THE TRUTH
SUID AFRIKA
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
OFFICIAL LAUNCH DATE: 15 AUGUST 2025
WEBSITE, SOCIAL MEDIA & CAMPAIGN
The launch page lays bare the sheer scale of what was done — a R100 million asset grab carried out by interlinked forces with impunity. It sets the stage for what follows: evidence-backed exposure of corruption, defamation, and systematic abuse of legal power for personal gain.
THE CONSORTIUM'S R100 MILLION CAMPAIGN OF CRIME & CORRUPTION
An innocent man's life destroyed. Evidence that the very foundation of law and accountability has collapsed in South Africa!
One Hundred Million Reasons
When asked why ostensibly law-abiding citizens would go to such extreme lengths—breaking countless laws, violating lease agreements they had signed, and acting in ways no decent human being ever would—my answer is simple: there are at least one hundred million reasons. That is the sum they stood to gain as a group by removing me.
The 300+ criminal offences they committed—illegal arrests, unlawful detentions, dozens of attempted evictions, perjury, theft, obstruction of justice, embezzlement, and even plans to drug, torture, and murder—were never about some imagined moral crusade. This was pure, unfiltered greed.
They took everything from me. Over one hundred million rand in revenue. My life savings. Millions of rands’ worth of personal possessions—artwork, furniture, jewellery. They destroyed my business, my purpose, and my reputation.
Worse, they stole years of my life. They thought nothing of illegally incarcerating me in one of the world’s most notorious prisons, purely to gain strategic advantage. They stole my passport, then stole its replacement—sabotaging my immigration status, then exploiting it as a weapon against me.
In doing so, most devastating of all, they robbed me of the one thing no one can replace: time with my mother. I was unable to leave. Unable to return. Stuck in a country where the police, courts, and media had all been corrupted.
They weaponised the state, SAPS, and the media to serve their financial interests. They twisted the narrative to present themselves as victims while casting me as the villain—manipulating public perception with astonishing ease.
By the time of building this website, their wealth, privilege, and corrupt connections—combined with South Africa’s systemic lack of oversight, accountability, and regulation—had allowed them to evade every consequence.
The Press Council has sat on my complaint for over two years. It has failed to act, failed to investigate, and failed to uphold the very code it exists to enforce. Despite the clear, serious, and repeated violations by Media24, nothing has been done. Media24 ignored every attempt I made to reach out. The Council ignored my complaint.
Their actions—brazen, deliberate, and unconscionable—continue to be rewarded. All at the cost of myself and countless others.
This website exists to correct the false public narrative created and spread by Wouter de Swardt, his clients the landlords, the corrupt officers within SAPS, and the publishers at Media24 who knowingly enabled them.
DEDICATION, ACKNOWLEDMENTS, THANK YOU'S & SITE NOTES
💔 DEDICATION: This website is dedicated to my mother — the most incredible mum in the world, and the most exceptional human being I have ever known. As a direct result of the malicious campaign against me, I have not seen her since late 2020. First came the travel restrictions of COVID-19, then the theft of my passport, followed by the sabotage of my immigration status, and the theft of my replacement passport. SAPS refused to return my original passport for over a year, and the replacement — my only valid travel document — has now been unlawfully withheld for more than two and a half years.
More than R100 million has been stolen from me — as well as my life savings, my jewellery collection, every personal possession I have ever owned. My business, my purpose, my home, my reptation. But by far the greatest loss has been the time stolen from me and my mother: four years of precious and priceless time together
Without her help, I would almost certainly still be in Pollsmoor Prison. It was a fight I was never meant to win: myself and a legal aid attorney, up against a wealthy, connected consortium with their chosen enforcer, WDS — a man willing to bend or break any law to get what they wanted. They had influence across SAPS, Home Affairs, and the justice system. I had a single investigating officer more than willing to delay court dates by months and years. For anyone in that position, the outcome is usually a foregone conclusion.
