dChan - Q Origins Project Archive

>>21380026

>In July 2023, Clem predicted the Israeli Palestinian conflict, when Mossad, the Israeli Defence Force and the CIA failed to foresee it.

“Klaus Schwab | "The Next Step, You Do Not Even Have to Have Elections Anymore Because You Can Already Predict.”

https://rumble.com/v5aomqd-klaus-schwab-the-next-step-you-do-not-even-have-to-have.html?mref=r4f62&mrefc=3

https://rumble.com/embed/v58ce8d/?pub=4

Klaus Schwab | "The Next Step, You Do Not Even Have to Have Elections Anymore Because You Can Already Predict. Why Do We Even Have to Have Elections? We Know What the Result Will Be?" - Klaus Schwab (1/19/2017)

>GNU

“GNU ‘best tactical option’, Ramaphosa tells ANC alliance partners”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2024-08-05-gnu-best-tactical-option-ramaphosa-tells-anc-alliance-partners/

05 August 2024 - 12:58

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that a government of national unity (GNU) was the best tactical option for the ANC to take the country forward after the party lost its outright majority during the May 29 general elections.

Ramaphosa was providing his political overview at the beginning of the party’s three-day national executive committee (NEC) lekgotla in Johannesburg on Sunday. The lekgotla took place after a three-day meeting of the NEC.

In attendance at the lekgotla was the leadership of the SACP, an ANC alliance partner which has previously slammed the party’s decision to include the DA and the Freedom Front Plus in the GNU, and preferred “a minority government with forces such as the EFF”.

Ramaphosa acknowledged the role played by the SACP in the struggle against apartheid, including the leading role it played in advancing the principle of nonracialism in theory and practice as the first political organisation to organise on a nonracial basis in South Africa.

“In many senses, we have entered uncharted territory,” Ramaphosa said.

“We have suffered a strategic setback that has far-reaching consequences and implications for how we are going to conduct the struggle for the fundamental transformation of South Africa.

The party said it remained firmly committed to the advance of the National Democratic Revolution and the achievement of a united, nonracial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa, said Ramaphosa.

>>21405786

>GNU ‘best tactical option’, Ramaphosa tells

>ANC alliance partners

The party said it remained firmly committed to the advance of the National Democratic Revolution and the achievement of a united, nonracial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa, said Ramaphosa.

>>21396698

>The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires

>>21379997

>We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda.

>>21396704

>>21396724

>land expropriation without compensation

Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” Part 1

https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv03005/06lv03132/07lv03140/08lv03145.htm

Victory in the national democratic revolution is, for our working class, the most direct route to socialism and ultimately communism.

Socialism is a transitional stage on the road to communism, a still higher stage of human society.

The building of socialism and gradual development of communism cannot be achieved overnight in a sudden flash. In all countries where workers' power has triumphed, the realisation of socialism is a long and often difficult process.

Basing ourselves on the creativity, motivation and organisation of our working class and people, on the lessons and experience of our comrades in the socialist countries, and on the fraternal international relations that are a basic feature of world socialism, the South African working class possesses the weapons to develop rapidly on the road to a socialist and communist future.

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc

10 July 2020

In a recent exchange on Twitter Helen Zille wrote, in a moment of exasperation, that there are “more racist laws today than there were under apartheid. All racist laws are wrong. But permanent victimhood is too highly prized to recognise this”.

Unlike Zille who had tweeted an instant opinion all these authors had had plenty of time to consider what they were saying. Yet all seemed unable to recognise, let alone acknowledge, the sheer ubiquity and perversity of racial “law” in present day South Africa.

https://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/chapter-2-bill-rights

South Africa’s Bill of Rights

The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.
Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.

>>21405857

>>21396897

Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” Part 2

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc

At the time the ANC/SACP was convinced that the revolutionary moment had arrived and they would soon be able to seize power from the ‘white colonialists’ by force, and then implement their programme. This was again set out in the 1962 programme through the concept of the National Democratic Revolution. The SACP proposed that in order to “correct the legacy of colonialism” the judiciary, armed forces and civil service would be purged of racially disloyal elements; race quotas implemented in university admissions; stringent measures put in place to ensure state institutions were “fully representa-tive of the nature of the population of South Africa”, and various actions (from land seizures to nationalisations) pursued to ensure that the wealth of the country was returned to “the people” from whom it had been “stolen”.

The two concepts were adopted by the SACP (which meant by most of the ANC leadership as well) in late 1962 and then by the ANC as an organisation in 1969.

The ANC has pursued its goals through salami tactics, slice by slice, or what Cyril Ramaphosa is reported to have once described as ‘frog boiling’. In his memoirs the late IFP MP Dr Mario Oriani-Ambrosini recounted that during the negotiations over the final constitution Ramaphosa had told him “of the ANC's 25-year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive, which is done by raising the temperature very slowly…. He meant that the black majority would pass laws transferring wealth, land, and economic power from white to black slowly and incrementally, until the whites lost all they had gained in South Africa, but without taking too much from them at any given time to cause them to rebel or fight."

The “laws” used by the ANC to advance this agenda have included most obviously certain constitutional provisions, legislation, and (initially) white papers setting out binding government policy. Yet the ‘law’ has often been shifted in favour of the national revolution not by the introduction of new statutes, but by perpetual reinterpretation of previous ones. If the ANC was successfully challenged in the lower courts, a Constitutional Court dominated by its ideological allies would always be at hand to step in and get the NDR back on track.

If you wish to start adding up the ANC’s race laws – and see how they all fit together - all these need to be enumerated.

For instance, the SAPS under Jackie Selebi introduced an Employment Equity Plan in 2000 [28] that set racial targets (50/50 at management level and 60/40 at other levels) and a 70/30 quota on recruitment at all levels. These targets were subsequently ratcheted upwards. The Intelligence Services were exempted from the EE Act, but ministerial regulations were issued [29] in this regard in 2003.

Within five years of first being elected into office the ANC had rid the state -at national and provincial level - of much of its most precious managerial, professional and technical skill. It had abolished the merit system in the appointment of civil servants, and most requirements for formal qualifications, and replaced this with a crude political patronage system. It had then exported these policies both to the parastatals and to local government after 2000. Apart from profiting a multiracial ANC elite hugely the effect of all this was to gut the capacity of the state while strengthening the private sector.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Aug. 13, 2024, 9:56 a.m. No.21405905 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>5762

>>21405857

>>21405895

Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” Part 3

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-many-many-race-laws-of-the-anc

By 2000 the ANC had largely removed from power “the old classes and strata” while bringing all state and parastatal institutions under the control and direction of the party. The ANC could now turn its attention to the next stage of the national revolution, namely the transformation of the private sector, and the economy.

The last stage of the national revolution was the direct expropriation of fixed white-owned property, including land.

The report of the Truth & Reconciliation commission lists 17 race-based laws passed by the parliament of the Union of South Africa between 1910 and 1948 in pursuit of racial segregation. It lists a further 26 passed by the National Party between 1948 and the passage of the Extension of University Education Act No 45 giving effect to apartheid. After that there are a multiplicity of laws passed related to the government’s policy of separate development.

For a few precious years in the early to mid-1990s South Africa was, for the first and last time, a country without operative racial laws. Over the past 26 years though the ANC has put in place a web of binding racial requirements through constitutional provisions, legislation, white papers, regulations, charters, and party resolutions; as it has sought to advance through the different stages of the revolution, towards the goal of pure racial proportionality, everywhere.

The article above has documented some eighty of these, but this is not a complete list. It lists only a handful of regulations. By one count the ANC has incorporated racial requirements into ninety acts of parliament, excluding the Constitution, though many of these relate to the application of the “representivity” principle to the boards of statutory bodies. In addition, there are a number of judgments issued by the Constitutional Court, bending the interpretation of the Constitution in favour of the national revolution.

One of the characteristics of the ANC is that it demands moral compliance with its racial project. Every institution in society has to formulate a little “race law” of its own, setting out how it expects to achieve the racial goals the ANC has set for employment, and then submit an annual report in this regard to the Department of Labour. In 2019 the department received 58 of these reports from national government, 133 from provincial government, 184 from local government, 133 from State-owned enterprises, 298 from educational institutions, 566 from non-profit organisations, and 26 113 from the private sector.

Zille’s remark was certainly implausible and hyperbolic. But as it turns out, she was not (far) wrong. The real problem, inadvertently highlighted by the controversy, is that such a large part of the media, civil society, and the DA do not see the ANC’s race laws as a problem. In fact they are barely conscious that they exist at all. And yet it is simply impossible to understand South Africa’s predicament without reference to the ANC’s racial project, the plunder that this enabled, and the institutional and economic destruction that resulted.

Water tanker mafia; “New mafia causing chaos in South Africa”

https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/59903/new-mafia-causing-chaos-in-south-africa/

4 August 2024

The water tanker mafia is entrenching itself in many municipalities across South Africa, causing chaos by deliberately disrupting the water supply to secure tenders.

While this mafia has been prevalent in KwaZulu Natal for over a year, offshoots are starting to spring up in the economic hub of Gauteng, which prolonged water outages have plagued.

The use of water tankers in Gauteng has skyrocketed as increased demand for water and deteriorating infrastructure have seen multiple areas go weeks without the precious resource.

This has resulted in the rise of a ‘water tanker mafia’ that profits from these supply disruptions, with Tshwane being particularly hard hit.

Themba Fosi, head of utilities, regional operations, and coordination for Tshwana, said the municipality spends around R98 million on water tankers annually.

“The water tanker mafia is being felt across the city, particularly in Bronkhorstspruit where, in several instances, we found our valves being tampered with,” he said.

“There is a huge amount of vandalism, and you see this is manmade and not due to infrastructure failure. Eventually, this leads to water tankers being the order of the day.”

“We have instances where invoices from water tankers are questionable. This tends to be a challenge for us because, in some instances, documents are falsified.”

Fosi explained that there were numerous instances across Tshwane where water pipes and valves had been tampered with or broken.

“These are the things we have found out as the city and the Tshwane metro police department. We also receive tip-offs from the community that they have seen some water tanker guys doing some shady work at our reservoirs or fire hydrants.”

“That’s information that is coming through. However, we don’t have the capacity to conduct an intense investigation. We rely heavily on the police when cases are lodged through them so that they can conduct investigations for us.”

Water scientist Dr Anthony Turton warned that the collapse of infrastructure has resulted in the water tanker mafia being entrenched in South African municipalities.

“This is part of a new trend where we can see that our infrastructure is not in healthy shape at all, and politicians are only waking up now,” Turton said.

This crisis has been exploited by the water tanker mafia, which deliberately sabotages infrastructure to win or prolong contracts to supply water to affected areas.

“There is a thriving tanker mafia in KZN that actively sabotages the water infrastructure. They do this to continue and prolong their contracts with the municipalities to provide water tankers across communities that need water,” Turton said.

He added that these tanker suppliers do not source their water from safe, potable sources. Instead, they take unsafe water from dams or rivers as they are paid per tanker.

“These elements thrive on chaos, and they need to be investigated with urgency.”

This mafia is among several groups with a vested interest in ensuring the supply of water is disrupted in South Africa. Turton warned that other groups see these disruptions as a way to foment social unrest.

“It is well-known across South Africa that the tanker mafias are very well entrenched,” he said.

“But, realistically, there are many vested interests in disrupting the system that may serve the interests of certain entities but not the national interest.”

He mentioned that acts of sabotage on water infrastructure are often a precursor to widespread social unrest.

“What we do know is during the 2021 looting in KZN, the precursor to that was tampering with valves and infrastructure. In fact, they destroyed valves in some municipalities.”

“We have seen videos of activists damaging water valves and infrastructure during recent unrest in Durban.”

“This could well be a part of a trend, and it is important we get on top of this. This has the potential to be a national security concern.”

>>21396698

>The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires

>>21396704

>The right of usufruct, a practice undergirding African land tenure, was revoked in favor of a more Western system. Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance. This was simpler for the colonial authorities because there were only the chiefs to convince and not the whole tribe or community for access to resources.

“Mine accused of disregarding obligations” but the government is complicit

https://youtu.be/AiZEk2UcgX8

Jul 30, 2024 #SABCNews

The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002 requires South African mining companies to submit Social and Labour Plans to develop communities where they wish to operate, as a condition of granting them mining licences.

In the past 30 years, South Africa has seen many mining communities clashing with companies which they accuse of failing to comply with the law. [The Limpopo community of Atok, outside Burgersfort, is one such community which accuses the Bokoni Platinum mine - owned by African Rainbow Minerals (owned by Patrice Motsepe, Cyril Ramaphosa’s brother-in-law) since 2022 - of disregarding their obligations to transform their community. The company however, says it has been meeting its social responsibility obligations, and the majority of its workers are locals. https://omny.fm/shows/sabc-news-podcasts-playlist/thobela-hlokwa-residents-in-atok-outside-burgersfo]

SABC News Reporter Koketšo Motau has the story.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/04/16/we-know-our-lives-are-danger/environment-fear-south-africas-mining-affected

April 16, 2019

“We Know Our Lives are in Danger”: Environment of Fear in South Africa’s Mining-Affected Communities

Other mining areas in South Africa, including Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, and Northwest provinces have had experiences similar to that of Xolobeni. While Bazooka’s murder and the threats against Nonhle have received domestic and international attention, many attacks on activists have gone unreported or unnoticed both within and outside the country.

https://groundup.org.za/article/mining-affected-communities-demand-more-development-in-their-towns/

8 February 2024

“While government is busy engaging only with business people about mining, the very communities that are affected by mining activities have been left out. So we are holding this summit to create a platform for communities to voice and discuss the issues they face,” he said.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-are-the-menell-family-eff-question-links-to-ramaphosa/

The Urban Foundation is credited for transforming Ramaphosa from aspiring lawyer to mining magnate.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Urban_Foundation

Urban Foundation was established by people who had mining interests; Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and Clive S. Menell.

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/

In August 2012, workers at the Marikana mine in Rustenburg staged a protest regarding their rights for a pay rise. After a week of demonstrations, the situation spiralled out of control, as police opened fire on the protesting miners, killing 34 of them.

At the time, Cyril [Ramaphosa] was a non-executive director of Lonmin. His company Shanduka was a minority shareholder in Lonmin, so this meant their profits were very much part of his business too.

He sent his emails on 15 August 2012, just a day before the 34 were gunned down. His choice of language – and subsequent suggestion that then-minister of police Nathi Mthethwa would be getting involved – has always been a sticking point for his critics.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Aug. 13, 2024, 11:09 a.m. No.21406275 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>5762

“Total’s gas exit - PetroSA blunder loses SA R80bn investment, R100bn in lost taxes”

https://youtu.be/8MInnkm35u4

Jul 30, 2024

SA’s Government of National Unity faces a major stress test after oil major Total yesterday announced its exit from a highly prospective gas field off the Southern Cape coast. The French multinational and its partners had already invested R8bn in exploring the field, around 10% of the total investment to get a project of this size operational. JSE-listed company HCI is a 10% shareholder in the abandoned field. DA shadow minister James Lorimer has been regularly updating the BizNews community on SA’s oil and gas story. He explains to BizNews editor Alec Hogg how Total’s exit from the Brulpadda and Luiperd fields will cost the country at least R100bn in foregone tax revenues and calls for the cause - a dysfunctional PetroSA - to be urgently addressed.

https://totalenergies.com/news/press-releases/south-africa-totalenergies-exits-offshore-blocks-11b12b-and-567

Paris, July 29, 2024 - Following the decision of the partner CNRI to withdraw from Block 11B/12B, TotalEnergies also announces its withdrawal from this block, off the Southern coast of South Africa, in which its affiliate TotalEnergies EP South Africa holds a 45% interest.

TotalEnergies entered into Block 11B/12B in 2013 and made two gas discoveries, Brulpadda and Luiperd, which could however not be turned into a commercial development as it appeared to be too challenging to economically develop and monetize these gas discoveries for the South African market.

TotalEnergies has also decided to exit from offshore exploration Block 5/6/7 where TotalEnergies EP South Africa currently holds a 40% interest.

“Mthatha Extortion | Extortion gets out of hand in Mthatha”

https://youtu.be/_dleMe8rAe4

Aug 21, 2024 #SABCNews

Extortion is getting out of hand in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. Criminal syndicates in Mthatha are demanding protection money from businesses, schools and healthcare facilities. This has resulted in businesses shutting down and doctors and school principals going into hiding after being threatened for not paying. Several business owners fear reporting extortion to the police. Now Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has been roped in to help. Last week, during Police Minister Senzo Mchunu's imbizo, the residents of Mthatha West accused the police of working with the criminals. For more on this matter, we're now joined virtual by the National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola and the President of the Eastern Cape Chamber of Business, Vuyisile Ntlabathi.

>>21502802

>We have to go back to 1913 to understand this crime…

>>21454054

>economic civil war

>>21500583

>>21500613

>rand manipulatiom

>>21502802 - Now a bio-war

>>21479084

>>21467430

>internationalists or "world citizen" institutions

One should look back even futher…

“The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes”: “a scheme to take the government of the whole world” 1902 – Part 1

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1902-The-Last-Will-and-Testament-of-Cecil-J.-Rhodes-by-WT-Stead-editor-Review-of-Reviews-Office-London-1902.pdf

Once every year " Founder's Day " will be celebrated at Oxford ; and not at Oxford only, but wherever on the broad world's surface half-a-dozen old " Rhodes scholars " come together they will celebrate the great ideal of Cecil Rhodes the first of modern statesmen to grasp the sublime conception of the essential unity of the race.

Cecil Rhodes, in the current phrase of the hour, was an empire maker… He was a man apart. It was his distinction to be the first of the new Dynasty of Money Kings which has been evolved in these later days as the real rulers of the modern world… But although there have been many wealthier men, none of them, before Mr. Rhodes, recognised the opportunities of ruling the world which wealth affords its possessor. The great financiers of Europe have no doubt often used their powers to control questions of peace or war and to influence politics, but they always acted from a strictly financial motive… But Mr. Rhodes inverted the operation. With him political considerations were always paramount. If he used the market he did it in order to secure the means of achieving political ends. Hence it is no exaggeration to regard him as the first he will not be the last of the Millionaire Monarchs of the Modern World–.

He was the founder of the latest of the dynasties which seems destined to wield the sceptre of sovereign power over the masses of mankind.

Mr. Rhodes was more than the founder of a dynasty. He aspired to be the creator of one of those vast semi-religious, quasi-political associations which, like the Society of Jesus, have played so large a part in the history of the world. To be more strictly accurate, he wished to found an Order as the instrument of the will of the Dynasty, and while he lived he dreamed of being both its Caesar and its Loyola

" the absorption of the greater portion of the world under our rule simply means the end of all wars." He then asks himself what are the objects for which he should work, and answers his question as follows : " The furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream ! but yet it is probable. It is possible."

I believe until the world comes to its senses you should declare war I mean a commercial war with those who are trying to boycott your manufactures that is my programme. You might finish the war by union with America and universal peace, I mean after one hundred years, and a secret society organised like Loyola's, supported by the accumulated wealth of those whose aspiration is a desire to do something

>>21507050

“The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes”: “a scheme to take the government of the whole world” 1902 – Part 2

https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/library/1902-The-Last-Will-and-Testament-of-Cecil-J.-Rhodes-by-WT-Stead-editor-Review-of-Reviews-Office-London-1902.pdf

What an awful thought it is that if we had not lost America, or if even now we could arrange with the present members of the United States Assembly and our House of Commons, the peace of the world is secured for all eternity ! We could hold your federal parliament five years at Washington and five at London. The only thing feasible to carry this idea out is a secret one (society) gradually absorbing the wealth of the world to be devoted to such an object.

Fancy the charm to young America, just coming on and dissatisfied for they have filled up their own country and do not know what to tackle next to share in a scheme to take the government of the whole world !

It would have been better for Europe if he had carried out his idea of Universal Monarchy; he might have succeeded if he had hit on the idea of granting self-government to the component parts. Still, I will own tradition, race, and diverse languages acted against his dream ; all these do not exist as to the present English-speaking world, and apart from this union is the sacred duty of taking the responsibility of the still uncivilised parts of the world. The trial of these countries who have been found wanting such as Portugal, Persia, even Spain and the judgment that they must depart, and, of course, the whole of the South American Republics. What a scope and what a horizon of work, at any rate, for the next two centuries, the best energies of the best people in the world ; perfectly feasible, but needing an organisation, for it is impossible for one human atom to complete anything, much less such an idea as this requiring the devotion of the best souls of the next 200 years. There are three essentials : (i) The plan duly weighed and agreed to. (2) The first organisation. (3) The seizure of the wealth necessary.

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

Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world's most prestigious international scholarship programs.

Rhodes Scholars have achieved distinction as politicians, academics, scientists and doctors, authors, entrepreneurs, and Nobel Prize winners. Many scholars have become heads of state or heads of government, including President of the United States Bill Clinton, President of Pakistan Wasim Sajjad, Prime Minister of Jamaica Norman Manley, Prime Minister of Malta Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister Of Canada John Turner, and Prime Ministers of Australia Tony Abbott, Bob Hawke, and Malcolm Turnbull.[7] Other notable Rhodes Scholars include Nobel Prize-winning scientist Howard Florey, Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence, Australian High Court Justice James Edelman, journalist and American television host George Stephanopolous, astronomer Edwin Hubble, author Naomi Wolf, musician Kris Kristofferson, Jamaican Minister of Finance Nigel Clarke, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, film maker Terrence Malick, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly and President/CEO of Navigation Capital Partners David K Panton.

More; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars

>>21502802

>>21507050

>>21507053

>The seizure of the wealth necessary

>JOHN DUNN

>Paul Kruger

Cecil Rhodes: “British South Africa Company (BSAC)” – “The British government guaranteed the BSAC a monopoly”

https://samepassage.org/british-south-africa-company-2/

British South Africa Company (BSAC, BSACO, or BSA Company), a mercantile company based in London that was incorporated in October 1889 under a royal charter at the instigation of Cecil Rhodes, with the object of acquiring and exercising commercial and administrative rights in south-central Africa. The charter was initially granted for 25 years, and it was extended for a 10-year period in 1915.

The BSAC’s function was to take the risk of extending the infrastructure of modern capitalism (including railways) into south-central Africa for the benefit of the British but without the costs falling on the British taxpayer. Unlike normal companies, the BSAC was permitted to establish political administration with a paramilitary police force in areas where it might be granted rights by local rulers. It was also allowed to profit commercially through its own operations or by renting out land, receiving royalties on the mining of minerals, levying customs duties, and collecting other fees.

The British government guaranteed the BSAC a monopoly where it operated and, as a last resort, was prepared to support it militarily against rival European powers or local rebellions. The consent of local African rulers was frequently misrepresented or evaded, and company operations initially consisted of blatant acts of military conquest. In effect, the profits earned by Rhodes and his associates from established Southern African diamond and gold interests were speculatively reinvested in the BSAC and thus in the conquest of regions of Africa where land, looted cattle, gold, other minerals and assets, and the labor of Africans might be exploited.

In 1890 the BSAC invaded Mashonaland with a force of “Pioneers,” and in 1893 it attacked the Ndebele kingdom, Matabeleland, creating the basis for the colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). BSAC concession seekers operated north of the Zambezi River, their territorial acquisitions being halted only in Katanga, by rivals financed by King Leopold II of Belgium. The area that was appropriated became Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). An attempt to take control over parts of Mozambique in 1890–91 was thwarted by the Anglo-Portuguese Convention of 1891, and a later attempt to secure the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) also failed. The participation of the BSAC in the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of December 1895 and its misgovernment in Matabeleland (culminating in the “Rising,” a serious and expensive rebellion by the Ndebele in 1896, which was put down only by the intervention of British troops) produced a review of the BSAC’s charter, but it was permitted to continue. A rising in the Ngoni people in Northern Rhodesia was suppressed during 1897–98.

After 1897 the BSAC administered the two Rhodesias, encouraging the immigration of white settlers with exaggerated tales of gold deposits. When these claims were proved to be overstated, settlers were encouraged as farmers. Company rule ended in Southern Rhodesia in 1923, when the white settlers were granted responsible government, and in Northern Rhodesia in 1924, when the British Colonial Office assumed control. The company retained its commercial assets, however, and its mineral rights in Northern Rhodesia became a valuable source of revenue following the development of the copper-mining industry in that territory between World Wars I and II. On the eve of Zambia’s independence in 1964, the company was forced, by the threat of expropriation, to assign its mineral rights to the local government. The company merged with two other companies to form Charter Consolidated, Ltd., in 1965.

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol123rb.html

Much has been written about the events of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), yet very little has been said about the 'Rhodesian' element in that conflict. This is surprising, considering that the 1896 Jameson Raid was launched from that direction. There had been a longstanding animosity across the Limpopo since the territory was colonised by Rhodes' British South Africa Company (BSACo) and the build-up of imperial forces along this border was specifically mentioned in the official correspondence prior to the formal Declaration of War. It would seem that these events have been forgotten for want of spectacular military blunders and a dearth of contemporary media coverage. Clearly the role of media hype is not a new phenomenon.

>>21507050

>>21507053

>requiring the devotion of the best souls of the next 200 years

>>21507100

>>21489537

>the idealised vision of medicine and the provision of universal health care

>Wellcome Trust

>Cecil Rhodes

Wellcome Trust, etc. History and Association to the Coronavirus - Part 1

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=8136

Lord Pirbright (Rothschild) and his banker cousins at N.M. Rothschild & Co. were godfathers of the 2nd Boer War concentration camps (1899-1902) to drive the French, Dutch and Germans out of South Africa

New Evidence: Leading London Jews were running the first modern war concentration camps where over 60,000 whites and blacks died, including more than 14,000 mostly white children who were subjected to Burroughs Wellcome & Co. (now Wellcome Trust–Coronavirus funder and GlaxoSmithKline) vaccine experiments

Pirbright also coached Henry S. Wellcome and Sir Henry M. Stanley in their rapacious acquisition of valuable African poisons and cures used in extensive vaccine experimentation on human beings—including black and Boer (German, Dutch and French) prisoners they had put in concentration camps and performed fatal Wellcome Trust drug experiments. Pirbright gave Cecil Rhodes an almost free hand in the British South Africa Company to write laws, collect taxes and run his own police force in their new British Imperial-Fascist Corporatism model for reorganizing the British Empire while continuing to control the resources of their colonies, even after Home Rule was implemented (like Rio Tinto – global mining company [including uranium] that is also a Rothschild creation for the British Crown that the Monarch controls to this day), Viscount Alfred Milner, co-founder of the Pilgrims Society, was Rio Tinto chairman from 1923-1925, and earlier a director for many years.

(FEB. 20, 2020)—Once we discovered that the Coronavirus was created and patented (U.S. Pat. No. 10,130,701) by “The Pirbright Institute, Woking, Pirbright, Surrey,” we were compelled to learn more about this Pirbright organization and the village of Pirbright.

One of our conclusions from this investigation is that The Pirbright Institute is very evidently part of the Pilgrims Society’s 200-year Rhodes-ian plan to create an un-elected one-world government where America is made subservient to the Pilgrims Society and its United Nations. As we are just now discovering, Rhodes had a mentor for his 200-year plan.

The Pirbright Institute has close affiliations with vaccine pharmaceuticals including British Merial (originally a joint venture between drug companies U.S. Merck and French Sanofi-Aventis), German Boehringer Ingelheim, British Wellcome Trust, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation are the two largest investors in pharma research on the planet and heavily fund The Pirbright Institute.

On Oct. 03, 1893, Lord Pirbright inherited a substantial sum in those days—about £350,000—as residuary legatee of his mother Henrietta Samuel’s estate. He used these funds to fund great mischief, including purchasing the land in the greater Pirbright area on land that today houses MOD (Ministry of Defense) facilities associated with British Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), including The Pirbright Institute, essentially controlled by the Wellcome Trust and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—two key funders of the Pirbright Institute along with U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Cobbett Hill Earthstation, that are both adjacent to the Army Training Center – Pirbright land acquired by the Army in about 1875.

>>21507168

Wellcome Trust, etc. History and Association to the Coronavirus - Part 2

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=8136

Cecil John Rhodes now appears to have taken his new-world order orders from Henry de Worms 1st Lord Pirbright, his mentor.

Lord Pirbright also bankrolled Henry Wellcome’s meteoric rise in the pharmaceutical business as well as Sir Henry M. Stanley’s expeditions to Africa to collect new cures and poisons for Henry Wellcome, as well as secure west African mining rights for Belgium King Leopold II, the British South Africa Company and his protégés Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Winston Churchill and John Buchan, among others.

The British South Africa Company would empower Rhodes to run South Africa as a corporation with its own laws, taxes and police force. This profligate governance model eventually led to Milner and Roberts establishing the world’s first concentrations camps in the 2nd Boer War. Over 60,000 souls, including 14,000 children were murdered in these barbaric camps via suspicious outbreaks of measles, typhoid and dysentery. Family described to our researchers that children with even sniffles were taken away from their parents and never returned, presumed murdered. Notably, Henry Wellcome supplied his medicine chests full of experimental vaccines to the British Army that were used in these death camps.

Henry Morton Stanley, British explorer conspired with Henry (Rothschild) de Worms, Henry Wellcome and Cecil Rhodes to secure British monopolies in South Africa over diamond and gold mining, and pharmaceuticals. His expeditions into Africa were bankrolled by The Daily Telegraph (Lord Burnham), The Daily Mail (Lord Northcliffe),The New York Herald, The Morning Post (Winston Churchill’s employer) and Henry (Rothschild) de Worms 1st Lord Pirbright, among others.Stanley chose to be buried in Pirbright, Surrey, UK, the home of his long-time political and financial sponsor, Lord Pirbright.

