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>>>17783792, >>17783794, >>17783796, >>17783800, >>17783805, >>17783807 Julius Malema & Jaques Pauw

Is it not interesting that no one made an attempt on Jaques Pauw's life like the rest?

“Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti” – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/opinion/julius-malemas-mafia-connection-what-we-know-about-adriano-mazzotti/

08-07-2018 16:22

Julius Malema’s recent outbursts directed at Jacques Pauw and Pravin Gordhan. Is Malema feeling the heat now that the dots are being joined between him and Adriano Mazzotti?

Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF) Commander in Chief, Julius Malema, has entered into a war of words with investigative author, Jacques Pauw, and Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan. Where there’s smoke there’s usually fire – why is Malema now fighting anti-corruption forces?

The President’s Keepers author, Jacques Pauw, has opened a can of unsavoury worms surrounding Malema and his association with Adriano Mazzotti. This comes at a time when suspended SA Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner, Tom Moyane, finds himself in the hot seat.

Moyane is accused of gross maladministration and corruption while head of SARS, resulting in a revenue shortfall of R50 billion. These allegations have landed Monyane in front of the Nugent inquiry, established to unpack the former commissioner’s accountability.

‘SUNLIGHT IS A GREAT SANITISER’ – ROBERT NUGENT

Retired judge, Robert Nugent, is chairing the commission tasked with uncovering Moyane’s incompetence. While the subject of this inquiry deals with liability and dereliction of duty with regards to taxes, Malema has become awfully offended by the commission.

Which seems strange considering that the revolutionary leader has always fought against corruption, famously coining the phrase ‘pay back the money’, in reference to former president Jacob Zuma’s improper residential funding.

Why is Malema defending Tom Moyane, while lambasting anti-corruption loyalists Pauw and Gordhan? Could Malema’s outburst be a result of fear surrounding what may be uncovered in the enquiry process?

JULIUS MALEMA AND THE ADRIANO MAZZOTTI CONNECTION

Much has been written about this ignoble association; that of a self-confessed fraudster, smuggler and illicit merchant coupling with a revolutionary leader of the people.

The former, Adriano Sauro Lorenzo Mazzotti, is the director of Carnilinx, a cigarette company not shy of controversy. SARS have previously investigated Carnilinx for illicit dealings and tax evasion. That was before Moyane was at the helm of the operation.

In fact, the dodgy glue which binds Mazzotti, Malema and Moyane together was manufactured under an unethical SARS dispossession. The Nugent commission is threatening to reveal all injustices, and that has some very powerful people very worried.

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“Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti” – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/opinion/julius-malemas-mafia-connection-what-we-know-about-adriano-mazzotti/

08-07-2018 16:22

ADRIANO MAZZOTTI, THE EFF’S FIRST FINANCIAL BACKER

In a legal address, obtained by PoliticsWeb, following allegations of illicit activities, Mazzotti’s legal team wrote:

“Mr Mazzotti did make a donation of R200 000 to the EFF prior to its registration. This has always been in the public domain and he has always been transparent about the payment.”

This is in reference to a payment made in 2014 when the EFF needed financial backing to register as a political party. But it isn’t the only transaction rumoured to have taken place between the two unlikely counterparts.

Pauw has alleged, in his open letter to Malema, that the EFF and their leader have benefited from the proceeds of crime. According to the author, there is evidence supporting his claim that R1 million found its way into EFF coffers.

The money, rumoured to be a loan, was made by Carnilinx co-director Kyle Phillips. Pauw is adamant he can verify the claims.

‘THE PROBLEM WITH WHITE SUPREMACY’ – JULIUS MALEMA

This was Malema’s response to Pauw’s accusations. Malema added further to his retort:

“If it is the proceeds of crime, let them open a case. If such a contribution is the proceeds of crime, let it be prosecuted and if found guilty, the EFF will be more than willing to return that money.”

Malema has previously explained that his relationship with Mazzotti stretches back to his days in the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. When Malema was expelled from the organisation he maintains that Mazzotti was one of a few people who stayed in touch with him.

The EFF commander in chief has been contradictory in describing his relationship with Mazzotti, previously stating:

“Me and him [Mazzotti]… we engage on political issues, national topics, not about his business. If he is messing up, they must lock him up and he must go to jail and rot in jail for a very long time.”

Although in other statements to the media he has indicated that Mazzotti has no profound understanding or knowledge of the EFF, saying:

“Mazzotti doesn’t know anything about the EFF, he reads about it like any other person.”

‘UNSAVOURY CHARACTERS’

Pauw ended his open letter to Malema cautioning him against his intimate dealings with known criminals, saying:

“You must know that Mazzotti mingles with unsavoury characters.

Do you know that apartheid assassin Craig Williamson was one of his business partners?

And that you have been photographed with Mazzotti in the presence of self-confessed killer and gangster Mikey Schultz?”

Questions are being asked of the relationship between Malema and Mazzotti. Is Julius Malema fighting to subjugate the truth, and to what extent have SARS role-players colluded with accused racketeers?

Tensions are high with both sides attempting to discredit the other. In this case, the old adage, ‘the truth will set you free’, may be furthest from reality. In this case, the truth may put powerful people behind bars.

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“Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-adriano-mazzotti-family-home/

03-12-2018 12:25

Malema’s wife and children live in a home owned by Mazzotti.

The relationship between Julius Malema and cigarette manufacturer Adriano Mazzotti has, once again, been thrust into the spotlight.

Malema, political provocateur and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has never denied his connection with self-confessed cigarette smuggler, Mazzotti. Then again – how could he? The facts are clear to see and have been widely publicised in recent years.

JULIUS MALEMA AND ADRIANO MAZZOTTI

Mazzotti is the co-director of Carnilinx, a cigarette manufacturing company which has garnered controversy due to its alleged involvement in the illicit tobacco trade. The dubious association stretches back to 2013, when Mazzotti donated R200 000 to the EFF, prior to the party’s registration. The following year, Carnilinx’s other executive director, Kyle Phillips, helped Malema out of tax troubles with a cool R1 million ‘advance’.

Investigative journalist and author of The President’s Keepers, Jacques Pauw, has previously challenged Malema to come clean regarding his relationship with Mazzotti. Citing affidavits, Pauw has shown Mazzotti to be under the watchful eye of South African Revenue Service (SARS) due to alleged fraud and tax evasion.

Malema, who has built a large portion of his political rhetoric on anti-corruption, finds himself in a sticky position. A recent report, published by EWN, has, once again, brought the Malema-Mazzotti connection back under the microscope for further crutiny. This, at a time when the EFF is attempting to buffer a fierce media pushback while defending itself against allegations of corruption stemming from the VBS Mutual Bank saga.

MALEMA’S FAMILY LIVING IN MAZZOTTI’S HOUSE

It’s now been confirmed that Malema’s wife and children live in a home owned by Mazzotti. Pauw revealed further details about the high-security Hyde Park estate, posting a satellite image with the caption:

“Malema lives in self-confessed gangster Adriano Mazzotti’s house in Hyde Park. It’s true. The estate, consisting of four luxurious villas, is at [address withheld]”

EWN further revealed that the house in which Malema’s family lives is valued at R7 million.

Mazzotti argues that although the family lives on the property, they are paying market-related rental prices – in this area of Hyde Park, rentals cost between R35 000 to over R100 000 per month.

Malema, himself, has a permanent residence in Goodwood, Cape Town. The EFF’s Commander in Chief has been mum on the recent revelations.

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“Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement”

https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2022/11/15/malema-jacques-pauw-new-book

15th November 2022

Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves

“This is the book that Julius Malema does not want you to see,” says author Jacques Pauw.

Pauw’s comment comes in response to demands issued by the Economic Freedom Fighters’ attorneys, insisting that copies of his new book be removed from all bookstores.

NB Publishers received an urgent letter of demand on Monday from Julius Malema, Floyd Shivambu and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s attorneys demanding the immediate withdrawal of Our Poisoned Land, published on 11 November 2022 under the Tafelberg imprint of NB Publishers. It’s Pauw’s sequel to the bestselling The President’s Keepers.

The letter also requests that “both Mr Jacques Pauw and NB Publishers unconditionally apologise to Mr Julius Malema, Mr Floyd Shivambu, Mr Ndlozi, and all other members of the Economic Freedom Fighters, for the negligent and mala fide publication of untrue, unverified, and defamatory allegations pertaining to those parties, which publications have been unconditionally withdrawn, and will not be republished, either now or in the future.”

The letter is in response to the shocking allegations unearthed by Pauw, detailing the extent of Julius Malema’s controversial relationship with self-confessed tobacco smuggler Adriano Mazzotti.

“The EFF’s demands are reminiscent of similar attempts, almost exactly five years ago, when then spy boss Arthur Fraser threatened to use intelligence legislation to remove the The President’s Keepers from the shelves”, adds Pauw. [Using the same tactic to increase sales?]

The President’s Keepers remains South Africa’s fastest-selling book ever and has sold over 210 000 copies since its publication in October 2017.

NB Publishers stands by our author and the book. The information in the book was properly sourced and lawfully published and demands for removal and apologies have been rejected.

Our attorneys have responded to the letter received.

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Jacques Pauw biography

https://briefly.co.za/95222-jacques-pauw-biography-family-books-scandal-pics-facts.html

February 17, 2021

When you mention Jacques Pauw's name, what comes to most people's mind is the investigative journalist who unveiled the "cancerous cabal" that bankrolled Jacob Zuma's presidency. His recent arrest and publication that wrongly painted a South African restaurant and the police are two other Jacques Pauw latest news.

Jacques Pauw is a famous journalist in the country's media sector. Known for his exceptional investigative skills, he is a two-time winner of CNN's African Journalist of the Year award, among others. After publishing his book, The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and out of Prison, in 2017, the efforts made to ban it ended up making it a best seller.

Jacques has served in various capacities until his retirement. He was a founding member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper, Vrye Weekblad. Founder members collectively owned the newspaper, including Max du Preez, who served as an editor. His television career started in 1994, and he specialised in documentaries around the African continent.

Moreover, he worked with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as an executive producer of the Special Assignment, a current affairs programme. As an investigative journalist, Pauw investigated lethal criminal activities in southern Africa's underworld and exposed atrocities committed by governments around the African continent.

Some of his documentaries focused on the War in Darfur, the Rwandan genocide, and the police death squads in South Africa under apartheid. He produced documentaries on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Algeria, Burundi, Liberia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone, among other countries.

The award-winning journalist has been recognised internationally for his exceptional ways. For instance, 2002 was a significant year in Pauw's career as he was decorated with the ICIJ award based on his documentary on the Rwandan genocide.

He has also received Italy's Ilaria Alpi and the Nat Nakasa award for bravery and journalism integrity. Then, he has won the Daniel Pearl Award in the United States for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.

Scandal and facts

On the 6th of February, 2021, Pauw was arrested at the V&A Waterfront and was detained overnight before he was released on a warning. Initially, Jacques Pauw Daily Maverick's published column posited that his credit card bounced a few times when he wanted to pay his bill at the restaurant. It was after then that "three policemen pounced on me, grabbed my arms and cuffed my hands as tightly as they could."

Considering the post detailing Jacques Pauw restaurant incident, he created the impression that the restaurant management called the police to arrest him. But then, after his release, he apologised to the public that it was not so; the police were around doing something else before they showed up to find out what the problem was. So, his arrest was due to overreaction.

The award-winning journalist apologised to the police officers for accusing them of taking the R1,000 cash with him.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/401031.Jacques_Pauw

When he left journalism in 2014, he was the head of investigations at Media24 newspapers (Naspers).

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>“There is amazing story about an online market place OLX which is actually owned by Naspers which is a South African company. It was selling material around Janus Walusz; scarves, flags that sort of thing for football fans.”

>”‘The cult of Janusz Walus’: How Chris Hani’s killer became a neo-Nazi idol” – Walus now on Parole

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>He was a founding member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper, Vrye Weekblad. Founder members collectively owned the newspaper, including Max du Preez, who served as an editor.

“Vrye Weekblad: An Analysis of the Visual Strategies in a South African Newspaper” [December 2021] – “a progressive and left-leaning publication”

https://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/123690/vanniekerk_weekblad_2021.pdf

The contemporary revival of the weekly has the mission of establishing and reaffirming its brand identity as a progressive and left-leaning publication in a society now far more liberal than its original context. The various visual strategies they used in the revival of the publication are thus examined within the framework of nostalgia. This research aims to better understand the revival strategies of an old anti-apartheid newspaper and contribute to the thinking of Afrikaner identity through an appropriation of nostalgia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrye_Weekblad

Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper that was launched in November 1988 and forced to close in February 1994. The paper was driven into bankruptcy by the legal costs of defending its charge that South African Police General Lothar Neethling had supplied poison to security police to kill activists.[1]

It was relaunched in a digital format in April 2019 by Arena Holdings, with Max du Preez returning as editor and Anneliese Burgess as co-editor.[2] A new edition is published every Friday on the Vrye Weekblad website.

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>The award-winning journalist [Jacques Pauw] apologised to the police officers for accusing them of taking the R1,000 cash with him.

“Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect?” – Accused of molesting boys

https://uncensoredopinion.co.za/can-jaques-pauw-claim-to-have-a-reputation-and-integrity-to-protect/

February 22, 2021

AFTER the recent damning admission by investigative journalist Jaques Pauw that he lied in an opinion piece published by Daily Maverick, can he still continue with his defamation lawsuit against Prerotia News editor Piet Rampedi?

Last year, Rampedi posted several tweets in which he accused Pauw of racism, lying and challenged him to address allegations that he molested children in Mozambique while on an assignment in early 2000.

Pauw then sent Rampedi a lawyer’s letter giving him 24hours to apologise and remove the remarks or face “legal action”. Rampedi ignored the gagging order, forcing Pauw to issue summons, suing Rampedi for R500,000. https://wp.me/p7OMJc-3c4

The big question is whether Pauw’s case against Rampedi can still hold given the former’s confession so devastating to media integrity that journalists who otherwise cover-up for their clique of friends, found themselves having to come out and lambast their own.

At the time, Rampedi called Daily Maverick a “propaganda portal” carrying the lies of Pauw. One of the tweets read: “Racist liar @Jaqqs must do two things before i can take him seriously: (a) Prove his lies in a 2017 book that the Guptas bankrolled my newspaper, and (b) clear serious allegations that he molested young boys in a hotel in Mozambique on SABC assignment in early 2000. #rogueunit”

In the aftermath of the Pauw lie, Anton Harber, a veteran journalist that has strongly criticised the Sunday Times and the journalists who wrote about the alleged SARS Rogue Unit, specifically Rampedi, took to Twitter. He called the Pauw incident “devastating”. “The Jacques Pauw/Daily M (Daily Maverick) saga has been devastating. The Satchwell Report on Media Credibility and Ethics was clear on how journos have to tighten up and stop this stream of appalling mess-ups if we are to rebuild credibility. This takes us back to first base”.

