| ANC se foute [boodskap #16522] |
Sun, 02 August 1998 00:00  |
Frikkie Potgieter
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THE BOOMERANG EXPLODES
THE enormous damage caused by the ANC-Communist alliance under the command
of its Western Cape leader, Ebrahim Rasool - through defamatory allegations
concerning the gaming industry and a number of public figures in the
province - has already started to boomerang against the ANC and to blow up
in its face.
It has thrown the whole alliance - saddled with a series of struggling,
incompetent Western Cape leaders ever since the scandal around Alan Boesak
erupted - into a crisis the final results of which cannot be foreseen.
The ANC - and Rasool in his official and his personal capacities - are
facing defamation claims of millions of rands. Litigation, which will
result from the whole debacle would seem to be a legal representative's
dream. On top of which, the affair will have international repercussions
due the globalisation of the gaming industry.
A further irony is that the ANC was part of the process whereby the
Western Cape received an autonomous Gaming Board which has to follow a
transparent process in awarding casino licenses. At the time Rasool himself
was a member of the Western Cape cabinet.
The ANC began backpedaling after Rasool, surrounded by a flock of
adjutants, made defamatory allegations at a media conference last week. The
supposed defamation was widely publicised before Rasool took fright and
withdrew his false accusation against Western Cape director-general, Dr
Niel Barnard.
Barnard, who regards Rasool's public apology as insufficient, is,
however, going ahead with his defamation action. Former premier Hernus
Kriel has indicated he is to lay a substantial claim for defamation; so are
other senior office bearers.
Whatever possessed the ANC and Rasool apparently has something to do
with feverish election politicking to win back its lost esteem in the
Western Cape. Also, the ANC is assiduously hunting people under beds
because it has itself been caught in one corruption scandal after another,
as revealed in Mpumalanga and by the Heath inquiries.
The Rasool clique's motives are, however, less important than the fact
that he has cast a stain on public life, one which will be erased with
difficulty. His false accusations against Barnard alone are of such a
nature that any politician with the slightest sense of honour would have
summarily resigned. He should disappear from public life.
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| Re: ANC se foute [boodskap #16567 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #16522] |
Tue, 04 August 1998 00:00  |
Jon Naude
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Frikkie Potgieter wrote:
> THE BOOMERANG EXPLODES
> THE enormous damage caused by the ANC-Communist alliance under the command
> of its Western Cape leader, Ebrahim Rasool - through defamatory allegations
> concerning the gaming industry and a number of public figures in the
> province - has already started to boomerang against the ANC and to blow up
> in its face.
> His false accusations against Barnard alone are of such a
> nature that any politician with the slightest sense of honour would have
> summarily resigned. He should disappear from public life.
Don't hold us in suspense man,
wat het hy gesê?
Jon
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