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[B: ] Ahhh! Nothing anymore!
I’m satisfied.
[A: ] Appears to me as 3rd Party
..don't know if you agree with me
but this is WEIRD..!
[B: ] I really agree!
Procedure was CRUSHED.
[Phiri: ] High Court agrees too..!
[B: ] In my office..
..I’ve got South Africa's Military Disciplinary Code
Will give it to Phiri
Phiri’s legal team to follow it. [A: ] Ahem!
[B: ]..follow it to see how the proper military works.
Even in the old MDC
Which stated other obsolete things before
..I still have it in my office
[Phiri: ] I must just
...and sorry to disturb you..
..I must just thank you, Fellow Officers!
I really thank you..!
..for giving yourselves time
..thanking also Officer holding video camera here..
for the coming here; because I had thought
it is important to give my side of the story
about these allegations
because my employers is seized with these
and if I say nothing
people might think
I have nothing to say.
May I conclude with this..
..will not read the entirety thereof
will just read out the identities of my witnesses here
just like I read about
Brigadier General Rebecca Hadebe
She is my witness who answers
On-7-March-2001 Charge
“AWOL a.k.a. ABSENCE WITHOUT OFFICIAL LEAVE"
Colonel T. Thembelani Xundu answers..
..to Charge of 6th March..
..allegations of “Absence From Place of Parade”.
Xundu says I had permission!
Another full colonel:
Colonel M. Florence Dibetso
Works at Defence Intelligence. &By the way..
..These are sworn affidavits!
For the 1st time
you watch this video
you see I have got witnesses!
I DON'T want to take
Sisulu’s Military Court.
If I do, I’ll be condoning flawed procedures!
Do own a Hummer
designed for rugged territory!
Must you then allow
driveway to be riddled with potholes
in order to prove your Hummer?
I’m well-equipped
for the trial
but I DEMAND that Mashoala-Ramano Board of Inquiry!
I am returning to the High Court
to request Sisulu Charges be thrown out!
[B: ] Indeed, if Matter is at High Court, Military Court dare not interfere.
[Phiri: ] Thank you!
[A: ] [Amazing blundering..]
..a lot of
things
at the South African Army College
in terms
of the military procedure
were incorrect.
And that’s one thing..
[Phiri: ] A politicized unit!
[A: ] I mean..
Ughh!!!
Proper Office Bearing..
..one of the basics..
for any military office..
..essential stuff for officership..
..name Saluting..
YOU SALUTE
OTHER OFFICERS
AND DISLIKING THEM
IS IRRELEVANT!
One shows respect
to another officer!
Hence, the tension
between the students…
..I could see
as to why
they happened even though..
I’m Complete 3rd Party!
Haven’t read your statements..
haven’t seen your witnesses..
..I’m pure 3rd Party!
Phiri, Good Luck, Sir!
[Phiri:] Ta!
[B: ] Last thing, Phiri..
..on this document..
Somebody named "Mafa".
She writes:
"Thursday morning
“Phiri gave me
“an envelop
“for Eddie Drost.
“I went to Drost's office
“&he wasn’t there.
“I then gave the envelop to
“Drost’s Secretary, Mrs. Swift.
“an envelop to be handed by 8."
WHAT ENVELOP WAS THAT?
[PHIRI: ] Envelop
where I
now got Charge..
charge that says
I’d defied Order
to proffer some documents to Drost.
It is..
[B: ] DID THE ENVELOP IN QUESTION CONTAIN THE REQUISITE DOCUMENTATION?
[PHIRI: ] Exactly!
The documents Eddie Drost had said to submit
in relation..if I remember well..
…explaining my whereabouts the previous day
That’s the query he had demanded in black and white.
The order was to submit by 8.
[B: ] NOW, THAT SAID STATEMENT WAS INSIDE THAT ENVELOP?
[Phiri: ] indeed!
In short: Drost did receive!
but for some reason
he turned to cook up a charge “Phiri defied..”.
Drost fell into his own trap..
..assuming Statement Courier was Lentsoe!
Lentsoe was Drost’s collaborator.
Ploy to falsely charge Phiri.
Pair assumed
I’d never seen through them
that they could tomorrow somersault
denying the fact of my compliance to Said Order.
I GAVE IT TO 2 PEOPLE!
[B: ] RIDICULOUS!!!
HOW YOU GET CHARGED
YOU NEVER COMPLIED?
HUH?
[Phiri: ] Yes indeed!
That’s Charge Number...
[B: ] Charge Number 6.
[A: ] CHARGE NUMBER SIX!
[B: ] "Contravention of MDC 19-e"
[Phiri: ] Indeed!
[B: ] MAFA DIRECTLY OPPOSES THE CHARGE!
[B: ] It is because
Eddie Drost, I believe,..
confabulated with Lentsoe
both defending Fornication-for-Promotion
of then Major Zini-Bobelo..
Lentsoe was ordered by Drost to deny the fact of my compliance.
They’d forgotten the meaning of the jackal mascot of my Intelligence Corps.
I gave Lentsoe one copy; gave Mafa the 2nd.
Of course, Secretary to Eddie Drost never devoured that paper work!
Poor Me Swift gave the document to Drost!
but this is just one example to the fabrication of charges against me.
And not to be disrespectful:
..that is how "Colonel" Drost has suddenly become "Brigadier General"
and "Brigadier General" Enoch Mashoala a.k.a. “Sebata”, the I.G.
is now "MAJOR General".
They got their stripes via their unlawful acts of protectiveness
towards Nelson Mandela's extended-family members.
Hence, there is no serious army to talk about here.
Maybe we should leave the army to all-Mandela relatives!
Currently, a Mandela-related lieutenant
openly and without retribution, defies orders
of any captain to his tribe or his Mandela clan!
And that is the centre and kernel of the whole problem.
Thank you, once again!
[Officer B ]: Well said! Thank you, Manyanya!
[Phiri ]: Thank you!
[Officer A ]: Colonel, I wish you luck!
[Phiri ]: At some stage
one does need to conclude a job.
And I remember the words uttered by a
a man or a woman in antiquity:
"A picture tells a thousand words".
I had thought I might toy around with some
pictures that I can find around
in relation to some important people in my narration.
This is the woman..as per my
way of seeing it
who caused me to be falsely charged.
This is “General” Winnie Ntombizodwa Zini-Bobelo.
She was a Major when
I was falsely charged
about 10 years ago.
all if my identification of this picture
is anything to go by.
Here you see a function of
Deputy Defence Minister
& Veterans' Affairs
with other VIP's.
I just got this picture to identify
a thing or two about Zini-Bobelo.
In passing, I’ve seen
other interesting pictures
on this magazine
on-line.
I had thought I could just mention
to you...by the way, this [face]
is not one of the main players
in the Phiri case.
Yet he is still somebody worth mentioning.
When I first started working
in the Department of Defence in 1998
this is the man who was my
General Officer Commanding.
He is an ex-Transkei
Defence Force
member
He is Lieutenant General Derrick Mbuyiselo Mgwebi.
The Chief Human Resource
of the Department of Defence.
He knows me personally [and by name].
He knows too that
as from his own unit which used
to be in Nelspruit
where I used to work under his command
directly under the command of Colonel Theunis Kotze
who was my Senior Staff Officer
while I was still SO1
that I was being
you know, unfairly
"hunted down" (if you like)
by the White Extremists
trying to falsely charge me.
All in
1998-1999.
Mgwebi knows that Colonel Kotze
came to my rescue and to explain
that I am just a victim of
some bad elements
What is interesting now is that
when the
commotion, if you like,
of the SA Army College happened
in 2001
Mgwebi is the self-same man
who was sent, I am told
by Chief Army (Lieutenant General Ramano)
to come and explain to us
students
as to how
the entire matter was resolved
after Mashoala's month investigation.
Mgwebi came and greeted me.
I saluted him accordingly.
But Mgwebi NEVER told me
in person
what details was there
in store for me
to be charged, as it were.
