8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (79)
#22775376 at 2025-03-17 17:23:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27820: Q Day 17's Czech Em No Coinkidinks Edition
>>22775324
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"Farmgate" scandal(This is only one of the crimes he has participated in against is own people)
In June 2022 Ramaphosa was accused of criminal conduct in a complaint filed by Arthur Fraser, a Zuma ally and previous head of the country's State Security Agency.He alleged that Ramaphosa had covered up a theft in 2020 of at least $4 million in foreign money that had been kept in a couch at Phala Phala, Ramaphosa's game farm, as well as had kidnapped and bribed the robbery suspects. The allegedly large amount of foreign currency and the manner in which it was stored raised questions regarding the origin of the money and whether it had been properly declared by Ramaphosa.
Ramaphosa denied any wrongdoing in the matter. Regarding the theft, he said that a smaller amount of money had been stolen when he was not present at the farm and that he reported the theft once he was made aware of it. He asserted that the stolen money was from the sale of game and not any nefarious activity. Details provided by Ramaphosa and his staff surrounding the incident were murky, though, and at times appeared contradictory, and the appearance of impropriety grew. Multiple government agencies, including the Office of the Public Protector (national ombudsman) and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), opened investigations into the matter, which had become known as "Farmgate."
The scandal was a blow to Ramaphosa's anti-corruption reputation, and it had some calling for his resignation. In September 2022 a Section 89 investigation was opened in the National Assembly to determine whether impeachment proceedings against the president were warranted. The Section 89 Panel Report, submitted to the National Assembly on November 30, found that Ramaphosa might be guilty of having violated the country's constitution in his actions surrounding the "Farmgate" scandal; he rejected the findings and proclaimed his innocence. The National Assembly met on December 13 to discuss the report's findings and decide whether impeachment proceedings should be initiated against him. But the ANC, the largest party in the body, had instructed its members to reject the call for an impeachment inquiry, so it was no surprise when the majority of the National Assembly voted against it. Days later Ramaphosa was reelected president of the ANC at the party's leadership conference.
In March 2023 the preliminary findings of the public protector's investigation were leaked. They indicated that no evidence of wrongdoing by Ramaphosa had been found. The official investigation report, released on June 30, 2023, confirmed that Ramaphosa had been cleared of wrongdoing by the public protector. SARB's investigation report, dated August 2023, focused on whether he had violated Exchange Control Regulation 6(1), which stipulated, "Every person resident in the Republic who becomes entitled to sell or to procure the sale of any foreign currency, shall within thirty days after becoming so entitled, make or cause to be made, a declaration in writing of such foreign currency to the Treasury or to an authorised dealer."
The report included a statement from the identified buyer of the game, who referred to the money as a security deposit and said delivery of the animals had not occurred for reasons that included the COVID-19 pandemic. SARB found that Ramaphosa had not violated Exchange Control Regulation 6(1) because the money was stolen before the sale was finalized. SARB's investigation and findings were derided by many, including members of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and other political parties, who described them with phrases such as "a whitewash," "a cover-up," and "unadulterated claptrap."
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cyril-Ramaphosa
Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers' rights
In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution. Nick Davies uncovers his story
Nick Davies Tue 19 May 2015 01.00 EDT
On 16 August 2012, South African police opened fire on a large crowd of men who had walked out on strike from a platinum mine at Marikana, about 80 miles north of Johannesburg.They shot down 112 of them, killing 34. In any country, this would have been a traumatic moment. For South Africa, it was a special kind of nightmare, since it revived images of massacres by the state in the old apartheid era, with one brutal difference -this time it was predominantly black policemen, with black senior officers working for black politicians, who were doing the shooting.
In response, President Jacob Zuma appointed a commission of inquiry, chaired by a retired judge,
many stories like this on Ramaphoso
#21157957 at 2024-07-08 03:07:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25931: Ride the Waves Edition
>>21157947
>BRICS: A Strategic Masterstroke by the White Hats 2/4
In Saudi Arabia, Trump participated in the traditional sword dance, a gesture of deep respect and camaraderie. In China, he was given a rare tour of the Forbidden City, highlighting the Chinese leadership's recognition of his role in the global strategy. In South Korea, he crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), symbolizing a push towards peace and cooperation in a historically tense region. These gestures underscored the alliance's unity and the shared goal of reclaiming sovereignty from the global elite.
A Wave of Change: Regime Shifts and Strategic Moves
After Trump's visits, significant changes began to unfold in these countries, aligning with the White Hats' overarching plan. In Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) initiated a sweeping anti-corruption purge in November 2017, detaining numerous princes, government ministers, and business leaders. This move was widely seen as consolidating power and eliminating elements of the Deep State within the kingdom. Additionally, the Las Vegas shooting in October 2017, which some believe was an assassination attempt on MBS, underscored the high stakes involved in these geopolitical maneuvers.
In Brazil, the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018 marked a decisive shift towards a more nationalist and anti-corruption government. Bolsonaro's policies and rhetoric echoed Trump's, focusing on dismantling corrupt structures and aligning Brazil more closely with the BRICS+ strategic vision.
India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, intensified its crackdown on corruption and black money, including the demonetization initiative in 2016. Modi's efforts to promote transparency and economic reform aligned with the goals of the BRICS+ alliance, furthering the collective objective of undermining the Deep State's financial networks.
In South Africa, the resignation of Jacob Zuma in 2018 amid corruption scandals and the subsequent election of Cyril Ramaphosa signified another regime change favoring the BRICS+ agenda. Ramaphosa's administration focused on anti-corruption measures and economic reforms, aligning with the broader strategy of the White Hats.
BRICS+ Takes Aim: The Decline of the Fiat Currency System
Under Trump's leadership, BRICS+ intensified its efforts to challenge the fiat currency system. The alliance's coordinated moves to de-dollarize their economies began to yield significant results. Nations started to trade in gold and other commodities, further eroding the U.S. dollar's influence.
The decline of the U.S. dollar's hegemony was not an unforeseen consequence but a meticulously planned outcome. The White Hats, anticipating the Deep State's attempts to portray these actions as attacks by foreign adversaries, leveraged this narrative to their advantage. By casting the shift as a natural evolution of global economic power, they obscured their true objective: dismantling the Deep State's financial control.
cont 2/4
https://x.com/holonabove/status/1808969979062071620
#20981106 at 2024-06-07 02:49:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25732: Sneed's Filter Supply Edition
South Africa #13 >>20981086
The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority in landmark election
With more than 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant African National Congress had received just over 40% in Wednesday's election, after a massive drop in support.
June 1, 2024
By Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.
With more than 99% of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just over 40% in Wednesday's election, well short of the majority it had held since the famed all-race vote of 1994 that ended apartheid and brought it to power under Nelson Mandela. The final results are still to be formally declared by the independent electoral commission that ran the election, but the ANC cannot pass 50%.
At the start of the election, the commission said it would formally declare the results by Sunday, but that could come earlier.
While opposition parties have hailed the result as a momentous breakthrough for a country struggling with deep poverty and inequality, the ANC remained the biggest party by some way. However, it will now likely need to look for a coalition partner or partners to remain in the government and reelect President Cyril Ramaphosa for a second and final term. Parliament elects the South African president after national elections.
"The way to rescue South Africa is to break the ANC's majority and we have done that," said main opposition leader John Steenhuisen.
The way forward promises to be complicated for Africa's most advanced economy, and there's no coalition on the table yet.
Steenhuisen's Democratic Alliance party was on around 21% of the vote. The new MK Party of former President Jacob Zuma, who has turned against the ANC he once led, was third with just over 14% of the vote in the first election it has contested. The Economic Freedom Fighters was in fourth with just over 9%.
More than 50 parties contested the election, many of them with tiny shares of the vote, but the DA and MK appear to be the most obvious for the ANC to approach, given how far it is from a majority. Which coalition the ANC pursues is the urgent focus now, given Parliament needs to sit and elect a president within 14 days of the final election results being officially declared. A flurry of negotiations are set to take place and they will likely be complicated.
Steenhuisen has said his centrist party is open to discussions. The MK Party said one of their conditions for any agreement was that Ramaphosa is removed as ANC leader and president. That underlined the fierce political battle between Zuma, who resigned as South African president under a cloud of corruption allegations in 2018, and Ramaphosa, who replaced him.
"We are willing to negotiate with the ANC, but not the ANC of Cyril Ramaphosa," MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndlela said.
MK and the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters have called for parts of the economy to be nationalized. The Democratic Alliance is viewed as a business-friendly party and analysts say an ANC-DA coalition would be more welcomed by foreign investors, although there are questions over whether it is politically viable considering the DA has been the most critical opposition party for years.
An ANC-DA coalition "would be a marriage of two drunk people in Las Vegas. It will never work," Gayton McKenzie, the leader of the smaller Patriotic Alliance party, told South African media.
The ANC has also been blamed - and now punished by voters - for a failure in basic government services that impacts millions and leaves many without water, electricity or proper housing.
Nearly 28 million South Africans were registered to vote and turnout is expected to be around 60%, according to figures from the independent electoral commission.
More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-africas-ruling-anc-brink-losing-majority-landmark-election-resul-rcna155007
#20943727 at 2024-05-31 05:26:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25687: Boomerang Edition
This could turn into some major shit
South Africa #12 >>20943496
ANC on course to lose majority
Farouk Chothia, BBC News, Johannesburg 31 May 2024
South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is on course to lose its majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power 30 years ago, partial results from Thursday's parliamentary election suggest.
With results from more than 50% of voting districts counted so far, the ANC is leading with 42%, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with 23%.
The the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) of former President Jacob Zuma has received nearly 11% of the vote and the Economic Freedom Fighters party, nearly 10%.
Final results are expected over the weekend.
Many voters blame the ANC for the high levels of corruption, crime and unemployment in the country.
The respected Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the News24 website have projected that the party's final vote will be around 42%, a big drop from the 57% it obtained in the 2019 election.
This would force it go into a coalition with one or more of the other parties in order to form a majority in parliament.
The DA has liberal economic policies, while both the EFF and MK favour more state intervention and nationalisation, so the choice of partner would make a huge difference to South Africa's future direction.
It is unclear whether President Cyril Ramaphosa will remain in power, as he could come under pressure from the ANC to resign if the party gets less than 45% of the final vote, said Prof William Gumede, chairman of the non-profit Democracy Works Foundation.
"The ANC could turn him into a scapegoat, and a faction within the party could push for him to be replaced by his deputy, Paul Mashatile. The EFF and MK are also likely to demand his resignation before agreeing to any coalition with the ANC," Prof Gumede told the BBC.
South Africans do not directly vote for a president. Instead they vote for members of parliament who will then go on to elect the president.
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The initial results show that the ANC is suffering heavy losses to MK, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, where Mr Zuma's party has been leading with 43% of the vote to the ANC's 21%.
Mr Zuma caused a major shock when he announced in December that he was ditching the ANC to campaign for MK.
KwaZulu-Natal is the home region of Mr Zuma, and the province with the second-highest number of votes, making it crucial in determining whether the ANC retains its parliamentary majority.
Although Mr Zuma has been barred from running for parliament because of a conviction for contempt of court, his name still appeared on the ballot paper as MK leader.
If MK wins KwaZulu-Natal, it would be a "major upset" and herald the "potential decimation" of the ANC in the province, Prof Gumede said.
The ANC also risks losing its majority in the economic heartland of Gauteng, where the party currently has 36% to the DA's 29%.
Wednesday's election saw long lines of voters outside polling stations late into the night across the country.
According to the electoral commission, the last polling station closed at 0300 on Thursday morning local time.
One electoral official in Johannesburg told the BBC the queues were reminiscent of the historic 1994 election, when black people could vote for the first time.
Sifiso Buthelezi, who voted in Johannesburg's Joubert Park - the biggest polling station in South Africa - told the BBC: "Freedom is great but we need to tackle corruption."
Change has been a recurring sentiment, especially among young voters.
"The turnout amongst them was high, and they voted against the ANC," Prof Gumede
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjll8nr6962o
#20565454 at 2024-03-14 10:49:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25223: Why is California still building the high-speed train? Edition
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68536285
Jacob Zuma - the political wildcard in South Africa's election
6 hours ago By Farouk Chothia, BBC News, Johannesburg
Despite being a disgraced former president who was sent to jail, Jacob Zuma is turning out to be the political wildcard in South Africa's election campaign.
This follows his dramatic decision to ditch the governing African National Congress (ANC) for the newly formed party uMkhonto we Sizwe, meaning Spear of the Nation.
The 81-year-old is leading its campaign in the 29 May general election, urging people to turn their backs on the ANC led by his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa.
"Zuma is, as ever, playing a mischievous hand," political analyst Richard Calland told the BBC.
"He doesn't want power, but leverage in the ANC. He wants to dethrone Ramaphosa for a more pliable leader," he said.
The two most recent opinion polls suggest that Mr Zuma's party - known by the acronym MK - is making a huge impact, gaining around 13% of the national vote and 25% in the former president's political heartland of KwaZulu-Natal.
But Angelo Fick, the director of research at the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute in Johannesburg, believes that the party will get fewer votes, especially in the ballot for the national parliament.
"I'll be surprised if it gets 6%," he told the BBC.
Named after the ANC's former armed wing, the MK party is hoping to hold the balance of power come the end of May
To back up his view, he cited the performance of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in the first election it contested after expelled ANC youth leader Julius Malema formed the party.
Mr Malema took much of the ANC youth membership into the EFF, but the party only got 6% of the national vote in 2014, and 11% in 2019.
"The MK party is far weaker than the EFF was in 2014," Mr Fick said.
Prof Calland said Mr Zuma was the key to the party getting votes.
"He has a certain charisma and populist appeal. He still holds some loyalty and credibility, especially among people in KwaZulu-Natal," he added.
The MK party is hoping to hold the balance of power, especially as various opinion polls suggest that the ANC could lose its outright majority in the national parliament for the first time since it took power at the end of white-minority rule three decades ago.
"Once we enter minority government territory, every single percentage matters. If the MK party gets 3%, it could be the difference between the ANC getting 48% and 51%," Prof Calland said.
Paddy Harper, the South African Mail & Guardian newspaper's KwaZulu-Natal correspondent, said the ANC "was potentially at its weakest in the province, and it will be a massive blow to the party if it loses control of the provincial government".
#19336912 at 2023-08-11 01:10:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23747: Weaponization Of The Comfy System Edition
B.I.S AGENDA 2023 TO 2025 - SUPPLY SIDE REFORMS, HOW THE HELL DO YOU MAKE A MEME TO EXPLAIN THIS AND WHAT IS COMING TO THE WORLD?
anon has come to a grinding halt.
how do you explain bankster moves and global accounting includingsupply side reform policies.to the to the anons.
The only way is to look at South Africa and what is happening there now. Also what happened in sri lanka
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Sri Lanka protests set to topple the government: Why it happened and what comes next?
BY ARSHAD R. ZARGAR
UPDATED ON: JULY 11, 2022 / 7:07 PM / CBS NEWS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sri-lanka-news-protests-topple-president-how-and-why-and-what-comes-next/
Thousands of protesters were refusing to budge from the official residences of Sri Lanka's president and its prime minister on Monday, having occupied both homes for days. A wave of national outrage over the cost of living in the impoverished country appeared set to toppled its leaders, and the largely peaceful sit-ins of both men's opulent homes - and the protesters' refusal to leave - was literal and symbolic representation of the defiance.
The prime minister's office confirmed Monday that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would resign on Wednesday - which would meet one key demand of the protesters.
Massive demonstrations ramped up over the weekend in the South Asian island nation of 22 million people, which sits just off India's southeast coast. Sri Lanka has been mired in an economic crisis for months, and feeling their plight was being not only unresolved, but unrecognized by their leaders, thousands of angry protesters swarmed the president's official residence in Colombo on Saturday.
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https://search.brave.com/search?q=south+africa+troubles+today&source=desktop
As of 11 Aug 2023, there is no recent news or updates on South Africa's troubles.2 However, in the past, South Africa has been plagued by widespread incidents of xenophobic harassment and attacks against foreigners by mobs, government and law enforcement officials, and non-nationals for being foreign and not using local languages in their daily interactions. In 2020, South Africa continued to be plagued by widespread incidents of xenophobic harassment and attacks against foreigners by mobs.1 Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma boiled over into the worst violence in years.2 As of 12 August 2022, 5,500 people had been arrested in connection with the unrest.0
#18553087 at 2023-03-21 18:18:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22755: TheY Are Fanning The Flames...Trump Arrest, Mabbe, Next Week Edition
Credit Suisse In Bed With Sanctioned Chinese Entities
The bank's sale to USB comes shortly after it reported its largest annual loss since the 2008 financial crisis, brought about by an exodus of shareholders and the release of media investigations exposing it as a safe haven of choice for unsavory clients.
The causes behind its financial woes can be found in its 2022 annual report, which documented "significantly higher withdrawals of cash deposits" from late last year and how "customer deposits declined by CHF 138 billion ($148.3 billion)" in the same quarter.
But with all this negative publicity at home in Switzerland, the bank's activities in China with sanctioned state-owned entities have, until now, gone unnoticed. Its Hong Kong-based arm, Credit Suisse Securities, invests in listed Chinese entities, some of which are state-owned.
Data from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange reveals Credit Suisse's investments in sanctioned entities and companies connected to sanctioned entities such as China Railway Construction (CRRC).
The Swiss banking giant is a significant shareholder in CRRC-formerly one of the largest construction and engineering companies in the world-along with a local Chinese bank.
Also known as "China's crown", CRRC is no stranger to criminality.
About a decade ago, CRRC was penalized by China's ruling party for spending more than $100 million on hospitality expenses. In that same year, it began delivering locomotives to South Africa.
What followed was a highly corrupt set of deals, involving South Africa's Gupta family and former President Jacob Zuma, in what amounted to State Capture. Media investigations led by South Africa's Daily Maverick and amaBhungane found at least a fifth of all payments to CRRC were then paid as kickbacks to the Guptas - a family accused of state capture.
By 2020, the South African Reserve Bank froze over $215 million in payments to CRRC.
The following year, the construction enterprise was sanctioned by the U.S. government in 2021 as a Chinese military company.
The designation didn't stop the Swiss banking giant from investing at least $175 million in CRRC securities the following year. Credit Suisse also trades substantial stock in CRRC separately and as part of a joint venture with China's largest bank, ICBC.
The effect of the joint venture makes both banks one of the largest shareholders in CRRC.
"Credit Suisse complies with all applicable sanctions laws, including those imposed by the United States, EU, and Switzerland," Credit Suisse told OCCRP.
However, the bank's portfolio also includes the U.S.-sanctioned China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and the Chinese tanker company COSCO.
"Banks like Credit Suisse just don't seem to get it - after decades of trying to get them to stop engaging in financial chicanery and sanctions busting, they just keep it up," said Jim Henry, an investigative economist and lecturer at Yale University. "This is why they ended up like the dozens of busted locomotives hanging around South African rail-yards."
The bank's share price nose dived by as much as 30% last Wednesday. This led to its forced acquisition over the weekend by UBS for $3.2 billion after a $54 billion liquidity backstop from the Swiss central bank failed to stop the bleeding.
The agreed purchase price between UBS and Credit Suisse will see the Swiss banking giant sold for pennies on the dollar, 60% less than its closing share price from Friday last week.
The sale is not subject to shareholder approval.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/17435-credit-suisse-in-bed-with-sanctioned-chinese-entities
#18428019 at 2023-03-01 10:23:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22593: It's Gender Dysphoria NOT Gender Affirming Care Edition
I wonder if they are playing Sun City Now?????????????????????????????
This should be their new national anthem.
South Africa - The First Country Built on "Critical Race Theory" - Officially Implodes
South Africa is disintegrating.
After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. The official death toll already runs into the dozens, but in a country as violent as South Africa (57 murders a day) the real toll will likely never be known for certain.
Rioters have plundered shops and entire shopping malls. When they run out out of normal goods, they steal livestock. When it's too heavy to carry by hand, they bring a forklift.
The meltdown in South Africa isn't a natural disaster or a random fluke. It's a choice. South Africa was the first modern nation to be refounded on the anti-white principles of critical race theory, and now it is reaping the whirlwind of that choice.
South Africa did everything that is being done in America right now. As a hyperdiverse multiethnic, multilingual society, South Africa has followed almost every prescription embraced by the globalist ruling class.
https://www.revolver.news/2021/07/south-africa-riots-looting-critical-race-theory/
#18180437 at 2023-01-20 13:40:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22293: Some Heroes Don't Wear Capes Edition
>>18180435
South Africa is also a member of BRICS, a bloc of emerging economies, alongside Brazil, Russia, India and China.
South Africa is seen by some as a token member of a group of economic powerhouses, and its government is desperate to stay part of the group which it believes provides a counter-balance to Western dominance.
South Africa has a $25billion share of the BRICS's New Development Bank and members have unlimited drawing rights if they need to stabilise their currencies.
With China and Russia's huge foreign currency reserves, South Africa is determined to keep the BRICS members happy for its own financial benefit.
In 2014, a mammoth $50billion deal was agreed between disgraced ex-president Jacob Zuma who is now facing corruption charges, and Russia's Rosatom energy company to build eight nuclear plants in South Africa.
Vladimir Putin has tried to invest in South Africa and the country has remained a muted ally despite the war
Cyril Ramaphosa has ditched his supposed 'neutrality' to the war by hosting the naval drills
The deal was eventually scrapped in April 2017 when a court ruled it was unlawful.
But it left a huge hole in the finances of the ANC, which has been plagued by corruption for decades.
Last year, it was revealed the biggest stake in the party's in-house investment company was the manganese miner, United Manganese of Kalahari, who donated around ?500,000 to the ANC in the 2021-22 financial year.
The firm is owned in part by Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's conglomerate Renova Group.
Vekselberg has an estimated fortune of nearly ?8billion and his ties to Putin landed him with sanctions in March last year.
Experts have warned of Russia's increased military influence in Africa since it first annexed parts of Ukraine in 2014.
Improving relations with South Africa is central to the US effort of limiting Russian and Chinese influence.
The South African government drew more attention over its stance towards Russia in October when it allowed a $500million super-yacht owned by oligarch Alexey Mordashov to dock in Cape Town
The South African government drew more attention over its stance towards Russia in October when it allowed a $500million super-yacht owned by oligarch Alexey Mordashov to dock in Cape Town despite him being under US and EU sanctions.
The 57-year-old billionaire named in the Pandora Papers owns the Russian mining companies Nordgold and Severstal.
With a net worth of $13.2billion, Forbes ranked Mordashov as the 51st richest person in the world last year, but Western sanctions have sent the oligarch sinking in world wealth rankings as of this year.
'South Africa has no legal obligation to abide by sanctions imposed by the US and EU,' said Vincent Magwenya, spokesman for South Africa's president at the time. 'We have no reason to prevent their entry into South Africa.
'South Africa's obligations with respect to sanctions relate only to those that are specifically adopted by the United Nations. Currently, there are no UN-imposed sanctions on the particular individual.'
The South African government has also been accused of allowing another sanctioned Russian vessel to dock at a naval base near Cape Town in December.
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#18180435 at 2023-01-20 13:39:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22293: Some Heroes Don't Wear Capes Edition
Fury as 'neutral' South Africa announces 'immoral' joint wargames with Russia and China off its coast on anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11653917/amp/Fury-neutral-South-Africa-announces-immoral-joint-wargames-Russia-China.html
War games will take place off Durban between South Africa, China and Russia
South Africa has claimed it is 'neutral' and abstained in key Ukraine UN vote
Ruling ANC party has historic ties to Soviet Union during Apartheid
South Africa's government has finally shown its colours and sided with the dictators by inviting Russia and China for war games next month.
After months of placating Russia's butchery in Ukraine, Cyril Ramaphosa has ditched his supposed 'neutrality' to the war by hosting the naval drills off the country's east coast near Durban and Richards Bay from February 17 to 27.
The move is the strongest indication yet of the strengthening relationship between South Africa, whose governing ANC party is allegedly in the pocket of a sanctioned Moscow oligarch, and the anti-West authoritarian regimes of China and Russia.
The 'multinational maritime exercise' has been slammed by South Africa's leading Daily Maverick newspaper as 'immoral, stupid and impractical'.
Chinese and Russian warships are pictured taking part in joint naval drills in the East China Sea in December
Corruption plagues South Africa's leaders
South Africa has been battling financial scandals for decades and its former president Jacob Zuma has been charged with multiple counts of corruption.
He was jailed for refusing to testify to a high-level inquiry into massive state corruption that unfolded under his presidency.
He was forced to step down in disgrace by the ruling ANC in 2018 following mounting corruption allegations.
Ramaphosa himself has been facing calls to step down after a parliamentary report said he may have broken currency regulations by keeping undeclared sums of dollars at his farm.
Ramaphosa stands accused of stealing millions and hiding it at a game farm.
About $4 million in cash was stolen from Ramaphosa's Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo, and former intelligence officer Arthur Fraser has accused him of money laundering, kidnapping and corruption.
A probe concluded Ramaphosa may have committed serious violations and misconduct.
But Fraser is a well-known loyalist to Zuma and a faction of the ANC that wants Ramaphosa out.
The drills will take place around the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and bring more focus on the refusal of South Africa - a leading voice on its continent - to side with the West and condemn Russia's actions.
The announcement also comes days before Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is due to visit South Africa and hold talks with South African counterpart Naledi Pandor.
The South African government said last year it had adopted a neutral stance over Ukraine and called for dialogue and diplomacy.
But the upcoming naval drills have led the country's main opposition party to accuse the government of effectively siding with Russia.
The South African government denies it has taken sides and has called for the end of the war in Ukraine.
But the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), which incorporates all of its armed forces, said next month's naval exercise would 'strengthen the already flourishing relations between South Africa, Russia and China'.
The aim of the drills was 'sharing operational skills and knowledge', the SANDF said.
The three countries also conducted a similar naval exercise in 2019 in Cape Town, while Russia and China held joint naval drills in the East China Sea last month.
South Africa, a key western partner, was one of several African countries to abstain in a United Nations vote last year condemning Russia's invasion.
The United States and European Union had hoped South Africa would support the international condemnation of Russia and act as a leader for other nations in Africa.
The countries that voted along with Russia against the resolution were Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua and Syria.
The naval drills will take place off the country's east coast near Durban and Richards Bay from February 17 to 27
The Chinese naval frigate Binzhou takes part in a joint naval drills with Russian warships in December
South Africa and Russia share a long history, after the Soviet Union gave support to the ANC in its fight to bring down apartheid, the regime of repression against the country's black majority.
Apartheid ended in 1994 when the ANC won the first democratic elections in South Africa and Nelson Mandela became president.
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#17694376 at 2022-10-15 13:26:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694298
>>17694370
>INT's mandate is to investigate, litigate and prevent instances of fraud and corruption in Bank-supported investment and lending activities, including its International Finance Corporation (IFC), as well as to address evidence of significant fraud or corruption involving World Bank staff.
And guess what he investigated?... Now the country is experiencing the worst rolling blackouts.
"DA complaint on Hitachi to land on ex-Scorpions boss McCarthy's desk" - Investigating Eskom 2015
https://www.news24.com/News24/DA-complaint-on-Hitachi-to-land-on-ex-Scorpions-boss-McCarthys-desk-20151001
01 Oct 2015
The former head of the Scorpions, Advocate Leonard McCarthy, would be responsible for taking up the Democratic Alliance's complaint to the World Bank, it was confirmed today.
McCarthy is now the World Bank's vice-president for integrity in Washington, and investigates allegations of fraud and corruption in projects funded by the bank.
Although the bank did not confirm receiving the DA's complaint that the ANC had benefited from contracts to build the Medupi and Kusile power stations, it said that the vice-president for integrity would be the office to deal with it.
The bank granted a loan to Eskom in 2010 for the construction of the two power stations.
The DA yesterday laid the complaint, calling on the bank to investigate allegations that the ANC, through its investment company Chancellor House, allegedly benefited from a tender for the construction of the two stations. It is alleged that the Japanese company Hitachi Power Europe, to whom a tender to provide boilers for the power stations was awarded, made payments to Chancellor House in exchange for political influence in the awarding of government contracts.
McCarthy was among those who were accused of a "political conspiracy" against President Jacob Zuma due to the timing of corruption charges against the president.
His name is mentioned in the so-called spy tapes, which intercepted conversations between McCarthy and Advocate Bulelani Ngcuka, former head of the National Prosecuting Authority.
Spokesperson for the World Bank in South Africa, Zandile Ratshitanga said today: "If the World Bank office in South Africa were to receive a complaint by the DA to investigate Hitachi activities at Medupi Power Station, this would be forwarded to the bank's vice-presidency for integrity, who investigates allegations of fraud, corruption, coercion, collusion, and obstructive practices related [to] World Bank Group-financed projects."
Ratshitanga added: "The unit would take up the issue and liaise directly with the complaining party. To ensure the independence of the [unit's] activities, the vice-president for integrity reports directly to the president of the World Bank Group."
Ratshitanga emphasised that the World Bank "did not finance the Hitachi contract because financing was already available from other lenders".
The bank, however, in a statement of 2010 punted the loan to Eskom as "the bank's first major lending engagement with South Africa since the fall of apartheid 16 years ago and aims to benefit the poor directly, through jobs created as the economy bounces back from the global financial crisis and through additional power capacity to expand access to electricity".
In the complaint, DA leader Mmusi Maimane also asked the bank to insist on financial restitution from the ANC, which he alleges "benefited" from the transaction.
Weeks before the World Bank granted the loan, former DA leader Helen Zille also warned of this "benefit" to the ANC.
The ANC this week distanced itself from the Hitachi allegations.
Professor Pierre de Vos, a constitutional expert at the University of Cape Town, said that questions could arise about a possible conflict of interest for McCarthy.
"There can be a perception of a conflict of interest when a person who was close to the political party [ANC], now has to investigate a complaint implicating that party. Questions will be raised over how fair such an investigation can be."
–Eskom awarded a tender for the construction of boilers at the two power stations to Hitachi Power Europe, with the ANC's Chancellor House investment arm as black empowerment partner.
Maimane now claims the World Bank through the loan was "effectively bankrolling the ANC through their share in Hitachi via Chancellor House".–
"In light of recent developments we believe the World Bank should invoke its power to demand financial restitution, in this case from the ANC, in cases where loans were employed to fund fraudulent, corrupt, collusive, coercive or obstructive practices," he said in a statement.
McCarthy was appointed at the World Bank in 2008.
#17694360 at 2022-10-15 13:04:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694298
>>17694345
>Selebi was not charged to assist at Polokwane. TM [Thabo Mbeki] was behind everything with Bul [Bulelani Ngcuka] and LM [Leonard McCarthy] supporting him. There are also other powers (International - Luciano) and private sector that pulled strings
>>17694353
>He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation.
"Selebi lashes ex-NPA bosses over 'plot'"
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fwww.security.co.za%2fnews%2f12238&d=4778989019726626&mkt=fr-FR&setlang=en-US&w=MisV7SZbdm19O61KzRw9LD8xigwrM-U5
Date: 15 Apr 2009
Jackie Selebi has relaunched his attack on the ex-prosecuting bosses blamed for the withdrawal of the Jacob Zuma corruption case - accusing both Bulelani Ngcuka and Leonard McCarthy of orchestrating a plot against him. Days after the National Prosecuting Authority controversially withdrew all charges against Zuma on the basis of tape-recorded conversations between McCarthy and Ngcuka discussing the timing of Zuma's recharging, National Police Commissioner Selebi has reiterated his belief that Ngcuka was the NPA's puppet master. Pointing out that acting prosecuting head Mokotedi Mpshe had vehemently denied that the NPA had "been improperly influenced by Bulelani Ngcuka or anyone else in the decision to prosecute (Selebi)", Selebi said it was "significant" that Mpshe's decision to withdraw all charges against Zuma "relied solely on the fact that Ngcuka was indeed controlling the DSO (Directorate of Special Operations)." Selebi has pointed out that he had previously claimed Ngcuka was "still actively controlling senior members of the Scorpions and in particular (McCarthy)". While denying that the case against Selebi had been initiated out of any political motive, Scorpions investigator Andrew Leask this week shied away from disavowing Selebi's claims that Ngcuka was inappropriately involved in his prosecution. Leask has instead stated that the NPA had no knowledge of any such involvement. The lead Selebi investigator was last week forced to admit that the NPA - who has previously insisted that it was prepared to put Selebi on trial today - was in fact not ready to do so. Leask did so as part of the NPA's application, which was due to be heard in the Johannesburg High Court today and which Selebi and his legal team are fiercely opposing, for the postponement of its corruption and defeating-the-ends-of-justice case against the police boss. In court documents, Leask maintains the NPA needed to postpone its case against Selebi because of its ongoing documents dispute with his lawyers and the alleged failure of the SA Police Service to co-operate with its investigation. Selebi insists these reasons are smokescreens aimed at saving the NPA the embarrassment of putting him on trial without having a prima facie case for him to answer. The police boss maintains he wants to go on trial. He has also stated under oath that he is prepared to walk away from his documents battle with the State, which he has won, if doing so would allow him to face his accusers earlier. He maintains that delaying his trial would result in irreparable personal and professional prejudice to him. According to Selebi, "My employment contract with the SAPS is valid until the June 30, 2009. All indications are that my contract will not be renewed if this matter is not concluded prior to June 30, 2009." By Karyn Maughan The Star 14/04/09e3
#17694353 at 2022-10-15 12:59:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694298
>>17694345
>Adv McCarthy is alleged to have abused his position by instructing or allowing certain erstwhile employees of the DSO to gather intelligence regarding your client which culminated in the production of the so-??called "Browse Mole" report
"Browse Mole report a 'mixture of fact and fiction'"
https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-03-browse-mole-report-a-mixture-of-fact-and-fiction/
3 Jul 2008
Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the first version of the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble but didn't do anything about it immediately because he was advised to "file" it and his department already had a heavy workload.
"It was one of those documents that you wish you have never seen. I had this gut feel about this document, that this was going to cause trouble," he said in Johannesburg on Thursday at the Ginwala commission of inquiry into his fitness to hold office.
The report was handed to him in March or April 2006 by former Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) head Leonard McCarthy.
McCarthy told him that a Swiss judge had spoken to him about a person involved in money laundering who had made several trips in and out of South Africa. However, McCarthy had said it was still a work in progress.
At the time the DSO was busy with high profile investigations and dealing with matters relating to the Khampepe Commission into the dispute over whether the DSO, an investigative unit, should stay in the Justice and Constitutional Development Department or be moved to the South African Police Service.
"We were rather stressed out," he said.
McCarthy said that because he was so busy, there was no harm in filing it away because he was going to give him a final report.
Although it already contained a number of conclusions "on the face of it", Pikoli considered it a "mixture of fact and fiction".
"As I said I did not really apply my mind to it," he said. "I did not study it, I flipped through it."
The report contained allegations of a foreign funded operation to bring African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to power.
One of the "high profile" investigations that the DSO was working on was a corruption case against Zuma. The other was a corruption case against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
–When he read the final version in June/July he became angry and thought that "if there was a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave the DSO, it was going to be that time".-
–It had clearly been produced by someone who had contact with "old apartheid structures of intelligence", he said, and not a single member of the DSO had the capacity to produce it.-
"I told Mr McCarthy that this document shall enjoy no status in the DSO and that there should be no further work on this report."
–He believed it was clearly an intelligence report, and not the mandate of the DSO, although it had some elements of organised crime in it.-
H then met the directors general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and of the South African Secret Service and between them they decided to work together to find out who the source was.
He also discovered they had already independently received some of the information in the report.
He said intelligence director general Manala Manzini was not telling the truth when he testified that he had said "I have a hot potato", because he believed the document had no status with the DSO.
Pikoli said he gave the department's full support and cooperation during this investigation, contrary to Manzini's testimony that they received none.
He said the only dispute they had with the NIA was over an accusation by them that a DSO employee had leaked the report, but, without proof from the NIA, they could not act on it.
Pikoli was suspended on September 23 last year on the grounds of a breakdown in relations with Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla and that he did not fully appreciate maters of national security.
He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation. - Sapa
#17694331 at 2022-10-15 12:34:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694321
>>17694328
>>17694298
"Spy tapes: McCarthy, 'Billy the Kid' [Billy Downer] and me" - Part 1
https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-02-lessons-in-accountability-on-spy-tapes/
2 Oct 2014
The Democratic Alliance may have shot itself in the foot by forcing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to release the controversial spy tapes, but they have done everyone else a favour - including me. I feature, you see. There I am in the notes about extracts of telephone intercepts provided to the NPA by the then National Intelligence Agency.
In black and white it is noted: "04/06/08: Billy to Sam Sole. And Billy really refuses to disclose anything critical ... "
"Billy" is Billy Downer, chief prosecutor in the Schabir Shaik trial and the corresponding corruption case against then deputy president Jacob Zuma, which was abandoned in April 2009 on the strength of what was contained in the intercepted conversation between NPA officials and people in then-president Thabo Mbeki's camp.
Elsewhere in the spy tapes transcripts Billy is referred to as "the Kid", perhaps because of his crack-shot prosecutorial aim.
In the internal notes of the NPA, there were two more alleged interceptions recorded between Downer and me, neither of which, apparently, disclosed anything serious that could be pinned on "Billy the Kid".
Improper behavior
The situation was very different, however, with Downer's superior, then Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy. In 2009 the conversations, recorded by crime intelligence and leaked to Jacob Zuma's lawyer Michael Hulley, were played, on a selected basis, to the NPA to show that McCarthy had behaved improperly.
Transcripts of some of those conversations were then disclosed when the then acting national director of public prosecutions, Mokotedi Mpshe, announced the decision to terminate the Zuma case.
Mpshe cited these extracts as evidence of collusion between McCarthy and the former prosecutions boss, Bulelani Ngcuka, to manipulate the prosecutorial process before and after the Polokwane elections in December 2007 that removed Mbeki as ANC president in favour of Zuma.
The DA has sought a judicial review of Mpshe's decision, believing that the evidence disclosed concerning McCarthy's actions did not invalidate the case against Zuma.
To make its case, the DA demanded access to the full recordings on which Mpshe based his decision, as well as records of internal NPA discussions that led up to his bombshell announcement.
#17694328 at 2022-10-15 12:30:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694298
>>17694321
>Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called Andr? Pienaar.
Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar posts in the 5th South Africa bread
Final Andre Pienaar Bun
>>13900374 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider - Part 1
>>13900380 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider - Part 2
>>13900382 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider - Part 3
>>13908297 Andr? Pienaar Biography
>>13908317 Sample from Pienaar's blog for reference
>>13956493 Andr? Pienaar Remarks on the Space Investment Landscape at America's Future Series Space Innovation Summit
"Liam Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US radical right" - More South Africa Connections (Part 2) dated 15 Oct 2011 at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories
Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.
"South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider" dated December 13, 2018, at https://www.somtribune.com/2018/12/13/south-african-at-centre-of-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud-linked-to-kremlin-insider/
While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious "Luciano" in the leaked "Zuma spy tapes" saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon Project - a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes - he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg [>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun], who has close links to the Kremlin.
Former South African intelligence agent, Andre Pienaar, has been cited in an extensive investigation by BBC journalists into bids for the Pentagon's $R10 billion Jedi Contract project aimed at storing sensitive military and other information on a single cloud.
Pienaar was exposed in court transcripts in the Zuma "spy tapes" saga as the mysterious "Luciano" who allegedly leaked illegal National Intelligence Agency recordings of conversations between then Scorpions boss, Leonard McCarthy, and former NPA boss, Bulelani Ngcuka.
The leak ultimately led to the initial withdrawal of charges of fraud and corruption against former President Jacob Zuma.
#17694325 at 2022-10-15 12:22:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694298
>>17694319
>>17694321
"Zuma demands acquittal - accuses NPA of working with CIA against him"
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/Zuma-demands-acquittal-accuses-npa-of-working-with-cia-against-him/
10 Jun 2021
Demands inquiry into the involvement of foreign agencies in his corruption case, arguing the NPA itself isn't qualified to prosecute him.
Corruption-accused former president Jacob Zuma wants the court to probe his claims of "prosecutorial abuses," among them that the state had been collaborating with foreign intelligence agencies - like the US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - in his prosecution over the arms deal.
Last month, the embattled Zuma brought a special plea for the recusal of the lead prosecutor in the case, state advocate Billy Downer SC and for his own acquittal. In the papers, his claims include that the state had been working with foreign intelligence agencies on his investigation. He suggested Downer had been part of a cover up.
Downer has since flatly denied knowing anything about foreign intelligence involvement in the state's replying papers. But Zuma isn't backing down and in his latest filings has called for an evidential inquiry.
"I am convinced this prosecution is an attack on my role as a political leader which has always intended and continues to intend to complete the efforts of the apartheid security system to which I was one of the prime security targets," he said in the new papers filed.
He wants an inquiry "into the extent of involvement of foreign intelligence agencies in my prosecution and more particularly in my political role - which it appears had to be neutralised by a number of acts of clear violations."
"At the hearing of this application, I will seek an order that an evidentiary hearing be conducted on the issues relating to whether evidence of political and intelligence meddling has undermined the state's duty to conduct a fair and impartial hearing."
#17694321 at 2022-10-15 12:19:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694319
>>17694298
"'Foreign intelligence' interference in corruption prosecution, claims Jacob Zuma" - Billy Downer,etc.
https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2021/05/25/Jacob-Zuma-prosecution
25th May 2021
Former president Jacob Zuma claims that 'foreign intelligence agencies' may have interfered in his corruption prosecution.
In his 'special plea' challenging the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption and racketeering, Zuma claimed he had 'come across information' that former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called Andr? Pienaar.
He said Pienaar, who he said was code-named Luciano, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.
'I fear that Mr Downer SC has covered up McCarthy's despicable conduct in manipulating my trial for political and intelligence reasons,' Zuma stated, adding that sources had provided information that McCarthy had regular and unlawful contact with foreign intelligence agencies 'during his investigation of me'.
According to him, the Spy Tapes recordings that prompted then-acting National Prosecuting Authority boss Mokotedi Mpshe to unlawfully drop the corruption case against him in April 2009 'prove that McCarthy had received gifts from America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and had discussed, without any authorisation to do so, my case'. These gifts, he later stated, were Christmas presents.
Zuma claimed Downer knew about McCarthy's 'criminal conduct which undoubtedly tainted the prosecution' but did not refer to any specific evidence that proved this.
#17694319 at 2022-10-15 12:15:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
>>17694298
>This rabbit trail started with the first article I will post below. Take note; the former South African President, Jacob Zuma was an intelligence operative in the ANC when they were still regarded as terrorists. "'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'", https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/Zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924
"'Dodgy' diamond dealer pledges R500k for Jacob Zuma" - "prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan"
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-louis-liebenberg-Jacob-Zuma-11-october/
11-10-2022 15:47
Louis Liebenberg is reportedly so close with Jacob Zuma, he gifted him two Nguni cows and has been to Nkandla
Former president Jacob Zuma certainly has some friends in high places: Gauteng diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg has pledged R500 000 to fund his private prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.
Here's some background: Zuma opened a criminal case against Downer, the lead prosecutor in his arms deal corruption trial, claiming he leaked his medical records to Maughan. The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has postponed the matter to February 2023. Both Maughan and Downer, however, have approached the courts, to have the charges he has brought against them dismissed as an abuse of process. The matter will be heard on 8 and 9 December 2022.
Zuma'S FRIENDSHIP WITH LIEBENBERG
According to reports, Louis Liebenberg deposited the funds into the the trust account of his own attorney, Walter Niedinger. This was revealed in an affidavit filed in response to Downer's application that Jacob Zuma deposit R1 million to fund his defence.
Liebenberg is believed to enjoy a friendship with the former president. The businessman even gifted Zuma with two Nguni cows and has reportedly visited his Nkandla homestead on several occasions - and we know that honour isn't extended to just anyone.
Surprisingly (or maybe not), Liebenberg, who has made his fortune in the mining industry, has been labelled a conman by some. Several Facebook groups have been set up, allegedly exposing the Northern Cape resident as a fraud. It's believed he has been part of several Ponzi schemes, which have illegally taken money from investors.
#17694298 at 2022-10-15 11:46:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21647: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee Edition
Unleashing Communism/Socialism into the World; Case Study of South Africa
I am unable to post in the South African bread so I am doing it here. The following posts will demonstrate how communism/socialism was unleashed into the world and it is only the tip of the iceberg.
Some background for those who do not follow the South Africa bread.
Is it not intriguing that the release of Nelson Mandela, the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the USSR happened around the same time? The ANC, a terrorist organization, was trained in Russia, East Germany and Cuba however they would typically go into exile in London, UK, and not to the countries they were trained in. When did the world start supporting Nelson Mandela and the ANC? It was a major concert held in Britain in 1988 which was televised all over the world with famous actors and artists on stage, https://youtu.be/lTtg7QZPRRE [Whoopi Goldburg, Richard Gere, among others].
Tony Hollingsworth's website at https://tonyhollingsworth.com/ states, "Tony has over 30 years of experience working with companies, governments and foundations at the intersection of communications, media and popular culture. His credits range from, conceiving and producing the global media campaign that reached [600 million] and re-positioned Nelson Mandela from "black terrorist leader" to "black leader" to, consulting for the US White House on a public campaign in a response to 9/11." He can also explain in his own words how he accomplished this feat with regard to Mandela at https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc [embedded]
Tony even stated in the video, https://youtu.be/llJRpBPNCOE, at 6:00; "Most of the world knew very little. He'd [Mandela] been in prison for 25 years at that point in time. So he didn't know what he looked like, we didn't know what he sounded like. What we were backing was the man that had given the speech at the Rivonia Trial [1960s]... And that's all you had on him, I mean in terms of we talk about photographs. There were no photographs of this man."
"Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the AAM [Anti-Apartheid Movement] president and a former priest in southern Africa, gave his approval after he, Hollingsworth and Terry had met to discuss the event. "I told Trevor that the first thing we had to do to get Mandela's release was to stop the world's television and press referring to him as a 'black terrorist leader'." https://listencampaign.com/node/165
For the 1994 election, "Eighty [80] million ballots had already been printed in England at considerable expense" https://ourconstitution.constitutionhill.org.za/the-shell-house-massacre-and-the-road-to-the-ifps-participation-in-the-election/ (South Africa had a total population of about 40 million people.) Why print the ballots in England? South Africa was first world at the time - the first heart transplant was done there.
This rabbit trail started with the first article I will post below. Take note; the former South African President, Jacob Zuma was an intelligence operative in the ANC when they were still regarded as terrorists. "'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'", https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/Zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924
#17601663 at 2022-09-29 10:07:16 (UTC+1)
Q Reseach General #21581: Anons Are Not Divided by Race, Creed or Religion Edition
'the test might say that you are HIV positive, it does not necessarily mean that you got the virus, but what it means is that the immune system responding to something that is threatening the body and therefore you need a clinical analysis in order to determine what the immune system is rejecting'
The former South African president, Thabo Mbeki, was removed from office in 2008, after saying that HIV does not cause AIDS.
He was replaced by Jacob Zuma, who immediately rolled out a massive (toxic) ARV campaign, thanks to collusion with Big Pharma.
Thabo Mbeki was right all along (https://jermwarfare.com/podcast/david-rasnick-hiv-aids), and his position was supported by PCR inventor Kary Mullis (https://hkrugertjie.substack.com/p/from-aids-to-covid19) and many other scientists.
Here (https://jermwarfare.docdroid.com/arpVslQ/presidential-aids-advisory-panel-report-2001-pdf) is his 2001 AIDS Report, in which PCR tests were criticised.
Yesterday, after years of silence, he gave a speech about HIV not causing AIDS.
https://t.me/JustDudeChannel/25139
#17591173 at 2022-09-27 18:39:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21568: BQQM - Marker(2) Set Edition
South Africa Makes 1450 Arrests in a Weekend Crime Crackdown
The police in South Africa's Gauteng arrested 1,450 suspects in weekend operations aimed at improving safety in the province - said a press release by the South African Police Service.
Gauteng, containing the Johannesburg urban area, hosts a fourth of South Africa's population and is the wealthiest province in the country and the financial hub of the entire continent. Johannesburg, notorious for its lawlessness, currently ranks as the seventh most dangerous city in the world.
The individuals were arrested for crimes such as possession of unlicensed firearms, dealing in drugs, possession of suspected stolen property, murder, attempted murder, rape, grievous bodily harm and immigration law violations.
"The operation also saw police make various confiscations of unlicensed firearms, drugs, illegal mining equipment and liquor taken from liquor outlets operating without a license and contravening the Liquor Act," said the statement.
"Some of the suspects have been released after paying fines, while others are expected to appear before various Magistrates courts across the province starting from 26 September 2022," it added.
Most of the arrests were made under the tracing phase of 'Operation O Kae Molao', which was launched on the evening of September 21, with more than 900 arrested. In its continuation on the next day, the police received a tip-off leading to the arrest of 20 undocumented foreign nationals seemingly involved in drug dealing.
The tip-off eventually brought them to an industrial area in the suburban city of Springs. After searching the area, the police discovered a 'huge' illegal gold-processing plant, arresting 14 other undocumented foreign nationals.
In recent years, South Africa has faced surging levels of murder, extortion and kidnapping.
According to a report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) published last week, criminal activity has reached a level at which it poses an existential threat to the country.
The report attributed the blame to the apartheid legacy of extreme inequality and neglect of poorer areas by the state. This was exacerbated by the undermining of state institutions under President Jacob Zuma, who ruled for nine years until he was ousted in 2018.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/16811-south-africa-makes-1450-arrests-in-a-weekend-crime-crackdown
#16758950 at 2022-07-18 22:10:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21139: Taiwan gets battle ready! Edition
Jessie Duarte, former senior aide to Nelson Mandela, dies at 68
Today, July 18, is Nelson Mandela Day, which celebrates the work and life of the former President of South Africa.
"I am radical. I am sort of very left," she said. "When the ANC was unbanned, people like myself were the hard core, rough, tough. We weren't going to take any kind of concessioning for White people who had given us a hard time."
She reserved a special venom for journalists. In one outburst at a 2019 news conference, she unleashed a finger-wagging screed against a South African reporter who sought her response to allegations of kickbacks and financial abuses by the ANC's then-secretary general, Elias "Ace" Magashule, while he was premier of South Africa's Free State province from 2009 to 2018. (The trial has been set for September pending Magashule's appeal to have the case thrown out.)
She also pushed back against journalists' inquiries about alleged links between her estranged husband, politician John Duarte, and powerful tycoon brothers Atul, Rajesh and Ajay Gupta, accused of siphoning off huge sums from state entities during the tenure of President Jacob Zuma from 2009 to 2018.
"Welcome to the alternate world of Jessie Duarte," columnist Kalim Rajab wrote in South Africa's Daily Maverick in April 2019. "A world in which journalists must [toe] the line and not ask why she tolerates venal corruption."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jessie-duarte-former-senior-aide-to-nelson-mandela-dies-at-68/ar-AAZIqhA
#14636781 at 2021-09-22 15:45:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18515: Double the Post, Double the Fun Edition
https://apnews.com/article/africa-business-trials-south-africa-Jacob-Zuma-bf2ae42f282ab1f7fc750d124b72c7a2
Zuma's trial postponed until October in South Africa
The corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma was postponed until Oct. 26 while the judge considers a plea from Zuma's lawyer that the prosecution team be dismissed from the case for being biased.
Zuma wasn't present for the two-day hearing that ended Wednesday after he was released from an unrelated jail sentence this month on medical parole. He has been receiving treatment in a hospital for an undisclosed illness, according to his foundation.
Zuma's lawyer, Dali Mpofu, asked Judge Piet Koen to throw chief prosecutor Billy Downer and his team off the case, claiming they have a politically-motivated grudge against Zuma. Prosecutors deny that and say there is no evidence of it.
Mpofu also asked the judge to acquit Zuma of all charges against him after the prosecution team is dismissed. Koen said he needed time to consider the plea.
#14299488 at 2021-08-08 18:56:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18090: Camping The Campers Edition
Riots In South Africa: Causes, Interests And Consequences
In July 2021, South Africa was swept by the largest wave of violence seen since the fall of apartheid in 1994. The protests that began on July 8 have quickly turned into pogroms that involved thousands of people.
The nominal cause for the outbreak of riots was the arrest of a former President of South Africa Jacob Zuma on charges of corruption. Mr. Zuma's controversial activities have long raised questions.
After the fall of apartheid he acquired senior positions under Mandela's administration. In that period, he was involved in an international scandal on a suspicious arms deal when Pretoria reportedly purchased warships and aircraft from European suppliers at exorbitant prices.
Despite all allegations, he became president in 2009, replacing the notorious Thabo Mbeki. New "Charming" president was handing over big chunks of the country's economy to his Indian friends, the Gupta brothers, who were 'at the heart of a long-running process of corruption in South Africa,' according to the British Foreign Office.
First, Zuma was accused of corruption back in 2009. Then the case was postponed after he entered presidential office, but the disputes did not stop. In 2018, he had to resign, and legal procedures were resumed, new corruption charges were brought. The trial lasted for 3 years, until the summer of 2021, when Zuma defiantly refused to testify in the case of "seizure of power" and corruption. On June 29, he was found guilty of contempt of court, sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to surrender to the authorities before midnight on July 7, which he did at the very last moment. That same night, his supporters organized rallies, proclaiming Zuma a "prisoner of conscience". A political crisis broke out.
The events came thick and fast amid a lasting economic crisis in the country. According to various estimates, the last years of Jacob Zuma's presidency were marked with sharp drops in the economy. Ineffective administrative measures, populism and ineffectiveness of the health care system during the coronavirus pademic have dramatically aggravated the situation in the country. Just in 2020, the RSA's economy shrank by 7%, and the number of citizens living below the poverty line increased by 2 million people.
"In 1994 the ANC inherited the strongest economy in Africa, with excellent infrastructure, including cheap, reliable electricity. The ANC has wrecked it all. We have continual blackouts; the passenger railways are crumbling into ruin; most of the municipalities are dysfunctional, with appalling water supply and sewage running in the streets; South African Airways is bankrupt; the economy is crippled; deep poverty is widespread, and unemployment is at 43 per cent (including many who have given up looking for work). This tragedy has been caused by systematic corruption, a bloated government, ruinous racial laws and a relentless assault on private enterprise." - Andrew Kenny wrote in The Spectator.
It is no surprise that the protest has quickly engulfed a significant part of the poor black population in South Africa. The majority of those who finally took to the street were indifferent to the fate of Jacob Zuma itself. His arrest turned out to be a trigger of protest against hopeless poverty, the discrepancy between beautiful images on Sat TV and the reality on the streets. The protests instantly turned into a violent riot, "senseless and merciless," as one of the classics of literature wrote.
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https://southfront.org/riots-in-south-africa-causes-interests-and-consequences/
#14281266 at 2021-08-06 04:28:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18068: Phase 0 is slow Edition
South Africa reshuffles government in response to riots: Health & Finance ministers out, Security placed under presidency
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced major changes to the government of South Africa in response to last month's unrest, abolishing the Ministry of State Security and accepting the resignation of health and finance ministers.
Ramaphosa announced changes to the National Executive on Thursday evening, citing the need to effectively administer Covid-19 vaccination, rebuild the economy and "ensure peace and stability in the wake of the recent outbreak of violence and destruction in parts of the country."
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has resigned, and will be replaced by Joe Phaahla, a Limpopo native who was involved in organizing the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni was also "excused" from his job, which he took over in October 2018, and will be replaced by Enoch Godongwana.
Ramaphosa said Mboweni "effectively and ably steered National Treasury through extremely difficult economic times, providing stability and instilling confidence" and thanked him for his service.
In a major change, Ramaphosa abolished the Ministry of State Security and placed the State Security Agency under the presidency, "to ensure that the country's domestic and foreign intelligence services more effectively enable the President to exercise his responsibility to safeguard the security and integrity of the nation."
Ncediso Goodenough 'Zizi' Kodwa will serve as the deputy minister under the presidency, in charge of security and intelligence. A member of the leadership of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, Kodwa was previously deputy minister for State Security under Ayanda Dlodlo - who was reshuffled back into the Ministry of Public Service and Administration.
The reshuffle comes after the week-long riots in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces last month, which claimed at least 337 lives and wrought widespread destruction to the economy and infrastructure of South Africa. More than 3,400 people have been arrested in connection with the unrest, sparked by the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma on charges of contempt of court.
A three-member panel has been tasked to conduct "a thorough and critical review of our preparedness and the shortcomings in our response" to the riots, Ramaphosa said.
Ramaphosa concluded Thursday night's announcement by declaring that his government is "unwavering in our determination to build a capable state, one which is ably led and which effectively serves the needs of the people."
Rebuilding the country's economy and society "requires urgency and focus" as well as "cooperation among all sectors of society and the active involvement of all South Africans," he added.
https://www.rt.com/news/531272-south-africa-government-changes/
#14145611 at 2021-07-18 00:54:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17896: Victory On The Cusp Of Visibility Edition
REVOLVER ARTICLE OF A COUNTRY ON FIRE DUE TO THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY !!!
Note: Too long of a article to post but worth a read to see what they are trying to do with the nations of the west. ?
https://www.revolver.news/2021/07/south-africa-riots-looting-critical-race-theory/
South Africa - The First Country Built on "Critical Race Theory" - Officially Implodes
South Africa is disintegrating.
After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. The official death toll already runs into the dozens, but in a country as violent as South Africa (57 murders a day) the real toll will likely never be known for certain.
Rioters have plundered shops and entire shopping malls. When they run out out of normal goods, they steal livestock. When it's too heavy to carry by hand, they bring a forklift.
#14143585 at 2021-07-17 18:16:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17893: #AuditAll50States ITS COMING! Edition
South Africa - The First Country Built on "Critical Race Theory" - Officially Implodes
South Africa is disintegrating.
After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. The official death toll already runs into the dozens, but in a country as violent as South Africa (57 murders a day) the real toll will likely never be known for certain.
JUST IN - At least 72 people have been killed, hundreds arrested, and countless properties looted so far in spiraling unrest in South Africa triggered by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.pic.twitter.com/9HNgZBotCz
- Disclose.tv 🚨 (@disclosetv) July 14, 2021
Rioters have plundered shops and entire shopping malls. When they run out out of normal goods, they steal livestock. When it's too heavy to carry by hand, they bring a forklift.
😳 pic.twitter.com/LHrLpbnMRX
- K U L A N I (@kulanicool) July 12, 2021
https://www.revolver.news/2021/07/south-africa-riots-looting-critical-race-theory/
#14122000 at 2021-07-14 17:30:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17867: The Winning Will Continue Eternally Edition
Over 70 Killed As South Africa "Crumbles" Despite Military Intervention
South Africa could be on the verge of collapse, and all the warning signs are there. The looters have targeted foreign shops, shopping centers, distribution centers/warehouses, and raided gun shops. Shortages are emerging in food, fuel, and ammo.
Over 70 have reportedly been killed since social unrest began last week after ex-president Jacob Zuma was jailed for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry. Supporters of Zuma, the nation's first Zulu president, have been on a looting spree that has crippled KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Johannesburg and disrupted national supply routes, resulting in food and fuel shortages in the affected area.
According to the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa, more than 600 stores have been looted with hundreds millions of dollars in damage.
President Cyril Ramaphosa deployed the military to quell the unrest, but nothing has worked so far worked.
Civilians are defending their own communities and running low on food, fuel, and ammo; supply chains are destroyed, and it wasn't quick, about a week, as the country faces collapse.
On Tuesday, Sapref refinery near Durban, operated by Shell and BP, had shuttered operations due to civil unrest.
There's also news that the country's top chicken and meat processor, Rainbow Chickens Ltd., was raided by looters, which means widespread food shortages could be imminent.
Allegedly, some security firms are reporting police are "low on ammunition."
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/south-africa-crumbling-amid-widespread-looting
#14120867 at 2021-07-14 13:37:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17866: Winning While AFK E-Bake Edition
JUST IN - At least 72 people have been killed, hundreds arrested, and countless properties looted so far in spiraling unrest in South Africa triggered by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1415302929481928706
#14116093 at 2021-07-13 20:40:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17860: The 'EBAKE' Edition
From QResearch South Africa board: >>14116066
This is due to unrest following the imprisonment, for 15 months, of Jacob Zuma for contempt of court. Widespread looting has been going on since Sunday. Many shopping malls are gutted and left burning.
#14116065 at 2021-07-13 20:36:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17860: The 'EBAKE' Edition
Armed Civilians Open Fire on Mob In South Africa
Video shows armed civilians defending their neighborhood from a mob of violent looters in South Africa in mid July 2021, perfectly demonstrating the importance of the right to bear arms.
Protests broke out following the incarceration of former President Jacob Zuma, whose time in office was fraught with corruption. The protests were quickly delegitimized as the action turned into opportunistic looting and criminal damage to private property.
Several deaths occurred as criminal mobs stampeded over one another to loot liquor, clothing, and electronics stores as well as residential areas. Police forces were overwhelmed and law-abiding citizens were forced to take up arms to defend their homes and livelihoods from the violent hordes
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https://youtu.be/qPleungQrW0?t=13
#14111448 at 2021-07-13 04:24:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17855: The 'Everything Under The Sun' Edition
South Africa deploys military to two provinces amid looting and violence after ex-president Zuma's jailing
The South African military has deployed forces in two provinces following violence and looting that has seen a mall set ablaze, several killed and over 200 arrests after the imprisonment of ex-leader Jacob Zuma.
Violence and looting broke out for a fourth day on Monday following the high court's decision to jail former president and anti-apartheid veteran Zuma over contempt of court.
Military personnel were sent out to Gauteng, where major cities Pretoria and Johannesburg are situated, and KwaZulu-Natal, the former president's home province, where he has many supporters.
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) issued a statement on Monday stating it sent troops to "provide safety and a safe working environment for members of the SAPS [South African Police Service]".
https://www.rt.com/news/528987-south-africa-military-provinces-violence-Zuma/
#14107566 at 2021-07-12 17:35:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17850: Cuba Libre Edition
South Africa deploys military to two provinces amid looting and violence after ex-president Zuma's jailing
The South African military has deployed forces in two provinces following violence and looting that has seen a mall set ablaze, several killed and over 200 arrests after the imprisonment of ex-leader Jacob Zuma.
Violence and looting broke out for a fourth day on Monday following the high court's decision to jail former president and anti-apartheid veteran Zuma over contempt of court.
Military personnel were sent out to Gauteng, where major cities Pretoria and Johannesburg are situated, and KwaZulu-Natal, the former president's home province, where he has many supporters.
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) issued a statement on Monday stating it sent troops to "provide safety and a safe working environment for members of the SAPS [South African Police Service]".
Footage from various parts of KwaZulu-Natal purported to show images of widespread looting and damage to property.
According to local media, rioters even set fire to Brookside Mall in Pietermaritzburg early on Monday morning.
Over 200 people in the riot hotspots have been arrested, and at least six have lost their lives in the turbulent crisis, according to the police.
The current South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has condemned the destruction of property and slammed the actions of the violent protestors, saying they are "endangering lives and damaging our efforts to rebuild the economy".
Whilst many of the protests are a direct response to Zuma's imprisonment, unfavorable economic conditions and the coronavirus pandemic are thought to have exacerbated the situation.
https://www.rt.com/news/528987-south-africa-military-provinces-violence-Zuma/
#14081929 at 2021-07-08 19:39:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17819: The 'A "sense of freedom" Is Not Real Freedom!' Edition
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>>14068935, >>14068945, >>14068986 Sgt. Babyfist admits to being the person that threatened to kill BV + BV family.
>>14056282, >>14056297, >>14056336, >>14056472, >>14056545, >>14056587, >>14056630, >>14059295, >>14059460, >>14059665, >>14059749, >>14061470 Proof-positive that the shills are all using a VPS/VPN to share IP addresses and attack the board.
>>14061867, >>14061869, >>14061879, >>14061886, >>14061927, >>14061929,Shill Tactics 101Educate yourself on your enemies
>>14056718, >>14056728, >>14061958,MJ12 / B / Ingersoll Lockwood / babyfister team is a Larping Conjob trying to take the board
NOTABLES Are NOT Endorsements
#17818
>>14081297, >>14081711, >>14081594, >>14081334 Perp walk: he was thinking about running for President...
>>14081241, >>14081327, >>14081356 Anons are digging around on Haiti: The assassins "spoke English and Spanish," the government said, declaring a state of siege and launching a manhunt after the perpetrators.
>>14081357 Does Section 230 Facially Violates 1st Amendment by Sub-Contracting Censorship?
>>14081361 "We want to give people the sense that they have the freedom to choose, but…" Oh really…
>>14081383 Arizona Audit Hit Piece: Leftist Journalists Create Unconfirmed and Sketchy Story About Terminated Auditor
>>14081390 Wells Unexpectedly Shuts All Existing Personal Lines Of Credit, Hinting US Economy On The Edge
>>14081400 'It's Going to Shock the Country" - Steve Bannon DROPS BOMBS on Arizona Audit in First Interview
>>14081407 Chinese Surveillance Firm on Pentagon Blacklist Hires Ex-US Official as Lobbyist
>>14081415 vid: Biden Delivers Remarks on the Drawdown Efforts in Afghanistan
>>14081422 America's impressive history of bioweapons attacks against its own people
>>14081427 US orders amphibious assault ship into Black Sea after Moscow warns tensions escalating dangerously in waters off coast of Russia
>>14081438 China's gaming giant Tencent starts scanning nighttime players' faces to bust curfew-breaking kids
>>14081447 Hungary declares LGBT+ activists will be barred from schools as EU opens inquiry into law restricting promotion of homosexuality
>>14081471 Candace Owens ripped for rejecting Covid-19 vaccine, vowing never to force employees to take it
>>14081496 Planefag reports
>>14081500 Police Say 6 Detained, 7 Suspects Killed in Assassination of Haitian President
>>14081513 OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma's Exit Plan Gains Steam With Support From 15 More States
>>14081541 Rules for Thee and Not for Me: Johnson Caught Maskless in Car
>>14081551 Chief Financial Operative for CDN-Los Zetas Cartel Unmasked
>>14081583 Former CIA Director Gina Haspel has joined law firm King & Spalding, where she'll advise clients on cybersecurity and information technology.
>>14081611 Welcome to Zuckerville! Facebook is developing its own city near Silicon Valley HQ complete with 1,700 apartments, a supermarket, hotel and new offices
>>14081654 UPDATE: 6,985 Dead from COVID Vaccine Across the US and 411,911 Adverse Reactions Reported - Now a Top 50 Cause of Death in the Country
>>14081684, >>14081793 Doge complaining over their so-called notes and comped bread. Subversion much? They keep vpnposting and getting deleted, so this will serve as their bun.
>>14081691 HHS Secretary Becerra: "It's Absolutely the Government's Business" to Know Which Americans Are Not Vaccinated
>>14081725 DO MORE EVIL: Google turns Android phones into vaccine passports
>>14081741 Anon digging around on a Biden tweet "We will never forget"
>>14081747 Former Pfizer exec: Children are 50 times more likely to die from coronavirus vaccine than from the virus itself
>>14081774 Harris announces $25 million investment in DNC voting rights program
>>14081809 Attorneys general for 36 states and the District of Columbia sued the Big Tech company in a 144-page complaint filed in a Northern California federal court. The group alleges that Google's Play store for Android apps violates antitrust laws.
>>14081812 3 Scientists Drop Names From Lancet Statement on COVID Origins
>>14081816 The Election in Washington State May Have Been Illegal if Machines Used Were Not Properly Certified - Same Likely Occurred in Other States (VIDEO)
>>14081825 Two men believed to be Haitian Americans have been arrested in the assassination of Haiti's president, the country's elections minister says
>>14081830 International threads updated
>>14081834 Biden: This afternoon, the Vice President and I will be meeting with Black leaders of legacy civil rights organizations.
>>14081861 The truth comes out: Biden's administration is set to shift $860 million in coronavirus-related funds to cover costs associated with a surge in unaccompanied migrant children.
>>14081866 International warrant issued for arrest of former Kyrgyz leaders Akayev and Bakiyev
>>14081894 Trump: "Look, I'm The President of the United States!
>>14081908 Plane with nine passengers on board reportedly crashes near Orebro, Sweden
>>14081922 #17818
#17817
TBC
#17816
TBC
#17815
>>14078740, >>14078771, >>14078791, >>14078859, >>14078859 DONALD J. TRUMP, the Forty-Fifth President of the United States, LINDA CUADROS AND AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF THE CLASS, Plaintiffs, v. TWITTER, INC., and JACK DORSEY, Defendants (34 pages)
>>14078755 Relevant to Epstein's Sundial
>>14078796 Antino Mugica, Sky king repost, elections, corruption, RR on the case (Cap 2:38)
>>14078801, >>14078527 (pb), >>14079366, >>14079396 Dismissed, So Ordered. Rusty Shackleford (58:37)
>>14078836 RT Most Americans, including nearly a third of Democrats, don't think Biden's fulfilling duties of president
>>14078847, >>14078854, >>14078853, >>14078843, >>14078885 Japan to declare state of emergency in Tokyo 2 weeks before Olympics
>>14078856 $1 billion worth of illegal marijuana in the largest bust in Los Angeles
>>14078886 Babbit - What Is The Truth?
>>14078789, >>14078958, >>14078985, >>14078797 Follow the creek down to 104 MEANWHILE AT THE SUEZ CANAL 38
>>14078306 lb New Anonymous video 7/6/21 on child trafficking
>>14079050 WHO are they the Hidden Hand of, or for?
>>14079129 The research lab was " la quinta columna" or Fifth Column Q knew 8/20/2020 1 year ago almost
>>14079183 Palestinian kids sent by Israeli handlers to beg on roads in the north
>>14079264 American Thinker: So, it's true: Tucker Carlson got the General Mike Flynn treatment
>>14079279, >>14079473 Journalist Matt Lee OBLITERATES State Dept. Ned Price & His Gaslighting (1:11)
>>14079367 Haiti... a lot of shit is going on in Haiti...
>>14079377 America's Frontline Doctors are seeking plaintiffs who have had their pharmacist refuse to fill their valid prescription for hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin
>>14079099, >>14079112, >>14079116 Mini Bun Fed Reverse Repo Rate, Manufactured Crisis 101
>>14079386 CODE MONKEY DROPS MESSAGE FROM MacAfee's wife?
>>14079394 PDJT statement: The Fake News and Big Tech (and Dems!) coordinated attack on the millions of people in our Country
>>14079395 PDJT statement: ICYMI: "Hunter Biden complained that 'half his salary' went on paying Joe's bills"
>>14079433 Jovenel Moise: Haiti police gun down four suspects after assassination of president
>>14079439 DO NOT TAKE THE TEST.
>>14079445 Tucker Carlson Discusses Report Confirming NSA Spying
>>14079466 Michigan state auditor to review nursing home COVID-19 deaths under Whitmer
>>14079469 Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs seeks probe of Trump allies
>>14079488 Insane MSNBC Pundit Says Jan 6 Was Worse Than 9/11 total clown
>>14079513 PA Asks For Full Forensic Election Audit
>>14079520 #17815
#17814
>>14077971, >>14077984 Former President Donald Trump's latest legal team includes a Washington, D.C., lawyer who made his name filing personal injury claims in the 1980s and 1990s, and a Connecticut attorney who represented the estate of O.J. Simpson's slain wife.
>>14077972 @INDOPACOM U.S. @PacificMarines with @31stMeu conduct night raids to enhance interoperability
>>14077994, >>14078008, >>14078051, >>14078496 Haiti is under Martial Law
>>14078010 real POTUS on tv
>>14078022 Rudy Giuliani: If the Democrats and Crooked Media are ignoring the ONLY shooting in the Capitol on Jan. 6th, there must be something wrong with it.
>>14078032 Report Says Blackwater Founder Had $10Bln Plan to Develop Weapons, Create Private Army in Ukraine
>>14078040 Tesla's car burns, the driver Bart Smith, is the head of the digital asset group as Susquehanna International.
>>14078043 Russia's $190 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Nearly Done Dumping Dollars
>>14078048 Dr. Fauci to vaccine-hesitant Americans: "Get over it. Get over this political statement. Just get over it and try to save the lives of yourself and your family."
>>14078069 Statement by Donald J. Trump, The Fake News and Big Tech (and Dems!) coordinated attack on the millions of people in our Country, who call the 2020 Presidential Election disgraceful and corrupt, is failing. More and more people are calling it RIGGED and STOLEN.
>>14078257, >>14078303 Tucker unmasked, vids
>>14078430, >>14078663 Biden Giving Chicago Billions to Address Mayor Lightfoot's Crime Wave
>>14078471 'Boom! Right through the head!' Trump graphically rants about the shooting of Ashli Babbitt
>>14078507 John McAfee's wife suggests Spanish authorities trying to 'cover up' husband's death in prison
>>14078527, >>14078662 in recent days theRusty Shacklefordyoutube account, dormant since Sept 2019, began posting videos again.
>>14078684 #17814
#17813
>>14077180, >>14077376 Democrat Megadonor and Hillary Pal Ed Buck Shot Drugs into Passed Out Sex Partners
>>14077194 CodeMonkey: Trump doesn't endorse GETTR.
>>14077205 TEXAS: Conservatives Slam Abbott for Refusing to Push Legislation Banning Child Sex Changes During Special Session
>>14077248, >>14077257, >>14077271, >>14077282, >>14077297, >>14077946 Save the Children Action Network is the "political advocacy arm" of Save the Children
>>14077251, >>14077393 >>14077552 Robert Malone Inventor of mRNA vaccine tech and outspoken critic of CDC rollout spoke directly to Nancy Pelosi in a 45 minute private meeting
>>14077311 Maggie's best argument is to say Trump's lawsuit is about some argument he is not making
>>14077315 The US Military Is MakingLasers That Create Voices out of Thin Air
>>14077339 Dailymail hit piece on Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn
>>14077340, >>14077353, >>14077413, >>14077367 Marine Security Guard Security Augmentation Unit deploys to US Embassy in Eswatini following civil unrest in the country
>>14077375 Seb Gorka for keks tells McConaughey where to go
>>14077404 Shall we play a game John McAfee
>>14077432, >>14077550 Tornado Just Hit Kings Bay GA Sub base Eagle Hammock RV Park
>>14077444 Chicago mayor Lightfoot asks Biden for help after bloody July 4 weekend
>>14077506, >>14077590 Public Health Act 2016 (WA) - Instrument of Authorization - Authorization to Supply or Administer a Poison [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE - Australian Defense Force] (No.2) 2021
>>14077535, >>14077625 WELL FUCK ME! I tested positive for the COVID-19. How the hell do I get HCQ quickly?
>>14077557 ATF Head says anyone uttering "hate speech" online should have all their guns confiscated by armed federal agents
>>14077607 State Patrol And Other Agencies Arrest Two For Sex Crimes
>>14077652 1,446 satellites in the past 12 months.
>>14077670 Ex-pediatrician deemed incompetent to stand trial after 98 counts of sex crime charges
>>14077691 The Gates Foundation has a plan for when Bill and Melinda realize working with your ex sucks
>>14077692 Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill
>>14077698 CT published the "anti-vaxx" playbook that reveals their strategy to combat "covid vaxx hesitency"
>>14077701 Fort Lauderdale accepts proposal for Elon Musk's Tesla beach tunnel
>>14077735 ARIZONA AUDIT: Ballots and Machines Secured at Wesley Bolin Building for Continued Forensic Analysis
>>14077741 Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to Georgia Voting Law
>>14077747 President Trump is joining with the Constitutional Litigation Partnership
>>14077768 This actually Gen Flynn on telegram
>>14077781 "Dr." Fauci to vaccine-hesitant Americans "Get over it" (Cap 0 :50)
>>14074452, >>14074484, >>14074587, >>14074629 CENSORSHIP BY PROXY
>>14077885, >>14077887 PF Report
>>14077896 PDJT statement: Shot heard round the world, or Haitian President ref?
>>14077906 CodeMonkey Regarding GETTR, and Trump possible return to Twitter?
>>14079667 #17813
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
Previously Collected Notables
>>14075441 #17810, >>14079080 #17811,
>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809
>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806
>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803
>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800
>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797
>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794
>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791
>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784
>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786
>>14051120 #17780, >>14053874 #17781, >>14053872 #17782
>>14048813 #17777, >>14050311 #17778, >>14050352 #17779
Notables Aggregators: https://qnotables.com
>>13685931 Q Research Notables #7
#14081157 at 2021-07-08 17:26:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17818: The 'No Rodents EBAKE' Edition
Globals
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>>14068935, >>14068945, >>14068986 Sgt. Babyfist admits to being the person that threatened to kill BV + BV family.
>>14056282, >>14056297, >>14056336, >>14056472, >>14056545, >>14056587, >>14056630, >>14059295, >>14059460, >>14059665, >>14059749, >>14061470 Proof-positive that the shills are all using a VPS/VPN to share IP addresses and attack the board.
>>14061867, >>14061869, >>14061879, >>14061886, >>14061927, >>14061929,Shill Tactics 101Educate yourself on your enemies
>>14056718, >>14056728, >>14061958,MJ12 / B / Ingersoll Lockwood / babyfister team is a Larping Conjob trying to take the board
NOTABLES Are NOT Endorsements
#17815
>>14078740, >>14078771, >>14078791, >>14078859, >>14078859 DONALD J. TRUMP, the Forty-Fifth President of the United States, LINDA CUADROS AND AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF THE CLASS, Plaintiffs, v. TWITTER, INC., and JACK DORSEY, Defendants (34 pages)
>>14078755 Relevant to Epstein's Sundial
>>14078796 Antino Mugica, Sky king repost, elections, corruption, RR on the case (Cap 2:38)
>>14078801, >>14078527 (pb), >>14079366, >>14079396 Dismissed, So Ordered. Rusty Shackleford (58:37)
>>14078836 RT Most Americans, including nearly a third of Democrats, don't think Biden's fulfilling duties of president
>>14078847, >>14078854, >>14078853, >>14078843, >>14078885 Japan to declare state of emergency in Tokyo 2 weeks before Olympics
>>14078856 $1 billion worth of illegal marijuana in the largest bust in Los Angeles
>>14078886 Babbit - What Is The Truth?
>>14078789, >>14078958, >>14078985, >>14078797 Follow the creek down to 104 MEANWHILE AT THE SUEZ CANAL 38
>>14078306 lb New Anonymous video 7/6/21 on child trafficking
>>14079050 WHO are they the Hidden Hand of, or for?
>>14079129 The research lab was " la quinta columna" or Fifth Column Q knew 8/20/2020 1 year ago almost
>>14079183 Palestinian kids sent by Israeli handlers to beg on roads in the north
>>14079264 American Thinker: So, it's true: Tucker Carlson got the General Mike Flynn treatment
>>14079279, >>14079473 Journalist Matt Lee OBLITERATES State Dept. Ned Price & His Gaslighting (1:11)
>>14079367 Haiti... a lot of shit is going on in Haiti...
>>14079377 America's Frontline Doctors are seeking plaintiffs who have had their pharmacist refuse to fill their valid prescription for hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin
>>14079099, >>14079112, >>14079116 Mini Bun Fed Reverse Repo Rate, Manufactured Crisis 101
>>14079386 CODE MONKEY DROPS MESSAGE FROM MacAfee's wife?
>>14079394 PDJT statement: The Fake News and Big Tech (and Dems!) coordinated attack on the millions of people in our Country
>>14079395 PDJT statement: ICYMI: "Hunter Biden complained that 'half his salary' went on paying Joe's bills"
>>14079433 Jovenel Moise: Haiti police gun down four suspects after assassination of president
>>14079439 DO NOT TAKE THE TEST.
>>14079445 Tucker Carlson Discusses Report Confirming NSA Spying
>>14079466 Michigan state auditor to review nursing home COVID-19 deaths under Whitmer
>>14079469 Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs seeks probe of Trump allies
>>14079488 Insane MSNBC Pundit Says Jan 6 Was Worse Than 9/11 total clown
>>14079513 PA Asks For Full Forensic Election Audit
>>14079520 #17815
#17814
>>14077971, >>14077984 Former President Donald Trump's latest legal team includes a Washington, D.C., lawyer who made his name filing personal injury claims in the 1980s and 1990s, and a Connecticut attorney who represented the estate of O.J. Simpson's slain wife.
>>14077972 @INDOPACOM U.S. @PacificMarines with @31stMeu conduct night raids to enhance interoperability
>>14077994, >>14078008, >>14078051, >>14078496 Haiti is under Martial Law
>>14078010 real POTUS on tv
>>14078022 Rudy Giuliani: If the Democrats and Crooked Media are ignoring the ONLY shooting in the Capitol on Jan. 6th, there must be something wrong with it.
>>14078032 Report Says Blackwater Founder Had $10Bln Plan to Develop Weapons, Create Private Army in Ukraine
>>14078040 Tesla's car burns, the driver Bart Smith, is the head of the digital asset group as Susquehanna International.
>>14078043 Russia's $190 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Nearly Done Dumping Dollars
>>14078048 Dr. Fauci to vaccine-hesitant Americans: "Get over it. Get over this political statement. Just get over it and try to save the lives of yourself and your family."
>>14078069 Statement by Donald J. Trump, The Fake News and Big Tech (and Dems!) coordinated attack on the millions of people in our Country, who call the 2020 Presidential Election disgraceful and corrupt, is failing. More and more people are calling it RIGGED and STOLEN.
>>14078257, >>14078303 Tucker unmasked, vids
>>14078430, >>14078663 Biden Giving Chicago Billions to Address Mayor Lightfoot's Crime Wave
>>14078471 'Boom! Right through the head!' Trump graphically rants about the shooting of Ashli Babbitt
>>14078507 John McAfee's wife suggests Spanish authorities trying to 'cover up' husband's death in prison
>>14078527, >>14078662 in recent days theRusty Shacklefordyoutube account, dormant since Sept 2019, began posting videos again.
>>14078684 #17814
#17813
>>14077180, >>14077376 Democrat Megadonor and Hillary Pal Ed Buck Shot Drugs into Passed Out Sex Partners
>>14077194 CodeMonkey: Trump doesn't endorse GETTR.
>>14077205 TEXAS: Conservatives Slam Abbott for Refusing to Push Legislation Banning Child Sex Changes During Special Session
>>14077248, >>14077257, >>14077271, >>14077282, >>14077297, >>14077946 Save the Children Action Network is the "political advocacy arm" of Save the Children
>>14077251, >>14077393 >>14077552 Robert Malone Inventor of mRNA vaccine tech and outspoken critic of CDC rollout spoke directly to Nancy Pelosi in a 45 minute private meeting
>>14077311 Maggie's best argument is to say Trump's lawsuit is about some argument he is not making
>>14077315 The US Military Is MakingLasers That Create Voices out of Thin Air
>>14077339 Dailymail hit piece on Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn
>>14077340, >>14077353, >>14077413, >>14077367 Marine Security Guard Security Augmentation Unit deploys to US Embassy in Eswatini following civil unrest in the country
>>14077375 Seb Gorka for keks tells McConaughey where to go
>>14077404 Shall we play a game John McAfee
>>14077432, >>14077550 Tornado Just Hit Kings Bay GA Sub base Eagle Hammock RV Park
>>14077444 Chicago mayor Lightfoot asks Biden for help after bloody July 4 weekend
>>14077506, >>14077590 Public Health Act 2016 (WA) - Instrument of Authorization - Authorization to Supply or Administer a Poison [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE - Australian Defense Force] (No.2) 2021
>>14077535, >>14077625 WELL FUCK ME! I tested positive for the COVID-19. How the hell do I get HCQ quickly?
>>14077557 ATF Head says anyone uttering "hate speech" online should have all their guns confiscated by armed federal agents
>>14077607 State Patrol And Other Agencies Arrest Two For Sex Crimes
>>14077652 1,446 satellites in the past 12 months.
>>14077670 Ex-pediatrician deemed incompetent to stand trial after 98 counts of sex crime charges
>>14077691 The Gates Foundation has a plan for when Bill and Melinda realize working with your ex sucks
>>14077692 Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill
>>14077698 CT published the "anti-vaxx" playbook that reveals their strategy to combat "covid vaxx hesitency"
>>14077701 Fort Lauderdale accepts proposal for Elon Musk's Tesla beach tunnel
>>14077735 ARIZONA AUDIT: Ballots and Machines Secured at Wesley Bolin Building for Continued Forensic Analysis
>>14077741 Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to Georgia Voting Law
>>14077747 President Trump is joining with the Constitutional Litigation Partnership
>>14077768 This actually Gen Flynn on telegram
>>14077781 "Dr." Fauci to vaccine-hesitant Americans "Get over it" (Cap 0 :50)
>>14074452, >>14074484, >>14074587, >>14074629 CENSORSHIP BY PROXY
>>14077885, >>14077887 PF Report
>>14077896 PDJT statement: Shot heard round the world, or Haitian President ref?
>>14077906 CodeMonkey Regarding GETTR, and Trump possible return to Twitter?
