>>17910156

>>>17722751 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm

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

“Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm” - Leonard McCarthy

https://www.news24.com/citypress/News/former-scorpions-boss-lands-big-job-monitoring-russian-telecoms-firm-20190823

23 Aug 2019

The former Scorpions head, Leonard McCarthy, has been selected for a top job monitoring a leading Russian telecoms company.

Leonard McCarthy, the former integrity vice president at the World Bank, has been selected as the monitor for Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) as part of the Russian telecoms company’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlement.

MTS, Russia’s leading telecommunications operator and digital services provider, paid $850 million (about R13 billion) and agreed to a three-year monitorship in March to settle charges brought by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission that it bribed officials in Uzbekistan in return for access to the country’s telecoms market.

MTS is the first Russia-based company to settle an Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case.

McCarthy was appointed to head up the Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions) in April 2003.

The agency, which investigated and prosecuted organised crime and corruption, was officially disbanded in late January 2009.

In June 2008, McCarthy was appointed to the World Bank, where he investigated allegations of fraud and corruption in projects funded by the bank. He left the World Bank in 2017 to run his own compliance firm, LFMcCarthy Associates, in Washington DC.

While he led the World Bank’s anti-corruption enforcement arm as integrity vice-president between 2008 and 2017, McCarthy oversaw a monitorship programme there.

During his tenure as Scorpions head, he was accused of being involved in a “political conspiracy” against President Jacob Zuma due to the timing of corruption charges against the president.

His name is mentioned in the so-called spy tapes, which intercepted conversations between McCarthy and Advocate Bulelani Ngcuka, former head of the National Prosecuting Authority.

>>17910156

>>>17774464, >>17774469, >>17783785, >>17783786, >>17783787 Arthur Fraser

“SACP (South African Communist Party) hits back at former Spy Boss Arthur Fraser”

https://youtu.be/vFt94HBHTjo

Jul 14, 2022

The SACP has hit back at former Spy Boss Arthur Fraser for opening a criminal case against President Cyril Ramaphosa. SACP General Secretary Dr Blade Nzimande says Arthur Fraser is using privileged state information for his own factional and devious purposes. The Communists have come out to defend Ramaphosa saying Arthur Fraser only wants to plunge the ANC into crisis and out of power. Samkele Maseko filed this report.

>>17980997

>>17941589

>“President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect”

“Analysis on Zondo's appointment as Chief Justice : Thabo Masombuka” - https://youtu.be/2h3HnO7WIYA

“Chief justice objection: Arthur Fraser says Zondo ‘lacks integrity’”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/chief-justice-arthur-fraser-letter-raymond-zondo/

20 Oct 2021

The former spy boss said Zondo is unfit to be the face and embodiment of the values enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa.

Arthur Fraser, the former head of correctional services and the former chief of spies, officially objected to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo’s bid for the position of Chief Justice.

In a letter dated Friday, 15 October, the deadline for the public to raise objections, Fraser said Zondo lacked the requisite judicial independence which the position of chief justice would demand.

He also believed Zondo lacks the integrity and fairness required for the position, as well as the necessary loyalty to the oath of office taken by judicial officers when they are appointed.

Arthur Fraser’s letter

Zondo ‘lacks impartiality and integrity’

In the letter addressed to the panel chaired by former Judge of the International Court of Justice, Navi Pillay, Fraser said the reason for his objection was shaped by Zondo’s conduct during the state capture commission.

While investigating former President Jacob Zuma’s ties to the Gupta family, Zondo linked Fraser to the abuse of secret service funds. However, Fraser said he was never given an opportunity to clear his name.

He said people who had been implicated in less serious crimes were given an opportunity to testify.

“The fact that in three and a half years, Deputy Chief Justice Zondo did not even find a day for me to testify, demonstrates his lack of impartiality”, Fraser wrote.

Therefore, Fraser argues that Zondo “is unfit to be the face and embodiment of the values enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa”.

Protecting culprits

Fraser believes Zondo was only playing to the tune of the political elite to “endear himself”, in the hopes of being the next Chief Justice.

“I have reason to believe that Deputy Chief Justice Zondo did this in order to endear himself with the political class so that he can secure the position of Chief Justice for which he is now nominated,” Fraser added.

Moreover, he believes Zondo did this on purpose in an attempt to protect the individuals Fraser may “have exposed as the real culprits” in state capture.

Fraser adds: “I further have reason to believe that his deliberate conduct sought to protect the real origins of the idea of the commission as a foreign-sponsored concept”.

Public comment

The period for public comment closed on Friday, 15 October 2021 and the shortlisting panel will be scrutinising some 564 submissions received.

In a statement on Tuesday, Pillay expressed the panel’s appreciation for public participation in this process, while the Presidency said submissions “vary greatly in substance and volume.”

Going forward, each nominee will be given an opportunity to comment on the public submissions made in respect of his or her nomination.

The panel will then commence with the “assessment and evaluation of each candidature in order to compile a shortlist of three to five candidates for submission to, and further consideration by the President”.

Chief Justice nominations

The eight nominees for the position of Chief Justice are as follows:

• Judge President John Hlophe,

• Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga,

• Justice Mandisa Maya,

• Dr Wallace Amos Mgoqi,

• Adv. Busisiwe Mkhwebane,

• Judge President Dunstan Mlambo,

• Adv. Alan Nelson,

• Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.

The panel anticipates it will submit its shortlist of three to five names to the President by no later than 29 October.

>>17980997

>>17981004

“The Watchdog | In conversation with Arthur Fraser: 08 September 2021”

https://youtu.be/tKMaxcWwUgk

5:25 – “What I can tell you was discovered as early as late 90s was the presence of people who are in one way or another worked with the former establishment, was part of orchestrating or maintaining the disruptive behaviour in society.” [ >>17694378 - If the Apartheid regime and its “puppet” Bantustans were so evil, why were their intelligence agents integrated into the “new” South Africa?]

“The most feared spy in Mzansi ? Who is Arthur Fraser, catch all the details on our Sunday Profile” – Part 1

https://za.opera.news/za/en/others/3ddfc4ef69a02b61502bb2fd73c0251b

Former head of the State Security Agency, Arthur Fraser, who generally likes to stay in the background, became well-known to most South Africans, after it emerged last year that he had signed off on a decision to grant former president Jacob Zuma medical parole. Zuma was jailed in July 2021 after he was given a 15-month sentence for defying a Constitutional Court order to appear before the State Capture Inquiry and answer non-incriminating questions.

Fraser released Zuma on medical parole just two months into that sentence after being hospitalised for an undisclosed medical condition. At the beginning of June of this year, Fraser, was back in the limelight after he laid a criminal case against President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Rosebank police station, related to the alleged theft of "in excess of four million US dollars" from Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in Limpopo in 2020.

Fraser alleged Ramaphosa "concealed the crime" and that the suspects had been kidnapped and interrogated. Fraser alleged that Presidential Protection Unit head Major-General Wally Rhoode and members of crime intelligence were involved in the cover-up.

According to the Correctional Services website, Arthur Fraser was actively involved in student politics and joined the ANC underground structures early in his life. Upon return to South Africa, Fraser joined the newly-formed National Intelligence Agency (NIA), where he was seconded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as an investigator. Fraser is no stranger to controversy.

In 2007, when the Browse Mole report was leaked, then-president Thabo Mbeki asked Fraser to investigate. The report was purported to be an intelligence memorandum claiming a bid for the presidency by Jacob Zuma was supported by various African leaders. The now-defunct Huffington Post wrote that Fraser had the NIA tap the phones of several high-ranking officials mentioned in the Browse Mole report [ >>17694353 ], including Leonard McCarthy, who headed up the Scorpions [ >>17694364, >>17694366, >>17694370, >>17694374, >>17694376, >>17694382, >>17722751 ].

The conversations which became known as the "spy tapes" [ >>17694331, >>17694335, >>17694338, >>17694345 ] included discussions between McCarthy and former NDPP Bulelani Ngcuka about when the most politically damaging time to charge Zuma would be. Fraser, it seems, decided to leak the recordings to Zuma's legal team, earning him the label, "the spy who saved Zuma". As a result of this, the NPA dropped charges against Zuma in 2009.

Jacques Pauw claims in his book, The President's Keepers that Fraser, while at the NIA, allegedly headed up a parallel intelligence network called the Principal Agent Network programme (PAN). According to Daily Maverick this was set up in 2007, and Fraser was there from its inception. Pauw futher claimed in his book that internal State Security Agency auditors found that PAN used as much as R1 billion of taxpayers' money in just three years.

In 2016, the State security agency announced Fraser was taking up the role of Director-General and Accounting Officer at the agency, after then-president Jacob Zuma made the appointment. The SSA statement at the time said that Fraser was no stranger to the intelligence world after he had "served in various operational capacities that culminated in his appointment as the DDG:

Operations in the former National Intelligence Agency (NIA)." Fraser previously served as a DDG in the Department of Home Affairs responsible for Immigration Services. In 2018, after Cyril Ramaphosa became president, he moved Fraser to Correctional Services after Fraser was implicated in several allegations of malfeasance at the SSA.

>>17980997

>>17981004

>>17981018

>https://youtu.be/tKMaxcWwUgk (embedded)

“The most feared spy in Mzansi ? Who is Arthur Fraser, catch all the details on our Sunday Profile” – Part 2

https://za.opera.news/za/en/others/3ddfc4ef69a02b61502bb2fd73c0251b

A high-level panel investigation into the SSA under Fraser found that the PAN was involved in "serious criminal behaviour… under the guise of conducting covert work and that this behaviour may have involved theft, forgery and uttering, fraud, corruption and even bordered on organised crime".

The chairperson of the high-level panel, Dr Sydney Mufamadi, testified at the Zondo Commission that, although the concept of a PAN was not unusual, the way it was structured and operated under Fraser and Graham Engel "evolved into a methodology designed to avoid or bypass the procedural requirements for recruitment of staff, disbursement of funds and procurement".

Various allegations of criminality involving the running of PAN were made to Mufamadi's panel. This included the signing of fraudulent contracts, payments to people without valid contracts, the employment of family members and missing funds and assets. Mufamadi said that even though PAN was shut down in 2011, there had been no formal action or consequences for the people who ran it. In 2021, Fraser again courted controversy, when he gave Zuma medical parole.

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria last year ruled that Fraser's decision to release Zuma on medical parole was unlawful. An appeal of this ruling will be heard in the Supreme court of Appeal in August. Earlier this year, Pauw wrote that Fraser had lied on his CV and had never graduated with a BA degree from the University of London.

Wally Rhoode is named in the affidavit that Fraser filed earlier this month. Paragraph 13.29 states: Major-General [Wally] Rhoode and his team, on the instruction of President Ramaphosa, paid Mr Shaumbwako, Mr Muhekeni, Mr Shikongo, Mr David and Mr Afrikaner R150 000 each in cash to conceal the events that took place at Phala Phala on 9 February 2020. Prior to this complaint, Rhoode was no stranger to controversy either.

In 2009, Rhoode resigned as head of security for the 2010 FIFA World Cup under a cloud. At the time, the Mail and Guardian reported his resignation was linked to controversy over the appointment of Africa Strategic Asset Protection to provide services for the Confederations Cup held in June 2009. Rhoode denied this, saying he had resigned to look after his family's construction business.

According to News24, leaked bank statements relating to the CR17 campaign revealed that after Rhoode's appointment as security head, Nala's Intense Protection and Tourism Services (IPTS) was brought on board. The bank statements show IPTS was paid R8.4 million between June 2017 and March 2018 for providing physical security to VIP members of the CR17 campaign. Rhoode was paid just over R1 million between March 2017 and October 2018. In his column, Basson questioned how Ramaphosa had allowed Rhoode to be his closest protector and oversee his entire security establishment as well as keep Fraser on as head of correctional services.

“Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/gauteng-father-kidnapped-brutally-murdered-shot-execution-style-breaking-news-16-december-2022-crime/

16-12-2022 10:54

A beloved father, Kevin Soal (68) of Gauteng, was kidnapped and brutally murdered. He was shot execution style.

What is this world coming to? A beloved father, Kevin Soal (68) of Gauteng, was kidnapped and brutally murdered.

GAUTENG FATHER WAS SHOT TWO TIMES IN HIS HEAD- EXECUTION STYLE

According to Private investigator Mike Bolhuis, Kevin was kidnapped on Wednesday, 14 December.

“He was kidnapped and held against his will while the perpetrators tried to extort money from him.”

MIke Bolhuis

While being held captive, the perpetrators transferred R250,000.00 plus another R100,000.00 from his account.

Kevin was taken to a secluded area, where he was forced to stand on his knees facing forward, kicked to fall face down, and shot two times in his head – execution style.

SOCCER PLAYERS HEARD THE GUNSHOTS AND SAW A MINIBUS WITH THE WORD STAFF ON IT

Bolhuis said a substantial amount of money was withdrawn from Kevin’s account.

“The soccer players identified a white Quantum bus with a sticker of the word “STAFF” on it at the scene.

“Within an hour, the SAPS was called again to the same area when more shots were heard.

“Another body was found, presumably also of a Caucasian male person.”

Mike Bolhuis

“SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022” - https://mg.co.za/news/2022-10-10-sa-kidnappings-surge-to-over-1-000-a-month-in-2022/

The number of kidnappings in South Africa has been increasing sharply over the past year. In the first six months of 2022 an average of 1 143 kidnappings a month were reported to the police, double the monthly average in 2021 (700).

The increase in kidnapping for ransom and extortion cases “suggests that it has become an established and lucrative criminal practice in South Africa”, said the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC) in a Strategic Organised Crime Risk Assessment report for South Africa published in September 2022.

“Zuma and Ramaphosa's brief moment at the ANC 55th National Conference” - https://youtu.be/MzN3ntAfehA

“WATCH: Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president”

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/watch-ramaphosa-and-zuma-captured-laughing-together-hours-after-zuma-decided-to-privately-prosecute-the-president-4844b7d9-caba-4b3c-9d8a-788522aa23d7

Published Dec 17, 2022

Johannesburg – Former president Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa were captured on video laughing together at the ANC National Elective Conference in Nasrec on Friday, a few hours after Zuma’s decision to privately prosecute the president.

On the eve of the conference, Zuma initiated a private prosecution of Ramaphosa.

Zuma wants Ramaphosa to be prosecuted as part of the ongoing private prosecution of NPA advocate Billy Downer, who he accuses of misconduct by leaking his medical information to the media.

He alleges that Ramaphosa, as president of South Africa, is an “accessory after the fact” in the alleged criminal offence.

Zuma claimed that Ramaphosa failed to act when he complained about improper conduct by advocates Downer and Andrew Breitenbach SC.

Ramaphosa pushed back, saying that Zuma was abusing the justice system and that the case was hopeless.

“President Ramaphosa does not interfere in the work of the NPA, nor does he have the power to do so. The president responded to Mr Zuma and took appropriate and legally permissible action,” the Presidency said in a statement.

But the Jacob Zuma Foundation said it had the right legal certificate from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), that allowed Zuma to privately prosecute Ramaphosa.

Mere hours after this drama unfolded, Ramaphosa and Zuma were caught on video laughing and shaking hands.

The video got tongues wagging on social media, with users saying politics were just a game to politicians.

>>17981046

“Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/zuma-ramaphosa-monday-deadline-to-drop-private-prosecution-breaking-19-december/

18-12-2022 10:08

‘These charges are completely spurious and unfounded,’ said the Presidency. Jacob Zuma is privately prosecuting a State prosecutor and a News24 journalist. Now, Ramaphosa has been drawn into the matter as an alleged ‘accessory after the fact.’

President Cyril Ramaphosa has given former President Jacob Zuma until the close of business on Monday, 19 December to withdraw his private prosecution case or face legal action.

ZUMA LAUNCHES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST RAMAPHOSA

Zuma is in the midst of a private prosecution matter against Advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.

The former President alleges that Downer improperly shared information about his medical condition with Maughan. Now, Ramaphosa has been drawn into the matter as an “accessory after the fact.”

“Mr Zuma’s charges are based on an accusation that President Ramaphosa failed to act after Mr. Zuma complained about improper conduct by Advocates Downer and Breitenbach. These charges are completely spurious and unfounded,” said Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.

The Presidency said Zuma’s case has no basis in law and accused him of abusing the legal process. The private prosecution was announced on the eve of the ANC National Elective Conference on Thursday, 16 December.

The State attorney warned of further action against Zuma if he fails to withdraw the prosecution by Monday.

As previously reported, the ANC is expected to elect its new Top 7 on Sunday morning. Ramaphosa is the frontrunner for the position of party leader. He is going up against the former Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize.

ANC Top 6 becomes a Top 7 – voting to commence on Sunday - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-top-7-voting-sunday-18-december-president-deputy-secretary-general-breaking/

“MPs welcome the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mps-welcome-the-deployment-of-the-army-at-four-eskom-power-stations-in-mpumalanga-6acb5b3d-819e-40f0-8580-b6d15af1964a

Parliament has welcomed the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga.

Chairperson of the portfolio committee on mineral resources and energy Zet Luzipho said on Sunday they feel vindicated by government’s decision to send the troops to the power stations as they had identified sabotage as one of the problems.

Luzipo said they understood that about 10 soldiers were deployed at each of the four power stations.

Eskom announced on Saturday that the government has sent in the army at Majuba, Camden, Grootvlei and Tutuka power stations.

This was after the power utility had been complaining about incidents of sabotage, which it stated contributed to load shedding.

Luzipo said they wanted the state to crack down on crimes committed at Eskom and its power stations.

“The committee has always held a firm view that the country’s electricity crisis is caused by Eskom’s inability to deal with maintenance of ageing power stations and internal sabotage as opposed to a policy failure. We now feel exonerated,” said Luzipo.

The decision to send the soldiers to the power stations also comes after the Hawks and other law enforcement agencies arrested a number of people in an illegal coal yard close to an Eskom power plant in Mpumalanga.

“UPDATE: Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/update-voting-for-new-ancs-top-seven-delayed-as-allegations-of-vote-buying-swirl-around-8613c658-4218-4e20-b6bf-52327b2576ad

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2022

Much against anticipation that voting for the new ANC’s top seven officials would have started by 9am and concluded by 3pm and votes out around 5pm, the process has been severely delayed.

It is now likely that the voting will get under way around 7pm and run until midnight and results released in the early hours of Monday.

Outgoing ANC national spokesperson, and treasurer-general candidate, Pule Mabe, told the media on Sunday afternoon that what was happening in the plenary was that various organisations in alliance with the ANC both in SA and abroad were delivering their messages of support.

After that, their legion of delegates will discuss various reports to be tabled and adopt them if they are satisfied.

Thereafter the elections committee will outline to delegates how the voting for the top seven will take place and break for lunch.

Each province will be given time to vote to determine which slate, between the one led by Dr Zweli Mkhize and Cyril Ramaphosa, wins.

After the announcement of the results of the top seven, the elections committee will then open the floor for nominations for additional members (NEC) so that on Monday they vote.

He added that they had to cover much ground as possible because they had lost valuable time since Friday.

“As of now (around 2pm) what is happening around plenary is that messages of support are being conveyed, these are 17 messages of support.

“Fraternal organisations here in the country and in the diaspora and former liberation movements that we have shared trenches with, that had been invited…

“After all these messages of support are delivered we will discuss reports that had been tabled.

“At the conclusion and adoption of these reports, the elections committee, together with the elections commissions would come and outline how elections will unfold.

“Delegates will then break for lunch, when they come back they will move to different commissions.

“They are expected to vote per province while they are in commissions, continuing with deliberations.

“So, we are hoping that this process would be smooth, it would go as planned,” Mabe said.

Asked whether their vote counting would be manual or electronic, Mabe said the counting of ballots would be manual.

He added that their leagues and provinces would deploy their observers to ensure that there was no cheating and the process was credible.

On the allegations that both factions had been using money to buy votes from delegates, Mabe said they didn’t have enough evidence to investigate and prove that and asked for more information.

He added that these allegations brought a credibility crisis for the ANC and the people who eventually got elected.

“Unfortunately, these delegates who are alleged to have been bought or received some form of inducement to vote either way, only use the media or journalists to report and they don’t make the organisation aware.

“We are then not empowered to make the necessary investigations,” he said.

“WATCH: Shocking video exposes the DIRE state of Tembisa Hospital”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-shocking-video-exposes-dire-state-of-tembisa-hospital-breaking-news-18-december-2022-video-viral/

18-12-2022 04:12

A shocking video, which exposes the dire state of the casualty ward at Tembisa Hospital, has gone viral. WATCH the video here.

A shocking video, which exposes the dire state of the casualty ward at Tembisa Hospital, has gone viral on social media.

WATCH THIS SHOCKING VIDEO WHICH EXPOSED THE STATE OF THE TEMBISA HOSPITAL

In the video, a frail-looking patient is seen sleeping on the floor with just a small blanket.

Rubbish is seen scattered on the floor.

The man recording the video can say: “There is no doctor. There is no one here. Let us try something as a community. Councillors, mayor, MECs, and health department, let us come here and see what is happening at Tembisa Hospital.

“This is not on. I am here at Tembisa Hospital. Look how our people are being stored. You can’t stay or sleep in such a place.”

A PATIENT IS SEEN SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR

The Gauteng health department reportedly confirmed that the video was taken at the Tembisa casualty ward.

“The Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Unit was full of patients when the video was taken. To ease the pressure, the overflow area was used to decongest casualty.”

Department’s spokesperson, Motaletale Modiba, reportedly said

THE GAUTENG HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTEDLY CONFIRMED THE VIDEO

Modiba said the patients in the video were healthcare users who were moved back to the casualty ward as soon as beds were available.

Modiba also added the hospital is currently in the process of completing an admission ward, which will be used to decongest the casualty ward.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1604012982996209670

“Zondo Commission was a puppet show – Fraser” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/africa/zondo-commission-was-a-puppet-show-fraser-0cf858f5-65b2-469c-92e9-b545179f786b

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022

Johannesburg - Former State Security Agency (SSA) chief Arthur Fraser says the real reason the state capture commission of inquiry declined to hear his testimony is that Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and evidence leader advocate Paul Pistorius were afraid that he would expose “the real puppet masters” pulling the strings behind their backs.

While the commission called several witnesses who implicated him in serious crimes, Fraser said in his court application to review and set aside the findings, “the commission used every available excuse or justification to deny me the opportunity to appear before it; either to answer the allegations made against me or to present my own evidence before it”.

Fraser filed the review application on Wednesday before the high court in Pretoria. In it, he cited 14 reasons why the commission’s report on the affairs of the SSA should be “thrown into the dustbin”. The grounds for review are listed under three headings: procedural unfairness; relevant considerations ignored, bias or suspected bias; and unlawfulness and irrationality.

“The commission finds that during my term there was lack of accountability and that I was a law unto myself. It also found that my vetting was unprocedural. As I will demonstrate herein below, all the findings against me are incorrect," he said.

“Apart from the fact that I was never afforded the opportunity to be heard, the commission failed to properly investigate the facts, notwithstanding the commission’s extraordinarily wide powers to do so. Instead, it accepted as true all the allegations made against me and presents such as truth in its report.

“I will submit that the commission failed to diligently do its job and as a result, its report is littered with common errors, all of which could have been avoided had I been called to answer just like other persons were called. I am advised that this failure was at best an egregious abdication of responsibility,” said Fraser.

He said: “The relief I seek is premised on the fact that the commission's findings relating to me are based on untested information and/or testimonies of individuals whose testimonies were not tested,” adding that “the commission’s report in respect of findings against me is riddled with patent factual errors and contradictions”.

Fraser said after learning through the media of the allegations made against him at the commission, around July 2020, he started to prepare his evidence before the commission, “with the expectation and knowledge that I would be required to avail myself to answer those allegations against me, present my version and assist the commission with information that would clarify some of the evidence”.

His evidence, he said, was in respect of the 2006 National Intelligence Agency Principal Agent Network Programme and other allegations levelled against him.

>>17981078

“Zondo Commission was a puppet show – Fraser” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/africa/zondo-commission-was-a-puppet-show-fraser-0cf858f5-65b2-469c-92e9-b545179f786b

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022

“It did not occur to me that the chief justice, after his persisted pleas for directors-general to come before the commission, would place so many obstacles to prevent me from appearing before the commission.”

In August 2020 he addressed a letter to the SSA, the minister of State Security, the inspector-general of Intelligence and the director-general, requesting the declassification of certain documents that he would need to assist the commission. Two more letters of request followed dated May7 and June 3, 2021 respectively.

Fraser said the failure and/or refusal to provide him with the documents that he requested had nothing to do with their sensitivity or classification. He said Justice Zondo was “inconsistent and less than truthful in his explanation as to why I was not afforded an opportunity to make representations to the commission in respect of serious allegations against me”.

“In fact, calling me to assist the commission could not depend on whether my statement was signed. I was an implicated person and the commission could have called me as it did with former president [Jacob] Zuma and others. I invite the chairperson, on oath, to contradict my submission in this regard,” he said.

Fraser added that he had met the commission’s investigators about the Bosasa matters and “it is, therefore, inconceivable that I would refuse to meet them in respect of the SSA matters,” and continues: “It is clear that the commission and/or the chairperson did everything to prevent me from appearing before the commission. It is a matter of public record that I pleaded with the commission to allow me to present my version”.

“It is therefore regrettable that the commission has released a report that is inaccurate and I regard it as a dereliction of duty on the part of the commission and the chairperson. This failure to afford me an opportunity to be heard is a breach of procedural fairness. On this point alone, which is a common cause, the relief I seek should be granted” he said.

He said: “Even without the documents I wanted declassified, the commission had the powers to call me to testify or answer to the allegations levelled against me. It has done so in respect of other implicated persons. The commission was very deliberate in not affording me the opportunity to be heard. This much is clear and constitutes procedural unfairness.”

Fraser said Justice Zondo gave varying reasons why the commission failed and/or refused to call him to testify. However, the commission proceeded to make adverse findings against him.

“I am advised that it is obligatory for the commission in its quest for truth to ensure that it does not ignore evidence that is available and/or easily discernible and could assist in the establishment of the truth it was set up to find. Its failure to do so in itself constitutes a reviewable ground.”

He said “concealing of the true facts, or failure to investigate properly and take into account relevant facts that were available, the chairperson and the commission violated the very purpose of the commission”.

Accordingly, Justice Zondo subverted the purpose of the commission, Fraser said.

“ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-anc-top-seven-conference-19-december-2022/

19-12-2022 12:12

The results for the new Top 7 voted for at the ongoing ANC 55th National Conference in Nasrec have been released.

Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected as President of the African National Congress (ANC). A new Top 7 will lead the party in the next five years.

The results for the Top 7 positions were announced on Monday, 19 December in Nasrec, Johannesburg where the party is holding its 55th National Elective Conference. .

THE NEW ANC TOP 7

The nominees for the Top 7 were as follows:

• President: Cyril Ramaphosa, Zweli Mkhize

• Deputy President: Paul Mashatile, Ronald Lamola, Oscar Mabuyane

• National Chairperson: Stanley Mathabatha, Gwede Mantashe, David Masondo

• Secretary-General: Mdumiseni Ntuli, Phumulo Masualle, Fikile Mbalula

• First Deputy Secretary-General: Nomvula Mokonyane, Tina Joemat-Petterson.

• Second Deputy Secretary-General: Ronalda Nalumango, Maropeng Ramokgopa

• Treasurer-General: Benjani Chauke, Pule Mabe

According to the party’s Electoral Committee Chairperson, Kgalema Motlhanthe, there was a total number of 4436 eligible voters and 4386 were cast.

This is the ANC incoming Top 7:

President: Cyril Ramaphosa

Deputy President: Paul Mashatile

Chairperson: Gwede Mantashe

Secretary-General: Fikile Mbalula

Deputy Secretary-General 1:Nomvula Mokonyane

Deputy Secretary-General 2: Ramopene Ramokgopa

Treasurer-General: Dr Gwen Ramokgopa

The ANC is expected to conclude its 55th National Conference which was held in Nasrec, Johannesburg on Tuesday, 20 December.

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>President: Cyril Ramaphosa

This was planned ahead.

“Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS”

https://youtu.be/Gcn8gTyB0ig

Dec 12, 2022

President Cyril Ramaphosa will remain president. That's according to International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor. She's assured her foreign counterparts that the Section 89 report into the Phala Phala matter won't destabilise South Africa or its democracy. The report found that Ramaphosa may have a prima facie case to answer to in relation to the 2020 burglary at his Limpopo farm. eNCA senior reporter Silindelo Masikane has more.

2:23 – “Meanwhile from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS, taking over from the People’s Republic of China.”

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>Chairperson: Gwede Mantashe

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“Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/money-in-leadership-contests-is-selling-anc-to-highest-bidder-mantashe-7fdac611-9289-4d00-89fe-4c2718f806ef

MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2022

Johannesburg - ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has warned that the use of money in the governing party’s internal leadership elections will affect the quality of its leaders.

The mineral resources and energy minister called for the ANC and its tripartite alliance partners to have an honest discussion about the quality of leaders they elect for various structures.

“Take, for instance, the ANC process of selecting leadership which is predominantly driven by ‘money’ instead of the quality of leadership we need to lead the ANC. In that space, where we are selling the organisation to the highest bidder, pettiness becomes practice,” wrote Mantashe in the latest edition of ANC Today, the party’s weekly newsletter.

He further warned that the use of money will accelerate the decline of the ANC. According to Mantashe, this will result in a leadership that is not principled but “has resources to buy the revolution”.

”To me, this is the biggest threat facing the organisation and the alliance. As we select leadership for the ANC and the alliance, we must ask the question, what value will that individual add to the collective?”

President Cyril Ramaphosa, of who Mantashe is a key ally, has been accused by his opponents of running a multi-million rand campaign to become ANC leader in 2017. In addition, Mantashe said the ANC and the alliance are at a critical point where its support is in decline.

”We are faced with challenges of either accelerating the decline or arresting the decline,” he added.

Mantashe cautioned against the adoption of the American style of politics where party members think that the ANC is about the president.

“Ours is about leadership and not an individual leader. We must ensure that there is a generation mix in our leadership structures. To do this, we must select, and elect leaders based on their strengths that will help us in rebuilding the ANC and ensure that it remains a governing party beyond 2024,” he said.

Mantashe also weighed in on the push for the SACP to contest the 2024 national and provincial elections. At its national congress last week, the Young Communist League backed the SACP’s decision to contest the 2024 elections.

Cosatu’s biggest affiliate, the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), this week became the latest alliance formation to support the SACP running in the next polls.

Nehawu’s central executive committee meeting agreed to roll out a programme for engagement and mobilising support from its members on the decision of the SACP to contest elections in 2024. However, Mantashe appears unconvinced by the SACP’s move.

“A communist party that breaks away from the ANC is behaving the same as COPE, which is fishing in the same pond as the ANC, which will weaken the ANC,” he warned, referring to the group of leaders who broke away from the ANC after the 2007 national conference.

In addition, Mantashe described the much talked about standing alone of the SACP independent of the ANC as a sign of the weakening of the relationship between the two organisations and that the elders in the alliance have accepted the principle that communists are not communist factions of the ANC.

”They (communists) must be loyal to the programme of the ANC. That is the basis of communists standing for elections for ANC positions, not on the basis of communist factions supporting them but on the basis of ANC members having confidence in them,” he stated.

Mantashe said the strategy of opting out of the alliance when there is pressure on the ANC is wrong.

“As we move towards the 2024 elections, the focus must be on renewal and unity of the ANC as a contesting party,” he added.

Mantashe has observed that the younger the alliance’s leadership, the weaker the relationships become.

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>>>17880938 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them

“Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them” – “mostly comprised of Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) members, an organisation made up of mostly ANC-affiliated youth organisations”

https://witsvuvuzela.com/2016/08/15/who-is-saus-and-what-you-need-to-know-about-them/

Aug 15, 2016

With all the excitement around #FeesMustFallReloaded, there’s one name that seems to be at the center of it all: The South African Union of Students (SAUS), but who are they?

SAUS is a student union that is elected by SRC’s from universities across the country and therefore represent all Student Representative Councils in the country.

They have been speaking for students at the Fees Commision’s public hearings which began last week and on Sunday SAUS released a statement calling for mass meetings across universities on the issue of fee increments.

According to the SAUS Secretary General Sthembiso Ka-Ndlovu the union was established at Stellenbosch University in 2006, it’s main purpose was so that students had a single representative body in the higher education sector.

They union is said to be a national and non-partisan umbrella body of student representation in the country.

However people on social media have been questioning the legitimacy of SAUS and the fact that it is mostly comprised of Progressive Youth Alliance (PYA) members, an organisation made up of mostly ANC-affiliated youth organisations.

Ka-Ndlovu says there is a heavy PYA presence in SAUS because SRC’s elect the members and “of the 25 Universities about 19 of them are SASCO-led.”

Who is in the executive?

President: Avela Mjajubala – Durban University of Technology

Deputy President: Moza Motlalepula – North West University

Secretary General: Sthembiso Ka-Nkosi – Tshwane University of Technology

Deputy Secretary General: Fasiha Hassan – Wits University

Treasurer: Misheck Mugabe – Fort Hare University.

People who can be nominated to represent students in SAUS have to have been part of the SRC in the last two years prior to being elected.

The union currently has 15 members.

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>>>17807519 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale, her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele” (video)

“Patricia Mashale and Adv Dan Teffo on Police corruption in the Free State. Aletheia Dialogue #11” (Posted February 28, 2022) - https://youtu.be/2oJEWzKy6TY

“‘If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder’ – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – “Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-saps-whistleblower-ramaphosa-implicated-monday-7-november/

07-11-2022 17:21

A whistleblower has dropped a number of bombshell claims over the weekend – and Cyril Ramaphosa isn’t sitting comfortably.

Crikey. A one-time senior SAPS official says she was recently targeted by hitmen, after the whistleblower threatened to go public with some damning information about corruption within the police force. Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele.

SAPS WHISTLEBLOWER ACCUSED GOVERNMENT OF ‘TRYING TO KILL HER’

Patricia Morgan-Mashale claims to be sitting on a number of explosive bombshells. According to the whistleblower, two high-ranking cops – including a serving general – are actually foreign nationals. That, in her words, is the tip of a very corrupt iceberg…

Specific cases of nepotism, multi-million rand fraud, and forgery have been raised by PMM. Her full account is truly something to behold, https://www.facebook.com/patricia.morganmashale. However, in the early hours of Sunday morning, she went public with the details – after allegedly surviving an assassination attempt.

“This evening, I was chased by a black Ford Ranger. It was like an action movie. I was so shocked I couldn’t even drive to a police station. I felt like going there would also get me killed. It felt like I was a hunted animal. This wasn’t ordinary criminals, it was from the government.”

“They knew I was coming on the show this evening. When I first blew the whistle on SAPS corruption, there was another attempt on my life. I had to go into hiding. They will not let me apply for protection. My location has already been compromised.” | Patricia Morgan-Mashale

PATRICIA MORGAN-MASHALE IMPLICATES PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA

It is Morgan-Mashale’s firm belief that this attempt to silence her came from the very top. Given that Cyril Ramaphosa is implicated in some of the accusations – and that no formal protection has been forthcoming – the whistleblower says the president ‘should be arrested’ if she is murdered.

• We have a feeling this story won’t just disappear for the ANC leader, either…

“Hit men tried to kill me tonight and we both know who is behind this second attempt on my life. Let me put it on record now for the whole world to know… I am a whsitle-blower, who has information about massive corruption at SAPS. I have already applied for protection.”

“Should anything happen to me, please put it right in front of the door of Mr Cyril Ramaphosa. Arrest him and charge him with my murder because he will be an accomplice in my assassination. If I die, your political ambitions dies with me. I will keep on exposing you.”

“President Ramaphosa, do your worst. I am not dependent on you for political survival. I took an oath of office to blow the whistle on corruption and come hell or high water. Your silence is an indication that you are also compromised. Soon, I will have the proof.” | Patricia Morgan-Mashale

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>>>17880689 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign

“Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign” - Bram Hanekom

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/online-petition-calling-for-cyril-ramaphosa-not-to-resign-5-december-2022/

05-12-2022 12:47

Over 14 000 people have signed a petition which calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign over the Phala Phala Panel Report.

Over 14 000 have signed an online petition, https://www.change.org/p/president-cyrilramaphosa-don-t-resign-we-still-need-you-myanc-ramaphosamuststay?recruiter=1121135841&recruited_by_id=b36f0cd0-b19e-11ea-94db-2506d287324b&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=copylink, which calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign over the Phala Phala Panel Report.

The petition which was launched as South Africans were waiting with bated breath to find out whether Ramaphosa will resign after the Section 89 independent panel found that he violated the oath of office and some laws regarding the theft of foreign currency at his Phala Phala farm in 2020.

PRO-RAMAPHOSA PETITION GAINS MOMENTUM

The petition, which calls for Ramaphosa to continue with his work as Head of State, was launched by Bram Hanekom.

Hanekom said that South Africans from all walks of life know that Ramaphosa has done incredible work in reducing corruption, stabilising the economy, attracting investments, and strengthening institutions.

He further said they know Ramaphosa has been under attack by Arthur Fraser (who blew the whistle on the theft at Phala Phala) and a group of people implicated in the state capture report.

“We are aware of their agenda, and we cannot allow you to fail against them. We know there is a panel report that says you MAY have a case to answer, this is not a charge, and it is not a conviction. We urge you to seek a review of it as there are weaknesses and many questions about the report,” he said

“Please don’t resign but rather allow processes to continue, investigations and enquiries…Mr. President, we still need you and hope you will heed our calls,” he added.

The petition which has been signed by over 2400 people further called upon the NEC of the ANC to stand by and protect Ramaphosa “from the corrupt who want him removed.”

WHAT WERE THE FINDINGS OF THE SECTION 89 PANEL?

The panel said one of the troubling features about the source of the stolen foreign currency is that the theft was never reported to the South African Police Service (SAPS) for investigations as an ordinary crime. Nor was the theft reported under section34(1) of PRECCA (Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 12 of 2004).

It further said that there is substantial doubt about the legitimacy of the source of the currency that was stolen and that this is a serious matter which if established, renders the violation of section 96 of the Constitution and PRECCA, a serious violation, and a serious misconduct.

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>>>17880707>17880722, Bram Hanekom, Africa4Palestine/BDS (Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions) South Africa

Bram Hanekom links to Africa4Palestine/BDS (Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions) South Africa

https://prc.org.uk/en/speaker/150/bram-hanekom

Bram Hanekom: Speaking on behalf of Africa4Palestine, He has been a lifelong activist for Palestine in South Africa, he has established himself as an activist for refugee rights, farm workers and youth. He serves on the board of several NGOs and was previously the director of the human rights organisation PASSOP. He has been actively involved in solidarity organizations campaigning for Cuba and human rights in Swaziland. His views, much like most in the Africa4Palestine movement, have been largely influenced by his life experience as a member of a family which fought against apartheid in South Africa.

https://africa4palestine.com/about-us/

He was the recipient of the Inyathelo Youth in Philanthropy Award, an Oxfam scholarship (in humanitarian assistance) and was selected as one of Mail and Guardian’s Top 200 Youth.

https://africa4palestine.com/about-us/

The organisation was formerly known as BDS South Africa (which was established in 2009), however, in 2020, following an incredible decade of BDS successes and victories in South Africa, BDS South Africa, after consultation with its partners, rebranded and broadened its mandate to become #Africa4Palestine.

https://www.bdssouthafrica.com/about-bds/

Palestinians (inspired by the successful boycott and isolation of Apartheid South Africa) called on the international community to support a non-violent campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until Israel complies with international law and respects human rights.

The list of their partners’ logos at the bottom of the BDS website, https://www.bdssouthafrica.com/.

ANC (African National Congress)

ANC Youth League

NC4P (National Coalition For Palestine)

COSATU

COSAS

Young Communist League of South Africa

SACP (South African Communist Party)

PSA-PE (Palestinian Solidarity Alliance Port Elizabeth)

F.A.W.U. (Food and Allied Workers Union)

NUMSA (National Union of Metal Workers South Africa)

MRN (Media Review Network)

UCCSA (United Congregational Church of Southern Africa)

PMB for Palestine

Stop the JNF-KKL

FFP (Freedom For Palestine)

Ahlul Bait Youth Movement of SA

Amandla

Centre for Civil Society

CEPPWAWU (Chemicals, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union)

Palestine Solidarity Forum

DENOSA (Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa)

SUCA

Kairos Southern Africa

Muslim Judicial Council (SA)

Mkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association

MPN (Muslim Professionals Network)

MSA Union (Muslim Student Association Union?)

Muslim Youth Movement South Africa

Nehawu (National Health Education & Allied Workers Union)

Team South Africa Gaza 2013

Zaytoun

POPCRU (Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union)

SADTU (South African Democratic Teachers’ Union)

SACCYF

South African Council of Churches

South African Artists Against Apartheid

KZN Palestine Solidarity Forum

Runners for the Freedom of Palestine

PSS SU

Palestine Solidarity Alliance

PS UWC

SAMNET (The South African Muslim Network)

SAMWU (South African Municipal Workers Union)

SANDU (South African National Defence Union)

SASCO (South African Students Congress)

South African Youth Council

Swaziland Solidarity Network

PSC Stellenbosch (Palestinian Solidarity Campaign)

Theology and Development Programme

WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions)

PSF UCT (Palestinian Solidarity Forum University of Cape Town)

SAUS (South African Union of Students)

PUDEMO (Peoples United Democratic Movement)

PSC (Palestine Solidarity Campaign)

PASSOP (People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty)

Action Forum for Palestine

FOCUS (Friends of Cuba Society)

Wits Palestinian Solidarity Committee

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>The list of their partners’ logos at the bottom of the BDS website, https://www.bdssouthafrica.com/.

One of their articles.

“JEWISH LIBERATION GIANT DENIS GOLDBERG PASSES AWAY”

https://www.bdssouthafrica.com/post/jewish-liberation-giant-denis-goldberg-passes-away/

30 April 2020

The human rights organization, Africa4Palestine (formerly BDS South Africa), joins fellow South Africans, Africans, the people of Palestine and peoples of the world in mourning the loss of the Jewish anti-apartheid and liberation-struggle icon, Cde Denis Goldberg.

Comrade Goldberg, who was sentenced along with Nelson Mandela in the famous Rivonia Trial, passed away early this morning at the age of 87. Cde Denis was part of the formation of South Africa’s armed group, the MK and in July 1963 he was arrested at SACP headquarters, Liliesleaf Farm. He was sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment.

The #Africa4Palestine team were fortunate to have worked closely with Cde Goldberg, having hosted him at various events and activities. We have fond and personal memories of Goldberg’s wisdom, charm humour, and above all, an unflinching commitment to the struggle against all forms of racism and Apartheid. We will miss comrade Denis enormously.

Goldberg was one of our many anti-apartheid icons who have termed Israel’s policies against the Palestinians as one of Apartheid. Goldberg said:

“HAVING LIVED THROUGH APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA. THERE’S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE. I CANNOT ALLOW IN MY NAME, THE SAME KIND OF OPPRESSION TO GO ON AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS. I HAVE TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT. AND I HAVE TO TRY AND SPEAK OUT AGAINST IT IN A RATIONAL AND CALM VOICE WHEN REALLY I’M VERY ANGRY ABOUT IT […] WHEN [ISRAELI] PEOPLE SAY, WELL, YOU SOUTH AFRICANS, YOU’RE BIASED AGAINST US. WE’RE NOT. WE’RE TALKING INTERNATIONAL LAW…THE PRO-ISRAELI LOBBY, THE SA JEWISH BOARD OF DEPUTIES AND SA ZIONIST FEDERATION TRY TO SAY THAT IT [THE PALESTINIAN ISRAELI ISSUE] IS NOT A SIMPLE MATTER, [THEY SAY THAT] IT’S COMPLICATED. IT’S NOT COMPLICATED! IT’S VERY SIMPLE, THE SIMPLICITY IS THAT A DOMINANT GROUP [JEWISH ISRAELIS] EXCLUDE THE INDIGENOUS PALESTINIAN PEOPLE FROM EQUAL RIGHTS”.

We send our sincere condolences to Denis Goldberg’s family, friends, comrades and the South African people, who have lost a precious son. He lived an exemplary life, serving our people, standing in solidarity with others and left the world a better place. We commit ourselves to continue his legacy in our solidarity with the people of Palestine and to the struggle for non-racialism and freedom.

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>>>17807122 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months

“Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/23/crime-worrying-in-south-africa-7000-murdered-in-three-months

23 Nov 2022

Quarterly crime statistics show a rise in murder, rape and kidnapping figures compared with the same time last year.

More than 7,000 people were murdered over three months in South Africa, according to new police statistics, which showed a rise in violent crime from the same period last year.

On Wednesday, South Africa’s parliamentary portfolio committee on police heard details of the crime statistics, recording those crimes reported to the South African Police Service (SAPS) from July 1 to September 30, 2022.

Quarterly figures showed that the murder rate rose 14 percent between July and September, compared with the same timeframe in 2021, when 6,163 people were killed.

Almost 1,000 women were among those murdered during the period in 2022. More than 13,000 women were also victims of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and 1,277 women were victims of attempted murder.

“The rate at which women are abused, violated and some killed in South Africa remains worrying and unacceptable,” Police Minister Bheki Cele told a news conference.

The figures also showed that kidnappings doubled to more than 4,000 compared with the same time last year; and rapes, in a country notorious for sex attacks against women and children, were up 11 percent, with 10,000 cases opened across the country.

Carjackings rose 24 percent to more than 6,000.

And between April and September, more than 550 children were killed.

“The crime statistics again show that we as communities continue to fail to protect some of the most vulnerable in society: our children,” Cele said.

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>>>17880966 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep

“Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep – Alan Winde”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/alan-winde-cape-town-police-gangsters-saps-latest-report-5-december/

05-12-2022 16:39

‘What is clear is that this infiltration likely extends far beyond this particular case, and also that dangerous forces are at play here,’ said Winde.

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde instructed the provincial police ombud to investigate the alleged links between gangsters and the South African Police Service (SAPS) in November.

WINDE RECEIVES FINAL ‘GANG CAPTURE’ REPORT FROM POLICE OMBUD

Retired Major-General Oswald Reddy, the Ombud, handed in his final report recently, Winde said on Monday, 5 December.

The Premier instructed the Ombud to probe the matter after Judge Daniel Thulare delivered a damning judgement in the Western Cape High Court on 17 October.

Thulare said there is evidence that suggests that gangsters have infiltrated the top management structure of the Western Cape SAPS and were able to access critical documents and crime-fighting strategies.

As previously reported, the gang in question in Thulare’s judgement was the 28s gang. The matter dealt with the bail appeal of the alleged leader of the 28s Mobster Gang and another appellant.

“We have to act within our limited mandate on this issue to confirm what many residents of the Western Cape have long suspected: that some SAPS members are colluding with gangsters, effectively abandoning their oath to protect and serve, instead choosing to make many of our gang-stricken communities even more unsafe,” said Winde after receiving the report.

Reddy reportedly allowed the top provincial police management to respond to Thulare’s judgement as part of the investigation. He also spoke with the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).

The Premier said Reddy’s report concluded that the allegations that gang members and some police officers are in cahoots are likely substantiated. The provincial leader is studying the report and considering his next steps.

“There must be decisive consequences for those found to be colluding with gangs. This includes senior officials under whose watch this has been allowed to happen. One of the first steps that I took this week on this matter is that I met with the SAPS provincial Commissioner Lt Gen (Adv) Thembisile Patekile to discuss the findings of the report.

“I will be holding further engagements on the Ombud’s report and will share this with the public as soon as I am in a position to do so. What is clear is that this infiltration likely extends far beyond this particular case, and also that dangerous forces are at play here. We must be decisive and considered in our next steps to address this issue, making sure we can break these links, and make headway against gangsterism,” said Winde.

“Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/corruption-accused-jmpd-officers-found-with-r14-000-and-300-foreign-drivers-licences-ea9ae06a-da2b-48af-9011-1dbb5fb115b5

Published Dec 19, 2022

Pretoria - Two Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department officers have been arrested by the JMPD internal affairs unit for extortion, kidnapping and corruption.

“On Friday, 16 December 2022, the JMPD internal affairs unit received a complaint from a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) claiming that JMPD officers had kidnapped and were driving around with her friend in Mayfair, demanding money for his release after he was arrested for allegedly having a fake foreign driving licence,” JMPD spokesperson Xolani Fihla narrated.

Members from the JMPD internal affairs unit attended to the complaint.

“They traced the JMPD patrol vehicle and found that the two male officers, who are attached to the special patrol unit (SPU), had already released the member of the public in Mayfair after extorting R4 000 from him,” said Fihla.

A preliminary investigation was undertaken to verify the damning allegations.

“Upon interviewing the two officers, it was established that there was misconduct committed by the duo. Members of the internal affairs unit searched the officers and their vehicle, and an amount of R14 000 was retrieved, including over 300 foreign driving licences and two South African licences. This substantiated the officers’ modus operandi,” said Fihla.

The complainant was called to the JMPD internal affairs office, and he positively identified the two officers as the ones who took money from him.

“It is alleged by the complainant that he had earlier given the officers cash, and the rest of the money was transferred to him via eWallet, which he then handed over to the officers. Video footage was also obtained, revealing the interaction between the complainant and the officers,” said Fihla.

The two JMPD officers were arrested and detained at Johannesburg Central SAPS on multiple charges.

Apart from the criminal charges laid against the two officers, an internal investigation for bringing the JMPD into disrepute has also been initiated.

Meanwhile, the City of Joburg’s MMC for Public Safety, David Tembe, has welcomed the arrest of the duo and urged the community to resist paying bribes.

"The department has a resolute stance against misconduct and corruption by any of our staff members. We will not tolerate any conduct that brings the department into disrepute. Those who are found wanting will be brought to book without fear or favour,” he said.

“Members of the public are discouraged from bribing officers, and must rather report such acts to the JMPD internal affairs on 011 490 1814.”

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>>>17807851 South African businessman and Honorary Consul Avi Lasarow wins entrepreneur of the year in UK, helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK

“South African businessman and Honorary Consul wins entrepreneur of the year in UK” – “helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/south-african-businessman-and-honorary-consul-wins-entrepreneur-of-the-year-in-uk/

25-11-2022

A South African businessman who helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK to bring back sport and international travel during the pandemic, has won Entrepreneur of the Year

A South African businessman who helped to set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK to bring back major sport and international travel during the pandemic, has won Entrepreneur of the Year.

Johannesburg-born Avi Lasarow, who is Chief Executive of Prenetics EMEA Ltd and lives in the UK with his wife Kelly, a keen equestrian and their children, won the award at the Kent Invicta Chamber Business Awards.

Prenetics EMEA Ltd is part of a major global diagnostics and genetic testing company with the mission to bring health closer to millions of people globally and decentralise healthcare.

The company, which is registered in Orpington in Kent, provided COVID testing for English football, British Boxing and the English Test Cricket for the ECB. Avi also set up a state-of-the-art laboratory on the Greenwich Peninsula to provide faster results for consumers.

Prenetics carried out more than twenty million COVID tests worldwide and provided testing at all major UK airports. It has operations across nine locations, including the UK, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and Southeast Asia and successfully listed on the Nasdaq this May with a valuation of $1.3b.

Avi, who is also an Honorary Consul for trade between South Africa and the UK, worked with the UK Government’s Department for Health and Social Care and the Competition and Markets Authority to clampdown on rogue COVID testers that were offering misleadingly cheap prices for tests that proved not to be available.

He also was invited to become a founding member of the Confederation of British Industry’s Health Council (CBI) – a new forum for business, government and civil society to improve health outcomes across the UK.

Avi also sits on the NHS England Innovation’s new Diagnostic Transformation Programme Industry Advisory Group, advising the National Health Service on the future needs and demands for testing.

Avi previously launched DNAFit, one of the first companies to pioneer “at home” genetic testing widely available in a direct-to-consumer setting. DNAFit achieved various accolades in the UK including two coveted Queen’s Awards for Business in 2018, while also attracting investment and endorsement from former England and Manchester United defender, Rio Ferdinand. It was then acquired by Prenetics.

Commenting on the award win, Avi said: “It’s a great honour to receive this award.

“Realising success through entrepreneurship is not easy. It takes resilience, an exceptional team and a determination to make every single day count. Along my own journey I have encountered countless setbacks and challenges but the highs have always overstepped the lows.

“I’m so grateful for the team at Prenetics. We are a chain made of the strongest links and are gathering real pace and momentum in our pursuit to positively impact the health and lives of millions of people in the years ahead. There is absolutely no doubt that the best of Prenetics is yet to come.

“As we all have to cope with the post COVID business landscape, I hope to play my part in supporting tech companies in South Africa and the UK. As the Chancellor said in his Autumn Statement, the life sciences sector is a huge area of growth for the UK, and I’d like to mentor other start-ups in South Africa and the UK as they set out on the journey to success.”

>>17910156

>>>17807847 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row – report

“Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row – report”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-how-much-money-dis-chem-lost-since-white-workers-letter-tuesday-15-november/

15-11-2022 11:53

Even though Dis-Chem has reversed its decision to ‘stop hiring white workers’, the company is still riding out the financial backlash.

Big news for ‘go woke, go broke’ enthusiasts this week: It is reported that Dis-Chem’s plummeting share price has lost the company almost R2 billion over the past few weeks. A letter published by their CEO, which discouraged the hiring of white workers, has allegedly sparked the collapse.

WHITE WORKERS ROW COSTS DIS-CHEM DEARLY

Although Dis-Chem have backtracked on their initial hiring strategy, it would appear that most of the damage has been done. Millions of concerned citizens were left outraged by a so-called ‘moratorium’ on employing more white workers, in order to comply with BBBEE laws.

A number of high-profile South Africans have vowed to never set foot in Dis-Chem again. Steve Hofmeyr made headlines on Monday, when he posted a picture of his ‘last ever prescription‘ from the pharmaceutical giants. It seems this exodus is having a profound impact…

HOW MUCH MONEY HAS DIS-CHEM LOST THIS MONTH?

A report from Daily Investor has translated the recent share price losses into a monetary value. They believe that the financial damage has been catastrophic for Dis-Chem. Whichever way you look at it, things aren’t looking too bright for the retailer:

• Dis-Chem’s share price is now 11% LOWER than it was six months ago.

• Despite an initial recovery, stock has dropped again by roughly 10% since the first day of November.

• Dis-Chem recorded a strong first-half performance in 2022, but things are now heading downhill.

• The share price is actually 1.61% WORSE than it was five years ago.

• Their figures haven’t been this low since the last hard lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic (July 2021).

• Experts now estimate that almost R2 billion has been wiped-off the share price.

SHARE PRICE SHOWS MAJOR ‘WEALTH DESTRUCTION’ AFTER WHITE WORKERS LETTER

What is even more concerning for Dis-Chem is that this may not even be the worst of it all. According to the report, there’s a possibility that they could lose ‘significantly more’ in the weeks to come. What a difference one letter can make, hey?

“Dis-Chem’s share price fell by almost 7% over the last month. The share price decline translates into R1.87 billion of wealth destruction. However, the exact impact of the letter is difficult to measure. It may be significantly more – or less – than R1.87 billion.” | Daily Investor

>>17910156

>>>17774341 SAHRC gives Malema 10 days to retract ‘hate speech’ – he will not

“AfriForum says SAHRC must deliver on promise to take Malema to Equality Court over hate speech”

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/afriforum-says-sahrc-must-deliver-on-promise-to-take-malema-to-equality-court-over-hate-speech-20221119

19 Nov

• AfriForum says it expects Malema to be taken to the Equality Court by the SAHRC.

• The 10 days Malema was given by the SAHRC to retract and apologise for hate speech has expired.

• The EFF says that it will not be retracting any statements.

AfriForum says it is keeping a watchful eye over the hate speech case of EFF leader Julius Malema to ensure that he is taken to the Equality Court by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).

This is in connection with statements made by Malema which the commission subsequently declared to be hate speech and incitement to violence.

The SAHRC gave Malema a written notice on 8 November to retract his statements within 10 days and to issue an apology.

Should the EFF leader fail to do this, the SAHRC stated that it would take him to the Equality Court to obtain an interim interdict.

The 10-day period ended on Friday.

AfriForum said that it had submitted complaints to the SAHRC in October 2022 following Malema’s statements at the EFF's provincial congress in the Western Cape.

In a statement, AfriForum claimed that Malema had told EFF delegates:

You must never be afraid to kill. A revolution requires killing at some point because killing is part of the revolutionary act.

The EFF rejected the allegations made by the SAHRC, labelling them "as part of the nefarious attempts to erase the truth of our liberation history and an attempt to limit free speech".

Spokesperson Sinawo Thambo told News24 that Malema and the party would not retract the statement.

"We won’t be retracting any statement because that was a political speech which has had no verifiable or causal link to incitement or hatred," he said. https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/sahrc-declares-malemas-killing-is-a-revolutionary-act-statements-hate-speech-20221109

"The SAHRC reached a determination that we must retract or apologise, without giving us any opportunity to present our side of the story, defying all natural laws of justice, and if we must meet them in court the same way we did AfriForum and expose them there, then we are ready to do so."

Ernst van Zyl, campaign officer for strategy and content at AfriForum, said:

Malema and the EFF believe that they are above the law. This is largely due to Malema and the EFF getting away with escalating levels of hate speech and incitement to violence over the years.

"The SAHRC has given their word that they will take Malema to the Equality Court if he does not respond to their demands within 10 days. Malema and the EFF have made it clear that they do not concern themselves with the SAHRC’s demands, therefore, the SAHRC must now keep their promise," he said.

Van Zyl added that AfriForum would be keeping a watchful eye over the matter.

>>17910156

>>>17807096 Senior Zulu Prince close to King Misuzulu KaZwelithini assassinated in Nongoma

>>17930857

>That AID money wasn't wasted at all. King Goodwill expressed confidence that, now, peace would surely reign in "my kingdom."

>>18023336

>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.

“Senior Zulu Prince close to King Misuzulu KaZwelithini assassinated in Nongoma”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/senior-zulu-prince-close-to-king-misuzulu-kazwelithini-assassinated-in-nongoma-879ed145-4237-4572-8923-db960ea70f08

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Durban - Another senior member of the Zulu royal family close to King Misuzulu KaZwelithini and pillar of his reign has been assassinated.

Prince Mbongiseni Milton Muntukaphiwana (MMM) Zulu was among those who helped King Misuzulu to thwart a failed bid by Prince Simakade to take over the Zulu throne after the passing of King Goodwill Zwelithini in March last year.

Although details around his death are still sketchy and there is no official information from the royal office, IOL understands that he was shot dead around 6pm near the politically volatile town of Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

He died on the scene while his bodyguard died upon arrival in one of the hospitals within Nongoma.

Known as Triple M or Gudlane or Nandos to those who studied with him at the University of Zululand (Ongoye), Prince Mbongiseni is a former IFP MP and he died while he was a councillor of the same party in the Zululand district municipality.

They said he didn’t bask in his failures or glory and he closely liaised with King Mswati III of Eswatini in helping King Misuzulu to adapt to his role of leading the Zulu nation.

When the then Prince Misuzulu KaZwelithini was to be unveiled as the king at the memorial service of the late Queen Mantfombi (King Misuzulu’s mother) in May last year, he undertook a dangerous mission.

He carefully organised the Zulu regiments and royal family members that showed force even before other contenders could do so.

In September this year, he was among those who came out to chase Prince Simakade’s spokesperson, Prince Mandlakapheli who was addressing the media outside eNyokeni palace ahead of the reed dance which was held under heightened security following threats of bloodshed.

On the following day, during the reed dance ceremony, Prince Mbongiseni went on to be one of the programme directors for the reed dance (Umkhosi Womhlanga).

Shortly after that ceremony, Dr Dumisani Khumalo, a close confidant of King Misuzulu KaZwelithini was assassinated upon arrival at his home in Nongoma.

No arrest has been made for Khumalo’s arrest and his family is still demanding justice.

A month later, a headman (Induna) of the Osuthu area (where most palaces are located), Cuphisa Ntuli was gunned down in the town of Nongoma.

During the assassination, three other people were shot dead by a gunman who later escaped and has not been arrested.

>>18013664

>General [Jan] Smuts [South African Prime Minister] Addresses The Mother Of Parliaments In London (1942)

>>18025313

>He [Cecil Margo] enjoyed an excellent personal relationship with Field Marshall Jan Smuts, the previous prime minister of South Africa.

>>18017449

>Is it coincidence that Volodymyr Zelensky has been named the most influencial Jew for 2022 by the Jerusalem Post?

“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” – Part 1

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Jan-Smuts-given-honor-where-honor-was-due-563333

JULY 25, 2018 04:45

Smuts was an international statesman of great repute who bestrode the world political stage like a colossus for the first half of the 20th century.

Gen. Jan Christiaan Smuts was the architect of the Union of South Africa, established in 1910 as a self-governing dominion of the United Kingdom, becoming a totally committed and loyal Anglophile, despite having fought against the British during the Anglo Boer War (1898-1901). Smuts enjoyed a great friendship with Chaim Weizmann, which lasted from their first meeting in 1917 until Smuts’ death in 1950.

Smuts and Weizmann had much in common, sharing a great interest in science, with Smuts becoming the first president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931. Weizmann was a Zionist. Smuts, as a devoted Christian, held a firm belief in the right of the Jewish people to their homeland in Palestine.

Smuts was partial toward the Jews and Jewish problems globally, being sympathetic to Jewish immigration to South Africa as early as 1910. In 1917, as Minister of Defense, in which capacity he would become a member of the Imperial War Cabinet in Britain, he promised the South African Zionist Federation that he would support the movement for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. Shortly after his appointment to the war cabinet, he met with, and developed his lasting friendship with Weizmann, and lent his not-insignificant support to the Balfour Declaration.

FOLLOWING THE end of hostilities in 1918, which brought the First World War to an end, a peace conference was held at Versailles in France on January 19, 1919, between the victorious Allied Forces and the defeated Central Powers, which had been led by Germany. The product of this conference was the Versailles Peace Treaty, with the Balfour Declaration granting a homeland to the Jewish people as one of its many clauses – this, at the insistence of Jan Smuts.

Versailles was followed by the San Remo Conference, which lasted from April 19-26, 1920, and was also attended by Smuts. The primary objective of this conference was to ratify the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and to establish the League of Nations. Here again, Smuts insisted that the Balfour Declaration be embodied in the clauses establishing the League of Nations, with Smuts the author of its constitution.

>>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” – Part 2

https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Jan-Smuts-given-honor-where-honor-was-due-563333

JULY 25, 2018 04:45

The San Remo Resolution, as well as Article 22 of the newly established League of Nations, incorporated the Balfour Declaration, with the resolution officially designated the Smuts Resolution. This resolution was the basis for the establishment of the mandate system that led to the British Mandate over Palestine, and should have rapidly led a self-governing Jewish state in the whole territory between the Jordan River and the sea.

British intransigence and a failure to keep to the terms of the Article 22 as soon as was practical resulted in the impasse that lasted until the United Nations, successor to the League of Nations, passed the historic partition vote on November 29, 1947. This was not the fault of Smuts, who repeatedly approached successive British governments on behalf of the South African Zionist Federation, protesting the various white papers limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine.

The war years saw Smuts once again as an influential member of Winston Churchill’s British war cabinet. Churchill had a great admiration for Smuts and valued his opinion above all others. Following the end of hostilities in September 1945, the United Nations was established on October 24, 1945, with the objective of preventing future global conflicts. Smuts was once again present and was the author of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United Nations. Smuts was the only politician to serve in the British war cabinet in both the First and the Second World Wars. He was 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, a truly amazing record to say the least.

SOUTH AFRICA, with Jan Smuts as Prime Minister, voted in favor of the partition of Palestine to ensure the establishment of a Jewish homeland. David Ben-Gurion made the famous Declaration of Israeli Independence on May 14, 1948, and Smuts granted de facto recognition to the State of Israel 10 days later on May 24. His successor, prime minister Dr. D.F. Malan, granted de jure recognition on Israel’s first Independence Day, May 14, 1949. He later became the first foreign head of state to visit Israel in 1953.

[T]he German Colony street honoring Smuts must stay the German Colony street, honoring a great friend of the Jewish people. And let’s not forget Smuts Boulevard in Tel Aviv and Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan (Smuts) in northern Israel.

>>18025313

>the loss in 1987 of 159 lives in the crash of the SAA Boeing 747, the Helderberg in the sea North East of Mauritius.

“33 years on, families of Helderberg crash victims search for answers”

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/33-years-on-families-of-helderberg-crash-victims-search-for-answers-1dd49a87-feee-41eb-b4ca-855cb53859f5

Published Dec 12, 2020

Cape Town - More than three decades after the Helderberg air disaster, families of the victims are still searching for answers about the final minutes of the fatal flight which killed all 159 people on board.

The Helderberg was a South African Airways flight from Taiwan to Johannesburg that crashed into the ocean off the coast of Mauritius on November 28, 1987.

After a record-breaking recovery mission to salvage parts of the plane from the ocean bed, analysis revealed that a fire had started in the cargo pallets being transported on the main deck of the plane. The fire was catastrophic, causing the plane to break up mid-air before crashing into the sea.

But despite a commission of inquiry and consultations from international experts, one thing was never ascertained beyond a doubt: what started the cargo fire?

In the years since the crash, independent investigators including forensic scientist Dr David Klatzow have made allegations that the passenger aircraft was in fact carrying explosive military material in its cargo, smuggled into South Africa covertly because of the international arms embargo at the time.

SAA and Armscor have repeatedly denied these claims, and the radio tape recordings which could contain proof went missing and have never been found.

Klatzow was originally brought in by Boeing, but three decades later, he is still independently investigating new leads about the crash.

“Once I made the discoveries I made, it became incumbent on me to follow up,” he said.

“We’ve hit brick walls with the authorities, but every year for 30 years, new information has come out which all points in the same direction: that aircraft was carrying military cargo.”

Klatzow and Otzen have recently secured affidavits from two new sources - a retired Navy admiral and an adviser in Nelson Mandela’s Cabinet - who allege that ammonium perchlorate, a type of rocket fuel, was on board the plane.

Despite this, Klatzow thinks it unlikely that an inquiry will be reopened.

“I don’t think anything will be done. That doesn’t mean that you’ve got to let it die,” he said.

“Time does not erase a hideous crime. Here was an aircraft with innocent civilians who were effectively murdered. You cannot let that go unpunished, while you have breath.”

Otzen still hopes that someone with critical evidence - such as the missing tape recordings of the conversation between the pilots and the control tower - will come forward. He hopes that his ability to offer confidentiality in a client-attorney relationship will give someone the opportunity they need to safely disclose missing pieces of the puzzle before it’s too late.

“I think the truth will come out,” he said.

“I think there will be someone who wants to clear their conscience before they die. This is the opportunity to do that.”

South Africans watch rugby yet Johann Rupert and Tom Brady (an American football player) are ‘old’ friends?

“Beast 'arm wrestles' Whitey Basson as Boks braai with Johann Rupert and friends” – “”[American football quarterback Tom] Brady is an old friend," Rupert said.”

https://www.news24.com/News24/watch-beast-arm-wrestles-whitey-basson-as-boks-braai-with-johann-rupert-and-friends-20191115

15 Nov 2019

Former Shoprite executive and billionaire Whitey Basson got a taste of the strength of Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira as the two arm wrestled at a braai celebrating the 2019 Rugby World Cup champions, hosted by Richemont chairperson Johann Rupert on his farm L'Ormarins near Franschhoek on Saturday.

In a video Rupert posted on Twitter, Mtawarira and Basson can be seen "wrestling" things out on a table as bystanders chant "Whitey! Whitey!"

"You're winning, you're winning…" Mtawarira encourages the former business mogul.

Basson then "beats" the mighty Beast, who sports a huge smile throughout the affair.

Rupert jokingly told News24 that "Beast was wonderful - he could have put Whitey in hospital".

"After 2007 [when John Smit's team won the World Cup], we hosted a braai for the Boks at L’Ormarins. The 2019 team had asked if they could also have a braai if they won. That was last weekend, but unfortunately [Springbok captain] Siya [Kolisi] and [Springbok coach] Rassie [Erasmus] could not be there - they had to attend an awards event in Durban," Rupert said.

Rupert posted a series of pictures of the braai on his Twitter feed, at one point remarking: "Die manne is GROOT" (these guys are huge), and "Now I know what poor England had to face" as he poses between locks RG Snyman and Eben Etzebeth, who tower head and shoulders above the businessman.

Rupert also sent this picture of a thrilled Mtawarira and Springbok fly-half Handrè Pollard after they were congratulated by American football quarterback Tom Brady via Facetime.

"Brady is an old friend," Rupert said.

>>18155676

>Her [Drucilla Cornell] theoretical writings in effect rechanneled her grandmother's trips into Watts, but this time beyond the United States as it took her to South Africa, where, in the spirit of her grandmother, she sought the counsel of Sangomas. For Drucilla, Constitutional Court Justices in South Africa, Research Professors in the top universities, and major public intellectuals were but part of a complex society in which the Sangoma, as Boaventura de Sousa Santos would say, was a contributor to a plurality of epistemes and legitimating practices of knowledge. It is this insight that attracted Drucilla to uBuntu, which is a complex Indigenous African form of relational understanding of ethical life and political responsibility.

“Muti killings: from a client wish to a gruesome, evil death” - Sangomas

https://southafricaobserver.com.au/muti-killings-from-a-client-wish-to-a-gruesome-evil-death/

https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/muti-killings-from-a-client-wish-to-a-gruesome-evil-death-20220529

May 29, 2022

Muti killings, recently brought into the spotlight again after the spine-chilling murder of a six-year-old girl in Mpumalanga, are the evil work of power- and wealth-obsessed people who believe human organs can help them enhance their status in life.

A parolee, Collen Hlongwane (36), was one of five people arrested in connection with her murder.

In a video recording widely circulated on social media, Hlongwane mentioned that he and other men had murdered three other children and removed their wombs.

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

“They allege that they use the organs for muti, either to strengthen their personal power or their businesses.”

Images from https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2925352/south-africa-sangomas-wizards-witches-cure-people-pictures/

>>18162160

“Muti killings is a way of life in rural areas”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/muti-killings-is-a-way-of-life-in-rural-areas-470603

Published Jan 16, 2010

One in five people in South Africa's rural areas has had first-hand experience of a human body part being trafficked after a muti killing.

And, of the body parts mentioned in their accounts, male genitals, breasts, hearts, fingers and tongues are the most commonly listed, according to research undertaken by the Human Rights League in Mozambique and supported by Childline in South Africa.

The study's findings are all the more shocking after the recent discovery of 10-year-old Masego Kgomo's mutilated body in dense bush in Soshanguve, Tshwane.

One of the five men arrested for her murder is a sangoma who allegedly uses body parts for muti. A 14-year-old boy was also arrested.

But Masego's case is one of many. Of the more than 413 individuals who attended workshops for the research report, 22 percent of those who were willing to be interviewed had seen a mutilated body with parts missing or a body part separated from a body.

There were 72 accounts relating to the trafficking of body parts mentioned in the report. Of these, 27 were from South Africa.

Between the two countries, 19 different body parts were mentioned as missing from bodies. They included heads, female genital organs, breasts, tongues, ears, eyes, hands, legs, lungs, guts, skin, arms, jaws, lips and fingers.

One of the interview samples in the report was of a case in Bloemspruit where a woman who wanted to fall pregnant went to a sangoma and was advised to wear a belt with children's fingers and penises hanging from it.

"She was made to drink a concoction she believed contained human blood and fat and she was given a piece of flesh which she believed to be a human organ, perhaps a heart. She sliced small pieces from the flesh each night and fried them on a stove," said the report.

Speaking about body-part trafficking to the Saturday Star this week, Simon Fellows, the project manager at the league, said there was a demand in South Africa for body parts and a supply from Mozambique.

He said there was a prevalence of muti-killings in every single province, and in many cases, communities were saying the number of incidents was getting out of hand.

"Every person we came across had something to say. It is a prolific problem that affects every single community. The conclusion is that there is no evidence that adults are specifically asked for, but there is evidence that kids are mutilated."

Fellows related stories of fishermen in Mozambique who use children's belly buttons in their nets to improve their catch. It is also believed that children's body parts bring more luck and prosperity than those of adults.

Joan van Niekerk, from Childline, said it was difficult to establish the true prevalence of muti-killing because people were often too scared to talk about the things they had witnessed.

She said they had also had instances where staff had refused to work on the project because they had felt intimidated. The researchers had grown up in their communities and still adhered to a traditional value system.

"People who do witchcraft are seen as very powerful people by the community. It is a very secretive activity. Even in the community, people are not always sure who did it and where."

And, Van Niekerk said, while the practice was deeply rooted in the rural areas, there were incidents in urban areas too.

The study, Trafficking Body Parts in Mozambique and South Africa, was released last year.

>>18162160

>>18162182

“Popular female and male celebrity sangomas in South Africa in 2022”

https://briefly.co.za/35041-7-mzansi-celebrities-chose-a-higher-calling-sangomas.html

Friday, February 11, 2022 at 3:41 PM

Female and male celebrity sangomas received praises and criticism in equal measure when they came out through social media and mainstream media interviews. Mzansi natives who consider being a traditional healer a great honour support them. Those who frown upon these sangoma celebrities perceive it as an outdated practice or a contradiction to their new religious beliefs.

Who are celebrity sangomas? These are famous shamans, healers, priests, and prophets. They are pillars of most African communities. So, what are sangomas called? People generally call them inyangas or sangomas. However, each Mzansi community has a title for their traditional healers. For instance, amadloti in siSwati, amadlozi in Zulu, badimo in Sesotho and izinyanya in Xhosa.

1. Baby Cele Maloka

2. Bala Phelo

3. Boity Thulo

4. Bongani Masondo

5. Buhle Mda

6. Dawn Thandeka King

7. Dineo Langa

8. Dineo Ranaka

9. Gigi Lamayne

10. Kelly Khumalo

11. Lerato Mvelase

12. Letoya Makhene

13. L’ Vovo

14. Luyanda Potwana

15. Mlungisi Mathe

16. Masechaba Khumalo

17. Mosebjadi Oratile Tlhologelo

18. Nandi Nyembe

19. Noninzi Williams

20. Shoki Mmola

21. Solo Langa

22. Tol A$$ Mo

23. Zokufa Busi

24. Zola Hashatsi

25. Zola 7

Other stars who have publicly owned their calling include:

Author Mongane Wally Serote

Actress Sindi Khambule

Model Linda Mkhize

Media personality Segale Mogotsi

John Lockley

Phenny Bernard

“US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to visit South Africa” - https://youtu.be/H1xf0bxyPM0

“Yellen lauds Ford's 100-year history in South Africa, flags more investments” – even during Apartheid

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/yellen-lauds-fords-100-year-history-in-south-africa-flags-more-investments/ar-AA16LJTY

26 January 2023

SILVERTON, South Africa (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded the Ford Motor Co's 100-year history of assembling vehicles in South Africa and underscored Washington's resolve to expand trade ties with countries that it "can count on," including South Africa.

Yellen spoke at Ford's plant in Silverton, a suburb of Pretoria, during the third leg of her nearly two-week trip across the African continent, which also included stops in Senegal and Zambia.

The plant, which employs 4,000 people, is an example of how deeper ties between the United States and Africa could produce good jobs and boost economic growth for both sides, Yellen told workers and company officials.

"Africa will shape the future of the global economy," she said. "We know that a thriving Africa is in the interest of the United States. A thriving Africa means a larger market for our goods and services. It means more investment opportunities for our businesses."

Ford, a major U.S. investor in South Africa, is investing $1 billion to expand output at the plant there by 20%, adding 1,200 new jobs, and aims to develop a freight rail link with a seaport 700 miles (1,126.54 km) away.

Yellen said other U.S. companies, including Cisco, General Electric, and Visa also planned big investments, attracted by expanding markets fueled by a demographic boom that will see Africa account for a quarter of the world’s population by 2050.

The U.S. Treasury chief said South Africa had been the biggest beneficiary of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which grants eligible Sub-Saharan countries duty-free access to the U.S. market, but did not spell out what would happen when the legislation expires in 2025.

Yellen said South Africa also had a role to play in U.S. efforts to shift supply chains away from over-reliance on China and other non-market economies to more like-minded countries, an approach she has dubbed "friendshoring."

As in her comments to South Africa's finance minister earlier on Thursday, Yellen did not address South Africa's refusal to take sides over Russia's war in Ukraine or Washington's concern over military exercises it plans with China and Russia.

The massive economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war against Ukraine underscored the need for resilient supply chains, she said.

"We are addressing the over-concentration of the production of critical goods in certain markets — particularly those that may not share our economic values," Yellen said. "To do so, we are deepening economic integration with the many countries that we can count on. That includes our many trusted trading partners on this continent — like South Africa."

>>18231534

>>17930886

>The last US-Africa Leaders Summit was convened in 2014 under former president Barrack Obama.

>>17949508

>WASHINGTON — The last time leaders of the African continent were invited to the White House, Barack Obama was president. It was August 2014, and Vladimir Putin had just invaded Ukraine — for the first time. The world was grappling with a deadly virus: Ebola. And Joe Biden was vice president of the United States. https://news.yahoo.com/african-leaders-white-house-summit-biden-192355564.html

“US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen meets Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana” - https://youtu.be/Qrw7EQbA_TI

“Yellen welcomes South Africa's energy transition, steers clear of Russia mention”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/yellen-welcomes-south-africas-energy-transition-steers-clear-of-russia-mention/ar-AA16MgC7

26 January 2023

PRETORIA (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded South Africa's "bold" participation in an energy transition partnership backed by the United States and other Western nations but steered clear of mentioning U.S. concerns about Pretoria's planned military drills with China and Russia.

Yellen spoke to reporters alongside South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in Pretoria on the third leg of her nearly two-week tour of Africa, and just days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited South Africa.

She welcomed Godongwana's "cooperation and insightful views" in their previous discussions, and said she would raise several issues, including Zambia's stalled sovereign debt restructuring effort, given South Africa's key role on the country's creditor committee.

"The United States strongly values our relationship with South Africa," Yellen said in remarks that included no mention of Russia or China, or White House concerns about Pretoria's plans to hold joint military drills with both countries.

Washington was not asking countries to choose sides, focusing instead on America's plans in South Africa and beyond, a senior Treasury official said.

U.S. officials did brief the South Africans on U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over its war in Ukraine to avoid possible misunderstandings, the official told reporters.

Godongwana said the two would discuss countering the financing of terrorism, climate financing, resolving sovereign debt crises in Africa and global topics that will form part of a meeting of the G20 group of major economies next month.

He said Yellen's visit was a "momentous" occasion, noting that the previous visit by a U.S. Treasury secretary was in 2014, and praised Yellen's announcement on Wednesday that the United States and South Africa were setting up a joint task force on combating the financing of wildlife trafficking.

>>18231560

>U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded South Africa's "bold" participation in an energy transition partnership backed by the United States and other Western nations

Yet not helping with the current crisis.

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“South Africa loses permission to import nuclear fuel for Koeberg from the US”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/477679-south-africa-loses-permission-to-import-nuclear-fuel-for-koeberg.html

25 January 2023

South African power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is examining how the suspension of a pact that enables it to import nuclear fuel components from the US will affect its sole atomic plant.

The Agreement for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the US and South Africa expired on Dec. 4.

That resulted in Westinghouse Electric Co. losing its license from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to export fuel-assembly components to Eskom’s Koeberg plant near Cape Town.

“Eskom is exploring the implications of the withdrawal of the US NRC approval for Westinghouse, and what is needed to enable them to continue supplying fuel,” the utility said in a reply to questions.

Eskom doesn’t anticipate that it will “have to establish new fuel contracts due to this current issue” and no nuclear fuel shortage is expected at Koeberg in the immediate future, it said.

The development may frustrate Eskom’s efforts to end record nationwide power outages that are crimping the economy. The matter may be raised with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who is visiting South Africa this week.

US President Joe Biden was poised in August to extend the existing agreement, but it was still allowed to expire.

South African Department of International Relations & Cooperation spokesman Clayson Monyela and an energy department spokesperson weren’t immediately able to comment.

The Westinghouse license authorizes it to export fuel components to Sweden for fabrication into completed assemblies, and for those to be subsequently shipped to South Africa for use in both of Koeberg’s reactors, according to the NRC order.

Westinghouse and France’s Framatome have been maintained as nuclear fuel suppliers for the plant, according to Eskom.

The US company has already delivered the material that will be loaded during maintenance on one unit that’s currently under way, while fuel for the second was provided by the French firm, it said.

“The contracts with Westinghouse and Framatome cover the fuel needed beyond these two outages,” Eskom said.

“Implications of declaration of state of emergency on electricity”

https://youtu.be/t-AZ_riYpBs

Jan 31, 2023

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the ANC NEC lekgotla has resolved that the government should impose a National State of Disaster over the energy crisis and the situation at Eskom.

Head of African Centre for Disaster Studies Professor Dewald van Niekerk explains the impact of this.

7:37 – “Positive and negative elements if you look at the possibility of a state of a disaster. For instance, the ability of private providers to quickly link to the national grid for private citizens to generate additional electricity, for the Karpowerships to come on board, even heard people say stuff like stopping coal exports.”

“Avoid looting similar to Covid-19 if declaring national state of disaster, opposition parties warn”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/avoid-looting-similar-to-covid-19-if-declaring-national-state-of-disaster-opposition-parties-warn-7206af88-076c-48ae-adc4-6f971ddc2da3

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Pretoria - The ANC is facing mixed reaction over its proposed call for a national state of disaster over the energy crisis facing the country.

Opposition parties were quick to warn that if President Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to declare a national disaster, contingency plans must be put in place to avoid massive corruption and fraud similar to that during the outbreak of Covid-19.

Yesterday, the ANC, during its meeting briefing on the outcome of its party lekgotla which concluded on Monday, reiterated their call to Ramaphosa to declare a national state of disaster while plans were in place to eradicate load shedding before the end of the year.

Addressing the media, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the declaration would require that the ANC reconnected with the communities and society, to find a common solution to the problem.

“We therefore call on all of society to work with us in progressively solving the challenge since it affects all of us, in particular the poor and the working class.

“Lekgotla also directed the Cabinet to study in detail the obstacles in delivering infrastructure, vandalism and counter-revolutionary tendencies, with a view to increase infrastructure investment while strengthening the capability and capacity of the state,” Mbalula said.

The party also expressed concerns about vandalism of infrastructure which had posed a risk, compounded by the fact that six power stations were not in operation.

According to the ANC, their Energy Action Plan would be bolstered by lessons drawn by the lekgotla from the Energy Dialogue, presentations from technical experts and communities, as well as international best practices from India and Germany.

Mbalula said the lekgotla noted that the Budget and the potential to raise capital has been negatively impacted by the municipal debt to Eskom, saying that together with national debt of R 4.8 trillion as well as the progressive social wage (which amounts to 58% of the budget), this has made the budgeting manoeuvring space quite tight.

“It is for this reason that Parliament needs to fulfil the function of watchdog to ensure this does not become yet another opportunity for Covid-like misappropriations by key ANC ministers and officials,” Cachalia said.

>>18259632

>The founding members [Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene] of political party the Patriotic Alliance (PA)

>>18265601

>Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach

>>18270759

One cannot make this stuff up! This belongs in a mobster movie but in reality it can have dire consequences for the country as the next posts will demonstrate.

“3rd Degree | Update Show (Part one)” [Kenny Kunene, posted Nov 14, 2012] - https://youtu.be/NAz-Ncdu_6Q

“Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate” – Kenny Kunene Part 1

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15southafrica.html

Feb. 14, 2011

SANDTON, South Africa — Kenny Kunene, a former gangster turned businessman, gave what he called “the mother of all parties” for his 40th birthday. With his small paunch protruding from a white tuxedo and his eyes hidden behind Roberto Cavalli sunglasses, he ate sushi from the belly of a woman who was wearing nothing but black lingerie and high heels while hundreds of guests looked on.

As the revelers got tipsy on his liquor, he says he treated the most important among them — including Zizi Kodwa, President Jacob Zuma’s stylish spokesman, and Julius Malema, the rabble-rousing leader of the governing party’s youth wing — to $1,300 bottles of Dom Pérignon. Like the American rappers he emulates, Mr. Kunene himself swigged a bottle of Armand de Brignac Champagne that goes for more than $1,500 at his posh nightclub, ZAR, perched on the roof of a five-star hotel.

His October bash here in Sandton, a Johannesburg suburb often described as the wealthiest square mile in Africa, and another sushi-eating party that Mr. Kunene hosted recently in Cape Town, have turned him into a peculiarly South African sensation. His antics set off raucous bickering in the governing alliance about the conspicuous consumption of a politically networked black elite in a country where the majority of young blacks do not even have jobs.

