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>>>17857808, >>17861676, >>17861678, >>17862700 Janusz Walus

>>17912578

“Chris Hani's wife Limpho Hani is furious at the ConCourt judgment ordering the Justice Department to free her husband's killer, Janusz Walus.” - https://youtu.be/TcqMUSzFirw

4:29 – “Come to me after 2 years. Karma exists. All of them there sitting there from Zondo downwards. This judgement is diabolical… Let me give you free information. If my husband was not killed, we would never had elections. Mandela, after my husband was murdered, said to De Klerk, for us to stop this, give us an election date. That is how Zondo and his friends today are sitting in this court.”

“Janusz Walus reportedly stabbed by ex-MK soldier who aimed for his heart”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-stabbed-janusz-walus-stabbed-in-prison-mk-soldier-30-november-2022/

30-11-2022 08:56

Chris Hani’s killer, Janusz Walus was reportedly stabbed by a former Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) soldier who had aimed for his heart but missed it.

Walus was stabbed by another inmate from the same housing unit at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Facility in Tshwane, Gauteng where he is currently serving a life sentence for the murder for anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani. The Department of Correctional Services confirmed the attack on Tuesday afternoon.

JANUSZ WALUS STABBED BY FORMER SOLDIER

Correctional Services spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo said a detailed incident report is to be provided at a later stage but what can be stated at this point is that inmate Walus is stable and DCS healthcare officials are providing the necessary care.

The incident comes as the Constitutional Court ordered that the Polish national be released on parole by the first week of December and the Department of Home Affairs has granted him permanent residence in South Africa.

“The Department said the Minister granted the exemption in order for Walus to serve his parole period in South Africa and the exemption contains a condition that he may not use any travel document and/or passport issued by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland,” the department said.

Meanwhile, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Chris Hani’s widow, Limpho, are heading to the apex court to challenge his release.

>>17913411

>“Janusz Walus reportedly stabbed by ex-MK soldier who aimed for his heart”

>>17912578

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

“South Africa | The 1993 plot to kill Chris Hani”

https://zammagazine.com/politics-opinion/1444-south-africa-the-1993-plot-to-kill-chris-hani

02 November 2021

Below are excerpts

According to the NIA report, approximately twenty people were involved in the conspiracy to kill Hani, ranging from apartheid covert unit operatives to members of the security force leadership and at least one member of South Africa’s post-1994 parliament. This finding complements evidence laid out in ZAM investigations editor Evelyn Groenink’s book Incorruptible, that also indicated a broader conspiracy to kill Hani.

The document also gave the code names of police agents 241/153 and 241/222, who had infiltrated the ANC and MK leadership; agent241/222, in particular, was described as being ‘instrumental in infiltrating MK leadership,’ and as frequently accompanying MK leaders within South Africa. New Nation journalists contacted Joe Mamasela, the notorious askari attached to the Vlakplaas unit, who confirmed that Vlakplaas had been involved in the preliminary stages of the plot to kill Hani, and that he ‘did not doubt that other people were called into the plan’ as it progressed.

Meanwhile, the NIA report’s mention of ANC members of parliament who were involved in the plot stands out especially in the light of the reference to SADF MI’s plans to ‘neutralize the SACP/Hani/ Kasrils’ faction in the ANC. As we have seen, these plans developed after a meeting between DCC officers and very high-ranking members of the MK leadership who were open to being recruited as apartheid spies. One of the MK leaders at this meeting was Joe Modise, who was South Africa’s minister of defence when New Nation published the findings in 1997. In this way, New Nation’s coverage of the covert NIA report – which no other media outlet reported on at the time – reinforces evidence suggesting that elements within the ANC had been recruited by SADF MI and were privy to, if not actively involved in, the plan to kill Hani. Moreover, the SADF MI memo’s stated objective in ‘neutralizing’ Hani’s power – to ‘win votes in a future election’ – is noteworthy because it reinforces the perspective put forth in this book: that clandestine apartheid counterinsurgency operations during the transition period did not aim to derail negotiations with the ANC entirely, but rather to violently shape the outcome of a future election to the regime’s advantage.

The ‘Third Force’ was a clandestine force of South African security-force operatives which, following the onset of negotiations between the ANC and the Apartheid regime in February 1990, unleashed a massive wave of violence against individuals and communities loyal to the ANC. This continued until 1994. The source of the violence wad intended to be untraceable, hence the name ‘Third Force’, which implied that neither the regime nor the ANC was responsible. The extent to which the ‘Third Force’ answered to De Klerk’s government is still debated.

This is an excerpt of Daniel L. Douek’s 2020 book, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa (Oxford, UK: Hurst Publishers), available in hardcopy and as an e-book. Daniel L. Douek teaches political science at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

“Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa launches National Sex Worker HIV Plan” [Mar 14, 2016] - https://youtu.be/rnZIxaYmaJA

1:54 – “Sex work is essentially work as well.”

“Bill seeking to decriminalise sex work now open for public comment”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/criminal-law-amendment-bill-sex-work-9-december-2022/

09-12-2022 13:27

Have your say! The Bill which seeks to decriminalise sex work in South Africa is now open for public comment.

The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill of 2022, which seeks to decriminalise sex work, has been published and is now open for public comment.

On Friday, 9 December, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Ronald Lamola held a media briefing to provide details on the progress that has been made in decriminalising sex work.

SHOULD SEX WORK BE DECRIMINALISED?

The bill proposes the repealing of the Sexual Offences Act (previously Immorality Act), 1957 (Act No. 23 of 1957) and Section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No. 32 of 2007) to decriminalise the sale and purchase of the adult sexual service.

During the briefing, Lamola explained that the proposals of the bill are a response to Pillar 3 of the government’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.

Lamola said Pillar 3 of the National Strategic Plan on GNVF contains a list of key interventions, key activities and indicators. One of the key activities under Pillar 3 is the finalisation of the legislative process to decriminalise sex work.

“This follows the view that the ongoing criminalisation of sex work contributes to GBVF, as it leaves sex workers unprotected by the law, unable to exercise their rights as citizens and open to abuse generally, not least when they approach State facilities for assistance,” Lamola said.

The Minister emphasised that although current legislation and municipal by-laws continue to criminalise the adult practice, this has not “stopped the selling or buying of sex, nor has it been effective”.

“If anything, the criminalisation of sex work has led to higher levels of violence against sex workers. In addition, criminalisation affects predominantly women, with the female sex worker usually being the one who is confronted by law enforcement, but the male client isn’t. The National Prosecuting Authority has also indicated a very low percentage of cases or prosecutions for such transgressions,” he said.

The Bill has clauses that seek to:

• Repeal the Sexual Offences Act, 1957 and section 11 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007.

• Deal with the expungement of criminal records of persons convicted of, engaged in, rendering or receiving sexual services from persons 18 years or older.

• Handle the transitional provisions pertaining to criminal proceedings relating to sexual services rendered or received by persons 18 years or older, which were instituted prior to the commencement of this Act.

“It is hoped that decriminalisation will minimise human rights violations against sex workers. It would also mean better access to health care and reproductive health services for sex workers, as well as compliance with health and safety and labour legislation. It would also afford better protection for sex workers, better working conditions and less discrimination and stigma,” Lamola said.

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>During the briefing, Lamola explained that the proposals of the bill are a response to Pillar 3 of the government’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.

What it will take to prevent SA’s gender-based violence [not legalizing prostitution]

https://www.polity.org.za/article/what-it-will-take-to-prevent-sas-gender-based-violence-2022-12-05

5TH DECEMBER 2022

Recent findings from a 30-year study involving South Africans born in the Soweto-Johannesburg area in 1994 reveal important facts. The study covers the nature of violence, its impact on human development, and what it will take to prevent and break cycles of violence.

Results showed that 87% of the study cohort, both boys and girls, were exposed to four or more forms of violence, such as physical, sexual, emotional and substance abuse, by the age of 18. This increased their likelihood of becoming a victim or perpetrator ‒ or both ‒ of further violence. It also confirmed what many other studies have shown: that experiences of violence in childhood are not only common but also cumulative.

It is not only that violence begets violence. Experiences of violence significantly influence a range of other outcomes. Suffering violence in childhood increases the likelihood of unemployment, school dropout, substance abuse, and dependence on a social grant. In short, violence is a strong contributing factor to many of the challenges that hamper South Africans’ wellbeing and national development.

At the summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that South Africa needs to pay more attention to preventing gender-based violence. At the same time, in early November, some provincial departments of social development were reducing funding for social services that are crucial safety nets and key to preventing violence. Examples are after-school care programmes, soup kitchens and parent-support initiatives.

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Over 7 000 people were murdered in the second quarter of 2022 alone. The knee-jerk temptation is to respond by investing more in policing. This is misguided.

The roots of gender-based and other forms of violence are deep and extensive. Our efforts to address this must be equally comprehensive, coordinated and far-reaching. Devoting time, expertise and resources to preventing children from experiencing violence, and nurturing their development, is key to breaking intergenerational cycles of violence.

>>17914170

>It is not only that violence begets violence. Experiences of violence significantly influence a range of other outcomes. Suffering violence in childhood increases the likelihood of unemployment, school dropout, substance abuse, and dependence on a social grant. In short, violence is a strong contributing factor to many of the challenges that hamper South Africans’ wellbeing and national development.

>https://www.polity.org.za/article/what-it-will-take-to-prevent-sas-gender-based-violence-2022-12-05

>>17928343

>“‘This is going to finish our Movement’: Yengeni disqualified from contesting ANC NEC over criminal past”

>Bathabile Dlamini, the former president of the ANC Women’s League, was also disqualified

“Tony Yengeni and Bathabile Dlamini allowed to contest NEC positions”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/tony-yengeni-bathabile-dlamini-no-longer-disqualified-anc-nec-position-14-december-2022/

14-12-2022 16:57

Tony Yengeni had said the decision to disqualify him would kill the ANC while Bathabile Dlamini had also vowed to fight the decision.

The African National Congress (ANC) has backtracked on its decision to disqualify its former Chief Whip Tony Yengeni and former Women’s League President Bathabile Dlamini from participating in the upcoming conference.

Yengeni was disqualified from contesting for a National Executive Committee (NEC) position because of his criminal record while Dlamini was disqualified because she was found guilty of perjury in 2017. The two appealed the decision.

“We, therefore, wish to confirm that you are no longer disqualified from being a candidate for the NEC positions during the 55th National Conference of the ANC due to take place on 16 December – 20 December 2022 at Nasrec,”Motlanthe said in the letter.

Dlamini did make a threat earlier;

“‘Something big is coming’ – Bathabile Dlamini’s grim WARNING”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-bathabile-dlamini-warning-13-december/

13-12-2022 09:04

Bathabile Dlamini isn’t pleased with the ANC electoral committee’s decision to disqualify her from contesting for an NEC position

A faction of the African National Congress (ANC) is not about to roll over and play dead while some of their comrades get “sidelined” ahead of the party’s elective conference this coming Friday, 16 December – that is if what Bathabile Dlamini has said is anything to go by.

“Something big is coming .Something we all don’t expect is about to be done by agent provocateurs.They don’t want the conference but they are doing all in their power to ensure conference becomes a festival of chairs .There is no sober minded revolutionary that can allow this,” Dlamini said.

Dlamini reportedly received over 800 branch nominations to form part of the new NEC that will take over after the upcoming 55th national conference, which will be held in Nasrec, Johannesburg, from 16 – 20 December.

In the letter, the party said Dlamini is disqualified as a candidate for all NEC positions, including additional members during the 55th National Conference based on one of its rules which states that “The ANC expects the highest ethical and moral standards from its NEC leaders. Any member may stand for the NEC if they have been an active member for at least ten years, unless they have been found guilty of or have been charged with unethical or immoral conduct, or any serious crime, or corruption.”

“300 government officials on suspension for alleged fraud, theft, rape paid R130 million”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/300-government-officials-on-suspension-for-alleged-fraud-theft-rape-paid-r130-million-2369fb99-ee02-4351-9eca-66ba43133edc

Published Dec 13, 2022

Pretoria - The government paid more than R130 million to more than 300 public servants who are on suspension with full pay and benefits.

One, an employee of the Gauteng Economic Development, has been on full pay for four years.

These were the damning revelations of Acting Minister of Public Service and Administration, Thulas Nxesi, in his written reply to questions from the DA public service and administration spokesperson, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, in the National Assembly. Gondwe asked Nxesi to give details about the total number of suspended officials; the charges against them and any punitive measures taken by the department against the 305 officials.

In his reply, Nxesi said a Gauteng official had been suspended for four years (1 604 days) for fraud. Another official had been suspended for 902 days for misuse of a petrol card.

Three assistant directors were on suspension for fraud and another on theft charges. A deputy director is facing charges of poor performance, insubordination, and fraud.

In the Gauteng Community Safety Department three officials were charged with discharging firearms in public – one incident resulted in a fatality.

In the Department of Infrastructure Development nine officials were suspended – three junior officials for 99 days for theft of copper pipe.

Six senior officials, including one deputy director-general and five other managers, were charged with failure to follow prescripts in the appointment of professional service providers in the AngloGold Ashanti hospital refurbishment project. All had been on suspension for 116 days.

Nxesi also gave shocking details of sex allegations against some officials. Two Department of Higher Education officials, one a deputy director-general, were facing charges of raping learners. The deputy director general has been on suspension for 237 days while another official has been iced for 44 days. In the Northern Cape, two officials had been on suspension for three and two years over the sexual harassment of learners.

KwaZulu-Natal had the highest cases of sex-related crimes with officials having sexual relations with learners. Four officials were facing charges of allegedly having sexual relations with learners.

One has been on suspension for 1 050 days, the second for 990 days, the third for 150 days while the last for 60 days.

Seven other officials are charged with sexual assault while another five face sexual harassment charges.

The others were facing financial misconduct charges bringing the total number in the Education Department to 27 officials.

In Gauteng, two Education Department officials are facing sexual assault charges and six in the Western Cape. Other Education Departments were also fingered in sex charges.

Three officials in Western Cape Premier Alan Winde’s office, were charged with sexual harassment while no cases were reported in the premier’s offices in other provinces.

In her reaction, Gondwe also said a Department of Defence official has been on suspension for three years (1 157 days) for allegedly stealing state rations; a Department of Health official has been on suspension for two-and-a-half years (930 days) over fraud; and a senior public servant in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has been on suspension for two years (778 days) for alleged negligence.

Home Affairs was singled out as one of the worst departments. A total of 26 were charged, some for assisting foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain IDs and passports.

Gondwe said Public Service and Administration should urgently implement a discipline management strategy so government departments could finalise disciplinary cases within the 90-day period stipulated by Public Service Regulations. “It is grossly unfair that, year in and year out, the already burdened South African taxpayer pays such a heavy price.”

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

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/president-cyril-ramaphosa-suspends-western-cape-judge-president-john-hlophe-with-immediate-effect-95d0c2c5-dd3c-4508-a8dc-9810c08de751

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022

Durban – President Cyril Ramaphosa has suspended Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe.

The suspension of Hlophe who is accused of gross misconduct while on the bench is with immediate effect.

However, the judge will be allowed to complete all cases he heard and hand down all reserved judgments – but that’s not clear how.

His suspension was announced by the presidency through a statement on Wednesday.

The office said it was based on the advice of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) and in terms of section 177(3) of the Constitution.

“In order to ensure continuity and stability in the work of the divisional high court, the suspension which is in effect immediately, is on condition that Judge President Hlophe completes all part-heard matters and reserved judgments,” the presidency said in a statement.

Explaining the rationale for this decision, the presidency said Ramaphosa received the JSC report on July 27.

“Due to the long history and complexity of the matter, President Ramaphosa took time to carefully consider all the permutations of the JSC recommendations, including obtaining guidance from an independent legal opinion.

“The President fully appreciated the need to balance Judge President Hlophe’s rights with those of the public and the interest of the judiciary as a whole.

