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Introduction
Welcome to this first edition of our newsletter. The aim of this letter is to look at things from a different perspective and to question more deeply the events going on around us here in Southern Africa. The newsletter will focus largely on "Southern African" issues, more specifically South African issues, but we will also take a look at events in the rest of the world which could affect us, like for example the American war on terror and the Middle East.

It will be a quarterly newsletter for private subscribers. It will be distributed inside South Africa but also in America, Europe and Australia. We hope to build up a following of South African, and other African Expatriates. Our subscription and contact details can be seen on the last page. We hope you will support us and help to spread the word about our endeavour.

I always used to think of African and S.African politics as "Left Vs Right". I never imagined that it could be more complex than that. Then one day, a friend with an Intelligence background pointed me to some very interesting history, written in America and hidden away, in books which most people would normally never even bother to read. That "secret history", was about the activities of the CIA in Southern Africa during the last 50 years. I was utterly amazed to discover the "other side of the coin" and to see things "through the eyes of the CIA".

In the past, I had often been fascinated by the KGB and their clandestine activities in Africa, but I had never yet come across any credible information about what the CIA was doing at the same time. Like many S.Africans I knew that the CIA had been concerned by the Russian and Cuban activity in Angola and that they had asked the Apartheid Govt to intervene on their behalf. But other than that, I had no clue about the CIA or how it operated, or what it did.

How does the CIA go about its business? What are its aims, and how successful has it been in the past? And what operations are the CIA likely to conduct in the future? Most S.African Liberals and Democratic Alliance supporters might never have guessed that the CIA is their secret ally. Even more amazing, is how many political parties in S.Africa have received money from the CIA in the past. What is the CIA doing in Israel, or Zimbabwe? We will delve into those topics in future issues.

Officially, Vice President Jacob Zuma was fired because of his "corrupt relationship with Shabir Shaik" in the arms deal. There was a lot of speculation that he was really fired because he was a Zulu. But could there be other, even stranger games being played? So let us kick off our newsletter with the story which, depending on how it turns out, could change S.Africa's future in a big way.

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