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NEWS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW R45 (inc VAT) 205 nosRW Johnson eweek on Zulu power NOVEMBER Impis will cling on in 2019 ANC’s Teflon Two 2016 How Lamborghini ex-cop and wife got off the hook Waste warfare 00205 A stinking shame 104042 771025 Wild Coast 9 Highway with high bridges to cross GETTIM! New Tshwane mayor tackles tender rats ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING POLITICAL STORIES OF OUR TIME Read about how the ANC tried to frame Helen Zille for spying and fraud – just as they are now trying to do to Pravin Gordhan. Read about what really happens behind the headlines in politics – the intrigue, the confl icts, the shifting allegiances. Read about a mother’s battle to balance her family and a pressured career in the cauldron of South African politics. As frank, honest and unfl inching as Helen Zille herself, this is a book for anyone interested in the story of South African politics over the past fi fty years. AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES AND ONLINE. 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The report – which include the car allowance, following growing public outrage at the dis- has been rotting on bureaucratic a high court decision. The letter went posal of toxic leachate into the shelves since it was made public in on to claim that the Group and Trus- sea off a Durban beach (noses199, 2013 – connected Mlaba to a multi- tees had acted in accordance with 200,203&204), reminded me of a simi- billion-rand waste-collection tender “good governance” and “the spirit of lar, unpublicised incident 15 years ago scam. For his shenanigans, Mlaba the rules of the Fund”. This outraged involving SA Breweries. was rewarded with a post in the UK David, because there had in fact been In around1999-2000 I witnessed as South Africa’s High Commissioner. a complete lack of transparency con- a meeting between Durban’s then- Mlaba was a South African Brewer- cerning the pension fund. mayor, Obed Mlaba, and some SA ies employee from 1987 to 1993, and He made enquiries of certain of his Breweries senior executives, including was still listed as a member of the old colleagues and learnt that the then- MD Norman Adami and Product board of the SA Breweries (Ltd) Trust new benefit was only applicable to Manager Stephen Park. They had ar- in a 2015 CV. members pensioned since 1996. ranged for truckloads of beer to be de- See noses34,86,178,179&195 for The proposal to discriminate livered for Mlaba’s daughter’s wedding more on beer-soaked Mlaba. – Ed. between existing and post-1996 reception, to which the entire commu- pensioners had been judged by the nity had been invited to win votes for Saddened by pension plunder Pension Funds Adjudicator as illegal, the ANC. The SAB men asked whether but Tongaat Hulett took the matter I WAS SADDENED TO READ IN NOSE199 enough beer had been delivered and that Tongaat Hulett Ltd had plun- to the high court and were successful the mayor gave a drunken thumbs-up. dered a R585-million surplus from on a legal technicality in getting the For the duration of Mlaba’s reign, the pension fund behind the pension- Adjudicator’s ruling set aside. SAB was allowed to pump their ers’ backs – so much so that I have The merits of the case were not ad- untreated effluent into a nearby river addressed the following open letter to dressed by the court. without interference from the council. the CEO, Steven Saunders, who my It would be interesting to know if husband and I knew well for half a Here follows June Clarkson’s letter: the untreated effluent is still leaking lifetime. into the sea via the river every day, My husband, David Clarkson, Open letter to Tongaat Hulett CEO and whether the tradition continues joined the Tongaat Sugar Company in DEAR STEVEN SAUNDERS, of donating a “truckload” of beer to 1959, was Chief Accountant and ulti- In 2001 David Clarkson, my husband, the mayor to cover up the misde- mately became Director of Marketing wrote to the Chairman of the Tongaat meanour. and Investments. For years David Hulett Pension Fund to express his J Zulu argued that the pensioners’ emolu- astonishment at the unjust action by Johannesburg ments should include their car allow- both the Group and the Trustees that Mayor from 1996 to 2011, Obed ance, but the then-MD kept refusing. was at odds with the philosophy of a Mlaba featured in the Manase report, In 2000 David received a circular group he had served for 34 years. 4 Obed Mlaba... Beer's power of persuasion He reminded the Trustees that which they contributed during their Jordaan made a big mistake the assets of the Pension Fund were long hard working careers.” subscribed to by the fund members Sadly David died in 2010. IT IS SURPRISING THAT MANY WERE and the Group, and that employees I, David’s widow June Clarkson, surprised by Danny Jordaan’s resig- had always placed their trust in the had always believed that living in nation as an “ordinary” councillor of Trustees to administer their funds Tongaat for 30 years with my chil- Nelson Mandela Bay. A man with an in an equitable manner and to resist dren, we belonged to one large family, independent outlook and self-respect any attempt to rifle their assets by a sharing each other’s joys and sor- would never have accepted being rapacious employer. rows. I was particularly fortunate to used in an attempt to swing the Col- David added that these views were have known and loved all your chil- oured vote from the DA to the ANC – shared by those who had advised dren. which was ultimately his mandate. him. Today my thoughts are shattered The ANC’s greatest independent “My concern was occasioned by the by knowing what Tongaat Hulett thinker was Kaizana “Oliver Regi- complete lack of transparency which Pension Fund has done to all the nald” Tambo. It seems most ANC has given rise to a lack of faith and loyal pensioners who believed they leaders today thrive on adulation/ a concern as to what other matters were giving their working years to populism and money/status/material- may be instituted in the future in a an honest employer, only to discover ism, and fail to question the basis of similar secretive fashion,” he wrote. that they've been cheated out of their popularity. “Please bear in mind that most em- Surplus Pension Funds. Shame on As Warren Buffett puts it: “Only ployees have to rely on the vigilance you Steven Saunders for letting this when the tide is low, do we see who and rectitude of Trustees to ensure happen. has been swimming naked.” their final years are funded by their June Clarkson Luyanda Kama full share of the Pension Fund to Terrigal, NSW, Australia Port Elizabeth Stent NOSEWEEK November 2016 5 C Editor Martin Welz [email protected] Shameless Special Correspondent Jack Lundin We are shameless, shameless corrupt supply chains? That’s how business Designer moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake is done, isn’t it? And Whitey Basson’s fabu- Tony Pinchuck lous Shoprite pay packet? “He deserves it.” Consultant OT THE WORDS OF THE SONG? WELL, that’s “That’s what executives at that level expect Len Ashton how they came up in my mind, sung to earn these days.” End of argument.

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