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>1 August 2023

>The [Freedom Under Law] Board has elected as its new chairman Justice Azhar Cachalia, a director since 2021.

>He was a founder and leading member of the United Democratic Front.

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>also the increased attacks on the citizens of Ciskei by the United Democratic Front [which the ANC helped to resurrect a few months ago] and the African National Congress.

It is curious that the founder of the UDF became the chairman of Freedom under Law around the same time the UDF was reactivated.

“UDF celebration to reawaken active citizenry” – Part 1

https://youtu.be/cQkyX-rhCIA

Aug 17, 2023

The UDF40 steering committee says the 40th anniversary celebration will continue without one of its founding Member, Dr Allan Boesak. Other former leaders of the umbrella organisation of civic organisations, which was instrumental in the defeat of apartheid, say this celebration is meant to re-awaken active citizenry to solve the many challenges facing the country. They have also refuted claims that the event on the 20th of August, is a concealed attempt to revive the ANC, using the UDF. The committee announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa and Archbishop Thabo Makgoba will be amongst the attendees.

3:03 – “As South Africa heads to elections next year, these founding members of the UDF say they will continue to be the torch bearers of the country’s democracy.”

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/special/udf/udf.htm

[Popo Molefe] The militaristic culture especially amongst the youth merit the militarization of the South African state and society. This phenomenon provided fertile grounds for forced recruitment into organisations and campaigns initiated by the UDF and for the attitude amongst activists that, if you are not with us you are against us.

https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/69631ad2-fb58-44d7-aecb-406687b963e1/content

THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT (UDF): A CASE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION, 1983-1987

GREGORY FREDERICK HOUSTON

This Thesis is dedicated to all who have contributed to the struggle for freedom and democracy in South Africa

It is argued that the formation of the UDF, and revolutionary developments during the period of review, conformed to the strategic and tactical requirements of a Leninist-Gramscian model of revolutionary praxis in the following way: the general drive to establish mass-based community organisations (increasing the complexity of civil society by establishing mass organisations); the formation of the UDF in August 1983 (creating a historical bloc in opposition to the ruling bloc during the phase of democratic struggle); and the development and spread of a common national political culture based on resistance to apartheid (expanding the revolutionary consciousness of the masses).

During the period under review, the UDF-Ied opposition to apartheid resulted in the organisational and ideological penetration of the Front into almost every major sector of black civil society. The major forces behind the increasing political and ideological leadership of the UDF were the affiliated civic associations, trade unions, student/youth and women's organisations. These organisations played a central role in mass mobilisation and organisation and the spread of revolutionary consciousness throughout black civil society.

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“UDF celebration to reawaken active citizenry” – Part 2

https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/69631ad2-fb58-44d7-aecb-406687b963e1/content

the ANC's earlier efforts to influence certain legal and semi-legal organisations inside the country; the proven existence of clandestine ANC members as leaders in some of the UDF affiliate organisations, and the leadership role in these organisations played by convicted ANC members after their release from prison.

The LeninistlGramscian model's emphasis on the importance of the political and ideological struggle to promote and expand revolutionary consciousness sets it apart from other models of a United Front strategy and reflects one of the most fundamental achievements of popular resistance during the 1980s. Here the stress is on: mobilising and organising people around the concrete particulars of their everyday lives (rent increases, bus-fare increases, education issues, women's issues, etc.); uniting the separate currents of protest into a single stream; and, most importantly, transforming the "particular, often economic, demands of interest groups into a universalistic political challenge of the dominant system" which aims at national liberation. This results in the spread of a revolutionary consciousness.

The UDF underwent a revival in 1989 when it joined with COSATU (in the Mass Democratic Movement) in a civil disobedience campaign against government-controlled hospitals and schools. Thus, during 1989 the emphasis was on national campaigns of the Mass Democratic Movement (with the main organisational base provided by trade unions) rather than on actions which involved local UDF affiliates.

These changes brought to an end the period of resistance which corresponded to the LeninistiGramscian model of revolutionary strategy and tactics. Instead, the UDF became a Leninist vanguard party, with its affiliate membership operating largely underground.

The vast majority of leaders of the UDF at local, regional and national levels became involved with the time-consuming and difficult task of building ANC structures and, more recently, participating within the national negotiation process. Many UDF activists became visibly absorbed into and, in the opinion of some observers, form a distinct bloc within the ranks of the ANC. As a result, this study has not been able' to avail itself of the very rich sources of oral evidence that do exist. Hence, it relies largely on documentary material.

In a speech delivered to the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in 1935 Dimitrov stated… While Communists must not abandon the work of Communist education, organisation and mobilisation of the masses, the road to creating the widest united front of workers is to strive for short-term and long-term goals with non-Communist worker parties, trade unions and other organisations of the working class.

Willem Booyse gives credit to Mao Tse Tung for the idea of a united front and the formulation of the strategy to create such a front. According to Booyse, Mao's intention and his eventual success was based on an idea to 35 unite the broadest possible spectrum of opposition groups in China against the nationalist government of Chiang Kai-Shek. The process of mobilising opposition groups was manifested in the creation of "organisations (alliances) throughout the country (China), developing mass movements of the workers, peasants, youth, children, winning over the intellectuals in all parts of the country, and spreading the movement as a struggle for democracy".5 The objective of this process was to ensure that the masses became aware of the necessity for joint action by all the social forces that oppose the ruling government.

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>>20970854

“UDF celebration to reawaken active citizenry” – Part 3

https://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/69631ad2-fb58-44d7-aecb-406687b963e1/content

The most comprehensive account of the Vietnamese revolutionary strategy was provided by Vo Nguyen Giap, faithful disciple of Ho Chi Minh and major strategist of the Vietnamese Communist Party. One central feature of Giap's theory of revolutionary strategy and tactics is the combination of military struggle and political struggle. This lies at the centre of his concept of "people's war". The people's war revolutionary strategy involved military action by forces of the revolutionary movement to destroy the enemy as well as the people's mass uprisings to regain administrative power.

Our political force is a force of all the people that participate in uprisings and wars in an organised manner under the Party's vanguard leadership. It includes revolutionary classes, patriotic elements, and nationalities in our country who have assembled in a broad, united national front, under working class leadership, with the worker-peasant alliance as a foundation .7

–In the people's war strategy emphasis is placed on the use of propaganda to motivate the organisation and development of revolutionary forces with the purpose of mobilising the entire population to participate in the struggle. The goal is the creation of a "mass political force", which

is a firm, steady foundation on which to build and develop comprehensive forces for the revolutionary war, to protect the material and moral forces on the political, economic, and cultural fronts, on the front line and in the rear base areas and to form and develop the people's armed revolutionary forces.

Two important lessons can be drawn from the Chinese and Vietnamese experiences: firstly, the necessity of creating a broad united front which includes all patriotic elements of the population and is directed primarily at the goal of national liberation and; secondly, recognition of the dual importance of political and military struggle. The Vietnamese revolution proved that a strategy placing sole reliance on either political or military struggle would have been insufficient, and probably disastrous. The emerging revolutionary practices stressed the importance of a combination of the political mobilisation of the broadest possible range of forces against the enemy and a military struggle involving protracted guerrilla war in preparation for the final stage of general uprising. 9

https://wikimili.com/en/United_Democratic_Front_(South_Africa)

The Progressive Federal Party had vigorously opposed the introduction of the tricameral system (in the referendum), but once introduced continued as the official opposition in the "White" Assembly. "Let us voice strong opposition and offer vigorous resistance both within and without the system that excludes Blacks and continues to imprison Nelson Mandela" argued Helen Suzman, speaking at the Cape Town Conference of the PFP National Youth in 1984. At the same conference, a resolution was passed endorsing and supporting the recent establishment of the United Democratic Front and offer ' back office financial assistance". This support sponsored by Gordon Waddell and Harry Oppenheimer through the Western Province Regional PFP Youth Committee led by Stephen Drus ( Stephen Darori)

http://web.archive.org/web/20220810203059/https://uncensoredopinion.co.za/chronology-national-party-african-national-party-outsmarted-white-businessmen-foreign-governments-taking-south-africa-1989/#

• 1977 Urban Foundation “think tank” is founded by Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and Clive Menell.This Foundation introduced neoliberal housing policy for Blacks under the guise of “development”. Cyril Ramaphosa, Nthato Motlana and Phuthuma Ntleko became the leaders of this “development” Foundation

• 20 August 1983 United Democratic Front is founded in Mitchells Plain. The UDF will later be funded by Harry Oppenheimer with people such as Alan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, Frank Chikane, Terror Lekota, Vally Moosa, Albertina Sisulu, Sheryl Carolus,Trevor Manuel ,Pravin Gordhan and Popo Molefe on the upper echelons of its structures

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>The Progressive Federal Party had vigorously opposed the introduction of the tricameral system (in the referendum), but once introduced continued as the official opposition in the "White" Assembly. "Let us voice strong opposition and offer vigorous resistance both within and without the system that excludes Blacks and continues to imprison Nelson Mandela" argued Helen Suzman, speaking at the Cape Town Conference of the PFP National Youth in 1984. At the same conference, a resolution was passed endorsing and supporting the recent establishment of the United Democratic Front and offer ' back office financial assistance". This support sponsored by Gordon Waddell and Harry Oppenheimer through the Western Province Regional PFP Youth Committee led by Stephen Drus ( Stephen Darori)

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>Sol Kerzner is in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black book.

He has very interesting connections

Stéphén Dǻrori Part 1

https://stephendarorionveryinterestingpeople.blogspot.com/

Follow Stephen Darori on Twitter. Stephen Darori hebrewaized his surname from Stephen Drus (Dziedrueszyck) on 6th September 1986. Stephen Darori is also on Linkedin.

Director

Butch Kerzner Gaming and on Line Investments ( Monaco) .

October 1998 – Present (15 years 11 months)Monaco

Joint venture between Howard " Butch " Kerzner, his father Sol Kerzner ( and the Darori Foundation . The Company held on line gaming and traditional "high" street properties for Sports Betting in Europe especially in the UK. and other positions in online gaming companies including in the Israeli start up Playsis , that exited ( Playtech, Teddy Sagi) with Queenco as the primary investor.

Howard (Butch) Kerzner died on 11 October 2006 when the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near Sosua, in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic.

Chairman

Darori Foundation

January 1988 – Present (26 years 8 months)Off Shore

Until May 2013 , the Darori Foundation supported Libraries and Special Collections in Israel only. In June 2013 it started an initiative to give ever child in Israel an Internet Device and a Free Internet Access Service. (100 mega down, ) . The Darori Foundation has in the past sponsored research into Digital Libraries and the translation of Wikipedia Articles ( and similar articles that do not claim a copy right) into Hebrew before Google Translate and Bing Translate made that product redundant..The translation project was led by the Ministry of Education in Israel . The Darori Foundation financed dozens of translators..

Journalist and Wikipedia Senior Editor ( like others on a honorary basis and it really is an Honor)

Wikipedia and Part Time Journalist

May 1972 – Present (42 years 4 months)Israel

""Wikipedia (Listeni/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə/ or Listeni/ˌwɪkiˈpiːdiə/ wik-i-pee-dee-ə) is a collaboratively edited, multilingual, free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia that is supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Volunteers worldwide collaboratively write Wikipedia's 30 million articles in 287 languages, including over 4.5 million in the English Wikipedia. "" I am the senior editor of 28 articles on Social Media, 12 on Zionism and Israel and 6 on Food and Cooking and 34 on diverse other subjects.

If you ask me whether I will assist you with the development of a Wikipedia Article. My answer is "Chas Vechalila " … heaven forbid.!! I have always done so free.

I have been a part time journalist representing and filing for Time Magazine (1990')s, Newsweek ( 1970's to its demise) ,The Washington Post, Boston Globe, NY Times, WSJ, Handelsblatt, (Germany), The Economic Times (India),Financial TimesT ( UK) , Financial Mail( South Africa) , Cape Times and Argus,( both Cape Town) Until 1990 all remuneration from these activities were ceded to the International Defense and aid fund of Southern Africa and from 1990 to LIBI, the IDf Soldiers' Welfare fund.

My South African Press Credential is 7864. I have had the number since 1972. From 1986 to 1989 it was suspended after I was detained repeatedly without trial in 1985/6. The Credential was returned to me officially when I met Nelson Mandela in Israel in October 1999.

My IAPP ( Swiss) Credential number is 8452 . My GPO Number is 98262( Israel)

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Stéphén Dǻrori Part 2

https://stephendarorionveryinterestingpeople.blogspot.com/

Corporate Controller & Treasurer, Operating Manager of Multiple Divisions

European Investments

June 2003 – December 2006 (3 years 7 months)Europe

Commercial and Industrial Real Estate, Investments and Venture Capital

The now multi billion company was founded by Glasnost Billionaires who prefer that the company keep a low profile. The Company remains today largely a real estate company with almost no debt and a high cash flow from leasing commercial property .I filled multiple positions of increasing responsibility including Managing Director of its large High Tech Incubator ( based on principles different from those in Israel) and a High Tech Investment Manager and an Alternative Investment Manager. Some Positions were held simultaneously.

