8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (2)
#19400284 at 2023-08-21 18:44:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
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"How the CR17 campaign funds were channeled" - Part 2
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/how-the-cr17-campaign-funds-were-channelled-30641667
Published Aug 11, 2019
The records further show that the campaign received post-Nasrec conference donations worth R14m from various business people, trusts and organisations between January and October last year.
These included: former Absa chief executive Maria Ramos, who donated R1m to the Ria Tenda Trust on October 25 last year; Johnny Copelyn, director of eNCA owner Hosken Consolidated Investments, who put in R2m in August last year; and Seriti Resources CEO Mike Teke, who transferred R600 000 in two tranches in January and February last year.
Ramos was later appointed to the Public Investment Corporation board announced by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni last month, after being initially tipped to become Eskom's chief restructuring officer.
According to Seriti Resources' website, the mining company "supplies coal to Eskom's Lethabo, Tutuka and Kriel power stations", which collectively generates about 23% of the country's electricity.
The company bought Eskom mines from Anglo American in 2017 and its shareholders included Thebe Investments.
It's chaired by Anna Mokgokong and its directors include businessman Sandile Zungu. Another post-conference donor was ANDH Trust, which put in R10m on November 12 last year.
The R14m in post-Nasrec donations raises questions about whether the donors sought to buy influence, contracts or positions.
It has also emerged from the financial statements that other prominent businessmen donated large sums to the CR17 campaign ahead of the conference.
These included billionaire businessman Nicky Oppenheimer's family, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust board member Bobby Godsell, former Imperial Holdings chief executive Mark Lamberti, financial services company Sygnia Ltd board member Andre Crawford-Brunt, Goldman Sachs Southern African chief executive Colin Coleman and Eskom board member Sifiso Dabengwa.
Billionaire businesswoman Magda Wierzycka is the co-founder and CEO of Sygnia.
The Oppenheimers donated R10m in two instalments of R5, Godsell R250000, Dabengwa R1.2m, Lamberti R1m, Coleman R70000 and Pick * Pay owner Raymond Ackerman R1m.
Mining and energy company Phembani donated R2m, Grovepoint Limited R1.8m and Aspen Pharmacare R150000.
–Aspen received state contracts worth R2bn in 2015.-
Phembani, founded by former MTN chief executive Phuthuma Nhleko, merged with Ramaphosa's empowerment investment group Shanduka in 2015 in an apparent bid to resolve the then-deputy president's business conflict.
The group's subsidiary, Umcebo Mining, supplies coal to Eskom through its Wonderfontein Colliery.
Goldman Sachs spokesperson Matthew Newton said Coleman could not comment on donations because, "any donation would have been in a strictly personal capacity".
Godongwana said "no comment".
Ramaphosa's spokesperson Khusela Diko, Sparg, Ntshavheni, Siweya, Ramos and Dabengwa did not respond to questions sent for comment.
Aspen's Nicolau confirmed the donation to the CR17 campaign as part of Aspen's "contribution towards building a non racial, non sexist society".
He added that the money had no influence towards the ARV tender that they were recently awarded "when Ramapahosa became President".
Dukwana, Lamberti, Godsell and Oppenheimer could not be reached for comment on Saturday.
#16546230 at 2022-06-28 16:54:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
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>>16538769
>It was in that year that a meeting took place in Lusaka between business leaders led by Anglo CEO Gavin Reilly and senior ANC officials, including Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki, Chris Hani, Pallo Jordan, James Stuart and Mac Maharaj. Reilly was publicly denounced by Botha for disloyalty.
"Renowned business leader Michael Spicer, who played an instrumental role in SA transition to democracy, dies"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-03-11-renowned-business-leader-michael-spicer-who-played-an-instrumental-role-in-sa-transition-to-democracy-dies/
11 March 2022
Respected business leader and public intellectual Michael Spicer died suddenly on Wednesday after a minor operation led to fatal complications.
Spicer had just joined Anglo as a special assistant in public affairs to the then chairman Gavin Relly. There is no doubt he was supportive of Relly joining a handful of other business people in one of the first meetings of business leaders with the ANC the following year.
Despite Botha decrying the meeting, it turned out to be pivotal, prising open a narrow avenue of hope that some kind of compromise resolution could be found and was followed by progressively more and larger "treks" to visit the then banned ANC in the following years.
Spicer's role as a pragmatic, thoughtful, and elegiac representative of progressive business grew during the phase of negotiations to end apartheid, where he was one of a cohort of advisers and commentators from academia and business intensely interested and involved in the process.
At times, his role was simply to represent Anglo, but often it was much more hands-on, particularly in the process of encouraging the reluctant Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi to take part in the election.
From there, Spicer played a similar role, advising and cajoling - often from leadership positions - both business and the ANC. He was, at certain points, the head of Business Leadership SA and the vice-president of Business Unity SA.
Significantly, when Anglo moved its primary listing to London, Spicer did not join that trek, drawn by a strong connection to South Africa and its political and business leaders, and his interest in African economics.
In their tribute to Spicer, Anglo CEO Mark Cutifani and the chair of its SA management board, Nolitha Fakude, said: "Michael belongs to an extraordinary generation of Anglo American leaders who played an instrumental role during SA's transition to democracy during the late 1980s and early 1990s."
They said he saw "business's role in society far beyond the traditional and committed his career at Anglo American - spanning more than two decades - to working on a full span of social, economic, and political issues".
Spicer worked closely with Bobby Godsell, who was head of industrial relations at Anglo and later became CEO of AngloGold. Godsell told Business Day that Spicer was a "resonant and reasoned voice of the hopes and aspirations for a new SA".
A former head of Goldman Sachs, Colin Coleman, who worked with Spicer as part of the Consultative Business Movement (CBM), said Spicer was active in economic policy and negotiations, tough-minded, a centrist politically but unrelentingly constructive. Typically, Spicer's involvement in the CBM with like-minded people led to the CBM establishing the National Economic Forum (NEF) which later transformed into Nedlac.
Ann Bernstein, the executive director at the Centre for Development and Enterprise, said: "Mike Spicer was a special South Africa, very deeply committed to this country and its future as an inclusive, prosperous and successful democracy.
"During his tenure as CEO of Business Leadership SA we worked closely together on a wide range of issues, including faster and more labour-intensive growth, tackling youth unemployment and most importantly on land reform. He will be deeply missed as a friend and a wise counsellor."
In recent years, Spicer was a member of the board of Wesgro, a tourism and investment agency charged with developing the Western Cape economy.
Spicer was the lead independent director of human resources company Adcorp, which in a statement on Wednesday said that he "leaves behind him a proud legacy of principled and measured leadership. Mike will be sorely missed by his fellow directors, Adcorp management and all who knew him."
Spicer's last job at Anglo was to look after Anglo's wine farm Vergelegen, which remains owned by the group today. He was once asked if Anglo would ever sell the historic farm. "Not over my dead body," he said. "It's the company's most liquid asset".