“Section 177 (3) of the Constitution provides that the President, on the advice of the JSC, may suspend a judge who is the subject of a procedure in terms of subsection (1) that deals with the removal of a judge who is found guilty of gross misconduct.

“The Judicial Conduct Tribunal (JCT) concluded that Judge President Hlophe’s conduct breached the provisions of section 165 of the Constitution by improperly attempting to influence the two Justices of the Constitutional Court to violate their oaths of office.

“The JCT established that Judge Hlophe’s behaviour seriously threatened and interfered with the independence, impartiality, dignity and effectiveness of the Constitutional Court and further undermined public confidence in the judicial system.

“The JSC has referred the matter to parliament for the National Assembly to institute impeachment proceedings against Judge President Hlophe,” reads the statement from the presidency.

Furthermore, it said since 2008, Hlophe has been accused of alleged judiciary misconduct after he was accused of trying to improperly influence judges on matters involving former president Jacob Zuma.

“In May 2008, 11 Justices of the Constitutional Court lodged a complaint with the JSC against Judge President Hlophe for his improper attempt to influence the outcome of certain cases pending before the Constitutional Court in favour of former President Jacob Zuma.”

>>17912749

>Is it a major push for an ‘environmentally sustainable’ power supply?

“‘Resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis’”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/resignation-of-andre-de-ruyter-deepen-eskom-crisis-breaking-news-14-dewcember-2022/

14-12-2022 17:55

Solidarity said the resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis and will not alleviate it. The wrong person resigned.

Solidarity has come forward and said the resignation of André de Ruyter will deepen the Eskom crisis and will not alleviate it. The wrong person resigned.

SOLIDARITY SAID DE RUYTER’S RESIGNATION WILL DEEPEN THE ESKOM CRISIS

This comes shortly after the news broke that Eskom’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Andre de Ruyter, reportedly resigned from his position this week.

According to Connie Mulder, Head of Solidarity Research Institute, the problem at Eskom is not the CEO’s operational will but the government’s political will.

“The best person in the country can be appointed to the position but the current political dispensation makes it an impossible task for the person.

“The politicians looked for a scapegoat to hide their own incompetence and exerted incredible pressure on De Ruyter. Instead of doing the right thing, the politicians sacrificed De Ruyter for the sake of their politics.”

Connie Mulder

‘DE RUYTER STOOD ON THE OXYGEN LINE FEEDING CORRUPTION’

Connie furthermore said De Ruyter stood on the oxygen line feeding corruption.

“Those who want to loot more exerted the most pressure for him to resign. Bigger corruption post – De Ruyter is a real danger.

“Drastic political changes are called for. The current government and the ministers involved do not have the ability to bring about the political changes that are required.”

Connie Mulder

HIS RESIGNATION COMES AFTER SEVERAL CALLS FOR HIS HEAD FROM POLITICIANS AND THE LARGER PUBLIC

De Ruyter’s resignation comes after several calls for his head from politicians and sections of the larger public.

According to reports, he informed Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana of his decision to call it quits earlier this week. Makwana in turn informed Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Earlier this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation about the country’s energy crisis.

HERE ARE FIVE THINGS THAT WERE DISCUSSED BY RAMAPHOSA

Here are the five major things you should know from the family meeting. Take note we are still waiting to see these changes despite the family meeting in July.

FIRSTLY– IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF ESKOM’S EXISTING FLEET OF POWER STATIONS

Over time, the maintenance programme of Eskom’s electricity generation fleet has declined. It is now been decided that over the next 12 months, Eskom will increase the budget allocated for critical maintenance to increase the reliability of its generation capacity

SECONDLY, IT WILL ACCELERATE THE PROCUREMENT OF NEW-GENERATION CAPACITY

The relevant government departments are working together to ensure that all projects from Bid Window 5 of the renewable energy programme can start construction on schedule.

THIRDLY, TO MASSIVELY INCREASE PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN GENERATION CAPACITY

The licensing threshold for embedded generation will be removed completely. This will enable private investment in electricity generation to rise to higher levels.

While they will not require licenses, all new-generation projects will still have to register with the regulator and comply with the technical requirements for grid connection and our environmental legislation.

FOURTH, ENABLE BUSINESSES AND HOUSEHOLDS TO INVEST IN ROOFTOP SOLAR

There is significant potential for households and businesses to install rooftop solar and connect this power to the grid. To incentivize greater uptake of rooftop solar, Eskom will develop rules and a pricing structure – known as a feed-in tariff – for all commercial and residential installations on its network.

FINALLY, TRANSFORMING THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR AND POSITIONING IT FOR FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY:

Eskom will be restructured, which will result in three entities, namely an electricity generation entity, an electricity transmission entity and an electricity distribution entity.

“Zuma's grand entrance interrupts Ramaphosa's speech” [Dec 16, 2022]- https://youtu.be/ntWkqhh3j_0

Who has the greatest support, Ramaphosa or Zuma? It is not the first time;

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46855359

13 January 2019

President Ramaphosa walked into a packed Moses Mabida stadium in the coastal city of Durban like a CEO preparing for a board meeting. No dancing. No singing. He delivered the ANC's manifesto speech with conviction, but no razzmatazz.

It was a sharp contrast with his controversial, man-of-the-people predecessor, Jacob Zuma, who had been greeted by his local crowd with a nostalgic roar of approval a few minutes earlier.

But President Ramaphosa is betting that after a decade of chaos and misrule under Zuma - a man now facing a corruption trial, and possible bankruptcy - South Africans are, overwhelmingly, looking for competence and honesty rather than grand promises and wild rhetoric. [But it continued…]

“Ramaphosa gives Zuma until Wednesday to drop case – former President insists he’ll drag him to court”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-cyrli-ramaphosa-jacob-zuma-withdraw-summons-court-date-19-january-2023/

20-12-2022 13:56

Ramaphosa extended the deadline by two days at the request of Zuma’s camp. However, the former president’s people insist they will not withdraw the summons.

The State Attorney wrote to former President Jacob Zuma’s camp on behalf of Cyril Ramaphosa to inform them they have until Wednesday, 21 December, to withdraw a summons that orders the President to appear in court in 2023.

ZUMA HAS UNTIL WEDNESDAY TO WITHDRAW SUMMONS

The South African previously reported the deadline to withdraw the summons was Monday, 19 December.

The action was launched on the eve of the ANC Elective Conference on Thursday, 16 December. Zuma alleges that Ramaphosa was an accessory after the fact in his private prosecution against NPA advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.

The former President alleges that Downer improperly shared information about his medical condition with Maughan.

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

Ramaphosa said he responded to Zuma’s complaint and listed his steps, including referring the matter to Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola, who is responsible for National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) oversight.

The Director of Public Prosecutions in KwaZulu-Natal awarded Zuma a nolle prosequi certificate on 21 November. The document declared that the DPP declined to prosecute anybody in relation to Zuma’s complaint and paved the way for him to prosecute Downer and Maughan privately.

Zuma believes the certificate allows him to bring whoever he wants before the court in relation to the matter, according to the Mail and Guardian.

Ramaphosa’s camp differs and says the approach is irredeemably flawed. The State Attorney expects the summons and certificate to be set aside and declared invalid by the courts.

Ramaphosa’s lawyers intend to claim punitive costs if Zuma does not withdraw the summons. The former President’s spokesperson stressed he would not withdraw the case.

“The case is set down for 19 January 2023. Prez Zuma is not going to litigate through letters and media,” said Mzwanele Manyi on Monday.

On Tuesday, the Zuma camp doubled down and said they only requested the extension to Ramaphosa’s deadline to deal with “frivolous” issues.

20 Dec 2022, 14h40

Just for avoidance of any confusion, the summons for Pres Ramaphosa to appear in Court on the 19th January 2023 for criminal charges will NOT be withdrawn.

The 21 Dec 22 extension was merely to address frivolous side issues like where-else to serve summons etc. pic.twitter.com/Bw70dVCA4y

— JGZuma Foundation (Official) (@JGZ_Foundation) December 20, 2022

>>17981100

>Secretary-General: Fikile Mbalula

“ANC 55th National Conference Day 4 | Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula's media briefing”

https://youtu.be/pwlfAYd6IcA

20:29 - “The report of the Integrity Commission is part and parcel of the organizational report that was presented by former Deputy President, Comrade “DD” [David] Mabusa. Should there be any developments in relation to that we will communicate accordingly at the present moment there has not been anything for this conference about Phala Phala.” [criminals protecting criminals]

25:13 – “Why should South Africans trust us? We can’t answer that question by yes or no… At the present moment the ANC responds to South Africans will be guided by how far we have gone to implement our Manifesto in terms of the last election.”

31:07 – “The Electoral Commission was the first time it was established now… It was for the first time in the ANC that we have an Electoral Commission… which is chaired by Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe.”

32:46 – “The financing and the support of the ANC is the support for democracy and it’s the support of the ideals the ANC stand for [and not the people] and those who’ve got big pockets then will support us in that endeavor as it happens with all other political parties.”

49:33 – “Starting from January, you will see a different ANC. A resolute ANC. A determined ANC. An ANC that does not go to bed with anarchy and ill-discipline. An ANC that is decisive in many fronts and mobilizing our allies, working with them going forward. ANC that a part of solidarity, a campaigning organisation. Solidarity with the people of Palestine, Western Sahara, the people of Cuba. An ANC that is the party of the left, the disciplined force of the left.”

51:08 – “When we insult Ramaphosa, you insult the ANC.”

1:08:08 – “Democratic centralism vs the Constitution. We are a political party that has got members who must understand that when decisions are taken, they are taken, and their job is to follow those decisions.”

1:25:49 – “Some of you never knew my capabilities as Secretary General [ANC Youth League] because some of you were not born… like Pule, he was very young… I was President also of the International Union of the Socialist Youth. The people who deputized me are Presidents and whom I worked with Jacinda Arden [Prime Minister] from New Zealand. I was the President there. I used to sit in the Socialist International with Thabo Mbeki , Yasser Arafat as a Vice President of Socialist International. John [?]… All those people for a decade. So that experience I’m gonna use it in terms of my political upbringing and will build relations with our sister parties. We must be very much concerned about what is happening in Zimbabwe.”

>>17987709

My apologies the timestamps are for this link as is a better coverage of the media briefing

“ANC 55th National Conference Day 4 | Newly-elected Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula's media briefing”

https://youtu.be/rvFuTtLkED8

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>>17987727

“Newly-elected ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s stern warning to those who refuse to toe the line”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/newly-elected-anc-secretary-general-fikile-mbalulas-stern-warning-to-those-who-refuse-to-toe-the-line-c6d4238a-782e-4265-b822-bd231f774f0a

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2022

Self-proclaimed “Commander of Discipline in the ANC”, newly-elected secretary-general Fikile Mbalula asserted his authority, and by extension, the authority of President Cyril Ramaphosa on those party members who did not toe the party line.

In his first press briefing as secretary-general, alongside Pule Mabe, Mbalula gave a stern and direct warning to those who broke ranks and voted for the adoption of the Phala Phala report in Parliament recently.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and four of its MPs, including Mervyn Dirks, Supra Mahumapelo and Mosebenzi Zwane went against a party decision to vote against a report to impeach Ramaphosa.

“Discipline is going to be important,” Mbalula said on Monday night. “There is no self respecting political party that will go to Parliament and vote to impeach its own president. That decision can only be taken by the ANC. No member we have sent to Parliament will exist on his own and have his own conscience.

“If you want your own conscience, then open your own political party, not here. Here it is democratic centrally and the centre must hold. Whether you like it or not, the centre must hold.”

He said while he has enough of an army to take on the opposition parties such as the DA and EFF, he should not also have to deal with another army from within.

“You can’t confuse anarchy and ill-discipline to revolutionary conduct or militancy.

“Anarchy is anarchy, being uncouth and disrespectful must be dealt with.

>>17987709

>>17987727

>>17987730

“ANC does not support idea of regime change in Zimbabwe, says Fikile Mbalula”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/anc-does-not-support-idea-of-regime-change-in-zimbabwe-says-fikile-mbalula-214cac6f-3546-4071-a556-123cd94298d7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2022

Pretoria – Moments after being announced as incoming secretary-general of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Fikile Mbalula said his party would intensify assisting neighbouring Zimbabwe to recover from decades of economic downturn and massive brain drain.

“We must be very much concerned about what is happening in Zimbabwe, and what role we need to play. We do not subscribe to the idea of regime change in Zimbabwe. We need to campaign very hard to get things right, because Zimbabweans are coming to our country in their numbers,” Mbalula spoke to journalists in Joburg in his briefing in his new capacity.

“Something is not right in their own country (and) we must support them. Once that country becomes what it was, there will be no Zimbabwean here. So, the British must think very hard about what they have done, and the Americans. They must uplift the sanctions so that Zimbabwe can grow.” [History repeating; they applied sanctions for a regime change to get the ANC in power.]

Mbalula said the Western nations should not use sanctions “to deepen the pain and the impoverishment” in Zimbabwe.

“The British know what they agreed in Lancaster. They must come to the party, and invest in the compensation of Zimbabwe in the programme of land redistribution. The 40 or something billion pounds they promised Mugabe and Zanu-PF, they must come to the party and not use the land reform programme of Zanu-PF as a scapegoat and run away,” said Mbalula.

“They must come to the party, and Zimbabwe will be a better country. Zimbabweans never (used to) come into this country, that was the bread basket of the African continent. It was an economy that was alive, people were working in Zimbabwe.

“Now you have Zimbabweans crossing (into South Africa), facing life and death … coming into our country, because there is no life. Life is here in South Africa and that has burdened our economy.”

The outspoken Mbalula, who served as police minister previously, said the ANC would not be swayed turn against its long-time ally, Zanu-PF.

“As the ANC we will not agree in ideological terms, that Zimbabwe must be turned into a client State, next to us. So, we need to get that right. We need to campaign for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, and the Cuban people,” he said.

Mbalula is saddled with getting Luthuli House ready, under the leadership of re-elected party President Cyril Ramaphosa, to contest the 2024 general elections.

On the other hand, in Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is gearing up for the 2023 presidential elections where it will be challenged by the Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC), led by Nelson Chamisa.

“55th ANC National Conference Day 4 I Top 7 Results Announcement” - https://youtu.be/SqCW2oRSUTM

“WATCH: Cyril Ramaphosa is the “Alpha”” – “After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilized”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-cyril-ramaphosa-is-the-alpha-male-anc-leader-20-december-2022-breaking/

20-12-2022 11:03

After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilised and SA has its “Alpha”, Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected

After a few days of speculation and economic imbalance the Rand has stabilised and SA has its “Alpha”, Cyril Ramaphosa at the helm once again. With this shift comes a cabinet reshuffle in the coming weeks.

President Ramaphosa has again been re-elected as leader of the ANC by a large margin when he beat Zweli Mkhize. His victory took place at the ANC’s 55th national conference in Nasrec, Johannesburg on 19 December 2022. The final decision came as a result of a process where 4 000 ANC delegates cast their votes.

AN “ALPHA” MALE HAS ACCESS

It is no secret that Cyril chose to leave government after a short stint and begin a career in business about 26 years ago. In this regard he has grown in strides and has made millions from his endeavours in various industries. In the business world, Ramaphosa is seen as a success. He has the business acumen to take on the world as has been seen during his many visits across the globe with some of the most distinguished businessmen internationally.

CYRIL HAS THE RAND FIRMLY GRASPED

It has been noted that since noon on 19 December 2022 the Rand strengthened by more than two percent against the dollar. Ramaphosa clearly proves he is the “Alpha” in SA. He is at the top of the social status hierarchy, has access to power, money and has all the right friends. Some of his good business choices have given him access to power like no other president since Democracy.

CYRIL RECEIVES CONGRATS

Professor Thuli Madonsela has been vocal about the controversy surrounding Ramaphosa. She was also one of the first public figures to congratulate him after his re-election at Nasrec. She said: “Blessings as you and your team tackle the Herculean task ahead.”

Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono came out strongly when he suggested people “to apply critical analysis and not go with the Twitter noise”.

Said Chin’ono: “You would have thought that Ramaphosa was a goner if you believed Twitter noise.

He was up against a disorganised group of people driven by their bitterness not ideas.”

>>17987736

>“Something is not right in their own country (and) we must support them. Once that country becomes what it was, there will be no Zimbabwean here. So, the British must think very hard about what they have done, and the Americans. They must uplift the sanctions so that Zimbabwe can grow.” [History repeating; they applied sanctions for a regime change to get the ANC in power.]

>Mbalula said the Western nations should not use sanctions “to deepen the pain and the impoverishment” in Zimbabwe.

>“The British know what they agreed in Lancaster. They must come to the party, and invest in the compensation of Zimbabwe in the programme of land redistribution. The 40 or something billion pounds they promised Mugabe and Zanu-PF, they must come to the party and not use the land reform programme of Zanu-PF as a scapegoat and run away,” said Mbalula.

“Lancaster House Agreement – Persuasion from B. J. Vorster, himself under pressure from Henry Kissinger, forced Ian Smith, the sitting prime minister at the time, to accept in principle that white minority rule could not continue indefinitely.”

https://www.liquisearch.com/robert_mugabe/lancaster_house_agreement

Persuasion from B. J. Vorster, himself under pressure from Henry Kissinger, forced Ian Smith, the sitting prime minister at the time, to accept in principle that white minority rule could not continue indefinitely. On 3 March 1978 Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and other moderate leaders signed an agreement at the Governor's Lodge in Salisbury, which paved the way for an interim power-sharing government, in preparation for elections. The elections were won by the United African National Council under Bishop Abel Muzorewa, but international recognition did not follow and sanctions were not lifted. The two 'Patriotic Front' groups under Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo refused to participate and continued the war.

The incoming government did accept an invitation to talks at Lancaster House in September 1979. A ceasefire was negotiated for the talks, which were attended by Smith, Mugabe, Nkomo, Zvobgo and others. Eventually the parties to the talks agreed on a new constitution for a new Republic of Zimbabwe with elections in February 1980. The Lancaster Agreement saw Mugabe make two important and contentious concessions. First, he allowed 20 seats to be reserved for whites in the new Parliament, and second, he agreed to a ten year moratorium on constitutional amendments. His return to Zimbabwe in December 1979, following the completion of the Lancaster House Agreement, was greeted with enormous supportive crowds.

>>17987736

>>17987871

“Zimbabwe Lancaster House Agreement, 21 December 1979”

https://www.law.co.zw/download/lancaster-house-agreement-21-december-1979/#

1. Following the Meeting of Commonwealth Heads of Government held in Lusaka from 1 to 7 August, her Majesty’s Government issued invitations to Bishop Muzorewa and the leaders of the Patriotic Front to participate in a Constitutional Conference at Lancaster House. The purpose of the Conference was to discuss and reach agreement on the terms of Independence Constitution and that elections should be supervised under British authority to enable Rhodesia to proceed to legal independence and the parties to settle their differences by political means.

2. The Conference opened on 10 September under the chairmanship of Lord Carrington, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The Conference concluded on 15 December, after 47 plenary sessions. A list of the official delegates to the Conference is at Annex A. The text of Lord Carrington’s opening address is at Annex B, together with statements made by Mr Nkomo on behalf of his and Mr Mugabe’s delegation and by Bishop Muzorewa on behalf of his delegation.

https://www.pindula.co.zw/Lancaster_House_Agreement

The Lancaster House Agreement was a political consensus which brought the independence of Zimbabwe from Rhodesian rule. The agreement came into being after a series of negotiations between the nationalist parties and the Rhodesian Front between September and December 1979.[1] The Agreement was facilitated by the British and the American governments to being to an end the 14 year war in Rhodesia between the Rhodesians and the guerrilla movements.

Terms of the Agreement

1. The Independence of Zimbabwe was to be achieved through suffrage and all qualified citizens were to vote.

2. The independent state was to form the Zimbabwe National Army

3. Land was to be redistributed on Willing Buyer Willing Seller basis for the first 10 years awaiting policy review.

4. A new democratic constitution crafted at Lancaster was to be deployed soon after elections.

5. All concerned parties were to be disarmed and stop the war.

6. Elections were to be held by March 1980.[1]

>>17987882

> Lord Carrington

>>17987871

>Henry Kissinger

“Mandela Meets Kissinger and Lord Carrington”

https://southafrica.co.za/mandela-meets-kissinger-and-lord-carrington.html

After his release from prison, Nelson Mandela met with influential and important members of society to shape South Africa’s political and economic way forward. Mandela met with diplomats and politicians from around the world to discuss the political discourse of the country.

Such political affiliates were Lord Carrington, a British politician who served in Winston Churchill’s cabinet and Henry Kissinger, the controversial United States Secretary of State. They formed close bonds and had an amicable relationship over the course of Mandela’s presidency.

The press would often take photo opportunities of such meetings. Mandela mentioned to the press: “The date of the election is not on the agenda, ”meaning that the meeting between the three political figures was not centred around the impending election in 1994.

https://www.thezimbabwemail.com/world-news/lord-carrington-former-foreign-secretary-dies-aged-99/

Carrington chaired the Lancaster House talks in 1979 which led to to the establishment of an independent Zimbabwe. He was also the last surviving member of Winston Churchill’s post World War II government.

>>17940363

“Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future”

https://youtu.be/Mdm8S1cC7Fo

Dec 21, 2022

It may be long but an interesting discussion with various people and notice the photograph of Chris Hani on his table.

21:18 – “The taxpayer will continue to have to foot the bill for an insolvent Eskom which will actually be owned by the privateers. Let’s not forget that the bondholders of Eskom whose R230 billion in bonds have made sure that Eskom do not have the means of redeeming those bonds. Treasury is going to have to foot the bill of the 230 billion but those bondholders have appointed none other the Rothschilds to advise them on their next course of action with Eskom not having to be able to redeem the bonds.”

49:19 – “During the period of transition, one of things that De Klerk government did was to ask themselves… “How can we act or behave in such a way that we appear to have lost power but we control power?” And they have identified 4 areas that were significant and these 4 areas must actually be expressed in the Constitution as the untouchables… First area… don’t touch big business that’s why big business was not called upon to go to the TRC [Truth and Reconciliation Commission] and because they knew that big business controls the economy… continue to reproduce apartheid designs. Second area… media space… Third one, the academy/education… people like Mandani when they came to South Africa, they were shocked that they found an education here to be simply spaces where an apartheid ideology is being entrenched… Fourth area… the role of the NGOs…”

55:51 – “Somehow our colonizers has instilled the fear of God in the current [ANC] leaders… the struggle continues.”

1:11:07 – “What has happened in the last couple of years is African National Congress because of a long period of infiltration and the history of selling out in the ANC had lost its way increasingly.”

1:56:22 –“We’ve all seen the videos from the closing speech which the president [Cyril Ramaphosa] was giving. There was no one listening. It shows that no one is interested. It’s just about people towing the line and lining their pocket.”

2:15:27 – “I want to state unequivocally, the extent to which the African National Congress as a political liberation movement under the current leadership have failed the original ideals of the ANC and have failed our people is outrageous. I want to make it clear that if I need to fight these leaders and if they want to weaponise this liberation movement to which I’ve dedicated my life, my liberation years, my youth. I will fight them. I will fight anyway in which this liberation movement has been weaponized to oppress the people… They have hollowed the African National Congress out and turned it into a Trojan horse for white monopoly capitalism and for the oppression of our people.”

2:29.23 – “The principle of improving the lives of our people and you are right to say, it’s not just about ideology but it’s how that ideology and political principle translates into a better life for all… I will not support the ANC because the ANC is not changing my life, the ANC is making my life worse.”

2:36:34 – “In a sense, I think this vehicle that our enemy has created for us. This sham that our enemy gave us in 1994. I’m very happy that people are starting to open up their eyes. I’m very happy that the veil is starting to lift. I’m very happy that the cloud is starting to go away so that people can understand that we are in a shame, a political sham of a South African nature.”

2:43:40 – “The reason why the ANC attack comrade Carl in the way they attacked is because he’s white. Currently the ANC is the most racist… organisation that you can find in South Africa… Apartheid started calling me a coloured and the ANC kept it. They called other Indian and they kept it… The same ANC tells you about gender based violence. The ANC tells you about don’t abuse women but the same ANC leaders abuse. The ANC, the SACP and Cosatu use females in the unions to go and speak for males. The ANC… are guilty of their own policies which they make… The ANC madesome of us poorer than we were in Apartheid… It’s time that we open our eyes… The ANC has become a killing machine.”

3:00:20 – “The whole thing goes way back to 1994. We keep going back to the Codesa negotiations… What actually was supposed to happen that all the spies, all politicians of Apartheid, business people like the Ruperts, the Oppenheimers were supposed to be locked up and thrown in jail. All of them… I remember in 2013, one white man said to me. Our Apartheid heroes are slowly dying out and we will see the true nature of Apartheid.”

>>18004465

>“Mpangazitha [Carl Niehaus] talks about the outcomes of the ANC National Conference and his political future”

>https://youtu.be/Mdm8S1cC7Fo

>Dec 21, 2022

“Carl Niehaus RESIGNS from the ANC with IMMEDIATE effect”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-news-carl-niehaus-resigns-anc-immediate-effect-23-december-2022/

23-12-2022 09:45

Carl Niehaus has RESIGNED with immediate effect saying in a tweet that he will not remain in the ANC with Cyril Ramaphosa as President

Carl Niehaus has resigned from the African National Congress (ANC) with immediate effect, after 43-years of membership with the party. He posted a media statement on his twitter page discussing the resignation on 23 December 2022.

This comes after Niehaus was expelled from the ANC for misconduct.

CARL NIEHAUS HOSTS #INMYCROSSHAIRS ON TWITTER SPACE BEFORE RESIGNING

On Wednesday 21 December, two days before his resignation, Niehaus hosted a three and a half hour long #InMyCrosshairs Twitter Space.

This space hosted over 30 000 participants.

During this, he engaged with fellow comrades and explained why he cannot continue being a part of the ANC.

During this, Niehaus said he made it clear that his ideals, which informed his decision to join the ANC 43 years ago [“June 1979 in Botswana on a little hill outside Gabarone”], are still the same.

He stated that his commitment to the full liberation of black, and especially African, South Africans – which encapsulates both liberation from racism and economic exploitation and subjugation – have not changed.

NIEHAUS RETRACTS HIS APPEAL AGAINST EXPULSION

Carl Niehaus stated that he informed his legal representative, Dr. Mathews Phosa to officially withdraw his appeal against his expulsion by the ANC.

“Since I am resigning with immediate effect, to proceed with my appeal will be illogical, and a waste of time and effort. There is also no need to subject myself to the continuing farcical kangaroo court of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee, and by extension the National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal ” Niehaus said in a statement.

Niehaus further stated that the ANC ancestors are ‘spinning in their graves’ at the current state of the ANC.

He accused the ANC of not being the same as when it had started and referred to it as a ‘slave-like service of white monopoly capitalism.’

“Imposters have taken over, and they are abusing the ANC colours and logo for a neoliberal thing, that is no longer the original ANC, and that is now in the slave-like service of White Monopoly Capitalism (WMC), and Western Imperialism, led by sell out agents and spies under the criminal mafia leadership of Cyril Ramaphosa.” Niehaus said.

Niehaus concluded in saying that he will continue to dedicate his life and all the energy he has to the liberation ideals that brought him to join the ANC.

He stated that he will continue to be fully part of the struggle for Radical Economic Transformation (RET), and full liberation.

>>18004465

>They have hollowed the African National Congress out and turned it into a Trojan horse for white monopoly capitalism and for the oppression of our people.

>“The whole thing goes way back to 1994. We keep going back to the Codesa negotiations… What actually was supposed to happen that all the spies, all politicians of Apartheid, business people like the Ruperts, the Oppenheimers were supposed to be locked up and thrown in jail. All of them… I remember in 2013, one white man said to me. Our Apartheid heroes are slowly dying out and we will see the true nature of Apartheid.”

>>17998455

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

>>17998364

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

>>14629696 - Q Research South Africa #6

“Ossewabrandwag, Nazi and ANC Parallels”

https://samilhistory.com/2017/07/16/mein-kampf-shows-the-way-to-greatness-for-south-africa-the-ossewabrandwag/

Nonetheless, many Boers from the ex Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics remembered the extremely brutal tactics used by Britain in the Boer War and remained resentful of British rule. They were especially resentful of the concentration camp and scorched earth policies engaged by the British to bring to bring an end to the guerilla tactics used by “Bitter einders” at the close of the war.

Prior to this, 1938 was also the centennial anniversary of the ‘Great Trek’ (the migration of Boers to the interior). The Ossewabrandwag [OB] was established in commemoration of this ‘Great Trek’. Most of the migrants traveled in ox-drawn wagons, hence the group’s name. The group’s leader was Johannes Van Rensburg, a lawyer who had served previously as Secretary of Justice [under Jan Smuts] and was an admirer of Nazi Germany. The OB at the on-set of the centennial was loosely associated to Malan’s National Party.

Three future National Party South African Prime Ministers/State Presidents held key leadership positions in the Ossewabrandwag. ‘Generals’ like C.R. Swart (later South Africa’s first State President) was a member of the Groot Raad (Chief Council) of the Ossewabrandwag, B.J. Vorster (later to become Prime Minister of South Africa) was a keynote OB leader and formed the OB’s Cape Branch and even PW Botha (future South African State President) joined the Ossewabrandwag and worked with Vorster to establish the OB’s Cape branch.

Other National Party stalwarts where also prominent in the Ossewabrandwag organisation, Eric Louw, for example – who later to become the National Party’s Foreign Minister. That to say the National Party and the Ossewabrandwag were, to coin a phrase, “two peas in the same pod” is an absolute truism.

In essence the Ossewabrandwag was based on the Führer principle, fighting against the British Empire, anti capitalist – they called for the expropriation of “British-Jewish” controlled capital, the communists, the Jews and the system of parliamentarism. All based on the principles national socialism.

An irony is not lost here, in modern South Africa the African National Congress (ANC) now call this ‘British-Jewish controlled capital’ a new name – ‘white monopoly capital’ and call for the same capture of this elusive capital as a justification for their cause too.

>>18004465

>“The reason why the ANC attack comrade Carl in the way they attacked is because he’s white. Currently the ANC is the most racist… organisation that you can find in South Africa… Apartheid started calling me a coloured and the ANC kept it. They called other Indian and they kept it… The same ANC tells you about gender based violence. The ANC tells you about don’t abuse women but the same ANC leaders abuse. The ANC, the SACP and Cosatu use females in the unions to go and speak for males. The ANC… are guilty of their own policies which they make… The ANC made some of us poorer than we were in Apartheid… It’s time that we open our eyes… The ANC has become a killing machine.”

“AfriForum's Ernst Roets' speech at the United Nations on anti-minority discrimination in SA”

https://youtu.be/zJGOa2x0xiA

Dec 2, 2022

If racism is measured by the amount of race laws that a government implements, the South African government – with more than 125 racial laws – surely constitutes the most racist government in the world.

On 2 December 2022 Ernst Roets delivered a speech on behalf of AfriForum at the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues about discrimination against minorities in South Africa. In the speech, he particularly mentioned the ANC's race laws and Julius Malema's hate speech. Roets also commented on the UN's poor track record when it comes to the prevention of atrocities and said that this is largely because the UN values diplomacy with oppressive governments above the promotion of freedom on ground level. The only way for the UN to make a sustainable contribution would be to decentralise its approach.

“SACP, Cosatu change tune on 2024 polls, throw weight behind ANC”

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/sacp-cosatu-change-tune-on-2024-polls-throw-weight-behind-anc-3cbcccd1-e035-466a-b42c-5b2664291237

Published Dec 22, 2022

Pretoria - The SACP and Cosatu appear to have abandoned their intention to challenge the ANC in the general elections in 2024.

