SOUTH AFRICA COALITION DOOMSDAY FOR WHOM?

After long-time ruling party African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority in South Africa’s 2024 elections, opposition parties Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) were put forth as likely candidates for a coalition government.

However, in a move that came as a surprise to many, the ANC opted to go into a coalition with the right-wing Democratic Alliance (DA), which for years has opposed ANC policies seeking to redress the legacy of apartheid, which still affects many Black South Africans, economically and socially.

The ANC’s decision to align with the DA is widely seen as having been pushed by powerful white business forces that did not want to see the EFF and MK in government.

Continued……In this clip, activist Darren Campher responds to Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’ comments about the ANC/EFF/MK alliance being a doomsday scenario for white settlers. Despite having Africa’s biggest GDP, the country’s wealth is concentrated with the minority white-settler population, who own 72 per cent of private farmland despite comprising less than 8 per cent of the population. Meanwhile, Black South Africans suffer poverty, unemployment and landlessness, with only a tiny Black elite integrated into the economy.

Parties like the EFF that champion greater African custody of South Africa’s resources, such as appropriation of land without compensation, are a threat to white monopoly capital, the primary beneficiary of South Africa’s economic success.

Video credit: @darrencampher.com (IG) / @campherdarren (X)

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REACTION: MANDELA ‘A TERRORIST’?

Nelson Mandela did not go to prison for his politics but because he was a “terrorist” trying to overthrow South Africa's “legitimate” government - that's the view put forward by South African White-supremacist Ernst Roets during a recent appearance on US podcaster and right-wing commentator, Tucker Carlson's show.

Roets, who until recently was the deputy leader of AfriForum, a South African White-supremacist organisation that’s been at the forefront of a global smear campaign against the nation’s leadership, claimed that Mandela and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), were involved in terrorist activities.

Roets' comments are part of a well-orchestrated campaign by local and global White-supremacist forces to portray White South Africans as victims of discrimination by the current ANC-led government.

In this reaction video, we push back on some of their talking points.

Video credit: The Tucker Carlson Show

Hear Us Roar: https://news.1rj.ru/str/AfricanStream

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EU’S GREEN IMPERIALISM: KEEPING AFRICA BACK?

Has the EU just sent a Trojan Horse to South Africa? An extra few billion dollars to roll out clean energy sounds brilliant. But Brussels’ recent ‘gift’ to Pretoria may be concealing a more cunning agenda. Europe, which has already had its ‘dirty’ Industrial Revolution, doesn’t want Africa to catch up and become a power house. So it dresses up its fears as concerns for the environment, pushing less reliable solar and wind solutions on us. Bear in mind that the Europeans currently pollute way more than Africans do - and there are far fewer of them, so their sins are greater. Yet apparently it’s Africa that’s got to clean up its act while they carry on cutting coal deals with countries they lecture about using… too much coal! African Stream’s William Sakawa explores the sham that is Brussels’ green conscience in his latest video.

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15 BODIES PULLED FROM WELL IN SUDAN’S FORMER RSF-SEIZED AREA

On 16 March, Red Crescent volunteers pulled 15 bodies from the bottom of a well in a recently recaptured area of East Nile district in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Speaking to Reuters about the incident, Hisham Zain al-Abdin, the director of forensic medicine for Khartoum state, said that most of the 15 victims had been shot in the head, while the injuries on some suggest ‘they were thrown in the well alive.’ The director said bodies continue to be found in areas that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.

Reuters reported that Hussein al-Faki, one of the residents who reported the bodies to authorities, said local people had tried to bury the bodies, but armed men controlling the area during the RSF occupation ‘warned us not to go near them.’

Continued……The UN notes that both sides in the war—the SAF and the RSF—have committed atrocities amounting to war crimes since 2018. In January, the US placed sanctions on leaders of both warring parties. 

