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Article: Niehaus fraud: ANC knew all about it; Disgraced spokesperson stopped at nothing to secure loans and favours.(News)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2009
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BYLINE: Staff Reporters
Disgraced ANC spokesperson, former jailed ANC activist and post-1994 MP Carl Niehaus, who has confessed to committing serious fraud, stopped at nothing to fund an opulent lifestyle, |including making a false claim that his sister had died.
Yesterday as the Democratic Alliance called on the ANC to fire Niehaus and for the Gauteng government to charge him, when it emerged Niehaus lied to a law firm to get it to pay for a return business-class airticket for his ex-wife, Linda Thango.
After yesterday's damning expose in the Mail & Guardian in which he confessed to fraud, serious financial problems and a string of broken ...