Saturday, January 14, 2012

The World Order: A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism
The history and practices of the parasitic financial elite
-- by: Eustace Mullins, 1984, source: Yamaguchy Inc.

* Mayer Rothschild and the Five Arrows
* Overturning the European Monarchs
* Rothschild Interests in England
* Rothchild Interests in America
* Rothschild Interests in South Africa

Mayer Rothschild and the Five Arrows

In its issue of Dec. 19, 1983, Forbes Magazine noted that "Half of Germany's top ten banks are Frankfurt based." The modern world's financial system, an updating of the Babylonian monetary system of taxes and money creation, was perfected in Frankfurt-on-Main, in the province of Hesse. Mayer Amschel Bauer (later Rothschild) discovered that although loans to farmers and small businesses could be profitable, the real profits lay in making loans to governments. Born in Frankfurt in 1743, Mayer Amschel married Gutta Schnapper. He served a three year apprenticeship in Hanover at the bank of Oppenheim. During this period, he had occasion to be of service to Lt. Gen. Baron von Estorff. Von Estorff was the principal adviser to Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse, the wealthiest man in Europe. Frederick was worth from 70 to 100 million florins, much of it inherited from his father, Wilhelm the Eighth, brother of the King of Sweden. Baron von Estorff advised the Landgrave that Mayer Amschel showed an uncanny ability to increase money through his investments. The Landgrave immediately sent for him.

At this time, King George III [of England] was trying to put down the American Rebellion. His troops were being outfought by the hardy Americans, who were accustomed to wilderness battles. Mayer Amschel arranged for King George to hire 16,800 sturdy young Hessian soldiers from the Landgrave, a considerable addition to the Hesse's fortune. This advantageous relationship came to a halt with the sudden death in 1785 of the Landgrave, who was only twenty-five years old. However, Mayer Amschel attained absolute influence over his successor, Elector Wilhelm I, who, like Mayer Amschel, had also been born in 1743. It was said that they were like two shoes, so well did they go together. It was a pleasant change from Mayer Amschel's relationship with the former Landgrave, who had been a very difficult and demanding person. In fact, the Landgrave's sudden death had luckily placed Mayer Amschel in charge of the largest fortune in Europe.

As he prospered, Mayer Amschel placed a large red shield over his door of the house in the Judengasse, which he shared with the Schiff family. He took the name "Rothschild" from his sign. In 1812, when he died, he left one billion franks to his five sons. The eldest, Anselm, was placed in charge of the Frankfurt bank. He had no children, and the bank was later closed. The second son, Salomon, was sent to Vienna, where he soon took over the banking monopoly formerly shared among five Jewish families: Arnstein, Eskeles, Geymuller, Stein and Sina. The third son, Nathan, founded the London branch, after he had profited in some Manchester dealings in textiles and dyestuffs which caused him to be widely feared and hated. Karl, the fourth son, went to Naples, where he became head of the occult group, the Alta Vendita. The youngest son, James, founded the French branch of the House of Rothschild in Paris.

Thus strategically located, the five sons began their lucrative operations in government finance. Today, their holdings are concentrated in the Five Arrows Fund of Curacao, and the Five Arrows Corp. of Toronto, Canada. The name is taken from the Rothschild sign of an eagle with five arrows clutched in its talons, signifying the five sons.

The first precept of success in making government loans lies in "creating a demand", that is, by taking part in the creation of financial panics, depressions, famines, wars and revolutions. The overwhelming success of the Rothschilds lay in their willingness to do what had to be done. As Frederic Morton writes in the preface to "The Rothschilds":

"For the last one hundred and fifty years, the history of the House of Rothschild has been to an amazing degree the backstage history of Western Europe... Because of their success in making loans not to individuals but to nations, they reaped huge profits... Someone once said that the wealth of Rothschild consists of the bankruptcy of nations."

In "The Empire of the City", E.C. Knuth says:

"The fact that the House of Rothschild made its money in the great crashes of history and the great wars of history, the very periods when others lost their money, is beyond question."

On July 8, 1937, the New York Times noted that Prof. Wilhelm, a German historian, had said:

"The Rothschilds introduced the rule of money into European politics. The Rothschilds were the servants of money who undertook the reconstruct the world as an image of money and its functions. Money and the employment of wealth have become the law of European life; we no longer have nations, but economic provinces."

On June 4, 1879, the New York Times noted:

"Baron Lionel N. de Rothschild, head of the world famous banking house of Messrs. Rothschild & Co. died at the age of 71. He was son of the late Baron N.M. Rothschild who founded the house in London in 1808 and died in 1836. His father came to the conclusion that in order to perpetuate the fame and power of the Rothschilds, which had already become worldwide, it was necessary that the family be kept together, and devoted to the common cause. In order to do this, he proposed that they should intermarry, and form no marital unions outside the family. A council of the heads of the houses was called at Frankfurt in 1826, end the views of Baron Nathan were approved."

In "The Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers of Nations," John Reeves writes:

"The first occasion in which Nathan assisted the English government was in 1819, when he undertook the loan of $60 million; from 1818-1832 Nathan issued eight other loans totalling $105,400,000; he subsequently issued eighteen Government loans totalling $700 million. To the Rothschilds, nothing could have occurred more propitiously than the outbreak of the American revolt and the French Revolution, as the two enabled them to lay the foundation of the immense wealth they have since acquired.

The House of Rothschild was (and is) the ruling power in Europe, for all the political powers were willing to acknowledge the sway of the great financial Despot, and, like obedient vassals, pay their tribute without murmur.... Its influence was so all-powerful that it was a saying, no war could be undertaken without the assistance of the Rothschilds. They rose to a position of such power in the political and commercial world that they became the Dictators of Europe. To the public the archives of the family, which could throw so much light upon history, are a profound secret, a sealed book kept well hidden."

On July 27, 1844, Giuseppe Mazzini said, "Rothschild could be King of France if he so desired." The Jewish Encydopedia noted (1909 edition): "In the year 1848 the Paris house (of Rothschild) was reckoned to be worth 600,000,000 francs as against 352,000,000 francs held by all the other Paris bankers."

In "Jews and Modern Capitalism", Prof. Werner Sombart wrote:

"The principal loan floaters of the world, the Rothschilds, were later the first railway kings. The period of 1820 onwards became the 'Age of the Rothschilds' so that at the middle of the century it was a common dictum : There is only one power in Europe and that is Rothschild."

Hearst's Chicago Evening American commented, Dec. 3, 1923: "The Rothschilds can start or prevent wars. Their word could make or break empires." Reeves notes, "The fall of Napoleon was the rise of Rothschild." Napoleon was later slowly poisoned to death with arsenic by a Rothschild agent. They had no need of another "return from exile".

The New York Evening Post noted July 22, 1924, "The Kaiser had to consult Rothschild to find out whether he could declare war. Another Rothschild carried out the whole burden of the conflict which overthrew Napoleon."

The Kaiser's Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg, who actually precipitated World War I, was a member of the Frankfurt banking family, Bethmann, and a cousin of the Rothschilds.

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Overturning the European Monarchs

After the fall of Napoleon, Salomon persuaded the ruler of Austria to issue patents of nobility to the five brothers. The Congress of Vienna was the emergence of the moth from its cocoon. The diktat of this Congress was a simple one -- the aristocracies of Europe must submit to our will, or they are doomed. The death sentence upon the noble lines of Europe was pronounced by those who had the will to carry out their edict. It took another century to perfect the work, not because the killers were weak, but because they wished to proceed cautiously, without revealing their full strength. In combat, the decisive weapon is the one your opponent does not know about.

It was not necessary to pronounce a death sentence upon the ruling families of America, because there were none. During the 19th century, a few descendants of colonial entrepreneurs had amassed wealth, and could afford a life of leisure and travel. They remained slavishly dependent upon Continental arbiters in every matter requiring personal taste and judgment. Because they had no guiding philosophy, and no program, this American "upper class" never made it to the top of the stairs. They remained "below stairs" as servants of the London princes of the World Order.

Their self-abasement not only manifested itself in an unusually high rate of suicide, but also in the slower forms of self-destruction, alcoholism, drug addiction, and homosexuality. Homosexuality is not so much a type of sexual drive as it is the expression of deeper needs, the desire for self-degradation, or the seeking of a partner whom one can humiliate and degrade. It could hardly be unexpected that such a "ruling class" would eagerly hail the twentieth century crusade to enthrone Communism as the vehicle of the World Order.

In their quest for wealth, the Rothschilds did not overlook either the small farmer or the stockpiling and wholesaling of grain. They developed a "farm loan" system which has been the curse of the farmers for more than a century. R.F. Pettigrew noted in the British Guardian, "This system of banking (causing the ultimate ruin of all those who cultivate the soil) was the invention of Lord Overstone, with the assistance of the Rothschilds, bankers of Europe."

One of their greatest triumphs was the successful outcome of the Rothschilds' protracted war against the Russian Imperial Family. The family name of the Romanovs was derived from Roma Nova, New Rome. It embodied the ancient prophecy that Moscow was to become "the New Rome." The family originated with Prince Prus, brother of Emperor August of Rome, who founded Prussia. In 1614, Michael became the first Romanov Czar.

After the fall of Napoleon, the Rothschilds turned all their hatred against the Romanovs. In 1825, they poisoned Alexander I; in 1855, they poisoned Nicholas I. Other assassinations followed, culminating on the night of Nov. 6, 1917, when a dozen Red Guards drove a truck up to the Imperial Bank Building in Moscow. They loaded the Imperial jewel collection and $700 million gold, loot totalling more than a billion dollars. The new regime also confiscated the 150 million acres in Russia personally owned by the Czar.

Of equal importance were the enormous cash reserves which the Czar had invested abroad in European and American banks. The New York Times stated that the Czar had $5 million in Guaranty Trust, and $1 million in the National City Bank; other authorities stated it was $5 million in each bank. Between 1905 and 1910 the Czar had sent more than $900 million to be deposited in six leading New York banks: Chase, National City Bank, Guaranty Trust, J.P. Morgan, Hanover, and Manufacturers Trust. These were the principal banks controlled by the House of Rothschild through their American agents: J.P. Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb Co. These were also the six New York banks which bought the controlling stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914. They have held control of the stock ever since.

The Czar also had $115 million in four English banks. He had $35 million in the Bank of England, $25 million in Barings, $25 million in Barclays, and $30 million in Lloyd's Bank. In Paris, the Czar had $100 million in Banque de France, and $80 million in the Rothschild Bank of Paris. In Berlin, he had $132 million in the Mendelsohn Bank, which had long been bankers to Russia.

None of these sums has ever been disbursed; at compound interest since 1916, they amount to more than $50 billion. Two claimants later appeared, a son, Alexis, and a daughter, Anastasia. Despite a great deal of proof substantiating their claims, Peter Kurth notes in "Anastasia" that: "Lord Mountbatten put up the money for court battles against Anastasia. Although he was Empress Alexandra's nephew, he was the guiding force behind Anastasia's opposition." The Battenbergs, or Mountbattens, were also related to the Rothschild family. They did not wish to see the Czar's fortune reclaimed and removed from the Rothschild banks.

Kurth also notes:

"In a 1959 series on the history of the great British banks, for example, the Observer of London remarked of Baring Brothers, 'The Romanovs were among their most distinguished clients. It is affirmed that Barings still holds a deposit of more than forty million pounds that was left them by the Romanovs.' Anthony Sampson, editor in chief, said no protests were made. This story is generally considered to be true."

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Rothschild Interests in England

In the early 19th century, the Rothschilds began to consolidate their profits from government loans into various business ventures, which have done very well. Fortuitous trading on the London Stock Exchange after Waterloo gave Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild a sizeable portion of the "consols" [bonds] which formed the bulk of the deposits of the Bank of England. Joseph Wechsberg notes in "The Merchant Bankers":

"There is the Sun Alliance life insurance company, most aristocratic of all insurance companies, founded by Nathan Rothschild in 1824; Brinco, the British Newfoundland Corp., founded by the British and French Rothschilds in 1952; the Anglo-American Corp., Bowater, Rio Tinto and others."

Not only does the bank rate of the Bank of England affect the interest rates in other nations; the price of gold also plays a crucial role in the monetary affairs of nations, even if they are no longer on the gold standard. The dominant role played by the House of Rothschild in the Bank of England is augmented by another peculiar duty of the firm, the daily 'fixing' of the world price of gold. The News Chronicle of Dec. 12, 1938, describes this ritual:

"The story of the gold-fixing has often been told. How every weekday at 11 a.m. the representatives of five firms of bullion brokers and one firm of refiners meet at the office of Messrs. Rothschild (except on Saturday) and there fix the sterling price of gold. There is, however, a great deal of activity which lies behind his final act -- this centralization of the demand for, and the supply of gold in one office and the fixing of the price of gold on that basis. A price of gold is first suggested, probably by the representative of Messrs. Rothschild, who also acts for the Bank of England and the Exchange Equalization Account."

The banking houses privileged to meet with the Rothschilds to set the world price of gold are known as "the Club of Five". In 1958, they were : N.M. Rothschild, Samuel Montagu, Moccata and Goldsmid, Sharps Pixley, and Johnson Matthey.

In 1961, the London Accepting Houses operating by approval of the Governor of the Bank of England were :

* Barings
* Brown Shipley
* Arbuthnot Latham
* Wm. Brandt's & Sons
* Erlangers
* Antony Gibbs & Co.
* Guinness Mahon Hawkins
* S. Japhet
* Kleinwort & Sons
* Lazard Bros.
* Samuel Montagu
* Morgan Grenfell
* N.M. Rothschild
* M. Samuel
* J. Henry Schroder
* S.G. Warburg

These chosen firms rule the financial establishment in "the City" of London.

In 1961, the leading business groups in England were listed by Wm. M. Clarke as:

1. Morgan Grenfell Ltd. (Lord Bicester) the Peabody J.P. Morgan firm
2. Jardine Matheson
3. Rothschild-Samuel-Oppenheimer [group], comprising Rio Tinto, British South Africa Co., Shell Petroleum, Brinco (British Newfoundland Corp.)
4. Lazard Brothers, Shell, English Electric, Canadian Eagle Oil
5. Lloyd's Bank
6. Barclay's Bank
7. Peninsular & Orient Lines
8. Cunard
9. Midland Group -- Eagle Star -- Higginson (Cavendish-Bentinck)
10. Prudential [Assurance Co.]
11. Imperial Chemical Industries
12. Bowater
13. Courtauld's
14. Unilever

Although this list shows the Rothschild group as only one of fourteen, in fact they hold large positions or influence in the other groups of this list.

In 1982, the principal directorships held by the London Rothschilds were :

* Lord [Jacob Rothschild] -- N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Arcan N.V. Curacao, chairman Rothschild's Continuation, and Rothschild Inc. USA.
* Edmund Leopold de Rothschild -- N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Alfred Dunhill Ltd., Rothschild Continuation, Rothschild Trust, Rothman's International, chmn Tokyo Pacific Holdings N.V.
* Baron Eric Rothschild -- N.M. Rothschild & Sons
* Evelyn de Rothschild -- chmn N.M. Rothschild & Sons, DeBeers Consolidated Mines Ltd. South Africa, Eagle Star Insurance Co., chmn The Economist Newspaper Ltd., IBM UK Ltd., La Banque Privee S.A., Manufacturers Hanover Ltd., Rothschild Continuation Ltd., chmn United Race Courses Ltd
* Leopold de Rothschild -- N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Alliance Assurance Co., Bank of England, The London Assurance, Rothschild Continuation Ltd., Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG Switzerland, Sun Alliance and London Assurance Co., Sun Insurance Office Ltd.

The British firms comprising the major basis of the Rothschild fortune are: Sun Alliance Assurance, Eagle Star, DeBeers, and Rio Tinto.

Eagle Star's directors include:

* Duncan Mackinnon, of [S.G. Hambro Investment Trust]
* Earl Cadogan, whose mother was a Hambro
* Sir Robert Clark, chairman Hill Samuel Co.
* Marquess Linlithgow (Charles Hope) whose mother was a Milner -- he married Judith Baring
* Evelyn de Rothschild
* Sir Ian Stewart of Brown Shipley Co., who has been parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1979.

DeBeers directors include:

* Harry F. Oppenheimer
* Sir Philip Oppenheimer
* A.E. Oppenheimer
* N.F. Oppenheimer
* Baron Evelyn de Rothschild
* Sidney Spiro

Spiro is also a director of Rio Tinto, Hambros Bank, Barclays Bank, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

DeBeers interlocks with Anglo-American Corp. of South Africa, of which Harry F. Oppenheimer is chairman, and Anglo-American Gold Investment Co. of which Julian Ogilvie Thompson is chairman, and Harry F. Oppenheimer director.

DeBeers interlocks with Hambros Bank, whose chairman is Jocelyn Hambro; directors are R.N. Hambro, C.E. Hambro, Hon. H.W. Astor; Sir Ian Morrow, chairman UKO Int. and The Laird Group, International Harvester, Rolls Royce, and the Brush Group; J.M. Clay, director of the Bank of England; Mark Weinberg, and Sidney Spiro.

Rio Tinto's chairman is Sir Anthony Tuke; he is also chairman Barclay's Bank, and member [of the] Trilateral Commission. Directors are Lord Shackleton, Lord Privy Seal, chairman RTZ Dev. Corp.; Lord Charteris of Amisfield, grandson of Earl of Wemys, married to daughter of Viscount Margesson, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth, director of Claridge's Hotel, and Connaught Hotel; Sir David Orr, chairman Unilever; and Sidney Spiro, Hambros Bank.

The principal Rothschild firm is Sun Alliance Assurance, which Nathan Mayer Rothschild founded in 1824, with Sir Alex Baring, Samuel Gurney, and Sir Moses Montefiore, with an initial capital of five million pounds.

* The chairman of Sun Alliance is Lord Aldington (Toby Low) who is also chairman Westland Aircraft, director of Citibank, Citicorp, and GE Ltd
* Lord Aberconway, dep. chairman
* H.V.A. Lambert, chairman Barclay's Bank
* Earl of Crawford (Robert A. Lindsay), whose mother was a Cavendish -- he is also chairman National Westminister Bank, former private secretary to the Secretary of Treasury. Minister of State for Defense, Minister of State for Foreign and Commercial Affairs
* Lord Astor, whose mother was the daughter of Earl of Minto -- he is the former chairman of The [London] Times
* Sir Charles Ball, of Kleinwort Benson, also director of Chubb & Sons., Barclay's Bank, Cadbury Schweppes
* Sir Alan Dalton, director Natl. Westminster Bank
* Duke of Devonshire -- his mother was a Cecil, one of England's three ruling families since the Middle Ages
* Sir Derek Holden-Brown, chairman Allied Breweries, director Hiram Walker
* J.N.C. James, trustee Grosvenor Estates, which owns large sections of London
* Henry Keswick, chairman Matheson & Co.
* Lord Kindersley, exec. director of Lazard Bros., director of Marconi, English Electric, British Match, Swedish Match
* Sir Peter Matthews, chairman Vickers
* J.M. Ricchie, chairman British Enkalon, director of Vickers, Bowater Ltd.
* Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman N.M. Rothschild & Sons.

The Rothschilds have had a large position in Vickers for many years. Chairman is Sir Peter Matthews, also director Lloyd's Bank and Sun Alliance. Directors are T. Neville; Baron Braybrooke; Earl of Warwick (the Salisburys, one of three ruling families in England); Sir Alastair Frame, chief exec. Rio Tinto Zinc, director of Plessey & Co. UK, and the Atomic Energy Authority. The chairman of Vickers in 1956 was Edward Knollys, son of the private secretary to King Edward VII forty years, and George V for 5 years.