However, in this foreign-backed proxy war that kicked off on 15 April 2023, the United Arab Emirates-bankrolled RSF is responsible for most of the atrocities and are accused of g*nocide. Meaningful accountability measures against the UAE remain amiss.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Sudan Research Group estimates the proxy war had k*lled at least 60,000 people in its first 14 months in just Khartoum alone. Plus, in May 2024, US envoy Tom Perriello estimated 150,000 deaths. 

Today, the proxy war has displaced over 14 million people and left over half the country’s people—30.4 million—in dire need of aid. Not only is Sudan suffering the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world, it is also the ‘largest as well as the fastest growing displacement crisis globally,’ according to the UN, with a total displaced population that is ‘greater than the entire population of Switzerland.’

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SENATOR ALLEGES KENYA CAN’T TRACE $46 BILLION

Kenyan Senator Okiya Omtatah, often referred to as the ‘People’s Watchman,’ has questioned how a staggering $46 billion has vanished without a trace.

@OkiyaOmtatah (X) revealed that he meticulously combed through official Treasury records but could not determine what the money funded. His allegations have ignited outrage amongst Kenyans online, who call for the responsible officials to face legal action, including at the International Criminal Court (ICC), for what they see as reckless mismanagement of funds.

Over the past decade, Kenya has significantly increased its borrowing. The Tax Justice Network reports that from June 2012 to June 2021, the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio surged by 30 per cent, climbing from 38 per cent to 68 per cent, while total debt skyrocketed from $12.3 billion to $59.5 billion.

Continued……In 2024, the debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 69.9 per cent, with total debts reaching $75 billion, indicating that the economy is struggling to generate enough goods and services to meet debt obligations.

In 2024, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi (@MusaliaMudavadi on X) acknowledged that corruption costs the country approximately $4.7 billion annually. Extravagant spending doesn’t help, as in the case of President William Ruto reportedly chartering a $1.5 million private jet for his May 2024 state visit to the US, instead of opting for the much more economical national airline.

To plug budget holes, Nairobi frequently seeks loans from Western-established lenders like the International Monetary Fund. These lenders impose stringent measures, including tax increases and cuts to subsidies for essential items like fuel, further burdening citizens already grappling with a rising cost of living. Last year’s tax increase proposal infuriated Kenyans, who protested in the streets twice for several weeks at a time, leading to 145 fatalities.

Video credit: Parliament of Kenya (@NAssemblyKE on X)

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Recently declassified US government files concerning the assassination of US President John F Kennedy (1917-63) show that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established covert bases in Africa starting in the 1960s. One document lists the African cities of Harare (formerly Salisbury), Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, Pretoria, Rabat, and dozens of other cities worldwide.

Noteworthy for Africa are the CIA's nefarious operations during the 1960s and ‘70s. British researcher Susan Williams highlighted these activities in her 2021 book, ‘White Malice: The CIA and the Recolonization of Africa.’ She details how the agency aimed to draw newly independent African nations into the imperialist and capitalist sphere while thwarting any alignment with socialist ideologies.

Continued……The CIA's primary focus was on the vast central African state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), previously known as the Belgian Congo, due to its strategic significance. Just a year after gaining independence in 1960, DRC's visionary Pan-Africanist prime minister, Patrice Lumumba (1925-61), was assassinated in a CIA-orchestrated plot. At the time, CIA Director Allen Dulles (1893-1969) referred to Lumumba as ‘a Castro or worse.’

CIA schemes also ousted influential African leaders, such as Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72). The overarching impact of these operations was a covert recolonisation of Africa, characterised by removing capable people-oriented leaders and replacing them with compliant puppets like Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-97), who permitted foreign powers to exploit the Congo’s resources.

Decades later, the CIA remains involved in covert operations that ostensibly focus on counterterrorism. However, in conjunction with the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), it works to maintain a persistent US military presence in Africa under the pretext of combatting insecurity created by Western machinations. An example is the flooding of arms and t*rrorists in the Sahel region since the 2011 NATO invasion of Libya.

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