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freedom of speech, but they did not even give
me the right to appeal.
So, essentially, ENS canceled me for
allegedly saying something distasteful, but
not illegal. However, they have no issues
representing EOH and Eskom that were
involved in corruption and state capture;
people involved in the Marikana killings; or
apartheid banks in South Africa that sabotage
the Rand or those that discriminate against
black people by charging them higher interest
for loans and deny them loans.
It appears that ENS’s decision to cancel
my services was motivated by a desire to
maintain white solidarity with the company
responsible for illegally selling GMOs laced
with cancer-causing chemicals in Zimbabwe.
This is consistent with ENS’s pattern of
representing apartheid criminals and racist
South African banks that have illegally
imposed U.S. sanctions on innocent people in
Zimbabwe as well, while citing ‘reputational
risk’ as a justification for disregarding the
human rights of those innocent people, on a
continent where they [ENS] claim to be the
leading Africa law firm.
It’s clear that ‘reputational risk’ is just an
excuse, as apartheid criminals and racists,
continue to receive legal services from
companies like ENS and the banks they
represent, without any fear of reputational
risk. This exposes the truth: white
institutions prioritize advancing imperialism
and maintaining white supremacy above
what their reputation looks like to black
people, because blacks have no economic
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instruments to coerce ethical compliance.
They selectively discriminate, drop black
clients and stand with even racist white
clients, no matter how egregious their
actions, to ensure white supremacy and
imperialism prevail in Africa. It’s almost
like they continue the charter colonial
company mandate, that began with the Dutch
East India company in 1509. By doing so,
they uphold the very systems of power
that perpetuate injustice and human rights
violations in African.
In this instance, ENS had no problem
disregarding the greater public interest of
giving me defense to fight a company that
is potentially threatening the lives of over
16 million Zimbabweans through illegal
behavior, because the victims are Africans
and inconsequential to ENS’ bottom line,
even though they thrives as Africa’s biggest
firm.
In other words, 16 million Zimbabwean lives
just don’t matter enough to ENS. This goes
to show that black lives don’t matter to white
corporates, and in fact, they are probably
being pushed to align with the agenda of
getting Africans into food slavery.
The sad part is through this fight, I have
discovered that I am not just fighting Innscor,
but I am fighting the owners and funders of
U.S. GMO biotech companies like Monsanto,
which include State Street and Norges Bank
(the Norgean Soveriegn Wealth Fund), who
also have cross-shareholding in Blackrock,
all of which have shareholding in the South