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R3480 news you’re not supposed to know (including VAT) nosewee k Hospitals haggle while 132OCTOBER youth bleeds to death 2010 Sun King Sol destroyed my life ROTTEN SECRETS The biggest money laundering operation in history SUBSCRIBE to noseweek and SAVE R81 on the retail price: see PAGE 12 noseweek online OCTOBER2010 ISSUE132 Get access to the noseweek archive of saints, sinners and rogues The biggest money laundering Buy noseweek’s online operation in history page 8 edition for only 4 Letters Iscor bargain 5 Dear Reader Robert Smit’s deadly bombshell R278 6 Mr Nose Hazards of pre-emptive tipping Wherever you want 7 Notes & Updates Theo Beyleveldt bails out n Cosa Nostra Verde 13 Left to die Hospitals haggle over fat cash deposits, while a young man’s life it....whenever you seeps away want it 18 Sol survivor Widow says Sun King Kerzner stitched up her East London businessman husband and destroyed the lives of his family 23 Hot airstream in the Elgin Valley For some reason the authorities have once again failed to punish planning transgressors 25 Party games Is the law an ass, or are politicians just arseholes? 26 Headless in the city There are few things as frustrating and humiliating as dealing with the people who run Joburg 28 Nightmare at OR Tambo Pretty girl + travelling alone = suspicious, says customs official www. 30 Deloitte losing their Touche Auditors under scrutiny after failing to report noseweek.co.za financial irregularities at JSE-listed company 32 Bones of contention Risks and benefits must be weighed carefully when potent drugs are prescribed 34 Books Hey, let’s be careful out there 36 Country Life Hot meals, not hot line, please! 37 Last Word Big Boy SUBSCRIBE to noseweek and SAVEnoseweek OCTR81O BER 2010 on the retail price: see PAGE3 12 Letters Iscor bargain and received the same work for a few seconds, and to be common property, for Thank you for exposing response. the resetting of dropped the use of all apartment the bribery that Arcelor- Clearly they are aware calls would more than pay owners – for their hotel’s Mittal is pepared to resort of the problem but choose for the sponsorship. Makes breakfast room. After a to. Thank you also for not to do anything about it sense. court judgment against exposing some of the ill because it’s so very lucra- Henry Tiedemann them, Rabie has now had deeds that occurred at the tive. I have four Vodacom Brakpan to spend a substantial sum Reserve Bank. I cannot phones in my company on furnishing a new break- understand how Mr Mit- and we all experience Evergreen promises fast room (called a “bistro”) tal was able to buy Iscor dropped calls. Most people Amdec top brass attending on the ground floor to serve “ when the rand exchange we speak to have the same the Evergreen Muizenberg their hotel. rate had weakened to R19 complaint. I believe that AGM last month went But, once again, they to £1 for just the few days Vodacom should actually out of their way to pacify have taken over a large when the sale took place refund all their subscribers residents dissatisfied with area of common property – and almost immediately at least 25% of their phone Amdec non-delivery. They for the use of their bistro thereafter strengthened to bills for he past year. have promised to work as a garden area. Even if R14 to £1. That way Mr Mittal was able to buy Iscor, with all Vodacom should refund at least 25% its coal and iron ore perks, at a 36% discount on the of phone bills for the past year exchange rate. What a bargain. Reuben Brenkel, Vanderbijlpark Recently, someone with the new committee to the owners agree – and involved with sporting finally provide the facili- they haven’t – then the The Great Vodadrop events sponsored by Voda- ties promised long ago, and bistro must still pay a rent I read with great inter- com told me that a senior to commence building at going market prices. est Dr Richard Doyle’s member“ from Vodacom the second phase (i.e. the The trustees (Rabie people) letter regarding dropped had told him that if they apartment block) this year, have no power to allow calls on Vodacom’s service needed an extra million to complete this flagship of their bistro to use com- (Letters, nose131). I have or two for a sponsorship the Evergreen brand. mon property for their own also complained to them it was quite simple: just Your exposé (nose131) profit. Cheating seems to many times in this regard, switch off the computer certainly helped to get be in their nature. which controls their net- things going. Thank you. Concerned Evergreen resident Owners’ Assoc, Century City Muizenberg Gus Seeing is believing. – Ed. Transnet pension nosedive In December 2006 (nose86) Ad was offensive you revealed how Transnet The advert on the back had upped its profits by cover of nose131, featuring robbing its own pension- a bound, faceless female ers, and in January 2007 figure in a compromising (nose87) you revealed just position, is disturbing. I ap- how their crooked actu- preciate we all have lapses ary and hireling trustees in good judgment; this had cooked the figures is certainly one by your to achieve that criminal advertising department. I purpose. must place on record that I To bring you up to date: found the advert offensive. the total value of my pen- Apart from that – keep up sion, including the two “ad the excellent work. hoc” bonuses received over Sue Wingrove the past twelve months is Durban less than half the value of the pension I received At it like Rabie in the first twelve months There have been further after I went on pension in developments at Manhat- 1996, as a member of the tan (nose131), where the Transnet Second Defined Rabie Property Group Benefit Fund. unlawfully appropriated SA van der Spuy the 14th floor – supposed Observatory, Cape Town. BAD TIMES IN THE BOOK TRADE 4 noseweek OCT O BER 2010 ReaderDearLettersDear Reader 021 686 0570 Dear Reader Editor Martin Welz Robert Smit’s [email protected] Managing editor Hans Muhlberg deadly bombshell Production editor Tony Pinchuck Gauteng bureau chief HE INSATIABLE, unscrupulous greed ... spiritual wickedness in high places”. “ Jack Lundin and corrupt political relationships But he never repeated what Smit had told [email protected] of the defence industry (and its as- him, perhaps fearing for his own life. News editor sociated nuclear industry) have be- Dr Eschel Rhoodie was, as Secretary for Mark Thomas [email protected] come a feature of our time. Accept Information in the 1970s, one of the most thatT and several loose bits of the historical influential and well-connected people in Censor-in-chief puzzle fall into place. Why was Dr Robert senior cabinet and security circles. There Len Ashton Smit murdered back in 1977? Why did was little he did not know about the gov- Sub-editor such obviously corrupt, racist, even bank- ernment’s secret strategies and the darker Chas Unwin rupt old Nat politicians like Finance Min- side of world affairs. Cartoons ister Dr Nic Diederichs and Minister of After his death in 1993, noseweek pub- Myke Ashley-Cooper, Gus Ferguson, lished an interview with Dr Rhoodie that Stacey Stent Energy and Manpower Fanie Botha enjoy the enthusiastic support and protection of was recorded on 26 October 1987. In it he Cover art Big Business? got the closest he ever did to revealing the Dr Jack Why have successive governments found Nationalist government’s biggest secret Contributors it necessary to ignore the fact that Mafia project ever – the acquisition of The Bomb Bheki Mashile, Harold Strachan, Andreas Stelzer banker Vito Palazzolo entered the country – and hinted at who might have been re- illegally and acquired resident status by sponsible for the assassination of Robert Subscriptions corrupt means? Smit. Maud Petersen [email protected] Why the ANC’s eagerness to sign up for Rhoodie: “I [like Smit] had access to top the arms deal – and yet another bank- secrets outside my own department. That Advertising Adrienne de Jongh rupting nuclear programme? guarantees surveillance ... most tapping Our lead story (and a book re- was done by the Security Police and – in- Accounts terestingly enough – Military Intelligence. Nicci Joubert-van Doesburgh cently published, The Unspoken Alli- ance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with You might think I am wandering off the Copyright All material in this issue is copy- Apartheid South Africa, by Sasha Pola- track, but it all ties together. right, and belongs to Chaucer Publications kow-Suransky) suggest answers to all “Let’s assume Dr Smit uncovered some (Pty) Ltd, unless otherwise indicated. No part three those old, nagging questions. They massive secret fund that was there ille- of the material may be quoted, photocopied, served (or, in Smit’s case, opposed) the gally, and that he threatened the secrecy reproduced or be stored by any electronic system without prior written permission. interests of what General Eisenhower of the funds and the position of the people Disclaimer While every reasonable effort is dubbed the “military industrial complex”. [mal]administering, that fund … [They taken to ensure the accuracy and sound- Robert Smit, a doctor of economics, had would have known about it.] ness of the contents of this publication, neither the authors nor the publisher will worked in the Treasury and been South “The so-called Defence Special Account bear any responsibility for the consequences Africa’s representative at the IMF for was established for the purchase of weap- of any actions based on information con- years, so was well acquainted with inter- ons abroad after the UN imposed an em- tained.