OFFICIAL CONDUCT - A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

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  • MS ASTRID LUDIN
  • The Commissioner: Companies Intellectual Commission
  • PERSONAL
  • 18 July 2015
  • Dear Astrid
  • OFFICIAL CONDUCT - A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
  • REGISTRATION NUMBER 2001/019108/08
  • I am addressing you specifically, because, in December 2003 you were appointed to the National Lotteries Board (NLB). You were appointed The Commissioner for Companies Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) in March 2011.
  • Of all those who are addressed in this letter, you are unique in the sense that you were directly involved at all relevant times in the matter of Registration Number: 2001/019108/08. Moreover your position of high office in both organisations makes you uniquely qualified to fully understand the issues that are raised in this letter.
  • We could just as easily have addressed this letter to (Minister) Rob Davies, your political head in government following ANC acceptance of the transfer of political power from the White Supremacist regime in 1994. As political head of both organs of state, including the Gauteng Gambling Board (GGB), Davies has a keen understanding of the issues.
  • The first appendix to this letter, especially because you are so intimately involved, is self-explanatory. It is marked “JUDICIARY 1” In short, it is confirmation that very shortly, I will be serving a three month term of imprisonment, as per the judgment of Acting Justice Keightley in Case Number: 37609/2014 GLD JHB.
  • “The applicant has submitted that the threat of a 3-month period of imprisonment is appropriate in this case to meet this objective. I agree with this submission.” 2
  • The acting judge, in this instance, is referring to the applicant who, according to you, as head of CIPC, is legally incorporated under the name: The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8 Words).
  • The court that sentenced me relied on your official information which, as you know, further stated that the applicant has the Registration Number: 2001/019108/08. You also told the court that The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8Words) was incorporated on 14 August 2001. The applicant filed your official information, and the court, trusting that information - sentenced me to 3 months in prison.
  • Over the past 13 years of litigation, I have told more judges than I care to remember that the Registrar of Companies, under a government led by the ANC (once they got found out) had publicly confessed to wholesale internal fraud and corruption. I told many judges, that The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park, as a matter of law, could not possibly have been incorporated while my registered trade mark The Apartheid Museum® was of full force and effect on the Register of Trademarks. If legislation does not allow it, only fraud, makes it possible, I insisted. No legitimate court can change that.
  • Denied my liberty, time in prison, you will appreciate, is very personal Astrid. Having engaged with your office as extensively as we did, I share now, for your personal account, the consequence of your official conduct. There is, for all us, a personal burden, we must account for, outside of malfeasant police and courts. In a constitutional democracy, community and family have as much right to the facts as all organs of state.
  • This fact, coupled with the sentient nature of human beings, urges me to share our personal experience of incarceration with you. It has always been personal for me and my family. Three months, especially in a jail controlled by the African National Congress, just takes it all to that other level. It is now a part of your family. 3
  • As a family, our prison actually started years ago, when Charlotte Bauer, a White journalist, of the Sunday Times, published the Gold Reef City Casino Press Release.
  • “The Apartheid Museum project was conceived four years ago by business tycoon twins Solly and Abe Krok, as a carrot to be dangled before the Gambling Board in the hope of securing a gambling licence for the Gold Reef City Casino” (Sunday Times, 02 December 2001)
  • Astrid, your official involvement in our personal experience of prison is interwoven with the official knowledge and conduct of others listed on the page below marked: PRISON IS PERSONAL. You are just the most unique thread for the narrative at this final stage.
  • I am accepting prison as a personal consequence of my official refusal to apologise to, among others, George Bizos. In the same breadth, under oath, I stated: The South African Judiciary, post 1994, is a cesspool of racist malfeasance. I have not apologised for that either. My views come after 13 years in litigation: power, not justice, is a cardinal pillar of racism. I must, as a result, bear the consequence of my conduct.
  • THE BURDEN OF OUR SHARED HUMAN EXPERIENCE
  • In the lengthy engagement with your CIPC office, evidenced by substantial documentation, I was investigating the authenticity of the incorporation credentials of The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park. (8 words)
  • Attached as “RACISM 2” are five pages of the Application for Funding submitted to you at the National Lotteries Board (NLB) on 24 November 2004. Clearly the registration number 2001/019108/08 belongs to SA Apartheid Museum (3Words) 4
  • Never once, in all that interaction did Astrid of the NLB OR Astrid of the CIPC make mention of SA Apartheid Museum (3 Words).The independent referees are Richard Moloko, George Bizos and Reuel Khoza
  • Astrid; you, Rob Davies and others include ed in this letter know full well that I have personal experience of how strict the NLB, under an ANC led government, applies the rules to Black people who apply for lottery funds donated by the people of South Africa.
  • “Please note that the three (3) referees (Section D of FORM 2010/1) must be independent of the organisation and not related to each other i.e. they should not be employees or members of the management committee or independent auditors or accountants who provide services to the organisation.”
  • On or about 07 May 2012, only after the intervention of the Public Protector, you eventually generated documents to substantiate for the court, an entirely different, and yet, official position whereby you stated that George Bizos, Richard Moloko and John Kani, are in fact Directors of The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8 Words)
  • Many serious questions arise out of these contradictions. South Africa, for example, may want to know why their donations to the national lottery, were ploughed into an edifice that is, in terms of the Gambling ACT, the financial responsibility of the owners of Gold Reef City Casino. Davies (ANC) is also responsible for the Gambling ACT.
  • For our discussion, the first question concerns the NLB and the Distribution Agency with Prins Nevhutalu as Chairperson. The Distribution Agency is assisted by your NLB staff, with Joe Foster as Chairperson. On my experience with your CEO, Vivek Ram, he would never have missed the fact that George Bizos, Richard Moloko and John Kani are Directors of the “company” that has the registration number 2001/019108/08. 5
  • According to the NLB check list, signed off by Christopher Till, the NLB had received all the incorporation documents. Line 59 of the 2006 Annual Report of the NLB shows that the Distribution Agency (Arts Culture Environment and National Heritage), in 2004, under Chairperson Prins Nevhutalu, awarded the Gold Reef City Casino edifice a grant in aid in the amount of R1.58 Million based on the Registration Number 2001/019108/08.
  • As Commissioner of the CIPC, the documents you generated clearly show Richard Moloko as a Founding Director on 14 August 2001 and George Bizos and John Kani, as Directors on 15 August 2001.
  • On 01 November 2002, Till with Moloko, told Judge Southwood, and every other court since, that they were Directors of The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8 Words) Slipping past Southwood J, as a LEGAL PERSON under registration number: 2001/019108/08 was very easy. (Southwood J, before he was elevated to the bench was legal counsel for the Kroks.) He expunged my trade mark The Apartheid Museum®
  • Through our extensive interaction, you know of course that at all times, our work in The Apartheid Museum, continues under the programme: Toward a cognitive understanding of racism and the inherited pathology of the slave. It is against this background that we seize every moment to enlighten, educate and inform community on the context in which the conduct of both the racist and the slave work to maintain systemic and institutionalised racism, even in the courts, where it matters most.
  • A SYNOPSIS ON RACISM AND THE SLAVE: The savagery that undergirds racism originates among Europeans as an acquisitive group, intent on the dispossession of Black property. It is unnecessary to cover that history in great detail as it is evident in the everyday appearance and experience of life in South Africa - post 1994. 6
  • As an indicator of how underdeveloped they were, it is worth noting that Europeans made a deliberate choice to separate themselves from humanity. Where humanity works for the common good of all, underdeveloped Europeans, given their infantile perspective, obstructed our progress. They pillaged on the notion that the planet Earth exists only for the benefit of those who appear as White. In the words of a great revolutionary, Malcolm X, in a general sense, they have blue eyes, blond hair and light skin.
  • They were barbaric and brutal in their quest. Globally, large scale slavery and genocide; their instruments of fear ruptured humanity. In childlike exhilaration they cut through indigenous culture, belief and the development of humanity. The advanced elements of human progress that they encountered for the first time became the intellectual property that they took back to Europe and fraudulently marketed as their own.
  • The lasting impact on the indigenous dispossessed in South Africa forms a central part of this discussion, because these facts are particular to the 400 odd years, since White people landed on the shores of the Afrikan continent. On other parts of the continent, the history of struggle waged by the indigenous dispossessed held out hope for reparation; the reclamation of our true personality, the return of stolen property and our humane progress which was stymied by the illegal settlement of Europeans in Afrika.
  • In South Africa, very many years after the fact, we are told that the transfer of political power to the ANC originated in clandestine meetings with the White Supremacist community in prisons and other secret venues.
  • In the context of a struggle against colonial apartheid racism, the entire country was, at the time, under siege; a veritable prison of the indigenous dispossessed. The choice of engagement with the ANC, to the exclusion of all others, forms a critical strand to the development of this thesis on the relationship between the master and the slave. 7
  • Many other examples demonstrate the point, but, the factual matrix of The Apartheid Museum case has unique features which add to a growing body of literature which shows how assimilationists ingratiate themselves rather than confront the savagery of racism. It is in this process that, together, they foster systemic and institutionalised racism.
  • J. C. Myers is Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University. His book is titled INDIRECT RULE IN SOUTH AFRICA – Tradition, Modernity and the Costuming of Political Power. Michael MacDonald of Williams College writes a review that paints a compelling picture of life in South Africa after the White community, in these clandestine meetings, made arrangements with the African National Congress.
  • “ . . . the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries -- has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages. A re-examination of the history of indirect rule in South Africa reveals it to have been much more: an ideological strategy designed to win legitimacy for colonial officials. Indirect rule became the basic template from which segregation and apartheid emerged during the twentieth century and set the stage for a post-apartheid debate over African political identity and "traditional authority” that continues to shape South African politics today. Myers develops a ground-breaking understanding of the ways in which leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power.
  • Myers shows why indirect rule developed in South Africa, why it was absorbed by white supremacy, and why it influences South African politics to this day. Theoretically sophisticated, Indirect Rule identifies and explains the central contradiction between the ANC's traditionalist and progressive agendas. 8
  • Very brief, but sufficient, this then is just one academically researched context in which we examine your role as a White female official, working under Rob Davies, a White male official, in a government led by the African National Congress.
  • In your official role Astrid, both you and your Deputy Commissioner, Advocate Rory Voller – a non-white male – who was with you at CIPRO/CIPC in 2001, also told the court that a White male, Steven Joffe is a Director of The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8Words). Steven is the son of Judge Meyer Joffe, who, as you may know, sentenced National Police Commissioner, the late Jackie Selebi to 15 years in prison for fraud, racketeering and money laundering.
  • Joffe himself has never denied that he is a Director of The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8words). What is irregular though is what Joffe as the CEO of Gold Reef Resorts Ltd, the JSE listed company, told his shareholders. Arthur Aaron, qualified in company law (Werksmans Attorneys) is also a director of Gold Reef Resorts.
  • “The South African Apartheid Museum (5Words) is a Section 21 company which operates the museum adjacent to the Theme Park. The South African Apartheid Museum was developed by Akani Egoli as one of its casino licence conditions. Akani Egoli contributes a fixed monthly fee to fund the operational expenses of the museum.”
  • The Gauteng Gambling Board (GGB) will be able to confirm that Reuel Khoza is, at all times relevant, Chairman of Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd. Joffe was also a Director of Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd, while Khoza was, in turn, also a director of Gold Reef Resorts Limited.
  • The four pages of the appendix marked “RACISM 3” will prove very helpful for Nevhutalu. This document, dated 11 September 2003, like the Christopher Till “application for funding” shows John Kani as Chairman. 9
  • However, more significant is the detail of this internal meeting. “The Section 21 Company” (not mentioned by name) was DISSOLVED on that 11th day in September 2003. There is no mention of this dissolved board in the application for funding submitted by Christopher Till, even though John Kani and Rowayda Davy are present on both occasions. Astrid, you never mentioned this to the NLB, nor did you mention this to the court.
  • Mindful of the rules and regulations on INDEPENDENT referees, the NGO community that struggles to secure funding from the NLB will be surprised to see that Christopher Till, John Kani and Rowayda Davy, audaciously so, list Reuel Khoza as Chairman of ESKOM, rather than, for the (legal) requirement of transparency, as the person who bound George Bizos and all the others to Registration Number: 2001/019108/08.
  • “It was agreed that a selection from the applicants be made by the Chairman John Kani and the Chairman of Akani Egoli. John Kani to discuss with Reuel Khoza.
  • Astrid, the astute reader of “RACISM 3” will notice the huge fuss about Joffe and Moloko, not being invited to the meeting. To date, no judge has questioned why, there is no mention whatsoever of George Bizos in a Directors meeting. .
  • Astrid, you must agree that, given the silence that is Rob Davies (ANC) you are uniquely positioned as the person to answer all these questions around Registration Number 2001/019108/08. In the mix of untruths, contradictions, omissions and nuances, Reuel Khoza, who signed the Gold Reef City Casino bid documents, should be the first to tell you that Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd promised the GGB a project called FREEDOM PARK.
  • Reuel, as Chairman, may also explain that the lawsuit for infringement of my registered trademark The Apartheid Museum® was brought against Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd - the holder of the Gold Reef City Casino Licence. I took my cue from the White journalist, Charlotte 10
  • Bauer and the Sunday Times, when I launched my infringement suit against Gold Reef City Casino, so, there had to be an explanation for that. This is how Akani Egoli, with Khoza as Chairman, explained it to Judge Brian Southwood and every other judge since.
