>>16705467

>“Perenco acquires Glencore’s upstream oil interests in Chad”

“Revealed: The Frenchman, The Model, And Their $10 Billion Oil Fortune” - Perenco (1 of 3)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/02/07/revealed-the-frenchman-the-model-and-their-10-billion-oil-fortune/?sh=263555f42fed

February 7, 2014

With a net worth estimated to be at least $10 billion, Ka Yee (Carrie) Wong Perrodo and her family are set to be one of the wealthiest new entrants to the Forbes list of Global Billionaires this year. The family has previously been listed in the French media with a net worth of 2.8 billion euros.

A former model who in the 1970s founded a modeling agency that continues to this day, Carrie Perrodo (believed to be 65 years old) is more notably the widow of oil tycoon Hubert Perrodo, who founded and built the international oil company Perenco. Mrs. Perrodo remains stunning to this day, as shown in a picture of her here, presenting the Hubert Perrodo trophy for polo; here at a fashion party; and here at a luncheon. This Chinese-language site even features some vintage modeling photos of Carrie in the 1970s.

Perenco is almost as glamorous. The oil company operates in far-flung locales like Gabon, Nigeria and Egypt, has continued to grow since Hubert's death and now enjoys net production of at least 175,000 barrels of oil (and gas equivalents) per day. According to the company, which is believed to be 100% owned by the Perrodo family, its 2012 revenues were $5.9 billion (up from $3.5 billion in 2010). Its 2012 capital spending budget was $1.2 billion.

That year it bought ConocoPhillips' Vietnamese operations for $1.29 billion. And acquired North Sea fields from BP for $400 million. Last year it bought oil fields in Colombia from Petrobras for $380 million. And in Peru, Perenco is attempting to develop oil fields in a section of Amazonian rainforest still populated by indigenous people living in "voluntary isolation." Last year in Peru the company suffered a tragedy when a helicopter crash killed 12 contractors and one employee.

Perenco's founder Hubert Perrodo was a daring entrepreneur who hailed from the fishing towns of Brittany. During his youth he served in the French navy. In 1967 he spent a summer exploring the eastern coast of the United States. There his adventures one day had him working on a yacht owned by big Gulf Oil shareholder Jack Walton. A conversation with Walton convinced Perrodo he wanted to get into the oil business. In the years to come he worked at drilling company Forex, and marine operator Comex, traveling to the likes of Iraq, Gabon, Indonesia and Singapore. In 1975 he acquired some boats and launched his first business Cosnav, renting out barges to oil companies. In 1981 he founded offshore driller Techfor, which he sold in 1992 before forming Perenco. He moved to Gabon where he soon acquired an aging offshore oil field from Amoco. From there Perrodo perfected that model of buying Big Oil's hand-me-downs, building up his company until his death while hiking Courchevel in the Alps in 2006. He was 62. (See the family's tribute to him here.)

Although Hubert's estate has not yet been divided up among his heirs, it is clear that his wife and three children will inherit the fortune. Eldest son Francois Hubert Marie Perrodo (born Feb. 14, 1977) has assumed the role of chairman of Perenco. Francois is also a sometime race-car driver, who competed in last year's European Le Mans Series, driving this Porsche 911. The other children are Nathalie Perrodo (born 1980) and Bertrand Nicolas Hubert Perrodo (born 1984).

In an interview in the British press, Perenco executive John Sewell explained the Perenco strategy of buying unloved assets from bigger companies, then breathing new life into them. Sewell also made it clear who he works for. "We are owned by the Perrodo family, we are not answerable to shareholders, and financially we are in a good position so we can react quickly to opportunities that come along."

>>16707723

“Revealed: The Frenchman, The Model, And Their $10 Billion Oil Fortune” - Perenco (2 of 3)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/02/07/revealed-the-frenchman-the-model-and-their-10-billion-oil-fortune/?sh=263555f42fed

February 7, 2014

CEO Jean-Michel Jacoulot confirmed that in a 2011 interview with the Financial Times: "Being family owned gives us a long-term view. Our value creation comes from cash flow, not share price," Jacoulot said.

The Perrodo family is very private. Through a spokesman, they declined Forbes' request for an interview and also declined to participate in any factchecking for this story.

Much of what we know about their ownership stake in Perenco comes from documents stemming from a dispute between the company and PetroEcuador, the state oil company of Ecuador, which claimed Perenco owes some $300 million in back taxes.

Perenco in 2002 entered into a consortium to develop oil exploration blocks in the Ecuadorian jungle. The development proceeded and oil flowed, but in 2006 (once oil prices had started to rise) the Ecuadorian government enacted a law calling for oil companies to pay Ecuador up to 99% of the "extraordinary income" they were generating from fields there. Perenco complained about the tax; in 2009 Ecuador seized its oil field there, but got no buyers in an auction of 1.4 million barrels of Perenco's oil.

Perenco has fought this seizure by claiming that because the company is owned by French nationals, Ecuador cannot confiscate Perenco's oil revenues without breaching its obligations under a 1994 Bilateral Investment Treaty between the countries. PetroEcuador counters that Perenco Limited Ecuador isn't a French company, rather it is incorporated in the Bahamas.

The whole tete-a-tete is laid out in this 2011 report [http://www.italaw.com/documents/PerencoJurisdiction.pdf] from a tribunal from the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Regardless of the ultimate resolution of this dispute, what the documents reveal clearly is the assertion from the Perrodos that since Hubert's death, "the entire Perenco Group has been fully owned and controlled by Mr. Perrodo's heirs, consisting of his widow and three children. All are French nationals and his eldest son is now Chairman of Perenco Group."

So then, given that Hubert Perrodo's estate has not yet been distributed, how is anyone to know which Perrodo heir owns what? A declaration made by a Perrodo attorney states that "Ms. Wong, as the surviving spouse, inherited, at her discretion, either the totality of the estate in usufruct or full ownership of one fourth of the existing assets of the estate. The three children are also recorded as heirs to the estate." (I had to look up "usufruct." It means the legal right to use and enjoy the fruits or profits of something belonging to another.)

With that in mind, until the Hubert's estate is settled, we've decided to include the Perenco fortune on the Forbes list of Global Billionaires and list it under Carrie Wong Perrodo's name.

How to value an oil company like Perenco? The best way is to look for publicly traded companies with similarly diverse assets see what valuation the market gives them relative to their revenues and production volumes.

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>>16707737

“Revealed: The Frenchman, The Model, And Their $10 Billion Oil Fortune” - Perenco (3 of 3)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2014/02/07/revealed-the-frenchman-the-model-and-their-10-billion-oil-fortune/?sh=263555f42fed

February 7, 2014

To that end, consider these comparators, which all have sizable international operations but, like Perenco, no refining operations: Tullow Oil has an equity market cap of 5.7 times its annual revenues. Noble Energy sells for 5.6 times. BG Group is at 4 times sales. Anadarko Petroleum goes for 3 times sales, Apache Corp. 1.9 times, Afren, at 1.9 times and Talisman Energy, 1.7 times sales. Marathon Oil is a laggard at 1.5 times. (As for the integrated supermajors like Shell and BP, they sell for merely .5 times sales).

The average price-to-sales multiple of these 8 international oil companies comes out to 3.2x. If we toss out the highest and the lowest, we get 3x, not much different.

Applying this 3x multiple to Perenco's 2012 revenues of $5.9 billion gives us an implied equity market cap of $18 billion.

When estimating the equity value of privately held companies for the Forbes billionaires list, there's a few reasons why we like to apply an average p/s multiple. First of all, it yields a number that presupposes that the company in question is carrying an average debt load, has average growth prospects and has an average management team. This may be conservative; the company, in its limited disclosures, says that it has a "very low debt/equity ratio." Thus, we should feel pretty confident about that $18 billion.

Another way to value Perenco is by deriving an educated guess of what the company's net income is and applying an average price-to-earnings multiple. How to do that? Well the international oil analysts at Bernstein Research figured in a report last year that the average international oil company generates net income of about $14 for every barrel of oil (or natural gas equivalents) it produces. In Perenco's case, its 175,000 bbl per day amounts to 63.8 million bbl per year. At $14 per bbl that's net income of nearly $900 million (for a net margin of 15%).

So what happens when we apply a p/e multiple to that presumptive net income figure? Those same peer group companies currently trade at p/e multiples of 107x for Talisman, 36x for Tullow, 24x for Anadarko, 22x for Noble, 17x for BG, 14x for Marathon, 13x for Afren, 13x for Apache. Tossing out Talisman's outlier leaves an average p/e of 20. Applying that 20x earnings multiple to Perenco's estimated $900 million in net income gives us – $18 billion yet again. If we apply Afren's lowball 13x multiple, we get an $11.7 billion valuation.

As you may have gathered by now, when we value private companies, we like to err on the side of being conservative. That $18 billion does seem a little rich. When divided by Perenco's net production volumes of 175,000 barrels per day, that $18 billion comes out to $103,000 per flowing barrel. That's certainly in line with what oil companies are currently paying for production in the booming oil plays in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford shale of Texas, or the Bakken play of North Dakota (often as high as $120,000 per flowing barrel). But much of Perenco's portfolio has been cobbled together by acquiring castoffs from the supermajors. A couple years ago Apache Corp. bought ExxonMobil's fields in the North Sea for a price of roughly $61,000 per flowing barrel. And consider Talisman Energy, which produces roughly 400,000 bpd and has a market cap of just $12 billion (no wonder Carl Icahn is agitating for change at Talisman). Using the lower $12 billion valuation generates a more reasonable $69,000 per flowing barrel.

That $12 billion would also equate to just more than 2x Perenco's revenues – a very conservative and comfortable multiple.

But, the thing is, we just don't know what we don't know, and in the interest of being conservative in this valuation, $10 billion is both highly plausible and very defensible.

Not included in our calculations of the Perrodos' wealth: any of their diversified investments, nor the Bordeaux vineyards and chateaux that Hubert acquired. He started with Chateau Lebegorce Zede in 1989. Then bought the castle Abbot Gorsee de Gorsee in 2002. In 2006 he acquired the Labegorce chateau, and in June 2006, just months before his death, he bought the Chateau Marquis d'Alesme Becker (reportedly for $30 million). These jewels of Bordeaux are now believed to be managed by daughter Nathalie Perrodo Samani (who can be seen talking about the wines here).

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>>16707737

>CEO Jean-Michel Jacoulot

>>16707907

JEAN JACOULOT; Archived Record Houston, TX — Previous President for Cms Nomeco Congo Inc. https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Houston/jean-michel-jacoulot/30477934.aspx

“US operators ensnared in tussle over host-country debt” – Perenco; CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co. (1 of 4)

https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/17224959/us-operators-ensnared-in-tussle-over-hostcountry-debt

April 24, 2006

CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co., US subsidiaries of independent Perenco SA, are fighting legal battles with potential to affect US Oil and gas companies operating in countries that have defaulted on sovereign debt.

CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co., US subsidiaries of independent Perenco SA, are fighting legal battles with potential to affect US oil and gas companies operating in countries that have defaulted on sovereign debt.

In a series of US federal court actions across Texas, vulture funds are trying to collect defaulted debt of Congo (Brazzaville) by laying claim to royalty oil through garnishment of third parties, in this case the Perenco units.

So-called vulture funds buy a developing nation’s defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar and then seek to collect full payment. Some of the funds call themselves specialists in asset recovery from problematic emerging markets.

Chevron Corp. filed a brief in the CMS appeals case noting that its subsidiaries face similar efforts in the US District Court of the Northern District of California.

The potential burden of protracted garnishment litigation could discourage US companies from pursuing international ventures, Chevron said.

In addition, other nations could become reluctant to provide US oil companies access to oil and gas investment opportunities if garnishment actions become commonplace, attorneys for both CMS and Chevron said separately.

>>16716492

“US operators ensnared in tussle over host-country debt” – Perenco; CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co. (2 of 4)

https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/17224959/us-operators-ensnared-in-tussle-over-hostcountry-debt

April 24, 2006

CMS Nomeco

A US District Court in Houston ruled Apr. 5 that vulture fund FG Hemisphere Associates LLC of New York can garnish Congo’s royalty oil and the oil entitlement share of the national oil company, Ste. Nat. des Petroles du Congo (SNPC), through CMS Nomeco, the operator.

Congo courts have ruled the royalty oil is the property of the country and have ordered that lifting by the government proceed of a cargo aboard a tanker in Congolese waters.

CMS, which produces oil from Yombo field off Congo, appealed the Houston court’s decision to the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, said attorney Andrew B. Derman of Thompson & Knight LLC.

The Houston court ordered CMS to post a bond for the value of the royalty oil, Derman said, adding this situation amounts to “trapping CMS between US and Congo court orders and exposing CMS Nomeco to double liability for the value of the oil.”

FG Managing Director Keith Fogerty said his company has a valid order from a Texas court that says CMS owes a debt to Congo, and under Texas law, that is garnishable.

“If you do business in those types of places in the world, you have to accept the consequences,” Fogerty said. “This is not a case of an innocent third party. This is someone working hand in hand with the illegitimate government of the Congo to defeat a lawful garnishment claim.”

Garnishment cases against Perenco’s subsidiaries are complicated and involve federal courts in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, Derman said. Perenco has spent “millions” of dollars in litigation costs, he said, refusing to be more specific.

The cases involve an undisputed Congo government default on a highway construction loan from the 1980s, Derman told participants at the American Association of Petroleum Geologists annual convention in Houston on Apr. 12.

Perenco acquired CMS Nomeco in 2002, a year after a vulture fund started trying to collect oil proceeds from CMS Nomeco. Eventually, Perenco also acquired Nuevo Congo assets after Plains Exploration & Production Co. bought Nuevo Energy Co. in 2004.

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>>16716499

“US operators ensnared in tussle over host-country debt” – Perenco; CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co. (3 of 4)

https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/17224959/us-operators-ensnared-in-tussle-over-hostcountry-debt

April 24, 2006

Immunities law

The legal arguments hinge on whether Congo’s royalty oil is protected as its property under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and whether it can be garnished.

The appellate court’s 2004 ruling on behalf of Af-Cap Inc., another vulture fund, said Congo’s royalty can be garnished in the US, Derman said.

Meanwhile, Congo courts last year ordered CMS to honor SNPC’s contractual right to lift the government’s royalty oil on time, regardless of US court decisions and the garnishment writs. Congo refuses to recognize US court actions, Derman said.

“The issue today is vulture funds are trying to collect SNPC’s share of oil from US oil and gas companies,” Derman said.

More than 70 nations throughout Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia have defaulted on sovereign debt, he said, adding that many US companies have investments in these countries.

“If the decision of the US federal court is upheld, US companies operating abroad will be at the mercy of vulture funds,” Derman said. “There are three critical issues that American companies will encounter if this continues: fear of investing abroad, negative effects on international debt restructuring, and US laws may have to change.”

In the meantime, he said, “Every US company doing business with nations that have defaulted sovereign debt or may default in the future are put directly in harm’s way by the vulture funds’ attempts to use US garnishment law to collect on the paper they bought for pennies on the dollar.”

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>>16716492

>>16716505

“US operators ensnared in tussle over host-country debt” – Perenco; CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co. (4 of 4)

https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/17224959/us-operators-ensnared-in-tussle-over-hostcountry-debt

April 24, 2006

Chevron’s brief

In a brief filed in the CMS case, Chevron said US companies having international operations could find themselves in protracted and costly efforts brought by creditors holding sovereign debt.

“This result will substantially and adversely impact American companies in their efforts to develop foreign mineral resources and will subject them to burdensome and intrusive litigation to collect debts,” the Chevron brief said.

The oil companies, which have no connection with the underlying debt, find themselves as garnishees and are pulled into “limitless garnishment litigation,” Chevron said.

In California, Chevron has responded to three separate proceedings involving Af-Cap garnishment efforts. The oil company said it incurred almost 3,000 attorney-hr over 3 years “at substantial expense.”

Previously, Murphy Exploration & Production Co. International was a defendant in a garnishment case involving Congo (Brazzaville).

The 5th Circuit in December 2004 dismissed that case, which was filed by Walker International Holding Ltd. against Murphy about its signing bonuses.

FG arguments

Fogerty said Congo’s government oil accounts are in question.

“Congo is one of the most predatory, bad regimes in the world where the elite are stealing money left, right, and center. And as all of us know, you can’t steal that type of money without the cooperation of all different kinds of people,” Fogerty said. “Now I’m not suggesting that Perenco is helping them steal that money, but our auditing of the Congo oil accounts shows that somewhere between $500 million to $1 billion has disappeared, probably over the last 5 years.”

Forgerty said, “Our argument is that they [Perenco] are colluding with Congo to try to defeat the court orders. They are not third parties. They are partners who are knee deep in it.”

He added that Congo recently incarcerated two human rights activists who were pointing out the discrepancies in the country’s oil accounts.

Brice Mackosso, of the Congolese Justice and Peace Commission, and Christian Mounzeo, of the Rencontre pour la Paix et les Droits de l’Homme, who act as coordinators of the Congolese PWYP Coalition, have been held in Congo since Apr. 7 on civil charges.

Their detention is said to be linked to their campaign for greater transparency in the management of Congo’s oil revenues. ✦

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>>16716492

>JEAN JACOULOT; Archived Record Houston, TX — Previous President for Cms Nomeco Congo Inc.

>>16706185

>“EQUATORIAL GUINEA 2020 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT”

Jean-Michel Jacoulot – Trident Energy’s first asset in Equatorial Guinea

https://www.trident-energy.com/our-team/leadership-team/jean-michel-jacoulot

Chief Executive Officer

Jean-Michel Jacoulot co-founded Trident Energy in 2016. He is the Chief Executive Officer and a key member of the Board of Directors. He oversees strategic decision-making, the organization of the group and M&A activity, and was instrumental in the acquisition of Trident’s first asset in Equatorial Guinea.

Jean-Michel Jacoulot has over 25 years of experience in Senior Management roles in the Oil and Gas industry. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Perenco from 2007 to 2016. He completed a series of successful acquisitions of mid-life assets during this time and conducted major development projects, doubling the Group’s reserves and operated-production.

He joined Perenco in 1995 and held a number of key roles prior to becoming CEO. He started out as an Asset Manager in Gabon before moving to Colombia where he was a Project and Production Engineer. In 1999, he became the Country General Manager for Venezuela, supervising the operations and liaising with the regulatory authorities and the National Oil Company there. Three years later, he was named Country General Manager for Guatemala before becoming Africa Area Manager in 2003, and finally did a stint as Deputy Chief Executive Officer from 2005 until he was named Chief Executive Officer in 2007. In the Deputy Chief Executive Officer role, his was in charge of restructuring the business, overseeing M&A activity and reinforcing the “Perenco excellence in Operations” to fully establish a Quality, Health, Safety and Environment culture within the organisation.

Jean-Michel Jacoulot is a graduate of INSA Lyon, the French National Institute of Applied Sciences, and holds a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from the IFP School in France, the French Institute of Petroleum.

>>16716541

Trident Energy – “backing from leading private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Quantum Energy Partners”

https://www.trident-energy.com/about-trident-energy

Trident Energy was formed with a focused mission: to unlock the value of mid-life oil & gas assets.

We acquired and successfully took over the Ceiba and Okume assets in Equatorial Guinea from Hess Corporation in 2017 and completed the acquisition of Pampo and Enchova, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in 2020.

These acquisitions are in line with our strategy to acquire mid-life producing assets globally.

We focus on oil and gas fields lacking attention and investment, to re-develop them, increase production, unlock reserves, and create value for all stakeholders.

At Trident we have had the exciting opportunity to build our company from the ground up.

So we are flat in structure, entrepreneurial and nimble. We have no unnecessary layers or barriers to clear decision-making. And we never forget that the success of any business is hard-wired to the satisfaction of all its stakeholders:

For host states and governments we are a trusted and productive partner who generates important national revenues. We do not operate remotely – our project leaders and their families relocate in-country, as we fulfil our role as a major contributor to the local economy and community.

Trident Energy stands on firm financial foundations.

Central to our investment plans is a $400 million Line of Equity backing from leading private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Quantum Energy Partners. With their support Trident is well placed to achieve its continued growth and business development.

Warburg bring more than 50 years’ experience in growth investment and have supported over 800 companies with more than $60bn of equity. In the energy space, Warburg has invested, or committed, over $10bn across more than 50 investments. Trident Energy is currently unique in their portfolio as the only specialist in international mid-life oil & gas assets.

Quantum Energy Partners is a leading provider of private capital across the energy ecosystem, including traditional and sustainable energy with a long and proven track record of successfully investing in companies with a partnership approach.

Our respective investment cultures are like-minded: measured, selective growth, coupled with creative thinking and innovative ideas. We also believe in creating value but doing so responsibly.

>>16716562

>Trident Energy – “backing from leading private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Quantum Energy Partners”

>>16716541

>Trident Energy’s first asset in Equatorial Guinea

>>16706185 - Obama with Obiang in Blue Room of the White House

“Geithner grilled over AIG” - https://youtu.be/qWHLEPSwWtA

Warburg Pincus President, Timothy F. Geithner, was in the Obama administration

https://warburgpincus.com/firm/firm-history/

2013 – Former US Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner joined Warburg Pincus as President.

https://warburgpincus.com/team/timothy-f-geithner/

Timothy Geithner serves as President of Warburg Pincus. In this capacity, Mr. Geithner helps oversee the investment decisions and the management of the firm. Before joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Geithner served as the 75th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2009 to 2013. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009. He began his U.S. government career with the Treasury Department in 1988. Mr. Geithner is Chair of the Program on Financial Stability at the Yale University School of Management, where he is also a visiting lecturer. He is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the Group of Thirty. Mr. Geithner holds a B.A. in Government and Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and an M.A. in International Economics and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

>>16716591

“BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | William K. Black | PBS” – “former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s” – Bush, Clinton, Obama administrations, Geithner, etc. (1 of 2)

https://youtu.be/Rz1b__MdtHY

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript1.html

April 3, 2009

WILLIAM K. BLACK: The FBI publicly warned, in September 2004 that there was an epidemic of mortgage fraud, that if it was allowed to continue it would produce a crisis at least as large as the Savings and Loan debacle. And that they were going to make sure that they didn't let that happen. So what goes wrong? After 9/11, the attacks, the Justice Department transfers 500 white-collar specialists in the FBI to national terrorism. Well, we can all understand that. But then, the Bush administration refused to replace the missing 500 agents. So even today, again, as you say, this crisis is 1000 times worse, perhaps, certainly 100 times worse, than the Savings and Loan crisis. There are one-fifth as many FBI agents as worked the Savings and Loan crisis.

BILL MOYERS: You talk about the Bush administration. Of course, there's that famous photograph of some of the regulators in 2003, who come to a press conference with a chainsaw suggesting that they're going to slash, cut business loose from regulation, right?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, they succeeded. And in that picture, by the way, the other — three of the other guys with pruning shears are the…

BILL MOYERS: That's right.

WILLIAM K. BLACK: They're the trade representatives. They're the lobbyists for the bankers. And everybody's grinning. The government's working together with the industry to destroy regulation. Well, we now know what happens when you destroy regulation. You get the biggest financial calamity of anybody under the age of 80.

BILL MOYERS: But I can point you to statements by Larry Summers, who was then Bill Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury, or the other Clinton Secretary of the Treasury, Rubin. I can point you to suspects in both parties, right?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: There were two really big things, under the Clinton administration. One, they got rid of the law that came out of the real-world disasters of the Great Depression. We learned a lot of things in the Great Depression. And one is we had to separate what's called commercial banking from investment banking. That's the Glass-Steagall law. But we thought we were much smarter, supposedly. So we got rid of that law, and that was bipartisan. And the other thing is we passed a law, because there was a very good regulator, Brooksley Born, that everybody should know about and probably doesn't. She tried to do the right thing to regulate one of these exotic derivatives that you're talking about. We call them C.D.F.S. And Summers, Rubin, and Phil Gramm came together to say not only will we block this particular regulation. We will pass a law that says you can't regulate. And it's this type of derivative that is most involved in the AIG scandal. AIG all by itself, cost the same as the entire Savings and Loan debacle.

BILL MOYERS: What did AIG contribute? What did they do wrong?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: They made bad loans. Their type of loan was to sell a guarantee, right? And they charged a lot of fees up front. So, they booked a lot of income. Paid enormous bonuses. The bonuses we're thinking about now, they're much smaller than these bonuses that were also the product of accounting fraud. And they got very, very rich. But, of course, then they had guaranteed this toxic waste. These liars' loans.

>>16716614

“BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | William K. Black | PBS” – “former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s” – Bush, Clinton, Obama administrations, Geithner, etc. (2 of 2)

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript1.html

April 3, 2009

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, we've just gone through why those toxic waste, those liars' loans, are going to have enormous losses. And so, you have to pay the guarantee on those enormous losses. And you go bankrupt. Except that you don't in the modern world, because you've come to the United States, and the taxpayers play the fool. Under Secretary Geithner and under Secretary Paulson before him… we took $5 billion dollars, for example, in U.S. taxpayer money. And sent it to a huge Swiss Bank called UBS. At the same time that that bank was defrauding the taxpayers of America. And we were bringing a criminal case against them. We eventually get them to pay a $780 million fine, but wait, we gave them $5 billion. So, the taxpayers of America paid the fine of a Swiss Bank. And why are we bailing out somebody who that is defrauding us?

BILL MOYERS: Who's covering up?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Geithner is charging, is covering up. Just like Paulson did before him. Geithner is publicly saying that it's going to take $2 trillion — a trillion is a thousand billion — $2 trillion taxpayer dollars to deal with this problem. But they're allowing all the banks to report that they're not only solvent, but fully capitalized. Both statements can't be true. It can't be that they need $2 trillion, because they have masses losses, and that they're fine.

These are all people who have failed. Paulson failed, Geithner failed. They were all promoted because they failed, not because…

BILL MOYERS: What do you mean?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, Geithner has, was one of our nation's top regulators, during the entire subprime scandal, that I just described. He took absolutely no effective action. He gave no warning. He did nothing in response to the FBI warning that there was an epidemic of fraud. All this pig in the poke stuff happened under him. So, in his phrase about legacy assets. Well he's a failed legacy regulator.

BILL MOYERS: Yeah. Are you saying that Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others in the administration, with the banks, are engaged in a cover up to keep us from knowing what went wrong?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Absolutely.

BILL MOYERS: You are.

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Absolutely, because they are scared to death. All right? They're scared to death of a collapse. They're afraid that if they admit the truth, that many of the large banks are insolvent. They think Americans are a bunch of cowards, and that we'll run screaming to the exits. And we won't rely on deposit insurance. And, by the way, you can rely on deposit insurance. And it's foolishness. All right? Now, it may be worse than that. You can impute more cynical motives. But I think they are sincerely just panicked about, "We just can't let the big banks fail." That's wrong.

BILL MOYERS: But what might happen, at this point, if in fact they keep from us the true health of the banks?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Well, then the banks will, as they did in Japan, either stay enormously weak, or Treasury will be forced to increasingly absurd giveaways of taxpayer money. We've seen how horrific AIG – and remember, they kept secrets from everyone.

BILL MOYERS: A.I.G. did?

WILLIAM K. BLACK: What we're doing with – no, Treasury and both administrations. The Bush administration and now the Obama administration kept secret from us what was being done with AIG. AIG was being used secretly to bail out favored banks like UBS and like Goldman Sachs. Secretary Paulson's firm, that he had come from being CEO. It got the largest amount of money. $12.9 billion. And they didn't want us to know that. And it was only Congressional pressure, and not Congressional pressure, by the way, on Geithner, but Congressional pressure on AIG.

Where Congress said, "We will not give you a single penny more unless we know who received the money." And, you know, when he was Treasury Secretary, Paulson created a recommendation group to tell Treasury what they ought to do with AIG. And he put Goldman Sachs on it.

BILL MOYERS: Even though Goldman Sachs had a big vested stake.

WILLIAM K. BLACK: Massive stake. And even though he had just been CEO of Goldman Sachs before becoming Treasury Secretary. Now, in most stages in American history, that would be a scandal of such proportions that he wouldn't be allowed in civilized society.

“The Benefits of World Hunger” – United Nations Article

https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger

http://web.archive.org/web/20220705153241/https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/benefits-world-hunger

We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.

We in developed countries sometimes see poor people by the roadside holding up signs saying "Will Work for Food". Actually, most people work for food. It is mainly because people need food to survive that they work so hard either in producing food for themselves in subsistence-level production, or by selling their services to others in exchange for money. How many of us would sell our services if it were not for the threat of hunger?

More importantly, how many of us would sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger? When we sell our services cheaply, we enrich others, those who own the factories, the machines and the lands, and ultimately own the people who work for them. For those who depend on the availability of cheap labour, hunger is the foundation of their wealth.

The conventional thinking is that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs. For example, an article reports on "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom".1 While it is true that hunger is caused by low-paying jobs, we need to understand that hunger at the same time causes low-paying jobs to be created. Who would have established massive biofuel production operations in Brazil if they did not know there were thousands of hungry people desperate enough to take the awful jobs they would offer? Who would build any sort of factory if they did not know that many people would be available to take the jobs at low-pay rates?

Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work.

The non-governmental organization Free the Slaves defines slaves as people who are not allowed to walk away from their jobs. It estimates that there are about 27 million slaves in the world,2 including those who are literally locked into workrooms and held as bonded labourers in South Asia. However, they do not include people who might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most people who work are slaves to hunger?

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.

Notes 1 Tom Phillipps, "Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom". The Guardian. Online, 9 March 2007.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2030144,00.html

2 Free the Slaves. Online, 2007. http://www.freetheslaves.net/

About the author

George Kent

George Kent is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. He works on human rights, international relations, peace, development and environmental issues, with a special focus on nutrition and children. He has written several books, the latest is Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food.

“Sri Lanka Just Fell. What Do We Have to Do With It?” – (1 of 2)

https://www.commonsense.news/p/sri-lanka-just-fell-what-do-we-have?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

July 12, 2022

Sri Lanka has fallen. On Saturday, thousands of protesters stormed the presidential palace. While the angry and the aggrieved swam in the president’s pool, had a cookout on his lawn, lounged on his bed, and set fire to his residence, the president was spirited away to a naval ship off the Sri Lankan coast.

The proximate reason for the chaos is that the nation is bankrupt, suffering its worst financial crisis in decades. Millions are struggling to buy food, medicine and fuel. Between June 2021 to June 2022, food prices rose by 80 percent. Last month, annual inflation hit nearly 55 percent. Since the start of the pandemic, half a million people have fallen into poverty.

If you’ve never paid attention to the island country just off India’s southeastern coast, you might think this is just how it goes in developing nations. But the truth is that Sri Lanka had been gradually rebuilding itself—after decades of civil war and authoritarianism—and then this happened. We in the West had a lot to do with it.

The underlying reason for the fall of Sri Lanka is that its leaders—starting with former President Maithripala Sirisena and continuing with his successor, the recently deposed Gotabaya Rajapaksa—fell under the spell of Western green elites peddling organic agriculture and “ESG,” which refers to investments made following supposedly higher Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria. Sri Lanka has a near-perfect ESG score of 98—higher than Sweden (96) and the United States (51).

What does having such a high ESG score mean? In short, it meant that Sri Lanka’s two million farmers were forced to stop using fertilizers and pesticides, laying waste to its critical agricultural sector. (Never mind that Tesla has been booted from the ESG S&P Index, while Exxon Mobil is in the top ten. None of it makes much sense.)

To be sure, there were other factors behind Sri Lanka’s fall. Covid lockdowns and a 2019 bombing hurt tourism—an industry that usually generates between $3 billion and $5 billion a year. Sri Lanka racked up huge foreign debt, with China lending the country billions of dollars as part of its Belt and Road initiative. Transportation costs have rocketed 128 percent since May due to rising oil prices. And overall trends have not helped: Since 2012, growth has been declining.

But the biggest problem was Sri Lanka’s chemical fertilizer ban, which passed last year and was central to the country’s effort to comply with ESG.

“Sri Lanka Just Fell. What Do We Have to Do With It?” – (2 of 2)

https://www.commonsense.news/p/sri-lanka-just-fell-what-do-we-have?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

July 12, 2022

The numbers are shocking.

One-third of Sri Lanka’s farm lands were dormant in 2021 due to the fertilizer ban. Over 90 percent of Sri Lanka’s farmers had used chemical fertilizers before they were banned. After they were banned, an astonishing 85 percent experienced crop losses. Rice production fell 20 percent and prices skyrocketed 50 percent in just six months. Sri Lanka had to import $450 million worth of rice despite having been self-sufficient just months earlier. The price of carrots and tomatoes rose fivefold. All this had a dramatic impact on the more than 15 million people of the country’s 22 million people who are directly or indirectly dependent on farming.

Things were worse for smaller farmers. In the Rajanganaya region, where the majority of farmers operate two-and-a-half-acre lots, families reported 50 percent to 60 percent reductions in their harvest. “Before the ban, this was one of the biggest markets in the country, with tons and tons of rice and vegetables,” one farmer said earlier this year. “But after the ban, it became almost zero. If you talk to the rice mills, they don’t have any stock because people’s harvest dropped so much. The income of this whole community has dropped to an extremely low level.”

But the damage to tea was the key to Sri Lanka’s ruin. Before 2021, tea production generated $1.3 billion in exports annually. Tea exports paid for 71 percent of the nation’s food imports before 2021.

The fertilizer ban, starting in April 2021, changed everything. Four months after the ban took effect, the president, realizing that things were not going according to plan, lifted the ban on the import of chemical fertilizers—and then, two days later, reinstated it.

The results have been devastating and widely predicted by tea farmers, with exports crashing 18 percent between November 2021 and February 2022—reaching their lowest level in more than two decades.

“We don’t have enough chemical fertilizers,” Rajapaksa admitted in December 2021, “because we didn’t import them. There is a shortage.”

In May 2022, Sri Lanka failed to pay $77 million on its foreign debt repayments. That may seem like a small sum in the bigger scheme of things, but the default made it hard for Sri Lanka to borrow money. So, it devalued its currency, inflation rose 30 percent, and the government ran out of the cash it needed to import fuel, food and medicines.

What, exactly, were Rajapaksa and other Sri Lankan leaders thinking? Why did they engage in such a radical experiment with the most important industry in their country?

After World War II, Sri Lanka, like many poor nations, subsidized farmers to transition from biofertilizers, like manure, to chemical fertilizers in what is known as the Green Revolution. (This was popularized by Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Prize-winning agronomist.) Rice yields rose quickly, and the nation overcame chronic food shortages and started earning foreign revenue through the export of rubber and tea.

As yields rose, young people were able to get jobs in cities. Salaries increased—so much so that Sri Lanka became a middle-income nation.

But what looked like a dream to most Sri Lankans looked like a nightmare to many environmentalists in the West. In the 1970s, Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich and other activists raged against the Green Revolution. They claimed that overpopulation would cause mass death and suffering and that humankind needed to play “triage.” In other words, we had to let some people die so the rest of us could live.

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“World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People” - Wellcome Trust, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta, Unilever, etc. (1 of 2)

https://www.oval.media/en/world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people/

02/06/2022

The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.” — Vandana Shiva

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) The Great Reset includes a plan to transform the global food and agricultural industries and the human diet. The architects of the plan claim it will reduce food scarcity, hunger and disease, and even mitigate climate change.

But a closer look at the corporations and think tanks the WEF is partnering with to usher in this global transformation suggests that the real motive is tighter corporate control over the food system by means of technological solutions.

Vandana Shiva, scholar, environmentalist, food sovereignty advocate and author, told The Defender, “The Great Reset is about multinational corporate stakeholders at the World Economic Forum controlling as many elements of planetary life as they possibly can. From the digital data humans produce to each morsel of food we eat.”

The WEF describes itself as “the global platform for public-private cooperation” that creates partnerships between corporations, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and other leaders of society to “define, discuss and advance key issues on the global agenda.”

According to WEF’s founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, the forum is guided by the goal of positioning “private corporations as the trustees of society” to “address social and environmental challenges.”

In July, Schwab published a 195-page book, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” in which he challenged industry leaders and decision makers to “make good use of the pandemic by not letting the crisis go to waste.”

TIME magazine (whose owner Marc Benioff is a WEF board member) recently partnered with the WEF to cover The Great Reset and to provide a “look at how the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to transform the way we live.”

The Great Reset is meant to be all-encompassing. Its partner organizations include the biggest players in data collection, telecommunications, weapons manufacturing, finance, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and the food industry.

The WEF’s plans for the “reset” of food and agriculture include projects and strategic partnerships that favor genetically modified organisms, lab-made proteins and pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals as sustainable solutions to food and health issues.

For example, WEF has promoted and partnered with an organization called EAT Forum. EAT Forum describes itself as a “Davos for food” that plans to “add value to business and industry” and “set the political agenda.”

EAT was co-founded by Wellcome Trust, an organization established with funds from GlaxoSmithKline and which still has strategic partnerships with the drugmaker. EAT collaborates with nearly 40 city governments in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Australia. The organization also assists the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the “creation of new dietary guidelines” and sustainable development initiatives.

“World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People” - Wellcome Trust, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta, Unilever, etc. (2 of 2)

https://www.oval.media/en/world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people/

02/06/2022

According to Federic Leroy, a food science and biotechnology professor at University of Brussels, EAT network interacts closely with some of the biggest imitation meat companies, including Impossible Foods and other biotech companies, which aim to replace wholesome nutritious foods with genetically modified lab creations.

“They frame it as healthy and sustainable, which of course it is neither,” Leroy told The Defender.

Impossible Foods was initially co-funded by Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Recent lab results showed the company’s imitation meat contained glyphosate levels 11 times higher than its closest competitor.

EAT’s biggest initiative is called FReSH, which the organization describes as an effort to drive the transformation of the food system. The project’s partners include Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta, Unilever and even tech giant Google.

“Companies like Unilever and Bayer and other pharmaceutical companies are already chemical processors — so many of these companies are very well positioned to profit off of this new food business which revolves around processing chemicals and extracts needed to produce these lab-made foods on a global scale,” Leroy said.

In Schwab’s book, he discusses how biotechnology and genetically modified food should become a central pillar to repairing global food scarcity issues, issues which COVID has revealed and exacerbated.

He writes “global food security will only be achieved if regulations on genetically modified foods are adapted to reflect the reality that gene editing offers a precise, efficient and safe method of improving crops.”

Shiva disagrees. She told The Defender that the “WEF is parading fake science,” and “for Mr. Schwab to promote these technologies as solutions proves that The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.”

EAT developed what it refers to as “the planetary health diet,” which the WEF champions as the “sustainable dietary solution of the future.” But according to Leroy, it’s a diet that’s supposed to replace everything else. “The diet aims to cut the meat and dairy intake of the global population by as much as 90% in some cases and replaces it with lab-made foods, cereals and oil,” he said.

Shiva further explained, “EAT’s proposed diet is not about nutrition at all, it’s about big business and it’s about a corporate takeover of the food system.”

According to EAT’s own reports, the big adjustments the organization and its corporate partners want to make to the food system are “unlikely to be successful if left up to the individual,” and the changes they wish to impose on societal eating habits and food “require reframing at the systemic level with hard policy interventions that include laws, fiscal measures, subsidies and penalties, trade reconfiguration and other economic and structural measures.”

But Shiva said this is the wrong approach, because “all of the science” shows that diets should be centered around regional and geographical biodiversity. She explained that “EAT’s uniform global diet will be produced with western technology and agricultural chemicals. Forcing this onto sovereign nations by multinational lobbying is what I refer to as food imperialism.”