CFO, COO and Administration

Queenco Leisure International Ltd.

October 1999 – April 2002 (2 years 7 months)Israel

I was the CFO of the Rescido Group then part of Queenco listed on TASE . The Group consisted of Real Estate Redeveloper, Investments in late stage start ups and an in house gaming start up Playsis.com with both Angels and VC Partners.(STI - Benny Steinmetz) The Real Estate Redevelopment Company was purchased by interests of Milamor (delisted from TASE) which have continued renovating buildings in the CBD of Tel Aviv to this day. Playsis received a substantial exit by selling its large and high quality email membership lists to interest belonging to Teddy Sagi. The investments in late stage High Tech company were taken over by Queenco interests.

Deputy Head Accountant for Revenue & Special Assistant to the late Director General of Ort Israel

ORT Colleges

January 1990 – December 1994 (5 years)Holon Head Office

Ort Israel Head Offices ( Schools and Colleges) Originally employed as Deputy Finance and Accounting in Charge of all income sources of ORT Israel, the largest independent school network in Israel and assistant to the Director General ,the late Israel Goralnick once deputy to Yigal Allon in the Palmach ( he lost n arm in the War of Independence) liaising and regularly reporting with a major Donors who in the course of my time at Ort built and furnished Ort College Henry Braude , Karmiel ( the first accredited college in Israel to award degrees) paid for entirely by Baron Sir Gerald Ronso and with a little arm twisting and a lot of public relations he went on to build and furnish completely 6 additional Ort Schools in Ashkelon , Ashdod , Osafeia a/ Dalet Al Hakarmel and elsewhere and set up a maintenance fund for each at my suggestion.( Out of the Box thinking) I was project manage for two very expensive IT projects and computerized other aspects of my function using advanced business models . MY final task was to start raising fund for the conversion of Ort Vocational School to High Tech Schools. A task completed by 2000. Monthly T/O of Ort Israel exceeded 2.5 billion shekels during the period I worked for there. I was also the Ort Israel Liaison with the World Ort Union in London.

IDF - Shalev Bet and then Mil'uim

IDF

December 1986 – February 1987 (3 months)Israel

Voluntary shortened Israel military service .In 1986 anyone who was older than 26 when they immigrated was exempted from IDF service.

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Stéphén Dǻrori Part 3

https://stephendarorionveryinterestingpeople.blogspot.com/

First Lieutenant=Captain=> Major=> Commandant until 1994 (Lieutenant-Colonel)

SADF: Recce commandos, Reconnaissance Unit of 11 Commando, 3rd Infantry Battalion

January 1975 – December 1976 (2 years)Diskopolos, Kimberly , South Africa

Angola : My "4 Citations , 3 medals ( 2 Campaign + Another), 2 Battlefield Promotions" Period . South Africa ( Defence Force) enters Angola on the side of UNITA against the MPLA , SWAPO and 25,000 subprime Casto Cubans. This was not a helicopter gunship war . In a bombastic "Apocalypse Now" ( the movie came later) helicopter gunship formation , South Africa launched a massive attack on the MPLA . In the open 5-10 minutes 7 SADF gunships were destroyed by 9K32 “Strela-2” shoulder fired Russian Missiles. Not another SADF helicopter again entered Angola . The 75 person Recce Commando ( the elite of the elite unit ) was paradropped 8 kms north of Luanda & told to proceed eastwards pulling the substand Cuban Battalions & some MPLA away from the coast & the protection of SAM 6 missiles around Luanda. I ran (circling back at night) across Angola & exited through Zambia .Entered as 1 of 3, 2nd Lieutenants, exited as a Major with 12 including 4 walking wounded.During this endless & now embedded nightmare kept saying that if I survive my first daughter would be called after the home base of the Recce Commandos . 20 years to the date I was discharged, my daughter Kim(berly) was born. Kimberly ( Big Hole of .fame) was the home base of 11 Commando.Honest to god truth, joined the Recce Commandos, & really expected to sit on my backside , suntanning, drinking beer & reading all the English Classics.This was a character building lesson in survival. The Recce Commando like 11 Commando originated during the Anglo Boer War.The Recce Commando first saw action at Spion Kop (Anglo Boer War)on 24th January 1900. 11 Commando was created by the British to counter the very mobile (mounted) Boer Recce Commandos & went toe to toe with the later during the Guerrilla War phase of the Anglo Boer War, November 1900 to May 1902 until the Transvaal Republic surrendered at Vereeniging on 31st May 1902. The agreement was signed ,by the Generals De Wet & Kitchener.

Honors & Awards

Beit Trust Scholarship

Beit Trust

January 1983

The Trust was initially set up in 1906 by the Will of Mr Alfred Beit, a brilliant financier and a director of the British South Africa Company with many interests including the development of Rhodesia’s railway system. In 1903 he suffered a stroke near Salisbury, Rhodesia, and died on 16 July 1906 in England at the age of 53, leaving much of his fortune bequeathed to a wide range of charitable causes. As a result of his close association with…more

University Blue Honour fo Student Leadership

University of Cape Town

Student Blues Awards are awarded to outstanding students in various disciplines including sport ( largely) and student leadership. I was very active in Student Councils, a student led Rag fund ( that is a small industry) that supports an entire free medical aid for Blacks ( and Coloured) A massive student charity and student politics ) + held youth leadership positions in the official White opposition party with a prominent presence on multiple…more

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>The UDF underwent a revival in 1989 when it joined with COSATU (in the Mass Democratic Movement)

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Stéphén Dǻrori Part 4

https://stephendarorionveryinterestingpeople.blogspot.com/

Region Chairman Western Cape Progressive Party Youth Committee=Progressive Reform Party->Progressive Federal Party=> now Democratic Alliance

Democratic Alliance

January 1978

The Progressive Party transitioned to the Progressive Reform Party which became the Progressive Federal Party who are the Democratic Alliance to day. The Democratic Alliance (DA) is a political party in South Africa, which is the official opposition to the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at federal level, and the governing party in the Western Cape province. The DA is broadly centrist, though it has been attributed both centre-left and…more

National Chairman Progressive Federal Party Youth Committee =now Democratic Alliance

June 1981

The Progressive Party transitioned to the Progressive Reform Party which became the Progressive Federal Party who are the Democratic Alliance to day. The Democratic Alliance (DA) is a political party in South Africa, which is the official opposition to the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at federal level, and the governing party in the Western Cape province. The DA is broadly centrist, though it has been attributed both centre-left and…more

Founding Member and Treasurer Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) and United Democratic front ( UDF)

Nelson Mandela and Democratic Black Rule in South Africa

THE MDM was the first Massive Umbrella movement fof 400+ Free Mandela organisations. The mistake it made was electing a leadership , thereby giving it existence as an organisation that could be banned by the South African Government and that happen quickly. Immediately thereafter the UDF was "formed" with 500+ organisations on board . This time without an official leadership. "The United Democratic Front (UDF) was one of the most important anti-…more

First National Youth Action Chairman (and joint founder with Helen Suzman, Colin Elgin,Harry Oppenheimer and Dr Nthato Motlana

National Youth Action

1974

National Youth Action was the first attempt at an integrated Youth Action Program for kids aged 15 to 18 in South Africa. The idea was to form racial integrated groups who would do volunteer communal work in communities that need such help. The first two groups became active in the Western Cape ( Gugeluto) and Pretoria ( Alexandra) . The South African Government did not like mixed integrated groups of kids , " Cleaning up Slums" and eventually…more

University of Cape Town

MBA,MA, BCOM in Accounting and Economics, Accounting and Finance, With Distinction

1978 – 1985

Started studing at the University of Cape Town and continued elsewhere.BCompt Hons ( UNISA), MBA ( Heriot Watts)

Activities and Societies: Quite frankly over the years have become a Peter Thiel supporter. Peter was a founder of among other companies, Paypal and an early 2% investor in Facebook. Peter like Bill Gates,Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Larry Ollison and others, Peter Thiel has no academic degrees. Peter is sponsoring 100 young entrepreneurs with $100K a year not to go to college but jump straight into starting a high tech company . ( 88 have already raised follow on finance… Thiel is onto something)

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Stéphén Dǻrori Part 5

https://stephendarorionveryinterestingpeople.blogspot.com/

Herzlia High School, Cape Town

First Class University Entrance Sort of like A Levels, Maths, Science, Accountancy, English,Hebrew Afrikaans

1962 – 1974

Jewish education in a private school environment from the age of 3 to 18.

Activities and Societies: Regional Committee Progressive Party Youth Progressive Party Youth Support Speaker First Team Cricket, Hockey, Chess National Youth Action- founding member and first Chairman

1. –Interests–

Also interested in viable Alternative Investments include Africana and Judaica, Maps and Prints and investment quality Philatelic Postal History. Individual items rather than collection. Cooking: Try Family Recipes Passed down from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia ;Editing them and Blogging Them. Try them - they are all great and easy recipes to make.

1. Personal Details

Birthday November 29, 1965

Marital Status Single

1. Advice for Contacting Stéphén

Mobile Tel 972-52-7234313.

Fax 972-3-6598825

Skype stephendarori.israel

Email : stephendarori@outlook.com..

Postal Address: P.O.Box 41026, Tel Aviv ,6141001, Israel

A Cute and a Silly Tongue in Cheek Postscript : In 1962 , Professor Ethel Drus ( my aunt, my father's sister and three times winner of the Alexander Prize for History, the equivalent of the Mitchell prize for Mathematics) spent 3 months researching disintegrating Proclamations ( Letters Patent ) that had been traditionally handed down in the Drues/Drus family. I am the hereditary Baron of Kraków , ( hmmm , can't help smiling) that was created in 1732 in an exchange for a very significant contribution by Drues of Mejzugola to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 's Monarch Budget . This custom was started by King Henry VIII of England Rich land owners were rewarded with Aristocracy Titles for significant contributions to the King's Budget. I am also the hereditary Count Dziedreuszycka , the Ordynat of Poturzyca, Zarzecze, Kramarzowka, Markpol, Gluszyn, Wiry and Szczytnik estates. The Count was the eldest son of Drues of Mejzugola and was excommunicated from the family when he married a shiksa , the youngest daughter of the then Monarch . Like in France, German, Austria and elsewhere , aristocracy titles came to an end when the 2nd Polish Republic was created by the Treaty of Versailles. The first Count had no issues and the property was returned to the Monarch. At least theoretically this title also passed down to me.. Both titles have nice Coat of Arms .The Count's has a Star of David instead of a cross, a pointer to his heritage. Have a check at it.

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Stéphén Dǻrori Part 6

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Houses of Parliament , Cape Town , Office Helen Suzman and Colin Elgin - Progressive Federal Party

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Cape Town Area, South Africa

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• Activist in Mapam and then founding member of Ratz prior to the formation of Meretz. Huge digital contributor to election campaigns and pounded the streets in the early hours of the morning with לך stencil and spray paint can in hand , putting up Meretz banners and posters from Redding to Rishon Le Zion. Since 2010 de facto Meretz Chair in Jaffa and Bat Yam.

https://stephendarorioninterestingpeoplexx.blogspot.com/2016/01/harry-oppenheimer.html

When Mr. Oppenheimer left Parliament in 1957 to take over the family business empire after his father died, he threw his moral and financial support to the relatively liberal Progressive Party.

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>1977 Urban Foundation “think tank” is founded by Harry Oppenheimer, Anton Rupert and Clive Menell.This Foundation introduced neoliberal housing policy for Blacks under the guise of “development”. Cyril Ramaphosa, Nthato Motlana and Phuthuma Ntleko became the leaders of this “development” Foundation

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>First National Youth Action Chairman (and joint founder with Helen Suzman, Colin Elgin,Harry Oppenheimer and Dr Nthato Motlana

“SYND 30 7 77 DR MOTLANA INTERVIEW”

https://youtu.be/JtOp5Nw867U

Nthato Harrison Motlana

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/nthato-harrison-motlana

He obtained a BSc degree from the University of Fort Hare and won a bursary to study medicine at the Medical School of the University of the Witwatersrand, as part of a quota of black students. He qualified in 1954 and opened a practice in Soweto, one of only two private practices, which he ran for almost forty years, initially charging his patients R2 and later giving his services for free. He was the family doctor of Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and thousands of others, and his practice became a haven for the wounded and injured during the uprisings of the seventies and eighties.

With other parents such as Winnie Mandela and Aubrey Mokoena he founded the Black Parents Association (BPA) in response to the 1976 Soweto school riots. The association formed a liaison group between the students and the authorities.

One of his major projects is the Get Ahead Foundation, started in 1984 together with community leaders such as advocate Dikgang Moseneke, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Snowy Mashingo and Don MacRobert to address unemployment through the informal sector. In 1996 Get Ahead split into two separate companies: Get Ahead Financial Services (GAFS) and Get Ahead Development (GAD).

He was a founder member of the National Association of Co-operative Societies of Southern Africa (Nacssa) an umbrella body for a range of burial societies, stokvels, women's clubs and mehodisano clubs. Its assets were valued at R650 000.

After four years, in 1994, Nacssa was in financial trouble and core investors demanded their money back, disturbed by internal strife between Motlana and chief executive Sam Moufhe. Motlana's black empowerment company, New Africa Investments Limited (Nail), was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in 1994. As executive chairman Motlana built it up into a multibillion rand company within five years. His approach was to form strategic partnerships and alliances with established businesses with a view to transferring skills, know-how and ultimately power to black employees.

The first investment, made in 1992, was in Metropolitan Life, a thriving life insurance company, which had been successful in the black insurance market and where blacks had progressed into management. The Afrikaner owned Sanlam, one of South Africa's most powerful insurance companies, sold 30% of Metropolitan Life to Motlana and a consortium of black investors.

Nail next bought The Sowetan, the biggest daily newspaper in the country. It also acquired control of a 20% stake in MTN, one of two cellular networks in South Africa. In alliance with the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC), Nail acquired a big slice of Johnnic, created from the unbundling by Anglo American of Johannesburg Consolidated Investments.

Eventually Nail was clouded in scandal when a plan to reward four executives with share options worth R130 million led to acrimony and division among shareholders. When white co-founder Jonty Sandler was asked to resign, Motlana followed suit, displaying a characteristic lifelong loyalty towards his friends and closest associaties.

Still an ANC man, he has been accused of meddling with the editorial content of The Sowetan, a charge he has vehemently denied.

He has to be one of South Africa's busiest committee people, spending much of his time redressing the iniquities of apartheid. As chairman of IDASA, the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa, he has committed himself to peaceful change in South Africa and dialogue with the whole community.

He is a member of the Educational Opportunities Council, one of the largest bursary funds in the country, which administers scholarships for blacks at universities in South Africa and the USA.

He has received an honorary LLD from Dartmouth USA, an LLD from Dennyse, USA and an MD from Medunsa. The South African Sunday Times Business Times named him one of the "Top Five Businessmen" of 1993.

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>[Nthato Motlana] As chairman of IDASA, the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa, he has committed himself to peaceful change in South Africa

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>[Cyril Ramaphosa's] invaluable contribution to the multiparty negotiations and convening the Constitutional Assembly to draft the new Constitution during the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa.

“CONSTRUCTIVE POLITICS: The contributions of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)” Part 1

https://www.academia.edu/14801517/Constructive_politics_in_Africa_The_story_of_Idasa

Produced for the World Movement for Democracy Conference

Durban, South Africa, February, 2004

Introduction: Idasa’s ‘Unconventional Radicalism’

In early December, the Mail and Guardian spotlighted another Idasa activity, present from the very beginning, the creation of what co-founder Van Zyl Slabbert terms a “politics of negotiation” among bitterly divided groups.

The Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Idasa, is a large, non-governmental organization operating nationally from offices in Pretoria and Cape Town, with a growing presence in a number of other African nations as well. It has played a vital role in the democratic transition and the process of democracy building in South Africa since 1987. It has extensive working relationships with government at every level, civil society groups, business, and higher education. Its mission is to promote a sustainable democracy by building democratic institutions, educating citizens, and advocating social justice. The mission is expressed through the strategic objective of “building of capacity for democracy in civil society and government.”

For instance, in a little known effort of great importance, Idasa organized five high level trips for drafters of the new South African constitution to England, Switzerland, Portugal, the US, Canada, India, and Australia, in 1994 and 1995, with a group drawn from all the major parties.

On the left, some charge that the organization is remote from the people. “The only strong NGOs appear to be the elitist ones such as Idasa, which do not deal with the grassroots and do not handle issues affecting people on the ground,” said the government minister of Social Development, Zola Skweyiya, in an interview with the Mail and Guardian on November 7. Others on the left make more sweeping accusations. In a 2002 article by political scientist Ian Taylor in the academic journal Politikon, “South Africa’s transition to democracy and the ‘change industry’: a case study of IDASA,” Idasa is portrayed as taming the mass radical movement and directing it away from anti-capitalist struggle. In Taylor’s account, Idasa helped to create what he calls “a polyarchical form of democracy” focused on process not participation. Such democracies, according to Taylor, “are not about promoting democratic input into the everyday life of citizens, but rather have become a useful mechanism to soothe social and political pressures.”

Critics on the right have often been even more scathing. “Traitors!” declared the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, a conservative Afrikaner group after the Idasa- organized meeting in Dakar in 1987, bringing together for the first time a large number of Afrikaner and other white leaders with leaders of the banned ANC. South African President P.W. Botha accused Idasa of “undermining the state” and announced a parliamentary committee of inquiry to investigate its activities.

In the run-up to the elections scheduled for April, 2004, the Idasa-authored newspaper supplement for all 2,000 high schools in the nation illustrated both its reach and its philosophical orientation toward grassroots democracy. Entitled Youth Vote South Africa, undertaken in association with the Ministry of Education and the Independent Electoral Commission, the project consists of 20 weekly supplements in the chain of Independent newspapers across the nation.

But the frustration of Slabbert and his colleague Alex Boraine, Chair of the Federal Council of the largest anti-apartheid party, the Progressive Federal Party, at the seeming irrelevancy of the Parliament had been growing for several years.

In the middle of 1986, Van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine created The Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa.

Dakar, a meeting organized by Idasa between the ANC and white South Africans in July, 1987, reverberated around the world.

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>[Mamphela Ramphele] was a founding board member of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa

“CONSTRUCTIVE POLITICS: The contributions of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)” Part 2

https://www.academia.edu/14801517/Constructive_politics_in_Africa_The_story_of_Idasa

Idasa organized discussions between the military forces on both the ANC and SA government side (1990). It also created forums for different sectors to consider their role in a new democracy – Educators (1990); the Media; Youth (1992); Police (1993). Idasa also continued to organize a variety of face to face human contacts, such as Mandela’s face to face discussions with business leaders in the Orange Free State in April, 1992.

From 1993 to 1995, Idasa worked to educate millions of voters, including the military, and to create nonpartisan spaces that would build legitimacy for the electoral process. It also began to develop a sustained and continuing focus on grassroots citizen education through a new Training Centre for Democracy, launched in 1992.

In response, Ivor Jenkins and [Constand] Viljoen developed a project, funded by the Dutch, to open a dialogue with conservatives.

The Mandela meeting was followed by a second meeting between four white generals and Mbeki, Modise, Zuma, and other leaders of the ANC, and then a series of discussions. They resulted in an explicit attention to the concept of protection of minority rights. An Idasa-led delegation to Belgium and Switzerland looked at procedures for protecting minority rights.

The Politics of Construction

In 1993 and 1994 Slabbert and Boraine stepped down from leadership of Idasa. Slabbert took on an organizing role in the new Open Society Foundation, funded by the democracy philanthropist George Soros. Boraine, building on a series of conferences under the name “Justice in Transition” organized by Idasa in 1993 which had featured Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was appointed with Tutu to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or TRC. Tutu chaired the TRC. Boraine served as the vice chair.

Wilmot James, an eminent young black sociologist, took on the job of executive director. In James’ view, the organization needed to develop new institutional platforms “to engage in politics without involvement in partisan or party politics.” James, who had studied in the United States and who was impressed with the monitoring and public interest roles nonprofit groups could play, founded a Public Information Centre in Idasa.

The ANC Whip of the Senate Office, 13 September, 1995

“The room fell silent. The ebullient greetings stopped in their tracks,” recalls Richard Calland, for many years director of PIMS. “‘So, Mamphela, from under which rock have you now crawled to return to us?’, asked the Reverend Arnold Stofile, ANC Chief Whip in the National Assembly.” The question was directed to Mamphela Ramphele, former leader in the Black Consciousness movement, one of the indisputable heroines of the anti-apartheid struggle now directing the newly formed Public Information Centre of Idasa.

Through PIMS, based in a new Cape Town office, Idasa began to make regular submissions to parliamentary committees on policy matters relating to transparency, accountability and democratic process in general. It also instituted or supported litigation to ensure compliance with constitutional principles. At the executive level, Idasa staff began to serve as consultants in departmental policy making processes in the organisation’s areas of expertise. It was also contracted to facilitate public participation processes such as public hearings for the Constitutional Assembly and hearings on proposed legislation and policies, such as the White Paper on Safety and Security.

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“CONSTRUCTIVE POLITICS: The contributions of the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa)” Part 3

https://www.academia.edu/14801517/Constructive_politics_in_Africa_The_story_of_Idasa

Idasa was a partner in the Public Service Management Development Programme.

The organization has also seen the constructive politics of democracy-building as involving increasing capacities of citizens, community organizations, and other nongovernmental organizations.

Idasa has always forged strong connections with other countries in Africa – its signature event, the Dakar conference, held in Senegal with strong support from its president, was a vivid example. In the last several years, Idasa has become increasingly involved in assisting democratic processes in other African countries, as well as projects that cross borders.

Idasa, with two other partners, won a tender from USAID in 2002 for a two year project in Nigeria known as “the Programme for Civic Empowerment (PACE)”. The aim of the programme is to strengthen and build the capacity of Nigerian civil society in areas of electoral support, constitutional reform, transparency and peacebuilding

According to the EU observers, questionable practices in some regions after the first round of voting meant a failed election. But Idasa’s template was fundamentally different. It asked questions such as “what is minimally needed to make the democratic process move forward?”… Idasa was able to release a statement soon after the polls closed that the election, while not perfect, was definitely an advance. Idasa’s judgment had large impact on international opinion about the election’s credibility. It could well have been the key factor in the government’s holding of the next round of elections.

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>Slabbert took on an organizing role in the new Open Society Foundation, funded by the democracy philanthropist George Soros.

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“Open Society Institute Mourns Loss of Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert”

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-institute-mourns-loss-frederick-van-zyl-slabbert-and-hadi-soesastro

May 18, 2010

The Open Society Institute mourns the loss of Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert on May 14, and Hadi Soesastro on May 4.

Van Zyl Slabbert was the founding chair of the Open Society Foundation of South Africa in 1993 and, four years later, became the founding chair of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa. He also served for a number of years as member of the Global Advisory Board of the Open Society Institute.

Van Zyl Slabbert was a leading opponent of the apartheid system in South Africa. He had led the small parliamentary opposition until he resigned from parliament in 1986 because he considered that he could wage the struggle against apartheid more effectively outside that body. His association with the Soros foundations began the following year when he organized a delegation of Afrikaners to Dakar, Senegal, to meet members of the African National Congress in exile. He sought and obtained support from George Soros for that meeting, which is considered one of the important steps in the effort to persuade white South Africans that the country should make a transition to majority rule.

His death "is a loss to those of us in Africa who, through his selfless and unpaid contribution, learned from him and keep alive our beliefs in the possibility of attaining in our life time open, tolerant, just, and equitable societies," said Isabella Matambanadzo, former Zimbabwe program manager for OSISA.

Van Zyl Slabbert and Hadi Soesastro both made important contributions to the development of democracy in their own countries and both played important leadership roles in our efforts to promote open societies around the world. They will be greatly missed.

https://www.kas.de/en/web/suedafrika/veranstaltungen/detail/-/content/the-sa-electoral-system-time-to-revisit-the-van-zyl-slabbert-report-

The SA Electoral System: Time to Revisit the Van Zyl Slabbert Report?

Justice Johann Kriegler and Ms Raenette Taljaard on Good Governance

In the framework of the discussion series "The Constitution and Good Public Leadership", this event will deal with the right to vote and the proposals for reform made by the Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Commission.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/van-zyl-slabbert-commission-report-electoral-reform-january-2003

Cabinet resolved on 20 March 2002 that an Electoral Task Team (ETT) should be established to “draft the new electoral legislation required by the Constitution”. It should “formulate the parameters of new electoral legislation and draft it in order to prepare for the scheduled National and Provincial elections of 2004 or any earlier election, should the need arise” and include political parties in its consultations with stakeholders. Further, this Task Team was to be chaired by Dr F van Zyl Slabbert.

If nothing else, this proposal, if accepted, will keep an essential debate alive on the ways and means by which political accountability can be strengthened in the South African democracy. That this is necessary and important was seen as common cause by all the parties, NGOs and media respresentative with whom the ETT interacted.

Members subscribing to the above views;

Dr F van Zyl Slabbert (Chairperson)

Nicholas Haysom

Norman du Plessis

Dr Wilmot James

Professor Jorgen Elklit

Adv Rufus Malatji

Professor Glenda Fick

Dren Nupen

The report is attached

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>11 Commando was created by the British to counter the very mobile (mounted) Boer Recce Commandos & went toe to toe with the later during the Guerrilla War phase of the Anglo Boer War, November 1900 to May 1902 until the Transvaal Republic surrendered at Vereeniging on 31st May 1902

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>Van Zyl Slabbert resigned from parliament in 1986

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>The Progressive Party transitioned to the Progressive Reform Party which became the Progressive Federal Party who are the Democratic Alliance today.

“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] – Part 1

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

On 7 February 1986, Dr van Zyl Slabbert, leader of the “whites only” official opposition, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) announced his resignation from Parliament. This even captured an act of high drama and of tremendous symbolic value.

WHO IS Dr SLABBERT?

At the time of his walk-out from Parliament, Dr Slabbert enjoyed a high reputation in many quarters. He si the “blue-eyed boy” of the Imperialists – US, Britain, etc. He was the guru (esteemed spiritual teacher) of the white liberal youth on the university campuses, the young white business executives and the white members of the various professions. He together with Chief Buthelezi formed the National Convention Movement. He even won the respect of a section of the liberatory movement who regarded Dr Slabbert as “a person you can talk to”. The PFP squeezed out as much political mileage as was humanly possible from Dr Slabbert, including the use of his reputation to set up the “VAN ZYL SLABBERT TRUST FUND” of some ten million rands.

BACKGROUND

Prior to his entry into Parliament, Dr Slabbert was a Professor of Sociology and a product of the Stellenbosch University, the hatchery of the Cape Nationalist intellectuals. His entry into parliamentary politics was almost accidental. His election victory in Rondebosch on 24 April 1974 came as surprise, not only to political observers, but also to himself. Hence it is reported that the moment of victory the thought foremost in his mind was: “Sweet, suffering grace, what am I going to do now?”

In a short space of 5 years Dr Slabbert was catapulted from a novice to leader of the PFP.

REASONS FOR METEORIC RISE OF Dr SLABBERT

The English-speaking white political parties have always endevoured to place at their head an AFRIKANER. This was so because of the hostility between the English-speaking and Afrikaans-speaking whites. The wounds of the Anglo-Boer War lay open for many decades. The suffering of the Afrikaners at the hands of the British Imperialism made them hate anything English with bitter intensity.

The English voters have always been a minority and political power would have evaded them for as long as they could not win Afrikaner support. The wily English employed a simple strategy. To capture Afrikaner voters, a charismatic Afrikaner leader was needed. At first it was General Botha, followed by General Smuts, the forgotten JNG Straus, Sir De Villiers-Graaf and Dr Jan Steytler. Colin Eglin’s spell as a leader of the Progress Party was the exception which proves the general pattern.

–When, therefore, Colin Eglin blundered by making an indiscreet telephone call to Don McHenry, the United States representative to the United Nations Organisation, the PFP leadership was only to happy to remove Colin Eglin as leader because Dr Slabbert was waiting in the wings.

As one newspaper columnist put it:

“He (Dr Slabbert) gave an aura of respectability to the PFP among the Afrikaner intellectuals which it had not enjoyed before, and on the Afrikaans campuses, the cause of progressive opposition to the government wax stronger. He was an easily saleable product…”

(Brian Pottinger, The Sunday Times, 09.02.86).

Within days of his assuming the mantle of leadership of the PFP the English press got busy with its favourite trade – LEADER MAKING. Dr Slabbert was launched as the LEADER who would lead the white opposition from the desert to political power. The cult of VAN (as Dr Slabbert was called by his devotees) grew by leaps and bounds.

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“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] – Part 2

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

REACTION TO Dr SLABBERT’S RESIGNATION

Since the resignation of Dr Slabbert was a spectacular event, reaction came in fast and furious.

1. ENGLISH PRESS

Initially the English press was jubilant. It considered the act of resignation as a heavy body blow to the reform strategy of the government because it “was in effect an act of no confidence in the very existence of Parliament as it is now constituted… Dr Slabbert has decided to leave Parliament to deprive the government any possible credibility his presence may lend to its reform powers…”

However, in a matter of days, if not hours, the English press changed its tune. We can only assume that the top brass of the PFP had a chat with the newspaper policymakers. The Press now had to engage in the process of LEADER-UNMAKING. Rapidly, Dr Slabbert’s image began to tarnish. There were insinuations that Dr Slabbert had lost the “iron in his soul” and took the easy way out. There were accusations of betrayal and desertation. Harry Oppenheimer, the godfather of the PFP, in a press statement criticized Dr Slabbert.

1. Young white liberals who had been straining at the leash imposed on them by the conservative PFP leadership saw in Dr Slabbert’s resignation a signal for dramatic action to follow.

2. The ANC, which met a delegation of the PFP headed by Dr Slabbert, described his act as “very courageous”. It even hinted that Dr Slabbert’s decision to resign was influenced by the discussion between the ANC and Dr Slabbert.

3. A prominent UDF official stated that Dr Slabbert had “proven qualities of leadership which should not be wasted” and, therefore, Dr Slabbert could “possibly find a home in the United Democratic Front” (Post, 12-15 February 1986).

4. Bishop Tutu congratulated Dr Slabbert and described him as a “great politician”.

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“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] – Part 3

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

Dr SLABBERT’S INTERVIEW WITH PW BOTHA – NOVEMBER 1985

While Dr Slabbert was occupied with interviews to the press, the radio and and TV, his moment of glory was fouled-up by the publication of a transcript of an interview between PW Botha and Dr Slabbert. The contents of the interview appeared in various newspapers. We urge our readers to study the interview very carefully and to keep newspaper cuttings of it.

It is a rare opportunity for members of the public to catch a glimpse of really what goes on behind closed doors between ruling class politicians belonging to “different” parties. The safety of privacy and being away from the public eye makes these politicians feel free to express their REAL VIEWS. More so, if they are unaware of the fact that their words are being recorded by a tape recorder.

We can do nomore than to select a few highlights from that interview.

1. Dr Slabbert was at pains to assure PW Botha that “the ANC can be beaten” and that he, PW Botha, could extract the teeth of the whole ANC story” (The Daily News, 19.02.86 and City Press, 21.02.86).

2. Dr Slabbert then warned that “the ANC should not be built up as an organisation which is so powerful that it can control all unrest” (City Press, 21.02.86).

3. When PW Botha stressed that there was no question of abolishing the Bantu system, Dr Slabbert’s reply was that he had no problem in drawing these State into negotiations process (The Daily News, 19.02.86). In other words, Dr Slabbert was quite prepared to recognize the various breeds of Bantustans as legitimate bodies with whom he was prepared to negotiate.

4. PW Botha insisted that the “self-determination of the whites should not be impaired. According to PW Botha, ‘self-determination’ meant the Group Areas Act, the separate and superior system of education provided fro the whites and the life of luxury and wealth enjoyed by the whites.

To all that Dr Slabbert’s reply was: “I have no problem.”

1. Dr Slabbert then accused the ANC and Buthelezi of each wanting to be the “the only bull in the kraal” i.e. to have a monopoly of power to the exclusion of all other organisations.

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“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] – Part 4

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE INTERVIEW

What strikes one immediately is the vast difference between Dr Slabbert’s version of the interview and the transcript of the tape recording. Most observers and commentators are agreed that Dr Slabbert’s version was far from the truth.

Then one gets the unmistakable impression from reading the interview that there you had two political leaders discussing the problems of the South African ruling class as CONCERNED MEMBERS OF THE THAT RULING CLASS.

Throughout the interview, Dr Slabbert appeared to be on the defensive, fumbling and respectful towards the aggressive PW Botha. As one newspaper reporter put it: “It was a conversation between nephew and favourite uncle.”

Dr Slabbert’s public image is that of a LIBERAL – one who makes out that he is opposed to oppression, that he is the “friend of the people”. Politically speaking, he is the descendant of a long line of liberals – Dr John Phillip, Rose-Innes, Sauer, Merriman, Mr and Mrs Ballinger, Hofmeyer, Alan Paton, etc – all of whom had adopted a similar political stance in public. Yet, in truth, all of them used the art of deception to mislead the oppressed into believing that they were the champions of the oppressed.

We, of the Unity Movement and APDUSA, have consistently exposed these liberals as agents of Imperialism. We have exposed their forked tongues and their two faces. Dr Slabbert has conducted himself in the “best traditions” of his political forbears. As can be seen from the reaction to his resignation, he was able to deceive a section of the Liberatory Movement.

Unfortunately for Dr Slabbert, he has been CAUGHT RED-HANDED.

PUBLICLY, Dr Slabbert holds out that he is opposed to this entire rotten system of oppression. IN PRIVATE, he identifies himself with the ruling class. PUBLICLY, his stance on the ANC is: “a war against the ANC is a war against South Africa”. IN PRIVATE, he is planning how to defeat the ANC. PUBLICLY, he condemns apartheid. IN PRIVATE, he has “no problems” with the preservation of the vast priviledges of the whites. PUBLICLY, he resigns from Parliament but in the next breath he urges the PFP to continue with its work in Parliament.

He did not stop there. He went on to encourage the Indian and coloured sell-outs in the Tri-cameral parliament to sue it as a “forum for protest and opposition”. (The Daily News, 13.3.86). He says this notwithstanding the fact that close to 90% fo the Indian and coloured people have rejected these sell-outs and the Tri-cameral Parliament. Such is Dr Slabbert’s contempt for the oppressed people.

Dr Slabbert stands thoroughly exposed. In exposing himself, he has also reavelaed the TRUE NATURE OF LIBERALISM.

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“Van Zyl Slabbert caught red handed” [APDUSA VIEWS March 1986] – Part 5

https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/dr-van-zyl-slabbert-caught-red-handed

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files/ApMar86.1684.4459.000.000.Mar1986.2.pdf

March 1986

WHO IS THE OPPRESSOR?

We have always considered it to be of the utmost importance to identify and present to the people WHO THE OPPRESSOR IS. Not just a section of the oppressors but the whole gang of them. If people are called upon to struggle against oppression, the first task is to identify the oppressor. Then the people will know against whom they are to struggle.

Our view is: The oppressor is the official ruling lcass and it pack of henchmen – the Bantustan “leaders”, the sell-outs in the Houses of ill-fame called Delegates and Representatives. The oppressor is the racism-ridden white worker and petty bourgeoisie born with golden spoons in their mouths. The oppressor is Imperialism – thos powerful and rich groups in countries like American, Britain, France, West Germany, Canada, Japan, etc. The oppressor is the big factory owner, bankers, mine owners and the land barons (Capitalism).

The political representatives of Imperial and Capitalism are the LIBERALS, one section of which is the Progressive Federal Party.

All this is very elementary and easy to grasp. What is important is that we APPLY this simple truth in our day-to-day activities. If we do this, not only will we be rendering the oppressed people a great service but we will also ensure that we do not fall prey to the antics of the modern-day Dr Jekylls and Mr Hydes.

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>For instance, in a little known effort of great importance, Idasa organized five high level trips for drafters of the new South African constitution to England, Switzerland, Portugal, the US, Canada, India, and Australia, in 1994 and 1995, with a group drawn from all the major parties.

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“Untold Story of George Soros’ Worldwide Soft Power Empire”

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230824/untold-story-of-george-soros-worldwide-soft-power-empire-1112859657.html

Elon Musk has confirmed X’s plans to sue NGOs funded by US financier George Soros over their alleged attempt to crack down on free speech. What’s the lawsuit about? Who is Mr. Soros? And how has his name come to feature so prominently in many of the most politically disruptive events of the first decades of the 21st century? Sputnik explains.

X CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell late Wednesday after confirming that his social media empire would “be filing legal action” to “stop” an attempted crackdown on free speech by politicians and George Soros-funded NGOs justified using trumped-up data on the number of "hate incidents" in the British Isles. “Can’t wait for discovery to start!” Musk wrote.

The billionaire did not elaborate, prompting users and media to speculate on the exact nature of the case.

Musk’s message was a response to a report [https://public.substack.com/p/soros-funded-ngos-demand-crackdown] by an independent Irish journalist accusing authorities in Ireland and Scotland of inflating statistics about “hate-based offenses” to pass a new “hate speech” law which would make it a criminal offense to possess “hateful material” on your person or in your home – including up to a year in prison and a 5,000 euro fine for those refusing to hand over their digital device passwords to the authorities.

The crackdown is reportedly being backed by George Soros-funded non-government organizations (NGOs) accused of supporting a hardline censorship agenda, including by supporting police intervention and the seizure of personal phones and computers, as well as raids on the homes of the accused.

