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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22661138 (262205ZFEB25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun / 30,000 Afrikaners Want to Come to USA as White House Welcomes AfriForum Delegation and South African Government Doubles Down on Race-Based Land Grab (Parts 1&2)

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>>281919

“Solidarity and AfriForum visited the White House!”

https://youtu.be/zP-GgzGYRE4

Feb 25, 2025

“30,000 Afrikaners Want to Come to USA as White House Welcomes AfriForum Delegation and South African Government Doubles Down on Race-Based Land Grab” 1 of 2

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/30000-afrikaners-want-come-usa-as-white-house/

Feb. 26, 2025

While the South African government announced another bill to target land ownership by white Afrikaners, representatives from the South African Solidarity Movement met with senior representatives of the Trump administration in the White House to fight for the interests of Afrikaners and South Africa.

After the Trump administration issued an executive order Feb. 7 offering “resettlement” to Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination, AfriForum head Kallie Kriel told The Epoch Times his organization had received almost 30,000 inquiries from Afrikaners indicating interest in claiming refugee status in the United States.

At a pro-Trump rally outside the US Embassy in Pretoria Feb. 15, activist Tewie Wessels spoke of his German great-grandfather’s decision to come to South Africa instead of going to the United States: “Both of our nations struggle with the spineless, supposedly conservative establishment.” https://twitter.com/i/status/1890730446327001225

Tewie Wessels thoughts about the Ernst Roets, Matt Gaetz and Gavin Wax interview: https://twitter.com/i/status/1892146094953427381

Jost Strydom of Afrikaner town Orania in the Free State warned that “the ANC government in South-Africa is doubling down on land expropriation. A shocking new bill was just announced; land expropriation based on majority demographics. That means; land ownership must reflect the demographics of South-Africa.”

“The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development announced today to the relevant parliamentary portfolio committee that the so-called “Equitable Access to Land” Bill will be introduced this year, the idea is to rush it through before the end of Neither the department nor the portfolio committee is making a secret of the fact that this bill specifically targets land ownership by white Afrikaners,” Strydom said Feb. 21. https://twitter.com/i/status/1892958975840174089

A delegation of AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement is visiting the USA “to thank the Trump administration for the recognition given to Afrikaners as a people and cultural community and the discrimination to which Afrikaners are subjected, and to show appreciation for the Trump administration’s willingness to offer humanitarian assistance to Afrikaners”, they said in a statement.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22664606 (271338ZFEB25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / South Africa to send delegation to US to ‘do a deal’ - Cyril Ramaphosa

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“South Africa to send delegation to US to ‘do a deal’ – Cyril Ramaphosa”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/politics/south-africa-to-send-delegation-to-us-to-do-a-deal-cyril-ramaphosa-donald-trump-breaking-g20/

27-02-25 15:11

South Africa wants to find agreement with the new US government on diplomatic, trade and other issues, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, after harsh criticism of the country by Donald Trump.

Pretoria plans to send a delegation to Washington to settle a host of issues, Ramaphosa said at an event on the sidelines of G20 meetings in South Africa that were snubbed by the US foreign and finance ministers.

“We would like to go to the United States to do a deal,” he said in a discussion with Goldman Sachs vice-chairman Richard Gnodde.

“We don’t want to go and explain ourselves, we want to go and do a meaningful deal with the United States on a whole range of issues,” he said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22664706 (271354ZFEB25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / The Predictable Attack on Afriforum and Solidarity by MSM (video)

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“The Predictable Attack on Afriforum and Solidarity by MSM”

https://youtu.be/Il5byDv1YB0

Feb 27, 2025

The attack by MSM on Afriforum and Solidarity is so predictable and expected. Hopefully, anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature will be able to see this smear campaign for what it is. Defending the ANC Government.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22665314 (271548ZFEB25) Notable: Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun / Trump orders USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down

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“BREAKING: Trump orders USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down”

https://bhekisisa.org/health-news-south-africa/2025-02-27-breaking-trump-orders-usaid-funded-hiv-organisations-in-sa-to-shut-down/

February 27, 2025

• Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, who receive their funds through the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, woke up to letters that were sent overnight telling them their grants have been ended — permanently.

• The letters tell them that “your award is not aligned with Agency priorities” and that “continuing this program is not in the national interest”.

• The document also instructs them to “immediately cease all activities, terminate all subawards and contracts, and avoid incurring any additional obligations chargeable to the award beyond those unavoidable costs associated with this Termination Notice“.

• Some organisations received emails, with attached letters, which were signed off with “thank you for partnering with USAID and God Bless America.”

• Bhekisisa is gathering responses from around South Africa. The common theme? The national health department isn’t providing the required leadership during this time, with hardly any communication to partners and the media.

Pepfar, the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids, is an Aids fund that was launched in 2003 to help fight Aids in countries with high HIV infection rates such as South Africa. The country has since received around $8-billion (about R145-billion) of which $439 537 828 (about R8.1-billion) was for the current US financial year, which stretches from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025.

USAID funds 44 health projects in South Africa.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22665335 (271551ZFEB25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / Frans Cronjé: Attack on Israel/US by Ramaphosa in yesterday’s FP will end very badly for SA (video)

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“Frans Cronjé: Attack on Israel/US by Ramaphosa in yesterday’s FP will end very badly for SA”

https://youtu.be/K6n_AscCNYA

Feb 27, 2025

An aggressive attack on Israel and the US by Cyril Ramaphosa in yesterday’s Foreign Policy magazine is a doubling down in the ANC president’s conflict with the Trump Administration. Political scientist Dr Frans Cronjé says continuing to pull the tail feathers of the American Eagle is going to end very badly well for SA. Ramaphosa appears to have trashed AGOA, and with it a big part of the SA agricultural and motor sector, which rely on duty-free access to the world’s biggest market. Cronjé spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg.

14:33 – “There is a view… a very minority of the South Africans are busy with is not in the main effort to flag the plight of the Palestinians but it’s instead something else and that something else is an attempt to stigmatize the Israel… in pursuit of 2 objectives; the first is to fracture internal opinion in Israel about service in the IDF… and outside of Israel to… stigmatize Israeli opinion in the western world that the young American college kids place a lot of pressure on Congress and to cut off armed supplies to Israel… would have the effect of putting Israel in a position where it may cease to exist and be ultimately overrun.”

16:47 – “The ideological attacks against Israel fly straight through the Iron Dome… there may be a sense in amongst Israel’s allies around the world… that what the South Africans are busy with is an attempt to weaken Israel ideological… to a point that it can be defeated and overrun ultimately.”

22:41 – “The fascinating thing is that whatever little group - and I don’t think this is the ANC on mass at all – whatever little group is commanding the South African foreign policy move that you saw yesterday on foreign affairs is so utterly hostile to the Americans that they’ve even flipped the position on the war in Ukraine and have tried to gang up with the Europeans against the Americans. My sense of it Alec is that there is a small little core somewhere inside the government in the ANC that has captured South Africa’s foreign policy machinery and that they are driving that foreign policy… for whatever objective but entirely at odds with the interest of the country and with its people and entirely at odds ultimately with the interest of the ANC itself.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22665348 (271553ZFEB25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / Joel Pollack: US should react to Ramaphosa’s poke with financial sanctions against him, ANC bigwigs (video)

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>>281938

“US should react to Ramaphosa’s poke with financial sanctions against him, ANC bigwigs - Joel Pollak”

https://youtu.be/995c-zHJwo4

Feb 27, 2025

The frontrunner for US Ambassador to South Africa says yesterday’s anti-US article in Foreign Policy deserves a strong response: targeted financial sanctions against its author Cyril Ramaphosa and wealthy ANC cadres. Johannesburg-born Joel Pollak, the senior editor at Breitbart, says publicly exposing the international financial assets of billionaire Ramaphosa and politically connected cadres including those who benefitted from State Capture, will likely make US president Donald Trump a hero among the people of SA. He anticipates something similar to the overwhelmingly positive public response in America to exposures from Elon Musk’s DOGE project. Pollak spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22666225 (271802ZFEB25) Notable: Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun / (Canada #72) Mystery Disease Kills over 50 Congolese After Children Ate a Bat

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Here we go...

Canada #72

Mystery Disease Kills over 50 Congolese After Children Ate a Bat

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) said Monday that an outbreak of a mysterious disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has killed 53 people since it began on January 21.

The outbreak appears to have begun after three children in the village of Boloko ate a bat.

Regional medical officials described the mystery illness as a haemorrhagic fever, like Ebola and the Marburg virus, but it has characteristics distinct from those infamous diseases. Tests of the victims came up negative for Ebola, Marburg, and yellow fever.

The new disease is fast-moving and frequently lethal. Regional doctors said the interval between first symptoms and death has been averaging 48 hours. The early symptoms include vomiting, high fever, and internal bleeding.

As of February 15, 431 cases of the disease had been confirmed across the DRC’s Equateur province, a vast and lightly populated region along the Congo River. The fatality rate of the outbreak works out to 12.3 percent.

W.H.O. noted that the “remote location and weak healthcare infrastructure” of the area increased the risk of disease transmission.

The initial outbreak in the village of Boloko was followed by infections in a nearby village called Danda, and then a much larger outbreak in the village of Bomate.

Investigators believe the first three cases were a trio of children under age 5 who became sick after eating the carcass of a bat. Bats have been fingered as suspects in the murky origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, among other diseases.

The three children who ate the bat died between January 10 and 13, and were reportedly bleeding from their noses and vomiting blood before they succumbed to the disease. Four more children between the ages of 5 and 18 in Boloko died within the next two weeks, by which time the larger secondary outbreak in Bomate was underway.

Pending further tests, W.H.O. said it could not be certain if the two outbreaks were directly related, but called for “immediate high-level intervention” to be sure the mysterious illness does not spread further.

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2025/02/26/mystery-disease-kills-over-50-congolese-after-children-ate-a-bat/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22668149 (272136ZFEB25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun / Nelson Mandela Foundation files legal challenge to realise equitable land access on the anniversary of Madiba's passing

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>>281916

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>Naledi Pandor who led ICJ Israel lawsuit against Israel is now appointed Nelson Mandela Foundation Chairperson

>>281932

>“The Department of Land Reform and Rural Development announced today to the relevant parliamentary portfolio committee that the so-called “Equitable Access to Land” Bill will be introduced this year,

“Nelson Mandela Foundation files legal challenge to realise equitable land access on the anniversary of Madiba's passing”

https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/nelson-mandela-foundation-files-legal-challenge-to-realise-equitable-land-access-on-the-anniversary-of-madibas-passing

5 December 2024

Today marks 11 years since the passing of Nelson Mandela. As we reflect on Madiba’s life as well as the many lessons that can be drawn from it, we remain committed and inspired to play our part in realising a more just South African society.

South Africa remains haunted by the continued legacy of land dispossession. Against this backdrop, the Nelson Mandela Foundation will be launching an application out of the Western Cape High Court to challenge the State on its failure to comply with Section 25(5) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, which deals with equitable access to land: “The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to foster conditions which enable citizens to gain access to land on an equitable basis”.

The Foundation seeks an order inter alia:

a) declaring that the State has failed to discharge, diligently and without delay, its obligation under section 25(5) of the Constitution;

b) directing the State to:

• ensure the enactment, within 18 months, of national legislation that addresses at least the following issues: the definition of “equitable access” to land; how land is to be identified and acquired; how beneficiaries are to be selected and supported; multiple land uses; and integration with other elements of land reform;

• report to the Court every three months regarding the steps taken to pass such legislation.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation considers the realisation of the right to equitable access to land, and more broadly the advancement of land reform, as unfinished business in relation to the legacy of Madiba. Realities have changed in the quarter of a century since he stepped down as President of our country, and the avenues available for equitable access have shifted. However, the issue remains of fundamental importance and one that can help us tackle inequity at the same time as contributing to a continuation of Madiba’s 1990s nation-building project.

The Foundation’s approach has always been to work collaboratively with structures of the state as well as government as far as possible, and we remain committed to this approach. Our legal challenge is about acting in the public interest and enabling both the state and government to fulfil their constitutional obligations. Through various reviews and inquiries, the state has already recognised that existing legislation does not fulfil the requirements of Section 25(5) of the Constitution. It is time to turn recognition into action. That is what Madiba’s legacy demands that we do.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22672862 (281423ZFEB25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / US anger over SA’s foreign policy could cost thousands their jobs - Solidarity

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“US anger over SA’s foreign policy could cost thousands their jobs – Solidarity”

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/us-anger-over-sas-foreign-policy-could-cost-thou-2

27 February 2025

There is growing anger in the US government over South Africa’s foreign policy. This is going to cost South Africa dearly, and tens of thousands of people who will lose their jobs will pay the price for the government’s reckless policies.

This is the reaction of the Solidarity Movement, of which AfriForum and Solidarity are part, after discussions yesterday with senior members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives and the Senate in the USA. This follows discussions held earlier in the week with senior members of the Trump administration in the White House.

Flip Buys, chairperson of the Solidarity Movement, says that over the years, the ANC government has alienated the world’s largest economy which could have an enormous impact on South Africa.

"It seems that the South African government does not realise the seriousness of the situation. They are looking for scapegoats, believing that the current situation is just a diplomatic misunderstanding. In reality, this is a diplomatic crisis, but the ANC insists that they will not be bullied.

"The levels of frustration in the USA are so high that a bill is being considered to review the bilateral relations between the USA and South Africa," says Buys.

This draft bill was already approved by the House of Representatives in 2024 but not taken up by the Senate. Given the rapidly changing relationship between South Africa and the US, members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs are currently considering re-submitting the law to the House of Representatives.

-Since Republicans now also control the Senate, the law will have a better chance of acceptance. Given the critical stance that the White House and members of the Trump administration have taken towards South Africa, the climate for new legislation on the US relationship with South Africa is even better now.—

This bill details South Africa’s historic ties with the terrorist group Hamas, and with countries such as China, Iran and Russia, and argues that South Africa has abandoned its policy of neutrality.

Furthermore, the bill also addresses South Africa’s flawed domestic policy, the government’s inability to govern the country and its laxity towards corruption.

A comprehensive review of the bilateral relations between the USA and South Africa is proposed in the bill.

If this bill is passed, it would be solely the fault of the government, and specifically the ANC. This situation has been building up over many years and the recent passing of the Expropriation Act was merely the trigger.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22686810 (021452ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / South African Government’s Hipocrisy: ICC rulings for the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir vs arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

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>>281710

>Discrimination... is unfair unless it is established that the discrimination is fair.

>>281938

>>281939

>Foreign Policy magazine

>>281855

>‘Hague Group’

South African Government’s Hipocrisy: ICC rulings for the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir vs arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

https://issafrica.org/iss-today/the-real-problem-behind-south-africas-refusal-to-arrest-al-bashir

Published on 10 July 2017

Last week the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that South Africa erred in its decision not to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during his controversial visit to the country in 2015.

Two South African courts had come to the same conclusion, and so the decision of the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber II on 6 July was not surprising. But the judgment is important – not only because it raises questions about South Africa’s role in international justice – but because of what it says about the weak tools in the ICC’s arsenal to ensure cooperation by states.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/25/israel-war-crimes-trump-international-criminal-court/

February 25, 2025

The assault against the Palestinian people echoes dark chapters in our own countries’ histories—South Africa under apartheid, Colombia during counterinsurgency, and Malaysia under colonial rule.

That is why, alongside Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, and Namibia, we have launched the Hague Group, a coalition committed to taking decisive, coordinated action in pursuit of accountability for Israel’s crimes.

The Hague Group’s three inaugural commitments are driven by twin imperatives: the end of impunity and the defense of humanity.

Our governments will comply with the warrants issued by the ICC against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, emphasizing appropriate, fair, and independent investigations and prosecutions at the national or international level; we will prevent vessels carrying military supplies to Israel from using our ports; and we will prevent all arms transfers that risk enabling further violations of humanitarian law.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22686829 (021455ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Hamas delegation ends official visit to South Africa (video)

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>>281943

GRAPHIC RAW FOOTAGE: Massacre Across Israel From the Eyes of Hamas

https://youtu.be/wAFDI63yvNQ

Oct 18, 2023

WARNING: This video contains extremely graphic footage recovered from the Hamas invasion and massacre in southern Israel on October 7th, 2023.

“Hamas delegation ends official visit to South Africa”

https://english.palinfo.com/news/2023/12/07/310799/

7-December-2023

A delegation of senior Hamas officials concluded on Wednesday a visit to South Africa, during which they met with local officials, national figures, and representatives of civil society organizations and Muslim communities.

The Hamas delegation included Basem Na’im, member of the political bureau, Khaled Qaddumi, member of the Arab and Islamic relations office, and Imad Saber, member of the international relations office.

The delegation met with the ruling African National Congress party and some senior party officials as well as leaders of other political parties and parliamentary blocs.

The delegation also had the chance to attend the Fifth Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine that kicked off in Johannesburg last Sunday and continued for three days.

Member of the delegation Basem Na’im gave two separate speeches during the conference’s opening and closing sessions.

On the sidelines of the conference, the delegation met with Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, delegates of different Palestinian factions, human rights figures, lawmakers from other countries and other participants.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22692157 (031134ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Palestine Conference in Johannesburg Calls for True, Meaningful Liberation (Parts 1&2)

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>>281944

>Hamas invasion and massacre in southern Israel on October 7th, 2023

>>281916

>>>/qresearch/22646188

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>III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference, October 22, 2023

>>281944

>Hamas visits South Africa, December 2023. More below.

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>South Africa files lawsuit December 29, 2023.

Notice the dates.

“Palestine Conference in Johannesburg Calls for True, Meaningful Liberation” 1 of 2

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestine-conference-in-johannesburg-calls-for-true-meaningful-liberation/

December 7, 2023

A conference, under the title ‘Nelson Mandela and Palestine: Confronting Racism till Liberation’, was held in Johannesburg from December 3-5.

