2016-2014

Katanga Mining division, a subsidiary of mining giant Glencore and some of its past and present managers, have agreed to pay $22 million fine to Canada’s biggest stock market regulator, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited a person familiar with the matter.

The regulator blames the company and its managers for concealing the risks in their business dealings with Dan Gertler, an Israeli businessman close to Congolese President Joseph Kabila, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The regulator to claim that the president was pushing the company to exaggerate its copper production, while at the same time downplaying mining costs, the report says. As a result, the moves may have inflated the miner’s performance, according to the Journal.

The settlement agreement between the Ontario Securities Authority and Katanga, which is listed for trading in Canada, relates to the company’s operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 2016-2014, the newspaper reported.

Canadian regulators are expected to mention current and former managers at Katanga and focus on the company’s ties with Dan Gertler, the Israeli businessman who invested in Katanga in 2008 together with Glencore, the paper reported.

The settlement will probably be announced as early as this week, it said.

>>16494769 - Another slap on the wrist… and business continues

“Israeli Mining Tycoon Dan Gertler On The U.S. Blacklist Will Benefit From Tesla’s Cobalt Deal” - Glencore

https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2020/07/23/israeli-mining-tycoon-dan-gertler-on-the-u-s-blacklist-will-benefit-from-teslas-cobalt-deal/

July 23, 2020

Tesla signed a deal last month to buy 6,000 tons of cobalt from Glencore, which is obligated to pay Gertler 2.5 percent of all its revenues from Congo’s mines.

Tesla last month signed an agreement to purchase 6,000 tons of cobalt from Glencore led by CEO Ivan Glasenberg.

Cobalt is a chemical element recognized as an important enabling metal where energy storage, high-temperature resilience, hardness, and process efficiency are required. Tesla intended for batteries that can be charged in the company’s cars. But, like nickel, cobalt, is found in the Earth’s crust only. Glencore buys cobalt from the mines in the Congo from Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler, whom the U.S. has banned financial dealings with.

According to Bloomberg, Glencore is obligated to pay Gertler 2.5% of all its revenues in the mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a right he acquired from the state-owned mining company Gecamines.

According to sources who spoke with Bloomberg, the material that Tesla acquires will come mostly from the mines in the Congo, so the agreement will indirectly bring Gertler several million dollars a year.

Gertler has been blacklisted by the U.S., and as of December 2017 is unable to operate in the U.S. financial system and is now expected to post an indirect profit from payments made by a U.S. company.

“Re|Source cements partnership with Tesla”

https://www.glencore.com/media-and-insights/news/re-source-cements-partnership-with-tesla

12 August 2021

Re|Source, a solution to trace responsibly produced cobalt from the mine to the electric vehicle, is proud to acknowledge the progress made by Tesla in implementing the pilot project across its supply chain. Further details can be found in Tesla’s Impact Report. Tesla has been a key partner in designing and implementing the solution, which was officially announced on 20 May 2021, across its value chain since 2019.

The pilot is being tested in real operating conditions, from upstream cobalt production facilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to downstream electric vehicle productions sites. Multiple on-site pilots have already commenced in the DRC and Europe, and plans are in place to commence further pilots in Asia and the US later this year. The final pilot across the entire Tesla supply chain is expected to take place in Q4 this year. The launch of the final industry solution is expected in 2022 and is being supported by boutique block-chain technology studio, Kryha.

The founding members of Re|Source, which include CMOC, Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) and Glencore are joined by Pilot partners Umicore and other supply chain participants. The solution is also being advised by a growing number of industry associates including Norilsk Nickel and Johnson Matthey. Johnson Matthey’s participation is based on their experience in responsible sourcing.

The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI) and The Cobalt Institute (CI), two highly respected industry bodies with a deep understanding of the complexities involved in the cobalt supply chain, have also joined Re|Source as strategic advisors, supporting the implementation of world-class best practice standards across the pilot.

>>16566437

>Mick Davis himself is friends with that other icon of leadership – Stephen Koseff of Investec. On 13 May 2015, Mick Davis and Stephen Koseff shared a stage at Investec in Sandton and addressed a forum of young entrepreneurs.

“Stephen Koseff - Breaking Down the Mistrust Between Government & Business” - https://youtu.be/lUGNHrH9y64

“Investec latest to bank on asset management flotation”

https://news.sky.com/story/investec-latest-to-bank-on-asset-management-flotation-11497426

14 September 2018

Sky's Ian King charts the trend of banks demerging their fund management arms and asks why Investec is the latest.

It's a name known to millions for its past sponsorship of Test cricket, its current sponsorship of The Derby and its famous zebra mascot.

Today, though, the South African bank Investec is attracting attention due to an unexpected decision to spin off its fund management arm.

Investec, a member of the FTSE 100 until December 2011, plans to float Investec Asset Management (IAM) as a separate company on the London stock exchange.

The news has been welcomed by investors and shares of the bank have shot up by almost 10%.

IAM, which currently contributes just under a quarter of group profits, will be a substantial business in its own right. It has £109bn under management and growth has been particularly strong in recent years.

The move represents the continuation of a trend. French bank Societe Generale and Germany's Deutsche Bank have both demerged their fund management arms in recent years while the Prudential is in the process of demerging M&G.

Investec is one of a wave of South African companies to have floated in London since the end of apartheid and the country's international isolation.

Many of them, once given access to the bigger pools of capital available in the London stock market, have showcased the entrepreneurial flair of and managerial talent of a number of South African business leaders.

The most spectacular examples are Meyer Kahn and the late Graham Mackay who, having floated South African Breweries in London in 1999, built a company little known outside its homeland into the world's second-largest brewer.

Others include Sir Mick Davis, nicknamed "Mick the Miner", who built Xstrata into one of the world's biggest mining firms until its £39.1bn takeover by Glencore in 2012.

Investec has shown similar entrepreneurial zeal. Formed in 1974 as a small leasing company, it floated in Johannesburg in 1986, making its first move outside South Africa in 1992 with the acquisition of London-based Allied Trust bank in 1992.

More UK acquisitions followed over the years, including the money broker Clive in 1995 and the stockbroker and investment adviser Carr Sheppards the following year.

The deal that really put the bank on the map in the City, though, came in 1998 with a series of deals that saw it acquire some of the most storied names in the Square Mile, including the fund manager Guinness Flight Hambro, the stockbroker Henderson Crosthwaite and the wealth management and private banking business Guinness Mahon.

The company moved its primary stock market listing from Johannesburg to London in July 2002 in the midst of a slump that had deterred a number of other businesses from floating.

Anyone who braved the conditions and bought the shares at the time of their London listing will have done well if they have held on to them.

Investec was valued at £767m at the flotation. Its market capitalisation today stands at £4.93bn.

Friday's news, which ironically comes weeks after Old Mutual - another South African financial services group and former FTSE-100 member - completed its break-up will mark the end of an era in more ways than one.

Stephen Koseff, the current chief executive and Bernard Kantor, currently the managing director, will be stepping down after 38 years with the bank, although both will remain as directors.

According to the bank, the logic behind the demerger is that IAM will do better standing on its own two feet, since it will have the freedom to expand at its own pace and without having to take into consideration the capital needs of the wider group.

Or, as Hendrik du Toit [another South African], who will be chief executive of IAM once it is listed, put it this morning: "If you want to play in the super league in asset management, independence wins."

That is assuming, of course, that the business makes it to market.

There is already speculation in the Square Mile that Investec's announcement will prompt rivals into seeking to buy IAM prior to an IPO.

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>Or, as Hendrik du Toit [another South African], who will be chief executive of IAM once it is listed, put it this morning: "If you want to play in the super league in asset management, independence wins."

“Hendrik du Toit (Investec Asset Management): The African narrative is changing from aid to business” - https://youtu.be/iTZ24vCev5g

Hendrik du Toit

https://ninetyone.com/en/international/people/hendrik-du-toit

Hendrik is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ninety One. He entered the asset management industry in 1988 and joined Investec Group in 1991, founding Investec Asset Management, which rebranded to Ninety One in 2020. He also served as Joint Chief Executive Officer of Investec Group from 1 October 2018 until the demerger and listing of Ninety One from Investec Group on 16 March 2020.

Hendrik is a Non-Executive Director of Naspers Limited and its European subsidiary, Prosus.

• Member of Sustainability, Social and Ethics Committee

• Chair of Disclosure Committee

>>16567460

>Hendrik is a Non-Executive Director of Naspers Limited and its European subsidiary, Prosus.

Naspers

https://www.companieshistory.com/naspers/

Naspers was founded as Die Nasionale Pers (Afrikaans for “The National Press”) on 12 May 1915. At first it only published a newspaper, De Burger (from 1922: Die Burger), but soon expanded and in 1916 published its first magazine De Huisgenoot. D F Malan, a former minister in the conservative Dutch Reformed Church was persuaded to become editor and was the main supporter of Hertzog’s National Party. In 1918 the company took a further step towards expansion when its book publishing operations were founded as De Burger Boekhandel. Piet Cillié, editor of Die Burger from 1954 until 1985 was a staunch supporter of the National Party, under B J Vorster and P W Botha. Cillié upheld the apartheid system through many pro-segregation editorials until the very end.

In 1985, Nasionale Pers and a number of other South African media companies formed an electronic pay-television media business,M-Net, which was listed on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) in 1990. In 1993, M-Net was divided into two companies: M-Net itself became a pure pay-television station while the company’s subscriber management, signal distribution and cellular telephone activities were formed into a new company called MultiChoice Limited (later renamed MIH Holdings Limited).

Nasionale Pers itself listed on JSE on 12 September 1994 and in 1998 the group’s name changed to Naspers.

https://www.naspers.com/about

1915 – Naspers is founded in Stellenbosch, South Africa to produce a Dutch language newspaper.

1920 – Naspers adds book publishing to its operations and during the next 60 years grows into one of Africa’s leading media groups.

1985 – Mnet founded, Naspers’s first Pay TV business.

1994 – Naspers listed on Johannesburg stock exchange. [The year Mandela was inaugurated as President of SA]

1997 – Mweb founded, Naspers’s first internet service.

1997 – Koos Bekker [South African] appointed CEO.

2001 – Naspers invests in Tencent Holdings, the start of its growth into a global internet and entertainment group.

2008 – Naspers acquires Allegro and enters the B2C e-commerce segment.

2010 – Naspers acquires a majority share in OLX as a foundation to build global Classified business segment.

2014 – Bob van Dijk appointed CEO.

2015 – Naspers celebrates its 100th year, now operating in over 130 countries and markets.

2015 – Naspers buys majority in Avito.

2015 – Koos Bekker appointed chairman.

2016 – Naspers enters Edtech sector with early stage investments in Brainly, Codecademy and Udemy.

2017 – Deal closed on the divestment of Allegro achieving a transaction value of US$3.253bn.

2017 – Ibibo/MakeMyTrip transaction closes, creating one of the largest travel groups in India.

2017 – Amazon to acquire SOUQ.com.

2017 – Naspers invests €387 million in Delivery Hero.

2017 – Naspers leads $80m investment in India-based food ordering and delivery platform, Swiggy.

2017 – Naspers increases stake in Delivery Hero, positioning the company as the largest shareholder.

2018 – Naspers completes sale of Tencent shares, reduing its stake from 33,2% to 31,2%, yielding US$9,8 billion.

2018 – Naspers sells its stake in Flipkart.

2019 – Naspers lists Prosus, a new global consumer internet group comprising its international internet assets, on Euronext Amsterdam with a secondary, inward listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa.

https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/NASPERS-LIMITED-1413396/company/

Naspers Limited is one of the world's leading Internet service providers. Net sales (excluding discontinued operations) by activity break down as follows:

• management of social platforms and digital content (77.6%): via Tencent and Mail.ru;

• operation of online sales sites (21.1%): via Classifieds, Etail, Payments, DeliveryHero, MakeMyTrip and Fintech.

The remaining sales (1.3%) relates to print publishing activity (newspapers, magazines, books, etc.).

Net sales break down geographically as follows: South Africa (17.3%), Africa (0.4%), Europe (54.7%), Latin America (15.6%), Asia (8.5%) and other (3.5%).

Number of employees : 28 445 people.

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>1997 – Koos Bekker [South African] appointed CEO [of Naspers].

“What Do You Know About Koos Bekker, Founder of MTN, DSTV and MNET?”

Koos Bekker was born in South Africa on 14 December 1952. Bekker got his early education from Hoër Volkskool Heidelberg and degrees from Stellenbosch University in Law and Literature and Wits University in Law. During his studies in Stellenbosch he stayed in Eendrag Manskoshuis.

After a few years in advertising he read an MBA degree at Columbia Business School, graduating in 1984. As a result of a project paper, he, and a few young colleagues founded one of the first two pay television services outside the US. M-Net and its sister companies like Multichoice eventually expanded to 48 countries across Africa. In the 1990s, he was a founding director of mobile communication company MTN. In 1997 Bekker became CEO of Naspers, one of the initial investors in the M-Net/Multichoice group. Naspers bought out the other shareholders. During his tenure, the market capitalization of Naspers grew from about $1,2 billion to $45 billion. His compensation package was unusual in that for fifteen years as CEO he earned no salary, bonus or perks. He was compensated solely via stock option grants that vested over time.

Koos Bekker is revered as an astute executive who transformed South African newspaper publisher Naspers into a digital media powerhouse, primarily due to his 2001 bet on Chinese Internet and media firm Tencent. In 2001 Naspers Ltd. put $32 million into the then-obscure Web company called Tencent. Its stake today is worth $66 billion — roughly equal to Naspers’ entire stock market capitalization. Bekker, who retired as the CEO of Naspers in March 2014, returned as chairman in April 2015. Over the summer of 2015 he sold more than 70% of his Naspers shares. His Babylonstoren estate, which features architecture dating back to 1690, stretches across nearly 600 acres in South Africa’s Western Cape region and includes a farm, orchard, vineyard, a 14-room hotel and a restaurant.

Bekker has always played a significant role at Naspers (formerly Nasionale Pers – National Press) leading the founding team of M-Net in 1985.

By extension, under his leadership, he pioneered the development of M-Net, Supersport, MultiChoice’s satellite television as well as M-Web – and subsequently directed Naspers from a small media company, to a multinational media giant with diverse media interests in many markets.

Naspers has interests in Internet, pay-TV, magazines, newspapers, books and private education, as well as investments in China, India, Russia and other countries across the globe.

Bekker headed massive investments into emerging market Internet companies which, in recent fiscal years, have been paying off for the media company, with massive profits and returns to investors.

These investments include stakes in China’s Internet and instant messaging leader Tencent Holdings; Russian Internet giant Mail.ru; and Brazilian magazine publisher Abril.

Bekker has not only been involved in the South African media landscape, but has also been a part of other growing and significant sectors of the country.

He was a founding director of Africa’s largest mobile network operator, MTN, which was established in 1994, and continues to serve as director for Media24 and MultiChoice.

Bekker was also a director for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Local Organising Committee.

The Forbes 2019 list of The World’s Billionaires ranked Bekker as the 1002nd-wealthiest person in the world, and the fourth-wealthiest South African, with a fortune of US$2.3 billion. In 2020, Bekker was ranked as the third-wealthiest South African by Forbes, with a fortune reported as US$2.4billion.

He is married to the editor of South Africa’s Elle Decoration magazine, Karen Roos, with whom he renovated Babylonstoren – a sweeping 560 acre wine estate in the Drakenstein Valley.

First Published on 15th April, 2017 Updated on 4th April, 2021

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Here is the link

https://wundef.com/koos-bekker/