For the continent’s biggest bank to make such a prediction suggests it knows something the rest of us don’t know. Moreover, it flies in the face of a groundswell of electoral discontent and polling which consistently has ANC support fluctuating at less than 45%.

Of course, it has long been a reality that in politics, there is really only one party—the financial party. Irrespective of how rotten the policies of a government are or how poorly it governs, political favours enjoy financial rewards.

In terms of the ANC’s scorecard, it should be disqualified from participating in elections at any level. There is not a single redeeming factor to its credit. Its 30 years in power have produced only dysfunctionalism, debt, impoverishment and corruption on an unprecedented scale.

In a sane world, there should be no doubt that the ANC is unelectable. But the fact that Standard Bank’s analysts think otherwise begs the question as to what part of the universe they inhabit. Why are another five years of failed, corrupt socialism preferable and inevitable? Who stands to benefit? Cui bono?

Is it that the financial discipline and reforms promised by the major opposition group are less palatable than the current shambles which passes for government under the ANC?  Is Ramaphosa’s promise that billions are poised to revive infrastructure an indicator that such investments are likely only under continued ANC rule? Again that raises the question: Who is benefiting who?

How is it that similar promises are not heard in the event that the DA-led coalition wins the May 29 election?

Since 1994, South Africa’s economic terrain has been globally recolonized. Globalist conglomerates now own a raft of previously South African businesses. Even Standard Bank is 49% foreign-owned – 20% of that by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. And that probably is the answer to how and why Standard’s analysts see ANC victory on May 29. Global finance prefers indebted, pliable, corrupt governments.

Nonetheless, one hopes Standard’s analysts are wrong and that the election process is not a futile exercise, otherwise, our future is bleak. That is heralded by the passage of the Bill expropriating property without compensation. For history shows that democracy suffers when private property rights are no longer inalienable.

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If the decision-makers at Standard looked beyond the Paris Cop26 agreement and distinguished between propaganda and science they would note that there is no global warming and that climate change is a natural, historical occurrence. They would then note that in the past 2,000 years there have been two global warming periods – one in the late Roman period and the other between 800 and 1400AD – when fossil fuels were not in use as they are today. Thus, there is no science in Standard’s intended coal policy.

Standard Bank should note what President Obama’s former Under-Secretary for Energy, Dr Steven Koonin, has stated. Koonin, a physicist at New York University, is one of many scientists who regard the claim of global warming as sheer alarmism. In June 2021, on Fox News, he emphasised that there has been no change in the warmest temperatures over the past 60 years. Data also shows no shrinking of the ice in Antarctica or increase in hurricane activity.

Dr Frank Schnell, author of The Age of Stupid, points out that climate alarmists base their predictions on less than one percent of data. Their selective extrapolation of weather extremes from the UN’s 3,949 page Sixth Assessment Report, provide emotional impetus for their agitation propaganda. Schnell, Koonin and a host of independent scientists have posited that if all fossil fuels were abandoned the difference that would make would be less than two-tenths of a degree Celsius. Global warming caused by fossil fuels is a falsehood.

South Africa has an abundance of coal which needs to be exploited if the economic growth Standard Bank envisages is to occur. Failure to exploit those resources is going to aggravate unemployment and diminish economic growth prospects. Since 20% of Standard Bank is owned by China which builds coal-fired power stations and ignores the propaganda of the Paris Climate Accord, how does Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala intend to explain his coal policy to his Chinese shareholders?

Sent into The Business Report and published, March 2022.

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These remarks are overdue. I object to the Bank’s attempt to influence how I am to treat my health with its exhortation, plastered on its ATM screens and home pages of its website, to submit to having a Covid vaccination.

My objection is based on medical and legal grounds.

First, Covid is not a pandemic because the recovery rate in South Africa is 96%. If it was a pandemic, 30% of the population would be dead. Consequently, there is no need for a vaccine.

Second, what is being called a ‘vaccine’ is medically false. It is a ‘preparation,’ as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) terms it, which may stimulate anti-bodies in a person. But none of the ‘preparations’ is certified to produce immunity. All of the manufacturers – Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson, etc – are indemnified against the inability of their ‘preparations’ to produce immunity and against adverse reactions caused by them because all of their Covid ‘preparations’ are experimental. None of them has been subjected to the standard three to five-year trial and testing period.

Third, my objection, therefore, is to the Bank’s promotion of a medically untested procedure which is acknowledged to be unable to guarantee immunity. Worse still, by indulging in this promotion, the Bank is ignoring the growing list of extreme adverse effects of these so-called vaccines which include heart inflammation, paralysis and deaths.

Fourth, section 12(2) of the RSA Constitution upholds the right of citizens to bodily integrity and not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation. All of the so-called vaccines which Standard Bank is promoting are experimental.

If you are genuinely concerned about the health of your customers, then advise them to check for natural immunity in order to ascertain their health status regarding Covid. And then follow that up with a recommendation that, in the event that they are threatened by Covid, to treat themselves with ivermectin which is endorsed by the CDC, the governments of Peru, Mexico and state governments of India as well as by world-renowned cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough and many physicians in the USA.

Failing all that, please remove your statements about Covid and vaccination from your  ATMs and website and just stick to banking and finance.

Dr Duncan Du Bois

Account holder at Bluff Hillside branch

Addressed to Lungisa Fuzile CEO of Standard Bank of SA 23^rd November 2021 and never acknowledged.

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These remarks are overdue. I object to the Bank’s attempt to influence how I am to treat my health with its exhortation, plastered on its ATM screens and home pages of its website, to submit to having a Covid vaccination.

My objection is based on medical and legal grounds.

First, Covid is not a pandemic because the recovery rate in South Africa is 96%. If it was a pandemic, 30% of the population would be dead. Consequently, there is no need for a vaccine.

Second, what is being called a ‘vaccine’ is medically false. It is a ‘preparation,’ as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) terms it, which may stimulate anti-bodies in a person. But none of the ‘preparations’ is certified to produce immunity. All of the manufacturers – Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson, etc – are indemnified against the inability of their ‘preparations’ to produce immunity and against adverse reactions caused by them because all of their Covid ‘preparations’ are experimental. None of them has been subjected to the standard three to five-year trial and testing period.

Third, my objection, therefore, is to the Bank’s promotion of a medically untested procedure which is acknowledged to be unable to guarantee immunity. Worse still, by indulging in this promotion, the Bank is ignoring the growing list of extreme adverse effects of these so-called vaccines which include heart inflammation, paralysis and deaths.

Fourth, section 12(2) of the RSA Constitution upholds the right of citizens to bodily integrity and not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation. All of the so-called vaccines which Standard Bank is promoting are experimental.

If you are genuinely concerned about the health of your customers, then advise them to check for natural immunity in order to ascertain their health status regarding Covid. And then follow that up with a recommendation that, in the event that they are threatened by Covid, to treat themselves with ivermectin which is endorsed by the CDC, the governments of Peru, Mexico and state governments of India as well as by world-renowned cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough and many physicians in the USA.

Failing all that, please remove your statements about Covid and vaccination from your  ATMs and website and just stick to banking and finance.

Addressed to Lungisa Fuzile CEO of Standard Bank of SA 23^rd October 2021 and never acknowledged.

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