Zwelinzima Vavi, leader of Cosatu, the powerful trade union federation allied with the governing African National Congress, accused Mr. Kunene of “spitting on the face of the poor” and declared that parties where people who have gotten rich in dubious ways flaunt their wealth “turn my stomach.”

Mr. Kunene, who says he supports the A.N.C.’s Youth League with his time and money, promptly retorted that his was “honest money spent on honest fun.” He describes his success as proof of the nation’s democracy, and he told Mr. Vavi, who is also black: “You remind me of what it felt like to live under apartheid. You are telling me, a black man, what I can and cannot do with my life.”

The Kunene story has crystallized a recurring question about life in post-apartheid South Africa: Is the accumulation and exhibition of such wealth a sign that blacks have finally arrived after an era when whites hogged the high life, or is it evidence of a moral decay undermining Nelson Mandela’s once great liberation movement?

“It raises in such wonderfully stark terms what freedom is and what one does with it,” said Jonny Steinberg, an author and one of the many newspaper columnists who commented on the events. “The idea that one uses it to get rich, and ostentatiously so, and that this is the most important dividend of freedom, is very powerful.”

In recent months, the spectacle of eating sushi from a woman’s body — perhaps familiar to Americans from Samantha’s escapades on “Sex and the City” — has been a source of both lurid fascination and ridicule here. A cartoon by the Mail & Guardian’s Zapiro, titled “The Last Sushi,” depicts a naked woman lying on a long table with well-known businessmen and politicians feasting on the fishy bits that decorate her curves.

That Mr. Kunene, a small-time player in South African politics, has vaulted onto the front pages underscores how salient the issue of economic inequality has become in South Africa, a country that by some estimates has the worst disparities of wealth in the world.

But the focus on Mr. Kunene, nicknamed the Sushi King by headline writers, is also a tribute to his obvious gifts for self-promotion and self-reinvention.

>>18277874

“Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate” – Kenny Kunene Part 2

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15southafrica.html

Feb. 14, 2011

He was raised by his unemployed mother (an evangelical faith healer), his grandfather (a retired English teacher), and his grandmother (a midwife and the family’s only earner) in a black township outside of Odendaalsrus in what is now the Free State. The family could never afford to give him a birthday party, he said, and he always craved luxuries.

When he was a teenager during apartheid, he said he and his friends picked out the houses and cars in wealthy white areas they fantasized would one day be theirs. He dreamed of Porsches. “The objective was to overthrow the government and take everything that the white man had,” he said.

Like his grandfather, he became a high school English teacher. To earn extra money, he opened a small saloon, eavesdropped on gangsters and joined them, hijacking cars, robbing businesses and dreaming up ways to trick people out of their money, he said.

“My heart was not into armed robberies,” he said. “My heart was more into fraud because I’m a thinker.”

But he was caught and convicted in 1997 of helping run a Ponzi scheme. His case alone listed more than 1,900 victims, he said. He served six years in prison. After his release, he went into business with Gayton McKenzie, a bank robber he had befriended behind bars. They sold a book that Mr. McKenzie wrote about quitting a life of crime, and marketed Mr. McKenzie’s motivational speeches to schools and corporate groups.

They invested their earnings in a fish distribution business, Mr. Kunene said, and then started working as consultants to diamond and gold mining companies, helping manage testy relations with restive local communities and navigate the shoals of government regulation in a country governed by a black majority.

Last year, Mr. Kunene and Mr. McKenzie helped Gold Fields, a major gold producer, retain its mining rights to the South Deep mine southwest of Johannesburg, which the company describes as “one of the greatest undeveloped ore bodies in the world.”

“It’s a lot of political lobbying work,” explained Sven Lunsche, a Gold Fields spokesman.

At Mr. Kunene’s swanky apartment in Sandton, a snapshot of him with President Zuma is displayed in the living room. On his iPad, he flicked through photographs taken at his birthday party, showing pictures of him with the men he called “Zizi and Julius” — Mr. Zuma’s spokesman and the Youth League leader, Mr. Malema.

At the Cape Town party on Jan. 29, Mr. Malema was quoted as saying that Mr. Kunene’s club belonged to the A.N.C., but he later issued a statement insisting that he had said only that black people have a right to own a club in “predominantly white territory.”

>>18277874

>>18277894

“Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate” – Kenny Kunene Part 3

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/africa/15southafrica.html

Feb. 14, 2011

Mr. Malema’s comments prompted Gwede Mantashe, the party’s secretary general, to starchily insist that the A.N.C. “is not into nightclubs or partying, but it is a revolutionary movement. We furthermore reiterate our condemnation to the act of serving sushi on a woman’s body.”

Mr. Kunene this month bowed to his party’s wishes and foreswore sushi parties, but he could not resist noting that in South Africa, the rainbow nation, “I ate sushi off a black girl in Johannesburg. In Cape Town, I ate it off a white girl. I was intending to eat it off an Indian girl in Durban.”

Mr. Kunene has leapt into a life of fame and money, but often on Mondays he gets into one of his Porsches and makes the short drive to the poor and working-class township of Alexandra. “I don’t forget where I come from,” he said.

There he drinks with the regulars at a small bar, the Stoop, and eats a plate of tripe like his mother used to make. House music pumps from speakers, echoing over the township hillside, sparkling with tiny lights.

Last Monday, he left his nightclub, with its purple velvet couches, mirrored wall and sensational views of the Sandton skyline, dressed to impress in $2,000 jeans (“Billionaire brand,” he said, “the most expensive in the world”), pointy-toed purple Italian shoes and a matching belt.

As the evening wore on at the bar in Alex, as the township is sometimes called, men in shirtsleeves who had just finished work gave way to young women with glossy lips who were in a party mood. Mr. Kunene, sitting in a molded plastic chair, nursed his Belvedere vodka and soda and updated his Facebook page.

“Chilling at the Stoop,” he wrote. “The township is the bomb.”

Instantly, he had a rush of responses from some of the thousands of people who have added him as a friend since his birthday party made news.

“Can I join u?” posted one.

“Lucky you,” wrote another.

“Why was I not invited?” asked a third. “Is there sushi?”

>>18259632

>The founding members [Gayton McKenzie and Kenny Kunene] of political party the Patriotic Alliance (PA)

>>18277894

>After his release, he went into business with Gayton McKenzie, a bank robber he had befriended behind bars.

>They invested their earnings in a fish distribution business, Mr. Kunene said, and then started working as consultants to diamond and gold mining companies, helping manage testy relations with restive local communities and navigate the shoals of government regulation in a country governed by a black majority.

>Last year, Mr. Kunene and Mr. McKenzie helped Gold Fields, a major gold producer, retain its mining rights to the South Deep mine southwest of Johannesburg, which the company describes as “one of the greatest undeveloped ore bodies in the world.”

“Mixed reactions on Gayton McKenzie’s first year as Central Karoo Mayor”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/mixed-reactions-on-gayton-mckenzies-first-year-as-central-karoo-mayor/

5 January 2023, 11:38 AM

2022 was a busy year for Patriotic Alliance leader, Gayton McKenzie, as he took over as the Mayor of the Central Karoo District Municipality.

While the South African Communist Party(SACP) has questioned McKenzie’s fundraising events, millions have reportedly gone into trust accounts of McKenzie’s lawyers and not municipal bank accounts.

“The issue is, have the proper processes been followed when the fundraiser was held.?The Municipal Financial Management Act with its regulations states that no political office bearer has the authority to raise funds and even open a trust account for those funds. The other thing is the municipality should have a primary account, where the money is deposited and not a separate bank account. So the question is… what happened in that process? Is the money raised for the municipalities?” questions the SACP’s Mawonga Furmen.

Businesses

Several new businesses which opened in Beaufort West have since also closed down. The SABC contacted the former owners, who declined to comment.

McKenzie says his detractors want to see him fail. He recently announced the construction of a nearly five-billion rand logistics hub in Beaufort West to create jobs for locals.

“It involves cars, it involves trucks and it involves planes. Part of the plan is that there’s going to be an airstrip. So the mines in the Northern Cape, North West don’t need to get their stuff from the harbours. They can bring it to the dry port. It’s going to be one of the busiest,” McKenzie elaborates.

And in spite of opposition to fracking, he fully backs gas exploration in the Karoo.

“We are going to frack. We are going to have uranium mining. We’re not going to have all that nonsense they said we couldn’t do. Where the greenies come to us and say you can’t do this, but they’re sleeping with food in their stomach,” quipped McKenzie.

McKenzie’s reign has not been without controversy. He has aligned himself with another controversial figure in the Central Karoo – the former mayor of Beaufort West, Truman Prince.

Prince was booted out of the ANC before founding the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (Icosa), he is now the provincial chairperson of the PA.

McKenzie has also formed a political alliance with Karoo Democratic Force (KDF) leader, Noel Constable, who is currently facing fraud and corruption charges.

The question remains, will McKenzie keep to his promises to the people of the Central Karoo before he leaves his post in April?

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>>18259690

>“Mpho Phalatse’s removal engineered by Patriotic Alliance”

>>18265601

>>18270759

>>18277874

>>18277894

>>18277903

“Kenny Kunene is set to become MMC for transport in JHB”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/kenny-kunene-is-set-to-become-mmc-for-transport-3-february-2023/

03-02-2023 12:36

Kenny Kunene is expected to be sworn in as a member of the mayoral committee (MMC) in the transport portfolio.

The Patriotic Alliance deputy president, Kenny Kunene, is set to become MMC for transport in Johannesburg, under the leadership of the new mayor, Thapelo Amad.

KUNENE SET TO JOIN NEW MMC

Thapelo Amad announced his mayoral committee on Thursday 2 February 2023.

Amad was elected as mayor after a vote of no confidence in Mpho Phalatse. The councillors nominated Amad during a council sitting and Phalatse refused to let go of the mayoral chain without a fight.

Kunene is expected to emerge as a member of the mayoral committee (MMC) in the transport portfolio.

“We need to work together to make our country great and it starts with local government. When one is called upon to serve, one must do so with all one’s might. Salute,” Kunene said.

AMAD YET TO ELECT HIS EXECUTIVE

Even though he has been sworn in on Monday, Amad is yet to announce his executive.

Now that Kunene is set to be a councillor, he can also be elected to the mayoral committee.

Two new councillors will be sworn in on Friday and the entire team will be sworn in as MMCs on Monday 6 February 2023.

CITY OF JOHANNESBURG LISTS ITS NEW MMCS

According to the City of Johannesburg, the new MMCs were selected after extensive consultations with other political parties, with the aim of solidifying the Government of Local Unity (GLU) partnership in the City.

Below is the list of Councillors of the City of Johannesburg appointed as MMCs:

1. Finance: Cllr. Dada Morero

2. Group Corporate and Shared Services: Cllr. Loyiso Masuku

3. Environment and Infrastructure Services: Cllr. Jack Sekwaila

4. Public Safety: Cllr. Sepetlele Raseruthe

5. Development Planning: Cllr. Eunice Mgcina

6. Economic Development: Cllr. Nomoya Daphney Mnisi

7. Housing: Cllr. Anthea Natasha Leitch

8. Community Development: Cllr. Lubabalo Magwentshu

“BNC#5: Brutally honest Magnus Heystek’s: Reasons why you MUST move your money away from South Africa”

https://youtu.be/qqybAgw47p4

3:33 – “The stats go back to 1900… The top 3 performing countries from 1900 to 1980 were the United States, Australia and South Africa… There’s no question that the JSE during that period of time with the 2 world wars, with its boom in gold, diamond, chrome, manganese, platinum was a fantastic place to be. In 1980… with R1 we could buy $1.40… One of the strongest currencies in the world. The South Africans were well traveled, they were known as the biggest spenders in Europe, in London, America. ”

Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech Part 1

Probably more can be added

Britain had De Beers manage the South African colony. >>17929958

De Beers created the segregated system which became Apartheid laws >>18035586

Oppenheimer’s businesses (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., the Anglo American Corporation, Charter Consolidated and the Mineral and Resources Corporation (Minorco)) were head quartered in London and had investments across the world influencing many governments and sold Soviet Union diamonds during the cold war. More details can be read at https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/08/magazine/oppenheimer-of-south-africa.html, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/magazine/harry-oppenheimer-s-empire-going-for-the-gold.html. Or watched at https://youtu.be/DOXp1iUvYvE [The_Diamond_Empire_Oppenheimer_family_s_cartel_Artificial_sc.avi] >>17998364

The ANC had training/assistance in the USSR [https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/the-anc-and-the-soviets], East Germany [https://www.heritage.org/africa/report/east-germany-marxist-mission-africa] and Cuba [https://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2010/01/cuba-and-south-african-anti-apartheid.html].Headquarters of the African National Congress, at 28 Penton Street N1 London, 1978 to 1994. [https://ditsong.org.za/en/2022/08/18/anc-intelligence-communication-from-london-to-lusaka-radio-freedom/]

The ANC has offices in about 40 countries, including most major capitals. But the leadership is concentrated in two countries – the United Kingdom and Zambia… We do know, however, that the SACP is pro-Soviet, semisecret party headquartered in London… A recent ANC statement specifically noted that white farmers and urban white males were considered by the ANC as part of the government’s “security forces” and were valid target for the ANC operations. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90R00961R000600050009-1.pdf [See attachment July 1986 CIA document as it seems to have been removed.]

It appears that South Africa’s demise started with PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech, timelines below.

• 15 August 1985 – South Africa’s President PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech.

• Sept. 10, 1985 – “REAGAN, IN REVERSAL, ORDERS SANCTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA; MOVE CAUSES SPLIT IN SENATE; NEW POLICY ON PRETORIA” [Oppenheimer would not have been affected by this due to their international investments] - https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/10/us/reagan-reversal-orders-sanctions-south-africa-move-causes-split-senate-new.html

• September 1985 - Mbeki's fall and the collapse of Wall Street [2008] are concurrent and related events, as they were predictable. Glimpse back to 1985 when the Johannesburg stock market crashed and the apartheid regime defaulted on its mounting debt, and the chieftains of South African capital took fright. In September that year a group led by Gavin Relly, chairman of the Anglo American Corporation, met Oliver Tambo, the ANC president, and other resistance officials in Zambia. [http://johnpilger.com/articles/south-africa-the-liberations-betrayal] Oppenheimer’s controlling interest in Argus Newspapers, South Africa’s largest newspaper group, has enabled him to shower the ANC/SACP with an incredible propaganda windfall. His Oppenheimer Fund annually pours millions of dollars into radical causes. According to South African journalist Aida Parker, Oppenheimer’s conduits have poured 320 to 350 million rand into the ANC since 1985 and have given the PAC more than 50,000 rand in the weeks leading up to the election. [https://thenewamerican.com/silk-tie-revolutionaries/]

>>18519466

Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech Part 2

• 1985 - By the time international sanctions were imposed in the mid-1980s, business was engaging regularly with the ANC and facilitating high level meetings with the NP government, and even the security and intelligence services. In particular, after PW Botha’s Rubicon speech in 1985, far more from the business side started to get involved, perhaps because they saw the writing was on the wall… An important consideration in this process was the homogeneous nature of SA business. In the 1970s and 1980s the major national companies were Anglo (the Oppenheimers); Rembrandt (the Ruperts); Liberty (the Gordons); and Anglovaal (the Menells and Hersovs). The top six companies owned over 80% of the economy in 1985. This economic clout provided considerable leverage. https://www.up.ac.za/centre-for-mediation-in-africa/news/post_2957958-expert-opinion-business-deserves-thanks-for-role-in-averting-sa-civil-war-say-experts-ahead-of-discussion-co-hosted-by-up

• 1985 - Chairmen of leading corporate groups (Sir Timothy Bevan (Barclays Bank), Lord Barber (Standard Bank), Evelyn de Rothschild (Chair of Rothschild’s), George Soros, with representatives of Shell, Courtaulds, BP and Gold Fields and (from SA) Tony Bloom (Premier Group) and Chris Ball (Barclays), invited by Anthony Sampson to lunch at the Connaught Rooms, London, to meet with Oliver Tambo, in London. (Anthony Sampson, The Anatomist, p. 228). [https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/chronology-meetings-between-south-africans-and-anc-exile-1983-2000-michael-savage]

• From 1976 to 1984 there was a steady growth in armed attacks, with about 265 incidents recorded. These included assassinations and attacks on police stations. "MK [ANC military wing] activity peaked between 1985 and 1988. The number of incidents increased from 44 in 1984 to 136 in 1985 and 228 in 1986," says the report. https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv02918/06lv02938.htm

• 11 June 1988 – Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium, London, to garner support for the release of Mandela, [https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc]. 600 million people watched it across the world.

• 18 January 1989 - “On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/president-pw-botha-suffers-stroke

• “In February 1989, de Klerk was elected leader of the National Party and in September 1989 he was elected State President.” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1993/klerk/biographical/

• 10 February 1990 - Mandela and the ANC never renounced violence [https://youtu.be/Z_yyZvfSvnk (31 January 1985)] however F.W. de Klerk announces that Mandela would be released from prison the following day. “10 Feb 1990 – “FW de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela” at https://youtu.be/8DdNV6nbByM

• 1990 – Namibia got its ‘independence’ on 21st of March and US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Chester Crocker, became Director of Minorco that year. >>17918524

>>18519466

>It appears that South Africa’s demise started with PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech

>>18519471

PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 1

“The Rubicon speech was delivered by South African President P. W. Botha on the evening of 15 August 1985 in Durban. The world was expecting Botha to announce major reforms in his government, including abolishing the apartheid system and the release of Nelson Mandela.[1] However, the speech Botha actually delivered at the time did none of this. The speech is known as the 'Rubicon speech' because in its second-last paragraph Botha used the phrase, "I believe that we are today crossing the Rubicon. There can be no turning back."” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_speech

It is interesting that I cannot find a video of his speech on the web but at least found this transcript.

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

Below are excerpts

However, I also receive advice from some whose intentions are to help me from the wall into the ditch. To such people I want to say – I grew up on a farm and I know a skunk by its smell. If you won't accept the advice of these people I'm talking about right now, they burden you and your country. [English translation]

The great Langenhoven rightly said: "appreciate, O slandered, the tribute of your slanderer. He admits that you're defamatory worthy — while he isn't". In these words of Langenhoven a great truth set in stone. [English translation]

Most of the media in South Africa [mostly owned by the Oppenheimers] have already informed you on what I was going to say tonight, or what I ought to say, according to their superior judgement.

During recent weeks there was an unparalleled scurry from different sources, within and outside South Africa, to predict and prescribe what is to be announced at the Congress. It eas also envisaged that worldwide, people are going to be dissatisfied if certain things are not announced as were predicted.

It is of course a well-known tactic in negotiations to limit the other person’s freedom of movement about possible decisions, thus forcing him in a direction where his options are increasingly restricted.

It is called the force of rising expectations.

Firstly, an expectation is raised that a particular announcement is to be made. Then an expectation is raised about what the content of the announcement should be. The tactic has 2 objectives.

Firstly, the target is set so high that, even if an announcement is made, it is almost impossible to fulful the propagated expectations. Secondly, it is also an attempt to force the one party into negotiations to make the expected decision. If this is not done, public opinion is already conditioned to such an extent that the result is wide-spread dissatisfaction. If you want to read about this tactics, read the “Nicaragua Betrayed” and then you will see the history of some these gentlemen repeated in South Africa.

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 2

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

This is what has been happening over recent weeks. I find it unacceptable to be confronted in this manner with an accomplished fact. That is not my way of doing and the sooner these gentlemen accept it, the better.

But the perceptions of many overseas observers bear little relationship to the realities of the situation.

People are flocking to South Africa tonight, from neighbouring countries because they are looking for work and health services. Only last week I was in the north of our country and there I had the experience that people were locking from Mozambique into South Africa in their tens of thousands. How do you explain that? Do people flee to hell?

The Republic of South Africa still remains the leading country in the sub-continent of Southern Africa… For example, at present 90% of the exports of Southern Africa takes place through the transport systems of the Republic of South Africa.

We have such a vast task ahead of us and such great challenges to create a better future, that we can ill afford the irresponsibilities and destructive actions of barbaric Communist agitators and even murderers who perpetrate the most cruel deeds against fellow South Africans, because they are on the payroll of the their masters far from this lovely land of ours.

The underdeveloped part of the economy is mainly that of different non-White communities. There are historic reasons for this, just as there are historic reasons for the plight of Africa in general. Instead of the Whites paternalistically trying to do everything for the Blacks, they must rather be allowed to help themselves – in the informal as wella s the formal sector of the economy.

When I met with President Machel some time ago on the border of South Africa and Mozambique, I told him he must not expect from South Africa the same policy which destroyed Africa under the leadership of the West and Russia. I told him that we are not coming with aid programme, but we want co-operation and he interrupted immediately and said: “Africa is tired of aid, provide us with co-operation, and help us to help ourselves.” [Is this the reason why he died in a plane crash 19 October 1986?] Consequently, I shall go out of my way to see to it that more substantial funds are made available to the Small Business Development Corporation.

Secondly, I refer to the problem of housing, caused mainly by our population explosion in South Africa, as elsewhere in Africa.

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 3

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

It is a fallacious belief that the Government must do everything for all. We must help the people to help themselves, to build an upgrade their homes through their own efforts. We have decided that land should be made available where possible and site services supplied. We have already accepted the principle of ownership rights for Blacks in the urban areas outside the National States. Just as important is the principle of ownership rights to people in the National States.

We believe in the same Almighty God and the redeeming grace of His Son, Jesus Christ.

And I know what I am talking about, because only a few months ago I stood before an audience of 3 million Black people, proving the truth of what I am saying now. I don’t know whether one of our critics ever saw 3 million people together in a meeting. I did.

We believe our great wealth of divergent population groups must speak to each other through their elected leaders, not self appointed leaders.

We know that it is the hard fact of South African life, that it will not be possible to accommodate the political aspirations of our varous population groups and communities in a known defined political system. We will have to find our own unique system, because our problems are unique.

I firmly believe that the granting and acceptance of independence by various Black peoples within the context of their won statehood, represent a material part of the solution. I believe in democratic neighbours, not neighbours that call out elections and then stop them in their mysterious ways.

I would, however, like to restate my Government’s position in this regard, namely that independence cannot be forced upon any community. Should any of the Black National States therefore prefer not to accept independence, such states or communities will remain a part of the South Africa nation, are South African citizens and should be accommodated within political institutions within the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa.

But I know for a fact that most leaders in their own right in South Africa and reasonable South Africans will not accept the principle of one-man-one-vote in a unitary system. That would lead to domination of one over the other an dit would lead to chaos. Consequently, I reject it as a solution.

We must rather seek our solutions in the devolution of power and in participation on common issues.

I am not prepared to lead White South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide.

Destroy White South Africa and our influence, and this country will drift into faction strife, chaos and poverty.

Together with my policy statements earlier this year in parliament, I see this speech of mine as my Manifesto for a new South Africa.

In my policy statements in January and June of this year, I indicated that there would be further developments with regard to the rights and interests of the various populations groups in Southern Africa.

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 4

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

Since then we have had to contend with escalating violence within South Africa, and pressure from abroad in the form of measures designed to coerce the Government into giving in to various demands.

Our enemies, both within and without – seek to divide our peoples. They seek to creat unbridgeable differences between to us to prevent us from negotiating peaceful solutions to our problems. Peaceful negotiation is their enemy. Peaceful negotiation is their enemy, because it will lead to joint responsibility for the progress and prosperity of South Africa. Those whose methods are violent, do not want to participate. They wish to seize and monopolize all power. Let there be no doubt about what they would do with such power.

One has only to look at their methods and means. Violent and burtal means can only lead to totalitarian and tyrannical ends.

Their actions speak louder than their words. Their words offer ready panaceas such as one-man-one-vote, freedom and justice for all. Their actions leave no doubt that the freedoms that we already have – together with the ongoing extension of democracy in South Africa – are the true targest of their violence. Is this type of Government really such a wonderful example that they wish to have? Why do they nor organize the investors of the Western world to invest in Lesotho and Mozambique? Why do I have to appeal to people to invest in Mozambique?

I have a specific question I would like to put to the media in South Africa: How do they explain the fact that they are always present, with cameras et cetera, at places where violences takes place? Are there people from the revolutionaty elements who inform them to be ready? Or are there perhaps respresentatives of the reactionary groups in the ranks of certain media? [Like when AWB members were gunned down infront of an entourage of media personnel in Bophuthatswana a month before the 1994 elections, https://youtu.be/FC7UyAN-jrY embedded (Was it a suicide?), or like the necklacing incident at 16:28, https://youtu.be/dZIZ9gVEpNI]

My question to you is this: Whose interests do you serve – those of South Africa or those of the revolutionary elements? South Africa must know, our life is at stake.

I stated in Parliament, when put this question, that if Mr Mandela give a commitment that he will not make himself guilty of planning, instigating or committing acts of violence for the furtherance of political objectives, I will, in principle, be prepared to consider his release.

But let me remind the public of the reasons why Mr Mandela is in jail. I think it is absolutely necessary that we deal with that first of all. When he was brought before court in the sixties, the then Attorney-General, Dr Yutar, set out the State’s case inter alia as follows:

“As the indictment alleges, the accused deliberately and maliciously plotted and engineered the commission of acts of violence and destruction throughout the country…

The planned purpose thereof was to bring about in the Republic of South Africa chaos, disorder and turmoil…

They (Mr Mandela and his friends) planned violent insurrection and rebellion.”

The saboteurs had planned the manufacture of at least seven types of bombs: 48 000 anti-personnel mines, 210 000 hand grenades, petrol bombs, pipe bombs, syringe bombs and bottle bombs.

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>like the necklacing incident at 16:28, https://youtu.be/dZIZ9gVEpNI

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PW Botha’s 15 August 1985 Rubicon Speech – Part 5

https://ia902806.us.archive.org/1/items/pw_botha_rubicon_toespraak_august_1985/pw_botha_rubicon_speech_august_1985.pdf

A document was produced during the Court case in Mandela’s own handwriting in which he stated:

“We Communist Party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history… The enemy must be completely crushed and wiped out from the face of the earth before a Communist world can be realized.”

In passing sentence at the time, the Judge, Mr Justice De Wet, remarked:

“The crime of which the accused have been convicted that is the main crime, the crime of conspiracy, is in essence one of high treason. The State has decided not to charge the crime in this form.

“Bearing this in mind and giving the matter very serious consideration, I have decided not to impose the supreme penalty [death penalty] which in a case like this would usually be the proper penalty for the crime.”

We have never given in to outside demands and we are not going to do so now. South Africa’s problems will be solved by South Africans and not by foreigners.

We are not going to be deterred from doing what we think best, nor will we be forced into doing what we don’t want to do. The tragedy is that hostile pressure and agitation from abroad have acted as an encouragement to the militant revolutionaries in the South Africa to continue with their violence and intimidation. They have derived comfort and succour from this pressure.

We prefer to resolve our problems by peaceful means: then we can build, then we can develop, then we can train people, then we can uplift people, then we can make this country of ours a better place to live in. By violence and by vurning down schools and houses and murdering innocent people, you don’t build a country, you destroy it.

Despite the disturbances, despite the intimidation, there is more than enough goodwill among Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Asians to ensure that we shall jointly find solutions acceptable to us.

But I say it is going to take time. Revolutionaries have no respect for time, because they have no self-respect. Look what they have done to Africa, a continent that is dying at present. I can tell you, because I know what is happening in many of these countries. I have the facts and I am not going to hand South Africa over to these revolutionaries to do the same to this lovely country.

I am encouraged by the growing number of Black leaders who are coming forward to denounce violence. Any reduction of violence will be matched by action on the part of the Government to lift the State of Emergency and restore normality in the areas concerned.

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>1985 - Chairmen of leading corporate groups (Sir Timothy Bevan (Barclays Bank), Lord Barber (Standard Bank), Evelyn de Rothschild (Chair of Rothschild’s), George Soros, with representatives of Shell, Courtaulds, BP and Gold Fields and (from SA) Tony Bloom (Premier Group) and Chris Ball (Barclays), invited by Anthony Sampson to lunch at the Connaught Rooms, London, to meet with Oliver Tambo, in London.

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This can be included for 1985. Its was unusual that an American oil installation was targeted starting at 5:44, du Toit’s capture was a setup from 8:19, paraded infront of the international press 34:41, Jesse Jackson visited him for his campaign to become US President 36:25 and PW Botha was mad that this operation was implemented 1:13:40.

“Ex-Special Forces Recce and POW, Wynand du Toit, reflects on Operation Argon”

https://youtu.be/Ad6Xt-m9dhg

In May 1985 Captain Wynand du Toit was leading a team of 4 Recce commandos, South Africa's elite naval Special Forces, to destroy a Cabinda oil refinery hundreds of kilometres behind enemy lines. They were compromised however; two men were killed and du Toit was captured, and spent the next 2.5 years in solitary confinement as a prisoner of the Angolan and Cuban forces.

1:04:19 – “So you’ve given the quintessential hero’s welcome I suppose. Did you feel like a hero?… No, I couldn’t understand what was happening that was a difficult thing for me because all the previous guys that was captured, was flown back to South Africa or pushed across the border. One guy was exchanged in Germany for a Russian but not a lot of press coverage. Just sort of reporting that the guys are back and here I come in and they make this very very large propaganda thing out of it.”

1:07:00 – “It was while I was farming in the Congo that I was invited to attend the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Brazzaville Protocol [13 December 1988]… I only find out that there exist something like the Brazzaville Protocol in 2014. The Brazzaville Protocal was not advocated in South Africa, the people was not informed about it. The Brazzaville Protocol was where the end of the war was decided. How they was going to end the war. That was the initial planning phases for how they are going to do it – end of the war, the withdrawal of the Cubans, the withdrawal of the South Africans, independence of Namibia which was preconditioned for the release of Nelson Mandela. If you look at the “Plot for Peace [Coup]” which was premiered on the [25th anniversary] celebration day of the signing, you can see how they’ve gone through the planning phases and the whole process ended only stopped after Nelson Mandela was released… That’s when everything sort of all the missing pieces of the puzzle started falling into place. That’s when I realized that our argon operation in Cabinda was a setup to create a platform, a vehicle for the negotiations… They wanted prisoners to be taken… It sounds as if I was part of “Plot for Peace”, I was part of this whole process and I didn’t even know it. I received the National Order of Merit of the Congo on that evening of the 25th anniversary of the Brazzaville Protocol from the President of the Congo. The little role I played in the release of Nelson Mandela and I was only a prisoner… This was a planned operation.”

1:11:53 – “The problem with South Africa was that the process was being pushed right. It wasn’t necessary at that stage to do it. Contrary to the now very popular belief, we never fought the war against the ANC or the UMkhonto we Sizwe. They were never in the trenches in Angola… They were trained there they never fought, they refused to fight. We should have fought the ANC, then we would have had a better position in South Africa today. I wouldn’t say that we couldn’t continue as it was. We could have continued another 10-15 years easily but the politics played it out that the time is right that it must be done… We won the battles but we lost the overall war form the military perspective because eventually politics lost the war for us. ”

1:18:25 – “I’m saying that this operation was to lead the people of South Africa to the slaughter house.”

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>“It was while I was farming in the Congo that I was invited to attend the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Brazzaville Protocol [13 December 1988]… I only find out that there exist something like the Brazzaville Protocol in 2014. The Brazzaville Protocal was not advocated in South Africa, the people was not informed about it. The Brazzaville Protocol was where the end of the war was decided. How they was going to end the war. That was the initial planning phases for how they are going to do it – end of the war, the withdrawal of the Cubans, the withdrawal of the South Africans, independence of Namibia which was preconditioned for the release of Nelson Mandela. If you look at the “Plot for Peace [Coup]” which was premiered on the [25th anniversary] celebration day of the signing, you can see how they’ve gone through the planning phases and the whole process ended only stopped after Nelson Mandela was released… That’s when everything sort of all the missing pieces of the puzzle started falling into place. That’s when I realized that our argon operation in Cabinda was a setup to create a platform, a vehicle for the negotiations… They wanted prisoners to be taken… It sounds as if I was part of “Plot for Peace”, I was part of this whole process and I didn’t even know it. I received the National Order of Merit of the Congo on that evening of the 25th anniversary of the Brazzaville Protocol from the President of the Congo. The little role I played in the release of Nelson Mandela and I was only a prisoner… This was a planned operation.”

“Plot For Peace [Coup] Official Trailer”

https://youtu.be/kvUVMZApJkw

THE UNTOLD STORY BEHIND HISTORY, A WELL-KEPT SECRET BEHIND THE WORLD-WIDE ICON: NELSON MANDELA'S RELEASE WAS A PLOT FOR PEACE. FOR THE FIRST TIME, HEADS OF STATE, GENERALS, DIPLOMATS, MASTER SPIES AND ANTI-APARTHEID FIGHTERS REVEAL HOW AFRICA'S FRONT LINE STATES HELPED END APARTHEID. THE IMPROBABLE KEY TO MANDELA'S PRISON CELL WAS A MYSTERIOUS FRENCH BUSINESSMAN, DUBBED "MONSIEUR JACQUES" IN CLASSIFIED CORRESPONDENCE. HIS TRADE SECRET WAS TRUST.

““The blood we sacrificed was worth it” - Sharpeville Massacre”

https://southafrica.un.org/en/135812-%E2%80%9C-blood-we-sacrificed-was-worth-it%E2%80%9D-sharpeville-massacre

17 July 2021

Selinah Mnguni was 23 years old and already three months pregnant when she was injured in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960.

The moral outrage surrounding these events led the United Nations General Assembly to pronounce 21 March as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which recognized racism as a gross human rights violation.

The events also prompted the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination which took effect on 4 January 1969. This affirmed that the elimination of racial discrimination was a global challenge that affronted the respect and dignity of all human beings.

This year, UN and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) joined South Africans in commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre, using the flagship campaign #FightRacism to promote awareness of these critical issues.

“Youth standing up against racism” was the 2021 theme, aimed at fostering a global culture of tolerance, equality and non-discrimination that calls on each one of us to stand up against racial prejudice and intolerant attitudes.

The OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa also produced a series of digital stories on the Sharpeville massacre and young people’s concerns about their human rights. It also contributed the headline story at the Anti-Racism Live Global Digital Experience that marked March 21 internationally with acclaimed artists, actors and prominent speakers from South Africa including Thuli Madonsela, Zulaikha Patel and Zwai Bala.

OHCHR’s regional representative Abigail Noko used the opportunity to call on all decision-makers to give youth a seat at the decision-making table.

“We need the voices of young people to break through the silence that locks in discrimination and oppression. We must listen to them, learn from them, and work with them to build a better future.”

Perseverance and determination are also needed to build on the lessons learned from the Sharpeville tragedy and repair the injustices of the past. A robust human rights framework is the only way to provide a remedy for those injustices, tackle inequality and underlying structural differences, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now aged 84, Selinah says she is still proud of her efforts to end apartheid. “Knowing the democracy we have today was achieved in part because of the blood we sacrificed was worth it,” she says.

“How the 1960 Sharpeville massacre sparked the birth of international human rights law” - https://theconversation.com/how-the-1960-sharpeville-massacre-sparked-the-birth-of-international-human-rights-law-133325

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“Sharpeville massacre: A turning point in the anti-apartheid struggle” - April 1, 1960 Article

https://www.workers.org/2021/03/55165/

March 19, 2021

The following article first appeared on the front page of the April 1, 1960, issue of Workers World. The original headline was “South African revolution has begun! General strike wins first victory! The mass murder of Africans was a boomerang; South African dictatorship faces abyss!” The article was written by V. Grey, aka Vince Copeland, a founding member of Workers World Party.

“Mass murder” was a reference to the infamous Sharpeville massacre of people protesting the pass law system on March 21, 1960, near a police station in the Black township of Sharpeville. The majority of those killed in the massacre were shot in the back while trying to flee the police terror.

By Vince Copeland

The world imperialist press has not admitted it yet. But the South Africa Revolution has already begun. The destruction of the oppressive pass law system after 153 years (although announced as a temporary concession) is a monumental victory from which the African people will not retreat. The revolution is surging ahead.

Under the pass system, hundreds and even thousands of Africans were rounded up at a time to do hard labor on Europeans’ plantations for any “irregularity” with their passes. (The Europeans have private prisons on their land where they obligingly keep the pass violators, while they exploit them unmercifully without pay.)

The great demonstration of March 21 wherein 72 Africans were admitted to have been killed by police has shaken the most hated, dictatorial, Jim Crow government in the world.

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

Vincent Copeland (June 19, 1915 – June 7, 1993) was an American actor, labor official, writer, and political activist. A communist, Copeland was an actor during the 1930s but soon turned to political activism. Turning to industrial labor, Copeland was a welder, grievance officer, and editor of his unions' newspaper at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, New York. He "opposed the company's practice of denying black furnace workers better jobs by hiring outsiders to fill them"[1] and 16,000 workers walked off the job in a wildcat strike. Copeland, however, was not rehired.

A member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Copeland, Sam Marcy and others formed a faction which eventually left the party in 1958. A year later, Copeland became a founding member of Workers World Party (WWP). He was the founding editor of the party's newspaper, the eponymously named Workers World.[1]

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>We will have to find our own unique system, because our problems are unique.

To understand why the police reacted the way they did at Sharpeville when a mass of people marched to the police station, one should look at what happened at Cato Manor a few months prior which was fresh in their minds.

“1960-01-24: MASSACRE OF [BLACK AND WHITE] POLICE AT CATO MANOR: A SUBJECTIVE VIEW”, few months prior to the Sharpeville Massacre [21 March 1960] – Part 1

https://www.samirror.com/cato-manor-massacre.html

Below is portion of the official police version, vide SAPS Museum File 667-29/2/1B- 6/14-1

Since late 1959 rumours were afoot that the residents of Cato Manor were to be moved to Kwa Mashu. This led to dissatisfaction amongst the residents and on two occasions large crowds of people marched to Durban’s City Centre to demonstrate against the proposed move. The tension caused by poverty, the fear of resettlement as well as the official harassment which had lain behind the previous year’s unrest in Cato Manor would play an underlying part in the cold-blooded murder of nine policemen early the following year.

On Sunday, 24 January, a police unit which consisted of 7 white and 17 Zulu policemen went on a liquor raid which initially proceeded without any incidents. Later in the afternoon, 18 members of the unit patrolled th area on foot and move in the direction of Shumville.

While searching a shebeen, Constable Msomi accidentally stepped on a woman’s foot. She screamed and demanded an apology. Constables Joubert and Biyela, who were also present immediately apologized on his behalf. The woman, however, was still yelling in spite of the apology. When the small group of policemen left her yard, she followed them into the street and threw a bottle at them. She allegedly shouted that the policemen whould be beaten up and killed. Her yelling attracted the attention of other people, who began surrounding the policemen and pelting them with stone.

The policemen were forced to seek cover in two adjacent huts. At that stage a crowd of about 800 people had assembled. Some of them were armed with sticks, rocks and pangas. They broke the doors and windows of the two huts with rocks and iron bars and the cornered policemen were again pelted with stones. Constable Bekokwake Shandu, however, snatched up the door, hurled it at the attackers and managed to escape. Although he was seriously injured he succeeded in contacting his colleagues at the police van for help. However, the attack was so fierce that the van was forced to turn back and police reinforcements had to be summoned by radio.

When reinforcements arrived and entered the township, they found the bodies of the nine young policemen who had been stoned and hacked to death. Reporters who went in after the killings described the scene as being “like an abattoir”. Nine constables managed to escape with their lives, although some sustained serious inuries.

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“1960-01-24: MASSACRE OF [BLACK AND WHITE] POLICE AT CATO MANOR: A SUBJECTIVE VIEW”, few months prior to the Sharpeville Massacre [21 March 1960] – Part 2

https://www.samirror.com/cato-manor-massacre.html

The emotional and political power of this news photo transcended the dust and the reality of the day. Daily News photographer Laurie Bloomfield received co-operation from the SA Police who wanted the incident recorded to show how police – hugely outnumbered – could baton charge without resorting to firearms. Instead the picture became, for nearly half a century, the international symbol of oppression.

A Twist of Irony

In years to come (post 1960) this photograph became world famous photograph; an icon portraying “police suppression” and a “police state” in Apartheid South Africa.

Harvey Tyson writes: “Cato Manor was the key to the problem. It lay out of view of Durban and not easily noticed from the university on the hill dividing the bay from the over¬crowded valley. Cato Manor, hidden and neglected, was notorious for its squalor and its inflammability.”

Just more than a decade after the first Cato Manor riots[11] a policeman, part of a police raiding party, stepped on a woman's toe while searching a shebeen. He should not have done that, as it served as a catalyst for a new riot on that Sunday-afternoon. Among the same crowded Cato Manor shanties, police made arrests for illicit possession of liquor, and on 24 January 1960 the umpteenth riot broke out. This riot shocked South Africa! Nine policemen were dead! The Daily News reported that a black[12] police sergeant and four very young white constables and four black constables were murdered:

“The public - and the press - yearn to know 'the cause' of every major tragedy. 'The cause' is most often a minor incident; a trigger in fact. The real cause of trouble in Cato Manor included all the worst aspects of apartheid: unresolved tensions arising out of poverty; insecurity of tenure; official harassment. More than 125 000 people lived in the 4 500-acre shantytown. The land was owned by Indians, and their Zulu tenants sub-let to sub-tenants who built shelters out of anything they could lay their hands on. Many women in Cato Manor survived by brewing beer illicitly. They and their families, who had traditionally always brewed beer at home, tried to bum down the official beer halls. The police in turn tried to destroy the illegal shebeens”[14] writes Tyson.

Women led the defiance and, as the political historian Tom Lodge reports, 'in some instances anger was effectively mixed with ribaldry and sexual assertion'? He quotes researchers as saying:

'These women were very powerful. Some came half-dressed with their breasts exposed, and when they got near this place the Blackjacks (municipal police) tried to block the women. But when they saw this, the women turned and pulled up their skirts. The police closed their eyes and the women passed by and went in … and they took off their panties and filled them with beer… [15]

It was the women who led the rioting in Cato Manor in January 1960. One of the world's most famous photographs symbolising oppression was taken during those riots by Daily News photographer Laurie Bloomfield. He was standing on a hillside in the light of the setting sun as a thin line of policemen, afraid but angry at the slaughter of their colleagues, advanced on a crowd. Consisting mainly of women, the crowd had created a penumbra of dust as they danced and ululated, as generations of Zulu women before them had done to encourage their men in battle.

The police commander said: 'We’ll issue a third and final warning to disperse, then if nothing happens we’ll count down from 30 and then make the charge, so be ready with that camera. Then the police, black and white, started to run at the crowd. They cracked five or six heads, but mainly whacked the fleeing women on the buttocks, and the whole crowd turned and ran. There was very little violence … until after dark.

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>Oppenheimer’s controlling interest in Argus Newspapers, South Africa’s largest newspaper group, has enabled him to shower the ANC/SACP with an incredible propaganda windfall. His Oppenheimer Fund annually pours millions of dollars into radical causes.

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“1960-01-24: MASSACRE OF [BLACK AND WHITE] POLICE AT CATO MANOR: A SUBJECTIVE VIEW”, few months prior to the Sharpeville Massacre [21 March 1960] – Part 3

https://www.samirror.com/cato-manor-massacre.html

The particular photograph appeared on the front page of every Argus newspaper and almost every other newspaper on earth which had access to Associated Press but with one exception: Bloomfield's own paper, the Daily News.[18]

Acting as editor of the Daily News, in the absence of JSM Simpson, René de Villiers, however decided not to print the dramatic picture in the Daily News. René de Villiers felt it was too emotionally explosive to publish the dramatic picture in the heat of a riot. His staff was astounded.

Later I was employed on the “Communist Desk” at Security Branch, Head Office in Pretoria and I can confirm that the same iconic photograph was used over and over to our disadvantage. I must confess it was an excellent shot and it did much to tarnish the image of the South African Police. Tyson remarks: “The Communist Party, from Britain to Bolivia, from Moscow to Mexico, used Bloomfield's picture as a poster and almost as a logo (without acknowledgement or payment, of course).”

As far as political warfare went we were novices. At that stage we did not have a public relations division or “Stratkom” or “Psy-Ops”. We had to wait at least another decade for a public relations division and two decades before we used “Stratkom”.

On the other hand Cato Manor was a tough place – the Zulu were, like the Afrikaner, good fighters. Actually we were much more the same, than we differed.

I think our inspectorate should have done an internal enquiry into disasters like Bergville, Cato Manor and Sharpeville.

It is no easy task; no amount of academic knowledge helps you, its experience that counts when you are confronted by a dangerous hostile mob! Sometimes you are in a “catch-22” situation. You are damned if you do and dead if you don’t!

You must know how to read the crowd like a book! Usually the best sounding board is one of your elderly traditional African policemen who know the chants and the songs! Who reads their body language like an open book! Never show fear! You must stand fast before such a crowd. I have found that humour can defuse a situation, but then we are not clowns but enforcers.

The two fiercest groups of fighters I have experienced are mineworkers fighting their faction fights on the Free State gold mines and the Zulu’s. The Zulu’s are the worst and the fiercest fighters and they sometimes love the fighting! (A Zulu police lawyer once said to me in Ulundi: “You know what we have in common with the British? We love a good fight!”)

With the Zulu their womenfolk are nearby, ululating, dancing with swaying breasts and buttocks giving rise to high testosterone levels amongst the attackers.

During 1966 I reformed “special duties” for a period of time in Umlazi. I was the only “white” at the station. I had to work from 6pm until 2 am with a group of African policemen. When we came to a section called “Mplankweni” – the place of Plank Houses – the African Constables said to me: “Be careful here – these people were moved from Cato Manor and they live in plank houses hastily erected to accommodate them. They can be dangerous!” So one has to take note and be careful and vigilant.

Reading through my old school’s anniversary edition, 1953 – 1978, I came across the Afrikaner’s struggle for Afrikaans schools in Durban. That is a subject for another day but found it ironic that a decade and a half later – 1976 - we imported and forced Afrikaans into Soweto Schools, like the British did with us after the Anglo-Boer War. In 1976 this fact exploded in our faces and once again the “poor” police bore the brunt of the people’s anger! The Soweto Riots gave such an impetus to the struggle and the revolutionary war that the SACP-ANC Alliance could hardly believe their luck! This action was planned by clever Afrikaner people but it just proves that nobody learns from history!

Book: “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY”

https://www.samirror.com/the-other-side-of-the-story.html

Maj-Gen HD Stadler

assisted by various other retired members of the South African Police

Edited by Maj-Gen HD Stadler

DEDICATION

This work is dedicated to the men and woman of the South African Police, who during the conflict of the past served their country and its people with honour and distinction, especially those who were called upon to pay the highest toll.

NOTE:

This book was compiled at the request of the “Foundation for Equality Before the Law” for the purpose of giving the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a perspective into the abnormal situation with which the South African Police were faced. It is not a detailed account of each and every incident as it occurred over the years, but rather an overview of the strategies and tactics, which gave rise to the warlike situation with which the authorities had to cope with. People should read it and then remember that there is always more than one version to an issue i.e. “mine”, “yours” and the “truth”. For those who are interested – the references as set out make interesting reading material.

[Back cover]

“Guerillas”, “Freedom Fighters” or “Terrorists”?

Irrespective what those responsible for the atrocities in South Africa were called; in the final analysis it was the reality of a warlike situation which dictated the counter measures to be taken.

The South African Police as the main law enforcement agency had the task maintaining LAW AND ORDER in an atmosphere, where the opposing sides only paid lip service to the international accepted protocols and conventions. Queensbury rules had been thrown over board and nobody knew where the next mine, grenade, bomb or bullets would be delivered.

Then came the new South Africa and with it the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The attackers became the heroes and those who’s duty it was to SERVE and PROTECT the villains.

It is against this background that the author, who is known for his expertise and objective endeavours, in a concise manner, to put into perspective the other side of the story.

The purpose Is not to justify either the means or the ends, but rather for the thinking people in society to judge for themselves.

>>18668625

> Jacques Pauw Bun

“The Conflict of the Past” – Jacques Pauw (Part 1)

https://www.samirror.com/conflict-of-the-past.html

It is striking that, while persons like Mr Jacques Pauw and other like-minded people insist vehemently at every opportunity that former members of the Security Branch must be prosecuted, they make no mention of cases like that of Mr Letlapa Mphahlele and the NEC of the ANC.

In the Rapport of 10 January 2010, Jacques Pauw insisted, inter alia, that Gen Engelbrecht be brought to trial. It is not clear whether this stems from malice or from an inability to grasp the evidence given during the criminal and amnesty hearings.

There isn't a shred of evidence on which Gen Engelbrecht can be prosecuted and we challenge Mr Pauw to demonstrate on what grounds he believes Gen Engelbrecht could be charged.

In a letter to Rapport on 10 January 2010 Mr Koos van der Merwe, well known member of Parliament and one of the few remaining political leaders of the old dispensation who has the courage of his convictions and who has the backbone to state his case in public, said as follows:

[English Translation]

The Editor

Rapport

By email: rapport@rapport.co.za

Dear Editorial Board

Following Jacques Pauw's open letter to President Zuma in Rapport of 10th instant, I hereby also write an open letter to the president. Mr Pauw is emotionally advocating for President Zuma to "bring to book every one of the policemen who had murdered". Mr Pauw has put the case against the police and I want to help to make a case against the ANC murderers. Audi alteram partem. I am not responding to the Eugene de Kok saga and agree with Rapport's opinion on the matter.

Dear President Zuma

I accept that you have taken note of Mr Jacques Pauw's appeal to you in Rapport of 10th instant to keep your word by "bringing to book every one of the policemen who murdered". You would have made this promise to him in Harare in February 1990.

Should you heed Mr Pauw's call and order that prosecutions be instituted against the police of the old South Africa, is the question of whether you will then "bring to book" all the ANC members who committed murder and other atrocities. Mr Pauw is evidently not bothered with the murders and atrocities committed by the ANC.

If, then, after 16 years, we still do not want to close the chapter on our apartheid past, then surely in all fairness you cannot simply prosecute one side and let the other get away with murder. Please allow me the opportunity to briefly give details of ANC murders and atrocities, which are currently still unpunished.

Amnesty International (See Amnesty International 2 December 1992: All Index: AFR 53/27/92) brought out a 24 page damning report against the ANC in 1992 and found among other things –

“For a dozen years or more, prisoners of the ANC were subjected to torture, ill-treatment and executions. These abuses took place at military and prison camps run by the ANC in several African countries, notably Angola, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda…”

According to Amnesty, the victims were mainly members of MK. The ANC's explanation of the atrocities is that they were agents of the South African government. The truth is that many of them were indeed bona fide MK members who simply complained about conditions and raised questions about ANC policy. "In either case," Amnesty finds, "torture and execution of prisoners cannot be justified”.

>>18678766

“The Conflict of the Past” – Jacques Pauw (Part 2)

https://www.samirror.com/conflict-of-the-past.html

Amnesty described the horrible conditions of the ANC detainees in the ANC camps. Detainees could wash themselves and their clothes only once in a number of weeks. Only one drum of water was used and was sent on from cell to cell so most cells got a drum of "water" that was thick with the dirt. There was no chance to wash blankets, which were soon contaminated with lice. Some detainees complained that they were given only one cup of drinking water a day. Diseases, such as malaria and stomach fever, broke out and there was no physician available and first aid staff were generally unsympathetic and even assaulted detainees. Torture and brutal assaults were common.

Mr. Pauw mentioned a number of examples, I do the same:

• MK members detained in Angola rebelled several times. In 1984, an uprising in the Pango camp was suppressed; the insurgents were tied to trees; assaulted; beaten and molten plastic was dripped onto their naked bodies. Seven were charged and tried by an ANC security team; without legal representation; was convicted and shot dead.

• In Nova Instalacao camp, detainees were held in dark, damp cells without blankets or mattresses and had to sleep on concrete floors. Toilets were blocked and urine and feces flowed into the cells. Food was extremely scarce, diseases plentiful, and medical attention unobtainable. Selby Msimang and Ben Thibane died.

• In particular, torture also took place in the Revolutionary Council building in Lusaka with clubs, wire, garden hoses, barbed wire, steel pipes, bicycle chains, lips were burned with burning cigarettes, Testicles were pinched with pliers and electric shocks were applied. Sometimes soles were beaten and some were kept in water-filled cells. Some prisoners were forced to sit on red ant nests.

• Thabo Twala was beaten to death in "Sun City" camp in Lusaka in March 1990.

• Senior MK commander Thami Zulu died in November 1989 after being held for 14 months.

• Mzwai Piliso, ‘n ANC-sekuriteitshoof, het erken dat gevangenes aangerand en op die voetsole geslaan is.

• Amnesty's report contains full details of the ANC atrocities.

There is also the book MBOKODO by Mwezi Twala and Ed Benard, published in 1994. Twala himself was detained in ANC camps and told of his inhumane experiences.

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

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

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

Dear President, then there is the submission that Mr FW de Klerk made to the TRC in 1996 in which he said, among other things, that 505 people were cruelly murdered by the so-called necklacing method.

I respectfully submit, Mr. President, that if you were to decide to follow Mr. Pauw's advice, you would then have all those who have transgressed prosecuted. Also the ANC culprits.

You see, no one has ever been prosecuted for the murders and atrocities in the ANC camps. Nor has anyone ever been prosecuted for the indescribably horrible necklace murders.

Finally, Mr President, unlike Mr Pauw, I urge you to close the book on the past. Instead, let's give the item "reconciliation" the place of honor at the very top of our business list.

Sincerely,

JH VAN DER MERWE LP

rapportpauw100110

>>18678766

>Audi alteram partem

“The audi alteram partem rule”

https://www.samirror.com/audi-alteram-partem-rule.html

The audi alteram partem rule, which is the foundation of natural justice, has never been applied to members of the Security Branch. This rule has been replaced by the rule: “The Law is determined by those who make the loudest noise and who talk and write the most and fill the empty spaces in, especially Afrikaans, newspapers” – and they are, without exception, those who for some or other reason have a grudge against the former Security Branch - people like messers Max du Preez, Jazques Pauw and other like-minded people who, in the past, leaned towards the ANC.

The time has come when the people of South Africa must take note of what really happened in the past and that past events be viewed with more emapthy and understanding for the sacrifices made by members of the Security Branch at great personal cost to themselves and their families. Should equality before the law be upheld and everybody to whom annesty was refused in the past be prosecuted and should any sense of law and justice remain, it should start with the members of the NEC of the ANC. The real issue is whether, by doing this, expression is given to the final paragraph of the Interem Constitution, which also forms the foundation for the present Constitution. A quotation from the closing paragraphs of the Interim Constitution reads as follows:

The adoption of this Constitution lays the secure foundation for the people of South Africa to transcend the divisions and strife of the past, which generated gross violations of human rights, the transgression of humanitarian principles in violent conflicts and a legacy of hatred, fear guilt and revenge.

These can now be addressed on the basis that there is a need for understanding but not for vengeance, a need for reparation but not for retaliation, a need for ubuntu but not for victimization.

In order to advance such reconciliation and reconstruction, amnesty shall be granted in respect of acts, omissions and offences associated with political objectives and committed in the course of the conflicts of the past…….”

Apart from the fact that the one-sided prosecution of former members of the Security Branch will be a gross violation of the principle of equality before the law, perhaps the most important principle of the Constitution, it will also be in glaring contrast to the provisions and essence of the concluding paragraph of the Interim Constitution and will once again flare up the hatred and discord of the past. Is this the kind of justice and future that some persons and members of the media envisaged for South Africa?

>>18678766

>See Amnesty International 2 December 1992: All Index: AFR 53/27/92

“South Africa: Torture, ill-treatment and executions in African National Congress camps” – Amnesty International Report

https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afr530271992en.pdf

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AFR53/027/1992/en/

December 2, 1992 Index Number: AFR 53/027/1992

This report focuses on the grave abuses of human rights of many South Africans which took place outside South Africa and for which the ANC was directly responsible. In October 1992 ANC president Nelson Mandela published the report of an internal commission of inquiry into torture and ill-treatment of prisoners in ANC custody. It found that prisoners held in Angola, Zambia and other frontline states were ill-treated and tortured. However, the commission’s terms of reference prevented it from investigating other issues, e.g. “disappearances” and executions of prisoners or establishing the identity of ANC officials responsible for the executions. In most of the cases which AI has documented, the victims were members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the ANC’s military wing.

