“Joining Russian naval exercise amounts to joining the war : Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation” - Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Chair of the Tutu IP Trust

https://youtu.be/HDdZkGsGags

Jan 20, 2023

The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation says an upcoming South African naval exercise with Russia is disgraceful. The Archbishop Tutu IP Trust has also released a statement saying that the naval exercise amounts to South Africa joining the war on Ukraine. South Africa is due to conduct joint naval exercises with Russia and China off Durban next month.

We are joined in conversation by Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Chair of the Tutu IP Trust.

2:30 – ”We are a country that committed ourselves not to be bought by material benefits into relationships that abuses of human rights that violates human rights.”

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>Dr Mamphela Ramphele

“Dr. Mamphela Ramphele is Co-President of the Club of Rome since 2018”

https://www.clubofrome.org/member/ramphele-mamphela/

Dr. Mamphela Ramphele is Co-President of the Club of Rome since 2018. She has been a student activist, medical doctor, community development activist, researcher, university executive, global public servant and is now an active citizen, she was a founding trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and is Chair of the Desmond Tutu IP Trust.

Previously, Dr Ramphele was Vice-Chancellor of UCT, one of four Managing Directors of the World Bank in Washington, DC and Leader of Agang SA, a party for all South Africans which won two seats in the national elections in 2014. She was also Chairperson of Gold Fields, Circle Capital Ventures (Pty) Limited, Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and Director of Medi-Clinic Corporation Limited and Remgro Limited [Johann Rupert] and founder of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa [George Soros] and the Citizens Movement.

Dr. Ramphele authored several books and publications on socio-economic issues in South Africa. She has received numerous awards for her work for disadvantaged people in South Africa and elsewhere.

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>David Rockefeller (died 2017) was a family friend and Rupert’s boss when he worked at Chase Manhattan Bank in the 1970s.

Watch the video. Is this the chess Q was referring to? The analogy of the rice may have been true if people were immortal.

“The Club of Rome - Exponential Growth (The Last Call)” [Mar 11, 2020] - https://youtu.be/gt4WsMfi6d0

“The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset” – Influenced by the Club of Rome and it’s report “Limits to Growth” Part 1

http://williamengdahl.com/gr22October2022.php

22 October 2022

Below are excerpts

Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab. Klaus Schwab is little more than a slick PR agent for a global technocratic agenda, a corporatist unity of corporate power with government, including the UN, an agenda whose origins go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and even earlier. The Davos Great reset is merely an updated blueprint for a global dystopian dictatorship under UN control that has been decades in development. The key actors were David Rockefeller and his protégé, Maurice Strong.

In the beginning of the 1970s, there was arguably no one person more influential in world politics than the late David Rockefeller, then largely known as chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Creating the new paradigm

At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, the international circles directly tied to David Rockefeller launched a dazzling array of elite organizations and think tanks. These included The Club of Rome; the 1001: A Nature Trust, tied to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF); the Stockholm United Nations Earth Day conference; the MIT-authored study, Limits to Growth; and David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.

Club of Rome

In 1968 David Rockefeller founded a neo-Malthusian think tank, The Club of Rome, along with Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King. Aurelio Peccei, was a senior manager of the Fiat car company, owned by the powerful Italian Agnelli family. Fiat's Gianni Agnelli was an intimate friend of David Rockefeller and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank. Agnelli and David Rockefeller had been close friends since 1957. Agnelli became a founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973. Alexander King, head of the OECD Science Program was also a consultant to NATO. That was the beginning of what would become the neo-Malthusian “people pollute” movement.

In 1971 the Club of Rome published a deeply-flawed report, Limits to Growth [https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf], which predicted an end to civilization as we knew it because of rapid population growth, combined with fixed resources such as oil. The report concluded that without substantial changes in resource consumption, "the most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity." It was based on bogus computer simulations by a group of MIT computer scientists. It stated the bold prediction, “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.” That was 1971. In 1973 Klaus Schwab in his third annual Davos business leader meeting invited Peccei to Davos to present Limits to Growth to assembled corporate CEOs.

In 1974, the Club of Rome declared boldly, "The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man." Then: “the world is facing an unprecedented set of interlocking global problems, such as, over-population, food shortages, non-renewable resource [oil-w.e.] depletion, environmental degradation and poor governance.” They argued that,

'horizontal' restructuring of the world system is needed…drastic changes in the norm stratum - that is, in the value system and the goals of man - are necessary in order to solve energy, food, and other crises, i.e., social changes and changes in individual attitudes are needed if the transition to organic growth is to take place.

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“The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset” – Influenced by the Club of Rome and it’s report “Limits to Growth” Part 2

http://williamengdahl.com/gr22October2022.php

22 October 2022

Below are excerpts

In their 1974 report, Mankind at the Turning Point, The Club of Rome further argued:

Increasing interdependence between nations and regions must then translate as a decrease in independence. Nations cannot be interdependent without each of them giving up some of, or at least acknowledging limits to, its own independence. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for organic sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all finite resources and a new global economic system.

