Forwarded from Fundamental Christianity
Today in history - South Africa
Translated from Afrikaans to English
THE VOW
Here we stand before the Holy God of Heaven and earth, to make a vow to Him that, if He will protect us and deliver our enemy in our hand, we have this day and date every year as a day of thanks, as a Sabbath shall spend and that we will raise up a house to His glory where it pleases Him, and that we will say to our children that they should share with us in it to the memory also for the emerging generations, for the glory of His name will be glorified by the fame and the honor of victory to Him.
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Translated from Afrikaans to English
THE VOW
Here we stand before the Holy God of Heaven and earth, to make a vow to Him that, if He will protect us and deliver our enemy in our hand, we have this day and date every year as a day of thanks, as a Sabbath shall spend and that we will raise up a house to His glory where it pleases Him, and that we will say to our children that they should share with us in it to the memory also for the emerging generations, for the glory of His name will be glorified by the fame and the honor of victory to Him.
Notes in comments for context.
🇿🇦 Former President Drops Support for ANC
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has announced that he will no longer be supporting the ANC in the upcoming 2024 general election.
Zuma will be voting for a new party, uMkhonto we Sizwe ["Spear of the Nation"], that is named after the ANC's ex-paramilitary wing that carried out multiple deadly attacks on civilians during apartheid mostly through bombings and landmines.
📝 Jacob Zuma, a prominent Zulu member within the ANC, is very popular and influential among Zulus — the largest demographic group in the country
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has announced that he will no longer be supporting the ANC in the upcoming 2024 general election.
Zuma will be voting for a new party, uMkhonto we Sizwe ["Spear of the Nation"], that is named after the ANC's ex-paramilitary wing that carried out multiple deadly attacks on civilians during apartheid mostly through bombings and landmines.
📝 Jacob Zuma, a prominent Zulu member within the ANC, is very popular and influential among Zulus — the largest demographic group in the country
South Africa Reports
🚰 Too white for a water license? Applications for a water use licence on the South African government's Department of Water and Sanitation’s online platform can only be processed if the applicant meets BBBEE racial criteria. Without it, it is impossible…
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📉🌐 International businesses are finding it increasingly more difficult to deal with the problems caused by South Africa. Increases in labour costs and disputes, an electrical grid that only provides power for half the day, and crumbling transport infrastructure…
🛤 Crumbling South African Rail Prompts Botswana to Forge New Route
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network.
The 1,500 kilometer (930-mile) Trans-Kalahari Railway project is gathering momentum as Transnet SOC Ltd., the state rail and ports monopoly in Botswana’s southern neighbor, struggles to ship goods, according to Transport and Public Works Minister Eric Molale.
“We learned in June that the waiting period at all South Africa ports to offload and load can be a minimum of two weeks, floating on the sea for that period,” he said in an interview Monday in Gaborone, the capital. “The UAEs, the Qataris, the Chinese, the Indians have also come to say this is not a long line for them and it is in fact, a comparatively short one that they can do very quickly.”
Coal shipments on Transnet freight-rail network have plunged to 30-year lows and iron-ore railings are at their lowest in a decade. Port gridlock has led to delays to the loading and offloading of ships and some fashion retailers have resorted to flying in apparel.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-19/crumbling-south-african-rail-prompts-botswana-to-forge-new-route
https://archive.is/Y3NbX
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network.
The 1,500 kilometer (930-mile) Trans-Kalahari Railway project is gathering momentum as Transnet SOC Ltd., the state rail and ports monopoly in Botswana’s southern neighbor, struggles to ship goods, according to Transport and Public Works Minister Eric Molale.
“We learned in June that the waiting period at all South Africa ports to offload and load can be a minimum of two weeks, floating on the sea for that period,” he said in an interview Monday in Gaborone, the capital. “The UAEs, the Qataris, the Chinese, the Indians have also come to say this is not a long line for them and it is in fact, a comparatively short one that they can do very quickly.”
Coal shipments on Transnet freight-rail network have plunged to 30-year lows and iron-ore railings are at their lowest in a decade. Port gridlock has led to delays to the loading and offloading of ships and some fashion retailers have resorted to flying in apparel.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-19/crumbling-south-african-rail-prompts-botswana-to-forge-new-route
https://archive.is/Y3NbX
Bloomberg.com
Crumbling South African Rail Prompts Botswana to Forge New Route
Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and its disintegrating logistics network.
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🚢 🌍 🇾🇪 There goes the wave. Just about every westbound ship has turned south for the Cape.
📎 Nathan Strang
📎 Nathan Strang
South Africa Reports
🚢 🌍 🇾🇪 There goes the wave. Just about every westbound ship has turned south for the Cape. 📎 Nathan Strang
🇿🇦🚢 Just in time to go through South Africa's ports that the ANC government has run into a nightmarish state of chaos and disfunction.
🔸The container backlog at our 3 major ports stood at 100 000 at the beginning of December.
🔸The congestion crisis at South Africa’s state-run ports has resulted in cargo ships having to wait 215+ hours at Port Nqura and 32 hours to enter Port Elizabeth port. Meanwhile, the wait to enter the Durban port stood at 227+ hours at the end of Nov.
🔸According to the state-owned enterprise in charge of South Africa's ports, Transnet, this severe shipping backlog will only be cleared by February or March 2024.
🔸The situation has become so dire that the CEO of Transnet described it as "Rome is burning"
🔸“The average South African [doesn't] realise what a complete and utter catastrophe Transnet is. It is way worse than Eskom (state-run power monopoly)"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1736987028619694506.html
🔸The container backlog at our 3 major ports stood at 100 000 at the beginning of December.
🔸The congestion crisis at South Africa’s state-run ports has resulted in cargo ships having to wait 215+ hours at Port Nqura and 32 hours to enter Port Elizabeth port. Meanwhile, the wait to enter the Durban port stood at 227+ hours at the end of Nov.
🔸According to the state-owned enterprise in charge of South Africa's ports, Transnet, this severe shipping backlog will only be cleared by February or March 2024.
🔸The situation has become so dire that the CEO of Transnet described it as "Rome is burning"
🔸“The average South African [doesn't] realise what a complete and utter catastrophe Transnet is. It is way worse than Eskom (state-run power monopoly)"
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1736987028619694506.html
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@ConCaracal: Just in time to go through South Africa's ports that the ANC government has run into a nightmarish state of chaos and disfunction. The container backlog at our 3 major ports stood at 100 000...…
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🇿🇦🚢 Just in time to go through South Africa's ports that the ANC government has run into a nightmarish state of chaos and disfunction. 🔸The container backlog at our 3 major ports stood at 100 000 at the beginning of December. 🔸The congestion crisis at South…
zerohedge on X: "South African piracy is about to go limit up"
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1737509650520514901
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1737509650520514901
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zerohedge on X: "South African piracy is about to go limit up" https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1737509650520514901
The odds of piracy taking off on the coast of South Africa is extremely low, but if it were to happen would the South African Navy be up for the challenge?
Absolutely not. South Africa is unable to meet its international search & rescue obligations and it relies on civilian and international assistance to mount any meaningful rescue effort. SA's total area of responsibility for both maritime (IMO) and aeronautical (ICAO) is approx 28,5m square km and stretches down to the South Pole.
With no long-range SAR aircraft, perhaps one C-130 Hercules may be available? Will a frigate be seaworthy and manned in time? [Doubtful.]
https://twitter.com/deanwingrin/status/1736994424423432601
Absolutely not. South Africa is unable to meet its international search & rescue obligations and it relies on civilian and international assistance to mount any meaningful rescue effort. SA's total area of responsibility for both maritime (IMO) and aeronautical (ICAO) is approx 28,5m square km and stretches down to the South Pole.
With no long-range SAR aircraft, perhaps one C-130 Hercules may be available? Will a frigate be seaworthy and manned in time? [Doubtful.]
https://twitter.com/deanwingrin/status/1736994424423432601
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Dean Wingrin (@deanwingrin) on X
As more and larger vessels travel around the southern tip of Africa, will the #SANDF / SA be able to adequately respond to a maritime emergency?
Short answer: No! #SouthAfrica is lacking in maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) capabilities.
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Short answer: No! #SouthAfrica is lacking in maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) capabilities.
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Historically, you would find South African Navy ships patrolling the Mozambican coast as part of Operation Copper. However, this is not the case anymore due to heavy budget cuts preventing deployment.
🗳🇿🇦Foreign-funded NGO renews announcement of IEC partnership with foreign tech giants tied to American state security
The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has decided to welcome American state security into our electoral system.
The IEC has partnered with a disreputable NGO called Real411 with a history of inaccurate reporting, as well as several American tech giants, to help censor "disinformation".
While the policy was announced in July, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the organisations tasked with carrying out online censorship in collaboration with Google, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), TikTok, has released a new statement on TechCentral to boast of their new and authoritative role leading up to the 2024 elections.
MMA and its partner Real411, both run by drama school graduate and NGO lifer William Bird, are an official platform for reporting “misinformation”, and will be empowered to censor South Africans on social media sites run by its partners.
Bird’s two little perches are paid for by the same cluster of trans-Atlantic NGOs which bankroll pro-land invasion groups like Ndifuna Ukwazi, SERI and Reclaim the City - the Open Society Foundation, the Raith Foundation.
They mainly attract people who complain about opponents to open borders, dissenters from the official line on COVID policy, and those who talk about farm murders or the government’s racial discrimination policies.
https://www.capeindependent.com/article/foreign-funded-ngo-renews-announcement-of-iec-partnership-with-foreign-tech-giants-tied-to-american-state-security
The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has decided to welcome American state security into our electoral system.
The IEC has partnered with a disreputable NGO called Real411 with a history of inaccurate reporting, as well as several American tech giants, to help censor "disinformation".
While the policy was announced in July, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the organisations tasked with carrying out online censorship in collaboration with Google, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), TikTok, has released a new statement on TechCentral to boast of their new and authoritative role leading up to the 2024 elections.
MMA and its partner Real411, both run by drama school graduate and NGO lifer William Bird, are an official platform for reporting “misinformation”, and will be empowered to censor South Africans on social media sites run by its partners.
Bird’s two little perches are paid for by the same cluster of trans-Atlantic NGOs which bankroll pro-land invasion groups like Ndifuna Ukwazi, SERI and Reclaim the City - the Open Society Foundation, the Raith Foundation.
They mainly attract people who complain about opponents to open borders, dissenters from the official line on COVID policy, and those who talk about farm murders or the government’s racial discrimination policies.
https://www.capeindependent.com/article/foreign-funded-ngo-renews-announcement-of-iec-partnership-with-foreign-tech-giants-tied-to-american-state-security
Capeindependent
Foreign-funded NGO renews announcement of IEC partnership with foreign tech giants tied to American state security | The Cape Independent
The IEC has partnered with a disreputable NGO called Real411 with a history of inaccurate reporting, as well as several American tech giants, to help censor "disinformation".
Forwarded from Die Vryburger Beweging
Mede kamerade, dankie aan almal wat ons Geloftedag fees die afgelope naweek bygewoon het en aan die talle gesinne wat vrywillig bygedra het om die geleentheid 'n sukses te maak, julle hulp word opreg waardeer. Bly asseblief ingeskakel, meer opwindende beeldmateriaal van die geleentheid sal volg!
(Let wel - ons het alle sigbare gesigte vervaag om die identiteit van ons lede en gaste te beskerm. Ons sal voortgaan om dit te doen in alle komende beeldmateriaal)
Fellow comrades, a big thank you to everyone who attended our Geloftedag festival this past weekend and to the many families who volunteered to make the event a success, your help is greatly appreciated. Please stay tuned, more exciting footage from the event will follow soon!
(Note - we've blurred out all visible faces to protect the identity of our members and guests. We will continue to do so in all upcoming footage)
(Let wel - ons het alle sigbare gesigte vervaag om die identiteit van ons lede en gaste te beskerm. Ons sal voortgaan om dit te doen in alle komende beeldmateriaal)
Fellow comrades, a big thank you to everyone who attended our Geloftedag festival this past weekend and to the many families who volunteered to make the event a success, your help is greatly appreciated. Please stay tuned, more exciting footage from the event will follow soon!
(Note - we've blurred out all visible faces to protect the identity of our members and guests. We will continue to do so in all upcoming footage)
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Finnish anon: "South Africa is a whitepill, because white South Africans are the undying flame of whites. No matter how hard their enemies try, it's impossible to finish them off. They will be thriving in anchor towns and creating a new golden age. All kinds of anti-white arguments go against them "apartheid, holocaust, racist" and "you bad, mugabe and sipho good" — yet they still keep going and surviving. And because they are so far into the collapse, they will be the first to come out of it. Hope itself is pointless, it is willed into happening. The sun will shine on the Cape of Good Hope."
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⚠️🔥 Tanker explosion on N2/M7 Highway exit near Durban, South Africa. No casualties reported.
📅 Exactly 1 year ago, a tanker exploded in Boksburg, Johannesburg, killing more than 25
📅 Exactly 1 year ago, a tanker exploded in Boksburg, Johannesburg, killing more than 25
Forwarded from Africa Intel
🎅🎉 🌍 The New Year is approaching us!
The 2023 was a very productive year for Africa Intel! We published many analytical materials and tried to provide you with fresh news from all-over the African continent. Our channel jumped from 2k to astounding 14k subscribers in a span of an year! Thank you so much for reading us! It means a lot to us!
Many things happened this year in Africa. Some were great, some were interesting to say the least, and some were really sad ones. However, Africa Intel can say for sure it was a really interesting year! And 2024 promises to bring us even more dramatic, memorable and unexpected events! So stay tuned!
We've also met a lot of incredible people. So, on this occasion, we'd like to share the channels we read ourselves and who support us! Africa Intel admins hope they will be useful to you as well.
@CIG_telegram – broad range of news from a healthy point of view
@meriblood – News, maps, author videos, and great analysis from the U.S. and Latin America
@arabwar – geopolitics and conflict news in arabic
@SouthAfricaReports – the most important news from South Africa.
@TheMediterraneanMan – news and healthy analytics from Egyptian point of view
@Middle_East_Spectator — analytics and everything important about the Middle East region
@BellumActaNews – stay aware of the world conflicts
@topicdujour – current agenda with great sense of humour
@asianomics – fine analytics on the state of things in Asian states
@songofoil – must-read to understand the current energy market
@southafricanminorityunion – the most pressing issues on the South African agenda
@ZA_future_of_the_West – reports about South Africa riots, farm attacks, attacks on civilians in towns
@maplechronicles – all Canadian news in one channel
@DDGeopolitics – newsfeed and analytics about hot topics from allover the world
@AussieCossack — news from Sydney, Australia
And of course our dear followers — providers of a wide variety of news and issues that have prompted us to write a number of material!
Yours,
🌍 @africaintel
The 2023 was a very productive year for Africa Intel! We published many analytical materials and tried to provide you with fresh news from all-over the African continent. Our channel jumped from 2k to astounding 14k subscribers in a span of an year! Thank you so much for reading us! It means a lot to us!
Many things happened this year in Africa. Some were great, some were interesting to say the least, and some were really sad ones. However, Africa Intel can say for sure it was a really interesting year! And 2024 promises to bring us even more dramatic, memorable and unexpected events! So stay tuned!
We've also met a lot of incredible people. So, on this occasion, we'd like to share the channels we read ourselves and who support us! Africa Intel admins hope they will be useful to you as well.
@CIG_telegram – broad range of news from a healthy point of view
@meriblood – News, maps, author videos, and great analysis from the U.S. and Latin America
@arabwar – geopolitics and conflict news in arabic
@SouthAfricaReports – the most important news from South Africa.
@TheMediterraneanMan – news and healthy analytics from Egyptian point of view
@Middle_East_Spectator — analytics and everything important about the Middle East region
@BellumActaNews – stay aware of the world conflicts
@topicdujour – current agenda with great sense of humour
@asianomics – fine analytics on the state of things in Asian states
@songofoil – must-read to understand the current energy market
@southafricanminorityunion – the most pressing issues on the South African agenda
@ZA_future_of_the_West – reports about South Africa riots, farm attacks, attacks on civilians in towns
@maplechronicles – all Canadian news in one channel
@DDGeopolitics – newsfeed and analytics about hot topics from allover the world
@AussieCossack — news from Sydney, Australia
And of course our dear followers — providers of a wide variety of news and issues that have prompted us to write a number of material!
Yours,
🌍 @africaintel
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JUST IN: BRICS announced that the group will be expanded to include Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 + 🇦🇷🇪🇬🇪🇹🇮🇷🇸🇦🇦🇪
The following countries officially joined BRICS today:
• 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
• 🇪🇬 Egypt
• 🇮🇷 Iran
🇦🇷 Argentina rejected the invitation to join the group
• 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
• 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
• 🇪🇬 Egypt
• 🇮🇷 Iran
🇦🇷 Argentina rejected the invitation to join the group
Forwarded from Keith Woods
2013 article from Sky News on research conducted in a township near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Of 38 men surveyed, 28 had forced a woman to have sex with them. Reporters were shocked by how candid their answers were.
https://news.sky.com/story/shocking-attitudes-to-rape-in-south-africa-10433820
Of 38 men surveyed, 28 had forced a woman to have sex with them. Reporters were shocked by how candid their answers were.
https://news.sky.com/story/shocking-attitudes-to-rape-in-south-africa-10433820
Sky News
Shocking Attitudes To Rape In South Africa
Sky News has carried out a survey of men's attitudes towards rape in South Africa. Their answers are both candid and shocking.
Forwarded from /CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global (FRANCISCVS)
🇿🇦 🤝 🇸🇩 The Presidency of South Africa inaccurately described the Sudanese warlord as the President of Sudan during his visit to Pretoria today. They later deleted their tweet.
🔶️ Could this be a window into South African thinking or lack thereof? Only Africal's razor knows.
📎 Cameron Hudson
🔶️ Could this be a window into South African thinking or lack thereof? Only Africal's razor knows.
📎 Cameron Hudson
🇿🇦🇨🇩South Africa to lead new military force in the DRC
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Monusco, is ending after 20 years. It will be replaced by troops from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), led by the South African military.
The SADC mission in the DRC – which carries the acronym (SAMIDRC) – is expected to replace the East African Community Regional Force and help the national security forces in fighting especially the M23 rebels, a group allegedly supported by Rwanda.
The SADC force is expected to attempt, in cooperation with the local security forces, to neutralise the main rebel groups operating in the eastern DRC. This is something that Monusco and the East African Community Regional Force have not been able to do for the last 20 years.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Monusco, is ending after 20 years. It will be replaced by troops from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), led by the South African military.
The SADC mission in the DRC – which carries the acronym (SAMIDRC) – is expected to replace the East African Community Regional Force and help the national security forces in fighting especially the M23 rebels, a group allegedly supported by Rwanda.
The SADC force is expected to attempt, in cooperation with the local security forces, to neutralise the main rebel groups operating in the eastern DRC. This is something that Monusco and the East African Community Regional Force have not been able to do for the last 20 years.