Mandela’s now-famous quote that “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” was echoed by many speakers during the joint opening session.

Addressing delegates, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela, said the occasion was entrenched in an unshakable belief that Palestinians have the absolute right to the land of their forefathers using all available means, including the armed resistance.

Delegates discussed everyday mechanisms to challenge the crimes of the settler colonizers all over Historic Palestine; how to reinforce international solidarity in the wake of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation; and the responsibility of international law and human rights bodies and how to challenge the restrictions of mainstream and social media on Palestinian content.

Conference participants were unanimous in their assertion that Palestine has been suffering under the triple bondage of imperialism, racism, and Zionist settler colonialism for 75 years and therefore the armed struggle currently being waged by the Resistance in Gaza is justified as per international law.

Of particular importance was the clarion call for true and meaningful liberation for Palestine from the Jordanian River to the Mediterranean Sea, a call that embodies the one-state solution called for by indigenous Palestinians and the inalienable right of return for over the seven million refugees and their descendants displaced during the 1948 Nakba.

Chief Mandela called upon President Cyril Ramaphosa to abandon the two-state delusion in favor of a single democratic state for all indigenous peoples of Palestine.

“We want to call on His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa to abandon the thoughts of a Bantustan-type solution to Palestine, abandon separate development, racism and apartheid in occupied Palestine”, he said.

He added that they would not rest “until victory falls on the people of Palestine”. “Palestine shall be free from the river to the sea”.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22692159 (031134ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Palestine Conference in Johannesburg Calls for True, Meaningful Liberation (Parts 1&2)

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>>281945

“Palestine Conference in Johannesburg Calls for True, Meaningful Liberation” 2 of 2

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestine-conference-in-johannesburg-calls-for-true-meaningful-liberation/

December 7, 2023

One of the highlights of the conference was the attendance of senior members of the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas. The delegation included politburo member Bassem Naim, Hamas representative in Iran, Khaled Qaddoumi and Hamas representative in East, Central and Southern Africa, Emad Saber.

Media Review Network members had the privilege of holding fruitful discussions with members of the Resistance on the sidelines of the conference, especially related to present Zionist genocide on the besieged Gaza Strip. The exchange confirmed that the Palestinian Resistance efforts against the Zionist oppressor seem to be in excellent and capable hands, despite the immense human suffering being endured on the ground.

Indeed, Palestinians fully understand the cost of liberation at all levels.

“I am filled with pride and glory to be a son of the heroic Gaza City, which has openly declared its willingness to sacrifice and for martyrdom for our sincere national objectives, and, indeed, for the salvation of humanity from the brutal Zionist entity,” Dr. Naim said.

He added that the current situation in Gaza has two faces. First, there is the face of courage – the legendary resilience of the Palestinian people, steadfast in their determination to sacrifice and stick to their land and homeland.

Palestinian fighters support the people’s strong desire for justice and liberation, bravely facing the Zionist-American military machine and inflicting significant losses upon them.

The other face is the somber humanitarian catastrophe being sadistically executed on Gaza by the Zionist forces over the past 60 days.

Dr. Naim also explained that the October 7 operation remains a critical and distinguishing revolutionary breakthrough in the history of the Palestinian struggle against the Zionist settler occupation and carries the potential for its defeat.

“It is a testament that a besieged people with limited resources managed to defeat a regional state with a massive army, huge intelligence-gathering capacity, and some of the most sophisticated military and surveillance technology in the world,” Dr. Naim said.

Author: Ahmed Jazbhay is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of South Africa, and also a Researcher at Media Review Network. He focuses on the decoloniZation of knowledge and decolonial struggles. Ahmed holds a PhD from the University of Johannesburg”. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22692167 (031136ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Palestine Conference in Johannesburg Calls for True, Meaningful Liberation (Parts 1&2)

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>>281945

>October 22, 2023

Correction, it should be the October 14, 2023.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22692170 (031137ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Palestine rally in Cape Town condemns relocations: Rev. Frank Chikane's address (video)

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>>281945

>>281946

“Palestine rally in Cape Town condemns relocations: Rev. Frank Chikane's address”

https://youtu.be/gnT4c1y7fnQ

Feb 22, 2025

There is a solidarity march in Cape Town over plans to relocate Palestinians.

0:55 – “So we convened global conference in May last year and brought 400 people from different parts of the world to come and talk about how we end this Zionist system. We decided last year, we must provide leadership because they asked us. So we held a conference the 29th of November and launched an anti South African chapter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement… and January we met on the 28th of January to then have a first conference of the Anti-Apartheid Movement chapter in South Africa. We agreed how we must constitute a council of that Anti-Apartheid Movement. On Tuesday this week on the 25th, we are meeting at 2 o’clock to have the first meeting of the South African chapter of the Anti-Apartheid Movement… It represents all the Palestinian solidarity groups. It involves the religious communities; Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, etc.. Remember we are not against the Jews, we are against Zionism… You’ll find Jewish Comrades within that council. It has got the Trade Union movements… It has got political parties in parliament that support Palestine.”

https://antiapartheid.net/media-statement/

Title: First Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine: A Milestone in Global Solidarity and Action

The conference, to be held from 10 to 12 May 2024, will herald the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement dedicated to supporting the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s apartheid settler-colonial and apartheid regime.

https://antiapartheid.net/

Anti-Apartheid Movement

South African Chapten Launch

28-29 November 2024

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” – Nelson Mandela

https://nakbaliberation.com/programme-of-action-for-the-global-anti-apartheid-movement-against-israel-and-for-palestine/

The Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 12th May 2024, attended by over 400 participants from 32 countries, adopted the ‘Johannesburg Declaration on Israel’s Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide: Towards a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement for Palestine’. The Declaration urged people and organisations globally to expand and escalate actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s courageous liberation struggle to end genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid ‘from the River to the Sea’.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693745 (031754ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / This case study follows the antiapartheid movement, with a particular focus on the role of philanthropy (Parts 1&2)

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>We, inspired by, and many of us having been part of, the global Anti-Apartheid Movement that helped end apartheid in South Africa and Namibia, now rise

“This case study follows the antiapartheid movement, with a particular focus on the role of philanthropy” 1 of 2

https://www.bridgespan.org/getmedia/05957698-1b8b-4b1a-a9fa-b8e70940747f/audacious-philanthropy-apartheid.pdf

Indeed, the white Afrikaner National Party (NP) rose to power on a segregationist platform in 1948, in the wake of black South African miner strikes. Ironically, a Carnegie Corporation-funded inquiry into poverty among white South Africans and what they needed for advancement became part of the NP’s policy justification.

Nonetheless, the campaign of resistance continued, directed by Oliver Tambo and ANC’s leadership in exile. In the midst of this turmoil, the Ford Foundation began substantial grantmaking in South Africa, initially focused on research and leadership exchange, and later moving toward a legal aid approach informed by the American civil rights movement.

During the 1970s, Carnegie re-engaged in South Africa after previously suspending operations in the 1950s, and the Rockefeller Foundation also began to invest more deeply, coordinating closely with Ford to codify evidence of apartheid’s effects and increase pressure that could help chip away at the regime. A number of other prominent US foundations such as W.K. Kellogg and Charles Stewart Mott joined the cause, helping to build local civil society organizations. Among these, foundation support helped to seed a public interest law sector, most notably the Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) in 1978 and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in 1979.

Ford and other foundations increasingly invested in developing the local black leadership that would be needed in a post-apartheid South Africa.

Here, US foundations helped to facilitate dialogue (on- and off-record) to benefit opposition leaders. They also helped to lobby successfully inside the United States for increased divestment and economic sanctions.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693749 (031755ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / This case study follows the antiapartheid movement, with a particular focus on the role of philanthropy (Parts 1&2)

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>We will use all strategies and tactics to work towards our goal, including working for the total isolation of the Israeli apartheid state - as was done by the Anti-Apartheid Movement against the South African apartheid state – using boycotts, divestment and sanctions campaigns, and other strategies in our Plan of Action.

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https://www.bridgespan.org/getmedia/05957698-1b8b-4b1a-a9fa-b8e70940747f/audacious-philanthropy-apartheid.pdf

Our research shows that successful social change initiatives share a set of five elements common to large-scale change. Here are some highlights of philanthropy’s role across three of these elements, as modest yet helpful contributions to the broader anti-apartheid movement:

• Build a shared understanding of the problem: Much of the contribution of institutional philanthropy to the anti-apartheid movement focused on developing and disseminating a shared understanding of the problem. For example, the Carnegie Corporation’s second paper on poverty in South Africa revealed devastating poverty among black South Africans at a time when sanctions prevented the World Bank from producing any similar research.

• Design for massive scale at the outset: A number of the philanthropic investments in this effort were made with an eye toward both strategically weakening the oppressive regime and helping lay the groundwork for a successful change, at scale. For example, in supporting the legal aid movement within South Africa, the Ford Foundation and others helped chip away at key elements of the policy regime holding blacks down. With their rigorous research reports in the 1980s, Rockefeller and Carnegie helped build support for international sanctions and divestment that increased economic and social pressure on the regime. And Ford’s investment in black leaders helped to develop the talent base that would successfully lead the country after the apartheid regime finally deteriorated.

• Drive demand, don’t assume it: One of the major successes of the anti-apartheid movement was in generating demand for change, both from inside the country and throughout the world. Foundation reports widely publicized the abuses in South Africa, and funding from foundations such as Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller helped to build grassroots organizations that called for international boycotts, divestment, and economic sanctions.

https://hbr.org/2017/09/audacious-philanthropy

Our research revealed five elements that together constitute a framework for philanthropists pursuing large-scale, swing-for-the-fences change. Successful efforts:

• Build a shared understanding of the problem and its ecosystem

• Set “winnable milestones” and hone a compelling message

• Design approaches that will work at massive scale

• Drive (rather than assume) demand

• Embrace course corrections

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693758 (031756ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society (Parts 1-5)

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https://nationalinterest.org/legacy/destroying-south-africas-democracy-usaid-the-ford-foundation-and-civil-society-630

My own introduction to the oddities of the American-South African interface came during the run-up to South Africa’s first democratic election in April 1994, when the election monitoring project I was running brought me into contact with the U.S. Democratic Party’s international arm, the National Democratic Institute. NDI, like its counterpart, the International Republican Institute (IRI), received funds from USAID to promote multi-party democracy in South Africa. This bipartisan election support project was specifically tasked with providing non-partisan support to all the formerly disenfranchised political groups who had agreed to participate peacefully in the election process. In practice NDI leaned heavily and lopsidedly toward the African National Congress (ANC). One oddity of this overt favoritism was that, given the powerful position within the ANC of the SACP (South Africa’s old-style Communist Party–which still brandishes the Lenin badges and hammer and sickle icons long discarded by its brother parties elsewhere), NDI frequently provided a platform for the Communists. The SACP played a brave role in the liberation struggle and is a player of some significance in the South African multi-party system, but it is doubtful whether the U.S. Congress, when it voted through the money, had in mind quite the sort of outcomes that resulted.

I first experienced this irony in action at a USAID-funded voter education conference hosted by NDI in Cape Town, attended by a variety of non-governmental organizations (NGO) and the political parties. Each party was invited by NDI to send two delegates. All the parties except the ANC sent the requisite two, but the ANC and SACP completely dominated proceedings thanks to the double-counting of front organizations, with the SACP and the ANC-aligned trade unions separately represented, together with the ANC youth league, the ANC women’s league, and so on. In addition, many of the NGOs present were in effect ANC-aligned. Inevitably–and to the apparent satisfaction of the NDI organizers–this meant that ANC and SACP activists really ran the conference: even the voter education materials produced at the conference were little better than subliminal ANC propaganda, among other things prominently utilizing ANC colors in their artwork. (And it should be remembered that the numerous illiterate voters were guided largely by the parties’ colors.)

Similarly, when delegates discussed political intimidation, it was simply assumed that whites constituted the whole problem–though everyone knew that several of the mainly black parties, including the ANC, were exercising enormous pressure on voters in many African residential areas, to the point that they were no-go areas for other parties. A speaker from South Africa’s liberal Democratic Party (liberal here is used in its older English sense) was bold enough to point out that some ANC activists in that very room had violently broken up Democratic Party meetings held only a mile away the previous week; he was booed down and did not get to speak again.

I had been scheduled to address a second such NDI conference but I was now quickly dis-invited: there had been a mistake, a visiting speaker had to be fit in, and so on. Later, I asked a friend on the conference committee what had really happened. “You were blackballed”, he said, “The SACP said that at the Cape Town conference you had been guilty of ‘harassing the comrades’, and this could not be allowed to happen again.” NDI had concurred… This blackball had been backed up by NDI and the whole affair had been paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693762 (031757ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society (Parts 1-5)

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“Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society” 2 of 5

https://nationalinterest.org/legacy/destroying-south-africas-democracy-usaid-the-ford-foundation-and-civil-society-630

Unfortunately, in the case of the ANC bipartisanship was the first casualty. One of those brought over was Clinton’s pollster from the 1992 election, Stanley Greenberg, who, together with a media consultant, was seconded to the ANC along with two GOP counterparts. Fairly quickly, however, things fell apart as Greenberg defected from the project to become the ANC’s overtly partisan adviser.

This turned out to be only the mildest of warm-ups for the way things were to go once the ANC won the elections. Power, patronage, and fashion now reinforced political correctness. Before long voluntary organizations were facing a bill prepared by the Development Resources Center, an ANC-aligned NGO set up by David Bonbright, a former Ford Foundation employee. The Center’s bill aimed to set up a government-appointed body with plenary powers over all NGOs: it would have power to sack any of their trustees or officers and impose its own; to subpoena any document or person from any NGO; to change the name of any NGO; and to forbid it to fund-raise (i.e., to exist). The very presence on the statute book of this sort of legislation, sadly typical of African one-party states, would be grossly intimidating of voluntary associations–the South African Jewish Board of Deputies was only one of many religious and professional groups to approach my foundation in grave disquiet over the bill, for such legislation would allow the government to intervene in any church or synagogue in the land.

It seemed fantastical that such a threat to independent civil society could come out of the Ford corner, but in fact the Ford Foundation was actually financing the DRC, the body pushing this monstrous bill, and continued to do so even when other sponsors drew back aghast as NGOs like the Helen Suzman Foundation led a campaign–joined by every sort of educational, welfare, and religious association in the country–that ultimately saw the bill dropped. Should anyone introduce into the U.S. Congress a bill empowering a government-appointed body to sack the president and trustees of the Ford Foundation and replace them with nominees of its own, renaming the foundation as it did so, Ford would doubtless cry foul and vigorously oppose it, and rightly so.

The biggest U.S. donor in South Africa is, of course, USAID–which, inter alia, awards grants to the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. During its long years in exile the ANC tended to take a fairly straightforward pro-Soviet and anti-American line (for example, supporting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and attacking Reagan’s “constructive engagement” policy) and some of these prejudices linger. This creates an atmosphere in which USAID is under some pressure to overcome these prejudices by showing that it is on the side of the (ANC) angels. The effect is to make USAID extremely sensitive to an ANC/SACP version of political correctness, a sensitivity reinforced by its employment of “progressive” local staff.

This situation could–and did–have some strange results. In 1996-97, due to hold-ups in Congress, IRI (which, in contrast to NDI, has adopted genuinely non-partisan programs) was for some time unable to obtain its grant from USAID. Tom Callahan, the then director of IRI in South Africa, described to me how he had made endless unproductive trips to USAID, where he had to deal with a locally hired USAID official who was also a Communist Party member.

All of these factors, together with sheer relief that the apparently intractable problem of apartheid has been solved, have led many Western governments to adopt a policy of virtually uncritical support for the ANC government. Unfortunately, that is where the trouble begins. For however delightful and heroic a man Mandela is, and no matter how utterly justified his movement’s struggle has been, this should not blind one to the fact that the African nationalist party that rules South Africa today is recognizably kin to the similar parties that set up single-party or one-party dominant regimes all over Africa, and that its hegemonic ambitions overlap all too comfortably with the instinctive practices of the old-style Communist Party, which has historically always constituted “the central nervous system” of the ANC.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693783 (031801ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society (Parts 1-5)

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>Idasa

Ramaphosa “deployed” in 1996

https://youtu.be/usyEhjEE6mo

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https://nationalinterest.org/legacy/destroying-south-africas-democracy-usaid-the-ford-foundation-and-civil-society-630

When an ANC official wishes to move into the private sector, he has to seek the party’s permission: he does not resign but is “deployed.”

President Mandela told audiences in the troubled province of KwaZulu-Natal that the road to peace was for everyone to join the ANC–and the ANC has repeatedly invited the Pan Africanist Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party to join it so as to achieve complete racial (black) unity.

Mandela makes no secret of the fact that he is given speeches to read by “my bosses” but he is above all a loyal party man and, as at Mafikeng, is willing to give speeches that he himself would never have composed. The speech is thus of more importance as a reflection of thinking within the ANC inner circle than as a reflection of Mandela’s personal views.

Moreover, Mandela continued, “some of these NGOs act as instruments of foreign governments and institutions that fund them to promote the interests of these external forces.”

To understand the context of these remarks one must note that during the fight against apartheid many so-called “struggle NGOs” emerged to work for the ANC cause in a period when the ANC was banned. Many such NGOs did valuable work and contributed notably to the fight for liberation. They were, however, highly politicized–their officers and activists were invariably ANC members or activists and often members of the Communist Party as well. Such NGOs, though claiming to constitute civil society, in practice took an unwavering ANC line.

The area really in dispute here is what donor organizations involved in transitional democracies call “D and G”, that is, their Democracy and Governance programs. The biggest local organization involved in this area in South Africa, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), typifies the way that the ANC would like NGOs to behave: its chairman is director-general of the president’s office and, as such, is also the cabinet secretary. Its regular publication, Parliamentary Whip, is edited by the former correspondent of the British communist paper, the Morning Star. IDASA takes a fairly steady ANC line, runs many joint programs with government, and is effectively a quasi-governmental organization. Inevitably, it is the biggest recipient in its field of USAID and Ford Foundation support.