Daily Maverick, despite the serious accusations about the police and the restaurant, believed Pauw’s version. They claim they approached the other parties in the story but they were unwilling to speak. I frankly don’t believe they tried hard enough. Pauw is the king of the stratcom media cabal. Had it not been for the CCTV footage, Pauw would have gotten away with this lie. His story would have stuck and the question is how many such stories have been carried without proper editorial scrutiny.

There are other sources which indicate that the issue of South Africa’s death squads may have already surfaced by the time Nofomela made his confession. Another clear indication that Pauw did not expose Vlaakplas. The information was simply handed over to him – an argument some have made against him when he rubbished the many years of journalist Chris Steyn’s investigation into members of the National Party who were involved in child sex and paedophile rings. [Is Jacques Pauw protecting paedophiles?]

With respect to his case with Rampedi, can Pauw claim to have a reputation and integrity to protect? Methinks not.

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>The information was simply handed over to him [Jacques Pauw] – an argument some have made against him when he rubbished the many years of journalist Chris Steyn’s investigation into members of the National Party who were involved in child sex and paedophile rings.

“SABC EXCLUSIVE: Family believes Mark Minnie did not commit suicide” - https://youtu.be/o72n-RyxAJg

“Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later” – Part 1

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/detective-publishes-book-exposing-high-level-govt-pedophile-ring-shot-in-the-head-days-later/

August 23, 2018

A former police detective, and author of a bombshell book that exposed a massive pedophile ring made up of high-level government officials was found shot in the head last week. While officials are calling it an apparent suicide, his family is claiming that he told them he would never kill himself and that people were after him because he was about to expose even more high-level government pedophilia.

Mark Minne, author of the controversial book ‘The Lost Boys of Bird Island’ devoted his post-police life to exposing the corruption and horrifying pedophilia he discovered while working as a detective. Minnie and his good friend Chris Steyn, also a former cop turned investigative journalist, worked together on the book to expose a government and business community who took children to Bird Island where they were abused, and some possibly murdered.

The book details the level of their involvement in the pedophile ring, abuse of the children, alleged acts of murder to cover up the crimes, as well as corruption and abuse of high-level state resources by the network’s members.

The book details the corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and implicated officials all the way to the top, including defense minister Magnus Malan and the minister of environmental affairs John Wiley.

Before his death, Minnie announced that he was approached by many more people with even more damning evidence which he planned to reveal in a sequel of the book. However, he died before he could finish it.

The book was published earlier this month on August 5 and only nine days later, Minnie would be found dead. Officials claim they found a suicide note at the scene, but his family says they don’t believe it at all.

Tersia Dodo, a family member of Minnie told reporters that just days before he died that if anything happened to him, they must know he was killed.

“He mentioned to us all the time that his life was in danger and if anything did happen to him we must know that it was done to him not by himself,” she said.

Dodo says Minnie was being watched and feared for his life because he had more information which would’ve exposed even more people.

“I knew about the book for many years and I knew what he had been through, it really played him that he had seen and been involved with the investigation surrounding the book,” Dodo told SABC.

Dodo came forward on her own after she saw the suicide narrative being played out in the media. She said she was compelled to do so, to dispel the myths.

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“Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later” – Part 2

https://thewashingtonstandard.com/detective-publishes-book-exposing-high-level-govt-pedophile-ring-shot-in-the-head-days-later/

August 23, 2018

“Mark was not a coward, Mark faced life head on,” she said. There is no ways that I or any of us believed that he would have opted out and that is why I agreed to do this interview to dispel any thoughts and rumors of suicide. He was not the type of man that was cowardly and that would do something like that.”

As for the note police allegedly found next to Minnie’s body, Dodo believes it is either fake, or was written under duress.

“I have said this from the beginning, this supposed suicide note was either written under duress and I would like to see it before I will believe it was written by Mark,” she said.

This case is eerily similar to that of a man who was allegedly murdered in Lithuania after he began exposing high-level government pedophiles.

As TFTP previously reported [https://thefreethoughtproject.com/family-murdered-home-raided-after-they-exposed-high-level-government-pedophiles/], teenage refugee from Lithuania came forward last year with a White House petition and a damning testimony showing what happened after his family tried to expose a little girl’s abusers.

When his four-year-old cousin accused two high-level government officials—describing it in heartbreaking detail—Korolis Venckienė learned the hard way how the government protects its vilest members, up to and including using hundreds of militarized police and even murder.

As Venckienė explained in his petition on WhiteHouse.gov, this nightmare started when their family attempted to seek justice for the sick men who allegedly raped his four-year-old cousin.

“In 2008, 4-year-old Deimante Kedyte described her sexual assault by high-level Lithuanian officials. Her testimony was later verified as true by 4 separate commissions. She never had her day in court,” Venckienė wrote.

When the teen’s uncle, Drasius Kedys, Deimante’s father pushed for the men to be prosecuted for what they did to his daughter, he was murdered.

If Minnie was actually murdered, hopefully, the information he was planning on releasing still comes forward. The only way to stop these vile actors is to shine light into the darkness. While Minnie has been silenced, his work can live on to be that light.

Article posted with permission from The Free Thought Project. Article by Matt Agorist.

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>“Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later”

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A copy of the book

“The Lost Boys of Bird Island”

https://uncensoredopinion.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Lost-Boys-of-Bird-Island-A-shocking-expose-from-within-the-heart-of-the-NP-government_nodrm.pdf

Below are an excerpts.

In January 2015, an investigative team consisting of South African and Belgian police swooped on the home of a 37-year-old computer engineer, William Beale, located in the popular Garden Route seaside town of Plettenberg Bay. The raid on Beale came after months of meticulous planning that was part of an intercontinental investigation into an online child sex and pornography ring. The investigation was code-named Operation Cloud 9.

In 2014, Peter McKelvie, a retired officer with the Hereford and Worcester Child Protection Team in the UK, disclosed that a list of child abusers, which included the names of at least twenty current and former UK politicians, existed and claimed that there had been a massive official cover-up of this in the 1980s. He was adamant that his findings warranted a formal investigation.

During the writing of this book, I learned that Malan once gave an order for a test vehicle to be blown up with a soldier still inside. A former military officer sent me this story in 2017, describing how angry Malan got with him when he did not follow his orders:

In 1983, whilst attending a course at Army Battle School, Lohatla, I was called on to blow up a new Mine Protected Vehicle [MPV] that was under development by ARMSCOR. Given the use of landmines and IEDs [improvised explosive devices] by PLAN [People’s Liberation Army of Namibia], the armed movement of SWAPO [South West Africa People’s Organisation] against the South African forces deployed there, constant research was being done to ensure the survivability of motorised South African troops.

The vehicle in question was developed as a possible replacement vehicle for the MPV known as the ‘Buffel’, a good vehicle but one that could have been improved on as new information on mine blasts became available. The new vehicle was to be driven over a landmine in full view of the invited guests, i.e. foreign military attachés and diplomats. They would witness the vehicle being blown up with a driver inside, watching this from a safe overlook.

My job was to lay and arm the landmine. Carrying the mine off to the designated blast area, I decided that there was no way in hell I was going to lay a mine and watch a South African soldier drive over it, no matter how much faith I had in our MPVs. As the vehicle came lumbering along, I stopped it, ordered the driver to get out and told him that I did not want him in the vehicle whilst it was being blown up. His relief was very clearly visible and I instructed him to stay with me at all times.

I placed the landmine under the front left wheel of the MPV – very close to where the driver would have been seated – and detonated the landmine. The driver kept thanking me, even while the dust, smoke, and noise was still settling. Had the driver been inside the vehicle cabin, he would at best have been severely maimed. At worst, he would have been killed by the blast. Walking back to re-join my class mates, I noticed General Malan looking distinctly unhappy. After all, according to my instructions, I had to blow up the vehicle with the driver inside of it. Perhaps that was why such a large visitors crowd had been brought along? Malan called me over and, in the presence of all the dignitaries, gave me a severe dressing-down for not following my instructions.

That was the nature of Magnus Malan.

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>NB Publishers stands by our author [Jacques Pauw] and the book [Our Poisoned Land]. The information in the book was properly sourced and lawfully published and demands for removal and apologies have been rejected.

“'The Lost Boys of Bird Island' pulled from the shelves — and won't be published again” - NB Publishers

https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-04-17-the-lost-boys-of-bird-island-pulled-from-the-shelves-and-wont-be-published-again/

17 April 2020

NB Publishers on Friday announced it had withdrawn the book The Lost Boys of Bird Island and its Afrikaans version from circulation, in both print and digital formats.

The publisher said it took this decision after weighing up a number of factors.

In March, the publisher announced it had withdrawn unsold copies of both the Afrikaans and English book — which claimed to have exposed a paedophile ring allegedly run by apartheid-era politicians.

The book named three ministers, two of whom, Magnus Malan and John Wiley, have since died.

In March, the publishers conceded in a statement that the surviving minister, Barend du Plessis, could have been erroneously linked to the book.

After the announcement in March, lawyers for the three apartheid-era ministers said the book was nothing but a fabrication and a web of lies woven by its co-authors, Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn. Minnie killed himself at a friend’s farm in Port Elizabeth in 2018.

In its announcement on Friday, NB said it regretted and sincerely apologised for the emotional harm that the publication of the book may have caused the Malan and Wiley families.

“Furthermore, the book will not be reprinted,” the publisher said.

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>“The Lost Boys of Bird Island”

>That was the nature of Magnus Malan.

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>Minnie and his good friend Chris Steyn, also a former cop turned investigative journalist, worked together on the book to expose a government and business community who took children to Bird Island where they were abused, and some possibly murdered.

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“Chris Steyn, author of the Lost Boys of Bird Island speaks to Marianne Thamm” – Pedophilia in South Africa

https://youtu.be/d0EFlfhJC6I

Dec 4, 2018

Since co-author Mark Minnie’s death and the publication of the Lost Boys of Bird Island, new leads have dropped into author Chris Steyn’s inbox.

6:57 – “When I got to Magnus Malan, he freaked out completely and told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” He distrusted me, he didn’t know whether I was there to kill him… For me when I think of this story I often think of these two moments, the first time he told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” Second time, I stood next to his body 31 years later… I could hear him turn to me and say I told you so.”

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“Renewed interest in Bird Island”

https://youtu.be/ygPUKywP0UY

Aug 21, 2018

Following the publication of the controversial book "The Lost Boys of Bird Island".. there's renewed interest in the island, 58 kilometers north-east of Port Elizabeth. The SABC has unearthed a permit that was issued by the Monument Council in the 1980's, granting PE businessman Dave Allan permission for a diving expedition to the Dodington, which sank near Bird Island. Allen is one of the men identified in the book written by journalist Chris Steyn and Mark Minnie. It implicates among others former National Party ministers Magnus Malan and John Wiley, and Allen in an alleged government pedophile ring in the 80's. For more on the story, we are joined on the line by our reporter Jayed-leigh Paulse.

“SABC discovers permit that gave Dave Allan permission to dive on 18th century wreck of Doddington”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/sabc-discovers-permit-that-gave-dave-allan-permission-to-dive-on-18th-century-wreck-of-doddington/

21 August 2018, 8:25 PM

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has discovered a permit issued by the Monuments Council in the 1980s that gave permission to Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha) businessman Dave Allan to dive on the 18th century wreck of the Doddington near Bird Island, in Algoa Bay.

Allen is one of the men identified in the controversial book “The Lost Boys of Bird Island” which was co-written by journalist Chris Steyn and former policeman, Mark Minnie.

Minnie was found dead on a smallholding outside Port Elizabeth earlier this month. Although it is alleged he committed suicide, his family is not convinced of this.

The book implicates three former National Party Ministers and Allen in an alleged government paedophile ring from the 1980s.

In the book, co-author Minnie gave details of the alleged molestation and rape of the young boys on the island. He spoke to the alleged victims while he was a police officer trying to uncover the truth. In the book, he says that the ministers would allegedly ferry boys, mostly of mixed race, to the island, under the pretext of “fishing excursions”.

These boys were often taken from the Northern Areas and townships in Port Elizabeth. It is alleged the boys were flown to the island in military helicopters and made drunk.

On the island, a stone plaque was also discovered. It was issued by then Environmental Affairs Minister John Wiley to Dave Allen in 1985. SABC News has also secured the original permit, giving Allen permission to dive near a vessel that ran aground on Bird Island in 1755.

The vessel, the Doddington, was carrying a consignment of gold and silver on its way to India when it was wrecked. In 1978, Allan documented that he found the wreck and was then a frequent visitor to the island. [Nelson Mandela Bay Tour Operator Lloyd] Edwards says the island is home to many dark secrets.

“The alleged perpetrators of what was going on there actually got the permit to salvage the Dodington and he claimed not to have found any gold there but this gold later surfaced at Southebys in London claiming to be from the Dodington and the South African government took their half of it. So after that stage a lighthouse was built in 1854, it was the fourth lighthouse ever built in South Africa and since then there has been 21. There is always something happening there one of the lighthouse keepers’ wives mysteriously drowned in the well on the island.”

Bird Island was not the only location where the alleged incidents took place. Other locations are said to include Allen’s house in Schoenmakerskop near Port Elizabeth and a beach house in Witelsbos in the Tsitsikamma Forest.

Mark Minnie’s funeral will be held in Port Elizabeth on Friday.

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“Alet Van Rensburg-Wright on investigating 1980's paedophile cases” – Mark Minnie, the gun did not belong to him

https://youtu.be/iaVjnUaC1zI

Aug 14, 2018

Port Elizabeth police have confirmed that the gun found next to the body of co-author of controversial book 'The Lost Boys of Bird Island', does not belong to him. Police spokesperson, Priscilla Naidu says the gun will be sent for ballistic testing. Mark Minnie's body was found near a rose plantation with a bullet wound to the head.

Naidu says a suicide note has also been found on the farm at Theescombe outside the city. Police are still looking for the farm owner. Minnie's cell phone and car are still missing. Minnie, a former policeman, together with reporter Chris Steyn detail, in the book, how former National party defence minister Magnus Malan and other NP ministers allegedly had sex with young boys during fishing excursions on Bird Island near Port Elizabeth. Executive producer of Fokus, Alet Van Rensburgh Wright is in studio with us and she has been busy investigating the kidnappings of girls in the 1980's by paedophile, Gert Van Rooyen.