>>14079667 #17813
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
Previously Collected Notables
>>14075441 #17810, >>14079080 #17811,
>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809
>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806
>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803
>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800
>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797
>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794
>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791
>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784
>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786
>>14051120 #17780, >>14053874 #17781, >>14053872 #17782
>>14048813 #17777, >>14050311 #17778, >>14050352 #17779
Notables Aggregators: https://qnotables.com
>>13685931 Q Research Notables #7
#14080376 at 2021-07-08 15:03:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17817: E-bake
Globals
Owner: https://gab.com/JimWatkins
BO: FastJack#1006 https://discord.gg/DG8XB4YMvz
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>>14068935, >>14068945, >>14068986 Sgt. Babyfist admits to being the person that threatened to kill BV + BV family.
>>14056282, >>14056297, >>14056336, >>14056472, >>14056545, >>14056587, >>14056630, >>14059295, >>14059460, >>14059665, >>14059749, >>14061470 Proof-positive that the shills are all using a VPS/VPN to share IP addresses and attack the board.
>>14061867, >>14061869, >>14061879, >>14061886, >>14061927, >>14061929,Shill Tactics 101Educate yourself on your enemies
>>14056718, >>14056728, >>14061958,MJ12 / B / Ingersoll Lockwood / babyfister team is a Larping Conjob trying to take the board
NOTABLES Are NOT Endorsements
#17815
>>14078740, >>14078771, >>14078791, >>14078859, >>14078859 DONALD J. TRUMP, the Forty-Fifth President of the United States, LINDA CUADROS AND AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF THE CLASS, Plaintiffs, v. TWITTER, INC., and JACK DORSEY, Defendants (34 pages)
>>14078755 Relevant to Epstein's Sundial
>>14078796 Antino Mugica, Sky king repost, elections, corruption, RR on the case (Cap 2:38)
>>14078801, >>14078527 (pb), >>14079366, >>14079396 Dismissed, So Ordered. Rusty Shackleford (58:37)
>>14078836 RT Most Americans, including nearly a third of Democrats, don't think Biden's fulfilling duties of president
>>14078847, >>14078854, >>14078853, >>14078843, >>14078885 Japan to declare state of emergency in Tokyo 2 weeks before Olympics
>>14078856 $1 billion worth of illegal marijuana in the largest bust in Los Angeles
>>14078886 Babbit - What Is The Truth?
>>14078789, >>14078958, >>14078985, >>14078797 Follow the creek down to 104 MEANWHILE AT THE SUEZ CANAL 38
>>14078306 lb New Anonymous video 7/6/21 on child trafficking
>>14079050 WHO are they the Hidden Hand of, or for?
>>14079129 The research lab was " la quinta columna" or Fifth Column Q knew 8/20/2020 1 year ago almost
>>14079183 Palestinian kids sent by Israeli handlers to beg on roads in the north
>>14079264 American Thinker: So, it's true: Tucker Carlson got the General Mike Flynn treatment
>>14079279, >>14079473 Journalist Matt Lee OBLITERATES State Dept. Ned Price & His Gaslighting (1:11)
>>14079367 Haiti... a lot of shit is going on in Haiti...
>>14079377 America's Frontline Doctors are seeking plaintiffs who have had their pharmacist refuse to fill their valid prescription for hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin
>>14079099, >>14079112, >>14079116 Mini Bun Fed Reverse Repo Rate, Manufactured Crisis 101
>>14079386 CODE MONKEY DROPS MESSAGE FROM MacAfee's wife?
>>14079394 PDJT statement: The Fake News and Big Tech (and Dems!) coordinated attack on the millions of people in our Country
>>14079395 PDJT statement: ICYMI: "Hunter Biden complained that 'half his salary' went on paying Joe's bills"
>>14079433 Jovenel Moise: Haiti police gun down four suspects after assassination of president
>>14079439 DO NOT TAKE THE TEST.
>>14079445 Tucker Carlson Discusses Report Confirming NSA Spying
>>14079466 Michigan state auditor to review nursing home COVID-19 deaths under Whitmer
>>14079469 Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs seeks probe of Trump allies
>>14079488 Insane MSNBC Pundit Says Jan 6 Was Worse Than 9/11 total clown
>>14079513 PA Asks For Full Forensic Election Audit
>>14079520 #17815
#17814
>>14077971, >>14077984 Former President Donald Trump's latest legal team includes a Washington, D.C., lawyer who made his name filing personal injury claims in the 1980s and 1990s, and a Connecticut attorney who represented the estate of O.J. Simpson's slain wife.
>>14077972 @INDOPACOM U.S. @PacificMarines with @31stMeu conduct night raids to enhance interoperability
>>14077994, >>14078008, >>14078051, >>14078496 Haiti is under Martial Law
>>14078010 real POTUS on tv
>>14078022 Rudy Giuliani: If the Democrats and Crooked Media are ignoring the ONLY shooting in the Capitol on Jan. 6th, there must be something wrong with it.
>>14078032 Report Says Blackwater Founder Had $10Bln Plan to Develop Weapons, Create Private Army in Ukraine
>>14078040 Tesla's car burns, the driver Bart Smith, is the head of the digital asset group as Susquehanna International.
>>14078043 Russia's $190 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Nearly Done Dumping Dollars
>>14078048 Dr. Fauci to vaccine-hesitant Americans: "Get over it. Get over this political statement. Just get over it and try to save the lives of yourself and your family."
>>14078069 Statement by Donald J. Trump, The Fake News and Big Tech (and Dems!) coordinated attack on the millions of people in our Country, who call the 2020 Presidential Election disgraceful and corrupt, is failing. More and more people are calling it RIGGED and STOLEN.
>>14078257, >>14078303 Tucker unmasked, vids
>>14078430, >>14078663 Biden Giving Chicago Billions to Address Mayor Lightfoot's Crime Wave
>>14078471 'Boom! Right through the head!' Trump graphically rants about the shooting of Ashli Babbitt
>>14078507 John McAfee's wife suggests Spanish authorities trying to 'cover up' husband's death in prison
>>14078527, >>14078662 in recent days theRusty Shacklefordyoutube account, dormant since Sept 2019, began posting videos again.
>>14078684 #17814
#17813
>>14077180, >>14077376 Democrat Megadonor and Hillary Pal Ed Buck Shot Drugs into Passed Out Sex Partners
>>14077194 CodeMonkey: Trump doesn't endorse GETTR.
>>14077205 TEXAS: Conservatives Slam Abbott for Refusing to Push Legislation Banning Child Sex Changes During Special Session
>>14077248, >>14077257, >>14077271, >>14077282, >>14077297, >>14077946 Save the Children Action Network is the "political advocacy arm" of Save the Children
>>14077251, >>14077393 >>14077552 Robert Malone Inventor of mRNA vaccine tech and outspoken critic of CDC rollout spoke directly to Nancy Pelosi in a 45 minute private meeting
>>14077311 Maggie's best argument is to say Trump's lawsuit is about some argument he is not making
>>14077315 The US Military Is MakingLasers That Create Voices out of Thin Air
>>14077339 Dailymail hit piece on Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn
>>14077340, >>14077353, >>14077413, >>14077367 Marine Security Guard Security Augmentation Unit deploys to US Embassy in Eswatini following civil unrest in the country
>>14077375 Seb Gorka for keks tells McConaughey where to go
>>14077404 Shall we play a game John McAfee
>>14077432, >>14077550 Tornado Just Hit Kings Bay GA Sub base Eagle Hammock RV Park
>>14077444 Chicago mayor Lightfoot asks Biden for help after bloody July 4 weekend
>>14077506, >>14077590 Public Health Act 2016 (WA) - Instrument of Authorization - Authorization to Supply or Administer a Poison [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE - Australian Defense Force] (No.2) 2021
>>14077535, >>14077625 WELL FUCK ME! I tested positive for the COVID-19. How the hell do I get HCQ quickly?
>>14077557 ATF Head says anyone uttering "hate speech" online should have all their guns confiscated by armed federal agents
>>14077607 State Patrol And Other Agencies Arrest Two For Sex Crimes
>>14077652 1,446 satellites in the past 12 months.
>>14077670 Ex-pediatrician deemed incompetent to stand trial after 98 counts of sex crime charges
>>14077691 The Gates Foundation has a plan for when Bill and Melinda realize working with your ex sucks
>>14077692 Colby would be official Wisconsin cheese under bill
>>14077698 CT published the "anti-vaxx" playbook that reveals their strategy to combat "covid vaxx hesitency"
>>14077701 Fort Lauderdale accepts proposal for Elon Musk's Tesla beach tunnel
>>14077735 ARIZONA AUDIT: Ballots and Machines Secured at Wesley Bolin Building for Continued Forensic Analysis
>>14077741 Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to Georgia Voting Law
>>14077747 President Trump is joining with the Constitutional Litigation Partnership
>>14077768 This actually Gen Flynn on telegram
>>14077781 "Dr." Fauci to vaccine-hesitant Americans "Get over it" (Cap 0 :50)
>>14074452, >>14074484, >>14074587, >>14074629 CENSORSHIP BY PROXY
>>14077885, >>14077887 PF Report
>>14077896 PDJT statement: Shot heard round the world, or Haitian President ref?
>>14077906 CodeMonkey Regarding GETTR, and Trump possible return to Twitter?
>>14079667 #17813
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
Previously Collected Notables
>>14075441 #17810, >>14079080 #17811,
>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809
>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806
>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803
>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800
>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797
>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794
>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791
>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784
>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786
>>14051120 #17780, >>14053874 #17781, >>14053872 #17782
>>14048813 #17777, >>14050311 #17778, >>14050352 #17779
Notables Aggregators: https://qnotables.com
>>13685931 Q Research Notables #7
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#14079528 at 2021-07-08 12:02:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17816: Katie Hobbs Panics, Seeking a Probe Of Trump Allies Edition
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
Previously Collected Notables
>>14075441 #17810, >>14079080 #17811,
>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809
>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806
>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803
>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800
>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797
>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794
>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791
>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784
>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786
>>14051120 #17780, >>14053874 #17781, >>14053872 #17782
>>14048813 #17777, >>14050311 #17778, >>14050352 #17779
Notables Aggregators: https://qnotables.com
>>13685931 Q Research Notables #7
#14078688 at 2021-07-08 05:30:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17815: Night Stalkers Edition
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
Previously Collected Notables
>>14075441 #17810, >>14077172 #18711
>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809
>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806
>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803
>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800
>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797
>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794
>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791
>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784
>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786
>>14051120 #17780, >>14053874 #17781, >>14053872 #17782
>>14048813 #17777, >>14050311 #17778, >>14050352 #17779
Notables Aggregators: https://qnotables.com
>>13685931 Q Research Notables #7
#14077951 at 2021-07-08 03:00:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17814: E-bake
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>>14068935, >>14068945, >>14068986 Sgt. Babyfist admits to being the person that threatened to kill BV + BV family.
>>14056282, >>14056297, >>14056336, >>14056472, >>14056545, >>14056587, >>14056630, >>14059295, >>14059460, >>14059665, >>14059749, >>14061470 Proof-positive that the shills are all using a VPS/VPN to share IP addresses and attack the board.
>>14061867, >>14061869, >>14061879, >>14061886, >>14061927, >>14061929,Shill Tactics 101Educate yourself on your enemies
>>14056718, >>14056728, >>14061958,MJ12 / B / Ingersoll Lockwood / babyfister team is a Larping Conjob trying to take the board
NOTABLES Are NOT Endorsements
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
#14077358 at 2021-07-08 01:30:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17813: Demand Audits Edition
>>14077294
Fuck you.
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>>14068935, >>14068945, >>14068986 Sgt. Babyfist admits to being the person that threatened to kill BV + BV family.
>>14056282, >>14056297, >>14056336, >>14056472, >>14056545, >>14056587, >>14056630, >>14059295, >>14059460, >>14059665, >>14059749, >>14061470 Proof-positive that the shills are all using a VPS/VPN to share IP addresses and attack the board.
>>14061867, >>14061869, >>14061879, >>14061886, >>14061927, >>14061929,Shill Tactics 101Educate yourself on your enemies
>>14056718, >>14056728, >>14061958,MJ12 / B / Ingersoll Lockwood / babyfister team is a Larping Conjob trying to take the board
NOTABLES Are NOT Endorsements
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
>>14077208 #17812
#18711
>>14075527 UPDATE: Haitian First Lady Arrives In South Florida, Rushed To Hospital After Being Shot Several Times During Husband's Assassination
>>14075539 Law Professor: It's Clear 'Hunter Biden Was Selling Access and Influence' and Joe Was Aware
>>14075566 Leaked Thai Memo Fuels Fear of Chinese Vaccinations
>>14075638 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Airport
>>14075669 Massive explosion in Dubai
>>14075705 "How Old Are You? 14?" Biden Asks Little Girl if She's a Teenager During Tour of Child Development Center in Illinois (VIDEO)
>>14075719 'NO TRESPASSING' - Lawmaker Says Vaccine Harassers Can Be Charged
>>14075748 Straight out of the AJ playbook. imagine that
>>14075774 Scoop: Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim
>>14075805 The fact is 12 years of education is no longer enough to compete in the 21st Century.
>>14075825 twat - An NSA spokesman declined to comment and referred Axios back to the agency's earlier, carefully-worded, statement. In other words, the NSA is denying the targeting of Carlson but is not denying that his communications may have been incidentally collected.
>>14075833 illuminatti faggotry
>>14075840 'Not Unpatriotic': Air Force Academy Professor Embraces Teaching CRT To Military Cadets
>>14075876 Zuckerberg and Democrats worked hand in glove with the CCP to rig the elections and usurp the will of the American people
>>14075896 TAKE DRUGS NOW Soothing the symptoms of anxiety with graphene oxide
>>14075939 JUST IN - "Lamda" was yesterday, today it's the California "Epsilon" strain of #COVID19 that may be evading vaccines, according to researchers at the University of Washington and San Fransisco-based Vir Biotechnology Laboratory.
>>14076138 9000!!!
>>14076204 LIN WOOD ALL IN!!!
>>14076231 Upstate New York weapons facility on lockdown with person barricaded inside
>>14076259 THE NARRATIVE IS FALLING APART WITH VACCINES AND VARIANTS, PLEASE BUY MUH VACCINE, MEMED IT FOR KEKS !!
>>14076274 1527. Agreement Between The FBI And The Secret Service
>>14076293 songbirds dying....and it's not epsteen or haiti president....it is a bird
>>14076330 - skeptical - Buffoonery Abounds as Adam Schiff Accidentally Proves GOP Right About Focus of Capitol Riots Committee
>>14076370 Nine Countries Reject Global Minimum Tax Deal, Sending It Down Rocky Road to Completion
>>14077172 #18711
#17810
>>14074729 Pedophiles in the news - 7 July 21
>>14074736 telegraph: Britain's biggest microchip factory sold to Chinese-owned tech firm
>>14074761 globalresearch: The Dirty War on Syria: Washington Supports the Islamic State (ISIS)
>>14074779, >>14074958 Boatfag reports
>>14074795 Sputnik: Moderna Launches Flu Vaccine Trial, Targets Single Jab For Multiple Diseases
>>14074810 BBC: LGB people 'more likely to have mental health issues'
>>14074811 ZH: Japan Orders 4th Tokyo State Of Emergency Likely Barring Spectators From Olympics
>>14074825, >>14074843 Sputnik: Haiti president Moise was killed by foreigners, preliminary assessment shows
>>14074827 CT: Interesting Political Attendee Offered Invitation to Elitist Sun Valley Summit of Billionaire Tech and Media Moguls
>>14074833 Thehill: The state of Virginia has removed a statue of former Gov. Harry Byrd Sr. (D), a segregationist, from its Capitol Square.
>>14074857 NTD: Haitian Ambassador: Attack Was By 'Commandos'
>>14074871 NTD: On the CCP's Centennial, 380 Million People Have Already Quit the Party and Its Organizations
>>14074887 NYP: Twitter suspends professor over posts mocking China's Xi Jinping
>>14074893 NTD: Alabama cop allegedly drugged, raped woman he met on dating site
>>14074914 Plane crashes in the DR.
>>14074918 Epoch: Pennsylvania Senate Chairman Initiates Forensic Probe of 2020, 2021 Elections
>>14074945 TheBlaze: Texas judge denies US citizen due process rights, sends her before Islamic Sharia tribunal instead
>>14074964 RT: US Air Force Academy professor draws flak for op-ed urging military academies to teach 'critical race theory'
>>14075000 occrp: Interpol - CyberCriminal 'Dr Hex' Caught in Morocco
>>14075048 JTN: Rep. Jordan releases agenda to take on Big Tech, hold it accountable for censorship
>>14075052 TOI : Israeli arrested over alleged serious national security crimes
>>14075076 CT: This year … there was only one 2024 political candidate invited … former South Carolina Governor and former U.N. Ambassador, Nikki Haley. Go figure.
>>14075088, >>14075105, >>14075246 vid: Major explosion and fire at Jebel Ali Port, Dubai, UAE.
>>14075112 news.au: 'Further action': 110 Sydney suburbs urged to stay home due to virus concerns
>>14075135 news.au: Sydney sex teacher Monica Young jailed for assaulting teen student
>>14075139 GP: State Rep. Robert Sutherland Announces Public Hearings on Election Integrity Issues in Washington State
>>14075151 TehranTimes: Explosions in Tehran
>>14075168 BNO: Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries shot
>>14075187 Anon noms Children's Defense Fund dig
>>14075222 SMH: Sydney-based judge harassed two young women, inquiry finds
>>14075252, >>14075298, >>14075310, >>14075358 Planefag reports
>>14075299 DOJ: Former "Chairman" of Massachusetts Latin Kings Crown Council Sentenced for Racketeering Conspiracy
>>14075363 GP: 'NO TRESPASSING' - Lawmaker Says Vaccine Harassers Can Be Charged
>>14075415 Detroitnews: The state auditor general will conduct a review to determine the accuracy of Michigan's data pertaining to COVID-related deaths at long-term care facilitie
>>14075429 CNN: Federal judge largely faults Air Force for 2017 Texas church shooting
>>14075441 #17810
+=Previously Collected Notables==
>>14073671 #17807, >>14074052 #17808, >>14074651 #17809
>>14070831 #17804, >>14071402 #17805, >>14072206 #17806
>>14074359 #17801, >>14069091 #17802, >>14069849 #17803
>>14066074 #17798, >>14066621 #17799, >>14067479 #17800
>>14064825 #17795, >>14064559 #17796, >>14065009 #17797
>>14061095 #17792, >>14061801 #17793, >>14062550 #17794
>>14058477 #17789, >>14059395 #17790, >>14060123 #17791
>>14056777 #17787, >>14057642 #17788, >>14061318 #17784
>>14053496 #17783, >>14055165 #17785, >>14055987 #17786
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#14077208 at 2021-07-08 01:14:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17813: Demand Audits Edition
#17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail...and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded...Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
#14077013 at 2021-07-08 00:48:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17812: Moar Memes Edition
notables 17812
>>14076392 Raytheon goes woke: America's second largest defense firm tells staff to 'identify their privilege' and 'give those with marginalized identities the floor during meetings', leaked 'anti-racist' training manual reveals
>>14076398 John Kerry Flouts Mask Mandate at Logan Airport
>>14076428 Former Planned Parenthood CEO: Vaccination Not 'Individual Decision'
MY BODY MY CHOICE!!!
>>14076445 FAMILY BATTLE Biden says Hunter got addiction 'disease from mommy and me' in texts as 5 family members revealed to have been to rehab
>>14076447 Hillary Clinton Claims Election Integrity Bills Are Move Toward 'White Supremacist Authoritarianism'
>>14076449 Slick Ric Grenell!!! where you been nigger?
>>14076461 Sky News Shows Taliban Seizing Abandoned US Bases & "Treasure Trove" Of Weapons, Ammo
>>14076493 Lincoln Project Hires Former Aide to Prominent Democratic Perverts
>>14076505 Danny Trejo Says Charles Manson Once Hypnotized Him in Jail…and ate his asshole
>>14076517 Scientists who rejected lab-leak theory publish second Lancet letter doubling down on claims
>>14076522 Ship Catches Fire, Causing Massive Explosion That Shakes Dubai
>>14076536 1/6 Photos, Videos Show Potential Undercover Feds Participate In Violence, Assault Trump Supporters Trying To De-Escalate
>>14076545collected noted for #18711
>>14076548 China's Gene Giant Harvests Data From Millions of Women
>>14076561 Obama's 'Voter Protection Director' Has a New Gig Lobbying on Behalf of the Chinese Communist Party
>>14076569 Brazilians break in and wreck a GeoEngineering HAARP facility!
>>14076609 Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in D.C., weeks after similar action in New York
>>14076665 Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
>>14076666 Pepe quads check'd
>>14076673 OAN's Natalie Harp on Senator Mitch McConnell: "He Actively Sabotaged the Justice Department from Investigating the Crime of the Century"
>>14076721 Here was Joy Reid promoting the belief that CRT critics are Q-Anon people
>>14076731 Alleged assassins of Haitian President Moise taken into custody, communications minister says
>>14076782 Joe Biden Saying Haiti 'Doesn't Matter' in 1994 Clip Resurfaces After Moise Assassination
>>14076818 Randi Weingarten Has Denied a 'Woke' Infiltration of Classrooms. Now She Is Vowing To Defend the Right To Teach It.
>>14076833 Monica Petersen On Nov 13th, 2016, she was said to have committed suicide while in Haiti.She was investigating child trafficking linked to the Clinton Foundation.
>>14076866 Discovery's 'Shark Week' kicks off its 33rd year https://trib.al/ZpWP1ui
>>14076891 USA surrounded…Tropical storm East Coast, Fire whirls West coast.
>>14076966 Army twat
notes @ 612
#14076665 at 2021-07-08 00:04:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17812: Moar Memes Edition
Jacob Zuma: Former president hands himself in to South African police
https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1412896263838867462
#13511825 at 2021-04-25 21:10:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17113: They Will Fight But You Are Ready Edition
South African COVID-19 Jab Contract Bails Out Firm That Funded President's Election
South Africa's temporary halt on giving the US-developed Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine as part of a mass clinical trial did not stop negotiations for a huge supply contract with local licensed producer Aspen Pharmacare - throwing a lifeline to its unused $210-million plant on the Indian Ocean coast.
The South African government's contract for millions of COVID-19 jabs has bailed out a firm which donated to the president's leadership campaign.
Aspen Pharmacare senior executive for strategic trade, Stavros Nicolaou, said the company would complete a first batch of 1.1 million doses of the license-produced, US-developed Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the weekend.
Financial analysts told the South African Sunday Times that the deal was a lifeline to Aspen's factory in the Coega Special Economic Zone in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape province. The plant was built in 2017 at a cost of 3 billion rand (£151 million, $210 million) with the intention to make anaesthetics, but had not begun production.
Absa Asset Management portfolio manager Carmen Mpelwane said Aspen had been in "the right place, with the right facilities at the right time", while Sasfin Wealth senior equity analyst Alec Abraham said the contract would be hugely significant for the firm, "at least covering the fixed costs" of the new plant.
Neither Aspen or the government have revealed the agreed-upon price for the vaccines or how much profit the company will make from the deal for 31 million doses.
Political Favours?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been accused of favouring Aspen and J&J over rivals such as Russia's Gamaleya Institute - developers of the Sputnik V vaccine - and the Serum Institute of India (SII), which makes the AstraZeneca 'Oxford' jab under license. China, another member of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies, has also yet to secure South African orders for its Sinovac and other vaccines.
Aspen and Nicolaou donated millions of rand between them to Ramaphosa's 2017 campaign for leadership of the ruling African National Congress, which placed him as successor to then-President Jacob Zuma. ANC leaders do not customarily spend significant sums on campaigning for internal party elections.
https://sputniknews.com/africa/202104251082720140-south-african-covid-19-jab-contract-bails-out-firm-that-funded-presidents-election/
#7230517 at 2019-07-28 18:10:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9250: Not the law & order on the tube! Army paralegals prepared! Edition
>>7230347
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1031830011710451712.html
Charles Tawil is a close friend of former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, and attended the World Economic Forum with him in 2008.
On May 7, 2013, Charles Tawil and Tetah Aloni attended a meeting with Presidnet Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, officials from Deutsche Bank led by Boaz Swarty and Raymond O'Leory at the InterContinental Hotel in London, England.
Back in October 1998, Charles Tawil was an account executive at Arab Printing Press (APP).
#6475968 at 2019-05-12 01:40:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8281: We Have It All Edition
New research from think tank Eunomix Business & Economics found that South Africa endured one of the worst declines over the past 12 years for a country not at war.
The country's performance on a range of social, economic, and governance measures deteriorated more than any other nation not involved in an international or civil conflict, it said.
An index of security, governance, prosperity, and welfare indicators showed South Africa slumped to 88th out of 178 nations last year from 31st in 2006.
The Johannesburg-based advisory company said the decline is likely to continue as South Africa is grappling with the consequences of nine years of worsening corruption and policy paralysis under former President Jacob Zuma.
The fragility of the economy may also limit the tenure of his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, who faces his first national election May 8, Eunomix said.
"There is the strongest likelihood of him being a one-term president," the head of Eunomix, Claude Baissac, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. "He is starting with a very weak economy, the weakest of any president since Mandela. He is also starting with a fairly weak hand from a political standpoint."
Only conflict-torn countries such as Mali, Ukraine, and Venezuela have had a worse time in the past decade than South Africa, said Eunomix.
According to the think tank, the major reason of the nation's massive decline is the unsustainable structure of South Africa's economy where economic power is largely held by an elite that wields little political influence.
"Economic policy serves narrow interests, thus generating insufficient and unfairly allocated growth. Populism, rather than developmentalism, is an easy temptation, with the economy a tug-of-war between mutually distrustful groups."
Eunomix also said that while Ramaphosa spent his first 14 months in power pledging a crackdown on corruption, an end to policy uncertainty and a drive to reform loss-making state-owned companies, his political weakness will hinder progress.
"South Africa's state performance peaked in 2007, that year its economy and governance were at their best. Since then the state has experienced continuous decline in all core indicators of performance."
"The developmental state project has failed. South Africa is now a fragile state, expected to continue to weaken," Eunomix said.https://www.rt.com/business/456816-south-africa-worst-decline/
this with embedded demon governance, we will see this here in CONUS in demon led urban centers..
#6087243 at 2019-04-07 20:14:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7785: FISA Abuse, Lying, and Leaking Edition
Swazi King tells Ramaphosa he has Gadaffi's 'missing millions' that were hidden at Nkandla
In 2014, it was revealed that as much as R2 trillion in US dollars as well as hundreds of tons of gold and at least six million carats of diamonds in assets belonging to the people of Libya was been kept secretly in various warehouses across the country (South Africa).
https://twitter.com/News24/status/1114946629075861504
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2019-04-07-Jacob-Zuma-hid-muammar-gaddafis-missing-millions-at-nkandla/
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/gaddafi-money-in-south-africa-2019-4
#4089940 at 2018-11-30 23:37:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5205: Don't Feed Shills After Midnight Edition
South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge today brought by a group representing white farmers against President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans for land expropriation without compensation.
Land is a hot-button issue in South Africa where racial inequality remains entrenched more than two decades after the end of apartheid when millions of the black majority were dispossessed of their land by a white minority.
Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma in February, has made land redistribution a flagship policy as he seeks to unite the fractured ruling African National Congress (ANC) and win public support ahead of an election next year.
In its legal challenge, Afriforum questioned the legality of a key parliamentary committee report which recommended a change to the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6446421/White-farmers-legal-fight-stop-land-given-black-South-Africans-without-compensation-thrown-out.html
#3413725 at 2018-10-09 22:01:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4327: Shenzhen Foe or Fren Edition
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45796747
South Africa's finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has quit after admitting meeting members of the Gupta family, who have been accused of corruption.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said he accepted the resignation "in the interests of good governance".
The Guptas have been accused of working with former President Jacob Zuma to secure government contracts and determine cabinet appointments.
Both the Guptas and Mr Zuma deny the allegations.
Mr Nene has been replaced by former central bank chief Tito Mboweni. This is the fifth change of finance minister since 2014.
Last week, Mr Nene told a judge-led inquiry into the alleged influence of the Guptas, known as the Zondo commission, about meetings that he had previously denied.
There is no suggestion that he had done anything illegal in meeting the businessmen during his stint as deputy finance minister and finance minister in Mr Zuma's government, but he has been under intense political pressure to step down since making the admission.
Mr Zuma sacked him as finance minister in 2015, but he was reappointed by the current president in February.
#2731439 at 2018-08-25 10:49:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3449: Two Scoops, Two Genders, Two Terms, and P = Pope Edition
Soros, South Africa, Land Grab and the usual Fuckery
This fucker's at it again…why is he still breathing?
Reclaim the City, a Soros-front.
https://reclaimthecity.org.za/
Soros-funded Ndifuna Ukwazi, landgrab.
https://freewestmedia.com/2017/03/27/soros-activists-promoting-landgrab-in-cape-town/
Open Society Foundation for Southern Africa
"We are part of the Open Society Foundations network which includes these other African organisations: OSISA, OSIWA, and OSIEA."
https://www.osf.org.za/
South Africa: The Coup.
George Soros has been involved in African relations since at least the late 1980's. According to his Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, the group "collaborates with other organizations on issues surrounding law, democracy building, human rights, economic development, education, media, access to technology & information." Because of Soros' desire to "promote democracy," he has influenced many elections and regime changes by utilizing several tools at his disposal. This year he successfully ousted former South African President Jacob Zuma after years of targeting him.
Soros and his partner Sipho Piyana, chairman of gold-mining company AngloGold Ashanti, put together the "Save South Africa" movement. This movement pledged opposition to the former President leading to widespread protests throughout the country.
https://www.fulcrumnews.com/blog/2018/4/3/george-soros-a-coup-against-the-republic
Gun Grabs:
The Gun Free South Africa board comprises several people with external interests:
Ronald Menoe: Head of Stakeholder Management, Corruption Watch
Angelica Pino: Programme Director Community Action and Knowledge Management, Sonke Gender Justice
Richard Matzopoulos: Specialist Scientist, Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council
Adele Kirsten: Works for the Institute of Security Studies (ISS)
GFSA, Corruption Watch, Sonke Gender Justice, and the ISS are all beneficiaries of a common charity: the Open Society Foundation of South Africa (OSF-SA).
https://paratus.info/2017/12/05/gun-free-south-africa/
Related?
https://www.businessinsider.com/invest-in-farmland-2011-2?IR=T
It's all about the land
Destabilize a country, buy it for peanuts…they don't give a fuck.
https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/5255-betting-the-farm
https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/5867-some-large-investors-views-on-farmland
The list of Soro's land grabs.
https://www.farmlandgrab.org/cat/show/352?page=3
Other fingers in the Africa Pie…
Obama/Clintons/Soros/Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild
https://freebeacon.com/politics/star-of-obama-africa-summit-tied-to-george-soros-clintons/
It's not just Soros…All the names we've been digging are involved in this.
They seem to want to control food production.
#2730404 at 2018-08-25 05:44:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3448: Friday Night Diggin' Edition
>>2730304
JULIUS MELAMA, real nice guy…
Julius Sello Malema (born 3 March 1981) is a Member of Parliament and the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a far-left South African political party, which he founded in July 2013.[2][3] He previously served as President of the African National Congress Youth Leaguefrom 2008 to 2012. Malema was a member of the ANC until his expulsion from the party in April 2012. He occupies a notably controversial position in South African public and political life, having risen to prominence with his support for ANC president, and later President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma. He was described by both Zuma[4] and the Premier of Limpopo Province as the "future leader" of South Africa.[5] Less favourable portraits paint him as a "reckless populist" with the potential to destabilise South Africa and to spark racial conflict.[6]
Malema was convicted of hate speech in March 2010[7][8][9] and again in September 2011.[10] In November 2011 he was found guilty of sowing divisions within the ANC and, in conjunction with his two-year suspended sentence in May 2010, was suspended from the party for five years.[11] In 2011, he was again convicted of HATE SPEECH after singing "Dubula iBunu" ("SHOOT THE BOER"), a decision upheld on appeal, leading to his expulsion from the ANC.[12]
In June 2018, Malema gained additional notoriety when he was asked whether he was responsible for organizing gang members to murder white farmers, and responded "Maybe. Maybe not."[18]
Reports regarding Malema's possible involvement in state tenders (contracts)[33] began appearing in November 2009.[103] Questions about his personal lifestyle were raised by the South African media.[104][105][106][107][108][109] Some analysts suggest this is also known as being a tenderpreneur, which is the early emergence of a form of kleptocracy, or predatory behaviour by a clique in the ruling elite, to generate personal wealth by capturing resources.[110]
On 26 September 2012, Malema was charged with money laundering, relating to his awarding of lucrative government contracts in Limpopoin return for an alleged R4 million in kickbacks.[131] After a hearing at the court in Polokwane, he was granted bail of R10 000.[132]
In 2013 Malema faced charges of tax evasion to the amount of R16 million after it was revealed that he was linked to companies that obtained other lucrative contracts from the Limpopo government.[128] The case was based on payments made to the Ratanang Family Trust, but Malema reached a compromise with the revenue service in 2014. In 2016 the revenue service claimed that Malema breached the terms of the agreement, and that he was owing R18 million for arrears on his taxes, besides R2 million in interest for the 2005 to 2011 tax years. Malema countered that the Limpopo property deal did not go through and that he had settled all his debts based on the 2014 agreement, and owed nothing.[133]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Malema
#1551018 at 2018-05-26 22:23:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1949: Changuard
Trevor Andrew Manuel (born 31 January 1956) is a South African politician who served in the government of South Africa as Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2009, during the presidencies of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, and subsequently as Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission from 2009 to 2014 under former President Jacob Zuma.[1]
Trevor Manuel was born in Kensington (Cape Town), during the apartheid era and was classified as a Cape Coloured. His mother, Philma van Söhnen, was a garment factory worker, and his father, Abraham James Manuel, was a draughtsman.[2][3] According to Manuel's "family legend", his great-grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant; he had married an indigenous woman.[4][clarify]
Manuel grew up and was educated in the city. He matriculated from the Harold Cressy High School[5] in 1973 and studied Civil and Structural Engineering, and later, during his detention, law.
Manuel entered public life in 1981 as the General Secretary of the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee, after which he became a National Executive member of the United Democratic Front (UDF). In September 1985 Manuel was detained and then banned until 31 August 1990. However, Manuel's ban was lifted on 25 March 1986 after it was ruled that it was not in line with the provisions of the Internal Security Act. On 15 August 1986 Manuel was again detained under the emergency regulations for almost two years until July 1988. He was released from detention under severe restrictions but promptly detained again in September 1988, this time until February 1989. His release came with stringent restriction orders.
Resignation and re-appointment
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (January 28, 2009. Davos)
On 23 September 2008, Trevor Manuel resigned as Finance Minister along with a number of other cabinet members after the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki, unsettling the financial market, but it was subsequently announced that he would be willing to continue to serve under the next president. Manuel explained the resignation as a principled gesture, and he expressed surprise at the market's reaction.[10] He was retained in his post in the cabinet of Mbeki's successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, which was announced on 25 September.[11]
Public spat with Jimmy Manyi
On 2 March 2011, Manuel published an open letter to Jimmy Manyi,[12] the spokesperson for the South African government, in which he accused him of racism and compared him to Hendrik Verwoerd. This letter was precipitated by the remarks that Manyi made about a change in the labour laws he had proposed in his previous position of Director-General of Labour. These changes affect the racial quota that employers in South Africa are to apply to their work force. Previously they needed to reflect the ethnic composition of the local community; this would now be changed to the composition of the country as a whole. Such a change would have severe consequences for the Coloured community of the Western Cape as well as for the Indian community of KwaZulu-Natal. For the former only 10% of jobs would be available in regions where they form a 60% majority. Manyi claimed that there was a "surplus" of Coloureds in the West-Cape and that this 'problem' should be solved by making the members of this community spread over other provinces-a solution similar to that of relocation under apartheid.
Manuel's sharp reaction to Manyi's remarks provoked an equally sharp response from Paul Ngobeni, a prominent backer of Jacob Zuma and John Hlophe.
#1368667 at 2018-05-11 06:16:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1716: Future To Prove Past
>>1368097
Could a secret U.S. government spacecraft be bound for a rendezvous with a spy satellite or even the International Space Station?
Little is known about the mission called Zuma that is awaiting launch from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX put the mission on hold last week to review an issue that came up in tests of Falcon nose cones, and no new launch date had been set as of Saturday.
The mission's name probably has nothing to do with South African President Jacob Zuma, in a nod to Elon Musk's roots in that country, or with Zuma the chocolate lab from the children's cartoon "Paw Patrol," as some have guessed or kidded.
But speculation about one intriguing scenario would link Zuma to another classified national security mission SpaceX launched earlier this year for the National Reconnaissance Office.
#980968 at 2018-04-10 10:49:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1221: The Grey Gale Edition!
http:// www. enca.com/south-africa/Zuma-indictment-shows-common-purpose-bribes-for-political-protection
DURBAN - The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)'s indictment of former president Jacob Zuma states there was an illegal "common purpose" relationship between Zuma, his convicted financial advisor Shabir Shaik and French-owned arms dealer Thales South Africa, to pay and accept bribes for "political protection".
The NPA has released the 89-page document.
The indictment shows accused number one, Zuma, is facing one count of racketeering, two counts of corruption, one count of money laundering and 12 counts of fraud. Accused number two, Thales - represented by Christine Guerrier - is facing one count of racketeering, two counts of corruption and one count of money-laundering.
Zuma and Guerrier appeared briefly before the Durban High Court on Friday where the matter was postponed until June 8.
The indictment said Zuma held "several high ranking offices in the provincial and national executive and in the African National Congress (ANC)" at the time of the alleged bribes, and effectively abused the trust and power of his position to enrich himself.
The indictment said that "accused 1 (Zuma), 2 (Thales),… Shaik and the companies comprising the Nkobi group (controlled by Shaik), formed a common purpose to bribe accused 1 through an ongoing series of payments from Shaik and the Nkobi Group". It said this relationship was formed on or near October 25, 1995, until July 1, 2005, with 783 payments made totalling R4,072,499.85.
It said one of the red flags identifying the relationship between Shaik and Zuma was in February 1999 when an amount of over R1.20million was irregularly written off in the Nkobi accounting records. Included in the amount were various payments made to Zuma of over R283,000 as a loan.
The indictment said these payments made "no legitimate business sense" nor could any of Shaik's companies afford them as they were "exceeding bank overdrafts and thus effectively borrowing money from banks at the prevailing interest rates to make the payments, interest-free".
The indictment said even if the schedule of payments could be regarded as loans, they still amounted to benefits, as they were provided interest-free, without security and that Zuma's ability to repay the money was "seriously questionable".
The indictment mentions how, in 1999, Zuma intervened and assisted Shaik, the Nkobi Group and Thales Group to "resolve a dispute… regarding Nkobi's participation" in African Defence Systems, which shortly thereafter landed a multi-billion rand contract from the state to provide combat suites to Corvettes supplied to the navy. The contract was worth R1.3-billion, with R450-million going directly to ADS and the balance going to subcontractors.
The indictment said this intervention showed an instance where Nkobi obtained the assistance of Zuma for the group's survival and where Thales was assured of "approval" by the deputy president of the ANC, for its choice of a South African BEE partner.
Under a section called "specific corruption", it states that between 1999 and 2000, Thales, Shaik and Zuma "conspired" to pay Zuma "R500,000 per annum as a bribe in exchange for Zuma's protection" from any investigation.
Thales, using an offshore company in Mauritius, made payments to Shaik's companies under the guise of "service provider agreement" which was then funnelled to Zuma, totalling R1-million.
The court heard on Friday that Zuma's legal team would be bringing a review application - possibly by May 15 - on the decision to prosecute him. Depending on the outcome, an application could be made for a permanent stay of prosecution.
#918145 at 2018-04-06 12:16:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1141: April Showers Bring May Flowers
Some news article titles….Do you see a pattern??
1) Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye sentenced to 24 years for Corruption
2) South Africa ex-President Jacob Zuma charged with corruption
3) Ex-president Lula can be jailed for corruption, Brazil's top court rules
4) Cases against two ex-presidents of South Korea fits an alarming
5) France ex-president to stand trial for corruption
6) Peru's new president vows to tackle endemic corruption
7) Arrest warrant issued for ex-president Lee Myung-bak over …
I can't wait until Obama and Clinton's name is one of these titles! :)
#812259 at 2018-03-27 22:03:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #1006: Couldve Been An Emergency! Edition
>>812243
Hmmmm, I feat that The Thing in BiBi is as Jacob Zuma in South Africa?
#775695 at 2018-03-24 05:18:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #962: Bring the Thunder Edition
>>775623
That must be thought-out. We know that Bibi did terrible things., but I don't know if his resign can worst the things in the Middle east. As Jacob Zuma in South Africa.
#757194 at 2018-03-22 19:36:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #938: EU Swamp, ME Peace Edition
>>757054
>>757073
One guy is from SK.
The other guy is:
Former South African President Jacob Zuma will stand trial on 16 charges of corruption, state prosecutors said on Friday, in an extraordinary development that could see the recently ousted leader land in jail.
National Prosecuting Authority director Shaun Abrahams announced Mr Zuma would face 16 counts of corruption, money laundering, racketeering and fraud related to a government arms deal in the late 1990s.
https:// www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/16/Zuma-charged-corruption-arms-deal/amp/
>Jacob Zuma
mentioned in HRC's emails.
https:// wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=Jacob+Zuma&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult
#747126 at 2018-03-21 20:34:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #925: Deep State Panic Edition
Anon on previous thread said 2 presidents resigned today. One was Peru's president. I didn't know who the other one was, so I did a duck search on "president resigns". I'm sure everyone is aware, but here is a non-comprehensive list of heads of state that have resigned in recent months:
Robert Mugabe–Zimbabwe–11/21/17
Jacob Zuma–South Africa–2/14/18
Ameena Gurib-Fakim–Mauritius–3/17/18
Htin Kyaw–Myanmar–3/21/18
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski–Peru–3/21/2018
5 in 5 months seems like a lot. Other "presidents" who have resigned:
John Skipper–ESPN–12/17
Joel Seligman–U. of Rochester–1/11/18
Lou Anna Simon–Mich. State University–1/24/2018
Wayne Pacelle–U.S. Humane Society–2/2/18
Chialin Chang–Smartphone President, HTC–2/14/18
Raj Nair–Ford Motors, North America–2/21/18
Trevor Edwards–Nike–3/16/18
Shantaram Naik–President of Goa Congress, India–3/20/18
Salah al-Sayadi–Minister of State, Yemen–3/21/2018
#687649 at 2018-03-16 19:34:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #851: Half Assed Edition
>>687079
>Jacob Zuma
mentioned in HRC's emails.
https:// wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/?q=Jacob+Zuma&mfrom=&mto=&title=¬itle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=¬o=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult
#687079 at 2018-03-16 18:43:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #851: Half Assed Edition
Former South African President Jacob Zuma will stand trial on 16 charges of corruption, state prosecutors said on Friday, in an extraordinary development that could see the recently ousted leader land in jail.
National Prosecuting Authority director Shaun Abrahams announced Mr Zuma would face 16 counts of corruption, money laundering, racketeering and fraud related to a government arms deal in the late 1990s.
https:// www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/16/Zuma-charged-corruption-arms-deal/amp/
#684854 at 2018-03-16 14:14:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #848: Thank God Its Friday (Again)
Jacob Zuma, Former South Africa Leader, Charged With Corruption
https:// www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/world/africa/Jacob-Zuma-south-africa-corruption.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
https:// twitter.com/eNCA/status/974642413397405698
#535955 at 2018-03-03 02:48:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #659: Day 6 of 10 Edition
>>535934
TIL Jacob Zuma resigned the South African Presidency on 14-FEB-18…
#417399 at 2018-02-18 13:30:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #514: Early Bird Gets The Bake Edition
A story on Daily Mail about Water.
Q said watch the water( could have multiple meanings?)
WATER WARS: Cape Town faces 'Day Zero' when the taps will be turned off as South Africa is hit by severe drought
Cape Town is suffering from an unprecedented water crisis after severe drought
Rigid water restrictions on businesses and farms have helped prevent disaster
But the moment called 'Day Zero' is approaching - when the taps are turned off
If the winter doesn't replenish resources Day Zero could be just 100 nights away
On one level, this crisis symbolises the corruption and incompetence that festered under Jacob Zuma, who finally resigned as South Africa's president last week after nine years of sleazy misrule that so tarnished the legacy of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC). Yet Cape Town also sends a warning to the world: that water is a limited resource, that climate change can have a cataclysmic impact and that even wealthy areas are not immune to its devastating effects.
This is not the first city to experience water shock, but it is the most serious. Sao Paolo in Brazil saw supplies run so low three years ago the pipes sucked up mud and the flow of water to homes was cut to twice a week. Competition for water has been cited as a factor behind Middle East conflict, while some fear the situation will only worsen as urban populations swell in global hotspots, placing unsustainable pressure on dwindling supplies.
Military strategists even talk of water, not oil, as the potential trigger for 21st Century conflicts, while the United Nations has warned water scarcity could displace 700 million people by 2030.
Even away from war zones, there are many places with fast-growing populations, inadequate infrastructure and rising demand for water as affluence increases. Melbourne in Australia says its water could run out in a decade - and even London has warned that demand is close to capacity and the city faces future supply problems.
http:// www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404117/Africas-tenth-biggest-city-facing-worrying-water-crisis.html
#391723 at 2018-02-16 01:34:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #482: Sam The Bird Sung the MK Ultra Song Edition!
What Happened with Jacob Zuma (South Africa).., it's Out?
#387472 at 2018-02-15 19:13:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #476: WaterWorld Edition!
Phillip Zuma sacked, what's he been up to,looks like this new guys popular with his anti-corruption drive, South Africa
https:// www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/15/cyril-ramaphosa-to-be-elected-president-of-south-africa-Jacob-Zuma
#384771 at 2018-02-15 13:12:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #473: You Can See Them Easily... Edition!
Q>>> Watch resignations across all platforms.
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa resigned this morning, 08:03 Local time 2-15-18
#384593 at 2018-02-15 12:30:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #473: You Can See Them Easily... Edition!
>>384576
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa resigned this morning 2-15-18 at 08:03 local time
#384507 at 2018-02-15 12:02:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #473: You Can See Them Easily... Edition!
Jacob Zuma. The President of South Africa resigned 08:03 local time 2-15-18
#384437 at 2018-02-15 11:38:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #472: Watch The Water Glass And Sea Edition!
Jacob Zuma. The president of South Africa resigned at 08:03 local time 2-1518. Today.
#382896 at 2018-02-15 07:03:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #470: Response Forthcoming Edition
>>382307
Wonder if SA President Jacob Zuma resigning today is in any way related to this…
#376806 at 2018-02-14 22:52:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #463: The Truth Is Like A LION, Prime Number Edition
South Africa's president has resigned. I believe he was the one who was calling for violence against the whites and taking their land.
http:// www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/02/14/south-africa-president-Jacob-Zuma-resigns/
#375858 at 2018-02-14 21:26:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #462: Active Shooter Drill? Edition
Jacob Zuma (South Africa) Resigned?
#375559 at 2018-02-14 21:05:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #461: When Does A Bird Sing? Edition
BBC Breaking News
Verified account @BBCBreaking
4m4 minutes ago
"I have taken the decision to resign with immediate effect" - South African President Jacob Zuma quits office
#375183 at 2018-02-14 20:33:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #461: When Does A Bird Sing? Edition
Jacob Zuma (South Africa) is tomorrow Out?
#374812 at 2018-02-14 19:53:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #460: Suspects Were Leaving NSA Gate #1 Edition
>>374645
Jacob Zuma out?
#182944 at 2018-01-27 21:45:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #222: Mourn and Murder Edition
Wikileaks:
From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2011-03-13 08:59
Subject: CONVERSATION WITH CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS
She was not as hysterical as she has been on prior conversations, but did at one point say "what are
you going to do when he returns in the company of Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte and maybe me,
mow us all down?"
I thanked her for calling and sharing her views and said that we believed that the interests of the people of Haiti would best be served if they could vote in peace and calm.
https:// wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/28480
The person MW is talking about is Former President Aristide of Haiti…interesting exchange and apparent INTERFERENCE of the State Department and Hussein Admin in Haiti's elections.
See here:
In February 2011, Aristide announced "I will return to Haiti" within days of the ruling Haitian government removing impediments to him receiving his Haitian passport.[74] On 17 March 2011, Aristide departed for Haiti from his exile in South Africa. U.S. president Barack Obama had asked South African president Jacob Zuma to delay Aristide's departure to prevent him from returning to Haiti before a presidential run-off election scheduled for Sunday. Aristide's party was barred from participating in the election, and the U.S. fear his return could be "destabilizing".[75] On Friday, 18 March 2011, he and his spouse arrived at Port-au-Prince Airport, and was greeted by thousands of supporters.[76] He told the crowd waiting at the airport: "The exclusion of Fanmi Lavalas is the exclusion of the Haitian people. In 1804, the Haitian revolution marked the end of slavery. Today, may the Haitian people end exiles and coups d'État, while peacefully moving from social exclusion to inclusion."[6]
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bertrand_Aristide
#3842 at 2018-01-09 14:40:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4: Q Research Confirmed Edition
>>3824
sounds like he set up a shadow govt
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/opinion/Jacob-Zuma-gupta-corruption.html
#3277 at 2018-01-09 11:36:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3: The Great Q Migration Edition 2nd
Jacob Zuma Foundation
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (18)
#88905 at 2021-07-28 06:23:35 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders: #417: Seeing Through the Eyes of the Frog of War Edition
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
>>88310 (Twatt) Milan ,Italy~ Police surprisingly stand down in solidarity with massive groups of protesters...
>>88319 (T.me) Some reports suggest a large group of armed assailants, with the area being evacuated.
>>88330 CNN: Segregate Unvaccinated, Make Them Pay For Tests Every Day (ZeroHedge)
>>88348 SAGE VIDEO: ILDonaldoTrumpo: Why Michelle Urgenti-Rita got booed off stage… (music by il Presidento…)
>>88357 Horrific Video Shows Teen Mob Brutally Attack New York City Firefighter Who Was Walking His Dog (thegatewaypundit)
>>88363 (GAB) Google vaccine passport protests.
>>88370 The Republican Guard, a security detail established to protect the President of France, have ALL resigned, and will no longer protect President Macron! (Mulit-sauz)
>>88388 Catturd (Twatt) The Biden regime is taking COVID so seriously, they're letting hundreds of thousands of untested illegals pour across the southern border - and transporting them all across the USA.
>>88393 How the Plague of Corruption Is Killing Mankind (articles.mercola.com)
>>88431 CDC closely tracking Monkeypox outbreak (nbc02.com)
>>88429 A 10-year-old girl has died from the plague in Colorado, officials confirm (breaking911.com)
>>88451 (Twatt) The people of France shot the presidents house of with horse shit.
>>88496 (Twatt) MOAR MSM LIES.. Thesis: This was the week that vaccinated America started to get really fed up.
>>88500 SeeBS"news" (Twatt) Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams says pandemic is "spiraling out of control again" because of unvaccinated Americans
>>88499 (Twatt) "January 6th UNMASKED!" AWESOME VIDEO!!
>>88500 SeeBS"news" (Twatt) Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams says pandemic is "spiraling out of control again" because of unvaccinated Americans
>>88541 (T.me) NY Mayor Bill de Blasio mandates Covid vaccines or weekly testing
>>88555 AndyNgo (Twatt) "F- antifa. F- you and Black Lives Matter!"
>>88556 SteveScalise (Twatt) Now Confirmed: The South American COVID-19 lambda variant is spreading in Texas.
>>88561 (Twatt) French are tearing up some gov building
>>88568 Atlanta restaurant's 'no vax, no service' sign prompts death threats: report (foxbuisiness.com)
>>88573 Jill Biden Protested At Vaccine Clinic (thepalmierireport.com)
>>88574, >>88611 Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database (All the major fag MSM outlets) [FF imminent]
>>88577 MP (GAB) From New York to LA and now the VA. I think they are going to get major pushback. The idea rank and file government employees are going to put up with this is going to be very interesting. This
>>88594, >>88595 PAIN: "PUT them in cars"? Willing people GET in cars. "Coming to a door near you". Flynn Buckle up, Patriots.
>>88600 (GAB) 100,000 French protesters chanting for Macron to resign in Paris yesterday, if it was up to mainstream media, you'd never know.
>>88617 COVID-19 Vaccine Pass Mandate Approved by French Parliament Amid Widespread Protests
>>88635 Breaking911 (Twatt) JUST IN: Former Sen. Barbara Boxer Assaulted & Robbed In Oakland
>>88717 California City Orders Vaccinated Employees To Wear Stickers If They Want To Work Without Masks (ZeroHedge)
>>88774 Urgent Plea by Doctors to India's PM: "Halt Roll-Out of COVID-19 Vaccines Now"
>>88771, >>88781, >>88787, >>88777, >>88784 CDC will recommend everyone in K-12 schools wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status - CNN
>>88817 (Twatt) BREAKING REPORT: Biden DOJ Declares COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Legal..
>>88833 RSBN (Twatt) The DOJ won't even let @mtgreenee, @RepGosar, @replouiegohmert, & @RepMattGaetz in the lobby! It is SHAMEFUL to not let these elected leaders access to a federal government building! Give us the answers!
>>88835 "Plain and simple-vaccinations are the only way out of this pandemic," Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas said in a statement. (Latimes.com)
>>88836 ZeroHedge (Twatt) *SYDNEY LOCKDOWN TO BE EXTENDED FOR 4 WEEKS THROUGH AUGUST 28
>>88839, >>88840 BREAKING: Statewide 'Flex Alert' issued for tomorrow in California as power grid threatened, residents asked to set air conditioner thermostats to 78 degrees or higher
>>88850 (Twatt) Tucker Carlson & @emeriticus Calling Out Vaccine Mandates, Big Pharma, & The Censorship Surrounding Vaccines Including The ADL Teaming Up With Paypal To Deplatform "Extremists"
>>88862 (Twatt) BLM rioter punched a police officer in the face requiring surgical repair. Punishment? Released on his own recognizance! Non-violent trespassing in Capitol on January 6th? Solitary confinement without parole! Double standard? You bet!
>>88879 TheHill (Twatt) JUST IN: House to resume mask mandate after new CDC guidance
>>88884 (Twatt) VP Harris after the CDC said even vaccinated people should wear masks in public indoor settings:
#88630 at 2021-07-26 23:07:28 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #416: Precipice? It hasn't even began yet!! Edition
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
>>88310 (Twatt) Milan ,Italy~ Police surprisingly stand down in solidarity with massive groups of protesters...
>>88319 (T.me) Some reports suggest a large group of armed assailants, with the area being evacuated.
>>88330 CNN: Segregate Unvaccinated, Make Them Pay For Tests Every Day (ZeroHedge)
>>88348 SAGE VIDEO: ILDonaldoTrumpo: Why Michelle Urgenti-Rita got booed off stage… (music by il Presidento…)
>>88357 Horrific Video Shows Teen Mob Brutally Attack New York City Firefighter Who Was Walking His Dog (thegatewaypundit)
>>88363 (GAB) Google vaccine passport protests.
>>88370 The Republican Guard, a security detail established to protect the President of France, have ALL resigned, and will no longer protect President Macron! (Mulit-sauz)
>>88388 Catturd (Twatt) The Biden regime is taking COVID so seriously, they're letting hundreds of thousands of untested illegals pour across the southern border - and transporting them all across the USA.
>>88393 How the Plague of Corruption Is Killing Mankind (articles.mercola.com)
>>88431 CDC closely tracking Monkeypox outbreak (nbc02.com)
>>88429 A 10-year-old girl has died from the plague in Colorado, officials confirm (breaking911.com)
>>88451 (Twatt) The people of France shot the presidents house of with horse shit.
>>88496 (Twatt) MOAR MSM LIES.. Thesis: This was the week that vaccinated America started to get really fed up.
>>88500 SeeBS"news" (Twatt) Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams says pandemic is "spiraling out of control again" because of unvaccinated Americans
>>88499 (Twatt) "January 6th UNMASKED!" AWESOME VIDEO!!
>>88500 SeeBS"news" (Twatt) Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams says pandemic is "spiraling out of control again" because of unvaccinated Americans
>>88541 (T.me) NY Mayor Bill de Blasio mandates Covid vaccines or weekly testing
>>88555 AndyNgo (Twatt) "F- antifa. F- you and Black Lives Matter!"
>>88556 SteveScalise (Twatt) Now Confirmed: The South American COVID-19 lambda variant is spreading in Texas.
>>88561 (Twatt) French are tearing up some gov building
>>88568 Atlanta restaurant's 'no vax, no service' sign prompts death threats: report (foxbuisiness.com)
>>88573 Jill Biden Protested At Vaccine Clinic (thepalmierireport.com)
>>88574, >>88611 Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database (All the major fag MSM outlets) [FF imminent]
>>88577 MP (GAB) From New York to LA and now the VA. I think they are going to get major pushback. The idea rank and file government employees are going to put up with this is going to be very interesting. This
>>88594, >>88595 PAIN: "PUT them in cars"? Willing people GET in cars. "Coming to a door near you". Flynn Buckle up, Patriots.
>>88600 (GAB) 100,000 French protesters chanting for Macron to resign in Paris yesterday, if it was up to mainstream media, you'd never know.
>>88617 COVID-19 Vaccine Pass Mandate Approved by French Parliament Amid Widespread Protests
#88483 at 2021-07-26 08:02:18 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #415: Will You Remain Lost Or Will You Be Found? Edition
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
>>88310 (Twatt) Milan ,Italy~ Police surprisingly stand down in solidarity with massive groups of protesters...
>>88319 (T.me) Some reports suggest a large group of armed assailants, with the area being evacuated.
>>88330 CNN: Segregate Unvaccinated, Make Them Pay For Tests Every Day (ZeroHedge)
>>88348 SAGE VIDEO: ILDonaldoTrumpo: Why Michelle Urgenti-Rita got booed off stage… (music by il Presidento…)
>>88357 Horrific Video Shows Teen Mob Brutally Attack New York City Firefighter Who Was Walking His Dog (thegatewaypundit)
>>88363 (GAB) Google vaccine passport protests.
>>88370 The Republican Guard, a security detail established to protect the President of France, have ALL resigned, and will no longer protect President Macron! (Mulit-sauz)
>>88388 Catturd (Twatt) The Biden regime is taking COVID so seriously, they're letting hundreds of thousands of untested illegals pour across the southern border - and transporting them all across the USA.
>>88393 How the Plague of Corruption Is Killing Mankind (articles.mercola.com)
>>88431 CDC closely tracking Monkeypox outbreak (nbc02.com)
>>88429 A 10-year-old girl has died from the plague in Colorado, officials confirm (breaking911.com)
>>88451 (Twatt) The people of France shot the presidents house of with horse shit.
#88295 at 2021-07-25 08:50:29 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #414: Be angry, yet in your anger, do not sin Edition
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
====================
====================
#87839 at 2021-07-23 07:48:47 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #413: You are watching a plan being set is motion Edition
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
====================
#87566 at 2021-07-21 13:38:47 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #412::Pawns Get A Promotion Edition
Precipice Level Events
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
#87352 at 2021-07-20 05:00:38 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #411: You are the warriors of mankind Edition
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>87166 TheHill (Twatt) More evacuations ordered after California wildfire jumps highway (Keep Voting Dem California.. keep getting BURNT)
>>87160 (Twatt) Famine has always been one of communism's favorite weapons.
>>87293 America's Frontline Doctors urgently need your help stop Covid-19 Vaccine mandates in our schools. Kids wear masks in the fall. (americasfrontlinedoctors.org)
>>87253 VIDEO: UN TRUCKS SPOTTED IN CANADA (YouTube)
>>87235 China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. (Politico.com)
>>87229 NFL Recommends Teams Use 'Color Coded Wristbands' to Identify Vaccinated Players, Employees (Breitbart.com)
>>87228 (Twatt) NEW: I'm back at the border in Del Rio, TX, where a massive group of 300-400 migrants have arrived at a gate at the border wall and is hoping to be let into the U.S. Many are from Haiti
>>87227 Good luck with that! Chicago mental health professionals will be dispatched on 911 calls instead of cops following defund the police protests - as gang members now outnumber officers ten to one (DailyMail.co.uk)
>>87223 NPR (TWATTS) Developing: The Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped nearly 800 points, or more than 2%, overs fears of the rising COVID-19 infections around the world tied to the Delta variant. These fears come as investors were already getting worried about surging inflation.
>>87218 Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 "National Security Threat To The United States Of America" (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
>>87207 Surgeon General: Facebook's Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation 'Not Enough' (theEpochtimes.com)
>>87199 Multiple people shot, including EMT personnel, in series of attacks in Tucson; children missing (Fox10Phoenix.com)
====================
#87136 at 2021-07-19 05:27:46 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #410: MONDAY MONDAY Edtion
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
====================
#86917 at 2021-07-18 07:50:00 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #409: "It's about the break" Edition
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
>>86579, >>86588, >>86652, >>86653, >>86654, >>86656, >>86663, >>86664, >>86665, >>86667, >>86668, >>86669, >>86707, >>86761, >>86788, >>86799, >>86802, >>86816, >>86818, no vaccine protest in France.
>>86614 BREAKING DISCOVERY! WHAT COVID INJECTIONS DO TO YOUR BLOOD! DOCTOR RELEASES HORRIFIC FINDINGS!..
>>86612 Alexandra Datig (Twatt) @alexdatig Once more with feeling...Alex Datig Tells Los Angeles Covid Vaccine Enforcers to 'Get Out' for Violating Privacy Under HIPAA
>>86622 Now Biden's door-knockers packing vaccines with them (WND)
>>86682 (T.me) Second night of FLAMING water shortage protests in Iran, authorities admit supply issues
>>86689 South Africa: Satellite images show long food queues, buildings on fire amid deadly unrest -
====================
#86577 at 2021-07-17 06:25:20 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #408: Watch France, Watch the Water Edition
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86427 (T.me) IRAN NUKE ENRICHMENT: The levels have sparked serious concerns, as it is considered the minimum required to build nuclear weapons, and stands well above the 60% level Tehran announced it was aiming for back in April.
>>86428, >>86429 France vaccine pass protests turn UGLY, tear gas and flames as police charges demonstrators (WATCH) (RT, EMBEDDED MP4)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
>>86437 (T.me) Chaotic scenes are unfolding across Beirut as Saad Hariri supporters block roads - with the army attempting to unblock them - following his resignation left Lebanon without a cabinet.
>>86476 (T.me) ICE confirms Tucker's report on flights of illegal immigrants from military airport
====================
#86571 at 2021-07-17 06:22:18 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #408: Watch France, Watch the Water Edition
'''#406'''
>>86061 God Bless The USA (Military Edition)
>>86064 Freedom Phone announced by ERIK FINMAN
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86068 SuzyQ (Twatt) VIDEO: Badass Motivational video of Trump/American People's legacy
>>86070 Biden Says Domestic Terrorism Is A Top Threat, Nominates Domestic Terrorist To Run Federal Agency
>>86071 Ashley Biden (I had no idea she existed?!) diary.. reveals child sex trauma
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
>>86074 More ex-staffers describe Kamala Harris's 'unpredictable and demeaning' behavior in offices
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86076 Today in 1099, knights of the First Crusade liberated the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, site of Christ's burial prior to his resurrection.
>>86078 Peter de Vries - who devoted his career to bravely exposing corrupt power centers - has tragically died after being shot on the street last week in Amsterdam.
>>86080 Twitter hack on how to get around the limit of follow backing
>>86081 Western "intelligence officials" who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation now assure us, via a serial hoaxer which claimed Manafort met Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, now claim the Steeele Dossier 2.0 is legit this time!
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86089 Kamala's Breakfast with Angela Merkle
>>86092 Candace Owen comments on Jan 6 event
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86094 Money laundering arrests in NJ (video)
>>86097, >>86111, >>86118, >>86126 Arizona Senate Hearing On Maricopa County Election Audit (Watch Live)
>>86104 @USArmy #ArmyTech for the next battlefield.
>>86113 'What If That Was My Dad?:' Girls Set Up Lemonade Stand to Support Fallen Officer's Family
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86127 JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls for two election leaders to be fired and removed from Fulton's elections leadership immediately, saying, "Fulton County's continued failures have gone on long enough with no accountability."
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms."
>>86137 U.S. military trained Haiti assassination suspects, Pentagon says - WaPo
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86139 U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. It knocked down 2 light poles. No injuries were reported
>>86140 GA corruption
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86142 Video Tucson, Arizona as flooding rages due to the heavy downpours.
>>86145 VIDEO: RUSSIA GAS PIPE FIRE EXPLOSION
>>86152 Pelosi feared Trump would launch nuclear weapons in final days, book claims
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86154, >>86155 Strangeness from WPAFB
>>86157 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on monthly Child Tax Credit payments:
>>86158 US Navy Tweet
>>86159 Matt DePerno says the Arizona testimony is confirming everything they found in Antrim County, Michigan.
>>86160, >>86161 @usairforce
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86177 Macron announces that from August 1, 2021 people won't be allowed to PURCHASE FOOD at supermarkets unless they are vaccinated!!
>>86180, >>86181, >>86210 Az audit info
>>86183 Texas Democrat HUMILIATES Self - Can't Name One Right Denied Under Voting Bill
>>86211, >>86217 JUST IN - Dominion Voting System Corporation's website seems to have a problem or is offline.
>>86212 The Government just won, 319 votes to 246. We now have mandatory vaccinations in the UK following a snap vote no one knew about, with no evidence provided for it.
>>86220 Tucker Carlson Monolouge
>>86223 George News Telegraph Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America.
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86255 Donald Trumpo Tweeto
'''(Baker Change.. WOOT!! kek)'''
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86287 Democrat Congresswoman Arrested After Leading Protesters Into Senate Building: Officials
>>86288 The Left learned in 2016 that finding enough boxes of ballots to win the popular vote wasn't sufficient to win so THIS TIME they concentrated on the Electoral College and swing states.
>>86293 KANSAS (Twatt) The BLM organization is driven by the belief that America is an evil country. It isn't, but the Cuban government - a state sponsor of terror - is evil.
>>86296, >>86297 KANSAS (Twatt) Enjoyed touring the @CambriaSurfaces factory in Le Sueur, Minnesota. American craftsmanship is the best in the world, and our innovation is unbeatable. These folks reminded me of that today.
>>86299, >>86325 U.S. Army (Twatt) Even the boogie man has nightmares ... + That would be us. MR Shout Out
>>86303 KANSAS (Twatt) I will never forget this moment.
>>86305, >>86310 The spineless Republicans owe America and Donald Trump one hell of an apology. If they had stood up and done their job in the post-Nov. 3 election integrity effort, the corruption and lawlessness would not have succeeded. #AZAudit #GAAudit
>>86307 Authorities Report 'Mass Casualty Incident' at Detention Center In Southern California (Breaking911)
>>86309 Anon: QR post? 1/2chan post? About AZ Hearing Quick Rundown So Far.
>>86311 (Twatt) 'Sorry to Inform You': Trump Responds to Report That Top General Suggested He Wanted Post-Election Coup
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86315 SuzyQ (Twatter) Sharyl Attkisson is a truth-giver. She is one of a small group of professional journalists fighting back against the propaganda media. This video presentation is a must watch. Listen carefully. Thanks. - Lin
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86319 Breaking: Arizona State Senator Demands Biden Electors be Recalled to Arizona and New Election Held Following Thursday's Stunning Revelations at Audit Presser...They found 74,243 mail-in ballots with NO clear record of them ever being sent!
>>86320 TheHill (Twatt) DeSantis calls on Biden to provide remote Internet access to Cubans http://hill.cm/BRWMYp3
>>86322 MTG (Twatt) I've been saying it since Nov 4th. Trump won Georgia.
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86324 ILSharko (Twatt) Buenas Noches Patriotos. Love and Hug your Familia!!! I (Red heart) U
>>86334 (Twatt) Don't hate your enemies or you will turn into the one you fight. Don't forget that we are fighting for a new world of Love, Peace and Freedom. They are fighting for an old world of hatred, wars and slavery. We are not like them, always remember who you are.
>>86335, >>86336 B-52 bombers, Army I Corps on Guam to support dual training exercises (StarsandStripes/Twatt)
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86339 (Twatt) WATCH: AZ Auditor says 11,326 people VOTED in the election but did not appear on the voter rolls on Nov 7th but DID show up on Dec. 4th
>>86340 Patriot #AmericaFirst (Twatt) Frederick Douglass Versus the 1619 Project
>>86341 Anon: Drop 36
>>86342 (Twatter) kACCURATE AF
>>86343 (Twatt) REPORT: @FBI Blackmail... Agents "Tried To Flip #Saudi Embassy Official Suspected Of Assisting 9/11 Hijackers By Confronting Him With Child Porn On His Computer" Despite The Pressure He Insisted The Saudi Government Wasn't Involved In Attacks.
>>86363 Finchem: We've Got Enough To Show Criminal Obstruction (Rumble)
>>86365 (Twatt) Georgia state senator Burt Jones is requesting an investigation by the government oversight committee of GA SOS Brad Raffensperger for multiple issues!
>>86361 #406
Previously Collected Notables
>>84866 #399, >>84989 #400, >>85184 #401, >>85401 #402, >>85564 #403, >>85764 #404, >>86047 #405
>>83613 #391, >>83732 #392, >>83894 #393, >>84039 #394, >>84231 #395, >>84460 #396, >>84600 #397, >>84743 #398
>>82565 #383, >>82697 #384, >>82836 #385, >>82992 #386, >>83109 #387, >>83197 #388, >>83317 #389, >>83460 #390
>>80834 #375, >>81135 #376, >>81376 #377, >>81834 #378, >>82005 #379, >>82120 #380, >>82279 #381, >>82381 #382
>>79604 #367, >>79780 #368, >>79879 #369, >>80007 #370, >>80174 #371, >>80315 #372, >>80467 #373, >>80684 #374
>>78399 #359, >>78545 #360, >>78731 #361, >>78866 #362, >>79063 #363, >>79187 #364, >>79349 #365, >>79465 #366
>>77249 #351, >>77378 #352, >>77572 #353, >>77777 #354, >>77869 #355, >>77987 #356, >>78138 #357, >>78282 #358
>>76038 #343, >>76178 #344, >>76296 #345, >>76447 #346, >>76682 #347, >>76814 #348, >>76966 #349, >>77080 #350
>>74806 #335, >>74992 #336, >>75206 #337, >>75397 #338, >>75534 #339, >>75639 #340, >>75816 #341, >>75922 #342,
>>73986 #331, >>74184 #332, >>74389 #333, >>74575 #334
#86377 at 2021-07-16 05:51:50 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #407: Summer HEAT TURNING UP Edition
====================
Precipice Level Events
>>85777 Video of the mass shooting yesterday at 66th/Halsted. Seven shot, including a one-month-old niglette, by blacks who emerged from a black Jeep Cherokee with rifles.
>>85788 BREAKING: The Taliban says they've captured a key Afghan border crossing with Pakistan - AFP
>>85789 Thomas Paine (Twatt) 'We Are Willing To Do Anything': Cuba's President Demands Cubans Defend The Revolution From Pro-Democracy Protesters.
>>85795 (Gab) Moreno Valley: a suburb in the southeast of California where white families escape to live safely and grill in peace, far away from the violence and chaos of Los Angeles
>>85821 VIDEO: Army is going door to door coercing people to take the COVID vaccine in Smithfield, NC. (YouTube)
>>85873 NOW - People chanting "Liberté" in Paris as they protest against mandatory vaccinations of health care workers and vaccination passports on Bastille Day (#14Juillet), a national holiday in France.
>>85864 USDA Attacks Amish Farmers Selling REAL Food to Protect Corporate Industrial Farming (healthimpactnews.com)
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86381, >>86382, South Africa damage...
>>86417, >>86418 Alabama military base is first in the US to require vaccination proof amid rising COVID rates (Stripes.com)
>>86421 JUST IN - Protests erupt in Melbourne as Victoria, Austrialia goes back into lockdown
>>86426 SWAT command leader dead, 4 wounded after standoff with gunman in Texas (CBSnews.com)
>>86432 (T.me) Greece protesting vax
====================
Let me know what you think on all sections, if something doesn't fit.. let me know
#86369 at 2021-07-16 05:48:16 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #407: Summer HEAT TURNING UP Edition
Globals
>>83672 IF BO/GV are not present, please hit the "GLOBAL REPORT" from the triangle at the left of post.
Notables are not endorsements
'''#406'''
>>86061 God Bless The USA (Military Edition)
>>86064 Freedom Phone announced by ERIK FINMAN
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86068 SuzyQ (Twatt) VIDEO: Badass Motivational video of Trump/American People's legacy
>>86070 Biden Says Domestic Terrorism Is A Top Threat, Nominates Domestic Terrorist To Run Federal Agency
>>86071 Ashley Biden (I had no idea she existed?!) diary.. reveals child sex trauma
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
>>86074 More ex-staffers describe Kamala Harris's 'unpredictable and demeaning' behavior in offices
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86076 Today in 1099, knights of the First Crusade liberated the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, site of Christ's burial prior to his resurrection.
>>86078 Peter de Vries - who devoted his career to bravely exposing corrupt power centers - has tragically died after being shot on the street last week in Amsterdam.
>>86080 Twitter hack on how to get around the limit of follow backing
>>86081 Western "intelligence officials" who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation now assure us, via a serial hoaxer which claimed Manafort met Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, now claim the Steeele Dossier 2.0 is legit this time!
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86089 Kamala's Breakfast with Angela Merkle
>>86092 Candace Owen comments on Jan 6 event
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86094 Money laundering arrests in NJ (video)
>>86097, >>86111, >>86118, >>86126 Arizona Senate Hearing On Maricopa County Election Audit (Watch Live)
>>86104 @USArmy #ArmyTech for the next battlefield.
>>86113 'What If That Was My Dad?:' Girls Set Up Lemonade Stand to Support Fallen Officer's Family
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86127 JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls for two election leaders to be fired and removed from Fulton's elections leadership immediately, saying, "Fulton County's continued failures have gone on long enough with no accountability."
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms."
>>86137 U.S. military trained Haiti assassination suspects, Pentagon says - WaPo
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86139 U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. It knocked down 2 light poles. No injuries were reported
>>86140 GA corruption
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86142 Video Tucson, Arizona as flooding rages due to the heavy downpours.
>>86145 VIDEO: RUSSIA GAS PIPE FIRE EXPLOSION
>>86152 Pelosi feared Trump would launch nuclear weapons in final days, book claims
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86154, >>86155 Strangeness from WPAFB
>>86157 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on monthly Child Tax Credit payments:
>>86158 US Navy Tweet
>>86159 Matt DePerno says the Arizona testimony is confirming everything they found in Antrim County, Michigan.
>>86160, >>86161 @usairforce
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86177 Macron announces that from August 1, 2021 people won't be allowed to PURCHASE FOOD at supermarkets unless they are vaccinated!!
>>86180, >>86181, >>86210 Az audit info
>>86183 Texas Democrat HUMILIATES Self - Can't Name One Right Denied Under Voting Bill
>>86211, >>86217 JUST IN - Dominion Voting System Corporation's website seems to have a problem or is offline.
>>86212 The Government just won, 319 votes to 246. We now have mandatory vaccinations in the UK following a snap vote no one knew about, with no evidence provided for it.
>>86220 Tucker Carlson Monolouge
>>86223 George News Telegraph Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America.
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86255 Donald Trumpo Tweeto
'''(Baker Change.. WOOT!! kek)'''
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86287 Democrat Congresswoman Arrested After Leading Protesters Into Senate Building: Officials
>>86288 The Left learned in 2016 that finding enough boxes of ballots to win the popular vote wasn't sufficient to win so THIS TIME they concentrated on the Electoral College and swing states.
>>86293 KANSAS (Twatt) The BLM organization is driven by the belief that America is an evil country. It isn't, but the Cuban government - a state sponsor of terror - is evil.
>>86296, >>86297 KANSAS (Twatt) Enjoyed touring the @CambriaSurfaces factory in Le Sueur, Minnesota. American craftsmanship is the best in the world, and our innovation is unbeatable. These folks reminded me of that today.
>>86299, >>86325 U.S. Army (Twatt) Even the boogie man has nightmares ... + That would be us. MR Shout Out
>>86303 KANSAS (Twatt) I will never forget this moment.
>>86305, >>86310 The spineless Republicans owe America and Donald Trump one hell of an apology. If they had stood up and done their job in the post-Nov. 3 election integrity effort, the corruption and lawlessness would not have succeeded. #AZAudit #GAAudit
>>86307 Authorities Report 'Mass Casualty Incident' at Detention Center In Southern California (Breaking911)
>>86309 Anon: QR post? 1/2chan post? About AZ Hearing Quick Rundown So Far.
>>86311 (Twatt) 'Sorry to Inform You': Trump Responds to Report That Top General Suggested He Wanted Post-Election Coup
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86315 SuzyQ (Twatter) Sharyl Attkisson is a truth-giver. She is one of a small group of professional journalists fighting back against the propaganda media. This video presentation is a must watch. Listen carefully. Thanks. - Lin
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86319 Breaking: Arizona State Senator Demands Biden Electors be Recalled to Arizona and New Election Held Following Thursday's Stunning Revelations at Audit Presser...They found 74,243 mail-in ballots with NO clear record of them ever being sent!
>>86320 TheHill (Twatt) DeSantis calls on Biden to provide remote Internet access to Cubans http://hill.cm/BRWMYp3
>>86322 MTG (Twatt) I've been saying it since Nov 4th. Trump won Georgia.
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86324 ILSharko (Twatt) Buenas Noches Patriotos. Love and Hug your Familia!!! I (Red heart) U
>>86334 (Twatt) Don't hate your enemies or you will turn into the one you fight. Don't forget that we are fighting for a new world of Love, Peace and Freedom. They are fighting for an old world of hatred, wars and slavery. We are not like them, always remember who you are.
>>86335, >>86336 B-52 bombers, Army I Corps on Guam to support dual training exercises (StarsandStripes/Twatt)
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86339 (Twatt) WATCH: AZ Auditor says 11,326 people VOTED in the election but did not appear on the voter rolls on Nov 7th but DID show up on Dec. 4th
>>86340 Patriot #AmericaFirst (Twatt) Frederick Douglass Versus the 1619 Project
>>86341 Anon: Drop 36
>>86342 (Twatter) kACCURATE AF
>>86343 (Twatt) REPORT: @FBI Blackmail... Agents "Tried To Flip #Saudi Embassy Official Suspected Of Assisting 9/11 Hijackers By Confronting Him With Child Porn On His Computer" Despite The Pressure He Insisted The Saudi Government Wasn't Involved In Attacks.
>>86363 Finchem: We've Got Enough To Show Criminal Obstruction (Rumble)
>>86365 (Twatt) Georgia state senator Burt Jones is requesting an investigation by the government oversight committee of GA SOS Brad Raffensperger for multiple issues!
>>86361 #406
#86361 at 2021-07-16 05:04:52 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #406: Tested Edition
RELAXING MUSIC SPIRIT OF AMERICAN INDIANS. Native American Indian Music. Native Flute Music.
=========
Holla Backs..
>>86357
Will do, Will on next bred.
==============
NEW BIBLICAL SECTION (Started July 7, 2021)
==============
Map Decode / Puzzle Pieces
==============
'''Precipice Level Events'''
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms." (Going after Patriots/Truth Tellers)
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
==============
Audit Stuffs
>>86097, >>86111, >>86118, >>86126,>>86127 Arizona Senate Hearing On Maricopa County Election Audit (Watch Live)
>>86159 Matt DePerno says the Arizona testimony is confirming everything they found in Antrim County, Michigan.
>>86305 The spineless Republicans owe America and Donald Trump one hell of an apology. If they had stood up and done their job in the post-Nov. 3 election integrity effort, the corruption and lawlessness would not have succeeded. #AZAudit #GAAudit
>>86309 Anon: QR post? 1/2chan post? About AZ Hearing Quick Rundown So Far.
>>86211, >>86217 JUST IN - Dominion Voting System Corporation's website seems to have a problem or is offline.
>>86288 The Left learned in 2016 that finding enough boxes of ballots to win the popular vote wasn't sufficient to win so THIS TIME they concentrated on the Electoral College and swing states.
>>86319 Breaking: Arizona State Senator Demands Biden Electors be Recalled to Arizona and New Election Held Following Thursday's Stunning Revelations at Audit Presser...They found 74,243 mail-in ballots with NO clear record of them ever being sent!
>>86319 Breaking: Arizona State Senator Demands Biden Electors be Recalled to Arizona and New Election Held Following Thursday's Stunning Revelations at Audit Presser...They found 74,243 mail-in ballots with NO clear record of them ever being sent!
>>86322 MTG (Twatt) I've been saying it since Nov 4th. Trump won Georgia.
>>86339 (Twatt) WATCH: AZ Auditor says 11,326 people VOTED in the election but did not appear on the voter rolls on Nov 7th but DID show up on Dec. 4th
>>86363 Finchem: We've Got Enough To Show Criminal Obstruction (Rumble)
>>86365 (Twatt) Georgia state senator Burt Jones is requesting an investigation by the government oversight committee of GA SOS Brad Raffensperger for multiple issues!
==============
Notables are NOT endorsements
'''#406'''
>>86061 God Bless The USA (Military Edition)
>>86064 Freedom Phone announced by ERIK FINMAN
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86068 SuzyQ (Twatt) VIDEO: Badass Motivational video of Trump/American People's legacy
>>86070 Biden Says Domestic Terrorism Is A Top Threat, Nominates Domestic Terrorist To Run Federal Agency
>>86071 Ashley Biden (I had no idea she existed?!) diary.. reveals child sex trauma
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also. S.Africa
>>86074 More ex-staffers describe Kamala Harris's 'unpredictable and demeaning' behavior in offices
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86076 Today in 1099, knights of the First Crusade liberated the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, site of Christ's burial prior to his resurrection.
>>86078 Peter de Vries - who devoted his career to bravely exposing corrupt power centers - has tragically died after being shot on the street last week in Amsterdam.
>>86080 Twitter hack on how to get around the limit of follow backing
>>86081 Western "intelligence officials" who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation now assure us, via a serial hoaxer which claimed Manafort met Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, now claim the Steeele Dossier 2.0 is legit this time!
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86089 Kamala's Breakfast with Angela Merkle
>>86092 Candace Owen comments on Jan 6 event
>>86095 FBi going after citizens/patriots from Jan 6th
>>86094 Money laundering arrests in NJ (video)
>>86097, >>86111, >>86118, >>86126 Arizona Senate Hearing On Maricopa County Election Audit (Watch Live)
>>86104 @USArmy #ArmyTech for the next battlefield.
>>86113 'What If That Was My Dad?:' Girls Set Up Lemonade Stand to Support Fallen Officer's Family
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86127 JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls for two election leaders to be fired and removed from Fulton's elections leadership immediately, saying, "Fulton County's continued failures have gone on long enough with no accountability."
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms."
>>86137 U.S. military trained Haiti assassination suspects, Pentagon says - WaPo
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86139 U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. It knocked down 2 light poles. No injuries were reported
>>86140 GA corruption
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86142 Video Tucson, Arizona as flooding rages due to the heavy downpours.
>>86145 VIDEO: RUSSIA GAS PIPE FIRE EXPLOSION
>>86152 Pelosi feared Trump would launch nuclear weapons in final days, book claims
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86154, >>86155 Strangeness from WPAFB
>>86157 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on monthly Child Tax Credit payments:
>>86158 US Navy Tweet
>>86159 Matt DePerno says the Arizona testimony is confirming everything they found in Antrim County, Michigan.
>>86160, >>86161 @usairforce
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86177 Macron announces that from August 1, 2021 people won't be allowed to PURCHASE FOOD at supermarkets unless they are vaccinated!!
>>86180, >>86181, >>86210 Az audit info
>>86183 Texas Democrat HUMILIATES Self - Can't Name One Right Denied Under Voting Bill
>>86211, >>86217 JUST IN - Dominion Voting System Corporation's website seems to have a problem or is offline.
>>86212 The Government just won, 319 votes to 246. We now have mandatory vaccinations in the UK following a snap vote no one knew about, with no evidence provided for it.
>>86220 Tucker Carlson Monolouge
>>86223 George News Telegraph Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America.
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86255 Donald Trumpo Tweeto
'''(Baker Change.. WOOT!! kek)'''
>>86286 AUTHORITARIANS... Democrats: "We are concerned about you knocking on doors because of voter intimidation & civil rights violations...
>>86287 Democrat Congresswoman Arrested After Leading Protesters Into Senate Building: Officials
>>86288 The Left learned in 2016 that finding enough boxes of ballots to win the popular vote wasn't sufficient to win so THIS TIME they concentrated on the Electoral College and swing states.
>>86293 KANSAS (Twatt) The BLM organization is driven by the belief that America is an evil country. It isn't, but the Cuban government - a state sponsor of terror - is evil.
>>86296, >>86297 KANSAS (Twatt) Enjoyed touring the @CambriaSurfaces factory in Le Sueur, Minnesota. American craftsmanship is the best in the world, and our innovation is unbeatable. These folks reminded me of that today.
>>86299, >>86325 U.S. Army (Twatt) Even the boogie man has nightmares ... + That would be us. MR Shout Out
>>86303 KANSAS (Twatt) I will never forget this moment.
