Wikileaks: US Consulate Pretoria Cables

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Hi kids, all the way from Amerika...
Hopefully you've discovered the little handful of cables thus far from the US Consulate Pta:
http://wikileaks.ch/origin/42_0.html
As well as the big fun one listing the USA's vital assets based outside the US... who know it had any in SA?
http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/02/09STATE15113.html
"South Africa: BAE Land System OMC, Benoni, South Africa Brown David Gear Industries LTD, Benoni, South Africa Bushveld Complex (chromite mine) Ferrochromium Manganese - Battery grade, natural; battery grade, synthetic; chemical grade; ferro; metallurgical grade Palladium Mine and Plant Platinum Mines Rhodium "

fun fun fun
still, nothing on wikileaks sofar equals the coolness of SA national intelligence agency emails:
http://cryptome.org/dirt-safrica.htm
 
This dude made an interesting but true comment.

¶6. (C) A long string of ANC Youth League Presidents have won notoriety for making outrageous statements; viz mid-’90s League President Peter Mokaba’s frequent use of the slogan “kill the Boer/kill the farmer,” at the very time when Nelson Mandela was campaigning for reconciliation and peace. One respected political analyst commented to us recently that he would be worried if a Youth League President did not go around sounding off like this, and that having someone saying
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such things might even serve as something of a safety valve by making disgruntled youth feel that their anger was being heard by the ANC’s senior leaders. We are nonetheless concerned that, as a generation which does not remember the struggle against apartheid comes to adulthood, they may be less content to accept mere rhetoric to express their anger at what they may see as continuing inequality. End comment. GIPS
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