Alec Hogg: 25m move to Telegram in last 72 hours
In 2004, my late colleague Barry Sargeant won the Taco Kuiper investigative journalism award for exposing a mini-Steinhoff called CS Holdings. What amazed us at the time was the vitriolic attacks from other media after we exposed CS chief Annette van der Laan's accounting shenanigans. Despite this support, she duly resigned two weeks after Sargent's story was published.
Among the supporters was the editor (now a PR, go figure) of a (now defunct) tech magazine flew into me for my "disrespectful" interview with Van der Laan, a CA, who published massaged interim profits to secure a higher price on a BEE deal. Beeld's tech writer also defended her, singing the praises of a high flyer whose awards included businesswoman of the year.
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