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/ 19 August 2005

Botma told to stay away

Grain SA’s beleaguered chairperson, Bully Botma, has escaped dismissal as a Maize Trust trustee — but has been barred from further meetings of the trust. This follows the disclosure that, under Botma’s care, more that R7-million of Maize Trust (used to promote farming) money was either misdirected by Grain SA or not spent.

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/ 15 July 2004

Land author’s dodgy degree

The right-wing author of the bestselling book <i>The Great South African Land Scandal</i> — which urges resistance to land reform, branding it "an assault on South African agriculture" — holds an Internet doctoral degree from an unaccredited United States university. In some states of the US it is a criminal offence to use degrees bestowed by Pacific Western University, author Philip du Toit’s alma mater.