Ironically, IRI, which was attempting to work with the full range of parties in fulfillment of its non-partisan mandate, was effectively discouraged from doing so by the pro-ANC pressures emanating from the USAID mission and the U.S. embassy.

Even such concessions were not enough, however, and the South African government requested an inquiry into USAID’s support of South African NGOs–an inquiry then jointly conducted by USAID and government representatives. The inquiry was requested “after government became concerned that the U.S. agency was giving its support to South African anti-government organizations.” The inquiry concluded with USAID promising that its support would only be given “to programs in support of Pretoria’s policies” and that in future it would “improve its communication with the South African government on USAID’s support of NGOs in South Africa.” The problem, of course, is that the government tends to regard any NGO that airs any criticism of any of its policies as “anti-government.” In practice the new deal would seem to give the government veto power over USAID supporting any but ANC-aligned NGOs, so that USAID will now almost formally be made part of the effort to build the hegemony of the dominant party.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693785 (031802ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society (Parts 1-5)

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https://nationalinterest.org/legacy/destroying-south-africas-democracy-usaid-the-ford-foundation-and-civil-society-630

And here lies the nub of the matter. The ANC, which won 62.7 percent of the vote in 1994, has now publicly set itself the target of winning a two-thirds majority in the 1999 elections. Such a majority would enable it to alter the constitution unilaterally. ANC spokesmen have already given some indication of what they would like to use that power for: to bring under political control such islands of relative independence as the attorney-general, the auditor-general, and the governor of the Reserve Bank, and to ensure that there is greater political control of the judiciary. Beyond that, many suspect, lies an ambition to alter the constitution’s property clause to make expropriation easier and a change to a first-past-the-post electoral system, which would effectively wipe out the opposition parties. There is also talk of a new law to “regulate media diversity”, which is likely to involve an extension of government intervention in the press.

Certainly, the prospect is disturbing enough to make USAID’s decision to suppress mention of the dangers of one-party dominance seem at best bizarre, even irresponsible. After all, in 1994 Mandela himself publicly stated that he was relieved that the ANC had not won a two-thirds majority. Such a result would not only empower the SACP and ANC Left–whose influence would be greatly reinforced within an ANC-only political universe–but it could panic the Indian, Coloured, and white minorities, accelerating emigration by these groups. It would also alarm domestic and foreign investors, further damaging the currency, property, and stock markets–and the currency has already halved in value in the four years of ANC rule to date.

The United States clearly faces a delicate problem in South Africa. On the one hand it wishes to lend strong support to the breakthrough of democracy there symbolized by President Mandela’s accession to power in 1994 – and to this end it has, like the European Union, extended considerable aid to South Africa. On the other hand the Mandela government has posed it some awkward problems with its radical 1960s-style Third Worldism. (To convey the flavor: everyone within the ANC is addressed as “comrade”; we are in the fourth year of our “National Democratic Revolution”; and the ANC has declared 1998 “The Year of Popular Mobilization for the Consolidation of People’s Power.”) Looking abroad, the ANC has given high priority to its warm relations with Cuba and Libya (Mandela actually decorating Qadaffi with South Africa’s highest honor) and has attempted to sell arms to Syria and Rwanda.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693792 (031803ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society (Parts 1-5)

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“Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society” 5 of 5

https://nationalinterest.org/legacy/destroying-south-africas-democracy-usaid-the-ford-foundation-and-civil-society-630

Faced with this the United States has, in effect, decided to embrace the new government while ignoring its radicalism, presumably in the hope that it will gently tow the ANC toward more moderate waters. This optimism has resulted in U.S. taxpayers supporting projects of a surprising kind. Thus USAID has spent $25 million on training the Communist-led Confederation of South African Trade Unions and spends millions more on educating black South Africans in economics at the University of the Western Cape, the self-styled “intellectual home of the Left”, where education is generally radical or Marxist in hue. USAID is also giving $50 million to a minister of health who is involved in a bitter dispute with U.S. pharmaceutical companies over intellectual property rights (which they claim she is stealing). One can understand that there may be a certain realpolitik behind such choices – with sometimes ironic results, as for example when U.S. intelligence officers recently invited South African intelligence chief Linda Mti to receive its OSS Golden Candle Award at the Global Intelligence Forum in Washington. Mr. Mti, who, like the whole top level of South African intelligence, is East German-trained, accepted the award – and then launched into a bitter attack on “Americacentrism”, “imperialist exploitation” which had led to the “rape and pillage” of the Third World, and so on.

Similar astonishment was experienced by U.S. congressional supporters of the African Growth and Opportunity Bill, when South Africa’s trade and industry minister, Alec Erwin, on a visit to Washington on August 6, airily dismissed the bill – from which South Africa stands to be the chief beneficiary – as “marginal”, and said that “South Africa did not need” the bill’s sweeping trade preferences and was ready to be excluded from its provisions. Mr. Erwin – a leading member of the Communist Party, which rejects the Clinton administration’s “trade not aid” emphasis exemplified by the bill – is an outspoken advocate of the view that South Africa should seek its trading future outside of its traditional partners in the United States and Europe. Currently some 90 percent of South Africa’s export credits for the Americas have been extended to a country with which it does almost no trade: Cuba.

A good number of concrete examples suggest that I would, quite literally, have a far better chance of gaining support for the foundation I run from American philanthropic or taxpayer funds if I were a Communist Party member.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22693858 (031818ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / State power will stay with the ANC - ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa (video)

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>National Democratic Revolution (NDR)

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>single-party or one-party dominant regimes

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>ANC is truly intent on creating a one party state.

“State power will stay with the ANC - ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa”

https://youtu.be/LfwLKR3GOyc

Jan 11, 2025

"Without state power, the NDR will not succeed and one organisation only can have state power and this the African National Congress," says ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22694425 (031955ZMAR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Treason charges probed by Hawks, NPA amid AfriForum US trip

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“Treason charges probed by Hawks, NPA amid AfriForum US trip”

https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/treason-charge-probed-hawks-npa-amid-afriforum-us-trip/

Updated March 3, 2025, 4:36 p.m

The Hawks have confirmed that the National Prosecuting Authority is investigating four cases of high treason related to the spreading false information.

Hawks boss Godfrey Lebeya, who spoke to the SABC on Monday, did not mention the organisation being probed by name.

However, he mentioned that the case involves “some individuals who may have crossed borders to spread misinformation”.

The Solidarity Movement, including AfriForum, recently sent a delegation to meet with the Trump administration in Washington

"Four dockets that have been opened by different people, maybe from different political parties, that concern some individuals that may have crossed the border to go and communicate some of the things that are perceived to be in the direction of high treason.

"I don't want to mention the names of organisation but as you correctly say there are some organisations that are suspected to be involved.

"Certain complainants have indicated that this and that organisation seems to be the ones that are actually advocating something that appear to be high treason.

Lebeya said that the NPA will decide on potential arrests.

"We are investigating, this is the initial stage of the investigation those type of crimes you need to be careful in the way in which you collect that evidence.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22694429 (031956ZMAR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Ernst Roets: Attacks on Whites in South Africa, Attempts to Hide It, and Trump’s Plan to End It (video)

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“Ernst Roets: Attacks on Whites in South Africa, Attempts to Hide It, and Trump’s Plan to End It”

https://rumble.com/embed/v6nue6w/?pub=4

Streamed on:Mar 3, 1:00 pm EST

South Africa is what happens when you take DEI seriously, which is why the western media pretend it’s not happening. Ernst Roets on what’s going on there right now.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22695291 (032235ZMAR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Treason charges probed by Hawks, NPA amid AfriForum US trip

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“AfriForum responds to high treason dockets, claims its being targeted for exposing abuse against Afrikaners”

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/afriforum-responds-to-high-treason-dockets-claims-its-being-targeted-for-exposing-abuse-against-afrikaners-955aa95a-d7d8-4699-84e7-9857a190ec67

Monday, March 3, 2025

AfriForum's CEO Kallie Kriel said he was aware that four dockets of high treason were opened in response to allegations of misleading information regarding South Africa's Expropriation Act being distributed in the United States.

"The South African government is targeting its opponents by entertaining false charges of high treason against those who fight for property rights and expose the human rights abuses against Afrikaners.

"I have no sleepless nights over the Hawks’ investigation against us. There are no grounds for these charges. Instead of wasting time on this issue, the Hawks should rather focus on the 1994 ANC leaders implicated for corruption by the Zondo Commission," he said in a terse statement posted on X.

Kriel defended their visit to the White House saying it stemmed from frustrations with the South African government's refusal to address their concerns.

He added that the party was ready to fight in court.

"From outside, we are trying to save the country from a disaster with regards to disrespect to property rights. So, if we are going to court, we will state our case and we will show South Africa how disloyal ANC leaders are," he told the SABC.

While speaking to the broadcaster, Kriel added that the lobby groups, including Solidarity and the Solidarity Movement, sent letters to President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding the Bela Act, the Expropriation Act and the current tension with the US, but these letters were ignored.

"We can't take that lying down, and it is within our rights to make sure that we garner support to save South Africa," he said.

“It is Ramaphosa who signed the anti-Afrikaans Bela Act – an act that threatens the cultural existence of Afrikaans-speaking cultural communities. It is also Ramaphosa who signed the Expropriation Act. It is he who refuses to condemn slogans such as ‘Kill the Boer’ and it is the same president who denies the existence of farm murders,” said Kriel.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22701057 (042053ZMAR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Ernst Roets: Attacks on Whites in South Africa, Attempts to Hide It, and Trump’s Plan to End It (video)

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“Meet Dr Ernst Roets - Afrikaner ‘troublemaker’ who says SA deserves better”

https://youtu.be/2qHcg3qmwyo

Mar 3, 2025

Social activist, author and outspoken protagonist for Afrikaner self-determination, Dr Ernst Roets is set to heap fuel onto the already fiery relationship between the US and South Africa via the imminent release of a hard-hitting interview with US conservative media megastar Tucker Carlson. He goes back to his roots and motivation in this interview with BizNews founder Alec Hogg, arguing that SA deserves far better than its ever-deepening mess. The trained lawyer who left Afriforum/Solidarity last month intends becoming an even bigger catalyst for change through his newfound independence.

15:08 – “The first time I went to America was in 2012. It was for Afriforum to register Afriforum with the United Nations as an NGO with, as they call it, special consultative status and so the process is very simple and Afriforum complied with all of the criteria. I was struck by the extent of politics at the United Nations. It’s supposed to be a shoe in but it wasn’t a shoe in because there was so much politics involved with the committee that’s supposed to see if you comply with the requirements to be regarded as an NGO with special consultative status at the UN. So the South African government there took active steps to prevent us from registering and the way they did that was simply to filibuster, as they say in America, just to keep talking until we run out of time and then they say, “Oh sorry, come back next year.” But something at that meeting in 2012 really stuck with me to this day which is someone came to me after I spoke at this conference trying to convince the members of the meeting to allow us to be registered and it was a very senior official working at the United Nations. He called me to the side and he said to me with all due respect but I don’t think what you are trying to do is going to work and then I asked him what does he mean? He said that you must remember that South Africa has been for quite sometime the poster boy of the United Nations. It’s the single biggest success story that the United Nations and people at the United Nations like to boast about and he said to me that some of us can see… that the cracks are showing but we don’t want to talk about those cracks and if you try to put focus and attention on those cracks, you’ll not going to get an audience… It really motivated me to say well we need to keep talking about these cracks.-”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22701066 (042054ZMAR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / FMF’s Van Staden: Bravo Afriforum (and Pres Trump); maybe ANC will now repeal 142 racist laws (video)

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“FMF’s Van Staden: Bravo Afriforum (and Pres Trump); maybe ANC will now repeal 142 racist laws”

https://youtu.be/6I4cEY_Tit0

Mar 4, 2025

Despite disastrous mismanagement, a halo effect exists around the ANC in much of the global community. This celebration of their own role in supporting South Africa’s transition to democracy has led to excessive indulgence of the ANC’s subsequent failings. But the new sheriff in Washington is taking a different approach, with SA’s raft of race-based laws now in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs. Martin van Staden, who edits the IRR’s Race Law Index, says this is long overdue as the ANC had given short shrift to any criticism of racist laws - identical to the National Party’s response during the Apartheid era. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.

0:08 – “Well South Africa is in the global news right now and there’s a lot of misinformation, disinformation, agenda-driven nonsense. We’ve been trying to get to the facts and we did it recently when interrogating some information that had gone into the public public domain and was repeated time and again that 70% of South African land is owned by whites. Well we know now that’s absolute nonsense. The number is around 20% and that comes from the data that actually unpacks it but when you selectively pull things, you can make the data to say anything you like. Another thing that the rest of the world believes is that Apartheid or race-based laws, perhaps we should put it, ended with Apartheid. Well that isn’t actually the case.”

13:24 – “There’s been litigation over the years, the Constitutional court has heard many cases on Race law and ultimately that court has accepted the logic of the State on we need to use race.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22701097 (042059ZMAR25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun / ANC, EFF lies about land ownership, here are the facts (Parts 1&2)

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>data in the official 2017 land audit report

This older article explains it well

“ANC, EFF lies about land ownership, here are the facts” Part 1

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/anc-eff-lies-about-land-ownership-here-are-the-facts/

March 16, 2018

The last 2 weeks the controversial topic of land expropriation without compensation has been much debated. For years the ANC/EFF have been misleading the public and the international community with misleading statements that whites own 80% of the land.

In November 2017 the Land Audit Report of land ownership was released by the government.

If you look at the real figures about REAL LAND OWNERSHIP it is undeniably clear and very apparent that there is a more sinister motive behind the whole issue about the much debated land issue.

The ANC/EFF is deliberately misleading its citizens on land ownership. Unfortunately our lib-bully leftist media is also playing their part in this misinformation exercise. They are using an emotive issue with misleading figures to raise racial tensions and conflicts. The ANC/EFF are masquerading as the saviours of the black people and they claim that the whites are thieves that stole the land.

The so called land restitution is used as a ruse to mask a more sinister plot. Our government is waging war against their own citizens and they are affecting a communist coupe to take control of all land in South Africa. They are using our citizens as pawns to do their dirty work in a proxy war.

Unfortunately there will be no winners in this war, except the ANC/EFF. Nobody, not white or black, will own any land. And while our citizens are busy debating and fighting over the land issue, they are also successfully subverting the attention away from the corruption and theft that amounts to Billions. So, while the citizens are busy fighting amongst each other, our government officials are leisurely feeding at the trough of greed.

Unfortunately, thousands of innocent white lives have been lost, especially white farmers, as a result of this misinformation on the land issue. It is now time that the records are set straight once and for all. We encourage everyone to share this far and wide.

I have studied the November 2017 Land Audit report which has been so grossly misrepresented by poor quality journalists and I now present the real data below:

Land ownership is divided into state ownership and also in the following categories of private ownership:

• Individuals

• Companies

• Trusts

• Community Based Organizations

• Co-ownership

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22701102 (042100ZMAR25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun / ANC, EFF lies about land ownership, here are the facts (Parts 1&2)

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“ANC, EFF lies about land ownership, here are the facts” Part 2

https://southafricatoday.net/south-africa-news/anc-eff-lies-about-land-ownership-here-are-the-facts/

March 16, 2018

The state (national, provincial and municipal) and all other non-private ownership (including the Ingonyama Trust in KZN) accounts for 28.12 million hectares of land. This is equivalent to 23% of the total 122 million hectares of land in South Africa. The remaining 77% is held by the above mentioned categories of private owners.

Companies will include everything from large conglomerates, mines, factories and businesses registered as companies.

• The total land owned by the Companies category of owners is 23.2 million hectares, or 19% of SA.

Trusts include family trusts, community trusts and any other entity registered as such in terms of the Trust Property Control Act of 1988.

• The total land owned by the Trusts category of owners is 29.3 million hectares, or 24% of SA.

• Community based organizations own 3.6 million hectares, or 3% of SA.

• Co-ownership accounts for 0.9 million hectares, or 0.7% of SA.

• Private individuals where race can be allocated, own 37 million hectares which accounts for 30% of SA.

This private individual ownership of SA was subdivided into ownership of

1. farms and agricultural holdings

2. erven

3. sectional title properties.

Ownership was further classified according to race as white, African, coloured, Indian, other and co-owned.

Race was determined through the ID number of the owner on the title deed, matched with data held by StatsSA from the 2011 census. Where race could not be determined, ownership was classed as “other”.

The white private individual ownership for farms and agricultural holdings + erven + sectional title is as follows for each province:

• Eastern Cape: 3.03 million ha (18%)

• Western Cape: 2.86 million ha (22%)

• Northern Cape: 11.65 million ha (31%)

• Free State: 3.76 million ha (29%)

• North West: 2.42 million ha (23%)

• Gauteng: 0.31 million ha (17%)

• Mpumulanga: 0.97 million ha (13%)

• Limpopo: 1.15 million ha (9%)

• Kwazulu Natal: 0.87 million ha (9%)

Total SA: 27.03 million hectares (22%)

These are THE REAL FACTS taken from the government’s own Land Audit report.

It is indisputable that white owners can be linked to ONLY 22% of South Africa’s land.

Please note: The above information is courtesy of: www.uncapturedsa.co.za

Written by: William Pulles on 14th March, 2018

Read the original article on Front Nasionaal SA; https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1617915611659670&id=743870385730868

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22712963 (061341ZMAR25) Notable: The Paleo-Western revolution of 2024/25 (Parts 1-3)

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“The Paleo-Western revolution of 2024/25” Part 1

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-paleowestern-revolution-of-202425

03 March 2025

Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States clearly involves much more than a transition of government. It arguably signals a comprehensive ideological upheaval – a revolution.

