Cato Manor Organized Crime case – a travesty of justice and the abuse of state organs to prosecute the innocent and protect the corrupt.
Last week General Johan Booysen and more than two dozen detectives from the former Cato Manor Organized Crime unit appeared in court again, accused of running a “hit squad” and racketeering.
These men were first arrested in 2012, and two of them have since died due to stress-related illness, but Shaun “the Sheep” Abrahams have kept their names on the charge sheet. “the Sheep” is actually prosecuting 2 dead men.
The motive for General Booysen’s arrest was to remove him as the head of the Hawks in KZN because he was investigating large-scale corruption with tenders with the KZN SAPS involving Thoshan Panday.
Panday was involved in a fraudulent accommodation fraud with his contact in the KZN SAPS logistics department – Colonel Navin Madhoe.
Panday is also a business partner of Edward Zuma.
Madhoe tried to bribe General Booysen with R2 million to drop the investigation. General Booysen set up a legal sting operation and Madhoe was arrested placing the R2 million in the boot of general Booysen’s car.
Panday was proved involved in the bribery attempt.
This bribery case against Panday and Madhoe was dropped by the head of the NPA in KZN, advocate Moipone Noko, a Zuma783 loyalist.
When the bribery attempt was unsuccessful, Panday and Madhoe made another plan.
They planted a false story in the Sunday Times that the Cato Manor organized crime unit operated as a hit squad, with false information that they put together with the help of the Zuma783 loyalist Richard Mdluli, who was head of the SAPS Crime Intelligence at the time, a division long under the direct control of Zuma783.
A key player in drawing up these false allegations was Colonel Rajen Aiyer. Aiyer was actually the head of the Cato Manor organized crime unit, but strangely enough, he was never arrested, just all the men under his command.
Aiyer had his own motives for helping Panday and Madhoe. He hated General Johan Booysen because General Booysen investigated Aiyer on an internal disciplinary matter.
A magistrate has since ordered an investigation into Aiyer because he falsified evidence in an unrelated matter. This investigation into Aiyer has never materialised because he was protected up until now by General Mmamonye Ngobeni, another Zuma783 loyalist.
The Sunday Times bought up this concocted story and published it in the most sensationalist of ways.
Shortly after the Sunday Times published this FAKE NEWS story, General Booysen and the Cato Manor detectives were arrested at their homes in front of their families and spent a night in jail.
Today this case was postponed again to 29 September 2017, and the lives of the Cato Manor detectives remain in limbo.
IF THE STATE HAD A CASE, THEY WOULD HAVE STARTED A LONG TIME AGO.
Here is my list of the REAL perbs in this case.
1 – The Sunday Times.
2 – Ray Hartley – the Sunday Times editor at the time.
3 – The Sunday Times “investigative team ” who wrote the fake news – Stefan Hofstatter, Rob Rose, Mzilikazi wa Afrika [ not his real name ] and Piet Rampedi.
4 – Thoshan Panday.
5 – Colonel Navin Madhoe.
6 – Colonel Rajen Aiyer.
7 – Richard Mdluli.
Opinion Piece by Daniel Sutherland
South Africa Today – South Africa News
