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Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Mike Smith: Opening Pandora’s Apartheid-Box
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The entire Opening Pandora's Apartheid Box series
By Mike Smith - 12th of April 2012 - Many people asked me to put the links to the entire series of Opening Pandora's Apartheid Box. So here it is for quick reference. I have also put it in the righthand side column. Just click on the link and it will take you to the article.
http://mikesmithspoliticalcommentary.blogspot.com/2012/04/entire-opening-pandoras-apartheid-box.html
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Time to open Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 1
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 2 - What “diversity” means in South Africa
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 3 - The violent nature of Blacks. First rationale for Apartheid
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box – Part 4 - Black culture and customs. Second Rationale for Apartheid
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 5 - Black cognitive ability. Third Rationale for Apartheid
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 6 – Other Rationales for Apartheid
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 7- The role of a government
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 8 - The lies about the Homelands
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 9 - The lies about the Townships
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 10 - District Six, A case study in forced removals
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 11- Bantu Education under Apartheid
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 12 - The Architects of Apartheid
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 13 - The Apartheid laws on mixed marriages
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 14 - Scapegoating Apartheid to steal our country and our wealth
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 15 - Smuts and Rhodes’ “World State”
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 16 – The hidden government
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 17 - The Banking Conspiracy
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 18 - Hypocrisy at The United Nations
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 19 - The Role of the Commonwealth
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 20 - Dr. Verwoerd, Nationalist Visionary, “The most hated man in South Africa” and the success of Nationalism
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 21- The Assassination of Dr. Verwoerd
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 22 - Holy Terror: How the Church Crucified South Africa
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 23 - Behind the Paper Curtain...And Beyond
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 24 - P.W. Botha – Start of the Final Betrayal
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 25 - Stumbling on the Banks of the Rubicon
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 26 - The role of Government, and what Treason actually means
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 27 - The Internationalists setting the stage for the Utimate $ell-out
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 28 – De Klerk 1989-1990
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 29 – Secret talks with the enemy
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 30 - The NP pulls off the biggest Confidence Trick in the history of South Africa
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 31 - De Klerk’s liberal conversion and the mindset of treason
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 32 - Who does the land belong to?
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 33 - How the negotiations were lost
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 34 (A) - How the right was neutralised
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 34 (B) - How the right was neutralised
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 34 (C) - How the right was neutralised
Opening Pandora’s Apartheid Box- Part 35 - The final solution, War or Work?
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South Africa nuclear weapons and -energy industry
Did SA trade nuclear-weapons secrets to Iran for oil?
Sources, updated news and background on South Africa's nuclear-weapons and nuclear-power industries up to April 17 2012:
With all the previous Afrikaner-Calvinist checks and balances of governance falling away under SA’s black-economic-empowerment juggernaut, did it also facilitate the ANC-regime’s alleged nuclear-bombs trade-off deal with rogue regime Iran? The Afrikaners had dismantled their secret nuclear-bomb programme before 1994 - fearing that the materials would end up in the hands of terrorists...
April 13 2012 – An important, albeit little-noticed lawsuit was filed
in Washington DC against the SA cellphone company MTN on April 3 2012. This lawsuit alleges that its top BEE-appointed executives
with high-level government links such as Cyril Ramaphsa had made trade-offs with
Iran to sell nuclear-bomb technology in exchange for lucrative oil-import- and
communications-deals. On Friday April 13, 2012 – ten days later, MTN finally
issued a statement claiming the lawsuit was 'ludicrous' and denied these
claims.
- Afrikaner leaders voluntarily dismantled their nuclear-weapons programme before handing over hegemony to ANC-regime in 1994...
However this lawsuit raises another important question: namely
whether the excessively rapid pace of the ANC-regime’s black-economic-empowerment
juggernaut has also opened up this Pandora’s Box? BEE has also swept away the
previous, cautious, very conservative and more responsible ‘Calvinist approach
to governance’ – and it was replaced by pure greed.