>>86305, >>86310 The spineless Republicans owe America and Donald Trump one hell of an apology. If they had stood up and done their job in the post-Nov. 3 election integrity effort, the corruption and lawlessness would not have succeeded. #AZAudit #GAAudit
>>86307 Authorities Report 'Mass Casualty Incident' at Detention Center In Southern California (Breaking911)
>>86309 Anon: QR post? 1/2chan post? About AZ Hearing Quick Rundown So Far.
>>86311 (Twatt) 'Sorry to Inform You': Trump Responds to Report That Top General Suggested He Wanted Post-Election Coup
>>86314 María Elvira Salazar (Twatter) The people of Cuba have had enough of the failed communist regime. They are demanding their freedom and the world should answer their call. #SOSCuba #CubaLibre
>>86315 SuzyQ (Twatter) Sharyl Attkisson is a truth-giver. She is one of a small group of professional journalists fighting back against the propaganda media. This video presentation is a must watch. Listen carefully. Thanks. - Lin
>>86317 Jason Miller (Twatt) This is how it starts. "Biden administration 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook,' Psaki says"
>>86319 Breaking: Arizona State Senator Demands Biden Electors be Recalled to Arizona and New Election Held Following Thursday's Stunning Revelations at Audit Presser...They found 74,243 mail-in ballots with NO clear record of them ever being sent!
>>86320 TheHill (Twatt) DeSantis calls on Biden to provide remote Internet access to Cubans http://hill.cm/BRWMYp3
>>86322 MTG (Twatt) I've been saying it since Nov 4th. Trump won Georgia.
>>86323 (Twatt) WATCH: Aerial shot shows Wednesday's massive rally against Greece's mandatory #COVID19 vaccination orders. Flag of Greece
>>86324 ILSharko (Twatt) Buenas Noches Patriotos. Love and Hug your Familia!!! I (Red heart) U
>>86334 (Twatt) Don't hate your enemies or you will turn into the one you fight. Don't forget that we are fighting for a new world of Love, Peace and Freedom. They are fighting for an old world of hatred, wars and slavery. We are not like them, always remember who you are.
>>86335, >>86336 B-52 bombers, Army I Corps on Guam to support dual training exercises (StarsandStripes/Twatt)
>>86337 (Twatt) VIDEO: Cuba protests
>>86338 DanaLoesch (Twatter) The Biden admin finally admitted that they are conspiring with social media platforms and directing them to censor citizens. Fair to ask what else are they flagging? Is this how I and others were suspended for sharing NYP Biden piece? Safe to assume this is more widespread.
>>86339 (Twatt) WATCH: AZ Auditor says 11,326 people VOTED in the election but did not appear on the voter rolls on Nov 7th but DID show up on Dec. 4th
>>86340 Patriot #AmericaFirst (Twatt) Frederick Douglass Versus the 1619 Project
>>86341 Anon: Drop 36
>>86342 (Twatter) kACCURATE AF
>>86343 (Twatt) REPORT: @FBI Blackmail... Agents "Tried To Flip #Saudi Embassy Official Suspected Of Assisting 9/11 Hijackers By Confronting Him With Child Porn On His Computer" Despite The Pressure He Insisted The Saudi Government Wasn't Involved In Attacks.
>>86363 Finchem: We've Got Enough To Show Criminal Obstruction (Rumble)
>>86365 (Twatt) Georgia state senator Burt Jones is requesting an investigation by the government oversight committee of GA SOS Brad Raffensperger for multiple issues!
#86268 at 2021-07-16 00:20:56 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #406: Tested Edition
'''#405'''
B
>>86076 Today in 1099, knights of the First Crusade liberated the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, site of Christ's burial prior to his resurrection.
>>86078 Peter de Vries - who devoted his career to bravely exposing corrupt power centers - has tragically died after being shot on the street last week in Amsterdam.
>>86080 Twitter hack on how to get around the limit of follow backing
>>86081 Western "intelligence officials" who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation now assure us, via a serial hoaxer which claimed Manafort met Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, now claim the Steeele Dossier 2.0 is legit this time!
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86089 Kamala's Breakfast with Angela Merkle
>>86092 Candace Owen comments on Jan 6 event
>>86095 FBi going after citizens from Jan 6th
>>86094 Money laundering arrests in NJ (video)
>>86097, >>86111, >>86118, >>86126 Arizona Senate Hearing On Maricopa County Election Audit (Watch Live)
>>86104 @USArmy #ArmyTech for the next battlefield.
>>86113 'What If That Was My Dad?:' Girls Set Up Lemonade Stand to Support Fallen Officer's Family
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86127 JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls for two election leaders to be fired and removed from Fulton's elections leadership immediately, saying, "Fulton >>86127 County's continued failures have gone on long enough with no accountability."
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms."
>>86137 U.S. military trained Haiti assassination suspects, Pentagon says - WaPo
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86139 U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. It knocked down 2 light poles. No injuries were reported
>>86140 GA corruption
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86142 Video Tucson, Arizona as flooding rages due to the heavy downpours.
>>86145 VIDEO: RUSSIA GAS PIPE FIRE EXPLOSION
>>86152 Pelosi feared Trump would launch nuclear weapons in final days, book claims
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86154, >>86155 Strangeness from WPAFB
>>86157 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on monthly Child Tax Credit payments:
>>86158 US Navy Tweet
>>86159 Matt DePerno says the Arizona testimony is confirming everything they found in Antrim County, Michigan.
>>86160, >>86161 @usairforce
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86177 Macron announces that from August 1, 2021 people won't be allowed to PURCHASE FOOD at supermarkets unless they are vaccinated!!
>>86180, >>86181, >>86210 Az audit info
>>86183 Texas Democrat HUMILIATES Self - Can't Name One Right Denied Under Voting Bill
>>86211, >>86217 JUST IN - Dominion Voting System Corporation's website seems to have a problem or is offline.
>>86212 The Government just won, 319 votes to 246. We now have mandatory vaccinations in the UK following a snap vote no one knew about, with no evidence provided for it.
>>86220 Tucker Carlson Monolouge
>>86223 George News Telegraph Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America.
>>86226 #BREAKING: L.A. County officials release new Health Officer Order requiring masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This will go into effect on Saturday night at 11:59 p.m.
>>86255 Donald Trumpo Tweeto
#86203 at 2021-07-15 20:46:09 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #406: Tested Edition
'''#405'''
>>86061 God Bless The USA (Military Edition)
>>86064 Freedom Phone announced by ERIK FINMAN
>>86066 FBI now claims *any* statement *anyone* makes concerning *any* health care matter is now subject to criminal prosecution if they don't agree w/ the statement, regardless of a lack of ANY federal jurisdictional nexus.
>>86068 SuzyQ (Twatt) VIDEO: Badass Motivational video of Trump/American People's legacy
>>86070 Biden Says Domestic Terrorism Is A Top Threat, Nominates Domestic Terrorist To Run Federal Agency
>>86071 Ashley Biden (I had no idea she existed?!) diary.. reveals child sex trauma
>>86072, >>86077 Policeman caught looting also.
>>86074 More ex-staffers describe Kamala Harris's 'unpredictable and demeaning' behavior in offices
TheHill (Twatt) VIDEO: Sen. Joni Ernst: "We're all going to be paying back the trillions of dollars borrowed to pay for Bidenomics, both in higher taxes and in higher consumer costs. And that price, folks, it isn't right."
>>86076 Today in 1099, knights of the First Crusade liberated the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, site of Christ's burial prior to his resurrection.
>>86078 Peter de Vries - who devoted his career to bravely exposing corrupt power centers - has tragically died after being shot on the street last week in Amsterdam.
>>86080 Twitter hack on how to get around the limit of follow backing
>>86081 Western "intelligence officials" who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation now assure us, via a serial hoaxer which claimed Manafort met Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy, now claim the Steeele Dossier 2.0 is legit this time!
>>86099 More tweets about Army guys going door to door with vaxxer agents
>>86089 Kamala's Breakfast with Angela Merkle
>>86092 Candace Owen comments on Jan 6 event
>>86095 FBi going after citizens from Jan 6th
>>86094 Money laundering arrests in NJ (video)
>>86097, >>86111, >>86118, >>86126 Arizona Senate Hearing On Maricopa County Election Audit (Watch Live)
>>86104 @USArmy #ArmyTech for the next battlefield.
>>86113 'What If That Was My Dad?:' Girls Set Up Lemonade Stand to Support Fallen Officer's Family
>>86116 French citizens are taking to the streets in opposition to labor reforms and higher taxes
>>86120 Vaccine Victims Begging to Be Heard
>>86122 Jen Patski "Vaccines can still kill you"
>>86127 JUST IN: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger calls for two election leaders to be fired and removed from Fulton's elections leadership immediately, saying, "Fulton >>86127 County's continued failures have gone on long enough with no accountability."
>>86135 PSAKI: "There's about12people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms."
>>86137 U.S. military trained Haiti assassination suspects, Pentagon says - WaPo
>>86138 The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
>>86139 U.S. Black Hawk made an emergency landing in the middle of the Romanian capital, Bucharest. It knocked down 2 light poles. No injuries were reported
>>86140 GA corruption
>>86141 China Sends Ships to Senkaku Islands After Japan Names Country Top Security Threat (NewsWeak)
>>86142 Video Tucson, Arizona as flooding rages due to the heavy downpours.
>>86145 VIDEO: RUSSIA GAS PIPE FIRE EXPLOSION
>>86152 Pelosi feared Trump would launch nuclear weapons in final days, book claims
>>86153 New Zealand - Prime Minister asks to only listen to government as source "you can trust us"
>>86154, >>86155 Strangeness from WPAFB
>>86157 Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on monthly Child Tax Credit payments:
>>86158 US Navy Tweet
>>86159 Matt DePerno says the Arizona testimony is confirming everything they found in Antrim County, Michigan.
>>86160, >>86161 @usairforce
>>86164 Fauci says 3-year-olds should be forced to wear masks: "No doubt about that"
>>86168 Lebanon's prime minister-designate has said that he will not form a government, plunging the country deeper into crisis.
>>86172 BREAKING: Biden admin 'flagging problematic posts', putting pressure on big tech to increase 'fact-checking' efforts
>>86177 Macron announces that from August 1, 2021 people won't be allowed to PURCHASE FOOD at supermarkets unless they are vaccinated!!
>>86180, >>86181 Az audit info
>>86183 Texas Democrat HUMILIATES Self - Can't Name One Right Denied Under Voting Bill
#86138 at 2021-07-15 18:51:33 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #406: Tested Edition
The State Of The South African Protest After Former President Jacob Zuma Was Arrested. Fire
#ZumaCoup #ZumaArrest #originsnackdown #MaponyaMall
Taxi, The Rand, Griezman, Haaland
Barcelona, Barca, Stella, Natasha
https://twitter.com/leader_truth/status/1415372150844928001
#52018 at 2021-02-02 22:48:18 (UTC+1)
Midnight Riders #241: They'll Be Droppin LIke Flies Edition
I have all kinds of happiness going on. Expanded buns so not just a group of post numbers (I figure scroll down to where the Finals posts are, buns are there so someone later can see what is in them and not wade through tons of posts)
State Capture Inquiry bun
>>12721337 Politicisation and factionalisation of intelligence community: Mufamadi (video)
>>12721546 Dr. Sydney Mufamadi gives an explosive testimony (video)
>>12721572 Wayne Duvenage on Sydney Mufamadi's testimony (video)
>>12723259 Explosive claims about ANC at state capture inquiry (video)
>>12742123 Zuma implicated again (video)
>>12742304 Discussion on State Security Agency testimonies (video)
>>12743751 Identity of secret witness leaked (video)
>>12756139 State Security Agency under scrutiny (video)
>>12766702 Bantu Holomisa shares his experiences with the state intelligence (video)
>>12778769 State security agency alleged to have unlawfully provided guns to non-members (video)
>>12789526 State Security Agency | Calls for a shake-up (video)
>>12789625 Former Scopa chair appears (video)
>>12789651 Jacob Zuma defies ConCourt ruling, not appearing before Zondo
The notables then come out like the tail end here of South Africa #2:
>>12568299 Benjamin de Rothschild, who oversaw the banking empire started by his father in 1953, has died.
>>12604152 Wouter Basson, apartheid's 'Dr. Death', revealed to be working at a Mediclinic
>>12628697 IMF - Credit scoring based on internet searches and purchases
>>12650338 Joe Biden presidency: Here's what the future holds for Africa
>>12682706 BEE totally destroys a prime grape farm in 10 years - De Doorns
>>12743427 Xiaomei Havard: Chinese-born MP 'replacing Mthembu' causes conflict
>>12802418 Updated ANC bun
>>12802424 Updated Angola bun
>>12802434 Updated Covid bun
>>12802443 Updated South Africa Border Issues bun
>>12802451 Updated South Africa - Deep State Connections bun
>>12802461 Updated South African Violence and Crime bun
>>12802473 State Capture Inquiry bun
8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (229)
#20969265 at 2024-06-05 05:18:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
#12-B
>>20743038, 20743047, >>20743054 Time to pull the plug on SACU (Parts 1-3)
>>20743308, >>20743312 Mayor sends police to ban and shut down NatCon Brussels conference as Antifa gathers outside (video)
>>20777614, >>20777617, >>20777619 "The South African Arms Deal" – Thales (Parts 1-3)
>>20777708 Thales sets up new SA subsidiary - 2009
>>20833831 ANC Bun Part One
>>20833836 Initial Brenthurst Foundation Bun
>>20833841 Updated Oppenheimer Bun
>>20833844 Updated Andr? Pienaar Bun
>>20833845 Updated Rwanda Bun
>>20833846 Violence and Crime Bun Part One
>>20833849 Violence and Crime Bun Part Two
>>20891860, >>20891889 At least three U.S. citizens - accused of being CIA agents - are arrested in Congo after failed coup (Parts 1&2)
>>20918103 Ex-UCT chair hits back at 'untested' panel report [chaired by retired Supreme Court of Appeal president Judge Lex Mpati]
>>20952724, >>20952772 Central African Republic accuses a European NGO worker arrested last week of spying, same NGO is in South Africa
>>20969241 Final ANC Bun Part Two
>>20969244 Final Commodities Bun
>>20969245 Final Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>20969247 Final Jacob Zuma Bun
#20969247 at 2024-06-05 05:11:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Final Jacob Zuma Bun
>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)
>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)
>>20484031 He took the spear and stabbed himself with it': Mbalula on Zuma and MK party
>>20501022 "Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen" (video)
>>20537502 "Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president": Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela (video)
>>20585630 Zuma right about van Rooyen's academic qualifications: report": Master's Degree in Finance - Pravin Gordhan qualification: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (video)
>>20585725 EXPLAINER — what we know about Jacob Zuma's new party
>>20601479, >>20601482 Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma [addressing Afrikaans white South Africans] || Leadership Summit 2024 (video)
>>20601620 Former president Jacob Zuma addresses MK supporters (video)
>>20656636 Zuma barred from MK party candidacy by IEC due to criminal record
>>20706038 Electoral court clears Zuma to run for parliament
>>20777806 South African Ex-President Zuma & Thales' Arms Deal Corruption Case Explained
>>20777830, >>20777841 Zuma back in court today for corruption trial (2023)
>>20777854 Former President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial - 26 October 2023 (video)
>>20777868 "ExaminIng Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case": Case was removed from the roll, arms deal pre-trial scheduled for May 17, 2024 (video)
>>20777881 Jacob Zuma v ANC: MK Party triumphs in high-stakes trademark & logo court case (video)
>>20777886 Zuma betrayed us – Makgoale (video)
>>20895552 2024 Elections: MK Party calls judiciary into question after Concourt ruling on Zuma's eligibility (video)
>>20895756, >>20895770, >>20895770 Electoral Court was wrong on Zuma decision – Kriegler (video)
>>20918157 Jacob Zuma's recent court cases; Janet Love and Recusal of 6 Constitutional Court Justices (video)
>>20918172 Ask a Politician: MK Party says Zuma will be President of SA again (video)
>>20961599 MK Party reiterates call for a revote (video)
#20961599 at 2024-06-03 20:30:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20943496
>>20895756
>>20895770
>>20918144
>>20918157
"MK Party reiterates call for a revote"
https://youtu.be/UuJ81D5EQFk
Jun 3, 2024
The MK Party has once again reiterated its call for a revote, stating that it will not accept the outcome and results of the 2024 General Elections. This past weekend, former president Jacob Zuma threatened to take legal action over allegations of election irregularities. Zuma spoke after his party announced that it had submitted evidence to the independent electoral commission proving its allegations of widespread irregularities and alleged election rigging. Yesterday, key members of the MK Party boycotted an official address by the IEC.
MK party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela speaks to Newzroom Afrika's Aldrin Sampear.
2:27 - "Janet Love goes and stands there and refers to the people's mandate.What people is she referring to?"
2:41 - "There were boxes that were found in a form of ballot boxes that were found burnt in Mpumalanga with votes in them and then we need to take things nonchalantly. What is the rush? They know very well that they've got until Wednesday to make a declaration."
5:17 - "This is what is happening here. Firstly, you have seen it with the DA having sent a letter to the US Foreign Secretary where they raised that a MK-ANC-EFF alliance in effect or a coalition thereof would be detrimental to their agenda. Now why send an email to the US? The same company that was involved here is also US based and owned by a certain country's citizens... When that system was down, certain votes were allocated to a specific party... We'd force the implementation of all our policies and that would be detrimental to the DA and their handlers."
7:33 - "There is foreign interference in our elections."
#20943496 at 2024-05-31 04:28:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
ANC on course to lose majority
Farouk Chothia, BBC News, Johannesburg 31 May 2024
South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is on course to lose its majority in parliament for the first time since it came to power 30 years ago, partial results from Thursday's parliamentary election suggest.
With results from more than 50% of voting districts counted so far, the ANC is leading with 42%, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) with 23%.
The the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) of former President Jacob Zuma has received nearly 11% of the vote and the Economic Freedom Fighters party, nearly 10%.
Final results are expected over the weekend.
Many voters blame the ANC for the high levels of corruption, crime and unemployment in the country.
The respected Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the News24 website have projected that the party's final vote will be around 42%, a big drop from the 57% it obtained in the 2019 election.
This would force it go into a coalition with one or more of the other parties in order to form a majority in parliament.
The DA has liberal economic policies, while both the EFF and MK favour more state intervention and nationalisation, so the choice of partner would make a huge difference to South Africa's future direction.
It is unclear whether President Cyril Ramaphosa will remain in power, as he could come under pressure from the ANC to resign if the party gets less than 45% of the final vote, said Prof William Gumede, chairman of the non-profit Democracy Works Foundation.
"The ANC could turn him into a scapegoat, and a faction within the party could push for him to be replaced by his deputy, Paul Mashatile. The EFF and MK are also likely to demand his resignation before agreeing to any coalition with the ANC," Prof Gumede told the BBC.
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The initial results show that the ANC is suffering heavy losses to MK, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, where Mr Zuma's party has been leading with 43% of the vote to the ANC's 21%.
Mr Zuma caused a major shock when he announced in December that he was ditching the ANC to campaign for MK.
KwaZulu-Natal is the home region of Mr Zuma, and the province with the second-highest number of votes, making it crucial in determining whether the ANC retains its parliamentary majority.
Although Mr Zuma has been barred from running for parliament because of a conviction for contempt of court, his name still appeared on the ballot paper as MK leader.
If MK wins KwaZulu-Natal, it would be a "major upset" and herald the "potential decimation" of the ANC in the province, Prof Gumede said.
The ANC also risks losing its majority in the economic heartland of Gauteng, where the party currently has 36% to the DA's 29%.
Wednesday's election saw long lines of voters outside polling stations late into the night across the country.
According to the electoral commission, the last polling station closed at 0300 on Thursday morning local time.
One electoral official in Johannesburg told the BBC the queues were reminiscent of the historic 1994 election, when black people could vote for the first time.
Sifiso Buthelezi, who voted in Johannesburg's Joubert Park - the biggest polling station in South Africa - told the BBC: "Freedom is great but we need to tackle corruption."
Change has been a recurring sentiment, especially among young voters.
"The turnout amongst them was high, and they voted against the ANC," Prof Gumede
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjll8nr6962o
#20918157 at 2024-05-26 16:42:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20918144
>>20908620
>>20908601
>>20895552
==Jacob Zuma's recent court cases; Janet Love and Recusal of 6 Constitutional Court Justices
"Zuma and MK party calls for six Constitutional Court Justices to recuse themselves"
https://youtu.be/3aXpeOK9-38
May 4, 2024
Jacob Zuma and the Umkhonto weSizwe party have called for six Constitutional Court Justices to recuse themselves, from hearing the IEC's matter involving the former president. According to Zuma, Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo alongside judges Madlanga, Majiedt, Mhlantla, Theron, and Tshiqi are all tainted by bias - and are therefore not fit to hear the matter involving him and his new party MK.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/concourt-dismisses-Zumas-application-for-justices-to-recuse-themselves-d37678bb-7131-419e-bdc5-28a0e670753d
Published May 10, 2024
The Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma's application to have the justices recused from the appeal case by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC).
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-05-21-concourt-stamps-Zumas-ticket-to-political-wilderness-throws-mk-into-uncharted-waters/
21 May 2024
The decision by the Constitutional Court upholding the Electoral Commission's decision to bar former president Jacob Zuma from being an MP has major consequences for Zuma, uMkhonto Wesizwe, the IEC, one of its commissioners and the Electoral Court.
There have been very few cases in which the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) had its credibility tested in the way it was over the last few weeks.
–Never before had a former president won an Electoral Court ruling overturning a decision of the IEC.
It is also extremely rare for one of its commissioners to be accused of bias in public and in court, in the way in which former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party made claims against Janet Love.–
The finding by the Constitutional Court, that her comments that a person who had been sentenced in the last five years to a term of more than 12 months in prison, were not directly about Zuma, must surely allow her to remain in her job.
If the court had found against Love, there would have been intense pressure on both her and the IEC. Some parties (including MK) might well have argued that all of the decisions in which she was involved would have to be revisited.
It would have been the first time a commissioner on the IEC had suffered a finding against them of bias (Pansy Tlakula did resign from the IEC after a scandal around a tender for office equipment, but not because of bias).
However, the IEC and the Constitutional Court will not be immune from further political attacks.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/Zuma-claims-judges-render-sentences-even-without-a-case-when-they-dislike-you/ar-BB1mHxzl
2024/05/20
Zuma claims: 'Judges render sentences even without a case when they dislike you'
Jacob Zuma, leader of the MK Party, firmly believes that IEC Commissioner Janet Love's remarks concerning eligibility for the elections specifically targeted his candidacy.
They assert that she, and possibly the IEC, prematurely formed a biased opinion, making it impossible for them to reach a fair and impartial decision.
#20917874 at 2024-05-26 15:12:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20372592
>Judge Ian Farlam is a retired Judge of Appeal who is best known for his work on the Marikana Commission of Inquiry. [Read Marikana controversy (implicating Cyril Ramaphosa) at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/]
>>20917851
>>20917858
>Geoff Budlender
>>20917858
>Most of the centre's funding was from outside South Africa. "The funders were fantastic. The first big funder was the Ford Foundation from New York. Then we got money from the Carnegie Corporation in New York, also the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. We got some money from Anglo American, from Harry Oppenheimer."
Adv Geoff Budlender, SC; Member of the Marikana Commission
https://www.justice.gov.za/comm-mrk/index.html
Chairperson of the
Commission
Judge Ian Gordon Farlam,
Retired judge of the Supreme
Court of Appeal
Secretariat: Adv Phuti Setati
Additional members:
- Adv Bantubonke Regent Tokota, SC - Advocate Pingla Devi Hemraj SC
Evidence Leaders:
- Adv Mathew Chaskalson, SC
- Adv Geoff Budlender, SC
- Adv Charles Wesley
- Adv Kameshni Pillay
- Adv Matthews Mojapelo
- Adv Thantaswa Lupuwana
- Adv Ashley Mjikeliso
(Co-ordinator, Evidence Leaders)
- Mr Dovhani Mphephu
(Instructing State Attorney, Johannesburg)
The Marikana Commission of Inquiry (Commission) was appointed by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Jacob Zuma, in terms of section 84(2)(f) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996, on 23 August 2012.
Its mandate arising from the Terms of Reference promulgated on 12 September 2012 is to investigate matters of public, national and international concern arising out of the tragic incidents at the Lonmin Mine in Marikana, in the North West Province which took place on about Saturday 11 August to Thursday 16 August, 2012 which led to the deaths of approximately 44 people, more than 70 persons being injured, approximately 250 people being arrested.
The President appointed Honourable Judge Ian Gordon Farlam, a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal as Chairperson of the Commission and Adv Bantubonke Regent Tokota, SC and Advocate Pingla Devi Hemraj SC, as its additional members.
https://www.justice.gov.za/comm-mrk/about.html
The Chairperson has accordingly designated the following persons as Evidence Leaders of the Commission:
1. Adv Mathew Chaskalson, SC
2. Adv Geoff Budlender, SC
3. Adv Charles Wesley
#20908620 at 2024-05-24 12:50:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20372592
>"Accountability Now lays charges against public protector [Busisiwe Mkhwebane]" [Aug 6, 2019] - https://youtu.be/FvDC7sfGEFM. He states that "she is seen as a tool of the Zuma faction in the ANC which is making life miserable for inter alia, Pravin Gordhan and the President [Ramaphosa] himself."
>>20908601
>The double standards
The plot thickens
"IEC chair, ANC officials implicated in plot to deregister ATM party"
https://sundayworld.co.za/news/iec-chair-anc-officials-implicated-in-plot-to-deregister-atm-party/
12th May 2024
The Electoral Court has received a written complaint implicating Mosotho Moepya, the chair of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), of conspiring with ANC members to sabotage the opposition party, African Transformation Movement (ATM).
The complaint was submitted to the court on Thursday by a former ANC researcher in the Western Cape legislature, advocate Winston Erasmus, through his lawyers, SAM Attorneys.
He asserts that the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, under the leadership of former president Jacob Zuma, is currently under attack with the usage of the same script.
According to the complaint which Sunday World has seen, Erasmus stated that the primary reason the ANC targeted the ATM was the false belief that Zuma and former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule were behind the party's formation.
He alleged that Moepya, whom he was told was just "a contact person at the IEC," was part of a meeting that took place at the City Lodge Hotel in OR Tambo International Airport on May 4, 2019, where the plot to sabotage the ATM was birthed and discussed.
Erasmus further told the Electoral Court in his complaint that he covered the costs of the meeting's hotel room.
He included his bank records in the complaint, which he said were evidence of his version of events.
He alleged that two former ANC members of parliament allegedly organised the meeting.
They are, according to Erasmus, Leonard Ramatlakana, a member of parliament's police standing committee at the time, and Hlomane Patrick Chauke, the chairperson of the portfolio committee on home affairs, which oversaw the IEC.
He alleged that Ramatlakana told Moepya in that meeting that President Cyril Ramaphosa was "very unhappy with the manner in which the ATM was registered," as the party was the brainchild of Zuma and Magashule, conceived after the 2017 ANC elective conference, where Ramaphosa was elected as the party president.
Erasmus alleged that Ramatlakana told Moepya that Zuma and Magashule "plotted to use millions of church members to effect a regime change project against the president".
Church groups, particularly the South African Council of Messianic Churches in Christ, helped form the ATM.
https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/atm-weighs-options-on-deregistering-adc9d763-5239-4523-87e0-53884468e3f4
Published Aug 15, 2023
This comes after ANC leader in the Western Cape, advocate Winston Erasmus, in his letter to ANC Western Cape provincial secretary Neville Delport, relayed his suspicions of an elaborate plot by certain ANC leaders, including Richard Dyantyi, to get the ATM de-registered from the IEC.
Dyantyi has come under fire for his role as chairperson of the Section 194 inquiry into advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane's fitness to hold office.
Early this month, Erasmus filed an application for Dyantyi to recuse himself following revelations that he was part of President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR7 team. He has also been accused of soliciting a bribe from Mkhwebane's husband, David Skosana, along with the late ANC MP Tina Joemat-Pettersson and ANC Chief Whip Pemmy Majodina.
#20895756 at 2024-05-21 14:27:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20895552
"Electoral Court was wrong on Zuma decision - Kriegler"
https://youtu.be/mvkyJ028E7c
May 20, 2024
The ConCourt found that MK party leader Jacob Zuma is not eligible to contest elections for parliament. Retired ConCourt Justice Judge Johann Kriegler says the Electoral Court was wrong in making the 'unprecedented' decision on Zuma.
This is the same guy who...
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/03/world/south-african-vote-voting-was-election-fair-voting-chief-satisfied.html
May 3, 1994
Judge Johann Kriegler casually uses the word "breakdown" to describe [South Africa's first democratic] election he is running.
He concedes that many ballots never left the warehouse, that polling places failed to open, that ballot boxes were stuffed "to a significant degree," that voting places often had no impartial monitors and that some election officials were partisan, if not crooked.
But there is no doubt in South Africa that within a few days he will baptize the new democracy by pronouncing the required four-word benediction "substantially free and fair" over the results.
"From the outset the commission had no illusions that it could mount a really efficient election," the judge said today during an intermission from the crises that still beset the counting of votes. "It is an Africa-style election. It is not to be measured by European or North American standards. What we're trying to do is put together a credible test of the will of the people." Perception Is the Key
In the end, he allowed, it is less important whether the election was really free and fair than whether people accept the outcome as a national verdict on their future.
#20895552 at 2024-05-21 13:20:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"2024 Elections | MK Party calls judiciary into question after Concourt ruling on Zuma's eligibility"
https://youtu.be/FqgDE_nB6Bg
May 20, 2024
Former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to stand for this month's elections. This after the Constitutional Court overturned the order of the Electoral Court that found that his sentence and conviction was not a sentence and conviction as envisaged in a section of the Constitution. The apex court has found that the Zuma will only be eligible to stand after five years have lapsed following the completion of his sentence. The section declares as ineligible any person that was convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 12-months imprisonment without the option of a fine. MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela joins us now for reaction on the constitutional court judgment on Zuma's Eligibility to run for elections this year.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mk-party-may-approach-un-human-rights-committee-following-concourt-ruling-against-Zuma-4d2cff90-4acc-4c0c-ab79-82b5cbe8bcd7
TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2024
Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela says their leader Jacob Zuma will pursue all possible ways, including approaching the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), to have the Constitutional Court ruling overturned after it disqualified him from participating in the National Assembly after the elections.
On Monday, the ConCourt, chaired by Justice Leona Theron, ruled that Zuma will not participate in Parliament until five years after his sentence was completed.
This means Zuma will have to appoint an MKP member who will head to Parliament.
Days before the matter could be heard in court, Zuma filed for counter-application to have six justices removed when the court heard his matter, but it was dismissed.
This was after the Electoral Commission of South African (IEC) filed an urgent application to challenge Zuma's eligibility in Parliament.
Speaking to IOL, the University of KwaZulu-Natal's associate professor of law, Karthy Govender, who is also a former SA Human Rights Commissioner, said: "in my view, I just wonder if this is not a publicity stunt, because the Constitution is fairly clear that the Constitutional Court is the highest court on constitutional matters."
Govender said it was mostly unlikely for the UNHRC to hear the matter because the South African Constitution does not allow any other court overriding the apex court.
"I am not sure on what basis they are doing it, but I assume it is to tell people that there is still another appeal, but in terms of our Constitution, that is not correct," he said.
#20847996 at 2024-05-10 18:54:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20847964
>their nightly national broadcast should give "lead story" coverage to President Jacob Zuma for the opening of the R3 billion De Hoop Dam in the country's northeast, most minerals-rich region.
>>20847902
>Third was the company's participation in broad-based black-owned companies (the idea of now-billionaire mining magnate Patrice Motsepe)
"De Hoop Dam; STEELPOORT, MPUMULANGA, SOUTH AFRICA"
https://arq.co.za/?p=2248
At 85 m in height and comprising approximately 1 million m3 of concrete, De Hoop Dam is the largest RCC dam in South Africa.
De Hoop Dam provides the bulk storage for Phase 2A of the Olifants River Water Resources Development Project (ORWRDP), which augments water supply in Limpopo Province. Water is to be supplied primarily to the mining industry in the Steelpoort area.
De Hoop Dam was constructed in high workability RCC and saw the first full implementation of IVRCC; RCC that can be compacted directly against the formwork using poker vibrators, without additional grout.
http://thenewage.co.za/22319-1024-53-Steelpoort_at_war_with_miners
https://web.archive.org/web/20110721034457/http://thenewage.co.za/22319-1024-53-Steelpoort_at_war_with_miners
Jul 6 2011 8:32AM
There are more than 100 mines operating from Lydenburg, Steelpoort, and Burgersfort up to Lebowakgomo. Steelpoort is home to Dwarsrivier chrome mine owned by Assmang, Tweefontein chrome mine owned by Samancor, Two Rivers and Modikwe platinum mines managed by Patrice Motsepe's African Rainbow Minerals , as well as Mototolo platinum mine and the Lion Ferrochrome smelter, both owned by Xstrata.
#20847964 at 2024-05-10 18:47:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20847905
>One of his critics, political economy professor Patrick Bond, has described him as "another white man nicely empowered by BEE". In the past Bond has said that Golding and Copelyn, as the heads of HCI, were getting involved in "easy-money casinos, cellphone and television deals".
"etv: emails show who really runs the show" - Part 1
https://groundup.org.za/article/media-meltdown-emails-disclose-who-really-runs-south-african-show_2394/
28 October 2014 | Patrick Bond
A credibility crisis in South Africa's independent media is unfolding this week, writes Patrick Bond.
There is a risk that fewer than a half-dozen managers will destroy the waning integrity - and at minimum, the ownership structure - of the country's most popular tv news station, eNews, which had aspired to become Africa's answer to Al-Jazeera.
Seven months ago, Marcel Golding, a former National Union of Mineworkers deputy general secretary who served under Cyril Ramaphosa 25 years ago, and until Monday ran eNews, received a string of emails from a behind-the-scenes fixer, Yunis Shaik. These astonishing emails were lodged in papers at the Cape Town Labour Court last Friday by Golding, in his failed last-gasp bid to save his eNews leadership.
The documents prove that six weeks before this year's national election, Shaik told Golding and his wife, eNews executive Bronwyn Keene-Young, that their nightly national broadcast should give "lead story" coverage to President Jacob Zuma for the opening of the R3 billion De Hoop Dam in the country's northeast, most minerals-rich region.
The intermediary between Zuma and Shaik was Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel, former general secretary of the SA Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Sactwu). Within the eNews holding company, Shaik's main protectors were the founding and current Sactwu general secretaries, Johnny Copelyn and Andre Kriel - all close pals of Golding until recently. Not anymore.
March 24 was a flashpoint moment, as Shaik wrote, "I got a call from Minister Patel today. He says President Zuma this day opened a new dam. The building of dams is a big issue and has big impact on our country for supply of water etc. He wants for us to cover it tonight."
When after two days eNews had only mentioned the De Hoop Dam fleetingly on the morning show, Shaik emailed Keene-Young again, frustrated: "I received three sms[es] from Ebrahim and a phone call which gave rise to me sending an email to Marcel and yourself... after receiving another phone call from Ebrahim, and you and Marcel [are] still not available."
This deal was not trivial, for eNews's 2.5 million nightly viewers are an audience 2.5 times greater than the SA Broadcasting Corporation's English-language news show.
During eNews's 2012 London launch, Conroy reportedly said it would "become the Al Jazeera of Africa." But now, Patel's "ham-fisted attempt at Stasi-style propaganda" - as the Sunday Business Times described the abuse of power at eNews - makes transparent "just how wafer-thin the line really is between powerful people seeking propaganda and the information dished out to the public."
Golding's main ally on the board of directors of eNews' holding company was former Minister of State Enterprises Barbara Hogan. When she resigned on Sunday, she confirmed the interference: "I am mindful of the briefing that Yunis Shaik gave me when he claimed that Sactwu ... had lost patience with the editorial practices of eTV, citing the failure to give prominent coverage to Minister Ebrahim Patel's economic pronouncements, as an instance of such dissatisfaction."
As South Africa prepares for digital tv migration, the Set-Top Box 'STB programme' was Golding's attempt to garner state support for a combined, fee-based cable news and internet access system in which he was simultaneously investing just over R24 million, in order to ensure eNews had control over rapid STB retail installation. However the share price of the local electronics firm he favoured, Ellies, soon tanked, resulting in sufficiently large losses that Copelyn and Shaik allegedly had a pretense for dismissing Golding this month, for dereliction of duty, gross negligence, dishonesty, and breaches of fiduciary duties and ethics policy.
(Whether true or not, media activists insist the STBs - costing around R1000 - be provided by the state as a free universal lifeline service so as to enhance information access.)
#20833875 at 2024-05-07 19:46:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
#12-B
>>20743038, 20743047, >>20743054 Time to pull the plug on SACU (Parts 1-3)
>>20743308, >>20743312 Mayor sends police to ban and shut down NatCon Brussels conference as Antifa gathers outside (video)
>>20777614, >>20777617, >>20777619 "The South African Arms Deal" – Thales (Parts 1-3)
>>20777708 Thales sets up new SA subsidiary - 2009
>>20833831 ANC Bun Part One
>>20833835 ANC Bun Part Two
>>20833836 Initial Brenthurst Foundation Bun
>>20833837 Updated Commodities Bun
>>20833841 Updated Oppenheimer Bun
>>20833844 Updated Andr? Pienaar Bun
>>20833845 Updated Rwanda Bun
>>20833846 Violence and Crime Bun Part One
>>20833849 Violence and Crime Bun Part Two
>>20833850 Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
#20833850 at 2024-05-07 19:42:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)
>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)
>>20484031 He took the spear and stabbed himself with it': Mbalula on Zuma and MK party
>>20501022 "Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen" (video)
>>20537502 "Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president": Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela (video)
>>20585630 Zuma right about van Rooyen's academic qualifications: report": Master's Degree in Finance - Pravin Gordhan qualification: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy (video)
>>20585725 EXPLAINER — what we know about Jacob Zuma's new party
>>20601479, >>20601482 Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma [addressing Afrikaans white South Africans] || Leadership Summit 2024 (video)
>>20601620 Former president Jacob Zuma addresses MK supporters (video)
>>20656636 Zuma barred from MK party candidacy by IEC due to criminal record
>>20706038 Electoral court clears Zuma to run for parliament
>>20777806 South African Ex-President Zuma & Thales' Arms Deal Corruption Case Explained
>>20777830, >>20777841 Zuma back in court today for corruption trial (2023)
>>20777854 Former President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial - 26 October 2023 (video)
>>20777868 "ExaminIng Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case": Case was removed from the roll, arms deal pre-trial scheduled for May 17, 2024 (video)
>>20777881 Jacob Zuma v ANC: MK Party triumphs in high-stakes trademark & logo court case (video)
>>20777886 Zuma betrayed us – Makgoale (video)
#20833846 at 2024-05-07 19:41:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Violence and Crime Bun Part One
>>19692458, >>19692463, >>19692470 'Open hunting ground': South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding (Parts 1-3)
>>20340605 "Open hunting ground: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding"
>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town
>>20362713 8 things you need to know about farm murders in South Africa (video)
>>20395068 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa's "transformation' – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc
>>20397875, >>20406078 South Africa's Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to "Our People" (video)
>>20407598 Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice
>>20407726 Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2 (video)
>>20410783 (Canada #53) South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is "Inciting Violence"
>>20418196 We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages) (video)
>>20423259 South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report
>>20442095 KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings (video)
>>20445849 Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates (video)
>>20451446 Revealed: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA (video)
>>20452972 DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen
>>20457755 South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement
>>20464138 250 Ekurhuleni metro police workers have criminal records (video)
>>20494555 El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Warns Of 'Dark Forces' In Anti-Crime Speech At CPAC (video)
>>20494559 Hits or contract killings becoming a common occurrence in South Africa (video)
>>20516743 MK party member fatally shot in Umlazi (video)
>>20520797 How Haiti's 'Aid State' Has Fueled Organized Crime
>>20520821 Kenya Agrees to Police Haiti's Criminal Hurricane
>>20526083 Man killed, another injured in vigilante incident
>>20526578 Tackling child kidnappings in South Africa: Chad Thomas (video)
>>20565908 From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa 1987 - 2000 (video)
>>20565918 South African police battle looters after days of taxi driver protests (video)
>>20565928 Taxi violence: SA's never-ending war (video)
>>20571002 Construction Mafia: Delft Housing Project halted (video)
>>20571163 M-NET Carte Blanche: Construction Mafia, Delft Housing Project halted (video)
>>20571203 Gerrie Nel; founding head of Gauteng Scorpions and received an International Association of Prosecutors award in 2014
>>20571247, >>20571250, >>20571259 Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel ["Pit Bull"] leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind (Parts 1-3)
>>20571290 Four of Gerrie Nel's most famous cases": Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, Jackie Selebi, Brett Kebble, Oscar Pistorius (video)
>>20571440 Pravin Gordhan Deserves Prison" and not retirement (video)
>>20571475 Jacob Zuma: Johann Rupert threatened to shutdown the economy of South Africa if Pravin Gordhan was removed (video)
>>20585215 SA, Zimbabwe sign MOU on water supply
>>20585674 #FeesMustFall's Bonginkosi Khanyile speaks out following his sentencing (video)
>>20595578 How This Ekurhuleni Metro Police Officer Turned Into A Ruthless Hitman
>>20601460, >>20601464 DR Congo's reinstatement of death penalty faces fierce Church opposition (Parts 1&2)
>>20606537 'Don't let them arrest me': Speaker Mapisa-Nqakula files urgent High Court bid to interdict Minister Bheki Cele, NPA from arresting her
>>20656626 Race obsession is breaking the justice system
#20833844 at 2024-05-07 19:40:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Updated Andr? Pienaar Bun
>>20500680 Andr? Pienaar
>>20500683 The 'CIA agent' [Andr? Pienaar] who never was, plus five talking points from 'Vrye Weekblad'
>>20500696 Loyal to the Max – how the billionaire [Andr? Pienaar] who was once in Jacob Zuma's crosshairs saved 'Vrye Weekblad'
>>20500713 South African [Andr? Pienaar] at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider
>>20500816, >>20500822, >>20500826, >>20500835, >>20500846 "Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar (Parts 1-5)
>>20743195 Welcome to the murky world of Kroll Inc - the private CIA
>>20743213 Jules Kroll: "The World's Most Famous Private Detective Makes No Apologies"
>>20766568 Andr? Pienaar: "Pentagon audit found connection between Mattis-era Defense Department and Amazon-linked Britisj consultant
>>20766601 "Andre Pienaar: International Man of Intelligence" – He established the Scorpions while working for Kroll
>>20766607 MK party: Kremlin's Spear; Ramaphosa's "unlawful" Putin deal freed Zuma - Andr? Pienaar – FBI, Scotland Yard and UK trained the Scorpions (video)
>>20766676 Inside the secretive business of geopolitical advice
>>20766886 Andr? Pienaar: Founder, CEO and Head of Investor Relations, C5 Capital
#20833831 at 2024-05-07 19:39:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
ANC Bun Part One
>>20242815 ANC sponsored violence in South Africa (video)
>>20362830 ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma
>>20379836, >>20379966, >>20379849 Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (video)
>>20395076 Research Paper 2022: Elites and economic policy in South Africa's transition and beyond
>>20418277 Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa? (video)
>>20457780 Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced 'all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres' onto SA, collapsing economy (video)
>>20483993 The WhatsApp Group That Controls South Africa (video)
>>20484050 ANC Manifesto Launch: Spear and Lightning at the end of Cyril Ramaphosa speech (video)
>>20484878, >>20484891 Government invests R2.7bn in development near Waterfall City, WEF influence (video)
>>20492903 Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan (video)
>>20494573, >>20494579, >>20494594, >>20494605, >>20494642 RW Johnson: The New South Africa's original sin – Chris Hani assassination (Parts 1-5)
>>20494685 No, Anti-Apartheid Activist Chris Hani Wasn't Killed by ANC Leaders": Posted on the Jacobin website, written by Ronnie Kasrils
>>20516751, >>20525958 Violence, chaos erupts in Ekurhuleni council between EFF and ANC (video)
>>20516854 South Africa's liberation war veterans are angry: here's why
>>20516903 Only useful until democracy? Reintegrating ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa with lessons from Kosovo & Zimbabwe
>>20530361 Ekurhuleni downgraded to junk status, Tshwane placed on review (Video)
>>20530368 MK Party Threatens Civil War and Anarchy if Denied 2024 elections Rights, Warns Visvin Reddy (video)
>>20530661 A pissed off south African: ANC has destroyed South Africa; Julius Malema border policy; Taxi violence and Crime (video)
>>20556785 How the ANC went about compiling its [2024] election candidate list (video)
>>20556813 Calibre of ANC candidates close to that of 1994 – Motlanthe (video)
>>20562675 ANC under fire for changing funding model for parties ahead of elections in May
>>20571002 From Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi violence in South Africa 1987 - 2000 (video)
>>20585580 Who's going to Parliament? A peek at the ANC's [and MK's] nomination list
>>20585639 Fallism's Faultlines: The Paradoxes of "Fees Must Fall
>>20585663 MK Party appoints Bonginkosi Khanyile as new youth leader (video)
>>20600883 ANC, IFP tensions spark fears of renewed violence in KZN (video)
>>20601502, >>20601506 Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold (Parts 1&2)
>>20601552 Nelson Mandela and the ANC never renounced violence
>>20636664 ANC loses bid to deregister Zuma's MK party
>>20636668 Disgruntled community on the abandoned million-rand projects in Madibeng (video)
>>20666291, >>20666303, >>20666552 The St James Church Massacre in South Africa, 25 July 1993
>>20666337 Archbishop Desmond Tutu became Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
>>20666348, >>20666367, >>20666377, >>20666395 The Real Legacy of Desmond Tutu (Parts 1-4)
>>20666419 Desmond Tutu quits as Oxfam ambassador over aid agency's sex scandal (video)
>>20666492 Significant Attacks Prior to the "Free and Fair" Elections of 1994
>>20666582 Theo Mabusela Involvement in Operations Before the 1994 Elections
>>20682047 The historic Palestine and Pan-Africanist alliance with Letlapa Mphahlele: "APLA cadres trained by Palestinians" (video)
>>20682050, >>20682129 Unpack the past: Mandela, the keffiyeh and South Africa's Palestine embrace
>>20687109, >>20687116 Announcement of the disbandment of SADF: 32 Battalion on SABC News (26 March 1993)
>>20687870 The PLO at 58 and the ANC at 110: how they evolved and where do they stand today?
#20777886 at 2024-04-25 19:09:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777881
"Zuma betrayed us - Makgoale"
https://youtu.be/lb0EvQns8lc
Apr 22, 2024
ANC veteran Omry Makgoale says former president Jacob Zuma has betrayed the ruling party by starting the uMkhonto weSizwe Party. "He wants to defeat and kill the ANC. We are disappointed, we feel betrayed."
#20777881 at 2024-04-25 19:08:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20636664
"Jacob Zuma v ANC: MK Party triumphs in high-stakes trademark & logo court case | 2024 election"
https://youtu.be/6WC1Drz2pbw
Apr 22, 2024
Join Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh to explore the MK Party's significant courtroom victory over the ANC in a trademark dispute. We outline the case's context, dissect the legal arguments, and analyze the court's decision. Our experts discuss the ruling's impact on South Africa's political and legal landscapes, exploring its implications for both parties involved. Tune into SMWX for a concise and insightful examination of this pivotal case.
#20777868 at 2024-04-25 19:05:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777614
>>20777617
>>20777619
>>20777830
>>20777841
>>20777854
The saga continues…
"ExaminIng Jacob Zuma's private prosecution case": Case was removed from the roll, arms deal pre-trial scheduled for May 17, 2024
https://youtu.be/GHFQez0jMUY
Apr 17, 2024
Legal analyst Nthabiseng Dubazana dissects the private prosecution case of former president Jacob Zuma against Adv. Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan. The case was removed from the roll by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/private-prosecution-downer-maughan-alive-Zuma-foundation/
18 Apr 2024 06:36 am
The Jacob Zuma Foundation says former President Jacob Zuma's private prosecution of prosecutor Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan is far from over.
On Wednesday, his private prosecution of prosecutor Downer and Maughan was removed from the roll by Judge Nkosinathi Chili in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) High Court in Pietermaritzburg.
The arms deal has been postponed to 17 May for a pre-trial.
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-03-20-Jacob-Zuma-fails-to-remove-billy-downer-but-will-appeal-again/
20 MARCH 2024 - 12:14
On the suggestion of judge Nkosinathi Chili, both sides agreed to postpone the trial to 'a pretrial conference' on May 17
Former president Jacob Zuma has again failed to remove lead prosecutor advocate Billy Downer from his arms-deal corruption case.
But more appeals are in the offing and the matter has still not been set down for trial for the hearing of evidence.
#20777854 at 2024-04-25 19:00:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777841
>>20777830
"Former President Jacob Zuma's corruption trial | 26 October 2023"
https://youtu.be/XJ90XdeCfTU
Streamed live on Oct 26, 2023
The arms deal fraud and corruption trial of former president Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales will be back at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Zuma is expected to lead arguments in his latest application to have state prosecutor advocate Billy Downer removed as lead prosecutor from his trial. Zuma earlier this month lost his appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal against the enforcement order of a ruling which set aside his private prosecution of Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-10-26-judgment-reserved-in-Zumas-latest-attempt-to-remove-billy-downer/
26 October 2023 - 19:43
"We asked the NPA to remove him. They said no. We appealed to his conscience. He said no. We are saying please find another prosecutor but don't be blind to the (fact that) the NPA is a crime scene," Mpofu said, referring to the fact that the NDPP had supported Downer, and was paying for his defence in the private prosecution.
Downer, who attempted to make submissions on the issue, was shouted down by Mpofu who said "he is accused number one … we can't be listening to him".
#20777830 at 2024-04-25 18:54:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777806
"Zuma back in court today for corruption trial" - Part 1
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/npa-push-Jacob-Zuma-arms-deal-trial-proceed/
24 Oct 2023 04:52 pm
Former President Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales are set to return to the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.
This comes after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last week unanimously dismissed Zuma's bid to challenge the enforcement of the ruling invalidating his private prosecution of state advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.
Zuma had sought to overturn a high court judgment that effectively prevented Downer and Maughan from having to face prosecution.
"These emphatic and repeated dismissals of Mr Zuma's pillars are fatal to his current attempt to resurrect them to avoid his day in court," the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) argued in papers filed at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg.
Downer made it clear the NPA will push for the former president's trial to proceed, despite whatever appeals may follow his 26 October bid to again force the prosecutor's removal, if that bid is (again) unsuccessful.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi said the matter was set down for hearing on 15 August 2023 but was unexpectedly removed by the Judge President Mandisa Maya a day before the hearing, a decision which was reversed after a meeting between her and the parties.
"It will be remembered that it was on the basis of this application that Judge Koen recused himself from the trial in January 2023 after considering the written arguments of both parties."
The former president's legal team had raised 14 grounds for Downer to be recused including his claim the prosecutor had been party to the unlawful leaking of court papers - containing a sick note from his military doctor Brigadier Mcebisi Mdutywa to Maughan.
In January this year Koen announced his decision to recuse himself from the matter for the "strong views" he made when he dismissed Zuma's bid to get arms deal prosecutor, Downer, removed from the corruption and fraud trial.
Earlier this year, the NPA wanted the Pietermaritzburg High Court to step in citing the "unreasonable" delays it said the former president was causing in the arms deal corruption case.
The case was last in court in April when it was on the roll for the trial to finally get underway.
However, it was postponed again after Zuma brought a fresh bid for Downer, who is leading the prosecution against him, to be recused.
While the SCA dismissed the second application for leave to appeal by Zuma, the former president tried to get Judge President Maya to intervene and filed a reconsideration application.
In the State's answering affidavit, Downer argued Zuma's ultimate aim was "to avoid at all costs to have his day in court".
#20777708 at 2024-04-25 18:31:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777614
>>20777617
>>20777619
>>20777632
>>20777635
Thales continued to flourish in South Africa.
"Thales sets up new SA subsidiary"
https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/thales-sets-up-new-sa-subsidiary/
5th May 2009
Thales, the French defence and aerospace giant, is registering a new South African subsidiary to be known as Thales South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
The Star newspaper reported over the long weekend that its previous local office, Thales International, also known as "Thint" ceased to exist on Thursday.
Thales International was a co-accused with President-elect Jacob Zuma in a corruption case linked to the 1999 Strategic Defence Package.
The paper adds charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering were formally withdrawn against Thint (Pty) Ltd and Thint Holding in the Durban High Court on April 7, the day the NPA dropped its case against Zuma.
"Eight days later, the warrant of arrest granted in February 2005 for Thales International`s former head, Alain Thetard, was cancelled by Judge Kate Pillay in the Durban High Court," The Star adds.
Thales International attorney Ajay Sooklal says the "mist" hanging over his client's head has cleared and the company can move on.
Thales International CE Pierre Moynot, who retired Thursday, told the paper the winding up of the business and the establishing of a new company "has nothing to do with trying to 'launder` or rehabilitate a company whose image has been badly damaged."
"We always wanted to do it," he said.
When parent company Thomson-CSF was rebranded in December 2000 as Thales internationally, its South African subsidiaries, including African Defence Systems (ADS), were also supposed to reflect the name change, says Moynot.
He had resisted, however. "We were in court remember. We thought if we changed (our name) while in court, it might not be felt well." Moynot said it was decided to leave the name as it was and to change it when all had been settled.
"We never had any doubt that it would be settled. Honestly. There was nothing real (in the charges)."
He adds that at the time there was another company called "Thales" in South Africa - Thales Advanced Engineering (TAE) - and thus it was decided to use the name "Thint", a contraction of Thales International.
TAE has since rebranded itself as Protoclea and tha name "Thales" has fallen into disuse, allowing the French multinational to acquire the usage rights.
Thales currently has an 80% shareholding in ADS, with the rest owned by General Lambert Moloi's Futuristic Business Solutions. Thales upped its shareholding in ADS when it paid R20 million for the 20% previously owned by Schabir Shaik's Nkobi Group, The Star added. Moynot says the BEE (black economic empowerment stake in ADS is to be increased soon.
Christian Lamoureux, currently CE of ADS, is tipped to head Thales SA.
#20777672 at 2024-04-25 18:24:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777617
>In particular, then-defence minister Joe Modise (who died in 2001) unilaterally decided to remove cost as a consideration for the package of fighter and trainer aircraft, which was ultimately awarded to BAE Systems and Saab for the Gripen fighter aircraft (Saab/BAE) and the Hawk trainer (BAE).
>In 2011, a new commission of inquiry headed by Justice Willie Seriti was established, but concluded in a report published April 2016 that no new charges should be brought.
>>20777619
>The British investigation determined that BAE had paid roughly GBP 115 million in bribes to secure the deal, and had acted through numerous middlemen such as Richard Charter, a consultant, and John Bredenkamp, a Zimbabwean rugby player and later suspected arms dealer.
>>20494559
>>20494573
>>20494579
>>20494594
>>20494605
>>20494642
>>20571290
>Janusz Walus
"Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal"
https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014-10-08-chris-hani-murdered-because-he-was-an-obstacle-to-the-arms-deal/
By Sapa - 08 October 2014 - 21:06
Former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was allegedly assassinated for fear he would expose former Defence Minister Joe Modise's involvement in the multi-million rand arms deal, said arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne at the Seriti Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday.
Crawford-Browne has made a number of allegations in his testimony at the inquiry established to investigate allegations of fraud and corruption in the R70 billion arms deal in 1999.
Crawford-Browne testified that there were allegations that when Hani was assassinated in 1993, he was on the verge of exposing former defence minister Joe Modise's involvement in, and corruption relating to, the arms deal.
"It has been alleged that Mr Janusz Walus was ultimately employed by the [British arms manufacturer] BAE, perhaps by way of John Bredenkamp, the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean who was the second-largest recipient of those BAE bribes," he told the inquiry.
He said blaming Clive Derby-Lewis for Hani's murder was merely a red herring to blame white right-wing elements, diverting attention from the British arms industry.
Derby-Lewis was convicted of conspiring to kill SA Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani by providing the gun Polish immigrant Walus used to kill him in the driveway of his home in Boksburg, on the East Rand, on April 10, 1993.
The 78-year-old former Conservative Party MP, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, has served more than 20 years of his sentence.
Derby-Lewis was initially sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment when the death penalty was abolished in 1995. He has been repeatedly denied parole.
Modise was poisoned, the commission also heard.
"I was told by Bheki Jacobs six weeks before Mr Modise died that he was being poisoned, and that his death would be ascribed to cancer," arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne told the inquiry's hearings in Pretoria.
"Mr Modise was known to have many enemies and it is also known there was considerable animosity between him and Mr Chris Hani dating from their times in exile."
Bheki Jacobs, also known as Uranin Vladimir, Hassan Solomon, and Hassan Osman, died at his mother's home in 2008 after a six-month battle with cancer.
Crawford-Browne said Jacobs was an African National Congress functionary, trained in the Soviet Union as an intelligence operative.
In 2003, Jacobs was arrested, and later exonerated, for allegedly plotting an assassination. The charge of conspiring to commit murder was watered down and finally dropped.
At the time, Jacobs reportedly believed his one-time comrade and later nemesis, Mo Shaik, to be behind his surprise arrest. They had both been involved in the ANC's intelligence structures in the early 1980s.
On Wednesday, Crawford-Browne said Jacobs told him that an investigating team's report into the arms deal was being doctored pending Modise's death "so that dead men can tell no tales".
"I have now consequently reported the allegations of poisoning to the deputy commissioner of police in the Western Cape, but no action was taken," he said.
The commission was appointed by President Jacob Zuma three years ago to investigate alleged corruption in the arms procurement deal.
The government acquired, among other hardware, 26 Gripen fighter aircraft and 24 Hawk lead-in fighter trainer aircraft for the air force, and frigates and submarines for the navy.
#20777617 at 2024-04-25 18:10:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777614
"The South African Arms Deal" - Thales - Part 2
https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/the-south-african-arms-deal/
May 5, 2017
The Arms Deals
While some components of the Strategic Arms Procurement Package were first discussed in modernization programs dating back to the last days of apartheid, the requirements approved in 1998 by parliament derived from the results of an all-services defense review launched in 1995. In this process, the navy made it known that it wanted to re-establish South Africa's role as a regional maritime power through the acquisition of new surface combatants as well as an upgrade to aging French submarines. The air force entered the review needing replacements for both a cheap advanced trainer and a new medium fighter.
The review concluded that the primary function of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) would be to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the post-apartheid nation. This rather conventional goal, was therefore used to justify a conventional acquisitions policy. The defense review prescribed a recapitalization of a blue water navy, new fighter trainer and multi-role combat aircraft, and new helicopters for the air force and navy. Nonetheless, the review was not an unconditional endorsement of this list; it also concluded that the recapitalization should be balanced against the more pressing need to address security threats posed by poverty, crime, unemployment, and the legacy of apartheid. Critically, parliamentary approval of the defense review was not to amount to approval of the recommended force design. The South African government ultimately ignored that requirement and treated parliamentary approval of the review as sign-off on the arms package.
The European consortia which won the resulting tenders, collectively known as the Strategic Arms Procurement Package, came to South Africa during a period of thin demand, market consolidation, and chronic oversupply. In this environment, corruption was evidently a price worth paying to secure a foothold in the new market, and even some of the losing bidders, such as Daimler Benz Aerospace, were later found to have provided bribes.
Corruption Allegations
The alleged corruption associated with the package was meant to give each bidder an advantage in the requirements-setting and tender processes. BAE's offerings for the fighter trainer aircraft tender, the Hawk and Saab Gripen, were originally eliminated in March 1997 on cost grounds, but became viable after a controversial revision of requirements later that summer. –In particular, then-defence minister Joe Modise (who died in 2001) unilaterally decided to remove cost as a consideration for the package of fighter and trainer aircraft, which was ultimately awarded to BAE Systems and Saab for the Gripen fighter aircraft (Saab/BAE) and the Hawk trainer (BAE). The bribes were allegedly offered in cash, in gifts, and in preferential selection of industrial partners.
Investigations and Outcomes
Questions of wrongdoing emerged in September 1999, shortly after the deals were signed earlier that year, when parliamentarian Patricia de Lille produced a dossier of allegations. The Auditor-General, Shauket Fakie, found the next year that proper procurement practices had not been followed correctly and recommended an investigation. Resulting prosecutions led to the conviction of Tony Yengeni, an African National Congress (ANC) MP and chair of the joint standing committee on defence during the deal's negotiation, of fraud, and that of Shabir Shaik, deputy-president Jacob Zuma's financial aide, for soliciting a bribe for Zuma.
Zuma avoided prosecution as long as he remained an influential politician. In 2006 and 2008, charges against him were first set aside and then withdrawn by the prosecutor. At first, it appeared he would pay a political price for his alleged involvement, having being dismissed as deputy president by Thabo Mbeki in 2005. But in 2007, he won over the ANC and secured a comeback, becoming the new president himself in 2009.
In 2011, a new commission of inquiry headed by Justice Willie Seriti was established, but concluded in a report published April 2016 that no new charges should be brought. That report was criticized by opposition parties and watchdog NGOs for having barely conducted any real investigation. In October 2017, following appeals by the opposition Democratic Alliance party, the courts reinstated charges against Zuma. The reinstated charges contributed to a deterioration in his political support, leading to his resignation in February 2018 and replacement by Cyril Ramaphosa. The following year, the findings of the Seriti Commission were set aside by the North Gauteng High Court.
#20777614 at 2024-04-25 18:09:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20777607
>Thales
"How Weapons Wound Democracy"
https://youtu.be/bQQFZw9ccoo
Jan 2, 2019
Thales is known for their bribes.
"The South African Arms Deal" - Thales - Part 1
https://sites.tufts.edu/corruptarmsdeals/the-south-african-arms-deal/
May 5, 2017
How did post-apartheid South Africa succumb to one of the most infamous and long-lasting corruption scandals in recent memory? The allegations, that European arms companies and leading South African politicians manipulated the procurement process for an arms deal worth USD 5 billion at the time in return for bribes of as much as USD 300 million from the seller companies, have dogged former President Jacob Zuma (2009-2018) since the early 2000s and led to investigations in five jurisdictions. Yet most of the decision-makers involved in the Strategic Arms Procurement Package episode have escaped justice, and the most promising revelations uncovered by investigators have never been fully developed into prosecutions. After only two convictions, the arms deal has left a legacy of impunity in one of Africa's most promising young democracies.
Key Facts
Buyer country: South Africa
Selling countries and companies:
? BAE Systems (United Kingdom)
? Saab (Sweden)
? Thomson-CSF (France) [Thales]
? Thyssen-Krupp, Blohm+Voss, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Ferrostaal (Germany)
? Agusta (Italy)
Year of Procurement Decision: 1999
The equipment sold:
? 4 MEKO A200 patrol corvettes
? 3 Type 209 Submarines
? 27 Gripens (Dual-Seat)
? 24 BAE Hawk 100 Trainers
? 30 Agusta A109 light utility helicopters
Initial price: South African Rand (ZAR) 29.99 billion (in 1999) or USD (1999) 5 billion
Total sum involved in corruption allegations: USD 300 million
Dramatis Personae
Jacob Zuma - deputy president of South Africa (1999-2005) at the time the deal was negotiated and president (2009 - 2018); allegedly took bribes to facilitate the deal. On trial for fraud, racketeering, and money-laundering.
Joe Modise - South African Minister of Defense (1994-1999, died 2001).
Shabir Shaik - Zuma's personal aide; convicted of soliciting bribes.
Tony Yengeni - ANC parliamentarian leader; convicted of fraud, stemming from bribe-taking.
Fana Hlongwane - defense consultant and advisor to former defense minister Joe Modise; allegedly received bribes to help facilitate the deal.
#20766607 at 2024-04-23 17:52:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20766601
>>20500768
>"Bring back the model of the Scorpions: Mbalula"
"MK party: Kremlin's Spear; Ramaphosa's "unlawful" Putin deal freed Zuma - Andr? Pienaar" - FBI, Scotland Yard and UK trained the Scorpions
https://youtu.be/-69ntQ5MXYc
Mar 4, 2024
Andr? Pienaar is a venture capitalist, CEO, and founder of C5 Capital, a firm with a diverse portfolio spanning the cybersecurity, space, and nuclear power industries. He is also one of the co-founders of the Scorpions, which, according to Pienaar, was one of the most successful law enforcement units. However, it was dismantled by former President Jacob Zuma after the Scorpions started investigating Zuma and the Commissioner of Police, Jackie Selebi, for corruption. Pienaar was accused by Zuma of being a CIA spy, a claim that Pienaar says in an interview with Biznews, "placed a marker on me and my family as a form of intimidation." Now, 15 years after the disbanding of the Scorpions, Pienaar has decided to fight back. He shares some details of the events in a recent article in National Security News and is planning to reveal more in an upcoming book scheduled for publication in August titled: "Mandela's Untouchables - The Scorpions and the Fight for Justice in South Africa." Pienaar alleges that Zuma has 'Russian masters' and that the uMkhonto weSizwe (ML) party is a proxy of the GRU, Russia's Military Intelligence Service. He describes it as one of the most dangerous and predatory intelligence organisations in the world that "will undoubtedly try to interfere in the South African elections." Pienaar also accuses President Cyril Ramaphosa of having done an "unlawful" deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Russia Africa summit in St Petersburg in 2023 to keep Zuma out of prison. Regarding the potential reinstatement of the Scorpions," Pienaar remarked that it was possible. However, it would take great political will to fight organised crime in the country. The process should be started, he says, by giving Zuma his day in court and by sending him back to prison to complete his sentence for contempt of court after failing to appear before the Zondo Commission into corruption.
1:00 - "The story of the Scorpions is a really important untold story for South Africa but also for the world. The Scorpions is a great South African success story. It is an integral part of the history of our democracy in South Africa, it is tribute to the leadership of the ANC at the time... It's an example of how South Africa can build successful alliances with other democracies... It's also highly relevant for the international community today because all democracies are struggling with a question of police reform... compatible with human rights and that supports social justice... The Scorpions is a very successful example of police reform. Very uniquely, we innovated law enforcement because in the Scorpions brought together a combination of intelligence officers, detectives and prosecutors in one unit... This very close integration between prosecutors, intelligence officers and law enforcement officials made the Scorpions one of the most successful law enforcement units not only in South Africa and Africa but worldwide."
24:09 - "[Scorpions] was a very unique experience at the dawn of democracy when everyone was rallying to help South Africa. The US government took 50 young black graduates and put them through a full training course at the FBI academy at Quantico and this group of young graduates were the first foreign attendees of the FBI academy who were given a full training course like they were FBI officers. Scotland Yard and the United Kingdom did the same thing... All of this was in the open, there was nothing clandestine about this and all of this was approved by President Mandela's government."
#20743054 at 2024-04-18 18:10:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20743038
>>20743047
"Time to pull the plug on SACU?" - 3 of 3
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/time-to-pull-the-plug-on-sacu
Published on 12 March 2015
Excerpts
But what to do about this? Some, like political analyst Mzukisi Qobo, have called for a total overhaul of the SACU agreement, which would make explicit that SACU is a disguised South African development project. The development aid would become transparent and could be tied to conditions such as democratic government.
That is on the face of it an attractive solution, offering the opportunity of leveraging democracy in Swaziland, in particular, by placing a conditional foot on its lifeline of SACU revenues. But Grynberg warns that a sudden withdrawal of the vital direct budgetary support which SACU customs and excise revenues provides, could implode both Swaziland and Lesotho and provoke economic crises in Namibia and even Botswana.
Meanwhile, South Africa has benefitted from a ready market for its much larger manufacturing machine. Grynberg wrote in a more recent article for the Botswana journal, Mmegi, that the South African government was thinking of pulling out of SACU because it couldn't get its way in the negotiations to revise the RSF; and because the 2005 Southern African Development Community Free Trade Agreement now gave it duty-free access to the BLNS countries without the need to pay the re-distributive SACU customs revenues.
It was only President Jacob Zuma who was preventing this, because he didn't want to go down in history 'as the man who crippled the Namibian and Botswana economies and created two more "Zimbabwes" - i.e. Swaziland and Lesotho - right on the country's border.' Pretoria's decision had turned SACU into a 'dead man walking, just waiting for someone to pull the switch and end its life.'
Grynberg strongly advised the BLNS to prevent this by accepting that the political reality that underpinned the RSF of SACU no longer existed. He says that it should be transformed into a purely development community without the formula, but with mutually agreed spending on development - mainly in the BLNS. He suggested, though, that this radical change would take at least 10 to 15 years to phase in.
All very well. But isn't that what SADC is supposed to be already? Which suggests that it might be time to take the 105-year-old dead man off life support.
#20711880 at 2024-04-11 16:17:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20711676
"The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the Battle against Corruption"
https://youtu.be/1ccDBs-uDys
Sep 29, 2022
21:21 - "Also if you look at one of the things I discuss in the book, the incidence of political murders that involve ANC councilors or ANC politicians... It's basically that issue; if it's my turn to eat, it's my turn to eat. Anyone who blocks another comrade attempt to get his or her hand in the trough then... you're more likely to be removed, to be taken out... that explains that the elective conferences have become very much a life and death matter for comrades fighting for leadership positions."
23:51 - [Quote from the book] "Tenders as well as easy access to municipal positions are the oil that greases the killing machines."
54:33 - "You can look at all of the whistleblowers that were involved in the Gupta exposure, in the state capture exposure. One of them... how ironic, is in exile in the UK where many ANC leaders were exiled by the Apartheid regime."
"'The Enemy Within': How ANC corruption 'began under Mandela'"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-09-29-the-enemy-within-how-anc-corruption-began-under-mandela/
29 Sep 2022
Excerpts
"The incentive to be corrupt is so high, and nobody wants to kill that incentive," said author and News24 columnist Mpumelelo Mkhabela at the virtual launch of his latest book, The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the battle against corruption.
ANC corruption didn't begin under Jacob Zuma - it didn't even start under Thabo Mbeki. It started under Nelson Mandela, writes Mkhabela.
"The ANC's promise was; once it had destroyed the system of colonialism and apartheid, it would set up a new morality where corruption would be frowned upon," said Mkhabela, in conversation with Davis during a Daily Maverick webinar on Wednesday.
However, "It wasn't long after Mandela came into power that the ANC's conviction against corruption was tested - and it failed," he said.
Bantu Holomisa and Stella Sigcau
The party was confronted with allegations of corruption when former ANC member Bantu Holomisa accused Cabinet minister Stella Sigcau, in Mandela's government, of being "on the take" - and of accepting a bribe from Sun International founder Sol Kerzner.
"The ANC didn't take kindly to that, so what the party did was - Mandela, Mbeki and other high-profile leaders - made a decision that Holomisa was out of order, he was bringing the ANC into disrepute, and he shouldn't be raising issues of corruption - and they decided to discipline him," said Mkhabela.
The ANC expelled Holomisa in 1996 after he testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the alleged corruption, while the person against whom the allegations were made (Sigcau) remained in the Cabinet under Mandela's administration, and under former President Thabo Mbeki's administration.
This, Mkhabela believes, is the ANC's first failed test against corruption.
"If this example was taken in isolation, perhaps it wouldn't mean much. But it means a lot now in hindsight, because you can see the build-up of corruption from that moment where that decision to expel Holomisa was taken and the decision to protect Sigcau was taken," he said.
"From then on, the ANC has always been on the side of the people who have been accused of corruption at the expense of the victims of corruption."
This understanding, Mkhabela says, informed the book's "devastating conclusion" that, "There is not a single member of the ANC who was ever expelled for stealing public money."
#20706038 at 2024-04-10 13:02:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"Electoral court clears Zuma to run for parliament"
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2024-04-09-breaking-news-electoral-court-dismisses-iecs-decision-to-bar-Jacob-Zuma-from-parliament/
09 APRIL 2024 - 16:35
UPDATED 09 APRIL 2024 - 23:00
Big win for MK after IEC's decision to bar former president overturned
The electoral court has set aside the decision by the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) to bar Jacob Zuma from running for parliament, in a decisive turn of events that paves the way for the former president to contest a seat in the National Assembly in the upcoming elections.
The order, handed down on Tuesday, came after the IEC endorsed objections to Zuma's candidacy, citing his criminal record stemming from a 15-month jail term handed down by the Constitutional Court in 2021 for failure to comply with its order to appear before state capture hearings into high-level corruption during his presidency…
#20673087 at 2024-04-03 19:37:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20530368
"MK Party's Visvin Reddy charged for inciting violence by NPA"
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/mk-partys-visvin-reddy-charged-for-inciting-violence-by-npa/
03-04-2024 09:15
MK Party supporter Visvin Reddy says he is charged under the same Act used to charge former President Nelson Mandela.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has charged uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) member Visvin Reddy with inciting violence over claims he made about the courts and the elections.
Reddy became famous after he was captured on a video threatening that there would be riots "like you have never seen" if former President Jacob Zuma's name was not on the ballot paper.
SAME ACT USED TO CHARGE MANDELA - REDDY
"I will be defending this charge in court through my legal team, where I believe the truth will be told. I am concerned that state resources seem to be used to eliminate political opponents," said Reddy.
"This practice is reminiscent of the apartheid days, and I will fight tooth and nail to prevent that from happening. All those who know me can attest to the fact that I always preach peace and am a firm fighter for justice," he said.
"This is the same act used to charge former President Nelson Mandela," Reddy said, according to the Independent Online.
'THE WILL BE ANARCHY IN THIS COUNTRY'
"The charge is based on a video clip that was deliberately and intentionally circulated by individuals who are threatened by the groundswell and phenomenal support of the MK party, supported by President Jacob Zuma," he added.
In the video, which became viral, Reddy can be heard threatening violence if the MKP is not on the 29 May elections ballot sheets.
"No South African will go to the polls if MKP is not on the ballot," Reddy shouted.
"We are sending a loud and clear message: if these courts, which are sometimes captured, stop MK, there will be anarchy in this country," he said.
https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/mkps-reddy-charged-over-violent-rant-13b142ed-c195-4897-8dfc-ce15ef629868
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Reddy has been summoned to appear in the Chatsworth Magistrate's Court on Wednesday (today). He was charged under [Riotous Assemblies] Act 17 of 1956 after the threatening comments he made outside the Durban High Court recently, where the MK Party was taken to court over the use of the name uMkhonto weSizwe and its spear and shield logo. The first appearance was in early March and it was postponed to last week when judgment was reserved.
"Reddy has explained his actions in follow-up social media releases. However, the ANC has continued to use state resources to carry out threats made by Ramaphosa to have Mr Reddy arrested. Mr Reddy has been a long-term activist since 1980. In fact, he held several meetings post the riots of 2021 to rebuild the trust of and quell the racial tension in the community in Phoenix," said Chetty.
#20656636 at 2024-03-31 13:45:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"Zuma barred from MK party candidacy by IEC due to criminal record"
https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/928923-2/
28 March 2024, 19:37
Former president Jacob Zuma will not be allowed to stand as a candidate for the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party in the 29 May elections. The Electoral Commission (IEC) made the announcement while briefing the media on the outcome of the public objection process that took place on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
The Commission says 31 objections were received from the public, alleging that 8 candidates were not eligible to run for the ballot due to having a criminal record or a conviction.
Seven of these were dismissed.
The grounds for Zuma's objection was his 15-month sentence handed down for contempt of court in relation to the State Capture inquiry in June 2021.
IEC Chairperson Mosotho Moepya says the Commission followed the letter of the Constitution, which stipulates that any person convicted of an offence and sentenced to more than 12 months imprisonment without the option of a fine is disqualified from standing for elections.
"The Commission could only act within the confines of the law and the constitution this commission has written to the objectors, candidates and nominating parties to advise them of its determinations as required any objector, party or candidate aggrieved by the decision of the commission may appeal the decisions with the Electoral Court by the 2nd of April 2024."
Former President Jacob Zuma still has an opportunity to challenge his objection at the Electoral Court by the 2nd of April, thereafter the Court will make its decision on the 9th of April.
Yet...
https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/23543/politicians-implicated-in-state-capture-where-they-are-now/
17 July 2023
Numerous top politicians and ministers implicated in the Zondo Commission's inquiry into state capture remain in powerful positions.
The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, better known as the Zondo Commission, ran from August 2018 until August 2021.
Hearings took place for over 400 days, with over 300 witness testimonies and 1,438 entities sharing their information.
The Commission revealed staggering levels of corruption, maladministration, lobbying, and kickbacks at state institutions.
Many state-owned companies were involved in state capture, including Transnet, Eskom, Denel, the SABC, South African Airways, and the South African Revenue Service.
#20636664 at 2024-03-27 17:06:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"ANC loses bid to deregister Zuma's MK party"
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/anc-loses-bid-deregister-Zumas-mk-party/
26 Mar 2024 10:04 am
The court has found that the IEC acted within the prescribes of the law when registering the MK party.
The Electoral Court has found that the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) acted within the prescribes of the law when registering former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
The African National Congress (ANC) wanted the Electoral Court to declare the MK party's registration unlawful.
The Electoral Court has dismissed the ANC's application.
Delivering a unanimous judgment on Tuesday, Judge Lebogang Modiba of the Electoral Court, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, ruled the ANC's complaints lacked any merit, was not urgent and that the court did not have any jurisdiction to hear the case.
#20636634 at 2024-03-27 16:59:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20636553
>>20590410
>Rand Manipulation Exposed: How The Banks Screwed Trillions Over South Africa
>Barclays Africa's cooperation with the competition commission meant that its financial assets, Barclays Capital and Absa, were afforded leniency in the matter.
>>20590424
>>20590428
>>20571475
>Jacob Zuma: Johann Rupert threatened to shutdown the economy of South Africa if Pravin Gordhan was removed
>>20571440
>A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day "weekend special" stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.
"Download Kill Zuma By Any Means Necessary" written by Gayton McKenzie
https://idoc.pub/download/kill-Zuma-by-any-means-necessarynodrm-ylyxekj5q3nm
2017
Excerpts
And that was why Minister Fikile Mbalula was about to have the following encounter with the then 66-year-old [Johann] Rupert in Stellenbosch at a wine auction in the first few months of 2017.
"I want you to go and tell your president that I looked after Mandela. But if he fires Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas, I will destroy this economy. My friends and I will make it look worse than Zimbabwe."
It was no idle threat. The last time President Zuma had made an appointment to head the finance ministry that "the markets" did not approve of, South Africa's main stock market, the JSE, lost somewhere in the region of R500 billion almost overnight and the rand plummeted to nearly R18 to the dollar.
Rupert, a member of the so-called Stellenbosch Mafia - a half-playful term that has attached itself to all the wealthy businessman from the town - also had a strong presence in the banking sector, especially Standard Bank, FirstRand, Nedbank and Absa.
The democratic government in 1997 commissioned the British investigating firm Ciex to look at this apparent theft of R26 billion in state money during apartheid. Ciex recommended that much of the money could indeed be recovered and was even willing to do the recovery itself - for a hefty fee.
Former British spy Michael Oatley has since revealed that it was Nelson Mandela himself who decided against recovering the funds - because he did not want to alienate the Afrikaners with whom apparently secret deals were agreed to prior to democracy.
Oatley told the Sunday Times: "When he learned of it, President Mandela ruled that moving against Absa, and effectively the Afrikaner financial nexus, was inconsistent with his policy of reconciliation [and with] secret prechange agreements," he says. "By then, of course, Absa had made itself the ANC's best friend."
#20636553 at 2024-03-27 16:46:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20601479
>It was the first meeting between us - the ANC - and government. He sent a man who was called Mike Louw... 2 in the intelligence of the government. He was with a man called [Maritz] Spaarwater
>Secondly, a man called McKensey said to him he's a spy for the CIA and he said if you don't agree, let us go to court.
>>20601502
>>20601506
>Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold
"Gayton McKenzie releases sensational new book 'Kill Zuma by Any Means Necessary'": Talks about Intelligence Involvement
https://youtu.be/blqfmhOm4to
Jun 17, 2018
3:09 - "Mike Louw and Maritz Spaarwater was sent, number one and number 4 in the national intelligence agency from South Africa. [Oliver] Tambo sent {Thabo Mbeki} and [Jacob] Zuma. They met at a hotel called Lucern in Switzerland... When they gave a report back, they gave 2 reports. Report number one is the ANC is willing to talk. Report two, we never heard of and that's the report that we have is that whatever you do, you gotta get Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma removed from negotiations. They're unmovable when it comes to the land issue and the aspirations of black people. You got to put somebody there that is pliable and they will make sure that the land still remain in our hands, sure there's a Sunrise clause. Fast forward, the military intelligence together with foreign intelligence; CIA, Mossad and MI6 came up with an operation, Operation Scrum. Operation scrum had one thing in mind to make sure that these two gentlemen Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma does not sit at the negotiating table... Long story short... they've been removed and replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa."
8:02 - "What I'm saying to you is that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was put there in that position through extremely clandestine means. If it was forthright why do you wait for Mandela to leave? Why do you wait for Mbeki to leave?"
8:40 - "It was [Clive] Menell. The Menell is one of the biggest families in mining... Menell paid for [Ramaphosa's] schooling through the Urban Foundation and when they were sitting, he gave them money to start NUM. The National Union of Mineworkers was started with money from Menell, [Harry] Oppenheimer and [Anton] Rupert. He has always been their boy."
16:03 - "Everything [at the airport] is Bidvest. Who's these people that got evergreen contracts?" [An evergreen contract automatically renews on or after the expiry date. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/evergreen.asp]
17:57 - "I know I'm in for lots of insults but I know I have the proof. I'm not talking about people who are dead. I'm talking aoubt people who can talk for themselves."
18:22 - He talks about watching the movie, "The Godfather".
21:38 - "We are the only people in the world that has won a revolution and we don't have land. Now people blame the farmers for [the land]. That is the biggest lie that has been told in this country and our politicians because some of them are clueless... when we speak about land. It's not Afrikaner... 3-5% of our land is agricultural land. White farmers have been blamed for nothing here... The culprit is the mining houses."
25:19 - "I received them from the owner who wrote the files. So President Zuma does not have jurisdiction over these files, the Intelligence Minister does not have jurisdiction of these files. These files were not even given to me in this country. So these are my files. How I got it, it's none of their business."
#20601620 at 2024-03-21 15:20:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20601482
>In fact, one of the things when MK is in government, we are going to discuss that issue. Should we abolish the death sentence or not because people are killing each other today like they're just killing a chicken. We cannoth allow it and we must sit and talk. It must be a decision of the South African society that must say should we have it or not. Can we not stop the crime without the killing?
>>20516751
>The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight.
>The African National Congress (ANC) had no choice but to resort to armed struggle
>>20601552
Can Zuma change an organisation which was established for violence to become non-violent? Or is this a ruse?
"Former president Jacob Zuma addresses MK supporters"
https://youtu.be/JVcKfg_Pqsk
Mar 19, 2024
8:00 - "If you had to be a member of MK then, military wise, you had to take an oath and before this. There's a document the MK established which I am sure you know it... This is the declaration of uMkhonto we Sizwe on our formation... "There comes a time in any nation where there remains only two choices: submit or fight... We shall not submit, we shall fight!"
10:47 - "It was absolutely necessary to any revolutionary to remember that we once had an organisation that had to rescue the ANC then, we now have to rescue our struggle now. So I don't know why somebody said, "This is ANC." No it is part of the ANC family, uMkhonto we Sizwe."
#20601502 at 2024-03-21 14:59:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20558081
>>20601479
>Thabo Mbeki and myself were sent by [Oliver] Tambo to go and meet the delegation from the government in South Africe sent by a man who was very strong who was the President... PW Botha. He sent 2 guys. It was the first meeting between us - the ANC - and government. He sent a man who was called Mike Louw... 2 in the intelligence of the government. He was with a man called [Maritz] Spaarwater. I think he was maybe #3 or #4 in the top levels of government and they said Dr Barnard said hello to you guys. I said fine. These 2 Presidents, Tambo and PW Botha, had asked us to come to this secret meeting to start discussing to stop the war and change this country.
>>20236804
>Sidney Frankel, a prominent South African Jew, accused of child molestation. "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 [during negotiations before the 1994 elections], 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."
"Spy [Maritz Spaarwater] comes in from the cold" - Part 1
https://mg.co.za/article/1999-10-08-spy-comes-in-from-the-cold/
8 OCTOBER 1999
Former chief director of operations of the National Intelligence Service Maritz Spaarwater takes on a new role as researcher for the United Democratic Movement. Howard Barrell reports
The apartheid superspook who set up the top-secret meetings with African National Congress leaders in Switzerland in 1989 that led to a negotiated settlement in South Africa has broken cover and emerged as a researcher for the United Democratic Movement at Parliament in Cape Town.
Maritz Spaarwater, debonair former chief director of operations of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) under presidents PW Botha and FW de Klerk, has been a significant back-room figure in the UDM since its formation and is understood to have played a role in drawing up its main policy document.
Spaarwater, who was the Botha government's contact man with Zambian ex- president Kenneth Kaunda, also met Swapo leader Sam Nujoma at the former Zambian leader's official residence in the late 1980s, so initiating a set of contacts that led to a negotiated settlement in Namibia.