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”What happened to Glenn Wood?” – John Riley Connection

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/george-herald/20180823/283098479938575

23 Aug 2018

The Lost Boys of Bird Island; the notorious paedophile Gert van Rooyen; and the disappearance of the fourteen-year-old Glenn Wood from Heather Park in George…

These are three seemingly different scenarios, but according to Wood's sister, Glynnis Hartwig, there is more to this than meets the eye.

Thirty years ago, on 19 July 1988, Glenn Wood, a learner at York High, vanished from his family home. The man who was tried and convicted of Glenn's murder, based on a testimony he gave after being incarcerated for the attempted murder of his girlfriend, has been released from prison in 2007.

The convicted might have been sentenced for the boy's murder, but Glenn's body has never been found. "I am not expecting to find him alive, but where is the body?" asks Glynnis (she prefers being called by her first name). She is certain that the convicted was not the only one involved in her brother's disappearance. "I am not saying he was not involved, but I think that is only part of the story," says Glynnis. The recent media storm following the publication of the controversial book The Lost Boys of Bird Island sparked her interest and she would like to see Glenn's murder reinvestigated.

The book by authors Mark Minnie and Chris Steyn details allegations that former apartheid minister Magnus Malan was part of a paedophile network. Three former National Party ministers were allegedly central figures in a paedophile ring that operated during the apartheid era. According to the book Malan, then minister of environmental affairs, John Wiley and another minister (who is still alive) were involved, as well as Dave Allen, a prominent businessman from Port Elizabeth. Young teenage boys were allegedly taken to Bird Island in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth, where they were molested and raped, among other things.

Wiley was acquainted with the Wood family. Glenn's father, Ian Wood, was a sawmill manager and received forestry awards from Wiley on different occasions. "On these occasions Glenn was present," says Glynnis.

A 'nest of child molesters'

Only a few months later a businessman from Port Elizabeth, the regional manager of a wellknown national furniture group, appeared in the George Magistrate's Court. He was accused of sodomising two 16-year-old boys between June and October that same year. He was not asked to plead.

According to an article from the George

Herald's archives (10 November 1988) by Marinda Olwagen, a series of arrests took place all over the country from October to November 1988, after the police exposed a network of child molesters.

At the time a well-known actor and a radio personality had already appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on charges of indecent assault and the possession of pornography. According to the police these arrests were "only the tip of the iceberg". They said many arrests could be expected before Christmas 1988, especially in the arts, performing arts and communications circles.

Glenn disappeared on a Tuesday, He was looking forward to having his braces out the Friday. "This is also a reason why he would not have run away," said Glynnis.

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>John Riley

Correction; It should be John Wiley

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>“The Lost Boys of Bird Island”

>ARMSCOR

>That was the nature of Magnus Malan.

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“When I got to Magnus Malan, he freaked out completely and told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” He distrusted me, he didn’t know whether I was there to kill him… For me when I think of this story I often think of these two moments, the first time he told me, “Fuck off you bitch, you going to get me killed.” Second time, I stood next to his body 31 years later… I could hear him turn to me and say I told you so.”

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>09./11.04.1989

>Representatives of SA, Angola and Cuba in the Joint Monitoring Commission, with US (Chester Crocker), Soviet (Anatoly Adamishin) [Before the Soviet Union’s ‘fall’], and UNTAG observation, meet at Mount Etjo to salvage the independence plan [for Namibia].

Magnus Malan Background - "Gen. Malan headed the 1990 negotiations that led to Namibia’s independence and separation as a South African colony"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/magnus-malan-apartheid-era-defense-minister-dies-at-81/2011/07/19/gIQAskmWQI_story.html

Magnus Andre De Merindol was born Jan. 30, 1930, in Pretoria. He took his mother’s maiden name and was a distant relative of South Africa’s first apartheid-era prime minister, Daniel F. Malan.

After studying at the University of Pretoria, Gen. Malan joined the navy and served in the marines on Robben Island, home of the prison where Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years.

Gen. Malan eventually transferred to the army and received steady promotions. In 1962, he attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

When Botha served as defense minister, he made Gen. Malan chief of the army in 1973. Gen. Malan was serving as chief of the South African defense force when he became defense minister at age 50.

A 1989 Washington Post investigation revealed that shipments purporting to be Lebanese bathroom tiles bound for Northern Ireland had originated from South Africa’s state-run weapons manufacturer, Armscor.

Beneath a thin layer of tiles, the cargo contained scores of rifles, hundreds of grenades and more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition earmarked for Protestant paramilitary groups. Gen. Malan denied his government was involved in the arms sale.

Gen. Malan headed the 1990 negotiations that led to Namibia’s independence and separation as a South African colony.

“Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP)

https://www.reddit.com/r/RSA/comments/eg8zhv/sydney_frankel_our_own_epstein_with_friends_in/

(Written by) Hannes Engelbrecht

South Africans know the anecdote about Cyril Ramaphosa and Roelf Meyer's fishing experience during the Kodesa talks on a new multicultural political dispensation in the early nineties. It happened at the country cottage of Sidney FRANKEL, the billionaire Johannesburg businessman.

Frankel, a mutual friend of Ramaphosa (the promising young ANC negotiator) and Roelf Meyer (the National Party minister), flew his two friends into the estate with his private helicopter. That weekend sealed the solid friendship of Frankel, Ramaphosa and Meyer with frequent private meetings even when the Kodesa ship seemed to be off-course. Meyer was 44, Frankel 42 and Ramaphosa 40. The world was their oyster, they were important and they could actually do whatever they wanted.

Frankel was "a noted philanthropist, CEO of Société Générale Frankel Pollak and chairman of Frankel Consulting. His nonprofit work included the establishment of the Buffelshoek Trust, which built schools, clinics and preschools in Limpopo.

Through Frankel his friend Ramaphosa also became involved in youth work with the Buffelshoek Trust and Constitution Hill Trust; Ramaphosa acting as president of the latter.

Through Ramaphosa's involvement Frankel took Nelson Mandela on a guided tour of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

In March 2006 Frankel and Ramaphosa started the Constitution Hill Trust with government and corporate funding " to ensure that every South African kid gets taken through it".

In the late nineties Frankel built a lavish lodge in the Manyeleti region of Mpumalanga where school children could be entertained.

He set up the Buffelshoek Trust with R1,5m and by 2010 more than R25m had been spent on Frankel and Ramaphosa's pet project through donations of Nedbank, Telkom, Old Mutual and even the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

In 2016 the Daily Maverick and Noseweek ran a story on Frankel's dodgy dealings. The response from readers were shocking: ignoring the fraud allegations, male and female readers responded with allegations of sexual abuse by Sidney Frankel in the 80's and 90's when he was the philanthropist of Buffelshoek and Constitution Hill and close friend of Ramaphosa and Meyer.

Apart from short references by Radio 702 and Cape Talk 567 radio stations no media followed up on the allegations.

Obviously Frankel had friends high up in government and media circles. But the victims, now knowing about each other, banded together and pressed charges against Frankel, even though it happened twenty years ago.

“It started when I was six and ended when I was 13,” explained Marinda Smith.

The civil case was straightforward enough: Frankel was sued for the emotional and physical harm he had allegedly caused to the seven complainants who had already come forward - and he apparently paid up readily.

But the criminal case was something else entirely different. The Constitutional Court rejected the lawyer’s bid for direct access.

Frankel hired Billy Gundelfinger as lawyer. On 13 April 2017 Gundelfinger confirmed to the press that his client Sidney Frankel had succumbed to cancer …

How much are the applicants in the sexual abuse case willing to disclose after the fact?: Nicole Levenstein, Paul Diamond, George Rosenberg, Katherine Rosenberg, Daniela McNally, Lisa Wegner, Shane Rothquel or Marinda Smith… and the countless others from the black community who are not even aware that Frankel had been taken to court?

Apart from short articles by Anton Harber (Wits) and Tony Bloom (Daily Maverick) and the court records, no public information can be found … but somewhere, sometime, someone is bound to talk."

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>“Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP)

Reposting from South Africa Thread #9

>>17447304 - Sol Kerzner, Alan Greenblo, Emanuel Shaw II & Gus Kouwenhoven Bun

>>17427797, >>17427799 Thou shalt not publish and be damned (Parts 1&2)

Why was the book, Kerzner Unauthorised, banned? What does the SA government want to hide? Sol’s name also appears in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book.

“Thou shalt not publish and be damned” - Judge Monas Flemming, banning of Allan Greenblo’s biography of Sol Kerzner

https://mg.co.za/article/1997-12-19-thou-shalt-not-publish-and-be-damned/

19 December 1997

Judge Monas Flemming bestowed on Allan Greenblo the honour of becoming the new South Africa’s first banned author when he turned the clock back on the country’s media law in the Johannesburg High Court last week.

His decision to ban Greenblo’s biography of Sol Kerzner was all the more puzzling because it came three weeks after he himself quashed a bid by Liberian politician Emanuel Shaw II to stop the Mail & Guardian publishing material about Shaw’s corrupt past.

He has gone even further than Sol Kerzner wanted when he applied to interdict Greenblo’s publishers, Jonathan Ball, from publishing Kerzner Unauthorised. Judge Flemming ordered the proceedings be held in camera – despite the fact Kerzner’s legal team did not call for it. The deputy judge president noted in his judgment that he presumed Kerzner said this to avoid looking like the kind of man who likes to “gag the press”.

Judge Flemming has also banned the entire book – Kerzner only asked for sections to be excised. He said in his judgment: “If the book unlawfully invaded rights on publication, there is a single act which is interdicted and the whole of the book may not be published. There is no need to give an opinion on what amendments will justify the survival of a new edition.”

But he went much further than this technicality, attacking other material in the book – such as a detailed exploration of Kerzner’s notorious pay-off to Transkei leader George Matanzima – and arguing that its publication could damage Kerzner’s business interests.

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https://www.biznews.com/news/2021/10/15/sol-kerzner-allan-greenblo

And all of it negotiated with [Bophuthatswana] Minister [of Finance, Leslie] Young, whose salary Sun [International, Sol’s company] was secretly subsidising. Greenblo [and Noseweek] thought the conflict of interest was obvious. Not so, ruled Judge Flemming: Gencor had seconded an accountant (Young) to “give Bophuthatswana a competent Minister of Finance”.

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”Apartheid grand corruption Assessing the scale of crimes of profit from 1976 to 1994; 10.1 The Sun King: Sol Kerzner”

https://opensecrets.org.za/site/wp-content/uploads/Apartheid-Grand-Corruption-2006.pdf

However, Kerzner has more than once had to deal with bad publicity. In 1997 respected financial journalist Alan Greenblo and his publisher, Jonathan Ball, were prohibited from publishing a biography of Kerzner, titled Kerzner—Unauthorised. Witwatersrand Judge Monas Flemming handed down a controversial decision that resulted in one of the first book bannings under the democratic constitutional order. The Judge’s decision to ban the book outright went even beyond Kerzner’s request that sections be cut out.252 Labelled a blow to free speech by many free speech activists, the decision was eventually upheld on appeal in 2002.

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https://www.biznews.com/news/2021/10/15/sol-kerzner-allan-greenblo

Maybe after all these years, Kerzner Unauthorised may yet be published for all to read. I know that was one of Allan’s last wishes. He told me so only weeks before his death.

It’s a story that undoubtedly still needs to be told.

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>But he went much further than this technicality, attacking other material in the book – such as a detailed exploration of Kerzner’s notorious pay-off to Transkei leader George Matanzima – and arguing that its publication could damage Kerzner’s business interests.

>And all of it negotiated with [Bophuthatswana] Minister [of Finance, Leslie] Young, whose salary Sun [International, Sol’s company] was secretly subsidising. Greenblo [and Noseweek] thought the conflict of interest was obvious. Not so, ruled Judge Flemming: Gencor had seconded an accountant (Young) to “give Bophuthatswana a competent Minister of Finance”.

“MANDELA CONFIRMS KERZNER DID CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO ANC KITTY” - Part 1

https://justice.gov.za/trc//media/1996/9608/s960810a.htm

August 10 1996

Axed deputy environmental minister Bantu Holomisa - branded a liar by the African National Congress for claiming that hotel magnate Sol Kerzner funded the party's election campaign - has been vindicated by President Nelson Mandela.

The President through the office of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki confirmed to the Sunday Independent newspaper this week that Kerzner, who faces possible bribery charges, did contribute to the ANC's coffers.

"President Mandela has confirmed that Sol Kerzner made the contribution to the ANC while it was fundraising before the elections," Mbeki's spokesman Thami Ntenteni said.

He said the President did not disclose the size of the donation.

The ANC declined to comment late on Saturday night on whether it would apologise to Holomisa.

ANC national spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said: "The President has spoken the final word on the matter. We will not make any further comment on it. The issue is sub judice."

Holomisa also claimed that Kerzner had funded Deputy President Thabo Mbeki's 50th birthday party and suggested that Mbeki and Sport Minister Steve Tshwete had accepted favours from the hotel magnate for protection against possible bribery charges.

Mbeki and Tshwete instructed lawyers last week to warn Holomisa to desist against making such allegations or face possible legal action.

In a statement issued from its Johannesburg head office two weeks' ago the ANC said the allegations were "not only blatantly false but also malicious and defamatory".

Holomisa faces an internal disciplinary inquiry this Wednesday arising from statements he made to the Truth commission in Port Elizabeth implicating fellow ANC national executive member and Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau in corruption when she was a former Trankei government minister.

He alleged that Sigcau was among Transkei officials who accepted a R50,000 cut from a R2 million payment Kerzner made to former Transkei prime minister George Matanzima for exclusive gambling rights.

The three disciplinary charges against Holomisa relate to misconduct, bringing the ANC into disrepute and conduct unbecoming of an ANC member or elected representative.

He was also stripped of his deputy ministerial portfolio by President Mandela, although no reasons were given for the dismissal.

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“MANDELA CONFIRMS KERZNER DID CONTRIBUTE FUNDS TO ANC KITTY” - Part 2

https://justice.gov.za/trc//media/1996/9608/s960810a.htm

August 10 1996

Holomisa may face additional disciplinary charges for subsequent statements made.

When the ANC denied his claims that Kerzner had funded it, Holomisa then disclosed that President Mandela was the source of his information.

Holomisa told Sapa President Mandela had approached him at the Carlton Hotel in early 1994 and told him that Kerzner was willing to contribute R2 million.