The ANC’s tripartite alliance partners have instead appealed to re-elected ANC leader and incumbent State President Cyril Ramaphosa to swiftly act to unite all before the polls.

Adding more to the irony, in September during Cosatu’s 14th national congress in Kempton Park, SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila said his party would decide on whether to contest elections on its own this month, but that has yet to happen with only nine days left to the end of the year.

Commenting after the ANC held its national elective congress at Nasrec, both Cosatu and SACP appeared to have changed their minds towards the governing party and are now forging better relations.

In an indirect call for better working relations before the 2024 national elections, SACP national spokesperson Dr Alex Mashilo said: “The newly elected ANC leadership, led by president Cyril Ramaphosa, faces the challenge of continuing to lead the renewal and unity of the ANC towards success. The SACP wishes the entire collective well.

“As the president said in the political report, delivered to the conference on December 16, the renewal and unity of the ANC will be incomplete without the reconfiguration of the alliance and the renewal of ties with the masses and their growing support.”

Mashilo said millions were living under deeply concerning high levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality, which have engendered a crisis involving the inability of affected households to support their lives.

“Underpinning this situation are the prevailing economic system and structure, which leave much to be desired. In advancing renewal and unity, the ANC needs to work together more with the alliance, as part of its reconfiguration, and other South Africans who support the emancipatory goals enshrined in the Freedom Charter, to solve the problems affecting the people and to overcome them.”

Mashilo said a thorough programme of systemic and structural transformation was essential to move South Africa out of the situation which badly affects millions of people.

“The people consistently mobilised, meaningfully consulted and directly involved through participatory democracy, as well as adequately supported through public interventions and programmes, have a huge role to play in the process of economic and broader social transformation.”

Cosatu national spokesperson Sizwe Pamla added more to the speculation, saying: “Politically, the alliance has continued to struggle with its reconfiguration political programme.

“We have consistently argued that the alliance must not become an elections machinery only and its activities must not be limited to delivering and working together only during the elections, while being excluded from governance. To that end, it must exercise effective oversight and collectively define a deployment strategy.”

Pamla said their recent national congress reaffirmed that Cosatu must continue to push for the alliance to act as a political centre with the SACP starting its consultation process in preparation for it to contest elections.

“As such, the parties to the alliance must jointly drive transformation. The federation believes that the alliance should drive transformation, with tighter co-ordination of alliance programmes. Our challenge is to take forward our congress mandate, but avoid polemics that would divide the federation,” he said.

Pamla said the alliance partners must agree on the need for a fundamental change in its nature and post the ANC conference, they need to start the process of engagement. “Independent alliance formations have a right to determine what kind of political alliance(s) they want to be part of in the interest of their own members.”

>>18017449

>Anti-Semitism never made any headway in Europe in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century until rich Jews decided to sponsor it.

>>17981373

>“‘Black people can NEVER be racist’, Vishoek High learners told”

>[Black people] can be nasty and cruel, but they cannot be racist towards white people. When a black person is the perpetrator, it is never considered racism.

>>18004483

>If racism is measured by the amount of race laws that a government implements, the South African government – with more than 125 racial laws – surely constitutes the most racist government in the world.

>>18004465

>we will see the true nature of Apartheid

The media and government continue to push the anti-white agenda while the country is being destroyed.

“Police probe a case of assault after an alleged racist attack at the Maselspoort Resort” - https://youtu.be/nDgcNyFPVhg ["SABC Stoking Racism again."]

“Twitter User Claims Teens in Alleged Free State Racism Attack Pushed 3-Year-Old Into Pool Starting Chaos” – “This caused the EFF to rock up at the resort to harass, vandalise, and sing ‘Kill the Boer’”

https://briefly.co.za/south-africa/149673-twitter-user-claims-teens-alleged-free-state-racism-attack-pushed-3-year-pool-starting-chaos/

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at 9:51 AM

The chairman of the Taxpayers Union of SA Willem Petzer believes there’s more to the alleged Free State racism attack

He claimed that the 13 and 18-year-old boys allegedly pushed a three-year-old girl into the pool which started the drama

The emergence of the claims has left social media users divided, with many calling for proof to back up the surprising details

FREE STATE - It seems that there is more to the alleged racist attack at the Maselspoort Resort that occurred on Christmas Day.

A video has been making its rounds on social media in which two black teens could be seen being attacked by a group of white men at a poolside. The chairman of the Taxpayers Union of South Africa Willem Petzer claimed that there was a different version of events.

Taking to Twitter, https://twitter.com/willempet/status/1607444017108729857, Petzer wrote an extensive thread claiming that the boys, aged 13 and 18, allegedly pushed the three-year-old daughter of one of the men in the video into the swimming pool. The child had to be rescued by her father as she could not swim.

He claimed that the boys were not permitted to use that pool as it was for guests camping at the resort and not day visitors. The father planned to lay a complaint with the resort management when an argument broke out.

Petzer also tweeted that the boy’s father apologised to the man and promised to leave if no charges were laid against his son. The boys left and later returned with a bigger group of day visitors and allegedly began harassing the father, labelling him ‘white trash’ and a racist.

In the Twitter thread, the chairman claimed that the boys continued fighting when more people got involved. He claimed that the 18-year-old allegedly said that he should have killed the man’s ‘white trash’ daughter.

Free State police spokesperson Brigadier Motantsi Makhele told The Citizen that the matter is being investigated. He said the suspects (the white men) are expected to appear in court at a date to be confirmed by the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court.

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/maselspoort-resort-is-there-more-to-alleged-racial-attack/

The alleged racist attack, filmed by their sister Tumii Frost and posted on Twitter, has sparked widespread condemnation from the community, government, and political parties.

“She posted this video on all social media platforms, claiming racism. This caused the EFF to rock up at the resort to harass, vandalize, and sing ‘Kill the Boer’.”

>>18030895

>“Police probe a case of assault after an alleged racist attack at the Maselspoort Resort” - https://youtu.be/nDgcNyFPVhg ["SABC Stoking Racism again."]

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“Anti-crime village hero in hiding after evil stock-thieves gun down wife & 7 family members | VN |80”

https://youtu.be/WNb5ltjQ1Us

“Promise of crime crackdown as ministers visit site of Eastern Cape shooting massacre”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-11-22-promise-of-crime-crackdown-as-ministers-visit-site-of-eastern-cape-shooting-massacre/

22 Nov 2022

Minister of Police Bheki Cele and Deputy Minister of State Security Zizi Kodwa on Tuesday called for urgent legal reform to help in the fight against crime. This came as an Eastern Cape father told them of the bitter price he paid for taking a stand against stock thieves in his village — his wife and seven family members were gunned down in his house in two separate incidents.

Mlamli Mgxada decided to deal with stock thieves as part of the Masifunisane Crime Prevention Forum in Bityi, a rural village 40km from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.

Standing up to these criminals cost him his wife, who was gunned down three weeks ago, and seven family members, who were shot dead as they prepared to bury her.

On Tuesday, he was visited by Bheki Cele and Zizi Kodwa. Police officers armed with automatic weapons guarded the home where they were meeting.

“I am scared. They can kill me any time. I am no longer sleeping in this house. I am hiding somewhere protecting my life… I will return to my house the day I receive the news that these thugs are arrested, but not now,” he said.

According to a police incident report, the attack on the seven mourners took place on Wednesday, 16 November at about 11.30pm. Three unknown men forced their way into the homestead and opened fire. Six people died at the scene and a seventh in hospital.

In the past two weeks, 20 people have been gunned down in areas around Bityi, according to Bhovulengwe Mtirarathe, chief of the Matyengqina administrative area.

“People are being killed daily in the surrounding areas and people are afraid to speak out because they are fearing for their lives,” he said.

A good example of South African ‘policing’

“Police captain accuses Bok scrum-half Faf de Klerk of ‘attempted murder’”

https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/police-captain-accuses-bok-scrum-half-faf-de-klerk-of-attempted-murder-47d0b09f-5a97-4816-a194-dd9637ecc671

MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2023

Cape Town - Springbok Rugby World Cup-star Francois “Faf” de Klerk has been accused of threatening to use a panga to hack a Stellenbosch police captain to death and for hurling racial slurs.

This is despite the player claiming to have been more than 14 000km away at the time of the alleged incident, which is said to have occurred on December 8 at around 1pm in Stellenbosch.

De Klerk has vehemently denied the claims made by police captain Lesley Smith and maintains that he was in Japan at the time of the so-called “life-threatening” brawl.

But Smith stands by his allegation and claimed that it's not a case of “mistaken identity” and that he slapped the “Springbok scrum-half” with charges, as he “clearly” saw De Klerk drive off in a ramshackle Toyota Corolla, while he allegedly called him a “h*” minutes after he “tried to kill me with a panga”.

Smith also alleged that De Klerk told him “I will f* kill you”.

De Klerk, 31, who captured hearts for his shoulder-length blonde hair, through his agent, rebutted the claims, stating that he does not even drive a Toyota Corolla.

“Faf has never driven a Toyota Corolla in his life,” maintained his agent Lean Schwartz, adding De Klerk has been out of the country for two months now.

“He left the country with the Springboks for their end of year tour to Europe, where after he left London for Tokyo, Japan to join his new club, Yokohama Cannon Eagles,” he said.

Footage of De Klerk with fellow club members during practice sessions in Tokyo is all over the internet, with date stamps ranging from the end of November up until early this month.

Schwartz said that “30 minutes” after finding out he was accused of trying to murder a police man, De Klerk submitted evidence to prove that the allegations were untrue, including copies of his passport and visa to the police investigating officer.

Weekend Argus obtained copies thereof, including De Klerk’s full itinerary. The itinerary shows De Klerk left London on November 27 just before 2pm for Dubai. After seven hours he landed at 12.40am on Monday, November 28.

Two hours later at 2.55am, De Klerk left Dubai International Airport for Tokyo, Japan. He arrived at 5.20pm the same day. The stamps in his visa correlates with the flight details.

De Klerk hasn’t left Japan since. The metadata of a picture De Klerk took of his visa also showed that it was taken on December 8 in Inagi, Wakabadai, the date Smith claimed he was almost murdered.

Despite this evidence, Smith said he had not withdrawn the attempted murder charges against De Klerk.

Director of SA Rugby and former Springbok coach, Rassie Erasmus told Weekend Argus it was not uncommon for such allegations to surface.

“I can tell you we receive various allegations (and) stories that we don’t really react anymore, seeing that the players’ personal life is their own,” he said.

The national rugby team is no stranger to controversy when it comes to the players and their personal scandals.

Former Springbok, Derick Hougaard also made headlines last year after a set of twins accused him of “hiring” the duo for sex.

However, the sisters later admitted that it was a hoax as they were allegedly hired by a third party “to spread the lies”.

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“Golf is not a sport, it is business”

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/golf-is-not-a-sport-it-is-business-0797289e-05e0-45bf-9b87-d3d4355d6ac7

Published Jan 6, 2023

Johannesburg - Black business is realising that if they want to beat the big boys at their game, they should also play.

Golf days have largely been the forte of the mainstream (white) business, but it is pleasing that black business is getting on the bandwagon and reaping rewards.

Financial advisory services firm Matseke Business Investment (MBI) hosted its second annual golf day at the upmarket Steyn City Golf Club, north of Joburg, earlier in December. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nick Mashilo Matseke said this year, they hosted 40 prominent company representatives as well as entrepreneurs with the partnership of medical aid schemes, Easy Debit, Clinix Health Group, and Anchor Grid, to name but just a few.

He said golf for business has, in the past, been described as a six-hour sales meeting.

"That’s not to say a round of golf should take you six hours to complete, of course. But take into account the time spent together on the course along with the inevitable opportunity to keep the conversations going over drinks back in the bar afterwards, and one can perhaps see where the sentiment comes from. The reality is that a round of golf does take time; even before you consider the time spent in the pre-game environment, you are going to be on the course for at least a few hours," he said.

"And in that time, you’re going to be spending a lot of it walking along fairways, waiting at tees and such like. This gives you plenty of time to talk, more perhaps than in other formal networking sessions that can often descend into a form of corporate speed dating.”

Those who play the game insist that golf is not a sport. It is business. There are reputedly more deals done on the airy fairway than in air-conditioned boardrooms.

Matseke also sees the wisdom of taking a business to the golf course.

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>Mantashe says load-shedding worse than state capture

>>17949547

>Sisulu said a decision cooked outside ANC processes saw Mantashe tell MPs to toe the party line.

>>17949590 - Bidvest

>“Calls for Gwede Mantashe ‘to be fired’, amid money laundering allegations”

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>>17981100 - Gwede in the ANC top 7

>>18067136 - Bidvest

“DA says it’s irrational and disastrous to move Eskom to Energy Department”

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/da-says-its-irrational-and-disastrous-to-move-eskom-to-energy-department-0f763b7f-ea0c-47d6-a349-d2872c93bd81

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2023

The DA’s Ghaleb Cachalia has described a proposal by President Cyril Ramaphosa to move Eskom from the Department of Public Enterprises to the Ministry of Energy as irrational and disastrous.

The ANC adopted a resolution at its national elective conference last week which specified that state-owned companies operating in specific economic sectors, should be overseen by the relevant government departments.

Eskom is mired in a national energy crisis that has seen the state-owned entity become the greatest inhibitor to economic growth and job creation and constant bail outs have seen it draining the national fiscus.

The country experienced 205 days of rolling blackouts last year.

Cachalia said the country’s official opposition party was against the move and would fight it.

“We share the opinion of Professor Anton Eberhard who has warned that it would be a grave mistake to move Eskom to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) or even a separate energy ministry.

“According to Eberhard, there is an obvious conflict of interest in an energy ministry being Eskom’s shareholder while also having responsibility for competition and regulation in the sector,” Cachalia said.

The DA says if the move takes place, Eskom will never be fully unbundled and will retain its dominant market position “and the envisaged open power exchange and market will not, in all probability be implemented”.

“Private investment will be pushed to the back burner and under an enhanced version of the status quo – back to the future, as it were – corruption and load shedding will flourish again. The move also has potentially significant financial implications which we are busy unravelling.

“The only faction set to gain from this move clearly an outcome of a political deal to keep president Ramaphosa in power for another term,” Cachalia said in a statement.

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter announced his resignation from the power utility late last year but will remain in the position until March until a new CEO is appointed.

Cachalia said in the run-up to De Ruyter’s resignation, Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe’s “destructive influence was on full display, accusing De Ruyter of a raft of unsubstantiated and unconscionable actions”.

“He is on record as saying ‘Eskom, by not attending to load-shedding, is agitating for the overthrow of the state’. This, on top of earlier statements that De Ruyter was acting ‘like a policeman’ at the corruption-riddled entity.

“It would therefore be a grave mistake to move the utility.”

Cachalia said while it is possible to fix Eskom it is necessary to explore and accelerate generation from other multiple sources on a source agnostic/lowest cost basis “while we explore the most suitable, least invasive, energy-dense solution – let alone opening up the sector to private investment”.

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Making it a political affair… Let’s fuel 'racism' to continue to fight 'racism'.

“ANC January 8 Statement | Ramaphosa speech at the ANC 111-year birthday celebrations” - https://youtu.be/u2KzMOj7m8Q [from about 11:40]

“Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people, says Ramaphosa”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2023-01-08-apartheid-is-over-dont-be-afraid-of-white-people-says-ramaphosa/

08 January 2023 - 15:53

Apartheid is over, don’t be afraid of white people.

This was the strong message ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa sent to the Nakedi brothers who fought off racist attacks at a swimming pool in the Free State on Christmas day.

Ramaphosa hailed the Nakedi brothers for standing up to their attackers at the Maselspoort Resort saying their actions were courageous.

The two brothers, aged 15 and 18, were allegedly attacked by several older white men for swimming in a pool they claimed was only reserved for white people.