Viewed in this way, 2024/25 (November 5, 2024 when Trump won the presidential election, and January 20, 2025 when he was inaugurated as president) represents an epochal change.

The year 2024/25 is most likely a year of revolutionary significance along with three other epoch-making dates of previous revolutions. They are:

The liberal - French - revolution of 1789

We usually speak of the liberal revolution as the French Revolution, since it began in Paris and consigned the then ancien régime to the past. However, its aims and repercussions were much wider than France and spread throughout the Western world and beyond.

The Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution of 1917

The Bolshevik/communist revolution began in Russia. However, it is incorrect to describe it as the Russian Revolution, because its aims were global, namely to establish a worldwide classless utopia. It similarly reached much wider than Russia.

Despite profound differences, there was an overall commonality in the two revolutions. Both were so-called progressivist: calculated to destroy the Western heritage – the Christian-Western civilization – in totality and replace it with a new progressive dispensation on the grave of the destroyed West.

The triumph of liberalism in 1989/1991

During 1989/1991, the communist variant of progressivism succumbed to liberalism. This was symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of Soviet communism, accompanied by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

After this, Francis Fukuyama explained in his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man that the political battle of ideas had finally been won in favour of liberalism and that the history of (the battle of) ideas had therefore come to an end.

The paleo-Western revolution of 2024/2025

Now, it seems that history is being dramatically revived and that we are currently experiencing a new great revolutionary moment - the paleo-Western revolution. Paleo refers to original or primordial, that is, a revolution in which the West is reborn, as it were, with its fundamental characteristics. Accordingly, the resurgent West rejects the follies of the revolutions and nevertheless exploits the valuable things that the first revolution brought. Above all, the resurgent West is re-identified with its paleo - its original - foundations and continues to grow accordingly. This is perhaps best captured in the Latin words ad futurum per fontes, or to the future, via the sources.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22713034 (061354ZMAR25) Notable: The Paleo-Western revolution of 2024/25 (Parts 1-3)

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>>281966

“The Paleo-Western revolution of 2024/25” Part 3

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-paleowestern-revolution-of-202425

03 March 2025

The paleo-Western revolution

Like the preceding revolutions, the paleo-revolution similarly had a run-up over several decades. It was prepared by a growing body of intellectuals and similar opinion-formers in ever more numerous institutes, think tanks, popular academic journals and similar publications, working groups, conferences and other forums. The focus areas varied. Over time, however, it became clear that the revival of Western civilization, in conjunction with the debunking and eventual dismantling of progressivism, was the common factor.

Roger Scruton and, to a certain extent, Samuel Huntington are among the many leading figures in this. In recent years, Jordan Petersen arose to leading figure among millions of young Western men (also in South Africa) with his penetrating analyses and devastating debating abilities. The name of Douglas Murray can also be mentioned.

In recent times, the podosphere – an alternative to the liberal progressive media echo chamber – has become a powerful factor, which people in the paleo-Western movement are utilizing very effectively.

The paleo-Western movement has become a powerful factor in the USA. It is also a growing force in Western Europe, Australia and South Africa. Several conferences have been held here recently on the West and the fate of the Western cultural component in South Africa. Various figures have also gained prominence for their involvement in the paleo movement.

The paleo-Western revolution restores the primordial foundations of the West as its authentic basis.

This is the essence of the Christian religion; the Athenian passion for wisdom and learning; the Roman passion for law and public order; and the freedom-seeking spirit of Western man with his unique energy of creation, discovery and experimentation, originating in Western Europe, together with those who identify with it, as it has also spread to other parts of the world.

The foundations of the paleo-Western revolution are not expressed in any fundamentalisms but in essences - essential impulses and convictions.

It is manifested not in any fundamentalist theology but in the convictions of our gratitude towards our omnipresent, gracious and forgiving God;

It is manifested not in a single dominant ideology but in the continuity of our civilization on the basis of the unbroken partnership between past, present and future generations to paraphrase Edmund Burke.

The paleo-Western revolution endorses the importance of individual freedom and responsibility, however, not of individuals as globalized atoms, like all other individuals, but embedded and nourished by communal wholes of which they form part - of families, clans, languages, ethnic communities, peoples (Afrikaans: volkere) and our Western civilization as a whole.

Western civilization finds its place not in a humanity of countless individuals – individual atoms - like all others, but in amongst other civilizations of the world: the Chinese, Orthodox (especially Russian), Indian, Japanese, and other civilizations.

In the paleo-Western revolution, Western man is not subject to progressivism's hateful condemnation of collective criminality. In keeping with the realization of our sin, our forgiveness is to be found in God, not in any human inquisition. It also frees Westerners to continue our singular career of achievement in every field of human activity in happiness, energetically, and with sparkle, gratitude, and contentment.

The intellectual, cultural and political substance of what seems to be the paleo-Western revolution is a fascinating, necessary and comprehensive theme for further discussions. For the moment, we may conclude with the telling title of the 2023 book by Patrick Deneen, (reportedly the strongest intellectual influence on vice-president JD Vance): Regime Change – towards a postliberal future.

Prof Koos Malan is a constitutional jurist from Pretoria.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22761377 (150040ZMAR25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun / Rubio Says South Africa's Ambassador No Longer Welcomed in US

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Rubio Says South Africa's Ambassador No Longer Welcomed in US

Friday, 14 March 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the country.

Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump and declared him “persona non grata.” He didn't give further reasoning.

The State Department did not have additional details, and it was unclear whether the ambassador was even in the U.S. at the time the decision was made. Rubio posted as he was flying back to Washington from a Group of 7 foreign ministers in Quebec.

A Breitbart article offered more insight on the action.

The story said, "South African Ambassador Embrahim Rasool told participants in a foreign policy seminar Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump is leading a white supremacist movement in America and around the world."

According to Breitbart, Rasool was addressing the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg. He attempted to explain Trump’s recent foreign policy stances against South Africa’s property expropriation legislation and its alliances with Iran and Hamas.

That's when Rasool said white supremacism was motivating Trump’s “disrespect” for the “current hegemonic order” of the world. By that, he included institutions like the United Nations and the G-20.

It comes after Trump signed an executive order that cut aid and assistance to the Black-led South African government. In the order, Trump said South Africa’s Afrikaners, who are descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers, were being targeted by a new law that allows the government to expropriate private land.

The South African government has denied its new law is tied to race and says Trump’s claims over the country and the law have been full of misinformation and distortions.

Phone calls to the South African Embassy seeking comment, made at the end of the work day, were not answered.

rump also announced a plan to offer Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S. They are only one part of South Africa’s white minority.

The Expropriation Act was signed into law by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this year and allows the government to take land in specific instances where it is not being used, or where it would be in the public interest if it is redistributed.

It aims to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era, when Black people had land taken away from them and were forced to live in areas designated for non-whites.

Elon Musk, a close Trump ally and head of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, has highlighted that law in social media posts and cast it as a threat to South Africa’s white minority. Musk was born in South Africa but left for Canada after finishing high school.

It is highly unusual for the U.S. to expel a foreign ambassador, although lower-ranking diplomats are more frequently targeted with persona non grata status.

At the height of U.S.-Russia diplomatic expulsions during the Cold War and then again over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, allegations of interference in the 2016 election and the Skripal poisoning case, neither Washington nor Moscow saw fit to expel the respective ambassadors.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rasool-south-africa-rubio/2025/03/14/id/1202905/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22771954 (170222ZMAR25) Notable: Final Commodities Bun / (Canada #73) Brussels Blows €4.4 Billion Taxpayers' Money Supporting Clean Energy Transition In South Africa

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Brussels Blows €4.4 Billion Taxpayers' Money Supporting Clean Energy Transition In South Africa

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News Sunday, Mar 16, 2025

The European Commission has pledged financial assistance to projects supporting the clean energy transition in South Africa to the tune of €4.4 billion.

The move comes at a time of increased tensions between South Africa and the European Commission’s largest ally, the United States, following controversial legislation that permits land expropriation without compensation to address historical land ownership disparities, which critics say disproportionately targets White farmers.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the Global Gateway package on Thursday in a joint press conference with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

“It’s a significant first pledge in the context of the Scaling up Renewables in Africa campaign. I hope it will inspire many others to contribute!” von der Leyen posted on X.

“Europe values its partnership with South Africa, just as I value my friendship with President Ramaphosa. South Africa can count on Europe. And I know Europe can count on South Africa,” she said in a press release ahead of the visit.

“If ever there was a time when it was absolutely necessary for partners who share the same values to work together, it is now,” said President Ramaphosa.

“This is the time to stand together for what we believe in, democracy, the rule of law, including respect for international law and international humanitarian law,” he added, noting the “growing challenges and protectionism” around the world in a thinly-veiled attack on U.S. President Donald Trump.

Tensions between the United States and South Africa have intensified following the implementation of South Africa’s Expropriation Act of 2024, a controversial law that allows the government to seize land without compensating its owners. The policy, aimed at redistributing farmland to Black South Africans, has sparked concerns about its impact on White farmers, who still own a significant share of agricultural land.

Elon Musk says White genocide is being promoted in South Africa. pic.twitter.com/h2zYW72yOD

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 11, 2023

The South African government defends the law as a necessary step to correct historical injustices from the apartheid and colonial eras. The new legislation enables expropriation under specific conditions, with the goal of creating a more equitable land ownership structure.

However, the new administration in Washington D.C. has strongly opposed this move, with President Donald Trump responding by suspending $440 million in aid to South Africa in the first few days of his second term. His administration claims the law amounts to racial discrimination against White landowners, and he has even proposed offering asylum to South African farmers facing potential land seizures.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio subsequently announced a boycott of the G20 summit in Johannesburg last month, calling the land reform policy a violation of property rights and contrary to American values.

“South Africa is doing very bad things,” Rubio wrote on X. “Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, and sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change. My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism.”

The European Commission clearly sees things differently, committing billions in European taxpayers’ cash to the African nation.

Her announcement on X was met with considerable criticism from some quarters.

“You are giving €4.4 billion in European taxpayers’ money to a corrupt, incompetent and anti-White, genocidal regime that cannot even maintain its current energy infrastructure. Madness!” wrote Dries Van Langenhove, a Belgian national activist in Flanders.

Sure, why not give 4.4 billion euros of our taxpayers’ money to a genocidal anti-White regime for a useless “energy transition”?

This unelected tyrant is the single most dangerous person in Europe and I will not stop doing what I do till the EU is abolished and she’s in jail. https://t.co/0iFTxL3II4

— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) March 14, 2025

Dutch conservative commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek added: “Sure, why not give €4.4 billion of our taxpayers’ money to a genocidal anti-White regime for a useless ‘energy transition’? This unelected tyrant is the single most dangerous person in Europe and I will not stop doing what I do till the EU is abolished and she’s in jail.”

“Billions for the racist and thoroughly corrupt regime in South Africa,” noted Belgian MEP Tom Vandendriessche while Setiatia Stöteler, a Dutch MEP from Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) added von der Leyen should be “ashamed of herself.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/brussels-blows-eu44-billion-taxpayers-money-supporting-clean-energy-transition-south

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22810926 (232202ZMAR25) Notable: (Canada #73) Sudan's Army Retakes Control Of Presidential Palace After Two Years

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Sudan's Army Retakes Control Of Presidential Palace After Two Years

by Tyler Durden Sunday, Mar 23, 2025

Sudan's army has taken full control of the country's presidential palace in Khartoum, two years after it was seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). After closing in on the building on the Blue Nile in recent days, the army-aligned government announced its capture on Friday.

"Today the flag is raised, the palace is back and the journey continues until victory is complete," Khaled al-Aiser, Sudan’s information minister, wrote on X.

Footage posted on social media showed armed troops cheering inside the palace complex. The RSF seized the palace complex, and large swathes of the capital in April 2023, when its war with Sudan's army began.

It forced the government, which is led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, to flee to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.

The palace complex consists of two buildings: the original Ottoman-Egyptian republican palace built in 1825, and a much larger structure built in 2015 by former head of state, Omar al-Bashir.

The older building is a highly symbolic structure. In 1885, followers of Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah famously killed the British major-general Charles George Gordon on the Republican Palace's stairs. The death of "Gordon Pasha" and the fall of Khartoum marked the end of Ottoman-Egyptian rule in Sudan.

Both the new and old buildings were damaged at the beginning of the fighting two years ago. On Friday, the army said it had also taken control of ministries and other key buildings in central Khartoum.

Jihad Mashamoun, a Sudanese researcher and political analyst, said the victory at the palace paved the way for the army to make further gains in the capital, “and to encourage it to mostly delegate the conflict in Darfur to the allied armed movements”.

"It also allows the de-facto government of Burhan to impose itself as the legitimate government of Sudan to the international community," Mashamoun told Middle East Eye.

Drone strike

An unnamed Sudanese army source told AFP that hours after the recapture, an RSF drone strike on the palace killed three journalists. The journalists had been reporting for Sudanese state television when an attack drone targeted the site.

The RSF said that it remained in the vicinity of the palace, and that the battle was "not over". The army has made key gains in central Sudan in recent months, capturing swathes of territory back from the paramilitary force.

However, the RSF has consolidated its grip over the western Darfur region, where it has been accused of committing genocide.

A report released last year by the Raoul Wallenberg Centre concluded that a genocide was taking place against non-Arab groups in Darfur at the hands of the RSF and allied militias. The United States has also accused the RSF of genocide and sanctioned its leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (commonly known as Hemeti). Burhan has also been sanctioned.

BREAKING: Sudan's Army retakes control of the Presidential Palace in central Khartoum from RSF militias after two years. pic.twitter.com/MWGaeLtHB5

— Clash Report (@clashreport) March 21, 2025

Last month, RSF leaders convened in Kenya to announce that the group was launching a parallel government. It is reported to be backed by the United Arab Emirates. Mashamoun said the army gains in Khartoum would “further unravel some of the political parties allied to the RSF who signed the charter to form the parallel government”.

It would also undermine the legitimacy of the RSF in trying to “impose itself as partners in any transition period with the de-facto government”, he added.

There are fears the rival government could lead to the so-called “Libya situation”, where Sudan is split into two or more different entities.

The two-year conflict has displaced more than 10 million people, and left over 12 million facing high levels of acute food insecurity. Thousands have been killed.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sudans-army-retakes-control-presidential-palace-after-two-years

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22887801 (091241ZAPR25) Notable: ConCourt’s ruling on “Kill the Boer” raises alarming questions: Dave Steward (Parts 1&2)

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https://www.biznews.com/rational-perspective/2025/04/04/concourt-kill-boer-dave-steward

4th April 2025

Last week’s refusal of the Constitutional Court to grant AfriForum leave to appeal against the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgement that the singing of the “Kill the Boer” song was not hate speech has very disturbing implications.

On 24 May last year the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed AfriForum’s appeal against the 2020 judgement of the Gauteng Equality Court that the singing of the “Kill the Boer” song by Julius Malema on six occasions between 2016 and 2019 was not hate speech. In the Supreme Court’s opinion “Mr Malema was doing no more than exercising his right to freedom of expression …. in the course of participating in the activities of, and campaigning for the political party of which he is leader” – which rights are protected by the Constitution.

The Court insisted that the singing of the song had to be seen within its correct context. “… in a case like the present, context is everything. This requires a consideration of who the singer is, the context in which the songs were sung and their likely impact.” For the Court, reasonably well-informed people know Mr Malema to be “a populist leader who expresses controversial views. They would appreciate that this is part of his political persona.”

Perhaps the Court, in its consideration of context, should have delved a little deeper into Malema’s “political persona”.

On 7 November 2016 Malema made a speech in which he said that “we are not calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now”. He added the following:

• “I am here to disturb the white man’s peace. They are right, the white man has been too comfortable for too long. We are here unashamedly to disturb the white man’s peace.”

• “But white minority be warned, we will take our land. It doesn’t matter how. It is coming unavoidable, it is coming inevitable. The land will be taken by whatever means necessary. This land will be returned to black people.”

• “You (whites) are a visitor… No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent.”

On 16 October, 2022 Malema attended a meeting of the EFF’s Western Cape Provincial People’s Assembly which was festooned with banners proclaiming that the “honeymoon is over for white people in South Africa”, and “a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” He asked his supporters why they had not dealt with a white man – Mr Dante van Wyk – who had been involved in an altercation with the EFF outside the Brackenfell High School two years earlier. “Why have you not, as a revolutionary organisation, followed up on that guy, him alone, to take that guy in an isolated space and attend to the guy properly?” He added, “You must never be scared to kill [in] a revolution; demand that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.”

Subsequently, 19-year-old Van Wyk and his pregnant wife received thousands of death threats on social media and had to flee to another province.

In his testimony to the Equality Court in August 2022, Malema was asked what he meant when he said “we are not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now.”? He replied that “it may not be me “(who calls for slaughter) – but that “it could be.” He refused to pledge that he would never call for the slaughter of white people.

He admitted that he had said on a prior occasion that “we need a system to get rid of white people.” “So, if we go into a conference, or into Parliament and made a constitutional amendment that all whites should be driven into the sea, and any whites who remain here is going to be killed, then we engage in that type of programme to drive all whites into the sea.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22887805 (091241ZAPR25) Notable: ConCourt’s ruling on “Kill the Boer” raises alarming questions: Dave Steward (Parts 1&2)

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“ConCourt’s ruling on “Kill the Boer” raises alarming questions: Dave Steward” 2 of 2

https://www.biznews.com/rational-perspective/2025/04/04/concourt-kill-boer-dave-steward

4th April 2025

All this information was available to the Supreme Court of Appeal. They had seen videos of the “Commander-in-Chief” sweeping up tens of thousands of red-clad supporters with emotional harangues against white South Africans.