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“History of Wellcome” - Wellcome Trust

https://wellcome.org/who-we-are/history-wellcome

Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) was a pharmaceutical entrepreneur. He left us three things in his will: his wealth, his collection of historical medical items, and a mission to improve health through research.

Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust was founded in 1936, in accordance with Henry Wellcome’s will, to improve health by supporting scientific research and the study of medicine. Funding for this mission came from the profits of the pharmaceutical business he had built up over 50 years.

In 1880, Silas Burroughs and Henry Wellcome, two pharmaceutical salesmen from America, started a new company in London called Burroughs, Wellcome & Co. They used mass production and proactive marketing to sell remedies and medicines throughout the UK and territories colonised by the British, building the company’s reputation on scientific rigour.

Henry Wellcome became a wealthy and prominent figure in the growth of the modern pharmaceutical industry. After his death in 1936 (Silas Burroughs had died in 1895), the company became the property of the newly formed Wellcome Trust, which used the profits to fund charitable activities supporting research related to health.

Despite financial difficulties after World War II, the business began to thrive again, pioneering a new approach to drug design. Successful products included the first leukaemia drug, immune suppressants for organ transplants, and antivirals such as AZT, the first drug approved to treat HIV.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the Wellcome Trust decided to sell the company, which is now part of GlaxoSmithKline and no longer has any ownership or governance relationship with Wellcome. We do work with GlaxoSmithKline, as we work with many other healthcare companies, when it helps us to achieve our mission.

The considerable proceeds from the sale gave the Wellcome Trust financial independence. Today, we invest in a wide range of financial assets around the world, and the returns from our portfolio – currently worth around £38 billion – fund everything we do.

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“CORONAVIRUS UNCOVERS ROTHSCHILD LORD PIRBRIGHT AS KEY TO THE 140-YR. PILGRIMS SOCIETY MONOPOLY OVER WORLD CULTURE, COMMERCE & WAR” - Wellcome Trust

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=8136

Below are excerpts.

Lord Pirbright (Rothschild) and his banker cousins at N.M. Rothschild & Co. were godfathers of the 2nd Boer War concentration camps (1899-1902) to drive the French, Dutch and Germans out of South Africa

New Evidence: Leading London Jews were running the first modern war concentration camps where over 60,000 whites and blacks died, including more than 14,000 mostly white children who were subjected to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (now Wellcome Trust–Coronavirus funder and GlaxoSmithKline) vaccine experiments

These Privy Council and Parliamentary records have been discovered after much difficulty and missing documents

Pirbright grew up in Ceylon on “The Rothschild Plantation” where they grew coffee and tea sold through their Rothschild-financed British East India Company. At age 45, Baron Pirbright became the British minister of trade and colonies (1885-1892). During those years just prior to the founding of the Pilgrims Society in 1902, Lord Pirbright promoted Cecil Rhodes, N.M. Rothschild, Alfred Milner and John Buchan in the Boer Wars.

Pirbright also coached Henry S. Wellcome and Sir Henry M. Stanley in their rapacious acquisition of valuable African poisons and cures used in extensive vaccine experimentation on human beings—including black and Boer (German, Dutch and French) prisoners they had put in concentration camps and performed fatal Wellcome Trust drug experiments. Pirbright gave Cecil Rhodes an almost free hand in the British South Africa Company to write laws, collect taxes and run his own police force in their new British Imperial-Fascist Corporatism model for reorganizing the British Empire while continuing to control the resources of their colonies, even after Home Rule was implemented (like Rio Tinto – global mining company [including uranium] that is also a Rothschild creation for the British Crown that the Monarch controls to this day), Viscount Alfred Milner, co-founder of the Pilgrims Society, was Rio Tinto chairman from 1923-1925, and earlier a director for many years.

(FEB. 20, 2020)—Once we discovered that the Coronavirus was created and patented (U.S. Pat. No. 10,130,701) by “The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Pirbright, Surrey,” we were compelled to learn more about this Pirbright organization and the village of Pirbright.

One of our conclusions from this investigation is that The Pirbright Institute is very evidently part of the Pilgrims Society’s 200-year Rhodes-ian plan to create an un-elected one-world government where America is made subservient to the Pilgrims Society and its United Nations. As we are just now discovering, Rhodes had a mentor for his 200-year plan.

The tracing of patent ownership lineage of “U.S. Pat. No. 10,130,701, Coronavirus” led us to The Pirbright Institute, Surrey, UK, near Woking and Guildford.

The man who appears to be the Pilgrims Society nexus point is not Cecil Rhodes, but rather Rhodes’ Rothschild family mentor Henry (Rothschild) de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright, sometimes referenced simply as “Lord Pirbright” or “Baron Pirbright.)

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Independent Media also investigated the baby trade in South Africa. Their YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChW8d3UEx6jt6zhyh5h_efQ/videos

“Episode Seven: Fertile Ground | Baby Trade”

https://youtu.be/AmZ8KJpeRWo

Posted March 23, 2022

Fertile Ground, Episode 7 of Independent Media’s compelling docuseries, Baby Trade lands with a bang, as Gosiame Sithole, mother of the Tembisa 10, spills the beans on who the doctors were who delivered her.

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>CEO Jean-Michel Jacoulot

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JEAN JACOULOT; Archived Record Houston, TX — Previous President for Cms Nomeco Congo Inc. https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Houston/jean-michel-jacoulot/30477934.aspx

“US operators ensnared in tussle over host-country debt” – Perenco; CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co. (1 of 4)

https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/17224959/us-operators-ensnared-in-tussle-over-hostcountry-debt

April 24, 2006

CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co., US subsidiaries of independent Perenco SA, are fighting legal battles with potential to affect US Oil and gas companies operating in countries that have defaulted on sovereign debt.

CMS Nomeco Congo Inc. and Nuevo Congo Co., US subsidiaries of independent Perenco SA, are fighting legal battles with potential to affect US oil and gas companies operating in countries that have defaulted on sovereign debt.

In a series of US federal court actions across Texas, vulture funds are trying to collect defaulted debt of Congo (Brazzaville) by laying claim to royalty oil through garnishment of third parties, in this case the Perenco units.

So-called vulture funds buy a developing nation’s defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar and then seek to collect full payment. Some of the funds call themselves specialists in asset recovery from problematic emerging markets.

Chevron Corp. filed a brief in the CMS appeals case noting that its subsidiaries face similar efforts in the US District Court of the Northern District of California.

The potential burden of protracted garnishment litigation could discourage US companies from pursuing international ventures, Chevron said.

In addition, other nations could become reluctant to provide US oil companies access to oil and gas investment opportunities if garnishment actions become commonplace, attorneys for both CMS and Chevron said separately.

Is the Apartheid research being used today?

“South Africa: ‘Dr Death’ [Wouter Basson] discovered to still be practising medicine” – General Constand Viljoen, chemical and biological weapons (Part 1)

https://www.theafricareport.com/63661/south-africa-dr-death-discovered-to-still-be-practising-medicine/

5 February 2021

Wouter Basson, the doctor who led Project Coast, an apartheid-era chemical and biological weapons programme that targeted the country’s black population, continues to practise medicine in a private clinic outside Cape Town. The revelation has hit South Africa hard.

Mediclinic International is your typical successful company. Founded in 1983 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, the private healthcare services group eventually expanded its geographic footprint to include Namibia, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. [Dr Edwin Hertzog, our current chairman, commissioned by the then Rembrandt Group (now Remgro Group (“Johann Rupert’s listed empire: Remgro, Richemont and Reinet”- https://www.biznews.com/global-investing/2021/10/18/johann-rupert-remgro)) to undertake a feasibility study on private hospitals, leading to the founding of Mediclinic. https://www.mediclinic.com/content/dam/mediclinic-com/downloads/en/about-us/mediclinic-history.pdf. Also, “Rembrandt thus entered the South African cigarette and tobacco industry in 1948” - https://www.remgro.com/about-remgro/history/]

According to figures from 2019, the company owns more than 50 clinics in South Africa, generates €3.31bn in revenues and has over 32,000 employees. One of these employees is a cardiologist – well past retirement age – going by the name of Wouter Basson.

Mediclinic Durbanville, a hospital located in a north-east suburb of Cape Town, has a website with Basson’s profile in which his CV, address, phone number and email are made available to the public.

In his professional photo, the physician has a hint of a smile. He is bald, grey-bearded and dressed in a charcoal-coloured suit paired with a striped tie. By all appearances, this is a completely normal man, except for one detail: from 1981 until the mid-1990s, Basson was the all-powerful leader of Project Coast, a chemical and biological weapons programme set up by the apartheid regime to develop substances that could poison, sterilise or kill South Africa’s black citizens.

Its origins take us almost 50 years back in time, when the world was divided into two halves by the Cold War. South Africa’s president was a white man, PW Botha, elected in 1984. During his time as defence minister this staunch supporter of apartheid had developed the concept of “total war”, i.e., that a conflict was playing out between his country and its enemies – both foreign and domestic.

It was under these particular circumstances that in August 1981, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), authorised, with the approval of political leaders, a feasibility study for the establishment of a chemical and biological weapons programme.

All that was left to do was to find a leader qualified to carry out this delicate mission. The young personal physician to President Botha, Basson, a lieutenant colonel who joined the army in 1979, was a competent, extremely motivated volunteer.

After making a few short “information-gathering trips” abroad, during which Basson had the opportunity to meet an array of experts, he returned to South Africa persuaded of the programme’s feasibility. A research and production of unconventional weapons programme was swiftly set up, with General Daniel Knobel, SADF surgeon-general, running the project. However, in reality the project’s leader was, and would continue to be through to the end, Basson.

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>Phalatse’s appointment at Armscor, the state arms procurement body, was announced by Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota on Wednesday. Phalatse is among four new board members expected to steer the troubled arms parastatal into calmer waters. Another surprise appointment is Constand Viljoen, the former South African Defence Force chief and Freedom Front leader.

“Dr. Susan Vosloo [South African heart surgeon]”

https://rumble.com/vrnrd3-dr.-susan-vosloo.html

https://rumble.com/embed/vp1l97/?pub=4

0:27 - “That the vaccine was not brought in for COVID but the COVID was brought in for the vaccine.”

“South Africa: ‘Dr Death’ [Wouter Basson] discovered to still be practising medicine” – General Constand Viljoen, chemical and biological weapons (Part 2)

https://www.theafricareport.com/63661/south-africa-dr-death-discovered-to-still-be-practising-medicine/

5 February 2021

Obsession with fertility

Project Coast conducted its business through three front companies specifically created to conceal the SADF’s involvement in the programme: Delta G Scientific, responsible for production, Roodeplaat Research Laboratories (RRL), where evaluation and testing were conducted, and Infladel, the administrative and finance company. According to Chandré Gould and Peter Folb’s 2006 UN report, Project Coast: Apartheid’s Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme:

The front companies of Project Coast were designed to hide the military’s involvement in chemical and biological warfare. It was argued that they would be able to procure equipment and substances more easily than official military structures, an appealing argument in the light of economic sanctions against South Africa. The use of front companies also allowed the scientists access to colleagues internationally and scientists could be attracted by the higher salaries offered at these institutions compared to the military.

Within the Afrikaans scientific community, Project Coast’s real purpose was an open secret and Delta G Scientific “was referred to jokingly as ‘the secretive organisation’ (die geheimsinnige organisasie)”. Though the number of staff employed by the project has never been officially disclosed, investigators from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which held a hearing into Project Coast during Basson’s trial, estimated that in 1987 it had 165 employees, including some 20 scientists.

The project may not have operated in secret, but it was discreet. Overseen by a committee, the Co-ordinating Management Committee (CMC), specially set up within the Ministry of Defence, the CMC was however “never fully informed of the [project’s] details”. What we do know about it is that Project Coast’s researchers were tasked with a twofold mission of developing “crowd control” agents for domestic use and weapons “to counter the threat posed by the Soviet-backed Cuban forces in Angola”.

Under this vague umbrella, anything went and Basson became especially obsessed with all things fertility related: according to RRL’s former director, “[f]ertility and fertility control studies comprised 18% of all projects”, and more specifically involved research on an anti-fertility vaccine that could be administered to women without their knowledge.

Basson assumed much of the responsibility for Project Coast’s financing. The Ministry of Defence allocated a generous budget to the programme, but how Basson actually used the funds has never been explained. Over the years, the doctor established an international network of financial structures led by managers who reported back to him and him only.

Basson would later go on to say that he created these structures to hide that the funds had originated in South Africa, as that allowed him to bypass economic sanctions imposed by a number of anti-apartheid countries. TRC judges found that Basson was listed as the sole owner [yeah right!] of three companies established in the Cayman Islands and were thus persuaded that he had misappropriated an undetermined portion of project funds for personal gain.

“South Africa: ‘Dr Death’ [Wouter Basson] discovered to still be practising medicine” – General Constand Viljoen, chemical and biological weapons (Part 3)

https://www.theafricareport.com/63661/south-africa-dr-death-discovered-to-still-be-practising-medicine/

5 February 2021

Poisons and bacterial pathogens

Once the project’s various structures were in place, the work to develop substances that could be used as chemical and biological weapons finally began, and the wide range of avenues explored is mind-boggling.

Most of the research had a common purpose: to develop agents that could poison human beings and go undetected post-mortem. Scientists began by working with known toxic substances and tried to develop liquid and powder forms that could be used in weapons, ammunition and even in everyday items, such as drinks, cigarettes, chocolates, etc.

Researchers at RRL, which moved to Sinoville, north of Pretoria, in 1985, were studying conventional poisons, including anthrax, botulinum, potassium cyanide, cantharidin and black mamba venom. They also conducted experiments on bacterial pathogens like salmonella and Escherichia coli, and took a keen interest in the organism that causes cholera. Herbicides and pesticides were also seen as having potential and researchers tested the toxicity of various substances on mice, hamsters, dogs, pigs and several different species of primates supplied by RRL.

[Remember the documentary, “LIVE WORLD PREMIERE: WATCH THE WATER” at https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html (embedded), symptoms of COVID patients are similar to King Cobra venom.]

While the courts were never able to prove it, it is highly likely that certain poisons were also tested on prisoners (particularly Namibians from the South West Africa People’s Organisation [SWAPO]) and soldiers.

Various drugs, particularly general anaesthetic agents and sedatives, were also diverted from their original use. Around 1987, a new company, QB Labs, began producing covert assassination weapons containing poisons developed at RRL.

The weapons included poisonous signet rings, needled units that could be slipped into cigarettes, screwdrivers and even bicycle pumps with a syringe-like mechanism in the handle, as well as umbrellas – similar to the devices used by some Eastern bloc security agencies – which could shoot out a tiny poison-filled ball. When shot into a victim’s leg, the ball “would cause a stinging sensation like a bee sting. The autopsy would not reveal the cause of death since polycarbonate is not revealed on X-rays”.

Basson also wanted to explore less conventional means of crowd control. His dream project involved inventing what he referred to as the “black bomb”, i.e., a biological weapon that would selectively attack black people.

Around the same time, Basson and his team were working closely with Barnacle, the SADF’s Special Forces unit created in 1979, which operated covertly and specialised in carrying out targeted assassinations of political opponents. Gould and Folb’s 2006 report on Project Coast provides a long list of leading figures who were poisoned, whether lethally or otherwise, between 1977 and 1993, and many of these poisonings can be traced back to Barnacle and Basson’s research team.

The list includes a number of ANC activists and leaders living in exile in the UK, Swaziland, Namibia and Mozambique, and journalists, but also police and military officers suspected of providing information to black opposition members or being too obliging towards anti-apartheid movement leaders.

“South Africa: ‘Dr Death’ [Wouter Basson] discovered to still be practising medicine” – General Constand Viljoen, chemical and biological weapons (Part 4)

https://www.theafricareport.com/63661/south-africa-dr-death-discovered-to-still-be-practising-medicine/

5 February 2021

‘Black bomb’

Project Coast’s other priority was to develop chemical and biological agents for “crowd control” and part of the research team was working on producing a substance that could be used as a gas or in ammunition and grenades by police during major protests involving black opposition groups. Large quantities of tear gas and other irritants were produced for this purpose.

However, Basson also wanted to explore less conventional means of crowd control. His dream project involved inventing what he referred to as the “black bomb”, i.e., a biological weapon that would selectively attack black people. His hopes rested on what is known as polymorphism, or the idea that a genetic variation is present between black and white populations.

Basson’s team tried to develop a sterilant that could be sprayed onto crowds of protesters from a gas cylinder in order to make them temporarily or permanently sterile. Another idea they had was to poison water supplies in black neighbourhoods with such substances, but the researchers never successfully produced them.

Nevertheless, RRL scientists, channelling their imaginative powers, came up with another project: weaponizing street drugs. Basson knew that narcotics were widely distributed to the general public, so he was drawn to the idea of creating poisonous drugs that could incapacitate or kill their users. The labs focused their research on cannabis and methaqualone, a sedative, the two most frequently used drugs in the black community.

Combinations of drugs were tested and active ingredients were extracted to create a formulation that could be used as a powder and mixed with other substances. Cocaine and LSD were also studied, but Project Coast’s chemists spent the bulk of their time working with MDMA – more commonly known as ecstasy – because it was easy to make.

According to Gould and Folb’s report, the exact motivation for conducting this research has never been clearly established. The intention may have been to infiltrate the drugs “into ANC trade routes to compromise ANC members” or “to undermine [black] communities by introducing addictive drugs”. There is also a third possibility: it was simply about generating extra money.

“South Africa: ‘Dr Death’ [Wouter Basson] discovered to still be practising medicine” – General Constand Viljoen, chemical and biological weapons (Part 5)

https://www.theafricareport.com/63661/south-africa-dr-death-discovered-to-still-be-practising-medicine/

5 February 2021

Damning report

In 1989, the research outfit of the man later nicknamed “Dr Death” was operating in full swing, but a single event threw a wrench in everything: FW de Klerk replaced Botha as president and, unlike his predecessor, he knew that it was time for the apartheid regime to retreat.

In the early 1990s, De Klerk “announced the unbanning of political movements” and the release of ANC leaders from prison. Around the same time, Basson met with the president to discuss Project Coast. He insisted that its foremost purpose was to produce incapacitants agents and irritants, which were permitted by the Geneva Protocol. De Klerk “authorised the continued work on incapacitants and teargas”, but officially banned research on lethal agents. Project Coast’s days were numbered.

In 1992, General Pierre Steyn was appointed to head a commission “on alleged dangerous activities of SADF components”. His report was damning enough that within a month De Klerk ordered the early retirement of 23 military officers, including Basson, who had recently obtained the rank of general.

The doctor officially retired from the armed forces on 31 March 1993 and the government ordered that all stocks of chemical and biological weapons owned by the SADF and the police be destroyed. Project-related technical data were placed on optical disks and hard copy documents were destroyed, at least in theory, as investigators have said that they never obtained clear evidence that any biological agents or documents were destroyed.

Basson’s trial

Basson, just 43 at the time, stayed active after his forced retirement, creating an import-export company and making frequent trips abroad to find markets for South African manufactured goods – or so he said. One of his employees, Grant Wentzel, was financially strapped and had heard that “big money” could be made in the illicit ecstasy market. Aware of his boss’s former research activities, he discreetly approached Basson to see if he could supply him with the valuable drug. The doctor unwisely accepted Wentzel’s request and ended up giving him a small quantity of capsules.

But in 1997, Wentzel, who was not the most talented drug dealer, got arrested by the police and confessed to everything. After accepting to become an informant, he helped set a trap and in January of that same year, Basson was arrested by the narcotics division of the South African Police Service. The “Josef Mengele of apartheid” was in jail, but “merely” on drug trafficking charges. His trial began shortly thereafter, but the proceedings were rushed. No serious evidence that Basson had supplied Wentzler with MDMA was found.

However, during a search of the home of an associate, police found four trunks of Project Coast documents. Astonished by the discovery, investigators notified the TRC, a body set up to shed light on crimes committed under apartheid.

“South Africa: ‘Dr Death’ [Wouter Basson] discovered to still be practising medicine” – General Constand Viljoen, chemical and biological weapons (Part 6)

https://www.theafricareport.com/63661/south-africa-dr-death-discovered-to-still-be-practising-medicine/

5 February 2021

Basson’s real trial could finally begin. Tens of witnesses testified, including Gen Knobel and a number of scientists. Every testimony was damning: the doctor alone had knowledge of the project’s full scope, pushed to develop offensive rather than just defensive weapons, managed project funds with as little transparency as possible, etc. In October 1999, his criminal case went before the Pretoria High Court. Basson stood indicted on an array of charges, including murder, attempted murder and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. He was questioned about his recent trips abroad and extensive network of contacts in countries such as the US, Switzerland, Croatia, Syria and Libya.

Basson denied and played down everything, claiming that the project files found in the trunks did not belong to him and that he had no idea how they ended up at his associate’s home. The doctor maintained that his right not to incriminate himself was protected by the constitution.

He regularly said in court that he “was only following orders”, to the immense irritation of the judges and plaintiffs. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be extremely difficult to directly and personally implicate the defendant in the manufacture of weapons and toxic substances, even though his responsibility as head of a programme to develop such weapons was accepted by all parties.

On 11 April 2002, the verdict was handed down: Basson was acquitted on all charges against him. Though the TRC’s purpose was to grant amnesty to perpetrators of human rights violations and to help heal divisions in South African society, authorities were upset by the verdict and the state announced it would appeal the court’s decision. In 2005, the Constitutional Court confirmed that the prosecution could reopen the proceedings, but this never actually happened.

In 2013, following a seven-year investigation, the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) came to the conclusion that the doctor should be removed from the roll of registered practitioners since he was guilty of unethical conduct. But once again, no action was taken.

This is how it came to be that, in 2021, the “Josef Mengele of apartheid” is still a cardiologist practising in a high-end clinic in the suburbs of Cape Town, even though Desmond Tutu, who presided over the TRC’s work, wrote in 2006 that Project Coast was “a reflection of the inherent evil of apartheid” and that forgiveness “depends on repentance”.

The problem is, as several political leaders have pointed out in recent days, Basson has never expressed the slightest hint of remorse. Worse still, in the 2009 documentary Anthrax War, he described his work on developing the “black bomb” in the following terms: “That was great, ja, that was the most fun I’ve had in my life.”

The Julius Malema-led Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party wrote in a statement that Basson “belongs in jail” and called his licence to practice medicine an “abhorrence”. Mediclinic, taking an entirely different tone, said it could not prohibit him from practising since he is registered with the HPCSA. As the principle goes, everything which is not forbidden is allowed.

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>“The government now decided to get rid of Mangope. The ANC assigned a top man to ensure that this was done. He was Mac Maharaj, a member of the transitional council.

UNHCR posted the Courtcase regarding SA takeover of the Republic of Bophuthatswana; “Mangope v. Van Der Walt and Another” 1 of 2

https://www.refworld.org/cases,ZAF_HC,3ae6b6ae14.html

Comrie J: Until Saturday, 12 March 1994, the applicant, Lucas Mangope, was the elected President of Bophuthatswana. The respondents, Messrs Van der Walt and Mokgoro, are the joint administrators appointed by the South African Government and the Transitional Executive Council (the TEC) to govern Bophuthatswana for the time being in the place of the applicant and his Ministers. The TEC is a body established by s 2 of the Transitional Executive Council Act 151 of 1993, which is a South African law. Where convenient I shall refer to the respondents as the joint administrators. They oppose this application.

The applicant seeks the following substantive relief (as amended):

'(2)Declaring that the appointment of the first and second respondents as Administrators of Bophuthatswana is of no force and effect within the territory of Bophuthatswana and does not empower them to administer the said territory.

(3)Declaring the decree (annexure F hereto) which seeks to suspend the Constitution of the Republic of Bophuthatswana null and void.

2.The Independent Electoral Commission Act 150 of 1993, the Transitional Executive Council Act 151 of 1993, the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act 153 of 1993 and the Electoral Act 202 of 1993 of the Republic of South Africa shall apply to Bophuthatswana.

During the second week of March 1994 there were widespread strikes and stay aways from work in Bophuthatswana, especially among members of the public service. On about Thursday, 10 March, wholesale looting and arson began which continued into the following day. It became unsafe for ordinary folk to move about freely. People were injured or killed. Damage was caused to property running into many millions of rands. The Bophuthatswana security forces, that is the police and the defence force, were unable to cope with the situation, or unwilling to do so, or both. Law and order broke down entirely. [And the media blamed the AWB] On Wednesday, 9 March, the applicant, who was constitutionally the Commander-in-Chief of the defence force, had already discussed possible assistance with General Constand Viljoen. He is a former head of the South African Defence Force (the SADF) who has become a prominent political leader in South Africa. During the next day (the Thursday) the Bophuthatswana Minister of Defence requested General Viljoen's assistance. The latter ordered members of the Afrikaner Volksfront to come into Bophuthatswana in order to stabilise the position. They failed to achieve that objective. There was also, on Friday, 11 March, an incursion into Bophuthatswana by members of a movement known as the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging. Their temporary presence did nothing to calm the position, but according to one deponent, aggravated it.

Meanwhile the SADF had begun moving to the South African Embassy in Mafikeng. On Friday afternoon, 11 March, General Turner, as head of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force, requested General Meiring, as head of the SADF, to intervene militarily. The request was made in terms of existing accords between the two Governments. The applicant states that after receiving an assurance, conveyed by General Viljoen, that it was not the intention to topple his government: 'I gave permission that General Meiring could go ahead.' Whatever the source of that assurance, it is clear from the affidavits that it was not the South African Government or the TEC.

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UNHCR posted the Courtcase regarding SA takeover of the Republic of Bophuthatswana; “Mangope v. Van Der Walt and Another” 2 of 2

https://www.refworld.org/cases,ZAF_HC,3ae6b6ae14.html

On Saturday night, 12 March, the applicant was visited by a delegation which was led by Mr R F Botha, who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the South African Government. Mr Botha has given the reasons for his visit:

'5.1After the South African Defence Force, which moved into Bophuthatswana on instruction of the South African Government, had stabilised the situation in Bophuthatswana on 12 March 1994, it became clear that military intervention alone was insufficient to keep the situation in a stabilised state. The Government of Bophuthatswana was no longer in control, elements of the defence force and police force in Bophuthatswana had become disloyal, the administration had collapsed and any attempt to put the Government of Bophuthatswana back into power would have the disastrous effects of the preceding days repeated.

5.2The South African Government, in consultation with the Transitional Executive Council, decided to take the necessary steps to take over the Government of Bophuthatswana and administer it through an administrator.'

In the course of the meeting Mr Botha informed the applicant

'that his presidency was no longer recognised by the South African Government and the Transitional Executive Council and that in the circumstances he could no longer continue as bead of the Government of Bophuthatswana'.

“ANC call to the nation: The future is within our grasp; Text of the National Executive Committee' call to insurrection, 25 April 1985” 1 of 4

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/anc-call-to-the-nation-the-future-is-within-our-gr

18 February 2020

ANC Call to the Nation

THE FUTURE IS WITHIN OUR GRASP

Events in our country are moving with astonishing speed. In our 8th January message we issued a call for the intensification of our liberation offensive on all fronts and the transformation of more and more localities into mass revolutionary bases and the need to take further strides towards rendering the country ungovernable.

Only three months have passed since the call was made and already the surge of people's resistance and active defence have reached new heights. The face of our country is changing before our very eyes.

• In the black ghettos of the urban areas the legitimacy of authority of all types is not just under attack, it has been largely destroyed. Most of those who served white rule in the so-called urban councils have suffered the wrath of the people but many have respected the demands of the people by resigning.

• The tricameral parliament has exposed its complete impotence in the present crisis and continues to be shunned. The Bantustans are universally held in contempt.

• Well organised stayaways in localised areas have once again drawn attention to the potential of the organised workers to bring the ruling class to its knees.

• The people, by their actions, are teaching black police and soldiers that there is no place in our communities for those who wear the uniforms of apartheid and who carry out orders to kill, maim and torture their brothers and sisters.

• All attempts to tame our fighting students have failed and more and more schools and universities are becoming flash points for freedom.

• The continuing straight confrontations with the enemy's armed forces show that our people, in massive numbers, not only want a new order in our country but are also prepared to sacrifice life, if need be, to bring it about.

• Fired by the heroic example of Umkhonto we Sizwe, more and more of our youth are seeking for ways to organise themselves into effective combat units to defend the people, deal with the collaborators, and to hit back selectively at the enemy's armed personnel.

• The people, undaunted by massive state repression, are openly demonstrating over and over again that the ANC is their legitimate and overall leader on the road to people's power.

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“ANC call to the nation: The future is within our grasp; Text of the National Executive Committee' call to insurrection, 25 April 1985” 2 of 4

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/anc-call-to-the-nation-the-future-is-within-our-gr

18 February 2020

On the side of the people, the conditions for a revolutionary leap forward are beginning to mature. On the side of the ruling class, the economic and political crisis has reached new heights.

It is clear that the racists cannot continue to rule our country in the same old way. The bankrupt and dying regime is being kept alive by those who carry arms in its defence. All attempts by it to find alternative solutions have landed on the rocks. All Botha's reforms, designed to defuse the developing revolutionary assault, continue to trigger off even more vigorous mass opposition. The promised alteration of the sex laws is the latest pathetic manoeuvre.

It is another gesture to help the external allies of apartheid to stem the mounting international tide for the total isolation of apartheid South Africa. There will be real love across the colour line only when South Africa is completely free.

The growing ferment from below and the deepening crisis from above demand the urgent attention of our whole liberation front and all sectors of our struggling peoples. The historic conditions which are necessary to ensure the collapse of the apartheid system and the creation by the people of a new social order are beginning to take shape in greater measure than ever before in our history. Yet, much more remains to be done. It is the urgent task of our liberation movement and of all patriots to stimulate the further growth of those conditions which could bring the day of the people's seizure of power within our sight.

It is against this background that we once again call on all sections of our people to make the apartheid system more and more unworkable and the country less and less governable. At the same time we must work endlessly to strengthen all levels of mass and underground organisations and to create the beginning of popular power.

More particularly:

• Our vanguard liberation movement, the ANC, call on our nationally oppressed working class to strengthen and unite the trade union movement and to sharpen the weapon of workers' power at the point of production in the struggle for national liberation. A long lasting national work stoppage, backed by our oppressed communities and supported by armed activity, can break the back bone of the apartheid system and bring the regime to its knees. All patriots active in industrial organisations must examine the lesson of the recent successful stay-aways in the Transvaal and Eastern Cape and must set their sights on combining national stayaway action with countrywide mass popular action.

• We call on our communities in the black ghettos to replace the collapsing government stooge councils with people's committees in every block which could become the embryos of people's power.

• We call on our people, and more especially our fighting youth, in every black community, school and university to find ways of organising themselves into small mobile units which will protect the people against anti-social elements and act in an organised way in both black and white areas against the enemy and its agents.

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“ANC call to the nation: The future is within our grasp; Text of the National Executive Committee' call to insurrection, 25 April 1985” 3 of 4

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/anc-call-to-the-nation-the-future-is-within-our-gr

18 February 2020

Every black area must become a ‘no-go area’ for any isolated individual or pockets of the enemy's police or armed personnel. The people must find ways to obtain arms by whatever means from the enemies and from any other source.

Appropriate forms of combat tactics must be developed for situations in which the enemy is on the rampage against the people. The proliferation of such units and their functioning in accordance with all the rules of underground secrecy will add inestimable power and strength to the armed wing of our liberation movement - Umkhonto we Sizwe.

• We call on all of those among the black oppressed who serve in the machineries of apartheid to resign now. The bantustans, the so-called parliament for the Coloured and Indian people, the community councils and other organs of racist power must cease to function now. They must find fewer and fewer participants as patriots join in the bitter struggle for power in their great numbers. At a time when so many have fallen and are falling to racist bullets, those who continue to steal their people's birthright will be shunned and made to feel the anger of the people [the masses] in both town and countryside.

• We call on the unemployed blacks now sitting in uniform to stop shooting their brothers and sisters in defence of white rule. They must refuse to carry out such orders. They must organise secretly to turn their guns against their masters.

• We call on those in the white community who have been conscripted into the army to refuse, in their own interests and those of their children, to be used as instruments of massacres and military domination over their black fellow citizens and over the people of Namibia, Angola and other parts of southern Africa.

• We call on all social institutions, religious, cultural, civic and sporting bodies which retain and believe in the true brotherhood of man, to side even more vigorously with the cause of people's liberation and to stand firm against racist intimidation.

• We call on the people everywhere to defy in an organised way the imposition of laws founded on race discrimination, to resist all attacks on their living conditions and to promote united resistance and action against the apartheid system and its agencies.

• We call on the white community, in whose name racist barbarities are being perpetrated daily against the black majority, to move away from its support of apartheid and to increase the ranks of the growing number of democratic whites who are participating in our liberation struggle.

• We call, in this Year of the Cadre, on all political and military activists to work unceasingly to strengthen the ANC's underground presence and to reinforce our leadership core in every part of the country. The ANC-led liberation movement is the indispensable guide to the whole revolutionary process.

• We call, on Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants to intensify the armed struggle with all the means at their disposal and more particularly to concentrate more and more on actions against the enemy's armed forces personnel and police. We also call on our underground to help make such an intensification of armed activities possible by working day and night to create and strengthen our internal political revolutionary bases.

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>>17401914

>>17401918

“ANC call to the nation: The future is within our grasp; Text of the National Executive Committee' call to insurrection, 25 April 1985” 4 of 4

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/anc-call-to-the-nation-the-future-is-within-our-gr

18 February 2020

The period ahead presents all of us - whether in or out of the ANC – with an awe-inspiring challenge. Under the leadership of our liberation movement, we can and must answer this call of history. Let the blood of our martyrs who are falling before the enemy bullets nourish our battle for freedom.

Let our watchwords be:

Unity in mass action! Confront the enemy on all fronts!

MAKE APARTHEID UNWORKABLE!

MAKE THE COUNTRY UNGOVERNABLE

Forward to people's power, long live the ANC, the vanguard of our revolutionary struggle.

Issued by the National Executive Committee of the ANC, P.O.Box 31791, Lusaka, Zambia

April 25, 1985.

ANC “also “taken the armed struggle both into the Bantustans” - Bophuthatswana

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic

1986: Give the enemy no quarter

The ANC NEC’s January 8th statement of 1986, delivered by Tambo, stated that “the charge we give to Umkhonto we Sizwe and to the masses of our people is attack, advance, give the enemy no quarter–an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!” On the land question the NEC noted that “Our mass political offensive must of necessity also succeed to draw in the millions of our people in the countryside, both inside and outside the Bantustans. It is clear that, relative to the situation in the past, we have made considerable progress in mobilising and organising the people in the countryside.” Tambo added that MK had also “taken the armed struggle both into the Bantustans and into the enemy rural military zones, striking blows that have worried the enemy and its puppets.” He then stated:

“Much organisational and mobilisation work still needs to be done in these areas, raising to the fore such questions as the need to destroy the oppressive Bantustan system, to rise up against the blood-sucking white soldier-farmers and to address the central task of the landless masses seizing the land which rightfully belongs to them.” (My italics)

In mid-1986, at the height of the insurrection, the SACP magazine Umsebenzi called for the consolidation of gains of the revolution in the face of President PW Botha’s declaration of a state of emergency. It noted that “the flames of urban resistance and defiance have spread to the hated Bantustans. Names like Bophuthatswana, Lebowa, Transkei, KwaNdebele are being added to the lists of nationwide flashpoints of upsurge.” The urgent need now, it stated, was to “intensify the offensive against all the sell-out administrations and those at the top who use their positions as out-and-out puppets of Pretoria. It is also time to begin to clean out the countryside of the racist farmers.”

>>17397986

>“The government now decided to get rid of Mangope. The ANC assigned a top man to ensure that this was done. He was Mac Maharaj, a member of the transitional council. [Making sure that the ANC gets to rule South Africa.] Six years before, when Mangope was the South African government’s pet tribal ruler, they had rescued him from a coup. Now deferring to Bop’s foreign status, the Foreign Minister Pik Botha was sent to depose him.”

>>17401909

>5.2The South African Government, in consultation with the Transitional Executive Council, decided to take the necessary steps to take over the Government of Bophuthatswana and administer it through an administrator.'

>In the course of the meeting Mr Botha informed the applicant

>'that his presidency was no longer recognised by the South African Government and the Transitional Executive Council and that in the circumstances he could no longer continue as bead of the Government of Bophuthatswana'.

Apartheid Government colluded with the ANC prior to the first ‘democratic’ election in 1994 to overthrow Bop government - “ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa deployed [Job] Mokgoro to Bophuthatswana” – “Together with Tjaart van der Walt, who had been SA's ambassador to Bophuthatswana, he became co-administrator”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2018-10-28-north-west-premier-job-mokgoro-explains-where-it-all-went-wrong/

28 October 2018

NOT A NEWBIE IN THE PROVINCE

Years before that, [Job] Mokgoro had stayed in Mahikeng when he was a lecturer at the then University of Bophuthatswana, but his political consciousness would not let him stay in the bantustan.

Twenty-four years ago, then ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa deployed Mokgoro to Bophuthatswana after its late president, Lucas Mangope, was forced to loosen his grip on the bantustan amid violent protests. Together with Tjaart van der Walt, who had been SA's ambassador to Bophuthatswana, he became co-administratorof what would later become the North West province.

Mokgoro says his mandate was to "go to Bophuthatswana, normalise, stabilise, make the environment ready for elections, suspend the Bophuthatswana constitution and govern the province through decrees . and I did exactly that".

>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun

“South African Federation of Trade Unions [SAFTU] Launch”

https://aidc.org.za/south-african-federation-trade-unions-saftu-launch/

Posted on April 21, 2017 by AIDC

Opening address by Raymond Mnguni, Chairperson of the Steering Committee for the new trade union federation, 21 April 2017, Boksburg Comrade Chairperson, delegates, visitors and friends On behalf of the Steering Committee I welcome you all to this historic gathering.

It is a great honour and privilege to be asked to deliver the opening address of such a momentous event. The long wait is over. The new dawn has broken. A milestone has been reached in the history of the South African trade union movement.

We are here to build a new, vibrant, independent, democratic and militant workers’ federation. We are here to lead the struggle against exploitation, mass unemployment, poverty, inequality and corruption. We are here to forge ahead in the struggle for the total liberation of the working class from the chains of its capitalist oppressors.

As the Steering Committee report documents in great detail, this congress could not come at a more crucial time. Workers face the most serious crises since the end of apartheid. Unemployment is at one of the highest levels in the world, and now thousands more jobs are now under threat – in Eskom and related transport services, the chicken industry, cold drinks manufacturing and the media.

Yet just when there is a greater need than ever a strong, militant trade union movement, the existing ones are fragmented and weak. According to the Department of Labour, in February 2016, there were 182 unions registered in our country, with another 400 unions were waiting to be registered.

Worst of all, more than three quarters of workers are not organised in any union at all, most of them in the most vulnerable sectors – part-time or casual workers who have no permanent employer of workplace, farm and domestic workers, the very workers in the greatest need of a strong trade union.

The Workers Summit adopted a declaration called for concrete steps to be taken to launch a new, militant independent trade union federation and agreed to adopt the following founding principles, which of course you, at this launching congress, may endorse, amend and or reject.

1. Independence: Unions must be independent from employers (in the private and public sector) and from political parties. This does not mean that unions are apolitical.

2. Worker control and democracy: Unions must be worker-controlled and practise democracy, accountability, transparency and be tolerant. Within the federation affiliates must have autonomy but not independence, but differences of opinion must be tolerated.

3. Non-racialism and non-sexism: Unions must fight for the maximum unity of all workers and reject all divisive and negative sentiment such as xenophobia etc.

4. Financial self-sufficiency, accountability, and opposition, in word and deed, to business unionism, corruption, fraud and maladministration within its own ranks and in society as a whole.

5. Anti-imperialist and Internationalist: Unions must place a high priority on international solidarity.

6. Socialist orientation: Unions must be ready to engage in the transformation of our societies to counter capitalist exploitation, inequalities and poverty.

7. Militancy in fighting for the working class and the poor: Unions must be ready to actively campaign for change, and made links with all of the oppressed South Africans.

8. Effective organisation and representation: Unions must organise in the most effective manner to represent workers and serve their interests.

9. Solidarity: with all workers in struggle for better wages and conditions or to save jobs

10. Support for workers exposing corruption, e.g. Prasa and Midrand municipality

I wish you all a highly successful congress. It must be the starting moment of a new era of progress towards the realisation of the ideals of the Freedom Charter and the emancipation of the working class and the whole of humanity.

>>17401904

>During the second week of March 1994 there were widespread strikes and stay aways from work in Bophuthatswana, especially among members of the public service. On about Thursday, 10 March, wholesale looting and arson began which continued into the following day. It became unsafe for ordinary folk to move about freely. People were injured or killed. Damage was caused to property running into many millions of rands. The Bophuthatswana security forces, that is the police and the defence force, were unable to cope with the situation, or unwilling to do so, or both. Law and order broke down entirely.

>>17401960

And so it continues…

“‘This is civil war’: SA is now just DAYS away from a National Shutdown” - SAFTU

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-when-is-august-national-shutdown-what-date-saftu-demands-list/

12-08-2022 09:26

SAFTU, the trade union with almost one million members, will lead a National Shutdown this month – with class warfare high on their agenda.

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is preparing to wield its enormous power later this month, by leading the proposed National Shutdown. The countrywide protest, supported by political institutions such as the EFF and PAC, threatens to bring Mzansi to its knees.

WHEN WILL THE NEXT NATIONAL SHUTDOWN TAKE PLACE?

Wednesday 24 August has been scheduled as the date for mass industrial action. That’s just 12 days from now. SAFTU has over 800 000 members, and with many of these representatives expected to take part in direct strike action, South Africa will certainly find it difficult to function.

There have been a few attempts to create a National Shutdown in 2022, with only modest degrees of success to report. These proposals from SAFTU, however, appear to be the real deal. South Africans intending to commute, travel or work on the 24th are advised to plan ahead.

WHAT DEMANDS ARE SAFTU MAKING?

The organisation is marching under the tagline of ‘mobilise or starve’. For them, this National Shutdown really is a matter of life and death. SAFTU, like the rest of us, are outraged by the cost of living crisis. They are demanding a plan to reduce unemployment, and create a Basic Income Grant.

Their grievances don’t stop there…

SAFTU are upset by the cuts made to public services. They reject the ‘austerity measures’ enforced by government, and want to put an end to the privatisation of state entities. A full list of demands has since been published by the union, who request the following:

• Jobs for the unemployed at a living wage, and a Basic Income Grant of R1 500 per person, to fight rampant poverty.

• The lowering of food and electricity prices, as well as reduced interest rates.

• Eskom’s board and CEO Andre de Ruyter must ‘step aside’, with no more privatisation of the utility.

• Raise the minimum wage to R72 per hour.

• End rampant crime and violence in SA, by arresting more perpetrators.

• Create more climate jobs and invest in renewable energy. [Oh, they had to include this when people just want to survive.]

• Reverse budget cuts and increase spending in critical areas of service delivery.

• Expand the public wage bill so teachers, nurses, police officers and the like can be paid more.

WILL A NATIONAL SHUTDOWN ACTUALLY CHANGE ANYTHING?

Trevor Shaku is a spokesperson for the trade union. He says a ‘civil war’ is being waged against workers, and he remains realistic about what a National Shutdown can actually achieve.

However, SAFTU believe that any movement which can mobilise the working classes of South Africa will ultimately prove to be successful…

“An undeclared civil war is being waged against the working class. The National Shutdown might not achieve anything concrete out of government, but it is aimed at achieving a first unity of working class formations in struggle. That unity will allow us to fight persistently.”

Trevor Shaku

>>17401978

“Next week’s National Shutdown ‘just got BIGGER’ – support swells in SA” - Cosatu joins SAFTU

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-what-date-is-national-shutdown-south-africa-cosatu-saftu/

15-08-2022 17:38

A National Shutdown will be compounded by plans for a National Strike next week – with BOTH happening on the same day.

A National Shutdown planned for Wednesday 24 August has just been given a major boost. Cosatu, one of the largest trade union organisations in South Africa, have agreed to go on strike alongside the original planners of SAFTU. It has huge implications for the demonstrations.

WHEN IS THE NATIONAL SHUTDOWN? NINE DAYS TO GO…

Cosatu notified NEDLAC of its intention to join the industrial action earlier this month. Around one million members of each trade union will take to the streets just nine days from now, with demonstrations promised in every province of South Africa.

The protests will be largely aimed at high fuel prices, the rising costs of living, and rampant criminality in every corner of the country. Cosatu and SAFTU are on the same page for this one, with the former planning to host a press conference to confirm the details of their own strike action.

With both Cosatu AND SAFTU members taking to the streets next week, this could be a National Shutdown that really does succeed in bringing Mzansi to a standstill. The ‘double whammy’ of protests will likely have more of an impact than anything else we’ve seen this year.

COSATU JOIN SAFTU IN COMMITTING TO PROTEST

Taxi firms, civil rights groups, and even the EFF have agitated for a National Shutdown at various points in 2022. Some fizzled out, whereas others had a ‘regionalised impact’ on communities. But Cosatu’s involvement should ensure that the disruption from this protest is felt nationwide.

SAFTU is marching under the tagline of ‘mobilise or starve’. For them, this National Shutdown really is a matter of life and death. Like the rest of us, they are outraged by the cost of living crisis. They are demanding a plan to reduce unemployment, and create a Basic Income Grant.

WHY ARE UNIONS TAKING PART IN THE NATIONAL SHUTDOWN?

Unions are also upset by the cuts made to public services. They reject the ‘austerity measures’ enforced by government, and want to put an end to the privatisation of state entities. A full list of demands has since been published by the union, which you can read here.

>>17401978

>>17401982

“COSATU plans nation-wide strike next Wednesday: Prepare for chaos!”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/cosatu-plans-nation-wide-strike-next-wednesday-24-august-2022-prepare-for-chaos-food-fuel-petrol-diesel-electricity-breaking/

15-08-2022 23:09

The planned work stoppage will also represent “a response by the workers to the ongoing class warfare directed at them by both public and private sector employers,” the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) confirmed on Monday.

Further details about the strike will be announced on Thursday, 18 August, it added.

“The National Strike is in response to the ongoing load shedding, fuel price hikes and escalating food prices. This socio-economic strike also represents a pushback and a response by the workers to the ongoing class warfare directed at them by both public and private sector employers,” it said.

>>17401978

>>17401982

>>17402140

And SANDF cannot be relied upon. Bophuthatswana 2.0? Will this give the UN an opportunity to come to the ‘rescue’?

“SANDF ‘too broke to function’ – but Defence Minister splashes out on Russia trip”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/is-sandf-broke-no-money-who-is-defence-minister-trip-to-russia/

15-08-2022 16:23

Nice to see Thandi Modise has her priorities sorted, then. SANDF remains cash-strapped, but the Defence Minister doesn’t seem fazed. [The same person who starved her farm animals to death. “SPCA finds dead and starving animals in Thandi Modise's farm” dated July 7, 2014, at https://youtu.be/XmjI-SLx6yc (embedded)]

There’s a lot to unpack with this one. First and foremost, it’s worth noting that SANDF is now ‘essentially broke’. That’s according to several sources who went public over the weekend, stating that the army ‘cannot be deployed’ due to a dire financial situation.

The SANDF is going to lose more than 3 000 members in the medium term due to budget constraints.

IS SANDF TOO BROKE TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY?

SANDF is strapped for cash. That’s the bottom line.

The military is allegedly unable to buy parts for vehicles, and they have run out of spares that they can take from other armoured motors in their fleet. Soldiers were considered for an internal deployment at the start of the month, but a lack of cash has put paid to that.

With the security of SA surely compromised by this ghastly situation, the last thing SANDF or the Defence Ministry needs is wasteful expenditure. But that’s exactly what critics are accusing Thandi Modise of, after she decided it was necessary to fly out to Russia for a Security Conference.

The DA have questioned Minister Modise’s decision-making skills, given the financial and moral implications of making this trip. After invading Ukraine six months ago, Russia has become an international pariah – but South Africa failed to distance itself from Mr. Putin this year.

>>17418851

>In terms of overall murder numbers per province for April to June 2022, the list looks like this:

>KwaZulu-Natal – 1 623

>Gauteng – 1 490

>Eastern Cape – 1 200

>Western Cape – 994

>Mpumalanga – 313

>North West – 261

>Free State – 243

>Limpopo – 219

>Northern Cape – 81

KwaZulu-Natal tops the list for the number of murders and they say "the province can grow into a brand that is the envy of everyone in the country"?

“Calls for greater cooperation in building ‘KZN’ brand”

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/calls-for-greater-cooperation-in-building-kzn-brand-1aa917d2-7437-4ff6-b3b0-8992992f2b71

August 18, 2022

Durban - KwaZulu-Natal Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube says if leadership from all levels in the province pulls in one direction, the province can grow into a brand that is the envy of everyone in the country.

She said this when making closing remarks at a breakfast engagement between government and organised business in uMhlanga, north of Durban, on Thursday.

The meeting, which included leadership from the Durban Business Chamber and KZN Growth Coalition, was part of a series of engagements which the new administration is undertaking involving a range of role players, from civil society, business and religious communities, aimed at fostering greater cooperation between them and the provincial government.

The move is also aimed at repositioning KZN as a leading and powerful partner in the drive for economic growth and development in South Africa.

The premier said it was important to develop a common vision on the kind of province that KZN should be.

“The continued journey of building the “KZN Brand” requires all players in this province to develop an understanding and commitment to their roles. This is what we have witnessed this morning,” she said of Thursday morning’s engagement.

She pointed out that the current atmosphere presented a significant opportunity for leadership at all levels to move to a higher trajectory of growth, development and nation-building. Dube-Ncube said she had been encouraged by the spirit and tone of the engagement.

“Importantly, the manner in which we have framed our discussions, we are indeed working together to develop a very strong “KZN Brand”. This morning, we have demonstrated that the achievements of this province - its businesses and its citizens are interdependent,” she concluded. The government delegation included Economic Development MEC and Leader of Government Business Siboniso Duma and Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu.

White South Africans in international media these days. Why?

It is interesting that the international media are concentrating on whites in South Africa these days. What is their agenda? Is something coming that will be “justified”? Now the judge’s verdict adds to the suspicion >>17445375

“Gravitas | Orania: A 'whites-only' town in South Africa” - https://youtu.be/iB7cF3J72BQ (embedded), posted August 12, 2022. Why don’t they report on the Zulus in KwaZulu-Natal? Notice, the people do not live in their own prisons like the rest of South Africa. They had to mention that Verwoerd was “the architect of Apartheid”. Everyone should know by now that the British were the architects. “The doctrine of apartheid ("separateness" in Afrikaans) was made law in South Africa in 1948, but the subordination of the Black population in the region was established during European colonization of the area… After the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, the British ruled the region as "the Union of South Africa" and the administration of that country was turned over to the local White population. The Constitution of the Union preserved long-established colonial restrictions on the political and economic rights of Black South Africans.” https://www.thoughtco.com/when-did-apartheid-start-south-africa-43460

“The South African town destroyed to make way for a whites-only suburb – BBC [British] News” - https://youtu.be/d7YY-B-ohUY, posted August 13, 2022. Notice, BBC added a clip of Trevor Huddleston. Remember; “Bishop Trevor Huddleston. Pervert who preyed on the Poor”, https://africaunauthorised.com/pervert-or-protector-of-the-poor/

I am sure parallels can be drawn.

“Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998–2014: the evolution of an elite protection network” – 1 of 3

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/drug-trafficking-in-guineabissau-19982014-the-evolution-of-an-elite-protection-network/3D32B19B009F1C44E69964FEACE7106C

10 August 2015

Below are excerpts

This paper, which provides a more granular analysis of the trafficking economy of Guinea-Bissau, reveals it as an elite network with mafia-like attributes.

Comparative studies of mafia groups describe them as ‘an industry which produces, promotes, and sells private protection’ (Gambetta Reference Gambetta1996: 1; see also Varese Reference Varese2001). In every transaction in which one party does not trust the other, and in which the state is not available to enforce broken contracts – either because it does not exist, is not strong enough, or because the transaction is illegal – protection becomes a commodity in its own right (Skaperdas Reference Skaperdas2001). This protection thesis has also been used in a number of recent cases of illicit activity in Africa and is a potentially powerful tool to analyse the use and application of violence to protect illicit resource flows (Shaw & Mangan Reference Shaw and Mangan2014; Shortland & Varese Reference Shortland and Varese2014; Tinti et al. Reference Tinti, Shaw and Reitano2014). Past work on shadow, felonious or predatory states, ‘warlords', ‘big men’, or what Reno has dubbed ‘violent entrepreneurs' (Reno Reference Reno, Cockayne and Lupel2011), sought to understand the application of violence (or the threat thereof) in order to protect and/or enhance access to resources by those acting for private as opposed to collective interests (Reno Reference Reno1998; Bayart et al. Reference Bayart, Ellis and Hibou1999; Bayart Reference Bayart2009; Utas et al. Reference Utas, Vlassenroot, Perrot, Mynster Christensen and Arnaut2012; Ellis & Shaw Reference Ellis and Shaw2015). Given the illicit nature of the cocaine trade and the absence of other economic avenues, this description is particularly apt in Guinea-Bissau.

In Guinea-Bissau, protection has been supplied by a small network within the country's elite. That protection, however, is not related to the enforcement of a contract engaged in by others, but the exchange of a ‘fee’ to protect the movement of illicit goods through the country. The ability of the elite network to offer protection derives precisely from the fact that the key institutions of the state, including notably the justice system, matter little, and are unable to mount a response. This is not because of the corrupting influence of narcotics, but because of the badly eroded nature of the institutions (ICG 2008). This is not, then, a ‘narco-state’, if that definition includes the subversion of the state institutions by drug barons at multiple levels,Footnote1 as drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau has seen few, if any, resources flow to lower levels of the state, or to the more cohesive military. This is mainly because state institutions, while bearing the requisite descriptive labels (police, customs, magistrates, etc.), do not perform these functions in a systematic, organised or effective way. Rather, it is the actions of a relatively small elite network that has aimed to control an illicit resource flow from which they have profited; the profits from trafficking have been largely confined to that small group and their immediate supporters. Conflict within the elite has centred around access to the resources that this has generated. By contrast, there has been little conflict over, or involvement in, drug trafficking by the broader populace.

In Guinea-Bissau then, what could be termed the ‘political economy of protection’ – managed by an elite protection network – can be described as the set of transactions entered into over time by an elite group of often competing individuals for the purpose of ensuring the facilitation, sustainability and safety of a set of illicit activities.

“Military Uprising in Guinea-Bissau (1999)” - https://youtu.be/wsp3ZhXCfNI

“Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998–2014: the evolution of an elite protection network” – 2 of 3

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/drug-trafficking-in-guineabissau-19982014-the-evolution-of-an-elite-protection-network/3D32B19B009F1C44E69964FEACE7106C

10 August 2015

Below are excerpts

Much has been made of the role of the military as an institution in Guinea-Bissau in controlling drug trafficking. In fact, the evidence suggests that the military was only one actor – the others being politicians (although with strong connections to the military), and also a group of entrepreneurs who played an important role in linking traffickers and political and military actors. It was one of the country's most significant (and most destructive) Presidents, Nino Vieira, who made the first connections with drug traffickers. The military may have evolved into the ultimate protectors, but it was the civilians who made the initial contacts. This was never a static set of relationships: it was a network of protection that evolved over time, depending on need and the unfolding politics of Bissau.

Significantly, the evolution of protection networks for illicit activities within and/or connected to states has been little studied elsewhere in Africa, and so this analysis has a wider set of implications. Consistent with studies of mafia groups in other contexts, what this analysis of Guinea-Bissau appears to show is that those who are able to protect a criminal market with violence will ultimately seek to control that market; to become the first point of contact controlling the transactions themselves rather than just receiving a protection (or transit) fee. As the military in Guinea-Bissau was neither experienced nor well placed to adopt this role, this ultimately led to the unravelling of the network.

Guinea-Bissau is located on the West Africa coast, sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea with a population estimated at just over one million. The independence of the country from Portugal in 1974 was a defining event in the anti-colonial struggle in Africa (Chabal Reference Chabal, Chabal, Birmingham, Forrest and Newitt2002). The foundations of the new state were fragile from the beginning. The destruction wrought by the liberation war meant there was no organised state on which to build. The victorious Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) was the dominant political force, and internal party patronage networks quickly began to dominate those economic resources that were available (Forrest Reference Forrest, Chabal, Birmingham, Forrest and Newitt2002). In a context of relative resource scarcity, and the failure to establish a working state, infighting within the ruling elite was intense; since independence no elected President has been able to complete his term in office. All but one were deposed by the military, and the exception, Nino Vieira, was assassinated by soldiers (O'Regan & Thompson Reference O'Regan and Thompson2013). The defining feature of politics in Guinea-Bissau has been conflict and chronic instability (Roque Reference Roque2009; Vigh Reference Vigh2009).

Understanding what has driven that instability must centre on the coalescence of elite networks around economic interests. Since independence, the Bissau-Guinean elite has been constituted by a tight web of political, military and business figures who have reconstituted themselves ‘in fluctuating and ambiguous alliances' (Embaló Reference Embaló2012: 253). Their interests have centred around securing economic opportunity for themselves, as opposed to the state.

“Guinea-Bissau: the cocaine gateway to Europe” (2013) - https://youtu.be/2pCLS_3FFlA

“Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998–2014: the evolution of an elite protection network” – 3 of 3

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/drug-trafficking-in-guineabissau-19982014-the-evolution-of-an-elite-protection-network/3D32B19B009F1C44E69964FEACE7106C

10 August 2015

Below are excerpts

The long war for independence began a process of ‘deagrarianisation’ and ‘depeasantisation’ that accelerated after 1974 (Temudo & Abrantes Reference Temudo and Abrantes2013). Attempts at state control over agricultural production failed, and imports to the small urban elite led to growing external debt.

What the liberation war did do, however, was to place the military and the war veterans at the heart of a system of externally focused economic accumulation. The new military, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People (FARP), exerted considerable influence, becoming a refuge for an ageing cadre of fighters, many of senior rank, who had participated in the liberation war and who were located in or close to the capital, Bissau. While having a relatively strong institutional structure in the two decades after the ending of the war, this was badly eroded after successive funding crises, resulting in a much looser militia type organisation.

From the founding of the independent state, and as political crisis followed political crisis, the government's control over the territory shrank inwards towards the capital. In the process, the leadership became increasingly reliant on external sources of funding, while ordinary people, particularly in the countryside, saw less and less evidence of government. In ‘a state organized around strategies of material survival and personal gain’ (Interpeace 2010: 13), the two trends of state contraction and reliance on external resources were mutually reinforcing. As a recent analysis concludes: ‘In this context, as the patrimonial state strengthened, the modern state vanished, and authority [within the elite network] became the best way for personal enrichment’ (Pureza et al. Reference Pureza, Roque, Rafael and Cravo2007: 17).

Post-war economic policy then foundered quickly on individual interests and personal accumulation. There were few incentives to bolster the linkages between state and citizenry, when institutions barely existed and positioning within the elite network served a gatekeeping function and thereby a source of resources for a small group of connected individuals (Kohl Reference Kohl2010). By the early 1980s, high levels of external debt and external pressure forced a period of structural adjustment. But the way in which this was managed in rural areas, reinforced patterns of elite accumulation and, ironically, led to an even greater divide between the ‘powerholders' in Bissau and the countryside (see for example the results of focus group discussions in Reitano & Shaw Reference Reitano and Shaw2014).

“Cape gangs extort rail repairs, Expropriation Bill enables land invaders & COPE fists fly | VN | 26”

https://youtu.be/ig1jzPCUCrY

FEATURED NEWS:

• SAPS investigate central railway line extortionist gang - https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/saps-investigate-central-railway-line-extortionist-gang-d02fef4a-3d56-48f6-9452-98f27ad350ec

• Expropriation bill: Law will make it easy to invade land - https://www.citizen.co.za/news/opinion/3186612/expropriation-bill-law-will-make-it-easy-to-invade-land-august-2022/

• Fists fly during COPE media briefing - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/cope-terror-lekota-briefing-johannesburg-31-august-2022/

“What did he do right? Our Reaction (viewer discretion advised)” – Surviving a farm attack

https://youtu.be/v58ohqZB_z8

8:24 – “Let me give you the alternative. This guy complies. He goes quietly. He just gives them what they want. So, I’m going use Afriforum’s case, not mine. Afriforum highlights a case that happened in December last year in Mpumalanga and he highlights around a farmer’s family that were held hostage by people who wanted to break into their safe. Now the family had a 6 year old son. The son’s name was Gideon. The son was apparently roasted in an oven alive so that they could force him to open the safe. They eventually cooperated and the son did get away from it but that was not before the son suffered some pretty horrendous burns if you will. So the reality is despite only 15% of these attacks resulting in murders, there’s a sizable amount of them that go through some severe trauma and some severe actual physical injuries. So do not think for one second that your best bet is to cooperate.”

23:15 – “To quote the founding fathers, he who gives up some of their liberty for the sake of their own safety, is a person that ends up with neither liberty nor safety.”

>>17465900

>The Nomzamo tavern shooting followed another shocking incident where twenty one underage teenagers died at Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park, East London.

“Enyobeni tavern deaths: Was the cause REALLY suffocation?”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/update-is-the-cause-of-death-in-enyobeni-tavern-suffocation/

02-09-2022 15:17

New updates follow the mysterious death of 21 people including 2 teenagers at the Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park.

Parents of youth who died two months ago in a township tavern in South Africa said officials told them Thursday that their children had suffocated to death because of overcrowding.

Twenty-one young people mysteriously lost their lives on 26 June at the Enyobeni tavern in Scenery Park, a township in the coastal city of East London.

Survivors described a mad dash to escape the jam-packed premises and at least one person reported a suffocating smell.

Relatives of the victims said they were called Thursday to the local health department offices to be told about the results of the final toxicology report.

They said officials briefed them verbally, but did not allow them access to the toxicology report, citing confidentiality.

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE TAVERN THAT NIGHT?

Xolani Malangeni, who lost a 17-year-old daughter, Esinako, told AFP on the phone that he was sceptical about the findings.

Now the doctor is “saying it’s suffocation”, he said, recalling previous suggestions that the children had died from poisoning.

“But it’s fake, it’s a fake report,” he added.

Other parents told local media they were also told that suffocation was the cause of the deaths.

But questioned by local media outside the briefing room, provincial health department spokesman Siyanda Manana neither confirmed nor denied these claims.

TOXICOLOGY REPORTS FINDINGS

A preliminary toxicology report released in July, conducted by a Cape Town lab, was inconclusive.

The report found that alcohol and carbon monoxide levels in the victim’s blood were not enough to be the cause of death.

The lab also found methanol in the blood of all the victims, which was suspected to be the possible cause of death.

Thirty-one of the pub-goers were hospitalised with symptoms ranging from vomiting to backache, tight chests and headache.

The pub’s owner was arrested following the tragedy for allegedly breaching alcohol sale regulations.

>>17495221

“Enyobeni Tavern: Parents want access to final postmortem report”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/enyobeni-tavern-parents-final-postmortem-report-2-september-2022/

02-09-2022 09:56

The parents of the youngsters who died during the Enyobeni Tavern want access to the final postmortem report.

Parents of the 17 teenagers who lost their lives during the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy are considering legal action to gain access to the final postmortem report.

PARENTS WANT ACCESS TO THE FULL POSTMORTEM REPORT

The parents revealed that although officials from the Health Department informed them about the cause of death, they would not allow them access to the postmortem report. The parents wish to have full access to the report and are not happy with the manner in which the case is being handled.

Eastern Cape Department of Health spokesperson Siyanda Manana explained that as government officials, they were constrained. Manana explained that they cannot issue the report to each family as it needs to be handed over to the South African Police Services (SAPS) so that ‘appropriate action’ can be taken.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REVEALS WHY THEY HAVE NOT HANDED THE FULL REPORT OUT

“In terms of the Prevention of Personal Information Act that then prevents us from disclosing to other people what is really the cause. It’s safe to say the only people that we did disclose the cause of death was to the parents,”

said Manana.

It’s been just over two months since tragedy struck at the Enyobeni Tavern. An initial autopsy report suggested that chemical poisoning was the cause of death of the 21 youngsters. EWN reports that pre-toxicology examinations found methanol in all 21 bodies.

However, the final report had a different cause of death.

“WATCH: Learners at Alex High act ‘BARBARIC’ on Spring Day”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-learners-alex-high-act-barbaric-spring-day-video-breaking-news-2-september-2022/

03-09-2022 07:08

A shocking video of Alex High school learners went viral after they opted to celebrate Spring Day in a ‘BARBARIC’ way. WATCH video here.

Learners of Alex High School went viral after they opted to celebrate Spring Day in a ‘BARBARIC’ way by damaging furniture, fire extinguisher and wasting water.

WATCH AS THE LEARNERS THROW FURNITURE FROM THE THIRD FLOOR

Gauteng Education spokesperson Steve Mabona said the department said they confirmed the incident.

“We can confirm that learners who were purported to be celebrating Spring Day on the 1st of September 2022 caused havoc at Alex High,” Mabona said furniture was damaged, water was wasted, and learners even interfered with the fire extinguishers at school.

“It is quite barbaric, which we witnessed on the video footage on what was happening at that school. We just want to call upon parents to assist us in installing discipline in children because they need to understand you cannot damage anything at your school, and you expect that to be fixed.”

Steve Mabona

DEPARTMENT RECENTLY RECEIVED COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE FURNITURE

He furthermore said they had recently had problems with furniture where Xhosa’s were leading marches and complaining about furniture.

“Now the very same furniture is being damaged by learners, which is quite unfortunate, and we just want to call upon learners to remember that they need this furniture and that they don’t need to behave in this manner just celebrating one day of introduction of spring. It is uncalled for, and we will not tolerate this.”

Steve Mabona

‘NOW THE VERY SAME FURNITURE IS BEING DAMAGED’

The video shared on social media looks like something out of a movie.

Hundreds of learners can be seen yelling and throwing furniture and other items from the second and third floors.

Big clouds of smoke can also be seen in the video. However, Mabo0na said nothing was burned.

LEARNERS WERE CAUGHT ON CAMERA SMOKING DAGGA [https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/puff-puff-suspended-36-gauteng-learners-captured-on-video-smoking-dagga-suspended-breaking-latest/]

Earlier this year, the Gauteng Department of Education confirmed that the 36 learners from the Leondale High School who were captured on video smoking dagga and acting a fool had been suspended.

Gauteng MEC for Education Panyaza Lesufi said the learners who were captured smoking dagga within the school premises have been removed and suspended from the school.

The disciplinary hearing of the group of learners will be held on Monday.

The video that has been uploaded to social media has gone viral. In the video, several learners in school uniforms can be seen on the school grounds smoking joints of dagga.

THIS COMES ONLY WEEKS AFTER OTHER GAUTENG LEARNERS WERE HOSPITALISED

Some learners proudly pose for the video while others blow the smoke toward the camera. Others are seen dancing and acting weirdly.

A space cake can be a muffin, brownie or any other baked good with cannabis people eat to get “high”.

According to the Gauteng Education Department, learners from Randfontein High School in the West Rand and Mamellong Secondary School in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni were hospitalised on Thursday, 7 April 2022 and Saturday, 9 April 2022 respectively.

“Dirco CFO dismissed over botched New York land project “

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/government/2638458/dirco-ceo-dismissed-over-botched-new-york-land-project/

4 October 2021

Dirco Minister Naledi Pandor has slammed the project as an 'embarrassment', after R118 million was paid for land that doesn't exist.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has terminated its employment relationship with Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Caiphus Ramashau.

This follows the conclusion of the disciplinary case instituted against him related to irregular expenditure incurred by the department on an unsuccessful project to purchase a piece of land in New York (USA) to accommodate South Africa’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations and New York Consulate, said the department in a statement.

In October last year it was determined the piece of land meant to house South Africa’s diplomats did not exist, following a fact-finding mission to New York, carried out by MPs in December 2019.

News24 reported at the time that the R118 million paid for the land was paid on the basis of “a misrepresentation to the department the estate agent had bought land to build a suitable and sustainable office building”.

Dirco Minister Naledi Pandor has since slammed the failed project as an “embarrassment”.

Last month, the director-general of the department, Kgabo Mohoai, was dismissed following the fruitless and wasteful expenditure for the New York Pilot Project scandal.

In a statement, the Democratic Alliance (DA) commended the decision, and also demanded that Ramashau and other senior officials who were closely linked to the New York Pilot Project scandal, face the same fate as Mohoai.

It further demanded that President Cyril Ramaphosa suspend Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, under whose watch this New York Pilot Project was initiated.

“After the recent riots, South Africa cannot afford any further embarrassment due to this scandal. If the President is serious about rooting out corruption, then he must place the interest of South Africa ahead of his corrupt comrades,” said the party.

“Court bid to challenge decision to terminate Zimbabwe Exemption Permit: Adv. Simba Chitando” - https://youtu.be/2dgecPHaJNA

“SA’s Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud’” 1 of 3

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/sas-zimbabwe-exemption-permit-scheme-is-a-money-racket-and-a-fraud/

30 Jun 2022

SA’s ‘white population’ will be the next target says advocate representing those at risk of becoming undocumented.

The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the “largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history”, according to court papers filed by the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha).

The association is asking the Gauteng High Court to grant permanent residence to roughly 200 000 ZEP holders.

The ZEP system, which allows Zimbabweans to work in SA, was suspended in December 2021, then extended until the end of 2022, to give permit holders more time to apply for other permits or else face deportation or voluntary repatriation to Zimbabwe.

One of the reasons cited by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) for suspending the ZEP scheme is its cost.

This is contradicted by Zepha chair Sandra Chinyanya, who argues in an affidavit before the court that the DHA has been raking in cash since it introduced the permit scheme for Zimbabweans more than a decade ago.

Deposing for the DHA, Director-General Livhuwani Makhode says an amount of R145.8 million was requested from National Treasury to start the special programme of granting exemption, but only R15 million was allocated to deal with the exemption process for SADC (Southern African Development Community) nationals.

This small allocation was evidence that granting exemptions to SADC nationals seeking asylum was unsustainable, says Makhode in an affidavit.

‘Exploitation’

Chinyanya replies that roughly 200 000 Zimbabweans had to pay R1 090 each for the ZEP, and R890 for its predecessor, the Zimbabwe Special Permit (ZSP), making a total of R374.2 million – and that doesn’t count unsuccessful applicants, nor the taxes paid in SA by successful applicants over the last decade or more.

SA is financially exploiting ZEP holders, says Chinyana.

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“SA’s Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud’” 2 of 3

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/sas-zimbabwe-exemption-permit-scheme-is-a-money-racket-and-a-fraud/

30 Jun 2022

The respondents in the case are the minister and DG for Home Affairs, President Cyril Ramaphosa and the cabinet.

“This fact, together with the allegations of corruption in the Zondo Commission, which proved corrupt money [was] being made by State officials from migration, begs the question what happened to the total estimated amount of R374.2 million successful exemption holders paid for their permits, and why [Home Affairs] approached National Treasury to begin with.”

The permit scheme is a grotesque shakedown of an ethnic minority, “no different from fascists of old, shamelessly cashing in on potentially billions of rands from mostly Zimbabwean migrants,” says Advocate Simba Chitando, who is representing Zepha, in a strongly worded statement.

“The next stop by cabinet will obviously be the white population of this country, through a reform agenda, and then any other ethnic minority with means, until the majority have looted the minority,” he adds.

A ‘sober judiciary’ the only hope

“The only hope for South Africa, and the short-term stability of the region, is a sober judiciary. Together with business leaders who must now diversify investments into South Africa’s neighbours to avoid the inevitable economic collapse on the horizon.”

The case was launched in October 2021, when Zepha brought an application before the Gauteng High Court to force Home Affairs to issue them with South African ID documents and declare them permanent residents.

The 1937 Aliens Act was introduced to regulate the entry and residential status of those citizens from other Commonwealth countries at a time when SA was a member of the Commonwealth.

Zepha says the department’s policy with respect to Zimbabwean Exemption Permit holders is schizophrenic.

“ZEP holders have been asked to change the conditions of their stay in South Africa during 2022, even though the permit says that they cannot change the conditions of their stay. The conditions on the permit were impossible to meet, and the respondents themselves renewed them even though they were unrenewable and extended them even though they cannot be extended.”

The mass migration of Zimbabweans to SA commenced in 2001 when that country faced sanctions for its land reform programme, argues Chinyanya. Migration accelerated again after 2008 in response to the country’s political and economic crises.

Zepha says it is embarrassing that the DHA would rely on colonial era immigration laws and exemptions that favoured white people from Commonwealth countries and former Portuguese colonies, but specifically excluded black Africans.

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“SA’s Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud’” 3 of 3

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/sas-zimbabwe-exemption-permit-scheme-is-a-money-racket-and-a-fraud/

30 Jun 2022

‘Black on black prejudice’

“This is clear black on black prejudice by the ANC government recorded here in SA’s national history, and currently before this Honourable Court,” reads Chinyanya’s affidavit.

The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) is also challenging the DHA’s decision to end the ZEP system, and wants the North Gauteng High Court to declare all existing ZEPs valid. This would prevent any ZEP holder from being arrested or deported.

Foundation CEO Nicole Fritz says in her court filings that the Minister of Home Affairs has granted exemptions to qualifying Zimbabweans for more than 13 years under various exemptions schemes, starting with the Dispensation of Zimbabweans Project (DZP) in 2009, which gave legal status to more than 250 000 Zimbabweans who had fled political and economic instability in that country. This scheme was extended and renamed the Zimbabwean Special Permit (ZSP) in 2014 and the ZEP in 2017.

“In reliance on these permits, Zimbabwean nationals have established lives, families, and careers in SA, which have now been placed in jeopardy,” according to Fritz’s affidavit.

There is a risk that tens of thousands of Zimbabweans will be left undocumented from 31 December 2022. They will be unable to obtain alternative visas in time, even if eligible, due to DHA backlogs and delays.

The Zepha case differs in that it wants the court to force Home Affairs to grant ZEP holders SA ID documents. They argue that the ZEP is a permanent residence permit valid for a specific period of time as allowed by the Immigration Act, and that they are therefore entitled to ID documents.

The HSF has also pointed to the fact that few Zimbabweans would qualify for work permits under the critical skills list, nor will they likely succeed in being granted asylum.

One of the reasons cited by Home Affairs for deciding not to extend the ZEP is high unemployment in SA, now at its worst rate since 2008.

“Recently, the country has witnessed violent clashes between foreign nationals and citizens. This is as a result of scarce resources in the country,” says the DHA affidavit.

Chinyanya replies that there is no evidence that ZEP holders are the cause of unemployment in SA, and the cause of xenophobic violence cannot be blamed solely on competition for scarce resources, but on a variety of issues, such as tribalism, ethnic tensions, populism and incitement by political leaders.

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“Zimbabweans at risk of deportation prepare to take on banks, big corporates” - VFS Global, Blackstone, FNB, etc. 1 of 2

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/zimbabweans-at-risk-of-deportation-prepare-to-take-on-banks-big-corporates/

23 Aug 2022

Hundreds of thousands fear losing their jobs and having their bank accounts closed when exemption permit scheme ends in December.

Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans are at risk of deportation when the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme ends in December.

Lawyers representing the permit holders say they are preparing to haul banks to court to prevent them from closing the accounts of any ZEP holder.

“Sadly, we have to go to court to protect our rights,” says Advocate Simba Chitando, who is representing the ZEP Holders Association (Zepha).

“This is the largest fraud ever committed by an African government on the citizens of another African country, and it must be brought to an end.

“One of the reasons cited by the Department of Home Affairs for suspending the ZEP system is the cost of administering the system. It says it only had R15 million available for exemption permits, yet Zimbabweans have paid hundreds of millions of rands to Home Affairs to obtain these permits,” says Chitando.

“Home Affairs has been bilking Zimbabweans, most of them poor, for more than a decade.”

Also targeted for legal action is VFS Global, owned by one of the world’s largest private equity firms, US-based Blackstone.

VFS Global is responsible for processing the exemption permits on behalf of Home Affairs.

Attorneys representing Zepha have written to VFS Global asking it to account for the number of applications it processed under the ZEP system, and its predecessor, the Zimbabwe Special Dispensation Permit (ZSP).

Zepha estimates that close to half a billion rand would have been paid over by Zimbabweans applying for these permits.

Read: SA’s Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a �?fraud’

“We will not hesitate to take legal action against Blackstone, in the United States, using lawyers based there,” adds Chitando.

“We intend to mobilise civil society in the US to expose the practice of never-ending expensive applications and extensions, instead of simply providing ZEP holders with permanent residence permits.”

ZEP holders have started receiving notices from FNB that their permits will no longer be valid after 31 December 2022, and must be replaced with a �?mainstream’ visa after the Department of Home Affairs decided to end the ZEP system.

The notice does not explain what will happen to those FNB customers who are ZEP holders and do not qualify for a �?mainstream’ visa, though many fear their accounts will be closed, thereby throttling their ability to continue living and working in SA.

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“Zimbabweans at risk of deportation prepare to take on banks, big corporates” - VFS Global, Blackstone, FNB, etc. 2 of 2

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/zimbabweans-at-risk-of-deportation-prepare-to-take-on-banks-big-corporates/

23 Aug 2022

The ZEP system has been in operation in various forms since 2009, allowing Zimbabweans to live, work, study and conduct business in SA. It was introduced to legitimise the status of Zimbabweans in SA, many of whom fled the political and economic chaos at home.

Last year Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced the ZEP scheme would be terminated at the end of 2021. He then extended the termination period by a year to allow an estimated 178 000 permit holders to apply for alternative visas.

ZEP representatives in SA believe Home Affairs is responding to and fuelling xenophobia, already at dangerously high levels after massive job losses brought on by Covid lockdowns.

Motsoaledi’s decision to suspend the scheme is being challenged in three separate court cases brought by the Helen Suzman Foundation, the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha), and the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation.

All three are asking the courts to set aside the minister’s decision to suspend the ZEP system, pointing to the disastrous impact it will have on the region if potentially hundreds of thousands of people are forced to repatriate to a country with one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. These cases are likely to be heard in October.

One of the reasons cited by Home Affairs for suspending the permit scheme is to ease unemployment in SA – though this is refuted by the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation, which argues in its court papers that the 178 000 ZEP holders constitute just 0.3% of SA’s population of about 60 million.

There is some evidence of back-tracking by Home Affairs, after some ZEP holders received letters from the department’s director-general Livhuwani Makhode that ZEP �?waiver applications’ are being reconsidered by the minister pending legal advice.

“It has come to our attention that the banks have been weaponised by the government to enforce the shakedown of ZEP holders, who risk their accounts being frozen if they do not apply for visas many do not qualify for, because Home Affairs has made documentation all but impossible,” says Chitando.

FNB’s response

“FNB is monitoring developments regarding the status of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs) and communicates regularly to customers who may be affected.

