On page 10 you Will find an extract from Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s new book: Gangster State – unravelling ANC Secretary General Ace Ma-gashule’s web of capture.
A must-read. That and similar exposés published over the past year, have persuaded me that to vote for the ANC in this election is to make yourself an accessory to crime – itself a crime.
Myburgh exposes mind-boggling misappropriation facilitated by Magashule of billions of rands intended for housing the poor – the same people the ANC now brazenly claims it will house if it is reelected.
But even “petty” theft apparently features on Magashule’s agenda: the South African Heritage Resources Agency is deeply concerned about how last year a painting by renowned artist J H Pierneef that belonged to the Free State Administration and for decades had pride of place in the Premier’s office, ended up being offered for auction to art auctioneers Strauss and company by ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule’s notorious bagman-bodyguard, Ricardo Mettler.
A similar painting was recently sold by the auctioneers for R20 million.
Mettler claimed that the painting “ended up” in a “pile of things” that Magashule wanted his bodyguard to “dispose of” when he was packing up to leave the Premier’s office in January last year to take up his new top post at ANC head office, Luthuli House in Johannesburg.
In March last year Mettler is said to have asked “a wealthy Chinese businessman” in Bloemfontein to arrange for the painting to be sold by art auctioneers Strauss & Co.
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Lennie The Liquidator Faces R500,000 Defamation Suit
After losing his cool when his fees were questioned
Panel Beater De Luxe
Danmar Autobody and its erstwhile directors get a serious panel beating in court papers. Corruption and theft are said to have destroyed the firm chaired by Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, leaving 200 workers destitute and threatening to kill.
Meet Covid Diarist Ronald Wohlman
Ronald Wohlman – EX SOUTH African copywriter, author, and actor – never dreamt that his lockdown diaries, written on Facebook and followed by people all over the world – would become his “life’s work”.
A Picture Of Peace?
Beware: Appearances can be deceptive
Flogging A (Battery-Driven) Dead Horse
Why plug-in vehicles are not all they’re cracked up to be– and, likely, never will be
Everybody Drinks Corona
I am hesitant to go Into the pub today. Not because it’s illegal, but there is a crème colored 1985 Mercedes 300D parked behind the pine tree. This means the devil is inside; that’s what we call Dr. De Villiers. You don’t know whether you will encounter the good doctor with the charming bedside manner or the violent, bipolar bully. The problem is, most of the time, you can never be sure which it is, so it’s best to always keep a social distance.
Never Take A Hypochondriac To A Pandemic
From Ronald Wohlman’s New York Corona Diary
The money train
Transnet in court battle with liquidators of Gupta-linked audit firm over R57m in ‘corrupt’ payments and invoices
‘He's no pharmaceutical genius, he's a vulture'
Pharma con seeks prison release to ‘help find Covid cure’
Bush school – A memoir
OUR SCHOOL WAS IN THE MIDDLE of the bush, ten miles from the nearest town in the harsh beauty of the Zimbabwean highveld. It started life in World War II as No 26 EFTS Guinea Fowl, a Royal Air Force elementary flying training school and I arrived there in 1954, just seven years after it became an all-white co-ed state boarding school.