The Supreme Court might also have considered s. 39(b) of the Constitution which requires courts to consider international law in their interpretation of the Bill of Rights. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination calls on signatory states – including South Africa – to sanction as offences punishable by law:

• ‘all dissemination of ideas based on racial or ethnic superiority or hatred, by whatever means;

• incitement to hatred, contempt or discrimination against members of a group on grounds of their race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin;

• threats or incitement to violence against persons or groups on the grounds in (b) above;

• expression of insults, ridicule or slander of persons or groups or justification of hatred, contempt or discrimination on the grounds in (b) above, when it clearly amounts to incitement to hatred or discrimination….’

Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide – to which South Africa is also signatory – prohibits “direct and public incitement to commit genocide”.

All these factors should have persuaded the Constitutional Court to grant Afriforum’s application for leave to appeal. As the Court had explained in Qwelane v South African Human Rights Commission and Another, hate speech can be understood as “extreme detestation and vilification which risks provoking discriminatory activities against that group.” One would have thought that the context of Malema’s political persona – which is inextricably linked with his singing of the “Kill the Boer” song – would certainly have met this criterion.

The Constitutional Court might also have considered the impeccably reasoned 2011 judgement of Judge Colin Lamont in which he found that the singing of “the Kill the Boer” song was, indeed, hate speech. In that judgement, Lamont emphasised the role of courts in protecting minorities that had “no legislative or executive powers”

“It must not however be forgotten that minority groups are particularly vulnerable. It is precisely the individuals who are members of such minorities who are vulnerable to discriminatory treatment and who in a very special sense must look to the Bill of Rights for protection. The Court has a clear duty to come to the assistance of such affected people…”

Nevertheless, the apex court dismissed Afriforum’s application for leave to appeal, despite the unambiguous context of Malema’s political persona, because it “bears no reasonable prospects of success.” Well, of course, it would have no prospects for success because the Constitutional Court had already decided on the issue.

Afriforum then approached President Ramaphosa with a request that he should unambiguously condemn the singing of the song. He refused to do so, and in a response dripping with cynicism, advised Afriforum to “take its case to the courts”.

And that is why the Constitutional Court’s decision is so disturbing: it means that threatened minorities may have nowhere in South Africa to turn to with assurance – neither to the judiciary or the executive – for the protection of their foundational constitutional rights.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22907833 (132336ZAPR25) Notable: (Canada #75) Trump Indicates USA Will Boycott November G20 Summit in South Africa over Farm Murders and Land Expropriation — Marxist Malema Calls Him “Delusional Barbarian”

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Canada #75

Trump Indicates USA Will Boycott November G20 Summit in South Africa over Farm Murders and Land Expropriation — Marxist Malema Calls Him “Delusional Barbarian”

by Collin McMahon Apr. 12, 2025

President Donald Trump has signaled the United States will not attend the G20 Summit in South Africa on 22 to 23 November 2025, the first G20 on the African continent.

Trump accused South Africa of taking “the land of white farmers and then killing them and their families.”

Radical Marxist politician Julius Malema shot back, calling Trump “delusional” and a “tariff-wielding barbarian,” saying that he “would be lucky to still be President of the USA by the time the G20 Summit occurs in South Africa.”

“How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 Meeting when Land Confiscation and Genocide is the primary topic of conversation? They are taking the land of white Farmers, and then killing them and their families,” Trump asked.

“The Media refuses to report on this. The United States has held back all contributions to South Africa. Is this where we want to be for the G20? I don’t think so!”, Trump posted on Truth Social on April 12 along with a video of radical Marxist opposition politician Julius Malema threatening in parliament to “occupy land,” demanding “killing,” and singing the song “Kill the Boer!” in front of 90,000 supporters in Johannesburg, and at multiple other occasions.

The South African government recently enacted the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, to enable the government to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.

On Friday, April 10, South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile confirmed that “the government is committed to … expropriation without compensation.”

Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters party shot back at Trump, stating:

“In his usual delusional manner, Trump cites land confiscations and genocide in South Africa as his reason and attaches to his ridiculous claim a video of the Commander in Chief and President of the EFF Julius Malema debating the land question in the Parliament of South Africa.

In a clear indication of a man who has lost all sense and touch with reality, Donald Trump has decided to return to his disinformation campaign against South Africa, to distract the public from the mess he has created globally with his uneducated reciprocal tariff system.

The EFF takes serious exception to Donald Trump’s connection of his false claims of land confiscations and a genocide against white South African families with the President of the EFF, especially since we know that Donald Trump governs through social media.

As the EFF, we would like to tell the “tariff wielding barbarian” that he would be lucky to still be President of the USA by the time the G20 Summit occurs in South Africa, following his recklessness and economic illiteracy which has plunged the US-economy into a recession and launched them into a trade war with China and Europe.

The G20 summit in South Africa should be the least of Donald Trump’s concerns, and he should focus on the allegations against him of manipulating the US stock market by imposing tariffs on numerous countries across the world and then giving trading advice to his billionaire friends before pausing the tariffs for 90-days.

Trump essentially used the US economy as a means to practice insider trading and defraud the American people of billions in their life savings and pensions. He himself has committed an economic genocide on the ordinary American people and the US economy.

As the EFF we condemn Donald Trump for the havoc he has caused to the global economy and view his utterances against South Africa as part of a premeditated strategy to impose sanctions on our country and our political leadership.

It is the strategy of imperialism to frame a nation it intends to invade and disrupt politically and economically as a nation that is violating human rights, before making an intervention that disrupts that nations’ prosperity for decades to come.

We have seen this strategy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela and many other nations. Today, because South Africa and the President of the EFF has correctly condemned the USA’s role in funding the genocide of Palestinian people by Apartheid Israel, Trump has turned his attention to South Africa.

It is no coincidence that he uses the images of the President of the EFF to make his claims, because the President of the EFF is at the forefront of demanding the return of the land to the African majority and he has pursued this using constitutional means.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trump-indicates-usa-will-boycott-november-g20-summit/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22914503 (151406ZAPR25) Notable: Final MTN Bun / President Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to United States of America

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>Initial MTN Bun

“President Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to United States of America”

https://www.gov.za/news/media-statements/president-cyril-ramaphosa-appoints-mcebisi-jonas-special-envoy-united-states

14 Apr 2025

I hereby announce the appointment of Mr Mcebisi Jonas as my Special Envoy to the United States of America, serving as the official representative of the President and the government of the Republic of South Africa.

In this capacity, Mr Jonas is entrusted with the responsibility to advance South Africa's diplomatic, trade and bilateral priorities. He will lead negotiations, foster strategic partnerships and engage with U.S. government officials and private-sector leaders to promote our nation’s interests.

An eminent South African leader, Mr Jonas served as one of four Presidential Investment Envoys that I appointed in 2018 to facilitate investment into South Africa.

As a former Deputy Finance Minister of South Africa, Mr Jonas brings extensive governmental experience to his new diplomatic role. Concurrently, he holds the position of Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the MTN Group, a role he will maintain alongside his responsibilities as my Special Envoy.

This appointment underscores his distinguished career and continued commitment to advancing South Africa’s national and economic interests.

For decades, South Africa and the United States of America have maintained a historical and strategic relationship. In the interest of our country, our region and the rest of our continent, I remain committed to rebuilding and maintaining this relationship for more decades on the basis of mutual respect, recognition of each other’s sovereignty and benefit for our respective peoples.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22914509 (151407ZAPR25) Notable: Final MTN Bun / 'Set up for failure': Concerns over Jonas's US envoy appointment after old video about Trump resurfaces (video)

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“Mcebisi Jonas delivers 11th Ahmed Kathrada Foundation Lecture”

https://youtu.be/njhxKdduG60

Nov 7, 2020

“'Set up for failure': Concerns over Jonas's US envoy appointment after old video about Trump resurfaces”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2025-04-15-set-up-for-failure-concerns-over-jonas-us-envoy-appointment-after-old-video-about-trump-resurfaced/

15 April 2025

The appointment of former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to the US has sparked concern after an old video of him making comments about US President Donald Trump resurfaced.

In the video, https://x.com/mmodiba10/status/1911791037078471116?t=_qyrdNr6PMspd01raTVtwQ&s=19, Jonas referred to Trump as a racist and a homophobe during an Ahmed Kathrada Annual Lecture in 2020.

“The US is undergoing a watershed moment with [Joe] Biden the certain winner in the presidential race against the racist, homophobe Donald Trump,” he said. “How we got to a situation where a narcissistic right-winger took charge of the world’s greatest economic and military powerhouse is something we need to ponder.”

Jonas's appointment comes as tensions between South Africa and the US escalate after former ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was expelled for making remarks about Trump's administration promoting supremacism.

The Presidency said Jonas was entrusted with the responsibility to advance South Africa's diplomatic, trade and bilateral priorities. However, due to his previous utterances about Trump, many have raised concerns on X about him potentially not making it to the US.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22921105 (161949ZAPR25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun / Expropriation Act Can of Worms: What if ALL Our Legislation are Invalid? (video)

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“Expropriation Act Can of Worms: What if ALL Our Legislation are Invalid?!”

https://youtu.be/eyEYRRgfGHA

Apr 16, 2025

Liberty Fighters Network (LFN) has formally stepped into the fray by applying to become amicus curiae in the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) constitutional challenge against the Expropriation Act, 2024. However, despite our lawful participation, we’ve been deliberately sidelined by all the main parties involved. 📪🤐

Last week, we had no choice but to address this in writing – making it clear that such conduct is unacceptable. This is not just another political gimmick for votes. 🇿🇦🗳️ The people of South Africa deserve closure on the validity of this controversial legislation.

💥 But here’s where the real can of worms bursts open...

In the DA’s own court documents, including an affidavit by Helen Zille, it appears that critical procedural decisions were not properly taken. This not only calls the entire Expropriation Act process into question, but it also sets a dangerous precedent that could affect all major legislation passed over the past 10 years – including:

🔹 BELA

🔹 BBBEE

🔹 Environmental Laws

🔹 And more...

If legislation is being passed through invalid processes, then we may be standing on a foundation of unlawful governance. 🚫📜 LFN is now actively questioning every major controversial Act passed in the past decade.

Politicians have clearly lost touch with the people they claim to serve. We believe this is a wake-up call for all South Africans to reclaim their right to just and accountable lawmaking. 🚨📣

💔 Unlike well-funded organisations like Afriforum who travel overseas 🇺🇸 to secure international backing, LFN relies only on the voluntary donations of our supporters – no funders, no overseas investors, just South Africans supporting South Africans. 🤝💡

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22921214 (162013ZAPR25) Notable: BNC#7: Helen Zille - The new global order; the DA's role in the GNU; and the future of South Africa (video)

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>>281977

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“BNC#7: Helen Zille - The new global order; the DA's role in the GNU; and the future of South Africa”

https://youtu.be/w44BUcfpCH8

Mar 17, 2025

In the opening address of the seventh BizNews Conference BNC#7, Chairperson of the Federal Council of the Democratic Alliance, Helen Zille, delivered a hard-hitting speech, dissecting the shifting global order and South Africa’s precarious position within it. From the rise of geopolitical oligarchs—Trump, Putin, and Xi—to the ANC’s foreign policy missteps, Zille laid bare the challenges ahead. She championed the DA’s role in the Government of National Unity (GNU) as a necessary bulwark against state collapse, urging South Africans to embrace liberal democracy as the only viable path forward.

Following her keynote address, Zille sat down with BizNews founder Alec Hogg to tackle tough questions on coalition politics, the DA’s leverage in budget negotiations, and South Africa’s foreign policy missteps. She warned of the ANC’s devious negotiation tactics, outlined the DA’s fight against reckless government spending, and explained why aligning with Iran could have devastating consequences for the country. Addressing concerns from the BNC#7 delegates about the GNU’s risks for the DA, Zille made it clear: strategic muscle and principled governance are key to shaping South Africa’s future.

https://sa-news.com/das-hellen-zille-is-a-follower-of-george-soros/

Posted on October 23, 2017

And just look at who, 10 years ago, acknowledged that she served on George Soros’s advice for the Open Society Foundation!

Insights into Helen Zille’s background and her philosophy.

Moneweb: Here in South Africa the Open Society Foundation was founded By George Sores, who’s well know in financial circles. But you also played a quite a big role in that.

Helen Zille: Yes, it certainly was started by George Soros. he had the vision of the open society. he came from a very oppressive society in Eastern Europe at the time of very oppressive regimes in that part of the world. he understood the value of the popperian philosophy. he made a lot of money in the open society by understand human fallibility and the fallibility of markets, so he took popperian philosophy and perfected in market systems, and made a lot of money doing so. An he also decided to propagate the concept of the open society all over the word, and one of the places I’m glad to say was South Africa, and I had the privileged of serving on the board of the Open Society Foundation. I’ve certainly never been interested in finance or making money, but I really am interested to trying to establish viable democracies, and certainly most in South Africa compared to any other place in the world because this is where I happen to be a citizen and it happens to be the place that given me all my opportunities. So I have been fascinated by that challenge and i was most privileged to sere on his board here.

Moneyweb Article found on Moneyweb 1 June 2007. https://www.moneyweb.co.za/archive/helen-zille-leader-da-and-cape-town-mayor/?__cf_chl_tk=8XDTBXrUXhIifPcfeJwRK.mYt6wBDrLes0cRRr2pnc0-1744828024-1.0.1.1-.zMSvVJk3ZCiY18bfJi8lDc2LhDF14VYjZHc3L78MfI

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22923990 (171315ZAPR25) Notable: South Africa: What the West Needs to Learn (video)

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“South Africa: What the West Needs to Learn | Dr. Ernst Roets | EP 538”

https://youtu.be/XHhPc7o7Jig

Apr 14, 2025

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with South African filmmaker, author, and activist Dr. Ernst Roets. They discuss the genetic and cultural hyper-diversity of Africa, the early settlement patterns of South Africa, the origin story of the Boers, how forgotten history breeds rhyming conflicts in the present, and the complex needle that must be threaded for shared prosperity.

Dr. Ernst Roets is an Afrikaner activist, author and filmmaker from South Africa. He serves as Executive Director of the newly established Pioneer Initiative, which seeks to promote a more sustainable political dispensation for South Africa, based on the principles of decentralization and self-governance. Dr Roets is the leading expert on the topic of farm murders in South Africa. His book, Kill the Boer: Government Complicity in South Africa's Brutal Farm Murders is an international bestseller on Amazon. He is also the producer of several documentary films. He regularly appears in the media - both in South Africa and the international media - about issues relating to South Africa and he regularly speaks at international conferences, including CPAC and NatCon. He is a leading advocate for the protection of free speech and property rights in South Africa, and for farm murders to be regarded as a priority crime.

This episode was filmed on March, 14th, 2025.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22924014 (171325ZAPR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / How This GANG Controls ALL PRISONS In South Africa (video)

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>1900: The degrading and illegal compound system of labour in vogue in Kimberley and Rhodesia.

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>Jews were amongst the most successful diamond magnets of Kimberley, many of them acquiring much of the land around the gold strikes in the Witwatersrand

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>His “The Genocide of the Boers” documents the insidious role of Lord Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Alfred Charles Rothschild and Leopold de Rothschild, in planning the Anglo Boer War of 1899 to 1902

“How This GANG Controls ALL PRISONS In South Africa”

https://youtu.be/9FaovbxkMXI

Apr 13, 2025

In South Africa, there’s a war happening every single day—not just in the streets but inside the prison walls. Gangs fight for power, for control, for survival. But there is one gang that stands above all the rest. A gang so feared, so ruthless, that even prison guards step aside when they walk past. They are the Numbers Gangs—the 26s, 27s, and 28s.

0:54 – “This is the story of South Africa’s most dangerous gang. If you ask any member of the Numbers gang where it all began, they’ll tell you a story passed down through generations. A story so legendary that no one knows where the truth ends and the myth begins… It all started in the late 1800s, a time when South Africa’s gold rush turned the land into a ruthless battleground. Black labourers were forced into dangerous mines, digging up wealth that would never be theirs. For them, the mines were a slow death sentence.”

4:18 – “Prison rather than breaking them, became the fertile ground for the Numbers gang to evolve into a fully fledged institution. The men carried their codes with them into the prison walls and over time their ranks swelled with new recruits.”

6:15 – “The Numbers gang transformed into a three-tiered system, a criminal orginisation as structured and disciplined as any military force. Each faction played its role ensuring the gang’s survival and dominance both inside and outside prison walls.”

9:53 – “The real problem in South Africa, prison isn’t the end of the road. It’s a training ground. Small time criminals enter as nobodies and leave as hardened gangsters, fully committed to the numbers brutal code. By the the time they walk free, they’re no longer just excons, they’re soldiers and they take everything they’ve learned behind bars straight into the streets… As South Africa’s crime rate skyrocketed and the police struggled to keep control, the Numbers saw their chance. The streets were there for the taking. One by one, they absorbed smaller street gangs.”

10:50 – “Once they took control, they didn’t stop at petty crime. Drugs, extortion, and murder for hire became part of their daily operations. While their leaders remain in prison, they ran the streets like puppet masters using coded messages and corrupt prison officials to keep their business running smoothly… And then came the politicians. Over time, rumours started spreading. Some officials weren’t just fighting the Numbers, they were working with them. Yet what makes the Numbers gang truly terrifying is its ability to keep everyone silent. Speaking out isn’t just dangerous it’s a death sentence… Today the gang isn’t just a criminal group, it’s an underground empire controlling entire communities while the government struggles to keep up. In many places, people don’t fear the police, they don’t fear the politicians, they fear the Numbers gang because governments change and the laws change but the Numbers never dies.“

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22924017 (171326ZAPR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Brutal slaying with a Bakkie in Rivonia (video)

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“Brutal slaying with a Bakkie in Rivonia”

https://youtu.be/u1WJ8rI3ikc

Apr 16, 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/love-triangle-turns-deadly-zimbabwean-man-killed-in-brutal-bakkie-attack-in-sandton/ar-AA1D29Av

2025/04/16

The incident unfolded on April 5, 2025, in Rivonia, Sandton, and culminated in a tragic and violent confrontation that ended in Mahamba being run over by a Ford Ranger bakkie multiple times.

