1) Germany | Energy| Infrastructure | Africa| Ramaphosa | DA

Someone mentioned Germany’s role in South Africa’s energy policy decisions, for example the loans and demands to shut down coal power stations.

For the critical analysts I found something for you to ponder over this weekend. Notably — GIZ — The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has been partner of the AU since 2004. 2) GIZ is a German government agency - The Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)) is GIZ's sole shareholder.
Where else do we see GIZ in South Africa?

1) Things they told us

As we are stunned years later to hear from the Eskom Board chair that an investigation shows there’s no evidence of mafia style corruption at the power utility, yet a day doesn’t go by without some political parties and the media reminding us, daily, that the ANC cadres and corruption has caused Loadshedding and is the cause of the extortionate electricity price hikes, what evidence do you think an investigation will uncover about the advice to IPPs in 2016 to use the legal route together with forming strategic alliances with NGOs to shore up the social support for renewable energy IPPs because the proposed new nuclear power build was going to take up IPP space in our energy sector?
See thread 🧵

2) The role of NGOs 🧵

https://twitter.com/vimleshrajbansi/status/1795315543290925552

The plans with our pension funds to boost investment into infrastructure to privatize state owned assets is supported by business and unions, so don’t be fooled that it’s an ANC policy - read to the end

July 2020
1. The ANC and Business for South Africa (B4SA) recently released their respective economic recovery plans for the country. Both proposals said using savings and retirement funds to finance infrastructure projects with the purpose of driving economic growth should be looked into.

2. Last week, the ANC’s economic head, Enoch Godogwana, said the party was in discussions with 20 pension funds — including the Public Investment Corporation, which manages the Government Employees Pension Fund — regarding amendments to regulation 28. He said the ANC is not proposing that the state implements a policy of prescribed assets but rather that the party is proposing a “relook” into regulation 28.
The ANC said amending regulation 28 to increase access to people’s savings can help fund long-term infrastructure and capital projects. 

3. The rate of return is not set for energy, water, roads, hospital or education infrastructure, but in most instances can be predetermined where there are upfront agreements on tolls, rentals, 💥tariffs💥and concessions that come with these projects,”

Dec 2021
4. The draft Regulation addresses several shortcomings in the first iteration, published in February 2021, that were raised by stakeholders.  The submissions on the first draft expressed general concern about the definition of "infrastructure", which was limited to installations, structures, facilities, systems, services or processes relating to matters specified in Schedule 1 of the Infrastructure Development Act 23 of 2014.  As a result, infrastructure was restricted to the National Infrastructure Plan ("NIP"), so it excluded infrastructure in the private sector and offshore.

5. According to the draft Regulation, infrastructure means ‘any asset class that entails physical assets constructed for the provision of social and economic utilities or benefit for the public.'  The effect is that infrastructure is now given a standalone definition which is not restricted to the NIP, and now includes both public and private infrastructure investment.

July 2022 - gazetted (see the videos below) mg.co.za/business/2020-…

IEC SYSTEM CRASH - Election Results | Results Process | Observation of activity on X - 31 May 2024

30 May 2024: IEC Western Cape Vote Capture Centre The Chief Electoral officer announced in a media briefing that he was shutting down capturing of votes at 22:00 on Thursday 30 May 2024. Michael Hendrickse was then asked by a journalist and he clarifies, they have been working for 72 hours. And don’t want to make simple errors in capturing.

Note the IEC Results Process:
Party agents and independent election monitors were only allowed at the VDs. Once the votes were counted at each VD and result slips signed, the ballot boxes were transported to the municipal election offices/capture centre. Party agents and monitors were not allowed access to the capture centre. Therefore there was no oversight by parties and independent monitors of the vote caturing process.