Ramaphosa invited the brothers as his special guests at the ANC’s 111th birthday celebrations in Mangaung.

He said the courage they showed in fighting back against such a shameful act was commendable as the time for racist white people was over.

“It was such a shameful act to see old white men trying to throttle these young men and to drown them in a pool under water, the most shameful act to perpetrate against young boys like these and that is why they are my guests,” Ramaphosa said.

“I thank you boys, stay strong and not be afraid of white people they no longer have power, their project of apartheid is over.”

Ramaphosa said there was no space for racists in South Africa and those who had not reformed must immediately vacate the country.

“We commend you, and say what happened to you should not deter you. You must be strong as young men, the message I want to give to you is that the spirit of our forebears who fought against the apartheid system must fill you with courage as it does all of us.

“But we also want to send clear message to those in our country who still want to perpetuate racism, and we say today we do not want racists here in South Africa.

“We honour these young men, we thank them and we also thank their parents for having stood firm to make sure that they resist the racist acts and practices being perpetrated against them.”

“More high-profile names implicated on graft corruption at the National Lotteries Commission”

https://youtu.be/nK_WsOUdc3g

Jan 15, 2023

The number of high-profile names implicated in lottery corruption continues to grow. Kwaito star and music producer, Arthur Mafokate, has now become embroiled in alleged lotto fraud and the SIU has frozen a property linked to him. It comes after it emerged that Terry Pheto who was the lead actress in the Oscar-winning film, Tsotsi, and another Tsotsi star, Presley Chweney-agae were being investigated for allegedly misappropriating funds distributed by the National Lotteries Commission. Money from lotto tickets was meant to be spent on good causes but it seems that many projects that were approved were linked to fake non-profit organisations who never did the work. They took money and some of it was also shared with senior officials from the Lotteries Commission who splurged on luxurious properties. GroundUp Investigative Journalist Raymond Joseph revealed transgressions for years and reported on projects that were never finished including an old age home, a drug rehabilitation centre and a sport stadium. He joins us now.

“Zuma foundation slams Ramaphosa interdict”

https://youtu.be/A8dg87seSxo

Jan 16, 2023

Jacob Zuma Foundation Spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi says President Cyril Ramaphosa remains charged despite the Johannesburg High Court granting Ramaphosa an urgent interdict against his predecessor Jacob Zuma's private prosecution. Newzrooms Afrika's Ziyanda Ngcobo reports

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>Fondation Frantz Fanon

“Drucilla Cornell: Rethinking Ethical Feminism and Sexual Politics Through uBuntu - ICI Berlin 2012” - https://youtu.be/SRUMEg0MpNE

“Drucilla Cornell, in Memoriam” - Fondation Frantz Fanon

https://fondation-frantzfanon.com/drucilla-cornell-in-memoriam/

December 29, 2022

The Frantz Fanon Foundation joins the Cornell family, Prof. Gordon, and so many others who treasure Prof. Cornell's outstanding work in radical thinking and who have been impacted by her life, her activism, and her thought.

I woke one morning in mid-December to Thelonious Monk's performance of “I Didn't Know It Was You.” That beautiful tune made me think of my beloved comrade and friend Drucilla Cornell.

Drucilla loved Frantz Fanon. She saw him among the many great thinkers she admired from Hegel to Marx to Luxemburg

Her grandmother ran a printing press and nurtured her imagination while introducing her to pluralistic forms of knowledge in frequent trips to the African American communities in Watts, Los Angeles. They went by bus to see her grandmother's soothsayer or African spiritual advisor.

She read Hegel in that way, which led to her early theoretical work in legal theory. This was done alongside her activist work of union organizing and her dedication to fighting struggles on multiple fronts. She held memberships to radical left parties and liberal ones; she worked with communities rethinking the idea of legal remedies beyond the confines of those narrowly defined by states. These commitments attracted her to the thought of Jacques Derrida, who became the godfather to her daughter Sarita.

Drucilla brought these two luminaries [Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon] in conversation with traditions across the spectrum from Global Southern to varieties of feminist thought in a synthesis that transcended North/South divides. Her theoretical writings in effect rechanneled her grandmother's trips into Watts, but this time beyond the United States as it took her to South Africa, where, in the spirit of her grandmother, she sought the counsel of Sangomas. For Drucilla, Constitutional Court Justices in South Africa, Research Professors in the top universities, and major public intellectuals were but part of a complex society in which the Sangoma, as Boaventura de Sousa Santos would say, was a contributor to a plurality of epistemes and legitimating practices of knowledge. It is this insight that attracted Drucilla to uBuntu, which is a complex Indigenous African form of relational understanding of ethical life and political responsibility.

An expression of this project, her 2007 book Moral Images of Freedom , won the Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award . Another, uBuntu and the Law: African Ideals and Postapartheid Jurisprudence (2012), published in the Just Ideasseries she edited with Roger Berkowitz, brought elements of the uBuntu project she co-organized across South Africa, from Cape Town to Venda, into scholarly reflection. So, too, was her Law and Revolution in South Africa uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation , published in 2014. These are but a fragment of her creativity and influence.

Germane to the Fanon Foundation, Drucilla's Fanonian turn, though commencing from her years of working with Black radical groups in southern California in the late 1960s through 1970s, eventually took the form of joining the twenty-first century project of creolizing theory as articulated by Jane Anna Gordon, whose treatise Creolizing Political Theory was published in the Just Ideas series in 2014, and other members of the Caribbean Philosophical Association who participated in the Creolizing the Canon and Global Critical Caribbean Thoughtbooks series.

Creolizing Rosa , which Drucilla co-edited with Jane Anna Gordon, reminds the world of the revolutionary adage of what freedom for all signifies. Luxemburg, we should remember, understood the importance of South Africa and Caribbean countries such as Martinique and Guadeloupe while her fellow European intellectual were still locked in the problematic orientalist presupposition of “juvenile” reason rising from the East and achieving maturity in the West.

It's rather poignant that her final book, Today's Struggles, Tomorrow's Revolutions: Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought , building on Global Southern existential philosophical and political commitments of doing what one must even under threats of despair, political nihilism, and violence, was published several weeks before she joined the ancestors.

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>Creolizing Rosa , which Drucilla co-edited with Jane Anna Gordon, reminds the world of the revolutionary adage of what freedom for all signifies. Luxemburg, we should remember, understood the importance of South Africa and Caribbean countries such as Martinique and Guadeloupe while her fellow European intellectual were still locked in the problematic orientalist presupposition of “juvenile” reason rising from the East and achieving maturity in the West.

“Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg”

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614421/Creolizing-Rosa-Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles, such as those in Poland and Russia, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined, to considerations of state sovereignty, democracy, feminism, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that, by creolizing Luxemburg, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution.

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>undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation

“Ramaphosa supports radical economic transformation”

https://youtu.be/8mrqqOHOXwU

Apr 20, 2017

Radical Economic Transformation is NOT a new term in South Africa. That's according to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. He was addressing the Black Business Council in Johannesburg Wednesday night. The deputy president says to transform the economy, government must increase skills, get black professionals to work with government, create more black industrialists and develop SMME's

0:58 – “The economic transformation of our country… is non-negotiable. It has to happen and it is going to happen whether people like it or not. The economy has to be transformed and it will be transformed.”

“Ramaphosa’s plan for radical economic transformation and tackling unemployment”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/222155/ramaphosas-plan-for-radical-economic-transformation-and-tackling-unemployment/

31 January 2018

“As we found in Davos last week, many investors are prepared to work with us and our people to build our country,” Ramaphosa said.

Radical social and economic transformation

Ramaphosa said that a core part of this renewed focus on the labour market will be to “convince those who have not yet understood”, that it not possible to grow and sustain an economy that excludes black people – the majority of whom are African and female.

“Radical social and economic transformation is about creating a South Africa where all its citizens, black and white, share equitably in the country’s economy,” he said.

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“Drucilla Cornell Keynote Address at the WiCDS [Wits Centre for Diversity Studies] '(Re)Imagining Liberations' Conference 5/8” [Jul 29, 2019] - https://youtu.be/D9HNvTjhoGw

38:28 – “Socialist transformation is not something that’s ever going to happen easily or overnight, that was the fantasy right at the Second International which granted the First International… We’ve lost a lot of our Marxist history after the fall of the Berlin Wall… The First International grew out of the communist manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Second International was led by Stalin and it is the International that led all of the great African socialists to withdraw… In South Africa… political transformation was separated from economic transformation… One of the things you can all do is try to find places in your work for the struggles that will enhance transformation. The expropriation bill is a great step forward, it’s going to cause a lot of white reaction and so it’s going to demand a lot of mobilization on the ground to make that work.”

46:41 – “When Mandela became president… there was supposedly going to be a Reconstruction and Development Program and socialist economists from all over the world were asked to attend.”

52:19 – “You also have to face the realities that anti black racism and the fight for socialism are integrally connected.”

1:13:26 – “I feel this is my political responsibilities as a white person, the complete rejection of the meritocracy.”

“Drucilla Cornell: OBITUARY (12/14/2022)”

https://medium.com/@arendt_center/drucilla-cornell-294e42af57e4

Dec 15, 2022

DRUCILLA CORNELL, a widely influential philosopher and feminist theorist, died in Manhattan on December 12th. Born in Los Angeles on June 16, 1950, she was 72 years old.

Drucilla Cornell’s many books and plays range across political and legal philosophy, ethics, deconstruction, critical theory, and feminism. She was Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University the State University of New Jersey; Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; and a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. Before that, she taught for many years on the law faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University

She received her undergraduate education at Stanford University and Antioch College and then earned a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of California Los Angeles (1981).

She is the author or co-author of nearly two dozen books, including The Imaginary Domain, The Philosophy of the Limit, and Law and Revolution in South Africa. In 2008–09, she held the National Research Foundation Chair in Customary Law, Indigenous Values, and the Dignity Jurisprudence at the University of Cape Town. There she founded the uBuntu project, which has produced several books and a documentary film, entitled uBuntu Hokae. She served as the project’s co-director with Chuma Himonga, and was also co-director of the uBuntu Township Project.

She has also written works for the stage. Her first play was a dramatic adaptation of Finnegans Wake which continues to be performed on Bloomsday. Her other plays — ‘The Dream Cure’, ‘Background Interference’, and ‘Lifeline’ — have been produced in New York and other cities in the US and South Africa.

Her lifelong concerns with inequality and worker rights began in the 1970s through her work as a union organizer, first in Silicon Valley semiconductor factories, followed by organizing both electronics and clerical workers in and around New York City. She wrote about those years in a 2020 publication, There Is Power in a Union: How I Became a Labor Activist. For the past 25 years, she served as a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for the Study of Labor and Democracy.

She is survived by her daughter, Sarita Cornell, her former husband, Gregory DeFreitas, both of New York City, her sister Jill Gwaltney and brother Brad Cornell, both of Los Angeles.

A memorial service will be held later this coming spring. Those wishing to honor her memory are encouraged to make donations to: Jobs With Justice (www.jwj.org/ways-to-give) and Greenpeace Africa (www.greenpeace.org/africa)

CONTACT: Gregory DeFreitas

Email: gdfnyc1@gmail.com

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>“You also have to face the realities that anti black racism and the fight for socialism are integrally connected.”

>>18155676

>Drucilla loved Frantz Fanon.

>>18155726

America, are you excited to have your own ‘EFF’?

“The Significance of Frantz Fanon” – New Black Nationalist, EFF, Black Panthers, etc. following his theories – Part 1

https://www.newblacknationalism.com/Franz-Fanon.html

On February 20, 2021, the New Black Nationalist [NBN] movement in America’s settler state adopted Frantz Fanon’s corpus of theories as its guiding revolutionary philosophy.

As the vison keepers of Black Nationalism’s historical project, our charge is developing theoretical products that illuminate a path to create a Black majority post-patriarchal nation. Incorporating Fanon’s constructs into our theoretical models now sets our project on a new trajectory.

Since January 2018, NBN has been renovating Black Nationalism’s theoretical house to scale which is to sayto meet the challenges emanating from American Empire’s precipitous decline, and an increasingly precarious international situation fraught with uncertainty and upheaval.

NBN’s analyses on Black identity, national belonging, gender equity, B.L.M. 2.0–The Next Iteration, Radical Black Feminism, Cultural Enlargement Theory, Crisis Theory and the Collapse of American Empire, and launching a Black Diaspora Movement have congealed as the touchstones of NBNs ‘2020 Statement of Principles.’

These works constitute the molecular structure of a distinct Black Nationalist ideological variant.

The coupling of Fanon’s decolonial works on phenomenology, dialectics, ontology, and ‘new humanism,’ with NBN’s ‘Statement of Principles,’ integrates our ideological frame with the cosmos of Fanon’s philosophical system.

Combined with our plans in 2021, to conduct a one-year critical reading and updating of Fanon’s writings on race, nationalism, women, capitalism, colonization, Marxism, violence, and culture, New Black Nationalists will possess a coherent and comprehensive system of ideas.

With a retooled theoretical template of this magnitude, we hope to begin the process of repositioning our movement to convert revolutionary possibilities into real victories. Achieving this goal will require shifting the “Fanonian Debate” from the halls of academia to the streets across the diaspora where rising Black mass movements erupted in the 2020 “Summer of New Beginnings.”

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

Andile Mngxitama, a former EFF theorist before he left the party to head the ‘Black Land, Black First,’ organization, characterized the EFF’s adoption of Fanonism this way:

“The EFF finally liberates, Marxism and Leninism from the racist clutches that dictates that the African and black experience must be viewed from the perspective of the West and that the horrors of anti-black racism and colonialism be reduced to a mere “epiphenomena,” Bringing Fanon into the great duet of Marx and Lenin completes the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-racist circle which is the only real basis for true liberation.”

The EFF ‘augmented’ its Marxist-Leninist bent with Fanon’s decolonial anti-racism doctrine to certify its Pan Africanist credentials. They also weaponized Fanon’s blistering indictment of Africa’s weak national bourgeoisie. Fanon’s “Pitfalls of National Consciousness” became a battering ram for the EFF to bludgeon the ruling ANC for its capitulation to white neo-colonial rule.

In the U.S., the Black Panther Party [BPP] engaged Fanon from a different angle. “The Wretched of the Earth” hit the streets in 1966, just as the Black urban rebellions were reaching their summit. Under Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver’s leadership, the BPP embedded three Fanonian concepts into their incipient revolutionary nationalist program.

The BPP likened America’s homogenous Black urban centers to Fanon’s descriptors of Third World colonies dominated by imperial penetration and economic exploitation. In Fanon’s Manichean colonized world, West Oakland’s Black ghetto was Algiers’ Arab Casbah—a bidonville teeming with dense poverty, pestilence, and revolutionary energy.

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“The Significance of Frantz Fanon” – New Black Nationalist, EFF, Black Panthers, etc. following his theories – Part 2

https://www.newblacknationalism.com/Franz-Fanon.html

As oppressed colonies under the jackboot of U.S. imperialism, the BPP also justified armed self-defense and underground liberation armies to resist the armed forces of American Empire.

Channeling Fanon, the BPP championed the “lumpenproletariat,” as a revolutionary force for liberation. Cleaver’s liberation army were the young ghetto warriors whose future capitalism had doomed to oblivion. Cleaver asserted these dispossessed youth were an “unskilled, unfit, industrial reserve army displaced by automation,” and a “Criminal Element’ that lived by their wits and existed off what they rip off.

How groups like the BPP and EFF interpreted and applied Fanon’s teachings will be an important part of the discourse on our website’s Fanon Forum. However, the point being raised here is the potential for Fanonian theory to be applied in vastly different countries, with diverse conditions, and historical narratives.

Fanon integrated the best thinking of different ideological, philosophical, and political schools of thought. These knowledge bases reflected the Black and Arab colonial experience he encountered in his living spaces that spanned Martinique, France, Algeria, Tunisia, and Accra.