  • “The idea of “The Apartheid Museum” was conceived long ago and its original name was “The Park of Freedom”. (Other official documents state: Freedom Park)
  • A diligent community, unlike police and judges, can, on their own, interrogate how a “company” incorporated with 3Words was reinvented to become a company with 8Words. The words “at Freedom Park”, were a necessary appendage to be reconciled with the bid documents at the GGB. Jacques Booysen as CEO and his GGB played along with “at Freedom Park.” Astrid under Rob Davies, led CIPC staff: Asogaren Chetty, Lana van Zyl, Douglas Mokaba, Flip Dwinger and Rory Voller, to play fraud with “at Freedom Park”
  • The South African Revenue Services (SARS) is the ultimate authority for the collection of taxes. The two page appendix “RACISM 4” according to SARS shows: “Particulars of the LEGAL PERSON” = SA Apartheid Museum (3Words) SARS information is reconciled from your records Astrid. (Note the Registration No. 2001/019108/08)
  • Astrid, why did you tell the courts that the LEGAL PERSON is The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8Words)? The statutory declarations show that both “companies” for reasons related to the events, refused the shortened form of name. You attached the UNIQUE Registration Number: 2001/019108/08 to two different “companies.”
  • Astrid, while I am in prison, my family will be thinking about you and Joe Foster and the NLB of November 2004. They are aware of my first-hand experience with the Distribution Agency under Nevhutalu. That was interrogation I am not likely to forget, when, as CEO of The Es’kia Institute, I went begging for financial support from the NLB. 11
  • “RACISM 4” reveals that CHN Kroese (Christian Hendrik Nicholaas) SA Abramowitch (Sidney Arnold) and S. Krok (Solomon) are the Senior Directors. Prins Nevhutalu, Nichola Danby, Edddie Mbalo, Razeena Wagiet, Pumla Madiba, Fundisile Mketeni, may explain why Christopher Till, is at the forefront of the application.
  • If Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd is to be trusted (and the courts, with your help, trust them enough to send me to prison) then, it must follow that the LEGAL PERSON with Registration Number 2001/019108/08 in November 2004 accessed public money fraudulently from the NLB, while you, Astrid Ludin, were a member of that Board and Vivek Ram was CEO.
  • According to Akani, under oath two years earlier, in November 2002, these are the facts:
  • “At the outset however, I wish to confirm that the organization that actually trades as The Apartheid Museum is an entirely separate entity, namely, a company registered in the terms of Section 21 of the Act, with effect from 14 August 2001 under number 2001/019108 under the name of The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park.” (8Words)
  • Akani Egoli (Pty) Ltd, still under oath, emphasised their certainty again, explaining it thus:
  • “…the initiators of the project were Messrs Solomon and Abraham Krok, who, apart from being the founders of my company, which trades as Gold Reef City and Casino were also the initiators of the Section 21 Company known as The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park.
  • Astrid, you and your crew, under Rob Davies, confirmed to the court that Edward Nathan & Friedland (Pty) Ltd, Friedland Hart & Partners Inc. and Knowles Husain Inc. were given Special Power of Attorney to incorporate The South African Apartheid Museum at Freedom Park (8Words). Lesego wa Lesego was an employee of Akani Egoli and he is 12
  • listed with Steven Joffe; Richard Moloko, Solomon Krok; Kim Feinberg; Christopher Till, Sidney Abramowitch (without ARNOLD) and “Christopher” Kroese. NONE of his three names is CHRISTOPHER. He is Christian Hendrik Nicholaas.
  • You have Lesego’s affidavit where, in clear language, he trashes that Power of Attorney Form as a fraud. Not even that moved Davies to admit the fraud. NOT ONE of the other “Directors” or the three law firms has challenged Lesego. At this point in time, not even the courts know who incorporated SA APARTHEID MUSEUM (3Words) Nevertheless it is a post 1994 judiciary that wants me imprisoned–in the public interest. Judiciary confirms that we’re ALL slaves, in surrender of our interest in the official conduct of a White woman.
  • Lesego told us a very different version about how FREEDOM PARK became THE APARTHEID MUSEUM. In an audio-visual recording, he tells us that Dan Mzizi, John Kani, “Christopher” Kroese and Richard Moloko, were in the room when Solly Krok, to the amazement of all present, stormed through the door:
  • “Drop everything that you’re doing. “Apartheid” He particularly said in his sentence; this is meant to be “THE APARTHEID MUSEUM. And further in the recording: “Ja, we’re all sitting there with our documentation and everything. So he stormed into the room. He said “Leave everything! Now this is going to be called THE APARTHEID MUSEUM”... We were working on FREEDOM PARK, and I was researching and calling people from all over, the Koi San and all of that...That was no APARTHEID MUSEUM. That thing came when we were sitting there and in fact, we were even debating and arguing with Solly to say: “Now you going to change it to Apartheid Museum and the pillars had already been built.” So it means we have to reconfigure the storyline. So if we reconfigure, but you can’t because it means you have to break this…” 13
  • Referring to Dan Mzizi, Lesego continues “Hey! He had a firebreath! He was giving Solly Krok a hard time. A hard time to expose them to the Gaming Board. Then the next thing he was killed in his driveway”.
  • Astrid, I have never ever heard of a Black person who, in 2001, could ini