“WATCH | Mystery surrounds presence of US-sanctioned Russian vessel in Simon's Town” - https://youtu.be/7Gtvy8CPSDU

“Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/lady-r-sanctioned-russian-ship-simons-town-cargo-breaking-10-december/

10-12-2022 09:26

‘What is the minister hiding and why is it shrouded in secrecy? The minister and the chief of SANDF have a responsibility to tell South Africans what is going on,” said the DA Shadow Minister of Defence.

Lady R, a sanctioned Russian commercial cargo ship, spent three nights at the Simon’s Town naval dockyard. The Ro-Ro ship arrived on Tuesday night and left early on Friday. Its stay was shrouded in secrecy.

RUSSIAN SHIP DOCKS AT NATIONAL KEYPOINT

Since the ship’s arrival, the Department of Defence and Military Affairs has been peppered with questions from the media and political parties alike.

Lady R allegedly switched off its Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), which provides positioning and identification information to other ships and coastal authorities when it arrived. There are reports that it was still off when the vessel left on Friday.

“The vessel should have docked at Table Bay harbour just like other commercial vessels. Instead, it was allowed to dock at Simon’s Town Naval base, which, because it is the largest base in the country, is a national key point,” said Kobus Marais, the Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Affairs.

Simon’s Town residents saw container trucks enter the dockyard and cranes loading and unloading cargo from the ship under cover of night on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Armed security personnel reportedly oversaw the operations.

“Evidence suggests that over the last two nights, there was unusual activity in the harbour with on-board cranes offloading cargo from the Russian commercial vessel onto trucks. There was also movement by said trucks transporting containers in and out of the naval base.

“These trucks were protected by armed personnel. While trucks transporting containers are not uncommon, it is, however, very unusual for such activities to take place at night,” said the DA MP.

Lady R is en route to the Port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Initially, it was thought the vessel docked at Simon’s Town because it was in distress. However, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) ruled this out and said no distress signal was received.

According to reports, Lady R already sailed past Cape Agulhas on 5 December per maritime monitoring websites, which means it turned around and went back to Simon’s Town.

Tugboats towed the cargo ship out of the harbour at approximately 6:00 on Friday. By 8:00, it was heading past Cape Point, according to Daily Maverick.

David Feldmann, the US Embassy spokesperson, told News24 that the US Consulate in Pretoria previously warned that entities supporting Lady R could run afoul of American sanctions.

“We had indicated the vessel was sanctioned under US law because the ship is part of Russia’s military export-import business and had cautioned that entities supporting the vessel could run afoul of US sanctions,” he said.

The DA said the behaviour of Lady R worried Simon’s Town residents because it is sanctioned by the US and European Union over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“Given the ANC government’s history with Russia, the minister needs to come clean and explain what is going on and why this commercial vessel which is sanctioned by the US and European Union, was allowed to dock at Simons Town.

“What is the minister hiding and why is it shrouded in secrecy? The minister and the chief of SANDF have a responsibility to tell South Africans what is going on,” said Marais.

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“BREAKING: ConCourt dismisses Limpho Hani’s application to rescind release of Janusz Walus”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/constitutional-court-dismisses-limpho-hani-application-on-janusz-walus-9-december-2022/

09-12-2022 17:45

Chris Hani’s widow, Limpho, wanted the Constitutional Court to reconsider its decision to grant her husband’s killer, Janusz Walus parole.

The Constitutional Court has reportedly dismissed Limpho Hani’s reconsideration application to release her husband’s killer, Janusz Walus from prison.

On Wednesday, 7 December, the Department of Justice and Correctional Services confirmed that Walus was released from the hospital where he had been kept after he was stabbed by another prisoner on 29 November.

CONCOURT UPHOLDS RULING ON JANUSZ WALUS

As previously reported, Walus was serving a life sentence for the 1993 murder of anti-apartheid activist and South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani.

In November, the Constitutional Court ordered that the Polish national be released on parole.

The Apex Court’s decision did not sit well with Limpho Hani who described it as diabolical and together with the SACP they vowed to challenge it. The ANC, COSATU and other unions also expressed their disappointment and also marched to the Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Facility where Walus was serving his sentence.

Walus was denied parole four times before. His accomplice in the assassination, Clive Derby-Lewis, who organised the hit, was released on medical parole in June 2015 and died of lung cancer in November 2016.

“Offender Walus was only discharged from hospital today (7 December) as he had been receiving treatment after he was involved in a stabbing incident. He will serve two years under community corrections in line with the parole regime upon which he is released,” the Department of Justice and Correctional Services said

The EFF is also amongst the parties that were unhappy about the release of Janusz Walus which it described as diabolical, cynical, and harmful.

The party said it condemns the Polish national’s release as it is abhorrent and shows scant regard for the nature of the crime he committed.

“Janusz Walus not only killed a man, but his bullet also shattered the hopes of millions of our people and almost pushed this country into war,” the party said.

The Red Berets said the killing of Hani was an assassination of the very idea of freedom itself, and it was not merely murder, but it was treasonous.

“For this, Walus has not even shown remorse, he has not divulged the identities of the people he worked with, and he is likely to pursue his destructive right-wing ideas once released.”

“May our people see what they do with Janusz Walus now that he is out of prison,” it added.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/eff-on-janusz-walus-release-from-prison-parole-7-december-2022/

The EFF previously said there’ll be serious consequences if Janusz Walus is released from prison, it now says people should see what they do.

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>>>17783840, >>17783842, >>17783846, >>17783850, >>17783852, >>17783855, >>17783857, >>17783859, >>17783861, >>17783863 About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots

About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 1

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/22/world/un-officer-on-flight-103.html, December 22, 1988

Bernt Carlsson, who was a passenger on the Pan Am flight that crashed over Scotland, had served as chief administrative officer of the United Nations Council for Namibia since July 1987. He was on his way here for a ceremony on Thursday, at which accords providing for Namibia's independence are to be signed by Angola, Cuba and South Africa.

The officer is, in theory, the United Nations' appointed governor for Namibia, the South African-ruled territory also known as South-West Africa. But because United Nations authority over Namibia is not recognized by South Africa, he is in practice the chief United Nations officer in charge of development programs intended to prepare Namibia for independence.

Mr. Carlsson, a 51-year-old Swedish diplomat, had been in London for a meeting with nongovernmental groups, United Nations officials said.

From 1983 to 1985, he was an Ambassador at large and special emissary of Prime Minister Olof Palme to the Middle East and Africa.

https://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2007/10/lockerbie-investigator-disputes-story.html.

"Proper judicial procedure is simply impossible if political interests and intelligence services from whichever side succeed in interfering in the actual conduct of a court … The purpose of intelligence services from whichever side lies in secret action and deception, not in the search for truth. Justice and the rule of law can never be achieved without transparency."

–Hans Koechler, U.N. observer at the Zeist trial

I find it increasingly difficult to argue with Dr. De Braeckeleer's conclusion: "Shame on those who committed this horrific act of terror. Shame on those who have ordered the cover-up. Shame on those who provided false testimony, and those who suppressed and fabricated the evidence needed to frame Libya. And shame on the media for their accomplice silence."

Meanwhile, new extraordinary revelations have surfaced that support my view that the Lockerbie trial was engineered by Western intelligence services to frame Libya.

It now appears that huge amounts of money were offered by U.S. officials to at least three key witnesses. The defense was never told that the CIA had offered millions of dollars to their star witnesses.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 2

http://i-p-o.org/THFord-Lockerbie-why_only_silence-Sept05.htm

It was during the trial that Gup's book was published, and given the apparent candor that it showed in discussing the secret roles of Gannon, Twetten, and the Agency in general in the Lockerbie disaster, no one could reasonably expect that the United States and the CIA were the government and secret intelligence agency involved. But this was the case, as the Scottish police officer finally coming forward has demonstrated, with the Agency providing in various corrupt ways what has been explained above: the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 and French UTA Flight 772 were matches of Islamic terrorism. "Then, in 2003," after an appeal had confirmed the conviction, "a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted." (Marcello Mega, Scotland on Sunday, August 28, 2005)

By the time The Fall of Pan Am 103, written by Steven Emerson and Brian Duffy, appeared in 1990, the 'conspiracy theories' had been so shot down that no serious person would listen to them any longer, though Joe Vialls continued to claim that the Zionists had done it.

That should change now. The planted evidence, plus Gup's false stories, should make everyone be thinking conspiracy. It should be seen, it seems, as the disaster the just-elected George H. W. Bush arranged to prevent the worst secrets of Iran-Contra ruining his Presidency.

http://whale.to/c/murder_of_policewoman.html

There is no doubt that Robin Cook's statement was designed to quash growing public skepticism about Libyan involvement in the downing of Pan Am 103 during 1988. When investigators finally prove officially that the Libyans were not responsible for Yvonne Fletcher's murder in London, British and American Government credibility over the fake charges on Pan Am 103 will be destroyed. This will leave unanswered the critical question of exactly who ordered and carried out the murders of 259 citizens on the ill-fated "Maid of the Seas", high above Lockerbie in December 1988.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 3

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/Pinetreeline/other/other18/other18an.html

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Canadian_Connection_To_Lockerbie_&_Pan_Am_103

airforce.dnd.ca Honorable Portor Goss February, 14 , 1998

Chairman

House Intelligence Oversight Committee

US House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

Subject: My knowledge of CIA involvement in the crash of the Gander Arrow Air DC-8 and PAN AM 103

My specialized knowledge of ordinance, explosives and pyrotechnics may provide the missing insights needed to solve several major terrorist crimes. For 15 years my company ACCURACY SYSTEMS ORDINANCE CORPORATION, provided specialized explosive devices to law enforcement, the military, Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Most of the military victims had been part of the 101st Airborne who were returning from Cairo, Egypt, where they were part of the U. N. peacekeeping mission enforcing the Camp David Accords. However, in addition to these troops, there was also a small group of Special Operations personnel who boarded the plane at the last minute. Sources found to be reliable told me that these personnel smuggled a nuclear backpack bomb aboard in Cairo because they had discovered the true nature of their recently cancelled hostage rescue mission.

However, the real reason I am sending you the reports of federal efforts to silence me is to emphasize the value of the specialized knowledge that I possess. As a second example, I present photos of the detonator that initiated the bomb on PAN AM 103. I know where this circuit board was manufactured in Florida, not Europe, and that it was sold exclusively to the CIA— not to the Libyans!

All of my current efforts to have local and federal law enforcement agencies (including their parent agencies in DC) investigate these matters have been unsuccessful. In fact, our US Attorney has actually defended the perpetrators and local US District Court judges have refused to act on my requests, or, in most cases, simply Dismissed them or ruled in favor of the U S Attorney. In spite of overwhelming evidence that not only am I telling the truth, but the Federal Agents are lying, filing False Affidavits or otherwise knowingly misleading the Court.

Charles M Byers

President

CC: All Members of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 4

“Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross - Lockerbie (1994)”- https://youtu.be/0B5hv6scbBo

Notice Bill Barr [US Attorney General 1991] and Robert Mueller [US assistant Attorney General] handled the situation, see video clips concerning their statements; 1:42 – Bill Barr and 1:14:04 – Robert Mueller.

25:09 – “A number of VIPs were pulled off that plane, a number of intelligence operatives were pulled off that plane. The South Africans, particularly Pik Botha, were booked on flight 103 and changed pretty much at the last hour or so. These South Africans had been warned by Bureau State Security to change reservations. The South Africans booked on flight 103 cancelled just before departure along with Pik Botha, General Malan, the Defense Minister, General van Tonder, Head of the Secret Service BOSS, and other senior government officials. Botha, Malan and Van Tonder confirmed this change in travel arrangements to British businessman Tiny Rowlands. They tell him the source of the information was of the kind that could not be dismissed. Botha rebooks on the earlier PAN AM 101, General van Tonder and 2 other members of BOSS cancel their trip all together. BOSS has close ties to 2 very important services, to the Israeli service and also to the American Central Intelligence Agency.”

https://inteltoday.org/2019/10/13/one-year-ago-apartheid-foreign-minister-pik-botha-dies-lockerbie-conspiracy/

The suggestion was that there was a plot to assassinate Bernt Carlsson, the designated UN Commissioner for the newly independent Namibia, who died on the flight. (INTEL TODAY – Carlsson was rebooked on PA103 because he had been delayed by a meeting with De Beers officials in Brussels.)

Not a single US worker at the Moscow embassy took flight Pan Am 103 from Frankfurt, a standard and popular route home for Christmas.

Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross – Lockerbie (1994)

Produced, written, and directed by Allan Francovich and financed by Tiny Rowland, the film was released by Hemar Enterprises in November 1994.

With a controversial premise, it was immediately threatened with legal action by lawyers acting for a US government official, and the British government prevented screenings at the 1994 London Film Festival, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and at several universities.

Some background regarding Tiny Rowland

https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1993/eirv20n19-19930514/eirv20n19-19930514_036-did_british_intelligence_kill_ha.pdf

[Janus] Walus's possible involvement with British intelligence becomes highlighted also with the sudden visit to South Africa, just days before the [ANC’s Chris Hani’s] assassination [also note >>17913444, >>17913411 ], of one of the most important figures in British intelligence, former MI-6 Africa desk head Nicholas Elliott. Despite being in his seventies, Elliott made the arduous journey to Johannesburg from London for a mere three days of meetings. According to sources in London, he met with Julian Ogilvie-Thompson, head of the Anglo-American Corp., the ANC's chief financial sponsor inside the country. Elliott, whose father had been headmaster at the elite British boarding school Eton, was the lifelong friend of Soviet spy Kim Philby, and was suspected of having tipped off Philby in 1963 that he was being investigated by British counterintelligence, allowing him to escape to Moscow. Elliott is also a former board member of Lonrho of Tiny Rowland. Rowland's Lonrho purchased the ANC's Johannesburg headquarters [where the shell house massacre occurred before SA’s first ‘democratic election] for them, and is bankrolling a planned new ANC newspaper.

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>“Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross - Lockerbie (1994)”- https://youtu.be/0B5hv6scbBo

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 5

BERNT CARLSSON: THE TARGET ON PAN AM FLIGHT 103? By Patrick Haseldine

http://www.shirleymckie.com/documents/BERNT_CARLSSON.pdf

Countdown to Lockerbie

1. On 27 September 1974, the UN Council for Namibia (UNCN) enacts Decree No 1 which prohibits all exploitation of Namibia's natural resources - particularly diamonds and uranium. The Decree provides for the payment of damages to the future government of an independent Namibia.

1. UN Security Council Resolution 435 of 1978 orders apartheid South Africa to withdraw from its illegal occupation of Namibia.

1. On 1 July 1987, Bernt Carlsson is appointed an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and the UN Commissioner for Namibia. Within two weeks of Carlsson's appointment, the UNCN institutes infraction proceedings against the uranium producer URENCO in the Netherlands, and signals similar action against Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. [“Bernt Carlsson and The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds Part 3” - https://youtu.be/IHIDaGrIsmY]

1. Reagan/Gorbachev summit of June 1988 decides on Namibian independence. The New York Accords are scheduled for signature on 22 December 1988 by US/Soviet client states: South Africa, Cuba and Angola. 5. In July 1988, UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, is invited to address the Development Committee of the European Parliament in Brussels on 20 December 1988.

1. Early in December 1988, Carlsson appears in the Granada TV documentary "Disappearing Diamonds" and criticises De Beers for illegal extraction of Namibia's diamonds (value $18.7 billion at 2009 prices). As a result, De Beers summon him to a meeting in London on 21 December 1988. Three days before his departure from New York to Brussels on 19 December 1988, Carlsson cancels his return flight booking from Brussels to New York. Instead, he books himself on British Airways Flight 391 to London for the meeting with De Beers, and on Pan Am Flight 103 from Heathrow to JFK. (This information is derived from Jan-Olof Bengtsson's article in the Swedish newspaper iDAG of 12 March 1990. It has never been published in English. Why?)

1. A 23-strong delegation from South Africa are also booked on Pan Am Flight 103. Their South African Airways flight from Johannesburg is forbidden by the US Comprehensive AntiApartheid Act of 1986 from continuing to New York. So Foreign Minister, Pik Botha, Defence Minister, Magnus Malan, Director of Military Intelligence, General Van Tonder, and 20 negotiators have to suffer the indignity of alighting at Heathrow and of taking the US carrier, Pan Am, to JFK. In the event, none of the 23 South Africans travelled on Carlsson's flight. Six are reported to have taken the morning Pan Am Flight 101 to New York, and 17 are understood to have returned by SAA to Johannesburg. (The fact that Pik Botha's delegation were booked on Pan Am Flight 103 was suppressed for six years - until the Reuters news agency reported it on 12 November 1994. Why?)

Conclusion

No attempt has yet been made to formally investigate the murder of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson. The decision not to investigate was taken by a junior Scottish policeman, Detective Constable John Crawford, on the basis of information supplied to him by "a very helpful lady librarian in Newcastle". Former MEP Michael McGowan has called for urgent action by the UN. He is the 17th signatory of an online petition ( http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BerntCarlsson/ ) which demands a United Nations inquiry into the murder of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, in the 1988 Lockerbie Bombing

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 6

“The Lockerbie Bombing Apartheid Conspiracy” – Brent “Carlsson had links with the ANC”

https://secretsouthafrica.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/the-lockerbie-bombing-apartheid-conspiracy/. Another twist

The Commissioner was on his way to the UN signing of the Tripartite Accord which would grant independence to Namibia and end the direct involvement of foreign troops in the Angolan Civil War. Interestingly, Carlsson had links with the ANC.

On the 14th of March, 1982 he tipped off the then ANC president, Oliver Tambo not to attend a meeting in the London offices of the ANC which were bombed by one of Carlsson’s compatriots on the same day.

The fact that Bernt Carlsson had been helpful to the president of the ANC (Oliver Tambo) on a number of previous occasions provides possible ascription of motive for assassination to the apartheid government in that the ANC were one of their greatest political enemies.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 7

Gala premiere of “Chaplin”, funded by De Beers in memory of Bernt Carlsson, Dag Hammarskjold mentioned - PJ Haseldine 20 December 1992 Letter

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Guardian_letter_20_Dec_1992.jpg and attached. Below are excerpts.

The souvenir programme briefly described Mr Carlsson’s life and reported that he died on December 21, 1988 but failed to make any mention of the Lockerbie disaster and that he was the most prominent of its 270 victims.

Why?

Of course, the explanation might have nothing at all to do with the fact that the gala’s benefactor and biggest advertiser in the programme was De Beers, who control the mining, marketing and pricing of the world’s diamonds; nor that Namibia, which did not manage to shrug off the illegal occupation of most of its territory by South Africa until late 1989, is the source of some of the best diamond gemstones; nor that Mr Carlsson was in fear of his life in the seven days leading to Lockerbie; nor that Mr Carlsson made a last-minute, unscheduled trip from Belgium on December 21, 1988 to meet De Beers in London, just prior to boarding the fateful flight PanAm 103.

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.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/De_Beers has more interesting links concerning De Beers.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 8

“LOCKERBIE: A PRIME SUSPECT: De Beers/ Anglo American Group”

http://lockerbiedivide.blogspot.com/2010/01/london-origin-theory.html?showComment=1264768549230#c5692664032111793634

Patrick Haseldine said…

Dear Adam,

Here is Gordon Brown's reason (sent to me by e-mail yesterday) for you to suspect otherwise:

LOCKERBIE: A PRIME SUSPECT

With reference to the murder of United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, and 269 other innocent folk in the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988, it would not be out of line to consider the De Beers/ Anglo American Group a prime suspect as it had the Motive, Means and Opportunity to carry out such an attack.

MOTIVE: With regards to motive, the Group had a pressing need:

1. to prevent an in-depth investigation of its decades-long illegal gem diamond mining operations in Namibia in breach of United Nations Decree No. 1 which Bernt Carlsson was about to conduct,

2. to prevent the United Nations Commissioner for Namibia from further uncovering and quantifying the secretive high-grading/overmining practice which the Group had embarked upon with the object of depleting Namibia’s more valuable gem diamond resources ahead of an internationally recognised independence settlement; an illegal practice which had been brought to public note through the findings of the Thirion Judicial Commission of Inquiry,

3. to hide from public scrutiny the human rights abuses and discriminatory employment practices the Group’s Namibian employees had been subjected to for more than 50 years,

4. to ward off a massive claim for damages the United Nations could legally have instituted against the Group on behalf of the people of Namibia,

5. to frustrate any action likely to threaten the Group’s dominant control of diamond mining in Namibia and prevent its lucrative concessions from being legally expropriated in the public interest and granted to a less controversial and more responsible mining company. This effectively would have ended the De Beers Diamond Cartel’s monopolistic control of the world diamond industry.

MEANS: Through the Group’s established contacts and dealings with the CCB, CIA (through Maurice Tempelsman [remember in one of the previous South Africa thread(s) that he is connected to the Kennedy family]), BOSS and Executive Outcomes, The Group most certainly possessed the means to carry out such an attack. Breaking into Heathrow Airport’s luggage handling section would have posed little difficulty to any one of these organisations. There was money and expertise aplenty to carry out such an operation.

OPPORTUNITY: There was more than adequate time to plan and execute this heinous criminal act as Bernt Carlsson’s movements and travel arrangements, dictated in part by De Beers in London, were known to The Group well in advance. It was the ideal crime as nobody would ever suspect Bernt Carlsson was the target and therefore no finger would ever point at De Beers/Anglo American. This cowardly attack was conveniently labelled the dastardly work of a terrorist organisation.

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 9

UN Council for Namibia sues Netherlands over Namibia's natural resources – Urenco

In an unprecedented action, the United Nations Council for Namibia has instituted legal proceedings in the Netherlands against the Dutch uranium enrichment plant Urenco Nederland V.O.F. and its State-controlled managing partner Ultracentrifuge Nederland N.V., as well as the Government of the Netherlands, "to prevent Urenco Nederland V.O.F. from carrying out orders on the basis of purchases of Namibian uranium'. The Council is the legal Administering Authority for the Territory until independence. It is the first time that a United Nations body has sued a Government.

Council President Peter D. Zuze of Zambia said the action was "only a first step by the Council in implementing its decision of May 1985 to institute legal proceedings, as one of various options, to safeguard the natural resources of Namibia'. The writ of summons was served on the defendants on 14 July 1987. On 23 July 1987, the Netherlands, in a letter (A/42/414) to the Secretary-General called the action "unprecedented', adding that Netherlands electricity companies did not buy Namibian uranium. Urenco Nederland V.O.F. and Ultracentrifuge Nederland N.V. operated within a German, British and Netherlands consortium, Urenco Ltd., established in 1971, that concluded enrichment contracts on behalf of the three partners in the consortium with electricity suppliers. The enrichment processes did not take place in the Netherlands.

The Council's Steering Committee on 2 May 1985 decided to institute legal action, in domestic courts of States and other appropriate bodies, against corporations or individuals who were violating the Council's 1974 Decree No. 1 for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Namibia. The Committee had also decided that those legal proceedings would commence in the Netherlands, against Urenco, a company which it said was known to process Namibian uranium in violation of the Decree.

The Decree forbids any person or entity from searching for, prospecting for, exploring for, taking, extracting, mining, processing, refining, using, selling, exporting or distributing any natural resources, whether animal or mineral, situated or found to be situated within Namibia's territorial limits without the Council's consent and permission.

Other countries against which such action might be taken are: Belgium, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Council for Namibia sues Netherlands over Namibia's n atural…-a06272039

https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/urenco.pdf

Urenco also came under fire from the United Nations, which accused the company of obtaining uranium from Namibia without permission. The UN had asserted authority over Namibia in 1967, but the apartheid government of South African continued to exercise control of the territory and its mineral wealth. A Urenco spokesperson responded to the charge by saying “we don’t know where the stuff comes from.”x (The case was later dropped as Namibia moved toward independence in 1990.)

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 10

“Pik Botha’s Lockerbie mystery” – 1 of 2

https://www.iol.co.za/ios/behindthenews/pik-bothas-lockerbie-mystery-17617534

Oct 24, 2018

Chris Nicholson [retired judge of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal]

What do Mats Wilander, the tennis player, and former National Party minister Pik Botha have in common?

Botha and Wilander both missed Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people.

“Those whom the gods love, die young” is an adage from Greek mythology but for the handsome, curly-haired Swede the gods were clearly making an exception when he missed Pan Am Flight 103. Since that fateful day, Wilander has had a wonderful career and made a lot of money. He now spends much of his time living on an 33-hectare estate in Hailey, Idaho, US, which is part of the Sun Valley ski resort. He married Sonya (née Mulholland), a South African model from Summerveld, Durban.

On January 11, 1989 Botha travelled to Stockholm in Sweden with other foreign dignitaries - including UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - for the funeral of the UN’s Commissioner for South-West Africa, Bernt Carlsson. Botha was interviewed by Sue MacGregor on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, and alleged that he and a 22-strong South African delegation, who were booked to fly from London to New York on December 21, 1988, had been targeted by the ANC. However, having been alerted to these ANC plans to kill him, Botha said he managed to outsmart them by taking the earlier Pan Am Flight 101 from Heathrow to JFK Airport, New York.

Despite having the knowledge, the question remains why he did not tell the airline security and alert the other passengers that their deaths were going to follow in a few minutes. Is there any other conclusion but that Botha was happy for them to go to their deaths?

The notion that Botha was warned is bolstered by statements made by Oswald Le Winter, who worked for the CIA from 1968 to 1985, and Tiny Rowland in the 1994 film The Maltese Double Cross. This film was made by Allan Francovich, who later died under suspicious circumstances.

>“Allan Francovich: The Maltese Double-Cross - Lockerbie (1994)”- https://youtu.be/0B5hv6scbBo

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About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots – Part 11

“Pik Botha’s Lockerbie mystery” – 2 of 2

https://www.iol.co.za/ios/behindthenews/pik-bothas-lockerbie-mystery-17617534

Oct 24, 2018

In the film Le Winter quotes Rowland as disclosing that Botha had told him he and 22 South African delegates were going to New York for the Namibian Independence Ratification Ceremony and were all booked on the Pan Am Flight 103. They were given a warning from a source which could not be ignored and changed flights. The source revealed by Le Winter is the SA Bureau for State Security (BOSS), which he claims had close contacts with Israeli intelligence and the CIA.

Could the “rough working notes” and the “personal diary of those days” have been fabricated to save Pik Botha’s skin from a most embarrassing and possibly criminal act? Two years before Eglin asked the questions in Parliament, Botha was contacted by the press and his replies were reported on a Reuters Textline of November 12, 1994, under the heading “South African Minister denies knowing of Lockerbie Bomb”.

The article said: “Former foreign minister Pik Botha denied on Saturday he had been aware in advance of a bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people. The minister confirmed through his spokesman that he and his party had been booked on the ill-fated airliner but switched flights after arriving early in London from Johannesburg.”

There is further confirmation of the fabrication from other sources. On November 12, 1994, Botha’s spokesperson, Gerrit Pretorius, told Reuters that Botha and 22 South African negotiators, including Defence Minister Magnus Malan and Foreign Affairs director Neil van Heerden, had been booked on Pan Am Flight 103. He said “the flight from Johannesburg arrived early in London and the embassy got us on to an earlier flight. Had we been on Pan Am Flight 103 the impact on South Africa and the region would have been massive. It happened on the eve of the signing of the tripartite agreements,” said Pretorius, referring to pacts signed at the UN headquarters on December 22, 1988, which ended South African and Cuban involvement in Angola, and which led to Namibian independence.

Another statement by Pretorius was in appallingly bad taste: “The minister is flattered by the allegation of near-omniscience.” Pretorius goes on to explain again how the change had come about. “But we got to London an hour early and the embassy got us on an earlier flight. When we got to JFK (airport) a contemporary of mine said, ‘Thank God you weren’t on 103. It crashed over Lockerbie’.”

Papenfus admits a further intriguing detail: “In response to enquiries the Department of Foreign Affairs initially officially denied that seats had ever been booked for the ministerial party on Pan Am Flight 103. They said that the bookings had been on Flight 101 right from the beginning.” Papenfus concludes: “The tragedy claimed the life of the UN’s Commissioner for South West Africa, Mr Bernt Carlsson of Sweden. He was supposed to have been present at the signing of the agreements.”

The question remains whether he was not the real target of those who put the bomb on Pan Am 103.

>>17918413

>Bernt Carlsson, who was a passenger on the Pan Am flight that crashed over Scotland, had served as chief administrative officer of the United Nations Council for Namibia since July 1987. He was on his way here for a ceremony on Thursday, at which accords providing for Namibia's independence are to be signed by Angola, Cuba and South Africa.

>The officer is, in theory, the United Nations' appointed governor for Namibia, the South African-ruled territory also known as South-West Africa. But because United Nations authority over Namibia is not recognized by South Africa, he is in practice the chief United Nations officer in charge of development programs intended to prepare Namibia for independence.

Namibia 1989 Events Towards Independence - Chester Crocker, Louis Pienaar, Anatoly Adamishin

https://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/131.htm

https://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/131.htm

28.02.1989

The TGNU [Transitional Government of National Unity (Namibia)] dissolves itself.

Administrator-General Louis Pienaar [Is he related to Andre Pienaar? >>17694378] assumes control over governmental affairs in Namibia.

07.04.1989

The Administrator-General Pienaar unilaterally suspends the independence process. The SA Foreign Minister Pik Botha quickly contradicts Pienaar with a statement that South Africa remains fully committed to SC Resolution 435.

The UN Secretary-General orders the early mobilisation of three UNTAG-battalions from Finland, Kenya and Malaysia.

