8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (2)
#20918094 at 2024-05-26 16:21:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20918026
>the Board's Founding Chair, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Steyn, PC, died in 20
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>>20918044
"South African born British jurist and life peer Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn died at 85"
https://youtu.be/HzqyC_FrlVo
Nov 29, 2017
Johan van Zyl Steyn, Baron Steyn, PC was born on 15 August 1932 and died on 28 November 2017. He was a South African/British jurist, and until September 2005 a Law Lord. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.As a result of his opposition to apartheid in his native South Africa, he settled in the UK in 1973 joining the English Bar and building a distinguished international commercial law practice.
"Freedom Under Law: Tribute to the Rt. Hon. The Lord Steyn, P.C"
https://www.freedomunderlaw.org/2017/12/04/freedom-under-law-tribute-to-the-rt-hon-the-lord-steyn-p-c/
4 December 2017
Freedom Under Law regrets that the founding Chair of its International Advisory Board, Lord Steyn, died in London on 28 November 2017.
Johan van Zijl Steyn was born at Stellenbosch in 1932, his father a founding member of its Faculty of Law. His grandfather was a Boer fighter, imprisoned in the camp at Green Point, Cape Town and exiled to Sri Lanka, where he and four others escaped by swimming ashore from their ship in the notoriously shark-infested Colombo Harbour. They returned via Russia, Europe and what is now Namibia to their astonished fellow commando-members in the Free State. It is said that the latter refused to believe them, given the flatness of the earth.
Lord Steyn studied law at Stellenbosch, and as a Rhodes Scholar at University College, Oxford. Returning to South Africa, and to practice at the Cape Bar, he took silk at the age of 38 in 1970. In later years, he looked back on what is to be learnt from how a government without effective constitutional limitation on its exercise of power "by and large could and did achieve its oppressive purposes by a scrupulous observance of legality. It made an indelible impression on me."
In 1972 he left South Africa. He began practice anew in London. Quickly he overcame the disadvantages of an unconnected outsider and built up a leading commercial practice. In just six years he became a Queen's Counsel, and in January 1985 he was offered an appointment by the Lord Chancellor to the select ranks of the Commercial Court. Self-deprecatingly he ascribed his appointment to a simple error in persona: whenever the Lord Chancellor, then Lord Hailsham, met him he called Steyn "Charles".
After seven years he was elevated to the Court of Appeal and very shortly thereafter was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and a member of the Privy Council.
Lord Steyn is widely regarded as one of the most influential and creative judges of our time. He delivered leading judgments covering a wide range of legal fields. Of course his reputation as a pre-eminent commercial lawyer made this likely in the areas of contract, arbitration and international trade. So, too, his contribution to greater legal harmonisation in Europe, drawing in his own life on scholarship and practice in both civil law and common law systems.
Lord Steyn has been described in these words by a leading UK constitutional lawyer, Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell (also a member of FUL's International Advisory Board): "Fiercely independent, he would sometimes dissent sharply from his brethren when he was unable to persuade them. Ultimately a man of the highest values, and most steadfast commitment to equality, the rule of law and constitutionalism."
#19335729 at 2023-08-10 21:12:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #11: Diamonds, Gold, and War Edition
>>19335719
>"After President Ramaphosa's administration took over in 2018, we started to assist bringing private sector and government closer to each other on the sectoral basis. So that it keeping me busy as well."
"Roelf Meyer is back - and trying to help save SA's economy" - Part 1
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-01-30-roelf-meyer-is-back-and-trying-to-help-save-sas-economy/
30 Jan 2019
Roelf Meyer became one of the best-known faces in South Africa during the transition to democracy when he led negotiations on behalf of the National Party with the ANC's chief mediator, Cyril Ramaphosa. It's 20 years since he left active politics to play a behind-the-scenes role in global conflict resolution. But Meyer is now working with the South African government once more: this time, to help jumpstart the economy.
Roelf Meyer was in Zimbabwe when Daily Maverick spoke to him on Wednesday, 30 January.
Of course he was: if a country is wracked by civil strife, chances are good you'll find Meyer working unobtrusively behind the scenes to try to find a resolution.
The 71-year-old has parlayed his negotiating role in the South African transition to democracy into an international career in conflict mediation. Meyer describes his organisation, the In Transformation Initiative, as being "quite involved in a number of countries in giving advice in resolving challenges".
The challenges in question involve some of the world's stickiest geopolitical issues. Take Myanmar, for instance.
"I am involved there," says Meyer, and chuckles ruefully. "That's one of my headaches."
He is working in an "advisory capacity" with the government of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has faced growing international condemnation for maintaining a repressive regime and failing to act amidst a brutal military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
Meyer has said very little in public about his work in Myanmar. A The Guardian report in November 2018 described Meyer as being one of the "few figures" who still had the ear of Suu Kyi.
"I do have access to her," Meyer acknowledges to Daily Maverick. "Whether she is always listening to me is a different question - and she doesn't have to."
He says the situation on the ground in Myanmar is "much more complicated" than is generally portrayed in the media.
"It's not just the Rohingya problem. There are at least 15 armed ethnic groups in the country that all have to be attended to in terms of finding solutions."
Of all Meyer's current projects, however, the one he describes himself as most excited about is playing out on home soil. On Tuesday, 29 January, President Cyril Ramaphosa attended a Business Economic Indaba organised by Business Unity South Africa, at which the Public Private Growth Initiative (PPGI) laid out for Ramaphosa its plans regarding the ways in which South Africa's private and public sectors could work together to combat unemployment and galvanise the economy.
The PPGI is the brainchild of Meyer and his friend Johan van Zyl, the CEO of Toyota Europe and Africa.
The way Meyer tells it, it was Ramaphosa's inaugural State of the Nation Address that sparked the concept for the PPGI. In particular, it was the president's rallying call to the South African public, Thuma Mina - send me - that did the inspirational trick.