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In 2016 I received a special recognition for blowing the whistle on human right violations from Blueprint for Free Speech. Here Is the award listed : Special recognition Whistleblower Aris Danikas At the same time, Johan Booysen, desperate to escape prosecution and in order to gain public support as well as interfere with judicial processes,…

International Media Network Aljazeera, made a documentary regarding the Cato Manor units atrocities committed, titled “Echoes of Apartheid“. I was interviewed by an investigative reporter and my evidence presented to them. Amnesty International appointed Advocate Julian Knight to legally represent my interests and advise me, so he tried to get further details from the NPA regarding…

Next Booysen went to court to have Jiba’s racketeering authorisations set aside. In March 2014 Judge Gorven ordered that the  racketeering charges must be withdrawn because the documents Jiba said she relied on, including my unsigned and unsworn statement, did not provide a rational basis for her decision to issue the authorizations. Judge Gorven said…

The second fake news campaign was run by a magazine called NoseWeek. Noseweek was tasked by Booysen to discredit the Sunday Times reporting on the Cato Manor unit, including all whistleblowers and witnesses that come forward to speak up about what they had witnessed. As always, I was never given a right of reply or interviewed for such articles published by…

An introduction exchange took place with the Sunday Times. However, prior to that, I had also received some emails from another newspaper journalist by the name of Yogas Nair from Daily News asking me to provide exclusive information about the Cato manor case. (20/02/2012) After consideration and knowing from past experience that Daily News was…

On June 5th, 2011, Booysen suddenly reached out to me with friendly emails. The first such email was titled “The SWAT Team” with an attachment of a photo of some members of the unit, including myself and Booysen, dated 2-4/5/2001, at a qualifying SWAT team training session. I found it alarming but replied with friendly emails…

In August 2010 coming back from a summer holiday, Shelley Ann felt sick and we first thought that she had food poisoning. After she was admitted to the hospital for tests, we were told that she was expecting our first child. Suddenly I was overwhelmed with an overjoy of  emotions and feelings that I never…

A few months later after I had settled into my new country of residence, I was willing to put it all behind me, but my heart was always in South Africa and the people I had left behind, and I wished for justice for the families of those who had been killed and tortured by…

In late September 2008, I was no longer a shareholder of my business, the store was closing for renovations over a long holiday and in complete secrecy a close friend of mine drove me to Johannesburg with my wife. He used his credit card to buy us one-way tickets to Greece and we departed for…

On the 22nd of August 2008 at around 13h00, I  received an HP notebook with TAG number: cnd6500jhy, for repair. The notebook was state of the art, and I identified the tag as a State issued laptop. Within the hard drive I discovered information that it belonged to the deputy minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba….