Word: mostert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Afrikaners adjusted to the shock of Mulder's resignation, Prime Minister P.W. Botha struggled desperately to prevent the scandal from spreading. Botha publicly dismissed Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert. The jurist had conducted a one-man 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...
...shows. His saga of the battered, unyielding Carolyn is as heady as Francis Chichester's narrative, with a draught of Melville and a slosh of Josh Slocum. His choice of villain is a shrewd one. Leviathan is even more dangerous and ungovernable than any vessel described in Noël Mostert's Supership. Scott, who has published five previous novels, limns his driven people as stylishly as his boats. As for Peter Hardin, he will surely name his next sloop Ajaratu...
...Mostert's report suggests that the Rhoodie brothers lived very well at government expense. In one instance, the report says, they allocated $9,200 for a private box at Pretoria's rugby stadium, ostensibly for use as a secret meeting place; only the brothers and their families ever attended a game. Deneys Rhoodie, who racked up more than 200,000 miles in government-paid travel in one six-month period, was described as billing the department for a New York-to-Los Angeles flight for the purpose of "evaluating the services of a typist...
...Mostert's report does not touch on the alleged attempt to purchase the Washington Star. As described by the Daily Mail, the department in 1976 "loaned" $11.5 million from the slush fund to Michigan Publisher John P. McGoff, who is co-owner with Eschel Rhoodie and Mulder of a large farm in the Transvaal, to finance a $26.3 million offer for the paper. Joe Allbritton, the Texan who owned the newspaper from 1974 until he sold it to Time Inc. this year, denies that McGoff ever approached him. McGoff, whose Panax Corp. publishing company acknowledges bidding for the Star...
...Rhoodie has hinted that an unnamed three-man Cabinet committee supervised the operations of his department. Prime Minister Botha has appointed yet another investigating committee, which is supposed to report to parliament in three weeks. Even John Vorster's name has been mentioned in the scandal; Luyt told Mostert that he agreed to start the Citizen only because he was led to believe that Vorster had personally selected him for the job At one stage in the press inquiry into the scandal, a crusading editor received a message that allegedly came from the former Prime Minister himself. "Tell...