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Looks like we have to rebuild. Anons, going to need some repostings
ANC Bun
>>17774408 Making sense of ANC MP’s threat of assassination to The Star [INL] editor [Sifiso Mahlangu], should he not leave presidential adviser Chauke alone
>>17807064, >>17807069, >>17807072 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>17824990, >>17824992, >>17824993, >>17824996, >>17825002, >>17825006, >>17825010, >>17825015, >>17825022, >>17825033, >>17825040, >>17825028 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll
>>17857816 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President (with ,pdf)
>>17880938 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them
Phala Phala and Ramophosa Bun
>>17774395 Namibian linked to Phala Phala theft, in Cape Town court for possession of firearms - Imanuwela David Shot? (video)
>>17807519 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale, her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele” (video)
>>17852996 Britain and South Africa agree to health partnership on Ramaphosa's second day of state visit” (video)
>>17852997 UK columnist brands Cyril Ramaphosa as a "dreadful fellow" after state visit to UK
>>17853029 Marikana returns to haunt Ramaphosa
>>17853070 Robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm ahead of release of Farmgate Parliamentary report
>>17857810 Cyril Ramaphosa broke the law – Phala Phala Farmgate report
>>17861673 Many calling for the removal/resignation of Cyril Ramaphosa
>>17861686 DA calls for dissolution of government and early elections after Phala Phala report
>>17862656 Impeachment panel omits allegations of Ramaphosa cover-up
>>17863273 Ramaphosa, associates implicated in USA illegal money transfer
>>17863277 Cyril Ramaphosa’s resignation can crush the economy
>>17863281 Recalling Ramaphosa could be the last thing the ANC NEC does before disbanding
>>17880689 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
>>17880743, >>17880820, >>17880865 Union calls for judges behind Section 89 report to be investigated” - South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (SADTU)
>>17880945 Parliament Speaker rejects request for secret ballot vote over Phala Phala report
>>17880962 Ramaphosa files papers with ConCourt to have the S89 report set aside
>>17881229 ANC NEC stands with Cyril Ramaphosa over Section 89 Report
Violence and Crime Bun
>>17807122 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>17880966 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
Zuma Bun
>>17804851 ICYMI: DCS to appeal SCA ruling on Zuma’s return to jail
Here's the rest:
#10
>>17722751 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm
>>17774332 Global energy restructuring veteran KW Miller says nothing comes even close to the Eskom disaster (video)
>>17774341 SAHRC gives Malema 10 days to retract ‘hate speech’ – he will not
>>17774372, >>17774374, >>17774375, >>17774378, >>17774382 Paul O’Sullivan
>>17774412 A close look at whistleblower Phenya’s murder (video)
>>17774464, >>17774469, >>17783785, >>17783786, >>17783787 Arthur Fraser
>>17774475 Black people can NEVER be racist’, Vishoek High learners told (mp4)
>>17783782 US identifies ISIS members in DURBAN – two weeks after Sandton terror alert (video)
>>17783792, >>17783794, >>17783796, >>17783800, >>17783805, >>17783807 Julius Malema & Jaques Pauw
>>17783808, >>17783809, >>17783816, >>7783820 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>17783840, >>17783842, >>17783846, >>17783850, >>17783852, >>17783855, >>17783857, >>17783859, >>17783861, >>17783863 About Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc. – Connecting dots
>>17784293, >>17784294 Chester Crocker, "Oppenheimer of South Africa," later became a Director of Minorco
>>17786077 Israel’s Most Wanted Gang Leader Arrested in Bryanston, South Africa
>>17784324, >>17784341, >>17784355, >>17862700 Unsolved 1986 murder of PM Olof Palme (videos)
>>17798841 From General Research (Thank You again Japan #8!) The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted
>>17807096 Senior Zulu Prince close to King Misuzulu KaZwelithini assassinated in Nongoma
>>17807847 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row – report
>>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
>>17857808, >>17861676, >>17861678, >>17862700 Janusz Walus
>>17863299 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
>>17880707>17880722, Bram Hanekom, Africa4Palestine/BDS (Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions) South Africa
>a new memoranda of understanding with entities in Sub-Saharan Africa whereby the US will provide more than $1 billion to finance American commercial investment in Africa
New biolabs? Gain-of-Function research on Ebola?
Most interesting that the FBI would be monitoring activity for the Central Bank in South Africa to start with
ANC Bun
>>17928343 This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past
>>17928349 Carl Niehaus EXPELLED by ANC for misconduct
>>17930716, >>17930730, >>17930741, >>17930747 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>17930756, >>17930762, >>17930764, >>17930770, >>17930773 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 1-5)
>>17930781, >>17930786, >>17930798, >>17930808, >>17930815 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 6-10)
>>17930829, >>17930836, >>17930857 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 11-13)
>>17940762 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President
>>17941578 Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions
>>17949590, >>17949605 Calls for Gwede Mantashe to be fired amid money laundering allegations
>>17981052 Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around
>>17981100 ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7
>>17981181 Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe
>>17987709, >>17987727, >>17987730, >>>17987736 Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula (videos)
Arthur Frasier Bun
>>17980997 SACP (South African Communist Party) hits back at former Spy Boss Arthur Fraser (video)
>>17981004 Chief justice objection: Arthur Fraser says Zondo ‘lacks integrity (video)
>>17981018, >>17981027 The most feared spy in Mzansi ? Who is Arthur Fraser, catch all the details on our Sunday Profile (Parts 1&2 with video)
>>17981078, >>17981080 “Zondo Commission was a puppet show – Fraser (Parts 1&2)
Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>17910370 The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted
>>17991804 South African businessman and Honorary Consul wins entrepreneur of the year in UK – helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK
Eskom and Water Crisis Bun
>>17912749 "Water challenges" in some towns as stage 6 load-shedding takes toll on infrastructure (video)
>>17912882 Load shedding leaves taps dry in iLembe
>>17913039 Council called to order for blaming water crisis on ZESA
>>17913252 Citywide power outage hits Mbombela
>>17913267 Silulumanzi water reservoirs critically low and likely to run dry soon – City of Mbombela warns residents of water shortages due to blackouts
>>17941613 Resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis
>>17947083 80 hours and counting without electricity: eThekwini electricity department shambles exposed
>>17949532 Eskom R400 billion debt and Diesel costs
>>17981051 MPs welcome the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga
Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw
>>17928508, >>17928512 Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti (Parts 1&2)
>>17928518 Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens
>>17928530 Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement
>>17928638 Jacques Pauw biography
>>17928682 Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect? – Accused of molesting boys
>>17991857 AfriForum says SAHRC must deliver on promise to take Malema to Equality Court over hate speech
Janusz Walus Bun
>>17912578 “Rafal Pankowski (NEVER AGAIN) on the idolising of racist killer Janusz Walus by far-right in Poland (video)
>>17912608 About ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association
>>17912641 Marcin Kornak (1968-2014) – the founder and leader of the “NEVER AGAIN” Association (video)
>>17913411 Janusz Walus reportedly stabbed by ex-MK soldier who aimed for his heart
>>17913444 South Africa: The 1993 plot to kill Chris Hani
>>17918355 ConCourt dismisses Limpho Hani’s application to rescind release of Janusz Walus
Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>17928359, >>17928365 Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed (Parts 1&2)
>>17940720, 17940724 Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning (video)
>>17930886 Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his "busy schedule"
>>17941589 President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect
>>17947035 Phala Phala vote: NDZ [Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma] dragged before ANC disciplinary committee after Pemmy Majodina's report
>>17949547 Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable
>>17981046 Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president (video)
>>17981049, >>17987697 Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case
>>17987691 Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech (video)
>>17987765 Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized" (video)
>>17991671 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele (video)
>>17991688, >>17991694 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
Violence and Crime Bun
>>17914160 Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment (video)
>>17914170, >>17914179 What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]
>>17928698, >>17928703 Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later (Parts 1&2)
>>17928752, >>17928795, >>17928827, >>17928842, >>17928880, >>17928890 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>17928983, >>17929949, >>17929976 Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP) (video)
>>17949610 Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded
>>17981044 Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022
>>17991756 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>17991765 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
>>17991793 Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences
Notables are NOT Endorsements
passing 175
#10
>>17914407 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm - Leonard McCarthy
>>17918335 Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came
>>17918413, >>178415, >>178417, >>17918429 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>17918441, >>17918450, >>17915453, >>17918458, >>17918465, >>17918479 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 5-10)
>>17918492 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Part 11)
>>17918524, >>17918536 Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco
>>17918547 Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society
>>17918570, >>17918581, >>17918600 Olaf Prime murder
>>17918620 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
>>17940739 Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash
>>17941585 300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17949516 FBI beat security cluster in identifying cyber hack of the SA Reserve Bank
>>17981057 Video exposes the DIRE state of Tembisa Hospital (mp4)
>>17981148 Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS (video)
>>17981373, >>17981407 "Black people can NEVER be racist," Vishoek High learners told
>>17991659 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them
>>17991807 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row
>>17995267 ANC Bun | Arthur Frasier Bun
>>17995272 Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Eskom and Water Crisis Bun
>>17995274 Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw | Janusz Walus Bun
>>17995275 Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>17995276 Violence and Crime Bun
>In the 1962 UN resolution it is called for Basutoland to gain independence from Britain
Yet two years earlier the UN made sure the Province of Katanga in the now DRC did not gain independence
https://adst.org/2015/09/congo-in-crisis-the-rise-and-fall-of-katangan-secession/
Anons knew what was going to happen, remember these?
#9 Antony Blinken Bun
>>16944822, >>16944824, >>16944829, >>16944836 Africa: Blinken to Visit South Africa, DR Congo and Rwanda (Parts 1-3)
>>16959589, >>16959599, >>16959604 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is Yet Another in a Long Line of Made Men
>>16961565 Secretary Blinken’s speech on “The United States and Africa: Building a 21st Century” – November 19, 2021 (video)
>>17483380 Antony Blinken holds joint news conference with South Africa's Foreign Minister [DIRCO] Naledi Pandor” – 8 August 2022 (video)
Goes with the ones from this bread:
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
Trying to drive a wedge in the BRICS nations while yet again taking Africa for a ride to get raw materials and fuels since their own sanctions screwed them. Nothing like decommissioning nuclear power plants early, bragging about it, then stopping Russian things they need.
Namibia turns them down, watch the ships piling up at Durban to load coal for Europe.
>Are you familiar with this?
Wasn't this in an earlier bread? I definitely remember seeing SAIMR before.
Spreading it on thick. Trying to make Zelensky out as some kind of hero to justify the billions being appropriated for Ukraine. How much of those funds are actually going there or getting used for there? I'd estimate about 15%. I'd also not be surprised to see some of those ant-tank and other missiles show up in arms bazaars in Pakistan
>Claus De Jonge
Klaas de Jonge (born 1937) is a Dutch civil rights defender who became internationally known as an activist against the Apartheid in South Africa, when he was forced to spend two years as an asylum seeker at the Dutch Embassy in Pretoria in 1985.
He studied sociology, social anthropology and demography in Amsterdam and Paris (Sorbonne). He specialized later in transitional justice/TJ, conflict analysis and community involvement in Africa. He held various academic positions, including the one of senior researcher at the Africa Study Centre in the Netherlands (1968-1980), and the one of visiting professor at the University of Brasília/Brazil for African and Race Studies (1989-1994). He has also lectured at the universities of Amsterdam and Maastricht.
From 1981 until 1985, Klaas de Jonge was a member of a ‘special operations unit’ of MK (Umkhonto we Sizwe) the armed branch of the African National Congress (ANC), doing reconnaissance work and bringing in arms and explosives into South Africa. This led to his arrest in 1985 by the South African Police; he managed to escape and acquired asylum in the Dutch embassy in Pretoria until – after 2 years – he was exchanged for the SA commander of the apartheid regime, Wynand du Toit, in 1987. He continued to do work for MK and the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement (AABN) until the end of 1989.
After his release he worked in Africa in the field of Transitional Justice for several international NGO’s, such as Penal Reform International (PRI) from 1998 to 2005, a.o. coordinating PRI’s research into the Gacaca jurisdictions in Rwanda. From 2009 until 2011 he worked for Impunity Watch/IW to prepare a project in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi in particular) and develop IW’s collaborative research approach. Since mid-2011 he is a member of Impuntity Watch’s Advisory Board. He is a member of the African Studies Centre Community of the University of Leiden/ ASCL, a network of (international) Africa experts
https://www.atspire.nl/klaas-de-jonge-biography/
(Notice that last line, Klaas is one of the Left's "experts")
Updated ANC Bun
>>17928343 This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past
>>17928349 Carl Niehaus EXPELLED by ANC for misconduct
>>17930716, >>17930730, >>17930741, >>17930747 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>17930756, >>17930762, >>17930764, >>17930770, >>17930773 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 1-5)
>>17930781, >>17930786, >>17930798, >>17930808, >>17930815 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 6-10)
>>17930829, >>17930836, >>17930857 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 11-13)
>>17940762 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President
>>17941578 Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions
>>17949590, >>17949605 Calls for Gwede Mantashe to be fired amid money laundering allegations
>>17981052 Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around
>>17981100 ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7
>>17981181 Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe
>>17987709, >>17987727, >>17987730, >>>17987736 Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula (videos)
>>18004465, >>18004467 Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future (video)
>>18004477 Ossewabrandwag, Nazi and ANC Parallels
>>18004538 SACP, Cosatu change tune on 2024 polls, throw weight behind ANC
>>18008723 Current ANC NEC composition favours Ramaphosa, gives him room to act decisively – political analyst
>>18067697, >>18067727 National Treasury and the Project Spider Web (Parts 1&2)
>>18067803 The Corruption Of The Anc Predates Codesa – Never Mind Jacob Zuma’s Presidency (video)
>>18097333 ANC to go ahead with disciplinary proceedings against MPs who antagonised Ramaphosa and “did not toe the line”
>>18097466, >>18097472 Discussion with Kobus Marais, the Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (video)
Commodities Bun
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17998464 Namibia holds the power to push Europe into darkness (video)
>>18067182, >>18067206, >>18067512, >>18067578 Who owns Absa?
>>18103960, >>18103969 David v Goliath court battle on the cards between coal mines (Parts 1&2)
>>18109501, >>18109506 Charges against Denel executive may backfire (Parts 1&2)
Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>17910370 The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted
>>17991804 South African businessman and Honorary Consul wins entrepreneur of the year in UK – helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK
>>18058906, >>18058996, >>18060446 Wouter Basson aka Dr Death found working at a Cape Mediclinic
Updated Eskom and Water Crisis Bun
>>17912749 "Water challenges" in some towns as stage 6 load-shedding takes toll on infrastructure (video)
>>17912882 Load shedding leaves taps dry in iLembe
>>17913039 Council called to order for blaming water crisis on ZESA
>>17913252 Citywide power outage hits Mbombela
>>17913267 Silulumanzi water reservoirs critically low and likely to run dry soon – City of Mbombela warns residents of water shortages due to blackouts
>>17941613 Resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis
>>17947083 80 hours and counting without electricity: eThekwini electricity department shambles exposed
>>17949532 Eskom R400 billion debt and Diesel costs
>>17981051 MPs welcome the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga
>>18008711 Eskom’s request of a 32% increase will be the death knell for several farmers in the country
>>18017293, >>18023107, >>18030109 Substation damaged at West Acres in Mbombela, residents band together to regain access to electricity
>>18030081 Phoenix community left high and dry due to no water and power
>>18030099 KFC forced to shut outlets in South Africa thanks to load shedding
>>18036664 Eskom’s load shedding just got WORSE – here’s the latest schedule
>>18041119 Day 5 and still no electricity in Mbombela’s West Acres
>>18047487 Eskom drops bombshell: It’s LIGHTS OUT on New Year’s Eve!
>>18103788, >>18103793 Attempted murder of De Ruyter reported to the South African Police Service (video)
>>18103948, >>18103955 Syndicates stole 65 truckloads of Eskom coal in a day (Parts 1&2)
>>18109424 Eskom loses billions on coal contracts
>>18109453 Eskom officials, police involved in syndicate stealing millions worth of fuel from Kriel Power Station
>>18109459 Global energy restructuring veteran KW Miller says nothing comes even close to the Eskom disaster (video)
>>18116201 DA says it’s irrational and disastrous to move Eskom to Energy Department
Updated Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>17928359, >>17928365 Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed (Parts 1&2)
>>17940720, 17940724 Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning (video)
>>17930886 Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his "busy schedule"
>>17941589 President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect
>>17947035 Phala Phala vote: NDZ [Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma] dragged before ANC disciplinary committee after Pemmy Majodina's report
>>17949547 Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable
>>17981046 Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president (video)
>>17981049, >>17987697 Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case
>>17987691 Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech (video)
>>17987765 Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized" (video)
>>17991671 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele (video)
>>17991688, >>17991694 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
>>18067136, >>18067140, >>18067147, >>18067156 Zondo exposed: What the Commission did not want SA to know (Parts 1-4)
>>18067328 New PIC board appointed, includes Ramos, SARB governor reappointed
>>18097339 Zuma blasts Ramaphosa over special treatment bid
Updated Violence and Crime Bun
>>17914160 Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment (video)
>>17914170, >>17914179 What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]
>>17928698, >>17928703 Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later (Parts 1&2)
>>17928752, >>17928795, >>17928827, >>17928842, >>17928880, >>17928890 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>17928983, >>17929949, >>17929976 Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP) (video)
>>17949610 Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded
>>17981044 Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022
>>17991756 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>17991765 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
>>17991793 Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences
>>18008371 Clive Derby-Lewis The last FULL INTERVIEW (video)
>>18030076 Ransom kidnappings on the rise in South African crimes (video)
>>18030180 A high court judgment that invites more land invasions (video)
>>18030895 Twitter User Claims Teens in Alleged Free State Racism Attack Pushed 3-Year-Old Into Pool Starting Chaos
>>18031053 Anti-crime village hero in hiding after evil stock-thieves gun down wife & 7 family members (video)
>>18047484 War on Women: Son kills mom, drinks her blood and woman shot dead in Gateway Mall
>>18047757, >>18047881, >>18058576 How shipping giant MSC reacted to billion-dollar cocaine bust; Aponte Family
>>18058549, >>18058563 140 Days After the Perfect Crime” – “MSC’s five major drug busts this year (Parts 1&2)
>>18097337 R8.2m splurged on ‘camera-friendly’ Bheki Cele and company’s ‘jet-setting’ travels
>>18110169 10111 crisis: More than seven million calls dropped at severely understaffed call centres
>>18116174 Police captain accuses Bok scrum-half Faf de Klerk of ‘attempted murder’
Notables are NOT Endorsements
passing 300
#10
>>17914407 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm - Leonard McCarthy
>>17918335 Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came
>>17918413, >>17918415, >>17918417, >>17918429 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>17918441, >>17918450, >>17915453, >>17918458, >>17918465, >>17918479 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 5-10)
>>17918492 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Part 11)
>>17918524, >>17918536 Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco
>>17918547 Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society
>>17918570, >>17918581, >>17918600 Olaf Prime murder
>>17918620 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
>>17940739 Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash
>>17941585 300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17949516 FBI beat security cluster in identifying cyber hack of the SA Reserve Bank
>>17981057 Video exposes the DIRE state of Tembisa Hospital (mp4)
>>17981148 Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS (video)
>>17981373, >>17981407 "Black people can NEVER be racist," Vishoek High learners told
>>17991659 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them
>>17991807 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row
>>17995267 ANC Bun | Arthur Frasier Bun
>>17995274 Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw | Janusz Walus Bun
>>17998361 ENJOY THE SHOW | Director's Cut” [How Intelligence Agencies are involved in coups] (video)
>>17998394, >>17998455, >>18000989, >>18013142 Lesotho may want to take the Free State (Parts 1&2); shades of Katanga
>>18004483 AfriForum's Ernst Roets' speech at the United Nations on anti-minority discrimination in SA (video)
>>18007718, >>18007726, >>18007738 Apartheid Guns and Money: Graphics (Parts 1-3)
>>18017078, >>18017083, >>18017112 State Defence, SANDF silent in face of speculation Lady R was shipping Russian weaponry (Parts 1&2)
>>18017344 Armscor, Rheinmetall, Nazi Ties
>>18047491 Plan to build South Africa’s first Smart Township revealed (Kayamandi)
>>18047500 Mediclinic accepts R75 billion bid from SA’s richest man Johann Rupert
>>18058667, >>18058673, >>18058690 South Africa: Who’s who in Johann Rupert’s network? (Parts 1-3)
>>18058746 Johann Rupert and Gianluigi Aponte ties to JP Morgan Chase & Co.
>>18058792 Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal
>>18140845 Updated ANC Bun
>>18140846 Commodities Bun | Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>18140847 Updated Eskom and Water Crisis Bun
>>18140850 Updated Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>18140851 Updated Violence and Crime Bun
General Research #22259 >>18154117
The CIA versus the UN in the Congo: The covert delivery of fighter jets to Katanga in 1961
By ROAPE - June 30, 2022
Excerpts:
As reports of Lumumba’s death sank in across the world, there were revelations of deepening US involvement in the Congo. On 17 February 1961, a story broke in the British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, that an American cargo airline was secretly shipping Fouga Magister jets to Katanga.
This was shocking news. For the French-built Fouga CM. 170 Magister was a jet-trainer aircraft that could be used for combat: with a maximum speed of 400 miles per hour, it had the capacity to carry and use rockets, bombs and two machine guns. The delivery of fighter aircraft to Katanga was in clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions and contrary to official US policy.
The British press got hold of the story by chance because a US cargo aircraft was unexpectedly forced by engine trouble to land in Malta, then a British colony, in the early evening of 9 February 1961.The aircraft was a Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser – a long-range, heavy, military cargo plane – on which the words ‘Seven Seas Airlines’ had been painted over but were still visible. Otherwise, the only marking was the registration number on the tail, which identified it as a US plane. It had flown from Luxembourg and was apparently bound for Johannesburg; it carried three Fouga jet trainers. The names of the crew members, all Americans, were given to the US consul general in Malta.
Parts for the engine were flown from the US to repair the cargo plane; once it was ready to fly again, the aircraft and its sinister freight left Malta for Entebbe, Uganda, in the night of 13 February. While in the air, the captain reported to air traffic control that it was short of fuel and needed to alter course for Fort Lamy (now N’Djamena), the capital of Chad; this was a ploy to justify flying in the direction of Katanga. It then flew to Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi), Katanga’s capital.
British authorities in Malta had not appreciated the significance of this flight until the story broke in the press. At this point they quickly shared information about the episode with the colonial office in London, generating a file of reports and correspondence which has provided many of the important details set out in this edited extract.
Seven Seas Airlines was closely linked to the CIA, either as a CIA proprietary company or as a company contracted to the agency. Set up in 1957 by the American brothers Earl J Drew and Urban L ‘Ben’ Drew, the airline based its fleet in Luxembourg. Its headquarters was in Manhattan.
In July 1960, Seven Seas had been awarded a contract with the UN for the delivery of relief goods to the Congo. The company’s four Douglas DC-4s were mainly used for flights from Europe to Leopoldville (now Kinshasa); later that year the company purchased two Boeing C-97s from the US Air Force, which were deployed to the Congo to carry UN troops and supplies around the country.
Some years later, explained Black in her article, ‘I ran across the son of the man who had identified himself to me as the manager of Seven Seas. The son confirmed what I already suspected: his father, now retired, was a career CIA officer. Both Intercontinental and Seven Seas had belonged to the CIA, he said’.
Another aircraft company linked to the CIA and operating in the Congo was Southern Air Transport, which flew DC‐6 transports. The CIA’s involvement with Southern Air became a matter of public record in 1973, when documents relating to a planned purchase of the airline were filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington, DC. The documents revealed that the CIA proprietary airlines, including Southern Air Transport and Air America, all shared the same Washington address. Southern had begun its connection with the CIA in August 1960, according to a 1973 report in the New York Times; the article quoted a Miami-based pilot as saying, ‘Everybody knows Southern was doing spook stuff’.
Another airline flying in the Congo with links to the CIA was Air Congo. On 1 June 1961, Michael Hathorn, a medical doctor escaping South Africa for exile in Accra, flew to Ghana via the Congo. ‘We boarded an Air Congo plane’, he recalled later, ‘and we were rather disconcerted at first to find that half the seats had been removed and the rear half of the cabin was filled with cases containing bank notes and ammunition!’
More:
https://roape.net/2022/06/30/the-cia-versus-the-un-the-covert-delivery-of-fighter-jets-to-katanga-in-1961/
>America, are you excited to have your own ‘EFF’?
BLM failed, created no scholarships, built no housing, enabled no minority businesses. They became only Burn, Loot, Murder as their co-founder bought mansions. The World saw it.
"Socialists" have tried in the minority communities since the 1960s, eventually people wise up and see it as only another way to create an elite caste.
In the background are 21.6 million veterans who will only put up with so much. Did South Africans hear about how they burned and looted and murdered the retired cop in Minneapolis, threatened to go into the country and burn farms, and tried to send one bus load and the country folk where there, with guns, ready to turn them into fertilizer?
South African Navy Set To Welcome China And Russia
Bloomberg January 16, 2023
By Antony Sguazzin (Bloomberg) –South Africa will next month go ahead with naval exercises off its eastern coast with Russian and Chinese warships in a decision that could further strain its relationship with some of its biggest trading partners.
Operation Mosi, which means smoke, will take place from Feb. 17 to Feb. 26. South Africa’s reluctance to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its decision to allow sanctioned Russian vessels to dock at its ports have already ramped up tensions with the US, UK and European Union who are backing Ukraine in the conflict. The country’s biggest opposition party questioned the wisdom of going ahead with the exercises.
“This gives the impression of not being neutral but being biased to one side. Clearly it can alienate us from other important trade partners, the west,” said Kobus Marais, the shadow defense minister for the Democratic Alliance. “This is in the best interests of Russia,” Marais said, calling it “another bad judgment, an embarrassment.”
While the exercise follows a similar event in 2019, it comes about a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, an event that brought into the open South Africa’s close ties with Russia due to historical support for the African country’s liberation struggle and their joint membership of the BRICS group of nations.
The US, Germany, Japan and the UK are leading trading partners for South Africa, while Russia isn’t in the top 15. Spokespeople from South Africa’s defense ministry and navy didn’t answer calls made to their phones or immediately reply to emails.
https://gcaptain.com/south-african-navy-set-to-welcome-china-and-russia/
[Three of the BRICS nations working together? Washington has to be freaked out]
>Yet the SA rand strengthens…
Of course, the USA announced it will invest in Africa and Janet Yellen is coming to visit. Must dangle the petrodollar and "social justice" before the Chinese can secure agreements or the Russians, with the Ruble backed by gold, come calling
Powership Wants To Solve South Africa’s Electricity Crisis
Bloomberg January 21, 2023
By Antony Sguazzin (Bloomberg) Karpowership, the Turkish company seeking to supply 1,220 megawatts of power to South Africa, will get a decision on its application to proceed with the projects from the nation’s environment department by March 7.
The application, which was filed earlier this month, comes at a time when the nation is suffering its worst-ever power cuts. An earlier appeal was rejected by the department after a legal challenge from environmental activists and the company has since carried out a fresh series of public consultations.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment confirmed the receipt of the application and the decision date.
Karpowership in March 2021 won the bulk of an emergency power tender seeking to secure 2,000 megawatts of electricity to ease shortages that have plagued South Africa since 2008. It would supply its energy from three ship-mounted gas-fired power plants that environmentalists have said would contribute to carbon emissions and disrupt marine ecology and fishing. They have also objected to the 20-year duration of the contract.
“South Africa is in the midst of an acute energy crisis,” Karpowership said on Friday in a response to questions. “The company is ready to help ease the heavy burden of South Africa’s energy crisis.”
South Africa had blackouts on 205 days last year and has had outages every day in 2023 because of breakdowns at the coal-fired power plants owned by Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., the state utility.
The emergency power tender has largely failed. Projects equivalent to only 7.5% of the 2,000 megawatt total have concluded their financial arrangements.
If the environmental approval is granted and financial arrangements concluded soon after, Karpowership may then deliver electricity under that arrangement within 14 to 15 months.
https://gcaptain.com/powership-wants-to-solve-south-africas-electricity-crisis/
>British were the masters of the world and their army had never been defeated.
Oh yeah? American Revolution
On October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia General Cornwallis surrendered 7,087 officers and men, 900 seamen, 144 cannons, 15 galleys, a frigate, and 30 transport ships.
Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-at-yorktown
General Research #22342 >>18235523
African Reporter Goes All Emperor’s-New-Clothes on Karine Jean-Pierre: ‘You Don’t Seem a Good Fit for This Job’
Robert Spencer
The whole world knows that Karine Jean-Pierre is unfit to be White House press secretary; any doubters can consult the evidence of every day’s press briefing for fresh evidence. KJP has become notorious for giving answers that have nothing to do with the questions she is supposed to be answering, relying over-heavily upon the canned answers provided in her briefing book, and ignoring reporters who are liable to ask inconvenient questions. But for the same reasons that she got the job in the first place, the establishment media has been reluctant to call her out and state the obvious: that a random person off the street would likely do a better job than she does. On Tuesday, however, Karine Jean-Pierre finally had her Emperor’s-New-Clothes moment: Cameroonian reporter Simon Ateba told her during a White House press briefing, “You don’t seem a good fit for this job.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/01/26/african-reporter-goes-all-emperors-new-clothes-on-karine-jean-pierre-you-dont-seem-a-good-fit-for-this-job-n1665403
Updated ANC Bun
>>17928343 This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past
>>17928349 Carl Niehaus EXPELLED by ANC for misconduct
>>17930716, >>17930730, >>17930741, >>17930747 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>17930756, >>17930762, >>17930764, >>17930770, >>17930773 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 1-5)
>>17930781, >>17930786, >>17930798, >>17930808, >>17930815 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 6-10)
>>17930829, >>17930836, >>17930857 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 11-13)
>>17940762 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President
>>17941578 Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions
>>17949590, >>17949605 Calls for Gwede Mantashe to be fired amid money laundering allegations
>>17981052 Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around
>>17981100 ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7
>>17981181 Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe
>>17987709, >>17987727, >>17987730, >>>17987736 Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula (videos)
>>18004465, >>18004467 Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future (video)
>>18004477 Ossewabrandwag, Nazi and ANC Parallels
>>18004538 SACP, Cosatu change tune on 2024 polls, throw weight behind ANC
>>18008723 Current ANC NEC composition favours Ramaphosa, gives him room to act decisively – political analyst
>>18067697, >>18067727 National Treasury and the Project Spider Web (Parts 1&2)
>>18067803 The Corruption Of The Anc Predates Codesa – Never Mind Jacob Zuma’s Presidency (video)
>>18097333 ANC to go ahead with disciplinary proceedings against MPs who antagonised Ramaphosa and “did not toe the line”
>>18097466, >>18097472 Discussion with Kobus Marais, the Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (video)
>>18174169, >>18174245 [ANC’s] RET faction joins hands with Carl Niehaus in new civil movement (video)
>>18204935, >>18204970 “Cadre deployment: ANC has a right to appoint whoever it wants in public service positions, says party counsel” (video)
>>18248211, >>18248221, >>18248252 Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate
Updated Commodities Bun
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17998464 Namibia holds the power to push Europe into darkness (video)
>>18067182, >>18067206, >>18067512, >>18067578 Who owns Absa?
>>18103960, >>18103969 David v Goliath court battle on the cards between coal mines (Parts 1&2)
>>18109501, >>18109506 Charges against Denel executive may backfire (Parts 1&2)
>>18180904, >>18180907 Shift in southern African economic landscape following Zimbabwe’s lithium ban (Parts 1&2)
Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>17910370 The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted
>>17991804 South African businessman and Honorary Consul wins entrepreneur of the year in UK – helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK
>>18058906, >>18058996, >>18060446 Wouter Basson aka Dr Death found working at a Cape Mediclinic
>>18170338 COVID-19 | Calls mount to halt vaccination drive (video)
Updated Eskom and Water Crisis Bun
>>17912749 "Water challenges" in some towns as stage 6 load-shedding takes toll on infrastructure (video)
>>17912882 Load shedding leaves taps dry in iLembe
>>17913039 Council called to order for blaming water crisis on ZESA
>>17913252 Citywide power outage hits Mbombela
>>17913267 Silulumanzi water reservoirs critically low and likely to run dry soon – City of Mbombela warns residents of water shortages due to blackouts
>>17941613 Resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis
>>17947083 80 hours and counting without electricity: eThekwini electricity department shambles exposed
>>17949532 Eskom R400 billion debt and Diesel costs
>>17981051 MPs welcome the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga
>>18008711 Eskom’s request of a 32% increase will be the death knell for several farmers in the country
>>18017293, >>18023107, >>18030109 Substation damaged at West Acres in Mbombela, residents band together to regain access to electricity
>>18030081 Phoenix community left high and dry due to no water and power
>>18030099 KFC forced to shut outlets in South Africa thanks to load shedding
>>18036664 Eskom’s load shedding just got WORSE – here’s the latest schedule
>>18041119 Day 5 and still no electricity in Mbombela’s West Acres
>>18047487 Eskom drops bombshell: It’s LIGHTS OUT on New Year’s Eve!
>>18103788, >>18103793 Attempted murder of De Ruyter reported to the South African Police Service (video)
>>18103948, >>18103955 Syndicates stole 65 truckloads of Eskom coal in a day (Parts 1&2)
>>18109424 Eskom loses billions on coal contracts
>>18109453 Eskom officials, police involved in syndicate stealing millions worth of fuel from Kriel Power Station
>>18109459 Global energy restructuring veteran KW Miller says nothing comes even close to the Eskom disaster (video)
>>18116201 DA says it’s irrational and disastrous to move Eskom to Energy Department
>>18148922 Eskom warns it could implement higher levels of power cuts – Higher than stage 6
>>18148929 “LEHOHLA: Eskom is headed for privatization (video)
>>18148934 Growing calls for government and Eskom to be sued for loadshedding (video)
>>18174065 SA's electricity crisis: Millions of chickens culled (video)
>>18180828 Diplomatic row after officials ‘invade’ Nigerian Consulate to cut off electricity over unpaid bills to the tune of R400 000
>>18180973 Angry residents protest over three-day long electricity outages in Cato Crest
>>18181034, >>18181040 Phoenix residents protest over 40-hour power outage”; "Politicians are blamed for the strike." (Parts 1&2)
>>18203021 Court battle looms over load shedding, Eskom tariff hike
>>18203023 Ramaphosa: SA’s current energy crisis a result of a "perfect storm"
>>18221578 Power cuts in SA are playing havoc with the country’s water system
>>18221605 Criminality is well organised and rife in Eskom - de Ruyter
>>18221611, >>18221625 AfriForum to start own electricity generation company; Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar in Previous Posts
>>18229656 International watchdog contracted to validate Eskom’s turnaround plans for load shedding
>>18229669 Eskom wants to get rid of another 500 white maintenance staff, says trade union Solidarity
>>18229675, >>18229678, >>18229686 Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests (Parts 1-3)
>>18229695 Eskom load shedding poses security threat to South Africans (video)
>>18231629 South Africa loses permission to import nuclear fuel for Koeberg from the US
>>18253833 Load shedding exacerbates South Africa’s food crisis, says Food Forward SA
>>18259142 Soweto Vs Eskom: War between Eskom and Soweto residents continues
>>18259227, >>18259247 Lesufi wants to write off Soweto's unpaid R5bn Eskom bill (video)
Ingonyama Trust Bun
>>18253872 Ingonyama Trust loses bid to reverse ruling on its ‘unlawful’ leases”
>>18253881 Uproar over unauthorized community trust collecting money on Zulu king’s land
>>18253904 Impasse over Ingonyama Trust Board continues even after Didiza had meeting with Zulu King
>>18253909 About Ingonyama Trust
>>18253990 King’s Trust sells people out to mining: Jindal and its empowerment partner, Sungu Sungu
>>18254004, >>18254008 Putting the Ingonyama Trust Act in Perspective (Parts 1&2)
Updated Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw
>>17928508, >>17928512 Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti (Parts 1&2)
>>17928518 Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens
>>17928530 Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement
>>17928638 Jacques Pauw biography
>>17928682 Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect? – Accused of molesting boys
>>17991857 AfriForum says SAHRC must deliver on promise to take Malema to Equality Court over hate speech
>>18170170 Court dismisses Julius Malema’s bid to appeal AfriForum’s interdict which prohibits him from calling on land grabs
>>18170175 Pay back the money: This is how much Julius Malema paid AfriForum
>>18259465, >>18259474 CIC Julius Malema Addresses EFF Press Conference (Parts 1&2)
Updated Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>17928359, >>17928365 Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed (Parts 1&2)
>>17940720, 17940724 Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning (video)
>>17930886 Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his "busy schedule"
>>17941589 President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect
>>17947035 Phala Phala vote: NDZ [Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma] dragged before ANC disciplinary committee after Pemmy Majodina's report
>>17949547 Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable
>>17981046 Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president (video)
>>17981049, >>17987697 Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case
>>17987691 Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech (video)
>>17987765 Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized" (video)
>>17991671 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele (video)
>>17991688, >>17991694 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
>>18067136, >>18067140, >>18067147, >>18067156 Zondo exposed: What the Commission did not want SA to know (Parts 1-4)
>>18067328 New PIC board appointed, includes Ramos, SARB governor reappointed
>>18148888, >>18148890, >>18148902 Zuma v Ramaphosa: NGO wants to join case as friend of court, targets NPA for alleged bias
>>18155636 Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people, says Ramaphosa (video)
>>18155740 Ramaphosa’s plan for radical economic transformation and tackling unemployment (video)
>>18202506 Former president Jacob Zuma locks horns with King Misuzulu at Isandlwana commemoration over speech that was seen as pro-Ramaphosa
>>18221568 Public Protector's office wraps up Phala Phala investigation
Updated Violence and Crime Bun
>>17914160 Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment (video)
>>17914170, >>17914179 What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]
>>17928698, >>17928703 Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later (Parts 1&2)
>>17928752, >>17928795, >>17928827, >>17928842, >>17928880, >>17928890 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>17928983, >>17929949, >>17929976 Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP) (video)
>>17949610 Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded
>>17981044 Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022
>>17991756 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>17991765 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
>>17991793 Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences
>>18008371 Clive Derby-Lewis The last FULL INTERVIEW (video)
>>18030076 Ransom kidnappings on the rise in South African crimes (video)
>>18030180 A high court judgment that invites more land invasions (video)
>>18030895 Twitter User Claims Teens in Alleged Free State Racism Attack Pushed 3-Year-Old Into Pool Starting Chaos
>>18031053 Anti-crime village hero in hiding after evil stock-thieves gun down wife & 7 family members (video)
>>18047484 War on Women: Son kills mom, drinks her blood and woman shot dead in Gateway Mall
>>18047757, >>18047881, >>18058576 How shipping giant MSC reacted to billion-dollar cocaine bust; Aponte Family
>>18058549, >>18058563 140 Days After the Perfect Crime” – “MSC’s five major drug busts this year (Parts 1&2)
>>18097337 R8.2m splurged on ‘camera-friendly’ Bheki Cele and company’s ‘jet-setting’ travels
>>18110169 10111 crisis: More than seven million calls dropped at severely understaffed call centres
>>18116174 Police captain accuses Bok scrum-half Faf de Klerk of ‘attempted murder’
>>18155647 More high-profile names implicated on graft corruption at the National Lotteries Commission (video)
>>18180780 Cable thieves plunge Mdantsane hospital into crisis mode (video)
>>18230676 “They cant kill us all” – Antifa/EFF
>>18248259 The Bloody War Against South African Gang Leaders and Notorious Drug kingpins…PAGAD (video)
>>18248271 Cape Town's most dangerous communities: Investigating SAPS (video)
>>18254028, >>18254032 Gardee murder case shocker
Jacob Zuma Bun
>>18097339 Zuma blasts Ramaphosa over special treatment bid
>>18155654 Zuma foundation slams Ramaphosa interdict
>>18254152, >>18254261 Judge Piet Koen recuses himself from Jacob Zuma Arms Deal trial (video)
Notables are NOT Endorsements
coming up on 450
#10-A
>>17914407 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm - Leonard McCarthy
>>17918335 Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came
>>17918413, >>17918415, >>17918417, >>17918429 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>17918441, >>17918450, >>17915453, >>17918458, >>17918465, >>17918479 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 5-10)
>>17918492 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Part 11)
>>17918524, >>17918536 Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco
>>17918547 Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society
>>17918570, >>17918581, >>17918600 Olaf Prime murder
>>17918620 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
>>17940739 Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash
>>17941585 300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17949516 FBI beat security cluster in identifying cyber hack of the SA Reserve Bank
>>17981057 Video exposes the DIRE state of Tembisa Hospital (mp4)
>>17981148 Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS (video)
>>17981373, >>17981407 "Black people can NEVER be racist," Vishoek High learners told
>>17991659 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them
>>17991807 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row
>>17995267 ANC Bun | Arthur Frasier Bun
>>17995274 Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw | Janusz Walus Bun
>>17998361 ENJOY THE SHOW | Director's Cut” [How Intelligence Agencies are involved in coups] (video)
>>17998394, >>17998455, >>18000989, >>18013142 Lesotho may want to take the Free State (Parts 1&2); shades of Katanga
>>18004483 AfriForum's Ernst Roets' speech at the United Nations on anti-minority discrimination in SA (video)
>>18007718, >>18007726, >>18007738 Apartheid Guns and Money: Graphics (Parts 1-3)
>>18017078, >>18017083, >>18017112 State Defence, SANDF silent in face of speculation Lady R was shipping Russian weaponry (Parts 1&2)
>>18017344 Armscor, Rheinmetall, Nazi Ties
>>18047491 Plan to build South Africa’s first Smart Township revealed (Kayamandi)
>>18047500 Mediclinic accepts R75 billion bid from SA’s richest man Johann Rupert
>>18058667, >>18058673, >>18058690 South Africa: Who’s who in Johann Rupert’s network? (Parts 1-3)
>>18058746 Johann Rupert and Gianluigi Aponte ties to JP Morgan Chase & Co.
>>18058792 Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal
>>18157674, >>18203017 South African Navy Set To Welcome China And Russia; SA-China-Russia military exercise: Thandi Modise hits back at critics, says there was ‘no hype’ when US Army came
>>18167336 Konstantin Kisin: This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far (video)
>>18169949 Southern Africa troops face investigation over bodies video: Al Jazeera Newsfeed - Mozambique (video)
>>18202236, >>18202244 The Club of Rome and the Rise of the “Predictive Modelling” Mafia (Parts 1&2, videos)
>>18203009 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in high-level talks with Minister Naledi Pandor in Pretoria (video)
>>18203753, >>18203797, >>18203841, >>18203886 eSwatini Unrest: Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko killed (video)
>>18221591, >>18221603 ‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated
>>18221687 Team SA pulling out all the stops at Davos
>>18231534, >>18231560 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visit to South Africa (video)
#10-B
>>18254097, >>18260006 Stability at various KZN municipalities under threat due to EFF, IFP divorce
>>18263155 Updated ANC Bun
>>18263157 Updated Commodities Bun
>>18263158 Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>18263159 Updated Eskom and Water Crisis Bun
>>18263161 Ingonyama Trust Bun
>>18263162 Updated Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw
>>18263164 Updated Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>18263166 Updated Violence and Crime Bun
>>18263167 Jacob Zuma Bun
General Research #22528 >>18377394
“Everyone is at Risk for Blood Clots!” – CDC and Pfizer Issue Urgent Warnings on Blood Clots Even in “The Healthiest Athletes”
Both CDC and Pfizer have recently issued a public warning about “blood clots.”
Last February 10, the CDC issued a warning normalizing the idea that young adults and healthy athletes develop blood clots.
Of course, no one has ever heard of this frequent phenomenon before the COVID vaccines.
“#DYK [do you know] that anyone can develop a blood clot? Whether you’re an athlete or a fan, don’t let a blood clot ruin the big game this weekend. Learn how to protect your healt” CDC tweeted out.
The CDC failed to mention on their website the COVID-19 vaccines as one of the factors that can increase this risk.
Last year, a stunning new study that was conducted by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), has concluded that the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine increases the risk of developing a rare and deadly blood clotting condition in the brain.
A study by Oxford University early last year also revealed that the number of people who developed blood clots after getting vaccinated was about the same for those who get Pfizer and Moderna vaccines as they are for the AstraZeneca, Market Watch reported.
Following CDC’s caution, Pfizer has issued a public warning about “deep vein thrombosis” or blood clots in the vein on February 14.
“Deep vein thrombosis (#DVT), a blood clot in a deep vein, can travel to the lungs, leading to a pulmonary embolism (#PE). Symptoms of PE include difficulty breathing and chest pain. Contact your doctor if experiencing symptoms—this is no time to wait,” Pfizer tweeted out.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/everyone-risk-blood-clots-cdc-pfizer-issue-urgent-warnings-blood-clots-even-healthiest-athletes/
General Research #22590 >>18425798
French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools
28 Feb, 2023 12:48
Emmanuel Macron wants to rebrand Paris’ presence in its former colonies as cultural and economic projects
Since France was dumped by some of its former colonies in Africa in favor of new partners, like Russia and China, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new plan in an obvious effort to have an excuse to keep hanging out in the hope of winning hearts and minds.
How exactly does Macron plan on doing that? Certainly not by “taking people for imbeciles”, as he said on February 28 while announcing his new African strategy ahead of a tour of the continent this week. “We aren’t going to do common good,” Macron stated, underscoring that France clearly has interests and isn’t going to pretend otherwise. After a remark like that, one might be lulled into believing that everything else that he said would be equally straightforward.
That’s not exactly the case. Rather, Macron is just announcing a different manipulation tactic – because Washington’s model of deploying military shock and awe on resource-rich countries in the hope of ultimately translating it into business deals apparently isn’t getting the job done. Even worse, the West is now worried about being outdone on the security and economic front by Russia and China. And for all the patronizing attempts to warn African countries to avoid dealing with them — most recently by Western officials at the Munich Security Conference — it turns out that treating African leaders like they don’t know what’s in their own best interests isn’t working, either.
The big question in the wake of Mali giving the boot to France’s years-long “counter-terrorism” mission, leading to an exit of the country’s armed forces from the region, was how Paris would justify sticking around. In 2021, there were over 19,000 deaths related to Islamist violence, more than in 2015, when Boko Haram was at its strongest, in the Sahel – the region that France ostensibly sought to stabilize.
So France was fired. For all its time in the region, Paris wasn’t able to parlay its security footprint into the kind of economic and resource deals that it wanted on behalf of both itself and resource-poor Europe.
Macron tipped his hat early in his speech by evoking the Franc of the Financial Community of Africa, as a sort of anchor for the Franco-African cooperation that he’s introducing. The controversial currency, used in 14 African countries and printed in France, is pegged to the Euro. Some consider it a symbol of colonialism and a lack of sovereignty, while the Western establishment generally considers it a source of stability for these countries that attract investment.
Back in 2019 when she was in opposition, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni called it the “colonial currency” to which France “applies seigniorage and by virtue of which it exploits the resources of these nations.” Macron would now like to build on that, s’il vous plaît.
To that end, the French President has a new idea that involves Africans forgetting France’s military presence on the continent. Its bases in Africa are now going to be co-managed with Africans and some will be rebranded “academies”, he said. Apparently, in today’s Western world, if an army base wants to self-identify as a school, that’s now entirely its right.
The move to soften France’s image in Africa after having overseen the proliferation of jihadists under its counter-terrorism missions looks a lot like the Biden administration’s new PR efforts aimed at Africa. “Jill Biden’s visit to Namibia was a big hit with scores of giddy children who crowded around her Thursday as she handed out boxes of White House M&Ms after visiting an organization that gets US support for programs that teach young adults about HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence,” the Associated Press reported on February 23.
Macron is also playing up new French-led cooperative initiatives for Africa in culture, sports, health, digital technology, and education. All backed by a European team, he said — in case there were any doubts as to the European Union using France to wedge open the door to resource heaven. Macron also repeatedly mentioned partnerships with African civil society. Translation: French cash for NGO “influencers”. That’s generally called a “paid partnership” on social media, and the ethical protocol is to disclose that funding relationship. What are the odds that the French-backed NGOs will be doing the same when attempting to influence their fellow citizens?
Macron spoke of France’s network of African diaspora, able to open the doors to increased business cooperation in their countries of origin. It sounded like he was planning to just swoop in and rain cash on African enterprise. But how much of that, in reality, will end up benefiting French companies and their shareholders?…..
https://www.rt.com/africa/572192-macron-french-military-africa/
General Research #22627 >>18453881
Orca pair devour 17 sharks in a day in South African killing spree, say marine biologists
An infamous pair of adult male orca whales in South Africakilled 17 sharksin "one sitting," according tomarinebiologists.
The team at Marine Dynamics Conservation Trust has been tracking the two whales, named Port and Starboard, who are known to prey on several species of sharks.
They found the orcas "repeatedly diving down in a small area for almost two hours before they departed offshore."
Days later, they found the remains of 11 of the 17 killed sevengill sharks in Pearly Beach. Sevengill sharks can grow up to 10 feet in length.
"Each sevengill shark was torn open and missing its liver," said the Maine Dynamics Conservation Trust. The orcas had also devoured the contents of the sharks' stomachs.
The conservation trust said the sharks were washed to shore as due to storm and surge conditions, Alison Towner, PhD candidate at Rhodes University and research lead, said, "this is the largest amount of sharks these orcas have killed in this area in one sitting," says Towner, "There could well be more that didn't wash out."
The orca duo have been tracked since 2009 but are most commonly seen in False Bay, South Africa, where they were first spotted in 2015.
They are easy to identify due to their rare collapsed dorsal fins.
Before 2015, great white shark sightings were common in the region and were famous for spectacular breaching when theyhunted seals, but their population is now negligible.
The carcasses of several great white sharks have since washed up on the shores of False Bay, all grossly injured and with their oil-rich livers ripped out. For the first time in May 2022, scientists were able to film Starboard killing a great white shark.
https://www.sciencealert.com/two-orcas-went-on-feeding-frenzy-killing-17-sharks-in-one-sitting
Well look at that, South Africa getting shill attention
What do they fear? More military cooperation with China and Russia? Perhaps leaving the SWIFT financial system and the U.S. dollar behind?
What I find interesting is they post the word "kaffir" that I've only heard once in my life, and it sounded like "kaffa" and came in dialogue from the 1978 movie "The Wild Geese" (A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator)
Look at the posts, not only are they trying the racial division that fails so miserably on the General Research breads, but they make sure to throw "jewish" in there as well.
According to Yandex, the Zulu word for "bullshit" is "ubuqili" which is what these five year-old tactics are and always have been. The question would be who has the most to gain from such division?
Canada #41 >>18463023
‘Colonization’: Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov’t to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa
Kennedy Hall March 7, 2023
The Ugandan politician also took aim at Canada's promotion of contraceptives and its insistence on providing so-called sexual education to children.
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) –– Ugandan Member of Parliament Lucy Akello spoke to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on Tuesday, telling the Canadian government that her nation is not interested in abortion being tied to international aid from developed countries like Canada.
Akello opened with a strong statement directed toward the efforts of the Canadian government to push a pro-abortion mentality on Africans, stating: “About abortion, our people are still loyal to religious truth and cultures… it seems no matter how much money will be spent on making abortion look good, our people still see through the money, the marketing and mass education…”
“Africa has a long history of colonization just like Canada [with] foreign-led governments telling us what is good for us, or what our priorities should be,” she said.
She added that the women she represents as an MP are “able to see through” the push to spread an abortive and contraceptive mentality in Africa. “We believe life starts from conception,” she said. “Where I come from, once conception takes place, it is life.”
Akello told those present that in Uganda even miscarried babies are “given a decent burial, irrespective of the sex.”
To support her African pro-life stance she referenced multiple studies from the continent that demonstrated that the “overwhelming majority of Africans” are pro-life.
She said that pro-life activity far outweighs any pro-abortion sentiment in the continent and that “hardly any” anti-life action exists. “Unborn babies have a right to live and deserve to be protected by laws,” she continued.
Akello told the committee that pushing hormonal contraception on Africans is “hurting” African women due to the “side effects of hormonal contraception.” She also took aim at Canada’s push to spread so-called sex education in Africa.
“The parents who I represent see [sexual education] as an assault to the health and the innocence of children.”
She finished her opening remarks by imploring the Canadian government to spend more resources “keep[ing] the girl child at school as opposed to giving them contraceptives.”
Shadow minister for international development, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, asked the first question after thanking her for making the trip to Canada and took a shot at fellow politicians saying: “Sometimes we have public servants who don’t want to come from their offices to be with us in person.”
He asked Akello how developed nations could help bring resources to developing nations like Uganda without imposing values that are not welcome there.
She replied by saying that in the past, donors would ask what the values of a nation were before offering resources, but that has changed and now donations come with an ideology attached. She said Africans are told by donors, “you must fit in our values” in order to receive money and resources.
“If you want to help,” she continued, “come build what I have, as opposed to making me fit in your priorities.”
She doubled down on her insistence that international support from nations like Canada should be focused on keeping young women in school. “When we keep the girl at school… she will definitely stay out of unwanted pregnancy.” Akello also said that more money for maternal and pediatric health centers were needed, as opposed to funding for contraceptives and abortion.
Liberal MP Robert Oliphant expressed his disagreement with Akello’s presentation, and said that Uganda’s sovereignty as a nation and culture came second to what “the world community has decided.” He told her that “human rights are universal, and transcend political boundaries.”
More:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/colonization-ugandan-mp-tells-canadian-govt-to-keep-pro-abortion-propaganda-out-of-africa/
Let's review, shall we?: We have >>18397616 where Eskom is Stage 8 Load Shedding, yet >>18231629 the U.S. denies new fuel rods for the nuclear power plants. We had in #9 iirc discussions in Washington about how to punish South Africa for not imposing sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. In bread #9 we had a bun about Antony Blinken and his visit to South Africa, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has made a vist as well. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, Vice-Resident of the U.S. talks about investing millions in Africa. The "carrot and the stick" comes to mind. South Africa is the "S" in the BRICS nations, and we saw in #9 >>16739148 where Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Egypt want to join. Brazil now has Lula the commie back in office (stolen election anyone?) so no idea how friendly they will be with Washington. Then there's the European Union that shot themselves in the foot with sanctions on Russia. Oops, away goes the natural gas, the oil, the coal, and the metals. So, Biden tries to be all hero and let Venezuela export oil to Europe, and look the other way when imports from Iran are needed to thin that heavy crude. Waiting to see them get all friendly with Angola for more oil. Metals? We've been there, Katanga Province in the DRC and anywhere else in Africa. I'm not sure how much coverage news broadcasts in South Africa give to coal exports, but China has surpassed India in buying South African coal, and the EU is surging imports. Anons right here know who is waiting to deliver… Glencore Xstrata, Anglo-American, and their partners.
So the West got Mandela and the ANC in power, crowed about how awesome that was, slowly lifted sanctions, and then what? Honestly, what has the EU and US done for South Africa, other than the killer covid shots, since Mandela became President? I would love to see video of Ramaphosa asking these Western representatives where their countries have been these past decades while looking them right in the eyes knowing they need South Africa more than South Africa needs them. BRICS Member, get new fuel rods for the reactors from Russia or China, they could even send techs to fix them up great.
General Research #22679 >>18494322
Rapper Costa Titch Dies at 28 After Collapsing Onstage During Performance
Alana Mastrangelo 12 Mar 2023
South African rapper Costa Titch, whose real name was Constantinos Tsobanoglou, has died at the age of 28 after collapsing onstage while performing at a Johannesburg music festival on Saturday. No cause of death was announced.
“Death has tragically knocked at our door. Robbing us of our beloved son, brother, and grandson. Constantinos Tsobanoglou (28), who South Africa had come to love and idolize under his stage name ‘Costa Titch,'” the rapper’s family wrote on his Instagram page.
“It is with deep pain that we find ourselves having to acknowledge his passing at this time,” they added. “We are thankful for the emergency responders and all those present in his last hours on this earth.”
The family went on to ask the public for “time and space” as they “try to make sense of what has befallen us.”
“As a family we are faced with a difficult time as we try to make sense of what has befallen us and ask that we be afforded the time and space to gather ourselves,” they wrote.
“The Tsobanoglou family thanks you for the love and support you have given to our son and may you continue to uplift him even in spirit. Please keep us in your prayers and uplifted in the Lord,” the rapper’s family concluded.
Costa Titch was reportedly performing at the Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg South, South Africa, when he collapsed onstage. After that, someone was seeing rushing to help the rapper, who briefly regained his footing before falling again.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/03/12/rapper-costa-titch-dies-at-28-after-collapsing-onstage-during-performance/
Mining is a huge chunk of the South African Economy. China and India has increased their imports of South African coal, and shipments to Europe are on the upswing to try to replace Russian imports sanctioned by the EU. Metals will follow, so trying to keep an eye on the DRC and Katanga Province in particular.
Africa would have to cut off Europe from coal, iron, lithium, copper, and aluminum.
This bread is #10 for South Africa, so not only have there been buns for Farm Murders, Violence and Crime, but the illegal miners known as Zama Zamas. As far as ores and coal go, the biggest players are Anglo-American and Glencore Xstata and have had tremendous influence back in Apartheid regimes up to the ANC now. Those outfits operate with great impunity and were doing huge business despite the Apartheid Sanctions. Glencore moved tons with a "ghost fleet" of ships, just like is happening with sanctioned Russian oil now. Somewhere in there is Johann Rupert as well. Back in bread #9 we had the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation being invested in the Rio Tinto mines. https://www.newsmax.com/MatthewKlynsmith/Bill-Gates-Wellcome-trust-South-Africa-Mining/2015/05/29/id/647577/
The Wellcome Trust has been popping up again, not just South Africa, but Canada and the General Research breads as well iirc.
What Europe needs to be wary of is the EFF and the ANC getting into open conflict, as in gunfire. Combine that civil war with the Eskom power grid collapse and the ports won't be loading any ships.
>>18514650 (me)
The United States screwy when it comes to the whole African Continent. We have in #9 >>16738632 ANALYSIS: Proposed U.S. law seeks to punish African countries for ‘aligning’ with Russia” - Viktor Vekselberg, ANC, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s brother-in-law Patrice Motsepe, Norilsk Nickel. But oh wait, Antony Blnken comes to visit, then Janet Yellen, all let's be friends meanwhile the Biden Regime pulls the permission to ship South Africa new fuel rods for Eskom's few nuclear reactors in the middle of Stage 8 Load Shedding. "Russia bad, be friends with us, do things our way, forget you are a BRICS nation, no you can't have fuel rods to get the lights back on an the water pumping." China and Russia both have nuke power plants, I bet they could spare some fuel rods
Ramaphosa might still go with some Chinese Belt & Road to expand the port in Durban, depends on if he's willing to surrender control of the port
Big things and big players, but Western Media is silent
Very interesting,
Saw the mention of Pinochet, saw the mention of Argentina. Took a peek about Juan Peron, found this:
As of December 2020, Argentina’s total national debt was $336 billion, or nearly 90 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP). Of that, the government owes $45 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and $2.4 billion to the Paris Club, an informal group of private creditors.