Spaarwater this week confirmed his entry into party politics, explaining that he thought the UDM alone had an agenda for the future. "The ANC, the Democratic Party and the National Party are still functions of the 1910 constitution. They are divisive. They are still fighting apartheid battles - the battles of the past," he said.
Observers expect that, in his new role as researcher, Spaarwater will strengthen considerably the UDM's presence in Parliament.
Described as highly intelligent and "a very smart cookie" by those who know him, Spaarwater's research will feed the perspectives voiced by the party's two key leaders, Bantu Holomisa and Roelf Meyer.
Spaarwater and Mike Louw, his immediate superior at the NIS during the Botha and De Klerk presidencies, are credited with having fought a long and lonely battle within the former apartheid intelligence services in the 1980s for an accommodation with the ANC and other liberation movements.
Their moment finally came on September 12 1989, when, through the intermediation of Stellenbosch University academic Willie Esterhuyse and in terms of a cunningly crafted resolution of the State Security Council, they met clandestinely with Thabo Mbeki, then head of the ANC's international department, and Jacob Zuma, then the ANC's head of intelligence, in a hotel in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Their meeting is described in Allister Sparks's book on progress towards a negotiated settlement in South Africa, Tomorrow Is Another Country. Spaarwater, supported by a team of three agents, made sure the meeting was secure and participated in these first vital exchanges.
Sparks reports Louw's description of the first, tense encounter with the ANC representatives in his hotel room: "[Spaarwater and I] could hear them coming [down the passage], talking, and then they came around the corner and they could see us standing there. Thabo walked in and said, 'Well here we are, bloody terrorists and for all you know fucking communists as well.' That broke the ice, and we all laughed, and I must say that from that moment on there was no tension.
#20601482 at 2024-03-21 14:53:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20601479
"Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma || Leadership Summit 2024" - Part 2
https://youtu.be/2w0lRvA1ryw
Mar 20, 2024
41:45 - "We need to sit like this and discuss and agree how do we correct this. We are all South Africans. I've had a lot of discussions with the brothers, the Khoisan, who have been rejected all the time. Why? They've got things to raise, they want peace. We all want peace. That's why I said at my time, at my age, I would love that. Perhaps, we should not put politicians always to be the solver of all problems. Most of the time they create problems."
45:36 - "I believe that there should be no oppression of one man by the other. We should always be free. We are all God's children."
48:42 - "Kids of 12-13 give birth to children. That can't be. Why? Why don't we stop it? We learn to live with it as if it's normal. It's not normal, it's abnormal. If you do so, you are killing the nation."
49:42 - "You can't have the Minister of Police enjoying coming to us like this, nicely dressed and big black hat [Bheki Cele], only to tell us the crime has gone up. This time the crime has slightly gone down. He's not telling us that he's stopping crime in the country. There's nothing of that report. You can't have that. You can't. I can be hated, I don't care because we must build a nation, a decent nation, deal with other things properly, talk about things we are not happy about, sit down, agree, disagree, compromise, give and take. That's how we can live."
50:48 - "For me, I feel we are worse this time round than we were before freedom and to me it is the duty of all of us as South Africans to correct the wrongs. We can't just stand and look. It is absolutely crucial. You cannot have a president who looks like a huge criminal and be proud that this is our Presdent."
52:12 - "We are told if you want to know what is democracy. We are told is a good country that rules with the majority agreeing on things then that's fine. But there are laws that are being made. Laws which are not made by us, the majority... They are made by a minority that we take to put in Parliament who come from different political parties, representing different kind of ideologies and ideas and they're making laws for us. We only do this so called majority rule once in 5 years, only when we vote. After that we vote for nothing. We are just sitting and looking. In my village, the chief who is younger than me ask me to come to their place where they sit. They said to me this law, you were in Parliament when this law was made that a man must marry another man. I was asked that because 2 men cannot produce a child, they have a right to buy a child because maybe they have money... I said that's democracy. I said what democracy means the majority rules but you are told there's a majority rule in South Africa but it's actually not. There's a majority rule once in 5 years. Every day it is the people who have their own ideas who are in Parliament who take decision. They don't even consult you. Here majority rule is just in words not in reality."
1:00:51 - "I'm going to change the wrong laws. This democracy that allows kids to drink and small children to phone the police that my mother and daddy are beating me."
1:08:55 - "The point I want to make really is that there is history that we went through, everybody. Not just between black and white, black and black. The man I was talking about here, Shaka, created a nation out of very, very tough kind of stuff. And in South Africa as well, it is not just black and white, black and black in particular. They still have problems among themselves."
1:14:38 - "We didn't believe that killing another human being was our right and it si not up to this day. In fact, one of the things when MK is in government, we are going to discuss that issue. Should we abolish the death sentence or not because people are killing each other today like they're just killing a chicken. We cannoth allow it and we must sit and talk. It must be a decision of the South African society that must say should we have it or not. Can we not stop the crime without the killing?"
#20601479 at 2024-03-21 14:53:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"Louis Liebenberg || Former President Jacob Zuma [addressing Afrikaans white South Africans] || Leadership Summit 2024" - Part 1
https://youtu.be/2w0lRvA1ryw
Mar 20, 2024.
13:39 - "Thabo Mbeki and myself were sent by [Oliver] Tambo to go and meet the delegation from the government in South Africe sent by a man who was very strong who was the President... PW Botha. He sent 2 guys. It was the first meeting between us - the ANC - and government. He sent a man who was called Mike Louw... 2 in the intelligence of the government. He was with a man called [Maritz] Spaarwater. I think he was maybe #3 or #4 in the top levels of government and they said Dr Barnard said hello to you guys. I said fine. These 2 Presidents, Tambo and PW Botha, had asked us to come to this secret meeting to start discussing to stop the war and change this country."
16:23 - "I remember an old story of a king who once ruled in South Africa, King Shaka. When his mother died, he declared that no telling of the soul, no eating, we must help to cry with him for his mother but what is a secret is that he had actually killed his mother... He had a very funny theory that he must no give birth to a child who is a boy. Any boy would be born must be killed. His logic was that if they grow, they become big, they will kill him in order to take over. As a result people began dying of starvation..."
22:19 - "I'm saying this because this is an opportunity for me to say, we are all South Africans, we are together. We belong to this country."
34:16 - "I then raised the matter in the Commissions, I said, I think you are not running the organisation properly and you are not running the country properly, this is not what I sacrificed my life for. Why are you doing this? I said this President of this organisation is actually not the President, the genuine one. Not genuine because somebody gave information about him in public that he has been given money to buy the position to be the President. When he went to the Commission because that allegation had been made, he was asked, "Did you get the money to pay for you to become a President?"... Under oath he said yes and therefore he was not the President that was elected honestly by numbers and I said I have a problem. Why did the leadership not talk to him? And I said this in the commission honestly. I said firstly this man is not a President. He's a fake who was bought. When there was an attempt to investigate what was said, he also broke the law because when the Public Protector said answer these questions today, the following day he sacked Public Protector. You can't have a man who thinks the country belong to himself. It's totally out of order. You can't remove a policeman because you are a President because he wants to arrest you. That's not what I thought this country should be. There's no man who has such a power. Not at all... Secondly, a man called McKensey said to him he's a spy for the CIA and he said if you don't agree, let us go to court. I'll prove it to you, I've got evidence. He never said I'm not a spy for the Americans. Secondly, his former Comrade Terror Lakota in parliament... he said you were a spy... Nothing happened, the leadership of the ANC did nothing."
39:44 - "I realised this organisation is no longer the organisation I joined, I was in all the time. This one, I call it the organisation of Ramaphosa. Not our resolution and therefore I took a decision, I can't be ruled by this party under this man but I can't keep on opening new parties like people do... So I decided to revive uMkhonto we Sizwe as a political party to rescue the ANC and rescue the country. That's the reason why I took the decision. Mine is that we need a peaceful South Africa. We need all of us feel at home. It is in that process that I've been raising the issues because there is no equality in South Africa and I think it is our duty to work to create harmony."
#20590483 at 2024-03-19 15:04:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20590479
"MK party slams 'politically motivated' banks for Zuma account closure"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mk-party-slams-politically-motivated-banks-for-Zuma-account-closure-33e85afc-53ce-4263-9043-231daee6536e
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2024
The uMkhonto weSizwe party has hit back at FNB after it closed the accounts of former president Jacob Zuma.
FNB earlier said the decision to close his accounts was based on an order of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal.
But MK party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela said the decision was politically motivated and not based on reputational risk as claimed by the bank.
"The FNB's latest stunt of denying President Zuma access to much-needed banking services is not an isolated incident," Ndhlela said.
"It is part of a concerted effort by banks to punish those that are viewed by the colonial establishment as enemies."
He said financial institutions target those who are challenging the "colonial establishment".
The MK party called on the bank to re-open the accounts of Zuma because the decision it was ill-advised. This goes to other banks who have targeted other individuals in a similar fashion, it said.
If banks refuse to open the accounts of these individuals, the party said it would urge its supporters to close their accounts with these banks.
The MK party will engage in mass action against banks to stop them from getting into the political space.
The party wants banks to stay away from politics and focus on their business.
Ndhlela said Zuma was not the only one who has been targeted by the banks, but they must not allow this to continue.
"It is common course that Dr Iqbal Surve and his companies including Sekunjalo Group - a shining example of black excellence [yet he is Indian] - have had their banking facilities arbitrarily closed by all the infamous Big Four gang of ABSA, FNB, Nedbank and Standard Bank, for a flimsy and nebulous reason of allegedly posing reputational risks to these financial institutions," Ndhlela said.
"It is clear that they are a law unto themselves."
He said they will force financial institutions to transform.
He said the courts must be fair when adjudicating on these matters as well.
People like Markus Jooste who have caused reputational risk to the banks because of their alleged crimes have not been touched by the banks.
"The courts have also not been helpful in confronting these racist, politically- motivated moves. When Nedbank appealed the Equality Court's ruling that it reopens Sekunjalo Group's account(s), an all-white bench was allocated this case that is essentially about confronting the demon of racism that is rearing its ugly head within and across the banks," Ndhlela said.
"Unsurprisingly, the Equality Court's ruling was overturned with the net effect that Nedbank can close Sekunjalo Group accounts," he said.
"uMkhonto we Sizwe Party condemns this reckless, insensitive and unprecedented move by the Supreme Court of Appeal of appointing an all-white bench to hear a case against racism and calls for the judiciary to introspect and make amends."
The MK party will push for the transformation of the sector.
They do not want banks to give its clients different treatment.. They must have the same rules for everyone.
#20590479 at 2024-03-19 15:03:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20590410
>>20590424
>>20590428
>>20590433
>>20571440
>Gordhan was widely regarded as a politician with integrity; while as finance minister he introduced "haircuts" or spending discipline and ensured purse strings were closed to State Capture efforts. A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day "weekend special" stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.
>>20585630
>In December last year, President Jacob Zuma unexpectedly replaced then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with Van Rooyen, only to replace him four days later with former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, following aggressive reaction by the markets.
>>20571475
"Political leaders question timing by FNB to close Zuma's accounts"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/political-leaders-question-timing-by-fnb-to-close-Zumas-accounts-84e51528-7e87-4b54-9604-7942bd6497df
Published Mar 17, 2024
Some political leaders have questioned the timing by FNB to close the bank account of former president Jacob Zuma's with elections a few months away.
Zuma has been leading the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party for the last four months after he announced his support for the new party and is number one of the list of candidates for the party.
It was reported on Sunday that the bank was closing his account. This is the same account where the now defunct VBS Mutual Bank deposited a loan of R7.8 million to Zuma.
FNB said it was complying with an order of the High Court in KwaZulu-Natal.
"FNB is complying with a specific order by the High Court (KZN division). However, given client confidentiality, FNB cannot comment further on any client's specific bank accounts and treats all customers objectively and consistently," said FNB.
African People's Convention (APC) leader and former chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Themba Godi said it appeared that the banks have enormous power and this could render the democratic project meaningless.
He said there needs to be changes in how banks were regulated.
Godi said it was also unclear if this was an administrative decision or a political decision.
The APC leader said the timing was suspicious given the fact that the country was a few months away from the elections.
"The starting point is the suspicion around the timing. The bank exposes itself to be playing a political game. The powers that the banks have in our country is enormous and it renders our democratic practice meaningless. If they can do this to a former president who else is at their mercy.
"With Markus Jooste we haven't heard his accounts being touched, but he has brought this country into disrepute," said Godi.
There needs to be a regulatory framework where banks will not be able to do these things.
Former Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leader Letlapa Mphahlele said this raises eyebrows.
"FNB has reportedly issued a notice to terminate former president Jacob Zuma's bank accounts in which his R7.8m VBS loan was deposited. The timing raises eyebrows. Only the most gullible among us think that the banks are impartial referees in the game of politics," said Mphahlele.
The Sunday World reported that the bank said it was closing the account because Zuma is a politically exposed person.
#20590410 at 2024-03-19 14:51:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"Rand Manipulation Exposed: How The Banks Screwed Trillions Over South Africa"
https://youtu.be/Bo7umSWdQFE
Nov 26, 2023
Twenty eight banks stand accused of illegally manipulating South Africa's currency to make huge profits for themselves, to the detriment of the South African economy. We explore what we know so far, how banks could have manipulated the Rand, and how the plot has affected South Africa's economy.
2:12 - "In 2016, Jacob Zuma who was the President of South Africa, had openly shared his suspicion that banks were manipulating the Rand and purposefully damagaing both his presidency and the economy."
3:36 - "Not one of the institutions voluntarily came forward to admit to their transgressions or repent for their sins. They were simply found out. This is what prompted the sorry is the hardest word to say apology from Barclayss Africa Group's Maria Ramos who said, "We deeply regret that this conduct took place within our organisation. Thos who are found to have contravened the rules and conduct will in due course be held accountable." Barclays Africa's cooperation with the competition commission meant that its financial assets, Barclays Capital and Absa, were afforded leniency in the matter."
#20585725 at 2024-03-18 16:35:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20585674
>>20585663
>>20585639
>>20585630
>>20585580
>>20571440
>>20571002
"EXPLAINER - what we know about Jacob Zuma's new party"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-01-09-umkhonto-wesizwe-what-we-know-about-Zumas-new-party/
09 Jan 2024
At the launch, Zuma said he could no longer vote or campaign for a Cyril Ramaphosa-led ANC and had opted to throw his weight behind the newly registered party, while stressing that he remained an ANC member.
"The new people's war starts from today," said Zuma, referencing the establishment of the ANC's armed wing in 1961.
"The only crucial difference is that instead of the bullet, this time we will use the ballot."
Khumalo registered the party but it has since emerged that Zuma might have been the brains behind its formation.
In a press briefing by the All African Alliance Movement (AAAM) on 5 January, Bishop Meshack Thebe revealed that Zuma had "mandated" Khumalo to register the party.
Thebe then quickly brushed it off by saying, "You did not hear it from me."
At the launch of the party, Zuma said it was registered "with my knowledge and blessings".
The party has not clearly articulated what it stands for and so far, it appears largely centred on Zuma's grievances. The former president has described it as an attempt to save the ANC and "rescue our organisation from this un-ANC behaviour".
At its launch, he railed against what he described as the role of "white minority capital" in the current ANC; how Ramaphosa's campaign spending led to the party's "stolen" 2017 conference, and how the party has been unfairly sidelining members through the step-aside rule.
"The single aim is to steer the ship of total liberation from colonialism back on course by uniting Africans across the country, the African continent and the African diaspora behind the battle for land, justice and radical transformation towards economic freedom.
"There can never be reconciliation without socio-economic justice and equality," Zuma said.
Political analyst Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast said the ANC could be dealt a significant blow: "I initially thought the message that would be pitched by the MK would be confined to KZN, but now Zuma has joined forces with AAAM, meaning he's joined forces with religious leaders, which is strategic as it is embedded throughout the length and breadth of the country."
Speaking in Mpumalanga this weekend, Zuma was reported to have said, "We will win the elections by a two-thirds majority and then save and clean [up] the ANC. Eventually, we will decide if we go with the ANC or MK. We don't hate the ANC, but the actions of leaders who have sold the party."
#20585663 at 2024-03-18 16:26:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20585639
>Fallism's Faultlines: The Paradoxes of "Fees Must Fall"
>>20585580
>Ex-Fees Must Fall leaders Nompendulo Mlkhatshwa and Fasiha Hassan will reunite in Parliament. Mkhatshwa has been a member of Parliament since 2019 and is chairing the portfolio committee on higher education.
>>20571002
>Bonginkosi Khanyile, says they are prepared to lay down their lives for former President, Jacob Zuma, their presidential candidate.
"Bonginkosi Khanyile's trial gets underway"
https://youtu.be/xSlWVtn90o4
Aug 19, 2022
"MK Party appoints Bonginkosi Khanyile as new youth leader": Former #FeesMustFall activist
https://www.sapeople.com/news/mk-party-appoints-bonginkosi-khanyile-as-new-youth-leader/
23-01-24 10:58
Former #FeesMustFall activist and July 2021 unrest suspect Bonginkosi Khanyile has been appointed the new national youth co-ordinator for Jacob Zuma's new Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party.
The announcement comes in the wake of his dismissal from the Patriotic Alliance led by Gayton Mckenzie. Khanyile was expelled by his party last month after he was seen speaking at an MK rally.
His new role as leader of "Umkhonto we Sizwe youth ground forces (MK YGF) will be to co-ordinate and organise the youth to rally behind the MK party.
"Comrade Bonginkosi Khanyile has the right credentials and consciousness to lead efforts to overcome the myriad of challenges facing the youth of our country," according to a statement released by MK acting secretary Thanduxolo Gorbachev Dyodyo.
Dyodyo said the decision was made after assessing the situation facing the youth in our country and which youth leader would be best suited and fit-for-purpose to lead.
https://briefly.co.za/107905-fees-must-fall-activist-bonginkosi-khanyile-appears-court-ready-die-Zuma.html
August 26, 2021 at 9:22 PM
Bonginkosi Khanyile, 31, cut a confident figure in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Thursday, maintaining that his detention will not hinder his fight for former president Jacob Zuma to be released.
TimesLIVE [https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-08-26-alleged-instigator-bonginkosi-khanyile-strong-and-ready-to-die-for-Zuma/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1629991447] reported that the activist has been vocal on social networking platforms, allegedly rallying the masses to support Zuma, who is currently serving a 15-month jail term for contempt of court at the Estcourt Correctional Centre.
Khanyile's bail application has been postponed to 31 August. The EFF member conveyed to journalists that Zuma must be released. He was quoted saying:
"Even if we are facing a death sentence, even if we are about to be hanged, even in the gallows, we will say that on any platform because he was arrested in an undemocratic manner. That's how he was arrested."
#20585639 at 2024-03-18 16:22:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20585580
>Ex-Fees Must Fall leaders Nompendulo Mlkhatshwa and Fasiha Hassan will reunite in Parliament. Mkhatshwa has been a member of Parliament since 2019 and is chairing the portfolio committee on higher education.
"Fallism's Faultlines: The Paradoxes of "Fees Must Fall""
https://africanarguments.org/2021/06/fallisms-faultlines-the-paradoxes-of-fees-must-fall/
JUNE 16, 2021
Ntumba's death rippled through South African society, sparking weeks of widespread student agitation, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. This latest wave of protest became known as Fees Must Fall 2.0. On the one hand, Ntumba's death heaped further pressure on the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's long-serving governing party; on the other, it conveyed the party's continued currency. Like Fees Must Fall 1.0, the new protests revealed a paradox: they undermined the ANC's legitimacy while underlining its hegemony. The ANC emerges from the recent student protests no weaker electorally than it entered them, but its moral authority has suffered a further blow. The protests also revealed continuities between the tenures of current ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.
Fees Must Fall emerged at Wits University in October 2015. It was prefigured by Rhodes Must Fall, the campaign to decolonise the University of Cape Town (UCT), symbolised by the removal of a statue of twentieth-century imperialist, Cecil Rhodes.[1] Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall were similar in more than name: to the student protesters, exorbitant fees, like colonial statues, tokenised Black exclusion in democratic South Africa writ large. The two campaigns have thus become known as the "Must Fall" movement, driving the agenda of "Fallism".
Nevertheless, as in 2015, the ANC nimbly diverted and parried the protest movement. No sooner than Fallists had arrived at the ANC's headquarters, Ace Magashule-the party's Secretary-General-redirected the marchers under his party's banner to the Constitutional Court, also a stone's throw from Wits. This repurposed march exemplified a confusion that has characterised Fees Must Fall from its inception: Fees Must Fall is both an escape from, and an embrace of, the ANC.
In 2021 as in 2015, many Fees Must Fall leaders were themselves members of the ANC's youth structures. Their cries against austerity, university mismanagement and police brutality were conducted in ANC t-shirts. Former Fees Must Fall activists now represent the ANC in Parliament, legislatures and councils, and many more will campaign for the ANC in this year's local government elections. Fallism has thus assumed increasing ambiguity over time. For ANC-aligned former student leaders, it has become a path to prominence in formal politics; a "struggle credential" for a new generation unable to invoke personal familiarity with anti-apartheid resistance.
https://www.thedailyvox.co.za/fees-must-fall-Zuma-must-fall-1-4m-tweets-say-future-south-africa/
June 27, 2017
From the conversations on Twitter, we learn that FMF [Fees Must Fall] was a diverse movement with groups ranging from LGBT, to pro-Palestine and feminist communities propagating the meme. It was self-organising in that despite its beginnings in Johannesburg, conversation and actions spread throughout the country and further.
Interestingly, the data analysis reveals that messages spread through student movements, not through the mainstream media. While FMF made national and international news, and that coverage helped spread the meme, the media did not make up more than 11% of the discussion.
ZMF [Zuma Must Fall] was a very different movement. The conversation was dominated by the three main political parties: the ANC, the EFF and the DA. It appeared to be championed on social media predominantly by these polarised political voices, with people from diverse political and social backgrounds not very actively engaging. While Fees Must Fall wanted a reckoning for the past, Zuma Must Fall sought to forget it: the sentiment of the movement was one of reconciliation, arguing that the colonial past was not the issue, but rather an incompetent South African presidency.
#20585630 at 2024-03-18 16:19:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20585580
>Former minister of finance, under Zuma, Des van Rooyen will join a group of MK party members of Parliament.
>>20571247
> In withdrawing the charges it became apparent also, through a series of letters Abrahams made public, that Hawks head Lieutenant-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza was livid that Gordhan, Pillay and Magashula would not be prosecuted.
>>20571440
>Gordhan was widely regarded as a politician with integrity; while as finance minister he introduced "haircuts" or spending discipline and ensured purse strings were closed to State Capture efforts. A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day "weekend special" stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.
>>20452962
>Nhlanhla Nene
"Van Rooyen takes on Gordhan"
https://youtu.be/4NDmzkqyjnI
Aug 30, 2016
Johannesburg, 29 August 2016 - Des Van Rooyen says Pravin Gordhan should subject himself to the Hawks' probe as he's not above the law. He said this earlier today - speaking in his capacity as a top member of the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association.
2:23 - "The vets say they're aware of a movement to occupy Luthuli House over the Gordhan issue and they're warning they'll be on guard to defend the ANC's headquarters."
"Zuma right about van Rooyen's academic qualifications: report": Master's Degree in Finance - Pravin Gordhan qualification: Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy
https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/115560/Zuma-right-about-van-rooyens-academic-qualifications-report/
4 Mar 2016
David (Des) van Rooyen has the highest academic qualification of all the finance ministers President Jacob Zuma has appointed during his term, Africa Check reported on Friday.
In December last year, President Jacob Zuma unexpectedly replaced then finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with Van Rooyen, only to replace him four days later with former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, following aggressive reaction by the markets.
Van Rooyen took over as minister of co-operative governance from Gordhan.
Zuma has reportedly recently defended his choice of Van Rooyen, pointing out that Van Rooyen is a trained "finance and economic comrade" and more qualified than any minister he has ever appointed in the finance sphere.
According to Africa Check, which cited the government's website, Van Rooyen has several certificates in governance and finance. He obtained a master's degree in management from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2010. He also has another master's degree in finance - specialising in economic policy - from the University of London. This was obtained in 2013 through distance learning.
According to his government profile, the highest academic qualification Gordhan holds is a bachelor of science in pharmacy from the University of Durban in 1973. Africa Check said it was unable to confirm this with the university, but would keep on trying.
Gordhan was also awarded two honorary doctorates: in commerce, by the University of South Africa and in law, by the University of Cape Town, both in 2007.
Nene has a bachelor of commerce honours in economics obtained at the University of the Western Cape in 2009. Nene also holds several certificates and diplomas in economics, according to his government profile.
The question could therefore be asked, according to Africa Check, whether Zuma's qualification statement should not have been taken literally, but looked at from an academic angle.
#20585580 at 2024-03-18 16:09:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"Who's going to Parliament? A peek at the ANC's [and MK's] nomination list"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/whos-going-to-parliament-a-peek-at-the-ancs-nomination-list-5c2c57c2-42bf-4644-aa5e-cd1af560f67b
Published Mar 17, 2024
The African National Congress (ANC) is deploying some of its senior leaders to Parliament after the elections, but some of the veterans of the party are retiring.
ANC head of organising, Mdumiseni Ntuli will lead a group of new members to the National Assembly in the next term.
Ntuli was deployed to Luthuli House after the party's national conference in 2022. Former Limpopo ANC provincial secretary Soviet Lekganyane, ex-Limpopo MEC for Sport Tandi Moraka, ANC Youth League first deputy secretary-general Tsakani Shiviti and President Cyril Ramaphosa's former adviser Bejani Chauke are on the list to Parliament.
ANC Veterans League president Snuki Zikalala is also on the list.
Former South African ambassador to Cuba, Justice Piitso has been included on the list as part of new members of Parliament for the ANC.
Ex-Fees Must Fall leaders Nompendulo Mlkhatshwa and Fasiha Hassan will reunite in Parliament. Mkhatshwa has been a member of Parliament since 2019 and is chairing the portfolio committee on higher education.
Hassan was elected to the ANC National Executive Committee at the Nasrec conference in 2022. She is currently a member of the Gauteng provincial legislature.
South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) leader Richard Hlophe is on the list of new members going to Parliament.
Ministers who are on the list include Aaron Motsoaledi, Blade Nzimande, Senzo Mchunu, Enoch Godongwana, Thoko Didiza, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Bheki Cele, Mondli Gungubele, Ronald Lamola and Sihle Zikalala.
But some of the party members who were implicated in the Zondo report into State Capture have been included on the list to Parliament.
Ministers Zizi Kodwa, and Gwede Mantashe were mentioned in the Zondo report, but the ANC said some of their members went to the party's Integrity Commission and were cleared.
Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan, Deputy Speaker Lechesa Tsenoli and Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula are part of a group of senior leaders of the ANC who are retiring after the polls.
Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pam Tshwete is also retiring after the elections.
National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairperson Amos Masondo and Minister in the presidency Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma are also not coming back to Parliament.
However, there are also a number of serving members of the ANC in Parliament who are not on the list and this includes the chairpersons of the portfolio committees.
However, Minister of Trade and Industry Ebrahim Patel and long-serving ANC parliamentarian Mandla Mandela are not on the list of members to Parliament.
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, led by former president Jacob Zuma has a number of members who have been included on their list for Parliament. Zuma is number one on the list, while his daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla is also high on the list.
Former minister of finance, under Zuma, Des van Rooyen will join a group of MK party members of Parliament.
#20571475 at 2024-03-15 14:45:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20571440
>In 2018, Ramaphosa, who succeeded Zuma after his Valentine's Day resignation, picked Gordhan as the public enterprises minister.
>A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day "weekend special" stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.
>Gordhan lasted until March 2017 when, while on an investment promotion tour abroad with his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, he was sacked in a midnight Cabinet reshuffle on the back of a fake intelligence report.
>Crucially, this reshuffle was opposed by the SACP, first in January 2017 when the first rumours emerged, and then when it happened. It was one of the first public signals of the SACP's chill towards Zuma, whom it had enthusiastically supported at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane national conference and then in the 2009 election. Subsequently, the SACP played a key role in Zuma's departure in a series of intense ANC NEC meetings that also led to the 2018 State of the Nation Address being delayed for a week.
Jacob Zuma: Johann Rupert threatened to shutdown the economy of South Africa if Pravin Gordhan was removed
https://youtu.be/XTiaIqcXL-8
Jul 16, 2019
Former president Jacob Zuma was testifying at the state capture inquiry.
#20571440 at 2024-03-15 14:38:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20571247
>It was Pretorius who current NPA head, Shaun Abrahams, had claimed was keen to press charges against Pravin Gordhan, Ivan Pillay and former SARS Commissioner Oupa Magashula before these were later withdrawn as a vital piece of exculpatory evidence, the so-called Symington memorandum, had not been considered.
>>20571259
>This is an ill-disguised reference to the Gordhan et al case. It also emerged that Nel had been in discussion with Afriforum for at least a year. The beginning of the onslaught on Pravin Gordhan in February 2016 that continued throughout the year until the withdrawal of charges in October may have much to do with Nel's move.
"Pravin Gordhan Deserves Prison" and not retirement
https://youtu.be/dy5GgtpxbpQ
Premiered Mar 11, 2024
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-03-10-pravin-gordhans-half-century-of-public-service-draws-to-a-close/
10 Mar 2024
After some 53 years in activism, politics and public life, one-time pharmacist, Codesa delegate, tax boss and minister, Pravin Gordhan is calling it quits after the 29 May elections. It's not a surprise - word in late 2022 was that President Cyril Ramaphosa had persuaded him to stay until the elections.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is known for the phrase "connecting the dots" regarding State Capture when he linked key leadership appointments in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to state contracts, with billions of rands diverted from the public good into private pockets. At the time, Gordhan sat on the ANC back benches and served in the parliamentary State Capture probe after being fired as finance minister in the March 2017 midnight Cabinet reshuffle.
Gordhan's departure comes at a time of flailing SOEs, including SAA, Eskom and Transnet, with criticism levelled at him for not building institutional capacity and his leadership style slated as micro-management.
Less in the public eye was Gordhan's influence in Jacob Zuma's 2018 exit from the presidency. It's understood to be linked in no small way to changing attitudes in the South African Communist Party to which Gordhan belonged for most of his political life, which began in 1971 at the Natal Indian Congress.
The Department of Public Enterprises said on Friday that Gordhan's announcement of his retirement come the 29 May poll was "emblematic of the minister's desire to be candid so that all critical constituencies that related to his current portfolio are sufficiently informed about his plans".
Rolling blackouts hit record levels in 2023, leaving South Africans without power for up to 12 hours a day, while the logistics crisis at ports and railways has negatively affected companies in sectors from mining to agriculture.
In 2018, Ramaphosa, who succeeded Zuma after his Valentine's Day resignation, picked Gordhan as the public enterprises minister. As an ANC backbencher, he had spoken out about State Capture, which increasingly hit headlines amid the emergence of the #GuptaLeaks, a trove of thousands of emails showing links between the Gupta brothers and Zuma's ministers and administration.
Gordhan was widely regarded as a politician with integrity; while as finance minister he introduced "haircuts" or spending discipline and ensured purse strings were closed to State Capture efforts. A former finance minister from 2009 to 2014, he was reappointed to that portfolio in December 2015 after the four-day "weekend special" stint of Des van Rooyen rocked financial markets, triggering ANC insiders to persuade Zuma to overturn his decision.
Gordhan lasted until March 2017 when, while on an investment promotion tour abroad with his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, he was sacked in a midnight Cabinet reshuffle on the back of a fake intelligence report.
Crucially, this reshuffle was opposed by the SACP, first in January 2017 when the first rumours emerged, and then when it happened. It was one of the first public signals of the SACP's chill towards Zuma, whom it had enthusiastically supported at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane national conference and then in the 2009 election. Subsequently, the SACP played a key role in Zuma's departure in a series of intense ANC NEC meetings that also led to the 2018 State of the Nation Address being delayed for a week.
#20571250 at 2024-03-15 13:56:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20571247
"Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind" - Part 2
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-01-31-private-prosecutions-inc-gerrie-nel-leaves-a-deeply-compromised-npa-behind/
31 Jan 2017
It was Nomgcobo Jiba who in 2007 and as a senior deputy director of public prosecutions with the NPA, along with her colleague advocate Lawrence Mwrebi, then head of the NPA's commercial crimes unit, assisted then Gauteng deputy police chief, Richard Mdluli, to secure the warrant for Nel's arrest. Mdluli spearheaded investigations into Nel during the Selebi saga, which proved as a proxy war for factions in the ANC.
It was also Nel who in 2005 had prosecuted Jiba's husband, former Scorpions member Booker Nhantsi, who was convicted and jailed for stealing around R190,000 from a trust fund. President Zuma issued a presidential pardon for Nhantsi in 2012, thus expunging his criminal record.
In 2012 Jiba called on Mdluli's assistance at a later labour court hearing after her suspension as acting NPA boss.
Jiba has, over the years, been seared by 12 judges on four benches in three massively high-profile matters, including for her role in the Zuma "spy tapes" matter, for her delays in the Freedom Under Law case regarding the dropping of charges including fraud and murder against former Crime Intelligence Head Richard Mdluli as well as her decision to charge KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head, Johan Booysen (who was investigating people close to President Zuma's family).
Jiba was later charged with perjury and for lying under oath in the Booysen matter but new NPA head Shaun Abrahams withdrew the charges soon after taking office, claiming he had done so based on the decision of another prosecutor, Advocate Marshall Mokgathle. This was later contradicted, however, in an explosive affidavit by another NPA deputy, Willie Hofmeyr (since shafted to Legal Affairs, but more about that later), who claimed Abrahams had disregarded legal opinion from two other NPA prosecutors.
Mdluli has been at the centre of the erosion of the country's criminal justice system and is seen as a key player in the obtaining of the "spy tapes" recordings relating to Zuma's prosecution. Former prosecutor and now DA Shadow Minister of Justice, Glynnis Breytenbach, also felt the Jiba burn when she [Breytenbach] was suspended after penning a memorandum to Mwrebi that Mdluli should be prosecuted.
Mwrebi instructed Breytenbach to withdraw the charges, claiming that the Hawks did not have the "authority" to investigate intelligence funds Mdluli had been charged with abusing.
In essence the NPA has come to be viewed as the personal bodyguards of Jacob Zuma and his cronies against the criminal justice system.
So, from Vusi Pikoli's suspension in 2007 (in the aftermath of a stand-off with the Scorpions and former president Thabo Mbeki with regard to charging Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi) to the appointment of the unsuitable Mokotedi Mpshe (who the courts have ruled was incorrect in withdrawing corruption charges against Jacob Zuma), the "irrational appointment" of Menzi Simelane, who was by replaced Jiba who was in turn replaced by Advocate Xolisi Nxasana, the NPA has never known stable leadership.
Nxasana, who was keen to review the withdrawal of Zuma's charges as well as reinstitute charges against former Crime Intelligence Boss, Richard Mdluli, suddenly found himself the target of an investigation and resigned in 2015.
#20571247 at 2024-03-15 13:55:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20571203
>"It is hardly surprising that the NPA has chosen advocate Nel to lead the prosecution in another reportedly sensitive and difficult matter that would seem to require a prosecutor such as one with advocate Nel's track record."
"Private Prosecutions, Inc: Gerrie Nel ["Pit Bull"] leaves a deeply compromised NPA behind" - Part 1
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-01-31-private-prosecutions-inc-gerrie-nel-leaves-a-deeply-compromised-npa-behind/
31 Jan 2017
After 36 years as a state prosecutor, the man who put Oscar Pistorius behind bars is leaving public service. Tuesday's announcement that Gerrie Nel was leaving the National Prosecuting Authority at 24 hours' notice was unexpected - but even more surprising was the revelation that the "Pit Bull" was joining Afrikaner rights group AfriForum, effectively to set up a parallel prosecuting system to the NPA.
Speculation is that Nel will work closely with corruption-buster Paul O'Sullivan, who was brought on board by AfriForum last year to run an anti-corruption unit. At Tuesday's press briefing Nel said he had not yet met O'Sullivan.
After O'Sullivan joined AfriForum in October 2016, however, he told an interviewer of the plan to prosecute cases. "We will force the state to make a decision to prosecute, or if they decide that they're not going to prosecute, to issue a certificate that they're not going to prosecute and then we will cherry-pick those cases, we will pick the ones that have the best evidence in them and we will prosecute them ourselves," O'Sullivan said. "We will, in other words, run a parallel activity to the national prosecuting authority."
Asked if that amounted to privatising the criminal justice system, O'Sullivan confirmed that it did. "But it's necessary in South Africa because the criminal justice system has been captured by state-sponsored criminals," he said.
There is reason to believe, however, that behind the scenes things have been considerably less rosy between Nel and the NPA.
Nel's resignation on Tuesday must be viewed against the backdrop of the putrid and dysfunctional atmosphere that has pervaded the NPA for over a decade. No individual appointed to head this, an authority that should be the most important player in the Criminal Justice System, has ever served out a full term.
Instead the NPA has been mired in scandal and been accused of pursuing malicious, politically driven prosecutions (including that of Finance Minster Pravin Gordhan and former acting SARS Commissioner Ivan Pillay) while stonewalling, obstructing or ignoring politically sensitive cases, most notably Jacob Zuma's 783 charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering.
Most recently Nel's name cropped up among those cases Advocate Torie Pretoruis, Acting Special Director of the NPA's Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU), has been tasked with investigating with regard to the so-called SARS "rogue unit".
It was Pretorius who current NPA head, Shaun Abrahams, had claimed was keen to press charges against Pravin Gordhan, Ivan Pillay and former SARS Commissioner Oupa Magashula before these were later withdrawn as a vital piece of exculpatory evidence, the so-called Symington memorandum, had not been considered. In withdrawing the charges it became apparent also, through a series of letters Abrahams made public, that Hawks head Lieutenant-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza was livid that Gordhan, Pillay and Magashula would not be prosecuted.
Nel is no stranger to being hounded. In 2008 the seasoned prosecutor, then head of the Directorate of Special Operations (the Scorpions) and who was pursuing Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi at the time, was dramatically arrested by 20 armed members of SAPS outside his Pretoria home in front of his wife and children after they had returned from a holiday. The charges of fraud, defeating the ends of justice and perjury, were later withdrawn.
#20571002 at 2024-03-15 12:46:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"2024 Elections | MK Youth League threatens election day disruption"
https://youtu.be/-tOVDuNS_hA
Mar 13, 2024
uMkhonto weSizwe Youth League has threatened to disrupt election day if their party is not on the ballot paper. Interim Youth Leader, Bonginkosi Khanyile, says they are prepared to lay down their lives for former President, Jacob Zuma, their presidential candidate. The youth formation has also sent a warning to MK leaders to refrain from plotting against Zuma.
#20558094 at 2024-03-12 19:39:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
coming up on 300
#12
>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town
>>19692436 Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality
>>19692443, >>19692449 South Africa: The Halal Kingdom, Although it holds the world's smallest percentage of Muslims
>>19731387 (General Research #24226) Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo
>>19782011 Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: "Palestine is our generation in South Africa"
>>19782021 ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy
>>19782035 Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine
>>19821993 Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power
>>20027327 (General Research #24583) Harvard's Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa
>>20362707 'Fake' UN official allegedly received briefings from SA's top security cluster
>>20242709, >>20242774 ony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston's 'blessing' to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world (Parts 1 &2 video)
>>20407571 How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states
>>20445866, >>20445869 Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution (Parts 1&2)
>>20452953, >>20452962 The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are (video)
>>20457742 SA unfazed by US Bill threat
>>20462673 Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Initial ICJ Suit Bun
>>20462676 Initial Maldives Bun | Initial Rwanda Bun
>>20510793, >>20510794 UNFPA staff concerned over headquarters' relocation from New York to Nairobi (Parts 1&2, video)
>>20510840 CIA Director Secretly Visits Kenya And Somalia To Discuss Regional Security (video)
>>20511103 Africacheck: "Coalition to fight misinformation": South African elections (video)
>>20511116 Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
>>20516774 South African intelligence and De Beers worked with the CIA in the early 60s
>>20516804 "South Africa: The Growing Influence of the Military": CIA Document 1982
>>20516812 South Africa's 'paedophile' minister [General Magnus Malan] and a mysterious death (video)
>>20520896 US imposes new sanctions on Zimbabwe's President and other senior leaders
>>20525976 "Global Cooling is on the way! Give up your freedom NOW!" – Or is it global warming?
>>20537617 (Canada #54) Alliance of Sahel States: Military Juntas of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali Create Joint Task Force Against Islamic Jihadists
>>20552292 Viral Minister Naledi Pandor Speech on Israel Shocks the World (video)
>>20558069 Updated ANC Bun | Updated BRICS Bun
>>20558072 Updated Commodities Bun
>>20558076 Initial Oppenheimer Bun | Initial Andr? Pienaar Bun
>>20558078 Updated Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Updated Rwanda Bun
>>20558081 Initial SSA/NIA Bun
>>20558083 Updated Violence and Crime Bun | Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
#20558083 at 2024-03-12 19:35:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Updated Violence and Crime Bun
>>19692458, >>19692463, >>19692470 'Open hunting ground': South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding (Parts 1-3)
>>20340605 "Open hunting ground: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding"
>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town
>>20362713 8 things you need to know about farm murders in South Africa (video)
>>20395068 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa's "transformation' – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc
>>20397875, >>20406078 South Africa's Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to "Our People" (video)
>>20407598 Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice
>>20407726 Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2 (video)
>>20410783 (Canada #53) South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is "Inciting Violence"
>>20418196 We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages) (video)
>>20423259 South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report
>>20442095 KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings (video)
>>20445849 Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates (video)
>>20451446 Revealed: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA (video)
>>20452972 DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen
>>20457755 South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement
>>20464138 250 Ekurhuleni metro police workers have criminal records (video)
>>20494555 El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Warns Of 'Dark Forces' In Anti-Crime Speech At CPAC (video)
>>20494559 Hits or contract killings becoming a common occurrence in South Africa (video)
>>20516743 MK party member fatally shot in Umlazi (video)
>>20520797 How Haiti's 'Aid State' Has Fueled Organized Crime
>>20520821 Kenya Agrees to Police Haiti's Criminal Hurricane
>>20526083 Man killed, another injured in vigilante incident
>>20526578 Tackling child kidnappings in South Africa: Chad Thomas (video)
Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)
>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)
>>20484031 He took the spear and stabbed himself with it': Mbalula on Zuma and MK party
>>20501022 "Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen" (video)
>>20537502 "Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president": Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela (video)
#20558076 at 2024-03-12 19:33:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Initial Oppenheimer Bun
>>20242629 Harry Oppenheimer; did business with the Soviet Union (who trained and supported the ANC) during the Cold War and used Hollywood and the Royal Family to promote diamonds (video)
>>20434931 The "Old Money" Family That Controls Africa: The Oppenheimers (video)
>>20445854 Oppenheimer's granddaughter backs RISE Mzansi with R15m
>>20484269 The Oppenheimer Family-The Richest Family in South Africa(Short Documentary) – Patrice Lamumba, DRC discussed (video)
Initial Andr? Pienaar Bun
>>20500680 Andr? Pienaar
>>20500683 The 'CIA agent' [Andr? Pienaar] who never was, plus five talking points from 'Vrye Weekblad'
>>20500696 Loyal to the Max – how the billionaire [Andr? Pienaar] who was once in Jacob Zuma's crosshairs saved 'Vrye Weekblad'
>>20500713 South African [Andr? Pienaar] at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider
>>20500816, >>20500822, >>20500826, >>20500835, >>20500846 "Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar (Parts 1-5)
#20558069 at 2024-03-12 19:33:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Updated ANC Bun
>>20242815 ANC sponsored violence in South Africa (video)
>>20362830 ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma
>>20379836, >>20379966, >>20379849 Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (video)
>>20395076 Research Paper 2022: Elites and economic policy in South Africa's transition and beyond
>>20418277 Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa? (video)
>>20457780 Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced 'all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres' onto SA, collapsing economy (video)
>>20483993 The WhatsApp Group That Controls South Africa (video)
>>20484050 ANC Manifesto Launch: Spear and Lightning at the end of Cyril Ramaphosa speech (video)
>>20484878, >>20484891 Government invests R2.7bn in development near Waterfall City, WEF influence (video)
>>20492903 Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan (video)
>>20494573, >>20494579, >>20494594, >>20494605, >>20494642 RW Johnson: The New South Africa's original sin – Chris Hani assassination (Parts 1-5)
>>20494685 No, Anti-Apartheid Activist Chris Hani Wasn't Killed by ANC Leaders": Posted on the Jacobin website, written by Ronnie Kasrils
>>20516751, >>20525958 Violence, chaos erupts in Ekurhuleni council between EFF and ANC (video)
>>20516854 South Africa's liberation war veterans are angry: here's why
>>20516903 Only useful until democracy? Reintegrating ex-combatants in post-apartheid South Africa with lessons from Kosovo & Zimbabwe
>>20530361 Ekurhuleni downgraded to junk status, Tshwane placed on review (Video)
>>20530368 MK Party Threatens Civil War and Anarchy if Denied 2024 elections Rights, Warns Visvin Reddy (video)
>>20530661 A pissed off south African: ANC has destroyed South Africa; Julius Malema border policy; Taxi violence and Crime (video)
>>20556785 How the ANC went about compiling its [2024] election candidate list (video)
>>20556813 Calibre of ANC candidates close to that of 1994 – Motlanthe (video)
Updated BRICS Bun
>>20065199 (General Research #24627) West sees BRICS expansion as direct threat analyst
>>20177955 (Canada #51) Saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS - state media
>>20537521 Mavimbela: BRICS expansion proved a lot of naysayers wrong" – "more and more [Brazilian] people declare themselves as black" (video)
#20556704 at 2024-03-12 14:26:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20551615
>>20551658
>>20551676
>>20551778
"Exclusive: South African minister [David Mahlobo] linked to rhino poaching"
https://youtu.be/5V720WR0jNo
Nov 13, 2016
"Five state 'security threats' that worried the Zuma administration: Former [state security] minister David Mahlobo testifies at state capture inquiry"
https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-04-09-five-state-security-threats-that-worried-the-Zuma-administration/
09 April 2021 - 15:47
The Jacob Zuma administration was concerned about five areas of domestic and foreign threats against the country during the time David Mahlobo was minister of state security.
Mahlobo, testifying at the state capture inquiry on Friday, said four domestic threats and one foreign had been identified in a classified "national intelligence estimate".
Threats to the state's authority
Mahlobo said the number one domestic threat was events and happenings that had the potential to undermine the functioning of the state.
They included elements of violent protests, violent industrial actions, taxi wars, violent protests in the education sector and the activities of private security companies.
"There is something very interesting to note on this first one. There is always an adjective that has been used because protesting is a constitutional right," he said.
"But there is always a qualification 'violent, violent, violent.'"
SA's territorial integrity
This threat, Mahlobo said, was also classified under domestic. It involved the country's porous borders, illegal migration and xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals.
Threat to wellbeing and safety of South Africans
Mahlobo said: "Those are the issues of want - your water, food, energy security, terrorism and extremism, gangsterism and narcotics."
Threat to SA's economy
The main concern in this regard, Mahlobo revealed, was the scourge of corruption. But illegal mining was also classified under the same umbrella, including wildlife poaching and the theft of ferrous and non-ferrous materials.
Foreign threats
Mahlobo said there was concern about the activities in SA of foreign intelligence services advancing their interests.
The government of the time was of the view that foreign intelligence services were working with "negative domestic forces" to scupper the ability of the state to govern the country.
Who were these "negative domestic forces", asked evidence leader advocate Paul Pretorius.
"It is not a specific statement. Not everybody is a friend to SA. We do have enemies and that is how intelligence works. Even our own friends with whom we share certain things, they will never hesitate on matters of pursuing their national interest, including matters of dominance or economic advantage," said Mahlobo.
"The duty for intelligence is to influence, get information so you can have an advantage. South Africa is not a small country and is very strategic in terms of its location, in terms of its resources and in terms of influence and leadership both at home and abroad.
"[Foreign intelligence services] must work on certain people so that wittingly or unwitting these people must pursue their national objectives.
"Nobody is immune from being recruited. They can recruit a minister, a president, a judge and a parliamentarian as long as they know the information and influence they need."
#20551658 at 2024-03-11 15:38:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20551522
>>20551526
>>20551528
>>20551615
>>20551629
>>20537502
> [Vusi Mavimbela] "Well our position at the National Intelligence Agency, I'm saying that because I was the Director General there, and the position of the Minister of Intelligence at the time, that was Lindiwe Sisulu, was that we should try and avoid by all means that the President of the country, that was Thabo Mbeki, should be seen in any way to be favouring the removal of Zuma as his Deputy. That he must bend over backwards to actually show the country the Alliance, the ANC that is not his intention to do that because our assessment was that if that is the perception that was going to divide the ANC down the middle, was going to divide the alliance down the middle and if the ANC is divided and is weakened, then as a governing party that is going to impact on governance and the rest of the things... When [Thabo Mbeki] was going to address parliament... I was crossing my fingers as I was sitting there that he shouldn't conclude by saying he's going to fire his Deputy because this is what we feared the most... but we all know that he actually fired [Jacob Zuma] in that speech."
>>20537526
>[Vusi Mavimbela] later served as a top administrator and counsellor in the offices of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, two former presidents of South Africa.
"South Africa's security sector is in crisis - reform must start now"
https://issafrica.org/iss-today/south-africas-security-sector-is-in-crisis-reform-must-start-now
21 JUL 2021
The failures of South Africa's intelligence services and police, and the uninspiring performance of the military, reveal the absence of a coherent approach to national security. Each of these departments is in crisis. And those responsible for the judiciary, prisons and border management also face problems. Reasons include lack of vision, political interference and state capture, bad management, poor coordination, weak policy and insufficient accountability such as through Parliament.
It is clear that South Africa has an intelligence service in name only. This is reflected in the 2018 State Security Agency report of the high-level panel chaired by Dr Sydney Mufamadi.
There are several obvious things to do, such as removing political interference in senior appointments, further strengthening the prosecuting authority and focusing on competence rather than factional loyalty.
#20537535 at 2024-03-08 20:13:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20537526
"Vusi Mavimbela Biography": Former DG of National Intelligence Agency - Part 2
https://celebritybaze.com.ng/vusi-mavimbela-biography/
Mavimbela's first major assignment after returning from exile in 1994 was to head the ANC's Department of Intelligence and Security (DIS), which was responsible for the security of the ANC leaders and members, as well as the integration of the former liberation fighters into the new South African National Defence Force (SANDF). He also played a key role in the establishment of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which took over the domestic intelligence functions o fthe former National Intelligence Service (NIS). He was appointed as the Deputy Director-General of the NIA in 1995, and later as the Director-General in 1999.
As the head of the NIA, Mavimbela oversaw the collection, analysis, and dissemination of the domestic intelligence to protect the national security and interests of South Africa. He also coordinated the intelligence cooperation and exchange with other countries and regional bodies, such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union (AU).
He was involved in the several peace and security initiatives, such as the mediation efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, and Sudan. He also dealt with various challenges and threats, such as rise of crime, corruption, terrorism, and espionage.
In 2005, Mavimbela left the NIA and jointed the Presidency as the Director-General and Secretary of the Cabinet. He served under President Thabo Mbeki, and later under President Kgalema Motlanthe, who succeeded Mbeki after his controversial recall by the ANC in 2008.
Mavimbela was the chief administrator and advisor of the Presidency, and was responsible for ensuring the effective functioning and coordination of the government departments and agencies. He also facilitated the communication and consultation between the Presidency and other stakeholders, such as the Parliament, the judiciary, the civil society and the media.
In 2009, Mavimbela was appointed as the Ambassador to Zimbabwe by President Jacob Zuma, who replaced Motlanthe after the general elections. He became the first ambassador to Zimbabwe since the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) between the ZANU-PF and the opposition MDC parties, following the disputed elections in 2008.
Mavimbela's main task was to support and monitor the implementation of the Global Political Agreement (GPS), which was brokered by South Africa and the SADC to end the political crisis and violence in Zimbabwe. He also worked to strengthen the bilateral relations and cooperation between South Africa and Zimbabwe, especially in the areas of trade, investment, tourism, and infrastructure.
In 2013, Mavimbela was transferred to Swaziland as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Eswatini, as it is officially know. He represented South Africa's interest and values in the small landlocked country, which is ruled by King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch. He also engaged with the Swazi government and civi society on various issues, such as human rights, democracy, governance, and development. –He also promoted the regional integration and solidarity within the SADC and the AU, and advocated for the resolution of the conflicts and disputes in the continent.
In 2017, Mavimbela was appointed as the Ambassador to Egypt. He is the head of the South African mission in Cairo, and the accredited representative to the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Arab League, and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).
Vusi Mavimbela got married to his wife, Nomsa, in 1982, while he was studying in the United States as part of the ANC's diplomatic mission. They have four children, two sons and two daughters, who were born in different countries during their exile.
Their eldest daughter, Kalushi, was named after Solomon Mahlangu, a fellow MK soldier and friend of Mavimbela, who was executed by the apartheid regime in 1979. Their second daughter, Nandi, was named after Nandi Mandela, the daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Their sons are Vusi Junior and Thabo [named after Thabo Mbeki?].
Vusi Mavimbela has an estimated net worth of $36 million USD as of 2024.
#20537526 at 2024-03-08 20:12:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20537502
>>20537521
"Vusi Mavimbela Biography": Former DG of National Intelligence Agency - Part 1
https://celebritybaze.com.ng/vusi-mavimbela-biography/
Vusi Mavimbela is a South African politician, diplomat, and author. He was a former soldier of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), and spent many years in exile during the apartheid era.
He later served as a top administrator and counsellor in the offices of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, two former presidents of South Africa.
We also worked as an ambassador to several countries, including Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland. He wrote a memoir titled Time Is Not the Measure, which chronicles his life and experiences in the struggle for liberation and democracy.
Vusi Mabimbela was born in 1954 in Vryheid, a town in norther KwaZulu-Natal, where he grew up in a large and poor family. He attended local schools and showed a keen interest in reading and writing from an early age. He also developed a political consciousness and joined the ANC Youth League when he was 15 years old.
In 1973, he enrolled at the University of Zululand to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree in African Studies and Political Science. He became involved in student politics and activism, and was elected as the president of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) branch on campus.
He also befriended Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, and was influenced by his ideas and vision. He participated in several protests and campaigns against the apartheid regime, and faced harassment and detention by the security forces.
In 1976, after the Soweto uprising, he decided to leave the country and join the ANC in exile. He crossed the border into Mozambique, where he met other young activists such as Solomon Mahlangu, Thomas Masuku, and Stephen Nkosi.
He underwent military training at the ANC's camps in Angola, and became a member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. He also received political education and intelligence training from the ANC and its allies in the Soviet Union and East Germany.
In 1981, he was sent to the United States as aprt of the ANC's diplomatic mission. He studied at the Columbia University in New York, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs. He also travelled across the country, giving speeches and raising awareness and support for the ANC and the anti-apartheid struggle.
He met many influential figures, such as Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Randall Robinson, and forced strong ties with the African American community and other progressive groups. He returned to Africa in 1985, and continued to work for the ANC in various capacities until the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections in 1994.
#20537502 at 2024-03-08 20:04:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20484031
>>20484050
>>20501022
"Audio revealed the hatred, rejection & smear campaign Zuma suffered just before he became president": Discussion with Vusi Mavimbela
https://youtu.be/J9fVtdvx8Sc
Feb 14, 2024
The tension started within the ANC when Thabo Mbeki tried to prevent Jacob Zuma from becoming President.
5:24 - "Well our position at the National Intelligence Agency, I'm saying that because I was the Director General there, and the position of the Minister of Intelligence at the time, that was Lindiwe Sisulu, was that we should try and avoid by all means that the President of the country, that was Thabo Mbeki, should be seen in any way to be favouring the removal of Zuma as his Deputy. That he must bend over backwards to actually show the country the Alliance, the ANC that is not his intention to do that because our assessment was that if that is the perception that was going to divide the ANC down the middle, was going to divide the alliance down the middle and if the ANC is divided and is weakened, then as a governing party that is going to impact on governance and the rest of the things... When [Thabo Mbeki] was going to address parliament... I was crossing my fingers as I was sitting there that he shouldn't conclude by saying he's going to fire his Deputy because this is what we feared the most... but we all know that he actually fired [Jacob Zuma] in that speech."
8:06 - "Our assessment was that this now is going to create the real problem in the ANC. So that's what happened."
8:20 - "Yes, Polokwane [2007] was inevitable. When Zuma was fired, that set the tone for confrontation. 2009 also was inevitable. 2008 September also was inevitable when Thabo Mbeki is now recalled."
#20516726 at 2024-03-04 19:52:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"Former President Jacob Zuma wishing Julius Malema a happy birthday." MK and EFF Coalition?
https://youtu.be/xwKYi65z-EQ
Mar 3, 2024
"Yes my brother, Happy Birthday. You are now 43. That is a very good age in the circumstances in which we are. I want to wish you Happy Birthday and wish you and all of us to change the country this year whether they like it or not. We must win with 2/3 majority and you'll be saying when I got to this level, I was 43 that is a good age. Enjoy. Do whatever you want but be ready that we must have our 2/3 as a black majority in this country. Then we'll sort out other things thereafter. Thank you very much indeed. Enjoy."
#20501022 at 2024-03-01 20:44:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20492903
>Mafia Government - Exposing the 2024 Elections Masterplan.
>>20500816
>>20500822
>>20500826
>>20500835
>>20500846
>>20500876
>"Cyril Ramaphosa a long standing friend of mine and of many of us here no doubt, is likely to be re-elected as President next year. He is by nature a conciliator though he had the courage to save you all from 5 more years of Jacob Zuma where not many thought he could win."
>>20500928
"MK Party make inroads in KZN and Mpumalanga"
https://youtu.be/Y47ku6UPrQs
Mar 1, 2024 #DStv403
The newly-formed MK Party may become a heavy hitter and even a kingmaker after the elections. That's if recent by-elections are anything to go by. The party took a gamble and competed in elections in Mpumalanga and KZN. #DStv403
"Zuma's uMkhonto we Sizwe party threatens ANC dominance ahead of elections: Katzenellenbogen"
https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2024/02/28/umkhonto-we-sizwe-anc-dominance-katzenellenbogen
28th February 2024
In a political shake-up months before the election, the uMkhonto we Sizwe Party, endorsed by former President Jacob Zuma, is rapidly gaining ground. Recent by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal reflect impressive support, with the MK Party receiving 28% in uPhongolo and 19% in Abaqulusi. Drawing on disenchanted ANC voters, MK threatens to reduce the ruling party's national share to under 40%, potentially reshaping post-1994 politics. Despite challenges and uncertainties, the rise of MK may alter the balance of power, presenting a significant threat to the ANC's dominance.
#20500928 at 2024-03-01 20:26:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
"BISHOP JOSHUA MAPONGA | Zanu PF, SA Elections, MK, ANC, EFF, ICJ, African Problems,African Solutions"
https://youtu.be/CjUvPy1Uei0
Premiered Feb 26, 2024
9:25 - "Your thoughts on the new MK party?… A snake is sleeping in the cave or in a hole and then you go there and you poke it and you poke it and you poke it and you poke it... Anyone who pokes the hole and does not know how this snake functions, is waiting for a day when this snake will smite them on their faces. I think it was bad enough to harass Msholozi [Jacob Zuma]. What Msholozi did vs what Oppenheimers and Ruperts did vis-?-vis Ramaphosa, Thabo Mbeki , Nelson Mandela Foundation did? I think we're being naive to think that we can chase 1.4 million that Msholozi said we have taken from the government on the arms deal of the French when Nelson Mandela Foundation was the beneficiary. That Thabo Mbeki was the chairman on that conversation... because the deal itself was worth billions if not trillions."
10:52 - "I think we are heading for what I might want to call a political polarization. Almost maturing into political anger where the common people are getting fed up with the lies of the politicians, pointing at wrong enemies when they are themselves the real thieves."
13:04 - "MK sits the army, sits the intelligence, sits the disgruntled ANC personnel that have not benefited from the business transactions in the country. The MK sits the muscle of war in the country and to think that they are worth nothing, you need to look at the crime records in this country... but the biggest crimes happening in this country are in the hands of the military personnel who are trained in explosives, in bombs, in guns, etc. and they are not employed in the system. To think that MK is a joke, can only come from a person who does not know how military and war works. This is not EFF. This is not NP. This is not DP. This is not AP. This is MK which is the backbone of the military intelligence of ANC and when that breaks off with its leader, with Jacob Zuma, only fools who don't know how strategies work... Mk's breakaway brings a disparity in the ANC between the bourgeoisies and oligarchs in the financial system and the poor people, unfortunately. We have Ramaphosa protecting the interest fo the economically viable and Zuma representing the pain and the tears of those at the bottom and the populations are not divided equally for those at the bottom are more than those at the top... The formation of MK is a cry inside the ANC to say we have become too economic, too bourgeoisie, too oligarchy-like, too pro-colonial production, too white preservative. We have forgotten the people that brought us into power." [Which was the bourgeoisie, oligarchs, etc.]
15:56 - "So you do agree that it'll have a very big impact on ANC's vote?… If I was ANC, I would not sleep not for one day."
16:35 - [Referencing the ANC, IFP and taxi wars in the early 1990s] "I have my fair share of understanding exactly of what role Jacob Zuma played in the reclamation of KwaZulu Natal into alignment with the ANC away from IFP. Which is a fact that all of us would know that had Zuma not been present, IFP would have been running KwaZulu Natal to date. But Zuma having been from KwaZulu Natal and being a stalwart of ANC gave the KwaZulu Natal a sympathetic understanding that he's one of us and he's with the ANC and they have instruments of power... You undermine that? You throw all that into the dustbin? You victimize Zuma over Nkandla. You don't want to talk about Stellenbosch, Phala Phala."
22:47 - "From understanding the Zanu-pf position which my father almost died for and I am a Zanu-pf follower not for anything but for historical understanding."
25:39 - "Had Chris Hani, Oliver Tambo and other guys been alive with their radical moves, maybe South Africa would not be what it is. Would have been in a war maybe or better still maybe would have had Azania that we were looking for."
#20500876 at 2024-03-01 20:13:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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>All South Africans and the international community now need to come together again to defeat Zuma, the MK Party and their predatory sponsors.
>Lord Renwick of Cliveden, former British Ambassador to South Africa and to the US.
"The Inaugural FW de Klerk Memorial Lecture 2022": Lord Robin Renwick speech
https://youtu.be/V3kt3_kcmR0
Nov 11, 2022
9:39 - "When the United Democratic Front then was banned, Johann Rupert and I had dinner that evening with FW [de Klerk] at the Nelson Hotel. He hadn't been consulted he said and would have opposed the ban. Things would've been done very differently if he took over. When FW did take over from PW as leader of the National Party, I arrange for him to meet Margaret Thatcher who promised him full support from her if he released Mandela and abolished Apartheid."
10:35 - "Desmond Tutu promised me and others that the churches would marshal a huge demonstration planned in Cape Town if we could help to get it authorized which wasn't really necessary as that was what FW wanted to do anyway."
11:11 - "At midnight before his historic speech on 2 February 1990 unbanning the ANC and paving the way for the release of Mandela and his colleagues, FW telephoned me to say, you can tell your Prime Minister that she will not be disappointed. I'm sure that this audience doesn't need reminding who abolished Apartheid. Apartheid was not abolished by Nelson Mandela... but by FW de Klerk."
11:54 - "FW de Klerk's intention in setting his country on a completely different path was to give South Africa as he put it, the chance of a new beginning. Nelson Mandela, with who I also had numerous meetings at the time, had the precisely the same intention. Mandela on one occasion urged me to join the ANC "because you think like us." I told him that I thought like him but not like others in his party."
13:03 - "Mandela was right also in foreseeing that sport loved by nearly all South Africans could be a unifying factor. Not only that but there's another great cause with respect for and the protection of the Constitution and the ideal of a State based rule of law. That too to date has been achieved with the judges, a free press and the non-governemental organizations combining to help defeat Jacob Zuma's persistent attempt to undermine the rule of law. You have an admirable new Chief Justice [Raymond Zondo of the Zondo Commission] who most certainly will defend the Constitution."
29:55 - "Maputo, right next door, which like many other African ports is operated by Dubai World and Grindrod. South African miners have been reduced to diverting huge volumes of traffic by road to Maputo."
30:13 - "So why not rescue Transnet by inviting first-class port operators and logistics experts like Grindrod based right here in Durban to help to manage South African ports as they're doing successfully elsewhere? Why not allow mining companies to play a leading role in helping finance and operate the main coal and iron-ore export lines as they do in Australia?"
34:21 - "Cyril Ramaphosa a long standing friend of mine and of many of us here no doubt, is likely to be re-elected as President next year. He is by nature a conciliator though he had the courage to save you all from 5 more years of Jacob Zuma where not many thought he could win."
#20500846 at 2024-03-01 20:08:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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"Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar Part 5
https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/Jacob-Zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/
February 22, 2024
What Does MK Mean for South Africa?
The fusion of the GRU's Africa networks with local organized crime syndicates through Zuma and the MK Party poses a new and gravely dangerous threat to South Africans and to South Africa as a constitutional democracy.
Since the dawn of democracy, South Africa grapples with the intertwined challenges of economic transformation, organized crime, and institutional weaknesses.
The criminalisation of the state under Zuma following the destruction of the Scorpions led to the proliferation of mafia-style interests in the supply- and value chains of various sectors of the formal economy.
The Gcaba brothers is an organised crime family that owns the lion's share of the taxi businesses in KwaZulu Natal. They are nephews of Zuma. The Gcaba brothers' networks are an integral part of MK. Due to their network of hitmen, other violent economic interests such as the construction mafia use the family for protection services and enforcement to maintain positions within the state's procurement regime. As the proliferation of the extortion economy - pervasive in supply lines of government procurement in the province of KwaZulu-Natal - extends its influence, legitimate enterprises find themselves compelled to navigate an environment characterized by violence and state complicity.
The state's response to the mafia threat to date has been uncoordinated and weak with limited capacity. Despite publicized arrest figures, doubts persist about the extent of the state's commitment to combating these criminal activities. More than a hundred prominent members of the governing ANC had been implicated in the crimes of state capture by the Zondo Commission of Inquiry, some of them still members of President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet.
In the meantime, feeding off the criminalized state, MK militarizes South Africa's body politic with threats of draconian new policies and of unprecedented political violence and intimidation.
Fighting organized crime and terrorism on this scale is extremely difficult for a constitutional democracy. Only the rule of law can now protect South Africa from Zuma's predatory politics. South Africans must turn out to vote against organized crime and predatory foreign interference. Zuma must be returned to prison to complete his sentence. The long-delayed and stalled prosecution of Zuma on corruption charges needs to proceed without any further delay. MK must disclose its foreign sources of financing under South African electoral laws, and if it does not, the law must be enforced. The capacity to fight organized crime must be rebuilt combined with effective counterterrorism and counterespionage capabilities. Alliances need to be revived with other democracies facing similar threats.
Make no mistake this will require great sacrifice and a strong political will from a new South African government after the upcoming elections. It will be a tough fight, but ordinary South Africans can do extraordinary things- we, the people defeated Zuma and state capture [it is still thriving!] before and can do so again.
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"This is an authoritative first hand analysis of Zuma's web of corruption, the incalculable damage he did to his country as President and the present danger he continues to pose, with the Kremlin's involvement and direction. Zuma's corruption was first uncovered by the Scorpions, and after Zuma destroyed the Scorpions, disrupted during Zuma's second term by a combination of an intrepid civil society and the courts. All South Africans and the international community now need to come together again to defeat Zuma, the MK Party and their predatory sponsors."
- Lord Renwick of Cliveden, former British Ambassador to South Africa and to the US.
Andre Pienaar is the Founder and CEO of C5 Capital, a venture capital firm investing in cybersecurity, energy security and space. Pienaar is the author of "Mandela's "Untouchables"- the Scorpions and the fight for justice in South Africa," to be published in 2024. Pienaar is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa and the architect of the Scorpions. He studied counterintelligence in the UK and wrote his Master thesis on Directorate T of the Russian KGB. Zuma accused Pienaar in a "Special Plea" defence to his corruption charges in 2021 of being a foreign intelligence agent who orchestrated his prosecution.
#20500835 at 2024-03-01 20:06:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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"Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar Part 4
https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/Jacob-Zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/
February 22, 2024
The Events Leading Up to MK's Launch
It is worth revisiting the timeline of events in the run-up to the registration of MK as a new political party on September 5, 2023. In May 2023, Russian state media praises Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, Zuma's daughter, as one of the first to use the hashtag #IStandWithRussia on Twitter and published joint photos of her father with Putin. This is the launch of the GRU's global propaganda campaign in support of the invasion of Ukraine.
In June 2023, Russian state media published an article that highlighted opinions expressed by Zuma that the "crisis" in Ukraine was created by NATO countries in attempts to counter BRICS. The GRU's social media trolls shared a video of Zuma saying "Russia said that this [Ukraine] is their neighbour, that you cannot bring NATO into a neighbouring country. And this particular war is actually related to the existence of BRICS. The West doesn't like the existence of BRICS."
Despite having been placed on medical parole on July 7th, Zuma is well enough to travel to Zimbabwe on a Russian-funded trip with Duduzile. In Zimbabwe, he promotes a carbon credits scheme from Belarus funded by Russia as a new scheme to evade sanctions. From Zimbabwe, he is whisked away by his Russian handlers on a Russian plane for "medical treatment" in Moscow, now claiming he is suddenly feeling unwell again.
In the meantime, back home, the Constitutional Court in South Africa rules that Zuma has to return to prison because his medical parole is unlawful and invalid. All the travel arrangements-South Africa, Zimbabwe, Russia-for Zuma were ultimately made under the signature of Major-General Andrei Veryanov, the Head of the Clandestine Service of the GRU.
Other than for Zuma to continue to abscond from prison, the real reason for Zuma's visit to Moscow is to attend Putin's Africa Russia Summit on 22-23 July. He announces that he is extending his stay in Moscow. During the Summit, Putin and Veryanov broker a deal between Ramaphosa and Zuma that will keep Zuma out of prison going forward. The GRU has a secret mission for Zuma that requires him to be out of prison-the launch of its first wholly-owned political subsidiary, MK, as a political party in South Africa.
Zuma returns triumphantly on 3 August to South Africa. His Russian-brokered deal to stay out of prison is announced on 11 August by the Government under the guise that this is part of a new program to reduce overcrowding of jails. Three weeks later, on 5 September, on Zuma's instructions, Jabulani Khumalo registers MK as a new political party. Russia state-owned media announces Zuma's return to politics.
Over the same period from June to August, the GRU dismantles the management of its most valuable asset in Africa, Prigozhin and the Wagner Group, on Putin's instructions. Prigozhin is assassinated on 23 August when his plane is blown up. In the same week of September when MK is registered as a new party, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, the Russian Deputy Minister of Defence with General Andrei Averyanov, the head of the GRU clandestine services, start a tour across Africa to meet with the Wagner Group's African clients to advise them that they will work directly with the Russian Ministry of Defence going forward. Zuma sends emissaries in support of General Averyanov's mission to the CAR where, during his Presidency, he did a major SA military deployment.
On 6 December, Democratic Alliance Councillor Ndlovu is shot 10 times in front of his family by two assassins. On 16 December, Zuma endorses MK as his new political party. At the same time, the GRU announces on its propaganda channels the rebranding of the Wagner Group as the "Africa Corps," the same name as Hitler's military deployment to North Africa.
#20500826 at 2024-03-01 20:05:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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"Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar Part 3
https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/Jacob-Zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/
February 22, 2024
The Guptas receive payments on Zuma's behalf in Hong Kong for the nuclear deal. Zuma removes all restrictions on the GRU's operations in South Africa, cementing links between the GRU and South African Special Forces and the senior leadership of the intelligence community. The Carnegie Foundation report of 2019 reports how South African civil society and the rule of law disrupted the GRU's operations. I wrote about this in the Vrye Weekblad in 2023.
MK is the first political party in South Africa's democracy that has been formed with the active sponsorship of a foreign intelligence service-the GRU. It has been designed to be part of the network of assets that the GRU is building across Africa under the rubric of the "Africa Corps"-a network of Russian private military companies, arms dealers, and client juntas for the profit of Putin and the Kremlin. The GRU runs all the illicit Russian arms deals across Africa and worldwide.
The arms deal between Rosoboronexport-the Russian arms exporter of the entire range of military, dual-use products and services and technologies-to provide armour-piercing shells and automatic rifles to South African Special Forces and to export South African weapons for use in the war on Ukraine that was transported by the mysterious Lady R in December 2022 is a classic arms deal coordinated by the GRU.
The GRU is the most notorious of the Russian intelligence services. Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces-officially known by the acronym GU, though more commonly referred to as the GRU-is unlike the KGB's successor organizations, the SVR and FSB, in many ways. Since its founding under a different name by Leon Trotsky in 1918, it has enjoyed virtually uninterrupted continuity as the Russian military's clandestine intelligence service.
Headquartered in a fortified complex in Moscow, the centrepiece of which is an enormous building known as the Stikliashka (or "Glass House"), the GRU answers directly to Russia's Chief of the General Staff and is technically under the authority of the Russian Ministry of Defense. One of the defectors from the GRU reported that new recruits must watch a film of a traitor to the GRU being incinerated alive as part of their induction into the service.
It was the GRU that choreographed the seizure and annexation of Crimea, as Vladimir Putin admitted in a documentary that aired on Russian state television in March 2015. Since then, Ukraine has functioned as a laboratory for Russian military doctrine and GRU subversion efforts. According to Mark Galeotti, a Russia security specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, the Glass House oversees "the gangster-warlords, militias, and mercenaries of the Donbas" of eastern Ukraine.
The GRU operates globally, including running hostile operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Two different units of its operatives hacked Democratic Party emails in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to an indictment issued by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The intelligence agency then disseminated their contents via GRU-run internet personae called Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.
In March 2018, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, was run by two GRU hit men, later identified by Bellingcat as Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. British authorities said the murder weapon was a proscribed military-grade nerve agent called Novichok, the unleashing of which ultimately killed one British civilian and landed several more in critical condition.
Skripal had been a GRU colonel who spied for MI6, Britain's foreign-intelligence service, from 1996 until his arrest in Moscow in 2004, ultimately spending six years in prison before he was traded back to Britain as part of an Anglo-American spy swap with Moscow. The Skripal poisoning, an act of international terrorism, led more than 20 Western countries to collectively expel more than 100 intelligence officers.
#20500822 at 2024-03-01 20:04:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20500816
"Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar Part 2
https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/Jacob-Zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/
February 22, 2024
Militarizing Electoral Politics
Now Zuma has returned to politics with a new political party-MK. With its ostentatious display of weapons, uniforms, and Soviet-style stiff-legged marching, Zuma's new political party-MK-is deliberately militarizing South Africa's democracy, commencing a new wave of his assault on South Africa as a constitutional democracy on behalf of his masters in the Kremlin.
The Social Research Foundation poll reports that in the May 2024 election, Zuma's MK party can take up to 50% of the ANC's support in KwaZulu-Natal, the province which in recent years has been the ANC's power base. The same survey estimated the national support for MK at 9% of the turnout on election day. This could reconfigure South African politics.
KwaZulu-Natal has a highly militarized political culture. In the years preceding the democratization of South Africa, an estimated 20,000 people died in a decade-long conflict between the Zulu nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the ANC in which Jacob Zuma had been a dominant political presence. Between 2010 and 2023, approximately 600 political executions occurred in this province. Jacob Zuma served as the President of South Africa for most of these politically violent years (from May 9, 2009, to February 14, 2018). He resigned from the presidency in February 2018 amid corruption allegations and legal challenges.
The Russian Option
President Zuma's new party's name-MK-is an abbreviation for the former armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe. The name MK also has strong Russian connotations. The Eastern Cape Herald recently reported that among ANC cadres, MK is called "the Russian option." MK is the Russian language abbreviation for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It is also the Russian language abbreviation for a foreign subsidiary of a Russian company with an international focus. This last meaning-a foreign Russian subsidiary-rather than the history of the ANC's armed wing-may well be the truth about MK.
The Russian Glavnoye Razvedka Upravleny (GRU)
The key finding in the intelligence that the Scorpions received back in 2006 that prompted the Browse Mole counterintelligence investigation was not reported until now-Jacob Zuma has a longstanding paid agent relationship with the Russian GRU or the Russian Glavnoye Razvedka Upravleny (GRU), the Directorate of Military Intelligence of the Russian General Staff.
The first time that Zuma's relationship with the GRU came to the Scorpions' attention was in a separate investigation into the Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who operated from South Africa and Swaziland from 1997-2002. Bout worked for the GRU on illicit arms deals across Africa and the world, earning himself the sobriquet "Merchant of Death." Bout met Zuma regularly and made frequent cash payments to Zuma for "protection." The Scorpions disrupted Bout's operations in South Africa.
Following the destruction of the Scorpions, state capture commences under Zuma's leadership. Putin brings back the GRU officer who was his handler during the Cold War from retirement, and he commences regular meetings with Zuma in South Africa and around the world using commercial cover. The GRU enables Zuma to meet with Putin on a regular basis. Together they set out to break South Africa as a constitutional democracy and to foist an $80 billion nuclear program on the country in collusion with Vladimir Putin, a corrupt deal so big that Putin was personally going to benefit from it financially.
#20500816 at 2024-03-01 20:03:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20500680
>The following posts will give context to an article which Andr? Pienaar wrote concerning South Africa.
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"Jacob Zuma, the MK Party, and the Kremlin's GRU"; written by Andre Pienaar Part 1
https://nationalsecuritynews.com/2024/02/Jacob-Zuma-the-mk-party-and-the-kremlins-gru/
February 22, 2024
On December 28, 2007, the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), known as the Scorpions, charged Jacob Zuma with eighteen charges of money laundering and corruption based on seven hundred and fifty-three illicit payments he received while serving as the Deputy President of South Africa. The indictment of Zuma was the result of an extensive investigation by the Scorpions that commenced five years earlier in 2002. The investigation was global, involving the Scorpions working through mutual law enforcement with law enforcement agencies across 12 countries.
The indictment followed the conviction of Zuma's financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, in May 2005 on two counts of corruption and one count of fraud. In the verdict of the trial, the judge stated that there was "overwhelming evidence of a corrupt relationship between Zuma and Shaik." The Scorpions combined intelligence collectors and analysts with detectives and prosecutors in one law enforcement unit. In July 2006, Ivor Powell, a now-deceased senior intelligence analyst of the Scorpions, produced a "Top Secret" classified summary of different intelligence reports they received about the fact that Zuma had multiple clandestine foreign intelligence affiliations. The report was codenamed "Browse Mole" to indicate that the Scorpions received credible intelligence from several sources that Zuma is a paid agent (a mole) of more than one foreign intelligence service. Powell found the intelligence so compelling that he recommended in the intelligence report that the Scorpions should initiate a criminal investigation into Zuma for conspiracy to sedition.
The then Director of National Prosecutions (NDPP) Vusi Pikoli sent a copy of the top-secret report to the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), the government agency with responsibility for counterespionage and counterintelligence. Arthur Fraser, who at the time served as the "General Manager of Counterintelligence" for NIA, immediately unlawfully leaked the top-secret Scorpions' report by faxing a copy of the report to one of the country's trade unions, COSATU. Powell was targeted with a brutal disinformation campaign which included his unlawful arrest and detention by the police. The leak of the Browse Mole report, like the subsequent unlawful leak of the illegal wiretapping of Leonard McCarthy, the Head of the Scorpions, by Fraser and his associates, were serious criminal offenses and an abuse of power. These acts were deliberate to conceal a near and present danger to South Africa as a democracy.
It was no surprise to see years later the same Arthur Fraser, now serving as the Director-General of Correctional Services, orchestrating the unlawful release of Zuma from prison under the pretext of "medical parole" after Zuma was convicted of contempt of court in 2021. Once Zuma is elected as President, he uses both unlawful leaks-the leak of the Browse Mole report and the illegal wiretaps of the Head of the Scorpions-to terminate his prosecution by the Scorpions and to kill the Scorpions as a law enforcement unit.
#20500729 at 2024-03-01 19:49:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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Foreign funding in article
"Browse Mole report a 'mixture of fact and fiction'": Scorpions
https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-03-browse-mole-report-a-mixture-of-fact-and-fiction/
3 JULY 2008
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Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the first version of the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble but didn't do anything about it immediately because he was advised to "file" it and his department already had a heavy workload.
"It was one of those documents that you wish you have never seen. I had this gut feel about this document, that this was going to cause trouble," he said in Johannesburg on Thursday at the Ginwala commission of inquiry into his fitness to hold office.
The report was handed to him in March or April 2006 by former Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) head Leonard McCarthy.
McCarthy told him that a Swiss judge had spoken to him about a person involved in money laundering who had made several trips in and out of South Africa. However, McCarthy had said it was still a work in progress.
At the time the DSO was busy with high profile investigations and dealing with matters relating to the Khampepe Commission into the dispute over whether the DSO, an investigative unit, should stay in the Justice and Constitutional Development Department or be moved to the South African Police Service.
Although it already contained a number of conclusions "on the face of it", Pikoli considered it a "mixture of fact and fiction".
The report contained allegations of a foreign funded operation to bring African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to power.
One of the "high profile" investigations that the DSO was working on was a corruption case against Zuma. The other was a corruption case against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
When he read the final version in June/July he became angry and thought that "if there was a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave the DSO, it was going to be that time".
It had clearly been produced by someone who had contact with "old apartheid structures of intelligence", he said, and not a single member of the DSO had the capacity to produce it.
He believed it was clearly an intelligence report, and not the mandate of the DSO, although it had some elements of organised crime in it.
H then met the directors general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and of the South African Secret Service and between them they decided to work together to find out who the source was.
Pikoli was suspended on September 23 last year on the grounds of a breakdown in relations with Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla and that he did not fully appreciate maters of national security.
He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation. - Sapa
#20500713 at 2024-03-01 19:46:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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>Then Pienaar's name cropped up in the news when former president Jacob Zuma claimed he was a CIA operative who "handled" former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy in his 2021 challenge to the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption.
>Zuma had claimed Pienaar, code-named "Luciano", was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.
"South African [Andr? Pienaar] at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-12-12-former-south-african-intelligence-agent-linked-to-kremlin-insider-at-centre-of-controversial-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud/
12 Dec 2018
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While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious "Luciano" in the leaked "Zuma spy tapes" saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon [$R10 billion] Project - a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes - he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, who has close links to the Kremlin.
While the AU Foundation claims that its aim is "to mobilise resources in support of the African Union's vision of an integrated, people-centred and prosperous Africa, at peace with itself and taking its rightful place in the world", it appears not much has been achieved in its three years of existence.
Pienaar is described on the AU Foundation website as "a private investor in specialist areas of technology. He is a founder of C5 Capital Limited. He is a trustee of several African charities."
C5 was founded in 2012 and since then Pienaar and his companies have become major international players. Pienaar has business connections with international political heavyweights including, according to BBC journalists Ruth Clegg and Manveen Rana "the most influential and trusted figures in military and security circles on both sides of the Atlantic".
Pienaar's flagship company C5 Capital, boasts as "strategic partners" Charles McGarry, former CIA Operations Officer and CIA European chief; Admiral Mike Mullen, principal advisor to Presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama and 17th Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011; Lord Gold, former "Corporate Monitor of BAE Systems" and current Chairman of the Conservative Party Disciplinary Committee; Sir Ian Lobban, former Director and Director-General of operations for the British Security and Intelligence agency GCHQ; Lieutenant General Graham Lamb, a former member of the UK regular and special forces.
C5 has worked with the leading bidder for the Pentagon Jedi cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
#20500696 at 2024-03-01 19:43:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
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>>20500683
>Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper
"Loyal to the Max - how the billionaire [Andr? Pienaar] who was once in Jacob Zuma's crosshairs saved 'Vrye Weekblad'"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-11-20-loyal-to-the-max-billionaire-angel-investor-saves-vrye-weekblad/
20 Nov 2022
Excerpts
Almost 30 years after it was forced into bankruptcy when apartheid-era deputy police commissioner Lothar Neethling sued it over its reporting on the poisoning of ANC activists, the Vrye Weekblad's voice was again threatened with silencing, with the abrupt announcement by Arena Holdings on 1 September that it had become financially unviable.
Weeks before it was due to close for good, an angel investor stepped in to salvage the progressive Afrikaans publication.
Vrye Weekblad (VWB) bounced back under the independent control of veteran journalists and co-founders Max du Preez and Anneliese Burgess, with former head of News24's investigations, Andrew Trench - whom Du Preez describes as "possibly the best digital media specialist in South Africa" - as chief operating officer. The acclaimed veteran journalist continues as editor-in-chief, with Burgess as co-editor.
Du Preez had never relinquished control of the VWB brand - the web domain, copyright, the title and the intellectual property of the combined nine years of the publication's existence remained his.
In an announcement on Monday, 26 September headlined "Hier kom VryeWeekblad 3.0 #Kanniedood" ("Here comes Vrye Weekblad 3.0 #Willnotdie"), Du Preez revealed VWB's "rebirth", as the weekly publication would now be published by a new entity, the Nuwe Vrye Weekblad Mediagroep, with a new vision and ambitious plans.