“Our latest communication to customers who are ZEP holders aims to inform them about the most recent directive from the Department of Home Affairs and the options available to them.

“The term ‘mainstream visas’ in our customer communication generally refers to visas that are prescribed under the Immigration Act,” the bank states.

“We are committed to helping our customers to ensure that their bank accounts are used and managed in accordance with the relevant laws. Our customers can also contact us directly if they have any questions or need assistance with their bank accounts.”

Moneyweb reached out to VFS Global for comment, but had not received a reply by the time of publication.

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“Claims of harassment and intimidation as ZEP case turns ugly” 1 of 2

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/claims-of-harassment-and-intimidation-as-zep-case-turns-ugly/

5 Sep 2022

Home Affairs officials extract affidavit from ex-wife of Advocate Simba Chitando ‘under duress’.

The fight over the future of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders, as to whether some 178 000 Zimbabweans will be allowed to live and work in SA, is getting ugly.

On the same day that the Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi announced another extension of the ZEP system – this time until 30 June 2023 – the lawyer representing ZEP holders, Advocate Simba Chitando, said he and his family have been exposed to an unprecedented campaign of intimidation and harassment at the hands of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA).

Chitando’s former wife Nosiphiwo Jodwana has gone into hiding, fearing for her safety.

Chitando has come the target of xenophobic attacks on social media for his outspoken views in defence of Zimbabweans in SA, and for arguing that Home Affairs is making a fortune off Zimbabweans, who have had to shell out close to R1 000 for the ZEPs and the predecessor exemption permits, dating back to 2009.

On Friday, two Department of Home Affairs officials visited Jodwana’s place of work in Pretoria and extracted an affidavit, apparently under duress. “There was no warrant of arrest, and at first the officials did not present their official IDs,” says Jodwana. “They implied that my former husband, who is well known to be fighting for the rights of ZEP holders in South Africa, was doing ‘some stuff’ with my ID, without saying what. They said he was under investigation and the implication was that he is doing something illegal. I was told they wanted an affidavit from me, and they coached me in what to say. I was intimidated. I called the Hawks when they took me away because I was scared.”

She was then taken from her place of work in Pretoria to the Garsfontein Police Station in Pretoria for the commissioning of the affidavit. “I was not present when the affidavit was commissioned,” she says. Jodwana was not given a copy of the affidavit she made.

She adds that one of the officials made sexual advances on her and that she is opening a criminal case against the official concerned.

‘I will not step away’

Chitando and his attorney, Sindiso Sibanda, are now planning to bring an urgent cease and desist application against the DHA before the high court and to have Jodwana’s affidavit declared invalid on the grounds that it was obtained under duress, and was not properly commissioned.

“The Home Affairs strategy appears to be to intimidate me and those close to me, perhaps hoping that I will withdraw my court application, which will be heard in early October,” says Chitando. “This strategy will not work. I will not step away and allow Home Affairs to proceed with their obvious strategy of deporting hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans, many of them who have married and have children here, to return home.”

Asked to comment on the above, the DHA responded: “We do not disclose details of our on-going investigations.”

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“Claims of harassment and intimidation as ZEP case turns ugly” 2 of 2

https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/claims-of-harassment-and-intimidation-as-zep-case-turns-ugly/

5 Sep 2022

As Moneyweb previously reported, the ZEP system has been in operation in various forms since 2009, allowing Zimbabweans to live, work, study and conduct business in SA. It was introduced to legitimise the status of Zimbabweans in SA, many of whom fled the political and economic chaos in Zim.

Last year Motsoaledi announced the ZEP scheme would be terminated at the end of 2021. He then extended the termination period by a year to December 2022, and now again by another six months – until 30 June 2023.

Motsoaledi’s decision to suspend the scheme is being challenged in three separate court cases brought by the Helen Suzman Foundation, the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Holders Association (Zepha), and the Zimbabwe Immigration Federation. Chitando is representing one of these groups, Zepha, though he has been particularly outspoken in the media about the likely fate of Zimbabweans in SA.

“Having extracted close to half a billion rand from Zimbabweans through the various permit schemes introduced since 2009, while claiming it does not have the resources to continue implementing the system, now the department wants to send hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans home. This will create a crisis for the region the likes of which we have not seen in decades. This cannot be allowed to happen.”

The DHA wants ZEP holders to apply for work visas using the so-called critical skills list, which outlines those skills needed in SA. “I get asked all the time by Zimbabweans whether they should apply for one of these visas, and I answer ‘no, because you will not get one’.

The purpose of suspending the ZEP system is to get rid of Zimbabweans, who most rational people will admit make a huge contribution to this country.

“It’s an attack on minorities, and it will not end with Zimbabweans. Mark my words.”

In 2021, the Legal Practice Council (LPC) issued a statement, noting “with concern the xenophobic attacks on Advocate Simba Chitando who is involved in a court case regarding the issue of Zimbabwean Special Dispensation permits issued by the Department of Home Affairs. The LPC does not condone any xenophobic statements against any of our members.

“The LPC strongly condemns all instances of threats, attacks, hate speech and incitements to violence against anyone based on ethnicity or any other ground. The LPC understands that this is a sensitive issue and encourages the public to allow the court process to run its course through the impartial and transparent judicial processes based on the legal framework provided by the South African laws.”

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“Politically, financially, and economically, SA will be permanently isolated. – Simba Chitando.” - Zimbabwe exemption visa holders, SA Home Affairs Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi

https://www.ghanamma.com/za/2022/09/15/politically-financially-and-economically-sa-will-be-permanently-isolated-simba-chitando/

September 15, 2022

It is extremely puzzling why Simba Chitando, the attorney who is defending the aggrieved recipients of Zimbabwe exemption visa holders, is so fixated on Home Affairs Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi. Simba Chitando has been spending more time discussing the Minister than anything else for days.

He claimed two days ago that Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi had stolen R100 million from ZEP holders and demanded an outrageous R200,000 from him.

Simba Chitando referred to Dr. Motsoaledi as a Reckless Minister earlier today in a tweet.

Meanwhile, Simba Chitando asserted in a recent report that South Africa’s government had engaged in the biggest fraud in history by;

1. Motsoaledi informs the populace that waiver requests are accepted.

2. He sends out an internal message stating that all requests for waivers must be denied.

3. So far, not a single request for a waiver has been granted. Why.

4. Migrants are the victims of Motsoaledi’s thefts.

He claimed that as a result, other countries may isolate South Africa politically, financially, economically, and morally.

According to a tweet from Simba Chitando:

“True incident the biggest fraud a government has ever committed against foreign nationals. At this rate, South Africa would experience everlasting isolation on all fronts, politics, the economy, morality, and finance “.

Source:

https://twitter.com/simbachitando/status/1569994164116365313?t=aLAKbQ3H45Kam-b-irjnow&s=19

“[FROM THE ARCHIVES] Zamas go legit | Carte Blanche | M-Net” - cooperative model between mining company and illegals

https://youtu.be/GO-JpJ3sJ4Q

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟳 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. With the thousands of ownerless and abandoned mines dotting the South African landscape, countless men and women work as illegal zama zamas, risking life and limb to eke out a meagre existence from the ground. Between crumbling mine shafts, falling rock and rival gangs, there is little security or hope of a real future in working this way. But from the Pongola region of KwaZulu-Natal, on the border of the Ithala Game Reserve, the Klipwal Gold Mine holds out promise that things could work differently. Carte Blanche investigates a cooperative model that the mine’s owners and local zama zamas have adopted, bringing not only peace to the conflict-ridden property, but economic advancement for the miners.

“Monograph 113: Stock Theft and Human Security, A Case Study of Lesotho”

https://issafrica.org/research/monographs/monograph-113-stock-theft-and-human-security-a-case-study-of-lesotho-dr-j-dzimba-and-matsolo-matooane-edited-by-jemima-njeri-kariri

01 APR 2005

Below are excerpts.

Stock theft has become a national crisis in Lesotho. According to the National Livestock Development Study Phase 1 report of March 1999, stock theft has reached epidemic proportions throughout Lesotho and appears to be escalating. Stock theft presents a challenge to the consolidation of the fragile democracy in the Kingdom of Lesotho as it impoverishes people and causes conflicts within and between villages that in turn threaten stability. In cases of theft the livestock owner loses all the economic value of livestock and is left destitute. This affects the entire household, the community, and the country.

The study was designed to focus on examining the following during interviews with stakeholders that included the police, chiefs, stockowners, magistrates and prosecutors:

• to investigate the causes for the lack of confidence displayed by communities in the police and the courts;

• to undertake docket research and analysis and examine court files and other relevant documents to determine the efficacy of the Criminal Justice System in relation to stock theft; and

• to suggest recommendations that will regain the confidence of the communities in the police, courts and government.

In terms of the perceptions and extent of the problem, including its impacts on livelihoods, the study found the following:

• Stock theft is on the increase, as is related violence.

• Unemployment is the leading cause of stock theft.

• The marketing channels of stock make it easier to trade in stolen stock.

• Most stolen stock is herded into inhospitable terrain to make it more difficult to track down.

• Current markings of animals are easy to tamper with.

• Religion has an impact on the responses of communities towards crime.

• There is loss of mobility as animals are used for transport.

• The livelihood of households is affected owing to loss of earnings from cattle.

• Loss of lives is high.

• Levels of education are being affected in rural communities.

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It has flowed over into South Africa.

“Vigilantes and South African Troops Fighting Cattle Thieves (2001)” [South African-Lesotho border] - https://youtu.be/1vtQzDeNhJ8

“Stock and other cross-border theft a regular occurrence on SA/Lesotho boundary”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/stock-and-other-cross-border-theft-a-regular-occurrence-on-sa-lesotho-boundary/

30th Jul 2020

South Africa might have new border management legislation in place but it’s not yet making an iota of difference along at least the border between Lesotho and the central Free State province, with the most recent incident seeing SANDF personnel arrest two alleged rustlers.

The porosity of the border was borne out by a recent oversight visit to the border separating the mountain kingdom from its encompassing neighbour. Opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party Member of the Free State provincial legislature, Roy Jankielsohn, went to a section of border between Clarens and Fouriesburg.

“Rural communities along this border are regular victims of farm attacks, theft of livestock, vehicles, equipment and other crimes. My oversight visit indicates there is no fence or other barrier to prevent people crossing the border,” he said, adding he did see two armed South African soldiers “sitting next to a crossroad several kilometres from the border”.

“With the Caledon River reduced to a stream as a result of drought, there is no hindrance preventing people and stolen property, be it livestock, vehicles or farm equipment crossing this section of border.”

Jankielsohn points to the dissolution of what was South Africa’s “home guard” – the commandos – between 2005 and 2008 as a loss to both border protection and rural security.

“Soon afterwards the DA put forward alternative policy options and subsequently produced and has since updated and implemented a rural safety working group with representatives in all nine provinces,” he said adding a request for a rural safety debate in Parliament was made by DA MPs.

“The party is working at having farm and rural attacks declared hate crimes.

“The Free State branch of the DA supports our Parliamentary colleagues on initiatives to address this threat to food security and the safety of all South Africans, including those under threat from cross-border crime,” he said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this month signed the Border Management Authority (BMA) Act into law. It will see the establishment of a new government agency, resorting under the Department of Home Affairs, taking charge of South Africa’s 57 official ports of entry with no mention of control and management of the over four thousand kilometres of land border currently watched over by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF).

South African soldiers deployed to the Lesotho border have in the last couple of weeks recorded numerous successes, including the seizure of plastic bags of dagga from Lesotho members near Bebeza.

On 19 July the SANDF arrested two persons from Lesotho for alleged stock theft and they were handed over to the South African Police Service (SAPS). Conflicting reports suggest the two may have been Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) members who either crossed into South Africa illegally to steal animals or to track down rustlers.

The incident occurred near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. LDF spokesman Captain Kelebone Mothibi said the two men were on patrol in Qachas Nek along the borders of Lesotho and South Africa. The two men are Rorisang Moeti (26) and Dumile Ts’oeunyane (22).

According to reports, four men apparently took 57 sheep and 39 goats at Mafube Mountains at Modibong and drove them towards Lesotho. Police and soldiers were alerted and two of the men were detained. They were found in possession of two rifles and 65 rounds of ammunition.

Video of the arrest by South African soldiers showed each suspect being kicked once in the head but it is not clear if soldiers, or civilians who had gathered around, were doing the kicking.

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>to investigate the causes for the lack of confidence displayed by communities in the police and the courts

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>“Vigilantes and South African Troops Fighting Cattle Thieves (2001)”

Nothing was done for decades and it just escalated.

“Saps allegedly involved in stock theft” - https://youtu.be/oAvYJzViUHc

“Hawks Finally Confirm Report Implicating SAPS Members in Stock Theft Syndicate Linked to Brendin Horner’s Murder!”

https://sa-news.com/hawks-finally-confirm-report-implicating-saps-members-in-stock-theft-syndicate-linked-to-brendin-horners-murder/

Posted on October 30, 2020

The Hawks have confirmed that they are in possession of the detailed report implicating Paul Roux police in a local stock theft syndicate, responsible for the barbaric murder (assassination?) of Brendin Horner. Had Hawks acted timeously Brendin would still be alive and the whole Senekal court debacle with farmers protesting would never have happened!

The Hawks have now admitted that a detailed report about police involvement in a stock theft syndicate operating in the Paul Roux area, the same syndicate responsible for the murder of Brendin Horner.

Mr Herkie Viljoen, the safety co-ordinator of the Bethlehem district agricultural association, challenged the Hawks and Police on 6 October – the day when the 2 accused in the Horner murder first appeared in court – to say what they did with the report which he said he provided to a Lt Colonel of the Hawks in 2 parts a full year ago.

The report made serious allegations about the involvement of senior Police officers in stock theft but Brigadier Hangwani Muladuzi, spokesperson for the Hawks, denied the Hawks knew about the Viljoen report when asked by Rapport newspaper.

However, after this denial, Mr Gabriel Crouse of the Institute for Race Relations followed the matter up with the Hawks and now the Hawks admit that the report was indeed provided to the Lt Colonel and several other officers by Mr Viljoen a year ago already.

The admission was done in an e-mailed response to Mr Crouse reports Netwerk24.

Some of the allegations in the report are:

– Stolen livestock were found on the farm of a Police general.

– A Police station commander and several other Police officers are named in the report as part and parcel of the stock theft syndicate.

– The identities of many members of the stock theft syndicate and the registration numbers of the vehicles they drive are provided in the report.

“SA came THIS close to STAGE 8 last night – but Eskom stays quiet”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-what-is-stage-8-load-shedding-eskom-tuesday-20-september/

20-09-2022 10:25

It would appear that Mzansi was left on the brink of Stage 8 load shedding at the start of this week. Not that Eskom will tell us, mind…

Is Eskom telling porkies or what? The energy firm has been accused of sweeping higher levels of load shedding under the rug, despite keeping a public record of how much electricity is being purposefully removed from the grid. Some analysts believe SA nearly reached STAGE 8 on Monday.

WHAT IS STAGE 8 LOAD SHEDDING?

Sikonathi Mantshantsha is the official spokesperson for Eskom – a job none of us would particularly envy. He shares daily updates about energy consumption in Mzansi, including the total demand and the amount of power that is taken offline due to load shedding.

His stats show that a whopping 6 770 MW was removed on Monday. Now, according to Eskom’s own data, any load shedding of 6 001 MW or more constitutes STAGE 7 load shedding. In fact, the threshold for Stage 8 stands at 7 001 MW.

HOW CLOSE DID SA COME TO STAGE 8 THIS WEEK?

That means South Africa was a little over 200 MW shy of having to inflict the worst-possible phase of load shedding on the public, as per the utility’s own metrics. A number of eagle-eyed experts were on hand to highlight these discrepancies.

CURRENT LOAD SHEDDING FORECAST FOR TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

Despite the suspicions of a Stage 8 catastrophe, Eskom have been bullish about their prospects for the week ahead. The SOE moved load shedding down a stage earlier this morning, and there is hope that several units returning to service will help ease the strain in the days ahead.

“Overnight, units at Camden, Kriel, Kusile and Kendal were returned but unfortunately, we had to take off a unit at Duvha which developed a boiler tube leak. Load shedding will thus be reduced to Stage 5 at 00:00 on Tuesday 20 September.” | Eskom statement

“Eskom’s worst case scenario: SA could face ‘three-week blackout’”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-what-is-worst-case-scenario-eskom-load-shedding-stage-8-total-blackout-weeks-tuesday-20-september/

20-09-2022 14:02

For those of you wondering if things can get any worse in Eskom’s current battle against load shedding – the answer is a resounding ‘yes’.

Eskom have published details about the post-load shedding process, and what would happen if things like targeted power cuts failed to prevent a major disaster. The firm has revealed that, in the event of grid collapse, South Africa would be left without electricity ‘for weeks’.

IN ESKOM’S WORST CASE SCENARIO, STAGE 8 SEEMS LIKE A LUXURY…

The rather gloomy update was published earlier on Tuesday. South Africa’s worst-performing utility has currently got the country at Stage 5 of load shedding, down from a peak of Stage 6 over the weekend. Some, however, suspect that Eskom secretly went even further.

The only planned stages of load shedding that Eskom has never formally declared are Stage 7 and Stage 8. This would create outages of more than 12 hours a day for millions of South Africans. This seems like a nightmare, but unfortunately, this wouldn’t be the worst-case scenario.

WHAT HAPPENS IF LOAD SHEDDING FAILS?

Eskom has previously explained, in great detail, how load shedding is actually enforced to prevent a total grid collapse. But what would happen if a painstaking round of Stage 8 cuts didn’t go far enough? At this point, it is said, South Africa would be exposed to a ‘total blackout’.

In an infographic shared by the firm, they reveal that there’d be no time to prepare the country for a long-lasting blackout, and coming back from this point would take a vast amount of time. Eskom warn that a recovery from this lowest possible ebb ‘would take a few weeks’:

“If preventative measures like load shedding prove to be insufficient, the national grid will collapse. A blackout is unforeseen, and therefore, the system operator would not be able to make any announcements in advance.”

A national blackout will have massive implications, and every effort is made to stop this from happening. Depending on the nature of the emergency, it could take a few weeks for the grid to completely recover from a blackout.” | Eskom

• Eskom explain the load shedding process – and beyond – in this five-step guide:

“Police major-generals among six arrested over R54m SAPS tender”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/police-major-generals-among-six-arrested-over-r54m-saps-tender-90709183-5595-4be6-88cb-793221e80939

September 20, 2022

Johannesburg - Two major generals, a former lieutenant-general and a lieutenant-colonel were among six people arrested in connection with a 2016 police tender worth of over R54 million.

The six suspects also include two businessmen who were arrested on Monday in Durban, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.

Two of the suspects were arrested as they were boarding domestic flights from OR Tambo International Airport to Cape Town and Durban.

According to Investigating Directorate spokesperson Sindisiwe Seboka, the high-ranking and seasoned police officials as well as the businessmen are expected to appear at the Pretoria specialised commercial crimes court on Wednesday, September 21, on charges of fraud, corruption and theft.

“The arrests are a result of joint stakeholder co-operation between the Investigating Directorate (ID) and Ipid secondments assigned to the ID,”said Seboka.

Furthermore these arrests are said to endorse the Investigating Directorate’s commitment to dealing with corruption and state capture regardless of where it manifests itself.

“Racial murders: 1000’s of white SA farmers killed by blacks – I also cant breathe !”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/racial-murders-1000s-of-white-sa-farmers-killed-by-blacks-i-also-cant-breathe/

June 6, 2020

Yes, literally thousands of white South African farmers have been brutally murdered by blacks and, No there have been no riots, no destruction and no mayhem as a result. And YES, these are racially motivated murders! Black leaders in the country openly call for these racial murders. And its not only the farmers, scores of other innocent white people have been murdered by blacks. Nothing is being said about it and towns are not been destroyed by angry mobs over it. So why no outcry from the world and why no major media drive about ‘these’ racist atrocities and why no demonstrations?

