IS RUTO ‘MAKING A KILLING’ IN DRC?

William Ruto’s greed is putting the eastern African region at risk - so alleges the Kenyan president’s ex deputy, Rigathi Gachagua. The former VP, who was removed from office last October after an impeachment vote, has been busy blowing the whistle on the inner workings of the Ruto government, sharing what he claims is privileged insider knowledge.

In a recent interview with Kenya Television Network (@KTNNewsKE on X), Gachagua made serious allegations about Ruto’s involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly regarding the gold industry. While the latter has positioned himself as a pan-Africanist, he faces accusations of betraying the core values of pan-Africanism by catering to imperialist interests.

Continued….. Notably, as France faces increasing pushback in Africa, especially in the Sahel region, Ruto turned to French President Emmanuel Macron for assistance in addressing the crisis in DRC.

This led to outrage in Kinshasa, whose residents protested violently at the Kenyan embassy, viewing Kenya as complicit in selling out their nation to foreign powers. The incident was part of a spate of attacks on foreign embassies of countries seen as implicated in DRC’s turmoil during the M23 rebels’ takeover of Goma.

Kenya also faced criticism for hosting the Congo River Alliance, a political-military group of Congolese rebels, with the Rwanda-backed M23 being the most preeminent faction. Gachagua argues that Ruto’s diplomatic blunders and exploitation of the conflict in the DRC are key factors contributing to the region’s instability.

Video credit: KTN News Kenya

Sources

https://trtafrika.com/africa/kenya-denies-backing-drcs-new-rebel-alliance-16275045

https://www.csis.org/analysis/kenya-and-democratic-republic-congo

https://shahidinews.co.ke/2023/12/17/kenya-distances-itself-from-the-launch-of-new-congolese-military-alliance-in-nairobi/

https://www.theafricareport.com/381267/kenya-ex-allies-lambast-ruto-accuse-him-of-war-profiteering/

https://kenyanforeignpolicy.com/ruto-preaching-pan-africanism-dialling-the-west/

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/congo-summons-its-kenyan-ambassador-over-rebel-alliance/3084722

2022 THROWBACK: MALEMA IN COURT OVER ‘K*LL THE BOER’

In this 2022 throwback, we showcase a defiant Julius Malema, president of the Pan-Africanist political party, Economic Freedom Fighters (@effsouthafrica), who was in the dock for singing the song ‘K*ll the Boer’ in a case brought by right-wing lobby group AfriForum.

Malema (@julius_s_malema on X, @julius.malema.sello on IG) firmly rejected attempts to relegate to the background the brutal history of apartheid and its traumatic effects on Black South Africans, which led to the emergence of protest songs such as ‘Dubul’ ibhunu.’

‘Dubul’ ibhunu’ in the Xhosa language means ‘K*ll the Boer.’
Boer, which means ‘farmer’ in the Afrikaans language, is generally used to refer to white South African settlers who descend from Dutch colonialists, the group that dominated the apartheid regime that ruled South Africa between 1948 and 1994.

Continued……. US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Trump’s senior advisor and South Africa-born tech billionaire, cited the song as evidence that South Africa is promoting g*nocide against white settlers in South Africa. 

For years, the right in South Africa and the West have peddled a notion about an alleged state-backed plan to k*ll white South Africans en masse. They have used these claims to oppose government policies adopted to redress the lingering effects of the apartheid regime’s crimes committed against Black people.

In this video, Malema brings to the fore some of those crimes, including torture, harassment, extra-judicial killings and imprisonment.

With most of the victims yet to see justice for the brutal treatment under the regime’s laws and policies, Malema’s point remains as relevant as ever three years later.

Video credit: @SABCnews

Sources

https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/afri-forum-v-malema/

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/indian-south-africans-1924-1948-legislation-and-segregation

https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201802/landauditreport13feb2018.pdf

https://www.statssa.gov.za/publications/P0302/P03022017.pdf

https://www.gov.za/about-sa/south-africas-people

https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPJHC/2022/599.html

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/magazine/men-behind-terror-squad-that-killed-opponents-of-the-apartheid-regime--1315954

https://constitutionnet.org/news/south-africas-president-signs-land-expropriation-bill-law

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/kill-the-boer-the-anti-apartheid-song-musk-ties-to-white-genocide

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290131/south-africa-land-trump-musk-ramaphosa

‘SUPPRESSING SPEECH RAISES QUESTIONS’

In this clip from the 3 April episode of the ‘Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast, host Joe Rogan (@joerogan) and political commentator Dave Smith (@comicdavesmith on X, @theproblemdavesmith on IG) discussed how Israel’s longtime ally, the United States, not only supports Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza, which the International Court of Justice says is a ‘plausible’ g*nocide, but also suppresses dissenting opinions.