Plot thickens for enclave leader

no fear no favour no paedophiles will sleep at night..............


8 AUGUST 2017 * GARETH WILSON & ANGELA DANIELS HERALD LIVE

Jaqui Gradwell and his followers settled on a farm about 25km from Ladysmith – known as “the rock”.

The incarcerated leader of a whites-only, Orania-style settlement in the Klein Karoo, who was arrested two weeks ago, had ties to notorious paedophile Gert van Rooyen and his lover Joey Haarhoff, according to the son of the enclave’s head.

This emerged after a Weekend Post investigation into the shady past of Jaqui Gradwell, 56, who, along with a former wife, came into contact with the Van Rooyen and Haarhoff circle when they were much younger.

Van Rooyen and Haarhoff have recently been back in the news with investigators digging up a KwaZulu-Natal beach looking for clues about six missing girls dating back to the 1980s.

The police are also following up on leads on the possibility of a link between Gradwell and Van Rooyen.

Gradwell, the leader of the Eden Project, and girlfriend Etrezia “Trish ”Weber, 28, are still in custody after being arrested for allegedly being in possession of a stolen firearm and dagga. They are due to appear in the Ladysmith Magistrate’s Court again on Tuesday.

Gradwell – who has at least eight convictions, including for robbery and theft – changed his name from Johan Kobus Pretorius to Jaqui Gary Gradwell prior to 1994. He has been married at least six times and allegedly had an affair with his daughter-in-law.

Since his arrest, Gradwell has also become a suspect in an unrelated investigation by a specialist police unit in Oudtshoorn. Van Rooyen, who kidnapped and is believed to have killed six children between 1988 and 1989, shot and killed Haarhoff before turning the gun on himself as police closed in on them in January 1990.

Forensic investigators were recently hopeful that the answer to the Van Rooyen cold-case mystery – unsolved for nearly three decades – was buried beneath the sand at Blythedale Beach near Ballito. But they abandoned the search after finding nothing.

Gradwell’s son, Johan Ettiene Pretorius, told the Weekend Post there were several links between his father and mother and Van Rooyen and Haarhoff, stretching back to when his parents were in a foster home together as children.

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Carel Boshoff, President of the Orania Movement’s response to this article.  Click here for the original ruling.

The Editor The Herald Sir Is Orania a “whites-only town”? As implied by a report on your pages (Weekend Post, July 1) when mentioning us in association with some racially defined planned project in the Eastern Cape? From Orania’s point of view we are adamant enough to have taken up the issue, even with the PressOmbud of South Africa, as we do not  view and do not want to be  perceived in racial terms. As the Ombud did not rule in our favour based on a  substantive argument regarding the question  of perspective, we decided not to take up an appeal. Nonetheless, we view it of the utmost importance to ask how a person or community views itself and wants to  project itself. The metaphor of a circle and a sphere comes to mind: whether a sphere is perceived as a circle or a  rectangle depends on your point of view. It is obviously not impossible to look at Orania in racial terms and see a “whites-only town”  – except that this point of view wouldn’t reflect our self-conception. To understand our image of ourselves  would require another perspective, that of cultural  diversity, not in need of racial categories to be celebrated. Exactly this would be our appeal to the journalistic fraternity, as to the broad public: see Orania the way it is.  Even if you resist our preferred self-projection for being  too flat, do not replace it with your own flat projection.  See the sphere, it makes for a richer world. In other words: accept Orania, not as “whites-only town”, but as Afrikaner town – Afrikaner city of the future. CAREL BOSHOFF, ORANIA MOVEMENT PRESIDENT HERALD LIVE  COMMENTS BY SONNY MANY RATS ARE NOW JUMPING SHIP! OTHERS ARE BEING ARRESTED AS WE SPEAK. THE ROOT OF THIS INVESTIGATION STARTED IN JOHANNESBURG WHERE THE RENOWNED PAEDOPHILE  HOTEL QUARINALE WAS RUN BY ALEX KOUVARIS  AND HIS KNOWN GANGSTERS LURKED. THE HUB WAS LATER MOVED TO THE BREAKERS INN IN ABEL ROAD BEREA. THIS IS NOT MENTIONING ALL THE SEED HOTELS RUN BY THE GANGLAND MAFIA. EVIL BEGETS EVIL. WE HAVE A DUTY TO SOCIETY AND OUR CHILDREN TO EXPOSE THESE MONSTERS!