>>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)

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>>21379928

>>21379933

>GNU

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>>21380005

>>21380026

“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

1. 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.

2. Discrimination on one or more of the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.

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>>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.

>>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.

“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

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>>21500613

>rand manipulatiom

>>21502802 - Now a bio-war

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>>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

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“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

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>>21507050

>>21507053

>The seizure of the wealth necessary

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>>21396698

>JOHN DUNN

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>>21467459

>>21479142

>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.

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>>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

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>>21398994

>>21399001

>>21422270

>>21422340

>>21502802

>>21502837

>Wellcome Trust

>>21507050

>>21507053

>>21507100

>Cecil Rhodes

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>>21479095

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.

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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.

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>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.

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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.”

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“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.

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“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.

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“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.

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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. 

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“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.”

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>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.

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>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.

“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.

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“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.

“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.

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“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.

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“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.