Henry Solomon Wellcome (an American) founded the Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Burroughs & Co. pharmaceuticals and chemicals company (now GlaxoSmithKline). Promoted fascist imperialism. Co-founded the Pilgrims Society (1902). Bankrolled The First Imperial Press Conference, 1909, Co-founded the Empire Press Union (1909) and British MI5, MI6 and GC&CS now GCHQ from newspapermen of the Empire.

The Wellcome Trust today is the second largest grant funder in the world, second only to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with whom the Wellcome Trust is teamed at The Pirbright Institute.

Wellcome helped finance Stanely’s expeditions. Stanely also helped Belgium’s Prince Leopold II secure the Congo for the Rothschilds and De Beers’ diamond and gold interests.

Wellcome and Stanley were both born promoters who used the corridors of power to secure their wealth and influence. Wellcome Trust today is the second largest grant-maker in the world after The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The unmistakable commonality here in Britain’s new corporatist-fascist imperial plan for the new British Empire was to have unanimity of vision and direction across banking (dominated by Rothschilds), pharma (dominated by Wellcome), government (controlled ultimately by the Pilgrims Society), Wireless Technology (controlled by the Marconi Wireless monopoly), propaganda (controlled by the Empire Press Union) and information (controlled by MI6, MI5, GC& CS, renamed GCHQ).

The Pirbright Institute records show that it is heavily financed by Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates, the European Commission, the World Health Organization and U.S. DARPA. In addition to Wellcome, the pharmaceutical AstraZenica provides vaccine research funding also.

American and British Pilgrims Society, newspapers, intelligence, tech and banks must confess that they are using Crown-controlled QinetiQ and SERCO to get over $18 billion in U.S. defense contracts to build bio-weapons at The Pirbright Institute, Wellcome Trust, AstraZeneca, Crown Agents and Senior Executive Service (SES) to kill us.

>Sir Jeremy Farrar, former Director, Wellcome Trust… Now WHO Chief Scientist

“Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar, Keynote speech, Rhodes Healthcare Forum”; “no such thing as being apolitical”

https://youtu.be/_hSceV1uhgU

Mar 21, 2019

6:59 – “We should thank all Americans for giving us Henry Wellcome. It’s what you get if you give somebody a knighthood, they come to your country and they give you lots of money. So Henry Wellcome as an American and we’d never forget that because we are in the UK as an accident history and as we keep saying to the UK government… We don’t have to be here in the UK which is a very important message.”

7:22 – “Although Wellcome is 80 years old, it had a fantastic history and I think on a remarkable trajectory. The reason I came back was twofold. One is, I was not aware of so many organisations that emotionally and by what they did brought together the three things that I think ultimately matter if you’re going to make the world a better place… coming together of science, innovation and putting science and innovation in the context of society.”

Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar - Director of the Wellcome Trust speaks on 'The role of academia in promoting health for all' at the 4th Rhodes Healthcare Forum.

0:00 – Introduction

0:38 – potted history

6:11 – World Trust

9:03 – Global

10:54 – Progress

11:36 – Success

13:17 – The world is changing

15:50 – Travel communication

16:50 – Global health

18:09 – Challenge to knowledge - “the anti-vaccine movement is a very good example”

19:13 – Climate change – “a huge impact on health”

21:04 – New global public health – “ultimately it is both a health issue and critically an economic and governance and political issue and I don’t think the academic community can stand on the sidelines and think we are or were apolitical reason my view no such thing as being apolitical.”

22:28 – Universal healthcare – “This is universal healthcare” showing pictures of people in hazmat suits and discussing the outbreak of ebola.

23:32 – The environment – discussion; evacuating a guy in the DRC in a Ukrainian helicopter, “run by somebody called [?] from Kiev in Ukraine.”

24:21 – Universal health coverage

25:10 – The future of academia – “Whatever that is; environment, demographics, nutrition, genetics, governance, politics to shape the world of it will be and not of what it is today and to appreciate the decisions you make are not going to be passive, they will influence the trajectory of the next 30 to 40 years.”

27:42 – Funding academics

30:21 – Challenges for academics

30:55 – Innovation – “It comes back to Wellcome… we should be here forever… we have a role to play in liberating and providing patient capital.”

33:20 – Global Mental Health

36:27 – Interdisciplinary Research

37:25 – Indepth Expertise

39:06 – Africa

39:46 – Shift of centre of gravity – “Like open skies changes and vis-à-vis travel, I think those are also hugely part of it.”

42:39 – Advocacy

“27 justice department officials dismissed for misconduct”

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-08-27-27-justice-department-officials-dismissed-for-misconduct/#google_vignette

27 August 2024 - 14:58

Offences included fraud, theft, sexual harassment and absenteeism

The department of justice and constitutional development has dismissed 27 officials for misconduct.

Spokesperson Kgalalelo Masibi said the department is dealing with 81 appeal matters regarding 55 dismissals, 25 suspensions and one warning.

Masibi said the appeal matters were lodged by officials found guilty of misconduct.

The offences include fraud, theft, sexual harassment, bringing the department into disrepute, absenteeism, abuse of state vehicles and insubordination, the department disclosed.

“Out of 81 appeals lodged, the department has to date finalised 31 appeal matters. There were 27 dismissals upheld and four reduced sanctions,” Masibi said.

She said all the outstanding appeal matters are being processed expeditiously.

“Increase in murder cases in NW”

https://youtu.be/Vt2ydNcYfoA

Sep 1, 2024

North West is one of the provinces seeing an significant increase in murder cases, going by the recent crime statistics released by the police ministry. Some of the province's residents say they live in constant fear. Refiloe Seboko reports.

>>21519608

Turkey is also involved

“Egypt sends military aid to Somalia as tensions soar with Ethiopia”

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/08/egypt-sends-military-aid-somalia-tensions-soar-ethiopia

Aug 28, 2024

Tensions in the region are high following the signing of a controversial agreement between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland as several countries including Egypt and Turkey seek a foothold in Somalia.

Egypt delivered military equipment to Somalia on Tuesday amid rising tensions in the Horn of Africa region following a controversial deal struck between neighboring Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year.

Three diplomatic and Somali government sources confirmed to Reuters on Wednesday that two Egyptian military planes carrying weapons and ammunition landed at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday morning.

Local reports said two Egyptian C-130 aircraft arrived in the Somali capital. The Egyptian and Somali governments have not commented on the news.

Background: The arrival of military equipment to Somalia comes nearly two weeks after Egypt and Somalia signed a defense pact and a military cooperation protocol.

The pact was signed during an Aug. 14 visit by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to Cairo, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

In a press conference following the meeting, Mohamud hailed the pact as a “testament to a future of common defense against the international terrorism we are combating both at home and abroad.”

The Egyptian leader further said he was ready to deploy troops to the current African Union peacekeeping force (ATMIS) stationed in Somalia, but “only if we are asked to.”

Details of the defense pact were not made available to the public.

Egypt is preparing to support the AU Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), which is set to begin its mission in January 2025, replacing ATMIS, whose mandate expires at the end of 2024.

The AU's Peace and Security Council confirmed in an Aug. 1 communique Egypt’s plan to join the AUSSOM and send troops to Somalia as part of the new mission that aims to support the East African country in the face of security challenges.

Egyptian-Somali relations have steadily grown since Mohamud’s election in June 2022. Cairo sought Mogadishu’s support in its dispute with Addis Ababa over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Egypt has also backed Somalia in its dispute with Ethiopia after the latter struck a deal with Somaliland in January, giving landlocked Ethiopia access to the Red Sea via the port of Berbera in Somaliland, and in exchange, Addis Ababa would recognize the breakaway region as an independent state.

In contrast, Egypt has been engaged in a more than decade-long dispute with Ethiopia over the latter’s controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which it is building on the Blue Nile.

The dam, whose construction began in 2011, has caused serious concern among Ethiopia’s downstream neighbors, including Egypt, which fears it will affect its share of Nile waters, on which it depends almost entirely to meet its drinking and agricultural needs.

Ethiopia says the $4.6 billion project is vital for its economic development and efforts to pull millions of people out of poverty.

Somalia-Ethiopia tensions: Somalia has vehemently rejected the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal, which it deemed a violation of its territorial integrity.

Somalia recently threatened to expel thousands of Ethiopian troops stationed in the country as part of ATMIS unless Ethiopia scraps its deal with Somaliland, Somali national security adviser Hussein Sheikh-Ali told Reuters back in June.

In another move further deepening the Somali-Ethiopian dispute, the Somali Civil Aviation Authority earlier this month warned it would suspend Ethiopian Airlines' flights to Somalia after the air carrier allegedly replaced the names of Somali airports with codes on its booking systems and websites. The authority viewed the move as a “violation of its sovereignty.”

>>21519608

>>21526890

“Regional water war looms as Ethiopia ignites new crisis”

https://www.egyptindependent.com/regional-water-war-looms-as-ethiopia-ignites-new-crisis/

August 22, 2024

Ethiopia’s final filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) might pose significant threats to Egypt.

Egyptian water expert Abbas Sharaky has issued a grave warning regarding Ethiopia’s commencement of the fifth and final filling of the GERD on July 17, which he asserts could have severe repercussions for Egypt.

The goal of this final filling is to reach the dam’s middle corridor to a height of 640 meters above sea level.

If the current filling rate continues, the total storage is projected to reach approximately 64 billion cubic meters by mid-September.

The dam’s turbines are currently releasing only a fraction of the incoming water, with just 50-70 million cubic meters being discharged daily compared to the 500-600 million cubic meters flowing into the dam.

Sharaky has outlined the potential threats arising from Ethiopia’s actions, classifying them into both water-related and economic categories.

Any water retained in the GERD, regardless of the quantity, would have otherwise flowed into Sudan and Egypt, he stressed.

This year alone, an estimated 23 billion cubic meters of water have been lost due to the dam’s filling. This direct loss, if utilized for agriculture, could have generated significant economic benefits.

Egypt would then be compelled to undertake substantial measures to mitigate the negative impacts of the GERD’s filling. These measures include reducing rice cultivation by 1.1 million acres, constructing wastewater treatment plants, lining canals, implementing modern irrigation systems, expanding greenhouses, and drilling numerous groundwater wells.

This would also deplete the reserves of the Aswan High Dam.

Sudan could also face significant challenges, including disruptions in dam operations, the cessation of flood-reliant agriculture, and decreased agricultural productivity due to the dam’s impact on sediment, groundwater levels, and production costs.

And even Ethiopia itself would not be immune to the consequences.

Additional arable lands would be submerged, despite the lack of agricultural activities in the area even after five years of filling. Mining regions would also be affected by rising water levels, and the full capacity of the dam’s turbines would remain unutilized.

https://apnews.com/article/f2c30802d80247efa6872d5852882057

But the Nile is different: few nations rely so completely on a single river as much as Egypt does. The Nile provides over 90 percent of Egypt’s water supply. Almost the entire population lives cramped in the sliver of the Nile Valley. Around 60 percent of Egypt’s Nile water originates in Ethiopia from the Blue Nile, one of two main tributaries.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Sept. 3, 2024, 8:45 a.m. No.21526896 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>6900

>>21519608

>>21526890

>>21526892

“Egypt Addresses the UN Security Council on Ethiopian Dam Developments”

https://egyptianstreets.com/2024/09/01/egypt-addresses-the-un-security-council-on-ethiopian-dam-developments/

September 1, 2024

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Badr Abdel-Atty, addressed the Chairman of the United Nations Security Council regarding the fifth phase of filling the Renaissance Dam on Sunday, 1 September, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Abdel-Atty expressed Egypt’s firm rejection of Ethiopia’s unilateral policies, which violate international law and breach the 2015 Declaration of Principles Agreement between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia. He emphasized that these policies also breach the Security Council’s presidential statement of September 15, 2021.

The minister also condemned the Ethiopian Prime Minister’s claims about reserving Blue Nile waters and completing the dam’s concrete structure, describing them as “unacceptable and detrimental to regional stability.”

In his address, Abdel-Atty highlighted that, after 13 years of earnest negotiations, it has become evident that Addis Ababa seeks to use negotiations as a pretext while solidifying its unilateral policies.

Abdel-Atty also warned that Ethiopia’s illegal policies could have severe repercussions for Egypt and Sudan.

Despite the challenges posed by the dam and efforts by Egypt to mitigate its effects, the country remains vigilant and prepared to take all necessary measures to safeguard its interests and those of its people under the UN Treaty.

In July, the Ethiopian government announced its intention to move forward with the fifth filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) reservoir this month, even as negotiations with downstream countries have yet to reach an agreement on the dam’s operational protocols.

The 2015 Declaration of Principles, signed in Khartoum by Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan, established key provisions: the GERD should not cause significant harm to any of the three countries; the dam should promote economic development and cross-border cooperation; and operational agreements must be in place before any reservoir filling.

“Egypt and Somalia to hold military drills in show of force”

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/middleeast/egypt-and-somalia-to-hold-military-drills-in-show-of-force/ar-AA1pRLvz

02/09/2024

Egypt and Somalia are to hold joint military exercises in the Horn of Africa nation, in what appears to be a show of force that could increase tension between the two Arab League members and Ethiopia, security officials told The National on Monday.

The war games, which are expected to be held this month, will involve ground, air, and naval forces, regional security sources close to Cairo said. They declined to disclose the start date, duration or the number of troops to be involved.

"The drills will send a clear and loud message about our firm commitment to co-operate and protect Somalia," one of the officials said. "They'll mean much more than just war drills."

News of the joint war games broke only a day after Egypt said it had written to the UN Security Council to protest against what it regarded as Ethiopia's unilateral policies over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Cairo rejects Ethiopia's plan to move ahead with completing construction of the dam and filling its reservoir without consulting downstream nation Egypt, the letter written by Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Atty said. Those policies threaten regional stability, it added.

Egypt and Ethiopia have been at loggerheads for more than a decade over the construction of the massive Nile dam, which Cairo says will reduce its vital share of the river's waters.

“Egypt has negotiated in good faith [with Ethiopia] for 13 years. The negotiations have been halted after it became clear to everyone that Addis Ababa wanted them to continue indefinitely as a cover while it created a de facto situation on the ground,” the letter said.

News of the military drills came less than a week after Egypt began sending troops, arms and military hardware to Somalia under the provisions of a military co-operation agreement signed last month.

Ethiopia was deeply angered by the move that it said would destabilise the Horn of Africa region and take it into “uncharted waters”.

Somalia called the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal an assault on its sovereignty and said it would block it by all means necessary. It has also threatened to send home an estimated 10,000 Ethiopian troops who are in Somalia as part of a peacekeeping mission to fight Al Shabab militants, if the deal is not cancelled.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has repeatedly said the impact of the dam on his country amounts to an existential threat that cannot be ignored. Talks between the two countries have failed to reach a diplomatic solution.

A possible outbreak of hostilities between Egypt and Ethiopia would further destabilise the Horn of Africa, as well as the larger East Africa region, already shaken by a 16-month civil war in Sudan that has created a severed displacement crisis, with two million of the 10 million displaced having fled to neighbouring nations.

Attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, have contributed to the instability in the region, with world powers vying for a foothold in the strategic stretch of water.

The attacks on shipping have also significantly reduced Egypt's foreign currency revenue from the Suez Canal, which links the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and earns Egypt billions of dollars a year in transit fees.

Egypt, a mainly desert country with a population of 106 million, depends on the Nile for almost all of its freshwater needs. Considered one of the world's driest nations, it claims any reduction in its share of the Nile waters would upset its delicate food balance and wipe out hundreds of thousands of agricultural jobs.

>>21422340

The Gates Foundation was in Ethiopia recently.

Gates Foundation: “What did Mark Suzman learn in Ethiopia?”… “foundation’s Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, the first office we opened on the continent 12 years ago”

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/ethiopia-health-mark-suzman

Aug 07, 2024

By Mark Suzman

In May, I spent a week visiting partners, grantees, and colleagues in Ethiopia. It’s hard to believe that my last trip to the country was in 2018. The world has changed so much since then, and perhaps even more so in Ethiopia.

In the first two decades of this century, Ethiopia made remarkable progress toward its health and development goals, including improvements in maternal and newborn health, vaccination rates, agricultural productivity, and financial inclusion. Since then, communities there have been dealt some major challenges—including COVID-19, drought, floods, and a major conflict—which have disrupted hard-won gains in health and development.

But, as I saw first-hand, one thing has not changed: Ethiopia’s incredible potential for progress. Getting back on track will require resilience and creativity, two things Ethiopians have in abundance.

Twelve years of partnership in Ethiopia

I started my trip with an energizing visit to the foundation’s Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, the first office we opened on the continent 12 years ago. Here I am with my colleagues there, who are true exemplars of how our foundation aims to work with local partners. Throughout the trip, I heard from grantees, partners, senior members of government, and the wider donor community about just how unique and trusted our relationships are in Ethiopia.

I met with the staff to learn what was top of mind for them, including what we mean when we say “Impact First,” how we balance urgency and patience, and how our regional and country offices can have even greater impact. 

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Sept. 3, 2024, 9:04 a.m. No.21526947 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>6985

>>21422340

>>21526942

“Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reappointed as WHO Director General”

https://youtu.be/ICS65nL5E_s

May 25, 2022

1:16 – “He is the first African to lead the agency and the only Director General not qualified as a medical doctor.”

“Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates”

https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful-doctor/

May 4, 2017 12:00 pm CET

The software mogul’s sway over the World Health Organization spurs criticism about misplaced priorities and undue influence.

Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda, one that could grow as the U.S. and the U.K. threaten to cut funding if the agency doesn’t make a better investment case.

Concerns about the software billionaire’s sway — roughly a quarter of WHO’s budget goes toward polio eradication — has led to an effort to rein him in. But he remains a force to be reckoned with, as WHO prepares to elect one of three finalists to lead the organization.

Already a decade ago, when Gates started throwing money into malaria eradication, top officials — including the chief of the WHO’s malaria program — raised concerns that the foundation was distorting research priorities. “The term often used was ‘monopolistic philanthropy’, the idea that Gates was taking his approach to computers and applying it to the Gates Foundation,” said a source close to the WHO board.

“He is treated liked a head of state, not only at the WHO, but also at the G20,” a Geneva-based NGO representative said, calling Gates one of the most influential men in global health.

However, his sway has NGOs and academics worried. Some health advocates fear that because the Gates Foundation’s money comes from investments in big business, it could serve as a Trojan horse for corporate interests to undermine WHO’s role in setting standards and shaping health policies.

Dues paid by member states now account for less than a quarter of WHO’s $4.5 billion biennial budget. The rest comes from what governments, Gates, other foundations and companies volunteer to chip in. Since these funds are usually earmarked for specific projects or diseases, WHO can’t freely decide how to use them.

In January, 30 health advocacy groups penned an open letter to WHO’s executive board protesting against making the Gates Foundation an official partner of the agency because its revenue comes from investments in companies that are at odds with public health goals, such as Coca-Cola.

Gates’ influence over the WHO was called into question once again during the race to succeed [Margaret] Chan as its director general.

The final three candidates include Sania Nishtar, a cardiologist from Pakistan who has pledged to take the agency “back to its former glory”; David Nabarro, a British physician and former U.N. special envoy for Ebola; and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has served as health minister and foreign minister in the Ethiopian government.

Tedros, who like many in Ethiopia goes by his first name, is supported by the African Union. He has promised to reform the organization to better deal with crises like Ebola and to push for universal access to health care all over the world.

Last year, a French diplomat suggested that Gates also supports Tedros, having funded health programs in his country when he was health minister. Several foundation officials have denied this, saying that the foundation cannot take a position given that it is not a voting member country and thus has to remain neutral.

One big unknown is what will happen with the foundation’s money once it meets its target of eradicating polio, which started in the late 1980s and now appears to be nearing its goal. Chan has warned that if the polio money dries up in 2019, the global health body will be on the lookout for even more money.

“The foundation’s impact on the WHO is enormous,” said Garrett, of the Council on Foreign Relations. “If they weren’t there, if they walked away with their money, the deleterious impact would be profound, and everyone is all too aware of that.”

>>21526947

>Some health advocates fear that because the Gates Foundation’s money comes from investments in big business, it could serve as a Trojan horse for corporate interests to undermine WHO’s role in setting standards and shaping health policies.

>Rhodes scholar

>Helen Suzman

“Suzman on public health setbacks”

https://youtu.be/QEoz15yuHlM

Mar 2, 2023

1:50 – “The inevitability that there will be another virus and pandemic at some point.”

Mark Suzman; CEO at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African, Rhodes Scholar, Helen Suzman is his great aunt

https://theorg.com/org/bill-melinda-gates-foundation/org-chart/mark-suzman

A native of South Africa, Suzman joined the foundation in 2007 as director of Global Development Policy & Advocacy, becoming president of Global Policy & Advocacy in 2012 and taking on the additional responsibilities of the foundation’s first chief strategy officer in 2016. As president, he helped build and manage the foundation’s growing global presence in Europe, Africa, India, and China, as well as overseeing all government relations, philanthropic partnerships, and strategic communications in the United States and globally. As chief strategy officer, he led an overhaul of the foundation’s approach to developing and measuring strategic priorities.

Before joining the foundation, Suzman held multiple positions at the United Nations, including senior advisor for policy and strategic communications in the Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan and policy director at the United Nations Development Program. Prior to that, he was a correspondent for the Financial Times, serving in Johannesburg, London, and Washington, D.C. He holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/mark-suzman/

Mark Suzman was born in South Africa. Suzman’s great aunt was Helen Suzman, an anti-apartheid activist who served in the South African Parliament for 36 years. Suzman himself lived through apartheid and personally knew anti-apartheid campaigner and later democratically elected President of South Africa Nelson Mandela. 5

https://www.brenthurst.org.za/about-bl/harry-frederick-oppenheimer/

But thought [Harry Oppenheimer] was now out of Parliament he never lost his love for and involvement in politics. His view of the future of South Africa had always involved all South Africans and, in this regard, he was on the left wing of the old United Party. It would have surprised no one that he was the principal backer of the Progressive Party when it split from the United Party. Sadly, at that time, not many other South Africans shared his political beliefs and in no time, the party was reduced to being represented in Parliament by only Helen Suzman (though many would have claimed she was worth more than the rest of the Opposition put together!). But my father’s support for the party and the principles it stood for (and Helen Suzman) never wavered, even though this support had a negative impact on Anglo American and De Beers. To him, some beliefs were more important than even these two great companies.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Sept. 9, 2024, 10:25 a.m. No.21558287 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>8373

“Police not succeeding in dealing with extortion – Mofokeng”

https://youtu.be/9UimXkhzIzc

Sep 9, 2024

Security analyst Prof. Jacob Mofokeng says it's not true that the police are succeeding in defeating the scourge of extortion in South Africa. He adds that extortion crimes are underreported because people do not have trust in the police.

>>21558287

“Extortion Crimes | Understanding SA's widespread extortion crisis”

https://youtu.be/EFGET8TcAl0

Sep 9, 2024

National Commissioner of the South African Police Service General Fannie Masemola has warned would-be criminals that attacks on police officials will not be tolerated.

This was after an attack on a member of the National Intervention Unit at a base of the unit in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. extortion in townships is carried out by organised crime elements

Members of the base are investigating allegations of extortion in the area. Masemola has also lamented the underreporting of extortion cases in the Eastern Cape.

Extortion incidents have reportedly spiralled out of control in Mthatha, with businesses and schools regularly targeted by criminals demanding protection fees.

Last week, traditional leader Dalinzolo Mareke, who was implicated in alleged extortion cases, was killed during a shootout with police.

To help us understand the extortion crisis, we're now joined virtually by the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police Ian Cameron and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime's senior analyst Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane.

“How OUTA exposed R898 million “tender manipulation” by French multinational”

https://youtu.be/dbsYYyMOE50

Sep 9, 2024

A French multinational company has become embroiled in a third tender controversy, this time to produce “smart driving licence cards” at an inflated cost of R898,597 million - nearly double the budget. In this interview with BizNews Wayne Duvenhage, the CEO of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), describes how the findings of its investigation into the tender led to Transport Minister Barbara Creecy’s decision to refer it to the Auditor-General (AG) for further investigstion. The same company recently had its R115-million contract with Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) terminated. And there have been delays in its delivery on a Home Affairs contract. Meanwhile, more whistleblowers are coming forward with inside information on the latest tender awarded to the company. “So the more evidence we gather, the more we'll pass over to the Auditor General. Hopefully then to the police and what we're actually asking for the authorities and the Minister is don't only cancel this tender, find out who in your department is involved, have disciplinary hearings, fire them if need be and then don't stop there, have them charged for the criminal conduct that they have instituted.”

“Paul O’Sullivan: Once respected CEO Mike Lomas back in SA to ’fess up on R1.4bn Eskom fraud”

https://youtu.be/yxHFC0ou7S4

Sep 20, 2024

Ace forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has landed another big fish in a six year investigation into a R1.4bn Eskom fraud. One of the key facilitators of the heist, former Group Five CEO Mike Lomas, today landed at OR Tambo after losing his case against extradition from the UK. Lomas’s return to SA will accelerate the State’s criminal trial against massive Eskom tender winner Tony Trindade of Tubular Construction and his internal accomplice, Kusile contract manager Frans Hlakudi. O’Sullivan spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

20:36 – “–It’s amazing how the banks assisted in all this money laundering. It’s mind-blowing, in fact, that the banks in South Africa have been so readily able to assist in the money laundering of these criminals and it leaves me no doubt that it’s the conduct of the banks like that, and the lawyers by the way. Law firms that knowingly get paid with the proceeds of crime but are quite happy to receive that money and quite happy to perform services for that money, those are the type of people that have got South Africa onto the grey list and those are the type of people that I would also like to see going down with people like Trindade and Hlakudi. But unfortunately, it seems they get away with it.”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/fugitive-eskom-kusile-corruption-michael-lomas-extradited-court-video/

20 Sep 2024

The corruption case against Michael Lomas has been postponed to 27 September when the fraud-accused British national will appear at the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court for a formal bail application.

The former Kusile Power Station contractor’s brief appearance at the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Friday afternoon followed his successful extradition to South Africa.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Sept. 24, 2024, 1:37 p.m. No.21650708 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>0713 >>0780

“South Africa: Ramaphosa's Minister Says US Shouldn't Lecture Pretoria | Firstpost Africa”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMv17Ky8Rdo

Sep 20, 2024

South Africa: Ramaphosa's Minister Says US Shouldn't Lecture Pretoria | Firstpost Africa

Geopolitical developments worldwide are complicating the already complex relationship between South Africa and the United States. South Africa's Foreign Minister, who recently concluded a visit to Washington, has asked the US not to tell his country what to do. The South African minister's visit came amid reports of Israeli diplomats lobbying US lawmakers to pressure South Africa to drop its genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Earlier this week, even Tanzania rebuked the US for alleged interference in its internal affairs. Ties between America and South Africa also worsened when Pretoria chose to opt for a "neutral" stance over Russia's war in Ukraine. In fact, South Africa views Russia and China as friends rather than enemies. Is the US losing the race for influence in Africa?

https://www.trtafrika.com/africa/we-dont-expect-us-to-tell-us-what-to-do-sa-foreign-minister-18210290

19 Sep 2024

South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola has concluded his tour of the US, where he said that Washington “should not tell” his country what to do.

Lamola engaged key stakeholders in Washington, including the House of Representatives subcommittee on Africa, the Congressional Black Caucus, the US Chamber of Commerce and bipartisan think tanks, Phiri said.

"Moving forward, efforts to sustain important engagements regularly in a structured system will be explored at a high political level," Lamola said.

Addressing the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 53rd Annual Legislative Conference in Washington last week, Lamola said: "Let us engage on differences but we may agree to dis agree."

"We will not tell the US what to do and we expect the US not to tell us what to do," he said.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Sept. 24, 2024, 1:38 p.m. No.21650713 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>0780

>>21650708

In contrast

“Ramaphosa meets with South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk, other investors”

https://youtu.be/eW_CjTvE4D0

Sep 24, 2024

President Cyril Ramaphosa has met with South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk in New York. After a day, this focused entirely on engagement with American businesses and investors to move the country's tepid economy forward.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/561999-ramaphosa-meets-with-elon-musk.html

24.09.2024

News of the meeting comes after Ramaphosa revealed earlier this month that the South African government was in talks with Musk’s SpaceX regarding its satellite communication service Starlink.

“I have had discussions with him and have said, Elon, you become so successful and you’re investing in a variety of countries, I want you to come home and invest here,” said Ramaphosa.

“He and I are going to have a further discussion.”

Starlink needs network, service, and spectrum licences from the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to launch locally.

However, uncertainty surrounding South Africa’s rules regarding local ownership of communications services presents a hurdle.

Currently, regulations require that a licensee operating a national network or selling Internet services nationally must be 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups.

The uncertainty stems from new regulations Icasa published in 2021, which included provisions that changed this requirement to 30% black ownership.

However, following industry backlash, Icasa suspended these specific provisions when it published the regulations.

It may put them into force at any moment or withdraw them entirely. Currently, there is no clarity from the regulator on what it intends to do about the controversial regulations.

Moreover, Icasa has not issued new communications network and service licences for 14 years.

