🇺🇸 🇿🇦 A $400 million lawsuit is being prepared in the United States (US) against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and if it proceeds, the fallout could be explosive. At the centre of it are accusations that the South African government knowingly collaborated with Hamas ahead of the October 7 attacks on Israel – attacks in which at least 47 American citizens were killed or taken hostage.
The mainstream media in South Africa have not uttered a word about it.
The case, built on recommendations by UK-based consultant Justin Lewis, claims to have uncovered new material evidence of coordination between South African officials, Hamas, and Iran in the months leading up to the massacre. It’s a staggering allegation: that South Africa’s diplomatic support for Hamas wasn’t just rhetorical solidarity, but active complicity.
Lewis says he warned the South African government back in April of the potential legal risks. “I was not only ignored,” he says, “but threatened with legal action by a journalist acting on behalf of the South African state.”
Lewis now claims that some of South Africa’s court filings to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) were prepared in advance and in concert with foreign actors hostile to Israel and the West. “If that’s true,” he says, “then the ICJ process was politically manipulated – and that could constitute an act of terrorism under UK and US law.”
The legal foundation for the case rests on a unanimous US Supreme Court ruling last month that upheld the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act (2019), which allows Americans to sue foreign governments or individuals shown to have materially supported terrorist organisations – even overriding sovereign immunity.
Plaintiffs intend to argue that South African officials – possibly including Ramaphosa himself – either had prior knowledge of or directly facilitated Hamas operations. “Unless the president can prove he had no knowledge,” Lewis says, “he may be personally liable for damages.”
Beyond the courtroom, the economic risks are staggering. In letters dated June 30 and July 2, Lewis warned that sanctions on South African government debt could result in interest rate hikes costing taxpayers about $55 million per day. He highlights $3.5 billion in international bonds issued by South Africa in November 2023, which he claims failed to disclose “the substantial legal and reputational risks linked to collaboration with a designated terrorist entity.”
Formal notifications have been sent to the US Treasury, the House Financial Services Committee, and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Major financial institutions – including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Vunani Capital – have also been briefed.
In a letter to US Assistant Trade Representative Constance Hamilton, Lewis urged the White House to suspend all economic negotiations with South Africa – including those linked to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – until the allegations are investigated. “Continuing bilateral economic dialogue under these conditions would be reckless,” he wrote.
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Ms Pandor was also photographed in conversation with senior Hamas officials in Johannesburg and telephoned Ismail Haniyeh, the late Hamas leader, the day after the Oct 7 attacks carried out by the group. The Hamas political bureau later issued a communiqué thanking her for expressing “solidarity” with what they called the “Al-Aqsa Flood battle”
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@kalliekriel@BrentBozell@afriforum Thankful for a level headed, no nonsense, common sense US Ambassador in SA that knows right from wrong. Even if our corrupt courts disagree.
🇺🇸🇿🇦Julias Malema told Washington’s man in Pretoria — US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III — to ‘go to hell.’
Reacting to Bozell’s warning that the US is “running out of patience” with Pretoria and his five “asks” for South Africa — from foreign policy “non-alignment” to dropping the “Kill the Boer” chant — Julias fired back, rejecting both the message and the messenger.
🇿🇦South Africa's Greatest Political Scam ‼️
A bombshell revelation has shaken South Africa’s fragile economic credibility to the core. Professor William Gumede, one of the country’s most respected governance scholars, has exposed what many feared: over R1 trillion has been transferred under the banner of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), and almost all of it has landed in the pockets of fewer than 100 politically connected individuals.
Yes — R1,000,000,000,000. Not to uplift a nation, but to enrich a recycled elite.
“BEE only benefits a very small group — politically connected, linked to the ANC, linked to the trade unions… and the same people are re-empowered again and again,” said Gumede in an explosive public interview.
This is not transformation. This is state-sanctioned looting under the guise of empowerment.
‼️ Empowering the Powerful — The BEE Deception Unmasked
While millions of ordinary South Africans hoped BEE would correct historical injustice, the ANC and its cronies were building a closed economic aristocracy, handing out stakes in state tenders and companies to a loyal inner circle. These so-called “empowered” figures didn’t rise through merit — they were installed, protected, and recycled from boardroom to boardroom like pawns in a rigged game.
BEE was never about black empowerment. It was about ANC empowerment, and more accurately, the enrichment of select thieves cloaked in revolutionary slogans.
This damning revelation confirms what economists, business leaders, and disenfranchised citizens have whispered for years: South Africa’s empowerment model empowers no one but the ANC-connected class.
‼️ A Devastated Nation: No Justice, No Jobs, No Growth
South Africa today suffers from soaring unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, rampant crime, and hopeless youth. Meanwhile, the BEE billionaires — nearly all of them ANC-aligned — enjoy elite status, luxury homes, and immunity from accountability.
This isn’t an accident. It’s the result of a political design — a system built not to heal but to exploit, not to empower but to enslave, not to share but to steal.
The same group is “empowered” repeatedly, while millions rot in poverty. How can that possibly be justified in a democracy?
‼️ The Moral Bankruptcy of the ANC
The ANC once claimed to stand for justice. Today, it stands accused by its own intellectual allies of overseeing one of the most cynical wealth-grabs in modern African history.
If “empowerment” means billion-rand transfers to under 100 people — most of whom are repeat beneficiaries — then South Africa is no longer a democracy. It is a captured state under economic apartheid, run by political bandits.
This is not empowerment. It is daylight robbery, orchestrated from within government halls, funded by the suffering of the masses, and protected by a network of spin, censorship, and silence.
DISCLAIMER:
‼️ This article is based on direct statements made by Professor William Gumede during a public interview- May 2025. It reflects a critical analysis of South Africa’s BEE framework as implemented by the ANC-led government since the 1990s. All allegations refer to systemic patterns and are directed at political mechanisms and public figures, not private individuals without evidence. This article is written in the public interest to expose possible large-scale economic manipulation and elite enrichment under the pretext of transformation. The public is urged to investigate, verify, and demand accountability.
Let the truth be known. Let justice follow ‼️
BREAKING 🚨 President Trump stuns America by announcing America will re-dedicate itself to God on May 17th 2026
"We're going to rededicate America as one nation under God”
CHRIST IS KING 🙏
@pookiepolls Ask our farmers if their vote will stay DA even after Steenhuizen leaves. Nobody in that party had or has their back. Little too late. Animals are dead, livelihoods are destroyed, family farms have been broken beyond repair. And now...do they really expect to still have support?
… if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 10:9 KJV
@ErnstRoets The most pathetic man. Can't take responsibility for his own actions. Always will blame someone else when he gets caught, like a real child. Who can possibly respect a man like him?