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Payday in Tshwane NEWS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW R45 (inc VAT) 203 nosewe ek WESSEL EBERSOHN SEPTEMBER ON THE NEW BIGOTRY THE TEFLON CLUB WEALTH AND PATRONAGE IN DURBAN 2016 FORGET THE ANC – MOELETSI MBEKI ECHOES OF MURDER IN THE WINELANDS HOW SA POLITICIANS SOLD OUT TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH CALLING TELKOM: TILL HELL KOM FOR EXPOSING PROPERTY 00203 VALUATION RACKET THAT’S HAD 104042 PaydayULTRA-RICH SMILING in Tshwane FOR YEARS 771025 FATCATS AND 40,000 MIDDLEMEN 9 SKIM CREAM OFF MUNICIPAL DEALS Your favourite magazine is now ISSUE 203 • SEPTEMBER 2016 available on your iPad and PC Prince Buthelezi back on his KZN throne Page 12 FEATURES 4 Letters 8 Echoes of murder A R300 000 reward offered for the recovery of a 7 Editorial stolen Cartier fob watch stirs memories of hired 9 Notes killers and an offshore murder mystery & Updates AVAILABLE 10 The Tshwane Papers 38 Smalls Leaked documents reveal ANC patronage network ON YOUR of 50 000 scammers allowed to supply supermarket goods to the municipality at massively TABLET inflated prices COLUMNS 15 SA’s smuggled ‘invisible’ exports 31 Opinion Just how much illicit gold (and platinum) is being Download your smuggled or ‘mis-invoiced’ out of South Africa? 32 Letter from digital edition today Umjindi 18 KZN’s Teflon Club both single issues and 34 Down & Out Willy Govender, owner of eValuations, – recently subscriptions available exposed by Noseweek for having massively 36 Books undervalued properties belonging to the rich and politically connected – is an esteemed member of PLUS never miss a copy – 37 Last Word the Club (Patron: J. Zuma) with back issues available to download and store 21 Taxing day for the wallet doctor Rare media spotlight on the dark arts employed to “pad” Ronald Bobroff’s fee bills DOWNLOAD YOUR DIGITAL EDITION AT 22 Who are the racists? www.noseweek.co.za Author Wessel Ebersohn on the new bigotry rules or % 021 686 0570 26 How to save South Africa Moeletsi Mbeki says we need to take dramatic action to avoid social and political chaos NOSEWEEK September 2016 3 Letters Shareholders to blame tion in the open market by a willing the Act, many owners would object seller to a willing buyer”. The Act also to paying the resulting higher rates YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT GOLD FIELDS clearly stipulates in clause 3(3)(a) in and appeal their municipal property and South Deep [All that glisters, Chapter 2 that “A rates policy must values. Municipal valuers would be nose202] is directed at the GFI execu- treat persons (entities) liable for constantly subjected to legal scrutiny tives and all the money they have rates equitably”. by top lawyers, spending endless earned while the South Deep mine There are far fewer commercial hours attending to such appeals and has been losing money. Agreed this properties in any municipal area facing potential humiliation, as was type of issue should be addressed, but than residential ones and it is un- Robert McLaren’s experience. the people that should be addressing derstandable that mass appraisal Maybe if the municipal rates tariff it are the shareholders (and, perhaps, techniques are applied when valuing for commercial properties was low- the employees who face retrenchment residential properties. However, there ered, the municipal valuers could be in the value destruction process). is no reason why a municipal valuer more inclined to value in terms of the Across South Africa we often see should not deal individually with requirements of the Act. As a mat- value destruction in companies while commercial property valuations by ter of interest, the Tshwane Metro the directors continue to be paid the tested conventional methods. commercial/business property rates handsomely. This will continue for as Also worrying, is that continued an- tariff applicable from 1 July 2016 is long as they know they can get away nual rates tariff increases, especially 0,03362 cents in the rand compared with it – and the shareholders are too for commercial properties in the with 0,018287 in the Johannesburg apathetic to do anything about it. Tshwane Metro, have resulted in mu- Metro. The ultimate blame lies with the nicipal valuers being reluctant to val- Gerrie Minnaar shareholders, who have the power ue them strictly in accordance with Principal Professional Valuer to remove executives who continu- the Act. This became apparent to me CRI Properties C.C ally lose money for them. Next time, not only from market information on License Partner of Engel & Völkers write: Gold Fields shareholders my own database but also when one Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd approve more value destruction for of the chief municipal valuers at the Ashlea Gardens, Pretoria fourth year in a row… Tshwane Metro told me he values low Shane Hunter to avoid trouble. From this I deduce The fact that Johannesburg’s rates tariff By email that, should commercial properties is a third of Tshwane’s does not appear be valued strictly in accordance with to have been any incentive to value high- Undervaluations under scrutiny value commercial properties in Johan- nesburg more accurately. AS A PROFESSIONAL VALUER I FOUND YOUR I note you exclude corruption as a pos- article “Valuation Scandal” (nose202) sible reason for the consistent failure by not only very interesting but also the politically well-connected contrac- extremely worrying. I am also a tor, eValuations, to value high-value principal estate agent specialising in properties belonging to the political elite, commercial property and have a com- the ultra rich or major corporations, prehensive database of commercial properly – or at all. properties throughout the Tshwane Gus If they are not taking backhanders Metro. for the favour, maybe, as you suggest, I specialise in commercial property they simply fear their entire system will valuations in the area and can con- not stand up to the legal scrutiny that firm that an alarmingly high number only the rich can afford – should they be of municipal values of commercial provoked. See update, page 22. – Ed. properties in the region are under- valued, if the required valuation n YOU REPORT THAT THE JOHANNESBURG criteria as prescribed in Chapter 5 of Rates Appeal Board has granted a the Municipal Property Rates Act No costs award against a Good Samari- 6 of 2004 (MPRA) are applied. Clause tan who uncovered falsely low prop- 46 (1) of Chapter 5 clearly stipulates erty valuations (nose202) prompts me that “Subject to any other applicable to ask: Is there not one lawyer who provisions of this Act (MPRA), the subscribes to Noseweek who will offer market value of a property is the to take, pro bono, this costs award amount the property would have on judicial review to seek to get it realised if sold on the date of valua- Ageing Cyclops reversed? 4 Robert McLaren... Undervaluations under scrutiny This will be a public service, ena- bling the objector to resume acting in the public interest. Keith Gottschalk Claremont Dozetas revisited PLEASE NOTE AND BE READILY ADVISED that both your reporter Alan Elsdon and Mr Jacob Dozetas are not telling the full and correct truth in relation to the allegations and contentions made about me in the article “De- stroyed by SARS” (nose201).Let me place the true and correct facts and circumstances on record: l I was working for Dozetas on a commission basis for one year. I never met the late Jackie Selebi nor did I ever speak to Selebi about Dozetas, as alleged or at all. l I never undertook any military training in Russia. In fact, I was studying in Russia for a short period “Would it be possible for you to totally exaggerate how much it will cost and of time. how long it will take, so we'll be pleasantly surprised at the end.” l Never in his lifetime did Selebi ever ask me for money. l Six months ago Elsdon emailed ity of untruths, incorrect statements other things that Noseweek and Els- a false and incorrect statement with and submissions. It would appear don say about me in the article are numerous untruths and incorrect that Elsdon and Dozetas have writ- correct and all my WhatsApp mes- facts and circumstances, he asked ten this article about me due to my sages to Dozetas are 100% true. me to sign, such that Dozetas would reluctance to agree to sign the state- I wish to categorically place on be able to obtain and extort money ment. record that I am a man of class, style, from SARS and from SAPS. [He said I am sorry for what happened stature and good and sound moral he wished to sue them for wrongful to Dozetas with SARS and SAPS. value. I will never sell my integrity, arrest and prosecution. – Ed.] However, I am not prepared to tell dignity and good name at all, whether l I refused to sign such a state- untruths and to testify about things for money, fame or otherwise. I have ment and continue to refuse to sign that are not correct in each and every an impeccable reputation in South same because it contains a multiplic- respect. Please be informed that the Africa and everybody will remember NOSEWEEK September 2016 5 Letters me for such a reputation. But in your response to Dozetas, it is Helkom I am sorry that my previous rela- noteworthy that you made no direct tionship with Dozetas turned sour, but reference to his request for written MAY I SUGGEST TO SIMON MILLIKEN (“HELL it had to happen for some mysterious confirmation of your alleged dealings to pay at Telkom,” Letters, nose202) reasons which are beyond my under- with Police Commissioner Selebi, but that he contacts Hello Peter (hellopeter.
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