31 May 2024

06:30-07:00AM
1. The IEC public facing NPE system crashed/went offline between 06:30AM -07:00AM on Friday, 31 May 2022

09:00-09:15AM
2. The system came back online between 09:00 -09:15AM

3. There were many queries posted on X, including some IT experts who had been tracking the system

4. At 07:55AM - the IEC published an apology about the issue with the public facing NPE, and that they are working on restoring service. The IEC notice stated, "The results system is still operational and local offices continue to capture results"

5. At 09:14AM the IEC published a media statement - "Update on the public facing NPE system
- The EC confirmed it "experienced interruption in the replication of data from the national data centre and various Results Operation Centres (RoCs)"
- "The data in the data centre remains in tact and the results have not been compromised"
- All services have since been restored"

6. At 12:24PM the IEC published a "Reminder: Objections and Appeals" deadline at 21:00 on 31 May 2024
- "Any interested party, including members of the public, independent candidates, and political parties, may lodge an objection that is material to the result of an election, with the Commission.
- A section 55 objection for the 2024 elections must be lodged by 21:00, 31 May.
- Objections can be submitted either via email at S55objections@elections.org.za or hand delivered to Legal Services at the National Results Operation Centre as well as at the Commission's Head Office."
- NOTE: This notice was the first notice published by the IEC of the deadline, and it was unexpected and unfair to voters considering the fact the vote counting was only at 55%, that voting at VD's were delyed due to the IEC's inefficiencies (some VD.s voting continued until 05:00AM on 30 May 2024) and that the IEC site was offline for over 2 hours.

WHILE THE SITE WAS DOWN (06:30AM-09:00AM)

7. The were many complaints and enquiries posted on X

8. Some IT techs who were tracking the system noted the results on the backend "are zeroed out"

9. Another said that the site is not down, the server is fine and they demanded that the tech dev "roll-back the change"

AFTER 16:00
10. It techs asked the IEC what code changed, and why?
- one question posed - what codes changes were made and why and did they test the code before making changes? There was no response from the IEC

11. IT Techs noted the code changed after the site was online again (image 2)

12. Some techs asked for the full incident report and asked why the front end code changed after the site was back online.

Considering the above and multiple other posts about the IEC site crash, which I do not fully understand because I am not an IT dev expert, however the concerns raised by IT experts triggered a significant concern in the capturing of the results. For transparency and integrity, I therefore submitted a section 55 objection requesting the incident report because voters have a right to be informed know this information (Image 2). The IEC has yet to respond to my objection and request for the incident report.

CODE CHANGE

13. Image 2:
"On the left is the code when the site "crashed" and on the right is the code that returned to fix the crash.
By removing that code highlighted, any numbers that may have changed we would not be able to see e.g if they correctly entered the count at first we would see the that like anc-150 da-29 . Then if they they decided to tweak the same voter count numbers for the specific region we would see that the numbers suddenly drop like anc - 100 da-29. So by removing that code, the voter count was hidden from everyone and any manipulation to that voter count would also not be visible."

Conclusion:
Based on the above sequence of events, significant concerns have been raised regarding the integrity and transparency of the election results process due to the IEC system crash and subsequent code changes. The IEC's communication and handling of the system outage, coupled with the lack of clarity on the code modifications and their potential impact on the results, casts doubts about the fairness and transparency of the election results process.

The system downtime, the delayed announcement of the objection deadline, the rush to declare the results, are valid concerns to investigate if there was vote manipulation or not, especially the concerns highlighted by IT experts all point to a need for thorough scrutiny of the IEC results process at the Capture centre, and the IEC system downtime, and code changes.

Given the fundamental right of voters to free, fair, and transparent election processes, it is imperative that the IEC addresses these concerns promptly and transparently including providing a copy of the incident report when the system was offline as a critical step in ensuring accountability and restoring public confidence in the electoral process.
Reference 1 - IEC posts the Results process. 14:50PM, 31 May 2024

🗳️🚨The National Assembly total votes at 10.02% counted are way too high compared to the provincial legislature votes counted.

📍Voters completed 3 ballot papers
📍Aren’t all 3 Ballot boxes counted at the same time?
📍And therefore the results for the number of votes should be the same?

