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The National Socialist Rebels and the Ossewabrandwag
Not frequently referred to in the Nazification of the Afrikaner right is Robey Leibbrandt’s own organisation for even more radicalised Afrikaners seeking more militant action than that offered by the Ossewabrandwag – the National Socialist Rebels.
Robey Leibbrandt
So how did that come about? Simply put, when Robey Leibbrandt was put ashore…
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Look at the war
(can also maybe apply to the main timeline if you want)
(Very rough/sketch of the idea, mainly showing the places of the AM megastructures and honey-combs)—Takes place the height of the war—
During the war many countries fell/surrendered and got absorbed into the larger powers. Listing the different areas/territories by colour (all super brief here):
Blue — USA (new name not decided, give a suggestion if you want), was very quick to take over Canada and a large portion of South America. The AM megastructures tend to be the largest and most complex on their main land, even where the structure isn’t directly, large pipes and cables all throughout the country are visible. Due to this, a rapid industrialisation has happened and there are very few rural areas left. America’s population (like most of the other places) is also experiencing a decline. The air is extremely polluted and when close to the megastructures it’s said that the smell of burning and rotting flesh is very potent. The remaining population either remains constantly inside, moving around through tunnels, or permanently underground in the new lower cities. Notably radical religious organisations have become more frequent due to the war, mostly due to people supposedly disappearing in their sleep without a trace.
Red— Russia has the largest Megastructure, however due to this, it faces the most attacks. One structure notably, was built small in the ocean yet over time it grew and built itself and the area around it up, creating a false floating continent. However it is due to its creation that a large population of sea life has been erratic and floods that wiped out many coastal cities and communities. Much like America very few rural areas remain, and due to extreme climate change caused by the war, the area faces even harsher and year long winters that have spread to the rest of Europe.
Yellow— China. The AMs (CAM) are very close together here and have been designed in such a way that people are able to live within them. Due to their general closeness to each other they tend to function better in self-protection than the other AMs. It is constantly building, more and more structures as opposed to constantly developing a single one. Within China a few rural and farming communities have been preserved, however due to such a fact, those areas in particular have become targets—especially to RAM.
Orange— These are actively hostile territories (well everywhere is hostile), but life is still found. Camps are usually found scattered, yet still alined to one of the powers. Mostly these are unclaimed territories that are being fighted for.
Grey— Dead zones. Areas so destroyed and ruined by the war that they near uninhabitable and been stripped dry of resources. This is where most of the fighting has happened, in what used to be Central Europe. Majority of the people who were there are dead or have been displaced (mostly in Russia and China, with the luckier ones making it to the Common Wealth of Southern Africa) The remaining people are scattered and can be found within underground shelters. These shelters are horrific places, with few supplies, little food, and constant sickness. The people are actively hunted by all the AMs. Notably Naomi is from one of these bunkers, having been forced into one at the age of two. Nimdok too (when he was alive alreast).
Green— The commonwealth of Southern Africa (previously the African Commonwealth) A bit after the war began (post 1994) many African nations merged diplomatically in order to better conserve resources better and to be a better neutral force. However as the war progressed more and more of the continent was over taken. However in the process the remaining state has become a power in of its own. Creating a defences that work efficiently to keep the AMs out. It was chosen to sanction themselves from the world and the war. Truly wanting no part in it. Eventually Australia did join, before half was taken, but the remainder acts as a port and outlook. This is one of the few areas were “regular” human society is still found, with there being heavy laws and propaganda meant to block out information of the war. Previously they had been very open to refugees, however they would begin to refuse them as it had opened opportunities to the AMs. Ellen and Evan are both from here. Gorrister also hides within it, however he smuggles himself in and out constantly, as being a member of the peace core, he has work to do all over the remaining world.
Where everyone is from including the survivors of the og and love au:
—Gorrister from England however he fled to America, then to COSA, and eventually to Russia where he would help develop the BE virus.
-Ted, Tiffany, and Gloria are all from the USA, however Ted is an average citizen, Tiffany is a member of one of the religious groups, and Gloria is a high ranking military commander, government official and one of the reasons of AM’s existence.
-(idk where Benny is from, can’t decide lol, same with Becky)
-Nimdok and Naomi are from different parts of Europe but both find themselves in the survival bunkers
-Ellen and Evan (being siblings) are from COSA, being born where Zimbabwe used to be. Evan however would go onto explore the rest of the state, mainly in the area where South Africa had once been. Ellen would stay closer to home. (Reason as to why is that in the original and audio drama, Ellen frequently refers to life before AM, and rarely mentions the war, which could mean she either doesn’t think about it or knows very little of it)
(There’s like no world lore in the og and whilst that is kinda the point, I just wanted to build on it a little. Will be posting some concept art for this stuff soon. As usual if you have ideas or suggestions please share)
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On this day, 16 August 2012, police in South Africa massacred 34 miners who were on a wildcat strike fighting for a pay increase at the Marikana mine operated by the British platinum company Lonmin. 78 others were injured in a violent attack by security forces, which the African National Congress (ANC) government falsely claimed was an act of self-defence on the part of the police. It was the worst violence by security forces in the country since the days of apartheid. A few days prior, officials in the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) had opened fire on the striking workers – mostly their own members – leaving two critically injured. This is a history of the strike wave and the repression: https://libcom.org/library/south-africa-partial-reemergence-workers-autonomy-mouvement-communiste-kolektivn%C4%9B-proti https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2059463404238799/?type=3
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1.On this day in 1975, Cuba began Operation Carlota, its most important military internationalist mission in Africa. It was a major undertaking that contributed to the defeat of the apartheid military regime in South Africa & the independence of Angola & Namibia. More of the story:
2.Across Africa, Cuba provided military instructors & doctors, helping rebels gain their independence from Europeans. After the Portuguese dictatorship fell in 1974 & Portugal prepared to grant Angola independence on Nov. 11, 1975, three local movements fought to take power.
3.The largest rebel group with most popular support was the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They were providing critical training & safe haven to other national liberation forces like the ANC (South Africa), SWAPO (Namibia), and FRELIMO (Mozambique).
4.In early November, the Apartheid South African Army was advancing 45 miles per day toward the capital Luanda. South Africa’s invasion endangered not only Angola’s revolution, but the struggle for liberation throughout the continent.
5.The racists wanted to install a puppet regime led by CIA collaborator Jonas Savimbi who would be ok with white rule in South The MPLA leaders, then understood that only an urgent appeal for international solidarity would enable them to fight of this invasion & secure independence.
6.The Angolans had one unlikely country they could turn to: Cuba. They had already provided military instructors to assist the MPLA. The answer came less than 48 hours later on Nov. 5. Yes. Fidel Castro & the Communist Party of Cuba reached its decision without thinking twice.
7.On another Nov 5 in 1843, a slave called Black Carlota, working on the Triunvirato plantation in the Matanzas region, took up her machete in a slave rebellion in which she lost her life. It was in homage to her that the solidarity action in Angola bore her name: Operation Carlota.
8.On Nov. 7, the first 82 soldiers, carrying light artillery, left to Angola. Over the coming weeks more than 10,000 Cuban troops would land in Angola. More than a decade later, at the end of apartheid, there would be as many as 36,000 troops fighting against the apartheid forces.
9.By the end of 1975, Cuban troops had routed the apartheid army & prevented their takeover of the country. The world owes Cuba and these internationalist soldiers a huge debt.
10.Cuban negotiator, Jorge Risquet and the defence of Cuito Cunavale.
SOURCE: Manolo De Los Santos@ manolo_realengo
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The State of Israel can butcher thousands of innocents but New Zealand would not lift a finger to provide support to its victims. IDF soldiers can gun down old men and women waving white flags, shell lines of refugees queuing for aid, and deprive hospitals of power and medicine – and all New Zealand does is a collective shrug. When, however, Yemen’s Houthis disrupt the passage of frozen meat, pizza bases and iPhones through the Red Sea, suddenly New Zealand goes on the warpath. We have declared war on Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and sent a strike force of six men and a dinghy to join Operation Prosperity Guardian, led by the USA.
I think New Zealand’s moral compass is pointing somewhere just south of Hell, while the Houthis, along with South Africa, in their own distinct ways, have become champions for human decency as they confront the genocidal state of Israel and its powerful enablers.
“New Zealand and other nations are suffering from the problems with the Red Sea and the inability to take cargo ships through there – and that is adding a lot of cost… that is affecting every New Zealander,” says Minister of Defence Judith Collins.
Collins had the chutzpah, the incredible cheek, to say she was concerned the Houthi’s actions were impacting people who depended on food imports. Sorry, Judith, that is outrageous hypocrisy at a time when the UN says 500,000 Gazans have already entered the famine stage of food deprivation.
The massive empathy gap between our government and the Houthis when it comes to the suffering of Gaza is simple. The Houthi have direct experience of a genocidal siege that, along with military strikes and disease, killed 400,000 people (please absorb that number) – the greatest humanitarian crisis on the planet from 2015 until recently. Saudi Arabia, supported by US and British intelligence, weapons and bombs, sought to control Yemen and inflict collective punishment on its people. During those years, according to the UN, hundreds of thousands suffered from cholera – a fate that awaits Gazans if Judith Collins and her ilk get their way.
The Yemeni – who rallied in the streets in their millions this month to defy the UK and USA – have empathy born of suffering. They have humanity; our government does not. Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a spokesperson for Ansar Allah (the Houthis), says their goal is simple: stop the genocide and get fuel, food and medicine into Gaza.
“We cannot allow these crimes to be repeated,” Al-Bukhaiti told Grayzone's Max Blumenthal this week. He went on to say: “Our war is a war of morality.” Interesting turn of phrase. People ignorant of history and geopolitics, like our own defence minister, can write the Houthis off as “pirates”. I don’t. Nor do people like the great American Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein who said this week:
“As a Jew I would have respected any government, any people in the world during the Nazi Holocaust who had done what the Houthis are doing.”
Finkelstein went on to say that what the Houthis have signalled is that there will be no business as usual in the shipping lanes while the US and Israel commit genocide in Gaza. That is a moral stance if I ever heard one. He reminded us that “No Business As Usual” was one of the slogans of the Vietnam War peace movement.
“No Justice, No Peace” was another slogan that echoed a similar sentiment - it first appeared in the USA in the 1980s in response to pervasive violence and discrimination against African Americans. Here in Aotearoa, “Ka whawhai tonu matou, ake, ake, ake” (We will fight on, for ever and ever and ever) originally a riposte to a call to surrender to the British and settler colonial forces at the battle of Ōrākau, was adopted by activists in recent decades as a challenge to the State to address injustice or face Maori resistance.
At Ōrākau, our white forces slaughtered Maori women and men as they attempted to flee – bayoneting the already-wounded as they lay defenceless, which I think helps partially explain the powerful speeches of solidarity I heard in Civic Square Wellington this week delivered by Maori in solidarity with Palestine. Like the Yemeni, like the Vietnamese, like the Palestinians, like the Aborigines, like African and Native Americans and others like we of Irish descent, Maori know all too well what siege, slaughter and famine mean.
We were also very disruptive during our confrontation with the New Zealand state when we opposed sporting contacts with apartheid South Africa. In 1981 we had a National Government fighting for the rights of both white supremacists and Kiwis who loved rugby but lacked human empathy when it came to black people. Now in 2024 we again have a National Government, again indifferent to the suffering of people of darker skin, a coalition government fighting for Jewish Supremacists (as the Zionists state is described by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem).
Today the moral compass points to South Africa and to Yemen. One route is navigated by the legal scholars of South Africa; the other, more immediate and muscular, by the Houthi who know all about the violence the powerful can inflict on them but chose to stand with the oppressed, not the oppressors.
I’ll give the last word to Ansar Allah’s Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, because it’s so rare to hear these people unmediated by some US general or neo-conservative commentator:
“We know the story of David whose slingshot defeated Goliath. We don’t fear the weapons of the enemy. We believe a victory for Yemen will be a victory for morality and the highest values. We believe that a victory on the awareness front is more important than a military one - because the main cause of suffering from wars around the world is due to a lack of awareness.
We know there are a lot of good people around the world – if they found out the truth, their positions would change.”
EUGENE DOYLE is a Wellington community organiser and environmental campaigner.
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Here is your daily roundup of today's news:
News Roundup 5/17/2023
by Kyle Anzalone
US News
The far-reaching effects of America’s War on Terror may have contributed to the deaths of some 4.5 million people, according to new research by Brown University’s ‘Costs of War’ project. While many of the fatalities were the direct result of violent conflict, indirect causes such as economic collapse and food insecurity have taken a far greater toll. The Institute
Russia
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) will adopt a prohibition on restarting oil imports from Russia, according to the Financial Times. The “highly symbolic” ban falls well short of the total export embargo proposed by Washington. The Institute
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to host a delegation of African leaders to discuss a potential peace plan for the conflict in Ukraine. AWC
Germany on Saturday announced its largest package of military aid for Kyiv worth $2.95 billion, Berlin’s largest since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. AWC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Britain Monday and secured pledges for more military equipment from London, including air defense missiles and long-range attack drones. AWC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has privately plotted major attacks inside Russia while pledging publicly that his forces won’t use Western-provided arms to target Russian territory, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. AWC
The Washington Post deleted a portion of an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he accused the paper of helping Russia by posing a question about information contained in leaked classified documents. AWC
The Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday said Ukrainian forces have already used British-provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles in attacks on the Russian-controlled Donbas city of Luhansk. AWC
The last massive aid package Congress authorized for Ukraine has about $6 billion left, which is expected to be used up by mid-summer, POLITICO reported Monday. AWC
Warsaw received its first shipment of US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), manufactured by Lockheed Martin, and announced plans to deploy the launchers near the country’s shared border with Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave. The Institute
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, dismissed claims made by The Washington Post that he offered Ukraine Russian troop positions in exchange for a Ukrainian withdrawal from Bakhmut, calling the report “laughable.” AWC
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization conducted war games aimed at tracking and eliminating submarines. The 12-nation exercises were the alliance’s largest ever military drills simulating underwater warfare. The Institute
Russia’s military said Tuesday that it hit a US-made Patriot air defense system in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with a hypersonic missile, which was later confirmed by a US official. AWC
Kiev officially joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Cyber Defense Center on Tuesday. Ukraine’s flag was raised at the headquarters of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn, according to a Ukrainian Foreign Ministry statement. The Institute
On Monday, the CIA published a video on YouTube and Telegram urging Russians to contact the agency in an effort to recruit intelligence assets inside Russia. AWC
China
A high-level Chinese envoy is set to begin a trip that will bring him to Russia, Ukraine, and several other European countries as Beijing hopes to broker a ceasefire to bring an end to the fighting in Ukraine. AWC
Beijing says on 1/5/2021 the US conducted an antisubmarine operation about 100 miles from Hong Kong. When Chinese forces attempted to seize some American equipment, Washington destroyed it. SCMP
On Tuesday, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) responded to US plans to provide Taiwan with $500 million in unprecedented military aid and reports that said hundreds of US troops have been deployed to the island, warning it will “firmly crush attempts at external interference.” AWC
A US envoy said Monday that the US and the Federated States of Micronesia have agreed to extend a strategic pact that will allow the US to maintain military access to the Pacific Island nation. AWC
President Biden has canceled planned visits to Papua New Guinea and Australia to focus on the debt ceiling debate that’s ongoing in Washington, The Associated Press reported on Tuesday. AWC
Middle East
European countries are pressing Biden to resume talks with Iran about reviving the nuclear agreement. WSJ
The US military says it’s looking into reports that it killed a civilian in a recent airstrike it launched in northwest Syria. AWC
The Cradle reported on Tuesday that the US and Syria have been engaged in secret, direct negotiations in the Omani capital of Muscat. AWC
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12095Khz 0358 7 MAY 2024 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55445. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z with ID@0359z pips and Newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by David Harper. Israel's army has said it has conducted "targeted strikes" against Hamas in eastern Rafah, after rejecting Hamas's agreement to a ceasefire deal. Armed factions in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel in response. Hamas had earlier said it would accept a ceasefire deal drawn up by Egyptian mediators. It was however rejected by Israel as "far from meeting" its "core demands". It is not clear exactly what Hamas has agreed to, but the proposal is thought to include the release of hostages and the return of displaced Palestinians within Gaza. Israel's war cabinet voted to continue operations but is however sending a delegation to indirect talks in Cairo. For the fifth time Vladimir Putin will be taking the long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St Andrew's Throne Hall. There he will take the oath of office and be sworn in as Russia's president for a new six-year term. Twenty-four years on, the Kremlin leader is waging war against Ukraine; a war in which Russia has suffered heavy losses. At home, instead of developing democracy, President Putin has been curtailing it: jailing critics, removing all checks and balances on his power. A US Army soldier stationed in South Korea has been detained in Russia, the US military says. Staff Sgt Gordon Black is accused of stealing from a woman, reports the BBC's US partner CBS. He was not on official travel when he was held on 2 May in the city of Vladivostok, in Russia's far east. Rescue efforts were underway after three people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-storey building under construction collapsed in the South African city of George. Twenty-four people were rescued from the site and sent to hospitals, the municipality of George, a coastal city east of Cape Town, said in a statement on Tuesday. Fifty-one people remained trapped, according to a statement from the municipality of George. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday it was unacceptable for Australian defence personnel to be put at risk in international airspace by the Chinese military as they took part in an operation to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea. A Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian military helicopter during an unsafe and unacceptable confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia said on Monday. The Chinese air force J-10 jet dropped flares above and several hundred meters ahead of an Australian MH60R Seahawk helicopter on a routine flight on Saturday in the Yellow Sea as part of an operation to enforce sanctions against North Korea, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Monday evening. In a television interview, Albanese said China had not yet responded publicly to Australia's representations over the incident. The US has opened a new inquiry into troubled jet firm Boeing, after the company told air safety regulators that it might not have properly inspected its 787 Dreamliner planes. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would look into whether staff had falsified records. It said Boeing was reinspecting all 787 jets still on the manufacturing line. Boeing will be forced to develop an "action plan" to address concerns about planes already in service, it added. @0406z "Newsday" begins. Backyard gutter antenna w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), JRC NRD-535D. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.
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Events 5.4 (after 1950)
1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.
1978 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
1989 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe.
1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
2002 – One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.
2019 – The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.
2023 – Nine people are killed and thirteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.
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Calls mount for ill-equipped SANDF members to return after fatal attack on SA base in DRC
Members of the SANDF were killed barely days after arriving in the DRC to fight the M23
A chorus of voices have called for the immediate return of members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) following the fatal attack on a SA military base in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Defence Force announced earlier on Thursday that Two Members were killed and Three others left injured after a Mortar Bomb landed inside one of their Bases in the DRC on Wednesday at around 1.30pm.
The Defence Force said the South African contingent was part of the SADC mission in the DRC deployed to support and assist the government in its efforts to bring peace, security, and stability in the region.
After the indirect fire on the base, the injured members were taken to the nearest Hospital in Goma for Medical attention.
EFF leader Julius Malema has slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to deploy SANDF soldiers in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo as “out of order”, imploring the executive to revoke the decision.
they were not fit to participate in the mission.
“The South African deployment of soldiers to DRC is out of order, it must be withdrawn with immediate effect,” he said.
the defence forces did not have the capacity to protect country and its border, yet they were being deployed to another country to protect the base.
“Ramaphosa wants to kill our children in DRC, our troops are sent there to be killed because they are not properly trained, they must come back home,” he said.
In a statement on Thursday, the SANDF confirmed that three of its soldiers were killed and two injured in the DRC.
According to the SANDF, a mortar bomb landed inside one of the South African contingent military bases inflicting casualties and injuries to their soldiers.
The country’s contingent is part of the SADC mission in the DRC deployed to support and assist the government of DRC in its effort to bring peace, security and stability to that region.
During the briefing, Malema blamed the ANC government for collapsing the army and not paying them well for the job.
“Take a walk and look at a South African soldier walking, you see a demoralised who is carrying a rifle and you can see that it is heavy on him. He is not even fit to carry it, he said.
Malema said that is why in their manifesto, they will finance the army and ensure that the soldiers are properly trained and the necessary equipment needed for the success of the army is provided.
Meanwhile, Malema has been criticised for the opening of South African borders and allowing illegal immigrants into the country.
Similar scrutiny from 2013 mission
Similar criticism was leveled against former President Jacob Zuma's administration for the deployment of forces to the Central African Republic in 2013.
The so-called "Battle of Bangui," saw around 200 South African soldiers involved in a pitched battle against Seleka rebels numbering in the thousands.
The South African contingent had no air support, limited ammunition and had to fight off a vastly bigger attacking force for hours.
Fifteen South African paratroopers and special forces soldiers were killed, while hundreds of Seleka rebels were killed and wounded.
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South Africa's mission to help bring peace and security to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has gotten off to a deadly start.
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) on Thursday said that two of its soldiers had been killed in a mortar strike near the eastern city of Goma.
The SANDF said that three more soldiers were injured in the attack, which took place on Wednesday.
"A mortar landed inside one of the South African contingent military bases inflicting casualties and injuries to the SANDF soldiers," the South African military said in a statement.
The injured were taken to the closest hospital in Goma, the SANDF said.
The SANDF said that details surrounding the attack "are still sketchy" and that further investigation would take place to determine what happened.
SA's first fatalities on mission to DRC
The deaths are the first fatalities to take place within the Southern African Development Community Mission in the DRC (SMIDRC). South Africa had deployed 2,900 South African forces to assist Kinshasa to bring peace, stability and security to the region.
DRC has been struggling to contain armed militias. The mainly-Tutsi M23 rebel group has managed to capture large parts of North Kivu since reemerging in 2022, causing hundreds of thousands of people to flee.
Fighting has intensified in recent days around the strategic town of Sake, which lies about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Goma.
Earlier in the week, South Africa's official political opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of being "reckless" for ordering the deployment of South African forces. The DA said South African forces lacked enough air support and would be "sitting ducks" against the M23 rebels.
Similar scrutiny from 2013 mission
Similar criticism was leveled against former President Jacob Zuma's administration for the deployment of forces to the Central African Republic in 2013.
The so-called "Battle of Bangui," saw around 200 South African soldiers involved in a pitched battle against Seleka rebels numbering in the thousands.
The South African contingent had no air support, limited ammunition and had to fight off a vastly bigger attacking force for hours.
Fifteen South African paratroopers and special forces soldiers were killed, while hundreds of Seleka rebels were killed and wounded.
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SA Government Jobs You Can Apply For
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SA Government Jobs You Can Apply For
SA government jobs play a crucial role in the country’s socio-economic development and public service delivery. As the largest employer in the nation, the South African government provides diverse job opportunities across various departments and agencies. These positions span a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, education, public safety, infrastructure development, and more.
SISTA has compiled a list of some government departments and agencies in South Africa where you might find job opportunities:
Here’s a list of SA Government Jobs…
Public Service Commission (PSC): Responsible for ensuring that the public service functions effectively and that the staffing of the public service is based on merit.
Department of Home Affairs: Deals with immigration, civic affairs, and the issuing of identity documents and passports.
Department of Health: Responsible for the country’s healthcare system and related services.
Department of Education: Oversees the education system in South Africa.
Department of Public Works and Infrastructure: Manages government buildings and infrastructure.
South African Police Service (SAPS): Responsible for law enforcement and maintaining public order.
South African National Defence Force (SANDF): Responsible for the country’s defense and security.
Department of Labour: Deals with labor-related matters, including employment and workplace conditions.
Department of Social Development: Focuses on social welfare programs and services.
Department of Environmental Affairs: Manages environmental conservation and sustainable development.
Department of Transport: Deals with transportation infrastructure and services.
National Treasury: Responsible for managing the country’s finances and economic policy.
Department of Water and Sanitation: Manages water resources and sanitation services.
Department of Mineral Resources and Energy: Deals with mining, minerals, and energy resources.
South African Revenue Service (SARS): Responsible for collecting revenue and ensuring tax compliance.
To find current job openings, you can visit the official websites of these departments or use South African government job portals. Additionally, you may check online job platforms and newspapers for government job advertisements. Keep in mind that the application processes and requirements may vary for each department, so carefully review the job announcements for specific details.
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On this day in Wikipedia: Monday, 18th December
Welcome, fàilte, laipni lūdzam, velkommen 🤗
What does @Wikipedia say about 18th December through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?
18th December 2022 🗓️ : Event - Argentina national football team
Argentina win the 2022 FIFA World Cup final, defeating title holders France 4–2 on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time.
"The Argentina national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Argentina) represents Argentina in men's international football and is administered by the Argentine Football Association, the governing body for football in Argentina. Nicknamed La Albiceleste ('The White and Sky Blue'), they are..."
18th December 2018 🗓️ : Event - List of bolides
List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
"The following is a list of bolides and fireballs seen on Earth in recent times. These are small asteroids (known as meteoroids) that regularly impact the Earth. Although most are so small that they burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface, some larger objects may reach the surface as..."
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18th December 2013 🗓️ : Death - Graham Mackay (businessman)
Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (b. 1949)
"Ernest Arthur Graham Mackay (26 July 1949 – 18 December 2013) was a South African businessman, former chief executive and chairman of SABMiller plc, a South African multinational brewing and beverage company registered on the London Stock Exchange, and the world's second-largest brewing company..."
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18th December 1973 🗓️ : Event - Soyuz programme
Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
"The Soyuz programme ( SOY-yooz, SAW-; Russian: Союз [sɐˈjus], meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third..."
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18th December 1923 🗓️ : Birth - Edwin Bramall
Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London (d. 2019)
"Field Marshal Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall, (18 December 1923 – 12 November 2019) was a British Army officer. He served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1979 and 1982, and as Chief of the Defence Staff, professional head of the British..."
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18th December 1803 🗓️ : Death - Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744)
"Johann Gottfried von Herder ( HUR-dər, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtfʁiːt ˈhɛʁdɐ]; 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism. He was a Romantic philosopher and poet who..."
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18th December 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: O Adonai
"The O Antiphons (also known as the Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os) are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers on the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. They likely date to sixth-century Italy, when Boethius refers to the text in The Consolation of Philosophy. They..."
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South African National Defence Force Introduces Badger 8x8 Infantry Fighting Vehicle
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) introduced its latest development of an 8×8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, the Badger, during Exercise VUKUHLOME 2023. This event took place on November 22, 2023, at the SA Army Combat Training Centre in Lohatla, Northern Cape. The Badgers are intended to replace the South African Army’s Ratel IFVs. Denel was selected to produce 264 Badgers…
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