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. The parties agree that SWAPO troops should be assembled at 16 assembly points and withdraw from Namibia to the 16th latitude in Angola, under guarantee of safe passage. All assembly points would be under UNTAG supervision and be operational by noon on 11.04.1989.

Beginning October 1989

The South African Administrator-General Louis Pienaar transfers the Namibian civil service pension fund from the Namibian administration to trustees who could move it to South Africa. The estimated outflow of Namibian pension funds is 1,2 billion Rand.

11.11.1989

UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari certifies that the elections were "free and fair".

21.11.1989

Sam Nujoma opens the Constituent Assembly exactly one week after the elections being certified. The sixty-six men and six women of the Constituent Assembly represent a total of seven political parties. Theo-Ben Gurirab proposes the adoption of the 1982 Constitutional Principles of the Western Contact Group (UN Report S/15287 dated 12.07.1982).

07.12.1989

The British Ambassador, Robin Renwick, reports that SWAPO has approached him for help in the creation of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) and the Commonwealth (which Namibia will join with independence) for the formation of a national police force (NAMPOL).

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>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.

>>17910156

>>>17784293, >>17784294 Chester Crocker, "Oppenheimer of South Africa," later became a Director of Minorco

Remember…

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“OPPENHEIMER OF SOUTH AFRICA" - Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/08/magazine/oppenheimer-of-south-africa.html

May 8, 1983

Of course, it might also be said to be by its nature a part of Africa. But then the Reagan Administration's man on Africa [Chester A. Crocker] didn't mean to be talking race; he was talking power, economics and ideology. He was talking of a South Africa that deserves to be called, as he elsewhere noted, the Saudi Arabia of minerals.

Despite South Africa's exchange controls, the group has managed in recent years to build up large holdings in the United States and Canada through the Bermuda-based Minerals and Resources Corporation, known as Minorco, whose board includes such American business eminences as Citicorp's Walter B. Wriston and Lazard Freres' Felix Rohatyn. Forbes magazine claimed a few years ago that Minorco was the largest foreign investor in the United States. Anglo American modestly says Forbes's calculations were ridiculously inflated, but Minorco's lengthening list of interests includes coal in Appalachia, copper in Arizona, fertilizer in Iowa and investment banking on Wall Street through Salomon Brothers.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2655201

Lastly, that edition of Optima commented on the “valiant efforts” (Barber 1987a, p. 68) of Dr. Chester Crocker, the then American Assistant Secretary of State for Africa. Both De Beers and Anglo American were obviously enormously enamored with Crocker. By 1990 [the year Mandela was released], they had appointed him as a director of Minorco, which was based in Luxembourg and “the main overseas investor for Oppenheimer funds” (Kanfer 1993, p. 362). A high-profile appointment to such an entity suggests a very different imperative to that which Oppenheimer voiced in his interview with Nielsen (1985) regarding investing beyond South Africa.

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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.

>>17918524

>Both De Beers and Anglo American were obviously enormously enamored with Crocker. By 1990 [the year Mandela was released], they had appointed him as a director of Minorco, which was based in Luxembourg and “the main overseas investor for Oppenheimer funds” (Kanfer 1993, p. 362).

“Memorandum of Conversation Between Assistant Secretary Chester Crocker and Anatoly Adamishin. Subject: Southern Africa”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16874-document-02-memorandum-conversation-between

Below is an excerpt

Date: May 29, 1988

Place: Foreign Ministry Guest House, Moscow

Participants: Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary, US Dept. of State

Anatoly Adamishin, Deputy Ministre, USSR MFA

Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

Vasillen Vasev, Director, 3rd African Dept., USSR MFA

Soviet interpreter

In Fact, Admishin seaid, Luanda has asked Moscow to tell the U.S. during the Summit that Angola was ready for trilateral economic cooperation with the U.S. and Soviet Union in three specific areas: diamonds, gold, and ferrous metals. (Adamishin asked that Crocker keep this to himself until it had been raised at higher levels in the course of the Summit.)

>>17918536

>Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

“Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society”

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Clapp Bio.pdf

Ms. Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Asia Society and the US Institute of Peace, where she is also a member of the International Advisory Board.

During her 30-year career with the U.S. Government, Ms. Clapp served as Chief of Mission and permanent Charge d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Burma (1999-2002), Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in South Africa (1993-96), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Refugee Programs (1989-1993), Deputy Political Counselor in the US Embassy in Moscow (1986-88), and chief of politicalmilitary affairs in the US Embassy in Japan (1981-85). She also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. She speaks Russian, Japanese, French, and some Burmese.

Prior to government service, Ms. Clapp spent ten years in foreign policy and arms control research, with the MIT Center for International Studies and as a Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Ms. Clapp’s books include: with Morton Halperin, Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy (Brookings, 2006), with I.M.Destler et al., Managing an Alliance: the Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations (Brookings, 1976), with Morton Halperin, U.S.-Japanese Relations in the 1970's (Harvard, 1974). She is a frequent media commentator and the author of numerous publications on Burma and U.S. Burma policy with USIP, the Brookings Institution, the East-West Center, Australia National University, Singapore's ISEAS, the National Bureau for Asian Research, National University of Singapore, the Asia Society and others

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>>>17784324, >>17784341, >>17784355, >>17862700 Unsolved 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme (videos)

>>17918413

>From 1983 to 1985, he [Bernt Carlsson] was an Ambassador at large and special emissary of Prime Minister Olof Palme to the Middle East and Africa.

>>17694378 - If the Apartheid regime and its “puppet” Bantustans were so evil, why were their intelligence agents integrated into the “new” South Africa?

Wynand du Toit (former Recce, South Africa special forces during Apartheid) knows who murdered (Swedish Prime Minister) Olof Palme

“Donderdag, 27 Oktober 2022. Wie het vir wie binnegeval. 'n Parallelle geval” (Thursday, 27 October 2022. Who invaded whom. A parallel case)

https://youtu.be/YA2HWWJNW_c

4:26 – “I think at that stage the West abandoned our interests as an Afrikaner nation but it was probably planned in advance that these misleading actions had to take place. Now then, who financed the ANC and SWAPO in their war struggle? Sweden, Netherlands, the United Nations, Britain and America.”

8:20 – “Ask yourself the question, why was Olof Palme then shot dead in an assassination attack by a South African in those war years? No prosecution, of any kind was ever done regarding it, but I think it is also well known who assassinated him at that time. I don’t want to go into it because the person, from the nature of the matter, is still alive and has the right to live.”

>>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.

>>17918570

“South Africa may hold the answer to who murdered Olof Palme”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/08/how-i-got-close-to-those-who-claimed-to-know-who-murdered-olof-palme

Mon 8 Jun 2020

Dag Hammarskjöld brought me to Olof Palme. Two Swedish leaders, both supporting small nations on the world scene, both of whom refused to be controlled by global superpowers; both died a violent death.

Through the Hammarskjöld investigation I had built an extensive network of contacts: former intelligence operatives, ex-military staff, historians, and journalists. For the Palme case, one of the most useful contacts was a former general, Tienie Groenewald, who at the time of Palme’s murder had been in charge of South Africa’s National Intelligence Interpretation Branch. He told me fascinating stories of how South African military intelligence collaborated with the CIA, how the Israelis helped South Africa acquire the nuclear bomb – but not much of value for the Palme case.

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>Ask yourself the question, why was Olof Palme then shot dead in an assassination attack by a South African in those war years? No prosecution, of any kind was ever done regarding it

>>17918581

“Sweden drops probe into unsolved 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme”

https://youtu.be/RaVncsHmZZs

10 June 2020

https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/the-skandia-man-suspected-of-killing-swedish-prime-minister-olof-palme/10 June 2020

At a press conference on Wednesday morning, the Swedish chief prosecutor Krister Petersson announced who he believes to be the killer. He named a man who in Swedish media has been called ”the Skandia man” as the suspect.

”The Skandia man” is deceased, which means he can not be interrogated, and he can not be prosecuted. Therefore the prosecutor has decided to close the criminal investigation.

The investigation of the murder of the prime minister is the most comprehensive and most expensive investigation in Swedish history, and one of the biggest in the world. 134 people have confessed to shooting Olof Palme in the 34 years that have passed since the murder. 29 of them have confessed to Swedish police.

More than 10.000 people have been interrogated in the investigation. 40.000 people are mentioned in the investigation, according to the police investigator Hans Melander.

>>17910156

>>>17863299 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos

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>In Fact, Admishin seaid, Luanda has asked Moscow to tell the U.S. during the Summit that Angola was ready for trilateral economic cooperation with the U.S. and Soviet Union in three specific areas: diamonds, gold, and ferrous metals. (Adamishin asked that Crocker keep this to himself until it had been raised at higher levels in the course of the Summit.)

“Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/interpol-confirms-red-notice-for-angolan-billionaire-isabel-dos-santos-c05be818-0870-5768-9fe7-ecb4f1acbdfe

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2022

Lisbon - Global police agency Interpol confirmed it had issued a red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, asking global law enforcement authorities to locate and provisionally arrest her.

Dos Santos, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, has faced corruption accusations for years, including allegations by Angola in 2020 that she and her husband had steered $1 billion in state funds to companies in which they held stakes during her father's presidency, including from oil giant Sonangol.

Portugal's Lusa news agency reported on 18 November that Interpol had issued an international arrest warrant for dos Santos. But Interpol told Reuters it had issued a red notice instead, at the request of Angolan authorities.

It explained that a red notice was "not an international arrest warrant" but a "request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action".

A source close to dos Santos said on 19 November that she had yet to be notified by Interpol. A spokesperson for dos Santos did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.

According to Lusa, an official document related to the request made to Interpol mentions that dos Santos is often in Portugal, Britain and the United Arab Emirates.

The same document cited by Lusa said dos Santos, 49, was wanted for various crimes, including alleged embezzlement, fraud, influence peddling and money laundering.

Dos Santos has given interviews recently, telling CNN Portugal on Tuesday, that the courts in Angola were “not independent" and judges there were "used to fulfil a political agenda".

>>17928983

>“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.

Roelf Meyer, Cyril Ramaphosa and Magnus Malan

“Silk Tie Revolutionaries” - https://thenewamerican.com/silk-tie-revolutionaries/

• The blatantly pro-ANC/SACP constitution was constructed by the ANC’s Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa and the NP’s Constitutional Development Minister Roelf Meyer — with the help of Harvard’s Roger Fisher (CFR) and other Insider internationalists. It amounted to an abject surrender of the government by the NP to the ANC. But it was presented to South Africans by de Klerk and company as a great negotiation “victory.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/30/world/south-africa-leader-demotes-2-ministers-in-charge-of-security.html

General [Magnus] Malan, who was demoted today to the Ministry of Housing and Works for the white chamber of Parliament, was replaced in the Defense Ministry by Ro[e]lf Meyer, a civilian.

Reposting from QR Bunker

https://endchancxfbnrfgauuxlztwlckytq7rgeo5v6pc2zd4nyqo3khfam4ad.onion.autos/qrbunker/res/73076.html

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>QR Bunker #234 >>80934

“British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/2020-02-29-Her-Royal-Bioweapon-Exposed-by-Gabriel-McKibben-American-Intelligence-Media-Americans-for-Innovation-Feb-29-2020.mp4

1:15 - “You basically found the source of what we could call white supremacists/fascists hegemony planned the Brits.”

8:15 – “What we call the deep state or the shadow government is this Pilgrim Society to this present day.”

29:31 – “In those [Privy Council] meetings, one of the things they did is they cleared the way for the establishment of the British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

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>29:31 – “In those [Privy Council] meetings, one of the things they did is they cleared the way for the establishment of the British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

“Roelf Meyer has been involved in ‘peace efforts’ in Myanmar since 2014” - 0:24 of “Myanmar Coup | Widespread condemnation of military coup” [Feb 9, 2021] at https://youtu.be/VWKY_MBzKbY

“Suu Kyi will need to listen to Roelf Meyer and Co”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/suu-kyi-will-need-to-listen-to-roelf-meyer-and-co-13222051

Feb 11, 2018

Meyer has been appointed as one of a select group of international advisers to Myanmar’s President Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis.

This is the latest in a long line of conflict resolution work undertaken by Meyer and is a difficult job given the scorched earth policy that has been exacted on Rohingya communities by Myanmar’s security forces in Rakhine state.

But if Meyer could succeed as a driving force with Cyril Ramaphosa in the negotiations that led to a free-and-fair democratic South Africa, then no conflict is so intractable that a solution cannot be found.

Suu Kyi hand selected Meyer, along with the former deputy prime minister of Thailand, the speaker of the Swedish parliament, Lord Derzi from the UK’s Privy Council Office, the chair of Myanmar’s Human Rights Commission, and a retired UN assistant secretary-general.

But one member of the advisory board who has now quit - veteran US politician Bill Richardson (who was heavily involved in the Balkans and Iraq) - called the advisory board a whitewash and a cheerleading team for the policies of the Myanmar government.

The decades-long relationship between Richardson and Suu Kyi soured when he confronted her about the detention of two Reuters journalists by the Myanmar military who had been working on a report about the massacre by security forces of 10 men who were shot and thrown into a mass grave.

Even though the army admitted to the extrajudicial killings, the journalists are still being held and are facing up to 14 years in prison.

According to Richardson, Suu Kyi got very angry when he confronted her on the issue and claimed it was not part of his mandate.

From Richardson’s perspective, if the advisory board was supposed to look at the implementation of the recommendations in Kofi Annan’s August 2017 report, then freedom of the press was part of those recommendations. Richardson left the board and has since been highly critical of Suu Kyi as being arrogant and intolerant of criticism. Some have gone as far as to say that Suu Kyi is providing the military with political cover.

But for all the criticism of Suu Kyi’s ethics, she remains Myanmar’s head of state, presiding over what is becoming an unspeakable human tragedy. This makes Meyer's and the rest of the advisory board’s task all the more urgent and critical.

Yanghee Lee, the UN special envoy on human rights, has said the killings and disposal of bodies by the Myanmar military had all the hallmarks of a genocide. This will need to be addressed by the board, and Suu Kyi will need to confront this reality head-on and stop trying to sweep it under the carpet.

It would seem that the Myanmar security forces have gone from killing, raping and burning villages to employing subtler measures to make life intolerable for the Rohingya.

It was impossible for the authorities to hide the devastation exacted on Rakhine villages as the group flew over the burnt out villages. In one day it would have been impossible to do a comprehensive assessment of the situation on the ground.

>>17929976

>“Roelf Meyer has been involved in ‘peace efforts’ in Myanmar since 2014”

>Yanghee Lee, the UN special envoy on human rights, has said the killings and disposal of bodies by the Myanmar military had all the hallmarks of a genocide.

>>17918547

>She [Priscilla Clapp] also worked on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, in its East Asian, Political Military, and International Organizations Bureaus, and with the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

>>17918536

>“Memorandum of Conversation Between Assistant Secretary Chester Crocker and Anatoly Adamishin. Subject: Southern Africa”

>Participants: Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary, US Dept. of State

>Anatoly Adamishin, Deputy Ministre, USSR MFA

>Priscilla Clapp, A/PolCouns, US Embassy, Moscow

Interesting that Priscilla Clapp and Roelf Meyer were/are both involved in Myanmar.

https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/priscilla-clapp

Priscilla Clapp is a retired Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Foreign Service and a senior advisor to Asia Society, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and other NGOs focused on Myanmar.

“Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi discusses Rakhine crisis with ASEAN foreign ministers” - Priscilla Clapp

https://www.refworld.org/docid/58f9ca0710.html

19 December 2016

Aung San Suu Kyi, who called for the meeting, said the government is committed to resolving the Rakhine crisis, but needs time, and stressed the importance of clearing up differences among ASEAN members through friendly consultations, it said.

Following the security crackdown to find attackers believed to be Rohingya militants, reports about Myanmar army soldiers committing extrajudicial killings, torturing villagers, raping women and burning down homes in Rohingya communities have sparked protests by Muslims in Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, as well as accusations of human rights abuses and genocide by some international organizations, Western governments, and the United Nations.

The government, which has denied the allegations, has a few backers among the international community.

Priscilla Clapp, a retired U.S. diplomat who was the chargé d'affaires at the American embassy in Myanmar from 1999 to 2002, questioned the veracity of the accusations by outside nongovernmental organizations and others.

She told RFA's Myanmar Service on Dec. 12 that those who support such charges "don't known what the situation is."

"They don't understand the language, and people make things up," she said. "They make things up just to spread rumors."

>>17910151

>>>17774395 Namibian linked to Phala Phala theft, in Cape Town court for possession of firearms - Imanuwela David Shot? (video)

“Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm I Sunday Times obtains footage of alleged robbery heist ring leader [Imanuwela David]” - https://youtu.be/ghhXqUOAvAc

“Namibian linked to Phala Phala theft, in Cape Town court for possession of firearms” - Imanuwela David Shot?

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/namibian-linked-to-phala-phala-theft-in-cape-town-court-for-possession-of-firearms-f0547d1e-9c1e-40bf-b104-aee91aade245?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1662052804

Published Sep 1, 2022

Rustenburg - One of the Namibians linked to the theft of money at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in Limpopo, appeared in the Cape Town Regional Court on Thursday.

Urbanus Shaumbwako, 37, is facing charges of unlawful possession of firearms and reckless driving.

He was arrested at a roadblock in October 2020, after he was found in possession of 12 automatic firearms.

National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson in the Western Cape, Eric Ntabazalila, told journalists outside the court that Shaumbwako’s case had nothing to do with the Phala Phala scandal. He said Shaumbwako was only facing a firearms charge.

“As things stand, us as the NPA in the Western Cape we do not know anything about Phala Phala. We have got no case on Phala Phala in this case.

“The accused before this court is a 37-year-old Namibian nationals; he is charged with 12 counts of possession of illegal firearms (automatic firearm), which he was arrested for on Blaauwberg Road on 18 October 2020… nothing on Phala Phala only those,” he said.

Shaumbwako was supposed to make a plea statement in court, but his lawyer, Reon Heckrath, told the court that he could not proceed with the pleas because of new developments, television news channel Newzroom Afrika reported.

According to the broadcaster, Heckrath said the investigating officer and a member of the Hawks took his client out of his cell at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town in June this year and questioned him without the lawyer present.

Heckrath told the court that the investigating officer and the Hawks officer asked Shaumbwako to go through Arthur Fraser's affidavit and point out any mistakes Fraser might have made, and to correct them.

He asked that Shaumbwako be placed in protective custody in case he was again secretly removed by the police.

The lawyer also told the court that Imanuwela David, also named by Fraser as an alleged Phala-Phala robber, was allegedly shot in Johannesburg last week.

David is believed to be the mastermind behind the Phala Phala farm theft.

Ntabazalila said Heckrath would have to make a formal application to the Department of Correctional Services for his client to be moved into protective custody.

>>17910151

>>>17774408 Making sense of ANC MP’s threat of assassination to The Star [INL] editor [Sifiso Mahlangu], should he not leave presidential adviser Chauke alone

>>17940320

>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.

“Making sense of ANC MP’s threat of assassination to The Star [INL] editor [Sifiso Mahlangu], should he not leave presidential adviser Chauke alone” – Phala Phala

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/opinion-analysis/making-sense-of-anc-mps-threat-of-assassination-to-the-star-editor-should-he-not-leave-presidential-adviser-chauke-alone-d42d4a00-9d03-4ef6-a468-5b8642cc56e1

I understand that INL published their story after the [leader of UDM Bantu] Holomisa submission, which went around social media platforms like wildfire. Ordinarily, before the media publishes such claims, they would extend an invitation and opportunity to those implicated to give their version. I understand that INL did precisely that since its editor claims they solicited Chauke’s account, which he declined. However, Chauke later wrote a lengthy piece addressed to the editor in which he disowned some of the information in the Holomisa submission.

Perhaps important to note is that when INL published this following the Holomiisa submission, presidential political adviser Bejane Chauke did not threaten the media outlet with any legal action; instead, he wrote a response refuting some of the allegations contained in the Holomisa submission.

The idea of Chauke opting to respond to INL instead of following a legal channel of bringing a libel case against the media outfit baffled me when I considered his response.

According to the cited WhatsApp as published by INL, Mamabolo allegedly says, “Aowaa mon (No man) Mo tologele nyana (leave him alone).“

When Mahlangu says he has no idea what Mamabolo is referring to, he allegedly says, “Leave him alone abit. You are my frnd and I don’t want Pple to Assassinate you. Bcos it can happen anytime from now” (sic).

Reading MP Boy Mamabolo’s whatsApp messages to Editor Mahlangu, which sends chills down one’s spine, one is compelled to ask precisely who, according to Mamabolo, will instruct the assassination.

Perhaps where Mamabolo needs to catch up is his misreading of the prevalence of a Chauke in our South African discourse, particularly this season. Chauke’s presence in our discourse in this season comes at least three-fold. First, he is the known political adviser to the ANC and SA president, making him the most trusted lieutenant of Ramaphosa. He is cited and implicated in (the affidavit) Arthur Fraser opened at the Rosebank police station in June. He is also in the subsequent affidavit of Fraser and is explicitly mentioned and implicated for being directly linked to the stash of monies found at Phala Phala and for having brought large amounts of foreign currency from various trips he undertook on behalf of his principal in the subsequent affidavit that Fraser submitted.

The Holomisa submission to the Parliament-initiated Section 89 inquiry panel draws from the second affidavit of Fraser. Third, and perhaps more importantly for ANC and SA citizens, the same man accused of the earlier mentioned crimes is on an ANC slate to be a contestant for a top six position in the 55th Conference, which starts on December 16.

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>>>17852996 Britain and South Africa agree to health partnership on Ramaphosa's second day of state visit” (video)

“Prince Edward and President See UK-SA Science Collaboration” - https://youtu.be/0qT9rkCeJ5c

“WATCH: Britain and South Africa agree to health partnership on Ramaphosa's second day of state visit”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/watch-britain-and-south-africa-agree-to-health-partnership-on-ramaphosas-second-day-of-state-visit-50c7bed9-ee5a-4a05-b8d4-dee48a685e53

Published Nov 23, 2022

Britain and South Africa on Wednesday announced a new health and science partnership to mark the second day of President Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit to London, the first such official guest hosted by Britain's King Charles.

Charles, 74, had rolled out traditional pomp and ceremony to welcome Ramaphosa, hosted a banquet in his honour on Tuesday. Ramaphosa also addressed lawmakers at the Houses of Parliament.

On Wednesday, Britain announced a new set of research collaborations as Ramaphosa toured the Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research facility in Europe, and Kew Gardens, with Charles' brother Edward.

British foreign minister James Cleverly said the partnerships, on areas such as vaccine manufacturing, genome sequencing and climate change, will "benefit us all".

"The UK and South Africa have shown global leadership in joining together to protect people by preventing the spread of dangerous diseases, and by working to halt climate change."

Ramaphosa will meet Prime Minister Rishi Sunak later in the day, and attend a UK-South Africa business forum to discuss trade and investment. South Africa is Britain's biggest trading partner in Africa.

Ramaphosa had highlighted the role that industrialised nations had to play in helping other countries cut emissions in his speech on Tuesday, and welcomed Britain's involvement in initiatives helping South Africa to decarbonise.

Britain will support genome sequencing at South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), which played a key role in detecting Covid-19 variants such as beta and omicron, in a push improve antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Africa.

Kew Gardens - a botanical garden in west London - will also work with South Africa's National Biodiversity Institute on preserving South Africa's plant diversity.

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>>>17852997 UK columnist brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a "dreadful fellow" after state visit to UK

“UK columnist brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a ‘dreadful fellow’ after state visit to UK”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/uk-columnist-brands-cyril-ramaphosa-as-a-dreadful-fellow-after-state-visit-to-uk-405145ca-c369-4136-88b6-0adda37e3415

November 29, 2022

Pretoria - President Cyril Ramaphosa has been labelled “a dreadful fellow” by the UK-based Sunday Times newspaper, where he was described as a man who prefers “folded stuff” over chequebooks.

In the article titled “He must be special – the tea trolley’s out”, political sketch writer Quentin Letts delved into the pomp and ceremony marking Ramaphosa’s visit to the UK’s monarchy, at the invitation of King Charles III.

The November 23 article, which criticises the president for his requests for money, was met with mixed reactions on Twitter. Some argued South Africa deserved reparations while others felt Ramaphosa could not be trusted when it came to handling the country’s purse.

“Visiting heads of state are usually subtler about asking for money, but Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, was quick to business when he addressed the joint houses of parliament.

“Ramaphosa, not one of life’s charmers, demanded Britain cough up for historical industrial emissions. South Africa wanted ‘compensation for harm done and harm yet to be done’. Get out your chequebooks. Actually, from what one hears about Ramaphosa, folding stuff might be preferable,” wrote Letts.

The writer painted Ramaphosa’s speech as a long whine about South Africa’s socio-economic challenges.

“(Lord) Hoyle delivered a tidy speech, much about (Nelson) Mandela. Ramaphosa sat there expressionless. He possibly longs for the day when someone makes a speech about him.

“His own speech, not short, was light on diplomatic anecdotes and historical perspective normal at these events.

“Instead, he banged on about poverty, diseased water, power cuts, and how to transfer ‘substantial resources’ from rich countries (i.e, us) to low and medium-income countries (i.e, him),” he wrote.

Letts ended his article with unflattering whisperings his colleague picked up at the event as journalists had to be present an hour before Ramaphosa was introduced. “As the parliamentarians dispersed, a colleague heard a couple of peers mutter, ‘what a dreadful fellow’.

“That may be unfair, but Ramaphosa certainly misread the room,” Letts wrote.

During his visit to the UK, Ramaphosa was met with protests from DA members and South African expats, who demanded he focus on fixing the energy crisis, especially recurring blackouts.

He later told the UK parliamentarians about the strong ties South Africa had with Britons.

In “our Parliament buildings in Cape Town, you may have seen a statue of Queen Victoria, the revered ancestor of His Majesty King Charles III. And not far from here, on the other side of Parliament Square, is a statue of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the father of our nation.

“The presence of the statues of these two great historical figures at the seats of our respective democracies makes a powerful statement,” said Ramaphosa.

Ramaphosa said: “ … this state visit is to reinvigorate ties of commerce, trade, and investment between our two countries. The UK is the largest foreign investor in South Africa and our fifth-largest export destination”. Over the last two decades, the UK has been South Africa’s largest source of tourists outside of Africa

“Few countries have the depth of experience and knowledge of the South African economy than Britain. British companies need to seek out opportunities in SA for investment and trade.”

Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya did not respond to a request for comment on the article

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>>>17853029 Marikana returns to haunt Ramaphosa

“Marikana returns to haunt Ramaphosa”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/marikana-returns-to-haunt-ramaphosa-8f96d53f-a140-4a10-aabc-5c6c55599570

November 29, 2022

Johannesburg - President Cyril Ramaphosa is heading to the dock for a grilling on his role in the Marikana massacre back in 2012 when the police shot and killed Lonmin mineworkers during a strike for a wage increase.

The pleadings in the civil claim for damages brought seven years ago by the group of 349 surviving mineworkers against Ramaphosa, Lonmin (now trading as Sibanye Stillwater) and the South African government, have now closed.

The remaining step would be for the parties to share the documents on which they rely. The matter would then be set down for a trial, where Ramaphosa must come and testify why he should not be held personally liable for the massacre. The mineworkers want an unconditional apology for his actions and utterances, including a damages payment of nearly R1 billion.

In June, the Johannesburg High Court made a scathing ruling that opened the door for Ramaphosa to be held liable for collusive conduct during the Marikana massacre. The move brings the current head of state - who was back then a Lonmin director - one step closer to his day in court.

Judge Frits van Oosten found that a case could be made that Ramaphosa “participated in, masterminded and championed the toxic collusion” between mining company Lonmin and the SA Police Service that led to the Marikana massacre.

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>>>17853070 Robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm ahead of release of Farmgate Parliamentary report

“LIVE BLOG: Watch robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm ahead of release of Farmgate Parliamentary report”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/live-blog-watch-robbery-at-president-cyril-ramaphosas-phala-phala-farm-ahead-of-release-of-farmgate-parliamentary-report-61c7f75e-6308-4767-adad-b5643493984e

November 30, 2022

All eyes are on the Phala Phala farm scandal today as an independent panel investigating the circumstances around the theft of $4 million (about R64m) from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm in Bela-Bela, Limpopo, is expected to hand over its report to Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.

News about large sums of foreign currency concealed under a mattress and couches at the farm came to light early this year after former State Security Agency and Correctional Services director-general Arthur Fraser opened a criminal case against Ramaphosa at the Rosebank police station.

• Check out IOL’s special Phala Phala content hub here. * https://www.iol.co.za/tags/phala-phala

Earlier reports by IOL and the Sunday Independent indicated that the money was allegedly stolen by five Namibians who conspired with a domestic worker on the farm in February 2020 and that Ramaphosa had allegedly failed to report the theft to the police.

In September, one of the Namibians linked to the theft, Urbanus Shaumbwako, 37, appeared in the Cape Town Regional Court following his arrest at a roadblock in October 2020.

At the time, he was found in possession of 12 automatic firearms and also faced charges of reckless driving.

The media in Namibia reported that police in Namibia denied any involvement in helping to cover up the theft.

The panel that will be handing over the report includes Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, former head of the Gauteng High Court Division, Judge Thokozile Masipa and advocate Mahlape Sello.

“The purpose of the panel is to say, based on information before them, if there is prima facie evidence that warrants Parliament to look into the matter, if this is the case when the report is handed over, members of Parliament will then receive a report and will have an opportunity to look at it and go to the House and have it debated and adopted,” Mapisa Nqakula said when the members of the panel were announced.

