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Gewonder waar gaan jou belasting geld heen, moenie wonder nie!!!!
03-15-2005, 04:48 AM #1
Govt offered R7m for spy house
Posted Mon, 14 Mar 2005
A buyer has offered the National Intelligence Agency R7-million for its luxury beachfront mansion in Cape Town.
Aucor South managing director Martin Dibowitz said the offer, by an undisclosed Johannesburg buyer, would be forwarded to the NIA, which had 72 hours to accept or reject.
He said about 80 people attended the Monday morning auction, among them 17 registered buyers.
Bidding started at R4-million, went briskly up to R6-million, then more slowly to R7-million. The entire auction took some 15 minutes.
He said the top bid was made by a woman acting on behalf of the Johannesburg buyer. Only if the bid was accepted would the woman have to disclose the buyer's identity to Aucor.
The auctioneers'' commission, which the buyer will also have to pay if the offer is accepted, will amount to another half a million rand.
NIA spokesperson Lorna Daniels said: "The offer has been put to NIA and the matter is being discussed."
The luxury Sunset Beach dwelling, dubbed variously the "spook house" and "Lindiwe's folly" in reference to former Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, has been on the market for at least nine months.
The decision to go ahead with the auction was taken after the NIA earlier this year hesitated over and then lost out on a R8.5-million cash offer.
The house was bought for about R6.5-million and extensively renovated.
The sale follows a change in priorities, including disposing of some assets, in the department.
Daniels reportedly earlier said the NIA wanted to get R8.5-million out after paying the auctioneer's commission.
However Dibowitz said he had only seen that figure in the newspapers.
The property was used by Sisulu herself while her home was being renovated, by several cabinet ministers and was even earmarked as a possible home for exiled Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
03-21-2005, 07:39 AM #2
Re: Gewonder waar gaan jou belasting geld heen, moenie wonder nie!!!!
'Skelm LP's moet loop'
Skop hulle uit die parlement.
Dít was gister politieke kenners se mening oor hoe die ANC moet optree teen vyf van sy LP's en oud-LP's wat Vrydag in die hof beken het hulle het bedrog gepleeg met belastingbetalers se geld deur onder meer reiskoepons vir kontant om te ruil.
"Dit is geen verkeersboete hierdie nie," sê mnr. Paul Graham, uitvoerende direkteur van Idasa.
"Of hul ANC-lidmaatskap opgeskort moet word, is 'n ander saak, maar hulle moet beslis nie toegelaat word om verder in die parlement te dien nie. Hulle kon juis die betrokke misdade pleeg omdat hulle die voorreg het om in die parlement te sit."
Die vyf is Rhoda Joemat (Wes-Kaap), Pamela Mnandi (KwaZulu-Natal), Mavis Magazi (Gauteng), Tseko Taabe (oud-LP van Gauteng) en Mildred Mpaka (Wes-Kaap). Hul vonnisse - wat wissel van 'n boete van R40 000 of 'n jaar tronkstraf tot R80 000 of drie jaar tronkstraf - is opgelê as deel van 'n pleitooreenkoms met die Skerpioene.
Dit is die eerste van altesame 23 LP's en oud-LP's wat by die parlementêre reisskandaal betrek word wat in die Kaapse landdroshof gestraf word.
Die Skerpioene se staatsaanklaer, adv. Jannie van Vuuren, het gesê een van die staat se hoofoorwegings was dat die beskuldigdes na vore gekom en skuld beken het. Hulle het lugreiskoepons wat deur die parlement aan hulle gegee is vir kontant omgeruil.
Die ANC het in 'n kort verklaring gesê hy beskou die skuldbekennings in 'n ernstige lig en het kennis geneem van die "strawwe wat uitgedeel is vir die
onwettige optrede" teen sy lede. Ook dat hy tugstappe teen die betrokkenes sal doen.
Graham het verder gesê die parlement moet druk op die ANC se koukus uitoefen om die LP's te vervang.
Mnr. Keith Gotschalk, hoof van die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland se departement politieke wetenskap, het gesê die ANC sal in die lig van die komende plaaslike verkiesing reg optree deur die LP's uit die parlement te haal.
"Hy het genoeg bekwame leiers en lede om hulle te vervang."
Die DA se hoofsweep, mnr. Douglas Gibson, het in reaksie gesê die party kan onmoontlik oordeel of die vonnisse regverdig is of nie omdat hy nie weet wat die getuienis teen die LP's is nie.
"Die wisselende boetes kom egter neer op slegs 'n paar maande se salaris en dít is onvoldoende straf vir iemand wat oneerlik was met belastingbetalers se geld. Daarom dring die DA daarop aan dat die betrokke LP's bedank of deur hul party geskors word en sodoende hul setels verloor," het Gibson gesê.
Intussen het 'n veelpartykomitee onder leiding van mev. Sandra Botha, DA-LP, wat die parlement moet adviseer om toekomstige oneerlikheid te vermy Vrydag sy werk voltooi.
Dit kom nadat dié komitee 'n statusverslag van sowel die Skerpioene as 'n verslag van PricewaterhouseCoopers bestudeer het.
Die komitee se aanbevelings en voorstelle is nou aan die voorsittende beamptes van die parlement voorgelê vir bestudering.
Landdros Johnny Vermeulen het Vrydag die vonnisse as "regverdig" bestempel en meer as een keer melding gemaak van die beskuldigdes se indrukwekkende CV's en hoe "hartseer" dit is om hulle voor die hof te sien op aanklagte van bedrog.
Adv. Seth Nthai, namens die beskuldigdes, het gesê hy wil die persepsie
dat pleitooreenkomste slegs daar is vir rykes regstel. "Enige burger - of dit 'n LP, 'n minister of selfs die president is - kan gebruik maak van dié voorsiening in die wet."
Intussen het senior leiers wat verkies om anoniem te bly, gesê die vyf is 'n meulsteen om die nek van die ANC en dat die party nie kan bekostig dat hulle langer lede bly nie.
Die ANC se tugkomitee is ook onder hewige druk om die vyf swaar te straf
om te wys hulle is ernstig om korrupsie onder hulself uit te roei, berig Jimmy Seepe .
"Die ANC sal moet besluit hoe hy gaan optree teen dié mense wat die parlement opsetlik bedrieg het.
"Dit weerspreek alles waarvoor ons staan. Selfs al sê die ANC hulle kan
aanbly, is sommige van hulle al geknak deur die skandaal," het 'n ANC-leier
03-24-2005, 06:04 AM #3
The Cobras make their debut
23/03/2005 22:28 - (SA)
Willie Hofmeyr's Cobras have this as their new corporate identity.
Pretoria - Watch out, Scorpions, here come the Cobras.
Willie Hofmeyr's special investigation unit announced a new corporate identity during the second anti-corruption summit held in Pretoria for the past two days.
There was, however, no fanfare, balloons or fireworks - just a bronze statue of a wily cobra mounted on a slab of dark wood and posters with the unit's new logo and slogan: "Poised to strike".
The unit is an independent body reporting to the president and parliament and will be funded from the department of justice and constitutional development.
Veteran former judge Willem Heath headed the unit at first, but the constitutional court found in June 2001 that a judge may not manage a unit of this kind. Hofmeyr was appointed in July 2001.
The most-important difference between the Cobras and the Scorpions is that they make use of the civil right to fight corruption in state institutions.
The Cobras' offices were recently moved from East London to Pretoria.
The unit recouped more than R13m during its anti-corruption operation in 2004/'05 and prevented losses exceeding R370m during that time.
Hofmeyr joked on Wednesday that the unit definitely didn't want to go by the name Cobras - they used the snake only in their logo.
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