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Oct 19, 2026
Two South Africa Episodes
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42:03Robert DuiganGUEST
But that's a product of an elite that's been in charge of the country since the year dot.
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42:09Robert DuiganGUEST
Big families in charge of this country are Rothschild, Oppenheimer, Rupert, Becker, and a couple of others.
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42:15Robert DuiganGUEST
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.
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42:24Robert DuiganGUEST
The Oppenheimer family were funded by J.P. Morgan in the 1920s to scoop up the mines on the Rand.
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42:30Robert DuiganGUEST
And, you know, these people have been pushing for economic and cultural integration for a very long time.
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42:36Robert DuiganGUEST
And they are actually behind, the Oppenheimer family are actually behind the design of the current black economic empowerment laws.
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42:45Robert DuiganGUEST
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.
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43:28Robert DuiganGUEST
And the Oppenheimer family divested from all of their major industrial assets in 2012 after they realized the consequences of their project.
The Most Successful Marketing Campaign in History
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56:10Robin ZanderHOST
since De Beers made its profit from a scarcity.
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56:14Robin ZanderHOST
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.
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56:34Robin ZanderHOST
But here's the part that's the most interesting for our story.
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56:37Robin ZanderHOST
In World War II, industrial diamonds, for example, were a genuinely strategic material.
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60:27Robin ZanderHOST
Apartheid became law and lasted for another four decades.
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60:31Robin ZanderHOST
This stated thesis was convenient, but not correct.
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60:35Robin ZanderHOST
And secretly, the Oppenheimers always understood that a company of their size is a political actor.
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60:42Robin ZanderHOST
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.
Solidarity with Congo: imperialist looting is cause of the ‘War without end’
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9:36speaker_0NARRATOR
UN reports and press articles have named the agents and benefactors of the illegal trade in looted minerals.
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9:43speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
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10:09speaker_0NARRATOR
Arctic Investments, Barclays Bank, Dass Air, Euromet, Mineral Africa Limited, as well as more recently, Apple, Tesla, and Intel.
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10:20speaker_0NARRATOR
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.
Is the White Cross Project a Psyop? | Jerm Warfare
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40:42Des BernardoGUEST
And that happened in a meeting in Bishopscourt in a house.
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40:46Des BernardoGUEST
And MI6 was present, the CIA was present, Mossad was present, so were the Oppenheimers.
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40:52Des BernardoGUEST
So our country is not democratic.
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40:55Des BernardoGUEST
There's nothing democratic about it.
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48:01Des BernardoGUEST
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.
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48:10Des BernardoGUEST
Who funded that operation? The Rothschilds funded it.
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48:14Des BernardoGUEST
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
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48:28GermHOST
And by the way, uh, the architect of apartheid actually was Cecil Rhodes, a, a Freemason