Rothchild Interests in America

For more than a century, a widespread belief has been deliberately fostered in the United States that the Rothschilds were of little significance in the American financial scene. With this cover, they have been able to manipulate political and financial developments in this country to their own advantage. In 1837, the Rothschilds let their American representative, W.L. & M.S. Joseph, go bankrupt in the Crash, while they threw their cash reserves behind a newcomer, August Belmont, and their secret representative, George Peabody of London. Bermingham notes in "Our Crowd":

"In the Panic of 1837, Belmont was able to perform a service which he would repeat in subsequent panics, thanks to the hugeness of the Rothschild reservoir of capital, to start out in America operating his own Federal Reserve System."

After 1837, August Belmont (Schönberg) was publicly advertised in the financial press as the American representative of the Rothschilds. When Belmont participated in a financial operation, everyone knew that the Rothschilds were involved. When Belmont took no part, and the transaction was handled by J.P. Morgan & Co., and/or by Kuhn, Loeb Co., everyone "knew" [that is, "assumed"] that the Rothschilds were not involved.

George Peabody had established his business in England through his connection with Brown Brothers (now Brown Bros. Harriman and Brown, Shipley). He had become an unidentified agent for Lord [Nathan Rothschild] as early as 1835. Although there is no statue of George Peabody in the Wall Street area, there is one in London, just opposite the Bank of England. George Peabody became "the favorite American" of Queen Victoria. His old lunchbox occupies a prominent place in the London office of Morgan Stanley to this day.

By 1861, George Peabody had become the largest trader of American securities in the world. To put pressure on the Lincoln government, he began unloading them and driving prices down. At the same time, [Junius? Morgan], allied with Morris Ketchum, was depleting the American gold supply by shipping it to England. He ran the price from $126 ounce to $171 ounce, reaping a good profit, and putting more financial pressure on the Lincoln government. This was one of many financial operations directed by the Rothschilds for their own political and financial goals. As George Peabody had no son to take over his firm, he took on Junius Morgan as partner; Junius' son John Pierpont Morgan, became known as "the most powerful banker in the world", although his principal role was to secretly carry out commissions for the House of Rothschild.

The New York Times, Oct. 26, 1907, noted in connection with J.P. Morgan's actions during the Panic of 1907:

"In conversation with the New York Times correspondent, Lord [Nathaniel Rothschild] paid a high tribute to J.P. Morgan for his efforts in the present financial juncture in New York. 'He is worthy of his reputation as a great financier and a man of wonders. His latest action fills one with admiration and respect for him.' "

This is the only [?] recorded instance when a Rothschild praised any banker outside of his own family.

On March 28, 1932, the New York Times noted:

"London : N.M. Victor Rothschild, twenty-one-year-old nephew of Baron Rothschild, is going to the United States soon to take a post with J.P. Morgan & Co., it was learned tonight. It is usual for progressive British bankers to send their young men to western states temporarily, one of the most notable believers in the practice being the Anglo-American banking house of J. Henry Schroder & Co."

The Morgan-Rothschild connection explains the otherwise incomprehensible mystery of why J.P. Morgan, famed as "the most powerful banker in the world", left such a modest fortune at his death in 1913, a mere $11 million after his debts were secured. Although the present members of the Morgan family seem financially secure, none of them is counted among the "big rich".

In "Brandeis, A Free Man's Life", Arpheus T. Mason notes:

"Young Adolph Brandeis (Justice Brandeis' father) arrived in New York, travelled for awhile in the East and then went on to the Midwest. Young Brandeis' pleasure and facility in travel were greatly enhanced by the companionship of a young friend of the Wehles then on a business trip to the United States to secure information about American investments for the House of Rothschild. Thanks to his companion's contacts and letters of introduction, Adolph saw places and met people not accessible to most foreigners."

Bermingham notes in "Our Crowd":

"In the autumn of 1874, Baron Rothschild summoned Isaac Seligman to his office -- some $55 million of U.S. Bonds were to be offered by three houses, the House of Seligman, the House of Morgan, and the House of Rothschild."

This was the first time that the Seligmans had been asked to participate in an issue with the Rothschilds. They were more than grateful, and thus another ally of the Rothschilds began to operate in America.

A notable advantage of J.P. Morgan's work for the House of Rothschild was the carefully cultivated belief that Morgan, if not openly "anti-Semitic", avoided participating in operations with Jewish banking firms, and that his firm would not hire anyone of Jewish background. It was the same deception which Nathan Mayer Rothschild had hired Morgan's predecessor, George Peabody, to perform in London. It was a traditional belief on Wall Street that if you wished to deal with a "gentiles only" firm, you went to J.P. Morgan; if you wanted a Jewish firm, there were a number of houses available, but the most influential, by far, was Kuhn, Loeb Co. In either case, the customer was never made aware that he was dealing with an American representative of the House of Rothschild.

Jacob Schiff, who brought the Kuhn, Loeb firm to its preeminent role in American finance, was born in the Rothschild house at 148 Judengasse, Frankfurt, which the Rothschilds shared with the Schiff family. In 1867, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb, two Cincinnati dry goods merchants, founded the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb. In 1875, Jacob Schiff arrived from Frankfurt to join the firm. He married Therese, Solomon's daughter. He also brought a large amount of Rothschild capital into the firm, enabling it to expand tenfold. In 1885, Loeb retired; Jacob Schiff ran the firm from 1885 to 1920, when he died.

At no time has the House of Rothschild ever indicated publicly that it had any interest in the firm of Kuhn, Loeb Co. George R. Conroy stated in Truth magazine, Boston, Dec. 16, 1912:

"Mr. Schiff is head of the great private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., which represents the Rothschild interests on this side of the Atlantic. He has been described as a financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the great impersonal power known as Standard Oil. He was hand-in-glove with the Harrimans, the Goulds and the Rockefellers in all their railroad enterprises and has become the dominant power in the railroad and financial world of America."

This is one more revelation of the hidden power of the Rothschild interests in America. Not only has it directed the Rockefeller enterprises from the time that National City Bank of Cleveland, a Rothschild bank, financed the early expansion of Rockefeller's South Improvement Co. which enabled him to crush his competitors through illegal railway rebates, but it has also been the power behind the scenes of the Harriman fortunes, now Brown Brothers Harriman. It explains the frequent appointments (never elections) of W. Averell Harriman, the dominant power in the Democratic Party, while his partner's son, George [H.W. Bush], is the Republican vice-president, a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States. [elected president in 1988 --ed]

It explains the secret writing of the Federal Reserve Act by Paul Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and the even more secret deals which caused it to be enacted into law by Congress. It explains how the United States could fight World War I with:

* Paul Warburg in charge of its banking system through the vice chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board
* Bernard Baruch as dictator of American industry as Chairman of the War Industries Board
* Eugene Meyer financing the war through his position as chairman of the War Finance Corporation (printing government bonds in duplicate)
* Kuhn, Loeb partner Sir William Wiseman with Col. House correlated British and American intelligence operations
* Kuhn, Loeb partner Lewis L. Strauss as acting head of the U.S. Food Administration under Herbert Hoover.

Meanwhile, Paul's brother, Max Warburg, headed the German espionage system and another brother was German commercial attache in Stockholm, traditional listening post for warring nations. Jacob Schiff had two brothers in Germany who were financing the German war effort. It was a classic case of a "managed conflict", with the Rothschilds manipulating both sides from behind the scenes. At the Versailles Peace Conference, Bernard Baruch was head of the Reparations Commission, Max Warburg, on behalf of Germany, accepted the reparations terms, while Paul Warburg, Thomas Lamont and other Wall Street bankers advised Wilson and the Dulles brothers on how "American" interests should be handled at this all-important diplomatic conference.

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Rothschild Interests in South Africa

The Rothschilds had decided upon the formula of a "managed conflict" for the First World War because of the difficulty they had encountered in defeating the Boers [in South Africa] from 1899 to 1901. After illegally annexing the Transvaal in 1881, the British had been turned back with a resounding defeat at Majuba by Paul Kruger. In 1889, because of the discovery of vast wealth in gold and diamonds in South Africa, the Rothschilds came back to loot the nation with 400,000 British soldiers pitted against 30,000 "irregulars" -- that is, farmers with rifles -- whom the Boers could put into the field. The Boer War was started by Rothschild's agent, Lord Alfred Milner, against the wishes of a majority of the British people. His plans were aided by another Rothschild agent, Cecil Rhodes, who later left his entire fortune to the furtherance of the Rothschild program, through the Rhodes Trust -- a by no means infrequent denouement among Rothschild agents -- and the basis of the entire "foundation" empire today.

The British fought a "no prisoners" scorched earth war, destroying farms and mercilessly shooting down Boers who tried to surrender. It was in this war that the institution of "concentration camps" was brought to the world, as the British rounded up and imprisoned in unsanitary, fever-ridden camps anyone thought to be sympathetic to the Boers, including many women and children, who died by the thousands. This genocidal policy would next be used by the Rothschild-financed Bolsheviks in Russia, who adopted the Boer War concept to murder 66 million Russians between 1917 and 1967. There was never any popular reaction to either of these atrocities, because of the control of media which makes discussion of these calamities a taboo subject.

The career of Lord Alfred Milner (1854-1925) began when he was a protege of Sir Evelyn Baring, the first Earl of Cromer, partner of Baring Bros. bankers, who had been appointed Director General of Accounts in Egypt. Baring was then the financial advisor of the Khedive of Egypt. Since 1864, Milner had been active in the Colonial Society, founded in London in that year. In 1868, it was renamed the Royal Colonial Institute, and was heavily financed by Barclays Bank, and by the Barings, Sassoons and Jardine Matheson, all of whom were active in founding the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, and who were heavily interested in the Asiatic drug traffic.

The staff economist of the Royal Colonial Society was Alfred Marshall, founder of the monetarist theory which Milton Friedman now peddles under the aegis of the Hoover Institution and other supposedly "rightwing" think-tanks. Marshall, through the Oxford Group, became the patron of Wesley Clair Mitchell, who then taught [Arthur] Burns and Friedman.

In 1884, Alfred Milner augmented the work of the Royal Colonial Society with an inner group, the Imperial Federation League; both groups now function as the Royal Empire Society. Vladimir Halperin, in "Lord Milner and the Empire", writes: "It was through Milner and some of his friends that the Round Table Group came into being. The Round Table, it should be said, is an authority to this day on all Commonwealth interests." He states that Milner raised a considerable sum for the work of the Round Table, including 30,000 pounds from Lord Astor, 10,000 pounds from Lord Rothschild, 10,000 pounds from the Duke of Bedford, and 10,000 pounds from Lord Iveagh. Milner launched a magazine called the Empire Review, later called the Round Table quarterly.

Halperin also notes another contribution of Milner:

"He played an important part in the drafting of the famous Balfour Declaration in December of 1917. It is a fact, that, with [Arthur Balfour], he was its co-author. As far back, as 1915, Milner had realized the need for a Jewish National Home, and had never ceased to be warmly in favor of its creation. Milner, like Lloyd George, Amery, and many others, saw that the Jewish National Home could also contribute to the security of the Empire in the Near East."

The Milner Round Table later became the Royal Institute of International Affairs / Council on Foreign Relations combine which exercises unopposed control for the World Order over foreign and monetary policy in both the United States and Great Britain. Milner trained a group of ambitious young men who became known as his "Kindergarten". It included:

* John Buchan, future Gov. General of Canada
* Geoffrey Dawson, later editor of the Times, and prominent supporter of [German] "appeasement" with the "Cliveden Set" (led by Lord Astor, who owned the Times)
* Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess, Lord Lothian, the youngest member of the Kindergarten. He served as private secretary to Lloyd George from 1916-20, and was given credit as largely responsible for the German provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. His Who's Who goes on to say that he played an important part in dealing with India, all dominions, and the United States. He was Ambassador to the United States 1935-40, and was a close friend of Waldorf and Lady Astor
* George Jeachim Goschen, a Liberal who was hailed as the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer, head of the Cunliffe Goschen banking house with Lord Cunliffe, Governor of the Bank of England. Goschen was also chancellor of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh; his brother, Baron Sir Edward Goschen was Ambassador to Berlin when Bethmann-Hollweg told him that the Belgian Treaty was a mere "scrap of paper"
* Leopold S. Amery, who had two sons, Leopold, who was executed as a traitor in 1945, and Julian, who married Prime Minister Harold MacMillan's daughter, and served as leftwing correspondent on the Spanish Front 1938-9, Churchill's personal representative to Chiang Kai-Shek, 1945, Round Table Conference on Malta, 1955, Council of Europe, 1950-56. The senior Leopold Amery is described as "a passionate advocate of British imperialism"; he was on the staff of the Times, and wrote a 7 vol. history of the South African War for the Times; served in the Cabinet from 1916-22, MP 1911-45, first Lord of Admiralty, 1922-24, Secretary of State for India, 1940-45, and arranged for India to have independence. He was a trustee of the Rhodes Trust.

The Milner-Rothschild relationship was described in Terence O'Brien's biography, "Milner", p. 97:

"Milner went to Paris on some business with Alhponse de Rothschild.... Business calls in the City included a formal visit to Rothschilds.... weekend with Lord Rothschild at Tring, and visit with Edward Cecil, Lord Salisbury at Hatfield.... while spending a weekend with Lord Rothschild at Tring a Press Lord gave him a sleepless night (no further explanation given) ..... talks with Rothschild."

Milner attended a Zionist dinner given by Lord Rothschild, sitting next to Lawrence of Arabia, who interpreted for him in a talk with King Feisal [of Saudi Arabia --ed]. On p. 364, O'Brien notes, "Milner lost no time in recreating his links with the City. He went first to Rio Tinto which reelected him to its Board and before long Rothschild asked him to be its chairman." Rio Tinto was one of the key firms in the Rothschild empire. Herbert Hoover was also appointed a director of Rio Tinto; he would soon be asked to head the "Belgian Relief Commission" which prolonged World War I from 1916 to 1918.

The Milner role in starting the South African War is described in "British Supremacy in South Africa". Chap. 1 is headed "Sir Alfred Milner's War," explained as follows :

"On 19 March Chamberlain telegraphed to him, 'The principle object of His Majesty's Government in South Africa is peace. Nothing but a most flagrant offense would justify the use of force.'" P. 22, "Milner had come to believe that war with the Transvaal was both inevitable and desirable .... Milner had at last convinced Chamberlain that British supremacy in South Africa would be jeopardized unless the power of the Transvaal was broken."

There is the evidence that Rothschild's Round Table minion, Milner, cold-bloodedly precipitated the Boer war for his master's gain.

John Hays Hammond, chief mining engineer for the House of Rothschild, also was sent to South Africa to precipitate the war. He formed the "Uitlanders Reform Committee", with Lionel Phillips, head of gold and diamond mining firm Eckstein -- the Corner House; George Farrar of East Rand Property Mines; and Col. Frank Rhodes, brother of Cecil Rhodes. The Committee was financed by Abe Bailey, Solly Joel, Barney Barnato, and the Ecksteins, all of whom were big winners in the partition of the gold and diamond properties after the war. During this activity, Hammond was arrested by Paul Kruger, sentenced to death for promoting revolution, and was allowed to leave only after paying a $100,000 fine. He was then hired by the Guggenheims at $500,000 year salary, and in 1921 became chief lobbyist for the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington.


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Sort out LAP Green, Sata orders Nchito

Sort out LAP Green, Sata orders Nchito
By Ernest Chanda, Kabanda Chulu and Felix Kashweka
Sat 14 Jan. 2012, 14:30 CAT

PRESIDENT Michael Sata has ordered Mute-mbo Nchito to prosecute LAP Green Net-work officials who bought Zamtel corruptly. Meanwhile, finance minister Alexander Chikwanda says taking the government to court over public companies that were acquired in a corrupt manner is not sustainable and will not be accepted.

And newly-appointed Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo, who has been elevated Nchito as State Counsel, says his vision is to have one law for everyone regardless of their social status.

The Rupiah Banda administration in 2010 sold 75 per cent shares in the country's only telecommunications company to Lap Green Network of Libya for a paltry US$257 million (about K1.3 trillion).

But the Sata administration has resolved to reverse the transaction on the basis that the company was sold corruptly.

A showdown between the Zambian government and LAP Green Networks has been brewing since Cabinet recently resolved to reverse the sale of 75 per cent stake of Zamtel to the Libyan company.

Last week, LAP GreenN's newly-appointed chairman Wafik Alshater was bold in his statement, warning that the company would do everything possible to fight for ownership of a majority stake in Zamtel.

This prompted President Sata to declare that the government was ready to fight the Libyans over Zamtel.

Speaking yesterday at State House after swearing in Nchito, President Sata said Libyans had dirty money with which they corrupted people at the time they were buying Zamtel.

"And when you go to Zamtel, don't look at Zambians only. These Libyans are the ones who corrupted Zambians. So don't go for Zambians, you must also go for the Libyans from Lap Green. They're the ones who had dirty money and dirty hands; sort them out!" charged President Sata.

And President Sata has urged the DDP's office to investigate how other companies and mines were privatised.

He said in a large part of the privatisation process, there was corruption.
"Look at some of the old cases: the privatisation of Roan Mine, privatisation of Kagem Mine, privatisation of Lima Bank, privatisation of Intercontinental Hotel in Livingstone. All those are cases stinking with corruption," he said.

President Sata further denounced the Rupiah Banda regime for abandoning the fight against corruption, which was started by late president Levy Mwanawasa.
He said Banda and former vice-president George Kunda betrayed Mwanawasa by promoting corruption.

He urged Nchito and Malila, who were part of the corruption prosecution team under the Mwanawasa administration, to help fight the scourge.

"You have all been called back. Your former chairman of the defunct Task Force on Corruption, Max Nkole is permanent secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

And I'm sure that with the Attorney General who was once harassed because they didn't like his clean hands or that he was going to round them up, we expect to leave Zambia better than we have found it," President Sata said.

"There're still some Chinese companies which are funding MMD. If you get in touch with the people at the Drug Enforcement Commission, they will give you these details, they'll give you the names. They bashed all of you people in the Task Force and you were like orphans. Today we have the most deadly legal joint: the Attorney General, the Solicitor General and yourself Nchito.

We will expect you to assist the Judiciary because…don't blame the Judiciary that they are acquitting people if you don't prepare your cases properly."
And Nchito said he would work hard to promote the rule of law.

Speaking after President Sata swore him in as DPP, Nchito said he would treat people equally before the law.

"I take this as an opportunity to further contribute to the rule of law, that is what it is about. All of us are accountable and held to the standard of the law. If we are all equal before the law I believe that this country will develop," Nchito said.

"We can't have different laws for different people; we need one law for all of us, that is my vision. So, I'm not going to try and do everything myself. I'm going to work with the team that is in place so that we can move the office forward together."

And reacting to President Sata's challenge to the DPP's office to take good cases to courts of law, Nchito promised to meet the challenge.

"If somebody is innocent, they're innocent. If they've got an issue to answer they have to be given a chance to be heard before the courts of law.

So we are not going to be rushing cases into courts of law; we're going to make sure that by the time we are beginning to prosecute, good groundwork has been done. From my end I'll ensure that all of us are treated the same and those that are accused are treated fairly," said Nchito.

And PTA Bank has given US$ 8 million to Kapiri Glass Manufacturing Limited aimed at revamping operations at the country's only glass and bottle producing company.

During the signing ceremony of the loan agreement in Lusaka yesterday, Chikwanda said foreign investors who patronise and grow that constituency of corruption should stay in their countries.

"While Zambia strives and will continually and consistently strive to attract foreign investment, that era of dubious investments through corruption is gone and gone forever.

Dragging government to court in cases where some public officers breached our laws and there was a proven fraudulence by investors is not sustainable exercise even under international law," Chikwanda said. "Sale of public assets can only be legally effected by tender through the Zambia Public Procurement Authority. Under our laws it is also mandatory, that the Attorney General gives consent."