“Opposition parties expect Phala Phala panel to find Ramaphosa must face impeachment committee” - https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/opposition-parties-expect-phala-phala-panel-to-find-ramaphosa-must-face-impeachment-committee-578327d4-f201-4f07-af0a-3862b8bc71fc

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>>>17857810 Cyril Ramaphosa broke the law – Phala Phala Farmgate report

Report of the section 89 Independent panel south africa

“Cyril Ramaphosa broke the law – Phala Phala Farmgate report”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/cyril-ramaphosa-broke-the-law-phala-phala-farmgate-report-9c4ae30c-9994-43e4-a46f-b264c973ba9b

November 30, 2022

RETIRED chief justice Sandile Ngcobo’s three-member Independent Section 89 Panel has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa had violated his oath of office in handling the break-in and theft of a huge amount of money in US$ at his Phala Phala game farm.

In a report, [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sm4VqNoN4El8oPLNa3Wf6QPscCvZoX6g/view or https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Links/2022/november/30-11-2022/33659 SECTION 89 INDEPENDENT PANEL Volume 1.pdf], which Justice Ngcobo released to Parliament Speaker Nosiviwe Maphisa-Nqakula on Wednesday morning but made public at the evening, the panel found that Ramaphosa had committed four serious violations and that there is prima facie evidence against him.

Judge Ngcobo handed the three-volume report after 10am to Parliament Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, who then told a press briefing that the electronic version of it would be published via ATC, which is the Parliament’s system to publish documents of public interest.

The report states: “In light of all the information placed before the Panel, we conclude that this information discloses, prima facie, that the President may have committed:

• A serious violation of sections 96(2)(a).

• A serious violation of section 34(1) of PRECCA.

• A serious misconduct in that the President violated section 96(2)(b) by acting in a way that is inconsistent with his office.

• A serious misconduct in that the President violated section 96(2)(b) by exposing himself to a situation involving a conflict between his official responsibilities and his private business of the Constitution.

Ramaphosa is expected to appear before the National Council of Provinces on Thursday where he is expected to face a barrage of questions regarding the Phala Phala matter.

Justice Ngcobo said the report was a product of submission made by Ramaphosa, EFF, UDM and ATM to the panel.

In an affidavit he submitted to Justice Ngcobo’s panel, Ramaphosa admitted to being the sole owner of the Ntaba Nyoni Estates which operates as Phala Phala. He also revealed that there was a sale of wild game at the farm and those were the proceeds that were stolen.

Ramaphosa in his submission seems to place the blame squarely on the shoulders of security chief Major General Wally Rhoode for failing to report the crime committed at the farm.

He made this admission in a submission he made to the three-member independent Section 89 Panel.

He said the operations of the estate are managed and run by its employees under its general manager Hendrik von Wielligh.

https://www.parliament.gov.za/press-releases/release-section-89-independent-panel-report

The report will be considered by the National Assembly at its plenary sitting scheduled for 6 December 2022.

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>>>17862656 Impeachment panel omits allegations of Ramaphosa cover-up

“Impeachment panel omits allegations of Ramaphosa cover-up – IRR”

https://dailyfriend.co.za/2022/12/02/impeachment-panel-omits-allegations-of-ramaphosa-cover-up-irr/

DEC 2, 2022

Below are excerpts

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has expressed alarm over the fact that the Parliamentary Independent Panel ignored evidence that President Cyril Ramaphosa ‘acted in an impeachable fashion by suspending Mkhwebane too late to serve South Africa but just in time to try block the Phala Phala investigation’.

In a statement, https://irr.org.za/media/impeachment-panel-omits-allegations-of-ramaphosa-cover-up, the IRR noted that while the Panel ‘found that President Cyril Ramaphosa is “guilty” on four serious charges relating to the Phala Phala scandal …evidence on one of the most dangerous allegations was expressly, and alarmingly, omitted’.

‘The ATM party submitted to the Panel that “Ramaphosa acted in bad faith and was conflicted when he suspended Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the Public Protector …[and that] ATM contends that he was triggered by the 31 questions relating to the Phala Farm scandal”.

‘There should be no doubt that Mkhwebane should have been suspended years ago. There is also no doubt that Ramaphosa could have suspended her at least since February 2022. The question is therefore why he only suspended her on June 8, the day after she announced her investigation into Phala Phala, the day before a court judgment on whether the removal process was lawful, and months before other court challenges were decided.’

As a full bench of the Western Cape High Court unanimously held: ‘Significantly, the sequence of events leading to the suspension of the applicant cannot be discounted or overlooked…[O]n 7 June 2022, [Mkhwebane] informed the President in writing that she was instituting an investigation against him with regard to allegations relating to a violation of the Executive Ethics Code in respect of the Phala Phala farm incident. Thirty-one questions were raised and the President had to respond thereto within 14 days. This correspondence was followed by a public announcement by the applicant on the 8 June 2022 that she had decided to launch an investigation against the President in respect of the Phala Phala matter. In response, on the 9 June 2022, the President decided to suspend the applicant. On these objective facts, it is reasonable to form the perception that the suspension of the applicant was triggered by the decision of the applicant to institute an investigation against the President. There was no other plausible or logical explanation for the premature suspension of the applicant on the eve of a judgment meant to determine the very lawfulness of the suspension.’

The Court went on to say: ‘The above considerations do not detract from the fact that [Mkhwebane’s] suspension was long in the making. However, at the time the suspension was finalised, the President was dealing with an investigation by the applicant, the substance of the allegations of which he could not discuss as he had done with the other investigations, and this, in our view, is the critical time to assess whether it was still tenable for the President to exercise the suspension powers.’

Said IRR head of campaigns Gabriel Crouse: ‘The upshot is that a High Court was shown prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa acted in an impeachable fashion by suspending Mkhwebane too late to serve South Africa but just in time to try block the Phala Phala investigation. The Panel ignored this evidence outright. It is quite alarming.’

The IRR said it was ‘worth noting that when US President Richard Nixon faced impeachment half a century ago the original offences emanating from the Watergate Hotel were not nearly as important as the subsequent Presidential attempt at a cover-up, which included firing high-ranking investigative officials, just as Ramaphosa has been found to have done by a High Court. For evidence supporting that charge against Ramaphosa to be expressly ignored puts accountability on the back foot.’

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>>>17863273 Ramaphosa, associates implicated in USA illegal money transfer

“Ramaphosa, associates implicated in USA illegal money transfer”

https://www.maravipost.com/ramaphosa-associates-implicated-in-usa-illegal-money-transfer/

Tuesday, 21 Jun 2022 06:28AM

Below are excerpts

PRETORIA-(MaraviPost)-As the controversy rages on over the origins of the millions of US dollars stashed at South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm, it has been revealed that the head of state and those close to him may have violated aspects of the international money transfer laws of the US.

The US International money transfer laws in accordance with the US code title 18 of subsection 1957, states that:

“(a) Whoever, in any of the circumstances set forth in subsection (d), knowingly engages or attempts to engage in a monetary transaction in criminally derived property of a value greater than $10 000 and is derived from specified unlawful activity, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).

“(b) (1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), the punishment for an offence under this section is a fine under title 18, United States Code, or imprisonment for not more than 10 years or both.”

In addition, Code 1957 of the US international money law provides that a US court may impose an alternate fine of not more than twice the amount of the criminally derived property involved in the transaction.

“(c) In a prosecution for an offence under this section, the Government is not required to prove the defendant knew that the offence from which the criminally derived property was derived was specified unlawful activity.

“(d) The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are – (1)that the offence under this section takes place in the United States or in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States; or (2) that the offence under this section takes place outside the United States and such special jurisdiction, but the defendant is a United States person (as defined in section 3077 of this title, but excluding the class described in paragraph (2)(D) of such section,” reads the US Code 1957.

Furthermore, it stipulates that violations of this section may be investigated by components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney-General may direct, and by such components of the Department of the Treasury as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct.

The US Code subsection 1957 also indicates that the term “monetary transaction” means the deposit, withdrawal, transfer or exchange in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, of funds or a monetary instrument (as defined in section 1956(c)(5) of this title.

“(2) The term ‘criminally derived property’ means any property constituting, or derived from, proceeds obtained from a criminal offence; and that the terms ‘specified unlawful activity’ and ‘proceeds’ shall have the meaning given those terms in section 1956 of this title.”

“As it happened: Ramaphosa survives vote and won’t face [Phala Phala] impeachment inquiry” – “ANC BACK RAMAPHOSA”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ramaphosa-survives-section-89-phala-phala-impeachment-debate-breaking-13-december/

13-12-2022 18:25

President Cyril Ramaphosa lives to fight another day after a vote about whether he should face impeachment failed to receive enough votes.

The National Assembly debated on whether to adopt or reject the Section 89 Panel’s report over the Phala Phala burglary on Tuesday, 13 December. If the motion passed, President Ramaphosa would have faced an impeachment inquiry.

The report said there was prima facie evidence that Ramaphosa violated his oath of office and broke anti-corruption laws by failing to report the theft of millions of rand in US dollars from his farm. He allegedly had the matter investigated by his Presidential Protection Unit.

PHALA PHALA DEBATE SEES ANC BACK RAMAPHOSA

17:38 –

Votes

Yes – 148

No – 214

Abstain – 2

‘The S89 inquiry will not be proceeded with. That concludes the business of the day and the house is adjourned,’ said the Speaker.

“‘No backbone’: Lindiwe Sisulu and Zweli Mkhize MIA during vote on Phala Phala report”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/national-assembly-phala-phala-report-lindiwe-sisulu-zweli-mkhize-13-december-2022/

Lindiwe Sisulu and Zweli Mkhize have been accused of being cowards after they were nowhere to be seen during the National Assembly debate on the Phala Phala report.

“Patricia de Lille: From whistle-blower and anti-graft crusader to sitting on the Phala Phala fence”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/patricia-de-lille-from-whistle-blower-and-anti-graft-crusader-to-sitting-on-the-phala-phala-fence-e562ac21-74ce-40be-9fa8-2d9b1187a897

She has done almost everything to the extent that she has been lined up as the first witness in the ongoing Jacob Zuma arms deal corruption trial.

This is because De Lille was the original whistle-blower in the late 1990s when South Africa spent billions of rand to purchase modern arms while it was not preparing for any war.

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>Chauke’s presence in our discourse in this season comes at least three-fold. First, he is the known political adviser to the ANC and SA president, making him the most trusted lieutenant of Ramaphosa. He is cited and implicated in (the affidavit) Arthur Fraser opened at the Rosebank police station in June. He is also in the subsequent affidavit of Fraser and is explicitly mentioned and implicated for being directly linked to the stash of monies found at Phala Phala and for having brought large amounts of foreign currency from various trips he undertook on behalf of his principal in the subsequent affidavit that Fraser submitted.

“Ramaphosa denies knowing ‘nephew’ who bagged R400m tender”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-ramaphosa-nephew-tender-4-november/

04-11-2022 05:06

“I don’t even know this gentleman,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said to DA leader John Steenhuisen in Parliament on Thursday

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he doesn’t know Hangwani Maumela, his alleged nephew who scored contracts worth a whopping R381 million in the past three years from public hospitals across Gauteng.

Ramaphosa appeared in the National Assembly on Thursday, 3 November 2022, where he answered questions from MPs.

It was Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, who made the revelation in a written reply to questions by the DA’s Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom in the provincial legislature.

RAMAPHOSA DENIES BEING RELATED TO ‘NEPHEW’

DA leader John Steenhuisen mentioned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s nephew in a question about broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) schemes and corruption.

“The Zondo Commission showed that BBBEE has been central to corruption in South Africa. Whether it is the R14 billion PPE corruption in Covid-19 or the billions stolen at Eskom. A recent example, one of your own nephew’s companies scored R381 million from Gauteng hospitals. You are right. It does not benefit the majority. It only benefits ANC-connected cronies,” Steenhuisen said.

Ramaphosa responded, saying in part: “You keep saying, my nephew. I don’t even know this gentleman. So, let’s not even get there. I don’t know him.”

Ramaphosa’s office has previously denied he was involved with Maumela in anyway, but Bloom disputes this.

“The relationship is there. He’s a nephew by President Ramaphosa’s first wife but there is another connection according to News24 and that’s between Mr Maumela and Mr Bejani Chauke, who is the president’s chief of staff,” he is quoted as having told EWN [https://ewn.co.za/2022/11/03/da-questions-tender-process-for-contracts-awarded-to-ramaphosa-s-nephew].

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>>>17774372, >>17774374, >>17774375, >>17774378, >>17774382 Paul O’Sullivan

>>17940459

>Chauke’s presence in our discourse in this season comes at least three-fold.

>>17940605

> He’s a nephew by President Ramaphosa’s first wife but there is another connection according to News24 and that’s between Mr Maumela and Mr Bejani Chauke

“Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan” – Phala Phala Saga Part 1

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2022/11/03/pots-kettles-paul-osullivan

3rd November 2022

If we could mine ironies and sell them on the global market, we’d save our economy. We’ve just hit a particularly rich seam with Zuptoid and former spy chief, Arthur Fraser, whom Paul O’Sullivan paints below as “Public Enemy Number One”. O’Sullivan suggests that along with Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidential security detail chief, General Walther Rhoode, Fraser is more crooked than a bent nail and should also be behind bars. One of the more ironic aspects of what would otherwise be an excellent reality TV series called, Who’s the Biggest Liar? are these questions – prepared in time-honoured journalistic fashion by a member of that otherwise fantasy news outfit known as Independent Newspapers and all valid – posed to our very own Crusader for Justice, Paul O’Sullivan. Forget the motivation for going after O’Sullivan for the moment (or Independent’s historic links to the Zuptoids, embedded or not), the questions are valuable for the responses they provide. Which makes this a worthwhile read. You decide who is the biggest liar. For those whom history judges correct, a slew of designer TV couches awaits (which may or may not be stuffed with cash). – Chris Bateman

Email chain from Paul O’Sullivan

Good afternoon Tshwarelo.

Your enquiry of even date refers.

Since Mr Fraser has tried to fraudulently implicate me, I have copied the head of the DPCI, so that what I say to you, is ON THE RECORD with the DPCI.

The only reference I saw in the hearsay letter of Mr Fraser, is the following:

5.24. Mr O’Sullivan, who is a close associate of both the President and Mr. Chauke, is said to have used his private investigation company to assist in the tracing of the persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence.

I note that Mr Fraser uses the expression “…, is said to have used …”. He does not state who said this, but merely repeats it as if it is a fact. This is the case with 80% to 90% of what he says in this letter and in the farcical docket he has opened.

The facts are:

1. The very first I knew of the so-called Phala Phala incident was earlier this year, when it surfaced in the media. I was able to establish that it surfaced in the media because Arthur Fraser caused it to appear in the media. At the time the incident appeared in the media, I had absolutely no prior knowledge of the incident or the allegations of Fraser.

2. For the avoidance of doubt, I was NOT involved in tracing or finding anybody, or bringing them into the custody of the president’s security detail, none of whom I have ever met in my life.

3. I have never been contacted by the DPCI about this matter.

4. When it appeared in the media, I was somewhat taken aback so I did carry out a preliminary investigation. My findings were quite shocking and are set out below:

• Ninety percent of what Fraser alleges is pure hearsay, without a shred of prima facie evidence, although it seems that some of it may have underlying facts, for example a house break-in, not a robbery as widely reported in the media, did take place.

• The head of the Presidential Security Detail, Major General Walther Rhoode, had a very dark history, involving crimes such as racketeering and corruption.

• It could not be established how Rhoode got into the position of Major General in the police, when it seems he should have ended up in a criminal trial for his alleged criminal activity in the past.

• Up until early 2020, Rhode was swamped in debt and was not able to make ends meet.

• By 2021, all of Rhoode’s debts had miraculously vanished, indicating a sudden large income stream form somewhere.

• The ONLY video tape of the house break-in that took place at Phala Phala, was removed by Rhoode, or persons reporting to Rhoode and handed to Arthur Fraser.

• Arthur Fraser not only published his version of events, through a select group of journalists, but he also supplied them with a copy of the video footage he had handed to the police.

• Some of the photographs used by Fraser, ostensibly to point out motor vehicles allegedly bought with the proceeds of the alleged crime at Phala Phala, pre-date the actual incident, thereby making it impossible for them to have been purchased with proceeds of a crime that took place in February 2020 at Phala Phala.

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“Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan” – Phala Phala Saga Part 2

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2022/11/03/pots-kettles-paul-osullivan

3rd November 2022

1. The result was that almost all of the allegations made by Fraser are impossible to prove or disprove, because they are based on speculative hearsay and not fact.

2. It is very easy, especially for a person such as Fraser, to take a long thin line of truth and wrap it up with fat lies in the hope that the casual observer will believe the whole thing, when in fact it is a tailor-made pack of lies, with a sprinkling of the truth to give it an air of authenticity.

3. I am left realising that at least 80% to 90% of what Fraser alleges is an intentional figment of his imagination, conceived after realising his days as a free man are numbered and he needs to create something that can be used to either cause a change of presidency. He can then obtain some sort of get-out-of-jail-free card from an incoming Zuma loyalist, or improve his bargaining position with the current president to be let off the hook for his crimes of theft and fraud that have taken place over many years, which started with the theft of the standby generator, supplied at taxpayer expense for the commission of enquiry into the Scorpions; which generator was subsequently seen installed at Fraser’s private house.

4. I wonder what other rabbits this magician will pull out of the hat, to inflict upon a gullible public.

If an investigation is needed now, it should be into the following, at least:

A. How much money Fraser has stolen from the people of South Africa, some of which was stolen through his shadowy Principal Agent Network, which still seems to be alive and well.

B. Why Fraser has NEVER been brought to justice for his crime against the State.

C. How many people were paid with the stolen cash to run a third force type of parallel intelligence structure, that acted off the radar to destabilise the country for Zuma and his accomplices.

D. How Walther Rhoode was not put on trial for his prior crimes, which miraculously vanished at the hands of crooked Zuma appointees Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi.

E. How Rhoode ended up as a major general in the police and ‘protecting’ the president.

F. How Rhoode managed to suddenly pay off all his debts and where the cash came from.

G. Whether Rhoode was a ‘sleeper’ planted there by Fraser to be ‘woken’ when the timing was right.

H. How Fraser came into possession of the video of the break-in at Phala Phala.

I. How many other ‘sleepers’ are still on the payroll of Fraser’s third force intelligence network, who they are, where they are and when they will be ‘woken’.

J. Why the state (DPCI) has committed valuable resources investigating the hearsay of this criminal Arthur Fraser, when substantial priority crimes are being committed on a daily basis, with ample prima facie evidence, (as opposed to hearsay evidence) yet valuable resources are being used to settle the score of a low-life criminal like Fraser.

Put simply, it’s time the media started focusing on the real criminal here and the agenda being run by them. People like Fraser and Rhoode belong in prison and it’s time they were exposed for what they are.

Best wishes,

Paul O’Sullivan CFE

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“Pots and kettles – and Paul O’Sullivan” – Part 3

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2022/11/03/pots-kettles-paul-osullivan

3rd November 2022

Good Morning, Mr O’Sullivan

My name is Tshwarelo Hunter Mogakane, from Independent Media. I’m following up on a document submitted to the Section 89 independent panel. The document, said to have been written by Arthur Fraser, names you as one of the people who helped President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security detail trace and apprehend suspects in the Phala Phala farm burglary between 2020 and 2021. It is common cause that you are somebody renowned for exposing corruption, but in this instance, you are accused of illegally playing a role in what has been termed an attempt to cover-up the burglary, which has far-reaching implications as you would have seen in parliament and other platforms.

I therefore request that you respond to the following questions in order to assist in the story that I’m writing.

1. Did you or did you not assist the president’s security detail to trace suspects in the Phala Phala burglary?

2. Did you use your investigating capacity to bring the suspects into the custody of the president’s security detail?

3. Have you been approached by the Hawks in order to assist them with their investigation into the Phala Phala matter, especially since you are named in one of the documents Fraser handed to the Hawks?

4. As somebody who is well known for investigating fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes, have you ever attempted to investigate the veracity of the claims made by Fraser about money laundering that took place at Phala Phala? If not, why not?

Your time is highly appreciated. Please let me know what time you will be able to respond to the questions.

Below is a link to the document you requested.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

Many thanks, Tshwarelo Hunter Mogakane

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>The Holomisa submission to the Parliament-initiated Section 89 inquiry panel draws from the second affidavit of Fraser.

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>“ Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed”

Excerpts from the Document submitted to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation from Arthur Fraser dated June 23, 2022 – Part 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

5.1. In response to a question from the DPCI investigators on where the money comes from, I advised that one of President Ramaphosa’s closest Advisors, Mr. Bejani Chauke (‘Mr. Chauke’), was ostensibly instrumental in illegally bringing large sums of US $ into South Africa for both he and the President after returning from trips he undertook on behalf of President Ramaphosa to various countries, interalia, including, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco and Equatorial Guinea.

5.15. Approximately 3 weeks ago, after charges were laid against the President, Mr. Chauke is said have moved US$ 20 million in cash to a South African citizen, Mr. Zahir Vallie with ID Number …. for safekeeping for himself and the President.

5.16. Mr Zahir Vallie trades in property in Cape Town, called Z Prop. Mr Zahir Vallie’s property portfolio is estimated to be worth approximately R800 million. He is known to bring large amounts of foreign currency into South Africa from the Middle East without declarations, through Cape Town International airport. Information received indicates that all his properties bought are cash purchases. It is well known that his properties are running at a considerable financial loss with low returns, clearly a sign of significant money laundering.

5.18. Mr. Chauke was further also instrumental in assisting the President and Major General Rhoode with the investigations into the theft at Phala Phala. In this regard, the following persons rendered, inter alia, assistance in the investigation to the President, Mr. Chauke and Major General Rhoode into the theft at Phala Phala:

5.18.1. Constable Rikhotso, a member of the Presidential Protection Services.

5.18.2. Constable Jabu Mahlangu, a member of the Presidential Protection Services.

5.18.3. Colonel Smanga Simelane (‘Colonel Simelane’) of the South African Police Services (‘SAPS’) Crime Intelligence. [“Top cop facing charges after allegedly threatening government official”, https://www.news24.com/News24/top-cop-facing-charges-after-allegedly-threatening-government-official-20190403]

5.18.4. Dr Anton Deon De Swardt (‘Dr De Swardt’), a farmer and a managing partner at De Swardt Myambo Hlahla Attorneys…

5.18.5. Deputy Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Mr. David Mahlobo (‘Deputy Minister Mahlobo’) [“State security minister David Mahlobo reportedly linked to rhino poaching syndicate [video]” 2016, https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/state-security-minister-david-mahlobo-reportedly-linked-to-rhino-poaching-syndicate-video/, https://youtu.be/JMguWY99q6s]

5.18.6. Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Zizi Kodwa (‘Deputy Minister Kodwa’) [“Zizi Kodwa’s luxury lifestyle EXPOSED by damning state capture evidence”, https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/zizi-kodwa-payments-what-for-luxury-accommodation-who-are-eoh-state-capture/]

5.18.7. Mr. Sean McCarthy of the Sean McCarthy Group (‘SMG’), (‘Mr. McCarthy’).

5.18.8. Mr. Karl Lars Magnusson (‘Mr Magnusson’)…

5.18.9. Paul O’Sullivan (‘Mr O’Sullivan)

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Excerpts from the Document submitted to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation from Arthur Fraser dated June 23, 2022 – Part 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

5.22. Deputy Minister Mahlobo, a former Minister of State Security, used his network of contacts to assist in the tracing of the persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence.

5.23. Deputy Minister Kodwa accompanied Major General Rhoode on numerous trips to Namibia in engaging with the Namibian President and Namibian law enforcement authorities on the matter.

5.24. Mr O’Sullivan, who is a close associate of both the President and Mr. Chauke, is said to have used his private investigation company to assist in the tracing of the persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence.

5.25. Mr McCarthy is said to have assisted the President and Mr. Chauke in facilitating converting large sums of US$ into Rands. Mr McCarthy is also said to have most of his capital kept offshore in Mauritius…

5.26. Mr Magnusson, a neighbour to President Ramaphosa in Cape Town, and who is presently believed to be illegally in South Africa, is said to have not only assisted in facilitating converting large sums of US$ into Rands, but also assisting in pinging of persons alleged to have broken into the President’s residence and actively participated in their subsequent torture.

5.31. Importantly, the Namibian Crime Intelligence Report (notably p.5) corroborates what I had been told by another source, as well as corroborated and provided further information to the evidence submitted together with his affidavit filed at the Rosebank police station on 1 June 2022, notably:

5.31.2 The report details that the domestic worker, employed at Phala Phala farm had assisted Mr. Imanuwela David and his co-conspirators in locating the US$ concealed in the furniture at Phala Phala farm.

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>The lawyer also told the court that Imanuwela David, also named by Fraser as an alleged Phala-Phala robber, was allegedly shot in Johannesburg last week.

Excerpts from the Document submitted to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation from Arthur Fraser dated June 23, 2022 – Part 3

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZ877lTHRON2JAz2pzvn1nt652YNUaF/view

5.38. Page 2 of the Namibian Police Intelligence Report references the acting CEO of Fishcore, Mr. Paulus Ngalangi as having been arrested by the Namibian authorities in June 2020 for assisting Mr. Imanuwela David to illegally cross from South Africa into Namibia on 13 June 2020…

5.40. I subsequently learned that Mr Imanuwela David and Mr Paulus Ngalangi are related and further that both Mr. Imanuwela David and Mr Paulus Ngalangi are related to Mr. James Hatuikulipi who is one of the accused in the infamous ‘Fishrot’ corruption case pending in the Namibian High Court. The Namibian Home Affairs department and the Namibian police can confirm these relations.

5.41. Mr. James Hatuikulipi is also closely linked to the President of Namibia. Information available is that one of the suspects in the matter, Mr. Maren De Klerk, an attorney, implicates some of the accused, along with the President of Namibia.

5.42. It is believed that Mr. Imanuwela David was laundering money into Namibia to cover the legal costs of some of the accused in the pending ‘Fishrot’ case.

5.44. At page 6, par 2 of the Namibian Police’s Crime Intelligence Report, I highlighted that according to the report, Major General Rhoode contacted the Namibian Police Special Branch, Crime Intelligence to set up a meeting in “No man’s land” at Ariamsvlei border post.

5.45. During the meeting at “No man’s land”, Major General Rhoode confirmed to his Namibian counterpart that “something” took place at President Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm and that Mr. Imanuwela David was the mastermind behind the burglary.

5.47. the report further also noted that discussions were allegedly ongoing between the Presidents of South Africa and Namibia.

5.55. In this fictitious “drug smuggling” claim, Major General Rhoode’s informal investigation then provided the details of some of the individuals involved in the Phala Phala theft to the SAPS Detective services to track the individuals concerned.

5.56. As a result an enquiry was opened into fictitious drug smuggling when in fact the investigation related to a crime committed at President Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm.

5.63. I further advised of an individual who facilitated the exchange of US$ at the Chinese pawnshop, who is being identified.

5.67. The certified court record depicting the charges on which Mr Imanuwela David has since pleaded guilty on and in respect of which he had paid a fine ought to be obtained.

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>>84826

>[Paul] O'Sullivan ran away from home at age 14, travelled to the UK, and joined the army. He trained as an engineer, and spent six years working for the British government in counter-espionage and counterterrorism. He does not discuss what that involved. But he probably wasn't a stationery clerk. https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-03-31-the-wrong-guy-why-paul-osullivan-wont-back-down/

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>The release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 swayed him [Paul O'Sullivan], and he applied for permanent residence that year, as a person of independent means. "I brought in a few million pounds and started getting involved in business."But soon his work took a public turn: he became a police reservist, and in 1996 began training police officers and reservists on the Bill of Rights in the new constitution. One of his students in the late 1990s was a reservist called Cyril Ramaphosa, then a rising tycoon with an interest in community policing. Ramaphosa topped the class. https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-03-31-the-wrong-guy-why-paul-osullivan-wont-back-down/

Ramaphosa seems to be well protected.

“Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning”

https://youtu.be/vxotm8JAydI

Dec 2, 2022

Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan says the entire Phala Phala scandal threatening SA’s President is a setup engineered by disgraced former director general of State Security Arthur Fraser, his ‘sleeper’ inside the Ramaphosa household and ‘flexible’ journalists. He says there is no case for Ramaphosa to answer as Fraser’s affidavit, which sparked the controversy, is long on hearsay and short on fact. O’Sullivan urges Ramaphosa to display backbone and reject calls for his departure, saying he must not abandon the country in its hour of need. To resign now, the Forensics for Justice founder adds, would be an admission of guilt. He spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.

5:47 – “This is a message I sent to somebody who is extremely close to Cyril… I sent this at 5 o’ clock last night when I read this article on News24 [Naspers]… Make sure Cyril knows he will plunge this country into chaos if he resigns. He did nothing wrong and he must stay and captain the ship. Now there’s another saying… Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.” (And the criminal syndicate will continue to run the country.)

6:43 – “I was tempted to phone my good friend Herman [Mashaba], him and I have been friends many, many years. We used to be in business together… I saw Herman did a media release yesterday that Cyril must resign immediately.”

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>“I [Paul O’Sullivan] was tempted to phone my good friend Herman [Mashaba], him and I have been friends many, many years. We used to be in business together… I saw Herman did a media release yesterday that Cyril must resign immediately.”

“Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash”

https://www.saffarazzi.com/news/herman-mashaba-actionsa-funding-oppenheimers/

2021-11-19 10:56

Herman Mashaba confirms SA's wealthiest are ready to back him.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba clawed his way back from a heap of backlash to clarify the presence of the Oppenheimer family on his political party’s fund list.

Herman Mashaba response to Oppenheimer backlash

The IEC, on Thursday, published the party funding declarations report for the 2021 municipal elections, showing the donors backing each political party.

ActionSA, a new political movement enjoying a great deal of momentum in growth, was the third-most backed party in the three months leading up to Election Day (July – August 2021).

Mashaba’s party declared R16.923 million of donations made up of cash transfers and in-kind. The latter, in this context, refers to cashless donations like printing and providing election campaign merchandise, marketing collateral and consulting.

ActionSA received more than R3. 333 million from Rebecca Oppenheimer, granddaughter of Harry and Brigdet Oppenheimer.

In fact, considering the donations it received from a Jessica Slack-Jell and Victoria Freudenheim, individuals with close links to Rebecca, ActionSA received a shade below R10 million from the Oppenheimer network.

The transactions, according to the declarations report ,were made within 24 hours, between 16 and 17 September 2021, each R3 333 million.

Business magnate Martin Moshal also shelled out R5 million to Mashaba’s party, showing the true intent from South Africa’s one-percent in bolstering ActionSA’s ambitions.

In his statement, released as a response to the backlash that came from the ‘RET’ community, Mashaba implored his followers to recognise the transparency ActionSA has shown by declaring and, effectively, publishing its backers.

“We are proud of our association with South Africans who are committed to SA & have generously donated to its political future Our donors have been willing to do so openly & transparently as envisioned by the Political Party Funding Act, while others hide their donors from voters

“The reality is that after the performance of ActionSA, we have received even more interest from funders across the board. There is an overwhelming interest in the expansion of ActionSA to the 9 provinces of South Africa,” Mashaba wrote in a tweet thread.

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>>>17857816 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President (with ,pdf)

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> the criminal syndicate will continue to run the country.

“David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/david-mabuza-deputy-president/

26-02-2018 22:14

David Mabuza was voted deputy president of the ANC at the party’s elective conference in 2017.

David Mabuza was voted in as deputy president of the African National Congress during the 2017 Elective Conference. Cyril Ramaphosa has elected to keep him as his right-hand man in the cabinet.

CABINET RESHUFFLE: WHO IS DAVID MABUZA?

Mabuza is seen by political analysts as the antithesis of what Cyril Ramaphosa represents. The Mpumalanga premier has countless links to alleged corruption, https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/mabuza-magashule-ramaphosas-presidency/.

MABUZA’S SCANDALS

After supporting Jacob Zuma in 2007, he was granted the premiership of Mpumalanga in 2009.

In 2010, an alleged sum of R14 million of cash was stolen from his farmhouse. Police opened a case and the province’s organised crime unit insisted just R1 200 was stolen. https://www.news24.com/Analysis/who-is-david-mabuza-anc-kingmaker-20171010

A media report then alleged that Mabuza only reported R4 million stolen as he thought R14 million would cause concern. An investigation took place but it went nowhere fast.

There are also allegations that Mabuza is behind multiple political killings in his province of Mpumalanga. Mabuza was also reportedly behind the arrest of a journalist who published articles about a man who claimed he was hired by province officials to be an assassin. https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mystery-rumours-sms-bedevil-mabuza-483246

In 2015, Mabuza himself was allegedly poisoned and was forced to take two months leave. Then in 2016, he filed a R10 million defamation lawsuit against former presidential candidate Mathews Phosa. https://www.enca.com/south-africa/exclusive-phosa-makes-startling-allegations-against-mabuza

We will leave you with this quote that News24 found from political analyst Ralph Mathekga. https://anc-votes.news24.com/david-mabuza-man-deputy-president/

“Mabuza is a dubious character. It’s a well-known secret that he’s been involved in tender fraud in Mpumalanga.”

“So he’s a liability to whichever presidential candidate he goes with. Even if he brings a larger number of delegates, he remains a liability because you can’t deny his association with corruption. Someone like Cyril Ramaphosa can’t run an anti-corruption campaign while sitting next to David Mabuza. You just can’t rehabilitate him.”

Will Ramaphosa be able to operate alongside such a character? If not, DD might just take a “swing” at him for the presidency in another five years’ time.

“JOSH : THE AFFIDAVIT LINKING DAVID MABUZA TO POLITICAL MURDERS” - http://www.uncapturedsa.co.za/index.php?p=JOSH_:_THE_AFFIDAVIT_LINKING_DAVID_MABUZA_TO_POLITICAL_MURDERS&p=read&aid=288

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Information was provided in both South Africa breads #6 and #9.

“Mozambican court sends son of former president to prison | Africanews” [Dec 7, 2022] - https://youtu.be/h5OoyD9oa5Y

0:00 - “The son of a former President of Mozambique along with 2 former intelligence chiefs were sentenced”

0:43 – “Former finance minister, Manuel Chang, signed off the loans, has been held in South Africa since 2018, pending extradition to the US for allegedly using the US financial system to carry out the fraudulent scheme.”

“Son of former Mozambique president sentenced to 12 years in prison”

https://mg.co.za/africa/2022-12-12-son-of-former-mozambique-president-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison/

12 Dec 2022

For seven months, Maputo’s city court convened in a tent in the grounds of a prison on the outskirts of the capital.

For this trial, the normal courtroom was not nearly big enough. In the dock were 19 men, some of the country’s most powerful and politically connected figures, charged in connection with their alleged role in the “hidden debt scandal” — one of the biggest fraud cases in African history.

Under former president Armando Guebuza, the government secretly borrowed $2 billion from international banks. The money was intended to refurbish the country’s fishing and military patrol boats, with the debt guaranteed by the state. Most of the money disappeared.

This fraud was knowingly facilitated by Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which has been fined by regulators for its criminality. No Credit Suisse executives have faced criminal prosecution, despite the company admitting liability.

This week, the court reached its verdict. It took five days for Judge Efigénio Baptista to read out the 1388 pages of findings. Twelve of the 19 were found guilty, including Armando Ndambi Guebuza, the eldest son of the former president.

Guebuza junior was found to have received $33 million to “move influence” with his father, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He intends to appeal. There is no word yet on whether his father will also be charged.

The current president, Filipe Nyusi, was minister of defence when the hidden debt scandal occurred.

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>former president Armando Guebuza

“Mozambique’s ‘Mr Guebusiness’” – Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-06-mozambiques-mr-guebusiness/

6 Jan 2012

The tentacles of Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza’s huge family business empire make Zuma Incorporated look like a spaza-shop operation.

Guebuza has wide-ranging Mozambican interests in the banking, telecommunications, fisheries, transport, mining and property sectors, among others. Critics complain that, as president, he makes critical decisions about economic matters that have a direct bearing on his business activities.

Already a wealthy businessperson when he became president in 2005, Guebuza has steadily expanded his interests, drawing in more and more members of his family. His children Valentina, Armando, Ndambi, Norah and Mussumbuluko, nephews Miguel and Daude, brother-in-law and former defence minister Tobias Dai, Dai’s cousin José Eduardo Dai and sister-in-law Maria da Luz Guebuza now share in the spoils.

Known in Mozambique as “Mr Guebusiness”, he has also entered into lucrative partnerships with Indian, Chinese, Dutch and Bermuda-registered companies. His most important South African connection is an interest in Trans African Concessions, the company that operates the crucial N4 toll route between Pretoria and Maputo.

Guebuza is on the board of Cornelder, the company that manages the Beira and Quelimane ports. He is also a shareholder in South African cellphone company Vodacom’s Mozambique subsidiary through Intelec Holdings, a sprawling group that administers the president’s investments.

With interests in electricity transmission and equipment, telecommunications, gas, consulting, cement, tourism, construction, Tata vehicles and fishing, Intelec holds 5% of Vodacom Moçambique, the private cellphone company that competes with the state operator, Cornelder de Moçambique.

Intelec, chaired by the former head of Mozambique’s employer body, Confederação das Associações Económicas, also has a stake in Moçambique Capitais, which recently launched the bank Moza Banco in partnership with Macau magnate Stanley Ho’s Geocapital.

The group has started a consulting company called Intelec Business Advisory and Consulting, in which a Mozambican resident of Cape Town, Tania Romana Matsinhe, has a 35% stake and serves as chief executive. Among its other shareholders is Guebuza’s son, Armando, with a 12.5% stake. Matsinhe served as economic adviser to the Mozambique minister of planning and development and also sits on the board of 1Time airline.

One of Guebuza’s business front-men, Intelec director Salimo Amad Abdula, has links to chalk-mining operations in Mozambique and picked up a 15% stake in Elephant Cement Moçambique in May last year. This makes him a partner of Indian cement manufacturer Shree Cement, which holds the rest of the shares in Elephant Cement.

The family member with the widest range of business interests is Guebuza’s youngest daughter, 31-year-old Valentina, who already has several directorships under her belt and a growing list of companies linked to her name.

In 2001 Valentina became a shareholder in the family’s holding company, Focus 21 Management and Development Limited, with her brothers Armando and Mussumbuluko. In 2007 she took a giant step when she became a shareholder in Beira Grain Terminal, which operates the bulk grain terminal in the Mozambican port.

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“Mozambique’s ‘Mr Guebusiness’” – Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-06-mozambiques-mr-guebusiness/

6 Jan 2012

Valentina has a 2.5% stake in the consortium, the three main shareholders of which are Bermuda-registered company Seaboard Moz Ltd (32.5%), state-owned port and railway company Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (15%) and Cornelder de Moçambique (15%). She is also believed to be a shareholder in Cornelder.

The network of family members that dominates the Guebuza empire also includes José Eduardo Dai, who has partnered Valentina in a range of enterprises. In 2008 the pair joined forces with Carlos Salvador, a Mozambican businessperson with interests in South Africa, in launching computing and telecommunications firm Orbttelcom.

In the same year José Eduardo Dai, Valentina and Mussumbuluko created mining company Dai Servicon Limited. In 2009 they featured as directors in the newly formed import-export company Mozambique Investment and Development Limited, again after its rules were structured to accommodate the two members of the president’s family.

Valentina is also joint owner of Imogrupo, which has interests in real estate, engineering, construction, hospitality and tourism. She has an interest in Maputo’s Tunduro Botanical Gardens, which are being rehabilitated with municipal funds.

Valentina is chief executive of Chinese-owned TV company StarTimes, which has a joint undertaking with the Guebuza-owned Focus 21 to digitise public broadcasting. There was no public tender for the contract.

Guebuza’s oldest son, Armando, has a degree in architecture from a South African university. His name appears among the directors of seven registered companies in Mozambique. With South African and Angolan partners, he registered a company last year called Billion Group Moçambique, which has interests in mining, energy, construction and public works. It appears to be part of the Bongani Investment Holdings empire — a Christian business network that has close links with South African President Jacob Zuma. Its chief executive, Alph Lukau, is the pastor who officiated at the lavish wedding of Zuma’s daughter Duduzane last year.

Guebuza’s other son, Mussumbuluko, with siblings Armando and Valentina, is the Maputo representative of Christian Bonja, a Lebanese company owned by Michal Mansou, who is well known in the Middle East and Europe for handmade Lebanese jewellery and Swiss watches.

Linked to four undertakings by the companies register, Mussumbuluko is on the board of Intelec.

Guebuza’s oldest daughter, Norah, has also entered the field after her father again amended company rules in 2005 to allow her to become a Focus 21 director. She joined forces with Zimbabwean and Mozambican partners to launch the firm MBT Construçoes Lda, specialising in construction and public works, at the beginning of last year.

Guebuza’s nephew, Miguel, launched his business career in 1993 by partnering Guebuza in a furniture and import-export company, Venturin. Miguel is a director in the construction consulting company Englob-Consultores Lda, in which one of his partners is Tendai Mavhunga, Guebuza’s son-in-law.

Miguel was recently appointed to the board of newly formed Mozambique Power Industries, a South African-based concern that plans to manufacture and market electrical transformers. Its shareholders include South Africans Wilhelm François Jacobs and Christoffel Cornelius Koch. He is also a shareholder in Vodacom Moçambique.

In 2005 he partnered Dimitrios Perrevos, who has business interests in South Africa, in launching an electrical undertaking called Luminoc. Perrevos, who appears to be Angolan, was a shareholder in the ill-fated Angolan diamond-mining interests pursued by the late Brett Kebble.

The other Guebuza nephew, Daude, has interests in the property, construction, hotel, heavy sand and oil sectors, among others. In 2000, with Guebuza, he launched courier company New Express.

Daude is a partner with another South African, Oded Besserglik, in a waste-disposal company, Wasteman Mozambique. Besserglik, an Israeli who moved to South Africa during the apartheid era, has more recently had several business connections with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini and members of his family.

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“Mozambique’s ‘Mr Guebusiness’” – Part 3

https://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-06-mozambiques-mr-guebusiness/

6 Jan 2012

The dangers inherent in President Armando Emilio Guebuza holding the reins of government while presiding over a private business empire were thrown into harsh relief by a public-transport contract of the Mozambican government.

In July last year the weekly newspaper Canal de Moçambique reported that the Mozambican government had bought 150 gas-powered buses through a state investment corporation, the Transport and Communications Development Fund, for the use of the Maputo municipality. The trouble is that the buses were manufactured by the Indian group Tata and supplied by its local subsidiary, Tata Mozambique, in which Guebuza has a 25% stake.

According to fund executive director Luis Mula, the transaction was worth R161.4-million.

Canal de Moçambique reported that the contract did not go out to international tender, which is a requirement of Mozambique’s procurement law.

From September 29 to October 4 2010 Guebuza travelled to India on a state visit. His delegation included Mozambique’s ministers of foreign affairs, interior, mineral resources and transport and communications.

In 2003 he visited India as minister of transport and communications.

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>>18023347

Armando Guebuza Background – Part 1

https://samepassage.org/armando-guebuza/

The situation in Mozambique gave rise to a guerrilla movement for independence that was based on Marxist theories. Calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique, but better known by its acronym “Frelimo,” it began to win over villagers and enjoyed support from the Soviets and other Communist nations. Guebuza joined Frelimo at the age of 20 and rose to a prominent position in its leadership cadre during the war for Mozambique’s independence that began on September 25, 1964. Only when the Portuguese regime in Lisbon fell did Fre-limo succeed in taking control of Mozambique, and independence was declared on June 25, 1975. Mozambique’s first president was Guebuza’s Fre-limo colleague Samora Machel, who immediately implemented several Marxist-style programs, such as nationalization of all industries and collectivization of agricultural production. These economic programs were poorly managed, often staffed by disinterested Russian specialists, and Mozambique’s already devastated economy sunk into further decline as agricultural production plummeted and, with that, its vital export revenues.

Machel’s government made up for lost exports by becoming dependent on economic ties to South Africa, including labor contracts that sent Mozambican men to toil in South Africa’s hellish gold and diamond mines. Inside Frelimo—now a political party—there was a concerted opposition to such links to the apartheid regime, and Guebuza was apparently a key figure among these senior party officials. A July 1976 report in the New York Times from correspondent John F. Burns noted that since independence Mozambique was a place of still-roiling unrest, political repression, and widespread poverty. “Rumors of an impending coup, current for months, died down after reports that Armando Guebuza, the Interior Minister and acknowledged leader of the radical faction, had been stabbed by Mr. Machel’s bodyguards after a disagreement in the presidential palace in May.”

Despite that incident, Guebuza served as Interior Minister in Machel’s cabinet, and earned the nickname Vinte-quatro/Vinte (Portuguese for “24-20”) for the infamous policy enacted by his office: Any Portuguese person could be delivered a so-called “24-20” summons, which gave them just 24 hours to leave the country and permitted them to take just 20 kilograms of luggage out of Mozambique. Meanwhile, a divisive civil war with another guerrilla group called Renamo (the acronym for the Portuguese-language “Mozambican National Resistance”) was continuing to make Mozambique one of the African continent’s most violent and unstable places. The country descended into further chaos when Machel and several members of the government died in a mysterious 1986 plane crash in South Africa. [He (Guebuza) was part of a committee investigating the circumstances of the crash, which came to no certain conclusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Guebuza]

Following the death of Machel, Guebuza served on the ten-member presidential council that ran the country for the next few weeks and then served as Mozambique’s Transport Minister under the Fre-limo veteran who succeeded Machel. Joaquim Chissano would lead the country for the next 18 years as president, guiding the country out of its long and disastrous civil war and ruinous Marxist policies. Regarding the conclusion of hostilities with Renamo, Chissano appointed Guebuza to serve as chief negotiator at the 1992 Rome peace accords that helped bring an end to the internal conflict in 1995.

Chissano declined to run for a third term as president in 2004 elections, and Guebuza became the Frelimo candidate. He won with 63 percent of the vote, beating the Renamo candidate Alfonso Dhlakama. Sworn in as president on February 2, 2005, Guebuza took over a nation of 20 million that is the sixth poorest in the world. Its potential for economic success is dependent on its relatively untapped mineral resources, and Guebuza has actively sought out foreign investment.

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Armando Guebuza Background – Part 2

https://samepassage.org/armando-guebuza/

The remaining symbol of Portuguese rule in Mozambique was the Cahora-Bassa hydroelectric dam on the Zambezi River, the largest dam in sub-Saharan Africa. Finished in 1975, it was sabotaged by Renamo during the civil war and needed extensive repairs. Portugal remained a majority stakeholder, but after 20 years of negotiations, the government in Lisbon agreed to a complicated $950 million deal that finally gave Mozambique control of Cahora-Bassa. The handover ceremony in November of 2007 in the village of Songo was a momentous occasion attended by Portugal’s minister for finance and thousands of Mozambicans. “This is our second independence,” Guebuza told the crowd, according to another report by Nevin, the African Business journalist. The president noted that back in 1975 Frelimo had decided to declare independence even though Cahora-Bassa, a key part of the country’s infrastructure, had not yet been secured by Frelimo forces. “However, like the struggle for our national liberation that took 12 years, we remained convinced that one day we would win because we knew we were right in our demands.”

>>18023353

>The country descended into further chaos when Machel and several members of the government died in a mysterious 1986 plane crash in South Africa. [He (Guebuza) was part of a committee investigating the circumstances of the crash, which came to no certain conclusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Guebuza]

“Machel's death unusual, says Zuma”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/machels-death-unusual-says-zuma-304493

Published Nov 23, 2006

Maputo - ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday broached the controversial subject of the death of Mozambican president Samora Machel in a plane crash in South Africa, saying it was unusual for a country's president to die in another country.

“Top-secret inquiry into Machel crash”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2012-12-12-top-secret-inquiry-into-machel-crash/

12 December 2012 - 02:04

A TOP-SECRET inquiry has been launched into the plane crash that killed Mozambican president Samora Machel more than two decades ago.

The investigation by the Hawks began in earnest last month after a tip-off in January implicated apartheid-era government officials and security agencies, including the SA Defence Force, in engineering the crash.

A two-week investigation by The Times has revealed that an inquiry involving South African and Mozambican police, the National Prosecuting Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority started in November.

President Jacob Zuma is said to have sanctioned the inquiry, which is separate to that launched by the Justice Department.

Zuma's approval is believed to have been obtained on the strength of evidence obtained in September that includes documents, photographs and voice recordings.

The Times' source said: "Numerous reports from the Margo Commission of Inquiry are being reviewed, along with photographs and transcripts of flight voice data, and air traffic control recordings."

In 1987, Judge Cecil Margo exonerated South Africa of involvement in the crash and cited pilot error as the cause.

Russian experts concluded that the crash was caused by the crew being misled by signals from a decoy navigation beacon that transmitted more strongly than the beacon at Maputo airport.

In 1994, the cause of Machel's death was the subject of a closed Truth and Reconciliation Commission inquiry, which said it had evidence that linked the crash to the SA Defence Force.

[Dumisa] Ntsebeza said the investigation should have been done 14 years ago "when we told the Justice Department what needed to be done".

" Those documents contain detailed information, including a sworn statement by a military intelligence agent involved in setting up the false beacon.

"This agent gave detailed accounts of a meeting held the day before the crash, where this was planned. He gave names of those at the meeting, held at the former security police base Skwamans, close to the crash site. The next day these people were the first on the scene.

"Among those there were ministers and top military brass, including Pik Botha, defence force chief General Kat Liebenberg (who died from cancer in the 1990s), and military intelligence chief General Joffel van der Westhuizen."

He said Machel's wife, Graca, told the TRC of a crisis meeting in Malawi, in February 1984, convened after Machel threatened to close Malawi's sea access if it did not stop helping Renamo.

"The possibility of assassinating Machel was allegedly discussed at this meeting. The following week, Malawi's president sent officials to meet President PW Botha, who sent a message of solidarity to Malawi through a delegation headed by Magnus Malan [the South African defence minister].

"Machel, at the time of his death, was engaged in a radical restructuring of his government and military, which could have upset a number of high-ranking Mozambicans."

Former foreign minister Pik Botha yesterday welcomed the new investigation.

"But only as long as it, like the Margo Commission, includes international air crash investigation experts. People forget that the [Margo investigation] also consisted of experts from the UK and US."

Responding to suspicions raised at the truth commission about his quick arrival at the crash scene, Botha said: "The commission came to the finding that South Africa was not involved - not me and not the government. As to my quick presence on the scene, this is [in accordance] with international protocol. I was never questioned over it then. I don't mind being questioned now," he said.

“Still no progress in criminal investigation in Samora Machel’s plane crash” [February 26, 2014] - https://lowvelder.co.za/55406/two-years-later-and-still-no-arrests-with-samora-machel-crash/

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>>17987906

>Lancaster House Agreement

>>16526538

>South Africa Connections in Malawi

>>18023559

>"But only as long as it, like the Margo Commission, includes international air crash investigation experts. People forget that the [Margo investigation] also consisted of experts from the UK and US."

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“The mysterious death of Samora Machel” – Part 1

https://mondediplo.com/2017/11/12machel

November 2017

Documents declassified by France in 2016 do not blame South Africa, and reveal French diplomats’ amateurism. A cable from 13 July 1987 signed by Gérard Cros, the French ambassador to Mozambique, implies presidential negligence, against all evidence: ‘Machel had been warned about the obsolescence of those planes and the deficiencies of the Soviet pilots’ procedures.’

Pik Botha’s fib

These accusations were not in the South African Commission of Inquiry report produced by Judge Cecil Margo in July 1987. Margo had been an officer in the South African Air Force and knew that the Tupolev, built in 1980, had up-to-date instruments. The pilots’ ‘drunkenness’ was an invention of South Africa’s foreign minister, Pik Botha, just after the crash, before the autopsies.

Before becoming a judge, Margo had been a bomber pilot in the second world war and in 1948 in Israel, where he had gone at the invitation of his friend, prime minister David Ben-Gurion. His career as a specialist air accident investigator began in 1961 with the DC-6 crash that killed UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), which Margo also attributed to pilot error. The UN has disputed this, and in 2016 called for the case to be reopened (1).

Fernando Manuel João, Machel’s bodyguard and a crash survivor, said that after going for help he returned to the site to find elite units of the South African army, high-ranking officers and members of the executive, including the defence minister Magnus Malan. Soldiers were searching the plane for diplomatic bags, he said, asking survivors where Machel had been sitting. Emergency services arrived eight hours later, too late for some of the injured.

Mozambique soon fulfilled its part of the bargain by stopping the military wing of the ANC from operating freely and expelling its principal leaders: only ANC political supporters, most of them university researchers, stayed for the rest of the apartheid era. South Africa did not uphold its part, and transferred most of Renamo’s logistical activities to its ally Malawi [The Oppenheimers are still very much involved in Malawi >>16404192], from where the group could operate and resupply its bases.

Machel retained his Marxist principles — though he perhaps neglected the advance of neoliberal ideas in his own ranks — but he counted on his friendship with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. She was grateful for his part in the 1979 Lancaster House agreement, which formally recognised Zimbabwean independence on condition that rights were guaranteed for the white minority (2). In September 1985, a year after the Nkomati accord, Machel visited US president Ronald Reagan, who congratulated him on his ‘constructive relationship’ with South Africa and its economic possibilities. But neither the UK nor the US, both on good terms with South Africa, pressured it to respect the non-aggression pact.

A few days before his death, Machel hosted a regional summit for Frontline States (FLS) in Maputo. He demanded that Malawi’s president, Hastings Banda, cease support for Renamo and threatened to close the border, depriving land-locked Malawi of access to the Indian Ocean. The Frontline States (3) were an informal regional coalition established in the late 1960s to resist military and financial pressures from South Africa. But beyond affirmations of solidarity, most of its members were too dependent on South Africa to take firm action against their powerful neighbour, such as a boycott.

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“The mysterious death of Samora Machel” – Part 2

https://mondediplo.com/2017/11/12machel

November 2017

On the day of the crash, FLS heads of state met in Zambia under Machel’s leadership to seek the end of support from Mobutu Sese Seko’s Zaire (which in 1997 became the Democratic Republic of the Congo) for Unita (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), also funded by South Africa. ‘For Pretoria, this was a step too far. This may have been when it was decided to kill Samora Machel, or at least try to really scare him,’ claims Colin Darch, a South African researcher at the University of Cape Town (4).

‘The securocrats took over’

In Maputo, rumours spread of an imminent attack by South Africa. A landmine was detonated on the border, injuring South African soldiers; the ANC was blamed, though it denied responsibility. South Africa suspended the employment of Mozambican workers in its gold mines, almost an act of war against a destitute country, 100,000 of whose citizens were regularly employed in South Africa (170,000 more worked there clandestinely).

‘Before the plane crash, relations between the two countries were at their lowest ebb,’ recalls André Thomashausen, a professor at the University of South Africa, in Pretoria, who was close to Renamo leaders. ‘Mozambique felt aggrieved that the Renamo rebellion had intensified since Nkomati, and South Africa had assembled sufficient proof of Frelimo’s support for the ANC.’ These events had repercussions in domestic South African politics: ‘The failure of the Nkomati accord and Machel’s policy encouraged the defeat of the reformist wing of the National Party, embodied by the foreign minister, Pik Botha. The “securocrats” then took over.’

After the end of apartheid, cases against killers in the special forces such as Eugene de Kock revealed the ultras had conducted a hate campaign against Mozambique and exaggerated the harm of its support for the ANC. During one hearing, Pik Botha admitted that the South African government took important decisions based on lies. ‘The Nkomati accord was never respected by the ultra elements in the armed forces and Pretoria’s security services,’ says Sergio Vieira, Mozambique’s security minister at the time of the crash. ‘Machel was the target of several assassination attempts that we managed to stop in time.’

In 1996 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established under President Nelson Mandela to investigate crimes under apartheid, collected statements about the Tupolev crash. ‘The TRC has been presented with new evidence linking the crash with the activities of the former South African Defence Force,’ Dumisa Ntsebeza, investigative head of the TRC said in 1998, promising a new inquiry. But that never happened, despite Mandela’s promise on the 10th anniversary of the crash. Paying tribute to Machel as a ‘universal hero’, Mandela said: ‘There are unanswered questions along the journey that led to the loss of more than thirty lives on this hillside. And we shall leave no stone unturned to ensure that, in the fullness of time, nothing but the whole truth is known about these events.’

The South African press has, however, sometimes raised the possibility of Mozambican complicity, especially in the top ranks of its military (5). It seems certain that at least two technicians in Maputo airport control tower, Cornelio Vasco Cumbe and António Cardoso de Jesus, were recruited by and in the pay of South African agent Craig Williamson, who was also behind the assassination of several anti-apartheid activists in exile, including Ruth First in Maputo in 1982 and, in 1988, Dulcie September, the ANC representative in Paris. Many wonder why a new inquiry to determine what happened in the crash has not been opened since the controversial Margo report. ‘Is it about protecting someone in South Africa or someone in Mozambique?’ asks Colin Darch. ‘If there was a plot, which I think is credible, it must have involved a lot of people.’ It remains for an inquiry to prove definitively that South Africa masterminded the crash.

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>The current president, Filipe Nyusi, was minister of defence when the hidden debt scandal occurred.

“Mozambique president Filipe Nyusi sued in UK over $2bn debt scandal”

https://www.africaninsider.com/business/mozambique-president-filipe-nyusi-sued-in-uk-over-2bn-debt-scandal/

Johannesburg – Mozambique’s president Filipe Nyusi is being sued in London by a firm at the centre of a $2-billion loan scandal that plunged his nation into financial crisis.

Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilder Privinvest, owned by French-Lebanese billionaire Iskandar Safa, signed contracts with Mozambican state companies to supply tuna fishing and maritime security vessels.

To finance the deal, the government took out secret loans in 2013 and 2014 equivalent to 12 percent of the gross domestic product of one of the poorest countries in the world.

Much of the money disappeared in kickbacks and bribes, and the country later defaulted on repayments.

The deals were made before Nyusi was elected and Privinvest has denied bribery to win the contracts, arguing its payments were political donations that were legal in Mozambique at the time.

“Privinvest confirms that, on 19 October 2021, President Nyusi was served in Mozambique with Privinvest’s litigation claims in the High Court in London against him,” the company said in a statement sent to AFP on Thursday.

The papers were served in Maputo at Nyusi’s office and the presidential palace.

The company said its claims against Nyusi “relate to payments made for his benefit, including to fund his 2014 presidential election campaign, and given that he was at the heart of the creation and the subsequent sabotaging of the projects in Mozambique”.

The debt scandal has sparked legal cases across three continents and exposed corruption on a global scale.