The present report also focuses on grave abuses of the basic human rights of many South Africans - but abuses which took place outside South Africa and for which the ANC, not the South African Government, was directly responsible. Based on first-hand research among surviving victims of such abuse, it documents a long-standing pattern of torture, ill-treatment and execution of prisoners by the ANC's security department. It shows too that this pattern of gross abuse was allowed to go unchecked for many years, not only by the ANC's leadership in exile but also by the governments of the African front-line states who allowed the ANC to set up bases, and prisons, on their territory. Such governments were at best accessories to the abuses by the ANC; at other times they actively assisted those within the ANC responsible for the grave human rights abuses which occurred.

>>18678773

>‘n ANC-sekuriteitshoof, het erken dat gevangenes aangerand en op die voetsole geslaan is.

English translation

An ANC security chief, has admitted that prisoners were assaulted and beaten on the soles of the feet.

>>18666835

>>18067182

“Case Study 1: Patrice Motsepe”

https://www.studocu.com/en-za/document/university-of-the-free-state/entrepreneurship/ebus2714-homework-03-march/52207667

Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe… sits on several company boards, including being the non-executive chairman of Harmony Gold, the world’s 12th largest gold mining company, the deputy chairman of Sanlam and a non-executive director of Absa broup.

In 1997, Motsepe, Nicky Oppenheimer and Mark Shuttleworth [born in the gold mining town Welkom] formed Green and Partners, a venture capital firm through which Motspe established African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). With low gold prices that year, he purchased low-yield gold mine shafts from AngloGold under favourable finance terms. AngloGold sold Motsepe six gold mine shafts for $7,7 million allowing him to repay the debt out of the future earnings of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). He subsequently turned each into profitable enterprises.

In 2003, Motsepe created Ubuntu-Botho Investments (UBI) (and in 2019 he owned 55% of it). His other company African Rainbow Capital (ARC) has holdings in more the 40 companies, including TymeBank, industrial group Afrima, agricultural company BKB, telecommunications company Rain, luxury property estate Val de Vie, and a minority stake in Alexander Forbes, the pension fund administrator.

Apart from soccer, Motsepe bought a 37% stake in the Blue Bulls Co. The other major shareholders are Remgro (37%) and Blue Bulls Rugby Union (26%).

In October 2014, Motsepe donated $1 million to the Ebola Fund in the Republic of Guinea to ad the West African country’s efforts to curb the deadly Ebola virus that affected a number of West African countries including Liberia and Sierra Leone.

>>18715325

>TymeBank

“Who is Tyme Bank [digital bank] Owner?”

https://buzzsouthafrica.com/who-is-tyme-bank-owner/

June 15, 2022

Tyme Bank was previously wholly owned by African Rainbow Capital (ARC) Financial Services Holdings (Pty) Ltd until 10th June 2019, when ARC and Ethos Private Equity jointly announced an investment of R200 million by the Ethos Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fund and co-investors (jointly Ethos AI Fund) into Tyme Bank Holdings. However, ARC is still the majority shareholder.

The digital bank also has other sharefolders, including Tencent and CDC Group, providing a modern, digital alternative to traditional banking, characterized by expensive maintenance, slow-paced innovation, and more. TymeBank focuses on retail and business banking and stands out for it unique savings tool, GoalSave.

https://www.tymebank.co.za/

TymeBank is a new kind of bank that’s digitally smart. The money we save by not having branches means you pay a lot less for banking, like no monthly fees and only pay for what you use.

>>18715335

>Ethos Private Equity

“History of Ethos Private Equity”

http://web.archive.org/web/20200805015936/https://www.ethos.co.za/about-ethos/

Founded in 1984, Ethos pioneered South African private equity, concluding the first private equity-led acquisitions in the country.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210117130929/https://www.ethos.co.za/our-history/

1984

MILESTONES

ETHOS ESTABLISHED BY FOUNDING PARTNER ANDRE ROUX

Investments made on balance sheet as FirstCorp Capital Partners, a division of First National Bank

Investment into Hudaco

1989

MILESTONES

25TH INVESTMENT CONCLUDED

Investment into Rasco

1992

FUNDS

ETHOS FUND II

R116 Million

First non-captive private equity fund in South Africa

FIRST PUBLIC-TO-PRIVATE DEAL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Strip Steel Limited in 1992

First public-to-private deal in South Africa – Strip Steel Limited in 1992

1994

1ST BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT INVESTMENT

Pioneering Black Economic Empowerment investment into Kagiso Publishers

50th concluded investment

1996

ETHOS FUND III

R705 Million

First international private equity fund in South Afirca

1998

ETHOS FUND IV

R2.1 Billion

Ethos becomes independent from the FirstRand Group

1998

LANDMARK MULTINATIONAL TRANSACTION WITH SIGNIFICANT OPERATIONS ACROSS AFRICA

Dunlop Africa in 1998

Landmark multinational transaction with significant operations across Africa – Dunlop Africa in 1998

1ST INVESTMENT OVER R2BN ENTERPRISE VALUE

Ethos Fund IV makes R2,1bn investment into Foodcorp

[2011: First public-to-private deal completed under new Companies Act http://web.archive.org/web/20140625050426/http://ethos.co.za/about-us/history/]

2014

STUART MACKENZIE APPOINTED CEO

Stuart succeeds founding partner, Andre Roux

>>18715342

>ANDRE ROUX

>>18715325

>[Patrice Motsepe] a minority stake in Alexander Forbes, the pension fund administrator.

ANDRE ROUX: Ethos, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

https://ethos.co.za/team_members/andre-roux/

Andre is the Founding Partner of Ethos Private Equity, having established the business in 1984.

He is widely regarded as the pioneer of South African private equity and held the post of Chief Executive since Ethos’ inception. He has lectured extensively on the private equity industry to business schools and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Andre stepped down as Chief Executive in 2014 and assumed the role of Deputy Chairman, and Chairman of Ethos’ investment committee.

Prior to the establishment of Ethos, Andre held the positions of Chief Executive of FirstCorp Capital Investors Limited and FirstCorp Merchant Bank. He has served on the boards of several portfolio companies associated with the various investment funds advised by Ethos. Until recently, Andre was a member of the Alexander Forbes Board of Directors prior to the business listing on the JSE (July 2014).

Andre graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Most recently, EMPEA (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association) appointed Andre as Senior Advisor and Chair of the EMPEA Africa Council

>>18715351

>FirstCorp Merchant Bank

“All the South African banks that have failed in the last 30 years”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/231009/all-the-south-african-banks-that-have-failed-in-the-past-30-years/

With VBS Mutual Bank being put under curatorship, it marks the 13th bank in almost 30 years to go through the process in South Africa – and the first since African Bank’s collapse in 2014.

In VBS’s case, the fault came through failure by the bank’s management to align the business with its sudden rate of growth. The SARB said the bank made incredibly risky moves, particularly around using short-term municipal deposits as a base for long-term lending.

When the municipalities came to withdraw their funds, the bank did not have the funds to pay them.

This case of “bad management and liquidity problems” is a recurring theme among South Africa’s failed banks. A recent paper published by the University of Pretoria outlined all the cases of failed banks in the country since 1990 – showing 12 (13 including VBS) banks that were placed under curatorship, three of which would ultimately be liquidated.

According to the research paper, even though the majority of the banks ultimately resolved their liquidity problems, the way in which this was done – arrangements, transferring assets, mergers etc – often resulted in the banks ‘shutting down’ in one way or another.

As a result of various deals, sell-off and mergers, over 20 banks have been deregistered in South Africa since 1990. These are:

• Brait Merchant Bank

• Cadiz Investment Bank

• CorpCapital Bank

• FirstCorp Merchant Bank

• International Bank of Southern Africa

• Merril Lynch Capital Markets Bank

• Old Mutual Bank

• PSG Investment Bank

• TA Bank of Southern Africa

• African Merchant Bank

• BOE Bank

• Cape of Good Hope Bank

• ING Bank NV SA

• Nedcor Investment Bank

• RMB Asset Finance Bank

• Securities Investment Bank

• Unibank

• Gensec Bank

• MLS Bank

• New Republic Bank

• Saambou Bank

• Peoples Bank

• MEEF Bank

• Imperial Bank

>>18715342

“Rohatyn to Buy Ethos to Create Firm With $8 Billion Assets”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-21/rohatyn-group-to-buy-ethos-to-create-firm-with-8-billion-assets?leadSource=uverify%20wall

November 21, 2022

The Rohatyn Group said it will acquire South Africa’s Ethos Private Equity to help the US investment firm expand on the continent.

The purchase will help the New York-based company create a firm with close to $8 billion of assets under management, Stuart MacKenzie, chief executive officer at Ethos, said in an interview. Brait Plc, backed by South African tycoon Christo Wiese, in 2019 hired Ethos to manage its portfolio including UK apparel chain New Look and Virgin Active gyms. MacKenzie didn’t disclose financial details of the acquisition.

The deal will “essentially result in Ethos acting as the African arm for the Rohatyn group,” MacKenzie said. “Plans include raising private equity and credit funds, and potentially forestry, agricultural and infrastructure funds that will include investments in renewable energy assets on the continent.”

Africa’s need for funds to finance infrastructure projects is massive. While there are about $2.5 trillion of public works in the pipeline on the continent, many won’t be completed because of lack of funding among other constraints, according to McKinsey & Co. That’s where companies such as Rohatyn can help.

The purchase will give New York-based Rohatyn access to one of the fastest growing regions in the world, said Nicolas Rohatyn, who started the business in 2002.

Ethos, with offices in South Africa, Kenya and London, will continue to manage Brait’s portfolio. The advisory agreement between Brait and Ethos will be ceded to the Rohatyn group.

Brait shares were little changed in Johannesburg on Monday, with the company valued at 6 billion rand ($345 million). The Rohatyn and Ethos deal is still subject to regulatory approvals.

Buyout firm Ethos also took over the management of Ninety One Plc’s Africa private equity funds in 2020, with assets in North, East and Southern Africa.

>>18715372

“The Rohatyn Group Completes Acquisition of Ethos Private Equity”

https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/the-rohatyn-group-completes-acquisition-of-ethos-private-equity-2023-04-03

Published: April 3, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. ET

NEW YORK, (BUSINESS WIRE) – The Rohatyn Group (“TRG” or the “Firm”), a specialized global asset management firm focused on investment solutions in emerging markets and real assets, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Ethos Private Equity (“Ethos”) – a leading alternative asset management firm in Africa.

“Today marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for our team,” said Stuart MacKenzie, CEO of Ethos. “By leveraging TRG’s resources, network and deep understanding of emerging markets, we will be better positioned than ever to drive investment across Africa and create value for our stakeholders.”

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Lazard Ltd became an advisor to TRG during the transaction process and assisted TRG in its completion.

About TRG

Founded in 2002, The Rohatyn Group specializes in emerging markets and real assets. Headquartered in New York, the firm employs over 180 professionals based in 17 countries across North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. It currently has approximately $8 billion in assets under management. For more information, please visit www.rohatyngroup.com

https://ethos.co.za/

On 1 April 2023, The Rohatyn Group announced the completion of its acquisition of Ethos.

“We are pleased to complete our acquisition of Ethos, which marks our official expansion into Africa, one of the largest and fastest growing regions in the world,” said Nicolas Rohatyn, TRG’s Chief Executive Officer and founder. “Together, with unmatched local knowledge and a skilled global team of investors,

>>18715374

Last paragraph was cut-off. Below is the full

“We are pleased to complete our acquisition of Ethos, which marks our official expansion into Africa, one of the largest and fastest growing regions in the world,” said Nicolas Rohatyn, TRG’s Chief Executive Officer and founder. “Together, with unmatched local knowledge and a skilled global team of investors, we’ll unlock significant opportunities to drive further growth across the continent’s private markets, real assets, and public markets.”

>>18715372

>Buyout firm Ethos also took over the management of Ninety One Plc

It is interesting that another Andre Roux “who helped establish South Africa’s economic framework after apartheid” and connected to Ninety One died days before the acquisition announcement.

“Andre Roux, Who Helped Build Post-Apartheid State, Dies at 68” – Ninety One, Portfolio Manager

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-15/andre-roux-who-helped-build-post-apartheid-state-dies-at-68?leadSource=uverify%20wall

November 15, 2022

Andre Roux, the financier who helped establish South Africa’s economic framework after apartheid before building out Ninety One’s fixed income business, has died. He was 68.

https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/andre-roux-former-treasury-official-and-fund-manager-dies-in-london-20221115

André Roux, a well-known financial expert in both the public and private sectors, has died at age 68.

Roux, a former Treasury deputy director general, had been living in Singapore in recent years, where he was a portfolio manager in Ninety One's Fixed Income team.

During a work visit to London, he fell ill and passed away on Monday morning, News24 understands. The cause of his death is not yet known.

In a statement, Ninety One said Roux was integral in establishing South Africa’s economic framework during his time at the Treasury in the 1990s.

Roux took responsibility for macroeconomic, fiscal and tax policy and intergovernmental fiscal relations during that time.

Prior to that, Roux spent two years at the Development Bank of Southern Africa.

He joined what was then Investec Asset Management in 1999 and played a leading role in building the company's South African fixed-income capability, Ninety One said. He was also instrumental in developing Ninety One's Asian fixed income business following his move to Singapore in 2014.

"André made a significant contribution not only to Ninety One but also to South Africa," Ninety One said.

Roux leaves behind his wife, Rebecca, and children.

https://republicmonews.com/2022/11/16/former-treasury-official-and-fund-manager-andre-roux-died-at-68/

Roux previously worked for the Development Bank of Southern Africa for two years. According to Ninety One, he joined what was then Investec Asset Management and was instrumental in developing the company’s South African fixed-income capacity. Following his transfer to Singapore in 2014, he was crucial in developing Ninety One’s Asian fixed-income business. “Andre contributed significantly not just to Ninety-One but also South Africa,” Ninety-One declared.

>>18715325

>In 1997, Motsepe, Nicky Oppenheimer and Mark Shuttleworth [born in the gold mining town Welkom] formed Green and Partners, a venture capital firm through which Motspe established African Rainbow Minerals (ARM). With low gold prices that year, he purchased low-yield gold mine shafts from AngloGold under favourable finance terms. AngloGold sold Motsepe six gold mine shafts for $7,7 million allowing him to repay the debt out of the future earnings of African Rainbow Minerals (ARM).

Take note; “Nicky Oppenheimer joined the Anglo-American Corporation in 1968, serving as a director from 1974 until his retirement in 2011 and as Deputy Chairman from 1983 to 2001.” https://opp-gen.com/leaders/nicky-oppenheimer/https://opp-gen.com/leaders/nicky-oppenheimer/

History of AngloGold

https://www.anglogoldashanti.com/company/our-history/

AngloGold Limited was formed in June 1998 through the consolidation of the gold interests of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited (AAC) and its associated companies, namely East Rand Gold and Uranium Company Limited; Eastvaal Gold Holdings Limited; Southvaal Holdings Limited; Free State Consolidated Gold Mines Limited; Elandsrand Gold Mining Company Limited; H.J. Joel Gold Mining Company Limited and Western Deep Levels Limited into a single, focused, independent, gold company. Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company Limited (Vaal Reefs), the vehicle for the consolidation, changed its name to AngloGold Limited and increased its authorised share capital, effective 30 March 1998. AngloGold acquired minority shareholders interest in Driefontein Consolidated Limited (17%); Anmercosa Mining (West Africa) Limited (100%); Western Ultra Deep Levels Limited (89%); Eastern Gold Holdings Limited (52%); Erongo Mining and Exploration Company Limited (70%).

1999: AngloGold acquired a non-controlling shareholders interest in Driefontein Consolidated Limited (17%); Anmercosa Mining (West Africa) Limited (100%); Western Ultra Deep Levels Limited (89%); Eastern Gold Holdings Limited (52%); Erongo Mining and Exploration Company Limited (70%). It also purchased Minorco’s gold interests in North and South America and acquired Acacia Resources in Australia.

2000: AngloGold acquired a 40% interest in the Morila mine in Mali from Randgold Resources Limited; a 50% interest in the Geita mine in Tanzania from Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited (Ashanti); a 25% interest in OroAfrica, South Africa’s largest manufacturer of gold jewellery; and a 33% holding in Gold Avenue, an e-commerce business in gold.

2001: AngloGold sold the Elandsrand and Deelkraal mines to Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony); disposed of its interests in No.2 Shaft Vaal River Operations to African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and made an unsuccessful take-over bid for Normandy Mining Limited.

2002: AngloGold sold the Free State assets to African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Harmony Gold. It acquired an additional 46.25% of the equity, as well as the total loan assignment, of Cerro Vanguardia SA from Pérez Companc International SA, thereby increasing its interest in Cerro Vanguardia to 92.5%. AngloGold disposed of its wholly owned subsidiary, Stone and Allied Industries (O.F.S.) Limited.

2003: During 2003 the following corporate activities took place: AngloGold disposed of its wholly owned Amapari project to Mineração Pedra Branca do Amapari. AngloGold finalised the sale of its 49% stake in the Gawler Craton Joint Venture, including the Tunkillia project located in South Australia to Helix Resources Limited. It concluded the sale of its interest in the Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture to Queenstake Resources USA Inc and disposed of its entire investments in East African Gold Mines Limited and in Randgold Resources Limited. AngloGold purchased a portion of the Driefontein mining area in South Africa from Gold Fields Limited.

2004: AngloGold sold its Western Tanami project to Tanami Gold NL in Australia. The business combination between AngloGold and Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited was completed, resulting in the company changing its name to AngloGold Ashanti Limited.

Etc.

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“Father [Chief Augustine Butana Chaane Motsepe] of SA tycoon [Patrice Motsepe] dies”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/father-of-sa-tycoon-dies-359104

Published Jun 25, 2007

The father of mining magnate and Mamelodi Sundowns owner Patrice Motsepe died at his home in Sandton on Saturday.

Chief Augustine Butana Chaane Motsepe, 92, led his tribe, Bakgatla-Ba-Mmakau, in successful protests to force a Canadian company, Leuka Minerals, to pay royalties on vanadium being mined on the tribe's land [this is how Patrice’s father became rich]. He was seen as the backbone of one of South Africa's most prominent families of achievers.

In the early days Motsepe Snr ran shopping centres in North West.

Among his children are daughter Bridgette Radebe, a mining executive married to Transport Minister Jeff Radebe; son Patrice, said to be South Africa's richest black man; and daughter Dr Tshepo Motsepe, married to tycoon and ANC guru Cyril Ramaphosa.

Motsepe Snr helped found the Nafcoc Business Chamber [The National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NAFCOC) is federated chamber. It is one of the largest business chambers in South Africa with representation in all 9 provinces of South Africa. It was established in 1964 by black traders in Soweto. https://www.nafcocnmb.org.za/] and was a teacher by profession. He is survived by seven children and eight grandchildren. His wife, Key - who was half Scottish - died in 2004.

A critic of Bantu education, Motsepe snr sent his children to a Catholic school in Aliwal North so they could have a better education and could become better achievers than him. His children did just that.

https://www.theafricareport.com/53598/10-facts-about-south-africas-motsepe-the-latest-entrant-in-the-caf-presidential-race/

Unusual for the time, the seven Motsepe family children completed their primary schooling at a private Catholic institution. In the 1980s, Motsepe received a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Swaziland and was later granted special permission to enrol in the University of the Witwatersrand, a whites-only institution, where he earned a degree in mining and business law.

https://www.studocu.com/en-za/document/university-of-the-free-state/entrepreneurship/ebus2714-homework-03-march/52207667

Patrice Motsepe was born 59 years ago in Pretoria. His father, Kgosi Augustine Motsepe, was a chief of Mmakau clan of the Tswana tribe. Kgosi Motsepe was a former schoolteacher, so ran a Spaza shop and a beer hall (tavern) which was popular with the black mine workers from the surrounding mines. He was opposed to apartheid and was once banished for voicing his opposition. Despite the oppressive regime, he managed to get a license from South African Breweries (SAB) to sell the distribute liquor. Throughout his youth the junior Motsepe worked at his father’s store and beer hall, a job where helearne basic business principles and got first-hand exposure to mining through the lives of the mine workers who bought their daily provisions from the shop and tavern.

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>South African Breweries (SAB)

South African Breweries [SAB]

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

South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016.[2] South African Breweries is now a direct subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV.[3][4]

The company that is now South African Breweries was founded in 1895 as Castle Brewery to serve a growing market of miners and prospectors in and around Johannesburg. Two years later, it became the first industrial company to list on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the year after (1898) it listed on the London Stock Exchange.[5] In 1950, SAB relocated its headquarters and control from London to South Africa.[5] In 1955, Castle Brewing purchased the Ohlsson's and Chandlers Union breweries, and the group was renamed South African Breweries.

From the early 1990s onward, the company increasingly expanded internationally, making several acquisitions in both emerging and developed markets. In 1999, it formed a new UK-based holding company, SAB plc, and moved its primary listing to London. In May 2002, SAB plc acquired Miller Brewing, forming SABMiller plc.

On 10 October 2016, Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired SABMiller for £69 billion (US$107 billion at the time the deal closed).[6] The arrangement had been approved by shareholders of both companies on 28 September 2016, and the deal closed on 10 October 2016.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110912014624/http://www.sablimited.co.za/sablimited/action/media/downloadFile?media_fileid=791

http://www.sablimited.co.za/sablimited/action/media/downloadFile?media_fileid=791

1995: State President Nelson Mandela opens SAB's World of Beer (then the Centenary Centre) in the Newtown cultural precinct of Johannesburg. SAB celebrates 100 years with a share price of R100, market capitalisation of R30 billion and a record R10 billion in added value for the South African economy.

SABMiller plc is the world’s second largest brewer by volume. The company has interests in over 60 countries around the world and is one of the largest bottlers and distributors of Coca-Cola products outside of the United States.

It owns and distributes more than 200 brands and has a total annual lager volume in excess of 175 billion litres.

ABI was established in Johannesburg in 1976 as a result of beverage manufacturing and marketing agreements between The Coca-Cola Export Corporation of the United States, CadburySchweppes (South Africa) Ltd and SAB.

SAB’s pioneering equity (affirmative action) programme, launched in the mid-1970s to alleviate historical inequalities and disadvantages experienced by many of its employees, fostered skills training and advancement to compensate for the denial of basic education to so many.

SAB has a long history as a progressive, societal leader, and this is backed up by the number of awards that the business has won over the years.

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>Despite the oppressive regime, he managed to get a license from South African Breweries (SAB) to sell the distribute liquor.

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>Among the same crowded Cato Manor shanties, police made arrests for illicit possession of liquor, and on 24 January 1960 the umpteenth riot broke out. This riot shocked South Africa! Nine policemen were dead!

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Shouldn’t the government issue liquor licenses and not SAB? Was it the responsibility of SAB to issue liquor licenses in the 60s and the police enforced it? If the Zulus had liquor licenses the Cato Manor Massacre would not have occurred? SAB needs to be investigated!

South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 1)

https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html

The South African Breweries Limited (SAB) is a holding company whose principal line of business is brewing. The company holds an impressive 98 percent share of the beer market in its home country of South Africa, where it sells 14 brands of beer, including local lagers Castle and Lion as well as foreign brands brewed under licenseHeineken, Guinness, Amstel, and Carling Black Label. Aggressive overseas expansion following the end of apartheid, however, has also given SAB ownership of, or stakes in, more than 25 breweries in the emerging markets of central Europe, China, and sub-Saharan Africa. Overall, in terms of volume, South African Breweries is the world's fourth largest brewer. SAB also has a variety of nonbrewing operations, such as carbonated and natural fruit drinks and other beverages, retailing, hotels and gaming, and manufacturing of safety matches and glass. The company has been divesting many of these noncore assets in the late 1990s. SAB's history is in many ways the history of the South African brewing industry, most notably through the government-ordered merger of the largest breweries in 1956. The company's history was also greatly influenced by the apartheid system and its effect on the domestic economy, on domestic firms, and on foreign investment in South Africa.–

The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand (a region encompassing Johannesburg) in 1875 brought large numbers of prospectors to South Africa. Small outposts for white settlers were transformed into busy cities with new industries. Several brewmasters, most with little experience, began to produce a variety of beers which immediately gained popularity with the settlers.

[Frederick] Mead remained interested in establishing a brewery in the rapidly growing Witwatersrand. In 1892 he purchased the Castle Brewery in Johannesburg from its proprietor Charles Glass. The expansion of this facility, however, was beyond the means of the Natal Brewery Syndicate, and Mead returned to England to attract new investors. In the final arrangement, Mead formed another larger company based in London called The South African United Breweries. This company took over the operations of both the Natal Brewery Syndicate and the Castle Brewery.

After construction of the new Castle Brewery, South African United Breweries made additional share offerings which were purchased by South Africa's largest investment houses. Subsequent growth precipitated a restructuring of the company and reincorporation in London on May 15, 1895, as The South African Breweries Limited.

South African Breweries CEO Ted Sceales was instrumental in the creation of a new subsidiary called Barsab Investment Trust, jointly held by SAB and Thomas Barlow & Sons Ltd. (later Barlow Rand), the rapidly expanding mining services group. Barsab permitted SAB and Barlow to invest in each other and pool their managerial and administrative resources.

Parliamentary motions to permit the reincorporation of SAB in South Africa were initiated in 1968. These motions, however, did not gain approval until March 17, 1970. On May 26, 1970, after 75 years as an English company, SAB became a de jure South African company.

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

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>1995: State President Nelson Mandela opens SAB's World of Beer (then the Centenary Centre) in the Newtown cultural precinct of Johannesburg.

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> I had an opportunity in my office to tell [Mr] Mandela, but apparently he is a captive of the cabal and a captive of interests [from] which he cannot escape.

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South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 2)

https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html

While sales of wine and spirits continued to rise, SAB sold a number of its liquor-oriented hotels, and reorganized those that remained under a new subsidiary called the Southern Sun Hotel Corporation. Southern Sun, which operated 50 hotels in South Africa, was formed by the merger in 1969 of the existing SAB hotel interests with those of the Sol Kerzner family.

The South African government barred SAB from further investment in the liquor industry and limited its ability to invest overseas. The company then made several attempts to diversify its operations. In 1972 SAB and Barlow Rand decided to alter their collaboration and dissolve Barsab. As a result, two former Barsab holdings, the Shoe Corporation, and Afcol, South Africa's largest furniture manufacturer, came under SAB control. The following year, SAB acquired OK Bazaars, a large discount department store chain. Certain other investments were disposed of, however, including ventures in banking and food products.

Several brewing interests attempted to challenge SAB's dominant position in the South African market. Various German interests set up breweries in Botswana and Swaziland in a failed attempt to gain a foothold in South Africa. Louis Luyt, a South African entrepreneur, also failed, and sold his breweries to the Rembrandt Group in 1973. The Luyt breweries, which formed the core of Rembrandt's alcoholic beverage group, were later incorporated as the Intercontinental Breweries. Determined to succeed, Rembrandt's chairman, Dr. Anton Rupert, committed his company to a scheme of competition based on control of liquor retail outlets. In 1978 Rembrandt acquired a 49 percent share of Gilbey's, the third largest liquor group in South Africa. The addition of Gilbey's 100 retail outlets gave Rembrandt access to a total of 450 stores. South African Breweries responded by acquiring Union Wine, an independent liquor retailer with 24 hotels and over 50 retail outlets.

Once again, market conditions were not conducive to competition. The government, therefore, proposed a rationalization program in which SAB would take over Rembrandt's brewing interests and turn over its wine and spirits operations to an independent subsidiary called Cape Wine and Distillers. The program, executed in November 1979, also called for Rembrandt to turn over its Oude Meester wine and spirits operations to Cape Wines, in which SAB, Rembrandt, and the KWV wine growers cooperative each owned a 30 percent interest. The remaining 10 percent interest was sold to private investors.

Many business leaders openly called for change, but the government still prevented companies such as SAB from transferring capital out of South Africa through foreign investments. Often these companies had little choice but to reinvest their surplus capital in South African ventures, which in turn gave them a more crucial interest in the resolution of social and human rights problems within South Africa.

Many foreign-owned companies, which faced fewer restrictions on divestment, sold their South African subsidiaries and closed their offices in South Africa. This trend made acquisitions by South African companies easier. SAB took over control of the ABI soft drink concern from Coca-Cola, and later added several clothing retailers, including Scotts Stores (acquired in 1981) and the Edgars chain (added in 1982). A government order in 1979 for SAB to sell its Solly Kramer retail liquor stores was completed in 1986, five years before its deadline. Also in 1986 SAB established a joint venture with Ceres Fruit Juices to sell leading noncarbonated juice brands Ceres, Liquifruit, and Fruitee.

