CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION

An examination of the holdings of LONHRO in combination with Rio Tinto Zinc and the Anglo-American Corp., all run by the same interests, reveals that the three British firms control most of the world’s vital strategic minerals outside of Russia, and control the African economy. Yet official statistics tell little of the real story, particularily if the origins of Norlisk and Glazer’s 'Siberian Syndicate (UK 1913)' are the same?

The 'Original LONHRO' controlled  most African regions of revolutionary or separatist movements of the left, right, and ethnic or tribal variety. British imperial policy has always been based on manipulating all ethnic and political factions, and states, against each other.

LONHRO was managed by Tiny Rowland since 1961, under Chairman Duncan Sandy who also served as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Secretary of State for the Colonies. South Africa became an independent country in 1961 and Rhodesia in 1965, at the same time that MI6, formerly known as SIS, took on a greater role in ensuring that British investments there would be protected. It has been suggested that Tiny Rowland was brought to LONHRO and used as a tool of intelligence operations to suppress Black-African uprisings against the white minority. This same racist fear was vented in 1985when Rowland was still manager of Lonhro.

 Could it be that Glazer’s unusual passing 17 July 1984 was to effect control?

For years, Anglo has been a large shareholder of Lonhro. The relationship between Rhodesian Anglo as 'manager' for Bechuanaland Mining Exploration PLC dates back to the 1930s. Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) was formed in the 1870s by China opium trader Hugh Matheson, who was principal in the Hong Kong-based firm Jardine Matheson. The Rothschild’s have a significant stake in the company in the company as did the B.S.A. Anglo & RTZ combined control is a stunning percentage of the Western world’s most important minerals.

LONHRO and the MOSSAD have simultaneously supported most African “self-styled liberation movements”, right, left or tribal, as well as whoever might be in power. The identity between those British establishment figures who currently control Israel and those who rule Africa is important to understand. Britain’s Lord Carrington, for example, is a patron of Sharon, and a key controller of the Mossad. He has long been associated with Barclays and RTZ mining interests, which dominate Southern Africa. Tiny Rowland was a British intelligence official who specialized in African operations through his firm. Lonhro, once one of the most powerful firms in Africa is on the come back and was re-registered as LONMIN in 2000. The old companies of the last century have de-listed from UK Companies House, records withdrawn or “accidentally destroyed” as the new faces in Africa appear like “Rhodes Revisited.”

The International Finance Corporation has begun with funding and exercising share options .(See Lonmin 16 August 07). There are numerous young South African’s on the LONMIN Board.

Similarly, in January 2003, Ariel Sharon was investigated in connection with allegations of illegal campaign funds from a wartime comrade of Sharon’s, Cyril Kern (a British Citizen living in South Africa). Kern had served under Sharon during Israel’s war of independence in 1948 and runs The Sourcing Office in Cape Town. A front company was set up by Dov Weisglass to channel illegal contributions to the election campaign in 1999.

The recently accepted recognition of the global “Cosa Nostra”, or organized crime , as a global consortium only became prevalent in the late 1980s & 90s. The financial “Laundromats” for this organization remained at the apex of creativity with secondary banking activities during the 1970`s which ultimately resulted in the collapse of the Crown Agents for Overseas Governments in August 1974. The same month President Nixon resigned, British Israeli Bank, Texas Commerce Bank, and the Franklin National Bank collapsed. The later was part of the Sindona Empire which also collapsed and was acquired by a consortium of banks, namely European American, which was principal to trans-national loans to South Africa at the apex of sanctions.

 B Glazer’s various investment holding companies in London, Namely Coptic Holdings (Subs.. Volkskas International) and holding company Ashbourne Investments, was also subject to tribunal investigation just as the Crown Agents( See Crown Agents Tribunal Report) in 1983. Lord Mancroft had resided on various Glazer companies as he did with Bank Leumi. Rabbi Mordecai Elefant of The Resource Group (Washington International Consultants) mediated with the Senate Banking Committee, European Banks &  Fritz Leutwiler ( Swiss National bank 1952-1984; President Bank for International Settlements, Basel 1982-1984) a mediator between Government of South Africa  and foreign banks.

 What did the Resignation & President Nixon and resultant Bank collapse with Crown Agents in August 1974 have in common? A pre determined plan where Crown Agents facilitated a laundrymat for US Treasury Bonds after the oil price hikes? A pattern of African Debt in exchange for resources rescheduled for the next US administration 30 years from 2008?  The revolution of the African Continent remains by design. 

Former agreements in the 1970s are a result of loans interlocked in the social fabric of Southern Africa today. The Glazer consolidation of minerals by the 1970s  and his unusual passing away may be part of a more sinister plan to consolidate the African Mineral Cartel, as with the passing away of Tiny Rowland.

It may have been Rowland who facilitated Glazer into the British Establishment, but it was Glazer who put Rowland in business.

The Glazers Brother’s Empire remains a silent corner stone of Southern African History, which remains unrecorded and opaque from the public except for the Glazer Kidnapping ransom in 1969(The highest paid ransom in history at the time). Glazer’s wife Etty was sending faxes to Israel ,when South Africa was threatened. This is the year that Glazers negotiation with Botswana Government began which led to the Feb 1970 Agreement that opened up Botswana mining. The very prize was the Botswana mineral potential, already identified by the World Bank.

If the above is to be believed, then the acquisition trail in the 1950`s is of particular relevance to the mining & industrial consolidation in Southern Africa today. The reconstruction of the Glazer Brother’s history in Southern Africa and internationally, remains the significance of the "Entry Point" and matrix of intellectual property that will provide an understanding of what is happening in Southern Africa and particularily the current review of mineral interests in the DRC.

 There is a grey area in South African history during the TRC hearings not disclosed in the public interest between1970-1984 and thereafter to 1994.During 1970-1984, Glazer was a player in the larger globalization process and the bridge for the SA Government and British establishment to include Rothschild Asset Management and investment in Lion Group from 1985.

 Glazer passed away 17 July1984 and in the third quarter of 1984, the South African rand, until then a strong and stable currency, lost nearly 13% of its value against the British pound and 19% of its value against the US dollar. This was by far the largest fall in the SA Rand’s value since 1972. (Prior to 1972 exchange rates were fixed against the dollar.)

 In the 50 quarter-year periods from the first-quarter 1972 up to and including the second-quarter 1984, the rand had only lost value (quarter-on-quarter) against the British pound 24 times. This reflects a stable currency with the number of times it increased in value being almost the same as the number of times it decreased in value (26 vs. 24). It should be noted too that this was during the years of economic sanctions against the apartheid regime, although as will be shown, many European and American banks still made millions of dollars worth of loans to the South African government during this time.

From third-quarter 1984 up to and including fourth-quarter 2002, the rand increased in value against the British pound (quarter-on-quarter) only 16 times. In other words its trend was dramatically downwards, decreasing (quarter-on-quarter) 58 times, or in 78% of the periods in question.

There is a new generation of South Africans born since the time of the UNION; generations which have shouldered their father’s or grand father’s responsibilities and think they are heavier than they used to be-they might well be right. The history of an era in which South Africa came of age and grew in stature will stir up events of the past thirty years ago, that influence our destiny. In some African quarters, the two ‘world wars’ are considered little more than European wars for world dominance- which to some degree they were.”

This must be measured, however, against the tendency to excise the colonized from history. This plays down the contribution of previously colonized people to the making of the modern world and oppressive forces of every kind.

I conclude with this quote:

‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!’

•            Sir Walter Scott.