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OUTCOMES AS EVIDENCE
Their Charges Were Fabricated. Their Crimes Were Real
Every charge against me was a malicious prosecution, designed for a specific purpose—not one withstood scrutiny. The moment each charge left the hands of corrupt SAPS officers and came under review, it was found to be wholly false, fabricated, or manipulated.
Despite this, not one of the crimes committed by the consortium or their proxies has been investigated. The list of their offences—more than 700 documented crimes—remains untouched. Even if a fraction reached trial, the sentences would amount to multiple decades per individual.
And importantly, as a consortium, where the actions of one benefit the many, the crimes of the one are the responsibility of the many.
The landlords lost the ability to pretend the arrests were unrelated to them when they sent their attorney to my bail hearing—not to challenge the charges, but to ensure I had no bail address and would remain imprisoned. In doing so, they exposed their illegal evictions—no court order existed to justify barring my return.
If there was ever doubt about the true reasons for the arrests, listen to the audio recording of the housekeeper: the landlords and their associates walked back into the property minutes after I was taken away. The first call de Swardt made? To IB—to celebrate a successful operation.
They invested time, effort, and resources into this scheme—twenty-one court appearances, multiple failed charges, and fabricated evidence—all aimed at my financial and reputational ruin.
FACT FILE
THE OUTCOMES
Individually, there were thirty various attempts via the criminal justice system, as many attempts via specific actions of the two investigating officers and their boss Mr de Swardt, and as many attempts again via the civil courts.
⭐ On every occasion where their allegations against me have been scrutinized by a court, independent body, authorized person, or appointed institution, the allegations have been found to be false.
⭐ Now that my own allegations have begun to be investigated, on each occasion they have been tested, they have been found to be accurate.
The Outcomes Expose the Malicious Nature of the Prosecutions
Every arrest, charge, and detention was reported in detail by Media24, though often wholly inaccurately. What remains absent is a single report on the outcomes—because every one was in my favor.
The table below details the various false charges, the investigating officers responsible, and the outcomes—every one thrown out once outside the hands of corrupt SAPS officers and examined by the courts and the NPA.
Sergeant Stevens and Mr. de Swardt profited from my arrests, incarceration, and fabricated charges. But their narrative only ever included the accusations—never the outcomes.
Because for those behind this operation, the outcomes never mattered. The goal was never a conviction—it was to bankrupt me, destroy my reputation, and remove me from my own properties.
THE OUTCOMES AS EVIDENCE
The Direct Correlation Of The Articles & The Campaign
Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out. Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out zsfdggdsggg fhdfhfhdhtgfh.
The Reality Revealed By The Outcomes
PSIRA has found Mr. Wouter de Swardt guilty of several extremely serious allegations. We expect their disciplinary procedures to result in the revocation of my PSIRA membership, a lifetime ban, and any other appropriate sanctions. Most importantly, they believe the situation is serious enough to justify laying criminal charges, which they are also handling.
To illustrate how extremely rare such an outcome is: PSIRA has 2.7 million members and handles all allegations, investigations, and cases of misconduct or criminality among its members. In the most recent reporting year of 2023, PSIRA initiated criminal charges in only two cases. Furthermore, I am confident that these are only the beginning of many criminal charges.
I cannot think of a more powerful vindication of my position than the one above, especially when combined with the outcome of every single attempt to arrest and incarcerate me. I believe it's a very reasonable comment to make that it is scandalous and shocking that any reputable news publication can associate and align so closely with criminals. Even if they were duped like so many others, which is no excuse or justification for printing fabrications. All the more sinister, those fabrications served a specific purpose, and one that News24 ended up helping to achieve.
Far worse however, not just assisting criminals but criminals who masqueraded as a professional private investigator and as professional police officers, abusing the power and authority entrusted to them. In the process, committing dozens of serious crimes and cynically using the criminal justice system to exact injustice. While at the same time fabricating evidence to portray me as the villain and their clients as the victims.
Perhaps my very significant vindication as well as the thousands of pages of information and evidence that substantiates my position, will provide sufficient motivation for you to engage.