The answer is simple:

1. Major mainstream media outlets are part of the world liberal movement and as a result don’t drive issues that don’t suit their narrative, whilst, for example, driving the George Floyd incident in America does just that and helps further their cause, in this case, to remove Trump and to create one world without borders. (Floyd was an habitual criminal who was high on drugs that caused a heart attack.)

1. The liberal controlled social media networks similarly decide what will be shared and whilst blacks openly post about the killings of whites and while other other suitable left agenda is promoted, you will find that any other posts not fitting this narrative, are deemed to not ‘meet community standards’ and are removed or you cant share them.

1. Exposed in a recent article published, “Globalists and liberals use COVID-19 to accelerate globalist revolution” you will start to understand that this part of the how the liberal world revolution is being driven under the ‘anti-racism guise’. And now the ANC wants to campaign against this even after its cadre run Police and Army killed about a dozen black men during lockdown alone!

1. In an article published, “George Soros – The man in the shadows. What he really wants” we see that there is a global political battle between two poles. On the one hand is the international liberal alliance with multi billionaire and mega donor to the cause George Soros. They have as aim to remove all borders. And in South Africa, both the ANC and EFF, hard-core black nationalist movements, buy into the international liberal agenda with their aim of a borderless world. The likes of Ramaphosa and Malema are very much in the pockets of Soros and his friends.

1. In a book published, “‘Kill the Boer’, brutal reality of farm attacks, government complicity” we see that not only are the government reluctant to acknowledge these farm attacks but that they are actually complicit. So when the South African police refuse to make these crimes ‘priority crimes’ and show very little interest in investigating them properly you can start to see the picture of what is going on in the world and who is supporting who and with what goal.

At the ‘White Cross monument’ there are well over 3600 crosses symbolizing some of these farm murders. And TLU SA has recorded over 5000 farm attacks and over 2000 farm murders since 1990 pertaining to those farmers that are members of their organisation, these figures represent incidents reported to TLU SA and not all farmers in the country. The numbers are thus very much higher.

These farm attacks and murders are often accompanied by extreme violence, torture and rape and are being openly fueled by black South African leaders in the country.

The FF Plus commented on 27 June 2019, “It is now clear that the government has turned its back on the farmers in our country. To combat gang violence a special gang unit was established in the police force. That is indeed the right way to combat a specific crime. It, however, raises the question of why the same thing cannot be done to address the pressing problem of farm attacks? Why does the President refuse to admit that it is a reality and that it jeopardizes food security in our country?

>>17620526

>Exposed in a recent article published, “Globalists and liberals use COVID-19 to accelerate globalist revolution”

“Globalists and liberals use COVID-19 to accelerate globalist revolution” 1 of 2

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/globalists-and-liberals-use-covid-19-to-accelerate-globalist-revolution/

June 5, 2020

The globalist – Liberal world revolution begins under the anti racism guise. Look who is behind it before you join. The ANC has encouraged South Africans to wear black on Fridays for the following 3 weeks in what it calls an anti racism campaign that obviously latched onto the George Floyd incident in America.

It says it wants to create awareness of all forms of racism.

Jesse Duarte, deputy secretary-general of the ANC, has announced on Thursday 4 June 2020, that this campaign will be launched on Friday at 19:00 and she asked South Africans to become ” partners” in this campaign by wearing black. Duarte announced that the ANC is joining an ” Alliance” and that leaders of the ” Alliance” will wear black clothes on Fridays.

Now it is really getting weirder and weirder.

The ANC now wants to campaign against itself after its cadre run Police and Army killed about a dozen black men during lockdown alone!

It is jumping on the George Floyd bandwagon created by the international alliance of liberal and globalist forces with the objective of kick starting their revolution to create a globalist and elitist liberal world without borders.

Therefore it is significant that the ANC announced they have joined a so called Alliance. People have to see the bigger picture here. It has been apparent for some time that there is an international alliance of liberal and globalist forces to create a world without borders.

The one world without borders movement is a powerful alliance mainly financed by George Soros and it includes the likes of the American Democratic Party, Antifa, Islamic forces, various other left wingers and liberals and Big Tech in America.

The globalists call it a campaign against racism after violent riots started after the death of George Floyd in America. They will call it something. But their aim is what it always was – the creation of the globalist world without borders. They are clearly opposed to nation states and the sovereignty of countries to control their own borders. In their heart however they don’t want any countries with a white majority anymore. This is the crux of the matter.

This is why they wanted to remove Donald Trump as President of America through the Russian and Ukraine hoaxes after he won an election democratically and opposed the globalist world view.

>>17620543

“Globalists and liberals use COVID-19 to accelerate globalist revolution” 2 of 2

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/globalists-and-liberals-use-covid-19-to-accelerate-globalist-revolution/

June 5, 2020

But the ANC itself has 2 BIG problems now.

1 – There is the problems with their own twelve George Floyd’s of which the best known is actually Collins Khoza. 2 – The ANC is racist. Very racist.

It has assistance schemes for small business people whose businesses are forced to close during the lockdown period and therefore can’t get an income but it excludes white people from these funds on the basis of skin colour in the time of a pandemic that knows no skin colour.

The ANC has defended this position in the High Court and Constitutional Court in cases brought by the Solidarity Movement and the DA political party.

The security forces controlled by the ANC also began with a brutal repression campaign during the lockdown period in which they not only killed many black people but locked up almost a quarter of a million South Africans of all races over trivialities. The ANC even banned a private NGO to distribute sandwiches in one case.

How many trendy lefties will now join the bandwagon and wear black on Fridays?

Meanwhile TLU SA has announced on Thursday that it alone recorded over 5000 farm attacks and over 2000 farm murders on farmers since 1990. [https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/5437-farm-attacks-and-2067-farm-murders-in-south-africa-1990-may-2020/] These statistics released by TLU SA pertain to those farmers that are members of their organisation and only represents incidents reported to TLU SA and not all farmers in the country, they said.

These murders include the murder of many white children by black attackers and most of these attacks went hand in hand with extreme violence, rape and outright torture.

The ANC drenched in blood and racism, having looted South Africa dry, has no cards left to play and has jumped onto the George Floyd incident and the CCP – virus pandemic, not only to remain relevant, but to complete its own communist totalitarian objectives.

Boiling the white minority in the pot.

That is why Ramaphosa and his ” prime minister” Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has said the ANC will use the opportunity afforded by the pandemic to ” restructure” the economy. That is why it is dragging out the lockdown even though scientists have said we should have been on lockdown level one already. The ANC needs more time to complete its own revolution at a time the globalist liberals started theirs.

>>17620526

>In an article published, “George Soros – The man in the shadows. What he really wants”

“George Soros – The man in the shadows. What he really wants”

https://southafricatoday.net/world-news/united-states/george-soros-the-man-in-the-shadows-what-he-really-wants/

November 19, 2019

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW? Many people don’t really understand the dynamic of the real reasons behind the effort of the Democrats to try to impeach and unseat President Trump.

The heart of the matter is the undeclared, yet very real and fierce , global political battle between 2 poles. On the one hand is the international liberal alliance with multi billionair and mega donor to the cause George Soros. They have as aim to remove borders, interestingly enough this aim of a borderless world is especially aimed at the West and Europe.

They would eventually like to conquer Russia too but have the very patriotic Vladimir Putin to contend with, a man clever enough to know what Soros and his globalist elite liberals are busy with. George Soros have the most influential liberal party leaders in the world and many deep state insiders on his speed dial and donate a massive amount of money to NGO’s furthering his agenda.

The other pole in the fierce global political battle is the people who believe in something like culture and identity. People who simply want to preserve the sovereignty of their nations, for example preventing non French to become a majority in France.

The liberal elite basically want to change demographics and allow unrestricted immigration, something that will lead to white people becoming minorities everywhere in the world. Why they want to do it, is not exactly clear but that this is their aim is a fact.

President Trump is the global political leader of the “Put your own first”- ( put all Americans first) camp and he was busy winning. His agenda is populistic but honest and people bought into it. The very leftist Democrats in the USA, with the backing of George Soros, know that Trump can’t be defeated at the polls so their aim – at all cost- is to unseat Trump through some other process, basically a coup d’etat using the impeachment process.

Like always the hypocracy of the globalists amaze. The Democratic party in the USA once used a private spying company called Fusion GPS to put together a false dossier on President Trump. That report was used to launch the Mueller probe into so called Russia collusion.

Now that President Trump has requested that the Ukrainian President look into corruption committed by Democrat Joe Biden’s son involving a Ukrainian natural gas company called Burisma, that is now suddenly a problem and used to impeach President Trump. No matter the fact that the Democrats used the Fusion GPS report, that they paid for and which was false, to obtain warrants to listen in on Trump supporters during Trump’s first election campaign. So it’s OK to spy on Trump, but not ok if Trump wants corruption of a Democrat’s son investigated. The liberals will stop at nothing to achieve their borderless world.

–In South Africa, both the ANC and EFF, hard-core black nationalist movements, buy into the international liberal agenda with their aim of a borderless world. The likes of Ramaphosa and Malema are very much in the pockets of Soros and his friends.—

>>17620526

> In a book published, “‘Kill the Boer’

“Book: ‘Kill the Boer’, brutal reality of farm attacks, government complicity”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/book-kill-the-boer-brutal-reality-of-farm-attacks-government-complicity/

June 28, 2018

The civil rights organisation today asked that an independent commission of inquiry be compiled to determine what the factors are that lead to farm murders. This announcement was made in Centurion during the media launch of the book Kill the Boer by Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of AfriForum.

During the launch Roets played a recording in which a member of the 28 prison gang alleges that Julius Malema, EFF leader, went to see them in jail to talk about farm murders. Roets also told of his own experience when a convicted farm murderer told him that he was a member of the ANC military wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe, and that the ANC gave him an order to murder a farmer.

Roets says that these allegations must be viewed in a serious light and that it must be thoroughly investigated. The recording in which the allegations are made about Malema was already broadcasted on the actuality programme Carte Blanche in March 2017. At the time the EFF said that Malema did not have time to comment thereon. The issue was also not investigated further.

In the book Kill the Boer it is argued that the South African government is complicit in the crisis of farm murders. Ten reasons are supplied for this allegation. Various incidents of political incitement to farm murders, as well as farm murders where political or racial motives clearly played a role, is stated in the book.

Roets explains that AfriForum does not claim that all farm murders are politically motivated, but that the organisation is in fact gravely concerned that the political element is currently underplayed. “Our analysis of five incidents of hate speech from high political leaders against farmers indicated that farm murders in the months following on these incidents increased with an average of 74,8%.”

Kill the Boer is a book about the brutal reality of farm attacks in South Africa and the South African government’s complicity in the crisis. This complicity could be attributed to a variety of reasons, including its deprioritizing of the crisis despite the worsening thereof, negative stereotyping of white farmers in particular, romanticising of violence inflicted upon farmers, continuation of hatred from political platforms, as well as the scorning and ridiculing of the victims of these attacks.

The book reveals accounts of the direct involvement of members of the ruling ANC, the South African government and the South African Police Service (SAPS) in particular in the planning and execution of these attacks.

It is argued that a looming process of ethnic cleansing should be regarded as a serious threat and something to be prevented. The complicity of the South African media is also indicated by analyses of news reports that clearly indicate biased reporting, leading to vilification and negative stereotyping of white farmers in particular.

A variety of reasons why farm attacks are unique and deserve to be treated as a priority crime are outlined. These include the unique frequency with which these attacks take place, the horrific levels of torture that often accompany these crimes, the role that farmers should play in society and the unique circumstances in which farmers find themselves.

“15 Farm attacks, 7 farm murders in South Africa – September 2022”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/15-farm-attacks-7-farm-murders-in-south-africa-september-2022/

October 2, 2022

During the month of September 2022, there were fifteen farm attacks and seven farm murders in South Africa. During August 2022, there were fifteen farm attacks and three farm murders in the country.

During the month of July 2022 there were fifteen farm attacks and seven farm murders in the country.

From 1 January to 31 August 2022 there have been one hundred and eight farm attacks and thirty one farm murders in South Africa.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2022:

January 2022 – 14 Farm attacks and 4 farm murders.

February 2022 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

March 2022 – 7 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

April 2022 – 12 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

May 2022 – 10 Farm attacks and 2 farm murders.

June 2022 – 3 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

July 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

August 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

September 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2021:

January 2021 – 21 farm attacks and 0 farm murders.

February 2021 – 17 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

March 2021 – 36 farm attacks and 5 farm murders.

April 2021 – 24 farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

May 2021 – 23 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

June 2021 – 23 farm attacks and 5 farm murders.

July 2021 – 21 farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

August 2021 – 26 farm attacks and 9 farm murders.

September 2021 – 13 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

October 2021 – 14 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

November 2021 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

December 2021 – 13 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

Read about more farm attacks here, https://southafricatoday.net/tag/farm-attack/page/3/.

>>17620574

>“Our analysis of five incidents of hate speech from high political leaders against farmers indicated that farm murders in the months following on these incidents increased with an average of 74,8%.”

“After court allows singing of ‘Kill the boer’ – Waves of farm attacks and murders follow”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/after-court-allows-singing-of-kill-the-boer-waves-of-farm-attacks-and-murders-follow/

September 30, 2022

Just more than a month after the Equality Court ruled on 25 August 2022, that the struggle song “Kill the boer” does not amount to hate speech, a wave of farm attacks and murders is sweeping through South Africa.

Since 26 August, eight people have been murdered and many more have been injured in another six separate attacks.

According to the police’s official crime figures, twenty-two people were murdered in farm attacks during the first six months of this year. Twelve in the first quarter and ten in the second.

These figures indicate that the number of murders has increased sharply over the past five weeks.

In the most recent incident, Mr. Ettienne du Toit (53) from Sterkspruit near Nelspruit was murdered on 29 September 2022. It appears that he was bludgeoned to death while he was busy working at the water pumps.

Many of the victims’ injuries serve as evidence of the excessive violence and brutality of the attacks.

In his ruling in the Equality Court in Johannesburg, Judge Edwin Molahlehi said that in his opinion, there is not sufficient evidence to prove that singing the song amounts to hate speech.

This stands in stark contrast to the fact that the Human Rights Commission (HRC) had already declared the song to be hate speech in 2000, on request of the FF Plus.

In addition, a 2003 police report found that statements by politicians incite people to violence, and that it is one of the causes of farm attacks and murders.

The FF Plus is convinced that inflammatory statements and songs do indeed incite people to violence and murder.

There is also no doubt that the “boer” referred to in the song means white people.

Farmers in the country have been massacred for decades, but government simply refuses to declare it a priority crime, despite constant pressure from the FF Plus and others.

What is playing out here is a human tragedy, and the ANC will be brought to book for it.

List of recent farm murders and attacks:

Farm murders:

1) 26 August 2022.

Pieter van der Westhuizen

Between Zeerust and Groot Marico.

2) 5 September 2022.

Niko Steenkamp (60)

Northam

3) 6 September 2022.

Marthiens Richter (68)

Murdered, and his wife, Elna, was seriously injured.

Thabazimbi

4) 15 September 2022.

Victor Janse van Rensburg (60)

Caretaker of farm owner.

Kouga

5) 21 September 2022.

Fran Venter (68)

Rustenburg

6) 23 September 2022.

Gideon Swart (52)

Waterval-Boven

7) 27 September 2022.

Dr Jessé Coleman (72)

Delmas

8) 29 September 2022.

Mr Ettienne du Toit (53)

Nelspruit

Farm attacks:

1) 7 September 2022.

Farm wife stabbed and worker attacked.

Leandra

2) 9 and 10 September 2022.

2 farm attacks.

Lilyfontein/Brakfontein in East London

3) 14 September 2022.

Johan Hattingh (76) shoots and kills two assailants.

Sundra, Mpumalanga

4) 23 September 2022.

3 farm workers wounded.

Alldays, Limpopo

5) 24 September 2022.

Wilna Reid (43)

Robbed.

Randfontein

6) 24 September 2022.

Elderly woman attacked and seriously injured.

Klerksdorp

Read about more farm attacks here, https://southafricatoday.net/tag/farm-attack/

>>17620581

Attached are images provided in the article.

>>17697892

>“CIC #JuliusMalema on the #EFF response to racism. Violence must be responded to with violence.” – “You must never be scared to kill… killing is part of revolutionary act”

“Malema Has Gone Too Far | South Africa (2022)”

https://youtu.be/EvKpva0nh78 [embedded]

Once again Julius Malema has asked for the killing of people. At what point will the SAHRC, the Mainstream Media, and the Courts have enough of a backbone to prevent this toxic individual from continuing to spew racial hatred?

Malema’s speech with comments to provide more context.

From 3:11

[Malema] “You went to a school here to protest the other time.”

[Gouws] “That was Brackenfell, right?” [“The Brackenfell High Incident (2020)” - https://youtu.be/h-desUjv0dU]

[Malema] “And you were beaten by white people.”

[Gouws] “OMG. You made threats on Twitter against the school and you said the EFF is coming and you sent hundreds of people to the school to intimidate pupils, the teachers and the school itself and you want to tell me that not once you did not think that the parents of this school is coming to defend this school. Really?”

[Malema] “And there is a white man who is visible on camera.”

[Gouws] “The EFF was also on camera singing “Kill the Boer”. I suppose that is not important right? The guy who decided to act on threats, he is guilty but you know hundreds of individuals singing kill a specific ethnicity that’s acceptable.”

[Malema] “What have you done in terms of follow up by that white guy? Why have you not as a revolutionary organization followed up on that guy?

[Gouws] “What? Like opening up a case? That’s legit. I mean if the guy assaulted somebody of course you need to open up a case and follow the law but I suspect that this is not what Julius Malema is talking about.”

[Malema] “Him alone.”

[Gouws] “Ah, here we go.”

[Malema] “to take that guy in an isolated space and attend to that guy properly.”

[Gouws] “Ah. You see mainstream media, the courts and South African Human Rights Commission has made him so comfortable in his skin that he is allowed to say shit like this and know that there is going to be no repercussions. He has literally threatened somebody, he has literally just insinuated that people need to do something against this individual.”

[Malema] “What type of revolutionaries get beaten and they don’t have a follow up? And they pride themselves of being beaten and they repeat themselves of videos being beaten. We must vote for them because they have been beaten by a white man that they have never followed up on the same white man that had beaten them up.”

….

[Malema] “Tell that white man to try me.”

[Gouws] “… Julius Malema is always the one who runs to the security guards and bodyguards… What an idiot!”

….

[Malema] “You must never be scared to kill.”

[Gouws] “Ladies and gentlemen, Did you hear that? Did you hear that? You must never be scared to kill. Tell me how you can be so comfortable to say this?”

….

[Gouws] “Here you have the political leader of the 3rd biggest political party in South Africa standing on the stage with hundreds of people in the Western Cape and he is on stage saying that you must never be scared to kill because in a revolution it is required that you kill. Now my question is. He has given a direct instruction there to his followers to kill. What are you going to do about this, mainstream media? What are you going to do about this, the South African Human Rights Commission? What are you going to do about this, the court system? You have somebody that is regarded as a political leader. He has got millions of supporters… This is an individual that fired live ammunition in a stadium and it looks like he’s gonna get away with it. So somebody that assaulted a police officer on camera and got off scot free. So somebody who keeps singing “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer” and then the court say, oh no he does not really mean that. And here we have him on a stage saying you must not be scared to kill people because we are in a revolution. I don’t know what f… revolution we are on or in.”

“Open Borders: “The carjacker’s carnival” | Documentary”

https://youtu.be/asf6McJAUUU

“The carjacker’s carnival” is the second episode in the documentary series Open Borders. This series, which is produced by AfriForum and directed by Jacques Broodryk, focuses on crime problems created by South Africa’s poor border control. This episode focuses on South Africa’s borders with Mozambique, how easily stolen vehicles are smuggled back and forth across the borders, as well as how volunteers get involved to help fight crime.