THE U.S. ALWAYS SUPPORTED APARTHEID
US support for apartheid and settler-colonialism in South Africa goes as far back as its ‘constructive engagement’ policy that aimed to break South Africa's international isolation and use the apartheid regime as a proxy against socialist independence movements in Africa.
Plus, African Stream’s Wambura Mwai (@wamburabrenda on IG) tells us that US corporations invested in upholding the apartheid regime with as much as $14.6 billion by the early 1980s, despite international boycotts, according to the US Out of Southern Africa Network. The US strategy bolstered the apartheid regime’s ability to suppress domestic and regional liberation movements. US President Donald Trump's support for white landowners in South Africa continues this longstanding US legacy of backing apartheid-era policies.
Let us know in the comments what you think about this phenomenon.
🚨🇪🇺 Geo-Political Scholar Jeffrey Sachs
Schools the EU Parliament on the reasons behind the Russia Ukraine Conflict.
Every-time Legacy Media or a Politician states the was is “unprovoked” is a complete lie.
This doesn’t even include some of the more grotesque activities Ukraine has been well documented as being involved in.
Every thinking person must condemn the unlawful militarism, threats of violence and fascism represented by the criminally convicted former president #Zuma. While his party has the right to campaign, it does not have the right to turn KZN into a killing field along with the criminally corrupt ANC.
Ever wondered about the real story behind this eyesore of an unfinished shopping centre development in Pretoria?🤔
THE FULL STORY BELOW:
The Villa Retail Park (location: Corner of Delmas & De Villebois roads in Wingate Park, #Pretoria East) was a project produced by the failed Sharemax property syndication scheme. The mall was going to compete with Menlyn Park shopping centre and Sandton City, #Johannesburg.
The original site had 78 houses on it. They were bought and demolished in order for this colossal shopping centre to be built. At the beginning, this development was valued at R2.9 billion. This centre was destined to be the ‘Jewel of Pretoria’ and was supposedly one of the biggest construction projects in #SouthAfrica during the time that it was being built.
Today, the centre is not fully complete. Construction began January 2009 with completion due in August 2011. 75% of the centre was completed when construction stopped in 2010 due to the collapse of the Sharemax company.
Thousands of individuals - majority being elderly pensioners - invested millions into the Sharemax scheme with nothing to show for it today. Overall, the court papers state that the mall owners were given close to R3 billion by an investment company in 2009 to build this mall. One year later, the funds were gone…
Contractors remained on site to meet deadlines, yet there was no funding to pay them for work completed. GD Irons Construction invested R150 million into the construction of this development. They obtained a court order for the developers to pay R500 million in damages.
To be included in what would have been one of the largest upmarket shopping centres in South Africa:
🛍️ 90 000m2 retail space
🛍️ 16 000m2 office space
🛍️ 5000m2 lifestyle centre
🛍️ Over 300 retail tenants
Overall, about 40 000 individuals invested over R5 billion into the Sharemax company. The company, which proudly promoted itself as the largest unlisted property investment company went under when it contravened banking laws and illegally collected deposits from investors.
The collapse destroyed the futures of the investors who walked away with nothing. One of the pensioner investors, Bohuslav Kautsky, aged 67, invested R770 000 into The Villa Retail Park and lost everything. He committed suicide in his car outside the Sharemax offices in Pretoria by shooting himself in the heart.
There have been recent rumours of an investment company wanting to purchase the mall. What they want to do with it is unknown. The ghost mall currently stands empty and there is little hope that this centre will ever be completed.
What are your thoughts on this failed development and the Sharemax investor casualties that have paid the price?
We owe a debt of gratitude to The EFF’s Dali Mpofu who has single handedly destroyed the criminal RET cabal. With better legal representation many of them would have survived. Yesterday the final nail was put into the coffin of Mkhwebane . Thank you Dali for being so useless.
Julius Malema has resurrected the demon of hatred, division and ethnic violence in South Africa. He is determined to ignite the civil war our country narrowly averted in the 1990s. The DA will not look away. We are confronting this bloodthirsty tyrant head-on. #StopMalema
To avoid monstrous dictators like Julius Malema, every South African, no matter what your political affiliation, should support President Cyril Ramaphosa. He mite not be perfect, no human is, but he is caring, compassionate & he is a president for ALL SOUTH AFRICANS
There is a lot of nonsensical defence of this as being part of our liberatory cultural heritage. Singing this today is pure racial baiting. It is an attempt to make some citizens feel as if they do not belong. Its juvenile reactionary politics at its worse & will destroy SA.