He said corruption was not an option on the PF government's development agenda.
"Corruption can never be cost neutral and the public and especially the media must always be relentless allies and partners in the crusades that are aimed at stopping and pre-empting resource misdirection in order to enhance poverty eradication efforts," Chikwanda said.

He said the resuscitation of the glass manufacturing plant would be a positive demonstration to other Zambian entrepreneurs.

"What has lacked in Zambia are institutions that can make concessionary facilities to Zambians who want to uplift themselves and the country in the process and this is why are working on restructuring and capitalisation of the Development Bank of Zambia," said Chikwanda.

Kapiri Glass Manufacturing chairman Costain Chilala said the total investments required to revamp operations was US$ 13.6 million.

"We have partnered with Glass Services of Italy and they will supply a glass turn-key factory which will have a capacity of 75 metric tonnes of glass per day and commissioning is set for next year and DBZ is providing US$ 2 million," said Chilala.

And PTA Bank executive director Moses Nawa said the institution would continue promoting and supporting projects that strengthen regional economic integration.



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Hakainde's chameleon behaviour over Zamtel

Hakainde's chameleon behaviour over Zamtel
By The Post
Fri 13 Jan. 2012, 14:00 CAT

THE Zambia Daily Mail in its edition of yesterday carried a story quoting Hakainde Hichilema, the president of opposition UPND, questioning the government's sincerity in the manner they were proceeding with the Zamtel transaction that may face reversal.

Hakainde was quoted as having accused the PF government of only wanting or planning to reverse the controversial US$257 million transaction because they already had found another company that may buy Zamtel. "It's clear that there is corruption going on in the PF government," the Zambia Daily Mail quotes Hakainde.

"Right now, there is already a bidder or buyer of Zamtel by single-sourcing. They have identified a buyer through the same method they were complaining about."

This was yesterday. But this is not the first time Hakainde was commenting on the sale of Zamtel.

In The Post edition of Wednesday, June 16, 2010, we carried a story with a headline:

"Rupiah, his sons and Dora are guilty over Zamtel sale - HH." In this story, Hakainde charged that Rupiah Banda, his children, Dora Siliya and the team are guilty of corruption in the sale of Zamtel and they will never wash themselves clean.

In this story, Hakainde accused Rupiah and his sons and Siliya of benefitting from this dirty transaction.

"RP Capital Partners which valued Zamtel assets was contracted without tenders because they wanted kickbacks. There is no question about it…State House was involved, Dora, President Banda's children were involved," The Post quoted Hakainde.

He went on to say that president Banda and Siliya's verbal onslaught on Zambians and institutions opposed to the Zamtel sale showed that they were covering their corrupt tracks. Hakainde argued that many Zambians had opposed the transaction from its beginning but president Banda and his team did not heed the advice.

"It's extremely important that the people of Zambia do realise that we had raised the flag on the privatisation of Zamtel a long time ago, starting from the tender process where they appointed RP Capital Partners without tender against the Public Procurement Act of 2008," The Post quoted Hakainde.

"You are all aware that Mumba Malila, as Attorney General, had objected and that cost him his job, David Kapitolo director general of Zambia Tender Board Authority now Zambia Public Procurement Authority, he raised issues that cost him his job and several other people and I think you are aware that Chitundu at Zesco lost his job over the optic fibre network."

Hakainde said he still stood by his statement at the beginning of the Zamtel sale that it was a corrupt process. "There is no way Dora Siliya can try and wash this transaction clean, it has been a dirty transaction from day one. We did indicate to people that, ‘look, you never award a contract like that'. Firstly, they ignored local firms; secondly, family contracts resulted in the contracts of that magnitude and resulting in K70 billion to K80 billion public funds going into RP Capital Partners," The Post quotes Hakainde.

"I am sure you have followed that there is going to be a number of claw-backs on retrenchment payments, it's not that it's wrong, on investment. There is a paragraph where they are saying the government is going to reinvest that money.

Did they tell us how much money they are going to reinvest? You have sold a company so that you bring an investor, but you are now going to be responsible for reinvestment, from the same money you are going to be paid. That is all wrong."

Hakainde questioned the government's decision to sale Zamtel with the newly installed fibre network, which cost about US$85 million for only US$257 million, meaning that the rest of Zamtel's infrastructure was sold for only US$172 million. "If you look at other expenses or costs related to optic fibre network; first there is the Zamtel expenses on fibre optic, I think it is a substantial amount of money, I am told about US$70 million.

You are aware of the Zesco fibre optic network of about US$15 million. When you add the two, it is US$85 million - this is new investment. So already when you look at a real estate that Zamtel owns; that price of US$257 million is completely nothing," The Post quotes Hakainde.

"That is our contention. That the value is low, that the process was corruption and Dora Siliya herself was corrupt. No question about it. I am not surprised that they are all excited; maybe there is something they are sharing now. That is why they are all excited." Hakainde said the government should not have sold 75 per cent shares. "There was no need to dispose of 75 per cent; they could have disposed of 51 per cent and 49 per cent could be held by Zambians," The Post quotes Hakainde.

"This is our contention and nobody will bully us into submission as Rupiah Banda and Dora Siliya are trying to do. These two have demonstrated improper conduct, corrupt conduct in the sale of Zamtel. We will never stop talking about it."

Hakainde reminded president Banda to learn from what was happening in Ghana where former president John Kufuor had sold Ghana telecom to UK's Vodafone.

"When John Kufuor was president of Ghana and John Atta-Mills was the opposition leader, they Atta-Mills and opposition parties objected to the way in which they telecoms company was sold. I think John Kufuor thought it was a joke. When John Atta-Mills went into government, they are restructuring that transaction," The Post quotes Hakainde.

"We cannot say that because there is a contract signed even though the process towards signing that contract was corrupt, we should be bound by it. It means that you can go and commit a crime to start with and then legalise it and then say, ‘I have already signed a legal contract'. Not even common sense allows that."

This is what Hakainde was quoted by The Post as having said in its edition of June 16, 2010. Contrast this with what Hakainde was quoted as having said in the Zambia Daily Mail of yesterday!

And again, this was not the first time Hakainde was being quoted by the media on the sale of Zamtel. In The Post edition of February 9, 2009, Hakainde charged that there was an ugly face of corruption in the government's partial privatisation of shares. He said president Banda's government was ignoring legal procedures on the sale of Zamtel because of corruption.

"There is a process you follow; the procedures are there…the procedures are very clear but the issue is not whether the procedure is there or not, the issue is that you have a corrupt team that is beginning to ignore legal provisions…This is what you see in the procurement of petroleum, maize and now the privatisation of Zamtel…They are in a hurry to pocket money. It's because of appetite for money. I can tell you that the people of Zambia are looking, they are not foolish and time will come when the chickens will come home to roost…I ask the people of Zambia to fight on; to resist this dilapidation which is being brought about by the MMD government. There are too many things that smell a rat…"

And featuring on Radio Phoenix's Let the People Talk programme on February 20, 2009, Hakainde said president Banda and vice-president George Kunda must tell the nation why they must not acknowledge that they have failed the public on the Zamtel issue.

"We are also aware that there is a related party who is associated with RP Capital Partners, is it RB Capital Partners? Now I can see the minister struggling and I know Dora very well.

I feel sorry for her. I think she is a messenger. She finds herself being a messenger of a well-orchestrated plan to actually take money from public coffers, US$2 million. And let's not debate about whether the MoU is legally binding or not. The intent is very clear.

I am told RP Capital Partners are already working on the assignment. When you are telling a lie, it shows and the Vice-President was very busy telling the nation that there was nothing wrong. Mr Vice-President, are you saying that your Attorney General is irrelevant? Are you saying that to tell RP Capital using inside information is not wrong? The President I think mishandled himself on this matter…This is pure corruption."

Hakainde has capitulated and cannot say these things today. The people involved are today his political partners in the MMD-UPND pact. But what he said when he was free to speak his mind and tell the truth on these issues still stands. And this is what Michael Sata is today correctly and justly pursuing on behalf of the Zambian people.

And given this background, it is easy to understand why Alexander Chikwanda, our Minister of Finance, is today saying that taking the government to court over public companies that were acquired in a corrupt manner is not sustainable and will not be accepted. We agree with Alexander when he says that "while Zambia strives and will continually and consistently strive to attract foreign investment, that era of dubious investments through corruption is gone and gone forever.

Dragging government to court in cases where some public officers breached our laws and there was a proven fraudulence by investors is not sustainable exercise even under international law".

Just because those who corruptly bought 75 per cent of Zamtel shares are foreigners then they should get away with corruption and be allowed to keep that which they fraudulently acquired! Corruption is corruption regardless of the nationality of who is involved in it.

The corrupt nature of this transaction was well-analysed and articulated by Hakainde. But because of political dishonesty, Hakainde today cannot speak the same words, the same language on this issue. He has changed colours like a chameleon. Let's not follow chameleons. Let's give Michael and his government the full support on this issue because they are right.

There is no abuse or ill-intention that one can justifiably insinuate from what they are doing. Hakainde is just trying to hide his treachery and unprincipled behaviour over this issue by accusing Michael and his government of ill-intention.

LAP GreenN will not be allowed to keep the fruits of corruption. And this will send the right message to all foreign investors in this country not to engage in corruption because it will take them nowhere and they will risk losing everything. Whatever this may cost, it will be worth it because it will prevent this type of corruption in future.

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Provide proof Zamtel sale was a fraud - Musokotwane

COMMENT - Zamtel had 'few and obsolete assets'? How about it's realestate holdings? And why did the Zambian government pay more for it's 25% shares than it received selling the 75%? Why did it pay anything for it's 25% holdings AT ALL? It already owned ZAMTEL. Situmbeko Musokotwane is a crook, who oversaw the plunder at ZCCM-IH, which should be receiving at least $300 million a year in dividend payments, instead of the first time ever $18 million last year. He did away with the Windfall Tax, which has cost Zambia at least $1 billion a year in uncollected mining industry taxes. He needs to be in prison.