Worse,
Mgwebi then went ahead
to take
the member who
who had been fornicating on the College
[you have just seen a picture of hers prior]
but Mgwebi took her along
during his own deployment..
I think that was for Burundi.
And, I would never know what took place there.
I wasn't there.
But reports I got indicated that
"Lady" W.N. Zini-Bobelo
had a very bad practice
in Burundi
where she was working
directly under Lieutenant General Mgwebi.
She was his Intelligence Officer.
And it was
very unbecoming practice
for any "Officer and Lady".
She would habitually hang her lingerie
all around the Command Headquarters
of General Mgwebi.
And now the female junior officers
who saw this
imagined that she was once again fornicating.
As to "with whom"
around Mgwebi's Headquarters
it was anybody's guess!
I had just thought it is important
to mention this.
General Mgwebi knows me personally.
He clicks his computer button
every so often.
And he sees that
ever since I integrated
with the SANDF
11 years ago
or even 12..
from 1998
I have never got a promotion.
This doesn't bother Mgwebi.
It does not bother him either:
that I am presumed guilty whereas
I am still innocent.
I'm even not allowed to study in the Army
I had thought I should mention
something about a gentleman
that I see.
And I had no reason to think
otherwise
insofar as his integrity is concerned.
But, of late,
I have come to revise a lot of things
about so many people.
Mgwebi is of
ex-Transkei
ex- [Mandela's] Thembu Clan.
This is a very important person
This is
my Minister of Defence
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu
And, I have got so much
to say about her.
A number of issues!
Some documents that
she is well aware of
and for some reason
has just decided to pretend
"There is no issue about Colonel Phiri".
And it's all very sad!
She cannot
in the future (or even now)
claim that "she was not aware of Phiri".
I will try to get some photos
of documents
that she personally received
over this matter.
And she decided not to do anything about it!
I am going to be going to court
next month
at the beginning of November [2010]
against this Lady.
Capacity as my Minister.
Where she is appealing
all the
prayers that Phiri presented
to the High Court
about her office and according to her version
"are false".
So, basically, that is the person
I am standing against now
on the issue of
the false charges
that were meted against me
2001.
In passing I will mention that
the issue of "Xhosa-speaker" tribalism
is very crucial here now.
You find that the Transkei
which was a Bantustan
and very first Bantustan that was ever
created in South Africa (part of Grand Apartheid)..
..it is an area inhabited
mainly by the Thembu Clan
of Nelson Mandela.
And that is where
Sisulu's ethnicity
paternally comes from.
Her father is Walter Ulyate Sisulu.
who was a Thembu by tribe
in terms of his mother.
But people might know that
in terms of his father,
he was of British stock.
So, here you have got a product of
British and Thembu stock
..at least 25%
of what you see here.
And I am just getting the feeling that
she is not prepared to help me.
Because she wants to protect
[by hook or crook]
the legacy of Nelson Mandela
and his extended-family relatives
like Zini-Bobelo
who must rule the Military
even through crime.
As if the Thembu Ethnicity
or the Thembu Nation
is the only one with Royalty.
I, too, have got Royal connections!
Why, then, must it be
that we must be treated
in terms of one Particular Tribe?
Why so when we are actually
from different [Royal] ethnic groupings?
That, then, is my Minister Sisulu!
To be honest,
I have no hope whatsoever
she will help me.
She has proved several times
under summonses
by South Africa's Human Rights Commission
in Johannesburg.
She just poured contempt on summonses.
And that, according to
the Gauteng Province Manager of the Commission.
And I even went to South Africa's Public Protector.
And I do not think the Public Protector
as I will show with a letter later on
could have made the pronouncements
that the PP made
without making the waves
or tell-tale signs with the Defence Department
that "Phiri is an aggrieved man".
For 12 solid years
no Promotion for Phiri,
none of the rightful studying courses,
none really to write home about
particularly the 2001 false charges;
Yet, here comes a Cabinet Minister
who knew about the false charges..
as early as around 2003.
Because, then she was
the Cabinet Minister for Intelligence
And I’d written a letter
to make her know!
Yet, Nothing Doing!
MANDELOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA!