“US sanctions three, including two based in SA, for expanding Isis in Africa”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/us-sanctions-three-including-two-based-in-sa-for-expanding-isis-in-africa/

24 Jul 2024

The United States (US) government has imposed sanctions on three individuals – two of whom are based in South Africa – accused of expanding Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) activities in Africa.

The US Department of State said the three individuals are key financiers and enablers of Isis activities across central, eastern, and southern Africa.

According to the country, Isis leaders in South Africa historically used robbery, extortion, and kidnapping for ransom operations to generate funds for the group.

“They serve as critical links between far-flung Isis operations, allowing Isis leadership to leverage each affiliate’s capabilities to undermine peace and security in the region,” said US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller in a statement on Tuesday.

“Their destabilising impact spans much of sub-Saharan Africa, which underscores the need for the international community to continue to work together to share information on transnational Isis networks, their evolving financial methods, and measures to combat them.”

Threat to regional security and stability

The US Department of Treasury said the sanctions are due to the threat Isis poses to regional security and stability in central, eastern, and southern Africa.

“Treasury has targeted Isis’s efforts to expand operations and raise funds on the African continent with designations of South Africa-based Isis operatives, financial facilitators, and their business networks on 1 March 2022 and 7 November 2022, and a designation of a key Somalia-based Isis finance official on 27 July 2023,” the department said.

The sanctioned individuals are Abubakar Swalleh, who is based in South Africa and Zambia; Zayd Gangat, based in South Africa; and Hamidah Nabagala, who is based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Generating funds through crimes

According to the US Department of Treasury, Swalleh is an Isis operative who is involved in the physical transfer of funds from South Africa to the DRC.

Additionally, Swalleh allegedly facilitates the movement of Isis-affiliated people from Uganda to South Africa and vice versa.

“Mohamed Ali Nkalubo, a DRC-based Isis commander previously designated by the Department of State on 8 December 2023, relies on Swalleh to move funds and recruit members for Isis’s DRC affiliate. Swalleh moved to South Africa under Nkalubo’s direction, where he has been involved in robberies and kidnap for ransom,” the US Department of Treasury said.

Gangat is an alleged Isis facilitator and trainer.

Nabagala allegedly serves as an intermediary for Isis financial flows in central Africa. She allegedly funded the October 2021 Kampala bombing, which killed one and injured three others.

“In 2021, Ugandan authorities arrested an Isis operative who had received funding from Nabagala. She also sought to smuggle her three children out of Uganda to send them to Isis-affiliated camps in the DRC,” the department said.

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“Security Risk Analyst, Andy Grudko unpacks the military training camp saga in Mpumalanga”

https://youtu.be/XTpjt7QZXZA

Jul 27, 2024

“95 Libyans arrested in breakfast raid at ‘military camp’ in Mpumalanga”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/military-camp-white-river-mpumalanga-libyan-nationals/

26 Jul 2024

Mpumalanga police arrested 95 Libyan nationals at a suspected military camp on a farm in White River on Friday morning.

While police have not yet made any allegations of extremism around the find of the camp, the 95 foreign nationals allegedly came to South Africa four months ago for what is believed to have been “security training”.

He revealed that illegal firearms, military equipment, cocaine, dagga, as well as other illegal substances, were confiscated during the joint take-down operation at the alleged military camp.

Isis SA cells named in US Treasury action against Isis

The discovery of the alleged training camp raises questions about South Africa’s border and national security.

Earlier this week, The Citizen reported that the United States (US) Treasury issued sanctions against three individuals allegedly working as financiers for a network associated with expanded Isis activities in Africa.

“They serve as critical links between far-flung Isis operations, allowing Isis leadership to leverage each affiliate’s capabilities to undermine peace and security in the region,” the statement read.

“Their destabilising impact spans much of sub-Saharan Africa, which underscores the need for the international community to continue to work together to share information on transnational Isis networks, their evolving financial methods and measures to combat them.”

The two in South Africa are Abubakar Swalleh, described as a “South Africa- and Zambia-based ISIS operative”, and Zayd Gangat, “a South Africa-based ISIS facilitator and trainer”.

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“Libyan government breaks it silence over arrests of 95 of its citizens”

https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/libyan-government-breaks-it-silence-over-arrests-of-95-of-its-citizens-cb632b94-7fca-4726-9fec-a4e5e2eef268

Published Aug 7, 2024

The Libyan Government of National Unity (GNU) has broken its silence regarding 95 of its citizens arrested in SA at what is suspected to be a secret military camp almost two weeks ago.

The nationals are being charged with contravening the SA Immigration Act after provincial police raided a farm near White River in Mpumalanga last month, uncovering what appeared to be a secret military base for training the Libyan nationals.

Police had followed a tip-off from community members of Masoyi Village near the base.

Nearly two weeks after the arrest of its citizens, the Libyan GNU broke its silence, condemning the individuals for lying in their visa applications. Despite this, the government pledged to assist the South African authorities in resolving the issue and to support the suspects both diplomatically and legally.

In a letter addressed to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, and written in both Arabic and English, the Libyan GNU stated: “The GNU has tasked its military prosecutor and the Libyan embassy accredited to SA to communicate with the relevant authorities in Johannesburg to follow up on the circumstances of this case, stressing our readiness to participate in the investigations to uncover its circumstances and the parties behind it, while ensuring the safety of the detained citizens and their treatment in accordance with the relevant international agreements and procedures,” it read.

The Libyan government also said they would be investigating who had funded the trip.

The young-looking men were discovered to have misrepresented their intentions on their visa applications, claiming they intended to study in South Africa. However, it was later revealed that they were involved in training at an illegal military camp set up on a farm.

Home Affairs said the men entered the country with visas that were “acquired through misrepresentation in Tunis, Tunisia”.

“The visa cancellation means that all the affected Libyans are now undocumented foreign nationals,” said Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.

They were arrested during a police raid in the early hours of a Friday morning.

The Saturday Star reported this weekend that the men flew from Benghazi in their home country to Tunis in Tunisia where they applied and obtained visas to study in SA.

It is suspected that a Libyan businessman, who later deserted them at the camp, flew in the men. It has not yet been uncovered why he had brought them into SA; however, the men, who are still in custody, intimated that they were in the country to train as security officers.

A multi-agency investigation is under way at the camp.

Defence Minister Angie Motshega said she was expecting a full report on all the questions raised.

They were remanded in custody after their case was adjourned on Monday for further remand.

The investigations include rumours that the men terrorised the village community they were living nearby with some allegations of rape.

Addressing the media on Monday after court, Monica Nyuswa, the regional spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority’s Mpumalanga division, said the NPA, together with the police, were working tirelessly to ensure that the outstanding investigations were getting finalised.

“The matter had been postponed to get an Arabic interpreter initially, as well as for further investigations. When they appeared in court today, the Arabic interpreter was present in court. The investigations will determine whether more charges will be added and whether more arrests will be made,” she said.