Starlink could only obtain these by buying them from someone or acquiring a company that has licences, or by working through a local company that already possesses the required licences.

Should it wish to operate in South Africa directly, it would need to establish a local entity with a BEE partner.

This is so the ownership and control of the relevant licences could be transferred to Starlink.

Icasa will only approve such a transfer if the receiving entity meets its ownership requirements.

“Why Aristotle Feared Democracy (and so Should You)”

https://youtu.be/rKstmdkYUBQ

Sep 18, 2024

This sounds so much like South Africa. Consider the exploitation of mineral wealth over the centuries, push for ‘majority’ rule, Julius Malema, expropriation without compensation, etc..

It seems that the corporations/liberals who arranged for the ANC (communists, socialists) to take over the country as the supposed ‘majority ruler’ are turning on each other. The same players who were involved in negotiations prior to 1994 are back again; Roelf Meyer, Oppenheimer family through the signing of the “Gdansk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”, as well as intelligence and corporations if you consider that a former SA intelligence officer is working for an Oppenheimer organisation and that WestExec Advisors is the only American signatory on the Gdansk Declaration as they “represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House… The pipeline has produced a dominance of WestExec alums throughout the administration, installed in senior roles as influential as director of national intelligence and secretary of state.” https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/westexec-biden-administration/

I have a sense that many conservatives in South Africa are sitting on the sidelines until the liberals/communists/etc. destroy themselves and the country so that they can rebuild from out of the ashes.

America learn from South Africa to prevent yourselves from getting to this point.

Keeping track of the Mozambican crisis?

“Mozambique swears in new parliament despite protests and the opposition's ceremony boycott | DW News”

https://youtu.be/BwTwQr5u0Kc

“Katzenellenbogen: SA faces a diplomatic dilemma as Mozambique teeters on the brink”

https://www.biznews.com/africa/2025/01/09/katzenellenbogen-mozambique-sa

9th January 2025

In the face of widespread doubts about the credibility of the Mozambique election held last October, which was followed by three months of violent protest, President Daniel Chapo will be sworn in next week.

The country’s main opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, who fled the country after two aides were shot dead, plans to return home tomorrow from exile. He has promised more protests until there is “electoral truth.”

Mozambique will be South Africa’s big foreign policy headache this year. Our sizable economic and security interests are seriously at stake in Mozambique. But it is unlikely that Pretoria and the region are prepared to abandon their liberation-era ally, Frelimo. This might be required to bring about stability and protect our interests.

The source of much of South Africa’s and the region’s diplomatic bind on Mozambique is that they speedily gave the thumbs-up to the election. The election observer missions from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union said the elections were well run and South Africa automatically endorsed that. After all, these are African institutions and ones that Pretoria feels it should support, no matter what.

By contrast, the European Union election observer mission said the count was flawed. Instead of looking into that, Pretoria stuck to its position.

Mozambique elections have been flawed in the past, but the latest has set off massive public violence reflecting deep dissatisfaction and mistrust of Frelimo.

Big South African interests are at stake here. We get most of our gas from Mozambique, we rely on the country’s ports, and South African companies are involved in almost all sectors of the economy.

Since the election, Sasol has cut back on gas production in Mozambique. In November the South African ports, terminals and logistics company, Grindrod, suspended its operations in Maputo and Matola. South Africa’s border posts with Mozambique have been intermittently closed, and the economy is grinding down.

The massive breakouts from prisons last month have raised alarm bells about a breakdown in law and order, and more generally of the government.

The ANC’s partners in the Government of National Unity have no leverage over key foreign policy decisions. They can push in public, but they have deliberately been kept well away from the ANC turf of foreign policy.

On the Middle East, we are bold and decisive, and uphold what Pretoria thinks is the moral high ground. Our stance on Mozambique and Zimbabwe, over the years, has pretty much shown that we are more committed to dealing with the easy targets, where we can grandstand.

>>22352614

>Our sizable economic and security interests are seriously at stake in Mozambique. But it is unlikely that Pretoria and the region are prepared to abandon their liberation-era ally, Frelimo.

The “liberators” certainly want to help their “struggle” buddies.

“Mozambique: Frelimo and ANC to strengthen links as Lindiwe Zulu-led delegation arrives from South Africa”

https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambique-frelimo-and-anc-to-strengthen-links-as-lindiwe-zulu-led-delegation-arrives-from-south-africa-213523/

05 Apr 2022

The main items on the agenda of visiting delegation led by Comrade Lindiwe Zulu, chairperson for the African National Congress’s Subcommittee on International Relations and South African Minister of Social Development, were strengthening the historic ties of brotherhood, friendship and cooperation that exist between Frelimo and the ANC, and the analysis of the political, economic and social situation in their respective countries.

Greeting the delegation on Monday (04-04), Frelimo Secretary General Comrade Roque Silva Samuel said that the visit would reinforce and consolidate the existing relations of cooperation between the two parties and peoples, which date back to the time of the founding of the Mozambique Liberation Front.

The Comrade Secretary General underlined that friendship and cooperation between Frelimo and the ANC dates back to the struggles against the apartheid regime in South Africa and the Portuguese colonial yoke in Mozambique, reviving memories of the need to continue to fortify and consolidate relations with a view to the future, and paying particular attention to youth – the assurance of the continuing prevalence of both political parties.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mozambique-opposition-leader-returns-exile-police-fire-tear-117494799

January 9, 2025

Frelimo has often been accused of rigging elections since Mozambique held its first democratic vote in 1994 following a bloody 15-year civil war Frelimo fought against rebel group Renamo, which is now an opposition party that Mondlane once belonged to before breaking away.

>>22352614

>On the Middle East, we are bold and decisive, and uphold what Pretoria thinks is the moral high ground. Our stance on Mozambique and Zimbabwe, over the years, has pretty much shown that we are more committed to dealing with the easy targets, where we can grandstand.

>>22352625

>The “liberators” certainly want to help their “struggle” buddies.

“Mnangagwa Missing In Action On Moza Crisis”

https://thenewshawks.com/mnangagwa-missing-in-action-on-moza-crisis/

10 Jan 2025

While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is hand-wringing at home on his annual leave as the current Southern African Development Community (Sadc) chairperson – weak and compromised by his undiplomatic indecent haste to endorse President-Elect Daniel Chapo before official results were announced; an unconstitutional conduct, Mozambique is undergoing renewed burning at a destructive pace.

Mondlane rejected Chapo’s disputed election as a fraud in the 9 October 2024 election, triggering a wave of violence and chaos.

Hundreds of people have been killed and the local economy disrupted with powerful impact on the region.

South Africa has deep economic interests in Mozambique and thus a vested interest in its affairs, just like Zimbabwe.

Zanu PF and Frelimo have close ties dating back to the 1970s liberation struggle. Mozambique helped liberate Zimbabwe.

The raging deadly conflict has disrupted economic and trade activities, particularly freight transportation, internally in Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Zimbabwe, which relies 70% on the Beira Corridor for its imports and exports, is one of the worst affected.

The Beira corridor guarantees energy security to Zimbabwe as its main fuel supply route and one of the main supply routes for fuel in transit to Zambia, Malawi and the Congolese region of Katanga.

In a desperate bid to create a fait accompli, the Zimbabwean leader even congratulated Chapo before official results were announced, practically declaring him the winner, which is unlawful and a diplomatic abomination.

As the situation deteriorated amid the shock defeat of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party, in power for 58 years, by President Duma Boko’s Umbrella for Democratic Change, and the rise of the opposition and retreat of former liberation movements across the region, Mnangagwa called for a Sadc extraordinary summit in Harare to tackle the Mozambican crisis.

>>22352614

>>22352625

>>22352643

And the world is also scrambling to protect their interests.

“US Intelligence arrives in South Africa to discuss Mozambique – report”

https://clubofmozambique.com/news/us-intelligence-arrives-in-south-africa-to-discuss-mozambique-report-272794/

17 Dec 2024

Last week, US intelligence officials arrived in South Africa to engage in discussions with their counterparts regarding the escalating situation in Mozambique. The country is currently experiencing rising political tensions and the threat of a popular uprising as it awaits the findings of an inquiry into October’s national election, which the ruling party, Frelimo, won amid significant controversy.

The US officials arrived on a C-17 Globemaster plane, which landed at Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIL). According to sources from Rapport, meetings with the South African National Intelligence Coordinating Committee (NICOC) were held at this location. NICOC comprises representatives from state security, defence, crime intelligence, and the financial intelligence center, with additional departments potentially involved.

For the past few years, the US has maintained a training team in Mozambique, assisting with the training of a specialist response unit within the Mozambican army. This ongoing support underscores the strategic importance of Mozambique to US interests in the region.

Simultaneously, a British Air Force Airbus A400M landed in Gaborone, Botswana, on Friday, with its call sign indicating an emergency operational flight. Aviation sources reported that several meetings have taken place at Lanseria Airport in recent days to discuss the emergency evacuation of various embassies and foreign nationals in Mozambique. These forward teams in South Africa are ensuring that there is sufficient fuel at Lanseria for additional flights to temporarily house their countrymen who may need to be evacuated from Mozambique before flying out of the country.

The United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are also involved in these contingency plans. Should the need arise, operations will be coordinated from South Africa and Botswana. Insiders in the intelligence community have indicated that the Americans and other embassy staff in Mozambique are already engaged in contingency planning in anticipation of the constitutional council’s verdict on the election, which is expected shortly before Christmas.

This coordinated effort highlights the international community’s concern over the stability of Mozambique and the potential for widespread unrest. The involvement of multiple agencies and the strategic planning for emergency evacuations underscore the seriousness of the situation and the commitment to ensuring the safety of foreign nationals and embassy staff in the region.

In April, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the extension of the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) deployment in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province until December 31, 2024. This strategic decision is part of South Africa’s commitment to combating the escalating acts of terrorism and violent extremism in the region.

The extension, involving 1,495 SANDF personnel, aligns with South Africa’s international obligations under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to support Mozambique’s fight against insurgent groups. The announcement was made through a communication to the South African Parliament, which was later quoted by the SAVANA newspaper.

President Ramaphosa’s letter to the Parliament, dated April 15, clarifies that the deployment is not merely an extension but a necessary legal cover for the forces already stationed in Cabo Delgado, whose mandate concluded on the same date. The operation, named “Vikela” – a Zulu term meaning “defend” – will continue to safeguard the northern regions of Mozambique from insurgent activities.

Despite the initial plans for withdrawal, as evidenced by a farewell parade on April 7 and subsequent readiness evaluations, the South African contingent will now remain active in Mozambique until the end of the year.

>>22352670

>And the world is also scrambling to protect their interests.

“Mozambique: Chaos on Monday? Big Money at Stake, But Youth Can Bring Change”

https://allafrica.com/stories/202412230047.html

23 December 2024

Demonstrations cost big projects $1.7 bn but give local people more power, and may encourage renegotiation

Mozambique has become an extractive economy, with foreign owned mines and industries exporting raw materials and profits. This made the owners and their Frelimo partners rich and powerful. But the two months of demonstrations have changed that power. The fall in share prices of nearly £2bn of the big investors shows just how profitable the "big projects" are, and shows how much more government and local people could earn from those resources.

During the election campaign, on 15 September, former president Joaquim Chissano called for the renegotiation of natural recourse contacts. He had negotiated some of those contracts, and is effectively admitting he gave too much away. And several of those contracts are now about to expire and must be renegotiated.

The Mozal aluminium smelter was the first of the big projects and opened in 2000. It is now owned by the Australian company South32. The company imports alumina and smelts it into aluminium using Cahora Bassa electricity. The original cost of Mozal was $2bn, but its owners paid only $1bn. The other $1bn was the World Bank and five national development agencies. South32 pays only $15mn per year in taxes and royalties, and Mozambique gains little from its "development" project.

In the past five weeks demonstrators have blocked the roads and disrupted the supplies of alumina. In those five weeks the share value of South32 has dropped by $1.5bn - more than the amount that the company invested. And the cut in the production is expected to be only temporary. Clearly this is a hugely profitable project for South32.

But renegotiations have already started, because the Cahora Bassa electricity contract ends in 2025. Much of the aluminium is exported to Europe, and the EU will begin to impose import carbon duties in 2026. This will make aluminium made with carbon free Cahora Bassa electricity much cheaper than aluminium made from gas or coal which contains carbon. So negotiations are under way to continue to use Cahora Bassa electricity at a higher price. At present, government gains so little from Mozal that it could allow the smelter to close, and sell Cahora Bassa electricity to another exporter.

Meanwhile Syrah Resources, also from Australia, is a major graphite produce at Balama in Cabo Delgado. It received a $150mn loan in November from the US government, but disruption forced it to temporarily close the mine on 12 December. In one week since then, Syrah lost $110mn in share value.

Nearly all resource companies operating in Mozambique made promises to local people which were never kept and which became long-standing grievances which were incorporate into local post-election protests. But for a few companies, quick response meant there was no damage. Kenmare's heavy sands mine in Moma came under pressure from local people because Kenmare had promised to build a bridge to link local communities, but never did. In a week Kenmar's value fell $40mn, much more than the cost of the bridge. Kenmare quickly promised to the build the bridge.

And at the gas project on the Afungi peninsula, TotalEnergies had rehoused people forced to move from Afungi, but not compensated people who lost farmland and livelihoods there. There were 2000 protesters, some with placards demanding land. On 11 December TotalEnergies offered land and settled the protests.

What the protests make clear is how they push down the share price of these companies. Local people have power to demand changes. And these price falls show that Chissano is right, and resource deals can be renegotiated. Government has power too.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 6:38 a.m. No.22352690 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4474

>>22352670

>>22352681

“Amid Mozambique’s Spiraling Crisis, What Role Can the U.S. Play?”

https://www.usip.org/publications/2025/01/amid-mozambiques-spiraling-crisis-what-role-can-us-play

January 7, 2025

Since its October general election, Mozambique has been experiencing spiraling, deadly political violence. Many Mozambicans, including the leading opposition candidate, saw the victory of the ruling Frelimo party as fraudulent. Frustration with decades of single-party dominance is mounting. Today, some Mozambicans are looking to international help to save their country, one of the poorest in the world, from a possible return to war. Time is of the essence for such diplomatic intervention. Given that few African countries receive as large a U.S. development commitment as Mozambique, the spotlight is on the United States.

For years, Mozambique was not a U.S. priority in Africa — but that has changed. The U.S. Development Finance Corporation and the Export-Import Bank have committed billions of dollars to projects in the southeast African nation. U.S. bilateral aid exceeded $550 million in 2023, among the highest in Africa, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a $537 million compact with Mozambique the same year. In 2022, Mozambique was among the few countries selected to receive focused attention and aid through the Global Fragility Act and the Department of Energy is financially backing a Mozambican lithium mine. Exxon Mobil is looking to finalize a $30 billion natural gas project in Mozambique.