For this reason, in 2021, New Black Nationalist will recalibrate its efforts to grow the new Black Diaspora Movement [BDM]. Over the coming months, we will begin to reorient the Black Diaspora Movement to a Fanonian-based International Movement.

The philosophical and political elasticity of the Fanonian system exist because Fanon captured critical universal aspects of the Black and Arab colonial liberation experience. Fanonian theory is broadly applicable precisely because he refused to be enclosed by absolute truths or a singular epistemological system. Fanon was wedded to truth, wherever he found it. Fanon’s analytical method is worthy of emulation.

In a similar vein, New Black Nationalists are not Afropessimists, Afrocentrists, Pan-Africanists, Marxists, Democratic Socialists, Afrofuturists, Feminists, Cultural or Religious Nationalists. Nevertheless, we incorporate the best thinking from these diverse schools of thought that reflect the totality of the Black national experience in America’s settler state.

As a nationalist movement we should represent and reflect the character, content, and democratic aspirations of our diverse Black communities. Uppermost in our vison, is the creation of post-heteropatriarchal society, which cannot be achieved without Black women and Black feminists playing the leading in designing the architecture or a new social order. Thus, the Fanonian method” comports with our desire to thrive intellectually in an open-ended environment of experiment and discovery.

Frantz Omar Fanon remains was one of the world’s foremost liberation thinkers and the authoritative voice of contemporary Decolonial Theory. His influence reaches across the past six decades and the Global South—Global North divide. Fanon’s works are continuously debated among Black intellectuals, Black feminists, political activists, students, book clubs and study groups of community-based organizations on every continent throughout the Diaspora.

Frantz Fanon is admired and loved because his efforts to end neocolonial exploitation and oppression eclipsed the boundaries of nationalism. Fanon's intellectual curiosity was a ceaseless journey probing the frontiers of revolutionary struggle for a “new humanity”one that explodes the failed global project of European Enlightenment.–

Fanon’s vision was a summons to create what he called a "new history of man." Leukemia cut short Fanon's life six decades ago at the age of thirty-six. But the relevancy and urgency of Fanon's transformative theories has never been more important. As his successors, New Black Nationalists proudly announce during the observance of Black History Month 2021, our adoption of Frantz Fanon’s body of work as the guiding philosophy of our movement.

Learn from Fanon and Breathe!

>>18157027 - New Black Nationalism (Is it not another form of apartheid [separateness]?) still seems to be very active and the Minneapolis incident could have been a test run… You should still remain vigilant as we have come to notice that these radical groups have a tendency to keep probing, capitalize on bad situations, fuel anger/hatred/violence and never give up. People regarded Julius Malema as a joke about a decade ago but his party, EFF, has now become the third largest in South Africa.

“A 2023 Strategic Brief: Derailing the Republicans:'American Apartheid' Project” – Part 1

https://www.newblacknationalism.com/The-Fort-Lauderdale-Memo-A-Black-Nationalist-Transition-Plan-To-A-Revolutionary-Period.html

1.1.2023

A Transition Plan to a Revolutionary Period

In August 2020, New Black Nationalists' (NBN) plussed-up its Crisis Theory analysis predicting systemic vulnerabilities and institutional decay would collapse the U.S. government before the decade ended. The coda stated Donald Trump was fomenting civil war, fabricating chaos, and weaponizing disinformation about elections fraud to destabilize the country. In effect, he was accelerating the timetable to induce an existential governance crisis. Five months later, it happened.

On January 6, 2021, Trump's seditious forces assaulted the U.S. Capitol to install him as a white nationalist autocratic ruler. The sprawling conspiracy involving the U.S. military, both Congressional chambers, the Secret Service, GOP state legislatures, the Republican National Committee, conservative cable outlets, and a Supreme Court Justice's wife, nearly succeeded. That meant one thing: Trump would try again.

Trump's social media platforms were repositioned. Voter restriction laws were passed in eighteen states. Of the 370 election deniers enlisted to run in the 2022 midterms for state and federal offices, 156 won. The courts were cluttered with cases arguing for expanded states' rights. This was the furniture of an American Apartheid project to retake power in 2024.

As we enter 2023, the Fort Lauderdale Memo [FLM] reaffirms Crisis Theory's, https://www.newblacknationalism.com/Crisis-Theory-and-the-Collapse-of-Americas-Empire.html, predictive model. From our perspective, the failed Capitol Coup, the midterm election stalemate, Trump's announcement to run in 2024, and his likely prosecution by the Justice Department exacerbates the antagonisms and increases the prospect of an existential crisis erupting in the 2020s.

Further, FLM contends the Capitol Coup marked the beginning of a protracted war by Trump loyalists, a reconstituted semi-fascist Republican Party, and white nationalist militias to seize power by extra-constitutional measures. In our view, the Trump-inspired regime change project can only end in one of three ways:

1) The Republican presidential candidate wins a clean election, stolen election, or is installed by an intervention of the Supreme Court.

2) The Republican presidential candidate is defeated in the 2024 elections and an attempted coup or insurrection is eventually militarily crushed by a Democrat Party controlled administration or coalition of anti-authoritarian forces.

3) Rather than accept the election results of a Democrat winning the 2024 presidential race, a group of Red State Governors or Republican-dominated state legislatures decide to secede from the U.S. government. Either a bloody and extended civil war ensues or negotiations over a voluntary National Divorce, https://www.newblacknationalism.com/National-Divorce-Initiative.html, separation is convened.

Whether the American Apartheid project is Trump-led or not, it persists as an existential threat to the Black Commons that must be derailed. Defeating the GOP presidential candidate in 2024 denies Republicans control over coercive federal emergency powers, the U.S. military, the FBI, deep state intelligence services, the Justice and Homeland Security Departments. Bolting the Oval Office door to Republicans also creates breathing room for the Black Commons to develop a strategy to maneuver with agency and independence in a three-dimensional battlespace.

>>18162042

“A 2023 Strategic Brief: Derailing the Republicans:'American Apartheid' Project” – Part 2

https://www.newblacknationalism.com/The-Fort-Lauderdale-Memo-A-Black-Nationalist-Transition-Plan-To-A-Revolutionary-Period.html

1.1.2023

The Fort Lauderdale Memo asserts that variants of the Trump-inspired American Apartheid project are advancing along multiple tracks, thus thwarting it will require a multi-faceted and flexible response. The January 6 coup didn't contradict NBN's model of an existential crisis imploding the government in the 2020s: it expanded our theory with contingency and context. At the same time, it exposed some of the gaps and weaknesses of our analytics.

What's needed going forward is a more dynamic and nuanced analysis of the post-January 6 pre-revolutionary environment we live in. Understanding the intersection between the American Apartheid project and American Empire's strategic vulnerabilities is vital to assessing the best strategies to defeat an autocratic seizure of power and convert the crisis into creating a Black-led nation-state.

In the grand scheme of unfolding developments, it needs to be said that the Black Commons and Black Nationalists are lagging slightly behind the pace of events. The 2017 Battle of Charlottesville marked the turning point in which Trump, the Republican Party, and white nationalist militias unified behind a project to permanently seize the reins of government by any means at their disposal. Since then, they have been on the offensive, dictating the time and place of battle, and the choice of weapons.

At some point between now and 2024, we must pivot and turn the tide. To assist in the Black Commons, process the twist and turns of the quickening revolutionary situation, in 2021 we launched two new sections of the website: 2024 Trump Coup Watch and the Civil War Diaries.

That said, the Black Commons is ready for what lies ahead. Difficult questions have to be answered. Weighty actions must be undertaken. Certain risks have to be assumed. New Black Nationalists are supremely confident the Black Commons is ready to meet the moment.

https://www.newblacknationalism.com/Crisis-Theory-and-the-Collapse-of-Americas-Empire.html

4) The phenomenon of imperial decline is not simply a process of slow and incremental decay. Existential crisis moments emerge when a quantitative buildup suddenly explodes into a qualitative leap. Consider that Tunisian street vendor Mohammad Bouazizi self-immolated after Tunisian officials spat on him and confiscated his vegetable cart. That incident ignited the "Arab Spring" risings across the Middle East. The COVID-19 pandemic metastasized with blinding speed in the U.S., killing 325,000 people in nine months, while traumatizing the national economy. The Berlin Wall suddenly came tumbling down to the complete surprise of the CIA and everyone else. Disbelief in the possibility that American Empire could suddenly collapse in the space of a month or a week, is the strategic blind spot that inhibits movement radicals and the masses from envisioning revolutionary possibilities on the horizon.

6) Fast-moving, chaotic crises draw all of societies' forces into the revolutionary fray, many against their will. But it is usually a small, unified, and determined force that dictates the outcome of the crisis.

7) When an existential crisis emerges, revolutionary Black Nationalists will need allies, but they don't have to be the largest force in the streets. Black Nationalists must be a highly influential, determined, and disciplined force. The argument for creating an independent Black nation [Apartheid] or other forms of self-determination, must generate sympathy among a large section of the population, and neutrality among other sectors to prevent them from going over to the counter-revolution.

The ability of Black Nationalists to maneuver in space and time will likely decide the outcome of an existential crisis. Above all, Black Nationalists must act with the understanding that revolution is both a science and an art form.

“eSwatini Unrest | Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko killed” - https://youtu.be/pK9s1bfNhR0

3:06 – “[His death] may be a setback but at the same time he is going to be an inspiration for other Swazis to even fight and to push even harder for the attainment of democracy because it is something that he has fought for for a bigger part of his life.”

“UN rights chief urges ‘impartial’ probe after Eswatini killing [of Thulani Maseko (Chris Hani 2.0?)]”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/africa/un-rights-chief-urges-impartial-probe-after-eswatini-killing-breaking-23-january-2023/

23-01-2023

The United Nations human rights chief on Monday called on Eswatini to swiftly and impartially investigate the brutal killing of prominent opposition politician and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko.

The United Nations human rights chief on Monday called on Eswatini to swiftly and impartially investigate the brutal killing of prominent opposition politician and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko.

“Thulani Maseko was a stalwart of human rights who, at great risk to himself, spoke up for many who couldn’t speak up for themselves,” Volker Turk said in a statement.

“His cold-blooded killing has deprived Eswatini, southern Africa and the world of a true champion and advocate for peace, democracy and human rights.”

Maseko was shot dead on Saturday night by unknown attackers at his home in Luhleko, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Mbabane, an opposition spokesman told AFP.

He was shot through the window while he was inside with his family, the spokesman said.

In his statement, Turk called on the Eswatini authorities “to ensure a prompt, independent, impartial and effective investigation is held into his killing… and to hold all those responsible to account in fair trials.”

Maseko, a leading human rights lawyer and columnist, was the founder of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum (MSF) — a coalition of opposition parties, associations and churches.

In 2014, he was jailed for contempt of court over articles critical of the government and judiciary, but was acquitted on appeal and released a year later.

END OF MONARCH

And he had a pending court battle with King Mswati III over the monarch’s decision to rename the country Eswatini by decree.

The country’s name was changed from Swaziland to Eswatini to mark the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain in 2018.

Maseko’s position was that the king had not followed the constitution in the process.

And at the time of his death, he was the legal representative for two members of parliament facing trial for offences allegedly committed during the civil unrest that rocked Eswatini in 2021, according to the UN rights office.

Maseko’s death came just hours after the king challenged activists fighting to end Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

“People should not shed tears and complain about mercenaries killing them,” King Mswati had said.

In addition to calling for an investigation of Maseko’s death, Turk demanded Monday that the Eswatini authorities “ensure the safety and security of all Eswatini people, including human rights defenders, journalists and political activists and… protect civic space.”

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>And at the time of his death, he was the legal representative for two members of parliament facing trial for offences allegedly committed during the civil unrest that rocked Eswatini in 2021, according to the UN rights office.

“Eswatini protests: ‘we are fighting a liberation struggle’”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/eswatini-protests-we-are-fighting-a-liberation-struggle

Thu 8 Jul 2021 10.00 BST

Dozens have died seeking reforms to African kingdom where many are dubious about authorities’ offer of talks

Authorities in Eswatini have promised a “national dialogue” in an attempt to avert further unrest after dozens died and hundreds of businesses were burned down in weeks of protest in Africa’s only remaining absolute monarchy.

The move has been greeted with scepticism by opposition leaders and analysts, with fears of further violence in the landlocked country of 1.3 million if there are no significant reforms to the autocratic political system.

The UN expressed deep concern on Tuesday at the reaction of authorities in Eswatini, which was formerly known as Swaziland, to recent protests and sporadic looting, calling for an independent investigation into allegations of “disproportionate and unnecessary use of force, harassment and intimidation” by security forces.

The allegations include “the use of live ammunition by police”, a UN spokesperson said, adding that the organisation was worried by “the potential for further unrest”.

Protests by mainly young people in Eswatini, which has been ruled by 53-year-old King Mswati for 35 years, started when a law student was murdered in May in circumstances that suggested police involvement. [Seem to be a common theme across the world] But unrest intensified dramatically last month when authorities said they would refuse any further “petitions” to the king, closing one of the few ways in which complaints and grievances could be expressed in the kingdom.

Protests that followed led to a more general breakdown in law and order, with sporadic arson and looting. With police overwhelmed, the army was deployed “to regain the rule of law, [restore] peace and to protect all”, said acting prime minister Themba Masuku in a statement.

Observers say there are echoes in Eswatini of protests and violence elsewhere in Africa which have pitted educated and connected urban youth against long-standing rulers and elites. In Uganda, where the median age is 17, Bobi Wine, a popular singer turned politician, has challenged the rule of veteran president Yoweri Museveni and provoked harsh repression. In Nigeria too, a youthful population with new aspirations of prosperity, security and freedom have taken to the streets to protest and been met with violence. [Also coincidentally, just prior to South Africa’s unrest https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/the-july-2021-protests-and-socio-political-unrest-in-south-africa/]

“We are fighting for democracy, freedom, jobs and for food. Yes, there were some people who tried to exploit the protests for their own agenda but … they were not our people. We are fighting a liberation struggle, not stealing,” said one 26-year-old student leader contacted by the Guardian in Eswatini, who requested anonymity for fear of arrest.

Though some local-level representatives are elected, the king effectively choses MPs, controls parliaments and appoints ministers, analysts say. Dissidents have long been silenced by a raft of repressive laws, with the largest opposition party, People’s United Democratic Movement (Pudemo), banned under terrorism laws.

Officials admit that at least 27 people had been killed, some by police, others by security guards hired to prevent looting. Opposition leaders say at least twice as many have died. More than 150 are thought to have been injured.

Officials in Eswatini admit there are problems in the kingdom but say the unrest was due to “terrorists” and “rabble rousers” from South Africa.

Khumalo said that security forces had intervened when authorities “had been made aware of a grand plan to sow a trail of destruction” in Eswatini. Without offering evidence, he alleged the plan involved the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical leftwing political party in neighbouring South Africa.

“The EFF was bringing in people to lead the destruction and who would train and mentor its local branch to do this … We were able to intercept the plan on the internet. We had to protect business and security for all citizens. It was beyond a protest,” the minister said.

>>18203753

>Maseko, a leading human rights lawyer and columnist, was the founder of the Multi-Stakeholder Forum (MSF) — a coalition of opposition parties, associations and churches.

>>17991694

>PUDEMO (Peoples United Democratic Movement)

>>18203797

>Dissidents have long been silenced by a raft of repressive laws, with the largest opposition party, People’s United Democratic Movement (Pudemo), banned under terrorism laws.

“Eswatini pro-democracy groups elect Gays and Lesbians leader as MultiStakeholder Forum(MSF)Deputy Chairperson.”

http://www.swazilandnews.co.za/fundza.php?nguyiphi=3558

Sunday, 18th December, 2022

NELSPRUIT:Sisandza Mavimbela,Coordinator of the Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities(ESGM)has been elected as the Deputy Chairperson of the pro-democracy MultiStakeholder Forum(MSF).

