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Charles Engelhard was the leading American financial patron of the apartheid regime for over two decades and the record of his dealings in South Africa is well documented. among others, one can point to The New York Times, March 24, 1969, Dec. 24, 1969, The Star (Johannesburg), September 1970. Charles Engelhard parlayed an inheritance of $20 million into a $250 million fortune through his control of 15 per cent of the South African gold mining industry. South African gold miners earn on an average less than half the official South African poverty wage level and an average of three miners...
...probe of the operation of the slush fund during the time that Mulder served as Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions of dollars. To angry opposition members of Parliament, the judge's ouster amounted to an attempted cover-up of Pretoria's "Watergate." In protest, they refused to accept appointments to a special bipartisan investigative body. Indeed, there...
...rumors that other Cabinet ministers might be caught up in the scandal, there was growing speculation that the unsolved murders of a Nationalist candidate and his wife during last year's election campaign were also involved. Robert Smit and his wife Jeanne-Cora were discovered in their home near Johannesburg, fatally wounded by guns and knives. Bloody slogans had been scrawled across the walls of the house, apparently to disguise the killings as the work of terrorists or a religious cult. The Pretoria rumor mill now has it that Smit, a financier by profession, had uncovered evidence of irregularities...
...country's most respected jurists. Confirming earlier newspaper accounts of widespread abuses in the Department of Information, an agency formerly controlled by one of South Africa's most powerful politicians, Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert detailed alleged "improper application of taxpayers' money running into millions." Johannesburg's antigovernment Rand Daily Mail has dubbed the affair South Africa's "Watergate." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the judge's disclosures have shaken the six-week-old regime of Prune Minister Pieter W. Botha and could wreck the career of Minister of Plural...
...report, consisting of depositions from many of the principals involved in the scandal, focuses on a plan to undermine the Daily Mail and other opposition newspapers by secretly subsidizing a new, pro-government tabloid, the Johannesburg Citizen. In 1976, says the report, the department provided a fertilizer company directed by Businessman Louis Luyt, 46, with $15 million in government cash -a direct violation of treasury regula tions. In exchange, Luyt testified, he pledged as publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts...