CZM Rewind: Blood River & Mission South Africa

Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc. Blood River Original Air Date: 4.17.25 In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God. Sources: Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986. FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011 Stephney, Inez Mary. “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003. Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052. http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001 https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552 https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838 https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838 https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13 https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/ https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430 https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/ Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999. -- Mission South Africa Original Air Date: 5.1.25 At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563 https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/ https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/ https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025 https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15 https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/ https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/ https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/ https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/...