Word: mulder
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...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 Relations Cornelius P. Mulder, 53, who had been considered a leading candidate to become Prime Minister some...
...alleged misdeeds center on a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund operated by the Department of Information when Mulder was Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. According to Mostert's report, some of the funds, intended for a covert campaign to secure favorable coverage for South African policies in the foreign and domestic press, were diverted to dubious business ventures and the personal pleasures of departmental officials. The main schemers were identified as the brothers Eschel and Deneys Rhoodie, who until a few months ago served as Secretary and Deputy Secretary, respectively...
...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...
That left the contest between P.W. and Cornelius Petrus ("Connie") Mulder, 53, another ideological conservative, a party power in the Transvaal province, and Minister of Plural Relations overseeing government affairs with nonwhites. Despite a still simmering scandal involving financial irregularities in the Information Department that was formerly under his ministry, Mulder scored 72 votes on the first ballot, against 78 for P.W. Botha. By prior agreement, Pik Botha gave the Defense Minister the winning majority by throwing his votes...
...contenders to replace Vorster include Pieter W. Botha, the hard-line defense minister; Connie Mulder, the conservative minister of plural relations (racial affairs); Labor Minister Fanie Botha and Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha. None of the three Bothas are related...