ANC-executives’ excessive luxury-lifestyles and massive salaries are overwhelming country’s growth rate – IMF warns: and SA now even tries to get its expats to start paying taxes from abroad:
ANC-executives give themselves such huge salaries that their
wage-increases now are overwhelming the country’s growth rate – the IMF warned: http://www.polity.org.za/article/real-wage-growth-outpaces-productivity-stifles-job-creation-2012-04-12
The SA government meanwhile is so desperate to get its hands on more
cash that it now is even trying to force South Africans who have fled abroad to
jobs there, to start paying taxes in South Africa: The SA Revenue Service
this week lodged a Five Year Compliance Drive targetting all South African
residents working in foreign countries, said MP Pravin Gordhan in his Budget
Speech. http://www.sapromo.com/news/item/186-sars-five-year-compliance-drive
And unscrupulous ANC-executives apparently had no qualms about selling its nuclear-weapons-secrets to a rogue regime like Iran: according to allegations in a US lawsuit filed March 28 2012 in the District of Columbia USA -- by a Turkish company against SA MTN communications company)
It appears that this New South African regime has no pangs of "human-rights consciousness" when they started dealing with Iran, Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea.
It appears that this New South African regime has no pangs of "human-rights consciousness" when they started dealing with Iran, Zimbabwe, Cuba, North Korea.
Now, with Afrikaner executives and -government officials rapidly
finding themselves unemployable under these BEE-laws – and now with many fighting for survival in dismal
squatter camps or fleeing abroad -- all those old Calvinist checks-and-balances
these Afrikaners also embody, rapidly gave way to pure greed - also in the
nuclear-weapons industry. This law suit merely lifts a tiny tip of the veil of
secrecy which the ruling African National Congress also is increasingly
throwing over the country.
US lawsuit filed in Washington DC by Turkish company against SA communications company MTN accuses top ANC-executives 'with close links to the government' of selling the country's nuclear weapons-technology to Iran in exchange for oil :
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-anc-regime-deal-nuke-bomb-secrets.html
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"South Africa does not play both sides of the nuclear coin..."
-- by Noël Stott and Amelia Broodryk, Senior Research Fellow and Researcher, Transnational Threats and International Crime Division, Institute for Security Studies
April 17 2012 - "SA has recently been accused of "playing both sides of the nuclear coin". This followed President Jacob Zuma’s speech at the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit held from 26-27 March, in which he stated that South Africa’s technical achievement in being able to generate medical isotopes through low enriched uranium (LEU) was “a welcome addition to the capability to produce such isotopes using highly enriched uranium”. In addition, Zuma’s speech stated “South Africa has adopted a policy on the beneficiation of our mineral resources, including uranium”. This has been interpreted, by some, to mean that South Africa has a uranium enrichment policy and by implication will continue to hold on to its existing stock of highly enriched uranium (HEU), which it still has from the nuclear weapons programme of the apartheid government.
Although it is true that South Africa will continue to maintain and use its existing stockpile of HEU, South Africa does not currently have a policy of enriching uranium, rather the 2008 Nuclear Energy Policy document states that “there is presently no uranium enrichment infrastructure or economically proven technological capabilities in South Africa”, and that it is “Government’s intention to investigate the re-establishment of a uranium enrichment capacity as part of uranium beneficiation for peaceful purposes”. There is nothing clandestine about this, nor does it portray playing a game of two sides. Let’s be clear. As a leading African participant in both the 2012 and the 2010 Nuclear Summits, South Africa understands fully that nuclear terrorism continues to be one of the most challenging threats to international security and is totally committed to its Action Plans and Communiqués which seek to strengthen nuclear security, reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism, and prevent terrorists, criminals, or other unauthorised actors from acquiring nuclear materials. With the other 50-odd States present, South Africa recognises that in doing this, the rights of states to develop and utilise nuclear energy for peaceful purposes should not be hampered.
The Seoul Communiqué encouraged States to take “measures to minimise the use of HEU, including through the conversion of reactors from highly enriched to low enriched fuel, where technically and economically feasible, taking into account the need for assured supplies of medical isotopes”, and also encouraged States “in a position to do so, by the end of 2013, to announce voluntary specific actions intended to minimise the use of HEU”. This sentiment was also highlighted in the Joint Statement of the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Industry Summit, which took place just before the Security Summit in March, proving that both policymakers and industry are on the same page regarding minimising the use of HEU.
South Africa has already done this, and today is leading the transition to produce the medical Isotope molybdenum-99 with LEU rather than HEU and on 17 August 2011 the government through the Nuclear Energy Corporation (NECSA), already returned 6,3kg of highly HEU spent fuel to the US for safe storage and ultimately for destruction. There are no double games here.