The MSF is a coalition of pro-democracy groups collectively fighting for democracy in the Kingdom of eSwatini.

Speaking to this Swaziland News shortly after the Elective Conference held in Nelspruit, South Africa this weekend, human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko, the MSF Chairperson said as an organization, they strive to build a new democratic dispensation in Swaziland.

“The idea is that we need to bring into the center those among the people, who are marginalized. We don’t want to talk about inclusivity and diversity, just as a slogan. We are seeking to practice what we want to achieve in our attempt to build a new society, everybody must feel comfortable,” said the MSF Chairperson.

Emmanuel Ndlangamandla, the former Executive Director of the Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations(CANGO) was elected as Treasurer General.

Former teachers union boss Sikelela Dlamini was elected as MSF Secretary General,his Deputy is Zodwa Mkhathazi Mkhonta, the Deputy President of the People’s United Democratic Movement(PUDEMO).

>>18203841

>Emmanuel Ndlangamandla, the former Executive Director of the Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations(CANGO) was elected as Treasurer General.

EMMANUEL NKOSINATHI NDLANGAMANDLA – Biography

https://nhridconference.org.sz/speaker/emmanuel-nkosinathi-ndlangamandla/

A professional nurse who has a Masters Business Administration Degree.

Boasts of 34 years of working experience in health and development and 17 years in Executive Director Position and have been Executive Director for the Coordinating Assembly of NGOs (CANGO) since 2004.

Established and having oversight for a Grants Management Unit at CANGO that has managed PEPFAR Funding and now manages Global Fund Funding as a Civil Society Principal Recipient.

Have been working on HIV/AIDS since the 80s. Established the HIV/AIDS Consortium to facilitate coordination of civil society response to HIV/AIDS as well as advocacy.

Have established various Consortia at CANGO to facilitate Coordination and Advocacy including Gender, Children, Human Rights and Governance, Media, Children, Gender, Youth, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Leading the Civil Society Organization’s National Budget Analysis and Advocacy for allocation of more resources to social sectors including education, health, water, and sanitation and social grants for vulnerable groups.

Established a Social Protection Platform at CANGO that is affiliated to the Africa Social Protection Platform.

Currently Secretariat for the Food Agriculture Natural Resources Policy Network (FANRPAN) Eswatini Node which is part of the Network that is now present in 17 countries across Africa and is coordinated by the Secretariat in Pretoria.

Has been a member of various Boards which include NERCHA, Treasurer for SADC Council of NGOs based in Botswana and Global Treasurer for International Council on Social Welfare

Facilitates capacity building for NGOs Board on governance – role of Boards and management as well as development of policies.

A member of the Steering Committee that plays an oversight in United Nations 5-year plan in Eswatini

Currently Chairing the Health Cluster of the COVID 19 Response

“South Africa’s Underground Gold Wars” [Feb 4, 2023] - https://youtu.be/yi6k1Hej0ZQ

VICE World News delves into the underworld of illegal gold mining in South Africa that is costing the country over a billion dollars a year.

“You can make roughly R20m a month – zama zamas gang boss”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/careers/you-can-make-roughly-r20m-a-month-zama-zamas-gang-boss-726839be-0529-4827-80d7-2891afaf0eaa

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2023

South Africa’s dire unemployment levels have left millions of people living in poverty and doing anything necessary in order to survive and support their families.

For example, in locations with abandoned mines, zama zamas, or illicit miners, sift for gold to sell on the black market. Once the world’s biggest producer of gold, South Africa has more than 6 000 abandoned mines.

These mines make for fertile ground for zama zamas to try their luck. Additionally, alleged turf wars often erupt between several zama zama gangs for control of the former mining areas.

In a recent “Vice” mini-documentary about illegal mining, one zama zama boss whose identity was withheld was quoted as saying: ‘’This is a business, this is a game. There’s nothing you can do. If somebody plays in your territory, you need to fix him up.

‘’You need to rob Peter to pay Paul. It’s blood money. There’s a group of five of us who are the big bosses. We can make roughly R20 million and we share it among ourselves.’’

The zama zama top dog told “Vice” that the process worked as smoothly as a well-oiled machine when it comes to bribing corrupt police officers to stay off their tails.

‘’In our scheme, we take out around R15 000 a month…They are on our payroll, those cops.’’

Thabang Mbote, an artisanal miner, also spoke to the media company about the conditions of his work above ground. He said that sometimes he can work for a week or even a month without getting nothing.

‘’I don’t see myself as a zama zama. That word does not sit well with me at all. I am scared of those people,’’ he told “Vice”.

In 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that a specialised police team would be set up to fight illegal mining in South Africa.

Seven suspected illegal miners were apprehended in January while mining for chrome at Mooihoek Mountain in Driekop, Limpopo, in January.

‘’The fight against illegal mining activities will continue to be intensified across the province, particularly in the Sekhukhune and Mopani districts.

“We warn communities to desist from engaging in these illegal activities as the police will relentlessly arrest all perpetrators and seize their equipment,” said Limpopo provincial commissioner, Lieutenant-General Thembi Hadebe.

However, the police are fighting a losing battle because as some zama zamas get arrested, more come to take their places. ‘’Unfortunately, because of the money going up and down, arresting them is not the end of it,’’ a police officer told ‘’Vice’’. He said it is an ongoing battle.

>>18276067

“Eastern Cape residents concerned over recent mass murders”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/eastern-cape-residents-concerned-over-recent-mass-murders-12a54128-9b45-4714-89bf-2d3083d8e502

Published 19h ago

Cape Town - Eastern Cape residents are living in fear after a number of recent mass murders in the province.

The residents say they are living in fear as the killings appear to be becoming a trend.

Last week, 17 people were gunned down in three separate incidents in Gqeberha and Bityi near Mthatha.

Speaking to SABC News, Eastern Cape's MEC of Community Safety spokesperson, Unathi Binqose, said the recent killings are largely happening from two regions, namely the OR Tambo and the Nelson Mandela Bay.

“If you go to the OR Tambo district you will find that these killings are related to family feuds that date back years and some are related to stock theft.

“When you go to the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro you will find that it’s a different story and the issue of drugs has been one of the leading factors including the issue of tender that has been happening for too long in both of these economic hubs of the province and we are looking at that as the department,” he said.

Binqose maintained that illegal firearms have been a major contributing factor in all of these cases especially in areas where they have been able to make arrests.

“It is that reason the MEC Xolile Nqatha committed himself that they need to cut the supply of illegal firearms and when we are done with that for those firearms that are already in the hands of the criminals to ensure that we disarm them.

“If we disarm them then we will be able to make a significant dent in these mass murders that are becoming a trend in the Eastern Cape.

“In October last year, we reported about a traffic officer who was shot and killed in the very same Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, and that woman was disarmed and her firearm is still out there or possibly in the hands of criminals,” Binqose said.

Binqose further added that criminals are forcefully taking firearms to legal owners and own them in order to commit crime in the communities using those guns.

>>18276067

>we also pick up that a lot of ammunition and a lot of firearms are being smuggled across the border so we have a challenge with our porous borders… What we need to understand here, these are not small time criminals looking for firearms. These are organised syndicates that are trafficking in these… Another source of these firearms also is of course corrupt officials within the police and the military that are either losing their weapons or they are renting it out… So as you can see the challenge that we have will not be solved by our legislation.

>>18301132

“Crime in SA | Call for action against mass shootings” - https://youtu.be/2X58mGwFiS8

3:40 – “The majority of licensed guns are in the hand of civilians [Will criminals register theirs?]. In this country, it’s the biggest source of legal guns moving into the illegal markets. Those guns have to be recovered but we also have to turn off the tap. Where is the source?… There’s just no evidence anywhere in the world including in this country that guns are effective for self defence.” [Then remove the guns from the police and see how effective they will be. They can talk a lot of rubbish!]

Pushing to disarm law abiding citizens… Wanting to treat the symptom and not the cause as usual.

“Gun Free SA calls for action over gun ownership following mass shootings in KZN and Eastern Cape”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/gun-free-sa-calls-for-action-over-gun-ownership-following-mass-shootings-in-kzn-and-eastern-cape-e59ff91c-d109-49c6-b913-4b8e1c610baf

Published Feb 6, 2023

Cape Town – Gun Free South Africa has calling on the government to act decisively in ownership of guns to prevent more massacres after raising concern following a spate of mass shootings in the country.

It says the recent killings in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal will not be the last if authorities do not act fast as these shootings are becoming a trend.

Speaking to eNCA, Adele Kirsten, from Gun Free South Africa, said they were of the belief that if the government didn’t confiscate guns in South Africa, mass shootings would continue.

"You can’t have these kind of mass shootings where several people are armed with powerful weapons going into a group situation. That enables so many people to be killed at one time.

"Over the last 10 years, we have seen a steady increase in guns leaking into hands from civilian owners and from state officials.

"In the past 18 months we've seen this new pattern of mass shootings. In some way it's new, because in the 80s in KwaZulu-Natal we had these kinds of mass shootings," she said.

She said that the main concern about these shootings was that they take place in different areas such as rural areas, townships and hostels. She added that another trend they had noticed was that women were also involved in these shootings.

"There are some shifting patterns in terms of trends involving criminal acts. It raises questions as to what the government’s analysis is and, most importantly, what their response will be in fighting these cases.

"There are obvious things that the government needs to do; they need to set up a specialised arms unit which will look at these incidents. They need a very clear strategy going forward and this has to take place immediately," Kirsten said

>>18301152

Gun Free South Africa

https://gfsa.org.za/our-history/

GFSA was formed in 1995 to make a material contribution to the safety and security of South Africa by reducing gun-related violence. [yeah right!]

It was in this charged environment that the seed for Gun Free SA was planted; with a campaign for civilians to hand in their guns for destruction. The campaign movers were members of the religious sub-committee involved in the National Peace Accord that played a significant role in the birth of democracy in South Africa. Prominent individuals like President Nelson Mandela and Bishop Peter Storey – one of the founders of Gun Free SA – saw the campaign as central to this process.

Gun Free SA began building a broad-based civil society alliance to strengthen gun control. The Gun Control Alliance (GCA), launched in 1999, grew to represent over 450 organisations, institutions and individuals representing business, health, human rights, religious, women and youth organisations.

The GCA had its origins in the Gun Control Charter, developed by GFSA as a tool to bridge the gap between policy makers and civil society. The Charter consisted of a list of minimum demands to be included in a new Firearms Control Act.

Gun Free SA’s work during this period is regarded as an example of effective public policy advocacy as was confirmed in an independent evaluation by a funder: According to stakeholders, including alliance members, state department officials and MPs, the GCA significantly contributed to the campaign for stricter gun control.

Establishing islands of safety

The Gun Free Zone project (GFZ) project is an important tool used by Gun Free SA to create safe spaces and encourage debate about individual and community safety.

As a result of our work with communities, the Firearms Control Act (2000) makes provision for the establishment of Firearm Free Zones (FFZs). Click here, https://www.gfsa.org.za/take-action/how-to/make-your-space-a-gun-free-zone. for more information on how to leave your fear at the door and make your space a GFZ. Click here, https://gfsa.org.za/download/6-gfsa-gunfreezonesfirearmfreezones-2013-2/?wpdmdl=2866&refresh=61ea98763aa691642764406, for more information on the differences between GFZs and FFZs.

Much of Gun Free SA’s GFZ work has been included in a United Nations guideline document. Click here, https://gfsa.org.za/download/3-unoda-gfztool-2014-final-2/?wpdmdl=2865&refresh=61ea98763e43e1642764406, to download the Office of Disarmament Affairs Guidelines on how to establish and maintain gun-free zones.

In 2000, despite vocal opposition from South Africa’s gun lobby, the Firearms Control Act was passed and promulgated in 2004.

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>>18301174

“Were you ever tempted to violence? : Archbishop Desmond Tutu” - https://youtu.be/nm2Egr1m1-g

1:52 – “I did get to the point of saying, I am not a pacifist because… I couldn’t want to sit by say whilst Hitler was throwing children into gas chambers… I recognized that there might come a time when you have to say that non-violent means were no longer viable… [16 Dec 1982 church sermon] We have been deluding ourselves too often. We have thought that there were nice white people. That there were nice newspapers. Newspapers that cared about our struggle! Our struggle! Why our struggle is going to succeed? Is not just because of numbers. Our struggle is going to succeed because it is a just struggle.”

Guns Free South Africa Patrons

https://gfsa.org.za/our-patrons/

GFSA founder Professor Emeritus Bishop Peter Storey

Peter Storey is former president of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, past president of the South African Council of Churches, and was Methodist Bishop of the Johannesburg/Soweto area for 13 years. In the 1980s he became a national leader in the church struggle against apartheid and co-led an ecumenical delegation to the United Nations, the U.S. Congress and Europe, urging intensified pressure on the apartheid regime in 1984. Committed to non-violence and reconciliation, Peter Storey was a founder of the Methodist Order of Peacemakers and Gun Free South Africa. He co-chaired the regional Peace Accord structures intervening in political violence before South Africa’s first democratic elections and was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to help select the nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Human rights and gender activist Pregs Govender

Pregs Govender is a writer, educator, and the author of Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination. During SA’s transition, she managed the Women’s National Coalition campaign for equality and women’s rights in the Constitution and future SA. As an ANC MP from 1994 she chaired Parliament’s committee on women. In 2002, she resigned after registering opposition to the arms deal in the defence budget vote and chairing HIV/AIDS public hearings (breaking the silence of the ANC Caucus on treatment). In 2009 Parliament unanimously elected her to the South African Human Rights Commission which she served as Deputy Chair until 2015.

RIP GFSA Patron Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

A globally respected peacemaker, Tutu recognised that “real peace never comes from the barrel of a gun.” [The lies!]

He was a committed supporter of a gun free South Africa, calling for SA’s first democratic election to be gun free, supporting SA’s first national firearms amnesty on 16 December 1994 and soon thereafter becoming a patron of Gun Free South Africa after the organisation was established in 1995.

His commitment to silencing the guns was not limited to South Africa: In 2018 the Arch awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize to the Parkland students in the USA for establishing an international movement after a deadly school shooting. Presenting the award, Tutu called the March For Our Lives movement one of the most significant youth-led mass movements in living memory and its founders “true change-makers.”

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Gun Free South Africa: “Founding member of global gun control network” - International Action Network on Small Arms

https://gfsa.org.za/our-history/

In May 1999 a broad-based international civil society network, the International Action Network on Small Arms, https://iansa.org/, was launched. Gun Free SA was a founding member of IANSA and remains an active member. Being part of IANSA provides us with the opportunity to highlight successes and impact and learn from other countries and actions around the world aimed at reducing gun violence. The IANSA secretariat plays an important role in keeping members informed about latest developments on small arms control matters at the UN. In addition, IANSA coordinates action on global campaigns such as the Wear Orange campaign to honour those who have lost their lives to gun violence and the annual Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence.

https://iansa.org/about-us/

The International Action Network on Small Arms is a global movement against gun violence, linking civil society organisations working to stop the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons. It represents the voices of civil society on the international stage, for example in the UN process on small arms, and draws on the practical experience of its members to campaign for policies that will protect human security.

IANSA was created as an international network in 1998. IANSA was registered as a legal entity in London during 2002 and then registered in Ghana during 2015 so as to reflect the organization’s commitment to bringing voices from the global south to the United Nations small arms disarmament process. A leadership team guides the work of IANSA. IANSA’s offices are hosted in the West African Action Network on Small Arms (WAANSA) office. IANSA also has an active UN liaison office in New York City. Currently, IANSA unites hundreds of organisations across regions.

IANSA has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and are the official coordinator of civil society participation in UN meetings on small arms.

IANSA currently receives financial assistance from the United Nations through contributions received from the European Union. We also receive funding from the United Nations Trust Facility Supporting Cooperation on Arms Regulation (UNSCAR). This includes funds to maintain a small secretariat.