The new company was made possible, he said, through an investment from a consortium of South African business leaders who live in the US and the UK, led by the Gqeberha-born billionaire Andr? Pienaar.
Pienaar is the founder of C5, a specialist venture capital firm with interests in cybersecurity, space and nuclear energy.
Asked about his links to Pienaar, Du Preez told DM168 that when he announced Arena's decision to close VWB, the billionaire - an avid reader since their early print days - reached out to him.
"He contacted me a while ago, telling me how VWB had a profound impact on his political views and his view of life. He had left South Africa after he completed his law studies at UPE [the University of Port Elizabeth, now Nelson Mandela University] and studied in Wales.
Then Pienaar's name cropped up in the news when former president Jacob Zuma claimed he was a CIA operative who "handled" former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy in his 2021 challenge to the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption.
Zuma had claimed Pienaar, code-named "Luciano", was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.
#20500683 at 2024-03-01 19:41:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20500680
"The 'CIA agent' [Andr? Pienaar] who never was, plus five talking points from 'Vrye Weekblad'"
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-10-22-the-cia-agent-who-never-was-plus-five-talking-points-from-vrye-weekblad/
22 October 2021 - 06:38
Excerpts
SA-born Andr? Pienaar has been much maligned in the country of his birth. He's been called an evil foreign agent by former president Jacob Zuma, and been vilified by journalists as a conniving intelligence operator.
The son of an Afrikaner dominee, Pienaar is also one of the most connected South Africans abroad. He counts among his network former US and UK secretaries of defence Jim Mattis and Liam Fox, senior members of the Tory establishment, and Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos (Pienaar's wife, Teresa Carlson, is a former vice-president of Amazon Web Services' worldwide public sector business).
Pienaar was part of a team that set up a standalone specialist law enforcement unit, staffed by the newly trained operatives, to fight organised crime and corruption. Once signed into law, the Directorate of Special Operations, or Scorpions, was born.
[It is interesting that the CIA also established a Scorpions unit in Iraq. "Before the Iraq war began, the CIA recruited and trained an Iraqi paramilitary group, code-named the Scorpions, to foment rebellion, conduct sabotage and help CIA paramilitaries, intelligence officials say." https://www.theage.com.au/national/cia-trained-scorpions-to-promote-unrest-20050804-ge0mrc.html]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrye_Weekblad
Vrye Weekblad was a groundbreaking progressive, anti-apartheid Afrikaans national weekly newspaper that was launched in November 1988 and forced to close in February 1994. The paper was driven into bankruptcy by the legal costs of defending its charge that South African Police General Lothar Neethling had supplied poison to security police to kill activists.[1]
It was relaunched in a digital format in April 2019 by Arena Holdings, with Max du Preez returning as editor and Anneliese Burgess as co-editor.[2] A new edition is published every Friday on the Vrye Weekblad website.
#20484050 at 2024-02-27 17:11:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20484031
>this election is do or die
Election date set for 29 May 2024.
"ANC Manifesto Launch: Spear and Lightning at the end of Cyril Ramaphosa speech."
https://youtu.be/UZzLJk9OtfE
Feb 24, 2024
4:02 - "-[Fikile Mbalula ] We are ready comrade President, uMkhonto we Sizwe, ANC Youth League, Women's League and our Tripartite Alliance... We are ready to attack.–"
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/can-anc-take-the-heat-in-durban-as-it-launches-manifesto-ahead-of-toughest-election-since-1994/ar-BB1iNSZ6
The ANC also held a gala dinner at the Durban ICC on Friday night ahead of the manifesto launch, where Ramaphosa, with spear in hand, call on the party to "arm themselves" (Mayihlome) - in the battle lines for election victory.
"South Africa's ANC launches election manifesto as president highlights party's achievements"
https://www.krmg.com/news/world/south-africas-anc/G7BLTZ3BEREU55A2RMU3V57OCQ/
February 24, 2024
DURBAN, South Africa - (AP) - South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday highlighted the achievements of his African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May's election.
Ramaphosa delivered the party's manifesto to thousands of ANC supporters at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The rally came as South Africa faces increasing poverty, unemployment and crime and a crippling electricity crisis.
Party supporters dressed in yellow, green and black party regalia packed the stadium and sang struggle songs praising Ramaphosa and the ANC
A procession of motorbikes with bikers waving ANC flags was among the first displays to entertain the crowd before Ramaphosa arrived to the delight of supporters.
However, the tension surrounding this year's elections was laid bare when some supporters entered the stadium grounds carrying a caricature coffin bearing the name of the uMkhonto we Sizwe political party, a new political organization formed by former ANC president Jacob Zuma.
The party is set to compete in this year's elections after Zuma denounced the ANC.
In what has become somewhat of a popularity contest between parties to show who can pull in the biggest crowds to their election rallies, thousands of ANC supporters were bussed in from various parts of the country to ensure the stadium was full as early as possible.
The ANC also brought in popular musicians to entertain supporters. They performed after Ramaphosa's speech, concluding with ANC slogans and colorful fireworks and confetti.
#20484031 at 2024-02-27 17:08:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20362830
>a new party, uMkhonto We Sizwe (MK) or Spear of the Nation, named after the ANC's former armed wing during the anti-apartheid struggle.
"'He took the spear and stabbed himself with it': Mbalula on Zuma and MK party"
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/mbalula-swipe-Zuma-mk-party-anc/
22 Feb 2024
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has taken another swipe at former president Jacob Zuma for leaving the governing party.
Mbalula on Wednesday attended an ANC rally in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), ahead of the party's manifesto launch, which will be held at the Moses Mabhida Stadium over the weekend.
Addressing ANC supporters, Mbalula criticised Zuma for backing the new uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
"We are fighting in court [cadre deployed judge?] and you will hear that it is the end of it soon," he said in reference to the trademark dispute between the ANC and MK party.
The case will reportedly be heard by the Electoral Court on 19 March.
The ANC secretary-general said "those who are lost will come back".
"Those who want to go, we are not going to force them to stay. They can leave, but you will come back my child. The ANC will always be here in South Africa, it is not going anywhere," Mbalula said.
"He did something that has never been seen in the struggle. You can't, as a veteran like him, say that I'm leaving the party."
"We are not jealous, we don't have hate and we are reviving the African National Congress."
Mbalula further dismissed Zuma's claims of fixing the ANC from the outside by supporting the MK party.
"He took the spear and stabbed himself with it. You can't leave to work with the enemy and then say you are fixing the ANC. The enemy is happy, the enemy has never loved us [and] the enemy is rejoicing.
The ANC secretary-general emphasised that Zuma's time was over, saying "leaders come and go".
"Msoholozi had his time, we fought for him, placed him in the Union Buildings [despite] his charges and made him president of this country.
"After nine years, a new president came in... [Cyril] Ramaphosa's tenure will also come to an end and another president will come on, but no matter what happens the African National Congress will stay.
"Leaders come and go, but the ANC must remain and that's what important. You don't leave the ANC because you have problems. Also us, we have problems, who doesn't have problems? Who will solve those problems? We will solve those problems."
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/2024-02-21-fikile-mbalula-laughs-off-Jacob-Zumas-two-thirds-target-for-mk-party/#google_vignette
"He [Zuma] took the spear and left with it. You can't leave to work with the enemy and then say you are fixing the ANC by stabbing us with this spear. The enemy is happy, they want us divided, that's not a struggle. The organisation will always have challenges but you can't desert it," Mbalula explained.
He did not expand on who the enemy was.
"When we campaign don't go as if there's nothing you can tell the people - this election is do or die. The enemy says we did nothing but our history is evident - we have changed lives.
"The ANC is loved by people through its actions, if we work the people will never leave us for the enemy," said Mbalula.
#20462695 at 2024-02-23 16:20:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
passing 150
#12
>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town
>>19692436 Africarare Ubuntuland Partners with HAQQ to Innovate Sharia Law Education and Ethical Community Engagement in Mixed Reality
>>19692443, >>19692449 South Africa: The Halal Kingdom, Although it holds the world's smallest percentage of Muslims
>>19731387 (General Research #24226) Eight UN peacekeepers detained over sex abuse claims in DR Congo
>>19782011 Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder Black Lives Matters: "Palestine is our generation in South Africa"
>>19782021 ANCYL President Collen Malatji has told President Cyril Ramaphosa to close the Israeli embassy
>>19782035 Ramaphosa Rules Out South Africa Abandoning Neutral Stance on War in Ukraine
>>19821993 Tankers Line Up Off South Africa to Ensure Diesel Power
>>20027327 (General Research #24583) Harvard's Shocking Admission: Affirmative Action and Critical Race Theory Killed South Africa
>>20242629 Harry Oppenheimer; did business with the Soviet Union (who trained and supported the ANC) during the Cold War and used Hollywood and the Royal Family to promote diamonds (video)
>>20362707 'Fake' UN official allegedly received briefings from SA's top security cluster
>>20242709, >>20242774 ony Hollingsworth got Bishop Trevor Huddleston's 'blessing' to hold a concert in 1988 for the release of Nelson Mandela to influence the world (Parts 1 &2 video)
>>20407571 How liberators turn into oppressors: a study of southern African states
>>20445854 Oppenheimer's granddaughter backs RISE Mzansi with R15m
>>20445866, >>20445869 Spraying of controversial herbicide on Vaal River water lettuce begins – critics urge caution (Parts 1&2)
>>20452953, >>20452962 The European House - Ambrosetti - Who we are (video)
>>20457742 SA unfazed by US Bill threat
>>20462672 Initial ANC Bun | Initial BRICS Bun | Initial Commodities Bun
>>20462673 Initial Covid & Other Pestilence Bun | Initial Cyril Ramaphosa Bun | Initial ICJ Suit Bun
>>20462676 Initial Maldives Bun | Initial Rwanda Bun
>>20462677 Initial Violence and Crime Bun | Initial Jacob Zuma Bun
#20462677 at 2024-02-23 16:17:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Initial Violence and Crime Bun
>>19692458, >>19692463, >>19692470 'Open hunting ground': South Africa in spotlight again over [Jihadist] terror funding (Parts 1-3)
>>20340605 "Open hunting ground: South Africa in spotlight again over [Islamic] terror funding"
>>19692232 Property developer Shafiq Naser killed by assassins on superbikes in Cape Town
>>20362713 8 things you need to know about farm murders in South Africa (video)
>>20395068 1989 Corruption Scandals, just prior to South Africa's "transformation' – Sol Kerzner, politicians, etc
>>20397875, >>20406078 South Africa's Racist EFF Leader Vows to Take the Farmlands and Redistribute to "Our People" (video)
>>20407598 Political Assassination Rocks South African Province: A Call for Justice
>>20407726 Resilient voices - Farm attack survivors tell their stories: Ep 2 (video)
>>20410783 (Canada #53) South Africa: White Farmers Arrested for Protesting, Which is "Inciting Violence"
>>20418196 We Read The EFF Manifesto (260 pages) (video)
>>20423259 South Africa a growing conduit for Islamic State funds, says new UN report
>>20442095 KZN SALGA decries increase in political killings (video)
>>20445849 Explosive claims against some of South Africa's magistrates (video)
>>20451446 REVEALED: A total of 86 people are KILLED every day in SA (video)
>>20452972 DA lays criminal charges against Paul Mashatile – John Steenhuisen
>>20457755 South Africa Sees 11% Rise in Kidnapping Cases, Posing Challenges for Law Enforcement
Initial Jacob Zuma Bun
>>20361546 Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma (video)
>>20362731 Umkhonto Wesizwe's real Founders turning in their graves: SACP on Zuma, MK Party (video)
#20462672 at 2024-02-23 16:16:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Initial ANC Bun
>>20242815 ANC sponsored violence in South Africa (video)
>>20362830 ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma
>>20379836, >>20379966, >>20379849 Ronnie Kasrils addresses the III International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference (video)
>>20395076 Research Paper 2022: Elites and economic policy in South Africa's transition and beyond
>>20418277 Does the ANC want to declare a state of emergency to prevent elections in South Africa? (video)
>>20457780 Schreiber: Concrete proof ANC forced 'all-top-jobs-for-useless-cadres' onto SA, collapsing economy (video)
Initial BRICS Bun
>>20065199 (General Research #24627) West sees BRICS expansion as direct threat analyst
>>20177955 (Canada #51) Saudi Arabia officially joins BRICS - state media
Initial Commodities Bun
>>19660255 Two Top Execs at South Africa's Port and Rail Operator Resign
>>19952053 Chronic congestion building along the east coast of South Africa
>>19692449 Africa Might Emerge As A Major Supplier Of Halal Food
>>20114651 (Canada #50) Oil Tumbles After Angola Announces It Is Leaving OPEC
>>20115757 Red Sea Ripples: Prolonged Voyages, Soaring Fuel Costs, and Escalating Carbon Emissions Concerns
>>20114680 (Canada #50) Beijing Imposes Export Controls On Rare-Earth Processing Tech As Mineral War With US Heats Up
>>20230322 South Africa seeks emergency external help to remedy dire situation across the nation's ports
>>20279240 The Oil Market Is Making Plans For Red Sea Chaos To Last Weeks
>>20434931 The "Old Money" Family That Controls Africa: The Oppenheimers (video)
>>20452927, >>20452931 South Africa: AfDB boosts Ramaphosa's investment drive, eyes $27bn Just Transition fundraising (Parts 1
#20457938 at 2024-02-22 18:47:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20457925
>>20457780
>This is where President Ramaphosa becomes such a fascinating case study in actually State Capture because he himself is a beneficiary of BEE, of crony capitalism, of being a connected ANC cadre in the private sector and then he went on from 2013 to actually Chair the Deployment Committee that did the same thing to the State.
>Both the ANC and the DA made the documents publicly available on Wednesday, although they only cover the period from 2018, with President Cyril Ramaphosa telling the Zondo Commission into State Capture that it has no records of its deployment committee meetings and decisions between 2013 and 2018 because no minutes were taken.
"Mosiuoa Lekota calls President Cyril Ramaphosa a "sellout""
https://youtu.be/npR-XiqI9oQ
Feb 14, 2019
Is Cyril Ramaphosa a CIA spy? Part 2
https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-early-edition/20220926/281479280285534
26 Sep 2022
According to the itinerary Ramaphosa was only set to meet Biden a day after he had arrived but the plan was changed without the knowledge of Dirco and its representatives and no South African officials were allowed in and around the high-level meetings.
According to the sources, Ramaphosa wanted strict privacy with no minutes or records of meetings and acted outside of the embassy and against diplomatic protocol.
The highly placed sources believe that Ramaphosa may have travelled to the US to seek a favour from Biden and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) to help him win the much-contested election.
In May The Star's sister paper, the Daily News. exposed a clandestine document linking the CIA, Ramaphosa and the State Security Agency (SSA).
After hefty attempts, including court action, by the SSA to get Independent Media to drop the story, the group proceeded to publish.
The report was allegedly compiled by CIA spies based at the US embassy in Pretoria. When the Daily News asked questions about the document, the SSA went to court and obtained an interim interdict until the matter was argued in court.
https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/ramaphosa-is-a-spy-working-with-cia-Zuma-755efb6e-708f-42f4-9b7e-14dc4f70b4aa
Published Nov 21, 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa is a spy and working with the CIA. These are claims made by former president Jacob Zuma, speaking at an ANC Youth League event in Philippi, Cape Town.
#20452962 at 2024-02-21 20:48:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20452953
"CEO Community meeting with South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile - Jan. 2024": Nhlanhla Nene and Maurizio Mariano
https://youtu.be/pqBpOnXBNks
Feb 1, 2024
South Africa's Deputy President Paul Mashatile was the keynote speaker at the first 2024 meeting of The European House - Ambrosetti's #CEOCommunity - African Chapter.
A great opportunity to discuss the future of the country in a closed-door session chaired by Nhlanhla Nene (Chairman of TEHA Africa) and Maurizio Mariano (Deputy Chairman of TEHA Africa).
https://theconversation.com/the-removal-of-south-africas-finance-minister-is-bad-news-for-the-country-52170
Published: December 10, 2015 1.05pm CET
The fallout from President Jacob Zuma's decision to remove South Africa's respected Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene was felt immediately in the foreign currency markets where the rand suffered an immediate and dramatic fall.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/africa/article/2167776/south-africa-finance-minister-resigns-after-admitting-meetings
Published: 11:23am, 10 Oct, 2018
South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene resigned Tuesday over undisclosed meetings with a business family at the heart of a corruption scandal, dealing a blow to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
https://eventi.ambrosetti.eu/southern-africa-europe-ceo-dialogue-2020/speakers/maurizio-mariano/
MAURIZIO MARIANO
Special Advisor in South Africa - The European House - Ambrosetti
A lawyer by profession with a Masters degree in International Law, Maurizio Mariano is a co-founder of BBM Inc. Attorneys [https://www.bbmlaw.co.za/], a general practice firm with a national footprint across South Africa. With a focus on strengthening economic co-operation between Italy and South Africa, he advises across the relevant stakeholder groups. In line with his interest in community development and cross-cultural engagement, he serves as a Trustee of the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation [Kgalema Motlanthe: "South African politician who served as the third president of South Africa from 25 September 2008 to 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki."]and the David Makhura Charity Fund Trust, amongst others. In 2018, he was a recipient of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italian and South African affairs.
#20367850 at 2024-02-06 20:04:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20362830
Jacob Zuma launches uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party on 16 December
https://theconversation.com/Jacob-Zuma-the-monster-south-africas-ruling-anc-created-continues-to-haunt-it-221900
Published: January 27, 2024 7.07am CET
Former South African president Jacob Zuma is endorsing the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party, the latest rival to the governing African National Congress (ANC) for the upcoming national elections. By doing so, he not only challenges the ANC politically, but also claims its heritage.
The new party - which media reports say is Zuma's brainchild - uses the name of the ANC's former military wing. The party's launch coincided with the 62nd anniversary of the real uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), formed on 16 December 1961 to fight the apartheid government.
Zuma could not have been more daring.
16 December is very significant in South Africa because...
https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/aftermath-battle-blood-river-1838
The Day of the Vow
For the greater part of the twentieth century 16 December had been observed as a public holiday, with Afrikaans-speakers attending special church services or visiting the Voortrekker Monument. Until the National Party seized power in 1948, this day was observed as Dingane's Day. After 1948 the National Party government set about politicising this day to legitimise their apparent uniqueness and historical relationship with God. Hence in 1952 Dingane's Day officially became the Day of the Covenant or the Day of the Vow [because of the Battle of Blood River in 1838]. African nationalists and the socialist liberation movement's forces also used the day to mount protest action against white rule. The ANC led Congress Alliance launched its armed struggle (military wing), 'Umkhonto we Siwze: the Spear of the Nation', on December 16th 1961.
In 1994 South Africa elected its first non-racial and democratic government. In the spirit of promoting reconciliation and national unity, the day was given a new meaning and was renamed the Day of Reconciliation in 1995.
#20362830 at 2024-02-05 21:40:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20362731
>>20362804
ANC suspends former President Jacob Zuma
https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/eswatini-daily-news-9y77/20240130/281526525937652
30 Jan 2024
SOUTH AFRICA'S ruling African National Congress (ANC) has suspended former President Jacob Zuma, weeks after he backed another party ahead of this year's general election.
"Zuma and others whose conduct is in conflict with our values and principles will find themselves outside the African National Congress," ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said on Monday.
The decision, which was widely expected, will be seen as a further sign of disunity in the movement ahead of the general election, in which the long-dominant ANC is expected to lose ground.
Zuma was the fourth president of democratic South Africa, serving from 2009 to 2018, but was forced from office under a cloud of corruption allegations, and he has become estranged from the party he once led.
In December, he declared he would campaign for a new party, uMkhonto We Sizwe (MK) or Spear of the Nation, named after the ANC's former armed wing during the anti-apartheid struggle. Mbalula said that in addition to suspending Zuma, the ANC could complain to the electoral court to get the new party deregistered and mount a trademark challenge to recapture the name.
"The formation of MK party is not an accident," Mbalula declared after a meeting with the party's National Executive Committee, attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa. "It is a deliberate attempt to use the proud history of the armed struggle against the apartheid regime to lend credibility to what is a blatantly counterrevolutionary agenda."
#20362731 at 2024-02-05 21:26:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
SACP slams Zuma for 'opportunistic' use of MK name
https://youtu.be/V-LCQj4KRTk
UMKHONTO WESIZWE'S REAL FOUNDERS TURNING IN THEIR GRAVES: SACP ON Zuma, MK PARTY
https://web.archive.org/web/20240107120434/https://ewn.co.za/2024/01/07/umkhonto-wesizwe-s-real-founders-turning-in-their-graves-sacp-on-Zuma-mk-party
https://ewn.co.za/2024/01/07/umkhonto-wesizwe-s-real-founders-turning-in-their-graves-sacp-on-Zuma-mk-party
07 January 2024 10:22
JOHANNESBURG - The South African Communist Party (SACP) said the real founders of uMkhonto weSizwe - the armed wing of the liberation movement, including its former general secretary Joe Slovo are turning in their graves because of former African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma's MK [/uMkhonto weSizwe] party.
The communist party commemorated the 29th year anniversary of Slovo's passing in Soweto on Saturday.
Its current general secretary, Solly Mapaila described the new outfit, which is using Zuma as the face of its campaign ahead of the fast-approaching seventh democratic elections as a wolf in sheep's skin.
As former president Zuma campaigns for the MK party in Mpumalanga where the ANC, an organisation he led for two terms prepares for its 112th birthday celebration in the same province, the SACP, which co-founded the original MK 60 years ago is calling his bluff.
Zuma's name and the word imposter were used several times on Saturday. This as he was accused of betraying the country and being an exposed emperor.
The SACP's Mapaila said if Zuma had any sense of honour left in him, he would remember his own disapproval of a faction in the ANC that left to form the Congress of the People (COPE) following the 2007 Polokwane conference.
Dan Hato, from the MK was also given an opportunity to speak - he said Zuma must be addressed in honour of the likes of Joe Slovo.
"Let us expose the nakedness of the emperor from Nkandla, who wants to deny that during his tenure, our organisation was mired in countless corruption scandals, factionalism and infighting."
The SACP also raised concerns about the state of the country, warning that additional progress faced a genuine threat of erosion.
#20361546 at 2024-02-05 17:42:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
Corruption in South Africa WORSE than under Zuma | Ep 161
https://youtu.be/ddma7OqSI0A
Feb 4, 2024
Corruption in South Africa now worse than under Zuma
https://dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/42894/corruption-in-south-africa-now-worse-than-under-Zuma/
30 January 2024
excerpts
South Africa dropped further in the 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, showing that corruption is not only entrenched in South Africa but allowed to thrive.
Transparency International's (TI) 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) saw South Africa score 41 on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
Since Corruption Watch (CW), Transparency International's local chapter, started tracking its progress on the index 12 years ago, South Africa has never scored as low as 41.
This score is a decline from the previous low of 42 in 2013 and two points below its maiden score of 43 in 2012. This was during the state-capture years under former President Jacob Zuma.
South Africa is one of 23 countries that reached their lowest-ever scores this year and now fall into the category of "flawed democracies". South Africa's score of 41 also means it has dropped below the global average.
It said the global trend of weakening justice systems creates an environment of impunity for and reduced accountability of public officials involved in corruption.
"It is frustrating that, in a country like South Africa, where the corrupt have been exposed for all to see in such public processes as the Zondo Commission and robust media investigations, so few of the implicated parties have been brought to justice," said CW executive director Karam Singh.
"There is an urgency to our corruption problem, as citizens witness the unravelling of cities and infrastructure because of years of impunity and state capture."
"With elections looming in a few months, the need for accountable leaders of integrity could not be more critical."
South Africa achieved the same score as Burkina Faso and Vietnam and now ranks just below Cuba, China and Hungary.
#20341222 at 2024-02-01 16:31:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20252093
>>20340428
>>20340445
>>20340560
>>20340605
>>20340636
>>20341195
>Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein
Now there is a back lash.
"ICJ verdict: SA Chief Rabbi's call to fight back" [Chief Rabbi Goldstein]
https://youtu.be/9QsMxXjoO6g
Jan 28, 2024
"The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim judgment. Even a political body appointed by the United Nations General Assembly, whose members are mainly non-democratic states, couldn't bring itself to order Israel to ceasefire, but we should not be grateful for that. They had no moral right to order Israel to cease its just war of self-defense in the first place."
1:44 - "And God has given us another blessing. While around half of the Jewish world live in the sovereign State of Israel , another 95% of the other half, Jewish diaspora live in free democracies where we have built strong, proud, vibrant Jewish communities. Enjoying full political and civil rights, we are flourishing as contributing members of our societies wielding influence and power, playing vital roles in changing society for the better. We the Jews of the diaspora have the right, the resources and the capacity to support and defend the interests of the State of Israel and the Jewish people in this just war of self-defense [the ANC used the same words when they were terrorists]."
5:07 - "We were at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement to liberate South Africa from its racist regime and since the birth of freedom and democracy in 1994, we have contributed disproportionately to our relatively small numbers in advancing the new South Africa in every field of human endeavor; business, law, medicine, politics and the arts."
5:46 - "The ANC is not the people of South Africa. In the same way that we as Jews have been betrayed by the ANC, millions of other South Africans have been betrayed by the ANC corruption and incompetence."
8:03 - "The South African press is already investigating the corrupt business and financial ties between the ANC and Iran. Amid allegations that it initiated the ICJ application in exchange for funding to clear its debts and prepare for elections this year."
8:39 - He talks about MTN.
9:29 - "And now the latest story broken by the Jerusalem Post is one in which the accuse South African banks; Nedbank, Standard Bank and ABSA of providing funding platforms for Hamas."
Keep in mind. Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein also stated this...
https://www.thejc.com/lets-talk/this-is-a-momentous-time-for-south-africa-dqe0sn8l
December 21, 2017 12:53
South Africa's Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein hails Cyril Ramaphosa's election as ANC leader
Let us reflect on the momentous history we witnessed during the past few days.
Cyril Ramaphosa's election as ANC leader and the repudiation of Jacob Zuma's preferred candidate is a great victory for freedom and democracy in South Africa.
I use the word "attempted" because society rose up to defend its freedom and its institutions' integrity.
When a society is truly free, like South Africa is, it is ultimately able to overcome great challenges.
Now, the election of Cyril Ramaphosa is another victory in the fight for a South Africa that stands for openness, integrity and good governance.
Let us thank Hashem for the great blessing of freedom and the strength that he has given South African society, a nation of heroes, to stand up to the tyranny of corruption.
#19590353 at 2023-09-21 19:56:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19512321
"HOW LONG WILL WE BLAME APARTHEID!?"
https://youtu.be/7L3qd3SpMnI
Sep 19, 2023
Loadshedding? Apartheid! Unemployment? Apartheid! Crime? Apartheid! Corruption? Apartheid!
From Jacob Zuma to Cyril Ramaphosa and even the youngsters of South Africa - Apartheid seems to be the go-to scapegoat.
But is Apartheid REALLY to blame for where we are as a country?
If South Africa is where it is today because of the oppression of Black people by White people, then surely EVERY other previously colonized country is in the same boat right?
Today, we revisit the truth that the use of power to oppress and take what belonged to your weaker neighbour was a part of life across the world for MANY years, it is not something unique to and reserved for Black people or Africa
With that understanding, we can no longer blame what happened to us in the past for where we are today and where we are going tomorrow!
Don't let the Politicians lie to you!
Subscribe to Citizen Concerned! Be Informed and Beware of the Comrades!
#BlameApartheid #Colonization #White Supremacy
#19589019 at 2023-09-21 15:51:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
"Ramaphosa , Julius Malema & Jacob Zuma arrives at the Mangosuthu Buthelezi Funeral #RIPShenge" - There seems to be a friendship between them all
https://youtu.be/M6_eh2bZXXk
#19465788 at 2023-08-31 14:42:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
"Jacob Zuma should lead KZN violence cleansing ceremony - provincial ANC"
https://www.citizen.co.za/boksburg-advertiser/lnn/article/Jacob-Zuma-should-lead-kzn-violence-cleansing-ceremony-provincial-anc/
Thursday, August 31 2023
Zulu cultural experts say the current spike in murder and political assassinations is a result of cleansing rituals not being conducted in the 90s.
The ANC in KZN wants former president Jacob Zuma to lead a team of provincial party leaders to organise KZN's cleansing ceremony, meant to heal the pain caused by the political violence in the early 90s.
The political violence, in which mainly ANC and IFP supporters were pitted against each other, is estimated to have claimed 20 000 lives.
Zulu cultural beliefs dictate that any bloodshed should be followed by a cleansing ceremony to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy.
Since the end of the political violence of the 90s, there has been an increase in isolated cases of political assassinations and other murders, with KZN recording the highest number of murder cases in the country in the 2022/23 crime statistics.
Cultural experts have attributed the current spike in murders and political assassinations to the fact that cleansing rituals were not conducted following the deaths of thousands of people during the 90s political violence.
KZN ANC
ANC provincial spokesperson Mafika Mndebele confirmed that the party wants Zuma to lead the province's cleansing ceremony - which will take place at a date yet to be determined.
"The ANC recognises the fact that this province was once ravaged by political violence. Therefore Zuma and all other senior leaders of the ANC will help ensure that the breeze of peace blows throughout the corners of the province as we approach the general elections."
Since the start of the current term of the province's municipal councillors in November 2021, a total of 19 KZN councillors have been assassinated. In June, ACDP uMhlathuze Municipality councillor John Myaba and IFP Mtubatuba Municipality councillor Innocent Mkhwanazi were killed less than six days apart.
The assassination of the two councillors was followed by that of NFP Nongoma Municipality councillor Ntombenhle Mchunu, who was shot dead at her Nongoma home.
A week ago, Phathiseni Manqele, another NFP Nongoma Municipality councillor, survived an assassination attempt.
Zuma to lead
Zuma, who as the country's deputy president led SA's mediation efforts in war-torn countries such as Burundi, played an instrumental role in brokering a peace deal between the supporters of the ANC and IFP in the 90s.
Mndebele said Zuma still has a lot to offer. "He still has a role to play," he added.
In March, IFP founder Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi said he has been pushing for reconciliation between the ANC and IFP since the 90s.
"There were many meetings held over the years in an attempt to restore a good relationship, but this has not happened. I am now in my 90s, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than if, when I close my eyes for good, there was reconciliation."
Buthelezi, who celebrated his 95th birthday on Sunday, is currently recuperating in hospital after being admitted a month ago.
#19465781 at 2023-08-31 14:40:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19292580
>>19340751
>>19421262
>>19454221
>>19454282
>>19454309
>Freedom Charter
"The Freedom Charter adopted on this day 60 years ago" [Jun 26, 2015] - https://youtu.be/bI7u0nCUnI8. Read by Nkosazana Dlamini (former wife of Jacob Zuma) who was the Vice-President of the South African Students Organisation 1976.
"There shall be peace and friendship (Freedom Charter)" [2015}
https://www.ancparliament.org.za/content/there-shall-be-peace-and-friendship-freedom-charter
As part of celebrating the 60 years of the Freedom Charter's principle that "There Shall be Peace and Friendship", our Deputy President undertook a Three Nations Visit to:
- SWEDEN from 19th -20th October 2015 for a Bi-National Commission between the two Countries,
- CUBA on the 26th October 2015 to strengthen bilateral, political, economic and trade relations between South Africa and CUBA and
- MEXICO from 27th -28th October 2015 for the Open Government Partnership Global Summit.
These watershed visits are an eloquent testament that the ANC government continues to be a significant global player.
I thank you
#19400878 at 2023-08-21 20:33:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19400311
>The emails were referenced in Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's report on a R500 000 donation to the CR17 campaign from controversial Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson [contraversial death
Gavin Watson seems to have been an ANC intelligence operative. What about Brett Kebble? >>19400682 … Then consider the 'sudden deaths' caused by the COVID vaccine. Is this being used to hide their actions of eliminating people?
"Former State President Jacob Zuma pays his last respects to Gavin Watson"
https://youtu.be/frlL2s8LL4E
Sep 3, 2019
15:17 - "And I believed when we got our freedom in 1994, I'd thought that we're past that chapter [of killings]. It was time to rebuild South Africa. I'm saying this because I've become very worried in the manner in which many comrades are dying these days. Particularly knowing as I do how some intelligence organisations operate."
16:57 - "There are comrades who have died very suddenly who are seen to be some obstacle in one form or the other. Perhaps some time will come for some truths to come out. There are comrades I would not want to count who have left us very mysteriously and I hope comrade Gavin is not counted amonth those that were cleverly removed from the scene."
18:45 - "We are living in an era that is very strange that those who fought for our freedom and therefore were vilified by the Apartheid system. And those who are not vilified, they have been turned the other way round. Those who were fighting and sacrifice everything to bring about freedom are today made the worst people to look in the country and our media plays a big role in this. This is a narrative that has been deliberately shaped to undermine our freedom."
20:30 - "There is something I think we did not watch that South Africa is a very strategic country, geographically. For the history that has seen men driving machines across the seas and oceans, it has become very important. At the level of global economy and global politics, South Africa is very important and therefore there are people who have felt South Africa could not be allowed not to be under their control. And that means, they spend time identifying those whom they believe are an obstacle. And they're hated and they're always looked at to be people who needed to be removed. and I hope we are not dealing with that case here. Particularly because the Watson family have been under the spotlight of our enemies for many years and it had not stopped. Hence suddenly, we got to the stage where a commission was used to further deal with this family and I'm saying, I'm hoping very sincerely that there will be explanations of many of the things."
23:00 - "But I think it is important to understand particularly to those who are comrades that our effort to liberate our country is not yet over. You should know that what led us into negotiations more directly and very specific was because of the global changing of the balance of forces. When the socialist world disappeared, the world had changed in a partlcular way."
26:16 - "But what did the Apartheid authorities do? They did not want to hand over or to leave alone their agents. They worked with their friends [in] other countries, big countries, and one country in particular, they had an agreement to hand over those agents to an enemy... They handed over their agents with their files to particularly the majority of them to a particular country. So that they will continue to erode our freedom to undermine the government to do everything so that they will claim the ANC is failing to run the country... We came to know later that therefore an element that we thought had come to an end was in fact transferred. Is in fact operating. That country has 2 files, a file from Apartheid timeto these agents and a new file for that country. "
29:35 - "The reasons why I say this and I don't want to go any further but South Africa is a strategically important country geographically, politically, economically, globally."
31:14 - "The class interests emerged and that's where we are and that's why a person who is your comrade who was ready to die with you. Today that comrade will kill you for personal interests."
32:12 - "We still need to wake up particularly we the African National Congress."
33:34 - "Heart attack, I now know it can be induced. I have been poisoned myself by those forces."
#19400571 at 2023-08-21 19:33:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19400330
>Also mentioned is Paul Ekon, a millionaire miner with close ties to former ANC party leaders such as Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, who was once accused (but never charged) of smuggling millions of rands of gold out of the country.
PAUL EKON
https://about.me/paulekon
Paul Ekon is a self-made business professional, investor and is active in many charities. He was born in South Africa in 1959 and was educated at the well-respected St. Stithians College, which led him to a two-year post in the country's elite air force. An avid photographer, Paul set off for the US to pursue a career in photography. He soon returned to South Africa, where he used his keen entrepreneurial skills to build a host of companies and eating establishments in Johannesburg. Paul manages his businesses and investments from his home in the U.K.
Business Expertise
Paul Ekon [http://www.paulekon.com/] jump started his prominent career when he founded and managed a score of businesses in South Africa. Success led to marketing profitable lines of local fashionable cosmetics and household products. With his earnings, he invested in a computer software company, Management Technologies Inc. (MTI). A public company, Paul became its CEO in 1995, and moved the company to a position of leadership with worldwide customers and $40 million in sales with the popular financial software packages, OpenTrade and Abraxsys.
Coupled with his noted successes, Paul founded and manages a high-profile venture capital business. He was instrumental in assisting in Vallar Plc's recent acquisition of Bumi and Berau, two prominent coal manufacturers in Indonesia. This enormous $3B sale will give Vallar Plc the means of establishing a new company, Bumi Plc on the London stock exchange.
Charity at Home
Paul Ekon generously gives of himself, his energy and his wealth. Devoted to his native South Africa, he was involved in establishing a local orphan's center, Faithways Church. The center supplies nutritious meals to local children in need. Paul's vision led to expanding these centers across the country, where today, countless orphans are given meals and love.
#19400330 at 2023-08-21 18:53:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19284480
>Enter one of the key players, shipping tycoon Tony Giordiadis, from Greece. Giordiadis had very close ties with Richard Carter (now corporate manager of BMW), the spokesperson for the SA President FW de Klerk. On May 11 and 12, 1990, De Klerk paid an official visit to Greece.Here he met with Pres. Caramanlis and Prime Minister Mitsosakies. De Klerk also met Tony Gordiakis at this time. Of Greek origin, but London based, Georgiadis shipped oil to SA in contravention of sanctions and developed close relations with members of the NP gov. to distribute money freely, Georgiadis opened a bank account in Liberia for Mallar Incorporated (it was also through this account that bribes to the tune of $22 million were paid to ANC officials during the Arms Deal).
"EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails reveal who Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign asked for money " - Part 3
https://www.news24.com/News24/exclusive-leaked-emails-reveal-who-ramaphosas-cr17-campaign-asked-for-money-20190803
03 Aug 2019
'People I need you to call, please'
On November 17, 2017, just a month before the Nasrec elective conference was held and towards the final days of the campaign, Nicol sent an email to Ramaphosa, in which she makes several requests and statements.
"Mick Davis to co-ordinate a group from London including Martin Moshal - ask for a collective R20m," she writes, and provides a UK cellphone number, which turned out to be Davis' personal phone.
She also requests that Ramaphosa call Macsteel founder, Eric Samson to "thank him for the money and ask for another R10m".
News24 attempted to reach Samson this week, to no avail.
CR17 LEAKED EMAILS
An email from Ramaphosa's right hand, Donn? Nicol, asking his permission to approach certain individuals for donations and asking him to call others
Sir Mick Davis, who was until last week the CEO of the Conservative Party in the UK, told News24 he was never approached by Ramaphosa or any member of the campaign.
"I was not contacted by Mr Ramaphosa or by any other person in this regard, neither did I do any fundraising or contribute any funds myself. I had no contact with Mr Moshal in this regard and I am personally unaware of any fundraising activities in the UK," Davis said.
The tycoon and the alleged gold smuggler
Nicol's email then requests Ramaphosa's permission to approach four individuals to ask for money.
This includes Greek shipping tycoon, Tony Georgiades, who has been linked to the arms deal as a lobbyist and fixer, and whose company was a key apartheid era sanctions buster, shipping oil to South Africa at the height of the National Party regime.
Georgiades reportedly had the ear of former president Thabo Mbeki and was mentioned in court papers as having been a lobbyist that pushed for some companies to win parts of the ill-fated arms deal.
Also mentioned is Paul Ekon, a millionaire miner with close ties to former ANC party leaders such as Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, who was once accused (but never charged) of smuggling millions of rands of gold out of the country.
Ekon has had long-standing ties to the ANC, and is well known for having funded the party in the 1990s.
Ekon, who has previously denied the allegations that he was involved in a multi-million rand gold smuggling syndicate, read but did not respond to texts seeking his comment on Tuesday.
The Mail & Guardian reported that Ekon hosted Mbeki's 50th birthday party at his Houghton home.
David Ngobeni, the former Ramaphosa-owned Shanduka CEO, is also mentioned in the emails.
Ngobeni, through his personal assistant, on Wednesday said he was "never involved in the CR17 campaign" and referred queries to the campaign managers.
Kojo Mills, co-founder of Shanduka and now based in the US, rounds out Nicol's wish-list.
It is not clear if any of the individuals were actually approached for donations, but the email is clear that Ramaphosa was asked permission for them to be approached.
News24 could not reach Mills or Georgiades immediately.
#19356162 at 2023-08-14 14:19:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19356107
>>19356112
>>19356120
>>19356126
>>19356132
>>19356138
>>19356147
"The SSA and the grabber" - Iqbal Surv? - Part 8
https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2022/07/25/ssa-iqbal-surve-lies
25th July 2022
Conflicts of interest
What is also not irrelevant here is that section 11 of the Sekunjalo Press Code [https://www.iol.co.za/press-code] forbids conflicts of interest.
And, in that context, is the linkup between Arthur Fraser and ANA [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-01-26-iqbal-surves-news-agency-claims-it-was-not-a-spy-vehicle-it-was-merely-paid-to-carry-content-for-state-security-agency/] to promote the utterly corrupt [https://www.news24.com/news24/columnists/pieter_du_toit/first-take-state-capture-corruption-at-5-437-pages-zondos-case-against-Zuma-anc-is-overwhelming-20220622] Zuma faction not a clear conflict of interest?
As Marianne Thamm points out in an uncontested Daily Maverick article [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-06-24-ssas-off-the-books-projects-capturing-media-making-r54m-a-year-for-Zuma-and-much-more/]:
'In 2016, ANA sent two invoices addressed to Thulani Dlomo. They were settled in 2017 and signed off by Arthur Fraser.'
Fraser must surely feel that this was a worthwhile investment of R20 million in taxpayer's money - your money and mine - as the following example illustrates:
On 23 June, the headlines were dominated by the Zondo Commission's call for him to be investigated by the Hawks:
- Mail & Guardian: Zondo: Hawks must resume probe into Fraser and his spy network [https://mg.co.za/politics/2022-06-22-zondo-hawks-must-resume-probe-into-fraser-and-his-spy-network/]
- News 24: Zondo report: Hawks should reopen criminal investigations into Arthur Fraser [https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/zondo-report-hawks-should-reopen-criminal-investigations-into-arthur-fraser-20220622]
- News 24: Arthur Fraser: 'A law unto himself' helped by Zuma to hide 'pure crime' linked to R600m spy network [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/investigations/arthur-fraser-a-law-unto-himself-helped-by-Zuma-to-hide-pure-crime-linked-to-r600m-spy-network-20220624]
- Times Live: Hawks must investigate Arthur Fraser for 'prima facie criminal activities' [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2022-06-22-hawks-must-investigate-arthur-fraser-for-prima-facie-criminal-activities/]
- Daily Maverick: Duduzane, Hlaudi, Fraser and Ace head the all-star possible prosecution list [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-06-23-duduzane-hlaudi-fraser-and-ace-head-the-all-star-possible-prosecution-list/]
- The Citizen: Jacob Zuma and Arthur Fraser worked to keep each other out of prison - Zondo [https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/state-capture/3126004/Jacob-Zuma-arthur-fraser-kept-each-other-out-of-prison-zondo-finds/]
- IOL: Zondo recommends Hawks reopen case against Fraser [https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/politics/zondo-recommends-hawks-reopen-case-against-fraser-4f3de0c7-c8e5-4d13-b599-212bba661865]
#19356107 at 2023-08-14 14:07:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19355884
>>19355885
>>19284410
>fall guys
>>19022282
>Busisiwe Mkhwebane
>>19355910
>News24 specialist legal journalist Karyn Maughan
>>19355921
Selective justice. It is interesting that the author uses Naspers owned media, News24, and an article written by Karyn Maughan as one of his sources as well as a Daily Maverick's article which references 'QAnon'.
"The SSA and the grabber" - Iqbal Surv? - Part 1
https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2022/07/25/ssa-iqbal-surve-lies
25th July 2022
By Ed Herbst*
It is evident that there is a well-resourced? coordinated covert operation underway to prevent those responsible for wrongdoing from being held to account and for the integrity of our law enforcement agencies and other state institutions to be restored. This operation appears to have access to resources within intelligence circles with the capability to intercept communications and hack private emails."
Intelligence resources hacked my email: Ramaphosa Times Live [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2017-09-02-intelligence-resources-hacked-my-email-ramaphosa/] 2/9/2017
In the months before she was appointed as Public Protector in October 2016, Busisiwe Mkhwebane worked as an SSA analyst under Fraser, whom Chief Justice Raymond Zondo placed at the centre of a scheme (alongside then-state security minister David Mahlobo and Dlomo) to advance Zuma's personal and political interests.
Zondo recommended law enforcement agencies criminally investigate Fraser over his involvement in the shadowy Principal Agents Network.
Karyn Maughan News 24 [https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/mkhwebane-rogue-unit-recording-exposes-alleged-ssa-abuses-by-her-former-boss-arthur-fraser-20220713] 14/7/2022
Karyn Maughan's News 24 summary of the evidence tendered by former SARS official Johan van Loggerenberg at the Public Protector impeachment hearing in parliament last week contains the following sentence: 'A sophisticated listening device disappeared from the highly secure SSA headquarters in the weeks leading up to the ANC's December 2017 national elective conference at Nasrec.'
Prior to the 2017 Nasrec conference it became evident that Cyril Ramaphosa's computer had been hacked, and information so gleaned was being used in a failed attempt [https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2017-10-16-sordid-e-mail-trail-on-ramaphosa-dries-up/] by Iqbal Surv?'s employee, the then Sunday Independent editor and Jacob Zuma acolyte [https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/letter-im-sorry-president-Zuma-1899205], Steve Motale, to discredit him.
Motale now works for [https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times-daily/politics/2020-11-19-controversial-former-editor-hired-as-ministers-spin-doctor/] Lindiwe Sisulu, a leader [https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-01-21-lindiwe-sisulus-f-you-to-ramaphosa-should-surprise-no-one-heres-why/] in the anti-Ramaphosa faction of the ANC.
The grabber referred in Karyn Maughan's article was parked at Nasrec - one must assume on Arthur Fraser's orders - to monitor the Ramaphosa faction's communications and to disrupt them as far as possible.
As Qaanitah Hunter put it in an uncontested News 24 article [https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/fridaybriefing/qaanitah-hunter-nothing-harmless-about-arthur-the-friendly-bear-fraser-20220609]: People in the know credit Fraser for those CR17 emails showing up at the door of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
#19355910 at 2023-08-14 13:13:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19134701
>In June, the Pietermaritzburg High Court set aside Zuma's private prosecution of Downer and Karyn Maughan and Zuma has since lodged an appeal against the ruling.
"Zuma back from Russia and in court as Downer, Maughan case postponed to 1 November"
https://www.polity.org.za/article/Zuma-back-from-russia-and-in-court-as-downer-maughan-case-postponed-to-1-november-2023-08-04
4TH AUGUST 2023
Former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution against News24 specialist legal journalist Karyn Maughan and senior State advocate Billy Downer has been postponed.
Zuma still has two appeals outstanding - one for his private prosecution loss and another for an enforcement order to prevent private prosecution actions.
Three judges set aside his private prosecution, calling it an abuse of power. Zuma took the ruling on appeal.
The private prosecution could fall away if the appeal fails.
On Thursday, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled in favour of Downer and Maughan in their enforcement application, halting actions relating to Zuma's private prosecution.
Zuma, who is back from Russia where he sought medical treatment, was present in court.
Zuma filed a leave to appeal application immediately after the enforcement order ruling.
Through his lawyers, Zuma called for the dismissal of the enforcement order, arguing that the urgency of the enforcement application was contrived and amounted to an abuse of court process. He said no exceptional circumstances for the order had been established on a balance of probabilities and added that the underlying decision for the order was "inherently deficient and riddled with irregularities".
The private prosecution matter is scheduled to return to court on 1 November.
Outside court, News24 editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson said he didn't expect to see Maughan back in the dock.
"This is a huge win for media freedom. The only aim of this private prosecution is to intimidate Karyn Maughan and Billy Downer. This court has been unequivocal in the ruling of the private prosecution, and that is why an enforcement order was granted yesterday.
"We believe the enforcement order case will go to the Supreme Court of Appeal, but we don't think there is any prospect of success. We believe Karyn will not have to be back in the dock after today," he said.
Speaking on behalf of the Jacob Zuma Foundation, Mzwanele Manyi said he believed Maughan and Downer would appear on 1 November.
#19340751 at 2023-08-11 17:32:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19340743
>>19340747
It is curious that the taxi strike was called off last night and the announcement of Zuma's release was made today instead of yesterday.
"Zuma Release | Timing of remission for former president can raise questions: Dr Tsietsi Ramatsekisa" - https://youtu.be/qM5F5uSP3aU
"President Cyril Ramaphosa's decision to release Jacob Zuma was in the best interest of the country, says ANC KZN"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/president-cyril-ramaphosas-decision-to-release-Jacob-Zuma-was-in-the-best-interest-of-the-country-says-anc-kzn-26215bbe-8c47-41f7-8d23-ba2cd9f211d8
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2023
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has welcomed the announcement that former president Jacob Zuma would not serve any more time in prison for his 15-month sentence.
"We are happy that finally this matter which divided society has been put behind us. We are alive to the reality that those opposed to the ANC and the enemy of the people of this country used this matter to divide the ANC and to cause social instability.
"On this day we reiterate our commitment to rebuild the unity and renew the soul and fibre of the ANC, restoring it to its founding values of dedication to servicing our people with honesty and dignity, respect and humility," it said.
On Friday morning, Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola and Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale briefed the media where they announced that Zuma reported to the Estcourt Correctional Facility at 6am.
While Thobakgale made the decision that Zuma must return to prison, Lamola said the new Remission of Sentence process would be applied to Zuma and he was then released.
The ANC in Zuma's home province, KwaZulu-Natal, said it noted that in complying with the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment, the department ensured Zuma returned to Estcourt Correctional Facility.
"We pause to salute the department for meticulously following due processes in the management of this matter," it said.
The provincial branch of the ANC said it also wished to salute President Cyril Ramaphosa "for doing what is in the best interest of the country by granting a special remission paving the way for the release of (Zuma)".
"We wish to express our revolutionary appreciation to the ANC structures and the people of this province for remaining calm over the past month.
"We thank them for heeding our call in terms of exercising restraint and for allowing leadership and those entrusted with a responsibility to manage this delicate matter to do so in line with the laws of the country [which the ANC created]," the ANC KZN said.
It further stated that last month, the provincial branch reminded the people of KZN that the Department of Correctional Services, under a democratic government, administered its system of correctional services based on the Freedom Charter.
#19340747 at 2023-08-11 17:31:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
"Will he go back to prison? DCS to decide on Zuma's fate TODAY"
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/will-Jacob-Zuma-go-to-prison-correctional-services-latest-news-10-august-2023/
10-08-2023 10:26
The Department of Correctional Services will decide by or on Thursday, 10 August whether Jacob Zuma is going to prison or not.
#19315385 at 2023-08-07 14:46:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19315378
>>19315380
>>19315381
"The origins of South Africa's farm murder epidemic" - Part 4
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-origins-of-south-africas-farm-murder-epidemic
James Myburgh |
20 June 2018
Below are excerpts
Although a key reason for targeting white farmers was ideological -the start of an offensive designed to "seize the land" from the "white colonialists" - the ANC still remained formally committed to the principle, enshrined in the Geneva conventions, that MK would not directly target white civilians. The Commission argued around this by claiming that "the enemy has begun to transform almost every farm into a military outpost. Certainly in the countryside they are more and more blurring the distinction between what is civilian and what is military." The white farming class as a whole was thereby redefined as a legitimate "military" target.
Among the 30 NEC members elected or re-elected at Kabwe were Moses Mabhida, Joe Slovo, Joe Modise, Mac Maharaj, Joe Nhlanhla, Sizakele Sigxashe, Aziz Pahad, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma. The campaign to take the struggle into white areas would involve both a propaganda element, involving incitement, and a military element, with MK cadres either going after particular targets themselves, or training and arming radicalised ANC supporting youth and then directing them to do the same. The Composite and Organisational Report of the National Preparatory Committee for Kabwe talked about building "MK units among workers and peasants, drawing in the unemployed" and creating "politico-military units in factories, farms, mines and other places of work." It described the ideally trained MK cadre as an "all-rounder who can impart the skills of a soldier, agitator, propagandist, etc, to people inside the country. Stress must be put on MK fighters as political militants."
In a Radio Freedom broadcast in October 1985 the ANC called on its supporters to "use all means" to get weapons from the "privileged white community" that it said was "armed to the teeth." These weapons it said were "meant to mow down our people." It called on "our compatriots who are working as domestic servants to take a leading role. They know where their employers keep their weapons and they are the ones who can devise plans of transferring the ownership of the weapons."
A pamphlet distributed by the ANC later that year stated that the "time has come to take the war to the White areas. White South Africa cannot be at peace while the Black townships are in flames." It elaborated that "taking the war to the white areas" meant inter alia "forming underground units and combat groups in our places of work and taking such actions as sabotage in the factories, mines, farms and suburbs" and "well-planned raids on the armouries and arms dumps of the army, police, farmers and so on to secure arms for our units." Even in this somewhat watered down call to action then farms were explicitly mentioned as a legitimate targets both for sabotage and robbery.
After the Kabwe conference meanwhile MK, under the direction of the ANC NEC's Politico-Military Council, also set about implementing the ANC leadership's instructions to drive white farmers off the land, beginning with the border areas. Operations would be carried out under the command of Julius Maliba, the head of the MK's Regional Politico-Military Committee in Zimbabwe, and Siphiwe Nyanda, the head of the RPMC responsible for the Eastern Transvaal, and from Botswana as well.
#19315171 at 2023-08-07 14:00:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19315162
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>>19315168
"Carl Niehaus, the sanctimonious con artist and mascot to corruption and incompetence"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-12-29-carl-niehaus-sanctimonious-con-artist-and-mascot-to-corruption/
29 Dec 2022
The former ANC spokesperson and Jacob Zuma's number-one cheerleader is synonymous with unashamed hypocrisy and venal dishonesty, and is deserving of Daily Maverick's Moegoe Lifetime Achievement award 2022.
ix months ago, Carl Niehaus led a march to Luthuli House and gave the President 48 hours to resign over the Phala Phala scandal. ANC members demanded accountability and the march was "the first of many protests to come", he said.
Wearing a Panama hat, thick-rimmed glasses and ANC merchandising mistakes, Jacob Zuma's number-one cheerleader embarked on an often solitary #RamaphosaMustGo campaign, warning that the President was "very damaging if not totally destructive for the African National Congress".
Niehaus's campaign to save both party and country was building up to the Nasrec conference. He'd been staging a one-man protest outside the venue by defiantly holding a #RamaphosaMustGo poster. But days before the conference began, he was expelled from the ANC over comments he made in July 2021. He had vowed to fight any attempt to arrest Zuma after the Constitutional Court's contempt judgment. The uprising that followed Zuma's incarceration led to 354 deaths and about R50-billion in damages.
Niehaus's life has been spiralling towards the absurd for years.
In his twenties he was studying to be a Dutch Reformed Church minister in Johannesburg before he left the whites-only organisation and joined the anti-apartheid movement. He was arrested in 1983 after, unbeknown to him, working with a security police spy on plans to sabotage the Johannesburg Gas Works. He served seven-and-a-half years in prison, which he often inflates to nine-and-a-half or 10 years.
In the democratic era, he chaired a parliamentary committee and later served as ANC spokesperson. This is, of course, to say there was a time before "Carl Niehaus" was a synonym for unashamed hypocrisy and venal dishonesty, before he became an empty body of lies in a real soldier's uniform.
In a profile from 2021, Niehaus told DM168's Rebecca Davis that he'd realised the material things he previously strived for, "which led to financial problems, are not important". They rarely are when you get exposed as not just a liar but also a sanctimonious con artist who would betray friends and family - not to mention the fight for a just and democratic society - for a buck.
Debt and the undead
Niehaus's financial deceit has become the stuff of legend. In 2009, he resigned as ANC spokesperson after tearfully admitting to Mail & Guardian journalist Pearlie Joubert that he had forged signatures while working at the Gauteng Economic Development Agency. He borrowed huge sums from ANC comrades and business leaders, without paying them back. He left a job at Deloitte & Touche in 2003 owing to his embarrassing financial fancies and owed the Rhema Church more than R700,000.
An East London travel agency owner said she fronted Niehaus R100,000 so he could go on holiday with his family while he was battling leukaemia (he wasn't).
When a landlord demanded Niehaus pay R4.3-million in rent and damages for two Sandton apartments, he claimed his mother had died and he would use his inheritance to pay the debt. Magrietha Niehaus, who in 1983 had told the court her son was "still a good boy at heart", was still alive.
In 2011, he borrowed money from then deputy justice minister Andries Nel to bury his father. Nel reportedly tried to attend the funeral but Niehaus's father was, in fact, alive.
He was also exposed for lying about having a doctorate in theology from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
In a perverse way, even though he lost his ANC job and party membership, the Ramaphosa years have been kind to Niehaus. He's been on a crusade of loyalty to the likes of Zuma, Ace Magashule, Bathabile Dlamini and the Radical Economic Transformation forces. He's more a mascot to corruption and incompetence than a political player and has had ample opportunities to don the MK fatigues in which he never trained nor served.
The day after he was expelled by the ANC, Niehaus protested outside Parliament ahead of the debate on the Phala Phala report. He stood his ground against police shields like a veteran activist who refuses to give up the cause. Niehaus clearly still has a lot of struggle left in him, but despite all the bluster his fight is and always will be for his own relevance. DM168
#19291145 at 2023-08-03 14:44:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19284410
>Letter dated 15 November 1998, signed by Johan Myberg (was the CEO of Saambou), displayed on the screen
>Your response on these matters really caused me to action this letter and I am sure that there will be fall guys and I have no reason not to believe that our names will be mentioned and all those old and new government ministers and bank officials will be let off the hook.
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>>19284424
>>19284427
>>19284433
>>19284437
>>19284441
"The men accused of sinking Saambou" - "A third accused, Saambou's former chief executive, Johan Myburgh, died in December of cancer."
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/the-men-accused-of-sinking-saambou-387846
Published Feb 2, 2008
Below are excerpts
When it became clear that Saambou Bank was in serious financial difficulty in 2002, it set off an unprecedented run on the bank by desperate clients who withdrew R1-billion of their savings.
Fearing they would lose their money, clients converged on the bank in droves, and precipitated the collapse of what was then South Africa's seventh biggest bank.
It was the country's biggest ever corporate collapse. Six years later, two of the bank's senior officials went on trial this week on 13 charges including fraud, theft and contravening the Companies Act, involving more than R690-million.
In the dock in the Pretoria High Court this week - in what could be the most complex insider-trading trial yet in South Africa - are Charles Edwards, the former director for personal banking at Saambou Bank, and Gerhardus de Clercq, the general manager of Saambou Holdings group finance and later of strategic planning. Both have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
A third accused, Saambou's former chief executive, Johan Myburgh, died in December of cancer.
Central to the charges against the men are that they prevented information on the failing financial status of Saambou Bank and Saambou Holdings from being disclosed to shareholders, depositors and investors.
The case against the men is so intricate that prosecutor Danie Dorfling, of the National Prosecuting Authority's Directorate of Special Operations, told the presiding judge that the court would fully comprehend the charges only once the state had led all its evidence.
Judge Willem van der Merwe, who presided over the Jacob Zuma rape trial, has the huge task of analysing all the evidence.
The trial could last at least six months, with an array of financial experts expected to take the stand.
While Edwards has chosen to keep mum about his defence, De Clercq claimed he was simply following orders. He said he was never a director, but a mere employee who did what he was told.
He added that he never took part in any decision-making regarding the implementation of any of the schemes referred to in the indictment, and claimed these decisions were made at management level.
In his day-long opening address, Dorfling said the factual basis for the pair's liability was in a number of financial structures created within Saambou Bank.
Evidence which will prove that the accused's involvement in financial transactions pertaining to these structures and the recording thereof in the financial records of Saambou Holdings and Saambou Bank was in a manner which the state contends was criminal, he said.
Dorfling said the state would seek to prove that the men conducted the business of Saambou Bank in a reckless manner, that they made false entries in the books of Saambou Bank and Saambou Holdings, and that they gave financial assistance regarding the purchase of shares of Saambou Bank, in contravention of the provisions of the Companies Act.
On September 22 2004 the NPA appointed forensic auditors KPMG to assist it in its investigation.
#19278957 at 2023-08-01 15:27:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19278931
"LIVE: Jeff Koorbanally on the Rupert family and Project Spider Web - influencing policy in S Africa" (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/Y8vmWIVrlUY
1:25:29 - "He [Jacob Zuma] gave me an assurance, "I will on the 8th of February, I will actually announce it in my State of the Nation address." ... So I am here to say without any doubt that Zuma was quickly, uprecidentally removed from his position because he was going to spill the beans on the ANC and their involvement in concert with the Broederbond of stealing dead people's money."
1:28:10 - "Mandela sold the entire ANC."
1:49:51 - "Let me talk about the money movement out of the Surtie account in 2020 to 2022 during the COVID period which was an ideal time to commit this kind of crime while everybody was worried about being affected... then you have monies being moved by Absa Bank through the national payment system of the Reserve Bank in hundreds of billions. The total for that period was 2.5 trillion... and yet no alarms went off."
2:07:59 - "There is no 2 ways about south Africa going into blacklisting in terms of all the evidences now coming out and if we combine the evidence between myself and the British, authorities in the US, there's absolutely no getting away out of this thing. South Africa is one the biggest money launderers"
2:23:53 - "What they didn't see coming was that Brian [Molefe], instead of criticizing and blaming everything on the Guptas, he made a u-turn and started blaming Glencore for all [problems at Eskom]... [Glencore] owned Optimum Mine that was eventually bought by the Guptas. That's how the Guptas got involved with Eskom in terms of the coal supply and the same Glencore was a company that gave Ramaphosa shares where he first opened his mining company, Shanduka."
2:28:39 - "In 2022/21 there was a court made a ruling... I want to talk about that ruling because that was a misconception. The Surtie status of the case is currently before the Bloemfontein Appeals Court. We are appealing a judgment that was issued on the 6th of October 2022. A very dubious, bias, patent, error judgment, that's it. In order for us to be successful with a claim, we need to first challenge the constitutionality of the legislation... That is why I took so long from 2011 to eventually launch a claim in 2019 because I knew there was certain part of the legislation that needed to be challenged and one of the last parts that needed to be challenged was the prejudice legislation on regulation which forbidded the money from being paid to Lesotho citizen."
"Part One: Jeff Koorbanally on the Rupert family and Project Spider Web - influencing policy in S Africa"
https://lovinglifetv.com/2023/07/28/part-one-jeff-koorbanally-on-the-rupert-family-and-project-spider-web-influencing-policy-in-s-africa/
2023-07-28
Originally called Project Grapevine and funded by the Rupert, Oppenheimer and Rothschild families - it was renamed Project Spider Web. In 2010 the Oppenheimer and Rothschild families stopped funding the project which was then taken over by the Rupert family. What control do the Rupert family have over the ANC? Tonight you will find out.
We will also release Ramaphosa's CR-17 bank statement during the live stream - a document that has been concealed by court order in South Africa.
Part Two of this live stream: https://lovinglifetv.com/2023/07/28/part-two-jeff-koorbanally-on-the-rupert-family-and-project-spider-web-influencing-policy-in-s-africa/
Part three: https://lovinglifetv.com/2023/07/28/part-three-jeff-koorbanally-on-the-rupert-family-and-project-spider-web-influencing-policy-in-s-africa/
Download CR-17 bank statements: https://lovinglifetv.com/wp-content/uploads/CR17-Bank-statemennt-1.pdf
Our earlier live stream with Jeff exposing the Rupert family and the ANC collaboration: https://lovinglifetv.com/2023/07/07/live-jeff-koorbanaly-on-the-looting-of-pension-funds-in-south-africa-by-the-ruperts-and-anc-cabal/
#19278910 at 2023-08-01 15:16:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19278851
>>19278852
>My name is Jeff Koorbanally (Private Forensic Investigator)
"Going behind arguably South Africa's biggest economic, financial crime over the last +30 years"
https://africanewsglobal.co.za/going-behind-arguably-south-africas-biggest-economic-financial-crime-over-the-last-30-years/
11 May 2021
Below are excerpts
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, Sam & Nicholas Attorneys [SNATT], a Cape Town-based legal practice, again represented its clients [Karima Abdul Razak Tayob Surtie and Edward Jeffrey Koorbanally] in a protracted matter that traces its genesis to the mid-'80s. SNATT is in the Western Cape High Court to file its Rule 30 application to set aside the PIC's irregular step since the PIC brought an exception out of time. Given that the matter was postponed on Tuesday for court logistics, SNATT and its client will now await a subsequent court date where it will move to hear the PIC's exception. The clients represented is Mrs Karima Abdul Razak Tayob Surtie, the recognised executrix of the Estate of the late Abdul Razak Tayob Surtie, a Lesotho Citizen. What then is the claim that Mrs Surtie is in court for as represented by her attorneys since 2019? At the heart of this case is the claim that more than U$36bn, yes you read correctly, that the late Mr Surtie inherited but never received instead became an intricate and meandering tale that details apartheid and democracy entities, Reserve Bank, Public Investment Commissioners / Corporation Barclays Absa and a slew of politicians.
The main entities implicated in this longstanding injustice and crime of over U$250bn are respectively: South African Reserve Bank (SARB) in particular Financial Markets Department and Subsidiaries (State-Owned), Public Investment Commissioners / Corporation (PIC), Corporation of Public Deposits (CPD), Barclays Bank PLC and ABSA Group Ltd.
This case equally so has the following as people of interest, against whom the allegations stand that they failed to investigate the matter, which may constitute a claim of a cover-up of the crimes rendering them as complicit in the crime. These are for the periods they served respectively in office: Trevor Manuel Finance Minister in his capacity as sole trustee of the PIC, Pravin Gordhan (Finance Minister ), Tito Mboweni (Governor of the SARB & Finance Minister), Gill Marcus (Governor of the SARB / ABSA Chairperson), Maria Ramos (DG of Treasury/CEO of ABSA), Lesetja Kganyago (Treasury / SARB), Lungisa Fuzile ( Treasury), Daniel Mminele ( Deputy Governor SARB), Johan de Jager (Head of Legal SARB), Yunus Carrim, (SCOF) Thembo Godi SCOPA Chair) and Baleka Mbete (Speaker of Parliament).
To appreciate the historical context, it becomes essential to appreciate the documented evidence of interactions across international entities that details at least four sovereign states South Africa, the UK, the USA and Lesotho.
Koorbanally thus, in August 2017, at the occasion of the ANC's Policy Conference, resorted to confront Pravin Gordhan directly on this what he now concluded was blatant corruption. In this instance, Ramaphosa, among others, defended Gordhan, then deputy president of SA. It was argued the matter needed to be dealt with by Government, and Ramaphosa undertook to meet with Koorbanally after the ANC's 54th Conference again, as is a notorious pattern of most mentioned in this account no action four years later. After being denied for three years in January 2018, Koorbanally finally met with SA President Jacob Zuma at his Mahlamba-Ndlopfu - Pretoria residence. Zuma committed to adding this matter into the terms of reference of the State of Commission for investigation. Koorbanally strangely was never called by the State Commission to present the account of ART Surtie as the beneficiary who until now is yet to access his inheritance albeit in late estate definition as led by Karima Surtie.
This case confirms apartheid era and democratic South Africa officials in cahoots in any circumstance anywhere in the world would be classified as grand scale corruption that details a litany of charges.
Questions concerning why those attached to the listed entities opted to be this reluctant to deal with the Koorbanally requests. At another level, what details the role of a crossbreed of SA Government presidents, ministers, politicians and officials in SARB, Public Investment Corporation, Corporation for Public Deposits (CPD). Equally so, the roles and interests of ABSA & Barclays Bank officials as cited in this grave injustice that may define the heinous crime.
#19227574 at 2023-07-23 15:55:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19227494
>Steve Biko, I Write What I Like (Heinemann, 1987), p.20. Biko adds: "Let me hasten to say that I am not claiming that segregation is necessarily the natural order; however, given the facts of the situation where a group experiences privilege at the expense of others, then it becomes obvious that a hastily arranged integration cannot be the solution to the problem. It is rather like expecting the slave to work together with the slave-master's son to remove all the conditions leading to the formers enslavement." (pp.20-1)
"Mandela and Zuma gold mine 'exploiting workers'" 1 of 3
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13275704
5 May 2011
A South African gold mining company owned by members of the Mandela and Zuma families is accused of exploiting its political connections to avoid punishment over its abuse of workers.
The company is also accused of profiting from selling mine assets it does not own - a claim it vehemently denies.
"I'm drowning in debts at the moment, and I don't have any food because I have no income," says Primrose Javu.
"We're living in a very, very bad condition here."
She is standing in the kitchen of her small three-room flat, proud of the furniture, TV and hi-fi she bought herself when she was getting paid for working hundreds of metres underground, in a gold mine.
But she knows it will not be long before the debt collectors come and take it all away.
"They can come to fetch it any time, because I am not getting any salary. This company called Aurora, they just ran away with our pay. We don't get anything."
Ms Javu's employer, Aurora Empowerment Systems, took control of two gold mines just outside Johannesburg around 18 months ago.
Today, South Africa's mining unions claim the company owes its workers more than 12m rand (?1.1m; $1.8m) in unpaid salaries.
Famous families
The managing director of Aurora is Zondwa Gadaffi Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela. The chairman is Khulubuse Zuma, nephew of President Jacob Zuma. Another board member, Michael Hulley, is the personal legal advisor to the president.
Despite having no previous experience in the mining industry, a high court-appointed liquidator gave Aurora control of two gold mines after the previous owner went bust. Aurora outbid seasoned mining firms with an offer of 605m rand (?55.5m; $92m).
Since then, the company has been at the centre of huge controversy in South Africa, with critics claiming that the company has committed multiple legal and regulatory infringements, but has escaped any kind of sanction because of the significant political connections of its senior management.
When Aurora took over the gold mines in October 2009, it promised steady jobs, decent housing and education bursaries for the children of its workers.
"All these things, all these beautiful promises - that worried me," reflects Frans Baleni, secretary general of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) - South Africa's largest, most powerful union, and a close political ally of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
"They started to seriously default on the payment of salaries in December 2009, and in the following year, 2010, for the first three months, they were not paying workers' salaries at all."
The BBC has repeatedly approached Aurora to request an interview with the company's senior management, but they declined to speak or issue a statement.
#19218472 at 2023-07-21 20:04:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
"Zuma extends his stay in Moscow"
https://www.pressreader.com/eswatini/times-of-eswatini/20230721/281943137366992
21 Jul 2023
JOHANNESBURG - Former President Jacob Zuma has extended his trip to Moscow as the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) decides whether he should return to prison.
News24 understands from two sources who have knowledge of Zuma's trip that he was meant to return on Tuesday, but that he extended the trip.
He is seeking medical treatment in the Russian capital, although the details of his illness are unknown.
Fate
The DCS said on Wednesday that the department was yet to decide on Zuma's fate. Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi confirmed that Zuma had not returned from Moscow.
"I don't know when he will be coming back," he said.
Manyi, who is also an EFF member of Parliament, said he did not know what Zuma's health condition was.
Confirm
A source said Zuma planned to return next Wednesday, but Manyi said he could not confirm when the former head of state would return.
Last Thursday, the Constitutional Court dismissed the Department of Correctional Services' application for leave to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling that Zuma should return to prison.
The apex court found the department's appeal 'bears no reasonable prospect of success' and dismissed the application with costs.
Zuma was jailed in July 2021 after he was sentenced to 15 months for contempt of the Constitutional Court after he refused to obey an order to appear before the Zondo Commission.
However, hardly two months later, he was released on medical parole after then National Commissioner of Correctional Services, Arthur Fraser, overruled the Medical Parole Advisory Board's (MPAB) recommendation that the former president did not qualify.
The DA, AfriForum and Helen Suzman Foundation asked the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to review Fraser's decision and set it aside, which it did. Zuma and the DCS then appealed, but the SCA upheld the High Court's decision.
The SCA found Zuma 'has not finished serving his sentence'.
It said: "He must return to the Estcourt Correctional Centre to do so. Whether the time spent by Mr Zuma on unlawfully granted medical parole should be taken into account in determining the remaining period of his incarceration, is not a matter for this court to decide."
"It is a matter to be considered by the commissioner (Makgothi Thobakgale). If he is empowered by law to do so, the commissioner might take that period into account in determining any application or grounds for release."
After the Constitutional Court's decision last week, the SCA's ruling stands.
#19179871 at 2023-07-14 20:54:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
"WATCH: Malema vouches for Zuma not to go back to jail, ANC in KZN appeals for restraint as anxiety mounts"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/watch-malema-vouches-for-Zuma-not-to-go-back-to-jail-anc-in-kzn-appeals-for-restraint-as-anxiety-mounts-862514f5-2d39-4fad-8935-f4dabf507bf6
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023
As anxiety mounts across South Africa about what will happen next regarding the latest ruling of the Constitutional Court on former President Jacob Zuma, the leader of the EFF says the former head of state has served his sentence and it's enough.
Julius Malema also said Zuma is old and frail, and that should be considered.
His comments come after on Thursday the ConCourt dismissed an application by the Department of Correctional Services, which wanted to appeal the ruling that effectively sent former president Jacob Zuma back to prison to finish his sentence.
In a ruling on Thursday afternoon, the highest court in the land dismissed the department's main application. It also dismissed the application to intervene, which was made by Zuma's legal team.
It said both had no prospects of success, effectively sending Zuma back to jail without giving timelines for when that should happen.
Commenting on the possibility of Zuma returning to jail, Malema appears to imply that President Cyril Ramaphosa must grant Zuma a presidential pardon.
Malema was interacting with editors in what was called a frank dialogue, chaired by JJ Tabane of eNCA.
He said before the July 2021 unrest, he met with Ramaphosa and told him that whatever happened, he should consider giving Zuma a presidential pardon.
"To say no one is above the law and all that, Zuma has served, it's enough. Why do you still want to burn this country after a person has served? He has served, it's enough," he said, adding that when you are on parole it does not mean that you are free.
Malema insisted that a presidential pardon would help calm down the situation.
"Presidential pardon is proper, we must try and mitigate a situation where we avoid violence. We have seen 350 to 400 people Africans died in July.
"We don't want a repeat of that; we don't and if the president can intervene in the best interest of the country that's good because he is not using the presidential pardon to pardon his auditor or his own lawyer, it's not personal," Malema said when pressed about the matter.
Meanwhile, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has reacted to the ruling, saying it is "engaging" with Luthuli House regarding the latest ConCourt judgment on former president Jacob Zuma. It appealed for "maximum restraint".
In a statement on Friday, the party said: "Critically, hindsight is always the best teacher. In this regard, we believe that 2021 July Unrest has lessons of equal significance for all arms of the state, the ANC, opposition political parties, private sector, the media and society at large."
The party said violence will reverse all the gains that have been made in rebuilding the economy that was battered by looting and violence in July 2021.
"These will reverse the gains we are making in rebuilding our economy. We need to lift thousands of people out of abject poverty and conditions of squalor. We must not fall into the trap of agents provocateurs who have emerged from the shadows and landed on the front pages of national papers using this Constitutional Court judgment. They want to see this country going up in flames," the statement read.
#19179867 at 2023-07-14 20:54:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19179843
And what is even more interesting...
"Jacob Zuma will only return to South Africa once Russian doctors clear him - Foundation"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/Jacob-Zuma-will-only-return-to-south-africa-once-russian-doctors-clear-him-foundation-b5c7fe6f-c11e-410b-9153-19d6607009fa
FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023
The Jacob Zuma Foundation has confirmed that former president Jacob Zuma travelled to the Russian Federation last week "for health reasons."
In a statement on Friday, it said he would only return to the country "once his doctors have completed their treatment."
"The JGZ Foundation has noted the media reports and speculations about the recent trip of our patron to the Republic of Russia.
"The foundation confirms that H.E President Zuma travelled to Russia last week for health reasons, and he will be returning to the country once his doctors have completed their treatment," the foundation said.
The foundation said Zuma travelled on a commercial flight and not in secret, as suggested in some quarters.
"Although the trip was private, it was not a secret as incorrectly suggested.
"H.E President Zuma and his team travelled on a commercial flight full of passengers.
"The Foundation wishes its patron good health and a safe return home whenever the doctors release him," the foundation added.
The confirmation comes as the DA, one of the parties that challenged his September 2021 release on medical parole, says he must immediately return to his Estcourt prison cell to finish his sentence.
#19179843 at 2023-07-14 20:50:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19179698
>>19179707
Are these truck attacks test runs? It is interesting that they are happening just before the court ruling.
"ConCourt rules that Jacob Zuma must go back to jail to finish his sentence"
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/concourt-rules-that-Jacob-Zuma-must-go-back-to-jail-to-finish-his-sentence-30a1e5cf-e54b-474e-bb64-4a08763ab94c
Published Jul 13, 2023
The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by the Department of Correctional Services, which wanted to appeal the ruling that effectively sent former president Jacob Zuma back to prison to finish his sentence.
His jailing sparked the July 2021 unrest that saw KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng businesses looted and burned, and over 350 people killed.
In a ruling on Thursday afternoon, the highest court in the land dismissed the main application by the department. It also dismissed the application to intervene, which was made by Zuma's legal team.
It said both had no prospects of success, effectively sending Zuma back to jail without giving timelines for when that should happen.
"The Constitutional Court has considered the application for leave to appeal (main application) and the application to intervene.
"It has been concluded that the main application should be dismissed as it bears no reasonable prospects of success.
"Consequently, the application to intervene falls to be dismissed," the ConCourt ruled.
Zuma was jailed in July 2021 for refusing to abide by the court's directive to appear before the Zondo Commission and testify.
However, the then Commissioner of Correctional Services, Arthur Fraser granted him medical parole and freed him in September just three months into his 15-month sentence.
The DA, Helen Suzman Foundation and Afriforum challenged the decision in court and won when it was ruled that Zuma's release was illegal.
The department said it was still studying the judgment.
"The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is studying the Constitutional Court judgment for the review application in relation to the medical parole placement for the former President, Mr Jacob Zuma.
"DCS is seeking legal advice and will comment further in due course," It said in a statement shortly after the ruling.
The spokesperson for the Jacob Zuma Foundation, Mzwanele Manyi, said the right people to comment on are the department since it is the one that made the application.
#19134701 at 2023-07-06 21:23:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
"Zuma 'likely' to appeal ruling against the private prosecution of Ramaphosa"
https://ewn.co.za/2023/07/06/Zuma-likely-to-appeal-ruling-against-the-private-prosecution-of-ramaphosa
06 July 2023 06:51
JOHANNESBURG - It looks like former president Jacob Zuma will be appealing the Johannesburg High Court's ruling to set aside his private prosecution of President Cyril Ramphosa.
In December, on the eve of the African National Congress's (ANC) national elective conference, Zuma instituted a private prosecution against Ramaphosa.
He accused him of being an accessory after the fact to contraventions of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Act, which he further accused State advocate Billy Downer of in a separate private prosecution.
This was because Ramaphosa had, according to Zuma, at least, failed to act on a complaint against Downer.
However, the court on Wednesday set aside the private prosecution as unlawful and unconstitutional.
Spokesperson for the Jacob Zuma Foundation Mzwanele Manyi said the former president's legal team was studying the judgment and a way forward would be announced in due course.
In June, the Pietermaritzburg High Court set aside Zuma's private prosecution of Downer and Karyn Maughan and Zuma has since lodged an appeal against the ruling.
"The likelihood is that this matter, too, will be appealed," Manyi said.
If that happened, he said, the two appeals would likely be referred to the Supreme Court of Appeal and heard together, depending on what the court said.
In the meantime, Manyi said they believed their prospects of success were "more than good".
#19126855 at 2023-07-05 13:01:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19126722
>Agliotti has testified that he met with NIA's then-director general Manala Manzini and his deputy, Arthur Fraser, because he wanted a "better deal" for himself to stop his prosecution for the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble.
>>19126684
>a video that had been leaked to the newspaper
In both trials, they have the same players and leaked videos. Coincidence?
Even Judge Meyer Joffe came out of retirement to address the Gupta assets. >>19111427
Remember, the Zondo Commission and the media pushed the narrative; "South Africa's Jacob Zuma would do anything for the Guptas - Zondo report" - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61269603
>>19111438
>When he read the final version [Browse Mole Report] in June/July he became angry and thought that "if there was a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave the DSO, it was going to be that time".
>It had clearly been produced by someone who had contact with "old apartheid structures of intelligence", he said, and not a single member of the DSO had the capacity to produce it.
>He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation.
>>19111447
>Police and National Intelligence Agency leaders appear to be waging a war of attrition against the National Prosecuting Authority and the Scorpions.
>Mokotedi Mpshe
Same players seen in both Selebi and Zuma's trials
https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/2021-09-14-justice-malala-how-ramaphosa-created-the-arthur-fraser-monster/
14 September 2021
He [Jacob Zuma] was in fine fettle as he defied the law for days until he was taken in by his security detail at midnight on July 7. Until that day the man could offer a lusty rendition of Awulethe Umshini Wami (Bring Me My Machine Gun) at the drop of a hat.
The only long-term illness Zuma suffers from is an aversion to facing the law, getting his day in court and answering allegations against him linked to the arms deal and his role in state capture. To evade the law, Zuma will do absolutely anything, including what his benefactor Schabir Shaik did over 10 years ago - faking it.
No-one should be surprised by the arrogant announcement on Tuesday evening by Arthur Fraser, the correctional services commissioner and former director-general of state security during Zuma's presidency, that he had overruled a recommendation that his former boss should not be released on medical parole.
We all knew that Zuma was going to walk the minute he was taken to the Estcourt prison. Why? Because Fraser, who oversaw every detail of the destruction of the state security agency that has been detailed at the Zondo commission, was in charge of the prisons service - and he has delivered for his former boss before.
Remember that the Mail & Guardian newspaper told us back in 2009 that the leaked secret recordings of conversations between former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy and others, which Mokotedi Mpshe used to (wrongly) justify his dropping of corruption charges against Zuma, were leaked by Fraser. [Did Fraser also leak the Selebi recording?]
Giving Zuma a "get out of jail free" card for the second time was a cinch.
Ramaphosa's 'unity' to blame
So what does this all mean?
No matter how anyone looks at it, the state capture cabal has won a significant victory. Ask any ordinary citizen today and they will tell you that in SA, there is nothing like the concept of "equal before the law".
Indeed, many would declare that we are in full-on Animal Farm mode and that there is no equality across the entire society.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's belief that it is his job to keep the ANC united is at the heart of the problem. Fraser should have been showed the door as soon as Zuma was out of power. Instead, Ramaphosa shifted him to correctional services.
Tolerating crooks
Unity should not mean tolerance of criminality - but Ramaphosa has largely allowed the criminal element in the ANC to hang around. There is merit in keeping one's enemies close, but there is no merit in giving them the space to undermine your administration and your country.
We know now that the July riots were orchestrated from the heart of the intelligence structures [soon after Zuma handed himself over to the police].
We know this because Ramaphosa fired the state security minister and brought the intelligence portfolio into his office, with an instruction to former minister Sydney Mufamadi to clean house. He didn't do this for fun - it was because his initial play of leaving the intelligence structures in the hands of Zuma-ites was used against him [or the intelligence has full control of the country now and are running it].
Consider the secretary-general's office at the ANC head office. Walking into that office was like stepping into the living room at the Gupta family home: it was a hotbed of Zuma acolytes.
#19111438 at 2023-07-02 16:39:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19110654
>>19110660
>Jackie Selebi
Remember this older post.
Prior to Jackie Selebi's conviction...
"Browse Mole report a 'mixture of fact and fiction'"
https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-03-browse-mole-report-a-mixture-of-fact-and-fiction/
3 Jul 2008
Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the first version of the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble but didn't do anything about it immediately because he was advised to "file" it and his department already had a heavy workload.
"It was one of those documents that you wish you have never seen. I had this gut feel about this document, that this was going to cause trouble," he said in Johannesburg on Thursday at the Ginwala commission of inquiry into his fitness to hold office.
The report was handed to him in March or April 2006 by former Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) [or Scorpions] head Leonard McCarthy [he worked for the World Bank after the scorpions were disbanded October 2008].
McCarthy said that because he was so busy, there was no harm in filing it away because he was going to give him a final report.
Although it already contained a number of conclusions "on the face of it", Pikoli considered it a "mixture of fact and fiction".
The report contained allegations of a foreign funded operation to bring African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to power.
One of the "high profile" investigations that the DSO was working on was a corruption case against Zuma. The other was a corruption case against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
When he read the final version in June/July he became angry and thought that "if there was a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave the DSO, it was going to be that time".
It had clearly been produced by someone who had contact with "old apartheid structures of intelligence", he said, and not a single member of the DSO had the capacity to produce it.
He believed it was clearly an intelligence report, and not the mandate of the DSO, although it had some elements of organised crime in it.
Pikoli was suspended on September 23 last year on the grounds of a breakdown in relations with Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla and that he did not fully appreciate maters of national security.
He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation. - Sapa
#19032167 at 2023-06-19 13:56:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>18879937
>>19022254
>Rosatom
>>19032138
"The arms dealer behind the African peace mission to Ukraine" - Part 2
https://mg.co.za/politics/2023-06-19-the-arms-dealer-behind-the-african-peace-mission-to-ukraine/
19 JUN 2023
Kremlin connections
The stated intention of the African peace mission is to end the war in Ukraine, but the mission is not off to an auspicious start.
By the time the delegation disembarked at the Kyiv train station on Friday morning, three presidents had already dropped out (Egypt's Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, the Republic of Congo's Denis Sassou Nguesso and Museveni).
Ramaphosa was travelling with a reduced security detail after the bulk of his security was grounded at the airport in Warsaw. Polish police said they did not have the appropriate authorisations for their weapons. This claim is disputed by Ramaphosa's security head, who said Poland was trying to "sabotage" the mission.
On arrival in Kyiv, the presidents - Ramaphosa, Azali Assoumani of the Comoros, Macky Sall of Senegal and Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia - were greeted by the sound of air-raid sirens and explosions.
These were caused by a Russian missile attack, which could have led to awkward questions on Saturday, when the African leaders met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg. Russian authorities would have been well aware of the presence of four African presidents during the missile strike.
The revelation of Ichikowitz's role, and his potential commercial interest, likely further complicated the negotiations. It is not known whether Paramount Group is selling weapons to either side in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, although at least one piece of military equipment produced by Paramount - a Marauder-type armoured vehicle - has been spotted with Russian forces on the front line, according to news website DefenceWeb.
Ichikowitz is known to be connected to at least one major oligarch who is close to Putin. Both Ichikowitz and the Brazzaville Foundation's Ollivier spoke at the 2019 edition of the Rhodes Forum, described by some as "Putin's Davos".
The Rhodes Forum is organised by Vladimir Yakunin, a former KGB officer who later served as the president of Russian Railways. He has been under United States sanctions since 2014 due to his support for Russia's actions in Ukraine. Australian sanctions on Yakunin describe him as "a close personal and financial associate of Vladimir Putin".
Despite this, in 2020, the Brazzaville Foundation - of whom Ichikowitz has been an enthusiastic supporter and funder - announced a formal partnership with Yakunin's think tank, the Dialogue of Civilizations, saying they "share many of the same objectives". It has since said that this partnership "was never implemented".
Ollivier's ties to Russia are even closer, having served as an advisor to the state-owned nuclear energy company, Rosatom. This is the same energy company that was embroiled in a massive corruption scandal in South Africa under Ramaphosa's predecessor, Jacob Zuma - a scandal that in part paved the way for Ramaphosa to take power.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, declined to comment specifically on the role of Ichikowitz and Ollivier.
He told The Continent: "When anyone in the world comes up with initiatives that 'we will talk to Ukraine and Russia and settle everything', we politely advise: if you want to actually help, and not pretend to mediate, so as not to take a position, focus on specific actions."
This article first appeared in The Continent, the pan-African weekly newspaper produced in partnership with the Mail & Guardian. https://www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287178_f84c8a1a7c80467cb308746909192747.pdf?index=true
#19022252 at 2023-06-17 16:30:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19022249
>Tina Joemat-Pettersson have been accused trying to extort funds from Mkhwebane to make her impeachment inquiry into her fitness to hold office "go away".
"Tina Joemat-Pettersson leaves a complicated legacy" - Part 1
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/tina-joemat-pettersson-complicated-legacy-june-2023/
6 Jun 2023
As tributes pour in for former Cabinet minister and African National Congress (ANC) MP Tina Joemat-Pettersson, she leaves a complicated legacy behind.
South Africa learnt of Joemat-Pettersson's death at the age of 59 on Monday evening, sparking mixed reactions from the public as the former minister was no stranger to controversy.
Here's what you need to know about Joemat-Pettersson:
Education
Born on 16 December 1963 in Kimberly, Joemat-Pettersson attended William Pescod High School before she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and History and a Higher Diploma in Education - both from the University of the Western Cape.
She also obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Executive Management in Education from the University of Cape Town (UCT).
Career
Joemat-Pettersson worked as a teacher before beginning her activism in the Azanian Students Organisation (Azaso) around 1985 and was later a member of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu).
She then became active in politics in 1994, campaigning for the ANC in the Northern Cape in the first democratic elections.
The ANC member was subsequently elected as a member of the Northern Cape legislature, where she served as the Education, Arts and Culture MEC for 10 years and was the Agriculture MEC for a term.
She also held various leadership positions in the South Africa Communist Party (SACP), where she was a chairperson in the Northern Cape in 1998, and in 2003 she was elected as the ANC provincial treasurer in her home province.
In 2009, she was elected to Parliament and was appointed as the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Minister.
Former president Jacob Zuma appointed her as Energy Minister in 2014.
Joemat-Pettersson further served as an ANC MP and chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police from 2019 until her death.
Fuel reserves scandal
Her tenure as Energy Minister came with some controversy, especially the 2015 sale of South African oil reserves, where she was found to have flouted the Public and Financial Management Act (PFMA) and other statutes.
Joematt-Pettersson allegedly approved a deal for the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) to sell 10.3 million barrels of the country's oil reserves at a discounted rate.
She told Parliament that it was not a sale but simply a rotation of the stock, despite no new stock having been purchased.
However, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane later found no wrongdoing on Joemat-Pettersson's part in a report on maladministration and misconduct allegations against her pertaining to the deal.
#18778557 at 2023-05-01 01:37:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
#10-B
>>18263161 Ingonyama Trust Bun
>>18269929 Reimagining Corporate Impact - Joseph Kenner at World Economic Forum 2023 (video)
>>18269936 UNESCO Futures of Education Report: Reimagining our futures together (video)
>>18269941 Klaus Scwab of WEF: A Social Contract for the New World Order (video)
>>18283482 SA Tourism board members resign with immediate effect" - scrutiny over R1 billion BritishTottenham Hotspur deal
>>18296981 'Plenty of military training in Richards Bay with foreign countries in less than a year" - SANDF happens to have 2023 Armed Forces Day during SA, Russia and China naval drills at Richards Bay
>>18425888 French military bases in Africa will now self-identify as schools
>>18463460 (from Geneeral Research) 'Colonization': Ugandan MP tells Canadian gov't to keep pro-abortion propaganda out of Africa
>>18553646, >>18553654 Nicaragua Betrayed, published by Western Islands in 1980, is the memoir of former President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle (as told to Jack Cox)
>>18666835 Harmony: Dr Patrice Motsepe, NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN, brother-in-law of President Cyril Ramaphosa
>>18668618 Updated Covid & Other Pestilence Bun
>>18668619 EFF Bun
>>18668622 Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part One
>>18668627 Gayton McKenzie Bun
>>18668631 Kenny Kunene Bun
>>18668642 Updated Jacob Zuma Bun
>>18711005 Bakholokoe King warns SA government over Free State land, demands rightful share
>>18740108 Dr Richard Lindzen exposes climate change as a politicised power play motivated by malice and profit (video)
>>18750994 ANC wants South Africa to quit ICC -- Cyril Ramaphosa
>>18766208, >>18766249 Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa (Parts 1&2)
>>18777728 Final ANC Bun
>>18777730 Barloworld Bun
>>18777735 Final Commodities Bun
>>18777739 Final Eskom and Water Crisis Bun Part Two
>>18777741 Mervyn King Bun
>>18777744 Final Julius Malema & Jacques Pauw Bun
>>18777746 Final Phala Phala & Ramophosa Bun
>>18777749 Final Violence and Crime Bun
#16684036 at 2022-07-08 20:50:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #9: Springbok Spirit Edition
#7-A
>>16574546, >>16574556, >>16574561, >>16574572 "Mbeki, Chippy and the Greek lobbyist" - - Imvume, Oilgate, Tony Georgiadis and his wife, FW de Klerk, Jacob Zuma, National Pary, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>16574634, >>16574642, >>16574841 The Murder Of South Africa's Former First Lady [Marike De Klerk]" - FW De Klerk's former wife & Judge John Hlophe
>>16588176, >>16588187, >>16588192, >>16588194, >>16588199 Cracks in South Africa's White Monopolies, New York Times 1993 (Parts 1-5)
>>16588216, >>16588217, >>16588218, >>16588219 The Rupert, Moolman, Stofberg, Bekker Media Cartel (Parts 1-4)
>>16603573, >>16603578, >>16603583, >>16603605, >>16603609, >>16603617 The Tswalu Protocol: Principles and Guidelines for Peace-Building Missions (Parts 1-6)
>>16603986, >>16604004 Zambia' downward slid into dictatorship" - Was Jonathan Oppenheimer & co in the process of planting their own 'dictator'? (Parts 1 & 2)
>>16604052 "Hakainde Hichilema: The Zambian 'cattle boy' who became president"
>>16650259 Barclays Bun | Eskom Bun
>>16650267 Commodities Bun
>>16650472 Lonrho Bun | Oppenheimer Bun
#16684034 at 2022-07-08 20:50:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #9: Springbok Spirit Edition
#7-B
>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case
>>15510185 South Africa's rand recovers, central banks in focus
>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: 'People have given up on the state'
>>16264942 South Africa president abandons rally after booing
>>16298848 South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill (video)
>>16299738 Don't forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson (video)
>>16345467, >>16350209, >>16351131 Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?
>>16345817, >>16345829, >>16345842 Africa: A possible solution for Europe's energy troubles Parts 1-3
>>16346727, >>16346735 Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative
>>16381002, >>16386558, >>16386621, 163404208 Albie Sachs/Sujit Choudhry Land Grab and judging the judges (videos)
>>16399968, >>16399979, >>16399981, >>16399984, >>16399985, >>16399986, >>16399988, >>16399993 MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International's Reckless Double Standards (Parts 1-8)
>>16400008 Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International's Support of Omar Radi | Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's "Political Interference"
>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun
>>16426089, >>16433197 "Amabhungane details alleged cover-up in Ramaphosa farm theft" - Namibia Connection (video)
>>16436536, >>16436544 From poor orphan to billionaire oligarch: how Abramovich made his money (Part 1 & 2)
>>16472313 Farm Murders on the increase again
>>16473707 Chancellor House Bun
>>16473710 Covid Bun
>>16473714 Gershon Kekst Bun
>>16473731 Oppenheimer Bun
>>16473738 Cyril Ramaphosa Bun
>>16473741 Jacob Zuma Bun
>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun
>>16483557, >>16483581 Former finance minister Tito Mboweni
>>16484048 "South Africa is turning into Congo." - Electrician killed in shootout involving 150 Zamas at moth-balled Sibanye gold mine (video)
>>16526538 South Africa Connections in Malawi
>>16538743, >>16538769 Business deserves thanks for role in averting SA civil war, say experts ahead of discussion co-hosted by UP (Part 1 & 2)
>>16544387, >>16564540, >>16557915 Eskom warns of stage 6, blames "unlawful industrial action"; Looter may get "ideas"; Beyond Stage 8? Expert says SA 'one step away' from TOTAL blackout
>>16544614, >>16557619 South Africa Nightclub Horror: 22 teenagers found dead (videos)
>>16554835 James Rothschild - Investments; Rusal, Glencore, Ukraine, etc
>>16554864, >>16554865, >>16554880 Chronology of how National Party and African National Congress were outsmarted by White Businessmen and Foreign Governments in taking over South Africa in 1989 (Parts 1-3)
>>16558876, >>16558904 Anti-White and anti-Indian bigotry in South Africa: The racism that does not attract the world's condemnation (parts 1 & 2)
>>16567352, >>16567460, >>16567583, >>16567690, >>16567701 Investec, Hendrik du Toit, Naspers, and Koos Bekker (videos)
>>16569263 Idi Amin Bun | Updated ANC Bun
>>16569269 Gencore/Billiton Bun | Gill Marcus Bun
>>16569271 Glencore & Xstrata Bun Part One
>>16569275 Glencore & Xstrata Bun Part Two
>>16569280 Gunvor Bun | Sacoil/Efora Bun
>>16569283 Tony Hollingsworth Bun | Trafigura Bun
>>16569285 Trevor Huddleston Bun | United Democratic Front Bun
#16650279 at 2022-07-06 20:53:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #8: We Dig More On Glencore Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#7
>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case
>>15510185 South Africa's rand recovers, central banks in focus
>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: 'People have given up on the state'
>>16264942 South Africa president abandons rally after booing
>>16298848 South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill (video)
>>16299738 Don't forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson (video)
>>16345467, >>16350209, >>16351131 Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?
>>16345817, >>16345829, >>16345842 Africa: A possible solution for Europe's energy troubles Parts 1-3
>>16346727, >>16346735 Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative
>>16381002, >>16386558, >>16386621, 163404208 Albie Sachs/Sujit Choudhry Land Grab and judging the judges (videos)
>>16399968, >>16399979, >>16399981, >>16399984, >>16399985, >>16399986, >>16399988, >>16399993 MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International's Reckless Double Standards (Parts 1-8)
>>16400008 Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International's Support of Omar Radi | Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's "Political Interference"
>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun
>>16426089, >>16433197 "Amabhungane details alleged cover-up in Ramaphosa farm theft" - Namibia Connection (video)
>>16436536, >>16436544 From poor orphan to billionaire oligarch: how Abramovich made his money (Part 1 & 2)
>>16472313 Farm Murders on the increase again
>>16473707 Chancellor House Bun
>>16473710 Covid Bun
>>16473714 Gershon Kekst Bun
>>16473731 Oppenheimer Bun
>>16473738 Cyril Ramaphosa Bun
>>16473741 Jacob Zuma Bun
>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun
>>16483557, >>16483581 Former finance minister Tito Mboweni
>>16484048 "South Africa is turning into Congo." - Electrician killed in shootout involving 150 Zamas at moth-balled Sibanye gold mine (video)
>>16526538 South Africa Connections in Malawi
>>16538743, >>16538769 Business deserves thanks for role in averting SA civil war, say experts ahead of discussion co-hosted by UP (Part 1 & 2)
>>16544387, >>16564540, >>16557915 Eskom warns of stage 6, blames "unlawful industrial action"; Looter may get "ideas"; Beyond Stage 8? Expert says SA 'one step away' from TOTAL blackout
>>16544614, >>16557619 South Africa Nightclub Horror: 22 teenagers found dead (videos)
>>16554835 James Rothschild - Investments; Rusal, Glencore, Ukraine, etc
>>16554864, >>16554865, >>16554880 Chronology of how National Party and African National Congress were outsmarted by White Businessmen and Foreign Governments in taking over South Africa in 1989 (Parts 1-3)
>>16558876, >>16558904 Anti-White and anti-Indian bigotry in South Africa: The racism that does not attract the world's condemnation (parts 1 & 2)
>>16567352, >>16567460, >>16567583, >>16567690, >>16567701 Investec, Hendrik du Toit, Naspers, and Koos Bekker (videos)
>>16569263 Idi Amin Bun | Updated ANC Bun
>>16569269 Gencore/Billiton Bun | Gill Marcus Bun
>>16569271 Glencore & Xstrata Bun Part One
>>16569275 Glencore & Xstrata Bun Part Two
>>16569280 Gunvor Bun | Sacoil/Efora Bun
>>16569283 Tony Hollingsworth Bun | Trafigura Bun
>>16569285 Trevor Huddleston Bun | United Democratic Front Bun
>>16574546, >>16574556, >>16574561, >>16574572 "Mbeki, Chippy and the Greek lobbyist" - - Imvume, Oilgate, Tony Georgiadis and his wife, FW de Klerk, Jacob Zuma, National Pary, etc (Parts 1-4)
>>16574634, >>16574642, >>16574841 The Murder Of South Africa's Former First Lady [Marike De Klerk]" - FW De Klerk's former wife & Judge John Hlophe
>>16588176, >>16588187, >>16588192, >>16588194, >>16588199 Cracks in South Africa's White Monopolies, New York Times 1993 (Parts 1-5)
>>16588216, >>16588217, >>16588218, >>16588219 The Rupert, Moolman, Stofberg, Bekker Media Cartel (Parts 1-4)
>>16603573, >>16603578, >>16603583, >>16603605, >>16603609, >>16603617 The Tswalu Protocol: Principles and Guidelines for Peace-Building Missions (Parts 1-6)
>>16603986, >>16604004 Zambia' downward slid into dictatorship" - Was Jonathan Oppenheimer & co in the process of planting their own 'dictator'? (Parts 1 & 2)
>>16604052 "Hakainde Hichilema: The Zambian 'cattle boy' who became president"
>>16650259 Barclays Bun | Eskom Bun
>>16650267 #7 Updated Commodities Bun
#16602811 at 2022-07-05 14:58:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
"The rise and fall of Bheki Cele" - Fired by President Jacob Zuma 12 June 2012
https://youtu.be/V2qZT_9AbAk
EWN looks back at Bheki Cele's days as South Africa's National Police Commissioner after being fired by President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday 12 June, 2012.
#16574841 at 2022-07-01 18:28:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16574642
"Judge President John Hlophe 'vindicated' by leave to appeal possible impeachment"
https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/judge-president-john-hlophe-vindicated-by-leave-to-appeal-possible-impeachment-191ba78b-e995-4eb5-a503-a143a0273de3
June 24, 2022
Cape Town - Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe's legal team said they were vindicated by the ruling of the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, which has granted him leave to appeal against his potential impeachment.
Barnabus Xulu SC, said they were confident the Supreme Court of Appeal would come to a different ruling, but that they also intended taking the Minister of Justice to court for prejudicial treatment relating to costs not being awarded.
"We are vindicated by this ruling. We truly believe for the reasons advanced in our application that the Supreme Court of Appeal will come to a different decision, which eventually will clear our client and give clarity to this long outstanding matter.
"The shocking thing is that our client legal team have been refused their fees, whereas the Concourt judges legal team and the judicial service commission is being favoured.
"This act is very prejudicial and has been raised by our client Judge President Hlophe to Chief Justice Zondo and no response has been received therein following months of correspondence to the Department in this regard, and it has now necessitated that our legal team take inter alia the Minister of Justice to court for the same reason," said Xulu.
The impeachment recommendation follows the Judicial Conduct Tribunal's finding that Hlophe was found guilty of trying to influence the outcome of former president Jacob Zuma's corruption charges in 2008.
The tribunal's report stated that Hlophe breached sections of the Constitution when he tried to influence two justices of the Constitutional Court, where he had attempted to influence Justice Chris Jafta and Justice Bess Nkabinde to rule in a particular manner in a pending judgment between Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority.
Full bench of the Gauteng High Court - Aubrey Ledwaba, Roland Sutherland and Margie Victor - in ruling, said that while Judge Hlophe's application lacked merit, it did hold matters of ''significant public importance'.
"The controversy embraces both the obvious and several nuanced issues of critical significance to the administration of justice," their judgment read.
"These include the integrity of the judiciary as a whole, and the norms by which it falls to be held accountable and the proper functioning of the Judicial Service Commission. Indeed the matter also has implications for the parliamentary process. These aspects of the case go beyond the personal predicament of Hlophe JP and merits and demerits of his personal case.
"The disciplining of a Judge of the high court for impugning a court's integrity is unprecedented. The removal of a Judge of the high court by the National Assembly upon a finding of gross misconduct by the Judicial Service Commission is unprecedented... In our view, the case raises discrete issues of 'public importance that will have an effect on future matters."
On these grounds the court ruled that the application for leave to appeal was sound and was granted.
#16574642 at 2022-07-01 18:02:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16574634
>Pathologists suspected she had also been raped, but Judge John Hlope said that could not be proved beyond doubt.
"Latest Hlophe scandal puts JSC under scrutiny" - Judge John Hlophe
https://legalbrief.co.za/story/latest-hlophe-scandal-puts-jsc-under-scrutiny/
3 February 2020
The publishing of a leaked complaint to the JSC about Judge John Hlophe is a godsend - because it means that the JSC will now face public scrutiny about how it handles the issue. The time is overdue for greater transparency when it comes to mechanisms for holding judges and magistrates accountable. So says Rebecca Davis in a Daily Maverick analysis. A complaint laid by Western Cape Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath with the JSC in mid-January has detonated like a hand grenade in the legal profession, accusing Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe of a litany of offences - ranging from the attempt to influence judicial appointments to a physical assault on a fellow judge. However, notes Davis, the charge sheet against Hlophe had been building steadily for over a decade. In addition to the well-known allegation that Hlophe attempted to influence the Constitutional Court's judgment in favour of President Jacob Zuma in a matter related to arms deal corruption in 2008, Hlophe has also been accused of:
* Calling attorney Joshua Greeff a 'piece of white shit' who should 'go back to Holland' (2004/5).
* Accepting a R10 000 monthly retainer from fund management company The Oasis Group, which frequently litigated in his court (2006).
* Operating under a conflict of interest by permitting his son to accept a bursary from a Cape Town attorney firm (2006).
* Allocating himself a case which he should not have heard as one of the acting attorneys was Hlophe's personal lawyer (2014).
We know very little about the first three cases, notes Davis. That's because, as Judges Matter researchers Zikhona Ndlebe and Alison Tilley report: 'The JSC decided by an undisclosed majority that there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a public inquiry into any of these allegations of misconduct.' The 2014 conflict of interest case went to the Supreme Court, meanwhile, which concluded that Hlophe could not have brought 'an impartial mind to bear on the adjudication of a matter brought before him by his attorney'. Said Ndlebe and Tilley: 'Whether or not the JSC will act on this is not known, since the JSC does not report to the public on complaints received or on its findings.' In other words, writes Davis, what the JSC does or does not do when it comes to allegations of misconduct against judges is largely shrouded in secrecy. 'The leaking of Goliath's affidavit has blown this modus operandi out of the water in a welcome fashion.'
Full Daily Maverick report - https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-31-hlophe-crisis-may-force-greater-transparency-in-dealing-with-errant-judges/
#16574572 at 2022-07-01 17:51:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16574546
>>16574556
>>16574561
"Mbeki, Chippy and the Greek lobbyist" - - Imvume, Oilgate, Tony Georgiadis and his wife, FW de Klerk, Jacob Zuma, National Pary, etc. - (4 of 4)
https://mg.co.za/article/2007-02-09-mbeki-chippy-and-the-greek-lobbyist/
9 February 2007
Deals
A source close to Imvume, the subject of the Oilgate scandal, has claimed that when its principal, Sandi Majali, first wanted to enter the Iraqi oil trade, he was bankrolled by Georgiadis. He has also been drawn into the succession battle.
Affidavits, filed last year in Zuma's successful application to have his prosecution for corruption struck from the roll, suggest that Georgiadis attempted to broker a deal that would let French arms company Thales off the hook in return for giving evidence against Zuma.
Both Maduna and Ngcuka's affidavits describe being contacted by someone "purporting to be an intermediary" for Thales while they were on official business in London in 2003. The intermediary, whom they do not name, told them Thales was willing to cooperate. At the time, Maduna was still justice minister and Ngcuka the prosecutions head.
In a replying affidavit, Thales official Pierre Moynot reveals Georgiadis as the intermediary, although he denies the initiative was from Thales.
Moynot states that Thales International CEO Jean-Paul Perrier was contacted by Georgiadis, who asked to meet in Paris. "At the meeting Georgiades [sic] introduced himself as a good friend of Maduna and Ngcuka and wanted to know whether Perrier was prepared to meet with Ngcuka in connection with the investigations that were being conducted in South Africa.
"When Perrier expressed misgivings about Georgiades's claim concerning his friendship with Ngcuka and Maduna, he called Ngcuka on his mobile phone and passed it to Perrier to talk. Ngcuka confirmed his friendship with Georgiades."
Georgiadis was not available for comment.
#16574561 at 2022-07-01 17:50:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16574546
>>16574556
"Mbeki, Chippy and the Greek lobbyist" - - Imvume, Oilgate, Tony Georgiadis and his wife, FW de Klerk, Jacob Zuma, National Pary, etc. - (3 of 4)
https://mg.co.za/article/2007-02-09-mbeki-chippy-and-the-greek-lobbyist/
9 February 2007
Tony Georgiadis: 'A kingmaker'
"At home, he has photographs of every damn president in the world - He was a political player," is how a former senior official in South Africa remembers Georgiadis.
Georgiadis's home, the historic Stud House in the grounds of Hampton Court palace outside London, has hosted more than pictures. While president, De Klerk stayed there, and in his autobiography, De Klerk called Georgiadis a "good friend" - but that was before the affair.
De Klerk admitted in 1998 to "having fallen in love" with Elita, whom he later married. The affair was said to have begun in 1994 during one of a number of Mediterranean holidays aboard Georgiadis's yacht.
According to Beeld, "a connection developed with the NP [National Party] during the Eighties through oil matters - Mr Georgiades [sic] was a campaigner against sanctions abroad and was regarded as a 'friend of South Africa'."
Georgiadis did more than campaign. Alandis, headed by him and his brother, Alexander, was one of the main shippers of crude oil to apartheid South Africa, breaching international sanctions.
The Shipping Research Bureau, which monitored compliance with the embargo, said in 1995: "In 1989 rumours that a company named Alandis (London) Ltd was the main shipper of oil to South Africa reached the Shipping Research Bureau.
"Only much later, hard evidence surfaced which showed that the rumours had been rather close to the truth. A long list of shipments - as many as 43 in the short period from March 1988 until October 1989, plus a few in the previous years - could be linked to Alandis."
The M&G understands that apart from organising third-party shipments, Alandis also managed the Pacificos, a crude tanker then owned by the Strategic Fuel Fund Association (SFF), set up by the apartheid government to beat the embargo.
African roots
The Georgiadis brothers, though Greek citizens based in England, have African roots. Their mother, Clio Colocotronis, married their father, Vassos Georgiadis, when she was a teenager and he was two decades her senior. She was the daughter of a banker living in Egypt; he an East African tobacco baron. Alexander and Antony were born in Kampala.
"A kingmaker", is how one source in the oil industry describes Antony Georgiades. "He's extremely influential. He doesn't do it for the money only - a lot of it is for the prestige."
In 1994, when De Klerk started romancing his wife and the ANC replaced the NP as ruling party, Georgiadis became as close to members of the new elite as he had been to their predecessors.
The names most often mentioned as Georgiadis's new local connections include Mbeki, Maduna (former minister of minerals and energy and of justice), his wife, Nompumelelo Maduna (in the oil trade herself), Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (who succeeded Maduna at minerals and energy), and her husband, Bulelani Ngcuka, the former prosecutions head.
#16574556 at 2022-07-01 17:49:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16574546
"Mbeki, Chippy and the Greek lobbyist" - - Imvume, Oilgate, Tony Georgiadis and his wife, FW de Klerk, Jacob Zuma, National Pary, etc. - (2 of 4)
https://mg.co.za/article/2007-02-09-mbeki-chippy-and-the-greek-lobbyist/
9 February 2007
Payments
The M&G has traced five payments from Merian to a South African bank account held by Pierce.
The payments, roughly monthly, began in August 2000 and appear to correspond to interest payments that might be received on such a sum. The five payments extend until March 2001 - when the arms deal probe was already hotting up - and total about R470? 000. These were probably only interest payments.
Der Spiegel did not name the GFC executives who allegedly met Shaik, but the key figure is understood to be Christoff Hoenings, then manager of Thyssen subsidiary Thyssen Rheinstahl.
Hoenings revealed in 1995, during earlier bidding for the corvette contract, that Mbeki intervened to restore the German bid after Armscor had announced a shortlist that included only Spain's Bazan and Britain's Yarrow shipyards.
Hoenings said Mbeki had, on a state visit to Germany, personally told him "the race is still open to all contenders".
A well-placed intelligence source identified Hoenings as one of the Thyssen executives close to Georgiadis.
Georgiadis keeps a low profile: his only media exposure was when his wife, Elita, left him for former president FW de Klerk. But the De Lille dossier identified Georgiadis as a lobbyist for the German arms companies.
The 1999 memo states: "Thyssen is the preferred bidder for the corvettes - Ferrostaal is the preferred bidder for the submarines. Both companies is [sic] supported by Tony Georgiades who is facilitating the success of their bid. FW de Klerk is married to Elita who was married to Tony Georgiades. We know that Tony was bankrolling the Nationalist Party and its leaders."
Several sources said Georgiades was close to Mbeki. Last year, the aborted corruption trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma confirmed his relationship with former justice minister Penuell Maduna and former Scorpions boss Bulelani Ngcuka.
Der Spiegel revealed that the German authorities were looking at payments made to several other people, firms and foundations linked to the South African deal, including a Monrovia-registered company that had received a total of $22-million by October 2001.
The M&G understands that it has been identified as Mallar Incorporated, an offshore company registered in 1978 with the Liberian International Shipping and Company Register.
The register is extremely opaque, providing neither the names of directors and shareholders, nor contact addresses for the underlying entity. However, two sources in touch with German investigators confirm that the investigators believe Georgiadis is behind Mallar.
Answering questions about Merian, Mallar and Georgiadis, a spokesperson for ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems said: "At this stage we have nothing further to say."
Questions to the Presidency about Mbeki's relationship with Georgiadis were unanswered at the time of going to press.
#16574546 at 2022-07-01 17:48:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16409517
>Where others feared to do business with South Africa directly, Marc Rich was happy to step in as a middleman ?- along with characters such as Marino Chiavelli of Italy, John Deuss of the Netherlands, and the Greek shipping merchant Tony Georgiadis (who continued to find ways to do business with a democratic South Africa).
>>16462506
>"The ANC's Oilgate" - Glencore, Iraq ties
"Mbeki, Chippy and the Greek lobbyist" - Imvume, Oilgate, Tony Georgiadis and his wife, FW de Klerk, Jacob Zuma, National Pary, etc. - (1 of 4)
https://mg.co.za/article/2007-02-09-mbeki-chippy-and-the-greek-lobbyist/
9 February 2007
Details emerging from the German corruption probe into defence and steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp have thrown dramatic new light on two men named in the very first allegations concerning the South African arms deal.
One is Shamin "Chippy" Shaik, former chief of acquisitions for the Defence Department, who came under suspicion almost from the start because of his brother Schabir's involvement in the arms deal.
The other is Tony Georgiadis, who has remained largely in the shadows despite being mentioned in the infamous "De Lille dossier", a memorandum drawn up by concerned African National Congress (ANC) intelligence operatives and released through Patricia de Lille in September 1999.
Shaik was at the centre of special defence procurement and reported directly to former defence minister Joe Modise, whose death in 2001 stifled a Scorpions probe into Modise's own controversial role in the arms deal.
Georgiades, a Greek shipping tycoon and alleged key sanctions-buster under apartheid, reportedly had the ear of President Thabo Mbeki while acting as a lobbyist for Thyssen, lead partner in the German frigate consortium (GFC), and Ferrostaal, which led the German submarine consortium.
Two sources in touch with the German investigators told the Mail & Guardian that Georgiadis is a focus of the investigation of at least $22-million in commission payments made on the warship deal.
Georgiadis was travelling this week and could not be contacted.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Monday that, in raids on Thyssen and related companies last year, the Dusseldorf prosecutor's office obtained internal company memos allegedly referring to a meeting between executives of the GFC and Chippy Shaik in July 1998.
Shaik allegedly demanded payment of $3-million to ensure the success of the German bid. He supposedly proposed a middleman: accountant Ian Pierce, a friend from his student days at the University of Durban-Westville.
This week, Pierce refused to take media calls. Mo Shaik, speaking for his brother, dismissed the claims against Chippy.
Der Spiegel wrote that later in 1998 a lobby agreement for $3-million was signed with Merian Limited, in London, with Pierce acting as Merian's representative. The magazine said the first payments for the warships were made to the GFC in April 2000 and Merian received $3-million from the Germans in the same month.
#16569310 at 2022-07-01 01:07:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
passing 450
#7
>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case
>>15510185 South Africa's rand recovers, central banks in focus
>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: 'People have given up on the state'
>>16264942 South Africa president abandons rally after booing
>>16298848 South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill (video)
>>16299738 Don't forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson (video)
>>16345467, >>16350209, >>16351131 Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?
>>16345817, >>16345829, >>16345842 Africa: A possible solution for Europe's energy troubles Parts 1-3
>>16346727, >>16346735 Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative
>>16381002, >>16386558, >>16386621, 163404208 Albie Sachs/Sujit Choudhry Land Grab and judging the judges (videos)
>>16399968, >>16399979, >>16399981, >>16399984, >>16399985, >>16399986, >>16399988, >>16399993 MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International's Reckless Double Standards (Parts 1-8)
>>16400008 Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International's Support of Omar Radi | Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's "Political Interference"
>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun
>>16426089, >>16433197 "Amabhungane details alleged cover-up in Ramaphosa farm theft" - Namibia Connection (video)
>>16436536, >>16436544 From poor orphan to billionaire oligarch: how Abramovich made his money (Part 1 & 2)
>>16472313 Farm Murders on the increase again
>>16473707 Chancellor House Bun
>>16473710 Covid Bun
>>16473714 Gershon Kekst Bun
>>16473729 Lonrho Bun
>>16473731 Oppenheimer Bun
>>16473738 Cyril Ramaphosa Bun
>>16473741 Jacob Zuma Bun
>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun
>>16483557, >>16483581 Former finance minister Tito Mboweni
>>16484048 "South Africa is turning into Congo." - Electrician killed in shootout involving 150 Zamas at moth-balled Sibanye gold mine (video)
>>16526538 South Africa Connections in Malawi
>>16544387, >>16564540 Eskom warns of stage 6, blames "unlawful industrial action"; Looter may get "ideas"
>>16538741, >>16538769 Business deserves thanks for role in averting SA civil war, say experts ahead of discussion co-hosted by UP (Part 1 & 2)
>>16544614, >>16557619 South Africa Nightclub Horror: 22 teenagers found dead (videos)
>>16554835 James Rothschild - Investments; Rusal, Glencore, Ukraine, etc
>>16554864, >>16554865, >>16554880 Chronology of how National Party and African National Congress were outsmarted by White Businessmen and Foreign Governments in taking over South Africa in 1989 (Parts 1-3)
>>16557915 Beyond Stage 8? Expert says SA 'one step away' from TOTAL blackout
>>16558876, >>16558904 Anti-White and anti-Indian bigotry in South Africa: The racism that does not attract the world's condemnation (parts 1 & 2)
>>16567352, >>16567460, >>16567583, >>16567690, >>16567701 Investec, Hendrik du Toit, Naspers, and Koos Bekker (videos)
>>16569263 Idi Amin Bun | Updayed ANC Bun
>>16569266 Updated Commodities Bun
>>16569269 Gencore/Billiton Bun | Gill Marcus Bun
>>16569271 Glencore & Xstrata Bun Part One
>>16569275 Glencore & Xstrata Bun Part Two
>>16569280 Gunvor Bun | Sacoil/Efora Bun
>>16569283 Tony Hollingsworth Bun | Trafigura Bun
>>16569285 Trevor Huddleston Bun | United Democratic Front Bun
#16566437 at 2022-06-30 17:30:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16566250
>>16566261
>>16566273
>>16566316
>>16566342
>>16566402
"Icarus has fallen - politics and the tragedy of Brian Molefe" - State Capture, Eskom, Optimum Coal Mine, Glencore, KPMG, Guptas, murder of Dulcie September, Marc Rich, Ivan Glasenberg, Mick Davis, Xstrata, Vitol, etc. - (7 of 8)
https://what-is-a-blogg.blogspot.com/2016/11/icarus-has-fallen-politics-and-tragedy_4.html
4 November 2016
The possible negative consequences were listed as follows -
"[3.1] possible shortages in coal supply to Eskom occasioned by the transaction;
__[3.2] a reduction in the quality of coal supplied to Eskom (with resultant detrimental
effects on the stability of Eskom's generation equipment and the increased possibility of
unplanned outages and load shedding); and,__
__[3.3] a likely increase in the exporting of coal with the concomitant consequences for
domestic prices of coal to Eskom (in order to prevent increased coal exports, Eskom
would be required to match the economic return gained from exporting the relevant
quality of coal by subjecting itself to export parity pricing.)"__
Unfortunately, the Competition Commission ignored Eskom's pleas and the merger was approved - with disastrous consequences for South Africa.
The great thing about Glasenberg is that he is very comfortable with being unpopular, and betraying friends and enemies does not stress him too much. In the merger with Xstrata, he and Mick Davis were supposed to be equal partners; and they were - for a day or 2. As soon as the merger was finalised, Glasenberg booted out Mick Davis during the first week of the merger. Davis swallowed his pride and walked away - but never forgot. Glencore became one of the biggest companies in the world and Glasenberg was one of the richest men in the world - until 2015.
Mick Davis himself is friends with that other icon of leadership - Stephen Koseff of Investec. On 13 May 2015, Mick Davis and Stephen Koseff shared a stage at Investec in Sandton and addressed a forum of young entrepreneurs. Davis did not dwell on his exit from Glencore but rather on the appropriateness of business leaders commenting on politics. A month later, Glencore - as part of its strategy of getting Eskom to pay higher prices - then threatened to dismiss 380 employees from Optimum as part of the process of shutting down the mine. In response, the Minister of Mineral Resources - Ngoako Ramathlodi - suspended Glencore's operating licence. And then the king of state capture himself - Glasenberg - called the Minister directly and essentially told him to fuck off. The Minister lifted the suspension within moments of Glasenberg's call. Glencore then carried on trying to bully Eskom into paying higher prices. President Jacob Zuma fired Ramathlodi 6 weeks after this scandalous incident. This was in September 2015.
And then it all started falling apart for Glasenberg.
In the same week that Zwane was appointed, a blow struck at the heart of the Glasenberg empire. On a Monday morning in September 28th - 5 days after President Zuma's appointment of Zwane - a bank in London published a note indicating that the Glencore business was in trouble. In true Glasenberg style, Glencore responded by saying the note was rubbish. But the market thought otherwise. Glencore lost 22% of its value in 1 day. Glasenberg himself lost $500 million - that is R7 billion - in that one day, and kept losing more money which eventually led him to agree to selling off Optimum Coal. The issuer of the note that started all the drama - Stephen Koseff's Investec Bank...
And if that wasn't enough - the Guptas decided to sell off their export licence to another company. Glencore essentially had one competitor after swallowing Xstrata. That competitor is called Vitol. 2 months ago, Tegeta sold this right that once belonged to Glasenberg to - you guessed it - Vitol. And they gave them a discount of R1,25 billion on the sale...
The curious thing about this state capture saga is that Thuli's report did not unpack the entire journey of the Glencore story - which is sad. Given the fact that the report is so centred around the Eskom-Glencore-Gupta alliance, I honestly expected it to unpack the true mechanics of the transaction; but it only focuses on the small window of shenanigans. This report is due to be given a second phase - which must be welcomed.
#16566342 at 2022-06-30 17:18:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16566250
>>16566261
>>16566273
>>16566316
"Icarus has fallen - politics and the tragedy of Brian Molefe" - State Capture, Eskom, Optimum Coal Mine, Glencore, KPMG, Guptas, murder of Dulcie September, Marc Rich, Ivan Glasenberg, Mick Davis, Xstrata, Vitol, etc. - (5 of 8)
https://what-is-a-blogg.blogspot.com/2016/11/icarus-has-fallen-politics-and-tragedy_4.html
4 November 2016
In Brian's view, his quest to end load shedding at all costs was the driving ambition. Unfortunately, it was limited by the reality of the economic structure that Eskom was stuck with. Brian's main error was in seeking to bypass such a problem by engaging the Gupta contract - and he will regret this forever. The thing about the Icarus complex is that you are allowed to fly high and soar as close to the sun as you can. And those who need you will cheer you on. But as soon as you get close to the sun and start burning, your support base evaporates and you take the fall on your own. South Africans were very happy that Brian ended load shedding. It is the true mechanics of how he did it that we are now uncomfortable with - and we are letting him burn. I understand this phenomenon very well - ask anyone who has ever heard of the FNB Building in Wits University. They will let you fly and soar as high as you can - for as long as it makes them look good. And then when they have to acknowledge the sacrifices you need to make in order to get there and make them look good - they let you burn, just like Icarus. This is life.
My issue with this entire exercise is just how clumsy the Guptas have been in facilitating all of this. You would think that the involvement of Glasenberg and Glencore would have been enough for them to understand how states are supposed to be captured, right? Dololo strategy!
In corporate life, there is nothing more delightful than any transaction that screws over a certain Ivan Glasenberg. Trust me - there isn't.
The roots of the story date back to 1974 - when a certain Marc Rich came into international prominence. Marc Rich is the godfather of the international commodities business - and actually mastered state capture long before the Guptas landed in South Africa. His modus operandi included ignoring all sorts of international sanctions and selling oil to the apartheid government - at remarkably inflated prices. The good thing for him is that he had the National Party in his pocket - just like the Guptas have parts of this current administration. Being an orthodox Jew, Marc Rich captured a young South African Wits graduate - Ivan Glasenberg, and added him to his empire in 1983. At that stage, the National Party was in trouble with the rest of the world - so Marc Rich found a way to help them out. His main task was to embezzle oil from obscure places like that discredited regime of Iran and ship it to South Africa. In order to achieve this, a company called Minoil was set up as a front. Its role was to bypass all forms of sanctions and transparency in exchange for a profit.
In exile, Frene Ginwala was in charge of the ANC's energy team which was responsible for promoting an international embargo on oil exports to South Africa. Her role was to convince international oil producers to stop supplying oil to South Africa. A key part of hitting the apartheid government using oil was the 1980 attack on Sasol - which was masterminded by Joe Slovo and a man called Jacob Zuma. In September 1983, the International Herald Tribune (New York Times) carried an article which first exposed the fact that Marc Rich was secretly selling oil to the apartheid government. On 1 October 1983, Frene Ginwala wrote a note to the ANC operatives exposing that Marc Rich and Minoil were infact in breach of the international oil embargo. Nothing appears to have been done about this revelation.
Having positioned himself as the only man who could provide oil to South Africa, Marc Rich then went deep. Over a 10-year period, he delivered oil worth $2 billion - and charged $24 billion - which was paid by the government. This $22 billion that was stolen from the South African government has never been recovered - even though Marc Rich's companies still exist and operate in South Africa. Surprisingly, Glasenberg - who was a South African citizen working for Marc Rich claimed that he was unaware that there was an international oil embargo on South Africa and therefore saw nothing wrong with selling oil to the apartheid government. One of the individuals who dedicated herself to exposing the real crimes of Marc Rich and his company was Dulcie September who was an ANC operative based in Paris. As soon as her research got her close to the truth - she was assassinated in Paris in March 1988. Her killers have never been found. http://opensecrets.org.za/marc-rich-open-secret/
#16564540 at 2022-06-30 13:20:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
"'This will give looters ideas': Stage 6 fuels fears of MORE riots in SA"
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-stage-6-load-shedding-schedule-today-will-it-cause-riots/
30 June 2022
Power providers, politicians, and even suspected riot instigators believe that Stage 6 load shedding 'opens up the door' for future unrest.
We're truly in 'the bad place', here. Eskom have ensured that the next few days, possibly weeks, will be as miserable as they are dim, after Stage 6 power cuts were extended right through to Friday night. However, this extensive phase of load shedding is fuelling fears about more riots.
LINK BETWEEN LOAD SHEDDING AND INCREASED CRIME 'WELL ESTABLISHED
There's one basic principle these concerns are based on. When the lights go down, crime goes up. South Africa has years of evidence to back these claims up, as criminals feel more emboldened under the cover of darkness. Law enforcement expert Yusuf Abramjee explained this trend:
"The indications are clear that criminals do strike more often during load shedding. This is due to the fact that there is more darkness for criminals to operate in, helping them make easy getaways."
"Criminals try their luck at every turn and load shedding gives them another opportunity, and we're seeing a clear link between blackouts and increased criminal activity."
Yusuf Abramjee
CRIMES COMMITTED DURING LOAD SHEDDING 'HELP WORSEN FUTURE OUTAGES'
The sad thing is, load shedding perpetuates more load shedding - as a result of the criminal activity that takes place during these electricity outages. As highlighted by City Power this week, vandals and cable thieves use this down-time to strike at the heart of crucial infrastructure.
"The recent ramped up bout of load shedding comes at the time when City Power was already overstretched by increase in capacity demand... due in part to rampant criminal activity Incidents of crime, like vandalism and cable theft, increase during load shedding - exacerbating a dire situation."
City Power
STAGE 6 LATEST: COULD 'VICIOUS CYCLE' EVENTUALLY SPARK MORE RIOTS IN SA?
With load shedding now reaching it's 'worst-ever' level, can we therefore expect the threat of crime to increase? Riots are a significant step up from opportunistic offending... but an alleged instigator of last year's looting and violence believes that SA is on the brink of a repeat performance.
Jacob Zuma's daughter, Duduzile, believes that Stage 6 cuts are likely to 'give looters ideas'...
POLICE 'NOT PREPARED FOR FUTURE RIOTS' AS A RESULT OF STAGE 6 LOAD SHEDDING
These fears are also being legitimately recognised by the DA. Andrew Whitfield is the Shadow Minister of Police, and he believes that SAPS are 'completely unprepared' for any potential riots in the near future. That doesn't bode well for law enforcement officials...
"From our engagements with the SAPS it is clear that they are completely unprepared for future violent unrest which might occur. SAPS members told us that they had received no additional resources since the violent unrest of July 2021 - one year after the riots broke out."
Andrew Whitfield
#16558876 at 2022-06-29 20:41:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16558568
>>16558641
>"Uganda | Idi Amin | Asian Expulsion | 1972" - https://youtu.be/p-i0JVip9N4
>>16558764
>These abuses have met with only mild criticism from Western countries. Unlike Amin, Museveni knows better than to betray his patrons,
It has gotten worse for minorities in South Africa.
"Anti-White and anti-Indian bigotry in South Africa: The racism that does not attract the world's condemnation" - Part 1
https://www.opindia.com/2021/07/anti-white-indian-bigotry-south-africa-racism-african-national-congress-economic-freedom-fighters-eff/
15 July 2021
Below are excerpts
With South Africa experiencing the worst violence in decades, Indians living in South Africa, too, have been at the receiving end of this unbridled bigotry. Consequently, Indians are facing racist abuse on social media platforms and the platforms are being used to further incite violence against Indians living in South Africa.
Indians are being accused of racism in order to rationalise racist attacks against them. Social media websites are awash with posts egging on rioters and vandals to specifically locate Indians and target their properties and possessions.
Ex-President Jacob Zuma's association with the Gupta brothers and their role in the corruption cases is being used as an excuse to target many Indian businesses and Indian communities living in Durban and Johannesburg, as per some reports. One such Twitter handle, instigating riots against Indians, wrote, "Let us not forget that Jacob Zuma sold our country to Indian monopoly capital (IMC)." The Twitter handle had shared an image of the tainted Gupta brothers.
As violence, looting and ransacking escalates, the Indian community residing in the country are forced to arm themselves with guns and artillery to ward off rioters and secure the safety of their people and belongings.
However, many have accused the South African President of not doing enough to stop the violence. The recent spate of anti-white and anti-Indian attacks during the ongoing violence, experts claim, is the result of the racist legacy of President Ramaphosa.
More than 26 years since the end of apartheid, once South Africa's system of legal segregation, the country continues to remain marred with the scourge of racism. The oppressor and the oppressed simply appear to have swapped places. The simmering racial tensions flared up yet again after the South African government floated a controversial proposal to seize land from white farmers without paying for it.
However, this opposition to the expropriation plan proved costly for white farmers, many of whom were murdered in targeted killings, presumably because they had opposed the African National Congress's party redistribution plan. However, barring a few journalists and international speakers, who described the killings as "farm murders" representing the beginning of a "white genocide" aimed at driving whites out of the country, others simply glossed over the violence and injustice unfolding in South Africa.
It is alleged that corruption is a hallmark of the African National Congress. Zuma was forced to resign in 2018 because of the mounting corruption charges against him. He was replaced by President Ramaphosa but critics claim his cabinet eclipses every previous era of corruption by a wave of looting so enormous that it overshadows even the most conservative estimates.
Additionally, the ANC has always held a dim view of the rights of the minorities in South Africa. As violence, riots, and looting has become the order of the day, South African president Ramaphosa is resolutely moving towards tightening screws on firearms control-making stringent rules for gun owners-effectively weakening the right to bear arms in self-defence. The stricter restrictions for gun owners is expected to disproportionately affect the country's white population since they are the victims of the violence that has ensued following the contentious redistribution proposal.
#16473782 at 2022-06-19 21:34:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
passing 300
#7
>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case
>>15510185 South Africa's rand recovers, central banks in focus
>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: 'People have given up on the state'
>>16264942 South Africa president abandons rally after booing
>>16298848 South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill (video)
>>16299738 Don't forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson (video)
>>16345467, >>16350209, >>16351131 Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?
>>16345817, >>16345829, >>16345842 Africa: A possible solution for Europe's energy troubles Parts 1-3
>>16346727, >>16346735 Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework
>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative
>>16381002, >>16386558, >>16386621, 163404208 Albie Sachs/Sujit Choudhry Land Grab and judging the judges (videos)
>>16399968, >>16399979, >>16399981, >>16399984, >>16399985, >>16399986, >>16399988, >>16399993 MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International's Reckless Double Standards (Parts 1-8)
>>16400008 Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International's Support of Omar Radi | Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's "Political Interference"
>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun
>>16426089, >>16433197 "Amabhungane details alleged cover-up in Ramaphosa farm theft" - Namibia Connection (video)
>>16436536, >>16436544 From poor orphan to billionaire oligarch: how Abramovich made his money Parts 1 & 2
>>16472313 Farm Murders on the increase again
>>16473705 Updated ANC Bun
>>16473707 Chancellor House Bun
>>16473708 Updated Commodities Bun
>>16473710 Updated Covid Bun
>>16473714 Gershon Kekst Bun
>>16473725 Glencore & Xstrata Bun
>>16473729 Lonrho Bun
>>16473731 Updated Oppenheimer Bun
>>16473738 Cyril Ramaphosa Bun
>>16473741 Jacob Zuma Bun
>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun
#16473741 at 2022-06-19 21:26:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
Jacob Zuma Bun
>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case
>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative
#16350432 at 2022-05-27 13:44:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16347737
Zuma may have played along initially but there seems to be a big push against him now.
Ramaphosa became a billionaire since the ANC started ruling the country, so he is living very comfortably.
"'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'"
https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/Zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924
President Jacob Zuma's inclination to appoint his close friends into leadership positions, including in the SABC and other state entities, has a lot do with his being a former ANC intelligence operative.
Intelligence officers, according to Professor Somadoda Fikeni, have a tendency to be suspicious of other people and operate on the basis of self-survival and preservation.
Fikeni said Zuma, a former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and intelligence head of the ANC during the fight against apartheid, had carried with him all those characteristics of an intelligence operative into his reign as president of South Africa.
#16347737 at 2022-05-26 23:23:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
>>16344757
Would this be one of the reasons for the big push against Jacob Zuma? He wouldn't play along?
If Soros in into it, Ramaphosa gets actually little, just enough to make him think he's doing well, George pours the rest into his NGOs
#15510222 at 2022-01-31 16:32:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
A crisis of faith in South Africa: 'People have given up on the state'
Struggling even before Covid, communities are taking it upon themselves to try to fill the gaps left by the government
by Jason Burke in Thembokwezi, Graaff-Reinet and Franschhoek January 4, 2022
One evening a week, Natasha Msweswe and Zanele Madasi leave their children at home and set out to patrol the streets of Thembokwezi. They return at midnight. This is potentially very dangerous but they feel they have little choice.
"It can be scary but we want to protect our community," said Madasi, 31. "We want to make a difference."
Thembokwezi is a neighbourhood of Khayelitsha, a sprawling, overcrowded township overlooked by Table Mountain that has long been infamous for high levels of gang violence, drug abuse and unemployment. South African police are stretched very thin and so a network of neighbourhood watch organisations play a key role in fighting crime here. Thembokwezi is more prosperous and safer than much of the rest of the township, and those who live here want to keep it that way.
"We work with the police of course ... but if we fold our arms as a community, the criminals will run amok," said Phindile George, the leader of the Thembokwezi neighbourhood watch, which counts 50 volunteers including Msweswe and Madasi among its members.
Across South Africa, tens of thousands of people are making similar resolutions. Some teach, secure reliable electricity supplies, organise vaccination drives, repair roads, deliver protective gear to hospitals or distribute water. Many work almost alone, others in NGOs or for wealthy businesses that are now setting aside large sums for philanthropic work.
What all share is an almost total lack of faith in South Africa's government to provide any kind of a solution for their problems. "People have given up on the state as a protector ... There is a massive loss of faith. It's a tragedy," said William Gumede, a respected analyst and academic in Johannesburg.
The retreat of the state from everyday life in the continent's most developed country has widespread consequences, changing the way people think, behave and interact, especially in a time of crisis. The death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was almost universally revered, provided a moment of paradoxical hope as well as grief: reminding many South Africans of what they have in common after many months where circumstances have conspired to drive them apart.
Most South Africans were suffering even before Covid struck, and discontent with the ruling African National Congress (ANC), in power since the end of the racist, repressive apartheid regime in 1994, has been growing for years. Economic growth was already slowing even before the nine-year rule of Jacob Zuma, the populist president ousted in 2018 amid widespread corruption allegations.
Despite the good intentions of the current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, a former labour activist turned tycoon, there has been little to celebrate since. The pandemic has delivered a series of crushing blows to the economy. Rolling power cuts shut down businesses and factories for weeks on end, while the public healthcare system has been lethally undermined by mismanagement and corruption.
The government claims 90,000 South Africans have died from Covid, but reliable excess mortality figures suggest the real death toll is between two and three times higher. Depending on the definition, unemployment could be as high as 46.6%.
In July, in the worst breakdown in public order for decades, hundreds of shopping malls were looted, warehouses torched and key infrastructure targeted across a swath of South Africa. Much of the violence appears to have been instigated by renegade factions within the ruling party, angered by the jailing of Zuma on contempt of court charges. This shook faith in the state too, and a few people turned to vigilante violence.
The neighbourhood watch in Thembokwezi aims to reinforce official efforts, but in a rougher part of Khayelitsha a community has come together to confront local authorities. When a strict lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 led to widespread illegal evictions, hundreds of homeless people occupied a patch of wasteland and built homes of tin and wood.
"For years the politicians said they would use this land for homes for us. They failed to fulfil their promises ... So we decided to take it over and do it ourselves," said Mabhelandile Twani, 40, a community leader.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/a-crisis-of-faith-in-south-africa-people-have-given-up-on-the-state
#15510152 at 2022-01-31 16:24:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case
By Mogomotsi Magome?|?AP January 31, 2022
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday continued with legal proceedings to remove the prosecutor in his corruption.
Zuma's lawyers are appealing the court's rejection of his application for prosecutor Billy Downer to be removed, saying he is biased and unfit to lead the prosecution. Zuma's lawyers have also accused Downer of leaking documents related to his case to the media.
His initial application for Downer to be removed was dismissed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court in Oct. last year.
Zuma is facing corruption charges linked to the country's controversial 1999 arms deal in which he is alleged to have received bribes from French arms manufacturer Thales through his financial advisor Schabir Shaik, who has already been convicted of corruption for that transaction.
In a separate case last year, Zuma was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for defying an order of the Constitutional Court to appear before a judicial investigation into allegations of corruption while he was president from 2008 to 2019.
Zuma, 79, went to prison in July and a few months later was released on medical parole. The courts have ruled that the parole was invalid and that Zuma should go back to prison, but his lawyers are appealing that decision.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ex-south-african-president-appeals-ruling-in-corruption-case/2022/01/31/a488df8a-82a2-11ec-951c-1e0cc3723e53_story.html
#15493981 at 2022-01-29 21:54:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
Jacob Zuma and Rioting Bun Part Two
>>14446537 Violence in SA | Reports of unhappiness among troops (video)
>>14514419, >>14514435 Jacob Zuma interview (videos)
>>14526311 UN agencies pledge support to help rebuild KZN following looting, violence and destruction
>>14529703 Zuma's Request To The ANC Will Shocks South African (video)
#15493973 at 2022-01-29 21:53:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
Jacob Zuma and Rioting Bun Part One
>>14095790 Zuma KZN SHUTDOWN shutdown continues (video)
>>14095802 Where is our President? | South Africa 2021 (video)
>>14100755 Pro-Zuma protests | One person shot and killed" - Protests spread into Gauteng (video)
>>14100760 Protests flare up in Hillbrow, Johannesburg (video)
>>14100763 Zuma incarceration | More protests expected across KZN (video)
>>14100937 Zuma Incarceration | Crowd tries to loot factory [liquor outlet]" - Marianhill near Pinetown (video)
>>14100948 KZN 'Free Jacob Zuma' protests turn to looting sprees" - Protests spread to Limpopo as well
>>14101143 Shops looted in JHB CBD (video)
>>14107094 Durban riots latest: Watch SANDF confirms deployment to support police
>>14107100 They can't kill us all': Malema urges EFF to join riots as SANDF deployed
>>14107118 State of Emergency Declared (video)
>>14107220 I speak to a SAPS member in KZN about the riots (video)
>>14107274 Unrest across the country (video)
>>14113650 Latest headlines concerning the riots in South Africa
>>14113661 Ramaphosa: Riots will threaten food security 'within a matter of weeks'
>>14113686 Eskom and Metrorail temporarily suspends services amid violent protests
>>14113695 'Ex-SSA agents, right-wing extremists may be leading these riots' - [State Security Agency] minister" and Bheki Cele "warned community members 'not to take the law into their own hands'
>>14114474 South Africa's top companies, including Vodacom and MTN, shut shops amidst riots (video)
>>14114529 President Cyril Ramaphosa & Boerelegioen's General Izak van Zyl makes public announcements (video)
>>14114534 Violence in SA | Is a third force at play? (video)
>>14114852 The culture of darkest Africa destroying the once bright future of South Africa (video)
>>14120941 South Africa burns - the ring leaders behind the anarchy make themselves known (video)
>>14120982 "Let's make millionaire and, more recently, looter Mabuso Maloi famous | South Africa (video)
>>14120987 LETS MAKE THEM FAMOUS: Two SAPS caught looting last night (video)
>>14123440 Looking back at their 'struggle' during Apartheid, this is d?j? vu. Is history repeating itself in South Africa?
>>14123534 Maponya Mall in Soweto being patrolled by community members (video)
>>14127804 LOOK: Food shelves emptied out - parts of SA gripped by 'panic buying
>>14127810 Riots latest: Fury as looters 'steal COVID-19 vaccines' from pharmacies
>>14128140 South Africa on fire (video)
>>14128158 South African Heroes (video)
>>14128595 "Multiple bodies found at Makro store (video)
>>14135353 Sabotage in KZN | School burnt to the ground in Pinetown (video)
>>14135363 Violent anarchy: you were WARNED | Frans Cronje (video)
>>14135438 As Rioters Overwhelm Police, South African Civilians Step In
>>14142345, >>14142346 People queueing for six hours to buy essential goods in KZN and Gauteng (Part 1 & 2)
>>14173780 Wednesday, 21 July 2021. Our plan is evolving with the changing situation in South Africa" - Wynand du Toit (video)
>>14173787 Thursday, 22 July. Is the stolen ammunition and violence a prelude to war?" - Wynand du Toit (video)
>>14174024 SA riots: Probe launched after '1.5 million rounds of ammunition' looted
>>14181140 Military intelligence analyst speaks on violence in SA (video)
>>14181179 As chaos continues in South Africa food is running low for citizens (video)
>>14181188 Armed South African citizens fire on citizens during chaotic unrest (video)
>>14207552 Phoenix violence: The real problem is not race, but the police's incompetence
>>14388116, >>14388121, >>14388130, >>14388139 Middle East Bankers Behind Jacob Zuma's White Hate Speech And Land Grabs (Parts 1-4)
>>14428611 Riots reloading? Leaked file details chilling plot for 'Phase 2' of unrest
#15493964 at 2022-01-29 21:52:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
ANC Bun
>>14135344 "There was a plot to remove our govt" - ANC confirm insurrection claims
>>14136024 Zulu leadership reaching out to white leaders for direction post ANC | South Africa (video)
>>14181830 The black population in South Africa are waking up to the ANC's deception (video)
>>14187850, >>14187853 All the companies Johann Rupert owns (Parts 1 & 2)
>>14306499 Duduzane vs Cyril: Zuma Jnr targets ANC leadership 'by 2022'
>>14328267 African National Congress | Death threats against Duarte (video)
>>14386597, 14386602, >>14386604, >>14386608 Night of the generals; Increasing surveillance of ANC dissidents and burglaries of journalists and activists point to paranoia at the top (Parts 1-4)
>>14444036 KZN is the breaking point for ANC rule - here's why (video)
>>14444347, >>14444353 South Africa: the liberation's betrayal (Parts 1 & 2)
>>14485217, 14485223 The True Motivation behind the ANC's Deal with Communist China: Anti-Western Hatred (Parts 1 & 2)
>>14525072 Apartheid Spies in the ANC today (video)
>>14540663 UK charity with ANC heavyweights on board accused of laundering Congo autocrat's reputation
>>14630837, >>14630859, >>14630865, >>1430874, >>14630942, >>14630952, >>14630955, >>146300964 The Corruption Of The Anc Predates Codesa - Never Mind Jacob Zuma's Presidency (Parts 1-8)
>>14765579 Early in the 1990s, there were regular lunches between Mr. Mandela and Harry Oppenheimer (video)
Service Delivery and Infrastructure Bun
>>14202369 Port cyber attack: Now Road freighters concerned about goods" - Durban Port
>>14602754 There's Something Fishy About The Karpowership Deal (video)
>>14807840 S.African port operator Transnet declares force majeure at Richards Bay terminal
>>14809089 R6 million spent on unused stadium (video)
>>14809738 Beitbridge Border | Heavy congestion at crossing (video)
>>14866120 "SA to jump to Stage 4 load shedding until Friday
>>14878865 Human Rights Commission to investigate Johannesburg power cuts (video)
>>14878870 Eskom fears for Koeberg, as skilled workers ditch nuclear plant
>>14878898 Reaction to Minister Gordhan and Eskom's response to load shedding: Ted Blom (video)
Covid Bun
>>14087051 New Wuhan linked emails show nine grants from Fauci's NIAID to EcoHealth for bat coronavirus research
>>14101019 Not Making Headlines: New Study Shows Children in UK Have 99.995% Chance of Surviving COVID-19
>>14161805 George Soros And Bill Gates' Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 Million
>>14594033 News station gets flooded with vaccine horror stories
>>14635900 "We Say No!" Worldwide Rally for Freedom 18 Sept 2021 Cape Town, South Africa (video)
>>14635946 "The public is invited to comment on, object to, or support mandatory vaccinations for Covid-19." - South Africa (video)
>>14636189 Salim Abdool Karim in his own words about COVID - member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Science Council (video)
>>14746160 Dr. Peter McCullough MD on Covid Early Treatment and Prevention 9/24/2021 (video)
>>14779840 Police BRUTALITY at Protest against Mandatory jabs | Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa (video)
>>14779921 Man gets pushed by Police at Protest (video)
>>14785008 Constitutional Court Filing - Feedback and Related Matters (video)
>>14785052 State vs Maarman | Ricardo Maarman gives a statement after ruling (video)
>>14785106 My HIV/AIDS investigation, and the parallels to the COVID hoax
>>14982273 Gravitas: Revealed: How Pfizer blackmails countries for shots (video)
#14081769 at 2021-07-08 19:07:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
5c
>>13870079 "Medical journal: Whiteness is a 'malignant, parasitic-like condition' for which there is no cure"
>>13879792, >>13879802 Sidney Frankel: The true legacy of a 'paedophile' philanthropist (Part 1 & 2)
>>13886599 Lindiwe Sisulu's racial attack: A ploy to divert attention away from mismanagement, corruption and incompetence
>>13892782 UK Defence Secretry Liam Fox Bun
>>13892787 Updated South Africa Violence and Crime Bun Part Two
>>13892793 State Capture Inquiry Bun
>>13963627 Equatorial Guinea vice-president must pay SA businessman R39.8m for illegal detention (video)
>>13963856 DR Mamphela Ramphele to step down from Anglo American board
>>13963895 Continued impunity for Anglo American despite its impacts on the community of El Melón
>>13963933 Uptick in copper exploration followed by Rio Tinto, Anglo American and other majors
>>14022905 AfriForum requests explanation from Google for discrepancies in anti-minority discrimination in SA search results
>>14033185 South Africa to Revamp its Ailing Port System
>>14039489 Angie's (Minister of Basic Education) at the wheel: Motshekga now 'acting president' in Cyril's absence
>>14072387 Interpol issue 'most wanted' warning for two Gupta brothers
>>14072409 Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
>>14074579 Gauteng Treasury 'erroneously' pays Microsoft $20m instead of R20m
>>14074911 eSwatini: Govt defends internet blackout, blames 'mercenaries' for unrest
>>14072409,>>14076356 Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
>>14081538 Final Andre Pienaar, Final EFF, & Final Mozambique Buns
>>14081724 ANC Bun Part Two & Final Service Delivery and Infrastructure Bun
>>14081731 Final Covid Bun
>>14081744 Final South Africa Violence and Crime Bun Part Two
>>14081753 Final State Capture Inquiry Bun
>>14081761 Jacob Zuma and Nkandla Bun
#14081766 at 2021-07-08 19:06:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
FINAL
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#5d
>>13347615 Nothing To See Here: Microsoft Files Patent To Mine Cryptos Using Human Brain Activity
>>13353282, >>13353287 Between Refuge and Radicalisation (Part 1 & 2)
>>13357228 Social Entrepreneurship seems to be another form of socialism
>>13357233 Kassoum Coulibaly Biography
>>13357237 How Western Mali could become a gold mine for terrorists
>>13359044 Russia's Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US
>>13359222 THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 11 (link to bitchute)
>>13370845 Dlamini-Zuma - and the UN - may soon 'take control' of your municipality
>>13377546 1,000 'woke' companies unite against election-integrity laws!
>>13402414 13-years on, Judge President Hlophe found guilty of gross misconduct" [regarding Jacob Zuma case]
>>13404630, >>13404634 Foreigners fall prey to spies' scam (Part 1 & 2)
>>13404641 This Story Of A CIA-Backed Somalia Anti-Piracy Squad Is Almost Unbelievable
>>13423297 Huge 'Bird Flu' outbreak puts Ekurhuleni farm under quarantine
>>13430810 SA's latest dam levels: Three provinces at 100% - with one in 'dire straits
>>13438641 Ugandans criticize oil pipeline deal with Tanzania and Total
>>13472631 City of Cape Town approve R4 billion Amazon headquarter development
>>13472672 Partnership with NW Gov will take Sun City Resort 'to greater heights
>>13478643 The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Announce Plans for Initial Public Offering for Bottler
>>13485817, >>13485819 How SA food giants shape public health policy in their favour (Parts 1&2)
>>13496326 Corruption SIU Latest: JSE firm [EOH] reported incident to 'pay back the money
>>13496362 AfriForum questions Sanral's use of facial recognition tech
>>13518904 Arthur Fraser mini-bun
>>13518911 EFF Bun, Heritage Fund Bun
>>13518914 Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun, Mozambique Bun
>>13518916 Service Delivery and Infrastucture Bun, South Africa and Seychelles mini-bun
>>13523805 Zulu Nation faces more unrest as Queen Mantfombi 'admitted to hospital
>>13552039, >>13552050, >>13552055, >>13552071 Hidden Facts: Gordhan, Ramaphosa, Madonsela - Wolves in Sheep Clothes (Parts 1-4)
>>13570029 Pravin Gordhan, Denel accused of 'committing war crimes' - here's why
>>13612165 Poor management: Life-threatening water crisis at Steve Biko Academic Hospital
>>13629804 SA told to 'shutdown its Israel Embassy' - as clashes with Palestinians continue
>>13636414, >>13636420, >>13636426, >>13636432 Could America Become Like South Africa?" (Parts 1-4)
>>13685629 President Duduzane? Zuma Jnr confirms he WILL run for the top job
>>13686327 Heritage Fund Bun
>>13686335 Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun
>>13686348 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun Part One
>>13686402 Chris Hani Bun
>>13712168 Rhodes Must Fall: Now Oxford University called to remove statue
>>13712431 By-elections: DA lose two major wards to 'minnow' political party
>>13776600, >>13776632, >>13776654 Audio tape: The UIM's Neil de Beer on the phone to DaveG (Parts 1-3)
>>13776720 Future candidates equipped for righteous leadership - Afrika Mhlophe
>>13820238 SA Commission BLOCKS Burger King sale - over 'transformation' concerns
>>13828895, >>13828906, >>13828912, >>1382914 The ANC backs away from the EFF - Seeming discord between the ANC and EFF (Parts 1-4)
>>13856049 Firearms: SAPS accused of 'giving guns to gangs while disarming citizens
#14081761 at 2021-07-08 19:05:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Jacob Zuma and Nkandla Bun
>>13455637 Former President Zuma has accused some officials in the ANC Top Six of a plot against him (video)
>>13478508 Zuma's legal team quits, files notice of withdrawal with court (video)
>>13494074 'Report' Jacob Zuma used to axe Gordhan & Jonas may not exist"
>>13685601 Ace Magashule addresses Zuma supporters (video)
>>13685614 Zuma supporters want to 'take ANC back (video)
>>13728683 Now Zuma seeks acquittal of ALL corruption charges
>>13760226 Zuma trial: Shock in court as Dali Mpofu turns up to represent Msholozi
>>13760235 Zuma pleads NOT GUILTY - after 'damning' charges shared by court
>>13765020 "This is awkward": Dali Mpofu gets trolled for 'ironic' defence of Zuma
>>14023024 Zondo Commission granted extension, Ramaphosa set to appear" - Jacob Zuma gets a 15 month prison sentence-
>>14023270 Don't celebrate just yet.. (Zuma's sentence) (video)
>>14023285 'I will die before my father goes to jail', says Edward Zuma (video)
>>14030894 Zuma Sentence | Police monitoring situation in Nkandla (video)
>>14038577 Family meeting with uBaba? Jacob Zuma to 'address the nation' this weekend (video)
>>14038585 There will be unrest if Zuma is arrested'- Carl Niehaus (video)
>>14072384 'Over 100 Zuma supporters were armed' - Cele defends Nkandla police
>>14072419 'Nkandla protests organised by ANC officials' - Duarte drops a bombshell
>>14072433 Cele in major 'u-turn': Minister now says police WILL arrest Zuma
>>14072448 'Is he hiding in a bunker?' Ramaphosa taunted for silence on Zuma issue
>>14072484 Mahikeng total shutdown: North West SAPS condemn calls for violence
>>14080659 Nelson Mandela Foundation slams 'dangerous' Jacob Zuma after his arrest
#14081671 at 2021-07-08 18:52:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
ANC Bun Part One need for final
>>13343746 ANC told to take action against 'growing ISIS threat' in South Africa"
>>13348332 President Cyril Ramaphosa remember the life of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (video)
>>13359583,>>13359589 ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa (part 1 & 2)
>>13370984 Jacob Zuma digs up the past, takes aim at ANC for his 'removal'
>>13371778, >>13371795 ANC Member Jeremy Vearey
>>13378588 ANC pays tribute to Solomon Mahlangu (video)
>>13378714 ANC branches must defend me: Magashule (video)
>>13385926 "Tainted Heroes Full Documentary" - ANC History (video)
>>13390288 SCANDAL: [B]Oksburg East train station on East Rand reflects the legacy of the ANC in South Africa (video)
>>13390568 ANC Youth League to make a comeback, task team appointed" after being dissolved in 2019
>>13398067 Sorry you see me that way' - secret clip of Ramaphosa, Zuma chat leaked
>>13415999 Thuthukile Zuma: Former President's Daughter to Lead ANCYL Fundraising
>>13423596 Ace Magashule broadens scope of ANC members who must step aside
>>13447088 Nearly 35% of SA's senior government officials not qualified for their job
>>13447555 Mbalula warns Magashule-supporting Boss 'You're inviting trouble (video)
>>13455644 ANC wants to ban smartphones and gadgets from meetings
>>13469614 Heritage Fund | Sexwale: Money for poor stolen (video)
>>13469631 Affidavit - State Capture by SARB & Banks - Theft of Gold
>>13478503 MK military veteran protest blocks N2 and N3
>>13478682 ANC's expensive obsession with Cuban 'expertise' is unaffordable and unacceptable
>>13481104 ANC wants taxpayers to fund vaccine compensation claims" and shooting footage of Lindani Myeni (video)
>>13489090 White Spiritual Boy scam and Tokyo Sexwale (with video)
>>13495639 ANC Youth League calls for justice at US Embassy concerning Lindani's death (video)
>>13496340 Cuban engineers scandal: Sisulu given list of 120 SA workers 'who can do the same job
>>13581736 Cyril Ramaphosa's farm gets special treatment (video)
>>13588442 Ace Magashule has been suspended by the ANC
>>13590004 Mafube municipality: Free State government gives up
>>13629105 Ace Magashule told to apologise for 'suspending' Ramaphosa or else (video)
>>13650920 ANC's financial woes continue (video)
>>13669250 ANC vs ANC: Ramaphosa is behind my purge, Magashule says (video)
>>13700652 Cuban engineers latest: Government face lawsuit over R64m project
>>13812871 Thabo Mbeki addresses Eastern Cape ANC PEC (video)
>>13856573 The secret document [socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA)] the ANC didn't want you to see (video)
>>13877827 The Taxpayers' Union of South Africa launches campaign (video)
>>13879670, >>13879681, >>13879751 Endgame Zimbabwe: Why the ANC wants you to die" (Part 1-3)
>>13886569 Cele's statistics v. the facts, disarming the public to reduce crime (video)
>>13909881 The ANC bought SAA with PENSION FUND money and gave it to its Cadres for FREE (video)
>>13909888, >>13909901 SAA's pseudo-privatisation: the ANC's National-Socialist economic system (Parts 1 & 2)
>>13923624 ANC killed mostly civilians - Truth and Reconciliation Commission
>>13930375 Cuba Dysfunctional But SA Imports Cuban Engineers? Could SA Send Solidarity's 120 Engineers to Cuba? (video)
>>13956466 LEAKED! This is how the ANC wants to change the Constitution
#14080659 at 2021-07-08 15:52:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Nelson Mandela Foundation slams 'dangerous' Jacob Zuma after his arrest"- https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2021-07-08-nelson-mandela-foundation-slams-dangerous-Jacob-Zuma-after-his-arrest/
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has heavily criticised former president Jacob Zuma after his incarceration overnight.
In a statement on Thursday issued by its spokesperson Kneo Mokgopa, it welcomed that Zuma "submitted himself to law enforcement" but slammed his failure to comply with the Constitutional Court.
"We note that Mr Zuma failed to abide by the deadline set by the Constitutional Court, thus continuing a pattern of disregard for the rule of law and for our constitutional democracy," said Mokgopa.
Mokgopa said for nearly two decades, Zuma has acted with impunity and encouraged a culture of impunity around him.
"His legal strategy has been one of obfuscation and delay, ultimately in an attempt to render our judicial processes unintelligible. We are profoundly disturbed by the willingness of Mr Zuma to court public violence and lawlessness in support of political and personal agendas.
"The scholarship of Mbongiseni Buthelezi has deconstructed the ways in which Mr Zuma mobilises both struggle-era identities and ethnic identities for his own ends. This is extremely dangerous in the contexts of a country where the rule of law is under siege at so many levels," said Mokgopa.
Mokgopa said though it is tempting to regard Zuma's arrest as the end of the road, it was merely another phase in what the foundation believes will be a long and fraught journey.
"The patterns and the dangers are clear. It is vital that Mr Zuma and his supporters be held accountable every step of the way."
Zuma was arrested after the ConCourt found him guilty of contempt of court for failing to appear at the Zondo commission to answer to allegations of state capture during his tenure as president. He was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment and given five days to hand himself over, but missed the deadline.
His supporters had gathered outside his home in Nkandla since last week, vowing that the former president would not go to prison and threatening to block the police from effecting his arrest. However, he handed himself over overnight to serve the sentence.
"Jacob Zuma will be treated with dignity in jail, may serve just under 4 months - minister Ronald Lamola" - https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-07-08-Jacob-Zuma-will-be-treated-with-dignity-in-jail-may-serve-just-under-4-months-justice-minister-ronald-lamola/
"In his case there is no stipulation for a non-parole period. This means that the former president will be eligible for parole once a quarter of his sentence has been served.
Zuma will be kept in isolation for 14 days, during which time a profile report will be compiled to determine where he will serve the rest of his sentence within the prison.
#14072448 at 2021-07-07 12:45:53 (UTC+1)
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>>14072384
>>14072419
>>14072397
>>14072404
"'Is he hiding in a bunker?' Ramaphosa taunted for silence on Zuma issue"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-latest-where-is-cyril-ramaphosa-reaction-said-about-Jacob-Zuma/
It has been a full week since Jacob Zuma was sentenced to jail. A LOT has gone off in the past seven days, and just about everyone in South Africa has had something to say about the former president's defiance of ConCourt's ruling. Everyone, that is, except for Cyril Ramaphosa - and our current head of state still remains silent on the matter.
WHERE IS CYRIL RAMAPHOSA?
DA leader John Steenhuisen has challenged Cyril Ramaphosa to say something - anything, even - in the face of a possible Constitutional crisis. The ANC is fighting a bitter factional war as it stands, and although the 68-year-old may not want to kick a hornet's nest right now, ignoring the issue won't make it go away either.
"It's essential that Ramaphosa speaks up about the events happening in SA, in both the Constitutional Court and Nkandla. If he fails to break his silence, it will create a two-tier system where laws only apply to some people. Many South Africans make sacrifices during lockdown, but what's happening in Nkandla is a slap in the face for us all."
"It's not fair to inflict lockdown laws on businesses when there are these scenes of impunity. A failure to intervene will see Ramaphosa remembered as the president who happily jailed joggers, cyclists, and beachgoers, but did nothing to discipline his own associates in the ANC." | John Steenhuisen
DA TAUNT PRESIDENT, ACCUSE HIM OF 'HIDING OUT'
Steenhuisen has been flanked by shadow trade minister, Dean Macpherson. He's also poked fun at the passive president, suggesting - with a tongue planted firmly in cheek - that Ramaphosa is currently hiding in a bunker somewhere.
"Cyril Ramaphosa, the so called great negotiator, strategist and constitutional architect is nothing other than a spectator to Zuma letting off nuclear bombs in the ANC and South Africa. He is enabling Zuma's behaviour by hiding in a bunker. We must demand he speaks up!"
RAMAPHOSA REMAINS ABSENT IN FACE OF Zuma DRAMA
Since 30 June, Cyril Ramaphosa has been part of several engagements: He made an appearance at the Generation Equality forum, and also flew to Zambia for the funeral of Dr. Kenneth Kaunda. On Monday, the head of state issued his weekly newsletter to the nation - but opted to speak about mining, rather than events at Nkandla.
His diary doesn't really give away much, either. There's nothing officially scheduled for the remainder of July at this point for Mr. Ramaphosa. Perhaps he's struggling to get WiFi down in that bunker, who knows...
#14072433 at 2021-07-07 12:43:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Cele in major 'u-turn': Minister now says police WILL arrest Zuma"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/bheki-cele-changes-mind-Jacob-Zuma-arrest-court-case/
Bheki Cele has a great hat collection, but it seems he's also partial to 'flip-flops': The minister has now changed course with his treatment of Jacob Zuma.
In the last seven days, things have moved at a frenetic pace for Jacob Zuma - and those trying to make him face the music. Since he was sentenced to a 15-month stretch in prison, Msholozi has fought tooth and nail to avoid the slammer. Overnight, it looked as if Bheki Cele would help him with that, but the police minister has now changed his tone.
A U-TURN TO NKANDLA? BHEKI CELE SIGNALS CHANGE IN TONE
In a letter addressed to the Constitutional Court, Mr. Cele explained that he would not give the order to arrest Jacob Zuma 'until his court challenges are finalised'. That, however, would be in direct violation of the guidance given by ConCourt - to the point where the top cop himself could be found guilty of contempt.
This legal shock to the system has seemingly changed Cele's outlook. He appeared on Newzroom Afrika this morning to clarify his stance on the Zuma saga. The minister is now arguing that his initial hesitancy was to allow 'space' for legal proceedings to develop naturally - but ultimately, SAPS will be guided by ConCourt's directive.
"Who am I to tell the court [anything]? There were no ifs and buts, it was a straight issue, until these twists and turns came up. All we are doing is seeking clarification, and we are not opposing. Whatever the court tells us to do, we'll do it."
"We are not lawyers, we are at the end tail where we take instructions... We are still bound by any direction that the office of the DCJ gives to us. We are not saying we'll sit there and wait, what we are doing, is creating space for things to be finalised. Whatever direction is given to us, we will take it." | Bheki Cele
POLICE MINISTER SAYS Jacob Zuma 'CAN BE ARRESTED THIS WEEK'
Cele was also pushed to explain if his new stance meant that we could expect to see the arrest of Jacob Zuma this week - and the hatted minister believes that this should happen by Thursday. He explains that he is giving uBaba until the last possible minute to hand himself over - otherwise, once the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, Zuma WILL be detained.
"We have written the letter and the onus is on the ConCourt to direct us. If we DO NOT receive that, we have a direction that ends at midnight on Wednesday. If we then receive no NEW direction, before that time... the South African Police WILL have to arrest Jacob Zuma, if he doesn't hand himself in. We only have two days to go with this."
#14072419 at 2021-07-07 12:41:15 (UTC+1)
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>>14072384
>>14072397
"'Nkandla protests organised by ANC officials' - Duarte drops a bombshell"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/jessie-duarte-nec-briefing-nkandla-organised-who-anc-members/
The plot is thickening this week: Jessie Duarte suspects her own ANC comrades are responsible for organising the mass gatherings at Nkandla.
ANC Acting Secretary-General Jessie Duarte has revealed that the NEC are now convinced that the mass gatherings at Nkandla were not organised by citizens supportive of Jacob Zuma - instead suspecting that the illegal protests were actually 'engineered from within the ranks of the party'.
ANC NEC SHARE WEEKEND RESOLUTIONS
After a tumultuous week for the ANC, the NEC had a lot to discuss. On the agenda was the troublesome behaviour of the MKMVA members of the party - Duarte, seemingly in the mood to drop a few bombshells today, announced that the wing has been 'permanently disbanded'. And she wasn't finished there.
Duarte also wants suspended Scretary-General Ace Magashule to 'explain himself' for telling disciplined members to 'defy rulings made against them'. Several high-profile ANC members have been stung by the Integrity Commission, which requires representatives to 'step aside from their positions' if they are accused of unbecoming conduct.
WHO ORGANISED THE NKANDLA PROTESTS?
However, it was the ASG's Nkandla-related admission that raised eyebrows first. Duarte started the meeting by explaining that the thousands who arrived at the former president's homestead to 'protect him from arrest' didn't emerge at the venue spontaneously, but were instead instructed to occupy the venue by as-yet-unnamed political leaders.
"The NEC believes the situation in KwaZulu Natal does not represent a popular uprising, but has been engineered from within the ranks of the ANC. The police deployed in Nkandla managed the situation as best as they could, avoiding a situation in which deliberate acts of provocation may have resulted in bloodshed."
"We have ratified the immediate disband the MKMVA and MK Veterans Council. The threat of undermining democracy and its core principles is counter-revolutionary... we have also noted the failed attempts at national mobilisation - organising shutdowns, lawlessness, and mass protests against the ConCourt ruling."
More on Jessie Duarte;
"Duarte says MKMVA, Carl Niehaus 'behaved like terrorists' at Nkandla" - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-is-carl-niehaus-terrorist-comparison-mkmva-nkandla-anc-nec-duarte/
""The actions [of the MKMVA] were akin to similar displays and acts by extreme right-wing elements. Words such as 'human shields' were used, we sat up and took notes. Those are words that are used by terrorists. Human shields... it's a worrisome thing when words like that are used - we wanted to make sure that there was no bloodshed.""
"'We love Zuma, and hope he wins his court appeal' - Jessie Duarte" - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/jessie-duarte-anc-nec-briefing-love-Jacob-Zuma/
""We would hope that comrade Zuma's legal application to the Constitutional Court will be successful. He is an elder and we love him and respect him. He is still a member of ANC, and he will not be asked to step aside.""
#14072397 at 2021-07-07 12:37:30 (UTC+1)
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>>14072384
"Lockdown latest: Nearly 300 NW arrests as Cele praises Nkandla SAPS"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/lockdown-latest-arrests-north-west-bheki-cele-praises-nkandla-saps-Zuma-level-4-how-many-monday-5-july/
All are not equal under the law of the land, it seems. Nearly 300 people were arrested for lockdown offences in the North West last week.
Many people across South Africa watched on in shock as thousands of people flocked to former President Jacob Zuma's home in Nkandla on Monday with little to no consideration of lockdown regulations. More shocking was the apparent lack of action or concern by the South African Police Service (SAPS) for this blatant flouting of restrictions pertaining to gatherings and social distancing.
In direct contrast to the stunning scene that unfolded on Sunday, police in the North West province reported on Monday that they have arrested 282 people for apparent lockdown violations, raising questions over whether the all are equal under the law of the land.
NORTH-WEST POLICE MAKE 283 ARRESTS
SAPS spokesperson in the North West province,Brigadier Sabata Mokgwabone, said in a statement that between Monday 28 June and yesterday afternoon, nearly 300 suspects had been taken into custody for a variety of offences related to Level 4 lockdown laws.
"Police in the province working together with other law enforcement agencies arrested 282 suspects between Monday, 28 June and Sunday, 04 July 2021 for various Disaster Management Act Regulations related offences," he said.
Sabata said that the police arrested 72 people for failure to confine to their residences, 137 for being in public/open space without wearing a mask, and hundreds more forr contraventions such as sale and dispensing of liquor, failure to close places permitted to remain open by 20:00 and gather for reason other than a funeral.