South Africa has every right to keep its stock of HEU, also given that the country is actually using it for peaceful purposes – which it also has every right to. And although HEU poses a proliferation risk, South Africa has put every possible non–proliferation measure in place, including comprehensive safeguards and 24 hour real-time video surveillance with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to ensure that the material does not end up in the wrong hands.
It is ironic that most of the research facilities around the world that were designed to operate on HEU are situated in the States that have nuclear weapons. One cannot exclusively focus on reducing reliance on HEU for peaceful purposes, without any real commitment and progress on the elimination of HEU and other fissile materials that are primarily being used for military purposes. As Abdul Minty, South Africa’s Ambassador to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament, pointed out in 2006, the threat to humanity’s very existence is the continued use of such material for weapons purposes [and not for peaceful applications].
The Seoul Communiqué reaffirms that nuclear security measures will not hamper the rights of States to develop and utilise nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The HEU that NECSA holds does not pose a security risk and given the developmental benefits of nuclear and other radioactive materials for Africa, there is a clear need to ensure the continued delivery of such materials and related applications that they provide, such as radionuclides intended for use in life-saving medical treatments. In addition, South Africa is fully within its rights as a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to explore the feasibility of enriching uranium and fuel fabrication provided that this is done for peaceful purposes. Unfortunately, due to the sensitivities around this material the issue of possession and use of HEU has become, and will continue to be, highly politicised.
http://newsletters.creamermedia.co.za/servlet/link/19/47912/172850/1064146
Oct 28 2011: Zuma scraps safe R20billion pebblebed mini-nuclear reactors for unsafe water-cooled French nuclear-reactors costing R1,6-trillion...
http://bit.ly/w1VsIa - Oct 28 2011 -
The Transvaal Agricultural Union has been a supporter over the years of the country's unique, safe, South-African developed Pebble Bed Mini-Nuclear Reactor programme - which needs no water-cooling towers: and its 'nuclear pebble fuel' can be handled by hand, that's how safe they are....
(Picture of reactor building: U.S. Government Public Domain). Since the demise of the pebble-bed programme in South Africa, the more than 2,000 dedicated, skilled, top-quality South African nuclear scientists have left for other countries: and many were hired by Westinghouse. ...
(Picture of reactor building: U.S. Government Public Domain). Since the demise of the pebble-bed programme in South Africa, the more than 2,000 dedicated, skilled, top-quality South African nuclear scientists have left for other countries: and many were hired by Westinghouse. ...
TLU pointed out that this South African-developed state-owned company 'grew into one of the largest nuclear reactor design and engineering companies in the world. "
"At the time more than 1,000 South African scientists and engineers were involved in the project, which also embraced universities, private companies and research institutes." media statement:
In Dec 2008, South Africa scrapped its plans for safe, locally-developed pebble bed nuclear power-generating mini-plants costing some R26billion. The pebble-bed technology is much safer than water-cooled nuclear reactors - but the regime claims the pebble-bed mini-reactors would be 'too costly".
That cannot be the real reason however - because in October 2011, the Zuma-cabinet decided to install a series of antiquated, dangerous French-built water-cooled nuclear reactors, costing more than 1,6trillion Rand.
Eskom spokesman Fani Zulu said back in 2008 that they had "terminated the bidding process for construction of the pebble-bed project." The two bidders, Areva of France and Westinghouse of the U.S.A. were informed of Eskom’s decision. South Africa's scrapping of its nuclear plant programme was however just 'temporary' said Portia Molefe, the department of public enterprises director-general.
The price tag for the pebblebed reactors would have been the largest single investment in the state-run South African electricity company's history, argued the ANC -regime - claiming that it was 'too costly'. However three years later, they replaced this safe programme with a multi-trillion French project which is moreover going to create long-term, permanent health and safety hazards for future generations.
National demand was 36,000 mW in 2008
In 2008, the regime 'hoped to start construction of the new pebble bed modular reactor towards the end of 2010. It would have had a capacity of between 3200 and 3300MW." That year, the national demand was 36,000 mW.