Provide proof Zamtel sale was a fraud - Musokotwane
By Masuzyo Chakwe
Sat 14 Jan. 2012, 14:40 CAT

FORMER finance minister Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane has challenged the PF government to provide proof that there was illegality and fraud in the sale of Zamtel.

Commenting on the intended reversal of the Zamtel sale, Dr Musokotwane yesterday said Zamtel would be nationalised if the government implements its threat because LapGreen already owns 75 per cent of the company. He said this would be the first time in more than 30 years that the state nationalises a company.

"The PF want to nationalise Zamtel because they claim it was illegally and fraudulently sold to LapGreen. This is what they have always said even during the process of selling Zamtel when they were not yet in government.

"They raised similar objections when Zambia National Commercial Bank was being privatised and, in fact, they organised and held public demonstrations to support them," he said.

Dr Musokotwane said on assuming office, President Michael Sata appointed a commission of inquiry on the sale of Zamtel.

Dr Musokotwane said sadly, as in many other commissions, an opportunity was lost in failing to appoint independent commissioners who would have provided non-biased views on the matter.

"Instead, the Minister of Justice himself and other politicians were appointed to head this commission.

Since these politicians are fully aware of the public pronouncements made by the President that the sale of Zamtel was fraudulent, it cannot surprise anyone that their report had to be in the same line of thinking or else they would have been sacked from their jobs," he said.

"Now that the PF is in government with full access to information on the sale of Zamtel, let them go beyond their usual vague and loose accusations that Zamtel was illegally and fraudulently sold.

Let them provide point-by-point proof to back their assertions. Let them, point by point, state what the law and relevant regulations say about privatisation and let them, on the same points, show where violations were made," he said.
He said Zambians by now had come to learn that the PF were very economical on truth.

"The PF promised jobs for all youths within 90 days of being in office. Not true. They promised money in our pockets in 90 days. Not true. They promised to restore the Barotseland Agreement of 1964 in 90 days.

Not true. They promised to raise minimum wages. Not true. They promised a new Republican constitution in 90 days. Not true, and so on, and so forth. With this track record of being deliberately untruthful, Zambians are well advised to demand proper and detailed explanations from the government. To believe or accept statements from a government that is known for being untruthful is dangerous for our country," he said.

Dr Musokotwane said in order for the PF government to convince Zambians that the sale of Zamtel was not done in the best interest of Zambia, it should refute findings of the audit report on Zamtel by Ernst and Young, a reputable international firm of auditors which found Zamtel to be insolvent with enormous and unsustainable debts against few and obsolete assets.

"Let the PF, point by point; indicate the illegality and fraud, which was committed in the sale of Zamtel. As illegality and fraud is the main point they have used to persuade the public of the need to reverse the sale, it is important that the public should demand that the government goes beyond generalities to provide specifics of wrong doing," he said.

He said the PF alleged that Zamtel was sold at an undervalued price.

"They can prove this to the Zambian public if they release the audit report on Zamtel from Ernst and Young and let's see if that report ascribes a value for Zamtel that was higher than the price government sold the company for. What us as MMD know is that the auditors ascribed negative net worth whereas the price obtained after the sale was much higher," he said.

Dr Musokotwane said the government had access to the Zamtel valuation report by RP Capital and should take a reasoned position on it and indicate thereafter if the final price obtained for Zamtel was lower than the value in the RP Capital.
"We know it was higher. But above all, valuation reports are just reports.

The actual true value of anything is only determined when serious buyers indicate the price they are prepared to pay for an item …" he said. "The price that was paid for Zamtel at $257 million, all of which was received long ago in the country, was very good for a company that only before then was assigned a negative value."

Dr Musokotwane said the price was the best that Zambia had ever received for any parastatal company ever sold and was more than seven times that paid for units of ZCCM when it was sold to become KCM.

He challenged the PF to provide well reasoned out arguments to refute this.
Dr Musokotwane said by threatening to nationalise Zamtel and even ZANACO where they were establishing yet another commission of inquiry, the government was playing a very dangerous game that would push the economy backwards.

"To start with, nationalising Zamtel means the taxpayer must compensate LapGreen. Given the price they paid for the company, the extra investments they have made since then and the positive turn around in the business, the compensation demanded could be anywhere between $400,000,000 to $1 billion. We can't be sure whether this money will ever be recovered because in accordance with the PF manifesto, they will choose party cadres to manage the company.

How will the company then remain profitable and protect jobs?" he asked.
He said, "This type of arbitrary action damages the reputation of Zambia as a destination for investments.

It has taken more than 20 years to build confidence in the investor community that an investment made in Zambia is free from political seizure. This confidence was getting to maturity hence the billions of US dollars that poured into our economy to revive and expand mines, build hotels and establish farms. This very basis for creating sustainable jobs has now been shaken badly even by the mere threat to nationalise Zamtel."

Dr Musokotwane said Libya was part of the capital-rich Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Dubai and other Gulf Emirates which was exporting capital all over the world creating jobs for young people.

"Now we are busy spoiling all this and we expect to develop our country and create jobs? Will it then surprise us when the value of our currency begins to lose value quickly as it is doing now because the public is getting nervous about the safety of their money while those planning to invest hold back the inflows of their money into Zambia due to similar fears?" he said.

"I appeal to the government once again to settle down, sober up and focus on developing our country. Creating a mindset within ourselves that focuses primarily on hunting for mistakes committed by the previous government even where there is no justification for doing so just slows down the country. Let those same energies now focus on how to develop industries, infrastructure, jobs, and business opportunities."

He advised the government to respond to the rumour going around that the real motive for wishing to nationalise Zamtel was because they already have a preferred buyer that they would want to sell the company to.

"As this could be very damaging to the reputation of Zambia as a country where rule of law and transparency are respected, it is important for government to pronounce itself clearly on the matter," said Dr Musokotwane.


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Ex-ZRA boss Wisdom Nhekairo faces arrest over cargo scanners

Ex-ZRA boss Wisdom Nhekairo faces arrest over cargo scanners
By Mwala Kalaluka
Sat 14 Jan. 2012, 14:30 CAT

IMMEDIATE past Zambia Revenue Authority commissioner general, Wisdom Nhekairo and board secretary Nana Mudenda are facing arrest over the controversial procurement of cargo scanners from China.

Highly placed sources within the combined team of Zambia Police, Anti-Corruption Commission and Drug Enforcement Commission investigators probing the plunder of national resources, disclosed yesterday that Nhekairo was questioned and subsequently warned and cautioned over the cargo scanners last Monday.

Berlyn Msiska replaced Nhekairo when the PF took over the reins of government power last year.

On Monday whilst former education minister Dora Siliya was being interrogated over the awarding of a tender for the installation of radars at two international airports, Nhekairo was also seen entering the former Task Force on Corruption offices in Lusaka's Woodlands area with stacks of files.

"On that very day when Nhekairo appeared, he was warned and cautioned over those scanners," the source said.

"The docket is just being prepared and he will be arrested by next week."

The sources said Mudenda had also been summoned to appear before the plunder probe team in Lusaka yesterday in connection to the boarder scanners deal.

"Today we are supposed to warn and caution the ZRA board secretary, Nana Mudenda," the sources said.

"The issue is that these scanners were bought from a company called Nuctech in China and this company provided for maintenance and operation costs. There was a warranty involved."

The sources said it was therefore not necessary for ZRA to engage another company called Bradwell International to operationalise the boarder scanners.

"There was obviously pressure from State House," the source said. "To date these scanners have not been installed."

A commission of inquiry constituted by President Michael Sata to look into the ZRA's procurement of the cargo scanners heard on November 10, 2011 that former president Rupiah Banda allegedly arranged for an additional US$ 25m for the procurement of four more scanners.

Acting director for investments and debt at the ministry of finance, Michael Mwanga, had said the idea to procure machine equipment at border posts was initiated by late president Levy Mwanawasa who entered into a US$100 million government loan with China.

Mwanga said Mwanawasa had allocated US$25 million towards the procurement of the four scanners but his successor, Banda allegedly re-arranged another US$25 million in addition to procure four more scanners.

He said due to single sourcing of the company that procured the scanners, the government was forced to lose over US$4 million.

"Probably that is the price the government will continue paying if it continues to single source contracts. If this contract was open, each scanner was going to cost US$2 million from France and not US$6 million each as they were purchased from China," Mwanga said then.

A senior ZRA official told the Commission during a sitting at Chirundu Border Post that it was irresponsible for the MMD government to contract Bradwell International to operate the cargo scanner at Chirundu border when ZRA had the capacity to carry out the work.

ZRA Chirundu border assistant commissioner Arnold Nkoma said it was unwise for the MMD government to contract Bradwell International, a private firm, to run operations that bordered on the country's security.

The MMD government before leaving power engaged Bradwell International of UK to operate border x-ray cargo scanners for 10 years despite having some ZRA staff undergoing specialised training to handle such operations.

Bradwell International of UK, through its local subsidiary, Border Protection Company Zambia Limited (BPCZ), was engaged through direct bidding (formerly single sourcing) to operate the border scanner at Chirundu.

Under the contract, Bradwell was supposed to get 85 per cent of the revenue collected at the border while the remaining 15 per cent went to the government.

Former vice-president George Kunda hastily signed Statutory Instrument number 101 of 2011 on August 28, 2011 as an amendment to the customs and excise Act to pave way for the introduction of an examination fee, which is not a tax but a charge towards the management of the scanners.

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‘Diplomats complained about Kambwili'

‘Diplomats complained about Kambwili'
By Edwin Mbulo in Livingstone and Enerst Chanda in Lusaka
Sat 14 Jan. 2012, 14:30 CAT

DIPLOMATS complained over Chishimba Kambwili's behaviour hence his removal as Minister of Foreign Affairs, sources have revealed.

But Kambwili yesterday said he never used vulgar language against any diplomats.
Sources disclosed on Wednesday before the announcement of reshuffles was made yesterday that diplomats complained that Kambwili was too harsh and lacked etiquette.

"The diplomats complained that Kambwili lacked diplomatic etiquette, not only to them but to fellow leaders. They said they were finding it difficult to work with Kambwili because he was militant and confrontational even where just simple discourse was required. The diplomats said Kambwili's language was vulgar too," said one source.

"The President may in a few days replace Kambwili with Given Lubinda while the labour minister Fackson Shamenda may go to tourism; it is not immediately known what will become of Kambwili."

According to sources, there were fears too in government that Kambwili might face pockets of resistance in other ministries where he would be deployed because of his behaviour.

"As for Lubinda, many workers at the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and Tourism are not happy with this Cabinet re-shuffle," the source said.

But Kambwili said he was going to sort out issues at labour.
He said he was not bitter with the reshuffle because it was a normal thing for any appointing authority to do.

"I've never used any vulgar language to the diplomats. I'm going to labour to sort out the issue at labour. No, it has nothing to do with using vulgar language, and I've never used any vulgar language. Which diplomats have I used any bad language against? Tell me, which diplomat? I think I've scored a lot of success everywhere I've gone," said Kambwili.

President Michael Sata made a reshuffle in Cabinet, swapping three ministers.
In the reshuffle, Lubinda moves to foreign affairs while Kambwili moves to labour.

And labour minister Fackson Shamenda takes over from Lubinda.
President Sata announced this at State House after swearing in Mutembo Nchito as Director of Public Prosecutions.

President Sata said the move was aimed at improving on the performance of his government.

And Livingstone Tourism Association (LTA) chairperson Kingsley Lilamono said Lubinda was a smart minister who was not dumb and would have made the tourism sector flourish.

"We knew that the tourism sector could go very far with this man. We have a lot of potential in Lubinda," Lilamono said.

Last week Lubinda told the LTA that he would request President Sata to first request whoever he would want to replace him with to get into Livingstone and embark on an expedition of gorge swinging, jet extreme, gorge slide and bungee jumping.

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Malila ready to defend Scott's appointment

Malila ready to defend Scott's appointment
By Masuzyo Chakwe and Bright Mukwasa
Thu 12 Jan. 2012, 13:59 CAT

ATTORNEY General Mumba Malila says his office is ready to receive and tenaciously defend any court process against the appointment of Dr Guy Scott as Republican Vice-President.

And political analyst Sishuwa Sishuwa has questioned the sincerity of George Kunda over his intentions to drag Republican Vice-President Guy Scott to court over his eligibility to occupy that office.

In a statement yesterday, Malila stated that it was preposterous to argue that Dr Scott did not qualify to hold office as Republican Vice-President because his parents may not be Zambian by birth.

Malila was commenting on George Kunda's statement on Radio Phonenix's Let the People Talk programme on Tuesday when he questioned Dr Scott's eligibility for the position of Vice-President.

But Malila stated: "Article 45 of the Constitution which sets out the qualifications of the Vice-President are very clear and do not require one to be a constitutional law expert to understand them. The qualifications for a Presidential candidate as detailed in Article 34(3) which include the parentage clause do not apply to a Vice-President," he stated.

"In the event that there is a vacancy in the office of the President, in terms of Article 39 of the Constitution, the Vice-President could act as President even if he may not meet the qualification for election to the office of President. What he cannot do is to stand for election as President."

He stated that it was unfortunate and highly disconcerting that a misinterpretation of elementary provisions in the Constitution could be attributed to someone who was once held in high esteem by the legal profession in the country.

Malila stated that politicians would do well to avoid making pedestrian legal arguments that might alarm the public that there could be a constitutional crisis when none existed.

Kunda, the former Republican vice-president and Muchinga member of parliament, said the MMD would summon its legal committee to ascertain if Vice-President Scott whose parents were not Zambian by birth or descent was eligible to occupy that position.

But President Michael Sata dismissed Kunda's argument.

"Tell George Kunda, we are waiting for him. We will sort him out. He is the dullest lawyer in central Africa; we shall sort him out," said President Sata on arrival from South Africa on Monday where he had gone to attend the ANC's 100th anniversary.

And Sishuwa has urged Kunda to activate and employ his historical consciousness after failing to rightly advise former president Rupiah Banda that he was not qualified to contest for presidency under the current Zambian laws.

Banda contested the 2008 presidential by-election and the 2011 general election despite not meeting the constitutional requirement that states that a presidential candidate's parents must be Zambian by birth or descent.

Commenting on former Republican vice-president Kunda's statement on Radio Phonenix's Let the People Talk programme on Tuesday that the MMD will summon its legal committee to ascertain if the current Vice-President, whose parents are not Zambian by birth or descent, is qualified to occupy that office, act as Republican president in the absence of President Michael Sata, and stand for president in future, Sishuwa said Vice-President Scott was duly appointed for the position.

In a statement made available to The Post, Sishuwa, who is also a doctoral student of Modern History at Oxford University, took a swipe at the former Law Association of Zambia president and questioned his understanding of the law.

"Now, when someone like George Kunda - a lawyer and a State Counsel for that matter, current MMD chairperson for legal Affairs, former Attorney General, former Minister of Justice and former Republican vice-president - stands on a platform and declares not only his failure to read, understand and interpret the law, but also his absolute ignorance of important constitutional provisions, all of us should get very concerned," he said.

"Article 45(2) of the current constitution states: ‘The Vice-President shall be appointed by the President from amongst the members of the National Assembly.' Where is the parentage or nationality issue here? Clearly, President Sata followed the law correctly when appointing Scott to the position of Vice-President."

Sishuwa noted that according to this clause, the only qualification that is required of any candidate earmarked for appointment to the position of Vice-President is that she or he should be a member of the National Assembly, a requirement that Scott fulfils only too well.

"If Scott was not a member of parliament, Sata could have nominated him to parliament first to ensure that he qualifies or meets this constitutional provision," he said.

Sishuwa further observed that just like it was the prerogative of the President to appoint anyone to the position of Vice-President, the Head of State also has the discretion to appoint anyone of his choice, besides the Vice-President, to act as President when he is outside the country, provided the constitutional requirements stipulated in Article 39(1) of the current Constitution are satisfied.

"Article 39(1) of the Constitution states: 'Whenever the President is absent from Zambia or considers it desirable so to do by reason of illness or for any other cause, he may by direction in writing, authorise the Vice-President, or where the Vice-President is absent from Zambia or is incapable of discharging the functions of President, any other person, to discharge such functions of the office of President as he may specify, and the Vice-President or such other person may discharge those functions until his authority is revoked by the President'," he said.

Sishuwa argued that the key word in the above clause is incapable.

"When is the Vice-President considered incapable to discharge the functions of President? Is it when he or she says so or when the President deems it as such? If the Vice-President says to the President: ‘Your Excellency, although I am in the country, I am not able to act as President in your absence because of other commitments and so, please appoint someone else,' does that qualify as incapacity?" he asked.

"Clearly, there is a lacuna in our law here with regard to the definition of incapacity to act and I hope those who are working on the new constitution will take note."

He argued that Vice-President Scott qualifies to act as President under the current arrangement.

"In fact, though Scott does not qualify to stand for President, he qualifies to act as President under this article, just like any other person including George himself if Sata appointed him. An acting president is not elected or sworn in. He or she is appointed by the President or, in the case of incapacity or death of the president while in office, by cabinet," he said.

"President Sata is actually free and constitutionally entitled to appoint Scott as acting president in his absence. We should note that in our current political system where the vice-president is not elected by the people as a running mate to the president and with distinct duties independent of those of the office of the President, a vice-president is simply an elevated cabinet minister. In other words, the functions of that office can be carried out by any cabinet minister, provided the President entrusted them with such powers. Nonetheless, perhaps conscious of Scott's parentage - which, as I have said, does not disqualify him from acting as president - and of minds like those of Kunda, Sata opted to pick Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda to act in his absence. What is there to investigate or take to the High Court since Scott has never acted as President in the first place? And has Scott told Kunda that he is intending to stand for president under the current constitution anytime soon?"

Sishuwa urged Kunda to start addressing himself to his former boss, Rupiah Banda's perjury case.

"It is a well-known fact that at least one of Rupiah's parents originated from Malawi, yet Kunda, who served as Minister of Justice under the Levy Mwanawasa administration and later combined that position with that of Republican vice-president under Banda, failed to advise the latter that he was not qualified to stand for the office of president in 2008 and 2011."


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Malila ready to defend Scott's appointment

Malila ready to defend Scott's appointment
By Masuzyo Chakwe and Bright Mukwasa
Thu 12 Jan. 2012, 13:59 CAT

ATTORNEY General Mumba Malila says his office is ready to receive and tenaciously defend any court process against the appointment of Dr Guy Scott as Republican Vice-President.

And political analyst Sishuwa Sishuwa has questioned the sincerity of George Kunda over his intentions to drag Republican Vice-President Guy Scott to court over his eligibility to occupy that office.

In a statement yesterday, Malila stated that it was preposterous to argue that Dr Scott did not qualify to hold office as Republican Vice-President because his parents may not be Zambian by birth.

Malila was commenting on George Kunda's statement on Radio Phoenix's Let the People Talk programme on Tuesday when he questioned Dr Scott's eligibility for the position of Vice-President.

But Malila stated: "Article 45 of the Constitution which sets out the qualifications of the Vice-President are very clear and do not require one to be a constitutional law expert to understand them. The qualifications for a Presidential candidate as detailed in Article 34(3) which include the parentage clause do not apply to a Vice-President," he stated.

"In the event that there is a vacancy in the office of the President, in terms of Article 39 of the Constitution, the Vice-President could act as President even if he may not meet the qualification for election to the office of President. What he cannot do is to stand for election as President."

He stated that it was unfortunate and highly disconcerting that a misinterpretation of elementary provisions in the Constitution could be attributed to someone who was once held in high esteem by the legal profession in the country.

Malila stated that politicians would do well to avoid making pedestrian legal arguments that might alarm the public that there could be a constitutional crisis when none existed.