#14072384 at 2021-07-07 12:35:32 (UTC+1)
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"'Over 100 Zuma supporters were armed' - Cele defends Nkandla police"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/nkandla-police-latest-updates-Jacob-Zuma-jail-bheki-cele-supporters-armed/
According to Minister Cele, police had no choice but 'to take a step back' while monitoring the tense situation in Nkandla over the weekend.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has leapt to the defence of police officers who patrolled Nkandla over the weekend after scores of protesters lined up to defend Jacob Zuma at his sprawling homestead. The 79-year-old is facing a 15-month jail sentence, and could be forcibly arrested by Wednesday. However, SAPS stands accused of 'being too lenient'.
BHEKI CELE INSISTS 'ARRESTS WILL BE MADE' AMONGST Zuma SUPPORTERS
The mass gatherings, which have been ongoing since the first day of the month, are in direct disregard of the Level 4 lockdown restrictions. No crowds are allowed to congregate while the Delta variant surges through the country, and these particular events could soon be labelled as 'super-spreaders'. But policing the demonstrators is no easy task.
Cele rallied behind the officers, and praised them for 'avoiding another Marikana' incident. He also insisted that justice will be delivered on those who broke the law, as SAPS are now studying TV footage and security cameras to identify the main culprits. Some protesters have scuffled with journalists, and others have discharged their firearms illegally.
'HUNDREDS ARMED' AT NKANDLA PROTESTS
Indeed, the issue with the guns seems to be the biggest bone of contention. Cele wasn't best pleased to learn that more than 100 Zuma supporters at Nkandla were armed. Although they were outnumbered by firearm-equipped officers, the hatted minister believes that the cops did the right thing by 'avoiding the outcome of chaos'.
"The job of the police is to enforce the law. But in the same sentence, it is to protect the inhabitants of the country. bullets have no eyes to say this is a child, this is a woman... over 100 people were armed. To say the police did nothing is wrong. We had a big contingent of officers around Nkandla, there were about 200 police, including special forces."
"Special forces when they get there and somebody who is reckless, who has no responsibility whatsoever who wants to cause chaos... we are not going to be sucked in the chaos the people that, when lives are lost, they have no responsibility to explain. We have a reference point in SA. We have Marikana and we don't want to go back there."
#14038593 at 2021-07-02 19:56:43 (UTC+1)
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>>14038585 - Niehaus complaining about Raymond Zondo however in another twist...
"DCJ Raymond Zondo has been appointed acting Chief Justice"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/dcj-raymond-zondo-has-been-appointed-acting-chief-justice/
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng took leave back in May, just before he retires from being at the helm of South Africa's judiciary
The Office has the Chief Justice has announced that Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has officially taken over the reins as the acting Chief Justice.
In a statement, the office said Zondo assumed the responsibility from Thursday, 1 July 2021.
"As the chief justice is still on long leave as made known on 06 May 2021, and by application of the relevant legislation, namely Section 4 (2) (b) of the Superior Courts Act, 2013, the deputy chief justice will exercise the powers or perform the functions of the chief justice as the acting chief justice," judiciary spokesperson Nathi Mncube said in a statement.
The news comes after Justice Sisi Khampepe, who had been appointed as Acting Deputy Chief Justice, had her term come to an end on 30 June 2021.
CHIEF JUSTICE MOGOENG WRAPS UP HIS TERM
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, whose term comes to an end this year, after which he retires, took leave from 1 May. It's not clear when exactly Mogoeng's leave comes to an end but the three-and-a-half-month leave to which he is entitled would end after his retirement date. As Mogoeng's second-in-command, DCJ Raymond Zondo was next in line to fill in for him, however he has already had his hands full presiding over the State Capture Commission.
The current phase of the proceedings seems to have eased, which would make it simpler for him to attend to his duties at the highest court in the land.
"The work of the commission has? despite the extension? reached a stage that the deputy chief justice will be in a position to fulfil his responsibilities as acting chief justice while attending to the finalisation of the inquiry's work"
Judiciary spokesperson Nathi Mncube
Khampepe, who delivered the historic Constitutional Court judgement, which found former president Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt (and subsequently impose a 15-month prison sentence on him), is set to permanently hang up her robe in October.
#14038577 at 2021-07-02 19:54:01 (UTC+1)
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"Zuma supporters arrive in full force at his Nkandla homestead" - https://youtu.be/CI20ZbEAp60
"Family meeting with uBaba? Jacob Zuma to 'address the nation' this weekend"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-when-Jacob-Zuma-address-the-nation-family-meeting-2-july-2021/
Anything Ramaphosa can do, Zuma says he can do better: The former president plans to address the nation from Nkandla, via an unofficial 'family meeting'.
In a whirlwind turn of events, Jacob Zuma and his legal team look set to launch a last-ditch bid to keep the 79-year-old out of jail. The former president was slapped with a 15-month prison term earlier this week, but has shown very little appetite to comply with the ConCourt ruling. What is more, Msholozi is also planning a 'family meeting' this weekend.
SORRY, A FAMILY MEETING WITH Jacob Zuma? FORMER PRESIDENT PLANS NATIONAL ADDRESS
The term, a colloquial reference to the national addresses given out by Cyril Ramaphosa throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, is being used to describe the latest announcement from the Jacob Zuma Foundation. They issued a media alert, informing the press and the general public that uBaba will 'definitely address the nation' in the next 48 hours.
Hundreds of supporters are camped outside of Nkandla, as they keep their unwavering support in place for Zuma. If he does not hand himself over to the authorities by Sunday 4 July, SAPS will be compelled to physically arrest him instead. The mood is tense outside of the sprawling KZN homestead, and more loyalists are expected to arrive here on Sunday.
WHAT NEXT FOR MSHOLOZI?
Earlier today, it was confirmed that Jacob Zuma would be imprisoned in the Westville Correctional Facility. This, after a warrant for his committal was rubber-stamped by Justice Khampepe. A spokesperson for the Jacob Zuma Foundation, Mzwanele Manyi, openly questioned the validity of ConCourt's verdict - and hinted at a 'fightback strategy'.
"Detention without trial is apartheid. So how is imprisonment without trial [part of a] Constitutional Democracy. Which checks and balances apply when judges decide that normal procedures will be waived? Which checks and balances apply when judges deem appeal processes too protracted?" | Mzwanele Manyi
#14030894 at 2021-07-01 18:22:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Zuma Sentence | Police monitoring situation in Nkandla"- https://youtu.be/m_HFaQMAsaE
"Members of SAPS are monitoring the gathering outside former President Jacob Zuma's home in Nkandla. His supporters have arrived to show support. eNCA's Siphamandla Goge is following this story."
#14023285 at 2021-06-30 19:03:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Edward Zuma briefs the media following Constitutional Court ruling" - https://youtu.be/EzF4ryl8y4Y
"'I will die before my father goes to jail', says Edward Zuma"- https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-06-30-i-will-die-before-my-father-goes-to-jail-says-edward-Zuma/
One of the sons of former president Jacob Zuma remains defiant that he will die before he witnesses his father walking through prison gates.
Speaking to the media outside Zuma's homestead in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, Edward Zuma maintained law enforcement agencies would have to go through him before getting hold of his father.
"My position has been known and I still maintain it. Whatever decisions are taken by law enforcement, they will have to kill me before such a decision is implemented," he said.
"If that drastic decision happens to be taken, it means they have to pass through me, meaning I will lay down my life for [former] president Zuma. They will not take him to prison while I am still alive."
Edward insisted he was not reckless in making those comments.
On Tuesday the Constitutional Court sentenced the former president to 15 months behind bars after he was found guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order issued by it to honour a summons to appear before the state capture inquiry.
"The only appropriate sanction is a direct unsuspended order of imprisonment," said acting deputy chief justice Sisi Khampepe.
"If with impunity litigants are allowed to decide which orders they may wish to obey and which they wish to ignore, then our constitution is not worth the paper on which it is written."
Zuma snubbed the inquiry and attacked the integrity of some of its officials, including inquiry chair deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo.
He has five days to hand himself over to authorities to start serving his sentence.
Before then, Edward welcomed supporters of the former president to the family's home.
"We encourage people to come in their numbers to support [former] president Zuma," Edward said.
Asked whether Covid-19 regulations, which prohibit gatherings, were considered, Edward said they were irrelevant.
"We are in a situation of war here. We cannot be considering Covid-19 restrictions. If it means we die, we die."
#14023024 at 2021-06-30 18:27:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"JUST IN: Zondo Commission granted extension, Ramaphosa set to appear" - Jacob Zuma gets a 15 month prison sentence- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/zondo-commission-granted-three-months-extension-cyril-ramaphosa-and-others-to-appear-state-capture-latest-news/
The State Capture Commission has been granted another three months extension to wrap up, its Chairperson DCJ Zondo confirmed.
The State Capture Commission (aka Zondo Commission) has been granted yet another three months extension to complete its work.
The Commission's Chairperson, Deputy Chief Justice Zondo confirmed on Wednesday during a briefing on the Commission's work so far.
ZONDO COMMISSION GIVEN UNTIL END OF SEPTEMBER TO WRAP UP
During the briefing, the Deputy Chief Justice said they planned to finish oral evidence by the end of March but there was evidence that they could not ignore. He added that the High Court has granted the commission an extension until September 2021.
Zondo also said that the commission will soon be resuming to prepare its report, and said that he has been informed that the transcript of the evidence is already over 71 000 pages.
DCJ Zondo explained that 'five or six more witnesses' were still due to give crucial evidence - and there's the small matter of President Ramaphosa's outstanding testimony to resolve.
"During the period where the Commission was not sitting at the beginning of June, they had time to carefully look at some matters relating to certain evidence and resolved that it's important to continue with certain evidence."
"The Commission must still continue to hear the evidence of other five or six implicated witnesses - including the evidence of Cyril Ramaphosa in his capacity and the leader of the ANC and the President of South Africa."
The Commission welcomed the he Constitutional Court's decision to impose a 15-month prison sentence on former president Jacob Zuma that was handed down on Tuesday, 29 June by Acting Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe.
"The commission views the judgment as one of great importance for the rule of law, the principle of equality before the law, the primacy of our Constitution and the protection of our constitutional democracy," said commission secretary Itumeleng Mosala
#13900374 at 2021-06-14 13:13:02 (UTC+1)
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>>13835628
>the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.
"South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider" - Part 1dated December 13, 2018, at https://www.somtribune.com/2018/12/13/south-african-at-centre-of-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud-linked-to-kremlin-insider/
While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious "Luciano" in the leaked "Zuma spy tapes" saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon Project - a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes - he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, who has close links to the Kremlin.
Former South African intelligence agent, Andre Pienaar, has been cited in an extensive investigation by BBC journalists into bids for the Pentagon's $R10 billion Jedi Contract project aimed at storing sensitive military and other information on a single cloud.
Pienaar was exposed in court transcripts in the Zuma "spy tapes" saga as the mysterious "Luciano" who allegedly leaked illegal National Intelligence Agency recordings of conversations between then Scorpions boss, Leonard McCarthy, and former NPA boss, Bulelani Ngcuka.
The leak ultimately led to the initial withdrawal of charges of fraud and corruption against former President Jacob Zuma.
The BBC's Ruth Clegg and Manveen Rana, have linked Pienaar to Russian oligarch and Kremlin insider, Viktor Vekselberg, who is named on the US sanctions list for his close ties to the president, Vladimir Putin.
Pienaar, according to his own biography, "started his career at Kroll Inc in 1996 where he became the youngest managing director". In 2004, he founded G3, "an international consulting firm that advises global companies and international law firms on cybersecurity."
Around 2013 Pienaar sold G3 to Swedish private equity firm, Kinnevik. In January 2018 one of Pienaar's other companies, ITC Secure [https://www.bloglikes.com/blogs/2018-01-11/c5-capital-backed-itc-secure-buys-g3-cyber], bought the G3 Cyber Security "practice" component of the G3 group from G3 and Kinnevik.
In November 2016, C5 Capital acquired ITC Secure for £24 million.
Pienaar, who has been highly successful cornering this lucrative and sensitive market, said the January 2018 deal rendered ITC as "a leader in providing cyber security services and trusted advice to businesses across all sectors. Our experts are able to deliver strategic guidance to private clients and private equity groups worldwide".
Back in 2014, when the "spy tapes" transcripts [https://serve.mg.co.za/content/documents/2014/10/02/spy-tapes-transcript.pdf] were released, Pienaar was named on page 26 as "a private intelligence operative close to Mbeki". Pienaar has since been associated with ANC presidential hopeful, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, and is a council member of her African Union Foundation, which he helped set up in 2015.
While the AU Foundation claims that its aim is "to mobilise resources in support of the African Union's vision of an integrated, people-centred and prosperous Africa, at peace with itself and taking its rightful place in the world", it appears not much has been achieved in its three years of existence.
Pienaar is described on the AU Foundation website as "a private investor in specialist areas of technology. He is a founder of C5 Capital Limited. He is a trustee of several African charities."
Daily Maverick inquiries and emails to the AU Foundation for a report-back on its work have been met with silence for several months.
#13892802 at 2021-06-13 14:59:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
coming up on 600
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#5d
>>13347615 Nothing To See Here: Microsoft Files Patent To Mine Cryptos Using Human Brain Activity
>>13353282, >>13353287 Between Refuge and Radicalisation (Part 1 & 2)
>>13357228 Social Entrepreneurship seems to be another form of socialism
>>13357233 Kassoum Coulibaly Biography
>>13357237 How Western Mali could become a gold mine for terrorists
>>13359044 Russia's Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US
>>13359222 THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 11 (link to bitchute)
>>13370845 Dlamini-Zuma - and the UN - may soon 'take control' of your municipality
>>13377546 1,000 'woke' companies unite against election-integrity laws!
>>13402414 13-years on, Judge President Hlophe found guilty of gross misconduct" [regarding Jacob Zuma case]
>>13404630, >>13404634 Foreigners fall prey to spies' scam (Part 1 & 2)
>>13404641 This Story Of A CIA-Backed Somalia Anti-Piracy Squad Is Almost Unbelievable
>>13423297 Huge 'Bird Flu' outbreak puts Ekurhuleni farm under quarantine
>>13430810 SA's latest dam levels: Three provinces at 100% - with one in 'dire straits
>>13438641 Ugandans criticize oil pipeline deal with Tanzania and Total
>>13472631 City of Cape Town approve R4 billion Amazon headquarter development
>>13472672 Partnership with NW Gov will take Sun City Resort 'to greater heights
>>13478643 The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Announce Plans for Initial Public Offering for Bottler
>>13485817, >>13485819 How SA food giants shape public health policy in their favour (Parts 1&2)
>>13496326 Corruption SIU Latest: JSE firm [EOH] reported incident to 'pay back the money
>>13496362 AfriForum questions Sanral's use of facial recognition tech
>>13518904 Arthur Fraser mini-bun
>>13518911 EFF Bun, Heritage Fund Bun
>>13518914 Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun, Mozambique Bun
>>13518916 Service Delivery and Infrastucture Bun, South Africa and Seychelles mini-bun
>>13523805 Zulu Nation faces more unrest as Queen Mantfombi 'admitted to hospital
>>13552039, >>13552050, >>13552055, >>13552071 Hidden Facts: Gordhan, Ramaphosa, Madonsela - Wolves in Sheep Clothes (Parts 1-4)
>>13570029 Pravin Gordhan, Denel accused of 'committing war crimes' - here's why
>>13612165 Poor management: Life-threatening water crisis at Steve Biko Academic Hospital
>>13629804 SA told to 'shutdown its Israel Embassy' - as clashes with Palestinians continue
>>13636414, >>13636420, >>13636426, >>13636432 Could America Become Like South Africa?" (Parts 1-4)
>>13685629 President Duduzane? Zuma Jnr confirms he WILL run for the top job
>>13686327 Heritage Fund Bun
>>13686335 Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun
>>13686348 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun Part One
>>13686402 Chris Hani Bun
>>13712168 Rhodes Must Fall: Now Oxford University called to remove statue
>>13712431 By-elections: DA lose two major wards to 'minnow' political party
>>13776600, >>13776632, >>13776654 Audio tape: The UIM's Neil de Beer on the phone to DaveG (Parts 1-3)
>>13776720 Future candidates equipped for righteous leadership - Afrika Mhlophe
>>13820238 SA Commission BLOCKS Burger King sale - over 'transformation' concerns
>>13828895, >>13828906, >>13828912, >>1382914 The ANC backs away from the EFF - Seeming discord between the ANC and EFF (Parts 1-4)
>>13856049 Firearms: SAPS accused of 'giving guns to gangs while disarming citizens
#13892793 at 2021-06-13 14:58:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
State Capture Inquiry Bun
>>13396852 Karyn Maughn on David Mahlobo's testimony (video)
>>13417550 Norma Mngoma tells all | Part 1 (video)
>>13417555 Norma Mngoma tells all | Part 2 (video)
>>13417559 Norma Mngoma tells all | Part 3 (video)
>>13417565 Malusi Gigaba wants Norma testimony kept private (video)
>>13417575 Norma Mngoma withdraws from Zondo Commission (video)
>>13423293 Jessie Duarte slams Zondo, backs Zuma in explosive leaked clip
>>13423383 Ramaphosa's appearance at Zondo commission changed to later date
>>13424499 Gwede Mantashe explains cadre deployment to Zondo commission
>>13440921 Former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana testifies at Zondo Commission (video)
>>13447629 LIAR! Gwede lies to the Zondo commission while the DA has credential struggles
>>13455847 State Capture Inquiry offices ROBBED - vital documents 'could be missing' (video)
>>13460711 Could motive for break-in be sinister? (video)
>>13460827 The Commission will not be intimidated following break-in: Justice Zondo (video)
>>13472789 State Capture Inquiry | Three ministers didn't want me to testify: Dintwe (video)
>>13478508 Zuma's legal team quits, files notice of withdrawal with court (video)
>>13486124, >>13486136, >>13486144 Break-in at offices of Zondo Commission is sign of panic (Part 1-3)
>>13494074 'Report' Jacob Zuma used to axe Gordhan & Jonas may not exist"
>>13494094 Dintwe: Deep divisions in state security (video)
>>13542562 Ramaphosa says 'an ex-president' objected to his State Capture Inquiry appearance
>>13542613 "We got it wrong, we fell short": Ramaphosa on ANC's state capture failures
>>13542628 Cyril grilled: Ramaphosa catches heat for defending "cadre deployment"
>>13542633 Ramaphosa rattled by "qualifications" question
>>13542686 What's so funny? Zondo gives Ramaphosa the giggles at State Capture Inquiry
>>13542694 Has Ramaphosa thrown Mkhize under the bus on Bosasa?
>>13588435 Unpacking the #StateCaptureInquiry (video)
>>13668258, >>13668264 Looting at intelligence agencies flourished while politicians failed their oversight role
>>13728683 Now Zuma seeks acquittal of ALL corruption charges
>>13760226 Zuma trial: Shock in court as Dali Mpofu turns up to represent Msholozi
>>13760235 Zuma pleads NOT GUILTY - after 'damning' charges shared by court
>>13765020 "This is awkward": Dali Mpofu gets trolled for 'ironic' defence of Zuma
#13892755 at 2021-06-13 14:52:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Updated ANC Bun
>>13343746 ANC told to take action against 'growing ISIS threat' in South Africa"
>>13348332 President Cyril Ramaphosa remember the life of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (video)
>>13359583,>>13359589 ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa (part 1 & 2)
>>13370984 Jacob Zuma digs up the past, takes aim at ANC for his 'removal'
>>13371778, >>13371795 ANC Member Jeremy Vearey
>>13378588 ANC pays tribute to Solomon Mahlangu (video)
>>13378714 ANC branches must defend me: Magashule (video)
>>13385926 "Tainted Heroes Full Documentary" - ANC History (video)
>>13390288 SCANDAL: [B]Oksburg East train station on East Rand reflects the legacy of the ANC in South Africa (video)
>>13390568 ANC Youth League to make a comeback, task team appointed" after being dissolved in 2019
>>13398067 Sorry you see me that way' - secret clip of Ramaphosa, Zuma chat leaked
>>13415999 Thuthukile Zuma: Former President's Daughter to Lead ANCYL Fundraising
>>13423596 Ace Magashule broadens scope of ANC members who must step aside
>>13447088 Nearly 35% of SA's senior government officials not qualified for their job
>>13447555 Mbalula warns Magashule-supporting Boss 'You're inviting trouble (video)
>>13455637 Former President Zuma has accused some officials in the ANC Top Six of a plot against him (video)
>>13455644 ANC wants to ban smartphones and gadgets from meetings
>>13469614 Heritage Fund | Sexwale: Money for poor stolen (video)
>>13469631 Affidavit - State Capture by SARB & Banks - Theft of Gold
>>13478503 MK military veteran protest blocks N2 and N3
>>13478682 ANC's expensive obsession with Cuban 'expertise' is unaffordable and unacceptable
>>13481104 ANC wants taxpayers to fund vaccine compensation claims" and shooting footage of Lindani Myeni (video)
>>13489090 White Spiritual Boy scam and Tokyo Sexwale (with video)
>>13495639 ANC Youth League calls for justice at US Embassy concerning Lindani's death (video)
>>13496340 Cuban engineers scandal: Sisulu given list of 120 SA workers 'who can do the same job
>>13581736 Cyril Ramaphosa's farm gets special treatment (video)
>>13588442 Ace Magashule has been suspended by the ANC
>>13590004 Mafube municipality: Free State government gives up
>>13629105 Ace Magashule told to apologise for 'suspending' Ramaphosa or else (video)
>>13650920 ANC's financial woes continue (video)
>>13669250 ANC vs ANC: Ramaphosa is behind my purge, Magashule says (video)
>>13685601 Ace Magashule addresses Zuma supporters (video)
>>13685614 Zuma supporters want to 'take ANC back (video)
>>13700652 Cuban engineers latest: Government face lawsuit over R64m project
>>13812871 Thabo Mbeki addresses Eastern Cape ANC PEC (video)
>>13856573 The secret document [socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA)] the ANC didn't want you to see (video)
>>13877827 The Taxpayers' Union of South Africa launches campaign (video)
>>13879670, >>13879681, >>13879751 Endgame Zimbabwe: Why the ANC wants you to die" (Part 1-3)
>>13886569 Cele's statistics v. the facts, disarming the public to reduce crime (video)
#13776600 at 2021-05-28 19:31:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Audio tape: The UIM's Neil de Beer on the phone to Dave G" - Part 1- https://lovinglifetv.com/audio-tape-the-uims-neil-de-beer-on-the-phone-to-dave-g/. It is worth listening to however the conversation is in English and Afrikaans.
Key notes;
2:01 - Neil de Beer [NDB} used to be with Umkhonto weSizwe, one of the "Mandela" spies and now joined Mmusi Maimane to form a political party. He is currently the president of the World Bank of Africa and sits on the World Economic Forum. His home is in Spain and his head office of the World Bank is in Barcelona. He is also runs de Beers as he is the grandson.
7:40 - NDB is Russian/KGB trained operative.
10:13 - "That was that the National Party [NP] government in the time of 1989 was surrendering already... Because few of the people that were moving the prisoners, that were classed as terrorists at that stage, around. So that the NP, Pik Botha, Hernis Kriel, FW de Klerk actually negotiate a peace settlement... but they were not negotiating in 89 for peace, David. They were negotiating indemnity for themselves first in a small little house in Simonstown." He also mentions Neil Barnard and Roelf Meyer.
11:57 - "You will remember Article 45 of the UN then pulled us out of Angola and Namibia... So we were being pulled into a corner where the fight now for the so called liberation was not now going to happen in Cuito Cuanavale but it was going to happen in Johannesburg... [All the weapons came in. On the contrary, the weapons are still here today. So when we talk about the so called uprising and war] (English translation)... I wouldn't advise that. I would categorically advise against people talking war."
20:32 - "Like Chris Hani's role and who took Chris Hani out. That was not our people that took him out." "There is only 18 people alive that know who did that." NDB further states that Zuma knows who was behind it as he was the head of intelligence/MK and that 7 of the 18 are dead. He later admitted that he is one of the 18 who knows.
33:10 - "Then we started compiling a document and I am very proud of the document called NEPAD... NEPAD was adopted in the last term of Mbeki before he got fired. It was adopted as the official economic plan for the African Union. I did such a 'kak' job Dave, I became the head of NEPAD."
34:03 - NDB; "I was the one spearheading the negotiations" for the integration of Morocco and South Sudan into the African Union... "There is something called the OABD, the organisation African Business Development, and I became the first secretary general of that African Union association... I had to go establish OABD sectoral investment program and out of that we wrote 2 documents. One is called the AMF, African Monetary Fund, and the other was called the African Central Bank, the ACB. I was the person that was driving that."
36:03 - "When Madiba was the president, his major influences that he wanted to bring in... was not the West. It was Cuba, it was Palestine... those were his friends... Muhammad Gaddafi... Mbeki who studied in the UK, he was more principled to the West... Now follows Jacob Zuma. Jacob Zuma again is a militarist. He is back at Umkhonto weSizwe. So his influence that he brought in was Russia, China and India... the largest contributors to the Zuma era. That is why the BRICS system was brought in. Now you got Cyril Ramaphosa that has taken over who is totally, totally aligned to the West again and has no interest in running BRICS."
43:52 - "[I looked at this thing and I said to these people, "You who sit in parliament, you are busy 'om kak aan te jaag' (messing up). Hear me, a second revolution will come." But I did not sit on my backside. When I saw that this will not change, there came 9 businessmen under the man named Michael Louis (ML).] (English translation) ML was the founder of the ACDP, the African Christian Democratic Party. He was a cabinet minister of the Western Cape legislature for 10 years." He further state that ML's family are billionaires (Louis Group) - bank in Europe, farms and a "fundamental christian".
#13773428 at 2021-05-28 12:00:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Ramaphosa pulls out of State Capture Inquiry - in mysterious fashion"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/why-cyril-ramaphosa-not-going-state-capture-inquiry-reason/
An unexplained change to the State Capture Inquiry's plans means that Cyril Ramaphosa will not return to the Commission next week. But why?
President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer attend the State Capture Inquiry for his second round of testimony, it has been revealed on Thursday. The head of state was due to return to the Zondo Commission on Monday 31 May, giving his final round of evidence on Tuesday 1 June. However, both dates have been wiped from the calendar.
WHY IS RAMAPHOSA NOT GOING TO THE STATE CAPTURE INQUIRY?
The State Capture Inquiry is yet to provide a reason for why the president is now unable to attend the session. The panel have seen a number of witnesses - including Dudu Myeni and Jacob Zuma - ignore their summons to appear in front of Zondo, but the issue with Ramaphosa seems to be something a little more formal.
Ramaphosa's testimony is significant for a multitude of reasons, but taking his position of power to one side, the 68-year-old was also meant to be the last witness who appeared at the Commission. The Inquiry team is wrapping up its verbal submissions, as they scramble to produce a finalised report of state capture itself.
For many, Ramaphosa is the missing puzzle piece. He served as the deputy president during Jacob Zuma's presidency - and the administration was filled with people implicated in acts of state-sponsored corruption. Cyril denies being aware of any wrongdoing at the time, but critics have often asked if the ANC leader knows more than he is letting on.
LOCKDOWN COMMITMENTS? SPECULATION GROWS OVER CYRIL'S DIARY
The announcement was made just after 14:00. DCJ Zondo has not given anything away, stating only that 'further information will be communicated in due course'. Of course, it is quite possible Ramaphosa could be preoccupied next week - as Cabinet confirmed that the president is preparing for his next 'family meeting'.
COVID-19 cases are soaring in South Africa, and we are expecting tighter lockdown laws to come into play. Whether this is directly linked to President Ramaphosa pulling out of the State Capture Inquiry remains to be seen. The DCJ and his team are yet to confirm when - or even if - Cyril will return to face the music once more.
#13765020 at 2021-05-27 13:01:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"'This is awkward': Dali Mpofu gets trolled for 'ironic' defence of Zuma"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/dali-mpofu-gets-trolled-for-ironic-defence-of-Zuma/
It was confirmed that advocate Dali Mpofu would be the newest addition to former president Jacob Zuma's legal team
It will likely go down as one of the most unforgettable ironies in recent memory - advocate Dali Mpofu joining former president Jacob Zuma's defence team in the arms deal trial.
Having been chairperson of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which had been one of Zuma's most fiercest critics who'd called for him to be jailed (over several matters, including the Gupta leaks and the arms deal), Mpofu may end up being the reason he never dons orange overalls.
While he no longer serves the EFF in Parliament, he remains in the party. For quite some time, Mpofu has extended his legal services to people he's had political differences with, or at least the EFF. The likes of Gareth Cliff (who isn't exactly an EFF favourite), Public Works Minister Patricia De Lille and Thandi Modise have all been represented by Mpofu in their respective court cases.
However despite the aforementioned, nothing could have prepared South Africans for the big shocker that was Mpofu joining Zuma's legal team, something which the advocate confirmed in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday, 26 May 2021.
SA TWITTER REACTS TO MPOFU JOINING Zuma'S LEGAL TEAM
South African Twitter has been flooding the timeline, in reaction to advocate Dali Mpofu being the latest addition to former president Jacob Zuma's lawyers, after some of then withdrew from the arms deal trial at the eleventh hour.
The comments even prompted the EFF's own deputy president Floyd Shivambu to come to Mpofu's defence.
"It is (advocate Dali Mpofu's) right to legally represent whoever he chooses to represent. He's represented CR17 factions, Thandi Modise, Supra Mahumapelo, Patricia De Lille, Bantu Holomisa's UDM, Ace Magashule. He's not doing so on behalf of the EFF. He's doing it as an Advocate SC," Shivambu said on Twitter.
#13760235 at 2021-05-26 20:28:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Watch: Zuma pleads NOT GUILTY - after 'damning' charges shared by court"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-Jacob-Zuma-not-guilty-plea-what-charges-how-many-video/
Bookmark this moment: Jacob Zuma has gone on the record in Pietermaritzburg High Court to plead 'not guilty' - in the face of an enormous charge sheet.
Jacob Zuma has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that he is 'not guilty' of a whopping 18 criminal charges filed against him - after the details of his rap sheet were made public on Wednesday. It's understood that Zuma received bribes from Schabir Shaik, from 1995 to 2005. In total, those illicit benefits amounted to almost R5 million.
WATCH: Jacob Zuma PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN COURT
The judge clarified with Jacob Zuma that all was understood on his side, given the magnitude of the counts filed against him. The 79-year-old agreed, and after a slight delay, he comprehensively entered his plea of 'not guilty'. It's perhaps a good time to save this moment in history - because we WILL be revisiting it...
A TOTAL OF 18 COUNTS FILED AGAINST JZ
So, what exactly is uBaba denying? A LOT: The ex-president is accused of everything from money laundering to tax fraud. He's believed to have been on an annual retainer to lobby in favour of the arms group Thales, and these supposedly dodgy dealings were all facilitated through Schabir Shaik. The charge sheet for Jacob Zuma reads:
- COUNT 1: Racketeering committed by Jacob Zuma and Thales.
- COUNT 2: The state alleges former president Jacob Zuma is guilty of corruption. There are 782 payments from Schabir Shaik to Zuma, which are all under investigation.
- COUNT 3: Addition corruption charges, related to alleged payments from French arms company, Thales.
- COUNTS 4 and 5: Zuma is alleged to have received annual benefits to protect Schabir Shaik and Thompson CSF (Thales). The annual benefit was R500 000.
- COUNT 6: Money laundering committed by Jacob Zuma and Thales.
- COUNT 7: A separate charge of fraud against Jacob Zuma.
- COUNT 8: A failure to declare 'financial sponsorships' to Parliament, on behalf of Mr. Zuma.
- COUNT 9: Zuma is accused of lying to Parliament, regarding his relationship with Schabir Shaik.
- COUNTS 10 to 18: Fraud charges against the former president - including attempts to defraud institutions such as SARS, and several violations of the Income Tax Act.
#13760226 at 2021-05-26 20:27:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Zuma trial: Shock in court as Dali Mpofu turns up to represent Msholozi"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/why-dali-mpofu-Jacob-Zuma-trial-latest-updates-court/
The theatrics have started in the Jacob Zuma trial on Wednesday, after uBaba deployed Dali Mpofu as a 'surprise lawyer' for his defence team.
Well, who saw this coming? Controversial lawyer Dali Mpofu has brought his firebrand style of advocacy to the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday - as he turned up in the dock to DEFEND Jacob Zuma.
DALI MPOFU IN COURT FOR Zuma TRIAL
The session on Wednesday will likely hear a plea of 'not guilty' from Zuma, but also, there is the small matter of a recusal hearing to attend to. The legal team cobbled together by uBaba wants state prosecutor Billy Downer thrown off the case, and it now looks like Msholozi has decided to bring in the big guns.
Dali Mpofu, an EFF-representing man of the law, has clashed with some of Jacob Zuma's fiercest rivals in the past. Earlier this year, he told Pravin Gordhan to 'shut up' at the State Capture Inquiry - and more fireworks are expected here. The Zuma trial resumes one week after he was last in the dock, and we're hoping for steady progress today.
HAS IT COME TO THIS? MSHOLOZI BRINGS OUT THE BIG GUNS
The appearance of Dali Mpofu most certainly goes down as a surprise. There was an audible shock in the courtroom when the familiar face appeared in front of the bench, unpacking his belongings and standing with Zuma's other representatives.
#13728683 at 2021-05-22 18:43:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Breaking: Now Zuma seeks acquittal of ALL corruption charges - report"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/now-Jacob-Zuma-seeks-acquittal-of-all-corruption-charges-report/
Former president Jacob Zuma has filed plea documents, in which he argues for the state prosecutor Billy Downer's recusal in the arms deal trial
In a dramatic turn of events, former president Jacob Zuma has asked the High Court in Pietermaritzburg to acquit him of the charges he faces in the arms deal trial.
This is according to eNCA, which reports that the bid will depend on whether or not he succeeds in his application to have state prosecutor advocate Billy Downer recuse himself.
According to the broadcaster, Zuma argues that Downer lacks the independence and impartiality required of a prosecutor.
The first day of Zuma's arms deal trial got underway on Monday - but proceedings had to be postponed - to allow his lawyers to argue why Downer should not be allowed to prosecute their client.
The news comes just days after Zuma's lawyers filed an affidavit, in which he elaborates on why they want the prosecutor removed
Zuma SEEKS ACQUITTAL IN ARMS DEAL TRIAL - SO WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
For now, it is now up to Judge Piet Koen to make a decision on Jacob Zuma's recusal plea on Downer - only then will we get an idea on the way forward.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) confirmed on Thursday that it had received Zuma's plea document via email on Wednesday evening, and would be studying it before formally responding.
"We are studying the document and we will submit our response in court as expected. At face value it looks like a regurgitation of the old false issues that have been previously rejected by the courts," NPA spokesperson Sipho Ngwema said.
Zuma faces 16 charges of fraud, corruption, racketeering, and money-laundering related to the controversial multi-billion rand arms deal in the late 1990s.
The former president is alleged to have received 783 suspicious payments to the tune of R1.2 million from French arms manufacturer Thales, through his disgraced former financial advisor Shabir Shaik.
The payments are alleged to be bribes, in exchange for protecting Thales from an investigation into how it scored the contract.
Zuma has denied the allegations and claims they are politically motivated.
#13686414 at 2021-05-17 20:24:34 (UTC+1)
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Notables are NOT Endorsements
#5c
>>13347615 Nothing To See Here: Microsoft Files Patent To Mine Cryptos Using Human Brain Activity
>>13353282, >>13353287 Between Refuge and Radicalisation (Part 1 & 2)
>>13357228 Social Entrepreneurship seems to be another form of socialism
>>13357233 Kassoum Coulibaly Biography
>>13357237 How Western Mali could become a gold mine for terrorists
>>13359044 Russia's Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US
>>13359222 THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 11 (link to bitchute)
>>13370845 Dlamini-Zuma - and the UN - may soon 'take control' of your municipality
>>13377546 1,000 'woke' companies unite against election-integrity laws!
>>13402414 13-years on, Judge President Hlophe found guilty of gross misconduct" [regarding Jacob Zuma case]
>>13404630, >>13404634 Foreigners fall prey to spies' scam (Part 1 & 2)
>>13404641 This Story Of A CIA-Backed Somalia Anti-Piracy Squad Is Almost Unbelievable
>>13423297 Huge 'Bird Flu' outbreak puts Ekurhuleni farm under quarantine
>>13430810 SA's latest dam levels: Three provinces at 100% - with one in 'dire straits
>>13438641 Ugandans criticize oil pipeline deal with Tanzania and Total
>>13472631 City of Cape Town approve R4 billion Amazon headquarter development
>>13472672 Partnership with NW Gov will take Sun City Resort 'to greater heights
>>13478643 The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Announce Plans for Initial Public Offering for Bottler
>>13485817, >>13485819 How SA food giants shape public health policy in their favour (Parts 1&2)
>>13496326 Corruption SIU Latest: JSE firm [EOH] reported incident to 'pay back the money
>>13496362 AfriForum questions Sanral's use of facial recognition tech
>>13518904 Arthur Fraser mini-bun
>>13518911 EFF Bun, Heritage Fund Bun
>>13518914 Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun, Mozambique Bun
>>13518916 Service Delivery and Infrastucture Bun, South Africa and Seychelles mini-bun
>>13523805 Zulu Nation faces more unrest as Queen Mantfombi 'admitted to hospital
>>13552039, >>13552050, >>13552055, >>13552071 Hidden Facts: Gordhan, Ramaphosa, Madonsela - Wolves in Sheep Clothes (Parts 1-4)
>>13570029 Pravin Gordhan, Denel accused of 'committing war crimes' - here's why
>>13612165 Poor management: Life-threatening water crisis at Steve Biko Academic Hospital
>>13629804 SA told to 'shutdown its Israel Embassy' - as clashes with Palestinians continue
>>13636414, >>13636420, >>13636426, >>13636432 Could America Become Like South Africa?" (Parts 1-4)
>>13685629 President Duduzane? Zuma Jnr confirms he WILL run for the top job
>>13686290 Updated ANC Bun
>>13686312 Updated Covid Bun
>>13686327 Updated Heritage Fund Bun
>>13686335 Updated Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun
>>13686348 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun Part One
>>13686359 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun Part Two
>>13686402 Updated Chris Hani Bun
#13686402 at 2021-05-17 20:23:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Maybe this time:
Updated Chris Hani Bun
>>13398212 Remembering Chris Hani 28 years after his assassination
>>13398217 Hani killing was 'a double conspiracy
>>13398224 Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani (video)
>>13402317 We continue to remember Chris Hani as today marks 28 years after his assassination
>>13403652 Double agent' with four aliases gets R5m" - Mohammed Amin Laher
>>13403673 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 1)
>>13403686 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 2)
>>13403706 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 3)
>>13403716 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 5)
>>13403727 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 1)
>>13403734 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 2)
>>13403762 Hani's flight of coincidence
>>13525727, >>13525732 Sexwale, Gungubele: Chris Hani's purpose was to free SA's from apartheid (video)
>>13525747 Sexwale urges Hani killers to come clean (video)
>>13525757, >>13525777, >>13525791 The [Clive] Derby-Lewis disclosure (Parts 1-3, videos)
>>13525818, >>13525827 "Chris Hani - and my part in South Africa's downfall" (Part 1 & 2)
>>13525852 "Hani was reckless about safety" - Sexwale mentioned
>>13525878 Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal
>>13525910 Hani not yet laid to rest
#13686384 at 2021-05-17 20:21:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Let's see if this is right:
Updated Chris Hani Bun
>>13398212 Remembering Chris Hani 28 years after his assassination
>>13398217 Hani killing was 'a double conspiracy
>>13398224 Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani (video)
>>13402317 We continue to remember Chris Hani as today marks 28 years after his assassination
>>13403652 Double agent' with four aliases gets R5m" - Mohammed Amin Laher
>>13403673 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 1)
>>13403686 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 2)
>>13403706 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 3)
>>13403716 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 5)
>>13403727 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 1)
>>13403734 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 2)
>>13403762 Hani's flight of coincidence
>>13525727, >>13525732 Sexwale, Gungubele: Chris Hani's purpose was to free SA's from apartheid (video)
>>13525747 Sexwale urges Hani killers to come clean (video)
>>13525757, >>13525777, >>13525791 The [Clive] Derby-Lewis disclosure (Parts 1-3, videos)
>>1352818, >>13528287 "Chris Hani - and my part in South Africa's downfall" (Part 1 & 2)
>>1352852 "Hani was reckless about safety" - Sexwale mentioned
>>1352878 Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal
>>13525910 Hani not yet laid to rest
#13686300 at 2021-05-17 20:13:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Updated Chris Hani Bun
>>13398212 Remembering Chris Hani 28 years after his assassination
>>13398217 Hani killing was 'a double conspiracy
>>13398224 Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani (video)
>>13402317 We continue to remember Chris Hani as today marks 28 years after his assassination
>>13403652 Double agent' with four aliases gets R5m" - Mohammed Amin Laher
>>13403673 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 1)
>>13403686 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 2)
>>13403706 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 3)
>>13403716 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 5)
>>13403727 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 1)
>>13403734 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 2)
>>13403762 Hani's flight of coincidence
>>1352727, >>13525732 Sexwale, Gungubele: Chris Hani's purpose was to free SA's from apartheid (video)
>>1352747 Sexwale urges Hani killers to come clean (video)
>>1352757, >>1352777, >>1352791 The [Clive] Derby-Lewis disclosure (Parts 1-3, videos)
>>1352818, >>13528287 "Chris Hani - and my part in South Africa's downfall" (Part 1 & 2)
>>1352852 "Hani was reckless about safety" - Sexwale mentioned
>>1352878 Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal
>>13525910 Hani not yet laid to rest
#13686290 at 2021-05-17 20:12:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Updated ANC Bun
>>13343746 ANC told to take action against 'growing ISIS threat' in South Africa"
>>13348332 President Cyril Ramaphosa remember the life of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (video)
>>13359583,>>13359589 ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa (part 1 & 2)
>>13370984 Jacob Zuma digs up the past, takes aim at ANC for his 'removal'
>>13371778, >>13371795 ANC Member Jeremy Vearey
>>13378588 ANC pays tribute to Solomon Mahlangu (video)
>>13378714 ANC branches must defend me: Magashule (video)
>>13385926 "Tainted Heroes Full Documentary" - ANC History (video)
>>13390288 SCANDAL: [B]Oksburg East train station on East Rand reflects the legacy of the ANC in South Africa (video)
>>13390568 ANC Youth League to make a comeback, task team appointed" after being dissolved in 2019
>>13398067 Sorry you see me that way' - secret clip of Ramaphosa, Zuma chat leaked
>>13415999 Thuthukile Zuma: Former President's Daughter to Lead ANCYL Fundraising
>>13423596 Ace Magashule broadens scope of ANC members who must step aside
>>13447088 Nearly 35% of SA's senior government officials not qualified for their job
>>13447555 Mbalula warns Magashule-supporting Boss 'You're inviting trouble (video)
>>13455637 Former President Zuma has accused some officials in the ANC Top Six of a plot against him (video)
>>13455644 ANC wants to ban smartphones and gadgets from meetings
>>13469614 Heritage Fund | Sexwale: Money for poor stolen (video)
>>13469631 Affidavit - State Capture by SARB & Banks - Theft of Gold
>>13478503 MK military veteran protest blocks N2 and N3
>>13478682 ANC's expensive obsession with Cuban 'expertise' is unaffordable and unacceptable
>>13481104 ANC wants taxpayers to fund vaccine compensation claims" and shooting footage of Lindani Myeni (video)
>>13489090 White Spiritual Boy scam and Tokyo Sexwale (with video)
>>13495639 ANC Youth League calls for justice at US Embassy concerning Lindani's death (video)
>>13496340 Cuban engineers scandal: Sisulu given list of 120 SA workers 'who can do the same job
>>13581736 Cyril Ramaphosa's farm gets special treatment (video)
>>13588442 Ace Magashule has been suspended by the ANC
>>13590004 Mafube municipality: Free State government gives up
>>13629105 Ace Magashule told to apologise for 'suspending' Ramaphosa or else (video)
>>13650920 ANC's financial woes continue (video)
>>13669250 ANC vs ANC: Ramaphosa is behind my purge, Magashule says (video)
>>13685601 Ace Magashule addresses Zuma supporters (video)
>>13685614 Zuma supporters want to 'take ANC back (video)
#13685614 at 2021-05-17 18:58:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Zuma supporters want to 'take ANC back'"- https://youtu.be/zl6AYr-Dn28
"There's been no shortage of support for former president Jacob Zuma during his past court appearances. Family, military veterans, youth formations and even radical economic transformation groups, which are not recognised by the ANC. eNCA reporter Dasen Thathiah has the details."
#13685601 at 2021-05-17 18:56:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Ace Magashule addresses Zuma supporters"- https://youtu.be/4goOpYaTa4I
"Suspended ANC secretary-general, Ace Magashule, addresses a crowd of former president Jacob Zuma's supporters outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Zuma's corruption trial has been postponed to 26 May 2021."
"ANC brings out big guns to oppose Ace Magashule suspension court bid" - https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/anc-brings-out-big-guns-to-oppose-ace-magashule-suspension-court-bid-c0469956-da22-403a-b41c-5a615da95c35
The ANC has formally decided to oppose the party's suspended secretary-general, Ace Magashule's court bid to have his suspension overturned.
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe confirmed in a statement on Monday afternoon that ANC officials had met and had decided to oppose the application.
The party has assembled a formidable legal team that includes an attorney, three senior counsels - that includes top advocates Wim Trengrove and Fana Nalane - and one junior counsel.
"The ANC has appointed Ledwaba Mazwai Attorneys as instructing attorneys supported by the following three senior counsels and 1 junior counsel, respectively: advocate Wim Trengrove SC, advocate Ngwako Maenetje SC, advocate Fana Nalane SC and advocate Buhle Lekokotla," Mabe said in statement.
Independent Media had reported earlier on Monday that it had seen a court filing from ANC officials indicating the party's move to oppose the application.
In court papers signed and dated on Friday last week on behalf of Ramaphosa, Duarte and the ANC stated: "Be please to take notice (sic) that the first, second and third respondents intend to oppose the application and hereby enter its appearance to oppose." The papers were also addressed to Eric Mabuza, of Mabuza Attorneys, which is representing Magashule.
Magashule has approached the court to challenge not only his suspension but the ANC's step-aside resolution.
According to court papers, the matter will be heard on June 1, 2021, at 10am.
In his application, Magashule wants the court to rule that: "The ANC step aside rule 25.70 of the ANC constitution (is) unlawful, unconstitutional, invalid and null. The suspension letter issued by ANC Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte suspending him to be null/void, the suspension by Magashule to be valid and effective until lawfully nullified and the instruction announced by Ramaphosa and the ANC for Magashule to apologize for issuing the suspension letter to Ramaphosa to be unlawful."
#13668258 at 2021-05-15 15:09:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"SSA used by politically connected: Dintwe" - https://youtu.be/_zkVAwws5Jc
"Looting at intelligence agencies flourished while politicians failed their oversight role" - State Capture Part 1dated 13 May 2021 at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-05-13-looting-at-intelligence-agencies-flourished-while-politicians-failed-their-oversight-role/
Members of intelligence agencies must have felt invincible. Operatives looted cash meant for covert operations and thwarted investigations by over-classifying documents. Politicians knew what was happening but appeared more concerned with targeting the intelligence watchdog than improving accountability.
One of the most startling aspects of Inspector-General for Intelligence Dr Setlhomamaru Dintwe's testimony at the Zondo Commission is that for some MPs, the revelations wouldn't have been startling at all.
Dintwe, who testified on Wednesday, has been in the job for four years and repeatedly informed Parliament's 11-member Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI) that members of the State Security Agency (SSA) and Crime Intelligence were brazenly stealing cash designated for covert operations. They either kept it for themselves, used it to fund factions of the ANC and even funded parallel intelligence operations.
Legitimate intelligence services require cash. Agents use it for covert ops to pay sources and for services that require a level of secrecy. SSA and Crime Intelligence members abused that system because, well, they knew they could get away with it.
Zondo has already heard evidence about how hundreds of millions of rands were allegedly siphoned from the SSA to fund projects to benefit former president Jacob Zuma.
"What I can confirm is that money has been stolen, and we're talking lots and lots of money, taken with suitcases, others being lost, and people never really held accountable for that money," Dintwe told Zondo on Wednesday.
He described a common scenario. Senior officials who are not active in operations, a chief financial officer, for example, would send a junior agent, "the runner", who can access funds for sources, to collect large amounts of cash.
The CFO would instruct the agent to claim that the money is for a source and then hand it over to his boss, without ever knowing if there was a source or what happened to the cash. In his example, Dintwe said both the runner and CFO knew their actions were corrupt.
"Our findings are this money has been used for other things that in fact could affect our national security adversely," said Dintwe.
While much of the testimony related to intelligence agencies has focused on funds siphoned off to support Zuma's faction of the ANC, Dintwe said the loot was used to fund various factions of the ANC and fuel political tensions.
"So, it's like different people may have taken moneys to finance different factions?" asked Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.
"That is correct, chairperson."
One SSA member, a protector for a political principal, claimed R9-million for international travel over three years while evidence showed the principal never travelled to the claimed destinations. In another transaction, an agent took ?200,000 in cash to pay a source. The supposed source would sign to say they'd received the payment, but that signature served as the only accounting of how the money was used.
"There is just a signature, no letterhead, no nothing and we are talking huge amounts of money," said Dintwe.
#13552039 at 2021-04-30 20:54:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Hidden Facts: Gordhan, Ramaphosa, Madonsela - Wolves in Sheep Clothes" - Part 1dated 19/10/2016 at https://www.libertyfighters.co.za/tag/tito-maleka/
Everyone in South Africa is still dumbstruck over the bombshell our Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, released this past weekend (Sunday, 16 October 2016) regarding the suspicious R6.8 Billion transactions of the Gupta Family which have lead to several banks closing this family's accounts.
I can almost see how many of us are going to make a bowl of popcorn and sit back in front of our televisions this week to see how this saga is going to unfold where many are very curious to see whether President Jacob Zuma is at last going to enjoy only few more days in our highest office.
Although the Liberty Fighters Movement (LFM) is also not a great supporter of Zuma as a leader ,it has noticed something else unfold behind the scenes which cannot be good for the people of our country. LFM is concerned about the institution involved in this saga which is not openly mentioned - the SA Reserve Bank (SARB).
LFM is also really concerned that our Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, suddenly came out of the closet in support of Gordhan which indicates that Ramaphosa is doing kite flying between the two clearly visible factions within the African National Congress (ANC). The only two reasons for this are firstly for power and secondly for his well-known love for money which made him one of the 100 top most influential people in the world according to the Forbes Magazine a few years ago as well as one of only 1812 American Dollar Billionaires in the entire world according to this same famous magazine's latest.
Visualise this for a second... Ramaphosa was a dedicated communist before the 1994 democratic election and within a few years he became a multi-millionaire and today he is a "Super Capitalist".
Uninformed people will immediately say that it's typically communism, but the fact is that Ramaphosa is clearly a capitalist and was never a communist at all. He was therefore clearly a wolf in sheep clothes for those communists in our country who supported him. For those capitalists amongst us it also plainly means that Ramaphosa is a deceiver and cannot be trusted at all.
LMF National Representative, Reyno De Beer, said that Ramaphosa clearly indicated early 2000's that "he had [has] no interest to return to politics", but was one of the key culprits during 2008 to oust our previous President, Thabo Mbeki, when he sided then with the Zuma faction. Now suddenly 8 years thereafter, he returns back to the Mbeki camp which is simply opportunistic proving that Ramaphosa have absolutely no allegiance to anyone but to himself.
"Even if I don't like Zuma as a leader, it is evident from history that everyone near Zuma regarded him as a good friend and a dedicated freedom fighter and man of principle" says De Beer.
For some obscure reason two of his "dearest friends" namely Julius Malema and Ramaphosa have left the Zuma camp the one starting his own political party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) to radically resist Zuma and the other coming in line probably as the best candidate to succeed Zuma as president after he clearly said 15 years ago that he has no interest to return to politics.
De Beer stipulated that "How would it be possible for not even one out of 700 fraud and corruption charges against Zuma not to lead to a conviction, but honestly I find it extremely difficult to believe that even our media punch bag Zuma can be that stupid to make the same mistakes over and over again and then be so arrogant to refuse to do the dignified thing to resign from office."
"I am really starting to wonder whether Zuma is not actually the 'innocent' one who is protecting us which would justify his actions not to refuse to barge under all the scandals directly targeting him, even if it sounds totally ridiculous to most people now. Let me explain the reason for my madness" Said De Beer in a report.
#13542613 at 2021-04-29 18:07:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"'We got it wrong, we fell short': Ramaphosa on ANC's state capture failures"- State Capturedated 28-04-2021 at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/we-got-it-wrong-we-fell-short-ramaphosa-on-ancs-state-capture-failures/
President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the Zondo Commission that the ANC 'made many mistakes' at the height of the state capture era.
Cyril Ramaphosa is not Jacob Zuma, and Jacob Zuma is not Cyril Ramaphosa. The vast differences in their approach to the State Capture Inquiry prove just how 'opposite' these two ANC leaders really are. Indeed, the current president has just done something that Msholozi has refused to do - he has admitted that the ruling party was 'in the wrong'.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA HOLDS HIS HANDS UP
The frank admission is nothing particularly new to us as citizens, but it still marks a tonal shift between former heads of state. Ramaphosa has shown a degree of contriteness - which is arguably the bare minimum one would expect from the leader of a party that has been undeniably plagued by corruption.
While delivering his open statement, President Ramaphosa declared that the ANC 'did not do enough' to prevent state capture from happening. He lamented that one of the biggest corruption scandals in living memory 'happened on the party's watch', but he even went one step further.
STATE CAPTURE INQUIRY TOLD THAT ANC 'GOT IT WRONG'
Cyril made it clear that the ANC 'had fallen short' in the eyes of voters, admitting to a series of mistakes that came to define the state capture era. The 68-year-old is now responding to questions in regards to the deployment committees - which helped facilitate cronyism and cadre deployment - as DCJ Zondo kicks off an official line of questioning.
"State capture took place under our watch. The vast majority of ANC leaders, cadres, and members are vehemently opposed to corruption in all its manifestations. But we acknowledge that the organisation could, and should, have done more to prevent the abuse of power and the misappropriation of resources that defined the era of state capture."
"Particularly during the period under review by this Commission, the ANC does admit that it made mistakes as it sought to execute the mandate it was given by the voters. It had shortcomings in living up to the expectations of the people of South Africa in relation to enforcing accountability - and engendering a culture of effective consequence management."
#13542562 at 2021-04-29 17:59:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Ramaphosa says 'an ex-president' objected to his State Capture Inquiry appearance"dated 28-04-2021 at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/cyril-ramaphosa-opening-statement-state-capture-inquiry-what-president-Zuma/
Cyril Ramaphosa's first few words with the State Capture Inquiry could be some of the most revealing: That was quite an opening statement…
Cyril Ramaphosa has shared an opening statement with the State Capture Inquiry, and his first port of call was to throw shade at an unnamed former president - but you can perhaps guess who that is...
'ONE FORMER PRESIDENT OBJECTED TO MY STATE CAPTURE INQUIRY APPEARANCE' - CYRIL RAMAPHOSA
The 68-year-old, appearing at the Zondo Commission for the very first time, made it clear that he was happy to assist the panel when it comes to shedding more light on state capture. This is a marked difference from the last president who took to the hot-seat, and Jacob Zuma faces a possible jail sentence for skipping proceedings. Ramaphosa started by saying:
"I am here to assist the Zondo Commission. When I confirmed I was appearing, I spoke to a colleague of mine - a former head of state. His reaction was 'ah, how can you do that?' - I told them that THIS is how democracy works. None of us should shy away from appearing at these Commissions. I am here in my capacity as the ANC leader."
"The State Capture Inquiry is an instrument to understand the nature and extent of state capture and to hold those responsible to account, and to take the necessary measures to ensure these events never happen again in South Africa. State capture has eroded the values of our Constitution, and if allowed to continue, it would threaten our entire future."
'CORRUPTION NOT A UNIQUE FACTOR TO SOUTH AFRICA', ZONDO COMMISSION TOLD
However, Ramaphosa is still trying to implement some form of damage control. Cyril cannot openly admit his party is dodgy, and he spent most of Wednesday trying to find the right balance - and pointed to previous 'corrupt regimes':
"The ANC knew the State Capture Inquiry would cause us great pain in the public eye. But the party believes that all members must assist the Inquiry. I'm not here to make excuses, nor will I defend the indefensible. Corruption is not a new phenomenon in South Africa - apartheid was both morally and financially corrupt."
"We recognise that some party members have been complicit in corruption. We have articulated these issues openly and publicly. But recognising these facts doesn't make the ANC uniquely corrupt. Various other organisations also have to confront this issue. South Africa is also not the only country in the world that has to deal with corruption."
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA REVISITS 'FIRST ALLEGATION' OF STATE CAPTURE
The President also confirmed what he believed was the first muttering of 'state capture'. That came way back in 2011, when Minister Fikile Mbalula raised some concerns about the influence of the Gupta brothers.
"It is worth mentioning that one of the earliest claims of state capture involving the Guptas came from a statement shared by Fikile Mbalula in 2011. However, this complaint was not taken any further by the ANC. At the time, no specific concerns about the 'capture of our state' were. But, over time, these allegations piled up."
"As the volume of evidence mounted, the issue of state capture became a focal point of discussion. Those guilty of corruption seek to keep their actions hidden. In the face of vehement denials, it is difficult to confront these figures."
#13525878 at 2021-04-27 19:37:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Chris Hani murdered because he was an obstacle to the arms deal"dated 8 October 2014 at https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2014-10-08-chris-hani-murdered-because-he-was-an-obstacle-to-the-arms-deal/
Former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani was allegedly assassinated for fear he would expose former Defence Minister Joe Modise's involvement in the multi-million rand arms deal, said arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne at the Seriti Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday.
Crawford-Browne has made a number of allegations in his testimony at the inquiry established to investigate allegations of fraud and corruption in the R70 billion arms deal in 1999.
Crawford-Browne testified that there were allegations that when Hani was assassinated in 1993, he was on the verge of exposing former defence minister Joe Modise's involvement in, and corruption relating to, the arms deal.
"It has been alleged that Mr Janusz Walus was ultimately employed by the [British arms manufacturer] BAE, perhaps by way of John Bredenkamp, the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean who was the second-largest recipient of those BAE bribes," he told the inquiry.
He said blaming Clive Derby-Lewis for Hani's murder was merely a red herring to blame white right-wing elements, diverting attention from the British arms industry.
Derby-Lewis was convicted of conspiring to kill SA Communist Party general secretary Chris Hani by providing the gun Polish immigrant Walus used to kill him in the driveway of his home in Boksburg, on the East Rand, on April 10, 1993.
The 78-year-old former Conservative Party MP, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, has served more than 20 years of his sentence.
Derby-Lewis was initially sentenced to death, which was commuted to life imprisonment when the death penalty was abolished in 1995. He has been repeatedly denied parole.
Modise was poisoned, the commission also heard.
"I was told by Bheki Jacobs six weeks before Mr Modise died that he was being poisoned, and that his death would be ascribed to cancer," arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne told the inquiry's hearings in Pretoria.
"Mr Modise was known to have many enemies and it is also known there was considerable animosity between him and Mr Chris Hani dating from their times in exile."
Bheki Jacobs, also known as Uranin Vladimir, Hassan Solomon, and Hassan Osman, died at his mother's home in 2008 after a six-month battle with cancer.
Crawford-Browne said Jacobs was an African National Congress functionary, trained in the Soviet Union as an intelligence operative.
In 2003, Jacobs was arrested, and later exonerated, for allegedly plotting an assassination. The charge of conspiring to commit murder was watered down and finally dropped.
At the time, Jacobs reportedly believed his one-time comrade and later nemesis, Mo Shaik, to be behind his surprise arrest. They had both been involved in the ANC's intelligence structures in the early 1980s.
On Wednesday, Crawford-Browne said Jacobs told him that an investigating team's report into the arms deal was being doctored pending Modise's death "so that dead men can tell no tales".
"I have now consequently reported the allegations of poisoning to the deputy commissioner of police in the Western Cape, but no action was taken," he said.
The commission was appointed by President Jacob Zuma three years ago to investigate alleged corruption in the arms procurement deal.
The government acquired, among other hardware, 26 Gripen fighter aircraft and 24 Hawk lead-in fighter trainer aircraft for the air force, and frigates and submarines for the navy.
#13525713 at 2021-04-27 19:12:32 (UTC+1)
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"Tokyo Sexwale on the day #ChrisHani was assassinated." dated Apr 10, 2013, at https://youtu.be/mcOjx45FYLI.
"ANC veteran and Chris Hani's friend, Tokyo Sexwale, was first on the scene of the SACP leader's assassination. Here is what he told the media on 10 April 1993."
"TOKYO SEXWALE: Meet The Billionaire Diamond Magnate Who Went To Jail With Nelson Mandela"dated Jul 9, 2013, at https://www.businessinsider.com/the-fabulous-life-of-tokyo-sexwale-2013-7?op=1&r=US&IR=T
Until today, billionaire South African Tokyo Sexwale (prounced "seh-wa-le," unfortunately) was the country's housing minister.
But Jacob Zuma's leadership shake-up saw Sexwale - the major anti-apartheid crusader and diamond mogul considered to be a political challenger to the president - removed from the cabinet.
Sexwale has a crazy life story to go with that name (the "Tokyo" moniker derives from his childhood love of karate).
In the late 1970s, he was charged with terrorism and conspiracy and sent to Robben Island where he met fellow political prisoner Nelson Mandela, who had been sent there 12 years prior.
Sexwale was released in 1990, and like something out a movie, he ended up marrying Judy van Vuuren, the paralegal that represented him while he was in prison.
When he came to power in 1994, Mandela named Sexwale premier of Gauteng province, the region home to both Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Sexwale would eventually leave politics for business, becoming a major oil and diamond mining magnate, though his name was floated as a possible successor to Mandela. That honor would go to Thabo Mbeki. In 2007, Sexwale reportedly planned to challenge Mbeki, but never did.
Things would also turn sour for Sexwale's marriage, scandalizing South Africa with a bitter divorce in February. It got ugly. Sexwale accused his wife of emailing out illegal hardcore pornography while she accused him of shielding his finances.
Those finances are impressive. Sexwale made an absolute fortune from his company, which was once lauded by fellow diamond tycoon Harry Oppenheimer. In 2009, Sexwale declared his wealth to be approximately $2 billion rand (nearly $200 million).
The divorce also helped shine some light on all of Sexwale's toys too: the requisite yacht, vineyards, Learjet, and even a $70 million island.
In 2009, Zuma appointed Sexwale as Minister of Human Settlements, but it was no secret that Sexwale still had presidential aspirations.
Now out of power, those ambitions will have to wait. At least this is his new girlfriend.
#13518950 at 2021-04-26 21:20:43 (UTC+1)
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@ 300
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#5b
>>13347615 Nothing To See Here: Microsoft Files Patent To Mine Cryptos Using Human Brain Activity
>>13353282, >>13353287 Between Refuge and Radicalisation (Part 1 & 2)
>>13357228 Social Entrepreneurship seems to be another form of socialism
>>13357233 Kassoum Coulibaly Biography
>>13357237 How Western Mali could become a gold mine for terrorists
>>13359044 Russia's Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US
>>13359222 THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 11 (link to bitchute)
>>13370845 Dlamini-Zuma - and the UN - may soon 'take control' of your municipality
>>13377546 1,000 'woke' companies unite against election-integrity laws!
>>13402414 13-years on, Judge President Hlophe found guilty of gross misconduct" [regarding Jacob Zuma case]
>>13404630, >>13404634 Foreigners fall prey to spies' scam (Part 1 & 2)
>>13404641 This Story Of A CIA-Backed Somalia Anti-Piracy Squad Is Almost Unbelievable
>>13423297 Huge 'Bird Flu' outbreak puts Ekurhuleni farm under quarantine
>>13430810 SA's latest dam levels: Three provinces at 100% - with one in 'dire straits
>>13438641 Ugandans criticize oil pipeline deal with Tanzania and Total
>>13472631 City of Cape Town approve R4 billion Amazon headquarter development
>>13472672 Partnership with NW Gov will take Sun City Resort 'to greater heights
>>13478643 The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Beverages Africa Announce Plans for Initial Public Offering for Bottler
>>13485817, >>13485819 How SA food giants shape public health policy in their favour (Parts 1&2)
>>13496326 Corruption SIU Latest: JSE firm [EOH] reported incident to 'pay back the money
>>13496362 AfriForum questions Sanral's use of facial recognition tech
>>13518902 ANC Bun
>>13518904 Arthur Fraser mini-bun, Chris Hani Bun
>>13518907 Covid Bun
>>13518911 EFF Bun, Heritage Fund Bun
>>13518914 Mkhondo (Piet Retief) Bun, Mozambique Bun
>>13518916 Service Delvery and Infrasturcture Bun, South Africa and Seychelles mini-bun
>>13518919 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun
>>13518922 State Capture Inquiry Bun
#13518922 at 2021-04-26 21:15:42 (UTC+1)
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State Capture Inquiry Bun
>>13396852 State Capture Inquiry | Karyn Maughn on David Mahlobo's testimony (video)
>>13417550 Norma Mngoma tells all | Part 1 (video)
>>13417555 Norma Mngoma tells all | Part 2 (video)
>>13417559 Norma Mngoma tells all | Part 3 (video)
>>13417565 Malusi Gigaba wants Norma testimony kept private (video)
>>13417575 Norma Mngoma withdraws from Zondo Commission (video)
>>13423293 Jessie Duarte slams Zondo, backs Zuma in explosive leaked clip
>>13423383 Ramaphosa's appearance at Zondo commission changed to later date
>>13424499 Gwede Mantashe explains cadre deployment to Zondo commission
>>13440921 Former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana testifies at Zondo Commission (video)
>>13447629 LIAR! Gwede lies to the Zondo commission while the DA has credential struggles
>>13455847 State Capture Inquiry offices ROBBED - vital documents 'could be missing' (video)
>>13460711 Could motive for break-in be sinister? (video)
>>13460827 The Commission will not be intimidated following break-in: Justice Zondo (video)
>>13472789 State Capture Inquiry | Three ministers didn't want me to testify: Dintwe (video)
>>13478508 Zuma's legal team quits, files notice of withdrawal with court (video)
>>13486124, >>13486136, >>13486144 Break-in at offices of Zondo Commission is sign of panic (Part 1-3)
>>13494074 'Report' Jacob Zuma used to axe Gordhan & Jonas may not exist"
>>13494094 Dintwe: Deep divisions in state security (video)
#13518904 at 2021-04-26 21:13:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
Arthur Fraser mini-bun
>>13486152 Who is Arthur Fraser? Five things to know about a "very powerful" man Part 1 (video)
>>13486159 Who is Arthur Fraser? Five things to know about a "very powerful" man Part 2
>>13486176 Who is Arthur Fraser? Five things to know about a "very powerful" man Part 3
Chris Hani Bun
>>13398212 Remembering Chris Hani 28 years after his assassination
>>13398217 Hani killing was 'a double conspiracy
>>13398224 Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani (video)
>>13402317 We continue to remember Chris Hani as today marks 28 years after his assassination
>>13403652 Double agent' with four aliases gets R5m" - Mohammed Amin Laher
>>13403673 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 1)
>>13403686 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 2)
>>13403706 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 3)
>>13403716 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 5)
>>13403727 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 1)
>>13403734 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 2)
>>13403762 Hani's flight of coincidence
#13518902 at 2021-04-26 21:13:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
ANC Bun
>>13343746 ANC told to take action against 'growing ISIS threat' in South Africa"
>>13348332 President Cyril Ramaphosa remember the life of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (video)
>>13359583,>>13359589 ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa (part 1 & 2)
>>13370984 Jacob Zuma digs up the past, takes aim at ANC for his 'removal'
>>13371778, >>13371795 ANC Member Jeremy Vearey
>>13378588 ANC pays tribute to Solomon Mahlangu (video)
>>13378714 ANC branches must defend me: Magashule (video)
>>13385926 "Tainted Heroes Full Documentary" - ANC History (video)
>>13390288 SCANDAL: [B]Oksburg East train station on East Rand reflects the legacy of the ANC in South Africa (video)
>>13390568 ANC Youth League to make a comeback, task team appointed" after being dissolved in 2019
>>13398067 Sorry you see me that way' - secret clip of Ramaphosa, Zuma chat leaked
>>13415999 Thuthukile Zuma: Former President's Daughter to Lead ANCYL Fundraising
>>13423596 Ace Magashule broadens scope of ANC members who must step aside
>>13447088 Nearly 35% of SA's senior government officials not qualified for their job
>>13447555 Mbalula warns Magashule-supporting Boss 'You're inviting trouble (video)
>>13455637 Former President Zuma has accused some officials in the ANC Top Six of a plot against him (video)
>>13455644 ANC wants to ban smartphones and gadgets from meetings
>>13469614 Heritage Fund | Sexwale: Money for poor stolen (video)
>>13469631 Affidavit - State Capture by SARB & Banks - Theft of Gold
>>13478503 MK military veteran protest blocks N2 and N3
>>13478682 ANC's expensive obsession with Cuban 'expertise' is unaffordable and unacceptable
>>13481104 ANC wants taxpayers to fund vaccine compensation claims" and shooting footage of Lindani Myeni (video)
>>13489090 White Spiritual Boy scam and Tokyo Sexwale (with video)
>>13495639 ANC Youth League calls for justice at US Embassy concerning Lindani's death (video)
>>13496340 Cuban engineers scandal: Sisulu given list of 120 SA workers 'who can do the same job
#13494074 at 2021-04-23 12:58:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"'Report' Jacob Zuma used to axe Gordhan & Jonas may not exist" | State Capture- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/Jacob-Zuma-report-gordhan-jonas-22-april/
The inspector-general of intelligence (IGI) Isaac Dintwe has told the State Capture Commission that Jacob Zuma said he'd give clarity, at the right time
Remember the "intelligence report" which formed the basis of former president Jacob Zuma firing then finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, in March 2017, during one of his most memorable cabinet reshuffles? Well, it may not exist after all as three years later, the veracity of the report and its origin remain a mystery.
The Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) Isaac Dintwe, took the stand at the State Capture Commission on Wednesday evening, 21 April 2021.
Dintwe had been roped in to look into the source and authenticity of the report after several complaints were laid with him, including by the Democratic Alliance (DA). As part of his work, he then met with Zuma, who then suggested there may not even be such a report.
"He (Zuma) said that he is hearing people talking about an intelligence report and that that report may be none-existent because as a president sometimes gets verbal briefings," Dintwe told the commission's chairperson, Deputy Chief Justice (DCJ) Raymond Zondo.
Zuma FAILED TO PRODUCE THE 'INTELLIGENCE REPORT'
Dintwe said Jacob Zuma appeared to be the only in possession of the alleged report. He said he requested the report from Zuma, but all the then president told him was that he would give clarity on the matter, when the time is right.
Eventually, Dintwe nor Zuma for that matter, could prove the veracity of the alleged report.
"My finding was that I could not reach a finding because I did not have any document that could verify its authenticity and its origin"
Inspector-General of Intelligence (IGI) Isaac Dintwe
"The modus operandi is that they besmirch you, you suffer the consequences and then there is nothing that actually implicates. They even go to the extent of saying it was a wrong alarm bell but by that time, for instance, the two people were out of their positions."
In March 2017, Zuma recalled Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas from their investment road trips in London and New York respectively, ahead of the reshuffle. At the time, the Presidency, which confirmed they would be returning to South Africa, did not give reasons.
It would then be learnt that Zuma presented members of the ANC top six (Cyril Ramaphosa, Jessie Duarte, Zweli Mkhize, Gwede Mantashe and Baleka Mbete) with the intelligence report.
The decision to fire Gordhan and Jonas, based on that report, didn't sit well with the top six, most notably Mantashe and Ramaphosa.
#13486152 at 2021-04-22 13:40:20 (UTC+1)
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>>13486144
"So who is Arthur Fraser?" dated Apr 20, 2018, at https://youtu.be/9mfYeFGFK0w
"Who is Arthur Fraser? Five things to know about a "very powerful" man" - Part 1dated 17 April 2018 at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/who-is-arthur-fraser-five-facts-ssa/
A one-man national security operation. No, really…
Arthur Fraser had his wings clipped by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday. The State Security Agency (SSA) veteran has now founded himself busted down to Correctional Services, following some quite extraordinary allegations.
Fraser is accused of undermining the office of Setlhomamaru Dintwe. The Inspector General of Intelligence says that the spy boss tried to revoke his security clearance. Considering that Dintwe is the man responsible for holding Fraser to account, this isn't something to be taken lightly.
But what else do we know about Arthur Fraser? He's built a fearsome reputation as an SSA chief, and certainly, this isn't the first time he's caught the public's attention.
WHO IS ARTHUR FRASER? EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW:
BELIEVED TO HAVE MASTERMINDED Zuma'S FREEDOM
Until very recently, Arthur Fraser was adept at keeping a low profile. As you'd expect from someone who makes it to the top brass of the country's spying structures.
However, he first emerged as a blip on the radar back in 2009. Leaked reports show that Fraser was hired by Thabo Mbeki to lead a team investigating the corrupt backers of Jacob Zuma's bid for the presidency.
Fraser apparently went about his business and recorded several incriminating conversations with officials looking to stop Zuma in his tracks. One of those featured Leonard McCarthy. His words regarding "the most politically damaging time" to reveal incriminating information formed the basis of JZ's spy tapes defence.
Eventually, the NPA threw out the case against Zuma due to this "inadmissible evidence". How did they get the tape? Of course, Fraser is said to have switched sides and leaked the recordings himself.
HE IS HEAVILY IMPLICATED IN THE PRESIDENTS KEEPERS
Jacques Pauw's controversial exposé of Jacob Zuma and his corrupt network features a lot of Arthur Fraser. It becomes overtly obvious that the spy chief isn't someone you should mess with and some of the interviewees talk about Fraser with genuine fear, saying he's simply "far too powerful".
#13486124 at 2021-04-22 13:35:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Strange, we've seen this thing before: Break-in at offices of Zondo Commission is sign of panic as final deadline looms"- Part 1dated 18 April 2021 at https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-18-strange-weve-seen-this-thing-before-break-in-at-offices-of-zondo-commission-is-sign-of-panic-as-final-deadline-looms/.
Mysterious and unsolved break-ins have been a hallmark of the State Capture years and the subsequent attempt at a clean-up on various fronts.
On Saturday night, intruders gained access to the Parktown, Johannesburg, offices of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry by cutting the perimeter security fence and evading security. They made off with two laptops and other items.
Hillside House, at 17 Empire Road, is a four-storey complex that rental agents describe as "very secure", with the property being "fully secured with onsite security and parking".
The thieves, however, managed to evade detection, slipping through a gap created by a severed bar on the security fence, snipping electrical wiring behind it and making their way stealthily to the third-floor offices of the commission. The burglary was only discovered on Sunday morning.
Inquiry spokesperson the Rev Mbuyiselo Stemela confirmed the break-in to the media and said police were investigating.
Dr Itumeleng Mosala, Zondo Commission secretary, speaking to SAFM on Sunday, said a bullet was recently fired at the library window of the commission's offices.
Mosala did not want to speculate whether the shooting and the break-in were linked, but it is difficult not to view the two incidents in this light.
The motive for the intrusion is clearly the theft of the laptops and what the burglar/s believe to be stored on those devices.
Mysterious and unsolved break-ins have been a hallmark of the "State Capture" years and the subsequent attempt at cleanup on various fronts.
Unsolved "professional" burglaries, include one at the offices of the Chief Justice in 2017 followed by a cyber-attack in September 2020 and the theft of computers during a burglary at the Helen Suzman Foundation offices, also in Parktown, in 2016, just days after the organisation had filed court papers calling for the suspension of then Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza.
In 2015 someone broke into the State Security Agency's Musanda Campus, Pretoria, the SA equivalent of FBI headquarters, and walked out with around R17-million in foreign currency.
Then, in 2020, someone just walked into the agency and into a safe, removing an "undisclosed" amount of cash as well as "sensitive" and classified documents that just happened to be nestling there unattended.
(On 13 March, Marianne Thamm's house was burgled too, one day after an investigation into her by Crime Intelligence was authorised, an illegal act. - Ed)
It is unlikely that the commission does not have copies of sensitive affidavits, but the brazen burglary is an indication that someone desperate is on the sniff for intel. Or otherwise, the break-in is an attempt to create fear.
Regardless, the commission has vowed to continue its work.
Attempts to discredit and disrupt the work of the Zondo commission before the compilation of the final report on 30 June have intensified as the deadline approaches.
So too have attacks on the judiciary as former president Jacob Zuma continues to defy the commission and the Constitutional Court.
On 15 April, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) was prompted to issue a media statement condemning attacks on the judiciary and the commission itself.
Testimony presented at the Zondo Commission, exposing the extent of State Capture, has been shocking and exposes the true nature and impact of widespread corruption within the State.
#13478508 at 2021-04-21 14:12:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Zuma's legal team quits, files notice of withdrawal with court"- https://youtu.be/PzwmpKYepRc
"Jacob Zuma's legal team resigns weeks before his corruption trial in May" - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/Jacob-Zumas-legal-team-resigns-mabuza-attorneys-corruption-trial-17-may-2021/
Jacob Zuma's legal representatives Mabuza Attorneys resigned on Wednesday. The former president's corruption trial starts next month.
Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, finds himself without a legal defence mere weeks before his corruption trial, which is scheduled to start on 17 May, at the Pietermaritzburg High Court, according to reports.
Zuma's legal representatives, Mabuza Attorneys submitted a notice of withdrawal as attorneys of record to the High Court of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Division in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday, 21 April, 2021.
"Be pleased to take notice that Mabuza Attorneys hereby withdraw as the attorneys of record for Accused No.1.," reads the court documents.
The first accused, according to the document in question, is Jacob Gedleyhlekisa Zuma. Attorney Eric Mabuza refused to give a reason for his decision to stop representing Zuma, according to News24.
Mabuza's withdrawal has effectively nixed Zuma's entire legal team for the forthcoming corruption trial, including advocate Muzi Sikhakhane.
Zuma's latest legal setback comes just a week after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed his appeal on Tuesday 13 April, and ruled that he is liable for his own legal fees, which amount to approximately R25 million.
Judge Aubrey Ledwaba said, it is in the public interest that charges relating to the abuse of public office, corruption and fraud are prosecuted to ensure accountability, the promotion of good governance, the protection of the rule of law and advancement of the rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights."
CORRUPTION TRIAL TO TAKE PLACE NEXT MONTH
Zuma's forthcoming corruption trial is related to an arms deal with French company Thales. The company allegedly agreed to pay the former president R500 000 per year in exchange for protection from investigations into the country's shadowy history with arms deals.
Besides the protection bribe, Zuma also faces charges related to his old buddy, former financial advisor Schabir Shaik. Zuma stands accused of receiving millions in payments and benefits from Shaik in exchange for giving his business interests a helping hand.
#13469614 at 2021-04-20 14:25:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Heritage Fund | Sexwale: Money for poor stolen"- https://youtu.be/x8Y_-LAmYT0
"Treasury and SARB dismiss Tokyo Sexwale's claims of missing billions" - https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/treasury-and-sarb-dismiss-tokyo-sexwales-claims-of-missing-billions-6aed4f0a-7000-453d-a1ed-600e9f0e5b94
Johannesburg - The National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) have dismissed claims by ANC veteran and businessman Tokyo Sexwale that he was instrumental in depositing billions of rand at the central bank to help poor university students.
Sexwale made the claims during an eNCA talk show Truth to Power hosted by JJ Tabane in which he said that he raised billions of rands and that the funds in question were channelled to the central bank in 2016.
According to Sexwale, former president Jacob Zuma and incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa were aware of the funds which he said were meant for free education of poor students.
But Treasury and the central bank have dismissed the claims.
During his interview on the news channel, Sexwale said two weeks ago they reported a case of theft to the police after funds, while under the care of the central bank, allegedly went missing.
But in a joint statement, both Treasury and the SARB said: "Allegations made by Mr Tokyo Sexwale on alleged billions that have been deposited at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) points to a common scam. Over the years, National Treasury and the SARB have received many such requests for, or promises, of billions (and now trillions) of rands or dollars, and from experience regarding these as simply scams."
They added: "Any claim that such funds are meant for deserving causes such as Covid-19 relief, social grants or grants for free education are simply empty promises, to secure the interest of the potential victim."
They also indicated that they had previously received correspondence from Sexwale and many others that alleged that billions of rands have been stolen from a fund that had been referred to as the 'White Spiritual Boy Trust' and which was set up by a foreign donor. [Someone posted an Affidavit in the first South African thread referencing 'White Spiritual Boy' concerning the theft of gold by SARB and banks]
"It is further alleged that there are trillions of dollars in the said fund and that, inter alia, a certain Mr Goodwin Erin Webb was its mandated representative in South Africa. On investigation, the SARB can confirm that it had no record of the existence of the said fund and it had advised Mr Sexwale in writing that, given the SARB's experience and knowledge of this and other similar matters, it could only conclude that the alleged fund was a scam," the statement read.
The entities said it should be noted that Sexwale was not the first prominent person acting on behalf of Mr Webb or an unknown donor, for such funds, and such requests could be traced to many years before 2016.
"The SARB can confirm that all cross-border transactions are reported to the SARB by commercial banks who are appointed as authorised dealers in foreign exchange transactions. The SARB has concluded that there is no evidence to support the existence of such funds. If Mr Sexwale believes otherwise, the onus is on him and his unknown sponsor to provide independently written proof of the existence and/or transfer of such funds, as well as certified copies of actual identification and citizenship of such 'donors', in line with the normal FICA- type anti-money laundering requirements," the statement said.
The central bank is adamant that the allegations of theft of non-existent funds have no validity.
Meanwhile, attempts to contact Sexwale to elaborate on his comments were unsuccessful as his phone rang unanswered.
#13455847 at 2021-04-18 20:35:37 (UTC+1)
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>>13455553 - Also this weekend;
"State Capture Inquiry offices burgled" - https://youtu.be/Nloj3NiUQMs
"State Capture Inquiry offices ROBBED - vital documents 'could be missing'"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/state-capture-inquiry-robbed-who-responsible-what-taken-laptops/
There could be a big story developing here: The offices of the State Capture Inquiry were burgled this weekend - and 'several laptops' are now missing.
The political conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one - and on this occasion, they may have good cause. Officials have told eNCA that the Parktown office of the State Capture Inquiry was burgled overnight, with a bundle of laptops now missing from the premises. SAPS has also failed to rule out that 'sensitive documents' were also taken.
STATE CAPTURE INQUIRY OFFICES BURGLED - BUT WHAT WAS TAKEN?
These incredible developments surfaced on Sunday morning - and we are awaiting an updated statement from both the regional police force in Gauteng and the Zondo Commission itself. There are fears that the laptops weren't the only important items nicked on Saturday night - as legal teams rush to confirm the whereabouts of high-level dockets.
ZONDO COMMISSION HIT BY THIEVES, 'POLITICAL CONSPIRACIES' SWIRL
The State Capture Inquiry, which has rattled on for almost three years, has turned up a number of trees since its inception: Although few arrests have been made, a larger number of criminal charges have been brought forward against alleged perpetrators - thanks largely due to evidence that surfaced at the Commission.
However, as the net was cast wider to the 'upper echelons' of government, DCJ Zondo and his team experienced a significant pushback. Witnesses have grown increasingly uncooperative, and former President Jacob Zuma made a mockery of the panel by refusing to attend on several different dates.
Msholozi, however, has support from his friends still inside the ANC's top brass. Jessie Duarte was heard leaping to uBaba's defence last week, criticising Raymond Zondo in the process. However, the motivation behind this robbery is yet to be established - and the obvious failure in security protocol is likely to come under scrutiny.
#13455644 at 2021-04-18 20:03:04 (UTC+1)
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"ANC wants to ban smartphones and gadgets from meetings"- https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/393807-anc-wants-to-ban-smartphones-and-gadgets-from-meetings.html
The ANC is considering drastic measures to stop damaging audio leaks from national executive committee (NEC) meetings.
These measures include returning to physical venues instead of using online platforms, and banning all electronic gadgets, including smartphones, from these venues.
The City Press reported that everyone in the meeting would be requested to leave all electronic devices at the door.
They will be patted down at the door and will also be under constant surveillance during the meeting to ensure there are no recordings.
Should a person be caught recording a meeting or leaking the discussion, there will be severe penalties.
These plans follow cases where ANC NEC members recorded online discussion and later leaked this sensitive information.
Earlier this week, ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte accused ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule's supporters of leaking NEC and Top 6 audio recordings.
One of the leaked audio clips is a discussion between the ANC's leaders meeting with former president Jacob Zuma.
In this clip Duarte could be heard saying she believes Zuma should not appear before the state capture commission and deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo.
Duarte told the SABC the audio leaks are aimed at dividing the party and drawing people into factions.
She said Magashule's supporters wanted her to be part of that faction, but that she has resisted being drawn into any faction.