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It is not the first…

“The Counterterrorism Conundrum: Exploring the Evolution of South Africa’s Extremist Networks”

https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/the-counterterrorism-conundrum-exploring-the-evolution-of-south-africa-s-extremist-networks

Oct 23, 2021

The ANC has often likened its history of struggle against the apartheid regime to that of the Palestinian liberation movement and associated militant organizations. This has raised concerns over the extent to which authorities would overlook the activities of militant groups in South Africa, especially since several high-profile Palestinian militants have received VIP treatment when visiting the country as late as the 2010s.13

A classified report allegedly drafted by the country’s National Intelligence Agency in 1998 noted the presence of Hamas delegates and affiliated individuals in the country. The report detailed these individuals’ fundraising efforts and attendance at conferences near Pretoria that were attended by members of other Islamist militant organizations such as the Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front, [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah.14 The report stated that foreign Islamist militants “prefer[red] to keep South Africa [as a] rear base for military training, convalescence, fund raising, media and proselytizing,”15 claims that were later confirmed by the head of the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee in 2007.16 Kasrils, for his part, raised concerns in 2008 that al-Qaeda operatives were taking refuge in South Africa with the possibility of establishing networks.17

These assessments came after the arrest of two South Africans, Dr. Feroz Ganchi and Zubair Ismail, in a joint U.S.-Pakistani raid in Gujrat, Pakistan in 2004. Ganchi and Ismail were captured in the company of one of the perpetrators of al-Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and were alleged to have been planning attacks in South Africa at the time of their arrest.18 Then in 2007, the U.S. government sought to add two South African cousins, Farhad Ahmed Dockrat and Junaid Ismail Dockrat, to a list of UN sanctions on al-Qaeda and Taliban members.19 According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the cousins worked as al-Qaeda financiers who had “facilitate[ed] travel for individuals to train in al Qaida camps” in Pakistan.20

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“Maandag, 29 Julie 2024. Insurreksie in Suid-Afrika”; Is the SA military involved regarding the illegal military camp?

https://youtu.be/VKv8s2NWw90

9:18 – [Translation] “We know in April, and apparently these [Libyans] arrived here in April, that there was a group of young men greeted at OR Tambo Airport by an army general and a butch female sergeant major. They boarded military busses and then departed. We must ask if there is a connection between these 95 Libyans discovered in White River and this group that was greeted at the airport by an army general… We must accept that there is something more behind this. I do not have any evidence except that this was witnessed by one of my own senior members because he needed to remove his car from a VIP spot so that the bus can arrive to pick up the people.”

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“Acquitted SAPS whistleblower reveals secret military training camp cover-up…”

https://youtu.be/IQzVLKH7rYo

Jul 30, 2024

A not-guilty verdict was handed down today for South African Police Services (SAPS) Whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale - after almost two years of threats to her life liberty. This after she had been accused of spreading false allegations, circulating WhatsApp messages, and defamation. In this interview with BizNews, she goes into the agenda behind her malicious prosecution; and goes on to reveal how SMSes to former Police Minister Bheki Cele about secret military training camps were deleted from her phone while it was with the police; and how she was blocked by Zizi Kodwa, during his time as Deputy Minister for State Security in the Presidency, when she tried to follow up on the info shared on the secret military training camps. She also speaks about how she blew the whistle on firearms - meant for destruction - being stolen by police officers and sold back to the black market. Having lost her job in SAPS, Mashale now plans to start her own Whistleblower and Anti-Corruption Foundation.

“Namibia removes 31 countries from visa-exempt status”

https://youtu.be/JyFJ2ryWiGw

Aug 16, 2024

0:54 – “I think the tourist industry in South Africa is watching what’s happening in Namibia and it appears that South Africa wants to follow suit on the decision to impose visa restrictions.”

“Namibia to start enforcing visa on arrival for non-reciprocal countries next year”

https://thebrief.com.na/2024/06/namibia-to-start-enforcing-visa-on-arrival-for-non-reciprocal-countries-next-year/

June 27, 2024

Namibia is set to start implementing visas on arrival for citizens of countries that have not reciprocated the country’s exemption gestures from April 1, 2025.

Visitors can apply online or obtain visas upon arrival.

This comes as last month, Namibia resolved to introduce entry visa requirements for countries that have not reciprocated its visa exemption policy.

Information, Communication and Technology Minister, Emma Theofelus, made the announcement on Thursday after Cabinet approved the move through Cabinet Decision No. 8th/21.05.24/002.

“Visa fees will be introduced with N$1,600 for non-African Union (AU) members and N$1,200 for AU members still requiring visas on arrival. Visa prices are subject to annual review based on currency exchange rates,” she said.

To streamline arrival processes, the visa on arrival form will be merged with the arrival form, and departure forms will be discontinued.

“This will allow for increased staffing at arrival counters.”

Namibia used to have visa exemptions for around 55 nations, with only 18 of those having reciprocated the exemptions.

Notably, 18 countries such as Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and others will remain unaffected by the changes, as they have reciprocal visa agreements with Namibia.

However, 31 countries could be impacted by the new visa requirements.

These include nations such as Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Uzbekistan.

The decision aims to foster equal treatment among nations regarding visa regulations.

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While…

“Namibia and Botswana remove a barrier to freedom of movement, abolish the use of passports”

https://theexchange.africa/countries/namibia-botswana-abolish-passports/

One of the main initiatives of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which aims to remove barriers to Africans’ freedom of movement, employment, and residence on their continent, is the free mobility of Africans within it.

With the intention of encouraging the Member States to issue visas to improve the free movement of African nationals on the continent, the project tries to change Africa’s laws, which remain largely restrictive on the movement of people despite political vows to remove borders.

Once fully embraced by all Member States, the free movement of people within Africa is expected to have many important positive effects, including an increase in intra-African trade, commerce, and tourism; easier labour mobility; knowledge and skill sharing within Africa; the promotion of pan-African identity, social integration, and tourism; an improvement in trans-border infrastructure and shared development; the encouragement of an all-encompassing approach to border management; and the promotion of the rule of law, human rights, and shared development

Nationals of Namibia and Botswana will no longer require passports to travel between the two nations after the presidents of those nations decided to open their borders to one another.

https://publicsectormag.net/2023/02/26/namibia-botswana-abolish-passports-for-citizens-crossing-border/

February 27, 2023

National leaders of Botswana and Namibia have signed an agreement that will allow their citizens to cross the two countries’ border without passports.

Starting immediately, citizens of the two southern African countries will only be required to produce their identity cards at crossing points.

Namibian President Geingob says the move is a key step toward integration among countries of the Southern African Development Conference (SADC), and ultimately the entire continent.

“We are taking the first steps towards realization of (the) SADC Protocol on the facilitation of movement of persons, not only goods but persons,” Geingob said. “In the same vein, steps like these could form a foundation whose stepping stones may lead to the path in inspiring Africans to attain continental integration.”

“South Africa on the edge over political ‘assassinations’”

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/south-africa-on-the-edge-over-political-assassinations–4725202

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

South African politicians have become targets of assassination in recent months, throwing the country’s leadership on the edge.

The latest victim, Moshe Mphahlele, was the Johannesburg regional leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the opposition movement led by firebrand Julius Malema. He was shot dead in Gauteng, the metropolitan region that covers Johannesburg, during a protest on August 3.

The assassination of Mr Mphahlele adds to the list of political figures who have been brutally silenced.

The motive or even the killers remain unknown but EFF leader Julius Malema alleged that those responsible for the death of the party’s regional deputy secretary returned to the scene to “contaminate” it.

Leading up the May 2024 elections, South Africa saw a significant increase in assassinations, with a total of 40 recorded since the previous years. These attacks predominantly targeted local officials, politicians, and activists.

Moreover, there were 35 assassinations in the first four months of 2024, including 10 targeting politicians, averaging approximately one hit every two weeks.

This is according to information provided by Rumbidzai Matamba, an analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, who has been conducting research on assassinations in South Africa.

Ms Matamba’s 2024 report, co-authored with researcher Chwayita Thobela, highlights a total of 488 politically motivated assassinations that occurred between 2000 and 2023. The report defines “political assassinations” as the deliberate killing of politicians, councillars, public servants, administrators, political activists, whistleblowers, and other members of civil society for ideological or strategic reasons.

Ms Matamba believes ANC members have been the primary targets of political assassinations. “The significance of the ANC’s factional politics is that the overwhelming majority of the cases in the GI-TOC database were killing of ANC members, mostly commissioned by other ANC members, making it largely an intraparty problem, while an average of just two cases per year involved other political parties,” she said.

South Africa has experienced a concerning increase in politically motivated violence, with the number of politically-linked assassinations steadily rising since 2010. According to the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, 31 political assassinations were recorded in 2023.