Soros-backed NGOs’ alleged attempts to influence Irish and Scottish government policy are a prime example of soft power.

Soft power, or the use of ideological, cultural, or economic influence rather than force to achieve one’s policy objectives, has been a primary tool of US and European foreign policy from at least the mid-1980s onward. After 1991, Western countries working to build the post-Cold War unipolar world order used soft power tools to spread visions of liberal democracy, free market economics, and "open societies" as "universal values" applicable to all nations. Countries refusing to adhere to these concepts have faced invasions, crushing sanctions, and coup d’états (among them Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Ukraine, just to name a few).

George Soros, 93, has been a staple of Western soft power campaigns for well over 40 years, and is perhaps the single most visible face of such efforts (although certainly not the first or only one). His Open Society Foundations spends around $1.5 billion a year from the financier’s vast hedge fund empire to fund “civil society” groups around the globe.

While conservatives often characterize Soros as a “leftist,” “communist,” or even “neo-Marxist,” his actions in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s reveal that he can best described as a standard social and economic liberal, promoting a vision of the world which both social conservatives and traditional leftists abhor – that is, the spread of a neoliberal political, social, and economic order perhaps best exemplified by academic Francis Fukuyama in his famous 1989 essay "The End of History?" [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184]

The Hungarian-born hedge fund manager and financier got his start in soft power "philanthropy" in the 1980s, providing funding for groups promoting radical political, economic, and institutional reforms in the communist nations of Eastern Europe and the USSR. He quickly ramped up the scale and scope of his activities in the region after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989 and the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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>Elon Musk has confirmed X’s plans to sue NGOs funded by US financier George Soros over their alleged attempt to crack down on free speech.

“‘Falls short of demonstrating good cause’: Federal judge hands Elon Musk and X a discovery win in ‘thermonuclear’ lawsuit against Media Matters”

https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/falls-short-of-demonstrating-good-cause-federal-judge-hands-elon-musk-and-x-a-discovery-win-in-thermonuclear-lawsuit-against-media-matters/

Apr 27th, 2024, 11:17 am

A conservative federal judge in Texas known for repeatedly ruling that Obamacare was unconstitutional granted Elon Musk a discovery win in the X owner’s self-described “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters, the liberal group that accused the social media company of placing major brands’ ads “next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.”

Before Musk filed the federal lawsuit, he promised that it would be “thermonuclear” in strength. Musk claimed that Media Matters’ “blatant smear campaign” against X “falsely portrayed” it as a haven for hate and haters to defame the company and harm it financially following Musk’s forced purchase.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, rebuffed Media Matters’ attempt to keep the lawsuit from moving to the discovery phase, writing that the defendant “falls short of demonstrating good cause” to stay discovery pending a ruling on their motion to toss out the case on various grounds.

O’Connor said Media Matters’ claims of having several strong arguments in favor of dismissal weren’t enough for him to “deviate from” the “usual practice” in the Fifth Circuit.

Media Matters has argued that it makes no sense (other than judge-shopping) for the case venue to be in Texas, considering that the allegedly offending Media Matters statements were composed in Maryland and “published” in Washington, D.C., while X is in California. The defendant concluded that Texas jurisdiction “is unavailable” to Musk, “full stop.” The defendant has also asserted that Musk failed to state claim.

In March, a federal judge in California who happens to be the brother of retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer threw out a different Musk lawsuit, one that alleged the Center for Countering Digital Hate caused advertisers to flee by reporting that under Musk’s watch X was “overwhelmed with harmful content” after Musk “reinstated tens of thousands of accounts, including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists and spreaders of dangerous conspiracy theories.”

In that dismissal, which Musk is appealing, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the lawsuit was “about punishing” free speech that X’s owner didn’t like.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/reminder-left-wing-megadonors-have-poured-money-into-media-matters-the-org-trying-to-starve-musks-x/ar-AA1kqwFH

Media Matters for America, the organization that has successfully targeted advertisers on billionaire Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has long been a beneficiary of donations from major institutional liberal donors and organizations connected to the Democratic Party, according to tax documents and grants.

Moreover, left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations granted the group $500,000 in 2021, according to its grant database. Soros also contributed $1 million to Media Matters in 2010, according to The New York Times.

>>20971069

>Wilmot James, an eminent young black sociologist, took on the job of executive director… founded a Public Information Centre in Idasa.

>>20971100

>Members subscribing to the above views; Dr Wilmot James

>>20917858

>Most of the [Legal Resources Centre's] funding was from outside South Africa. “The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer.”

“Wilmot James: Innovation and Justice in the World Today”

https://youtu.be/27Sajmo2LDw

Jun 10, 2013

On the Ford Foundation channel

2:23 – “I was a member of the board of Ford [Foundation] from 1996 to 2008… I am absolutely delighted to be here and to see my family again.”

Wilmot James, PhD

https://pandemics.sph.brown.edu/people/wilmot-james-phd

Senior Adviser to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health

Biography

Dr. James, an internationally recognized thought leader in biosecurity, global health, and pandemic preparedness, is a Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center and a Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice.

Dr. James has served as Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Health in South Africa, and most recently held positions at Columbia University as Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and as Chair of the Center for Pandemic Research. He is a highly sought-after consultant for organizations such as the African Society for Laboratory Medicine and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and serves on the advisory board of Resolve to Save Lives. Dr. James will use his extensive experience to address public health and national security challenges in his role as senior advisor to the Pandemic Center.

>>20896981

>the Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multibillion dollar endowment that had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years. Finally, there was the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, the international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017.

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“Dr. Wilmot James named as Chair of Wellcome Trust’s Climate Impacts Advisory Committee”

https://pandemics.sph.brown.edu/news/2023-07-26/wilmot-james-wellcome-trust-committee

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, July 26, 2023 - Today, the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health announced that Wilmot G. James, PhD, has been named Chair of Wellcome’s Climate Impacts Advisory Committee. He is appointed on a three-year term. Dr. James is a Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center and Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. The Climate Impacts Advisory Committee considers applications for the funding award, “Climate Impacts Awards: Unlocking urgent climate action by making the health effects of climate change visible.”

Wellcome’s Climate Impacts Awards fund short-term, high-impact projects that combine evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement to make these impacts of climate change more visible. These projects will drive urgent climate policy and practice change at scale. The expert Committee, made up of a diverse group of scientists, policy-makers, communicators and community leaders convened the first meeting with an interim Chair, Professor Peter Diggle of Lancaster University, in early July. Dr. James will assume the Chair moving forward. The first round of awards will be announced shortly.

“I am honored to be asked to serve as Chair of this important committee, and to work with Wellcome’s expert team in this area. We need to urgently address the causes of climate change, as well as coming up with innovative solutions to limit the harm done to people’s health today. I am delighted as I am fortunate to be exposed to cutting edge policy proposals that build on the opportunities we have to improve people, animal, plant and planetary health,” said Dr. James.

Dr. Madeleine Thomson, Head of Climate Impacts & Adaptation at Wellcome, said:

“Our health is one of the first ways many of us will directly feel the impacts of climate change. The recent heatwaves are a reminder of this as people suffer from the extreme weather fueled by climate change all over the world.

“Not every climate impact on health is this visible. The purpose of these awards is to make the links clear and inspire solutions to help drive policy change.

“We are delighted to appoint Dr. James as Committee Chair and believe his leadership will help us in identifying high impact research that aims to protect people from the worst effects of climate change.”

As Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center at Brown University, Dr. James works with an interdisciplinary team, led by Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, that takes a holistic approach to pandemic preparedness. This no-stone-unturned approach expands beyond a typical epidemiological lens and includes, among its many priorities, examining climate change's impacts on biological emergencies and working to increase resilience to them. Dr. James’ position with the Wellcome Climate Impacts Advisory Committee will allow him to significantly bolster his expertise in this area and further contribute to the Pandemic Center’s goals in climate change.

“Our changing climate, and its contributions to the spread of infectious diseases, is having profound impacts on public health. Given the stakes of this issue, it was no surprise to me that Wilmot James was selected to Chair this distinguished committee. Dr. James is a top global leader on health security threats and has an impressive record of being able to solve tough problems. I look forward to the progress that his leadership will spur.” said Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University.

Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that works to improve health and save lives using science. They focus on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. The Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health strives to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience to pandemics, other biological emergencies, and the harms they pose to health, peace, security, and prosperity.

For more information about the Committee, the awards, or the application process, see Wellcome’s website, https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/climate-impacts-awards.

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>[Stéphén Dǻrori] Activist in Mapam and then founding member of Ratz prior to the formation of Meretz.

“Israel Political Parties: Meretz”

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/meretz-political-party

Meretz (“Energy,” in Hebrew) is a left-wing, social-democratic political party in Israel.

Meretz was originally founded in 1992 through a union of three other left wing political parties – Ratz, Mapam and Shinui. Ratz’s leader, veteran Knesset member Shualmit Aloni was pegged as the new party’s leader on their electoral list.

On October 22, 2002, Meretz MK Uzi Even made history by becoming the first openly gay Member of Knesset. His term lasted less than three months, however, as the Knesset was dissolved in January 2003.

In December 2003, Meretz disbanded and merged with Yossi Beilin’s non-parliamentary Shahar (שח"ר) movement and became the Yachad (Hebrew: יח"ד) Party, which means “Together” and is also a Hebrew acronym for Social-Democratic Israel (Hebrew: ישראל חברתית דמוקרטית, Yisrael Hevratit Demokratit).

The party’s purpose was to unite a variety of dovish Zionist movements with the Labor Party. In March 2004, Beilin was elected party leader. In July 2005, the party changed its name to Meretz-Yachad. The party reverted to the name Meretz for the 2006 election, but the outcome was worse. The party won just five seats.

Meretz calls for an end to the occupation and for reaching an agreement that will lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. We believe that Israel should adopt the Arab League initiative and that the Israeli government should declare on its own initiative that it adheres to a political settlement based on the partition of the land based on the 1967 borders. Meretz calls for an immediate freeze on the settlement enterprise.

Meretz will fight for the defense of democracy and civic equality. Israel is a democratic state, a state of the Jewish people and a state of all its citizens. The status of every citizen without distinction on the basis of nationality must be equal. Meretz will fight manifestations of racism, nationalism and fascism. Meretz will fight against anti-democratic legislative initiatives, against the damage to the judicial system, the press, academia and freedom of expression.

Meretz offers a fair, just and transparent socio-democratic economic alternative , out of deep recognition of the state’s responsibility for its citizens. Meretz will promote a welfare state that includes regulation, effective supervision and promotion of workers’ rights. Will act to reform the tax system and to revolutionize the labor market. Meretz will lead a wide range of social services to the public in the fields of health, education, housing and welfare. Meretz will act to change the priorities of the state budget and will fight privatization.

Meretz will continue to lead the struggle for environmental justice. We will promote a policy of conservation versus development, protection of natural resources, and animal rights.

Meretz sees the education system as the most important resource for the establishment of a successful and successful society, and will work to promote free, equal and equal education for all Israeli children.

In the April 2019 election, Meretz won just four seats. Following the poor result, Meretz chose journalist and former MK Nitzan Horowitz as its new party leader. Horowitz is the first openly gay leader of a political party in Israel.

On July 25, 2019, Meretz agreed to form a joint list – the Democratic Union – with the new Democratic Israel Party created by former Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The party won five seats in the September 2019 election.

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

In addition to being a full member of Socialist International and the Progressive Alliance, it has participated in Global Greens conferences.[44] In the international media, Meretz has been described as left-wing, social-democratic, dovish, secular, civil libertarian and anti-occupation.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israeli-arabs/meretzs-arab-mk-calls-for-direct-negotiations-with-hamas/2021/08/24/

August 24, 2021

Meretz’s Arab Minister [Esawi Frej] Calls for Direct Negotiations with Hamas

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Ever since October 7th, commentators, scholars, politicians, and Israeli officials alike have referred to the terrorist attack as a hyper-charged version of “Israel's 9/11.” https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/11/why-the-oct-7-attack-wasnt-israels-9-11.html

Curiously, after the October 7 Hamas attack…

“Former general Golan [former Meretz MP] wins Israeli Labour party leadership”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-general-golan-wins-israeli-labour-party-leadership-2024-05-28/

May 28, 20242:32 PM EDT

JERUSALEM, May 28 (Reuters) - Israel's center-left Labour party elected as its new leader Yair Golan, a former general who won widespread acclaim for rescuing people during the Oct 7 Hamas attack, the party said on Tuesday.

Golan, a military reservist who formerly served as a member of parliament for the left-wing Meretz party, won 95% of the party vote.

He was hailed as a hero in Israel after he rushed on his own initiative to the area around Gaza on the morning of the Oct. 7 attack and rescued people from a music festival that had been overrun by Hamas gunmen in a deadly assault that led to Israel's massive ongoing retaliation.

The Labour party, once a dominant force in Israeli politics, has shrunk to a tiny rump, winning just four seats in the 2022 election that saw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win an unprecedented sixth term.

In his campaign video, Golan said Israel could not continue on its current trajectory and that "together we can create an Israel that is free and democratic and strong." He invited voters to join "a journey to save the state."

https://www.jns.org/former-meretz-lawmaker-wins-labor-party-leadership-primary/

(May 29, 2024 / JNS)

Golan’s victory had been expected as the hard-left politician had led the polls over the other candidates—Avi Shaked, Azi Nagar and Itai Leshem.

Labor MK Naama Lazimi, who is facing criminal charges over her role in illegal anti-government protests, praised Golan: “I congratulate my friend Yair Golan on a resounding victory for the party leadership. His victory is the first step in building a large and united democratic camp that will bring tremendous news to the citizens of Israel and the state.”

As part of his campaign, Golan vowed to unify all left-wing parties into a single voting bloc. Recent polls indicate that if the Jewish state were to hold an election, the Labor Party and the far-left Meretz Party would win five and four mandates, respectively, in Israel’s 120-seat parliament.

There was some controversy about the primary’s results. Just hours before the vote, the Supreme Court accepted an appeal filed by Golan and the party, ruling that Tuesday’s results would be final and absolute.

The Tel Aviv District Court had previously ruled that the primary results would be “conditional” and require the party conference’s approval.

[Also this attack ended the strikes in Israel]

“The return of liberal Zionism?”

https://www.vox.com/23954323/return-of-liberal-zionism-israel

Dec 12, 2023, 11:00 AM UTC

The massacre by Hamas on October 7 and subsequent war in Gaza has created the conditions for something surprising: a resurrection of the liberal Zionist political tradition.

Prior to October 7, liberal Zionism appeared defeated: broken by the failure of the 1990s peace process and subsequent collapse of the left-wing Israeli parties that stood for its ideals. And on its face, this moment seems like a poor time for a revival.

This was not for lack of effort: In the 1990s, the spirit of liberal Zionism pervaded Israeli politics. The government passed two major new Basic Laws (the Israeli equivalent of constitutional amendments), historic protections for human rights that Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak famously termed a “constitutional revolution.” Around the same time, Israel reached two agreements with the Palestinians — called the Oslo Accords — that created the Palestinian Authority as an interim step toward a full Palestinian state.

But the peace process collapsed into violence, making the 2000s a decade of nearly continuous war with Palestinians. Liberal Zionism was a casualty of these conflicts.

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“'Process of issuing visas for the 95 deported Libyan nationals fraught with irregularities'” 1 of 2

https://youtu.be/q_JiH0Bw1-g

Aug 20, 2024 #SABCNews

This has been revealed by Home Affairs Minister, Dr Leon Schreiber, and his team, which has briefed Parliament's Home Affairs Portfolio Committee on a range of issues.

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/visas-of-95-libyans-handwritten-irregularity-flagged/

20 Aug 2024 03:17 pm

The study visas issued to the 95 Libyans found at the Milites Dei Academy in Mpumalanga were handwritten due to the system at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation’s (Dirco) mission in Tunis being offline.

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs recently received a report on the investigation into the 95 Libyans who have now been deported.

In total, 100 Libyans were granted visas. However, three were deported on arrival following interviews by immigration officials at OR Tambo International Airport. The other two never made it to South Africa.

The 95 Libyans entered the country on different dates and in groups through OR Tambo International Airport.

The first group of 24 entered the country on 25 April, the second group of 24 entered the country on 26 April, the third group of 24 on 24 May, and the last group of 23 on 29 May 2024.

They were all issued study visas and were meant to stay in the country for six months, until December 31.

95 Libyans: investigation results

• Application forms used were outdated and did not comply with the forms prescribed in the Immigration Regulations

• There was no indication on some application forms that the applicants were applying for study visas, however, the official decided to grant study visas

• Critical information was omitted, such as the place of birth in some cases and the addresses of the applicants for their country of origin

• The applications did not contain any proof of sufficient funds as prescribed

• A preliminary check of a Momentum Membership indicates that the membership certificate is fraudulent (This was done telephonically)

• The Certificate of Criminal Status (Police Clearance) was not verified during the processing of the application

• The agent submitted the applications. None of the applicants appeared in person

According to the report, the official at the Tunis embassy who processed the visa applications did not consult, seek advice and receive confirmation from the Department of Home Affairs before approving the visas.

Dirco said it had launched an investigation. Officials from the department, state security agency and home affairs will be travelling to Tunis to look at the submitted documentation.

The Libyans were deported at the weekend, and their country paid for their travel back home.

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“'Process of issuing visas for the 95 deported Libyan nationals fraught with irregularities'” 2 of 2

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/visas-of-95-libyans-handwritten-irregularity-flagged/

20 Aug 2024 03:17 pm

Libyans in South Africa

According to Border Management Authority commissioner Dr Mike Masiapato, 588 Libyans entered South Africa through the OR Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) and the Cape Town International Airport between 1 January and 14 August 2024.

Of the 588 Libyans who entered South Africa, 463 departed through these airports.

As of 14 August, 125 Libyans are still in the country.

Since the discovery of the military training camp, 114 Libyans entered the country, 97 of them have since left.

The country’s intelligence has expressed concern over the influx of Libyans entering the country. All ports of entry are now on high alert for Libyans.

National security at risk

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber told the committee that as long as the department’s system was outdated, paper-based and manual, it remained vulnerable to fraud.

Schreiber said the department could not even audit the system, even if it wanted, due to the outdated system.

He said: “How can South Africa regard ourselves as a serious nation when we still allow entrance into our country based on hand-written documents that even a child could forge?

“How can South Africa regard ourselves as a serious nation when we fail to use modern technology like machine learning that can verify the authenticity of a document better than any human being ever could?

“Which person on earth could justify the use of such an antiquated, broken and vulnerable system when we live in the year 2024, with technology at our fingertips that could instantly solve every one of these problems?

“Incidents of identity theft, long queues, visa fraud and corruption will keep happening, over and over and over again, forever, if we fail to digitally transform Home Affairs.”

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>Brenthurst

“A Divine Right to Look Human: Brenthurst and Beyond” – “there was a recommendation to create a National Health Service”

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38673-2_5

29 July 2023

Penn’s experiences in Britain helped shape his vision for his own plastic surgery unit in Johannesburg, the Brenthurst Red Cross Military Hospital for Plastic Surgery, the focus of Chapter Five. Discussed here is the establishment of the hospital under the patronage of the wealthy and influential Oppenheimer family, the hiring of key members of staff and the efforts at surgical reconstruction. The hospital was also the site of an important technological development in the treatment of maxillo-facial injury—the Brenthurst Splint. Evident too is the segregation within the Union Defence Force. Although the exigencies of war meant that segregation on the front lines could not always be adhered to, boundaries were easier to maintain on the home front when treating those not faced with life-threatening injuries such as soldiers undergoing reconstructive surgery. Simultaneously there was a recommendation to create a National Health Service providing equal access to health care. Penn’s work at Brenthurst can therefore be contextualised by the constant tension between segregationist ideology and the idealised vision of medicine and the provision of universal health care. At the end of the War, Penn travelled to the United States, the new centre for the professionalisation of and innovation in plastic and reconstructive surgery. The sum of his experiences thus far also buttressed the establishment of his civilian practice, the Brenthurst Clinic.

The title is paraphrased from Jack Penn’s published autobiography, The Right to Look Human, as well as the quote appearing on the tapestry commissioned for the Brenthurst Clinic.

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

Jack Penn (14 August 1909 – 27 November 1996), M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.(E.), Mil. Dec. M.B.E., S.M., was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, sculptor and author, who was also for a time a member of the President's Council in South Africa.

Penn was born in Cape Town in 1909

Married in 1934 Diana Malkin, Penn and his wife went to the United Kingdom, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1935. He worked successively at the Orthopaedic Centre in Liverpool, at the then new British Postgraduate School in London, as acting Senior Surgeon at a County Council hospital in London, and as Resident Surgical Officer at the Royal Salop Infirmary in Shrewsbury. He also spent part of 1937 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, in the United States of America, then returning, with a short spell in London, to Johannesburg, where he was offered a part-time appointment as lecturer in Clinical Anatomy by Prof. Raymond Dart at the University of the Witwatersrand.[1]

Penn enlisted as a part-time officer with the rank of major in the Union Defence Force (predecessor of the South African Defence Force [The South African Defence Force (SADF) comprised the armed forces of South Africa from 1957 until 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Defence_Force]), being called up in 1939 as a major attached to the 7th Field Ambulance. In this capacity he went to London to help with war casualties in need of plastic and reconstructive surgery, notably during the Battle of Britain… Returning to South Africa, he founded and was commander in charge of the Brenthurst Military Hospital. Severely damaged by fire in 1944, Brenthurst was restored and returned to its owner, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.[1]

Oppenheimer made possible a new Chair of Plastic, Maxillo Facial and Oral Surgery, and Dr Penn, at the age of 35, was appointed first professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand. His academic positions included visiting professorships at Oxford, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, UCLA, New York, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and the Taiwan Army Medical Centre.[2]

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>The Hoek Report/ Die Hoek Verslag covers an audit into capitalist ownership of the South African Economy. It was to be chaired in the South African Parliament on the 6th September [1966] by President Hendrik Verwoerd but he was assassinated on the day and the National Party hid the document's findings from the public.

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>segregation within the Union Defence Force.

And people tend to refer to HF Verwoerd (Prime Minister 1958-1966) as the ‘architect of apartheid (separateness)’.

“A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF UNION DEFENCE FORCE OPERATIONS DURING THE AFRIKANER REBELLION, 1914-1915”

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/2019-05/a_critical_analysis_of_union_defence_force.pdf

The South African entry into the First World War, as part of the British war effort, required the invasion of German South West Africa (GSWA) in order to secure strategic Imperial objectives. The initial invasion of GSWA was repulsed at Sandfontein during September 1914 and became the first operational reverse for the Union Defence Forces (UDF) during the First World War. However, in addition to a seemingly prevalent external German threat following this operational loss, South Africa faced a second, more serious, internal threat. The socioeconomic realities of early-twentieth-century South Africa, felt most keenly in rural Afrikaner society, in addition to the Union’s entry into the war, which further magnified the rift between the competing interests of Afrikaner nationalists and the Union government loyal to the Crown, triggered the outbreak of an Afrikaner Rebellion in September 1914. As a result, the operational focus of the UDF shifted immediately from the invasion of GSWA to the internal military threat posed by Afrikaner rebel forces. The Afrikaner Rebellion became the first conventional military deployment of the UDF within the borders of South Africa to suppress an internal revolt. The UDF harnessed its operational and tactical mobility by operating from the central position, along internal lines of communication, in order to swiftly deal with the rebel threat.

The Union of South Africa found itself in a precarious position at the outbreak of the First World War. The UDF was still in its developmental stage and was untested as a cohesive fighting force. The Union of South Africa was a dominion of Britain and when the British Empire declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the Union was in effect also at war with Germany. The British Empire requested the Union of South Africa to invade GSWA, capture its seaports and destroy its wireless communication stations.

Louis Botha and Jan Christiaan Smuts1 supported the British war effort but JBM Hertzog contested the assumption that the association with the British Empire constituted an automatic involvement in the war. Botha’s motion for the invasion was passed in Parliament on 10 September 1914 by 91 votes to ten. The Union officially entered the First World War on 14 September 1914.

The Afrikaner Rebellion coincided with the South African campaign in GSWA. The entrance of the Union into the Great War resulted in an upsurge of emotion among the Afrikaner people. Many of the past tensions, anger and sadness which dated back to the South African War or prior had resurfaced.

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

South West Africa[b], renamed to Namibia[c] from 12 June 1968, was an occupied part of the Union of South Africa and later the Republic of South Africa from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia.

A German colony known as German South West Africa from 1884 to 1915, it was made a League of Nations mandate of the Union of South Africa following Germany's defeat in the First World War. Although the mandate was repealed by the United Nations on 27 October 1966, South African control over the territory continued despite its illegality under international law.[6] The territory was administered directly by the South African government from 1915 to 1978, when the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference laid the groundwork for semi-autonomous rule. During an interim period between 1978 and 1985, South Africa gradually granted South West Africa a limited form of home rule, culminating in the formation of a Transitional Government of National Unity.

“ATM calls for Parliamentary inquiry into alleged rand manipulation”

https://youtu.be/AvBm0bz0poY

Aug 26, 2024

“ATM's Vuyo Zungula calls for rand manipulators to be held accountable by Parliament”

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/atms-vuyo-zungula-calls-for-rand-manipulators-to-be-held-accountable-by-parliament/ar-AA1pyTkG

2024/08/28

African Transformation Movement (ATM) leader Vuyo Zungula has called for those responsible for the rand manipulation to face the wrath of the law.

It is alleged that more than 28 banks conspired to fix the value of the South African rand more than a decade ago.

The Competition Commission held hearings in November 2023 into the rand manipulation saga.

In February, the commission said the fight over the manipulation of the rand was headed to the Constitutional Court after it appealed the judgment of the Competition Appeal Court.

On Monday, Zungula announced that his party has formally requested Parliament to establish a commission of inquiry to further investigate the ongoing scandal.

In a letter dated August 26, Zungula specifically called for Speaker Thoko Didiza’s intervention through a draft resolution to address the alleged manipulation of the rand by financial institutions.

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/rand-manipulation-impacted-sa-workers-exporters-and-remittances-heavily-1b2bac3c-1e59-4e9e-9d25-f2bdce111211

Published Nov 22, 2023

Standard Chartered Bank last week agreed to pay R42.7 million in settlement for manipulating the rand through fixing bids, offers and trades in alliance with other banks between 2007 and 2018.

In 2017, Citibank also paid R69.5m in settlement with the Competition Commission for similar charges, while 26 other banks are appearing before the Competition Tribunal for this.

The Competition Commission has put up a value of R1 trillion as the value of the manipulated foreign exchange trades by the banks.

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“19 banks still on the hook in South Africa’s rand manipulation case”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/finance/757647/19-banks-still-on-the-hook-in-south-africas-rand-manipulation-case/

5 Mar 2024

The commission is still pursuing its case against 19 of the initial 28 banks identified in the investigations.

The fate of 13 banks hinges on the ConCourt’s decision – while six other banks are compelled to answer for their involvement.

The commission said it will not appeal the CAC order in respect of four banks – Nedbank Group Limited, FirstRand Limited, Credit Suisse Group, and Standard New York Securities Inc.

Of the 28 banks initially pursued by the Competition Commission:

3 Applied for leniency: Barclays Plc, Barclays Capital and Absa Bank Ltd

2 Settled, fined: Citibank N.A and Standard Chartered Bank

4 Appeals not upheld: BNP Paribas, JP Morgan Chase Bank, Credit Suisse Securities and HSBC Bank Plc

2 Did not appeal: Investec Ltd and Investec Bank Ltd

4 Case dropped: Nedbank Group, FirstRand Limited, Credit Suisse Group and Bank of

America, N.A

13 Appeals upheld, pending ConCourt: Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Designated Activity Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A., Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, Nomura International PLC, Commerzbank AG, Macquarie Bank Limited, HSBC Bank, USA National Association, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc, Bank of America, National Association, Nedbank Limited, FirstRand Bank Limited, and Standard Americas, Inc.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/741065/south-africas-rand-manipulation-case-falls-apart/

9 Jan 2024

–The Competition Appeals Court has dismissed the Competition Commission’s rand manipulation case against the majority of banks – both local and international – accused of rigged trades involving the rand/dollar pair.—

See attachment for full ruling.

https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/749186/rand-manipulation-case-against-major-banks-heading-to-the-constitutional-court/

6 Feb 2024

The Competition Commission says it has approached the Constitutional Court of South Africa for leave to appeal the Competition Appeal Court’s (CAC) judgment from January 2024 that largely dismantled its case of rand manipulation against major banks.

The commission has been pursuing a case against 28 banks since 2015, including the big local banks and many other international banks, alleging that these groups colluded with each other to fix the foreign exchange rate in respect of the US Dollar and the South African Rand currency pair.

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“DAVID MARTIN: MONKEYPOX THE COVER STORY”

https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/david-martin-monkeypox-the-cover

Aug 18, 2024

In 2021 NTI predicts a laboratory engineered vaccine resistant Monkeypox outbreak with 271 Million deaths. This is a coverup for the fatalities of the Covid injected. WHO is a criminal organization led by Bill Gates, Rockefellers and the Wellcome Trust.

Dustin Moskovitz sponsored the live pandemic simulation of the laboratory engineered vaccine resistant Monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak with 3.2 Billion cases around the world and 271 million deaths. He is the founder of Open Philanthropy and wants CRISPR gene editing technology used on all humanity.

STATEMENT FROM NTI:

We are grateful to Open Philanthropy. The exercise and report would not have been possible without their generous support.

Executive Summary:

In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures and explored opportunities to improve capabilities to prevent and respond to high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

https://x.com/SpartaJustice/status/1824951276796355025

In the video;

16:34 – “We have to go back to 1913 to understand this crime and specifically… we have to look at the Rockefeller Foundation and then a few years later the Wellcome Trust which became the colluding parties that authorised the idea that allopathic medicine becoming the agency through which behaviour modification can be done through medicine… If you look at the Wellcome Trust going into the Second World War, it was very explicitly the commercial offense of the United Kingdom on the German pharmaceutical chemical industrial complex… The Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome Trust became the organising entities which ultimately in 1947 put the World Health Organisation on the map… They wrote into the United Nations Charter the absolute liability shield from all criminal prosecution in perpetuity for any person associated with the World Health Organisation and any of its activities… It is important to realise when we talk about the World Health Organisation, we are not talking about an institution in the United Nations, we are talking about a criminal conspiracy that has been put into place by 2 foundations who had a commercial interest in building a criminal liability shield for themselves. That’s what it is.”

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>In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered…

“Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats” – Scenario: Monkeypox

https://youtu.be/SLQ5rz9xCl4

Nuclear Threat Initiative channel

Nov 23, 2021

6:45 – ‘Fiction’ scenario video about Monkeypox

In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures—exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

This report, "Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats: Results from the 2021 Tabletop Exercise Conducted in Partnership with the Munich Security Conference," written by Jaime M. Yassif, Ph.D., Kevin P. O’Prey, Ph.D., and Christopher R. Isaac, M.Sc., summarizes key findings from the exercise and offers actionable recommendations for the international community.

The report launch on November 23, 2021 was chaired by NTI | bio Interim Vice President Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg and featured remarks from Twist Biosciences CEO and Co-Founder Dr. Emily Leproust, and NTI | bio Senior Fellow Dr. Jaime Yassif.

Learn more about the event: https://www.nti.org/events/report-launch-strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/

Read the report: https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/

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>Read the report: https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/strengthening-global-systems-to-prevent-and-respond-to-high-consequence-biological-threats/

Report: “Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats”

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NTI recognizes the critical importance of strengthening the global biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architecture. To that end, NTI is focused on catalyzing the development of stronger international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness capabilities so the world is better able to prevent and respond to future biological risks. To address important gaps in key areas, NTI is working with international partners:

• To establish a new global biosecurity entity dedicated to reducing emerging biological risks that can accompany certain technology advances. Its mission will be to reduce the risks of catastrophic consequences due to accidents, inadvertent misuse, or deliberate abuse of bioscience and biotechnology by promoting stronger global biosecurity norms and developing tools and incentives to uphold them.

• To explore the possibility of establishing a new Joint Assessment Mechanism to investigate highconsequence biological events of unknown origin. This new mechanism would operate at the “seam” between existing mechanisms—including World Health Organization (WHO) outbreak investigation capabilities and the United Nations Secretary-General’s Mechanism for investigating alleged deliberate bioweapons use—thereby strengthening UN system capabilities to investigate pandemic origins.

• To advocate for establishing a catalytic, multilateral financing mechanism for global health security and pandemic preparedness. The goal is to accelerate sustainable biosecurity and pandemic preparedness capacity-building in countries where resources are most needed.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

Few of the Participants;

Dr. Beth Cameron, Senior Director, Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense, U.S. National Security Council

Mr. Luc Debruyne, Strategic Advisor to the CEO Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness

Dr. Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health R&D Janssen Research & Development

Dr. Chris Elias, President, Global Development Division Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director, Wellcome Trust

Dr. George Gao, Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC)

Dr. Margaret (Peggy) A. Hamburg, Interim Vice President, Global Biological Policy and Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

Dr. John Nkengasong, Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Sam Nunn, Founder and Co-Chair Nuclear Threat Initiative Former U.S. Senator

Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme

Dr. Petra Wicklandt, Head of Corporate Affairs Merck KGaA

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>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.

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“British Concentration Camps: Second Boer War of Independence”

https://youtu.be/8wR-HXyBljc

Oct 28, 2022

The concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War were formed by the British army to house the residents of the two Boer republics of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. They were established towards the end of 1900, after Britain had invaded the Boer Republics.

The suffering experienced in the camps left a lasting legacy of bitterness amongst the Boers. Between 18,000 and 28,000 Boers died, 80% of them children. Less known are the "native" refugee camps, which functioned as forced wartime labour camps, and are today known as African concentration camps. About 20,000 African people also died in the concentration camps.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3069/3069-h/3069-h.htm

THE GREAT BOER WAR

By Arthur Conan Doyle

September 1902

Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon earth. Take this formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances under which no weakling could survive, place them so that they acquire exceptional skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman, and the rider. Then, finally, put a finer temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual, and you have the modern Boer—the most formidable antagonist who ever crossed the path of Imperial Britain. Our military history has largely consisted in our conflicts with France, but Napoleon and all his veterans have never treated us so roughly as these hard-bitten farmers with their ancient theology and their inconveniently modern rifles.

Look at the map of South Africa, and there, in the very centre of the British possessions, like the stone in a peach, lies the great stretch of the two republics, a mighty domain for so small a people. How came they there? Who are these Teutonic folk who have burrowed so deeply into Africa? It is a twice-told tale, and yet it must be told once again if this story is to have even the most superficial of introductions. No one can know or appreciate the Boer who does not know his past, for he is what his past has made him.

“Discussion | Another delay in Zuma's arms deal case”; "the arms trade is responsible for about 40% of world corruption… controls the politicians in Europe and… US"

https://youtu.be/zdreQNWxFhg

Sep 1, 2024

Former president Jacob Zuma recently appeared in the Pietermaritzburg High Court for a pre-trial hearing in the long-running arms deal corruption case, nearly 25 years after the scandal first emerged.

Despite progress in May, when Judge Thoba Poyo-Dlwati scheduled the trial for six weeks between April and September next year, further delays have surfaced.

To shed more light on the ongoing obstacles, we are now joined by arms deal and corruption activist, Terry Crawford-Browne.

2:52 – “In 1998, I learned that BAE was laundering bribes via two Swedish trade unions to the ANC ahead of the 1999 election. Through a contact in London, I asked the British government to investigate. Scotland Yard was appointed to do so and it came back, it was not illegal in English law to bribe foreigners at that stage and therefore there was no crime for Scotland Yard to investigate. So there was that cover up. That then however led to the Serious Fraud Office in Britain opening an investigation of BAE bribes to Saudi Arabia, South Africa and six other countries and Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006 then squelched the whole thing saying, “it violated British national security.” So it’s not just our government that is covering it up. There are governments in Europe as well; the British, the Germans, the Swedes… because I am sad to say it has been estimated that… the arms trade is responsible for about 40% of world corruption that can be traced back to the arms trade. So it’s a hugely corrupt business but it controls the politicians in Europe and also in the United States.”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/zumas-delay-tactics-prove-effective-in-arms-deal-case/

30 Aug 2024

Charged with French arms company Thales for fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering, linked to the 1999 multi-billion-rand defence procurement project, Zuma’s pre-trial hearing yesterday resumed at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg, with his defence again pushing for the recusal of prosecutor Billy Downer.

Breaking from his earlier undertaking of not giving reasons on Downer’s non-recusal, Judge Nkosinathi Chili said “exceptional circumstances” existed that justify him providing reasons for the decision, that he would provide on 11 September.

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>That then however led to the Serious Fraud Office in Britain opening an investigation of BAE bribes to Saudi Arabia, South Africa and six other countries and Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006 then squelched the whole thing saying, “it violated British national security.” So it’s not just our government that is covering it up. There are governments in Europe as well; the British, the Germans, the Swedes… because I am sad to say it has been estimated that… the arms trade is responsible for about 40% of world corruption that can be traced back to the arms trade. So it’s a hugely corrupt business but it controls the politicians in Europe and also in the United States.”

>French arms company Thales

“RFK Jr.: Who Really Profits from The Ukraine War?”

https://youtu.be/LD6kvDHbIYY

Jan 6, 2024

Few people understand what the war in Ukraine means for big business—namely, opportunity. It’s not just the weapons and reconstruction contracts. Ukraine’s vast agricultural lands—among the most fertile in the world—are up for grabs, and American companies like BlackRock are at the front of the line.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/26/im-not-profiting-from-misery-im-averting-more-thaless-uk-boss-on-making-missiles-for-ukraine

Tue 26 Mar 2024 15.00 CET

Thales: In Britain, defence accounts for most of its business – and is growing rapidly. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine in February 2022, the group’s shares have gained more than 80%, its value has swelled to €33bn and its order book has reached a record high, at €45bn.

