The South African History Archives Trust has scored a major victory in its six-year legal battle with the South African Reserve Bank over access to records
that may shed light into foreign exchange fraud, Eskom bonds and gold smuggling during apartheid years.
The book plans to deal with apartheid era procurement practices and public accountability. It will include analysis of abuses of the financial rand, corruption and foreign exchange transactions under apartheid. The request was for any evidence obtained by the bank into failure to comply with the law in terms of significant fraud , gold smuggling or smuggling of other precious metals from 1 January 1982 to 1 January 1995.
"As regards the remaining three persons, namely the late Brigadier Blaauw, Mr Robert Hill and Mr Vito Palazzolo, the request was refused," the judge said. "The decision to refuse access to the documents concerning Messrs Hill and Palazzolo thus lacks a valid legal basis." In the case of Blaauw, it was said that records concerning the company of which he was a director ‘[constitute] commercial information of the company".
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