With all the juicy expose’s on offer, I’d been wondering what had happened to ace investigative journalist Jacques Pauw. We now know that like the late Barry Sergeant, he has opted to collate his research into a book rather than risk it getting lost in the daily noise.
Yesterday I received the publicist’s outline of Pauw’s fifth book, The President’s Keepers, under a mail headed “The biggest political expose’ to hit South Africa is finally here…” Quite a statement, but judging by extracts published yesterday, no exaggeration.
Among those fingered by Pauw is a fellow I came into contact with during my horse racing days, one Roy Moodley. His surprise rise to racing’s top table has been meteoric. Until now, known only as a “KZN businessman”, Moodley has well over a hundred horses in training, costing millions every month.
Last season, Moodley came 8th on SA’s leading owner’s table, with 53 winners from 661 runners. That puts him in the company of the likes of Markus Jooste, Sheikh Hamdan, Mrs Hasso Plattner and the Oppenheimers. Racing insiders have long speculated where his fortune came from. Thanks to Pauw’s book, they need wonder no longer.