Missiles made by Thales in Belfast have been supplied – via the Ministry of Defence (MoD) – to fighters in Ukraine, to shoot down Russian jets, drones and helicopters, and to hit tank targets. “They’ve been used to great effect in defending Ukraine,” Cresswell says. Sales have doubled since just before Moscow’s invasion, and he expects them to double again in the next two years.

It was against that backdrop that [Alex] Cresswell’s future was forged. His father was a production chemist working on the commissioning of factories and refineries. The job moved Cresswell around, giving him a “Heinz 57 schooling”, in Cambridgeshire, South Africa, the US and Hertfordshire.

He began his career with eight years at British Aerospace (now BAE) in Stevenage as a guided weapons systems engineer. He joined what would become Thales in 1992, holding various positions, including running its land defence division. In early 2020, he took on the top UK job.

Thales also finds itself at the centre of an international tug of war over the Aukus pact – the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the UK and the US.

Australia scrapped a submarine project with France when it joined Aukus, angering Thales’s benefactor. But Cresswell says Thales has sovereign status in all three Aukus countries, and he has high-level security clearances. He adds that the pact is attracting talent, as the “most exciting” event since the 1958 US-UK nuclear weapons treaty.

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It is still appealing Bank of America, just under different names due to technicalities.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/banking/524066-competition-commission-taking-banks-to-constitutional-court-over-alleged-rand-manipulation.html

6.02.2024

There are noteworthy technicalities here — it is appealing the Nedbank Limited ruling, not Nedbank Group; and FirstRand Bank Limited, not FirstRand Limited.

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>Beit Trust Scholarship

>Beit Trust

>January 1983

>The Trust was initially set up in 1906 by the Will of Mr Alfred Beit, a brilliant financier and a director of the British South Africa Company with many interests including the development of Rhodesia’s railway system.

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Beit Trust

“Beit Trust Postgraduate Scholarships (2024/ 2025)”

https://youtu.be/kEtgvps3FoM

Dec 5, 2023

https://beittrust.org.uk/beit-trust-history/

The Trust was established in 1906 by the Will of Alfred Beit, a financier and philanthropist. He had many interests, including the development of the railway system in Southern Africa. On his death in 1906, at the age of 53, he left a substantial legacy to a wide range of charitable causes.

The Original Terms of the Will

Under The Railway Fund’s original terms of reference, the Trust funded the construction of most of the great bridges of Southern Africa – over the Limpopo at Beitbridge, on the border of Zimbabwe and South Africa; over the Save in Zimbabwe; over the Kafue in Zambia; over the Luangwa on the Great East Road from Zambia to Malawi; and the Otto Beit Bridge (above), opened in 1939, which spans the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe at Chirundu. Over four hundred smaller or low-level bridges were also built, which still provide much needed communication in rural areas.

Alfred Beit laid down the Trust’s objectives in his Will. These were re-emphasised in The Beit Trust Act 1954. The Trust’s benevolent mandate is exclusively for Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

https://beittrust.org.uk/beit-trust-organisation/

We have supported over a hundred Beit Scholars at universities in the UK and South Africa, as well as regional training for surgeons from ZZM.

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

Alfred Beit (1853-1906) founded the British South Africa Company and funded Rhodes Scholarship

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/alfred-beit

Alfred Beit was a British gold and diamond magnate in South Africa, and a major donor and profiteer of infrastructure development on the African continent. He also donated much money to university education and research in several countries, and was the "silent partner" who structured the capital flight from post-Boer War South Africa to Rhodesia, and the Rhodes Scholarship, named after his employee, Cecil Rhodes.

Born and brought up in Hamburg, Germany, he was the eldest son and second of six children of an affluent Jewish-German citizen of Hamburg. His younger siblings included Otto Beit. Alfred was an unpromising scholar and was apprenticed to Jules Porgès & Cie, the Amsterdam diamond firm where he developed a talent for examining stones.

Beit was sent to Kimberley, South Africa in 1875 by his firm to buy diamonds—following the diamond strike at Kimberley. He became a business friend of Cecil Rhodes through his role in the Kimberley Central Company. Beit was captivated by Rhodes' talk of 'big schemes'. Together, they proceeded to buy out digging ventures and to eliminate opposition such as Barney Barnato. He rapidly became one of a group of financiers who gained control of the diamond-mining claims in the Central, Dutoitspan, and De Beers mines. Rhodes was the active politician and Beit provided a lot of the planning and financial backing.

He imported mining engineers from the USA and was among the first to adopt deep-level mining. Rhodes purportedly was granted concessions by Lobengula, as a result of which Beit founded the British South Africa Company in 1888.

Beit became life-governor of De Beers and also a director of numerous other companies such as Rand Mines, Rhodesia Railways and the Beira Railway Company.

Inspired by Rhodes' imperialist vision, he took part in the planning and financing of the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of late 1895 which was intended to trigger a coup in the South African Republic in the Transvaal. As a result of this debacle, Rhodes resigned as Prime Minister, and both he and Beit were found guilty by the House of Commons inquiry. Beit was obliged to resign as director of the Charter Company, but was elected vice-president of the British South Africa Company a few years later. With the death of Rhodes in 1902, Beit, as one of the trustees, helped control the enormous estate, currently being helped by the Oppenheimer family of De Beers and Anglo-American.

During his lifetime, Beit made generous donations for scientific work and education. In 1905 he founded a chair of colonial history at the University of Oxford, which is now the Beit Professor of History of the British Commonwealth. In 1906 he made the donation of two million mark to the stock capital of the Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung, a charity dedicated to spend its interest for the benefit of a precursor of the University of Hamburg.

In recognition of his bequests the Royal School of Mines, a faculty of Imperial College London, erected a large memorial to Beit flanking the entrance to its building. The Imperial College residential halls on Prince Consort Road was named Beit Hall after him.

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>In recognition of his bequests the Royal School of Mines, a faculty of Imperial College London, erected a large memorial to Beit flanking the entrance to its building. The Imperial College residential halls on Prince Consort Road was named Beit Hall after him.

“Imperial College London’s Cancel Campaign Against Its Own Founders”

https://quillette.com/2022/01/21/imperial-college-londons-campaign-to-libel-its-own-founders/

21 Jan 2022

The connection with the Beit family and its financial generosity has continued almost unbroken since the founding of the College.

Imperial College London was founded in 1907. It is one of the top 20 universities in the world, and among the leading technical universities in Europe. Two individuals were central to its foundation.

The first is 19th-century English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, who became known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” due to his singularly strenuous advocacy of Charles Darwin’s ideas. In South Kensington, he collected the pieces from which Imperial was later assembled: the Royal School of Mines, The Royal College of Science, and the City and Guilds of London Institute. Although he died before the creation of Imperial College, Huxley is described by his biographer Cyril Bibby as its “chief builder.”

The second main founder is Alfred Beit, a German Jew who made his fortune from diamond and gold mining in South Africa. Beit, who moved to London in 1889, was one of the first to see the desirability of creating a new science university in London to compete with developments in Germany. Together with his business associate Sir Julius Wernher, they provided the financial backing necessary to secure the construction of Imperial College. Beit died in 1906, a year before the opening, but the family connection was sustained through his brother Otto, who inherited part of Alfred’s fortune. In 1931, the Rector of Imperial College, Sir Henry Tizard, wrote in the journal Nature: “Practically the whole of the endowment of the College since its incorporation has been provided by Sir Julius Wernher, Mr Alfred Beit and Sir Otto Beit.”

Up to October 26th, 2021, when the Imperial History Group published a report aimed at examining “the history of the College through its links to the British Empire, and to report on the current understanding and reception of the College’s legacy and heritage in the context of its present-day mission,” Huxley had been revered by the College. (For example, it held a celebratory conference in 1995 on the centenary of his death.) The generosity of Alfred Beit, and the continuing generosity of the Beit family up to the present time, has been gratefully acknowledged at regular intervals, notably in 2007 by the Rector Sir Richard Sykes, when the College celebrated its own centenary. And yet, despite no new pertinent facts emerging, the History Group suddenly has proposed, among other things, that Imperial College disown its two main founders. Specifically, the report authors recommended that “the bust of Huxley should be moved from the building for preservation … and the building should be renamed,” and that “Beit Quad and Hall are renamed subject to consultation with students. The consultation should clarify the history and then gather and understand any strong objections. This is not intended to be a majority vote which is not always representative and inclusive.”

However, the standout recommendations in the report may be described as negative: Huxley is charged with “scientific racism,” and espousing “a racial hierarchy of intelligence,” while Beit is denounced for “the treatment of workers during the expansion of the Kimberley mines [in South Africa].” Yet it is difficult to find the reason for the sudden change in the College’s attitude toward its founders.

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“Imperial [College] commits to ‘ambitious understanding’ of history”

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/234096/imperial-commits-ambitious-understanding-history/

25 February 2022

Imperial has responded to a community dialogue and independent report into its history, pledging to deepen understanding of its past.

President’s Board, representing the College’s leadership, met this week to consider how to respond to the History Group’s report and feedback received on the report and its recommendations from Imperial staff, students and alumni during the subsequent community dialogue.

The College will consider a joint name for its Huxley Building - named after biologist Thomas Henry Huxley - with the aim of adding the name of a pathbreaking scientist from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic background. While the name and bust of Huxley will be retained, it will be clearly put into a fuller context in order to provide everyone with a more complete understanding of Huxley’s complex character and achievements as well as his flaws, including his racially prejudiced writings. Historical context will also be provided for any person whose name is added jointly.

A similar approach will be adopted for the Beit Building and statue, with a focus on providing a fuller understanding of the Beit brothers’ impact in southern Africa. The College will consult with students and explore whether to add an African scientist to the building’s name.

In partnership with the Beit Trust, the College will also seek to redirect its Beit Scholarships to African scientists. This follows Imperial’s new scholarship fund for Black and other underrepresented students, launched last year.

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The names of key buildings, including those named after Thomas Henry Huxley or Alfred and Otto Beit, will be retained, but the College will launch an ambitious project to put these figures into context and clarify their histories, the Board concluded.

The College will find new, prominent ways of ensuring that their complexities are fully understood alongside the College’s modern values. This will include acknowledging both their positive contributions to science and to Imperial in parallel with the ways in which they have furthered historic injustice or hampered progress towards racial equality.

Acknowledging the precedent set by the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, Imperial will explore the possibility of jointly naming some buildings, signaling its commitment to ensuring a broader range of people are recognised on campus.

Are liberation movements losing power in SADC?

https://youtu.be/NqJUGzmrQ4A

Nov 2, 2024

The Botswana Democratic Party lost its parliamentary power after 58 years in power. This has raised questions about liberation movements and their relevance in Southern Africa. International relations specialist at the University of Dundee in Scotland Musa Mdunge weighs in on these recent political shifts.

While BRICS has Afrikaans on its bank note, South Africa wants to ditch Afrikaans

It is curious that the BRICS bank note has “Republiek van Suid-Afrika” which is in Afrikaans.

“Unifying through language: time to ditch Afrikaans in schools”

https://www.iol.co.za/opinion/unifying-through-language-time-to-ditch-afrikaans-in-schools-92b7c000-b135-4658-9d4a-fc5a5c2610bd

Published Nov 1, 2024

In the wake of South Africa's long and complex struggle against apartheid, the call for genuine transformation in education is more pressing than ever. One of the critical conversations that needs to take place is whether Afrikaans should continue to hold a place in our school curricula. As a language that has deep historical ties to colonialism and oppression, banning Afrikaans from schools could be a significant step toward fostering an inclusive, equitable educational environment that truly reflects the diverse fabric of our nation.

Historical Context

Afrikaans, a language derived from Dutch, has long been associated with the apartheid regime, serving as a symbol of exclusion for many non-Afrikaans-speaking communities. The language was used as a tool of oppression, reinforcing racial divisions and marginalising those who did not speak it. Even after the fall of apartheid, Afrikaans remains a contentious subject, representing a legacy that continues to alienate many learners in our schools. The persistence of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in various institutions perpetuates an educational system that fails to address historical injustices.

“Afrikaans Phased Out”

https://www.languagemagazine.com/2019/04/18/afrikaans-phased-out/

April 18, 2019

South Africa’s University of Pretoria has begun phasing out Afrikaans as its official teaching language and replacing it with English. This move is the result of a 2016 decision made in response to student protests that decried Afrikaans as a barrier to black students’ learning and sense of belonging at the university.

South Africa has eleven official languages, including Indigenous languages like Zulu, Xhosa, and Sepedi as well as Afrikaans and English, which were both introduced by colonizers.