On the same day Privinvest served its papers on Nyusi, Swiss bank Credit Suisse was being fined $475 million for “fraudulently misleading investors” and corruption over its part in issuing the loans.

Nyusi was defence minister at the time the loans were taken.

Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party earlier this year denied that Nyusi was guilty of any wrongdoing.

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>>South Africa Connections in Malawi

Reposting

>>16526372

>https://malawi24.com/2018/10/13/govt-illegally-sells-malawi-national-oil-company/

>Government has illegally sold National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) to a company owned by a Swedish oil billionaire [Tobjörn Törnqvist’s Gunvor Group], it has emerged.

South Africa Connections in Malawi

>>16326020

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

>He [Judge Johann Kriegler] has chaired international enquiries into judicial independence in Uganda and Malawi

Also

>>16303715

>https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/03/world/south-african-vote-voting-was-election-fair-voting-chief-satisfied.html

>Judge Johann Kriegler [was a board member of Oppenheimer’s Urban Foundation] casually uses the word "breakdown" to describe the [1994] election he is running. He concedes that many ballots never left the warehouse, that polling places failed to open, that ballot boxes were stuffed "to a significant degree," that voting places often had no impartial monitors and that some election officials were partisan, if not crooked.

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

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>https://briefly.co.za/60119-jonathan-oppenheimer-age-children-wife-parents-businesses-net-worth.html

>Jonathan [Maximillian Ernest Oppenheimer] co-founded Brenthurst Foundation with his wife. It spearheads the growth of Africa.

>Maximillian is the current Director of E. Oppenheimer & Son Limited. His career started at N. M. Rothschild & Sons before he moved to AngloAmerican Corporation as a senior vice president in 1999. He left the company in 2000. He joined De Beers diamond mining company in 2000, where he served in several capacities. Jonathan was among the decision-makers who delisted De Beers in 2001 and sold the Oppenheimer family shares to AngloAmerican in 2012 for $5.1 billion. At De Beers, he served for many years.

>The Presidential Advisory Committee on the Economy in Malawi, which was established by Brenthurst Foundation, is one of the many boards and advisory panels that he has sat on.

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> https://transformsa.co.za/2017/03/sacoil-acquires-phembani-oil/

> The Acquisition is fully in line with the Company’s stated strategy of focussing on cash generating opportunities that expand SacOil’s operations across the oil and gas value chain on the African continent. Following completion of the Acquisition, SacOil’s portfolio will comprise of operated production activities in Egypt, exploration in Democratic Republic of Congo, alongside partner TOTAL E&P RDC, Malawi and Botswana, a crude trading allocation with Nigerian National Petroleum Company and fuel distribution operations in Southern Africa.

Take note

http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZACT/2017/24.html

[3] The primary acquiring firm is SacOil, a company incorporated in accordance with the laws of South Africa.[1] SacOil’s largest shareholder is the Government Employee’s Pension Fund (“GEPF”) as represented by the Public Investment Corporation SOC limited (“PIC”).

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>In 1987, Judge Cecil Margo exonerated South Africa of involvement in the crash and cited pilot error as the cause.

>People forget that the [Margo investigation] also consisted of experts from the UK and US.

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>>18013664

“High-flying Judge Cecil Margo”

https://mg.co.za/article/1999-02-26-high-flying-judge-cecil-margo/

26 Feb 1999

His contributions and his bravery were recognised when he was awarded two of the most prestigious Commonwealth medals, the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Flying Cross. In the annals of wartime bomber commands, Margo’s name remains of legend.

When he signed up for active service, Margo was already a practicing advocate at the Johannesburg bar, a career he admits he was looking forward to re-entering when the war was over. It was a wish to be fulfilled and then, as he was developing a busy law practice, suddenly interrupted in 1948 when Margo was called upon to serve as a senior adviser to David Ben-Gurion in the establishment and organisation of the Israeli Air Force. Back at law, Margo took silk in 1959 and, in 1971, was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court.

Margo’s career is, of course, best known for his significant contributions to aircraft accident investigation, a field where he owns an enviable international reputation. It was Margo who was appointed to investigate the DC-6 accident, in 1961 near Ndola in what was the Central African Federation, and in which the then Secretary General of the United Nations, Dag Hammerskjold was killed.

Later Margo was to preside over the very public investigations into the loss off East London in 1967 of the SAA Viscount airliner, the Rietbok; the 1968 crash after take-off from Windhoek of the SAA Boeing 707, the Pretoria; the accident in 1986, just inside South African territory, of the Tupolev aircraft, which killed Samora Machel and 35 others; and the loss in 1987 of 159 lives in the crash of the SAA Boeing 747, the Helderberg in the sea North East of Mauritius.

https://www.machal.org.il/personal-stories/cecil-margo/

Back in South Africa, Margo and Sussman organized the selection and training by a commercial flying school in Germiston of pilot trainees. Of 14 trainees who completed the courses, Solly Kramer, Gerald Kaplan, Nathan Friedman, Reuben Narunsky, Leslie Lazarus, Hymie Schachman and Harry Caganoff left for Israel in January 1949, followed in July 1950 by George Katz, Len Lewis, Basil Sanders, Sam Levinson, Max Sher, Morris Sidlin, and Reuben Sher.

When Commercial Air Services set up the program for training pilots in South Africa for the Israel Air Force, Cecil served as a consultant in formulating and monitoring the training program. He was also instrumental in acquiring equipment for the training course from the South African Air Force. He enjoyed an excellent personal relationship with Field Marshall Jan Smuts, the previous prime minister of South Africa.

When Ben-Gurion visited South Africa in 1969, one of the first men after whom he enquired and whom he wanted to meet was Cecil Margo, an acknowledgement of the debt the IAF owed to this South African.

Cecil Margo practiced as a lawyer for many years, and in 1971 he was appointed as a judge of the Transvaal Division of the South African Supreme Court. He passed away in 2000.

“10111 crisis: More than seven million calls dropped at severely understaffed call centres”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/10111-call-centres-police-understaffed-seven-million-calls-dropped-9-january-breaking/

09-01-2023 16:57

More than seven million calls to 10111 emergency centres have been dropped over the last three financial years in six provinces.

Police minister Bheki Cele revealed that South Africa’s 10111 emergency call centres are severely understaffed in a reply to a parliamentary question posed to him at the end of 2022.

10111 CALL CENTRES ARE SEVERELY UNDERSTAFFED

The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Shadow Minister of Police, Andrew Whitfield, asked Cele what the ideal number of personnel employed at the police call centres should be in each province and the number of calls dropped across the country.

Whitfield limited the scope of his questions to the 2020-2021 and 20221-2022 financial years and the period since 1 April 2022.

“During this period only 4 061 of the ideal number of 10 032 staff members were employed at 10111 centres across South Africa’s nine provinces. This represents just 40.48% of the required staff,” said Whitfield.

Approximately seven million calls from possible victims of crime have been dropped during the specified period. However, the DA MP cautions that the figure does [not] provide a full picture of the situation as the Free State, Limpopo and Northern Cape were unable to provide feedback for the time period. A number of call centres have outdated software, which needs to be upgraded.

There’s also been a decline in the number of staff members deployed at the 10111 call centres year-on-year.

“In 2020/21 only 41.63% of the available posts were filled, followed by 41,5% in 2021/22 and 39.33% since 1 April 2022,” said Whitfield.

The available dropped call statistics over the past three financial years are as follows (A copy of the table provided in Cele’s answer will be attached below the list):

• Eastern Cape: 271 746

• Gauteng: 3.83 million

• KwaZulu-Natal: 632 642

• Mpumalanga: 1.44 million

• North West: 30 181

• Western Cape: 895 280

The DA MP said he intends to write to the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police to ask that the National Police Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, prepares a “comprehensive turnaround plan” for 10111 centres across the country within 30 days.

“The 10111 number is the only line of defence some of our people have as they struggle against the unrelenting tide of crime sweeping across South Africa.

“We cannot allow South Africans to be abandoned and become even more defenceless due to the inability of the police to respond to emergencies,” said Whitfield.

“Zuma v Ramaphosa: NGO wants to join case as friend of court, targets NPA for alleged bias”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/zuma-v-ramaphosa-ngo-wants-to-join-case-as-friend-of-court-targets-npa-for-alleged-bias-21b1a3a5-8855-40ff-9f66-17cdbd3aa421

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2023

Durban - A non-governmental organisation (NGO) calling itself Blackhouse Kollective Foundation (BHK) wants to be allowed to join Thursday’s legal battle between former president Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa as a friend of the court (amicus curiae).

The NGO says it wrote to both warring parties asking if they have any qualms with it joining the battle and only Zuma’s legal team responded, expressing no objection, while Ramaphosa’s team never responded.

In the main, the little-known NGO seeks clarity regarding the role of the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority) and the powers it has in issuing nolle prosequi (non-prosecution certificates) before any private prosecution could take place.

The NGO’s affidavit setting outs its application was done under oath by Zandisiwe Radebe who identified herself as its co-founder and chairperson.

“As an organisation that was formed to advance, support and defend constitutional principles and values, BHK has an interest in the determination of the competing rights enumerated above.

“If admitted as amicus, BHK’s submissions will include a discussion on the following questions:

“Does the National Prosecuting Authority have a right or role to play (except for the role of the national director in terms of section 179(5)(d) of the Constitution and section 22(2)(c) of the National Prosecuting Authority Act (the NPA Act), and that of the director of public prosecutions in terms of section 13 of the NPA Act) where it has issued a certificate nolle prosequi?” Radebe said in her affidavit to be tabled before the Johannesburg high court on Thursday.

In the case between Ramaphosa and Zuma where the incumbent president wants to set aside summons for private prosecution issued by the latter, the NGO says it appears that the NPA has already taken a side.

“BHK will argue that the facts of this case demonstrate that the requirement of a certificate nolle prosequi may serve as an impediment or unjustified limitation to the Section 34 right of access to courts, especially when the National Prosecuting Authority as in this case appears to have nailed its colours to the mast of the accused person in the form and shape of the president.

“The National Prosecuting Authority has failed to conduct itself without fear, favour or prejudice. On the contrary, it appears to have taken the side of the president and this is a major factor (though not the only factor) that has moved BHK to intervene as amicus curiae,” she added.

The case between Ramaphosa and Zuma would be heard by a full Bench (three judges https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/full-bench-of-south-gauteng-high-court-to-hear-president-ramaphosas-interdict-application-against-former-head-of-state-zuma-ca321dfe-da53-48dd-a774-57845501acf3) on Thursday morning. https://www.iol.co.za/news/zuma-vs-ramaphosa-legal-battle-now-set-for-january-12-ef20338a-fd97-4810-b593-68831d105597

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“Cyril Ramaphosa to know his fate next week after square off with Jacob Zuma in court”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/cyril-ramaphosa-to-know-his-fate-next-week-after-square-off-with-jacob-zuma-in-court-b05f5108-4e28-43ac-9f80-af412feb0a4d

Published Jan 13, 2023

Pretoria - The country will have to wait until Monday before it knows if President Cyril Ramaphosa will be forced to appear before the Gauteng High Court, South Division, next week after judgment was reserved on whether he has succeeded in blocking a private prosecution.

Former president Jacob Zuma has instituted private prosecution proceedings against his successor, accusing him of being an “accessory after the fact”.

This after advocate Billy Downer SC and journalist Karyn Maughan allegedly leaked Zuma’s confidential medical information during his arms deal trial.

Yesterday, the president applied to the court to grant him an interdict that would prevent him from appearing on January 19 after receiving a summons from Zuma last year.

Ramaphosa also wants the court to declare Zuma’s private prosecution against him unconstitutional.

Part of the summons states that Ramaphosa should appear as an accused person in the matter against Downer and Maughan, saying that he did nothing about the matter.

In court, presided over by a full Bench composed of Gauteng Deputy Judge President (DJP) Roland Sutherland, Edwin Molahlehi and Marcus Senyatsi, Zuma was represented by advocate Dali Mpofu while Ramaphosa’s legal team was led by advocate Ngwako Maenetje.

Justice Sutherland said the Bench would deliver the judgment at 9.30am on Monday.

The courtroom was filled to capacity with journalists and friends of Zuma, including Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi and Dudu Myeni.

Carl Niehaus, who recently resigned from the ANC, was also there alongside Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla.

Also present was Zuma’s friend Louis Liebenberg, who is allegedly footing the bill for Zuma’s legal fees.

Speaking outside court, Manyi called for Ramaphosa to step aside.

“They keep dragging us into political stuff and we have been very careful as a foundation to comment on ANC things. In court they bring up the step-aside issue and say that the step-aside should be invoked.

“As is, the step-aside has not been invoked. This is all to run away from step-aside which he actually can’t. As from December 15 President Cyril Ramaphosa became a criminally charged person before the court.

>>18148888

>A non-governmental organisation (NGO) calling itself Blackhouse Kollective Foundation (BHK) wants to be allowed to join Thursday’s legal battle between former president Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa as a friend of the court (amicus curiae).

>>18148890

>Also present was Zuma’s friend Louis Liebenberg, who is allegedly footing the bill for Zuma’s legal fees.

It is interesting the spectrum of people supporting Zuma’s case – Louis Liebenberg and Blackhouse Kollective Foundation

“DA to take Louis Liebenberg to Equality Court over racist rant”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/louis-liebenberg-da-equality-court-racist-voice-note-breaking-18-october/

“Who is Louis Liebenberg? Zuma’s new friend linked to ‘whites-only town’”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/offbeat/breaking-who-is-louis-liebenberg-jacob-zuma-new-friend-pictured-whites-only/

“Who we are” – Blackhouse Kollective Foundation

https://blackhousekollective.org.za/

BlackHouse Kollective Foundation’s main Business activity is anti-racism activism

https://blackhousekollective.org.za/about/

Born out of a desperate need to once again scream black power from the disappointment that of the 1994 liberation project, the BlackHouse Kollective initiative calls upon all Black thinkers and prophets alike, to gather and recomplete the state of the Black Nation. We are called to break with the dominant logic of theorising about blackness from spaces that have so far served to maintain the intellectual negation if not erasure of black bodies that embody philosophical thought in white dominated spaces.

The BlackHouse Kollective wishes to establish itself as both an ideological home for black radical thought as advocated by both recognized and emerging black scholars in era characterised by the attacks against black thought both within and outside academia. We believe in an era over determined by callous anti blackness, we of black radical thought can no longer allow ourselves to be fragmented along superficial lines of ideological arrogance by the same powers the continue to perpetuate our suffering. The BlackHouse draws strength from the trajectory of black people’s search for true liberation and a desire to quench a thirst a 365 year old thirst for black liberation thought.

“Eskom warns it could implement higher levels of power cuts” – Higher than stage 6

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/eskom-warns-it-could-implement-higher-levels-of-power-cuts-4aee8041-2305-4c23-917a-5ba6c1df7a8e

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2023

Eskom has warned that it could implement elevated levels of power cuts higher than stage 6 load shedding in a bid to safeguard the national grid if it experiences further multiple unplanned breakdowns.

This comes as the perpetually struggling power utility burnt through six million litres of diesel in one day on Wednesday when it ramped up load shedding to stage 6 indefinitely.

Eleven generators, amounting to 5 084MW of capacity, suffered breakdowns since Tuesday morning, leaving Eskom with 5 739MW on planned maintenance while breakdowns accounted for 18 041MW of lost capacity.

In email correspondence with Business Report yesterday, Eskom reiterated that the country would experience prolonged load shedding over the next few months as major capital projects and repairs reduce the available generation capacity.

The near collapse of the national grid due to unplanned breakdowns amidst the six-month outage of the 900MW Unit 1 at Koeberg Nuclear power station means that Eskom has to burn more diesel to keep the lights on.

Eskom was bailed out by an emergency lifeline supply of 50 million litres of diesel from PetroSA, which is expected to be used in crisis situations only until the end of March when the new financial year kicks in.

The number of days of load shedding per year has grown exponentially, from six days in 2018 to 22 days in 2019, 35 days in 202, 48 days in 2021, and 157 days in 2022. In 2023, load shedding is expected to be implemented for at least 200 days for the first time in history.

As the government prepares to rebuild investor confidence and mobilise investment at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos next week, these crippling power cuts will be an albatross around the necks of the SA delegation.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, during a pre-WEF breakfast meeting yesterday, said he would make an announcement in his Budget Speech next month regarding interventions to save Eskom.

https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/experts-call-for-ramaphosa-to-address-the-nation-over-load-shedding-and-power-hike-85390f0f-178b-4047-914d-8ce6fb49222f

Ramaphosa will be joining the WEF Annual Meeting in Switzerland, scheduled to take place in Davos next week.

Dr Garret Barnwell, a clinical psychologist and expert on climate change and mental health, warned of an increase in conflict, violence and mental health crises.

Already this week there was violence on the N4 highway in Emalahleni, in Mpumalanga, when angry residents torched several trucks and cars while protesting that they hadn’t had electricity for a week.

Ansara said Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala’s recent suggestion that Eskom should consider an international candidate to succeed André de Ruyter would not change the way Eskom was structured.

“The problem is the whole structure around Eskom. You can have the best CEO in the world, but if the current way in which the utility is regulated remains in place, then you are not going to solve the fundamental problem. I think the crisis really is at an advanced stage.”

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe yesterday said that the energy crisis could be resolved in six to 12 months.

However Yelland said: “You have 90 generators that you cannot fix all at once, so you have to do it step by step over a long time. You have to have the spares, the money, plan it, and have the right people. In reality, this is not happening.

“But, oh well, talk is good now – let’s see the action.”

“LEHOHLA: Eskom is headed for privatization” - https://youtu.be/zhaWQEXncic

Director of the Economic Modelling Academy, Dr Pali Lehohla says, Nersa's decision to grant Eskom an 18.65% electricity tariff hike will pit the poor against the rich considering the country's economic challenges. He says Eskom is headed for privatisation.

5:16 – “If the Russia-Ukraine war didn’t occur, the wool would be pulled over our eyes forever. This was a gift that showed the underlying reasons for closing fire powered coal stations. It’s about money and nothing else. It’s not about climate change or anything.”

“I don’t understand Ramaphosa’s load shedding apology, says former Statistician General Pali Lehohla”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/i-dont-understand-ramaphosas-load-shedding-apology-says-former-statistician-general-pali-lehohla-75051738-df48-4736-a411-ce8262400b91

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2023

Dr Pali Lehohla, former Statistician General of South Africa, told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika that there had been a trend of making State entities fail, setting them up for privatisation.

“The president [Cyril Ramaphosa] was in the war room. Financing for regular maintenance was withdrawn. You defund, make sure things don’t work, the people get angry, and then privatise it, sell it for a song. That’s what we are headed towards at the moment,” Lehohla said.

“So, I don’t understand the apology. I mean, the president has been there in the (Eskom) war room. He understands the importance of Eskom. But the decisions that they have taken, particularly in the period of trying to please the world with the just energy transition, were completely foolish.

Lehohla argued that closing the coal-fired power stations like Komati “was all about money, and not about the climate change or anything”.

He said there is an underlying agenda to make Eskom fail, like other State entities, and privatise it ultimately.

“Eskom was corporatised in 2001 or 2002, having performed as the best institution, getting credits higher than the sovereign itself, when it was not corporatised. What was the sickness in Eskom? There was no sickness. The sickness starts with corporatisation, and then subtle privatisation, then the issue of just energy comes,” said Lehohla.

Ramaphosa convened a National Energy Crisis Committee comprising ministers, and various technical workstream leads on December 15, 2022, demanding urgency and speed in the implementation of all priority areas and actions laid out in the National Energy Plan despite some of the progress that has been made.

“To date, Ramaphosa remains seized with finding a sustainable solution to the current energy crisis. The president has been regularly briefed on the situation at Eskom and on the roll out of the National Energy Plan.

“Growing calls for government and Eskom to be sued for loadshedding”

https://youtu.be/zttB3yARL_I

Jan 15, 2023

Many disgruntled citizens have taken to social media to vent their rage as loadshedding worsens with each passing day. Some South Africans from the legal fraternity, political organisations and civil society say they will challenge this matter in court. UDM president Bantu Holomisa says the court must rule on whether loadshedding is not a violation of human rights.

“Konstantin Kisin | This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far - 7/8 | Oxford Union” - https://youtu.be/zJdqJu-6ZPo

“US and two foundation funds [Bezos Earth Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation] plan renewable energy credits for the developing nations”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/us-and-two-foundation-funds-plan-renewable-energy-credits-for-the-developing-nations-b4b28ed2-4fbb-4cc7-a8d2-11cdf2fccccb

Published Jan 16, 2023

US climate envoy John Kerry on Sunday outlined core principles for a “high-integrity” carbon offset plan meant to help developing nations speed their energy transition, and next steps including establishing a consultative group.

The Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA), first announced at last year's COP27 climate conference, is being developed by the US with the Bezos Earth Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation to mobilise private capital.

Kerry told the Atlantic Council Global Energy Forum in Abu Dhabi the aim was to create bankable deals to accelerate reduction of emissions, stressing that the ETA was not a substitute for other funding sources and would be time-limited.

“We believe you can have high-integrity, accountable, transparent credit which will help us to be able to put some money on the table,” he said, acknowledging widespread criticism of voluntary carbon offset schemes.

Such schemes, in which companies get emissions credits in return for channelling cash to poor countries that cut their carbon output, have often been riddled with fraud and double-counting.

“There are only two purposes for which we will allow someone to be able to buy a credit - one, to be closing down or transitioning existing fossil fuel facility that is providing power, and two, for the actual deployment of renewables that will replace current dirty sourcing,” Kerry said.

He said ETA principles also called for a near-term, inclusive and comprehensive approach to deliver on broader sustainable development goals and support power sector-wide energy transition.

The Rockefeller Foundation on Sunday published a joint statement with a preliminary list of members of the ETA High-Level Consultative Group which Kerry said would provide a broad cross section of input and would add more participants.

“Standoff between police and Mdantsane community” [Jan 20, 2023] - https://youtu.be/ryn6e-eazQI

0:03 – “Members of the local community forum taking the law into their own hands going from scrapyard to scrapyard saying they are searching for… the cable stolen from the Cecilia Hospital.”

1:35 – “The police officer on camera fired live rounds in front of many people… Community members saying that they don’t want police around them because they are the reason why things have escalated this way. Police have been accused of working with these criminals.”

“Cable thieves plunge Mdantsane hospital into crisis mode”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-01-19-cable-thieves-plunge-mdantsane-hospital-into-crisis-mode/

19 Jan 2023

Pregnant women needing C-sections had to be diverted to Frere Hospital, while corpses were sent to another building for refrigeration after mass cable theft at Cecilia Makiwane Hospital on Tuesday.

T he theft of electricity cables at the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane, Buffalo City, has plunged the facility into crisis mode.

Eastern Cape Department of Health spokesperson MK Ndamase said cables at the hospital were stolen and vandalised on Tuesday and the hospital had to operate with emergency electricity.

This is the third hospital targeted by cable thieves since late December, with the other two being in Gauteng.

“The Eastern Cape Department of Health worked around the clock to restore power. The cables that supply power to the hospital were badly vandalised, with other cables stolen. The generators on site are functional… the missing cables meant that the electricity generated by the generators could not be conducted to the various parts of the hospital,” Ndamase said.

He said preliminary reports showed that the thieves had dug a hole underneath a fence to gain entry to the facility.

“Mobile generators had to be deployed to the facility to operate critical areas like the adult and paediatric ICUs and the kitchen so patients could have warm food.”

He said contractors had worked through the night and electricity was restored on Thursday afternoon.

The theft and damage, however, resulted in pregnant women being diverted to Frere Hospital for C-sections.

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“We are fortunate that this time there were no lives lost as a result of this thuggery because we moved with speed to ensure that a contractor was appointed to fix the cables while critical patients were moved to other hospitals,” said the MEC for Health, Nomakhosazana Meth.

“We thank the CEO and his team for working until midnight and early this morning,” she said.

In December 2022, the Intensive Care Unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto was cut off from the medical air and oxygen supply at the hospital after the theft of a piece of copper pipe. Patients had to be evacuated to a different part of the hospital.

Earlier in January, R3-million worth of copper piping was stolen from above an operating theatre inside the Charlotte Maxeke hospital in Johannesburg.

Meanwhile, copper cables worth R1-million were dug up from an electrical substation in Struandale in Gqeberha earlier this week. Two security guards were held at gunpoint by three men who wore reflector jackets and tied up the guards. They were joined by a further five suspects.

Nelson Mandela Bay’s district police commissioner, Major-General Vuyisile Ncata, said halting the theft of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and essential infrastructure-related crimes remained a priority for the police.

“This damage and theft are tantamount to economic sabotage, therefore, we will make every effort to ensure that these perpetrators are traced, arrested and convicted. We appeal to the communities to provide information on criminals who steal or interfere with and damage infrastructure,” Ncata said. DM/MC

“Diplomatic row after officials ‘invade’ Nigerian Consulate to cut off electricity over unpaid bills to the tune of R400 000”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/diplomatic-row-after-officials-invade-nigerian-consulate-to-cut-off-electricity-over-unpaid-bills-to-the-tune-of-r400-000-fb21a9fb-3260-4c6d-94e9-52a8da11d602

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2023

Pretoria – The Nigerian consulate in Joburg has condemned the “invasion” of its premises by City of Joburg’s power utility, City Power, to disconnect electricity at the diplomatic mission.

This week, City Power visited multiple premises around Joburg’s region E, disconnecting electricity to recoup more than R360 million it is owed by entities in the region.

The Nigerian diplomatic mission was visited on Wednesday. City Power told IOL that the consulate owed more than R400 000.

Following the visit, the Consulate General of Nigeria in South Africa issued a statement expressing displeasure, adding that the South African government had to investigate the conduct of the City of Joburg officials.

“The invasion squad, which comprised officials of the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) and City Power, as well as members of the press, arrived at the consulate without prior notice or appointment and disrupted normal consular services,” the Consulate said.

“The consulate maintains that the action of the officials, no matter the justification, was in complete violation of extant international treaties and conventions, especially the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963, which guarantees the inviolability of consular premises.”

The consulate said the actions have annoyed Lagos authorities.

“Consequently, the consulate-general has, through diplomatic channels, conveyed the displeasure of the federal government of Nigeria to the South African government, with a demand for thorough investigation to be conducted into the illegal violation of the premises of the consulate general…”

The Nigerian authorities are also demanding “appropriate remedial measures” to be taken to avoid a recurrence.

“Furthermore, the consulate wishes to express its regret to members of the public for the disruption to services caused by the invasion and hereby assures that normal consular services have been restored at the mission,” the statement concluded.

On Wednesday, City Power told IOL that despite being denied access to the Nigerian consulate in Illovo, it managed to disconnected the electricity supply to the diplomatic mission.

City Power’s spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, said the Nigerian consul-general later visited City Power’s offices and made arrangements to settle the bill by the end of January.

“The consul-general visited our service delivery centre in Alexandra and agreed to pay the deposit, with the rest to be paid by the end of the month,” said Mangena.

“The same with The Catalyst Hotel, even though we realised that the hotel had lodged some queries on the debt, which we will be attending to. However, they paid R400 000 and were reconnected and we will proceed to address their query.”

By Wednesday night, Mangena said electricity had also been restored to the Nigerian consulate.

“Power was restored late afternoon, after the arrangement was made. They owed over R400 000, and they put up a R150 000 deposit,” said Mangena.

Over the past three days, churches and other business have been on the receiving end of City Power’s drive to disconnect electricity to customers whose municipal accounts are in arrears.

“Shift in southern African economic landscape following Zim’s lithium ban” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/shift-in-southern-african-economic-landscape-following-zims-lithium-ban-02d4ce18-d00d-4ba1-8800-ecbe147c7b12

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2023

Johannesburg - The African continent is seeing a shift in its economic landscape, with Zimbabwe recently banning all raw lithium exports after the government said it was losing €1.7 billion from exporting it as a raw mineral and not processing it into batteries in-country.

Lithium is a mineral used as a component in electronic batteries for mostly cars, cellphones and computers. It is so valuable that it is known as “white gold”, and its price has gone up by 1 100% in the past two years alone.

The alkali metal is found in small amounts in minerals such as spodumene, petalite, lepidolite and amblygonite, as well as in indigenous rocks and waters of some mineral springs. It’s produced through the electric decomposition of molten lithium chloride and potassium chloride.

Zimbabwe holds some of the world’s largest reserves of hard-rock lithium, a vital mineral in the production of clean energy technologies.

Presidential spokesperson George Charamba said the law had been drawn up following “a beeline of 30-ton trucks full of lithium ore from Sandawana (mine) to the sea en route to different destinations of the world”.

“When the government caught up with the mischief, it looked for an appropriate law to deal with the illicit flow of high-value ore,” he said.

He said the ban came days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa said a new law would target hordes of artisanal miners who were drawn by the mineral’s high prices and invading abandoned mines to dig for lithium-bearing rocks.

Mnangagwa said the raw lithium was being exported through neighbouring countries.

Charamba explained that miners for a long time had been aware of the government's stance on value-addition driven by its long-term economic vision.

"Government has for a long time been having conversations about value-addition, so no one here has been caught unawares. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s vision is to industrialise the economy, and we have to be serious in terms of value-addition so that we fully industrialise the Zimbabwean economy," he said.

According to him, the paradigm policy shift by the Second Republic is the first by any country on the continent, whereas for years Africa has not benefited fully from its rich natural resource endowment. Hence the government's move demonstrates its determination to industrialise the economy in line with Vision 2030.

Energy experts weighed in on Zimbabwe's ban, saying it was a good move for Zimbabwe in terms of taking control of the raw materials produced by the country.

>>18180904

“Shift in southern African economic landscape following Zim’s lithium ban” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/shift-in-southern-african-economic-landscape-following-zims-lithium-ban-02d4ce18-d00d-4ba1-8800-ecbe147c7b12

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2023

“As a CEO of a mining company aspiring to diversify into critical minerals like lithium, just a thought of a possible collaboration in manufacturing lithium batteries in southern Africa is at the centre of Exxaro’s purpose of powering better lives in Africa and beyond,” said Nombasa Tsengwa, CEO of mining company Exxaro Resources.

Prian Reddy, a senior analyst in the sustainable mobility and energy storage department at GreenCape, a non-profit organisation in Cape Town, said this shift was needed.

“It’s interesting to see that Zimbabwe has now banned the export of unprocessed lithium ore in a bid to attract investment in local lithium beneficiation.

“Zimbabwe holds Africa’s largest lithium reserves – the fifth-largest globally. The province of Masvingo is home to the Bikita mine (with reserves amounting to 10.8-11 million tons of lithium ore. With a grading of 1.4%, this would amount to around 0.15 million tons of usable lithium,” he said.

Reddy said this was similar to a move made by Indonesia early last year which banned the export of unprocessed nickel ore.

“Indonesia has approximately 22% of the world’s nickel reserves, and this policy shift also aimed to attract investment towards the local beneficiation of key minerals in the lithium-ion battery and EV value chain.

“South Africa has the world’s largest reserves of manganese, another strategic mineral in the lithium-ion battery value chain. Co-operation with neighbouring African countries that have strategic mineral reserves is imperative if South Africa aims to develop a local lithium-ion cell manufacturing capacity in the years to come,” he said.

According to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, ongoing exploration has indicated there are significant deposits of lithium in the country.

“The Council for Geoscience confirms the presence of numerous sources of lithium-bearing rocks in all provinces in South Africa, all of which are currently the subject of an intensive research programme at various stages,” said a spokesperson for the department, Ernest Mulibana.

Mulibana said the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, and the Department of Science and Innovation were in the process of developing a battery minerals beneficiation value chain master plan in collaboration with industry and organised labour.

Once finalised, the master plan will guide the beneficiation of minerals in battery production. To date, only Polarium (a Swedish battery manufacturer) is known to be assembling lithium-ion batteries in South Africa.

“Zimbabwe is a sovereign state that has the right to make its own economic and trade policy decisions informed by national interest.

“Bilateral, regional, continental and international agreements and protocols are in place to ensure that countries balance domestic imperatives with international obligations and compliance,” Mulibana added.

>>18023107

>“Mbombela residents band together to regain access to electricity”

This is a stark contrast.

“LOOK: Angry residents protest over three-day long electricity outages in Cato Crest”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/look-angry-residents-protest-over-three-day-long-electricity-outages-in-cato-crest-c00bb4b3-757b-4f40-8030-bc62f568ad66

Published Jan 18, 2023

Durban - The ongoing power outages across Durban has led to sporadic and violent protests in various communities. eThekwini Municipality has been publishing a number of updates regarding power outages and faults in various suburbs.

On Wednesday, residents living in Cato Crest took to the streets to demonstrate after being without electricity for three days.

According to community sources, disgruntled groups blocked off Mary Thiphe Road on Tuesday night. They placed tyres and trees along the roadway and set it alight. Residents also threw dirt onto the burning pile.

On Wednesday morning, parents were forced to find an alternate route to the two schools in the neighbouring Manor Gardens community. By the afternoon, fresh piles of burning debris was scattered on the road. The roadway was opened just before 4.30pm after the Manor Gardens Residents and Ratepayers Association, Public Order Policing and private security guards attended to the protest.

Earlier in the week, Phoenix residents closed off roads and staged a protest after going 40 hours without electricity. IOL reported that Durban Metro Public Order Police and police were called to the scene on Sunday. Residents blocked off the Phoenix highway.

Community, Pastor Collin Moodley, said this is an ongoing problem. He said the electricity does not return following the end of load shedding.

On Saturday night, residents living in an informal settlement near Bonela took to the streets to protest after officials disconnected illegal electrical wires.

Dew Force Security's Yusuf Moola said they were alerted to the protest on Saturday night.

He said crowds burnt tyres and debris on the roadway. They also damaged infrastructure and stoned vehicles. There was also a vehicle that crashed in the chaos. Some had pistols and were firing live rounds at police and security personnel.

City spokesperson, Msawakhe Mayisela said they were aware of the protests.

"We are on record denouncing these protests because we are of the strong conviction that there is no number of grievances that will justify these violent service delivery protests," he said.

Mayisela said like many other cities, the city’s electricity infrastructure is bearing the brunt of load shedding.

"Our system is not designed to be switched on and off frequently. This results in many of our mini-substations tripping, leaving some areas without electricity outside of the load shedding schedule. What is also compounding our problems is the issue of cable theft and illegal connections," he said.

The City said the issue of cable theft also leads to malfunctions of mini-substations due to an overload, while some areas are left to wait a little longer for electricity to return after load shedding.

"Following this situation, we are receiving an avalanche of phone calls from the public reporting power outages, and we are grateful of the effort that our personnel is always putting to ensure that power is restored expeditiously," Mayisela said.

>>18180973

>Earlier in the week, Phoenix residents closed off roads and staged a protest after going 40 hours without electricity.

“Phoenix residents protest over 40-hour power outage”; "Politicians are blamed for the strike." – Part 1

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/politicians-blamed-for-stoking-phoenix-protests-breaking-20-january-2023/

20-01-2023 15:25

Phoenix’s angry residents take it to the streets to protest following a 40-hour power outage. Politicians are blamed for the strike.

• After a 40-hour power outage in Phoenix over the weekend, angry residents took to the streets protesting and burning tyres.

• Political opportunism was blamed for stoking the protests.

• The ward councillor blames ageing and inadequate infrastructure for the power failure.

After a power outage that lasted 40 hours, from Friday to Monday morning, enraged residents and some business owners took to the streets in Phoenix, north of Durban. Tyres were burned and roads were closed. Traffic was disrupted and had to be diverted.

In video footage GroundUp has seen, a passenger recording the protest on Sunday night had his phone taken. When the passenger left the vehicle to retrieve his phone, he was mobbed, assaulted with sticks, and forced to flee.

The protests started on Sunday with about 80 people near the Eastbury grounds. By Monday morning, there were only about 20 protesters, gathered at Grove End.

The power outage was not the first but it was one of the longest endured by residents in recent months. There is also water rationing and there are problems with uncollected garbage.

COMMUNITY POLICE FORUM ON POLITICS MANIPULATION:

Local community police forum (CPF) chairperson Umesh Singh said people were being manipulated by politicians stoking the discontent.

He said the power outage was caused by ageing infrastructure and protests weren’t going to fix a problem that required expertise and time.

He said community groups, such as the CPF, were seeking to assist the “broken” eThekwini Municipality.

Singh said it was a “low mentality” for people to destroy infrastructure they needed for daily survival just to get the municipality’s attention. He said Phoenix was still struggling from the damage to infrastructure done during the 2021 riots.

Ward 49 Councillor Tino Pillay (DA) said power had been restored to three wards by 1:30am on Monday, except for two roads in ward 48 that had additional faults.

He said the power outage over the weekend was not the result of load shedding, but of a cable malfunction, caused by load surges on the lines when the power was switched back on. At the same time, there was a second cable fault 50 metres away, and a third about five kilometres away. He said the process of joining replacement cables was easily a 20-hour job that included manually digging trenches, acquiring parts, and managing surges so that further breaks did not happen.

Pillay also blamed ageing infrastructure and the eThekwini municipality’s “broken system”, which included its supply chain management. He said everyone was aware that the government had not maintained or expanded the infrastructure as the population grew.

He, too, blamed political incitement for the protests. He said the protestors were misinformed.

>>18181034

“Phoenix residents protest over 40-hour power outage”; "Politicians are blamed for the strike." – Part 2

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/politicians-blamed-for-stoking-phoenix-protests-breaking-20-january-2023/

20-01-2023 15:25

POLITICS BLAMED

On Sunday, a statement was issued by Inkatha Freedom Party councillor Jonathan Annipen on eThekwini municipal letterhead stating that staff members from the municipality had been removed from Phoenix because of threats to their safety.

Annipen said Maxwell Mthembu, head of eThekwini Municipality, told him a political party had made threats to harm municipal staff. Annipen refused to say who or which party.

The message was not well received by the DA and the Phoenix CPF, who said they had spoken to Mthembu and no staff member had been threatened or taken off site.

Members of the public also criticised Annipen for inflaming the situation.

Speaking to GroundUp on Tuesday, Annipen said that while he stood by his statement, he now viewed parts of it as “alarmist”, and he conceded that he only had hearsay evidence of political threats and he had not actually witnessed threats to municipal staff himself. He said the IFP would not support violent protests that damage property and infrastructure.

Singh said the CPF would have protected municipal staff while they worked had there in fact been any danger.

CALL FOR PROTEST

In a voice note on a private Phoenix WhatsApp group, calls to protest were made by an individual asking residents to join him in protesting against the eThekwini Municipality and the Democratic Alliance. The note claims that members of Action SA were both present and supportive of the protests.

But Action SA KwaZulu-Natal provincial chair Zwakele Mncwango said they knew nothing about the voice note and they did not condone violence. However, he said,

“Protesting is a constitutional right that all South Africans enjoy. Unfortunately, our government [listens] to protest language before doing anything.”

Claims had been circulating on social media that thousands of rands worth of food had to be discarded as Durban temperatures reached above 30 degrees celsius during the outage. Community WhatsApp groups started to call on residents to protest.

POWER OUTAGE DISRUPT PHOENIX SERVICE

A source at First Call Assist, who wished to remain anonymous, said the service was inundated with requests for assistance in Phoenix. He said some residents were dependent on ventilators, others on running their businesses from home, and the power outage was disastrous for them. However, fortunately no calls for medical assistance were received during the outage.

Meanwhile, Pillay said residents could claim for losses caused by the outage through the Sizakhala walk-in centre. He said for a successful claim one had to show receipts of purchase, and it would be best for claimants to visit the centre to receive help in person.

Phoenix has seen a burgeoning of development over the past decade, including blocks of flats that are privately built and let out for rent. Services are strained.

Pillay said the community could expect service interruptions for the foreseeable future and residents should consider alternative solutions like gas, solar and inverter systems.

GroundUp contacted Mthembu and also city manager Mbhele for comment on the claims made by Annipen, but they had not responded by the time of publication.

“Public Protector's office wraps up Phala Phala investigation”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/public-protectors-office-wraps-up-phala-phala-investigation-88100d41-65da-43a4-b3a3-d2e4cea54e28

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023

The Public Protector’s office has confirmed its completion of an investigation into whether President Cyril Ramaphosa violated the Executive Members’ Ethics Act in the Phala Phala saga.

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) lodged a formal complaint through its leader, Vuyolwethu Zungula that Ramaphosa violated his office following the theft of millions of US dollars during an incident at his Phala Phala farm in Waterberg in Limpopo in February 2020.

In the letter, signed by acting executive manager of the investigations branch, Vusumuzi Dlamini, stated that an interim report has already been drafted by the investigation team.

"The interim report has been scheduled to serve through the internal review structures for quality assurance purposes.

"Once the quality assurance process is completed, the interim report shall be served to the relevant parties, in line with the Rules Relating to Investigations by the Public Protector and Matters Incidental thereto, 2018, as promulgated under Section 7(11) of the Public Protector Act, to afford them an opportunity to comment on the intended findings before the report is made final," the letter said.

The PP's office said further progress or new developments on the matter will be communicated to the ATM in due course.

IOL previously reported that Zungula tabled an official motion on June 14, 2022, that parliament investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa by forming a Section 89 Committee Inquiry over allegations the latter had violated section 89 of the Constitution.

Last month, retired chief justice Sandile Ngcobo’s three-member Independent Section 89 Panel has found that President Cyril Ramaphosa had violated his oath of office. Despite the scandal hanging over his head, Ramaphosa consolidated his power in the ANC after winning a second term as ANC president during the party’s elective conference that began on December 16 and ended four days later.

>>18203797

>Officials in Eswatini admit there are problems in the kingdom but say the unrest was due to “terrorists” and “rabble rousers” from South Africa.

>Khumalo said that security forces had intervened when authorities “had been made aware of a grand plan to sow a trail of destruction” in Eswatini. Without offering evidence, he alleged the plan involved the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical leftwing political party in neighbouring South Africa.

>“The EFF was bringing in people to lead the destruction and who would train and mentor its local branch to do this … We were able to intercept the plan on the internet. We had to protect business and security for all citizens. It was beyond a protest,” the minister said.

“‘They can’t kill us all’: Malema urges EFF to join riots as SANDF deployed”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/kzn-gauteng-riots-protests-zuma-eff-julius-malema-latest-news-breaking-monday-12-july/

12-07-2021 14:00

MALEMA CONDEMNS SANDF DEPLOYMENT

In a tweet sent out at lunchtime on Sunday after it was confirmed that the SANDF will be deployed to Gauteng and KZN to support the South African Police Service (SAPS), Malema directed EFF supporters to “be ready” to assist rioters.

“No soldiers on our streets! Otherwise, we are joining. All fighters must be ready… they won’t kill us all. We need a political solution to a political problem, not soldiers,” he said.

“Power cuts in SA are playing havoc with the country’s water system”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/power-cuts-sa-are-playing-havoc-countrys-water-system-breaking-24-january-2023/

24-01-2023 15:29

The recent blackouts have led to water utilities issuing warnings about damage to water supply infrastructure and operations.

South Africans had to deal with the worst ever series of power cuts in 2022. All in all the country lost a record 205 days of electricity due to constant breakdowns at the coal-fired power plants run by Eskom, the state-owned electricity utility. The plants are old and have not been sufficiently maintained.

The country’s energy crisis has been escalating since April 2008, when scheduled power cuts were first implemented.

One of the biggest casualties of more than a decade of severe power outages has been the country’s water processing and distribution networks. The most recent, and escalated, blackouts have led to water utilities in parts of the country issuing warnings about damage to water supply infrastructure and operations.

The negative effects on water supply are far-reaching. Energy and water are intertwined. The water reticulation system – the transport of water from source, the treatment of water and sewage and the distribution and delivery of water to consumers – all require electricity.

A number of cities, including Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay, as well as smaller towns, have had drastic water cuts.

These experiences – as well as the growing frequency of sewage spills – have given South Africans a glimpse of what the future might hold if the energy crisis isn’t properly addressed. Water shortages and prolonged cuts in supply are likely to become increasingly common.

The problems triggered by the power cuts have been made worse by the fact that the country’s water infrastructure has been deteriorating for decades. Water losses have been increasing as a result of decaying infrastructure such as old pipes which haven’t been replaced.

In addition, allegations of corruption and misappropriation of funds have also plagued the sector.

The country needs a clear way forward to address both the energy and water crises. These will not be solved overnight. They will require political will, making use of the knowledge and skills of experienced individuals within the various sectors, to collectively develop a realistic and clear plan. It will require specific timelines and deliverables to address both crises: energy and water.

>>17981373

>“‘Black people can NEVER be racist’, Vishoek High learners told”

>>17981407

“‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/western-cape/diversity-training-at-fish-hoek-high-school-being-investigated/

January 24, 2023

The complaint that the FF Plus lodged with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) about last year’s traumatic ‘diversity training session’ at Fish Hoek High School is officially being investigated.

The HRC confirmed this to the FF Plus shortly after the announcement about Schweizer-Reneke was made last week.

The HRC found neither the teacher, Elana Barkhuizen, nor the Schweizer-Reneke Primary School guilty of any form of racism or discrimination in the 2019 incident.

Regarding the Fish Hoek incident, the complaint was made against the DA’s Western Cape Education Department (WCED), the party’s MEC for Education, Mr David Maynier, and the group of individuals who presented the session.

The complaint was lodged after public outcry from the townspeople and concerned parents reached out to the FF Plus for help.

It seems that the Fish Hoek training incident has already resulted in one head rolling. Ironically enough, it is not the head of one of the presenters nor of the individuals who organised the training, but of a staff member who tried to protect the children.

The staff member’s name is known to the FF Plus, but is kept confidential for her protection.

While the training was taking place, this teacher became aware that the learners found it severely traumatising and she entered the school hall to ask them to stop the training session.

At the end of last year, disciplinary steps were taken against her for her ‘disruption’ of the session and she was asked to resign.

In its complaint to the HRC the FF Plus requested, among other things, that while the incident is being investigated, the Western Cape Education Department must not be allowed to conduct any further diversity training at schools.

According to parents in town, they are not aware of any ban on the diversity course.

The FF Plus is urgently calling on the WCED to immediately scrap the course in the interest of all Western Cape learners.

Critical Race Theory forms the basis of the course. This theoretical framework jars with most commentators’ interpretation of the equality principle in Section 9 of South Africa’s Constitution. Consequently, a constitutional body like the HRC must also rule on whether it is appropriate to employ it in schools.

One of the presenters stated that white people are the only ones who can be racists, while black people cannot seeing as they have no power.

Christianity was, furthermore, equated to white patriarchal oppression and the other statements that were made about Christianity can, at best, be seen as unwarranted, and at worst, as blasphemous.

From the sound recordings that learners secretly made of the session, it is clear that learners were extremely shocked and emotional.

And the one staff member who tried to protect the children lost her job.

The DA must see to it that this person is reinstated at once, and must stop playing with words as they are currently doing with the Schweizer-Reneke matter.

Ms Helen Zille from the DA said last week in response to the HRC’s finding that the then youth leader of the DA who labelled Ms Barkhuizen a racist, Luyolo Mphithi, had ‘resigned’ after the incident.

The truth, however, is that the DA had in fact rewarded and promoted him by appointing him as a Member of Parliament.

>>18221591

>The HRC found neither the teacher, Elana Barkhuizen, nor the Schweizer-Reneke Primary School guilty of any form of racism or discrimination in the 2019 incident.

“‘I am a good teacher!’ - Elana Barkhuizen speaks out after her suspension” [Jan 15, 2019] - https://youtu.be/72mDnldSSRU

0:50 – “Do not be sorry for me – I will not surrender. I will fight. I will make sure that what happened to me will never happen to any other teacher… I will take on these people with power and I shall win.” [English translation]

“North West MEC put Schweizer-Reneke teacher's [Elana Barkhuizen] life in danger, falsely accused her of racism – SAHRC”

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/north-west-mec-put-schweizer-reneke-teachers-life-in-danger-falsely-accused-her-of-racism-sahrc-20230120

20 January 2023

• The publication of a photograph of black and white pupils sitting at separate tables at a North West primary school in 2019 led to a teacher being accused of racism.

• Following a probe, the SA Human Rights Commission found claims of unfair discrimination at the school could not be substantiated.

• The SAHRC also found that the education MEC at the time had violated the teacher's constitutional rights and put her life in danger.

Former North West Education MEC Sello Lehari’s successor has been instructed to apologise for Lehari's conduct after he was found to have falsely accused teacher Elana Barkhuizen of racism.

Barkhuizen was the teacher who took a photograph which showed four black pupils sitting at a separate table from white children in a Grade R class in 2019. The photo went viral on social media at the time and sparked wide outrage.

The photograph led to allegations of racial segregation and unfair discrimination at Laerskool Schweizer-Reneke.

Barkhuizen was at the centre of the allegations, having taken the photograph. It was originally posted to a WhatsApp group for the childrens’ parents to see how they were settling in on the first day of school.

She was summarily suspended and Lehari disclosed her name to protesters and media who had gathered at the school in the aftermath.

It was later revealed that the photograph was not of Barkhuizen’s class and that the seating arrangements were not aimed at discriminating against the black pupils, but were based on their language needs and aimed at helping them integrate at the Afrikaans-medium school.

The allegations and social outrage led to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) launching an investigation.

More than four years later, the investigation has been completed and the report made public.

The SAHRC said the allegation that the school had unfairly discriminated against the four pupils could not be substantiated.

The commission did say that the four black pupils had been treated differently, purportedly on the basis of language, and indirectly on the basis of their race, but that the discrimination was fair on a balance of probabilities.

The findings effectively exonerated Barkhuizen, who, at one point, had to flee from her home and remove her children from school because of safety concerns.

"Within 14 days of this report, the current MEC for Education of the North West Province must issue a public written apology to Ms Barkhuizen for the manner in which she was treated by the department and the former MEC for Education in the North West province," it ruled.

"The written apology should, inter alia, state that the MEC is apologising for the violation of Ms Barkhuizen's rights to due 58 process and privacy.

"Moreover, the MEC should apologise for the former MEC’s conduct of falsely accusing Ms Barkhuizen of racism and for placing her life and the life of her family at risk through the public disclosure of her identity. The written apology should be printed in at least one national newspaper and posted on the website of the department for at least one month."

“Criminality is well organised and rife in Eskom - de Ruyter”

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/criminality-is-well-organised-and-rife-in-eskom-de-ruyter-1135adb6-64bf-476b-b3c3-51aa0ca6961c

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2023

Cape Town - Criminality is deeply embedded in Eskom, and is very well organised.

This is according to outgoing Eskom chief executive, Andre de Ruyter, as he briefed Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday.

De Ruyter said the organisation was dealing with many challenges, and criminality was high up on the list.

“Criminality (for example), we know someone has a maintenance contract for mills, there will be rock and metal added to the coal to destroy the mills. We stopped theft of R100 million a month at Tutuka. We affected two arrests, but they were released on R500 bail the following day and the case has not been finalised,” he said.

In other instances, De Ruyter said they have had to write off inventory and when they tried to implement controls by adding bar-coding, it was “resisted” internally.

“Criminality is quite well organised, very deeply embedded. (There is) resistance to implement basic control measures and it goes to extraordinary lengths,” he said.

To combat fraud and corruption, he said they had increased governance controls and implemented technology to measure coal quality that would sample every truck delivered to Eskom.

He said since the deployment of the defence force, they were seeing greater action from police.

“There is a criminal justice value chain and prosecutions are equally important. At Camden, Eskom security intercepted a coal truck which contained poor quality coal, the coal had been replaced. The truck driver and manager offered security a R50 000 bribe which was declined. After approaching the police, he was arrested, made a full confession, however (a) prosecutor released the individual,” De Ruyter said.

He said after the matter was brought to the attention of the director of public prosecutions, they had seen a change.

Eskom said it was experiencing high levels of plant unreliability and forced outage currently. This is compounded by high planned maintenance.

A number of large generating units are off for extended periods, said Eskom, contributing to the higher plant unavailability and loss of generating capacity.

These include Medupi 4, Kusile 1, 2, 3, Koeberg 1 (planned outage) and Kusile 5 (delayed commissioning).

“AfriForum to start own electricity generation company” – “of starting a company with André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital” and “shareholder in PBMR company X-Energy”

https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/afriforum-start-own-electricity-generation-company/

Jan. 23, 2023, 6:40 a.m.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel says formal engagements have started with C5 Capital to invest in nuclear energy.

The lobby group says it is fed up with the decay of the state of the energy crisis in the country.

Kriel says they are in the process of starting a company with André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital, to build a venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/477385-afriforum-starting-its-own-power-company-with-nuclear-plans-in-the-pipeline.html

South African-born venture capitalist André Pienaar, a shareholder in PBMR company X-Energy.

X-Energy is currently building the world’s first commercial-scale advanced nuclear reactor in the state of Washington.

It forms part of the US Department of Energy’s $2.5-billion (R43-billion) Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP).

The ARDP will see the construction of X-Energy’s first 320MW XE-100 power plant, consisting of four 80MW PBMRs.

The helium-cooled, high-temperature reactors are designed to provide small-scale power generation with faster deployment times and better safety than large conventional reactors.

X-Energy has also signed a contract with the US military to supply it with Xe-mobile micro reactors for remote operations.

Ironically, the earliest forms of PBMR were developed by a team of South Africans as part of Eskom’s PBMR company.

The utility planned to construct a new nuclear power station in Duynefontein near Koeberg that would use the technology.

However, after ten years of development and ballooning costs, the project was terminated due to a lack of investment.

X-Energy scooped up one of these team members — Eben Mulder — who now serves as the company’s chief scientist.

Its lead reactor developer is another South African — Martin van Staden — a North-West University and University of Johannesburg alumnus.

Kriel acknowledged there was no quick fix for the country’s energy crisis, but said civil society and the private sector could play a critical role in a future “on the other side” of Eskom.

>>18221611

>“AfriForum to start own electricity generation company” – “of starting a company with André Pienaar, founder and CEO of C5 Capital” and “shareholder in PBMR company X-Energy”

>>17981046

>Zuma wants Ramaphosa to be prosecuted as part of the ongoing private prosecution of NPA advocate Billy Downer

Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar in Previous Posts

Final Andre Pienaar Bun

>>13900374 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 1

>>13900380 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 2

>>13900382 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 3

>>13908297 André Pienaar Biography

>>13908317 Sample from Pienaar's blog for reference

>>13956493 André Pienaar Remarks on the Space Investment Landscape at America’s Future Series Space Innovation Summit

“Liam Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US radical right” – More South Africa Connections (Part 2) dated 15 Oct 2011 at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

“South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider” dated December 13, 2018, at https://www.somtribune.com/2018/12/13/south-african-at-centre-of-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud-linked-to-kremlin-insider/

While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious “Luciano” in the leaked “Zuma spy tapes” saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon Project – a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes – he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg [>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun], who has close links to the Kremlin.

Former South African intelligence agent, Andre Pienaar, has been cited in an extensive investigation by BBC journalists into bids for the Pentagon’s $R10 billion Jedi Contract project aimed at storing sensitive military and other information on a single cloud.

Pienaar was exposed in court transcripts in the Zuma “spy tapes” saga as the mysterious “Luciano” who allegedly leaked illegal National Intelligence Agency recordings of conversations between then Scorpions boss, Leonard McCarthy, and former NPA boss, Bulelani Ngcuka.

The leak ultimately led to the initial withdrawal of charges of fraud and corruption against former President Jacob Zuma.

https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2021/05/25/jacob-zuma-prosecution

25th May 2021

Former president Jacob Zuma claims that ‘foreign intelligence agencies’ may have interfered in his corruption prosecution.

In his ‘special plea’ challenging the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption and racketeering, Zuma claimed he had ‘come across information’ that former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called André Pienaar.

He said Pienaar, who he said was code-named Luciano, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.

>>18188984

>Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence. Nations cannot be interdependent without each of them giving up some of, or at least acknowledging limits to, its own independence.

>>18202244

>the interdependence of countries, on their food and fuels and so on, is leading to an interdependence which has seeds of draining away of sovereignty within it.

“Team SA pulling out all the stops at Davos”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/partnered/team-sa-pulling-out-all-the-stops-at-davos-34edd61a-908f-4807-a763-2d518aaa94da

Published Jan 23, 2023

On Monday, Team South Africa arrived in Davos, Switzerland for the 53rd World Economic Forum (WEF). The team includes a strong mix of government ministers, industry leaders, diplomats and key stakeholders.

Team South Africa announced that its partners for the annual event are Old Mutual, Multichoice, Anglo American and Naspers - and thanked them for their committed partnerships.

WEF brings together leaders from government, business and civil society from across the world in Davos in Switzerland to discuss the status of the globe’s economy and identify potential international opportunities and partnerships.

Team South Africa has a busy four days in Davos - with the main activities happening from January 16 to 20 at the South African Business Hub at Promenade 54.

Brand South Africa, in partnership with WEF, Multichoice and Naspers hosted the official WEF Reception on January 18 at the Congress Centre. Actress Nomzamo Mbatha hosted South Africa night, framed by South African Food Experience with Chef Wandile Mabaso, and the Proudly South Africa showcase featuring Mi Casa and The Soil. The objective was to provide global guests with a cultural showcase; enticing them to visit, partner with, invest in and initiate business with South Africa.

What Team South Africa is emphasising at WEF is an uncommonly strong message focussed on the country’s openness to new business, as well as highlighting the stability of South Africa’s key financial institutions. The high-powered team is pulling out all the stops, positioning South Africa as a business and innovation hub lead by a wealth of world-class human capital.

South Africa certainly knows a thing or two about surviving turbulent times. However, the country’s resilience has led to increasing global confidence in the country’s socio-economic stability, protected by a functioning democracy, a progressive legal system and a respect for the rule of law. [A gangster's paradise]

Team South Africa will also focus on emphasising the country's creativity competitiveness, diverse industries, abundant resources and economic opportunities. It will also draw attention to the nation’s pool of experienced and skilled professionals, and its track record of creating value, economic growth and sustainable ROI for investors. It is imperative that Team South Africa provides the international business community with updates on the country’s economic reforms, as well as the progress being made in implementing the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (EERP).

South Africa is marketing its status as an investment destination and open economy, with credible and independent institutions, a resilient and competitive private sector, world-class infrastructure and an influential role in the region (BRICS, AfCFTA). Brand South Africa is also executing a digital marketing campaign, and a media programme that sheds light on the country’s achievements and successes in key economic sectors.

Brand South Africa Acting CEO, Sithembile Ntombela said earlier that as the organisation is the official custodian of South Africa's brand reputation, it will leave nothing unsaid about South Africa’s potential and the collaborative economic opportunities that the nation can offer to the world.

Ntombela also highlighted the WEF’s importance in providing a platform for the country to position itself as “a land of endless opportunities” and an investment-friendly environment. With a plan to have more than 1 000 international companies operating and investing in South Africa by 2025, Team South Africa is committed to piquing global investor interest by increasing engagement and networking.

his year’s WEF runs from the January 16 to 20, under the focus “Co-operation in a fragmented society”. More information on South Africa’s participation in this year’s WEF can be found at brandsouthafrica.com/our-initiatives/sa-in-davos/, http://brandsouthafrica.com/our-initiatives/sa-in-davos/.