That was the early formulation of the UN Agenda 21, Agenda2030 and the 2020 Davos Great Reset.

David Rockefeller and Maurice Strong

By far the most influential organizer of Rockefeller’s ‘zero growth’ agenda in the early 1970s was David Rockefeller's longtime friend, a billionaire oilman named Maurice Strong. Canadian Maurice Strong was one of the key early propagators of the scientifically fraudulent theory that man-made CO2 emissions from transportation vehicles, coal plants and agriculture caused a dramatic and accelerating global temperature rise which threatens “the planet”, so-called Global Warming.

Strong was a curious choice to head a major UN initiative to mobilize action on the environment, as his career and his considerable fortune had been built on exploitation of oil, like an unusual number of the new advocates of ‘ecological purity,’ such as David Rockefeller or Robert O. Anderson of Aspen Institute or Shell's John Loudon.

In the 1960s Strong had become president of the huge Montreal energy conglomerate and oil company known as Power Corporation, then owned by the influential Paul Desmarais. Power Corporation was reportedly also used as a political slush fund to finance campaigns of select Canadian politicians such as Pierre Trudeau, father of Davos protégé Justin Trudeau, according to Canadian investigative researcher, Elaine Dewar (Elaine Dewar, op cit. p. 269-271. )

Earth Summit I and Rio Earth Summit

By 1971 Strong was named Undersecretary of the United Nations in New York and Secretary General of the upcoming Earth Day conference, United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Earth Summit I) in Stockholm, Sweden. He was also named that year as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation – who financed his launch of the Stockholm Earth Day project (Elaine Dewar, op cit. p.277). In Stockholm the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) was created with Strong as its head.

By 1989 Strong was named by the UN Secretary General to head the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development or UNCED (“Rio Earth Summit II”). He oversaw the drafting of the UN “Sustainable Environment” goals there, the Agenda 21 for Sustainable Development that forms the basis of Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, as well as creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UN. Strong, who was also a board member of Davos WEF, had arranged for Schwab to serve as a key adviser to the Rio Earth Summit.

As Secretary General of the UN Rio Conference, Strong also commissioned a report from the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, authored by Alexander King which admitted that the CO2 global warming claim was merely an invented ruse to force change:

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“The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset” – Influenced by the Club of Rome and it’s report “Limits to Growth” Part 3

http://williamengdahl.com/gr22October2022.php

22 October 2022

Below are excerpts

“The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”

At Rio Strong first introduced the manipulative idea of “sustainable society” defined in relation this arbitrary goal of eliminating CO2 and other so-called Greenhouse Gases. Agenda 21 became Agenda 2030 in Sept 2015 in Rome, with the Pope’s blessing, with 17 “sustainable” goals. It declared among other items,

“Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership also is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice…Social justice, urban renewal, and development, the provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only 'be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole."

In short private land ownership must become socialized for “society as a whole,” an idea well-known in Soviet Union days, and a key part of the Davos Great Reset.

In short private land ownership must become socialized for “society as a whole,” an idea well-known in Soviet Union days, and a key part of the Davos Great Reset.

At Rio in 1992 where he was chairman and General Secretary, Strong declared:

“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class— involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing — are not sustainable.” (emphasis added)

Strong did not heed his own call. What Strong did not tell his environmentalist allies at Rio was that he had also made a huge purchase of the Colorado Land and Cattle Company, from Saudi arms dealer and CIA asset, Adnan Khashoggi.

By that time Strong was at the very center of the transformation of the UN into the vehicle for imposing a new global technocratic fascism by stealth, using dire warnings of planet extinction and global warming, merging government agencies with corporate power in an unelected control of pretty much everything, under the fraudulent cover of “sustainability.” In 1997 Strong oversaw creation of the action plan following the Earth Summit, The Global Diversity Assessment, a blueprint for the roll out of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, an inventory of every resource on the planet, how it would be controlled , and how this revolution would be achieved.

At this time Strong was co-chairman of Klaus Schwab’s Davos World Economic Forum. In 2015 on Strong’s death, Davos founder Klaus Schwab wrote, “He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board.”

Before he was forced to leave the UN in disgrace over an Iraq Food-for-Oil corruption scandal, Strong was member of the Club of Rome, Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Rothschild Foundation. Strong was also a director of the occult Temple of Understanding of the Lucifer Trust (aka Lucis Trust) housed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, “where pagan rituals include escorting sheep and cattle to the alter for blessing. Here, Vice President Al Gore delivered a sermon, as worshippers marched to the altar with bowls of compost and worms…” xvi [https://naturalclimatechange.org/new-world-religion/part-i/]

This is the dark origin of Schwab’s Great Reset agenda where we should eat worms and have no private property in order to “save the planet.” The agenda is dark, dystopian and meant to eliminate billions of us “ordinary humans.”

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine Global Research Centre for Research on Globalization

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More Background: Dr Mamphela Ramphele

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-08-26-mamphela-ramphele-how-to-lose-r450-million-in-two-years/

26 Aug 2013

Shock, horror. There's a discrepancy in Dr Mamphela Ramphele's net worth. The Agang SA leader caused a stir last week when she announced her net worth at R55-million and challenged President Jacob Zuma to reveal his worth. All this was done in the name of transparency and accountability. So imagine the surprise when knowledge of the Forbes 2011 richest women in Africa list surfaced.

The list from two years ago states that Ramphele's estimated worth is R500-million – almost 10 times more than what she revealed.

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014-05-06-things-you-may-not-know-about-mamphela-ramphele-/

06 May 2014

7) Ramphele won the 1968 South African Jewish Women’s Association Scholarship and the Sir Ernest Oppenheimer Bursary worth about R150 annually for the rest of her years at Medical School.

10) While at university, Ramphele became increasingly involved in student politics and anti-apartheid activism, becoming one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), where she met Steve Biko

11) From 1970 onwards Ramphele became increasingly drawn into political activism with Biko, Barney Pityana and other student activists at the Medical School. She was elected the chairperson of the local SASO branch.

23) In 1988 Ramphele left with her sons for Harvard College, America where she was the Carnegie Distinguished international Fellow for the 1988 – 1989 academic year.

24) In 1991, Ramphele was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UCT.

25) In 1996 she became the first black South African woman to hold the position of Vice Chancellor at UCT and at a South African academic institution. Part of her executive job roles was to take charge of the University’s Equal Opportunity Policy Portfolio, with the aim of changing the culture of the institution.

26) In 2000, she joined the World Bank in Washington as one of four managing directors, responsible for human development, the first South African to hold this position at this institution. She oversaw the strategic positioning and the operations of the World Bank Institute and was the vice-presidency of external affairs.

27) Ramphele has also been appointed director at think-tank Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) and as a board member of Anglo-American and Transnet.

28) She was voted 55th in the Top 100 Great South Africans in 2004, a survey portrayed as mired in controversy.

She says: “I chose the word Agang for my political party as it means ‘build’. We can build again.”

https://buzzsouthafrica.com/mamphela-ramphele/

Last Updated: December 17, 2022

Mamphela Ramphele is one of the most decorated women in Africa. She has received a total of 18 honorary degrees from Universities in South Africa, United States, England, The Netherlands, and many other countries. She has also received numerous awards.

On the 28th February, Mamphela Ramphele was inducted as an Officer in the Legion of Honor. The Legion of Honor is the highest French distinction, created to honour those who exhibit the virtues and values of the French Revolution.

She is also a shareholder in a number of gold mines including Sibanye Gold and and Anglo-American Gold Fields.

https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/we-must-sit-together-acknowledge-the-wounds-of-our-divided-past-ramphele-20170920

21 Sep 2017

The former leader of Agang and a failed alliance with the Democratic Alliance

Ramphele said the negotiated settlement that paved the way for South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994 made a new start possible, but there was unfinished business.

“But of course the people who were very active as the handmaidens at the negotiation process were the business community. As soon as the Constitution was adopted in 1996, they check out, back to business as usual.”

Ramphele said she remained optimistic for South Africa but there was a long road ahead towards socioeconomic healing.

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>Technology Innovation Agency (TIA)

“Probe puts Mamphela Ramphele on back foot” - Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-13-00-probe-puts-mamphela-ramphele-on-back-foot/

13 Sep 2013

Dr Mamphela Ramphele, the leader of Agang and formerly the chairperson of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), has pre-emptively denied that her family received money from a TIA cattle-breeding project located in her family's village during her tenure.

The TIA, which received R482-million this financial year, was established by the department of science and technology in 2008 to bridge the innovation chasm in South Africa. In 2009, when it was officially launched, its budget was R720-million.

Seen as a way to increase the country's patent numbers, which are orders of magnitude lower than its Brics counterparts, the agency is meant to fund product ideas that would boost South Africa's economic competitiveness and encourage job creation.

But questions of governance at the TIA have been on the science agenda for months and, in some cases, years. The agency is under forensic investigation following heavy criticism in two official reports, one into the South African sciencescape and the other into the functioning of the TIA itself. This follows allegations of a corporate governance breakdown and irregular procurement of ¬services and investment processes. The agency's chief executive, Simphiwe Duma, is on special leave.

The majority of the agency's board, including Ramphele, was replaced earlier this year. Despite no formal allegations being levelled at Ramphele and the forensic investigation not yet completed, she called a press briefing on Wednesday.

The project involved artificially inseminating Nguni ¬cattle, which are difficult to breed, to stimulate rural development and the red-meat industry.

Investigated

The total project was allocated R24-million, she said, with the pilot at the Terbrugge farm in Limpopo receiving about R4-million.

The farm is part of the Terbrugge Community Trust, of which Ramphele is the founding member.

"We donated a share of that land for that project. We stand to benefit not a penny. We did not want any perceived conflict of interest," Ramphele said. When asked whether the board had approved the use of her family land, she said only investments of R5-million or more were brought before the board.

But the connection between Ramphele and Terbrugge was not mentioned in any of the minutes of meetings by the executive committee or the investment committee on the project.

The Mail & Guardian has seen part of a fact-finding report, dated July 9 2013, which states: "With reference to the TIA executive committee minutes for the meeting held on December 10 2012 … it is noted that the proposal received from the Terbrugge Community Trust was discussed in-depth. However, it is noted that the minutes are silent on Dr Ramphele's association with the Terbrugge Community as its founder." Ramphele did not sit on any of these committees.

Asked whether it was ethical that the Terbrugge Community Trust was chosen as a project beneficiary, even if its founder, Ramphele, did not receive money through the association, new chairperson Khungeka Njobe said: "The matter is being investigated. Any further comment on it is best made once the forensic report has been finalised and the board has considered the report."

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“Probe puts Mamphela Ramphele on back foot” - Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-13-00-probe-puts-mamphela-ramphele-on-back-foot/

13 Sep 2013

Asked about the connection between Ramphele and the Terbrugge Trust, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said: "It would not be appropriate for me to comment until I have seen the report of the forensic investigation. On the face of it … it would raise serious ethical questions, but I will not judge this until I have received and read the report."

However, the M&G's Promotion of Access to Information Act application for the board, human resources and investment committees' minutes was rejected last month by the TIA, which said the information was commercially sensitive and queried the public-interest value in knowing what was being decided by the TIA board.

Distracting

At the briefing on Wednesday, Ramphele lashed out at the new board, saying: "The public purse is asked to fund a forensic audit process that is vaguely framed … We have seen these disruptive investigations happen in other enterprises."

She said that, since May when the new board took over, it had "not been able to discharge the mandate of the TIA" and was instead "solely focused on the investigation of the TIA".

However, Njobe said that the board had a fiduciary duty to investigate the misuse of public funds. "Fulfilling this obligation cannot be considered to be distracting the TIA from 'doing its job'."

Responding to Ramphele's suggestion that the forensic investigation was distracting the TIA from its mandate and an unnecessary use of the public purse, Hanekom said: "She would have to explain to the public whether she is suggesting that allegations of corruption or abuse of public money should not be investigated. One would have thought that those who are potentially implicated would want their names cleared as soon as possible through a properly conducted investigation, and would therefore welcome the investigation."

A sticking point, Ramphele said, was also that the TIA would not guarantee that her legal costs would be covered for advice regarding her input into the forensic investigation.

Njobe responded: "The process is at an investigation level and it is our view that it is premature to have legal representation."

The external review into the TIA, completed earlier this year, spoke of a confused entity, whose executive was at loggerheads with its line department, with which it had a "toxic relationship". Many of the problems stemmed from the interpretation of the agency's mandate, with the department trying to lead it in one direction and the TIA executive trying to pull it in another.

However, the TIA was fraught with problems from the start, as it merged seven entities, namely the Innovation Fund, the Tshumisano Trust, the implementation unit of the advanced manufacturing technology strategy, and regional biotechnology innovation centres Cape Biotech, BioPAD, LIFElab and PlantBio. Many of these entities did not adhere to the Public Finances Management Act.

Attempts to contact Duma for comment were unsuccessful.

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“Probe puts Mamphela Ramphele on back foot” - Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) Part 3

https://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-13-00-probe-puts-mamphela-ramphele-on-back-foot/

13 Sep 2013

Timeline of events

2008: The TIA created through an Act of Parliament.

2009: Board appointed, with Mamphela Ramphele as chairperson.

2010: Simphiwe Duma appointed chief executive.

October 2012: Ministerial review of the science, technology and innovation recommends that the TIA be reviewed in terms of its “fit for purpose” existence.

May 2013: New board appointed; only one member of previous board remains. Khungeka Njobe, who was part of the external review panel, succeeds Ramphele as board chairperson.

July 11 2013: External review summary released. It speaks of confusion about mandate, jostling for influence within the organisation and a “toxic” relationship between the department of science and technology and the TIA.

July 12 2013: Science and technology director general Phil Mjwara writes to Ramphele informing her of the forensic investigation regarding “the alleged breakdown of corporate governance, and policy and procedural issues in respect of procurement of services, recruitment and appointment of staff, and investment processes.

July 17 2013: In a memo to staff, Njobe informs them that Duma has taken special leave and appoints an acting chief executive who, “given the nature of the allegations”, has to have projects above certain levels co-signed by the head of legal services.

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>2010: Simphiwe Duma appointed chief executive.