China and Argentina have become close trading partners in the past two decades, and in February 2022, Argentina officially signed on to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In recent years, Chinese investment in Argentina has been concentrated in the telecommunications, agriculture, and infrastructure sectors, and has included financing for a nuclear power plant and a space station. Between 2005 and 2019, Chinese investment in Argentina totaled $30.6 billion, or nearly 40 percent of all Chinese investment in South America. Both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Fernandez have expressed a desire to deepen the comprehensive China-Argentina strategic partnership.
Meanwhile, Argentina remains a major non–North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally of the United States, but experts say that bilateral relations seesaw depending on both countries’ political leadership. During the Kirchner administrations in the early 2000s, relations were strained by Argentina’s isolationist foreign policy, its close relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and its stance on Iran. But relations improved under Macri, who engaged with the United States on several fronts [PDF] during the Barack Obama and Donald Trump administrations. (Argentina and the United States were among twelve countries that voted in 2019 to invoke the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance [PDF] in response to the crisis in Venezuela.) Both U.S. presidents visited Argentina, while Macri’s 2017 visit to the White House was the first by an Argentine leader in nearly a decade. The U.S.-Argentina partnership has remained steady under Fernandez and Joe Biden, with cooperation focused primarily on addressing climate change.
The Argentina-EU partnership remains strong, and areas of cooperation include business, science, and technology. On trade, the EU continues to be a major destination [PDF] for Argentina’s agricultural products and raw materials, and as a member of Mercosur, Argentina is part of ongoing negotiations to ratify a free trade agreement with the bloc.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/argentina-south-american-power-struggles-stability
>>18554694 (me)
Paris Club got me here: (Yes, anons do not consider wikipedia good sauce, but it's a start)
The Paris Club (French: Club de Paris) is a group of officials from major creditor countries whose role is to find co-ordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries. As debtor countries undertake reforms to stabilize and restore their macroeconomic and financial situation, Paris Club creditors provide an appropriate debt treatment.
Paris Club creditors provide debt treatments to debtor countries in the form of rescheduling, which is debt relief by postponement or, in the case of concessional rescheduling, reduction in debt service obligations during a defined period (flow treatment) or as of a set date (stock treatment).[1]
The Paris Club was created gradually from 1956, when the first negotiation between Argentina and its public creditors took place in Paris.[2] The Paris Club treats public claims (that is to say, those due by governments of debtor countries and by the private sector), guaranteed by the public sector to Paris Club members. A similar process occurs for public debt held by private creditors in the London Club, which was organized in 1970 on the model of the Paris Club as an informal group of commercial banks meet to renegotiate the debt they hold on sovereign debtors.
Creditor countries meet ten times a year in Paris for Tour d'Horizon and negotiating sessions. To facilitate Paris Club operations, the French Treasury provides a small secretariat, and a senior official of the French Treasury is appointed chairman.[3]
Since 1956, the Paris Club has signed 433 agreements with 90 countries covering over US$583 billion.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Club
London Club
The London Club is an informal group of private creditors on the international stage, and is similar to the Paris Club of public lenders. The London Club is not the only informal group of private payables. The first meeting of the London Club took place in 1976 in response to Zaire's debt payment problems.
The London Club of commercial banks has been responsible for rescheduling countries debt payments to commercial banks.[1][page needed][2] A meeting of the London Club took place in 1976 in response to Zaire's debt payment problems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Club
>>18554703 (me again)
Paris Club Membership
In the 1950s, Western creditors, led by France, created a process for rescheduling their loans to defaulting countries. It came to be called “the Paris Club.”
The Paris Club is an informal institution with no legal foundation. It emerged at a time when there was little international lending to low-income/developing countries. Virtually all of the lending to these countries was from government agencies (foreign aid agencies and export credit agencies) in the high-income countries. There was very little lending to these countries by commercial banks because they were deemed to be uncreditworthy. There was virtually no debt owed by these countries to private-sector investors in the form of bonds floated in the international capital market because of the history of bond defaults earlier in the 20th century.
There are only two requirements to be a Paris Club member. One is to be a country with a substantial amount of outstanding loans from its government agencies to borrowers in foreign countries. The other is to fully accept “the main principles and rules of the Paris Club.”
Today, the Paris Club has 22 Permanent Members.3 They are all members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD—the Paris-based forum of the countries with the most advanced free-market economies), except for Brazil and the Russian Federation.
In addition, there are 14 “Ad hoc Participants” in meetings of the Paris Club, notably including China, India, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.4 These countries are invited to participate in negotiations with a debtor country to which they have substantial loan exposure. They sign the Agreed Minute for the negotiations in which they participate, and they are bound by it.
There are also three categories of Observers that participate in Paris Club meetings but not in the actual negotiations with debtor countries. These are: (1) representatives of nine international financial institutions, starting with the IMF and the World Bank;5 (2) representatives of Permanent Members that have no debt owed by the particular debtor country seeking debt relief; and (3) representatives of other countries with debt owed by the particular country seeking relief but are not in a position—generally for political reasons—to sign the Agreed Minute.
Paris Club Principles
The Paris Club website lists six principles.
Case-by-case means that each debtor country is treated separately. This principle was formalized in the 1970s when there were calls for generalized debt relief for developing countries in the UNCTAD-led “North-South Negotiations.”
Solidarity is working together respectfully. Implicit here is the notion of nondiscrimination: all members in their bilateral implementing agreements will adhere to the terms of the Agreed Minute.
Consensus means that all participating members in a negotiation must support the terms in the Agreed Minute.
Information sharing is the commitment of members to fully disclose their loan exposures in borrowing countries with each other, and with the IMF and World Bank, on a confidential basis.
Conditionality is the most controversial principle for the borrowing countries. It links the debt relief provided by members to countries that are: (a) in default or facing imminent default; (b) committed to reforms that will restore their creditworthiness; and (c) implementing a policy reform program supported by the IMF. It is controversial because low-income countries in the UN’s developing country G-77 caucus have sought unconditional debt relief (debt relief on demand) since the 1970s.
Comparable treatment means that debtor countries accepting Paris Club debt relief commit to providing no better treatment to non-member bilateral official creditors (e.g. China) and commercial creditors (commercial banks and bondholders). This has been a highly contentious principle because private-sector creditors always want to be “bailed out” by their governments. Private creditors argue that they provide “non-political” financing and therefore their loans should have seniority over official creditors in the sovereign debt restructuring process. Official creditors argue that they should have seniority because they often provide new financing when private creditors refuse to and because private creditors charge higher interest rates to reflect default risk. The comparable treatment principle does not extend to bank and bond debt owed by private-sector borrowers in defaulting countries.
More:
https://www.stimson.org/2021/normalizing-chinas-relations-with-the-paris-club/
Canada #41 >>18601760
The Biden Effect: South African Minister Says Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Argentina, Mexico, Nigeria, and Others Want to Join BRICS Alliance
by Jim Hoft Mar. 29, 2023 9:15 am
Leaders from the BRICS Alliance meet in 2018 including Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The BRICs nations include – Brazil, Russia, India, and China and South Africa.
recently, South Africa’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor announced that Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Algeria, Argentina, Mexico, Nigeria, and other nations want to join BRICS Alliance. This is a direct threat to the West and US dollar dominance.
Was this always the plan for the Obama-Biden regime? To take down US dominance on the global stage? Because it sure looks like it.
Via Kanekoa.
South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor says Saudia Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Algeria, Argentina, Mexico, Nigeria, and other nations want to join BRICS.
Since the start of the US proxy war in Ukraine, BRICS nations have refused to https://t.co/p79OrHGWib… pic.twitter.com/j6LFKOtUjr
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 28, 2023
The Hindu reported:
The acronym began as a somewhat optimistic term to describe what were the world’s fastest-growing economies at the time. But now the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are setting themselves up as an alternative to existing international financial and political forums.
“The founding myth of the emerging economies has faded,” Günther Maihold, deputy director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, or SWP, confirmed. “The BRICS countries are experiencing their geopolitical moment.”
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are trying to position themselves as representatives of the Global South, providing “an alternative model to the G7”. The G7 is an “informal forum” of heads of state of the world’s most advanced economies, founded in 1975. Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Canada, and the US are members, as is the EU…
…South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said worldwide interest in the BRICS group was “huge.” In early March, she told television interviewers that she had 12 letters from interested countries on her desk.
“Saudi Arabia is one,” she said. “United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Algeria, and Argentina,” as well as Mexico and Nigeria. “Once we’ve shaped the criteria [for lending], we will then make the decision,” she said, noting that the topic would be placed on the agenda for the upcoming August summit in South Africa.
The most recent economic developments in BRICS member states have little to do with the initial myths upon which the group was founded. Of the five members, only China has achieved sustained and extensive growth since then.
The expansion of the BRICS Alliance is a threat to US global dominance. This may likely be the Democrat Party’s dream scenario.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/the-biden-effect-south-african-minister-says-saudi-arabia-uae-egypt-argentina-mexico-nigeria-and-others-want-to-join-brics-alliance/
Brazil, Russia, India, China, & South Africa Working on Developing ‘New Currency’
By Chris March 31, 2023
The world’s major economic powers are moving away from the US dollar and working towards creating a new global currency. The BRICS alliance, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is said to be collaborating on developing their own currency. This initiative is seen as a strategy for promoting shared objectives among the BRICS nations and reducing dependence on the United States.
According to a top Russian official, the move towards a new global currency will boost trade relations between “friendly nations.” Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, there is an opportunity for Moscow to explore more Indian markets and vice versa, with the aim of promoting a “common currency.”
“New Delhi, Beijing and Moscow are the nations that now institute a multipolar world that is endorsed by the majority of governments,” the Russian official said.
State Duma Deputy Chairman Alexander Babakov emphasized the need for a new currency that does not rely on the US dollar or euro, but rather forms a new currency capable of benefiting shared objectives.
“Its composition should be based on inducting new monetary ties established on a strategy that does not defend the U.S.’s dollar or euro, but rather forms a new currency competent of benefiting our shared objectives.” This initiative by Russia is seen as a step towards a multipolar world that is endorsed many of America’s foes.
However, the BRICS alliance poses a significant threat to the Biden administration and America. With a combined population of 3.1 billion people (40% of the world’s population) and a nominal GDP of $40 trillion (over 20% of the world’s GDP), the BRICS alliance is a force to be reckoned with. China, as the largest member in terms of population, nominal GDP, and export value, is positioned as the de facto leader of the group.
This shift away from the US dollar has significant implications for the global financial system. The US dollar has been the dominant global currency for decades, with many countries holding significant reserves in US dollars. The move towards a new global currency could challenge the dominance of the US dollar, leading to significant changes in the global financial landscape.
For the Biden administration, this shift away from the US dollar could lead to a loss of economic influence and geopolitical power. The US dollar’s dominance has enabled the United States to impose economic sanctions on countries that do not comply with its policies. A shift towards a new global currency could make it more difficult for the US to enforce these sanctions and limit its ability to exert economic pressure on other countries.
The Biden administration will need to adapt to these changes and find new ways to maintain its economic influence and geopolitical power in this new multipolar world.
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/new-brazil-russia-india-china-south-africa-working-on-developing-new-currency-mace/
Ghost Trains Hobble South African Ports
March 28, 2023
By Arijit Ghosh (Bloomberg) Transnet SOC is probing the existence of illegal freight trains that are depriving South Africa’s state-owned rail operator of revenue.
The logistics firms that’s struggling to ship coal and iron ore said the “ghost trains” aren’t scheduled formally by the company.
“Considering that these serious allegations have not yet been accompanied by supporting evidence, Transnet has referred the allegations for independent investigation,” it said in a statement on Monday. If the allegations “are proven correct, Transnet will act swiftly.”
The suspected illegal train movements are another headache for Transnet, which also runs the nation’s main ports and fuel pipelines. The company has been hobbled by a shortage of locomotive parts, the theft of cables used to operate its electric trains and inefficiencies that have arisen due to it being a monopoly. That’s hurting South African miners and exporters.
Thungela Resources Ltd., South Africa’s largest exporter of thermal coal, said on Monday it expects sales to drop for a second year because of bottlenecks at Transnet.
https://gcaptain.com/ghost-trains-hobble-south-african-ports/
Zimbabweans outraged by Al Jazeera exposé on gold smuggling elite
An Al Jazeera investigation exposed several individuals linked to the government who are involved in gold smuggling.
By Chris Muronzi 30 Mar 2023
Harare, Zimbabwe – Revelations of gold smuggling by individuals affiliated with Zimbabwean government officials and the ruling party in an Al Jazeera documentary have triggered outrage in the country.
The four-part documentary titled The Gold Mafia was filmed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), based on dozens of undercover operations spanning three continents and thousands of documents.
It exposed how huge amounts of gold are clandestinely smuggled every month from Zimbabwe, Africa’s sixth-largest gold producer, to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, aiding money laundering through an intricate web of shell companies, fake invoices and paid-off officials.
Uebert Angel, presidential envoy and ambassador-at-large to Europe and the Americas since March 2021, was secretly filmed bragging that he could move $1.2bn easily, due to his diplomatic immunity.
Other individuals filmed or named in the documentary as being part of smuggling rings include Zimbabwe Miners Federation President Henrietta Rushwaya – believed to be the niece of President Emmerson Mnangagwa – and Kamlesh Pattni, a businessman previously involved in a gold smuggling scandal in Kenya.
Pattni, who “knighted” Robert Mugabe as King of Kings in March 2012, handing over a black gown and gold crown to the late leader, still has strong connections to the ruling party.
In October 2020, Rushwaya was arrested at the Harare airport for attempting to smuggle gold to Dubai. Her case is still in court but the National Prosecuting Authority has said there is not enough evidence for a conviction.
Chris Mutsvangwa, spokesman for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), blamed the West for attempting to foment public anger through the documentary.
“The country’s detractors, who coalesced aroundGeorge Soros and his Open Society Institute of Southern Africaare clearly miffed and terribly disappointed that Zimbabwe has reverted to and resurrected gold as the reference anchor of the US Dollar,” said Mutsvangwa in a statement.
“Countries under sanctions have to find ways of circumventing the sanctions,” government spokesman Nick Mangwana said in a tweet, drawing widespread criticism from users. “This may mean having to procure supplies through third parties or sell in grey market.”
More:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/30/zimbabweans-outraged-by-al-jazeera-expose-of-gold-smuggling-elite
Big Ship Power: South Africa Pushed Forward On Electric Powership Deal
By Antony Sguazzin and Borges Nhamire (Bloomberg) April 1, 2023
Eskom Holdings SOC is considering buying electricity from a Karpowership plant to be located offshore Mozambique after declining to sign agreements to procure power from facilities the Turkish company planned to moor off the South African coast.
The South African utility is in talks with Electricidade de Mocambique for buying the output from a 415-megawatt Karpowership power station, which will be mounted on a ship stationed in Maputo Bay and burn low-sulfur oil.
“Discussions with Eskom, as one of the potential offtakers, are ongoing and an offer has been submitted for their internal review,” the state-owned Mozambican company said in a response to queries. “The final off-taker is expected to be the export market due to the exacerbation of the power deficit that we are witnessing in some countries in the region, including South Africa.”
The beleaguered utility, which supplies almost all South Africa’s power, can’t meet demand and has been subjecting the continent’s most-industrialized economy to rotational blackouts of 10 hours or more a day. The government has said it wants to buy 1,000 megawatts of electricity from neighboring states, many of which are suffering outages of their own.
“Eskom will be undertaking a fair and transparent process to acquire,” that power, it said in a response to queries ,without addressing whether it is wants to tap output from the Karpowership facility. “A procurement strategy is being developed,” it said, adding that it has received unsolicited offers.
The Maputo plant, which adds to a smaller facility operated by the Turkish company off Nacala in northern Mozambique, is expected to get environmental approval in June and start operating in October, EDM said. Karpowership confirmed the October target. EDM also said Zimbabwe and Zambia could be potential buyers for the power.
An off-take accord could attract opposition from environmentalists, who have delayed the company’s South African plans for gas-fired plants on ships by filing objections over the potential impact on marine life.
Karpowership in 2021 won a tender to supply 1,220 megawatts of power to South Africa. In addition to the environmental objections, a lawsuit and Eskom’s demand for an indemnity against any adverse outcomes from corruption allegations have stalled the deal. Karpowership has described Eskom’s demand as irregular and has denied any wrongdoing.
https://gcaptain.com/big-ship-power-south-africa-pushed-forward-on-electric-powership-deal/
Updated ANC Bun
>>17928343 This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past
>>17928349 Carl Niehaus EXPELLED by ANC for misconduct
>>17930716, >>17930730, >>17930741, >>17930747 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>17930756, >>17930762, >>17930764, >>17930770, >>17930773 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 1-5)
>>17930781, >>17930786, >>17930798, >>17930808, >>17930815 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 6-10)
>>17930829, >>17930836, >>17930857 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 11-13)
>>17940762, >>18289337 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President
>>17941578 Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions
>>17949590, >>17949605 Calls for Gwede Mantashe to be fired amid money laundering allegations
>>17981052 Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around
>>17981100 ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7
>>17981181 Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe
>>17987709, >>17987727, >>17987730, >>>17987736 Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula (videos)
>>18004465, >>18004467 Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future (video)
>>18004477 Ossewabrandwag, Nazi and ANC Parallels
>>18004538 SACP, Cosatu change tune on 2024 polls, throw weight behind ANC
>>18008723 Current ANC NEC composition favours Ramaphosa, gives him room to act decisively – political analyst
>>18067697, >>18067727 National Treasury and the Project Spider Web (Parts 1&2)
>>18067803 The Corruption Of The ANC Predates Codesa – Never Mind Jacob Zuma’s Presidency (video)
>>18097333 ANC to go ahead with disciplinary proceedings against MPs who antagonised Ramaphosa and “did not toe the line”
>>18097466, >>18097472 Discussion with Kobus Marais, the Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (video)
>>18174169, >>18174245 [ANC’s] RET faction joins hands with Carl Niehaus in new civil movement (video)
>>18204935, >>18204970 “Cadre deployment: ANC has a right to appoint whoever it wants in public service positions, says party counsel” (video)
>>18248211, >>18248221, >>18248252 Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate
>>18276084 Minutes show ANC ran ‘parallel process’ to fill top government jobs: DA” including judges
>>18276100 DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment records (video)
>>18295552 Ace Magashule’s ex-PA detained in US, FBI involvement
>>18301902, >>18301916, >>18301922 Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position (video)
>>18306643 ANC says Super Zuma will drive ‘agriculture revolution’ after he was appointed as KZN Agriculture and Rural Development MEC
>>18519466, >>18519471 Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1&2)
>>18519482, >>18519484, >>18519488, >>18519498, >>18519509 Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)
>>18519501 ANC: VIP's of violence (video)
Updated Commodities Bun
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17998464 Namibia holds the power to push Europe into darkness (video)
>>18067182, >>18067206, >>18067512, >>18067578 Who owns Absa?
>>18103960, >>18103969 David v Goliath court battle on the cards between coal mines (Parts 1&2)
>>18109501, >>18109506 Charges against Denel executive may backfire (Parts 1&2)
>>18180904, >>18180907 Shift in southern African economic landscape following Zimbabwe’s lithium ban (Parts 1&2)
>>18264487, >>18264490, >>18264497 Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview: “State captures happened with Anglo American” (Parts 1-3 video)
>>18269902 “Re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives” – Anglo American
>>18269912 “Reimagining energy: Our 2030 plans - two minute version” – BP (video)
>>18276769, >>18276777 South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations (Parts 1&2)
>>18301127 “You can make roughly R20m a month" – zama zamas gang boss (video)
>>18301422, >>18301430 Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies (Parts 1&2)
>>18666787, >>18666790, >>18666798 Gold Mafia - Al Jazeera Investigations, Episodes 1-3 (video)
>>18666806, >>18666809, >>18666811, >>18666816, >>18666827, >>18666830 The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines (Parts 1-5)
Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>17910370 The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted
>>17991804 South African businessman and Honorary Consul wins entrepreneur of the year in UK – helped set up the COVID testing infrastructure in the UK
>>18058906, >>18058996, >>18060446 Wouter Basson aka Dr Death found working at a Cape Mediclinic
>>18170338 COVID-19 | Calls mount to halt vaccination drive (video)
>>18494456 (from General Research) Rapper Costa Titch Dies at 28 After Collapsing Onstage During Performance
EFF Bun
>>18221575, >>18230676 "They can’t kill us all": Malema urges EFF to join riots as SANDF deployed
>>18254097 Stability at various KZN municipalities under threat due to EFF, IFP divorce (video)
>>18259465, >>18259474 CIC Julius Malema Addresses EFF Press Conference (Parts 1&2)
>>18260006 Eight EFF deputy mayors in KZN have resigned after fallout with IFP
>>18269860 NFP to back the ANC and EFF alliance in hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal
>>18270972 EFF branch in eSwatini takes credit for ‘leading Swazi revolution
>>18301409 "Vile misinformation" IFP responds to EFF’s assassination claims
>>18306633 EFF-ANC coalition targets Alfred Duma Municipality (KZN)
>>18306635 EFF says it has ‘working relationship’ with ANC in KZN
>>18505972, >>18505986 EFF Calls for National Shutdown 20 March 2023; SA Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU)
>>18538615 The EFF Accidentally Leaks Shutdown Plan: South Africa 2023 (video)
>>18558748 The EFF FRAUD Exposed (video)
>>18558799 EFF Leaders Already Blaming Their Members: South Africa 2023 (video)
Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One
>>17912749 "Water challenges" in some towns as stage 6 load-shedding takes toll on infrastructure (video)
>>17912882 Load shedding leaves taps dry in iLembe
>>17913039 Council called to order for blaming water crisis on ZESA
>>17913252 Citywide power outage hits Mbombela
>>17913267 Silulumanzi water reservoirs critically low and likely to run dry soon – City of Mbombela warns residents of water shortages due to blackouts
>>17941613 Resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis
>>17947083 80 hours and counting without electricity: eThekwini electricity department shambles exposed
>>17949532 Eskom R400 billion debt and Diesel costs
>>17981051 MPs welcome the deployment of the army at four Eskom power stations in Mpumalanga
>>18008711 Eskom’s request of a 32% increase will be the death knell for several farmers in the country
>>18017293, >>18023107, >>18030109 Substation damaged at West Acres in Mbombela, residents band together to regain access to electricity
>>18030081 Phoenix community left high and dry due to no water and power
>>18030099 KFC forced to shut outlets in South Africa thanks to load shedding
>>18036664 Eskom’s load shedding just got WORSE – here’s the latest schedule
>>18041119 Day 5 and still no electricity in Mbombela’s West Acres
>>18047487 Eskom drops bombshell: It’s LIGHTS OUT on New Year’s Eve!
>>18103788, >>18103793 Attempted murder of De Ruyter reported to the South African Police Service (video)
>>18103948, >>18103955 Syndicates stole 65 truckloads of Eskom coal in a day (Parts 1&2)
>>18109424 Eskom loses billions on coal contracts
>>18109453 Eskom officials, police involved in syndicate stealing millions worth of fuel from Kriel Power Station
>>18109459 Global energy restructuring veteran KW Miller says nothing comes even close to the Eskom disaster (video)
>>18116201 DA says it’s irrational and disastrous to move Eskom to Energy Department
>>18148922 Eskom warns it could implement higher levels of power cuts – Higher than stage 6
>>18148929 “LEHOHLA: Eskom is headed for privatization (video)
>>18148934 Growing calls for government and Eskom to be sued for loadshedding (video)
>>18174065 SA's electricity crisis: Millions of chickens culled (video)
>>18180828 Diplomatic row after officials ‘invade’ Nigerian Consulate to cut off electricity over unpaid bills to the tune of R400 000
>>18180973 Angry residents protest over three-day long electricity outages in Cato Crest
>>18181034, >>18181040 Phoenix residents protest over 40-hour power outage”; "Politicians are blamed for the strike." (Parts 1&2)
>>18203021 Court battle looms over load shedding, Eskom tariff hike
>>18203023 Ramaphosa: SA’s current energy crisis a result of a "perfect storm"
>>18221578 Power cuts in SA are playing havoc with the country’s water system
>>18221605 Criminality is well organised and rife in Eskom - de Ruyter
>>18221611, >>18221625 AfriForum to start own electricity generation company; Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar in Previous Posts
>>18229656 International watchdog contracted to validate Eskom’s turnaround plans for load shedding
>>18229669 Eskom wants to get rid of another 500 white maintenance staff, says trade union Solidarity
>>18229675, >>18229678, >>18229686 Eskom’s rolling blackouts — 26 years of ANC meddling, manipulation and vested interests (Parts 1-3)
>>18229695 Eskom load shedding poses security threat to South Africans (video)
>>18231629 South Africa loses permission to import nuclear fuel for Koeberg from the US
>>18253833 Load shedding exacerbates South Africa’s food crisis, says Food Forward SA
>>18259142 Soweto Vs Eskom: War between Eskom and Soweto residents continues
>>18259227, >>18259247 Lesufi wants to write off Soweto's unpaid R5bn Eskom bill (video)
Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
>>18264675 Implications of declaration of state of emergency on electricity (video)
>>18397610 ENCA My Guest Tonight - Annika Larsen interview with Andre De Ruyter – “led to his ‘immediate’ departure as Eskom CEO” (video)
>>18397616 SA technically in stage 8 load shedding despite Eskom saying it’s stage 6
>>18492144 U.S. Embassy: State of Disaster declared over ongoing Energy Crisis of "Load Shedding"
>>18492182 “South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse”
Updated Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
>>17928508, >>17928512 Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti (Parts 1&2)
>>17928518 Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens
>>17928530 Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement
>>17928638 Jacques Pauw biography
>>17928682 Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect? – Accused of molesting boys
>>17991857 AfriForum says SAHRC must deliver on promise to take Malema to Equality Court over hate speech
>>18170170 Court dismisses Julius Malema’s bid to appeal AfriForum’s interdict which prohibits him from calling on land grabs
>>18170175 Pay back the money: This is how much Julius Malema paid AfriForum
>>18265601, >>18270759 Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach (video)
>>18271185 “Judge bans anit-apartheid song” Reported by CNN Sep 14, 2011 – Julius Malema and the ANC (video)
>>18302094, >>18302100 Who’s Rob Hersov: An Intricate Look (Parts 1&2)
Gayton McKenzie Bun
>>18259632 Ex-con Gayton McKenzie offers to help Flabba’s killer: "God forgave you" (video)
>>18277962 Mixed reactions on Gayton McKenzie’s first year as Central Karoo Mayor
>>18301934 "I will run for President in 2024" Central Karoo Mayor Gayton McKenzie says after 100 days in office (video)
>>18301973 Gayton McKenzie: "Zweli Mkhize attempted to poison Jacob Zuma”
Kenny Kunene Bun
>>18265601, >>18270759 Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach (video)
>>18277874, >>18277894, >>18277903 Partying Amid Poverty Stirs South Africa Debate – Kenny Kunene (Parts 1-3)
>>18277995 Kenny Kunene is set to become MMC for transport in JHB
Updated Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>17928359, >>17928365 Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed (Parts 1&2)
>>17940720, 17940724 Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning (video)
>>17930886 Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his "busy schedule"
>>17941589 President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect
>>17947035 Phala Phala vote: NDZ [Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma] dragged before ANC disciplinary committee after Pemmy Majodina's report
>>17949547 Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable
>>17981046 Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president (video)
>>17981049, >>17987697 Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case
>>17987691 Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech (video)
>>17987765 Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized" (video)
>>17991671 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele (video)
>>17991688, >>17991694 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
>>18067136, >>18067140, >>18067147, >>18067156 Zondo exposed: What the Commission did not want SA to know (Parts 1-4)
>>18067328 New PIC board appointed, includes Ramos, SARB governor reappointed
>>18148888, >>18148890, >>18148902 Zuma v Ramaphosa: NGO wants to join case as friend of court, targets NPA for alleged bias
>>18155636 Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people, says Ramaphosa (video)
>>18155740 Ramaphosa’s plan for radical economic transformation and tackling unemployment (video)
>>18202506 Former president Jacob Zuma locks horns with King Misuzulu at Isandlwana commemoration over speech that was seen as pro-Ramaphosa
>>18221568 Public Protector's office wraps up Phala Phala investigation
>>18276116 Ramaphosa nominates Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (video)
>>18505945 00DEZZ - How Cyril Ramaphosa was bought by UK and EU money (video)
Updated Violence and Crime Bun
>>17914160 Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment (video)
>>17914170, >>17914179 What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]
>>17928698, >>17928703 Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later (Parts 1&2)
>>17928752, >>17928795, >>17928827, >>17928842, >>17928880, >>17928890 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>17928983, >>17929949, >>17929976 Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP) (video)
>>17949610 Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded
>>17981044 Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022
>>17991756 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>17991765 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
>>17991793 Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences
>>18008371 Clive Derby-Lewis The last FULL INTERVIEW (video)
>>18030076 Ransom kidnappings on the rise in South African crimes (video)
>>18030180 A high court judgment that invites more land invasions (video)
>>18030895 Twitter User Claims Teens in Alleged Free State Racism Attack Pushed 3-Year-Old Into Pool Starting Chaos
>>18031053 Anti-crime village hero in hiding after evil stock-thieves gun down wife & 7 family members (video)
>>18047484 War on Women: Son kills mom, drinks her blood and woman shot dead in Gateway Mall
>>18047757, >>18047881, >>18058576 How shipping giant MSC reacted to billion-dollar cocaine bust; Aponte Family
>>18058549, >>18058563 140 Days After the Perfect Crime” – “MSC’s five major drug busts this year (Parts 1&2)
>>18097337 R8.2m splurged on ‘camera-friendly’ Bheki Cele and company’s ‘jet-setting’ travels
>>18110169 10111 crisis: More than seven million calls dropped at severely understaffed call centres
>>18116174 Police captain accuses Bok scrum-half Faf de Klerk of ‘attempted murder’
>>18155647 More high-profile names implicated on graft corruption at the National Lotteries Commission (video)
>>18180780 Cable thieves plunge Mdantsane hospital into crisis mode (video)
>>18248259 The Bloody War Against South African Gang Leaders and Notorious Drug kingpins…PAGAD (video)
>>18248271 Cape Town's most dangerous communities: Investigating SAPS (video)
>>18254028, >>18254032, >>18289330 Gardee murder case shocker
>>18264507 Doctors Without Borders says employee filmed with looted meat was pressured into helping looters
>>18265605, >>18265632 More Farm Murders
>>18269896 [University of] Fort Hare press on with anticorruption plan, despite killings (video)
>>18269902 What does ‘reimagining’ policing mean? (video)
>>18276067 Eastern Cape Premier condemns the brutal killing of 10 people by gunmen in Qunu, Bityi (video)
>>18301132 Eastern Cape residents concerned over recent mass murders
>>18301174, >>18301187, 18301217 Gun Free South Africa, UN supported NGO
>>18375787 In Conversation | SABC News spine-chilling interview with a hitman "Inkabi" (video)
>>18462159, >>18492161, >>18492165 Australia’s Warning About South Africa (Parts 1-3)
>>18492173, >>18492176 New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa (Parts 1&2)
>>18517609 “Four electricians killed by Ekurhuleni residents while trying to restore power to their suburb” (video)
Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
>>18097339 Zuma blasts Ramaphosa over special treatment bid
>>18155654 Zuma foundation slams Ramaphosa interdict
>>18254152, >>18254261 Judge Piet Koen recuses himself from Jacob Zuma Arms Deal trial (video)
>>18276125 Zuma’s Private Prosecution Postponed Again Sparking Fury in SA: “Our Judiciary Is a Circus” (video)
>>18302048, >>18302057 Siphiwe Nyanda: Profiling the alleged apartheid spy (Parts 1&2)
>>18302061 Nyanda will not seek legal action against Zuma – Was he concerned that the truth would come out? (video)
>>18492207 Jacob Zuma's land claim for South Africa (video)
>>18492235 Vuka Naz: Zuma submits land claim for ALL of SA & 4 dead as striking health-workers go on rampage (video)
Notables are NOT Endorsements
passing 600
#10-A
>>17914407 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm - Leonard McCarthy
>>17918335 Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came
>>17918413, >>17918415, >>17918417, >>17918429 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>17918441, >>17918450, >>17915453, >>17918458, >>17918465, >>17918479 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 5-10)
>>17918492 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Part 11)
>>17918524, >>17918536 Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco
>>17918547 Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society
>>17918570, >>17918581, >>17918600 Olaf Prime murder
>>17918620 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
>>17940739 Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash
>>17941585 300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17949516 FBI beat security cluster in identifying cyber hack of the SA Reserve Bank
>>17981057 Video exposes the DIRE state of Tembisa Hospital (mp4)
>>17981148 Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS (video)
>>17981373, >>17981407 "Black people can NEVER be racist," Vishoek High learners told
>>17991659 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them
>>17991807 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row
>>17995267 ANC Bun | Arthur Frasier Bun
>>17995274 Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw | Janusz Walus Bun
>>17998361 ENJOY THE SHOW | Director's Cut” [How Intelligence Agencies are involved in coups] (video)
>>17998394, >>17998455, >>18000989, >>18013142 Lesotho may want to take the Free State (Parts 1&2); shades of Katanga
>>18004483 AfriForum's Ernst Roets' speech at the United Nations on anti-minority discrimination in SA (video)
>>18007718, >>18007726, >>18007738 Apartheid Guns and Money: Graphics (Parts 1-3)
>>18017078, >>18017083, >>18017112 State Defence, SANDF silent in face of speculation Lady R was shipping Russian weaponry (Parts 1&2)
>>18017344 Armscor, Rheinmetall, Nazi Ties
>>18047491 Plan to build South Africa’s first Smart Township revealed (Kayamandi)
>>18047500 Mediclinic accepts R75 billion bid from SA’s richest man Johann Rupert
>>18058667, >>18058673, >>18058690 South Africa: Who’s who in Johann Rupert’s network? (Parts 1-3)
>>18058746 Johann Rupert and Gianluigi Aponte ties to JP Morgan Chase & Co.