On his Facebook page, which has more than 144,000 followers, Munetsi held a live conversation with Ntombi, the woman who was involved in a relationship with Mahamba, while she lived with her other romantic partner.

The Ugandan man, who has two children with Ntombi, allegedly murdered Emmanuel in the bakkie attack.

“I agree that I once dated Emmanuel in January, and we broke up in February. Yes, we were in a relationship. We broke up because some Ugandans recorded a video of me when I was with the guy (Emmanuel). My baby daddy is a Ugandan. So I broke up with Emmanuel for my safety, for my kids and also for the sake of Emmanuel. I stopped talking to Emmanuel.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22924025 (171329ZAPR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / How proposed gun control regulations will endanger the public (video)

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>>281981

They prefer to treat the symptom and not the cause.

“How proposed gun control regulations will endanger the public”

https://youtu.be/N9yDj5W2FLs

Apr 16, 2025

Proposed amendments to South African Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) regulations will “basically control the possession of firearms everywhere” - and will “constrain the ability of the security industry to respond to potentially dangerous situations”. This is the warning from attorney Martin Hood who is concerned that there's “some terminology in these proposals that are ideological - and I think that they've overstepped the mark, and there's going to be consequences for them that may be very difficult for them to deal with”. Hood says the government's view of the private security industry as a threat is “completely unjustified…The private security industry is not going to be the spearhead of a revolution in this country. It actually stopped that in July of 2021.” He urges the public to lodge objections to the proposed amendments, and adds: “the view of the industry is that these proposals are unlawful.…the industry and broader society may have no option but to take them to court because the consequence of them coming into effect in the way that they are will be an adverse consequence on the ability of all of us to protect ourselves and our assets”.

9:49 – “What does concern me is that there’s some terminology in these proposals that are ideological.”

13:24 – “What’s interesting is there’s been a spike in cash-in-transit robberies in the last 3 months, I’ve got the data. Because I work in the industry, I see a lot of material that’s not necessarily publicly available but what you do see even in some of these public videos is the use of automatic firearms and those come from one of two places. They come from the police or the army or they come from the illegal trade. They’re not available to civilians. So again we got to ask ourselves these basic questions, where are they coming from and why, before you start regulating us. Get your house in order government.”

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22924085 (171350ZAPR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / George Soros funded anti-gun organisation in South Africa

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George Soros funded anti-gun organisation in South Africa

https://paratus.info/2020/07/13/gun-rights-in-south-africa/

New South Africa, Hundreds of Thousands of New Gun Licences

In 1994, everything changed. For the first time in living memory, the majority of South Africans could exercise their firearm rights uninhibited. And that is exactly what they did.

Firearm licence applications exploded.

The authorities issued 778 000 new firearm licences between 1994 and 1999, at an average of 155 000 new licences per year. At the same time South Africa’s homicide rate began its longest and steepest decline in history. It reduced from just over 69 murders per 100 000 people in 1994, to 56 per 100 000 in 1999 – 19% decline in 5 years. Even better, the percentage of murders perpetrated by handguns dropped by 22% over the same period.

The Pro-Crime, Anti-Gun Lobby Attack Our Gun Rights

Reality didn’t stop the South African anti-gun lobby from doing their utmost to turn the country into a gun-free “paradise”. At the centre of this total civilian disarmament effort is an organisation called Gun-Free South Africa – founded by Methodist bishop Peter Storey, and funded by Big Name patrons like George Soros’ Open Society Foundation.

Their dishonest and disingenuous lobbying resulted in the Firearms Control Act of 2000, which became law in July 2004. It is a poorly-written, unworkable, and shambolic piece of legislation. And it succeeded in setting ordinary citizens’ gun rights back decades, if not centuries. Especially if you are poor and cannot afford to comply with the Herculean and arbitrary legal requirements for firearm ownership.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22924212 (171422ZAPR25) Notable: Final MTN Bun / ‘I was speaking as an activist’: Mcebisi Jonas clarifies his ‘racist’ remarks on Donald Trump

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>>281975

“‘I was speaking as an activist’: Mcebisi Jonas clarifies his ‘racist’ remarks on Donald Trump”

https://pretorianews.co.za/news/politics/2025-04-16-i-was-speaking-as-an-activist-mcebisi-jonas-clarifies-his-racist-remarks-on-donald-trump/

Published 1 day ago

IOL reported on Monday that a US foreign policy expert has warned that Jonas could face the same treatment that former South African ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rassol, was subjected to as a result of his comments on Trump.

In an interview with Radio 702, Jonas was asked about his previous assertions on Trump.

He responded: “I guess I must put that in context. At the time, I was outside of government, at the time I was speaking as an activist. I mean, people move on and confront challenges of the time.

“I am sure if you Google any politician, they have said some nasty things about one politician or the other. The reality of the matter is that the challenge that we all face, and the task at hand is to work on the relations between the two countries. Firstly, I am committed to doing that, but secondly I have the backing of government and South Africans in general,” Jonas told the radio station in an interview.

Last month, IOL reported that former South African ambassador to United States, Ebrahim Rasool had arrived in Cape Town after he was expelled from the US.

The former ambassador was greeted as a hero and was surrounded by South Africans and his family members.

Rasool, the former premier of Western Cape province, is a seasoned diplomat. He was serving as South Africa’s ambassador to the United States for the second time. He first served as South Africa’s ambassador to the US from 2010 until 2015 when Barack Obama was in the White House.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22965624 (281754ZAPR25) Notable: Final Russia and Ukraine Bun / Ukraine leader’s visit to South Africa marks a diplomatic shift

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“Ukraine leader’s visit to South Africa marks a diplomatic shift”

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-leaders-visit-to-south-africa-marks-a-diplomatic-shift

UPDATED Apr 25, 2025, 12:51 AM

PRETORIA - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to South Africa on April 24 underscored a shift in Pretoria’s stance on Russia’s invasion, which it had initially refused to condemn.

Mr Zelensky’s first visit to Africa took place just weeks after South Africa joined for the first time a UN General Assembly resolution criticising Russia for the war.

The UN’s February resolution “reaffirmed its commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity” against “the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation”.

After meeting Mr Zelensky on April 24, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called for an “unconditional ceasefire” in the war that started in 2022.

Mr Zelensky cut short his trip following the meeting to return to Kyiv after it was hit by a deadly strike.

Mr Ramaphosa said South Africa was “ready to continue to support all credible as well as inclusive multilateral efforts at achieving a just and sustainable comprehensive peace”.

Pretoria’s close ties with the Kremlin – forged by its support in the struggle against the previous apartheid regime – has raised eyebrows at home and abroad, with attempts to pressure it to drop a non-aligned stance.

Mr Ramaphosa’s spokesman said in March that Mr Zelensky’s visit did not indicate a change in policy but rather a “continuation of our efforts to try to bring about a peaceful resolution”.

And Pretoria’s inclusive attitude does not come at the expense of its ties with Moscow, with Mr Ramaphosa in October referring to Moscow as an “ally and precious friend”.

Pretoria wants to believe that it can work with both sides in the conflict and facilitate an inclusive peace process, perhaps drawing on its own relatively smooth transition out of white-minority rule in 1994 after decades of armed struggle.

“The negotiations that brought an end to the nightmare of apartheid were held on a no-precondition basis,” said Mr Ramaphosa, who two years ago led a delegation of African heads of state to Moscow and Kyiv to push both sides to negotiate.

As Washington has cut international aid and trade, South Africa has moved closer to Europe which had also been critical of its ambiguous position on Russia’s war, Mr Singh said.

“South Africa is certainly trying to find common ground with its European partners; it recognises their importance,” he told AFP.

The shift has been noted by Europe.

“South Africa has an increasingly positive role,” said Mr Fulgencio Garrido Ruiz, deputy head of the EU mission in South Africa.

Mr Zelensky’s visit was “a positive step in multilateral efforts to achieve an inclusive, sustainable and comprehensive peace”, he said.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22965633 (281756ZAPR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Ramaphosa’s top picks for next ambassador to the United States - an Afrikaner

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>Pretoria wants to believe that it can work with both sides in the conflict and facilitate an inclusive peace process, perhaps drawing on its own relatively smooth transition out of white-minority rule in 1994 after decades of armed struggle.

SA is considering using the same playbook to deal with the US.

“Ramaphosa’s top picks for next ambassador to the United States” – an Afrikaner

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/821462/ramaphosas-top-picks-for-next-ambassador-to-the-united-states/

20 Apr 2025

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is reportedly considering appointing an Afrikaner as the new South African Ambassador to the United States, amidst heightened political tensions between the countries.

As reported by the Sunday Times, Ramaphosa and International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola are looking to appoint a senior Afrikaans political figure to replace Ebrahim Rasool.

Ramaphosa is reportedly looking at four white Afrikaners to become the new ambassador in the USA, including former Chief National Party negotiator at CODESA, Roelf Meyer.

Meyer previously served as the Defence Minister in the final years of apartheid and would go on to co-found the United Democratic Movement (UDM), a current GNU member.

Meyer and Ramaphosa famously formed a friendship during the CODESA talks, which was key to ensuring the transition to democracy. They were so close that they became known as R&R.

Another shortlisted candidate is Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the final leader of the National Party. It would later become the New National Party and ally with the Democratic Party to form the DA.

Van Schalkwyk would later join the ANC and serve as the Minister of Tourism and as the ambassador to Australia.

Andries Nel, the Deputy Justice Minister, is also shortlisted for the role, as is Gerhardus Koornhof, the president’s parliamentary counsellor, the son of the late National Party Minister Piet Koornhof.

The Sunday Times also reported that Ramaphosa is committed to having former Deputy Finance Minister Jonas lead an envoy to the US.

A 5-year-old video of Jonas in which he calls Trump a racist homophobe has made the rounds online, placing doubt over his continued involvement.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22965640 (281757ZAPR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Ramaphosa’s top picks for next ambassador to the United States - an Afrikaner

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“Plan to Appoint Afrikaner as US Ambassador Sparks Divisions Within ANC”

https://www.thezimbabwemail.com/world-news/plan-to-appoint-afrikaner-as-us-ambassador-sparks-divisions-within-anc/

April 22, 2025

Johannesburg — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reported plan to appoint a white Afrikaner as South Africa’s next ambassador to the United States has triggered internal divisions within the African National Congress (ANC).

Highly placed sources within the ruling party say the move is seen as an attempt to repair strained relations with US President Donald Trump, who has previously accused South Africa of discriminating against white farmers.

Former Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Roelf Meyer and former National Party (NP) leader Marthinus Van Schalkwyk are among those being considered for the post. Meyer, a key figure in the early 1990s Codesa negotiations, is known to have a close relationship with Ramaphosa. Van Schalkwyk, who oversaw the merger of the NP into the ANC and later served as Minister of Tourism, resigned from Parliament in 2014.

Although the issue has yet to be formally discussed by the ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC), it has reportedly been a topic of conversation among senior figures. Critics argue that appointing an Afrikaner could be perceived as conceding to claims of white marginalisation in South Africa.

“There’s a feeling among some comrades that choosing an Afrikaner closely aligned to the ANC could be a strategic move to ease tensions with Washington,” said a source. “But a large part of the NEC remains opposed.”

Former Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel’s name has also been floated as a potential candidate.

The uMkhonto WeSizwe Party, a breakaway movement, criticised the mooted Afrikaner appointment. Spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela accused Ramaphosa of advancing an Afrikaner agenda, saying: “Ramaphosa sold out 30 years ago with Roelf Meyer. Today he wants to sell out again.”

Political analyst Justice Malala said Van Schalkwyk would be the logical choice if Ramaphosa seeks to engage effectively with the Trump administration.

“Van Schalkwyk is qualified and stands a better chance of opening doors in Washington than anyone else currently available,” Malala said. “When conditions change, astute leaders adapt their strategies, tactics, and personnel.”

He added that the Trump presidency marked a dramatic shift in global relations and that South Africa’s diplomatic approach needed to reflect this new reality.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22965704 (281813ZAPR25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / Roelf Meyer and Cyril Ramaphosa Relationship (video)

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>Roelf Meyer

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>The Apartheid government’s reaction to the article was to threaten the Rand Daily Mail with banning and called Zille and her editor, Allister Sparks, before the Press Council.

>the Rand Daily Mail... owner, Anglo American

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>https://hsf.org.za/publications/focus/issue-39-third-quarter-2005/the-rand-daily-mail-convenient-scapegoat

“What was the Roelf 'n' Cyril Show?”

https://youtu.be/ZdWZOflDOFg

Dec 30, 2020

Roelf Meyer and Cyril Ramaphosa Relationship

https://www.news24.com/life/books/book-extract-ramaphosa-and-the-big-deal-20171121

21 Nov 2017

The incident was recorded by the late Allister Sparks:j’A friend invites the ANC’s chief negotiator Cyril Ramahphosa and his opposite number Roelf Meyer fishing. When Meyer embeds a trout hook in his hand, Ramaphosa is the only one who can extract it.’ That moment, when Ramaphosa fed Meyer a stiff whisky before removing the hook, was but one of many that built the relationship into a political gamechanger.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2007-12-30-ramaphosa-his-ambition-tempered-by-a-fear-of-losing/

30 December 2007 - 02:00

THE true significance of the famous story about Cyril Ramaphosa removing a fish-hook from (National Party Cabinet minister) Roelf Meyer's thumb is that their host on the day, Sidney Frankel, was chairman of Frankel Pollak, the largest stockbroker on the (then) Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Frankel acted as a facilitator of relationships between foreign and domestic business investors and government. By 1987 Frankel was well connected with the "left" in (the National Party) government - with people such as Gerrit Viljoen, Barend du Plessis and Roelf Meyer - and he began to reach out to the United Democratic Front. On one occasion, he recalls, (President) PW Botha discovered that (Finance minister) Du Plessis was attending a conference, where he was talking to a senior UDF member. Botha had Du Plessis summoned to a telephone and instructed him to leave forthwith.

Frankel met Cyril at one of his own investment conferences. The two men, in his recollection, made "an immediate connection" and soon became "best pals". Once Nelson Mandela was released, and with Cyril in control of his diary, Frankel was able to bring the old man to the JSE. Designating himself "Comrade Frankel", he telephoned Mandela towards the end of 1990 and invited him to visit the exchange for lunch. When Mandela and Frankel stepped onto the floor of the exchange together, trading stopped. At this time, Mandela was associated with the ANC's commitment to nationalisation. Out of sight of Mandela, one of the brokers spat on the floor next to Frankel and called him a "Kaffir boetie". Frankel later received abusive telephone calls, with one colleague telling him he was an "arsehole" to bring the ANC leader to the exchange.

Soon afterwards, at Frankel's request, Ramaphosa arranged for a breakfast every six weeks at the opulent Transvaal Automobile Club, at which ANC leaders could informally chat with senior business people. Frankel remains uncertain as to what Cyril believed then - or believes now - about economic policy. Nevertheless, he is convinced that the constant interaction with the investment community was an important factor in changing Cyril's mindset, and in setting him against what Frankel believes was a genuine commitment to communism.

Cyril was, however, at a more advanced stage in thinking about the relationship between economics and politics than this account suggests. On one occasion, while Cyril was still National Union of Mineworkers general secretary, Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert organised a meeting between the mineworkers' leader and his arch opponent, the ageing (Anglo American) magnate Harry Oppenheimer.

As an ameliorator and a processor, Cyril Ramaphosa transforms the antagonisms of others into an unexpected consensus. His own deeper beliefs and opinions remain hidden. People who have known him for many years have no idea what his position might be on central aspects of economic or foreign policy.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22965724 (281817ZAPR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun / Sidney Frankel: The true legacy of a ‘paedophile’ philanthropist - Ramaphosa's 'best pal' (video)

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>Frankel acted as a facilitator of relationships between foreign and domestic business investors and government.

>Frankel met Cyril at one of his own investment conferences. The two men, in his recollection, made "an immediate connection" and soon became "best pals".

“Special Assignment - When Silence Speaks, 31 July 2017

https://youtu.be/MV42T7nHrrY

Aug 14, 2017

They accuse him of sexually abusing them when they were children and wanted him to be prosecuted for the alleged sexual offences. They challenged a law preventing survivors of sexual abuse from laying criminal charges against perpetrators 20 years after the crime is committed. In June 2017, the South Gauteng High Court ruled in their favour, declaring Section 18 of the Criminal Procedures Act invalid and inconsistent with the Constitution – meaning that children and adults are now allowed to lay charges at any time after sexual offences occur.

“Sidney Frankel: The true legacy of a ‘paedophile’ philanthropist” - Ramaphosa's 'best pal'

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-05-23-sidney-frankel-the-true-legacy-of-a-paedophile-philanthropist/

23 May 2017

He was a billionaire stockbroker, a friend of politicians from Cyril Ramaphosa to Barend du Plessis, and a trustee at Constitution Hill. He was also an alleged paedophile, a man accused of sexually molesting eight men and women more than 20 years ago, at a time when none of these people had yet reached adolescence. Now it turns out that Sidney Frankel, who died of cancer in April, may be lending his name to a progressive amendment to the Sexual Offences Act.

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/alleged-billionaire-paedophile-sidney-frankel-dies/

13 Apr 2017 04:06 pm

Frankel was facing up to eight civil claims of child molestation and sexual abuse in what WMACA called “the worst-kept secret in Johannesburg’s business, Jewish and socialite communities”.

“Sidney Frankel has been abusing children for a very long time – and stands accused of molesting seven complainants who have come forward, who were entrusted to his care when they were very young children,” WMACA wrote in a statement in 2015 when news of the alleged abuse broke.

According to the summons before the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, Frankel was accused of molesting the children at five different locations, namely in Abbotford, Johannesburg; Ballifarm horse farm in Kyalami; Baobab Ridge game farm in Buffelshoek; the former Arcadia Jewish Children’s Home in Parktown, Johannesburg; and at his home in Athol.