>>17930886

>Minister Naledi Pandor, head of the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (Dirco), will lead the South African delegation to the second US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC from December 13-15, in place of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

“Ramphele In CEO Scandal” - Technology Innovation Agency (TIA)

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-citizen-gauteng/20140603/282342562895606

3 June 2014

Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele has been accused of turning a blind eye to the improper appointment of Simphiwe Duma, the axed CEO of the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA). Duma was appointed as TIA chief executive officer in 2010 in what many agency insiders viewed as an uprocedural practice.

Insiders claimed Duma was not subjected to an adequate assessment test prior to the appointment.

At the time, Ramphele was the chairperson of the agency’s boards which – according to sources – interviewed Duma and sanctioned his appointment.

Duma was dismissed at the end of March after the science and technology department released a damning forensic report on TIA’s activities, revealing acts of nepotism, wasteful expenditure and possible corruption.

Ramphele spoke up against corruption, nepotism and patronage at many rallies while campaigning for her party.

However, some of TIA’s staffers this week claimed she ignored the requests of many people in the agency to have Duma’s appointment reviewed.

The Citizen saw a copy of the email sent by a whistleblower and former TIA senior staff members to Ramphele. Dated July 29, 2010, she questioned why Duma was not subjected to a thorough assessment process. The same whistleblower, who asked not to be named, sent another e-mail dated August 26, 2010 to Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor, informing the minister she had been suspended from TIA for questioning Duma’s appointment.

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>For Drucilla [Cornell, feminist], 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.

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“why evil atheist ROCKEFELLER family funded feminism movement” [Aaron Russo speaking] - https://youtu.be/iI89S9BZnwo

Dr. Mamphela Ramphele Interview

https://www.faces-of-democracy.org/mamphela-ramphele/

Sven Lilienström, founder of Faces of Democracy, spoke with Dr. Mamphela Ramphele about democracy, white supremacy and about why women are better leaders.

Mamphela Ramphele: The only way we can end racism in South Africa is for white people to give up their white supremacy, while we as black people also need to assert ourselves as the people who are heirs of the very first human civilization on earth.

So, for example, the appropriation of African wisdom by the Greeks, which now comes back to us as Greek philosophy, continues to undermine the ability of African people to appreciate and to draw from their rich heritage. Such appreciation is, however, needed to enable governing themselves with greater confidence and to feel free to devise models of socio-economic development that are suitable for the philosophical orientation of Africa- Ubuntu.

Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, you are co-president of the “Club of Rome” and, together with Sandrine Dixson-Declève, the first women ever to hold this position. Do women lead differently? What are your primary goals for your term of office?

Mamphela Ramphele: Well, the Club of Rome has got a very proud history of having disrupted the concept of economic growth as an ever-growing big mountain that will continue to grow, by publishing “The Limits to Growth”, a 1972 Report commissioned from MIT experts [https://donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf]. The arguments were about the limits to the way in which human beings and human civilization are utilizing natural and other resources to drive endless economic growth. If we don’t recognize and respect those ecological limits, we shall end up with even bigger planetary crises than those already upon us.

If you look at the world today, we have multiple planetary crises. We have pandemics, climate change, and many conflicts. The way we currently relate to one another is simply not nurturing the concept of well-being for all. With Covid of course we realize that well-being for a few undermines well-being for all, because Covid doesn’t respect boundaries, doesn’t respect class, doesn’t respect culture. It just continues to spread, because we as human beings, and the world, are interconnected.

We took our co-presidency as an opportunity to build on that very rich tradition of the Club of Rome to lead intentionally to bring the feminine to the fore to correct male dominance. We committed to ensure that the Club of Rome’s profile of members also reflects the diversity of the world today. Diversity brings the richness of the values of Ubuntu and other indigenous cultures to learn anew what it means to be human in the 21st Century.

However, we have also decided that we needed to choose some thematic areas of focus to help us explore how humanity could Emerge from the Multiple Emergencies we face. The four themes are: Planetary emergencies and Action Plans to address them; Reframing Economics; Rethinking Finance; and New Emerging Civilization Initiative. As the Club of Rome we can’t tackle them alone. So, our approach is to mobilize partnerships of like-minded entities and people to address the various themes. The economic and the financial models we are using as a global community are not sustainable. We are proposing to go beyond sounding the warnings about limits to growth to propose that the whole model of development requires fundamental transformation.

And of course, finance in the global economy has become the tail that is wagging the dog that is human development. We have already seen various financial crises generated by greed, and so we are Rethinking Finance, we are Reframing Economics. But overall, we are saying to the world: we need to explore what a new human civilization would need to look like.

I don’t buy the proposition that in order to make progress in terms of thinking long term we have to get rid of democracy. No, rather we have to transform democracies – from short-term to long-term thinking.

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>We took our co-presidency as an opportunity to build on that very rich tradition of the Club of Rome to lead intentionally to bring the feminine to the fore to correct male dominance. We committed to ensure that the Club of Rome’s profile of members also reflects the diversity of the world today. Diversity brings the richness of the values of Ubuntu and other indigenous cultures to learn anew what it means to be human in the 21st Century.

“Chieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/chieftaincy-and-kingship-south-africa

In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on principles that are antithetical to democratic ideas and values. For example, a chief is not elected into office by popular vote, but through lineage, and is thus in office for life. This system is patriarchal, has largely excluded women from the office, and supports customary laws that are oppressive to women. In such a system there is a lack of representation and downward accountability.[i] As its authority places community before individuals, it constitutes a non-democratic form of governance.[ii] However, notwithstanding the fact that the position of a chief is inherently non-democratic, chiefs do they offer opportunities for everyday participation as opposed to periodic voting. These opportunities arise through gatherings such as Kgotla in Lesotho, where community members are able to voice their concerns and opinions.[iii]

Chieftaincy is more than a political institution. This practice has a much deeper meaning, as locals perceived this as something more than a set of rules laid down by individual leaders. Rather, it represents the importance of unity in both social and political life.[iv]

Chieftaincy was – and still is - a common form of authority within Black African communities… Traditional leaders performed a wide range of functions for their societies, ranging from providing safety and security, safeguarding tribal sovereignty, allocating and distributing land and settling land disputes, providing spiritual leadership and the administration of justice.[xi]

Under British colonial rule, the British administration experimented with two different systems aimed at governing the indigenous population. The first involved using colonial bureaucracy to weaken the institution of chieftainship, a system particularly favoured in the Eastern Cape.[xii] The Chief’s powers were controlled through the system of direct, magisterial rule.

The second system involved the use of local indigenous rulers to control and administer the population, a system known as ‘indirect rule.’ This system was adopted in colonial Natal. Theophilus Shepstone, the Secretary for Native Affairs during British colonial occupation, implemented this form of administration which became known as the ‘Shepstone System.’ This method changed the nature of the chieftaincies as it created a system of dependency on the colonial government.[xiv]

https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-biggest-landowners-2011-3?op=1#12-king-mswati-of-swaziland-4

Mar 18, 2011, 11:27 AM

King Mswati of Swaziland [Eswatini]

Land: All 6,704 square miles of Swaziland.

Background: One of the last "Absolute Monarchs" in the world, King Mswati quite literally owns all of his Southern African nation. There are no land titles or deeds as the national law dictates that the throne is the sole landowner.

Acreage estimates provided by The New Statesman.

King Letsie 111 of Lesotho

Land: All 11,718 square miles of Lesotho, including the country's diamond mines.

Background: King Letsie is his second stint as Lesotho's monarch after being replaced by his exiled father and then being deposed upon his return, then taking the throne again after his old man's death less than a year later. And while the monarchy in Lesotho is mostly ceremonial, Letsie retains legal title over the nation's lands.

Acreage estimates provided by The New Statesman.

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>“Chieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa”

“Rural South Africans fight for Zulu king to return their land”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-landrights-court-trfn-idUSKBN28K00K

DECEMBER 9, 20207:14 PMUPDATED 2 YEARS AGO

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rural South Africans took a trust controlled by the Zulu king to court on Wednesday, seeking to cancel agreements which they say forced them to pay rent as tenants on their ancestral lands.

The case pits seven informal landholders against the Ingonyama Trust, which manages nearly 3 million hectares (7,413,161 acres) of communally-owned land, and is effectively controlled by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini.

The Ingonyama Trust could not be reached for comment via phone or email and its lawyers asked for questions to be sent to them via email, which they did not immediately respond to.

“Individuals have been hoodwinked into signing these lease agreements,” said Lawson Naidoo, executive secretary of Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, one of two local rights groups that are also applicants in the case.

“They have a different understanding of what they are signing. They have no idea they are signing lease agreements. Only when they have to pay rent do they realise what they signed,” Naidoo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Zwelethini, 72, became the eighth Zulu monarch in 1971, and is responsible for celebrating Zulu customs such as the reed dance, where thousands of young women celebrate their virginity, in KwaZulu-Natal province on South Africa’s east coast.

More than 5 million people live on communally-owned land managed by the Ingonyama Trust, which makes up almost a third of KwaZulu-Natal province. Zwelethini is chairman of the board of the Ingonyama Trust.

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>“‘They can’t kill us all’: Malema urges EFF to join riots as SANDF deployed”

>https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/kzn-gauteng-riots-protests-zuma-eff-julius-malema-latest-news-breaking-monday-12-july/

>>18155895

>Achieving this goal will require shifting the “Fanonian Debate” from the halls of academia to the streets across the diaspora where rising Black mass movements erupted in the 2020 “Summer of New Beginnings.”

>In this regard, it will be important to look back at the limited but valuable experience of Black Fanonian political forces. In 2013, the breakaway ‘Economic Freedom Fighters Party [EFF] [from the ANC], now the third largest elective party in South Africa declared itself a Marxist-Leninist-Fanonist Party.

