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Shaun Van Eck Breaks His Silence on What Happened at Knysna Tourism

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Knysna Tourism is set to continue crawling in the mud (deservedly so). Shaun van Eck, the ex-CEO, is challenging his dismissal and charging Greg Vogt, the current CEO, with defamation. The ragged relationship between Shaun van Eck and myself is well known to the greater public, in no small part because of this blog. However, it’s been a challenge keeping this story alive and pursuing justice so i’m pleased that van Eck has finally broken his silence. He gives new takkies to the controversy, hopefully enabling it, as my pending court cases will, to run out of the shadows into … ‘Click here to read full article…’

The Immaculate Conception of Greg Vogt (Part 1)

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The NSPCA has confirmed that Greg Vogt, the new CEO of Knysna Tourism (KT), has been charged for his alleged role in elephant abuse at Knysna Elephant Park (KEP) during his 7-year tenure as manager. His selection as CEO is controversial and i have previously stated my belief that this was in order to continue the cover-up of the financial disaster that befell Knysna Tourism and should have led to politicians and municipal staff being punished. Ironically, three of the alleged guilty, who were Board Directors with Vogt during that time period, comprised the panel that selected him out of … ‘Click here to read full article…’

Were Knysna Tourism’s Payments to Greg Vogt Legal?

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Greg Vogt will become CEO of Knysna Tourism on July 1 2014 despite clouds of questions hanging over him. I haven’t met a member of the public who can understand his appointment into such an important position. Only the politicians and Lauren Waring seem to be motivating their decision… and that is suspicious in itself considering their role in all that went wrong at Knysna Tourism. In the next blog about him i will show you how he was appointed and why it doesn’t add up. But let’s start with the suspicious payments paid to him by Knysna Tourism via … ‘Click here to read full article…’

Tourism Truth #6: ‘Minister’ Windy Alan Winde Has Failed Knysna

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The buck doesn’t stop with Alan Winde, the MEC for Tourism, but he’s likely, legally, to take the most flack for what has happened in Knysna. Emphasising Alan’s ironic position during Knysna Tourism’s financial disaster is that he was concurrently, the MEC for Economic Development. Even worse, since the 2014 General Election, he’s been given a third portfolio, that of Finance too! Does the addition of the latter now make it even harder for the public to get the truth about financial irregularities in Knysna? MEC is the acronym for ‘Member of the [Provincial] Executive Council’ but, in the Western … ‘Click here to read full article…’