South Africa's Wealth (and the ANC pawns)
Etienne Marais
Ever since the discovery of vast quantities of gold and diamonds in
South Africa in the 1860’s, British magnates have had their scheming
eyes on the country. From those times, the South African mines were
the world’s dominant diamond producers and until 1989 more than 40%
of
all the gold that had ever been mined came from South Africa.
Small wonder that British forces attempted a take-over of the
independent South African states in which the gold and diamond
reserves were located. They failed in the first war of conquest 1880
to 1881 [so-called “Boer war”]; also failed again in a secretly
planned raid by British forces in 1895, but finally succeeded in 1902
after a long and bitter armed struggle by the Afrikaner “Boer”
settlers to resist British rule.
From 1902 until 1961 the South African states were united as a single
protected colony of the British Empire while exploration and mining
continued to uncover even greater quantities and types of valuable
minerals. British magnates finally controlled one of the greatest
treasure houses of the world.
3. Key to world domination
A key to world domination is control over the supply of oil and gas
as
well as strategic minerals. Strategic minerals are those metal ores
that are essential to the manufacture of armaments and weaponry,
ships, submarines, aircraft, tanks and missiles.
Iron and copper are also needed but these are relatively plentiful
and
reserves are fairly well distributed in numerous countries around the
world. Strategic minerals on the other hand are more rare and
unevenly
distributed. These essential alloying elements – Manganese, Nickel,
Chromium, Vanadium, Cobalt and Molybdenum – when added to iron and
copper almost miraculously turn them into strong, ductile and robust
alloys. Without these alloying elements iron and copper are either
soft or brittle or offer no resistance to the high temperatures of
engines, rockets and explosives.
What a blessing it was for Britain that nearly three quarters of ALL
KNOWN STRATEGIC MINERAL RESERVES were found in South Africa!!!! South
Africa has a natural competitive advantage thanks to its immense
concentrations of reserves of important minerals. It holds the
world’s
largest reserves of ores of manganese (possessing 80 percent of the
total world reserves), chromium (68 percent), PGMs (56 percent),
vanadium (45 percent), gold (39 percent), and alumino-silicates (37
percent). It is also the leading holder of reserves of ores of
vermiculite, andalusite, zirconium, titanium, antimony, fluorspar,
and
phosphate rock. As a result of this large reserve base, South Africa
is the world’s leading producer of PGMs, vanadium, and vermiculite,
contributing about 50 percent of the world’s total of these
commodities.
South Africa is also the largest world supplier of alumino-silicates,
chrome ore, ferrochromium, and gold, for which its contribution
ranges
between 20 and 60 percent. (2)
Manganese is one of the most important ferrous metals and one of the
few for which the United States is totally reliant upon imports for
100 percent of its manganese needs since 1985. The leading sources of
manganese imports in 2000 through 2003 were South Africa. (3) Surging
demand for ferrochrome used in making ferroalloy, which in turn is
used in making stainless steel, has led to a severe shortage of
chromite. South Africa is the leading manufacturer of chromite
globally and a major supplier of ferrochrome. The major international
producers of chrome ore are: South Africa, producing 45% of world
production, Kazakhstan 17%, India 14% and Zimbabwe 6%. (4) (5)
Whoever controls these reserves controls the world. After gaining
independence from Britain by popular vote in 1961, South Africa was
fast becoming an independent African superstate, under the white
Afrikaner government, [descendents of the “Boer” settlers] with
control of almost all of the world’s STRATEGIC MINERALS. No wonder
the
USSR supported the South African Communist Party’s [SACP] plans to
topple the independent white capitalist government in South Africa.
As pointed out by many political analysts, revolutionary movements do
not have the capability to over-throw or destabilize capitalist
goverments without funding and intelligence support either from
inside
or outside the country. How did the ANC and South African Communist
party finance their operations? Both organizations received funding
from European patrons. It is now well known that in the 1970’s,
Cuban,
East German and Russian millitia men provided black South Africans
with armaments and training in guerilla warfare. The training camps
were set up in Mozambique, Angola. Uganda and Zambia.
It would have been impossible for the ANC and SACP to fund these
operations themselves because most of the trainees were by no mean
wealthy, but inexperienced, relatively unskilled or poorly qualified
sons and daughters of the South African populace. In his book “Long
road to freedom” Nelson Mandela admits that the Russians used the ANC
for their own ends. South African intelligence revealed that from the
early 1960’s the USSR was funding the SACP in the hope of eventually
gaining control over South Africa’s strategic minerals.
That situation could not be tolerated by the British and American
owners of the mining corporations in South Africa. They resorted to
whatever sinister and secret means they could to ensure that any
government in South Africa would continue to support their control of
the mines and the mineral wealth. But the white Afrikaner government
had no intention of remaining under British and American control.
South Africa’s quest for new alliances and trade partners during the
60’s and 70’s as well as Soviet covert support for the ANC had the
international community all in a flurry. The Anglo-American alliance
was determined to prevent the the independent South African political
situation from threatening their position of world domination through
control over South Africa’s mineral wealth. Far worse, they could
never allow the Soviets to usurp their prime position.
Already in 1984 while South African police were trying to track down
Soviet sponsored ANC terrorists who were killing farmers and other
innocent civilians, a team led by Gavin Reddy, chairman of the Anglo-
American Mining Corporation, was negotiating behind the scenes with
exiled ANC leaders in Lusaka, Zambia.(6) It wasn’t long before
Western
governments, corporations and institutions were being lobbied and
organized to take over the sponsorship of the ANC terrorists.
4. ANC victory and political about-face
As soon as the ANC revolutionaries were set up in government, their
obligations to their patrons and sponsors were called. Most telling
of
all was the complete turn-around that occurred in the policies of the
ANC upon being sworn into government. While they were being supported
by the Soviets their policies and slogans were closer to communism
than to any other political ideology.
But the policies they practice today are almost the exact same blend
of capitalism and socialism that the British and Afrikaner
governments
practised. As soon as the new ANC cabinet was formed, all the foreign
companies that had lost out on business deals and investment
opprtunities during the Afrikaner era came running with treade offers
and plans. Not only that but foreign aid came flooding in – Britain
and the USA especially eager to sell themselves and become involved
in
the country’s affairs again.
The problem for the Anglo-American alliance during the sanction years
was not that they were starved of essential strategic minerals. They
had stock-piled in advance. The problem was that as stock-piles
dimished they were being forced to buy these key metals from third
parties and intermediaries at up to twice or treble the price that
they ought to have been paying under normal circumstances and
secondly, their enemies in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe
were finding easy access to these precious commodities as well.
Strategic minerals are the key to world domination and the key was
once again in their hands. In fact they had almost always been in
their hands because they owned most of the mines and factories in
South Africa and payed high taxes to operate them. The problem was
that they could not use the keys to their strategic advantage the way
they did before 1961.
5. International Trade: South Africa and the USA/Britain
After Afrikaner independence in 1961 trade between South Afrcia and
the USA/ Britain began to decline at a rate of about 10% per decade.
(7) At that rate, there would have been virtually no trade with the
USA and Britain by today.
But with the ANC now in government everything has been reversed
again.
The UK is now South Africa’s largest trade and investment partner
with
over £7 billion in two-way trade in goods and services and £24
billion
of UK investment in South Africa.
Metals and minerals comprise 31% of British imports from South
Africa.
(8) The United States is the second largest investor in South Africa
after the United Kingdom. Since the ANC assumed power, the United
States has become the second largest source of foreign direct
investment in South Africa. Many U.S. companies in South Africa are
now members of the American Chamber of Commerce.
The United States is the largest bilateral donor to South Africa in
terms of Development Assistance donating $98 million in 2003-03, $160
million in 2004 and $185 million in 2005. No surprise – approximately
28 U.S. agencies manage cooperative programs in South Africa
including
the Department of Defence and PRECIOUS METALS and stones account for
over 30% of total imports to the U.S. from South Africa. (9) Hillary
Clinton described as “extremely helpful” a recent meeting in Durban
with South African president Jacob Zuma. The president said: “The two
countries have always had good relations and we are taking that
relationship higher.” (10)
The ANC government has been in power in South Africe for seventeen
years, international sanctions against the country were lifted twenty
years ago and since then literally billions of dollars worth of
foreign aid has been pouring into the country.
No surprise that business with the USA and Britain is booming as
never
before, but the lives of the common people remain much the same if
not
worse than during the so-called years of oppression under white rule.
Why doesn’t the international community do or say anything about
this?
Because no one with big business interests in Sout Africa is
listening
anymore. The globalists have regained control of South Africa’s
STRATEGIC MINERALS so they have no need to intervene in the affairs
of
South Africa anymore.
REFERENCES
1. These are not obscure or confidential facts but can be checked on
dozens of official websites, e.g. CIA World fact book, or by touring
South Africa.
2. National Economies Encyclopedia,
3.SOURCE: Lisa Corathers, the Manganese Commodity Specialist for the
U.S. Geological Survey, has compiled the following information about
manganese, an extremely versatile mineral with many applications in
the manufacturing of iron, steel, aluminum alloys, batteries and
chemicals.]
4. SOURCE: Ferrochrome Facts 2007 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier
Engineering Information. Source: Financial Times Limited. 06/29/2007
Posted 7/12/2007
5. Kermas South Africa (Pty) Ltd and Samancor Ltd (22/LM/Mar05)
[2005]
ZACT 41 (14 June 2005)
6. Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert, The Other Side of History [ 2006]
Jonathan Ball Publishers
7. R. W Johnson [1977] How Long will South Africa survive? The
Macmillan Press Ltd
8. According to the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office website [21
May 2007],
9. According to the Diplomatic Mission of the United States in South
Africa [website August 6, 2007]
10. According to the Guardian, 9 August 2009.
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