8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (3)
#19607357 at 2023-09-25 14:01:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
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>Kojo [Mills] is the former acting CEO and a co-founder of Shanduka Group, a South African investment company that has a multi-industry portfolio of 30+ investments valued in excess of $1 billion. He was also previously the Managing Director of Shanduka's R300 million private equity fund, Shanduka Value Partners Fund I… Prior to joining DLJ, he was employed as a financial analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc. [Harry Oppenheimer's son-in-law, Hank Slacks, was on the board of Salomon Brothers >>19377368] He is currently a director of numerous companies including Invictus Africa Group, Shanduka Group and Stanbic Bank Ghana, the Ghanaian subsidiary of the Standard Bank Group of South Africa.
"ANC leader Ramaphosa and the tidy legacy of Lonrho's Rowland." [2017] - Part 3
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/anc-leader-ramaphosa-and-the-tidy-legacy-of-lonrho-s-rowland-1248538
"By a mixture of charm and financial inducements he persuaded a parade of well-connected, if second-rank, politicians on to Lonrho's board, from Duncan Sandys to Sir Edward du Cann."
OLIVER TAMBO
That is the man who bankrolled some ANC bigwigs with fast cars, land, cash and houses.
Even during apartheid years, ANC leader Oliver Tambo who was in exile for over 30 years had unrestricted use to the Lonrho jet.
With the end of apartheid, the new ANC government came up with a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), which allowed multinationals operating there to give a slice of their stake to Africans.
In 1994, Ramaphosa had just lost out to Thabo Mbeki for the position of ANC deputy president.
According to Anthony Butler's biography, Ramaphosa sulked and declined President Nelson Mandela's offer to be foreign minister.
He also did not attend Mandela's inauguration on May 10, 1994.
He left to join the likes of Dr Nthato Motlana, Mandela's doctor, to form the black-owned companies, which were to line up and get shares in the multinational corporations for a song.
These companies were owned by the elites within ANC and that is how the majority were short-charged in South Africa.
JULIUS MALEMA
Critics have ever since dismissed this policy as "a token corporate blackwash" and said that it only enriched a few individuals at the expense of majority.
And that explains the kind of problems the ANC has been having with Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which has been promising to scrap the programme.
The second notable critic is retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu who said BEE only serves a few black elite and left millions in "dehumanising poverty".
And the third is former President Thabo Mbeki's brother, Moeletsi Mbeki, who says BEE is "a device for white-dominated corporations to build bridges with the ANC elite It doesn't create wealth or add value to the economy".
SHANDUKA RESOURCES
Mr Moeletsi's main concern is that a "new class of rich blacks, many of them ANC politicians and former politicians, has emerged in South Africa whose interests are virtually indistinguishable from those of the old economic oligarchy..."
The jury is still out on whether BEE or what the South Africans now call Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBEE) has achieved its aims among the poor South Africans or whether it perpetuates "institutionalised corruption" as Mr Moeletsi puts it.
To take advantage of this state policy (forget the ANC politics), Mr Ramaphosa first joined New Africa Investment Limited (NAIL), which was brokering deals, and had an investment banking company called Pleiade Investment Corporation.
He later formed his own Shanduka Resources, which became the BEE partner of Lonmin the new name for Lonhro's mining unit.
WEALTH
For a man who in 1982 was only a secretary general for 300,000-strong National Union of Mine Workers (NUM), his rise into wealth is also the story of South Africa's black elite.
It is also the story of many other politicos in Africa.
To cut a long story short, in 2010, Mr Ramaphosa joined the board of Lonmin as a non-executive director after his Shanduka Resources took majority control by owning 50.03 per cent in R2.8 billion (Sh280 billion) transaction.
Those who have gone through the works of Prof Steven Langdon on how multinationals behave in Africa, will quickly place Mr Ramaphosa within the league of "African insiders" who are given shares by the multinational corporations (MNCs) in return for political and business support.
It is a known practice among the MNCs and has been prevalent since the 1960s.
#19357509 at 2023-08-14 18:21:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
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>"After President Ramaphosa's administration took over in 2018, we started to assist bringing private sector and government closer to each other on the sectoral basis. So that it keeping me busy as well."
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Was Paul Kennedy a scapegoat? Is this another cover-up? Is this the main reason Roelf Meyer and Ramaphosa are actively working together again?
"Cyril [Ramaphosa] and his friend, Roelf Meyer were fingered on the Lost Boys of Bird Island where boys were sexually abused"
https://twitter.com/SuperiorZulu/status/1422899070260088837
"People say Zweli Mkhize has Cyril Ramaphosa's nudes, there's a high probability of such since Cyril and his friend, Roelf Meyer were fingered on the Lost Boys of Bird Island where boys were sexually abused (Molested). To which Mark Minnie shortly died after uncovering that story"
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: 'A friend invites the ANC's chief negotiator Cyril Ramaphosa and his opposite number Roelf Meyer Fishing. When Meyer embeds a trout hook in his hand, Ramaphosa is the only one who can extrct it' That moment, when Ramphosa fed Meyer a stiff whisky before removing the hook, was but one of many that built the relationship into a political game-changer.
According the Meyer, '[t]hat fishing incident was just one of many, but it was indicative of the kind of relationship that we succeeded in building, the friendship that we have succeeded finally to build, and the chemistry that exists between us'.
This 'friend' was "Sidney Frankel: The true legacy of a 'paedophile' philanthropist"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-05-23-sidney-frankel-the-true-legacy-of-a-paedophile-philanthropist/
23 May 2017
The great "philanthropist" Sidney Lewis Frankel - on the day of his death, even talk radio station 702, whose indefatigable Mandy Weiner did more than any other journalist to publicise the story, was using the word. Frankel sure did give a lot of money to charity, it appeared. He also gave generously of his time and resources. Below, for your edification, a passage from Anthony Butler's 2008 biography Cyril Ramaphosa:
"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."
Sure, so even if the man never met a government he didn't like, he knew how to spin the PR. It's hardly a crime. What is a crime, however, is hanging out at the orphanage under the guise of being the big macher Jewish philanthropist and fiddling (allegedly) with the kids.
#13879802 at 2021-06-11 18:05:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Sidney Frankel: The true legacy of a 'paedophile' philanthropist" - Part 2dated 23 May 2017 at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-05-23-sidney-frankel-the-true-legacy-of-a-paedophile-philanthropist/
The great "philanthropist" Sidney Lewis Frankel - on the day of his death, even talk radio station 702, whose indefatigable Mandy Weiner did more than any other journalist to publicise the story, was using the word. Frankel sure did give a lot of money to charity, it appeared. He also gave generously of his time and resources. Below, for your edification, a passage from Anthony Butler's 2008 biography Cyril Ramaphosa:
"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."
Sure, so even if the man never met a government he didn't like, he knew how to spin the PR. It's hardly a crime. What is a crime, however, is hanging out at the orphanage under the guise of being the big macher Jewish philanthropist and fiddling (allegedly) with the kids.
Which brings up the second reason that the long-form investigative piece never got written. After a certain amount of time pouring over the legal files and re-listening to the interviews, you start to lose faith in human nature. In other words, you begin to get seriously depressed about how much power "power" actually has. And yes, dear reader, you are quite right to ask the question: how, then, must it feel to live in the skin of Nicole Levenstein, Paul Diamond, George Rosenberg, Katherine Rosenberg, Daniela McNally, Lisa Wegner, Shane Rothquel or Marinda Smith?
But it turns out there may be a redemptive ending to this tale. As of Monday 22 May, the first day of the High Court application referred to above, the media were reporting that the bid to overturn the prescription on sexual assault, if successful, could become known as "Frankel's Law". Given that the legal representatives for the Minister of Justice, who argued their case on Tuesday 23 May, also supported the application, it's likely that acting Judge Clare Hartford of the South Gauteng High Court will agree.
The grace that is the heartbreak of a life split open - or, in this case, eight lives. Would it be too much to ask, on behalf of all current and future citizens of South Africa, for us to collectively recognise the bravery of Nicole Levenstein and her brother Paul Diamond, George Rosenberg and his sister Katherine Rosenberg, Daniela McNally, Lisa Wegner, Shane Rothequel and Marinda Smith?
"Levenstein v. Estate of Frankel" dated Jun 2, 2019, at https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/06/levenstein-v-estate-of-frankel/ states;
Recently, in Levenstein v. Estate of Frankel, the Constitutional Court of South Africa unanimously held that the twenty-year statute of limitations for sexual offenses other than rape was irrational and arbitrary. This is the right outcome, but removing the statute of limitations may expand the reach of the carceral state.