Four of the applicants claimed they were “habitually sexually assaulted while taking a bath or swimming” when they were children.

Frankel had enlisted the services of attorney Billy Gundelfinger to defend him. The criminal charges were held in stasis as they had prescribed due to them being older than 20 years.

“It was a shock to hear of his death, we knew he wasn’t well,” said Friedmann, while conveying her condolences to his family.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22965733 (281819ZAPR25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / Ramaphosa to meet Trump face-to-face to resolve diplomatic fallout

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“Ramaphosa to meet Trump face-to-face to resolve diplomatic fallout”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/ramaphosa-meet-trump-face-to-face-to-resolve-diplomatic-fallout/

27 Apr 2025 08:20 am

Talks could take place on sidelines of US-Africa summit

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet face-to-face with US President Donald Trump to discuss the diplomatic fallout between the two countries.

A phone call this week between Ramaphosa and Trump appeared to have made strides towards resolving the simmering tensions between the US and South Africa.

Speaking to Trump

In the phone call this week, Ramaphosa said he had spoken to Trump.

“President Trump and I also agreed to meet soon to address this and various matters regarding relations between South Africa and the United States. We both spoke about the need to foster good relations between our two countries.”

Ramaphosa and Trump are said to have now agreed to meet in person, possibly on the sidelines of a US-Africa summit in the next three months, according to the Sunday Times.

The agreement was clinched when the two presidents spoke ahead of this week’s state visit to South Africa by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. He cut short his visit immediately after meeting Ramaphosa due to a Russian air strike on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

Face to face

This will be the first face-to-face meeting between Ramaphosa and Trump since the latter’s election as US president.

Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, confirmed the two presidents had agreed to meet.

“Both President Ramaphosa and President Trump have agreed on the need to meet soon and to work on resetting the bilateral relationship. At a personal level, both presidents interact in a cordial and friendly manner.”

Phiri added that there was a “general appetite” to normalise the relationship between the two countries.

“It will be through their leadership that the relationship will be normalised. Teams on both sides will work on facilitating the meeting and obviously managing a number of scheduling and logistical considerations.”

Criticising SA

Senior government insiders said the fact that Trump and Ramaphosa had spoken for the second time in three months was a significant development. The first call between the two presidents came when Ramaphosa congratulated Trump on his election victory.

Since his return to the White House, Trump has criticised the South African government, saying “terrible things” were happening in the country after the passing of the Expropriation Act, which he believes is pushing Afrikaner farmers out of the country.

Trump has since offered them refuge in the US with an expedited pathway to US citizenship.

According to Trump, “any farmer” who is “seeking to flee” South Africa “for reasons of safety” can now apply to become a US citizen – rather than a refugee.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22969521 (291457ZAPR25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / Ramaphosa signs General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill into law, splits SSA into 2 bodies

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“Ramaphosa signs General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill into law, splits SSA into 2 bodies”

https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/03/28/ramaphosa-signs-general-intelligence-laws-amendment-bill-into-law-splits-ssa-into-2-bodies

28 March 2025 | 16:12

CAPE TOWN - The President has given the go-ahead to once again split the State Security Agency (SSA) into two bodies, foreign and domestic.

The General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill was signed into law on Friday, following years of claims that the SSA has been used to fight political battles.

The Presidency said the act would not only reform the intelligence services but also improve oversight and accountability.

The General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill was rushed through the National Assembly in just four months between the end of 2023 and early 2024, after threats that Parliament itself would introduce a bill to overhaul the intelligence services when the executive was taking too long to table legislation.

Presidency spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said: "Among other reforms, the amendment act establishes two separate departments, replacing the State Security Agency as a national government department."

The two new intelligence departments are to be known as the Foreign Intelligence Service to identify threats to national security, and the Domestic Intelligence Agency, responsible for counterintelligence.

The law will also address concerns related to the bulk interception of information, which will be overseen by a judge.

The amendments also give the inspector-general of intelligence more autonomy in decision-making.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22969564 (291511ZAPR25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun / Legal action threatened over Phala Phala report - Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) Imtiaz Fazel refused to provide a copy of the report

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“Legal action threatened over Phala Phala report” – “Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) Imtiaz Fazel refused to provide a copy of the report”

https://iol.co.za/sundayindependent/news/2024-05-19-legal-action-threatened-over-phala-phala-report/

Published 11 months ago

Former State Security Agency (SSA) chairperson Xolile Mashukuca has threatened to take legal action against the office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence (OIGI) over the report about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s alleged abuse of funds meant for crime intelligence.

It has been alleged that almost R20 million a month was taken from a secret crime intelligence fund to finance the undercover operations to trace the thieves and recover the money that was stolen at Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm in 2020.

Mashukuca, who is the complainant in the matter, told the OIGI to provide him a copy of the report or face legal action.

This was his third attempt to get access to the report in a letter sent on Monday.

Mashukuca, who launched the complaint in 2022, requested a copy of the report to find out which allegations had been substantiated and which had not, and what the reasons were.

However, Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) Imtiaz Fazel refused to provide a copy of the report, he was bound by the provisions of the Oversight Act, and all investigations conducted by the IGI that culminated into findings and recommendations were for oversight purposes only.

He added that the report had been submitted to Police Minister Bheki Cele in terms of Section 7(7)(f) of the Oversight Act as required, and any deviation from this provision would be contrary to the act.

However, in his letter this week, Mashukuca said he was not convinced by Fazel’s response. He said he had read section 7 (7)(f) of the Intelligence Oversight Act and there was nothing prohibiting the office from acceding to his request.

Mashukuca also said he consulted section 12 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) 2 of 2000 regarding exemptions and OIGI was not among those listed in the section.

“Section 32 (1, a) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa provides everyone the right of access to any information held by the state and this right may not be denied arbitrarily as is the case now. The OIGI has a duty in terms of section 19 of the PAIA to assist me to obtain the requested information,” he said.

He added: “It is trite that secrecy may not be used as a veil to hide abuses of law and any attempt to deny me the right of access to the investigation report is unlawful and does not withstand legal scrutiny. I do not wish to engage in a protracted legal battle with your office on a matter this simple and straightforward matter as that distracts me from the important duty of seeking accountability.”

Mashukuca added that it was also inconceivable that the report was submitted to Cele who was the subject of investigations. He said there was something not right about this decision and that needs examination.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22969876 (291647ZAPR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun / Sylvia Lucas: Former Northern Cape Premier heads Parliamentary intelligence oversight committee (video)

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Sylvia Lucas: “Former Northern Cape Premier heads Parliamentary intelligence oversight committee”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/former-northern-cape-premier-heads-parliamentary-intelligence-oversight-committee/

2nd April 2025

Sylvia Lucas will chair the nine-person strong Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI), the only Parliamentary oversight committee to meet in camera.

The appointment of the National Assembly (NA) Member of Parliament (MP), a former Northern Cape Premier and deputy chair of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), was made known in a Parliamentary Communication Services statement coinciding with the swearing in of the new JSCI yesterday (April 1).

In addition to Lucas, there are five ANC (African National Congress) MPs on the committee. They are Doris Dlakude, Mluleki Dlelanga, Tshilidzi Munyai, Kenneth Mmoiemang and Jane Mananiso. Three remaining three JSCI members – Dianne Kohler Barnard, Jeanne Adriaanse and Nicholas Myburgh – are all Democratic Alliance (DA) public representatives.

Among tasks ahead for Lucas and her co-committee members will be overseeing implementation of the South African government’s new intelligence dispensation, which includes two new departments for internal and external security (The Domestic Intelligence Agency – DIA – and Foreign Intelligence Service – FIS). The services came into being by way of President Cyril Ramaphosa signing the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB) into law last week.

The GILAB amends key intelligence-related laws, including the National Strategic Intelligence Act of 1994, the Intelligence Services Act of 2002, and the Intelligence Services Oversight Act of 1994. Among its major reforms, the law disestablishes the State Security Agency (SSA) and replaces it with the Foreign Intelligence Service and Domestic Intelligence Agency. In addition, the law re-establishes the South African National Academy of Intelligence (SANAI) and the Intelligence Training Institute to enhance intelligence capacity-building.

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“'Loadshedding is not the end of the world' - ANC MP Sylvia Lucas”

https://youtu.be/yIi8gDXQJm4

Feb 13, 2024

“Hon. Sylvia Elizabeth Lucas: Vice President of SADC Parliamentary Forum”

https://www.sadcpf.org/index.php/en/about-us/brief-history-of-sadc-pf/839-hon-vice-president-sylvia-elizabeth-lucas

Hon. Sylvia Elizabeth Lucas, a distinguished leader within South Africa’s ruling coalition (ANC), is a dedicated policymaker and political activist. As a key figure in governance and capacity development, she has played an instrumental role in shaping South Africa’s political and social landscape, particularly in advocating for gender equality and community empowerment.

Political Career and Contributions

Hon. Sylvia Lucas has played a pivotal role in defining post-apartheid South Africa’s political and social fabric. As a passionate political activist and community leader, she has dedicated herself to the struggle against apartheid and the dismantling of gender stereotypes. Her advocacy for gender equality has led to numerous pioneering community programs, which have significantly influenced both the Northern Cape province and national discourse on women’s empowerment.

Her steadfast political commitment within the ANC and ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) has resulted in her election to various leadership positions at the national, provincial, and local levels. Through her activism and policymaking, she continues to shape democratic governance and social transformation in South Africa.

Leadership Positions Held

Throughout her illustrious career, Hon. Sylvia Lucas has held numerous leadership positions in and outside Parliament, including:

• Chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence

• Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP)

• Chairperson of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Committee

• Member of the NCOP Rules Committee

• Member of the NCOP Programming Committee

• Member of the Forum of Speakers of South Africa

• Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on the Review of Council Rules

• Premier of the Northern Cape Province

• Member of the ANC Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) and Provincial Working Committee (PWC)

• Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL)

• General Secretary of the Association of Public Accounts Committees

• Acting Provincial Secretary of the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) and ex-officio Member of ANCWL National Executive Committee

• Deputy General Secretary of the Association of Public Accounts Committees

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Environment and Nature Conservation

• ANC Whip in the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature

• Member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature

• First Regional Chairperson of the merged Upington and part of Kuruman Region (Siyanda Region)

• Community Development Worker

• Leader of the South African Parliament Delegation to the SA-EU Inter-Parliamentary Mechanism

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“State Security Agency monitoring potential threats from Trump-linked support movements”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/state-security-agency-monitoring-potential-threats-from-trump-linked-support-movements/

24th April 2025

Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshaveni has revealed that the State Security Agency (SSA) is actively monitoring possible national security risks arising from international support movements and campaigns linked to United States President Donald Trump.

The SSA’s confirmation comes amid growing concerns globally about the influence of international political movements on domestic affairs. Responding to formal enquiries, the agency outlined its approach, emphasising that vigilance remains a key priority in safeguarding South Africa’s sovereignty, stability, and developmental goals.

Under the National Strategic Intelligence Act, Act No. 39 of 1994, as amended under the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB), the SSA is mandated to identify and counter threats and potential threats to South Africa’s national security. Its responsibilities span a broad spectrum of concerns, including terrorism, domestic extremism, sabotage, subversion, espionage, and organised crime.

The SSA stressed that international developments are continually assessed for their likelihood to impact South Africa’s internal environment. In this context, the agency has taken particular note of activities linked to Trump and movements that have expressed support for his political agenda. Such movements, especially where links to groups within South Africa are identified, are being scrutinised for their potential to undermine national unity, economic prosperity, and the country’s broader developmental trajectory.

“In accordance with its counterintelligence mandate, the SSA has taken note of developments surrounding the Trump administration’s activities and their potential influence on South Africa’s domestic affairs,” Ntshaveni stated. “We remain vigilant to the possibility of external interference that could compromise our national sovereignty, economic stability, and societal cohesion.”

The agency also acknowledged the broader risks posed by disinformation campaigns, cyber operations, and ideological influence, which could serve to destabilise public trust in democratic institutions. Intelligence assessments have been strengthened to ensure that any such threats are identified early and mitigated effectively.

Security experts have warned that global political polarisation, fuelled by the spread of misinformation and foreign influence operations, poses a growing challenge for emerging democracies like South Africa. There exists a clear need for increased awareness and coordinated action across government, civil society, and the private sector to defend national interests.

For now, the SSA has indicated that while no immediate, large-scale threat has been detected, the situation remains fluid and under continuous assessment. With the separation of the SSA into two new entities under the implementation of GILAB, it is likely this task will now fall to the Domestic Intelligence Agency (DIA), which is responsible for domestic security threats and counter-intelligence.

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“ActionSA files application to obtain IPID's report on Phala Phala” - classified as top secret

https://www.ewn.co.za/2025/04/29/actionsa-files-application-to-obtain-ipids-report-on-phala-phala

29 April 2025 | 10:00

JOHANNESBURG -President Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala scandal is far from over, with ActionSA now filing an application to obtain police watchdog Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID)'s report on the matter.

The findings of IPID's probe on the theft of foreign currency at Ramaphosa's farm have been classified as top secret.

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu previously told Parliament the report would not be made public unless formally declassified.

IPID was roped in to investigate the conduct of Ramaphosa's VIP protection officers, who allegedly travelled to Namibia to track down the perpetrators and recover the stolen money.

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/paia-request-for-ipid-report-on-phala-phala-actio

29 April 2025

Section 3(4)(4) of the Minimum Information Security Standards (MISS) Cabinet policy is explicit that only matters meeting the following criteria may be classified as Top Secret:

Can result in the declaration of war;

Can lead to the discontinuation of diplomatic relations between states;

Can seriously damage operational relations between institutions;

Can disrupt the effective execution of information operational planning and/or plans.

After a whitewashed report by Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka, and despite the South African Reserve Bank clearing the President of violating exchange control laws, the South African public still does not have access to the information it rightfully deserves. Upon entering Parliament last year, ActionSA declared that it would not simply allow the Phala Phala matter to be swept aside in the manner now seemingly accepted by parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU), whose access to power is now tied to the President.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970486 (291938ZAPR25) Notable: Final DRC & Rwanda Bun / SAMIDRC withdrawal from DR Congo underway (video)

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“Big Win For President Trump | Trump Stops War In DRC | Marco Rubio Hosts Signing of Declaration”

https://youtu.be/GtuSQs85wIE

Apr 25, 2025

“SAMIDRC withdrawal from DR Congo underway”

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/samidrc-withdrawal-from-dr-congo-underway/

29th April 2025

Withdrawal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), terminated in mid-March, is finally underway.

Equipment and personnel from the three SAMIDRC troop contributing countries (TCCs) – Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania – are being withdrawn from bases in Goma and Sake.

The regional bloc mission was deployed to the eastern DRC in December 2023 with a 12 month mandate, later extended by a further year before calling a halt to operations in the wake of a fatality and casualty filled January.

Business Day reports sources in the South African contingent saying the order to start packing came just ahead of last weekend. The publication further reports equipment and personnel will move in multiple convoys via Burundi and Rwanda to Chato in north-western Tanzania. The Lake Victoria port town, 500 km from Goma and Sake, will be the staging point ahead of force contingents splitting for repatriation to their respective home countries.

“We are leaving nothing behind,” a South African soldier is reported as saying, with another on record as saying “As far as we know, the group’s quick reaction force (QRF) will leave last to provide protection for the tail of the entire convoy.”

The QRF was reportedly in the vanguard of the January battle to maintain control of Goma airport. The QRF, again according to Business Day, “sowed havoc” among M23 (Mouvement du 23 Mars) rebels killing more than 700 in “fierce fire fights” at and around the airport.

There was at the time of publication no update from either SADC, the East African Community (EAC) or the Directorate Corporate Communication (DCC) of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) on the withdrawal. This was further illustrated by an unidentified South African soldier saying “as far as we know, we will be flown out of Chato to Bloemfontein”. He had no information on movement of armoured vehicles and heavy equipment.

“Our orders say by May 30 everyone and everything needs to be out of Goma and on its way. It was chaos over the weekend, but nobody is complaining because we’re finally going home,” one soldier is reported as saying.

defenceWeb understands that the move has begun, with artillery being moved as from Tuesday 29 April. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebels controlling Goma and Sake have apparently been inspecting outgoing SAMIDRC equipment, much to the irritation of soldiers.

The pack up and go orders correspond with the plan the defence chiefs of the three SAMIDRC TCC proposed at an 11 April meeting in Dar es Salaam with SADC representatives. The chiefs voiced frustration about the delay in SADC repairing and preparing the Goma airport runway still held by the rebels.

They proposed the withdrawal, earlier agreed to by M23 senior military hierarchy, continue by road. The SADC secretariat had to obtain Rwandan approval for safe passage through the country. It was later reported in Rwandan media that President Paul Kagame approved secure passage for SAMIDRC.

A technical advance team from the three TCCs was assembled to ensure which route troop convoys were to take as the safest and fastest. The team included operations, intelligence and logistic experts who also had to provide reconnaissance while the withdrawal was under way. According to soldiers, a contingent of South African and other forces is in Chato to co-ordinate repatriation of troops and equipment.

Seventeen SAMIDRC soldiers, including 14 South Africans, died in what has become known as the Battle for Goma in late january. Numerous own forces were seriously injured in the three-day battle.

