An interesting and depressing look at who’s money is doing what.
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Futurelect looks like an especially shady set-up, a carbon copy of the WEF young leaders propaganda mill. WEF are listed as a partner, as are some major financial institutions eg Old Mutual, NGOs like UNICEF, and Harvard.
The dense network of think-tanks and NGOs looks very similar to the earlier networks that gradually took over America. That story is told in detail in this book. Once the ‘philanthropic’ money pipes are in place the lobbying and influence follow.
Based on a recent personal conversation, there seems to be talk of ANC/EFF maybe ruling in coalition to keep the others out. But I expect that’s what “the others” are seeding into the pre-election build-up. Handy way to tarnish both parties by association and to assert that neither can win in their own right. The campaign will certainly be worth watching (using various sources and certainly not the Daily Maverick in isolation - they are really the ZA Guardian).
The links between ZA and Israel, and ZA with Taiwan, have been strong for a long time. At one time I think RSA, as was, was the only country in the world to recognise Taiwan’s government. They took a lot of trouble to invite dignitaries to the country to prove how very unracist they were, and to demonstrate that people saying that SA had no friends were completely wrong. Ditto those arsehole cricketers, rugby players, and Sun City performers like Elton John.
South Africans are fighting in the IDF right now (they’ve been promised a hostile reception if and when they return to ZA). A guy I was at school with is in the Israeli diplomatic service. I see he has pitched up in Canada:
I look forward to the rest of the story as I think Mike Hampton was mainly setting out the board in part one.
I wish I had read that before the elections. I might have made more sense of the results.
If one were a conspiracy theorist, one might say that all the tax cuts and tax loopholes for the rich over the last two, three, or perhaps four decades, have been conceived to allow the super rich to set up organisations like the “Endowment for Democracy” and other pro ‘democracy’ organisations. Of course these and all the NGO’s leave the CIA and western GIC’s to claim not me gov!
However, the western meddling in SA goes way back, much like the rest of Africa. After Mandela’s death, there were many criticisms of him, especially on monetary policy. I simply point out that 6 months before he became President, unknown to most even to this day, is that the SA government made a secret deal with the World Bank, and as they say, the rest is history.
There were South Africans, white needless to say, that fought with the Germans in WWII.
From that article, there seems to be a few more names to add to the Nuremburg 2 perps list!
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Although I figured a rapprochement with MKW might work better, it seems the ruling coalition will be ANC, DA, IFP and the Patriotic Alliance. That’s about two-thirds of the seats, with Cyril Ramaphosa at the helm. Julius Malema had the chutzpah to run against him in the Presidential vote.
Regrettably Naledi Pandor won’t be in the government (she was too far down the ANC list to gain a seat).
I’m wondering if the pro-Palestinian stance will be watered down, and if the DA will act as a wedge. Coalitions of one or other kind will probably be the future for ZA
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