Today, I remain trapped in a cruel limbo — unable to return to the UK to see my mother, and unable to move forward. My immigration status remains sabotaged, and I cannot legally leave South Africa until it is normalised. If I leave now, I risk being barred from returning — handing the consortium one final, permanent victory: cutting me off from the country I came to love and call home. As each day passes, more time is lost. The Press Council’s failure to act was bitter enough for many reasons — but for this reason alone, it became one of the most devastating blows. It denied me the chance to clear my name in time. It denied my mum the chance to see her son free of these lies. It remains my most urgent hope that this battle is resolved before it is too late.
🙏THANK YOU: A sincere thank you to those who have helped bring this site into being — a monumental task made possible not by funding or technical know-how, but by a shared belief in truth, accountability, and the importance of standing firm when it matters. None of us had prior experience building websites, and this remains a determined amateur effort driven by necessity, not design.
And deep thanks to those who’ve supported me — not by being physically present, but by offering time, skill, clarity, and conviction when everything else was stacked against us.
Sadly, those who refused to profit from wrongdoing, who kept their moral compass steady and chose decency over complicity, were rare. But that rarity makes their honesty all the more remarkable. Whether it was Markus, the housekeeper who sought me out after my release to tell me what really happened; the outstanding portfolio manager C.A., whose role shifted from perfecting the guest experience to defending the properties under siege; the endlessly professional and long-suffering agent A.M., who kept things from boiling over far longer than anyone had the right to expect; the attorney J.L., who saw — long before I did — that this was an unwinnable war against people who would stop at nothing; the courageous property manager O.S., who physically stood between WDS, his thugs, and my guests and paid the price for it; the sharp, principled figure in white rumour, L.V.R., without whom I might still be in Pollsmoor; or the rare, fearless, and deeply decent attorney L.H., who might have taken this fight on with fire in his belly had cancer not taken him first — each one is referenced with gratitude across this site. This website is a testament to what can still be done — even by those without influence, connections, or funding — when the truth is on your side.
🙏 A DEEPLY PERSONAL THANK YOU to Lauren, whose extraordinary support and friendship — both during and after my time in Pollsmoor Prison — made all the difference. Though I was a stranger to her beyond a professional link to her former employer, Louis Herbert, she offered unwavering assistance and compassion during an unthinkable ordeal.
Louis himself, who became both a wonderful friend and trusted property attorney, was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly before my second unlawful arrest in the December, and tragically passed in the following March. He was an exceptional man — principled, fierce, and always on the side of the underdog. I believe he would be deeply proud of his practice manager, loyal pupil, and future attorney.
🙏 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & TRIBUTE: And to those few individuals who had the courage to speak out — to offer their own accounts, risk their safety, and stand by their lived experiences despite a single, coordinated public narrative painting me as the villain and my abusers as victims — your refusal to betray the truth has been nothing short of heroic.
What you offered was not loyalty to me, or to any cause or group, but to the truth itself — even when it came at personal cost, and even when it flew in the face of every lie in print.
🚧 Under Construction: This site is currently under construction, with the full public launch of Stage One estimated for 15 August 2025. What you're viewing is a live, evolving archive — the result of an enormous volume of material still being reviewed, formatted, and structured into coherent form. This phase focuses on foundational facts and key events drawn from a vast body of evidence, much of which is still being prepared for public release.
Stage Two will include: Full archives of source documents and records. An extensive, indexed body of supporting evidence. Deep-dives into key events, individuals, and coverups. A significantly expanded account of institutional failures — and the rare, reluctant interventions — by those tasked with upholding justice, oversight, and accountability across the police, prosecutorial bodies, political offices, state regulators, press regulators, and the media. It remains an urgent and ongoing hope that those responsible will act before Stage Two lays bare the full extent of the misconduct, inaction, and systemic failure — including evidence of agencies and officials demonstrably unfit for the roles they occupy... What’s here now is only the beginning.
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The Machinery Of The Campaign: Criminality, Corruption, and Criminal Defamation
1. The Consortium
2. SAPS
3. Media24
This was not a dispute over rent. It was not a civil disagreement over contracts. It was a coordinated criminal campaign—planned, resourced, and executed by three interlocking forces:
1. The Consortium
A name coined early in the campaign to describe a network of landlords whose collective strategy was built around one goal: reclaim the transformed properties I had invested in—assets worth over R100 million. They shared intelligence, used the same private investigator, and deployed identical false claims to orchestrate a campaign of seizure masked as litigation.
2. SAPS (South African Police Service)
A small but influential group of corrupt officers enabled the illegal arrests, blocked legitimate complaints, and timed my detentions to coincide with critical civil proceedings. They weaponised the justice system—carrying out unlawful evictions, arrests, and detentions under the guise of enforcement, ensuring I was removed whenever it mattered most.
3. Media24
South Africa’s largest news publisher supplied the one thing the campaign couldn't survive without: public legitimacy. Through a string of defamatory articles, they reversed the roles of victim and perpetrator, spreading falsehoods that the landlords weaponised in court. The media narrative was driven by Wouter de Swardt, who exploited longstanding relationships with editors to manufacture the illusion of guilt and sway public perception.
Together, these forces operated with a singular aim: to strip me of the properties I rebuilt, destroy my ability to defend myself, and silence the truth before it could be heard. They didn’t just break the law—they corrupted every system designed to uphold it.
This website documents exactly how they did it—and provides the evidence that proves it.
AN INCREASE OF R13 MILLION IN JUST ONE YEAR
DEC 2022
R31,000,000
FOR SALE
SEPT 2021
R18,000,000*
(UNSOLD)
Keith Broad Listed the Property for R13 Million More—Just Days After the Illegal Eviction he and Wouter de Swardt had Disguised as an (Unlawful) Arrest
When I began my lease at Leirmans Road in October 2021, the property was valued at approximately R18 million
By December 2022, just a year later and mere days after my arrest, Keith Broad listed it at R31 milllion —an extraordinary R13 million (70%) increase during a period when house prices remained stagnant.
Before my lease, the Broads earned around R40,000 per month from short-term rentals. Within days of my arrest, they listed the property at R25,000 per day, equating to over R600,000 monthly—an astronomical 1,500% increase.
Across all properties, the landlords earned about R3 million in the year prior to my leases. Thanks to my transformations, I had elevated the rent roll to R30 million. A premium of R120,000,000 over a five-year tenure.
The Real Motive: A R100,000,000 Asset Grab Disguised as Justice
This was never about lease disputes or rental arrears, no matter how many times Media24, SAPS, or the landlords repeated that lie.
The real reason? I had created over R100,000,000 in rental and capital value by transforming these properties into world-class luxury villas — value the landlords could never have achieved on their own.
The real goal? To take it all. To steal my work, my investment, my future — without paying a cent for it.
The real fraud? Not me — but the landlords and their associates, who conspired to violate the contracts they had willingly entered into, weaponising the police, the courts, and the media to disguise their theft as justice.
SEPTEMBER 2021
[ R6,000 PER NIGHT X 30% OCCUPANCY ]
R60,000 PER MONTH
DECEMBER 2022
[ R25,000 PER NIGHT X 85% OCCUPANCY ]
R637,5000 PER MONTH
Keith Broad’s Own Marketing Videos Before and After My Transformation Expose His Lies About Damage and Motive
The first shows a tired, bare, poorly staged shell. The second shows a premium, luxury home with full renovations, designer finishings, and a new commercial standard.
These two estate agent videos—both created and published by Keith Broad’s own agent—show the Leirmans Road property before I touched it, and after I transformed it.
I didn’t film these. I didn’t edit them. These are the landlord’s own marketing materials—and they prove just how much value I added before he tried to take it all.
The Agreements They Willingly Signed — Then Willfully Violated
Every party involved in this conspiracy knew exactly what they were signing.
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The landlords themselves proposed the agreements — on three of the five properties, they were the ones who approached me.
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They knew these properties needed work — and that without transformation, they would continue generating mediocre returns.
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They agreed to the deal because it was risk-free for them and immensely profitable — until they saw the full extent of what I had built.
THE BROAD'S PROPOSAL - THE 5,000 MESSAGES EXCHANGED WITH GAIL BROAD THAT EXPOSE THEIR LIES AND THE MDIA24 FABRICATIONS
It came from Keith and Inge Broad. Initially via Keith's cousin Gail Broad. This fact alone exposes so many of the lies they would later go on to tell, including the many lies about "not knowing or not giving consent to".
To be absolutely clear, the proposal to rent Leirans Road, transform the property to a level that would attract the high-end tourists, and utilize that rental income to recover my investment, did not come from me.
A read of the Gail Broad WhatsApp chat export destroys absolutely any creditability the Broads, Wouter De Swardt and their co-conspirators have. And these were Keith, Inge and Gail Broads words, not mine.
INGE BROAD/MEDIA24: "In due course, they became aware of the short-term letting scheme."
Gail Broad's WhatsApp export exposes this and almost every allegation made by the Broad's as premeditated lies.
They not only knew of and consented to the short-term rentals, but the proposal came from them and were the very foundation of the agreement and the means by which I would recoup my massive investment in their property.
One of dozens of references that confirm the appalling state the property was in before my transformation and the vast improvements I made
[13/09/2021, 14:44:19] Gail Broad: Hey, on another note, how do you feel about Llandudno? I may have something for you to play with there...BUT IN DIRE NEED OF A REVAMP. Actually belongs to my cousin...
[13/09/2021, 15:02:00] Darren de Rodez.: interesting, the house has potential for sure. although needs A LOTTA LOTTA WORK and lots of magic fairy dust 🙏
The Agreement Was Crystal Clear:
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I would lease the properties and undertake all renovations and luxury conversions.
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I would assume all financial risk—covering design, construction, landscaping, furnishing, and maintenance.
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The landlords would benefit from guaranteed, above-market-value rents, long-term tenures, and zero agency fees or void periods.
This was a dream scenario for them. They risked nothing. They stood to gain millions in steady, uninterrupted rental income for at least five years.
In return, I secured long-term leases, allowing me to recoup the millions I invested and generate profit over time—exactly how high-end property investments work worldwide.
LEASE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
Lease Agreements: Proof of Legal Tenure & Fraudulent Misrepresentation by Keith Broad, Inge Broad
Legally Binding Lease Confirming Five-Year Tenure
The signed lease agreements establish my valid five-year tenancy, the single non-negotiable condition needed to recover my multimillion-rand investment. Despite this, Keith Broad & Inge Broad violated the agreement immediately after renovations were complete, seizing back the property for their own financial gain.
Page 8, Clause 15 of the lease was deliberately crossed out and initialled by both parties, proving full consent to the subletting model. This directly contradicts Keith & Inge Broad’s later fabricated claims that they neither knew of nor approved short-term rentals.
The lie is further exposed through the affidavit of Anton Moller, managing agent for Keith Broad, confirming subletting approval, alongside extensive WhatsApp conversations with Gail Broad, Keith’s cousin and letting agent. These messages show active discussions about subletting, guest placements, property condition, and the agreed refurbishment plan.
The Landlords Had Two Choices
Once the work was done, I became vulnerable. The landlords faced two choices:
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The Legal Option — Honor the lease agreements, take their guaranteed millions, and uphold the contracts they had signed.
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The Illegal Option — Break the agreements, force me out, and seize the transformed properties — without compensating me for the millions I had spent.
They chose the latter.
But throwing me out illegally wasn’t enough. They needed to disguise the theft as something legal, justified — even moral.
And that required fabricating a scam narrative, branding me as a fraudster, and ensuring that when they moved against me — through illegal evictions, police raids, and malicious prosecutions — the public saw it as nothing more than “a conman getting what he deserved.”
And so, the real fraud began.
LEIRMANS RD, BEFORE & AFTER
NEWS24's "INGE" INTERVIEW [SURNAME HIDDEN BY MEDIA24]. LEIRMANS RD, BEFORE & AFTER
The many lies told by the landlords, labelling the transformations as damage when the transformations were their motivation
"No matter what we tried to get him out legally, the odds seemed always to be stacked in his favor. That was despite the damage caused to the property."
"Inge (surname withheld) told News24 it was heartbreaking and frustrating to see what was done to her and her husband’s luxury property on the Atlantic seaboard."
The Media24 Narrative: How Lies Became Their Shield
The fabricated Media24 articles have been devastatingly effective, creating a total monopoly on the narrative. Anyone who has read them — and that would be in the millions — would believe they know the story. They would believe that I was a fraudster, a conman exploiting landlords, illegally profiting from leases at their expense.
The truth was the exact opposite.
I put everything into these properties. I invested my life savings, took all the risks, and took on leases when no one else would, as the property market collapsed due to COVID-19 and Omicron. I paid the landlords millions in rent — on properties that, without my investment, would have almost certainly sat empty. I maintained them, I transformed them, and I turned them into some of the most spectacular high-end rentals in Cape Town.
But to steal it all, they needed to rewrite history.
Labeling me a scammer, conman, and crook allowed them to justify taking everything — my properties, my assets, my business, my reputation. Like a cuckoo that steals another bird’s nest rather than build its own, they fabricated a fraud narrative to hide the real fraud — their deliberate, coordinated theft of the transformed properties I had built.
The narrative served a single purpose: to make anything they did to me appear justified.
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Stealing the properties? Justified — it was "reclaiming what was theirs."
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Illegally evicting me? Justified — I was “squatting in properties I didn't own.”
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Orchestrating my arrest and detention? Justified — I was "a criminal who had to be stopped."
But when you strip away the lies, the real story emerges.
THE PROPERTIES BEFORE & AFTER
The True Timeline Exposes the Lies and the Scams
A forensic examination of the timeline reveals an irrefutable truth:
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The landlords’ illegal actions began months before they even latched onto the “scam” narrative.
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By the time they began accusing me publicly, they had already taken concrete steps to force me out.
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The Media24 articles did not expose a fraud — they were part of the fraud, carefully crafted to create a cover story for what was already in motion.
This was never about unpaid rent or dishonest dealings. It was a coordinated criminal strategy — one that began with backroom decisions to violate contracts and ended with the destruction of my business, my finances, and my freedom.
The prize was worth it to them:
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R100 million in stolen rental premiums.
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A property portfolio transformed into an elite luxury rental empire — at my expense.
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A media cover story so effective that even the legal system failed to question it.
And so far, they’ve got away with it — thanks to SAPS and Media24.
KEITH BROAD'S HOME INVASION
Keith Broad, Inge Broad Home Invasion Keith & Inge Broad – Illegal Home Invasion (1 March)
On 1 March 2023, Keith and Inge Broad forced their way into my home — without a court order, without a warrant, and without any legal authority whatsoever. I told them clearly and repeatedly that they had no right to enter, but they pushed their way in anyway, barging through the gate and into the house.
This was not a misunderstanding. It was a calculated act of criminal trespass — a deliberate attempt to intimidate me and unlawfully seize the property. It formed part of their ongoing campaign of harassment, defamation, and asset theft. What you're seeing in these videos is a home invasion, carried out in broad daylight by individuals who believed they were above the law — and who acted with total impunity.
The Gear Change: Wouter de Swardt's Appointment
At first, the landlords moved against me individually — each attempting in their own way to break their contractual obligations and take back the properties. But they quickly realised their efforts would be far more effective if they joined forces, pooling their considerable wealth, influence, and connections to launch a coordinated and ruthless campaign.
They appointed private investigator Wouter de Swardt to lead, mastermind, and execute the strategy. De Swardt — a man with a long history of working alongside SAPS officers willing to look the other way — brought his connections in law enforcement and Media24 to the table. With him at the helm, they no longer needed legal avenues. They could now weaponise both the state and the media to make the impossible suddenly achievable.
This was the moment it stopped being a legal dispute — and became something far darker.
They didn’t just control the narrative — they ensured it was the only narrative. Through coordinated media manipulation, they erased the truth and replaced it with a fraudulent version of events, casting themselves as the victims and me as the villain.
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Every legal battle I won was ignored.
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Every piece of evidence I provided was buried.
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Every provable crime they committed was deliberately overlooked.
I personally reached out to Media24 multiple times, providing them with irrefutable evidence — contracts, payment records, court rulings, sworn affidavits — all proving their narrative was false. They ignored it all.
Instead, they published their fabrications as fact — and once the media had done its job, the next phase of their attack escalated to unthinkable levels.
I refused to be robbed. And for that, they set out to destroy me.
MAIN CHAPTER CONTENTS & LINKS
01.
The Campaign
A chronological account of events that defined the conflict.
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." - Benjamin Franklin