8chan/8kun QResearch SOUTH AFRICA Posts (5)
#20781361 at 2024-04-26 13:58:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20781359
"The Many Truths of Tokyo Sexwale" - Part 2
https://www.zammagazine.com/arts/551-the-many-truths-of-tokyo-sexwale
Evelyn Groenink
06 October 2015
I had then asked Sexwale about his own friendship with Guenon, who had -posing as a French Socialist Party member and anti-apartheid supporter- infiltrated many in the ANC community in Johannesburg in the early nineties. Guenon had become a close associate of Winnie Mandela, impressing her and many around her with talk of diamonds; he had then helped set up a few returning exiles and former prisoners in houses and businesses in Boksburg, an (as it turned out later) heavily military-intelligence monitored town to the south of Johannesburg. Chris Hani and Tokyo Sexwale had been among the ANC people thus 'helped.'
According to ANC talk at the time the two, Sexwale and Hani, had only met for the first time during these days; ANC politician Mondli Gungubele was overheard telling people that he had been the one who had introduced them to one another.
Being 'open'
When interviewing Tokyo Sexwale about these early days, I had asked him if his diamond interests had perhaps also been helped along by Guenon. Or by Vito Palazzolo, who had been involved with the diamond company Trans Hex before it was taken over by Sexwale. Or by Guenon's very senior friend oil-and-diamond-and arms tycoon Jean Yves Ollivier. Olivier was and is a kingpin of the 'Francafrique' power network in Africa, a 'person of interest' in France's arms-for-oil-for-money-for- French politicians 'Angolagate' scandal; and 'godfather' to many an African dictator presiding over rich natural resources. It was just remarkable how Ollivier's and Tokyo's friendship had developed simultaneously with Tokyo's 'luck' in striking diamonds.
In a previous interview, Sexwale had made no secret of his friendship with Ollivier and neither had he denied having been close to Alain Guenon. "I looked up to this man, he was an important advisor," he had told me. "I am so shocked by what you are saying now. We never suspected that such a man could have links with the enemy."
Sexwale was probably right that he wouldn't have known about the 'apartheid' side of Guenon, at least initially. But the warning I received in the Mvelaphanda kitchen meant at the very least, that he wouldn't want anybody else to know about that either, as much as he wouldn't want anybody else to know that his 'lucky wealth' might have had something to do with his remarkable friendships. Particularly not when others, who had rejected discussions with foreign businessmen in the arms and diamond sectors, had ended up dead. "Yes, there were those who refused to have any part in such discussions and those like me who were more open," he had said to me in a previous interview, taken place just before that strange morning in Rosebank.
#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.
#20551778 at 2024-03-11 16:11:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #12: Joburg Blast and Highjacked Buildings Edition
>>20457780
>>20483993
>cadre deployment system
>>20551658
>It is clear that South Africa has an intelligence service in name only.
>>20551676
"Ramaphosa wants the SSA where he can see it - but is that good for the country?"
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-01-18-ramaphosa-wants-the-ssa-where-he-can-see-it-but-is-that-good-for-the-country/
18 Jan 2022
On Monday it was announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa has made good on a plan first announced in August 2021: to disband the State Security Agency (SSA) as a government department and move it under the wing of the Presidency.
For constitutional reasons the SSA still requires a Cabinet minister to helm it, so Mondli Gungubele will have to find extra space on his business cards to record the fact that he is now Minister in the Presidency: State Security, as well as being Minister in the Presidency: Communications.
Zizi Kodwa, another Ramaphosa loyalist whose position within the executive has apparently not been affected by Zondo Commission revelations that he received handouts from tech company EOH, will be Gungubele's deputy.
The July 2021 unrest made plain what had already been advertised for some time: that the SSA was failing in what should be one of its core mandates - to head off what Ramaphosa termed an "insurrection" before it happened
When it was announced in August 2021, the University of Johannesburg's Professor Jane Duncan warned that there were several aspects that should give us pause for thought.
Among them, the fact that there was no indication this would be a temporary arrangement; the reality that parliamentary oversight is harder when dealing with a president than a minister; and the fact that similar arrangements in both Botswana and Zimbabwe have been abused to help leaders maintain their grip on power.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/ramaphosa-appoints-new-state-security-agency-head-key-npa-appointments-40b51fb7-8de6-4fe4-bf8a-c41c67fea77e
Published Feb 28, 2022
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Thembisile Majola as the new director-general of the State Security Agency with effect from March 1, 2022.
Majola is a former deputy minister of energy and was South Africa's ambassador to Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, Gambia and Guinea Bissau.
https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/ramaphosa-does-away-with-intelligence-ministry-ssa-to-report-directly-to-him-20210805
05 Aug 2021
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was replaced as minister of defence and military veterans by Speaker of Parliament Thandi Modise. Ramaphosa thanked Mapisa-Nqakula saying she "will be deployed to a new position".
#16346727 at 2022-05-26 20:33:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #7: "TRUTH cannot be hidden forever" Edition
"Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework"
https://southafrica.un.org/en/177999-government-south-africa-and-united-nations-south-africa-sign-un-sustainable-development
19 April 2022
General Assembly resolution 72/279 elevates the UNSDCF as "the most important instrument for implementation of the UN development activities at country level.
The Presidency of South Africa and the United Nations in South Africa today signed the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) at the headquarters of the Government Communication Information System (GCIS) in Pretoria.
The ceremony, led by the Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Mondli Gungubele, the outgoing Resident Coordinator for the UN South Africa office, Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, and the Acting Resident Coordinator, Dr Ayodele Odusola, began with a moment of silence for those affected by the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal.
The UNSDCF is a partnership framework comprehensively detailing the works of the UN in South Africa for the period 2020-2025 following a detailed consultation process that included the private sector, civil society, academia and research institutions, women, and youth.
In her remarks, Ms. Bekele-Thomas spoke of the need for "coherent and critical results-based programming based on national needs and priorities" before noting that "our dream is becoming a reality today."
Delivering the keynote address, Minister Gungubele emphasised the commitment of Government to implementing the UNSCDF while highlighting this "truly consultative process that is an integration of global, continental and national goals."
Following the actual signing of the Framework, the UN Resident Coordinator (a.i.), Dr Ayodele Odusola, emphasized South Africa's unique relationship with the United Nations before reminding those present that "effective implementation of the cooperation framework will depend on strong accountability mechanism'.
General Assembly resolution 72/279 elevates the UNSDCF as "the most important instrument for planning and implementation of the UN development activities at country level in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda)."
In closing the ceremony, Dr Ayodele noted that "coherence coordination and collaboration is why it is very important for us to deliver together."
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For interviews and media enquiries, please contact Zeenat Abdool, UN South Africa - Associate Public Information Officer, at abdool@un.org or +27 827788080
#13525727 at 2021-04-27 19:15:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research South Africa #5: RIP President Magufuli Edition
"Sexwale, Gungubele: Chris Hani's purpose was to free SA's from apartheid"dated Apr 10, 2016, at https://youtu.be/PfWRVqft6ls
"Chris Hani joined the SACP in 1961 and MK in 1962, and went into exile in the Soviet Union in 1963 while out on bail pending an appeal against a sentence under the Suppression of Communism Act. He re-entered South Africa in 1974 to establish an underground infrastructure for the ANC. Moving to Lesotho, he organised MK units for guerrilla operations in South Africa. By 1982, having survived several assassination attempts, he was transferred to Zambia, where he was elected a member of the ANC National Executive Committee and MK Political Commissar, working with students recruited to the ANC following the 1976 uprising. In 1987, Hani was elected Chief of Staff of MK, and rose to a senior position in the SACP. On April 10, 1993 Hani was assassinated, shot in the head and back by a Polish far-right immigrant, Janusz Walu?, as he stepped out of his car outside his Boksburg home. Exactly, 23 years ago, South Africa was at the brink of a civil war when SACP leader Chris Hani was gunned down at his East Rand home in Boksburg. Tokyo Sexwale wept beside Chris Hani's body. Let us take a look at some of the scenes from that day. Meanwhile the Mayor of Ekurhuleni, Mondli Gungubele says Chris Hani's purpose was to free the people of South Africa from the shackles of apartheid."