Kerzner had also asked whether the ANC could assist in the criminal proceedings pending against him in the Transkei, the nominally independent homeland that Holomisa ruled at the time and which was reincorporated into South Africa after the 1994 general elections.

President Mandela had asked whether anything could be done about the matter and had also approached him after the elections about Kerzner's case, Holomisa said.

The President confirmed this week that the Carlton Hotel meeting with Holomisa had taken place.

"There was a meeting in 1994 between the President and Holomisa," Ntenteni told the Sunday Independent.

"It was a routine meeting and Sol Kerzner was not on the agenda. But the controversy surrounding Kerzner and the charges against him were prominent in the media so President Mandela did ask Holomisa about the Kerzner affair.

"He was interested because Kerzner had made a donation to the ANC. Holomisa briefed the President on the matter, but subsequent to that meeting there has been no follow-up with the Transkei attorney-general or any other person to influence the outcome of the case," Ntenteni said.

Transkei attorney-general Christo Nel earlier told Sapa that no ANC leader had approached him to drop charges against Kerzner.

Holomisa was not immediately available for comment.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/mandela-confirms-kerzners-contribution-anc

Holomisa demanded a public apology from the ANC, but a bitter and clearly agitated Mandela refused.

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>>17940311

>But he went much further than this technicality, attacking other material in the book – such as a detailed exploration of Kerzner’s notorious pay-off to Transkei leader George Matanzima – and arguing that its publication could damage Kerzner’s business interests.

>And all of it negotiated with [Bophuthatswana] Minister [of Finance, Leslie] Young, whose salary Sun [International, Sol’s company] was secretly subsidising. Greenblo [and Noseweek] thought the conflict of interest was obvious. Not so, ruled Judge Flemming: Gencor had seconded an accountant (Young) to “give Bophuthatswana a competent Minister of Finance”.

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>Kerzner had also asked whether the ANC could assist in the criminal proceedings pending against him in the Transkei, the nominally independent homeland that Holomisa ruled at the time and which was reincorporated into South Africa after the 1994 general elections.

Reposting >>17694378

”Compilation of Intelligence Agencies in the Continent of Africa and its High Technology Equipment” - NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY [NIA] - (South Africa)

https://www.academia.edu/35539213/Compilation_of_Intelligence_Agencies_in_the_Continent_of_Africa_and_its_High_Technology_Equipment

Historical Background

The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was the previous name of an intelligence agency of the South African government. Currently it is known as the Domestic branch of the State Security Agency. It is responsible for domestic and counter-intelligence within the Republic of South Africa. The branch is run by a Director, who reports to the Director-General of the State Security Agency. The Director is also a member of the National Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee (NICOC).

The NIA was formed in 1994 following South Africa’s first multi-racial elections. It was created to take over from the domestic intelligence segment of the then National Intelligence Service (NIS) with the foreign intelligence functions being taken over by the South African Secret Service (SASS). Both the SASS and NIA were created as part of the Intelligence Act of 1994. They were created out of the six intelligence organisations consisted of the NIS, Department of Intelligence and Security (ANC), Pan African Security Service (PAC), and the three intelligence services of Venda [former Bantustan], Transkei [former Bantustan] and Bophuthatswana [former Bantustan]. These two new organisation’s would consist of a total of 4000 people with 2130 from the NIS, 910 from DIS (ANC), 340 from Bophuthatswana Intelligence and Internal Security Service (BISS), 233 from Transkei Intelligence Service (TIS), 76 Venda National Intelligence Service (VNIS) and rest from the PASS (PAS)

Take note

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/rsa/bantustans.htm

The Bantustans were rather more than simply “puppet regimes… The traditional authorities in the Bantustans of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei seemed to be used by the apartheid regime and were no longer accountable to their communities but to the apartheid regime. The Bantustans' governments passed various pieces of legislation to control the institution of traditional leadership, exercised control over traditional leaders and allowed them minimal independence in their traditional role.

If the Apartheid regime and its “puppet” Bantustans were so evil, why were their intelligence agents integrated into the “new” South Africa?

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“Sol Kerzner Party Draws Nelson Mandela and Sharon Stone”

https://wwd.com/eye/people/sol-kerzner-is-back-home-again-2091334/

APRIL 3, 2009, 4:17PM

One&Only honcho Sol Kerzner throws star-studded extravaganza in Cape Town.

It appears that One&Only honcho Sol Kerzner can’t open a new property these days without holding a weekend-long star-studded extravaganza. Four months ago, he did so for his Atlantis in Dubai, and last Thursday the billionaire invited scores of famous faces, including Nelson Mandela, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Thandie Newton, to his newest resort, The One&Only Cape Town in South Africa.

“Cape Town is fantastic,” enthused Matt Damon, who has been filming the rugby-inspired drama “The Human Factor” in South Africa with Eastwood and Freeman.

Everyone was feeling the love late into the night as jazz heavies like Dave Koz, Bebe Winans, Hugh Masekela and Kyle Eastwood (Clint’s son) performed a jam session. Not even a sudden but brief power outage could dampen spirits. Winans even got the guests to belt out a few bars. “Are you ready?” he asked Marisa Tomei, Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower, who all sang, “I’m ready!”

The ever-confident Sharon Stone said, “I was born ready.”

The performance ended with Mariah Carey singing an impromptu riff that brought down the house.

https://www.zimbio.com/photos/Sol Kerzner/Nelson Mandela/3jMfk3Jp_xp/One Only Cape Town Lunch Benefit Mandela Children

In This Photo: Nelson Mandela, Heather Kerzner, Sol Kerzner, Graca Machel

(L to R) Sol Kerzner, Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel and Heather Kerzner laugh during a lunch to Benefit the Mandela Children's Foundation as part of the celebrations of the opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 3, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. The One&Only is Sol Kerzner's first hotel in his home country since 1992. The 130 room property is One&Only's first Urban resort and sits in the fashionable Waterfront district. Celebrities from all over the world including Mariah Carey, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Thandie Newton and Marisa Tomei will attend the event. Gordon Ramsay will be launching his first restaurant in Africa at the resort, Maze and Robert De Niro will be opening Nobu. Nelson Mandela will be attending an intimate luncheon at Maze on Friday to celebrate his long-standing relationship with Mr. Kerzner. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) * Local Caption * Sol Kerzner;Nelson Mandela;Graca Machel;Heather Kerzner

(April 3, 2009 - Source: Chris Jackson/Getty Images Europe)

>>17940363

“ENJOY THE SHOW | Director's Cut” [How Intelligence Agencies are involved in coups]

https://youtu.be/FSX7ESKLdTM

Premiered Nov 24, 2022

Here is a rare look behind the curtain that will aid you in being able to SEE things that occur in our society in a CLEAR light with SCRUTINY. It's all a SHOW where the WHOLE WORLD is a STAGE. May this Documentary give you EYES to SEE and EARS to hear.

Compare the documentary to the below older post[s]. See any similarities?

>>17694298, >>17694300, >>17694317, >>17694319, >>17694321, >>17694325, >>17694328, >>17694331, >>17694335, >>17694338, >>17694345, >>17694348, >>17694353, >>17694360, >>17694364, >>17694366, >>17694370, >>17694374, >>17694376, >>17694378, >>17694382 Unleashing Communism/Socialism into the World; Case Study of South Africa [Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan.]

>>17694298 - Posted 10/15/22 (Sat) 07:46:56

Unleashing Communism/Socialism into the World; Case Study of South Africa

I am unable to post in the South African bread so I am doing it here. The following posts will demonstrate how communism/socialism was unleashed into the world and it is only the tip of the iceberg.

Some background for those who do not follow the South Africa bread.

Is it not intriguing that the release of Nelson Mandela, the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the USSR happened around the same time? The ANC, a terrorist organization, was trained in Russia, East Germany and Cuba however they would typically go into exile in London, UK, and not to the countries they were trained in. When did the world start supporting Nelson Mandela and the ANC? It was a major concert held in Britain in 1988 which was televised all over the world with famous actors and artists on stage, https://youtu.be/lTtg7QZPRRE [Whoopi Goldburg, Richard Gere, among others].

Tony Hollingsworth’s website at https://tonyhollingsworth.com/ states, “Tony has over 30 years of experience working with companies, governments and foundations at the intersection of communications, media and popular culture. His credits range from, conceiving and producing the global media campaign that reached [600 million] and re-positioned Nelson Mandela from “black terrorist leader” to “black leader” to, consulting for the US White House on a public campaign in a response to 9/11.” He can also explain in his own words how he accomplished this feat with regard to Mandela at https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc

Tony even stated in the video, https://youtu.be/llJRpBPNCOE, at 6:00; “Most of the world knew very little. He’d [Mandela] been in prison for 25 years at that point in time. So he didn’t know what he looked like, we didn’t know what he sounded like. What we were backing was the man that had given the speech at the Rivonia Trial [1960s]… And that’s all you had on him, I mean in terms of we talk about photographs. There were no photographs of this man.”

“Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the AAM [Anti-Apartheid Movement] president and a former priest in southern Africa, gave his approval after he, Hollingsworth and Terry had met to discuss the event. “I told Trevor that the first thing we had to do to get Mandela’s release was to stop the world’s television and press referring to him as a ‘black terrorist leader’.” https://listencampaign.com/node/165

For the 1994 election, “Eighty [80] million ballots had already been printed in England at considerable expense” https://ourconstitution.constitutionhill.org.za/the-shell-house-massacre-and-the-road-to-the-ifps-participation-in-the-election/ (South Africa had a total population of about 40 million people.) Why print the ballots in England? South Africa was first world at the time – the first heart transplant was done there.

This rabbit trail started with the first article I will post below. Take note; the former South African President, Jacob Zuma was an intelligence operative in the ANC when they were still regarded as terrorists. “'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'”, https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924

>>17998361

Oh and don’t forget this older documentary and other posts retrieved from QR Bunker

>>83210

“The_Diamond_Empire_Oppenheimer_family_s_cartel_Artificial_sc.avi” – Anglo American/De Beers

https://youtu.be/DOXp1iUvYvE

2:46 – “What I learned was that the diamond business wasn’t a business about extracting as I originally expected. Something of enormous value and then simply seeing how much of this object you could get out of the ground and selling it. That was what the business appeared to be when I started my venture, but their real business was restricting what came out of the ground, restricting what was discovered, restricting what got cut, restricting what actually find its way into the retail market and at the same time through movies, through advertising, through Hollywood, through the manipulation of perceptions creating the idea that there was this enormous demand for these shiny little objects that they seem to have an abundance supply. So I wound up on this voyage of discovery, starting off with the idea that there was this object of great value and it was just a question of how many you could get out and what I wound up discovering was just the opposite.”

>>83211

https://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/scandals/diamonds.html

After World War II that company even set up its own intelligence service. It also controlled the supply of diamonds from most of the other major producers through its Central Selling Organisation (CSO). The firm is De Beers. It was supported both by the White government of South Africa and the Soviet Union, yet it survived the ending of Apartheid and the collapse of Communism.

in November 1953 Ernest Oppenheimer turned to Sir Percy Sillitoe, the former head of MI5.

By the spring of 1957 these attempts to encourage sales through official channels and the efforts of Sillitoe's agents in targetting some of the brains behind the smuggling rings had proved so successful that the IDSO was disbanded, its mission having been accomplished. Some of its men went back to intelligence or security work and others took jobs with De Beers and the Anglo-American Corporation. (Smillie, Gberie & Hazleton, 2000)

https://www.angloamerican.com/about-us/our-stories/making-south-africas-national-development-plan-a-reality

18 Jul, 2014

In the mid-1950s Anglo American founder Ernest Oppenheimer made the memorable observation that it was the responsibility of the business to create a “real and lasting contribution” to the communities in which it operates. These words remain at the heart of the way Anglo American conducts its business today.

One of the most enduring examples of Anglo American’s commitment to community development and poverty alleviation is its Chairman’s Fund. Launched in the late 1950s, the Chairman’s Fund was established as a dedicated vehicle through which Anglo American could drive its social investment spend.

It is no accident that the approach and ethos of the Chairman’s Fund very much aligns to the expectations of ‘big business’ set out in the NDP [National Development Plan]. Anglo American has long partnered with government and host communities to ensure effective and sustainable investment opportunities and it is this collective approach that has been highlighted in the NDP.

>>84740

https://southafrica.angloamerican.com/~/media/Files/A/Anglo-American-Group/South-Africa/about-us/centenary-hub-docs/centenary-hub-city-press.pdf

Many people, however, point out that Anglo American’s first empowerment deal actually occurred decades earlier with the creation of Gencor in the 1960s out of the Afrikaner-controlled Federale Mynbou and General Mining.

“Lesotho may want to take the Free State!” – Part 1

https://maroelamedia.co.za/debat/meningsvormers/lesotho-wil-dalk-die-vrystaat-vat/

December 22, 2022

English Translation

The Lesotho’s parliament, Dr. Tsepo Lipholo on 12 December 2022 tabled a motion that large tracts of land that currently belong to South Africa should be returned to Lesotho. Dr. Lipholo is the leader of the Basotho Covenant Movement BCM, an opposition party in the Lesotho’s parliament.

The motion states that Lesotho’s parliament must decide to declare the entire Free State, parts of the Northern Cape, parts of the Eastern Cape, parts of the Mpumalanga and parts of the KwaZulu-Natal as part of the Kingdom of Lesotho in accordance with the United Nations Resolution 1817 (XVII) adopted on 18 December 1962.

If you look at the relevant United nations resolution of 1962, it is one of a series of propaganda resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly at that time.

The resolutions were proposed and supported by the African bloc countries in the UN. In the decisions it is asked that the various British Colonies in Africa should gain independence. The specific resolution 1817 (XVII) calls on Britain to give Basutoland [Lesotho] its independence, but does not say anything specific about what land should be returned.

The General Assembly’s decision before this Basutoland decisions is about Kenya asking for independence and the decision 1818 (XVII) after this decision is about Nyassaland – today Malawi – also asking for independence. So, the decision alone does not really give any rights to land to Basutoland.

From a historical point of view, there are also question marks about the land claims made in the motion. The Zulu king Shaka drove the Basuto into the mountains laong before the Voortrekkers arrived inland. There was indeed a conflict between the Orange Free State government and Basutoland over land at one point, but borders were determined in an agreement of 1869.

Therefore, the expectation is that Dr. Lipholo’s motion may be discussed in Lesotho’s parliament, but that not much more will come of it. Lots of wind and noise, but nothing more.

Dr. Lipholo’s party stood in Lesotho’s election in 65 seats, but could only get 4,112 votes. With that, his party got one seat in parliament. In his election campaign, his main theme was this land that must be reclaimed from South Africa. Now that he had been elected, he presented the motion as a single member party for discussion.

That it will be accepted is unlikely. In Lesotho itself there is concern about the proposal and that it could cloud relations with South Africa. The interesting issue is that already in Lesotho as well as in the ANC ranks the thought has been expressed as to whether Lesotho might not be better off economically than a tenth province of South Africa.

In the last century, the thought was that Lesotho, or Basotuland at the time, would indeed become part of South Africa. Since 1968 it has been a British Protectorate administered from Cape Town. Thus Bechuanaland, today Botswana, was administered from Mafeking.

Britain, as a colonial power in the nineteenth century, forcibly annexed one territory after another in Southern Africa and made it part of the British colonial empire. Thus the Cape in 1806, Natalia in 1843, Basotuland in 1868, Zululand in 1879 and Swaziland and Bechuanaland, today Botswana, were one after the other made part of the British colonial empire.

>>17998394

[Attached image of the card which the British troops received during the Anglo-Boer War]

“Lesotho may want to take the Free State!” – Part 2

https://maroelamedia.co.za/debat/meningsvormers/lesotho-wil-dalk-die-vrystaat-vat/

December 22, 2022

English Translation

Only the two Afrikaner Boer republics, the Transvaal (ZSR) and the Orange Free State, did not want to become members of the British colonial empire. With the Second War of Indepence or Anglo-Boer War, they were forcibly overwhelmed and forced into British colonies.

In 1910 the Cape, Natal, Free State and Transvaal were united in the new Union of South Africa. In the new Union of South Africa’s constitution’s annex, reference is mad to the three British Protectorates (Basutoland, Swaziland and Bechuanaland) with the prospect that they will later be incorporated into the Union. Several prime ministers after that tried to do this without success.

After the National Party came to power in 1948, Dr. DF Malan made one last attempt to negotiate with Britain on the inclusion of the three territories. The British were now no longer willing. Probably because the Afrikaners of the National Party were now in power in South Africa. Within the territories there was also resistance from certain tribal chiefs as more and more African states became independent.

The UN decision after which Dr. Lipholo referred to in his motion, was taken on 18 December 1962. It is more than a year after South Africa became a republic. At that time, it had long been accepted by the NP government that the three protectorates would no longer become part of South Africa.

In the 1962 UN resolution it is called for Basutoland to gain independence from Britain. It took another four years until October 1966 before Basutoland became independent as Lesotho.

Interestingly, Dr. HF Verwoerd as South Africa’s prime minister and Lesotho’s new leader, chief Leboa Jonathan, held talks in Pretoria in September 1966 about relations between the two countries. Both parties described the talks, which lasted much longer than planned, as very fruitful.

The next day, 6 September 1966, Dr. Verwoerd would have given feedback on the conversation with Jonathan as part of his speech in parliament. However, he was killed before his speech in parliament. A month later in October 1966, Lesotho became independent.

The history of South Africa and the three British Protectorates are indeed relevant to the debates that are currently being held about land in South Africa.

When the land was divided by legislation between black and white in 1913 and again in 1936, the three protectorates were added as part of the total land available. These areas were included in the percentage of land that should go to black people as so-called land. When the three territories became independent, the precentages of course changed completely.

The history of Lesotho also tells something about the double standards of Britain and the United Nations. In 1966, Britain and the UN recognized Lesotho as a newly independent state. When South Africa declared the Transkei independent shortly afterwards, Britain and the UN refused to recognize it. This while the Transkei and Lesotho beasically had exactly the same colonial history as initial British annexed territories.

Furthermore, Transkei was financially much stronger than Lesotho and also much more viable with its fertile land, many rivers and location by the sea which makes a port possible. The only difference was that Lesotho gained its independence from the British and Tranksei from the Afrikaners.

Transkei’s independence was dismissed as apartheid, which put great pressure on the further implementation of the policy of independent homelands in South Africa.

“Namibia holds the power to push Europe into darkness”

https://youtu.be/8ksW7-uPL5I

Nov 28, 2022

Russia supplied nearly 70% of the European Union's coal thermal imports last year but the supply was halted in the backdrop of Ukraine-Russia crisis. Therefore, the bloc is attempting to quell the crisis brought on by Moscow’s coal supply cuts. As a result, in an effort to diversify their energy supplies, European nations made an effort to engage with Africa. Watch video to know more.

>>17918453

>Far be it from me (an ex-diplomat) to point an accusatory finger, but it was only a few months ago in these collumns that two former UN diplomats, George Ivan Smith and Conor Cruse O’Brien, accused mining interests of responsibility for the plane crash in which Swedish UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, died in Rhodesia 31 years ago.

>>17918581

>Dag Hammarskjöld brought me to Olof Palme.

>>18000989

>Yet two years earlier the UN made sure the Province of Katanga in the now DRC did not gain independence

Are you familiar with this?

“Plot to kill UN Secretary [Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, 1961]” – About Katanga

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/trc-releases-documents-revealing-plot-kill-un-secretary

19 August 1998

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chairperson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, released documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden. He stated that although the TRC could not verify the authenticity of such a plot, he decided to release the documents to inform the world what might have transpired prior to Hammarskjold's death. The documents were disclosed in TRC meetings with the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR, thought to be an SA Defence Force front company) and linked M15 (United Kingdom Security Services), Special Operations Executive and the CIA to "Operation Celeste", the alleged mission to kill Hammarskjold. The documents were dismissed as fakes by a former Swedish diplomat, while the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office moved quickly to dismiss the TRC findings as a sinister move to discredit them. Hammarskjold and fifteen others died in 1961 when their aircraft exploded before landing in Zambia, killing them instantly. At the time of his death he was trying to negotiate peace between the Congo (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and formerly known as Zaire) and the breakaway province of Katanga. If the documents were authentic, Hammarskjold's death appears to have been part of an attempt to prevent Katanga's mineral wealth from falling under communist control.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/15/hammarskjold-plane-crash-united-nations/

[T]he inquiries—which examined new evidence suggesting that Hammarskjold’s plane may have been targeted for attack—have been ultimately stymied by the refusal of powers such as the United States, Britain, and South Africa to fully open their intelligence archives from the period to U.N. investigators.

The United Nations sent peacekeepers into Congo, where they ultimately found themselves at war with Katangan separatists and European mercenaries, who were backed by Western mining interests.

Eyewitnesses in the area recall seeing a small plane approach the Albertina before there was a bright flash in the sky and then watching the flaming aircraft plunge into the forest, instantly killing everyone on board except the delegation’s acting chief security officer, Harold Julien, who died from his injuries nearly a week later.

Before his death, Julien, a former U.S. Marine, “suggested a threat or attack as the plane approached Ndola, possibly involving a sudden explosion,” according to Othman’s reports. “This evidence was augmented in 2018/19 by information from Zimbabwe that showed that Northern Rhodesian authorities had tried to stifle those statements of Julien from being made public,” Othman wrote in his 2019 report [https://www.daghammarskjold.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/a_73_973_e.pdf, attached].

Othman has cited documents indicating that British officials had intervened behind closed doors to persuade the U.N. to alter the conclusions of the report to rule sabotage or an external attack.

“Southern Africa troops face investigation over bodies video | Al Jazeera Newsfeed” - Mozambique

https://youtu.be/11Xoclko8qg

Jan 13, 2023

A regional force fighting armed groups in Mozambique says it’s investigating a video said to show its soldiers burning bodies.

”Probe launched after video shows soldiers throwing bodies onto pile of burning rubbish”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/probe-launched-after-video-shows-soldiers-throwing-bodies-onto-pile-of-burning-rubbish-c1a81b11-e400-4987-8ac2-cbea9398c9be

Published Jan 10, 2023

The Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) has launched an investigation following a viral video showing soldiers dumping bodies onto a pile of burning rubbish.

In the short clip, at least one man, dressed in SANDF uniform, can be seen looking on and filming the incident on cellphones.

The incident is believed to have taken place in November last year in Mozambique, where South Africa has committed forces as part of the SADC mission in Mozambique

In a short statement, the SANDF condemned the incident.

“The SANDF was recently made aware of a video clip circulating on social media depicting members in a yet unidentified defence force uniform throwing deceased bodies in a pile of burning rubble as well as the SANDF member(s) standing around watching them.”

SANDF spokesperson Brigadier General Andries Mokoena Mahapa explained that once the forces are committed, they form part of a combined force and fall under the command and control of SAMIM. South Africa only supports their mission logistically.

He said the force commander of SAMIM was conducting an investigation surrounding the involvement of its members in this despicable act.

“The SANDF does not condone in any way the acts committed in the video and those who are found guilty of such acts will be brought to book.”

The DA’s Kobus Marais said the contents of the video were unacceptable.

“This must be rejected in the strongest possible way. This is another embarrassment and an international blunder under the leadership of Minister Modise and President Ramaphosa,” he said.

Marais said while soldiers were deployed in Mozambique, they were still members of the SANDF.

“There are international standards and regulations for dealing with the bodies of the dead in a dignified and human way even in a conflict zone. Soldiers must adhere to their code of conduct and international standards and practices,” Marais said.

“Court dismisses Julius Malema’s bid to appeal AfriForum’s interdict which prohibits him from calling on land grabs”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/court-dismisses-julius-malemas-bid-to-appeal-afriforums-interdict-which-prohibits-him-from-calling-on-land-grabs-23eebdc5-7c57-4c78-8d6c-bbf2b1f75265

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2023

Pretoria – The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria dismissed Julius Malema and the EFF’s application to appeal against an interdict which AfriForum acquired in 2017, which prohibited him and his party from calling on the public to invade and occupy any vacant land of their choosing.

Malema has been steadfast in his pursuit, calling on people to occupy vacant property however they wish.

In 2014 and 2016, he called on people to occupy vacant land, however, the National Prosecuting Authority instituted charges against him saying he violated section 18(2)(b) of the Riotous Assemblies Act.

Malema took offence to this, he petitioned the high court to declare that entire portion of the legislation illegal insofar as it demanded that someone found guilty of inciting others to commit a crime be punished with the same severity as the one who actually committed the crime.

In 2019, the high court ruled in favour of Malema, however, in 2020, the Constitutional Court overturned the ruling by the high court but found that only a particular section of the act was unconstitutional and invalid.

On Tuesday, Judge Peter Mabuse reinforced and relied on the ConCourt judgment which emphasised the unconstitutionality of incitement to trespass on private property.

“This judgment is a major win for private property rights and a big blow to those who wish to incite criminality, violence or lawlessness,” said AfroForum’s campaign officer for strategy and content, Ernst van Zyl.

“AfriForum welcomes Judge Mabuse’s judgment which adds the necessary emphasis on the serious criminal nature of inciting people to trespass on and illegally occupy private property,” Van Zyl said.

“Pay back the money: This is how much Julius Malema paid AfriForum”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-eff-pays-afriforum-thousands-in-legal-cost-18-january-2023/

18-01-2023

The Economic Freedom Front (EFF) and its President Julius Malema lost hundreds of thousands of rands over the years after they lost yet another legal battle against the civil rights group AfriForum with cost.

MALEMA, EFF LOSE THOUSANDS IN LEGAL BATTLES

In 2018 and 2019 Malema and the EFF paid Afriforum legal cost of R344 762.86 in total.

In the latest battle The Northern Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, dismissed Malema and the EFF’s a leave to appeal land invasion case and ordered them to pay AfriForum’s legal cost, on Tuesday 2023.

According to Van Zyl, Malema and the EFF was ordered to pay the civil rights group the sum of R102 092.30.

Since March 2017, AfriForum has obtained five cost orders against Malema and the EFF in five different appearances.

Van Zyl said they had applied these funds to some of AfriForum’s projects.

“We still have to decide what would be the best use of this new amount they have to pay. “We can assure our members and the public that it will go towards a good cause.”

Ernst van Zyl

“COVID-19 | Calls mount to halt vaccination drive”

https://youtu.be/Elu8caWGV38

Jan 18, 2023

#eNCA speaks to Shabnam Mohamed from Transformative Health Justice.

>>18204559

You will amazed how many versions of history or ‘facts’ there are in South Africa. Ultimately, it depends on the audience receiving the message.

“ANC defends cadre deployment” - https://youtu.be/Q6OaDWWV_Ss

“Cadre deployment: ANC has a right to appoint whoever it wants in public service positions, says party counsel”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/cadre-deployment-anc-has-a-right-to-appoint-whoever-it-wants-in-public-service-positions-says-party-counsel-702c6d72-65d5-40e1-a5a3-b9287de6dffc

Pretoria – Counsel for the ANC has defended the political party’s cadre deployment and development policy saying it’s unconstitutional to prejudice an employee based on a political party they are affiliated with.

The argument was made on Monday at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, after the DA approached the court to get the ANC policy declared unlawful and unconstitutional.

The counsel further argued that It's impermissible to challenge the deployment policy for its existence because of an appointment of an unskilled candidate.

Instead, he said what should be challenged, is to find fault in the person who had the authority of hiring the person who had no experience.

He also submitted that the ruling party is practising its right to freedom of speech when it indicates who it wants to be appointed to a position in the public service position.

“The ANC is allowed to have their policy under it seeks to have as many people who are affiliated with its principles and ideologies in public administration,’’ he said.

The counsel said the case made by the DA is ill founded and opportunistic political act.

“It is divorced from the facts and would lead to an absurd outcome.”

The second counsel argued that political involvement is warranted in running government, because the ruling party has to ensure that policies derived from its manifesto, are implemented.

He said that the ANC took over an administration which was hostile to its policies, and it made sense for the party to come up with a cadre deployment policy to ensure that their policies are represented.

Earlier, the DA argued that the State and political parties are distinct entities and that political parties should not be able to influence who is appointed to public services.

The opposition party said the ANC’s policy is inconsistent with Sections 195 and Section 197 of the Constitution - which requires the public service to be professional and career-orientated, and free from political interference.

Meanwhile, AfriForum has backed the DA's legal challenge to the ANC’s policy on cadre deployment.

The civil rights organisation has joined the case as friends of the court.

The lobby group said the ANC’s policy is discriminatory as those who support other parties were unlikely to be appointed.

The matter will continue on Tuesday.

>>18004483

>>18204935

>>18155828

>“I feel this is my political responsibilities as a white person, the complete rejection of the meritocracy.”

“DA vs ANC court battle over cadre deployment”

https://youtu.be/eWJi1-piNyE

Jan 23, 2023

Mark Oppenheimer presents argument on behalf of AfriForum before the full bench of the Pretoria High Court.

7:58 – “In other words, it’s not become excellent in a particular domain, work your way up through a meritocracy and workout how to run Eskom or Transnet. No, it’s to ingratiate yourself with a political party.”

“Spate of mass shootings raises alarm” - https://youtu.be/Phsv6ZoLvrU

4:06 – “If you look at the gun control laws of South Africa, we have one of the strictest around… We see that with house robberies and farm robberies that these premises are being targeted by criminals in order to gain access to these firearms that are actually locked up according to law in the safe places, etc., etc.. But we also pick up that a lot of ammunition and a lot of firearms are being smuggled across the border so we have a challenge with our porous borders towards the north with Zimbabwe… East with Mozambique… and also indications in recent months that some of these firearms came in via Eswatini. So the porous borders are a real challenge for us. What we need to understand here, these are not small time criminals looking for firearms. These are organised syndicates that are trafficking in these… Another source of these firearms also is of course corrupt officials within the police and the military that are either losing their weapons or they are renting it out and then these firearms are then coming back after they have been used and they just put it back into the stores and they never pick that up… So as you can see the challenge that we have will not be solved by our legislation.”

6:18 – “So essentially, Mr Els, you can have law but if there’s no order then it’s all in vain especially by those who are tasked with protecting the country… You are so right, without order there is no law.”

6:48 – “We have been hit by a tsunami of organised crime wherever you look in South Africa, whether it’s corruptions, whether it is with the syndicates, whether it is with cash in transit, there’s just tremendous spike in that and it seems we are losing the battle in containing that.”

8:41 –“That is one of the main indicators, when you are looking at a definition of a failed state. We can see if your government cannot provide that security to its citizens then it is failing the citizens in terms of its mandate to govern and that is the real challenge we are facing at the moment. The people are not feeling safe.”

“Eastern Cape Premier condemns the brutal killing of 10 people by gunmen in Qunu, Bityi”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/eastern-cape-premier-condemns-the-brutal-killing-of-10-people-by-gunmen-in-qunu-bityi-276f7950-3e51-4a69-8280-11b8670270e8

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Johannesburg – Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has condemned the brutal killing of 10 people by unknown gunmen in two separate incidents in Bityi and Qunu, near Mthatha.

The shootings took place on Wednesday night.

Three people were killed by unknown gunmen in Thantseka location in Bityi, while another seven people were shot dead in a village in Qunu.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this vicious and senseless attack on families. It is heartbreaking to hear that elderly women, children and heads of households lose their lives in the most brutal way in our province,” said Mabuyane.

The premier has also expressed concern about the repeated attacks on families that have been noted in the OR Tambo and Chris Hani districts as well as the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro recently. [The irony]

“The high rate of these incidents is indicative of a decay in our moral fibre. All sectors of society should work together to fight crime and restore peace, as well as promote safety and security in our communities.”

Mabuyane said armed criminals had brought about anxiety and distress for families and the community.

The premier has also called on the police to remain focused and treat each incident as a high priority.

“Law enforcement agencies must follow all leads to identify these criminals and bring them before the courts of law to face their crimes.

“We also urge community members with any information that may lead to the arrest of individuals behind these murders to urgently contact the police and share that information,” said Mabuyane.

>>18265601

>SA has no justice system!

“Minutes show ANC ran ‘parallel process’ to fill top government jobs: DA” including judges

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2022-01-05-minutes-show-anc-ran-parallel-process-to-fill-top-government-jobs-da/

05 January 2022 - 09:58

The ANC, through its controversial deployment committee, appears to have run a parallel deployment process to fill senior public service positions in government departments, agencies and boards of state-owned enterprises.

This is revealed in deployment committee minutes released by the DA which were obtained via the state capture inquiry. The judiciary and a chapter nine institution, the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), were not spared.

A meeting at the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House, in March 2019, noted: “We have a dynamic link with Nadel [National Association of Democratic Lawyers]. The current process is incestuous. It contributes very little, if anything, towards judicial independence.”

This was according to notes following the preselection of judges for vacant posts, despite the existence of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

In this exercise, DA shadow minister of public service and administration Leon Schreiber charged that the governing party turned the JSC into a mere rubber stamp.

“This interference started at the very highest levels of our state as the minutes show the ANC’s cadre deployment committee preselected the appointment of judges Steven Majiedt and Zukisa Tshiqi to the Constitutional Court,” he said.

This followed two vacancies arising from the retirement of justices Edwin Cameron and Baaitse Nkabinde.

“The committee also preselected judge Xola Petse for appointment to the Supreme Court of Appeal, judge Edwin Molahleli to the labour court, and judge Mmathebe Violet Phatshoane to the Northern Cape division,” alleged Schreiber.

The ANC also allegedly interfered in the appointment of the deputy chairperson of the SAHRC and the board of the SABC.

If it is indeed the case that applicants send their applications and CVs directly to the ANC rather than to the government, it makes a complete mockery of the state’s own appointment process.

DA MP Leon Schreiber

The DA noted that “in addition to interfering in appointments to the judiciary, the public broadcaster and the SAHRC, the ANC also sought to deploy party cadres to the Defence Force Service Commission and the Armscor board, the nuclear energy board, PetroSA, and the Central Energy Fund”.

Other institutions featured in discussions at Luthuli House included the appointment of the Rand Water CEO and the Nkomati, Bloemfontein, TransCaledon and Amatola, Lepelle Northern, Umgeni, Magalies and Sedibeng water boards, the SA Post Office board, the transport department, the Passenger Rail Agency of SA, the Road Accident Fund, Post Bank, the National Lottery, Railway Safety Regulator and SANParks.

Schreiber said the DA was shocked as the minutes indicate applicants in some cases applied directly to the ANC’s deployment committee.

In total, since 2018, the ANC deployment committee allegedly interfered in the appointment of senior public servants in at least 96 different government departments, agencies and the boards of state-owned enterprises.

>>18276084

“DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment corruption records” - https://youtu.be/eL55q-Izy-w

0:08 – “The ANC says it intends to appeal that ruling.”

“DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment records”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/da-wins-court-anc-cadre-deployment-records-2-february-2023/

02-02-2023 19:34

In a ground-breaking judgment handed down by the Johannesburg High Court, the DA won the battle to expose records of the ANC cadre deployment

The Johannesburg High Court has today, Thursday, 2 February, ruled in favour of the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) court battle to expose cadre deployment records within the African National Congress (ANC).

DA CELEBRATES VICTORY AGAINST ANC CADRE DEPLOYMENT CASE

This long-running court battle was finally won by the DA which seeks to expose complete records of the ANC national cadre deployment committee’s role in the corruption, capture and collapse of South Africa’s public sector.

“In its ruling, the court found that the ANC’s refusal to make public minutes, Whatsapp conversations, email threads, CVs and all other records of its cadre deployment committee was ‘unlawful and invalid.’ The court ordered the ANC to pay the DA’s costs in the case and to surrender, within 5 days, all of these documents dating back to 1 January 2013, when President Cyril Ramaphosa became the chairman of the cadre deployment committee.”

Dr Leon Schreiber MP

PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA IMPLICATED IN THE SCANDAL

In a statement, Dr Leon Schreiber MP – DA Shadow Minister for Public Service and Administration revealed that Ramaphosa chaired this committee all throughout the years of Jacob Zuma’s presidency, during which time the committee exercised undue influence to ensure the appointment of the corrupt cadres who captured and collapsed the state.

“The judgment dealt a fatal blow to the ANC’s claim that ‘there are instances where the wishes of the Deployment Committee are not taken into account. The corollary of this is that there are indeed instances where the appointments are so made.’ It also affirmed the importance of parliamentary oversight, holding that the DA’s efforts to end cadre deployment in Parliament ‘necessitates the disclosure of facts in relation to the appointment of individuals.’ In sum, the court ruled that the DA ‘has set out, and prima facie established, the right which is sufficient proof for an applicant to result in his entitlement to access the record,” Schreiber broke down the ruling.

He added that today’s ruling is a historic victory by the DA for transparency and the rule of law in South Africa. “It creates new jurisprudence confirming that political parties are not elevated above the Constitution, and makes it clear that politicians who corruptly interfere in affairs of state cannot hide behind a veil of secrecy,” he explained.

He went on to say for nearly three decades, the ANC’s cadre deployment committee secretly interfered in appointments across the state, directly causing the collapsing service delivery and load-shedding crisis we all experience on a daily basis.

“That secrecy ends now, thanks to the DA’s relentless fight for the public’s right to know the truth about cadre deployment.”

Schreiber

“Thanks to the DA’s relentless fight against cadre deployment corruption, South Africans will for the very first time be able to see not only Ramaphosa’s personal complicity in state capture as chairman of the committee, but they will also get to see the full truth of how the appointment of ANC cadres on the basis of loyalty to the party rather than on merit is the true cause of our country’s rapidly failing state.

Once these records are made public, the DA calls on all sectors of society to rally behind our End Cadre Deployment Bill that is currently serving before Parliament, so that we may finally bring an end to this scourge and begin the arduous but urgent journey of building a professional, skilled and merit-based public sector.

The DA will not rest until cadre deployment corruption, along with the party who wrought this evil on our country, is consigned to the dustbin of history,” Schreiber further stated.

Read the full https://press-admin.voteda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/F-leon-amos-schreiber-and-another-vs-the-african-na.pdf

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>>18276100

>“The ANC says it intends to appeal that ruling.”

“JSC interviews: Judge Molemela words on transformation.” – https://youtu.be/1nAYA46fnC8

“Ramaphosa nominates Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ramaphosa-nominates-judge-president-of-the-supreme-court-of-appeal-2-february-2023/

02-02-2023 12:22

President Cyril Ramaphosa nominates Justice Mahube Betty Molemela as Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has nominated Justice Mahube Betty Molemela as Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

The President has informed Chief Justice Raymond Zondo of his consideration to appoint Molemela .

RAMAPHOSA NOMINATES MOLEMELA FOR JUDGE PRESIDENT

The President has, through the Chief Justice, invited the Judicial Service Commission to advise on the suitability of Justice Molemela to hold the office of the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President, said Ramaphosa had undertaken this consultation in terms of Section 174(3) of the Constitution.

“This constitutional provision sets out that the President, as head of the National Executive – and after consulting the Judicial Service Commission and the leaders of parties represented in the National Assembly – appoints the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice. After consulting the Judicial Service Commission, the President appoints the President and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal.”

Vincent Magwenya

Justice Molemela is currently a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Magwenya said the position President of the Supreme Court of Appeal has been vacant following the appointment of Justice Maya to the position of the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court with effect from 01 September 2022.

JUSTICE MOLEMELA IS A JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL

Molemela has established an illustrious judicial career over 15 years. She was first appointed as a Judge of the Free State Division of the High Court in 2008.

Justice Malemela also served as a Judge President of the Free State Division of the High Court for three years. She was then elevated to the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2018.

She has served as a Judge of the Labour and Labour Appeal Court. Later as Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court and Acting Judge of the Constitutional Court.

She holds a B.Proc degree (University of Fort Hare >>18269896 ); LLB, LLM, and LLD (Honoris Causa) (all from the University of Free State).

“Zuma's private prosecution matter against Adv Downer, Maughan postponed to 4 August” - https://youtu.be/6oEEeHwe9RE

5:34 – “There are several applications that have been brought and this court still needs to deal with those applications. We have an application brought by Sanef as well as Helen Suzman Foundation applying to be Friends of the Court, essentially saying they want to support and have a voice in this matter with regard to Karyn Maughan as well as Advocate Billy Downer. Then there’s also that urgent interdict by Maughan and Billy Downer to have their matters set aside.”

“Zuma’s Private Prosecution Postponed Again Sparking Fury in SA: “Our Judiciary Is a Circus”, SA Complains”

https://briefly.co.za/politics/152344-zumas-private-prosecution-postponed-sparking-fury-sa-judiciary-a-circus-sa-complains/

February 02, 2023 at 9:10 PM

Former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution against Billy Downer and Karyn Maughan has been postponed once again

The case was postponed to accommodate the outcome of Maughan's application to have the prosecution set aside

Frustrated South Africans are fed up with the delays and are beginning to question the justice system

PIETERMARITZBURG - South African have had enough of former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution of State Advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg postponed that case to 4 August in under one minute, sending citizens over the edge.

South Africans are now wondering if the justice system has become a playground for SA's elite to flex their power.

According to News24, the matter was postponed to accommodate Maughan's bid to have the private prosecution thrown out.

The former president started his private prosecution case against the state advocate and the journalist in October 2022. Zuma is accusing Downer and Maughan of disclosing his confidential medical documents to members of the public in contravention of the National Prosecuting Act, EWN reported.

South Africans voice their frustrations about the constantly postponed private prosecution

Citizens are at their wit's end with Zuma's bid to privately prosecute Downer and Maughan and are now questioning SA's entire justice system.

>>18254097

“‘Vile misinformation’: IFP responds to EFF’s assassination claims”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ifp-responds-to-eff-assassination-claims-secretary-general-marshall-dlamini-7-february-2023/

07-02-2023 14:54

The IFP has called on Police Minister, Bheki Cele and the State Security Agency to investigate assassination claims by the EFF.

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has accused the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of sensationalist and fabricated allegations regarding the alleged assassination plot of Marshall Dlamini.

On Tuesday, 7 February, the EFF said it received an intelligence report from the South African Police Service (SAPS) that senior members in the IFP are plotting to assassinate Dlamini.

IFP RUBBISHES EFF ASSASSINATION CLAIMS

IFP spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa said the EFF’s delusions of grandeur have come full circle in the face of a brewing internal revolt emanating from its decision to restore the ANC into power.

Hlengwa said the EFF exaggerated its influence, assuming its parting ways with the IFP would spell disaster for the party.

“Where we must warn the EFF, however, is when it begins pressing on the old wounds of our people with no regard for the pain that this causes. The allegations are inflammatory and dangerous politicking.

“They have produced nothing to back this serious claim, which the IFP now demands be investigated by SAPS. If SAPS genuinely knew of an assassination plot and knew who was plotting it, they would have made arrests.”

Mkhuleko Hlongwa

The IFP has also called on Police Minister Bheki Cele and the State Security Agency to clarify the allegation.

INKATHA SLAMS RED BERETS FOR FLIP-FLOPPING

Furthermore, Hlengwa said the EFF’s latest political stunt of removing themselves from co-governance with the IFP did not yield the results the party had hoped for. Suddenly, the IFP – with whom they happily worked until it refused to hand over governance of Umhlathuze [Richards Bay area] – is an “agent of apartheid” that “only thrives through violence”.

“This kind of flip-flopping is the unique brand of the EFF. Lest we forget, the same Malema who declared in 2021 that there is ‘no way, no way, the EFF is going to vote with the ANC’, is now voting with the ANC,” Hlengwa said.

“SONA 2023: ‘High alert’ NATJOINTS promises safe and secure Parliament opening”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/sona-2023-high-alert-natjoints-ensure-safety-state-nation-address-7-february-latest/

07-02-2023 14:13

‘Any action aimed at disrupting the SONA or intentionally contravening the law, will be dealt with accordingly within the ambit of the law,’ said NATJOINTS.

The National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NATJOINTS) is gearing up to ensure a safe state of the nation address (SONA) at the Cape Town City Hall on Thursday, 9 February.

NATJOINTS TO ENSURE SAFE SONA

NATJOINTS, which consists of various government departments, including the South African Police Service (SAPS), the South African National Defence force (SANDF), and the State Security Agency (SSA), have deployed integrated and joined law enforcement operations.

This is the second year the Address will be delivered outside the Parliamentary precinct after the devastating fire ruined the Old and New Assemblies in January 2022.

They deployed law enforcement members or on high alert to ensure that the SONA takes place in a secure environment with no crime incidents before, during, and after the address.

“To this end, the NATJOINTS is calling for the cooperation of the public, including those who will be in attendance as well as spectators,” said national police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe.

Mathe said actions meant to disrupt the SONA or intentionally contravene the law will be dealt with accordingly, added Mathe.

AIRSPACE RESTRICTIONS

the airspace around Cape Town City Hall will be restricted. A Notice to all Airmen (NOTAM) was issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which restricts the airspace within 1.5 nautical miles of the City Hall on 9 February between 13:00 and midnight.

The South African Air Force (SAAF) is expected to perform a flyover before Ramphosa delivers his speech and will have flexible use of the airspace during the stipulated period.

NATJOINTS stressed that the air above the City Hall is a strictly no-fly zone for drones. The same airspace restrictions will also be in place during the parliamentary debate and presidential reply next week between 14 and 16 February. It will also apply when Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers the budget speech on 22 February.

Cape Town residents, spectators and those who have businesses near the City Hall are advised about the road closures ahead of the delivery of the speech. NATJOINTS also stressed that people who are not accredited or authorized to be in attendance should avoid the area on Thursday.

“Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies” – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/supreme-court-of-appeal-ruled-against-mining-companies-breaking-07-february-2023/

07-02-2023 13:05

Mining companies lost challenging appeal on the certification of Silicosis class action at the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Article originally published on GroundUp by Tania Broughton

• The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled against mining companies that are challenging the certification of the silicosis class action against them.

• The court said it is in the interests of justice that the class action be expedited because the claimants are poor and vulnerable.

• The judge said the issues raised by DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines are not appealable at this stage.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has dismissed a bid by two mining companies to challenge a court certification of a class action which could potentially result in them being liable for damages suffered by thousands of miners who contracted silicosis.

Apart from challenging the certification, DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines also wanted to overturn the decision in the Johannesburg High Court to develop the common law, allowing families of miners who have subsequently died, or may die pending the resolution of the case, to benefit from any eventual damages award or settlement.

But the SCA has said neither issue is appealable at this stage and struck the matter from the roll.

This means that the class action can proceed.

LITIGATION

At this stage there are only 69 applicants in the class action and a process is underway for others affected to either opt in or opt out of the litigation, following which “common issues” would be determined in a first round of litigation and then individual claims during a second stage.

Following the certification of the litigation as a class action, several of the initial 32 mining companies (and parent companies), the owners of 82 mines, which had been cited, entered into settlement agreements with miners who worked for them.

But DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines launched an appeal with the SCA.

In the ruling handed down this week, Judge Christiaan van der Merwe, writing for the court, said it was common cause that over several decades many thousands of underground mine workers in South African gold mines contracted silicosis or pulmonary tuberculosis, caused through the inhalation of large quantities of silica dust.

Silicosis is a painful, incurable and progressive disease, often resulting in death.

It is contended by the miners that while tuberculosis is a treatable bacterial lung disease, exposure to excessive silica dust increases the risk of miners contracting it.

Judge van der Merwe said the mining companies represented virtually the entire industry in South Africa, including “parent companies” because of their controlling interest.

SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL

In the High Court, the 69 miners had presented evidence of prolonged industry-wide underground exposure to unhealthy levels of silica dust and that the mining companies had been negligent and wrong in failing to properly address this health hazard.

They said every affected mineworker – or his dependents – had a claim for damages.

After certifying the class action, the high court then signed off on a declaratory order (the declarator) which, in effect, developed the common law which up to that time decreed that any claim for general damages, pain and suffering or loss of amenities of life, terminated on the death of the claimant.

The effect of this was that mineworkers who had died, or would die before the finalisation of the litigation, would still have a valid claim and any damages would go to their estate, for the benefit of their heirs.

>>18301422

“Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies” – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/supreme-court-of-appeal-ruled-against-mining-companies-breaking-07-february-2023/

07-02-2023 13:05

COURT

Judge van der Merwe said as a result of a settlement agreement signed by the majority of the mines, the certification only now applied to six mining companies. Only DRDGold and East Rand Proprietary Mines appealed.

Judge van der Merwe said orders were generally not appealable if they were not final and definitive.

“The certification is no more than a procedural device aimed at facilitating the determination of the class action. It has no final effect … and is susceptible to alteration by the court hearing the class action.

“It is not definitive of any rights.”

The judge said the mining companies had contended that should the certification not be set aside, their participation in the class action would cause them to suffer undue prejudice because they had little part to play in it.

This was because the tuberculosis claims had already been withdrawn against them, there was no parent company liability against them and they had ceased underground mining between 2000 and 2008.

Judge Van der Merwe, however, said that the trial court would have wide procedural options at its disposal and any issues unrelated to the two mining companies could be separated out.

SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL FINAL RULING

“The appellants’ complaint of prejudice in this regard appears to be exaggerated,” he said.

“The participation of each of the appellants in underground mining constitutes a significant portion of the ambit of the remaining class action.”

Regarding the declarator, the judge said the potential class members were poor and vulnerable and the litigation had already been ongoing for ten years.

“Should we entertain an appeal at this stage, there may be a further appeal.

“For me the overwhelming interest of justice consideration is that the finalisation of the class action should be expedited.”

The court struck the matter from the roll, ordering the mines to pay the costs.

>>18519482

> If you want to read about this tactics, read the “Nicaragua Betrayed” and then you will see the history of some [of] these gentlemen repeated in South Africa.

“Nicaragua Betrayed” [1980 Book]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Betrayed

Nicaragua Betrayed, published by Western Islands in 1980, is the memoir of former President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle (as told to Jack Cox), who had been toppled the previous year by the Sandinista insurgency. At the time of the book's publication, Somoza was living in Asunción, Paraguay, as a personal guest of President Alfredo Stroessner.[1]

In the book Somoza gave his account of his administration, his downfall, and what he perceived to be the American betrayal of his country; he was particularly critical of the Carter Administration.[2]

Shortly after the book's publication, Somoza and his chauffeur were assassinated in downtown Asunción by members of the Argentine People's Revolutionary Army.[3] He is buried in Miami, Florida, at Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum.[4]

A Spanish edition of the book, titled Nicaragua Traicionada, was also published.

>>18553646

““Nicaragua Betrayed” Summary— Chapter 20: Betrayed”

https://newsofinterest.tv/politics/book_summaries/anastasio_somoza/chapt20.php

by Edward Ulrich

News of Interest.TV

February 24, 2011

Below is an excerpt

From pages 401 - 402:

The betrayal of Nicaragua was not perpetuated out of ignorance, but rather by design. This I know for a fact. One could go down a long list of U.S. allies and ask why Carter turned against these anti-Communist nations. Pinochet of Chile could give you an answer— by design. And how about Korea, Taiwan (The Republic of China), Pakistan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Argentina? No, a plea of ignorance will not suffice. Carter might have been able to plead ignorance once, but not over and over again.

…

While I’m privileged to tread upon this planet called Earth, I shall do all within my power to see that other free nations do not suffer the agonizing death which struck Nicaragua. In my own way, I am sounding the alarm. To be effective, this alarm must be heard in the United States of America. It is my wish, it is my impassioned hope that freedom-loving people of the United States will hear the alarm and that they will respond without delay. There is no time for dalliance.

Like so many Americans, I have stood on the parade field and saluted Old Glory as she passed. I, too, have thrilled to the sight of the Stars and Stripes as the flag was raised at sunrise, and I have felt the melancholy that can touch a man’s heart at the sound of “Taps..” You see, I know the true meaning of the United States, and I thank God for that privilege. The United States has been, and is, the hope and inspiration of free men everywhere. May that torch of liberty, symbolized by the Statue of Liberty, burn ever so brightly— now and always. For I know for certain, that should that torch be extinguished, the dreams of free men everywhere die at the same moment. Like the people of Nicaragua, for those freedom-loving people there would be no tomorrow; “for their tomorrow was yesterday.”

My country, my people, and I were betrayed. That betrayal does not rest with the American people, but with the President of the United States. My love for the United States and her people is as great as it ever was. My prayer is that those who now lead the United States will not betray humanity. If that happens, God help us all, and for then it would be the entire free world, and not just Nicaragua BETRAYED.

The End

Editor’s Note—

Anastasio Somoza was able to discriminate between what is good about the configuration of the constitutional republic of the United States and what is bad about the corrupt elements covertly controlling its politics. While Somoza blames the Jimmy Carter Administration for what has happened, it is important to realize that Carter was only a puppet of the Illuminati global elite, just as all United States Presidents are.

The global Illuminati banking elite have a centuries old agenda of destroying the sovereignty of nations in order to form a totalitarian world government that is privately under their control, with their past implementations of Communism being a dress rehearsal for what is to come. Leftist and mainstream media sources that are controlled by these people are falsely attempting to claim that “nationhood” and “capitalism” are the cause of the world’s problems in their effort to deceptively create support for empowering such a world government.

You must be bored.

>>18553829

referencing

>>18548243

>>18666806

>Do the gold mafia also fund the Zama Zamas?

“Organisation says ‘the real zama zamas’ in Kagiso are big companies”

https://youtu.be/HQsrw0f1uaQ

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/organisation-says-the-real-zama-zamas-in-kagiso-are-big-companies/

5 August 2022, 7:17 AM

Kagiso based community organisation Choko Five Movement says illegal mining in the area, is bigger than just the zama zamas.

On Thursday, shacks belonging to illegal miners were demolished and their mine holes were closed by locals on Gauteng’s West Rand.

Locals also went with police into one of the mines and helped arrest 23 people believed to be illegal immigrants.

Police are maintaining a strong presence in the area.

Choko Five Movement executive chairperson, Karabo Mosetlhi says, “The real zama zamas that we’re speaking about is this big companies that are refining this gold. So, what they would do is, they would take their big machineries, and go on site with their excavators and then stockpile raw material where you will find the zama zamas that you saw on TV.”

“They’ll only be given a scoop, for them to take care of the stock that is piled by these companies. So the real zama zamas are these big corporates. We need to be dealing with these private companies,” adds Mosetlhi.

>>18678773

>President Mandela appointed a Commission of Inquiry in 1991 to investigate the alleged malpractice. The Commission finds that there have been widespread tortures and mishandling and that the events are not fabrications of ANC enemies. The Commission's limited mandate prevented findings on murder and "disappearances" from being made. Some witnesses were brutally affected, broken and their lives ruined by poverty, intermittent schooling and disability.

>The Commission makes the important recommendation that a truly independent inquiry be launched to investigate the killings and "disappearances", which of course have never happened.

>The Commission gave a confidential list of names to President Mandela of persons allegedly guilty of the misdeeds, but said the list should not be limited to those mentioned. The ANC did not release the names.

The cover-up continues…

Leaked P Thabo Mbeki 17 Page letter to VP Paul Mashatile – 29 March 2023 (Part 1)

https://www.scribd.com/document/634888946/Mbeki-Letter

Excerpts

To put the matter directly, I have been very disturbed by the votes we have cast in the National Assembly on:

• 13 December 2022, concerning a Parliamentary Panel Report on the Phala Phala Matter;

• 22 March 2023, concerning a Motion on the Phala Phala matter; and,

• 23 March 2023, concerning a Motion on Eskom.

In this regard I want to draw attention to two strategically important matters, these being:

• The relationship between the ANC and the masses of our people; and,

• The role of the ANC as the principal defender of the gains of the National Democratic Revolution [NDR], including the Constitution (1996).

Without doubt, the wrong position we took with regard to the Nkandla matter, impacted negatively on the standing of the ANC with many among the masses of people.

It is equally without doubt that any wrong position we take with regard to the Phala Phala matter will also in equal measure or more, impact negatively on the standing of the ANC with many among the masses of our people!

As you know, the 3-person Panel appointed by Parliament concerning the Phala Phala matter decided that the Comrade President ‘had a case to answer’ with regard to a process of impeachment.

What should have followed this is that the National Assembly would have appointed a Multi-Party Committee (MPC) precisely to investigate the matter whether the Comrade President did indeed have ‘a case to answer’!

THE PUZZLE IS – WHY THEN DID WE STOP AN MPC BEING FORMED WE WOULD BE CONVINCED WOULD EXACTLY ESTABLISH THAT OUR PRESIDENT HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING IMPEACHABLE?

OR ARE WE SAYING THAT WE SUSPECT OR KNOW THAT HE HAS DONE SOMETHING IMPEACHABLE AND THEREFORE DECIDED THAT WE MUST PROTECT OUR PRESIDENT AT ALL COSTS BY ENSURING THAT NO MPC IS FORMED?

IF THIS IS THE CASE, WHAT MESSAGE ARE WE COMMUNICATIN TO THE MASSES OF OUR PEOPLE ABOUT THE VALUES AND INTEGRITY OF THE ANC?

In other words, we acted as we did because there is something to hide!

Without doubt this will have served further to alienate the masses of the people from the ANC, as it will have entrenched the view explained by our Comrade President in 2020, that – “The ANC may not stand alone in the dock, but it does stand as accused number one.”

Any alienation of the ANC from the masses of our people directly serves the purposes of the counter revolution!

Why are we taking actions which play straight into the hands of the counter revolutionary forces?

>>18688110

Leaked P Thabo Mbeki 17 Page letter to VP Paul Mashatile – 29 March 2023 (Part 2)

https://www.scribd.com/document/634888946/Mbeki-Letter

On 23 March, 2023, we voted against the appointment of a Parliamentary Multi-Party Ad-Hoc Committee (PMPAC) to investigate various matters at Eskom, including the reported corruption, sabotage and existence of criminal cartels within the company.

There are strong indications that behind the very serious and sustained problems at Eskom is a counter revolurionary force which has worked radically to weaken the company!

The direct hand of the counter revolution in the weakening and/or destruction of the State institutions and corporations has clearly been exposed by the ‘Nugent and Zondo Judicial Commissions’ as they dealt with the matter of the attempted destruction of SARS.

Similar work must be done to establish precisely what was done and by whom to create the current Eskom crisis. It is in all likelihood quite correct that there are criminal cartels in Eskom as well as acts of sabotage and corrupt interventions all directly connected to the activities of the counter revolution!

It was very wrong that we took a decision to veto the initiation of a Parliamentary process specifically focused on investigating the criminal activities at Eskom, which would have signified the beginning of the process to unmask the counter revolution which may be responsible for the many problems at Eskom, consisten with what it tried to do at SARS/

In any case, the public would expect that our Government would act immediately to investigate serious allegations of criminality directed at weaking the SOEs, such as those made by the outgoing Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter when he said that Eskom was afflicted by serious instances of corruption, sabotage and criminal cartels.

It will have come across to this public as very strange and disturbing that when a proposal was made that Parliament should undertake such a focused investigation into the alleged criminality at Eskom, we promptly voted against an eminently correct proposal.

Thereby, inadvertently, we have conceded more time and space to the criminality at Eskom to continue with its disastrous consequences!

To be honest to ourselves, as our Comrade President insisted, we must expect that the already existing gulf between the ANC and the people widened, as the latter saw the former refuse to investigate the alleged criminality which has resulted in these masses suffering from long periods of very destructive ‘load shedding’!

When the masses of our people fainally lose confidence in the ANC as their own organisation and dependable servant leader, our Movement will perish and therefore cease to exist – exactly the outcome the counter revolution has pursued for many decades, to date.

With its demise, will also seriously fracture the National Democratic Revolution.

The Constitutional Court definition of a Constitutional Democracy emphasized the centrality of the ANC in the drafting of the 1996 Constitution and therefore the establishment of a new constitutional framework to define the new post-colonial and post-apartheid South Africa!

It is very correct that we must continue to define the Constitution as one of the historic victories of the National Democratic Revolution!

>>18688110

>>18688113

Leaked P Thabo Mbeki 17 Page letter to VP Paul Mashatile – 29 March 2023 (Part 3)

https://www.scribd.com/document/634888946/Mbeki-Letter

Discussing the matter of possible Parliamentary investigation into the Phala matter, she [Ms Siviwe Gwarube, Chief Whip of DA] said, inter alia:

“Ever attempt to have Parliament conduct its Constitutional obligations have been blocked by your Pary, rendering Parliament toothless because of the ANC’s majority and commitment to shielding the President. VP, no one is interfering with institutions in their work. Courts have held in this very House that Parliament does not have to wait for other institution to finish their work before we act. As the Leader of Government Business, what do you say about Parliament’s role in terms of investigating the President in spite of the fact that there are concurrent investigations that are taking place. What of our Constitutional obligation?””

Here was our response:

“Honourable Member, I think that’s how democracy works. The majority must have its way. Democracy works that way. Maybe when you have an opportunity to govern, you’ll understand… When the ANC believes its cause is correct, it will use its majority to push those decisions. And by the way, remember that winning positions and decisions is something you win out there during elections. Wo when you campaign and you win, you already win here. If you lose there, you have already lost there. It’s simple. That is democracy. It works like that all over the world… Let’s allow the National Assembly to be able to take decisions in a democratic way. And democracy means the majority rules. That’s it!”

The majority party may use its numbers to influence how such oversight is exercised, but has absolutely no legal power to block such oversight!

In its Judgment in the ‘Nkandla case’, the Constitutional Court said, among Others:

“[104] Similarly, the failure by the National Assembly to hold the President accountable by ensuring that he complies with the remedial action taken against him, is inconsistent with its obligations to scrutinise and oversee executive actions and to maintain oversight of the exercise of executive powers by the President. And in particular, to give urgent attention to or intervene by facilitating his compliance with the remedial action.”

It then went on to say:

“10. The resolution passed by the National Assembly absolving the President from compliance with the remedial action taken by the Public Protector in terms of section 182(1)(c) of the Constitution is inconsistent with sections 42 (3), 55(2)(a) and (b) and 181 (3) of the Constitution, is invalid and is set aside.”

Here the majority Party had voted to absolve the President, which became the resolution of the National Assembly. The Court ruled that this was invalid as it was “inconsistent with (the National Assembly) obligations to scrutinise and oversee executive action and to maintain oversight of the exercise of executive powers by the President.”

All foregoing emphasises the point that our Membership and especially our Leadership must be fully schooled in the policies of the Movement as a critical part of the process of strengthening the capaticty of these Members and Leaders to defend the Movement and ensure that it does not deviate from its historic mission.

This means that such important institutions as the OR Tambo Political School as well as such practices as visualised in the ‘Eye of a Needle’ document are positioned correctly to help ensure that we produce quality cadres we require successfully to achieve the goals of the NDR.

All this also points to the imperative that as a Movement we must always be vigilant to understand the forces which seek to defeat the NDR.

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Leaked P Thabo Mbeki 17 Page letter to VP Paul Mashatile – 29 March 2023 (Part 4)

https://www.scribd.com/document/634888946/Mbeki-Letter

A few weeks ago the outgoing CEO of Eskom, Andre de Ruyter, was interviewed by the eNCA television network. Among other things he asserted that Eskom is serving as an ANC ‘milk cow’ and that some of our leaders are involved in and are benefitting from the criminal activity in the Company.

Quite understandably, Comrades reacted with outrage at these remarks demanding, among others, that de Ruyter must produce the evidence to substantiate his accusations against our Movement and some of its members.

However, we seem not to have paid particular attention to the similar important element of the de Ruyter interview – that it helped to answer the serious question – who is this man de Ruyter?

During the interview, seemingly without any prompting, de Ruyter said:

“There’s a narrative that the State should control everything. Unfortunately, the ghosts of Marx and Lenin still haunt the halls of Luthuli House. People are still firmly committed to a 1980s style of ideology. They still address another as comrade – which is franly embarrassing. They use words like lumpen proletariat, which is ridiculour because these things were last said in the 1980s East Germany. And when such individuals talk to foreign diplomats and foreign investors… People say we haven’t heard this language since the fall of the Berlin Wall – What do these people think?”

Thus did de Ruyter expose himself as the classical extreme right wing anti-communist fanatic of the apartheid years - a man driven by his ideological conviction to destroy the anti-Christ, the ANC!

This he did precisely to draw attention away from the counter revolutionary forces responsible for the Eskom crisis, thus give them the space to continue with their destructive activities!

Now it looks very strange indeed that we could have counted on this sworn right-wing enemy of the ANC and the democratic revolution to rescue Eskom form its counter revolutionary captors!

Following the similar decisions of the 55th National Conference, I believe that it was very correct that the NEC declared in the 2023 January 8th Statement that one of the Movement’s “immediate priority actions” this year would consist of “specific intitiatives and programmes to deepen the Renewal of the ANC”.

I mention this particular matter at this point to emphasise the imperative that the renewal will have to include detailed exposure of our membership to the main policies of our our Movement precisely to help ensure that we have genuine cadres of the ANC, rather than mere card-carrying members!

Already six (6) years ago, the Diagnostic Report presented by the then ANC Secretary General, Comrade Gwede Mantashe, at the 2017 National Policy Conference, sounded the alert about one of the major chanllenges facing the Movement when it said:

“Being in power is rapidly becoming a source of political bankruptcy, in that members of the ANC fight to deployment either as councilors, MPLs and MPs – respectively, as if there is ‘no tomorrow’… It is foreign to our movement for comrades to see deployment as a source of material benefit rather than the reason to serve the people. These fights among comrades turn the interest of our people off, and push them away from the movement…”

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>This means that such important institutions as the OR Tambo Political School as well as such practices as visualised in the ‘Eye of a Needle’ document are positioned correctly to help ensure that we produce quality cadres we require successfully to achieve the goals of the NDR [National Democratic Revolution].

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>The majority must have its way. Democracy works that way.

“THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE? CHOOSING THE BEST CADRES TO LEAD TRANSFORMATION”

https://renewal.anc1912.org.za/assets/Documents/A5%20eye%20of%20the%20needle.pdf

But the movement’s membership has to find the answers, so we together build and sustain the ANC as an agent for change. To fully understand this challenge, let us first examine the character of challenges in this phase of struggle.

According to the Strategy and Tactics document:

“Our strategy is the creation of a united, non-racial, non-sexist and democratic society. In pursuit of this objective, we shall, at each given moment, creatively adopt tactics that advance that objective. Our fundamental point of departure is that South Africans have it in their power, as a people and as part of progressive humankind, to continually change the environment in which we operate in the interest of a better future.

“In this phase of transformation, we seek to expand and deepen the power of democratic forces in all centres critical to the NDR, at the same time as we improve the people’s quality of life. Our efforts, which are people-centred, people-driven and gender-sensitive, are founded on five basic pillars:

• to build and strengthen the ANC as a movement that organises and leads the people in the task of social transformation;

• to deepen our democracy and culture of human rights and mobilise the people to take active part in changing their lives for the better;

• to strengthen the hold of the democratic movement on state power, and transform the state machinery to serve the cause of social change;

• to pursue economic growth, development and redistribution in such a way as to improve the people’s quality of life; and

• to work with progressive forces throughout the world to promote and defend our transformation, advance Africa’s renaissance and build a new world order.”

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“Thabo Mbeki meets with ANC top brass to discuss former president’s 17-page letter”

https://www.ghanamma.com/za/2023/04/12/thabo-mbeki-meets-with-anc-top-brass-to-discuss-former-presidents-17-page-letter/

April 12, 2023

Former president Thabo Mbeki met with six of the ANC’s top seven national officials at Luthuli House last night following his letter to deputy president Paul Mashatile in March wherein he accused ruling party MPs of shielding the president in the Phala Phala saga.

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>"The overarching objective of King IV™ is to make corporate governance more accessible and relevant to a wider range of organisations, and to be the catalyst for a shift from a compliance-based mindset to one that sees corporate governance as a lever for value creation”

>Prof Mervyn King

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“Prof. Mervyn King explains Integrated Reporting for South Africa - Part 1”

https://youtu.be/6HRB7aMvT08

Mar 23, 2011

Professor Mervyn King explains Integrated Reporting, at the launch of South Africa's new Framework for Integrated Reporting and the Integrated Report Discussion Paper on 25 January 2011.

3:51 – “The planet is in fact in crisis. We have 3 crises; we’ve got the financial crisis, we’ve got climate change crisis and we’ve got an ecological crisis in that we’ve used the natural assets of planet earth faster than nature can regenerate them… We have to start, if there’s such a word, monetizing these issues.”

6:28 – “The King III Report recommends Integrated Reporting. It’s now a listing requirement of all our listed companies. The JSE has been lauded around the world for being the first but we’re not going to be the first much longer, other companies or other stock exchanges starting to join. The World Federation of Exchanges has acknowledged that the JSE has adopted the correct course and it’s on the agenda for the meeting of stock exchanges in October. At the World Economic Forum which is on the 27th of January, the redesigning of corporate reporting is being discussed with world leaders. So there is as it were a tsunami coming. History teaches us that corporate reporting has been changed when there’ve been great global events and global crises and especially accountants are aware that corporate reporting has changed when there were great global events such as the great depression.”

Mervyn E. King, Judge Professor – King Report

https://www.integratedreporting.org/profile/professor-mervyn-e-king/

Chair Emeritus

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria and Visiting Professor at Rhodes University.

He has an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand, is Chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II and III, and is First Vice President of the Institute of Directors Southern Africa.

He is Chair Emeritus of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), Chairman Emeritus of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years.

He has been a chairman, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges. He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in 53 countries and has received many awards. He is the author of two books on governance and sustainability and sits as an arbitrator and mediator internationally.

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“Get to know Professor Mervyn King”

https://youtu.be/UTRpDNWd_O8

Nov 20, 2018

Thanks to the King Code of Good Governance, South Africa leads the world in Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting legislation. This is due almost solely to the prescience and perseverance of the legendary Professor Mervyn King.

1:01 – “I was a judge… and I resigned over matters of conscience… but I had a big corporate legal practice so many of my clients asked me to go on their boards as a non-executive director… I ended up chairing companies listed in London, Europe and South Africa.

3:16 – “I think we can be proud as South Africans that the King Report is used as a template around the world on governance.”

From 30:53, a company as seen as a person.

14:43 – “This led to a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva at the end of 2009. The President and Chief Executive of the International Federation of Accountants was there, the World Chairman of the big 4 auditing firms, the World Bank and the purpose of that meeting with Chatham House Rules was what do we develop, how did we develop an answer to reporting actually happening inside a company and I addressed the meeting won integrated thinking, intergrated reporting. This led to a meeting in St. James’s Palace hosted by Prince Charles… It was agreed the way forward was integrated thinking, integrated reporting… So I’m now the Chairman of the International Integrated Reporting Council… if you Google the IRC, I’ve got about 71 council members and they’re all great institutions around the world; CPA China, CPA Japan, CPA Australia, chartered accountants of England, Wales, America Institute of Certifie Public Accountants, asset owners, asset managers, Black Rock, etc..”

18:52 – “In the 4th iteration of the King Report, we have done the report but then we’ve done supplements on state owned companies, small medium sized companies, municipalities and can be used for government departments.”

27:16 – “I believe that King IV is, which is going around the world just by the way I’m off to New York the next day or two and I’m talking to the hedge funds in America on the question of common sense principles of governance for in America because America is still shareholder centric. Still involved with the primacy of the shareholder. So I’m actually going over there to talk to them about moving to a company centric model… Corporate leaders in America have to stop thinking that their duty is to maximize shareholder wealth. They have to think of corporate health rather than shareholder wealth [Does this not sound like communism?].”

31:12 – “The question is, is one optimistic about human capital globally? We are in the 4th Industrial Revolution. We’ve got artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, 3D printing. All these things are going to replace people who are presently employed. So over the next 20-30 years, we’re going to have an exacerbation of the unemployment problem and people that have the necessary skills to be employed now will become unemployable. Some entrepreneurs are looking at focusing on building entertainment businesses and intellectual exercise businesses as businesses are the future because so many people have so many free hours [You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy?]. So the answer to you is it’s a huge problem and studies are being done around the world at great institutions about this… South Africa is not an island, it’s part of the globe.”