The SAMIDRC deployment was criticised by military specialists and soldiers for the seeming haphazard and ill-prepared way in which South African forces, as the leading country, were sent to eastern DRC, without air support and proper logistics.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970903 (292113ZAPR25) Notable: Final ANC Bun

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Final ANC Bun

>>281696 IFP ties to the ANC, Oppenheimer Family

>>281697 DA ties to the Oppenheimer Family

>>281698 ANC and other liberation movement military training camps were in Tanzania

>>281699, >>281700 IFP, DA, African leaders, Ukraine, Brenthurst Foundation, etc. signed “The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy”

>>281710, >>281711, >>281712 Communist Tactic; National Democratic Revolution, “The many, many race laws of the ANC”, “boiling a frog alive” (Parts 1-3)

>>281746 Some of the fallacious policies implemented by the ANC, [Moeletsi] Mbeki maintains, include BBBEE and affirmative action

>>281747 Billions in bailouts for failing SOEs in South Africa - Government’s latest spin

>>281754 South Africa, Israel and the ANC's distorted sense of morality (video)

>>281755 Report: “South Africa and the African National Congress’s History of Supporting Abusive Regimes” (with .pdf)

>>281775 Statement on the ANC NEC & NEC Lekgotla outcomes (1 -6 AUGUST 2024) (with .pdf)

>>281809 ANC officials in cahoots with US Intelligence

>>281811, >>>/qresearch/2264907 The New South Africa’s original ’State Capture

>>281814 Nicky Oppenheimer campaigning for the ANC [1994], signing a contract with the Namibian Government and more

>>281824 ANC murder suspects surprised by Political Task Team’s court appearance

>>281847 The ANC prison camps: an audit of three years, 1990-1993

>>281848 Shell House Massacre: “Mandela: why I gave shoot to kill order” (video)

>>281849 Donald Trump Threatens to Cut South Africa’s Funding Over Land Confiscations (video)

>>281850 The ANC/DA Blames Afriforum for Trump Decision (video)

>>281854 Trump's Sanctions on the ANC are HERE | All US AID CANCELLED | AGAO to be CANCELLED? (video)

>>281869 Is Iran funding the ANC? ANC's sudden wealth fuels suspicion as Israel-Gaza case draws scrutiny

>>281870 Slain ANC KZN councillor was trying to expose corruption

>>281875 John Dugard: “A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage”: African-American Institute

>>281916 South African Minister Naledi Pandor speaks on international solidarity and a new world order (video)

>>281919 Ernst Roets: “I spoke with Tucker Carlson about the crisis in South Africa” (video)

>>281926 SANDF General in Hot Water After Accusing the ANC of Terrible Leadership, Weak Army and Open Borders (video)

>>281930 Lamola: USA not responding to SA's calls for discussion (video)

>>281935 The Predictable Attack on Afriforum and Solidarity by MSM (video)

>>281942 US anger over SA’s foreign policy could cost thousands their jobs - Solidarity

>>281943 South African Government’s Hipocrisy: ICC rulings for the arrest of President Omar al-Bashir vs arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

>>281944 Hamas delegation ends official visit to South Africa (video)

>>281945, >>281946, >>281947 Palestine Conference in Johannesburg Calls for True, Meaningful Liberation (Parts 1&2)

>>281948 Palestine rally in Cape Town condemns relocations: Rev. Frank Chikane's address (video)

>>281949, >>281950 This case study follows the antiapartheid movement, with a particular focus on the role of philanthropy (Parts 1&2)

>>281951, >>281952, >>281953, >>281954, >>281955 Destroying South Africa’s Democracy: USAID, the Ford Foundation and Civil Society (Parts 1-5)

>>281956 State power will stay with the ANC - ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa (video)

>>281961 FMF’s Van Staden: Bravo Afriforum (and Pres Trump); maybe ANC will now repeal 142 racist laws (video)

>>281986, >>281987 Ramaphosa’s top picks for next ambassador to the United States - an Afrikaner

>>281993, >>281994 Sylvia Lucas: Former Northern Cape Premier heads Parliamentary intelligence oversight committee (video)

>>281995 State Security Agency monitoring potential threats from Trump-linked support movements

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970905 (292113ZAPR25) Notable: Final Commodities Bun

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Final Commodities Bun

>>281674 Cape Town Tells Port to Do Better After Being Ranked Last in World

>>281675 Angola pens a new military agreement with the US as Washington attempts to increase its influence in Africa

>>281677 Grindrod chosen to develop box facility at Richards Bay

>>281680 MOL invests in African logistics company

>>281684 Canada's GoviEx Uranium's stripped of Niger mining rights

>>281686 Botswana Eyes New Export Route To Exploit Huge Coal Resource

>>281714 Mine accused of disregarding obligations” but the government is complicit (video)

>>281715 Total’s gas exit - PetroSA blunder loses SA R80bn investment, R100bn in lost taxes (video)

>>281738, >>281739 1966 Hoek Report about Anglo American (Parts 1&2, includes .pdf)

>>281742, >>281743 More Portions of Hoek Report (Parts 1&2)

>>281744, >>281745 South Africa’s state owned companies: a complex history that’s seldom told (Parts 1&2)

>>281779 New China-Backed Megaport Set to Transform South American Trade

>>281781 (Canada #66) Nigeria's Richest Man Confronts "Oil Mafia" With New $20B Refinery

>>281793 Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana

>>281794 Namibia’s Oil & Gas Sector: Major Updates in December 2024

>>281795 Institute of Directors South Africa: The IoDSA History - Harry Oppenheimer, Basil Hersov, Mervyn King…

>>281796 Institute of Directors: London

>>281798 Sir Adrian Cadbury: Pioneer of good practice in corporate governance who also guided the family firm through the turbulent 1980s

>>281911 Broke Zimbabwe to pay $3bn to white landowners whose farms State seized (video)

>>281920 Eskom’s stage 6 load shedding, a shock to the GNU

>>281969 (Canada #73) Brussels Blows €4.4 Billion Taxpayers' Money Supporting Clean Energy Transition In South Africa

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970906 (292114ZAPR25) Notable: Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

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Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun

>>281679 (General Research #25853) US expanding bioweapons research in Africa - Russia

>>281706 Africa CDC to make declaration on Mpox outbreak (video)

>>281707 Wellcome is now in official relations with the World Health Organization

>>281708 Wellcome Trust director takes World Health Organization role

>>281709 WHO emergency committee meets this week to discuss African mpox spread

>>281716 Africa CDC Declares Mpox A Public Health Emergency of Continental Security, Mobilizing Resources Across the Continent

>>281717 WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency as a new form of the virus spreads

>>281718, >>281719 Vaccine Maker Shares Soar After WHO Declares Health Emergency Over Africa Mpox Outbreak

>>281720 COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic: lessons learnt for other neglected diseases and future threats (with .pdfs)

>>281721 WHO, Bill Gates and Wellcome Trust’s Global Vaccine Fund Lacks Transparency and Accountability

>>281732, >>281733, >>281734 Mpox: Brace yourself for another Lockdown (Parts 1-3)

>>281741 (General Research #26297) South African group refutes WHO’s declaration of an mpox emergency and warns the public about the risks of the vaccines

>>281751, >>>/qresearch/21582837 “Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High Consequence Biological Threats” - Scenario: Monkeypox (video & .pdf)

>>281752, >>281753 Wellcome Trust, etc. History and Association to the Coronavirus (Parts 1&2)

>>281760 Gates Foundation: “What did Mark Suzman learn in Ethiopia?”… “foundation’s Ethiopia office in Addis Ababa, the first office we opened on the continent 12 years ago”

>>281761 Mark Suzman; CEO at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African, Rhodes Scholar, Helen Suzman is his great aunt (video)

>>281780 (Canada #65) Kenya gives far-left Gates Foundation special legal exemptions to push its agenda

>>281783 (Canada #68) Coalition of Over 30 Attorneys Representing Over 1,500 Remdesivir Victims Blast ABC with Cease and Desist Over Dangerous ‘Miracle Cure’ Claim in New Show

>>281784 (Canada #69) Hohmann: Bill Gates Unleashes Plan for New Series of Gene-Based Injections that Will Target Africa

>>281785 (General Research #27295) Drone expert roped in to assess conditions of Stilfontein illegal miners

>>281797 Keith Donnelly, Head of Emergency Preparedness, NHS Trust (BHRUT): “The pandemic demonstrated how dedicated, innovative, and flexible we can all be”

>>281936 Trump orders USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down

>>281940 (Canada #72) Mystery Disease Kills over 50 Congolese After Children Ate a Bat

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970909 (292114ZAPR25) Notable: Final DRC & Rwanda Bun

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>>281834 Ramaphosa breaks silence on deaths of SANDF soldiers in the DRC (video)

>>281835 Romanian private military fighters cross border into Rwanda (video)

>>281837 24th Extra Ordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State on Eastern DRC: Remarks by President Kagame”; DRC conflict, South Africa issued threats (video)

>>281838 Dozens of mercenaries in DRC sent to Rwanda (video)

>>281839 European mercenaries at Kigali International Airport to return to their home country, Romania (video)

>>281840 Agemira: “French and Romanian instructors, Chinese drones… Tshisekedi outsources the fight against M23”

>>281841 European Mercenaries in Africa:: Agemira and Congo Protection

>>281844 South Africa warns Rwanda of ‘declaration of war’ after assault in DRC

>>281845 South Africa, Rwanda go head-to-head over DRC war

>>281846 MONUSCO ignores M23 rebel warning, intensifies support to Congolese army coalition (video)

>>281852 Massacre by the Army in the DRC

>>281859 SANDF deployment to DRC not a peacekeeping mission - Motau (video)

>>281860 “‘Tell the truth’ - Kagame camp links Ramaphosa’s ‘mining deals’ to DRC mission”

>>281871, >>281872 South Africa and the DRC forge economic relations amid Rwanda confrontation

>>281873, >>>/qresearch/2246229 Open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa on eastern DRC crisis (Parts 1&2)

>>281874 M23 Rebels Demand SADC Troop Withdrawal

>>281913 The Truth of the DRC vs. Rwanda Story (video)

>>281923 Rhetoric prior to Rwanda’s genocide (video)

>>281997 SAMIDRC withdrawal from DR Congo underway (video)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970912 (292114ZAPR25) Notable: Final Expropriation Bun

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>>281849 Donald Trump Threatens to Cut South Africa’s Funding Over Land Confiscations (video)

>>281851 Trump takes aim at SA: Political parties slam ‘misinformation’ about land expropriation

>>281856, >>281857 Act No.13 of 2024: Expropriation Act, 2024: (Assented to 20 December 2024)

>>281858 (Canada #71) South African minister calls for halt to mineral exports to US

>>281863 The First Farm Expropriation in SA: the True Story of Akkerland (video)

>>281864 ANOTHER expropriation case exposed (video)

>>281866 South Africa-U.S. tensions escalate as Rubio snubs G-20 meeting over land reform law

>>281867 The ANC is putting their extremist agenda above South Africa (video)

>>281868 Executive Order—Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa

>>281880 Over 90% of EXPROPRIATED farms have failed under new black beneficiaries (video)

>>281881 First Farm ANC tried to expropriate without compensation, for Chinese "Mega City" (video)

>>281897 South Africa to ask China, France and Germany for help

>>281921 No US boycott': Lamola clarifies US representation at G20 meeting” - Deputy Chief of Mission Dana M. Brown attended

>>281929 Willem Petzer: Over 90% of EXPROPRIATED farms have failed under new black beneficiaries (video)

>>281932, >>281933 30,000 Afrikaners Want to Come to USA as White House Welcomes AfriForum Delegation and South African Government Doubles Down on Race-Based Land Grab (Parts 1&2)

>>281941 Nelson Mandela Foundation files legal challenge to realise equitable land access on the anniversary of Madiba's passing

>>281962 Who really owns the land in South Africa?” - “22% of land owned by white people

>>281963, >>281964 ANC, EFF lies about land ownership, here are the facts (Parts 1&2)

>>281968 Rubio Says South Africa's Ambassador No Longer Welcomed in US

>>281977 Expropriation Act Can of Worms: What if ALL Our Legislation are Invalid? (video)

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970914 (292115ZAPR25) Notable: Final MTN Bun

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>>281886 MTN, led by Zimbabwean exec Ralph Mupita, faces revived $4-billion bribery case

>>281887 Lord Hoffmann clears MTN of wrongdoing in Iran; A look at Lord Hoffmann (video)

>>281888 $4 billion legal battle between Turkcell & MTN over “bribes” to Iran

>>281889 S.Africa's MTN slides on Iran corruption lawsuit (2012)

>>281890 CR-linked MTN tender imposed on municipalities

>>281891, >>281892 ANALYSIS: MTN’s history of controversies, violation of Nigeria’s laws (Parts 1&2)

>>281893 U.S. Federal Court issues historic ruling permitting anti-terrorism claims against MTN Group to move to Discovery

>>281894 MH Jonas: Board of Directors, MTN (video)

>>281895 MTN: President Cyril Ramaphosa attends the 30 years anniversary (video)

>>281975 President Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to United States of America

>>281976 'Set up for failure': Concerns over Jonas's US envoy appointment after old video about Trump resurfaces (video)

>>281984 ‘I was speaking as an activist’: Mcebisi Jonas clarifies his ‘racist’ remarks on Donald Trump

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970915 (292115ZAPR25) Notable: Final Cyril Ramaphosa Bun

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>>281778 Ramaphosa meets with South African-born American entrepreneur Elon Musk, other investors (video)

>>281823 President Cyril Ramaphosa leads delegation to World Economic Forum, 20 to 25 Jan

>>281836 Cyril Ramaphosa “Working Visit” to South Sudan: 16-18 April 2024

>>281853 Ramaphosa purportedly WAITED 35 days to publicly announce he signed Expropriation bill (video)

>>281896 All the companies Cyril Ramaphosa owned

>>281908 Ramaphosa Won’t Like What’s Coming (video)

>>281934 South Africa to send delegation to US to ‘do a deal’ - Cyril Ramaphosa

>>281938 Frans Cronjé: Attack on Israel/US by Ramaphosa in yesterday’s FP will end very badly for SA (video)

>>281939 Joel Pollack: US should react to Ramaphosa’s poke with financial sanctions against him, ANC bigwigs (video)

>>281988 Roelf Meyer and Cyril Ramaphosa Relationship (video)

>>281990 Ramaphosa to meet Trump face-to-face to resolve diplomatic fallout

>>281991 Ramaphosa signs General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill into law, splits SSA into 2 bodies

>>281992 Legal action threatened over Phala Phala report - Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) Imtiaz Fazel refused to provide a copy of the report

>>281996 ActionSA files application to obtain IPID's report on Phala Phala - classified as top secret

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970918 (292116ZAPR25) Notable: Final Russia and Ukraine Bun

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Final Russia and Ukraine Bun

>>281678 (Canada #59) Twelve states refuse to sign Zelensky ‘peace conference’ declaration

>>281769 South Africa: Outrage as Russia's Naval Ship Docks at Cape Town (video)

>>281770, >>281771 South Africa snubs US Defence while welcoming Russia at Pretoria Aerospace Expo (video)

>>281817 US Sanctions on Rosatom Threaten Eskom’s Human-Centric Training Deal with Russian Nuclear Giant

>>281900, >>281901 (General Research #27619) South Africa open to nuclear project bids from Russia or Iran

>>281917 Ramaphosa invites Zelensky for state visit amid US-Russia talks

>>281985 Ukraine leader’s visit to South Africa marks a diplomatic shift

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/22970921 (292116ZAPR25) Notable: Final Violence and Crime Bun

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>>281687 “US sanctions three, including two based in SA, for expanding Isis in Africa”

>>281704 DA wants answers after over 5 million dockets are closed (video)

>>281705 Human trafficking ring linked to SA nationals” who were arrested in Israel (video)

>>281713 Water tanker mafia; “New mafia causing chaos in South Africa”

>>281724 South Africa on the edge over political ‘assassinations

>>281725 The Politics of Murder: Criminal Governance and Targeted Killings in South Africa

>>281726 Six men shot and killed in uMlazi: some of the weapons were from leftover arms caches from the unrest in the early 1990s, while others were obtained through thefts from law-enforcement authorities

>>281727 Businesses in Mthatha close down due to alleged extortion”: “We find out everybody is in fear" (video)

>>281730 The real black-on-black violence in South Africa

>>281735 KZN Shootout: Police officer among KZN robbery suspects (video)

>>281737 White River Raid: State withdraws criminal case against 95 Libyan nationals (video)

>>281741 “Mthatha Extortion: Extortion gets out of hand in Mthatha” (video)

>>281749 ATM's Vuyo Zungula calls for rand manipulators to be held accountable by Parliament (video)

>>281750, >>281762 19 banks still on the hook in South Africa’s rand manipulation case (with .pdf)

>>281756 Violent crimes on the increase, stark warning from Police Minister Senzo Mchunu (video)

>>281757 27 justice department officials dismissed for misconduct

>>281758 Increase in murder cases in NW (video)

>>281763 Police not succeeding in dealing with extortion - Mofokeng (video)

>>281764 Extortion Crimes: Understanding SA's widespread extortion crisis (video)

>>281765 How OUTA exposed R898 million “tender manipulation” by French multinational (video)

>>281766 Extortionists have better intelligence than SAPS - Allis

>>281776 Paul O’Sullivan: Once respected CEO Mike Lomas back in SA to ’fess up on R1.4bn Eskom fraud (video)

>>281782 (General Research #27070) McKinsey & Company Africa to Pay Over $122M in Connection with Bribery of South African Government Officials

>>281870 60 Minutes Australia: China’s illegal police stations in 53 countries

>>281927, >>281928, >>>/qresearch/226655358 South Africa: A safe haven for terrorist financing (Parts 1-3)

>>281957, >>281959 Treason charges probed by Hawks, NPA amid AfriForum US trip

>>281958, >>281960 Ernst Roets: Attacks on Whites in South Africa, Attempts to Hide It, and Trump’s Plan to End It (video)

>>281980 How This GANG Controls ALL PRISONS In South Africa (video)

>>281981 Brutal slaying with a Bakkie in Rivonia (video)

>>281982 How proposed gun control regulations will endanger the public (video)

>>281983 George Soros funded anti-gun organisation in South Africa

>>281989 Sidney Frankel: The true legacy of a ‘paedophile’ philanthropist - Ramaphosa's 'best pal' (video)