U.S. and other foreign investment materialized after national reconciliation that ended decades of war. Starting two years after its 1975 independence from Portugal, Mozambique suffered decades of war — which took the lives of one million Mozambicans — between the Frelimo government and the rebel Renamo force. The Cold War’s end took steam out of the conflict and a peace agreement facilitated by the Mozambican Church Council, the Rome-based Catholic lay Community of Sant’Egidio and others was struck, followed by a major United Nations peacekeeping operation, with democratic elections being held in 1994. Frelimo candidates have won every presidential election since.

Mondlane, an evangelical pastor, has called for his followers to demonstrate peacefully and expressed willingness to negotiate a political resolution to the conflict. Elements of Frelimo are reportedly agreeable to a power-sharing arrangement, essentially voiding the election that could be rerun after the election apparatus is fundamentally reformed. The negotiated end of the war between Frelimo and Renamo provides some hope that the parties could agree to reform the government so that Frelimo doesn’t maintain its unchecked state power to repress legitimate political opposition. Mondlane is looking to the international community to help broker political negotiations, as it has before.

After the Constitutional Council ruling, neighboring South Africa, with much to lose if the Mozambican conflict intensifies, offered to facilitate dialogue. It makes some sense for the SADC countries that are providing troops to improve security in Cabo Delgado — Angola, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Tanzania, and Namibia — to play a role in a political dialogue, though they appear biased, as a SADC election observation team failed to note election irregularities.

There is one reason for the U.S. to consider an active role in trying to resolve the Mozambican crisis: it has substantial interests, underscored by its Mozambican investments, in not seeing the country return to war, which would bring incalculable human suffering. The U.S. could be more impactful than others in mediation efforts, as its investments provide it leverage over the parties, particularly the government, to stay on a new, more politically and economically inclusive course. The MCC compact, for example, can and should be voided if there aren’t substantial improvements in Mozambican governance. This leverage is more effective the closer the U.S. is to negotiations. Any such effort should respect Mozambican sovereignty and could build on a recent U.S. success in averting an African political crisis in Senegal, where it worked with others to stop its president from changing the constitution to extend his rule.

>>22352614

>>22352625

>>22352643

“From liberators to enemies of the people”

https://www5.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambique/sites/www.open.ac.uk.technology.mozambique/files/files/Zit%20-%206%20Dec%20-%20From%20liberators%20to%20enemies%20of%20the%20people.pdf

December 6, 2024 .

All this speaks to a deep-seated resentment against Frelimo and, more generally, the people in power, which has been unleashed by the dispute over the election results. The party is seen, not without justication, as having kept the masses poor and deprived while making money for itself and its elites. If Frelimo did not know it before, it is discovering that people have a lot to be angry about.

“Swapo could be the next former liberation movement to lose its grip on power”

https://www.namibian.com.na/swapo-could-be-the-next-former-liberation-movement-to-lose-its-grip-on-power/

12 November 2024

The main unstated aim of the former liberation movements of southern Africa – an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries – has always been to help each other stay in power.

Until recently, they had been doing a pretty good job of it as all had remained in power since independence.

In May, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its simple majority in South Africa’s legislative elections and was forced to form a Government of National Unity with several other parties.

In October, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had been in office since independence from Britain in 1966, was unexpectedly trounced in general elections.

Now general elections are looming in Namibia on 27 November, and some analysts predict that the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, now the Swapo Party of Namibia (Swapo), in power since independence from South Africa in 1990, could go the way of the ANC or BDP – or, less pleasingly, Frelimo.

https://www.mmegi.bw/opinion-amp-analysis/namibias-2024-elections-a-loud-warning-bell-for-liberation-movements-a-missed-opportunity-for-the-opposition/news

Friday, January 10, 2025

Namibia’s 2024 elections laid bare SWAPO’s waning dominance, reflecting the broader challenges facing liberation movements across Africa.

However, SWAPO’s victory, which, by the way, was marked by allegations of irregularities, was far from emphatic. In fact, the party’s reduced majority in Parliament and the significant loss of voter confidence highlight a growing dissatisfaction with its leadership and an increasing appetite for change among the electorate. To put things in perspective, at its peak in 2014, the party secured an overwhelming 80% of the vote in the parliamentary election and a supermajority in Parliament, holding 77 out of 96 seats. In 2024, the party went into the elections with 63 parliamentary seats, following a poor showing five years earlier, but emerged with only 51. This means the party managed to retain control of Parliament by only three seats. Even more tellingly, some of SWAPO’s most prominent figures lost their parliamentary seats. According to The Namibian, nine Cabinet ministers failed to secure seats. At the presidential level, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah secured re-election with 58% of the vote to become the first female President of Namibia.

>>22352717

>In October, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had been in office since independence from Britain in 1966, was unexpectedly trounced in general elections.

“Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/diamonds-dispossession-and-democracy-in-botswana/diamond-dependent-economic-wealth/A6AFD8ABD48D76F0FC0480588C2A48C8

05 April 2013

From the outset, diamonds, the De Beers corporation, economic growth and the government have been closely interlinked in Botswana. De Beers had begun exploration work in the protectorate in 1955, and ‘shortly before independence’, corporate chairman Harry Oppenheimer told Seretse Khama ‘in confidence’ that viable diamond deposits existed at Orapa in Central District. This potentially momentous news was not publicly announced, however, until 1967 (Masire, 2006: 204). The De Beers Botswana Mining Company (Debswana) was established to develop the site in 1969. Production of high quality, kimberlite gems, in low-cost, open-cast operations, began in 1971 and expanded further at that site in 1979. Another mine opened at Letlhakane in 1979, followed by Jwaneng, the largest and richest in 1982. By the turn of the century Jwaneng was reputedly the world's richest and most profitable diamond mine. A fourth, Damtshaa, came on stream soon afterwards. Diamonds also existed at Gope, inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), from where San/Bushmen have been uprooted, in 1997 and in 2002.

The value of diamond exports rose from $43 million in 1976 to some $1400 million in the mid-1990s, when minerals, mostly diamonds, represented around 35 per cent of GDP (Jefferis, 1998: 303). In 2002, Botswana's total diamond sales amounted to $1.8 billion and it typically produces around 25 per cent by value of the world's rough diamonds (The Ecologist, 2003).

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 6:54 a.m. No.22352744 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>2777

>>22352717

>Swapo Party of Namibia (Swapo), in power since independence from South Africa in 1990

Namibia’s Major Oil and Gas Developments

https://youtu.be/y8yf75oA1q4

Dec 19, 2024

“Namibia’s Oil & Gas Sector: Major Updates in December 2024”

https://www.ibn.co.za/blog-and-news/nam-oil-gas-dec-2024/

Introduction

Namibia’s oil and gas sector is experiencing unprecedented growth, driven by significant advancements and international collaborations. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the latest developments from key players in the industry, showcasing Namibia’s emerging status as a global energy hub.

Global Petroleum Advances Farm-In Negotiations for Namibia’s Walvis Basin

QatarEnergy Expands Offshore Exploration Footprint in Namibia

88 Energy Progresses Exploration Activities in Namibia’s Owambo Basin

Galp Announces Light Oil and Gas-Condensate Discovery in PEL83 Block

Conclusion

Namibia’s oil and gas sector is entering a transformative phase, driven by major discoveries, strategic acquisitions, and collaborative ventures. From Global Petroleum’s advancements in the Walvis Basin to QatarEnergy’s strategic expansion and Galp’s Mopane discovery, Namibia is solidifying its position as a key player in the global energy landscape. The future holds immense promise as these projects continue to shape the nation’s energy potential.e Namibia their dream destination, be them private clients or large corporations alike!

>>22352744

>Namibia their dream destination, be them private clients or large corporations alike!

>>22352736

>From the outset, diamonds, the De Beers corporation, economic growth and the government have been closely interlinked in Botswana.

>>22352681

>Mozambique: Chaos on Monday? Big Money at Stake

>>21416431

>Mervyn King: “The company… is the most important citizen in every country in the world”

>Long before the western world adopted ESG as a buzzword in corporate Governance, Professor Mervyn King and his counterparts in South Africa had embraced and develop principles and frameworks for embracing practices that went beyond the financial bottom line.

>>21379997

>We must provide moral support to all comrades in struggle, from Ukraine to Uganda.

They blamed Apartheid but it always was and is big money.

Institute of Directors South Africa: The IoDSA History – Harry Oppenheimer, Basil Hersov, Mervyn King…

https://www.iodsa.co.za/general/custom.asp?page=History

1960

• The Institute of Directors in London established a branch in South Africa to canvass the business community to join the London institute.

• Harry Oppenheimer was appointed as the first President.

1985

• The IoDSA was incorporated as a Section 21 company under the Companies Act, 1973.

• Basil Hersov was appointed as President.

1991

• The first Chief Executive of the IoDSA was appointed, Richard Wilkinson.

1992

• The IoDSA Council approached Prof. Mervyn King with a mandate to form a committee responsible for drafting guidance on corporate governance for South Africa.

• The King Committee was established under the auspices of the IoDSA. The IoDSA provides financial and human resources; as well as administrative and operational infrastructure (which it continues to do).

1994

• The first King Report on Corporate Governance (King I) was issued and the King Committee assigned ownership of this and future reports to the IoDSA.

2001

• The IoDSA established a Director Development service offering.

• Reuel Khoza was appointed President, with Mervyn King as First Vice President. (Both continue to serve in these positions till present day)

>>22352777

>The Institute of Directors in London established a branch in South Africa to canvass the business community to join the London institute.

Institute of Directors: London

https://www.iod.com/about-iod/

Influence

Be heard by the people that matter. Share your views to help us represent directors’ issues and concerns to UK government, regulators and the business and mainstream media.

The IoD has been at the heart of business since its formation in 1903. The Royal Charter, awarded in 1906, charged the IoD with promoting free enterprise, lobbying government and setting standards for corporate governance. Today, we remain the authority on entrepreneurialism, professionalism in business and good governance in the UK and beyond.

https://www.iod.com/app/uploads/2022/03/IoD_Royal-Charter-3c45573e09f3066dda603aa93337eefd.pdf

The Institute of Directors was formed on 29 April 1903. On 16 July 1906, The Institute of Directors was constituted a Body Corporate and Politic by Royal Charter. This Supplemental Royal Charter came into force on 11 February 2004.

The objects of the Institute are:

(a) to promote for the public benefit high levels of skill, knowledge, professional competence and integrity on the part of directors, and equivalent office holders however described, of companies and other organisations;

(b) to promote the study, research and development of the law and practice of corporate governance, and to publish, disseminate or otherwise make available the useful results of such study or research;

(c) to represent the interests of members and of the business community to government and in all public fora and to encourage and foster a climate favourable to entrepreneurial activity and wealth creation; and

(d) to advance the interests of members of the Institute, and to provide facilities, services and benefits for them.

Without limiting its capacities at law as a chartered corporation, the Institute shall have the following powers for pursuing its objects:

(h) to establish and support any company or other body, and to co-operate with other bodies or

organisations or to engage in joint activities of any kind, which may advance the objects of

the Institute;

(i) to act as trustee, personal representative, director or agent of any kind and for any purpose;

(j) to exercise any power of the Institute for any consideration of any kind or for no consideration and to do so in any part of the world; and

9.(a)The By-Laws scheduled to this Our Supplemental Charter shall be the By-Laws of the Institute until revoked or amended in accordance with the provisions of this Our Supplemental Charter. The By-Laws may be revoked, amended or added to by a resolution (passed by a simple majority) of the members of the Institute voting personally or by proxy at a General Meeting of which proper notice has been given in accordance with the By-Laws specifying the proposed revocations, amendments or additions, but no such revocation, amendment or addition shall be effective unless allowed by Our Privy Council.

And We do hereby, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, grant and declare that these Our Letters or the enrolment or exemplification thereof shall be in all things good, firm, valid and effectual according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed and adjudged in all Our Courts or elsewhere in the most favourable and beneficial sense and for the best advantage of the Institute, any mis-recital, non-recital, omission, defect, imperfection, matter or thing whatsoever notwithstanding.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 7:54 a.m. No.22353027 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>3185

>>22353015

>help us represent directors’ issues and concerns to UK government, regulators

Keith Donnelly, Head of Emergency Preparedness, NHS Trust (BHRUT): “The pandemic demonstrated how dedicated, innovative, and flexible we can all be”

https://www.iod.com/resources/inclusion-and-diversity/rolemodel-keithdonnelly/

9 January 2024

As Head of Emergency Preparedness at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT), Keith Donnelly was at the heart of the NHS response to the pandemic. His experience inspired him to take on volunteering roles and get more involved with the IoD to expand his network and open the door to future possibilities.

I studied biochemistry at university to become a forensic scientist but soon realised I was more of a people person. After several years working in hospitality roles in upmarket hotels, I recognised that I got a lot of satisfaction from managing difficult situations – power failure, floods, fire evacuations and even bomb threats. This inspired me to go back to university for a Masters in Crisis & Disaster Management.

With this new qualification I joined the NHS as a Fire, Health & Safety Officer and moved through the ranks to become Head of Emergency Preparedness for my current NHS Trust in 2019. In the same year, I had to knock on the door of the Chief Medical Officer to highlight something that was going on in Wuhan, China.

It was always a dream of mine to join the IoD after I was impressed by the look of the 116 Pall Mall building on a trip to London from Northern Ireland, where I grew up. I became a member of the IoD in 2018 because I was keen to develop my leadership skills and to surround myself with leaders from a wide cross section of industries. For the first two years, my membership had absolutely no impact on me beyond a monthly direct debit leaving my bank account!

Then, in 2020 I saw a role advertised with a London Branch and now I am both a member and the Membership Ambassador for the London region. The IoD has a fantastic Member Relations team who make my job pretty easy, but I try to challenge where I need to, support where I can, and generally get stuck in, whether its processes, events, or just conversations. It’s my job to support the member journey from first contact through to onboarding, and ongoing engagement.

I would encourage people who work in public sector organisations like the NHS to join the IoD. As well as the practical benefits of membership I have developed amazing networks and made some really great friends. Do it, and use it! You are not just your job or role or responsibility, you are yourself. Unlike industry-aligned organisations, the IoD exposes you to different people from different backgrounds, different ideas, and maybe different opportunities.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 8:22 a.m. No.22353185 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>3226

>>22352777

>1991

>• The first Chief Executive of the IoDSA was appointed, Richard Wilkinson.

>>22353015

>>22353027

“In memory of RICHARD WILKINSON”

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.iodsa.co.za/resource/collection/D8C0F9B8-6AAE-4D9E-9406-C6CA4F29B4AC/IODSA_Q3_2021_online.pdf

The IoDSA pays tribute to its first Chief Executive Officer, who served the IoDSA from 1991 to 2003.

The legacy of Richard Wilkinson’s 12-year career with the Institute of Directors lies first and foremost with the Institute’s initiative on corporate governance both in terms of the first King Report published in November 1994 and the second King Report published in March 2002.