It was noted that violence tended to increase following national elections in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019, leading to a surge in killings.

“It’s the paid assassins who are arrested, not those who plan, those who pay,” said Thami Ntuli, chairman of the South African Local Government Association.

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>Ms Matamba’s 2024 report, co-authored with researcher Chwayita Thobela

“The Politics of Murder: Criminal Governance and Targeted Killings in South Africa”

https://globalinitiative.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rumbi-Matamba-Chwayita-Thobela-The-politics-of-murder-Criminal-governance-and-targeted-killings-in-SA-GI-TOC-May-2024.pdf

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MAY 2024

Over the past decade, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has documented a staggering 108% increase in targeted killings in South Africa, as observed through its South Africa Organized Crime Observatory (SA-Obs).1

South Africa has a history of political violence. Political killings in South Africa can be seen as a function of criminal governance in the country.

The hitmen behind South Africa’s contract killings have become more daring, incidents more public and victims more high-profile. The masterminds and the hitmen who carry out their orders appear to be emboldened by the minimal repercussions of their actions and the dwindling public outcry, as the sheer frequency of events diminishes the impact of individual tragedies. Contract killers also seem to show little regard for the collateral consequences of their actions, carrying out assassinations in the presence of children, as in the recent killing of Rand Water executive Teboho Joala,3 and turning churches and restaurants into crime scenes. Coupled with the deficiencies in South Africa’s overburdened criminal justice system, where only about 15% of all murders are solved, the picture that emerges is one of a situation that is barely contained.4

The personal impact of these killings on individuals, families and communities is of course incalculable, but politically motivated assassinations have a particularly detrimental effect on governance and democracy, with violence used as a means of silencing opponents, controlling the struggle for succession, infiltrating local governance and influencing political outcomes.7 Understanding this impact is particularly critical in the context of South Africa’s 2024 general elections.

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>only about 15% of all murders are solved

“Six men shot and killed in uMlazi”: "some of the weapons were from leftover arms caches from the unrest in the early 1990s, while others were obtained through thefts from law-enforcement authorities"

https://www.iol.co.za/news/six-men-shot-and-killed-in-umlazi-0238a0e7-ebaa-4310-a66f-d369e64c61b8

Published Aug 18, 2024

On Saturday night six men were killed in an informal settlement in Section V6 in uMlazi, south west of Durban.

In November last year, following another mass shooting, financial and organised crime investigator from IRS Forensic Investigations South Africa, Chad Thomas, said the main reasons for mass shootings in the province was the easy proliferation of weapons.

He said some of the weapons were from leftover arms caches from the unrest in the early 1990s, while others were obtained through thefts from law-enforcement authorities.

“KZN has a culture of violence and it has become very easy to settle scores through murder for hire,” said Thomas, adding that we were living at a time where accountability was at a low and perpetrators believed that there would be no consequences for their actions.

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“Businesses in Mthatha close down due to alleged extortion”: “We find out everybody is in fear”

https://youtu.be/Y4Ib9ifBhpc

Aug 19, 2024

There are growing concerns about businesses closing down in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape due to alleged extortion. President of the Eastern Cape Chamber of Business Vuyisile Ntlabathi says it's hard for victims to come forward because their lives are in danger.

4:56 – “There’s a huge network of these criminals and they have infiltrated the police service big time.”

5:31 – “It started when there was this big, huge illegal occupation of the government buildings. It actually started there. Now it has escalated. Even then, there were police officials that were involved. So it’s huge… so much damage has happened and the police is highly infiltrated… people have no confidence with the local police.”

7:17 – “Those guys are heartless. What they want is money and they shoot to kill. You can imagine the types of guns they are wielding here around town which we cannot even find them when you see the President[‘s]… VIP protection wielding that kind of guns here. They’ve got the high power guns… I don’t know whether they’re licensed to do that but they display that in public. We find out everybody is in fear.”

“Govt accused of awarding security tenders to non-compliant companies”

https://youtu.be/kxzi0InM16U

Aug 18, 2024

Members of the South African Cleaners Security and Allied Workers Union have been camping outside the Gauteng Health Department for over 12 weeks, after a security company contracted to the department dismissed them. The company allegedly deducted UIF from employees, but never made contributions. Union General Secretary, Andries Potsane, claims the government is awarding these security tenders to non-compliant companies.

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“South Africa – The Deadliest Country in the World!”

https://youtu.be/8_JgAHdyaxU [Embedded]

Jul 26, 2024

Lions, gun battles, disease, murders! I survived them all, but how?

0:12 – “Growing up in South Africa was an exercise in survival. There’s a reason I’ll never go back to South Africa.”

14:50 – “I’ve had friends murdered in South Africa… The most devastating was somebody I grew up with, a young girl who was a like a little sister to me and it really sucked a lot because I kind of knew this was coming. I knew she was having trouble with a stalker in South Africa, an ex-boyfriend who was a stalker. Somebody that she’d been dating and you know there’s a big cultural… difference because he was quite traditional African culture and she was from the Netherlands. She grew up in South Africa, she was South African but her family was from the Netherlands… She didn’t really quite understand how traditional African culture can be sometimes. The fact of the matter… they broke up and he was doing that whole ‘no one else is allowed to have you if I can’t have you’ type… of nonsense. When I met her in China, she came for a wedding and I was there… I warned not to go back. I said, “Listen this sounds dangerous, this sounds bad. Don’t go back to South Africa. Stay here in China or go to Europe.” But she went back and two weeks later she was murdered in a very horrific way by this stalker.”

“My Mom was Kidnapped at Gunpoint!”

https://youtu.be/lVNu-tJR0dg

Aug 5, 2021

“Rescued from a Murderer! How My Dad Saved my Mom!”

https://youtu.be/5-nVweRrz2k

Aug 11, 2021

Few of the messages posted below his video;

@Clark_Kent_ZA

Black South African and serpentza is spot on. Every member of my family has been robbed. I was robbed at knife point, experienced a break-in and nearly got hijacked by fake police.

@stephanterblanche4597

South African here. Survived 4 attempted hijackings, one home invasion (beaten to a pulp), a shootout when the restaurant I was eating at was robbed, 3 explosions (during apartheid when the ANC's terrorism campaign was in full force). Lost a colleague who was robbed in his house and hacked to death with an axe.

@wifegrant

The day before I immigrated to the US, there was a armored truck robbery by the bank I was at. The guy at the ATM next to me was shot in the leg. In the 90's, we had multiple farm attacks on our farm. My parents would sit at the windows in the dark house and shoot at the people shooting at our house with AK's. We hid under our beds as kids whenever that happened. It happened a few times. Twice they shot at our house after putting our fields on fire. I've seen bodies twice while walking to school in the morning too. Our neighbors were murdered. The wife was "assaulted" and they both were decapitated with barbed wire.

@michaellawson6533

I lost 13 friends and acquaintances in 9 years through murder. I got away twice. Burgled 6 times in 2 years, lost 300 beehives to political arsonists and finally left South Africa. Glad to be in a safer place now.

@capet5593

My family and relatives have been carjacked, home envisioned, attacked, robbed at gunpoint, shot at. You will always know someone in your circle where this has happened. Winston is not exaggerating.

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>She didn’t really quite understand how traditional African culture can be sometimes. The fact of the matter… they broke up and he was doing that whole ‘no one else is allowed to have you if I can’t have you’ type… of nonsense

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>Status in the Zulu kingdom was measured by the number of wives and cattle in an individual's possession.

Women/girls are regarded as possessions in Africa

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10091185/

Gender-based violence – An increasing epidemic in South Africa

South Africa is considered to be the rape capital of the world with 10 818 rape cases reported in the first quarter of 2022.1 The rate at which women are killed by intimate partners in this country is five times higher than the global average.2 Gender-based violence (GBV), a widespread and common occurrence in SA, is deeply ingrained in homes, workplaces, cultures and traditions.