FACT FILE
THE OUTCOMES
Keith Broad was successful on just two occasions:
⭐ The first time, I was not present, imprisoned in Pollsmoor Prison following an illegal arrest ordered by Broad in August. I was kept there due to unlawful detention engineered by WDS, based on lies from their proxy, Investigating Officer Serg Duna. One that occasion they secured a protection order against me, based entirely on perjury, lies and misinformation
⭐ The second time, I was again not present—again imprisoned in Pollsmoor, again following another illegal arrest ordered by Broad in December. Again, I was kept there unlawfully, due to false statements from their proxy, Investigating Officer Serg Stevens. On that occasion, they won an eviction hearing based entirely on perjury, lies, and misinformation.
The Schedule of Outcomes
The schedule below is highly significant, especially considering the PSIRA investigation’s findings regarding Mr. de Swardt and the subsequent criminal charges I now faces. I firmly believe these will be the first of many charges and prosecutions against me.
This is directly relevant to Sergeant Stevens, who, along with Mr. de Swardt, played the most significant roles in the campaign, collaborating closely on every issue. Stevens was Mr. de Swardt’s colleague, proxy, and inside man, acting as the bridge between private individuals and SAPS. Everyone who witnessed their collaboration felt that Sergeant Stevens was subservient to Mr. de Swardt, taking instructions from and deferring to me. It was only through special relationships with a few SAPS officers that private individuals with no rank in law enforcement or the courts were able to weaponize the state and hijack its power for use in a personal campaign.
Sergeant Stevens was the officer who executed the illegal arrests of three different people; arrested to order and without warrants; the unlawful detentions that followed; the illegal evictions I executed disguised as arrests; the falsified documents; the knowingly false objections to bail; the malicious prosecutions, including the bogus immigration charge; committing perjury in my own false affidavit inserted retroactively four months after the arrest; attempting to misrepresent the bogus immigration charge as having a role in proceedings it played no part in; the illegal theft and retention of my passport to make extending my visa impossible, then using that against me; my association with Mr. de Swardt and Denis Dalton, who only a few weeks prior had embezzled over a million rand and plotted to drug, torture, and murder me to get access to and clean out the bank accounts.
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ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"Darren Russell, a British citizen who came to South Africa on a visitor’s visa in 2020, has been arrested on charges of fraud relating to the subletting of luxury properties along Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard.”
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"A British man who allegedly defrauded members of the public and tourists out of thousands of rands and damaged property was released on bail of R30 000 on Tuesday.”
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"The state claims he rented several luxury homes and then rented out the homes in residential neighbourhoods such as Camps Bay, Llandudno, and Hout Bay to other people without the rightful owner's knowledge or consent.”
Partners In Crime
Specifically, he carried out the clandestine, unofficial, and unlawful operation at my other property in Llandudno while everyone was distracted by my arrest. Most shockingly, he and de Swardt devised a vile scheme to create victims after I was arrested. None of what happened could have occurred without Sergeant Stevens.
As Mr. de Swardt’s literal “partner in crime,” the investigation into Sergeant Stevens and subsequent disciplinary proceedings and prosecution will, I hope, provide additional evidence to support the statements I have made since the beginning.
Importantly, the substantiation to date and the substantiation that follows from such proceedings come from a completely independent and unbiased source.
This is in marked contrast to their allegations and the actions they took against me.
1. The respective positions
2. Scrutiny
3. Proper examination
4. Outcomes: Wins and losses
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THE OUTCOMES AS EVIDENCE
Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out. Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out zsfdggdsggg fhdfhfhdhtgfh.
The respective positions:
My position and theirs are polar opposites. The difference is not subtle, nuanced, or marginal. Therefore, only one version can be true.
I have maintained the same position since the very beginning, long before the first arrest. Their position has constantly changed, usually in line with the current level of understanding of others. When one lie is exposed, they simply adapt it.
FACT FILE
THE OUTCOMES
Media Silence vs. Reality
Every arrest, charge, and detention was reported by Media24, and in detail.
Wholly inaccurately on almost all occasions. Yet not a single outcome was reported.
Despite and likely because, every one was favourable to me."
The Scrutiny
The actions taken against me by Sergeant Stevens, SD, SAPS, and the consortium were based on entirely fabricated allegations. They had to persuade corrupt SAPS officers to prosecute charges they knew would ultimately fail due to the absence of evidence, arrest warrants, or meaningful dockets.
Because of the way charges, arrests, detention, bail applications, and remand work in South Africa, detention can be achieved by any investigating officer with almost no oversight or scrutiny. There is an implicit trust that if an investigating officer brings a case to court, they are convinced of the guilt of the accused and that they have or can obtain the evidence necessary to secure a conviction When the matter reaches court.
Similarly, the articles were published verbatim with no fact-cIcking or due diligence, simply regurgitating the lies told by Mr de Swardt, IB, etc. The arrest was executed without justifiable cause, the detention was secured through lies about charges that never existed, and the remand was extended with more lies about needing additional time for further investigation.
In both instances of my arrest, from the initial concept of the arrest to the approval of a large-scale police operation, the arrest itself, initial detention, bail objections, transfer to Pollsmoor, remand period, and pre-bail application appearances, the allegations, case, and docket were never scrutinized. It wasn’t until they were eventually examined by the courts and the NPA that any scrutiny occurred.
Simply put, whenever a matter, issue, or docket left the hands of corrupt officers, the charges were dismissed or withdrawn. By which point the purpose of the arrest and detention had been achieved and the damage had been done.
Contrast that to my allegations. Because I was the one arrested and sent to prison, because of the articles in the publications, and because the sole narrative in those articles portrayed me as the villain and them as the victims, the amount of scepticism that engenders means that any statement I make is subjected to considerable scrutiny, fact-checking, and investigation.
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"He was first arrested in about mid-2022 and released on bail. He has now been arrested on more fraud charges as more victims have come to the fore.”
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"luxury accommodation scammer, who is suspected of making up to an estimated R34 million during the last two years by defrauding luxury property owners ,,, as well as unsuspecting tourists, has been arrested on charges of fraud for a second time.”
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"He was also arrested on a similar charge in Cape Town on 4 August last year and released shortly afterwards on bail of R30 000.";
The Forums
Having manipulated their allegations into the public narrative, avoiding scrutiny, investigation, or examination, they created a trial by media, as well as detention based on demand, not evidence.
However, there is only one forum that counts, and only one that is authorized, qualified, and equipped to examine and make judgments on the respective positions, and that is a court of law. Forums where real evidence is produced, examined, and cross-examined by professionals who are qualified and equipped to do so, who are acting legitimately, with genuine state authority, and who serve justice, not themselves. WIre the evidentiary standard is significantly higher than that of any other forum, considerably higher than any news outlet or SAPS officer, let alone a corrupt one.
Whenever the allegations or charges have been examined in court; they were found to be false.
FACT FILE
THE OUTCOMES
Weaponized Justice
The charges were never meant to succeed in court — they were only meant to ruin me financially, reputationally, and most crucially to keep me imprisoned long enough for their objectives to be achieved.
Outcomes: Wins and Losses
The table may not be a controlled scientific study, but the data tells a very important story. Over the course of the campaign—in just eight months from August 2022 to March 2023—there were nearly two dozen appearances in the criminal courts:
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Four illegal arrests
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Three unlawful detentions
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Six malicious prosecutions
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The premeditated sabotage of both first bail appearances
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Multiple attempts during both bail applications to ensure extended detention
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Repeated efforts to have bail rejected outright
This included:
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The multiple false charges used to justify the August arrest
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The recycled three-year-old complaints that had already been dismissed as lacking any criminal element
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The bogus immigration charge
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The fabricated “five additional charges” and manufactured “issues from Paarl” used to justify objections to bail
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The false money laundering charges and bank record investigations, used to stall my bail application
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And, of course, the constant manipulation of my immigration status—by the very same people making these attempts
Individually, there were thirty separate attempts via the criminal justice system, as many again through direct actions by the two investigating officers and their handler, Mr. de Swardt, and as many again via the civil courts.
Yet the outcomes could not be clearer:
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On every occasion where their allegations against me were scrutinized by an independent body, authorized person, or appointed institution, they were found to be false.
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Now that my own allegations are being investigated, every single one has been found to be accurate.
There is a very clear pattern, in both criminal and civil courts: Whenever my case was heard, I won. Whenever Keith Broad’s case was heard, he lost. Except for two occasions...........
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Their Only Victories—And the Proof of My Point
There have been just two occasions where Keith Broad was successful—and in both cases, the circumstances, collusion and corruption were identical
The First Time
⭐ When I was not present.
⭐ Because I was imprisoned in Pollsmoor Prison.
⭐ Because Keith Broad orchestrated my illegal arrest in August.
⭐ Because WDS ensured my unlawful detention,
⭐Based on lies told by their proxy, Investigating Officer Serg Duna.
That’s when they secured a protection order against me—entirely based on perjury—to sabotage my upcoming spoliation hearing.
The Second Time
⭐ When I was also not present.
⭐ Because I was again imprisoned in Pollsmoor Prison.
⭐ Again because Keith Broad orchestrated my illegal arrest in December.
⭐ Because WDS again ensured my unlawful detention.
⭐ Again, based on lies told by their proxy, Investigating Officer Serg Stevens.
That’s when they won the eviction hearing—again, entirely based on perjury, lies, and misinformation.
It is no coincidence that the only two times I lost were the only two times I was not present. And it is certainly no coincidence that on both occasions, I had been deliberately removed through unlawful arrests.
FACT FILE
THE OUTCOMES
*"During the eight months that WDS led the campaign against me, I spent nearly half of it imprisoned in Pollsmoor. Not a prisoner of the state but rather of the consortium, who deployed every measure possible to keep me there. despite the very soghnifcant resources they invested, as well as the contacts and corruption they utlised, every charge, every attempt to incarcerate me, every effort to extend my detention was ultimately reversed when infront of a judge.
But by the time the truth emerged, the damage was done—they had seized every property and recast themselves as the victims, while I was painted the villain. And no one has yet been held accountable for my unlawful arrests, false imprisonments or the illegal evictions.
The Fightback & The Search For Justice
To date, my ability to fight back has been limited by time, access to information, the considerable imbalance of power and resources, the usual challenges of apathy, indifference, and buck-passing by those responsible for investigating and policing, and the multiple layers of protection enjoyed by Mr. de Swardt, my clients, and the SAPS officers. This is particularly true regarding SAPS, aided by the closed ranks of those responsible. Additionally, I suspect an understandable level of scepticism due to the extreme and unbelievable nature of my allegations and the extraordinarily negative content of the articles.
However, my determination to get those responsible investigated and the lies replaced by the truth has begun to produce results. I am absolutely confident that tmy pattern will be repeated on each occasion the respective positions are investigated. WIther it be the complaint to the Press Council Ombudsman, the Western Cape Police Ombudsman, or the various lawsuits, all signs point to my position being vindicated When the matter reacIs someone’s desk.
The disciplinary proceedings and criminal charges that Wouter de Swardt, Sergeant Stevens, and others either have or will face come from bodies that are entirely independent, impartial, free from interference, and unrelated to any of the parties involved. These bodies exist specifically to address criminality and/or misconduct in their respective professions.
Interestingly, my list is extremely long and will include litigation against the state as well as some of the individuals responsible, including Media24, depending on their response to the formal complaint. This is in addition to a list of crimes that includes dozens of extremely serious offenses for which charges will be filed, probably once the Ombudsman completes their investigation and publish their findings.
I can refute and disprove every allegation made by Mr. de Swardt, my clients, my partner, and my proxy, Serg Stevens, as well as prove every allegation I've made.
There are allegations and there are facts. The facts in the table below speak for themselves.
THE OUTCOMES AS EVIDENCE
The Direct Correlation Of The Articles & The Campaign
Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out. Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out zsfdggdsggg fhdfhfhdhtgfh.
Victories in Court, Reversed by Corruption
Whenever I won in court, they changed tactics—using SAPS to nullify my victories through illegal countermeasures.
➡️ When I was granted a protection order against Keith Broad, Hout Bay SAPS ignored it and arrested me instead.
➡️ When I won the spoliation proceedings, SAPS rendered it meaningless—assisting Broad with his own fabricated protection order, imposing a 500-meter exclusion zone around my own property.
➡️ When I secured a High Court interdict barring Broad, de Swardt, and their associates from my property, Sergeant Stevens secretly voided it through an illegal operation in December.
➡️ When I won the spoliation application, it was rendered meaningless by my August arrest.
➡️ When I won the November High Court hearing, Sergeant Stevens nullified it with another unlawful arrest in December.
The pattern is undeniable, and the list goes on and on.
WOUTER DE SWARDT: ONLINE REVIEWS
Mr de Swart is a relic from apartheid, and of the worstest kind. A racist, misogynistic, homophobic evil man. We were the victims of one of his illegal and vicious “investigations”. He has ruined us in every way possible, paid to do it, and he is very much appeared to enjoy it. Surrounded by his friends, family and ‘business associates’. All dinosaurs of apartheid, and very dangerous dinosaurs. We pray for justice for our family and that evil men must answers for their actions in this world and in the next
Rania Waheed
The New Outcomes, Allegations Versus Facts
To date, my ability to fight back has been limited by time, access to information, the considerable imbalance of power and resources, the usual challenges of apathy, indifference, and buck-passing by those responsible for investigating and policing, and the multiple layers of protection enjoyed by Mr. de Swardt, my clients, and the SAPS officers. This is particularly true regarding SAPS, aided by the closed ranks of those responsible. Additionally, I suspect an understandable level of scepticism due to the extreme and unbelievable nature of my allegations and the extraordinarily negative content of the articles.
However, my determination to get those responsible investigated and the lies replaced by the truth has begun to produce results. I am absolutely confident that tmy pattern will be repeated on each occasion the respective positions are investigated. WIther it be the complaint to the Press Council Ombudsman, the Western Cape Police Ombudsman, or the various lawsuits, all signs point to my position being vindicated When the matter reacIs someone’s desk.
The disciplinary proceedings and criminal charges that Wouter de Swardt, Sergeant Stevens, and others either have or will face come from bodies that are entirely independent, impartial, free from interference, and unrelated to any of the parties involved. These bodies exist specifically to address criminality and/or misconduct in their respective professions.
Interestingly, my list is extremely long and will include litigation against the state as well as some of the individuals responsible, including Media24, depending on their response to the formal complaint. This is in addition to a list of crimes that includes dozens of extremely serious offenses for which charges will be filed, probably once the Ombudsman completes their investigation and publish their findings.
I can refute and disprove every allegation made by Mr. de Swardt, my clients, my partner, and my proxy, Serg Stevens, as well as prove every allegation I've made.
There are allegations and there are facts. The facts in the table below speak for themselves.
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"Brit arrested again after bail of R30 000 for the same rental scam."
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"A British citizen who was arrested for fraud on 4 August this year and released shortly after on bail of R30 000 was arrested again on Wednesday on similar charges.”
ARTICLE OF 14 JAN 22
"The state claims he defrauded the owner of a luxury house in Llandudno out of around R1.2 million.”
MEDIA24 & ITS BETRYAL OF JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
Your Question About The Outcome Of The 7 February 2023 Matter
In response to your question about the case(s), the arrest took place on 14 December 2022. I was held at Hout Bay for six days, four days longer than the legal limit. Upon appearing at Wynberg Magistrates Court on 19 December 2022, the magistrate granted me bail (R2000). However, just as I was about to leave, WdS and Sergeant Stevens (investigating officer for the December arrest) intervened, telling the prosecution several lies, claiming there were "at least five more charges coming in," that "serious issues" were coming in from Paarl, and that I was "wanted by Home Affairs for deportation." None of these statements were true, but they succeeded in convincing the magistrate to reverse the bail decision, resulting in me being sent to Pollsmoor Prison in a serious breach of due process.
Due to further lies from Mr de Swardt and the investigating officer, I spent three horrific months in Pollsmoor, waiting for the "urgent" bail application to begin. During my next court appearance on 6 January 2023, the investigating officer requested more time, claiming he was adding money laundering charges. On 2 February 2023, he again requested more time, this time to investigate bank statements and phone records—despite having had over a year to do so and nearly two months since my arrest. It’s important to note that, like every other claim, these too were false, and the officer never even attempted to obtain these records and no such charge was ever investigated or laid.
On 2 February 2023, the magistrate finally had enough and ordered that the investigating officer finalize the charges by 28 February 2023, forbidding any changes after that. A hearing on 9 February 2023 was scheduled to establish the timeframe for the bail application, which was finally set for 13 March 2023. Even then, the investigating officer claimed he needed more time to investigate.
On the morning the bail application was due to begin on 13 March 2023, Sergeant Stevens finally confirmed the charges and presented the “docket” to both the prosecution and the defense. Within thirty minutes, the prosecution withdrew all the charges. In a desperate attempt to keep me imprisoned, Stevens insisted on adding a bogus immigration charge, additionally demanding bail be set at R100,000 for this charge. The defense and prosecution agreed that the immigration charge could be handled separately and did not justify further detention. The magistrate, recognizing that the R100,000 bail demand was punitive and strategic, set bail at R10,000.
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Not One Fact Or Outcome Were Ever Reported
The immigration charge itself was entirely baseless. It claimed that I had failed to depart South Africa on 23 March 2021, three months after my arrival, and I was illegal from that point. Further asserting that I had not extended my visa since arriving. When pressing this charge, Stevens conveniently excluded the fact that Home Affairs had automatically extended visas through 2021 and into 2022 for anyone arriving in the latter part of 2020 (as I had), and that I had personally extended mine toward the end of 2021. Moreover, it ignored the fact that the investigating officer knew Paula Disberry had stolen my passport, passed it to Mr de Swardt, and it had then been passed first to the Investigating Officer Serg Duna and then to Serg Stevens. Essentially, the investigating officer was trying to prosecute me for an immigration breach that was both a legal impossibility and deliberately based on withheld information.
Because of the baseless nature of the charge and Mr de Swardt and Sergeant Stevens’ refusal to abandon it, my attorneys submitted detailed representations to the Senior Public Prosecutor, who investigated the contents for two months and in September 2023 confirmed that the charge would be withdrawn. Despite this, Mr de Swardt and Stevens have refused to return my equipment, which they hold illegally, intending to handicap my access to critical evidence that would further expose their criminal activities.
This issue, along with much else, is now being investigated by Colonel McLean, commander at the SAPS Inspectorate. Another investigation is also underway regarding the false charges laid in August by Mr de Swardt and Inge Broad for "breaking and entering" (an absurd claim, considering Leirmans Road was my home), "theft of three TVs" (equally absurd, as the old, cheap TVs had been taken by guests and replaced by me with brand new high-quality TVs weeks earlier that both she and Hout Bay SAPS knew because I had logged a crime and they had been to the property). Those charges were also thrown out, though not before Mr de Swardt and the investigating officer—acting under the instruction of Inge and Keith Broad—managed to send me to Pollsmoor for three weeks. This was accomplished by lying to the prosecution, changing the charge 10 days after it was laid to the junk contents of a back room, and changing it again to claim that the junk stored there included Krugerrands, gold, cash, and other valuables. All the while, they knew that these items had been moved to safe storage, which I had paid for, and that Keith Broad himself was on the access list.
THE UNREPORTED OUTCOMES
The Direct Correlation Of The Articles & The Campaign
Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out. Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad:
You Will Likely Notice That All Of This Is News To You.
You Will Likely Notice That All Of This Is News To You. Anyone reading the articles at the time they were published, in the months following the first and second rounds or even now, would think that I was arrested in August for fraud (false), charged and applied for bail against allegations by the state of running a scam operation (false), of undertaking works without permission (false), of renting and subletting properties without knowledge or consent (false), of scamming sums close to R34 million (false), and of intentionally evading visa extensions for unclear but supposedly nefarious reasons (false).