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

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>Gun Free SA calls for action over gun ownership

“In Conversation | SABC News spine-chilling interview with a hitman "Inkabi"”

https://youtu.be/DwMpBmpt2sA

Feb 16, 2023

Police have confirmed that the killing of rapper, Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes, was a hit. A hitman, or Inkabi, as they are popularly known in isiZulu, is someone who is hired to carry out a murder. They are commonly used in taxi wars, gang wars and political killings. The SABC recently had a spine-chilling interview with an Inkabi.

1:46 – “You find us in church a lot. We go there to ask forgiveness. We believe more than all the congregants. We pray to be cleansed because we kill people for a living.”

6:56 – “Our victims are often sold out by their bodyguards. We offer them money. They are human too. We make them understand that we are doing our job just like them. They know that if they don’t cooperate, they are putting their lives at risk. We don’t want your children to starve. You are not the target. We tell them when their boss dies, they will easily find another job. We also work with the police. They are human too. When I need bullets for example, I get them from the police. They know my profession. They alert us about roadblocks and tell us which routes to avoid. They also tell us to hide our weapons so that they are not detected during a search operation. We are also able to evade detection by sniffer dogs because of the muthi we smear on our guns. We only expose the legal firearms for them to check. At times though, we are warned that it won’t be easy to pass through the roadblock. In that case we go back home and make another plan. After carrying out their assignments, hitmen often go for cleansing [at a traditional healer (or sangoma)].”

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“Intercape bus company to sue Bheki Cele for police inaction” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/intercape-bus-company-to-sue-bheki-cele-for-police-inaction-886f6c2c-b8af-4a51-b086-6ba46b58e5e5

Published Apr 12, 2023

Cape Town - Commercial bus company, Intercape has announced it will be suing National Police Minister Bheki Cele for failure to act against the reign of terror the company and its employees had been facing.

The bus company said it opened its first case on March 4, 2020, and while three years have passed since and a further 164 more criminal cases were opened, there had not been a suspect arrested or prosecuted.

It said it is suing Cele for “complete and utter failure of police to stop the spate of attacks against the long-distance operator”.

Intercape said it has experienced a number of attacks in recent weeks, with at least 14 recorded incidents in the Eastern Cape alone.

Buses have been shot at and stoned, and its drivers and passengers have been intimidated by taxi operators in towns across the province.

The long-distance bus company has alleged the attacks amount to a campaign of organised crime and is part of a pattern of racketeering activity.

It said since March, three people have been shot and wounded, while two others seriously assaulted.

The company said parts of South Africa have been turned into a “mafia state” where taxi operators rule with impunity.

This is, according to Intercape, the result of the failed leadership of Cele and President Cyril Ramaphosa who appointed him.

Intercape CEO, Johann Ferreira said police have done nothing.

“The fish rots from the head and we have a police service which has done absolutely nothing to uphold public safety and ensure the arrest of perpetrators.

“We hold Minister Cele responsible for every failure of the police under his watch and we will not stop until there is full accountability to the travelling public in South Africa.

“Since 2020, Intercape has opened a staggering 167 cases, and rising, with police, predominantly in the Eastern Cape,” Ferreira said.

In a 122-page affidavit issued to the Makhanda High Court on March 31, the bus company also slammed the police and investigative authorities for their continued failure to stop the “calculated campaign of criminality”.

“As matters presently stand, there are no persons under arrest and no pending prosecutions,” Ferreira said.

Intercape has called on the Hawks to investigate the attacks.

It said it has listed Cele as a first respondent, followed by National Police Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola.

It further cited provincial police commissioners of the Eastern Cape, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the North West, along with the Head of the Hawks, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, and the head of the Investigating Directorate.

Intercape said it has been forced to take this route following the inaction of the National Transport Minister as well as Eastern Cape transport MEC.

It said the attacks, particularly in the Eastern Cape, continue despite several court orders compelling both the transport minister and the provincial counterpart to work with police to ensure the safety of Intercape employees and its passengers.

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“Intercape bus company to sue Bheki Cele for police inaction” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/intercape-bus-company-to-sue-bheki-cele-for-police-inaction-886f6c2c-b8af-4a51-b086-6ba46b58e5e5

Published Apr 12, 2023

Part of the affidavit reads:

“For several years, Intercape’s buses, bus drivers and passengers have been subjected to widespread, ongoing and well-documented acts of intimidation and violence at the hands of the taxi industry.

“The violence and intimidation have not occurred in isolation but have been coupled with express demands from representatives of the taxi industry to operate on their terms. Taxi associations have convened multiple meetings with long-distance bus operators at which they have demanded that the bus operators:

• increase their prices to an agreed minimum price for specified routes;

• limit the number of buses operating each route; and

• alter the departure times of buses to appease minibus taxi operators.“

Intercape states that resistance to the demands “has been punished through acts of violence against Intercape’s buses, drivers and passengers, as well as the creation of so-called ”no-go zones“ in which taxi industry representatives – through the threat and infliction of violence – have made it exceedingly difficult and dangerous for long-distance bus operators to load and offload passengers”.

It said the “no-go zones” in the Eastern Cape have been reported to be: Butterworth, Ngcobo, Tsomo, Dutywa, and Cofimvaba.

It said the ongoing violence and the taxi associations’ demands were no coincidence.

“In combination, they amount to a campaign of organised crime, the fundamental aim of which is to drive Intercape (and other long-distance bus operators) out of certain parts of the country so that taxi operators may monopolise and take over the long-distance transport industry, and, consequently, increase their profits.

“The company charges that the attacks form part of a “pattern of racketeering activity” as defined in the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (the POCA),” another part of the affidavit reads.

The bus company says opening criminal cases with police has been “in vain” as nothing has come from it.

It further argued its cases be investigated and prosecuted at two levels namely: cases should be investigated individually, as independent acts of criminality, and secondly, the acts of criminality should be investigated collectively as forming part of an overarching scheme of organised crime.

“Of the 165 cases opened by Intercape as of March 31, there had been one arrest, linked to the April 2022 murder of Intercape driver Bangikhaya Machana, but that charges have since been withdrawn against the suspect,” the company said.

It said it has gone as far as providing police and the Hawks with evidence, schedules of reported cases and extensive evidence.

“But the SAPS and the DPCI have done nothing meaningful with this evidence.

“And their conduct suggests that they have little if any intention of doing so,” Intercape said.

The company has further asked the court to order a report be submitted to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), within 60 days, detailing all steps taken and progress made in investigating each of the cases opened, as well as the status of each investigation to enable the NPA to coordinate the investigation and prosecution of crimes.

The affidavit further states: “The risk of injury or death to Intercape’s drivers and passengers is as great as it has ever been. Intercape itself has no means to prevent it.

“While it has previously approached this court to require the transport authorities to devise an action plan to ensure that Intercape can safely transport passengers to and from the Eastern Cape, the drafting and implementation of that action plan have been woefully inadequate.

“Unless and until those responsible for orchestrating these acts of violence are placed behind bars, and a clear message is sent that this type of organised crime will not be tolerated, the risk of injury and death will persist,” it said.

The company said the brazen attacks continue to place its staff and passengers at risk and in the 11 days of issuing its application to sue, it has been victim of 14 further attacks or incidents of intimidation.

“In these attacks, some of its passengers sustained injuries. Still, there has been no effective police action to investigate and arrest those involved,” Intercape added.

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“Bakholokoe King warns SA government over Free State land, demands rightful share”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/bakholokoe-king-warns-sa-government-over-free-state-land-demands-rightful-share-a9c62662-0e07-4a52-b3c9-73815e1aa1d1

MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2023

The Bakholokoe Monarchy headed by King Letsitsa Moloi III have again laid claim to land in the Free State and other parts of South Africa, this time issuing a warning that they are ready to “take back” what’s theirs.

The Sotho monarch have for long claimed that the Bakholokoe are the rightful owners of the 550 000ha of land that cuts across the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Midvaal, including Vereeniging, Kuruman and Standerton.

According to Moloi, Bakholokoe elders bought the land with 9 450 cows from England in 1907 after their battle.

But, their sovereign lands were illegally taken from them by the South African government.

Last Year, Moloi wrote a letter to the Presidency and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) notifying them on declaring the Bakholokoe as a sovereignity.

In a press briefing held at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton last week, the Bakholokoe monarchy claimed that the ANC was founded by them in 1910, and that all political parties in South Africa were still working for the British Crown keeping South Africa colonized.

“It was the kings and queens of South Africa which helped with great loss of life to get the ANC into power.

“Let it be known that all of the politicians and political parties are a fraud. They all know that there is a treaty between the South African Corporation and the Crown that governs all things concerning South Africa especially matter concerning the land,” they said.

The Bakholokoe Monarchy said they were planning to meet with the ANC traditional leaders council to discuss the future of the Free State but also to inform them that “as from today we don’t want to hear anything about them, they must stop calling themselves chiefs in our territory”.

King Moloi III said that they intend to approach Sanral to pay rental into their Royal Trust, as the roads are built on their land.

The King said apart from Sanral, they will also request the same from cellular networks who’ve built network towers in the area, mining companies conducting business on the land and other businesses in the areas in question. He said these rental fees should be paid into the Royal Trust which will then be used to take care of the kingdom.

“The responsibility to empower and govern our people will be taken back.

“We are the founders of the ANC and the kingdoms are the upper house while the ANC is the lower house.

“We are taking back what rightfully belongs to us. The land belongs to the royals and the people, not the government,” King Moloi III said.

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“Government makes a U-turn in decision to withdraw from the ICC” - https://youtu.be/0tqr_fm1ZKo

“International Criminal Court: SA to remain signatory as Presidency concedes Cyril’s gaffe”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/international-criminal-court-icc-sa-ramaphosa-putin-presidency-latest-news-26-april-2023/

26 Apr 2023

In a late-night statement, the Presidency reaffirmed that SA remains a signatory to the Rome Statute of the ICC.

The statement came hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters on Tuesday that the African National Congress (ANC) had decided it was prudent for the country to pull out of the Internatonal Criminal Court (ICC).

Now, the Presidency says the country will remain a signatory to the Rome Statute and “will continue to campaign for equal and consistent application of international law”.

SA and the ICC: ANC briefing ‘error’

The Presidency attributed the error to a comment made during the governing party’s media briefing on Tuesday, relating to South Africa’s status with regard to the ICC.

“Regrettably, the President erroneously affirmed a similar position during the media session today [25 April 2023],” said the statement.

“South Africa remains a signatory to the ICC in line with a resolution of the 55th National Conference of the ANC – held in December 2022 – to rescind an earlier decision to withdraw from the ICC.”

The Presidency said the December resolution was reaffirmed at the governing party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which took place from 21 to 24 April.

“The NEC had also reflected on the potential withdrawal from the ICC as an option that would arise as a measure of last resort in the absence of legal options that would result in fairness and consistency in the administration of international law.”

BRICS summit: ICC pressure on SA to arrest Vladimir Putin

Debate within the governing party intensified since the international court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March.

Putin is being charged in relation to the abduction on Ukrainian children during the ongoing invasion of that country.

The Russian president is expected to visit South Africa for the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit which will take place in Johannesburg in August.

Failure to arrest Omar al-Bashir

South Africa has in the past violated its agreement with the Rome Statute when it failed to arrest former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir who was facing charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

But government has long complained of “double standards” relating to the way in which leaders are indicted.

“Accordingly, South Africa will work to invigorate the Malabo protocol that would establish a continental criminal court that would complement the ICC as a court of last resort,” said the Presidency.

“Furthermore, South Africa is considering a legislative amendment that would domesticate the Rome statute so that it reflects all the articles of the Rome Statute. This includes provision of article 98 of the statute that requires a waiver of immunities for persons charged by the ICC from third party countries where there is no referral by the United Nations Security Council.”

“The manner in which the UK domesticated the Rome Statute to incorporate the provisions of article 98 has been recommended as a guideline case study,” the Presidency concluded.

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>This led to a meeting in St. James’s Palace hosted by Prince Charles… It was agreed the way forward was integrated thinking, integrated reporting… So I’m now the Chairman of the International Integrated Reporting Council… if you Google the IRC, I’ve got about 71 council members and they’re all great institutions around the world; CPA China, CPA Japan, CPA Australia, chartered accountants of England, Wales, America Institute of Certifie Public Accountants, asset owners, asset managers, Black Rock, etc..”

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The Germans are constantly made the villains for the holocaust but in South Africa, the victims are made the villains while the perpetrators continue to make decisions for the world.

“SOUTH AFRICA: QUEEN ELIZABETH II - STATE VISIT” (10 Nov 1999) - https://youtu.be/EEiuWnYHY3E

“Afrikaners hold out for full Boer War apology” - “Queen's failure to apologise”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/afrikaners-hold-out-for-full-boer-war-apology-5382930.html

Thursday 11 November 1999 00:02

ROYAL VISIT: Queen embroiled in controversy as right-wingers protest and street urchins are swept out of sight for Commonwealth summit

SOUTH AFRICAN ultraright-wingers [of course, their common label] reacted with fury yesterday to the Queen's failure to apologise for Britain's role in the death of 28,000 white women and children in concentration camps during the Boer War.

Saying "the war is not over in British minds, Louis Van der Schyff, general secretary of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reformed National Party), which demonstrated in Pretoria, said British gestures to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the war "mean nothing.

In a speech last night at a banquet in Pretoria the Queen not only stopped short of a formal apology but failed to echo regrets for the war expressed by the Duke of Kent during a visit to grave sites last month.

"It is fitting that we should remember that tragic chapter in the history of both our countries," she said. "We should remember with sadness the loss of life and suffering, not only of British or Boer soldiers, but of all those caught up in the war - black and white, men, women and children … It is surely right that we commemorate the centenary of this war in a spirit of reconciliation."

On Saturday the Duke of Edinburgh will lay wreaths at British and Afrikaner graves at the Spioenkop battle site in KwaZulu-Natal, but is not expected to speak.

Britain is echoing the new government's inclusive commemorations of the war, which ended in May 1902, and claimed not only British and Afrikaner lives but at least 14,000 black casualties. Most of the blacks who died were women and children confined to camps in which the conditions are said to have been worse than those faced by whites.

Mr Van der Schyff said: "In 1995 the Queen apologised to the Maoris in New Zealand. We do not see why we cannot have the same thing. We asked for a meeting with the Queen but the High Commission just sent us a copy of the Duke of Kent's speech.

"It is not sufficient to talk about all the peoples in South Africa. This war was between the British and the two Boer republics, the Free State and the Transvaal. There were very few blacks carrying arms and they were on the British side. It means nothing to say you are sorry about the war.

"The new focus on all South Africans in the war is part of the leftist propaganda of the new South Africa. The reason the British will not apologise is that the war is not over in their minds. The African National Congress did not go to Moscow for support, it went to London. The British still see the Afrikaner as their enemy.''

Another Afrikaner party, the more moderate Freedom Front, did not demonstrate, but its chairman, Pieter Mulder, called on the Queen to lay a wreath at a concentration camp site. "That would be even more meaningful than an apology."

The Queen arrived in South Africa on Tuesday from Ghana and will move on to Mozambique next week after opening the biennial Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Durban.

She was last in South Africa in 1995 and this is only the second time she has been away from Britain on Remembrance Day.

She will mark it on Sunday in Durban, whose cenotaph is a replica of the one in London.

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>“The manner in which the UK domesticated the Rome Statute to incorporate the provisions of article 98 has been recommended as a guideline case study,” the Presidency concluded.

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>"The new focus on all South Africans in the war is part of the leftist propaganda of the new South Africa. The reason the British will not apologise is that the war is not over in their minds. The African National Congress did not go to Moscow for support, it went to London. The British still see the Afrikaner as their enemy.''

“Former British Soldier EXPOSES The Monarchy”

https://youtu.be/2W2eyFQC-K4

Sep 28, 2022

Welcome to the Mafia

Full 55min Interview with Joe Glenton on The Monarchy ► https://www.patreon.com/posts/72631602