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South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 3)

https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html

SAB&mdashting largely out of self-interest since 85 percent of the beer in South Africa was purchased by blacks–was well out in front of the political changes as it had begun to hire blacks in the early 1980s. By 1985 28 percent of salaried employees were black, a figure that rose to 48 percent by 1994. Nevertheless, the threat of a government-forced breakup of SAB's beer monopoly hung over the company following the end of apartheid.

Partly in response to this threat, and partly in response to the loosening of laws regarding foreign investment, the [Meyer] Kahn-led South African Breweries aggressively expanded outside its home country starting in 1993. That year, SAB spent US$50 million for an 80 percent stake in Hungary's largest brewer, Dreher Breweries, the first of a series of moves into the emerging markets of central Europe. In 1996 the company gained joint control of two of the largest breweries in Poland, Lech Brewery and Tyskie Brewery, as well as three breweries in Romania and one in Slovakia. In 1994 SAB created a joint venture with Hong Kong-based China Resources Enterprise Limited; by early 1998 this joint venture had gained majority control of five breweries in China. A third area of foreign growth for SAB was in sub-Saharan Africa, where management control was gained of breweries in Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Uganda during this period.

In August 1997 Kahn was appointed chief executive of the South African police service [to influence investigations?], becoming the first civilian to hold the post. The outspoken Kahn, who had been vocal in calling for the rapid liberalization of the economy and for a restoration of law and order, was made responsible for cracking down on a national crime epidemic. Taking over as acting chairman of SAB was Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's most prominent black capitalist and a former militant trade unionist [NUM (National Union of Mineworkers)].

By this time, South African Breweries was the world's fourth largest brewer and had a rapidly expanding international brewing empire. The company was now free to unload its noncore businesses in order to concentrate more closely on brewing and its other beverage operations. Under Ramaphosa, it did just that. In late 1997 and early 1998 SAB divested its holdings in OK Bazaars, Afcol, and Da Gama Textiles, and announced that Lion Match and Conshu Holdings, a footwear maker, were also likely to be jettisoned. These divestments were not proceeding quickly enough for some observers, but SAB had already managed to strengthen its overall position in the face of the continued threat of the breakup of its domestic beer monopoly. Selling off noncore assets was freeing up capital for additional investment in foreign breweries, which would further mitigate the impact of any government intervention.

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South African Breweries History – Interesting Connections (Part 4)

https://www.company-histories.com/The-South-African-Breweries-Limited-Company-History.html

Principal Subsidiaries:

Southern Associated Maltsters (Pty.) Ltd.; SAB Hop Farms (Pty.) Ltd.; SAB International Holdings Inc.; SAB International (Africa) B.V. (Netherlands); Botswana Breweries (Pty.) Ltd. (40%); Kgalagadi Breweries (Pty.) Ltd. (Botswana; 40%); Swaziland Brewers (Pty.) Ltd. (60%); Lesotho Brewing Company (Pty.) Ltd. (39%); Tanzania Breweries Ltd. (46%); Cervejas de Mozambique Limitada (65%); Zambian Breweries Plc (45%); Nile Breweries Limited (Uganda; 40%); SAB International (Europe) B.V. (Netherlands); Dreher Breweries (Hungary; 85%); Lech Browary Wielkopolski S.A. (Poland; 32%); SC Vulturul S.A. (Romania; 70%); Compañia Cervecera de Canarias S.A. (Spain; 51%); SC Pitber S.A. (Romania; 81%); SC Ursus S.A. (Romania; 73%); Browary Tyskie Górny Slask S.A. (Poland; 45%); SAB International (Asia) B.V. (Netherlands); China Resources Enterprise Beverages Ltd. (49%); China Resources Shenyang; Snowflake Beer Co. Ltd. (China; 44%); China Resources Dalian Brewery Co. Ltd. (49%); Shenzhen C'est Bon Food and Drink Co. Ltd. (China; 33%); China Resources (Jilin) Brewery Co. Ltd. (90%); Delta Corporation Ltd. (Zimbabwe; 23%); Seychelles Breweries Ltd. (20%); Accra Breweries Limited (Ghana; 50.5%); Amalgamated Beverage Industries Ltd. (68%); Coca-Cola Canners (Pty.) Ltd. (24%); Can Vendors (Pty.) Ltd.; Appletiser South Africa (Pty.) Ltd.; Appletiser Pure Fruit Juices (Pty.) Ltd.; Ceres Fruit Juices (Pty.) Ltd. (35%); Valaqua (Pty.) Ltd.; Associated Fruit Processors (Pty.) Ltd. (50%); Traditional Beer Investments (Pty.) Ltd.; Distillers Corporation (SA) Ltd. (30%); Stellenbosch Farmers' Winery Group Ltd. (30%); Edgars Stores Ltd. (65%); Amalgamated Retail Ltd. ("Amrel") (68%); Southern Sun Holdings Ltd.; Plate Glass and Shatterprufe Industries Ltd. (68%); Da Gama Textile Company Ltd. (61%); The Lion Match Company Ltd. (71%); Conshu Holdings Ltd. (67%).

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Nigeria: “Anambra Governor Said to Secretly Own Shares in N15 billion SABMiller Brewery”

https://businessnews.com.ng/2012/08/31/anambra-governor-said-to-secretly-own-shares-in-n15-billion-sabmiller-brewery/

August 31, 2012

Former House of Representatives member, Mr. Chudi Offodile has asked Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to resign over a company ownership scandal.

The SABMiller Brewery which was commissioned by President Jonathan yesterday is the second largest brewery in Africa and cost $100 million of private and public (Anambra State) funds to build.

The Brewery is expected to employ 750 direct employees and 4,500 indirect employees and distributors. 10% of the company is owned by the Anambra State governor, whilst local investors own 12.5% of the brewery.

Former Rep, Offodile is alleging that a company, Next International Ltd, owned by Governor Obi and his family members has a stake in the 12.5% owned by the private investors.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, Offodile said, “It would amount to an endorsement of a sordid affair and may embolden other foreigners who design and put into effect, different and newer corruption techniques with government officials. In the history of corruption in Nigeria, the Onitsha brewery scandal will rank as the most brazen”.

Offodile said investigations he made into Next international at the Corporate Affairs Commission disclosed that the Obi family owns the company and even though Governor Peter obi resigned his directorship in his company, his brother serves as the Managing Director.

When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Obi on Media and Publicity, Mr. Valentine Obienyem did not refute the claims that Next international was indeed a shareholder in SAB Miller Brewery. He did not refute the claim that Governor. Obi’s brother was the head of the company.

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“Peter Obi: Integrity issues with Sabmiller Brewery, by Chudi Offodile”

https://theeagleonline.com.ng/peter-obi-integrity-issues-with-sabmiller-brewery/

AUGUST 26, 2012 - UPDATED:JULY 31, 2022

Excerpts

When I first raised the issue a few months ago, apart from a rain of insults I received from government agents, the Attorney General, Peter Afuba, directed me to the Corporate Affairs Commission to obtain information about the company. But a search at the CAC did not yield any information on Sabmiller brewery, Onitsha, which is the name the state government repeatedly called the company. The government itself refused to release any information on the ownership of the company except to say that Anambra State invested N2 billion for a 10 per cent stake in the Sabmiller brewery with “other businessmen”.

The identity of the so-called ‘other businessmen’ remained a closely guarded secret until I stumbled upon a company, in the records of the CAC, called INTAFACT BEVERAGES LIMITED, with registration no 680933, incorporated by the firm of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie. The company has British and South African directors with a nominal share capital of N40,000,000 million divided into 400 ordinary shares of N100,000 each.

Three hundred of the 400 ordinary shares worth N30 million were allotted to the following shareholders as at April 2011: Sabmiller Nigeria holdings – 230 ordinary shares, Anambra State Government – 40 ordinary shares and Next International Nigeria Limited – 30 ordinary shares. Intafact Beverages Limited is the owner of the brewery in Onitsha. Keep in mind, the fact that Next International Limited, one of the three shareholders of Intafact Beverages Limited, is owned by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and his family. It turns out that the mysterious “other businessmen” is no other than the governor himself. Alas, the gods are naked!

Part of the land on which the brewery stands in bridgehead, Onitsha, belongs to a company called International Steel Industry Limited, Onitsha. The land was allocated to the company in 1975 by the defunct East Central State Government. The company had developed the over seven acre property and paid ground rent on the property up until 2011. Indeed, the certificate of occupancy was re-certified by Governor Obi on March 5, 2010. Yet, Obi went ahead and revoked the right of occupancy of International Steel Company and awarded same to Intafact Beverages Limited, a private company in which he has interest.

The land was revoked for “overriding public interest” and re-awarded to a private company for “overriding personal interest”. It is illegal to revoke a parcel of land for overriding public interest and grant the same parcel to a private company. It becomes immoral and symptomatic of greed, avarice and a capricious abuse of state power, when the beneficiary of the revocation is the governor himself.

Sabmiller, based in South Africa, is said to be the biggest brewery group in the world. Its investment in Nigeria is speculated to be more than a $100 million. A good deal for Nigeria and Anambra State, no doubt. But it appears that in an attempt to expand its operations in Africa, it has gotten itself entangled in a web of corruption and unethical conduct.

Governor Obi personally handled all negotiations between Anambra State Government and Sabmiller Group and visited South Africa several times on the subject. Did Sabmiller allocate the shares in Intafact Beverages Limited to Next International Limited as “bribe” to further its business interest in Nigeria?

To address these questions and more, an international enquiry into the activities of Sabmiller Group in Nigeria and the operations of Next International Limited and the possible interface of its accounts with that of Anambra State Government should commence without further delay. To this end, I shall be forwarding a letter to Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister for Justice, the British government, the government of South Africa and the United States Department of Justice demanding for this investigation.

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>Next International Limited

“EXCLUSIVE: UK authorities dissolve Peter Obi’s company, Next International”

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/575026-exclusive-uk-authorities-dissolve-peter-obis-company-next-international.html

January 11, 2023

For failing to submit its annual accounts, authorities in the United Kingdom, UK, have struck off Next International (UK) Limited, a company largely owned by Nigerian top politician and presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi.

Checks by PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the company was removed from the record in September 2021 following a first and second gazette notice of “compulsory” strike off of the entity.

In the UK, a compulsory strike off is imposed on a company by creditors or by the Companies House for non-submission of annual accounts or failure to notify Companies House about a change of official registered office address. Once a company is struck off, its details will be removed from Companies House register and the company ceases to exist.

Next International (UK) Limited failed to submit its annual accounts for the year 2020, hence, the company was struck off and dissolved in 2021.

Before a company is struck off, however, the UK requires the Companies House’s Registrar to send at least two formal letters to the company warning that a failure to file its annual accounts will lead to its removal from the register.

According to UK Liquidators, a financial consulting firm, if Companies House receives no reply to its letters, it will then publish a first ‘strike off notice’ in the Gazette, which is the official journal of public record.

The first official notice to strike off Next International was issued on 22nd June 2021, then a second notice was given on 31st August 2021. A final gazette to dissolve the company was issued on 7th September 2021.

Before its final dissolution, records show that for four consecutive years (2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020) the UK Companies House had to always issue a “first gazette notice for compulsory strike-off” before Next International filed its annual account. Then immediately the company submitted its annual accounts, a gazette will be issued to discontinue the compulsory strike-off action.

A private limited company, Next International was incorporated on 16t May 1996. Mr Obi was listed as a director while his wife, Margaret, served as secretary. Next International (Nigeria) Limited (with 999 ordinary shares) and Mr Obi (with one ordinary share) were listed as shareholders.

Records show that the company was registered as business “agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods” in England and Wales.

The firm reported taking a mortgage from Lloyds TSB Bank Plc for a property on 53 Clyde Road, Croydon.

On 16 May 2008, 14 months after assuming duties as governor of Anambra State, Mr Obi resigned as the director of Next International.

He took office on March 17, 2006 but continued to serve as a director of the company in violation of Nigerian law.

In Nigeria, a person is statutorily required to withdraw from engaging in or directing a private business, except if it is farming, upon becoming a public officer, Section Six (6) of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act provides.

The former governor admitted to PREMIUM TIMES in 2021 that he did not declare these companies and the funds and properties they held in his asset declaration filings with the Code of Conduct Bureau, the Nigerian government agency that deals with the issues of corruption, conflict of interest, and abuse of office by public servants.

At the time, Mr Obi said he was unaware that the law expected him to declare assets or companies he jointly owns with his family members or anyone else.

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>>18715797

>Taking over as acting chairman of SAB was Cyril Ramaphosa

>>18715672

>1995: State President Nelson Mandela opens SAB's World of Beer (then the Centenary Centre) in the Newtown cultural precinct of Johannesburg.

“PETER OBI WINNING IN COURT FROM ALL ANGLES - NIGERIAN CHOSEN PRESIDENT”

https://youtu.be/yo0niv8hzhM

Mar 23, 2023

Now a presidential candidate… Coincidence?

“2023: [Peter] Obi picks LP presidential ticket”

https://guardian.ng/news/2023-obi-picks-lp-presidential-ticket/

30 May 2022 | 6:00 pm

–Former governor of Anambra, Mr Peter Obi has been elected unopposed as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for 2023 general elections.—

Obi emerged winner after all other aspirants stepped down for him and in the interest of the party in a presidential primary elections held on Monday in Asaba, Delta .

According to Chairman, Electoral Committee, Usman Abdullahi, five presidential aspirants were cleared to contest the election.

Abdullahi disclosed that a total of 104 delegates from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), were accredited for the election.

However, in the unfolding event, the presidential aspirants; Prof. Pat Utomi, Mr Joseph Faduri and Mrs Olubusola Emmanuel-Tella stepped down while Mr Charles Uchenna withdrew from the election

Obi, at the end of the voting, polled a total of 96 votes to clinch the party ticket for the general election.

While declaring the result, Abdullahi declared Obi winner and presidential candidate of the LP for the 2023 general election for having polled a total of 96 votes out of the 97 valid votes with one invalid vote.

He described the process as free, fair, transparent and credible.

Obi, in his acceptance address, said that the country was in dire need of effective leadership that could remove the country from consuming to productive nation.

According to him, the only way to fight insecurity is to pull people out of poverty.

He said that under his administration, education, power generation and the economy would be the priority if given the mandate as president.

Obi said that having secured the mandate as presidential candidate that the journey to the presidency has begun.

He said he would mobilise to harness votes from all nook and cranny of the country too win the presidency.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the process was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) amidst tight security by security agencies and the media, Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress were represented.

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>South African Breweries CEO Ted Sceales was instrumental in the creation of a new subsidiary called Barsab Investment Trust, jointly held by SAB and Thomas Barlow & Sons Ltd. (later Barlow Rand), the rapidly expanding mining services group. Barsab permitted SAB and Barlow to invest in each other and pool their managerial and administrative resources.

The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd Merger - July 16, 1974

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/16/archives/mine-concerns-set-south-african-deal-merger-planned-in-south-africa.html

July 16, 1974

The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd., both of South Africa, announced yesterday an agreement in principle to merge into a new group to be known as Unicorp Barlow, Ltd. Under the agreement, every 100 shares of Barlow Rand would be exchanged for 100 shares of Unicorp Barlow, and every 140 shares of Union Corporation for 100 Unicorp Barlow.

Merger News

A spokesman for the companies said in London that on the basis of current prices of the shares, Unicorp Barlow would have a market capitaliIzation of about 600‐million rand, which, at current foreign exchange rates, would amount, to $909‐million. [interesting to see the rand/dollars exchange; then R1.52 = $1; now R18.14 = $1] The spokesman estimated that the combined group earnings after taxes would amount to about $121‐million a year.

Barlow Rand was established in June, 1971, through a merger of Rand Mines and Barlow Rand, Ltd., which was formerly known as Thos. Barlow and Sons, Ltd. The company is diversified mining and industrial group.

Union Corporation, which has no connection with an American company of that name, is a major mining finance company with large interests in gold and platinum and various industrial interests. American Depository Receipts of Union Corporation are traded on the over‐the‐counter market here.

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“THE MANY FACES OF BARLOW RAND LTD.” - April 11, 1982

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/11/business/the-many-faces-of-barlow-rand-ltd.html

April 11, 1982

JOHANNESBURG WHEN foreigners take notice of big business in South Africa, their attention is normally drawn to the vast Anglo-American Corporation and its chairman, Harry F. Oppenheimer, whose place in the moneyed portion of this society makes him a one-man aristocracy.

But the second-biggest industrial and mining group in South Africa is also very big. It is called Barlow Rand Ltd. and the last time anyone counted, at the end of its financial year that ended Sept. 30, it had 325 operating companies, employed 196,000 persons and reported consolidated after-tax profit of $441 million. That represented a 23 percent leap from the previous year and didn't include the returns on another batch of companies, nearly 600 of them, in which Barlow Rand has either an equity or management stake.

Barlow Rand also has a chairman and chief executive officer whose statements on sensitive social and political issues are perused almost as carefully as Mr. Oppenheimer's.

Aanon Michael Rosholt, who signs himself A.M. but is generally known as Mike, made his reputation by presiding over the remarkable growth of his group: revenues, of nearly $4.8 billion last year, represented a fivefold increase over 1975.

When they were drafting their own code several years ago, Mr. Rosholt and his industrial relations director, Reinhald Hofmeyr, journeyed to Philadelphia to consult the Rev. Leon Sullivan, who gave his name to the American code. Barlow Rand, they told him by way of a calling card, employed more blacks than all the American subsidiaries in South Africa combined.

This was before Congress, in what is known as the Evans Amendment, made adherence to the standards of the Sullivan code a prerequisite for loans to South Africa from the Export-Import Bank. Barlow Rand's industrial empire was based, originally, on an American connection - the South African dealership for Caterpillar earth-moving equipment it won more than half a century ago - and it had financed important investments with Export-Import Bank loans.

When the new requirement was put on the statute books, Mr. Rosholt said, I was able to say in Washington, 'look, the Rev. Sullivan happens to be a friend of ours.' But Washington never established machinery to determine whether a South African company met the code's standards, so a major loan to Barlow Rand was never delivered.

Foreign guests are likely also to be whisked off to Rietspruit, an open-cast coal mine where they will tour through black family housing and recreational facilities that easily surpass the wildest dreams of the Appalachian coal fields. Rietspruit, which is jointly owned with the Shell Oil Company, is unique among South African mines in that it has an exemption from the Government that enables it to ignore the rule that no more than 3 percent of black employees can be housed with their families on any mine.

Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2019/08/07/the-sullivan-principles-at-work-the-conflicted-activism-of-rev-leon-howard-sullivan/

On 1 March 1971, General Motors (GM) chairman James Roche appointed African American clergyman and civil rights leader, Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan, to the corporation’s Board of Directors. As the automobile company’s first African American board member, Sullivan instantly made national headlines. Appearing on Meet the Press shortly thereafter, Sullivan defended his role amid some skepticism, commenting that, “I know that General Motors is using me, but…I will be using General Motors to help my people.”[1] Sullivan turned his focus to South Africa, and would use his pedestal to boldly condemn GM’s complicity with apartheid, calling for it to “withdraw from the Union of South Africa, until clear changes have been made in the practice and policies of that government as they pertain to the treatment of Blacks and other non-white residents.”[2] Exactly six years after his appointment to the board, Sullivan would convince twelve major American corporations with operations in South Africa to sign the Sullivan Principles.

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>South African Breweries

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BARLOW RAND LTD. (Part 1)

https://www.company-histories.com/BARLOW-RAND-LTD-Company-History.html

The original South African Barlow company was founded by Major Ernest Barlow, an Englishman who fought with the British against Dutch and Huguenot Boers in South Africa at the turn of the century. Major Barlow returned to South Africa in 1902 and established an engineering supplies company in Durban. The family-owned "import-indent agency" was incorporated in 1918 under the name Thomas Barlow & Sons (South Africa) Ltd. The original Thomas Barlow & Sons was established as a cotton mill in Lancashire, England during the 18th century, and continued to trade in textiles when Major Barlow borrowed its name for his enterprise in South Africa.

Major Barlow died in 1921. In 1927 the company was taken over by his eldest son Charles, who that year received an engineering degree from Cambridge University. That year Barlow became the South African sales agent for the Caterpillar company, an American manufacturer of heavy machinery. Through its connection with Caterpillar, Barlow & Sons gained expertise in construction and agricultural machinery. Over the following years, strong demand for engineering supplies allowed the company to expand its scale of business.

After the war Barlow expanded its operations in Southwest Africa (Namibia) and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Southwest Africa was confiscated by South Africa during World War I, and placed under South African mandate by the Treaty of Versailles [Remember SA Prime Minister Jan Smuts was the only person who signed the peace treaties for both World Wars >>18029708 ]. It was also extremely rich in mineral deposits, including diamonds, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium. Rhodesia, a self-administered British colony, was also well-endowed with mineral resources, including gold, copper, chrome, nickel, and tin. As a company, Barlow was in a privileged position to supply mining equipment and develop new mining technologies, but did not directly engage in the operation of any mines.

In the early 1960's, the White minority government of Ian Smith in Rhodesia came under increasing pressure from Britain and the United States to integrate its society and permit the Black majority to engage in politics. The government's strong resistance resulted in economic sanctions and guerilla warfare against Rhodesia. As conditions deteriorated in Rhodesia, Barlow began to divest itself of certain properties and businesses there.

In April of 1966 Thomas Barlow & Sons Ltd. and South African Breweries exchanged 12 million rand worth of stock. As a result, South African Breweries owned 22% of Barlow, and Barlow owned a substantially higher percentage of South African Breweries. As part of an effort to combine their marketing and resource networks, a number of executives from South African Breweries were admitted to the board of directors at Barlow.

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>Union Corporation

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BARLOW RAND LTD. (Part 2)

https://www.company-histories.com/BARLOW-RAND-LTD-Company-History.html

Barlow companies which were losing money in Southwest Africa and Rhodesia were reorganised. Generally, however, Barlow subsidiaries in those states and in Britain continued to perform beyond expectations. The well-established tractor company and the fast-growing forestry division, called Federated Timbers, continued to be Barlow's most profitable companies.

Through its association with the Caterpillar company, Barlow gained expertise in corporate finance and product distribution. By the end of the 1960's, Barlow had diversified into several fields, and continued to sell mining equipment and technical expertise to mining companies. In June of 1971 Barlow purchased Rand Mines Ltd., South Africa's oldest mining house. Rand was acquired for 39 million rand in stock, the largest takeover in South African history. At the time, Barlow was primarily a distributor of industrial products; only 10% of its revenue were derived from manufacturing. Rand Mines, on the other hand, was South Africa's oldest mining house, but in recent years had established a strong presence in primary industries. The new company, Barlow Rand Ltd., was a fully integrated manufacturer and distributor of heavy industrial products.

Under South African laws, Barlow Rand could only offer shares of its own stock in return for shares in European companies it was interested in purchasing. In order to increase the marketability of its shares in Europe, Barlow Rand stock was listed on the Brussels and Antwerp bourses in February of 1972, and on the Paris bourse the following July.

In July of 1974 Charles Barlow announced his company's intention to purchase the Union Corporation, a mining finance group with substantial British holdings. Over the next two months, however, Gold Fields (of South Africa) and General Mining (now called Gencorp) entered the bidding. Barlow Rand withdrew from the competition when it decided the bidding price for Union shares had exceeded a reasonable value. Shortly afterward, General Mining purchased the Union Corporation.

Social conditions began to deteriorate rapidly in Rhodesia, where the minority government was rapidly losing support. When South Africa stopped supplying the Rhodesians with weapons (particularly helicopters), Prime Minister Ian Smith was forced to initiate a program to bring a Black majority government into power within two years. Because it was a South African company, Barlow Rand's presence in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) became less welcome, and the company's stock was subsequently delisted from the Harare (Salisbury) stock exchange.

In 1979 Charles Barlow died. He was succeeded by a highly capable and progressive man name Aanon Michael Rosholt. A protege of Barlow, Rosholt advocated the integration of educational facilities for South Africa's races, and for the eventual elimination of apartheid.

As a result of the Wiehahn reforms of 1979, trades unions for non-Whites grew in both size and influence. Companies such as Ford, the Anglo-American Corporation, Chloride (S.A.), and Barlow Rand generally supported the growth of the trades unions.

In a speech in 1981, Rosholt said that Black trade unions were a fact of life which "must be seen as bodies which can possible defuse labor problems." He expressed his belief that representation was an internal union matter which employers should not try to influence. The employees' unions, however, continued to regard Barlow Rand with skepticism. The company, however, remained relatively free of labor unrest.

Continuing to expand, Barlow Rand purchased dealerships for Hyster forklifts in Britain and the southeastern United States. In April of 1982, the company acquired one of South Africa's largest food companies, Tiger Oats. In 1985 Barlow Rand launched a takeover of J. Bibby & Sons, a British industrial and agricultural concern, partially owned by Tiger Oats. The company offered three pounds per share, an amount so generous that 97% of Bibby shareholders sold out, leaving so few English shareholders that the company lost its listing on the London bourse.

Today Barlow Rand is the largest company in South Africa, and an international parent company of businesses in southern Africa, Britain, the United States, and Europe. The groups' operations are divided among eight autonomous divisions: mining; cement, lime and paint; electronics and engineering; heavy equipment; building and construction supplies; packaging, paper and appliances; sugar, food and textiles; and group services.

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Barlow Rand is now Barloworld.

Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 1)

https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/

1960

Barlows rapidly expands into many fields, including motor retail; steel and building materials; handling equipment; consumer electronics; and steel manufacturing and selling.

In his Chairman’s Statement, Punch Barlow says: “It is our policy to continue to expand the group, and to seek further opportunities for investment in well-managed companies that have good growth and profit prospects. We believe diversification will maintain even trading results”.

Barlows also acquires trading interests in the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia. In 1969, it lists shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

1979

Punch Barlow [probably his nickname] dies and Mike Rosholt becomes the new chairman. After acquiring Wrenn Brothers (later Wrenn Brungart), Barlow Rand expands into the USA.

1980

Barlow Rand expands to include information technology, electrical engineering and textiles. Its international reputation increases and it manages brands including IBM and Merck in South Africa. The company also lists its June shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for the first time.

1984

Barlow Rand’s international footprint increases after acquiring J Bibby & Sons PLC in the United Kingdom. Bibby is involved in British agriculture, materials handling, science products and paper converting.

1989

Barlow Rand reaches profits of R1 billion, an employee count of 240 000 people, and 79th position on the Fortune 500 list of global companies. [Notice, sanctions did not affect this company.]

1992

The company continues to expand its operations in Europe by acquiring Lamson in Belgium, Finanzauto in Spain and STET in Portugal.

1994

Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition. Its large size helps to bring different political parties together, assist in the management of the 1994 elections and move with the country towards a peaceful democracy.

After the 1994 democratic elections, with South Africa once again accepted on the international stage, The company’s strategy evolves to include a stronger focus on growing core businesses across the globe.

Barlow Rand unbundles non-core businesses between 1993 and 1994. The more focused and streamlined Barlow Limited is born.

Barlow Limited is granted Caterpillar dealership franchises in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Angola, giving it cover over the whole Southern Africa region.

Barlow acquires Lanes Limited and Taubmans in Australia, distributes Perkins engines in Southern Africa and supplies Caterpillar equipment in Siberia.

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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 2)

https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/

2000

Barlow Limited changes to Barloworld, with a renewed focus on core strengths and increased global reach. We introduce a modern and uniform corporate identity and a global rebranding initiative.

Barloworld also purchases Barton Freightliner USA and 26.3% of Avis South Africa. This is part of our strategy to seek new product ranges in areas where we already operate.

2001

Barloworld launches a new Barloworld Logistics division. Our value-based management approach continues to drive our strategies and we exceed our real cost of capital target of 8% cash-flow returns on investment (CFROI®).

We expand our global reach by acquiring:

• The Sterling Freightliner dealership in the USA

• Three motor dealerships in Australia

• Protean – a laboratory company in the United Kingdom

• Portland Holdings – a cement business in Zimbabwe

We also improve our customer relationships by formalising Smart Partnerships™. Our combination of financial strength, skills, products and services creates a value-adding package for our customers that our competitors struggle to match.

2002

Barloworld celebrates 100 years of success and a 75-year partnership with Caterpillar. We set our medium-term goal of 244, which aims to double the value of our company for Barloworld stakeholders in four years.