It was on a visit to London at the beginning of 1992 that Richard Wilkinson met Sir Adrian Cadbury at the IoD in London and learnt that he was about to publish his committee’s work on the financial aspects of corporate governance.

From that discussion the King Committee was formed at the instance of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa. Throughout the discussions and debate surrounding the first and second King Reports on corporate governance the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa acted as the Committee’s Secretariat under the leadership of Richard Wilkinson.

On his retirement, Richard mused over the many long hours that he had put in at the IoDSA particularly at times of great pressure such as when the finalisation of the King I and King II Reports required a great deal of midnight oil burning.

Richard also reflected on the amazing swing of fortunes of the IoDSA during his tenure from where there was a shoestring budget and few funds to a situation at the end of 2003 where the balance sheet showed several millions of Rands of assets and a completely different IoDSA to that which he had joined as Executive Director in 1991.

>>22353185

>Sir Adrian Cadbury

“Sir Adrian Cadbury: Pioneer of good practice in corporate governance who also guided the family firm through the turbulent 1980s”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sir-adrian-cadbury-pioneer-of-good-practice-in-corporate-governance-who-also-guided-the-family-firm-through-the-turbulent-1980s-10493807.html

09 September 2015

Sir Adrian Cadbury was an Olympic rower who went on to run the family business and producing the 1992 Cadbury Report, which became the cornerstone of corporate governance at home and abroad. In a business career spanning six decades he took up senior roles at the Bank of England, the Confederation of British Industry and IBM, while maintaining his family's Quaker traditions, promoting local charities around Birmingham and funding the construction of Aston University. He was once described as "the City's own social worker".

Reflecting his own beliefs, Cadbury's report displeased some entrepreneurs who felt their wings were being clipped and that they were being told how to run their companies. With British business acquiring a questionable reputation in the 1980s boom, the report followed a number of high-profile scandals, and the report, Cadbury said, "reflects a climate of opinion which accepts that changes are needed."

Cadbury's report advocated a clear division of responsibilities at the head of a company so that no one individual had too much power, though it stopped short of mandatory separation of chairman and chief executive. Boards, it said, should have independent non-executive directors of sufficient calibre and number to carry significant weight in a public company's decisions, with clear disclosure of directors' emoluments.

He was distraught, having retired, at the controversial takeover of Cadbury by Kraft in 2010, and made the family's feelings known in a letter to The Daily Telegraph. "A bidder can buy a business. What they cannot acquire is legitimacy over the character, values, experience and traditions on which that business was founded and flourished."

At 36 he was made chairman in preference to two older and more experienced family members. He saw the need to change, with the ever-evolving mechanisation of plants and the fast-moving world of advertising and branding. He employed McKinsey, the management consultants, who recommended diversifying and reforming the autocratic management structure into a federation of smaller enterprises.

With Cadbury wanting to break into the US market, and Lord Watkinson, chairman of Schweppes, wishing to diversify, the companies merged in 1969.

During the 1980s, the golden age of aggressive takeover bids, Cadbury Schweppes fought off corporate raiders like the US investor General Cinema, which held a large stake in the company for a few years. During Cadbury's tenure, the company retained its independence and prospered. In 1978 it acquired Peter Paul, the US's third largest chocolate manufacturer, for $58m, which gave it a 10 per cent share of the world's largest confectionery market.

In 1982, with trading profits greater outside the UK for the first time, Cadbury Schweppes took over apple-juice processors Duffy-Mott and Canada Dry (1986). Cadbury was thwarted in his attempt to acquire Rowntree's because of UK competition law but he did succeed in acquiring Trebor Bassetts in 1989.

Cadbury retired in 1990, with vastly increased turnover and higher profits but the workforce more than halved, to 17,000.

>For the past few years, the US has maintained a training team in Mozambique, assisting with the training of a specialist response unit within the Mozambican army.

Consider history… Russia has always been a convenient scapegoat but the West and big business never stopped being involved. Remember, the Oppenheimers, through De Beers, continued to do business with Russia during the so called Cold War. Also Nelson Mandela married Samora Machel’s wife.

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 1

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

In the 1960s, the Mozambicans threw off Portuguese colonialism. Now, guerrillas are fighting to free their country from Soviet imperialism and an insane ruler.

It was late in the afternoon of June 13, 1985… After hiking some 10 miles through the dry bush, my two guides indicated we were approaching a Renamo camp.

When I walked into the camp, a grisly scene awaited me. An executioner had fired the shot, performing a coup de grâce on a captured spy of Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front), the Soviet-backed Marxist insurgency that had gained power upon Mozambique's independence from Portugal in 1975.

In September of 1984, I spent two weeks along Mozambique's border waiting for a Renamo patrol to come and take me inside. It never came—too much fighting in the area with government troops—and I didn't get in, although I later learned that an intelligence report had been filed with the US government alleging that I had. It was a set-up, I am convinced, by the Mozambique lobby in the State Department, a lobby desperately seeking support for the Communist government of Mozambique and hysterically hostile toward Renamo. It is this lobby within the Reagan administration that was responsible for the wining and dining of Samora Machel, the Communist ruler of Mozambique, in Washington, in September 1985.

This hostility seems bizarre only if one thinks the purpose of the State Department is to diplomatically defend the national interests of the United States. The mystery vanishes when one remembers that the State Department is a bureaucracy and that the primary purpose of any bureaucracy is to perpetuate and enhance itself. The State Department has evidently convinced itself that it will be a wonderfully prestigious feather in its bureaucratic cap for it to "wean away" Machel from the Soviets and into the "American camp," using its great diplomatic skills and promises of vast foreign aid, bank loans, and International Monetary Fund credits.

>>22354474

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 2

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

Frelimo had been formed by the union of three Mozambican nationalist movements in June 1962 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with Dr. Eduardo Mondlane as its leader. In 1964, Frelimo had initiated an armed campaign against Portuguese colonial rule.[Take note; “He was Venâncio Mondlane, a distant kinsman of Eduardo Mondlane, the first president of Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique).” https://clubofmozambique.com/news/venancio-mondlane-is-mozambiques-political-challenger-what-he-stands-for-by-luca-bussotti-273562/]

Both Mondlane—a US-educated physician and an official with the United Nations—and Filipe Magaia, Frelimo's military commander, were opposed to Marxism and were particularly suspicious of the Soviets. A rivalry developed between Magaia and Samora Machel, a stridently fanatic Maoist who had joined Frelimo in 1963. In October of 1966, Machel and his supporters murdered Magaia, whereupon he assumed Magaia's position as military commander. When a pro-Soviet Frelimo faction assassinated Mondlane in February 1969, Machel switched from Maoist to Soviet Marxist, becoming, with Soviet backing, the overall political and military leader of Frelimo. The liberation movement was transformed into a "revolutionary vanguard," and any leaders still clinging to Mondlane's original goals of pluralistic democratic tolerance, and not espousing Soviet Marxism-Leninism, were either killed or expelled.

When the jails quickly overflowed, Machel set up "reeducation centers"—concentration camps that he called "laboratories for the transformation of man." The camps were run by SNASP (the Popular National Security Service), trained and organized by East Germans. This agency also operated the "People's Revolutionary Military Tribunals," responsible for filling up the laboratories with "infiltrados" (fifth-columnists) and "counterrevolutionary parasites." US and other national intelligence estimates state that 200,000–300,000 Mozambicans have been imprisoned in Machel's Gulag, where well over 75,000 have died.

Then, on October 17, 1979, leading an assault upon a Frelimo army encampment, Andre Matsangaisse was killed. As Dhlakama assumed command of the now demoralized and stunned guerrillas, the situation for the insurgency suddenly looked very bleak. Rhodesia was soon to be transformed into Zimbabwe, with Robert Mugabe taking the reins of power from Ian Smith. Once that happened, Mugabe, a friend of Samora Machel's and fellow Marxist, would immediately close the border on Renamo. A new sanctuary was needed, and quickly. Only one option was really viable, and for a black African it was not pleasant. But it was necessary: Dhlakama asked Cristina to contact the South Africans.

Through Rhodesian friends, Cristina was soon in touch with South African Military Intelligence (SAMI, or "Sammy"). In April 1980, a few days before Mugabe took over, Cristina and his staff left Odzi to set up camp and the Voice of Free Africa radios at Phalaborwa in the northern Transvaal of South Africa, just outside Kruger National Park, which borders Mozambique. Working with South African officer Col. van Niekerk, Cristina organized regular air drops, of medical supplies and Soviet arms captured in South African raids of anti-South African guerrilla camps in Angola, to Dhlakama's base inside Mozambique.

Renamo was back in business. And business was improving. Dhlakama's position as "President and Supreme Military Commander" of Renamo was unquestioned, for he was proving to be quite talented as a guerrilla leader. Establishing a string of small bases throughout the country, Renamo began attracting thousands of volunteers. A large portion of support came from the "regulos," traditional rural village chiefs upon whom Machel was waging war in his crazed effort to create "a new socialist man" in Mozambique.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 12:09 p.m. No.22354481 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4490 >>4496

>>22354474

>>22354477

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 3

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

The Renamo message was one of Mozambican nationalism versus Soviet colonialism; of defending and respecting the traditions and beliefs of the various Mozambican cultural and religious communities (of a population of more than 13 million, about 12 percent are Christian, twice that are Sunni Moslem, and the remainder native animists) versus a violent contempt for them; of democracy versus Marxist dictatorship; and of the right of every Mozambican to earn his living as he sees fit versus forced communal slavery.

The message also came out of the barrel of a gun, pointed at the economy and Frelimo's capacity to govern. The key targets became the railway lines from Maputo and Beira to Zimbabwe; the oil pipeline from Beira to Mutare in Zimbabwe; the main paved roads, especially along the coast; and the power lines from the Cabora Bassa dam on the Zambezi, which supplies South Africa with 12 percent of its electricity. The power lines were first cut in November of 1980 and twice in 1981. Then Zamco, the South African company that operates Cabora Bassa, made a deal with the guerrillas for an undisclosed amount of money, and the attacks ceased.

Da Costa's files list the Soviet presence in Mozambique as 4,000 to 5,000 men, mostly military, under the command of Col. Anatoli Shadrin, of the KGB. They list about 1,000 East Germans, headed by Gen. Gunter Weinrich of the East German Security Police, and some 4,000 Cubans, again mostly military, under Col. Haras Sanchez of Castro's DGI (Cuban Secret Police).

Machel began turning desperately to the West for help, claiming he was "disillusioned" with Marxism and the Soviets. He even contacted the South Africans: would they sell out Renamo if he would sell out the ANC (African National Congress), an anti-South Africa rebel group headquartered in Maputo.

Pik Botha, South Africa's foreign minister, leaped at the offer. Botha (no relation to the South African president, P.W. Botha) was part of a faction in South Africa's government that thought it more in South Africa's interest to have impoverished and emasculated pro-Soviet Marxist states for neighbors—to maintain a siege mentality among white South Africans, to elicit Western sympathy, to have militarily weak neighbors chaotically disrupted by dissension and insurgency—than reinvigorated democracies led by independent leaders.

Besides, to have the world press film the leader of Soviet Mozambique smiling and shaking hands with the president of South Africa as they jointly signed a mutual nonaggression treaty would be for South Africa, the world's pariah, a major public relations coup. And that is just what happened, at the train crossing at Nkomati on the South African side of the border, on March 16, 1984.

Shortly thereafter, the ANC was forced to move its headquarters to Lusaka, Zambia, and Renamo's supply base at Phalaborwa was closed down. Air drops to Gorongosa ceased—but not before the head of SAMI, Gen. Pieter der Westhuizen, infuriated at what he considered a sellout by Pik Botha, was able to organize a massive resupply of military equipment to Renamo before the accord was signed. Although SAMI continued low-level contact with Renamo after the signing—which Pik Botha admitted this past September—Dhlakama was on his own.

Most of the Mozambican people were as well. In many parts of the country, no rain had fallen for three years. Much of the famine aid sent by US and international relief agencies went to feed the Frelimo army (just as in Ethiopia). By mid-1984, international relief officials estimated that 170,000 Mozambicans had died of starvation and disease since the drought began.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 12:10 p.m. No.22354490 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4496

>>22354474

>>22354477

>>22354481

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 4

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

"Things are much better with Renamo controlling the border and this entire area," I was told. "Now, many people come for our fish. Frelimo tried to control everything, nobody could have private business. With Renamo, we have freedom, confidence—Renamo likes us to have private business. Oh, yes, things are better now!"

In all my sojourns with anti-Soviet guerrillas, I have never met any more explicitly pro-capitalist than those of Renamo. Many of them are right out of the bush with little formal education, but they have an intuitive grasp of the necessary connection between political and economic freedom.

For the Renamo guerrillas like Conrad and many others to whom I talked, communism and socialism means collectivism: property and possessions owned in common; being treated not as an individual but as a member of a work or social unit. Capitalism is synonymous with individual freedom to them: freedom to own and use things individually, freedom to open your own store, freedom to work at a job you wanted (and not one the state tells you to work at), freedom to quit a job you don't like and find another.

Capitalism also means political freedom to them—democracy. "Who chose Samora Machel to be leader of Mozambique?" asked Manuel, the leader of a Renamo patrol I accompanied. "He chose himself—he is a dictator, he gives orders, everyone else must obey. Renamo wants democracia, where people can choose the leader they want."

Renamo's popular support is increasing among the Mozambican people, particularly throughout the countryside. In April 1984, within a month of the Nkomati Accord, Renamo had moved into Cabo Delgado province, whose Makonde tribe inhabitants had formed the backbone of the Frelimo army. With disaffection toward Machel deep, they began assisting and joining Dhlakama's men in droves. Renamo was now operating effectively in all 10 provinces of the country. A British intelligence report of September 1984 stated that Frelimo had virtually lost most of Mozambique north of the Save River (three-fourths of the country). Peasants in Tete province, for instance, were "almost irretrievably disillusioned with Frelimo," having "turned to arms in much the same way their fathers became Frelimo fighters against colonial rule."

Supporting the claim that Frelimo is riddled with "countless" Renamo informers, in Zambezia and elsewhere, a recent British intelligence estimate reported that "many MNR [Renamo] commanders are former Frelimo cadres who still have well-placed friends in Frelimo. The MNR consistently obtains information about personnel, arms and food movements throughout the country. The ambush and sabotage success rate is high."

According to South African newspaper reports and my own interviews with Mozambican refugees, in several areas deserting Frelimo soldiers have formed marauding gangs; starving young male villagers have resorted to banditry; and Frelimo assassination teams disguised as Renamo soldiers have taken to indiscriminately killing villagers (particularly those suspected of being Renamo sympathizers)—the same technique used by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to smear the Contras—all of which are reported by Maputo as "Renamo atrocities.

