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🇺🇸🇿🇦 US to raise concerns of South Africa's ties to Russia, China if new government is elected, official says "We also have issues of concern that you cited, particularly some of South Africa's engagement with Russia and China, and we will continue to raise concerns with any new government if they continue to pursue those policies," said US Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee. South Africa's ruling party, known as the African National Congress, has controlled the government for some 30 years, but recent polls project it will lose its parliamentary majority in the general election on May 29 due to poverty and corruption issues.

🇿🇦 Controversial "Universal Health Bill" Signed Into Law ✍️ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the controversial National Health Insurance Bill into law today. The NHI is a proposed healthcare reform aiming to provide universal health coverage in South Africa. ▪️With the signing of the NHI bill, Ramaphosa pledged to end "health-care apartheid." ▪️ The legislation provides a framework for the provision of universal care through a state-run fund and will ban the private sector from financing treatment covered under the plan. ▪️While there is a widespread support for reform of a system that sees a multibillion rand private health-care industry servicing 16% of the population and the balance relying on overburdened public facilities, critics of the NHI bill argue that the government’s proposals haven’t been properly costed, are unconstitutional and could be successfully challenged in court. 💸 According to some analysts, the state-run fund requires an estimated R1 trillion to pay for the scheme with the bill entirely footed by the overburdened and shrinking South African taxpayer base. 📝 "The irony of this bill is that South Africa already has a free public health care system, but it was destroyed by the ANC over the last 30 years just like every other state-run facility. In essence, the NHI will create a massive pool of funds that the ANC can loot while removing access to private health care primarily paid for and used by whites."

📉The official South African unemployment rate climbed to 32.9% according to StatsSA Unemployment according to the expanded definition stood at 41.9%,

The official jobless rate climbed to 32.9% in the three months through March from 32.1% in the previous quarter

☪️🇿🇦 The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has urged all South African Muslims to vote for the ANC in this month's national elections. Ibrahim El-Zayat of the IUMS, who also represents the Council of European Muslims, says the Muslim world is very appreciative of the ANC government for their firm stance on and support for the people of Gaza and Palestine. The IUMS and other Muslim organizations visited the ANC headquarters in Luthuli House in Johannesburg on Monday to express their appreciation for the ruling party's role in achieving peace in Palestine. They also met with the ANC leadership. ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the endorsement, saying it was a pivotal moment for the party.

🚢 Red Sea crisis is rerouting cargo ships around Africa 📈 Number of ships round the Cape is almost double 🇿🇦 South Africa is not benefiting from the surge in traffic 📝 "Shipping doubles around Cape but chaos at Durban leads to LESS ships stopping off. Durban 4 times longer wait than other ports now used on the route. Pointe Noir and Mombasa seen massive increase in ships but still manage to turnaround in 1-1.6 days."

Boer on X: "South African family were attacked 3:00am in their house by 2 black attackers Tuesday." The husband and wife fought back and apprehended the black terrorist despite suffering stab wounds. The local neighbourhood watch were first to respond to the scene. https://www.northwestnewspapers.co.za/herald/news/latest-news/gesin-baklei-hand-en-tand-teen-aanvallers https://twitter.com/twatterbaas/status/1788614669638262981

📖🇿🇦Regarding speculating on or downplaying Shell's exit from the South African market: ◽️1) Shell exiting SA was a looming possibility a DECADE ago already. For people in the sector, it's been a huge surprise how long it's taken. Attributing it to the upcoming election is opportunistic electioneering of a gratingly stupid kind. ◽️2) People saying "oh they're selling assets in some other markets too it's not an SA thing" are idiots. Them adjusting their asset portfolio and energy mix globally is standard stuff but selling off wholesale and leaving is a whole different thing. Analogy in next tweet. ◽️The stuff that goes on in the SA fuel sector is INSANE. Hot-tapping of major pipelines is a routine occurrence. Major storage vessels have been punctured to steal fuel, causing massive spills. I've heard of facilities paying protection money to syndicates for their trucks to pass ◽️Not to mention, Shell had a gigantic sales slump when there were calls for a national boycott because of offshore gas prospecting on a much smaller scale than their main rival. There's legislation mandating biofuel blending but no mechanism for getting the subsidy for it ◽️Rail has collapsed. Their refinery was already shut down BEFORE it flooded. ◽️ The short of it is; Shell is leaving. They've wanted out for a long time. They don't like it here. All the other fuel majors achieve higher profit margins here than they do, it makes sense to sell and has for ages. 🧵 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787916805786202542.html

⛽️ Shell to exit South Africa's downstream businesses confirmed CAPE TOWN, May 6 (Reuters) - Oil major Shell will divest its majority shareholding from a local South African downstream unit after a comprehensive review of its businesses across all regions, it said on Monday. "As a result of this review, Shell has decided to reshape the downstream portfolio and intends to divest our shareholding in SDSA ... this decision was not taken lightly," a Shell statement said. It did not specify when the decision took effect. Shell Downstream SA (SDSA) was formed after Shell South Africa and black empowerment company, Thebe Investment Corporation, agreed a decade ago to merge Shell South Africa Marketing and Shell South Refining businesses. Thebe held a 28% equity stake. One of SDSA's main assets and South Africa's largest refinery, Sapref, in the east coast port city of Durban has not been operating since 2022 when Shell and its refinery joint venture partner, BP decided on a spending freeze and halt to the refinery's operations. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-exit-south-africas-downstream-businesses-2024-05-06/

Shell would join Chevron, who sold its Caltex business to Glencore (Caltex rebranded to Astron Energy). The Shell BEE partner squealing is hilarious as they didn't pay a sent for their 28% of Shell South Africa. It got handed to them, just like the majority of the Regime's cadres. https://businesstech.co.za/news/business/770619/shell-planning-to-exit-south-africa-reports/

🔸 Orania on FB: "The hope and freedom that Orania offers is a freedom that we carve out ourselves based on a model for self-determination where we take responsibility for our own destiny." 🧱 Lycurgus of Sparta was questioned on whether Sparta should be enclosed in walls to protect the city-state, he replied that a city-state is well fortified if it has a wall of men instead of a wall of stone. Orania's wall is its own labour.

South Africa Burns Billions for Diesel to Help Mitigate Blackouts ⛽️ Eskom has spent 65 billion rand since 2020 on diesel. A third of that total occurred in the 2024 financial year that ended in March. 🚢 Consumption has reached a point where ships are used to store additional fuel because onshore tanks are too small.

🔌 The Lights Are On in South Africa and Many People Are Suspicious ➖ State of electricity supply is key election campaign issue ➖ Unreliable power grid worsened under President Ramaphosa South Africa is enjoying a rare streak of uninterrupted electricity right before elections, drawing more suspicion than praise in a nation that’s become accustomed to the daily power cuts that have dragged on for years. The country is currently in its fourth successive week of no outages — the longest period South Africans have consistently had electricity supply in more than two years. The recovery coincides with political parties ramping up their campaigns before the May 29 vote, in which the ruling African National Congress risks losing its parliamentary majority for the first time in three decades. Almost two-thirds of people in a BrandMapp-Silverstone survey last year said they’d consider not voting for the ANC because of power cuts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-03/the-lights-are-on-in-south-africa-and-many-people-are-suspicious https://archive.is/0xyBT

📝 "Afrikaners created a first world society within not just a country but an entire CONTINENT filled with third world poverty. And doing so in a remote no man's land with zero government funding. At some point there's just no excuse anymore." 📎 MKatorin

🇿🇦🏘 Too white to sell property: The government has warned that black ownership will be a mandatory requirement for doing business in the real estate sector. On 13 March 2024, the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) announced that BEE [Black Economic Empowerment] is now a precondition for doing business. “Property practitioners” with less than 40 points on a BEE scorecard will be refused their Fidelity Fund certificate, making it illegal for them to continue operations. [Whites] will now be forbidden from benefitting from any property transaction without handing shares to a black partner. Tens of thousands of estate agents, property developers, property administrators, landlords, direct property sellers, auctioneers, property advisors, and other practitioners will all be affected by this new regulatory standard. https://www.capeindependent.com/article/sakeliga-warns-of-coming-prohibition-against-minority-owned-property-companies

📊🗳 POLL: ANC on decline, EFF losing support to MK Voter support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress slipped further before next month’s election, a new opinion poll showed, with the Economic Freedom Fighters leaking votes to a new party backed by former President Jacob Zuma. The ANC has the support of 40.2% of voters, pollster Ipsos said in a report released on Friday. That compares with 40.5% in a survey published on Feb. 6, and 43% in October. In the last election in 2019, the ANC garnered 57.5% of the vote. “The ANC, long the dominant force in the country’s politics, is struggling to impress voters,” Ipsos said in a statement. “Nationally, only 38% believe that the ANC will live up to their election promises.”

🟧🔋 Orania's new 4.8 MWh battery arrived this morning Once installed, Orania will be the only town in South Africa without loadshedding from 06:00 to 22:00

🇺🇸🇿🇦 🇨🇳 The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy 🔶️ Future of South Africa’s Phalaborwa site may depend on strength of Washington’s support 🔶️ A site close to Kruger National Park in South Africa is becoming a testing ground for US attempts to fight China’s global dominance in critical minerals. 🔶️ Washington has committed to finance a little-known London-listed miner hoping to extract rare earths — a set of 17 minerals key to clean energy technologies — from the chalky stacks outside the safari park, as the US seeks to challenge China’s runaway lead in accessing the metals globally. 🔶️ For the White House, tackling Chinese dominance is a strategic priority: China is home to 70 per cent of rare earths mining and 90 per cent of processing capacity, according to the International Energy Agency. https://www.ft.com/content/37966ce4-1dac-41aa-abf4-98f139a8ce32 https://archive.ph/aPyqu

🛢Nearly Half of South Africa's Refining Capacity Is Shut Africa’s most industrialized nation has long relied on fuel from abroad, but demand has grown in recent years as a string of refineries suspended output. The massive shortage means that 80% of the country's fuel requirements are met by imports.

"Let the inheritance of our fathers stay the inheritance for our children!" A massive banner that was attached by the AWB to the Voortrekker Monument in 1988

🗳 ANC Support Plunges in South African Poll as Zuma Party Surges Support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is plunging and a party backed by former President Jacob Zuma may become the country’s third-biggest after next month’s election, a new opinion poll shows. The ANC, which has ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid, may garner just 37% support in the May 29 vote, while Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party, or MKP, may get 13% according to the poll. Such a result may mean the ANC has to form a coalition with a large party in order to retain control of Africa’s biggest economy. Zuma’s decision to back the MKP has eaten away at the ANC’s support. He ruled the country from 2009 to 2018, when the ANC forced him from office. The poll of 1,835 registered voters across the country also found that the main opposition Democratic Alliance would win 25% of vote, the Economic Freedom Fighters 11% and the Inkatha Freedom Party 5%. The Freedom Front Plus and Action South Africa would both get 2%, it showed.

📝 Today's decision by the court is one of two massive blows to the ruling ANC party which risks losing its majority. They've unsuccessfully attempted to remove a popular rival that will cut deep into their voter base among Zulu voters, particularly in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Gauteng. Parties that are looking to dethrone the ANC will be celebrating in secret despite their public disapproval of the decision.

⚡️🇿🇦 Former SA president Jacob Zuma cleared to run in upcoming elections South Africa’s Electoral Court on Tuesday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office as a lawmaker in the upcoming election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls. The decision paves the way for Zuma to run for president on behalf of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, a new political organization that he joined last year after denouncing the ruling African National Congress party that he once led. The Independent Electoral Commission had earlier ruled that Zuma could not run for office due to his criminal record, after it received an objection against his candidature. South Africa’s constitution does not allow people who have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to more than 12 months in prison without the option of a fine to stand for elections as lawmakers. Zuma was convicted and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment in 2021 for defying a court order to appear before a judicial commission probing corruption allegations in government and state-owned companies during his presidential term from 2009 to 2018. However, in a brief court order released on Tuesday, the court announced that an appeal by Zuma and his party was successful and that the objection against his candidature had been dismissed. #SouthAfrica @africaintel

🇮🇱🇵🇸🇿🇦 Criminal complaint lodged against Benjamin Rattle, a South African serving in the Israeli military The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has lodged a criminal complaint at Cape Town Central Police Station, calling for South African Benjamin Rattle, who is serving in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), to be prosecuted. He posted repeatedly on Instagram stating that he was proud to be part of the IDF. One post showed a masked soldier with a light machine gun, standing in front of a bombed building and rubble in the Gaza Strip. The PSC’s Usuf Chikte told GroundUp that the PSC had been working on the issue for some time. He said they had a list of more than 70 names which they had submitted to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) but had so far been ignored. https://groundup.org.za/article/criminal-complaint-lodged-against-benjamin-rattle-south-african-serving-in-israeli-military/ 📝 Last month South Africa’s foreign minister said that South African citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home.

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