South Africa once the beloved country with potential for enormous success is no longer and is turning into a cesspool at a great speed and an arms dealer hits back at the security forces. None of the beautiful Constitutional guarantees is functioning anymore. South Africa has turned into Africa’s worst nightmare.
The leaders of South Arica are just stuffing their pockets, and do not consider the poor and the needy. It has all become a feeding frenzy in order to profit by way of stealing as much, as quickly as possible. The history reveals how British controlled this country since 1812, and the incalculable wealth reaped from South Africa, even until today. The British through the creation of the Freemasons and their Secret Service (MI6) had set out and is still controlling large vestiges of the RSA economy. There seems to be a distinctly unsavory relationship between these parties, a new form of economic colonization.
Apartheid during its heydays in the sixties was the place where one could obtain the biggest return on capital investment. The British benefited as a country and as individuals. They were adept at controlling the economic sphere in order to enrich themselves. They controlled the Afrikaner Broederbond, which stood under the control of the Freemasons. The South African government was saturated with Freemasons, a la the SA version, referred to as “goat riders”.
A large portion of the South African economic situation had been diverted to the UK; and the fact that several large corporations had shifted their Headquarters off shore to the UK. They could not crack the USA and had lost substantial sums of money on bogus investments in the USA. One of the largest South African banks belongs 51% to Barclays of the UK. This is the same Barclays, which has an agreement with the American Marine Corps to manage their funding, in exchange thereto that Barclays will not fund any other competing Arms Industry Company, thereby precluding the South African Arms Industry!
Does this surprise anybody that the British Arms Company(BAE) is indeed the world’s largest armaments company? Is there any connection between BAE and Barclays? One can but wonder. A nice method to sideline competition and to build the business.
In South Africa during the 2000’s some 320 Ratels (Infantry Fighting Vehicles) were exported to Jordan as a alleged government-to-government contract handled by The Virlean Initiative and Technology. Moeletsi Mbeki (brother of President Thabo Mbeki) was the Chairperson of the King Abdullah Design Bureau II in Jordan (KAD) and a business partner of Ivor Ischikowitz, the current MD of Paramount Logistics. The largest private South African Company in the Arms Industry. A close friend to Pik Botha, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs whose claim to fame that he was the longest serving Minister in this post in the world. In the investigation by First Consult, appointed by former Secretary of Defense, January Masilela, who was later assassinated due to a deal that went sour in the Central African Republic, it was established that not everything was genuine with this transaction.
The exported vehicles were refurbished in Jordan before being sold at an astronomical mark-up to the government. The vehicles were bought at a below scrap value, and the calculations showed that some USD 200-300 million was not repatriated to South Africa. Nothing ever came of this report, and it was shelved like everything else when dealing with corruption in South Africa. From this moment on Ichikowitz and Paramount became key players in the South African arms sector as well as in the African market. It is known that Paramount sold more than 150 Marauder Armed Protected Vehicles (APC’s) to Gabon. They have also been involved in building about 200 Marauders for the Singapore military, as well as in Azerbaijan.
However, the question is where did the missing millions go? Ishikowitz bought ATE (an established company in the aero industry). This company also housed a large number of Intellectual Property aspects relating to the South African Air Force. Today ATE has been absorbed into the Paramount Group, which surely would never had gotten so far if it was not for a cash injection, alleged from the Jordan transaction.
An aspect, which is particularly fascinating, is just how quickly these people get their National Conventional Arms Committee (NCACC) permits. The NCACC is a cabinet committee established under Act 41 of 2002 in order to regulate the arms industry pertaining to conventional weapons. This committee is a cabinet committee, which approves or declines permit applications related to this industry. The committee is supported by the Directorate Conventional Arms Control, referred to as the Secretariat. This secretariat falls under the Department of Defense and is responsible for the logistics support to the NCACC. Complaints had been doing the round for years that the NCACC and the DCAC are a hindrance to the industry and are in effect destroying jobs due to their prolonged delays and intimidation. Furthermore, the ministers on this committee are also eyeing and diverting any business their way once they have taken a fancy to any such business.
The fact of the matter is that not only have the SA Special Forces become a conduit in order to steal, not on a small scale, but rather unusually large scale. Allegations are that Jeff Radebe was an agent for the SA Special Forces against the ANC, pre 1994. It is fascinating to note that different Ministers in the RSA cabinet have a similar sordid past. The Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB) who according to Wiki leaks, were the killers from apartheid, which were organized into killer squads. The majority of the members of these squads is still active today in the state structures. They seem to have cloaked themselves in a fatalistic attitude that because the government of the day is actively discriminating against whites that they will instead steal and in this process compromise hordes of blacks who end up doing their bidding.