Why is GBV so prevalent in South Africa? Is it because of the way males are brought up to exert power and control over vulnerable women? South Africa is well known as a very patriarchal country and many cultural and traditional events and activities entrench this patriarchal behaviour reinforcing power over women… The issue of consent is blurred with Lobola where many wrongly assume that the woman now belongs to a man (a possession that he can use as he pleases).

https://briefly.co.za/37583-all-details-lobola-what-lobola-lobola-letter-sample-wear-ceremony-more.html

Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 4:15 PM

Did you know lobola and lobolo mean the same thing in South Africa?

Lobolo or lobola is practised in the Swazi, Zulu, Silozi, Xhosa, Shona, Ndebele, and other South African communities. During a lobola ceremony, bridewealth or bride price is paid to the bride's family.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060788/

In some African countries, for example South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, D.R.Congo, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Lesotho, the tradition of paying lobola or a “bride price” is very common.

https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/domestic-violence-in-south-africa/

In the rural communities of South Africa, girls as young as twelve enter into forced marriages with older men (see Mwambene and Sloth-Nielsen, 2011). The perceived financial gains from Lobola (the bride price) encourages parents to marry off their daughters at an early age, undermining their human rights (Sibanda, 2011).

https://www.mewc.org/index.php/gender-issues/human-rights-of-women/2534-zimbabwe-girl-married-off-at-14-her-father-paid-70-as-lobola

ZIMBABWE: Girl Married Off at 14: Her Father Paid $70 as Lobola

A 15-YEAR-OLD girl from Marange who was married off to a geriatric member of the largest polygamist Johanne Marange Apostolic Sect — but was lucky to escape, this week bared her soul and exposed the torturous abuse she encountered at the hands of the churchman and her own father.

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>black on black hate is still very much prominent amongst our communities

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>While government is busy engaging only with business people about mining, the very communities that are affected by mining activities have been left out.

It has been brewing for a long time.

“The real black-on-black violence in South Africa”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2015/04/20/the-real-black-on-black-violence-in-south-africa/

20th April 2015

Foreign nationals have become collateral damage in a standoff between the ANC and the masses.

On Thursday 16 April, a peace march was organised by the South African government and various NGOs against recent attacks by local South Africans on mainly black foreign nationals. This trumped-up PR exercise was met with an opposing march by local protesters, one of whom was quoted as saying: ‘Our government doesn’t listen to us, and that’s why we’re doing this.’ Police used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse counter-protesters and several arrests were made.

Attacks on foreigners erupted in Durban over the Easter period. To date, seven lives have been lost and over 1,000 foreign nationals have been driven out to makeshift camps in sports grounds near the South Africa Indian suburbs of Chatsworth and Isipingo. It is commonly thought that the violence broke out because of inflammatory remarks made by the Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelithini, three weeks ago. But, in reality, anti-foreigner sentiment has been simmering in South Africa over a much longer period.

Back in 2008, after the killing of 62 foreign nationals during a wave of violence, then president Thabo Mbeki said South Africa ‘bowed its head in shame’. He promised that he would do everything in his power to prevent similar attacks in the future. However, attacks on black foreign nationals have continued over the intervening years. Three months ago, Soweto erupted into violence after a Somali shopkeeper shot dead a young South African boy who was trying to steal from his shop. The current violence appears to have been sparked by a similar incident in Durban.

Black-on-black violence was one of the hallmarks of the Apartheid era, and was thought then to have been provoked by the white nationalist government in order to undermine the anti-Apartheid African National Congress (ANC). But what is motivating the new wave of black-on-black violence? [It never ended]

The media and the NGOs accuse the locals of xenophobia, or, more recently, ‘Afrophobia’, as the targets are mainly foreign nationals from other African countries.

Migrants and refugees, fleeing their own wartorn and poverty-stricken countries, have poured into already overcrowded settlements and are competing with the locals for scarce employment opportunities. To make matters worse, most grassroots organisations were closed down after the ANC came to power in 1994, meaning today there is no forum in which these issues can be properly debated or resolved.

After all, while foreign nationals have been waiting for a government response to their plight for the past three weeks, native South Africans have been sidelined and ignored by the ANC for most of the party’s 21-year reign. With no alternative, with no viable political opposition to vote for, some have lashed out. The resulting violence is best understood as a desperate bid on the part of South Africa’s ignored masses to be heard.

>>21439918

>On Thursday 16 April, a peace march was organised by the South African government and various NGOs against recent attacks by local South Africans on mainly black foreign nationals.

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>>21379933

>>21379910

>>21405786

>GNU

>>20971069

>Tutu chaired the TRC. [Alex] Boraine served as the vice chair.

NGOs became ‘Now Government Officials’ in the ‘new’ South Africa: “NGOs shifted their attention to policy research, first for the ANC and subsequently for the Government of National Unity” [1999]

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/south_africa_anti-apartheid_ngos_in_tran.pdf

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 10, No. 1,1999

Nelson Mandela (1996) has written: "Non-governmental organizations played an outstanding role during the dark days of apartheid. Today, many people who received their training within the NGO sector play important roles in government." In fact, to some, the acronym NGO is taken to stand for Now Government Official. In some respects the former shadow state has become the new state. Nonetheless, although prime responsibility for reconstruction rests with the state, it has been acknowledged that "irrespective of how much a government may regard itself as being a 'people's government,' implementation of its programme and projects, without participation of the civil society, will tend towards a top-down approach, with its inherent disadvantages" (Currin, 1993, p. 168). Accordingly, the value of NGOs concerned with people-centered development, socioeconomic upliftment, and service delivery has been recognized. Beyond this, NGOs that have turned to playing the part of watchdog over democratic practices have been supported by a range of donors (such as the U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]) concerned about strengthening civil society through "democracy and governance" programs (consider Clayton, 1996).

Overall, there has been a move to develop carefully constructed programs and projects (often demand driven) and to address policy issues. During the 1990s, as the transition unfolded, a number of NGOs shifted their attention to policy research, first for the ANC and subsequently for the Government of National Unity (see Kraak, 1995). In particular, there has been much concern about land issues, labor reforms, what the post-apartheid social services (health, education, safety, and security) should look like, and with the structure of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

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>>21422304

>Salim Abdool Karim

>>21422340

>“WHO, Bill Gates and Wellcome Trust’s Global Vaccine Fund Lacks Transparency and Accountability”

>>21435199

“Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown” – Part 1

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/mpox-brace-yourself-for-another-lockdown-7e74652d-420a-4fe6-92ac-ea9f6d45176e

Monday, August 19, 2024

The dreaded Professor Salim Karim has resurfaced on the public stage, the Lockdown is on the horizon.

The Bill Gates funded Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has this week declared Monkey-Pox (MPox) as a public health emergency.

Africa CDC Director General Dr Jean Kaseya said: ‘Today, we declare this PHECS to mobilize our institutions, our collective will, and our resources to act—swiftly and decisively.

This empowers us to forge new partnerships, strengthen our health systems, educate our communities, and deliver life-saving interventions where they are needed most. There is no need for travel restrictions at this time.’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) followed suit declaring Monkey-Pox a public health emergency of international concern, ‘new sexually transmissible strain of the monkeypox virus, is an emergency, not only for Africa, but for the entire globe’.

One wonders if Monkey-Pox as a public health emergency on the African continent, is a play on words, considering that many disparagingly refer to us Africans as monkeys.

To add insult to injury, the MPox is allegedly sexually transmitted, the same claim as with HIV – AIDS. When will we Africans stop being portrayed as the wretched of the Earth!

Let’s not forget the Small-Pox outbreak falsely attributed to dirty blankets and which wiped out almost the entire population of the Khoi in the Western Cape province of South Africa and paved the way for the colonisation of the Cape.

I fear that this ‘public health emergency’ will soon morph into a National State of Disaster, plunging the entire country into yet another Lockdown, at the whims and mercy of the ‘expertise’ of Prof Karim. During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Prof Karim played a pivotal role as Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19.

I requested Prof Karim to appear in court and produce (within 14 days) an isolated and purified physical sample of the SARS Cov-2 virus (not a culture isolate or any mixture within which the supposed virus is, nor photograph or the RNA-sequence only) to me at a place and with security measures of his choice.

I was flabbergasted to learn that Prof Karim informed my attorney that he (Karim) does not work in that position anymore, and that we should not request such information from him nor from the President, according to him such a request should rather be directed only to Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the then Minister of COGTA.

>>21440018

“Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown” – Part 2

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/mpox-brace-yourself-for-another-lockdown-7e74652d-420a-4fe6-92ac-ea9f6d45176e

Monday, August 19, 2024

The Lockdown means the suspension of constitutional democracy and the Bill of Rights. The 2020 Lockdown turned this country into an open-air prison ruled by dictate, where ‘effective midnight tonight’ was Ramaphosa’s favourite despotic refrain!

Lockdown is a prison term, meaning confining prisoners to their jail-cells, however, it has recently been commandeered as a term for a public health emergency.

The Covid-19 vaccine roll-out was a mass public medical experiment, the like of which has never been conducted before. There are many reports of Covid- 19 vaccine injuries.

Surely, these necessitate an independent public investigation, a commission of inquiry akin to the Zondo-Commission before we plunge into another Lockdown and mass vaccinations.

The Gates Foundation is heavily invested in the vaccine industry, which is always the go-to treatment for any so-called virus outbreak, hence a vaccination drive for Mpox is sure to follow.

Prof Karim is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – need I say more? [https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/scientific-advisory-committee ]

Believe it or not, SARS-Cov-2 virus has not been proven to exist. On Feb. 16, 2016, the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in Germany, in a dispute between two virologists on the existence of the Measles Virus, ruled that the methods employed to determine whether the virus exists or not, were invalid.

The method that virologists use to prove the existence of viruses, are what they refer to as cell- culture. The technique roughly works as follows - a swab is taken from a suspected infected person, then placed in monkey kidney cells amongst other chemicals.

When there is a reaction, usually the cell dies, that reaction is attributed to the presence of the said virus. The problem with this experiment is how do you discount the probability that the effect or reaction was not caused by the other elements. Where is the experiment where only the so-called virus is present?

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>>21440022

“Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown” – Part 3

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/mpox-brace-yourself-for-another-lockdown-7e74652d-420a-4fe6-92ac-ea9f6d45176e

Monday, August 19, 2024

People often ask, ‘if you say that there might not be a virus, then why are people dying or getting sick’? Sickness and or death is not proof of the existence of a virus, thus the need for medical and post-mortem investigations. There are many different causes of sickness and death, it is not just viruses.

The Lockdown was accompanied by an aggressive media campaign, which influenced public perceptions.

I personally took a case to court under the slogan ‘Show Us The Virus’ , as mentioned above, to this day no proof was ever produced; the court, instead, dismissed the case with punitive costs orders against me - for daring to ask such a question; without compelling Ramaphosa, the Minister of Health and Prof Salim Karim to provide proof of the virus they claimed to exist.

‘He who makes a claim should prove it!’ This simple legal maxim was violated when the courts ruled against me!

>>21439801

>It started when there was this big, huge illegal occupation of the government buildings. It actually started there. Now it has escalated. Even then, there were police officials that were involved. So it’s huge… so much damage has happened and the police is highly infiltrated… people have no confidence with the local police.

“KZN Shootout I Police officer among KZN robbery suspects: Colonel Netshiunda”

https://youtu.be/SKZw6Q4Ovzw

Aug 19, 2024 #SABCNews

KwaZulu-Natal police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has expressed concern over the use of police uniforms to commit crimes. This follows a shootout in Lindelani, Durban, yesterday, where suspects dressed in police uniforms were involved in a confrontation with the police. The incident resulted in three fatalities, including an on-duty police sergeant from Kwa-Mashu Police Station. Three suspects are still on the run. The suspects were linked to an earlier robbery in Richmond Farm. For more on this, we're joined by KwaZulu-Natal SAPS Spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda.

2:00 – “We have had incidents where people were robbed by people masquerading as police officers but in this case, there were real police officers with real police uniform because one of those who were wounded was a sergeant working at Kwa-Mashu Police Station who was on nightshift duty on Saturday night then instead of going home to rest, he joined his gang for an armed robbery. It is concerning that we’ve got police officers who are working with criminals. So that defeats the purpose that maybe some of the operations we plan are known by criminals before we can execute them. Simply because they’ve got their friends in the force.”

6:38 – “It emerged of course that amongst those fatally wounded in a shootout in the province was in fact an on duty officer. Raising all manner of questions around the extent to which officers themselves may very well be involved in the proliferation of crime in places like KZN.”

“South Africa’s state capture database disaster”

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/555961-south-africas-state-capture-database-disaster.html

18.08.2024

Anonymous sources have rubbished claims that investigators can’t access Zondo Commission evidence due to a technical problem with a database, alleging they are being actively blocked from seeing the information.

This is according to Rapport, which cited sources with insider knowledge of the work conducted by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and its specialist anti-corruption Investigating Directorate.

It follows a News24 report last week that evidence stored in the database had become inaccessible due to a “lack of maintenance”.

For two years, the NPA and its Investigating Directorate (ID) have been begging the Ministry of Justice for full access to the database.

However, the NPA said an expert who worked for the Zondo Commission told them the data was no longer accessible due to lack of maintenance.

According to Rapport’s report, the NPA and ID struggled to get their requests for evidence attended to even while the database was accessible.

Some requests were never handled, while others took weeks or months to get a result. Information that was eventually handed over was often filtered, one source told the paper.

Losing access to the data entirely raises questions about future prosecutions of individuals and institutions who were implicated in state capture.

The NPA said the justice ministry is now procuring another provider’s services to restart access. The ID has also sought the services of experts to help the NPA regain access to the evidence.

By December 2020, the commission said it had collected an exabyte (one billion gigabytes) of data.

It had issued 2,736 summons and interviewed 278 witnesses, generating 51,669 pages of recorded transcripts, and collected 159,109 pages of affidavits and other evidence exhibits

According to the commission’s website, the inquiry cost the taxpayer almost R1 billion — far more than any prior South African judicial inquiry.

This is not the first time this year that technical problems have been blamed for the loss of crucial evidence.

In February, the ANC said a broken laptop was to blame for failing to hand over records and documents relating to its cadre deployment committee meetings between 2012 and 2018.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula said the laptop of an official in the deputy secretary’s office had crashed in June and that he had deleted emails that likely contained data over the year

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>>21373500

>>21373507

>>21373517

>>21374398

There is a cover-up.

“[BREAKING NEWS] White River Raid | State withdraws criminal case against 95 Libyan nationals”

https://youtu.be/JBnlbRc356A

Aug 15, 2024

0:46 – “[These 95 men were] quite upbeat. They knew that this was going to be happening this morning here in court.”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/actionsa-disappointed-over-withdrawal-of-charges-against-95-libyans/

16 August 2024, 10:22

Action SA has expressed concern on the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) decision to withdraw the charges against 95 Libyan nationals.

They are now set to be deported to Libya.

Party leader Herman Mashaba says the NPA has failed South Africans.

“Our court system should have really established the identities of each and every one of them to understand why they’ve decided to come and do military training in South Africa, what were they aiming to do.

“So for us as South Africans now all of a sudden no one is telling us why these people contravened our immigration laws, why were these people doing military training on the grounds of SA. And our government just decided to send them back to Libya. And I think we’ve got to be really careful and question this as SA,” he adds.

https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2024-08-16-many-questions-remain-unanswered-after-charges-against-libyans-are-withdrawn/

16 August 2024 - 06:00

However, here are some of the questions the NPA has not answered about this:

• What representations did the lawyer make that formed the basis of the NPA's decision to withdraw the charges?

• If the NPA says there was no prospect of successful prosecution in the matter of the Libyans and there was not enough evidence, on what basis handing over the suspects to Home Affairs?

• What does this withdrawal mean for the investigation against other people who were part of the alleged illegal activities discovered at the camp?

• Why did the NPA decide to withdraw the case rather than allow the court process to conclude even if it led to deportation?

• On what basis are the police investigating other individuals involved in the camp if the NPA insists there was no crime committed?

• What made the NPA come to the conclusion that there was no prospect of success when it had right at the beginning believed that there was a misrepresentation by the Libyans?

Before magistrate Eddie Hall granted the request by the state to withdraw the charge, officials from the department of home affairs came inside court with large files in boxes containing the names of the 95 men while the court was in session.

>>21467430

>so that the economy of the territories would then be in danger of being controlled by large investors and possibly internationalists or "world citizen" institutions over time.

“Bill Gates: I Am A #GlobalCitizen”

https://youtu.be/xsJwHK2_OOQ

Apr 20, 2015

>>21467438

>State owned enterprises in South Africa date back to the 19th century when Paul Kruger’s Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek tried to promote local industries to stave off British control.

>Kruger’s aim of fostering economic independence through local industries was utterly defeated with the British victory in the [Anglo-Boer] War in 1902.

>>21467590

The British Queen never apologised for the Boer War.

“Queen Elizabeth commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War” (11 Nov 1999)

https://youtu.be/lehEVApjQo4

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II began a state visit to South Africa on Wednesday with a welcoming ceremony in Pretoria.

As the country commemorates the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer war, the British Queen was expected to express sorrow at the suffering of all people during the conflict.

This was the second state visit to South Africa by the British Queen in five years.

Queen Elizabeth II greeted Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's second freely elected president, in a welcoming ceremony in Pretoria.

A presidential guard stood to attention as the monarch, making her second state visit since the end of white minority rule, received a 21-gun salute.

During the conflict, the British military placed tens of thousands of Afrikaner women and children in concentration camps.

Conservative Afrikaner leaders had called on their followers to protest against the ceremony.

The Boers, descendants of the region's mainly Dutch settlers, fought the British from 1899-1902.

During the war, Britain seized the Transvaal and Orange Free State from Boer settlers.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"We demand an apology, an acknowledgement of what the British had done during the war. Similar to what the Germans had to do. And we would even like to take the Queen to Bloemfontein and expect her to kneel, to bend down at the monument and apologise in the manner like the German Chancellor did in Israel."

SUPER CAPTION: Leon Strydon, Herstigte Nasionale Party

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>>21467438

>Kruger’s aim of fostering economic independence through local industries was utterly defeated with the British victory in the [Anglo-Boer] War in 1902.

>>21391823

>What are we fighting for?

–Paul Kruger’s Letter to General Louis Botha: “Find in the past all the good and fair…” [English Translation]==

https://www.news24.com/News24/Soek-in-die-verlede-wat-goed-is-20010212

Valued General,

It is a great privilege to be able to acknowledge the receipt of your cablegram, held in Pretoria from 23 to 25 May, passed on to me.

In all trepidation and sorrow that is my fate, these greetings made me thankful.

And wholeheartedly, I thank all those who thought of their old State President where they came together to deliberate on the present and the future, thereby showing that they have not forgotten the past.

For, whoever wants to create a future must not lose sight of the past.

Therefore: Find in the past all the good and fair discovered in it, then form your ideal and strive to realise that ideal for the future.

It's true: Much of what's been built up is currently destroyed, damaged, and levelled. But with unity of purpose and unity of strength that which has been pulled down can be built again.

It makes me equally grateful to see that the unity, the uniform, prevails within you.

What I myself will yet behold or experience of it lies in God's hand.

Born under the English flag, I don't wish to die under it.

I have learned to rest with the bitter thought that in exile, I will close my eyes in the strange, almost entirely alone, far from blood-relations and friends whom I will probably never see again, far from African soil that I will never enter again, far from the land to which I have devoted my life to open it to civilization and where I see a nation of my own developed.

But the bitterness will be mitigated if I can continue to cherish the conviction that the work begun will be continued. Because then the hope and the expectation that the end of the job will be good, will keep me standing. So be it.

From the bottom of my heart I salute you and all the people.

Villas des Prierriers 17,

Clarens(Vaud), Switzerland, June 29, 1904.

“South Africa, Israel and the ANC's distorted sense of morality”

https://youtu.be/TmKER1WNT8w [embedded]

Aug 30, 2024

When the ANC-led South African government took Israel to the ICJ, they claimed that they have a moral duty to act, and that they are consistent in their condemnation of atrocities and the application of international law. Yet, any person who spends a few minutes to investigate the ANC and the South African government's policies and conduct would see that in as far as they do in fact have a sense of morality, it is a distorted sense of morality at best.

In this video I evaluate the South African government's reaction to the conflict in the Middle East, it's voting record at the United Nations, it's relations with several states deemed to have committed atrocities (including Iran, Syria and North Korea) and also it's response to atrocities in South Africa. In this regard the ANC and it's ideological allies' reaction to farm murders and to hateful chants toward farmers should be pointed out in particular.

It's also worth mentioning that advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has argued at the ICJ that Israel has genocidal intent, among others based on songs sung by Israeli soldiers, but has also argued in South Africa that there is nothing wrong with chants like Kill the Boer, kill the farmer, because the context within which the chants are made has to be considered.

Watch the full ICJ case [Jan 11, 2024] here: https://youtu.be/MOW_1exsHE8

Watch the full Kill the Boer case [Sep 4, 2023] here: https://youtu.be/KsqzkP14pCk

>>21507727

Report: “South Africa and the African National Congress’s History of Supporting Abusive Regimes”

https://www.hudson.org/foreign-policy/south-africa-african-national-congresss-history-supporting-abusive-regimes-joshua-meservey

Jan 19, 2024

The South African government has been an aggressive critic of Israel for decades and is now leading the international condemnation of the Israeli response to Hamas’s October 7 terror attack. South Africa filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel for alleged crimes, including genocide, against the Palestinians.1 Pretoria’s press release announcing the case declared that “South Africa is under a treaty obligation to prevent genocide from occurring.”2 The party that has ruled South Africa since the end of Apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC), applauded the filing and said that it “signifies [South Africa’s] unwavering commitment to justice, human rights, and the principles enshrined in international law.”3

But a review of South Africa’s foreign policy, namely its voting record at the United Nations, demonstrates that for decades Pretoria and the ANC have remained silent on some of the world’s worst abuses and have supported regimes with appalling human rights records.

From 1994 through October 2023, South Africa was eligible to vote on 111 contested draft resolutions condemning countries other than Israel for human rights violations in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and its predecessor, the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR).4 Given this opportunity to demonstrate its fidelity to human rights, Pretoria responded largely with inaction when Israel was not the subject. South Africa abstained on 75 of the 111 motions (68 percent), voted against 17 motions (15 percent), and voted in favor of 19 motions (17 percent).5 It did not sponsor any of these contested draft resolutions.6

Pretoria sometimes goes beyond abstention on some of the world’s worst injustices and provides diplomatic protection and support to abusive governments.

Later, in the name of “quiet diplomacy,” South African president and ANC leader Thabo Mbeki downplayed the crisis in Zimbabwe and shielded Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe from international pressure, including from the Southern African Development Community.23

Pretoria has also demonstrated a selective concern for human rights in other ways. In 2015, it ignored its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by hosting then Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir despite an ICC arrest warrant for three counts of genocide, among other crimes.27 That genocide likely killed over 300,000 people and displaced over two million.28

In addition, the ANC hosted a Hamas delegation in early December 2023, less than two months after the terrorist group launched the surprise attack on Israel that killed over 1,100 men, women, and children and included rapes, beheadings, and kidnappings.

Unworthy of the World’s Moral Regard

Pretoria and the ANC are likely using their status as a global voice of conscience—a vestige of the anti-Apartheid struggle—to earn credibility and international support for their ICJ case against Israel. Yet South Africa has declined to condemn some of the gravest human rights abuses of the modern era and has often proactively tried to shield some of the world’s most violent governments. This record of selective and often callous disregard for human rights should provoke global skepticism of any human rights position South Africa adopts, including on Israel.

“South Africa: Outrage as Russia's Naval Ship Docks at Cape Town | Firstpost Africa”

https://youtu.be/NwsGWZe0ot0

Premiered Sep 6, 2024

South Africa: Outrage as Russia's Naval Ship Docks at Cape Town | Firstpost Africa

The recent docking of a Russian navy ship at Cape Town harbour has triggered outrage. The Ukrainian Association of South Africa has expressed anger saying the incident calls into question South Africa's purported neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Democratic Alliance, President Cyril Ramaphosa's coalition partner, has also condemned the incident as "cosying up to Russia". Amid the outrage, the South African National Defense Force said the Russian vessel docked for re-supply purposes. South Africa and Russia share decades-long ties. Both countries are also BRICS partners. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has also refused to criticise Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Watch this video for details.

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“South Africa snubs US Defence while welcoming Russia at Pretoria Aerospace Expo”

https://youtu.be/39di3tpuEbQ

Sep 18, 2024

The United States has officially withdrawn from the African Aerospace and Defense Expo (AAD), currently taking place at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in South Africa. Emma Powell, the DA’s Shadow Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, attributes the US’s withdrawal to the South African Department of Defence’s failure to confirm diplomatic immunity and privileges for the US delegation during their visit.

In an interview with National Security News, Powell described the delay in securing these essential guarantees for the US—an important trade and economic partner—as either a staggering display of incompetence or an act of sabotage. In stark contrast, she noted that Russia aircraft, despite its ongoing war in violation of international law, has been invited to showcase some of its aircraft at the expo.

https://www.aadexpo.co.za/

Emma Powell

https://www.vryeweekblad.com/en/news-and-politics/2024-04-12-emma-powell-itll-get-hot-in-the-kitchen-in-the-next-8-weeks/

She quit and moved to Italy to teach English at Deloitte in Milan, but she returned in 2012 when she was offered a job in the City of Cape Town administration where Patricia de Lille became mayor.

Powell says she's a radical feminist.

>>21628174

>https://youtu.be/39di3tpuEbQ

Embedded

>>21628174

>Deloitte

>Emma Powell

“ANC is up in arms over DA’s ‘provocative’ letter to the United States” from Emma Powell

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/anc-is-up-in-arms-over-das-provocative-letter-to-the-united-states/

11 Mar 2024

The Democratic Alliance has asked for increased Western support in monitoring the 2024 elections.

The uproar caused by a Democratic Alliance (DA) letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for increased Western support in monitoring the May polls has led to two leading political analysts perceiving the move differently.

This comes against the background of the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) having a limited budget to deal effectively with possible security breaches like hacking – which has been seen in previous US elections.

Dear America

In a letter to Blinken, sent through US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben E Brigety, DA MP and shadow minister for international relations Emma Louise Powell said the party wanted “to sharpen our appeal to the international community in helping to ensure the integrity of the upcoming elections”.

Assistance requested by the DA from the US includes:

• An increased contingent of international observers to monitor the 2024 polls with resources made available “to bolster the deployment of additional, independent, domestic observers”; and

• Empowering of civil society organisations to provide voter education and capacity-building for domestic monitors.

“Your country can help to safeguard against any attempts to disrupt the democratic process or negatively influence the South African electorate through misinformation and disinformation campaigns,” said Powell.

https://explain.co.za/2024/03/11/das-calls-for-us-and-eu-election-help-raise-eyebrows/

The letter, written by the DA’s Shadow Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, Emma Powell, calls on the US and some EU countries for support in observing the upcoming national elections on 29 May 2024, voter education and establishing a parallel vote tabulation (PVT) system. The DA believes that the plummeting (according to polls) support for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the rapid rise of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto We Sizwe party (MK) pose a significant threat to democracy and the rule of law. “We are of the view that MK poses a substantive risk to the continued peaceful nature of our political discourse as a nation,” said the letter.

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>Deloitte

>>21628184

“How Deloitte masked scandals in business and politics”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/03/05/news/how-deloitte-masked-scandals-business-and-politics

March 5th 2019

The story of Deloitte and the Duffy affair is important because it highlights how the Big Four auditing giants can be open to corruption and political influence. And how they’re often not objective or neutral.

Deloitte is the largest of the Big Four – which also includes KPMG, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Together, these four firms form a powerful cartel that wields tremendous clout in the finance, business and government circles worldwide. Their influence seeps into every aspect of the economy.

Indeed, collectively, the Big Four audit 490 of the S&P 500 companies. In turn, they’ve evolved into huge conglomerates themselves – with combined 2017 revenues of US$134-billion, employing 945,000 people around the world. In fact, according to Forbes, Deloitte is the fourth-largest private company in America.

Moreover, the Big Four are important because modern societies rely on accountants to verify financial records for shareholders, thereby safeguarding the economy at large. “An audit is about a public good,” says Natasha Landell-Mills, a partner with the London, UK-based investment firm, Sarasin & Partners LLP, and a critic of the profession.

Today, however, the Big Four are facing a crisis of credibility of their own making, embroiled in scandal after scandal in multiple jurisdictions. Increasingly, they stand accused of turning a blind eye, and even enabling, corporate fraud and questionable accounting. They’ve also emerged as central players in the creation and abuse of offshore tax havens. And they've become champions of the privatization of government services. And yet they “perform their duties with relative impunity,” writes Richard Brooks, a British journalist in his recent book, Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism. “They are free to make profit without fearing serious consequences of their abuses.”

In Canada, court cases, scandals and insights from experts suggest Deloitte is the most egregious of the lot. “Deloitte sells the public an image that they are wonderful, they’re up-to-date, they are professional, they are experts,” says Prem Sikka, an accounting professor at the University of Sheffield in the UK whom I spoke to when researching my Globe article. “But at the same time, there is a dark side.”

Founded in the UK in the late 1800s, Deloitte is now a privately-held giant with global revenues of (US) $43.2-billion, 264,000 employees in 150 countries and headquartered in London, England.

“Deloitte dragged into South African state corruption scandals”, 22 Oct 2019, https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/347850/deloitte-dragged-into-south-african-state-corruption-scandals/

“Auditing giant Deloitte’s R260m Tongaat Hulett settlement ‘pathetic’ – Logan”, 24 Feb 2023, https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/companies-and-deals/auditing-giant-deloittes-r260m-tongaat-hulett-settlement-pathetic-logan/

“Deloitte agrees to pay out up to R1.3bn in compensation to claimants against Steinhoff”, 15 Feb 2021, https://www.news24.com/Fin24/deloitte-agrees-to-pay-out-up-to-r13bn-in-compensation-to-claimants-against-steinhoff-20210215

“Deloitte Fined Record $19M Over Audit Failures”, Sept. 18, 2020, https://www.cfo.com/news/deloitte-fined-record-19m-over-audit-failures/656213/

“BELA [Basic Education Laws Amendment] BILL : Everything you need to know”

https://youtu.be/WRJARxeKBIw

Sep 15, 2024

Most people do not fully understand what the BELA bill, that was signed into law on the 13th of September entails. It is also not understood what this bill means for their and their children's future.

In this video, I shall be doing an in-depth, but easily understandable explanation of what the bill entails in its entirety.

