Dr Mashilo Boloka, CEO of Online Safety Lab and Marketplace Risk advisory board member. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo)
EXCLUSIVE: A CONTROVERSIAL new global power structure is forming RIGHT NOW, and a South African bureaucrat is at its heart. Dr. Mashilo Boloka, a former Film and Publication Board CEO, has been APPOINTED to the secretive 2026 advisory board of SAN FRANCISCO-BASED “Marketplace Risk.” This organization, masquerading as a force for “digital trust,” is in fact a shadowy coalition of Silicon Valley giants and global “compliance” enforcers aiming to CONTROL the worldwide digital economy.
This is NOT a harmless networking group. This board, stacked with heavyweights from Google Play, Meta, and elite law firms, is poised to DECIDE what constitutes “risk” and “safety” online. Their decisions will dictate what you can say, sell, and see on the internet. Boloka’s role as the “first African” on this board is a strategic move to launder their global agenda with a veneer of continental legitimacy. He will now help “integrate Africa’s perspective” into policies that could see unprecedented censorship and control enforced under the banner of “platform integrity.”
Boloka’s own “Online Safety Lab,” fresh from launching in 2025, is already orchestrating a “Regulatory Horizon Summit” in Johannesburg this April. The goal? To “shape Africa’s collective response to online risk” – a chilling euphemism for crafting continent-wide digital speech and commerce regulations drafted in boardrooms thousands of miles away. This summit will be a breeding ground for policies that hand over African digital sovereignty to unaccountable foreign entities.
The urgent question every African must now ask: Is this the beginning of a new, GLOBALLY-ORCHESTRATED digital colonialism, where our online freedoms are traded away by those claiming to protect us? The future of a free internet is being negotiated behind closed doors, and you are NOT at the table.