National:
ANC - 333,729
DA -207,770

Compare to the provincial vote count:
ANC - 41,620
DA - 49,455

Why is there such a large difference between 🧵👇🏽

Please help: my mathematical brain is in knots trying to make sense of the numbers
@MightiJamie @AldrinSampear @SakinaKamwendo @waynesussman
Free State

ANC - 4,532
DA - 2,071

🚨NGOs | ROLE in South Africa | Alliance for a Wider Strategy

The Rise Mzansi newly formed donor WATP is formed as a Voluntary Association, an NGO.

I learnt this week that NGO laws were introduced in South Africa in 1997. Remember this date for future discussions.

1️⃣ From my reading about nuclear power and renewable energy independent power producers (IPPs) in South Africa I came across one article published on 4 November 2016 headline, “Molefe softens stance after snubbing R58bn worth of IPPs” written by Matthew le Cordeur and Gareth van Zyl.

These sections in the article shocked me
🧵👇🏽 2️⃣ “Legal action in electricity sector can be used as a tool, he explained. IPPs can lodge complaints…”

👋VOTING 2024 | 🇿🇦ENERGY SECURITY WHO WANTS TO SEE ESKOM FAIL? Don’t vote for them 👇🏽

Do you know another reason why I will never vote for the DA, ActionSA, BOSA, IFP, Rise Mzansi, ACDP, FF+ and the moonshot gang, aside from the fact that they have taken money from the DA financial backers?

It’s proof that their funders wield powerful influence over them when they have to make decisions about our energy security.

1. We are load-shedding free since week 13 of 2024 and these Black leaders are not allowed to congratulate the new management at Eskom and share the facts because their funders won’t approve, in other words they want to see Eskom failing. They want load-shedding back.

2. This man, Bheki Nxumalo, turned things around and the black leaders Herman Mashaba, Mmusi Maimane, Songezo Zibi, Kenneth Meshoe, and Hlabisa have never given any credit to this man and the new management team at Eskom.

3. Not even a well done. Shocking and disappointing.

4. Instead some like Mmusi joined John Steenhuisen, Michael Beaumont and Andre De Ruyter to spread misinformation about the end of load shedding. They lied that Eskom is burning excessive amounts of diesel to keep the lights on.

5. Luckily Chris Yelland and other experts data when correctly analysed proved they were liars

6. Eskom’s Coal Fleet is performing well

POLITICAL PARTIES & JOURNALISM DISTRACTING US WITH HALF TRUTH NARRATIVES ABOUT ESKOM & DIESEL

📍If Eskom burnt R65billion diesel over 5 years - R13 billion a year to keep the lights on
📍Why don’t they ever tell us how much Eskom burnt for renewable energy (RE) solar and wind IPPs?

📣Let’s see why👇🏽

1️⃣ In a landmark judgement on 1 December 2023 when the High Court dismissed the DA’s case claiming that the electricity price hikes was extortionate, the judge accepted this explanation from NERSA and ESKOM and there’s no mention of diesel

PROOF THAT ONCE THEY HAVE OUR VOTES THEY USE IT TO PASS LAWS TO APPEASE THE WEST & TO MAKE WAY FOR PRIVATE SECTOR PROFITS

💥 PARLIAMENT PASSES THE CLIMATE CHANGE BILL on 25 April 2024 and dead silence from political parties and journalism

🇿🇦 ALL 9 PROVINCES voted in favour of the bill
⁉️The ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, ACDP, GOOD, ATM, FF+ supports the bill. ⁉️Including ActionSA, BOSA, Rise Mzansi, PA,

⚠️ Support for this bill is the complete disregard for our energy security needs and we will continue to see high levels of loadshedding, and extortionate electricity price hikes.
We will see manufacturing suffer.
We will see coal power plants shut down.
We will see industry like steel shut down.
We will see water tariffs soar.
We will see mandatory vaccinations.
We will see them ban curtains foods.
We will become a broken nation if we do not have energy, water and food security.
Our primary security need is energy and that can only be provided with a combination of baseload nuclear, gas and coal with some solar and wind.
1️⃣ The President must still sign the Climate Change Bill for final approval.
📣 ANC supporters- did your president inform you of this?
📣 Are you going to vote for a party which prioritizes the climate change agenda of the western nations to advance the business interests of renewable energy?
📣 Or do you want a party that puts the energy security needs of South Africans and the country first? If yes, don’t vote for the ANC if Cyril signs this bill

🇿🇦 JOURNALISM | AGAIN!
Note the name of the Journalist and the conflict of interest will be revealed at the end of the thread.
Note the narrative:
- must decommision coal
- coal is bad
- pushing renewables

OH MY GOSH! Now that I have done my own reading and educated myself I am horrified to read that this CEO of Eskom called for the aggressive phasing out coal power in favour of renewables - RE IPPs Solar & Wind - which has been the cause of extortionate electricity price hikes and loadshedding!
⚠️How did our government and business and people and UNIONS let this happen! 1⃣ We have laughed at Gwede Mantashe, but now that I am a more informed citizen I can assuredly say that what he is quoted as saying - IS RIGHT and IS FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE and THE COUNTRY!
‼️FOCUSED
‼️FUNDED
‼️AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING POWER STATIONS

🇿🇦 Team Journalism is begging to save them because they allegedly saved us.

📍But where was journalism when the African Union adopted the African Medicines Agency Treaty - The AMA Treaty in 2019?

📍Why are there no articles, no news reports of the AMA treaty, collaborators and funders?
1️⃣ Why does journalism condemn the NHI Bill and remain zipped about the African Medicines Agency Treaty - The AMA Treaty?
📍Are we to assume they didn’t hear / read of the committee meeting in Parliament?

https://twitter.com/vimleshrajbansi/status/1779814649354936609

‼️Journalism 📍Health | African Medicines Agency (AMA) 🇿🇦

I was fact checking this DM article written in Dec 2023 and here’s what I found:

😱 The brainchild of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) are not “three bold African women” so why will DM not fact check before publishing?

😱 “The Institution they set out to create” is incorrect because the AMA is the brainchild of complex collaborations of Western & European institutions

⚠️ Read the entire thread to grasp the extent of the “brainchild” of the AMA and AMA Treaty
1️⃣ The brainchild of the African Medicines Agency

Mrs Chimwemwe Chamdimba, said,
“The African Medicines Agency has been up and running since 2009 when WE started the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Initiative.” 

❌ False: this conveys the message that the 3 pioneering Black women are the founders of the AMRH but that isn’t true.
❌ Why will the facts be omitted in this article?
❌ What message is being conveyed with 3 bold African Women to promote the African Medicines Agency?

📣🇿🇦📣🇿🇦📣🇿🇦📣🇿🇦📣
South Africa | If you value your right to make informed decisions about your and your children’s healthcare choices and medical treatment then it is time to make some noice and speak out about these unwarranted charges against Dr. Chetty.
📣 His 8th day protocol saved thousands of lives.
📣 Do you hear any patients suing Dr. Chetty for the 8th day protocol?
📣 Why then is the HPCSA charging him?
📣Who will this action protect? The patient or the industry? 1️⃣ Do you know that SAHPRA & the NDoh withheld information from us when they approved and recommended the Covid vaccine?
📣 They signed confidential contracts and was aware that the efficacy of the vaccine was unknown
📣 They failed to inform us that the vaccines had unknown side effects some of which could be severe were also unknown

🇿🇦😱 SHOCKING | We have people starving and living in abject poverty but have you heard of the Life After Coal Campaign?

🫤 it’s a joint environmental justice campaign by:
💥Earthlife Africa (“ELA”),
💥groundWork (“gW”)
📍this one Rise Mzansi is collaborating with‼️
💥and the Centre for Environmental Rights (“CER”) 2️⃣ On our behalf, The Life After Coal Campaign has submitted its comments on the draft integrated resource plan (IRP) 2023 - Our energy security plan.
📣 How did they obtain our vote to speak on our behalf?

‼️ In their submission - Wait for it - They highlight the fundamental flaws in the draft IRP:
💥to supply cost effective electricity
💥 and energy security 💥and South Africans constitutional rights to live in a healthy environment 🤔

🚨 Gee whizz! Another one driving a narrative without evidence and by evading the evidence.

1) 7 April 2024
He writes without providing any reference to evidence that this superpower in the north WILL meddle in the election
📣 Really, we must believe him because he is a super editor 🤣 2) He then writes that the superpower from the West are interested in the elections too,
📣 oh but wait he writes in their favour and states,
“but have no obvious assets on the ground with which to manipulate it”
‼️Does this super editor read the news?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🇿🇦🚨 🇿🇦🚨🇿🇦🚨🇿🇦
Speaking of Funding initiatives for Climate Change & Early Childhood development in South Africa?

📣 Have you heard about IPASA?
📣 IPASA’s current initiatives are Early Childhood development and climate change.

🇿🇦💰🇿🇦💰🇿🇦💰
A) IPASA is a membership-based organisation for philanthropists in South Africa:
📌committed to building connections with key stakeholders in the philanthropy sector
📌 to help catalyze transformation both within the sector,
📌 and across the country.

👋📗Mashaba's Words have no Actions | INSOURCING

In 2019 when Mashaba resigned from the DA as Mayor of the COJ he said,
"I have had to deal with people who did not want me to implement the insourcing program that has benefitted over 7000 families and contained contractual costs, merely because it was not a DA policy"

📢 It means the DA was opposed to insourcing in the COJ and Mashaba advocated for insourcing coz it benefitted 7000 families & saved money by cutting out the cost of middlemen. 📍📗But in March 2024 ActionSA In TSHWANE voted with the DA against a motion brought by the EFF for the municipality to insource security guards.
ActionSA is in coaltion with the DA in the city.

📢By voting with the DA does it mean that since ActionSA is in the DA's MPC Mashaba's party will vote for the DA's policies, and therefore opposed the insorucing of security guards?
📢 Or, that ActionSA will vote with the DA on policies without considering what's best for state employees and the costs?

🤡⬇️🔔⬇️🔔⬇️🔔⬇️🔔⬇️🔔⬇️🤡
What a joke. I will give you just 2 examples of how the DA candidates in parliament do NOT champion citizens needs in Parliament, instead assess for yourselves if they are deployed to lobby to push through health and energy policies which they agree to in secret meetings with business, industry and foreign governments. ⬇️ 📘 HEALTH - AMA TREATY⬇️
The DA supports the African Medicines Agency Treaty - AMA Treaty.
- Have they explained the ramifications of this treaty to citizens? NEVER

https://x.com/VimleshRajbansi/status/1753375136999170470?s=20

📣💡📣💡📣💡📣💡You want the source that confirms IPPs are expensive and unaffordable 👇🏽
📣We know that IPPs accounted for 12.81% of the 20.5% electricity tariff hike in 2023.
📣 We know that the IPPs tariffs are an all in pre-agreed tariff which includes costs of construction, operations, maintenance and management 👇🏽
📣💡 The IPPs charge an all in pre agreed tariff and owns the assets
📣NERSA allows for Eakom to transfer 100% of IPP costs to us customers by increasing the electricity tariffs👇🏽

🌍Water security policies | Who we gonna call to rescue us from closed water valves? 💦

🇿🇦 Why did News24 report that Joburg’s water outage is more than likely not the last one?

📣 Is it because someone knows who will turn of our water valves for the next water crises? 🧐🤨 👇🏽





📣 💦 Do you know that The African Development Bank Board (ADB) approved a NEW WATER STRATEGY for INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF AFRICAS WATER SECTOR - 2021-2025?

💧The 5 year strategy was approved on 17 November 2021, and aims to increase water security in Africa

afdb.org/en/news-and-ev…

🔰 Pravin Gordhan | What was operation checkmate?

Did you know that in March 2017 President Jacob Zuma recalled Pravin Gordhan from an investor roadshow to London & the US because Zuma alleged that he had an intelligence report that Gordhan & Jonas were using the trip to mobilise prominent people in London and the US to overthrow the state?

Gordhan travelled with business leaders and trade unionists.

Gordhan was subsequently fired as Minister of Finance.
📣 Sources had said that Zuma allegedly informed the top six ANC leadership on Monday evening after he had already instructed Gordhan to return and the mission of government officials‚ businessmen and labour representatives to abort the week-long activities “