Additionally

https://filestore.referendums.co.za/1e201957-b5db-4627-89b4-8b61ea789344/BELA_D-Bill.pdf

any parent who, without just cause and after a written notice from the Head of Department, fails to comply with subsection (1)[,] is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding [six] 12 months, or to both a fine and such imprisonment, alternatively a court may impose a sentence within the court’s discretion as contemplated in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act;’’; or

any other person who, without just cause, prevents a learner who is subject to compulsory attendance from attending [a] school[,] is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding [six] 12 months, or to both a fine and such imprisonment, alternatively a court may impose a sentence within the court’s discretion as contemplated in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act;’’; and

Clause 39 seeks to amend section 61 of the SASA to extend the powers of the Minister to make regulations on the management of learner pregnancy

https://referendums.co.za/@belabill

The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill B2B-2022 proposes:

1. Many controversial proposals that the public have opposed at every turn.

2. Granting open-ended powers to the Minister to create regulations without describing procedures by which the proposed regulations will be enforced, which could provide a back door for comprehensive sexual education and mandatory vaccination.

3. To enable government to dictate one-size-fits all curricula, language, and admissions policy and more, thereby centralizing control of all educational modalities, including Home Education, which are providing viable alternatives to the government school system.

4. Criminalizing parents and sending them to prison for twelve months, or charging them a hefty fine for even minor transgressions like forgetting to register their child in time!

5. Reducing the power of school governing bodies.

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“STATEMENT ON THE ANC NEC & NEC LEKGOTLA OUTCOMES (1 –6 AUGUST 2024)”; NDR, Health Education

https://www.anc1912.org.za/statement-on-the-anc-nec-nec-lekgotla-outcomes-1-6-august-2024/

8 August 2024

The ANC NEC characterised the outcomes of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections as a significant setback for the national democratic revolution (NDR) since the 1994 democratic breakthrough. In the engagements with our Provinces as well as the ANC’s Alliance partners (SACP, COSATU and SANCO), this NEC conclusion has been reaffirmed as a correct characterization of the profound nature of the setback: significant, fundamental, and strategic.

The National Dialogue will seek to foster national cohesion and social compact as we champion the NDR, consolidate the gains of democracy and accelerate realisation of the objectives of the National Democratic Society as highlighted in the ANC Strategy and Tactics document.

The issue of unity was raised with acknowledgement that each Alliance partner is free to raise issues, including those pertaining to differences of political perspectives but that we remain united on the strategic orientation of the NDR.

On Basic Education: The Lekgotla supports strengthening ongoing initiatives to improve reading and numeracy of learners in public schools, and curriculum reforms to ensure school leavers are equipped to play a productive role in the economy and society. It resolved on the significance of the BELA Bill [signed on 13 September 2024] being enacted as law, strengthening the school nutrition programme to address hunger and learning outcomes, completing the process of eradication of pit latrines in schools, improve provisions on scholar transport, integration of ICT (coding, robotics, AI) into our curriculum, strengthening teacher development and support, ensure universal access to quality early child development by 2030, and fast track certification from grade 9.

On Post-School Education and Training: The Lekgotla resolved on the finalisation of the implementation of the student funding model, turnaround strategy for NSFAS, funding for the missing middle, PPP in delivering student accommodation, aligning basic and higher education curriculum with economic and skills demand, and strengthen and promote TVET and Community colleges.

On Health: The Lekgotla reaffirmed the phased implementation of the NHI [signed on 15 May 2024], prioritising the establishment of the NHI Fund and Section 57 Committees, investing in public health facilities, and escalating the implementation of the National Health Information System.

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“AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 55TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS” – Part 1

https://www.anc1912.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ANC-55th-Conference-Resolutions-Strategy-Tactics.pdf

16-20 December 2022

1. This strategic objective derives from the character of the national democratic revolution and the three basic and inter-related contradictions of national oppression, class super-exploitation directed at Black workers and the oppression of women.

1. The vision, values and principles of the national democratic society we seek to create are well articulated in the basic documents of the ANC such as the African Claims, the Women’s Charter, the Freedom Charter and the Strategy and Tactics document and they are enshrined in the Constitution of our country.

1. For the ANC to be an effective instrument and powerful vehicle for fundamental transformation or radical change, its members must distinguish themselves as the most loyal, ethical, committed and capable servants of the people of South Africa and agents for change in the struggle to build a better Africa and a more equitable global order, in line with the movement’s longstanding tradition of Pan-Africanism and International Solidarity. The matter of the quality of an ANC members has become a strategic question upon which the survival and success of the movement depends.

1. On the Global Balance of Forces – The Conference identified some distinct developments and dynamic shifts that are reshaping the global order and influencing the prospects of Africa’s Renaissance as well as the future of the national democratic revolution in South Africa:

5.1 We live in an international era characterised by contradictory political-economic trends. On the one hand, there is a deepening crisis of neo-liberalism and a resurgence of populism and right-wing nationalism in the Global North… Most significantly, the ANC welcomes the victory of the progressive forces in the recent Brazilian elections. This victory augurs well for the strengthening BRICS and other progressive forces in the Global South.

5.2 The ongoing war in Ukraine has strategic geopolitical and economic consequences for all the peoples of the world. This can no longer be described simply as a Russia-Ukraine war – it is primarily a conflict between the US and US-led NATO military alliance and Russia in pursuit of the objectives of the Wolfowitz doctrine. According to this doctrine, the US should not allow that any country in the world should have the possibility, in the post-Cold War period to challenge its interests and hegemony. In this regard, its geopolitical strategy has identified Russia and China as the two powers that must be contained. The dividends of peace and globalisation promised at the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a human security ethos towards the new millennium, have been shattered. The doctrine of unilateral domination of every region, is being advanced not through multilateralism and equitable globalisation, but through expansionist military strategies, a persistent unjust and unequal global trade and economic architecture and through regime change. There is a conspicuous failure of the current global multi-lateral institutions to resolve conflicts fairly, justly and equitably in order to safeguard the interests of all nations. The Ukraine war has caused major disruptions to people’s lives all over the world – the disruption of supply chains of food, fuel, fertilizer and energy, sky-rocketing inflation, the cost-of-living crisis at a global scale and the threat of nuclear escalation. This war must come to an end now!

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“AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 55TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS” – Part 2

https://www.anc1912.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/ANC-55th-Conference-Resolutions-Strategy-Tactics.pdf

16-20 December 2022

5.3 The ANC’s attitude and posture regarding conflicts and wars has been shaped over many years of struggle. During the anti-apartheid struggle, the ANC has been part of the nonaligned movement. We are also part of the anti-imperialist and anti-colonial forces… We want a peaceful, just and more equitable global order. Under the leadership of the ANC, South Africa will continue to lead peace-keeping missions and contribute to negotiated resolution of conflicts as part of building a better Africa and a better world.

1. The delegates to the 55th National Conference are at one: South Africa and the ANC, are at a moment of fundamental consequence. This moment requires clarity of thought, firm conviction and courage, decisiveness as well as an unshaken commitment to the ideals that have inspired gener ations of South Africa’s freedom fighters who sacrificed and suffered so that our country can be free, and our people can live as equals, with their human dignity fully restored. We shall not allow the gains of our democracy to be eroded and reversed. We shall not allow the radical socio-economic transformation of our country to be aborted. Nor shall we allow the fundamental renewal of the ANC to be stopped or sabotaged.

1. The democratic renewal of our country and the fundamental transformation of our society and economy is a strategic goal from which the ANC will not retreat. As our country undergoes significant macro-social changes and the world experiences multiple disruptive transitions, the ANC and the progressive forces need to re-invigorate a vision of what it means to be progressive in the 21st century - with respect to strategy and tactics, policy, and methods of organisation – placing the well-being of all of humanity and the planet at the centre of our political life

We dare not fail!

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