Kunda, the former Republican vice-president and Muchinga member of parliament, said the MMD would summon its legal committee to ascertain if Vice-President Scott whose parents were not Zambian by birth or descent was eligible to occupy that position.

But President Michael Sata dismissed Kunda's argument.

"Tell George Kunda, we are waiting for him. We will sort him out. He is the dullest lawyer in central Africa; we shall sort him out," said President Sata on arrival from South Africa on Monday where he had gone to attend the ANC's 100th anniversary.

And Sishuwa has urged Kunda to activate and employ his historical consciousness after failing to rightly advise former president Rupiah Banda that he was not qualified to contest for presidency under the current Zambian laws.

Banda contested the 2008 presidential by-election and the 2011 general election despite not meeting the constitutional requirement that states that a presidential candidate's parents must be Zambian by birth or descent.

Commenting on former Republican vice-president Kunda's statement on Radio Phonenix's Let the People Talk programme on Tuesday that the MMD will summon its legal committee to ascertain if the current Vice-President, whose parents are not Zambian by birth or descent, is qualified to occupy that office, act as Republican president in the absence of President Michael Sata, and stand for president in future, Sishuwa said Vice-President Scott was duly appointed for the position.

In a statement made available to The Post, Sishuwa, who is also a doctoral student of Modern History at Oxford University, took a swipe at the former Law Association of Zambia president and questioned his understanding of the law.

"Now, when someone like George Kunda - a lawyer and a State Counsel for that matter, current MMD chairperson for legal Affairs, former Attorney General, former Minister of Justice and former Republican vice-president - stands on a platform and declares not only his failure to read, understand and interpret the law, but also his absolute ignorance of important constitutional provisions, all of us should get very concerned," he said.

"Article 45(2) of the current constitution states: ‘The Vice-President shall be appointed by the President from amongst the members of the National Assembly.' Where is the parentage or nationality issue here? Clearly, President Sata followed the law correctly when appointing Scott to the position of Vice-President."

Sishuwa noted that according to this clause, the only qualification that is required of any candidate earmarked for appointment to the position of Vice-President is that she or he should be a member of the National Assembly, a requirement that Scott fulfils only too well.

"If Scott was not a member of parliament, Sata could have nominated him to parliament first to ensure that he qualifies or meets this constitutional provision," he said.

Sishuwa further observed that just like it was the prerogative of the President to appoint anyone to the position of Vice-President, the Head of State also has the discretion to appoint anyone of his choice, besides the Vice-President, to act as President when he is outside the country, provided the constitutional requirements stipulated in Article 39(1) of the current Constitution are satisfied.

"Article 39(1) of the Constitution states: 'Whenever the President is absent from Zambia or considers it desirable so to do by reason of illness or for any other cause, he may by direction in writing, authorise the Vice-President, or where the Vice-President is absent from Zambia or is incapable of discharging the functions of President, any other person, to discharge such functions of the office of President as he may specify, and the Vice-President or such other person may discharge those functions until his authority is revoked by the President'," he said.

Sishuwa argued that the key word in the above clause is incapable.

"When is the Vice-President considered incapable to discharge the functions of President? Is it when he or she says so or when the President deems it as such? If the Vice-President says to the President: ‘Your Excellency, although I am in the country, I am not able to act as President in your absence because of other commitments and so, please appoint someone else,' does that qualify as incapacity?" he asked.

"Clearly, there is a lacuna in our law here with regard to the definition of incapacity to act and I hope those who are working on the new constitution will take note."

He argued that Vice-President Scott qualifies to act as President under the current arrangement.

"In fact, though Scott does not qualify to stand for President, he qualifies to act as President under this article, just like any other person including George himself if Sata appointed him. An acting president is not elected or sworn in. He or she is appointed by the President or, in the case of incapacity or death of the president while in office, by cabinet," he said.

"President Sata is actually free and constitutionally entitled to appoint Scott as acting president in his absence. We should note that in our current political system where the vice-president is not elected by the people as a running mate to the president and with distinct duties independent of those of the office of the President, a vice-president is simply an elevated cabinet minister. In other words, the functions of that office can be carried out by any cabinet minister, provided the President entrusted them with such powers. Nonetheless, perhaps conscious of Scott's parentage - which, as I have said, does not disqualify him from acting as president - and of minds like those of Kunda, Sata opted to pick Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda to act in his absence. What is there to investigate or take to the High Court since Scott has never acted as President in the first place? And has Scott told Kunda that he is intending to stand for president under the current constitution anytime soon?"

Sishuwa urged Kunda to start addressing himself to his former boss, Rupiah Banda's perjury case.

"It is a well-known fact that at least one of Rupiah's parents originated from Malawi, yet Kunda, who served as Minister of Justice under the Levy Mwanawasa administration and later combined that position with that of Republican vice-president under Banda, failed to advise the latter that he was not qualified to stand for the office of president in 2008 and 2011."



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Petition witness recounts Dora's ‘sex' campaign

Petition witness recounts Dora's ‘sex' campaign
By Mwala Kalaluka
Thu 12 Jan. 2012, 13:58 CAT

DORA Siliya on Tuesday limped out of the Lusaka High Court after an electoral petition witness recounted how she engaged in a ‘sex' campaign during last year's general election.

And two State Counsels on different sides of the Petauke Central electoral petition hearing reacted angrily to each other on Tuesday over the difference between a DVD Digital Versatile Disc and a Compact Disc CD.

This is in a case where losing PF parliamentary candidate in last September's election, Leonard Banda has challenged the election of MMD's Siliya, the former education minister, in the Lusaka High Court.

Siliya, who was last week admitted to Lusaka's Fairview Hospital for an unknown health condition, is facing arrest by law enforcement agencies over her role in the dubious sale of Zamtel's 75 per cent shares to LAP GreenN of Libya when she was Minister of Transport and Communications.

And when the petition case came up for continued hearing before High Court judge Charles Kajimanga, Post photojournalist Joseph Mwenda told how he covered Siliya's campaigns in Petauke Central, where she described the PF's Michael Sata as a homosexual advocate.

Mwenda said, as Siliya fixed her gaze on him from the public gallery, that the then MMD parliamentary aspirant urged men to admire her bums and not to admire each others' beards.

Mwenda said on September 8, 2011, he covered the public rally Siliya addressed at Minga Stop Basic School in the company of her assistant, Precious Zulu.

"She also told the audience that the opposition PF was being led by a man who was advocating for homosexuality," Mwenda said.

"She also told the people that this particular man who was heading the Patriotic Front would get the youths, if he won the elections, and take them to Afghanistan to take part in the war there."

Mwenda said Siliya told the crowd that the PF candidate, Banda, was following his party leader's advocacy for homosexuality.

He confirmed that he was the author of the story that appeared in the Saturday Post of September 10, 2011 under the headline, ‘My ex-husband was lazy in bed'.

"She asked the people if they were not admiring her breasts and if they were admiring each other's beards," Mwenda said.

"And Siliya called on her audience to admire her beauty and not each other because the Laws of Zambia prohibited homosexuality."

He said Siliya said men should be able to enjoy the pleasure of touching a woman's soft bums.

"You women, can you get pregnant from a fellow woman?" Mwenda quoted Siliya as asking.

He said at another public rally held at Chinsonso Basic School, Siliya continued saying that people should not vote for Banda, the PF candidate, because he did not give them things as she did.

Mwenda said Siliya told the audience that the PF campaign slogan of ‘Don't Kubeba' meant homosexuality and tujilijili.

And during the hearing, lead counsel for the petitioner Bonaventure Mutale and the lead counsel on Siliya's side, Eric Silwamba lost their cool over the form of presentation of audio recordings from Siliya's three public rallies.

Silwamba said during the inter-party discovery of the audio recording, his law firm was meant to listen to a recording contained on a CD and not the DVD Mutale was trying to avail to Mwenda.

He said his team had not had an opportunity to inspect the DVD but Mutale wondered why Silwamba was being unreasonable over the device containing the audio recordings.

However, Silwamba retorted that his team had been magnanimous in their work and that they could not be paid back in that manner.

"We equally have been magnanimous," Mutale replied. "We don't owe anyone any charity."

Hearing continues.


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(HERALD) US$140 000 mbanje at accident scene

US$140 000 mbanje at accident scene
Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:00
Felex Share Herald Reporter

A VEHICLE carrying 714kg of Mbanje with a street value of US$140 000 overturned near Chivhu along the Harare-Masvingo highway early Wednesday morning, leading to the arrest of two suspects.

The dagga was stashed in 19 bags when the car overturned at around 3:40am. National traffic police spokesperson Inspector Tigere Chigome yesterday said details of the accident were still sketchy.

But, two people were arrested while an undisclosed number of accomplices fled.
Insp Chigome said the Nissan Elgrand, which the suspected drug peddlers were using, was travelling towards Masvingo when it had an accident at the I56km peg.

"The Nissan Elgrand was being driven by Admire Gutu and it is believed it had three or more passengers on board and the 19x90 bags of mbanje. The driver, Admire lost control of the vehicle and veered off the road to the left."

The vehicle overturned twice before landing and no one was killed.

"The driver and another accomplice were injured and police who attended the scene discovered the two together with the bags of mbanje," he said.

"After discovering the mbanje, police from the dog section were called in to trace the other accomplices who are suspected to have escaped.

"The number of people who were in the car is not yet clear and police are continuing with investigations."

Insp Chigome said the injured men, who were hospitalised under police guard, were assisting with investigations.

Their condition could not be ascertained by late yesterday.

The car and the contraband were impounded and are at Chivhu Police Station.
Cases of people dealing in illicit drugs are on the increase.

Recently, a Malawian was arrested near Nyamapanda Border Post after trying to smuggle over 700kg of mbanje into Zimbabwe.

Two other men were arrested in Chivhu after they were found in possession of 9kg of mbanje.

Police in Beitbridge last year discovered a two-hectare mbanje plantation and arrested two people, including a village head.

In 2006, police arrested 29 suspects, most of them women aged above 50 years, for cultivating mbanje on more than three hectares of land along Umzingwane River in Matabeleland South.



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