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>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.

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>Business had to do with more than just making money – especially in Africa and other developing countries – it had to make a real contribution to development.

>>21406188

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

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

https://youtu.be/WNV_DNM3s9E

Jun 18, 2023

https://www.mervynking.co.za/

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes.

He has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Universities of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Leeds in the UK, an honorary Doctorate from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and a honorary Doctorate in Commerce from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II, III and IV, and Chair of the Good Law Foundation.

He is Chair Emeritus of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in London and of the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years and a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris for seven years.

He is chair of the African Integrated Reporting Council and chair of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa.

He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally from the ICGN, the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance, the Indian IOD and the Regenesys Business School. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; of the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, of the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Chartered Director of South Africa.

He has been a chair, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges.

He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in over 60 countries and has received many awards from international bodies around the world including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges and the International Federation of Accountants.

He is the author of five books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being “The Auditor. Quo Vadis.”

He sits as an arbitrator and mediator internationally.

https://caribbeangovernance.org/blog/10680356

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

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>>21405786

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

“DA remains ANC’s ‘guest in the GNU, not its coalition partner’: Mokonyane lashes out at Zille”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/politics/helen-zille-comments-on-gnu-rattles-anc/

1 Aug 2024

“From the beginning, Cyril Ramaphosa came up with this notion of a government of national unity, which he thought would be a better way to sell the concept of a coalition to his own party,” said Zille.

“However, this is not a government of national unity because a GNU would bring all parties together, including the EFF and the MK party, which it did not. But it still gave the president the fig leaf he needed to attract smaller parties that said they wouldn’t be in a coalition with the DA. The truth is, we are actually in a coalition because a coalition means that if a party withdraws, the government falls.”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2024-08-02-da-remains-ancs-guest-in-the-gnu-not-its-coalition-partner-mokonyane-lashes-out-at-zille/#google_vignette

02 August 2024 - 18:14

The ANC has lashed out at DA federal council chair Helen Zille, telling her that her party remains the ANC’s guest in the government of national unity and not its coalition partner.

The GNU was conceptualised and is led by the ANC which invited other political parties to be a part of it, the party’s leaders have said.

The party called comments by Zille on the GNU reckless and not in keeping with someone who was an invited guest.

But Mokonyane, and the party’s head of election Mdumiseni Ntuli, said the situation the ANC found itself in was a result of the “will of the people” which produced electoral results that failed to give one single political party an outright majority.

“I think we have embraced the GNU and we're leading it. Of course we understand that the GNU is going to remain a very contested terrain. It's not surprising the behaviour of Helen Zille for instance. All that she does and what she says, this is going to be a contested terrain. We said this right from the onset when we were arguing that it is the ANC that has invited everybody into the GNU, including the DA,” said Ntuli.

“So at times it sounds arrogant when we say it is the ANC-led GNU, but practically and in theory it's what it meant because we conceptualised this idea, we sold it to parties. Each one of them agreed and assented to the document on the statement of intent.

“What we have accepted as the ANC is that it’s going to be a contested terrain. The opposition is not going to [lay low] including those in the GNU because everybody wants to set the agenda for this country to prepare for 2026 and 2029.” [What is planned?]

>>21406188

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

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

>>21416446

>the situation the ANC found itself in was a result of the “will of the people”

“Will of the People” reminds me of…

“An insider’s explanation of the difference between a “free and fair” election and a “will of the people” election–Kriegler deputy’s memoir”

[Take note; Johann Kriegler served on the Transvaal board of the Urban Foundation. Kriegler served intermittently as an acting judge between 1976 and 1983, and in 1984 he was appointed permanently as a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. [1] He was an acting judge in the Appellate Division from 1990 until 1993, when he was elevated permanently. https://wikimili.com/en/Johann_Kriegler#cite_note-:3-3]

https://africommons.com/2015/11/free-and-fair-election-kenya-kriegler/

Posted on November 7, 2015

In his book Birth: the Conspiracy to Stop the ’94 Election, Peter Harris, a South African lawyer who was in charge of the “election-monitoring division” of that country’s Independent Electoral Commission in 1994 (under Johann Kriegler, later appointed by President Kibaki to head Kenya’s 2008 IREC or “Kriegler Commission”, charged under Kenya’s 2008 post-election settlement with, inter alia, investigating the failed presidential vote) elaborates:

“Why would anyone want to run a free and fair election that will remove them from power? . . . Enter the election-monitoring division, whose primary job is to ensure that the election is free and fair. . . .

What constitutes a free and fair is a major issue for us. The high level of violence can have a major effect. In short, the tense situation in Bophuthatswana can jeopardize everything.

Declaring an election free and fair depends on a number of considerations, but chief among them is the ‘freedom of voters to vote in secret, free from violence and coercion’, and ‘access to secure voting stations’.

Since his appointment, Steven Friedman and his information and analysis department have been monitoring the situation closely. Their final talks will be to produce a report that will help the commissioners make a finding on whether the election was free and fair and a reflection of the will of the people.

I rather like the ‘will of the people’ bit; it reminds me of one of those classic legal catch-all clauses that provide an escape route if all else fails. It is a bit like ‘sufficient consensus,’ that famous methodology for reaching agreement at constitutional negotiations. In real terms this means if the ANC and the National Party agree there was ‘sufficient consensus’, then bugger the rest. The real reason I like ‘the will of the people’ is because, as we hurtle closer to this election, it is clear to me that there is a lot that can, and probably will, go wrong.

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>I have always thought it worthy of note that during the days when Tanzania was leading the fight against apartheid my father would always stay in State House of the guest of President Nyerere whenever he visited Tanzania… He was, politically, ahead of his time in South Africa and he made sure the companies was associated with were as well.

“Africa seeks clarity on GNU: Sophie Mokoena weighs in”

https://youtu.be/vFtBom79Ud0

Aug 9, 2024 #SABCNews

The ANC says many of its friends on the continent want clarity on the Government of National Unity.

Addressing representatives of different missions in South Africa, the ANC First Deputy Secretary General, who is also chair of Subcommittee on International Relations, Nomvula Mokonyane, sought to reassure diplomats that the country's foreign policy will not change.

0:22 – “ANC is the oldest liberation organisation on the continent and in fact even globally. When you look at political parties, ANC is a very very formidable, well known party… The party has been there since 1912 and it has got relations particularly with socialist organisations or parties in other regions on the continent with all those parties, the former liberation organisations… Most of the political parties on the continent and the struggle was modeled or was adopted by many countries following the launch of the African National Congress after 1912. Therefore there’s so much belief and understanding that the ANC, particularly South Africa in this case, must always provide leadership on specific African issues particularly when you look at a fight to ensure that there’s total liberation, economically as well on the continent… Now Africa is saying but, hang on, will this be possible for the ANC to lead us or to make meaningful input… for total liberation or emancipation because the issue of the economy… the land question, the minerals of the continent.”

4:02 – “Just in closing, we know the Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula, will meet his counterparts from liberation parties in the SADC region. What will be on that agenda?… He is going to try and take all these parties on board. When you look at a country like Angola and that’s what the President did yesterday when he met his counterpart from MPLA who is the President also of that country. FRELIMO in Mozambique, they will have to take the leadership on board. SWAPO, you have CCM from Tanzania, Zanu-pf and also you have Botswana and therefore he is going to take these sister parties on board but also indicate to them how they arrived at this decision and going forward, how are they going to manage this decision. But I think above all how do they hope to claw back power.”

“Nyhontso: PAC didn't sell out to GNU”

https://youtu.be/S3OZ3p_xZXE

Aug 14, 2024 #Newzroom405

Pan Africanist Congress president Mzwanele Nyhontso joins #Newzroom405's Xoli Mngambi in the studio. He's here to respond to the party's former deputy secretary general Mbuso Dlamini who rejected the party's participation in the government of national unity calling it a sell-out deal between the ANC and the DA.

Nyhontso says Dlamini is no longer a PAC member as he hasn't been renewing his membership and the party moved on without him. He also rubbishes claims that the party sold out.

"We are not participating in the GNU because we are sellouts. We were invited to come and form a government because services need to be delivered," he says.

https://sundayworld.co.za/politics/pac-lashes-party-president-nyhontso-for-joining-sell-out-gnu/

PAC deputy secretary Mbuso Dlamini came out with guns blazing this week, denouncing the participation of the party in the government of national unity (GNU).

His criticism comes after the ANC, DA, IFP, FF Plus, PAC, PA and other smaller parties formed the GNU. Dlamini stated that his party was rejecting the GNU. It was also rejecting the participation of the PAC president, Mzwanele Nyhontso, in it.

“We as the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania wish to distance ourselves from the so-called government of national unity and Mzwanele Nyhontso’s participation in it under the name of PAC, as the minister of land and rural development. PAC vehemently rejects the sell-out deal between the ANC and the DA that was made after the elections on 29 May 2024.

“To us the GNU is nothing …but a secret merger between proponents of settler colonialism and capitalism [and] their black puppets to preserve and advance their interests. They do this than put the interests of the marginalised African first,” said Dlamini.

He said the PAC was rejecting any deal that seeks to put “the oppressor and the oppressed together to govern the country.”