“They cant kill us all” – Antifa/EFF

It is interesting that Antifa made a banner of a similar statement which Malema tweeted during the 2021 riots in South Africa.

Tucker Carlson: Antifa is back in force

https://youtu.be/KHM-SmffghQ

Jan 23, 2023

7:03 – “So they [CNN] are actually not defending Antifa, they’re defending the people who benefit from Antifa, and that’s the Democratic Party… What you have in effect here is the official endorsement of domestic terrorism from the highest level of the Democratic Party. Why wouldn’t you? Again this is their militia. These are their state sanctioned shock troops and they are effectively immune from criticism.”

Is EFF sharing notes with Antifa?

Or rather, is the ANC sharing notes with the US Democrats?

https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2022/11/14/anc-eff-coalition-ekurhuleni

Many political pundits believe the ANC and the red berets are natural bedfellows. The one’s ideology is closely followed by the others’ slightly more radical ideal of its ideological utopia. But why then couldn’t these two parties – with a lot to gain so close to a national election in 2024 – find common ground? Lorimer posits in the piece below first published on Daily Friend that it’s all about access to patronage networks. By splitting power, between an EFF mayor and ANC speaker, with a jumble of MMCs, for example, you’d potentially be disrupting or splitting access to patronage networks no one wants to share. “The ANC and the EFF both benefit and suffer from their dependence on patronage,” writes Lorimer. – Michael Appel

“Soweto Vs Eskom: War between Eskom and Soweto residents continues”

https://youtu.be/Sxr9l_2sbgk

Mar 3, 2019

The power utility is bleeding dry as 80% of Soweto residents are in arrears which amount to 17 billion rands. EWN takes a closer look at how this came about.

0:35 – “She’s just one of the Soweto residents who’ve refused to part with their money arguing that free electricity is a basic right enshrined in the Freedom Charter.”

“More darkness for Soweto as De Ruyter runs out of wheels”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/more-darkness-for-soweto-as-de-ruyter-runs-out-of-wheels-aeb763d2-8d29-4d45-af8f-dc74ea89a77e

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2023

Johannesburg - Community members in Naledi (Draaihoek) in Soweto have been without power since May last year, in part, because Eskom at one point did not have a truck to deliver a replacement transformer.

Eskom quietly delivered the transformer two weeks ago after the Sunday Independent asked questions, but the nine-month-long blackout continues for frustrated residents since the unit is not yet connected to the grid.

Whereas millions of South Africans are becoming accustomed to getting a ray of electricity for a few hours a day, the Draaihoek residents in the south-western townships of Johannesburg, a traditional voter base of the governing ANC, have it worse.

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter recently resigned from the post amid murmurs in the governing party’s circles the rolling blackouts are intended to foster a regime change. Eskom has also been accused of implementing long hours of darkness in black townships as compared to the white suburbs.

He [Naledi Thulani Buthelezi] said with mini-sub boxes exploding every week, it was common there would be more boxes that need to be transported than the trucks available at Eskom.

He says the initial delay in Draaihoek was due to outstanding payments of R500 per household, which were compulsory for Eskom to procure new transformers to replace the damaged unit.

He says Eskom had previously adopted a strategy to install the boxes, switch on the power and then come back to convert households to prepaid.

“But some communities don’t allow them to come back and normalise so they realised that it does not work. What they do now, install the box, then normalise (convert to prepaid), then switch on.”

Buthelezi confirmed a new box was on-site in Draaihoek but was yet to be switched on pending the normalisation process.

“Eskom security contractor officer shot dead in Klipspruit Soweto”

https://www.eskom.co.za/eskom-security-contractor-officer-shot-dead-in-klipspruit-soweto/

Tuesday, 18 January 2022: An Eskom-contracted security officer succumbed to head injuries on Thursday, 13 January 2022 after he and six of his colleagues were shot at by approximately 30 heavily armed suspects during an alleged attempt to steal copper cable outside the Eskom Klipspruit Customer Network Centre (CNC) in Soweto.

“Eskom withdraws services from parts of Soweto following attacks”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/394535-eskom-withdraws-services-from-parts-of-soweto-following-attacks.html

22 April 2021: Eskom has temporarily withdrawn its services in Orlando East in Soweto after violent attacks and damage cause to Eskom vehicles on Thursday.

“Our employees were conducting disconnections for non-payment in the area when they were attacked by violent members of the community who in the process, also damaged our vehicles,” the utility stated.

“Eskom withdraws services in parts of Soweto due to unrests”

https://sowetourban.co.za/92249/eskom-withdraws-services-in-parts-of-soweto-due-to-unrests/

August 19, 2021: Some of the affected areas in Soweto include Diepkloof, Orlando and Zola. The power utility said it was forced take a step back due to safety concerns arising from violent protests and threats to its employees and equipment.

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>She’s just one of the Soweto residents who’ve refused to part with their money arguing that free electricity is a basic right enshrined in the Freedom Charter.

“Soweto community leaders request meaningful engagement with Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi”: Seth Mazibuko - https://youtu.be/WI34jongY7I

They’ve made their beds and now they’ll have to lie in them

“Lesufi wants to write off Soweto's unpaid R5bn Eskom bill”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/lesufi-wants-to-write-off-sowetos-unpaid-r5bn-eskom-bill/ar-AA16FK4F

24 January 2023

Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi is on a mission to get the R5bn owed by Soweto residents to Eskom written off.

Lesufi visited Zola 3 in Soweto this week where he addressed the community on electricity and safety challenges in the area.

Community members from neighbouring parts of Soweto voiced their grievances on several concerns, including electricity, safety, high drug use, and a lack of proper housing.

They expressed frustration with Eskom for cutting off their power due to nonpayment.

Panyaza said Soweto's electricity problems would not be resolved until the debt is removed.

He asked residents who could afford to pay for services to do so.

“Until we remove the debt of electricity in Soweto, we are not going to resolve the problem of electricity in Soweto. But we can't just remove the debt. We must agree on a process and it's very simple: protect those who are unemployed and elderly who can't pay, but ensure those running businesses in our township pay.

“We can’t hide behind the poor when you are employed or you run businesses in our township and that's the process we must undertake without fear or favour,” said Lesufi.

Speaking to the media, the premier said the government would look into removing illegal connections so that when the debt is resolved communities don't recreate it.

He said if the government takes over Eskom's debt Eskom should write off the debt of poor communities.

“The minister of finance went to parliament and said this government is taking over the debt of Eskom and our view is, if this government is taking over the debt of Eskom, by extension Eskom must remove the debt from our communities because the state has taken that particular debt,” said Lesufi.

“We can't remove the debt forever. Communities that can pay must be given the opportunity to pay and agree on a process — do they want to pay through prepaid, or do they want to pay through flat rate?”

Last year, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said the government would be taking on “a significant portion” of Eskom’s R400bn debt to ensure the power utility's long-term financial viability.

Godongwana said he would release full details of the Eskom debt plan when he presents the 2023 budget.

“For at least a decade, we have spent billions of rand supporting Eskom, with limited improvements in the reliability of the electricity supply or the financial health of the company.

“The debt takeover, once finalised, together with other reforms, will ensure that Eskom is financially sustainable. The programme will allow Eskom to focus on plant performance and capital investment and ensure that it no longer relies on government bailouts,” he said.

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>>18259227

The socialists do not want to admit to the real cause but ‘Dr’ Trevor Ngwane makes a true statement further down the article.

“Calls to scrap Soweto’s R4 billion Eskom debt ‘smacks of desperation’”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/load-shedding/calls-to-scrap-sowetos-r4-billion-eskom-debt/

27 Jan 2023

The issue of Soweto’s historical electricity debt to Eskom has for the longest time been a thorny issue for both the Gauteng Provincial Government and residents alike.

Residents of Soweto have been calling for the total scrapping of the debt, believed to be in the region of R4 billion.

Marches have also been held by irate residents who have complained about poor service delivery from Eskom regarding relentless power outages, caused by either load reduction or transformers that have blown up.

Load shedding the least of Soweto’s problems

Socialist and anti-apartheid activist Dr Trevor Ngwane says one of the main reasons behind some residents refusing to pay for electricity is because of what they describe as poor services from the power utility.

“For example, every winter season, and this is long before load shedding started hitting us, residents would experience power failures and simply because Eskom was failing to upgrade their infrastructure and the more people moved to Soweto from other areas, substations and transformers were not being upgraded.

Soweto residents punished with load reduction?

“The amazing thing is that Eskom under Andre de Ruyter came up with a type of load shedding, specifically geared towards black – class areas called load reduction, and the reason they give for that is – those areas where there are illegal connections or where there is overcrowding – have to be reduced in terms of the load because they pose a bigger danger to the grid.

“We at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) found out when we conducted research, that if in Sandton there is 2 hours of load shedding, for a guy in Tembisa and Soweto there is 10 hours of load shedding,” said Ngwane.

Lesufi may be genuine in his concerns

Referring to Lesufi’s concerns about the Soweto electricity conundrum, Ngwane said he believes the premier truly wants to solve the problem, though his motives may not be completely innocent.

“He is genuine in as far as 2024, and the loss of power for the ANC is a reality, and he is under pressure because he thinks that Gauteng ANC will lose more votes, hence, he wants to be seen as resolving residents’ issues.

“He is also presenting himself as ‘Mr Fixit’ and it’s not only electricity issues, even on the issue of crime, he promised he is going to buy six helicopters to fight crime. So, on the one hand he is genuine in wanting to solve Soweto’s problems, while on the other hand – but there is also an element of electioneering and real fear and desperation that something must be done to help the people of Soweto and Gauteng at large.”