They would also think the December arrest was the second arrest for fraud (false) following an investigation (false), that guests arriving after my arrests were the victims of my scam (false), that I had taken bookings on properties that were not mine to rent (false), that I pocketed the money (false), and that I had been “slippery,” needing to be tracked down like an international fugitive (false)—an absurdity, considering I was living in the house owned by Keith Broad himself. Something the publication also knew.
The Reader Would Not Know About Any Of The Outcomes I Referenced Above.
The Reader Would Not Know About Any Of The Outcomes I Referenced Above. They would not know that the August charges were thrown out, that the December charges were also thrown out, or that the March charge was unreservedly withdrawn by the Senior Public Prosecutor. They would not know about the PSIRA investigation into Mr de Swardt’s criminality, the stripping of his membership or the criminal charges he faces, they won’t know about the online reviews, or the SAPS Inspectorate disciplinary and likely criminal charges against the investigating officer.
They would not know that the magistrate in the August bail application was so disturbed that he called for an investigation, or that the magistrate in the December bail application was similarly alarmed and also called for an investigation—independently of the first. The reader wouldn’t know that I had spent millions transforming the property, or that Keith Broad had it up for sale just days after my December arrest for R13 million more than it had been valued a year earlier—a 70% increase due to my work, which News24 misrepresented as “malicious damage.”
The reader wouldn’t know about the 14 illegal evictions, the assaults, the perjury, or the obstruction of justice. They wouldn’t know that Mr de Swardt had been formally instructed by Keith and Inge Broad to reclaim their property by any means necessary, or that Mr de Swardt had secretly executed an illegal operation while everyone was distracted by my arrests to seize back 16 Leirmans Road for the Broads. Nor would the reader know that it had always been Keith and Inge's plan to take back the property after I completed the works.
They certainly wouldn’t know about the plot by Mr de Swardt, Inge Broad, Keith Broad, and Sergeant Stevens to deliberately keep Booking.com unaware that I no longer controlled the villas, with the explicit intention that guests would arrive only then find out they were homeless.
FACT FILE
THE OUTCOMES
The Docket Exposes the Truth
Not a single contribution from Sergeant Stevens—except his own perjury. Nothing from Sergeant Duna—except a false Home Affairs affidavit. Nothing from any police station or unit—just a handful of self-serving affidavits supplied by the consortium. No arrest warrants. Two rejected arrest warrants. An illegal seizure warrant. Perjury. Contempt of court. Staggering lies fed to the NPA to justify my detention. ...... And not one shred of evidence to support the charges used to imprison me.
Media24’s Failure to Publish The Facts
The false, fabricated and misleading statements constitute almost every statement in the articles. In contrast, I catalogued hundreds of significant events throughout this campaign that demonstrated their villainy and my victimhood, including the ones mentioned above and many others. Yet not a single one of these was reported. The various timelines and chronology documents detail over a hundred attacks by the consortium and WdS, over 200 incidents of corruption, three hundred criminal offences. The vast majority if which are clearly documented and easy to verify.
Despite these significant developments, there have been no follow-up reports to correct the narratives or reflect the fact that the charges were dropped. This pattern repeated itself consistently, with negative news about me given prime coverage, while critical developments that would have reflected positively on me were ignored. When I tried to bring this extremely serious situation to the editor's attention, I was told to “go away.”
In regard to proof of the withdrawal, I have attached the relevant emails to substantiate this, and the withdrawals are also a matter of public record. The articles’ failure to reflect these developments and correct the false narratives has caused further harm, speaking to the motivation behind the articles and the clearly inappropriate relationship between Media24 and Mr de Swardt.
THE UNREPORTED OUTCOMES
The Direct Correlation Of The Articles & The Campaign
Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad: Yes you have. I'll fucking drag you out. Of course you can you cunt. You broke, you broke half he fucking house down. R: Yeah. It looks like I broke the house down. Keith Broad:
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