Disposals include PPC’s stakes in Natal Portland Cement and Ash Resources, our UK Coatings business, the Robor Stewarts & Lloyds steel distribution outlets, our half share of steel trading company Stemcor (South Africa) and our Mitsubishi motor dealerships in Australia. Our relationship with Caterpillar celebrates it's 75th anniversary.

2003

Barloworld acquires the north-west Arkansas and Texarkana Freightliner truck dealerships in the USA. We dispose of six motor dealerships and exit the paper business by selling Henry Cooke in the United Kingdom.

Barloworld also forms important Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deals. We establish a 50:50 joint venture to distribute DaimlerChrysler products in Durban, and sell Afripack – PPC’s paper sack manufacturing business – to a BEE investment consortium and the Afripack management.

These high-profile BEE equity deals join our established BEE structures, which include Shosholoza Steel Supplies Pty Limited and Sizwe Paints – a 70% BEE 30% Barloworld-owned architectural paint manufacturer.

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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 3)

https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/

2004

In partnership with Wagner, we also double our Caterpillar dealership territory in Siberia to 9.9 million square kilometres – an area larger than the USA.

We acquire all of the remaining Avis shares in Southern Africa, the International Colourant Corporation (ICC) and the Hyster dealership in the Netherlands.

Barloworld establishes a formal Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy.

2005

Barloworld acquires the Hyster dealership in Northern Ireland and the Hamilton Brush and Budget franchise in Sweden.

PPC announces their plan to increase cement capacity to one million tons, to meet the rapidly growing demand in South Africa.

2006

Barloworld acquires the Avis and Budget franchises in Denmark to consolidate our Scandinavian group of countries. After a strategic reviewing process, we sell the Steel Tube division, as well as the USA and United Kingdom Handling leasing finance books.

We achieve our 244 target and double the value of our business for Barloworld stakeholders. We announce a new target – to double the value again by the year 2010.

2008

Barloworld announces its Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) transaction, which includes all South African employees, a number of community service groups, an educational trust and strategic black partners. The transaction achieves a 29% empowerment in our Southern Africa operations.

We also launch the Leadership Development Centre (LDC) in Barlow Park, Sandton. The LDC facilitates and co-ordinates professional development programmes that enhance the skills of our employees.

2009

Jim Owens, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Caterpillar Inc; and Membathisi Mdladlana, Minister of Labour in South Africa, open the Centre of Technical Learning on Barloworld Equipment’s Isando campus.

The centre provides our stakeholders with sustainable technical skills development, in line with our value-based management approach.

2010

Barloworld reached agreement to acquire Wagner Equipment’s 50% shareholding in our Russian Caterpillar equipment joint venture, known as Vostochnaya Technica (VT).

Barloworld disposes of its Scandinavian car rental operations.

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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 4)

https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/

2012

Automotive and Logistics division acquires a majority stake in Avis Coach Charter, and Dreamworks (a fuel management company); and secured the entry of Avis Fleet Services into Ghana.

Barloworld Equipment and Tractafric Equipment agreed to extend the original 10 year 50:50 joint venture in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by another 50 years.

Barloworld was awarded the MWM gas engine distribution rights in southern Africa and Russia.

Barloworld acquired the remaining 50% shareholding in Phakisaworld Fleet Solutions.

Barloworld Logistics acquired specialised chemical transporter, Ecosse Tankers.

Handling US was sold for about US$60 million at the end of April.

Opening of Barloworld Reman Centre for CAT engine and drive train rebuilds in Boksburg, and 85th anniversary of the partnership between Caterpillar and Barloworld Equipment.

Barloworld concluded a joint venture agreement with Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.(EMD), a subsidiary of Caterpillar-owned Progress Rail Services Corp.

Barloworld acquired the Bucyrus equipment distribution and support business in southern Africa for approximately R1.4 billion (US$164 million.)

UK handling business sold for R626 million, effective from 28 September.

An agreement was signed whereby the Bucyrus distribution and support business in Barloworld Russian territories was acquired for US$50 million (R436 million).

A R1.6 billion contract for the supply and commissioning of Cat equipment at the Husab Mine was signed between Barloworld Namibia and Swakop Uranium.

Barloworld Power appointed distributor of Australian Lighting tower and water pump company AllightSykes.

2013

The Integrated Employee Value Model and the Integrated Financial Value Model were launched in 2013.

The remaining 49% shareholding in Toyota Stellenbosch was acquired during 2013, and the dealership is now 100% owned.

Avis Fleet Services acquired the remaining shares in its subsidiary in Lesotho.

A merger between Barloworld Logistics’ Dedicated Transport Services division (DTS) and the Manline group, a diversified logistics business specialising in transport and other logistics solutions throughout southern Africa became effective on 30 January 2013.The merged business, called Barloworld Transport Solutions (BWTS), became a subsidiary of Barloworld Logistics, which had a 50.1% shareholding. It included the Manline, Manline Energy (fuel tankers) and Timber24 (timber logistics and forestry solutions) brands, which would be retained within the BWTS group of companies.

The Handling Belgium business was sold on 8 May 2013, generating €7.5 million in cash proceeds.

Barloworld Logistics acquired a controlling stake in a business transporting abnormal loads, since re-named Manline Mega, in June.

The Ferntree Gully motor dealership in Melbourne was sold effective from 31 October 2013.

2014

Barloworld celebrated 20 years as a Caterpillar dealer in Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, and Malawi; and 50 years as such in Botswana.

Barloworld Equipment celebrates its 20th year as the Cat earthmoving and power systems dealer for Zambia. Motor Retail acquired a majority stake in 51% of the Jaguar Land Rover dealership in Witbank, one of the leading Jaguar Land Rover dealerships in South Africa.

Avis Fleet Services entered into agreements to acquire a leasing business in Tanzania.

Barloworld Logistics acquired a majority share in Kumkani, an extra-heavy abnormal load transport business.

The remaining Australian motor retail operations were sold effective from 31 March 2014. The sale of the entire operations realised R1.3 billion.

Motor Retail acquired Leach Toyota and Hino in Kuruman.

Barloworld opened a US$14 million facility in Zambia to meet the servicing needs of Caterpillar customers.

Barloworld Handling acquired the AGCO agricultural equipment dealership in Zambia as part of its Africa growth strategy.

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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 5)

https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/

2015

VT was recognized by Caterpillar as being the #1 Dealer in the ACAM (Asia Pacific, CIS, Africa and Middle East) region for 2015 which is represented by 60 dealers

Barloworld Motor Retail acquired GM Ferndale in Cape Town.

Barloworld Logistics acquired 100% of the re- environmental solutions business which was renamed SmartMatta.

The Avis Budget Group (ABG) granted Barloworld the licence to operate the Budget Brand in southern Africa from 1 March 2015 in addition to the Avis Car Rental brand.

Vision 2020 was launched at the 2015 Global Leaders Conference in March 2015 which sets the growth objectives for the next five years. Sustainability as a core value was also added to the Barloworld Worldwide Code of Conduct.

2016

Disposal of Barloworld Handling and Agriculture in South Africa into a joint venture with BayWA AG.

Opening of the VT facility in Magadan in the Russian Far East which represents a US$10m investment.

Barloworld Logistics made a 100% acquisition of temperature controlled solutions business KLL and a 51% stake in Aspen Logistics.

Barloworld Logistics entered into an unincorporated Joint Venture with The Barberry Group which will lead to a 51% acquisition of the company.

Barloworld Logistics acquired 100% of SmartMatta.

Barloworld Transport dispose of the Barloworld Cranes business.

In March 2016, Barloworld Automotive added two additional Mercedes-Benz dealerships, namely Union Motors Lowveld and Union Motors South Coast within our NMI-DSM joint venture.

Barloworld Automotive acquires a majority share in SMD in May 2016.

Barloworld celebrates 75 years of being listed on the JSE in August 2016.

2017

Former CEO of Equipment Southern Africa, Dominic Sewela takes over from Clive Thomson as chief executive (CE) of Barloworld.

Barloworld and Caterpillar celebrate 90 years of partnership. In recognition of this milestone, a new advanced R1.3billion distribution facility was launched in Ekurhuleni, South Africa.

2018

Sadly Mr Peter Bulterman passed away. His legacy will forever be celebrated. (19th November 1955 - 8th May 2018)

The Barloworld Corporate Office relocated to 61 Katherine Street, Sandton in November 2018.

Disposal of Equipment Iberia generates R 2.5 billion in cash.

The Board approved a proposed B-BBEEE transaction known as "Khula Sizwe".

20 years of Barloworld as a Caterpillar dealer in Russia.

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Barloworld History – “Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition.” (Part 6)

https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/our-history/

2019

Barloworld Mbewu launched, a R30 million fund next generation approach to corporate social development geared towards scaling up social enterprises.

Khula Sizwe Property Holdings B-BBEE empowerment transaction approved by shareholders, launched and oversubscribed.

We celebrate 50 years’ partnership with Avis.

Avis Fleet held-for-sale at 30 September 2019.

2020

Barloworld Automotive & Logistics Division appointed Ramasela Ganda as its Chief Executive for Avis Budget Rent-a-Car – the first black female CEO appointed by Barloworld.

Neo Dongwana was appointed as the first a female Chairman of the Barloworld Board.

Barloworld won the Gender Mainstreaming Champions award for 2020.

In terms of growth, two acquisitions that are in line with the Group strategy were made, Equipment Mongolia which closed on 1 September 2020 and Tongaat Hulett Starch (Ingrain) which closed on 31 October 2020.

2021

Barloworld sold assets in Motor Retail to NMI-DSM in a quest to move to relatively asset light and defensive businesses. On 1 October 2021 Dr Lulu Gwagwa joined Barloworld as Chairman of the board.

2022

Barloworld celebrated 120 years of existence

Barloworld Equipment celebrates 95 years of partnership with Caterpillar

Ingrain celebrated 100 years of existence

In August 2022 Barloworld launched Barloworld Launches Africa’s First Gender Bond

Another key milestone celebrated during 2022 is the SARA remuneration awards for our REM reporting where we took first place.

On 13 December 2022 Barloworld unbundled its car rental and leasing business and it listed on the JSE, under the name Zeda.

An exciting development this year was the start of work on Barlow Park, a multipurpose development on the land that previously housed our head office.

2023

On 15 March 2023, Barloworld was awarded the ESG Bond Deal of the Year award at the 2023 Bonds, Loans and ESG Markets Africa Award ceremony at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.

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>Barlow Rand was established in June, 1971, through a merger of Rand Mines and Barlow Rand, Ltd., which was formerly known as Thos. Barlow and Sons, Ltd.

>>18047491

>Over time, the smart township model will be replicated in other townships

Companies established townships in South Africa and now they want to establish ‘smart’ townships and cities across the world.

“International Archives in South Africa” – Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc. (Part 1)

https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v016/p0163-p0174.pdf

Excerpts

The leader and pioneer in this field was a mining house, Rand Mines, Limited, which established its Archives department in June 1963. However, the organization of the archives along professional lines and the introduction of an acquisition program only commenced after the appointment of the present archivist ten years later. The Barlow Rand Archives were opened to researchers towards the end of 1975.1

Since 1974 two banks, two mining houses and two insurance companies have established corporate archives. In addition to Barlow Rand, DeBeers Consolidated Mines and the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa represent mining archives in the country. Two major banks, the Standard and Barclays support archival programs; a third bank, Nedbank, has deposited its archives with the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg. In the field of insurance Sanlam a took the lead with the establishment of their archives in the late 1970s and the Old Mutual 4 recently decided to do the same. Two other corporations, namely the South African Breweries and the United Building Society are investigating the feasibility of establishing archival pro grams. However, with the exception of Barlow Rand, none of the above cor porate archives can claim to be international in character, although some of them contain sub-groups of correspondence exchanged with principals in London.

The records of the mining division form the nucleus of the Barlow Rand Archives. They reflect the wide range of business activities of the companies which constituted The Corner House Group:* Wernher Beit & Co. of London, the Johannesburg house of H. Eckstein & Co., and its subsidiary Rand Mines, Limited, and The Central Mining & Investment Corporation, Limited. Although the Corner House became known internationally for the part it played in the development of mining and other industries in South Africa, its interests were by no means confined to South Africa nor to mining.

The Corner House had its origins in diamond mining and marketing in Kimberley in the 1870s. In 1871 the Parisian diamond merchant, Jules Porges, sent Julius Wernher, a young German, to Kimberley to assist his partner, Charles Mege. The firm of Jules Porges & Co., was reputedly the greatest and wealthiest diamond business in the world at the time of the Kimberley discoveries. The discovery of payable gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, prompted Porges to open a branch of the firm in Johannesburg. It was named H. Eckstein, after one of the founding partners.

The Archives of H. Eckstein & Co., are remarkably well preserved although not complete… The Archives also contain valuable information on the early history of Johnannesburg since H. Eckstein & Co., was, for example, responsible for the establishment of townships through its subsidiary the Braamfontein Company, Limited [As Wikipedia likes to describe it; “In South Africa, the terms township and location usually refer to the often underdeveloped racially segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for non-whites, namely Black Africans, Coloureds and Indians.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Township_%28South_Africa%29]

The Corner House had large holdings in profitable outcrop mines like the Robinson, Langlaagte, Bantjes, Randfontein, Crown Reef and Jumpers by the end of 1889, and started acquiring deep level properties on the dip south of and below these mines at low prices. This led to the formation of Rand Mines, Limited which was designed as a holding company to take over the important assets and administrative services of the deep levels while H. Eckstein & Co., continued to administer its outcrop mines.

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“International Archives in South Africa” – Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc. (Part 2)

https://thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v016/p0163-p0174.pdf

Rand Mines, Limited was registered in the Transvaal on February 22, 1893, with a capital of E400,000 in 400,000 shares of a nominal value of E1 each. It was Wernher, Beit-H. Eckstein's most important flotation and major event of the 1890s.

Rand Mines pioneered the system of Group Administration on the Witwatersrand which was adopted eventually throughout the South African mining industry.

Under this system the parent or controlling company is a mining-finance house which usually has ample financial, technical and administrative re sources, as well as very considerable mining knowledge and experience. It provides secretarial and technical services to the mines in the group. It is a shareholder in the individual mining companies and is represented on the boards of these companies by its nominees who ensure that control is main tained. Group administration provides a means of controlling costs, as well as permitting close examination of all expenditure.

H. Eckstein & Co., was responsible for the technical and managerial ad ministration of the companies under its control, including Rand Mines. The latter provided secretarial and administrative services for its subsidiary com panies and after 1910 for Eckstein's companies.

The partners in the firm actively participated in the social, cultural and educational affairs of the community and their correspondence, particularly the London letters, contain lively commentaries on local events and politics.

The Central Mining records which form part of the Barlow Rand Archives, deal mainly with the Corporation's South African business.

In the late 1950s Central Mining decided to dispose of its South African interests to its subsidiary, Rand Mines, Limited. A senior manager was sent to Johannesburg to complete the formalities and close down the local office. In the course of doing so and acting on instructions, he carried out a wholesale destruction of records containing information which they did not wish to pass into the hands of Rand Mines. Central Mining's British and some inter national interests were absorbed by Charter Consolidated Limited, London. As legal successor to Central Mining they became the owners of the Corpora tion's records, including the Minute Books. In the 1960s Charter Consolidated decided to dispose of some of the 'redundant' Central Mining records, some of which were given to Rhodes House Library, Oxford. la The rest, dealing mainly with South Africa, together with the surviving Wernher, Beit records were sent to South Africa.

The Barlow Rand Archives form a major part of the company's program to promote education and scholarship, and to stimulate an interest in South African business history.

>>18724353

>Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition. Its large size helps to bring different political parties together, assist in the management of the 1994 elections and move with the country towards a peaceful democracy.

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>In August 2022 Barloworld launched Barloworld Launches Africa’s First Gender Bond

>>18725562

>The Barlow Rand Archives form a major part of the company's program to promote education

First political transformation and now gender transformation

“RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld”

https://www.rmb.co.za/news/rmb-arranges-africas-first-genderlinked-bond-issuance

19 August 2022

RMB successfully arranged a R1.143bn gender-linked bond issuance across 3-year and 5-year tranches for industrial group Barloworld, acting as Arranger and Sustainability Coordinator.

“The gender-linked bonds have been issued in alignment with our gender transformation strategy and something that we as Barloworld are committed to and have been monitoring for years. We are proud to have pioneered this landmark transaction,” said Relebohile Malahleha Barloworld Executive: Strategic Finance and Treasury.

It is evident that there is more work to be done in South Africa to improve gender parity both in the workplace and more broadly through equitable access to economic opportunity.

Nopasika Lila, Finance Director for Barloworld added: “Barloworld is committed to playing our role in driving gender equity in South Africa and across our markets of operation. To date we have made significant progress in ensuring gender mainstreaming across our operations. The issuance of bonds with gender specific KPIs, the first of its kind in Africa, is testament to our commitment and enables our stakeholders to track our progress in this regard. The KPIs that have been outlined are in line with our diversity and inclusion journey.”

RMB worked closely with Barloworld in establishing a gender-linked bond framework that clearly outlines the strategic relevance of gender diversity to Barloworld and will enable Barloworld to issue similar instruments in future, in line with this strategy priority. The framework has been externally verified to confirm its alignment with the international capital market associations’ sustainability-linked bond principles.

Danielle Frank from RMB’s Sustainable Finance & ESG Advisory team said: “This gender-linked bond not only recognises the need for greater gender transformation in South Africa but also acknowledges local investor demand for more socially-aligned instruments. Sustainable finance offers a fantastic opportunity to innovate and deliver solutions for clients that support a long-term sustainable economy.”

The bond will also be listed on the JSE’s Sustainability Segment, having complied with the latest debt listing requirements.

“Notably, the gender-linked bonds priced competitively compared to Barloworld’s traditional bonds which is typical of funding raised for sustainability focused debt instruments. This instrument further delivers a pricing benefit for Barloworld on the achievement of the gender performance targets and is a great demonstration of how to align an issuer's financial strategy with its sustainability strategy through innovative solutions. We are confident this transaction sets the benchmark for other corporates on the continent and will encourage companies to focus on their disclosure of gender-related metrics and ultimately commit to targets for improvement in gender diversity in their own business,” says Trishalia Naidoo from RMB’s Debt Capital Market’s team.

>>18725562

>Rand Mines pioneered the system of Group Administration on the Witwatersrand which was adopted eventually throughout the South African mining industry.

>The partners in the firm actively participated in the social, cultural and educational affairs of the community

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As the mining companies adopted a system in South Africa then, so do the companies of today adopt a system to govern the world. They get involved in political, social and educational affairs.

For now… It seems Barloworld is concentrating on women. “As a tribute to our work in creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, Barloworld has been recognised as finalists in several categories of the Gender Mainstreaming Awards. In its eighth year, the Gender Mainstreaming Awards, were developed to encourage the private sector to buy-in to achieving more meaningful representation of women in the mainstream of business.”… “We will continue our journey to transformation and stay committed to the ongoing improvements for equal employment opportunities in the workplace.” https://www.barloworld.com/about-barloworld/inspiring-a-world-of-difference/gender-mainstreaming-awards-2020/index.php

Regarding ESG – Barloworld has a 14 page document on that and it includes the United Nations’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.barloworld.com/pdf/sustainability/2022/bw-esg-update-2022.pdf. As it states, “Built on enduring partnerships and transformative growth”… “Stakeholders are increasingly focused on the impact of companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies, policies, and practices on the long-term sustainability of the business.””

https://www.barloworld.com/sustainability/overview/

In line with our commitment to responsible citizenship programme, we are a signatory of the Energy Efficiency Accord with the Department of Energy in South Africa. We are a member of the South African National Business Initiative’s Energy Efficiency Leadership Network and have signed its Energy Efficiency Pledge.

We have responded to the 2021 CDP Climate Change Disclosure and 2021 CDP Water Disclosure.

The group is committed to responsible business conduct and legal compliance, and complies with King IV.

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>King IV

“A summary of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance™ for South Africa, 2016”

https://www.pwc.co.za/en/publications/king4.html

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

Prof Mervyn King

King IV™ in a nutshell

• A set of voluntary principles and leading practices.

• Drafted to apply to all organisations, regardless of their form of incorporation.

Sector supplements explain how the King IV Code™ should be applied by certain organisations/sectors.

• Proportionality is explained and advocated.

• King IV™ focuses on outcomes. The King IV Code’s™ principles and practices are linked to desired outcomes, therefore articulating the benefits of good corporate governance.

• The Code™ differentiates between principles and practices. Principles are achieved by mindful consideration and application of the recommended practices.

• 'Apply and explain’ regime (as opposed to ‘apply or explain’ regime in King III).

• New ‘look and feel’ to the King IV Report™ and King IV Code™.

• Philosophical underpinnings in King III retained but refined in King IV™.

• ‘Corporate governance’, for purposes of King IV™, has now been defined.

“Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa”

https://youtu.be/4rvemAmlHDU

Streamed live on Apr 26, 2023

“Andre de Ruyter refuses to name senior politician involved in Eskom corruption”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/andre-de-ruyter-refuses-to-name-senior-politician-involved-in-eskom-corruption-ef4dc169-e14f-4890-bb9e-b5dad9292ba2

Published Apr 26, 2023

Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has stuck to his guns that he complied with the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (Precca) by reporting looting at Eskom to senior officials, intelligence officials and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola.

However, De Ruyter refused to disclose the name of a senior official who was involved in corruption.

He said he shared that information with a senior minister and senior official in the presidency.

He became aware of the involvement of the senior politician in May last year when they were delving deep into corruption at Eskom.

However, he refused to say whether the senior politician was a Minister or a former Minister.

This was to prevent any legal action against him or compromise the ongoing investigation.

De Ruyter, who was appearing before Parliament’s finance watchdog the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday, said the levels of corruption and cartels at Eskom had been reported to the Hawks, the SAPS, the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure and the State Security Agency.

When asked by ANC MP Bheki Hadebe to name the high-ranking official who was involved in corruption at Eskom after he spoke about allowing people to eat a little over the $8.5 billion for the Just Energy Transition funding by the international [US] community, he said he was not at liberty to do so for legal reasons.

“Andre de Ruyter says cartels operated with impunity at Eskom”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/andre-de-ruyter-says-cartels-operated-with-impunity-at-eskom-4eba29aa-266a-4a88-9e1b-380b766c1856

But Veronica Mente of the EFF wanted to know if the “Presidential” cartel at Eskom was a reference to anyone.

De Ruyter said this was not the name given to the syndicate by its members.

“The name of this cartel is something that, as far as I know, is the name that members of the cartel have come up with. I am not aware it’s got any significance or attached to anybody relating to the president. I think this is the name that they have chosen. Up until recently when these allegations became public, the members of the presidential cartel had a fairly lively presence on social media. They made a number of statements saying ‘thanks to coal we can shower in champagne’. These individuals, it appears, acted with a fair amount of impunity when it came to publicising their activities and what they were up to,” said De Ruyter.

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“Scopa to call Pravin Gordhan, Sydney Mufamadi, Hawks over Eskom claims by De Ruyter”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/scopa-to-call-pravin-gordhan-sydney-mufamadi-hawks-over-eskom-claims-by-de-ruyter-12426a67-bbc3-425d-893d-aaa5ecc4a8fe

Published Apr 26, 2023

The Standing Committee on Public Accounts has decided to call senior government officials who were identified by former Eskom boss André de Ruyter, who said he shared information with them about corruption at the power utility and those implicated in it.

De Ruyter told Scopa he had given the name of the senior politician to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national security adviser Sydney Mufamadi and National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola.

De Ruyter said he told the State Security Agency and the Hawks about the levels of corruption at Eskom’s coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga.

Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa said after meeting with De Ruyter it was clear that he was not budging from his stance in refusing to reveal the identity of the high-ranking politician allegedly involved in corruption.

He said De Ruyter had also told them they needed to invite the Hawks to obtain information on the progress of the investigation.

The former Eskom CEO had told members of the committee he did not want to jeopardise investigations by disclosing some of the information in public.

“The committee plans to meet these cited parties to get more information on the allegations made by Mr De Ruyter. De Ruyter has told Scopa to contact the Hawks, Mr Gordhan and Dr Mufamadi for further details on the allegations that he made in the eNCA interview. He indicated that he reported the identity of a high-ranking politician as well as individuals he referred to in his interview as allegedly involved in criminal activities in Eskom to Mr Gordhan, Dr Mufamadi and the Hawks,” said Hlengwa.

“The committee informed De Ruyter that Parliament is able to offer him protection against any legal action through the Powers and Privileges provision, but he indicated that he does not want to jeopardise the ongoing investigation by law enforcement agencies into Eskom. The committee believes that De Ruyter missed an opportunity to take the nation into his confidence on these matters,” he added.

De Ruyter had lifted the lid on levels of corruption at Eskom early this year.

He said it contributed to load shedding. He said there were also four cartels operating at the power plants.

>>17940762

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

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>>17949605

>Gwede Mantashe

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>>18678766

>>18678773

>Jacques Pauw

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>>18767385

“ANC statement on Andre de Ruyter’s unfortunate decampaigning tactics” – News24: David Mabuza and Gwede Mantashe mentioned in Andre De Ruyter’s report

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/de-ruyter-funded-eskom-investigation–anc

26 April 2023

News24 [Naspers] has reported that there is no basis to claims made against Mabuza and Mantashe [https://www.news24.com/news24/investigations/eskom-dirty-dossier-revealed-apartheid-spook-behind-de-ruyters-r50m-off-the-books-project-ostrich-20230426, take note that the article was written by Jacques Pauw]

Reports have emerged that former Eskom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andre De Ruyter directly oversaw and privately funded a dubious investigation conducted by former apartheid era killer Tony Oosthuizen under the questionable guise of attempting to assist law enforcement agencies to deal with corruption at Eskom. It is also reported that the "intelligence reports churned out by De Ruyter's agent made sensational and malicious claims about former Deputy president Comrade David Mabuza and National Chairperson, Comrade Gwede Mantashe without any credible evidence.–

At the time when South Africans are starting to focus their attention on the upcoming 2024 National General Elections, it now becomes even more questionable as to what could have motivated De Ruyter's utterances against the ANC. It is curious why a CEO of a state-owned enterprise would go out of their way to affirm reports which are not grounded in an iota of evidence. This being the same Andre De Ruyter who accused the ANC of being out of touch with reality and instead stuck in a cold war era, is now found to be closely associating himself with dubious apartheid era agents that consciously supported a brutal system and have blood on their hands.

The ANC will not be distracted by underhanded tactics aimed at diverting us from a determined drive to renew our organisation. We encourage South Africans to trust the ANC with our countries transformation agenda. Recent independent polling of the 2024 National General Elections by Dr Frans Cronje, Inclusive Society and Ipsos finds that the ANC is likely to attain a victory of over 50%. The likes of De Ruyter are obviously disturbed by such data to a point of ending up soiling what otherwise could have been a clean reputation premised on his other positive contributions at Eskom.

Whilst it is true and public knowledge that to date law enforcement agencies have pointed at the fact that Eskom is besieged with corruption and a poor performance outlook, any information to this effect should be verifiable and authentic. At the core of unearthing information which points us to the weakest links within Eskom must be unquestionable efforts that can stand public scrutiny. Anything else will render justified and well-meaning efforts aimed at cleaning up Eskom unsuccessful.

The ANC commends media houses who conducted their own diligence and refused to simply rinse and repeat De Ruyter's questionable behaviour on their platforms. This gives hope and a timely reassurance that media houses have a semblance of independence.

We are deeply concerned about reports that the erstwhile CEO solicited funds from unknown sources that were channeled through Business Leadership. Even today during his appearance in front of a multiparty democratically elected parliament, De Ruyter continued with his duck and diving only once again to fail to take the nation into confidence. We call on the CEO Of Business Leadership South Africa and former boarder member of Eskom, Busisiwe Mavuso to take the nation into confidence and reveal how much was paid to apartheid era agents to launder "rooi gevaar" tactics and propaganda against ANC leaders.

Issued by Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, National Spokesperson

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>News24 [Naspers]

“Naspers gave R1 million to the ANC in 2021”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/434790-naspers-gave-r1-million-to-the-anc-in-2021.html

22 February 2022

South African multinational holding company Naspers donated R1 million to the ANC in November 2021.

This was revealed in the latest Political Party Funding Declaration Report published by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) on Tuesday.

Naspers was a noteworthy new entry to the list of contributors and donors in the third quarter, giving exactly R1 million to the ANC on 19 November 2021.

The companies under the Naspers umbrella include ecommerce giant Takealot, media publications house Media24, and technology investment company Prosus.