South Africa is ideally located to generate nuclear energy and still does so with its antiquated, apartheid-er, water-cooled nuclear power station at Koeberg near Cape Town. Its income is based on a monopoly: the southern-african electricity grid is the only one providing power to some 15 southern African countries; South Africa in 2008 still had an experienced workforce of nuclear engineers, it had a nuclear-fuel production plant near Pretoria and also mined its own uranium yellow-cake until recently. It also is available in large quantities from neighbouring Namibia. South Africa's own only uranium mine, Dominion, closed down in October 2008, ostensably over the slump in the price of uranium. The government had hoped to create a network of safe, pebble-bed mini-nuclear reactors by 2025 to boost the electricity grid's capacity to 20,000 megawatts -- more than 10 times the current output.Demand soars: township residents in 2008 stole electricity to the tune of 3400 MW a year...at least
Since 1994, the country's electricity use has risen by 50% -- however at least 10% of this increase was caused not by growing economic strength, but by the many millions of empoverished residents in squatter camps and townships who risk their lives by plugging into the grid illegally - running the live wires across their fencing and rooftops. This electricity theft last year was conservatively estimated at 3400 mW, said a report by electrical engineer Chris Yelland of EE-news -- and township residents are stealing electricity to the tune of at least R5,34-billion a year, he said. Read report here: At the moment, South Africa's aging electricity network - which is also suffering from a massive brain-drain of engineers -- gets 80% of its electricity from its huge supply of coal reserves. South Africa's economy is beginning to suffer because of the growing power shortages, which forced ESKOM to limit its power output to certain areas to reduce the drain, a system referred to as 'rolling blackouts'. The country had pinned much hope for improving the network on the new pebble-bed nuclear reactor, which would have had a capacity of between 3200 and 3300 mw.
Its nuclear research facility at Pelindaba near Pretoria had already developed an efficient new way to develop tiny, much safer 6mm nuclear fuel pebbles for the new reactor.
PIC: The pebble-bed reactor uses tiny 6mm pebbles of nuclear fuel and graphite pebbles instead of long graphite rods - which designers say, makes the fuel much safer in use and waste storage than those of older nuclear power stations. (Westinghouse).Eskom meanwhile was that year also still negotiating with the World Bank for a loan of $5billion US because its credit rating was cut by Moody's Investors Service.
The reason for their failed credit rating was, Moody Investors Services said, that the country's state-run electricity regulators had tried to appease the country's electorate by only allowing a 27 percent rise in electricity price.
To make ends meet, South Africa should have increased its electricity rates by 61 percent, Moody's said.
And By April 2012, Moody's dropped SA's credit-rating to 'unsatisfactory'.
In 2008, the French hoped that South Africa would come back to them...
The contractors were disappointed, saying: "we've put a lot of work into the process, but we're hopeful the South African government will remain committed to developing nuclear power," said Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, a spokesperson for Areva in Paris. "If South Africa comes back to us, we'll be there."
Financial expert Jac Laubscher of Sanlam insurance company claimed: 'it's not a train smash that they've cancelled the nuclear plan, because the country's electricity needs will drop because of the financial downturn." He was not very optimistic, projecting that the SA economy now was expected to expand by only 3 percent next year and 4 percent in 2010, he said.
SOURCES CONSULTED:
Nuclear bomb materials storage site breached in South Africa in double-pronged attack
South African black-economic-empowerment laws' barring whites from labour market: similarities with Neuremberg laws barring Jews from public life during nazi-German hegemony of Europe
- SA denies playing both sides of nuclear coin:http://newsletters.creamermedia.co.za/servlet/link/19/47912/172850/1064146
- Will SA's plan to build 6 nuclear pebblebed plants strand on its BEE-anti-white job restriction laws?http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2012/03/will-sa-reactor-plan-be-strangled-by.html
- SA Pebblebed nuclear reactors:http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/the-demise-of-the-pebble-bed-modular-reactor
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/rsa/pelindaba.htm
- http://www.areva.com/
- http://www.nuclearmarket.com/Suppliers/details2.cfm?IDcompany=1634
- http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ENF_Dominion_shuts_on_uranium_price_slump_2210082.html
- http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/PressReleases/2008/prn200802.html
- http://www.sarpa.co.za/events/folder.2008-02-28.4259943945/papers2008/2.pdf
- http://www.sundayworld.co.za/swzones/sundayworldNEW/news/news1228590232.asp
- http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=561&fArticleId=4749506
- http://www.moodys.com/cust/default.asp
- http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/SOUTHAFRICAEXTN/0,,menuPK:368082~pagePK:141159~piPK:141110~theSitePK:368057,00.html
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