By the end of August, Johannesburg newspapers were reporting an "avalanche" of hundreds of thousands of refugees from Mozambique into South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland, portraying Mozambique as a land "torn apart by war and starvation," a country of "panic and chaos…on its knees." Accompanying the reports were pathetic pictures of decaying corpses killed by Soviet land mines that the Mozambique government had ordered strewn along the border to stanch the flow of refugees out of the country. "Frelimo says we must stay in Mozambique so that we can all die together," one story quoted refugee Daniel Mahanuki. "If we return to Mozambique, Frelimo will put us in jail. They also shoot us."

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 14, 2025, 12:11 p.m. No.22354496 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>8458 >>9796

“From Rovuma to Maputo: Mozambique's Guerrilla War” (1985) Part 5

https://reason.com/1985/12/01/from-rovuma-to-maputo/

Jack Wheeler | From the December 1985 issue

That this thrilling prospect of a democratic liberation movement overthrowing—for the first time in history—a Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is looked upon with horror by most Western governments, including the Reagan administration, is one of the most Kafkaesque and revealing geopolitical facts of our day. A weird coalition of US, British, and South African diplomats, businessmen, and bankers has emerged, desperate to support Samora Machel. British officers are now training Frelimo soldiers in counter-insurgency operations in Zimbabwe. South African soldiers are reportedly guarding Frelimo installations in civilian garb. Tiny Rowlands, the British millionaire whose Lonrho Company has extensive holdings in southern Africa, is one of Jonas Savimbi's principal supporters—and also one of Samora Machel's. Harry Oppenheimer, South Africa's wealthiest businessman, held a secret meeting with Machel in London in October 1983 and is anxious to have his Anglo-American Corporation gain lucrative contracts with the Frelimo government. David Rockefeller, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, and Melvin Laird, secretary of defense under Richard Nixon, recently went to Maputo and came back with glowing tales of what money they could make with Machel. When Sen. Robert Kasten (R–Wis.) blocked the State Department's efforts to send military aid to Frelimo, Laird put "enormous" pressure on Kasten to relent, according to a chief aide to the senator.

The US State Department now bears responsibility for prolonging the bloodshed in Mozambique by frantically propping up Machel when he is on his last legs instead of calling for a negotiated ceasefire and the democratization of the country. So serious is the department in its efforts to woo Machel that in September the dictator was invited to Washington, where he was welcomed into the White House to plead his case for continuing US aid directly to President Reagan. During Reagan's years in office, Machel's government has received some $60 million in US "humanitarian" aid, and more has already been authorized.

As Dhlakama himself explained to me when I interviewed him in 1984 via radio, Renamo has two primary objectives for Mozambique: "First is to free ourselves from Soviet colonialism. The Soviet Union is the world's curse.…Second is to free ourselves from the tyranny of Marxism. There are no freedoms of any kind in Mozambique today—of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly—none. We want to bring those freedoms to the Mozambican people. We want each Mozambican to peacefully conduct his life and earn his living as he sees fit—instead of being told his purpose in life is to work for the benefit of the state and of Samora Machel."

>>22352681

>Mozambique: Chaos on Monday? Big Money at Stake

>>22352717

>The main unstated aim of the former liberation movements of southern Africa – an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries – has always been to help each other stay in power.

>>22352777

>>22353015

>>22354496

>That this thrilling prospect of a democratic liberation movement overthrowing—for the first time in history—a Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is looked upon with horror by most Western governments, including the Reagan administration, is one of the most Kafkaesque and revealing geopolitical facts of our day. A weird coalition of US, British, and South African diplomats, businessmen, and bankers has emerged,

>>22352670

“UK Court rules that Mozambique is owed over $2billion in hidden debt case”

https://debtjustice.org.uk/news/uk-court-rules-that-mozambique-is-owed-over-2-billion-in-hidden-debt-case

31 Jul 2024

This week a UK Court ruled that United Arab Emirates company Privinvest owes over $2 billion to Mozambique in a debt scandal which dates back to 2014. Mozambique campaigners the Forum de Monitoria do Orcamento (FMO – Budget Monitoring Forum) have welcomed the judgement as “A great victory” but one that “does not close the chapter of criminal liability of those involved”.

Mr Justice Robin Knowles found that Privinvest paid significant bribes to secure contracts to supply boats and equipment to state owned companies in Mozambique. The deal was funded by $2 billion of loans from the London branches of Credit Suisse and VTB Capital. Bankers working for Credit Suisse have previously admitted to receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks to arrange the deals.

Mozambique’s former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang, is awaiting trial in the US in a case relating to the scandal.

Some of the loans were given in secret, and they caused an economic crisis which is estimated to have cost Mozambique $11 billion – $15 billion. All the loans were found to be illegal under Mozambique law, because they did not get parliamentary approval. However, as is often the case, the loans were governed by UK law. Therefore, in 2019 the Mozambique Attorney General began legal action against Privinvest, Credit Suisse and other parties to the deals. Out-of-court settlements were reached with everyone other than Privinvest.

In passing his judgement, Justice Knowles said “The scale and nature of what was able to happen in this case presented systemic threat to Mozambique’s economy.” He ordered Privinvest to pay $825 million to Mozambique to cover debt payments the government have already made over the deals, and said Privinvest is liable for $1.5 billion of future debt payments arising from the contracts. However, Privinvest has said it will appeal the ruling. And there are major doubts as to whether Privinvest have the money, and if so whether Mozambique will be able to make them pay up.

Debt Justice have campaigned in solidarity with FMO since 2016, seeking to get the UK to take responsibility for the actions of London-based banks, and measures to prevent such scandals happening again. In 2021 the Financial Conduct Authority fined Credit Suisse $200 million, alongside further fines by the US and Swiss authorities. However, all of this money went to the UK Treasury, none to help people in Mozambique affected by the devastation caused by the loans.

Debt Justice has called for the UK to pass legal changes so that loans given to governments have to be publicly disclosed when they are given. The UK government refused, and instead funded a voluntary scheme for banks to disclose the existence of loans. Under the scheme, just two banks disclosed six loans, while an estimated $30 billion of lending to lower-income countries has remained hidden. The voluntary scheme has effectively come to an end, meaning that the bulk of lending by Western banks to lower-income countries remains hidden.

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 15, 2025, 7:16 a.m. No.22358474 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>8624

>>22358458

“When debt and terrorism intersect: the case of Mozambique”

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/when-debt-and-terrorism-intersect-the-case-of-mozambique

19 March 2024

Mozambique’s rocky road from grand corruption to a debt settlement offers hope, but the scars of mismanagement run deep.

Financial mismanagement, bribery and corruption tied to Mozambique’s ‘hidden debt’ scandal have tipped the country into fiscal catastrophe. At the same time, an insurgency in the north has killed 4 000 people, displaced 946 000 and caused a humanitarian disaster. Recognising the links between these two crises is fundamental to restoring stability in the country.

In 2016, Mozambique was rocked by a scandal involving secret loans amounting to about US$2 billion – meant for state fishery projects – that were secured with undisclosed government guarantees. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) subsequently withdrew fiscal aid to the country, triggering a sovereign debt default that led to a currency collapse. By 2022, Mozambique’s debt-to-GDP ratio had soared to 101%, signalling an alarming level of indebtedness that the country was unable to manage.

In October 2023, a deal was reached that resolved the dispute over Credit Suisse’s involvement in the loan scandal. The agreement absolves Mozambique of substantial debts owed to Credit Suisse under a tainted loan agreement with the state-owned company ProIndicus.

But the fallout has been massive, surpassing US$11 billion in costs from direct expenditures and payments made, as well as losses from economic slowdown. A 2021 research report shows that this economic devastation has pushed a staggering 1.9 million people into poverty.

Rarely considered though is the scandal’s effect on the violent insurgency led by Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic State of Mozambique Province that broke out in Cabo Delago in 2017. The roots of the insurgency stem from socio-economic marginalisation, corruption and weak governance, which contribute to perceptions that the central government neglects its northern communities.

A recent United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report reveals that in sub-Saharan Africa, economic marginalisation, poverty and lack of access to essential services are significant drivers of violent extremism. All of these worsened with Mozambique’s debt scandal. Insurgents capitalise on such situations, exploiting grievances caused by state deficiencies.

There is a clear correlation between Mozambique’s high debt levels and the growth of violent extremism. The insurgency has further destabilised economic conditions, making debt repayment increasingly arduous.

A 2019 UNDP report estimates that between 2007 and 2016, the impact of terrorism on African countries’ gross domestic product, loss of informal economic productivity, increased security expenses, and refugee/displaced persons cost over US$119 billion. A Public Integrity Center study puts the fiscal impact of Mozambique’s conflict at US$1.69 billion between 2018 and 2022.

Stability in Mozambique also requires that those accused of corruption be held accountable. ISS Consultant Borges Nhamirre says that, ‘After much pressure from civil society and Western donors, Mozambique initiated multiple judicial processes to hold some of the people involved in the hidden debt scandal accountable. But this effort was selective, leaving out the top leaders.’ Ultimately, a lack of political will has prevented justice from being served.

>>22358458

>>22358474

“Mozambique’s Hidden Debt Scandal”

https://corruption-tracker.org/case/mozambique-hidden-debt-scandal

Published on

October 18, 2022

(updated August 13, 2024)

In 2011, Abu Dhabi Mar, a company of the Privinvest Group, proposed a project for securing Mozambique’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ, the first 200 sea miles off the coast) to the President of Mozambique. Three Mozambican firms, ProIndicus, Empresa Moçambicana de Atum (Ematum), Mozambique Asset Management (MAM), received USD $2 billion loans (given by Credit Suisse and VTB Capital on signature of the Mozambican Finance Minister) for a shared shipbuilding, fishing and maritime surveillance project from the government in 2014. Parliament was expected to guarantee the sum, but it was never consulted. Instead, a staggering USD $1.65 billion was funnelled into military and naval equipment from Privinvest, supposedly for the project’s development. What was meant to purchase fishing vessels appears to have been diverted to finance weapons instead. As a result, the project never materialised, nor did it fulfill its capabilities to “develop” the fishery within the EEZ as advertised.

Seller country

France

Seller company

Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) (PSAL), Privinvest Shipbuilding Investments LLC (PISB), Abu Dhabi Mar Investments LLC (ADM), Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN), Logistics International SAL (Offshore), Logistics International Investments LLC

Buyer country

Mozambique

Goods category

Aircraft, Surveillance Equipment, Warships, Intellectual Property Rights, Drones

Equipment sold

ProIndicus Project (provider: PSAL, transformed into PISB) - 16 radar stations (6 manned, 10 unmanned) - 36 DV15 interceptor vessels - 3 WP18 strike-craft vessels - 3 HSI32 offshore patrol vessels - 6 Remos GX light maritime patrol aircraft - central command and control site, training centre - satellite surveillance system - training & maintenance of all above

EMATUM Project (provider ADM) - 3 Ocean Eagle 43 Trimaran patrol vessels - and their associated camcopter drones - equipment for land operations centre - training and spare parts for the above

MAM Project (provider PISB) - maintenance, repair and assembling sites for vessels of ProIndicus & EMATUM deals. - vessel components to be delivered by PISB

Deal value

(2 billion US$ loan to 3 Mozambican firms -debt scandal) 1,651 million US$ of which to Privinvest -> arms deal part

Sum involved in corruption

USD 713 million overbilling (whole debt scandal within the three firms, see Kroll report) 200 million US$ bribes by Privinvest towards Mozambican officials (including campaign donations to president's party) and Credit Suisse bankers (who pleaded guilty over ~USD 50 million bribes) + offsets (real estate, a new maritime agency, a diamond mine, a TV station, a bank and a prepaid mobile phone card business), payments to Mozambique’s ruling party, payments to politically exposed persons

Start year

2013

Outcome status

Trial Closed - Some Convictions, Out of Court Settlement

Actors

• Filipe Nyusi: current President of Mozambique, Defence Minister during time of alleged corruption

• Armando Emilio Guebuza: Mozambican President at the time

• Manuel Chang: Mozambican Finance Minister at the time

• Iskandar Safa: head of Privinvest

• Andrew Pearse, Detelina Subeva, Surjan Singh: Swiss bankers who pleaded guilty on receiving bribes

• Jean Boustani: Chief Trader at Privinvest

• Antonio do Rosario: Managing Director of MAM, Pro Indicus, Ematum, Director of Economic Intelligence at SISE (Mozambique’s Security and Intelligence Service)

• Pro Indicus: Mozambique state-owned company, defence and security company to protect the Mozambican EEZ at sea, in liquidation process

• MAM Mozambique Asset Management: Mozambique state-owned company, should offer maritime repairs, in liquidation process

• Ematum: Mozambique partly state-owned company, fishing processing and selling of tuna, in liquidation process

Anonymous ID: 07b319 Jan. 15, 2025, 9:25 a.m. No.22359108 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>9140

“The deadly protests in Mozambique explained”

https://youtu.be/ND1XWBPoXVY

Jan 14, 2025

Mozambique's escalating civil unrest began after its October 2024 election was clouded by allegations of rigging against the winners. An ongoing police crackdown on protesters has caused more than 300 deaths. Sky’s Yousra Elbagir explains what’s happening in the country.

>>22352625

>The main items on the agenda of visiting delegation led by Comrade Lindiwe Zulu, chairperson for the African National Congress’s Subcommittee on International Relations and South African Minister of Social Development, were strengthening the historic ties of brotherhood, friendship and cooperation that exist between Frelimo and the ANC, and the analysis of the political, economic and social situation in their respective countries.

>Greeting the delegation on Monday (04-04), Frelimo Secretary General Comrade Roque Silva Samuel said that the visit would reinforce and consolidate the existing relations of cooperation between the two parties and peoples, which date back to the time of the founding of the Mozambique Liberation Front.

>>22352717

>The main unstated aim of the former liberation movements of southern Africa – an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries – has always been to help each other stay in power.

>>22359108

“President Ramaphosa attends the Presidential Inauguration in Mozambique”

https://dirco.gov.za/president-ramaphosa-attends-the-presidential-inauguration-in-mozambique/

15 January 2025

Media Statement

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Maputo today, 15 January 2025, to attend the inauguration of the President-Elect of the Republic of Mozambique, His Excellency Daniel Chapo, following the Presidential, Legislative and Provincial Elections, which were held in Mozambique on 9 October 2024.

The inauguration of President-Elect Chapo provides an opportunity for all the people of Mozambique to work together towards peace, democracy and development.

President Ramaphosa is looking forward to working closely with President-Elect Chapo in further strengthening the existing strong fraternal relations between the two countries and looks forward to seeing Mozambicans come together in the spirit of unity and cooperation as they build a brighter future.

President Ramaphosa will be accompanied by Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola; and Minister in The Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.

Media enquiries: Vincent Magwenya, Spokesperson to the President – media@presidency.gov.za

Issued by: The Presidency

Pretoria

www.thepresidency.gov.za