This does not stand in isolation, it stems from the apartheid days whereby the National Party has been implicated in many such aspects. Indeed, there is nothing new under the sun!
Institutions that deserve to be scrutinized are the Reserve Bank, Armscor and Denel.
Armscor is the bankrupt procurement company for the military by means of legislation. However, everything is cloaked in secrecy at Armscor. In the First Consult investigation, the staff at Armscor refused to cooperate due to the supposed secrecy provisions. Armscor itself was also implicated in the CCB operations. Yet, until today, nobody has investigated this issue any further. According to Wiki leaks, only the Special Force operators are mentioned. The real culprits such as Armscor have not been touched. General Mojo Motau, the disgraced Chairperson of Armscor, whom single handily destroyed South Africa’s competence in the Defense Intelligence due to his incompetence.
Yet, due to him being politically well connected, nothing has happened to him so far. The Minister of Defense is currently trying to destroy Armscor from him, with little success so far, this is what happens when people’s hands tend not to be clean. Motau is also the person who allegedly gave instructions not to pay NGAM any outstanding moneys – a prime example of how Armscor is destroying business in the RSA for the benefit of some people’s pockets!!
This saga does not stop there. Armscor tends to rope in the Intelligence Services In order to create pressure so that they can steal and cloak themselves in legitimacy. In this regard, Armscor roped in the South African Revenue Services (SARS) and created false stories about Erasmus, his partners and the company.
SARS is acting like a Gestapo hit squad, everybody fears them. They abuse the law in order to hide the bankruptcy of the country. They literally steal money from peoples’ accounts based on the truth of their stories cloaked in legalese. The old CCB people and Special Forces use SARS as a willing tool in order to intimidate and to steal. They tend to invoke the secrecy provisions, which make prosecuting any illegal action in these quarters difficult. When referring matters to legal teams, it is most intriguing to mention the legal interaction between these legal teams and SARS. One gets the impression that SARS are acting as a pimp for these legal teams! SARS owes NGAM R1, 9 million in input Vat, yet they raise assessments based on fictitious amounts after there was long and extensive consultations between themselves and the Armscor cabal. They even have the audacity to claim that they are following the law. This is a real similar argument as what was raised in Nuremburg with the Nazis.
There is a clear line that can be drawn throughout all of these issues. The old CCB operatives are still in place, even if they have retired, such as a certain Herman Crause – the so-called creator of the fictitious right wing menace. These issues are blown up out of all proportion and then hung from the highest chapels. In addition, General Mark Hankel, the alleged MI6 agent and reputed handler of ex-President Thabo Mbeki, who claims smugly that he, was the creator of the Boeremag. All these alleged threats are mechanisms to intimidate the government and to ensure that funds are made available to be used in the pursuit of these right-wingers whilst actually ensuring that the alleged investigators live in luxury and are able to steal what does not belong to them.
They are assisted by a profoundly compromised Intelligence organization. The Director-General of the State Security Agency (SSA), which includes various Intelligence structures.
This only goes to determine how far the RSA government is on the road to self – destruction. Mandela’s dream is being ground under the heels of these people, playing into the hands of the foreign agencies in order to enrich themselves. There is no sense of civic duty. In this regard, the role of the SA Freemasons can never be underestimated! The British are extremely well entrenched in the RSA, it makes sense after all the time and effort they spent here. However, the fact that they lost control of the RSA when Mbeki was ousted was indeed a serious cause for alarm and re-strategizing. The Lords of London as it is referred to, a Masonic Lodge has been hell bent on enriching itself and its members. The latest has been that they had created a Masonic Lodge in the RSA called the House of the Black Princes! The clothing they wear in public seems to serve as identification by these people. In this regard, a black suit, white shirt and red tie seem to be the “uniform” for identification purposes. Even President Zuma has been spotted in this dress code It would make sense to rope in a serving Head of State, even if they would discard him later after he had lost his usefulness.
The fact is that the NCACC is clearly seen as a private members club in order to abuse the Law and to steal to the benefit of its members with people such as Vanessa Du Toit in her incompetence acting as the spearhead of these criminal actions. The Public Protector has been fatally flawed. Many instances have already been raised where her actions do not make sense at all in the realm of the prevailing legislation. In the issue of the Deputy President, Kgalema Motlanthe’s partner, being involved in discussions to sell helicopters to Iran against USA sanctions, the Public Protector found her innocent. This, despite the fact that she was present in meetings where these issues were discussed. The fact that she did not lead the discussions, due to her lack of understanding of the technical issues, does not mean that she was not a part of this planning process. This is the reasoning held forth by the Public Protector. It is abundantly clear that South Africa’s future is unusually cloudy at this stage. The dream of Mandela is busy sliding over the cliffs, along with the crazed pigs.
By Laura Oneale
Opinion