Duarte believes she is now being targeted by Magashule's supporters who are behind the leaked audio recording.
The ANC is not the only organisation which is struggling to data security problems like audio leaks.
Many companies, including large corporates, have been hit with leaks of their sensitive information during videoconferences.
Videoconferencing software typically enable companies to block unauthorised recording of the meeting or conference, but this is not a full-proof measure.
Attendees can easily use a recording device like a smartphone next to their computer to record the full meeting. This is no effective way to stop this.
Another problem is the video files being available online. The Washington Post has recently highlighted that thousands of sensitive Zoom videos have been left viewable on the Internet.
These videos included business meetings that contained private company financial statements and other sensitive data.
It is therefore important to ensure that any authorised recording of the meeting is not made available online without strict access control.
#13455637 at 2021-04-18 20:02:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Former President Zuma has accused some officials in the ANC Top Six of a plot against him"- https://youtu.be/BUAaSmFPeE0
"Former President Jacob Zuma has accused some of the Top Six officials of the ANC, of neglecting him and wanting him to go to jail. This is contained in a leaked audio recording of his meeting with the Top Six. The meeting was called to discuss his refusal to appear before the Zondo Commission, among others. During the encounter, the former president vowed to fight to clear his name and expose those who have done wrong."
#13439588 at 2021-04-16 16:11:04 (UTC+1)
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"Santaco slams political messaging on taxis"- https://youtu.be/RXlOQ6YfaLc
"Santaco President Phillip Taaibosch spoke with eNCA's Jane Dutton."
Messages on taxis state; "HANDS OFF ACE MAGASHULE", "WE ARE ACE, ACE IS US", "HANDS OFF ANC PROVINCIAL TREASURER",
"Watch: Outrage as 'Magashule-branded taxis' appear in Limpopo" dated 7 April 2021 at https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-ace-magashule-taxis-limpopo-branding-why-video/
Erm, what? The appearance of these propaganda-branded taxis - featuring messages of support for Ace Magashule - has left Limpopo locals SHOOK.
We know that the ANC may have taken us for a ride here and there, but it this week, it seems to be happening in more than just a figurative sense: A fleet of taxis in the Mopani region of Limpopo were given a new paint job - and they now carry a very partisan and political message: "Hands off Ace Magashule".
IT'S ALL GONE A BIT 'NORTH KOREA' IN LIMPOPO
The branded taxis surfaced at the start of the month, and Magashule has some company: Danny Msiza has also been plastered on the side of one of these vehicles - the ANC Limpopo Treasurer has been heavily implicated in the VBS saga.
The taxis have been spotted doing the rounds across the region, and already, they have drawn a lot of attention on social media. Indeed, Former Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom couldn't help but pass comment when he was alerted to the controversial branding, and raised questions about who exactly is funding these advertisements...
"We are Ace, Ace is us" also appears on the driver's side door. A 24-hour helpline is also advertised beneath the stern warnings - directing people to the government's emergency COVID-19 responders. An interesting choice, and it's made all the more incredible by the fact the 'C' is missing from the word 'Corona'.
You stay (c)lassy, Mr Magashule...
ACE MAGASHULE FIGHTING FOR POLITICAL FUTURE
The taxis appear to form part of a fightback campaign from factions within the ANC, which are still loyal to Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma. The so-called 'Radical Economic Transformation forces' had previously vowed to disrupt entire cities and shutdown the country this week - but nothing came from these empty threats.
Magashule has been given a 30-day ultimatum to step aside from his duties as the party's Secretary-General, or be forcibly suspended. Ace has not yet made a decision on what course of action he'll take, but it seems that the strategy to source support from the streets is already well underway.
#13430522 at 2021-04-15 12:50:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"THE GRIFT! Maimane becomes a BEE partner, EFF must pay back the money and more stories.."- https://youtu.be/jcXc0DEb63w
Sources;
"Jacob Zuma loses state legal fees appeal bid, must pay back millions" - https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/just-in-Jacob-Zuma-loses-state-legal-fees-appeal-bid-must-pay-back-millions-20210413
"EFF 'must pay up in 21 days' - as City of Cape Town opens R1.4m lawsuit" [for damages caused by protests] - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/eff-pay-damages-cape-town-why-how-much-when-deadline/
#13423293 at 2021-04-14 13:22:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"LISTEN | Leaked audio reveals how Jessie Duarte advised Jacob Zuma not to appear | State Capture" - https://youtu.be/-R4i5RCkyfU
"LISTEN: Jessie Duarte slams Zondo, backs Zuma in explosive leaked clip"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/listen-here-leaked-audio-clip-jessie-duarte-what-said-zondo-Zuma/
Well, this isn't a good look for Jessie Duarte: The ANC stalwart has been caught blasting the Zondo Commission, while leaping to Jacob Zuma's defence.
Senior members in the ANC are at the mercy of a 'mole' it seems, after another secret audio clip was publicly leaked on Tuesday. Just days after Cyril Ramaphosa's private conversation with Jacob Zuma was uploaded online, Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte has suffered the same fate - but her utterances are much more explosive.
The senior politician can be heard criticising Raymond Zondo, who is currently the head of the State Capture Inquiry. The DCJ has had a number of high-profile showdowns with Jacob Zuma - who may yet go to prison for ducking the Commission. Duarte, however, has picked her side in the ongoing battle...
"It's not as though we don't see what is happening at the Zondo Commission... it has been turned into a court, it's no longer a Commission. They have become prosecutorial. A colleague of mine was summoned to the State Capture Inquiry, and one week later, he was facing a criminal court case. These issues must be examined."
"There must be a solution for Mr. Zuma. I personally don't think comrade Zuma must go to that Commission. It would not be a good thing to do, given his history with Zondo. There was also the unfortunate way in which the DCJ presented himself, after presiding over his own [recusal] case." | Jessie Duarte
It's believed that the audio comes from a tense ANC Top 6 meeting conducted earlier this month. With all issues up for discussion, Jessie Duarte seemingly directed her focus on the judiciary of South Africa.
After tuning the Deputy Chief Justice, she then laid into Zondo's senior - Mogoeng Mogoeng. The 67-year-old accused the Chief Justice of 'having no understanding of the Constitution', and fears his religious beliefs are a danger to South Africa.
"The judiciary needs to stand up to a different set of principles than what it's doing right now. The Chief Justice of our country [Mogoeng Mogoeng] behaves as if he has no understanding of the Constitution. He cannot change the state from a secular position to one of Christianity. Apartheid and the Nazis also led through religion."
#13416883 at 2021-04-13 16:50:00 (UTC+1)
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Coming up on 150
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#5b
>>13347615 Nothing To See Here: Microsoft Files Patent To Mine Cryptos Using Human Brain Activity
>>13353282, >>13353287 Between Refuge and Radicalisation (Part 1 & 2)
>>13357228 Social Entrepreneurship seems to be another form of socialism
>>13357233 Kassoum Coulibaly Biography
>>13357237 How Western Mali could become a gold mine for terrorists
>>13359044 Russia's Lavrov Warns Of Surging Anti-White Racism In US
>>13359222 THE SEQUEL TO THE FALL OF THE CABAL - PART 11 (link to bitchute)
>>13370845 Dlamini-Zuma - and the UN - may soon 'take control' of your municipality
>>13377546 1,000 'woke' companies unite against election-integrity laws!
>>13402414 13-years on, Judge President Hlophe found guilty of gross misconduct" [regarding Jacob Zuma case]
>>13404630, >>13404634 Foreigners fall prey to spies' scam (Part 1 & 2)
>>13404641 This Story Of A CIA-Backed Somalia Anti-Piracy Squad Is Almost Unbelievable
#13416864 at 2021-04-13 16:48:44 (UTC+1)
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ANC Bun
>>13343746 ANC told to take action against 'growing ISIS threat' in South Africa"
>>13348332 President Cyril Ramaphosa remember the life of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (video)
>>13359583,>>13359589 ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa (part 1 & 2)
>>13370984 Jacob Zuma digs up the past, takes aim at ANC for his 'removal'
>>13371778, >>13371795 ANC Member Jeremy Vearey
>>13378588 ANC pays tribute to Solomon Mahlangu (video)
>>13378714 ANC branches must defend me: Magashule (video)
>>13385926 "Tainted Heroes Full Documentary" - ANC History (video)
>>13390288 SCANDAL: [B]Oksburg East train station on East Rand reflects the legacy of the ANC in South Africa (video)
>>13390568 ANC Youth League to make a comeback, task team appointed" after being dissolved in 2019
>>13398067 Sorry you see me that way' - secret clip of Ramaphosa, Zuma chat leaked
>>13415999 Thuthukile Zuma: Former President's Daughter to Lead ANCYL Fundraising
Chris Hani Bun
>>13398212 Remembering Chris Hani 28 years after his assassination
>>13398217 Hani killing was 'a double conspiracy
>>13398224 Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani (video)
>>13402317 We continue to remember Chris Hani as today marks 28 years after his assassination
>>13403652 Double agent' with four aliases gets R5m" - Mohammed Amin Laher
>>13403673 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 1)
>>13403686 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 2)
>>13403706 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 3)
>>13403716 Did British intelligence kill [Chris] Hani? (Part 5)
>>13403727 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 1)
>>13403734 Hani `conspirator' was intelligence man (Part 2)
>>13403762 Hani's flight of `coincidence
#13415999 at 2021-04-13 14:32:53 (UTC+1)
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The irony!
"Thuthukile Zuma: Former President's Daughter to Lead ANCYL Fundraising"- https://briefly.co.za/98114-thuthukile-Zuma-former-presidents-daughter-lead-ancyl-fundraising.html
Reports have revealed that former president Jacob Zuma's daughter Thuthukile Zuma will be heading the African National Congress Youth League's (ANCYL) task team fundraising initiative.
The task team is trying to overcome financial issues that have been faced since 2013. Reports say that the fundraising is being done to raise money after "gross financial mismanagement" as well as looting.
31-year-old Thuthukile is the youngest daughter of JZ and Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. She has been part of the ANC since 2014 when she became the youngest head of a minister's office.
According to a report by News24, the ANC was left short of money after EFF leader and former ANCYL leader Julius Malema was suspended after being found guilty of creating divisions within the ruling party back in 2012.
The new National Youth Task Team (NYTT) was just recently appointed and members are already showing their stance on matters involving their mother body.
A report by Daily Maverick stated that the NYTT plans to priorities talks on the ANC's 30-day step-aside rule. Nonceba Mhlauli, ANCYL leader, stated that they will: "Not watch as elders tear apart our glorious movement."
Earlier, Briefly News reported that the ANCYL made a strong comeback. Mhlauli has spoken strongly against party leaders who use the youth league to "fight their factional battles". Mhlauli stated that the ANCYL had been used as a "pocket knife" by leaders.
She described the youth league as being used as a pocket knife that can be pulled out at any time when there is infighting. Mhlauli says that the issues within the ANC and the ANCYL date back to 2008.
She attributes this to when the ANC's conference in the Free State collapsed. In 2008, Mhlauli was a 17-year-old student who was already part of the ANCYL. Mhlauli stated that she is a member of the ANCYL and the party as a whole. She added that she would work hard to change the perceptions people have of her.
#13402414 at 2021-04-11 11:28:40 (UTC+1)
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"13-years on, Judge President Hlophe found guilty of gross misconduct" [regarding Jacob Zuma case]- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/judge-president-john-hlophe-western-cape-misconduct-guilty-Zuma-scorpions-sunday-11-april/
After persistent delays and postponements spanning over 13-years, South Africa's Judicial Conduct Tribunal has finally determined that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe is guilty of attempting to sway two Constitutional Court judges to rule in favour of former President Jacob Zuma in his 2008 challenge against the seizure of nearly 100 000 documents now being used as evidence against him.
The Tribunal, which was headed by the retired Judge Joop Labuschagne, as well as Judge Tati Makgoka, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, and Nishani Pather, a practising attorney, unanimously concluded that after over a decade of back-and-forth testimony and challenges, Hlophe was guilty of gross misconduct as envisaged in section 177 of the Constitution.
HLOPHE 'THREATENED THE INTEGRITY OF THE CONCOURT'
Hlophe was accused in 2008 of trying to convince judges Chis Jaftha and Bess Nkabinde to violate the terms of their office and rule in favour of Zuma as he took on the Scorpions (now the Hawks) after they seized some 93 000 documents relating to allegations of corruption.
Both Jaftha and Nkabinde testified that Hlophe had acted improperly, but persistent challenges to evidence submissions and claims of persecution led to the case being perpetually delayed as Hlophe continued in his role at the head of the Western Cape's judiciary.
In its report, released on Saturday 10 April 2020, the Tribunal "unanimously found that on an objective and proper consideration of the facts and probabilities":
- Judge President Hlophe's conduct breached the provision of section 165 of the Constitution in that he improperly attempted to influence the two Justices of the Constitutional Court to violate their oaths of office;
- His conduct seriously threatened and interfered with the independence, impartiality, dignity and effectiveness of the Constitutional Court; and
- His conduct threatened public confidence in the judicial system.
JSC TO REVIEW FINDINGS
The Chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will now receive the report and determine the next course of action, which would likely see impeachment processes instigated against Hlophe.
Further probes against Hlophe have been demanded by various judicial institutions, with the Judge President also implicated in accusations of misconduct relating to Deputy President of the Western Cape High Court, Patricia Goliath, who filed a complaint against him in January 2020.
#13398224 at 2021-04-10 18:02:37 (UTC+1)
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>>13398212
>>13398217
Remember this?
"Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani"- https://youtu.be/3iIH1wB8W84
"While giving a speech Addressing supporters in Johannesburg after the state capture inquiry,former South Africa President Jacob Zuma dared to name those whom he says were behind the conspiracy against him. He also warned that he would name the spies in ANC and those who sold out chris hani."
#13398067 at 2021-04-10 17:21:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma - Leaked Audio Clip" - https://youtu.be/Nk1tbzHTzrs
"'Sorry you see me that way' - secret clip of Ramaphosa, Zuma chat leaked"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/listen-secret-clip-ramaphosa-Zuma-audio-top-six-meeting/
A secret recording of Cyril Ramaphosa 'having it out' with Jacob Zuma has been leaked - and you can listen to the bombshell clip here.
A two-minute audio clip has been made public on social media on Friday, allegedly revealing what went off behind closed doors at the ANC Top 6 meeting last weekend. The secret exchange between Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma - who have been at loggerheads for the last few years - has turned heads across the country.
SECRET RECORDING CATCHES CYRIL RAMAPHOSA'S SHOWDOWN WITH Jacob Zuma
Although the voice-note is a little too short to feature Zuma's response, it's a very revealing portrait of how Ramaphosa is currently trying to quell his critics. The president remains calm throughout, discussing the bad blood between the pair. Cyril informs uBaba that there is no 'personal prejudice' against him, and apologised for the soured relations.
Ramaphosa went on to tell his predecessor that he 'did not want him to resign early' back in 2018 - even though that meant CR would become president. According to the ANC leader, he was outnumbered by senior party comrades, who decided that Msholozi must go the same way as Thabo Mbeki, by leaving the role before his term expired.
HERE'S WHAT CYRIL SAID ON TAPE:
"In your mind, it's possible that you'd think Cyril Ramaphosa is always against you, and wants you to go to jail. That's perhaps your view, but I want to say that's never been my orientation. I see you as my leader, and as my elder in the ANC.
"I would say there's another leader who never had a supportive disposition to me, but I never wanted to see him leave that way: That's comrade Thabo (Mbeki). He should not have been taken out of the position, neither should you, but we lost the argument. There were contrary voices that were overwhelmed. That's what happened in your case.
"I'm sorry that you see me as deceitful and untrustworthy. I am sorry that you see me that way."
#13396852 at 2021-04-10 11:51:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"State Capture Inquiry | Karyn Maughn on David Mahlobo's testimony" - https://youtu.be/vNEbr7FxPYI
"The world according to David Mahlobo: everyone is a spy, everyone/everything is being watched, including the State Capture Commission"- https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-09-the-world-according-to-david-mahlobo-everyone-is-a-spy-everyone-everything-is-being-watched-including-the-state-capture-commission/
As the former minister of state security in the Zuma administration and as a key Cabinet member implicated by several witnesses as a strategic enabler of State Capture, Mahlobo brought with him to proceedings the requisite air of paranoia and moments of a mental knit one, slip one.
At various junctures, Mahlobo seemed at pains to ram home that the "eyes of the world" were watching the commission.
When an issue arose with regard to his microphone Mahlobo cautioned Zondo that, "I can do profiling. How you speak, how you read... this is not on a closed session, someone is taking notes somewhere".
Indeed, a multitude of journalists as well as South African citizens.
Later, justifying the direction that foreign counterintelligence measures took under his watch, Mahlobo was at pains to point out that South Africa was a strategic target for foreign intelligence agencies (unnamed) intent on "pursuing their objectives" (undeclared).
People, he warned, could be recruited by foreign agencies "knowingly or unknowingly, wittingly or unwittingly".
No one was immune to these powers determined to pursue their own objectives including economic and political dominance (undefined).
"I repeat, no one is immune from recruitment. They can recruit a minister, they can even recruit a president. They can recruit a judge, they can recruit a parliamentarian. You can recruit as long as you know what kind of information and influence you need," Mahlobo told Justice Zondo, balling his right hand into a fist.
Pretorius attempted to unpack the level and nature of Mahlobo's oversight as minister of the State Security Agency which wielded enormous unaccountable power and which has been accused of establishing a parallel intelligence network at the service of former president Jacob Zuma.
These were findings not only by the High Level Panel review into the State Security Agency but also in testimony under oath to the commission by panel chair, Sydney Mufamadi and also then SSA acting DG, Loyiso Jafta.
Mahlobo took the opportunity to introduce other global agencies to his evidence and how they went about their work including "the Russians, the Chinese, the British and the CIA".
"In other countries, they actually get presidents to interfere in another country," said Mahlobo without providing any specific examples.
To which Pretorius responded that surely South Africa should apply and adhere to "our own policies and institutions" and not those of other countries.
"Let me assist you," Mahlobo offered Pretorius, "that is an opinion".
The biggest threat to the economy, Mahlobo said, had been identified as corruption in various areas as well as "negative" foreign forces seeking to influence the country's politics.
Asked to identify these specific "foreign threats" Mahlobo responded, "let it be on record: Not everybody is a friend to South Africa. We do have enemies".
Even countries that South Africa might regard as "friends" and with whom it shared "certain things" would not hesitate in "pursuing their own national interests even to their dominance economically".
"Some, they live here, they are declared here. This country has these people but in the covert world, there are people you will never see and you must never see them," Mahlobo offered.
No one was immune to recruitment by these foreign forces, Mahlobo warned, "not even presidents, judges or parliamentarians".
#13390568 at 2021-04-09 13:56:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"ANC Youth League to make a comeback, task team appointed" after being dissolved in 2019- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/anc-youth-league-to-make-a-comeback-task-team-appointed/.
The ANC Youth League leadership was dissolved in 2019 after members embarked on demonstrations, claiming the ANCYL NEC was too old and way beyond the age limit
The African National Congress (ANC) has released the names of the ANCYL National Youth Task Team. The team has essentially been tasked with resuscitating the ANC Youth League - by means of strengthening and consolidating existing structures of the youth league and to build new ones in consultation with regions and provinces.
The appointments were announced on Thursday, 08 April 2021.
"The ANCYL NYTT will primarily serve as a National Congress Preparatory Committee charged with the responsibility to prepare the ANCYL for conference... It is also charged with the responsibility to develop and roll out a programme of action, bringing together young people from different facets as a build-up to the envisaged elective conference," the party said.
Some of the appointments to the ANC Youth League Task Team include Nomceba Mhlauli, currently a spokesperson in the Ministry of the Presidency, Fasiha Hassan, member of the Gauteng legislature, Joy Maimela and Thuthukile Zuma, the daughter of former president Jacob Zuma.
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule introduced Mhlauli as the convener of the newly established team, while Maimela will be its coordinator.
The ANC Youth League leadership was dissolved in 2019 after members embarked on demonstrations, claiming the ANCYL NEC was too old and way beyond the age limit required to serve.
The ANC Youth League has long been considered a breeding ground for future leaders of the ANC. The movement, dubbed the "Young Lions" has produced a number of political bigwigs in the ruling party, including Fikile Mbalula and Malusi Gigaba.
"The ANC is determined to rebuild the ANCYL and restore its vibrancy so that it can continue to fulfill its historic mission. In the 1940s, the ANC was revitalized and became more militant in its actions and articulations. A key reason for this was the influence of the ANC Youth League whose leadership included giants such as Anton Lembede, its first president, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu," the ANC further said.
"Today, as we seek to consolidate the gains of our liberation struggle, the ANC continues to look up to its youth to once again play a leading role in the national effort to confront the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality"
The ANC said its national officials have already met with the leadership of the NYTT and expressed overall support in their work of rebuilding and restoring the ANCYL.
#13379194 at 2021-04-07 19:36:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"ANC civil war: Has Julius Malema already 'split' the ruling party?"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/will-anc-split-another-party-julius-malema-leader/
The ANC is currently focused on its 'enemies within', from all party factions. But the outside threat from Julius Malema has been talked-up on Tuesday.
The ANC is a fractured party at the moment, and there are rumours it could be heading for a split: The liberation movement-turned-government is experiencing several factional battles at the moment, as the ghost of Jacob Zuma continues to haunt Cyril Ramaphosa's time in office. But one MP says that Julius Malema is the president's chief tormentor.
Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, who has been extremely vocal on Twitter throughout Tuesday, threatened to cause a divide of his own online. He stated that talk of a split in the ANC is about eight years too late, and already happened when Malema broke away from the ruling party and formed the Red Berets in 2013...
"The compromises of 1994 should have led to a split of the Congress Movement. The same way adoption of Freedom Charter led to the formation of the PAC. The split was successfully avoided by the assassination of Chris Hani. This long-overdue split would reoccur in 2013 - now led by Julius Malema."
Malema made his name as the leader of the ANC Youth League, before proving to be too controversial even for a Jacob Zuma-led organisation. His defiant act of establishing a political party has given him an even bigger platform, and it seems his supporters have earmarked this moment as the one that irreversibly damaged the 109-year-old institution.
Talk of an ANC split may be premature for now, but something is certainly bubbling underneath the surface. The ousting of Jacob Zuma from the presidency came just months after the bitter 2017 leadership battle in Nasrec. Cyril Ramaphosa pipped Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the top job, upsetting the large Msholozi-faction in the process.
Things have deteriorated since then, with Zuma frequently taking sly digs at President Ramaphosa - and Cyril has also given his predecessor some back. This battle, however, has become a full-blown proxy war: Ace Magashule hasn't taken too kindly to an ultimatum he was handed by the head of state last week, which could soon force him to resign.
Magashule, a huge Zuma ally and advocate of the RET programme, has since vowed to lead city-wide protests and 'shut down' parts of the country - a threat that is yet to materialise. A former deputy minister, meanwhile, called for the ANC to be replaced by an interim government until 2024 on Sunday.
The party has always had its critics - Julius Malema included - but many of those dissenting voices now come from within.
#13378714 at 2021-04-07 18:15:30 (UTC+1)
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"ANC branches must defend me: Magashule" - https://youtu.be/vqPM2q93260
"ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule says ANC branches must defend him and says he is still consulting on whether to step aside. eNCA's Govan Whittles reports."
"Ace Magashule defends 'radical economic transformation'"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ace-magashule-defends-radical-economic-transformation/
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has said that radical economic transformation is a party policy which was adopted at Nasrec and cannot be changed
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has fiercely defended the use of the term "radical economic transformation."
Magashule was in Kliptown in Soweto, where the ANC commemorated the life of struggle activist Charlotte Maxeke, who would have turned 150 years old on Wednesday, 07 April 2021.
Most recently - the term "radical economic transformation" or RET was used in labelling a faction in the ANC, which is aligned to Magashule and former president Jacob Zuma.
The ANC has consistently clarified that the transformation of the economy is a policy position of the party and not any faction. It is the project for the significant inclusion of black people - in the country's economy.
"Radical economic transformation is the policy which was adopted at Nasrec. You can't actually change it and turn it around and call it something else. The economy must be in the hands African people. There is no country in the world where the majority are not actually the owners of the economy. South Africa must change for the best"
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule
Ace Magashule has further said that women should play a significant role in the enforcement of the radical economic transformation policy.
"The women leadership of this country, the women's league (ANC Women's League) can actually play that important role, to change the lives of our people. The leadership of the church can still play that role of ensuring that our people are now living in a better South Africa," Magashule said.
"That dream, which Mandela and many others like Charlotte Maxeke and many others, had for South Africa. The dream of making sure that all of us get out of abject poverty. That dream must be realised and it cannot take many years. It must be a dream which must be realised today and not tomorrow"
Magashule's days in the ANC are numbered, as the NEC has given him 30 days to step aside from his post, in accordance to the party's contentious step aside resolution. Under the resolution, ANC members facing criminal charges must step aside from their duties while the matter is before the court.
He faces a string of fraud and corruption charges in connection with a R255 million asbestos contract, awarded in the Free State in 2014, when he was still premier.
#13370984 at 2021-04-06 13:45:07 (UTC+1)
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"Jacob Zuma digs up the past, takes aim at ANC for his 'removal'"- https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/Jacob-Zuma-digs-up-the-past-takes-aim-at-anc-for-his-removal/
Former president Jacob Zuma has a few bones to pick with the ANC, particularly the top six, after it asked him to appear before the State Capture Commission
Former president Jacob Zuma appears to still hold a grudge against the African National Congress (ANC) for asking him to resign as the head of state. In a 23-page document, which is based on a meeting he held with the ANC top six, Zuma lays into the party's top brass, particularly pertaining to his refusal to appear before the State Capture Commission, under chairperson Raymond Zondo.
However, the former president also brings up the circumstances pertaining to his late-night resignation on 14 February 2018.
"My own comrades worked to oust me and even worked with the opposition to remove an ANC president from parliament - something that was unprecedented. To this day, I do not understand what led to this. I asked some of you, what was it that I had done wrong for me to deserve to be pushed out of this position before the term ended," Zuma said in the speaking notes addressed to ANC secretary general Ace Magashule.
The meeting, which was held in March, was aimed at convincing Zuma to finally take the stand at the commission, something he has been reluctant to do for over a year now, as he has accused it of being biased. The ANC was under immense pressure to take some form of action and prove once and for all, that it really does support the work of the commission and by extension, measures aimed at countering and exposing corruption.
Jacob Zuma IS STICKING TO HIS GUNS
The Constitutional Court is set to soon deliver judgement on an application by the commission, to have a two-year jail-term imposed on Jacob Zuma for being a no show at the proceedings - in defiance of a ruling by the very same court.
The ANC top six are: President Cyril Ramaphosa, Deputy president David Mabuza, secretary general Ace Magashule, deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte, Treasurer general Paul Mashatile and chairperson Gwede Mantashe.
Zuma further maintained that he will not appear before the commission.
"I am entitled in terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa to hold and express views, opinions and beliefs about the judiciary. I am entitled to freedom of conscience and it is my right to conscience that I refuse to participate in the judicial process that appears to lack the attributes of independence"
Former president Jacob Zuma
"Its no longer just Zondo, the Constitutional court itself has become biased"
#13359589 at 2021-04-04 19:55:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa" - Part 2dated 04/04/2021 at https://www.mzansileaks.co.za/anc-war-turns-ugly-as-team-ace-magashule-and-Jacob-Zuma-vow-to-shut-down-south-africa/
'A FORM OF ANARCHY'
Free State spokesperson Thabo Meeko said that "technically", the media briefing by the Free State regional leaders was permitted by the party.
"The ANC does allow for any member at any level, even the regional leaders who held the media briefing, to air their thoughts. This, however, is supposed to be in line with party policies and regulations and in accordance with party resolutions. Given that the briefing happened before the president's address stating that party members were barred from organising and mobilising against the step-aside resolution, the regional leaders weren't in breach of any resolution."
"What you might see happening is RET members who aren't known taking to the streets in their numbers on April 5, with the leaders taking a back seat and respecting the resolutions."
However, Meeko added that the provincial executive committee "frowned on" the leaders' actions and was not in support of such open defiance of a sitting NEC at the time.
About the circular, Meeko said the party regarded it as "a form of anarchy".
A Limpopo ANC leader told City Press: "We've received word from comrades in the Free State and Gauteng and we're also engaging with branches in Limpopo seeking not only to join the national shutdown, but also to be among the branches set to raise their voices in calling for a special conference that will definitely exempt the secretary-general from this step-aside resolution that's now being weaponised."
The Gauteng RET grouping had been planning to hold a meeting today to strategise and get support for former president Jacob Zuma and Magashule, but this was called off on Friday after the ANC threatened action against those who attended.
A Gauteng leader who identifies as an RET member said of the aborted meeting that "the timing was meant so that we [RET forces and those sympathetic to Magashule] can strategise and get instructions from the command centre ... on what course of actions to take the next day, when the national shutdown is scheduled".
The RET member said that, despite the statement announcing that there would be no mass meeting, "a plan is still being hatched to ensure that Magashule retains his position".
"What you might see happening is RET members who aren't known taking to the streets in their numbers on April 5, with the leaders taking a back seat and respecting the resolutions.
"RET members are also branch leaders and members, and will continue to canvass support for the secretary-general in order to force a special conference. At this point, a special conference is the only thing that will ensure that our leader [Magashule] retains his position. We're hoping for a prolonged mass action, though, on April 5 that will show the leaders how serious we are about them recalling Ramaphosa and his Cabinet," he said.
IMPACT OF SCA RULING
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) this week ruled that the 2018 election of the ANC's Free State provincial executive committee had been unlawful and unconstitutional after disgruntled members of the provincial party challenged the election, saying audits of ANC branches had not been done.
A senior ANC member within the Ramaphosa camp said this could come as a blessing in disguise for Magashule: "Given that the provincial executive committee, who've been very evidently behind the secretary-general, are now free to fully express their support without consequence, they don't have positions from which they can be suspended."
However, since Magashule still enjoys great backing from the provincial leadership, which appears to be the command centre for the fight-back campaign, the court ruling could throw a spanner in the works because the Ramaphosa camp could appoint an interim structure more sympathetic to the president.
This would upset the fight-back campaign's plans.
The ANC member also noted that "the financial taps that come with holding those positions of power in the province could now be closed - and at the wrong time, as they need financial backing to forge a serious fight-back".
Branch structures that fall under the Matjhabeng Local Municipality, where Magashule loyalist Nkosinjani Speelman is mayor, have written to him and asked the provincial leadership to act against him for being party to the defiant anti-NEC briefing.
They said Speelman should "cease and desist" from purporting to speak on their behalf.
The ANC Youth League Free State provincial task team also wrote a statement supporting the NEC.
"We are convinced a charlatan like Ace, who thrives on chaotic moments and disunity, will find it hard to resign and save our organisation embarrassment," read the statement.
#13359583 at 2021-04-04 19:53:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"ANC war turns ugly as team Ace Magashule and Jacob Zuma vow to shut down South Africa" - Part 1dated 04/04/2021 at https://www.mzansileaks.co.za/anc-war-turns-ugly-as-team-ace-magashule-and-Jacob-Zuma-vow-to-shut-down-south-africa/
The fight for the soul of the ANC could take an uglier turn as supporters of secretary-general Ace Magashule and former president Jacob Zuma plan a series of shutdowns around the country, beginning this week.
City Press reported that the shutdowns will coincide with the 30-day period that Magashule has been given by the national executive committee (NEC) to step down from his position or face disciplinary action.
Among the supporters' demands is that "the ANC recalls the president of the country and his Cabinet".
The planned actions go against the directive given by the NEC, as enunciated by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his televised speech, that no party members are to convene media briefings, march or canvass support for any members who are criminally charged.
Circulars being distributed among the so-called radical economic transformation (RET) group call for the disruption of "key points".
"We must block national roads, metro roads, all access roads to and from business hubs, and those access points coming to and from their rich suburbs," it reads.
It also urges "progressive political parties, NGOs, civil organisations, faith-based organisations, the MK veterans, ANC RET forces and supporters of progressive policies" to join the "#CRMMustFall shutdown".
It adds that "details of key points and logistics will be communicated" at a later stage.
SUPPORT FROM NEC MEMBERS AND REGIONS
In Magashule's home province of the Free State, where much of the mobilisation is taking place, the secretary-general's loyalists include senior officials who this week called a media briefing denouncing the NEC decision. They called on Ramaphosa to make the accounts of the funding for his campaign to become ANC president in 2017 public within 30 days.
A Free State provincial executive committee member said: "Don't be fooled. Magashule still enjoys great support within the organisation [the ANC] and these sentiments [contained in the factional circular] echo the stance of many within the party."
"While some might say he's mobilising support and thus going against NEC resolutions, we don't see it that way."
He said the support was coming from "NEC members, provincial executive committee members from the Free State and other provinces, its former members who were kicked out like dogs by this current administration, ground forces who identify more with Magashule's demeanour and disgruntled ANC members who face the same fate as that faced by Magashule".
The provincial executive committee member said: "The fight-back strategy is simple: get the branches and ground forces behind you and you win the soul of the party.
Forget the leaders and the men in suits - it's the structures that have a stronger say in who leads them."
He added that the fact that Magashule was on the ground, as he was this week during a whistle-stop tour of Soweto, would give him "a lifeline as the clock ticks towards the 30 days he's been given to step down".
NEC members close to Magashule told City Press that the secretary-general had personally placed his bets on the party's branches calling for a special conference, which he hoped would exempt him from the step-aside resolution.
"Within the leeway afforded to him by the NEC, Magashule is consulting former leaders and engaging with regions, including Gauteng, the Free State, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal. While some might say he's mobilising support and thus going against NEC resolutions, we don't see it that way. We see it as him utilising his right to engage and seek counsel. Branches are the heart of our movement and if they deem it necessary to put pressure on national office-bearers to reverse their decision, then so be it," said an NEC member.
Another NEC member said: "I don't think the secretary-general is against the planned national shutdown because it's beneficial for him, but I think he might have preferred to shake things up quietly. However, at this point, it's time to try any means necessary. There was talk of getting those who support him in the NEC to resign en masse, which would force the party to hold a special conference, but not all might follow through with that and, should it fail, it would come as another embarrassment."
#13109791 at 2021-03-05 16:55:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
coming up on 300
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#3b
>>13001670 Around 6,000 senior departmental officials allegedly benefitted from Ters
>>13032057 We thought COVID-19 was a biological war' - SANDF's R260m mistake
>>13033401 Shabir A. Madhi Bun
>>13039967 Red Cross prepares to contain deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa
>>13052105, >>13052131 HIV/AIDS: Why Mbeki should apologise - Zweli Mkhize (Parts 1& 2)
>>13052280 Co-Chairs' Summary of the 3rd Meeting of the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council
>>13054070 Zikalala commits to lifestyle audits for government officials
>>13061342 France considers slowing vaccine rollout for hospital staff, with many unable to work following jab
>>13062131 Africa Finance Corporation hires Blackstone's Zarou CEO, Sameh Shenouda, as CIO
>>13068610 Enter the Covid passport: A new apartheid system
>>13097820 ANC Bun
>>13097961 Democratic Republic of Congo Bun
>>13098047 State Capture Inquiry Bun
>>13098147 South Africa Deep State Connections Bun
>>13099319 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun
>>13099338 Jacob Zuma Bun
>>13101136 South Africa speechless following latest murder of Rwandan dissident
>>13104505 EFF parties 'in other countries' send their birthday wishes to Julius Malema
>>13108097 Patrice Motsepe's wealth grew by 58% during COVID
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#3a
Videos
>>13000163 Ethiopia conflict | A humanitarian disaster stares Tigray region in the face
>>13000201 CRAM Survey: Hunger has worsened
>>13000223 Vaal river sewage crisis
>>13000781 Nigeria continues to experience rising attacks and abductions of civilians
>>13021549 Exposed: shocking state of KZN schools
>>13021888 Gabon: Appointment of president Bongo's son not well received [Morning Call]
>>13021898 The suspicious video that helped spark an attempted coup in Gabon
>>13025000 Bobi Wine withdraws Uganda election results challenge
>>13031606 BANANA REPUBLIC: SANDF chase Hawks away, Bheki Cele lies (again) and more stories
>>13045364 Niger Elections | Mohamed Bazoum wins election
>>13047135 Somalia Election Impasse: Discussion with Horn of Africa Analyst, DR Ahmed Hashi | Bottomline Africa
>>13052007 Zweli Mkhize's 'family friend' and ex-private secretary pocket Covid-19 cash via R82m Department of Health contracts
>>13054237 Massive hail storm hits South Africa ! The streets turn into white in Benoni
>>13060667 Ethiopia: Eritrean troops' massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity
>>13061790, >>13101449 317 girls taken from Nigerian school
>>13062538 SAPS warn security companies
>>13068561 COVID-19 and traditional medicine" - Chairperson of the World Health Organisation's Regional Expert Advisory Committee on Traditional Medicines for COVID-19
>>13078559 Eskom facing R2 billion fraud probe - report
>>13079834 Ex-ConCourt judge calls for Hlophe's suspension over Bongo ruling
>>13080209 Zimbabwe's Vice-President Kembo Mohadi resigns
>>13101142 Community raises concerns about new mine in Limpopo
>>13101301 Mozambique conflict | SA private militia allegedly involved
>>13101316 COVID-19 2nd wave variant neutralises itself: Nzimande
>>13103501 Revitalised Peace Agreement in South Sudan at risk of collapse
>>13103537 Amnesty International report on Mozambique killings: Brian Castner
>>13105095 Dr. Sam Bailey: there has been no virus isolation
>>13108526 Julius Malema intensifies call for the collapsing of borders in Africa
>>13108885 Who Is Lord Robin Renwick?
#13103312 at 2021-03-04 14:57:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"Molefe speaks on Eskom pension payout"- https://youtu.be/YeoI7xjz05w
"State Capture: Brian Molefe 'left Eskom because of Madonsela's report'" - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/state-capture-brian-molefe-left-eskom-because-of-madonselas-report/. Below are a few excerpts.
Former public protector Thuli Madonsela's state of capture report implicated Brian Molefe, with cellphone records placing him at the Gupta compound
Molefe is one of several people whom, along with former president Jacob Zuma, are accused of enabling the looting of state funds and resources by the Guptas. The family formerly owned the Optimum mine which supplied coal to Eskom - securing billions of rands in contracts.
Madonsela released her report in October 2016. The report included cellphone evidence which not only revealed that Molefe had made dozens of phone calls to Ajay Gupta - the oldest Gupta brother, but also placed him at the family's home in Saxonwold, Johannesburg - at least 19 times between August 2015 and March 2016.
He said he then took the job and left Transnet, where they had just renewed his five-year contract. Another bone of contention surrounding Molefe is his pension payout. After his unforgettable resignation at the utility in December 2016, Molefe scored around R30 million in pension benefits - despite having only been there a year and a half.
He told the commission that he had been offered a permanent post at the utility. However Lynne Brown then back tracked and offered him a five-year contract, to which Molefe objected. The board then came up with a solution - Molefe, then 49 would serve until he is 54, but receive nine more years' worth of retirement benefits.
#13099344 at 2021-03-02 23:51:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#3b
>>13001670 Around 6,000 senior departmental officials allegedly benefitted from Ters
>>13032057 We thought COVID-19 was a biological war' - SANDF's R260m mistake
>>13033401 Shabir A. Madhi Bun
>>13039967 Red Cross prepares to contain deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa
>>13052105, >>13052131 HIV/AIDS: Why Mbeki should apologise - Zweli Mkhize (Parts 1& 2)
>>13052280 Co-Chairs' Summary of the 3 rd Meeting of the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council
>>13054070 Zikalala commits to lifestyle audits for government officials
>>13061342 France considers slowing vaccine rollout for hospital staff, with many unable to work following jab
>>13062131 Africa Finance Corporation hires Blackstone's Zarou CEO, Sameh Shenouda, as CIO
>>13068610 Enter the Covid passport: A new apartheid system
>>13097820 ANC Bun
>>13097961 Democratic Republic of Congo Bun
>>13098047 State Capture Inquiry Bun
>>13098147 South Africa Deep State Connections Bun
>>13099319 South Africa Violence and Crime Bun
>>13099338 Jacob Zuma Bun
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#3a
Videos
>>13000163 Ethiopia conflict | A humanitarian disaster stares Tigray region in the face
>>13000201 CRAM Survey: Hunger has worsened
>>13000223 Vaal river sewage crisis
>>13000781 Nigeria continues to experience rising attacks and abductions of civilians
>>13021549 Exposed: shocking state of KZN schools
>>13021888 Gabon: Appointment of president Bongo's son not well received [Morning Call]
>>13021898 The suspicious video that helped spark an attempted coup in Gabon
>>13025000 Bobi Wine withdraws Uganda election results challenge
>>13031606 BANANA REPUBLIC: SANDF chase Hawks away, Bheki Cele lies (again) and more stories
>>13045364 Niger Elections | Mohamed Bazoum wins election
>>13047135 Somalia Election Impasse: Discussion with Horn of Africa Analyst, DR Ahmed Hashi | Bottomline Africa
>>13052007 Zweli Mkhize's 'family friend' and ex-private secretary pocket Covid-19 cash via R82m Department of Health contracts
>>13054237 Massive hail storm hits South Africa ! The streets turn into white in Benoni
>>13060667 Ethiopia: Eritrean troops' massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity
>>13062538 SAPS warn security companies
>>13068561 COVID-19 and traditional medicine" - Chairperson of the World Health Organisation's Regional Expert Advisory Committee on Traditional Medicines for COVID-19
>>13078559 Eskom facing R2 billion fraud probe - report
>>13079834 Ex-ConCourt judge calls for Hlophe's suspension over Bongo ruling
>>13080209 Zimbabwe's Vice-President Kembo Mohadi resigns
#13099338 at 2021-03-02 23:50:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Jacob Zuma Bun
>>13000267 Zuma: A man of contradictions (video)
>>13024978 State capture commission wants Zuma jailed (video)
>>13023891 Law is soft on criminals: Zuma (video)
>>13030662 The former president and French arms company Thales are facing several charges (video)
>>13031510 Former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial set to begin on 17 May (video)
#13097820 at 2021-03-02 20:51:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
ANC Bun
>>13002050 Ace Magashule court case | Illegal gathering of supporters (video)
>>13021743 Former president Jacob Zuma set to meet ANC's NEC (video)
>>13023868 TOP SECRET: Dodgy ANC Nasrec 'cash-for-votes' investigation stalled once more
>>13045228 Political Economist Moeletsi Mbeki, reacts to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's 2021 Budget Speech
>>13052443 Aids drugs killed Parks, says ANC
>>13053159 Mbeki's AIDS Denial: Grace or folly?
>>13055517 Remember ANC's "liberation before education"
>>13061605 Eastern Cape name changes: 'The ANC has gone too far', says DA
#13078559 at 2021-03-01 14:53:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"SA's corruption emergency | Report into R2bn fraud at Eskom" - https://youtu.be/vj2Z3lUbid0
"A preliminary forensic report claims that over R2-billion has been stolen from Eskom, through a network of non-existent service suppliers and well-placed officials. Kaizer Kganyago, spokesperson for the Special Investigating Unit spoke with eNCA's Thembekile Mrototo."
"Eskom facing R2 billion fraud probe - report"- https://businesstech.co.za/news/energy/471570/eskom-facing-r2-billion-fraud-probe-report/ states;
A preliminary forensic report claims that over R2 billion has been stolen from state power firm Eskom through a network of ghost service suppliers and well-placed officials, according to City Press.
The money was allegedly funnelled via fraudulent transactions over the last three years, and involved numerous companies invoicing Eskom for work that was never carried out.
The report was compiled by forensic investigators from Seekers Finders Forensic Auditors and Risk Services after a whistle-blower alleged that prominent Eskom employees were colluding with service providers to generate the fraudulent invoices.
Companies were paid for services including labour for coal outage plans and refurbishing of injectors, which were never carried out.
At least three Eskom officials have been implicated, City Press reported.
The report has been handed over to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), which has confirmed it is investigating certain issues contained therein.
Last week, Eskom chief executive officer, André de Ruyter suspended chief procurement officer Solly Tshitangano for his failure to turn around the company's procurement division.
De Ruyter said that Tshitango had been tasked with cutting Eskom's annual expenditure in its procurement division by at least 4%, but failed to do so.
Eskom spends around R140 billion per year on foods and services, which De Ruyter said was more than the utility should be paying.
The debt-stricken power utility faced further scrutiny after lawmakers criticized a housing project for workers that cost more than five times the initial estimate and was eventually abandoned, Bloomberg reported.
The project was scrapped and remains unfinished, while Eskom is alleged to have spent billions of rand on rental accommodation and transportation for its employees, the committee said in a statement.
The loss-making utility relies on government to service R464 billion rand of debt and is at the center of investigations into allegations of widespread corruption during the administration of former president Jacob Zuma.
Eskom had shown a "serious disregard for taxpayer money," and the matter must be investigated and action taken against all involved, the committee said.
#13031510 at 2021-02-23 16:51:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"Former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial set to begin on 17 May"- https://youtu.be/8lUqaWD9cX8.
eNCA's Thembikile Mrototo spoke with advocate Paul Hoffman about the upcoming trial of former president Jacob Zuma. (They provide more background information.)
#13030662 at 2021-02-23 14:34:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"The former president and French arms company Thales are facing several charges"- https://youtu.be/0CL0CK3gYKo
Jacob Zuma corruption case 'trial ready'. State Advocate Billy Downer says all parties are ready to go to trial in May.
Noteworthy comment;
6:17 - "I can tell you without fear of contradiction that today is a significant date. There were points in time when it looked like this matter will never come to a point where it's certified as trial ready with all of the sides, all three sides, saying we are ready to rock and roll. So let see what happens as we build up to the 17th of May but also let's see what happens politically because the other layer of this complication are the politics... around it with former president Jacob Zuma and supporters how they fit in what's called the RET forces, the MKVA as well as his ordinary supporters and branches here in KwaZulu Natal. A province whose politics is fractious at the best of times... How will that play out politically? We are in for some real legal and political drama."
__"South African ex-president's corruption trial set for May"_ at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/south-african-expresidents-corruption-trial-set-for-may-Jacob-Zuma-thales-south-african-allegations-president-b1806098.html states;
Former South African president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial is set to begin in May, more than 16 years after he was first implicated in the graft allegations.
Zuma, South Africa's president from 2009 to 2018, is accused of receiving bribes from French arms manufacturer Thales
Zuma faces corruption charges related to payments he allegedly received as bribes from Thales. Thales was among the companies that scored contracts to supply South Africa with weapons in the country's controversial 1999 arms procurements.
The allegedly corrupt deal with Thales was facilitated by Zuma's former financial adviser Schabir Shaik, who was convicted of the charges in 2005 and sentenced to 15 years in jail. Shaik was released on parole, on medical grounds, after serving just over two years.
The trial will add to Zuma's legal woes as he is also facing imprisonment or a fine for failing to appear before a state commission investigating other allegations of corruption in government and state-owned companies when he was president.
#13024978 at 2021-02-22 20:49:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"State capture commission wants Zuma jailed"- https://youtu.be/LKtIZtmx69s
"The State Capture Commission wants Jacob Zuma jailed for two years for contempt."
#13023891 at 2021-02-22 18:47:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"Law is soft on criminals: Zuma"- https://youtu.be/1vQzwLQMAxU
"Former president Jacob Zuma says criminals in South Africa are treated with kid gloves."
#13023868 at 2021-02-22 18:44:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"TOP SECRET: Dodgy ANC Nasrec 'cash-for-votes' investigation stalled once more"at https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/investigations/top-secret-dodgy-anc-nasrec-cash-for-votes-investigation-stalled-once-more-20210217 states;
- One month after a judge ordered that documents linked to a string of police contracts, probed by IPID, be declassified, the information remains secret.
- Police commissioner General Khehla Sitole was ordered to take "immediate steps' to facilitate this but has now blamed IPID for the delay.
- The top cop fought the declassification in court for three years, costing the taxpayer R1.5 million.
A trove of classified documents - the paper trail behind the slew of dubious police contracts, including those centred on allegations of a state-funded "plot" to swing the outcome of the ANC's Nasrec elective conference - remain a closely guarded secret.
This nearly a month after the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled that police commissioner General Khehla Sitole must take "immediate steps' to strip away their secret status - and hand them over to police watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID).
In a tersely worded letter sent to Sitole on Friday, Police Minister Bheki Cele wanted to know how the damning ruling impacted the police, how Sitole and his deputies "were involved" in a string of dubious deal now under investigation, and what cost was borne by the taxpayer after their three-uear legal quest to keep the details secret.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo, when asked for comment, told News24: "As indicated in my previuos response to yourself, any communication or correspondence between the offices of the National Commissioner and the Minister shall remain between them and not be discussed in the public domain. That being said, it is rather unfortunate that any document between the two mentioned offices would be leaked to the media and what the intention thereof would be."
Take note;"Shock claims about Nasrec cash for votes"dated Aug 22, 2019 https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/shock-claims-about-nasrec-cash-for-votes-31091833 states;
Durban - Former KwaZulu-Natal legislature deputy speaker Meshack Radebe has revealed how he allegedly witnessed ANC leaders dishing out cash in exchange for votes at the party's Nasrec elective conference in 2017.
The veteran said what he witnessed made him realise that his party was taking a wrong direction, and he decided to quit the government.
"When I returned from Nasrec, I said I am resigning, because what I saw there I could not stomach; but the leadership, including Nxamalala (former president Jacob Zuma) pleaded with me not to leave until after the elections," he said.
He was reacting to allegations that leaders used money to win support at the Nasrec conference, where President Cyril Ramaphosa won his contest with Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma to replace Zuma as ANC president.
"In the hotel where I was staying (in Johannesburg) the cash was given out at the foyer. Delegates would come in buses to collect cash.
"One of the leaders who was giving out money is now a minister. Delegates were each counting R5000, R3000, R4000. Others were complaining that the money they had received was not enough," said Radebe.
#13021743 at 2021-02-22 13:55:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"Former president Jacob Zuma set to meet ANC's NEC"- https://youtu.be/DEy06vWqNRU
"Former President Jacob Zuma is set to meet the ANC's top six as his standoff with the Zondo Commission rages on."
Noteworthy statement;
4:40 - "On the eve of the Zondo Commission, "Zondo-Zuma" commission, the RET forces, uMkhonto weSizwe and the people who love our revolution have decided to come and camp KwaDakwadunuse to make sure that there is no crazy decision taken that will impact Msholozi. Whoever thinks they can come and do anything to Nxamalala, will find us here waiting. We are saying, no one will arrest Zuma without getting through us first. If today, the time has come for us to pay for this revolution with our blood, let it be so but we are willing to say Nxamalala is the father of our revolution, we shall stand behind him, we shall defend him. And if he must be arrested, many of us will be arrested with him. That is where it is at. Amandla!"
#13000300 at 2021-02-19 14:11:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
"State Capture | Police Minister visits Nkandla"- https://youtu.be/cqkpRUknhlo
"Police Minister Bheki Cele is visiting Former President Jacob Zuma in Nkandla, while MK veterans stand on guard outside the residence."
"When Zuma met Cele: JZ jokes about 'arrest warrant' with Police Minister" - https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/bheki-cele-meeting-Jacob-Zuma-nkandla-what-discussed-tea-jokes/. Below are a few excerpts.
It's funny because it's a severe breach of South African law! Jacob Zuma and Bheki Cele seemed to enjoy their meeting at Nkandla on Thursday…
If you can't laugh at a serious Constitutional crisis you've personally caused, what can you laugh about? Jacob Zuma was in jovial spirits on Thursday, as Police Minister Bheki Cele dropped by for a three-hour meeting at Nkandla.
The clandestine summit remains largely shrouded in secrecy, and Cele's impromptu visit has turned heads across the country. Zuma is subject to a Constitutional Court review - which could lead to him being placed in jail - and Bheki Cele has framed himself as a 'strongman' who's tough on criminals. Yet here they both are, laughing and joking as old comrades.
Not much has been confirmed, in terms of what was actually discussed on Thursday, but Zuma's daughter Dudu gave us a little taster. She has been active in her use of Twitter as delegations continue to visit Nkandla, and revealed that the ANC veterans had joked about getting Cele to be the one who arrests Zuma, should a warrant be issued in his name
That's some pretty decent banter from the 78-year-old, we'll admit. But for those wanting to know more about the tea-less gathering at Nkandla, you'll have to wait. The spokesperson for the Police Ministry, Lirandzu Themba, has confirmed that Bheki Cele will relay details of the meeting to the ANC, before the general public is informed. We should have known...
"Police Minister, General Bheki Cele, has concluded his visit with Former President Jacob Zuma in Nkandla which started this morning at 11:00 and will update the ANC leadership on the outcome of his visit first."
#13000267 at 2021-02-19 14:05:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
I am reposting this from South Africa #2 thread as it was not archived.
"Zuma: A man of contradictions"- https://youtu.be/jRAHzD08nNY
"Do as I say, and not as I do. Former president Jacob Zuma's recent actions are a contradiction in terms for a man who twice swore to uphold the Constitution. What's more, not so long ago, he was appealing to everyone to co-operate with the state capture inquiry. So, how did we get to the point where he might be jailed for not appearing at the commission? Michael Appel takes a look back."
#12994720 at 2021-02-19 02:59:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsments
#2a
videos
>>11552710, >>11552874 X22 dave explains quite simple (and link)
>>11714563 "What the SADF Has Become In 25 Years - South Africa"
>>11737824, >>11737845 Ace Magashule
>>11828871 Just how many wives does Jacob Zuma have, and who are they?
>>11830278 Zuma's memorable moments
>>11830820 Nando's Diversity Ad
>>11854830 South Africa's poor education and UCT curates WEF's "Strategic Intelligence"
>>11890987 Ramaphosa, "Sex work is essentially work as well."
>>11901199 How Socialism Destroyed Africa (with excerpts)
>>11903629 SANDF to consider SAPS request for support
>>11903649 Massive Explosion at Engen Refinery in Durban
>>11912811 "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is Occultism & Indoctrination"
>>11915075 Chaos in Nelson Mandela Bay local council meeting
>>11925968 You'll Own Nothing": UN-backed "Great Reset" Is Feudalism"
>>11950674 VLOG 63: Don't be fooled by the perversion of language & meaning-of-words by "woke" Leftists!
>>11980480, >>11980500 In-Q-Tel: CIA's Investment Capital Arm
>>12021165 China reportedly trying to make super soldiers; Gen Keane reacts (Fox Business)
>>12022210 "Facebook's independent fact checkers tied to Hillary Clinton, Communist China and George Soros (OAN)
>>12022515 Quick Update On The US And RSA
>>12070046 The Lari Massacre 1953 and the capture of Dedan Kimathi 1956 (Pathe')
>>12080054 The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia (Full Documentary)(history.com)
>>12081012 Africa Blood and Guts 1966 (Africa Addio)
>>12103929 "10 South African Celebs Who Are Sangomas"
>>12147549 Alec Hogg interviews Rob Hersov on coming home, the Ruperts & unseating the ANC
>>12240848 Why does News24 only report on White Racism?
>>12251975 Child-raping UN "Peace" Troops (NWO Military) Exposed
>>12283561 "Who Coined the Term "Useless Eaters"? - Questions For Corbett"
>>12297688 Gates Foundation accused of exploiting its leverage in Africa
>>12325647 SA diplomats behaving badly: DIRCO lumped with R10m bill for 'property damage'
>>12589170 Loadshedding returns; Eskom's 3-month outlook - Free Marketeers (video)
>>12688259 BOOM: Trust In Mainstream Media Just Hit An All-Time Low
>>12723292 Malawi court's ruling against former President Mutharika: Daniel Mababa (video)
>>12729955 This Doctor is Proud He Caused a Suicide
>>12769250 Was Samora Machel assassinated by a conspiracy?
>>12801008 Swiss court finds Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz guilty of corruption
>>12820535 Ford make biggest investment in South Africa in almost 100 years
>>12832758 Mandla Bothman is on the run fearing for his life after exposing corruption at Eskom in Mpumalanga
>>12882038 Zimbabwe's Economic Crisis | New report shows country's GDP is being robbed by cartels
>>12882171 Moody's raises warnings ahead of SONA
>>12900663 The ANC's LOYAL support base | Frans Cronje
>>12915277 The elephant in the room: Desensitization and how it affects us all
>>12915526 DIRCO | DIRCO's DG investigation underway" - Paid R118-million for non-existent piece of land in New York, United States
>>12943947 DRC begins mass Ebola vaccination drive
Internal Server Error keeps popping up
#12994699 at 2021-02-19 02:56:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Final South African Violence and Crime bun
>>11785032, >>11725883 Truck Attacks (Article and Video)
>>11785151 Incompetent and Corrupt Police (Article and Video)
>>11827638, >>12146749 South Africa's Dark Criminal Underworld - Gangster's Paradise (Videos and Article)
>>11890822, >>11828338, >>11828801 Violence Against Women (Videos)
>>12010792, >>12050847, >>11926657, >>11969661, >>11806678, >>11680417 Farm Murders, Livestock Theft, etc. in South Africa (Articles and Videos)
>>12081639 China's Illegal Fishing in South African Oceans and Involvement in Africa
>>12105433, >>12105455, >>12116301, Taxi violence (Articles and Videos)
>>12105982 Illegal mining, turf wars and human trafficking (Article and Video)
>>12116170 Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed
>>12146798, >>12116170 "Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa's Underworld" (Videos)
>>12158611, >>12148352, >>12092370, >>12092356 Looting (Videos)
>>12161391 "Igsaan & The Americans: The disturbing tale of a gang leader in Cape Town" (Video)
>>12168967, >>12169032, >>12169094 Rhino poaching (Articles and Video)
>>12171409, >>12146749 Local Gangs Linked to International Organised Crime (Videos and Article)
>>12183290 "Grim child murder figures in SAfrica spark outrage" (Video and Article)
>>12184048 South Africa: Widespread Xenophobic Violence - Human Rights Watch (Video and Article)
>>12346201 Teddy Mafia: Cele questions how 'known gangster' operated with impunity
>>12349672 Upsurge in the rate of Cash-in-Transit incidents - Gauteng
>>12349748 33 Farm attacks and 10 farm murders in South Africa - December 2020
>>12398832 South Africa's mandrax problem (video)
>>12444519 Incidences of Livestock Theft Including Cows Thrown Out of Moving Taxi
>>12652923 VLOG 73: Durban's criminal underworld is frightening!
>>12707351 In Africa, concerns over rising police brutality (video)
>>12732786 National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa intends to charge Commissioner of the South African Police Service
>>12729856 Woman and husband stripped and assaulted by South African Police when buying milk for daughter (video)
>>12820003 Crime in SA | Tracker vehicle crime index (video)
>>12830242 Poachers attack, burn down lodge belonging to aha group, Mpumalanga
>>12860158 This 'new hijacking method' is causing concern across SA (video)
>>12868179 6 SA cities make top 20 list of the most dangerous cities in the world
>>12880182 In FIREARM RIGHTS: GFSA's [Gun Free South Africa] Myths
>>12891751 Police officers implicated in Gauteng taxi violence report (video)
>>12901503 Police accused of failing to act on complaints against SANDF
>>12901546 Mandela funeral scandal: Eastern Cape Health MEC and others released on bail
Final State Capture Inquiry bun
>>12721337 Politicisation and factionalisation of intelligence community: Mufamadi (video)
>>12721546 Dr. Sydney Mufamadi gives an explosive testimony (video)
>>12721572 Wayne Duvenage on Sydney Mufamadi's testimony (video)
>>12723259 Explosive claims about ANC at state capture inquiry (video)
>>12742123 Zuma implicated again (video)
>>12742304 Discussion on State Security Agency testimonies (video)
>>12743751 Identity of secret witness leaked (video)
>>12756139 State Security Agency under scrutiny (video)
>>12766702 Bantu Holomisa shares his experiences with the state intelligence (video)
>>12778769 State security agency alleged to have unlawfully provided guns to non-members (video)
>>12789526 State Security Agency | Calls for a shake-up (video)
>>12789625 Former Scopa chair appears (video)
>>12789651 Jacob Zuma defies ConCourt ruling, not appearing before Zondo
>>12819596 Hands off Zuma (video)
>>12819764 Khoza's claims of criticism threats
>>12820765 "State Capture | Evidence on Parliamentary oversight" for years (video)
>>12859900 Agrizzi - The Money and The Escape | Carte Blanche | M-Net" (video)
>>12859931 These are the main conspiracy theories about Gavin Watson's death" CEO of Bosasa (video)
>>12859953 The former Bosasa COO, Angelo Agrizzi in ICU (video)
>>12859960 Angelo Agrizzi gets emotional in ICU: 'I'm not the same person I used to be' (video)
>>12880702 Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and the Guptas
>>12901836 MKMVA conclude 'very productive' visit to Zuma
>>12934802 Zuma to be charged with contempt of court (video)
>>12935846 Ramaphosa bribed judges to win elections' - Zuma hits back in Zondo rant
>>12975495 Zuma: A man of contradictions (video)
#12994689 at 2021-02-19 02:56:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Final Democratic Republic of the Congo bun
>>12842749 DRC President announces dissolution of the ruling coalition: Nixon Katembo (video)
>>12842820 Discussion on DRC president Felix Tshisekedi's visit to South Africa (video)
>>12842833 DRC takes over as AU chair (video)
>>12842861 President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over AU chairpersonship to DRC President Felix Tshisekedi (video)
>>12849469 THE CONGO: KABILA AND TSHISEKEDI, A COALITION IN PERIL
>>12850672 THE WAR IN CONGO (Full Documentary) (video)
>>12851307 South African peacekeeping troops accused of torture in DRC (video & related article)
Final EFF & Brackenfell bun
>>11563469 Fists fly outside Brackenfell High School as tensions spike between locals and the EFF (video)
>>11563506 VLOG 57: #EFF confronted by angry #Brackenfell school parents, as community defends kids & families! (video)
>>11683345 The EFF Brackenfell Protest is a Trap (2020) (video)
>>11689240 Brackenfell: SAPS asked to investigate 'one settler, one bullet' threats"
>>11694027 Julius Malema attacking the Oppenheimers, Rupperts and Ramaphosa
>>11713944 "VLOG 60: Police act against EFF in Brackenfell!" (video)
>>11714497 "Anthony Hall All SA Lives Matter Founder - "My Message to Brackenfell"
>>11715096 Man arrested for asking EFF why they hate him so much (video)
>>12066486 EFF, "a radical and militant economic emancipation movement"
>>12832954 Nkandla Tea Party | Zuma and Malema spill the tea
>>12841749 BLF says it does not trust Julius Malema ahead of meeting with Jacob Zuma (video)
>>12947489 EFF leader reacts to President Ramaphosa's SONA (video)
#12994640 at 2021-02-19 02:50:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Final Buns from #2
Final ANC bun
>>11628311 "The African-American Institute" Support - Report (Attachment)
>>11629572 "The White Men who Hold the Black A.N.C. Puppets' Strings" (book excerpts and link)
>>11642109 "East Germany: Marxist Mission in Africa" dated January 2, 1981, by The Heritage Foundation (excerpts and link)
>>11667692 CIA Briefing to Secretary Shultz's Committee on South Africa - 10 July 1986 (with link and pdf)
>>11680417 "The African National Congress of South Africa: Organization, Communist Ties, and Short-Term Prospects (1986 CIA doc)
>>11695758 Mosiuoa Lekota calls President Cyril Ramaphosa a "sellout"" (Video)
>>11707280, >>11707350 Tito Mboweni and African Center of Economic Transformation (ACET)
>>11737824, >>11737845 Secretary-General Ace Magashule (Videos)
>>11808427 Over 17 million beneficiaries receive social grants (Article)
>>11886117, >>11817972, >>12020283, >>12022449 Expropriation Without Compensation (Articles and Videos)
>>11934389 Heed South Africa's former Supreme Court Judge's Warning (Video)
>>11995248 British Involvement in South Africa (Video)
>>12036707 ANC government plans to use an electronic voting system
>>12053857 ANC Youth League Receives Military Training (video)
>>12115840, >>12121371, >>12121315, Funding (Articles)
>>12136168 Jacob Zuma reveals secrets involving Chris Hani (Video)
>>12145195, >>12007793 Thabo Mbeki (Article and video)
>>12197231 "When they [ANC] call, you cannot say no" - Cyril Ramaphosa (video)
>>12310585 Getting rid of the ANC would spark a civil war - Jessie Duarte"
>>12313881 Alexandra residents embark on "clean-up operation" to rid area of criminals while ANC protect their own
>>12325200 It has increased sharply' - How many South Africans receive social grants?
>>12444311 Social Grants Expire and South Africa Runs Out of Tax Payers
>>12467099 eThekwini auction that excludes Indians, coloureds and whites legal, says CFO
>>12481473 Pietermaritzburg beneficiaries rush to renew lapsed disability grants
>>12487577 Gugulethu residents queuing outside SASSA
>>12498374 ANC Exposed! | Worst Speech from Cyril Ramaphosa EVER! | The Joe Emilio Show (video)
>>12499160 The British Army's Secret Plan to Keep South Africa's Ruling Party in Power (video)
>>12552287 Molefe: Glencore sold shares to Ramaphosa to gain political benefits (video)
>>12572163 Probe against Nelson Mandela Foundation leaders (video)
>>12589620 Expropriation Without Compensation, without amending the Constitution (video)
>>12649239 SASSA 'nearly broke': Here's how much money is left to fund social grants (video)
>>12667905 Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng 67 minutes Leadership Talk (video)
>>12670405 F.W. de Klerk's Betrayal
>>12672353 FW De Klerks Global Leadership Foundation appoints Sir Robert Fulton Kbe as CEO
>>12685153 South Africa Time Capsule 1 - Discussions to Release Nelson Mandela from Prison (video)
>>12685190 South Africa Time Capsule 2 - Release of Nelson Mandela (video)
>>12685224 South Africa Time Capsule 3 - Violence up to the First "Democratic" Election (video)
>>12685251 South Africa Time Capsule 4 - Violence Post First "Democratic" Election (video)
>>12686693 Charlize Theron, Donor of ANC (video)
>>12695265 South Africa's FW De Klerk on apartheid, Mandela and Ramaphosa - BBC Africa (video)
>>12742344 The book, "Mbokodo: Inside MK: Mwezi Twala - A Soldier's Story" (excerpts)
>>12767005 Bantu Holomisa (UDM) vs Blade Nzimande (SACP)
>>12822259 Cyril crafted and perfected the most evil ANC policy of all (video)
>>12860417 The vultures are circling Ramaphosa's withering presidency (video)
>>12891429 Political Analyst Moeletsi Mbeki says ANC plays clever politics (video)
>>12900340 The ANC's LOYAL support base | Frans Cronje (video)
>>12900978 Tito Mboweni riles Twitter with his 'Johann Rupert connection'
#12994637 at 2021-02-19 02:50:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #3: State Inquiry Rebake Edition
Notables are NOT Endorsements
#2a
Videos
>>11552710, >>11552874 X22 dave explains quite simple (and link)
>>11714563 "What the SADF Has Become In 25 Years - South Africa"
>>11737824, >>11737845 Ace Magashule
>>11828871 Just how many wives does Jacob Zuma have, and who are they?
>>11830278 Zuma's memorable moments
>>11830820 Nando's Diversity Ad
>>11854830 South Africa's poor education and UCT curates WEF's "Strategic Intelligence"
>>11890987 Ramaphosa, "Sex work is essentially work as well."
>>11901199 How Socialism Destroyed Africa (with excerpts)
>>11903629 SANDF to consider SAPS request for support
>>11903649 Massive Explosion at Engen Refinery in Durban
>>11912811 "Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is Occultism & Indoctrination"
>>11915075 Chaos in Nelson Mandela Bay local council meeting
>>11925968 You'll Own Nothing": UN-backed "Great Reset" Is Feudalism"
>>11950674 VLOG 63: Don't be fooled by the perversion of language & meaning-of-words by "woke" Leftists!
>>11980480, >>11980500 In-Q-Tel: CIA's Investment Capital Arm
>>12021165 China reportedly trying to make super soldiers; Gen Keane reacts (Fox Business)
>>12022210 "Facebook's independent fact checkers tied to Hillary Clinton, Communist China and George Soros (OAN)
>>12022515 Quick Update On The US And RSA
>>12070046 The Lari Massacre 1953 and the capture of Dedan Kimathi 1956 (Pathe')
>>12080054 The Cannibal Warlords of Liberia (Full Documentary)(history.com)
>>12081012 Africa Blood and Guts 1966 (Africa Addio)
>>12103929 "10 South African Celebs Who Are Sangomas"
>>12147549 Alec Hogg interviews Rob Hersov on coming home, the Ruperts & unseating the ANC
>>12240848 Why does News24 only report on White Racism?
>>12251975 Child-raping UN "Peace" Troops (NWO Military) Exposed
>>12283561 "Who Coined the Term "Useless Eaters"? - Questions For Corbett"
>>12297688 Gates Foundation accused of exploiting its leverage in Africa
>>12325647 SA diplomats behaving badly: DIRCO lumped with R10m bill for 'property damage'
>>12589170 Loadshedding returns; Eskom's 3-month outlook - Free Marketeers (video)
>>12688259 BOOM: Trust In Mainstream Media Just Hit An All-Time Low
>>12723292 Malawi court's ruling against former President Mutharika: Daniel Mababa (video)
>>12729955 This Doctor is Proud He Caused a Suicide
>>12769250 Was Samora Machel assassinated by a conspiracy?
>>12801008 Swiss court finds Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz guilty of corruption
>>12820535 Ford make biggest investment in South Africa in almost 100 years
>>12832758 Mandla Bothman is on the run fearing for his life after exposing corruption at Eskom in Mpumalanga
>>12882038 Zimbabwe's Economic Crisis | New report shows country's GDP is being robbed by cartels
>>12882171 Moody's raises warnings ahead of SONA
>>12900663 The ANC's LOYAL support base | Frans Cronje
>>12915277 The elephant in the room: Desensitization and how it affects us all
>>12915526 DIRCO | DIRCO's DG investigation underway" - Paid R118-million for non-existent piece of land in New York, United States
>>12943947 DRC begins mass Ebola vaccination drive
Archived South Africa breads
Thank You GermanArchiveAnon!
South Africa #2: https://qanon.news/archives/x/11550704
South Africa #1: https://qanon.news/archives/x/8033191
#11309819 at 2020-10-27 20:10:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
>>11304707
An older article, "Christians must battle blasphemy: CDP"(https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2011-04-04-christians-must-battle-blasphemy-cdp/), dated 4 April 2011 found at https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fwww.timeslive.co.za%2fspecialreports%2felections2011%2farticle1002642.ece%2fChristians-must-battle-blasphemy–CDP%2f&d=4902280033209633&mkt=fr-BE&setlang=en-US&w=RZoJTJMGiGq1TNJBDoXFpov5XVc3-HBZ states;
"Christians must take a stand against blasphemy after national police commissioner General Bheki Cele reportedly likened the SA Police Service to Jesus Christ and his 12 disciples, the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) said on Monday."
"Cele was quoted in Beeld saying: "Jesus Christ had an organisation of 12 people… among those 12 there was a criminal who sat with Jesus every day.""
""If you will find criminals amongst two people, then you will find criminals in an organisation with 193,000 members," Cele said."
"Beeld reported that in the past seven months, 254 police in Gauteng have been arrested for alleged involvement in robberies and corruption.
Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli and some of his colleagues were arrested last week for their alleged involvement in a murder committed in the late 1990s."
"President Jacob Zuma was criticised a few years ago for saying that the ANC would rule until Jesus comes.
In 2008, a provincial ANC leader likened Zuma's suffering in the then corruption case against him to what Jesus had gone through.
Earlier this year, Zuma said a vote for the ANC was to choose heaven, while a vote for the opposition amounted to choosing hell."
#11290997 at 2020-10-26 19:20:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
>>10632549
>>11211100
>>11288383
The Vula Connection - https://youtu.be/29vrvKsKXPI
Notice the whites behind the ANC's Vula operation.
http://armsdeal-vpo.co.za/articles10/vula.html is an interesting read. Below are a few excerpts.
"O'Malley writes that Vula was a sophisticated, secret arms-importation business as well as a propaganda and crisis-management operation in the mass democratic movement."
"The first meeting took place in October 1987. Over the following 18 months, the Afrikaners and ANC officials, the groups varying in size and composition, met on a dozen occasions at Mells House Park, outside Bath in Britain. On the ANC side, Mbeki and Jacob Zuma were the key players.
The Afrikaners would become proxies for the National Intelligence Service (NIS) in exploring opportunities for a negotiated settlement."
"Tambo orchestrated the efforts of both and he knew, too, as a result of the visits of Ismail Ayob and George Bizos to Lusaka, that Mandela was in contact with the South African government." >>10602683
"Moreover, after Mandela was released and had taken charge, he authorised that Vula continue its clandestine operations even though the ANC was then legal. Between August 1988 and May 1990 Vula embedded itself in Natal and to a lesser extent the Witswatersrand. Huge quantities of arms were imported and stored across South Africa, ready for the day of insurrection. Vula was probably the ANC's most successful operation."
"Within the mass democratic movement, a "core committee" was established, including Cyril Ramaphosa, Sydney Mufamadi, Reverend Frank Chikane and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, who "set" the political agenda for Cosatu and the United Democratic Front in consultation with Lusaka via Maharaj. Maharaj smuggled a draft of the Harare Declaration to Mandela and whisked his comments and those of nine other internal leaders back to Lusaka within 10 days. Nyanda trained Umkhonto weSizwe cadres for a people's army - not for present deployment on the ground - and gave them a familiarity of the geopolitical landscape. Vula provided logistical and manpower support for the war in KwaZulu-Natal, and conveyed to Lusaka a copy of Mandela's memorandum to PW Botha before Mandela's meeting with him in July 1989."
"He provided feedback and analysis on the crisis around Winnie Mandela's involvement in the death of a child activist, a situation that would have caused immense trouble for Mandela on his release, pulling him between his wife and the mass democratic movement that had condemned her.
The accomplishments directly attributable to Vula were real and affected the course of the struggle."
"The youth imposed their ideas of revolution, and infighting muddied the waters.
In the absence of a real MK presence, self-armed youth took it upon themselves to impose their rule in townships that by now really were "ungovernable"."
"Gwala, once back in Natal after his release in November 1988 and disgusted with the derelict state of the political organisations, decided to remedy matters on his own terms. The Natal heartland was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting between the UDF/ANC and Inkatha, and Gwala declared a scorched earth policy on Inkatha."
#10732494 at 2020-09-21 16:01:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
>>10732078
>>10619536
>>10128757
You should read the attached copy of the book, "Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture" by Pieter-Louis Myburgh. Below are a few excerpts.
"In this book I examine the undemocratic means with which Magashule and his political allies clung to power in the Free State. I also unpack a fresh revelation about a trip to the former Gupta estate in Johannesburg, allegations of shady meetings with other connected businessmen, and indications that Jacob Zuma may have scored a 'thank-you fee' from one of the Free State's failed housing projects. All of these stories should strengthen calls for a proper investigation into Magashule's dealings as premier."
"In this regard, Gangster State is at once a book about Ace Magashule and the political organisation to which he belongs. The simple fact of the matter is that Zuma, Magashule and others were able to do so much damage to the ANC and the country because the party failed to stop them.
Can all of this still be turned around? I believe so, but by this I mean the country, not the ANC. The ruling party's appointment of its very own 'secretary-gangster' to a position as visible and important as the one Magashule now occupies can be seen as a broad endorsement of criminality. If Magashule did indeed 'steal' the position, the ANC's failure to deal with this only further supports my argument. The party's chronic inability to stem the criminalisation of its internal leadership structures will one day be viewed as a key reason for the ANC's final implosion."
"Nokwanda told me her husband had been somewhat surprised when the Mbeki-led national leadership called him up to help lead the party in the Free State. Ngombane was first and foremost a South African Communist Party (SACP) man, and as such was on the sidelines when it came to the ANC's internal politics."
It also discusses assassinations.
#10226347 at 2020-08-08 21:50:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
>>10225574
"Has South Africa's ruling party betrayed Mandela's legacy? | Head to Head" - https://youtu.be/BGq6dSO4Yx4. This interview with Baleka Mbete of the ANC, who was the Speaker and Deputy President, would be hilarious if the situation in South Africa was not so dire. Listen to the discussion with regard to the military coup in Zimbabwe back in 2017 at 40:40, where she celebrates it to help the ZANU PF. Another comment made; "Jacob Zuma said in 2015 that the ANC comes before the country" at about 31:00
Andrew Feinstein, who was part of the discussion, was the "former South African politician and author of 'After the Party: A Personal Journey Inside the ANC'. He is now director of Corruption Watch UK." He made the below comment at the following link, https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/south2north/2013/01/2013118151914861779.html.
"It's estimated that the trade in weapons accounts for around 40 percent of all corruption in all world trade ....The thing that I think is so important about it is it runs to the core of the way we're governed, because the trade in weapons is extremely closely tied into the mechanics of government. The defence manufacturers, those who make the weapons, are closely tied in to governments, to militaries, to intelligence agencies and crucially to political parties. So they have enormous influence."
Andrew "chaired the Aids charity Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Feinstein. Then I found this article, https://health-e.org.za/2015/11/23/treatment-action-campaign-receives-r14m/, which states; "The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has received a R14 million pledge from Canadian non-profit organisation the Stephen Lewis Foundation that will save it from closing its doors, but will not save jobs already on the cutting board."
Then looking through the Stephen Lewis Foundation website,
Per https://stephenlewisfoundation.org/who-we-are/about-the-foundation/our-co-founders, Stephen Lewis "is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Emeritus Board Member of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He served as a Commissioner on the Global Commission on HIV and the Law.
Stephen Lewis's work with the United Nations spanned more than two decades. He was the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 until the end of 2006. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization's global headquarters in New York. From 1984 through 1988, he was Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations. "
And Graça Machel is chair of its African Advisory Board, https://stephenlewisfoundation.org/who-we-are/about-the-foundation/african-advisory-board. >>9365563, >>9362041
#9397328 at 2020-05-31 19:21:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
While the citizens are locked away in their homes…
Schabir Shaik "finally free" after being pardoned by Ramaphosa
Schabir Shaik thanked Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday for being "finally free".
Shaik, convicted fraudster and ex-pres. Jacob Zuma's financial advisor has been in house arrest from March 2009 until February this year because he is alleged to be terminally ill. He celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr again as a free man earlier this month after the month-long Ramadan.
He was jailed for 15 years in 2005 for fraud and corruption for his share in the arms scandal. He served two years and four months before parole was granted to him
He has now been cleared of the rest of his sentence after Ramaphosa pardoned 14,500 offenders in December as part of Reconciliation Day celebrations.
Shaik spoke the words of Rev. Martin Luther King used and said, "Free at last, I am free at last, thank God I am free at last."
He thanked Ramaphosa and said he was grateful and relieved that he was eligible.
"Now I can return to a normal life. I'm going to try to lead a life of simplicity, "he says.
"Integration after 15 years is not easy. The mental retardation is worse than the physical retardation. It took its toll. But I am very grateful. That's all I can say - and I feel blessed.
http://newsxpress.co.za/?p=703
#9021771 at 2020-05-04 05:50:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
Welcome to tobacco wars - the current "ban" obviously have so much more to it…
It names three companies as the major culprits: Gold Leaf Tobacco Company, Best Tobacco Company and Amalgamated Tobacco Manufacturers - which counts Edward Zuma, the son of former president Jacob Zuma, as a director.
Gold Leaf's cigarettes comprise a staggering 75% of the entire illicit cigarette trade, claims the report commissioned from the international consumer research group Ipsos.
https://city-press.news24.com/Business/moyane-helped-small-tobacco-firms-dodge-r7bn-a-year-in-taxes-20180705
Tobacco Wars: 'That guy fears nobody and nothing'
https://www.news24.com/Books/extract-tobacco-wars-that-guy-fears-nobody-and-nothing-20190730
First blood drawn in 'Tobacco Wars'
Industry player Simon Rudland barely escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday, while a Sars official was targeted at his place of employment in Durban.
First was Sars Wars, when the organisation was gutted by maladministration and an intelligence driven agenda by players in the tobacco industry; now it's "tobacco wars" and blood has been spilt.
Simon Rudland, co-owner of the Gold Leaf Tobacco Corporation and a member of the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (FITA), yesterday barely escaped assassination outside Fita's offices where he was due to attend a meeting.
https://citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/crime/2167739/first-blood-drawn-in-tobacco-wars/
The minister that banned tobacco during Covid lock down:
Presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma met self-confessed tobacco smuggler Adriano Mazzotti and his business associates more than the one time he claims he met her - and here's the proof.
Instagram photographs prove at least two meetings, while a third shows an associate of the dodgy tycoon embracing Dlamini-Zuma, apparently taken in Greece. The others show Mazzotti and Dlamini-Zuma in London and in Sandton.
Under one of the photographs, gambling tycoon Philip Anastassopoulos exclaims: "Another nice day with mama Zuma."
https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2017-11-04-smoked-out-ndz-hanging-out-with-cigarette-smuggler-and-gambling-tycoon/
The relationship between Julius Malema and cigarette manufacturer Adriano Mazzotti has, once again, been thrust into the spotlight.
Malema, political provocateur and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has never denied his connection with self-confessed cigarette smuggler, Mazzotti. Then again - how could he? The facts are clear to see and have been widely publicised in recent years.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/julius-malema-adriano-mazzotti-family-home/
#8172670 at 2020-02-18 12:25:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research SOUTH AFRICA
They have their puppet as president, now they are moving in. Welcome to the final phase - and yet our people are asleep. We would rather be occupied by their brainwashing show than to wake up. The president has no plan to fix our country and it becomes more clear by the day, yet it takes one remark about apartheid fro the "de Klerk grave" and the sheep focus on nothing but that…cry my beloved country but you will have only yourselves to blame soon - very soon.
"Martin Kingston, who on April 1 steps down as chief executive officer of Rothschild & Co.'s South African unit after 13 years, wants to help revive the country's beleaguered state-owned companies."
Can banker Martin Kingston save Eskom and SAA?
26th March 2019 by Jackie Cameron
EDINBURGH - Martin Kingston is a captain of industry who has also used his power to lobby for political change. The chief executive officer of Rothschild & Co's South Africa unit is stepping down to a quieter role and plans to use his extra time to improve the economic fabric of the country. Kingston, deputy leader of Business Unity South Africa, has already been pushing for job creation as well as an end to mass retrenchments. But who is Martin Kingston? The Mail & Guardian gave some glimpses into the media shy business mover-and-shaker in 2006, observing that he has been one of the most powerful players in BEE. This is because "empowerment terrain is one where the big investment banks, more often than not, control the purse-strings in marriages - whether out of convenience or romance - between the emerging players of the new elite and established companies". The M&G highlights that Kingston has actively courted politicians, even marrying into South Africa's political elite. His first wife, Tembi Tambo's parents were Oliver and Adelaide Tambo, and his second wife, Pulane Kingston, is the daughter of former Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and ANC treasurer general Mendi Msimang, both of whom have died. It's said that Tito Mboweni was the best man at his wedding, said the M&G. - Jackie Cameron
Rothschild's Kingston to Help South Africa State Firm Rescue
By Antony Sguazzin
(Bloomberg) -Martin Kingston, who on April 1 steps down as chief executive officer of Rothschild & Co.'s South African unit after 13 years, wants to help revive the country's beleaguered state-owned companies.
Kingston, 61, will shift to executive chairman of the investment bank's unit, and plans to wind down his executive responsibilities over the next two years before getting more involved with advising and mobilising resources and skills for South Africa's public sector. He already sits on the board of struggling South African Airways and is vice president of Business Unity South Africa, a lobby group.
"I don't think we mobilise adequate resources to support some of the public companies that are facing very challenging circumstances," Kingston said in an interview on Monday. "If there is a role for me to play I would frankly welcome it."
South Africa's state-owned companies became beset by skills shortages, unsustainable debt and bloated work forces during the nine-year tenure of former president Jacob Zuma, which ended in February last year. The country suffers regular power outages, a dysfunctional commuter train system and almost daily corruption scandals related to the firms. New president Cyril Ramaphosa has removed the boards of some of the companies and vowed to make them more efficient and stamp out corruption.
https://www.biznews.com/leadership/2019/03/26/rothschild-kingston-eskom-saa
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#164553 at 2017-12-24 11:26:55 (UTC+1)
CBTS General #191: The Crossing Edition
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/05/bell-pottingersouth-africa-pr-
What was Bell Pottinger doing in South Africa?
Bell Pottinger's 'economic emancipation' campaign used traditional and social media, including? a fake blog and? Twitter account, to target wealthy white South African individuals and corporations. The agency's alleged role was to stir up anger about 'white monopoly capital' and 'economic apartheid' to draw attention away from the wealthy? Gupta family, who have been accused of benefiting financially from their links to President Jacob Zuma. Bell Pottinger, which created and commissioned content?, did not invent? 'white monopoly capital' but used the ?term 'on occasion'?. ?It also used other tactics, such as misleading or undermining journalists questioning the campaign.
^^Seems like a stand up guy the Pentagon wants to Hire am I right^^