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Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), cultural movement and political party in South Africa that derives its main support from the Zulu people. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Inkatha-Freedom-Party

“"WITHOUT BRITAIN THERE IS NO ZULU KINGDOM." ABBA AYALEW AMLAK”

https://youtu.be/jqxJrmCYNx0

Jun 27, 2024

7:58 – “It was the British who instituted the Zulu kingdom forced it into our history, into our consciousness. Without Britain there is no Zulu Kingdom, there is no Zulu King, there is no Zulu history.”

https://www.anglozuluwar.com/images/Journal_14/Dunn,John.pdf

JOHN DUNN

Native chief, British spy and polygamous founder of a huge family.

John Dunn holds a unique position in South Africa for creating a new social dimension. He and his forty-nine wives produced one hundred and seventeen children and the extended family throughout the world, at the turn of the millennium, must have numbered many thousands.

To be a member of the ‘Dunn’s Descendants Association’ is a source of pride for those who claim descent from that remarkable man who started life in South Africa on the lowest rung of the ladder. Yet by the time he was forty years of age, he had become one of the richest traders in Zululand and Natal, as well as friend, adviser and treasurer to King Cetshwayo who rewarded him with huge amounts of land and the accolade of chieftainship. John Dunn was respected for his business acumen by the white settlers of Natal but despised for his polygamous lifestyle with Zulu women.

His knowledge of the Zulu mind and the way they fought their battles was of inestimable value to Lord Chelmsford, the Commander-in-Chief and later General Wolseley, his replacement. Dunn played a vital part in the eventual success of the campaign.

Having lost all his possessions during the war, he was granted one of the thirteen chieftainships (the others were Zulus) when King Cetshwayo was captured and deposed. Once again, he became the greatest landowner in the whole of Zululand. His is a story of ups and downs and playing off one side against the other. Despite his many reversals of fortune, he managed to stay on top.

Being married to a woman of mixed race was not acceptable in white society, so John and Catherine kept to themselves preferring to raise their children among Zulu folk. His preference for Zulus over white settlers brought him into contact with Cetshwayo, one of five sons of King Mpande. On 2 December 1856, Cetshwayo fortified his position as heir to his father by slaughtering three of his brothers and some ten to fifteen thousand of their followers. Much of the credit for Cetshwayo’s victory was due to John Dunn who supplied armed and mounted men. Thereafter, Dunn introduced Cetshwayo to the customs and technology of the white-man. His ability to see both sides of the coin enabled him to become a valuable go-between among Zulus and British. He was largely responsible for the political and economic change that came about in Zululand during the period 1857-1879.

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>The ANC retained the positions of president (Cyril Ramaphosa)

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>Under his chairmanship, Anglo American and De Beers went through successful and difficult times, but they both remained – and still remain – true to his, and his father’s, tenet of faith. Business had to do with more than just making money – especially in Africa and other developing countries – it had to make a real contribution to development.

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“Unpopular Opinion | John Robert Dunn | Race | King Cetshwayo | Politics | Ramaphosa”

https://youtu.be/N1ZNGXN4GqM

Jan 21, 2024

When it comes to racial issues, is the enemy the colour of ones skin or the principal by which one lives by?

6:47 – “They identify themselves as Bapedi [in Limpopo] but the founder of their family, of their nation, is a white man. Are they black or are they white?”

7:03 – “Conrad Crouse who was sitting here on the couch next to me. He’s a white man. His father is a white man. His father is a white man. His father is Xhosa, a black man… Is he a white man? Is he a black man?”

10:46 – “Now I’m going to be direct… How much poverty is in South Africa? The President is a billionaire, two of his brother-in-laws are billionaires… Is the enemy the white man or is it the black man? Is the enemy race or is the enemy human selfishness and greed?”

15:06 – “What is racism? And is it a problem? Or is the problem humanity and the darkness in our hearts?”

https://www.africa-ata.org/atm_zulu.htm

Rather, John Dunn's exceptional place in history rests on his prominent role in events that were crucially important in the shaping of modern South Africa.

John Dunn father was Robert Newton Dunn who was born in 1795 in Scotland.

The white traders readily adapted to African social and cultural norms. The scarcity of white women prompted nearly two thirds of the white traders to take black wives and concubines., The British traders also found it convenient to become petty chieftains and govern Port Natal.

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

And Dunn acquired an abundance of both. Between 1858 and 1878 John Dunn emerged as one of the most powerful chiefs in the Zulu kingdom. He ruled over nearly twenty five square miles of territory land six or seven thousand black subjects.

Dunn served Lord Chelmsford well and was named Military Intelligence Officer and awarded the local rank of commandant .

From 1898 onwards many of John Dunn's descendants were forced to leave Dunn's land and seek employment in Natal, the Transvaal and the Cape. The Diaspora has continued to the present day of Dunn's descendants having settled as far afield as the United Kingdom, Canada Australia and the United States of America.

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“Lands with no private claims were deemed royal lands, and later, government property”

https://www.academia.edu/33972907/The_Colonial_and_Post_Colonial_Transformation_of_African_Chieftaincy_A_Historiography

The formalization of European imperialistic control over African territories saw the first encroachment on the nature and authority of the institution. Mahmood Mamdani, writing from a Marxist-inclined position in Citizens and Subjects noted that colonial rule brought with it European concepts of land ownership. 4 In the process, the colonialists made land synonymous with chiefly authority by investing all lands into the native political institutions of the communities in rural Africa. 5 Lands with no private claims were deemed royal lands, and later, government property, which was a deviation from African communal land ownership system. The colonialists therefore succeeded in transforming the ritual function of the chief into a political one. This enhanced chiefly authority over land was an aberration from the custom and practices of the people. It became “the foundation of native rule,” according to historian Mahmood Mamdani. 6 In a larger sense, Mamdani’s argument shows that this change enabled colonial powers to use chiefs as conduits to gaining concessions for the exploitation of resources for the good of the colonial metropole. He reflects that “chiefs were autonomous is not to say that they were independent.” 7 Thus, land re-organization not only empowered chiefs, but colonial powers as well. The reorganized political system based on new land tenure systems involving the colonial administrators and the chiefs was therefore a symbiotic economic relationship in which colonialists and chiefs acted together for their own mutual economic benefit.

Kofi Abrefa Busia also contended in The Position of the Chief in Asante that the African system was originally a non-feudal system. 8 Though not a Marxist, he viewed the influence of chiefs in colonial Africa through an economic lens. The right of usufruct, a practice undergirding African land tenure, was revoked in favor of a more Western system. Chiefs were made actual owners of land rather than the whole community. From them, the colonialists could easily obtain mining concessions, plantations, and other resources without much resistance. This was simpler for the colonial authorities because there were only the chiefs to convince and not the whole tribe or community for access to resources.

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Then consider…

“Mangosuthu Buthelezi on the Ingonyama Trust Imbizo”

https://youtu.be/QBstkewHyZ4

Jul 4, 2018

“The Ingonyama Trust and its tenure challenges”

https://theconversation.com/zulu-land-dispute-ingonyama-trust-furore-highlights-the-problem-of-insecure-land-tenure-for-millions-of-south-africans-in-rural-areas-211365

Published: September 21, 2023 3.27pm CEST

The Ingonyama Trust was established in 1994 by the then KwaZulu Government to administer all land it held. It is a corporate entity and administers 2.8 million hectares of the land in KwaZulu-Natal. The territory was once administered by the erstwhile KwaZulu homeland. This followed a deal hammered out earlier to entice Buthelezi and his Inkatha Freedom Party to take part in the elections that ended apartheid. The province is a stronghold of the party.

The Zulu monarch is the sole trustee, even though the land is owned by the Zulu people. The king represents the people and the land must be managed for their benefit and welfare.

The trust is plagued with disputes for not involving the community in its business transactions. There has been little evidence of collective benefit for the community.

The disputes expose unequal profit from trust assets, privileging a select few, instead of all the communal land holders equally. To sum up crisply: the trust has treated communal land like privately owned land.

In 2022, the Supreme Court of Appeal directed the Ingonyama Trust to cease letting trust land to the land beneficiaries to whom the land belonged. It was ordered to repay the rent.

Traditional rule versus democracy

The misapplication of tenure under the Ingonyama Trust exemplifies structural conflict between trust tenure and customary traditional rule.

The trust applies a form of traditional despotic rule that can be at odds with democratic principles enshrined in the constitution. Under traditional despotic rule or authoritarian rule, customary law is interpreted in a way that naturally limits the need for community consultation, consent and participation in all decision-making related to the land from the “subjects”.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00020184.2023.2261386

This article discusses the implication of the 2021 CASAC v Ingonyama Trust judgment on South Africa’s land governance policy trajectories. It explores the extent to which there are missing links between policy imperatives, the legal system, court processes and socio-economic emancipation. It argues that the failure of the state in policy design and implementation has turned courts into contradictory sites of struggle for emancipating land rights… We show that current land policies, including the one involving the Ingonyama Trust, has an intersectional genesis that includes old apartheid legislation and policies, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, as well as legislature and other political deals (such as negotiations to bring about reconciliation) that cannot be easily undone by any one court judgment.

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“Land expropriation without compensation is here to stay: Ramaphosa”

https://youtu.be/FWgRQzqnlNQ

Aug 22, 2018

“Opposition parties want land expropriation without compensation back on the table”

https://businesstech.co.za/news/trending/783300/opposition-parties-want-land-expropriation-without-compensation-back-on-the-table/

19 Jul 2024

South Africa’s main opposition parties plan to revive a bid to amend the constitution to allow for land to be expropriated without compensation.

Former President Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party, the Economic Freedom Fighters and other leftist groups will bring the proposal before the National Assembly, MKP parliamentary leader John Hlophe told reporters in Cape Town on Thursday.

“We shall fight for expropriation of land without compensation for equitable redistribution,” he said.

“MR.BEAN (Rowan Atkinson) - Communist Britain?! Freedom of Speech?!”

https://youtu.be/xxWMhB4Cfm0

Aug 11, 2024

“Britain is turning into South Africa From schools to prisons, our state is crumbling”

https://unherd.com/2023/09/britain-is-turning-into-south-africa/

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Lately I’ve been questioning if the gulf separating the two countries is as vast as I assumed. At first it was just small things, sotto voce echoes of South Africa protruding into British life. A man begging from cars stopped at the traffic lights. An epidemic of urban homelessness. Universities renaming buildings to repudiate links with the past. A steady trickle of stories about police no longer bothering to investigate crimes. Now, a prison escape in the capital and parents scared to send their children to crumbling schools. Once I started paying attention, though, the resonances grew ever deeper. The media loves to measure Britain against the GDP of American states, European healthcare and Australian quality of life. This is supposed to be self-deprecating, but maybe it is more flattering than we care to admit. Analogies to South Africa can expose things that comparisons with rich countries leave obscured.

Consider the cloud of scandal and dysfunction which has settled over the UK’s privatised utilities, namely water, energy and railways. These services have increasingly been marked by cronyism, private gain, mismanagement and underinvestment, all familiar symptoms of corruption in South Africa. For years the water companies have been paying out huge dividends to shareholders, while racking up vast debt piles and spilling sewage on a daily basis. Last year, Govia Thameslink Railway was awarded a lucrative new contract, despite one of its subsidiaries, Southeastern, being caught defrauding the public purse of millions. Then again, bad trains may end up being the least of our problems, for the National Grid has warned that the UK may face power cuts in the coming winter, and is urging businesses to reduce their electricity use. There is a growing realisation that Britain does not have the grid capacity needed for the government’s decarbonisation plans.

It is becoming clear, in other words, that Britain’s post-Eighties regime of privatisation has led to a subtle form of the South African disease. The state fails to maintain and improve infrastructure, while allowing the asset-stripping of national wealth by private interests. Who needs criminal syndicates when you have hedge funds and private equity firms? There was something especially South African in ministers’ claims that Thames Water cannot be renationalised, despite its severe debt crisis, because doing so would scare away the foreign investors who prop up the UK’s economy.

evident during the Covid pandemic, when the genteel traditions of British corruption — peerages in exchange for political and financial support — gave way to the handing out of state contracts worth billions to politically connected companies, often lacking relevant experience.

It is true that the UK economy’s voracious appetite for immigration, an easy source of cheap labour and consumers, resembles South Africa’s habit of exploiting migrants from elsewhere in Africa.

In South Africa, where 29 million people receive state welfare grants and only 7.4 million pay tax, the state is trapped in a doom-loop, with spending on social programmes hampering investment that could benefit the economy. But to look at projections for the British state’s ever-growing benefits, health care and social care bills, it seems we may be heading for a similar scenario.

Or to put it in terms a South African would understand: the British are gatvol.

“DA wants answers after over 5 million dockets are closed”

https://youtu.be/ZW8HdjuUolE

Aug 11, 2024

The DA wants police management and Minister Senzo Mchunu to tell Parliament why over 5 million dockets have been closed since 2018, due to alleged insufficient evidence.

This includes over 76,000 murder and 61,000 rape dockets.

DA Member of Parliament Lisa Schickerling elaborates.

“Human trafficking ring linked to SA nationals” who were arrested in Israel

https://youtu.be/j1q_SAV4L2E

Aug 10, 2024

Alarming revelations concerning a human trafficking ring linked to South African nationals in Israel came to light this month. Crime expert, Calvin Rafadi says that some of these people are lured with the promise of jobs. Meanwhile, some are trafficked for the trade of human organs.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/south-africans-and-nigerian-arrested-in-human-trafficking-raid/ar-AA1oakcP

Four South Africans and a Nigerian national were arrested for alleged human trafficking in Israel

Israeli investigators also rescued five South African women who were allegedly forced into prostitution

A report by News24 stated that Israel had a history of human trafficking for the sex trade as well as labour in agriculture and construction. Victims were predominantly from South and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.