>>18058792 Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal
>>18157674, >>18203017 South African Navy Set To Welcome China And Russia; SA-China-Russia military exercise: Thandi Modise hits back at critics, says there was ‘no hype’ when US Army came
>>18167336 Konstantin Kisin: This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far (video)
>>18169949 Southern Africa troops face investigation over bodies video: Al Jazeera Newsfeed - Mozambique (video)
>>18202236, >>18202244 The Club of Rome and the Rise of the “Predictive Modelling” Mafia (Parts 1&2, videos)
>>18203009 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in high-level talks with Minister Naledi Pandor in Pretoria (video)
>>18203753, >>18203797, >>18203841, >>18203886 eSwatini Unrest: Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko killed (video)
>>18221591, >>18221603 ‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated
>>18221687 Team SA pulling out all the stops at Davos
>>18231534, >>18231560 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visit to South Africa (video)
#10-B
>>18263161 Ingonyama Trust Bun
>>18269929 Reimagining Corporate Impact - Joseph Kenner at World Economic Forum 2023 (video)
>>18269936 UNESCO Futures of Education Report: Reimagining our futures together (video)
>>18269941 Klaus Scwab of WEF: A Social Contract for the New World Order (video)
>>18283482 SA Tourism board members resign with immediate effect” - scrutiny over R1 billion BritishTottenham Hotspur deal
>>18296981 ‘Plenty of military training in Richards Bay with foreign countries in less than a year” - SANDF happens to have 2023 Armed Forces Day during SA, Russia and China naval drills at Richards Bay
>>18425888 French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools
>>18463460 (from Geneeral Research) ‘Colonization’: Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov’t to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa
>>18553646, >>18553654 Nicaragua Betrayed, published by Western Islands in 1980, is the memoir of former President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle (as told to Jack Cox)
>>18666835 Harmony: Dr Patrice Motsepe, NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, brother-in-law of President Cyril Ramaphosa
>>18668615 Updated ANC Bun
>>18668616 Updated Commodities Bun
>>18668618 Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>18668619 EFF Bun
>>18668622 Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One
>>18668623 Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
>>18668625 Updated Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
>>18668627 Gayton McKenzie Bun
>>18668631 Kenny Kunene Bun
>>18668638 Updated Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>18668640 Updated Violence and Crime Bun
>>18668642 Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
South Africa Says Contentious Chinese Ship is for Research, Not Surveillance
By Prinesha Naidoo (Bloomberg) — April 6, 2023
A Chinese ship — capable of tracking rocket and spacecraft launches — that docked at a South African port is a research vehicle and not a surveillance vessel, the African nation’s port operator said.
The Yuan Wang 5 was in Durban port for refueling, fresh water and replenishments, South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority said in an emailed response on Thursday. Its presence has previously raised concern in India, China’s geopolitical rival, which in August objected to the ship’s visit to Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port.
The vessel’s berthing comes less than two months after South Africa drew the ire of Western nations by holding naval exercises with China and Russia and may add to fears that Africa’s most industrialized economy is moving closer to the two countries. That’s even as the bulk of its total trade is with Western nations.
The ports operator isn’t aware of the objective of the vessel’s mission in South African waters because it “doesn’t have a mandate to request such information,” it said. Those details are gathered during a security clearance process that’s facilitated by the authorities, including the Department of Transport, before a ship enters the port limits, Transnet said. The Department of Transport didn’t immediately respond to queries.
The vessel left Durban for high seas and plans to call at the port of Cape Town in a month’s time, Transnet said.
South Africa has courted criticism from the US and its allies for refusing to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and holding the naval exercise with several Russian and Chinese vessels off its east coast in February over the first anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict. Pretoria is currently contemplating whether to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend a BRICS bloc summit it will host in August.
–With assistance from Antony Sguazzin.
https://gcaptain.com/south-africa-says-contentious-chinese-ship-is-for-research-not-surveillance/
[Last position received on April 7th]
Is this "sustainability" regarding Barloworld the California Liberal "climate change" type or the "continuous profit generating" type?
The gender-linked, California Liberal 56 genders or the ones I can find in a Biology textbook?
The ESG thing cost Blackrock dearly, wondering if Barloworld is going down that path?
From what I see so far, mining is the biggest part of the economy in South Africa. I can't say I've seen anything about refining the ores. Seems "dig it up and pack it up and ship it" is the Way Of Things. I saw how Zimbabwe was going to restrict raw ore exports in order to have domestic refining capabilities but considering all I've heard about the place since it had nothing Rhodesia in the name (seven year-olds doing surgery as there was no alternative) I have to wonder who is to build these blast furnaces and who will maintain them. China Belt & Road comes immediately to mind. I can't recall any mention of a University in Zimbabwe producing any Engineers, Metallurgists, or anything at all. I have seen mentions here of STEM education in South Africa but might still go back into mining and find foreigners to do things like build roads, bridges, buildings, and power plants.
Apologies anons, but I see South Africa hurting and being taken advantage of in many ways. Apartheid gone, Virtue Signalling established but in decades after nothing real until Washington wants to drive a wedge into the BRICS Nations by suddenly wanting to invest in a Marxist government (ANC) by sending first Blinken then Janet Yellen. Honestly, what is she going to do, teach how to print money out of promises and thin air? Perhaps go to that "basket of metals" thing President Nixon talked about when the United States came off the Gold Standard?
Please do not forget the Carrot and Stick tactic. "Oh we are going to invest millions in South Africa, just do things our (DC) way." "Oh, you won't put sanctions on a fellow BRICS nation so no uranium fuel rods for your reactors, enjoy the Stage 8 Load Shedding"
Keep in mind the U.S, dollar is backed by the "Full Faith and CREDIT of the United States Government" while the Russian Ruble is now officially backed by grams of gold.
Final ANC Bun
>>17928343 This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past
>>17928349 Carl Niehaus EXPELLED by ANC for misconduct
>>17930716, >>17930730, >>17930741, >>17930747 Top Secret SSA report reveals US link to ANC
>>17930756, >>17930762, >>17930764, >>17930770, >>17930773 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 1-5)
>>17930781, >>17930786, >>17930798, >>17930808, >>17930815 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 6-10)
>>17930829, >>17930836, >>17930857 A Diamond Is Forever: Mandela Triumphs, Buthelezi and de Klerk Survive, and ANC on the U.S. Payroll (Parts 11-13)
>>17940762, >>18289337 David Mabuza: The numerous scandals of SA’s new Deputy President
>>17941578 Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions
>>17949590, >>17949605 Calls for Gwede Mantashe to be fired amid money laundering allegations
>>17981052 Voting for new ANC’s top seven delayed as allegations of vote buying swirl around
>>17981100 ANC National Conference: Meet the new Top 7
>>17981181 Money in leadership contests is selling ANC to highest bidder – Mantashe
>>17987709, >>17987727, >>17987730, >>>17987736 Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula (videos)
>>18004465, >>18004467 Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future (video)
>>18004477 Ossewabrandwag, Nazi and ANC Parallels
>>18004538 SACP, Cosatu change tune on 2024 polls, throw weight behind ANC
>>18008723 Current ANC NEC composition favours Ramaphosa, gives him room to act decisively – political analyst
>>18067697, >>18067727 National Treasury and the Project Spider Web (Parts 1&2)
>>18067803 The Corruption Of The ANC Predates Codesa – Never Mind Jacob Zuma’s Presidency (video)
>>18097333 ANC to go ahead with disciplinary proceedings against MPs who antagonised Ramaphosa and “did not toe the line”
>>18097466, >>18097472 Discussion with Kobus Marais, the Shadow Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (video)
>>18174169, >>18174245 [ANC’s] RET faction joins hands with Carl Niehaus in new civil movement (video)
>>18204935, >>18204970 “Cadre deployment: ANC has a right to appoint whoever it wants in public service positions, says party counsel” (video)
>>18248211, >>18248221, >>18248252 Thapelo Amad, the new mayor of Joburg, Al Jamah's ANC-backed candidate
>>18276084 Minutes show ANC ran ‘parallel process’ to fill top government jobs: DA” including judges
>>18276100 DA wins court battle to expose ANC cadre deployment records (video)
>>18295552 Ace Magashule’s ex-PA detained in US, FBI involvement
>>18301902, >>18301916, >>18301922 Patriotic Alliance secures second mayoral position (video)
>>18306643 ANC says Super Zuma will drive ‘agriculture revolution’ after he was appointed as KZN Agriculture and Rural Development MEC
>>18519466, >>18519471 Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1&2)
>>18519482, >>18519484, >>18519488, >>18519498, >>18519509 Further notes on South African history – PW Botha’s Rubicon Speech (Parts 1-5)
>>18519501 ANC: VIP's of violence (video)
>>18678812 South Africa: Torture, ill-treatment and executions in African National Congress camps” – Amnesty International Report
>>18693622, >>18693632 The ANC Method Violence 1986 [documentary] (video)
>>18761281 ANC ‘trying to shift goal posts’ to incorporate the DA-governed uMngeni into Impendle, Mpofana councils (video)
>>18767411 Naspers gave R1 million to the ANC in 2021
>>18767492 Elon Musk won’t pay bribes to ANC cronies – so SA to miss out on Starlink’s cheap, fast internet broadband from space (video)
Barloworld Bun
>>18724300 The Union Corporation and Barlow Rand, Ltd Merger - July 16, 1974
>>18724313 The many faces of Barlow Rand Ltd. - April 11, 1982
>>18724337, >>18724348 Barlow Rand Ltd Parts 1&2)
>>18724353, >>18724361, >>18724369, >>18724374, >>18724380, >>18724389 Barlow Rand plays a major role during South Africa’s political transition
>>18725559, >>18725562 International Archives in South Africa: Rand Mines, Barlo Rand, etc
>>18725630, >>18726249, >>18739775 RMB arranges Africa’s first gender-linked bond issuance for Barloworld
Final Commodities Bun
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17998464 Namibia holds the power to push Europe into darkness (video)
>>18067182, >>18067206, >>18067512, >>18067578 Who owns Absa?
>>18103960, >>18103969 David v Goliath court battle on the cards between coal mines (Parts 1&2)
>>18109501, >>18109506 Charges against Denel executive may backfire (Parts 1&2)
>>18180904, >>18180907 Shift in southern African economic landscape following Zimbabwe’s lithium ban (Parts 1&2)
>>18264487, >>18264490, >>18264497 Rutendo Matinyarare's DELETED interview: “State captures happened with Anglo American” (Parts 1-3 video)
>>18269902 “Re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives” – Anglo American
>>18269912 “Reimagining energy: Our 2030 plans - two minute version” – BP (video)
>>18276769, >>18276777 South African activists and lawyers pursue legal battle” vs big corporations (Parts 1&2)
>>18301127 “You can make roughly R20m a month" – zama zamas gang boss (video)
>>18301422, >>18301430 Supreme Court of Appeal ruled against mining companies (Parts 1&2)
>>18666787, >>18666790, >>18666798, >>18704502 Gold Mafia - Al Jazeera Investigations, Episodes 1-3 (video)
>>18666806, >>18666809, >>18666811, >>18666816, >>18666827, >>18666830 The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines (Parts 1-5)
>>18688064 Organisation says ‘the real zama zamas’ in Kagiso are big companies (video)
>>18715325, >>18715335, >>18715418 Patrice Motsepe, Tyme Bank, and African Rainbow Capital (ARC)
>>18715342, >>18715351, >>18715372, >>18715374, >>18715385 Ethos Private Equity, Rohatyn Group
>>18715357 All the South African banks that have failed in the last 30 years
>>18715672, >>18715709, >>18715774, >>18715797, >>18715813, >>18750048 South African Breweries [SAB]
>>18715926, >>18715931, >>18715933, >>18715957 Peter Obi, Anambra Governor, ties to SABMiller Brewery (video)
Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
>>18264675 Implications of declaration of state of emergency on electricity (video)
>>18397610 ENCA My Guest Tonight - Annika Larsen interview with Andre De Ruyter – “led to his ‘immediate’ departure as Eskom CEO” (video)
>>18397616 SA technically in stage 8 load shedding despite Eskom saying it’s stage 6
>>18492144 U.S. Embassy: State of Disaster declared over ongoing Energy Crisis of "Load Shedding"
>>18492182 “South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse”
>>18682861 Eskom fights to block town from using its own solar power
>>18694111 Eskom will soon become part of the Private Sector
>>18714373 Eskom implemented Stage 8 load shedding – and YOU didn’t know
>>18714378 Load shedding at 40: The performance of power stations in South Africa vs the United States
>>18746497 Analyst: prepare for a possible complete grid collapse
>>18761286 Months-long water issues the final straw for White River residents
>>18767383, >>18767385, >>18767403 Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter appears before Scopa (video)
Mervyn King Bun
>>18739779 A summary of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance™ for South Africa, 2016
>>18745067 Mervyn E. King, Judge Professor – King Report
>>18745075 Get to know Professor Mervyn King (video)
Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
>>17928508, >>17928512 Julius Malema’s mafia connection: What we know about Adriano Mazzotti (Parts 1&2)
>>17928518 Julius Malema and Adriano Mazzotti – the dubious connection deepens
>>17928530 Malema’s lawyers demand that Jacques Pauw’s Our Poisoned Land be removed from shelves: NB Publishers media statement
>>17928638 Jacques Pauw biography
>>17928682 Can Jaques Pauw Claim To Have a Reputation and Integrity to Protect? – Accused of molesting boys
>>17991857 AfriForum says SAHRC must deliver on promise to take Malema to Equality Court over hate speech
>>18170170 Court dismisses Julius Malema’s bid to appeal AfriForum’s interdict which prohibits him from calling on land grabs
>>18170175 Pay back the money: This is how much Julius Malema paid AfriForum
>>18265601, >>18270759 Court finds Kunene guilty of HATE SPEECH for calling Malema a cockroach (video)
>>18271185 “Judge bans anit-apartheid song” Reported by CNN Sep 14, 2011 – Julius Malema and the ANC (video)
>>18302094, >>18302100 Who’s Rob Hersov: An Intricate Look (Parts 1&2)
>>18678766, >>18678773 The Conflict of the Past - Jacques Pauw (Parts 1&2)
Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>17928359, >>17928365 Plot to kill Fraser and his advocate exposed (Parts 1&2)
>>17940720, 17940724 Paul O’Sullivan: Ramaphosa has been set up, must not abandon SA by resigning (video)
>>17930886 Pandor to lead SA delegation to US-Africa Leaders Summit instead of President Ramaphosa, due to his "busy schedule"
>>17941589 President Cyril Ramaphosa suspends Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe with immediate effect
>>17947035 Phala Phala vote: NDZ [Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma] dragged before ANC disciplinary committee after Pemmy Majodina's report
>>17949547 Lindiwe Sisulu speaks on missing Parliament vote, says the Phala Phala scandal is ‘untenable
>>17981046 Ramaphosa and Zuma captured laughing together hours after Zuma decided to privately prosecute the president (video)
>>17981049, >>17987697 Zuma vs Ramaphosa: President gives his predecessor until Monday to drop case
>>17987691 Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech (video)
>>17987765 Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized" (video)
>>17991671 "If I DIE, arrest Ramaphosa for my murder" – SAPS whistleblower [Patricia Morgan-Mashale]” – Her purported evidence implicates Cyril Ramaphosa AND Bheki Cele (video)
>>17991688, >>17991694 Over 14 000 sign petition begging Ramaphosa not to resign
>>18067136, >>18067140, >>18067147, >>18067156 Zondo exposed: What the Commission did not want SA to know (Parts 1-4)
>>18067328 New PIC board appointed, includes Ramos, SARB governor reappointed
>>18148888, >>18148890, >>18148902 Zuma v Ramaphosa: NGO wants to join case as friend of court, targets NPA for alleged bias
>>18155636 Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people, says Ramaphosa (video)
>>18155740 Ramaphosa’s plan for radical economic transformation and tackling unemployment (video)
>>18202506 Former president Jacob Zuma locks horns with King Misuzulu at Isandlwana commemoration over speech that was seen as pro-Ramaphosa
>>18221568 Public Protector's office wraps up Phala Phala investigation
>>18276116 Ramaphosa nominates Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (video)
>>18505945 00DEZZ - How Cyril Ramaphosa was bought by UK and EU money (video)
>>18688110, >>18688113, >>18688116, >>18688120, >>18688152, >>18688169 Leaked P Thabo Mbeki 17 Page letter to VP Paul Mashatile
Final Violence and Crime Bun
>>17914160 Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment (video)
>>17914170, >>17914179 What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]
>>17928698, >>17928703 Detective Publishes Book [The Lost Boys of Bird Island] Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring – Shot In The Head Days Later (Parts 1&2)
>>17928752, >>17928795, >>17928827, >>17928842, >>17928880, >>17928890 The Lost Boys of Bird Island
>>17928983, >>17929949, >>17929976 Sydney Frankel, our own Epstein, with friends in high places” – Cyril Ramaphosa (ANC), Roelf Meyer (NP) (video)
>>17949610 Land scam witness Khanyisile Mashego beheaded
>>17981044 Gauteng father KIDNAPPED and brutally murdered – shot EXECUTION style” – “SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022
>>17991756 Crime ‘worrying’ in South Africa: 7,000 murdered in three months
>>17991765 Report finds Cape Town police ‘gang capture’ likely runs deep
>>17991793 Corruption accused JMPD officers found with R14 000 and 300 foreign drivers’ licences
>>18008371 Clive Derby-Lewis The last FULL INTERVIEW (video)
>>18030076 Ransom kidnappings on the rise in South African crimes (video)
>>18030180 A high court judgment that invites more land invasions (video)
>>18030895 Twitter User Claims Teens in Alleged Free State Racism Attack Pushed 3-Year-Old Into Pool Starting Chaos
>>18031053 Anti-crime village hero in hiding after evil stock-thieves gun down wife & 7 family members (video)
>>18047484 War on Women: Son kills mom, drinks her blood and woman shot dead in Gateway Mall
>>18047757, >>18047881, >>18058576 How shipping giant MSC reacted to billion-dollar cocaine bust; Aponte Family
>>18058549, >>18058563 140 Days After the Perfect Crime” – “MSC’s five major drug busts this year (Parts 1&2)
>>18097337 R8.2m splurged on ‘camera-friendly’ Bheki Cele and company’s ‘jet-setting’ travels
>>18110169 10111 crisis: More than seven million calls dropped at severely understaffed call centres
>>18116174 Police captain accuses Bok scrum-half Faf de Klerk of ‘attempted murder’
>>18155647 More high-profile names implicated on graft corruption at the National Lotteries Commission (video)
>>18180780 Cable thieves plunge Mdantsane hospital into crisis mode (video)
>>18248259 The Bloody War Against South African Gang Leaders and Notorious Drug kingpins…PAGAD (video)
>>18248271 Cape Town's most dangerous communities: Investigating SAPS (video)
>>18254028, >>18254032, >>18289330 Gardee murder case shocker
>>18264507 Doctors Without Borders says employee filmed with looted meat was pressured into helping looters
>>18265605, >>18265632 More Farm Murders
>>18269896 [University of] Fort Hare press on with anticorruption plan, despite killings (video)
>>18269902 What does ‘reimagining’ policing mean? (video)
>>18276067 Eastern Cape Premier condemns the brutal killing of 10 people by gunmen in Qunu, Bityi (video)
>>18301132 Eastern Cape residents concerned over recent mass murders
>>18301174, >>18301187, 18301217 Gun Free South Africa, UN supported NGO
>>18375787 In Conversation | SABC News spine-chilling interview with a hitman "Inkabi" (video)
>>18492159, >>18492161, >>18492165 Australia’s Warning About South Africa (Parts 1-3)
>>18492173, >>18492176 New Zealand Warning Concerning South Africa (Parts 1&2)
>>18517609 “Four electricians killed by Ekurhuleni residents while trying to restore power to their suburb” (video)
>>18682871 Crime-fighter Ian Cameron on how criminals captured SAPS, but there is hope for the future (video)
>>18688428 , >>18688431 Intercape bus company to sue Bheki Cele for police inaction (Parts 1&2)
Final
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#10-A
>>17914407 Former Scorpions boss lands big job monitoring Russian telecoms firm - Leonard McCarthy
>>17918335 Lady R: Sanctioned Russian ship seen moving cargo in Simon’s Town before leaving as quietly as it came
>>17918413, >>17918415, >>17918417, >>17918429 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>17918441, >>17918450, >>17915453, >>17918458, >>17918465, >>17918479 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Parts 5-10)
>>17918492 Lockerbie Bombing, Bernt Carlsson, Namibia, South Africa, US, CIA, De Beers/Anglo American, etc (Part 11)
>>17918524, >>17918536 Chester Crocker stated that South Africa is the Saudi Arabia of minerals. He later became a Director of Minorco
>>17918547 Priscilla Clapp: Senior Advisor to the US Institute of Peace and the Asia Society
>>17918570, >>17918581, >>17918600 Olaf Prime murder
>>17918620 Interpol confirms red notice for Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos
>>17940739 Herman Mashaba addresses Oppenheimer funding backlash
>>17941585 300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million
>>17942454, >>17949508 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit underway in Washington (videos)
>>17949516 FBI beat security cluster in identifying cyber hack of the SA Reserve Bank
>>17981057 Video exposes the DIRE state of Tembisa Hospital (mp4)
>>17981148 Pandor: Ramaphosa will remain president” – “from 2023 South Africa will assume the role of Chair of BRICS (video)
>>17981373, >>17981407 "Black people can NEVER be racist," Vishoek High learners told
>>17991659 Who is SAUS and what you need to know about them
>>17991807 Dis-Chem ‘has lost R2 BILLION’ over white workers row
>>17995267 ANC Bun | Arthur Frasier Bun
>>17995274 Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw | Janusz Walus Bun
>>17998361 ENJOY THE SHOW | Director's Cut” [How Intelligence Agencies are involved in coups] (video)
>>17998394, >>17998455, >>18000989, >>18013142 Lesotho may want to take the Free State (Parts 1&2); shades of Katanga
>>18004483 AfriForum's Ernst Roets' speech at the United Nations on anti-minority discrimination in SA (video)
>>18007718, >>18007726, >>18007738 Apartheid Guns and Money: Graphics (Parts 1-3)
>>18017078, >>18017083, >>18017112 State Defence, SANDF silent in face of speculation Lady R was shipping Russian weaponry (Parts 1&2)
>>18017344 Armscor, Rheinmetall, Nazi Ties
>>18047491 Plan to build South Africa’s first Smart Township revealed (Kayamandi)
>>18047500 Mediclinic accepts R75 billion bid from SA’s richest man Johann Rupert
>>18058667, >>18058673, >>18058690 South Africa: Who’s who in Johann Rupert’s network? (Parts 1-3)
>>18058746 Johann Rupert and Gianluigi Aponte ties to JP Morgan Chase & Co.
>>18058792 Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal
>>18157674, >>18203017 South African Navy Set To Welcome China And Russia; SA-China-Russia military exercise: Thandi Modise hits back at critics, says there was ‘no hype’ when US Army came
>>18167336 Konstantin Kisin: This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far (video)
>>18169949 Southern Africa troops face investigation over bodies video: Al Jazeera Newsfeed - Mozambique (video)
>>18202236, >>18202244 The Club of Rome and the Rise of the “Predictive Modelling” Mafia (Parts 1&2, videos)
>>18203009 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in high-level talks with Minister Naledi Pandor in Pretoria (video)
>>18203753, >>18203797, >>18203841, >>18203886 eSwatini Unrest: Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko killed (video)
>>18221591, >>18221603 ‘Diversity training’ at Fish Hoek High School being investigated
>>18221687 Team SA pulling out all the stops at Davos
>>18231534, >>18231560 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visit to South Africa (video)
#10-B
>>18263161 Ingonyama Trust Bun
>>18269929 Reimagining Corporate Impact - Joseph Kenner at World Economic Forum 2023 (video)
>>18269936 UNESCO Futures of Education Report: Reimagining our futures together (video)
>>18269941 Klaus Scwab of WEF: A Social Contract for the New World Order (video)
>>18283482 SA Tourism board members resign with immediate effect” - scrutiny over R1 billion BritishTottenham Hotspur deal
>>18296981 ‘Plenty of military training in Richards Bay with foreign countries in less than a year” - SANDF happens to have 2023 Armed Forces Day during SA, Russia and China naval drills at Richards Bay
>>18425888 French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools
>>18463460 (from Geneeral Research) ‘Colonization’: Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov’t to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa
>>18553646, >>18553654 Nicaragua Betrayed, published by Western Islands in 1980, is the memoir of former President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle (as told to Jack Cox)
>>18666835 Harmony: Dr Patrice Motsepe, NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, brother-in-law of President Cyril Ramaphosa
>>18668618 Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>18668619 EFF Bun
>>18668622 Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One
>>18668627 Gayton McKenzie Bun
>>18668631 Kenny Kunene Bun
>>18668642 Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
>>18711005 Bakholokoe King warns SA government over Free State land, demands rightful share
>>18740108 Dr Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit (video)
>>18750994 ANC wants South Africa to quit ICC – Cyril Ramaphosa
>>18766208, >>18766249 Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa (Parts 1&2)
>>18777728 Final ANC Bun
>>18777730 Barloworld Bun
>>18777735 Final Commodities Bun
>>18777739 Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
>>18777741 Mervyn King Bun
>>18777744 Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
>>18777746 Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>18777749 Final Violence and Crime Bun
>>18778581 (me)
May not be online for a few days so baked a new bread to give plenty of space
This one will be locked