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Oct 19, 2026

Robert DuiganGUEST
42:03
But that's a product of an elite that's been in charge of the country since the year dot.
Robert DuiganGUEST
42:09
Big families in charge of this country are Rothschild, Oppenheimer, Rupert, Becker, and a couple of others.
Robert DuiganGUEST
42:15
But, I mean, the biggest of the big names of, you know, the Rothschild family funded the Milner Group that unified the country by war.
Robert DuiganGUEST
42:24
The Oppenheimer family were funded by J.P. Morgan in the 1920s to scoop up the mines on the Rand.
Robert DuiganGUEST
42:30
And, you know, these people have been pushing for economic and cultural integration for a very long time.
Robert DuiganGUEST
42:36
And they are actually behind, the Oppenheimer family are actually behind the design of the current black economic empowerment laws.
Robert DuiganGUEST
42:45
In 2003, they wrote the legislation for us that basically forces companies over a certain size to hand over about 26% of their shares to black... investors or whatever and then they have quotas for management and staff and so on as well uh and this applies to all institutions public and private um that you really you need you need a minimum quota of black people there's no maximum quota so you can have organizations that completely exclude minorities um and that's perfectly legal uh but you you cannot have ones that exclude the majority so um The situation over there, it's quite dire.
Robert DuiganGUEST
43:28
And the Oppenheimer family divested from all of their major industrial assets in 2012 after they realized the consequences of their project.
Robin ZanderHOST
56:10
since De Beers made its profit from a scarcity.
Robin ZanderHOST
56:14
I won't go through the political machinations that resulted in the Oppenheimers taking control of the diamond industry, first by starting Anglo-American with outside investment, then by getting the investment of the Germans so that they got shares instead of reparations after the war, and then by taking over De Beers entire.
Robin ZanderHOST
56:34
But here's the part that's the most interesting for our story.
Robin ZanderHOST
56:37
In World War II, industrial diamonds, for example, were a genuinely strategic material.
Robin ZanderHOST
60:27
Apartheid became law and lasted for another four decades.
Robin ZanderHOST
60:31
This stated thesis was convenient, but not correct.
Robin ZanderHOST
60:35
And secretly, the Oppenheimers always understood that a company of their size is a political actor.
Robin ZanderHOST
60:42
Sir Ernest writing to his son Harry in 1941, Not the profits, but the many problems of the diamond trade make the diamond business the most interesting I know.
speaker_0NARRATOR
9:36
UN reports and press articles have named the agents and benefactors of the illegal trade in looted minerals.
speaker_0NARRATOR
9:43
These have included such corporations and commodity brokers as Afrimex Exports, Anite International Limited, Merseyside, A&M Minerals and Metals Limited, London, Alex Stuart Limited, Anglo American PLC Mining, owned by the Oppenheimers, formed in 1998 when Anglo American Corp merged with Minoco.
speaker_0NARRATOR
10:09
Arctic Investments, Barclays Bank, Dass Air, Euromet, Mineral Africa Limited, as well as more recently, Apple, Tesla, and Intel.
speaker_0NARRATOR
10:20
A UN scheme has been introduced to regulate the trade, but it is notoriously poorly enforced, and the sheer scale of looting and the vast wealth accrued through this modern-day colonial slavery has rendered it totally ineffectual.
Des BernardoGUEST
40:42
And that happened in a meeting in Bishopscourt in a house.
Des BernardoGUEST
40:46
And MI6 was present, the CIA was present, Mossad was present, so were the Oppenheimers.
Des BernardoGUEST
40:52
So our country is not democratic.
Des BernardoGUEST
40:55
There's nothing democratic about it.

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Des BernardoGUEST
48:01
When they came here in 1820, the first settlers and the first British troops walked into South Africa, and they tried to get control of all the mining industries here.
Des BernardoGUEST
48:10
Who funded that operation? The Rothschilds funded it.
Des BernardoGUEST
48:14
When De Beers was formed later, who owned most of the shares in De Beers? The Rothschilds owned 80% of the shares So the Oppenheimers were empowered
GermHOST
48:28
And by the way, uh, the architect of apartheid actually was Cecil Rhodes, a, a Freemason

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