>>18259632

Yet “Equality Court rules EFF ‘Kill the Boer’ song does not constitute hate speech”, https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/equality-court-rules-eff-kill-the-boer-song-does-not-constitute-hate-speech-90d4d78b-2d0f-4d9d-afdc-c0b536b50982, and farm murders continue to occur in the country.

SA has no justice system!

“Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-kenny-kunene-cockroach-comments-1-february-2023/

01-02-2023

Wait, what? The Gauteng High Court in Joburg found Kenny Kunene guilty of hate speech after he called Julius Malema an irritating cockroach.

BACKGROUND ON THE MALEMA AND KUNENE LAWSUIT

During the 2021 Local Elections, Kenny Kunene was pressed on comments Malema had made about his then newly-formed political party.

Malema said those in the Patriotic Alliance ‘were all bandits’ – but Kunene responded with some extra spice.

The Sushi King branded the controversial party leader as an ‘irritating cockroach‘. However, Juju didn’t take this insult lying down. He then approached the Johannesburg Equality Court, claiming that the comparison to the lamentable insect ‘lent itself to the language used in the Rwandan genocide’.

“I don’t believe I committed hate speech within the confines of the law. My attorneys are here. We will defend the matter, and we are confident. If not, we will appeal. Julius has previously called Pravin Gordhan, a dog. The court said that’s not hate speech, but Malema talks in violence.

“Courts have said that is NOT hate speech. Calling someone an irritating cockroach is not hate speech because he IS an irritating cockroach. When I called him that, he first said the Patriotic Alliance was a party full of bandits. He is an emotionally fragile boy,” Kunene said outside court in 2022

SUSHI KING FOUND GUILTY OF HATE SPEECH

On Tuesday, 31 January, the Johannesburg High Court reportedly found that there was no retaliatory justification for Kunene’s comments and that he sought to incite hate and harm towards Malema.

In response, the EFF said it hopes that the judgement will serve the rehabilitating purpose that the prison system failed to achieve with Kunene as an individual.

>>18265601

>farm murders continue to occur in the country

“11 Farm attacks, 3 farm murders in South Africa, 1 – 15 January 2023”

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/11-farm-attacks-3-farm-murders-in-south-africa-1-15-january-2023/

January 18, 2023

As the police continue refusing to make these atrocities priority crimes there were, in first fifteen days of January 2023, another eleven farm attacks and three farm murders in South Africa.

During the month of December 2022, there were fourteen farm attacks and one farm murder in the country.

For the period 1 January to 31 December 2020, on average, a farmer in South Africa was murdered every 4.7 days.

There were 77 farm murders and 446 farm attacks in 2020. That is 1,22 attacks every day in the country.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2021:

January 2021 – 21 farm attacks and 0 farm murders.

February 2021 – 17 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

March 2021 – 36 farm attacks and 5 farm murders.

April 2021 – 24 farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

May 2021 – 23 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

June 2021 – 23 farm attacks and 5 farm murders.

July 2021 – 21 farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

August 2021 – 26 farm attacks and 9 farm murders.

September 2021 – 13 farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

October 2021 – 14 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

November 2021 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

December 2021 – 13 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

Farm attacks and Farm murders 2022:

January 2022 – 14 Farm attacks and 4 farm murders.

February 2022 – 17 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

March 2022 – 7 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

April 2022 – 12 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

May 2022 – 10 Farm attacks and 2 farm murders.

June 2022 – 3 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

July 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

August 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

September 2022 – 15 Farm attacks and 7 farm murders.

October 2022 – 13 Farm attacks and 3 farm murders.

November 2022 – 21 Farm attacks and 4 farm murders.

December 2022 – 14 Farm attacks and 1 farm murder.

>>18265605

“German researchers query facts behind farm killings”

https://herald.pressreader.com/article/281719798721833

I would like to evoke Ernst Roets’ book Kill the Boer.

I am deeply concerned about the allegations concerning the allegations concerning government complicity in SA’s notorious farm murders.

German investigative journalists, Professor Dr Peter Scholl-Latour and Gerhard Wisnewski have come up with the same conclusions.

According to Scholl-Latour, up to 16,000 white farmers had been killed up to 2003.

Is there a form of “reversed racism” targeting white farmers? Are white farmers murdered because there may be hatred lingering from the effects of apartheid?

Does the SA government condone the killings of white farmers?

Why is Roets branded as a “populist” or a “racist” when he denounces brutal farm murders?

How does the overall SA popylation feel about the killing of farmers of European origin? Tobias Hans, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

“SECURITY ALERT: U.S. EMBASSY – STATE OF DISASTER DECLARED OVER ONGOING ENERGY CRISIS OF “LOAD-SHEDDING””

https://za.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-state-of-disaster-declared-over-ongoing-energy-crisis-of-load-shedding-controlled-electricity-outages/

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Location: South Africa

Event: The government of South Africa has declared a “State of Disaster” in response to ongoing power shortages. The country’s energy crisis includes sustained load-shedding (controlled rolling blackouts), at varying intervals and is expected to extend beyond 2023. Load-shedding currently results in localized power outages of up to six hours or more per day throughout the country. These planned electricity outages negatively affect private residences, businesses, municipal lighting, traffic lights, and hotels. Rolling blackouts can also impact water availability and safety, internet connectivity, cell phone network coverage, fuel pumps (and therefore fuel availability), residential security features, and the food supply. Additionally, power outages have the potential to increase crime; for example, traffic jams when lights are out provide opportunities for smash and grab crime, and residences can be targeted when lights are out and security systems are not functioning. Further, ongoing conditions have led to an increase in protests and demonstrations, and in some cases civil unrest, throughout the country.

The U.S. Embassy would like to take this opportunity to remind U.S. citizens traveling to or living in South Africa that South Africa has a Travel Advisory Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution due to Crime and Civil Unrest.

Prepare in advance for power outages, including contingencies for communication and water (see additional actions and tips below).

Actions to Take:

• Be aware of your surroundings.

• Review your personal security plans.

• Inquire about a back-up power supply for your place of lodging (i.e. generators or solar-power).

• Avoid demonstrations.

• Exercise caution if unexpectedly in the vicinity of large gatherings or protests.

• Monitor local media for updates.

Emergency Preparedness Tips:

• Have a communications plan for when there is no or limited power (land line locations, external cell phone battery, additional charging cords, hard copy of important numbers, etc.)

• Ensure you have necessary medicine, personal hygiene supplies, eyeglasses

• Memorize family members’ phone numbers

• Identify safe areas around the city, these could include hotels, hospitals, churches, or police stations that may not lose power

• Maintain 72-hours’ worth of supplies at home by stockpiling non-perishable food, 3 liters of drinking water per person per day, and medicines and first aid supplies

• Store flashlights, batteries, radio, and basic tools in a safe location where all family members have easy access

If you received this email, it means that you already enrolled in STEP. Please help us to spread this message and remind all U.S. citizens in South Africa to enroll in the program so that they too can receive the most up to date security and health information.

Australia’s Warning About South Africa – Part 1

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/south-africa#safety

Still current at:13 March 2023

Updated:17 February 2023

Crime and violence are serious issues in South Africa.

Crime rates in South Africa are significantly higher than in Australia and often involve weapons.

Be alert.

Due to increased crime, avoid using Numbi Gate at Kruger National Park and consider using an alternative gate.

Police in South Africa deal with a high volume of aggravated crime. Their resources are stretched. You may not get the level of service you would in Australia, especially for less serious crimes such as theft and fraud.

The South African Police Service doesn't have a 'Tourist Police' force. Criminals have posed as 'Tourist Police' to extort and rob tourists. This includes stopping tourist buses to check proof of identity and search luggage.

Power Shortages and Rolling Blackouts (Load Shedding)

The government has declared a state of disaster in response to ongoing power shortages. Rolling blackouts (load shedding) are occurring throughout South Africa which are affecting private residences, businesses, municipal lighting, traffic lights, and hotels.

Blackouts can also affect water availability, internet connectivity, mobile phone network coverage, fuel availability, residential security features, and food supply.

Power outages can potentially increase crime; for example, traffic jams due to power outages provide opportunities for smash-and-grab crime. Residences can be targeted when lights are out and security systems are not functioning. Ongoing conditions have led to increased protests and demonstrations, and in some cases, civil unrest, throughout the country.

Be prepared for issues that may arise from blackouts:

• have a communications plan for when there is no or limited power (landline locations, external mobile phone battery/power banks, additional charging cords, hard copies of important numbers).

• maintain several days worth of non-perishable food, drinking water, and other essential items, including medicine and first aid supplies.

• store torches, batteries, radios and basic tools in quick-access locations.

• identify safe areas around the city, including hotels, hospitals or police stations that may not lose power.

• monitor local media and follow the instructions of local authorities.

>>18492159

Australia’s Warning About South Africa – Part 2

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/south-africa#safety

Crime at airports

Crime in and around airports can occur.

Criminals have robbed arriving passengers, following them from the airport to:

• ATMs

• foreign currency exchange facilities

• tourist accommodation

Theft from luggage also occurs. To avoid this, don't place valuables in checked-in luggage.

Other crimes

Crime in South Africa includes:

• murder

• rape

• assault

• food and drink spiking

• mugging, robbery and theft, sometimes with weapons and violence

• carjacking

• kidnapping

Robberies involving violence can occur at shopping centres. South Africa experiences a higher amount of crime during its rolling blackouts (loadshedding) including at shopping centres. Be alert at all times.

Assaults and robberies on local commuter and metro trains happen:

• between Johannesburg and Pretoria

• in Cape Town

Theft from hotel rooms and guest houses does happen, including within game parks.

Criminals have stolen bags and backpacks from public places including restaurants and bars. Be alert in all public places.

To avoid theft:

• don't leave luggage and valuables unattended

• place your luggage and valuables in safekeeping facilities

Crime rates are significantly higher after dark.

To protect yourself against crime, avoid travelling to:

• central business districts

• townships, unless with an organised tour run by a reputable company

• isolated beaches, lookouts and picnic areas

There's a threat of kidnapping across South Africa. Kidnaps are generally for financial gain or motivated by criminality. Foreign nationals, have been kidnapped in the past. Pay attention to your personal security.

Cash-in-transit attacks occur targeting armoured courier vans, sometimes using automatic weapons, with a significant risk of causing death or serious injury to anyone in the vicinity. Avoid driving alongside or parking next to cash transit vehicles wherever possible.

Crime involving vehicles

Thieves posing as vendors or beggars target cars:

• on highways off ramps

• at intersections

• at traffic lights

‘Smash and grab’ thefts from vehicles and carjacking are common, particularly:

• on major routes

• at major intersections

• during traffic congestion

• after dark

Criminals also place debris on roads to stop vehicles. Don't stop to clear debris.

Road spiking occurs on South African roads, where criminals place spikes on roads to damage vehicles and force motorists to pull over.

To prevent theft when travelling by car:

• keep doors locked and windows up, even when driving

• keep valuables out of sight

• avoid driving after dark

• maintain situational awareness and stop at designated areas such as petrol stations

• if followed by a suspicious vehicle, go to a police station, petrol station or alert a security company

Attacks against hikers

Criminals have attacked hikers in South Africa.

To prevent attacks when hiking:

• hike in groups

• be alert to your surroundings and circumstances

>>18492159

>>18492161

Australia’s Warning About South Africa – Part 3

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/africa/south-africa#safety

Crime involving cash and credit cards

ATMs in major cities are common. ATMs in rural areas are more rare.

ATM and credit card fraud is common. Criminals use skimming devices to copy your card details onto a blank card.

Criminals wait near ATMs and rob people withdrawing cash.

Criminals use spotters to identify victims who have withdrawn cash or made expensive purchases. Be aware of your surroundings.

To protect yourself against cash and credit card crime:

• only withdraw small amounts of cash at ATMs

• refuse offers of help at ATMs

• keep all ATM and credit card payment slips secure

• keep your credit card in sight at all times when using it

Don't use ATMs that open onto the street. Only use ATMs in controlled areas, such as:

• banks

• shops

• shopping centres

Scams

Scams are common.

Don't be fooled by scams. If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

If you're a victim of scam, don't travel to South Africa to try and get your money back. The risk of assault is too high.

Fake internet friendship, dating and marriage schemes operate from some African countries. These typically take place on internet dating sites or chat rooms.

Someone you meet online may ask you to send money so they can travel to Australia to visit you. As soon as the scammer receives the money, they end their relationship with you.

Some may ask you to travel to Africa to meet them. When you arrive in Africa they may kidnap, assault or rob you.

Report fraud and scams to the Commercial Crimes Unit of the South African Police Service in Johannesburg on +27 (11) 970 5300.

More information:

• Scams

• Kidnapping

Demonstrations and protests

Avoid areas where protests are taking place.

Don’t attempt to cross protester roadblocks as this could provoke a violent reaction.

There have been reports of protesters damaging property belonging to bystanders. Avoid taking photographs or video footage of demonstrations and protests.

If you're caught in a protest, find shelter until it's safe to leave.

Monitor local and social media for updates.

More information:

• Demonstrations and civil unrest

New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa – Part 1

https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/south-africa

• Reviewed: 3 March 2023, 16:21 NZDT

• Still current at: 13 March 2023

Exercise increased caution in South Africa due to violent crime (level 2 of 4).

Crime

There is a very high level of violent crime in South Africa, which includes mugging, murder, sexual assault, carjacking, armed robbery and kidnapping. While most travellers are likely to experience a trouble-free visit, there is a serious risk of crime, particularly in city centres and townships. Although crime occurs at all hours, the risk significantly increases at night.

Carjacking and theft from vehicles is a concern in South Africa, including car windows being broken and valuables taken while vehicles are stopped at intersections. When travelling by car, it is advisable to keep doors locked and windows up at all times, hide valuables from view and remain vigilant at intersections. Do not stop to assist with vehicle breakdowns, clear debris from the road or pick up hitchhikers. Criminals have posed as police officers asking for identification to rob tourists.Particular care should be taken with luggage and personal belongings in and around all airports. Where possible, luggage should be locked in secure plastic film. Criminals have followed tourists from the airport and later robbed them. Be particularly vigilant around the airport. Unsolicited offers of assistance with baggage and transportation arrangements, other than from official porters, should be declined. Avoid using Numbi Gate at Kruger National Park due to elevated levels of crime in the area.

Automatic teller machine (ATM) and ‘card skimming’ crimes are common. Criminals may loiter near machines to rob people making withdrawals. New Zealanders are advised to maintain security awareness when using an ATM, refuse offers of ‘help’, only withdraw small amounts, and avoid using them outside business hours. It may be safer to use ATMs located within a bank or shopping mall.

New Zealanders are advised to be conscious of personal safety at all times. We recommend you avoid travel after dark and to isolated areas and avoid displaying or wearing items that appear valuable, such as mobile devices, cameras and jewellery. If you are confronted by an armed individual, immediately comply and avoid resisting, as this could lead to an escalation in violence.

Terrorism

There is a threat of terrorism in South Africa. New Zealanders in South Africa are advised to keep themselves informed of potential risks to safety and security by monitoring the media and other local information sources. We recommend following any instructions issued by the local authorities and exercising vigilance in public places.

Civil unrest

Strikes and demonstrations occur from time to time in South Africa. There have been outbreaks of violence primarily directed toward refugees and other African migrants throughout South Africa. Violence could occur again at short notice and bystanders could be caught up.

New Zealanders are advised to avoid all demonstrations, protests and rallies as they have the potential to turn violent. You should not attempt to cross roadblocks. We recommend you monitor the local media to keep up to date with local events and follow any instructions issued by the local authorities.

>>18492173

New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa – Part 2

https://www.safetravel.govt.nz/south-africa

Scams

Commercial and internet fraud is common in South Africa. New Zealanders should be wary of any offers that seem too good to be true, as they may be a scam.

Fake internet relationship schemes operate from some African countries. Be wary, do not meet up with or send money to any person you have any doubt about.

For further information see our advice on Internet Fraud and International Scams .

Hiking

Attacks against hikers have occurred at reserves, hiking trails, national parks, including Table Mountain, and other tourist attractions. To help prevent attacks, hike in a group and be aware of your surroundings and circumstances.

Public transport

Avoid using public transport, including buses, trains and minibuses. The ‘Gautrain’ high speed commuter train service which runs between Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Oliver Tambo International Airport, as well as the Blue Train and Ravos Rail, are, however, considered to be generally safe for tourists.

Travelling on foot is inadvisable in most areas. If walking is unavoidable, walk in busy and brightly lit streets and be aware of your surroundings. Avoid walking after dark.

Road conditions are generally good, but roads in the rural and more remote areas may be less maintained. Road safety is an issue due to poor driving habits and poorly maintained vehicles. Avoid driving after dark and be vigilant when the vehicle is stationary, including traffic lights, stop signs and motorway off-ramps. Ensure that the vehicle doors and locked and windows are closed at all times.

Outages

Scheduled power outages regularly occur in South Africa, known locally as “load shedding”. These nationwide outages can take place at short notice, and can result in up to six hours or more without power per day.

Load shedding can affect private residences, hotels and businesses, as well as key infrastructure such as municipal lighting, traffic lights, water provision, fuel provision and telecommunications. Load shedding can also result in interruptions to the supply of water. Load shedding may increase the existing risk of criminal activity, for example smash and grab crime during traffic jams or the targeting of residences when lights are out and security systems are not functioning.

Prepare in advance for load shedding, including:

• Check with your accommodation provider about the measures they have in place to manage the impact of power outages and be prepared for issues that may arise as a result of outages.

• Check planned municipal power outages on the Eskom website or via “load-shedding” apps.

• Identify safe areas around the city, including hotels, hospitals or police stations that may not lose power.

• Have a communications plan for when there is no or limited power. This includes having power banks and additional charging cords and hard copies of important numbers.

• Maintain several days’ worth of non-perishable food, drinking water, and other essential items, including medicine and first aid supplies.

• Store torches, batteries, radios and basic tools in quick-access locations.

• Monitor local media and follow the instructions of local authorities.

>>18492173

>>18492176

New Zealand Herald even wrote this article.

“South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/south-africa-faces-civil-war-conditions-due-to-possibility-of-power-grid-collapse/5TFXMJFSHJHAZNRUXIVHBHRJXA/

27 Feb, 2023 12:31 PM

South Africa is on the verge of “collapse” amid rolling blackouts and warnings a total power grid failure could lead to mass rioting on the scale of a “civil war”.

Western embassies including the United States and Australia have advised their citizens in the country to stock up on “several days’ worth” of food and water and be on high alert during extended blackouts sweeping the country. New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade advises “exercise extreme caution” due to strikes and demonstrations. “There have been outbreaks of violence primarily directed toward refugees and other African migrants throughout South Africa. Violence could occur again at short notice and bystanders could be caught up.”

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national “state of disaster” on February 9 in response to the record electricity shortage, which has seen state-owned power company Eskom institute rolling blackouts – dubbed “load shedding” – lasting up to 12 hours in some cases.

“Nando's Diversity Ad” - https://youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ

Keep in mind that the Khoisan/Bushmen were the indigenous people of South Africa and they are not regarded as Bantus. The attached video ad summarises it well.

“Jacob Zuma's land claim for South Africa”

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/jacob-zumas-land-claim-for-south-africa

03 March 2023

Below are excerpts

President says black people have occupied whole of SA, since Bantu expansion reached here in 500AD

JACOB G ZUMA FOUNDATION

27 February 2023

Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

Formerly known as Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Private Bag X250

Pretoria 0001

Attention: Minister Thokozile Didiza

Email: COS@dalrrd.gov.za

MLO.Minister@dalrrd.gov.za

PLO.Minister@daff.gov.za

queries@dalrrd.gov.za info@dalrrd.gov.za

Dear Honourable Minister T. Didiza

LAND CLAIM COMPROMISING THE SOVEREIGN STATE OF REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.

PART ONE- NOTIFICATION OF LAND CLAIM

a. I, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa M. Zuma, having held office as The Fourth President

of South Africa.

b. I, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa M. Zuma, in capacity as Patron of the Jacob G. Zuma

Foundation on behalf of the Black indigenous peoples hereby notify;

the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development and its predecessor being Department of Rural Development and Land Reform the following:

c. Land Claim for the Sovereign Territory of South Africa-

The Black Population originates from the Bantu Expansion and we have had a presence in South Africa since time 500AD reaching present-day KwaZulu-Natal Province, of which since 500 AD we have inhabited the entire territory of South Africa.

PART TWO- FIRST STEP OF LAND CLAIM PROCESS

a. Our Submission of Claim is that the process starts with a claimant contacting the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform which is no known as the Department of Agricultural, Rural Development and Land Reform, with our "notice of intention" to make a claim based on dispossession by one or more means including:

i conquest;

ii cession under treaty or agreement;

iii occupation by white settlers;

v any other means resulting in dispossession such as forced removal ("land will be taken away without compensation"), occupation without title deed etcetera.

PART THREE- REASON FOR "NOTICE OF INTENT"

1. It has been pointed out to myself recently by my learned friends and Comrades, that Land has pillars, which are Dignity, Education and Economy. These lead to the Tripple challenges, namely Poverty, Inequality and Unemployment.

2. Dignity is the Recognition of our people who have occupied South Africa since 500 AD, prior to Jan van Riebeeck arrival of 5th April 1652.

>>18492173

>New Zealanders are advised to avoid all demonstrations, protests and rallies as they have the potential to turn violent.

>>18492144

>Avoid demonstrations. [US]

>>18492165 [Australia]

>Avoid areas where protests are taking place.

>Don’t attempt to cross protester roadblocks as this could provoke a violent reaction.

>There have been reports of protesters damaging property belonging to bystanders. Avoid taking photographs or video footage of demonstrations and protests.

>If you're caught in a protest, find shelter until it's safe to leave.

“Zuma submits land claim for ALL of SA & 4 dead as striking health-workers go on rampage | VN | 130”

https://youtu.be/Za0_56_g8CY

Mar 10, 2023

Ironically, the protesters also sang the “kill the boer, Kill the farmer” song as the health-workers protest.

9:55 – “Guys it’s serious, it’s very serious. People are losing their lives and why? Because of certain individuals who are in the process of protesting or at least striking, have no damn care for human life.”

>>18469878

I will not be surprised if a sangoma is involved…

>>18162160

>According to [Selvy] Mohlala, muti killings are incredibly gruesome, as victims are dismembered while they are still alive. Mohlala said detectives who are trained in cases related to the occult have found that the common trait among the killers was that they held a strong belief in the power of muti made from human organs. They were also most likely not very educated.

>“The majority of the [alleged] perpetrators have confirmed that they harvest the organs while the victim is still alive. Normally, there is a value chain of key people in these killings who are, mainly, a sangoma, the harvester [the murderer] and the victim.

>“These operations involve more than one person, however, the sangoma is the key person,” Mohlala said. Sangomas place orders for genitals, fingers, hands, knee caps, tongues and eyes. Selvy Mohlala

>>18463225

>"kaffir"

Ironically, ‘kaffir’ originated from the Arabic word ‘kafir’ which “refers to a person who disbelieves in God”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafir

>>18506842

Beware of Big Corporations

Yes, farm murders are exceptionally brutal but it actually goes beyond racial hatred. To solve the problem, one needs to address the cause and not the symptom. Why is MSM silent about this? Who owns MSM? They are capitalizing on people’s ignorance and fueling hatred between the races to distract from the real villains, like through their CRT education system. If one wants to get a better understanding, one should look at South Africa’s history.

The Boers have always been made scapegoats/’villains’ dating back to the Anglo Boer War [1889-1902] when gold was discovered in their territory. Are you aware that the blacks and whites fought the British in this war and the British subsequently put them into concentration camps? The Rothschilds sent Christmas hampers to the British soldiers during the war, see attachment and >>17998455. They could only break the Boer spirit when many of their women and children died in these concentration camps. Also, “New Evidence: Leading London Jews were running the first modern war concentration camps where over 60,000 whites and blacks died, including more than 14,000 mostly white children who were subjected to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (now Wellcome Trust–Coronavirus funder and GlaxoSmithKline) vaccine experiments.” https://stateofthenation.co/?p=8136.

Jan Smuts was supposed to have fought against the British in the Anglo Boer War. When Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers, he apparently ‘escaped’ under Jan Smuts’s watch. They both later became statesmen. >>18013664

Once the British gained access to the mineral wealth in South Africa, much of the wars afterwards were funded by their ill gotten gains.

>>17929958

>29:31 – “In those [Privy Council] meetings, one of the things they did is they cleared the way for the establishment of the British-South Africa company, De Beers, a privately run corporation that would manage the colony in South Africa.”

Is it coincidence that?…

>>18029708

>“Jan Smuts given honor where honor was due”, “the only politician to sign the peace treaties ending global conflict after both world wars and was the only signatory to the establishment of both the League of Nations and the United Nations”

The corporations have boasted how they helped the ANC to get into power in South Africa in the following case study

“Local Business, Local Peace: the Peacebuilding Potential of the Domestic Private Sector; Case study South Africa*” – “Exploring the contributions of the private sector to the social, economic and political transformation process in South Africa”

“The South African case exhibits some remarkable and progressive examples of collective corporate citizenship efforts, and demonstrates the significant contribution that the private sector can make to a society in transition through dialogue, facilitation and institution building. By working collaboratively with government agencies and other stakeholders, business coalitions can play a vital role in facilitating a successful, political transition process.” https://www.international-alert.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/27_section_2_South_Africa.pdf

South Africa is a case study to be implemented across the world. These radical activists are given free reign to educate the children and to have a platform on MSM to spread their propaganda.

>>17981373

>“[Black people] can be nasty and cruel, but they cannot be racist towards white people. When a black person is the perpetrator, it is never considered racism. We cannot call it that. Racism requires power. There’d need to be 400 years of oppression first.” | Asanda Ngoasheng

MSM is still using Asanda Ngoasheng as a “political analyst”

They continue to push the racial issue.

“DA Federal Congress | Analyst Asanda Ngoasheng on the party's diversity”

https://youtu.be/xBkiXzCwjJ4

April 1, 2023

>>18511856

>Yes, farm murders are exceptionally brutal but it actually goes beyond racial hatred. To solve the problem, one needs to address the cause and not the symptom. Why is MSM silent about this? Who owns MSM?

>>18666763

“Why Does The Media Ignore This? | South Africa (2023)”

https://youtu.be/kW5zPqO-tD4

Mar 30, 2023

The Mainstream Media is always so quick to jump on a racist story when the person uttering it is white but when a black person says almost an identical thing you don't see or hear about it. The SA Human Rights Commission suffers from exactly the same condition.

>>18619446

>“The country’s detractors, who coalesced aroundGeorge Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africaare clearly miffed and terribly disappointed that Zimbabwe has reverted to and resurrected gold as the reference anchor of the US Dollar,” said Mutsvangwa in a statement.

Their puppets are not compliant? Planning another coup?

“Gold Mafia - Episode 1 - The Laundry Service I Al Jazeera Investigations”

https://youtu.be/evWEuVR1XIs

Mar 23, 2023

Undercover reporters pose as gangsters with up to a billion dollars of black money that need to be cleaned. They gain remarkable access to members of Africa’s Gold Mafia and film closed door meetings with crime bosses. A senior African ambassador offers to launder $1.2 million using the cover of his diplomatic bag. Criminals offer lucrative deals to clean over $100 million through government gold export schemes. At the centre of it their operations is southern Africa’s biggest laundromat, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit looks at how society’s obsession with gold underwrites a global shadow economy. The undercover team infiltrates the rival gangs that turn dirty cash into gold, which is then sold around the world.

Through thousands of confidential documents and exclusive interviews with whistleblowers from within the criminal organisations, investigators obtain the blueprints of billion-dollar money laundering operations that service the political elite. And the investigation leads to the highest offices of southern Africa.

It is interesting that some of the people who are involved; a ‘pastor’ [Pattni] and a ‘prophet’. SAA assists with the smuggling.

10:29 – “I was just 24 years old. I was buying a suit in Nairobi and I met the Director of Intelligence. I told him about gold, I said, ‘Look, there is so much gold flowing through Kenya. But, Kenys is not benefitting. It’s smuggled out.’ Pattni tells the intelligence chief he has a solution. I said, ‘I can create 500 million every year from this if you do a proper license of gold.’ So he took me to the president [Arap Moi]… I’ve written on how democracy should work. Of course, in 1992 there was a lot of fights riots in the street. They wanted multi-party. Pattni had has advice for Arap Moi, his money will buy support for the president and weaken the opposition. ‘Just make it multi-party. Because the money is with you, you will still win [the election]. But just for the show. I helped the President to survive.”

18:36 – “We can export from Zambia. I can export from South Africa. We have a company in Zambia, Angola, Mozambique. We can export from anywhere.”

18:50 – “We are in Zimbabwe. We are in Malawi. We are in Zambia. We are in DRC Congo. We are in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.”

19:07 – “Dubai is the headquarters. Dubai is the centre for Africa.”

20:46 – “Ewan MacMillan and his rival gold dealer, Pattni, work for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the country’s Central Bank… Pattni and McMillan buy the gold on behalf of the Central Bank.”

32:31 – “Sanctions limit the ability of Zimbabwe’s politicians and state entities to trade. ‘This country has sanctions. So the country can’t sell the gold anywhere in the world. An individual can sell it because he doesn’t have sanctions.’”

47:58 – “He’ll use his diplomatic cover to fly Mr Stanley’s 1.2 Billion dollars into Zimbabwe.”

>>18666787

Another ‘pastor’ from Britain is mentioned.

“Gold Mafia - Episode 2 - Smoke & Mirrors | Al Jazeera Investigations”

https://youtu.be/HYIcCoYt9YE

Mar 30, 2023

South Africa’s most notorious money launderer is known as Mo Dollars. He cleans millions of dollars from the sale of illicit cigarettes through gold. Confidential documents expose an intricate web of shelf companies and fake invoices that hide a multi-million-dollar operation in plain sight.

When the Gold Mafia’s money laundering business outgrows its existing infrastructure, it takes over banks and government departments. Ledgers reveal the names of bank, immigration, and customs officers, and a central bank governor - all recipients of the mafia’s generous bribes.

Undercover reporters strike a deal with a competing mafia, one that’s close to the Zimbabwean government. It promises to launder $1.2 billion of dirty cash and guarantees access to executive power.

Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit looks at how society’s obsession with gold underwrites a global shadow economy. The undercover team infiltrates the rival gangs that turn dirty cash into gold, which is then sold around the world. Through exclusive interviews with whistleblowers from within the criminal syndicates, investigators obtain the blueprints of the money laundering operations that service southern Africa’s economic and political elite. And the investigation leads to the highest offices of state.

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“Gold Mafia – Episode 3 – El Dorado I Al Jazeera Investigations”

https://youtu.be/xP_rhbJHokw

Apr 6, 2023

Enter the Gold Mafia’s headquarters in Dubai, preferred destination of the world’s dirty gold. As the rival mafia gangs compete to launder money for the I-Unit’s undercover team, we learn why gold is the perfect vessel to hide and move criminal wealth.

One of Zimbabwe’s top diplomats, Ambassador Uebert Angel, is brokering a meeting between undercover reporters and President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This meeting will secure the deal to launder $1.2 billion of dirty cash through gold and investments in Zimbabwe. But first, the Ambassador needs to be paid.

Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit looks at how society’s obsession with gold underwrites a global shadow economy. Investigators obtain the blueprints of money laundering operations that service southern Africa’s economic and political elite. And the investigation leads to the highest offices of state.

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Do the gold mafia also fund the Zama Zamas?

“The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines” – Part 1

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

February 20, 2023

Below are excerpts

When the country’s mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold.

As Welkom’s mining industry collapsed, in the nineteen-nineties, a dystopian criminal economy emerged in its place, with thousands of men entering the abandoned tunnels and using rudimentary tools to dig for the leftover ore. With few overhead costs or safety standards, these outlaw miners, in some cases, could strike it rich. Many others remained in poverty, or died underground. The miners became known as zama-zamas, a Zulu term that loosely translates to “take a chance.” Most were immigrants from neighboring countries—Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Lesotho—that once sent millions of mine workers to South Africa, and whose economies were heavily dependent on mining wages. “You started seeing these new men in the townships,” Pitso Tsibolane, a man who grew up in Welkom, explained to me. “They’re not dressed like locals, don’t talk like locals—they’re just there. And then they vanish, and you know they’re back underground.”

Owing to the difficulty of entering the mines, zama-zamas often stayed underground for months, their existence illuminated by headlamps. Down below, temperatures can exceed a hundred degrees, with suffocating humidity. Rockfalls are common, and rescuers have encountered bodies crushed by boulders the size of cars. “I think they all go through hell,” a doctor in Welkom, who has treated dozens of zama-zamas, told me. The men he saw had turned gray for lack of sunlight, their bodies were emaciated, and most of them had tuberculosis from inhaling dust in the unventilated tunnels. They were blinded for hours upon returning to the surface.

In no other country in the world does illegal mining take place inside such colossal industrial shafts. In the past twenty years, zama-zamas have spread across South Africa’s gold-mining areas, becoming a national crisis. Analysts have estimated that illegal mining accounts for around a tenth of South Africa’s annual gold production, though mining companies, wary of alarming investors, tend to downplay the extent of the criminal trade. The operations underground are controlled by powerful syndicates, which then launder the gold into legal supply chains. The properties that have made gold useful as a store of value—notably the ease with which it can be melted down into new forms—also make it difficult to trace. A wedding band, a cell-phone circuit board, and an investment coin may all contain gold that was mined by zama-zamas.

But perhaps the biggest dangers stem from the syndicates that have seized control of the illicit gold economy. Organized crime is rampant in South Africa—“an existential threat,” according to a recent analysis from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime—and gold-mining gangs are especially notorious. Armed militias war over turf, both at the surface and underground, carrying out raids and executions. Officials have discovered groups of corpses that have been bludgeoned with hammers or had their throats slit.

In Welkom, getting underground became impossible without paying protection fees to the criminal groups in charge. By 2015, just nine shafts were still operating, in spots where there was ore of sufficient grade to justify the expense of hauling it out. Some syndicates took advantage of these shafts, bribing employees to let the zama-zamas ride “the cage”—the transport elevator—and then walk to areas where mining had ceased.

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“The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines” – Part 2

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

February 20, 2023

Zama-zamas are a nightmarish late chapter in an industry that, more than any other, has shaped South Africa’s history. Surface-level gold deposits were discovered in the area that became Johannesburg, sparking a gold rush in 1886. Twelve years later, the new South African mines were providing a quarter of the world’s gold. (To date, the country has produced more than forty per cent of all the gold ever mined.)

In the nineteen-thirties, mining companies began prospecting in a different province—a sparsely populated area that would later be called the Free State. After the Second World War, one borehole produced a sample “so astonishing that financial editors refused to believe the press release,” the historian Jade Davenport wrote, in “Digging Deep: A History of Mining in South Africa.” The yield was more than five hundred times richer than a usual profitable return, propelling the international gold-shares market “into complete dementia.” Land values in the nearest village increased more than two-hundredfold within a week.

But these new goldfields needed to be developed from scratch. There was no electricity or potable water. Vast maize fields spread across the grasslands. In 1947, a mining house called the Anglo American Corporation received permission to establish a new town, to be called Welkom—“welcome” in Afrikaans. The company’s founder, Ernest Oppenheimer, who was the richest man in South Africa, tasked a British planner named William Backhouse with designing the settlement. Inspired by housing developments in England, Backhouse envisaged a garden city with satellite towns and ample greenbelts. There would be wide boulevards and circles to direct the flow of traffic. At the outset, Oppenheimer’s son wrote, the region was “depressing in the extreme”: flat and featureless, choked by frequent dust storms, with a single acacia tree, which was later designated a local monument. Eventually, the city was planted with more than a million trees.

The economic logic of the mines also demanded an inexhaustible supply of cheap Black labor. Restricted from unionizing until the late nineteen-seventies, Black mine workers performed gruelling and dangerous tasks, such as wielding heavy drills in cramped spaces and shovelling rock; tens of thousands died in accidents, and many more contracted lung diseases. To prevent competition among companies, which would have driven up wages, the Chamber of Mines operated as a central recruiting agency for Black workers from across Southern Africa; between 1910 and 1960, according to one estimate, five million mine workers travelled between South Africa and Mozambique alone. Expanding the labor pool helped the mining industry depress Black wages, which remained almost static for more than five decades. By 1969, the pay gap between white and Black workers had reached twenty to one.

In Welkom, a separate township was built for Black residents, set apart from the city by an industrial area and two mine dumps. One of the city planners’ main goals, according to a history of Welkom from the nineteen-sixties, was to “prevent the outskirts of the town being marred by Bantu squatters.” Named Thabong, or “Place of Joy,” the township lay in the path of the dust from the mines. Segregated mining towns, which dated back to the nineteenth century, laid a foundation for South Africa’s apartheid system, which was formally introduced the year after Welkom was founded.

The crash came in 1989. The price of gold had fallen by nearly two-thirds from its peak, inflation was rising, and investors were wary of instability during South Africa’s transition to democracy. (Nelson Mandela was freed the following year.) The rise of powerful unions, in the final years of apartheid, meant that it was no longer possible for the industry to pay Black workers “slave wages,” as the former chairman of one large mining company told me. The Free State goldfields eventually laid off more than a hundred and fifty thousand mine workers, or eighty per cent of the workforce. The region was almost wholly reliant on mining, and Welkom’s economy was especially undiversified.

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“The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines” – Part 3

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

February 20, 2023

I first visited Welkom in late 2021. As I drove into the city, Google Maps announced that I had arrived, but around me it was dark. Then my headlights picked out a suburban home, followed by another. The entire neighborhood was without electricity. South Africa is in the midst of an energy crisis and experiences frequent scheduled power outages, but that was not the cause of this blackout. Rather, it was symptomatic of chronic local dysfunction, in a municipality ranked South Africa’s second worst in a 2021 report on financial sustainability.

Welkom is surrounded by enormous flat-topped mine dumps that rise from the plains like mesas. The roads have been devoured by potholes. Several years ago, zama-zamas began breaking open wastewater pipes to process gold ore, which requires large volumes of water. They also attacked sewage plants, extracting gold from the sludge itself. Now untreated sewage flows in the streets. In addition, zama-zamas stripped copper cables from around town and within the mines. Cable theft became so rampant that Welkom experienced power failures several times per week.

By the early two-thousands, according to authorities, South Africa had a large number of “derelict and ownerless” gold mines across the country, creating opportunities for illegal mining. Mining researchers in South Africa sometimes joke that the story of gold mining runs from AA to ZZ—from multinationals like Anglo American to zama-zamas.

In Welkom, the main destination for stolen gold was in Thabong, at a dormitory known as G Hostel. During apartheid, hostels housed migrant workers as a way of preventing them from settling permanently in cities; these hostels have since become notorious for crime and violence.

In South Africa, gold smuggling is loosely organized into a pyramid structure. At the bottom are the miners, who sell to local buyers, who sell to regional buyers, who sell to national buyers; at the top are international gold dealers.

Around a decade ago, one KFC in Welkom was supplying so much food to gold syndicates that customers started avoiding it: orders took forever, items on the menu ran out, and meals were often undercooked. Police contacted the owner, who agreed to notify them whenever large orders came in. On one occasion, officers observed a truck picking up eighty buckets of chicken.

Access to the tunnels was controlled, increasingly, by armed gangs from Lesotho, to whom Khombi paid protection fees. Known as the Marashea, or “Russians,” these gangs traced their origins to mining compounds on the Witwatersrand, where Basotho laborers banded together in the nineteen-forties. (Their name was inspired by the Russian Army, whose members were “understood to have been fierce and successful fighters,” the historian Gary Kynoch wrote, in “We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999.”) The Marashea dressed in gum boots, balaclavas, and traditional woollen blankets, worn clasped beneath the chin. Following the rise of illegal mining, they muscled in on the shafts. They carried weapons—assault rifles, Uzis, shotguns—and fought viciously over abandoned mines. Accordion players affiliated with the gangs wrote songs taunting their enemies, like drill rappers with nineteenth-century instruments.

Working with factions of the Marashea, Khombi seized control of large areas of the Free State goldfields. He structured his illicit business almost like a mine, with separate divisions for food, gold, and security.

In the nineteen-fifties, according to Welkom records, there were white women who “made a point of flying regularly to Johannesburg for a day’s shopping.” Their husbands, who worked in the mines, were “absolutely fearless, accepting hazard and risk, with a terrific driving force to earn the maximum possible amount of money.” The structure of the company town guaranteed that, for its white residents, there was plenty of money in circulation. Khombi rose to the top of a new hierarchy, one that enriched a different set of bosses but was similarly based on Black labor.

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“The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines” – Part 4

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

February 20, 2023

I met a former police reservist there one morning. He asked to be identified as Charles. For around nine years, he was on Khombi’s payroll, selling him gold confiscated from rival dealers, protecting him, and escorting zama-zamas to the mines. Charles used the money to buy a new car and pay lobola, a bride-price customary in many Southern African cultures.

Corruption is a corrosive force in South Africa. In Welkom, which has not received a clean financial audit since 2000, tens of millions of dollars in government funds have gone missing. Even in this context, Khombi’s influence was legendary. Charles estimated that seventy per cent of the local police force had been in the kingpin’s pocket; I took this to be an exaggeration, until a senior detective who works on illegal-mining cases corroborated the figure, laughing bitterly.

Corruption was just as pervasive in the operational mines. Smuggling in zama-zamas could cost as much as forty-five hundred dollars per person, according to the illegal-gold-mining expert. The process could require bribing up to seven employees at once, from security guards to cage operators; this meant that mine employees could earn many times their regular salaries through bribery. Some were caught with bread loaves strapped to their bellies and batteries hidden inside their lunchboxes, which they planned to sell to zama-zamas. They also served as couriers, ferrying gold and cash.

Mine workers who couldn’t be paid off were targeted by the syndicates. In 2017, a Welkom mine manager known for his tough stance against zama-zamas was murdered. Two months later, a mine security officer was shot thirteen times on his way to work. The following year, an administrator was stabbed ten times at home while his wife and children were in another room, and the wife of a plant manager was kidnapped for a ransom of one bar of gold.

One day, I met a team of security officers who patrolled some of the mines beneath Welkom; several of them had worked in Afghanistan and Iraq, and told me that the mines were more dangerous. The officers recounted coming across explosives the size of soccer balls, stuffed with bolts and other shrapnel. In shoot-outs, bullets ricocheted off the mine walls. “It’s tunnel warfare,” a member of the team said.

But in town, especially among poorer residents, there was a sense that this violence was peripheral to a trade that sustained a large number of people. Money from zama-zamas spilled over into the general economy, from food wholesalers to car dealerships. “The economy of Welkom is through zama-zamas,” Charles, the former police reservist, told me. “Now Welkom is poor because of one man.” A few years ago, Khombi began ordering brazen hits on his rivals, becoming the focal point of a wider clampdown on illegal mining. “He took it too far,” Charles said. “He ruined it for everyone.”

The waste from South African gold mines is rich in uranium, and in the nineteen-forties the U.S. and British governments initiated a top-secret program to reprocess the material for the development of nuclear weapons. But a large number of dumps remain, with dangerously high levels of radioactivity. In Welkom, the dust blows into houses and schools. Some residential areas have radioactivity readings comparable to those of Chernobyl.

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“The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines” – Part 5

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

February 20, 2023

Inside, Khombi was in shackles, laughing with the wardens. He wore a black sweatshirt pulled tight over his muscles, and his voice boomed across the courtroom. He had already begun serving his murder sentence, and in prison he was organizing prayer meetings for the inmates. (Khombi is a member of an Apostolic church.)

He [Khombi] denied being a gold dealer, but said that he knew many people involved in the trade. “From what I have observed,” he said, “it involves a lot of people—police, judges, magistrates, security. It’s too dangerous to talk about.” He also told me, smiling, that he had paid close to a million dollars for the municipal electricity bill, and made separate payments for water. “I’m not what all these people say about me,” he said. “I don’t sit and plot to kill people.”

Khombi’s murder conviction coincided with a joint operation, by various police agencies and a private-security firm contracted by Harmony, to bring illegal mining in the Free State under control. The project is called Knock Out, and its logo is a clenched fist. The project is called Knock Out, and its logo is a clenched fist. To circumvent the corruption in Welkom, fifty police officers were brought in from the city of Bloemfontein, a hundred miles away. The operation has recorded more than five thousand arrests; among those taken into custody were seventy-seven mine employees, forty-eight security officers, and four members of the military. Investigators opened cases against more than a dozen police officers. Some cops, in the face of increased scrutiny, preëmptively quit the force.

Sealing vertical shafts restricts access from the surface, but it does not close the entire tunnel network, and thousands of zama-zamas remained below Welkom, their food supplies dwindling. Many still owed money to the syndicates that had put them underground. They didn’t want to exit. How else were they going to pay? Jonathan, the former zama-zama, estimated that hundreds had died of starvation, including several of his friends. “The saddest part of it, the most painful, is that you can’t bury them,” he said.

Burials are of supreme importance in many Southern African cultures. In the past, when zama-zamas died underground, their bodies would typically be carried, shrouded in plastic, to the nearest functioning shaft and left for mine employees to discover. Affixed to the corpses were labels with a contact number and a name. The bodies were repatriated to neighboring countries or buried in the Free State. But now so many men were dying that it was impossible to collect them all. Simon, the zama-zama from Zimbabwe, told me that during 2017 and 2018 more than a hundred men died on just two levels of the mine he was living in. Using blankets as stretchers, he and some other zama-zamas had carried out at least eight bodies, one at a time; each journey had lasted around twelve hours.

O peration Knock Out forced zama-zamas to go elsewhere in search of gold. Many left for Orkney, a mining town eighty miles north. One weekend in 2021, according to the South African Police Service, more than five hundred zama-zamas exited the tunnels in Orkney after their food and water supplies were cut off; days later, hundreds of men attempted to force their way back inside, culminating in a shoot-out with officials that left six dead.

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“The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines” – Part 6

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/02/27/the-dystopian-underworld-of-south-africas-illegal-gold-mines

February 20, 2023

In Welkom, the drop in illegal mining dealt yet another blow to an already ravaged economy. “Most of our illegal miners are our businesspeople,” Rose Nkhasi, the president of the Free State Goldfields Chamber of Business at the time, told me.

Nkhasi owns a property with a car wash, a mechanical workshop, and a restaurant. In earlier years, she told me, zama-zamas would bring their cars in for repairs and order food, paying with two-hundred-rand bills—the largest denomination in South Africa—and declining change. Police vehicles cruised by to collect payments from Khombi’s henchmen. Nkhasi also has an independent town-planning practice, where syndicate leaders often brought her rezoning applications to build rental units. “They are the ones developing this town,” Nkhasi told me.

The problems are deeply embedded. South Africa, once the world’s largest gold producer by far, now ranks a distant tenth. The country is still home to some of the richest gold deposits in the world, and there are many companies that would be interested in digging for them. But there is an increasingly strained relationship between the state and the mining sector, with ever-shifting policies—including a requirement that a large number of shares go to historically disadvantaged South Africans—and the spectre of corruption acting as deterrents to investment. Margins on gold mines are thin, and increasing security costs, combined with gold losses to zama-zamas, can “eliminate most of the profits,” the former mining chairman told me. “Nobody wants to go into the casino.” The gold-mining industry has come to symbolize the dispossession and exploitation that have shaped South Africa, today the country with the highest income inequality in the world.

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>Harmony

Harmony: Dr Patrice Motsepe, NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, brother-in-law of President Cyril Ramaphosa

https://www.harmony.co.za/about/board/dr-patrice-motsepe/

APPOINTED

September 23, 2003

Dr Patrice Motsepe was appointed non-independent non-executive chairman on 23 September 2003. In 1994 Dr Motsepe founded Future Mining which grew rapidly to become a successful contract mining company. He then formed ARMgold in 1997 which listed on the JSE in 2002.

In 2003 Dr Motsepe led ARMgold into a merger with Avmin and Harmony Gold. Following the merger Avmin changed its name to African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and he became the founder and Executive Chairman of ARM.

In 2002 Dr Motsepe was voted South Africa’s Business Leader of the Year by the chief executive officers of the top 100 companies in South Africa. In the same year, he was the winner of the Ernst & Young Best Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

In 2017 Forbes Magazine commemorated its 100th Anniversary and honoured Dr Motsepe as one of the “100 Greatest Living Business Minds” in the world alongside many prominent global business leaders. He is the only person living on the African continent to be recognized and honoured as one of the “100 Greatest Living Business Minds” in the world.

In January 2013 Dr Motsepe and his wife, Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe joined the Giving Pledge which was started by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates. Dr Motsepe committed to give half of the wealth, which is owned by the Motsepe family to the poor and for philanthropic purposes during his lifetime and that of his wife and beyond. In April 2019, Forbes Magazine stated that US$500 million was donated by the Motsepe family to the poor and for philanthropic purposes.

Dr Motsepe announced on 28 March 2020 that his family, in partnership with companies and organisations that they are associated with, including ARM, pledge R1 billion (US$57 million) to assist with South Africa and Africa’s response to the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Motsepe is a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Global Network Advisory Board of the WEF Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the WEF International Business Council (IBC) which is made up of 100 of the most highly respected and influential chief executives from all industries. He is also a member of the Harvard Global Advisory Council and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM).

Dr Patrice Motsepe was a partner in one of the largest law firms in South Africa, Bowmans and was also a visiting attorney in the USA with the law firm, McGuireWoods.

His past business responsibilities include being the President of National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NAFCOC) from 2002 to 2006, Founding President of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) from January 2004 to May 2008, Founding President of Chambers of Commerce and Industry South Africa (CHAMSA), President of the Black Business Council (BBC), and the Founding Chairman of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Business Council in March 2013.

Dr Motsepe is a recipient of numerous business and leadership awards and recognitions including:

• Sunday Times Lifetime Achiever Award, 2017;

• Harvard University Veritas Award for Excellence in Global Business and Philanthropy, 2014;

• BRICS Business Council, Outstanding Leadership Award, 2014;

• The Black Management Forum (BMF) Presidential Award for Business Excellence, 2010;

• McGuireWoods Outstanding Alumnus Awards, 2009;

• African Business Roundtable, USA, Entrepreneur & Freedom of Trade Award, 2009;

• South African Jewish Report, Special Board Members Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2004;

• Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut, MS Louw Award for Exceptional Business Achievement, 2003; and

• World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, 1999.

Dr Motsepe is the founder and Chairman of Ubuntu-Botho Investments, African Rainbow Capital (ARC), African Rainbow Energy and Power (AREP) and UBI General Partner Pty Ltd. He is also the Deputy Chairman of Sanlam.

He is the President of CAF (Confederation of African Football) and Vice President of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). He was previously Chairman of Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club.

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“British South Africa Company was the first corporate player in the New World Order that would be run by corporations and not governments”

FL Gov Ron DeSantis is in a Secret Society - St. Elmo Hall- Michael McKibben

https://rumble.com/embed/v2aame4/?pub=4

1:11 – “We started asking what this St Elmo Hall is. We never heard of it. And it is associated with a fraternity by the symbol of Delta Phi. It started in 1889 and it was sort of this subsidiary version of the Delta Phi fraternity which started in like 1830s. It was specifically formed to create an association with the Knights of Malta. Before we ever studied the Knights of Malta, we would not have thought anything about that. Now that we have the data and have the research, we realized, “Oh my gosh, do we have a tiger by the tail here?” Because now we’ve gone into the research of Delta Phi and pulled out all the documents and realized that 1889 was a seminal year in the New World Order creation of the New British Empire. By that I mean there were a number of things happening right then in 1889, they’re all related to the Rothschilds and Cecil Rhodes who was a business partner of Lord Walter Rothschild and in that same year they assisted Queen Victoria in starting something called the Knight of Malta English Priary which essentially created a new secret society that would not be controlled by the Pope but would be controlled by the Queen… That same year, the Queen, by charter, started the British South Africa Company. Now this is huge because we can see that the British South Africa Company was the first corporate player in the New World Order that would be run by corporations and not governments.“

Then consider…

“Disney Pulled Fast One On DeSantis, Used 'Royal Lives' Clause To Preserve Power”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/disney-pulled-fast-one-desantis-used-royal-lives-clause-preserve-power

THURSDAY, MAR 30, 2023 - 04:35 PM

Weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced a new hand-picked board to take over Disney's long-held special taxing district in Orlando, the company enacted a new rule which stipulates that any changes to the district must be made to benefit Walt Disney World.

The agreement gives Disney development rights throughout the district, and "not just on Disney's property," and gives the company veto authority over any public project in the district.

That document also states that the declaration shall be enforceable "in perpetuity" or, if that is deemed unenforceable, "until 21 years after the death of the last surviving descendants of King Charles III, King of England.”

And also George Soros’s ‘hope’ for DeSantis

https://youtu.be/2TjiLPZPn1U

Feb 16, 2023

“My hope for 2024 is that Trump and Governor DeSantis of Florida will slug it out for the Republican nomination. Trump has turned into a pitiful figure, continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves. DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless and ambitious. He’s likely to be the Republican candidate. This could induce Trump whose narcissism has turned into a disease to run as a third-party candidate. That would lead to a democratic landslide and forced the Republican party to reform itself but perhaps, I may be just a little bit biased.”

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>Knights of Malta

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President Nelson Mandela, President Thabo Mbeki, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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Tip of the iceberg. Will this be used to distract from other criminals?

“Gold Mafia – Episode 4 – Have The King With You”

https://youtu.be/EEWehVHs8fc

2:18 – “In South Africa, money laundering is like the new in thing for the rich people. Everyone is doing it. It’s just who can hide it the best way… When this documentary breaks in South Africa, Dawood Khan will be the most wanted person in South Africa, from government officials to the underworld, to my own brother.”

7:18 – “Dawood Ibrahim is an Indian gangster and drug kingpin. He heads the organised crime syndicate D-company… Dawood Ibrahim is accused of being the mastermind behind bombings in India. [Footage of March 12, 1993 bombings] This is someone that’s really wanted by the FBI… that is able to come into South Africa, freely walk into a public setting such as the Michelangelo, then go into Jamaica Beach Hotel in the United Arab Emirates. It has cameras at almost every corner. Till today, I still also question how is it possible?”

8:54 – “Mo Dollars [Dawood’s brother] and his wife are guests at a Birthday party attended by the King of the Zulus nation [King Goodwill Zwelithini], the largest ethnic group in South Africa… This is an individual that controls the Zulu public of South Africa in general… King Zwelithini proved useful to Mo Dollars when Jacob Zuma was South Africa’s President.”

11:07 – “Next door Swaziland, the King is a close friend of mine. Zambia’s President is a close friend of my friend. DRC Congo, the president has invited me several times to come and build a refinery. Ghana’s President is a good friend of mine. In fact, he was my lawyer. Cyril Ramaphosa here, I know him, I know his kids… In Zimbabwe, E.D. [Emmerson Mnangagwa] is my partner.” Alistair Mathias (Gold Trader, the Architect)

56:54 – “They [money] would go into HSBC bank on Nathan Road. They had a guy there. They had a connection there. There’s relationships in HSBC specifically where they were able to get accounts opened in other individuals’ names and they would manage those accounts from South Africa.”

59:16 – “Do what the politicians do. For example, I buy a lot of stuff in my name on behalf of politicians… You have to have someone that you trust as a proxy. Politicians, they don’t have their name owning anything. They always have proxies that represent them. Pretty much everyone, even in Russia they have someone they trust a nephew or a cousin that holds all their assests. Africa, same thing. Someone they trust that runs all the businesses and they continue being politicians. [Continue to discuss government contracts.]”

1:08:59 – “These are individuals that has the capability of governments and their security services to be able to trace people, to look for individuals, find them and take them out.”

The net is closing on one of South Africa’s most notorious money launderers. In the final episode, the Gold Mafia boss issues a threat to anyway who breaks the oath of omertà. “What do you think is going to happen?”

“They kill you, don't they?” “Exactly,” he replies.

A member of the same gang is now in hiding and speaks to the I-Unit from a safe house. “They will come after me, that's a given. If I stay [in South Africa], I will be dead by the time this [film] hits the first five minutes of play.”

Other Gold Mafia bosses lure undercover reporters for the business to launder their dirty money with promises of political connections. A senior Zimbabwean diplomat is seeking the approval of the president to use an official plane to carry over a billion dollars of dirty cash from Hong Kong into Zimbabwe.

Two gold mafia bosses tell undercover reporters in Johannesburg, “There’s no president or head of state either of us can’t get to on this continent.” Another advises, “When you work you must always have the king with you. The president”.

Gold Mafia, a four-part series by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit looks at how society’s obsession with gold underwrites a global shadow economy. Investigators obtain the blueprints of money laundering operations that service southern Africa’s economic and political elite. And the investigation leads to the highest offices of state.

“Elon Musk won’t pay bribes to ANC cronies – so SA to miss out on Starlink’s cheap, fast internet broadband from space”

https://youtu.be/awmMhMEFCGM

https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/2023/04/28/elon-musk-starlink

28th April 2023 by Alec Hogg

Elon Musk’s Starlink, the high-speed, low-cost internet access offering from space, won’t be coming to South Africa. The reason, says tenacious SA opposition politician Dianne Kohler-Barnard, is the ANC demands that to be licenced, Starlink must first give 30% of the local company to politically connected cronies under the guise of Black Economic Empowerment. That’s a demand that Musk, who was born and raised in Pretoria and still has family in the country, refuses to countenance. This was admitted by the ANC in Parliament, prompted by Kohler-Barnard, the DA’s Shadow Minister of Communications. So while the rest of Africa stands to leapfrog into the digital age through Starlink’s cheap, fast, universally accessible bandwidth from space, ANC policy will stop South Africa from participating. Kohler-Barnard spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.

Relevant time stamps from the interview:

• 01:20 Dianne Kohler-Barnard on Elon Musk’s refusal to appease the ANC’s demands for 30% equity in Starlink

• 04:42 On SA falling down the continental pecking order as African political rivals embrace Starlink

• 06:03 On SA’s “catastrophic” economic status due to corruption and loadshedding

• 07:42 On the potential value of Starlink that SA is missing out on and how it is benefitting other African nations

• 09:28 On Zimbabwe’s former telecommunication systems

• 10:21 On the Zondo commission and how governmental corruption in SA has led to Elon Musk’s absolute stance against appeasing ANC demands

• 12:41 On the ANC’s apathetic stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its consequences

• 14:32 On Starlink’s aiding of Ukraine and whether South Africa’s ties with Russia have impacted negotiations with the satellite company

• 16:43 On the politics of coalition and why the DA will never make the EFF an ally